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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, October 23,1980
ATLANTA, GEORGIA ...
Atlanta attorney Hughes Spalding,
center, receives the John Carroll
Award from Georgetown University.
Left is Joseph DiSesa, president of
the alumni association, and right,
university president Rev. Timothy S.
Healy, SJ.
Death Penalty At Issue
WASHINGTON (NC) -
The U.S. bishops, who
declared their opposition
to the death penalty in
1974, will try again this
year to reach a consensus
on the religious and moral
reasons behind their
opposition.
At their annual meeting
in Washington Nov. 10-13,
the bishops will consider
an 11-page statement
urging abolition of the
death penalty on the
grounds that several evils
are present in its practice
and that its abolition
would promote several
positive values.
“We believe that in the
conditions of contempor
ary American society, the
legitimate purposes of
punishment do not justify
the imposition of the
death penalty,” says the
proposed statement.
“Furthermore, we
believe that there are
serious considerations
which should prompt
Christians and all our
fellow Americans to
support the abolition of
capital punishment,” the
proposed statement adds.
The proposed
statement remarks that
while there currently is
intense public concern
over crimes of violence,
capital punishment does
not provide a simple
solution to a complex
problem.
It also notes that all
punishment must be
justified, and that the
three traditional
justifications for
punishment are
End It!
UNITED NATIONS
(NC) - World figures
from 100 countries
presented a petition to
the United Nations
asking for international
action to abolish the
death penalty.
The death penalty is
incompatible with
fundamental human
rights such as the rights
to life and to
protection from cruel,
inhuman or degrading
punishment, said the
petition signed by more
than 150,000 people.
Signers include
governmental, religious
and labor leaders,
scientists, doctors,
judges and artists.
Among the signers are
Canadian Prime
Minister Pierre
Trudeau, West German
Chancellor Helmut
Schmidt and the Rev.
Philip Potter, general
secretary of the World
Council of Churches.
retribution, deterrence and
reform.
It states that the death
penalty cannot be justified
on the grounds of reform
because it “deprives the
criminal of' the
opportunity to develop a
new way of life,” and it
cannot be justified on the
grounds of deterrence
because there are strong
reasons to doubt that
many crimes of violence
are undertaken “in a spirit
of rational calculation.”
As for retribution, the
proposed statement says
vindictiveness cannot be
an objective in a Christian
approach to punishment.
“We must not remain
unmindful of the example
of Jesus who urges upon
us a teaching of
forbearance in the face of
evil (Matt. 5:38-42) and
forgiveness of injuries
(Matt. 18:21-35),” the
proposed statement says.
In its most recent
rulings on the issue, the
Supreme Court has said
that capital punishment is
not in principle a violation
of the constitutional
prohibition against cruel
and unusual punishment.
But the court also has said
the death penalty must be
applied with strict
evenhandedness, and has
noted the extreme
difficulty of achieving
such evenhandedness.
MANlia
MALOOF
.. .A LEADER WHO KNOWS HOW TO GET THE lOB DONE
MANUEL KNOWS
DEKALB COUNTY.
He successfully served his term
as Commissioner-at-Large from
1974 to 1978. He was co-
chairman with two other com
missioners of the committee that
defeated the sales tax increase.
Manuel fought to save taxpayers
millions of dollars by expanding
the existing water plant instead of
building a new one which would
have doubled water bills. Know
ing that inflation was driving
property taxes upward, Manuel
went to the DeKalb legislative
delegation who agreed to raise the
Homestead Exemption which
gave DeKalb homeowners mean
ingful tax relief.
Manuel has the business and
political experience to give
DeKalb County citizens the far
sighted, fair-minded leadership
they deserve. A native Atlantan,
he and his wife, Dolly, married
for 35 years, have lived in DeKalb
for twenty-seven years. They
have raised eight children here
and they are the proud grand
parents of seven.
Manuel Maloof is a business
man and a concerned citizen who
knows people, knows DeKalb
County, and knows how to listen.
Manuel needs and asks for your
vote on November 4.
MANUEL KNOWS PEOPLE.
He knows what the people of
DeKalb County want because he
listens to them. And because he
listens, he knows they want trans
portation improvements that do
not disrupt neighborhtxxis. He
knows they want more police tor
a more secure county. He knows
they want fair county hiring prac
tices. And he knows they don't
want any more surprise zonings!
MANUEL KNOWS
BUSINESS.
He brings to county government
ova 30 years of successful busi
ness experience and the good
business sense which comes with
that experience.
von FOR MANUB MAIOO
CHAIRMAN, DEKALB COUNTY COMMISSION
A Real Leada for a Change!
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Id Y Evangelizad
a Los Bautizados
POR SISTER THERESA AHERN, MSBT
En el principio de la
vida de la Iglesia se
bautizaba a los
convertidos. Hoy dia la
tarea es al contrario:
convertir a los bautizados.
En la primera epoca de la
Iglesia, ella se volvio
misionera y proclamo la
Buena Nueva hasta los
confines de la tierra. Hoy,
somos los cristianos que
debemos ser misionados y
evangelizados desde el
interior.
Lo que mas necesita la
Iglesia de hoy es una
verdadera y autentica
E vangelizacion en el
sentido del Nuevo
Testamento:
- Evangelizar a los que
han sido bautizados pero
que todavia no han tenido
un encuentro personal con
Cristo.
- Evangelizar a los que
han sido confirmados pero
que tampoco han
experimentado el poder
del Espiritu Santo.
- Evangelizar a los que
van a Misa los domingos,
pero que su vida no es una
Eucaristia que consagra el
mundo a Dios.
- En fin, evangelizar a
todos los que reciblmoslos
sacramentos pero a veces
con rutina y con apatia.
En realidad,
evangelizacion consiste en
la proclamacion de la
Buena Nueva de la
salvacion en Jesus, gracias
a su muerte y resurreccion.
El Evangelista, mas que
presentar una doctrina o
una teoria, presenta la
persona misma de Jesus e
invita a los oyentes a
abrirse y responder por la
fe y la conversion para
recibir el Don del Espiritu
Santo.
La Evangelizacion no es
otra cosa que hacer vivir a
Cristo en los cristianos de
hoy dia. El Nuevo Reino
solo se puede vivir entre
hombres y mujeres
renovados, con un nuevo
corazon que no siga las
tendencias del mundo sino
las tendencias de la fe; con
un nuevo corazon que es el
mismo corazon de Jesus,
teniendo los mismos
interes y los mismos
criterios de El.
Todos necesitamos esta
renovacion. Y debemos
buscar los medios de
renovamos, de corazon.
Habra una oportunidad de
hacer esto ya mismo.
DONDE? en la
parroquia del Inmaculado
Corazon de Maria
CUANDO? el dia 1 de
noviembre, 1980 desde las
9:00 A.M. PARA QUIEN?
para toda persona de habla
hispana, mayor de doce
anos de edad.
Esta sera una
oportunidad de renovarnos
en nuestra fe, de ser
evangelizados de nuevo.
Para todos los que amamos
a Cristo sera un momento
de conocerlo mejor. Para
los que necesitamos de El,
sera un momento de
acercamiento. Para los que
hemos olvidado un poco
de su sentido en nuestras
vidas sera un momento de
comprender de nuevo la
labor salvifica de Jesus.
La comunidad catolica
hispana de Atlanta
necesita a Jesucristo. Y
todos podemos conocerlo
un poco mejor
compartiendo un dia de
Renovacion Espiritual.
Esperamos ver a muchos
en la Parroquia del
Inmaculado Corazon de
Maria, el dia de Todos los
Santos, el dia 1 de
noviembre. Para mas
informacion pueden llamar
el numero 881-1419, o al
numero 325-4818.
SHEEN PLACE - A
large crowd gathers as
Mass is celebrated on
the steps of St. Agnes
Church in New York
City to mark the
dedication of the block
of 43rd St. as
Archbishop Fulton J.
Sheen Place. (NC
Photo)
Vietnam
Needs Aid
TURIN, Italy (NC) ~
“We are rebuilding our
country from the ruins,
but if the world leaves us
alone we can do nothing,”
said a Vietnamese bishop.
Bishop Pierre Pham Tan
of Than-Hoa, Vietnam,
spoke in Turin during a
tour of European
countries. He was seeking
material aid for Vietnam.
The bishop said many
countries share in the
blame for Vietnam’s
current conditions.
“The Soviet Union
sends aid, but it’s not
enough. The other socialist
states send little. China has
withdrawn from any form
of collaboration,” he said.
“The United States,
after having dropped 20
million tons of bombs on
our land, does nothing for
our rebirth,” Bishop Pham
Tan added. “And the
people lack nearly
everything.”
Asked why a Catholic
bishop would request aid
for a communist regime,
the Vietnamese prelate
said, “The aid won’t go to
the government but to the
people who have lost their
crops.”
“Whoever refuses to
help because Vietnam is a
socialist republic does not
understand our true
condition - rice rations
diminishing, materials
lacking, medicine scarce
and insufficient,’’ he
added.
Bishop Pham Tan said
the Vietnamese Bishops’
Conference called on
Catholics last April to
commit themselves to a
“double state of fidelity
toward the country and
toward the church of
Christ.”
W. Catholicism Suffering
NEW YORK (NC) - Western Catholicism “suffers
badly” because it does not have women priests or married
priests, according to Monika Hellwig, author and professor
of theology at Georgetown University.
“We really need a sacramental ministry by people who
come to it with the experience of women and the
experience of marriage,” she told some 300 persons at St.
James Cathedral, Brooklyn, in a talk marking the 600th
anniversary of the death of St. Catherine of Siena. “And
we’re not getting it.”
She remarked in response to a questioner that if
ordination were open to women, “I would not seek it. I
feel I could do much more as a lay person than I could
with the kind of control that comes with ordination.”
Taking issue with assertiveness, greed and bullying -
attitudes which she suggested were reflected in various
women’s liberation movements - she said that the
Christian call “to be human” does not come by
domination “but by truthful service.” She said this was
the model set by St. Catherine, who gently but firmly
stood up to authority.
Her talk was the second of four on “Women as
prophetic witnesses: visions of reform and renewal.” It
was co-sponsored by the cathedral and the Franciscan
Sisters of the Poor.
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FR. McBRIEN
Kung, Vatican Erred
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC) - Both Father Hans Kung
and the Vatican authorities who censured him in 1979
misinterpreted aspects of the meaning of Catholic
identity, said Father Richard P. McBrien in his inaugural
lecture at the University of Notre Dame.
The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith did not make clear the criteria it used in declaring
Father Kung no longer a Catholic theologian, said Father
McBrien. And it used a narrow definition of “church,”
confining it to the hierarchy rather than the whole people
of God, he added.
But Father Kung, in contending that he remains
Catholic, addresses the issue too broadly and does not
come to terms with what sets Catholicism apart from
other branches of Christianity, Father McBrien also said.
The lecture, entitled “Toward a Definition of
Catholicism: The Hans Kung Case,” dealt with “the
general issue of Catholic identity as a theological problem
in its own right,” but used the controversy of Father
Kung “as a particular case in point.”
Father McBrien, in his prepared text, agreed that there
are limits on theologians such as the Swiss-born Father
Kung, but he also rejected the premise that either
theologians or the pope and bishops by themselves can set
those limits.
Rather, he said, theologians must have their work
evaluated by those “who have the pastoral care of the
church as their ministerial duty,” but their work also is
accountable to the whole church and not the bishops
alone.
In a case such as Father Kung’s the hierarchy must
make its judgment based on “clearly established
theological criteria,” said Father McBrien.
“It is not clear, for example, what criteria the
congregation was using in the declaration of censure when
it decided that Kung ‘can no longer be considered a
Catholic theologian,” said Father McBrien.
“Unquestionably, there is a difference between
Catholic and non-Catholic theologians, but on what basis
is the line of demarcation drawn?”
Father McBrien said too many Catholics view the role
of theologians as that of “interior decorator,” providing
the dressing for the teaching once it has been determined
by the pope and bishops.
But, he added, “Someone must have the scholarly
competence and the pastoral responsibility to exercise
critical judgment toward official teachings, lest some
inadequate or infelicitous expressions be allowed to stand
or lest there be some error in the teaching itself.”
Father McBrien went on to say, though, that Father
Kung is not specific when he says that he wants to remain
a Catholic.
Noting that Father Kung has described many
Protestant thinkers as “catholic” (with a small “c”),
Father McBrien asked, “If he means that many of his
Protestant colleagues are no less Catholic than he, does he
also mean that he is no more Catholic than they? And if
so, is not that just the point brought against him by the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith?
“Nor does Kung appear to strengthen his case with his
distinction between catholicity as a principle of church
life and theology, and Catholicism as a hardening of the
Catholic principle into institutional forms which corrupt
the principle,” Father McBrien continued.
“MERCI, MERCY” - Kaye Cagle, Dir. of PR
at Saint Joseph’s Hospital pins Sister Annette
Kennedy R.S.M. with a corsage on Mercy Day.
Hospital employees honored the Sisters of Mercy
on the Catholic Feast day paying tribute to acts
of mercy performed in Atlanta’s first hospital.
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TRAVIS
'A Man Who Will
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Democratic Candidate For
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
DeKalb County
572nd Militia District - 5th Senatorial
MEMBER OF:
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University of Georgia
School of Law, 1974
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