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Coordinators on Rise ,In ReligiousEducation WASHINGTON (NC) - A growing number of Catholic parishes are seeking individuals to coordinate their religious education programs for all age levels "from children to adults, according to a recent national.sur' vey. "Across the nation, approximately one out of every six parishes is being served by a coordinator of religious education," said Father William J. Tobin, assistant director of the National Center of Religious Education-Confraternity of Christian Doctrine here. That U. S. Catholic Conference division polled religious education offices across the country, receiving responses from 121 out of a possible 161 U. S. dioceses. The poll showed that 2,513 parishes out of a total 15,014 responding had a coordinator for their religious education programs. The survey did not ask whether the task of coordinating religious education programs extended to the parish school.
But Father Tobin said there are indications "that a growing number of parishes that have parochial schools are also served by a director who coordinates all phases of religious education, in~ c1uding the parochial schools." The survey also indicates that nearly two-thirds of the -coordinators are men and women Religious, most of whom live in the parish they serve. "Weak points noted in a number of dioceses," Father Tobin said, "include the lack of an ongoing training program for the local coordinators; the lack of a set pay scale; the absence of a systematic plan of recruitment and placement, and the need for written gUidelines." Another thing the survey shows, Father Tobin said, is "a noticeable increase in the cooperation between diocesan and parish level coordinators of religious education." Fifty-eight respondents said they have a diocesan level supervisor of parish religious education directors.
ARCHBISHOP'S SILVER JUBILEE MASS: Bishop Cronin presides as Archbishop Medeiros of Boston delivers the homily at the Mass of Thanksgiving offered in St. Michael's Church, Fall River where the Archbishop served as a pastor before his elevation to the episcopacy in 1966. Rev. George E. Harrison, secretary to Bishop Cronin is at the right.
Pope's Message to Apollo 75 Team
Astronauts Hope Discoveries Will Benefit All Mankind CASTELGANDOLFO (NC) Pope Paul VI has hailed the intelligence, ability and daring of the U. S. Apollo 15 team and has disclosed that he and the astronauts exchanged private messages about the latest moon flight.
Grail'Movement Potential Can Transform World LOVELAND (NC) - Take it from a Brooklyn Fulbright scholar, a teacher in Lisbon or an African queen, the Grail movement-of which they are members-has the potential to transform the world. Meeting at Grail U.S. headquarters here in Ohio for a twoweek general assembly, 50 delegates from _18 countries talked
about the religious and ~ocial impact of the international women's movement--celebrating .its 50th anniversary this year. Father Jacques van Ginneken, Jesuit priest ,who launched the -_' movement in The Netherlands in 1921, would still recognize the' Grail today, according to Eileen SchaeffIer, Brooklyn-born interTurn to Page Two
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The Pope devoted most of his usual noon Sunday talk at his Summer home here to the Apollo 15 adventure. Papal aides said the Pope often interrupts his work to watch television transmissions from the flight. Pope Paul said that he was
Minority Group Aim Quality Education NEW YORK (NC) - Quality education -has replaced integration as the major current issue of concern to minority_ groups, according to civil rights leader James Farmer. Addressing a graduate insti-
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following the flight "with our admiration, our good wishes and our prayers." He said the flight was an "incredible effort of dominion" on the part of man and added, "We admire his intelligence, his ability, his daring." Toward the end of his talk the Pope revealed that he had sent a private message of best wishes and prayers to the Apollo 15 team before take off from Turn tp Page Six
tute for school personnel at Fordham University, the former HEW assistant secretary said that "most of the black community is now more concerned with the quality of education." WASHINGTON (NC) - Non"We have not really created an open society," he said. "The profit mailers hoping to work schools are now the front-line out a compromise with postal trenches. There was a time when officials on proposed postage inthe black, Puerto Rican and Chi- creases were told instead at a cano parents were stand-offish 'recent meeting here that more from the school system and their rate hikes may be coming. officials. According to the Washington "The schools represented offi- Daily News, a local n'ewspaper, cialdom, and, the people were Assistant Postmaster General Turn to Page Six Turn to Page Two
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