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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, May 1,1975
What Future Holds for Amnesty, Clemency
THE SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION WAS Raymond W. Lessard at St. John the Evangelist
administered to thirty-five persons by Bishop Church, Valdosta, on April 21.
Folk Music Workshop in Augusta
GERALD T. CANTWELL
“Praise God ... be filled with the
Spirit.”
“Praise God.. . praise him with
drums and dancing, praise him with
strings and reeds, praise him with
clashing cymbals” prayed Fr. Michael
Delea with the psalmist as he opened
the third annual diocesan folk music
workshop.
Accepting the injunction, the 185
musicians who gathered at St.
Mary’s-on-the-Hill in Augusta on the
evening of April 4th, did praise him
throughout the night and most of the
next day. With their guitars, their
drums, their flutes, their banjos, and
with their voices they praised him.
Additionally characterized by
growth, expansion, and progress, this
third workshop confirmed the success
of its two Macon predecessors and the
foresight of Fr. Delea in originating
them in 1973 as learning and sharing
media for the diocese’s folk musicians.
Growth was evident in both the
number of participating musicians and
the number of parishes they
represented, both having increased for
the second straight year.
Expansion was evident in the
attendance of four groups from outside
the diocese, two each from Athens and
South Carolina. Progress was
demonstrated in the musical virtuosity
and confidence with which each group
performed and by the much wider
selection of music presented.
Also evident was the admitted
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influence of the charismatics upon at
least three of the groups. Moreover, for
the first time, there was true witnessing
on two occasions.
With one variation, the format of this
year’s workshop was essentially the
same as that of its predecessors. After
introductory remarks by Fr. Delea and
his opening prayer incorporating Psalm
150, Dick Brotherton, the Augusta host
coordinator, led the assembly in singing
Psalm 89 and “Amazing Grace.”
Thereafter, each of the 14 groups
presented two or three of its favorite
selections. As in the past, these included
many new songs, as well as new
arrangements of familiar selections. Also
as in the past, the entire assembly joined
in so that in effect there was a
hundred-piece band accompanied by a
185-voice chorus performing all night
long.
Upon conclusion of Friday evening’s
renditions, the workshop departed from
the norm as the participants were
instructed in and participated in square
dancing. After this interlude, many
gratefully and wearily went off to bed
in the dormitories improvised in the
school’s halls and classrooms.
However, many others followed the
customary practice of forming into
groups throughout the facility to spend
a good part of the night picking, as the
jamming of another generation is now
known.
Saturday morning the group
reassembled for breakfast and morning
prayer. Then each group presented
another selection of its music. Midway
through the morning, Gerald T.
Cantwell, representing the diocesan
liturical commission which subsidizes
the workshops, briefly exhorted the
musicians to retain perspective and keep
foremost the objective that their music
is intended primarily to abet their
congregations in prayer during mass or
other liturgical assemblies.
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If Congress takes no action on
amnesty, notes Rep. Robert
Kastenmeier, (D-Wis.), chairman of a
House Judiciary Committee
subcommittee dealing with the amnesty
question. It will just end with the
termination of the President’s clemency
program - which is widely regarded as a
failure.
Both the House and Senate are
considering amnesty proposals along
two lines -- a congressional mandated
unconditional amnesby and an
extension and modification of the
President’s program. A key figure is Sen.
Gaylord Neslon (D-Wis.) who has
sponsored bills involving both
approaches -- unconditional amnesty
because that’s what he believes in, and
the clemency program extension
because that’s what he believes is
politically possible. A Nelson aide said
he would be surprised if an
unconditional amnesty bill got 20 to 30
votes in the Senate.
The clemency program extension -
cosponsored by Nelson and Sen. Jacob
Javits (R-N.Y.) - would place all parts
of the clemency program under the
presidential Clemency Board. A key
feature of the bill would allow war
resisters living outside of the United
States to come back, go through the
clemency process, and get an offer of
alternate service requirements or
outright pardon; if they decide against
the offer, they could leave without
arrest and obtain visitors’ visas to enter
the United States for 30 days a year to
be with their families.
Supporters of unconditional amnesty
make a strong case against the clemency
program: the case-by-case approach is
bound to be arbitrary and unfair,
particularly when motives for actions
taken as long as 12 years ago are
involved; alternate service jobs are
disruptive to the lives of individuals and
are just not available in today’s
economy; the notion of a “duty” to
serve the country is questionable when
88.9 percent of the draft-age men and
100 percent of the women were never
called to meet such a duty; those with
pending indictments and bad military
discharges have had a great deal of
success in improving their status
through normal procedures outside the
clemency program; the clemency
program does not deal with civilian
antiwar actions; and the President’s
program is essentially punitive in nature,
without explicitly recognizing that
many men resisted the war, evaded the
draft and deserted the military for
reasons of conscience.
The American Catholic Church has
dealt with principles, but not in
particulars. The bishops are on record as
favoring some form of conditional
amnesty; they applauded the intent of
the Ford clemency program when it was
announced, but the Church has made no
comment as a national body on the
performance of the program, its
termination or what additional steps
should be taken.
Despite a pledge to provide alternate
service jobs, Catholic institutions have
been no more responsible than those of
other religions. As the Rev. Barry Lynn
of the United Church of Christ Center
for Social Action has noted, the
churches “believe a person should be
hired on his or her own merit, not for
ancillary political views.” Some bishops
as well as some Church organizations
have called for an unconditional
amnesty.
In the short run, passage of some
form of the Nelson-Javits bill, possibly
involving efforts of reform of the
military discharge system, seems
possible.
It has the tacit support of the
Administration Clemency Board
chairman Charles Goodell who was
consulted in its drafting, and
congressional action here would fit a
pattern of the Ford presidency -- forcing
Congress into action and sharing
responsibility with the President,
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JIM CASTELLI
thereby closing the clemency program.
Most observers believe that because
Congress paid the bills for the Vietnam
war, it has a responsibility to deal with
the amnesty question.
In the long run, if the Nelson-Javits
bill is passed, it need not rule out an
unconditional amnesty, which could
still occur, either through the exectuive
action of a new president or a decision
by the Congress to “amend” the
Nelson-Javits bill to bring about an
unconditional amnesty.
P. S. A Justice Department study of
“Disruption in the Courtroon and the
Publicly Controversial Defendant,”
which examined the government’s
“conspiracy” trials of the past several
years, including the trial of Philip
Berrigan and other Catholic anti-war
activists, concluded that disruption and
delays in the courtroom were not
responsible for the government’s losing
those cases, “it seems more probable,”
the study said, “that these cases were
lost because they were tried before
juries at least partially composed of
people willing to be convinced of
government misconduct, or willing to
believe the exculpatory motives alleged
by the defense.
The defense sought, and was able to
evoke, the sense that the
government used the legal system to
legitimize or enforce unpopular policies
or decisions”
EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS
Protestants on Planning Group
BY EDWARD EISEN
PHILADELPHIA - Two top
Protestant church leaders were named
May 1st for key roles in the 41st
International Eucharistic Congress, a
world spiritual assembly of Roman
Catholics gathering here Aug. 1-8,1976.
They are the Rt. Rev. John Maury
Allin, presiding Episcopal Bishop of the
United States and the Rev. Dr. Robert
J. Marshall, president of the Lutheran
Church in America.
The announcement was made by the
Most Rev. William W. Baum, S.T.D.,
Archbishop of Washington, D.C. and
chairman of the Committee on
Participation of Christian Churches.
The two church executives will serve
as vice chairmen of Bishop Baiim’s
committee, a prestigious group of clergy
and lay persons with national
representation from major religious
denominations.
The Committee plans to build a
unique ecumenical dimension into the
Congress, expected to draw more than
three million faithful here, the first time
in 50 years the gathering has been held
in the United States.
Initial planning calls for a creative
multi-media ecumenical service focusing
on the origins of the Eucharist in the
Passover meal and a demonstration of
both the separateness and the unity of
Christian churches.
In preparation for the event, churches
throughout the country will be asked to
participate during the Week of Prayer
for Christian Unity, Jan. 18-25, 1976.
God, food, freedom, justice, love, truth,
understanding, peace and Christ, the
Bread of Life.
Bishop Allin was elected the 23rd
Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal
Church for a 12 year term in 1973. The
church has a membership of more than
3 million with nearly 12,000 ordained
clergy.
A native of Helena, Ark., Bishop
Allin has served as chairman of the Joint
Commission on Ecumenical Relations of
General Convention and as a member of
the Commission’s Anglican-Roman
Catholic Consultation. In 1973, he was
elected to a six-year term as chancellor
of the University of the South.
Pruszynski
Charles Pruszynski, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Pruszynski of 1402 Glenn
Avenue in Augusta and a graduating
senior of Aquinas High School, has won
a National Merit Scholarship sponsored
by Georgia Tech.
The scholarship is renewable for four
years depending on the maintenance of
a B average.
Pruszynski has a variety of interests
including the National Honor Society,
the Math Club, and was 1st place winner
in Region 7A Boys’ Essay Contest.
His plans for the future include a
degree in engineering from Georgia
Tech.
Dr. Marshall is serving his second full
four-year term as president of the
Lutheran Church in America which has
3.1 million members in the United
States, Canada and the Caribbean.
The church executive has carried his
influence around the world serving in
many key positions in the Luthem
World Federation, the World Council of
Churches and the National Council of
Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.
As a member of the Lutheran
Church’s executive council, he has
frequently been called upon to
represent the church in ecumenical
activities and worldwide outreach.
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Hungers of the Human Family.” All
liturgy, conferences and ecumenical
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David plans to major in theology and
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Jean Anouilh’s BECKET produced this
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David performed the title role in
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In addition to his dramatic activities
he is a soloist in St. Mary’s Folk Choir,
plays guitar and fences.
His scholarship presented by the
National Merit Committee, represents
an unusually high , degree of
achievement.
Charles Pruszynski
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