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Predict Lay Teachers To Outnumber Nuns In Parish Schools
The ANCHOR
The Anchor in a~ interview with Rt. Rev. Msgr. Frederick G. Hochwalt, Ph.D., di. ~ector of the EducatIon Department of the National Catholic Welfare Council, Wash.
A.n Anchor of the Soul, Sure and Firm-ST. PAUL
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mgton, D.C., learned yesterday that the new pattern in the teaching corps of the Catholic parochial schools. of the United States is a proportion of four Religious teachers to three lay teachers. This pattern, as seen in the Midwest now, will have a strong tendency to reverse itself in the . •
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future, Msgr. stated. After learnmg of these conditions, The Anchor made a survey of the percentage of lay teachers in the parochial elementary schools of New England Dioceses. Fall River Diocese has a total of 536 teachers-503 Religious, 33 lay teachers, or a percentage of 6.1 lay teachers. New England Dioceses The Archdiocese of Boston has 2,694 Religious and 160 lay teachers in its elementary schools or a percentage of 5.6 lay teachers. Other dioceses show the following percentages of lay teachers: " Springfield, 6; Worcester, 3.6; Providence, 5.1; Burlington, Vt.. 15.5; Hartford, 16.3; Bridgeport, Turn to Page Eighteen
SHOWS FATHERLY SYMPATHY: Pope John XXIII brings word of cheer to youthful patient in Children's Hospital. On Sunday, your contributions to Peter's Pence Collection will enable the Holy Father to speak the universal language of kindness. NO Photo. "
Advocates Credit Program For Paying Hospital Bills .
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D·loeese F·In dsomes H . For" Fa lal Refugees
A gaily-colored plastic boat symbolizes the New World for a family just arrived in Fall River from the island of Faial, Azores. Presented to 8-year-old Jaime Da Silva by new friends in Somerset, it's now in a place of honor in the living room of the Da Silvas' cluding the DaSilvas', were American home. The family, destroyed. In one day the areao Jaime Senior and Maria Da was shaken by 480 earthquake. Silva, with lO-year-old Maria accompanying the eruption. de Fatima and Jaime, were leading citizens of the town of Capelo, FaiaI. The father was a storekeeper and president of tilttown council, the mother schoolteacherl.lt a village suburb and rated one of the best teachers in the Azores. Their life was full and interesting. Volcano Erupts Then tragedy struck in the form of' a volcanic eruption. Hundreds of Faial homes, in-
"The earth was heaving like the ocean," said Mrs. Da Silva. She was at school when the worst of the eruption occurred. For two hours, she said, it WlUl as black as night. Her children. choking and nauseated from the volcanic fumes and the sandfilled air, could do nothing to protect themselves but bury their heads on their desks. "We never thought we'd get Turn to Page Eie-hteell
Missionary Nuns Conclude Active Year on Cape \ A remarkable record of accomplishments is that of four Our Lady of Victory Missionary SiRters, active in Holy Trinity and Holy Redeemparishes, West Harwich, and Chatham. In the catechetical year just ended, the Sisters have instructed 516 children in the two parishes, with the aid of 21 lay teachers. Fifty-three children were prepared for First Communion, and 23 altar "boy. trained. The Sisters, now at their motherhouse in Huntington, Ind., for the Summer, have been in the Cape parishes for six years. They have a well-organized corps of lay people themselves occasion ing their many projects- -but the lay people themselves ocassion much work in the planning and organization of their own pro-
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CINCINNATI (NC)-Credit plans for paying hospital bills were advocated by Edward F. Wilz, assistant professor of accounting at Xavier University, at a gathering of 92 "administrative officials of Catholic schools, seminaries, religious communities and hos- automobile manufacturer" have pitals. Mr. Wilz contended done. 'Credit plans could be" arthat hospitals are behind "the ranged through these companies, times in credit arrange- he suggested. ments.
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Mass Participation The Sisters have recently been working towards congregational participation in Mass, assisting Turn to Page Eighteen
Urges Prayers For Martyrs Of Europe . NEW YORK (NC) Prayers for the "martyredpeoples" of Central and Eastern Europe were urged dur-
VISITING PRELATE: Most Rev. Paul Leonard Hagarty, O.S.B., l3ishop-Vicar Apostolic of the Bahamas, right, with Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, V.G., D.D., Auxiliary Bishop and pastor of St. Lawrence Parish, New Bedford. Bishop Hagarty spoke to the congregation of" St~ Lawrence Church
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ing a Mass for captive nations at St. Patrick's Cathedral here. Auxiliary Bishop James H. Griffiths explained .that the Mass was beit,g offered for 85 million people of nine nations "which in the relatively short sPace .of 20 years have been reduced from the status of sovereign and independent states to the degraded position of enslaved colonies of the Kremlin." Listing Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia" Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Rumania in this category, Bishop Griffiths said: "Since the disintegration of the Roman Empire, this is the first time in history that nations with a higher ethical, political, cultural and economic standard have been forced under the imperialistic heel of an inferior s)"stem which hypocritically 'I'lII"ll to Pa&"e Twelve
VOLCANO VICTIME: Newly arrived from Faial. Azores, the Da Silva family relaxes in their Fall River living room. Standing is Jaime, S~ior; seated, left to right, are Maria de Fatima, Jaime, Mrs. Da Silva.
Sisters of Notre Dame Conduct Vacation School on Vineyard Enjoying a well-earned vaca':' tion this week at Oak Bluffs are superior of the small communsix Sisters of" Notre Dame de ity. "The children were wonNamur. The interlude follows a derful, and very responsive,· month of vacation school con- she said. "They didn't want u.t ducted by the Sisters ~)t1 Martha's _to leave." Vineyard. About 65 children attended the Two-week sessions were con- Edgartown classes, 70 at Oak ducted at Edgartown and Oak Bluffs. Both sessions concluded Bluffs. Both were well attended, with dialogue Masses in prepsaid 'Sister Aloysia of 8t. James, Turn to Page Ten
Teen-Agers Have Definite Ideas On Qualities of Ideal Mother NOTRE DAME (NC)-"In an ideal home, the father, not the mother, wears the pants both literally and figuratively." This was the conclusion agreed upon by 135 upperclassmen in a big city Catholic coeducational high school. The results of a survey on "The Mother Your Teen-Ager Wants," conducted by Sister Mary Theresita of Chicago are reported in the Aug. 1 issue of Ave Maria, national Catholic weekly magazine published here'. ",What qualities do }O\l think
a mother should have?" was the question Sister M. Theresita put to the teen-aged boys and girls. A typical girl replied: "I form my opinion of a mother when I watch how she" handles cuts, scratches, nose bleeds and hurt feelings, and everything that goes with being a heflrl-nurse. launderer, chef and all-round woman who WOUld ramer I)uy something for her children than a badly needed item for herself.· Both boys and girls agreed on two qualities they wanted .l'urn''o· Pai"e EiC"hteell' .