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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, November 22,1979
Inside TV News
BY JOHN P. ZARRELLA
More than a decade ago, perhaps 13
or 14 years, I was in grade school at St.
Joseph’s Elementary on Miami Beach.
There was a war going on at the time
many thousands of miles away.
Americans were fighting and dying in
rain forests and rice patties, and here at
home other Americans were burning
flags and laughing at the Star Spangled
Banner.
We didn’t quite know what all that
meant back in grade school, but we did
know that Americans were losing their
lives in Vietnam. One of those mild,
breezy winters on Miami Beach, my
classmates and I gathered together a
couple Care Packages for the soldiers.
We raised money and bought chess sets
and checker sets and decks of cards by
the dozens. We also gathered donated
books and magazines. One of my
classmates brought in a stack of his
older brother’s playboys. The soldiers
probably would have enjoyed those the
most but being from a Catholic school
our Nun ordered us to agree not to send
them.
Two huge Care Packages made it to
Southeast Asia. It took several weeks
for them to get there. Several weeks
after that, we got the first letter from a
grateful soldier. Many more letters
followed that one. I often wonder how
many of those soldiers ever made it
home.
What I am trying to say is that you
can get to know people and share a
friendship even if you have never
crossed paths. A month after I came to
Atlanta, a plane crashed at New Hope
and even though 1 covered that story
from our station, I could feel for those
people on that plane. It seemed as if I
knew every one of them and shared
their misery and grief.
The same thing happened a few
months later when an earthen dam
broke at Toccoa killing 39 people. What
were you doing that Sunday morning in
November? Do you remember how you
felt when you read about the tragedy or
saw the vivid horror on the news? You
end up with a helpless feeling, a knot
deep in your gut. I always have those
emotional reactions when tragedy
strikes.
Perhaps I am a bit closer to it than
you. But, when I write about the
tragedy and the helplessness, I want you
to feel it the same way I do with the
same feelings of shared remorse.
At the 5:30 Folk Mass this past
Sunday, I was reminded of that
Vietnam story. Dozens of people carried
bags of groceries to the Altar earmarked
for the needy of the Archdiocese.
During the homily, Monsignor Hardy
talked about those needy people,
reminding us that they are our brothers
and friends even though they weren’t
sitting next to us at Mass. Again, I felt
as if I knew everyone of them. I hoped
they would have a good Thanksgiving!
You and I have never crossed paths
or met face to face but as I write this
column each week, I feel as if we are the
best of friends talking face to face. As
far as I’m concerned, that’s just the way
it should be. You know, I think I might
try and find out what happened to
those friends of mine in Vietnam.
Happy Thanksgiving, friend.
ALTERNATIVE CARE -
Hospice, a movement among health
care personnel and interested lay
persons to provide alternative care
for those with terminal disease, held
its first meeting at Saint Joseph’s
recently. Representatives attended
from Savannah. Augusta, Columbus
and Chattanooga as well as from
local hospitals. The group voted to
organize a stalewide association and
elected Dr. L. C. Buchanan, a local
surgeon, as acting chairperson. He is
pictured here, second from right,
with Saint Joseph’s representatives
< 1 - r) Justine Cobb, speech
pathologist; Sister M. Michelle
Carroll, RSM; Dr. Robert Cowgill,
surgical oncologist and medical
director for Hospice Atlanta; Sister
M. Madeline Roddenberry, RSM; and
Sister M. Rosalie Mallard, RSM.
ITALIAN IfISHOPS
Media Helps Spread The Word
Mafia A ‘Dishonorable Plague’
REGGIO CALABRIA,
Italy (NC) - The bishops
of the Calabria province in
Italy’s southern boot
denounced the Mafia as a
“dishonorable plague” and
a “terrible evil” and called
on ci ti zens to help
eradicate it.
“We believe that our
first duty is to renew our
clear and explicit
condemnation of every
form of the Mafia, the
fatal cancer and parasitic-
substructure which erodes
our social society,” the
bishops said in a pastoral
letter approved at their
recent fall meeting in
Reggio Calabria.
The letter is directed to
‘‘all the Christian
community and all
Calabrians of good will,
within or outside the
province.”
The Mafia “sucks on
the fruit of honest labor
with its tributes” and
“with its kidnappings
which no longer spare
women and children and
its cynically performed
murders, mocks and
tramples the highest values
and the most sacred
emotions of life,” the
bishops said.
“We are convinced that
a c o o per-trii ve an d
courageous effort by all
and a J constant work of
education and formation
of consciences are
necessary in order that this
dishonorable plague can be
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Mafia organizations are
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In their pastoral letter,
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“this terrible evil finds its
followers among many
youths stuck in
unemployment and
dangerous conditions.”
As a partial solution,
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industries of the region,
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more adequate ones,
keeping faith with the
repeated promises made to
our people.”
The bishops cited other
problems such as the lack
of health facilities, poor
schools and the
unavailability of proper
housing.
“The building of social
peace requires that we first
of all eliminate the causes
which provoke injustice,”
they said.
They also denounced
the ‘‘arbitrary
discrimination” against
non-public schools in
Calabria, which are trying
to solve “this social
problem” through
education.
SPOKANE, Wash. (NC)
- While many Catholics do
not attend church, the
church can reach them if it
understands the power of
the electronic media,
members of the Northwest
regional Catholic Press
Association were told at
their convention.
“Nine out of 10 of my
countrymen are not in
church on Sunday and
one-half of my country’s
total population are not
expected to utter even one
prayer during their
lifetime. These people
consider the church to be
totally irrelevant, but they
can be reached by
television, radio and the
press,” Franciscan Father
Angellus Andrew told thf
delegates.
A communications
expert from Great Britain,
Father Andrew said
journalists must
understand “our calling
and our power as well as
the technology of our
media.”
In past years, Father
Andrew said, there has
been a ‘‘massive
misunderstanding” of how
the electronic media and
the press view each other
and their respective roles.
This has led to rivalry and
a spirit of non-cooperation
between the two, which
spread even to religious
broadcasting, he said.
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“The media provide an
opportunity for the
church to speak to all
people,” he noted,
stressing the need for total
acceptance and
cooperation between the
different kinds of media.
Television, radio and the
press are not competitors
but rather complement
each other, he said.
Father Andrew is
president of U N D A
International, the
worldwide association of
Catholic broadcasters and
is director of the Catholic-
Radio and TV Center,
Hatch End. England. He is
also on the Vatican
Commission for Social
Communications.
The two great missions
of the church have always
been the evangelization
and the spiritual
development of its
members as well as its
non-members, Father
Andrew said. “The media
can prove to be invaluable
to the church in both
these areas,” he said.
Maury Sheridan,
executive director of
Catholic Communications
Northwest, said the
“electronic media are not
in competition with the
print media,” but he said
he has reservations about
television broadcasting.
Too often, he said,
major networks in
America give the
impression they have
illuminated, evaluated and
solved extremely complex
problems (such as the
energy crisis) through a
GO-minute documentary,
Sheridan said. He deplored
the tendency of many
broadcasters to offer
“immediate solutions or
remedies” to social,
political and economic
problems.
Sheridan also lamented
the lack of artistic and
moral content in the
communications media.
“The ‘noble idea’ is
missing in the media
today,’’ he said.
Communications workers
have great technical
expertise, but too often
their finished products do
little to “elevate” their
fellow man, he added.
In other sessions at the
convention, CPA executive
director Jim Doyle and
CPA president Ethel
Gintoft spoke about new
federal guidelines on the
non-profit status of
Catholic newspapers.
Political statements for
or against candidates, and
publication of voter
education materials, such
as the voting record of a
candidate, would not be
allowed if a newspaper
wanted to keep its
non-profit status, Mrs.
Gintoft said. Doyle said
The Internal Revenue
Service is expected to issue
the new guidelines on
non-profit status soon.
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