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(b) Work for seamen will call for the visitation of ships and
the provision of various facilities on shore. Praesidia
undertaking this work should affiliate with the recognized
international society, the Apostolatus Maris, which has
branch-headquarters in the majority of maritime countries.
(c) The legionaries must exhibit meticulous respect for
military and marine discipline. Their actions must never run
counter to regulations or traditions. In fact, they must aspire
to earn for their apostolate the unreserved admission that it
uplifts the personnel in every way and represents an unmixed
asset to those services, and more than an asset — a positive
necessity.
(d) Travelling people, gypsies and circus personnel are
among people on the move who should be brought within
the sphere of the legionary apostolate. Migrants and refugees
should also be part of that apostolate.
“Among the great changes taking place in the contemporary world,
migra tion has produced a new phenomenon: non-Christians are
becoming very numerous in traditionally Christian countries, creating
fresh oppor tunities for contacts and cultural exchanges, and calling
the Church to hospitality, dialogue, assistance and in a word,
fraternity. Among migrants, refugees occupy a very special place and
deserve the greatest attention. Today, there are many millions of
refugees in the world and their number is constantly increasing. They
have fled from conditions of political oppression and inhuman misery,
from famine and drought of catastrophic proportions. The Church
must make them part of her overall apostolic concern.” (RM 37 (b))

12. THE DISSEMINATION OF CATHOLIC LITERATURE
The lives of countless people, like St. Augustine of Hippo
and St. Ignatius of Loyola, illustrate how reading of influential
books, recom mended to them by people, whose judgment
they respected, proved to be instrumental in leading them to
higher things. The dis semination of Catholic literature affords
great opportunities for apostolic contacts with a wide variety
of people, with whom matters of the Catholic Faith can be
easily brought up. Without on-going religious adult
education, people living in a secularized world are greatly
disadvantaged. The Church teaches them one world and they
live in another. The voice of the secularized world speaks