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For more details refer to; Boston Catholic Directory 49 Franklin Street Boston, MA. 02110-1381 ($17.00/copy -- includes postage) (617)-542-8393Catholic Population = 2,024,039 Parishes = 394 (Missions = 7) Chapels & Shrines = 18 Auxiliary Bishops = 7 Priests = 985(Boston)+22(Other Dioceses)+752(religious orders)=1,759 Permanent Deacons = 187 Brothers = 187 Sisters = 3,154 Religious Orders (brothers/priests/sisters/nuns)=Men(39); Women(79) Seminaries = 6 Colleges (four-year, two-year and nursing schools) = 9 Schools Secondary Diocesan (9) Parochial (7) Private (20)
Elementary Parochial (119) Private (11) Montessori(7)
Kindergarten (13) Special Ed (6) Hospitals(9) & Hospices(4) = 13 Extended Care Facilities (Aged and Nursing) = 13 Residences (Women) = 2 Residential & Day Treatment Centers = 8 Caltholic Services (Social, Nursing, Health) = 28 Centers (Community Information) = 27 Retreat Houses = 18 Catholic Radio Apostolate = 1 Catholic Television Center = 1 Catholic Newspaper = 1
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Catholic schools housing grades K-8 throughout the Archdiocese of Boston -- which stretches from Plymouth to the New Hampshire border ...--experienced a 5 percent increase in enrollment between 1990 and 1995, according to Waters. (Sister Mary Jude Waters, director of school planning for the Boston Archdiocese's Catholic School Office)...Waters said tuition for Catholic school averages $1,500 a year for grades K-8 and $4,400 for grades 9 - 12. And Catholic schools are not restricted to Catholic students -- about 12 percent of students within the Archdiocese of Boston school system are not Catholic ...
Although enrollment in Catholic high schools within the Archdiocese dropped 9 percent since 1990, Waters said there was an increase of 250 students last year in grades 9 through 12 over the previous school year.
(taken from Kimberley Keyes "Catholic Schools Offer an Alternative to Public" in Kingston Mariner (August, 1996), p. 5).
[Editor's Note: All parishes in the Archdiocese have recently been assessed a 6% tax from Offertory collections on Sunday to subsidize those parishes providing parochial schools and to offset the loses incurred by supporting Catholic education.]
c.f., Nord, Warren A. Religion and American Education (Univ. of No. Carolina Press; Chapel Hill, N.C.), 1995.
or Power, Edward J. Religion and the Public Schools in the 19th Century. (Paulist Press; Mahwah, N.J.), 1996.
or Bryk, et al. Catholic Schools and the Common Good. ((Harvard Univ. Press), 1995.
"Parochial Politics" by Richard Lacayo in TIME for 9/23/96 on p. 30-33
as well as
"Hail Mary and Regina (The Roman Catholic nuns were really on to something)" by Margaret Carlson on p. 33 of the same issue.]
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[taken from report in Catholic Twin Circle for Sunday (4/28/96), p. 17]
U.S. Catholic elementary schools currently enroll more than 2 million students; Catholic high schools, about 650,000; Catholic colleges and universities, about 700,000. At the elementary level Catholic enrollment has grown each of the last four years. It went up 16,000 between 1994-95 and 1995-96, the last years for which final figures are available.
[taken from interview with Dr. Leonard DeFiore, Pres. of NCEA in The Pilot 1/31/97 p. 13]
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[taken from Catholic Twin Circle June 20, 1996 p. 16]
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Rev. Francis T. McFarland, Director Boston Catholic Television Center, Inc. 55 Chapel Street Box 9109 Newtonville, MA. 02158-9109 Tel.: (617)-965-0050
BCTV will receive its first national programming award, a Gabriel Award from UNDA-USA, for the piece, Offering Hope to Live, The Chernobyl Children's Project, USA.The Gabriel award-winning segment aired on BCTV's weekly series, The Concrete Gospel, in August 1995. The piece was the joint work of producer and editor Marlea Regan and Peter Kaminski, creative director and cameraman.
Offering Hope to Live tells the story of 10 young people from the Republic of Belarus, who survived the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and came to Boston to benefit from the Chernobyl Children's Project, USA. This program offered the orphans a four week "respite" hosted by families in several local parishes in the Archdiocese. Fr. Robert Bowers of St. Agatha's parish in Milton, and member of the Project's Executive Board, said that the doctors in Belarus estimate for every four weeks that the children are away from the radioactive area they gain two years of life....The project was able to invite 100 children from Belarus to Boston [again] this past summer.
The Gabriel Awards, established in 1965 by UNDA-USA, honor works of excellence in broadcasting -- programs which serve viewers and listeners through positive, creative treatment of issues of concern to humankind. The major criterion for the Gabriel award is a program's ability to enrich its audience with a values-centered vision of humanity.
[taken from article by Sr. Roberta Christine Hummel, F.S.P. in The Pilot on 9/27/96, Vol. 167, #37, p. 1.]
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In a world where charitable fund-raising often means glitzy mass marketing, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul has been helping the needy for more than a century without fanfare or much public notice.If the society chose, it could boast about how, nationwide, its 4,350 parish conferences -- its grass-roots core of 60,000 members -- disbursed $110 million to the poor last year, excluding services, food, furniture and transportation.
Or, how the 200 conferences in the Boston Archdiocese, with 1,853 volunteers, raised $3.5 million, largely through contributions to poor boxes in churches, while giving 80,000 hours in home visits or other services.
But when volunteers are asked about their work, they talk about individuals..."Our theme is that faith without works is useless," said Edward M. Clasby, president of the society's MetroWest district...
For years, the society, an international lay Catholic organization of more than 1 million men and women, founded and based in Paris, kept a low profile to protect the dignity of those it served. Now, changing times and cuts in government programs for the poor have caused the society to regroup.
"Instead of remaining very private, we realize that we not only have to serve the poor, but be an advocate for them," Rita M. Porter, executive director of the national society, said in a telephone interview from its St. Louis headquarters.
The new more aggressive approach will be one of the matters discussed as the national society holds its 83rd annual meeting at the Boston Park Plaza Sept. 25 to 29. About 1,000 members are expected.
...The meeting will mark the 163rd anniversary of the society's founding in France by 19-year-old Frederic Ozanum, a student at the Sorbonne. It will be its 151st anniversary in this country and its 135th in Boston. (Canonization proceedings have started for Ozanum in Rome.)
Neither members nor recipients of the society's help need be Catholic. In the Boston area, city conferences serve an average of 300 people a week while suburban ones average 25...William J. Magner of Nahant exemplifies the Vincentian spirit, which calls for volunteers to dispense good deeds "with your gentleness and your smile."
(Taken from the Boston Globe Monday -- 8/12/96 p. B1).
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Mr. John G. Dunn -- Principal and Music Director Dr. Theodore N. Marier -- Music Director EmeritusDay school with full academic programs having special emphasis on music and liturgy for boys in grades 8 who are musically talented and academically gifted. Students perform regularly with the Boston Symphony Orchestra both at Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood in Lenox, MA. The following recordings are available (add $2.50 for s/h);
"Alleluia Sing to Jesus!" (1.1 MB .wav file -- 3:58 min.)
$15.00 US for CD $10.00 US for cassette tape
"JOYFUL, JOYFUL" "SING NOEL" "O HOLY NIGHT"
Boston Archdiocesan Choir School at St. Paul's Church 29 Mount Auburn Street in Harvard Square Cambridge, MA. 02138-6031 (617)-868-8658
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To order a copy of this compact disc send a check for $16.95 plus $2.50 for one item and $1.50 for each additional item (shipping and handling) to;
CHRISTMAS MEMORIES 15 Wheeler Avenue Framingham, MA. 01701
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A medical ethics institute which provides consultation services to hospitals, nursing homes, physicians, clergy and others in applying Catholic teaching to issues in the fields of medicine and health care. It
conducts workshops, publishes books and a monthly commentary "Ethics and Medics"
John M. Haas, Ph.D. -- President
Pope John XXIII Medical Moral Research and Education Center 186 Forbes Road Braintree, MA. 02184-2626 (617)-848-6965
Note:A laserdisc (Level I) program of related interest (no connection, however, to this particular institute) is available from VideoDiscovery (1-800-548-3472). Two forums (BIOETH01LS) $379 and Genetics: Fundamentals and Frontiers are also available from the same source.
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Sr. Madonna Murphy, C.S.C., Ph.D. -- President
The Cambridge Center for the Study of Faith and Culture 2101 Commonwealth Avenue Brighton, MA. 02135-319 (617)-782-2544
Faith, Moral Reasoning and Contemporary American Life.
A printed collection of 11 lectures (160 pp.) co-sponsored by the Cambridge Center for the Study of Faith and Culture and The Pilot.
Cost: $12.95 plus $3.00 postage
Make checks payable to: The Cambridge Center
Send To:
Sister Madonna Murphy The Cambridge Center the Life Cycle Institute--Room 116 Catholic University Washington, D.C. 20064
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