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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMFN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JUNE 20; 1953
Bishop Joseph H. Hodges Ordains Two
At Rites at Belmont Abbey Cathedral
BELMONT, N. C.—Two monks
of the Order of St. Benedict at
Belmont, N. C., were ordained to
the priesthood on Saturday, June
13. The Rev. Kevin C. Fahey, O.
S. B., of Brooklyn, New York, and
the Rev. Kenneth A. Geyer, O. S.
B., of Lancaster, New York, were
ordained by the Most Reverend
Joseph H. Hodges, D.D., Auxiliary
Bishop of Richmond, Va., in the
Belmont Abbey Cathedral.
Father Kevin, who is a gradu
ate of Belmont Abbey Prepara
tory School and St. Benedict’s
College, Atchison, Kan., will cele
brate his first Solemn Mass in
Holy Innocents’ Church, Brooklyn
New York on Sunday, June 21 at
12:10 p. m. Father Kenneth, who
is a graduate of St. Mary’s High
School, Lancaster, N. Y., and also
of St. Benedict’s College will offer
his first Solemn Mass in St. Mary’s
Church, Lancaster, on Sunday,
June 21, at 10 a. m. He has served
as organist and director of the
Schola Cantorum at Belmont Ab
bey sinee 1949.
Most Catholics
Don't Lift Finger
To Win Convert’
ST. PAUL Minn. — (NC) —
“The overwhelming majority of
Catholic lay men and women have
never lifted a finger to win a con
vert for Christ,” a Catholic Di
gest survey has concluded.
Protestants are more than twice
as zealous as Catholics in seeking
to win converts. Father John A.
O’Brien of Notre Dame University
stated in reporting the results of
the nationwide survey.
“The replies of Catholics . . .
showed that 72 per cent had never
even tried to get anyone to join
the Church,’’ he said.
“In contrast to that feeble ef
fort, the replies of the Protestants
Showed that 59 per cent had def
initely tried. Of these 43 per cent
succeeded . . . ”
The Catholic Digest said the
survey showed that Catholics need
to learn “effective techniques” of
winning converts, as only 17 per
cent of the 28 per cent who tried
were successful as compared with
43 per cent of the Protestants.
Among the Protestant denomi
nations, Baptists are the most ac
tive group in seeking new mem
bers the Digest survey showed.
Catholics were eighth and last
among the groups.
Father O’Brien noted that the
Catholic Church in the U. S. is
“gaining but 120,000 converts a
year when it should be winning
10 times as many.”
"The greatest loss which the
Church in America is suffering is
that which results from the fail
ure to harness the loyalty, devo
tion and potential missionary zeal
of its lay members,” Father
O’Brien said.
Lather O’Brien stated that the
laity is largely unaware of its duty
to win converts because, “engross
ed in the pressing work of build
ing churches, schools, convents
and rectories to keep up with ex
panding flocks,, the clergy have
failed to make this duty clear.”
Other facts revealed by the sur
vey: The college graduate group
has the highest efficiency in win
ning converts; farmers have the
best record among occupational
groups, 63 per cent trying to win
converts; people in the upper in
come brackets ranked first in try
ing to win adherents and succeed
ing; regionally speaking, people
in the South Atlantic section of
the U. S. (the “Bible Belt”! have
the best convert record — New
England, the worst; Women are
more zealous than men in convert
making by five per cent; the older
a person is, the more he increases
his efforts at convert making.
Members of various faiths who
tried to win converts are: Bap
tists, 67 per cent; other smaller
Protestant denominations, 61 per
cent; Presbyterians, 59 per cent;
Methodists, 56 per cent; Episco
palians, 53 per cent; Lutherans, 49
per cent;- Congregationalists, 32
per cent; Catholics, 28 per cent.
Members of various faiths who
succeeded in winning converts
are: Presbyterians, 52 per cent;
Baptists, 50 per cent; Episcopalians,
45 per cent; other smaller Pro
testant denominations, 44 per cent;
Methodist, 39 per cent; Lutherans,
28 per cent; Congregationalists,
19 per cent; Catholics, 17 per cent.
THE PALLOTTINE FATHERS
have elected the youngest superior
general in their history. Chosen at
their general chapter in Rome was
41-year-old Father William Mpeh-
ler of Karlsruhe, Germany.
REV. KEVIN C. FAHEY, O. S. B.
REV. KENNETH A. GEYER,
O. S. B.
W. O. Mangin, Jr.,
blew Grand Knight
In Savannah
SAVANNAH, Ga.—William O.
Mangin, Jr., has been elected to
the post of Grand Knight of Sa
vannah Council No. 631, Knights of
Clumbus.
Other officers elected were Pe
ter J. Schuster, Deputy Grand
Knight; John Kenney, chancellor;
Mason Ingram, warden; Nick Ken
ny, advocate; Flem Cliett, inside
guard; Oscar Jansen and Julian
Halligan, outside guards; and John
R. Caterisan, trustee for a three-
year term.
John E. (Mike) Corcoran was
chairman of the nominating com
mittee.
Pope Pius Colls
For Devotion to
Blessed Sacrament
VATICAN-CITY, (Radio, NC)—
His Holiness Pope Pius XII de
clared that just as bread is for
the nourishment of all—made only
to sustain life—so the priest, “ac
cording to the Heart of Christ,
places no condition on his service,
is always beneficent, and gives of
himself freely.”
In a brief address to Priest
Adorers and members of the
Nocturnal Adoration Society—who
were among thousands to whom he
gave audiences in the Hall of
Benedictions — the Holy Father
said that this is the most sublime
lesson of the Real Presence of Our
Lord in the Eucharist under the
fragile form of bread. “That which
is good eminently for the priest
is applied also to every Christian,
for charity is a universal com
mandment which includes within
itself the whole law of the Sav
iour,” the Pope continued.
He recalled that in his encycli
cal "Mediator Dei,” he had listed
various forms of eucharistic wor
ship, “numbering among the most
beautiful and most salutary the
public adoration of the Blessed
Sacrament practiced especially by
sacerdotal associations, religious
congregations and lay confraterni
ties.”
His Holiness also pointed to the
1950 Apostolic exhortation, “Menti
Nostrae,” in which he had said that
seminarians could best acquire
the virtues necessary if from their
earliest years they would acquire
sincere and tender devotion to
Jesus “truly, really and substanti
ally” in the midst of us, and if
they would make Him in the
Building Rate of
Private Schools
Faster Than Public
WASHINGTON (NC)—Non-pub
lic school building in America is
increasing at a far faster rate than
public school construction, accord
ing to figures released by the De
partment of Commerce here.
By the end of May the nation
had spent $156,000,000 on new
parochial and oher private schools
and colleges. This was an increase
of 17.3 per cent over the amount
spent in the first five months of
1952. In May alone the estimated
expenditure was $32,000,000, 23
per cent higher than the total for
May, 1952.
Publie school construction be
tween the same five-month periods
rose only 3.5 per cent. The total
amounts spent, however, were
much greater: $683,000,000 through
May, 1953, compared to $660,000,-
000 for the same period last year.
Church building by all denomi
nations has also risen sharply from
last year, increasing by 14.9 per
cent.
Total new construction through
out the country rose less than six
per cent over last year in the Jan-
uary-May period.
A part of the increase in these
categories over last year can be
explained by the removal of con
trols from building materials in
the summer of 1952. Since that
time it has been possible to buy
building materials for school and
church consrutction on the open
market without priorities. There
are also a number of other reasons
far this year’s increase, such as
different weather conditions. De
partment of Commerce officials
have pointed out.
Construction of new hospitals
and other institutions, many of
which had a high priority for ma
terials under controls, showed a
decline from last year. Private
hospital building in the first five
months of 1952 dropped to $129,-
000,000 from $164,000,000 a year
earlier, a decine of 21.3 per cent.
Public hospital construction be
tween the same periods declined
from $188,000,000 to $168,000,000,
a drop of 10.6 per cent. Part of
the decline in public hospital build
ing was explained here by the de
crease in construction of new hos
pitals for veterans.
Construction for social and recre
ational facilities also showed a
marked increase over last year.
Building in this category rose to
$56,000,000 in the first five months
of this year compared to $45,000,-
000 in the same period of 1952, an
increase of 24.4 per cent.
if
''Ours Is the Age
Of Laymen Saints
States Archbishop
SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. (NC)—“I
am convinced that our generation
is extremely productive of saints,
more so doubtless than any other
period of Christian history,” Arch
bishop Richard J. Cushing of Bos
ton told the Massachusetts Catho
lic Order of Foresters in conven
tion here.
“Our saints are found on every
level of this generation’s life
especially among laymen,” the
Archbishop said, pointing to the
Irish workman Matt Talbot and to
ai unnamed “outstanding diplomat
of the day, a layman whose name
is a household word and whose
personal holiness is almost com
pletely unknown, save to a few
trusted friends.”
The diplomat practices peneten-
tial austerities, extraordinary vigils
of prayer and spends two weeks
of each year in a monastery in
central France, Archbishop Cush
ing said. “In a period of widely
publicized abuse of office, here is
a reminder of the continuing pow
er to sanctity of the Church . . .”
“Christian heroism, heroic holi
ness, is the one and only solution
to the problems of life,” he told
the assembled women delegates,
giving special praise to the piety
of mothers “which wrings from
heaven itself the grace by which
children are saved from perdi
tion.”
The Archbishop said it was his
conviction that “this period of his
tory will see more sanctity among
the laity than any other century
has hitherto been privileged to
witness.
“Do not believe those who tell
you that saints are becoming more
and more rare . . . Our’s is the age
of the saints, of saintly priests and
saintly nuns, but above all of lay
men and women seeking heroic
sanctity.”
Blessed Sacrament the “end of all
their actions,. aspirations and
sacrifices.”
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