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PAGE 11 — The Southern Cross, September 5, 1985
READY TO GO — Augusta’s Aquinas High
School classmates of ’85 trade farewells as they
head for different colleges. Both eager and a lit
tle nervous about the challenges ahead are (1 to
r) Bryan Hatch, 18; Amy Porubsky, 18; Fonda
Mitchell, 17; and Charmain Zimmerman, 18.
Lebanon Christians
Suffer Pain, Terror
BY AL ANTCZAK
LOS ANGELES (NC) — Christians in Lebanon are suffer
ing pain and terror as a result of massacres, uprooting and
displacement, said the director fo the Pontifical mission for
Lebanon.
FORMATION PROGRAM Members of the
Parish Council of Sacred Heart Parish in
Warner Robins who participated in a formation
program recently. New officers were elected
for the coming year as follows: President: Ken
Obst; Vice-President, Gary Deeb; and
Secretary, Diana Roets.
"Incapable Of Completely Understanding God"
Msgr. John A. Esseff said American Catholics are
“confused and ill-informed about the suffering of their
Christian brothers and sisters in Lebanon because they
simply do not know the facts.” The head of the Beirut-based
Vatican relief agency spoke recently in Los Angeles while
visiting relatives.
People are aware that there is a Jewish problem and a
Palestinian problem, he said, but there is also a Christian
problem in Lebanon: the survival of Lebanon’s 1 million
Christians, many of whom are Maronite Catholics, in the
face of a drive by fanatics and terrorists to Islamicize
Lebanon.
“These people are being targeted either for leaving,to be '
converted to Islam or to die,” he said.
BY JOHN THAVIS
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Even with all the tools of
modern science at its disposal, the human intellect is in
capable of completely understanding God, Pope John Paul
II told a weekly general audience Aug. 28.
The pope, speaking to about 5,000 pilgrims and tourists in
St. Peter’s Square, said that God is, in essence, hidden and
incomprehensible. There are signs of his existence in the
created world, he said, but “no sign, no created image can
unveil to human knowledge the essence of God.”
“Even if God made himself closer to man through the In
carnation, he continues to remain, in his essence, the hid
den God,” he said.
The pope’s audience talk was one of a series on the Chris
tian creed. Several of the talks have focused on the relation
ship between science and the nature of God.
Afterward, the pope urged a group of sick people atten
ding the audience to offer their suffering to God so that “the
civilization of love can triumph in the world, and hate and
violence disappear.”
He said there have been massacres and kidnappings;
people have been uprooted, and a priest has been
murdered.
Msgr. Esseff described the murder of Jesuit Father
Nicolas Kluiters, who “maintained the presence of Christ in
the Bekaa valley.”
He said the priest was kidnapped March 14 and on April 2
his body was pulled out of a well in Nabha, Lebanon.
“Cause of death,” said Msgr. Esseff, “was strangula
tion.” He showed pictures of the priest’s body, his face
beaten, black and unrecognizable.
For that reason, the pope said, people encounter God not
through reasoning but through the “mystery of faith.”
“God is incomprehensible,” the pope said, quoting the
teachings of the First Vatican Council. Recognition that
God has created the world around us does not remove that
nature of “incomprehensibility,” the pope added.
“In the modern world, where the scientific orientation
toward the ‘visible’ and ‘measurable’ takes on great impor
tance, the inability to understand God becomes even more
evident,” the pope said. God’s essential nature, he said,
cannot be “contained” in any definition made by man.
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The pope also greeted more than 200 Yugoslavian youths
making a pilgrimage to Rome. By “attentively listening to
everything the pope teaches,” he told them, they can fulfill
the task entrusted to their generation: “transmitting the
holy Catholic faith in the third millennium.”
After the audience, the pope greeted many in the square
individually before returning by helicopter to the papal
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