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Vol. 12 No. 28
Thursday, August 15, 1974
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Black Sisters’ Conference
Holds National Meet Here
BY CHRIS STARR
ATLANTA - The National Black Sister’s Conference (NBSC), a
coalition of black nuns, convened here to discuss the emerging role of
black women in the Catholic Church and the problems encountered by
poor blacks in the United States.
Sister Mary Shawn Copeland, O.P., executive director of the NBSC,
spoke about the new attempts at “self determination for black Catholics”
and the organization’s efforts to help educate the black nun about the
issue of being black and Catholic.
“Over-all,” she said, “religious
women are protected from the reality of
women who are in oppressive situations
and the amount of emotional and
psychic pressure they undergo.”
The Conference, whose membership
includes nuns dispensed from their
vows, began in August, 1968, with a
membership of 164 black sisters.
Concentrating on the uniqueness of
being black, Catholic and American the
Conference helped promote black
vocations to the religious life and urged
the redistribution of black sisters to
black schools, communities and other
institutions of the Church.
Dr. Mazetta Klanigan, a research
analyst working on prison reform, spoke
to the 30 women present at Atlanta’s
PAROLE CHAPLAIN
Sheraton Biltmore on the “explosive
situation” in U.S. prisons. She
emphasized that the waiting process for
people awaiting trial in prison is “a
crucial period” that can drag on for
months and urged the sisters to work
for speedy and fair trials.
The NBSC, representing over 200
black sisters in the United States, is
currently studying ways for their
organization to develop regional
programs that will investigate and help
alleviate conditions of injustice for the
imprisoned and those on welfare.
Dr. Klanigan said she hasn’t seen “a
happy person in prison yet,” and asked
the sisters, how the prison system
“could have gotten so bad, if we still
have Christian men and women
populating this country.”
Carolina Priest Murdered
COLUMBIA - Father Jarman B.
Casey, 38, was buried Aug. 5 after being
discovered by police to be a murder
victim.
The police arrested Francis Lewis
Fr. Casey
Atlanta Families Host
Visiting South Americans
BY JOLAINE KINGERY
Forty four South American students arrived in Atlanta on Tuesday,
July 30, to spend three days in homes with Atlanta families to learn more
about the American way of living and American culture.
Quito, Ecuador, is where most of these young Catholics come from
although one was from Chile and one was from Paraguay. Ranging in age
from 16 to 21, they are part of the Cardinal Spellman Student Exchange
which has been in operation for 13 years. Father John Porter, Salesian
Director of Vocations at Don Bosco College in Quito is director of the
program.
Arriving in Atlanta from Miami, the
students will also visit Louisville,
Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, Boston, New
York, Washington, D.C., and Disney
World before returning to Ecuador in
October. In each of these cities, the
students will stay with Catholic families,
mostly those with teenagers, who feel
they also benefit from the exchange.
Herb Farnsworth, Christ the King,
and Carol Martin, Immaculate Heart of
Mary, were in charge of arranging the
host families in Atlanta. These included
Barbara and A1 Purdy, Judy and Bill
Caman, Sharon and Paul Lang, Jean and
Dave Guinee, Anna Mae and Nick
Castricone, Murice and Avery Grainger,
Gini and Nick Belluso, Jean and Joe
Ryan, Jean Dawkins, Jolaine and Bill
Kingery, Bernice and Ed Trotochaud,
Mrs. James Weeks, Mary and William
Faber, Phyllis and Don Gareis, Mary and
Bob Callahan, Carol and Dave Martin,
Charlotte Brown, Flore and Roland
Fredette, Rita and Gordon Nash, and
Janet and Gordon Wadsworth.
Ms. Clara Maria Galarraga, chaperone
for the young people this year, wishes
to thank the families in Atlanta for the
kindness and friendship received.
WATER IS VALUABLE - Water is so valuable in Upper Volta that
there is always plenty of action around communal wells such as this one
which can still provide safe drinking water. The country, one of those in
the drought-stricken Sahelian zone, is among recipients of aid from
UNICEF which is conducting a relief drive. Catholic Relief Services is one
of the agencies helping to distribute food in Sahelian countries.
Franklin, 31, a parolee from the South
Carolina Correctional Institute (CCI)
where Fr. Casey served as chaplain.
Franklin had been staying at the priest’s
apartment.
Officers went to Casey’s apartment
following a telephone call from a New
Hampshire police department. That
department had been contacted by a
New Hampshire woman who said
Franklin had called her and told her he
was going to kill a priest in Columbia.
Police contacted every priest in the
area, but Fr. Casey could not be reached
at first. When they finally arrived at his
apartment, they found him dead. He
had been stabbed twice in the back with
a large knife and severely beaten with a
pipe, causing skull fractures, according
to police reports.
Franklin was found packing his
belongings and preparing to leave the
apartment.
Funeral services for Fr. Casey were
held at St. Joseph’s church here where
he had been ordained 12 years ago. The
Mass was con-celebrated by Bishop E.L.
Unterkoefler and many of the priests of
the Charleston diocese.
DEADLY DROUGHT -- Skulls of animals which died in the Sub-Sahara
drought lay beside branches of a dead thorn tree in Upper Volta, one of a
half-dozen African nations plagued by a severe shortage of water for six
years. Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia, head of the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops, has urged fellow bishops to hold special
collections for drought victims.
Official Appointment
Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan has announced the appointment of
Reverend Colman Haggerty, C.P. as Pastor of the Parish of Saint Paul of the
Cross to succeed Reverend Austin McKenna, C.P. The appointment became
effective August 1, 1974.
AUGUST 18
Second Collection Set
To Aid Drought Victims
In a letter sent to the clergy of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Archbishop
Donnellan has suggested that a second collection to aid the victims of
drought in Africa and India be offered on Sunday, August 18.
Explaining that the bishops of the United States have been invited to
take up special collections to aid the victims of famine, especially in
Sub-Sahara Africa, Archbishop Donnellan wrote, “This seems to me to be
a most worthy appeal. You are, therefore, invited to take up such a
second collection on Sunday, August 18, and forward the returns to the
Chancery during the following week.”
All funds from the collection will be
sent to the United States Catholic
Conference’s Catholic Relief Services
(CRS) division.
CRS has estimated that each day in
the countries of Sub-Sahara Africa tens
of thousands of children, weakened
after long months of malnutrition,
succumb to the ravages of disease.
“In Niger and Chad, particularly,
pitiful refugee camps now dot the
countryside as thousands upon
thousands of nomads, deprived of both
livelihood and sustenance by the death
of their cattle, plead for shelter and
food,” a CRS newsletter states.
Among the items most needed to
help the victims of the drought are milk,
baby foods, medical supplies, blankets,
shelter materials, cotton cloths,
transport facilities and tools and
equipment for well drilling, building
earthen dams, irrigation systems and
other projects to make more water
available.
Since June 1973, CRS has received
contributions for African drought relief
totalling almost $1,150,000. This
amount, which is now nearly exhausted,
has helped an estimated 245,000
drought suffers.
Another $3 million is needed as soon
as possible if the present CRS relief
effort in Senegal, Mauritania and Upper
Volta is to be continued.
CRS has sent three of its most
experienced American overseas relief
directors from neighboring African
countries into Ethiopia, Niger and Chad
where they are now arranging duty-free
entry for gifts contributions will make
possible. Transportation for the
necessary items is also being arranged.
Bulletins
VISITORS FROM ECUADOR were in Atlanta for a short stay with
local families. They came to Immaculate Heart of Mary Church were they
met their hosts.
Korean Bishop Sentenced to 15 Years
SEOUL, South Korea (NC) - A military court has found Bishop Daneil Tji Hak
Soun of Won Ju guilty of inciting rebellion against the government of President Park
Chung Hee, and sentenced him to 15 years in prison. Former South Korean President
Yun Po-Sun was convicted on the same charge but received a three-year suspended
sentence. Protestant minister Park Hyun-Kyoo and Kim Dong-Gil, a history professor
at Yonsei University, also were sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. Dr. Kim
Chan-Kook, dean of Yonsei University’s theological college, received a 10-year
sentence. Reports from Seoul say Bishop Tji was transferred from a hospital to a
prison upon his conviction.
Resignation Reaction
WASHINGTON (NC) - Religious leaders around the country reacted soberly and
sadly to the resignation of Richard M. Nixon from the presidency of the United States.
But they also expressed a strong belief that Americans have learned the lessons of
Watergate and will now move toward reconciliation and a new tone of justice and
morality in government. Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia, president of the U.S.
Catholic Conference, noted that the political profession is “one that must always be
based on ethical and moral principles.”
Bishop Blasts IRA
LONGFORD, Ireland (NC) - A Catholic bishop has branded the violence of the
Irish Republican Army counterproductive, harming the Northern Irish Catholics the
IRA professes to protect. Bishop Cahal Daly of Ardagh and Clonmachios conceded
that the leadership of the IRA “cannot be defeated.” He added: “For every year in
which they are militarily undefeated, the welfare of the very people they claim to be
liberating is set back perhaps 10 years.” Northern Irish Catholics, he added, may be
forced by the violence into emigrating.
Bishop for Baton Rouge
WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope Paul has named Auxiliary Bishop Joseph V. Sullivan,
54, of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., bishop of Baton Rouge, La. He has also named
Msgr. Kenneth A. Angell, 44, chancellor of the Providence, R.I., diocese to be
auxiliary bishop of that See. Bishop Sullivan succeeds retired Bishop E. Tracy in the
Baton Rouge diocese. The appointments were announced here by Archbishop Jean
Jadot, apostolic delegate in the United States.
New Sacramentary Ready
WASHINGTON (NC) - The new sacramentary, or altar missal for priests, is now
available at Catholic book stores across the country, it was announced here by the U.S.
Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy. The sacramentary, the result of 10 years of
gradual reform of the Mass, provides the official English translation of the Latin
Roman Missal published in 1970 by the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship. It
contains all of the official prayer texts needed by the priest celebrant at Mass.
11,000 Norway Catholics
OSLO, Norway (NC) - Latest figures show that there are 11,100 Catholics in
Norway. They constitute 9.4 percent of Norway’s so-called dissenters, that is, those
who do not belong to the Lutheran state church. Norway’s total population is about
four million.