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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, September 14,1978
VALENCIA, Venezuela - Archbishop Luis E. Henriquez of
Valencia has taken sharp exception to government efforts at
birth control, saying the country needs more people, not fewer,
to exploit its abundant resources properly.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua - National Guard troops raided the
Salesian Fathers’ high school in Masaya, allegedly searching for
arms, threatened to kill several priests and two students, and
caused extensive damage to the building in a shootout with
rebels who came to defend the priests.
WASHINGTON - An anti-gun control group has urged
Catholics to boycott church collections and Catholic schools to
protest the U.S. Catholic Conference’s support for gun control.
The Citizen’s Committee to keep and Bear Arms urged Catholic
gun owners to instead send their money to Catholics for
Christian Political Action - a lobbying group which among
other things opposes gun control.
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VATICAN CITY - The third general assembly of the Latin
American bishops in Puebla, Mexico, this October will be
concerned with man, “but this concern will be framed in the
spirit of the Gospel,” said Cardinal Eugenio de Araujo Sales of
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Hungary’s Catholic bishops have
released a pastoral letter naming abortion, violence and nuclear
arms as the three main threats to human life facing their people
today.
WASHINGTON - Eighty-two national groups, including
more than half a dozen major Catholic organizations, have urged
the Senate to pass the Humphrey-Hawkins full employment bill
without “crippling and extraneous amendments which are
designed to cripple or destroy this legislation.” The groups
specifically opposed an amendment setting a goal of zero
percent inflation by 1983.
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican daily, L’OSSERVATORE
ROMANO, has criticized the planned execution of a Texas
woman through the use of a lethal injection. The woman, Mary
Anderson, was convicted of murder and sentenced to die
through an overdose of sodium pentathol. Backers say such a
method of execution is more humane than others currently in
use.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- ‘The call for solidarity with the poor
and oppressed echoes in our lives,” said more than 1,000
members of male and female religious communities at the end
of their meeting. The focus of the first joint meeting of the
Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) and the
Conference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM) was oppression
and injustice in the Third World and in the United States.
WASHINGTON -- Catholic and Jewish leaders in the United
States praised Pope John Paul I for calling the security of Israel
a key guarantee for a Middle East peace. They said the pope’s
statement, made Sept. 6, may be the first time a pope has
specifically referred to a need for Israeli security.
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VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul I told the nun who gave
him his pectoral crucifix that he wears the inexpensive gift
“because it is simple and because the cross without Christ is too
heavy to carry.” Many bishops wear pectoral crosses encrusted
in jewels and without the corpus, or representation of the
crucified Christ.
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ROME - Republican Rep. Robert K. Doman of Los Angeles,
who made separate trips to Rome to be at the funeral of Pope
Paul VI and the Mass marking the beginning of Pope John Paul
I’s papacy, issued a plea on behalf of Soviet Jewry shortly after
t'le inaugural Mass.
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‘Long Search’ For World’s Religions
AN INDIAN HOLY MAN (above)
and Black Christians in Africa are
among those encountered by host Ron
Eyre on “The Long Search,” a
13-segment series focusing on religion
throughout the world premiering
September 16 on WGTV (Channel 8)
and September 22 on WETV. (Channel
30). Both Public Broadcast System
stations will air the programs at 9 p.m.
BY MICHAEL MOTES
If a proverbial stone has been left
unturned in the area of religions of the
world, it’s certainly not from the lack of
trying on behalf of Ronald Eyre.
Eyre is a British playwright and stage
director who spent three years travelling
more than 150,000 miles through 14
countries to discover what religion holds
for people in today’s society.
The result is ‘The Long Search,” a
13-part, hour-long series beginning on
Saturday, September 16, on WGTV
(Channel 8) and on Friday, September 22
on WETV (Channel 30). Both Public
Broadcast System stations will air the show
at 9 p.m. Subsequent programs will air on
the same days, i.e., Fridays and Saturdays
on the two stations.
Eyre was surprised when he was asked
to work on the series because of his lack of
a theological background. In attempting to
briefly describe what “The Long Search” is
about, Eyre said:
“I guess you can say that the series is
about the pupil, not about the teacher. In
other words, the emphasis is about the
search, not about the answer. This is not a
study in the history of theology, but a
series of encounters with men and women
who are living their faiths now.”
The premiere episode is entitled
“Protestant Spirit U.S.A.” and was filmed
in Indianapolis, Indiana, where Eyre talks
with clergy and members of three very
different Protestant churches: the Baptist
Temple, a 7000-member fundamentalist
congregation; North Methodist Church, a
liberal mainline parish; and Mount Vernon
Baptist Church, a black service-oriented
community.
“Protestantism is an impulse to keep
things moving,” Eyre says, “and anyone
who builds a shrine round an impulse and
claims to have kept it still and caught it is
deluding himself.”
Peter Montagnon, the former Head of
Radio and Television for the Open
University in England, is the producer of
“The Long Journey,” which was funded by
a grant from the Xerox Corporation to the
Public Broadcast System.
Catholics will be the subject of the
eighth program in the series. “Rome, Leeds
and the Desert” finds Eyre attending a
High Mass celebrated by the late Pope Paul
VI in St. Peter’s and visiting with a convert
to Catholicism who lives with her family in
Leeds, England.
The Catholic segment also focuses on
the Little Brothers of Jesus, an order
dedicated to replicating in their lives the
humble life of Christ. The Monastery of
Saint Anselmo and the Abbey of
Montserrat are also highlighted in the
program.
Other segments in the series are
“Footprint of the Buddha” (Buddhism in
Sri Lanka); “The Romanian Solution”
(Orthodox Christianity in Romania); “Way
of the Ancestors” (Toraja primal religion in
Indonesia); “The Chosen People” (Judaism
in New York, London and Jerusalem);
“330 Million Gods” (Hinduism in India);
“There Is No God But God” (Islam in the
Middle East); “Land of the Disappearing
Buddha” (Buddhism in Japan); “Zulu
Zion” (Traditional and Independent
Christian Religion in South Africa); “A
Question of Balance” (Buddhism and
Taoism in Taiwan); “West Meets East”
(Alternative lifestyles in California), and
“Loose Ends” (Reflections on “The Long
Search.”)
The series was developed by Cultural
Information Service, a New York-based
ecumenical resourcing agency. Their
discussion guide is being distributed to
Catholic educators in the September issue
of RELIGION TEACHER’S JOURNAL,
published by Twenty-Third Publications.
In addition, a series of seven bulletins
for viewer use are being offered by Cultural
Information Service, P.O. Box 92, New
York, NY 10016.
The Church In Kenya--Part Two
BY FATHER
RICHARD A. KIERAN
One of the major
contributions of the Church
to the development of the
country has been its schools.
Many of the leaders in the
struggle for independence
were educated in Catholic
schools. Since independence
the schools have come under
the control of the
government. However, there
appears to be a good
relationship between the
Church and state in the
educational field. Religion
may be taught in the schools
and the Church tries to
prepare teachers for the task
through in-service programs.
The parish clergy maintains
close communication with
the schools.
Education is now
compulsory up to the fourth
grade. Another grade is to be
added each year up to the
twelfth grade. Attendance
varies very much depending
on the economic
development of the area, the
weather and the need for
young hands to help at the
“shamba” (the small plot of
land the family cultivates).
Facilities are very poor,
except in very developed
areas. Much attention is being
given to in-service training for
the teachers and teaching is
highly regarded as a
profession. It was interesting
to observe modern math
being taught in mud-walled
school.
Church-sponsored
programs of social services
and health care were more
sophisticated than I had
expected to find. For
example,, the assistance being
given 200 crippled young
people, from kindergarten
through high school, in the
Nyabondo Rehabilitation
Center, where my sister is a
lay volunteer, is remarkable.
With a staff consisting almost
entirely of non-professionals,
the Center provides physical
therapy, orthopedic aids,
education, occupational
therapy and a home for these
children. In addition, a
mobile clinic serves the
crippled children of the
region.
The mission hospital at
Nyabondo is poor by our
standards. However it
provides basic general and
maternity medical care for
the area. In addition it has an
excellent nursing school. One
parish we visited was
sponsoring a home for orphan
boys and girls, a program of
foster homes for other
orphans, a trade school for
those unable te complete a
high school education and a
village community for the
elderly.
I was particularly anxious
to meet with the directors of
the U.S. Catholic Relief
Service in Kenya. In light of
much recent criticism of
CRS, I was anxious to find
out what was happening in
the field. I had a delightful
meeting with Mr. Jack
Matthews, who is the
Director of CRS for Kenya.
Their main focus is a
maternal-child health
program. Through 260
centers throughout a * the
country, many of them not
sponsored by the Catholic
Church, CRS provides
post-natal medical care,
nutritional education and
food supplies for mothers and
children from one to five
years. In this way assistance is
being given to 90,000
children annually at a time
when good nutrition is
critical for their future
development. CRS is the
largest program of aid in
Kenya, which is not direct
assistance from some foreign
government. I was impressed
not only by the extent of the
effort, but also by the
independence from
interference either by the
U.S. Government or the
Kenya Government which
CRS has maintained.
I also met with Father
Carlo Capone, an Italian
Consulata Father who is also
a medical doctor. He is the
director of CRS for
Sub-Sahara Africa. I spoke
with him regarding the
effectiveness of CRS in the
development of people as
opposed to simply providing
band-aid relief. In effect, his
response was that in face of
starvation there is no
band-aid relief. He explained
the almost insurmountable
difficulties which exist in
simply trying to get aid to the
people who need it. For
example, in some of the
desert areas in the north of
Kenya a woman might have
to spend two days traveling
on foot to and from the
center where relief is
available. So, to get this aid
she must make an enormous
sacrifice.
The Catholic Church is the
largest religious denomination
in Kenya (18% of the
population of 13 million in
1977). The Church is
experiencing the pangs of
rapid growth (280% in 25
years). Its vital signs are good
and it seems ready to come
into its own as a truly African
expression of Catholic
Christianity.
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