European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 stars and stripes june 2007 religion got Road rage Vatican has 10 rules to help by Nicole Winfield the associated press Vatican City the Vatican on tuesday issued a set of ten commandments for telling motorists to be charitable to others on the to re Frain from drinking and and to Pray you make it before you even buckle an unusual document from the Vatican office for migrants and itinerant people also warned that Automo Biles can be an occasion of sin particularly when they Are used for dangerous passing or for it warned about the effects of Road saying driving can bring out primitive behaviour in including rude Blashe loss of sense of responsibility or deliberate infringement of the Highway it urged motorists to obey traffic drive with a moral and to Pray when behind the Cardinal Renato who Heads the told a news conference that the Vatican Felt it necessary to address the pastoral needs of motorists because driving had become such a big part of contemporary he noted that the Bible was full of people on the including Mary and the parents of Jesus and that his office is tasked with dealing with All itinerant people from refugees to truck Drivers to the we know that As a consequence of transgressions and million people die each year on the Martino that a sad and at the same a great Challenge for society and the the guidelines for the pastoral care of the extols the benefits of driving family out getting the sick to the allowing people to see other but it laments a Host of ills associated with Automo Biles Drivers use their cars to show off driving pro Vides an easy Opportunity to dominate others by speeding Drivers can kill themselves and others if they dont get their cars regular if they use drugs or fall asleep at the it also pointed the Finger at traffic problems particular to including minibars that teens can drive without full driving and the reckless use of motorbikes and it called for Drivers to obey Speed limits and to exer Cise a Host of Christian Virtues Charity to fellow drive prudence on the Hope of arriving safely and Justice in the event of and it suggested prayer might come in Handy per forming the sign of the Cross before starting off and say ing the Rosary along the the Rosary was particularly Well suited to recitation by All in the car since its rhythm and gentle repetition does not distract the Drivers the document is intended for Bishops conferences around the and As such offered recommendations for their pastoral including setting up chapels along motorways and having periodic Celebration of liturgies at major Road Motorway restau rants and lorry guidelines for the pastoral care of the Road you shall not the Road shall be for you a Means of communion Between people and not of mortal uprightness and prudence will help you Deal with unforeseen be charitable and help your neighbor in especially Vic Tims of cars shall not be for you an expression of Power and Domina and an occasion of charitably convince the Young and not so Young not to drive when they Are not in a fitting condition to do support the families of Acci Dent bring guilty motorists and their victims at the appropriate so that they can undergo the liberating experience of on the protect the More vulnerable feel responsible toward oth Chicago closes one of nations last seminaries for youth by Don Babwin the associated press Chicago for More than a archbishop Quigley pre Paratory Seminary has prepared teenage boys for the largely unchanged As the City transformed around it from Gritty Industrial Center to modern me but another kind of change finally caught up with the 102yearold Seminary a gothic style building in a Tony Chi Cago shopping District closes Friday because of a shrinking Stu Dent body that has seen just one graduate ordained in the last 17 its the latest reminder that roman Catholic preparatory seminaries have All but vanished in the United and highlights the Church struggle to find men will ing to dedicate themselves to the this is More or less the final Nail in the coffin of the preparatory said Scott Apple a historian at the University of notre Dame who has written extensively about the historians of the Catholic Church will Point to the closing of As a final landmark in a trend that has been building now for almost 50 he As recently As the late there were 122 High school seminaries in the with a combined student body of nearly according to the Center for applied research in the apostolate at Georgetown which counts new York Cardinal Edward Egan and Atlanta archbishop Wilton Gregory among its was bursting photos by Charles Rex left John and John leave Chicago Quigley preparatory Seminary after class in right a statue of the most James Edward Quigley stands Over an Entrance to the 102yearold which will close its doors because of shrinking with about students inthe 1950s it had just 183 at the begin Ning of this school its closure will leave just seven preparatory seminaries with a combined enrolment of about 500 students in the United at a time when the num Ber of priests in the United states has dropped from nearly in 1975 to about last parishes increasingly Are being served by priests from foreign in Large part because fewer american men Are becom ing at the same the average age of new priests is with Many men waiting until their 40s and the reasons for the shift begin with How dramatically things have changed since opened in like other Quigley thrived because Large Catholic Many Irish or often sent at least one of their sons in the old Days you had an Irish family with three one was going to be a one was going to be a cop and one was going to be a and the Mother was going to be the one who decided which was said Peter a longtime teacher and coach at that began to change in the 1960s and archdiocese spokesman James Accurso said that seminaries fell out of favor among Young people for the same reason marrying right out of High school a lot of things in life Are de Young people get married later and i think they join the Priesthood he Morgan an 18yearold Quigley said while some students Are considering be coming most Are i dont even know what i want to do with the rest of my said people become priests in the Middle of their the said theres More to its a culture that raises a collective Eyebrow at the notion of a Young Man or a Young woman who would renounce sexuality or sexual he As families so did the Pool of prospective Semi when they dont have More than one parents Are very reluctant to let that child go into the said sister Kataria a teacher at the University of Thomas in who has studied seminaries for More than two even families that continued to Send their sons to Quigley made it Clear they were doing so for a Catholic education and not to Start them on a path to the the they want their sons to make they want their sons to get Makrin ski they id much rather see them get a in while More than Young men have graduated Quigley in the last 17 just one has been that was in