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THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1966
GEORGIA BULLETIN
PAGE 3
BY PRIEST
Apostolate To Factory
Underway In Mexico
MEXICO CITY—The thou
sands of people who flock to
this city from Mexico's rural
areas hoping to find jobs usually
discover the factories require
skills most of them do not
have.
One result of this flow of
rural newcomers into the city
Is urban overcrowding, unsani
tary living conditions and
"shanty towns" like the Colonla
Argentina, a section of the city
where authorities almost des
pair of ever being able to pro
vide enough water, drainage,
paved streets and schools—not
to mention training centers for
workers.
To a group of Jesuits, Colonla
Argentina looked like the Ideal
place to go to work. Their eight-
year-old project has resulted
in Celamex — Centro Laboral
Mexico—a social service pro
gram for factory workers now
conducted by Mexican and U.S.
Jesuits.
When they bought their pro
perty on Calle Ximilpan it was
a large rubber-filled lot, full
of muddy potholes and piles of
garbage. Thanks to Mexican
businessmen, engineers, archi
tects, doctors, and women's or
ganizations, the site now con
tains a group of continually
growing red-brick buildings: a
clinic, medical dispensary,
nursing school, grammar
school, the beginnings of a high
school, workshops and class
rooms for adults, a gymnasium
and a retreat house with 45
private rooms and a chapel.*
There is also a football field
currently being used by 250
men's teams and by hundreds
of "shoeshine" boys.
The physical transormation
of the place itself is nothing
short of astonishing. "I re
member," said Father Gabriel
Oscos, S.J., co-founder and
present director of he center
"that when we first came here,
we couldn't cross the street—
(Calle Ximilpan). It was a sea
of mud. But now it’s pavfed.
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Everything we've done little
by little; the medical dispen
sary went up first, the begin
nings of it. A women's group
volunteered to take charge of
it, then It grew. We built the
first small grammar school,
the first workshop. So it goes;
we keep adding things."
One reason for the additions
is that more and more people
became interested and came
to help. What attracted the U.S.
Jesuits — Californians Father
Caesar Gonzalex, S.J., of Los
Angeles, and Father William E.
Deeney, S.J., of San Francis
co—was the "integral" nature
of the Celamex program.
"We aim to help the factory
worker acquire new skills that
will enable him to earn more
money. We also try to give
him a knowledge of labor-ma
nagement relations, labor
rights, collective contract bar
gaining."
Father Deeney put it like
this: "We try to arouse the de
sire for a better way of life.
Then we show a man—and his
family, his wife and children
—the material means through
which to achieve it."
The priests go to the fac
tories, say Mass there, talk
to the workers, invite them to
retreats and to look at the cen
ter's workshops.
"There are 6,000 factories
in Mexico City," said Father
Gonzalez. "We have 600 of them
on our list. But actually we are
working with from 150 to not
more than 200factories. In each
factory, we have a man we call
a ‘militant.’ He talks about us
to his friends."
Retreats are held every other
week, from Monday to Friday.
Transportation is provided for
workers whose jobs are far
away. Room and board during
retreats costs 5 pesos — 40
4«y- The center pro- ,
vides - services but is not a ,
charitable institution.
"It functions much better that
way. People prefer it if they
can pay. Actually," said Father
Gonzalez, "these nominal pay
ments cover 15% of our expen
ses.”
It is the same with the train
ing programs: 15-week courses
In automotive and diesel me
chanics, precision-tool and dye
training require a $3.20 regis
tration fee and $3.60 monthly
tuition. So far, 375 workers have
graduated from these courses.
The center has helped to place
them or to find better jobs.
At present, 150 men are atten
ding night classes.
All of them are urged to
bring their wives and children
to the center. The women can
take sewing, cooking and nurs
ing classes; the children are
enrolled in the center’s school.
Parents are taught how to make
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things which are sold in the
center's own downtown shops.
Hie money from these sales
is used to cover the children's
school tuition.
"The desire for education
must be awakened," said Fa
ther Deeney, "to break the vi
cious circle of Ignorance and
poverty.”
"Our program," Father Dee
ney went on to say, "follows
the pattern of the Incarnation
of Christ. If Christ came to the
world today, he would work with
the poor.”
The center has its own food
and clothing cooperative stores
and its own credit union. Co
operative shares make it pos
sible for workers and their
wives to buy their own home,
start their own small busines
ses: a small store, a barber
shop or the like.
The center also has its own
marriage counseling.
To date the center has bene
fited some 25,000 people, and
more keep coming. Every buil
ding is sprouting more floors
and annexes, as are the work
shops, the school, the gym.
Mexican employers and local
industries — including foreign
firms established in Mexico—
are being urged to take part in
the program. "Sendus your best
workers," the center tells
them, and "we’ll return them
to you even better ones. It’s
worth your while."
Local factories are being
asked to send four of their
picked workers to the center
and to donate one scholarship
for a center-picked trainee. A
number of firms have already
agreed to this proposal. Mexi
can industries are being asked
to provide the center with more
equipment and tools (these cam-
not be Imported). The Latin
American.-Council, has. agreed ,
to. cover the expenses of a
qualified.^ research study of the.
center, its efficacy, results and
needs.
One idea the Jesuits have is
to use the workshops, which
are idle during the daytime, for
some kind of commercial pro
duction.
Other needs are those of the
four Mexican Sisters who are
in charge of the retreat house.
Every other week they have to
cook, Monday to Friday, for 45
men attending the retreat; wash
90 sheets, iron. They have no
commercial-type washing and
ironing machines, nor a large
stove.
The retreat house is one buil
ding that isn't sprouting an an
nex, at least not yet. In a city
of six million inhabitants—of
which somewhere a round
600,000 are workers in facto
ries and services—"we cannot
try to get at them all,” said
Father Gonzalez, “just a few.
We are not trying to start a
Catholic labor movement. What
we are doing is helping people
to help themselves. The result,
so far, is that they trust us.”
He added just one thing: "We
always follow up on the men we
train, keep in touch with them
and see how they're coming
along."
International
Dance Planned
A dance set with an interna
tional flair will be held Satur
day, June 11, at the Knights of
Columbus Hall, 2620 Buford
Highway, NE, from 9 p.m. to
1 a.m.
Frank Marchese and his In
ternational Combo will provide
the music for the International
Dance Set with songs of Irish,
Italian, German, Polish and La
tin origin. For futher informa
tion call 344-6052.
Maronite Exarch
To Be Installed
The pastor and members of
St. Joseph’s Maronite Church in
Atlanta will attend the installa
tion ceremonies of the first Ma
ronite exarch in the U.S., the
Most Rev. Francis Zayek.
The ceremonies will be held
Saturday in Detroit, Mich.
The delegation consists ot
Father Joseph Abi-Nader, Jos
eph Askouti, Khalil Najjar,
Mrs. Robert Moses, Miss Rose
Marie Hagley and Miss Diane
Ashkouti.
KKTl’RN xo CONGO— Father Vincent Joseph Leuridan. O.P.. Belgian vicar general of
the diocese of Niangara, Congo, travels in a dugout canoe on his way to Ndedu mission,
where the people have been without a priest since the murder of Father Remo Armani
in November 1964. Since then.
a faithful catechist, Gilbert, has looked afU
station.
the mission
PRIEST SAYS
Russian Youth Show
Interest In Religion
NEW YROK (RNS)—Suppres
sion of the Russian Orthodox
Church in the Soviet Union has
not entirely isolated the coun
try’s youth from Christian in
fluence.
The remarks of the \fery
Rev. Dmitri Konstantinov of
Maynard, Mass., at a recent
institute in Germany, wer; ci
ted here in the wake of Nation
al Council of Churches’ re
ports that two fearless Russian
Orthodox priests in Moscow
had protested directly to the
USSR’s President and Attorney
General of harassment of the
Church.
According to the Information
Division of the Radio Liberty
Committee, Father Konstanti
nov said that despite increas
ing state controls over activi- ,
ties* of the^Church,' there was ’
evidence of greater youth in
terest in Christianity.
The priest from the Russian
Orthodox church of the Holy
Annunication at Maynard, Mass,
made these points in address
ing an international symposium
on "Religious and the Changing
Intellectual Outlook in the
USSR" in Munich:
1. Growing evidence from
study of the Soviet press that
Russian youths show greater
interest in religion and the
Communist regime is worried
about this phenomenon. This
situation is being confirmed by
many knowledgable travelers
from the West.
2. Religious bodies, under
ground for almost a half cen
tury in Russia, still project
to an appreciable number of
Russians the existence of God.
Father Knostantinov said that
the Soviet Union’s "scientific
atheists” have been affected
by this continuing response to
religion. So much so, he said,
that some have abandoned the
claim that Christ is a purely
D’Youville
Graduation
Exercises
The fourth annual commence
ment exercises of D’Youville
Academy were held May 29 in
Christ the King Auditorium.
The commencement address
was delivered by Bishop Joseph
L. Bernardin who also awarded
the diplomas to the Class of
1966. The Bishop was assisted
in the ceremony by the Rev,
Alan Diliman.
Leslie Laird delivered the
valedictory address. The salu
tatory speech was delivered by
Anne Farnsworth, Miss Laird
also received the Archbishop's
Award for scholastic excel
lence.
The exercises culminated a
week of ceremonies marking the
graduation of the fourth senior
class. The Rev. George J. Mei-
luta, S.M., celebrated the Bac
calaureate Mass at Our Lady
of Assumption Church, May
26. Class Day was held on
May 28, which was marked by
the presentation of the senior
gift to the school by Cam Mc-
Hale.
, mythical figure and have begun
■ to treat Him as an historical
personage.
At the same meeting in Mu-
[ nich, Dr. William C. Fletcher
, of the Center for Research
and Study of Religious Insti
tutions, Geneva, discussed Pro-
, testant influences on the outlook
1 of today's Soviet citizen. The
, Institute for the Study of the
- USSR sponsored the session.
According to Dr. Fletcher,
"Russian Baptist protest” has
« caused the Russian state tomo-
j dify some of its measures in
j the current and continuing anti-
|j religious campaign. (Perhaps
I the most famous "protest”
| within the USSR involved the
I case of Baptists who appealed
J to the U.S. embassy in the cause
jof religious freedom.!
\e, •
Demonstration of the Baptist
Strength, he said, "adds sig-
nificiance to the fact that theo
logical and ideological consi-
deratons aside, the dynamics
of the Baptist movement seems
to parallel the dynamics of the
(Communist) Party, and the
Baptists thus represent a po
tential competitor to Com
munism.”
"The significance of the
(Baptist) movement,” Dr. Fle-
cher concluded, "will only in
crease in the more pluralis
tic society which, hopefully,
is emerging in the USSR.
“Should the evolving Com
munist Party broaden its ap
peal by discarding some of its
more zealous aspects or should
the Party disappear entirely,
that would not necessarily mean
that a vacuum would be left in
Soviet society, for £he Baptists
, could then hope to reach the
same sort of people, which die
Party used to reach.”
Religion School Program
Set By Holy Cross Parish
The actual functioning of a
parish school of religion will be
subject of a discussion by Fr.
Leonard A. Kelly, of Assump
tion Parish, Fairport, N.Y. The
talk and discussion will be held
at St. Pius X High School au
ditorium Sunday, June 5, at 8
p.m. Fr. Kelly’s talk is being
sponsored by the Women’s
Council of Holy Cross Parish
and Is open to the public.
The School of Religion in
Fairport, N.Y. has been func
tioning for 10 years and is one
of the most successful examples
of this approach to Catholic
religious education. Fr. Kelly,
the pastor, Is aided in theSchool
of Religion program by four
Sisters of the community of
Mission Helpers of the Sacred
Heart. The enrollment of the
school, which also involves the
services of a large volunteer
lay staff from the parish, is
/
VATICAN <TTY—After celebrating Mass I May 151 on the
occasion of the millennium of Poland s conversion to Chris
tianity. Pope Paul VI presented the chalice he used to
Msgr. Bolelns Wyszynski. rector of the Polish College in
Rome. (NO Photos i
Priest Scores
Lack Of Interest
In Peace Efforts
over 200 children.
The thrust of the School of
Religion program in Fairport Is
aimed at all the children of the
parish on a free-time, volun
tary basis. Fr. Kelly explains
that a very important part of
this successful program is the
close involvement of the parents
in the religious formation of
their children. The concen
tration on religious formation
for' the total parish community
is the distinguishing factor of
this approach to education.
Holy Cross Parish has adopt
ed the School of Religion pro
gram and has obtained the sere
vices of the Sisters of Notre
Dame de Namur. Sister Mary
Joseph, S.M.D., who has been
appointed Coordinator of the
Holy Cross School of Religion,
will be present at the Sunday
night meeting to meetmembers
of the parish.
CINCINNATI (NC)—"A wide
spread lack of interest in the
complex problems related to
peace” was scored by the Chi
cago archdiocesan superinten
dent of schools in a commence
ment address at Mount St. Jose
ph College.
“There is little concern about
the hard terms that may be de
manded of us for an honorable
and lasting peace,” Msgr. Wil
liam E. McManus told the 215
graduates (May 30). "There
is a distressing lack of com
passion for the terrible hard
ships: being endured by those
representing us on the battle
fields of Vietnam.”
Estimating that more people
now spend Memorial Day at
picnics than at services ho
noring the country’s war dead,
he said the 1960’s might be
known by historians as the "gid
dy sixties.”
"Unprecedented prosperity
Is the good fortune of most
Americans,” he pointed out.
"This is the age of the big
boom. It is a noisy kind of
prosperity. Business is spend
ing 16 billion dollars a year
for advertising, much of it to
stimulate the sale of lu
xuries..."
Moreover "erratic styles and
frenzied entertainment seem to
suggest that contemporary
prosperity is going to the head
of some people,” he continued.
Emphasizing the need for mo
ral wisdom in questions of war
and peace, Msgr. McManus no
ted that confidence in the na
tion's Chief Executive "does
not absolve us of our civic
duty to make our own morally
wise decisions on the same
questions.”
"On our Catholic college
campuses,” he said, "we should
expect to observe learned dis
cussion on the causes of war,
earnest attention to the various
alternatives for Seeking peace
in our time; and reasoned dis- -
course about government po
licy.”
“Virtually all your studies
in the humanities,” he told the
graduates, “encompassing the
ology, philosophy, history, li
terature, art, music, and per
haps, too, the social sciences,
have endowed you with a vast
amount of knowledge, surely
enough knowledge to enable you
to develop reasonably wise opi
nions on Vietnam.”
He asked the graduates to
"face up” to specific ques-
TUTORING
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ED CURTIN PRESENTS
-ATLANTA'S MOST
EXCITING LOUNGE'
tions, including the following:
"Should our nation, no mat
ter the cost In lives and mo
ney, stand by its moral com
mitment to assist the South
Vietnamese people as long as
they want our help in resisting
enemies who would enslave
them?
"As long as our nation sends
young men to suffer and die in
Vietnam, should It not also
require some kind of auste
rity and hardship for its citi
zens at home?”
Admitting that the questions
weren’t easy, "especially for
those whose answers may have
an immediate impact upon
their plans and their careers,”
Msgr. McManus declared: "I
hope you graduates have the
courage to face them and to
answer them in an unselfish,
altruistic, morally wise way.”
| Smyrna Mass jij
Schedule
Father Richard B. Morrow,
newly appointed pastor of the
parish which will serve Smyrna
and the South Cobb area, n-
nounces that the facilities of the
Wills High School have been ob
tained and that mass will be of
fered in this school building
every Sunday. The school is
located on Powder Springs
Street in Smyrna.
Sunday Masses will be at 8
a.m., 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.
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