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ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA
The Georqia Bulletin
** SERVING GEORGIA S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
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Vol. 9 No. 28
Thursday, August 19,1971
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Dear
Reader
By John DeGroot
MIAMI, Fla. (NC) - The
point remained. She was
somebody’s daughter. A nice
looking kid. Clean cut.
Pretty. And dead.
For five months, she lay
silently on a gleaming
stainless steel table in a
specially chilled room at the
Dade County Medical
Examiner’s Office.
Nobody knew who she
That’s why they called her
Miss Nobody.
Drugs had killed her. The
needle had contained a
milkish white fluid. Its sharp
point had punctured a vein in
her arm. The drug had
entered her body. It was
more than her system could
stand. She died.
And so they found her
lying in a Miami motel room.
No purse. No wallet. No
identification. Just a
teenager... a girl-next-door
type, little Miss Nobody.
That was in February.
Police and investigators at
the Dade County morgue
have a great deal in common.
They do not like to see
empty places on investigative
reports and forms. They like
all the holes fdled. They
enjoy seeing the proper
names and the right dates all
neatly listed. It gives them
satisfaction.
So here was little Miss
Nobody, lying still and
peaceful on a stainless steel
table. Here were all these
records with so many empty,
puzzling parts.
And what bothered them
the most was that Little Miss
Nobody was somebody’s
daughter. Somewhere there
were parents who wept and
wondered. Somewhere there
was a father who spent each
night in tossing anguish.
Somewhere there was a
mother who bit her trembling
lips each time she passed her
daughter’s empty bedroom.
Everybody talks about
how no one cares any more.
You hear a lot about officials
and government workers who
pass their days in punching in
and punching out, never
thinking of the little guy,
only shuffling computer cards
and inter-office memos.
Fact is, people do care.
Fact is, there were cops,
secretaries, clerks, paper
shufflers and bureaucrats all
concerned with the unknown
teenager resting on her
stainless steel table in the
County Morgue.
No one wanted to place
her coldly in an unmarked,
pauper’s grave. There were
forms and laws that would
have enabled them to do
exactly that. .. with the guilt
and no computer problems.
No one was ready to slap
all the uncompleted forms in
an envelope, file the whole
package and then say,
“Forget her. She was on
drugs.”
They really cared.
ALL those nameless public
employes really worried and
wondered shout Little Miss
Nobody and her unknown,
grief torn parents.
Then recently a reporter
who cared heard about little
Miss Nobody. The reporter’s
name is Edna Buchanan. She
writes for the Miami Herald.
She told the story of little
Miss Nobody. There was no
sensationalism. There was no
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Fund Here Gets
$105,000 Grant
WASHINGTON (NC) - A grant of $105,000, the
second largest among 53 funded by the U.S. Bishops
Campaign for Human Development, has been made to
the Southern Cooperative Development Fund at
Atlanta.
The money is in the form
of loans, guarantees,
supporting grants and
technical assistance to
cooperatives serving low
income groups.
The 53 self-help programs,
ranged from a Chicago plan
to train men to become
long-distance truck drivers to
a proposal seeking industrial
programs for Alaskan Indians.
Announcements of the
grants, totaling $1,072,012,
were made here by Auxiliary
Bishop Michael R. Dempsey
of Chicago, the campaign’s
national director.
The average grant was
slightly over $20,000, with
disbursements made to all
types of poor people,
including blacks, Indians,
Mexican-Americans, and
Appalachian whites.
The Phoenix, Ariz., diocese
received the largest
grant-$110,000-to build and
operate a multi-purpose
community center in a
Mexican -American
neighborhood.
Campaign officials said the
grants were distributed to
selfhelp groups in 28 states
and the District of Colombia.
A Portland, Me., group
received a $25,000 grant for
economic development and a
Kaneche, Hawaii, group was
given $20,000 for a
multi-faceted youth program.
Other proposals funded
included a mobile nursing
care program in Louisville,
Ky.; a day care center for
Blackfeet Indians in
Browning, Mont.; and a
number of programs to
educate and inform welfare
recipients about their rights.
The recent disbursement
marks the second time the
bishops have distributed
funds from their $8.5 million
anti-poverty campaign. Those
monies were raised during the
campaign’s first collection
last Nov. 22.
Last May, 23, proposals
totaling $586,000 were
funded.
Bishop Dempsey said that
180 other proposals have
received initial approval, and
that the majority of these
should be announced by
mid-November.
According to campaign
groundrules, 75 percent of
the $8.5 million is to be
distributed on the national
level, with the other 25
percent remaining in the
dioceses for local funding.
Campaign officials said
thus far$3.7 million has been
committed, including local
funding.
The grants had been
recommended by the
campaign’s National
Committee of Human
Development. They were
approved after a subsequent
review by a bishop’s
committee, which has final
authority over the funding,
and the campaign staff.
Irish Ordination
Pope Praises
Renewal; Slaps
At Opposition
BY FATHER LEO E. McFADDEN
CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy (NC) - The Second
Vatican Council’s resounding cry for renewal should
awaken the sleeping giant that is the Church, Pope
Paul VI told thousands of tourists crowded into the
audience at his summer villa.
Four priests from the Archdiocese of Atlanta attended the Ordination of Reverend Louis Naughton
at the Cathedral in Galway, Ireland. Left to right are: Rev. Vincent Mulvin, Rev. Edward A.
O’Connor, Rev. Naughton, Rev. Patrick McCormick and Rev. Richard Kieran. Father Naughton
has been assigned to Holy Cross Church as assistant pastor.
Sign Goes Up!
The Human
campaign’:
Development
collection
will be held Nov. 21 in
Catholic churches in the U.S.
Father Joseph Beltran, pastor and Roger DeLisle, Parish Building Chairman inspect the sign on the
site of Corpus Christi property in Stone Mountain. The Corpus Christi sign represents a real
community effort: The lettering was donated by the Metropolitan Sign Company: The sign was
given to the parish by the Tucker Federal Savings and Loan Association: The painting,
transporting and erection of the sign was completed by members of Corpus Christi Building
Committee. Presently the members of Corpus Christi Parish are meeting at the Stone Mountain
Elementary School.
In the same speech, the
Pope issued a passing slap to
those who lament current
Church renewal.
This sense of renewal
emanating from the council
must remain and must be
operative, said the Pope
whose pontificate has been
marked with steady devotion
to putting Vatican II into
practice, while holding the
line of such controversial
issues as birth control and
celibacy.
“This sense of renewal
must rejuvenate the Church,
it must awaken in the Church
the awareness of latent
energies within itself,” the
Pope said.
He added that this renewal
would also serve to infuse
courage into the Church to
conform more closely to the
Gospel and embolden the
Church to try ever new
practices in its mission of
saving mankind.
Dwelling only briefly on
those who obstruct these
goals of change by protesting
renewal, the Pope said the
council had left a residue of
discomfort “in certain souls
who place their trust in the
habitual rather than the
Southeastern Women’s Council Meets Here
The Military Council of Catholic Women of the Southeastern
Area, U.S.A. (MCCW) observed its first anniversary at a one-day
meeting at Ft. McPherson, Ga. on August 18.
Sister Joan Kist, council moderator, and other members of
the Ft. Benning, Ga. Chapel group made arrangements for the
conference which featured afternoon discussion sessions on such
topics as “The Prisoner of War Question”, “Needs in Human
Development”, and “Family Effectiveness in the Community”
Mrs. Margaret Stogner of Ft. Bragg, N.C., President of the
Council, presided at the meeting held in the Ft. McPherson
Non-commissioned Officers’ Club.
Chaplain (LTC) Michael A. Rusnock, deputy Third U.S.
Army Chaplain who is spiritual director of the group, celebrated
Mass. There also was an election of officers.
Representatives from Chapel groups at Ft. Bragg, N.C., Ft.
Benning, Ga., Ft. Gordon, Ga., Ft. McClellan, Ala., Ft.
McPherson and Warner Robins Air Force Base, Ga. attended.
BELLS DEDICATED - Monks at the Benedictine Monastery and Retreat Center, Pevely, Mo., a
short distance from St. Louis, re-inaugurated a centuries-old method of organizing a religious
community life. The monks built their own bell tower, and used bells salvaged from St. Aloysius
Church in Kansas City. The three bells, on a 40-foot grassy knoll are electrically timed and used to
summon the Benedictines to meals, prayer and Mass. The dedication ceremony drew a large crowd.
(NC PHOTO, courtesy St. Louis Review)
Mass Alerts
Poor A hout
Paint Chips
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (NC)
— The flexible Mass liturgy of
the Catholic Church was
employed as a chief weapon
in a campaign here to alert
ghetto residents to the
constant danger to children
who eat chips of lead-based
paints.
The summer issue of the
Rochester Review, University
of Rochester publication,
reported parishioners of
Immaculate Conception
Catholic parish in a ghetto
area, plus the work of a team
of the university’s preventive
medicine and community
health department had
considerable success in
warning parents of the
danger.
The magazine reported
some 400,000 children
throughout the country are
affected each year by lead
poisoning contracted by
eating chips from window
sills and walls of flaking
lead-based paints.
The Catholic parish had a
special Mass for Life Through
Health to call attention to the
danger. More than 1,100
ghetto residents and
parishioners attended two
special Masses at the church.
NEWS BRIEFS
Denounces Imprisonment
BELFAST (NC) — Cardinal William Conway of Armagh, in
Northern Ireland, president of the Irish Bishops’ Conference,
denounced the Northern Irish government’s policy of
imprisoning suspected terrorists without trial or charge. Cardinal
Conway said Aug. 14: “Already there is prima facie evidence
that entirely innocent men, taken from their homes .. .were
subjected to humiliating and brutal treatment by security
forces. “This evidence should be open to rigorous and
independent examination. For an official spokesman to say, as
he has done, that complaints should be forwarded to the police
for examination must inevitably seem to those concerned in the
climate of Northern Ireland at the present time as bordering on
cynicism.” The cardinal said that hatred of imprisonment
without trial, and especially of its one-sided application to
Catholics, was deep and widespread among Northern Ireland’s
Catholic minority.
Accused Of Discrimination
LONDON (NC) — The British army and the
Protestant-dominated government of Northern Ireland were
accused of connivance and of discrimination against Northern
Irish Catholics in an article in the Universe, British Catholic
weekly. The Universe’s commentator and political expert,
Douglas Hyde, said the decision of the Northern Irish
government, taken with British approval, to order imprisonment
without trial for suspected terrorists was provocatively
anti-Catholic. No member of the terrorist fringe of the Orange
Order, a Protestant fraternal organization, had been detained, he
said. The activities of British troops have been confined to
Catholic ghetto areas, Hyde said, and residents of those areas
now “believe they are seen collectively as the selected target for
military attention.”
Adoption By Computer?
WASHINGTON (NC) - Sen. Robert P. Griffin (R-Mich.) has
proposed legislation that would establish a National Adoption
Information Exchange Program utilizing modern computer
technology. “Computers and other modern data processing
methods can help locate parents for children waiting adoption,”
the senate minority whip said. Griffin’s program would be
established through the Department of Health, Education and
Welfare as an amendment to certain social Security and Welfare
Reform bills. The senator noted that the information exchange
program “would be particularly helpful in finding homes for
children of minority groups, mixed racial background and
youngsters with physical and psychological handicaps.” Each
time an infant is placed for adoption, Griffin said, society is
saved between $40,000 and $50,000. “More importantly this
would mean a great savings to society that cannot be measured
in dollars - the benefits of a stable home life,” he added.
innovative. “These people, he
continued, grew more
dismayed as those in favor of
renewal .seemed to act in
haste and with impetuosity.”
Listing the accomplish
ments of renewal, such as the
liturgy, updating of religious
communities and ecumenism,
the Pope emphasized that
innovation does not mean a
betrayal of the faith because,
he said, the faith can “neither
be invented nor
manipulated.”
Disagreeing with those who
would scrap the Church and
start building one from
scratch, the Pope said the
result would be an
“impossible church.” He
added that such a structure,
while being “a new little
church of one’s own,” would
be a church deprived “of its
divine, human and authentic
originality.”
Among the Americans in
attendance at the audience
were Archbishop Fulton J.
Sheen, retired bishop of
Rochester, N.Y., and
Auxiliary Bishop Jeremiah
Minihan of Boston who led a
large contingent of Knights of
Columbus from the Boston
‘Dropouts’
Desire
To Marry
ROME (NC) - A
Vatican-ordered statistical
study of departures from the
priesthood indicates that the
desire to marry is the
principal factor in the vast
majority of decisions to
return to secular life, while
loss of faith affects only one
in 20.
About 11,000 priests are
believed to have left the
active ministry between 1963
and 1969, the period covered
by the study. There are about
434,000 priests in the world.
Projections for the future
based on the constantly
growing number of these
departures between 1963 and
1969 would put the
worldwide figure for
departures from the
priesthood at about 20,700
between 1970 and 1975.
During that same period the
study expects about 15,500
ordinations. That would
mean a net loss (aside from
deaths) of about 1,000 priests
yearly.
The study was ordered by
the Vatican’s Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith,
which is empowered to
dispense from celibacy and
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Summer
Schedule
There will be no paper
next week, as we are on
Summer Schedule. The
Georgia Bulletin does not
print the second and last
weeks in June, July and
August.