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GEORGIA BULLETIN; THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1967 3
More Want Celibacy
Than Those Who Don’t
VATICAN CITY (NC)--Argu
ments urging that the requit|e-
ment of celibacy be set aside
as an obstacle to increasing
vocations are not sufficient,
Archbishop Gabriel Garrone,
proprefect of the Congregation
of Seminaries and Universities,
told a press conference here
(April 4).
"My personal answer is that
the arguments for celibacy of
the clergy are stronger than
those against it,” He said he.
believed that there should be
a "firm affirmation in this
respect, ” and that it would
maintain celibacy in the Latin
Church* By doing so, he said,
the "quality of priestly candi
dates will grow,” and through
the quality of its priests the
Church will harvest an increase
in the quantity of candidates.
The archbishop said that the
drop in the number of vocations
to the priesthood and Religious
life is due, in part at least,
to the new attitude of today's
youth, and therefore requires
Changes in the traditional semi
nary formation.
He told the press conference
that today’s youth is much more
fully aware of the whole world
and far more sensitive to its
problems than in the past. Those
responsible for seminary train
ing must realize the importance
of education and be '“Capable of
, understanding the new gen
eration, of admiring them and
of discovering for them the
mission of the Church,” he
said.
Archbishop Garrone was one
of three participants in a con
ference sponsored by the press
office of the Holy See in con
junction with World Prayer Day
for Vocations being observed
April 9. Joining him were Arch
bishop Paul Philippe, secretary
of the Congregation for
Religious, and Msgr. Antonio
Mazza, secretary general of
the Pontifical Association of
St. Peter the Apostle, which
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works for vocations in the
mission territories.
Archbishop Garrone noted
that, although there has been a
falling off in vocations
generally, there have been some
surprising exceptions. He
singled out the "extraordinary
development of vocations in
Mexico and in Yugoslavia and
the stable continuity of recruit
ment in Poland.”
Among the statistics provided
at the conference were the fact
that latest church figures count
234,000 diocesan priests and
168,000 Religious priests
There are in addition 166,400
Religious who are not ordained
priests.
Among women's Religious
congregations and commun
ities, there are nearly 1.4
million women Religious, of
whom 60,000 are contemplative
nuns.
Archbishop Philippe said that
in the years from 1954 to 1966
the ratio of Religious men’s
vocations has dropped in
relation to the total Catholic
population as a whole. Although
the population had increased
by 9%, Religious male vocations
have increased only by 7%.
Women's Religious vocations,
however, show a different
picture. • In the same period
they have increased by 13%.
Archbishop Philippe and
Msgr. Mazza both were in
agreement that one of the most
heartening things in the
vocational world picture has
been the increase of priestly
vocations in Africa, Asia and
Oceania.
The growth of the local clergy
has been a phenomenon of the
last 40 years, Msgr. Mazza
said, and today in Africa and
Asia approximately 500 ordi
nations take place every year.
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Chicago Newspaper Raps
Criticism Of Proj ect
CHICAGO (RNS)--The Chicago
Conference of Laymen (CCL),
newly founded organization of
Roman Catholics in the city and
suburbs, was sharply criticized
here by The New World, weekly
newspaper of the Catholic arch
diocese.
Msgr. John M. Kelly,- New
World editor,, rapped CCL-for.
its opposition i to -Project Re
newal expressed at thefounding
meeting of the lay group.
Project Renewal is a $250
million fund-raising and build
ing program to expand and re
build archdiocesan churches
and schools over the next 10
years. It was launched in Jan
uary by Archbishop John P.
Cody of Chicago.
In a signed editorial, entitled
"Lay Group Should Turn
Talents 'to Better Efforts,”
Msgr. Kelly said:
"A small but vocal group of
laymen this past week has
chosen to express strong oppo
sition to Project Renewal, to
Archbishop Cody's \approach,
to existing educational pro-
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grams, and to several other
facets of life in the Church in
this area...
"I see no evidence that the
laymen involved have made any
personal endeavor to present
their talents or services to
their pastors. They do not seem
, ; to realize that thousands of men
^nd women .are already working
hard, to make the project a
success.
"The latter are the kind who
built the Catholic Church in
this area. They are the ones
who will do the building in
the future.”
In his criticism of the CCL,
Msgr. Kelly asserted:
"It would seem to me that
the Chicago Conference of
Laymen, instead of attempting
to be a kind of super-body of
experts and watchdogs, should
get acquainted with the less
spectacular, but more pro
ductive, efforts of the rest of the
faithful, who still make up, and
own, and are the Church, the
People of God.”
"I would suggest,” he said,
"that the members of the CCL
work within~not outside—the
established framework and lend
their obvious talents to the
all-out effort required to supply
the needs of the rest of the <
faithful in the archdiocese.”
A spokesman for the CCL,
commenting on the editorial
published by The New World,
said the criticism of Project
Renewal "was not directed at
the need of' the archdiocese
for physical growth. Rather,
it was directed' at the procedure
by which momentous policy de
cisions were made without any
significant consultation with the
Catholic Community.”
The CCL had announced
earlier it will study in depth
the. Project Renewal program.
The reason for this action,
according to Donald Heyrman,
chairman of the CCL steering
committee, were the questions
raised by many of the 1,500
Catholics who attended the
founding meeting.
Some of the objections raised
at the meeting, he said, were:
—Project Renewal was
planned without sufficient re
search, particularly concerning
the future of the Catholic school
system and regarding general
urban and metropolitan
planning.
—The emphasis on building
and fund-raising would detract
from a previous commitment
of the archdiocese to
"community life” human re
lations programs and imple
mentation of the open housing
agreement.
—Professional fund-raisers
were called in to handle Project
Renewal.
“We didn't go into this with
any idea of developing a state-
“ment'on Project“ReHewaT,'" Mr.
"Heyrman ; : sirfd; ,w "bttf ; the
Unexpected response of '’the
people attending the conference
makes it quite obvious that
this is one of the key issues
uppermost in the minds, of most
of them.”
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Consultation Said
Institutional Minded
LOS ANGELES (RNS)—The
10-denomination Consultation
on Church Union, according to
Dr. G. Aiken Taylor, "labors
institutionally rather than
spiritually."
Thus he summed up his report
on COCU before the 25th
national convention here of the
National Association of
Evangelicals. More than 1,000
delegates and guests attended
the three-day convention.
Dr. Taylor is editor of the
Presbyterian Journal of Ashe
ville, N.C., and a noted conser
vative Protestant spokesman.
In his paper on COCU, Dr.
Taylor said “it seems clear
to an evangelical that the archi
tects of the coming united
church view the project fruit
of their labors institutionally
rather than spiritually.
"They are thinking in much
the same categories as the
churchmen with whom the Re
formers had to do—in terms
of 'Mother Church’ and a
believer's relationship to the
institution, rather than in terms
of Jesus Christ and a believer’s
relationship to Him.
"The language of Christo-
logical devotion is there but the
application is to ecclesiastical
fidelity. This appears in the
urgency with which its
proponents view the prospects
for this organic union of
Churches.”
Dr. Taylor defended the
NAE's traditional aloofness
toward merger and union plans,
and cited the independent co
operation of its member
denominations.
"Evangelicals can come to
gether in cooperative en
deavors, in worship ex
periences, in conferences and
conventions, without feeling that
there- is something ultimately
tragic in the fact that they do
not all belong to the same
denomination,” he said. "It
does not occur to evangelicals
that the opportunity to witness
may be closed until one organic
church has been created in the
world.”
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