Thirty-eight years after first column, Fall River editor steps down

Published: 2005-07-06

FALL RIVER, Mass. (CNS) -- It was 1967 when attorney Hugh Golden, then managing editor of The Anchor newspaper in Fall River, invited then-Father John F. Moore to lunch at a restaurant in Hyannis called the Mooring and asked him to write a column for the diocesan newspaper. The column that debuted on Nov. 23, 1967, got its name from the restaurant, and Father Moore eventually became Msgr. Moore, executive editor of The Anchor. Now, after 38 years -- 28 of those as an editor -- he is retiring from the paper. It was time to retire "because I see that they just ripped down that restaurant and made it into a parking lot," he joked in an interview with The Anchor. His successor is Father Roger J. Landry, 35, who was ordained a priest of the Fall River Diocese in 1999. The 73-year-old Msgr. Moore said he is only retiring from the Mooring column and the executive editor's job. He plans to continue as pastor of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in North Falmouth until age 75.

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