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The Diocese of Fan River has purchased the for mer Sacred Heallbs Academy elementary school building at 446 Highland Avenue, Fall River, for the establishment of a diocesan Confraternity of Christian Doctrine office building. This announcement was made today by the Most Rev. J'ames L.
at its Prospect Street Academy senior high school. Rev. Joseph L. Powers, COD moderator who is currently servi-ng as chaplain at the Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro, will make his headquarters for the swiftly expanding dio'Cesan CCD
- terminated the elementary aca- demy last June when j1t incorpor- ated the seventh and eighth grades as a junior high school program
the pledge of Bishop Connolly who said in September: . " • * :) we are to inaugurate a more intensive (,'Ourse in teacher..
training for released-time.* :;: ¢ We want - we need - more varied courses in adult education.* ¢ ¢ We need the help of auxiliary aids in the form of books, projectors, films and whatllver help make more impressive and permanent th~ teaching of Christ." The 12-'l"Oom structure will in-
stall audio-visual aids for ,adult
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"Final arrangemenbs," said Fa
ther Powers, "will be the result of
a coordinated planning of the lay
and religious groups at the execu
tive level of the CCD in the dio-
cese." The diocesan CCD executive board-which comprises lay and religious-will meet in the newly facilities for the. display of reli- acquired office building at 7 :45 gious educational material, includ- next Tuesday night. The teaching i,ng books, picture~, charts and film Sisters and Brothers cqmmittee strips. The diocese also plans to in: will meet in the immediate futUl·e.
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N. Y. ~rchbishop' Was Very Close _To Qiocese "He was a wonderful, thoughtful man." Thus John J. Burke, driver for Bishop Connolly, summed up the
late Francis Cardinal Spellman whom he drove to Boston and to his home town or' Whitman on many occasions. "He would always invite me into the house when we went to Whitman," recalled· Burke. "I ate with him many a time." He added that Cardinal Spellman took pleasure in showing visitors to Whitman the small grocery River, Th~rsdaYi Dec. store his father had operated. Burke said that on the Feb PRICE lOc ruary day in 1946 when Cardinal Vol. No. @ 1967 The Anchor '$4.00 per Year Spellman received word that he had been made a prince of the Church, one 0'1 the first to con gratulate him was the .late Bish op Cassidy of Fall River. "I drove Bishop Cassidy to see the Cardinal that day,'~ said Burke. P A warm, personal friendship Rev. Eugene Lynch S.M.M., direCtor of the Catholic existed between Cardinal Spell Relief Services in Indonesia, has been named provincial man and Bishop Cassidy and the Cardinal made many formal superior of the United States Province of the Montfort Fa late and informal visits to Fall River. thers, according to an announcement made in Ozone Park, An outstanding ceremonial occa N.Y. by Very Rev. John I. sion was the dedication on July 4, 1942 of a statuary group hon Blaney S.M.M., assistant to r"- oring George Washington, 10 the Superior, General. Fr. ~aied at Highland Avenue and Lynch succeeds Rev. Roger New Boston Road in Fall River. M. Charest, who was provincial Cardinal Spellman delivered the since 1961. principal speech 'at 'this event. The Montfort Fathers in the
In inspiring the Catholic school Diocese of Fall River staff St. children of the Fall River Dio Peter's Church, Dighton, where cese to contribute 'funds for the r the New England Mission Band Turn to Page Three has its' headquarters. Appointed as assistants to Fr. Lynch are Rev. Leo Blais of Montfort Seminary, Bay Shore, N. Y., ~ev. George Werner of Marybrook Novitiate, Hartford City, Ind., Rev. Bernard Blood of st. Theresa's Church, St. Louis, Mo. and Rev. Joseph NEW YORK (NC)-Most Byrnes of the Montfort Mission Rev. James L. Connolly, aries at St. Louis University. Bishop of the Diocese of Fall Missioner in Africa River, and Most Rev. James The son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Gerrard, V.G., Auxiliary Bish Lynch of Blessed Sacrament op, are among the thousands here Parish, Jackson Heights, N. Y., in this metropolitan city for the lFr. Lynch was ordained in 1954, REV. EUGENE LYNCH, S.M.M. funeral rites of Massachusetts
Tum to Page Twenty born Francis Cardinal Spellman,
Archbishop of New York. The Fall River Ordinary was
Most Rev. Bishop James L. brought with him the faith in a close friend of many years of Connolly issued the following humankind that can only mean the 78-:year old internationally statement concerning the death peace not only for us but the known Cardinal. B ish 0 p Connolly attended of Francis Cardinal Spellman': world. "In the passing of His Em "Churchman, statesman and many church ceremonies in New mence Francis Cardinal Spell diplomat in the best sense of the York as the guest of the late man, the Church and the nation word, he sat in on council of Cardinal who, likewise, was !have sustained a tremendous presidents, premiers and kings. present at a number of church loss. No churchman over the His judgment was always re-' functions in the Southeastern past 30 years has been more spected and frequently followed. Massachusetts Diocese. Cardinal Spellman, in his dedicated to the cause of peace "The Church has lost an out earlier years, was also a frequent with justice than he. The fact visitor to Cape Cod, firSt when that he was so frequent a voice standing voice for American tra in favor of our troops since dition. he was associated with the Bos ''Cardinal Spellman will· be ton Archdiocese and later when World War n, must -never be eontrued that he was, a hawk. much missed in these troubled he transferred to the then world's largest city. "Wherever be went., be times.-
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Ordinary Attends Funeral Rites For Cardinal
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World Mourns Death Of Cardinal Spellman A procession of ,m~re than 350 archbishops, bishops and monsignori together with hundreds of priests and .clergymen of all faiths marched into St. Patrick's Cathe dral, New York, at 12 :30 this afternoon for the concele brated Mass ·of Requiem for, the repose of the soul of been a dominant figure on the HIs Eminence Francis Car American scene for more than a quarter of a century. A friend dinal Spellntan, Archbishop and confidant of popes and pres
of New York for more than a quarter of a century. Estimated as the largest gath ering ever to attend a funeral Mass in the history of New York City, a congregation so large that it was necessary to set up loudspeakers outside the Cathe dral in order that the tremen dous gathering might he~! the concelebrated Mass offered by Archbishop Luigi Raimondi, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., and brother Cardinals of Cardi nal Spellman. Rev. Robert I. Gannon, presi dent emeritus of Fordham Uni versity and the Cardinal's biog rapher, preached the eulogy for the world-renowned Churchman. Father John W.. Pegnam, ,a nephew of the late Cardinal and a priest of the Diocese of Fall River was a concelebrant 'of a special Mass offered Wednesday at St. Patrick's Cathedral for th~ military personnel over
which the late Cardinal served as Ordinary. Father Pegnam, a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy Chaplain Corps, was ordained by his uncle in ceremonies in 1960 in the New York Cathedral, and served as an assistant at St. Francis Xavier Parish, Hyannis until his en trancEl into the Navy three years ago. He is the son of Mrs. Marian Pegnam, sister of the late Cardi nal. . At the time of his death, Sat urday, Dec. 2'0 Cardinal· Spell man was spiritual head of two of the world's most populous sees-the New York Archdiocese with 1.8 million Catholics and the U. S. Military Ordinariate with some two million Catholics. He was 78 years of age ana had . been a priest for 51 years, a
bishop for 35 years and a cardi nal for 21 years. For many Americans, Cardi nal Spellman was a symbol of the Catholic Church. He had
idents, his statements on com munism and education won headlines throughout. the world. He travelled hundreds of thou sands of miles, many of them as Military Vicar of the U. S. armed forces. His annual Christmas visits to U. S. servicemen at far flung posts around the world be 'came an institution. His 16th consecutive Christmas trip and last such visit was made to South Vietnam in 1966. He became noted as journalist. Turn to Page Two
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Ordination Date Bishop Connolly announced today that the ordipation to the Priesthod for the deacons study ing for the Fall Ri vel' Diocese will take place on Saturday morning, May 18 at 10 o'clock in St. Mary's ,Cathedral, Fall
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CARDINAL SPBLLMAN Archbishop of New York