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PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, May 15,1980 Archbishop Donnellan will be the principal celebrant at the 100th birthday Mass for MRS. GEORGINE DEALY on Saturday, May 17th at 11 a.m. at St. Anthony’s Church in Atlanta. We all join in wishing Mrs. Dealy a very happy birthday! ST. JUDE’S WOMEN’S GUILD will hold their spring luncheon on Wednesday, May 21st at the Atlanta Athletic Club. There will be a social hour at 11:30 a.m. followed by lunch at 12:30 p.m. Tickets available at $9 through circle chairwomen or from Frances Haile (255-2393). TEENS!!! LOOKING FOR SUMMER ACTIVITY? ??? Volunteer Atlanta is looking for dependable persons to volunteer just three hours weekly at a downtown medical facility. Call 522-0110 for further information. St. Anthony’s Church on Gordon Street is out to help a male African student who is a member of the parish. He is looking for a roommate and an apartment to share, preferably in the Stewart Ave. area. If you can help, call Sister Suzanne (753-1526) at the convent. The Vietnamese Family sponsored by Holy Family Church is well settled, but is still in need of a set of bunk beds. If you can help, call Laurie Whittington (971-4629). The 1980-81 Executive Board for the ATLANTA CONFERENCE OF SISTERS includes President, Sister Patricia Geary, GNSH; Vice-President, Sister Dawn Gear, GNSH; Secretary, Sister Teresa Horn-Bostel, CSJ; and Treasurer, Sister Joan Leonard, OP. able to work independent ly. Call 881-6131 for an appointment. THE GEORGIA CATHOLIC SINGLES encourages you to attend their general meeting, to be held at the Hyland Center after the 5:30 Folk Mass at the Cathedral of Christ the King on May 18th. MOST GRAPHIC Congratulations to our priests who are celebrating their silver jubilee year! Father Joseph Beltran, Father Richard Morrow, and Father John Mulroy will join friends and fellow clergy at St. Jude’s Church in Atlanta on May 22nd at 6:30 p.m. for a Mass of Thanksgiving in their honor. .. . AND MORE CONGRATULAT IONS!!!!!!!!!! - Father Francis Hamilton, MSFS, pastor of St. Lawrence Church in Lawrenceville will celebrate his fortieth year in the priesthood with a Mass of Thanksgiv ing on May 29 at 7:30 p.m. Father Francis will be honored by parishioners and friends at the Lawrenceville church. Among the outstanding citizens, past and present, nominated for WSB Radio’s 1980 SHINING LIGHT AWARD, was the late Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan. St. Joseph’s Hospital VOLUNTEER program is now accepting applications. The Orientation Program will be held on Saturday, June 7th, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Application forms may be picked up in the hospital gift shop or your school office. For further information, call 993-5987. NEEDED!!!! A nursing home needs a piano in good condition. Call Father Thomas Roshetko at 522-6800 if you can help. A Mass to celebrate the feast of PENTECOST will be held on Saturday, May 24th at 8 p.m. at Holy Family Church in Marietta. The special Mass will be sponsored by the Charismatic Renewal in the Archdiocese. St. Thomas More Church and the Decatur Cooperative Ministries are co-sponsoring an ECUMENICAL WORSHIP SERVICE on Sunday, May 18th at 6 p.m. at the First Christian Church, across the street from St. Thomas More. Father Soh will read from the Scriptures. The choir, under the direction of Alan Brown, will provide music. Everyone is invited to attend!! DIVORCED AND SEPARATED CATHOLICS are invited to a program entitled “SORTING OUT SOME HARD THINGS WITH GOD.” The program will be given by Father Jeremy Miller, O.P. and will be held on Thursday, May 15th at 7:30 p.m. at St. John’s rectory in Hapeville. Call Sandy Melof (964-0875) for information. BOWS OUT - Father Robert J. Cornell is embraced by his campaign coordinator, Patricia McVay, after he announced in De Pere, Wis., that he would not run for office. Father Cornell, a Democrat, had announced two weeks ago that he would run for the congressional seat he was ousted from in 1978. But Bishop Aloysius Wycislo of Green Bay told the priest he should withdraw after hearing about an order forbidding Father Robert Drinan from seeking re-election. A Special Place for Special Persons—God's Children Catholic summer camping for boys and girls, 7-16. A complete program of tennis, swimming, horseback riding, arts and crafts, hiking, canoeing, field sports, drama, skits and talent shows. A prayerful environment of religious education, children's liturgies and community living. All and more at reasonable rates. Special tutoring available in reading, math, English, writing and spelling. A special counselor-ln-training program is offered for boys and girls ages 15 and 16 from June 26 - August 17. Camping session: Pre-Camp June 14 • June 24 1st Sesslon....June 26 • July 15 2nd Session....July 17 • August 5 Full Session...June 26 • August 5 Post Camp August 7 • August 17 . | Jm /flip Our Lady of 21 Special iSBikthe Hills Camp yQjjp d")j|cJp0r') Hendersonville, North Carolina Celebrating 25 years as a Catholic Camp. Member of American Camping Association. Owned and operated by the Diocese of Charlotte. For descriptive literature and other information, write: Mrs. Kathy Healy, Camp Secretary 633 Cooper St Charlotte, N.C. 28210 Joe Wise... BY THEA JARVIS The music of Joe Wise comes from a place deep inside him that is simple, clear, and true. It blows in like a warm Kentucky rain, refreshing and cleansing all it touches, leaving behind a sweet fragrance of musical wisdom. Joe was in town last Friday night at the request of Father Ray Horan and the Transfiguration community in Marietta. Gathered under the “steel tent” that is home and church to the parish, an audience of over one thousand caught the spirit that is Joe Wise. For the children, Joe always has special treats. “The Peanut Butter and Jelly Song,” an epic that runs for over five minutes, extols the virtues of the spreadable stuff: “Peanut butter and jelly/ That’s what I like in my belly...” There is even a catchy number about a stubborn chicken who lays hard-boiled eggs after having hot water poured up and down its legs. Zaniness is a virtue at a Joe Wise concert. On the quieter side, Joe’s songs become a prayerful offering that bespeak a gentle theology. The Hail Mary is transformed with a few changes in nuance: “Hail Mary, graceful Mary,” and “Pray for us pilgrims/ Now and at the hour of our birth.” Joe’s Our Father is rendered as “an apology to God and ourselves for having settled for such a ...Gospel small slice of God for so long.” It praises God as “Our Father, our Mother, our Sister, our Brother” - a theological mouthful, but one that quickly dismisses narrow anthropomorphisms. Audience response is enthusiastic. Children cavort on and near the stage, teens clap and holler, and young and old join in to provide the musical “echoes” that some of the songs require. With Joe’s own family in attendance - his wife, Maleita and their children, Michelle and Johnny - families are made to feel especially welcome. And those without families are made to feel part of an important whole - the Church - laughing, singing, and celebrating its God. At the Church of the Transifuration, Father Ray Horan cited his hope that the parish could be more than “the ordinary Catholic church doing ordinary things.” He Minstrel waited for almost two years for the magic of Joe Wise to invade his halls. The wait was worthwhile. With all those who listened and sang with Joe Wise last Friday night, we note the aptitude of one of the last songs Joe offered ot us. The words were the words of Isaiah - the music was the music of Joe Wise. The description might fit many, but it seemed especially meant for Joe that evening: “How beautiful are the lips of those who speak your praise.” Archbishop’s Datebook THURSDAY, MAY 15, 12 NOON - Celebrant/Liturgy of Ascension Thursday at the Catholic Center. FRIDAY, MAY 16, 7:30 P.M. - Confirmation/Saint Philip Benizi, Jonesboro. SATURDAY, MAY 17, 11:00 A.M. - Celebrant/Liturgy of Thanksgiving (in honor Mrs. Georgine Dealy, parishioner of Saint Anthony’s Church). 6:00 p.m. — Confirmation/Holy Trinity, Peachtree City. SUNDAY, MAY 18, 12:45 P.M. - Preside/Father Richard Morrow’s Silver Jubilee Mass at Saint Jude’s. 6:00 P.M. — Confirmation for candidates of Saint Oliver Plunkett (Snellville) at Saint John Neumann (Lilburn). MONDAY, MAY 19, 4:00 P.M. - Reception for Sister Valentina, R.S.M. (Superintendent of Schools) at the Catholic Center. 7:00 P.M. — Preside/Father Joseph Beltran’s Silver Juubilee Mass at All Saints (Dunwoody). TUESDAY, MAY 20, 7:30 P.M. - May Procession at Saint Jude’s. WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 10:00 A.M. - Meeting/Pastoral Review Board at the Catholic Center (Chancery Conference Room). 6:00 P.M. — Meeting at the Village of Saint Joseph of the Board of the Village. 9:38 P.M. — Leave Atlanta for Chicago (Extension Society Board of Governors’ Meeting) BuLtailN Briefs.... - i - NCCB Approves Land Policy CHICAGO (NC) -- Midwestern bishops attending the April meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) in Chicago unanimously approved a radical statement on land based on the concept that the land is a gift from God to be used for the benefit of all people. The statement, “Strangers and Guests: Toward Community in the Heartland,” proposes specific measures aimed at justice in land distribution and use. Mass Media And The Child VATICAN CITY (NC) -- Parents and teachers must work to “neutralize any harmful aspects” of the mass media and to help children benefit from its “many valuable aspects,” Pope John Paul II said in his 1980 World Communications Day message. Nicaragua Priests And Politics MANAGUA, Nicaragua (NC) - The issue of priests in politics has stirred controversy in Nicaragua over the issue of determining if priests can join the Council of State, a legislative advisory body. One priest chose to resign from the council but another decided to join pending church approval. Both were elected to the council by priests and Religious. Yugoslavia Mourns Tito BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (NC) - A special “Mass for the homeland” was celebrated May 11 in Catholic churches in Yugoslavia to mark the death of President Tito. Tito was buried May 8 in the grounds of his suburban home in Belgrade^ About one-third of the country’s 22 million population professes Catholicism. USCC Supports Natural Planning WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. Catholic Conference has opposed including contraception, abortion and sterilization in U.S. population policy and recommended that such policy support natural family planning. More Priests And Politics... Priests “Wait And See” BY JIM LACKEY (NC) -- When Jesuit Father Robert F. Drinan and Norbertine Father Robert J. Cornell announced their decisions to end their respective candidacies for Congress, some of the resulting publicity made it seem as if separating priests from partisan politics is a relatively new idea in the post-Vatican II church. But even before the election of Pope John Paul II, there was plenty of resistance among the hierarchy to priests in politics. The resistance has been seen both in individual cases in which priests have wanted to run for office and in broader statements of policy by the bishops of the United States and of the world. While Father Drinan apparently had little problem gaining permission to run for Congress in the past 10 years, Father Cornell himself once was the subject of a bishop’s misgivings about priests in politics. Bishop Aloysius Wycislo of Green Bay, Wis., the same bishop who advised Father Cornell May 5 that he should drop his candidacy, said 10 years ago that he tried to do “everything possible to discourage Father Cornell from becoming a candidate” when the priest first set eyes on Congress in 1970. Father Cornell ran in 1970 with the support of his abbot, Norbertine Father Jerome Tremel. But he lost twice before finally winning the first of his two terms in 1974. Also in 1970, Bishop Russell J. McVinney of Providence, R.I., announced that he had not given permission to Jesuit Father John McLaughlin to run for the Senate from Rhode Island. But Father McLaughlin, who lost the race and later joined the Nixon administration as a speech writer, said he had the permission of his Jesuit superiors. The next year, Archbishop John F. Whealon of Hartford, Conn., said he was denying permission to Father Charles W. Cobb to run for mayor of Meriden, Conn. Also that year, Bishop Joseph B. Brunini of Natchez-Jackson, Miss., said he had “deep misgivings” about giving Josephite Father William Serving Atlanta Since 1912 <ir PRINTING • PRINTING ween. CO/WAY1/VK • LITHOGRAPHING 794 Forrest Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia Telephone 522-9726 “Quality Printing at Reasonable Rates. ” 279 Roswell St. Lor free pick-up and delivery call At Sullivan. Marietta, Ga. 427-5424 TREE SERVICE •PRUNING •REMOVAL •FERTILIZING CONTRACTS OR HOURLY RATES) FIREWOOD TONY DEGIVE - 449-0834 (FUUY INSURED) Morrissey run for Senate. And in Francisco Eugene announced permission to the Mississippi 1974, a San priest, Father J. Boyle, his candidacy for the state legislature in California despite being denied permission by Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken of San Francisco. Archbishop McGucken, fearing the effect of a priest’s speaking on partisan, secular issues, withdrew Father Boyle’s faculty to preach from pulpits of the archdiocese. The Code of Canon Law often has been cited as the source for the church’s prohibition on priests in politics. Canon 139, though not perfectly clear, generally prohibits priests from seeking elective office unless granted permission by their bishop or religious superior. It is unclear on whether it extends to priests in appointive offices, such as Msgr. Geno Baroni, currently an assistant secretary in the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. But in addition to canon law, church officials have been citing several other church documents which point toward a general prohibition of priests in politics. In 1971 the world Synod of Bishops approved by a 143-1 vote a prohibition on the clergy’s taking active part in politics unless special approval is granted in ex traordinary (Undated) (NC) - Several priests involved in local politics around the country are taking a wait-and-see attitude before deciding whether the order forcing Jesuit Father Robert F. Drinan to drop his re-election campaign for Congress will untimately affect them, too. Haitians Cite Double Standard (Undated) (NC) - Saying they speak for some 13,000 refugees from a dictatorial regime in Haiti, solidarity groups in Washington and Miami said that the United States has used a double standard by welcoming Cubans but rejecting Haitians. May 15 is the day when President Carter runs out of authority to parole the Haitians as political refugees. Sr. Kane Receives Award CHICAGO (NC) - Mercy Sister Theresa Kane, president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, has been given the 1980 U.S. Catholic magazine award for furthering the cause of women in the church. circumstances. The synod said priests, like all citizens, have the right to choose between various political options. “But since political options are by nature contingent and never in an entirely adequate and perennial way interpret the Gospel, the priest, who is the witness of things to come, must keep a certain distance from any political office or involvement.” The U.S. bishops took a similar view earlier in 1971 in a discussion designed to guide their four synod delegates. They approved a paper noting the difference between the role of a professional politician and the role of priest as teacher and reconciler. 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