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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, January 11,1979
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SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - Brazilian Cardinal Paulo Evaristo
Aras of Sao Paulo asked the military government for a general
amnesty for political exiles and prisoners, which he said is
necessary for a return to democracy. He praised the action of
outgoing Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel, an army general,
granting amnesty to 128 Brazilians previously exiled. But he
said it was not enough.
*****
BONN, WEST GERMANY - Many German-speaking
Catholics have been establishing parishes in the Soviet Union,
according to a report by KNA, West German Catholic news
agency. In the past 30 years, thousands of German Catholics
founded parishes, mainly in the central Asian portion of the
Soviet Union, added KNA.
*****
WASHINGTON - Christopher Dunne wants his fellow war
resisters in South Africa to know that there is hope for them in
the United States. In November, Dunne became the first white
war resister from South Africa to be granted political asylum by
the U.S. government.
SALISBURY, RHODESIA (NC) - Father Martin
Holenstein, a 44-year-old Swiss missionary who disappeared on
New Year’s Day while on his way to say Mass at a rural church,
was found dead at a black reservation in Rhodesia. He had been
shot to death.
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ERIE, PA. - Despite a blinding snowstorm which
threatened to hamper the event, Bishop Michael J. Murphy has
been installed as coadjutor bishop of Erie. Present for the
ceremonies were Cardinals John Krol of Philadelphia and John
Dearden of Detroit and 35 other other bishops.
*****
DUBLIN, IRELAND - The Irish government is
proposing to finance research into the Billings or natural
method of family planning and to organize a general family
planning service, based on the method, through eight regional
health boards.
*****
ST. PAUL, MINN. -- The state of Minnesota paid
hospitals, doctors and clinics nearly $400,000 for
abortion-related procedures in 1977, The Catholic Bulletin has
revealed in the first of a planned series of articles on data
obtained from the state Department of Public Welfare.
*****
VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II named Monsignor
Franciszek Macharski archbishop of Cracow, Poland, the pope’s
own archdiocese until he was elected to the papacy last
October. Archbishop-Elect Macharski, a native of Cracow, has
been rector of the archdiocesan seminary there since 1970.
WASHINGTON -- A labor union hopes to forge a coalition
of women’s movement supporters and right-to-lifers in support
of female workers at American Cyanamid Corporation who say
they had to be sterilized to keep their jobs. A central question
is: Should a company exclude women of childbearing age from
working in an area where a substance potentially harmful to
unborn children is present -- even though the federal
government says the level of he substance is safe?
Martin Luther King—
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will begin with a wreath
laying ceremony at the King
gravesite at 9 a.m., followed
by an ecumenical service at
Ebenezer, which will be
broadcast on WAGA-TV,
Channel 5, beginning at 10
a.m. Anti-war activist, the
Reverend William Sloan
Coffin, Pastor of Riverside
Church in New York City,
will be among those
participating.
Following the service, a
march from the King crypt to
the State Capitol will take
place. Singer Stevie Wonder
will headline a benefit
concert at the Omni at 8 p.m.
to conclude the day’s special
events.
The United Nations
Special Committee Against
Apartheid and an
International Tribute to Dr.
King will begin at the World
Congress Center at 10 a.m.
January 16. Ola Ulsten, Prime
Minister of Sweden; Secretary
General Kurt Waldheim, and
Ambassador Andrew Young
will be among those leading
the UN delegation for the
special Atlanta meeting,
which is the first to be held in
Atlanta and is expected to
draw delegates from 18
countries.
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WOMEN’S GUILD
PRESENTATION ~ Irene Rinkel,
president of the Women’s Guild at All
Saints Catholic Church in Dunwoody,
presented a check for $1,500 to Father
Joseph Beltran at the Guild’s recent
annual “Bid’n’Buy Luncheon.” The gift
to the parish was raised by various
projects of the organization and is to be
used for furnishings at the church,
which began construction at a wooded
site near the intersection of Mt. Vernon
Road and Jetts Ferry Road in October.
Christian Unity Prayer Week
GRAYMOOR, N.Y.
(NC) - Church officials
involved with the annual
Week of Prayer for Christian
Unity have selected a theme
aimed at reversing what they
say are current trends among
some churches toward
‘ ‘neo-conservatism. ’ ’
The theme, “Serve One
Another to the Glory of
God,” is based on the fourth
chapter of St. Peter’s first
epistle, where Christians are
told to reject their divisions
and join in service as an
expression of unity in Jesus
Christ.
This year’s observance
begins on Jan. 18. The theme
was selected by the
Graymoor Ecumenical
Institute, Graymoor, N.Y.,
and the National Council of
Churches’ Faith and Order
Commission.
The week-long
observance is the successor to
what was called the Chair of
Unity Octave, begun in the
United States by Father Paul
Wattson, founder of the
Atonement Friars, in 1908.
Atonement Father
Charles LaFontaine,
co-director of the ecumenical
institute, said Vatican
Council II brought about the
change whereby “the
solipsism (self-centeredness)
of the past and the name of
the observance itself have
disappeared among Roman
Catholics.”
Charismatic Speaker Set
Transfiguration Catholic Church, in cooperation
with Christ Church Episcopal, will host Harold Hill in an
evening of song, praise and fellowship on Tuesday night,
January 30, at the temporary church, 3365 Canton
Highway (Route 5), Marietta, Canton Comers Shopping
Center.
Hill, born in New Hampshire in 1905, was, until his
retirement, president of the Curtis Engine Company in
Baltimore. During World War II he invented the ground
energizer unit used on every American airfield for
furnishing power to start airplane engines. As a man he is
a blend of imp and genius who takes great delight in
applying the jargon of his trade to describe his
experiences with Jesus.
Today Harold stands as a unique figure in the
charismatic movement. After emerging from a lengthy
bondage to alcoholism he has become noted as a colorful
and often hilarious teacher of the deep truths of
Christian experience. All are invited to the program,
which begins at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call
Transfiguration at 974-2304.
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Peter Day, ecumenical
officer for the Episcopal
Church, noted similar changes
in Protestants, who “are
facing the fact that the
divided followers of Christ
are not speaking with the
clear and urgent voice needed
to call the peoples of the
world to live as neighbors
with equal claim to the
necessities of life and to work
together toward a just and
sustainable society.”
Atonement Father
Thaddeus Horgan, co-director
of the ecumenical institute,
said he sees the week of
prayer as a chance for
Christians to “come out of
the closets of their narcissism,
fears and self-imposed guilt”
to serve one another for the
sake of God’s plan for the
world.
From throughout the
United States, members of
the order, which entered the
Catholic Church under the
leadership of the former
Episcopalian, Father Wattson,
also commented on the week,
which is observed by most of
the world’s Christian
churches.
Atonement Father
Patrick J. Cogan of
Lumberton, N.C., said the
week reminds Christians that
“The call of all to serve one
another is a further summons
to strengthen the bonds
which already unite them.”
And Atonement Father
Kenneth Stofft, staff officer
for the Commission on
Ecumenical and Interreligious
Affairs for the Archdiocese of
Oklahoma City, found reason
for optimism about the
future of the interfaith
movement.
“If the goals of renewal,
service and celebration
continue to be pursued in
dialogue with other
Christians, with other world
religions and with the whole
of humanity, (Christians)
may be assured that their
calling will be fulfilled in
accord with the Creator’s
image, the Spirit’s will, and
the revelation of the Word
Incarnate, Jesus Christ.”
WASHINGTON (NC) -
During a visit to a bookstore
in Peking last November,
Jesuit Father Simon Smith
noticed a large group of
people lining up to buy a
copy of a particular book.
He couldn’t see the title
and, discouraged by the
heavily political tone of the
store’s inventory, walked to a
more general book store
down the street.
There, he saw another
long line of people waiting to
buy the same book.
This time he saw the
title -- “Conversational
English, Volume Two,” the
text used with Radio Peking
English classes.
This incident - which
took place before the
announcement of the
normalization of diplomatic
relations between the United
States and China ~ is one
example of the openness
toward the West that Father
Smith found during an
18-day visit to China in
November.
Father Smith said he
was “startled” by the
openness he saw in China and
especially by the openness he
found in conversations with
university students, teachers
and administrators.
FATHER SMITH,
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
of the U.S. Jesuit Missions,
visited China as part of a
tourist group put together by
the University of San
Francisco, a Jesuit school. He,
followed up his visit to the
mainland with a three-week
visit to Taiwan.
Father Smith discussed
his trip in an interview in his
office in Washington. His trip
was particularly well-times;
he was in Peking during the
flurry of activity involving
wall-posters supporting
human rights and in Taiwan
when the normalization of
U.S.-Chinese relations was
announced.
He said he believes the
press overestimated both the
size of the crowds at the
Peking human rights
demonstrations and the
bitterness of the Taiwanese
reaction to the new
relationship between the
United States and the
mainland.
That reaction was
generally “low-key,” he said.
“People were genuinely
deeply hurt.
“Everybody knew it was
coming,” he said, “but they
were hurt by the abruptness
and the lack of sensitivity.”
JUST ABOUT
EVERYONE HE talked to on
Taiwan asked, “What do they
say about us on the
mainland?” Father Smitli
said, adding that he had to
tell them, truthfully, that no
one he talked to on the
mainland ever mentioned
Taiwan.
Father Smith said he
was “not euphoric” after
seeing the mainland.
But, he said, he saw in
China a nation that has set
priorities. “The first priority
is to feed everybody, the
second is to house everybody
and the third is to clothe
everybody,” he said.
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He said that when
people ask “the very
legitimate question, ‘But at
what cost, what human cost?’
I have to say ‘At what human
costs the expansion of U.S.
capitalism?’ I see the effects
of that in the slums of Latin
America.”
Father Smith said he is
concerned that China, in its
effort to modernize and
strengthen relations with the
West, may lose some of its
self-reliance and become too
dependent upon outside
economic interests.
“I’m afraid that a lot of
things that I see that are of
value will be traded off,” he
said.
Father Smith said he
would have been firmer about
asking questions about
religious freedom if
normalization had been
announced before his trip.
He said there are still
120 Jesuits inside China,
possibly in prison. He said he
heard in Taiwan that some
men and women Religious
were working in an unbrella
factory in the Zikowei
section of Shangai, but he
said he heard nothing about
such people when he passed
through the area.
He said if missionaries
ever go back to the mainland
it will be to provide “specific
services” such as instruction
in English or scientific
expertise, not to build
churches and baptize people.
He said that, in general,
missionaries today should
bring Christian values and
“let happen what will. If
they’re attractive, we should
be willing to share them,” he
said.
FATHER SMITH MET
WITH university people in
four cities and with ministry
of education people in
Peking.
He said he and others in
his group interested in
education submitted written
questions to education
officials the night before their
meeting and received detailed
answers, including a copy of
the entire curriculum for
primary and middle schools,
the next day.
The early education is
traditional, with an emphasis
on “reading, writing and
arithmetic.”
He also said there was
less political emphasis in
classes then he expected; he
CHINESE SCHOLARS ARRIVE - The first
contingent of scholars and students from the Peoples
Republic of China are pictured on their arrival at
Dulles International Airport near Washington. The
students will study English at the Jesuit-run
Georgetown University before going to other United
States universities for scientific and technical studies.
Father Smith said he
argued about religious
freedom with a tour guide at
a historic Buddhist temple.
He said he noted that there
was no one worshipping at
the temple.
IN CHINA, THE
GUIDE SAID, quoting from
the country’s new
constitution, “There is
freedom to practice religion
and freedom to practice
atheism.”
But, Father Smith
countered, the guide had not
finished the quote, which
goes on to say “ .. . and the
freedom to propagate
atheism.”
“There is no freedom to
propagate religion,” Father
Smith said.
But he said he found no
hostility toward religion
among the students he met.
Their attitude was more “We
do not need that kind of
thing,” he said.
Father Smith said he
discussed religion in the
mainland with many of the
226 Jesuits, including 25
Americans, on Taiwan.
About 90 percent of those
priests had come to Taiwan
from the mainland decades
ago and look at the Church in
China in the past, while he
must look at the Church in
China in terms of the future,
he said.
said one student told him his
class had studied Charles
Dickens’ “Oliver Twist”
without discussing the social
analysis intended by Dickens
himself.
Father Smith said he
was told university students
are picked on the basis of
academic achievement, an
attitude variously described
as “political consciousness,”
“right-thinking” and
“correct-mindedness” and
physical health.
FOR STUDENTS
GOING overseas, he said,
political consciousness
becomes the first standard to
guard against “brain-drain”
and insure that the students
return to China.
Father Smith discussed
his trip in a series of
anecdotes and often
commented that he did not
know how to interpret some
of them.
For example, he said, he
visited a department store in
Peking and saw items such as
household goods, clothes and
radios on the first two floors.
But the third floor sign
said that area was for foreign
visitors only.
Curious, he went up,
where he found expensive
jade pieces and other luxury
items for sale to the tourist
trade, but apparently not to
the Chinese.
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