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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1966
EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN®*® 5 ™^
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING
FATHER JAMES F, SCHERER
Anything which affects the family so deeply as the presence of
a retarded child requires an explanation to others. This pre
sents a challenging personal problem to the parents. They live
with and love their child, so afflicted, in a world'which puts em
phasis on mental facility. The typical happiness of retarded
people - their affection, their love of music, of beauty, of the
world in general, their sociability, their faith in mankind, their
lesser but still important potential to contribute to the world’s
production - is often regarded as unimportant in our Western
society.
Understanding mental retardation means more than reading
books or listening to speeches about it. It means living with it,
and turning one’s eyes to the retarded person him self, and a true
understanding of his problems and accepting them.
The responsibility of the community as a whole for our men
tally retarded children cannot be stressed too much. For there
cannot be a satisfactory program for aiding them without the
cooperation of many groups and agencies. Individual physicians
and clinics are necessary in the early diagnosis of mental re
tardation. Social agencies have a heavy responsibility in helping
parents find needed assistance and in giving them support and
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The physician and other professional people dealing with the
family do not always appreciate the severe crisis through which
its members pass during the first weeks of diagnosis and treat
ment of their child’s affliction. It Is a crisis, however, to which
the physician need not and should not minister alone. The family
should be able to turn to its minister, priest, or Rabbi for help
in finding the new strength they will need. Clergy and laymen
are urged to intensify their efforts to meet both the spiritual and
material needs of families faced with the problems of mental re
tardation. It is important that physicians and pastors meet to
share their insights and experiences in helping families where
faith has been sorely tried.
One of the pressing needs of parents in crisis is to be able to
act, in self defense, and even more in defense of their child.
Therefore, constructive practical help of a physician, clergy
man, nurse, social worker, teacher, nun, or other counsellors
and even a friend can serve to sustain and carry both parent
and child forward. No parent, in justice or charity, can be ex
pected to carry the Responsibilities of a retarded child alone with
out outside help. Not only is a relief from a feeling of “alone-
ness” needed, but in addition, tangible help must come from the
66 CATHOLIC DIRECTORY
community. It is the priviledge of parents who have been
“through the mill’’ to help others face the reality and meet the
challenge of the handicapped child. Schools should provide
special classes in vocational training—they are in a position to
provide parents with sympathetic understanding and interpreta
tion of their child’s capabilities. Many organizations, including
churches, courts, clubs, and other “civic agencies’’ can and
should help by providing information and pertinent facts on the
mentally retarded.
After the first round of initial adjustment is completed, social
management assumes increasing importance. The “continuum
of care’’ for each retarded person during his life stages re
quires expert planning. The law already provides that In our
society, parents serve as the primary coordinators on behalf
of their children. However, education Includes learning to uti
lize available resources. A person who Is less than expert
can usually negotiate a path to these resources to meet ordinary
deeds, with the Informal advice of neighbors and -relatives.
But when the ordinary individual has extraordinary needs—
self-coordination—self-guidance through the maze of community
services may tax his capabilities. This is especially true if
the individuals ability for self-management is impaired.
46-Million
1.3% Over
Catholics
Last Year
NEW YORK—There now are
46,246,175 U.S. Catholics, an
increase of 605,556 1 1/3% in
a year.
The 1966 Official Catholic
Directory, just issued here by
P.J. Kenedy & Sons publishing
firm, disclosed the increase
was achieved during a year
when the fewest number of con
verts in 12 years entered the
Church—123,149.
There was'' a decrease of
3,060 converts compared to the
1965 statistics and the smallest
total since 1953 when 116,696
entered the Church.
The number of Catholics in
the Atlanta Archdiocese which
covers 71 counties in North
Georgia is shown to be 46,525
almost twice as many as in
1956 when Atlanta was estab
lished as a diocese. There are
48-diocesan and 97 religious
priests, 22i sisters,! 82 parish
es, 22 missions, 29 chapels.
The five high schools in the
diocese have a combined student
body of 1,694; 18 elementary
schools teach 6,465 pupils.
There are 29 archdiocese
in the U.S., with a Catholic
population of 19,955,697, and
121 dioceses with a total Ca
tholic population of 26,290,478.
The latter figure includes the
2 million Catholics reported by
the Military Ordinariate.
The directory lists 252mem
bers of the hierarchy—an in
crease of five; five cardinals,
30 archbishops, and 217 bis
hops.
CLERGY
An Increase of 561 in the
number of the clergy, brings the
total of ordained priests to
59,193, the largest ever recor
ded. There now are 36,419, or
494 more, diocesan clergy and
22,774 priests of religious com
munities, an increase of 67.
There are 1,411 newly ordained
priests listed for the first time,
who were replacing one cardinal
six bishops, one abbot and 850
priest who died uring the year.
Professed Religious personnel
indued 12,255 Brothers, a de
crease of 16, and 181,421 Sis
ters, representing ail increase
of 1,467.
AUXILIARY SPEAKS
South Deanery ACCW
Elects New Officers
The regular quarterly meet
ing of the South Deanery ACCW
was held on Sunday, May 15,
at the Most Blessed Sacrament
Church and the ladies were
honored to have as their guest
speaker The Most Reverend
Joseph L. Bernardin, Auxiliary
Bishop. The ladies of the host
parish prepared and served a
buffet lunch for the one hun
dred, eleven registered affiliate
members and five priests in
attendance. The door prize was
won by Mrs. Margaret Sapp,
of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish.
At this meeting Officers for
the coming year were elected.
These were: Mrs. William Den-
non, President; Mrs. Raymond
J. Norton, Vice President; Mrs.
Annabelle Jones, Recording Se
cretary; Mrs. Elizabeth Con
way, Treasurer.
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Sunday afternoon as he spoke
to the ladies of the South Dea
nery of the Archdiocesan Coun
cil of Catholic Women, Mrs.
James Callison, retiring Dea
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BOSTON (NC)~Two semina
rians, who were expelled from
St. John’s Seminary of the Bos
ton archdiocese in March, have
enrolled in Harvard University
divinity school.
David Kuleisus, 22, said he
and Arthur Dooley, 25, who were
among the eight discharged,
have been accepted at Harvard
for the fall term. The divinity
school has several Catholic
priests and students studying
for advanced degrees. Kulei
sus said he will continue his stu
dies toward his master’s de
gree in theology. Tie eight
seminarians were discharged
following a demonstration pro
testing lack of academic and
personal freedom at the semi
nary.
SCHOOLS
The number of fulltime pu
pils in Catholic elementary and
■ high schools reflects a de
crease of 79,974 during the
past year. The 1,506 parish
land diocesan high schools re
port 687,961 pupils, a decrease
of 10,071 under 1965; the 882
private high schools with
402-,440 show an increase of
4,953 in one year. Pupils in
10,550 parish elementary
schools now number 4,409,476,
or 77,405 fewer, while stu
dents in the 412 private ele
mentary schools now total
82,477, a decrease of 7,451.
The progress of religious in
struction to children under re
leased time, in religious vaca
tion schools and other classes,
is evidenced in the 1966 reports
of 1,369,751 high school pupils
and 3,486,902 in elementary
grades, for a total of 4,856,653
public school children receiving
religious instruction, indicating
a year’s increase of 266,426
pupils, or 5.8%. The precise
statistics now available esta
blish the fact that there is an
aggregate, including orphans, of
10,912,433 American youths of
all grades, under Catholic in
struction -- an increase or
210,060 or 1.9% over compara
ble figures for 1965.
New educational Institutions
include nine diocesan and two
religious communities semina
ries established during 1965.
The 126 diocesan seminaries
report enrollemnts of 26,252
seminarians, a decrease of 510,
while the 481 novitiates and
scholasticates of the religious
communities have 21,862 stu
dents or 368 less, indicating
a total of 48,114 candidates for
the priesthood.
* Five fewer general and four
less special Institutions bring
the number of Catholic hospi
tals to 943. Bed capacities,
however, have been increased
by 1,065 to present facilities
for 162,125. The number of ge
neral hospitals is 803, with
148,750 beds and the 149 spe
cial hospitals accomodate
13,375. Patients treated in 1965
increased by 426,093 to a re
core high of 17,321,696.
Current enrollments of
34,643 students in the 331 Ca
tholic training schools for nur
ses, represent a decrease of
787 in the number of student
nurses, and nine less schools.
Children in the 245 orphanages
and infant asylums decreased
by 1,556, to a present total of
21,823; while 23,886 children
are cared for in foster homes.
The total of 45,725 dependent
children reflects a decrease of
1,089 within the past year. Ho
mes for invalids and the aged
• were increased by 12 and now
number 399; with facilities for
37,712 residents.
Coordination of services for the individual retardate begins
therefore, with a capable parent or other adults—willing, able,
and obligated to concern themselves with the retardate’s con
tinuing and changing needs. Is itfalrto expect even the most in
telligent and dutiful parent, let alone the retarded adult, to have
adequate knowledge of the resources necessary to secure the re
quisite “continuum of care”. Experience proves that breaks
or even barriers in this continued care arise at points where
the family must find a new service and establish a new relation
ship. There should be available in every community “a fixed
point of referral and information*' which provides a life consul
tation service for the retarded.
Substantial grounds for future gains lie in the research work
done by those who dedicate part or all of their time to investigate
causes, prevention, and care of the mentally retarded. Today’s
research is team-research. It calls for willing cooperation of
psychiatrists, psychologists, physicians, teachers, clergymen,
parents, and other specialists in finding causes and helping to
eliminate them, and In working constantly together.
Therefore, it involves all of us—it means living with mental
retardation and turning one’s eyes to the retarded person, and
a true understanding of his problems and accepting them.
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With Archbishop Hallinan as the principal ceieDrani eigm oeorgia rriests celebrated their Siver
Anniversary of their priesthood. Left to right is the Very Rev. Noel C. Burtenshaw, Chancellor
of the Archdiocese. Priest celebrants are: Rev. T. T. McNulty O.F.N.; Rev. (Major) Edward Flat-
ley, Very Rev. Vincent P. Brennau, S.M., Very Rev. John O’Shea V.F., Archbishop Hallinan, Rt.
Rev, Msgr. John J. Toomey S.T.L., Very Rev. John F. McDonough, Rev. Timotny Flagherty,
O.S.B., Rev. Thomas Gilroy S.M. /_ **
CONFEDERATE
Veterans
Honor
Morgan
Charles F. Moran an active
member of Sons of Confederate
Veterans Camp #46 of Atlanta
has been appointed “Aide de
Camp, Junior Class’ according
to Col. John A. May SCV Com-
mander-in-at his headquarters
here. Young Moran, descendant
of pioneer Catholic families of
Georgia, was a member of the
famous North Fulton Special
Choir of Atlanta which gave
concerts in several European
countries last summer, includ
ing some behind the Iron Cur
tain. Under the direction of the
well-known 'Choir Master’ Ro
bert Lowrance several thousand
people heard 'Dixie’for the first
time. Junior Aide Moran is a
communicant of Christ the King
Cathedral Parish.
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