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Catholic Pentecostalism Transitional Phenorrienon
In her book, Belief, MagiC, and Anomie, Ithe,;late so~ial anthropologist Anne Parsons has two extremely mterestlng essays on Italian Pentecostals in New York.l-ThiS group is not part of the new. wa:re of CathoHc pentjCostalism, put is a separate denommatlOn, ' , . ,I avowedly Protestant in its nalists have flailed aw~y ~errily orientation.Dr. Parsons' an- at the culture..3 f the Imr~llgra~t ': '
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The Italian Penecostals combine in their services the strong emotionalism of South Italian, culture with the staid sober reo specability of' lower middle class and working class American Protestantism. Accordin~ to Miss Parsons, Pentecostalism has -tra· ditionally' been a religion of cuI:. ture change; she even n~te~, that Corinth in the time of St. Paul was an, unstable and changing .city. Many social scientists' would add that Pentecostalism among , blacks seems to play a role not dissimilar to that which Mi<;<; Parsons describes among the Ital· ians. If this model of Pentecostalism as a transitional religion in the midst of severe culture change has any utilitY, what can it tell us about the current popularity of Pe:1tecostalism in the Americim Catholic Church? What is the culture that is collapsing? What i~ the new cultnrc thnt is hein~ tol;en on? What ~re the prospect)'; for the future? It should be noted that in the :lbsence of any empiri<;al data: the best that can be o'ffered in the way of answers to such ouestions are tentative hypotheses, derived mere from ge,-' eralJheory than from empirical research. Hopefully, someone will attempt the research itt the fu· ture. Very Vague The culture that is collapsing is "Catholic culture" or, to use words which may have more value connotation than one would wish, the culture of the immigrant ghetto. Catholic intellectuals and jour-
Pope Names Bishop WASHINGTON (NC), - Pope 'Paul VI has named ~ Missouri priest, Father ,Charles Roman Koester, an auxiliary bishop to Cardinal John Carberry in the St. ,. Louis archdiocese. Father Koester, 55, a native of Jeffer-, son City, was ordained in De· cember, 1941 and has served as associate pastor and pastor in half a dozen parishes in St. Louis during his 29 ',years in the priesthood.
ghetto, assummg that since It had very little teaning in their lives, it had no relevance to the lives of. anyon.' ; Yet the stablt certainties, :the sense of a firm contact with reo ligious: reality, the firm orgl1 ni . zational s,tructU,~e, the brisk land confident(:leader hip of the cllfrgy all provided a ystem of m~an ing and belon ing-or, if one wishes, of faith, and commuhity' -which played an extremely I important r<?le in Ithe lives of millions of peopl~. .,' ,i If Catholic <Ji.tlture, is collapsing it is not 10 much beduse the vast majo~ity of Catholics find it irreleva~t-an increasing number do--but because; the leadership grou~s in_the Church" particularly priests and ReligiJUBILARIAN AND ASSOCIATES: Father Reitan ous, no longer ~have any c6nfi- meets with some of the five million children who are dence -in it. . I members of the Pontifical Association of the Holy ChildThe 'new cult re that is emer· hood. ging is still ve~ vague. It :emphasizes the personalist,: the free-wheeling, he flexible, ,; the emotional; it rray or may not be an improvement on its ,predecessor, but i1 is certainly; difPIITSBURGH (NC)-The Very children in the Catholic elemenferent.· I . Rev. Augustus O. Reitan, C.S.Sp., tary schools imd schools of 'reli: More impqrt'lntly for the, Penwill mark 25 yeats as an execu- gion throughout· the 50 states tecostal phenomenon, the new tive of the Pontifical Associa- and operates through Mission culture is Stilj very uncert,ain . tion of the Holy Childhood, Directors in about 150 (Arch)Dio· Something new is aborning, I but ceses, what it will b and whether it world\,Vide missioh-aid society of children, on Saturday, Jan. 30. . The Association was founded will re~pond]O' the religious Father Reitan 'was appointed in 1843 in Paris, France, to edu-, '1eeds of large segments of, the C:ltholic popul tion remains to on that date in 1946 as'Assistant , cate and tra.in Catholic children ,National Director of the ASso, in mission activities and to raise be seen. ' ,! -0" 'dation in the ,United States, funds to help negl~cted children 'Ne 'Way' , serving under the now Bishop in missions all over the world. Richard Ackerman, C.S.Sp., of · P entecosta IIsr IS, at t h e;' ,unCoyington, Ky., conscious level, a way some ','peoIn 1956, ~ Father Reitan was Recommends College p:e can hedge their bets.' The person,aI, the ~motional, the,' in- promot~d to National Director Join' Notre Dame formal can be ~ombined with the of the Holy' Childhood in the NOTRE DAME (NC)-Consult· c:!rtainties and,' the support United States and in 1967 was ants hired by St. Mary's College which the old I Catholic culture named' a vice president of the and the University of Notre' provided. Indeed, one can claim Superior Council, which directs Dame ,have recommended that , a contact withl the supernatural the work. of the Associatiori St. Mary's join Notre Dame as Y,'hich few in the old culture throughout the world. He is the a 'distinctive school operating woul~ have cl~im~d' unless 'they' second American ,to be appointed within the university's framewere part of tHe "private revela- to the international executive work. committe~ of the Holy Childhood. tion" milieu. The, IO,500-word report, pre· 'J't the same time, one cart al- Bishop Ackerman, was the first. pared by Drs. Rosemary P~rk Ordained in 1941, Father Rei· of the University of California so be confiden that one is! part I of the avante g~rde, that one,., has tan has spE)nt his priestly life in and Lewis B. Mayhew, of Sanfound a "new Iway" for Ameri- Holy Childhood, work. Before ford, urged that St.' Mary's adopt can Catholicist;rt. Pentecost,,"lism joining the National Office as the. official name "St. Mary's appeals. in other words, because Assistant National Director, he 'College in the University of it combines thJ old and the' new ,worked for the Holy Childhood N9~re Dame" and concentrate on and eases for: some people the while serving as assistant pastor an educational program primar. crisis of trans tion. -' , at St. Anthony's 'in Millvale, Pa., ily for women. • , I ;, But is it authentic religion? A a Pittsburgh suburb. : Notre Dame president Father The Holy Childhood has a Theodore M. Hesburgh and St. sociologist wo~ld have a hard time answerin$ such a ques~ion. memBership of some five million Mary's ac~ing president Sister M. It does resp01d to certail1 ex· Alma Peter said. that the report tremely important religious and Court Overturns was released to allow interested I ' personal needs and undoubtedly parties to study it before memo re?rese~ts a lowerrul religio~s Am."sh CO'n'v."ct."ons bers of both schools' boards of OrientatIon. ' MILWAUKEE (NC) - A 6-1, .trustees discuss it at a 'joint The social s ientist would, like ruling by the Wisconsin Supreme meeting in March. . the eCclesiastj'Cal leader, view Court has overturned earlier skeptically the Pentecostal claim' convictions of three ,Amish faof direct access to tI:te slip'erna· thers' who had refused to enroll BEFORE YOU tura!. But his lnost pertinent ob- their children in New Glarus BUY -TRY servation on GatholicPentecost- High School fo'r religious rea· 'alism would ~e his hunch that sons. it is a transitional' phenomenon' The cou'rt decision in effect exand will last rio longer than the empts Amish children from that transition 'doe~. Like most' ,other portion of Wisconsin's' compul. OLDSMOBILE sect-like groups the Pentec,?stals sory school attendance law that Oldsmobile-Peugot·Renoult will probably,l be a· one-genera- requires two iyears of high, 67 Middle Street, Fairhaven , tion phenomebQn. ' s<;hool!i. I,
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JEFFERSON 'cITY (NC)-Two bills supporting parents' choice of private or parochial sc;hools for their children have been in'troduced in, the Missouri House of Representatives. The bills call for a contract for purchase of services from non public schools in' the state and for equal services to all children attending, ,qualified elementary and secondary schools. David McMahon, St. Louis county attorney and president of the Missouri Association for Nonpublic Schools, commented on the number of legislators signing the bills. "The fact that there are more than 80 signatures on these two bills," he said,"indicates that a growing number of Missquri legislators recognize that assis-. tance to the public schools of Missouri is directly tied to the economic survival of the qualified non public schools, in Mis-' souri. Taxpayer Benefits , "Certainly the taxpayer is 'the one who benefits," McMahon added. "Parents and friends of children in nonpubt'ic scho'ols continue to build and maintain more than 549 schools at no additional cost to the taxpayer." The group McMahon heads is a statewide organization oJ parents and children enrolled in Catholic, Lutheran and Jewish schools.
Enrolls in Black Culture Course JERSEY CITY (NC) - Last year Jesuit· Father VictorR. Yanitelli, president of St. Peter's College, returned to the class· room as a te~cher. This year he'll be back in the classroom again - as a student. In a letter to faculty members, . Father Yanitelli urged as many as possible to take a course on Urban Black Culture and reo vealed that he intended to do so himself. The course will be taught by Attorney Raymond Brown, a past president of the Jersey City branch of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People. '
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