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AlB children troop back t@ iJChool and Gatholic parents ponder the cost of tuition, books and uniforms, there
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bound to creep into their the' question, "Is Catho lie education .wol"th the price?" In bygone days, mothers and f.&thers put the emphasis on Catholic; if Johnny and Mal'y were well grounded in basic do~ma and equipped wHh suf :{j~ient shatter-proof faith 00 see them through life's exigencies, that was the important thing tl>.Jademic ability was less vital. 1n t6day'srestless, questioning WOrld, faith enters for its share oi scrutiny, and so do the aca ~mic qualifications of the Cath Cl1ic school. And Rev, Patl"ick J, O'Neill, for· one, ,welcomes such e><amination. The Fall River Diocesan school superintendent declares firmly, "We all want the Chlll'ch to be in the world serving people, but we've got to do something if we're going to sel'vc-and we happen to do u very good job at educa'tion. It is really the Church's handle on the world." ~Jnds
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Internationally kllQwn educator: "Catholic schools should be liv ing signs of the Church's con cern for the world." .Father O'Neill gave courses in school administration at Notre Dame University this Summer. There he came in contact with educators from all parts of the nation. They convinced him that Catholic education, far from withering on the vine, is flour ishing in the United States. "It su,re doesn;t look like a system' that's goillg out of business," he summed up. More seriously, he noted that many foreign e,ducators at Notre Dame had come to this country
solely to study its Catholic schools. They concluded that "Catholic education is one of the strongest and most remark-
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.So the outlook is not dismal iors continue their education in fur the United Sfates ingener colleges or other institutions of aI, but what about the Fall River advanced learning, continued Father O'Neill, This may be Diocese in particular? Here Fa partly due to the fact that col ther O'Neill speaks with author iyt. "We are not just being lege-bound students opt for' swept along by the educational Catholic schools, but it is due stream," he avers, "We're not more, he feels, to the elements just 'Number 2,' our schools have of motivation and individual ized attention found in the Di real academic excellence." ocesan highs. The thrust is He explains that all students entering 9th r-ade in Diocesan towards excellence, he concludes. Agreeing with him is Sister high schools are tested. "This Mary Urban. RS.M,. who shares test shows us what was accom plished in 8.th grade" As high with Sister Georgine, RS.M. the . schools seniors, they are re-test ·task of supervising the Diocesan ed, "and there is. in general a school system. She was asked, "F:or the sake of argument, Sis ter, what's wrong with an a't rangement whereby priests and Sisters would come into publie school classrooms several times weekly to gi ve religious instruc tion? WOUldn't this save a great deal of money and lift the bur den of educational costs from parishes and Dioceses'? Her responSe was immediate. "In my 30 years as a Sister I have. felt that my greatest suc cesses as a teacher of religion have come in the history, Eng lish and Social studies classTurn to Page Fourteen
Non-Graded Plan Is New Feature In Philadelphia
NORTH EASTON (NC)-' A theologian told more than 450 religious superiors of women from throughout the United States and Canada, "there s!t0uld be more stress on per sonalism than institutionalism." Father William F. Hogan. C.S.C., told the Institute For Local Superiors at Stonehill Col lege herc "religious life has to bc less institutionalized to help youth realize that religion is not institutionalistic. We cannot ex pect youth to reach out to the Persons of God unless Religious themsel vcs reach out to per oons," hc declared. Fathcr Hogan, who served as director of the institute, is a l-ol'mel' Stonehill College faculty membcr and superior of the Col lege di Santa Croce, Romc. Othcrs who addressed the in stitute included Sister Marian Dolores, chail"man of the theol ogy department, Marylhurst (Ore.) College; Father Robert W. Gleason, S.J., theology pro fessor, Fol"dham College; Father David B. Durrell, C.S,C., phil-' osophy professor, University of Notre Dame, and Sister Mary Daniel, provincial superior, Sis ters of Notre Dame de Namur, Ilchester, Md.
Coyle Graduates In Order Rites At ceremonies conducted at St. Joseph Novitiate, Valatie, N.Y., two young men from the Diocese of Fall River partici pated in the profession of vows a!/ld the reception of the habit of the Brothers of the Holy (:ross.
BI'O. James Nichols, CSC, of ~arish, Taunton, made his" final profession of W!Ows and Bro. Robert Caouette, esc, received the habit of the Holy Cross Brothers. Both are graduates of Coyle RiCh School, Taunton, that is lltaffed by the Holy Cross Broth
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PHILADELPHIA (NC) A non-gl'aded pl"imary will be introduced into virtually all parochi'al sohools of the Phil adelphia archdiocese this Fall. The non-graded structure pro vides nine levels of learning in read,ing and mathematics on what corresponds to the first three grade levels. It· has been designed to provide more in dividual attention for each child and to give him opportunity ~ progress at his own capacity. Diocesan officials have cau tioned that' the program-which has been used in selected schools for the past two years..:-ctoes ~ot necessarilY involve different teaching techniques. But, they saY,oby grouping children on the level of their achievement, the program offers a framework for coping with individual differ.. Turn to Page Five
Boston Seminary Creates College
NATION'S UNPARALLELED ENROLLMEN'f: Nine of the 11 children of Mr. and BOSTON (NC)~A-four-year Mrs. Ernest Diabiasio of Swansea are enrolled this year in the eight grades and pre-pri mary class of St. Mic.hael's School, Swansea. Starting on the left in the eighth grade •college department in the Boston archdiocesan seminary has been and going down to the pre-primary are:· Dianne Marie, David Michael, Deirdre Marlene, created by' the integration of Donna Michelle, Doreen Mary, Donald Mathieu, Daniel Mark, Dana Michael and Douglas Cardinal O'Connell seminary. Michace. . Jamaica Plain, with the two <>
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Instruction on Saturday
Parents and teachers of children enrolled in element ary COD programs in the Greater F'all River area will go back to school themselves next Saturday, Sept. 7, to learn of new developments in the reli gious education of young chil dren. The occasion is a one-day workshop called "Operation Headstart" that is being spon sored by the F'all River Diocesan Confraternity of Ohristian Doc trine in their Center at 446 Highland Avenue in the See City.
''The "Operation' Headstart" One of these is the increased workshop is primarily designed emphasis on involving parents to give parents and teachers a in the process of educating their summary of the new techniques children in religion in the home, to be used in CCD Schools of according 00' Sister Martha. Attendees at the workshop Religion.. Sister Martha Worde man, nlember of the Diocesan will participate in seminars cov CCD staff, likens the planned ering "The Role of Prayer," training session to those .em "Child Psychology," "The De velopment of Conscience" and ployed in r~ent years to intro duce parents and teachers to the "Teaching the Trinity." These i'new" math "There has been a four topics, says Sister Martha, great deal of research conducted . "fol"m the core of the' new ele in religious education since mentary catechesis or religious Vatican II," Sister Martha notes, education process." The semi nars will be conducted by "and it has resulted in modifica members of the Diocesan CCD tions in our approach to the re Turn to Page Three ligioUs training of tAle child.
year philosophy segment of. St. John's-the major seminary ill Brighton. The board of trustees of St John's voted on this action at a meeting with Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston, board' chair man, in July. St. John's was fuunded in 1884, and O'Connell. in 1951. Msgr. John A. Broderick, rec tor of St. John's seminary. has been named president of the' newly established college de partment. Msgr. William A. Granville, formerly rector of Cardinal O'Connell seminary, is now a vice rector of St. John's and vice president of the college department, The formerly independent Turn to Page Two