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y Photo by Jonas N. Jordan Contents ☆ Cl The Sou Diocese of Savannah ☆ hern Cross News 1-3 Commentary 4-5 Diocesan Pilgrimage 6-7 Faith Alive! 8-9 Notices 10-11 Last But Not Least 12 Vol. 79, No. 40 $.50 PER ISSUE Thursday, November 18,1999 Kristallnacht remembered readings and music. One prime method of oppression is to deny persons their names, reducing them to numbers instead. A reading from Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl noted that in the Nazi camps “if one of the sick men had died before the cart [to the next camp] left, he was thrown on anyway— the list had to be correct!” The service stressed the need for a silence of commitment, to overcome the silence of fear which allows scope for such hatred. It concluded with a call to action “now, before the crystal of human dignity is allowed to reach the ground and once again be smashed into oblivion.” Father Michael J. Kavanaugh, Diocesan Director of Ecumenism, reflected that “the wide variety of participants in the Memorial Service speaks of the awareness we all share of the hor ror of the Holocaust as a monumental tragedy, not only for the Jews, but for all people. It also speaks of our common yearning that such evil must never again be allowed to take root in our hearts and grow.” Bishop J. Kevin Boland lights a candle in remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust at the Kristallnacht Memorial Service on November 9. By Sister Mary Faith McKean, RSM Savannah T he November night of Nazi destruction and vandalism that littered German streets with the glass of Jewish-owned businesses occurred 61 years ago, but the name Kristallnacht contin ues to evoke calls for a change of heart so that such hatred will no longer be found in our world. Congregation Agudath Achim and Rabbi Robert L. Wolkoff hosted an Interfaith Memorial Service in Savannah November 9 to commemo rate the Jewish targets of Kristallnacht hatred and all targets of oppression, from African American slavery in this country to recent brutal ity in Kosovo. Bishop J. Kevin Boland and Sister Jackie Griffith, SSJ, Diocesan Director of Catholic Social Services, were among the partici pants in the service, which included meditative Diocesan pilgrims visit Rome S eventy-eight pilgrims from the Diocese of Savannah made a pilgrimage to Rome October 28-November 5 in anticipation of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000. Among the participants were Bishop J. Kevin Boland, four priests, a permanent deacon and seventy-two lay people from all seven deaneries of the Savannah diocese and beyond. The tour group visited all four major basili cas and participated in a papal audience. Mass was celebrated daily in historical settings. Trips to Assisi and Florence were included in the itinerary. See story and pictures on pages 6-7. Bishop J. Kevin Boland and the diocesan pilgrims after Mass at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major Photo by Jonas N. Jordan