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Vol. 10 No. 14
Form 3579 to 202 East Sixth Street, Waynesboro, Georgia 30830
Thursday, April 6,1972
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ANIMORDS: OR: THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM: Eighth grade art students at St. Ann’s school in Syracuse, N.Y. created
An animord is a word written in the shape of the animals it represents. Can you identify each animal picture
these
here?
“animords.’
Regional Religious Commission
Seeks Control Of Strip Mining
KNOXVILLE, TENN. — Fair, uniform and enforceable legislation to regulate strip mining of coal is essential,
according to the board of directors of the Commission on Religion in Appalachia (CORA) in a statement
adopted here. CORA is a coalition of 17 Christian denominations and 10 state councils of churches in the
13-state Appalachian region.
Strip mining is surface mining which
peels off the upper layers of the earth by
giant machines.
“The effects of strip mining on the
environment and on people living in the
affected areas are important and
constitute a moral issue,” the CORA
board stated at a meeting here.
“Regulatory legislation, which is fair,
uniform, enforceable and fully enforced
is essential to protect the environment,
the people and the communities affected
and those operators who are ready and
willing to assume responsibility for
mining without damage to environment
or people.”
As a minimum, the CORA statement
said, legislation should ban strip mining
where reclamation is not possible and
should require genuine reclamation
wherever stripping is permitted. The
CORA directors also supported more
research seeking less damaging mining
techniques and more effective
reclamation techniques.
Strip mining’s effect on the
environment, particularly in Appalachia,
is a concern to Christians, the board said,
because of Biblical injunctions requiring
man to be a steward over the earth. The
board added: “God, in His providence,
has given us a planet contrived with
remarkable ecological balance. A
fundamental aspect of man’s stewardship
relates to the preservation of that
marvelous and delicate balance.
“It is God’s will that the resources of
the earth be developed, conserved and
used in ways which will bring maximum
benefit, fulfillment and abundance of life
to all his children, i.e., to all people.”
While recognizing that there is “no
AWARD WINNING ARCHITECT
Architect Albert O. Ordway of Atlanta was one of seven merit award winners in the Church Building Exhibit and Awards Program
of the Ninth Triennial Architects’ Workshop held March 13-16 in Nashville. Ordway received the award for the building of Church
of Holy Spirit, Atlanta. The workshop and awards program were sponsored by the church architecture department of the Southern
Baptist Sunday School Board.
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U.S. Bishops Converge
On Atlanta Next Week
FROM NEWS SOURCES
WASHINGTON — Approximately 240 Roman Catholic bishops are expected to attend the spring meetings of
the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and the United States Catholic Conference (USCC), which
will take place in Atlanta from April 11 to 13.
The meetings will be the first at which the bishops implement their decision of last November to admit
accredited reporters to the sessions. Seventy-five representatives of the news media are expected to attend, 38
from the religious press and 37 from the general press.
consensus” among Christians in the issue,
CORA’s directors urged all Christians and
“all persons of good will” to give serious
attention to certain criteria as they seek
to find a position on the matter. Among
criteria they cited were: Does the
person’s position reflect a sense of
genuine stewardship; a feeling of
ecological balance and community
stability; a feeling for the economic,
social and cultural well-being of the
Appalachian people and a consideration
of the best interests of the American
population and mankind as a whole?
CORA’s action calls on members of its
constituent communions “to undertake
rigorously to apply such criteria as those
stated above to the issue of continued
and expanded strip mining in Appalachia,”
and to “act vigorously and responsibly in
political support of the conclusions to
which such analysis may lead.”
Among them will be GEORGIA
BULLETIN Editor Fr. James Maciejewski
and Editorial Assistant Michael Motes. Fr.
Maciejewski expressed elation and
surprise that the BULLETIN had been
granted press credentials.
“It was something like trying to get on
the press plane to Peking; there were
many more requests than there was space
available. Probably the fact that we are
the host city for the meeting gave the
BULLETIN a favored position. Whatever
the reason they’re letting us in, I’ll be
awfully glad to be there.”
Fr. Maciejewski will file a first-hand
report from the bishops’ meeting for next
week’s edition of the BULLETIN.
In addition to the 75 press
representatives, 23 other observers will be
admitted, including diocesan priests,
religious men and women and
representatives of the laity.
A main item on the agenda for the
spring meeting is a proposal for
reorganizing the USCC - in part to end
deficit spending and balance the budgets
of the conferences in 1973 and
subsequent years.
Among other matters to be studied at
the meetings are:
-A proposal that the NCCB request the
Pope to grant local bishops the faculty to
dispense mature married men who wish
to be ordained permanent deacons from
the current 35-year age minimum.
-A progress report on the proposed
bishops’ pastoral letter on Catholic
education.
-A report by the Ad Hoc Committee
for Women in Society and the Church.
-A proposed plan for developing a U.S.
Catechetical Directory.
-Study of a plan to establish in effect
an instantaneous communications
network for the Church in the United
States through a teleprinter wire
transmission system.
The National Conference of Catholic
Bishops is a canonical entity whose
members are the Catholic bishops of the
United States. The United States Catholic
Conference is the national-level action
agency of the Catholic Church in this
country. Both are headquartered in
Washington, D.C.
The meetings, to be held in Atlanta’s
Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel, will get
underway at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April
11.
Charismatic
Renewal In Atlanta
“It was wonderful . . .a beautiful thing,” said Dr. Joseph Horvath about
the recent meeting of Atlanta Catholics interested in charismatic renewal.
Dr. Horvath, a professor of economics
at Georgia State University, said that the
meeting, which lasted almost four hours,
was devoted to prayer, song and witness.
One guest, from Milwaukee, related how
he had been healed of arthritis after
hands had been laid upon him at a
previous charismatic meeting.
In all, about 75 persons attended the
meeting, held at Immaculate Heart of Mary
Church. Included in the group were three
-A report by the Ad Hoc Committee
for Implementation of the Study
Priestly Ministry.
on
-Discussion on whether to replace the
spring general meeting of the bishops
with regional meetings.
sisters from Marietta, four monks from
Conyers and two local priests, Frs. John
Martell and Pat McCormick.
Fr. Martell celebrated the eucharistic
liturgy which concluded the meeting. Fr.
McCormick offered the homily in which
he discussed the place of the Blessed
Mother in the charismatic movement. He
recalled that the charismatic movement in
the Atlanta area began on the feast of the
Annunciation.
The charismatic movement, also called
the pentecostal movement, is geared to
spiritual renewal through intensification
of life in the Holy Spirit, sometimes
manifested through extraordinary
phenomena like healing and speaking in
tongues.
Units of charismatic renewal have
begun in Austell, Conyers, Jonesboro,
and Marietta, as well as Atlanta.
The Atlanta meetings are held every
Thursday at 7:30 P.M. at IHM Church
and are open to any who wish to attend.
Dr. Horvath invites those interested in
further information to call him at his
office: 577-8167, or his home: 631-0294.
Fr. McCormick may be reached at
767-7857.
FR. MCCORMICK
THE FOOD FESTIVAL 1 * 1 *”*™**
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Msgr. Kiernan To Hoist The First Fork
Msgr. R. Donald Kiernan, pastor of St. Jude’s Church, will officiate at the
opening ceremony of the Atlanta International Food Festival on Sunday, April
9, at 1:30 P.M. at the Atlanta Civic Center.
The Food Festival, an innovation this year, will be held in conjunction with
the annual Dogwood Festival. It is being co-sponsored by the Epicurean Society
of America and the Atlanta Restaurant Assn, as a non-profit function.
After the opening ceremonies, a “food tasting” will be held inside the Center
from 2:00 until 6:00. Featured will be froglegs from Lickskillet Farm, oysters
rockefeller from Crops & B, gazpacho soup from the Plaza Restaurant, chicken
& dumplings from the Plantation Restaurant and French pastries from the
French Kitchen. For the children: canapes and cookies from Ursula’s
International Cooking School.
In addition, a wide variety of wines and cheeses will be available for tasting
and four international chefs will be demonstrating their culinary artistry.
Vaughn Monroe will entertain during the afternoon, as will the Atlanta
Bagpipe Band and groups of Greek and Indian dancers.
Food Festival ticket books, consisting of one admission ticket and eight
tasting tickets, will be $2.50. Additional tasting tickets will be sold for 25c
apiece.
MAN OF GOOD TASTE
Msgr. R. Donald Kiernan
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