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PACE 2 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 NELSON-RIVES REALTY, INC. 344SA CUirmont P..»d CHAMBLEE GEORGIA Formerly Ami-.NX IU*ltj Ce.. 1M. Howard C. Ntiion. Pr«*tdent Ern*R M Rlvt*. 8«er*Ury Tre»». OLD SARGE SURPLUS ARMY AND CIVILIAN SURPLUS Hunting, Fishing, Camping Equipment (Buy, Trade, Sell Most Anything) Hwy. 23 - Next door to Pine Tree Plaza Doravllle. Ga. 451-3377 Oifioithut MOTOR HOTEL • TV « AIR CONOITiONiNS • FAMOUS Ml AM- OUfFiT • ICC A BB /ERAOS STATIOMB • COFFEE MAKER. EACH ROOM luck if at con t <,r A Good A </</< «■ , % in All.nit.i J 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." 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"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." Maronite Palm Sunday Procession Palm Sunday services will be held at St. Joseph's Maronite Catholic Church at 11:30 a.m. Tradional ceremonies will be followed according to the East ern Rites. After distribution of Holy Communion, the priest blesses the Congregation with the Chalice and host, then he invites all the children to come to the Communion rail to re ceive individual blessing with the Chalice and host. Following the Mass there will be a procession around the grounds of the church led by the cross bearer and acolytes with candles and the deacon in censing the Cross followed by the priest bearing a cross and chanting, then the congregation carrying lighted candles and chanting. After the procession, all are invited to the Social Hall for refreshments consisting of hamburgers, hot dogs and cold drinks. The public is cordially invited to attend. SI R A NGE BUT TRU ittle-Known Faclj for Catholics E By M. j. MURRAY Copyright, 1»«S, NCWC. New* Service TRlS UNUSAL TIMEPIECE ON A CHURCH IN MALTA SHOWS THE MONTHS AND DAYS INSTEAD OF THE HOURS AND MlHUTES . — •fRL -niJE fefSg'. * Much of the Medieval VISION OF THE DEVIL IS EMBODIED IN THIS STONE CARVING WHICH DECORATES .THE EXTERIOR OF THE { CATHEDRAL OF NOTRE DAME, PJhA Worlds ( Largest producer of* Rosary beads is the SNAvCONDI FXCTbRV IN LORETO, ITALY, WHICH! SENDS OUT MORE THAN ( lO MILLION PAIRS every year. i f\ 1 f 4 it&TS’m kf' r/ ( yj 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 Stress Renewal 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. ' " Episcopalians Use Catholic Church a "But it should also be noted that many bishops who were not well acquainted with the representatives of the non-Ca- tholic churches were, for their 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- Saint Paul’s Fellowship Dinner Saint Paul of the Cross Home and School Association will hold its annual Fellowship Dinner in the Benjamin E. Mays Dining Hall at Morehouse College at 5:00 P.M. on Sunday. Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan will be the honored guest and speaker. UNIOUE KNITTING COMPANY JUNCTION CITY, Ore. (NC) — A Catholic church here is being used by an Episcopal congregation for Sunday ser vices until repairs are compl- ted on its own church, damag ed in a windstorm October 12. Father Ervin S. Vandehey, pastor of St. John's mission church, received permission from Archbishop Edward D. Howard of Portland, then in vited the Rev. L. Wayne Bond, pastor of St. Christopher Epis copal parish, to use the Cath olic building. A Mass for Ca tholics is offered in the church at 9:30 a.m. Leroy's Auto Service Tune Up - Front End Alignment Automatic Transmission 4011 P'tree Rd. CF 7-1,288 1 C&S REALTY COMPANY “Specialists in Commercial and Industrial Real Estate” Suite 200 Henry Grady Bldg. Atlanta 3. Ga. Warehouses, Stores, Mfg. Plants, Acreage, Shopping Center Dev., Industrial Dev., 4 ft WASHINGTON, (N.C.) —Th irty-seven seminars and for ums dealing with a variety of current topics will be packed into three days at the biennial National Council of Catholic Men convention in Atlantic City, N.J., from April 24 to 28. The 20 seminars and 17 for ums to be held April 25 to 27 will deal with social justice, public morality, decency in family life, communism, Sunday shopping, sex education in the family, moral problems in bus iness, convert work among Neg roes and similar problems. THE CONVENTION also will feature five 15- minute pre sentations by Second Vatican Council consultants and experts at a general session April 27 in the Atlantic City Convention Hall. The presentations will include the principal areas of renewal in the Church —lit urgical, Biblical, catechetical, ecumenical and the social ap ostolate. The speakers will include Fa ther Thomas F. Stransky, C. S. P., member of the Vat ican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity; Father John Miller, C.S.C., staff editor for liturgy and sacramental the ology of the new Catholic En cyclopedia being prepared at the Catholic University of Am erica, Washington, D. C.; Fa ther Eugene H. Maly, Presi dent, American Catholic Bibli cal Association, and Father SShawn G. Sheehan, Liturgist and professor of theology of St. John’s Seminary Bringhton, Mass. Following the presentations, 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 ive secretary, National Catholic Liturgical Conference; Msgr. John Knott, director, NCW'C 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 rard E, Sherry, managing edit or of the Georgia Bulletin, Atlanta archdiocesan newspap er; Father Henry V Sattler, C.SS.R., assistant director, NCWC Family Life Bureau; Rev. Arthur Walmsley of the National Council, Protestant Episcopal Churches; DonThor- man, Spiritual Life Institute, South Bend, Ind.; and Mrs. Kat herine O'Neil, executive •ecretary, National Home and School Service. THE CONVENTION is being sponsored by the Church province of Nws Jersey, headed by Archbishop Thomas A. Bo land of Newark. William F. 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