News Scrapbook 1973

San Diego diocese among st. fastest growing in U.S. 7" 73

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SOUTHERN CROSS, THURSDAY, MAY 31 , 1973 - Pa11e 7

Loyola president to speak

565 wi I graduate from USO

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They are served by one bishop, 413 secular (dio- cesan) priests and 118 religious order priests; and they worship in 164 parish churches, 72 ch pels, 2 missions and 11 stations. THESE AND other statis- tics were compiled by the Diocesan Office for the 1973 Official Catholic Directory published in New York by

P. J . Kenedy and Sons. (A story on the national figures appeared in the Southern Cross May 17. It o · d 48,460,427 Catholics

Southern Cross Reporter ONLY FOUR other dio- ceses among the country's 165 gained more Catholics last year than the San Diego d iocese. Fifth biggest growing dio- cese, San Diego has 543,907 Catholics - an increase of 31,495 over the previous year.

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96 ~fEl"•i studying to bernme priests, including 33 at St. Francis diocesan seminary, 28 111 other seminaries and 35 in religi- ous order seminaries. K, -2,516 students at the Univer. ity of San Diego. -4,740 students at nine diocesan, pa rot hial and private high schools, and 19,780 in 72 eleme ntary schools. -76,201 total number of students under Catholic instructions, including CCD. Iota I teachers, including 644 ~islers and 506 lay people - 1,177

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12,056 infa nt baptisms,

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VnhersitJ of San Diego freshman Jeffrey Holmes wins first place in organ compchhon ·ponsored b) Sau Diego Ch..ipter, Amencan Guild of Organists. -::,-.. l'omona \ alleJ-\\e l End Hight lo Life !~ague open < m h tree 7 .30 p.m ~londa). June 4 .\lontcl,ur L brar). Civic enter Dtscuss10n on ··someCon ·cquenc . ol lntluced ,\bort1on to Children Born Subsequ.-nll) •· rnporl b~ 1argarel and Arthur Wynn of London. and anll-aborlton 1lrrt Dl•lails; 982-3434.

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Relig o s {Continued irom B-1J t'I academic ·tudy of the n,ajor 'llorld religions. The Rev. !\is r. John R. Portman is chairman. On the !acuity are two Lutheran mini ters-Dr. Delwin B. a

igious Studies In Demand

campus m 1st r for Umted Church of Chri l and :\lcthod1 t stud nt.. The cour e, he said. began in ttlc Unhcr it, Extcns1on program DE:\lA. "D FOR COLRSE Then it was ca lied "f,'ron- tiers of Faith" and attended b} more than 300 persons. "The demand was such,'' said Atkin on, "that we got together and made it a regular undergraduate off- ering." He said people who are both religious and interested in religion take the course. Their numb

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:\Iodern World" cour e al lm- peri;il Valley College, in Im- perial. ''The course doesn't fulfill any major reqmrements," he said, "Its function is to in- "Most people are abysmal- Iy ignorant when it comes to their own. Now, it seems, they're reHgions culious.,, other than DRAWN BY CURIOSITY An equal number of adults and young people enroll for the class, said Hann, and they take it for different rea- form.

come aware of the issues." CH.\NGE JN MAKEUP The makeup or the class h,1s c·han"ed, she said. "Lp until this year,'' she said. "a third or the class 1\ ere Christian believers, a third professed atheism and a third II ere looking, search mg "Now I'd say it's about one• sixth for each of the first two and the rest are looking." Discussion is one area to which Ms. Hill caters. "It gets pretty spirited," she said, "but I encourage it. We have a wide variety of agC"B including people, still in high school to others in their 60s. I promote difference of opinion expressed in a way that won't hurt others. "Toward the end of the se• in some way. Just a lot of sharing.'' ',fs. Hill was an occupation- thernpist graduate from \\ ashington State University who returned to school earn- ing a master's degree in phi- ;ii losophy from UCSD. TRADITIONS WEAKEN • I see a grass roots move- "something basic and exis- tential rather than the tradi- tional religious outlook of the ment coming," she said, called "The Bible as Liter- ature" and taught in the Eng- lL~h department by Rudy Sal- mi. It was offered for the first time this semest at his sug- gestion and tho of students who asked for it. • 'ow it will regular basis. ffered on a Sahni's app1oach is literary, a study of the poetry and writing styles of the old and new testaments. l\lESA COLLEGE At J\1esa College, Norman Johnshoy, a Lutheran clergy- man working on a doctorate in philosophy at UCSD, teach- es a class in "World Reli- gions" in the evening school. The course begins with Hindui m, Buddhism, Con- fucianism and Taoism-and moves to western religions- Islam, Judaism and Chris- tianity. ''I teac-h it with a philosoph- ical point of view," said John- shoy, \\ ho holds a master's degree in divinity from Lu- her Theo ogical Seminary in 1 past.'' The course at Chula v1·sta's Southwestern College mester, mce. There it is particularly is no fighting,

ByLEEGR :-.T R hg1on Is alive and well at San Di go area colleges. You fmd It under thes ti-

the Oeacl Sea Srroll. . He also speaks Hebrew fluently. In the school's early days, he said. "when our church relation hip • was more ob- vious, man} younl' men stud- ied here for profe sional work in the ministry. • But when we serered from the church In 1971 \\e lost many of tho e "Recently we have picking up quite a few ma ors. J'd ;ay udents are ho\\ mg a real inter • in tt g10us studies." There are 2 ma1ors at , 1l rn phdo opby and r li- g10us tudir but from tbroug t th campus . tu- dents the couriie,. t~ these days arE' looking for a more mean- ingful lire S)stem," said Dr. Co s. •:-1any believe the reli- gious lnstitu ion• of the West have failed but are still inter- e led in the values found there. TROUBLED BY ACTI\'IS\I • Students seem to be trou- bled by all the activism ancl 1 are now looking toward a qui- eter approach, thlngs like meditation." They crowd Into a five-uni course called "Oriental Reli- gion." The class studies the practices and religio-philo- sophical concepts of India, China and Japan. Beliefs considered Include Hinduism, Buddhism, Con- fucianism, Taoism and Shintoism. "The vast number of students taking religion course are concerned with moral value and the ulti- mate questions," said Coss. "They bellev we can help them investigate these. 'Aum~c EXPERIENCE' ''Our program ls not de- signed to turn out pre~chers but to help students, as one Rel1g1ous stud1 at USTU aid Co s, ''is an openen

"ant to be exposed to new ideas." nd that'· v. hat the) :;et. •·Young people have be- come more snph1sl!catecl m their approach to churches," he said • They want to be• long to something more tJian the structures of rehgion. "To them, the meaning of man i most important." Meam1hile, the department Is e,cplonng D" 1 approaches and new area~ in reltg1ous tuclies. SEML. \R PI~\ ·. 'ED In the fall, a two-day semi• nar 1s sch duled on "Thi' 1eetmg of Psychology and Religion-~tan's Crea'ive Di- men ion." A ~~gment or Dr. S\\ - hart's work L, concerned with what to do ...,1th a maJor in religious tudies. One tb.ina to do is counsel- ing. A combi~ program m counsehng m p ychology and religious studies ls bemg 01s- cu ed. Another area Is teaching religious studies at the pnm- ary and secondary school lev• els. "We want to become the pl• lot program for that kind of thing." said Dr. Swyhart. "There are many vistas yet to be opened." usru APPROACH At United States Inter- national University s Cal Western campus, Dr Thur- mond Coss beads a depart- ment In philosophy and reli- gious studies. The program, thP schoors catalog ,ay~, "1s designed to i>ncourage tudents to explore freely and thoughtfully the philosophies of life and world viey,s which compete for the allegiance or contemporary men and ...,omen." ''This department ha~ the mo t developed, most estab- li hed course~ at the univer- sity,'' said Dr. Co, , who holds a doctorate from Ober- lin Graduate School of Theo- logy in Ohio. "The department began when the uruve ity was founded in the early 1950s and afrihated \11th the tethodist church." Cos~ has been at U I l'n years and, be i e rhalrmanship A eaching I dulles, has \\Tl book on

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it, discuss Jesus' thoughts and considC'r questions hke "Whal are mir- acles?," "Did Jesus really have an ethic for all of us to follow?" and '·Do you have to believe in the ~1rgin birth and re ·urrection to be Chris- tian?" RELIGIOUS I. ;TEREST Similar que·tions are con templated at the umven:ity·s Elhott campus 11 herf' Dr. Ed- ward Cell, cha·rman of the D1\ision of Comparative World Studi"•• teaches cour. es in ' 0 Phi10,ophy of Re- ligion'' and "Religion and Contemporaf) (,'ulture" "Student, akmg these classes are rr ore relig1ou~ than most Amencan ," said Cell, who earned b1 docto- rate in philo ophy from Princeton l'm \·er ity and came to IU al er being 1 with the. ·aliona! Endowment for the Humanities. ''But their rellgiousnes· has nothing to do \\ith contempo- rary western religions. They are interested in the ques- tions and they really matter o them." USD APPROACH At the UmversitY of San D1egQ, a Catholic institution, there s no major In religious studie However, next 'Spring there will be. Meanwhile, 11 facul y of eight conduct a minor In the subjects with an emphasis on (Continued on B-5, Col. 2} students The honors convocation of the Cmversity of San Diego was held last week in Camino Theatre. Sister ~ lly Furay. Provost. presided Honors were awarded for the highest academic average m each class for the scholastic year 1972 - 1973 as well as class honors to those students who maintained a high grade pomt average for the year and who rank in the upper 10 per cent of their class. Men and woman with the highest academic a\'erage in the senior class for the scholastic year 1972-73 Jovcc Richter. Bruce A Romano. John L. White. Man and Woman with the highest academic average m the junior class for the sc holastic year 1972-73 Raymond Greenwell and Laura Schanes. Man and Woman with the highest academic average in the sophomore class for the scholastic year 1972-73 Ann Hornby and Alfred J Liu Man and Woman with the highest academic average m the freshman class for the scholastic year 1972-73 James Burnett and Grace 1mmons fifth annual USD d O'f a t, { Ihonored at con VO

Schneider and the Rev. Jack Linquist-and a rabbi. Joel S. Coor of Temple Beth Israel. Before the merger of the chool's College for Men and College for Women in 1968 there "as a department of theology at each. When the schools united the department name was changed to "Religious Stud- ies." "That," said lfsgr. Port- man, ·•s to give us a broader base from hkh to work." ECU:\1E 'JCAL CE:\"'IER As a ranch of the depart- ment. tie Ecumenical Center for th udy of World Reli- gions wa formed Ja t year. Its funcllon is to ''discover and investigate points of con- tact between Christian tradi- tions and other faiths," said :\Isgr. Portman, "to develop a library of the scriptures and writings of major faiths and as a research center." The university, he said, is dedicated to providing •·a real liberal education and you can't have one i£ you don·t know the judeo-chrislian background.'' Each University of San Diego student is required to take nine units of religious studies. ''The pnmary objective of our department," said Msgr. Portman, "is presenting the traditions of the world's ma- jor religions. SUPPORTIVE PROGRA::\IS "Our concern is with the academic discipl10e but we would hope students involve themselves in the practice of living them. "We have many supportive programs like retreats and spiritual counseling." Succinctly, be said, "it's like that movie-·What's it all about - Alfie?.' We study the ·1c questions of modern man." The increase in the popu- ·ty of religious study, said gr. Portman, ."comes from a hunger for transcedence, a springing up of a general awareness that our lifestyles are not enough. " ere 1s a general ma- laise and dissatisfaction with the values in our society to- day. "Youna people are looking J for meanmg." i;cso CLASSES At l"CSD, a group of campus ministers took it 1pon themselves two years ago to mtroduce an interdis- cipl ary clas called ''Tn- roduction to Religious Stud- ies." Tire philosophy department offer~ a course in · Judaic Studies' and the history de- partment h:is one called "Church and State in the . TtddleA«e ·.•· "We wl•re actually con- fronted with a demand to start our course," said Les A m on, who calls himself an Presbyterian, and serves

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Earl Warre&' 1/?J SO,;Tl«8_

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Earl Warren, formerly chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, will address the graduating class of the University of San Diego School of Law this Saturday at 2 p.m. Justice Warren's topic has not been announced. The ceremonies will mark the 16th conferral of Juris Doctor degrees. The Most Reverend Leo T. Maher, Bishop of San Diego, will preside. Juris Doctor degrees will be received by 258 graduates in a class or 244 men and 14 women whose ages range from 24 to 59 years. Si,c students will receive Master of Law degrees. There are two marr ied couples receiving degrees : Mr. and Mrs, Michael Udkovich and Mrs. and Mrs. Patrick Hooper. The class also includes two practicing physicians: Dr Benny Chien and Dr. Loretta Helle. Steven K. Norris will be awarded a J .D. posthumously. Norris was killed in a glider crash last April. His brother J effrey, who is a first year law student' will accept the degree. ' The United States Marine Corps Band will play under the direction of CWO William Kennedy, Following the conferral of degrees, Rev. Alfred F. Geimer will close with a Benediction.

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Discussions range from lhe dnig-mduced expenenccs of llammemess' ,·arlos Castan_eda to t.ranscen- , course al San Diego City Col- dent,11 med1tat1on. Often, lege is also "World Reh- guest ·1,<>akers spice the gions " classroom. \ former Lutheran campuii 'I\e al~ays had to turn minister San Diego State people a11ay," said ls. H1ll, ,m,,,,.,,..,.,. lam- who h, s tduglit the course on mernp •~~!lf#'IOdlliC< the a part-t1111e basis four years. course at and "I don'l try to sell anyone teaches d on a particular brand of ;reli- a basis. gion, I try to teach the course Four ye, ago, Richard to meet people where they i Hann, a philosophy profes~or, Holland