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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, September 4,1980
Catholic Schools Hailed
LOS ANGELES (NC) -
The Rev. Jesse Jackson,
founder and head of the
black self-help group
Operation PUSH (People
United to Save Humanity),
has called Catholic schools
“oases in the middle of
educational deserts.”
In an interview in Twin
Circle, a national Catholic
weekly published in Los
Angeles, Mr. Jackson, an
associate minister at a
Chicago Baptist church,
said Catholic schools were
such oases in the last few
years “in part because the
public schools are
traumatized by a collapse
of moral authority.”
In public schools “the
e d u cators are less
believable; there is a cold
war that exists between
parents and teachers in too
many instances,” he said.
“The administrators are,
by and large, detached,
political and very overt in
their racism. There has
been a tremendous
amount of tension around
the issue of desegregation,
so that the public schools
have become battle
grounds during the last 20
years. And the casualties
have been the children.”
In Catholic schools, on
the other hand, “the nuns
and priests seem to remain
more believable and more
trustworthy,” Mr. Jackson
said. “And because they
have moral authority,
which grows in part from
the affirmative
relationship they have
with parents - indeed, the
relationship they demand
of parents - they are able
to demand discipline. And
discipline is perceived as
therapy, not as
punishment, when it
comes from moral
authority.
“Lastly, I would say
that the success of the
Catholic schools in the
city has been from their
whole approach to
education: a concern for a
developed mind as well as
strength of character and
health of body. And there
is the religious factor as
the undergirding force for
our entire life pattern.”
Mr. Jackson blamed
unions in public schools
for putting more emphasis
on wages than
performance or sacrifice
and contributing to
diminished effort by
teachers.
Mr. Jackson said that,
although two of his
children attend Catholic
schools, he opposes tuition
tax credits for parents who
send their children to
non-public schools.
Tuition tax credits would
be a step toward
“undermining the public
schools,” he said. “If
people make the decision
to send their children to
private schools, then they
should be prepared to
make that financial
sacrifice.”
Mr. Jackson said
“there’s obviously been a
good deal of overt racism
in the Catholic schools.
That is why you have so
many all-black Catholic
schools and so many
all-white Catholic schools.
As a matter of fact, the
Catholic churches are
mostly broken down along
ethnic lines.”
Permitting schools to
be all-white or all-black
because they are located in
neighborhoods that are
all-white or all-black is not
justifiable, Mr. Jackson
argued. ‘‘If you have
determined that
segregation by race is
immoral and harmful, the
church cannot allow the
real estate brokers to
determine the patterns of
social intercourse. So a
church may serve its
•neighborhood; but if we
want our children to
indeed have a catholic
education - a universal
education, a multicultural
education - we must take
moves to offset the
damage done by real estate
brokers.”
Mr. Jackson said “the
church has the obligation
to be most aggressive in
breaking down the
barriers, setting the
pattern for the rest of the
nation and the rest of the
world, putting Christ
before culture. When in
Rome, do not act like the
Romans; when in Rome,
transform the Romans.”
FATHER GABRIEL CALVO, the founder of
Marriage Encounter, with Len and Lucianne
Winslow, executive couple of National Marriage
Encounter of Georgia.
M.E. Convention Held
Len and Lucianne
Winslow, executive couple
for Marriage Encounter of
Georgia, were among over
1,600 people gathered at
St. John’s University in
Collegeville, Minn, for the
19 80 National Marriage
Encounter Conference.
The Conference was an
enrichment experience for
couples who have
experienced the Marriage
Encounter program and
included workshops and
lectures designed to
improve married life
through the sharing of
feelings, ideas, beliefs and
values.
Speakers at the
conference included Dr.
Leo Buscaglia, professor of
education at the
University of Southern
California; Sister Jose
Hobday, O.S.F., currently
working in the Diocese of
Tucson in pastoral and
spiritual renewal; Sister
Paula Ripple, Executive
Director of the North
American Conference of
Separated and Divorced
Catholics; and Dr.
Anthony Campolo,
chairman of the sociology
department of Easten
College in Pennsylvania.
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ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA
School Lunch Program Announced
Archdiocese of Atlanta
Schools today announced
its policy for determing
eligibility of children who
may receive free and
reduced price meals and
free milk under the
National School Lunch,
School Breakfast and
Special Milk Programs.
Local school officials
have adopted the
following family size
income criteria for
determining eligibility.
COLUMN 1
COLUMN 2
COLUMN 3
Family Size
Free Meal Eligibility
Reduced Price Eligibility
Yearly Income
Yearly Income
1
0 - 5,230
5,231 - 8,150
2
0 - 6,900
6,901 - 10,760
3
0 - 8,580
8,581 - 13,380
4
0 - 10,250
10,251 - 15,990
5
0 - 11,930
11,931 - 18,600
6
0 - 13,600
13,601 - 21,220
7
0 - 15,280
15,281 - 23,830
8
0 - 16,950
16,951 - 26,440
Each additional
family member
+1,680
+2,610
KNIGHTS GATHER under their
banner at the States Dinner in
Atlanta. Archbishop Jean Jadot was
the principal speaker. (Photo by
Richard Poncinie).
Knights Approve Education Fund
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Locate a family size in the left column (Column 1). Draw a line straight across
to the right.
2. If income falls in Column 2, the child is eligible for free meals.
3. If income falls in Column 3, the child is eligible for reduced price meals.
4. If income exceeds Eligibility Scale, the child is eligible for paid meals.
Note: Pending federal legislation which (if enacted will become effective
October 1) will require a different eligibility scale and will change the “hardship”
conditions. If this NEW legislation changes your child’s eligibility, you will be
notified in writing.
BY GRETCHEN REISER
A $ 1 million
investment research fund
to improve all aspects of
Catholic education will be
established by the Knights
of Columbus.
The education fund was
approved by the Knights
at the 98th annual meeting
of the Supreme Council of
the fraternal organization
of Catholic men.
Representatives of the
1.3-million-member
organization met in a
five-day convention in
Atlanta.
The Knights also went
on the record opposing
abortion funding, the
Equal Rights Amendment
and pornography.
A resolution on the
educational fund followed
Supreme Knight Virgil C.
Dechant’s annual report,
in which he said the fund
was urgently needed to
support research that
would lead to
improvement of Catholic
education at all levels.
“In the barren desert of
today’s secularist society
Catholic schools stand out
more clearly than ever as
oases of commitment to a
Christian way of life,” he
said.
The resolution cited the
need for research to solve
increasing problems of
funding, and administering
Catholic schools and in
obtaining thoroughly
prepared teachers to staff
them. It also said that
Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine programs need
refinement to make them
effective conveyors of
religious commitment as
well as of religious
information, and said that
seminaries and novitiates
demand in-depth study in
the light of recent Vatican
documents.
Research projects, to be
supported by earnings
from the fund, will be
selected by the National
Catholic Educational
Association, assisted by an
advisory panel of bishops
and scholars representing
the United States and
Canada and subject to the
concurrence of the
Knights of Columbus
board of directors.
The Supreme Council
also adopted a resolution
opposing the use of public
money for abortion and
calling for the adoption of
a right-to-life amendment
to the U.S. Constitution.
The resolution stopped
short of mentioning the
recent adoption by the
Democratic Party of a
platform plank supporting
federal funding of
abortion. However, the
resolution called upon “all
public officials and all
candidates for public
office to take serious note
of our deeply felt and
firmly held position on
these vital issues.”
After some debate
about making specific
reference to political
parties, the Council
decided that “the
resolution is clear
enough,” said Elmer Von
Feldt, public information
officer for the Knights of
Columbus. The resolutions
were adopted in a
closed-door session of
supreme officers and 418
delegates representing
jurisdictions throughout
the United States, Canada,
Mexico, Puerto Rico,
Guatemala and the
Philippines.
Specific reference to
the Democratic Party’s
plank on abortion was
made during the
convention by Archbishop
Thomas A. Donnellan. In
his homily at the opening
Mass for 2,500 delegates
and family members,
Archbishop Donnellan
recalled Pope John Paul
II’s proclamation of the
sacredness of all human
life. When “a major
political party” adopts a
platform plank which calls
for federal funding of
abortion, Archbishop
Donnellan said, “we shall
stand up to proclaim our
belief that the right to life
is a basic human right
which should have the
protection of law and that
abortion is the deliberate
destruction of an unborn
human being, and
therefore violates this
right.”
John Murphy, supreme
advocate of the Knights of
Columbus, said the
archbishop’s homily was
“in part responsible” for
the thrust of the pro-life
resolution, and its specific
mention of candidates.
In other resolutions
adopted at the convention,
the Knights opposed the
Equal Rights Amendment
and the registering and
drafting of women, and
urged defeat of “so-called
homosexual equal rights
laws.”
A resolution on
pornography called upon
local Knights to
coordinate their efforts
with “existing agencies
which have developed the
expertise to curtail it.”
The resolution urged
councils in the United
States to become active
institutional members of
Morality in Media in New
York City; Canadian
councils to associate
themselves with Canadians
for Decency in Willowdale,
Ontario; and the councils
in Mexico to to join with
Alianza por la Defensa de
la Familia, in Guadalajara,
Mexico.
The group also called
for measures to ensure
that any Middle East
settlement includes
guarantees of free and
open access for people of
all creeds to Jerusalem and
its environs.
Other resolutions
expressed appreciation to
the Canadian government
for that country’s actions
permitting American
diplomats to escape from
Iran and called for prayers
for release of the
American hostages and for
flying the U.S. flag as a
symbol of national unity.
The Knights also voted to
invite Pope John John
Paul II to attend the 100th
annual meeting of the
Supreme Council in
Hartford, Conn., in 1982.
Children from families
whose income is at or
below the levels shown are
eligible for free or reduced
price meals or free milk. In
addition, families not
meeting these criteria but
with other unusual
expenses due to unusually
high medical expenses,
shelter costs higher than
30 percent of income,
special education expenses
due to the mental or
physical condition of a
child, and disaster or
casualty losses are urged to
apply.
Application forms are
being sent to all homes in
a letter to parents.
Additional copies are
available at the principal’s
office in each school. The
information provided on
the application is
confidential and will be
used only for the purpose
of determining eligibility.
Applications may be
submitted at any time
during the year. A simple
statement of income and
family size is required,
plus a signed certification
by the parent or guardian
that the information is
correct.
In certain cases, foster
children are also eligible
for these benefits. If you
have foster children living
with you and wish to
apply for such meals and
milk for them, you should
contact the school.
If a family member
becomes unemployed, or
if the family size or
income changes, the
family should contact the
school to file a new
application. Such changes
may make the children of
the family eligible for
reduced price meals or for
additional benefits such as
free meals and milk if the
family income falls at or
below the levels shown
above in the eligibility
scale.
In the operation of
child nutrition programs
no child will be
discrimated against
because of race, color or
national origin.
Under the provisions of
the policy, the principal of
the school will review
applications and determine
eligibility. If a parent is
dissatisfied with the ruling
of the official, the decision
may be discussed with the
determining official on an
informal basis.
If a parent wishes to
make a formal appeal, a
request may be made,
either orally or in writing,
to Sister Roberta Schmidt,
Superintendent 881-6643
for a hearing to appeal the
decision. During the
appeal and hearing, the
child will continue to
receive free or reduced
price meals or free milk.
The policy contains an
outline of the hearing
procedure.
Each school and the
office of the Superinten
dent has a copy of the
complete policy which
may be reviewed by any
interested party during
business hours.
Archdiocese Of Atlanta
OFFICE OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
PUBLIC STATEMENT OF ASSURANCE
Schools in The Archdiocese of Atlanta admit
students of any race, sex, color, national and ethnic
origin to all rights, privileges, programs, and
activities generally accorded or made available to
students at the schools.
They do not discriminate on the basis of race,
sex, color, national and ethnic origin in
administration of educational policies, admissions
policies, loan programs, and athletic and other
school-administered programs.
Schools in this system are as follows:
METRO ATLANTA: Christ the King School,
Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Our Lady of the
Assumption School, Our Lady of Lourdes School,
St. Anthony’s School, St. Jude the Apostle School,
St. Paul of the Cross School, St. Thomas More
School, St. Joseph School, Marietta, St. Pius X High
School, Village of St. Joseph, Ss. Peter & Paul and
St. John the Evangelist, St. Patrick’s
Pre-School/Kindergarten, Norcross.
ATHENS: St. Joseph School.
ROME: St. Mary’s School.
Sister Roberta Schmidt
Superintendent of Schools
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Pest Control needs satisfactorily for many years.
FRANK CTJRTI, Grand Knight of
the Knights of Columbus, Council
No. 4410 presents a S10,000 check
to Sister Miriam Troy, principal,
to defray the cost of the Daughters of
Charity wing of St. Mary’s School,
Rome. The wing was dedicated
during an open house, Aug. 24. The
addition will include a new library
and enable St. Mary’s to become
accredited by the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools
in October. Looking on from 1. to r.
are Father Patrick Mulhern, pastor of
St. Mary’s Church, Stanley Wojeck,
state deputy of the Knights of
Columbus, and Richard Dillon, of St.
Mary’s Parish Council.
M. Teresa Plans Miami Mission
MIAMI (NC) - North Miami Avenue
suffers from prostitution, alcoholism and
other skid row problems. But soon it will
have a gentler influence as well.
The area has been chosen by Mother
Teresa of Calcutta as the site of a new
mission to be staffed by four of her
Missionaries of Charity. The nuns, three
from India and one from North America,
are to open the mission officially Sept. 8,
according to Msgr. Bryan O. Walsh,
director of Catholic Charities in the
Archdiocese of Miami. They are to work
with the area’s “shopping bag ladies” and
with a women’s prison.
Msgr. Walsh said Mother Teresa had
visited Miami in 1974 and was concerned
about conditions in the city.
“She just announced she was ready to
move,” he said. He added that the
archdiocese had maintained contact with
Mother Teresa and that she had spoken by
telephone with Archbishop Edward A.
McCarthy during her recent visit to New
York City. “The whole thing has happened
in the last two or three weeks,” Msgr.
Walsh said.
He said the sisters’ efforts would
complement the work carried out in the
area by the Brothers of the Good
Shepherd.
At least initially the sisters are to live in
a rent free house. At their request, there
will be no refrigerator or air conditioning
in the home, which will contain simple
furniture, Msgr. Walsh said.
Volunteer help from skilled trades
members in the archdiocese is fixing up the
house for the Missionaries of Charity, Msgr.
Walsh said. “It’s just a remarkable
phenomenon, completely in the spirit of
total charity,” he added.