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Edition of Our Sunday Visitor Volume LVI April 28, 1968 No. 52 P.O. Box 9583
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Programs Scheduled
Pope Paul VI has asked that
Good Shepherd Sunday, April
28, be recognized as World Vo
cation Day.
The prayers of the faithful on
that day will be directed to re
quest guidance and help in the
present priestly vocation crisis.
The Diocesan Vocation Com
mittee has planned a series of
Youth Masses at regional cen
ters throughout the diocese in
response to the Holy Father’s
suggestion. The Mass will be
held at the principal Church in
the morning with appropriate
music and liturgical actions.
T^tor in the day Appreciation
Dinners are scheduled in eigh
teen of the largest cities in the
State. The guests of honor at
these dinners — or picnics —
will be the priests and religious
serving in the local communi
ty; all the laity are invited to
attend.
THESE DINNERS will pro
vide an opportunity for parents
and young people to meet with
priests in a non-formal, social,
atmosphere.
Priests throughout the diocese
have been requested to make
Religious Vocations the sermon
topic for Good Shepherd Sun
day. On or before that date ar
rangements have been made for
a priest to speak to all 6th, 7th
and 8th Grade students about
the life of a priest or sister and
the procedures and require
ments for entering that life.
There will be no one ordained
for the diocese of Raleigh this
Spring. This is the first Spring
in more than 25 years in which
no young man has stepped for
ward to be ordained and com
missioned to labor for life in
the Diocese of Raleigh. There
are only five seminarians in the
„ ological studies (the last four
years of priestly training) for
the diocese at the present time.
THIS SAD NOTE reflects the
status of priestly vocations
throughout the United States.
The recently issued Catholic Di
, rectory for 1967 indicates that
* enrollment in major seminaries
has decreased 5,543 over the
previous year.
Bishop McLaughlin, head of
the Diocesan Vocation Commit
tee, solicits the prayers and sug
gestions of all the people of the
diocese. The vocation crisis is
not to be regarded as the pri
vate concern of Bishops and pas
Province Meeting of
Priests Councils
Twenty-three priests repre
senting four dioceses attended a
province meeting of priest sen
ates and associations in Atlanta
on Friday, April 20.
Proposals and revisions for
the Constitution of the National
federation of priests’ councils
were discussed; the constitu
tional convention for the Na
tional Federation will be held
on May 20-21 in Chicago.
As a preliminary to future ef
forts at cooperation and assist
ance on a Provincial basis, the
delegates agreed to an exchange
■of all publications and notices
issued by the individual Senates
and associations.
The dioceses of Atlanta,
Charleston, Raleigh and Savan
nah were represented, missing
were St Augustine and Miami.
The North Carolina Priests’
Association was represented by
the Very Rev. Francis M. Smith,
Revs. H. C. Mulbolland, Roder
ick O’Connor and Ronald Mc
Laughlin.
tors; it is a responsibility for all
the people of God.
Appreciation dinners and vo
cation programs will be held in
the following cities and directed
by the priest indicated.
Asheville — Fr. John Wall
Charlotte — Fr. Joseph Kerin
Concord — Fr. Richard Allen
Elizabeth City — Fr. James
Robinson, S.S.E.
Fayetteville — Fr. James Fla
vin, O.M.I.
Havelock — Fr. Leo Mcllrath
Greenville — Fr. James Wa
ters
Greensboro — Fr. Edward
Waters
Raleigh — Fr. John Richard
son
Rocky Mount — Fr. Justin Pe
chulis
Shelby — Fr. James Keaney
Southern Pines — Fr. John
Harper
Wilmington—Fr. Eugene Liv
elsberger
Winston-Salem — Fr. Edward
Sheridan
For the first time in more than twenty-five years there will be no one ordained for the
diocese of Raleigh this Spring. There are presently only five seminarians in Theological studies.
Pope Paul VI has declared April 28, World Vocation Day. Special Youth Masses and Appreciation
Dinners are scheduled in 18 cities throughout the diocese to encourage suggestions and prayers
from all Catholic in North Carolina.
Editor's
Desk
“This is something for the seg
regationists and integrationists
to work upon,” was our first
thought when last week we saw
three Catholic churches, two side
by side, all three on the one side
of the street and all within the
space of one block. And they
were not small mission chapels
but good sized Gothic buildings,
Of course, they were built to
meet the language barriers of
the various national groups who
emigrated to this country just
before and about the turn of this
century.
It seemed to us that the job
of integrating these national
groups would have taken place
25 years ago when all of us were
patriotically waving the Amer
ican flag during the era of World
War II.
However, by sheer coincidence
we met a member of one of these
parishes. This person, in her late
60s, who may have resided
within her American community
for possibly 50 years, still need
ed the assistance of her daughter
as an interpreter for our con
versation.
I INQUIRED if the television
did not have an influence upon
the English language facility of
the people of her generation. I
was told by a priest of the area
font these people are not inter
ested in TV or radio. No doubt
the national language parishes of
many areas of the northern
states will continue in their lin
quistic function for another 25
years, especially now that the lit
urgy may be offered in various
vernacular languages.
It was a real experience to
see these churches lined up in
a row. Our problems are not as
great as we hope racial parishes
will sooner reach the end of their
usefulness as the national ones
and the perfect ideal of the fam
ily of a territorial parish will be
Catholic in every respect.
Sands of Time
The April 30, 1948, edition of
this newspaper tells that Mercy
See Editor's Desk, page 4A
Three in Diocese Honored
With Title of Domestic Prelates
Raleigh — Bishop Vincent S.
Waters announced this week that
His Holiness Pope Paul VI has
raised three priests of the Di
ocese and named them to the
honor of Domestic Prelate with
the title “Right Reverend.”
The date of the investiture is
set for April 30 at 6:30 pjn. at
Sacred Heart Cathedral here.
The clergy to receive the Papal
honors are the Rt. Rev. Micale
Andrew Carey, pastor of Our
Lady of Lourdes Church, Ral
eigh, and State chaplain of the
Catholic Daughters of America.
He is also Vicar Forane of the
Raleigh Deanery.
The Rt Rev. Francis Joseph
Murphy, pastor of St. Thomas
More Church at Chapel Hill and
Officialis of the Diocesan Matri
monial Tribunal. He holds the
degree of Doctor of Canon Law
from the Catholic University of
America.
Fewer Seminarians, Students
47 Million Catholics
Reported in Nation
NEW YORK — (NC) — Cath
olics in the 50 United States,
including families of defense
forces at home and abroad, and
of diplomatic and other services
abroad, now number 47,468,333,
according to the 1968 Official
Catholic Directory issued here
by P. J. Kenedy & Sons.
The new total represents an
increase over last year of 603,
423, and a ten-year increase of
11,444,356 or 31.7 percent over
the 36,023,977 in 1958. Converts
during 1967 numbered 110,717, a
year’s decrease of 6,761 and the
lowest annual number of con
verts since 1953.
A decrease of 89 in the num
ber of the clergy, brings the to
tal of ordained priests to 59,803
—including 37,453, or 582 more,
diocesan clergy and 22,350 reli
gious community priests, a de
crease of 671. Two archbishops,
seven bishops, one (abbot and
943 priests are listed in the
Necrology. Professed Religious
personnel include 12,261 Broth
ers, a decrease of 278, and 176,
341 Sisters, representing a de
crease of 330.
The directory reports 17,500
parishes with resident pastors—
a year’s increase of 125 — and
564 parishes without resident
clergy, a record total of 18,064
Catholic parishes in the 50
states. Also listed are 4,346 mis
sions, 1,404 stations and 12,694
chapels, a decrease of 155 places
where Mass is celebrated regu
larly.
Fulltime teaching staffs of all
educational institutions under
Catholic auspices, have in
creased by 1,272, to a record to
tal of 206,959, comprising 11,
915 priests, 841 scholastics, 5,
532 Brothers, 98,605 Sisters,
and 90,066 lay teachers. There
are decreases of 193 priests, 356
scholastics, 430 Brothers, and
4,977 Sisters, but an increase of
7,228 lay teachers, over a year
ago. During the past 10 years,
lay teachers have increased by
46,321 (106 percent), while the
Religious have increased by 4,
522 (4 percent) — 50,843 addi
tional teachers.
During 1967 there were in op
eration one more diocesan and
15 less religious community
seminaries. The 124 diocesan
seminaries report enrollments
of 224132 seminarians, a de
crease of 2,061, wMe the 437
novitiates and scholastteates of
the religious communities have
17,604 students or 3,482 leas,
See 41 aSUan, page 4A
The Rt. Rev. Peter Martin Den
ges, pastor emeritus of St. Eliza
beth’s Parish at Elizabeth City
and past Vicar Forane of the
Elizabeth City Deanery. He will
retire shortly to Maryland.
MONSIGNOR CARET, a na
tive of Pittsburgh, spent his
youth at Wilmending, Pa. He
attended Duquesne University
Prep School in Pittsburgh and
St Vincent’s College at Latrobe,
Pa. He was ordained in June,
1933, after completing the sem
inary course at St. Francis at
Loretto, Pa.
Early pastorates were at
Waynesville, Elizabeth City and
Swananoa. In 1943, he was as
signed to Hamlet with Laurin
burg as a mission. Later he as
sumed residence at Laurinhurg
and became the first resident
pastor there of St Mary’s Parish.
In 1948, he was director of the
Mission Apostolate. Returning to
the pastoral administration, he
was attached to parishes at Ashe
boro and Shelby in that capacity.
In 1997, he was appointed pas
tor of Immaculate Heart of Mary
Parish at High Point and three
years later to Our Lady of Lour
des Parish in Raleigh.
Monsignor Carey is a dioce
san consul tor and two years ago
was named Vicar Forane of the
Raleigh Deanery.
MONSIGNOR MURPHY, a na
tive of New York City, gradu
ated from Fordham Prep and
University. He completed semi
nary studies at St John’s, Little
Rock, Ark., and was ordained cm
Dec. 21, 1943, in the Cathedral
See Monsignora, page 4A
The Entrance Examina
tion for St John Vianney
pre-Seminary will be held
on Saturday, May 4 at 10:00
ajn. The exam will be ad
ministered at 12 major
cities throughout the dio
cese. Students in the 8th
through 11th grades are
eligible. Please contact your
pastor for the site moat eon