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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, August 21,1980
A Positive Approach To TV
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL - More than 60 children,
preschool through grade 3, attended the St. Frances Cabrini
(Savannah) Vacation Bible School, held August 11-15. The
children participated in crafts, singing, and play time, as well as
receiving religious instruction. The theme for the week was “I
Believe.” The session concluded on the Feast of the Assumption,
with a special Mass, followed by a picnic lunch. Carolyn Evans,
Lucy Gaona, Jo Hall, Kathy Maron, and Marty Tabakian taught the
classes. Above Kathy Maron leads group of children in singing.
NEW YORK (NC) - Rightfully
buried amidst the summer schedule
of repeats is a new made-for-tele-
vision movie, “The Seduction of Miss
Leona,” airing Tuesday, Aug. 26, at
9-11 p.m. on CBS.
It proves to be an extension of the
romantic claptrap found on
afternoon soap operas into prime
time and asks the age-old question of
whether a single woman can find
happiness in an affair with a married
man. It will come as no surprise that
after exhausting a box of tissue the
answer is still the same age-old no.
Lynn Redgrave strives mightily to
create some interest in her role as a
small town college teacher of English
literature who falls in love with the
school’s maintenance man (Brian
Dennehy). He happens - poor fellow
- to be married to a woman whose
main concern is watching her favorite
TV soap operas.
There is no reason why you
should make the same mistake - not
even Katharine Hepburn and Spencer
Tracy in their prime would have
made this clunker worth the viewing.
It is certainly not for the younger
members of the family, although the
title is about as sensational as the
program gets.
TV PROGRAMS OF NOTE
Sunday, Aug. 24, 8-11 p.m.
(NBC) “Backstairs at the White
House.” This rebroadcast is a
four-part dramatization of the
personal lives of eight presidential
families from the Tafts to the
Eisenhowers as remembered by a
mother and daughter who served as
White House maids (continued Aug.
25, 26 and 27 at 9-11 p.m.).
Monday, Aug. 25, 8-9:30 p.m.
(PBS) “The Dionne Quints.” The
perils as well as the pleasures of
sudden fame and international
recognition are the subject of this
previously aired documentary on the
French-Canadian quintuplets who
became the overnight rage of the
1930s.
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 8-10 p.m.
(CBS) “Funny Business.” Walter
Matthau hosts this repeat
presentation of a program focusing
on comedy classics from the Golden
Age of Hollywood movies with
excerpts featuring the Marx Brothers,
Laurel and Hardy, W. C. Fields, Bob
Hope and other screen comedians.
Thursday, Aug. 28, 9:30-10 p.m.
(PBS) “From the Ballroom to
Broadway and Back.” Members of
the American Dance Machine and
three professional ballroom dance
teams recreate famous dance routines
from the 1930s, 40s and 50s in this
“Camera Three” rebroadcast.
TV FILM FARE
Sunday, Aug. 24, 9 p.m. (ABC) -
national park becomes a tedious
exercise in special effects mayhem,
totally inappropriate for youngsters
(originally released as “Grizzly”).
A-HI - Morally unobjectionable for
adults.
Saturday, Aug. 30, 9 p.m. (NBC)
- “The People That Time Forgot”
(1977) -- This sequel to “The Land
That Time Forgot” is set in an
r
THE CHURCH:
TV-MOVIES-ART
“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid” (1969) - Director George Roy
Hill’s popular movie about two
charming bank robbers (Paul
Newman and Robert Redford) who,
with the passing of the Old West,
find themselves out of touch with
the times. A-III -- Morally
unobjectionable for adults.
Friday, Aug. 29, 9 p.m. (ABC) -
“Killer Grizzly” (1976) - This inept
action thriller about a 15-foot grizzly
bear attacking unwary campers in a
Is Nicaragua Second Cuba? — Savannah Maryknoller Says No
Revolution.
Leftist guerrillas.
Marxism.
For most Americans, these are fearful
words that conjure up images of a
Communist take-over in some little known
country. But Sister Julie Miller, of Savannah,
a Maryknoll missioner working in Nicaragua
for several years, has experienced a political
revolution, knows “guerrillas” personally,
and understands what a Marxist economy
can mean.
Sister Julie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Miller, of Savannah, spoke about her
experience living through a revolution during
a recent visit to the Maryknoll Sisters’
miss : on headquarters in Ossining, New York.
A member of the Maryknoll congregation
since 1961, Sister Julie first went to
Nicaragua in 1976, where she has trained lay
leaders and catechists for the Catholic
Church.
What did this revolution mean to Sister
Julie and the other Maryknoll Sisters? “We
are less fearful now of terms like Marxism
and socialism. Somoza had used the peoples’
fear of communism to maintain himself in
power. The new government in Nicaragua
does not want to have a Marxist-communist
system, but it does want a society with
justice for all its citizens.”
She went on to explain, “Right now, the
economy is not Marxist-socialist; 58% of
production is in the hands of private
ownership. The new government only took
over Somoza’s property, land and factories,
and is planning a mixed economy, which
includes private production.”
Responding to the fears of some
Americans regarding the future of Nicaragua,
she said emphatically, “Nicaragua is not a
second Cuba. It is a FIRST Nicaragua.
However, if the U.S. does hot give financial
help to Nicaragua, a poor country with a
small population that has one cash-crop,
cotton - what other options are there but to
turn to any country willing to help,
including Cuba and Russia? That’s
unfortunate, because Nicaragua does not
necessarily want to go that way.”
The Nicaraguan people are making
tremendous efforts on their own to rebuild
their country. Local block organizations
were formed as the basic political unit in
which people have a voice and participate in
the country’s reconstruction. They
coordinate the distribution of food and
medical supplies, rebuild torn up streets,
refurbish houses and hospitals, maintain law
and order. A national literacy campaign is
underway.
“One of the changes in Nicaragua since
the junta took over is that people have a lot
more meetings to go to!” said Sister Julie.
Besides the local block organizations, there
are zonal councils, labor unions, an
association of small farmers, and a National
Women’s Association. People who previously
had no voice are learning how to participate
in planning and decision-making.
Sister Julie works for the National
Women’s Association, designing and giving
courses on the role and dignity of women in
the new society. She has helped in the
literacy program and will be involved in a
health campaign soon.
The Catholic Church, under the
leadership of Archbishop Miguel Obando y
Bravo, has been supportive of the
revolutionary process and the new
goverment, according to Sister Julie. Several
Catholic priests serve in the new cabinet.
Two Bolivia Bishops Say Grim Outlook For People
BY GERALD M. COSTELLO
PATERSON, N.J. (NC) - Two bishops
serving in Bolivia agreed in separate
interviews Aug. 1 and 5 that the military
coup which rocked the nation makes the
outlook grim for Bolivia’s people and the
church, especially for the next few months.
However, they pointe'd out that
Americans should try to understand the
complicated events in both the civil and
church spheres which helped to bring it
about.
“You can’t defend the coup, but you can
explain how it happened,” said Auxiliary
Bishop Gennaro Prata of La Paz.
Franciscan Bishop Thomas R. Manning of
Coroico offered a similar view. “To be
realistic you just can’t sit back and criticize
the military,” he said.
Both bishops expressed full support for
the statement of the Bolivian hierarchy
which condemned the takeover and its effect
on the political process. Political factors
were primarily responsible for the coup,
which took place July 17 when a three-man
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junta took over the country “to avoid leftist
terrorism and economic chaos,” as the junta
described it.
Bishop Prata, who handles many financial
details for the Bolivian bishops’ conference
and for the country’s Catholic University,
was in the New York City area to deal with
financial problems which he said have been
aggravated by the coup. An intimate of
many Bolivian government figures over the
years and board chairman of Presencia, the
country’s largest newspaper, he said he
regretted the necessity of his trip at this
time.
“I think I could work effectively to get
some of our people released from jails,” he
said. “But our financial crisis made this visit
absolutely necessary.”
Bishop Manning, one of four Americans
in the 23-member Bolivian hierarchy, is a
native of Baltimore who has headed the
prelacy of Coroico since 1959. Visiting for a
month in the Paterson Diocese, he will
conduct a number of mission talks.
Bishop Manning said that none of the 18
political parties which had entered
candidates in the June presidential election
had sufficient maturity to form coalitions
capable of governing and that the military
was frightened by the prospects.
“Hernan Siles Zuazo of the Popular
Democratic Union was the leading candidate
and probably would have been elected in
Congress,” the bishop added. “But he was
still a minority selection and a rather weak
one at that. No political alignments
developed until after the election. The
government would have been weak, and that
worried the military. They’re concerned
about any leftist government; a weak leftist
government is even more of a problem.”
The arrest of militant priests and nuns
stands as testimony to the. junta’s fears
about elements of the Bolivian church,
Bishop Manning noted, again with a measure
of understanding.
“Some church people in Bolivia from
other parts of the world are very naive about
the local situation and haven’t had enough
time to get into it. And some Religious are
dedicated to a kind of sociological Utopia,”
government funding it received and tuition
increases are beyond the reach of most
students. “I’m afraid we might have to
close,” he said.
Can the church work comfortably with
the new government?
“I wonder (if) the church can work
comfortably with any government
anywhere, if it preaches what it should be
preaching,” said Bishop Manning. “That goes
THE CHURCH:
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he said. “They really don’t seem to be
interested in preaching the Gospel. Some are
leftists and some, by their own admission,
are Marxists.
“Now, you get a military man who sees
everything in black-and-white terms, hearing
leftist doctrine from church people, and he
can’t understand why the church doesn’t
take a stand against them,” the bishop
continued. “The church has to come to grips
with this; it’s a serious problem.”
Bishop Prata, a native of Italy who has
spent 23 years in Bolivia, admitted feeling
somewhat depressed in the coup’s aftermath.
He is especially concerned about the
future of Bolivia’s Catholic University,
where 2,000 students - from all economic
classes - are enrolled. It has lost the
for the United States, too, where we’re
confronted with immorality, abortion, the
absence of God from day-to-day affairs. The
difference is that here in America, there’s at
least a right to speak out and to fight.
“In Bolivia, I suppose we can work with
them, especially since the country formally
professes Catholicism and Christianity. But I
know we’ll have some uncomfortable
moments,” Bishop Manning explained.
“You hve to make an effort to work with
the government in order to help the people,”
Bishop Prata said. “You can’t accomplish
too much by fighting it. You do have to
ensure that human rights will be respected
and that the consitution will be observed as
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ST. TERESA OF AVILA PARISH, Augusta, hosted Our Savior
Episcopal Church, Martinez, on Sunday, August 10th. Parishioners
from both Churches came together for softball and volleyball games
and a cookout. This was the second such social event for the
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ice-bound vastness teeming with
prehistoric monsters and primitive 4
cavemen and offers some amusing --
if not convincing - special effects
that younger viewers may find
enjoyable. A-II -- Morally
unobjectionable for adults and
adolescents.
(This column was written by consensus
of the staff of the USCC Department of
Communication’s Office for Film and
Broadcasting.)
“However, I don’t believe anyone thinks
that this revolutionary process is the
Kingdom of God on earth,” she clarified.
“But what is happening in Nicaragua is
closer to achieving it than anything we have
seen in the past.” 4f
For Sister Julie, who returns to Nicaragua
this summer, it is very important that
“Christian missioners participate in the
whole process of change and growth in
Nicaragua, so that we are able to announce
the ‘good news’ but have the credibility and
lived experience of denouncing those things
that do not promote justice and human
dignity.
“We all have to get in there and work, ^
and get our hands dirty, and probably make
mistakes. But we’re active in a history that is
helping to create the reign of God on earth.”