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SERVING 88 SOUTH - GEORGIA COUNTIES
The Southern Cross
DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH NEWSPAPER
Vol. 53 No. 10
Thursday, March 9,1972
Single Copy Price — 12 Cents
CONVENTION
Catholic
Women
T o Meet
BY GRACE T. CRAWFORD
Mrs. Thomas Burke, president of the
National Council of Catholic Women will
be the main speaker at the 33rd annual
convention of the Savannah Diocesan
Council of Catholic Women April 14-16
in the Macon Hilton Hotel.
Mrs. J. Harry Persse of Savannah,
diocesan president, said the convention
theme is, “There Is a Season for
Everything: A Time for Every
Occupation Under Heaven.”
Convention chairman this year is Mrs.
Robert M. Young Sr. of Macon, who is
urging pre-registation of persons planning
to attend. Deadline for pre-registering is
March 15. The cost of the convention,
including the Saturday night banquet and
a brunch Sunday morning, is $16.50, a
package arrangement which includes
registration. Delegates not wishing to
attend all events may pay the $3.00
registration fee, and $10 for the banquet
or $5 for the brunch.
Registration money may be sent to
Mrs. Vincent Canipelli at 778 Windsor
Road in Macon, 31204. Room
reservations may be made directly in the
Hilton.
Katie Young, the woman who is
planning Macon’s first DCCW meeting in
seven years, said the details involved are
almost unbelievable. One of the tricks she
has up her sleeve concerns getting the
ladies to pre-register in order to avoid a
last minute rush on the first day.
Katie’s trick is offering a first issue
Sidney Lanier commemorative stamp to
the first 100 women who pre-register.
Registration on arrival may be made
Friday, April 14 from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m.
in the Hilton, and from 10 a.m. until
1:45 p.m. Saturday.
Pre-convention events will include a
party by the Macon Deanery Council of
Catholic Women from 8 p.m. until 10
p.m. Friday, April 14 in the home of Dr.
and Mrs. Jule Neal on Briarcliff Road,
and a tour of Macon’s Hay House from 9
a.m. until 10 a.m. Saturday.
Transporation to the Hay House will be
furnished free by the Hilton.
Mrs. Young said everyone attending
pre-convention and convention events
must pay the registration fee either
separately or in the package deal.
Husbands accompanying their wives may
purchase banquet or brunch tickets and
are not required to pay the registration
fee. Neither priests or nuns are required
to pay the fee, but are asked to check in
at registration booth in the Hilton.
The first meeting of the convention
will be a sharing session at 10:30 a.m.
Saturday for commission chairmen.
Afternoon events Saturday will begin at 2
p.m. with a business session, workshop
and mass. The banquet at which Mrs.
Burke will speak is set for 7:30 p.m.
Sunday’s sessions will include 9:30
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INSIDE STORY
Macon Parishes
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Sen. Kennedy
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'Rapping’
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25 Years Ago
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In Holy Orders
Who is this man? A hippie leader? An Arab chieftain? A prophet? A rabble-rouser?
Whoever he is, his face shows strength and dedication - the qualities of leadership.
Leaders of the Church today face great tasks and tremendous challenges. In their often
lonely struggle, they need a special assurance from God that He is with them. In the
sacrament of Holy Orders, God gives them this assurance.
This picture is reproduced on the front cover of leaflets which will be distributed in
all churches in the Diocese on March 12th, the fourth Sunday of Lent. The leaflets
form part of the Lenten Program, “LOVE — SACRAMENTAL STYLE”, and are used
for home discussion as well as for adult and high school group sessions during the
week. The program makes a study of five of the seven sacraments, and involves the
cooperation of church, home, school and CCD in its presentation. This week the
sacrament of Holy Orders is seen as God’s response to the great need of those called to
lead the Church.
Photo: (Entitled YOUNG MOROCCAN) By Menjaud, Air France. Selected from the
Photolangauge collection of Pflaum/Standard.
30 TIMES OVER
CRS Money Multiplied
NEW YORK (NC) - During the year
which ended June 10, 1971, Catholic
Relief Services distributed goods and
services worth $154,398,791.
They were enabled to do this by the
Catholics of the United States, who
donated $5,696,079 during the annual
CRS collection in mid-Lent.
Question: How do you manage to give
$154 million worth of service with a
collection box total of only five and a
half million? Answer: you hustle. You
take your basic cash income as a point of
departure for your activities, not as
the final limiting factor in what you
can do. With the kind of organization you
can build and maintain o^ that annual
income, you become eligible for all kinds
of donations from governments, private
industry, foundations and other religious
and charitable organizations.
By working hard to develop other
sources of supply, CRS manages each
year to multiply the impact of its Lenten
collection by more than 30.
Money is, of course, not the only gift
American Catholics give to the needy of
the world through CRS. The 1970
Thanksgiving Clothing Collection brought
in approximately 19 5 million pounds of
used clothing, blankets, bedding and
shoes, valued at more than $24 million.
This clothing was sent to the needy in
some 55 countries.
BY LOP-SIDED MARGIN
Pro-Abortion Bills
Fail In Ga. House
Attempts to liberalize Georgia’s abortion laws went down to defeat in the House of Representatives last
Friday (Mar. 3) on a motion to “table.” The vote was 133-25. Thirty-seven members did not vote.
Representative Kil Townsend of Atlanta presented his controversial house bill 647 for consideration last week.
It became apparent almost immediately that the house would not pass the bill, as members began to move to the
front of the chamber to speak in opposition.
During the debate, Rep. James
“sloppy” Floyd rose to say that he “had
heard a lot of talk about the Catholics
opposing the bill,” and he “wanted to
make it clear that as a Baptist I am
unalterably opposed to the legislation.”
Finally, admitting that he could not
get the bill through the house, Busbee
interrupted a speech by Rep. Mulherin
and introduced a motion to “table” his
own bill. This motion was passed by the
house and effectively killed any abortion
legislation in the State for this session of
the General Assembly.
HELPS AGED
BISHOP WITH COLLEGE STUDENTS - Bishop Gerard L. Frey of Savannah, visits
with group of Augusta College students doing two - week “Live In” in Augusta
Deanery.
HEADLINE
HOPSCOTCH
Rep. Matthew Mulherin of Augusta led
the floor fight against the bills stating
that neither bill was suitable or
acceptable and pointed out what he said
were legislative flaws in each. He stated
that aside from moral and religious issues,
the bills were simply bad legislation
because they did not specifically
designate that a licensed physician should
perform the procedure. He also stated
that the bills did not have a residency
requirement, which would turn Georgia
into a State-of-Abortion mill like New
York.
Rep. Jesse Blackshear of Savannah had
stated before the debate began that he
was totally opposed to the bill and would
work against it on the floor. Mr.
Blackshear was one of three black
legislators who opposed the bill.
‘Step Out
Services’
Essay Contest
NEW YORK (NC) — The National Association of the Holy Name Society has
started its first essay contest for Catholic high school boys. The theme of the contest,
open to all Catholic boys of high school age, is “Youth and the Parish.” Official entry
forms and rules may be obtained from the national Holy Name director, 141 E. 65th
St., New York, 10021. Deadline for mailing entries is March 15. The winning essayist
will receive a $100 U.S. Savings Bond and a plaque.
After nearly an hour of debate,
Townsend withdrew his bill, which would
have abolished the present three grounds
for abortion and left the decision to the
woman and two concurring physicians.
Townsend deferred to house majority
leader George Busbee, of Albany, who -
proposed a susstitute bill which would
have left the present three grounds in the
law but, cut out the three-doctor review
board and make it possible for the
procedure to be performed at a state
accredited hospital instead of a nationally
accredited hospital.
BROOKLYN (NC) — An unusual
S.O.S. project to help elderly persons
through the red tape of state Medicaid,
federal Medicare, rent exemption and
other government programs has met with
modest success in its first year in the
Brooklyn diocese.
S.O.S. stands for Step Out Services. It
was started a year ago by the Aging
Services Division of Catholic Charities. Its
clientele of senior citizens covers all
faiths, according to Father Rene A.
Valero, director. He termed its initial
success “only a start.”
Between March and December last
year, he said, S.O.S. teams visited 20
parish centers and made themselves
available to help elderly persons file
applications to receive benefits to which
they were entitled because of their age or
limited financial means.
Beatitudes On Film
LOS ANGELES (NC) — The Eight Beatitudes are the subject of a new series of
color films produced by TeleKETICS films of the Franciscan Communications Center
here. “Those Who Mourn” and “Theirs Is the Kingdom,” have been released. Six other
five-minute films are in production. The films are designed for educational and
liturgical use.
Blacks, Israelites Compared
DAYTON (NC) — The struggle of blacks for freedom in the U.S. was compared by
Archbishop Paul F. Liebold to the Israelites fight against the Egyptian bondage. “With
a few changes in names,” the two stories are nearly identical, the Cincinnati
archbishop told cursillo members at a Mass in St. James Church here. Even the plagues
suffered by the ancient Egyptians had their counterpart in the agonies of the Civil War
and “the afflictions since then visited on” this nation, Archbishop Liebold said.
Suspect Priest Cleared
Through the program 300 aged were
certified for food stamps; 287 received
half-fare I.D. cards for subways, 86
qualified for rent exemption applications
so they would not pay more than
one-third of their income to rent, 58
qualified for public assistance and 296
received Medicaid or Medicare, he said.
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VATICAN CITY (NC) — A decade after he was ordered out of his teaching post at
Rome’s Biblical Institute, Jesuit scripture scholar Father Stanislaus Lyonnet has been
made a consultor of the Vatican’s Doctrinal Congregation. This puts the seal of the
Vatican’s complete confidence on a man who had been under suspicion of doctrinal
deviation. The Doctrinal Congregation is responsible, under the Pope, for safeguarding
the integrity of Christian teaching in the Church. Father Lyonnet, a Frenchman, was
dean of the biblical institute’s scripture faculty when the Vatican ordered his removal
during the 1961-62 academic year. The ban was lifted three years later.
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