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Seton Hall University eRepository @ Seton Hall The aC tholic Advocate Archives and Special Collections 5-3-1962 The Advocate - May 3, 1962 Catholic Church Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.shu.edu/catholic-advocate Part of the Catholic Studies Commons, and the Missions and World Christianity Commons Recommended Citation Catholic Church, "The Advocate - May 3, 1962" (1962). The Catholic Advocate. 223. https://scholarship.shu.edu/catholic-advocate/223 Catholic TheAdvocate U.S. Population Official Publication of the Archdiocese of Newark, N. J., and Diocese of Paterson, N. J. Vol. No. 19 11, THURSDAY, MAY 3,1962 PRICE: 10 CENTS in Year Blessed Martin Jumps 770,000 NEW YORK (NC) - U. S. 'Just the Kind Saint Catholics now total nearly 43 of million, according to the Offi- cial Catholic Directory for Church in New 1962 here P. J. U.S.A. published by Jersey, Kenedy & Sons. The The Church Needs exact total by the This statistical the Church in New and the United given resume of Jersey States is taken from 1962 Catholic Directors/, Today' Official 7 ' is and in- directory 42,876,665 published by P. Kenedy Sc New York. - J. Sons, VATICAN CITY (RNS) cludes Catholics in the 50 When the Church adds anew states, all families of the de- Newark Paterson New United name to the Jersey States roll of those for- fense forces at home and 1961 1962 1961 1962 1961 1962 1961 mally proclaimed to be among abroad, and the diplomatic 1962 the chosen in heaven Diocesan the and other services abroad. priests 764 797 158 163 L5OB 1/559 33/774 long and costly process known The new total is an increase Total as canonization priests 1,141 332 it very oft- of 771,765 over last year’s fig- , 348 2,202 MfiSZ 55^81 en does so for reasons of spe- ure of 42,104,900, and a' 10- Brothers cial timeliness. 125 150 87 77 271 298 10,928 iI^Q2 year increase of 12,451,650. This is notably true in Slstcrg the 3 317 3,388 1,366 1,502 6,863 6,777 170,438 case of Blessed Martin de Por- WITH THE elevation of At- - 173,351 ' the Partsheg 242 85 res, 17th century Domini- lanta, Ga., to the status of ; 87 586 613 16,996 17,159 can lay Brother of Lima, Peru, archdiocese, there are now 27 Chapels 293 299 110 110 611 618 who on Sunday, May 6, will archdiocese in the U. S. 11,403 11,505 become The establishment the New World’s first of the new Seminarians 253 246 226 254 1,233 1,369 41,871 canonized Negro saint. Dioceses of Baton Rouge, La., 46,189 College students San Angelo, Cal., Oakland, 13482 12,383 2,091 2,120 15/177 14 384 321,999 WONDERWORKER, social Cal., and San- Stockton, Cgl., High Schools ~’ organizer, physician and 52 52 14 15 93 ta Rosa, Cal., brings the 2dßs founder of successful welfate number of dioceses to (in- High School Students 21,956 24,746 4,857 5,649 46,452 886,295 945485 cluding the Vicariate of Alas- Grammar Schools Related Story, Page 13 ka). There are two million _227 221 64 67 451 451 10,594 JojCT Catholics reported by the Mil- Grammar School Students 127,832 135,847 25,416 26,587 institutions, Blessed Martin itary Ordinariate, the diocese 245,168 254,772 4,402,410 4,464,725 was actually half Negro, half for Catholics in the armed Confraternity Students 108,148 122,646 21,812 21,220 198,379 207,347 3,472,176 3,749,522 white the son of Don Juan forces. Children under de Porres, a The archdioceses Instruction 271,564 295,875 54,522 Spanish grandee, eight with 55,830 503,006 524,824 9,136,823 9,542,825 and Ana Catholic Velasquez, a freed populations in excess Teachers 4,357 4,267 1.034 1,010 7,864 Negro slave who was a cab- of one million are Chicago, 2,- 7,802 168,677 175,806 aret entertainer in 163,380; 1 Panama.. Boston, 1,698138; New General Hospitals 9 9 4 4 17 17 814 816 An illegitimate, unwanted York, 1,651,400; Newark, 1,- Martin Bed capacity child, reepived no edu- 495,298; Los Angeles, 1,421,- *093 2,388 1.190 1,160 4/SB3 4/704 140,089 141,331 cation in his early years. Nev- 478; Detroit, 1,396,346; Phila- Patients treated 164,467 168,838 97,233 98,297 ertheless, he was destined to delphia, 1,251,934, and San 407,363 416,425 13,469,460 14,140,884 become one of the most illus- Francisco, 1,121,595. Orphanages, asylums 11 9 3 2 15 trious 12 273 272 standard bearers of so- Brooklyn continues as the and interracial Children In 963 923 151 cial justice of largest diocese, with a Catho- Orphanages 69 *264 *339 25,173 21M533 the Church. lic population of 1,493,164. Oth- Infant baptisms 34454 33,957 7,978 When Pope John, at the cli- ers with more than 500,000 max of brilliant ceremonies in arc Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleve- Total baptisms 364)00 35,545 8,427 8,428 70.607 71,511 1,486.193 1,480,801 St. Peter's Basilica, pro- land, Rockville Centre, N. Y., Convertl, nounces the words which will CANONIZATION Martin Providence, and Cor- 1.846 L5BB 449 471 4,011 DUE - Biassed DePorres will be- Trenton, _ 3,660 136,953 M&O give the Church its Tex. newest come the Church's newest saint when he pus Christi, M"" 1* recognized is B ** 9,114 1,867 1,825 16,840 saint, he will have responded canonized 16,538 319,481 3^847 by John in St. Peter's Basilica on 6. to the Pope May ELEVEN DIOCESES re- prayers of Catholics, in P th * f* 16,813 11,128 1.928 *O6l 18,188 18,887 348,529 countries ranging from the and his ported no changes in their M*B7B piety extraordinary Throughout his 45 years in " United States for Catholic population and 11 had Catholic population 1,451,702 1,495,298 to Alaska, India, compassion even animals, the religious life, Martin, who 236,389 243,673 2,408,817 2,504,187 42,104,899 42,876,665 China and from rats and mice not died in slight decreases. Advances Korea; Cen- excluded, 1639, was not only an Total population tral and South entered were reported by 118 Sees. 2,818,789 2,843,334 717,493 717,493 6,060,915 6,129,538 179,319,682 America to Ha- the Dominican Order extraordinarily holy .man, but 180,940,947 The largest increases were waii and the Philippine Is- as a He was too hum- of tertiary. enjoyed many signs God’s in Los lands. ble to Angeles, 73,374; Chica- / ask to be a lay Brother, favor. go, 44,549; Trenton, 44,078; of the Church is recorded as of Brothers and 2,913 Sisters. 12,832 and it was nine years before He was often found in youths in attendance. ty enrollments for the ninth THE SECRET OF ec- and Jan. 1 for Blessed he was Newark, 43,596. comparative statis- New educational institutions persuaded to accept stasy, his face aglow with year is reflected by an in- Martin is 1962 that, although he liv- the Brother’s The directory lists 234 tical accuracy. A HIGH OF 14,015 separate include two diocesan and six habit.' heavenly brightness. Once he crease of 14,605 college stu- ed in a time that might seem members of the An increase of 899 in the He was found rais- hierarchy, an educational institutions 54 religious order seminaries es- dents during 1961. Current remote and was barber, keeper of miraculously of en- alien, he has re- increase 14. number of the clergy brings 1961 1961. 98 ed from the ground, his newly established during tablished during The rollments now mained, the common wardrobe, nurse lips the total 336,604. through the alchemy total of ordained priests to includes 98 diocesan semi- diocesan seminaries to the sick pressed to the side of a Cruci- report en- The number of fulltime of his sanctity and the and infirm, and THE FIRST ISSUE of a 55,581, the pu- all-en- fix. largest ever re- naries; 447 religious order rollment of 23,662 seminarians, pils in Catholic compassing of dispenser of alms not only to Catholic Directory for the corded. There elementary range his social He had the are now 33,774 seminaries or novitiates and an increase of 2,342, while the and and charitable those who came begging, but power of bilo- U. S. was published in 1817 high schools reflects an activities, a liv- (633 more) diocesan or secu- novitiates and an into scholasticates; 278 colleges 447 and scholasti- increase of 121,604 ing and among the poor of the slums insight theology and subsequent editions have lar during flie challenge inspiration that clergy, and 21,807 reli- and universities; 1,566 dioces- catcs of the orders to modern whom he visited regularly. -It caused the regent of reflected the steady growth of religious past year. The 1,566 parish men in search of a gious order in- studies in the priests, an an and parish high have 22,592 students or 2,041 and diocesan better was said he fed some 160 of convent to de- tlie Church.