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CRITICAL SHORTAGE Parents Have Major Responsibility In Fostering Vocations BY VERY REV. RAYMOND GOVERN, C.SS.R. Just prior to the first session of the Vatican Council, Pope John XXII in an allocution to the First International Congress on Vocations said: "This problem of Religious and priestly vocat ions is the daily worry of the Holy Father”. It is the intention of his prayer and the ardent aspriration of his soul. Practically every Bishop now assembled at the second session of the Council can say: *'Holy Father, my greatest need is more priests and sisters.” Although vocations are increasing in the United States, it is astonishing to know that the number of Sisters in France has dropped 6,000 in the past four years and 600 convents have closed in France's 90 Dioceses since 1959. IN THE Arch-diocese of Atlanta, there are 123 priests, of which 87 are religious. Of the 36 diocesan priests, some have come from Ire land, others from northern dioceses to labor for souls in die Arch-diocese. In the continental United States, comprising 141 dioceses, there are only two dioceses that have fewer diocesan priests than Atlanta. This indicates the grave need of more vocations right here and points up to the fact that it is of the utmost import ance that all Catholics, of all ages pray to the Lord of the harvests that He send more laborers into the vineyard and secondly that they become personally involved in becoming thoroughly en lightened on the need, the nature and the glor ious rewards of a vocation. The Arch-diocesan Commission on Religious Vocations under the direction of Rt. Rev. Msgr. Patrick J. O'Connor has established a far re aching program. Last August a successful three weeks course of latin was completed by 53 boys who have their hearts set on becoming fut ure priests. The advisory council on Religious vocations for women is represented by a Sister of each Community in the Arch-diocese. Members of five committees will meet in the near future and plans will be formulated to help each youth to discover God's will. In September seven young women entered the religious life from the Archdiocese. Judith Mar tin and Florence Walsh, graduates of Pius X School went to the Sisters of St. Joseph. Judy Burke and Mary Sue Keck, of St. Gerard's, Fort Oglethorpe joined the School Sisters of No tre Dame. Vaughan Bockman also from Pius X was accepted by the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart. Sandra Mathis chose the Sisters of St. Dominic (Cancer Home). Sylvia Matton entered the novitiate of the Missionary Servants of the Sac red Heart of Jesus. THERE ARE various ways vocations can be fostered. Parents can and should carefully en courage religious vocations in their children. Since the obligation to prepare a child for its First Holy Communion rests upon the parent, it is - logical extension of this truth to say that the Father and Mother are to continue to develop high ideals, the practice of sacrifice and gene rosity and they, themselves should desire stron gly that at least one of their children- enter the religious life. When parents impress upon their child that he has a mission to do God's will, they in turn want to co-operate with that will in its fulfillment. When a boy or girl is brought up and taught to be determined to learn what God wants of him or her and has courage to do it, then God's invitations will be rarely refused. How can a youth find out for sure if he has a vocation? A seminary or convent is the only place, the only testing ground where he can find out with certainty if God wants him in this life for keeps. The final step is made only after years of testing, after one has been accepted and after one has found out that the religious life makes one thoroughly happy. To youths who have an inner conviction that God is calling them. Father Godfrey Poage, C. P. Secretary for Religious Vocations says, "it is particularly important that a spiritual dire ctor develop in these youths a sense of voca tion. Each one should think, if God is really calling me, then I should prepare myself im mediately so as not to lose time in giving Christ the benefit of my capacities, my facul ties, my love. I am going to continue in this conviction until my spiritual director or religious superior in Christ's name tells me that I have no vocation. IT IS very possible that the Council will moder nize many practices, policies and regulations of religious orders and bring them into line with the needs of our times. And it is very probable that the Council will stimulate and strengthen a strong catholic family life and then hundreds of our fine catholic youths in the Arch-diocese will generously offer themselves to co-operate in the great work of the church here and throughout the world. Once youths realize that Christ has signaled them out with special love to be his partners, they just can’t refuse committing them selves to total love of Him. The saints tell us that once one falls in love with Christ, the work Christ askes to be done becomes a pleasure; everything else becomes easy because it becomes co-ordinated in this one gigantic effort of their lives. The words of St. Paul: "Lord, what would You have me do” should be on the lips of every youth!. PRAY FOR THE COUNCIL the Archdiocese of Atlanta VOL. 1 NO. 41 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1963 55.00 PER YEAR CAIP PRESIDENT Peace Is Not 'A Dirty Word’ WASHINGTON—"Peace” a dirty word? With communists and others appropriating "peace” for their own purposes, it sometimes has seemed that way. For the small but prestigious Catholic Asso ciation for International Peace (CAIP), however, peace is neit her slogan nor dodge, but a goal and a commitment. 'THE Catholic approach i5 positive,” said the CAlP’s newly elected president, William E. Moran. 'Today there is a growing awareness that true peace is not just the absence of war, but demands justice, charity' and dignity.” Moran discussed his views on a wide range of international issues and the role of the CAIP in an interview in his office at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where he is dean. Among the points he made were these; ctor of die entire African divis ion. From 1959 to 1961 he headed the Africa research program at the Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, Calif. He came to Georgetown from there. Moran, 47 is a native of Herkimer, N. Y., and a grad uate of Syracuse University, from which he received a law degree. He is married and has two children. Elected president of the CAIP at its recent 36th annual conf erence here, he envisages a broadened and stepped-up pro gram for the peace association. He hopes to increase die mem bership and organize the CAIP on a regional basis (with New York and Chicago the current CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 SITTING peacefully on a hillside in Lagarone, Italy, die church tower is left intact after floodwaters from the Vaiont dam de stroyed most of the town. Caused by a massive landslide the flood took over 3,000 lives. Relief supplies were rushed to the region by the Pontifical Relief Organization and Catholic Relief Services-NCWC, Pope Praises Americans At Beatification Rites •Isolationism today is "arrant nonsense." In this con nection many Americans, inclu ding many Catholics, "must be dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century, and some body had better start to do the dragging.” • U. S. Catholics are widely ignorant about the Church's te aching on peace and other con temporary issues "because they have so rarely been talked to as Catholics about these subjects. . . .How often do you hear a sermon on Mater et Maglstra or Pacem in Terris, or on Catholic social teachings as they apply to any of the ma jor Issues in the world today?” • It is Catholic social doct rine that rich nations are obli ged to help poor nations. But the U. S. foreign aid program isn't above criticism. Foreign aid is needed—and so, too, are reforms. Moran’s background makes him well qualified to discuss such issues, He was an FBI agent from 1940 to 1945, anec- onomic analyst with the U. S. Embassy in Brussels from 1945 to 1946, and assistant to the Atomic Energy Commission’s security director from 1947 to 1949. He THEN went into foreign aid work and served as a U. S. aid administrator for 10 years, from 1949 to 1959, in Belgium, Morocco and at the foreign aid agency's headquarters here. From 1953 to 1957 hewasdire- VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI hailed the beatification of John Neumann - the first U. S. male citizen to be declared a blessed — as evidence of the sanctity of the American people. The pope’s words climaxed a New Bishop For L.A. WASHINGTON (NC)— Msgr. John J. Ward, 43 Vice Offl- clalis of the archdiocesan tri bunal of Los Angeles, has been named Titular Bishop of Bria and Auxiliary to J. Francis Cardinal McIntyre, Archbishop of Los Angeles, The appointment, made by Pope Paul VI, was announ ced here by the Apostolic De legation. Bishop-elect Ward was born in Los Angeles, and he atten ded Holy Cross elementary sc hool in Los Angeles, Los An geles College (Junior seminary) and St. John's Major Seminary, Camarillo, Calif. He was or dained in 1946, and made post- ordination studies in Canon Law at the Catholic University of America in this city. day which was full of emotion and rejoicing for the thousands of Americans present at the ceremony and for the Church throughout the world. BISHOP NEUMANN, fourth Bishop of Philadelphia (1852- 1860), was of Sudeten-German extraction—born in Prachitz, Bohemia, now part of Czechos lovakia. % He was a pioneer priest in the Church in the United States, he opened the first school for Italian immigrants in Philadel phia; he opened a special school for the city's Negro children in pre-Civil War Philadelphia; he learned Gaelic so he could hear the confession of Irish immi grants. THE POPE HAILED Bishop Neumann as a "pioneer ... one of that wonderful chain of bishops who prepared the lead ers of the Catholic Hierarchy in the United States and imbued them with those virtues of de dication, zeal, practical ef ficiency and absolute faithful ness which still distinguish the venerable and exemplary American Episcopate.” , Speaking at the afternoon portion of the beatification ceremony the Pope paid tribute to the Sudeten-German origin of Bishop Neumann. He said in German: "For you beloved sons and daughters of Bohemia, to day is a day of heartfelt Joy and deep jubilation, for one of your sons, John Neumann, has been raised to the honors of the al tar.” PRESENT IN THE basilica were last minute arrivals J. Kent Lenahan from Phil adelphia, who was cured through Neumann's intercession, his wife and his mother. The three arrived the night before the ceremony. , The ceremonies concluded, Pope Paul took his place on a throne erected on the steps of the papal Altar of the Confess ion and began speaking in Ital ian. NOTING THAT it was his first beatification ceremony, he said, "it is necessary to follow here below the example of the saints if we want to reach the glory of the elect above.” In praising Blessed John's in America, the Pope declared that "this beatification is an ex cellent document which dispels the erroneous belief that American Catholicism is not CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 The high court sent back to the Minnesota Supreme Court "for further consideration” the case of a woman sentem ed to jail on contempt charges be cause she refused on religious grounds to serve on a Jury, IN DOING so the court re ferred to a ruling it handed down last June 17. That decis ion upheld the right of a Sev enth Day Adventist woman in South Carolina to receive state unemployment t ompensation funds even though she refused— on religious grounds—to accept available Saturday work. The state had denied'her the money. ON THIRD CHAPTER Council Debate Moves Forward MRS. NELLIE R. TISCHER celebrated her hundreth birthday this week. Born in Augusta on October 16th, 1863, Mrs. Tls- cher has been a widow since 1908, She has four living child ren: Mrs, E. 0. Tallman, Atlanta} Mrs. John Siigh, Savannah; Mrs, N. H. Hill, Atlanta; and Mr. John A. Tischer, Atlantic Beach, Fla. ’Way back when Mrs. Tischer was 86 she made a wedding dress and an entire trousseau for her granddaughter. SUPREME COURT RULES State Must Support VATICAN CITY — The Fa thers of the ecumenical coun cil voted by ap overwhelming majority to end their discus sion of the second chapter of the draft proposal—or schema — "On die- Nature of the Church” and to go on to debate the third chapter. In the council hall die day's business was prefaced with re marks by Archbishop Halllnan who, speaking in the name of die Liturgical Commission, ex plained the background of the 10 amendments to the third chap ter of the liturgy schema which were to be voted upon. FOLLOWING THE vote, the secretary general of the coun cil, Archbishop Pericle Felici, announced that the following day the text of four amend ments to the second chapter would be distributed and that a vote would be taken on them the day afterward. Thus, as the council Fathers heard die final speeches on the second chapter of the schema on the Church, they simultane ously studied the proposed amendments to chapter two and voted faborably on four amend ments to chapter three of the liturgy schema. The four amendments: —ADDED TO THE liturgy schema’s text a short explana tion of sacramentals, describ ing them as distinct from but re lated to the sacraments; as sac red signs to express spiritual effects, to be obtained through the prayer of the Church, to pre pare men to receive the sacra ments and to sanctify certain circumstances of human life. • Extended the use of the ver nacular to the administration of die sacraments and sacramen tals, pending the approval erf regional or territorial episco pal conferences, but retained the use of Latin for die pre cise "forms” of the sacra ments generally. •ADDED THAT a special provision is to be made for changes in die ritual of Bap tism for cases in which a large number of persons are to re ceive the sacrament. • Clarified the original text by stating that the sacrament of Extreme Unction is also and better called " The annolnting of the Sick.” Votes cast numbered 2,239. The largest negative vote was 42, cast on the third amend ment. ARCHBISHOP PAUL J. HAL- LINAN of Atlanta, a member CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 Religious WASHINGTON (NC) -A new action by the U. S. Supreme Co urt underlines its conviction that the state must accommo- Beliefs date the religious beliefs of citizens. On the first public working day of its new term Monday the Supreme Court moved to im plement this Church-State doct rine which it had spelled out anew only four months ago. ARCHBISHOP PAUL J. HALL IN AN shown at the Vatican Council with Bishop Robert Tracy, of Baton Rouge, La. and Jerome Hardy (right) an Atlanta seminarian studying in Rome. Rev. Mr. Hardy is the son of Mr. and Mrs, Jerry Hardy of St. John the Evangelist Parish, Hapeville, In its action in the Minnesota case, the high court directed the state Supreme Court to re consider the case "in light of” last June's ruling, which st rongly reaffirmed the state’s obligation not to penalize reli gious beliefs. The Minnesota court could CONTINUED ON PACE 8