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Archbishop Discusses
Telephone Booth Homes'
DETROIT —(NC)—A new Deep
South archbishop told Newman
Foundation teachers here that the
students they face today are vic
tims of depersonalization, many
raised in homes which are no more
than big telephone booths.
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan of
Atlanta, Ga., said that “uprooted
ness is a phenomenon of the big
apartment building, the stylized
suburbs, the faceless factories and
the mechanized office buildings.
“These are the places from
which students are coming; they
are the places where they will
eventually work.”
The prelate spoke to the Nation
al Newman Club Chaplain’s Asso
ciation meeting here at the 59th
annual convention of the National
Catholic Educational Association.
The Archbishop is a former New
man Club Chaplain.
He called upon the chaplains in
their educational programs on non
Catholic campuses to show stu
dents a higher ground than the
valley of conformity and complac
ency.
“Far too many homes,” he told
a dinner meeting, “have become
large telephone booths where we
make arrangements to go out; too
many jobs are only occupations de
void of craft, pride and principles.
“The student who lives in such
a home, looks ahead to such a job,
is hardly a suitable recipient for
truth. Where the treasure is, not
onjy the heart, but the mind is—
and the treasure today is in earth
bound security, self-centered ad
vancement and -man-made deci
sions.”
Newman teachers, he said, must
expose for collegians “the possi
bilities of the Mystical Body of
OUr Lord as a plan of life.”
The teacher must “lead them to
read the gospels, not as an arsenal
of4exts, but as a close personal ex
perience with Christ and His
Church.”
In another session, a layman
known for comments on the place
A Catholics on the state university
campus predicted greater use of
professionally qualified lay people
in the education programs of New
man Foundations.
William J. Whalen, director of
publications at Purdue University,
Lafayette, Ind., and authpr of
books and magazine articles on
Catholics at secular colleges, noted
that 540,000 Catholics now attend
other-than-Catholic institutions of
higher education, as compared to
some 300,000 in Catholic colleges.
“If the great majority of Cath
olics in U.S. colleges and universi
ties are going to grow in knowl
edge of their Faith, they will do
so through the efforts of the New
man movement,” he said.
But he noted that not many
priests can be spared by dioceses
and religious communities to serve
as chaplains. Most dioceses, he
said, already have a shortage of
priests for parish work, and com
munities are being asked to divert
their men to the crash program to
help the Church in Latin America.
Change of Dates
Word from Lebanon this
week told of Patriarch Paul
Pierre Meouchi’s illness which
will prevent the May 9 recep
tion for the Patriarch in Raleigh.
His present plans look to
wards a delay of possibly two
months when the Patriarch
hopes to visit'the United States,
including a visit to Raleigh Dio
cese.
* * *
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
of Atlanta has advanced the
date of his visit to the suffragan
see of Raleigh to Monday, May
28.
Pontifical Mass sung by priests
of the diocese will be offered at
5:00 p.m.
At 8:00 p,m. a program will
be presented at Price Memorial
Auditorium by the children of
Raleigh parishes, followed by a
reception for the new Arch
bishop.
New Statistical Church Study
Shows 43 Million U.S. Catholics
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
NEW YORK — U.S. Catho
lics now total nearly 43 million,
according to the official Catho
lic Directory for 1962 publish
ed here by P. J. Kenedy & Sons.
The exact total given by the di
rectory is 42,876,665 and includes
Catholics in the 50 states, all
families of the defense forces at
home and abroad, and the diplo
matic and other services abroad.
The new total is an increase of
771,765 over last year’s figure of
42,104,900, and a 10-year increase
of 12,451,650 (or 40.9 per cent)
over 1952’s figure of 30,425,015.
Eleven dioceses reported no
changes in their Catholic popula
tions and 11 had slight decreases.
Advances were reported by 118
Sees.
The largest increases were in
Los Angeles, 73,374; Chicago, 44,
549; Trenton, 44,078; Newark, 43,
596; New York, 41,034; San An
tonio Tex., 37,970; Rockville Cen
tre, 37,000; Boston, 36,905; Detroit,
34,454; San Francisco, 28,000, and
Cleveland, 27,511.
The 1962 directory lists 234
members of the hierarchy, an in
crease of 14. They include five car
dinals, 34 archbishops, and 195
bishops.
An increase of 899 in the num
ber of the clergy brings the total
of ordained priests to 55,581, the
Cardinal Cushing
Asks Prayers
For Racist's
(Related story on Page 7A)
BOSTON — (NC) — Richard
Cardinal Cushing, criticized by a
Louisiana segregationist for his
membership in the NAACP, has
urged prayers for segregationists
“that they may correct their sorry
way.”
The Archbishop of Boston also
praised the “courageous stand” of
Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel of
New Orleans, who has ordered the
■integration of New Orleans Cath
olic schools.
“If denunciation by racists is
the price to be paid for being
identified with Archbishop Rum
mel, I am happy to share his bur
dens in whatever way I may,”
Cardinal Cushing said.
He was referring to criticism di
rected against him at a segrega
tionist rally by Leander H. Perez,
Sr., 71-year-old south Louisiana
political boss and an ardent seg
regationist.
Perez, one of three Catholics ex
communicated by Archbishop
Rummel for efforts to block New
Orleans school integration, dis
played a picture which he said
showed Cardinal Cushing present
ing a check for $500 to the
NAACP (National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple) at the time that he accepted
life membership in the organiza
tion.
It was announced last Decem
ber that the Cardinal had joined
the NAACP.
Cardinal Bea
Non-Catholic Observers Will
Attend Plenary Deliberations
By James C. O’Neill
N.C.W.C. News Service
Rome — Non-Catholic observers
at the forthcoming Second Vatican
Council will not be limited to for
mal sessions but will be able to
attend the plenary sessions.
Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J.,
“®ad of the Vatican Secretariat for
Pibmoting Christian Unity, told
more than 60 representatives of
the world press that the Holy See
will invite to the council those
non-Catholic observers “who want
to be invited.”
Cardinal Bea was guest of honor
at a luncheon given by the Foreign
Press Club of Rome (April 25),
less than a week after his episco
pal consecration by His Holiness
Pope John XXIII. It was the first
time that a cardinal of Rome had
consented both to address and an
swer questions of the foreign
press corps in the club. The visit
was not unprecedented, however:
The late Domenico Cardinal Tar
dini spoke informally at the press
club in January of 1959, shortly
after becoming Papal Secretary of
State.
Cardinal Bea made it clear that
non-Catholic representatives at the
council which opens next October
11 will be observers in fact, and
will take no active part in the
work of the council. He said also
that the observers cannot simply
be interested churchmen without
any official status, but must be
See Observers, page 7A
largest ever recorded. There are
now 33,774 diocesan or secular
clergy, and 21,807 religious order
priests. Newly ordained priests
listed for the first time, number
1,679. One cardinal, five bishops
and 780 priests are listed in the
1961 necrology. Professed Re
ligious personnel include 11,502
Brothers and 173,351 Sisters,
representing respective increases
of 574 Brothers and 2,913 Sisters.
Catholic Education
Fulltime teaching staffs of ed
ucational institutions under Catho
lic auspices have increased by 7,
129, to a record total of 175,806,
comprising 11,586 priests; 818
scholastics; 5,016 Brothers; 100,
871 Sisters and 57,515 lay teach
ers. These figures represent in
creases in the past year of 26
priests; 248 scholastics; 209 Broth
ers; 2,015 Sisters and 4,631 lay
teachers.
The directory reports 16,645
parishes with resident pastors (a
year’s increase of 157) and 511
parishes without resident clergy,
making a record total of 17,156
Catholic parishes in the 50 states.
Also listed are 4,735 missions, 1,
483 stations and 11,505 chapels—
an increase of 83 places where
Mass is regularly celebrated.
A high of 14,015 separate educa
tional institutions—54 newly es
tablished during 1961—includes 98
diocesan seminaries; 447 religious
order seminaries or novitiates and
scholasticates; 278 colleges and
universities; 1,566 diocesan and
parish high schools; 869 private
high schools; 10,177 parish ele
mentary schools, and 453 private
elementary schools. There are also
127 protective institutions, with 12,
832 youths in attendance.
New educational institutions in
clude two diocesan and six re
ligious order seminaries establish
ed during 1961. The 98 diocesan
seminaries report enrollment of
23,662 seminarians, an increase of
2,342, while the 447 novitiates and
scholasticates of the religious
orders have 22,592 students or 2,
041 more, indicating a total of 46,
254 candidates for the priesthood.
A Kenedy spokesman also cited
statistics indicating the postwar
growth in the U.S. Catholic educa
tional effort. In 1945, the directory
listed 311 seminaries and novi
tiates with an enrollment of 21,
523. In 1962 there are 545 such in
stitutions with 46,254 students.
Catholic colleges and univer
sities in 1945 totaled 210 with 92,
426 students. There are now 278
such institutions with 336,604 stu
dents.
High schools in 1945 numbered
2,361 and had 447,699 students
See Church Growth, page 3A
Biblical Scholar Will
Give Gaston Lecture
A Gaston Lecture, “Recent
Trends in the Study of the Gos
pels,” will be delivered in Carroll
Hall, Tuesday, May 8, at 8:00 p.m.
The speaker, Father David Mi
chael Stanley is a Jesuit of wide
repute in the field of Holy Scrip
ture. He presently heads the Cath
olic department of the School of
Religion, State University of Iowa.
The Gaston series of lectures,
sponsored by the U.N.C. Newman
Club seeks, to make available to
the University community and its
environs lecturers who are special
ists in the fields of the arts, sci
ences, philosophy and religion. No
admission is charged.
The present speaker has had a
wide academic, teaching and liter
ary background in the field of
Theological and Scriptural studies.
Born’’’in Chatham, Ontario, in
1914, he entered the Jesuits in
1933. He holds degrees from Loy
ola College, Montreal, St. Louis
University( Licentiate in Sacred
Theology) and the Pontificio Insti
tuto Biblico, Rome, Italy (Licenti
ate in Sacred Scripture). His doc
toral dissertation in Sacred Scrip
ture, “Christ’s Resurrection in
Pauline Soteriology” was accepted
in Rome, June, 1952 and was later
published in book form by the
Pontifical Biblical Institute.
Father Stanley became professor
of New Testament exegesis in the
Jesuit Seminary, Toronto in 1952.
Other teaching posts were at the
Jesuit Seminary, Montreal and St.
Augustine’s Seminary, Toronto.
On February 8, 1961, he began
lectures at the School of Religion,
State University of Iowa, Iowa
City as Associate Professor of
New Testament theology. He
teaches a graduate seminar in New
Testament theology and an under
See Scholar, page 2A
GRADUATION TIME IN JAPAN—A Japanese student bows
formally as she receives her degree from Father Francis X.
Oizumi, S.J., president of Sophia University, Tokyo, at the
school’s recent graduation exercises. The Jesuit institution
graduated 669 students out of a student body of more than
4,400.