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PAGE 3—The Georgia Bulletin, February 13,1975
Unity Week in Monroe
ACOLYTES Gary, Greg and Tommy Clark lead the
way as members of the Jerry Connell family carried
the Mass offerings toward the altar at St. Anna’s
Roman Catholic Church, Jan. 25. The procession was
part of the church’s Church Unity Week observance.
Brings Good Response
/'EDITOR ’S NOTE: Frank Ellis
is managing editor of the Walton
Tribune, in which this article
originally appeared.)
BY FRANK ELLIS
Fr. Michael Hogan, pastor
of St. Anna’s Roman Catholic
Church in Monroe, had given
much thought a short while
ago as to how he and his
parishioners might best
observe the ecumenically-
oriented, Church Unity Week.
Purpose of the week,
originated some 70 years ago
by Franciscan Friars of the
Atonement in Graymoor,
N.Y., is to foster unity of all
persons under the
Fatherhood of God. The
founder of the unity
movement, Father Paul, was
an Episcopalian at the time.
He later became a Roman
Catholic priest.
Fr. Hogan came up with
what he felt was a somewhat
novel idea. Each of the nights
of the week-long observance
he decided to celebrate Mass
and invite his parishioners to
attend, with a twist.
He asked those attending
the first night to then invite
someone to come with them
the second night. Hopefully,
they in turn would then
invite a partner and a
snowballing effect could be
produced.
his public ministry. In an
attempt to end the Unity
Week on a high note, Father
Hogan thought of the idea to
use the three brothers of the
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Clark
family as acolytes in the
service. The fourth “brother”
was portrayed by the boys’
father Tom. He and sons
Gary, Greg and Tommy sort
of subbed for the four
brothel’s of the gospel, Father
Hogan explained.
“If Christ used brothers in
His work, we ought to
continue His work as
brothers,” the pastor noted.
Another part of the service
saw members of the Jerry F.
Connell family bringing forth
the offerings, bread and wine
for the service. Jerry, his
wife, Peggy, and children
Cindy and Cronan took part.
Fr. Hogan closed his
remarks by suggesting that
the Unity Week observance
might serve as a model for
similar observances
throughout 1975, a year
which Pope Paul VI has
declared to be a “Holy Year,”
a year dedicated especially to
prayer and penance.
Fr. Hogan suggested
observances such as , a
“Reconciliation Week, a
penance week, a scripture
week, a youth week, and
others.”
The five who attended on
Monday (Jan. 20) were asked
to contact five more. On
Tuesday 15 persons attended.
Attendance increased a bit
more but did drop off toward
the end of the * week.
Approximately 30-35
attended Saturday’s closing
Mass.
“There was a visible
growth and I feel the idea was
a success,” Father Hogan
stated from the pulpit
Saturday night.
At Saturday’s service, the
pastor spoke about the fact
that Christ had used four
brothers, Peter, Andrew,
James and John as he began
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Highlight Pastoral Council
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6 Declaration of Interdependence’
Sought hy Fr. Theodore Hesburgh
< , - 4
The Archdiocesan Pastoral
Council has approved
recommendations dealing
with youth ministry and
personal renewal. The action
came at a meeting last
Saturday at the Cathedral of
Christ the King. The council,
which operates as an advisory
board to Archbishop
Donnellan approved the
recommendations which were
presented by two of the four
standing committees of the
council.
The Religious Education
Committee requested that
among other things the
archdiocese expand programs
offered to youth so as to
bring about a total youth
ministry and that parishes
secure the services of a
qualified youth coordinator
wherever possible.
The recommendations of
the Personal Renewal
Committee were also
approved by the council. The
recommendations in part
urged: lay leadership
formation, diocesan-wide or
regional renewal conferences
(such as the renewal
conference last January) and
better use of the liturgy in
bringing about renewal.
The council also voted on
two recommendations put
forward by the Executive
Board of the Pastoral
Council. The first was a
motion to discontinue
separate deanery-level
meetings and to return to
four general diocesan-wide
meetings each year. It was felt
that the four standing
committees drawing as they
do from all the deaneries
provide the sort of exchange
which might be missing in a
large general meeting. The
recommendation was passed.
The second recommenda
tion was one which
recognized that many
parishes during the Charities
Drive go over their assessment
and that this overage remains
in the parish. Given the
serious nature of the world
food crisis and the knowledge
that many of our brothers are
dying of hunger each day the
council recommended that
these parishes dedicate 50
percent of this overage to
Catholic Relief Services. On a
roll call vote 22 delegates
voted for the resolution, four
voted against and one
delegate abstained. The
recommendation was passed.
The archbishop in his
concluding remarks spoke of
the maturity of the reports
and recommendations of the
committees. He commented
that they reflected the work
and attitudes of the Pastoral
Council. The archbishop said
that he was pleased that
Father Adamski, Director of
the Vocation Commission
had briefed the council on
the archdiocesan vocation
picture. He hoped that the
council might begin to
provide a climate so that it
may be a treasured and
valued option - a joyous
fulfillment and an honor in
the family or parish for a
young man or woman to
choose the religious life.
The meeting closed with a
Liturgy celebrated by
Archbishop Donnellan and
Fr. Richard Kieran.
/ — —
Letters Letters
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BY JERRY FILTEAU
WASHINGTON (NC) - Today a
“Declaration of Interdependence” must
succeed the United States’ 200-year-old
Declaration of Independence, Holy Cross
Father Theodore Hesburgh told a panel
representing the nation’s Catholic bishops
here.
Speaking as a witness at a
congressional-style hearing Feb. 4, the Notre
Dame University president, who is also
chairman of the Overseas Development
Council, told a panel of six bishops and 15
consultants that human survival depends on
interdependence, that it is a factor in “every
current discussion” of food, fuel,
environment, development, trade, or
monetary policy.
Interdependence “haunts the current
detente between the great powers, the search
for lasting peace in the Middle East,” Father
Hesburgh said. “Even the poets allude to it:
‘No man is an island’ - the inspiring theme of
John Donne.”
Father Hesburgh’s testimony came on the
second day of a three-day hearing on “Liberty
and Justice for All” at the Theological College
of the Catholic University of America here
Jan. 3-5. The hearing was the first of six
sponsored by the National Conference of
Catholic Bishops (NCCB) as part of the
national consultation process the bishops have
engaged in to provide the program for their
major bicentennial observance, a national
conference on liberty and justice in 1976.
The first day of the hearing was devoted to
a theological basis for social justice concerns,
the second day to global hunger, and the third
to the role of women in the world.
significance are not global, requiring,
therefore, a global solution as well. I offer a
small list: war and peace, human
development, population, food, energy,
unemployment, trade and commerce,
communications, crime, arms control, drugs,
environment, literacy, the use of the seas, the
resources of the seabed, atomic technology,
monetary systems, agriculture, air and sea
transport, health.”
He cited as an example the repercussions of
the Arab-Israeli conflict, which years ago
would have been considered a local struggle
but today disrupts economies around the
world and risks “sparking a global conflict.”
The problem of world hunger today, Father
Hesburgh said, provides a focus for the issue
of interdependence “not because it is the
most important problem facing mankind -
man does not live by bread alone - but
because it is present, urgent, and itself
interdependent upon other global problems,
such as human rights, development,
population, fuel, pollution, agriculture, trade,
monetary balances, and a host of others
relating totally to the future of life on this
planet.
Citing his own experiences, Father
Hesburgh depicted a world in which hundreds
of thousands in underdeveloped countries are
starving. But the statistics, he said, cannot tell
the story: “People starve and die, not
numbers.”
Despite the precarious multiple-crisis
situation today, Father Hesburgh added, “I
am not a prophet of gloom and doom ... If I
had to characterize my own position, it would
be one of Christian and cautious optimism.”
ERA Column . . .
Dear Editor:
I would like to respond to
the letter written in The
Georgia Bulletin from Dorris
Holmes pertaining to Teresa
Gernazian’s recent column on
the ERA.
First, let me say that I am
very thankful that Teresa
cares enough about her fellow
human beings to speak out
about the ERA. We need
more people like her.
I was totally unaware of
the ERA, but thanks to
Teresa I am learning more
every day. I think that the
“silent majority” has been
“silent” too long.
To Doris Holmes, I say,
“Me thinketh thou protest
too much.”
My thanks and gratitude
are to you, Teresa. Keep up
the good work.
MRS. BETTY E. BENTLEY
ATLANTA, GA.
Dear Editor:
Mrs. Gernazian’s column in
the January 23 issue of The
Georgia Bulletin opens with a
quotation which contains an
inherent redundancy. Justice
Sharp states that she is “in
favor not only t>f equal rights
for them (women) bu some
protections too.”
Surely no person who
upholds the Democratic
principles upon which this
country is founded can desire
more protection than a
constitutional guarantee that
equal rights will be denied no
person on the basis of sex.
This protection is the basis
for the Equal Rights
Amendment. Perhaps the
word Ms. Sharp was looking
for was “privileges” rather
than protection. Today, in
this country, intelligent and
successful women have
proven that they desire no
privileges which will legally
inhibit their development as
human beings.
Mrs. Gernazian’s
identification of Phyllis
Schlafly as “an attorney’s
wife and mother of six”
speaks for itself. Her
importance to the column’s
message lay, I would think,
only in her position as
Chairman of the National
Stop ERA, rather than in the
status of her husband and the
number of children she has.
I was sorry to learn that
the National Council of
Catholic Women opposed the
ERA. By so doing, the
Council has aligned itself with
such groups as the John Birch
Society - groups which give,
at best, only superficial lip
service to the principles of
equality and Democracy.
Fortunately, I know many
women involved in the
Council of Catholic Women
organization who do not
support its opposition to the
ERA.
Mrs. Gernazian notes that
each state will have to amend
150-250 laws with the
passage of the ERA. I am
unfamiliar with these figures,
but if accurate, they
represent the extent to
which, in the eyes of the law,
women are considered second
class citizens. Some women
may lack the necessary
confidence to reject the
dubious “protection” now
granted by the law. For my
own self, however, I must
support passage of the ERA,
and agree with Gloria
Steinem that “a pedestal is as
much a prison as any small
place.”
TERESA DENNON
TUCKER, GA.
Dear Editor:
wrote? Would it be practical
to collect some of his work
for publication in a booklet
to be offered in the diocese,
perhaps through the paper?
Speaking to the global food problem,
Father Hesburgh stressed that a sense of
interdependence on the limited planet Earth
has given a new focus to the problem of
hunger.
KATHERINE JUSTICE
FAIRBORN, OHIO
“In fact,” he said, “there are few serious
human problems today whose impact and
He argued that in addition to the often
remarked “evil and greed” of man there is also
“with God’s grace - something almost never
mentioned in these studies - an enormous
reserve of good will to be mobilized.”
Men have the ability to meet the crises even
of a complex, intricately interdependent
world, he said.
Hooray for Dorris Holmes’
excellent, informative letter
on the Equal Rights
Amendment! I certainly agree
with her, Teresa Gernazian’s
column on ERA was
irresponsible, even though
Mrs. Gernazian may do good
ones at times.
Also, I wonder what per
cent of the active
membership of the National
Council of Catholic Women
and other opponents of ERA
are employed outside the
home? Or have been sexually
discriminated against in
employment, credit, etc.?
Even later compensation
cannot take away the painful
memories of injustice.
Again we may need to
walk in another’s shoes to
understand.
VIRGINIA MILLER
ROSWELL, GA.
Fr. Vincent Connors . . .
Dear Editor:
Thank you for your
beautiful editorial on “My
Favorite Priest,” Fr. Vincent
Conners. Fr. Vincent was a
rare saintly person. Those
who knew and loved him will
never forget his tireless
devotion to the church and
God’s children.
I am a Catholic convert
and I recall how logical the
Roman Catholic Church
always seemed to Fr.
Vincent. He was able to help
others see that logic, and find
contentment.
I would like to ask, what
will happen to the many
inspired
things Fr. Vincent
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