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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, July 21,1977
‘Panicky’ About Children?
DAYTON, Ohio (NC) - The world has become “almost
panicky” about children, according to a priest-demographer who
says contraception, sterilization and abortion are “symptoms of
a trouble world” which have accompanied “the growing pains of
the human race.”
Divine Word Father Anthony Zimmerman of Nanzan
University in Nagoya, Japan, promotes natural family planning
at conferences around the world. A theologian, population
expert and founder-director of the Arnold Family Center with
offices in Tokyo and Nagoya, the priest believes natural family
planning “allows parents freedom, does them no harm, and is
in harmony with their deep human aspirations and lofty
dignity.”
Interviewed in Dayton, where he conducted a public meeting
in conjunction with the Cincinnati-based Couple to Couple
League, Father Zimmerman outlined the changes in attitudes
which have accompanied the rise in abortion, contraception and
sterilization.
For thousands of years, he said, childbirth was warmly
welcomed “because high mortality was always a threat to the
survival of the family and tribe.” The priest still feels large
families are “a healthy sign” but as one of 10 children he
conceded that “not all parents are inclined to want to bring up
10.”
As a result of the sudden social changes in the world,
“planned parenthood has been pursued precipitously, almost
compulsively, and with a vengeance,” Father Zimmerman said.
When conception control failed, abortion epidemics followed.
“There was the Pill binge, now waning in the U.S.; an IUD
binge, condom age, but always with abortions ... Now we have
the sterilization age,” he said.
According to the priest, “Things happened all of the sudden
and the race was surprised, acting too fast.”
Father Zimmerman foresees a time, however, when natural
family planning will be the “normal course for a large part of
the human race, after the race graduates from this kindergarten
era of family planning -- the marriage kindergarten of
contraception, abortion and sterilization.”
In Japan, the priest said, abortions have been legal since
1948, and “mothers who have had abortions are now telling
their daughters who marry not to follow their example.” He
believes the daughters are likely to take their mothers’ advice
and “the next generation will routinely teach natural family
planning.”
Japanese doctors, nurses and educators are interested in
learning natural family planning “as an alternative to methods
that end in abortion,” and about four million Japanese couples
are practicing outdated family planning methods, Father
Zimmerman said. He hopes to establish a national Family Life
Foundation to “fill the gap.”
Speaking of contraception, abortion and sterilization, he says,
“The thinking of man is basically against these methods, at least
if there is another choice.”
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POWERFUL PRELATE - Cardinal
Humberto Medeiros of Boston shows
good form as he swings a hammer on a
strength test machine at Paragon Park,
Nantasket Beach. He jokingly looks
skyward after driving the indicator
one-third of the way up the column.
The cardinal was entertaining children
at the park.
Joint Catholic-Episcopal Parish
NORFOLK, Va. (NC) -
The Catholic diocese of
Richmond and the Episcopal
Diocese of Southern Virginia
have agreed to establish a
joint parish in Norfolk.
Episcopalian and Catholic
parishioners will share as
much of a common church
life as possible, while
retaining their own forms of
worship and sacramental
ministry.
Catholic Bishop Walter F.
Sullivan and Episcopal Bishop
David S. Rose, who
announced the agreement,
said they hope the
ecumenical parish will open
Sept. 1. One priest from each
diocese will be assigned to the
parish.
The decision to form the
parish followed an 18-month
study by a joint committee of
the two dioceses. At the
outset, the parish will be
known as the Anglican-
Roman Catholic Church in
Tidewater. The congregation
will choose a formal name
later.
The parish will not cover a
specific geographical area,
like most Catholic parishes,
but will be designated as
“extra-territorial” to allow
“free membership by both
Roman Catholics and
Anglicans who seek its
vocation of church unity,”
according to a summary
statement by the study
committee.
The committee report
called the new parish “a bold
venture of faith, since there
are several instances in the
United States where our two
churches share facilities, but
none is known to operate
entirely on this principle.”
Each denomination will
hold separate eucharistic
worship, but seek to hold as
many common devotional
and para-liturgical services as
possible.
Parish education will
center on adults, with the
religious education of
children family-centered and
home-based. There are “great
opportunities to work
together in Scripture
education, education for
Baptism, family life
education, education for
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parents,” the study said,
adding that each communion
would “take care to transmit
the history of the Church and
its own faith traditions.”
Bishop Sullivan said
membership would be limited
to about 100 families from
each communion and will be
open to regular members of
the Episcopal and Roman
Catholic communions “and
those seeking such regular
membership.”
The committee report said,
“Members would see the
fellowship in the shared
parish as a visible sign of the
unity which we believe God
wills for His people and
would revere this fellowship
while remaining in the
discipline of one’s own
tradition.”
The parish will worship at
the chapel of the James
Barry-Robinson Home, an
institution for adolescent
boys with home or family
disturbances, in the
Kempsville section of
Norfolk. The parish will take
over financial upkeep of the
chapel and its clergy will
serve as spiritual counselors
to the boys. It is expected
that new facilities will
eventually be found.
Bishop Sullivan described
the joint parish as a “really
exciting opportunity to make
ecumenism come alive in its
fullest possibility at this time
in our history.”
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BY DR. ELLEN L. BURNS
As you probably know, the
Division of Community
Affairs of Catholic Socii
Services is the sponsoring
agent for a chapter of the
Gray Panthers in Atlanta.
Maggie Kuhn, the founder of
the Gray Panthers, calls the
group a “movement” rather
than an “organization.” The
principal purposes of the
movement are to dispel the
myths of age-ism and to work
for needed social change
through legislative reform and
action. The group meets
every month on the last
Wednesday usually at the
Catholic Center; right now
they are planning some pieces
of legislation for the Georgia
Assembly that will benefit
aging persons in our state.
One of our Gray Panthers
died last month. Her name
was Mary Stolze; she was an
inspiration to all who knew
her. Mary served on the City
of Atlanta Community
Relations Commission with
Archbishop Donnellan. She
was recently admitted to the
Senior Citizens Hall of Fame
because of her significant
contributions to the
community.
I would like to share the
memorial statement read at
her funeral service at All
Saints’ Episcopal Church on
June 30. The presiding priest
read this statement by the
commission and the mayor
instead of a homily:
“In her declining years,
with eyes dimmed by time,
her heart beating strongly for
the future, Mary Stolze
seemed as if she would never
die. That’s how she appeared
to us, indefatigable and
indestructible. Her role as a
commissioner was not
‘played’, it was ‘earned.’
Perhaps more than any other
member, she strove to make
her appointment by the
Mayor meaningful and was
dedicated to the proposition
a :
Mary Stolze
that senior citizens should be
treated equally.
“She brought to us a sense
of shame; undaunted by
those who ignored her pleas,
she singularly set out to
change those things that she
could-with all the strength
she had, and she was strong!
It was not strength in arm, or
sinew, or limbs that Mary
had, but the strength of
conviction and fierce
determination to weather all
storms that proved to us the
depth of her commitment.
“Oftentimes she would
meet us when we arrived,
sitting in solitude until the
meeting began. Then she
listened actively until the
moment arrived for her to
speak. Her words were not
loud or forceful, but they
carried a message as vibrant as
thunder: ‘Why do we ignore
the elderly, the infirmed, the
poor, the powerless?’ We,
who deal in power, engage in
programs and serve on
committees, that somehow
seemed to exclude the
persons Mary ‘carried in her
heart.’
“Just as quietly as she
lived, she left us. She did not
die. She left us with the
shame of our weakness, the
incompleteness of our
concerns, the wastefulness of
our energies. Her demise,
perhaps, is a clarion call to
duty to accomplish those
things that need to be done.
“Peace comes to those who
work believing that their
labor has meaning. Peace
comes to those who fight for
what is right when the going
is tough, and there are no
rewards. Mary has earned her
peace; we have learned from
her that even in death, we do
not die.”
Would that every Christian
in Atlanta could leave such a
legacy!
CDA President Defends ERA Opposition
PLAQUEMINE, La. (NC) -
The national regent of the
Catholic Daughters of
America (CDA) has denied
the assertion that those who
do not support the Equal
Rights Amendment (ERA)
are indifferent to women’s
rights.
In the CDA quarterly
publication, SHARE, Mrs.
Winifred L. Trabeaux of
Louisianna said that the
assertion is a “red herring”
skillfully employed by ERA
proponents. She restated the
CDA position that federal
and state laws already
adequately protect the rights
of women.
“The ERA threat, to us,
has been such a serious and
imminent prospect,” Mrs.
Trabeaux said, “that we have
had to bend all our energies
at the moment to stave off
what we consider to be a
crusade against womanhood,
marriage, family and children
which has come dangerously
close to becoming a part of
our national Constitution and
subject to the wildest judicial
interpretation.”
The national CDA regent
compared the ERA situation
to the status of abortion and
said, “If the Supreme Court
twisted the 14th amendment
of our U.S. Constitution to
mean, at this late date, that
abortion is not at all the
killing of a human being, then
what on earth could happen
if the same court ever got its
hands on the proposed
ERA?”
She said that “once we
have disposed of ERA for
good, which seems possible at
this point,” CDA members
will “turn our attention to
the real issues of women’s
rights,” such as the widening
earnings gap between men
and women.
“Our ERA crisis has
diverted us temporarily from
an all-out effort to examine
and cure this injustice,” she
added. “Once we are free of
this dangerous threat to
women, then can we turn our
whole attention and all our
energies to a true solution of
the undeniable violation of
the rights of women under
the law.”
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