Charlie waited for an adequate answer . Charlie Bloomquist , of course , had a question . When I was in the fifth or sixth grade, a neighbor who was my age, took 12 books of S & H Green Stamps ( remember those ) and contributed them to the pagan babies program. Seen the movie Mea Culpa? It is a few years after the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus.. Father Terry lives in Rwanda with his girlfriend Chantelle. Christians have always believed that baptism I also had a more personal reason for hitting the $5 markthe point at which you actually saved a baby and got naming rights. When they reached $5, they then ransomed a child overseas, got a certificate and the right to name the child. They projected slides of their missionary adventures onto the wall of the church hall . My dad was in the Navy out in the Pacific in WWII . But I was in the mist of all of the Catholic Truths and those truths just werent ringing true to me. Yes, as a lesson for us to be generous the Pagan Babies idea may well have been beneficial . Thanks for a trip down memory lane and validating my recollection. NEW YORK - They were called "pagan babies," an appellation that would never be used today. I have been searching for a pagan baby box for 30 years, any idea where I can find one ? Im sure that Beverley Anne is fine and doing well . Or a beer. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Pagan Babies at Amazon.com. Years later Larry Bye , another boy in the class , told me that his middle name was Herman and that he had been embarrassed when Cary chose the name Herman for the pagan baby. Pagan ,pagan, pagan . Pagan Babies is a 2000 crime novel written by Elmore Leonard.He first used Pagan Babies as the name of a rock band in his 1981 novel Split Images.. We sold The Tidings , which was the L.A. Archdiocese newspaper , and there were prizes . Christians have always believed that baptism is the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua), and the door which gives access to the other sacraments. In most classrooms to encourage donations, the nuns pitted the boys against the girls. . Seriously has anyone ever ran into a pagan baby named Herman or Mary or any other name?? Required fields are marked *. And the time I put together a shoe box with all the items I needed to go and baptize my Jewish friends across the street, Amy and Kenny Wolpin. I served lunch to old people and I received so many compliments from the old people that I thought that I was a goner . Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, 5.00 together, we got to buy and name a pagan baby. Im glad youu got a kick out of it . In the 50s It used to be border line sacrilegious to question the church maybe it still is , but after seeing the movie spot light Im thinking maybe Archbishop whats his name might have bought another set of golf clubs ( or something far more sinister ) ? Like using Necco wafers to practice First Holy Communion. Reproduction of material from this website without written permission, or unlicensed commercial use or Love Your Sister It was probably a good lesson in giving for us little ones ; but , the money - probably not a huge sum overall - ? Never knew it meant Justice under God though . You stir up a lot of old memories for me , too . And I think that if you bought your own Pagan Baby you got to take the certificate home. - Bob H. There must be a lot of pagan Davids running around out there, bought with purloined funds. The Pandemic Flu of 1918 and the COVID-19 Virus. Lajoie is on the staff of Catholic New York, newspaper of the Archdiocese of New York. Each time I hope to combine for them the Holy Childhoods call of responsibility with the lessons I learned in Guaymas: the difference between pity and solidarity, the complexity of the global structures that create poverty and need, and the smallness of our efforts at making a difference. He chose Herman . That summer in Guaymas, I learned that people in poverty needed more than goodwill, and that social justice was not a simple matter of collecting spare change and sending it off to the right folks. I found I really did not have many skills to offer. If my parents would only let me go to public school, the church might have had another nun. I think there were religious pix on the stamps. I suspect that Patricia never named them after you , David . Thanks for the comment . Shop high-quality t-shirts, masks, onesies, and hoodies for the perfect gift. Catholic Register, more than one-third of millennials now say they are unaffiliated The Irish nuns in their full habits immediately looked around at the teachers as if to say , Arent you teaching these children anything ? Right, but there must be some type of guidelines that must be met for that to happen. I NEVER questioned or was as smart as Charlie. Usually an ice cream party, it seems. I am a Catholic of a certain age, a graduate of parochial school, and a former member of the Association of the Holy Childhood. "I loved the Pagan Babies! I remember how exciting it was when the Pagan Baby certificate was delivered. American Women Quarters 2023 Rolls and Bags - Bessie Coleman MULTI (D) (P) (S) $40.00 - $60.00 Shop Now 22EH American Eagle 2022 One Ounce Gold Uncirculated Coin West Point (W) $2,670.00 Add to Bag 17XA American Liberty One Ounce 225th Anniversary Gold Coin West Point (W) $2,765.00 Add to Bag Coin Sets None of my non-Catholic friends ever believed my pagan baby stories, either. This brings back a memory now. Those who would like to know what became of their pagan babies will soon get a chance to find out when Pontifical Mission Societies formally launches its Great Works Campaign in the coming months. I will say, Im happy I went to catholic school. ETA: and then theres this blog from someone who is completely unapologetic about their participation in the program: http://asksistermarymartha.blogspot.com/2006/08/announcing-pagan-baby-reunion.html. I was not called to be a full-time missionary. When Father Andrew Small, O.M.I., asked who remembered them at the inaugural World Mission Dinner May 2 at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan, a few hands went up, mostly belonging to people with gray hair. I seriously want to start a band now, just so I can name us that. The pagan baby he purchased was named Daniel James and his $5 gave him a Certificate of Adoption as a Souvenir of the Ransom and Baptism of an Adopted Pagan baby named Daniel James. Despite its apparent condescending tone at times, it instilled a radical sense of urgency in children that we are responsible for one another.. I should have asked them if they had ever run into any pagan named Herman . I had a lot of Pagan Babies named Mary Margaret!! My family Lived out that way. Yeah . We sort of ran the name together so it came out pegginbebbies. I used to contribute nickels and dimes (along with my other and less devout classmates) so together as a class we got to choose the pegginbebbies name from a list of nominees. Reading this article and all of the comments has brought tears to my eyes Im laughing so hard. In three years, we bought sixthree boys and three girls. ( to save the pagans ! Reminiscing about St. Amelias brings back many other memories. 11 Facts About Murdered Bishop David OConnell, Cameron Bertuzzis Conversion to Catholicism, and More Great Links! We boys , I think , had a sense of accomplishment somehow because even though he had been caught Cary still had the satisfaction of knowing that a pagan would go through life named Herman because of him . Each was presented with a medallion featuring a representation of the papal keys. That means that many of our grandbabies are pagan babies! Anyway, I attended Catholic grade school from 1962 - 1970, and we collected money for pagan babies during Lent. Bonus question: Did children in Europe collect coins for the pagan babies? In addition we'd go and bless our herbs in the garden and around on Midsummer and then harvest them for John's night or the night before depending on the weather. And so I traveled to Guaymas in the Sonoran desert expecting to accomplish great things. Pictures of Cherub-faced Indian, African, and Asian babies graced small cardboard Father Andrew Small, O.M.I., national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies and host of the evening, welcomes the archbishop. With missionary nuns and pagan babies for starters. Campbell, now retired from the film industry where he worked as a technician, told CNY that hed been enrolled in the Holy Childhood Association since seventh grade and that he remembered adopting babies to get them baptized into the faith. You may be a pagan , but I think youre too late . : Its a mystery . Because we purchased Pagan Babies for five dollars a head, on a regular basis. . Explore . Even though I later went on to become a Catholic priest (and later resigned and married), my robust suspicion that Catholicism did not have all the answers began to take root way back in my young Catholic boyhood. I told that I learned math through confessionit had been two weeks since my last confession, I was mean to my brothers every day, so that was fourteen times, I disobeyed my parents almost every day, so that was about ten times, etc., etc. Renee- -tell the proofreader to correct the spelling of the coin nickel in the second sentence of your article on Pagen babies. But Cary was caught . Im still a San Franciscan, but boy has everything changed. Theyd say, Whats in it for me?. Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington; best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark; and television commentator Larry Kudlow were named 2012 pontifical ambassadors for mission. Oh, my, what memories! Remember the "Pagan Babies"? Contrary to popular belief, the United States fails to live up to its promised values of freedom and fairness. I thoroughly enjoy your posts. , Those madcap Catholics. Did the Catholic Schools consider Jewish People Pagans? FYI : My granny was raised in Sterling . A lot of people never knew what I was "What I loved about the Pagan Babies is that we were allowed to name them with our names. Wow . When I attended Corpus Christi Catholic School in the 1950s and 1960s there was a program we all called Pagan Babies . I ALSOvividly remember, that the certficates were five dollars each (pretty steep for thr 60s! Who were these pagan babies, and did any of the pennies we contributed ever help any of them in any way? Good story about your uncles revelation Ah , the mendacity of the whole thing ! Other notable guests included Cardinal Sean OMalley, Archbishop of Boston; Bishop Bejoy DCruze of Sylhet, Bangladesh; actor Andy Garcia, who stars in the film For Greater Glory, which opens June 1; and Noel Campbell, who rode Amtrak for three days from the Coeur DAlene Indian Reservation in northwest Idaho to New York to attend the event. Cary Cox stole a five dollar bill from his mothers purse when we were in fourth grade so that Cary could pick the name of the next pagan baby himself . Boy , does all of that ring true to me ! I spent all my paper boy money." More and more babies are not getting baptized or raised in the faith. In Scotland, around 1966 or so, there was something similar in primary school (which one attends from age approx 5 to approx 12, and this school was not R.C. Featuring a representation of the Archdiocese of New York, newspaper of the Archdiocese of New York, newspaper the. 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