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SPIRITUAL The backbone of CYO activity is centered in the parish CYO unit. Therein fies the program which supplements the wor! of the three great character building agencies— The Home — The School — The Church. Give a boy # bat, @ ball, and God, and we shall have citizens worthy of America and worthy of the brotherhood that makes Ameriza. Consider the CYO parish moderator seated on the bench of his parish baseball team — leading the youth of his parish to # CYO religious dem- onstration — tossing up the bail at the opening of a CYO basketball game or putting on the gloves with a would be juvenile Joe Louis; picture this end you shall appreciate the admiration and love @ boy will acquire for his Church and alt it inspires. Picture, too, the boy on the cover of this report, spiralling through the sidewalks of New York, representative of all CYO boys and girls, pausing 40 gaze at the mass of brick and morter that is the Empire State Building. Perhaps he envisions there the spirit of Governor Smith —- or perhaps « swivel chair and mahogany desk he may one day occupy — or even his gaze might move onward up the Avenue to the queenly spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral and there rest momentarily in med‘tation of the supreme vocation. This Is Your CYO — this boy and his parish CYO moderator. He is the boy that is in need of opportunity — he Is the one to be lifted from the street corners into healthy centers of organized play —he is the one the CYO will continue to serve in 1949 and with God's help give more and more opportunities to become a better soldier of God and citizen of our community. Catholic Youth Organization Archdiocese of New York