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PAGE 3—The Georgia Bulletin, November 15,1979
National Bible Week,
November 18-25,
emphasises again the
need to read and live
the Scriptures,
especially in the home.
T.A. Murphy,
General Chairman for
this national event says:
“With all the tools we
have, it is truly
unfortunate that so
many young people
reach adulthood with
no knowledge of the
Ten Commandments,
the Sermon on the
Mount, or the priceless
wisdom of Holy
Scripture. That is why
the National Bible
Week campaign to
promote Bible reading
and study is so
important. I urge all
Americans who care
about the future of our
great nation, to join
with us in this
interfaith effort to
strengthen our moral
and spiritual
foundations.”
Father Stephen
Hartdegen, O.F.M.,
director of the Catholic
Biblical Apostolate and
a promoter of the
National Bible Week
says: “This cooperative
interfaith campaign
runs simultaneously
with Thanksgiving, the
only universally
observed nonsectorian
religious holiday in
America. A week
during which we
appraise the quality of
our lives is a good time
to ponder the message
of the Bible.”
The success of our
Bible Sharing
Conference indicates
how people are hungry
for God’s Word. For
many, the Word has
truly become “alive and
effective” and has
taken on a new
perspective.
It seems more and
more of our people are
making the delightful
OUTREACH ‘79 - ‘80
News Update
National Bible Week
discovery that the Word
of God speaks to us in a
personal way. Our
recent Conference
helped reaffirm that the
Bible is not so much a
book to study, but is
rather a series of “love
letters” to joyously
reflect on and share
with others.
The ongoing Bible
Sharing Groups meet
biweekly. In an
atmosphere of prayer
and reflection, the
members SHARE their
personal insights gained
from studying a
selected scripture
passage.
The scriptures
discussed are assigned
at the previous meeting
since personal study is a
must before group
sharing.
Group leaders meet
with one of the staff
for an indepth exegesis
(explanation) of the
given scripture and the
Church’s interpretation
of it. For further
information call Walker
King at 477-5219 or
myself.
At the same time we
are seeing an increased
interest in Family Bible
Sharing. For this we
recommend the Sunday
scripture readings
(given each week on the
Parish Bulletin) and the
Bible Week Readings
(given inside). A family
that comes together
daily to share a portion
of Scripture is bound to
grow together in the
experience of God’s
love.
If you can, designate
a short period every
day for reading the
Bible. This will
strengthen your family
in the Christian
foundation of love,
faith and charity.
Scripture passages can
be read in a prayerful
way, discussed and
made applicable to
individual family
situations. Children and
parents should feel free
to share their ideas and
reflections.
-Fr. John Kieran
PASSING ALONG the Good News is
Charlotte Driscoll of the Holy Family Parish
Renewal Team. National Bible Week will be
observed November 18-25.
Corpus Christ! Bazaar Is Set
In Vitro Advocates Questioned
The Catholic Women of Corpus Christi
will present a Bazaar Saturday Nov. 17 in
the Parish Hall at 600 Mountain View
Drive in Stone Mountain from 10 am to 4
pm. Activities are planned by many parish
groups.
The Women’s Club’s Festive Foods,
crafts, face painting and thumbprint art
will be under the direction of the genera!
chairman, Denora Mujica.
The Young Adults will take pictures of
the children with Santa with Kim Schinzel
as chairman.
Senior Citizens, under Virginia Eagen,
NORFOLK, Va. (NC) - Advocates of a
proposed in vitro fertilization laboratory in
Norfolk — the nation’s first “test tube
baby” clinic — have failed to come up with
satisfactory answers to serious questions, a
public hearing has been told.
Father Vincent G. Connery of Norfolk,
representing Bishop Walter F. Sullivan of
Richmond, testified Oct. 31 that neither
the integrity nor the credentials of the
doctors who would operate the clinic were
in question. “But I do question the social
implications of the project, and its policies
on abortion and defective fetuses,” Father
Connery said.
He was among a stream of witnesses at
the hearing before the Eastern Virginia
Health Systems Agency, a public body
which is part of the review process leading
to state approval or rejection of the
facility.
Establishment of the laboratory at
Norfolk General Hospital in conjunction
with the Eastern Virginia Medical School
requires approval by Dr. James B. Kenley,
state health commissioner. Kenley has until
Jan. 8 to decide. Kenley rejected the
proposal in September because he said it
was of such statewide significance that it
warranted a full administrative review.
The delay gave opponents and
proponents time to retrench and reinforce
their arguments.
All patients at the laboratory would be
married women whose fallopian tubes,
which connect the ovaries with the uterus,
are blocked and cannot be opened
surgically. This means they cannot
conceive naturally.
In the in vitro procedure a fertile egg is
surgically taken from a woman and placed
in a glass dish in a substance in which it can
survive. Sperm from the husband is placed
in the dish and if the egg is fertilized and
cell division begins, the mass of cells is
implanted within 36 hours in the mother’s
womb where they are expected to develop
as if conception had taken piace naturally.
The proposed clinic has split the
Norfolk community. Business leaders,
lawyers, clergymen, members of the
medical profession and laymen spoke out
for and against the facility.
Representatives of various religious
communities, Christian and Jewish, spoke
with feeling, reflecting both sides of the
issue.
One Methodist minister said money
used to develop such “baby making
technology” would be better spent on
finding ways to reduce abortion. Simply
because the technology for in vitro
fertilization is available, he said, is no
reason to justify its use. This theory, he
said is expressed as “what we can do, we
must do.” And he asked, “Must we?”
An Episcopalian priest answered
affirmatively. ‘‘This procedure,” he
testified, “is conservative and is one
playing a large part in God’s continued
creation.” He was cheered by shouts of
“more, more, more” by supporters in the
audience.
Two women spoke emotionally of their
inability to conceive naturally, pleading
that the proposed clinic was their last hope
to have children of their own, in the same
way Louise Brown was conceived in
England in 1977.
Dr. Joseph Stanton of Boston said that
arguments by proponents are based on
speculation and not fact.
“When we begin to manipulate,” he
said, “we lead to birth defects and genetic
damage.” He said statements by Dr. Mason
Andrew of Norfolk, an active supporter of
the proposed clinic, that the risk of birth
defects “is less with in vitro than with
natural conception is speculation, not
medical fact.” Stanton called for more
research in the field before establishing a
clinic.
Representatives of pro-life groups also
opposed the clinic. Mary Finnerty of
Virginia Right to Life said the
‘‘ramifications are incomprehensible,
making the baby a consumer item.”
In a letter read into the record by his
representative, Bishop Sullivan opposed the
laboratory because he said human life
“begins at conception” and “deserves both
respect and protection. It should not be
the subject of experimentation or
destruction.”
He objected to the discarding and
destruction of embryos, the absence of
regulations for such procedures and the
cost-benefit ratio in light of other health
needs.
Irish Aid Committee Harassment?
will staff “Grandma’s Cookie Jar” and the
Welcoming Committee, under Nancy
Lamperis, will sell homemade fudge.
Children’s games are planned by the
teenagers in SEARCH with Sister Dolores
as advisor.
Jack and Fran Tobin and Fran Kelly
will staff the Religious Giftshop.
Birthright with Mary Kerr as chairman
will sell previously owned treasures.
Opportunities to win a bicycle, man’s
suit and other prizes will be sponsored by
Dick Swetonic as chairman of the booth
for the Choir.
A hot dog lunch will be served.
NEW YORK (NC) - A lawyer defending
the Bronx-based Irish Northern Aid
Committee, which states that it is aiding
widows and families of political prisoners
in Northern Ireland, accused the Justice
Department of harassing the committee
and discriminating against it.
The committee is “the only charity in
the U.S.A.” required to file as the agent of
a foreign principal under the Foreign
Agents Registration Act, said the lawyer,
Paul O’Dwyer. He said the committee has
complied with the act and filed the
required reports under protest.
O’Dwyer spoke to NC News Service
after the Justice Department filed a motion
in U.S. District Court in Manhattan asking
for permission to amend a two-year-old
suit claiming the committee failed to make
full disclosure under the act.
The motion seeks an injunction
requiring the committee to file a statement
listing its officers, agents and affiliates and
any other groups or organizations acting
for or in concert with it. The government is
also seeking the address of the committee’s
headquarters in Northern Ireland, a list of
funds from all sources and details of the
committee’s propaganda efforts.
O’Dwyer said the new motion was “a
clear admission that the government has no
case.”
“The claim up to this point,” he said,
“has not been that the people the IN AC
have been sending money to any IR A (Irish
Republican Army) members.” The
provisional wing of the IRA is an outlawed
guerrilla organization fighting to end
British rule of Northern Ireland.
The committee has filed a counterclaim
for damages for harassment, O’Dwyer said.
Formed in 1971, the Irish Northern Aid
Committee has stated that its purpose is to
aid the families of political prisoners in
Northern Ireland, the widows and families
of those killed in the conflict there and
those bombed out of their homes.
In 1974, a director of the committee in
New York City admitted that in 1971 and
1972 the committee had sent about
$120,000 to Joseph Cahill, a member of
the Provisional IRA in Dublin but
contended that “positively no money goes
for arms.”
M
DR. PARRY SODER adjusts new equipment
before test. The intensifier saves patient time and
radiation exposure.
A FIRST
Saint Joseph’s Hospital
Expands Radiology Work
America’s first 14-inch image intensifier is now being
used in the Radiology Department at Saint Joseph’s
Hospital. Marketed at the urging of hospital radiology
chief Dr. Parry Soder, the piece of equipment will be
available elsewhere in 1980.
The new intensifier, developed by Philips Medical
Systems, was designed to enlarge the picture of the area
being tested, increase detection efficiency and create a
higher image contrast. A television monitor attached to
the equipment allows immediate diagnosis while
permanent images are used for further diagnostic review
and patient records.
Philips, which marketed its first X-ray image intensifier
in 1952, regards the 14-inch intensifier tube as “one of
the most significant advances in imaging techniques made
in the last three decades.”
Several years ago, Dr. Soder saw the need for a larger
field of view and questioned Philips about making a new
intensifier. When the company produced one, it was only
natural to test it at Saint Joseph’s in Atlanta.
The hospital was using a standard 6-inch and 10-inch
intensifier prior to receiving the new one. By pushing
buttons, the field size can be reduced on the new
equipment.
Because of the larger field of view, complete
gastro-intestinal studies can be recorded on smaller and
less expensive film at a significant decrease in radiation
exposure. Examination time is much shorter also, a
feature greatly appreciated by the patients. More exams
can be performed with this equipment per unit time as
compared to more conventional machines, thereby
helping to contain hospital costs, the radiologist pointed
out.
The new' equipment has created a national interest in
Saint Joseph’s Radiology Department. According to Dr.
Soder, “Physicians from all over the country are visiting
here frequently. We’re delighted to be pioneering this area
and to be able to share our experience.”
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chores easier, more pleasant, and give more time
to enjoy the holidays.Take advantage of our holiday
special and give an efficient gas appliance.
Ranges, surface unifs, built-in ovens, and clothes
dryers. Many models are specially priced.
So take your pick from brands you know for
quality, efficiency and long service life: Roper, Caloric,
Crown, and Magic Chef ranges; Whirlpool and
Maytag dryers; Arkla, Charmglow, and Warm Morn
ing grills.
We're also offering bonuses with the purchase of
selected grills. Buy any Arkla grill; get a bonus rotis-
serie, Buy a G3TX or G4TX model Warm Morning grill;
get a wooden side shelf and grate lifter at no
extra cost,
Enjoy the holidays more. Buy a modern gas appli
ance now. You'll save money, and you'll save energy.
For years to come.Terms are available.
Natural gas. You can depend on it today and
tomorrow.
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