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PAGE 6-THE BULLETIN, October 13. 1962
Bishops’ Annual Thanksgiving
Collection Nov. 18th To 25th
WASHINGTON, (NC) - The
Catholic Bishops’ 14th annual
Thanksgiving Clothing Collec
tion will take place November
18 to 25, Archbishop Patrick A.
0‘Boyle of Washington, chair
man of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference Admin
istrative Board, has announced.
In a letter to the Bishops of
the United States, Archbishop
O’Boyle emphasized the plight
and the continuing needs of the
poor and afflicted in impover
ished and underprivileged areas
of the world.
“There is no measuring the
value of the clothing collected
each year in our annual Thanks
giving appeal as far as the poor
and needy in distressed areas
of the world are concerned,”
he said.
“Clothing that we were able
to ship as a result of last
year’s appeal made it possible
for us to assist the unclad and
suffering in countries of great
est need in nearly every quar
ter of the globe and, in addi
tion, the many thousands de
prived of everything in the num
erous calamities of flood and
earthquake which affected so
many areas during the
past year,” he added.
The fact that each year our
good Catholic people respond so
generously to our annual appeal
for clothing at Thanksgiving is
ample evidence that they are
most anxious to cooperate in
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this yearly effort for the poor
overseas,” he declared.
As in previous years, the used
clothing, shoes, blankets,
bedding and other materials
donated during the Bishops’
Thanksgiving Clothing Collec
tion will be processed, baled,
shipped abroad and distributed
by Catholic Relief Services —
NCWC through its worldwide
network ot reliel and rehabili
tation projects and centers ex-
tablished in 67 countries. Cath
olic Relief Services--NCWC,
the overseas aid agency of U.S.
Catholics, is the largest pri
vate voluntary organization of
its kind in the world.
Archbishop O’Boyle made
special mention of the clothing
sent by CRS- NCWC to vie
tims of the earthquakes in Iran,
Italy and Greece, the September
typhoon in Hong Kong, where
75,000 were made homeless,
and the recent disastrous flood
in Spain. He called the clothing
“a tremendous and vital help
in their hour of need.”
He praised the parish priests
the Religious and the volunteer
lay workers throughout the
country who “have always been
most generous in offering their
cooperation in the conduct of
the appeal, even though it en
tails great inconvenience and
sacrifice.”
Final figures on the 1961
Thanksgiving Clothing Collec
tion show that approximately 17,
400,000 pounds of clothing,
shoes, blankets, bedding and
other useful materials were
collected. According to Auxil
iary Bishop Edward E, Swan-
strom of New York, executive
director of CRS- NCWC, these
materials have an extimated
value of $25 million. He added
that their worth in terms of
the great good they accompli
shed was beyond human cal
culation.
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AUGUSTA
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AUGUSTA,
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TOTAL U.S*
23.7%
42,876,665 Catholics
Includes 2,000,000
in military service ond
567,000 Eastern Rites.
UGANDA PRELATES ASK
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For Good Of Country
More Priestly Vocations Is
Latin America’s No. 1 Need
Notes “Government
Encouragement
Of Church Schools’’
COLUMBUS, Ohio, (NC) —
Contrary to the claims of those
who advocate absolute sep
aration of Church and State,
the government recognizes and
encourages the public function
of parochial schools, a speaker
said here.
James J. Hollern, executive
secretary of the Ohio Catholic
Welfare Conference, said gov
ernment recognition of the pub
lic function of parochial schools
comes in the form of exemp
tion from real estate, personal
property, Federal excise and
income taxes.
Hollern reminded delegates
to a convention of the Colum
bus Diocesan Council of Cath
olic Women (Sept. 26) that par
ochial schools must meet the
same standards as public
schools and teach the same
subjects.
“Since the parochial schools
serve this public purpose,” he
said, ‘‘government encourages
the contribution they are making
to the education of the commun
ity by granting them tax exemp
tions.”
“The requests made to us for
relief supplies during the past
10 months have been unusually
numerous,” said Bishop Swan-
strom.“Iwas at our-main ware
house a few days ago and it
is virtually empty. We made
available 100,000 pounds of
clothing and blankets to the
victims of the earthquake, in
Iran less than 24 hours after
it struck. Fortunately, we have
a supply of clothing in our Mad
rid warehouse which can be
used to help the hundreds made
homeless by the flood at Bar
celona.”
Bishop Swanstrom pointed out
that the distribution of clothing
from the annual Thanksgiving
collection, and of all CRS re
lief supplies, is made under
American supervision, solely
on the basis of need, and with
out regard to race, religion,
color or national origin.
Traffic statistics prove that
it’s time to ease-up when
there’s a freeze-up.
Reduce your speed on the
highways, and you’ll find that
safety is no accident.
KAMPALA, (NC) - The An
glican and Catholic archbishops
of Uganda have joined in an
Independence-eve appeal to
their people to bury old rival
ries and to work together for
the good of the whole nation.
They said that with the com
ing of total freedom for Uganda
on October 9 it will be the duty
of the new national government
to protect the God-given human
dignity of all of Uganda’s peo
ple.
“This means,” said the pre
lates, “that every human being
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Con
go, (NC) - Baptized Congolese
Catholics in 1961 totaled 5,122,
NOTES
IMPROVED
RELATIONS
MONTREAL, (NC) - Lord
Fisher of Lambeth, former
Archbishop of Canterbury and
Primate of England, said here
that new and improved relations
have develpped among the
churches of the world sineq. the
papacy of His Holiness Pope
John XXIII.
The Anglican churchman said
Pope John had shown great in
terest in other religions at the
official level.
Recalling his visit to the
Pope two years ago, Lord
Fisher said he had been re
ceived in “an atmosphere of
friendship and happiness.”
He said the work of the Sec
retariat for Promoting Chris
tian Unity established by Pope
John has been “ most valuable.”
After receiving an honorary
degree from the Montreal An
glican Diocesan Theological
College here, Lord Fisher was
scheduled to visit the United
States and preachat a San Fran
cisco prayer service for the
success of the ecumenical coun
cil opening October 11 in
Rome.
in the nation—African, Asian,
European, man or woman—has
the right to freedom of wor
ship, freedom to propagate
his beliefs, freedom of speech,
freedom from hunger and ig
norance, freedom from unjust
arrest.”
The statement, dated October
5, was signed by the Most Rev.
Joseph Kiwanuka, Catholic
Archbishop of Rubaga and thus
head of the Catholic Hierarchy
of Uganda, and the Most Rev.
Leslie Brown, Anglican Arch
bishop of Uganda. Such a joint
statement was unprecedented.
199 or more than a third of
this African nation's population
of about 14 million, according
to statistics released here by
the Apostolic Delegation to the
Congo.
Persons taking instruction
prior to baptism, the delega
tion reported, numbered 641,
605.
The figures showed an
increase of 256,384 in the num
ber of baptized Catholics since
1959 and a rise of 36,942 in
the number of catechumens.
There were more than a mil
lion Protestants, 116,852 Mos
lems and about seven million
pagans, it was reported.
The Church in the Congo
was served by 2,650 priests,
more than 1,000 Brothers and
3,500 Sisters, the delegation
said.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.,
- A program for recruiting
more native vocations to the
priesthood is the top need of the
Church in Latin America, Arch
bishop James P. Davis of San
Juan, Puerto Rico, said here.
“It is not lack of respect for
the priesthood that lies at the
root of the problem of Latin
America, but in most instances
ignorance of their opportunity
and their duty,” Archbishop
Davis told the annual conven
tion of District 30, Serra In
ternational, at the Beach Club
Hotel here.
Some 80 members of Serra
clubs in the Miami diocese and
in San Juan attended the ses
sions at which Bishop Alfred
Mendez, C.S.C., of Arecibo, P.
R., also spoke.
“If family life falls far be
low the norm and the pattern
of the Catholic ideal, the cli
mate favorable to vocations is
lacking and the basic difficul
ty must be overcome before the
problems caused by it can be
solved,” the Archbishop said.
It is fortunate that Serra,
which is dedicated to promoting
vocations to the priesthood, has
taken root in Latin America,
he said. The particular “fea
ture of Serra which will help
so much in Latin America is
that it is a family approach
to the problem in which the head
of the family takes the init
iative,” the prelate added.
“The impact of the message
from laymen devoted to pro
motion of vocations is a tre
mendous force for good” Arch
bishop Davis said. “If this be
true in our case here at home
it is more so in Latin Amer
ica where the head of the fam
ily has been of a mind to let
active interest in the Church
be a matter for his wife and
children.
He reminded that the lack
of vocations problem is of such
long standing in Latin America
that solutions must be of suf
ficient force to meet the de
mands resulting from centuries
of inactivity.
Bishop Mendez said that the
native clergy comprises only
10 per cent of the prelates
serving in Puerto Rico. In his
diocese, established less than
two years ago, Bishop Mendez
said each priest m inisters to
the spiritual needs of some
8,500 Catholics.
“Through cursillos, the'Lit
tle Courses of Christianity’ we
have in one year trained 615
dynamic Catholic men,” Bish
op Mendez said. “We have look
ed for the potential leader and
from this group of men we are
selecting about 100 trained
leaders to go out in teams every
Sunday.
“Since more than half of
the churches in his diocese have
Mass only once a month, Bish
op Mendez said he hopes to
establish a regular program
of devotions on the remaining
Sundays.
“A team of laymen comes
in,” he said, “the church is
opened, the bells are rung, the
Rosary recited, hymns sung
and a sermon preached from
the steps outside the Commun
ion railing.”
Bishop Mendez predicted that
if every diocese in Latin Am
erica could prepare and train
from 300 to 500 men a year,
as active Catholics, there would
be 100,000 in two or three
years, and more than a million
in 10 years.
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