Our Catliolic Heritage in Texas
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social workers and a clerical staff of four in 1951, there are many members of men and women parish organizations who render invaluable volunteer help and assistance. The pastors and sisters use the services of the Bureau freely to bring help and relief to needy families. The report for 1950 shows that financial assistance was given during the year to 897 families, that 443 families benefitted from counselling services, that 562 children were helped-213 supervised in their own home and 70 in homes of relatives-that 280 more were placed in Catholic institutions for children. The agencies which have helped in coordinating services in the Arch- diocese are the Bishop's Committee for the Spanish Speaking, Guadalupe Community Center, the Girls Club, the Carmelite Center and Day Nurs- ery, the Carmelite Day Nursery, St. Alphonsus Clinic, the St. Anthony Day Nursery, St. Peter's-St. Joseph's Home, Our Lady of Victory School for Girls, the St. Vincent de Paul Home for the Aged and the Santa Rosa Hospital. Among organizations, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the Queen's Daughters, Knights of Columbus and St. Mon- ica's Guild and Pan American Progressive Association have cooperated generously. The Catholic Welfare Bureau holds membership in three national organizations and six state-wide organizations. It is a member of the San Antonio Community Chest and Community Welfare Council. The priest director serves on twenty-five boards and planning groups in an attempt to bring Catholic social teaching and practice into the various phases of community organization. 82 Confraternity of Christian. Doctrine. The Confraternity of Christian Doctrine has been a powerful spiritual force throughout the State. It has its beginnings in the Archdiocese of San Antonio in the summer religious vacation schools first sponsored in 1929 by the Council of Catholic Women in that city. Archbishop Drossaerts foresaw the great significance of the movement and, being, thoroughly in favor of it, appointed Msgr. James P. Lockwood, spiritual director of the projected schools. After the coming of Archbishop Lucey, the movement received full recognition when he established officially the Archdiocesan Office of the Confraternity in October 1941, naming Msgr. Anthony F. Drozd Direc- tor, and instructed all parishes in the archdiocese by his pastoral letter of January II, 1942 to organize Confraternities of Christian Doctrine. About 2,200 persons attended the four organizational meetings in differ- 0 Data supplied by Reverend Paul J. Ehlinger to Author, July 9, 1951.
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