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SERVING 88 SOUTH - GEORGIA COUNTIES
The Southern Cross
DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH NEWSPAPER
Vol. 53 No. 35
Thursday, October 12,1972
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of Laity
Oct. 22
Confraternity
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The annual Bishop’s Confraternity of the Laity (BCL) campaign for
diocesan funds will be officially launched Sunday, Oct. 15, when a letter
from Bishop Gerard L. Frey will be read at all Masses in every church and
mission of the diocese, urging “all our Catholic people (to) unite to assist
the development of the Church and the extension of God’s Kingdom in
south and central Georgia.”
A diocesan-wide, home-to-home canvass will be made on Sunday, Oct.
22 in a drive to raise this year’s goal of $140,000. A minimum cash
donation of $30.00 from each wage-earner will be asked.
In a statement to the Southern Cross,
Bishop Frey expressed the hope that
“those who have been specially blessed
with the goods of this world will give
more than the minimum, since this is
necessary if the parish quotas are to be
reached and the Drive is to be a success.”
While some pastors have found that
direct-mail solicitation has proved more
effective in their parishes, many pastors
will request parishioners to remain at
home on October 22 during the early
afternoon hours when volunteer solicitors
will call at their homes.
“Those making their donation by
check,” said Monsignor Daniel J. Bourke,
coordinator for the drive, “should make
their checks payable to their respective
parishes. Parishes can then forward the
proceeds to the diocesan chancery in a
lump sum in one check.”
October 29th has been designated a
“Follow-up Sunday,” when those who
could not remain at home on the 22nd or
who were unable to make a donation at
that time will be contacted.
A brochure has been prepared by the
Savannah diocese for distribution at all
churches in the diocese, outlining the
proposed distribution of funds realized in
this year’s BCL drive.
$34,000 will be allocated for the
education of seminarians and
post-ordination studies for diocesan
priests. $22 thousand will be spent for
the education of 21 students presently
studying for the priesthood in the
Savannah diocese. This is in addition to
funds raised through tuition and other
charges.
$12 thousand will be earmarked for
summer studies and other specialized
education programs for priests after their
ordination.
According to the brochure, “There are
parishes in the diocese where the priests
could not possibly exist without outside
financial assistance. Such parishes have to
be maintained if the Church in Georgia is
to grow.” These mission parishes will
receive $12,000.
THE SOUTHERN CROSS is sent to
every Catholic home in the diocese at the
request of Bishop Frey. $22,000 will be
alloted to the diocesan paper to cover the
difference between subscriptions raised
through the annual drive conducted in
February and the actual cost of
operations.
St. Mary’s Home for Dependent
Children will receive $20 thousand; the
Priests’ Retirement Fund, $17,000;
Diocesan properties, $10,000.
Camp Villa Marie, diocesan
catechetical and recreational facility, will
receive $5,000 and $3,000 will be alloted
as the Savannah diocesan share of
maintaining the Georgia Catholic
Conference in cooperation with the
Archdiocese of Atlanta. The Conference
was instituted last year “to protect the
interest of the Church in Georgia and to
uphold the principles of Christian
morality at the legislative level,”
according to the brochure.
During the coming year, new churches
are scheduled for construction at
Hamilton and Hazlehurst. In addition, an
educational center is slated for Cordele
and a parish hall for Glenville. $16,000
will be used to defray expenses of these
projects.
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1973 Prayer Week
GARRISON, N.Y. (NC) -- “Lord, Teach Us to Pray” -- the words with which the
Gospel of St. Luke introduces the “Our Father” will be the theme for the 1973 Week
of Prayer for Christian Unity. The week, Jan. 18-25, is sponsored by the department
of faith and order of the National Council of Churches in collaboration with the
Graymoor Ecumenical Institute here. The week’s theme was selected earlier this year
by representatives of the World Council of Churches and the Vatican Secretariat for
Promoting Christian Unity at a meeting in Spain.
Argues Against Withdrawal
WINDHOEK, South-West Africa (NC) -- Bishop Leonard Auala, head of the
Ovambo-Kavango Lutheran Church in South-West Africa, said here that on a recent
trip to the United States he had argued against the withdrawal of American
investments from South Africa. The Lutheran bishop said he had pointed out that
thousands of Africans would lose their jobs if American investments were withdrawn.
He had urged American businesses operating in South Africa to adopt a policy of equal
treatment for all employes, Bishop Auala said. Praising scholarship grants to Africans
by American companies, Bishop Auala said that “in the long run, American business
may become the savior that overcomes apartheid.” Apartheid is South Africa’s policy
of strict racial segregation.
For Projects in 26 States
(Compiled from NC News Service)
The U. S. bishops’ anti-poverty
program, the Campaign for Human
Development (CHD), opened its 1972
fund raising campaign with an
announcement of more than $1 million in
grants funded by the 1971 campaign.
Among projects receiving grants,
announced on Tuesday (Oct. 10), was the
Social Action Unit of the Savannah
diocese which has been awarded $10,000
in seed money to Finance federal credit
unions.
INSIDE STORY
Catholic Pentecostals
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Editorials
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DCCW Notes
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Budget Report
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Earmarked as a revolving fund, the
grant will first be used to establish a
credit union at Savannah’s St. Benedict’s
parish. It will be returned at a future date
to the Social Action Unit, which will then
channel the funds into another parish or
organization to be used to start a federal
credit union there.
Largest of the newly-announced grants
is one of $80,000 to train teachers in
Spanish languages and cultures awarded
to the Colorado Migrant Council of
Denver.
In other large grants:
-Dineh Cooperatives, Inc., Chinle,
Ariz.; $63,806 for a development office
to provide technical and financial
assistance to Navajo Indians in starting
consumer and crafts cooperatives.
--Housing Renovation and Manpower
Development, Auburn, N.Y.; $42,700 to
provide housing and to train unemployed
men.
-Mid-West Council of La Raza, Notre
Dame, Ind.; $40,000 for technical
assistance for Spanish-speaking poor of
10 states.
-Barrio Development, Inc.; Uvaldo,
Tex.; $50,000 to expand migrants’ pig
co-op and start a feedlot and
slaughterhouse.
- Rural Dental Program, Montepelier,
Vt.; $50,000 to provide preventive dental
care for poor children.
The rest of the $1 million has been
awarded to forty-three projects in twenty
five states. The grants range from a
minimum of $3,000 to the White Oak
Clinic of Duff, Tenn. to improve health
services in the mountain area, to one of
$40,000 for inter-cultural
communications activities for
Mexican-Americans, sponsored by Centro
Chicano Cultural, of Woodburn, Oregon.
Most of the grants fall in the 10 to
25,000 dollar category.
The 1972 fund raising effort of the
Campaign for Human Development
(CHD) will come in a special collection to
be taken up in Catholic churches
throughout the nation on November 19,
the Sunday before Thanksgiving.
In encouraging Catholics to contribute
to the campaign, Auxiliary Bishop
Michael R. Dempsey of Chicago pointed
out that $16 million has been donated
since the campaign began in 1970.
Nearly $12 million in grants have been
distributed and more grants will be
announced later this fall.
Bishop Dempsey, national director of
CHD said the projects aided are generally
small community - based programs
operated by the poor themselves.
THE RIGHT TO LIFE ORGANIZATION in Augusta is making
itself known to a large segment of the community, according to
a report by Mrs. Vance Logan, Jr., chairman of the Augusta
Right to Life, and Mrs. George Quinn, membership chairman.
Since September first there have been six programs given in the
area and others have been scheduled for this month and
November. Recently a feature article on Right to Life in the
Augusta Chronicle and an interview on the Channel Six
Television station was aired. At the Columbia County Fair this
month the Right to Life and Birthright groups will have an
information booth where slides will oe shown and materials
distributed. This is a picture taken at a recent Right to Life
panel. It was held at Chapel 9, Fort Gordon under the
leadership of Father Wayne Shmidt. Pictured left to right are:
Dr. Waid H. Dean, Episcopal priest and psychologist, and
director of the Pastoral Counseling Center of Augusta; Miss
Norma Miller, registered nurse; Father Schmidt, Chaplain at
Fort Gordon; Mrs. George Quinn, membership chairman of
Right to Life; and Dr. Bernard R. Simmons, physician and
Captain in the United States Army.