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PAGE 7—The Georgia Bulletin, November 22,1979
John Paul Hints To Sisters
That New Rules Are Coming
SANTA’S HELPERS Maureen
Herwig (left) and Helen Hungo were
just two of the many volunteers
from the Women’s Guild of Saint
Patrick’s in Norcross who worked to
CRS AID
make the annual parish Christmas
Bazaar a big success last weekend.
Months of preparation went into the
event, which raises money for
various Guild projects.
$5.4 Million For Famine Relief
BY NC NEWS SERVICE
Catholic Relief Services
has been distributing $5.4
million in relief supplies
since September 1979 to
battle a famine in East
Timor, a province of
Indonesia, according to
CRS officials in New
York.
The famine is
potentially as serious as
the current situation in
Cambodia, according to
CRS officials in East
ANOTHER BIAFRA? — A starving young
victim of the 1975 civil war in East Timor which
ended with the takeover by Indonesia was
photographed recently by an Australian reporter.
Catholic Relief Services has mounted an effort to
distribute 9,000 tons of food to 240,000 people
in East Timor which has been stricken by drought
arid the lingering effects of the war. Some relief
officials are calling the situation as bad as Biafra
and potentially as serious as Cambodia.
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Timor. CRS is the overseas
aid agency of U.S.
Catholics.
So far, CRS has
distributed 9,000 tons of
food, medicines, clothing
and seeds to 240,000
people. CRS officials said
funding has come from its
own resources and from
the governments of the
United States, Australia
and West Germany.
“I have been doing this
work for 14 years, but
East Timor is the worst I
have ever seen,” according
to Frank Carlin, CRS
program director in
Indonesia.
The Indonesian
government said the
famine is due to a drought
and to the disruption of
economic life caused by a
brutal civil war since 1974.
Timorese exiles claim
Indonesia has been
fostering the famine
through its occupation
policy and by forcibly
taking food that should be
going to the Timorese
people.
East Timor comprises
the eastern half of Timor
Island about 1,500 miles
east of Jakarta, the
Indonesian capital. It was
a Portuguese colony until
1974.
“What you have is a
situation where people for
four years have been on a
starvation diet. Obviously,
many will die and
continue to die. But they
still have a chance and will
live and if we can get the
supplies to them in time
they will survive,” said
Cedric Neukomm, Red
Cross delegate in
Indonesia.
Adding to the
difficulties of meeting the
needs of the Timorese are
bad transportation
facilities. Roads are poor
and often covered by
jungle growth.
The Portuguese pulled
out of East Timor after
400 years of rule. About
one-fifth of East Timor’s
600,000 population is
believed to have fled from
coastal areas to the
mountains during fierce
fighting that broke out in
1975 between a
pro-communist
independence group and a
movement favoring merger
with Indonesia. After eight
months of fighting,
Indonesia announced it
had annexed East Timor.
The area’s poor soil
barely allows subsistence
level agriculture in good
weather. A drought last
year wiped out the corn
crop and the people began
eating the seeds that were
being saved for this year’s
planting.
ROME (NC) - The popular view of
Religious as the church’s “professional
prayers and ascetics . . . has little to do
with the reality of modern apostolic life
and commitment,” a Jesuit priest told
some 630 superiors general of women’s
religious orders.
Father James Walsh, editor-in-chief of
THE WAY magazine in London, was one
of the principal speakers at the annual
assembly of the International Union of
Superiors General held in Rome.
The group also heard Pope John Paul II
hint that he is preparing new rules for
nuns.
Although popular wisdom once held
“that Religious, in view of their
o consecration, must be remote from a world
5 that inevitably defiles, the theory and,
m gradually in our times, the practice show
that the reverse is true,” said Father Walsh.
“The predominant forms of religious
life in the church for the last 400 years or
more have in fact been apostolic rather
than monastic -- that is, their purpose
indeed.”
Father Walsh reviewed the history of
apostolic life and spirit from the early days
of the church to the post-Vatican II period.
“The lessons offered us by the council
are being learned in the midst of great
difficulty and can be implemented only at
great personal cost,” he said.
During the four-day meeting on the
theme, “Apostolic Spirituality for Today’s
Religious,” a Mass was celebrated at the
Vatican with Pope John Paul II.
Nuns must give witness to their vocation
by a total fidelity to the church, by living
in community and especially by wearing
the religious habit, the pope said in his
homily.
He praised the “positive evolution in
recent years of religious life” but added
that “certain concrete choices, even if
prompted by good though pot always
enlightened intentions, have not offered to
the world the authentic picture (nuns)
must make present to men.”
Pope John Paul also hinted that he is
preparing new rules for women’s religious
orders but did not say when the document
would be released.
“It is time to prepare rules for a stable
life,” he said. “After years of experience in
religious life the time has come to evaluate
with objectivity and humility, and to
rediscover the positive elements and the
deviations.”
The annual meeting was preceded by
the triennial general assembly of the
organization (Nov. 6-10), attended by 100
councillors, delegates and observers
representing more than a million nuns in
65 countries.
Sister Regina Casey, the New York-born
president of the international union and
superior of the Missionaries of the Sacred
Heart, said in her opening talk that the
purpose of the union is to gather women
superiors general and encourage “the
fostering and the continual renewal of
religious life in accordance with the human
and evangelical values and for the service of
the people of God.”
Sister Casey was elected to another
three-year term as president during the
triennial general assembly. Sister Alma
Dufault, a native of Boston and superior of
the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, was
elected as an alternate to the eight-member
executive council.
The 100 participants in the assembly
spent two days in dialogue with members
of the Vatican Congregation for Religious
and Secular Institutes, headed by Cardinal
Eduardo Pironio.
Pope Will Visit Turkey—
(Continued from page 1)
pope said that “great
progress has been made,
but we cannot be satisfied
with it.”
“We must fully realize
the will of Christ,” he said,
noting that the Roman
Catholic Church and the
Orthodox churches are “at
the eve of beginning a
theological dialogue” in an
effort to overcome
differences between them.
“With this visit, I want
to demonstrate the
importance that the
Catholic Church gives to
this dialogue,” Pope John
Paul added.
Turkey, a secular
republic of about 40
million people, will be the
first country not having a
predominantly Christian
population visited by Pope
John Paul. The pope has
been to Mexico, the
Dominican Republic,
Poland, Ireland and the
United States during his
13-month papacy.
Roman Catholics
number about 30,000 in
Turkey, where 98 percent
of the population
professes Islam.
Pope John Paul will be
the second Roman
Catholic pontiff to visit
the country in 12
centuries. Pope Paul VI
went to Istanbul and
Ephesus in 1967.
“I would like this trip
to remind each and every
one of you, every one of
the church’s faithful, of
the sacred duty to work
for unity,” Pope John Paul
said in announcing the
trip.
“Every Catholic must
help, at least with prayers
and with a conversion of
heart, as the council
requested,” he added.
The Catholic and
Orthodox churches have
been separated for 1,000
years and relations have
been steadily improving
since Vatican II.
After the two churches
revoked the mutual
excommunications
pronounced against each
other more than nine
centuries earlier, Pope Paul
gave a historic kiss of
peace to Dimitrios’
predecessor, Patriarch
Athenagoras, on
Jerusalem’s Mount of
Olives in 1964.
The pope and Patriarch
Athenagoras also met in
Istanbul in 1967 and in
Rome in 1970. On Dec.
14, 1975, Pope Paul fell to
his knees before
Metropolitan Meliton of
Chancedon, the envoy of
Dimitrios I, and kissed his
feet.
By accepting the
invitation to join in the
celebration of the feast of
St. Andrew, Pope John
Paul said “the brother
responds to the brother -
Peter to the invitation of
Andrew.”
“Both of them respond
- in conformity with the
many voices of our ages -
to the invitation of the
Lord for the good of
Christianity and of the
churches which is the
body of Christ,” he added.
Meanwhile, UPI
reported from Rome that
a formal announcement on
Pope John Paul’s trip to
the Philippines will be
made before the end of
November. It quoted
Vatican sources who said
the visit will take place in
February 1980.
Cardinal Jaime Sin of
Manila said he has
encouraged the pope to
come to the Philippines in
February “because it is the
only time when there are
no typhoons.” The
Vatican has confirmed
that the trip will take
place, but has yet to
mention the date.
The only other papal
trip being seriously
discussed is one to Brazil.
Northwest Deanery
The Northwest Deanery of the Archdiocesan
Council of Catholic Women met at Holy Spirit
Church on November 14. Deanery President Mary
Wells presided at the meeting.
Reports were heard from the various
commissions and pleas were made for volunteers to
open their homes to foreign students and visitors at
Christmas.
The program was presented by Ruth Maguire and
Sheila Mallon. It was designed to explore the
relationship between NCCW, ACCW, the Deaneries
and parishes and the Commission areas which exist
and communicate at all levels.
Miss Wells asked those present to remember that
March 8 will be Recognition Day. This is the day
when the Council recognizes the outstanding
women and youth of the Archdiocese. The letters
will be arriving in the parishes the week of
December 5.
The president gave a brief sketch of the 39th
Annual Meeting of the NCCW which she had
attended in Pittsburgh.
The meeting ended with a plea for volunteers to
work in the various commission programs and Miss
Wells repeated a Swedish proverb “The best place to
find a helping hand is at the end of your arm.”
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