MY SISTER THE DOCTOR — Sister Rose Leon, a Maryknoll
nun-physician, begins a rough Thursday schedule by giving a
little African a check-up. The Sister, who maintains three
clinics at missions near Buhangija, Tazania, East Africa, has
had as many as 500 patients queue up on a single Thursday —
and never less than 300. Among other things she teaches school
girls on how to brief women on sanitation, child care and bal
anced diets. Not too long ago, Sister Rose Leon found the girls
had been a bit unspecific in teaching new mothers, — the
women were coming to the nuns’ kitchen to bathe their babies
in spotless dishpans. A Maryknoll aide reports that Sister Rose
Leon is also a busy obstetrician — an average of 52 deliveries
a month. (RNS Photo) __
Bishops in Meeting
On Priestly Training
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teen bishops attended a meeting
at Immaculate Conception semi
nary here to discuss the Vatican
council’s decree on priestly train
ing.
The bishops were invited by Ab
bot Anselm Coppersmith, O.S.B.,
of Conception Benedictine abbey,
and Father Conrad Falk, O.S.B.,
rector of the seminary.
They were asked for opinions
on proposals for updating semi
naries and planning for the future,
especially in regard to teacher
training, the apostolic program,
student enrollment and the coun
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Training in Mental Health
Work for Clergymen Urged
New York —(RNS)— Churches
and synagogues were called upon
by a noted Catholic theologian and
educator here to accelerate their
efforts in training clergymen to
counsel congregation members
with mental health problems.
The appeal was made in an in
terview by Father John A. O’Brien,
research professor of theology at
Notre Dame University and an ec
umenical leader. He was in New
York to attend a board meeting
of the American Foundation of
Religion and Psychiatry.
FATHER O’BRIEN stressed that
the “ravages of mental illness in
our country should be of deep
concern to church and syna
gogue.”
Noting that a government study
showed that 42 per cent of all
people with emotional troubles
first turn to their clergyman
rather than to their doctor, the
priest said churches and syna
gogues “must be prepared to meet
these calls for their help.”
Father O’Brien has been active
for several years in the inter-reli
gious foundation started in 1937
to train clergymen in counseling
and to operate out-patient mental
health clinics. Its main clinic is in
New York, with others in various
parts of the country.
WHILE THERE are some 200
church-related counseling centers
in the U.S., observed Father O’Bri
en, more are badly needed since
there are only about 15,000 psy
chiatrists in the country to serve
hundreds of thousands of mental
ly disturbed persons.
“Some surveys have shown
that employee absenteeism alone
costs $10 billion a year,” he said,
“with 50 to 80 per cent of this
loss blamed on mental disturb
ances. The hospitalization of the
mentally ill costs nearly $2 billion
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a year in lost .purchasing power,
and more than $1 billion is lost by
business and industry each year
because of alcoholism.
“Mental and emotional disturb
ances are estimated to be related
to 75 per cent of all accidents.
Such accidents cost industry $3 bil
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“Particularly disturbing is the
fact that 225,000 persons enter oui
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Italian
ISheWe
Lawmakers
Divorce
Rome — (NC) — A bill to in
troduce divorce into Italy has been
shelved by Italian lawmakers.
Strong resistance by the Chris
tian Democratic Party, backed by
Italian Catholic Action and by the
Italian Bishops’ Conference, was
believed responsible for an inde
finite postponement. However, the
justice committee, in putting off
further consideration of the bill,
pleaded that the press of other im
portant legislation made it im
possible to fix a date for discus
sion of the bill.
THE SPONSOR of the legisla
tion, Socialist Deputy Loris Fortu
na, said it was the 11th legislative
attempt since 1887 to introduce
divorce into Italy but the first to
get to committee. However, in the
early 19th century those parts of
Italy under Napoleonic domination
—and therefore under Napoleonic
law—had divorce.
Fortuna’s bill envisages divorce
in five cases: desertion for at least
five years, separation because of
clinical mental illness for at least
five years, foreign divorce or an
nulment by a partner not of Ital
ian nationality, life imprisonment
or a jail term of at least five
years for a moral offense, a moral
offense punishable by that term
in jail but not liable to prosecu
tion because the culprit is unfit
to plead.
DISCUSSIONE, a review of the
Christian Democratic Party, pub
lished an article by Father Giu
seppe De Rosa of the Rome Jesuit
fortnightly Civilta Cattolica oppos
ing the bill. The title of the arti
cle summed up its sentiments: “A
Bill Against Society and Against
Family.”
Father De Rosa stated that in
dissolubility “belongs to every le
gitimate marriage, even if con
tracted between non-Christians."
He declared, “everyone who pro
fesses himself to be a Catholic and
appears as such in public life . ..
must do everything in his power,
within the bounds and the means
permitted by the political system
in which he lives, which in out
case is the democratic system, to
prevent the thesis of divorce from
prevailing and to reassert the in
dissolubility of marriage instead."
THE LEADERSHIP of Italian
Catholic Action, following a recent
meeting in Rome, urged all Ital
ian Catholics, including politicians,
to oppose the divorce bill.
The Italian Women’s Center;
which groups women’s organiza-,
tions with a total membership ot
three million, issued a statement
of opposition to any form of di
vorce.
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