The ANCHOR Fall River, 'Mass., Thursday, April 22, 1965 Vol. 9, No. 16
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Assert$ Schools Essential To Strength of Church NEW YORK (NC)-A veteran Catholic educator pre Cficted there will be a 'soft spot' in the strength of the U.S. Church if it departs from "the effort to offer "across the-board' education to as man.y children possible. Cath olic schools, said Auxiliary is due to ease in the next four or Bishop Clarence E. Elwell of five years. Cleveland, where he has been The lack of Sister-teachers in sUperintendent of. schools the past five "critical" years has stnce 1946, provide an essential been due, not to a decrease in ocnucleus of goad Catholics" whc religious vocations, but to Ii supply strength and leadership smaller body of Americans from lor the Church. which they come, he said. The outspoken prelate, in Ii "The middle third age group ~ide-ranging survey of the of the American and American strengths and weaknesses in Catholic population is at present eatholic education, opposed the smallest segment," he said. withdrawal of nuns froni schools But, he said, relief is on the fur other apostolates, said a new way of financing schools is way because the "first large postwar high birthrate classes needed and urged small commu nities of nuns to stop trying to are now in high school and the first year of college. It will take supply their own teaching train ing program and turn instead to three or four more years before they supply us with teachers." Ute big universities. The bishop took exception in Bishop Elwell, who holds a Cloctorate in education from. his prepared remarks with Sis Harvard University and is the ter Mary Jacqueline, president aUthor of several textbooks, of Webster Coll~ge in St. Louis, spoke yesterday at the third Mo. Noting a report in which she was quoted as saying, "I am general meeting of the 62nd an Dual convention of the National against any attempt to get every Catholic child into a Catholic Catholic Educational Associa school," Bishop Elwell called. tion. this an "unbelievable statement." "The prelate expressed. confi Catholic schools are necessary. dence that much of the pressure being felt by Catholic schools he said, because "every disci pline needs the Christian eor because of big student enroll rective." aents and a shortage ot teachers
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Prelates Assert Vatican II Enhances Marian Devotion The Second Vatioan Council's teaching on the Blessed Virgin should enhance the devotion of Catholics toward the Mother of Christ because the council's "Constitution on the Church' and its chapter on Mary stress her a8 insep arable in God's plan from the major Marian shrines. Redeemer. This is the eon Bishop James E. Kearney of. census of U.S. prelates whose Rochester, N. Y., made one of eomments on the council's the most determined responses to reports that devotion to Mary teaching about Mary were gath is being minimized. ered by the N.C.W.C. News Ser vice through a questionnaire arid He denounced "extremists" Oft a survey of formal remarks. Church reform, including "ex Several prelates took sharp treme liturgists (who) ask us to issue with what they called con Turn to Page Ten dusions that the council sought tu downgrade the role of the 8~essed Virgin in the Church. Archbishop John J. Krol oiE philadelphia, who is an under $ecretary of the council, noted! the "prolonged applause" from NEW YORK (NC)-Jes tbe council Fathers when Pope uit educators were urged Pnul VI declared Mary to be the here to take a "new, tough Mother of the Church. This step minded approach" to libera~
bad the "wholehearted approv arts education that would put al" of the Fathers, he said. The prelate also noted that the less stress on "required" courses Fathers were "equally gratified" for college students. "To continue into the later ..,hen Pope Paul emphasized the -Iilnivel'sality of the devotion to college years with required sub Mary" by concelebrating Mass jects in which a student is not (luring the council with bishops . professionally interested is to til :whOlOe dioceses are locatea Turn to Page Seventeea
Catholic Grade School Teacher-Pupil Ratio Slwws Improvement NEW YORK (NC)-U.S. Catholic grade school enrollment is continuing a trend of increasing only slightly this school year as officials appear to be headed for success in their drive to lower pupil-teacher ratios. T his was reported here today at the 62nd an nual convention of the National Catholic Educational AssOCiation. The association sur vey is based on figures Rev. Joseph P. Delaney of to Fr. O'Neill, is also in attend gathered within the last two Taunton, who serves as assistant ance together with Sister Mir weeks. Since the end of iam, RS.M., and Sister Felicita, R.S.M., who are diocesan school World War II, Catholic grade supervisors and Miss Grace Tay schools have grown with tre lor, departmental secretary. mendous leaps, sometimes as The pupil-teacher ratio now high as four per cent a year. stands at 38 students per in During the past three or four structor. It was 39 to 1 last year. years, however, the increase NCEA e x p e c t s enrollment slowed as the schools encoun should rise about one per tered financing problems, faced cent next September, while, at a shortage of teaching Sisters, the same time, pupil-teacher ra
took steps to improve the sal tios should continue to improve. aries and other benefits of lay
It said no diocesan school office teachers and worked to curb expects the ratio to worsen next pupil-teacher ratios. year. Seventy-five expect it to NCEA said grade school en remain the same in their terri rollment increased only 11,000 tory and 47 believe they will be pupils this year to a total of able to lower it again next year. 4,541,000, a rise of two-tenths of "This presages better for the one per cent over the past school future than the figures would year. indicate at first glance," all Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, Super NCEA summary said. intendent of Schools in the Dio "The reason is that the 47 di cese of Fall River, leads the oceses enroll almost half of aU five-member delegation repre the pupils, 44 per cent. Among senting that Southeastern Mas REV. PATRICK ~ O'NEILL Turn to Page Twelve sachusetts diocese.
Lutheran Sees Catholics Taking Lead Theologian Notes Ecumenical Attitude EAST ORANGE (NC)
A Lutheran theologian noted here a turnabout in Protes tant-Catholic ecumenical re lations, with the Catholics taking the lead. Dr. George A. Lindbeck of the Yale University divinity
Diocesan Women Plan "Conclave At Stonehill The 12th annual conventiol\ l)f the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will be held at 9 :30 Saturday morning, May 3, at Stonehill College in. North Easton. The Stonehill Glee Club wilt offer a musical program at the afternoon session which will be under the direction of George Pelletier. Exhibits of· religious articles together with other articles of interest from foreign countries wi~ be on display With the women of" the Taunton area council in charge. Mrs. Aristides A. Andrade of Taunton, diocesan council presi dent, is. arranging the attractive session with Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Walsh of Attleboro, moderator, and Rev. James F. Lyons of Taunton, district moderator.
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school emphasized the changed Catholic attitude in the ecumen ical movement. There has- been a com plete reversal of roles," Dr. Lindbeck noted, recalling that the Protestants were the first to take the intiative while Catho lics shied away from contacts. "But in the future we might have a situation which finds Catholics taking the initiative while the Protestants prove re luctant," he said. In the accelerated pace of ecti menism, Dr. Lindbeck acknowl edged there is a lack of man power and resources which con tribute to the Protestant lag.
Monday Meeting Is to Complete Appeal Plans At 3 next Monday after noon, April 26, aU pastors, assistants, parish chairmen, trustees and interested lav men will meet in the J es;U; Mary Academy auditorium to make final plans for the 1965 Catholic Charities Appeal. "The Catholic Charities Ap peal of 1965," Taunton Atty. Richard K. Martin, lay chairman said today, "will be dedicated to His Excellency, Most Rev. James L. Connolly. On May 17, Bishop Connolly will begin his fifteenth year as Bishop of the Diocese of Fall River. His accomplishments during that time in the area :>f charity have been simply as tounding. "It is our hope that through Monday's meeting we can organ il';e this year's Appeal as a mem orable tribute to Bishop C:>n nolly, the Bishop of Charity. The finest tribute we can pay Bishop Connolly is to raise a total i.n this year's Charities Appeal that will make it possible for him to carry out his commitments and dreams for Charity." I .
Dr. Lindbeck said the Catholte turning point in ecumenisJll stemmed from the Second Vat ican CounCil. He said the Churclt has "given up the attempt to de fend the past and is freeing it self for an aggiornamento, a J.'e4 tu.rn to ,sources." Dr. Lindbeck is among the Lutherans who will discuss the Nicene Creed with a team of Catholics. He said these studies are not intended to lead to any thing more than an increasecl appreciation of the understand ing each confession brings .. the doctrine involved. Interviewe~ after he gave a lecture at First Lutheran Churcll here, Dr. Lindbeck said "we don't anticipate anything from the talks any more than we an ticipate anything from tiM Lutheran-Presbyterian conver sations" which have been iR progress for two years. Dr. Lindbeck said Catholic re form is going beyond what Luth erans feel they accomplished and approaching what Martin Luther. himself, wanted. He expressed the belief that Catholic liturgical changes are just beginning. "Catholic worship now is no longer a spectacle but a mattell' of participation in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ," he said. "It has a richness and emo tional power which many Prot estants would envy."
Poll Undersco~es Marriage
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MONTREAL (NC) A survey made here claimed a marriage in which both partners are under 19 has
only a 15 per cent chance fo1!' success. Two University of Montreal sociologists, Madeleine Trottier and Andre Normandeau, made the study, entitled "The Mar riage of Adolescents in Montre TUt'1l 1lQ Pale' FoW1eelt
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