THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Jan. 23, 1969
Urge Suburban Parishes Help Inner City
'Still on Decline But Philadelphia Director of Vocations Anticipates Improvement in 1969
NEWARK (NC) - The Senate of Priests of the Newark archdiocese adopted a series of resolutions designed to encourage suburban parishes to aid those in the inner cities, particularly in the field of education. The resolutions' will ,be submitted to Archbishop Thomas A. Boland for approval. One resolution asked' the archbishop to seek support from individual parishes for a single classroom in an inner-city school. Participating suburban parishes would :be expected to underwirite the teacher's salary and insurance and maintenance costs. Another resolution called fol' inviting suburban parishes to adopt a particular parish in the inner-city areas an effort to keep parochial plants operating among the poor. AsJi CooreUnator A third resolution called for the appointment of a coordinator to direct the wock of parishes, orl&Jl.izations and":,agencietl engaged in the inner-city apostolate. It was suggested that a layman be considered for the position. On the same day, the Newark Priests' . Association, an independen~ group of priests, moved at their own monthly meeting to involve more parishes in association 'programs geared to community life. Parishes on the outskirts· of the city in particular will be asked to play a more active role in the community. Already, the Apostolic Activity Committee, a ,three-man elected board which coordinates Summer recreational, tutorial and self-help programs, has contacted all the ,parishes in the vicinity to invite participation in the Summer programs. Survey Resources The Newark Priests' Association is conducting a survey of the Church's resources in the city in cooperation with Columbia University and this report is expected to 'be completed shortly, after which it will be submitted to Archbishop Boland. The archbishop already has before him a series of proposals on the utilization of Church manpower. made by two other priests' groups. These suggest the utilization of team ministries and other experimental programs: a review of assignments of clerical personnel engaged in the urban apostolate, the recruitment of priests interested in' such work, and the utilization of parish facilities for community programs. Assignments are currently reviewed by a personnel board established a year ago OJl the recommendation of the senate. This Fall Archbishop Boland is-' sued a pastoral statement calling for the eradication of all forms of discrimination in parish life and urging parishes to make their facilities available."
Unity Service SAN FRANCISCO (NC) Sacred dance and modern music will be part of the program of the annual Christian Unity Service Sunday. Jan. 26 in the Civic Auditorium here. Sponsored by an interfaith committee representing the Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox and Protestant faiths, the service will include music by a modern jazz group and contemporary sacred dances by Sister Tina Bernal.
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PHILADELPHIA (NC)-Religious vocations in 1968 in the Philadelphia archdiocese showed a 20 per cent decrease (from 1967), Msgr. Edward J. Thompson, archdiocesan director of vocations, has reported. The 1968 .total of 350 vocations to. the priesthood and religious life represents a drop of 82 from the 1967 total of 432. During 1968, 200 young women entered the convent (55 fewer than 1967) and 150 young men entered seminaries or religious houses (down 27 from 1967). "This time last year," Msgr. Thompson noted, "vocation directors felt that 1968 would 'be a poor vocation year. Now I am pleased to report that, from all
indications, 1969 should be much better. Directors are counting many more applications now than at this time last year." Diocesan high schools continued to contribute the largest number of vocations during 1968 -100 young men and 158 young women. Vocations from private Catholic high schools dropped from 47 in 1967 to 17 ill 1968. Vocations from public high schools increased by four last year in comparison to 1967. The 1968 total was 10. Vocations Ii'rom colleges dropped from 42 in 1967 to 38 in 1968, 26 from Catholic colleges and 12 from secular colleges.
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Supreme Virtue John Ca~dinal Krol Stresses Obedience In Church NEW YORK (NC)-Meeting a ,barrage of questions head-on, in a nationaily televised interview, John Cardinal Krol, archbishop . of Philadelphia, made the follow, 109 points;
The cardinal replied that he has visited jails many times, and "as a regular thing," he found that a cer.tain percentage of the inmates say they are there "because of a bum rap." "They are sincerely convinced," Catholic schools cannot surhe added, "that what they ,we1;e vive without aid from the state. The fullness of authority was doing at the time they had to given only to Peter and his suc- do .But their conscience and the cessors, and neither bishops nor objective norm were at variance, ,and, as 'a result they were taken the laity can speak with final to task for this. authority "except in concert with "Within the Church, yes, a the Supreme Pontiff, the Holy person in the Church, or outFa.ther." side the Church, must follow his Conscience is a practical judg- conscience ,but he cann<>t pre·ment, and a person's practical sume to say that his conscience judgment must be guided by a is the source of information, that norm, by a rule. is, an intellectual activity. This There is in the Church, "in a is the activity of the will applied manner of speaking, an authority to a pat:ticular situation." Asked if a Catholic couple sins crisis," but it is not "as. deep as it is represented to be, let if that couple practices artificial us say, in our headlines, and in birth control, Cardinal Krol declined to "play the role of judge. the discussions." I would do· that in the ConfesObedience is a supreme virtue sional," 'he added. "If I knew in the Church. what the circumstances were." Question of Fact The new:smen interviewing Asked why can't God give as Cardinal Krol wanted to know if a laymen would not have the much divine guidance .to a lay responsibility, 'as well as the person as He does to. a Pope or right, to follow his conscience if cardinal, Cardinal Krol replied: he thought he was right, even "God can do this, there's no though the Pope taught some- \ question. The quest~on is not what God can do, but the questhing different. tion of Ifact." Asked then if, when he teaches, Board Relief the Pope "is ever wrong," the cardinal said "there is that posSupplies to Biafra sibility," but that it would be NEW YORK (NC) - The "away from the areas of faith, Catholic Medical Mission :Soard, morals, dogma." . with 'headquarters here, anOne questioner cited a 'writer nounced that 15,453 pounds of as saying that "the obedience medicines and drugs for relief described in official statements of the suffering in Biafra were of the Catholic Church is almost included in the cargo carried ·by always the obedience paid to an the Norwegian vessel Forra, absolute ruler"; that this is not which recently left the United the obedience given in demoStates for the island of Sao cratic .states, and why has n<>t Tome, off the Nigerian coast. the "theory of obedience in the The drugs and' medicnes, val- Church evolved toward a more ued at $58,554 wholesale, were democratic form?" "The structure of the Church," originally scheduled for shipment in December, but the dock the cardinal. replied, "is not strike intervened. The action of something that was evoived by longshoremen in breaking their humans but was established by own strike to help the suffering a mandate of' Christ. And this Biafrans enabled CCMB to get structure is not subject to change its shipment aboard the Forra. by humans."
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