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DETROIT, Mich. - Voracious lions no longer keep
their hungry wait for Christian flesh, but in many
other ways Christians are back in the black days of
pagan Rome, a Catholic lay leader warned here.
John W. McDevitt, supreme knight of the Knights of
Columbus, made that assessment as he addressed the
States Dinner of the 92nd annual convention of the
Supreme Council, the top legislative and policy body
of the 1.2-million-member society of Catholic men.
FATHER RAYMOND J. CARR, S.M., newly named
superior of the Marist Fathers Community, outside the
chapel of Marist.
New Marist Superior
The Reverend Raymond J. Carr, S.M., has been
named superior of the Marist Fathers Community,
which oversees Marist School. Father Carr succeeds
Father Lawrence Schmuhl, who will remain as
administrator of the high school.
As religious superior, Father Carr now handles what
he calls “the difficult responsibility” of directing the
work of Marists in the archdiocese.
“The lions of pagan Rome
no longer feast on Christian
bodies today but they are
tearing away at Christian
values with a vengeful,
secularistic appetite,”
McDevitt declared.
The original concept of a
separation of Church and
state in the United States has
been distorted with a
vengeance under the
relentless pressures of a crass
secularism which has invated
particularly our court
structures, the head of the
Catholic fraternal benefit
society affirmed. In the
audience of 2,000 were a
dozen members of the
hierarchy, including John
Cardinal Dearden of Detroit.
Also present were Mayor
Coleman A. Young of Detroit
and 386 official delegates
from all parts of the United
States, Canada, Mexico,
Puerto Rico, Cuba and the
Philippines.
The original Bill of Rights’
clause barring the
“establishment” of religion
and interference with its
“free exercise” was meant to
protect religion from political
domination, McDevitt
continued. But through the
jaundiced eyes of secularist
courts it has been
misinterpreted to bar the
influence of religious moral
values on public life.
“In a series of unfortunate
rulings the courts have held
that public education must be
conducted in a moral
vacuum,” he related. “While
not openly anti-religious,
schools have been forced to
become areligious. That is,
they must ignore God,
religion and religious
morality, thus stressing by
inference to impressionable
young minds that God,
religion and morality are
unimportant.
“The courts likewise have
ruled that parents who wish
to exercise their religious
right to provide a morally
oriented education for their
children must pay the double
taxation.
“In January of last year
the U.S. high court ruled with
Herodian callousness that the
innocent unborn may be
slaughtered at the whim of
the mother, marking an
official rejection of the
Judeo-Christian doctrine that
human life is the creation of
God and therefore sacred.”
This undermining of
Christian ideals has been so
devastating McDevitt said,
that a recent report of the
U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops complains that the
Catholic community in
America increasingly is being
ensnared by the values and
attitudes of the secularist
system surrounding it.
Attendance at Mass is
declining. The attitude of
many toward the teaching
authority of the Church is
ambivalent. The defection
from the ranks of the clergy
and the religious goes on at
an alarming rate. The
incidence of divorce among
Catholics approaches the
alarming statistic of those
outside the Church.
Supreme Knight McDevitt
cited other sections of the
repoft to point up the
spiritual malaise in American
society. The so-called “sexual
revolution” has degraded sex
from an expression of mutual
love and commitment
between husband and wife to
a source of fleeting
gratification between casual
acquaintances. Increasing
acceptance of a “no-fault” or
“walk-away” divorce
mentality has put severe
pressure on wholesome
family life. A spreading
tolerance of abortion has
dulled society’s respect for
human life. Euthanasia is
receiving widening acceptance
as a legitimate means for
lifting from society the
economic burden of
supporting the aged, the
incapacitated and the
incurably ill.
Confusion within the
churches has left them
ill-equipped to stem this tidal
wave of neopaganism,
McDevitt added. Many
churches are suffering from a
crisis of identity. Some are
trying to recover from the
“God is dead” syndrome;
others are bogged down in
indecision on whether their
basic purpose is sociological
or theological; “whether to
make a god of service to
society or whether to serve
God in society.”
This partial catalog of
America’s spiritual problems
is not grounds for elation,
McDevitt stated. But neither
should it lead to dejection or
pessimism. “Christians rose as
a mighty force from the dark
caverns of the catacombs and
they can rise with renewed
spiritual strength from the
swamps of secularism,” he
declared.
“The sincere interest in
prayer and closer communion
with God shown by many
members of the laity, the
widespread response to the
apostolic opportunities of
serving in the permanent
diaconate the growth of
spiritual movements to
strengthen the commitment
and relationship between
married couples, the rallying
of many groups and
individuals to the prolife
movement -- all point to a
spiritual vitality through
which God can grant new
vigor to the Catholic
community.
“We know that the faith
will flourish as long as there
are genuinely Catholic
families who will nurture it in
their own lives and spread it
by word and example. It was
not the force of sophisticated
religious argument but the
power of Christian example
that converted pagan Rome.
The testimony of a
thoroughly Christian life,
particularly in a family
setting, has the same
conquering potency today,”
he averred.
McDevitt noted that as a
group of Catholic men
especially dedicated to
spreading religious values, the
Knights of Columbus must
take a lead in revitalizing
American society. There are
bishops, pastors and chaplains
“both willing and able to lead
us through the shoals of a
pagan, permissive culture,” he
said. “We have our own
Christian formation program
designed to form us into
committed Christians so we
can reform society around us.
“As Good Friday
Christians, who do not shun
the cross, we must reject the
philosophy that life’s pleasure
should be milked with a
morality of convenience.
Christian morality is as firm
as the cross. We know that
this earthly life is more than a
ditty about love, that no
conscience can be cured by a
dip into the pool of
psychotherapy, that life
cannot be fulfilled through a
massage of gratification.”
McDevitt recalled Pope
Paul Vi’s recent warning that
the most dangerous heresy
today is that which
substitutes the gospel of
pleasure for the gospel of the
cross.
The Pope stressed that no
true Christian can betray his
baptismal commitment and
become unfaithful to the
cross of Christ, McDevitt
reminded.
“As practical Catholics,
loyal to the Holy Father and
his pastoral counsel, we must
make renewed efforts to
follow his advice on this
critical issue today,” he
affirmed.
“I will work to provide a
spiritual atmosphere at our
residence for community
life,” the new superior said.
The Marist Fathers are
mainly engaged in the
educational apostolate of the
school, but also say Masses in
parishes all over North
Georgia. There are 17 Marists
in residence on Ashford-Dun-
woody Road - 14 priests and
three seminarians.
Father Carr remains as
head of the religion
department at the school.
“We try to bring out the
Judeo-Christian upbringing of
the boys, to teach them
moral and spiritual values and
the Christian leadership
they’re capable of,” the
Philadelphia native stated.
Marist provides instruction
in Catholic doctrine and
ethical problems for the
sizable number of its students
who are Catholic. The rest of
the boys receive guidance on
contemporary social and
moral questions.
The Marists who teach
during the school term say
Masses regularly at the
parishes of St. Jude and Our
Lady of the Assumption, and
occasionally in other area
churches.
Father Carr, who considers
archdiocesan work a major
duty, but secondary to the
school operation, will
moderate meetings of the
fathers, and organize prayer
life and spiritual activity.
He is the son of an Irish
policeman of Philadelphia.
After ordination Feb. 2,
1963, Father Carr spent a
year teaching at Chanel High
School in Cleveland, and five
years in parish and
institutional work in West
Virginia. The Marist Mission
Band, which directs retreats
and renewal programs was his
next calling.
He joined Marist School’s
religion department in 1972.
He will serve as superior for a
three-year term that may be
renewed.
Marist Alumni Party
All alumni of Marist School are invited to an informal
party Friday, August 23, from 8 to 11 p.m. in the school
arcade. Faculty members will attend.
Graduates from Marist’s 73 years of service to Atlanta
are urged to reunite with their high school classmates,
and to bring their wives or dates along.
Draft beer and hors d’oeuvres will be served. This is
the first function of the new Alumni Association.
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