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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, October 2,1980
El Ultimo Triunfo
BY RAUL E. MONTEJO
Todos los cristianos del mundo y los hombres de buena
voluntad nos sentimos contentos y esperanzados en espera
de nuevas victorias de la doctrina maravillosa del amor
entre todos los hombres, que nuestro Senor nos lego
durante su peregrinar entre los hombres. Es por ello que
nuestro Sumo Pontifice no desmaya un momento en
proclamarla por todos los confines del planeta que se
encuentra visitando.
El mas reciente e importante triunfo obtenido, y que
me ha inspirado hacer estas lineas, ha sido sin lugar a
dudas, la victoria del pueblo de Dios en Polonia, sobre los
anti-Cristo, y bajo la direccion de su lider Catolico y
Obrero Lech Walensa. Walensa que sabe muy bien que
solo con la ayuda del Altisimo habia podido obtener tan
rotundo triunfo, se ha apresurado a solicitar una audiencia
con su Santidad, en su caracter de legitimo representante
de Dios en la tierra, para agradecer en nombre suyo y de
sus hermanos de luchas sus oraciones y declaraciones de
apoyo.
Es asi, y solo asi, con oraciones y civicas actitudes,
como podra redimirse al mundo e implantar un sistema
que por sus origenes divinos, termine de una vez y para
siempre con la injusticia social terrenal y salve a nuestras
almas para el distrute del Reino Prometido por Aquel, que
siendo justo, prefirio morir en la Cruz, cargando con los
pecados de sus hermanos, antes de permitir la violencia
utilizando su espada, a quien estaba dispuesto a morir por
El. (Juan 18:11)
Por ello y haciendo buena estas ensenanzas es que ese
gran pueblo de Polonia, sin usar la metralleta asesino o el
petardo artero, que por lo regular termina con preciosas
vidas de inocentes, ha lotrado la ayuda Divina en su
triunfo sin precedentes en estos tiempos.
Nosotros los Cubanos, podemos valorar en todo la
magnitud esa victoria, porque tambien con ellos, hemos
vivido en ese mundo de sombras y silencios, y como en mi
caso, todavia resuenan en mis oidos los ecos de los
disparos hechos para disolver una pacifica procesion en
honor a nuestra Santisima Madre, la Patrona de Cuba, La
Virgen de la Caridad, alia por los primeros arTos de la
decada del 60, en la ciudad de Camaguey, y en la que solo
empleabamos como armas los rosarios con los que
implorabamos su mediacion al Altisimo, para que
permitiera la libertad de la Patria, sin derramamiento de
s-ngres de hermanos, ni mezquinos actos de venganzas.
Para Cuba, que todavia sufre al recibir en su suelo la
sangre generosa de sus mejores jijos, y la ausencia de los
mas afortunados, por llamarlo de alauna manera, que
estamos dispersos por el mundo luchando contra la
incomprension de impasibles o suicidas aliados de mejores
tiempos, vayan mis suplicas al Padre Eterno.
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SISTER ELIZABETH ANN, guest speaker at a
seminar on Ethical Issues in Health Care at Saint
Joseph’s Hospital speaks to resident administrator
Kiyoshi Matsuura following the seminar.
Ethics Examined
“There is a danger in health care to violate the
autonomy of a patient,” said Sister Elizabeth Ann
Linehan, RSM, while recently addressing the staff of Saint
Joseph’s Hospital. The two day seminar, “Ethical Issues in
Health Care,” stressed the obligation of health care
professionals to respect and value each human being they
serve. Atlanta’s oldest hospital is committed to this same
philosophy.
Sr. Elizabeth Ann has a Ph.D. in philosophy and also
serves on the Board of Trustees at Saint Joseph’s. She is
an assistant professor of Philosphy at Saint Joseph’s
University, Philadelphia, Pa. The sessions turned to
questions of conflicts between the patient’s wishes and
the physician in charge, a patient’s right to refuse
treatment and the role nurses play in the physician-patient
relationship.
No. Ireland: Rights Violated
NEW YORK (NC) - A
United Methodist
minister who recently
visited Northern Ireland
said he believes the
“actual number of
human rights violations
there is greater than in
any other country.”
“Britain abrogates the
international code for
the t reatment of
prisoners, and an
increasing number of
responsible people are
condemning what the
British are doing to
prisoners in Long Kesh
and Armagh,” said the
Rev. Paul Abels, pastor
of Washington Square
United Methodist Church
in New York City.
Mr. Abels was the
only Protestant in a
group of six persons, led
by Jesuit Father Daniel
Berrigan, who visited
Northern Ireland and the
Republic of Ireland from
Aug. 26 to 31. The
purpose of the visit was
to investigate conditions
in the Long Kesh and
Armagh prisons.
When British
authorities refused to
allow the group to enter
the prisons, they held a
vigil outside the gates.
They prayed and read
out the names of
political prisoners. After
each name the group
chanted “You are not
alone.”
Saying that the
European Commission
on Human Rights and
the Court of Human
Rights in Strassbourg,
France, have appealed to
Great Britain to change
its treatment of prisoners
in Northern Ireland, Mr.
Abels said:
“I believe the British
organization in the world
defending what the
British are doing.”
Jonathan Davidson,
information officer for
the British Embassy in
Washington, called that
religious leaders from the
outside can help in the
dispute, “if those coming
in from the outside make
highly charged
statements it doesn’t
break down tensions . . .
Reform Needed
DUBLIN, Ireland (NC) - A general
prison reform in Northern Ireland could
help solve the current impasse involving the
“blanket protest” in Northern Irish
prisons, said Cardinal Tomas O’Fiaich of
Armagh, Northern Ireland.
The “blanket protest” refers to
more than 350 inmates seeking political
prisoner status, claiming the main cause of
their arrests stem from their opposition to
British rule in Northern Ireland. As a
protest, the prisoners refuse to wear prison
clothing, draping themselves in a blanket,
and refuse to do assigned prison work.
In a statement issued Sept. 23, Cardinal
O’Fiaich and Bishop Edward Daly of
Derry, Northern Ireland, said they made
confidential reform proposals to British
officials. The statement was released in
Dublin by the Catholic Press Office of the
Irish Bishops Conference which includes
the bishops of Northern Ireland.
The two churchmen issued the
statement after a series of meetings during
six months with prisoners and British j
officials.
The main protest is in the H-Block of
Long Kesh Prison, involving 350 men
prisoners, entering its fifth year. In 1978,
30 women prisoners in Armagh prison
joined the protest.
“The overall conviction which has been
borne in on us in the course of these
meetings is that the H-Block impasse could
be solved in the context of a general prison
reform in Northern Ireland regarding
prison dress and prison work,” said the
statement by Cardinal O’Fiaich and Bishop
Daly.
“A number of changes in the direction
of a more humane approach on the part of
authorities have been made in recent
months. However, we have failed so far to
secure any substantial changes on these
two central issues but our proposals have
not been rejected,” they added.
“We therefore continue to press for a
decision on the part of the government to
make these changes and a willingness on
the part of the protesting prisoners to end
their protest if these changes are made,”
they said.
However, the churchmen added that
they would not make public yet the
contents of their reform proposals.
“In view of the loss of life of several
members of prison staff as well as the
human suffering which the present
situation in the prison entails for prisoners,
prison staff and the relatives of both (many
thousands in all), we make no apology for
doing our utmost to obtain a solution,”
they said.
government will
eventually have to give in
to the prisoners’
demands because there is
not one single individual
or responsible
“nonsense.” He also said
the European court has
rejected the claims of the
prisoners for special
status.
He said that although
it will play into the
hands of extremists.”
The controversy over
Northern Irish prisons
has grown out of the
violence that has plagued
the British province for
the last 12 years. In 1968
demonstrations seeking
civil rights for the
Catholic minority in
Northern Ireland led to
attacks on Catholics by
Protestants. The actions
of British troops
introduced to quell
violence brought a
re-emergence of the Irish
Republican (IRA). The
Provisional wing of the
IRA is a guerrilla
organization seeking to
end British rule of
Northern Ireland.
The British first tried
internment without trial
to suppress the
Provisional IRA and
Protestant paramilitary
groups. This was later
replaced by special,
juryless courts which
accept anonymous
testimony. For a time
prisoners convicted in
those courts had political
prisoner status. But in
1976, the government
announced that all
persons convicted after
March 1 of that year
would be confined in H
Block at Long Kesh and
treated as common
criminals. Women are
confined at Armagh.
Prisoners in H Block
began in September 1976
to protest the denial of
political prisoner status
by refusing to wear
prison garb or do prison
work. They wear only
blankets. About 400
prisoners are now “on
the blanket.”
Daniel Lackie
Atlantan
Volunteered
Daniel Lackie of the
Archdiocese of Atlanta
was one of the 300 college
and high school men who
volunteered to work in the
Glenmary summer
program ministering in
Appalachia and the rural
South.
Dan, who worked in
eastern Kentucky along
with other summer
volunteers, learned the
meaning of “mission”
since in some places only
one out of every 200
people is Catholic and
more than 41% of the
population is unchurched.
Many volunteers spend
daylight hours at hard
manual labor repairing and
winterizing homes. Some
are engaged in visitation
programs, calling on
isolated people.
Volunteers teach Bible
schools, assist at day care
centers and sheltered
workshops.
They frequently talk
with children about prayer
and pray for and with the
lonely and the sick.
“We come to help
others, but we end up
helping ourselves more,”
said one volunteer.
Candidates Seek Ethnic Vote
BY JIM LACKEY
NC News Service
The ethnic vote -
which often is equated
with the Catholic vote -
was getting plenty of
attention from both Carter
and Republican nominee
Ronald Reagan during the
first three weeks of
September.
It all started Labor Day
when Reagan officially
launched his campaign in a
Jersey City, N.J., park
across from the Statue of
Liberty. Praising the
ethnic diversity that had
helped build America,
Reagan capped the rally
by introducing Stanley
Walesa, father of Polish
strike leader Lech Walesa.
Though the crowd was
reported to be small, the
event highlighted a prime
Reagan strategy to attract
the votes of normally
Democratic working-class
ethnics in the industrializ
ed Northeast and Midwest.
And the pictures with
Walesa made for good
copy for the newspapers
and evening TV news
shows.
Two days later, Carter
made a foray into ethnic
Philadelphia, pausing at
one point to partake in a
short game of bocce, the
Italian lawn bowling game,
and visiting the city’s
Italian Market section.
According to one report, a
major purpose of the day
was to compile campaign
footage for future political
TV ads. '
Not to be outdone,
Reagan made his own trip
to Philadelphia three days
after the president. There
he called on Cardinal John
Krol of Philadelphia, the
American-born son of
Polish immigrant parents,
before flying off to
Chicago for yet another
meeting with Polish-Amer-
icans.
Carter, meanwhile,
visited Perth Amboy, N.J.,
to dedicate a new steel
mill. Again, the visit was
viewed as another attempt
by a presidential candidate
to attract blue collar
ethnic support in a state
with enough electoral
votes to make it
strategically key.
Italian-Americans also
were the subject of
campaign politics when
both Carter and Reagan
made separate appearances
Sept. 13 at the National
Italian-Ameriean
Foundation dinner in
Washington.
From there the
attention shifted to
critically important Texas,
where the Hispanic
population could swing
the expected close vote
either way. Carter and
Reagan made back to back
trips there and spent much
time wooing Hispanic
support.
Carter made a direct
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appeal for Hispanic votes
by telling a Corpus Christi
audience that the
N ovember election boils
down to a choice between
either continuing or
turning away from efforts
toward justice and fairness
for minorities. He also
drew applause by
demonstrating his
command of the Spanish
language.
The next day, Reagan
solicited the Hispanic vote
by proposing that aliens
from Mexico be allowed to
remain in! the United
States to work for a set
period of time. The issue
has broad appeal to
Hispanics who oppose the
government’s immediate
deportationi policies for
aliens founjl working in
the United States illegally.
Later Carter made his
second appeal for the
Hispanic vote, promising a
Washington meeting of
Hispanic leaders that he
will supporjt and defend
the government’s bilingual
education proposal despite
efforts in’ Congress to
block it.
Finally, the three-week
Carter-Reagjn ethnic blitz
ended Sept. 20 with a
Carter trip to Chicago in
search of the Polish vote.
Linking his human rights
policies to the desire for
human dignity by the
Polish strikers, Carter told
the P o 1 i $ h-American
Alliance dinner that the
recent events in Poland
“have inspired the world.”
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MASS ON RADIO ~ Auxiliary
Bishop Jerzy Modzelewski of Warsaw
broadcasts Sunday Mass from
Warsaw’s Holy Cross Church. It was
the first such broadcast in 30 years
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Pope Concelebrates
With Dachau Prisoners
VATICAN CITY (NC)
-- Nearly 100 Polish
priests, all former
prisoners of the Nazi
concentration camp at
Dachau, concelebrated a
Mass with Pope John Paul
II Sept. 24 in the Vatican
Gardens.
The group of two
bishops and 96 priests was
accompanied by more
than 500 other Poles,
primarily from Warsaw
and Gdansk.
“May God repay you
for your suffering, for
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your sacrifice, and for
your witness,” the pope
told the priests.
“And may you thank
God for the intercession of
Mary Queen of Poland and
all our patrons, especially
St. Joseph, because he
allowed you to provide
such a lesson for future
generations through the
years and for future
moments in the history of
our nation,” he added.
Pope John Paul, a
native of Poland, sent an
apostolic blessi'ng to the
entire country and said he
hoped “that this blessing
will touch the present
moment which our nation
is living through with
grace, love and the
strength of the most Holy
Trinity.”
Poland recently had a
wave of labor strikes
which resulted in
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including the formation of
independent trade unions
and the radio broadcasting
of a weekly Sunday Mass.
The pope directed the
blessing to “these our
compatriots, all of them
without exception,
brothers and sisters,
without exception of age,
without exception of
convictions, without any
exception whatsoever and
in the name of what we
are - a nation, a large
family, who have a
common task and share a
common responsibility.”
The pope also prayed
for those who died in the
Dachau concentration
camp and recalled the vow
the priests made while
imprisoned by the Nazis.
‘‘During that
unforgettable period you
all made a special promise,
a vow to St. Joseph - you
would never forget St.
Joseph if providence
would allow you to leave
the camp, return to
freedom and serve the
nation as priests,” he said.
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