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DUBLIN, IRELAND (NC) - “You shall be my witnesses”
was the theme as 15,000 to 20,000 people opened the Second
International Conference on Charismatic Renewal in the
Catholic Church June 15 in Dublin. The four-day conference
started with a strong emphasis on the duty of Christians to bring
to others the Gospel they believe in.
LONDON (NC) - A Methodist agency has sharply criticized
Britain’s black chinches for keeping to themselves, in a report to
be presented to the Methodist conference meeting at Bradford
at the end of June. The criticism was contained in the Methodist
Church’s Overseas Division’s annual report.
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI expressed to the
president of the Gambia the church’s continuing concern over
the problem of drought in Africa’s Sahel region below the
Sahara Desert. The pope received in private audience June 15
Gambian President Alhaji Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara, who is also
president of the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought
Control in the Sahel.
GUATEMALA CITY (NC) - The Guatemalan bishops have
condemned a massacre of Indians by soldiers and landowners at
the village of Panzos and demanded a government investigation
to prosecute those responsible for it.
PRETORIA, South Africa (NC) - A South African official
has broken an unofficial truce between the apartheid
government of South Africa and the country’s Catholic schools
by announcing that private schools admitting black students
face serious consequences. Sybrand van Niekerk, administrator
of Transvaal province, made the comment at a Transvaal
provincial parliament meeting.
UNITED NATIONS (NC) - The Executive Board of the
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has approved a new
revenue target of $240 million for 1980 and has indicated
informal support for a proposal by Henry R. Labouisse,
UNICEF executive director, that the fund aim for $500 million
in annual revenue by the mid-1980s. At its meeting in New
York, the board also addressed a special appeal to the General
Assembly special session on disarmament.
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI has advanced the
cause for sainthood of Canadian Holy Cross Brother Andre
Bessette, founder of the world-famous St. Joseph’s Oratory in
Montreal. In ceremonies at the Vatican June 12, Pope Paul
approved a decree on the “heroic virtues” of Brother Andre and
of three Italian candidates for sainthood.
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI has decried factional
fighting between Lebanese Christians and has asked the
Maronite-Rite patriarch to bring about a reconciliation within
the Christian community.
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Paul VI greets some of 6,000 children
NAWR CONVENTION
making their first Communion in St.
Peter’s Basilica.
‘Women Building Church’
For the 1978 national
meeting of the National
Assembly of Women
Religious (NAWR), more
than 20 resource persons have
been identified for the
working sessions on the
theme “Women Building the
Church.” “The enthusiasm
with which our plans have
been welcomed has been a
surprise even to us,” reports
Sister Kathleen Keating,
NAWR National Chairperson.
“Groups of women and men
are coming from all over the
country. Many persons feel
the moment has arrived for us
to study seriously the
position and contributions of
women in a broad spectrum
of areas relating to the
church.”
“We feel we would be
cowardly and unfaithful if we
were to just continue as we
are,” notes Sister Jacqueline
Wetherholt, NAWR
Administrative Asst., “and
the persons attending the
meeting in Pittsburgh, August
10-13, are eager to move
ahead into a new kind of
church life.”
The opening session of
the national forum at Robert
Morris College will focus on
the present status of women,
drawing on several sources of
data. NAWR members are
completing a survey drawn up
by Sister Kristen Wenzel, of
the College of New Rochelle,
New York, on their
perceptions of the status of
women in the local church.
Surveys and studies made in
other dioceses will be used, as
well as those by such
organizations as National
Catholic Charities. The
present state of issues and
needs will become very clear.
A women’s prayer service will
conclude the evening.
The keynote speaker on
Friday, Ms. Francine
Cardman, Ph.D., of Wesley
Theological Seminary, will
address “What We Bring as
Women.” Afternoon sessions
will be spent drawing up
NAWR position statements
and action plans on the
following and other topics,
with the resource persons
noted. “Women’s Experience
of Spirituality,” Ada Maria
Isasi-Diaz; “Integration of
Prayer and Justice,” William
Callahan, SJ, of the
Washington-based Quixote
Center; “Christian Feminist
Spirituality,” Anne E.
Patrick, SNJM, of the
University of Chicago
Divinity School; “Leadership
for Liberation,” Betty
Carroll, RSM, of the Center
of Concern; “Linkages of
Liberation Movements,”
Mary P. Burke, also Center of
Concern; “Servant-hood/-
Beyond Service,” Janice
McLaughlin, MM, who was
imprisoned in Rhodesia for
her pro-black actions;
“Women’s Sexual Image in
the Church,” Joan Chittister,
OSB, past president of the
Leadership Conference of
Women Religious.
Saturday’s major address
will be given by Helen Wright,
SND, Ph.D., of Washington
Theological Union, on “What
Women Build - A Vision of a
Just Church.” Afternoon
topics and resource persons
include: “Call: From Whom
and To Whom?”, Patricia
Hughes, Mundelein College,
Chicago; “Pastoral Ministry
and Social Change”, Srs.
Mary Reilly and Marjorie
Tuite of Providence and
Chicago; “Diocesan Offices
and State Conferences”,
Peggy Keilholz of Missouri
State Catholic Conference.
From these deliberations
will come the direction of
NAWR for the following
year. A national focus on
some aspect of women and
the church will be chosen.
NAWR counts 60 active
diocesan sisters councils as
organizational members and
approximately 5,000
individual members, women -
both lay and religious, and
men associate members.
Sister Jacquelyn Clark,
Southeast Regional
Representative of NAWR will
attend the meeting and
comments, “The enthusiasm
we have encountered in
planning this meeting tells us
that women are committed to
making even more serious,
creative contributions in all
areas relating to Church and
ministry.”
Pope Meets Camara
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
Pope Paul VI received in
private audience June 15
social activist Archbishop
Helder Camara, who has said
that he was ordered by the
pope not to travel out of his
Archdiocese of Olinda and
Recife, Brazil.
The archbishop later told
NC News that “all has been
fully cleared up” concerning
his travels, and he will be able
to resume visits to other parts
of the world.
As is usual for private
audiences, the Vatican gave
no details of the meeting.
In a letter to a German
clergy group earlier this year,
Archbishop Camara said he
was asked by the pope in a
letter not to travel out of his
archdiocese and to pay more
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responsibilities at home. The
archbishop said that the
request had the force of an
order for him.
After meeting with the
pope, Archbishop Camara
told NC News that the visit
was “very cordial, paternal
and fraternal.”
He said the travel ban
“was simply a misunderstand
ing” that “all has been fully
cleared up.”
“I will begin again my
international activities,” he
said, “keeping in mind of
course that my priority must
be Recife.
“I will make four or five
trips a year to the most
important and principal of
the many gatherings to which
I am invited every year.”
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
If the current vocation crisis
in developed countries
continues, countries like
France which once blazed
mission trails may one day
have to ask for missionary
priests from the vibrant
young churches of Tanzania,
India and Korea.
The 1976 Vatican
Statistical Yearbook, just
released, shows that churches
in Europe and North America
are continuing to suffer
decreases in the number of
priests while Third World
churches are steadily
increasing their numbers of
priests and seminarians.
In developed nations
aging clergy and dwindling
seminary enrollments are
causing Catholic bishops
concern and forcing them to
take once unthinkable
decisions.
In France, for instance,
60 parishes were being
administered in 1976 by
laymen and 13 by nuns, and
an additional 882 parishes
went uncared for by anyone.
A full 20,800 French
parishes - more than half of
the total number of parishes
in France - had no resident
pastor and were being cared
for by a priest residing in
another parish.
The present situation is
critical, yet the future
appears to be even bleaker for
France.
France now has 1,122
major seminarians studying
for the diocesan priesthood -
less than half the 2,632
seminarians it had in 1970.
In much of the Third
World, however, the
vocations trend is the exact
opposite.
While France’s number
of seminarians fell by half
between 1970 and 1976,
Nigeria in that same time
nearly doubled the number of
men studying for the
diocesan priesthood in major
seminaries (from 485 to 905).
(The major seminary
covers the last two years of
college or university studies,
chiefly in the field of
philosophy, and four years of
theology study. Minor
seminary figures include
priesthood students still in
high school and those in the
first two years of college.)
The 1976 yearbook gives
surprising figures of the
priest-seminarian ratio in
various continents.
In Europe, there are only
nine diocesan major
seminarians for every 100
diocesan priests. North
America has 15 major
seminarians per 100 priests
and South America 25.
But the number for Asia
(excluding the Middle East) is
55 per 100 priests and for
Africa 83 per 100.
If minor seminarians are
included, the Africa figure
rises to 540 seminarians for
every 100 priests and the
Asian figure (excluding the
Middle East) rises to 144 per
100 priests.
The average age of priests
also reveals a gap between the
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developed countries and the
churches of Africa and Asia.
In France and the
Netherlands the average
clergy age is 56. In the United
States the average age of
priests is 50 and in Canada
53.8. But in Ghana the
average age is 41, in Kenya 38
and in Nigeria and Pakistan
37.
In the West in general,
the number of priests per
Catholic population remains
higher than in Third World
nations.
Yet the Western vocation
crisis is causing church
officials to wonder how much
longer this will be so.
In the developed
countries, the number of
newly ordained priests cannot
fill all the openings left by
priestly deaths or defections.
In 1975 the United
States ended the year with an
overall loss of 31 diocesan
priests. In 1976 it ended the
year with 90 fewer priests
than it had in January.
France had an overall
loss of 449 priests in 1975
and 686 in 1976.
Italy’s loss increased
from 295 in 1975 to 545 in
1976.
The Third World
churches, however, managed
in general to end each year
with a more numerous clergy.
Korea, for instance, had
an overall increase of 41
diocesan priests in 1975 and
61 in 1976.
India’s clergy count
increased by 63 at the end of
1975 and by 42 the following
year.
the present,
growing Third
For
certainly,
World churches do not have
nearly enough priests to meet
their own needs and must still
rely on the numerous
missionaries which the West
still sends.
It is still a fact that in
Europe and North America,
where 45 percent of the
world’s Catholics live, 77.26
percent of the world’s priests
are found.
Yet the vocation situation
is clearly changing. And the
possibility of many
missionaries from Uganda,
Indonesia or Korea in Los
Angeles, Paris or Winnipeg is
not sheer fantasy.
Messages By Balloons!
Margo Miller’s first grade class at Christ the King School
read a story about some children who sent messages by balloon
and got replies from far away. The first graders decided to try
this themselves and released four helium balloons bearing this
message:
“Dear Anybody, This is from Christ the King School. Please
send this back and tell us who you are and where you live.
Thanks, The 1st Grade.”
Several days later the children received a reply from Frank
Christopher of Watkinsville, Georgia. He found the letter
hanging on his tractor after it had travelled about 70 miles!
CORRESPONDING by helium-filled balloons
were Mary Mallory DeGolian (front, left), Meg Jones,
Mary Carmel Maloof, Bo Shean, Ryan Walsh and Ross
DeDeyn, shown with their first grade teacher at Christ
the King School, Margo Miller.
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