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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, January 23,1975
FOR DROUGHT RELIEF IN AFRICA
CMS Gives $6.8 Million in Diaster Aid
NEW YORK (NC) -- In less than two
years Catholic Relief Services (CRS),
U.S. Catholics’ overseas aid agency, has
helped more than half a million people
with $6.8 million in aid under its
African Drought Relief program.
According to a CRS Disaster
Response Report published here, from
July 1, 1973 to Nov. 30, 1974, CRS
gave $6,807,289 in supplies, equipment
and services to the 10-country region
below the Sahara Desert that has been
suffering from severe drought in the last
few years.
Over half the money, $3,727,202,
came from Catholic diocesan collections
or aid grants. In addition direct
contributions from individuals or
religious organizations and groups
supplied more than $1 million.
CRS also received more than $2.6
million worth of food and other
commodities from the U.S. government
and other American agencies for
shipment to the disaster area. From
other agencies around the world it
received grants in cash and in kind
totalling almost $1.2 million.
In the 17-month period covered by
the report CRS sent 70 shipments of
food, clothing, shelter materials,
medical supplies and tools and
equipment from the United States,
worth nearly $3.3 million.
It sent another 22 shipments of
supplies from other ports around the
world through the donations of foreign
agencies. In addition it sent nearly $1
million in cash for local relief and
rehabilitation purchases and spent
$1,274,799 for water resource and
other rehabilitation projects.
In addition to the emergency food,
medical and clothing supplies, the
report said, the chief efforts of the CRS
have been devoted to rehabilitation
projects -- the deepening of drying up
wells, irrigation projects, a large earthen
dam project in Upper Volta, the
reconstitution of depleted animal herds
in Niger, reforestation of
drought-scarred land, and rebuilding
essential supply roads.
At the end of the report period, CRS
said, it had nearly $2 million on hand to
expand existing programs or begin new
ones.
But it was not always that way, the
report said: “By the end of June, 1974,
as a direct result of the expansion of...
already established programs to the
point where some 265,000 drought
victims were receiving assistance, the
CRS Africa Drought Fund itself
dwindled to just over $36,000.”
At that point Cardinal John Krol of
Philadelphia, then president of CRS,
appealed to the U. S. bishops for more
funds.
“In the five months July 1 -
November 30, 1974,” the report said,
“and in response principally to appeals
from the bishops of the United States,
an additional $3.8 million was
contributed to the CRS Africa Drought
Fund.”
Holy See Seeks Rumania Talks
CHARISMATICS AT PRAYER -- Charismatics from
Minneapolis, and St. Paul religious groups raise their
hands in prayer at a combined service. In a new
statement, the U.S. Bishop’s Committee for Pastoral
Research and Practices has said that it supports the
positive directions of charismatic renewal, but says
that it cannot be productive in isolation. (NC Photo by
Kati Ritchie)
VATICAN CITY (NC) - The
Vatican’s press spokesman, Federico
Alessandrini, has stated that the Holy
See hopes to begin talks with Rumania’s
communist government.
Alessandrini said Jan. 16 that
Archbishop Luigi Poggi, who has the
title of “apostolic nuncio for special
assignments,” left Rome for Rumania
“about a week ago.”
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According to the Vatican press office,
Archbishop Poggi was trying to initiate
a dialogue with the Rumanian
government similar to talks which the
Vatican has held with communist
governments in Hungary,
Czechoslovakia and Poland.
Alessandrini recalled a statement
made two years ago by the secretary of
the Council for the Church’s Public
Affairs, Archbishop Agostino Casaroli,
concerning the Vatican’s purpose in
entering such dialogue: “To create
minimal conditions for the development
of Christian life and for the existence of
the Church, as well as to promote moral
and social values.”
Alessandrini also quoted Archbishop
Casaroli on the way such dialogue
should be conducted: “Frank,
comprehensive, courteous in form, firm
in principles, not denying the
significance of the person who has
suffered for the Church.”
Although a number of prominent
churchmen including Cardinal Franz
Koenig of Vienna, president of the
Secretariat for Non-Believers, and
Cardinal Jan Willebrands, president of
the Secretariat for Promoting Christian
Unity, have visited Rumania in recent
years, they have been unable to open
any discussion of the status of Catholics
in that country.
At present there are only three
Latin-rite Catholic bishops in Rumania,
and only two of them are recognized by
the Rumanian regime.
Bishop Aaron Marton of Alba Julia,
and his coadjutor with right of
succession, Bishop Antonio Jakab, now
are permitted to ordain a
government-approved number of priests,
to baptize in the cathedral and to visit
parish churches for confirmations.
But Bishop Peter Plesca, who acts as
ordinary in the vacant see of Jassi has
been refused all government
recognition. Yet he was ordained a
bishop on Dec. 16, 1965, in Rome, in
the presence of members of the
Rumanian embassy to Italy.
The three other Roman-rite sees of
Bucharest, Satu Mare-0radea Mare and
Timisoara are vacant. Statistics on the
numbers of Latin-rite Catholics in
Rumania indicate 445,000 in Alba Julia
for 1970, 209,000 in Jassi for 1971,
320,000 in Timisoara for 1970, 202,000
in Satu Mare-Oradea Mare for 1949.
Legally, tl^e Eastern-rite Catholic
Church has been out of existence since
1948, when some 1,500,000
Eastern-rite Catholics were forcibly
incorporated into the Greek Orthodox
Church.
Neither Cardinal Koenig nor Cardinal
Willebrands, during their visits dating
from the mid-1960s to 1972, were
permitted to raise the Eastern-rite
problem. All five Eastern-rite bishops in
1948 were imprisoned. The last to die in
1970, was Bishop Juliu Hossu of Cluj,
whom Pope Paul VI made a cardinal in
1969 without announcing his name.
The papal envoy to Rumania, the late
Archbishop Gerald P. O’Hara, secretly
ordained five other bishops but these
were arrested and sent to monasteries.
They were later released on condition
they not carry out any religious
ministries.
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CANCER SURVIVOR URGES
Be Alert to Danger Signals
(Reprinted from the BRUNSWICK
NEWS)
One Brunswick woman has survived
cancer — not once, but twice. After a
malignancy was detected in her right
breast in 1963, Ticki Lloyd underwent
radical surgery to have the breast
removed. She recovered and resumed an
active life. In 1971, she entered the
hospital for her second mastectomy.
Mrs. Lloyd’s experience as a two-time
cancer victim qualifies her well to
counsel and encourage others who have
undergone mastectomies. She, if
anyone, is aware that while cancer
cannot be foreseen, it can be caught in
time. She warns, “If you feel a lump on
your breast, have it checked. And don’t
delay.”
IN NEW REPORT
WASHINGTON (NC) - The Catholic
charismatic movement received
encouragement and support in a new
report by the U.S. bishops’ Committee
for Pastoral Research and Practices
published here.
The statement cautioned against
dangers of biblical fundamentalism,
elitism, overemphasis on charismatic
gifts to the detriment of the full Gospel
message, or a tendency toward
isolationism in the Catholic charismatic
movement.
But it said of the movement as a
whole: “We encourage those who
already belong and we support the
positive and desirable directions of the
charismatic renewal.”
The charismatic movement is
generally considered as having started
among Catholics in the United States
with a prayer group that began meeting
at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, in
1967. Since then it has spread
worldwide and numbers tens of
thousands of active participants in the
U.S. alone. Its chief characteristic is a
belief in the active, consciously
experienced presence of the Holy Spirit
and His gifts.
Observing that the charismatic
renewal cannot be productive “in
isolation,” the statement called for
continuing contact between leaders and
members of the movement with bishops
and pastors, and the full integration of
charismatic groups into the structures of
pdrish life.
It recommended sustaining a climate
of mutual understanding, trust and
communication through the
appointment of diocesan liaison persons
who can keep current with
developments in the movement, offer
sound guidance, and keep the bishops
informed.
Priests were strongly encouraged by
the statement to take an interest in the
charismatic movement. “Because of his
unique role and the charism of sacred
ordination, the priest can most
effectively relate the work of the
renewal to the total life of the Church
and in this way fulfill his own special
function of coordinator of the gifts of
the Spirit,” the document said.
Expressing the hope that the “truly
positive values of the charismatic
renewal will prevail,” the statement also
drew attention to “dangers and
undesirable features” which appear in
some charismatic groups, as well as to
other aspects of the movement that
require “caution.”
The Committee for Pastoral Research
and Practices prepared the Statement on
Catholic Charismatic Renewal at the
request of the National Conference of
Catholic Bishops (NCCB). Archbishop
John R. Quinn of Oklahoma City, then
chairman of the committee, presented
the statement to the meeting of the
NCCB last November, at which time
approval for its distribution was given.
Indicating the high incidence of
breast cancer — now averaged to occur
in one of every 15 women in the United
States — Ticki Lloyd explained that
“one of my sisters died as a result of
breast cancer in 1949; mine struck in
1963 and again in 1971; a third sister
underwent surgery for cancer in 1973.”
Eleven years ago, Mrs. Lloyd said she
felt a sharp pain in her left breast when
she leaned over, and discovered a hard
lump in the breast. She went to the
doctor, was admitted to the hospital for
tests, and underwent surgery to have the
malignant lump removed.
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“I wanted the truth, and I got it,” she
said, recalling that “everything was
In the interim, suggested changes in the
document have been completed and an
introduction and appendix added. The
appendix is the text of a recent address
on the subject by Pope Paul.
“One of the great manifestations of
the Spirit in our times has been the
Second Vatican Council,” the statement
says. “Many believe also that the
Catholic Charismatic Renewal is another
such manifestation of the Spirit.”
Where the movement is making solid
progress, it offers positive and
authenticating signs, the statement said,
citing such manifestations as “a strongly
grounded spirit of faith in Jesus Christ
as Lord,” a renewed interest in private
and group prayer, a new sense of
spiritual values, a heightened
consciousness of the Holy Spirit, “the
praise of God and a deepening personal
commitment to Christ.”
“Many, too, have grown in devotion
to the Eucharist and partake more
fruitfully in the sacramental life of the
Church,” the statement continued.
“Reverence for the Mother of the Lord
takes on fresh meaning and many feel a
deeper sense of and attachment to the
Church. Things of this kind certainly
merit encouragement and do reflect the
biblical and Church teaching.”
Among “some dangers which
continue to exist here and there,” the
committee said, are “elitism and that
kind of biblical fundamentalism which
offend against the authenticating norms
of Sacred Scripture and the teaching of
the Church.”
While it cannot be denied that other
aspects of the charismatic
renewal-healing, prophecy, praying in
tongues, and the interpretation of
tongues--could be genuine
manifestations of the Spirit, these
phenomena “must be carefully
scrutinized and their importance, even if
genuine, should not be exaggerated,”
the statement said.
The charismatic renewal “has to have
a strong bond with the total life of the
Church,” the statement asserted. “This
means that it is necessary to maintain
involvement in the local parish
community as a whole and to seek out
and work under the guidance of the
parish priests who as sharers in the
pastoral ministry of the bishop have
responsibility for coordinating the
overall well-being of the parish.
“Priests and bishops, of course, have
the correlative responsibility to develop
means for relating the charismatic
renewal to the whole Church,” the
committee said.
The statement suggested that a key
element in the future success of the
charismatic movment is the formation
of leaders who are well grounded in the
teaching of the Church and in
understanding of Scripture, “leaders
who are open to one another and
mature enough to share responsibility.
In many places the benefits derived
from such leadership are already
markedly visible,” the statement said.
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happening so swiftly and I didn’t know
what to say ...
“Dumb me, I didn’t even know what
a radical mastectomy was until the
doctor told me it was the removal of the
breast and all surrounding lymph nodes
under the arm, to which other cancer
cells may spread; and the removal of all
cancer bearing tissue to prevent further
spreading.”
That summer after her operation,
Ticki Lloyd did some soul-searching.
She thought of the thousands of other
women who had faced the same battle
with cancer. “No woman is gay over the
removal of her breasts. There is a great
deal of discomfort involved, but I knew
I had to accept this condition. And so I
did... my mind overflowed with
thoughts of God and how good he has
been to me. I knew without faith I
could never get through this ordeal.”
Thankful for, rather than resentful
about the mastectomy, she comments,
“it irks me no end to hear women say
they wanted to hide in a closet after
breast surgery. I have never wanted to
hide anywhere. I wanted to be out in
the world so I could scream . . .‘look!
I’ve had breast surgery and I’m still alive
and still the same ME. My husband and
family and friends still love me for
myself.” *• ;
She explained that there was no
Reach-for-Recovery program for breast
surgery recoverees at the time of her
first mastectomy, but she found her
family’s help and understanding “good
therapy.”
“My arm was practically frozen from
having been wrapped in an ace bandage
for so long. Peggy, our daughter, put a
mark on the wall each day and I had to
climb until I reached it. My husband
wrapped a piece of rope around several
bricks and tied them from a pulley
attached to the bedroom door frame. I
made up my mind that I would get
better. With all the prayers I had going
for me, I plunged right back into the
swing of things and became more
involved than ever. I was a real crusader
against cancer. I did volunteer work for
the American Cancer Society and
became a Red Cross Volunteer. I spent
much of my time visiting women who
were fearful of cancer, especially breast
cancer.”
In 1968, Mrs. Lloyd said she
celebrated the fifth anniversary of her
cancer operation with a cake and
candles, having reached what physicians
generally used to consider the cure
mark. However, it has now been learned
that cases of cancer differ among
individuals, and an arbitrary time period
following surgery does not guarantee
freedom from recurring cancer for
everyone.
Ticki Lloyd was one of those people,
“I found out there is no set rule for
cancer. It does whatever it pleases.” One
day in the winter of 1970, she leaned
over and pain shot through her left
breast, where she was to detect a small
malignant lump. She admitted a flash of
fear and her first impulse to ignore the
lump. But she didn’t. Admitted to the
hospital, she said she remembered
awaking from surgery to find her left
breast gone and saying “Oh no, God.
Not again.”
And yet she tells now that “I picked
up the pieces in 1971. The world is full
of tribulation. The best thing to do is
laugh about it. There is, I know, a
special grace given to cancer victims. I
have seen it in everyone I have
contacted.
“My passion for living has not
stopped. I will not look back. I will live
in the present and not worry about
what the future holds. I have found that
my operation for cancer has not
hindered my zest for living, but
increased it. . .1 have the gift of life and
with love I shall triumph.
“There are mountains to climb;
brilliant sunsets to see; flowers to smell;
streams to fish; a precious grandson to
read to and romp fields with; stories to <
write and people to love .. .1 can look
at those who would feel pity for me,
and honestly say, ‘weep not for me.’ ”
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