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EIGHT SAY FOREVER
Sept. 8 ? At the seven o'clock community Mass, eight second theologians made their final vows as Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The newly-appointed provincial of the central province, Very Rev. William Coovert, offered the sacrifice of the Mass and received the vows. Pictured above are Bro. Darrell Rupiper, OMI, left, and Bro. lb Hjorth, OMI. During the ceremony the eight young men received the Oblate Cross and the scapular of the Immaculate Conception, proper to the Congregation. This is the customary date for Oblates to make their perpetual vows; on the same day the members of the community also renewed their vows ? for one year, or for life. The brothers who took vows are pictured on page seven.
THE PINE HILLS
PAGEANT
No. 30
SUMMER, 1961
Jesuit Sociologist Probes Social Encyclicals
"A divine sense of urgency" was the animus Fr. Louis J. Twomey, SJ, came to imbue. After 16 hours of seminar lectures, he had succeeded, admirably. For eight days, from July 17 to Aug. 4, the social teachings of the Church were subjected to diligent scrutiny in-and outside the lecture hall.
As director of the Institute of Industrial Relations at New Orleans' Loyola U, Father Twomey spoke convincingly of the necessity to make known "the great Catholic social truths, for the lack of which the world is dying." Repeatedly he insisted the "Catholic social teachings are an integral part of Catholicism, and hence must be treated as such."
While admitting the competency of Catholic education in forming the individual for personal and familial living, Father Twomey expressed concern that the social doctrine of the Church, as expressed in the great social encyclicals, has been so disregarded among Catholics. The Church's role in social affairs has been largely ignored. This is due, said Father Twomey, to the error that denies the Church's mission to "save men, and not just souls." The Church IS interested in man's material well-being. Otherwise, it teaches only a "compartmentalized Catholicism."
Referring to the advance of Communism, the intelligent Jesuit affirmed that "Communism is an effect, and not a cause. It is dynamic negativism, which has found adherents only because integral Catholicism has not been preached in the market-place."