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Speakers Outstanding
Sister Mary Thomas, O.P. Authority on Guidance;
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The sessions on teenagers and sex education in the home scheduled for the 19th New England Regional Congress of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine to be held
at Stang High School, No. Dartmouth, will present' two of the outstanding authorities
on these widely discussed topics. Sister Mary Thomas, O.P., a native of Fall River and
presently -an assistant pro
fessor at Fordham Univer
sity Summer Guidance Insti.
tute, will speak at the 3 :30
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Cardinal Cushing Asserts Religion Losing Influence BOSTON (NC)-Richard Cardinal Cushing expressed the opinion here that "religion has lost a great deal of its influence in this country sincl.; the dawn of the present etlntury," attributing the decline to a change in popuJoar attitudes. "I have the opin very serious operations. ion," he said ,in a radio :through have to slow down a great deal interview "that the influence if I'm going to survive, but the of . ministers, priests and point of the matter is it's diffi rabbis is not as strong as it used
.to be in the past, and the cause of this is the fact that we do not have a deep root of religious sense in this country. We had it, ~e hl\ve lost it." The interview ranged over a 1Vide variety of topic~the car dinal's health arid plans for· the future; birth control and the law; communism and the John Birch Society; the place of the clergy in the civil rights move ment, and the morality of gam bling. About his health, he said: ''1 have a long way to go. 1 went
cult for me to slow down because it's not in my nature." He said he has no plans of re tiring "because I identify with so many projects that are of a personal character that no suc cessor of mine would carry them on· or be responsible for them." As· an example, he cited the So ciety of St. James the Apostle, the missionary organization which sends priests to Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. "I still think, however, despite my own personal condition, that a bishop today should be a young Turn to Page Six
Urge Upgrading Education For Disadvantaged Pupils WASHINGTON (NC)-Americans must drastically upgrade educational opportunities for the dis'advantaged or else. This was a major theme of the fifth White House Conference on Education which brought together 700 leaders from all over the country for "help demolish the slums and talks on the problems of U.S. ghettoes." schools. The conference dealt "Let all levels of the American W'lth such topics as integra educational system - federal, tion, school dropouts and jobs, education for the handicapped and the talented, federal-state cooperation, and innovations in education. President Johnson received the ·group at the White House end told participants: "Your con, cern and mine .is how we can remedy the serious defects of our present system" * '" Educa tion won't cure all the problems of American society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible." Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, speaking at a lunch eon session, said schools call
state and local; public and pri vate-join hands to make slum schools centers of educational excellence in our country," he urged. Hvmphrey said the federal government's education and pov erty programs "rely on the intia tive of our states and localities." "They seek, too, to take full advantage of the intellectual re sources of the private sector," he declared. But the conference made it plain that the educational prob lems of the disadvantaged are not susceptible to easy solutions. Turn to Page Six
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SISTER MARY THOMAS
special session Saturday after noon, Aug. 28, on "Communi cating with Teen-agers". William A. Lynch, M.D. of Boston, lecturer on marriage at four colleges in Boston and au thor of the volume "A Marriage Manual for Catholics", will ad dress the general session on the CCD Adult Education program on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 29 at 2 o'clock. His topic will be "Christian Sex Education in the Home." Dominican Academy Alumna Sister Mar y Thomas, D.P., coordinator of guidance and counseling services in the dio cese of Brooklyn, was born in Fall River, the daughter of Mrs. Agnes Murphy of the Cathedral Parish and the late John T. Murphy. . She is an alumna of Dominican Turn to Page Eighteen
WILLIAM A. LYNCH, M.D.
Dr. Ard's Warning to Teachers
·Psychiatrist Fears· Overwhelming
Demands Forced Upon Children
first American layman to teach at Rome's Gregorian University, spoke to nuns and novi,ces oi' the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur at their provincial headquarters, sters win "test the emotional Mount Notre Dame Convent maturity" of nuns who meet here. them. "None of you will escape the Dr. Frank J. Ayd of Baltimore, challenge of having to work with people who have mental and emotional and behavioral problems," he said. "You must recognize these people, and at the same time you must recog nize your own limitations." Dr. Ayd told the Sisters "we have in the United States a growing problem of emotional and behavioral disturbances among our adolescents." Signs of the problem, he said, include the "increasing number of dropouts in high school and college," and that "more adol escents than ever are coming to psychiatry clinics for help." Admissions to psychiatric hos pitals show a "great jump" among adolescents, and figures for 1963 showed that in their age group the third leading cause of death was suicide, he said. One of the factors in the grow ing number of disturbed young sters, according to Dr. Ayd, is the fact that "great demands are placed on young t>eople." "Everybody's got to achieve," he said. "Everybody's got to be at the top of his class. The first grader's mother has a neurosis about the youngster getting into college, and by the time he gets into high school the youngster's POPE PAUL VI
got a neurosis of his own." BENEFACTOR OF THE NEEDY.
Most of the disturbed young people can be helped, the psy Peter's Pence Collection
chiatrist said, if they get proper All Churches Sunda7,
diet and rest and "if they set
READING (NC)-A psy chiatrist warned here that increasing numbers of emo tionally disturbed young
realistic goals for themselves.Too many, ·he added, have goals that "they can only achieve by shifting iato high gear and staying there." "It's a measure of our maturity if we exercise the virtues of prudence and temperance," Dr. Ayd said. He defined the mature person as "one who over a pe riod of years has gradually rec onciled his will with the divine will." Maturity is achieved, he in dicated; by "having the humility and honesty to say, This is me-I can do this, I can't do that--by living in accordance with the talents God has given us. One becomes mature when one be comes humble enough to tell the truth about oneself."
Predict Changes In Training Of Jesuits CINCINNATI (NC)-Jes. uit seminarians will have more contact with lay teach ers and students and fewer years spent in preparation for their min i s try if proposed changes are put into effect by the Society of Jesus. Father Paul L. O'Connor, S.J., president of Xavier University and one of the 33 American del egates at the society's 31st gen eral congregation in Rome, said he is "fairly certain" Jesuit phi losophy and theology students would soon begin to take their studies at Jesuit colleges and universities. At the present time Turn to Page Four