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8 GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, AUGUST, 29, 1968
Father Kiernan
Is Speaker At
Center Opening
Father R. Donald Kiernan, a
member of the State Crime
Commission, has told persons
attending the dedication of a
Youth Development Center at
Gainesville that it will help tum
juvenile offenders into
responsible citizens.
The pastor of St. Jude’s parish
spoke last week at the dedication.
“Georgia’s and the nation’s best
hope for reducing juvenile
delinquency and youth crime is
in centers of this type.
“Juveniles are generally more
open to treatment and counseling
than adult criminals since
behavior patterns of the youths
have not hardened with
discouraging finality.”
He said the nation has 360,000
juvenile offenders in institutions.
“By 1975, the number is
expected to increase to 588,000,
and while persons 10 to 17 years
of age make up 15 per cent of the
nation’s population, they account
for 52 per cent of auto thefts, 45
per cent of larcenies, 41 per cent
of burglaries, 20 per cent of
robberies, 14 per cent of forcible
rapes and 5.5 per cent of
murders.
“While these statistics are
frightening, Georgia has made
rapid progress in implementing a
plan for a statewide system of
detention facilities for youths
who need close supervision. In
the past, these children often
have been held in the common
jail because of a lack of adequate
facilities.”
He said the state has initiated a
well-rounded program of
individual and group counseling
for the youthful offender, plus
vocational and academic
education, recreation, religious
counseling and medical and
dental care. However, Father
Kiernan said there is still much
work to be done.
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WASHINGTON, (NC) - The
board of directors of the National
Council of Catholic Men said here
that the authority of Pope Paul
Vi’s encyclical on birth control
“cannot be rejected.”
A statement by the NCCM
directors said they are “deeply
concerned” not only with the
effect of the encyclical Humanae
Vitae on “the lives and
consciences” of Catholics but
also with “the resulting direct
challenges to papal authority.”
The officers of the men’s
council said it is “unquestionably
the obligation and right of the
Pope to state the authoritative
teaching of the Church and thus
to guide us in the formation of
our consciences.”
“The papal encyclical on
‘Human Life’ is a specific
fulfillment of this responsibility
and its authority cannot be
rejected,” the NCCM board said.
“This is true not only of this
encyclical but also of other
encyclicals such as Populorum
Progressio, Pacem in Terris and
Mater et Magistra.”
Populorum Progressio was
issued by Pope Paul VI while
Pacem in Terris and Mater et
Magistra were issued by Pope
John XXIII. All three encyclicals
deal with international social
justice.
Expressing a hope for
“reconciliation and a resolution
of the current tensions,” the
NCCM directors said this will
take “time, patience
Christian understanding.”
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“A CHANCE to be Somebody”, an art exhibition sponsored by the
Job Corps will be held at the First National Bank Building through
Sept. 6. Shirley Hughes, Atlanta, a Job Corps trainee studying
photography, snapped this picture of a young visitor at the exhibit.
NCCM Supports Authority
and
It will also require, they said,
“study, discussion and the honest
and free expression of
experiences, opinions and needs
of the laity and clergy-and,
above all, it will require open
channels of communication
within the Church, especially
between the laity and the bishops
and the Holy Father.”
The statement pledged efforts
by the NCCM to “contribute in a
practical way to this study and
dialogue.”
Chile To Oust
‘Rebel’ Priest
SANTIAGO, Chile (NC)-In
the wake of the seizure of the
cathedral here by a group of
priests and laymen (Aug. 12) the
Chilean government has revoked
the authorization of one of the
priests to remain permanently in
the country.
He is Father Paulino Garcia, a
Spanish priest and one of the
spokesmen of the group that
took over the cathedral as a
demonstration against what they
called “wasteful spending” on the
visit of Pope Paul VI to Latin
America for the 39th
International Eucharistic
Congress in Bogota, Colombia,
and the Church’s identification
with the rich.
there flashed before him peasants in a variety of regional
costumes.
To the enormous crowd assembled-Msgr. Vallainc
estimated it perhaps a bit generously at 300,000-the Pope first
spoke of the pressing problems of poverty. To them he said:
“You have become aware of your needs and sufferings and like
so many others in the world you cannot tolerate that your
conditions should last forever and not receive a speedy
remedy.”
Pledging the Church to work to overcome the present
situation, he promised to “continue to denounce unjust
economic inequalities between rich and poor, and abuses of
authority and administration against you and the
community.”
But at the same time, he said: “Let us exhort you not to
place your trust in violence and revolution. That is contrary to
the Christian spirit and it can also delay instead of advancing
that social uplifting to which you lawfully aspire.”
A touch of violence was in the air when the Pope met with
the press after talking to the campesinos and was nearly
mobbed by photographers. At one point, when he sat in an
elevated chair, his close associates—Archbishop Giovanni
Benelli, papal Undersecretary of State; Msgr. Paul Marcinkus
of Chicago, also of the secretariat, and Msgr. Pasquale Macchi,
his personal secretary-had to all but prostrate themselves so
photographers could get pictures.
In the afternoon the Pope returned to his double theme
during his sermon at the Mass on the Eucharistic Congress
grounds for the “Day of Development.” He urged his special
guests, drawn from every segment and social level of Latin
American society, to “make love of Christ the principle of the
moral renewal and social regeneration of Latin America.”
Noting that “some conclude that Latin America’s essential
problem can be solved only by violence,” the Pope replied:
“We must say and reaffirm that violence is not in accord with
the Gospel, that it is not Christian....”
That evening he met at the-apostolic nunciature with
various groups, including the Colombian diplomatic corps, a
group of Protestant leaders and a group of Jewish leaders,
whose head, the grand rabbi, had specifically requested an
opportunity to greet the Pope.
On (Aug. 24) the last day of his visit, the Pope went early
for Mass at the parish church of St. Cecilia in Bogota in a jeep.
Standing all the way to greet the thousands who lined the
streets, the Pope passed through some of the city’s most
dismally poor sections. The parish he visited, however, was not
among the city’s poorest. He celebrated Mass outdoors and
gave First Communion to a group of boys and girls.
After breakfast in the parish house the Pope visited various
poor homes and met a variety of parish groups and leaders.
Then he was driven to the cathedral to inaugurate the second
general assembly of the Latin American bishops. Present were
about 180 members of the Latin American bishops and a
group of special guests, experts and observers.
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