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! * The Southern Cross DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH NEWSPAPER Vol. 56 No. 36 Thursday, October 16,1975 Single Copy Price - 15 Cents Confraternity Of Laity Drive This Sunday, October 19, is Confraternity of the Laity Sunday in the Diocese of Savannah. The annual campaign for funds will be conducted on a door-to-door basis on that date. Parishioners of the various parishes are requested to remain at home from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. so that the workers will not have to make call-backs the following Sunday. Each wage-earner is requested to contribute at least $30.00. Those especially blessed by God are expected to, and must, give more if the drive is to reach its goal of $150,000.00 Bishop Raymond W. Lessard, Bishop of Savannah, says that this diocesan-wide effort offers the opportunity to all of us to participate in supporting the programs of the Church in south and central Georgia. In a Special Confraternity Letter the bishop wrote: “As we launch this year’s Confraternity of the Laity Drive, I want to express a word of admiration and gratitude for the generosity which our people have shown in the past. I am certain that you will respond in the same generous way again this year.” ‘Real Weapons Of Peace’ 4 RELIEF FOR HAITIAN DROUGHT - A boy whose hair is tinged orange from the effects of kwashiorkora (a severe form of malnutrition) eats a high protein blend of corn, soy and milk covered with red bean gravy at a U.S. Agency for International Development feeding station in Boucan Patriot, Haiti. AIICI1STA.OCT. 31 THRU NOV. 1 He is one of 300,000 persons affected by a drought that began nearly a year ago. Catholic Relief Services is one of several private agencies which has joined the U.S. government in sending food and emergency aid. (NC Photo by John Metelsky, A.I.D.) Charismatic Renewal The 4th Annual Southeastern Regional Conference on the Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Church will be held at Bell Auditorium in Augusta, October 31st thru November 2nd. Some 2,500 to 3,000 persons from a ten-state area in the Southeast are expected. The Conference will open on Friday evening, October 31 at 7:30 p.m. with a Prayer Meeting. Bishop Raymond Lessard, of Savannah, will be principal celebrant and main speaker at the Mass to be held Saturday, November 1st at 8:00 p.m. Conference A special “Clergy Conference,” to be led by Rev. George T. Montague, S.M., general editor of THE CATHOLIC BIBLICAL QUARTERLY, will be held beginning at 9:30 a.m., Friday, October 31 at Faith Village in Augusta. The opening of the General Conference is scheduled for Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. at Bell Auditorium. Conference speakers .include Bishop Raymond Lessard, Kevin Ranaghan, Derek Prince, George T. Montague, S.M., John M. Poole, Joel Kibler, Kerry and Barbara Kohler and members of the Alleluia community. A number of workshops and seminars will be held during the Conference. Topics to be discussed include: Healing, Prayer, The Christian Family, Children, The Role of Women, Clergy and Religious, Music, Prayer Groups, Community and Leadership. This year’s Conference will add several special programs including a Workshop on Christian Community. Also included in the Conference will be the showing of various films produced by the major Canadian and U.S. Television networks on the Charismatic Renewal and a film covering the Rome gathering in June of this year attended by 10,000 Catholic Charismatics from over 62 nations. Details on registration and descriptive brochures may be obtained by writing Charismatic Renewal Conference, 2304 Norton Court, Augusta, Georgia 30906 or calling (404) 798-1882. VATICAN CITY (NC) ~ “The Real Weapons of Peace” has been chosen by Pope Paul VI as the theme for World Day of Peace observances next New Year’s Day. Announcing the Pope’s theme for this eighth World Day of Peace, Vatican spokesman Federico Alessandrini said the Pope would draw attention to the 10 years that have elapsed since the speech he gave before the United Nations in New York on Oct. 4, 1965, by urging all chiefs of state, religious ‘Noodle Priest’ Monsignor John Romaniello, M.M., who is known as “The Noodle Priest,” will address the monthly meeting of the Savannah Association of Priests. The meeting is scheduled for Sacred Heart Rectory on Tuesday, October 21 at 9:30 a.m. Monsignor Romaniello is presently on a speaking tour through the United States, making clergy and lay groups more aware of the extensive work carried on by Catholic Relief Services, the official aid and development agency of the United States Catholic Conference. Monsignor Romaniello joined Catholic Relief Services in 1957 and for 18 years served as Program Director for this organization in Hong Kong. During this time he ministered to the needs of hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled across the Chinese border into Hong Kong. Monsignor conceived the idea of making noodles from the flour donated by the U.S. Government which were distributed to the refugees. He had 17 stations in operation. As a result of this successful undertaking, Monsignor Romaniello gained the title, “The Noodle Priest.” For 23 years prior to joining CRS, Msgr. Romaniello served as a Maryknoller in China. In 1938, he was appointed Prefect Apostolic of the Kwangsi Prefecture. During World War II he had over 5,000 refugees under his care in the city of Kwelin until it fell to the Japanese in 1942. He then served as civilian chaplain with the United States 14th Air Force for the remainder of the war. In 1945, he returned to Kwelin to help the local people reconstruct their devastated homes and reestablish small businesses. However, he was eventually expelled i Additional Sponsors Needed NOW! Editorial Pg. 4 authorities, Christians and men of good will to implement peace in his Day of Peace message. “Peace is gaining ground but so is violence,” said Alessandrini. But he maintained that peace would prevail. However, he cautioned: “As is every other struggle by mankind against sickness, misery, injustice, sin so the battle for peace can be won only with special weapons.” To Address from China after being held under “house arrest” for two years. Catholic Relief Services was organized in 1943 to serve the needy and underprivileged peoples of foreign lands, without regard to race, creed or color. Since that time, CRS has become the largest voluntary agency of its kind in the world, now maintaining branch offices in 68 countries. Last year alone, CRS’ world wide programs reached an estimated 10 million impoverished people around the globe. 100 ATTEND Alessandrini said the Pope’s message would point to such weapons for peace. “Let us not use wrong weapons such as atomic terror, passive acceptance of injustice, cowardice, violence and, above all, the arms race,” he said. Alessandrini said the Pope’s appeal would emphasize the “moral strength of law, respect for agreements, the effective application of recent charters for the rights of man and the rights of peoples.” Msgr. Romaniello f FaT HEADLINE HP mm t HOPSCOTCH sJi i y , Statement Response WASHINGTON (NC) - Responses of various Catholic women’s groups to the reaffirmation of the Church’s ban on women priests by the head of the U.S. bishops’ conference range from acceptance of his statement as one voice in debate on the issue to outright rejection of it. Sister Dorothy Donnelley, president of the National Coalition of American Nuns, called the statement by Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB), “nothing but a canonization of history.” She added: “If the Holy Spirit seems to be calling and giving gifts for ordination of women, what reason do we have to restrict the action of the Holy Spirit?” ‘Don’t Forget Elderly’ NEWARK, N.J. (NC) - A priest reminded President Ford at a Republican fund-raising dinner here not to forget the elderly poor. The priest was Msgr. John P. Hourihan, pastor of St. John’s Church, the oldest church in the state. Located in a crumbling area on the outskirts of the business district, the parish now serves t commuters and transients. Msgr. Hourihan was asked to give the invocation at the dinner at the Robert Treat Hotel, a block away from the rectory. In asking the President not to forget the elderly poor, he said, he was acting on a promise made to an aged woman he met that afternoon. Religious Sisters Prayer Weekend Approximately one hundred religious Sisters representing fifteen of the nineteen orders serving in the Diocese of Savannah and two Episcopalian Sisters participated in a prayer weekend, October 10-12 at St. John’s Center, Savannah. Bishop Raymond W. Lessard was the principal speaker and celebrant at the exercises which began Friday evening and concluded with a Sunday morning liturgy. The weekend, which was sponsored by the Senate of Religious of the Dioceses, had as its theme, “Religious in Ministry -- Prayerful, Powerful, Positive.” Bishop Lessard developed the theme in several conferences speaking of “Prayer, the Dialogue of Faith” and “Power, the Exercise of Hope.” Friday evening the Sisters gathered for Vespers and a social get-together. Other experiences shared over the weekend included a reconciliation service, shared prayer, tapes, and discussions on women in ministry. On Saturday evening a special liturgy in honor of Our Lady was held. The prayer weekend was the first of a series to be sponsored by the Senate of Religious in its effort to offer opportunities for spiritual renewal and growth, to strengthen the lines of communication and to increase the feeling of solidarity among the religious of the Diocese. Sister Mercedes Sullivan, R.S.M., president of Senate, indicated that tentative plans are in the making to engage Father Edward Farrell, a noted author on prayer and the spiritual life, for a fall meeting. PRAYER WEEKEND - Sister Benedicta, of the Episcopal Convent of St. Helena, Augusta, and Sister Mary Gerald Wells, Vicar for Religious of the Diocese of Savannah, present gifts to Bishop Raymond W. Lessard during Liturgy at Prayer Weekend for Religious Sisters. (Additional photos on page 3.) 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