CCD fights to narrow gap of those lacking religious teaching r Vast Job Faces Catechists DENVER CAmOUC ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ O v e r 3V2 Million Catholic Youngsters May G o REGISTER Without Formal Instruction in Faith National News Section THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1964 DENVER, COLORADO VOL. LIX No. 6 : Washington — As many as 3,650,469 Catholic stu- Disaster j dents in public schools this I year may not be reached with In Illinois diocese 'neighborhood' plan Ahead for I any formal instruction in their I religion, the national office of the Confraternity of Christian Vietnam? Doctrine estimates. ' THE AAASS GOES This figure is based on the | Saigon, Vietnam -r Bud­ ! estimate that some 3,450,4691 dhist bonzes “ who created 'students were not reached by! disorder for their own polit­ jCCD classes in 1963, and that! ical ends” are pushing South ! increased enrollment figures I TO THE PEOPLE Vietnam toward catastrophe, can be expected to increase perhaps by Christmas, accord­ that figure by some 200,000 ini Rockford, 111. — TheIare to be instructed in partici-1 stances warrant a more fre ing to Father Patrick O’Connor, the new school year. |“ Neighborhood Mass” plan, Psiton and hymn singing; andj quent use. The ceremony is Columban priest and NCWC 4^ 16^31 Instructed a new liturgical program |a homily is to be given. I to be i.in a. different------. —i-ui—neighbor­ correspondent here. which features the celebration privilege may be used hood each month and both Attributing the ineffectiveness The 1964 Official Catholic Di­ of Mass in homes of the faithful! month for each Catholic and Protestant of the present military govern­ rectory showed 1,249,137 high under specific conditions, has I P^^'ish unless special circum- neighbors are to be invited. ment to pressures brought by school students and 3,067,794 been adopted by Bishop Loras ^ grade school pupils were in­ Buddhist leaders, Father O’Con­ T. Lane. nor said serious grounds exist structed in their faith, for a In a letter to the clergy. grand total of 4,316,931 young­ for suspecting the Buddhist Bishop Lane said in these days sters who were reached in the leadership has been infiltrated when the Church is endeavor­ REGISTER catechetical program. Even by Communists. He pointed out ing to bring about an interior | though that figure was 187,707 that scores of the country’s renewal in the life of her mem­ greater than for the previous most determined anti-Commu- bers, particularly through litur year, using estimates published nists are still held for “ investi­ gy, special attention must be ROUNDUP in Parade magazine in 1963 gation” after 10 months of im­ centered on the heart of litur­ that there were approximately prisonment. gical worship, the Mass. 7,767,400 Catholics in the public Leader of the Vietnamese “ The Neighborhood Mass” schools, this leaves the 3,450,469 Promise Broken Buddhist political movement, plan envisions that the. home who went untaught in religion. said Father O’Connor, is Thich where the Mass is offered Paris Bishop Alexandre Renard of Versailles said the matter of a Tri Quang, 42-year-old bonze A 1958-59 survey by the CCD will be a center to which all who received political asylum showed an army of some 94,000 the neighbors will be invited priest who was reduced to lay state and allowed to marry was in the American embassy in teachers, both religious and lay for the event. It will not sup­ “ covered by a promise of rigorous silence.” Although such Saigon from Sept. 1 to Nov. 2 teachers, mobilized to instruct plant church services on Sun­ dispensations are occasionally granted in extraordinary cases, the last year. some 2,172,454 youngsters in days or holy days but rather, publicity could make the Vatican take a more severe stand in schools of religion and religious The American embassy now as a special practice of a the future, he said. is debating whether or not Tri vacation schfiols. weekday, will create a bet- Quang is a Communist, Father The statistics for 1964-1965 Cer understanding of the sa­ Brest, France O’Connor said. are likely to show the tre­ cred mysteries. Bishop Lane Death ended the extraordinary dual career of Admiral “ It seems to be an unneces­ mendous effort to keep up said. Georges Thierry D’Argenlieu, a Carmelite priest who headed sary debate, for practical pur­ with a steadDy increasing Conditions set by Bishop Free France’s naval forces in World War II. Before entering poses,” he said. “ The evi­ need that threatens to widen Lane are: Permission of the the order he was a seaman in World War I. After World War dence is clear that whether the gap betkveen Catholic Bishop is required: the Mass II he returned to the monastery, but not before serving as he is a Communist or not, the children who lire taught and should be in the evening be­ France’s high commissioner in Indo-China. gasne that he and his col- those who are not. tween 4 and 8 p.m.; the people ieagues have been piaying Castelgandolfo, Italy helps the Communists. ’That Before leaving his summer residence here for Vatican City, should be enough to keep re­ the Pope announced to a group of women religious that Women sponsible Vietnamese and |De Paul Official Is Dead; auditors will be admitted to some meetings of the Ecumenical Americans from entrusting Council. He lamented “ manifestations of modern life in which this country to Thich Tri woman appears to have fallen from spiritual and ethical height Quang and his men.” | 'Epitomized Vincentianism' . often to pagan license.” Father O’Connor charged that Detroit — B. A. Seymour, cation of charity,” was buried the bonzes “ turned the country wu?riNe IS SUCH s w e e t s o r r o w who was described as “ the here from the downtown Sts. Bonn, Germany upside down last year over epitome of the Vincentian vo- Peter and Paul’s church, KN.A reports that the Polish Communist government has what is now widely recognized where he bad assisted at daily asked Catholic pastors to draw up inventories of Church prop­ as a phony issue. They have Ceuncil expected to draw guidelines ^ Mass for many years. erties, possibly as a prelude to more stringent tax levies. been doing the same recently. “ k>. A.” was widely known “ South Vietnam is now faced Meerssen, Holland as national chairman of the with a dictatorship of bonzes. Father Linus Grond, Q.F.M., has reported to the Interna­ St. Vincent de Paul Society’s The country cannot be saved if tional Federation of Catholic Institutes for Social and Ecclesias­ Christians! How to Face World? Extension committee. In that no leader will take a stand tical Research that there has been a decrease of seminarians capacity he had contacted against this dictatorship. The Vatican City — The Ecu­ troduction, four chapters and a with urgent daily problems, ac­ in nearly all European countries. The decreases between 1956 Acknowledging that Bishops thousands of priests and lay­ U.S. will see its immense in­ conclusion. cording to the Vatican source sometimes must judge acts of menical Council’s draft pro­ men to spread the society’s and 1963 were: Belgium, 20 per cent; Holland, 8.6; France, 5.6; vestment here going down a One chapter will discuss the civil powers in terms of faith posal on the Church in the Among the subjects dealt work. He also was treasurer of England, 6.4; Switzerland, 9.6. neutralist pipe into a Red drain, value of earthly things, the and morals, the draft will stress with will be Church-State rela­ the Superior Council of the if it acquiesces further,” he as­ modem world will contain a sig­ vocation and dignity of man that they are not to interfere tions, marriage and the family ... .... ... .. United States and president of serted. nificant chapter outlining the and the conflict and harmony Warns on Reds and the duties of Cathoiics in Detroit’s particular councU. “ By now the bonzes have basic conditions for facing the of duties and the nature of exercise of civil powers. the modern world. It is seen as plus being national disaster Washington built up their organization. world in a Christian manner, a guide for Catholics confronted the full vocation of man. The last chapter will review “ Hate the U.S.” propaganda peddled by rank-and-flle Com- according to a reliable Vatican chairman. I They have enlisted students Another chapter will review the principal duties of Chris­ i munists was blamed by the House Un-American Activities (Com­ source. to use the violence they them­ the Church’s dedication to the tians in this age. After dis- For more than 60 years mittee for the assassination of President Kennedy and the at­ The chapter also will deal service of God and men. enssing the dignity of the hu­ “ B. A.” made weekly visits to selves cannot afford to use. tempted assassination of President Harry S. Truman. The com­ They have cowed the govern­ with the fraternal communion Nestorian Church The draft will insist on the man person, the document the poor, a task he never for­ mittee said Americans are too complacent about the everyday ment to the point where po­ among men in the spirit of pov­ duty of Christians to obey just will consider the dignity of sook despite his administra­ works of Communist activity in their midst. lice and military were held erty and consider the Church’s Sends Observers commands of temporal leaders.