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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 ■XTERMINATOftS CE. 7-8694 Free Inspection Atlanta, Ga. 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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 DR. ALLEN WASSERMAN OPTOMETRIST Office Hours — 9 a.m. - 5:15 p.m. Monday thru Friday Thursday, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Saturday 1152 Main Street PO. 1-7738 Forest Park, Ga. BROOKWOOD SERVICE STATION Pure Oil Products - Tires - Lubrication - Tail Pipe - Mufflers - Brake Work MR. CLAY, Prop. Road Service - Pick-Up & Delivery 1820 Peachtree Rd., N.W. TR. 6-2171 Atlanta, Ga. KENT'S LOCAL & LONG DISTANCE MOVING YOU CALL — WE HAUL NO JOB TOO SMALL Agents for Consolidated Van Storage Co., Inc. KENT TRANSFER 569 10th St., N.W. TR. 6-3551 FLOWERLAND GREENHOUSES Retail — Wholesale Greater Atlanta Deliveries Flowers for Every Occasion Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd. 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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. MARIETTA eca\ 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, BOTTLING COMPANY 506 ROSWELL STREET MARIETTA, GEORGIA MISS TAVORA 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. CURRAN NURSERY JVKST EMI) HEADQUARTERS FOR QUAT.ITV SHRUBS — TREES — SEED FERTTI.IZER 23G5 Sewell Rd. S.W., In Cascade Heights PL. 5-0162 PL. 5-7049 Atlwntn. Ga. ATLANTA DOMESTIC EMPLOYMENT SERVICE MAIDS - COOKS - DAY WORK MRS 4A. 3-5571 199 Forest Ave., NIC Atlanta. Ga. E. B. RICE & CO. BOOKKEEPING AND TAX SERVICE 881 Peachtree, N.E. TR. 5-8317 Atlanta, Ga. L. F. JENKINS REALTY COMPANY Two Locations to Serve You 531 Moreland Ave., S.E. Atlanta, Ga. 3182 Candler-GIcnwood Plaza Decatur, Ga. —Phones— Office: MA. 7-5768 Res.: DR. 8-3540 KINSEY MOVING & STORAGE AGENTS FOR DEAN VAN LINES WORLD WIDE SERVICE COMPARE OUR RATES 629 Glenn St., S.W. PL. 3-9781 Atlanta, Ga. 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