The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-12-06

Staff members of the N.C.W.C.
UN Office act as official repre-
sentatives of the World Union of
Catholic Women's Organizations
at the United Nations Economic
and Social Council and at the
United Nations international
Children's Emergency Fund.
STATEMENT REACHED $4,000
The 1856 statement of the Bish-
ops of the United States, printed
by the N.C.W.C. Publications Of
flee, reached a circulation of
$4,000 copies.
This was revealed in the year
ly report of the Business Manage
ment Office submitted by Henry
P. Lefebure, business manager,
and was in addition to wide circ-
ulation in the Catholic and secu-
lar press. The report stated that
the Bishops message, entitled
"Peace, Unity-The Hope of Man
kind" would continue to have a
wide circulation in November and
December
Continuing interest was evil
denced in the papal encychcals
in pamphlet form, according to
the report. In the past year the
Business M anagemen Office
printed four papa1 documents in
this form.
Among them was the Motu
Proprio of His Holiness Pope Plus
XII in which permissions concern
ing the Eucharistfc fast we're
broadened. This pamphlet was
published under the title "On
the Laws of Fasting and the
Evening Mass"
AS the fiscal year ended, ar
rangements had been made to
publish the Pope's new encyclical
on the missions, Fidei Donum
CThe Gift of FAITH.
CLOSE COOPERATION
Cooperation between the Con-
fraternity of Christian Doctrine
in the us. and Latin American
countries was strengthened by
scholarships for Latin American
students to the CCD leadership
course at the Catholic University
of America, Washington, D. C.
This is noted in the annual re-
port of the CCD by its episcopal
chairman, Bishop Matthew F.
Brady of Manchester.
Arrangements have been made
to have an American priest as
sist in the work of the Contra
ternity Of Christian Doctrine in
Latin America with offices in
Bogota, Colombia. The arrange
ment was made between the epis-
copal chairman for CCD Inter-
American Relations, the Mission
Secretariat, and the general sec
rotary of the Council of Latin
American Bishops.
Latin American scholarships in
1857 were awarded to 10 priests
appointed by the hierarchies of
10 Latin American countries. The
priests studied methods and tech
niques of catechetical instruction
in classes conducted at the Cath
Ollie University of America Sum-
mer School and I%ncarnate Word
College, San Antonio, Tex, the
report said.
In the past year, Religious Ed
ucation, the bulletin of the Reli-
gious Education Association, pub
lished an article showing the use
of the Confraternity Edition of
the Bible in religious education,
it added.
EXTENSION OF SERVICES
Eight permanent clubs of the
National Catholic Apostleship of
the Sea conference in us. port
cities recorded more than 100000
visits from seamen of As coun.
tries during the past year.
In its annual report presented
by Auxiliary Bishop L. Abe
Caillouet of New Orleans, episco.
pal moderator of the group, il
was noted that the eight clubs
provided dormitory facilities for
81 ,246 seamen for the year and
distributed 15,404 religious ar
J ticles and Catholic publications.
The clubs are located in Mo
bile, Ala, New Orleans, Newport
News, Va, Portland, Ore, Sar
Francisco, Wilmington, and Sar
Pedro, Calf, and Seattle, Wash
The clubs conducted ST. rec
reational group activities in which
1851 seamen took part and Isl
!. religious group activities in which
4,374 seamen participated. Eight
converts entered the Church dur
ing the year.
In addltl0n TO the services anC
activities mentioned, the clubs ant
their chaplains handled sucf
problems as distributing seamen''
mail, interviewing seamen, pro
viding ship Libraries, visiting hos
pitalized seamen and providin,
Catholic instruction for seamen
The national organization re
ported that "a chaplains are &C
tive in us. ports and that thu
Apostleship of the Sea is beinl
continued actively in many cite
without clubs.
In 13 cities without clubs
chaplains distributed 1924 reli
gious articles and pieces of Cath
Ollie literature and held 70 reli
gious group activities with 400
seamen attending.
\ BOARD INCOME LARGEST YE-
n The income and disbursement
of the American Board of Cath
Ollie Missions for the fiscal yea