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PAGE 3—The Georgia Bulletin, June 5,1980
GOD THE FATHER is reflected
in every father. What our own father
is like helps to develop in each of us
a first image of what He is like.
Through Dad we learn what it means
to be loved, cherished, cared for,
forgiven, redeemed. Pain Nong
(above), joyous father of two, shares
the best he has with his children in
the village of Ndona, Flores,
Indonesia where he teaches
catechism for the Divine Word
Missionaries who minister there.
(Photo by Steve Dunwell)
JESUIT SUPERIOR GENERAL
Addresses Single Parents
MANHASSET, N.Y.
(NC) -- Father Pedro
Arrupe, superior general of
the Jesuits, told
participants in a weekend
retreat for single parents
that the “big secret” of
life “is to know how even
in suffering you can be
happy.”
His two favorite words
are “amen” and “alleluia,”
the 72-year-old head of
the Society of Jesus said
to about 60 participants in
the weekend at St.
Ignatius Retreat House in
Manhasset.
“Amen,” he said,
denotes acceptance of
God’s will and “alleluia”
expresses the joy that can
come from such
acceptance.
“Human solitude - that
is the hardest thing,
really,” he said. ‘.‘Nobody
else knows how you are
suffering. Think a little of
your faith - see how
through your suffering
you find the real meaning
of life.”
Father Arrupe noted
that suffering was not
something to be sought for
its own sake, that it is
perfectly right to want a
happy life. But, he said,
accepting God’s will
results in joy even if
suffering is part of one’s
life. “Nobody will
understand, then. You will
have a tremendous
contradiction.”
The leader of the
world’s 27,000 Jesuits also
spoke at the retreat house
to members of the board
of trustees of the
Gregorian Foundation and
others interested in raising
a $16.5 million
endowment fund for the
Gregorian University
Consortium in Rome. The
consortium consists of the
Pontifical Gregorian
University, founded by St.
Ignatius Loyola, the
founder of the Jesuits, in
1551; the Pontifical
Biblical Institute, founded
in 1909; and the Pontifical
Oriental Institute, founded
in 1917.
Each of the three
institutions in the
consortium serves not only
as an educational
institution, but also as a
source of research for the
Holy See.
The faculty of the
Gregorian publishes about
80 books and hundreds of
articles every year, Father
Arrupe said, but most of
their work is internal
research for the pope and
the Vatican. This work, he
said, is never published but
serves as background for
making decisions. Often
these papers are “very
difficult and delicate,” he
said.
Father Arrupe would
not comment on the
matter of Jesuit Father
Robert Drinan, a
Democratic congressman
from Massachusetts, whom
the Jesuit superior general
had ordered not to seek
re-election this fall. Earlier
in May, Father Arrupe said
he had issued the order at
the express wish of Pope
John Paul II.
On the general question
of priests and politics,
however, Father Arrupe
said priests and the church
“cannot be identified with
any political party or any
ideology,” but have a clear
duty to advise, teach and
encourage progress toward
social justice and the
assurance of human rights.
There are different
levels of politics, he said.
Papal encyclicals on social
justice are “high politics”
and an appropriate activity
for the church, he said.
“The principle is clear,”
said Father Arrupe,
admitting that in specific
cases “the application is
sometimes difficult.”
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No Bars For These Women
“The inmates have one word
for it and that word is HOPE.
But the staff has it's own one word
and it is CHOICE. Here they get
the chance to choose the way back
to a decent life. Most of them take it.”
They work in day care centers,
they are maids in a motel, one is an
administrative assistant to a top
executive and one, get this, helps
run one of the largest security
agencies in the city. “They are always
in great demand, for one thing they
are always on time.”
BY MONSIGNOR
NOEL BURTENSHAW
Back in 1970 Jackie
Golden decided to return
to her teaching. It was
the beginning of an
adventure in the
rehabilitation of her own
sex. It would lead her to
an involvement with
women locked away in
prison without any hope.
Jackie, after helping
her husband through
Georgia Tech and raising
5 children, took a job
teaching in the Cobb jail
in Marietta. She found
the task a glorious joy.
“It was marvelous” says
Jackie “seeing them
gobble up that education
and even sit for the
College entrance exams.”
But educating these
lost Cons was one thing.
How about saving them?
“I got into the new
Restitution Program,”
says the energetic prison
official “and saw it work.
These guys went through
the program, saw its
value and got back to
society healed.” Now,
throughout the state
there are 11 Restitution
Centers for men.
But what about
women? “There was
nothing, but there were
those who did not
forget,” remembers
Jackie Golden. “In 1977,
without any center, any
place, the first Program
for women began.” And
the New York transplant
was named the Director.
The Women’s Diversion
Center was founded.
It’s down there on
West Peachtree Street
now and maybe it is
significant that it sits
almost directly across the
street from Ted Turner’s
Super Station. Because it
is a Super Place. Jackie’s
Irish eyes are smiling
when she speaks about
the Center. “The inmates
have one word for it”,
says Jackie “and that
word is HOPE. But the
staff has it’s own one
word and it is CHOICE.
Here they get the chance
to choose the way back
to a decent life. Most of
them take it.”
The house is not
much. It is 85 years old
and a bit squeaky at the
knees. But it does the
exact job that Jackie and
her small dedicated staff
of reformers want. It has
to. It is the only
Restitution Center for
women in the State.
Here’s how it works.
When a woman is found
guilty of a non-violent
crime, instead of finding
herself rotting in the
State Prison for women
where the experts tell us
non violent criminals are
often turned into wild
animals she may be sent
to the Restitution Center
where she will lose her
normal freedom but at
the same time restore the
harm she has done to
society.
“They must get jobs”
says Director Golden, a
parishioner of Holy
Family, “they pay room
and board to us, they
take care of the house
AND they pay for the
damage of their crime.”
Mary Boland (the
name is ficticious) was a
bad check artist. At first
she did it out of
necessity. Her husband
left her with a few small
children. After being
warned by the law and
repeating the crime it
was all set by the judge
that she would be sent
for a few years to
Hardwick Prison in
Milledgeville. Jackie and
her crew heard about it.
“She was perfect for us,”
says Jackie “There had
never been violence
involved. Why send her
to prison when she could
be forced to pay for the
bad checks, pay taxes
like any normal citizen as
she works and get the
kind of counsel and help
she needs?” In about 4
months Mary will be
back with her children.
Her term “in prison” will
have worked and it won’t
have cost the taxpayer a
penny.
The Women’s
Diversion Center is no
picnic. Not only must
rules and regulations be
kept and recreation and
home visits be earned, a
Public Service must be
daily undertaken. “Oh
yes” says the strict side
of Jackie Golden “they
will pay back what they
owe and they will also
work in the public parks
or work for hospitals or
something. They will
know that the wound in
society must be healed.”
The Center says it
loud and clear. Seventy
percent of all those who
are sent to prison in
Georgia have committed
non-violent crimes.
Putting them behind bars
to idly languish in an
overcrowded cell teaches
them, men or women,
the art of violence and
puts many on the fatal
road of drug addiction.
The Diversion Center
teaches the 13 women
who are lucky enough to
be there that we care, the
community cares. We
give them another
chance. But will they
take it?
“We have been here
only since March 31”
says Jackie smiling and
adding “you don’t think
I’d open on April Fools
Day, do you? But it
works for men. Seventy
to eighty percent of
them never go back. It
will work for the women
too. It will.”
They go out from
their house on West
Peachtree each day, pert
and pretty, young and
not so young women,
and get lost in jobs like
the rest of us. They work
in day care centers, they
are maids in a motel, one
is an administrative
assistant to a top
executive and one, get
this, helps run one of the
largest security agencies
in the city. “They are in
great demand” says
Jackie. “For one thing
they always show up on
time.”
They can’t use cars
and without permission
must come straight home
and check in. But they
are climbing back on to
their feet, paying society
for their crime and giving
us a guarantee that they
are worthy of our
forgiveness. As Jackie
Golden put it so expertly
“without denying they
are offenders, this center
and those who support it
give back to these
women a quality that
simply makes them
whole.”
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