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LACK OF ZEAL
Catholics Trailing
In Conversions
WHY
Jim Almand is
BEST MAN for
DeKalb County
Commissioner:
NEW YORK (RNS)— On the
basis of current data, it takes
361 U. S. Catholics to win one
convert in a year— but only
five of them work at it. And
any claim that ecumenism is
largely responsible for a suc
cession of annual losses in
conversions cannot currently be
proved.
These statements are made in
reports concurrently made pub
lic by the theologian of the
University of Notre Dame and
a Priest long active in reli
gious research.
CATHOLICS trail Protest
ants badly in attempts to bring
other Christians into their
Church, according to Father
John A. O'Brien, a research
professor of theology at the Uni
versity of Notre Dame. Ameri
can Catholics lack missionary
zeal, he said in commenting
on a nationwide survey that
showed Protestants generally
are more than twice as active
as Catholics in seeking to win
converts.
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The “negative" figures show
that 72 per cent of Catho
lics never attempt to win a
convert, as against a figure of
41 per cent for Protestants.
JIM ALMAND received 24,487
votes in Primary — his
opponent only 2,600!
ALMANI) served fruitfully
1957-1960 as member of
DeKalb County Board of
Education.
ALMAND has served well past
4 years as DeKalb Dist. 1
Commissioner.
MEANWHILE, in a special
article for Our Sunday Visitor,
the national Catholic ecu
menical movement were ac
companied by losses in the
number of converts.
ALMAND has lived in and
loved DeKalb County for 37
years.
“. . . the rise in ecumenical
activity and the decline in the
number of converts, tempt one
to postulate a causal connec
tion," he writes. “There have
been, however, no detailed stu
dies to support this. On the con
trary’, preliminary investiga
tions of the Paulist Institute
for Religious Research provide
some grounds for maintaining
an alternate theory of coin
cidence."
ALMAND for 33 years was
respected CMC employee.
ALMANI) stays on job and
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THE quick estimate that ec
umenism was a great cause in
the decrease may have been
spurred by the fact that over
a five-year-period conversions
‘trt the LY S. Wnrt from an
all-time high to a decade low.
The high, according to Fath
er Keating, came in 1959,
the first full year of the re
gime of Pope John XXIII.
In that year there were 142,267
converts to Catholicism in the
L. S. Pope John spurred tre
mendous ecumenical gains. But
in each succeeding year, con
versions. dropped: in 1960, 131,
641; 1961 128,430; 1962 125,670
and in 1963, 123,986.
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FATHER Keating used 1962
statistics as a basis of his de
liberations, weighing losses
against ecumenism and w arning
his readers there was no real
proof that ecumenism was at
fault.
In that year, the loss of 17,000
in total converts was assessi-
ble in part to every area of
the country' except the East
South Central Area, which
showed a light increase.
SEVENTY per cent of the to
tal loss was attributable to the
pacific and Middle Atlantic ar
eas and the Military Ordinar-
iate, he said. "And of these
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three areas of the Pacific more
than equalled the losses of the
other two with a fall - off
of 5,970."
The drop in Califironia con
versions was 5,743 in 1962,
he said, of which all out 40
occurred in the Archdiocese of
San Francisco and Diocese of
San Diego. In such a case, he
said, if ecumenism were a ma
jor factor, “then the two plac
es which contributed so heavily
to that decline might be ex
pected to have participated in a
vigorous way in ecumenical
activity.”
“The fact is, however," he
continued, “that there was no
outstanding ecumenical activity
in either of these plac s during
the period investigated. This
surely casts some doubt upon
the thory that ecumenism is
chiefly responsible for the
slump."
HE SAID that the Middle At
lantic Area (New York, Pen
nsylvania and New Jersey)
showed a drop of 2,826 in 1962.
Of this amount, half was re
ported in Pennsylvania, and all
but 214 of the state’s total
was reported in the Arch
diocese of Philadelphia.
“Here again ," he said,
“there was no record of ecu
menical work."
BUT, turning to Pittsburgh,
he noted that the diocese head
ed by Bishop John J. Wright,
“widely known as an ecumeni
cally-minded bishop,” was only
192 below its peak year (1959)
in conversions.
Father Keating included a
study of the Archdiocese of
Baltimore, where Archbishop
Lawrence J. Shehan, early in
1962, formed a Commission on
Ecumenism. “One might
think,” he said, “that this top
level interest would reflect
itself in the convert figures for
that year if ecumenical work
really impedes conversions.
"There was some loss. In
1959 there were 1,719 converts.
In 1962 there were 1,612,
This gives a difference of 107.
Yet this represents a drop of
only 6 per cent as compared
to a national drop of 11 per
cent."
FATHER Keating said that
“though it cannot be maintain
ed that these statistical ex
plorations absolve ecumenism
from the charge that it hurts
convert work, they shoudlraise
a reasonable doubt and led to
studies in greater depth." He
said Catholics should not be
satisfied with "an easy answer
largely basedonwhatmightwell
be a coincidence of time" and
warned against "conclusions of
pure speculation."
In Father O’Brien’s study,
released at Notre Dame, the
data was based on survey of
"a cross section of people re
presenting 75.9 million people
. . . who belong to some Church.
They were asked; “Have you
ever ried to get anyone to join
(your church)?"
BAPTISTS ranked first in the
study; it indicated 67 per cent
of all Baptists try to win ad
herents. "Various smaller de
nominations” followed with
61 per cent, then Presbyter
ians with 59, Methodist with
56, Episcopalians with 53,
Lutherans with 49, and Con-
gregationalists with 32. Low
est ranking among all U.S.
Christians — 28 per c-nt—
were Catholics.
Father O’Brien said that orv
the basis of a Catholic popu
lation of 44,874,37. in 1963.
it required 361 Catholics to
win one convert. “What it re
ally means," the priest con
tended, “is that only about five
of the 361 make any effort
to share their faith. The re
maining 356 don’t lift a fin
ger to help.
Herbert Hoover
ROME (NC)—AlbertCardinal
Meyer of Chicago issued the
following statement here on
learning of the death of Herbert
C; Hoover;
"We mourn the passing of a
great stateman and a true hu
manitarian, President Hoover
served his country well for
many years, and his solicitude
for the suffering and the needy
was an inspiration to the peo
ple of many lands."
BLESSING main door of Monte Cassino Abbey church, Pope Paul VI participated in
solemn ceremonies marking restoration of famous Benedictine abbey destroyed by Allied
bombing.
UNUSUAL SERVICE
Emphasis Is On Ecumenism
At Episcopalian Convention
ST. LOUIS (NC) —A joint
Catholic-Episcopalian service
in Christ Church Episcopal ca
thedral was one of the ecumeni
cal highlights of the national
Episcopal Church convention
here.
part in the colorful ceremony,
which included a formal pro
cession by nuns and monks of
both churches, the singing of
hymns and psalms, and a ser
mon preached by a Catholic
priest, Father Columba Cary-
Elwes, O.S.B.
THE unusual service was not
originally scheduled but was
held at the request of both
SERVICE TO CHURCH
Catholic and Episcopalian Re
ligious. Permission was ob
tained from the office of Jo
seph Cardinal Ritter of St.
Louis and from Episcopalian
Bishop George Cadigan.
Hundreds of lay, clerical and
religious participants both
Catholic and Episcopalian, took
Fr. Kueng Asks
For Frankness
The St. Louis Review, Catho
lic archdiocesan newspaper,
said it was informed the ser
vice was a "direct result" of
the ecumenical council’s re
cent approval of having Catho
lics join others in prayer for re
ligious unity under certain cir
cumstances.
ROME (NC)—The entire stu
dent body of the North American
College, the American theologi
cal school here, heard Father
Hans Kueng, the Swiss theolo
gian, declare that service to the
Church may involve frank and
constructive criticism.
search with a realization that
some things will always re
main mysteries to man, but that
the examples of the great doc
tors of the Church show how
much is to be gained by con
stant application and tireless
effort.
OTHER ecumenical events
during the Episcopalian con
vention included the attendance
of Episcopalian monks and nuns
at a Catholic Mass offered in
Holy Cross church and a talk
given to children of the parish
school by an Episcopalian mis
sionary, the Rev. Joseph Par-
sell, at the request of the pas
tor.'Msgr. Martin B. Hellriegei:
Bishop Francis F, Reh, rec
tor of the college, was present
for the talk (Oct, 22),
IN HIS lecture, which was en-;
thusiastically applauded by the
seminarians, Father Kueng
stressed the vital contribution
theological studies have been
making in the ecumenical coun
cil.
"Because this service must
be rendered with sincere inten
tions, it may well involve frank
criticism, which, however,
should always be constructive,"
In his sermon at the cathe
dral service, Father Cary-El-
wes addressed the denomina
tionally-mixed congregation as
“brothers in Christ, members
of the Body of Christ, you who
are part of the People of God,"
and reminded them that "noth
ing is impossible with God."
"Theologians realize they are
unable to accomplish their task
unless in the framework and
under the tutelage of the Church,
and that theirs must be a ser
vice to the Church," he said,
application of theological re-
FATHER Kueng went on to
say that theological research
is never finished. It is a re
current task because the Gospel
message must be reinterpret
ed time and again. "In a sense,"
he said, "truth is never de
finitive, It must come to life
constantly anew and be inter
preted against a background of
changing circumstances,"
THE English Benedictine,
who came here in 1956 to es
tablish the St. Louis Priory
and who served as an official
Catholic observer at the Epis
copalian convention, said "we
all share the life of Christ
through grace."
Calling the division of Chris
tianity "a horrible thing," he
noted that "we are admonished
to always make up a quarrel
before the sun goes down, and
yet we’ve been having more than
400 years of sundown and we
are still divided."
BLESSING new' offices of the Catholic Near East Welfare
Association in New' York, Francis Cardinal Spellman places
crucifix, as Msgr. Joseph T. Ryan (left) national director,
and Father John G. Nolan, secretary of the association,
look on.
FATHER Cary-Elwes cited
recent actions of the ecumeni
cal council-including greater
emphasis on the Bible, decen
tralization of authority at the
same time bishops are being
linked more closely with the
pope in governing the Church,
restraint on "exaggeration" in
devotions to the Blessed Virgin,
recognition of freedom of con
science, and emphasis on the
role of the laity—and said all
these were “things that the
(Protestant) reformers had
wanted.”
India
APRIL 15 DEADLINE
New Clergy Social Security
BALTIMORE (NC)—Under am
endments to the social security
law, signed by President John
son on Oct. 13, clergymen
will have until April 15, 1965
to elect to be covered by so-
tection, a clergymen must;
OBTAIN a social security ac
count number card from the
nearest social secuity office-
if he does not already have one.
ANSWER TO
last week’s puzzle
cial securty if they have not
already done so.
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clergymen to choose social se-
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1962. After that date, social
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security coverage was open
only to those just starting to
perform ministerial services.
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Fill out and file Form 2031
with the District Director of In
ternal Revenue for the dis
trict in which he lives.
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REPORT his earnings from
the ministry and pay the social
secuirty taxes on them to the
District Director of Internal
Revenue for the taxable years
1962, 1963, and 1964.
Once a clergymanelectscov
erage, he may not withdraw
from the social security' pro
gram.
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