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DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH NEWSPAPER
Vol. 56 No. 20
Thursday, May 15, 1975
Single Copy Price — 15 Cents
SENIOR RECOGNITION MONTH
Contributions of Nation’s Elderly Cited
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GOD’S YEAR BRINGS TOURISTS - If you
remember Godspell, you won’t be able to forget
“Godyear.” What looks like it may be a new name for
the Holy Year is actually a typo on a tire store in Fort
Dodge, la. A U.S. sign of another kind makes a special
Holy Year impression in St. Peter’s Square in Rome.
The American flag flutters above a crowd of Holy Year
pilgrims from Wilmington, Del. The flag was flown by
the Bishop Kearney Marching Kings High School Band
from Rochester, N.Y. Pope Paul told an audience that
he is happy with the increasing crowds which have
marked the Holy Year. (NC Photos by T. Coppinger,
Kathleen Graham)
Propagation of Faith Collection
The Birthday of the Church is
Pentecost, when thousands were
received by the Apostles, who had
received the Holy Spirit. Catholics in
the diocese have an opportunity, today,
to Proclaim This Mystery of Faith by
making a Sacrifice in thanksgiving for
their blessings to the Propagation of The
Faith.
The annual collection for this
international mission work of the
Church is set for May 18, Pentecost
Sunday, this year in our Diocese.
Formerly it was placed between the
Confraternity of the Laity and the
Collection for Human Development. It
is hoped that it will not be a burden but
r ather an inspiration on Pentecost
Sunday.
Pope Paul is the one world leader.
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Pope and President
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with knowledge from all its parts and
sincere concern for all its people. He is
the supreme Father who asks help for
his less fortunate children in the
collection for the Propagation of the
Faith.
In this universal collection, Pope Paul
asks all to help reconcile the differences
in his family between those who starve
and those who have overabundance, the
homeless in over 3,000 Orphanages and
Aged Homes helped by the Propagation:
the sick in over a thousand Hospitals
and Leprosaria, the unlettered in over
100,000 schools, the needy in clinics at
every Mission: all these and many more
are helped by the Propagation of the
Faith, which today is dispensing help
through the established Missions to
Refugees from South Vietnam.
The One Priesthood of Christ, which
began to teach and to sanctify on the
first Pentecost still reaches out over the
world for a new Pentecost, training
native sons as bridges to bring to God
His people and to bring them God’s
blessings. Should you help prepare one
of these sons for the Holy Priesthood
you will share in the blessings of his
Priesthood. The Propagation helps in
the training of over 43,000 future
priests in Seminaries in mission
countries, and helps to support 138,000
missionaries.
We are the ones who will bring
medicine to the clinics, healing to
hospitals, light to the schools, homes to
the orphan and the Refugee if we help
in the world-wide effort of the
Propagation of the Faith. We will help
to bring the New Pentecost as our care
for those in need may prompt others to
recognize the Spirit of God in the
goodness they see. Our Lord instructed
us, “You will be witnesses for me.”
The annual offering from he Diocese
of Savannah to the Propagation of the
Faith is about $5,000.00. Since we are a
mission area, outside the larger cities,
we receive each year over $50,000.00
from the Propagation of the Faith,
which helps in education, and
maintaining a number of small missions
in our area.
WASHINGTON - The health affairs
representative of the U.S. Catholic
Conference has called for greater public
awareness of the contributions being
made today by the elderly of the
nation, as well as greater concern for
their well-being.
“During this month especially,”
Sister Virginia Schwager said in a
statement, “we must recommit
ourselves to ensuring that all older
Americans enjoy a dignity and quality
of life sufficient to make their lives
rewarding and meaningful.”
May has been designated by President
Ford as Senior Recognition Month.
The USCC health official pointed to
the fact that there are approximately 20
million senior citizens in the United
States today, and that between 18 and
20 percent have incomes below the
poverty level. Statistics published by the
Department of Health, Education and
Welfare indicate that within a few years
there will be over 30 million people
aged 65 years or older in the U.S.
“These people can and must have the
chance to contribute their experience
and energy to the betterment of
society,” Sister Virginia continued.
“Already, they freely serve America --
they become part-time foster parents,
counselors to struggling small
businesses, providers of a wide range of
services to society’s underprivileged, and
pursue other worthwhile ventures.”
“Life isn’t always a rewarding
experience for the elderly - for the
poverty-strickened, the homebound, or
those in nursing homes,” commented
the USCC health coordinator. The past
year has been a time of inflationary and
recessionary pressures, hitting hardest
key items in the budgets of older
Americans - food, utilities, and housing,
she said.
Even news from Washington has been
disturbing for our nation’s senior
citizens, she said. Earlier in the year,
they were informed of Administration
attempts to limit the automatic
cost-of-living increase in social security
benefits, to raise the Medicare patient’s
share of medical expenses, and up the
cost of food stamps. These attempts
seem “particularly insensitive” to the
elderly’s needs, according to the
Catholic health official.
“Older Americans are constantly in
fear of a breakdown in their health,
financial problems, loss of stability as a
contributing member of society, and a
haunting feeling of becoming
dependent,” Sister Virginia said.
She spoke of a confidence that the
needs of the elderly will not be
forgetten. On the government level,
measures for improving health care of
the elderly, for raising their income
levels, and for affording senior citizens
their due legal and human rights have
been introduced. “It is the
How Did It Start?
In 1822, Marie Pauline Jaricot, a
young working girl in Lyons, France,
asked a few friends to assist her in
helping a missionary 7 from their city.
Interest grew and other groups were
formed to help missions in other lands
Marie Pauline Jaricot
and soon a large national mission
group was centered in Lyons.
Pauline insisted that it was not to be
a French organization only, and it
spread to other countries, to become a
world-wide mission helpers society 7 .
About 53 years ago Msgr. Angelo
Roncalli, the late Pope John, brought
together many national groups with a
central office for the Propagation of
the Faith in Rome. This once small
group of working girls, is now a
world wide support group for Catholic
missions.
It was from Lyons, France that the
Lyonese African Missions, sent priests
to many parishes in the Diocese of
Savannah. These Mission Priests were
later known as the S.M.A. Fathers
whose heroic sacrifice began parishes
in Macon, Augusta, and Savannah.
responsibility of each and every citizen
- including the elderly themselves - to
push for enactment of this legislation as
soon as possible,” she said.
“But legislation alone will not relieve
the entire burden on the elderly,” Sister
Schwager noted. “The costs of drugs,
medical care, hearing aids, eyeglasses
and housing can be met by such
measures. But the elderly person’s
psychological and spiritual needs are
extremely personal and important.
“When considering the concerns of
the aging, we must direct ourselves to
the development of the whole person,”
she said. “A change in attitude toward
the elderly must occur and a positive
self-image and self-esteem must develop
among the aged in order for them to
develop to their full potential.
“Progress has been made in providing
for some of the special needs of the
elderly,” he said, “but much remains to
be done.”
ST. VINCENT’S GOLDEN JUBILARIANS - Pictured above are four
members of the Class of 1925 who were honored at the annual
Communion Dinner at St. Vincent’s Hall last week. The class members
are: Margaret Sheehan, Sister Regina Mary 7 Elwell, a Sister of Charity of
Mt. St. Vincent on the Hudson, Clara McDonough and Mary Summerlin.
Sister M. Corita Leech, R.S.M., was unable to attend but sent greetings
from Mercy Hospital in Baltimore.
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Committee Reports on Cardinal
PARIS (NC) -- Cardinal Jean Danielou, who died of a stroke in a woman’s
apartment here May 20, 1974, has been cleared of all alleged wrong-doing by an
unofficial investigating committee. The committee’s report on the Jesuit cardinal’s
death was signed by Father Andre Costes, provincial of the French Jesuits, and by
Prof. Henri-Irenee Marrou, French historian and member of the Pontifical Committee
of Historical Sciences. The report traces the late cardinal’s actions during the last two
days of his life and asserts that rumors of illicit behavior are “denied by the facts.”
Warning on Birth Control
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (NC) -- Once more the bishops of Puerto Rico have warned
that a massive government birth control program, including sterilization of women, is
not voluntary as officials claim. Cardinal Luis Aponte of San Juan told NC News
Service that the situation Church leaders denounced a year ago “has deteriorated
considerably and is worse than ever.” He was criticizing a government campaign in the
communications media for family planning and “voluntary” birth control practices.
Issue Food Statement
TOPEKA, Kan. (NC) -- The Kansas Catholic Conference (KCC) has denounced
treating food production as a “solely individualistic concern whose primary purpose
was personal financial gain or collective support of the economic position of the
United States in world trade.” In a statement signed by Archbishop Ignatius J.
Strecker of Kansas City, KCC chairman, and issued at the end of the conference’s
quarterly meeting here, the KCC said: “The right to life implies the right to eat. The
right to eat is a right prior to the right to financial profit. The right to eat is not merely
an individual right; it is a universal human right. The right to eat has a direct
relationship to acquire, own, control, use and dispose of land.”
Condemn 'Deliberate-Abortion’
DUBLIN (NC) - The Irish Catholic bishops have restated the Church’s
condemnation of “deliberate abortion” and pleaded with Christians to work to
remedy the circumstances that lead people to resort to abortion. In a pastoral letter
entitled “Human Life is Sacred,” the bishops cited figures showing that more than
2,200 Irish girls, more than half of them from the Republic of Ireland, are officially
registered as having abortions in Britain each year. The girls could not do this without
advice and encouragement, the bishops said. “Those who advise or arrange abortions
for girls and women who consult them bear a great, if not a greater degree of guilt than
the girls and women themselves,” the bishops said.
Farm Labor Bill
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (NC) -- A compromise farm labor bill supported by
California Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., received the backing of Cesar Chavez,
president of the United Farm Workers of America (UFWA), and major grower
organizations as legislative hearings got under way here. Representatives of the
Teamsters Union, which now holds most of the farm labor contracts in California,
were closeted for several hours with Brown in his office May 7, but refused to
comment. Brown said afterwards, “We don’t expect unanimity around here and the
Teamsters are meeting and discussing the issue.” On the same day the state Senate
Industrial Relations Committee approved the measure on a bipartisan vote of 5-1.