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PAGE 7—The Southern Cross, May 15,1975
NCHLA: 4 Human Life Amendment Achievable’
SODA Advisory Board Teen Counselors select Walter Muller and Cathy Burke. Absent when picture
prize-winning posters: (left to right) Alisa Pengue, was taken: Tim Persse (Pollack and Daly Photo)
Michael Warshaw, Nancy Courtenay, Mary Ann Free,
SODA Salutes Teen Counselors
WASHINGTON (NC) - Analyses of
the attitudes of Americans toward
abortion and of the views of members
of Congress on abortion indicate that a
human life amendment to the
constitution opposing abortion is
achievable, the National Committee for
a Human Life Amendment (NCHLA)
said here.
The NCHLA based its conclusion also
on an analysis of the public’s attitude
toward political candidates who favor
abortion.
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The NCHLA is a non-profit
corporation set up to educate U.S.
Catholics about the effects of the
January, 1973, U.S. Supreme Court
decision on abortion and to promote
interest in a constitutional amendment
to reverse that decision.
The committee, in a statement
released here, referred to a poll that it
commissioned and which was conducted
last December.
“Seventy-five percent of Americans
favored laws which would overturn the
Supreme Court decision,” the NCHLA
said. “This opposition will most likely
increase, not diminish, as more
Americans come to see that abortion
kills a person. The opposition should
also grow because of the horrendous
increase in the total number of
abortions and the concomitant increases
in physical and emotional injuries to
women who undergo them. There
exists, then, a positive climate in
America that is a prerequisite for any
congressional action.”
Analysis of both chambers of
Congress, the statement said, indicates
that a majority of members “can be
viewed as basically pro-life.”
The NCHLA said that 51 senators are
basically pro-life. Eight have sponsored
MAY 16-19
Cardinal Johannes Willebrands will be
a featured speaker at the 1975
International Congress on the
Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic
Church to be held in Rome, Italy, May
16-19. Talks, liturgical celebrations,
workshops, and prayer sessions will
figure in this conference, which will
culminate in a special audience with
Pope Paul VI in the Papal Audience
Hall.
On Pentecost Sunday, the 10,000
congress participants will join thousands
of other Catholics for a Mass celebrated
by Pope Paul VI in St. Peter’s; later that
day, they will hear Cardinal Willebrands
speak at a conference session whose
theme is “the Holy Spirit and the
Church.” Both the topic and the feast
hold speical significance for the
charismatic renewal, which stresses the
Spirit’s work in the Church and also his
human life amendments, it said, 14
others have publicly supported a human
life amendment; 11 senators are
considered privately committed to a
human life amendment; three have
sponsored a states’ rights amendment,
leaving abortion regulation to the states,
“while leaving the option open for
voting for a human life amendment;”
nine are considered privately committed
to a states’ rights amendment; four have
anti-abortion voting records; and two
have expressed “strong pro-life
sentiments.”
There are 36 senators publicly
opposed to a human life amendment,
the NCHLA said, and 13 others either
have pro-abortion voting records or have
publicly expressed pro-abortion
sentiments. Thirteen of the senators
who oppose a human life amendment
have indicated that they will probably
vote for a states’ rights amendment, the
NCHLA said.
The statement said that 260 members
of the House “can be viewed as basically
pro-life.” Of these, it said, 34 have
sponsored human life amendments; 67
have publicly supported a human life
amendment; 20 are considered privately
committed to a human life amendment;
18 have supported a states’ rights
amendment, “while leaving the option
open for voting for a human life
amendment;” 16 more are considered
privately committed to a states’ rights
amendment; 21 others signed a
discharge petition to bring an
anti-abortion amendment to the floor in
the last session; 63 others have
anti-abortion voting records; and 21
have “expressed strong pro-life
attitudes.”
The NCHLA said 114 members of the
House are publicly opposed to a human
life amendment and 61 others either
have pro-abortion voting records or have
expressed pro-abortion sentiments.
manifestation through “signs and
wonders” like those experienced by the
early Christians.
President of the Vatican’s Secretariat
for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal
Willebrands is perhaps best known to
the charismatic renewal for having
encouraged the meetings between
representatives of the Catholic Church
and a group of non-Catholic Pentecostal
leaders and theologians. Cardinal
Willebrands’ emphasis on “the need for
a dialogue of charity, that is in the Holy
Spirit” finds a ready assent from the
many Catholics who regularly
experience a spontaneous type of
ecumenism through the charismatic
renewal.
Ecumenism is but one of the “vast
and very real areas” indicated by Pope
Paul as spheres in which reconciliation
needs to take place. During this Holy
The NCHLA said also that the survey
it commissioned last year found that
27.7 percent of the respondents said a
pro-abortion stand by a candidate for
public office would influence them to
vote against the candidate, while 15.2
percent considered the “right to
abortion” so important that they would
vote against a candidate who opposed
abortions.
A further break-down of the data, the
committee said, indicates that 25
senators, 10 of whom stand for
re-election in 1976, and 55 members of
the House “are vulnerable, because of
the size of the potential pro-life vote as
well as the margin of victory by the
incumbent in the last election.”
This analysis, the NCHLA said, leads
to a “reasonable” expectation that
enough “pro-life” candidates can be
elected to provide the two-thirds
majority necessary in both houses of
Congress to propose a human life
amendment to the states for
ratification.
“This possibility, though,” the
NCHLA said, “will only become a
reality if right-to-life leaders across
America concentrate their efforts in
supporting pro-life principles by:
“-Identifying every pro-life individual
in their district/state;
“-Seeing that all of these individuals
are registered;
“-Informing them before primaries
and general elections of the candidates’
positions (by statement, action or
inaction); and
“-Getting out all the pro-life vote on
election day.
“There is no other way to protect the
unborn in America. There is n6
substitute for the voting booth.”
Year, he has especially called for the
reconciliation of man with God, with
himself, with society, and with all
Christians. The same concerns lie at the
heart of the charismatic renewal, whose
conference theme - “Renewal and
Reconciliation” - is identical to that of
the Holy Year.
Basic to the charismatic experience is
the reconciliation of man with God - an
ongoing personal conversion that is
related to repentance, confession, and
reparation. The charismatic renewal also
offers countless examples of the
reconciliation of men among
themselves. It has had dramatic effect in
Northern Ireland; while others engage in
fighting and hatred, a significant
number of Irish Protestants and
Catholics are meeting to pray together.
Columbia, South America, was
formerly the scene of bitter hostility
between Protestants and Catholics; now,
two communities have initiated a sort of
ecumenical exchange program: various
residents of “El Minute de Dios” (a
Catholic housing project in Bogota,
Columbia) and members of Chula Vista,
California’s First Baptist Church are
sharing their Christian lives together as a
result of their mutual involvement in
the charismatic renewal. On a personal
level, being baptized in the Holy Spirit
often prepares people to mend damaged
relationships; deep and lasting
reconciliation between parent and child
or husband and wife is a fairly common
occurrence in the charismatic renewal.
These and other benefits have been
recognized by Church leaders, some of
whom have agreed to be listed as
patrons of the congress. Patrons from
the United States include Bishop Joseph
Hodges of Wheeling, Archbishop
Phillip Hannan of New Orleans,
Archbishop William Baum of
Washington, D.C., Bishop Raymond
Lessard of Savannah, and Cardinal
Humberto Medeiros of Boston.
A number oi people liUlll U1C
Savannah diocese will be in attendance
among them from the Augusta area are
Bill Beatty, Louise Beatty, Gil O’Brien,
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Seventy-two juniors and seniors from
Benedictine Military School and St.
Vincent’s Academy (Savannah0 were
honored at an Awards Picnic at Fort
Pulaski on Sunday, May 4th for their
work in the Stamp Out Drug Abuse
(SODA) program during the 1974-75
School year.
These SODA teen counselors recently
completed six weeks teaching sessions
on the dangers of drug abuse which
reached over 1,000 elementary students,
grades 5-8, at seven parochial schools in
Chatham County.
«Since they attended eight training
sessions prior to entering the
classrooms, they have actually donated
a considerable amount of their time
implementing their belief that the abuse
of drugs is a serious local problem that
can best be combatted by educating
children before they reach highschool
age.
The program is funded solely by
voluntary contributions from interested
groups, organizations, churches and
participating Home School Associations.
Schools in which SODA teen
counselors taught were St. James,
Cathedral, Nativity, St. Mary’s, St.
Michael’s, Blessed Sacrament and Sacred
Heart.
Ninety-six percent of the elementary
children felt the SODA program was
beneficial to them, as indicated by
comments like “Abusing drugs is really
taking your own life” and “I learned
many things I wouldn’t ave learned until
it was too late.”
Winners of a SODA Poster Contest
held in all schools were Stanley Fisher
of St. Mary’s; Page Middleton of Blessed
Sacrament; Amanda Nelson of
Cathedral; Amy Craig of Nativity;
Jerome Gambrell of St. Michael’s; and
Ann Descrescenzo, Lisa Robinson,
Barbara Ritzert and Angie Gallagher
(jointly) of St. James.
Certificates of Award for support of
the SODA Program were presented to
the following firms: Pepsi-Cola Bottling
Company, Addressograph-Multigraph
Corporation, Trust Company Bank of
Savannah, Acme Press, Metro-Drug
Squad, and Union Camp Corporation.
The SODA Program operates under
an Advisory Board headed by Mrs.
Marjorie M. Story, Program
Co-ordinator. Benedictine and St.
Vincent’s moderators are Father
Brinstan Takach, O.S.B. and Sr. Michael
Mary, R.S.M.
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In addition to teaching, several SODA
teen counselors addressed various local
groups and made television appearances
promoting their cause.
An emblem representing the SODA
program was presented to teen Advisory
Board members Tim Persse, Walter
Muller, Michael Warshaw, Alisa Pengue,
Mary Ann Free, Nancy Courtenay and
Cathy Burke.
Other teen counselors receiving the
SODA emblem: Nancy Dooley, David
Saussy, Tricia Decker, Dan Muller,
William O’Donnell, Kim Michael, Tony
Barnes, Suzanne McLaughlin, Ted
Robertson, Patrick Persse and Mary
Brennan.
Theresa McGrath, Dennis Buttimer,
Leslie Jackson, Lee Taylor, Debbie
Miles, Bryan Foley, Mary Hutton, Jack
Carr, Sandy Shea, Dale Cunningham,
Judey Whelpley, Billy Fogarty, Julie
Corey, and Renee Graham.
Susie Corley, Barbara Williams,
Thresa Kitchens, John Rothbaum, Ceci
Persse, Cissy Sigman, Kelli Johnson,
Kevin Broderick, Jackie Curtis, Patty
Kameron, Patricia Lemon, Fletcher
Mayes, Nancy Cowart, Lyman
Robinson, Ann Pinckney, Mary Trees,
Joan Cleveland, and Michael Russell.
Sharon Lawyer, Michelle Iocovozzi,
Harold Mulherin, Francie Considine,
Bob Bridges, Anita Johnson, Samuel
Parker, Jan Gaudry, Sara Russo, Lynn
Coleman, Mike Hussey, James Persse,
Mary Smith, David Price, Don Nelligan,
Patty Frew, Chip Ernst, Tom Hussey,
Mickey Griffith, Harold Lehon, Marc
Wall and Howard Robinson.
BISHOP’S LIAISON for the Catholic Charismatic Movement meets
with some of the Service Team from the Prayer Community of Sacred
Heart Church, Warner Robins. Fr. Liam Collins spoke to the group on the
movement in the area, Leadership Conference and other projected
meetings within the diocese (1. to r.) Mrs. White, Sr. Pius, Mrs. Lymon,
Mrs. Grimaud, Frank White, Mrs. Hutnick, Ken Hutnick and Fr. Collins.
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PROPELLER CLUB ESSAY WINNERS - Four students of St.
Vincent’s Academy were named winners in the Savannah Propeller Gub’s
maritime essay contest. Kathleen Russo won first prize, a $100 savings
bond; Cathy O’Donnell and Honor Bulkley took second place and won a
$50 bond and Debbie Osteen was awarded a $25 bond for third place. The
winners are pictured above: Seated, Honor Bulkley and Cathy O’Donnell.
Standing, Debbie Osteen and Kathy Russo.
ST. VINCENT’S ATHLETIC BANQUET -- Pictured above are the
S.V.A. athletes who were honored as trophy winners at the annual athletic
banquet in Savannah. They are: Coach Bridget Fogarty, Debbie Macher,
Sportsmanship Award; Barbara Williams, the Fogarty Free Throw Trophy;
Jackie Curtis, Most Valuable Player on the “A” Team; Linda Wolfe, Most
Valuable Player on the “B” team and Coach Julie Rossiter.
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