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ARCHBISHOP HALLINAN
Religious Vocations Are The Dimensions Of The Future
“Religious Vocations are the dimensions of
the future.”
This is how Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan inter*
prets the significance of March - Vocation Month.
He said that a sufficient number of priests, sis
ters, and brothers “Means more Masses, more
administering of the Sacraments, more services,
and more religious teachers.”
THE ARCHBISHOP said a sufficient number
of priests and religious will enable the Laity to
better live their lives as Catholics, not only in
the home, but also in the community and the
world at large.
Archbishop Hallinan pointed to the special
problem affecting this young Archdiocese. In
1956, he said, there were 2 8 secular priests form
ing part of the newly established Diocese of At
lanta. Since that time, 11 have been ordained,
and three have died. This leaves a present day
total of 36 secular priests working in the Arch
diocese.
Significantly, however, seven of these priests
have jobs within the Diocese which take them for
the most part away from parochial work. Thus,
since 1956, there has been a net gain of only
one priest for parish work, although Catholic
population has increased from 22,000 to at least
35,000. An accurate present day figure will be
available when the results of last Sunday's census
are disclosed.
FOUR priests are engaged in the work of the
three new high schools which have sprung up
since 1956. As Archbishop Hallinan pointed out,
“With the erection of a Diocese or an Archdio
cese, there is always a bishop named, but never
any extra priests.”
The Archbishop said that vocations should be of
great significance to the Laity — especially
parents. They must ultimately see the priest, the
sister, and the brother, as partners in the great
religious adventure of the Apostolate.
“ANY Catholic family has its potential citi
zens — workers, lawyers, doctors, and general
professionals,” the Archbishop said. "It also
has its potential priests, sisters, and brothers,
destined to the religious life.
“Most parents are conscious of their responsi
bilities in this regard. Through prayer, and some
times at great sacrifice, they encourage the re
ligious vocation to its fruition. Good example and
spiritual formation are the main ingredients for
the nourishment of religious vocation in the every
day life of young people. Most young people have
that generosity of heart which is an essential for
the development of a real vocation to the religious
life. It simply needs encouragement.
"THE hallmark of the religious vocation is the
complete love of God — this going so far as to
give up everything for His service. Co-existent
with this is that the true religious must also have
a love of fellowman.”
Archbishop Hallinan pointed out that new priests
come from today’s homes, and that therefore there
must be a constant effort to make them Christian
homes. Parents must be willing to sacrifice their
own personal wishes in regards to possible voca
tions for the young.
AS to the immediate needs of the Archdiocese,
Archbishop Hallinan said he has room for 12 extra
priests right now. He said such needs could be
broken down into three areas:
(1) Suburban development
(2) The Negro Apostolate
(3) The Apostolate to college students.
Despite the current shortage of priests, sis
ters and brothers, the Archbishop said he had
great faith in today's parents. “They will", he
said, “provide for the future. Parents know it is
their responsibility, their privilege, to give to the
cause of religion those young people who desire
the life of a Religious.”
Asked what advice he would give anyone who
thought they had a vocation, Archbishop Halli
nan said:
“THE first thing is to pray. The second is to
seek advice and counsel. Pray to Almighty God
that one is worthy of calling into His service in
the Religious life. Discuss the matter with parents;
and with a Priest or Sister or Brother— depend
ing on what one wants to be. There is not so much
shortage of vocations as there is a shortage of
young people who realize they have the calling to
service in religion. This is w'here parental gui
dance and example is essential.
The Archbishop pointed out that the Atlanta
Archdiocese was blessed with a very able and
active director of vocation. He is Msgr. Patrick
J. O'Connor, pastor of St. Thomas More, Deca
tur. Msgr. O’Connor is presently in Ireland, visit
ing the seminarians who are destined to serve in
the Archdiocese on completion of their studies and
ordination.
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1963
$5.00 PER YEAR
THESE census takers from St. Paul of the Cross parish compare notes at the conclusion of a hec
tic afternoon. Left to right, Celia Douglas, Mrs. Barbara Black, and Mrs. C, E. Parsons.
EDUCATORS AGREE
Strong Guidance Steady
Dating Problem Key
CHICAGO (NC)— Educators
agreed that a strong guidance
program designed to steer teen
agers away from steady dating
is working wonders in Catholic
in Catholic high schools here
Msgr. William E. McManus,
superintendent of Archdiocesan
schools, “The overwhelming
majority of our students are
responding favorably and posit
ively. They are being taught
that steady dating is hazardo
us and foolish. They are even
beginning to look at 'steady
daters' as persons who are in
secure and unable to develop
many friendships."
Msgr. McManus said he is
satisfied that good guidance is
more effective than a threat
of expulsion from school except
in very serious situations. He
said: "The authority of the
school, it seems to me, should
be extended only in exceptio
nal cases."
More than 70,000 boys and
girls attend 92 high schools un
der Msgr. McManus’ jurisdict
ion.
"Much local authority is
given the individual school ad
ministrators,” he said. "We
Stress the folly of steady dating
in spiritual retreats for Cat
holic high school students, in
sociology and family life cour
ses, in group and individual
consoling, and in our full seme
ster course on preparation for
marriage."
CATHOLIC high school prin
cipals related how they handle
the situation in their schools.
Sister Inviolata, principal at
Mother McAuley Liberal Arts
High School, said: “We frown
upon steady dating. We pro
hibit the wearing of rings or
other symbols of steady dat
ing. Teenagers are not ready
for emotional responsibility.
Their academic progress Is
hampered. They don’t achieve.
The matter becomes a parental
responsibility outside of
school.”
Father Thomas Munster, C.
M., principal of De Paul Acad
emy, commented: "Steady dat
ing is not good for teens. It
should be avoided. It limits
their activities and progress.”
SISTER Anna Patrice, prin
cipal at Little Flower High
School, said: "We disapprove
of steady dating, if individual
cases appear to be developing
we acquaint the parents with
College Honors
Cabot Lodge
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —(NC)—
Henry Cabot Lodge, former U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nat
ions, has been named to re
ceive the 1963 Bellarmine Medal
of Bellarmine College here.
The medal is awarded annually
to a person “who, on the nat
ional or international scene,
exemplifies in a notable manner
the virtues of justice, charity
and temperateness in dealing
with difficult and controversial
problems.”
our information. We keep in
dose contact with the parents
of our 375 girl students. We
do not permit freshman or soph
omore students to attend our
formal parties.”
Father Mark Dennehy, prin
cipal of St. Philip High School,
asserted: “We definitely dis
courage steady dating. We know
that youngsters who are invol
ved emotionally at too early an
age are unhappy, and unpro
ductive in school. We do not
censure or punish—that is the
responsibility of parents."
BROTHER O’Hare, principal
at Leo High School, disclosed:
“We have no ruling on the
matter. We recommend that our
1,200 students from 93 parishes
avoid steady dating. We believe
that steady dating is hazardous
because of obvious moral pro
blems and interference with
studies."
Sister ■Patricia Mary', prin
cipal at Notre Dame High
School, declared: "We discou
rage steady dating and seek
assistance from the parents.
We counsel, advise, and instruct
against it. Our girls may not
wear any 'going steady’ sym
bols.”
The educators said there is
sufficient evidence that boys
and girls fall in their studies
when they “go steady." They
said many boys become drop
outs and go into military ser
vice because of emotional tur-
involved in steady dating.
TO PARENTS
Rabbi, Laymen
Ask For Direct
Education Aid
TAKING the census at the Jim Hynes family home was quite an undertaking. There are thirteen
in this family from Christ the King parish. Census taker, Don Shea, Is complaining of writer’s
cramp — a surprising development, as Don is a coach at Marist.
POPE ON LENT
Prayer, Penance,
Marks Of Sincere
WASHINGTON -NC— A rabbi
and two laymen—a Catholic and
a Protestant—have appealed to
Congress to include grants to
parents or to pupils in Federal
aid to education proposals.
The three testified before
the House Education Committee
on behalf of Citizens for Edu
cational Freedom, a non-sect
arian organization of some 20,
000 members in 165 chapters
across the nation.
THE WITNESSES were Rabbi
Alexander Mittelman of Roch
ester, N.Y., vice president of
the CEF chapter there; Glenn
Andreas of Pella, Iowa, who
is associated with schools ope
rated by the Christian Reform
ed church; and Vincent P. Cor
ley of St. Louis, a Catholic
who is president of CEF.
CEF is the principal sup
porter of the so-called "G.l.
Bill for Junior." This proposal
would give a flat grant to par
ents or to pupils which could
be spent at any school.
Bills calling for this approach
to Federal aid on the element
ary and secondary level have
been introduced by Reps. Hugh
L. Carey and James Delaney,
both of New York.
THE three CEF spokesmen
said in a statement submitted
to the committee that such a
system of grants has a pre
cedent in the G.I. Bill under
which veterans were allowed
to attend the school of their
choice the government assist
ance.
They said such grants would
be constitutional and also would
avoid discrimination against
education in parochial and other
private schools.
President Kennedy’s pro
posal (H.R. 3000), they said,
excludes seven million children
"whose only crime is that their
parents have exercised their
inalienable and constitutional
right to freedom of choice in
education."
THE 24-POINT Kennedy pro
posal, although recommending
Federal aid to all types of
colleges, would confine U.S.
assistance on the elementary
and secondary level to public
schools.
The CEF spokesmen also
argued that assistance can be
given private education by
“special purpose" grants to
the school Itself. But they add
ed that CEF prefers aid to
the student because “it places
the exercise of choice more
truly in the parent—where it
belongs.”
Rabbi Mittelman stressed in
his remarks the "public service
nature” of the education child
ren received in parochial and
other private schools. He also
called it necessary for national
well being that there be a variety
of educational systems.
“1 KNOW that because I came
from Czechoslovakia, occupied
now by the communists,” he
said, explaining that one
political party and one school
system helped destroy freedom
and democracy in his homeland.
Andreas assured the commit
tee that CEF is “truly non-
sectarian.” The organization is
charged by critics, chiefly Pro
testants and Other Americans
United for Separation of Church
and State, with being a "Catho
lic front group.”
Andreas urged committee
members to remove from the
Kennedy bill "all discriminat
ion against the economic free
dom and the right of the family,
the parents, to provide for their
children an education which is
in accord with their own free
choice of religious or academic
preference.”
DEEP CONCERN
PITTSBURGH, Pa. —(NC)—
The Duquesne University chap
ter of the American Association
of University Professors said
it has sent a letter of protest
to the rector of Catholic Uni
versity of America. The letter
expresses "deep concern over
the recent action of members
of the administration in refus
ing to permit recognized scho
lars freedom to speak within
their own field of competence
at the Invitation of the Gradu
ate Student Council.”
THE communication to Msgr.
William J. McDonald declared
that the chapter sees a violation
of academic freedom in what
VATICAN CITY (NC) —His
Holiness Pope John XXIII be
gan Lent with a radio appeal
to Catholics to pray and do pen
ance during the season for the
success of the ecumenical coun
cil.
The Pontiff’s Ash Wednes
day (Feb. 27) address also call
ed on Catholics to practice aus
terity, which he called the mark
of a sincere Christian and the
way to bring justice into the
home and society.
it called the abandonment by tne
university of its role as a
forum within which controvers
ial subjects may be examined
by competent men of good will.
The Duquesne AAUP chapter
lists a membership of some 95
professors. Duquesne is ope
rated by the Fathers of the Holy
Ghost.
The chapter conclude that it
found especially distressingthe
mere thought of abridgement
of academic freedom at Catho
lic University because it is that
institution which Catholics and
others look to as a symbol of
Catholic intellectual life.
EARLIER in the day the Pope
had knelt and placed ashes on
his forehead. At his regular
Wednesday audience he to) d the
thousands of people atte. ding
that the ashes were a remin
der of the certainty of death,
which must come "to the fat
her of souls and the Vicar of
Christ, who is also a man and
who will return to dust like
all men.”
Between the audience and the
broadcast, Pope John left the
Vatican to visit Rome for the
Lenten season's opening statio-
nal ceremonies at Santa Sab
ina’s church. There he again
spoke of the ashes as a re
minder that “our days are num
bered" and again urged Catho
lics to pray for the council's
success.
"We are now entered upon
Lent, the first Lent after the
opening of the council," the
Pope said in his broadcast.
"It is the period most indi
cated to make progress in ac-
Named To Curia
VATICAN CITY — (NC)—
Pope John XXIII has appointed
Archbishop Gennaro Verolino,
Apostolic Nuncio to Costa Rica
since 1957, as Secretary of the
Sacred Congregation of Cere
monial.
The Congregation of Cere
monial supervises the liturgi
cal and nonllturgical cere
monies of the Roman curia.
Austerity
Christian
qulring virtue and especially
in the practice of charity to
ward God and man.
"THE SUBLIME harmonies
of Revelation stand out in grea
ter relief during the time of
a council...It is therefore the
council which gives the tone
to this year’s Lent by parti
cularly stressing the task of
every good Christian to live the
precept of charity rather than
merely to contemplate and re
joice at this new flowering."
Pope John said that during
Lent Christians should study
and teach the eternal truths,
and bring help to the hungry
and homeless.
OFFICIAL
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
announces the following ap
pointment:
ASSISTANT PASTOR
The Rev. Ubaldus Pozza,
F.S.C.J, Mother of our Divine
Saviour Church Toccoa, Geor
gia.
Professors Protest
CU Theologian Ban