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PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, August 21,1980
Africa: Famine Emergency
NEW YORK (NC) -
The emergency caused
by drought and famine in
the five northeast
African countries known
as the Horn of Africa “is
the most serious we’ve
had,” said Kenneth
Hackett, regional
director for Africa of
Catholic Relief Services
(CRS), the overseas aid
agency of U.S. Catholics.
In a statement issued
at CRS headquarters in
New York City, Hackett
said the emergency
‘‘covers a larger
geographical area than
the 1972 famine in
Wollo, Ethiopia, affects
more people than the ,
Biafra war crisis and is 1
compounded by political
factors we didn’t
encounter during the
Sahel drought.”
The Horn of Africa
suffers from endemic
drought and famine,
Hackett said, but massive
population shifts caused
by political strife and
economic hardship have
made the chronic
condition an emergency.
Hackett outlined the
situations in four of the
countries:
-- Kenya: Drought
affects several hundred
thousand people in the
arid Turkana and West
Pokot areas. The influx
of about 10,000 people
fleeing famine and civil
unrest in neighboring
Uganda has exacerbated
the seasonal food
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shortage. Food
production in Kenya is
40 percent below
normal.
CRS maintains
continuing child-feeding
and f ood-for-work
projects throughout the
country. In April CRS
began emergency
distributions of food and
milk for 40,000 of the
most seriously affected
people in the Turkana
district of northern
Kenya. Additional
emergency plans include
expanding the regular
food and nutrition
program in five locations.
After the emergency
phase, the next priority
will be the construction
of warehouses for food
shortage. The total cost
is expected to be $1.8
million.
- Ethiopia: About 5
million people in this
war-tom country face
famine caused by a
two-year drought. War
with Somalia has
disrupted farming and
caused many people to
flee. Diarrhea and
malaria are widespread.
Fifteen percent of the
population, mostly small
children, have died.
From 75 to 100 percent
of the camels, cattle,
goats and sheep have
died, leaving the herders
with no source of
income.
The continuing CRS
program in the country
consists of mother and
child health centers,
youth training projects,
housing aid for the
elderly and preschool
feeding. The emergency
program provides food
for needy people in the
Dire Dawa, Harar and
Jijiga areas. The
Missionaries of Charity,
founded by Mother
Teresa of Calcutta,
manage part of the
program.
-- Sudan: Surveys of
nutritional status
indicate that at least 50
percent of the children in
the country suffer from
some degree of
malnutrition. An
expensive, inefficient
transportation network
has compounded severe
food shortages.
CRS has focused its
attention on areas in
northern Sudan
burdened by an influx of
about 500,000 Eritrean
refugees. CRS activities
include food and
nutrition programs for
mothers and preschool
children.
- Djibouti: Located
between Ethiopia and
Somalia, this tiny nation
has been devastated by
severe drought and a
continuous flow of
refugees from the war
between its neighbors.
The emergency affects
about 150,000 people.
In January CRS
re-established a program
in Djibouti. Its primary
goal is to bring
nutritional assistance to
the refugee populations
living in camps. During
the first half of the year,
CRS provided $1.3
million in food aid
through nutrition and
food-for-work programs.
The agency has also
distributed food and
water storage containers
to nomads at watering
holes and donated canvas
material for tents. CRS is
working with other
international voluntary
agencies and the
government of Djibouti
to provide an adequate
supply of clean water by
repairing and drilling
wells and building dams.
DEACONS
Link Between World And Worship
NOTRE DAME (NC) - Deacons and
their families must provide role models for
the ministry to which every Christian is
called, 150 permanent deacons and their
wives were told at the National Diaconate
Institute on Continuing Education held
Aug. 6-9 at Notre Dame University.
Mark Searle, associate director of the
Notre Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy,
called on deacons to help Catholics find
continuity “between what they do in
church and what they do in life.” With the
decline of the diaconate in the early church
and the development of monasteries the
ministry of service became a specialized
ministry, separate from the parish
community, Searle said.
“Jesus came to abolish the difference
between worship and life. His sacraments
were sacraments of the street, healing and
ministering. Christian life is a sacrament
because it is a sign of Christ’s healing and
forgiving love,” he continued.
“The deacon who ministers, who serves
both in the community and at the altar,
reminds the church of the continuity
between world and worship. The success of
the restored diaconate will depend upon a
renewed understanding of the relationship
between liturgy and life,” the liturgist
concluded. “Service is not a specialized
ministry but is an integral part of being
Christian.”
The Notre Dame conference spent a day
reflecting upon each of the three principal
areas of ministry to which the deacon is
called, namely the liturgy, the word of God
and charity.
Jesuit Father William Thompson,
Scripture scholar from the Jesuit School of
Theology in Chicago, called upon deacons
to make their ministries richer and more
effective by “participation in and criticism
of sacred Scripture.”
Father Thompson said that
“participation in Scripture comes from
embracing the word, making it a living part
of one’s life. Criticism is moving away from
the word and studying it, probing it for its
deeper meaning.”
Participation in the word must come
first, he continued. Criticism is difficult
because of a natural fear of losing the
intimacy we have discovered from
participation. “In reality, however,
criticism deepens participation. The goal of
study is to understand.” We know the text
by taking it to prayer. We know about the
text by taking it to study. Both are
necessary for the deacon, Father
Thompson concluded.
Addressing the deacon’s ministry of
charity, Harry Fagan, chairman of the
board of the Catholic Committee on Urban
Ministry, said that deacons will find much
support for treating the effets of injustice.
“The model of the Good Samaritan
undergirds our theology in this area,” he
said. The deacon will find less support for
attacking and correcting the causes of
injustice, he continued. Changing
institutions is more difficult and more
threatening.
Fagan compared the two aspects of the
ministry of charity to Jesus’ ministry in
Galilee where he preached, healed and did
all those things that everyone agrees with. In
Jerusalem he attempted to change
institutions, he cleansed the temple and
confronted structures that needed changing
because they brought about injustice.
“Jesus was not crucified for being a social
worker, for helping the poor, for healing
the sick.”
Deacons must respond to their ministry
of charity in both dimensions, Fagan
concluded. “They must treat the effects of
injustice in individuals and also attack the
causes of injustice in institutions.”
THE WORLD’S GREATEST HUG, executed
by 15,000 members of Worldwide Marriage
Encounter, occupied much of the campus of the
University of Southern California August 10,
during the organization’s international
convention. Don and Linda Glaza, of Westchester,
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Conventioneers from
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Preaching at that Mass,
Father Edward Farrell of
Detroit challenged the
couples to “see what you
are and be what you see.”
By looking into themselves
they might recognize the
power they possess and
the power they could be,
he said.
“Just as marriage makes
you one with each other,
the Eucharist makes you
one in the body of
Christ,” Father Farrell
said. “You become the
presence of Jesus Himself
in your world.”
The Detroit priest
observed that encounter,
as in Marriage Encounter,
involves risk and sacrifice.
God made human beings,
he added, “not only for
Himself, not only for
ourselves, but for others.”
Auxiliary Bishop
Manuel Moreno of Los
Angeles, principal
celebrant of the opening
liturgy with nearly 500
concelebrants, read a
message from Cardinal
Agostino Casaroli, papal
secretary of state,
conveying the best wishes
and blessings of Pope John
Paul II for the convention
and its participants.
CONDEMNS ABORTION -
Mother Teresa (right) of Calcutta
looks over a program with Mercedes
Arzu de Wilson, president of Billings
International, prior to addressing
66
2,000 participants at the Family
Conference of the Americas in
Guatemala City. In her talk, Mother
Teresa called abortion “the greatest
misery of our time.”
Abortion: “Greatest Misery”
BY ZOILA REYES
GUATEMALA CITY,
Guatemala (NC) - In an
address to 2,000
participants of the Family
Congress of the Americas,
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
said “the greatest misery
of our time is the
generalized aborting of
children.”
Abortion “hurts home,
church and society,” she
said.
For a full week at the
end of July, delegates
from 30 nations dealt with
the impact on the family
of current trends in
population policies,
legislation, medicine,
psychology and religion.
They also heard from Pope
John Paul II and from the
originators of the Billings
method of regulating
births.
The congress was
sponsored by the World
Organization Ovulation
Method-Billings (WOMB).
“I rejoice with you for
your commitment in
promoting a regulation of
births which show respect
for God’s law and the
dignity of man and
woman,” the pope said in
a message read by
Archbishop Simon
Lourdusamy, secretary of
the Vatican Congregation
for the Evangelization of
Peoples.
BISHOP REISS
The archbishop is also
chairman of the Pontifical
Mission Aid Societies. The
family congress discussed
contraception campaigns
in the Third World funded
by industrial nations.
“The Holy See has a
deep interest in all efforts
toward sound family life,”
Archbishop Lourdusamy
said. He offered apologies
because the pope could
not preside over the
congress.
Mother Teresa, who
was awarded the 1979
Nobel Peace Prize for her
work among India’s poor,
visited the center in
Guatemala opened by her
congregation, the
Missionary Sisters of
Charity, to rehabilitate
victims of a 1976
earthquake. She traveled
to the national shrine of
Esquipulas.
“Do you know your
own poor?” the nun asked
Guatemalans attending the
congress. “They are our
hope of salvation,
deserving our love and
attention, for there is
much we can learn from
them.”
Regarding abortion, she
said there are an estimated
120,000 induced abortions
per day in the world.
“What is happening to
the human heart?” she
said.
“I could have been
aborted, but my father
and mother loved me,
wanted me, and now I can
do missionary work, love
and be loved,” the nun
added.
The Y ugoslavian-born
woman who became a
citizen of India was the
center of attraction of the
congress.
“Pure love can prompt
young couples to keep the
children they conceived
for love,” she said. “Love
among the poor prevents
many from aborting.
Some, as it happens in
Calcutta, prefer to give
them away than to kill
them.”
“There is no need for
guns and bombs to solve
the world’s problems. All
we need is love, for there
is much hunger for it.”
She said that her
congregation fosters the
Billings method in India.
“Some 30,000 couples
practice this method,” she
said.
Dr. J.J. Billings said in a
message from Melbourne,
Australia, that in his
country “the use of
contraceptive pills have
dropped to about 50
percent of what it was few
years ago.” He added his
ovulation method has no
ill effects and complicat
ions derived from artificial
means of birth control.
Supports Unordained
Pastoral Ministry
BY JOHN M. LEAHY
TRENTON, N.J. (NC)
- Bishop John C. Reiss of
Trenton has instituted a
program of formation and
training for lay people and
Religious already serving
in the “unordained
pastoral ministry.”
In a letter to the priests
of the Trenton Diocese,
Bishop Reiss announced
that he has authorized the
Office of Religious
Education “to develop and
implement a program of
formation and training for
those persons who wish to
serve the church in a
pastoral ministerial role in
cooperation with their
pastors.”
He added: “This
program for the
non-ordained pastoral
minister will prepare both
the professional and
volunteer for either full or
part-time service by
providing insights and
skills that are necessary for
a broad-based diocesan
parish ministry.”
Bishop Reiss cited the
Second Vatican Council’s
“Decree on the Apostolate
of the Laity,” which states
that lay people have a
right and duty to exercise
the apostolate.
“As a means of giving
recognition and legitimacy
to the professional
pastoral minister,” the
bishop said, “it is required
that the pastor follow
diocesan guidelines and
procedures and that
diocesan contracts be used
for this emerging
ministry.”
Msgr. George A. Ardos,
diocesan director of
religious education, said
there are many instances
in the diocese of lay
people and nuns assisting
pastors as religious
educators, lectors,
extraordinary ministers of
the Eucharist and pastoral
ministers. Other
professionals contribute
their talents in their
specialized fields, he
added.
Familiarity with the
inner workings of a parish,
of the church itself and
with the requirements for
pastoral ministry is
necessary to help them
with their work in the
parishes, Msgr. Ardos said.
The program, to begin
in September, will include
a year of training with
practical experience and
continuing education.
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