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SERVING 88 SOUTH - GEORGIA COUNTIES
The Southern Cross
DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH NEWSPAPER
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Vol. 52 No. 32 Thursday, September 23,1971 Single Copy Price — 12 Cents
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INDIAN LITURGY - Dressed in traditional Indian garb and For over 300 years, the Mohawk Indians have been participating
holding an Indian hymnal, a Mohawk woman sings the Sanctus. in the Mass in their native tongue.
(NC PHOTO by Roy Hoy, courtesy Cleveland Universe Bulletin)
THEIR QUESTION WHO IS AN ISRAELI?
Israel Has Its Own Black Panthers
BEGINNING OCT. 16
Bishop Plans ‘Live In’
Visits To All Deaneries
Bishop Gerard ,L. Frey will initiate a series of ‘live-in’ visits to the seven deaneries of the Savannah diocese on
October 16th, when he will begin a nine-day stay in the Macon Deanery.
Earlier this year, Bishop Frey wrote to the seven Deans of the diocese and to the Presidents of Deanery Pastoral
Councils outlining the reasons for the proposed visits and asking that programs be worked out in each deanery
which would allow him to obtain “a large number” of the objectives his letter set forth.
In his letter the bishop
said, “I would ask the Dean
to cooperate with the
Deanery Pastoral Council in
providing a realistic schedule
in which I will have the
opportunity in the Deanery
to visit in an informal way:
“1) The regular meeting of
the Deanery Pastoral Council.
“2) As many meetings as
possible with Parish Councils.
“3) Th e regular monthly
meeting of the clergy and
religious of the Deanery.
“4) The opportunity to
offer Sunday Mass in a
number of the churches of
the Deanery and to speak at
all the Masses with the
opportunity of meeting the
people informally afterwards.
“5) Visit the parochial
schools, affording me the
opportunity of meeting the
teachers and students. Visit
the CCD classes to meet
students and teachers.”
Bishop Frey concluded his
letter by declaring that “ .. .1
feel that with an effort, a
program can be worked out
in the individual Deanery
under the leadership of the
Dean and the Deanery
Pastoral Council which will
permit me to attain a large
number of these objectives.”
The schedule of the
bishop’s Deanery visits is as
follows:
MACON DEANERY -
October 16 - 25.
ALBANY DEANERY -
November 2-12.
POPE PRAYS FOR SYNOD - Pope Paul VI waves as he emerges from cave after visiting the spot
in Subiaco, Italy, where St. Benedict established the first monastery in the western world in the
sixth century. Accompanying the Pontiff is Abbot Don Egidio Gavassi. Pope Paul prayed for the
success of the upcoming world Synod of Bishops. (NC PHOTO)
MACON PARENTS TOLD
Religious Education Is
A Family Responsibility
By Louise Frank
JERUSALEM (NC) -
Every Saturday night for two
months there have been riots
in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox
Mea Shearim quarter.
The fury aroused by the
weekly spectacle is a sign of
public impatience with the
excesses of the ultra-religious.
Opposition to religious
authority is growing.
They are caused by zealous
religious youths throwing
stones at buses that they
claim start running too soon
after the end of the Sabbath.
This provokes retaliation
from other youths and often
ends in injuries, arrests and
charges of police brutality
and desecration of
synagogues.
A lack of agreement
between the government and
the rabbinate on the status of
immigrants’ non-Jewish wives
who have undergone “quick
conversions,” and on the case
of a brother and sister
stigmatized as bastards, has
led to demands for civil
marriage and revived the
controversy over “Who is a
Jew?”
TO HELP POOR
Bishop Wants
Fri. Penance
SPOKANE, Wash. (NC) -
Bishop Bernard J. Topel of
Spokane has asked his diocese
to give special witness to the
poor by renewing Friday as a
day of penance.
The bishop urged Catholics
who can afford it to eat a
simple and inexpensive
Friday meal, and set aside for
the poor the money that
normally would be spent for
such a meal.
He pointed out that
neither fasting nor abstinence
are necessarily part of the
suggestion.
“There are many of you I
see before me now who I
know cannot afford to eat
even these simple meals,” the
bishop said. “Your penance
shall be to accept the love of
God.”
When the Friday meat
abstinence law was lifted, it
was made clear that Friday
was to remain a special day of
penance, he said.
But a question posed by
the Black Panthers, the most
publicized of the nation’s
dissidents, is: “Who is an
Israeli?” Their bitter answer
is that it seems only Jews
from Europe qualify as
first-class citizens, and that
those from North Africa and
the Middle East are
discriminated against.
The young agitators are
not black and have no
connections with the U.S.
Black Panthers. Most are
olive-skinned and barely
distinguishable on sight from
the Arabs among whom their
families lived for centuries.
They are strong in the cities
and, with the Arabs, give
Jerusalem an oriental
look-which comes as a shock
to many tourists expecting to
find only the kind of Jews
they know in Europe.
Some of the Panthers,
whose activists total fewer
than 200, are genuine
hard-luck cases. A few are
political tools of the banned
New Left party and the rest
prefer notoriety to hard
work. They are not out to
destroy the state, nor are
they idealists inspired by the
brotherhood of man.
They do not plead the
cause of the Arabs of Galilee
or the occupied areas, who
are no better off than
Oriental Jews. Instead, they
complain that Arab police
have been sent against them.
Initially the Panthers did a
service in drawing attention
to social problems pushed
aside by the need for unity in
defending Israel’s borders.
They rightly pointed out that
the average oriental Jew earns
about half the salary of a
European Jew and that most
of the 62,000 families in
substandard housing are
Oriental.
This gap, however, is being
closed. Last year 16 percent
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SAVANNAH DEANERY -
December 2 - 23.
VALDOSTA
BRUNSWICK DEANERY -
January 7 - 14.
COLUMBUS DEANERY -
January 15 - 24.
STATESBORO
DEANERY -- January 28 -
February 8.
AUGUSTA DEANERY -
February 12-23.
HEADLINE
HOPSCOTCH
'Should Self-Destruct’
VANCOUVER, B.C. (NC) - Cardinal John Wright, on a visit
here just before he convened the International Catechetical
Congress in Rome, had a two-pronged barb for computers and
sociologists in these days when both are telling the Church
what’s wrong with it. “No computer is so omnicompetent that a
baby crawling on all fours can’t pull out the plug,” said the
American cardinal who heads the Vatican’s Congregation for the
Clergy. He discussed the priesthood’s problems at a luncheon in
Vancouver with 130 priests, then addressed 3,000 persons at a
city theater. As for sociologists, the 62-year-old cardinal said he
hoped to live “long enough to see the last sociologist fed into
the last computer, which will then self-destruct in five seconds.”
Synod Representatives
VATICAN CITY (NC) — The Americas - North, Central and
South - will comprise the largest geographical contingent of
prelates among the 210 attending the worldwide Synod of
Bishops in Rome. According to figures released by the synod’s
permanent council, this is the breakdown: 44 - The Americas
(including four each from the United States and Canada). 40 -
Europe. 32 - Africa. 25 - personal choices of Pope Paul VI from
various nations. 20 - Asia. 20 - the 19 cardinals of the Roman
Curia, plus Bishop Ladislaw Rubin, the synod’s general
secretary. 14 - major archbishops of the Catholic Eastern-rite
churches. 10 - representatives of religious orders. 5 - Australia
and Oceania.
By Grace Crawford
Knight Newspaper
MACON — A large group
of Catholic parents were told
here Sept. 9 that the religious
education of their children is
a family affair and not the
sole responsibility of Catholic
Sisters in parochial schools.
These remarks were made
during a meeting at St.
Joseph Catholic Church
attended by parents of
children in both the Catholic
and public schools.
The session was held to
acquaint parents with a new
program for their children,
planned by the church’s
recently-formed religious
education department,
headed by Mrs. Richard
McLemore.
The Rev. William V.
Coleman, St Joseph pastor,
said the training for
elementary and high school
students is broad in scope and
involves parents in every
phase. He said emphasis is on
parents sharing the
responsibility of the religious
education of their children.
The major portion of the
program was a panel
discussion of the parents’ role
in this area.
Dr. James L. Cassidy,
moderator, noted the
effectiveness of parental
assistance in the child’s
academic education, and said
such assistance also should be
given his religious training.
The panelists, Thomas
McCunniff, Carl Williams,
Mrs. McCunniff, and Norman
Smallwood, told of new
approaches to religious
training, new teaching
methods, and the need for
more parent involvement.
Carl Williams, an instructor
of religion at Mt. de Sales
High School, said new
teaching methods must be
employed to “help solve the
many problems young people
face in this perplexing
world.”
He said the old way of
teaching involved definite
answers to questions dealing
with the theology of the
Catholic Church, which
children memorized, but
often never really
understood.
He said the new religious
education program will be
less academic, and one in
which students “will not be
supersaturated with facts, in
which classroom hours will be
reduced, with teachers
working in smaller groups.
“We’re going to take
religion out of the classroom
and put it in the home,” he
said. He said an outline of the
training program will be sent
to parents emphasizing the
family as a center for
discussing and developing
Christian values.
Mrs. McLemore told the
parents that one out of every
six Catholic parishes in the
nation is served by a religious
education coordinator. As the
first such paid director to
assist Macon Catholics, she
will work to develop better
communication between
parents and religious
instructors, help teachers
understand new materials,
and work with principals of
Catholic Schools in the area
of religious education.
The program for Macon
Catholic students, “Come to
The Father,” is from a
Belgium catechismical
movement and was revised by
the Paulist Fathers, Mrs.
MeLemore said.
It was recommended by a
(Continued on page 7)
INSIDE STORY
Christian Seeds Pg. 2
Decline Of Smut Pg. 3
•Know Your Faith’ Pg. 5
Attica Riot Pg. 6