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PAGE 7 — The Southern Cross, September 5, 1985
Pax Christi Calls For Disarming The Heart
ERIE, Pa. (NC) — More than 450 delegates from Pax
Christi organizations in North America including Warner
Robins and Savannah called for a change of heart within
people as the way to end the arms race.
Delegates gathered in Erie Aug. 23-25 for Pax Christi’s
12th annual national assembly. Pax Christi is an interna
tional Catholic peace movement.
“Disarm the Heart, Disarm the Nations” was the theme
for the three days of prayer and workshops.
“We cannot talk about disarmament and carry violence
around in our own lives,” said keynote speaker Patricia
Mische, who urged people to find the “shadows” in their
lives. Ms. Mische is co-founder of Global Education
Associates, a network of men and women researching
global concerns and alternatives for the future.
She said “a pathology of violence” has permeated
Pro-Life Activists
Attend Baptism
Of "Miracle Baby"
BY MARY DETURRIS
CARTERET, N.J. (NC) — What started ona Saturday mor
ning as a routine picketing of an abortion clinic ended with the
baptism at Holy Family Church of a little boy referred to as “a
miracle..”
The “miracle” began when Mary Cartwright of Iselin,
N.J., stopped Sue (not her real name) on her way into the
Woodbridge Care Center. According to Kathy Dowling, a
member of the Pro-Life Activities council in the community,
20 to 30 abortions are performed there a week. Pro-life ac
tivists regularly picket the center on Saturday mornings.
Mrs. Cartwright asked Sue to reconsider what she was do
ing, explaining that help was available. Mrs. Dowling said
Sue stopped and said, “I don’t want to kill my baby, but
nobody will help me...I don’t know what to do.”
Mrs. Cartwright took the 21-year-old woman home with her
and put her in contact with people who could help her. The
Dowlings and Mrs. Cartwright kept in close contact with Sue
throughout her pregnancy and were there to bring her andher
baby home from the hospital in May.
“All she kept saying was, ‘Thank you for my baby,”’ said
Mrs. Dowling. “We tried to tell her that she did all the work,
but she kept insisting that we saved her baby.”
Sue decided to baptize the baby and chose Mrs. Dowling’s
husband, William, and Mrs. Cartwright as godparents.
Although it was not required, they attended baptismal
classes with Sue.
“After the baptism we had a party. Many of the people who
picket on Saturday came. We know we save babies because
people have told us that they changed their minds because we
were there. But this was the first time we held one of those
babies in our arms,” Mrs. Dowling said.
She added, “Sue is so happy with the baby, she doesn’t have
to live with the fact that she destroyed a life.
“All she needed was support...and we were in touch with
her constantly,” said Mrs. Dowling. “You must take respon
sibility when you do something like this.”
Sue is now living with her family and taking care of her
baby. The Dowlings and Mrs. Cartwright got her a typewriter
so she could brush up on her skills.
“She wants to go back to school to become a bilingual
secretary. So life doesn’t end after a pregnancy. ’ ’ Mrs. Dowl
ing said.
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American history and she noted that conflicts between
America and Nicaragua, among others, are not new. For
example, she cited an 1858 incident in which the U.S. Navy
destroyed a Nicaraguan city because an American sailor
has been insulted by Nicaragua.
“Because we don’t look at our shadows and illuminate
them, we keep repeating them,” she said. “What about
Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Like an alcoholic, like
a drug addict, we have to admit that this thing (the arms
race) is out of control.”
Just as an alcoholic turns to God as the first step in
recovery in Alcoholics Anonymous, Ms. Mische said, people
must take the first step of recognizing the violence “in our
own heart, illuminate it and bring it under control.”
Ms. Mische applauded the U.S. bishops’ 1983 pastoral let
ter on peace and said it was important to announce “a new
vision” that resists war, not just renounces it.
Other speakers included Father George Zabelka of Lans
ing, Mich. A former military chaplain turned pacifist, he
discussed his conversion to peacemaking causes.
Calling on everyone to do “something for peace,” Father
Zabelka suggested the formation of an ecumenical council
of world religious leaders who would counsel their followers
that war is a crime against God and humanity.
There is no way to follow Christ, to love as Christ loved
and simultaneously kill people,” he said.
Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit, who is
episcopal adviser for Pax Christi, lauded the Benedictines
for Peace, based in Erie, for their efforts in bringing the na
tional headquarters of Pax Christi to Erie. Pax Christi USA
formerly had its headquarters in Chicago.
PROUD GODPARENTS — William Dowling James, following his baptism at Holy Family
of Woodbridge, N.J., and Mary Cartwright of Church in Carteret, N.J. (NC Photo)
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