Newspapers: New Priest Here

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The Evening Courier 
Tamaqua PA 
Friday, December 30, 1955 
(five cents) 

New Priest Here 
(picture of Rev. Bruce F. Kelly) 

The Rev. Bruce F. Kelly, a son of St. Francis deSales parish, Philadelphia, 
reported to St. Jerome's rectory Wednesday to take up his duties as an assistant 
pastor to the Rev. Anthony L. McCarron. 

Father Kelly replaced the Rev. Donald J. Farrell, who left Wednesday for 
St. Elizabeth's Church, Pen Argyl, where Father Kelly had been stationed 
since his ordination in May of this year. Father Kelly graduated from 
St. Joseph's Prep School, attended St. Joseph's College for one year, then 
entered St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook, in September 1947, graduating in 
May 1955. 

While at St. Elizabeth's parish in Pen Argyl, Father Kelly formed a CYO organization 
for all age groups. The CYO program provides sports for children and adults of 
Catholic parishes. 

Father Kelly will be in charge of the Holy Name Society here, The Altar and 
Rosary Society at St. Patrick's Chapel, Seek, and the St. Jerome's CYO program. 
He has a brother, the Rev. Thornton Kelly, a graduate of St. Charles Seminary in 1953, 
who is assistant pastor at the Church of the Resurrection, Chester.