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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, September 27, 1973
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Sacred Heart, Milledgeville
PASTOR FATHER DENIS
DULLEA VISITS with parishioner
Thomas Lamar at Central State
Hospital. Lamar, a retired railroad
worker, once made headlines when the
(BULLETIN Staff Photos)
railroad refused him a promotion
because of his skin color and a state
senator came to his aid. He entered the
hospital when caring for himself
became a problem.
Priest Asks Laicization
ROCKFORD, Ill. (NC) -
Father Francis J. Bonnike,
50, president of the National
Federation of Priests’
Councils (NFPC) from 1970
until last December, said he is
seeking laicization and that
he intends to marry.
Father Bonnike had sent to
priest friends a letter making
known his decision. A
spokesman at the Rockford
diocesan chancery said that
Father Bonnike “has
proceeded according to
Church regulations.”
In the letter Father
Bonnike said he would like to
continue in the ministry and
wants to be a “good member
of the Church.”
At the time of his
resignation as president of the
NFPC, the 27-men executive
board of the organization,
which claims 131 priests’
councils and senates in its
membership, said that Father
Children’s Liturgy
A special liturgy, designed
specifically for children, will
take place each Sunday at St.
Patrick’s parish in Norcross.
The project is an apostolic
action service by the men and
women in the parish who
have taken part in the
Cursillo movement.
The purpose of the special
program is to devise scripture
lessons and prayers suitable
to the age group during the
Liturgy of the Word period of
each Sunday’s Mass.
Following the special portion,
the children, ages five
through nine, will then rejoin
the parish community during
the offertory of the Mass.
The specially designed
liturgies will be held at the 9
and 11:30 a.m. Masses.
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Bonnike had conducted his
nearly three years as NFPC
president with forceful
leadership “combined with an
extraordinary generous
availability and spirit of
friendship.”
During his time as
president of the NFPC,
Father Bonnike led the
federation through several
controversies.
-A hearing for the 19
Washington, D.C. priests
suspended for having publicly
questioned Pope Paul’s
encyclical condemning
artificial birth control;
-A request for open
meetings of the National
Conference of Catholic
Bishops and inclusion of
Religious and lay auditors.
That objective was attained at
the spring 1972 bishops’
meeting;
--The development of a
monthly publication,
PRIESTS:' USA;
-Opposition to a Vatican
decree making it more
difficult for priests who
wished to marry to be
relieved of obligations as
priests.
Father Bonnike, a native of
Elgin, Ill., was ordained in
1952. He served as
administrator and pastor of
three parishes in the
Rockford diocese, as school
superintendent and as a
member of the diocesan
urban task force. He helped
found the Rockford priests’
Senate in 1967 and served as
its first president.
BY CHRIS STARR
It’s such a lively place that
it’s hard to imagine Sacred
Heart Church in Milledgeville
as a centenarian. Yet next
year the church will celebrate
its 100th anniversary.
The historical plaque on
the lawn tells the tale. In
1850 Sacred Heart was
formed as a parish. In 1874
the present church structure
was built, and in 1889 the
first resident priest arrived.
The present pastor is
Father Dennis Dullea, who
speaks fondly of his
parishioners and his town. At
his invitation the Baldwin
County nutrition program is
“in residence” on the second
floor of the parish center.
Sacred Heart parishioners
often lend their personal
assistance to the program,
sometimes by driving
someone without
transportation to the
supermarket or the dentist.
Parishioners have also
raised funds for clothing and
food for the needy. Recently
they took 50 children to the
Shrine Circus.
Nearby is Georgia College,
the alma mater of Flannery
O’Connor, the well-known
fiction writer and author of
such works as “Wise Blood”
and “A Good Man is Hard to
Find.” Miss O’Connor, who
was a member of the parish,
died in August of 1964 of
lupus, a disease for which no
cure is known.
Her home is not far from
the church and is still
occupied by her family.
Flannery O’Connor has
sometimes been considered a
“Catholic author.” Her works
place strong emphasis on
man’s need for grace.
Another famous personage
to reside near Sacred Heart
was the first black Catholic
bishop of the country, Bishop
Healy, who lived in
neighboring Jones County.
He was Bishop of Portland,
Maine, at the turn of the
century.
Georgia College has
recently been the scene for
dicussions about modern
Catholicism. Father Dullea
was invited to give a lecture
on the subject, and he recalls
happily the great respect and
attention he was given by the
majority of the students,
although he was heckled by a
LUCY AND EMY FERNANDEZ WERE TWO
YEARS OLD when Castro come to power in Cuba.
Their father, a Havana physician, was a leader in the
resistance movement against Castro. He was captured
and sentenced to life imprisonment. The girls have not
seen their mother or father since that time. Sixty-eight
Cuban physicians are members of the Milledgeville
parish.
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few for his stand against birth
control. Some of the students
later apologized for the
hecklers.
Father Dullea has been
quite active on the
speech-making circuit. He
delivered the baccalaureate
address at Eatonton High
School and he takes a regular
turn in giving the devotional
on local radio. In addition, he
spends every Wednesday at
the Juvenile Rehabilitation
Center in Milledgeville,
talking with the residents and
offering Mass for them.
Milledgeville contains a
“town within a town”:
Central State Hospital, which
offers a full range of
psychiatric and psychological
services to over 6,000
patients.
Of the many physicians
who live in Milledgeville and
work for the hospital, 70 of
them are Cubans who are
here while preparing to take
the state medical exam and
enter private practice. At
present they are deprived of
the chance of private practice
because of their alien status.
Of the 70 doctors, 68 are
members of the parish.
Cuban citizens who fled
their country after the
Communist take-over left
behind their homes and
belongings, their friends and
even family members. Many
families were broken up as a
result.
Visiting friends in
Milledgeville recently were
Lucy and Emy Fernandez,
who live in Miami Beach with
their grandparents. The girls,
now teenagers, were
separated from their parents
when they were still infants.
Their father was a Havana
physician who organized a
group to fight from mountain
outposts against the Castro
regime. He was captured and
is now serving a life sentence
in a Cuban prison. His wife,
the mother of the girls,
remained in Cuba so that she
could visit her husband in
prison, a privilege allowed her
only every 28 days. On that
28th day, Lucy and Emy
speak to their mother and
father on the telephone - a
practice that has gone on for
years now.
For many years Monsignor
Joseph Cassidy was chaplain
to the Catholic patients at
Central State Hospital. But
this past year he retired and
was succeeded by Father
William Greene, a Vincentian
priest who is working on his
master’s degree in
psychology.
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- Oct. 2
FACE OF A CENTENARIAN ~ Sacred Heart
church in Milledgeville will be 100 years old next year.
PLAQUE THAT TELLS THE TALE sits on the
front lawn of the church.
Congress on Worship
Names Key Speakers
MARIE MULVENNA
Key speakers for the
November Congress on
Worship have been
announced by leaders of the
Congress, the fourth of its
kind to be held in the Atlanta
province which comprises
Atlanta, Savannah, North and
South Carolina. The Congress
is sponsored by the Bishops
of Georgia and the Carolinas.
Utilizing the Congress’
main theme “We Believe - Let
Us Pray,” the four main
speakers will be Father Alfred
McBride, O. Praem.,
Monsignor J. Warren Holleran
and Bishop Rene Gracida.
The Congress will be held at
the Savannah Civic Center
from November 8 to
November 10.
Father McBride, author
and educator, is director of
the National Forum for
Religious Educators. He is a
member of St. Norbert
Abbey in De Pere, Wisconsin,
and his previous assignments
include that of professor at
Catholic University. He has a
diploma in catechetics from
Lumen Vitae, Brussels, and is
the author of numerous
books, among them the
popular church history text
for junior high schools, “The
Pearl and the Seed.”
Monsignor Holleran is
director of Vallombrosa
Retreat Center and professor
of sacred scripture of St.
Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo
Park, California. Ordained in
Rome in 1952, Monsignor
returned to Rome as spiritual
director of the North
American College in 1962. He
assumed direction of the
Retreat Center in 1968.
Bishop Rene H. Gracida,
Auxiliary Bishop of Miami, is
an architect and liturgical
expert who holds a degree in
architecture and was active in
the profession until his
ordination in 1959. A native
of New Orleans, he served in
the U.S. Air Force during
World War II. Bishop Gracida
was named chancellor of the
Archdioiocese of Miami in
1968 and was consecrated a
bishop that same year. He has
collaborated on designs for a
number of churches.
combining this architectural
training with his background
in liturgy. He also serves
Miami as vicar general and
archdiocesan treasurer.
Father McBride will open
the Congress with his lecture
“Believing in Jesus,” and will
present the third lecture,
“The Church at Prayer.”
Monsignor Holleran will
speak on “The Prayerfulness
of Jesus” and Bishop Gracida
will discuss “The Church at
Prayer Today.”
Registration forms for the
Congress are being sent to all
parishes in the Atlanta
Archdiocese. Past Congress
practice has called for at least
three official participants for
each parish community.
Father McBride
Monsignor Holleran
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