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Thursday, November 9, 2000
The Southern Cross, Page 11
Cursillo events and information
C ursillo is a world-wide movement of religious
and laity within the Catholic Church. It has
served within the Savannah Diocese since 1979.
Cursillo is both a renewal movement and a
methodology for sharing the Good News within the
family, the parish, and the larger community.
Cursillo is:
—for those who are seeking spiritual renewal
—for those who wish to be more effective leaders
for Christ
—for those wanting to be supported in continued
Christian growth.
The Savannah Diocese Cursillo Grand Ultreya /
BBQ is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. on November 18.
The Grand Ultreya is a family event to welcome all
new Cursillo members. The diocesan-wide ultreya
provides an opportunity to come together as a
Christian community for fun, fellowship, and great
food.
The Grand Ultreya is hosted by Sacred Heart
Church, 3119 East North Street, Vidalia. The BBQ
is a potluck. Bring your favorite casserole, salad, or
dessert. Share your recipe with some of the best
cooks in the region.
For more information or a local Cursillo commu
nity contact call Diane Stephens, Cursillo Lay
Director, at 912-988-8344.
Kansas City Star follow-up criticized
on priests with AIDS
Washington (CNS)
atholic spokesmen have again
criticized The Kansas City Star
daily newspaper for its coverage of
priests with AIDS—this time for a
follow-up in response to the earlier
criticisms. For the four-article fol
low-up published November 4, The
Star said it comprehensively
reviewed priests’ death certificates
from 1987 to 1998 in 14 states where
those documents are public records.
The less-scientific data-gathering
and statistical comparison methods
for its original series eight months
earlier had come under sharp criti
cism. The newspaper’s latest report
said that “the average annual AIDS
death rate for priests in the states
where death records were available
was 6 per 10,000, which is more than
double that of the adult male popula
tion in those states and more than six
times that of the general population
in those states.”
The U.S. Catholic Conference De
partment of Communications, headed
by Monsignor Francis Maniscalco,
said in a statement November 6 that
The Star “systematically violated the
privacy of deceased priests in 14
states. If any organization other than
a journalistic one tried to do some
thing like this, it would quickly hear
from an outraged public.”
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Election
(Continued from page 3)
white Catholics nationwide—by 52
percent to 47 percent—is that “Bush
overcame the anti-Catholic allega
tions from early in the campaign.”
Bush was dogged for a while early
this year by charges of being anti-
Catholic after he spoke at Bob Jones
University, an evangelical Protestant
school in South Carolina. The
school’s leaders have long been
known for their anti-Catholic rheto
ric. Bush later apologized for not
clearly disassociating himself from
the anti-Catholic allegations.
Youth Leaders Lc
dult leaders of Youth Ministry
from nine parishes in the Diocese
joined in a workshop sponsored by the
Office of Youth Ministry, and led by
Barb Garvin. Ms. Garvin drew on her
own extensive experience in parish
youth ministry for practical, some
times dramatic, examples of opportu
nities and pitfalls.
The workshop was held in Dublin
October 20-21 and was based on the
document “Renewing the Vision,” of
Grieboski, who hadn’t yet seen the
exit poll data, said that other prelimi
nary information the Institute on
Religion and Public Policy had
received seemed to show that some
Catholics were willing to vote for
Bush over Gore primarily over the
issue of abortion. But when it came
to voting for House and Senate races,
abortion was not the deciding factor
for many Catholics.
He said he thinks that is because
“both campaigns doing a good job of
scaring people about the impact of
abortion and the Supreme Court.”
m “Be-Attitudes”
the National Conference of Catholic
Bishops, which Ms. Garvin calls “a
gift” to all in this ministry. She is
currently assistant director of the
Archdiocesan Youth Ministry Office
in Atlanta.
The “Be-Attitudes,” she says, are
“Be Prepared. Be Yourself. Be
Organized. Be Flexible. Be Open. Be
Firm. Be Happy. And above all Be
lieve that God is involved in the lives
of the young people.”
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