Bishop Connolly Urges Observance Of Holy Family Feast Jan. 12 Family group Communion and eonsecl'ation to the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph are urged for all the families of the Diocese by Most Reverend James L. Connolly, Bishop of Fall River, on Sunday, Jan. 12, 1958, the Feast of the Holy Family. Bishop Connolly urges all fam Ilies to observe the day by re ceiving Holy Communion to gether ai" the sam.e Mass in their individual parishes' and consecrating themselves to the imitation and veneration of' tl1e Holy Family of Nazareth. . All members of the families will know much of the love and devotion and loyalty to God that is associated with the Holy Fam ily of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The purpose of family group communion is to bring Christ into the home and thereby de velop an atmosphere of harmony and peace in the family. The restoration of family unity and public e'xemplitic"ation of t.he Church's teaching. on the sanctity
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Eager to Cooperate In Refugee Problem H£LDESHEIM, (NC) - Offi eials of the Lutheran church are eager to cooperate with Catho lics for the material and spiritu al welfare of refugees in Western Europe. Lutheran Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hanover made the statement to reporters before he entered the residence of Catholic Bi~hop Heint'ich'Maria Janssen of Hil desheim, chairman of the refu gee committee of the German Bishops' Conference.
of the home are most desired today. . Tile appeal to Catholic families is being made throu~h th~ spon sorship of the Faml1y LIfe Bu reau of the Diocese.
THE ANCHOR Thurs., Dec. 26, 1957
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.Catholic Events February, 1957
Announcement was .made in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, that "the time is not ripe" for a visit by Marshal Tito to the United States. In a message to Congress, Presi dent Eisenhower proposed easing the nation's immigration laws so CHICAGO (NC)-Two noted priest anthropologists will speak as to permit 65,000 more immi here at the' annual meeting of 'grants to enter the U. S. each year. the American Anthropological Bishop Thomas K. G,o.rman of Association from December 27 Dallas-Fort Worth;. Episcopal. to 30. chairman of the NCWC Press They are Father ·Martin Gu Department, in a Catholic' Press sinde, S.V.D., of the Catholic Month statement,. said the Cath UniverSity of Amedca, Wash olic Press has reached. new ington, D. C., and Father Louis ,heights in ~ts march toward per Luzbetak, S.V.D., of St. Mary's fection, but cited some ways it Mission Seminary, Techny, Ill. may be improved. U. S. Supreme Both of ·the Divine Word mis Court invalidated a Michigan law sionaries will speak on Decem~ banning sales of books contain ber 27 at a special symposium. ing obscene language, thereby jeopardizing similar statutes in Father Gusinde, ~li.o is an au 11 other states. Pope Pius named thority on pygmies, has done extensive field research on tt1eir St. Dominic Savio as the patron of choir bOYii. racial characteristics and culture Pedro 'Marto, 83, father of in various parts of the world. He FranCisco and Jacinta, two of the. will speak about his expedition in 1956 to the pygmy tribes of three children who witnessed the apparitions of Our Lady of New Guinea. Fatima, died in a village near Father Luzbetak did field re Fatima. search in the interior of New Other February headlines: 583 Guinea from 1952 to 1956. He Catholic Books Published in investigated the religious beliefs 1956 Survey Shows. . . Arch of some recently .discovered' bish~p Reporis Drop in Red In tribes, A linguist, he is adept at fluence in India; Asks Clergy to analyzing unknown dialects and Promote Unionism... J;'opeSays composing practical alphabets Doctors May Give Pain-Killers for primitive peoples. to Dying Even if It Would He will speak on "Linguistie Shorten Life... More Than Mil Highlands: Accomplishments and lionCatholics in .Strife-Torn Problems." Middle East, Survey ·Shows.
Priests to Address Anthropologists
AID IN CHARITABLE WORK: . These members of the Fall River:Catholic Wom en's Club Community Service Department meet at thHe c1ubhLouf~e ?ue.s(~7 t~:~r~~~n~r~~ d f r the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Cancer orne. e 0 ~lg . .
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18 Years Service to Cancer Home .. . r of for filling. While a collection Going mto Its 18th yea taken up once a year at a meet making surgical pads for the ing 'of the Catholic Women's Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home Club serves to defray expenses is the Community Service Deof the cellulose, and also en ·t t of the Catholic WomabIes the group to make a cash pal men . donation to the Rose Hawthorne
en's Club of Fa~l RIVer. The Lathrop Home, a great need pads, many of WhI~h are needed exists for used cotton material, daily by the patIents of the such as old sheets, and pillow Home, were made only by t~e cases. It is emphasized that used Community service group In material is wanted, because new material 'is not soft enough for 1942, when they undertoo.k. the project to assist the Do~mlCan .pad-making purposes. Any indi Sisters, Servan~s of Rehef for viduals or groups having such Incurable Cancer. Now, ho~- material are asked to leave it at ever, many Catholic women s either the Catholic Women's groups have taken up the work Club or the offices of The and as a result workers to make Anchor, both located at 410 the pads are not needed .so much Highland Avenue Fall River. as the materials with which they , al'e made. The pioneer pad-making group R. A. WILCOX CO.
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Aid Needy Students MONTREAL (Nt) Ten thousand University of Montreal students joined in a three-hour "blitz" to raise $100,000 for Stu dent Honor Loans. Special groups are seeking $50,000 from business firms and organizations.
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Apostolic Delegate Praises Films Scheduled for TV Presentation WASHINGTON (NC) - His Excellency Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, headed a list of distinguished . persons who. witnessed a special showing.here of a group of four films entitled ."Rome Eternal." The films, co-produced by the National Council. of Catholic Men arid the National Broad casting Company,' are· designed· to bring to American television audiences for. the first time' a filmed historicdl portrait of Rome and' the Vatican; past and pres
ent. One of thehalf-l,1<iur films will be presented on each of The Catholic ,Hour television shows over NBC on the Sundays of January. The Catholic Hour is seen from 1:30 to 2 P.M. Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle of Washington, Auxiliary Bish op John M. McNamara of Wash ington, Auxiliary Bishop Philip, M. Hannan of Washington, Aux iliary Bishop Coleman F. Car roll of Pittsburgh, and Bishop elect Howard J. Carroll of Al toona-Johnstown, Pa., also at tended the special ~howing. Others present included, Sec retary of Labor and Mrs. James P. Mitchell, members of the dip lomatic corps, members of the staff' of the Apostolic Delega tion, mem.bers of the faculty of the Catholic University of Amer ica, members of the staff of the National Conference, and per sons prominent in the civil life of Washington.
54 Shrine Cures Su'pernatural LOU-RDES (NC)-During the 100 years of its existence, the Lourdes shrine has been the site of 54 cures whicR are recognized by the Church as supernatural. This figure was released by officials of the shrine who point out that these 54 supernatural cures are only a small part of the more than 3,000 cures which have taken place at Lourdes. The 3,000 cures are recognized as at least beyond explanation by strictly scientific and medical knowledge. But the Church alone is qualified to declare them as works of God, and she has done so in only 54 cases so far, shrine officials noted. Twenty cardinals and several hundred bishops have already announced their intention of at tending the centenary celebra tions to be held here next year, it was reported. . His Eminence Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, Archbishop of Lyons, will preside· at the opening of the celebration on Feb. 11, 1958, and His Eminence Maurice Car dinal Feltin will close the cel ebrations on Feb. 11, 1959; His Eminence Angelo Cardinal RoncaIli, Patriarch of Venice, will dedicate the vast' subterra nean Church of St. Pius X on March 25, '1958. Cardinal Ron calli is a former Apostolic Nun cio .0 France.
Archbishop. Cicognani spoke briefly at the conclusion of the film thanking and congratulat ing the NCCM and NBC "in the name of the distinguished guests here present and in my own." "What was proposed as a monu mental project is 110W a glor ious achievement," he said, "worthy of the inspired tradi tions of the National Council of Catholic Men and of the artistic and constructive style of the
National -Broadcasting Com- .
pany."
"We are· deeply grateful for this premiere of 'Rome Eternal.' You have been most kind and generous in our regard. From' now on, millions of people will not only enjoy this production but will also," we hope, have a better understanding and appre ciation of what 'Rome. Eternal' means." Archbishop Cicognani pointed out briefly the unique history of Rome, mysterious in her or igin victorious over all the world of ;ncient times, mentioned sev eral times in the Sacred Scrip tures able to give a universal lang~age, Latin, and the prin ciples of universal law to the world. He. then called at~ention to the supreme inheritance she received. Peter, .the Vicar of Christ, went there and fixed there the center of his exalted task. Only God IS Eternal Only God is really eternal, the Apostolic Delegate said, and the Supreme Pontiff is the guardian of the inheritance of the Son of God - 'His doctrine, His sac raments; His Church. Here, he explained, we find the argu ments and proofs of eternity. The Holy Father, the Com mon Father of all, who is suc cessor of St. Peter, the "Rock" of Christ's Church, the Apostolic Delegate continued, carries on and will ever carryon, in ac cordance with the promise of Our Divine Lord, the teaching of His eternal doctrine and the guidance of souls to eternal sal vation. He stressed that our pres ent Holy Father, Pope Pius XII, has given incessant testimony to this universal fatherhood by his most numerous audiences granted to people of all faiths, who go to Rome with this one purpose in 'mind, "to see Peter," to listen to him. In commenting on the unique flavor of the films, he expressed the hope that their message would be thoroughly and widely realized through their forthcoming national tele cast.
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