Religious Practice of Catholic Children Formerly in Thirteen Child Caring Institutions in New York: An Analysis of Their Present Religious Practice and an Evaluation of Religious Practice in Little Flower House of Providence Wading River, New York, 1961
Abstract
Background of the Study. "A voice was heard in Rama, Rachel weeping for her children and she would not be comforted because they are no more." With these poignant words the Church weeps each year in her prayers over the first separation of children from their parents in the Christian era, the Holy Innocents. But the Church has done more than weep. To her from the beginning "religion pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this, to give aid to the orphans." The Christian effort began in the Greek world, whence our word orphan, and became one of the marks of the new religion. Today the Church has incorporated the findings of medicine, orthopsychiatry, psychology and sociology in her treatment of children. For, in the words of Pius XII, "Whatever is good and true to other beliefs, including non -Christian ones, is at home in the Catholic Church and finds there its fulfillment." In the United States thousands of religious in two hundred seventy-two agencies care for forty-eight thousand five hundred twenty eight children.
Subject Area
Social work|Social studies education|Sociology|Religion
Recommended Citation
Fagan, John Thomas, "Religious Practice of Catholic Children Formerly in Thirteen Child Caring Institutions in New York: An Analysis of Their Present Religious Practice and an Evaluation of Religious Practice in Little Flower House of Providence Wading River, New York, 1961" (1961). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30725037.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30725037
