School Drive Is Over the Top
Latest Campaign Total Passes $2 Million Mark
19 Parishes Meet Quotas for Fall River Boys' High . , The $2 million mark has been passed in the Fund Raising Campaign being con ducted by 36 parishes in the
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CONCEPTION Feast - Sunda7
Pope Promulgates Decrees
Extends Powers of Bishops
The last two days of th4! .econd session of Vatican Council II, which recessecl yesterday until next Septem
ber, saw the Council Fathers
approve overwhelmingly the tW'D
~hemas on Liturgy and Com
lIlunications, heard the surpriaoe
ennouncementby Pope Paul that
be would make a pilgrimage
. !lext month to the Holy Land to
pray for the success of the Coun
ell, and listened while the Pope's
Motu Proprio (Letter issued by the Pope's will) was read, granting to the world's Bishops eertain powers which hitherto
they had been required to peti tion the A p 0 s t 0 1 i c See for through the Vatican Curia. The Pope's impending visit to the Holy Land will be the first time that a Pontiff has set foot in that place since the time of St. Peter; the first Pope, who left the Holy Land for Rome. It will be the first time in 159 years that a Pope has left Italian soil. Yesterday morning, after the Pope had assisted at Mass with Council Fathers, observers, and members of the diplomatic corps, the decree on Liturgical Reform
Ordain' North Easton Man In Eternal City Dec. 18 Rev. Mr. Peter F. Mullen of North Easton, who has been studying at the North American College in Rome, will be ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Fall River at the Church of Christ the King in Rome by the Most Rev. Martin J. O'Connor on . . Wednesday Dec. 18 next. The ordmandus, the fIrst , from the North Easton com munity to join the priesthood in a half-century, is the son of James D. and Dorothy (Buck) Mullen of 167 Center Street, North Easton. Archbishop O'Connor is the rector of the pontifical North American College and titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Syria. Rev. Mr. Mullen, who was born on Jan. 14, 1938, was grad uated from Msgr. Coyle High School in Taunton in 1956. He then attended Cardinal O'Con nell seminary in Jamaica Plain and St. John's Seminary in Boston before he went to Rome to complete his studies. Rev. Mr. Mullen, brother of James p. Mullen Jr and Mrs. Oscar" (Dorothy) Conceison, both of North Easton, will celebrate hie first private Mass in the chapel of the Notre Dame School in Rome. He will celebrate h~ first public Mass when he re turns to this country in eithftJ' or. Jul7.
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was read to the Council Fatbel'l who approved it overwhelming ly by a vote of 2,147 to 4. The Pope immediately promulgated the decree. The decree on Com munications was then read which was approved by the Council in a 1,960 to 164 vote. Pope Paul then promulgated that decree. In his closing address to the Fathers, the Pope reminded Turn to Page Four
Greater Fall River Area for the proposed Jesuit staffed High School for BOYB. Ten additional parishes joined the select group surpassing their quotas at Tuesday night's re port meeting. The new quota-reaching par ishes are: St. Mary's Cathedral, Holy Cross, Holy Name, Sacred Heart, St. Anthony of Padua. Also St. Jean the Baptiste, St. Joseph, St. Michael, St. John of God, Somerset, and St. Patrick, Somerset. The highest parish total was reached when Holy Name Par ish, Fall River, reported $32,840 to bring their total to $210,650. It was announced at the meet ing that although Tuesday was the night for the last formal re ports meeting, Headquarters will keep the books open until next Tuesday. This decision was made be cause the weekend of President Kennedy's death was a period of bereavement and no visitations were made to homes by the solicitors. The reported amount at the meeting was $2,063,647. This total will increase as all par ishes make a report by next Tuesday. Many parishes are close to their quota and this Turn to Page Seventeen
Dispensation The Chancery Office reminds the faithful that the7 are dis pensed from fast and absti nence on Saturday, Dec. '1, the day before the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN
A Credit to All
Unity of All Christians Is I(ey
To Second Vati~an Council
By Rev. Edward J. Mitchell As the curtain is about to ring down on the second ses sion of Vatican Council II, the bishops are pushing hard to wind up the subject presently under discussion: the unity of all Christians. The Co u nc il Fat her s feel that this is one of the key is sues of the whole Council. Their reasoning is easy to fol low: the splin tery divisions of Christianity are a scandal to those outside Christendom and a sore contra diction to the prayer of Christ that "they all may be one." The Council must address itself to this problem, and with the grace of God, solve it, While the bishops are careful to point out that the Catholic Church has all the essential marks of unity (one faith, one worship, one authority), they quickly stress that a complete unity will not be had until all men are bonded together as brothera in the one Body of Christ
One would imagine that with all the denominational fireworks of the past four centuries, that this revolutionary draft on ecumenism would have met stiff opposition. But quite the con trary is true. If the schema had opened on Broadway instead of St. Peter's, it could not have received better notices. "This present schema ia welcomed"
Council Fathers Return to Rome Next Sept. 14 By Rev. John R. FoIster On Monday, at noon, the Bishops gathered in Rome for the Second Session of the Vatican Council left the chamber for the last time. Oh, they would return twice more but only for ceremonial meet ings. It might have been expected that the Fathers would joyfully leave the basilica like school children 'beginning a vacation. No, a Vatican commentator described the scene as a "flow of tired workers coming out of TurJ1to Page Six
with joy," beamed Archbishop John Heenan of England. Said a Mexican bishop, "The schema ~ the finest gift the Council can make to the Church." Even the Protestant and Or thodox observers bristled with hope -over the progressive tones of the present schema. Confided Dr. Lukas Vischer, an official observer for the World Council of Churches, "Whatever happena here will have important conse quences for the members of the World Council of Churches. Now all of us will have to face the problem of how to enter into closer relations with the Roman Catholic Church." Actually, many of the roots of the ecumenical movement can be traced to a non-Catholic de sire for religious unity. Two early manifestations of this were the English Faith and Order movement and the Swedish Life and Work movement, Both of these organized trends towards unity arose around the turn of the century - and both of them have found an important place in the W 0 rid Co u neil of Churches. The Cat hoI i c ecumenical movement, for a long time based solely on prayer for reunion and an invitation to return to the father's home, was given its bigTurn to Page Fifteen