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V.ATICAN CITY (NC) - For the first time in his~ tory, the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and 'Univer~ , sities 'will sponsor an international congress to study vocations to the priesthood. The five-day congress, to be held in Rome beginning on late vocations, and Jose T!lesday, May 22, will differ Cardinal Garibiy Rivera of from the similar convention Guadalajara, Mexico, who will organized here last Decem- discuss the collaboration of lay-
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BOSTON (NC) - A Lutheran theologian urged his cQreligionists to return to the traditional Christian view of the Blessed Virgin, whom Martin Luther called "the foremost" among the saints of God. Rev. Jaroslav Pelikan, presently professor of his- sponsored by the Combined torical theology at the Uni- Lutheran Churches of the versity of Chicago and soon Gt:eater Boston area. Rev. Pelikan, author of the to b e com e professor of
~@mru[p)~®fre C@[9)® C~[Q) C@U11'ffi<e Ceremonies concluding a six week Parish Executive Board training course for Cape Cod area chur,ches were held Tuesday night at Holy Trinity Church, West Harwich. Over 80 men and women received certificates m a l' kin g completion of the course, conducted by Sis tel' , Dolores, O.L.V.M., Holy Trinity Convent, West Harwich. Presentation was made by Rev. Joseph L. Powers, Diocesan CCD Director. Purpose of the course was the preparation of ql,lalified personnel to serve on executive boards upon the establishment of' Confraternity of Christian DO,ctrine units in their parishes. Certificates were received by Rev: Francis Coady, St. Joan of, Arc Church, Orleans; Rev. Francis Mahoney, St. Margaret's, Blizzards Bay; Rev. Christopher Christensen, SS.CC., Holy Redeemer, Chatham; Rev. David Sullivan, SS.CC., Our Lady of Lourdes, Wellfleet; 'Sister Anita Turn to Page Eighteen
ber by t,he Sacred Congregation of Religious. The new congress will not be confined to studying vocations to religious orders and societies,' but will also deal with vocations to the diocesan priesthood. The forthcoming congress will also include delegates from groups ·of laymen who promote vocations. Father Luigi Ferrari, an official of the Congregation of Seminaries and Universities who has worked on organization of the congJ;ess, said that 12 laymen will come from the U.S., headed by George Smith, president of Serra International. Bis'hop John' J. 'Wright of Pittsburgh and ,Father Michael McLaughlin, director of vocations of the Rockville Cenh:e diocese, will head the U. S. delegation. Father McLaughlin has been appointed by the National Catholic Welfare Conference to cooperate with the Congregation of Seminaries and Universities in ,preparation for the cpngress. Bishop .Wright will speak at the congress on "Problems in the Perseverance of Vocations." Father McLaughlin will speak on ~'Teaching Aids for the Ap'ostolate of Vocations." Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo, Prefect of the congregation, will preside over the congress. Archbishop Dino Staffa, secretary of the congregation, will be its chairman. Two car.dinals ar'e among the scheduled speakers - Franziskus Cardinal Koenig, Archbishop of Vienna, who will speak
men in promoting vocations. General theme of the congress (Will b~ "Ecclesiastical Vocations in Modern Society: Present Conditions, Problems and Pastoral Concerns."
(U] [f~®@ tL@o~W 11@' S@J~[f1)~!ftt V@~~ti~~$ MINGO JUNCTION (NO -The Church "is drastically in n~ed of a long-range v{)oo cation program," and the laity should be in the forefront of such a program, Ii priest said here in Ohio. , 'Father Francis M. Maloney o~ Columbus told the Home and School Association of St. Agnes Central School that the religiouS) vocations program is needed "to catch up with a world population that is simply running away from us." ,. Father Maloney, who has beem lecturing for the past year on the need for more vocations, stated that in early Christian times it was the efforts of the laity which resulted in the conversion of:o world from paganism. "The bishops and priests wero wanted men, and thus for th61 most part were in hiding," he said. "So it fell to the laity to -lead the way, and they did 00 heroically. "In the crisis confronting the Church today it will necessarily again be lay men and women, by virtue of their numbers alone, who will assume the leadership to stem the tide of the Church's losses and begin to see gains in the generation that lies ahead."
church history at Yale Univer- bo'ok, "The R'iddle of Roman sity, delivered an address en- Catholicism," and co-editor of titled: "The Virgin Mary - A the 55-volume English trans~a Rc::formation Tribute" to a capac- tion of Martin Luther's works, ity audience in Jordan Hall at a , presented Mary as a model for rally of Boston area Lutherans Christians in her acceptance of the Word of God, her free cooperation with Divine Grace" and , her reliance on God rather than Lo~tare on herself. Honoring Mary is "way of emphasizing, not of obscuring th~ centrality of Christ alone," Rev. Pelikan said. NO'fRE DAME (NC) i'She is called Mother of God, Tl1e University of Notre not only by the ancient Church Dame has announced a gift but by the Reformation creeds confessions, beCause t~at is of; $1,000,000 from 1. A. and a way of asserting that the holy O'Shaughnessy, oil executive and Child of this' holy Mother is philanthropist. nothing less than the Son of God; Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, the Second Person of the Blessed C.S.C., Notre Dame president, Turn to Page Seventeen described O'Shaughnessy's generosity as "magnificent" and said his benefactions "have been the greatest of any individual private donor in the university's history." The philanthropist and his late wife were the donors of the $2,500,000 O'Shaughnessy Hall of By Patricia McGowan Liberal and Fine Arts which was dedicated in 1953, and the MesThe oldest Holy Union Sister in the world and the only living ,member of the trovic Sculpture Studio which was added to it in 1955. The new community who recollects meeting its founder, Father John Baptist Debrabant, has million dollar gift will be used marked her 70th anniversary in the religious life at the Holy Union Provincial House; to hclp finance the 13-story 520 Rock Street, Fall River. She 'is Sister Mary Cordula, S.U.S.C., 94 years old in JanuPROVIDENCE (NC) Notre Dame Memorial Library ary, and still possessing . ' Use in a public school here now under construction, Father an Irish brogue,a twinkling of the Prayer for, Peace Hesbut:gh said. written by St. Francis of O'Shaughnessy is president of Irish eye, and a .nimble 'the Globe Oil and Refining Com- Celtic wit. "She's the eldest Asslsi has b'~en defended by Dr. JalIles L. Hanley, superintenTurn to Page Two daughter of the family and' the dent of schools, and Gordon F. only one who remembers the Mulvey, chairman of the school father," said Mother Mary Wilcommittee. liam, provincial, who wrote to Hanley said Miss Marie Ci. the congregation's motherhouse Mallory, principal of the Joslin in Rome to ascertain that Sister Street School, who distributed Mary Cordula was indeed the copies of the prayer to her oldest Holy Union religious of teachers .:for use in opening ex~ 1,400 scattered throughout the ercises, was free to do so. BOS'l'ON (NC) - The world. Mulvey viewed the prayer as Born, in County Limerick, secretary of the National , without "sectarian religiouB Ireland, Sister entered religion Conference of Cat hoI i c Turn to Page Two in 1892 at the Athlone house' of Charities appealed here for the community. She was sent to a strengthening of Catholic par- France for her novitiate and ish work for families facing came to Fall River in 1895, only C~lUl~(;n social problems. , nine years after the pioneer Msgr. Raymond J. Gallagher Holy Union Sisters arrived in StenogrCll~&ueli'~ of Washington told New England the city. diocesan directors of Catholic Except for nine years in Charities gathered at Boston Lawrence, Mass. and a short College: ROME (NC) - Two stu"The great need for private time spent teaching at Sacred dents of the North Ameri~ voluntary agencies is now great_ Heart parish school, Fall River, can College here have been er than ever before. They are the nonagenarian has spent her named to a corps of stenogiving a vitality to activity in entire life as sacristan at Sacred graphers who will take minutes American life which is concerned Hearts Academy, Pro s p e c t of the Second Vatican Council, with the dignity of the individ- Street, also Fall River. which will open on Thursday, Far younger Sisters envy her ual." Oct. 11. Msgr. Gallagher said private the keen eyesight that has enThey are Father William K social agencies are a part of the abled her to make microscopiLeahy of the Philadelphia arch~ American heritage of private cally perfect repairs to vestphilanthropy. He warned against ments and altar linens through YOUTH AND AGE: Sister Mary Cordula, S.U.S.C., diocese, who is taking graduate any trend that publicly sup- the years. A special avocation oldest Holy Union nun in the world, shares fruits of reli- studies at the college, and seminarian Kenneth Buhr of the Los ported agencies should become has been the crocheting of inQutonomous in the field of social tricatly patterned ornamenta- giotis life with Patricia Spellman, youngest postulant in Angeles archdiocese. The 42 priests and seminariana Immaculate Heart Province of the worldwide religious work. . tions for albs. Turn to Page Eighteen community. Turn to Page Twelve Tum to Page Eighteen
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