Central Catholic High School - Towers Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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u,mmuw 0,e51Wzf God. He musT recognize ThaT There is a necessary connecTion befween God and happiness, beTween God and successful living. Man's hearT was creaTed by God, for God, and will Therefore noT be happy unfil iT possesses God. Possession of God consTiTuTes man's only real happiness. The religion Teacher guides his sTudenTs in This quesT by inTroducing Them in The TirsT year of high school To The sTudy of The life of ChrisT, of whaT He TaughT. In successive years The Teacher un- folds The sTory of The lounclaTion oi The Church wiTh her vasT Treasury of grace conferred Through The sacramenTs: he carefully explains The laws ThaT govern The members of The Church. and in The final days of high school, he discusses The currenT problems confronTing The members of The Church. No sane principal would Think of having The coach oraTe abouf fooTbail wiThouT giving him Time To form and Train a Team ouT on The playing field. No Teacher Thinks iT raTional To Teach religion in all iTs phases wiThouT providing The opporTuniTy, in as many ways as possible, To pracTice iT, On TirsT Friday we are given The privilege of assisTing aT Benedidion in The audiTorium. Time is also alloTTed ThaT we may go To Mass and receive Communion in our parish churches. One of The mosT challenging of The Tasks con- fronTing The religion Teacher is The developmenT in The sTudenT of The CaTholic, AposTolic view of The Church. In our day, everyThing is approached from The parTisan view. STudenTs are prone To consider Themselves as members ofa group seT in opposifion To a mulTiTude of oTher groups, currenT Challengers in perpeTual boxing-ring. This secTarian view is quiTe conTenT To keep Things as They are as long as The good guys are winning, OT iTs very naTure iT is non-aposTolic. The religion Teacher will noT be conTenT To see his sTudenTs bob Through confempo- raneous hisfory wiTh The soulless ambiTion To keep Things The way They are. No. he gives The sTudenTs 'J refreshing reassurance of faiTh in human naTure, rooTed in The spiriTual, and oTFers greaT hope Tor The fuTure. You can change The world! Yours is The power To bring The peace and reign of ChrisT To a bewildered world! In The words of an ancienT Chinese prove'rb, BeTTer To lighT one candle Than To curse The darkness. Members of Class 3F are erecTing a iiTTle shrine in honor of Blessed MoTher in Their homeroom. DevoTion To Mary is one of The characTerisTics of The True 'CaTholic boy.

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jluzpnaceoffhzubimzmfbfzbaicd The developmenf of well-informed, loyal, and sainfly followers of Chrisf is fhe consfanf aim of fhe Cafholic High School. To achieve fhis loffy pur- pose. fhose charged wifh fhe direcfion of such a school musf ever seek fo make more effecfive fhe inculcafion in fheir pupils of religious frufhs, and fheir growfh in moral characfer and Chrisfian living. The whole obiecfive of our educafion is fhe formafion of a deeply Chrisfian man. A Chrisfian man musf serve his God in fhis world and, fhere- fore, prepare fo exhausf his capacify of usefulness here, fhaf his ocf of love of God may be more per- Th f aining in fhe skills of fhe mind, fhe im- fecl. e r parfing of useful knowledge in all school suloiecfs and even physical fraining are infended fo increase fhe capacify of fhe sfudenf for a more and more perfecf love of God. The religious feacher aims fo keep fhe religion- class definifely in fhe spheres of fhe exfraordinary and fhe pracfical-exfraordinary in fhe sense fhaf ' h The religion course is fhe mosf imporfanf of all f e h' fudenfs a 'Whoughf for The day . Brofher Ausfin gives IS s By reflecfing upon fhese, fhe .sfudenfs are helped io form h ' nifi- of s irifual values-fhaf 'They may aHac sig a sense p cance only io fhe imporfani Things in life. branches of knowledge presenfed in fhe school- ' I b demonsfrafing fo fhe sfuclenf fhe ways pracfnca y and means of using daily lessons learned in religion. The feacher is guided in his work by fhe realiza- . . . . + be fron fhaf fhe vlfallzed religion program mus adapfed fo fhe growing mafurify and inferesfs of ' ' d frials. Cafholic youfh-fo fheir ideas, hopes, an Alfhough religion is a lifefime sfudy. neverfheless. l high school marks fhe end of formal re igious fraining for fhe moiorify of sfudenfs. Religion can- nof be a guiding force in Cafholic life unless if is fhoroughly known and faifhfully pracficed. The Ii ion feacher fherefore has a fwofold purpose re g , , in mind: a full and careful considerafion of fhe ' d docfrines and pracfices of our Faifh, and a soun Cafholic approach fo currenf problems and fhe applicafion of religion fo every-day life. No maffer whaf his vocafion may be, whefher consecrafed fo God direcfly by fhe vows of reli- ion or indirecfly fhrouqh a life of service in fhe Q - , professions or frades, each individual musf realize ' d serve fhaf his firsf purpose is fo know, love. an Our annual refreaf sefs aside Time fo concenfrafe on fha manner of life which we are leading, io recognize our faulfs, and fo form a plan whereby we may overcome Them. This year Fafher Connare conducied The refreaf in fha Cafhedral. F3211

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During fha five minufe period. Broiher Camill us, our exchange feacher amuses his Freshmen wilh some fall iales of winfer sporls in Canada. ,f J 7952 - Unlq Coming from PiHsburgh's parochial schools, our Freshmen are bewildered by The size cmd buslling acliviry which consrilules 'rhe consoliclared school. Frequenrly such queries as Where do we go now? Whal' clo we do never? are heard in fhe corridors. They are amazed af lhe number and variely of exrra-curricular aclivilies, and fheir firsl impulse is lo join a dozen or more of lhem. On second fhoughr, discrelion 'rells fhem lhey had beHer go Here fhe Freshmen are seen picking up ideas for a La+in proieci. A few memoirs of ancienf iimes -- hui how long will fha? busl sfay on ihe icble7 The momenf Thai lunch bell rings, fhis picfure will show noihing buf lockers. The din of banging doors will be replaced hy fhe silence of empiy corridors.