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GEORGIA BULLETIN
THURSDAY APRIL 4, 1963
WEAPON AGAINST LOW MORALS
Latin American
Family
Groups Vocation
Source
(N.C.W.C. NEWSSERVICE)
The vigorous Christian
Family Movement in Latin Am
erica—30,000 couples have
joined in ten years—is one of
the area's most promising so
urces of religious vocations.
At the same time the CFM is
providing decisive leadership
in other fields—such as in
dustry, labor, government and
the professions as these couples
irradiate their Christian con
victions to society with agrow
ing impact.
THE IMPACT of the move
ment has been such that the
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Holy See and the Latin Ameri
can Bishops Council have en
trusted its leaders with specific
tasks, like the promotion of vo
cations among youth and in
homes, marriage preparation
courses for a widening aud
ience, and sounder use of lei
sure time for all.
"Our aim is simple, yet
powerful," said Federico and
Hortensia Soneira, Uruguayan
leaders of the movement.
"We seek to attain the full
spiritual meaning of Christian
family living and its sacra
mental inspiration...Then we
project into the home and the
community this rejuvenating
energy."
The challenge has proved to
be a magnet. The CFM has
8,000 couples in Argentina, 6,
000 in Mexico and 5,000 in Bra
zil. Uruguay and Chile are about
to reach the 2,000 mark, while
Venezuela has 1,000. Smaller
groups keep growing in Central
America, Columbia, Bolivia,
Ecuador and Peru.
ALL THESE countries are
sending veteran delegations to
the forthcoming third Inter-
American Congress of the CFM
to be held this July in Rio de
Janeiro. "The Parent Forger
of the Modern World" is its
theme. Close to 1,000 couples
are making plans to fly over
the Andes, the Amazon and the
jungles to meet with large num
bers of Brazilians.
For the first time, a "par
allel” youth meeting will take
place there. Young people of 16
17 and 18 will run their own
discussions on their own and
their own and their parents'
role in modern society and its
challenges.
This evaluation has been
going on for some time.
At Buenos Aires, the CFM
staged a "Youth onTrial"show
prompted by the charge that
the present young generation is
reaching maturity already de
feated by "the new waves"
—that is by a superabundance
of safisfaction, flimsy causes
and a premature "aging." The
debate directed by youngsters
turned the tables, and "society
and its elders" came out as the
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press coverage kept large audi
ences in suspense for two days.
IN MONTEVIDEO, a similar
show was entitled "How Dad
Lost Authority." Again the re
velations and confessions were
"sensacionales" —as these
people like to say.
Through its spirit, its mes
sage and the methods it uses,
the CFM keeps enrolling mili
tant couples and adding a new
dimension to the sacred value of
the home.
"We are trying to drive into
our people the conviction that
family living and generosity are
true signs of cooperation with
everlasting work of Christ, who
needs the Christian family to
day more than ever before,"
a Mexican physician told me
during the national covention at
Jalapa. When some of the 600
couples decided to go and "ser
enade" the delegations from
neighboring Coatepec, the whole
town turned out for the party
amid lanterns.
IF THE launching of the CFM
has changed overly secularistic
views regarding marriage and
family life among the laity, it
has also opened the eyes of many
a priest to new needs and rich
possibilities in his pastoral
mass ion. Both priests and lay
people are studying, pondering
and revitalizing in its rich me
asure the meaning of Christian
marriage.
"Much of the rapid and solid
growth of the movement is due
to die realization of the depth
and beauty of a truly super
natural partnership between
husband and wife, of a real
solidarity between parents and
children," Mrs. Maria de La-
fuente confided during a lunche
on at the Buenos Aires Automo
bile Club.
In the face of present day
hardships and constant threats
to the inner sanctum of the
home, this "doing together" for
Christian motives has tremend
ous attraction. Meetings, spiri
tual retreats, campaigns, the
apostolate among the poor and
the ignorant, visiting needy
homes and youth counseling
become tools for a richer,
closer bond of soul and body
among the members of the
family.
FATHER Pedro Richards, C.
P., Latin American moderator
of the CMF put it beautifully
when I saw him at the Nazar
eth Retreat House in suburban
Montevideo:
"Many leaders today place
the emphasis on technology and
political moves, when not on
economic measures, in the at
tempt to save this New World
of ours. To be sure, these things
must be a past of the whole
plan of recuperation. But they
must obey theology in order to
be human.
"At the center of this theo
logy the figure of Christ must
shine in His two redemptions,
the redemption of the human
person and the redemption of
the community. Both missions
of Christ are reflected in the
miniature world of the family.
Here is where the human per
son is born into the world,
is formed for the world, Is
given a lasting outlook on hu
man living. But he must be
truly a Christian when he lea
ves the home to go into the
community. What is not accom
plished for the person and for
the community in the home,
can hardly be accomplished out
side the home."
THE FULL impact of these
golden words and of the task
ahead can be better grasped
by a quick review of the stag
gering failures in the primary
function of family life.
Religious leaders, sociol
ogists and international organ
izations taking a realistic in
ventory of human resources in
Latin America come up with
alarming evidence on the nega
tive side:
Common law marriages con
stitute in Guatemala 41 percent
of all families; in Haiti, 39
per cent; in Panama, 30 per
cent, and in El Salvador, 25
per cent. Venezuela, Nicaragua,
Mexico, Ecuador and Paraguay
vary from 10 to 20 per cent.
The problem worsens in mining
regions, cattle-raising areas,
tropical plantations and big city
slums. In some areas these
cpmmon law unions are the ac
cepted custom.
# There are great numbers of
unwed mothers in most coun
tries. Many are the victims of
romantic promises from men of
their own class. But many more
are victims of the "machismo"
— the he-man — of bosses,
overseers and their spoiled
sons on the landed estates or
in rich city homes.
"I KNOW of cities where over
70 per cent of the women are
unwed mothers, or abandoned
wives," said a delegate to the
second Inter-American Con
gress of the CFM, held in
Mexico in 1960. In Bahia, Bra
zil, one-fourth of the women
with children are unwed.
• The fate of illegitimate
children is thus a pressing pro
blem. Many of these innocents
are abandoned to a most in
human lot of privation and de
linquency. In the Dominican Re
public, of every 100 live births,
59 are illegitimate; Nicaragua
and Venezuela have similar ra
tes, while Panama tops them
with 74. Uruguay, Mexico, Bol
ivia, Chile and Colombia have
illegitimacy rates of betwen
20 and 26 per cent. Nobody has
been able to compile statistics
on abortions.
Several factors have contri
buted to create such a sex-
jungle, including the primitive
life led in remote frontier
areas. Two loom on the hori
zon of history as perhaps the
worst: the brutal appetite of
the European conquerors and
settlers that took Indian and
mestizo women during colon
ial times, without marrying
them; and later, the rabid wave
of anti-Church legislation in the
early republics that established
easy divorce and civil mar
riage, and sanctioned prosti
tution. Figures for 1959 for
Mexico show that of 2,551,000
marriages, 1,427,000 were ci
vil ceremonies. There were al
so 1,795,000 common law mar
riages. For the same year there
were 67,000 divorces. In Mon
tevideo, a large percentage of
divorced persons are girls un
der 20 years of age. Chile has
a higher divorce rate than Eng
land, and in Venezuela divorces
have gone up 70 per cent since
1950.
"SUCH are the breeding gr
ounds for potential delinquents,
misfits and political agitators,"
a university professor com
mented in Rio.
Berta Corredor, a Colombian
research sociologist who re
cently authored a knowledgeable
study on "The Family in Latin
America" for the International
Federation of Religious Sociol
ogy, has this closing line: "Se
cularization of marriage by the
state robbed the Church of a
divine right. We see the con
sequences today."
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Tradional ceremonies will be
followed according to the East
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Holy Communion, the priest
blesses the Congregation with
the Chalice and host, then he
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A Costa Rican priest was
showing me the poorest section
of his parish when some ur
chins came running to his arms.
Then he turned to me and said:
"A YOUNG life is a gift of
God. We should provide a clean
cradle for every baby ... But
so very often a child is not
born of love but of the flesh,
in a daring act of his par
ents against God’s law. By what
right has our society unleashed
such a frenzied explosion of
population?"
Against such a background the
CFM is making heroic and urg
ent efforts to regain for Latin
America the true meaning of
Christian marriage. It can stre
ngthen and multiply the Christ
ian homes from which more
priestly vocations can flourish.
It can restore the dignity of
womanhood and motherhood for
all, rich and poor alike.
Earlier, the CFM prospered
among professional and urban
groups and was based on neigh
borhoods, kinships and friend
ship. It was an almost exclu
sively upper middle class
movement, and its leaders saw
its shortcomings. Then in Ar
gentina, Uruguay and other sou
thern countries the movement
crossed over the tracks and em
braced all classes: workers,
peasants, fisherman, miners,
professionals, Indians, whites
and mulattos.
"WE ARE now translating
some of our pamphlets into
native Indian languages," said
Juan Pedro Gallinal. He and
his wife, Malena, are Latin Am
erican secretaries for the CFM
and are now engaged in fever
ish preparations and corres
pondence for the Rio de Jan
eiro meeting. "Surveys and re
ports are coming back," they
said, " and show how many
fruitful things our groups have
accomplished all over."
The Latin American Bishops
Council launched a veritable
crusade in 1962 to "save the
family in Latin America." They
called for intensive marriage
preparation courses among the
youth, increased responsibility
on the part of parents, organ
ized defense before lawmakers
and opinionmakers.
ATLANTIC CITY
NCCM Meet Will
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CARDINAL ASSERTS:
Council Shows
Observer Piety
ROME- (NC) - The first ses
sion of the Second Vatican Cou
ncil served not only to give
the non-Catholic observers
present a new insight into the
Catholic Church, but also op
ened the eyes of the Catholic
bishops to the zeal and piety
of the observers.
This "mutual understanding"
is therefore the "greatest re
sult yet achieved" by the coun
cil, according to Eugene Car
dinal Tisserant, Librarian of
the Holy Roman Church.
ANSWERING questions in an
interview he gave the Italian
weekly magazine, Vita, the
French-born Dean of the Col
lege of Cardinals said that "the
first session of the council
without doubt enabled the non-
Catholic observers to know the
Church better. They were truly
impressed in assisting at the
congregations (council ses
sions) and at seeing the freedom
of discussion.
He continued:
terested in ecumenical matters,
even from his seminary days.
As Secretary of the Sacred Con
gregation for the Oriental Chu
rch from 1936 to 1959 he was
continually occupied with ecu-
nical questions, he recalled.
'In this regard," he said,
"few know that I founded at
Beirut a magazine titled You
are the Salt of the Earth, des
tined both for Catholic priests
and for priests of the separa
ted Orthodox Church. I held and
I hold that we must help with
love and enthusiasm our Or
thodox brothers to increase
their zeal, their piety and their
mode of life.
"I told my priests 'you must
not discuss, but show forth a
perfect Church and the others
will come, they will draw near
to you. ' "
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that many bishops who were
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representatives of the non-Ca-
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part, impressed on seeing the
piety, the dignity and the zeal
with which the observers fol
lowed not only the council la
bors but also especially the dai
ly various rites."
IN THE course of the inter
view, the 70-year old Cardinal
noted that he has long been in-
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irty-seven seminars and for
ums dealing with a variety of
current topics will be packed
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Hall. The presentations will
include the principal areas of
renewal in the Church —lit
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ther Thomas F. Stransky,
C. S. P., member of the Vat
ican Secretariat for Promoting
Christian Unity; Father John
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liturgy and sacramental the
ology of the new Catholic En
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the Catholic University of Am
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cal Association, and Father
SShawn G. Sheehan, Liturgist
and professor of theology of St.
John’s Seminary Bringhton,
Mass.
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John A. O'Connor, associate
editor of the Monitor, San Fran
cisco archbiocesan newspaper,
will interview the speakers to
develop the significance of re
newal in the various areas.
THEME of the convention is
"The Layman in an Age of
Christian Renewal." At the
traditional convention banquet
April 27 four laymen will
be honored for distinguishing
themselves in the scientific and
cultural fields.
Among speakers at the semi
nars and forums will be: Fa
ther Benjamin A. Masse, S.J.,
associate editor of America
magazine; Mathew Ahmann, ex-
cutive secretary of the National
Catholic Conference for Inter-
riacial Justice; Father Harold
C. Gardiner, S.J., literary edi
tor of America magazine pres
ently on duty with the new Cat
holic Encyclopedia; Msgr. Fre
derick Stevenson, director,
Youth Department, National
Catholic Welfare Conference;
Father Robert F. Drinan, S. K.,
Dean of Boston College Law .
sSchool, Donald Stautberg, Pre
sident, National Catholic Lay
men's Retreat Conference.
Also John Mannion, execut
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Liturgical Conference; Msgr.
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Family Life Bureau; John D.
Deedy, Jr., editor, the Pitts
burgh Catholic diocesan news
paper; David O’Shea, national
secretary, Papal Volunteers for
Latin America; Father Luke
Power, O.F.M., of the NCWC
Foreign Vistors Bureau;
Father John F. Cronin, S. S„
Assistant Director, N.C.W.C.
Social Action Department; Ge
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Atlanta archdiocesan newspap
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C.SS.R., assistant director,
NCWC Family Life Bureau;
Rev. Arthur Walmsley of the
National Council, Protestant
Episcopal Churches; DonThor-
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South Bend, Ind.; and Mrs. Kat
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•ecretary, National Home and
School Service.
THE CONVENTION is being
sponsored by the Church
province of Nws Jersey, headed
by Archbishop Thomas A. Bo
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