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J&ortf) E Carolina Catholic Edition of Our Sunday Visitor Subscription $4.00 Copy 10c Vol. LII September 13, 1964 No. 20 RALEIGH, N.C. P.O. Box 9503 Eecord Enrollment i Catholic Schools Washington — (NO) — Catho c elementary and secondary chools have enrolled about 5,653, 00 students this month, according 1 a preliminary estimate made ere. High schools, in contrast to the tuation of only a few years ago, [early are emerging as pace-set ers in percentage of enrollment icrease, according to an estimate eleased by the Department of ducation of the National Catho c Welfare Conference. Grade school expansion, which as run as high as three or four er cent in some past school years, ontinues a deceleration first oted sharply three years ago. MAJOR FACTORS in the slow own in growth of elementary :ather Brendan )ooley Inferred to Belmont Abbey The Rev. Brendan John Dooley, t.S.B., a priest of Belmont Abbey, ied suddenly Monday evening Au ust 31 in Savannah, Georgia. He m 54 years of age. Father Brendan was well known o former Abbey students as a bril iant instructor in English litera are and in mathematics. He aught many years at Belmont Ab iey College. For the past ten years he was ssigned to Savannah, Georgia, there he taught at Benedictine iigh School. He was born in Philadelphia in 910. He attended the Abbey Pre aratory School, received his A.B. egree from Belmont Abbey Col ege, and his S.T.B. from the Ab *y Seminary. He did advanced hidies at the Catholic University f America and then attended the diversity of Pennsylvania where ie received his M.A. degree in iterature. FATHER BRENDAN became a lenedictine monk at Belmont Ab •ey in 1932, taking his religious 'ows in 1933, and made his solemn [rofession in 1936. He was or lained to the priesthood by Car unal Dougherty in 1939. The cele >rated his twenty-fifth anniversary * ordination on June 3 of this ear. As a silver jubilee gift he Pent the past summer visiting reland. The funeral mass was celebrated “ Savannah, Georgia, on Thurs 10:00 A.M. in the Sacred eart Church. The remains were ransferred to Belmont Abbey were the solemn requiem mass »as celebrated Friday at 4:00 P.M. y the Rt. Rev. Walter A. Coggin, ihu ’ Abbot-Ordinary of Belmont Obey. Interment was in the Ab *y cemetary. He is survived by a twin broth Lawrence of Lutherville, Mary J®d. and older brother Edward of ladelphia. and a sistpr Mrs. school numbers appear to be grade dropping, which will take away 10.000 pupils in Cincinnati alone this year; a continued shortage of teaching Sisters because they are being held back until they finish all college courses; new regula tions in several dioceses cutting down average class size and the financial strain facing parishes from recent costly school expan sion and hiring of lay teachers. Nevertheless, the estimated 1964 fall enrollments indicate another high mark in an unbroken series of enrollment records over the past decades. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enroll* ment this year should be about 4.600.000 in contrast to 4,546,360 last year and high schools should enroll about 1,053,000 in contrast to about 1,041,357 last year. The NCWC department released actual figures for the 1963-64 school year which illustrate the rapid growth of high schools. Between the 1962 and the 1963 school years, the department said, secondary enrollment grew by 3.2 per cent while the elementary school enrollment expanded by only 1.4 percent. In the past school year, them were 10,775 Catholic elementary schools in the United States staff ed by 115,468 teachers. There were 2,487 secondary schools across the country with a faculty totaling 51,065 the NCWC department said. TEN YOUNG LADIES officially dedicated themselves as Mary Missioners to a years service in North Carolina missions. Bishop Vincent S. Waters, presided at the Raleigh Cathedral Mandate ceremony last Sunday. Symbol of their service is the Mary Missioner medal which they re ceived from the Bishop before their assignment to Mission houses at Winston-Salem and Farmville. (Staff photo by Ed Chabot) Ahoskie Pastor Granted Rights Of Citizenship Father Herman Marin Bosscher muller, Pastor, St. Charles, Ahos kie, N.C., was granted American citizenship during an impressive ceremony of naturalization con ducted in the U.S. District Court Sitting on the afternoon of Sep ember 2 here in New Bern, N.C. Father Bosschermuller was one of a group of 17 given all the rights and privileges of native born citizens by Federal Judge John D. Larkins, Jr. He congratu lated each for having the courage and the desire to seek after citi zenship. He suggested that each strive to continue to serve the country of their choice with re newed zeal and energy. It was noted that an occasion such as^this should also serve as ir-renewal of enthusiasm for the native bom citizens . . . the seeing of the emotions of those in the group seeking citizenship was an object lesson for any weak hearted native boms! OFFICIAL The following clergy appointments are announced by the Most Reverend Bishop through the Diocesan Chancery: The Reverend Janies Robinson, S.S.E., is appointed pas tor of St. Catherine Church, Elizabeth City. The Reverend Kevin Farrell, O.F.M., is appointed pas tor of St. Benedict the Moor Church, Winston-Salem. The Reverend Robert De Santis is appointed assistant pastor of St. Gabriel Church, Charlotte. The Reverend James Mobbs is appointed to the Dioce san Missionary Apostolate at St. Gabriel Church, Green ville. The Reverend Prabhu Prasad, I.M.S., is appointed to the Diocesan Missionary Apostolate at Our Lady of Guada lupe Church, Newton Grove. The Reverend Edward Dubriske, S.S.E., is appointed to the Diocesan Missionary Apostolate at St. John Church, North Wilkesboro. The Reverend Frederick McLachlan, S.S.E., is ap pointed to the Diocesan Missionary Apostolate at St. John Church, North Wilkesboro. The Mission of Sacred Heart, Goldsboro, is transferred from the jurisdiction of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Newton Grove, to the jurisdiction of St. Mary’s Church, Goldsboro. James E. McSweeney Chancellor Prelate Expects Changes In Mixed Marriage Laws LONDON —(NC)— The ecu menical council may provide for changes in the laws on mixed mar riages, Archbishop John Heenan of Westminster said in an inter view here. The Archbishop discussed the canon laws which provide that when a Catholic and non-Catholic marry in the Catholic Church, they must sign a promise that all chil dren of the marriage will be raised as Catholics and agree that there will be no other ceremony than the Catholic one. “There are certain propositions that will be put to the council.” Archbishop Heenan said in an in tervew in The Word, Catholic monthly. “For example, there are those who feel very strongly that the non-Catholic partner should be able to go to his own church for a blessing, as well as receive the blessing of the Catholic Church. “That kind of thing,” Arch bishop Heenan declared, “involves no great principle.” ANOTHER DIFFICULTY which he said is not insurmountable is the signed.promise about bringing up the children as Catholics. “Some people have an actual ob jection to the physical act of sign ing a promise — willing to say ‘yes’ and agree, but not liking the written promise,” Archbishop Heenan said. “That kind of objection,” he de clared, “could easily be met.” But he warned: “What I would not be prepared to say is that the council will decree that it no lon ger matters about promising to bring up the children as Catholics. I cannot imagine, myself, that the council will say that.” THE PROBLEM of Protestants and Catholics marrying is, he said, to a large extent “an imaginary problem.” There are fewer mixed marriages in London now than there were 20 years ago, he noted, and the overwhelming majority of the non-Catholics who marry Cath olics are not themselves practicing members of any religious com munity. Archbishop Heenan went on to answer questions about “jazzing up” the liturgy, the state of the press, the decline in conversions, the potential strength of the Ro man Catholic Church in Britian, and the restoration in England of the order of deacon as an inde pendent ecclesiastical office, but part of the ministry. He said he would like to see the diaconate used to give pastoral experience before a man has made the irrevocable decision of the priesthood. “I would say a future priest might well be sent out on to the parish while still a deacon in order to test his fitness for the priesthood. He might spend a year in a parish acquiring pastoral ex perience and seeing whether in fact he has the aptitude, a true vocation,” Archbishop Heenan said. “As it is, a boy goes into a semi nary and comes out a priest. After wards he may find himself un suitable.” The archbishop was asked: “How do you feel about certain moves which have been made to present Church music in a new form, such as the introduction of a jazz rhythm or what has been called a Broadway lilt?” He replied: “I think it most unlikely that the devotion of the faithful will be increased by jazz. And still less do I think that the new [Liverpool] cathedral on Merseyside [the home of the Beatles] will go in for the ‘Mersey sound.’ Nothing does more harm See Prelate, page 2A Orthodox Bishops Asked to Boycott Relic Ceremonies ATHENS — (NC) — Orthodox Archbishop Chrysostomos of Ath ens has urged Greek Bishops not to attend ceremonies to be held this fall in connection with the return of a relic of St. Andrew from Rome to Greece, it was re ported here by the newspaper Ethnos. Pope Paul VI announced in June that he would send the relic back to this country at the request of Metropolitan Constantine of Patras, where tradition says St. Andrew was martyred. Archbishop Chrysostomos, Pri mate of the Orthodox Church of Greece, reportedly expressed the fear that participation by Ortho dox prelates in the ceremonies marking the return might be mis understood as indicating an Ortho dox-Catholic “union.” The arch bishop has steadfastly opposed the sending of Greek Orthodox observ ers to the Vatican council and also spoke out against the meeting in Jerusalem last January between Pope Paul and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople. Shortly after the Pope’s June an nouncement, Metropolitan Con stantine thanked the Pontiff and said his decision was “inspired by the Holy Spirit.”
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