Army & Navy See

Fastest-growing diocese in the whole Roman Catholic Church is the U.S. Diocese of the Army & Navy. Head of this world-sprawled See, with the title of Military Vicar, is New York's genial Archbishop Francis J. Spellman. Since he must shepherd over a million of the faithful in his own Archdiocese, the real work of the Army & Navy Diocese falls on his military delegate, lanky, Spanish-speaking Bishop John F. O'Hara, onetime president of Notre Dame. And Bishop O'Hara is so busy that last week the Pope gave him an assistant. He is the Most Rev. William T. McCarty, 53, of Brooklyn, who has inaugurated 14 Redemptorist* foundations in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Brazil. Biggest new job of Pennsylvania-born Bishop-Designate McCarty will be to help eliminate a serious shortage of Catholic chaplains.

Army & Navy Diocese marriages run about 3,000 a month. Now that the Church permits afternoon and evening Masses, soldiers and sailors can get to services more often. Result: 70% of the Catholic personnel in the armed forces go faithfully to Sunday Mass.

* The Redemptorists are a society of missionairy priests founded in 1732 to work among country folk near Naples, Italy. Now their work is worldwide.

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