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,302 Catholics
In U. S. r Year's Increase
Reported As 1,365,827
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
NEW YORK — There are 40,-
871,302 Catholics in the United
States,
The latest count by the 1960
Official Catholic Directory, just
published by P. J. Kenedy &
Sons, New York publisher, in
cludes Alaska and Hawaii; fam
ilies of defense forces at home
and abroad, and families of dip
lomats and others serving over
seas.
The total represents a year’s
increase of 1,365,827. It is also
a ten-year increase , of 13,105,-
161, or 47.2 per cent over the
27,766,141 Catholics recorded in
the U. S. in 1950. The statistics
are recorded as of January 1,
1960.
The directory lists 26 arch
dioceses in the U. S., with a to
tal Catholic population of 17,-
848,005 and .114 dioceses with a
total Catholic population of 23,-
023,297. The dioceses include
the Military Ordinariate and
the Vicarate of Alaska. The
archdioceses reported a growth
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of 506,888 and the dioceses,
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Eight archdioceses with Cath
olic populations of more than
one million are listed. These
are: Chicago, (2,073,616); Bos
ton, (1,625,024); New York, (1,-
581,654); Philadelphia, (1,513,-
269); Newark, (1,402,609); De
troit, (1,324’,951); Los Angeles,
(1,297,584), and San Francisco,
(1,030,833.)
Brooklyn continues as the dio
cese with the largest Catholic
population, 1,486,235. Other dio
ceses with more than 500,000
Catholic population are: Pitts
burgh, (879,255); Buffalo, (859,-
577); Cleveland, (757,875); Rock
ville Centre, (631,568); Corpus
Christi, (524,500), and Provi
dence, (510,346).
The directory shows that six
dioceses reported no changes in
their Catholic populations, nine
reflected slight decreases, but
125 archdioceses and dioceses
recorded substantial increases.
The largest increases recorded:
Miami, 123,000; Rockville Cen
tre, 110,157; San Francisco, 70,-
833; Newark, 56,665; Los An
geles, 54,073; Philadelphia, 50,-
238; Pittsburgh Byzantine Rite,
48,123; Chicago, 46,373; Boston,
42,347; Detroit, 36,190; Lafay
ette, La., 30,033; San Diego, 27,-
293, and Milwaukee, 26,896.
Among the 227 members' of .
the hierarchy listed are five
cardinals, 32 archbishops and
190 bishops, an increase of three
over last year.
The directory reports that for
the 14th consecutive year the
number of converts to the Cath
olic Faith exceeded 100,000. It
says that, as of January 1, there
were 146,212 converts received
into the church during the pre-
5,801 over the year before. To
tal conversions during the last
10 years are recorded at 1,238,-
374.
The largest number of priests
ever recorded is listed in the
directory — 53,796. These in
clude 32,569 diocesan priests, an
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St. Bernard
Degree For
R. E. McCormack Conquer Religious Ignorance
Woman Journalist In Rio
In Vanguard of Battle To
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sir
THE BULLETIN, May 28, 1960—PAGE 3
ST. BERNARD — St. Ber
nard College, Cullman, Ala
bama, will award honorary doc-
increase of 608, and 21,227
priests ' of religious communi
ties, an increase of 499. There
are 1,844 newly ordained priests
listed for the first time, while
11 bishops and 737 priests are
recorded in the necrology. Also
recorded are 10,473 Brothers,
an increase of 764, and 168,527
Sisters, ari increase of 3,605.
A record total of 160,447
make up the full-time teaching
staffs of all educational institu
tions under Catholic auspices,
the directory reports. This is an
increase of 4,331. The break
down: 10,890 priests, 802 scho
lastics, 4,778 Brothers, 98,471
Sisters and 45,506 lay teachers.
The directory shows a year’s
increase of 1,761 in lay teach
ers.
Another record logged is the
number of Catholic parishes,
16,896. The directory lists 16,-
350 parishes with resident pas
tors, an increase of 165, and 546
parishes without resident cler
gy. Also listed are 4,860 mis
sions, 1,590 stations and 10,826
chapels — an increase of 559
places where Mass is offered
regularly.
A new high of 13,726 separate
education institution’s is record
ed. These included 96 diocesan
seminaries; 429 religious com
munity seminaries, novitiates
and scholasticates; 265 univer
sities and colleges; 1,567 dioces
an and parish high schools; 866
private high schools; 9,897 par
ish elementary schools and 475
private elementary schools.
The seminaries report a total
of 39,896 candidates for the
priesthood. Two diocesan and
five religious community semi
naries were established during
1959. The 96 diocesan semina
ries report 20,278 students, an
increase of 676, while the 429
institutions of religious commu
nities report 19,618 students, an
increase of 1,115.
DR. DOOLEY
TO ADDRESS
CONVENTION
MILWAUKEE (NC)—Dr.
Thomas A. Dooley will speak
here June 2 at the closing ses
sion of the 45th annual conven
tion of the Catholic Hospital
Association.
Dr. Dooley won worldwide
attention for, his medical works
among the destitute in the Far
East.
About 5,000 delegates, repre
senting the United States and
Canada, are expected to attend
the three-day convention, which
opens May 30.
A graduate of the University
of Notre Dame and the St.
Louis University Medical
School, Dr. Dooley is cofounder
of the non-profit organization
known as Medico. Established in
1958, Medico recruits medical
teams for work in under
developed countries.
MR. McCORMACK
torial degrees to three persons
at the 68th annual commence
ment exercises to be held at
Alumni Stadium at 8 a. m.,
Sunday, May 29.
The degrees will be conferred
on Mr. R. E. McCormack, Dr. Ed
ward D. McAdory, and- Mr.
Herman Heidrich.
Mr. McCormack will receive
the Doctor of Letters degree
from St. Bernard, where he
graduated with highest honors
in 1910. He founded Bobs Can
dies, Albany, Georgia in 1919
and has served as President and
Chairman of the Board since
then. He is a member of the
Board of Directors of the Na
tional Confectioners Associa
tion, and the founder and pres
ident of the St. Bernard Lay
Board of Advisors. He was
made a Knight of St. Sylvester
by Pope Pius XII in 1945, one
of three hundred in the world.
Four Nurses
Will Do Mission
Work In Africa
WASHINGTON, (NC) —Four
nurses, completing a lay aposto-
late training program here, will
leave this summer to do mission
work, in Nyasaland, southeast
Africa.
They are members of the
Women Volunteers for Africa, a
lay organization working in co
operation with the White Fa
thers and White Sisters in Afri
ca. The nurses will leave from
New York on June 29.
Monica Schumacher of St.
Louis and Bernadette DeClaire
of Ontario, Canada, will devote
three years of service to a Han
sen’s disease (leprosy) colony
under the jurisdiction of Bishop
Cornelius Chitsulo of Dedza.
Louisa Coffman of Cumberland,
Md., and Mary Finan of Wash
ington, D.C., will assist at a
medical center at Likuni, a mis
sion operated by the White
Fathers.
The four nurses are the sec
ond group from the Women Vol
unteers for Africa to travel to
Africa. Last October five Balti
more nurses joined the missions
in Uganda.
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TSAOE-MARK REO. U. i. RAT. OFF.
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
RIO DE JANEIRO—Brazil is
said to be 95 per cent Catholic,
and there is a woman journalist
working in a one-room office in
Rio de Janeiro who is doing her
best to keep it so.
She is Alice Isnard Tavora,
director of the Brazilian office
of Noticias Catolicas, Spanish
and Portuguese language edi
tions of the NCWC News Serv
ice.
To Miss Tavora, Brazil’s
major problem is summed up in
two words: “Religious igno
rance.” The solution: “Send us
more priests.”
A native Brazilian, Miss
Tavora speaks four languages:
Portuguese, Spanish, French
and English. Her entire life is
centered on the Catholic aposto-
late. It takes two forms: dis
seminating Catholic news and
working for a Universal Thanks
giving Day.
In her small office on Avenida
Rio Branco, the main street of
Rio de Janeiro, Miss Tavora
translates into Portuguese the
copy sent in Spanish from
Noticias Catholicas headquar
ters jn Washington, D.C.
She then mails her transla
tions to about 80 Catholic pa
pers in Brazil and 10 radio sta
tions. According to Miss Tavora,
there are only two strong Cath
olic papers in Brazil: “O
Diario,” published in Belo Hori
zonte, and “Jornal do Dia,” pub
lished in Porto Alegre. There
are only four Catholic dailies in
the country, she added.
“There'should be more propa
ganda for the Catholic press in
Brazil,” she said. “One reason
why it is weak is lack of adver
tising; another is that people
have no money to support a
strong Catholic paper. It’s a
shame that we have no major
Catholic paper in Rio de
Janeiro.”
“I cannot stress too < much,”
she stated, “what a great help
NC is. The subscribers are very
fond of its service, and I have
received many letters from bish
ops and priests lauding the
work of NC.”
Miss Tavora was born in Rio
on March 6, 1913. After gradua
tion in 1931 from Sao Paulo
College, conducted by Angelicas
Sisters, she went to work for
Natal, a Catholic women’s mag
azine published in Rio. She
served as its editor from 1947
to 1954. She became head of the
Noticias Catholicas office in
Rio in 1954.
Asked why there is religious
ignorance in Brazil, a country
so predominantly Catholic, Miss
Tavora replied; “Most people in
Brazil are baptized into the
Catholic Faith, but many fall
away. There just are not enough
priests and lay apostles to teach
religion. We have Catholic in
structions in the public schools,
but too many students abandon
their Faith in the universities
because there is no one to keep
it alive in them.”
“Thousands of children in
Brazil don’t attend school,” she
continued, “and 50 per cent of
the country’s 60 million people
do not know how to read or
write. In Rio alone there are
200,000 who do not go to school,
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and there are not enough build
ings in which to educate the
children.”
In addition to translating the
news from Washington, Miss
Tavora writes up local news,
items and sends them out with
the service.
When she does get some free
time, she devotes it to the Cru
sade for a Universal Thanks
giving Day. She has been gen
eral secretary of the movement
since 1954. A brother, Joao Bap-
tista Isnard Tavora of Sao
Paulo, is president of the cru
sade.
“Purpose of the crusade,”
Miss Tavora said, “is to have
one day throughout the world
dedicated to God to thank Him
for the benefits He has he-
stowed on mankind.”
“Officially eight nations now
observe Universal Thanksgiving
Day on the fourth Thursday of
November: Brazil, the U. S.,
Cuba, Paraguay, Ecuador, the
Philippines, Argentina and
Costa Rica. We want some 120
nations and territories to observe
it.” *
Miss Tavora was in the fore
front of the battle for a national
Thanksgiving Day in Brazil. As
head of the Noelists Union, a
women’s lay apostolate group,
she spurred the idea after get
ting the approval of His Emi
nence Jaime Cardinal de Barros
Camara, Archbishop of Rio de
Janeiro.
Although a proposal was in
troduced in the Brazilian Con
gress in 1909 for a national
Thanksgiving Day, it was not
until August 17, 1949, that the
observance was signed into law
by President Eurico Dutra ol
Brazil.
Proclaims Peace
Prayer Day
WASHINGTON (NC)—Presi
dent Eisenhower has proclaimed
Memorial Day, May 30, a day
of prayer for permanent peace.
His proclamation (May 14)
designated 11 a.m. in each local
ity the time to unite in prayer.
It called on newspapers and
other information media to pro
mote the observance.
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