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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JULY 21, 1956.
Catholic 'Womans1. page
EDITED BY MRS. OWEN SCHWEERS
SAVANNAH-ATLANTA DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN
BISHOP WATERS DEPLORES PAGANISM,
MATERIALISM IN U. S. AT OPENING
OF CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS' CONVENTION
greater zeal and activity, Bishop
Waters said: “Our present prob
lems can be solved only by x a
fundamentally religious answer.
The work of the laity of the
Church together with the clergy
is absolutely essential to that so
lution.”
Bishop Waters, who is national
chaplain of the Catholic Daugh
ters, delivered the sermon at
the Solemn Pontifical Mass at
St. Mary’s Cathedral . which
opened the four-day convention.
Celebrant was Archbishop Ed
ward D. Howard of Portland in
Oregon, host to the convention.
Delegates of the 200,000-mem
ber organization came here from
46 States, Puerto Rico, Hawaii,
Alaska and Cuba.
Bishop Waters pointed out
that the United States has the
greatest number of major crimes
of any country “as well as-the
largest record of juvenile de
linquency.”
“In great sections of our coun
try,” he said, “human rights are
not respected, equality of per
sons before God and the law is
not recognized, and a growing
lawlessness can be the only re
sult. Among many American
people, a spirit of indifference
has grown up and religious
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(N.C.W.C. News Service)
PORTLAND, Ore.,—“We find
in the United States the rank
est paganism, the greatest ma
terialism and the strongest
temptation to indifferentism to
be found outside Soviet Russia,”
Bishop Vincent S. Waters of
Raleigh, N. C., told delegates to
the Catholic Daughters of Amer
ica convention here. At the same
time, he added, we find in Amer
icans the greatest generosity of
any people in the world.
Exhorting his listeners to
Atlanta Scene
Of Statewide
Work Shop
The Atlanta Deanery Council
of Catholic Women announces a
Work Shop on August, 22nd at
10 a.m.
This Work Shop is for all of
ficers and parliamentarians of
all affiliated organizations and
will be held at Christ The King
High School. Officers of any pa
rochial organizations within the
diocese are most welcome.
This session will cover the
training of officers and leaders
for parochial organizations that
they may be more valuable to
their Pastors in parish affairs.
Please reserve this date and
plan to come. Experienced per
sonnel in various phases of or
ganizational work will be on
hand to instruct and answer any
questions.
thought and practice have
waned. Often today absolute ig
norance of religion is the most
prominent attitude of many of
our citizens.”
At the same time, Bishop Wat
ers emphasized that “the good
ness of our people here in the
United States is evident in a
thousand ways.”
“No country has ever posses
sed a greater spirit of generosi
ty or has -been called upon to
aid the needy over the whole
world like Americans these past
few years,” he continued. “No
country has been more apprecia
tive of the real values in life . . .
with no covetous designs on any
of the possessions of> others.
Americans have always been in
terested in freedom- and justice
for all.”
The convention occurs at a
time, said the prelate, “when
there is a terrific struggle be
tween the forces of good and
evil in our land and throughout
the world.”
“With courage then, this very
day, tackle those vital problems
which confront us,” he urged the
CDA. “Stand up and be counted
for what is right and just and
decent in a world that ignores
or denies God, its Creator. Your
200,000 Catholic women of faith
and fortitude, of charity and
service, can go a long way in
solving with God’s help the
problems of our beloved coun
try.”
Others present at the Mass in
cluded Archbishop Thomas A.
Connolly of Seattle, Bishop Der-
mot O’Flanagan of Juneau, Alas
ka; Bishop Francis P. Leipzig of
Baker, Ore.; Auxiliary Bishop
Thomas E. Gill of Seattle, and
Abbot Damian Jentges, O.S.B..
of Mount Angel Abbey.
Theme of the convention is
“That in All Things God May Be
Glorified.” In explaining the
slogan, Frances M. Maher of
Kane, Pa., Supreme Regent, said
that the Catholic Daughters of
America orient their extensive
program for religious ends
through the encouragement of
faith in God and practical works
of charity towards neighbor.
During the last 35 years the
Catholic Daughters have given
more than $14,000,000 to religi
ous and civic causes, she said.
Christian Home Best
Source Of Vocation
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
NOTRE DAME, Ind., — The
Christian home, buttressed by
the Universal Church is the best
source of vocations to the priest
hood and the religious life in a
20th century that “has suddenly
discovered the value of souls.”
Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J.
Sheen of New York, national di
rector of the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith, made
this statement at the 10th annual
Vocation Institute at the Univer
sity of Notre Dame.
More than 2,000 priests, Broth
ers and Sisters were present for
the three-day sessions designed
to explore the ways of fostering
vocations to the religious life.
Communism, unlike the im
perialism of earlier centuries,
the .New York prelate asserted,
“seeks lands only secondarily”
and instead strives to conquer
the minds and souls of men
through “propaganda, brain-
washing, bureaucracy and gen
darmes.”
In other words, he continued,
“it is seeking vocations for the
kingdom of anti-Christ. Since
souls are the prize, Christianity
finds itself face to face with an
enemy which is equally interest
ed in winning souls.”
God always provides enough
vocations for His Church, the
Bishop emphasized. If the
Church lacks sufficient priests
or Religious in certain countries
and in certain periods of history,
it is because young people have
failed to respond to the divine
call, he said.
“The number of vocations re
flect the spirit of , the Church in
any nation,” the prelate asserted.
Stressing the importance of
prayer in attracting youth to the
religious life and helping them
to preserve in it, he likened
prayer to “a spiritual insecticide
which creates an environment in
which a religious vocation may
bear fruit.”
“As a nation gets the kind of
government it deserves, so a
diocese, a nation, a religious
society gets the kind of vocations
for which they yearn, for which
they aspire and for which they
pray,” Bishop Sheen stated.
Vocations to the priesthood
and religious life bloom and
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