A Study of the Camp Referral as an Adjunct to Casework Treatment: An Analysis of Three Cases of Children Sent to Camp by the Lower East District of Catholic Charities, Family Service, during the Summer of 1949
Abstract
From the Sermon on the Mount, the parable of the good Samaritan, the miracle of the loaves and fishes, Christ's intention that man should truly love and serve one another in His name is clearly evident. St. Paul in his Epistle to the Corinthians describes charity as the greatest of virtues and writes that "If I speak with tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal". The Church has ever been mindful of her obligation, not in justice alone, but in charity to care for the spiritual and physical needs of its members and has ever kept foremost in the minds of the faithful Christ's precept "to love one another".As the structure of society changed from the earliest days of Christianity to the highly complexed and diffuse structure that we have today, the need for formal institutions to carry on the charitable works increased. Hospitals, schools, specialized institutions gradually grew up to meet in an organized way, the needs of people who were unable to meet their needs themselves.
Subject Area
Theology|Religion|Social work
Recommended Citation
Harrahill, Catherine Mary, "A Study of the Camp Referral as an Adjunct to Casework Treatment: An Analysis of Three Cases of Children Sent to Camp by the Lower East District of Catholic Charities, Family Service, during the Summer of 1949" (1950). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097063.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097063
