Confraternity Directors
Hold National Meeting
Diocesan Directors of the Confra
ternity of Christian Doctrine from
across the country met in Newark,
New Jersey beginning April 25th
for a week-long study of the Con
fraternity program. While review
ing the over-all picture of the Con
fraternity, the Directors have con
cerned themselves with two impor
tant problems—High Schools of
Religion and Teacher Training.
Recent national criticism has
pointed up the need for improved
programs in the high schools of
Religion. Every Diocesan Director
is keenly aware of the needs in
this field. Efforts are being made
on every level to meet this need.
Publishers are continually revising
their texts, looking for what will
best bring the message of salvation
to our youth.
All of the people involved in
Confraternity work are agreed that
trained teachers will be the main
help in solving this problem. This
is not a criticism of our present
teachers rather a recognition of
the fact that those involved in
teaching the Christian message to
our youth must continue to grow
in knowledge as well as grace. The
teacher’s certificates should be the
badge of one who is continuing his
study of Christ and Hi: Church,
not a sign of completed study.
In a major address to the Direc
tors, Bishop Charles P. Greco,
Episcopal Moderator of the CCD,
stated again that the Confraternity
is the most important field of lay
apostolic action in the Church.
Bishop Greco said, “The future of
the Church in America, even in
the world, depends on the Confra
ternity.” Bishop Greco concluded
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world’s leaders “not to remain
deaf to the unanimous desire of
mankind which wants peace.” In
defense of man’s dignity and
Christian civilization, he declared
that “we cannot fail to condemn
acts of guerilla warfare and of
terrorism, the practice of holding
hostages and of taking reprisals
against unarmed civilians.”
AFTER STRESSING the grave
state of the world, Pope Paul un
derlined the fact that peace “is
not merely of our own making. It
is also, and particularly, a gift
from God.” Mankind will enjoy
peace “when we finally deserve to
receive it from Almighty God,” he
said.
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by saying, “We must stop thinking
of the Confraternity merely as ed
ucating children, but see it as it is,
the means of Christian Education
of all Catholics in the parish, pre
school children, school-age youth
not in Catholic schools, and adults.
Where the Confraternity does not
work, it has not been given a true
trial.”
Priest-Educator Cites Need
For Social Justice in Vietnam
Washington — (NC) — South
Vietnam must not only conquer the
Viet Cong to survive but must also
set itself in pursuit of social jus
tice, according to a priest who is
one of that country’s leading ed
ucators.
Father Paul Cao Van Luan, for
mer president of the University of
Hue, said here that until now there
has been little concept of social
justice in Vietnamese society. One
evidence of this, he said, is the
enormous gap between the salaries
of high government and other offi
cials and the pittances earned by
workers and fanners.
FATHER LUAN said in an inter
view that improvement of the pay
scales and conditions of the work
ers in the cities is imperative. But
it is even more essential, he said, to
improve the lot of the farmers—
the gfeat majority of the South
Vietnamese. What is needed, he
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AT THE NATIONAL MEETING of Diocesan
Directors of the Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine in Newark, N.J., Father Gerald L.
Lewis, Diocesan Director of the Diocese of
Raleigh, second from left, confers with Msgr.
Richard Neighbor, Ass’t. National Director;
Bishop Charles P. Greco, Episcopal Moderator
of the CCD; Father Edmund Mochak, Ass’t.
Director of the Diocese of Worcester; and
Father Mederic Roberts, Director of the Dio
cese of Worcester. Father Roberts will be re
membered as the leader of the “Flying
Squadron,” Diocesan Board of the Diocese of
Worcester, who came to Raleigh in 1962 on
two successive week-ends to conduct work
shops in Statesville and Raleigh.
declared, is “a real, true revolutin
to organize the community on
new basis to help the people of t)
countryside.”
Father Luan said that in CaJ
olic intellectual circles in Vietnj
there is an awareness of the ne
to implement the social teachin
outlined in Pope John’s 1961 em
clical, Mater et Magistra. But I
said that the population as a who
still needs to be educated in t
concepts of social justice.
“MANY PEOPLE talk about |
but nobody seems to try to do an
thing,” he said. “It is up to tin
government to start the movemei
for greater social justice.”
Father Luan cited three othi
things he considers vital for Soul
Vietnam. First, he said, is the ne<
for true leadership capable of i
spiring the people as a whole. So
ond and coupled with this, he sail
is a need to organize a strong poli
ical party.
The third requirement, as h
sees it, is the elimination of thi
communist agents who have infi
trated various sectors of Vie
namese life, particularly the go
ernment and the military. He ad
ed here that “there are many con
munists among the Buddhists an
also a few among the Catholic con
munity.”
FATHER LUAN SAID that dt
spite the prominence given in th
press to Buddhist agitation ii
South Vietnam, “by and large th
Buddhist people are tolerant an
patriotic.”
Asked about his ouster last Sep
tember as rector of the University
of Hue—which he founded in 1951
—Father Luan said this was thi
result of government capitulation
to a small extremist Buddhist
pressure group.
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