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PAGE 3—The Georgia Bulletin, September 25,1980
ANTI-ARMS DEMONSTRATION
- In a skit called “Sam and Ivan,”
Billy McLaughlin, left, and David
King, right, both of the
Washington-based Sojourners peace
organization, give their ideas on
where the nuclear arms race is
headed. The skit was part of a
“Peace Fair” to protest the “nuclear
arms bazaar” being held at the
nearby Sheraton-Washington Hotel.
(NC Photo by Dennis Whitehead)
“Peace Fair” vs. “Arms Bazaar”
WASHINGTON (NC) - A peace fair and
ecumenical worship service highlighted an
anti-nuclear weapons protest in
Washington. The peace fair included music,
dancing and a skit on the arms race.
The protest was directed against the Air
Force Association’s annual convention and
weapons exhibition at the
Sheraton-Washington Hotel and was
sponsored by the Sojourners peace
organization.
Over 100 people gathered for the
worship service and peace fair Sept. 14.
Each day’s worship service ended with a
candlelight vigil at the hotel where the
nuclear arms bazaar was held Sept. 14 to
18.
The arms bazaar is part of the annual
convention of the Air Force Association,
an organization whose membership
LATIN AMERICA
includes weapons manufacturers and Air
Force personnel.
Sponsors of the protest include the
Office of Social Development of the
Washington Archdiocese, the local Council
of Women Religious and the local branch
of PAX-Christi USA.
Teach-ins were held on “Economics and
the Arms Race,” “The Russian Threat,”
“The Arms Race and the City,” and “The
Effects of Nuclear War.”
Military groups have been holding the
conventions at the hotel since 1963 and
peace groups began protesting the
conventions in 1979. The Air Force
Association’s convention manager, William
Bellanger, had said the group, which has
booked the hotel for years in advance,
would not consider moving.
MT. ST. MARYS
Counseling Begun
EMMITSBURG, Md. (NC) - Analyzing Catholic
teaching on war and peace and his own personal
convictions on peacemaking, Auxiliary Bishop P. Francis
Murphy of Baltimore marked the inauguration of a draft
counseling center at Mount St. Mary’s College,
Emmitsburg.
He called on religious leaders everywhere “to see and
to teach that the halting of the arms race is a
religiously-mandated task ...”
He expressed his personal opposition to the arms race,
declaring that “any form of nuclear war is morally
wrong,” and called upon Mount St. Mary’s and, by
inference, the entire religious college and university
community of the nation, to become “peace builders” by
studying and researching alternatives to war.
The bishop enunciated modern church teaching
condemning the arms race and threats of nuclear attack,
defended the Baltimore Archdiocesan Justice and Peace
Commission’s support of counseling centers, reaffirmed
the option of conscientious objection and lamented his
own “years of silent dissent and lack of interest” in what
he thinks should be a top moral priority for the church -
stopping the arms build-up and seeking alternatives.
“We are indeed perilously on the edge of nuclear
suicide,” he told administrators, faculty and students at
Mt. St. Mary’s who were taking part in a 24-hour period
of prayer, teaching and personal reflection in conjunction
with the opening of the counseling center.
Counseling centers for draft-age youth are being set up
in the archdiocese by the Justice and Peace Commission,
which the bishop chairs.
During an evening liturgy on the theme, “Blessed Are
the Peacemakers,” Bishop Murphy said the church’s task
“is to provide for the world a sign and source of hope that
we can bring the arms race under control.” Despite the
feeling of helplessness in the face of the complexity of the
“technological dynamic of the arms race,” he said, “we
must keep alive the hope of peace, recognize the futility
of war and see that reconciliation of hearts is the way to
peace.”
Discussing early Christian pacifism and evolution of the
“just war” theory from St. Augustine through St. Thomas
Aquinas, the bishop said that both attitudes “presume
that war is evil.” The “just war” concept overrides that
presumption, he added, only if there is a just cause, if war
is declared as a last resort, if the means is just, if the
intention is right and there is a reasonable expectation of
success. In addition, moral rules of “proportionality and
non-combatant immunity must be observed,” he said.
Anti-Communists Protest
BUENOS AIRES,
Argentina (NC) -- A
gathering of 200
anti-communist leaders in
Latin America praised the
region’s military
governments and said the
Jesuits and President
Carter are helping Marxist
penetration.
One of 60 resolutions
aimed at ‘ ‘fighting
communism at every
level” proposed that the
Jesuits be expelled from
Latin America as
“neo-colonizers for
Marxist penetration.”
The human rights
policies of Carter are also
“a tool of Marxist
neo-colonialism,” another
resolution said.
Under Carter,
Washington has suspended
military and economic aid
to authoritarian regimes
considered violators of
human rights.
Another resolution
supported military regimes
“for their determination in
fighting communism.”
Prominent among the
delegates from 20
countries were Mario
Sandoval Alarcon of
Guatemala and Roberto
D’Aubisson of El Salvador.
Both men have been
linked with rightwing
groups which have
threatened the Jesuits in
both countries with death
if they continue their
work among the poor.
The anti-communist
resolutions were passed at
the fourth congress of the
Latin American
Anti-Communist
Confederation which was
held the first week of
September in Buenos
Aires.
The confederation said
the Jesuits “are organizing
rural guerrillas under the
guise of evangelization.”
The congress secretary,
Rafael Rodriguez of
Mexico, said that
“communists are using
bishops and priests for
their designs of
infiltration.”
Government officials
from Argentina, Bolivia,
Paraguay and Uruguay
participated in the
congress, including Father
Luis Rojas, under-secre
tary for worship under the
new military regime in
Bolivia.
BISHOP ON A BULL HORN -
Bishop Thomas J. Welsh of
Arlington, Va., speaks to a crowd of
abortion protesters at an ecumenical
prayer service at a Northern Virginia
abortion clinic. Joining the bishop
were Methodist, Episcopal and
Baptist ministers. (NC Photo by
Charles W. Carruth)
Prayer Service Held
Near Abortion Clinic
Catholic Radio
Station Bombed
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (NC) - Five terrorists
armed with machine guns planted several bombs at the
transmitter of the Radio Panamericana and blew the
Catholic radio station off the air Sept. 21.
The Sunday dawn attack temporarily silenced regular
broadcasts of the homilies in the San Salvador cathedral, a
powerful means for church leaders to review weekly
events in this strife-torn nation of 5.1 million. Most media
is under government censorship.
(On Sept. 22, Pope John Paul II met privately with El
Salvador’s Foreign Minister Fidel Chavez Mena at the
Vatican. No details of the meeting were released, but it
was presumed that the two men discussed the current
political violence in El Salvador.)
A week earlier another bomb attack failed to destroy
the facilities of the station, when only one of five bombs
exploded. A radio spokesman recalled that this is the
eighth attack on the station in two years. Three of them
were successful in keeping the station off the air
temporarily.
“We intend to go back to the air as soon as possible,”
added the spokesman.
The spokesman said that terrorists blasted with gunfire
the iron gate at the entrance of the building and that
hundreds of refugees being housed at the site ran for
safety. There were no casualties.
After a bombing in February, archdiocesan authorities
decided to withdraw the guard at the transmitter. The
transmitter and the refugee camp are located at
Mexicanos, a workers’ suburb three miles from downtown
San Salvador.
In a show of support for Archbishop Oscar Romero of
San Salvador, contributions poured in after the February
bombing, and in a matter of weeks Radio Panamericana
returned to the air. The archbishop, a strong defender of
human rights, was assassinated at the end of March while
celebrating Mass at a hospital chapel.
Bishop Arturo Rivera y Damas of Santiago de Maria, El
Salvador, was appointed as apostolic administrator of San
Salvador and continues the practice of denouncing
violence and injustice during Sunday homilies broadcast
by the radio station.
The bombing of the radio transmitter, however, was
attributed by church sources to rightist organizations.
ARLINGTON, Va.
(NC) - Abortion “is not a
single issue. There are one
million a year coming out
dead from women’s
bodies,” declared Bishop
Thomas J. Welsh of
Arlington during an
Ecumenical Prayer Service
for Life near the Northern
Virginia Women’s Medical
Center, an abortion clinic.
The service followed a
march, of approximately a
half-mile, from St.
Ambrose Church where a
Mass was concelebrated by
Bishop Welsh and about
20 priests. An estimated
650 persons attended the
Mass and participated in
the march and the prayer
service held on the street
in front of the clinic Sept.
13.
About 10 policemen
guarded the entrance to
the parking lot of the
clinic. Several paddy
wagons were parked in
front. But the assembly
was peaceful and without
incident.
Bishop Welsh alluded to
the policemen, who could
hear his remarks. “It’s an
irony that the police are
not here to protect us but
to protect the murderers,”
he said, referring to those
who work in the clinic.
He said it must be
difficult for the policemen
to form a conscience on
the abortion issue when
“their purpose is to defend
law and order . . . but the
law says innocent people
can be killed.” The bishop
said scientific evidence
confirms “this (an unborn
child) is life. The Supreme
Court says, ‘this is not.’”
He said “God Himself
cannot repeal the law.”
The bishop said the march
participants were present
at the clinic because they
believed in action and in
working under the law to
undo what he termed the
evil of abortion.
The Rev. Lewis L.
Ferrell, pastor of Colonial
Baptist Temple,
Alexandria, Va., told the
crowd that although
abortion is a social issue, it
is also a spiritual problem.
He said, “In studying
the Bible, we see that
when men’s minds are
turned from God, they
share little regard for
human life.
Francis P. Kilcoyne
College Pres.
To Be
Ordained
NEW YORK (NC) -
Francis P. Kilcoyne,
former president of
Brooklyn College, is to be
ordained to the priesthood
by Bishop Francis J.
Mugavero of Brooklyn in
St. James Cathedral on
Oct. 4, the feast of St.
Francis of Assisi.
Kilcoyne, 78, a
widower and father of
Father Francis P. Kilcoyne
Jr., pastor of St. Gregory’s
Church in Brooklyn, is the
oldest person to be given
permission to be ordained
for the Brooklyn Diocese
in its 127-year history.
Cardinal William Baum,
prefect of the Vatican
Congregation for Catholic
Education, granted him a
rare dispensation from the
full seminary theology
program.
Kilcoyne will celebrate
his first Mass on Sanday,
Oct. 5, in Our Lady of
Refuge Church, where he
married Eleanor M. Dunn
on June 17, 1939. Mrs.
Kilcoyne died July 11,
1979. Father Kilcoyne,
their only child, will
preach the homily at his
father’s first Mass.
“My principal reason
for seeking ordination is to
be able to exercise the
high privilege of offering
Mass,” Kilcoyne said. “I
know of no higher
privilege.”
He said also he thought
he could serve as a
counselor for married
couples. “As a married
man for 40 years in a
marriage that was ideally
happy and fruitful,” he
said, “I think I can offer
help both to those in
stable marriages as well as
to those in troubled
unions.”
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Pope Praises Aquinas
CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy (NC) -- St. Thomas
Aquinas was “an authentic pioneer of modem scientific
realism” and should also be called “the doctor of
humanity,” Pope John Paul II said Sept. 13 in a major
theological address.
The pope said a renewed emphasis on the medieval
theologian’s moral philosophy and theology is something
“the times need.”
The pope made his remarks in a lengthy address to
participants in the eighth International Thomistic
Congress, who met with him at his summer villa in
Castelgandolfo at the end of their six-day congress in
Rome.
The congress was sponsored by the Pontifical Roman
Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, more commonly known
as the Angelicum because of St. Thomas’ title as “the
angelic doctor.”
It marked the centenary of the academy and of the
encyclical letter, “Aeterni Patris,” in which Pope Leo XIII
called for the restoration of scholastic philosophy,
particularly that of St. Thomas, as a means of reviving
Catholic intellectualism and countering philosophical
errors.
In his address Pope John Paul unabashedly praised St.
Thomas Aquinas as a model for thinkers today.
Noting his personal devotion to the theologian, he
commented, “right from the beginning of my pontificate,
I have never let an appropriate occasion pass by without
recalling the exalted figure of St. Thomas.”
He said that “the principle of the harmony between
the truths of reason and those of faith,” exemplified by
St. Thomas, has not lost its validity today.
At the time when Pope Leo called for a restoration of
Thomist thought, Christian culture was alternating
between “two extreme stances: rationalism (reason
without faith) and fideism (faith without reason),” the
pope said.
He said St. Thomas’ conviction that there was no
contradiction between the realms of faith and scientific or
philosophical knowledge was a remedy for that era and it
must also be the basis for a true philosophy today.
“Philosophy does not consist of a system subjectively
construed at the whim of the philosopher, but must be
the faithful reflection in the human mind of the order of
things,” the pope said.
“In this sense, St. Thomas can be considered an
authentic pioneer of modern scientific realism, which
makes things speak (to us) through empirical experiment,
even if his own interest was limited to having them speak
from the philosophical point of view,” he added.
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