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PAGE 7 - The Southern Cross, October 19.1972
CATHOLIC CHARITIES MEETING. Prelates and officials of
the National Conference of Catholic Charities (NCCC) get
together at the organization’s 58th annual meeting in Miami
Beach. From left are: Msgr. Lawrence Corcoran, NCCC
executive secretary; Archbishop Coleman Carroll of Miami;
Bishop George Guilfoyle of Camden; Bishop Francis Mugavero
of Brooklyn, and Mrs. Dorothy Bird Daly, president of the
conference. (RNS Photo)
“Humanization” Charities’ Aim—
(Continued from Page 1)
36-34. It was the resolution against the
U.S. government’s massive bombings and
technical warfare in Vietnam.
Those opposing the resolution argued
that it should have condemned the entire
war.
Other resolutions that the larger
membership voted on earlier, through the
mail, were based on the annual meeting’s
theme of “Liberation, Justice, Unity.”
A right to life resolution affirmed,
“The sacredness and dignity of human
life at all stages and under all conditions.”
Another resolution expressed dismay
“at the failure to achieve welfare
reform,” blaming this session of Congress
and the Nixon administration “for not
providing the fullness of leadership and
support required to achieve welfare
reform.”
Other resolutions were in support of
women’s rights, the lettuce boycott, and
in disapproval of nursing homes, medical
centers and day care centers that receive
“excessive income from delivery of
human services.”
AT MACON PARISH
Religious Ed. Programs
Include Cocktail Parties
MRS. ROBERT HURLEY
Adult religious education programs are
at an all time high at St. Joseph’s Church,
Macon, with formats that range from
serious lectures to cocktail parties. In a
large widespread parish, a variety of
programs is necessary and indeed at St.
Joseph’s there is something for everyone.
Most of the classes and discussions are led
by the pastor, Father William Coleman
whose special expertise is in education.
The education committee of the Parish
Council contributes ideas, makes
arrangements and promotes various
events.
Brand new this year is “Heritage”, a
monthly series of talks designed to appeal
to those parishioners who have not been
involved in other adult education
programs and are still confused about the
new church. “Heritage” is held on the
second Monday evening of each month
with team teaching by Father Richard
Minch, co-pastor, and Father Coleman.
The longest running adult program is
“Coffee and Conversation” held each
Sunday morning after the 9:30 Mass
while CCD classes are in session. Coffee
and donuts are served and a discussion of
the Sunday sermon or some current topic
takes place.
Also beginning its third year is the
popular “Bible Class” which meets on the
first and third Tuesday evenings. The First
year’s course dealt with the Old
Testament and during the second year, St.
Matthew’s Gospel was studied. This fall
a new course has begun with lectures
on Paul’s letter to the Romans. Those
who attend this series state unequivocally
that it is the finest of many fine programs
offered.
Perhaps the most enjoyable for many
are the lively cocktail parties. An
“Evening at the Rectory” takes place
once a month when about a dozen
couples are invited to the rectory for a
social hour followed by a wide open
discussion of current trends in the
church.
A similar kind of discussion is held in
neighborhoods occasionally when
“Friends and Neighbors” are invited to a
parishioner’s home for a Home Mass
followed by a coffee hour.
The “Inquiry Class,” a basic course, is
offered regularly each Thursday evening
for those interested in the Catholic
church, whether Catholic or
non-Catholic.
Probably the program that touches the
greatest number of parishioners is the
“Parent Educator Program.” Meeting in
groups according to the grade level of
their children, parents learn what their
children are being taught in their religion
classes, whether they attend Catholic
school or CCD classes. They become
involved in their children’s preparation
for the sacraments and in so doing deepen
their own understanding. Each group
meets two or three times during the year.
A more formal type program is
presented occasionally when a speaker
from out-of-town is invited to lecture.
Last year two lectures were presented,
one by a priest from Emory University
who chose the topic “The Spirit — Urban,
Suburban, Bourban, or Holy?,” and the
second by Father Roy Cox, then of
Augusta, who spoke about the Catholic
Charismatic Renewal. Current plans call
for a lecture in November by a nun from
Atlanta on “The New Nun.”
Drawing the greatest interest currently
is the “Thrust” program held in two
sessions each week for five weeks. These
discussions of current trends in American
life in the light of Old and New
Testament teachings have been
enthusiastically attended.
One thing is sure. At St. Joseph’s,
adults don’t have to rely on their own
reading and individual study to keep up
with the changing church and deepen
their understanding of the faith. They
have a wide range of programs to help
them. No longer is religious education
just for the children. Adults are getting
their fair share of attention.
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Document Details ‘Must’ Doctrines
For Religious Education Programs
PHILADELPHIA (NC) -- A document
detailing basic doctrines that must be
included in religious education programs
has been revised under Vatican
supervision and will be presented to the
U.S. bishops in November.
That announcement was made here by
Auxiliary Bishop John J. Graham, a
member of the committee which drafted
the document.
Bishop Graham told a religious
education congress that the document lias
been revised under the direction of the
Vatican’s Clergy Congregation and will be
submitted to the bishops’ fall meeting in
Washington under the title, Basic
Teachings for Catholic Religious
Education. Earlier drafts of the document
had been called Fundamentals of
Religious Education and Basic Doctrines
of Religious Education.
While much consultation with religious
educators and parents’ groups had been
involved in the preparation of the
document, Bishop Graham stated, “the
ultimate responsibility” for the doctrinal
content of religious education “rests with
the bishops in communion with the
Pope.”
“It is my fervent prayer,” Bishop
Graham told the congress participants,
“that each one of us who shares the
responsibility of religious education teach
Christ’s revelation and His message and
not the theology of any man, no matter
how brilliant he may be.”
“Christ will one day ask,” he said,
“how we taught those He redeemed with
His blood.”
“What really matters,” he concluded,
“is to accept the Church as Christ
founded it and to recognize that there is a
difference between the changeless deposit
of faith and changing methods in its
presentation.”
In his keynote address to the
assembly, Father William Tobin, formerly
assistant director of the National Office
of Religious Education in Washington,
stated that the Vatican’s General
Catechetical Directory is not a universal
catechism but an adaptable plan to be
implemented in religious education on
the national and local levels under the
direction of the bishops. The document is
designed as an orientation and as a guide,
and was not meant to be a set of binding
rules, he said.
Father Tobin noted, however, that the
section of the General Catechetical
Directory which includes doctrinal
principles is to be held by all, while those
sections dealing with sociology and
methodology are intended as suggestive
of possible approaches, not as normative.
Referring to what he called the
“perhaps overpublicized addendum” to
the General Catechetical Directory which
calls for adherence to the traditional
POPE PAUL:
VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Church is
suffering from the “infidelity of so many
of her children, of those specially
chosen,” Pope Paul VI told a general
audience Oct. 11.
His remark, made on the 10th
anniversary of the opening of the Second
Vatican Council, was interpreted as a
reference to priests and nuns who have
left their ministries.
The Pope briefly alluded to the
council anniversary, paying tribute to two
whom he said were guiding forces of the
council: the Virgin Mary and Pope John
XXIII, but said he would not speak of the
council at length.
Instead, the 75-year-old pontiff
continued to expound on his theme of
the past several weeks: the meaning of
being a Christian today.
The major need of the Church today,
the Pope said, is faith, that is, “an
adherence to the Word of God, to His
divine revelation.”
The Pope continued: “This is why the
Church, custodian of eternal and ever
effective values, feels more than ever the
need of faithfulness to these values and
suffers so much by the casualness and
practice of providing children with the
opportunity of making their confession
before receiving their first Holy
Communion, Father Tobin said that the
section favors experimentation in this
area under the direction of the bishops’
conference.
This, he said, is in accord with an
exhortation by the Second Vatican
Council to find new and more pertinent
forms of penitential expression.
infidelity of so many of her children, of
those specially chosen.”
The Pope has in the past said that the
numbers of priests asking for
dispensations were the “crowns of
thorns” of his pontificate. On another
occasion the Pope likened the departure
of priests from their ministry to the
departure of Judas from the upper room
on the first Holy Thursday.
This allusion was interpreted by most
of the world press as equivalent to calling
today’s departing priests traitors to the
Lord. The Vatican quickly clarified that
the Pope had not said not.
The same Vatican press bulletin that
carried the text of the Pope’s Oct. 11
audience talk also carried a brief though
by now familiar denial that Pope Paul
intends to resign now that he has turned
75.
The world press had speculated for the
past year that Pope Paul would resign on
his birthday just as he was asked all heads
of dioceses and major Vatican
departments to do.
If the Pope is about to resign, his firm
call for fidelity belies the fact.
Church Suffering
From “Infidelity
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