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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1963
CLERGY. RELIGIOUS SHORTAGE
Council Fathers Expect To Discuss Vocations Problem
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Suenens continues, “are the nursing and teaching
communities. In one of my suffragan dioceses
78 out of 522 religious houses have had to close
in the last 30 years for lack of vocations."
The Cardinal’s testimony is corroborated by
Bishop Charles-Marie Himmer of Toumia, Bel
gium, who points out that in his diocese nearly
30 per cent of the Sisters are over 65, while
only 10 per cent are under 30. “This factor of
aging communities," he states, “naturally com
plicates die problem erf modernazing the group’s
policies and practices."
ALONG with considering present vocations the
council Fathers are also asking: Where can more
vocations be found?
Apart from the theological study of the mat
ter, they recognize that a great deal can be le
arned from a study of the social milieu, the geo
graphical area, the type of family, and the youth's
scholastic formation.
Some regions provide more vocations than ot
hers. In South America, for example, four depart
ments of Colombia (Antioquia, Cundianarmarca,
Caldas and Boyaca) account for 68 per cent of
the diocesan vocations and 78 per cent of the
religious vocations. These are rural areas, but
in the United States where most Catholics are
city people, it is just the opposite. Nearly 90
per cent of the vocations come from the urban
areas.
IN BELGIUM the agricultural class, which scar
cely represents 10 per cent of the population,
furnishes 18 per cent of the religious vocations.
The workers, who make up almost 50 per cent,
give 17 per cent and the upper class, which is
less than 10 per cent of the population, gives
21 per cent.
What is to be said of the home environment,
social contacts, the effects of communications
media like the newspapers, radio, television, and
movies? Only when all the elements affect
ing vocations have been decisions.
ONE TOOL for evaluating the effects of environ
ment on the temperament and personality of a
youth is the psychological test. Since World War
II more and more dioceses and religious institutes
have been attempting, like their governmental and
military counterparts, to subject potential candi
dates to psychological tests to determine their
temperamental and emotional fitness for the
priestly or religious life. The assumption is
that if youths are psycholigically suitable for the
priesthood or religious life they are more likely
to perserve.
Now the question in the minds of some of the
bishops and major superiors is this: Should such
tests be optional, or compulsory? Or should they
be ignored altogether? Those who have already
spoken out on the matter recommend caution and
reserve.
They do admit that these tests can and do
supply important data about questionable appli
cants. However, they hold that all of the tests
need perfecting and those already available should
be administered and interpreted only by trained
clinical psychologists.
THE PURPOSE of these tests, all agree, is not
to determine the presence or absence of a vo
cation. It is simply to magnify those components
in a youth’s temperament, attitude and person
ality which may be obscure. Once all the factors
are evident, it is easier for the bishop or re
ligious superior to judge whether or not an ind
ividual is suitable for the priesthood or relig
ious life.
Where one’s personal observations of a can
didate are adequate, these tests are not needed.
This explains how the Church has managed
for 20 centuries without such helps. But just as
we now avail ourselves of the advances of medi
cal science to prove a person’s physical fitness,
so many of the council Fathers feel that the
findings of psychology and psychiatry will help
to evaluate a person’s mental fitness and emoti
onal balance.
All acknowledge that a successful religious
vocation is the work of the Holy Spirit and the
acceptance of the Spirit's goad by the individual.
AT COUNCIL
Liturgy Chapter
A ‘Magna Carta’
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
ding the field of other branches
of ecclesiastical knowledge,
will emerge as the actualizat
ion of what the Bible procl
aims; what dogma penetrates
systematically; what the spiri
tual life lives, and what pasto
ral theology teaches."
ARCHBISHOP Krol said the
council reaffirms that the spec
ific aim of luturgy is public
worship—the public duty or
service to pay perfect homage
of adoration, recognizing God's
supreme dominion over man and
man's complete dependence up
on Him. While emphasizing this
specific aim of glorifying God,
it acknowledges the didactic and
pastoral aspects of liturgy, he
declared.
The Archbishop said the de
crees of the Vatican council
draw a clear distincition bet
ween the catechetical content of
the liturgy and the liturgy it
self.
“Though the Word of God is
common to both liturgy and cat-
echesis, the two are not to be
identified,” he said, “The pur
pose of liturgy— unlike that of
cathechesis— is the making
present of the redeeming act
of Christ, so that Christians
may join themselves to that act
and make it their own.’’
The Archbishop was applau
ded when he made reference to
the action of the council with
regard to the use of the ver-
ncular in the liturgy.
“THE DIDACTIC and past
oral aspects of the liturgy led
the Second Vatican Council to
take a history-making stride in
officially introducing bi-ligu-
alism into the Latin Liturgy,'*
he said. “Latin is to be pre
served as a liturgical language,
but the council opened the door
to the use of the vernacular
languages, and also opened the
door to the adaption of the lit
urgy to legitimate traditions
and specific religious cultures
of various peoples."
The Archbishop said the ch
anges that will be effected gra
dually after the end of the coun
cil will be made prudently on
the recommendations of compe
tent territorial authority with
the approval of the Holy See.
The bishops of a territory are
encouraged to study the problem
of adaptation of the liturgy to
local needs and to make con
crete proposals for approval of
the Holy See, he said.
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Like St. Paul, the Glenmary Home Missioners join tent-making with preaching. Photo
shows the new style tent designed by Father Patrick O’Donnell, editor of Glenmary’s
Challenge, to replace the old gospel type tent used for the society’s summertime preach
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FREUDIAN ROOTS?
Vatican Newspaper Refutes
Rabbi’s Anti-Semite Theory
VATICAN CITY, (NC) —
L'Osservatore Romano has ta
ken exception to a rabbi's theory
that antisemitism has Freudian
roots.
The editorial, appearing in
the Vatican City daily news
paper (Aug. 11) was signed by
assistant editor Federico Ales-
sandrini. It was occasioned by
the recent address by Rabbi
Henry Kagan on “the attitudes
of Christians toward Jews” be
fore the Third International
Congress of Group Psychology,
at Mount Vernon, N. Y.
RABBI Kagan was quoted as
saying that “antisemitism be
gins, though not consciously,
STOCKTON, Kan. (NC)—
Mrs. Madalyn Murray of Bal
timore, who plans an atheist
center here, told newsmen she
Intends to file a law suit against
Sisters who teach in public
schools in nearby Hays.
Mrs. Murray, who initiated
the suit which saw the U. S. Su
preme Court rule against Bible
reading and recitation of the
Lord’s Prayer in public
schools, said her son Garth, 8,
will attend a public school in
Hays, about 40 miles south of
Stockton.
AFTER Mrs. Murray's an
nouncement that she intends to
put her son in a Hays school,
Vallis Rockwell, superintendent
of schools there, said the boy
will not be enrolled unless he
meets all requirements as a
resident.
Stockton not only is far out
side the Hays district, but in
another county.
At Topeka, state officials
very early during the oedipus
complex of childhood through
the teaching of the story of the
crucifixion."
The theory, according to the
L'Osservatore Romano edi
torial, associates thewillofGod
the Father that God the Son
should die for mankind with
the child’s fear of his own fa
ther.
Quoting the Rabbi further,
L’Osservatore said: “When this
unconscious fear is linked with
the story of the Crucifixion, a
more rationalized presentation
of it can always reduce the fear
of the child for its own father
...by offering a substitute ver-
agreed that unless the Murrays
settle in Hays, it would be up to
the discretion of the Hays school
board whether the boy could en
roll.
“I UNDERSTAND there is a
practice in Hays of having Ca
tholic nuns, in uniform, teach
in public schools," she said.
“And within 24 hours after
Garth starts school their, I
will file a suit challenging that
practice.”
(Sisters of St. Agnes teach in
a Hays public elementary
school. Under an arrangement
worked out during the 1930 de
pression, the school building is
leased by St. Joseph's parish
to the local Board of Education.
The Sisters are under the con
trol of the board.
(Three years ago, the Hays
board of education and the Ca
puchin Fathers who operate St.
Joseph's agreed to bring the
arrangement to an end on a
gradual, grade-by-grade sche
dule.)
sion: saying that it was not the
will of God as Father but the
will of the Jews which was re
sponsible for the death of
Chirst. These subtle origins
of antisemitism very soon take
root in the subconscious of the
Christian child and should
therefore be adequately exa
mined".
ALESSANDRINI countered
this theory by saying that “the
relations of Catholics with their
brothers of other religions are
governed by the law of the Gos
pel, which is the law of charity.
The problem of (of antisemi
tism) can only be regarded as a
reprehensibile state of mind
and must be rejected and sup
pressed."
He expressed serious doubt
that “psychoanalysis such as
that proposed by Rabbi Kagan
can root out antisemitism,"
and added that he believes that
“the best road to follow is that
indicated by Michael Cardinal
Faulhaber, Archbishop of Mu
nich, in his preaching of Ju
daism-done at his personal
risk but to the honor of God and
the Church."
The editorial recalled a re
mark to a group of Jews by
Henry Cardinal Manning, 19th-
century English churchman: “I
would not understand my reli
gion if I did not respect yours."
It then concluded that the Old
and New Testament teachings
are enough for combating anti
semitism and that one does not
need the “materialistic bases"
of Dr. Sigmund Freud.
Carmelite Now
Israel Citizen
JERUSALEM (NC)—Israel
has naturalized a Jewish-born
Carmelite monk who last
December lost a legal battle for
automatic citizenship under Is
rael’s Law of Return, an In
terior Ministiy spokesman said
(Aug. 16)
Father Daniel was granted
citizenship under the normal
proceedings open to non-Jews.
BIBLE RULING’ MOM
Atheist Fights
Nun Teachers
‘IT MUST MEAN SOMETHING’
It’s Not Enough To Get
People ‘Talking
PHILADELPHIA (NC) — A
priest-educator asserted “it is
not enough to get ‘our people
talking at Mass’ ”— the talk
must mean something to them.
Father Francis Nead, pro
fessor at Seton Hall University,
South Orange, N. J., told a study
session at the North American
Liturgical Week here mere par
ticipation in the liturgy is in
sufficient. The liturgical reality
must be changed if necessary
to mean something to the people,
he added.
AS AN example, Father Nead
said, the dialogue Mass has wit
hered away in some areas where
meaning has not sustained the
insertion of the people into the
worship activity.
“The language in which it
(the liturgy) is celebrated is
the first, although certainly not
the only element in need of re
form," he said.
Father Nead called for a
renewal of catecheticsasafirst
step in the reformation of the
liturgy.
“LITURGICAL involvement
or the lack of it by our people,”
he said, “points up sharply the
penetration of the Faith or lack
of it by our people."
The aim of catechesis, Father
Nead said, is to “teach the
heart," which he defined as
“the inwardness which res
ponds to value."
"Communication of Christ to
man is a problem of words,
since these are the means of
personal encounter," Father
Nead concluded. “Catechists
must bend themselves. . .to a
study of the words they use to
make known the Father’s name
to His own."
The altar must always be the
focal point in the design of any
church, Father H. A. Reinhold,
liturgical expert from Pitts
burgh, told another study ses
sion .
"The altar must become the
focus, whether it is one facing
towards the people or one lead
ing the people toward the In
finite," he said. "Never should
it become a central altar which
Pope Asks
Orthodox
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
ed, "explain the points of doc
trine that are not common, that
are still objects of controversy.
Let us seek to render common
and solid our creed, seek to
render articulate and fitted our
hierarchial union."
AFTER urging prayers for
Christian unity, “if not in our
age, then at least in successive
ages," Pope Paul concluded by
saying he longed “to make mine
the wish which spontaneously
and generously welled up in the
hearts of my predecessors, es
pecially John XXIII, that we
can truly make our voice like
and angel trumpet which says:
‘Come, let the barriers which
separate us fall without delay.”
He said that when many of
the Eastern Churches split w ith
Rome in 1054 it was “not over
doctrine of liturgy, but who
should run the Church."
confuses its meaning and splits
the congregation in two or four
parts."
"The counterfocus should be
the baptistery with the confes
sionals, because these two sac
raments are related. If the bap
tistery can be a separate part
of the building, that would even
be better,” he continued.
“Between these two focal
points, the faithful should have
their space, thus representing
the pilgrimage from baptistery
with the confessionals, because
these two sacraments are re
lated. If the baptistery can be
a seperate part of the build
ing, that would even be better,"
he continued.
"Between these two focal po-
At Mass’
ints, the faithful should have
their space, thus representing
the pilgrimage from baptistery
to altar as the essential way
of Christian life,” Father Rein
hold said.
“Liturgy demands truly
liturgical building, not novelty
and surprise features," he de
clared.-
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An old country style spaghet
ti supper will be served at
the cafetorium of Immaculate
Heart of Mary Parochial School,
Briarcliff Road, N.E., on Sat
urday (August 24) from 6:00
P.M. until 9:00 P.M. Cost is
$1.50 for adults, and 75<f for
children. Proceeds will go to
wards the partial defrayment
of new cafeteria equipment.
Tbt Holy Prtbtr’i Mu sion Aid
lor ibt Oruntd Church
India: Saint Sebastian Needs Help
At PURANATTUKURA. a village in the diocese of TRICH1IR
in Southern India, is the parish of St. Sebastian. There are 500
.f /v» children in the parish needing in*
struction. but St. Sebastian has no
school—no place even for catechet
ical lessons. Nevertheless fifteen
c 1 asses have been organized. They
meet everywhere ... in the halls,
before the Blessed Sacrament, in
the priest’s house . . . The only
school in the neighborhood is that
of the Hindu monks. The boys and
girLs of high school age go there
. . . But the pastor of St. Sebastian
knows he must build a school for
this parish, too recently organized
to have educational facilities. He asks help in obtaining the
modest sum of $2,000; for the rest his people will give what
they can in money and labor! . . . Father X. Akkara’s letter ex
presses his hope of a kind response. His plea is seconded by
his Bishop and the authorities in Rome . . . Soon now yonr
parish school will open its doors for another year. Think of the
500 youngsters of St. Sebastian huddled in hallways, and send
something to help Father Akkara . . . Any donation, large or
small, will help!
WHY INDIA?
Our work covers 18 countries where the Eastern Rites pre
dominate. Often we appear to be appealing for one country
in particular—India—ignoring the others under our care! . . .
Actually we have some fifty appeals from India before us, all
asking modest suras of $2,000 to $4,000 to build convents,
churches and schools. This is a land rich in vocations today and
Church authorities would feel remiss indeed in not doing all
they can to foster these missionary parishes and so encourage
the spread of Christ’s word . . . Each week we can bring you
just one of these urgent appeals, relying on your generosity,
hoping we can help quickly enough, substantially enough!
ASIA: LAND OF HOPE. Not long ago, the NCWC news serv
ice in Washington gave a report showing the percentage of
Catholic population throughout the world. South America led
with 92.3 per cent Catholics; Central America, 80 per cent;
Western Europe, 57.3 per cent; North America, 24 per cent;
Australia, 18 per cent; Eastern Europe and Russia, 18 per cent;
Africa, 10.4 per cent . . . Only in Asia were the figures down
to less than 2 per cent! Yet here the vocations are increasing.
Maybe eventually the last shall be first! You can help by your
STRINGLESS GIFTS which allow us to send help where the
Holy Father feels it is most desirable.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
□ Build a school, chapel or convent for $2,000 to $6,000.
□ Support one of our SI a month clubs to help Sisters, semina
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□ Educate a seminarian like AUGUSTINE KOTTACKAL or
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□ Educate a Sister like SISTER MARY PAULSY or SISTER
MARY RICHARD. Cost: $150 a year for two years. You can
send the money in installments.
□ Place a MEMORIAL CHALICE or other item in a chapel, I
the cost ranging from $50 down to $5 for CHAPEL BELLS:
for the altar.
□ Send us MASS STIPENDS for the 15,000 priests in our care.
Often this is their only means of support.
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