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PAGE 5—The Georgia Bulletin, August 22,15*74 CARDINAL KROL: NC UNITED WORSHIP IN A DIVIDED CITY - Kaiser Wilhelm Church is the scene of a united worship service opening the World Council of Churches’ Central Committee meeting in West Berlin. Included in the service was a review of the ecumenical movement from the WCC’s First Assembly in 1948. Representatives of 147 churches in 40 countries attended the First Assembly. The WCC today has 267 Protestant and Orthodox member Churches in 80 lands. Searchers’ Weekend Set An Interact Weekend for Searchers interested in team work activities on 1974-75 SEARCH weekends will be held at the Atlanta Baptist Assembly Camp August 30 through September 1. Those planning to attend should notify Sister Barbara Lee Walter, coordinator SEARCH of Atlanta, 6700 Riverside Drive, Atlanta 30328, by mail. SEARCH No. 10 has been scheduled for October 11 through 13. Registration forms are available at the above address. National Leadership Meeting Planned for Priests’ Group CHICAGO (NC) - The National Federation of Priests’ Councils (NFPC) has set a national leadership meeting here in early 1975 for heads of priests’ councils. The meeting, the first of its kind, will draw together presidents of local priests’ councils to explore possibilities for sharing ideas and to assist the priests “in their responsibility as significant leaders,” the NFPC said. It said that more than 50 council presidents have already indicated they will attend the conference, which has been tentatively scheduled for February 4-6 at the Cenacle Retreat House here. According to Father Nicholas Rice, chairman of the NFPC communications committee, one purpose of the meeting will be “to review the present picture of priests’ councils around the country as to their functioning, effectiveness, procedures of representation and issue orientation.” Another goal will be training in planning and management skills needed for effective leadership, Father Rice said. He added that meeting together will give new council presidents a chance to learn from the experiences of other councils, help councils to share ideas with one another, and help determine national priorities for priests’ councils. Father Reid C, Mayo, NFPC president, noted that “a man is elected president and given all the responsibilities . . . and then is given very little training in the nature of his job or assistance in carrying it out effectively.” The meeting will bring together “a wealth of experience” to help close that gap, he said. 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In a statement issued August 13 and titled “One Nation Under God,” the leader of the American bishops urged a new sense of honesty and integrity among America’s citizens and elected officials, but above all a new sense of accountability to God for one’s actions. “The glare of public revelation in a free press is as nothing compared to the light of truth in an all-knowing God,” he said. “Our first president, George Washington, explicitly declared that morality is impossible without religion,” he said. “The pledge of allegiance to our flag affirms that we are in fact one nation under God.” The NCCB-USCC president praised the American system “in which disclosures of improprieties can be made and appropriate remedies can be taken.” But he warned that that same system is one “in which officials at all levels may be tempted to value political loyalty over public benefit. Funds .. . may be spent very wastefully on appointees who receive large incomes for minimal service or on projects which serve too few people at too high a cost.” The cardinal reminded Americans, “It has been said that, in a democracy, the people often get the leadership they deserve.” He called for a renewed interest and involvement in government by all citizens and urged “a reawakening of moral sensitivity” at all levels of American life. But this awakening, if it is to succeed, he said, should begin “with the profound conviction that we are indeed one nation under God.” “May we never grow weak by forgetting that source of our unity and of our strength,” he said. Custome Built Decks or Patios • Pool Deck • Terrace • Patios • Steps • Foyers • Driveways Phone 325-9100 CONCRETE CONCEPTS Residential Work Put your Idea in Concrete Pebble Finish Concrete is our Specialty. FREE ESTIMATES TAYLOR’S DRUGS Phone 948-2588 Austell, Go. Benedictine Challenges Report Tying Alcoholism to Catholics GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (NC) - Alcoholism “has a lot more to do with biochemsistry than with Catholicism,” according to a priest who is involved with the problem. Benedictine Father Peter Sweisgood, assistant executive director of the Long Island Council on Alcoholism here, said he disagrees with a recent report by a task force of the U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare which indicated that Catholics are more likely to be alcoholics than Protestant or Jews. The report, issued in Washinton, D.C., said that: - There are relatively high proportions of drinkers among Roman Catholics: - Liberal Protestants drink like Catholics but they have fewer heavy drinkers; ^ jj LEADING CHARISMATICS IN SONG at their recent seminar were Barbara Cascio, Angie McPherson, Connie Roy and Dottie O’Connor. Charismatic Seminar Has Prayer As Theme BY JOLAINE KINGERY Attendance at the First Atlanta Catholic Charismatic Seminar marked it a success as over 150 persons, representing the 12 prayer groups in Metro Atlanta, came for the conference at Immaculate Heart of Mary School last Sunday, August 18. Prayer was the theme of the Seminar, and the principle address was given by Father George Maloney, S.J., professor from Fordham. A scholar and author with impressive credentials, Father Maloney’s instruction developed the idea that prayer is not an action, approaching God, as much as a state of being where one stops and lets God into his life which then results in his knowing, loving, and praising God. Following the principle address, participants were invited to select one of the five Teaching Seminars to attend. Father Tom Fidelis from the Trappist Monastery F.R. Reid Mooney's Opticians 475 Peachtree, N.E. Phone: 876-3053 conducted a seminar on St. John’s Gospel, “The Farewell Discourse”; Father Anthony Delisi, also from the Trappist Monastery, gave an instruction on “The Eucharist and Charismatic Renewal”; Father George Maloney expanded on “Difficulties in Prayer”; Dr. Lee Krauss focussed on the importance of “Spiritual Relationships, How To Relate On a One To One Basis” and Charles Mueller held a seminar on “Growth in Leadership” for those who are leaders in the various prayer groups. The five-hour program also included a period for song and prayer, a refreshment break, and then concluded with celebration of the Eucharist. Mueller, leader of the Immaculate Heart of Mary prayer group, stated the main purpose of the Seminars (more will follow) is teaching and also bringing together the various prayer groups in the Atlanta area to be a more cohesive group which could better respond to particular needs of the Church in Atlanta. - Conservative Protestants have the largest percentage of abstainers and the lowest proportion of heavy drinkers; - Jews have the lowest proportion of abstainers and a very low proportion of heavy drinkers. The report also said that the incidence of alcoholism is lower among those who attend church frequently whatever their denomination. Father Sweisgood said that the experience of the Long Island Council on Alcoholism simply does not bear out those findings. “We have not found the connection between alcoholism and religion that this report would imply,” he said. Father Sweisgood said that there has been a study in Europe of the amount of the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase which occurs in people of different ethnic groups, (The enzyme performs a function whereby the body can eventually convert alcohol to carbon dioxide and water. Generally, a higher level of the enzyme means a lower effect of alcohol. “The people around the Mediterranean have great numbers of this enzyme,” he said, but as the researchers went north through Europe into Scandinavia and the British Isles, the amounts of alcohol dehydrogenase grew less and less. “Alcoholism in Europe follows exactly the same geographic pattern,” he said. “Of course, the biochemical factor is only one factor in alcoholism.” He said that the Irish “found a religious solution (to alcoholism) in Ireland - the Pioneer movement - but the Pioneer never really took in the United States. 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