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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. VOCATIONS MONTH V^ 5 Archdiocese of Atlanta ill GEO NG GEORGIA'S NORTHERN ETINf COUNTIES VOL 1, NO. 10 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