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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1963
N.C.W.C. Labor Day Message
Job Opportunity
Is “Master Key”
To Race Problem
WASHINGTON (NC)~ Equal
employment opportunity is the
"master key" to the nations’
race problems, the Social Ac
tion Department of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference
says.
The Social Action Depart
ment’s 1963 Labor Day state
ment says the "ultimate
success” of racial justice ef
forts largely depends on
implenlenting "a universal pol
icy of equal employment op
portunity for Negro workers in
every industry and trade.”
"The effective exercise of
many of the Negro’s other basic
human rights will depend. . .on
whether or not he is given an
equal opportunity to develop his
native skills and talents and to
secure gainful and suitable em
ployment on his own merits and
without regard to the color of
his skin,” the statement says.
The Social Action Depart
ment, whose director is Msgr.
George Higgins, calls on
trade unions, employers and
government to take immediate
action to guarantee equal job
opportunities for Negroes and
other minorities.
While recent months have
seen "limited steps” in this
area, it says, labor, manage
ment and government have so
far "hardly scratched the sur
face of the total problem.”
"Much more can and should
be done. . . to protect the
basic rights not only of Negroes,
but of Mexican Americans, Pu
erto Ricans, American Indians,
people of Asian background, and
the members of other minority
groups who, in varying degrees,
are the victims of prejudice and
discrimination,” the statement
declares.
The NCWC department makes
these recommendations on
equal employment opportunity.
—Trade Unions. While there
are no longer any unions which
are "lily white” under the
terms of their constitutions, ne
vertheless "a number of key
unions” in practice exclude
Negroes by making it "ex
tremely difficult, if not im
possible, for them to qualify
for membership.”
This is done by refusing to
enroll Negroes in apprentice
ship programs or by arbitrarily
limiting the number of Negroes
as apprentices. And other
unions discriminate by con
fining Negroes to so-called
"auxiliary” locals.
While calling on union leaders
to take steps to remedy these
conditions, the Social Action
Department at the same time
stresses the need for rank-
and-file efforts on behalf of
racial justice. It also reminds
Negro workers that they can
help remedy abuses "by play
ing an increasingly active role
in the trade union movement.
—Employers. The statement
declares that "Chrisitan moral
teaching requires every em
ployer to maintain and enforce
non-di-scriminatory policies in
hiring, upgrading and dis
charge.”
Acknowledging the difficulty
faced by individual employers in
this matter, it recommends that
local and national employers'
associations and trade associa
tions "come to the assistance
of their individual employer
members” by taking a united
stand for equal job opportunity.
The statement says employ
ers "are in a position to do
more than almost any other
segment of the American popu
lation to promote the cause of
ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER
—What may well be a unique
representation of St. Joseph
the Worker, is this statue of
the saint in the lobby of St.
Joseph Parochial School in
Mishawaka, St. Joseph Coun
ty, Indiana. Sculptured in Ita
lian white marble from a plan
formulated by the pastor,
Msgr. Curt A. Suelzer, it’s
most noticeable break with
tradition is his youthful ap
pearance. Depicted as a young
man not over 30, with a kindly
smile, he is shown as a left-
handed craftsman.
interracial justice.”
—Government. The Social
Action Department says there
is "urgent need” for a per
manent Federal Fair Employ
ment Practices Committee with
wide jurisdiction and the power
to enforce sanctions. It also
recommends the establishment
of similar state committees.
In addition the statement calls
for enactment of the youth em
ployment opportunity bill now
pending before Congress.
At the same time, however,
it notes that legislation alone
cannot solve the problems of
school dropouts, "functional
illiterates” and other "disad
vantaged” young people.
Primary responsibility for
aiding such youths to qualify for
employment, it says, rests not
with government agencies, but
with "voluntary, non-gov
ernmental organizations.”
The statement says economic
justice for the Negro is "not
likely to be achieved unless and
until there is economic prosp
erity for all of our citizens.
In this connection it cites
what it calls the "alarmingly
high” unemployment rate in the
U. S. and calls for efforts to
reduce it.
The Social Action Department
statement concludes with a
"prayer for justice and
harmony in the field of race
relations” that asks God to
"graciously give us the vision
to see clearly the full meaning
of Your command to love our
neighbor as we love ourselves,
and grant us the grace to ob
serve this precept in our daily
lives.”
Ideals For Modern
Catechist Outlined
LOVELAND, Ohio—Religion
teachers, catechetical program
directors and editors of reli
gious publications took part in a
two-week religious education
institute here at Grailville, U. S.
headquarters of the interna
tional Grail movement.
Authorities on theology,
catechetics, Scripture, and psy
chology told them that the ca
techist:
—Should be "some one living
Christ, on fire with the love of
Christ.”
—Must "make clear for the
eyes and heart of the child what
it means that God loves him.”
—Should be more concerned
to "celebrate” with the students
than to "talk at” them.
Auxiliary Bishop G. Emmett
Carter of London, Ont., author
of the book, "The Modern Chal
lenge to Religious Education”
told the Catechetical Cross
roads institute that "because
we lack assurance of Christ’s
presence,” there is an inclina
tion to "postulate the necessity
of our action and contribution
more than the dynamism of
Christ.”
"The key to Christian life is
Christ,” the Bishop continued.
"The catechist should be some
one living Christ, on fire with
the love of Christ. . .Our rela
tionship with Christ will never
be strong if we are under co
ercion, pain of mortal sin. We
are all in favor of’go, go, go’
. . .but go in love.”
Father Marcel van Caster,
S. J., Belgian authority on
catechetics, suggested that the
teacher should "present Christ
as He presents Himself; don’t
think you can do it better.”
Father van Caster, a profes
sor at Lumen Vitae, interna
tional pastoral and catechetical
institute at Brussels, also coun
seled: "If you have little time,
say much about the Gospel and
little about doctrine, never
much about doctrine and little
about the Gospel.”
"Our students,” 'he said,
"want to know, ‘What is hap
pening?’ Never would a child
ask, ’Sister, what is the follow
ing point of doctrine?’ ”
"Doctrine is a reflection on a
happening,” he continued. "No
child in the world has a doc
trine on his mother. No teacher
teaches him a doctrine on his
mother.” Instead, the catechist
must "make clear for the eyes
and heart of the child what it
means that God loves him,”
Father van Caster said.
Father Gerard S. Sloyan,
chairman of the Catholic Uni
versity of America religious
education department, empha
sized that "Christian formation
(of young people) is mostly
doing,” or "celebrating” to
gether to achieve personal en
counter with Christ in the Mass
and the classroom.
Father Sloyan, president of
the National Liturgical Confer
ence, spoke of the "hazards”
of life on "the new catechetical
frontier.”
Primarily at fault, he said,
are those who describe the
"kerygmatic” approach (the
"good news” of Christ’s corn-
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Grade School Growth Slowing
Record Enrollment For
U. S. Catholic Schools
WASHINGTON, (NC)—Catholic elementary and secondary
schools are expected to enroll about 5,565,000 pupils next month,
another high mark in an unbroken series of enrollment records
over two decades.
MEMORIAL MASS FOR ARCHBISHOP O’HARA—Bishop Thomas J. McDonough is
pictured as he celebrated the Memorial Mass for Archbishop Gerald P. O’Hara
The Pontificial Requiem was celebrated last Monday at the Cathedral in Savannah and
was attended by the priests of the Diocese.
Pope Paul
This Generation Called
To Fuller Christianity
But indications are that
growth in elementary schools,
the pacesetters since World
War II, is slowing down and
levelling off.
High schools, however, con
tinue expansion at a rapid pace.
Their enrollment went over
the million mark for the first
time in 1962.
By the end of the past school
year, U. S. Catholic education,
including colleges and univer
sities, has undergone an enroll
ment growth since 1942 to 127.4
per cent.
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The Rev. John Cuddy, Sa
vannah Diocesan Superinten
dent of Schools, expects an
enrollment of approximately
9,800 in the schools of the
Diocese.
Advance registrations do
not, however, reflect a slow
ing in grade school growth
as reported for the country
at large.
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In 1963, elementary schools
will enroll an estimated
4,515,000 pupils roughly 30,620
more than last year, and high
schools will increase to about
1,050,000, an estimated 40,870
over 1962.
These are highlights taken
from an estimate of the 1963
enrollment and an actual count
of 1962 figures made by the De
partment of Education of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Con
ference here.
By far the largest private
school system in the world,
U. S. Catholic Schools have
in recent years faced problems
in absorbing the number of
children seeking admission.
This has been largely due
to a shortage of teaching Sis
ters and the increasing diffi—
(The author of the following
resume of the 1963 North Am -
erican Liturgical Week held in
Philadelphia from August 19
to 25 is a member of the can
on law faculty of the Catholic
University of America, Wash
ington, D. C., a former presi
dent of the National Liturgical
Conference and one of the coun
try’s leading liturgical author
ities.)
By Father Frederick R.
McManus
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
The 1963 North American Li
turgical Week, just completed in
Philadelphia broke all records
for attendance in the quarter
century of such meetings.
More than 13,000 persons
registered to take part in the
daily Masses and in sessions
(Aug. 19 to 25) based on the
theme, "The Renewal of Chris
tian Education.”
Archbishop John J. Krol of
Philadelphia welcomed the con
vention (Aug. 19) with a force
ful description of the Second
Vatican Council’s plans for li
turgical reform. He singled out
the council’s decision to admit
the different mother tongues
into the Mass, the sacraments,
and the other parts of the li
turgy, as well as the council’s
insistence upon a revitalized
education of the clergy, which
will be centered upon the mys
tery of Christ as celebrated in
the liturgy.
From this point on, it was
apparent that the Second Vati
can Council was the starting
point for speaker after speak
er. Last fall the bishops of the
council voted almost unani
mous approval to a document on
the promotion and reform of
Catholic worship, requiring that
liturgical revision stress the
educative force of the liturgy,
that is, the Mass, the sacra
ments, and the Church’s pub
lic prayer.
Throughout the discussions
and lectures of the Liturgical
Week, it was apparent that
Christian education is not
merely a matter of books and
classrooms and parish schools.
As one speaker put it, the
liturgy is "worship of God and
culty of Catholic parishes in
financing salaries of lay tea
chers and construction of addi
tional school facilities.
This strain has shown in
discussion by Catholic educa
tors of the merits of dropping
some grades and in decisions
by two Sees, the St. Louis
archdiocese and the Rochester,
N. Y., diocese, to stop tempo
rarily construction of new
schools or additions to old ones.
The pressure is reflected in
the NCWC department’s figure
which shows only about a one
per cent enrollment increase
in elementary schools last year
in sharp contrast to increases
of as high as three or four
percent in some previous years.
In addition, the acute short
age of teaching Sisters, tradi
tionally the backbone of Catho
lic elementary schooling, is
dramatically illustrated by the
1962 figures.
Religious teachers decreased
in number last year while the
number of lay teachers contin
ued to shoot up as it has for
several years.
There were 125,065 religious
teachers in 1961, but the total
dropped to 123,422 in 1962. On
the other hand, the number of
lay teachers increased from
62,744 in 1961 to 67,535 in
1962.
The expanding role of lay
teachers also is shown in fig
ures for the 20-year span, 1942
to 1962. While religious
teachers increased by 43,3 per
cent during that time, lay tea
chers rose from a total of
13,389 to 67,535, a gain of
400 per cent.
In 1962 the NCWC department
said, the United States Had 2,502
Catholic secondary schools and
10,633 Catholic elementary
schools.
holiness for men, but at the
same time and in all its parts
a teacher.”
A special feature of the meet
ing was a catechetical exhibit,
sponsored by the Liturgical
Conference which holds the an
nual Liturgical Weeks. The dis
play of excellent teaching ma
terials also revealed the des-
(By Msgr. James I. Tucek)
CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy,
(NC)—His Holiness Pope Paul
VI expressed his conviction that
the present generation, in spite
perate need for renewal and
reappraisal. The carefully cho
sen examples were few and in
dicated the weakness of much
other catechetical material
which has little fresh or new
about it but the descriptions,
"liturgical” or "kerygmatic.”
of its exposure to loss of faith,
is called to a new and fuller
realization of Christianity.
His belief in the coming ex
pression of Christian life in
“more joyful forms” was made
(Aug. 25) at the cathedral at
Albano, about two miles south
east of here. It was the Pope’s
third excursion from his sum
mer villa here in eight days.
Castelgandolfo lies within the
Diocese of Albano, which is
one of the seven suburban Sees
of Rome traditionally headed by
a cardinal-bishop.
The Pontiff celebrated the
eight o’clock Sunday Mass in the
cathedral. Those present inclu
ded Giuseppe Cardinal Piz-
zardo, Prefect of the Sacred
Congregation of Seminaries and
Universities, who is Bishop of
Albano, and Suffragan Bishop
Raffale Macario of Albano.
Following the Gospel of the
Mass, the Pope preached a
homily commenting on Christ’s
words to His disciples: "Bless
ed are the eyes that see what
you see.” Paul VI applied the
text to himself—"whose eyes
and whose spirit are filled with
profound joy at the scene af
forded to Us by the cathedral
and the people of Albano.”
He also had words of praise
for Cardinal Pizzardo, his old
friend and mentor, who is now
86 years old. It was Cardinal
Pizzardo—then a monsignor—
who in 1920 arranged for the
newly ordained Father Gio
vanni Battista Montini to enter
the Pontifical Ecclesiastical
Academy to study Church diplo
macy. Msgr. Pizzardo had fur
ther influence on the future
Pope in 1924, when he urged
that Father Montini work with
Catholic university students.
Pope Paul expressed to
Cardinal Pizzardo “my deep
veneration and my gratitude
for the example which he has
given me by his zeal, experi
ence and interest.”
He told the congregation:
"I think that our generation,
SAVANNAH — The Notre
Dame Book Shop held its quar
terly Directors’ meeting at the
shop at which plans were for
mulated for a Book Review to
be held in October. Mr. Wil
liam Lain was appointed to sel
ect one of the best-sellers to be
reviewed.
A resolution was adopted that
a page in the minutes be in
scribed in memory of Mr. Roy
Anderson, the immediate Past
President. Mr. Anderson was
very generous with his time in
all matters relating to the Shop
and he will be sadly missed.
Mrs. James Collins, Mana
ger, called attention to the re
ference library now available
so exposed to the danger of los
ing its faith and its religious
sense, is instead called by Pro
vidence to express its faith in
Our Lord Jesus Christ in new,
fuller, more conscious, more-,
meritorious and more joyful
forms. It is called to express
its fidelity to the Catholic
Church, and to demonstrate its
capacity for giving witness,
even in exterior works, of how
Christianity is the salvation of
the world. May the propiise of
truly giving a new expression
to Christian life be the souvenir
of our encounter!”
Back at Castelgandolfo, the
Pope appeared on the balcony of
his summer house at noon to
lead the people gathered below
in the recitation of theAngelus.
Before giving his blessing, he
again commented on the day’s
Gospel, which includes the
parable of the Good Samaritan.
Then he exhorted the people:
"Ask the Lord, through the
intercession of the Madonna, to
give also to us a knowledge of
the needs of others, of the ne
cessities which surround us, of
the great hardships of our
society which are perhaps cre
ated in this prosperity to pre
vent our passing over the needs
of our neighbor. . .The capacity
to discover a brother in every
man, whatever his origin, state,
condition or merits, is an ex
quisite and essential charac
teristic of the Gospel teach
ing.”
The Pope’s early morning
visit to Albano was his second
to the resort town 15 miles
south of Rome in three days.
He had offered Mass at a home
for invalid nuns there the pre
vious Thursday (Aug. 22), and
then gone to visit the summer
house of seminarians of Rome’s
English College. The Sunday be
fore that, Pope Paul had left
Castelgandolfo to go to the
ancient Eastern Rite monastery
at nearby Grottaferrata, and
made a plea there for Christian
unity.
for students and to the enlarg
ed facilities of the lending li
brary. The Principals of the
parochial elementary and high
schools are being contacted in
order that the books on their
supplemental reading lists can
be stocked.
Mrs. Julian Halligan gave a
report on the recent executive
meeting of the Savannah Dean
ery Diocesan Council of Catho
lic Women, which she attended
as a representative of the
Book Shop. The 10th anniver
sary of the Shop will be ob
served in October and will be
the theme of the Fall meeting
of the Savannah Deanery
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10,000 OBSERVE LITURGICAL WEEK—More than 10,000
persons packed the Philadelphia Convention Hall for the
opening of the 1963 Liturgical Week, August 19. Pictured on
that occasion are, upper photo, (left to right) Father George
S. Sloyan, president of the North American Liturgical Con
ference; Archbishop John J. Krol of Philadelphia, who wel
comed the participants and Father Joseph M. Connolly of
Baltimore, Md. Lower photo: During the Liturgical Week,
Holy Communion was distributed to the people standing as
shown in this photo. More than ten ‘‘Communion Stations”
were set up throughout the vast hall. Each priest was ac
companied by two acolytes, one carrying a candle, the other
to hold the Communion paten.—(NC Photos)
Attendance Records Shattered
Former President Reviews
1963 Liturgical Week
Directors’ Meeting
