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Vol. 11 No. 1
Form 3579.to 202 East Sixth Street, Waynesboro, Georgia 30830
Thursday' January 4, 1973
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“WE’LL COME BACK -
Special Broadcast from Managua
SISTER ZITA HELENE (center) principal of Saint Joseph’s School,
accepts the certificate of accreditation from Dr. Peggy Steelman, (right)
acting chairman of the committee on accreditation. With them is Sister
Madeline, director of elementary education for the archdiocese.
Accreditation Awarded
Two Catholic Schools
BY MARIE MULVENNA
The following special broadcast was made by operator YN 1 HJ an American
member of the amateur radio network in Managua, Nicaragua, following the disastrous
earthquake there. The broadcast for the BULLETIN was made through the cooperation
of W. Allen Peacock, a parishioner of Sacred Heart Parish, and long active in radio
operations. The message is not quoted verbatim as transmission is somewhat
problematic due to conditions in the city following the earthquake.
MANAGUA - YN 1 BROADCAST TO ATLANTA: Several girls’ Catholic schools in
the area were very severely damaged. One school which is run by sisters from San
Antonio was damaged very heavily. Another nearby Catholic school received heavy
damage.
At still another Catholic school in the area, the entire faculty of 14 brothers was
killed instantly. There is nothing left, nothing at all. The place, church and school, is
totally and completely demolished. The only saving part of the horrible tragedy here is
that it happened at night, when the students would not be there. Plus the fact of
vacation, none of the students were at the school but all the brothers died immediately
when the roof of the building caved in. No one is allowed in that area at all. It is
complete destruction.
The Catholic Church of Santo Domingo, which was completed about a-year and a
half ago after four years of continuous building, was badly hit. It is a gorgeous Church and
has huge, beautiful spires that can be seen for miles. They are today broken and
leaning over but have not yet completely fallen. The church is in shambles inside.
Still another church and school were levelled. There is not a thing left of it.
The downtown area is completely evacuated. The looting has stopped and things are
coming around to normal. We’re trying to get back some electricity and water.
We’ll come back. . .The Nicaraguans are a fine people and they’ll make it back fine.
It’s 85 degrees today, fair and breezy. Everyone is trying desperately today to get our
confidence back. We will do it.
Mr. Peacock also shared with the BULLETIN the first broadcast out of Managua
following the earthquake.
It was made at 10 a.m. the following morning.
Certain areas of the city are on fire, many of them out of control. Two of our four
hospitals have been demolished. The center of the city is also demolished. Deaths are
high; very high. The earthquake has caused serious damage everywhere. There is an
electricity and water problem and things are terribly hectic. There are quite a number
of deaths and more are expected. The U.S. Embassy here was completely flattened last
night.
Mr. Peacock told the BULLETIN that any communications out of the city were,
initially, provided by radio. Only those radio operators having an emergency power
supply were able to broadcast due to the complete shutdown of electrical supply in
Managua. The Nicaraguan operators have reached innumerable families in the U.S.,
relaying messages of relatives in Nicaragua at the time of the disaster. An attempt to
make direct radio contact with an operator in Britain was fouled up by atmospheric
problems and a U.S. operator then served as a relay and forwarded the Nicaraguan
message directly to England. There is no telephone contact yet available to Nicaragua
and all messages of any nature have been relayed out of the country via shortwave
radio operators.
BY MARIE MULVENNA
Two more Catholic elementary
schools in the Archdiocese have received
the coveted accreditation of the
Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools. Accreditation was awarded to
St. Joseph’s School, Marietta, and to St.
John’s School, Hapeville, at the 77th
annual meeting of the organization held
recently in New Orleans.
The Southern Association is a
voluntary, non-profit, non-governmental
regional accrediting organization, one of
six in the nation. It is composed of
public and private universities, colleges,
occupational institutions secondary and
elementary schools and has more than
9,000 member and affiliate institutions.
The actual process of accreditation at
the elementary school level is done by
state elementary school committees
consisting of volunteer educators
representing elementary schools, higher
education, and state departments of
education whose main interest is school
improvement. Their findings are
reported to the Commission on
Elementary Schools’ Delegate
Assembly, the group which accredits
institutions annually.
Father Daniel J. O’Connor, Secretary
for Education for the archdiocese, said
he was pleased at the addition of two
more schools to the accredited roster,
now bringing the total to six. Father
said the Priests’ Senate had voted in
1966 that all elementary parochial
schools work toward accreditation and
that this accreditation is the current aim
of all the 15 elementary schools within
the Archdiocese. He explained that all
the schools are affiliated with the
Southern Association and are presently
striving to achieve the accreditation
status.
In addition to the two new schools,
the Southern Association has renewed
the accreditation of four other
elementary schools in the archdiocese.
They are: Christ the King, Immaculate
Heart of Mary, Our Lady of the
Assumption and Sts. Peter and Paul in
Decatur. All four Catholic high schools
in the Archdiocese are fully accredited.
Attending the New Orleans session
were Sister Madeline Roddenbery,
director of Elementary Education for
Atlanta; Sister Martha Mary Whalen, R.
S. M., principal of Our Lady of the
Assumption; Sister Susan Bradley, S. N.
D., principal of St. Thomas More; Sister
Zita Helene Stimson, C. S. J., principal
of St. Joseph’s, Marietta.
Sister Zita Helene said the school was
“very happy” with the accreditation
and said much hard work by the faculty
and her predecessors at St. Joseph’s,
where she has been assigned just this
past year, “really did pay off.” Sister
added it was a difficult task to meet all
the requirements and the final results
were “much appreciated.” St. Joseph’s
is staffed by four sisters of St. Joseph of
Carondelet order, plus 11 lay teachers,
and has a student body of 409 in grades
K through eight. The school, which
opened in 1953, is also a member of the
Georgia Association of Independent
Schools.
St. John’s School in Hapeville is
staffed by four Sisters of Mercy of
Philadelphia, plus the principal, Sister
Rita, and has six lay members on the
faculty. The school, which opened in
1954, has an enrollment of 250
students.
Bombing Halt Called
‘Ray of Light’ for ’73
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul
VI said that news of the suspension of
the U.S. bombing of North Vietnam and
the resumption of peace negotiations is
a “ray of light” for the new year.
Sounding somewhat hoarse and tired
from a bout of flu, the Pope told a
crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Dec. 31:
“We do not want to pass up the
opportunity of showing you right away
the relief and hope that is ours, as it is
that of the entire world, at the news
which reached us yesterday afternoon
of the suspension of American bombing
in North Vietnam above the 20th
parallel and of the imminent resumption
of negotiations for a cease-fire and, we
ardently hope, of a just and stable peafce
in Vietnam.”
Hailing the news as a “ray of light,”
Pope Paul said the new development
“dissolves a bit the darkness that
threatened to bring 1972 to a sad close
and to open the new year on a
dangerous note.”
Appearing again on New Year’s Day
at his window overlooking St. Peter’s
Square, the Pope told the crowd in the
square: “We must desire peace at all
costs. It is now part of the indispensable
value of humanity and civilization.”
The Pope said that the desired peace
is “certainly not easy, especially when
such a great part of world economics
and the organizations of peoples is
based on armaments and criteria of
rivalry and power. . .Power must
become ever more a necessity in the
conscience of mankind. Then it will be
possible.”
True peace, the Pope said, is “only
attainable with the powerful and
paternal help of God.”
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ARCHBISHOP BERNARDIN distributes Holy Communion to his
mother.
OFFERATORY PROCESSION at the ceremonies installing Archbishop
Bernardin in Cincinnati.
Archbishop Bernardin Installed
Head of Cincinnati Archdiocese
ARCHBISHOP DONNELLAN
Arrives At Ceremonies
Fennessy Death
Thomas Fennessy, father of
Father James J. Fennessy of
Sacred Heart Church, Atlanta,
died on Christmas Day. Messages
to the family may be sent to:
Fennessy Family, Killnacarriga,
Newcastle Clonmel, County
Tiperrary, Ireland.
CINCINNATI, Ohio (NC) -
Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin was
installed as head of the Cincinnati
archdiocese in ceremonies at the St.
Peter in Chains Cathedral here.
After he received his pastoral staff
from Archbishop Luigi Raimondi,
apostolic delegate in the United States,
Archbishop Bernardin was applauded
vigorously by the Church leaders, civic
officials and 1,200 others who thronged
the cathedral.
Archbishop Bernardin, the eighth
Ordinary of the 151-year-old See of
Cincinnati, also was applauded
fervently at the conclusion of his
homily during the Ceremonial Mass, in
which he said:
“Proclaiming the good news means
simply preaching Christ’s Gospel. But
more specifically it means relating this
Gospel to the myriad situations in
which people find themselves each day.
Unless this connection is made between
the Gospel and daily life, religion will
become irrelevant and lose its power to
touch and transform the minds and
hearts of men.”
Attending the installation ceremonies
for the 44-vear-old former general
secretary of the U. S. Catholic
Conference and National Conference of
Catholic Bishops were Cardinals Terence
Cooke of New York, John Krol of
Philadelphia, Lawrence Shehan of
Baltimore, John Cody of Chicago, John
Dearden of Detroit, Patrick O’Boyle of
Washington, D. C. and John Carberry of
St. Louis.
Also in attendance were about 100
bishops including Archbishop Thomas
Donnellan of Atlanta, and several
government officials, including Sen.
Robert A. Taft of Ohio, Rep. William
Keating of Cincinnati, and Cincinnati
Mayor Theodore Berry.
In his homily, Archbishop Bernardin
stressed the need not only to preach
Christ’s word but to perform Christ’s
word in today’s changing world.
“The ministry of Christians-like that
of Christ Himself, is one of service to
God’s people,” he said. “We are
expected, therefore, to use our
resources in a way that will best help
people in their many needs.”
Archbishop Bernardin also noted that
the Church has left the period of
“euphoria” that followed Vatican
Council II and entered a “necessary”
period in which the Vatican II
principles must be implemented.
“It is inevitable that in such a period
that there should be a certain amount of
tension and sometimes even error,” he
declared. “The answer, however, is not
to retreat or to lapse into inaction.
Rather, as men and women of faith, we
must put our full trust in Christ and the
Church which continues His saving
presence among us until the end of
time.”
Archbishop Bernardin, born April 2,
1928, in Columbia, S. C., was ordained
on April 26, 1952 after studying at the
University of South Carolina, St. Mary’s
College of St. Mary, Ky., St. Mary’s
Seminary in Baltimore, and the Catholic
University in Washington, D. C.
He was ordained a bishop on April
26, 1966, his 14th anniversary as a
priest. From 1966 until his election as
USCC and NCCB general secretary in
1968, he served in Atlanta as auxiliary
bishop, vicar general and rector of
Christ the King Cathedral.
He was named the new archbishop of
Cincinnati-sueceeding the deceased
Archbishop Paul F. Leibold-last month
by Pope Paul VI.