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Contents O The Sou ☆ Diocese of, Savannah ☆ hem Cross News 1-3 Commentary 4-5 Around the Diocese 6-7 Faith Alive! 8-9 Notices 10-11 Last But Not Least 12 Vol. 79, No. 42 $.50 per issue Thursday, December 2, 1999 a Many Faces in God's House" Many Faces: Eight representatives train to implement the "Many Faces in God's House: A Catholic Vision for the Third Millennium," designed to help culturally diverse groups open up their rich backgrounds to one another: (left to right) Lourdes Huerta, Guadalupan Sisters Bertha Capetillo and Beatrfz Cortez, Father Brian LaBurt, Father Mike Smith, Father Lorenzo Garda, and Miguel Hidalgo. Not pictured is Sister Jackie Griffith. The training was sponsored by the Southeast Pastoral Institute in Saint Augustine, Florida. For copies of the Leader's Guide or assistance in using "Many Faces in God's House" in English or Spanish in your parish, call or write Father Mike Smith, Saint Mark Church, P. O. Box 4304, Eastman, GA31023, 912-374-4031, E-mail: MHSMCRAE@Juno.com. Missioneras Guadalupanas at Work: A key strategy in the out reach being made by the Guadalupan sisters to the Latino work ers in the Tifton-Moultrie area is gathering their children, and later in the evening, their parents and the many single young adults. Sister Beatrfz Cortez is shown with a group in Whispering Pines Trailer Park near Omega. Cardinal Bernardin’s life work examined at lectures By Jordan McMorrough Editor, The New Catholic Miscellany Columbia, SC rnphe inaugural Joseph Cardinal Bemardin X Lectureship, held at, the University of South Carolina last Thursday to honor the life of legacy of Cardinal Bemardin, featured perhaps the three per sons most qualified to speak on the cardinal’s life. Three lectures on November 18 from Monsignor Kenneth Velo, Father J. Bryan Hehir, and Eugene Kennedy, offering their personal reflections and a focus on the book, On Common Ground, enabled attendees to better understand and appreciate Cardinal Bernardin’s accomplishments. And while the event was held primarily to honor the life and legacy of the cardinal, funds were also being raised to established a chaired faculty position in Cardinal Bernardin’s name at the University of South Carolina, an effort that began before his death. Following his introduction by Elaine Addison, Cardinal Bernardin’s sister, Monsignor Velo initial ly described the cardinal as “a teacher, administra tor, ecumenical leader, priest, bishop, cardinal, brother, friend.” However, he stressed that the car dinal always prefaced his remarks by saying, “I come to speak to you as a pastor.” Monsignor Velo served as Cardinal Bernardin’s executive assistant from 1985 to 1994 and was one of the cardinal’s closest friends during his ministry in Chicago. The cardinal himself requested that the monsignor offer the homily at his funeral Mass. In an opening lecture in which he used imagina tive photographs to chronicle the life of Cardinal Bemardin, Monsignor Velo talked of the young Joseph growing up in Columbia at the height of the Depression. Following his father’s death from can cer, his mother Maria worked long hours as a seam stress at Fort Jackson. “He knew the feeling of being poor,” the monsignor emphasized. As he got older, Joseph worked as an orderly at Providence Hospital, and later thought of a career in medicine. However, he was called to the vocation of the priesthood, and was ordained in 1952 to serve the church in the Diocese of Charleston. He taught at Bishop England High School and later worked in the Chancery offices as vicar general, vocations director, archives curator, and cemetery director. On April 26, 1966, Joseph Bemardin was ordained as the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. There he served as chancellor and pastor of the (Continued on page 3)