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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1966
WHA T ARE SEMINARIES LIKE?
Research Study To Probe Vocations Crisis
WASHINGTON (NC) — A national research program designed
to take the guess-work, out of talk about the vocations crisis
and its solution is getting underway at the Center for Applied
Research in the Apostolate (CARA) here.
Costing at least $150,000 and,
in its major investigative
phases, running some three
years, the program will seek
answers to such questions as
these:
—Why do people want to be-
come priests and nuns or go
into lay apostolate work?
—What are American se
minaries really like?
—Why do so many candidates
drop out of seminaries?
—What can be done to improve
techniques of recruiting and
training prospective priests,
nuns and lay apostles?
The Center for Applied Re
search in the Apostolate, which
will coordinate and manage this
research program, is a national
socioreligious research agency
established in March, 1965.
Its executive director is Fa
ther Louis J. Luzbetak, S.V.G.,
47, an anthropologist and edu
cator who has done research in
Papua and New Guinea and pub
lished several books in his field.
Interviewed at CARA head- •
quarters in a converted row
house near the Catholic Uni
versity of America, Father
Luzbetak stressed the scope of
the CARA vocation research
program, its uniqueness, and its
professional character.
The program will be in four
phases. The first already un
derway and to be completed in
a matter of months, is a sur-
•vey of vocation research ef
forts, Catholid and non- Ca
tholic, American and foreign,
and the compilation of biblio
graphy.
The second, “general”
phase, scheduled to start in
September, will begin with a
comprehensive survey of the
facts about seminaries and
houses of formation.
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DIRECTOR of the.Center for
Applied Research in the
Apostolate (CARA) is Fa
ther Louis Luzbetak, S.V.D.
Analysis of the vocations
crisis is the first project un
dertaken by the socio-religi
ous agency. (NC Photos)
One major aim of this phase
will be to develop a “typology”
of institutions—a scientific
classification of the types of
seminaries and houses of for
mation. Another objective will
be to gain insights into factors
that influence the number or
quality of vocations and the rate
of “perseverance" by candi
dates.
This second phase will b(e
conducted by a major Catholic
university (the contract is now
being negotiated, Father
Luzbetak said). The timetable
calls for it to be completed
in two years. Because of finan
cial limitations, it will concen
trate at first on the priest
hood. Later, however, it will
take in the religious life and the
lay apostolate, too.
The program's third,' spe
cialized” phase will consist of
an "in-depth analysis” Of var
ious special questions by qua
lified individuals and groups.
The questions will include mat
ters affecting the vocations can
didate, matters related to voca
tions promoters and recruiters,
training centers, and the “spirit
of the times” as a factor in the
vocations picture.
Studies in the third phase can
begin while the second phase is
still in progress, Father
Luzbetak said. All three phases
are expected to be finished with
in three years.
The fourth and final phase
of the program will be a con
tinuing, “open - ended” study
and reveiw of vocatons ques
tions. CARA plans to establish
a vocations desk and to main
tain a “vocation index”’ pro
viding continually updated data.
On immediate aim of the pro
gram, Father Luzbetak, said,
is to “sift facts from fiction”
in regard to vocations.
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hypothesis is that the completed
study will present a generally
optimistic picture of vocations.
“We’re going through a real
crisis in vocations at present,
and it can go either way,” he
said. “But if we study the sit
uation now, we can do something
about it. We can still be mas
ters of the situation—at this
point.
"But if we just let things ride,
I would be very pessimistic.
If we put this program off a
couple of years, I would be
very afraid.”
Father Luzbetak detailed
some of the causes of concern
in a speech in June in St. Louis
to the annual convention of Serra
International, layman's voca
tion-promoting organization.
He said a “vocation crisis
similar to that in Europe may
be in the offing” for the U.S.
"Baltimore, an archdiocese
of some half-million Catholics,
• has only six new priests this
year. The archdiocese of Bos
ton, with 1,800,000 Catholics,
has only 31 priests this year,
compared with an average of 70
in the past. The *01110181 Catho
lic Directory’ for* 1966 shows
almost a thousand less semina
rians than we had last year,”
he said.
Father Luzbetak feels, how
ever, that much of the criticism
currently directed against se-
minaires and seminarians is
uninformed and unfair.
"In the last few years,” he
commented, “the seminaries
have been criticized in public
unreasonably. There has been
much over-generalization, a-
long with a disregard of the
healthy ferment in the semina
ries and the steps they have
taken toward self - improve
ment. Granted, there are still
some fossils in the seminaries,
but the spirit among those re
sponsible for seminary educa
tion is good and I for one am
very optimistic.”
Money is a major issue in the
effectiveness of the CARA vo
cation program. Putting the cos]t
of the program-exclusive of the
continuing phase—at $150,000,
Father Luzbetak said “you
could hardly do a decent job
with less than that.” •
He hopes funds for the pro-
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tions, from “afluent Ca
tholics,” and from the "good
many Catholic lay organizations
which should be involved” in
efforts on behalf of vocations.
CARA itself has put up $50,000
of its own limited funds to get
the program underway.
Up to now, he points out, there
has been “no programmed re
search” on vocations—resear
ch, that is, “where you syste
matically study the total pro
blem on an inter-disciplinary
basis with priorities of re
search and an overall direc
tion.”
Father Luzbetak has dis
cussed the CARA program with
representatives,of non-Catholic
groups. "We intend to work as
closely as possible on a number
of questions 4 on an interfaith
basis, ” he said.
"All faiths are deeply con
cerned about ministry-related
research, including the problem
of motiviation, the problem of
training, drop-outs, and effec
tiveness,” he said. “A lot of
thinking and cosiderahle re
search is going on. But co
ordination is needed, and that is
what our program aims to pro
vide.”
But, he adds, "CARA isn’t
going to do everything. We want
to get as many qualified peo
ple involved as possible.” The
center will encourage research
by qualified individuals and
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CARA selected vocations as
the subject of its first major
research program on the basis
of recommendations from a
consultative body—made up of
bishops, priests, Religious and
laymen—and replies to ques
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