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PAGE 2 — The Georgia Bulletin, November 30,1972
Missioners in Chile
Protest U.S. Policy
TEENAGE MINISTERS OF
EUCHARIST - Dan Meyer of North
College Hills, Ohio, and Rosie Laughlin
of Northern Hills, Ohio, distribute Holy
Communion at a CYO Mass in the
Cincinnati Archdiocese. They are among
the first teenage extraordinary ministers
of the Eucharist in the United States. At
Dan’s right is Father William Krumpe,
assistant CYO Director and at Rosie’s
right is Tom Crumm, a student at Mount
St. Mary Seminary who also was named
a Eucharistic minister. (NC Photo)
Raleigh Priests Criticize
Bishop Selection Process
RALEIGH, N.C. (NC) -
The Raleigh Priests’
Association has criticized the
process by which Father
Joseph Howze of Asheville
recently was chosen to be
auxiliary to Bishop Joseph
Brunini of Natchez-Jackson,
Miss.
In a resolution, the group
said the process of choosing a
bishop should be changed
along the lines suggested by
the Canon Law Society,
which has urged more
participation by lay and
clerical groups in a diocese
before the ultimate choice is
made by the Vatican.
The priests’ group praised
Father Howze, the third
black Catholic bishop in U.S.
history, as a “good priest”
but added that “we must
regret the process by which
such appointments take
place.”
“Lack of consultation,
secrecy of the whole process
and the appointment of a
man to a diocese and a
situation totally different
from his own and with which
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he has no familarity, signify
to us a manner of choosing
bishops which is badly in
need of overhaul,” the
resolution said.
The resolution went on to
state that the priests’ protest
against the manner in which
Father Howze was elevated to
the episcopacy was similar to
the protest of the Michigan
Federation of Priests’
Councils against the way in
which Father James S.
Sullivan was chosen Auxiliary
Bishop of Lansing earlier this
year.
“The admiration of those
priests for the nominee,
Father Sullivan, is similar to
our admiration for Father
Howze, a good priest and
pastor,” the resolution
declared.
“Our concern is rather for
the Church - for the process
that produces the most
qualified man for the post of
bishop. We think an open
process which invited broad
assessment, a critical
judgment from many sides,
search for the best kind of
gospel leadership in the only
acceptable way in a
participatory society of
advising the Holy See on the
appointment of bishops.
“We urge once again that
the Church adopt the detailed
plan of the Canon Law
Society of America for the
selection of bishops.”
SANTIAGO, Chile (NC) -
U.S. missionaries in Chile
have called on U.S. religious
leaders to promote a new
U.S. foreign policy purged of
big business interests.
About 80 Catholic and
Protestant missioners here
charged in a letter that
private U.S. investors are
“pivotal in causing suffereing
and oppression in Chile and
Latin America.”
The missionaries noted
that during the 60 years large
U.S. copper companies
operated in Chile, they and
other U.S. firms took out of
this country profits of $7.2
billion and invested only a
little over $1 billion. They
also blamed profit-making by
foreign investors as partially
responsible for Chile’s present
foreign debt of $3 billion,
one third of the total gross
national product.
The Marxist government of
President Salvador Allenda
last year nationalized all large
concerns owned by foreigners
in Chile.
The missioners reported
that such copper companies
as Anaconda and Kennecott
and other U.S. businesses in
the past 60 years “collected
earnings that surpass the
current total commercial
value of Chile.” They said
that even after nationaliza
tion, U.S. corporations
control the economies of
many poor nations by their
hold on markets,
technological know-how and
financing.
“It is a new strategy but
the purpose is the same: to
maintain U.S. economic
domination of Latin America
and the developing world for
the benefit of U.S. business at
the expense of the poor.”
“The U.S. government, in
turn, is largely controlled by
the corporate elite. Only big
business can afford extensive
lobbying activities . . .to
pressure for domestic and
foreign legislation which
favors its special interests.
And those politicians who are
not wealthy must sell
themselves to big business in
order to wage expensive
campaigns,” the missionaries
asserted.
“It explains why the U.S.
government supports
repressive dictatorial regimes
in Bolivia and Brazil, while it
becomes at best tolerant of
Chile, precisely when Chile
seeks to build a more just
society by becoming
independent of U.S. business
domination.”
The 4,500-word document,
signed by the Missioners’
Committee on International
Awareness in the name of 80
priests, nuns, ministers and
laymen, offered a
comparision between what
they see as capitalist tenets
and “the Gospel’s
judgement.”
“We have become aware of
the contradiction between
the Lord’s Gospel and many
of the actions of the United
States, which are harmful to
the people of Chile
economically, politically,
culturally, and spiritually.”
“We as Americans
recognize our responsibility
to end these injustices and
also recognize the urgent
need for the U.S. churches to
exercise their responsibility as
the conscience of the
nation,” they added.
“The present international
economic system is a
situation of sin, and as such it
must be rejected. If Christians
do not effectively opt for the
poor and oppressed by
entering into their struggle,
then the Church cannot really
claim to be a sign of the
liberating presence of Christ
in the world.”
Saying “the very values
upon which the capitalist
system is built” are
contradictory to the Gospel,
the U.S. missionaries listed
what they considered its
failings:
-The system depends on
consumption and pours out
“superfluous goods for those
who already have too much,
while it ignores the real needs
of the poor because they have
no buying power.”
-It measures a person s
worth “by the size of his
income,” in contradiction to
“the Christian view of man
which measures worth by
personal integrity and
commitment to others.”
-The system stresses
individualism “to the
detriment of the Christian
values of community,
solidarity and cooperation.”
-It pursues profit-making
“at the expense of human
suffering to both the worker
and the public.”
The radical Gospel of Jesus
Christ stands opposed to a
capitalist world. There must
exist instead a system based
on truth and justice,
solidarity and cooperation,
one built on true human
needs and values.”
The missionaries told U.S.
religious leaders to undertake
an action course and “provide
ethical and spiritual
leadership by being found on
the side of the poor and
oppressed.”
“It must be the type of
action which results in the
self-serving rich leaving the
pews if they refuse
conversion.”
The letter outlined steps
toward changing the present
trend in U.S. government and
private overseas investment
and policies.
‘The people of the
United States must be
allowed to see how they
profit from the present
international capitalist
system-the raw materials
they consume and the low
prices made possible by the
cheap labor of their brothers
around the world . ..
“The Church has to
liberate itself from alliance
with the rich and the status
quo,” the letter continued.
It said the churches must
use political, economic, legal
and moral means “to exert
pressure on business and
government.”
Retired Bishop Goes to Florida
To Return to Pastoral Duties
BURLINGTON, Vt. (NC)
— Most retired senior citizens
spend a winter in Florida to
forget about work. But
76-year-old Bishop Robert F.
Joyce is going- there to forget
about retirement.
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The former head of the
state-wide diocese of
Burlington, Vermont, has
agreed to do parish work to
assist Monsignor Rowan
Rostatter, pastor of
Assumption Parish, Pompano
Beach.
Their mutual friend,
Archbishop Coleman F.
Carroll of Miami, knew that
Father Rostatter needed
help during the winter and he
invited Bishop Joyce to
consider the assignment.
“I’m looking forward to
the opportunity,” the bishop
said. “I was in parish work
from 1923 to 1957, the year
I became bishop.”
GAINESVILLE
It was while serving at St.
Peter’s Parish, Rutland, Vt.,
that he was named auxiliary
bishop in 1954 to the late
Bishop Edward F. Ryan
whom he succeeded in 1957.
His pastoral work also
includes three years as an
Army chaplain in World War
II.
He was succeeded in
January by Bishop John A.
Marshall. Since then, Bishop
Joyce has made his home at
St. Joseph’s Home,
Burlington, but has kept
busy, especially on weekend
ministry, replacing clergy
who were ill or on vacation.
Rural Ministry,
Apostolate Studied
Programs for the rural apostolate and ministry in the
north Georgia missions were the subjects of a two-day
program held recently in Gainesville and coordinated
by Father Robert Berson of Newnan. The special
session, entitled “Consulation on Ministry and
Mission,” involved three pastors and two associate
pastors form the Atlanta archdiocese.
The purpose of the program
was to explore better methods
of preaching the gospel in rural
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areas of the northern sector
of the state. Father Les
Schmidt addressed the two
dozen priests attending on
“Models for Ministry.” Two
Protestant ministers also
presented their views on the
rural apostolate. Also
attending the program were
Glenmary, LaSallette,
Redemptorist and Oblates of
Mary Immaculate priests.
Archbishop Thomas A.
Donnellan met with the
group to share some of his
vision for the expansion of
the Church in north Georgia.
A second session is planned
for February to discuss prac
tical programs to serve rur
al areas.
SAN DIEGO -- A young boy finishes his breakfast
on the sanctuary step during a folk Mass at San Diego’s
Christ the King church. Ignored at the pulpit is Father
John Crillo, S.J., associate pastor of the Church.
66 Gay Nineties 99
At St. Joseph’s
BY ELLEN GIBNEY
“The important thing to
know about this play is that
we’re striving to achieve
comedy through serious
drama.” So spoke Brian
Reddy, director of St.
Joseph’s latest dramatic
venture, ADRIFT IN NEW
YORK, to to performed
December 2 and 3 in the gym
at 8 p.m. Admission is $1.00.
A meoldrama of the Gay
Nineties, written by Addison
Aulger, ADRIFT IN NEW
YORK is the story of Nellie
Weston (“the flower of the
family”). She is a farmer’s
daughter who has dreamed of
the grandeur and thrill of
becoming a great singer in
New York City. Nellie, to be
played by Turtle Gunn, is led
astray by Francis Desmong
(John Schmidt). He is the
typical moustachioed villain,
suave and debonair.
Other characters in the
play are Jack Merriwell
(Howard Bach), “a poor but
honest man.” He and Nellie
have been sweethearts since
childhood. There is also Silas
Weston (to be played by Bob
Dalton), a New England
farmer and the widowed
father of Nellie. Although he
is a strict disciplinarian, he
loves both Nellie and her
younger sister Martha. Chris
Ellsberry will play the role of
this “dutiful daughter.”
Another character is Aunt
Sarah, Silas’ spinster sister,
who has a sharp tongue, and
never fails to speak her mind.
She will be portrayed by
Ellen Gibney. And finally,
there are the colorful
characters of New York’s
Bowery district, on the lower
East Side.
Tryouts for parts in
ADRIFT IN NEW YORK
were open to the entire
student body.
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