News Scrapbook 1958-1961

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MAY 1959

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MACAZINC

THE MOST REV. BISHOP CHARLES F. BUDDY

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39 SAN DIEGO MAY 1959

In thi s issue SAN Dt EGO MAGAZINE probes at the mainspring that has prompted the d iocese of Bishop Charles F. Buddy ( in which the ratio of the Catholic commun ity is not as large p roportionately as that of Los Angeles) to an awesome and remarkable building p ro- gram in the last fi ve years. The above photograph, w ith its sca lloped view of the d iocesan chancery as seen from the arcade of the Uni versity of San D iego's School of Theo logy and Ph ilosophy, most of us ca n ident ify as a port ion of the new, mu lti-mill ion dollar Alcala Park . N ot so uni - versall y recognizable would be chu rches omplcted last year in Cabrill o Heights and Castle Park (Chula V ista) and the onvent church school in Clai remont. Even now a newl y formed pari sh conducts unday services in La Joll a's Pernicano's Pizza restaurant. Before the yea r's end hu rches will ri c in Paradise Hills ( N ational ity), an D iego and D el Mar, plus two in El ajon , in the greatest Catholic building resu rgcn e since the mi sion fathers founded the first Chri stian churches along stori ed El Cami no Real.

CATHOLIC GROWTH