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PAGE 3-B—THE BULLETIN, August 9, 1958 oa „ t yW eS > 2 \m V A SAILOR DIVES IN TO RETRIEVE THE RING. A'o fewer than J4 1 Italian towns have, or have had at one time, CATHEDRALS. r Jke Irish, countryside abounds with known 'MASS ROCKS" where Mas? Was celebrated in ffenal times. C9 DOWN HAS 55; DONEGAL 33, &- DUBLIN 31. THIS GUTTERING RED AND GOLD SUN PLAQUE COVERED A SANCTUARY SELL IN AN 1ST? CENTURY Honduras church, and IS A UNIQUE EXAMPLE OF HOW RAGAN SUN-WORSHIP WAS TURNED TO - . CHRlS-nAMj^ - KJ LEWIS PHARMACY 2802 PIEDMONT RD., N. E. CE. 3-5353 ATLANTA, GA. BARRETT & LEITCH 3771 ROSWELL RD., N. E. CE. 7-0355 ATLANTA, GA. 0. E. SITU PLUMBED CO. 504 EDGEWOOD, N. E, JA. 1-2142 ATLANTA, GA. JENKINS cycle & mm e§. 408 CHURCH ST. DR. 3-1761 DECATUR, GA. GRAHAM PARX PHARMACY 1449 GRAHAM RD., N. E. DR. 8-8869 ATLANTA, GA. LEWIS SEES STORE 406 E. HOWARD AVE. DR. 3-3737 DECATUR, GA, WE SPECIALIZE IN SET UP PAPER BOXES . . . ATLANTA BOX FACTORY, ins. 237-239 WHITEHALL ST., S. W. JA. 2-B609 ATLANTA URGES FAMILY HELP TO COMMUNITY WELFARE 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- Summertime is Refreshment Time . . . Finest in Dairy Products MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS Miss Georgia Dairies. Inc. Atlanta 9 Macon © Griffin JA. 4-6484, 3-8631, 4000 ON SALE AT ALL LEADING GROCERS DiXIE TRAILED HOUSE FOR RETIRED — BRIDES — VOCATIONISTS SEE LOVELY MOBILE HOMES - - ALL SIZES 2353 Slewarl Ave. PO. 7-1889 Allania, Ga. BEST WISHES FROM BEN W. FORTSQN, JR. 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(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.” Suggestions (Continued From Page 5-B) make over many of the housing projects during the next two or 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. 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