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The Georgia Bulletin
June 21,1979
Angela Scott Is Dead
The Atlanta newspapers have made
their decision about Angela Scott. They
have decided to be very quiet and
peaceful about her. Even though she was
only 19, even though she died on an
operating table under suspicious
circumstances, even though others like
her may endure the same bitter blight,
the papers have decided to be cover-up
quiet.
The height of their generous coverage
has been inconsequential stories on back
pages. The lashing pen of columnist Lee
May has been especially dry. In
conforming with the policies of his
overlords, abortion becomes his interest
only in-so-far as it can be an exercise of
promotion.
But there is a lot of surprising silence
from other quarters too. Governor
Busbee is content to allow this so-called
medical facility, The Atlanta Women’s
Pavilion, to operate without state
supervision. His local Director of the
Department of Human Resources, Dr.
Douglas Skelton, is still studying the
matter. Lieutenant Governor Miller may
have country music in his heart but the
only concern on his mind is a move to
Washington. And over at the
Communicable Disease Center, federal
medical sleuths are holding a
“confidential investigation” on the
unfortunate matter.
And while this bumbling nonsense
goes on and those sworn to protect our
welfare, don’t, Angela Scott is dead.
But The Atlanta Women’s Pavilion,
scene of this teenage death, is very much
alive. We called and asked as delicately as
possible if “appointments” were being
accepted. The cheerful receptionist
responded, “You mean for an abortion?
Well, the clinic is closed on Mondays,
but open other days of the week.” We
pursued the matter. “You mean after the
death of Miss Scott, you still perform
abortions?” "Oh yes, we do.”
The politicians, the power of the
medical profession and the pages of
Atlanta’s only newspaper are depending
on the public to forget. And the public
is most obliging. The response to this
disaster in our community has been a
total, general silence. In the meantime,
desperate young women, without any
guarantees of safety from the medical,
political or legal community, are placing
life on the line in the potential mortuary
chapels, respectably called abortion
clinics.
There are only slight signs of hope. Mr.
Nick Taylor of Georgia’s Department of
Human Resources informs us that a
Public Hearing on the possibility of
initiating regulations will be held soon.
The actual date of the hearing will be set
this week. Since the likelihood of the
Atlanta papers reporting this event to the
public is dim, we urge that specific
information be sought from Mr. Taylor
at 656-5542.
Only irresponsible, un-Christian fools
will refuse to follow this matter to the
bitter end. Like sworn conspirators,
department heads all over the city place
the blame for Miss Scott’s death at the
accidental feet of anesthesiology.
Unregulated abortion clinics, nicely
known as “Ambulatory Surgical
Treatment Centers," are never given
mention. The Hearing should tell us
more. It should also bring a new era of
enlightenment to abortion mills which
presently make the rules and regulations
as they open the doors to their
mausoleums each morning.
In memory of Angela Scott and all
the Angela Scotts who will face the
slaughter house practices of
unscrupulous medics, let us act in the
name of a patient God. -NCB
Inflation Hits Us, Too
For the first time in its history, the
GEORGIA BULLETIN will increase its
subscription price.
Effective July 1, a one-year
subscription will be $6, payable to
individual subscribers’ local parishes.
Since it began publication in 1962, the
subscription price has remained $5.
The subscription rate outside the
United States and Canada will be
increased to $8.50 per year.
The price increase is based on
escalated production and mailing costs.
Although production cost has risen
steadily over the years, the GEORGIA
BULLETIN has remained one of the
least expensive Catholic newspapers in
the Southeast. Both the SOUTHERN
CROSS of the Diocese of Savannah and
the CATHOLIC BANNER of the
Diocese of Charleston .raised their
subscription rate to $6 per year in 1974.
Of Florida’s three Catholic
newspaperrs, only THE FLORIDA
CATHOLIC of Orlando is offered for $6.
THE VOICE of Miami is $7.50 per year
and Pensacola-Tallahasse's GOOD NEWS
VISITOR is $7 per year. Subscribers pay
$8 per year for the Diocese of Raleigh’s
NORTH CAROLINA CATHOLIC.
Alabama Diocesan newspapers, THE
CATHOLIC WEEK of Mobile and ONE
VOICE of Birmingham, are both $6 per
year.
The circulation of the GEORGIA
BULLETIN has rapidly grown as the
Archdiocese of Atlanta becomes home
to more and more Catholics, particularly
in the metropolitan Atlanta area. With
increased circulation comes higher
postage costs. Currently the
BULLETIN’S circulation is
approximately 19,300 families, reaching
an estimated 80,000 Catholics in the
archdiocese.
- MOTES
Working Women
Sheila Mallon
Haven’t we all on occasion run across a book
or an article which really speaks to us; that
responds to some inner need or yearning and
answers questions we really didn’t know how to
ask? I have just read such a book and I believe
that my life will be forever different because of
it.
The title of the book is “His Way” and the
author is Father David Knight. Father Knight
was ordained in 1961 and holds a Doctorate in
Theology from Catholic University. He is a
writer and leader in the Nazareth House of the
Lord in Memphis, where he directs a monthly
day of spiritual instruction and a weekly
Scripture course. He has served as a retreat
master, missionary, pastor, teacher, chaplain
and youth director and so brings a rich and
diverse background to his writing. He is also the
author of “Confession Can Change Your Life”
and “Cloud By Day, Fire By Night: The
Religious Life as Passionate Response to God.”
The book “His Way” is not about the
reformation of society, it is about knowing
Jesus Christ and presents a plan for making the
person of Jesus Christ a living reality in your
life, in your family and in the world you live
and work in.
Father Knight says, “If lay people ever begin
to bear witness to Christ in everything they do,
regardless of the risk, then the Kingdom will
really be at hand.”
His description of “ethical paganism,” a
religion of code and cult whose moral code is
really determined not by the revelation of God
speaking through the Scriptures but by the
attitudes and values of the society one lives in
and the people one lives with, really struck
home. Another name for this kind of religion is
“civil religion”- a religion whose morality is
simply a reflection or an echo of what “the nice
people” in ones culture say and do. It is a
devastating description of the morals and values
of our time.
In his second chapter, with a description of
John the Baptist at the Jordan, Father Knight
begins to lead us to a more personal knowledge
of Jesus through prayer.
The fourth chapter, which is “A Practical
Method for Praying Over the Scriptures,” is
worth the reading for itself alone. If you have
ever tried to study Scripture and been confused
and uneasy, this lesson will help you find your
way.
Some of the titles of the other chapters are
“The Meaning of Christian Conversion,”
“Connecting Christianity with Life,” “The
Support of a Community of Faith,” “Facing
the World Together in Prayer,” “The Key to
Lay Spirituality” and “How to Walk Alone
Together” to name a few.
In the preface to this book by the Most
Reverend Carroll T. Dozier, Bishop of
Memphis, Bishop Dozier says that a sign of the
time is the development of our recognition of
the essential necessity of a prayer life. He
quotes from the Second Vatican Ecumenical
Council: “Today the Church is witnessing a
crisis underway within society. While humanity
is on the edge of a new era, tasks of immense
gravity and amplitude await the Church, as in
the most tragic periods of its history. It is a
question in fact of bringing the modern world
into contact with the vivifying and perennial
energies of the Gospel, a world which exalts
itself with its conquests in the technical and
scientific fields but which brings also the
consequences of a temporal order which some
have wished to reorganize excluding God. This
is why modern society is earmarked by a great
material progress to which there is not a
corresponding advance in the moral field.”
He continues, “Father David Knight helps us
along our way as his insights clarify the areas of
gray. He sweeps away the fogginess of some of
the ideas which we hold so firmly, simply
because they have been with us a long time.
“He leads us through prayer to the unity of
the Eucharist where we praise God for His
loving work. He leads us through the unity of
this community to the renewal of the society in
which we pray.”
“His Way” is in paperback and is published
by St. Anthony Messenger Press. You can
obtain a copy at the Notre Dame Book Store in
Pinetree Plaza Buford Highway.
In Ecclesiastes we read, “There’s a season for
everything. A time for every occupation under
heaven. A time to love. A time to
hate . . . (3:8).” Though we cannot as
Christians hate other human beings no matter
what they do, we can come into a season that
calls for our hatred of beastly situations or
circumstances. Apocalyptic winds of human
degradation are blowing through our
community and it is impossible for many
people to hold back their voices of protest. The
death of one teenage girl and the poor
condition of another resulting from abortions
at a local clinic, has sparked State
Representative Joe Burton to publicly zap
Planned Parenthood. The particular clinic was
one of Planned Parenthood’s “compassionate”
referrals and Mr. Burton points out that,
“Tragically, this planned parenthood crowd is
supported by our tax dollars and other public
funds.”
Mr. Burton was interviewed on WSB Radio
and condemned the Planned Parenthood sex
education programs, particularly one at the
DeKalb County school his son attends where in
a mixed freshman class the students were
shown various forms of contraceptives.
According to Burton, no permission form
4 A Time To Hate...’
Teresa Gernazian
which parents are supposed to be given ahead
of time, had been sent to the parents.
Mr. Burton then points out Planned
Parenthood’s connection with the lucrative
abortion industry: “After the children have
been instructed to contraceptive tools (no
emphasis on moral restraint, of course), they
are further instructed to seek advice from
Planned Parenthood rather than their parents
when the gadgets fail.”
Referring both to the abortion holocaust
and to the evil antics of PP’s sex ed programs,
Representative Burton admonishes ministers
who continue to mouth through their sermons
while ignoring this urgent, tragic travesty of the
Ten Commandments.
Is Representative Burton over-reacting? I say
“No.” In the June 14 ATLANTA JOURNAL
an article states that Male Teen Planned
Parenthood Program (the first in Georgia) has
been instigated where the instructors informally
“rap” with teenage boys at basketball courts
and pool halls, providing them with
contraceptive information.
Last summer I viewed a Planned Parenthood
Film (Produced in Tucson, Arizona in 1973),
“A Far Cry From Yesterday” shown to a group
of DeKalb County public school teachers by an
abortion clinic director, who claimed the movie
had been shown in some Fulton County
Schools, along with her visual aid packet of
contraceptives. She was trying to “sell” her
presentation to the teachers, but fortunately an
outcry of parental concern has kept this film
out of DeKalb. The movie was extremely
lustful and aimed only at showing teens that
the careful application of contraceptives is the
answer to all their problems.
Isn’t it time to rethink our contributing to
and verbal support of United Way, which gives
annually to Planned Parenthood? In the June
17 NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER an
article called’’“Charity That Kills?” states that
the annual meeting of Catholic Physicians’
Guilds voted to boycott any community fund
drive that contributes to Planned Parenthood.
In a national network of 189 local chapters, 47
Planned Parenthood groups are included in
local United Way drives. This past year Planned
Parenthood received $63,000 from United Way
locally to further its exploitation of youth.
Representative Burton has courageously
broken through a curtain of community silence
on the biggest pusher of abortions and teenage
promiscuity in our country. Shall we not draw
the curtain back still further?
Resound Resound...
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but our retirement plan is out of this world!"
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V Gemma
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Pope’s Classmate . . .
ST. PETERSBURG, FI. - Thank you for
sending me the GEORGIA BULLETIN with the
write-up of my ordination as Bishop. You even
had the picture of the Pope posing hands on
me. I deeply appreciate the coverage that you
gave to this ceremony. It was a tremendous
experience that was enhanced by my having
been a classmate of the Holy Father.
BISHOP W. THOMAS LARKIN
DIOCESE OF ST. PETERSBURG
Wise up . . .
ATLANTA - As an advertiser in The
GEORGIA BULLETIN I take exceptions to
your remarks in June 7 issue.
You should wise up to a few facts about
men’s hairstyling which you obviously still
think of as a haircut. If you still wanted a $2
haircut you could still get it for $2, clippers and
skinned up the back and all, taking about 10
minutes of the barber’s time. I know of no
shops in the Atlanta area that charges $10 for a
haircut. The hairstyle takes from 30 to 40
minutes in our shop. The hair is shampooed
with the shampoo that is best for your type
hair, conditioned if needed, then precision cut,
so that the hair is balanced and blown dry. You
want all this for $2?
All of our hairstylists have styling
certificates and attend seminars every three
months to keep abreast of the latest fashions
and you have the nerve to infer you are
overcharged when the $2 haircut only lasted a
week, two at the most? Multiply that! Our
hairstyles last from four to six weeks, longer for
longer hairstyles.
We have priests from all over the diocese
coming to our shop. There are two in your
building, Father Steve Churchwell and Father
Richard Kieran, when he is in the
neighborhood.
We invite you to call for an appointment and
come in and let us straighten your hair out
because it must be a mess to inspire such
comments. (All will be gratis, of course!)
(MRS) ALLENE RICHARDS
Baptist-Catholic . . .
NEWNAN - Thanks so very much for the
nice words about the recent Baptist-Catholic
Dialogue. I enjoyed your column describing
“yours truly.” I guess you could say it was
something like little water running down a
duck’s back. A little bit slipped in to cool me
off.
(REV) JOSEPH O’DONNELL
‘Reaching Out . . .
ATLANTA - When you took over as Editor
of the BULLETIN, I wrote and complemented
you on your “Soundings” column of January 6,
1977. I described your taking over as editor
with a “Bang.” You published my letter in the
January 20, 1977 BULLETIN.
Again I complement you with another
MF-FIRST IS A LOSING PHILOSOPHY
There are many tragic stories of family
breakdowns these days, and I sometimes feel
like weeping. 1 did marriage counselling for 10
years, so I know a little about it.
Every story is unique, and the old saw is
usually true, there are three sides: his side, her
side and the truth. People tend to lose
objectivity when they are close to a situation or
when they are hurt and humiliated.
Nevertheless there are often one-sided patterns
of abuse, infidelity, and plain selfishness. The
love commitment of marriage can work, but
not if one party is hell-bent on its destruction.
I remember a respected judge who abused
and degraded his wife and children at every
opportunity in the privacy of their home. He
forced her to leave him. I remember a young
housewife who left a husband and four children
for her lesbian lover. I remember a 300-pound
salesman who left his wife for a younger
woman because his wife was getting too fat.
We live in an age where that kind of behavior
is considered normal. But it isn’t; it’s very sick.
Robert Ringer writes, “Concentrate on looking
out for Number One. I’m sure you have enough
problems of your own without worrying about
“Bang” for your column “Reaching Out” in the
May 31 issue - “just a slip of a girl” - making a
token of love to the statue of the Virgin Mary.
I have witnessed such incidents by the
faithful in my time and I am sure you have.
They come from the door of the church, from
the confessional to the altar, to the statues of
the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, St. Anthony, etc.
It seems difficult today to find votive lights
and statuary in many churches.
It was good to hear Pope John Paul II in his
recent speech at Gniezo, Poland, praise the
Polish people for the “maintenance of such
customs as having religious pictures on the walls
of their homes” etc.
You sure do well with words and thoughts.
RALPH J. BARTOLI
helping others.” Dr. Martin Shepherd in “The
Do-It-Yourself Psychotherapy Book” agrees,
“You shall always act in your own best
interest. . . you shall not let the interests of
others interfere with your own pleasure.”
Common sense runs counter to these ideas.
In fact, if you follow the advice of the “me
generation” prophets, you will eventually have
serious problems, possibly eternal ones. The
pain a person inflicts on others will come back
to haunt him. And a child or a spouse who is
tossed aside like a squeezed orange suffers the
agony of hell. Some become twisted and
wounded and unable to trust again. That
suffering will not be forgotten, even if the one
who caused it has closed his or her mind to it.
St. Paul captured the essence of Christ’s
teaching when he said, “Love bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all things, endures all
things.” I pity those who ignore this wisdom.
Jesus in His Sermon on the Mount had some
jarring words for all of us to ponder: “Woe to
you . . . that are full now . . . that laugh now,
for you shall mourn and weep.” (Luke 6:24,25)
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