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4 1 H Memories: Hot But BY GRETCHEN REISER Seven teenagers from County Waterford, Ireland, returned home this month with memories of a hot, dry Georgia summer, the Scream Machine at Six Flags and the friendliness of St. Michael’s parish in Gainesville. Participants in an exchange program shaped by Father David McGuinness of Waterford, the teenagers, most on their first trip from their homeland, spent three weeks with host families in Gainesville. It was the last leg of a trip that gave 10 Gainesville students an opportunity to stay with families in Waterford, before bringing the Irish “home” to Georgia. In between, the entire group spent three days in London, a stay that “cemented their relationships with each other,” Father McGuinness said. The program began with a different type of exchange. Last summer, Father McGuiness came to St. Michael’s as a summer replacement for the pastor, Father Edward O’Connor. The director of St. Paul’s Youth Movement in Waterford, Father McGuinness also worked with the young people at St. Michael’s, and the plan emerged. Funds were raised at both ends over the past year. Father McGuinness hopes that the program will lead to formation of a youth group in Gainesville, like that in Waterford, which involves 450 young people. For the moment, it has given students like 16-year-old Susan O’Brien of Waterford, and 15-year-old Megan Phillips of Gainesville, more to share than their Irish names. Susan, who is returning home to study for her final secondary school examination, noted that families here were much more affluent and dependent on cars. But she was hoping to convince the airlines that she was “too dangerous” to send home. “I’ll remember how people went Glorious out of their way for us,” she said, “and the church services.” The contrast between St. Michael’s parish and the large Catholic congregations in Ireland, Susan said, had left her moved by the “very, very personal” nature of worship here, and “the community spirit which you can’t get in Ireland, where it’s so big.” Megan remembered the milk delivered to the door in Ireland that “still had the cream on top” and the trains which give Irish young people a freedom to travel, without having to depend on an adult for transportation. But, like Susan, she had been particularly impressed by the friendliness of those she met abroad. “Everybody wanted to meet us,” she said. Her last night in Ireland, two girls waited outside the door much of the night, she said, just to make sure they were there in time to say goodbye. FAREWELLS - In a last stop at Archdiocesan Offices, Irish students exchanged gifts with Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan. At right, Susan O’Brien receives an inscription. Who Will Lead? Senator Robert A. Taft, Republican of Ohio, ran for the Presidential nomination in 1948. He felt destiny called him to the highest office. But the voters disagreed. He probably lost his chance for historical greatness in 1946 when he courageously made his famous statement on the Nuremberg Trials. Calling his speech “Equal Justice Under the Law,” Taft challenged the fairness of the Allied judges meting out death penalties to eleven Nazi war criminals, to the applause of a free world staggering back on its feet. “The trial of the vanquished by the victors,” said the great mop f rvf IVia UlUOtCl VSJ. blic American Constitution, “cannot be impartial. About this whole judgement there is a spirit of vengeance and vengeance is seldom justice.” The dark shadows of World War II had hardly faded, the atrocities were still starkly fresh, politicians led the call for revenge. Leaders of both parties, valuing their positions on the Potomac, vilified the words of Taft and made him stand alone as he courageously protested the rude, mob style application of American justice. It was in vain. The Nazis were hanged. Two years later, the voters remembered his protest and Taft lost the nomination. A courageous display of personal conscience is rarely seen in the lifestyle of the politician, especially the Washington based ones. They cannot afford it and we refuse to allow it. We send them to the capitol to represent our views, to represent our state and then to represent the common good of the nation. There is no square inch left for personal conscientious, courageous consideration of any event. The busy boredom of the Reagan regalia last week is a good example. Giving the Oscar performance of a lifetime, ole Ronnie pledged a believable “New Beginning” to his worshipping followers. But when the dream co-star in the person of Bush - chief ridiculer of the Reagan campaign - showed up, and a believable balance was seen as most expedient, the Reaganites rose mightily above principle. But the show is not over. Carter and Kennedy are preparing to dump their smiling compromises on a well picked New York audience in August. The play acting continues as the show drifts along. Only 54 per cent of the eligible voters even bothered to exercise their constitutional right in 1976. That figure is a disaster. But worse is the drama of 1980. One third of those brave, few, patriotic souls who took the time to participate in the primaries, simply wrote “none of the above” when asked to pick the best of the bunch running to lead the free world. It is enough to send one candidate back to packing peanuts and the other to his home where the buffalo roam. It is more than enough to make us realize that as long as we ask politicians to be mere rubber stamps of our personal ambitions, mechanical robots is all we can expect. Courageous leadership, like a Taft of Ohio, a first when history profiles political courage, shall indeed choose to be last in considering the burdens of the White House. And we are left with John Morley’s dreadful definition of politics” a field where action is one long, second best.” Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta Vol. 18 No. 27 Thursday, July 24,1980 MASS IN MOSCOW - Athletes from Ireland Moscow. An unidentified priest celebrates Sunday sit on benches in the Catholic chapel set up for Mass for the athletes, the Olympic games in the Olympic Village in Cardinal Dearden Retires WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope John Paul II has accepted the resignation of Cardinal John F. Dearden as archbishop of Detroit and has appointed him apostolic administrator of the archdiocese pending the appointment of a successor. Cardinal Dearden, 72, is three years under the age at which Pope Paul VI ordered bishops who are heads of dioceses to submit their resignations. He has headed the Detroit Archdiocese, seventh largest Catholic Church jurisdiction in the United States, since J.yb8. Archbishop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the United States, announced the resignation. At a news conference in Detroit on the day the announcement was made, Cardinal Dearden said: “Impaired health has limited my ability to be involved in many of those pastoral activities that are my responsibility. I feel a sense of frustration in not being able to shoulder my share of the burdens of pastoral service to our people.” The cardinal, who suffered a heart attack in 1977 and has been forbidden to take on evening assignments, added that he did not “intend to buy a rocking chair.” He noted that his more than 21 years as head of the Detroit Archdiocese had spanned the periods before and after the Second Vatican Council. What he had found most challenging, he said, was trying to bring into the life of the church the insights of the council. He said he thought he had “brought a greater sense of unity and community” to the people of the archdiocese. The cardinal, whose statements and actions during the Second Vatican Council, won him the nickname, “the unobtrusive liberal,” a label he particularly favored, was the first president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops from its establishment in 1966 until 1971. During those years of tension in the church between Catholics in disagreement over the council’s meaning, Cardinal Dearden repeatedly stressed the importance of communication and reconciliation. The work of developing community “begins through communication,” he said in a talk to the National Council of Catholic Women’s convention in 1966. “After all, the crisis of communication, of which we speak so much these days, is basically a problem of community. One of the first evidences of a truly living community is a readiness on the part of all who constitute it to be open to one another. There must be a free movement of ideas in every direction.” CARDINAL DEARDEN And the following year, at the convention of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, Cardinal Dearden said: “Precisely because we are Christian, we must be a community of reconciliation. Our commitment to mankind should move us unceasingly to attempt to unite people, to heal wounds on every side, to help people understand, accept, share with and love one another.” John Francis Dearden was born Oct. 15, 1907, in Valley Falls, R.I., the eldest of five children of John and Agnes Dearden. When he was 11 the family moved to Cleveland, where he attended St. Philomena Elementary School, Cathedral Latin School and St. Mary’s Seminary. In 1929 he went to study at the North American College in Rome, where he was ordained to the priesthood on Dec. 8, 1932. He then earned a doctorate in theology at the Gregorian University in Rome. From 1934 to 1937 he was assistant pastor at St. Mary’s Parish in Painesville, Ohio. He then taught philosophy at St. Mary’s Seminary from 1937 to 1944 and was the rector of the seminary from 1944 to 1948. Named coadjutor bishop of Pittsburgh in 1948, he became bishop of that diocese in 1950. He was named archbishop of Detroit on Dec. 17, 1958. Pope Paul VI named him a cardinal in 1969. He participated in sessions of the world Synod of Bishops in Rome in 1967, 1969, 1971 and 1974 and in the two r> conclaves of 1978, which elected Popes John Paul I and John Paul II. $8 Per Year GOP POSITIONS U.S. Bishops, Reagan Differ BY JIM LACKEY WASHINGTON (NC) - Areas of both strong agreement as well as some serious disagreements can be found in a comparison of the campaign statements of Ronald Reagan and the positions on various political issues taken by the American bishops. Reagan and the bishops agree on such issues as abortion, tuition tax credits and the need to eliminate world hunger. But they disagree on issues such as the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II), national health insurance, the death penalty and the presidential candidate Ellen McCormack has been skeptical of Reagan’s pronouncements and has contended Reagan still has not proven his loyalty to pro-life goals. It also is unclear exactly what kind of a constitutional amendment on abortion Reagan favors. In the early months of the primary season, Reagan said he favored an amendment prohibiting abortion except to save the life of the mother. But more recently, according to Dominican Father Charles C. Fiore, chairman of the National Pro-Life Political Action Committee, Reagan said he favored the “paramount” approach which, as proposed, - Catholic* Vote - See Pg. 3 - advisability of a balanced federal budget. Reagan, the Republican nominee for president, has spoken several times on issues which the bishops outlined in their statement, “Political Responsibility: Choices for the 1980s.” The statement, issued last fall, includes a compilation of political issues on which the bishops have taken stands over the past several years. Probably the strongest area of agreement is on abortion, where Reagan - like the bishops - favors an amendment to the Constitution banning abortion. Reagan also opposes spending federal funds to pay for abortion and promises that the judges he appoints will reflect a pro-life attitude. Reagan’s abortion stance, though, has been a source of controversy within the pro-life movement. While many pro-life groups have endorsed the ex-California governor because of his anti-abortion stance, a small segment of the movement led by appears to outlaw abortion even in life-of-the-mother cases. Another area of agreement between Reagan and the bishops is on tuition tax credits. Asked by Catholic legislative coordinators before the Iowa caucuses and the Massachusetts primary last winter whether he supported such tax credits, Reagan said the credits were an example of his support for “developing new means to improve parents’ ability to send their children to the school of their choice.” The bishops and the candidate also would appear to agree generally on the problems of world hunger, though their responses might be different. Asked whether he agreed with a statement by the bishops supporting “a national policy aimed at securing the right to eat to all the world’s people,” Reagan remarked that the United States should use its agricultural resources and technological advances to help solve world hunger. (Continued on page 8) Fight The Heat THE ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY at 304 Parkway Drive is in need of additional donations of non-perishable food, light summer clothing, and powder or baking soda for children suffering from heat rash. The Society serves families in Atlanta and anyone wishing to donate items may contact them at 523-1541. RURAL SOCIAL SERVICES at 119 Pirkle Ferry Road in Cumming, serving the people of Forsyth County and parts of Dawson and Hall counties, needs fans to distribute to rural families during the heat wave. Please contact Sister June Raeicot at 1-887-1098 if you wish to make a donation. IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY PARISH is in need of up to four fans to donate to Cuban refugees who have been resettled in the parish. Please contact Max Munoz at 325-4818. CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES in its ministry to the elderly poor in the metropolitan area is in need of fans and of donations to enable the sisters to buy small household items for those they visit. Please contact Sister Theresa Termini at 881-6571. Requests for fans have been outrunning donations at the city’s fan collection program known as Operation Breeze.