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PAGE 3-B—THE BULLETIN, August 9, 1958
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BUFFALO, N. Y. (NC)—Un
der Secretary of Labor James
T. O’Connell reminded delegates
to the 27tli annual National
Catholic Family Life conven
tion here that the community is
“a manifestation and extension
of the family.”
Asserting that separation of
the family and the community is
“an unreal distinction,” Mr. O’
Connell declared that “society
is not so much a structure as it
is a growth ... it grows out of
families and the members of
families.”
Mr. O’Connell urged his audi
ence to “search out in our own
hearts the responsibilities that
we have to our brothers and
sisters in our communities” and
to "re-cnact the family relation
ship on a wider social scale.”
'The starting point for any
consideration of the family, he
said, is the fact that “the family
is older than and precedes the
state and consequently it has
rights and duties peculiar to it
self which are quite independ
ent of the state.”
But on the other hand, the
community also has rights, he
stressed.
“The community re-enacts the
family relationship on a wider
scale,” Mr. O’Connell said. “For
instance, it continues the educa
tion and development of its
children. It provides safeguards
and protection for privacy and
personal property. It is respon
sible for an entire environment
that will allow people to reach
their full capabilities.
“The community can, when
necessary, trke action against
whatever endangers the rights
inherent in its families; and, on
the other side, it is required to
take whatever actions are nec
essary to help its families to
attain their true goals.”
The source of many commun
ity problems, the speaker main
tained, “may lie in the modern
family ... If some of our mod
ern communities are sick, it is
because many of their families
are sick.”
He continued: “Too many
modern families are deprived of
social circumstances that would
foster a more morally health
ful way of life. They lack know
ledge of the fuli purpose of life.
They are wanting in the wisdom
to place supernatural values
over temporal ones.”
Mr. O’Connell listed tw r o chief
reasons for juvenile delinquen
cy, broken homes and current
“moral dissolution:”
1) “The wholesale and appar
ently unquestioning acceptance
of values generated by a society
centered on material accom
plishment.”
2) “The depersonalization of
the individual which results in
a society that does not provide
equal access to social oppor
tunity to all its people.”
Mr. O’Connell said it is “no
coincidence” that “juvenile de
linquency is often centered in
‘minority group’ communities.”
“Juvenile delinquents are us-
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On Their Golden Wedding Day
Achille and Sylvia Pirossino, of Corona, Calif., were married
in Our Lady of Pompei Church, New York, 50 years ago.
They celebrated their golden wedding day by flying across
country to renew their marriage vows in the same church
and before the same priest who married them, Scalabrini
Father Pio Parolin, pictured here. (NC Photos)
Says Most Seminarians Come
From “Hi!® Glass” Families
ually boys and girls in search of
themselves,” he said. “Their
families, unable to show them
the way to * maturity, thrust
them out — consciously or oth
erwise — upon the community.”
He, pointed out that the com
munity is “not an impersonal,
automatic organization that has
a will and power of its own,
apart from the will of the peo
ple that make it up. A com
munity is people. It is only as
good and only as efficient as the
people that motivate it and con
trol it.”
Social change and the de
mands for intellectual readjust
ment made by new scientific
discoveries do not change the
“goals and the duties” of the
family, Mr. O’Connell said. “It
remains the task of the mother
and the father to know them
selves and their relationship to
God —- and to help their chil
dren toward the same under
standing. The family must keep
its bearings and its balance.”
The speaker challenged the
Catholic family to “take its con
science into the market place”
and become a “living, motivat
ing force in society.”
“There are two ways to do
that,” he added. “The first is by
example. The mere fact that it
is there makes of a Christian
family a force in the communi
ty.
“But more important in our
age of advancing social and eco
nomic interdependence is the
duty that falls upon our fami
lies to participate in the com
munity, to deliberately and with
full intention set out to make of
the community the image of the
ideal family, to make of the
community a genuine, living ad-
juct to the family.
“We cannot leave our con
science in our own closets,” he
said. “We cannot serve God only
within our own property lines.”
NOTRE DAME, Ind., (NC)—
A sociologist has found that the
majority of America’s future
priests come from middle-class
families, graduated from a
hometown high school, and have
at least one relative in religious
life.
Father Joseph H. Fichter, S.J.,
visiting professor of sociology at
the University of Notre Dame,
disclosed these findings in an
address on “Sources -of Priestly
Vocations” at the opening of the
11th Vocation Institute here.
He based his conclusions on
four separate surveys of young
men attending major semina
ries. Two of the studies were
completed recently under his su
pervision.
Sixty per cent of the semi
narians are sons of middle-
class and upper-middle-class fa
thers who have white-collar
jobs, or are in the managerial
or professional categories, Fa
ther Fichter asserted. Only one
out of ten of them comes from
families that have “below ave
rage income,” he said.
University of the South, New
Orleans, disputed the notion
that priestly vocations flourish
in large Catholic families.
About half of the vocations,
he said, come from families that
have four children or fewer.
“The smaller families,” he ex
plained, “contribute, more than
a third of their children to the
service of God, while the larger
families contribute only about a
fifth of their children to the
vocation apostolate.”
Vocations do “run in fam
ilies,” the Jesuit scholar felt,
since two-thirds of the semi-
narins surveyed have one or
more relatives in the priesthood
or religious life.
However, he attributed this
not so much to the personal ex
ample and influence of the old
er person, but rather to “an at
titude or frame of mind toward
the concept of vocation among
members of a family which al
ready has received a vocation.”
Vocations also “run in parish
es,” Father Fichter maintained,
with a “tremendous variation”
among parochial units. “There
exist parishes in this country,
some of them established for
more than fifty years, out of
which not a single priestly vo
cation has come,” he said.
While the parochial school
contines to be a rich mine of
potential vocations, the record
of Catholic high schools looks
even better, in Father Fichter’s
opinion.
The nation’s high schools pro
duce more young men who
eventually become priests than
do the minor seminaries, Father
Fichter claimed. “We find that
two-thirds of the major sem
inarians, both religious and dio
cesan, did not do their high
school studies in a minor sem
inary,” he declared.
“To put this another way: the
high schools of America are
twice as effective in training
boys who continue on into the
major seminary as are the min
or seminaries. T hey produce
twice as many priests. It ap
pears to be a question of major
moment wiien we discover that
the minor seminaries on the
high school level, are producing
fewer priests than are the Cath
olic and public schools of
America.”
Seminarians who began stu
dying tor tne priesthood at the
age of eighteen or later experi
enced much the same social and
. atihetic activity as their high
school classmates, Father Fich-
ter found.
While one out of ten had nev
er nad a “date,” one-fifth of
them had dated once a week,
and one-filtn nad "practically
been going steady.”
The majority of the seminari
ans also played on organized
athletic teams m high school, he
said. They differed principally
from then' classmates, tne Jesuit
scholar lound, in that they were
“more than ordinarily faithful
to religious practices.”
ly vocations is the typical
American Catholic teen-ager,
who had all the splendid and
exciting qualities of such
youngsters, and who has enjoy
ed and profited from the normal
experiences of the modern youth
in our society.”
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three years.”
Msgr. O’Grady told the com
mittee that “many of us have
never abandoned the idea of
having the people from the cen
ter of our cities who are dis
placed by urban renewal and
Highway construction, given an
opportunity for rehousing in the
areas from which they have
been removed.” He said they do
not see any possibility of this at
present, because rents for houses
built under the Housing Act
“are too high.”
“Why cannot we encourage
our low income families to look
ahead to the time when they
wili again own their own homes
in the center of our cities?” he
asked. “What other alternative
can we hold out to low income
families at the present time?
People who are being displaced
by urban renewal are being
pushed into new slum areas. It
is no exaggeration to say that
they are helping to create new
slums and while we are clear
ing slums in certain areas of our
cities, we are creating just as
bad slums in other areas.”
Don’t expect your neighbors to
be better than your neighbor’s
neighbor.
Many prayers remain unan
swered, pending endorsement of
our deeds.
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