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<- THE BULLETIN, August 9, 1958—PAGE 5-B (Photograph by Derickson Studio) THE PRIME RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CATHOLIC HOSPITAL IS IN MEDICAL CARE. A Doctor The prime responsibility of a Catholic hospital, today, is service in medical care to indi viduals of the community, irre- gardless of creed. Simultaneous ly, those who administer such care realize that only the high est of professional standards will meet their goal. Secondari ly, and to effect a quality of ex cellent care to the ill, it must of necessity be responsible for the medical education and guidance of its younger members, whe ther they be doctors, nurses or ancillary personnel so necessary to adequate operation of any hospital. Where education is important in other phases of Catholic ac tivities, so it is here, in the hos pital that every effort is made to educate young women in the nursing profession, further the ability of the house men who make up its intern and resident staff, and also benefit its regu lar medical staff by educational programs developed within this group itself or by the participa tion of outside authorities at meetings within the hospital. Here, too, the well-trained young physician is welcomed and encouraged to practice, and develop in his practice, along with his contemporaries and el ders. For everyone realizes that all too soon he will be the more senior physician, responsible for and entrusted with the per petuation of the educational system. His ability must be ex cellent, because standards are high and strict. Youth is no dis advantage — for Catholic pre cepts promote the proper growth and development of the young. 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Because the hospital has as its own prime responsibilty the care of the sick of the commun ity, its patient census is non sectarian. Also, because it avails itself of a particularly effective medical staff, its professional personnel is selected without re gard to religious denomination. This is only part of an example on an all out effort for the com mon good. Less than a century ago in Atlanta, Father O’Reilly approached General Sherman’s senior officers and insisted that prominent churches, not just the Catholic church, be spared in the razing by fire that was soon to occur. In accomplishing this, he had not the selfish aim of looking out for his own, but the realiza tion of the immense importance all of these churches would have in revitalizing the welfare of the community after the war. Here in the Catholic hospital, more materially than anywhere else, does the Church have dem onstrable evidence of its pre cepts and teaching brought to all. Visually, and by example, religion and faith exhibit their proportionate share of value to both Catholic and non-Cathotic alike in their daily life in the hospital atmosphere. Certain satisfactions must • be apparent to patients. The Catholic patient readily realizes that about him and immediately available is every facility for his spiritual well-being. The non-Catholic, too, can see that where so many are cognizant of religious as pects in daily living activities that the hospital or its individu als are more keenly aware of his requirements and will seek out and obtain for him, just as quickly, the spiritual guidance he may require. Where else but in this Cath olic hospital, may the laity see more concretely these evidences of religious and moral disci plines demonstrated. Love of duty and loyalty to high placed aims makes any effort more ef fective. Where else is this bet ter exemplified than in the un tiring labor of the sisters who administer and operate the hos pital. BEST WISHES FROM Fresh Vegetables Cold Plates - Salads Air Conditioned and Friendly Atmosphere “West End’s most popular gathering place.” ice Caldwell's Cafe 609 ASHBY ST., S. W. Foundress Of Medical Mission Sisters Says Missions Need More Religious As Doctors By Rhea Felknor (N.C.W.C. News Service) ST. LOUIS — Despite the fact that her Medical Missionary Sis ters have quadrupled in size during the past decade, Mother Anna Dengel is convinced the world’s missionary areas still need more Religious as doctors and nurses. The sprightly 60-year old Mo ther General of the community, who perhaps more than any person was responsible for. a Vatican ruling 22 years ago, al lowing nuns to become doctors of medicine, was here to in spect her order’s St. Louis house of studies. On her way to Rome to re port on the growth of her order, she admitted that the 500 pro fessed Medical Missionaries to day represented a significant growth over the 96 in 1945, and the four in 1925, when the com munity -was founded. But the need for Religious doctors is greater than the com munity’s growth, she said. And the doctors have to be first- rate. “There’s no room for 17th century medicine, even in far- off mission outposts,” she said. “There is practically no place in the world so remote today that its people do not recognize good hospital care. “Protestants are there al ready, with professional people. Other hospitals are constantly increasing their professional standards. We can’t lag behind.” “The need of a community of medical missionaries even the blind can see,” she added. “It is no secret any more that half of the world is born, lives and dies without its due share of spiritual and physical aid avail able to the other half.” Why Religious doctors? Be cause, as doctors and nurses, and other hospital personnel, they are welcomed in places they would never be welcomed merely as missionaries, Mother Dengel said. And why must the doctors be Religious? Mother Dengel found the answer to that question the hard way, as a lay doctor in India for four year during the early 1920’s. “Stability is important,” she says. “The fact that we don’t come into an area, and then leave, makes an impression. And the fact that as Religious we dedicate our lives beyond our own spiritual good to the good of others undoubtedly has an impact.” The Austrian-born doctor saw Protestant missions making great headway in India in the ’20s when they were staffed by well-trained missionary doctors and nurses. At that time, Catho lic dispensaries such as the one Dr. Dengel was attached to were so few as to be almost non existent. After four years, Mother Den gel left for the U. S. to organize the first group of nuns in the world who would be devoted to medical missionary work. “Even now, after 30 years, all people do not understand what we are trying to do,” she remarked. What they are trying to do is to spread Christianity through the apostolate of medicine. The Sisters depend almost entirely on the good example of their members for their Christian in fluence, their founder pointed out. Proselytizing just isn’t done. Mother Dengel encountered a major stumbling block at the very start of her career as a Religious. Canon law forbade women Religious with public vows to practice medicine. In 1936 partly through Mother Dengel’s efforts, the Sacred Con gregation for the Propagation of the Faith issued a decree giving them the right. His Holiness Pope Pius XI said at that tlmie: “The Sacred Congregation for the Propoga- tion of the Faith would like to see new religious institutes for women founded, who will dedi cate themselves principally to health work in the missions . . . The Sisters shoqld obtain cer tificates as doctors and nurses . . . They must see a noble ex pression of Christian charity in this delicate service, a charita ble work destined to ease bodily misery and to open the way for the graces of Redemption.” Mother Dengel’s community now has 26 centers, in India, Af rica, South America, Europe, England and the United States. Among the 500 professed are 30 M.D.’s — a surprising number considering that it has been only in the last 22 years that nuns could practice medicine — and 170 registered nurses. The Sisters’ training is one of the longest in religious life. Three solid years for spiritual formation are required at the outset of the training period, without other schooling or class- work requirements. Specialized training _ follows, which, in the case of M.D. Sisters, means a total training period of 12 years beyond high school. New Provincial Father Patrick O'Donoghue, S.M.A. (above), has been elect ed provincial of the American Province of the Society of Afri can Missions. Born in Ireland, he served in Nigeria for ten years. He has been attached to the American Province since 1941. INC Photos) Suggestions Made To Congress Group To Improve Efficiency Of Public Housing Program WASHINGTON, (NC) — A Catholic charities leader pro posed to Congress some changes in the public housing program calculated to make it operate more efficiently. “The fact is that low-rent pub lic housing today is no longer serving its original purpose in the American community,” he said. He added that “we should be ready to admit in the hearing of all the public that there was something wrong about our bas ic concept of providing tem porary shelter for low-income groups.” Msgr. John O’Grady, secre tary of the National Conference of Catholic Charities, testifying before a subcommittee of the House of Representatives Co.m- mitte on Banking and Currency, urged specifically: . . . that the fullest use be made of the tenants in the ad ministration of housing projects. . . . that a specific program for training housing managers be set up. . . . that a training program for community leaders be set up. . . . that sufficient funds be set aside in the budgets of local Housing Authorities to carry out the basic objectives in the training of community leaders, in giving tenants an equity in the projects that will enable them to purchase the units in a period of 40 years, with opportunity for accelerating payments. . . . that tenants be given in centives to build up individual or a cooperative ownership pro gram. . . . that in all new projects, units as far as possible lend themselves to purchase on an individual ownership basis. Msgr. O’Grady said that, un der the Bankhead-Jones Act, funds are lent to farm families to enable them to purchase their homes and land over a period oi 40 years, and “I do not see wny we should not give the oc cupants of public housing a chance of building up an equity from the very beginning.” The witness said there was no reason why an occupant could not use his payments to builq up an equity in the apart ment he occupies, and “there is no reason wny he can’t use his equity as a means ot purchasing a home in another part of the ciiy.” Charging that “one of the fac tors tnat has brought public housing to its present low estate is the lack oi proper manage ment,” Msgr. o'Grady said ■ many famines with good stand- arus live in fear oi the other families,” in some projects, and that “law enforcement has been reduced to a minimum in many oi the projects.” In this connection, he charged that "no ellort has been made to build up proper leadership with in the projects.” He asked “why can’t Lie same things be done there that are done through seii-help organizations in other parts of the city?” “We have in the projects a greater concentration of prob lems than we would find in oth er sections,” Msgr. 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