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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, September 18,1980
AT ST. JAMES PARISH, SAVANNAH, parents and children
alike enjoy the Children’s Choir. The choir is open to students in
grades 3 to 8 and will sing at the special Children’s Masses each
month. Ms. Helen Beddow, Choir Director, is seen here with some
of her students.
Political Responsibility Kits
The “Political Responsibility
Kits” prepared by the Department of
Christian Formation for the Election
Year will be a helpful tool in the
hands of high school teachers, and
leaders of CCD groups. Upper
elementary school grades will also
find the materials helpful, in
understanding the political process
and the issues of this year’s
Campaign.
Included are discussion
suggestions, ideas for research,
materials from Common Cause and
the League of Women Voters, and an
outline for a “mock election” to take
place in the school.
The kit also contains a copy of
the Unites States Bishops’ statement
on political responsibility: “Choices
for the 80’s.”
An interesting feature of the kits
this year is an issues chart, giving the
stand of the United States Bishops
on several major issues and
comparing these with the positions
taken by the Democratic and
Republican Parties in their Platforms.
Only one set of materials is
needed for each teacher or group
leader using the kits. The cost is
$3.00 - including the cost of postage
and handling.
Write to: Department of Christian
Formation, Grimball Point Road,
Savannah, Ga. 31406. Or call (912)
355-9420.
Saint Anne’s Adult Ed.
Course Begins Sept. 28
St. Ann’s Church, Columbus, will
begin its Adult Religious Education
program for the coming year on
September 28. The sessions will be
held at 9:30 A.M. in the Music Room
in the annex of St. Ann’s School.
Mr. Harold W. McCrae, Jr.,
Counselor, will conduct the series.
Six different topics will be covered
throughout the year that will help
deal with every-day living. We will
look at ourselves, our relationship
with God, with our families, and
with others.
Sept. 28 - Oct. 26: LEARNING
TO LOVE: Nov. 2 - Nov. 30: THE
CHRISTION AND SELF-ESTEEM;
Dec. 7 - Dec. 21: PRAYER - AN
ESSENTIAL PROCESS; Jan. 4 - Feb.
22: COMMUNICATIONS -
REACHING OUT; Mar. 1 - Apr. 19:
BELIEFS - WHAT AM I LIVING
FOR? ; Apr. 26 - May 10:
REACHING OUT - SHARING
MYSELF.
McCrae is in private practice in
Columbus where he is engaged in
individual, family and marriage
counseling.
THE HOLY FATHER'S MISSION AIDTOTHE ORIENTAL CHURCH
WHY
NOT
NAME
ONE
FOR
YOUR
FAVORITE
SAINT?
Here’s a sampling of mail from hungry southern
India. It says in gist that God will be at home there
if people have a place to pray . . . From Umikuppa.
one of the poorest areas of Kerala, India. Father
George writes, “We have completed construction
of the foundation of our new church, but rising
costs have forced us to discontinue work be
cause our parishioners are too poor to contribute
any more.” Since they will provide the labor free,
only $2,000 is needed to complete the structure.
. . . $4,000 will build a church in Ponneduthan
Kuzhi, India. . . . $5,000 will provide a chapel in
Walayar for the poor Catholic workers there. . . .
How many churchless villages are there in south
ern India? Here in New York we have requests for
55 of them, all approved by the Holy Father. . .
Build a low-cost church in your loved ones'
memory, some may be named for your favorite
saint! Write to us right now. You’ll know in your
lifetime you’ve done something permanent for
God.... Send at least as much as you can ($100.
$75, $25, $10, $5, $2) for a church in a churchless
village. Give the poor a place to worship God.
SMALL
GIFTS
ADD
UP
ARE
YOU
MARRIED
OR
SINGLE?
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To feed the starving in Kothamangalam, south
India, Bishop Matthew Pothanamuzhi received
$2,502.73 from the Holy Father last month. The
money came from our readers.
You needn’t be married to become a “parent” to a
needy child in the Near East. For only $14 a month,
you can sponsor a child in the Near East. You'll
receive “your” child's photo and personal history.
He (or she) will write to you and you may reply if
you wish. This is not a binding commitment, you
may terminate sponsorship at any time and for any
reason.
LAST When you make a Will, remember the Holy
THING Father’s poor. Our legal title: CATHOLIC NEAR
EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION.
Dear
Monsignor Nolan:
ENCLOSED PLEASE FIND $
FOR
Please name
return coupon
with your STREET
offering CITy state zip CODE
THE CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION
NEAR EAST
MISSIONS
TERENCE CARDINAL COOKE, President
MSGR. JOHN G. NOLAN, National Secretary
Write: Catholic Near East Welfare Assoc.
1011 First Avenue • New York, N.Y. 10022
Telephone: 212/826-1480
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A Positive Approach To TV
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NEW YORK (NC) - Rape is too
serious a subject to be treated lightly.
So be prepared for some heavy going
in “Rage!” It’s a TV movie airing
Thursday, Sept. 25, at 9-11 p.m. on
NBC.
David Soul plays a 38-year-old
married man who is arrested one
morning at breakfast with wife and
4-year-old daughter, convicted of
rape and is sent to a prison facility
with a therapy program for sex
offenders.
The hardest thing for Soul is to
admit to himself that he is guilty and
he continues to protest his innocence
to wife, parents and therapy group.
Through the therapy process, he
finally is brought to face his crime
and to realize that he may not know
why he did it but that he needs help
not to do it again.
What this movie does best is to
show that rape has nothing to do
with sex but is a crime of violence,
that rape is an expression of
displaced anger toward women and
that rapists are dangerous invididuals.
Soul is a bundle of aggressive
hostilities and so are his prison
mates.
In learning this we are brought
closer to the nature of the crime and
the reasons why some men rape.
Understanding this will not by itself,
however, protect women or stop
rapists.
The program argues that rapists
can be helped by identifying the
cause of their hostility, which is
usually connected with being
sexually abused as children. If
nothing else, the program suggests
that society has better options than
throwing away the key on rapists.
George Rubino’s script may
idealize the role of the therapist
(compellingly portrayed by James
Whitmore), but what gives the film
its validity is its insistence that there
are no easy solutions but only
limited steps toward rehabilitation.
There is plenty of pain here and
director William Graham
convincingly shares it among prison
inmates and staff, family and friends
and - although never shown, never
far from our sympathy -- the violated
women victims.
Fr. Liam Tuffy
PROGRAMS OF NOTE
Sunday, Sept. 21, 8-9 p.m. (PBS)
“Evening at Pops.” The Boston Pops
Orchestra concludes this season of
concerts with an evening of music
written and conducted by their new
maestro, John Williams, including his
Academy Award score for “Star
Wars.”
Monday, Sept. 22, 8-9 p.m. (CBS)
“SPFX: The Empire Strikes Back.”
How fantasy was transformed into
screen reality for the movie
box-office hit of the summer through
the imagination of the special effects
department is explained by Mark
Hamill and R2D2.
Tuesday, Sept. 23, 10-11 p.m.
(ABC) “Death in a Southwest
Prison.” An investigative report on
the riot which occurred at the
penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa
Fe last February - the most brutal in
U.S. history -- is the subject of this
month’s “ABC News Closeup.”
Wednesday, Sept. 24, 9-11 p.m.
(NBC) “Act of Love.” Based on an
actual tragedy, this drama stars Ron
Howard as a man on trial for
murdering his totally paralyzed
brother who could not face the
helplessness of his condition.
Wednesday, Sept. 24, 9-11 p.m.
(CBS) “A Rumor of War.” Based on
Philip Caputo’s Pulitzer
Prize-winning account of his Vietnam
experiences, this two-part
dramatization concludes Thursday,
Sept. 25, at 9-11 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 26, 9-10 p.m. (PBS)
“Campaign Report.” One of a series
of nine programs leading up to
election day, this edition of “Bill
Moyers’ Journal” examines the
growing political power of
single-issue parties and conservative
religious groups.
Saturday, Sept. 27, 8-11 p.m.
(PBS) “Live From the Met.” In the
season premiere, Renata Scotto sings
the role of Manon Lescaut in the
Giacomo Puccini opera which was
taped at the Metropolitan Opera
House in performance on March 29,
1980.
Fr. Francis Higgins
TV FILM FARE
Sunday, Sept. 21, 9 p.m. (ABC) --
“Midnight Express” (1978) - This
widlly melodramatic movie about the
imprisonment of a young American
in a Turkish prison for smuggling
hashish wallows in bloody violence
and cruelty, an indulgence hardly
justified by its civil rights plea. (R) C
-- Condemned.
Tuesday, Sept. 23, 8 p.m. (CBS) --
“Papillon” (1973) -- Steve McQueen
and Dustin Hoffman star in this film
about a prisoner’s daring attempts to
escape from Devil’s Island. An
entertaining film, marked by two
fine performances, which neatly
balances adventure and spectacle
with a more introspective approach.
Since the horrors of prison life are
vividly depicted, this is mature
material. A-III -- Morally
unobjectionable for adults.
Saturday, Sept. 27, 8:30 p.m.
(CBS) - “Marathon Man” (1976) --
Dustin Hoffman stars as an
introspective student who finds
himself involved with a terrifying
fugitive Nazi, played by Laurence
Olivier. Heavy on violence and
exploiting the tragedy of the
Holocaust, this film is the kind of
shrewd, hollow, profoundly
anti-hum an thriller that only a
society as indifferent to secular
graces as to moral values could
embrace as legitimate entertainment.
(R) B - Morally objectionable in part
for all.
This column was written
through consensus of the staff of the
USCC Department of Communication’s
Office for Film and Broadcasting.
St. Vincent de Paul
Radio Program Topic
St. Vincent de Paul and the St. Vincent de Paul Society will be the topic of
the September 21st radio program for the Savannah Catholic Hour. The special
speaker will be Sister Virginia who is the Superintendant of Catholic Schools
for the Diocese of Savannah.
Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Sister Virginia is now in her second year
working with the Diocese of Savannah. She is a sister of St. Joseph of
Carondelet.
Sister Virginia will provide information about the life of St. Vincent de Paul
whose feast day is celebrated on the 27th of this month. She will also provide
insight into the work accomplished by the St. Vincent de Paul Society.
This is the third program in a series of discussions based on the lives of the
saints and provided by the Radio Committee of the Savannah Deanery Council
of Catholic Women. The Catholic Hour, sponsored by the Knights of Columbus
Council 631, can be heard each week at 7:30 a.m. on WWSA (1290) A.M.
Fr. Joseph Arackal Brother Bonaventure
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THE CHURCH:
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Mission Co-op
Weekends Announced—
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Pakistan, and in South America.
Among the two thousand
Marist Brothers working in
mission areas, about 40 are
from the United States.
Three Oblate Sisters of
Providence will be visiting
Columbus and Albany. They
will visit parishes assigned to
them through the Propagation
of the Faith office; Our Lady of
Lourdes, Holy Family of
Columbus and St. Teresa of
Albany. They will speak at all
the Masses and visit the schools
to share with the people of the
Diocese of Savannah Oblate’s
efforts to evangelize and
educate^ on the home and
mission fronts.
The Oblate Sisters of
Providence have the distinction
and privilege of being the first
black congregation of religious
women in the history of the
Catholic Church. Established
below the Mason Dixon Line
thirty-four years before the
Emancipation Proclamation,
the young congregation of 1829
was a contemporary and
neighbor of St. Elizabeth Ann
Seton and was befriended
spiritually and monetarily by
St. John Neumann, CSSR. The
Oblate’s upward struggle was
founded and nurtured from the
need of free Blacks to master
reading skills “in order to learn
their catechism.” This often
resulted in purchasing slaves,
freeing them and then
educating them.
Founded in Baltimore,
Maryland by a French Sulpician
priest, Rev. James Nicholas
Joubert, SS and a black refugee
fleeing the uprising of Santo
Domingo, Mary Elizabeth
Lange, the Oblate’s history has
Deen one of tremendous
historical and religious
significance.
Today, 151 years after the
first four sisters pronounced
their vows of poverty, chastity
and obedience, more than two
hundred sisters are members of
faculties at 17 schools, nurseries
and centers for special
instruction, CCD and the aging.
They staff three missions in
Costa Rica, Central America.
The Holy Ghost
Congregation will also be
SISTER EILEEN, Oblate Sister of Providence, pictured with
student.
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represented during the Mission
Co-op appeal, when two of
their members visit the Augusta
area. Father Patrick Bascio,
C.S.Sp., Pastor of St. Mark’s
Parish in New York City, will
visit St. Teresa’s, Father
Richard Massera, C.S.Sp., a
missionary home from Africa,
will speak at St. Mary’s, on the
Hill.
The Holy Ghost Fathers
serve the most needy and carry
out missionary programs in
Africa and Puerto Rico. In
addition their priests and
brothers are at work in many
inner-city parishes which
depend upon them for support.
The Mission Co-op Plan is
now an annual project which
has the double aim of
stimulating interest in mission
work and raising funds to assist
the work of the missionaries.
The priests and religious who
come to the Diocese will have
first-hand information about
the many endeavors of their
members in mission areas
today, and will be available to
speak to school children about
the culture and experience of
people in mission lands.
SISTER CONCETTA MELTON, Oblate Sister of Providence,
with staff assistant.
SISTER PATRICIA FORD, Oblate Sister of Providence, explains
to student how he should use his reading skills.