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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1964
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES
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Spread All Over World
The following article on the
work of the Church’s religious
communities for men has been
prepared by the Baltimore pro
vincial of the Pallotine Fathers
who is chairman of the Vocation
Committee of the Conference of
Major Superiors of men.)
BY GUIDO J. CARCICH, S.A.C.
(N. C. W. C. NEWSSERVICE)
Through the night of Nov.
25, 1963, in the light of the
Eternal Flame at the newly dug
grave of the late President
Kennedy, one tribute seemed to
stand out—the green beret of a
member of the Army Special
Forces.
It was left by a man who had
sworntc defend liberty and jus
tice with his life if required. He
is one of a small, select group
especially trained to carry out
his duty under the most unusual
as well as the most arduous cir
cumstances,
SO IT IS with the religious
communities within the Church.
Each order is actually a select
group of men chosen by Al
mighty God to serve Him in a
very special way and not in
frequently under the most ardu
ous circumstances.
The Special Forces’ soldier
is known by his green beret.
So too are the members of the
"Special Forces of the Church”
known by their distinctive garb:
• The Benedictine in his
black scapular and cowl.
• The Franciscan in his
coarse and simple brown robe
and sandals,
• The Dominican inhisblack
and white.
• The Oblate of Mary Imma
culate with his crucifix.
• The Jesuit with his simple
black cassock.
• The Christian Brother with
his collar resembling the Tab
lets of the Law.
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IT IS difficult to pinpoint the
exact time when Almighty God
called the first member of his
Special Forces to service. In
the very early days, certainly
the solitary .hermit serving God
in reparation and self denial and
good example could be consid
ered a member of the Special
Forces.
As the Church and the world
grew, the Divine Plan worked
to bring more men, who are to
day among the Saints of God,
to establish new branches of
the Special Forces to carry the
Word of God and the love of God
to his people in all the corners
of the earth.
In the early years of the sixth
century, when Rome was the
center of the world’s art and
learning and lust, a young noble
man, Benedict, was sent by his
parents to Rome to be educated.
BENEDICT spent only a short
time in Rome before he realiz
ed that the ways of pleasure are
not necessarily the ways of God
and that selfish pleasure brings
the image and likeness of God
to the very gates of hell.
He fled from Rome and lived
in the hills as a hermit. His
holy life attracted many others.
As his following became great
er, he found it necessary to set
down in writing specific rules
for the government of men who
live together in the honor and
service of Almighty God.
From this rule, which is today
the basic guideline along which
many of the rules of the dif
ferent religious communities
are patterned, came the Order
of Saint Benedict.
In the thirteenth century, ano
ther rich man's son was invit
ed by Almighty God to become
a special kind of servant. He
was asked particularly to re
pair the House of God and he
did it through poverty.
THE MAN, of course, was St.
Francis of Assisi—the Singing
Pauper.
From this man came the
Franciscan Fathers and Broth
ers who have and are laboring
in all parts of the world. In
the rotunda of the great capitol
at Washington, D.C., among the
likenesses of the men who have
made this country great there is
one statue of a Catholic priest
• a Franciscan Father, Juni-
pero Serra. He traveled the
length of California bringing
God, knowledge and a better
life.
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In 1962, there were 421,609
priests in th e world. Of this
number, 138,017 were mem
bers of a religious community.
In this same year, the world
population of religious Brothers
reached 51,294. The Official
Catholic Directory placed the
number of religious priests in
the, United States in 1963 at
22,075, In the same year there
were 11,968 religious Brothers
here.
Where are they and what are
they doing?
They are working in this
country in many instances in
parishes, side by side with the
diocesan priests. Perhaps the
religious clergy are best known
for their work in the field of
education.
FOR FROM these men have
come some of our greatest col
leges and universities—Notre
Dame, Holy Cross, Georgetown,
Fordham and others. They
serve also as writers and edi
tors and publishers. Still others
serve as chaplains in the armed
forces, schools, convents and
prisons. And they dispense the
love of God in homes, hospi
tals and shelters across the
land.
As Junipero Serra came from
Spain to bring God and his love
to the New World so now are re
ligious priests and brothers go
ing out from the New World to
the rest of the world.
Today U.S. religious priests
and Brothers serve the Church
in 70 countries. And for this
work of God, many suffer and
some die. At least one bishop,
who is also a priest of a re
ligious community, languishes
today in a prison cell in Red
China. He is Bishop James E.
Walsh, M.M.
BUT THE work goes on. More
priests and more Brothers are
leaving the United States. The
present need is particularly
great in Latin America. This
land, which saw the first foun
dation of the Church in the New
World and which gave this New
World its first saints, is today
receiving the greatest amount
of assistance.
During 1963, 188 religious
priests and 63 Brothers left
the Unites States to serve the
Church in Latin America. Dur
ing the past year, every country
in Latin America, with the ex
ception of El Salvador and Cuba,
received either priests or Bro
thers or both from the United
States.
Making the largest single
contribution to Latin America is
the Maryknoll community with
252 priests and 29 Brothers in
Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexi
co, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.
IN ADDITION, priests and
Brothers of 13 different Bene
dictine abbeys are active in 11
different countries. One such
abbey, Saint John’s of College-
ville, Minn., has sent 21 priests
and 11 Brothers to Mexico and
Puerto Rico.
Among the other orders par
ticularly active aretheMarian-
ists who have 19 priests and
59 Brothers in Mexico, Peru
and Puerto Rico. The Marian-
ist Fathers will soon open a
novitiate in Lima, Peru, while
the Viatorian Fathers are hard
at work in the training of na
tive leachers at their newly es
tablished Colegio San Viator
in Colombia.
The Holy Cross Fathers are
actively promoting the Family
Rosary Crusade in Brazil, Chile
and other Latin American coun
tries. In Caracas, Venezuela, a
Paulist Father is studying the
possibilities and opportunities
for their special apostolate—
convert work and Newman
Clubs.
These are a few of the activi
ties of some of the many bran
ches of Christ’s Special Forces
in the Church Militant.
They are engaged in constant
warfare in all parts of the world
against those things which af
fect God's people most severe
ly—hunger, disease, ignorance,
poverty and filth.
The challenge is hard and of
ten devastating. To those who
accept it, it permits them to
taste in a very special way for
all the days of their life both
the sacrifice of Calvary and the
.glory of Easter.
NO CO-EXISTENCE
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope
Paul VI has expanded to 42
members including the new
Commission for the Sacred
Liturgy charged with carrying
out the longrange reforms
ordered by the ecumenical
council.
President of the commission
is Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro of
Bologna, Italy, who was a mem
ber of the ecumenical council's
Commission for the Liturgy.
The commission’s first meet
ing was scheduled for March 11.
THE COMMISSION is com
posed of 10 cardinals, 28 bis
hops and four other prelates, 19
of whom served on the council’s
26-member liturgical commis
sion. Twenty-six countries on
all continents are represented
on the new commission. In
cluded are nine Italians. There
are three members each from
France, Germany and Spain, and
the U.S. has two members.
American members are
Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St.
Louis and Archbishop Paul J.
Hallinan of Atlanta, a council
commission member. Also on
the new commission is Bishop
Joseph A. Martin of Nicolet,
Que., another council com
mission member.
In announcing the appoint-
REASONS WHY
ments, the Vatican City daily
L’Osservatore Romano com
mented:
“TO THIS commission, in
addition to the task of prepar
ing general liturgical reform on
the basis of the norms contain
ed in the (ecumenical council’s)
constitution on the Sacred
Liturgy, there is also entrust
ed the task of seeing to the ap
plication of the constitution...
in the letter and spirit of the
council which approved it."
The paper added that "by the
competence of all its mem
bers," the new commission"
is in the best position to carry
out its task with depth of study
and with great experience."
Creation of the commission
was announced on Jan. 28 along
with three of its members:
Cardinal Lercaro; Arcadio
Cardinal Larraona, Prefect of
the Sacred Congregation of
Rites and president of the coun
cil liturgical commission: and
Paolo Cardinal Giobbe of the
Roman curia and vice president
of the council commission.
Father Annibale Bugnini, C.M.,
a consultor of the Congregtion
of Rites liturgy section and a
council expert, was appointed
secretary of the new commiss
ion.
U.S. Won’t Send
Protest On Jews
WASHINGTON — The govern
ment of the United States, as a
matter of policy, refrains from
protesting officially to Moscow
over the persecution of Jews ih
the Soviet Union. To do so, it
is felt, would only worsen the
plight of Jews in Russia.
This is an interesting re
velation at this time, when the
highly controversial stage play
"The Deputy" has been brought
to this country. The play seeks
to put Pope Pius XII in an un
favorable light by indicating
that he did not protest as much
as he might have over the per
secution of Jews in Germany
under Hitler. Authorities on the
subject have replied that if the
late Pontiff had done any more
than he did, he would only have
spread and deepened the suffer
ings of the Jews in Germany at
the hands of the nazis.
SEN. KENNETH B. Keating
of New Uork revealed on the
floor of the U.S. Senate that
he had received from the State
Department a memorandum on
the "Situation of the Jews in the
Soviet Union." He introduced
the document into the Con
gressional Record.
The memorandum says that
Jews, along with others, suf
fer under antireligious laws
that have been in force since
the establishment of the Soviet
regime in Russia in 1918. Cit
ing some particulars, it adds
that, in the case of the Jews,
these pressures "prevent the
normal maintenance and de
velopment of their religious,
social and cultural life."
"Regarding possible re
medial action on behalf of
Soviet Jews by the United
States government through di
plomatic channels," the State
ment representations to the
Soviet government would not be
in the best interests of Soviet
Jews. These representations
could in fact antagonize the
Soviet government to the detri
ment of Soviet Jews.
"IN THE past, the Soviet
government has often accused
Soviet Jews of susceptibility to
subversive foreign influences
and of being agents of foreign
states, most particularly of the
United States and Israel. It
would hardly be to the interest
of Soviet Jews for the United
States to take actions which
would seem to lend credence
to this charge. Formal actions
by the U. S. government or
its official representatives
could have this unfortunate re
sult and also lose in effective
ness
Vatican Warns Against
Catholic-Red Meetings
HER BEATIFICATION cause opens the preliminary work of
collecting all writings of Mother Mary Katharine Drexel,
(above) foundress of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for
Indians and Colored People (Cornwell Heights, Pa.) has been
initiated in the cause of her beatification. Father Francis J.
Litz, C.SS.R., of St. Peter’s Church, Philadelphia, has been
named vice postulator. The Philadelphia-born Religious died
on March 2, 1955, in her 96th year.
UTURGICAL CHANGE
Archbishop For
New Commission
VATICAN CITY (NC) — L’
Osservatore Romano has warn
ed Italian Catholics to beware
of playing into communist hands
by taking part in Catholic-
communist meetings.
The Vatican City daily's edi
torial (March 4) was occasion
ed by an international confe
rence of young people and stu
dents held a week earlier in
Florence on the problems of
peace, disarmament and nat
ional independence. The leftist-
oriented meeting was attended
by Catholic layman.
L’OSSERVATORE Romano-
said that such meetings aim at
putting communism and the
Church on the same level in
Italian life and that communist
newspapers, such as Rome's
Unita, exploit the meetings for
propaganda purposes. As a re
sult, the editorial said, it is the
duty of Catholics "not to off
er, even in the fervor of char
ity, pretexts and equivocal
situations for the dangerous
game being played by the com
munists."
It noted that Mayor LaPira
in opening the meeting ad
dressed "a noble appeal"
to communists governments
"to remove the stumbling block
of atheism." It said that such an
appeal is not enough to bring ab
out the possibility of coexist
ence between the Church and
communism, and added: "For
Catholicism and communism to
be compatible, communism
would have to cease being com
munism."
The Vatican City newspaper
added:
"The repeated appeals of the
Italian Bishops for the unity of
Catholics in the political field-
re-echoed by us many times—
is based on the threat which
communism poses to the Chri
stian future of our people. . .
Because of this, the desired
meeting between Catholicism
and communism is not thinka
ble, because the consequences
would then be most grave
for religious and civil liber
ties."
THE EDITORIAL was obv
iously aimed at Mayor La Pira,
whose devout piety, on the one
Requiem
For Editor
ST. LOUIS (NC) — Solemn
Pontifical Requiem Mass for
Msgr. J. Daniel Moore, 42,
editor since 1957. of the St.
Louis Review, archdiocesan
newspaper, was offered here
in St. Louis cathedral (March7)
by Joseph Cardinal Ritter,
Archbishop of St. Louis.
"He had everything but good
health," Cardinal Ritter said in
tribute to the priest who died
(March 3) of a kidney ailment
which resulted from a 20-
year bout with diabetes. He had
been hospitalized since early
February.
Msgr. Moore, a native of St.
Louis, was ordained to the
priesthood in 1948. In addition
to his work as editor of the
newspaper, Msgr. Moore was a
leader in the interfaith and the
human rights movements here,
and was founding director of
the Catholic Information Cen
ter in downtown St. Louis. He
is survived by a brother and two
sisters.
‘Hogwash’
ALBANY, N. Y. (RNS) — A
Jewish legislator charged here
on the floor of the New York
State Assembly that the play
"The Dequty" is "Hogwash"
which "right-thinking men and
women. . . will not buy."
Assemblyman Robert J. -
Feinberg, a Republican from
Plattsburgh, drew applause
from his colleagues with his
charge that the drama's treat
ment of the late Pope Pius
XII is "Out-and-out blasp
hemy."
MR. FEINBERG, who re
presents predominantly Roman
Catholic Clinton County, As
serted that the play’s claim that
the Pope should have spoken out
publicly against Nazi atrocities
is a "baseless suggestion that
. . .(the pontiff). . .was res
ponsible for the unspeakable
carnage. . . visited by the Nazi
hordes upon six million Jews."
hand, and whose efforts to find
a middle way between Catholi
cism and communism by persu
ading communists to abandon
atheistic materialism on the
other hand have earned him the
description; "the little red fish
in the holy water font."
The day the editorial appear
ed, Mayor La Pira released the
text of a message addressed
to Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev which deplored re
cent articles in the Moscow
paper, Pravda, calling for an
intensified antireligious camp
aign.
La Pira told the Premier that
the Pravada articles had "pro
duced in the Florentine people,
in those of Italy and certainly
in the people of the entire world
a real shock and a painful im
pression."
LA PIRA attributed such
thinking to the Stalinist regime
and expressed his immense
concern for the "sorrowful and
negative effects which this new
mounting of the antireligious
offensive will certainly produce
in Florence, in Italy and in in
ternational relations, espec
ially among the peoples of the
Third World (Africa and Asia.)
"I have always had great es
teem for you. Therefore, for
the good of the Soviet people
and in the name of brotherly
peace and the brotherly unity
of peoples, permit me to say to
you with great sincerity:
Remove this corpse of atheism
from the Russian earth as you
removed the corpse of Stalin.
It is a corpse which poisons
the air. The soviet people can
not stand its stench."
ON THE SAME day, Vatican
Radio paraphrased passages
from Pravda on the stepped-
up antireligion campaign, in
cluding the following one:
"Communism, ever since
its inception, has had to smooth
cut, adapt and correct many
theoretical ideas and many pra
ctical attitudes under the pres
sure of reality and history. Its
attitude toward the true value of
the spirit, and religious faith
in particular, remains un
changed. Communism does not
regard atheism as a secondary
aspect, as an accessory ele
ment, but as a necessary prin
ciple and essential element of
its ideology, which is Marxist
materialism."
Cigaret Killer
ALBANY (RNS) — One of
every five deaths of men bet
ween 45 and 65 in New York
State was caused by cigarette
smoking, according to a report
issued by a State Senate Spe
cial Committee on Smoking and
Health. Cancer researchers at
the Roswell Park Memorial In
stitute in Buffalo provided the*
information on which the report
was based.
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