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Soundings - - 4fh Of July Dreams “By ’Jft&pi. 'H&el “Americans are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.” This cryptic piece of sarcastic snobbery was uttered by Mr. Samuel Johnson in 1775 — just one year before he and his London-likes bit the American dust. A sacred Constitution for the pioneer breakway nation was written one year later. The concept that this colony was a mere dungeon of exiled felons was denied. The document simply said: We are One Nation. It was a stated dream then, and one day it may become a reality. One Nation. If you go into the magically beautiful Kennedy Library as it stands glistening on the shores of the New England Sound, you will glean what the half-starved Irish faced a generation ago as they reached the outskirts of Yankee Boston, “Help wanted, no Irish or Catholic need apply.” Jews were known as ghetto dwellers, god-killers to be corailed and watched. As they raced from the rage of bitter persecution of Europe’s worst anger, they were expected, in the New World, to shed their identity or accept the burning brand of ostracism. The Greeks and the Poles came as potato-less as the Irish. Their accents were thick and their language “un-American.” They became the footstool of the Irish and the Jews, now savoring the sweet taste of a little power - one political, the other financial. Through it all, as this mixture accepted a comfortable blend, the dream was desperately and continually sought — One Nation. But you still had the blacks. The new nation with the wonderful dream had no place in the blend for them. The immigrants shared and divided America with every race and every creed under the sun, generously. So why ask them to heal the agony of these original outcasts of cotton field slavery. Martin Luther King had a dream. It was to be a responsible part, a working part of that persistant pursuit. One Nation. With determination, cruel suffering and the insistence of decent men, a place for the black American was ultimately found. They became part of the search for the dream. One Nation. Iran has shaken our onward march. We have mended divisions, found rich reserves in our beautiful land, led the world into the adventure of outer space star-hopping, proved we are the land of the free. But we have allowed this backward nation of village dwellers to tie us hand and foot and gleefully watch us choke to death on the bitter frustration of it all. In this unexpected discomfort we wonder if the dream will ultimately ever come true. Over in Rome a young girl who roamed this great land before the colony, the convicts, the constitution or the dream, was declared a Blessed of God by the Church. Kateri Tekakwitha known as the “Lily of the Mohawks” was honored for her sinless life, her joy in being faithful, her courage before the threats of evil men and her prayer for her Mohawk people. She prayed that one day they would become One Great Nation - under God. Dreams. Vol. 18 No. 25 Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta Thursday, July 3,1980 $8.00 per year HISTORIC 5-4 DECISION Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Restrictions z r> LADY LIBERTY - Charlie deLeo, 32, a maintenance worker at the Statue of Liberty, has dedicated the torch of the statue “as a chapel to the Lord Jesus Christ” and he goes there to meditate and pray during breaks. Though off limits to the general public since 1916, the torch is kept clean by deLeo who also cleans the 200 windows in the crown and does other general maintenance work. Archbishop Jadot Reassigned WASHINGTON (NC) - U.S. Catholic leaders have praised Archbishop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the United States, following his appointment as propresident of the Vatican’s Secretariat for Non-Christians. Those contacted said they are happy for the archbishop but regret his departure from the nation in which he has served for seven years. Archbishop Jadot, 70, will replace the late Cardinal Sergio Pignedoli in his new post. “While we rejoice in this merited recognition of Archbishop Jadot’s personal gifts and his many accomplishments, we are sincerely and profoundly saddened by his leaving this country where he has made so many friends,” said Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Archbishop Quinn said he offered Archbishop Jadot “heartfelt congratulations.” The apostolic delegate’s “keen intelligence, good judgment and vast experience always went hand-in-hand with a warm and welcoming manner, openness, a desire to listen, a sense of humor and unassuming gentleness which have endeared him to all of us,” Archbishop Quinn stated. “We are grateful for all he has done as the representative of the holy father in serving the church in the United States,” Archbishop Quinn added. Archbishop Jadot “He has traveled widely in this country, dialogued freely and given readily of himself to others,” said Bishop Thomas C. Kelly, NCCB general secretary. “Always he has given encouragement and support, frequently calling attention to emerging issues and pointing the way to new pastoral initiatives in response to them.” Bishop Kelly’s remarks came in a joint statement with Archbishop Quinn. In it he pledged continued prayers for Archbishop Jadot’s “happiness and success” and also noted that the apostolic delegate provided “a sympathetic and insightful mirror of the state of the church in the United States for the benefit of the Holy See.” Auxiliary Bishop Thomas W. Lyons of Washington said Archbishop Jadot “never missed an opportunity to find out all he could about the church in the United States.” Archbishop Jadot also “has taken great interest in our own parishes” said Bishop Lyons, apostolic administrator of the Washington Archdiocese. WASHINGTON (NC) - The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the Hyde amendment restricting federal funding of abortions. In a 5-4 decision June 30, the court ruled that the Hyde amendment “places no governmental obstacle in the path of a woman who chooses to terminate her pregnancy, but rather, by means of unequal subsidization of abortion and other medical services, encourages alternative activity deemed in the public interest.” The court said that, although it decided in 1973 that a woman in certain circumstances was free to choose to have an abortion, that freedom of choice does not constitutionally entitle her to the money to have an abortion. The court also rejected arguments that the Hyde amendment violated rights secured by the religion clauses of the First Amendment. Recalling previous rulings that a law is not unconstitutional because it happens to coincide with the tenets of some or all religions, the court said it was convinced “that the fact that the funding restrictions in the Hyde amendment may coincide with the religious tenets of the Roman Catholic Church does not. . .contravene the Establishment Clause.” First passed in 1976 and named for Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), the Hyde amendment to the annual appropriations bill for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare originally restricted federal abortion funding to cases in which the life of the mother is in danger. In its current form it also Pope In Brazil BRASILIA, Brazil (NC) - With a doff of his skull cap, a wave of the hand and a kiss, Pope John Paul II became the first pope to set foot in Brazil, the country with the world’s largest Catholic population. The papal plane landed at 11:56 a.m. (10:56 a.m. EDT) June 30 at Brasilia’s international airport. About 10 minutes later the pope appeared. He doffed his cap and held it in his hands because of the wind. Then he greeted the crowd with a wave of the hand and descended the stairs. Once on the runway, the pope pointed to a spot just off the ceremonial tarmac. He then bent down and kissed the spot. The kiss has become the traditional papal greeting used by Pope John Paul to signify the missionary nature of his trips. “I kiss the good and generous soil of Brazil,” he said in his airport speech. The pope said this was the 13th time he had kissed the ground during his papal voyages, but he asked that Brazilians regard it as his “first and silent thanks” to them. allows funding in cases of rape or incest that have been reported promptly to a law enforcement agency or public health service. Former HEW Secretary Joseph Califano estimated that the Hyde amendment cut federal abortion funding through Medicaid by 99 percent. Previously, Medicaid, a joint federal-state program of health care for the poor, paid for an estimated 250,000 abortions a year. Sixteen states still use their own money to pay for abortions. The majority opinion in the case, Harris v. McRae, was delivered by Justice Potter Stewart. Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justices Byron White, Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist joined in that opinion. Justices William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens dissented. Brennan said the Hyde amendment’s denial of funds for medically necessary abortions intrudes on the constitutionally protected right of a woman to decide whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. The amendment, he said, ‘‘both by design and in effect. . .serves to coerce indigent pregnant women to bear children that they would otherwise elect not to have.” The Supreme Court’s decision reverses the decision by U. S. District Judge John F. Dooling Jr. last Jan. 15 that Congress has no right to place limits on the use of federal funds for welfare abortions. The case was originally filed in federal court in New York on the day the Hyde amendment was first passed in 1976. Plaintiffs included Cora McRae, a pregnant Medicaid recipient who wanted an abortion; the New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., which operates 12 hospitals providing abortion services; officers of the Women’s Division of the Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church and the Women’s Division itself. Before taking up the issue of the constitutionality of the Hyde amendment, the Supreme Court said that the federal law establishing the Medicaid program does not require a participating state to provide any services for which Congress had withheld federal funding. Therefore, the court said, the Hyde amendment operates to relieve states of the obligation to pay for abortions for which federal reimbursement is unavailable. Beginning its discussion of the Hyde amendment’s constitutionality, the court recalled that in its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision it had recognized an “implicit constitutional liberty” which “includes the freedom of a woman to decide whether to terminate a pregnancy.” But it noted too that in that decision it had also recognized that a state has legitimate interests during pregnancy in both insuring the health of the mother and protecting potential human life.” The court pointed out that in Maher v. Roe, it had upheld a Connecticut regulation barring Mediciad payments for medical services related to nontherapeutic abortions. The same reason, it said, applies to the present case: (Continued on page 8) Official Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan announces the following appointments, effective immediately (unless otherwise noted). The Archbishop extends a warm welcome to all who are joining the brotherhood of the priesthood in the Archdiocese. ASSISTANT PASTORS: REVEREND THOMAS P. BRISLIN, C.P. ... to Saint Paul of the Cross (effective 8/1/80) REVEREND THOMAS L. LECLERC, M.S. ... to Saint Ann’s, Marietta REVEREND JOHN McSHANE, S.M. ... to Saint Joseph’s, Marietta (effective 7/15/80). REVEREND CAYET N. MANGIARACINA, O.P. ... to Holy Cross (effective 8/1/80). REVEREND JUDE SMITH, O.F.M. ... to the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. TO RESIDENCE: REVEREND GILES A. CONWILL ... to Saint Anthony’s. REVEREND IGNATIUS NDIBALEMA ... to Saints Peter and Paul, Decatur. REVEREND ROBERT U. PERRY, O.P. ... to Holy Cross (effective 9/1/80). REVEREND JOHN RICHMOND, S.M. ... to Marist (effective 7/15/80). REVEREND GLENN J. EGAN, S.J. . .,. to Ignatius House. REVEREND JOEL KONZEN, S.M. ... to Marist School as Administrator/Teacher (effective 7/15/80). BROTHER GARY KOLARCIK, O.F.M. ... to the Catholic Center, University of Georgia (Athens)