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White admitted concern about the shortage of funds for enlarging the staff to handle the large increase of Soc. Rel. concentrators. Fifty per cent more sophomores came into the Department last fall than the year before, including a high proportion of honors students. The high student-teacher ratio will necessitate continuing group tutorial for juniors instead of offering individual sessions...
...Smallest Ratio. To help remedy this situation, the Vatican is doing its best to persuade the Italian government to increase its annual subsidy to needy clergymen (currently from $500 to $2,700 annually, according to rank) and to set up hospitalization and social security benefits for all priests. The effort is not merely humanitarian. The number of new recruits to the priesthood has been falling off in Italy at an alarming rate. Milan, the richest, largest archdiocese in Europe, documents the decline. In 1860 Milan had 1,168,063 Catholics and 2,470 priests, or one priest for every...
...Italy as a whole, the ratio of priests to laymen is the smallest in the country's history: 1 to 1,008-compared with Ireland's 1 to 75, or even France's 1 to 850. In heavily Communist Bologna, 81 parishes are vacant; in Salerno, there are 60 vacant parishes out of a total 160. Southern Italy, excluding Sicily, had more than 80,000 priests a century ago. has fewer than 10,000 today. Italy's priests, 18% of whom are over 70, are dying faster than they can be replaced: in Florence, for instance...
...communities and "federally impacted areas," where an influx of servicemen yields special federal aid for public schools but not Catholic schools. In the Navy town of Norfolk, Va., for example, many parochial schools have three shifts. St. Pius X School opened in 1956. now has 900 students at a ratio of 56 to one teacher; many parents have put children in the better-staffed public schools. Especially in areas where Catholics are a small minority, as in Georgia, a possible "triple tax" seems the last straw. Says one Atlanta priest dispiritedly: "I'm afraid finances are going to rule...
...done, he decided, was regional development. With money collected from groups in Italy and Western Europe, he located five community centers, each in the heart of an eastern Sicilian region. Each of the development centers now has a staff of experts and volunteer workers, and slowly the ratio of the experts (social workers, economists, planners, and teachers) to the unskilled volunteers is increasing...