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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. SUBSCRIBE TO THE GEORGIA BULLETIN *5.00 PER YEAR Mail to P. O. Box 11667 Northside Station Atlanta 5, Georgia Name Address ^ 11 y State “‘Buy Your *l«x From Max" MAX METZEL, Owner MAX'S MEN'S SHOPS 5494 Peachtree Indu*trl*l Blvd. Chamblet Plaza Shopping Center Phone 451-1911 975 Peachtree, N.E. Phone TR. 4-95*2 — At 10th tt. for »hs best in».Y ^control* Service eali c & s REALTY COMPANY “Specialists in Commercial and Industrial Real Estate' Suite 200 Henry Grady bldg. Atlanta 3 Ga. Warehouses, Stores, Mfg. Plants, Agreage, Shopping Center Dev., Industrial Dr/., Subdivision Dev.. Insurance 524-20^2 MIKE & STEVE SERTICH 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 ing in the Appalachian Mountain regions. Technically a hyperbolic paraboloid form, the tent, measuring 60 by 48 feet, needs no interior supports and has weathered several windstorms. Its frame is strong aluminum pipe and the covering is pink and white nylon plastic. It can be erected in two hours. 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.- IHM Supper 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 rians, old folks, orphans, etc. □ Educate a seminarian like AUGUSTINE KOTTACKAL or JOHN KARUVEL1L. Cost: $100 a year for six years. □ Educate a Sister like SISTER MARY PAULSY or SISTER MARY RICHARD. Cost: $150 a year for two years. 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