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The Southern Cross
DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH NEWSPAPER
Vol. 55 No. 40
Thursday, November 14,1974
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AN EDITORIAL
The Campaign for Human Development
We hear constantly of evil:
hypocricy, lies, manipulation,
oppression, cynicism. One might almost
come to wonder if the whole world was
made up of selfish and unfeeling people
-- tearing at each other, despising each
other, fearing each other. The
temptation is to wonder if you’re being
foolish to believe that the meek will
really inherit the earth, that integrity
has such value, that trying to live as
Jesus taught is something anybody else
is willing to risk in actual life.
But this isn’t fair to ourselves, to
people or to the Lord. Surely, there IS
grave injustice and great evil in the
world and in our society. But there is
also great GOODNESS -- and great
good. It’s quiet, unnoticed for the most
part. We’ve grown so accustomed to
discouraging things that we might not
even look at a thousand lives of
integrity and fidelity because of the
strident impossibility to miss cruelty or
greed of a few.
The Campaign for Human
Development is a Symbol of what great
good could be done if we continually
re-evaluate our priorities as a People to
be sure that the basic rights of all, the
dignity of each individual and the unity
of man in the Body of Christ comes
before a few more luxuries, a needless
surplus of wealth, things that could be
forgone or postponed.
It is also a Symbol of the great good
that IS in the world - the quiet,
uncredited good that exists in the lives
of poor and non-poor alike. It is the
story of what poor people do without
ever receiving a headline - and the story
of the brotherhood of NON-poor people
who receive no public credit for what
they do.
The Campaign is four years old now.
Thirty million dollars has been
contributed to this program of:
- helping us all to KNOW the poor --
who they are, where they live, what it
IS to be poor - particularly in an
economy with rising prices for
everything.
-- the largest single group of poor
people: people over the age of 65 -
white, black, brown, red, yellow; people
on fixed and limited incomes who
barely could afford to heat their room
or go shopping BEFORE the prices
soared.
- 60% of the 36,000,000 poor people
in our country have never received any
form of public assistance - or of
welfare.
- half of America’s poor live in rural
areas or small communities.
- four out of five of those who DO
receive some minimal public assistance
are children under the age of 18 or
people over the age of 65 -- or they are
blind or disabled.
- only 1% of those who receive
public help are men who are physically
able to work -- but who hires them with
a high unemployment rate? Unlike the
day in which St. Paul lived, not
everybody CAN earn their food by
working with their hands. Today there
are machines that replace people.
Please be part once again of this
really GOOD, very real though quiet
and perhaps unnoticed facet of our
nation today. Give generously to the
Campaign for Human Development in
the special collection to be taken up in
the Diocese of Savannah on November
24th.
YOU make the difference. YOU have
ALREADY made the difference for tens
of thousands. Together, we will make
the difference that was the dream, the
vision and the victory of the Lord.
POPE TELLS CONFEREES
Food Crisis Is Result of Bad Distribution
DICK GREGORY COMMENTS ~ Surrounded by
newsmen, humorist and human rights advocate Dick
Gregory talks about his fast to spotlight world hunger.
Gregory, attending the World Food Conference in
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Rome, praised Pope Paul’s “very beautiful statement”
on food. Gregory said that population is not the
problem because the earth could feed many millions
more if all its arable land was cultivated. (NC Photo)
BY JOHN MUTHIG
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul
VI told World Food Conference
participants that the global food crisis
stems from unwillingness to correct
maldistribution of the world’s resources
and from the overconfidence which
nations place in industrialization.
Pope Paul also warned Nov. 9 the
approximately 3,000 participants in the
conference that the issue of population
growth can become an “alibi” used to
sidestep the real issues behind the food
crisis.
The Pope called efforts to impose
restrictive population policies on
nations “a new form of warfare.” He
said such efforts are designed to deprive
some countries of their “just share of
the earth’s goods.”
In the papal audience hall, the Pope
told the delegates and observers to the
United Nations-sponsored food
conference that the world is undergoing
a “crisis of civilization and of method
which shows itself when only the model
of society that leads to an industrialized
society is considered.”
He warned against placing too much
confidence in the “automatic nature of
purely technical solutions, while
fundamental human values are
forgotten.”
Speaking in French, the Pope
cautioned against “the quest for mere
Self-Study Group Clarifies Purpose
BY PAUL ROMEE
The Self-Study Committee for the
Catholic Church in Savannah held its
last meeting at Sacred Heart Rectory,
1707 Bull Street, on November 7. The
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Self-Study Committee has chosen for its
general goal: “For the honor and glory
of God, that the Church of the
Savannah Deanery approach its mission
as a total community effort in the areas
of worship, teaching, love, service, and
witness.” In terms of this general goal
the Self-Study Committee is considering
the following categories:
A. Love and Worship. To encourage
through the liturgy a sense of
community within the Deanery and to
promote good, vital worship in the
deanery. To unite all the people in the
Deanery in the peace and truth of
Christ. To these ends the Committee
may examine such areas as: Parish
consolidation, parish boundaries, and
physical properties of the Church.
B. Service. To collaborate with all
people of good will in creating a
liberating and healing social order. The
Social Apostolate, decent housing,
improved lving conditions, improved
health, educational and recreational
facilities, and the enrichment of social
life are\among the considerations in this
area.
C. Witness. To seek a sense of
community with ail religious groups and
indeed with all men. To present our
faith to the young in terms they cannot
fail to understand and to present our
faith to the aged in terms they recognize
and are comfortable with.
D. Teaching. To Consider the role of
the Deanery in providing Catholic
education to its people. This will
include self-study of such subjects as
existing Catholic School systems, the
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
(CCD), for school age persons not
enrolled in Catholic Schools, and adult
education programs. Reports on
Committee’s deliberations will be
published in the future.
The Self-Study Committee is striving
to keep the Catholic Community
apprised of the course of its work. A
verbal report of the Committee’s work
was made at the October meeting of the
Deanery Council. Members of the
Deanery Council were invited to attend
the November Committee meeting, and
several did appear. The Committee has
invited members of all Parish Councils
of the Deanery as well as the members
of the Deanery Pastoral Council to
attend as observers its next meeting
which will be held at St. James Church
on Thursday, November 21, at 7:30
p.m. It is anticipated that future
meetings will be held . at various
locations throughout the Deanery in
order to facilitate attendance by
interested individuals.
The following prayer, composed by
Bishop Raymond W. Lessard, has been
adopted by the committee.
“Heavenly Father, in the name of
your son Jesus Christ, you sent your
spirit to be with your Church. Pour
forth on your people the fullness of His
gifts, so that as we gather in your name,
we may be guided by the light and
power of your gospel.
“Strengthen our minds and hearts in
the truth and lead us in the way of
charity.
“Renew in our day your wonders, as
in a new pentecost, so that this
community of your children,
prayerfully gathered with Mary, the
mother of Jesus, may bring to pass your
kingdon of truth and justice, of love and
peace. Amen.
economic success deriving from the
large profits of industry with a
consequent virtual abandonment of the
agricultural sector, and the
accompanying neglect of its highest
human and spiritual values.”
The Pope spoke forcefully against
“an irrational and one-sided campaign
against demographic growth,” which he
said could be used as an alibi to avoid
real issues in the food crisis.
The Pope said:
“It is inadmissible that those who
have control of the wealth and resources
of mankind should try to resolve the
problem of hunger by forbidding the
poor to be bom or by leaving to die of
hunger children whose parents do not
fit into the framework of theoretical
plans based on pure hypotheses about
the future of mankind.”
The Pope asked rhetorically: “Is it
not a new form of warfare to impose a
restricitive demographic policy on
nations, to ensure that they will not
claim their just share of the earth’s
goods?”
The Pope, who was greeted with
subdued applause before and after the
speech, made several other major points.
Among them were:
- A world fund, drawn mainly from
reduced arms expenditures, should be
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HEADLINE
HOPSCOTCH
Orlando Bishop Named
WASHINGTON (NC) -- Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Grady of Chicago has been
named to head the diocese of Orlando, Fla. The appointment was announced here
Nov. 9 by Archbishop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the United States. When he
moves to Orlando, Bishop Grady, 60, will take over the See left vacant in June when
Archbishop William Borders was transferred to Baltimore to succeed retired Cardinal
Lawrence Shehan. A native of Chicago, Bishop Grady was named an auxiliary bishop
there in 1967. In November 1973 he was elected chairman of the then-new permanent
committee of the U.S. bishops on priestly life and ministry.
Vatican-Poland Consultation
VATICAN CITY (NC) -- The Vatican has named Archbishop Luigi Boggi to head its
delegation for “permanent work contacts” with Poland’s communist government and
stated that Archbishop Boggi’s group would be in contact with its Polish counterpart
continually “if not daily.” A Vatican spokesman said Nov. 8 the new head of the
Polish delegation, Kazimierz Szablewski, would arrive in Rome to take up his position
“within the next few days.” Creation of these permanent work groups had been agreed
upon in a protocol last July.
Synod Film on TV
NEW YORK (NC) - A report filmed in Rome during the fourth world Synod of
Bishops will be presented on “Look Up and Live” Sunday, Nov. 17, on the CBS
Television Network. The synod met in October to discuss Evangelization in the
Modern World. Distinguished guests who comment on insights that the bishops
brought with them to the synod include Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia, president
of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops; Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of
Cincinnati; and Cardinal Joseph Cordeiro of Karachi, Pakistan.
Anglican Synod Backs Statements
LONDON (NC) -- Two statements on the Eucharist and on ministry and ordination
drawn up by the Anglican and Roman Catholic International Commission of Bishops
and theologians have received the firm backing of the General Synod of the Church of
England, the democratically elected assembly that is the Church’s “parliament.” The
synod welcomed the two statements without dissenting votes. It commended them to
the study of the Church at large, “particularly at parochial level, in the hope that such
study will help forward the cause of the Christian unity.”
Investigation Questioned
WASHINGTON (NC) - A government investigation of whether a California grape
grower is hiring illegal aliens has been termed inadequate by a priest and three nuns.
They made the charge after the Immigration and Naturalization Service checked
workers at the B.J. Gallo ranch, which is being struck by the United Farm Workers of
America. Earlier charges said that the Gallo ranch was hiring illegal aliens to break the
strike. The U.S. Department of Justice is currently investigating the INS investigation
to determine if it was done properly.