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PAGE 3—The Georgia Bulletin, March 1,1979
She Has 17 Children And Job!!
PEORIA, m. (NC) -
Mary Ann Heinz is the
mother of 17 children and
director of the natural family
planning program for
Catholic Social Services of
the Peoria Diocese. She
knows firsthand the problems
of finding information about
natural family planning.
Mrs. Heinz said she has
heard the ideal family
described as two children, a
boy and a girl. When she
found herself passing that
“ideal” early in her marriage,
she recalled, “I said, ‘Please,
Lord, don’t pick on me again
so soon.’ I didn’t realize then
that he was being good to me,
that each child was making
our marriage even more
beautiful.”
During many of those
years, however, Mary Ann
and her husband Kermit
sought family planning
information. She remembers
all the books she read about
the rhythm method of
regulating pregnancies.
“There were times I felt
so tired,” she said, recalling
her pregnancies. “We had
begun to look for family
planning information after
the third baby. Then just
before the last two, I again
had reached another point
where I’d had enough, and I
again asked the doctor for
help. He advised me to get a
new book on rhythm, and I
did; it was a new edition, but
it contained the same old
information.”
It was then, after her
15th child was bom, that
Mrs. Heinz learned about
natural family planning. She
says she was very excited
because she hadn’t known
“there was such a thing, but
it took me two years to find
out more about it. Two years,
and two more babies.”
During this time, she
was very active in the prolife
movement and became a
director of SOUL (Save Our
Unwanted Lives), a young
people’s action group.
Through a co-worker, she
heard about a natural family
planning seminar in Belleville.
“Once I learned about
the method, listened to the
stories of people using it and
teaching it, it all seemed so
logical. I was so excited I
wanted to tell everybody,
‘Hey, look what I found out!’
And that’s what she’s
doing. Teliing everybody
about the sympto-thermal
method of planning
pregnancies. In her work as
coordinator of the seminars
in all areas of the Peoria
Diocese, she helps many
couples who might be
exhausted by family
responsibilities and want to
postpone or avoid another
Father Curran Banned
BATON ROUGE, La.
(NC) - Although prevented
from speaking at a Catholic
student center by the Bishop
of Baton Rouge, theologian
Father Charles Curran gave
his address at a state
university building.
Father Curran, a moral
theology professor at The
Catholic University of
America, traced the
development of being
Catholic and being American
in a talk given at the
Louisiana State University
Union Theater. While in
Baton Rouge he also spoke
on liberation theology and
the role of the church in
social issues.
Bishop Joseph V.
Sullivan had said in an open
letter to the academic
community of the university
that he could not permit
anyone “to use parochial
facilities as a podium on a
subject of religion or moral
ethics about whose
orthodoxy I have serious
doubt.” In the bishop’s
judgment, “Some of Father
Curran’s theological concepts
are not in conformity with
Catholic doctrine.” In his
letter the bishop listed a
number of quotes from the
priest to support that
statement.
Bishop Sullivan said he
did not want to infringe on
Father Curran’s right to speak
but that he did not want the
impression given that Father
Curran presented the official
teaching of the Catholic
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The bishop also said
“Ecumenism must be based
on honesty. Other religions
must know where differing
religions stand.” Father
Curran had been invited to
speak by Uniting Campus
Ministry, the Methodist and
Presbyterian Chapel at LSU.
At a news conference
Father Curran responded to
Bishop Sullivan’s letter
saying, “I am an orthodox
Roman Catholic. I don’t have
to apologize for my
orthodoxy.”
In his address Father
Curran contrasted the natural
law approach to the
Catholic-American question
with that based on scripture.
He said the mainstream
approach is that natural law is
the basis of both Catholicism
and the Declaration of
Independence, so a person
can be both Catholic and
American.
Thomas Merton, the
Berrigans, members of the
Catholic Workers Movement
and others have used
scripture to show the
incompatibility of being
American and being Catholic.
After his address Father
Curran answered questions
about his views on subjects
which Bishop Sullivan had
said differed from official
teachings and discussed the
role of dissent in the church.
Father Curran
commented, “A little tension
is probably a good thing. One
thing we have to learn is to
live with a greater degree of
pluralism. We need to
recognize that we can agree
on the essentials and still have
variant views on other
things.”
The priest said his
position is strongly
anti-abortion and that he is
95 percent in agreement with
the Catholic position on
abortion but he disagrees
with the traditional Catholic
view that human life begins at
the time of conception. He
said he believes life begins at
the second or third week,
adding that the process of
twinning supports his views.
In an open letter,
Catholic faculty members
responded to Bishop Sullivan.
“As Catholics and
academicians, we know that
our church does not
understand its teaching
authority as one of mere
institutional power and that
it does wish each of its
members to grow in mind and
heart.”
Father Dan Drinan,
chaplain-director of Christ
the King chapel, said, “I was
surprised that Father Curran
couldn’t speak at the center
since the Uniting Campus
Ministry had rented our
facility. I do not consider
Father Curran an immoral
man, but I do and have
respected the bishop’s
wishes.”
pregnancy. She understands
their problem.
“But we get couples of
all ages looking for help,” she
said. “Not all already have
large families. Some are going
to school and want to delay
having a baby, some others
want to get off the pill,
others are engaged and
looking for the information
before they are married.
“Our program can also
be used by couples who want
to have a child. Since we
teach fertility awareness, the
information works both
ways. You just use it in
reverse.”
Modem natural family
planning is not rhythm, Mrs.
Heinz said. “During each
cycle a woman normally
becomes fertile, and then
naturally infertile. As this
happens, her body provides
certain signs or symptoms
which indicate her fertility or
infertility.
“As a woman begins to
recognize these signs and
understands the symptoms
she knows what her body is
telling her and is comfortable
knowing what is going on.”
Natural family planning
seminars consist of four
classes held on weekends that
are taught by qualified
teachers from the Couple to
Couple League, a national
non-profit organization made
up of volunteers.
“Any couple can learn
the method, even if they
can’t read,” she said, as she
prepared to go home to her
family.
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13 civilians who died at the hands of
Ireland - Issue Of The 80’s
NEW YORK (NC) -
Reconciliation and
understanding, not violence,
will lead to peace in troubled
Northern Ireland, according
to clergymen at a “Derry
Mass.”
At St. Mary Star of the
Sea Church in Far Rockaway,
Father John Regan, an
associate pastor, decried the
use of violence by both sides
in the longstanding Irish
conflict. “Let the word go
out from here: We seek peace
with our brother and sister
Christians according to the
teachings of Jesus Christ. Put
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A BETTER IDEA - When Edward Arcy learned
in 1969 from Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Cracow that
he did not have a car, the Detroit automotive gear shop
owner decided to put the wheels in motion to get one
for the Polish cardinal. A short time later Arcy
purchased a fully equipped 1970 Ford, similar to the
one pictured above, and had it shipped to Cracow.
Pope Drove 1970 Ford
DEARBORN, Mich.
(NC) - What kind of car do
you buy for a future pope?
Edward Arcy of
Dearborn bought a 1970
Ford LTD for Cardinai Karoi
Wojtyla of Cracow, Poland,
nine years ago.
Although it was almost
that many years before the
cardinal would become Pope
John Paul II, Arcy said he
sensed at the time “that this
man was destined for
something great.”
Arcy, who owns an
automotive gear shop, first
met the future pope in late
1969, during the Polish
prelate’s first visit to Orchard
Lake, the Polish-American
seminary in Michigan.
It was during that
meeting that the cardinal
mentioned the difficulties he
had getting around his vast
diocese.
“After dinner I talked
with Father Walter Ziemba
(then head of the Orchard
Lake schools),” Arcy said. “I
told father that the cardinal’s
lack of transportation was
limiting him in his work and I
wanted to do whatever I
could to help.”
A short time later, Arcy
arranged with the Ford Motor
Co., one of his clients, to ship
a new car to the Polish
prelate. The car was equipped
with power steering and
power brakes, a radio and air
conditioning.
During the four years
that Cardinal Wojtyla owned
and drove the car, Arcy sent
him spark plugs and other
maintenance parts that were
either too costly or too hard
to come by in Poland.
Although Arcy is
unclear about the details, he
said he thinks the cardinal
gave the car to villagers who
either sold it or raffled it off.
With the proceeds, the
villagers were able to build a
small church.
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down your arms. Violence
solves no problems.”
“The Irish have a
reputation of being very close
followers of Jesus. We have to
listen to him. How can I love
my brother when I have a gun
in my hand?” he asked. “This
is a time that tests faith.
Through the prayers of all us
Christians and with the help
of the vicar of Christ on
earth, we can help bring
peace to a land torn by war
and violence.”
An overflow
congregation of more than
500 attended the fourth
memorial Mass for the 13
civilians who were killed by
British troops during a march
in Londonderry, Northern
Ireland, Jan. 30, 1972.
Thirteen school children
carried crosses bearing the
names of the dead men
n during a procession.
During a reception after
Mass, Peter McCormick of
Belfast, Northern Ireland,
took issue with Father
Regan’s homily. “We have the
right to the use of arms in the
struggle for independence,”
he said.
The political activist,
who skid he was imprisoned
at Long Kesh from 1972-77,
continued: “Father Regan
said we should lay down
arms. That contradicts Pope
John XXIII, who said
oppressed people are fully
justified in the use of arms to
overthrow an illegal
government, which the
British are in Northern
Ireland.”
When the principal
concelebrant of the Mass,
Auxiliary Bishop John
Snyder of Brooklyn, heard of
those remarks he said that
“violence corrupts” and
quoted another pope, John
Paul II. The pope said, the
bishop noted, “Liberation is
made up of reconciliation and
forgiveness. Liberation
springs from a reality which
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march in Londonderry, Northern
Ireland. The demonstration was part of
a “Bloody Sunday” service at the
church.
makes us recognize in every
man a brother of ours.”
Speaking earlier from
the pulpit at the end of Mass,
Bishop Snyder had said, “We
pray for peace in Northern
Ireland which can only be
attained when human rights
are recognized and justice
prevails,”
He urged the
congregation to be concerned
with human rights for all
those who are denied them.
“So many are deprived of
fundamental freedoms in
areas including the Middle
East, Far East and Latin
America. We focus on
Northern Ireland today, but
there has to be a focus on
every area where people are
not free and justice is not a
livedexperience.”
Present at the Mass were
New York’s Mayor Edward
Koch and Rep. Mario Biaggi
(D-N.Y.)
Biaggi, a leading
congressional advocate of the
Irish, addressed the
congregation after Bishop
Snyder and assailed the
Carter administration’s
application of its call for
human rights.
“The president
announced that human rights
is the keystone of his foreign
policy platform. He looks to
Israel, Soviet Jews, the
oppression in Chile and a host %
of other places. While I
support him on that, when it
comes to Northern Ireland he
is strangely silent. This
selective morality is a process
that shouldn’t be concerned
but condemned,” he said.
The Irish question is
getting more attention, Biaggi
continued. “This has ripened
into a political issue in the
United States. People are
asking candidates to state
their positions. As Vietnam
was the issue of the 1960s,
Northern Ireland will be the
issue of the late 70s and 80s,”
he said.
WASHINGTON (NC) -
The Internal Revenue Service
has revised a set of
controversial guidelines aimed
at denying tax-exempt status
to private schools which
discriminate on the basis of
race.
The new proposed
guidelines appear to meet the
major objections raised by
the U.S. Catholic Conference
and other Catholic school
interests.
IRS has made
allowances to help schools,
such as many church schools,
which have non-discrimina-
tory policies but which have
insignificant minority
enrollment due to either low
minority church membership
or the geographical location
of the parish a church school
is meant to serve.
In general, the new
guidelines seem more clearly
aimed at IRS’ original target
— the so-called “Christian
academies” or “segregation
academies” established in
many areas to avoid public
school desegregation efforts.
IRS now requires
tax-exempt private schools to
have non-discriminatory
policies, but federal courts
have found dozens of such
schools guilty of racial
discrimination despite their
policies.
The proposed guidelines
said consideration will be
given to “circumstances
which limit the school’s
ability to attract minority
students, such as an emphasis
on special programs or special
curricula which by their
nature are of interest only to
identifiable groups which are
not composed of a significant
number of minority students,
so long as such programs or
curricula are not offered for
the purpose of excluding
minorities.”
An IRS spokesman said
this section was designed to
help religious schools which
do not discriminate on the
basis of race but whose
sponsoring churches have low
minority membership.
The proposed guidelines
also said a school which does
not meet the “safe harbor”
level will be considered
non-discriminatory if it serves
designated geographic areas
not based on race and is part
of a larger school system
which does not discriminate.
The new proposed
guidelines are also more
flexible in spelling out the
minority recruitment
requirements for reviewable
schools.
They also said that all
appeals will be handled at the
national, rather than the
regional, level to insure policy
consistency.
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Mass at St. Aidan’s Church in Brookline, Mass. The
cardinal had learned through an interpreter that the
woman’s father had died two weeks earlier and that
the remainder of her family is still in Vietnam. St.
Aidan’s has about 100 Vietnamese refugees in the
parish.
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