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Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, national director of the So ciety for the Propagation of the Faith and noted radio speaker, will come to Joliet next Thursday for an all-day meeting of parochial school educators. The sessions will be held in the College of St. Francis with supervisors, principals and teachers from the Joliet diocese in attend ance. Bishop Martin D. McNamara, bishop of the Joliet diocese, will take part in the program, conduct ing benediction at 3:15 p. m. in the college gymnasium. He will be assisted by Revs. Bonaventure Gilmore and Thomas Doherty of Joliet and James, F.. Meara of Kankakee. Opening session of the meeting will be under the chairmanship of Msgr. Joseph A. Wagner, superin tendent of Joliet diocese schools. Msgr. William J. Plunkett, chair man of the school board of Joliet diocese and pastor of Elmhurst’s Immaculate Conception school, will describe the mission program in parochial schools. Bishop Sheen will be next on the program, discussing the status of missions today. The meeting will resume after luncheon and a period devoted to examining exhibits set up in the gymnasium, Monsignor Wagner will preside in the afternoon at a round table discussion of the topic, mission training of teachers in the noviti ate. College deans and high school principals will meet at the same time under Monsignor Plunkett's direction to consider problems of teaching the missions in schools of higher education. Msgr. E. Fre king, national director of Catholic students’ mission crusade, will present the information with Fath er Gilmore, principal of Joliet Catholic High school, leading the discussion. Grammar school principals will meet with Rev. T. Doherty of Braidwood, pastor of Immaculate Conception parish. In this session Rev. Richard Ackerman, national director of the Holy Childhood as sociation, will be the speaker with Rev. T. Dennehy, pastor of West mont’s Holy Trinity parish.ing dis cussion leader.
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The Spectator
Joliet, Illinois, US
Thu, Aug 21, 1952
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