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SEPTEMBER 3, 1955.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIVE
Youth Week
Oct. 30-Nov. 8
Jottings .
(By BARBARA C. JENCKS)
ASSIST FROM HARVARD
A rebel from Harvard gave
unwiting support to Catholic
Education in a recent newspaper
interview. Long time critic of
certain educational practices,
Professor Petirim Sorokin of the
Harvard faculty hit out against
the lack of emphasis on morali
ty and-character in the present
system.
Professor Sorokin who is pro
fessor of sociology- at the uni
versity states that “A Harvard
student can graduate magna
cum laude, and with all other
high notes, and still be right on
the edge of criminology.”
Other targets of Professor So
rokin are “Ph.D. factories” which
confer degrees in assembly line
fashion and “test-mad” educa
tors.
The rebel professor of the ivy
league circle says that some
thing is definitely lacking when
a student with criminal tenden
cies can at the same time gradu
ate from a university with high
honors. He feels that speciali
zation is responsible in a con
siderable degree for this em
phasis off character and morality
and on intellectual accomplish
ments.
He gives a powerful boost to
the Catholic educational system
by these observations. The Cath
olic college would surely appear
as the answer to professor Soro
kin’s dilema. Where but in the
Catholic college do we find con
cern today for morality and
character? A student by his very
presence on the Catholic campus
shows that his parents are con
cerned with more than his in
tellectual accomplishments.
Rev. Thurston Davis, S.J., in
his potent “America” article en
titled “Should Little Lamps Eat
Ivy” discusses the problem of
the Catholic student at a secular
college. He says that “only on a
Catholic campus will a Catholic
young man or woman experience
the full challenge to intellect
and imagination which comes
from four years of reading and
studying under the luminous
guidance of faith.” There is no
conflict between the intellectual
and the spiritual in such atmo
sphere.
The antagonists of Catholic ■
education are many. We have
met them all. They are easily
typed and we could recite their
stereotyped objections by heart,
There are those whose social
ambitions will forever smother
the cry of concience. They cry
out against the inferior standard
of scholarship, the unimportance
of religion on a college level
and the two sides to every ques
tion.
In an address in Boston last
May, Archbishop Richard J.
Cushing quieted all these pro
tests in the following words:
* “It is no longer possible to
urge the objection that standards
of scholarship are maintained
elsewhere which we are not able
to meet, or even that opportuni
ties for advancement are greater
elsewhere than we are able to
provide. The time has come
when we should make a concert
ed effort to present Catholic
Education to our people as an
advantage and an enviable pri
vilege rather than as a duty to
the Church which comes into
conflict with their ambition for
worldly success.”
Mrs. Clara Conroy
Services At Albany
AIBANY, Ga.—Funeral services
for Mrs. Clara Conroy were held
August 13th at St. Teresa’s Cath
olic Church.
Survivors are two sisters-in-
law, Mrs. Bessie Huffman, New
port, R. I., and Sister Mary Ber
nadette, R. S., Yonkers, N. Y.
WASHINGTON, (NC) — The
fifth annual National Catholic
Youth week will be observed
from October 30 to November 6
by some 7-million youngsters in
all parts of this country and at
overseas military bases, it was
announced here by Msgr. Joseph
E. Schieder, director of the
Youth Department, National
Catholic Welfare -. Conference,
which sponsors the. observance.
Keynoted by the official theme
“Youth—Our Hope,” the week’s
activities are designed to focus
attention on the wholesome, posi
tive contributions of youth to
national and community life, in
contrast to the frequently spot
lighted juvenile delinquency as
pect of youth, the Monsignor
said.
“We must provide encourage
ment and leadership for our
youth, for they learn by our ap
proval or disapproval,” Auxilia- ,
ry Bishop Leo R. Smith of Buf
falo, moderator of the Youth
Department, stated in endorsing
this year’s observance. “By ob
serving Youth Week, we seize
a grand opportunity to show a
concerted expression of our ap
proval to our youth.”
Youth Week annually receives
the endorsement of His Holiness
Pope Plus XII, the- President,
Bishops, governors and other
civic leaders, and is acclaimed
by those active' in youth work
throughout the nation.
In observance of the week,
schools, colleges^ and^, universi
ties, and other youth groups par
ticipate in parades, radio and
TV programs, special religious
exercises, social and athletic
events. Editorial and feature
stories, official proclamations by
religious and civic leaders, and
the display of posters and bill
boards also mark the national
, observance.
Tylie opening day of Youth
Week Week is also annually de
signated as national Catholic
Youth Communion Sunday.
The' Youth Department,
N.C.W.C. has prepared a pro
motion kit of posters, skits,
stickers, and other items to. as
sist local groups in planning
programs.
SERVICES FOR
MRS. A. S. FARRELL
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Funeral serv
ices for Mrs. Ann S. Farrell were
held August 5th at St. Mary’s-On-
the-Hill Church, Rev. John Toom-
ey officiating.
Survivors are one daughter,
Mrs. Thomas Toomey, of Augusta,
two sons, Phillip Farrell of Augus
ta and John Farrell of Jackson,.
Miss., sister, Mrs. W. J. Rooney
of Augusta; six grandchildren and
■four great grandchildren.
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A Precious Harvest
By REV. JOHN A. O'BRIEN
.(University of Noire Dame).
Did you ever hear of a teach
er starting a seres . of conver
sions which brought into the
Church a family of eleven, two
of whom be
came nuns, and
two priests —
one now a Be
nedictine Ab-
b o t? Probably
not. Yet that is
what Marie
Teders of Holy
Angels parish
in St. Cloud,
Minn., did. Here js her story.
“In 1919, I was teaching in a
rural grade school near Napole
on, North Dakota. Among my
eighth grade pupils was Roy
Hunkier. He was a . bright
youngster and read everything
he could lay his hands on.
“I passed on to him copies
of Extension Magazine and oth
er Catholic periodicals. He read
them all with interest and soon
was asking me a lot of questions
about the Catholic religion. I
’answered them and his interest
continued to grow . . .”
“If more Catholics,” I broke
in, “answered questions about
their faith, we would double the
number of converts.”
“One day,” Miss Teders con
tinued, “he told me that he had
been baptized a Catholic short
ly after his birth. He had to
undergo an operation and the
Sisters, fearful that he might not
survive, baptized him and later
on informed his j non-Catholic
parents. The knowledge of this
whetted still more Roy’s interest
in the faith.
“I encouraged his father to
send him on to high school,
which he did. During his sopho
more year a Catholic mission
was conducted in Burnstad
where Roy was going to school.
Roy was deeply impressed by
the - sermons of the missionary,
Father Stanton, and asked to be
received into the Church. After
receiving some additional in
structions Roy made his First
Holy Communion.
“During the Mission Roy
heard Father Stanton say, ‘If
your son wishes to be a priest,
let him have his choice.’ When
he returned home that night,
Roy wrote on a piece of paper,
before a Crucifix, his resolution
to become a priest.
“When his mother learned
that Roy had become a Catholic,
she became angry. But Roy kept
after her, supplied her with
Catholic literature and prayed
for her Constantly. Two years
later she was received into the
fold.
“At the beginning of his junior
year Roy begged his father to al
low him to finish high school at
St. Mary’s Abbey, conducted by
the Benedictines in Richardton,
N. D. The father consented. Dur
ing the summer vacations Roy
was instrumental in leading his
brothers and sisters into the
Church.”
“When,” I asked, “was Roy
ordained?”
“On May 25th, 1930, he was
ordained to the priesthood in the
Benedictine Order, taking the
name of Father Adam. At his
first Mass he gave Holy Com
munion to his mother and to
his brothers and sisters. His
father had not yet entered the
Church but he did so before his
death in 1950.
“Reuben followed in the foot
steps of his older brother and
Was ordained a Benedictine
priest—Father Ignatius—on May
.19th, 1946. Eight years later he
was elected Abbot of Assump
tion Abbey in Richardton. Rev.
Ignatius Hunkier is the youngest ,
abbot in the United States.
States.
“The story, it -would seen,
should end here, but it doesn’t.
His sisters, Mary and Frances,
twins, entered the Benedictines
and are now Sister Phoda and
Sister Rhodene. The others—
Helen, Alice, Howard and Law
rence — are married and raising
fine Catholic families. Mae is do
ing work closely akin to that of
a Sister — keeping house for
three Benedictine Fathers at St.
Joseph’s parish in Devil’s Lake,
where Father Adam was pas
tor.”
“And their good mother?”
“She is living alone at Napole
on-—proud of her children in the
priesthood and sisterhood and
proud, too, of the others. In the
winter she visits her married
children in California and gets
acquainted each year with her
new grandchildren.”
“What an inspiring story!” I
remarked. “And it all began
when' you told Roy about your
beautiful religion and gave him
some Catholic literature. What?
a rich and precious harvest from
a single tiny seed! Its end is not.
yet, for it will grow with the
years and lead uncounted souls
to their home with God in
heaven.”
Readers who know of any lay
person who has helped to win.
two or more converts are kind
ly requested to send the name
and address of such a person to
Father John A. O’Brien, Notre
Dae, Ind.
BACKDROP-
(Continued from Page Four)
States, churches were filled to
the doors during Holy Week and,
before that, almost never with
out at least a few following the
Way of The Cross.
THIS MIRACLE NC DRUG
It’s true most of the instances
cited here happened in great ci
ties. The greater facility with
which men and women in urban,
centers - can take a few minutes
out of their day to visit Christ
in the tabernacle is lacking in
country places. But even in.
smaller towns it has seemed to
this reporter that there is rare
ly a church where at least a few
persons are not quietly at pray
er.
Nearly always there are more
women than, men; the obligation
of men to follow a routine pat
tern of hours at a desk or ma
chine * every day would account
in part for this. But those who
make these individual visits are
not women alone, by any means
—and this is not without some-
validity even in Latin countries
where everything spiritual sup
posedly is left to women.
A few days ago a newspaper
story described the possibilities
seen for a new miracle drug ef
fective in relieving human ten
sion. It may not be without point,
that the miracle some people
find working, in a time admit
tedly tense, is a few minutes
of quiet prayer and reflection be
fore God.
Trifles^ have you ever thought,
. . . are apt to crowd unseen . . .
our busy day is full of them . . .
sandwiched in between ... if we
could omit the trifles . . . estab
lish calm regime . . . we’d ban
ish little things that make .
an ocean of a stream.
-—Katherine French Fedigaa,