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PAGE 3—The Georgia Bulletin, October 23,1980
Miami: Case Study
For Interracial Justice
WASHINGTON (NC) -
Miami, a city struck by
riots this spring, was used
as the case study for a
conference on “The Role
of Hispanics in Relation to
Black-White Tensions.”
Although the May riots
followed an influx of
Cuban refugees, Msgr.
Bryan Walsh cautioned
against linking the two
events. Msgr. Walsh,
director of Catholic
Charities of the Miami
Archdiocese, was one of
the speakers at the Oct. 15
conference in Washington
sponsored by the National
Catholic Conference for
Interracial Justice.
“The two events
occurred close in time, but
there are questions about
the casual relation
between the boatlift and
the civil disturbance in
Liberty City - one of the
black areas in Miami,”
Msgr. Walsh said. He called
police-black violence a
major factor contributing
to the city's problems.
Msgr. Walsh and two
other panelists - Cyrus
Jollivette, director of
public affairs at the
University of Miami, and
Eduardo Padron, dean of
instruction at Miami-Dade
Community College --
traced the history of
Miami from a sleepy
southern town to a
bilingual urban center
closely linked to Latin
American trade.
Hispanics will soon be
the largest minority in
America and Miami is
already a “community of
minorities,” Jollivette said.
He said blacks and
Hispanics have yet to
develop significant
relationships, but added,
“I put my hopes for the
future on effective
coalitions.”
Jollivette and Padron
said the Catholic Church
has not had strong
involvement in
black-Hispanic problems,
but Msgr. Walsh
commented, “The
expectations for the
church are so great it
scares me. I don’t think we
have the personnel or the
energy to respond the way
people expect.”
He added that the
Miami Archdiocese is
relatively young and that
many priests are from
outside the area. “Don’t
let your expectations
outdistance the realities,”
Msgr. Walsh said.
Padron said the church
could provide a
mechanism to bring groups
together and could provide
a means to ease the
tensions in Miami.
He also said a major
aspect of Miami’s racial
problems “is the role the
media has played in the
governing of relationships.
How blacks see Hispanics
and how Hispanics see
blacks is molded and
controlled by the Anglo
(white) media.”
Cubans in Miami have
been isolated, Padron said,
but they have been able to
build an economic base,
while Miami blacks have
not.
Msgr. Walsh said
Cubans created jobs for
themselves during a time
when tourism was
declining and the city was
in a recession. Cubans
developed jobs in areas
such as the garment trade,
but black unemployment
has remained high. He
added that a decline in
U.S. tourism has been
replaced by an influx of
Latin American tourists.
The May riots were the
result of continued poor
human conditions for
blacks, Jollivette said of
Miami’s situation. “As our
city comes of age, blacks
in general have yet to gain
access to the mainstream.”
Jollivette said the riots
that occurred in other
cities in the 1960s did not
hit Miami until 1980
because “Miami is just
coming of age and is in the
throes of experienceing
what Northern cities
experienced before.”
Jacquelyne Jackson,
associate professor of
sociology at Duke
University in Durham,-
N.C., said both class and
race are important aspects
of the problems in Miami.
“We’ve got to come to
the point where we can
downplay the differences.
And the church can help.
We have to move back to
being Americans,” she
said.
Ms. Jackson presented a
paper on the impact of
demographic changes on
black-Hispanic relations in
the United States.
Rodolfo Alvarez, a
sociology professor at the
University of California in
Los Angeles, who
presented a paper on the
relationship of Hispanics
to black-white tensions,
called on the church to
cultivate leadership and set
up organizations to help
ease tensions.
However, “if the
church is to help blacks
and Hispanics look eyeball
to eyeball and work
together, it has to resist
the temptation to control
or staff those organizat
ions.”
Jesuit Father Joseph
Fitzpatrick, a sociology
professor at Fordham
University, N.Y., who
spoke on creative variety
in the Catholic parish,
called for “respect for the
continuation of the
culture of each group in
the parish so that they all
feel at home and yet feel
part of one community.
“We ought not be
afraid of difference - it’s
the way the differences are
related to each other,” he
said.
Vocations Celebrated
BY LAUREEN MILLER
National Church Vocation Awareness Week was
celebrated by the students of Christ the King School with
two major events. On Oct. 15, a panel discussion was
presented for students in grades five through eight.
Participants included Brother John Ulrich, Reverend John
Fallon, Sister Patricia Geary, and Deacon Austin
Faugherty. Personal experiences in answering the call to
Christian service and the theme of choices and values were
part of the discussion.
A Liturgy for Vocations was celebrated by Msgr. John
F. McDonough on Oct. 17 for the entire school
community. Special symbols of Christian service were
carried in the Offertory procession; these included the
brick as a symbol of the building of Christian Community;
a green plant as a symbol of the life-giving work of Sisters,
Priests, and Brothers.
The third-graders, under the direction of Irma Chirico,
music instructor, offered a special communion meditation
in the form of the hymn “I Heard the Lord.”
The The liturgy closed with expressions of thanks to
Sisters and Priests who serve in Christ the King Parish.
SISTER MARY PAUL Nairobi Carmel in Kenya where
THOMAS, O.P. shares some she met Pope John Paul and
refreshment with sisters at the celebrated her silver jubilee.
Sr. Mary Paul
Meets The Pope
BY THEA JARVIS
It’s not every religious who
celebrates her silver jubilee with the
Pope.
But Sister Mary Paul Thomas, O.P.,
daughter of Jack and Alice Maertz of
Christ the King Cathedral Parish, did
just that.
Stationed in Nairobi, Kenya, at a
semi-cloistered Dominican house of
prayer, Sister Mary Paul and her small
community were looking forward to the
Pope’s visit to Africa last spring.
His tight schedule included a Mass
for priests and religious in the Nairobi
Cathedral and a visit with the Kenyan
contemplatives at a nearby Nairobi
Carmel.
On May 7th, Sister Mary Paul and
fellow members of her community set
out by car for the Carmelite enclosure,
having attended the Papal Mass the day
before.
Pope John Paul II arrived shortly
after the Dominican sisters, slipping
quietly through the back gate of the
Carmel. During his stay, he presented a
rosary to each sister, calling each one up
for a personal greeting.
When it came time for her to receive
the rosary, Sister Mary Paul remembers,
a friend told the Pope that it was her
silver jubilee - the day on which she
celebrated 25 years in religious life.
“He took my head in both his hands
and sort of rocked it and then kissed me
on the top of my head. I felt very
special and privileged.”
For Sister Mary Paul, it may well
have been the highlight of her African
adventure, which began 15 years ago
when she joined the group of
Dominican sisters near Mount
Kilimanjaro in northern Africa.
Sister’s commitment to Africa is for
life, according to her mother, Alice
Maertz. “When she left for Africa, we
were told that she would not be able to
come home at all, although we were free
to visit her in Nairobi.”
Relaxed restrictions, however,
permitted Sister Mary Paul’s re-entry to
the States for a three-month visit several
years ago.
“She was able to spend a month at
her motherhouse in Connecticut and
two months with us here in Atlanta,”
recalls Mrs. Maertz. “We visited all over
and saw many of her old friends and
teachers.”
It was in Africa, however, that Sister
made a new friend, one with whom she
celebrated a very special day.
Fr. Kelley Circles The Globe
Jesse Jackson Speaks Out
CHATTANOOGA,
Tenn. (NC) -- “The
electronic media has more
power over the minds of
our children than home,
school and church
combined,” according to
the Rev. Jesse Jackson,
who estimates that by age
15 an American youth has
seen 18,000 hours of
television compared with
having attended only
11,000 hours of school
and 3,000 hours of
church.
The 38-year-old Baptist
minister also told a group
of Episcopal bishops that
one of the great tragedies
of the times is the absence
of any direct activity by
the coalition of labor,
church and civil rights
groups over the last
decade.
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Mr. Jackson addressed
the Episcopal Church’s
House of Bishops, a
non-legislative body which
meets annually for prayer
and discussion.
Cardinal Leon Joseph
Suenens of Belgium,
retired archbishop of
Malines-Brussels who is
active in the charismatic
renewal, led the group
each morning in prayer
sessions.
Mr. Jackson stressed
that Americans live in a
“new world order” in
which the United States
no longer holds a
monopoly on brains and
technology. He
emphasized that America
cannot afford the
“luxury’’ of “skin
worship” or of hedonism
as its basic philosophy.
“We in America have
been operating on the
pleasure principle instead
of the sacrifice principle.
We all want the
resurrection, but we want
to circumvent the
crucifixion. The Master
has told us the
resurrection is beyond the
crucifixion,” he stated.
Mr. Jackson noted that
American children watch
an average of five hours of
television per night, and
that by the age of 15 have
seen some 700,000
murders.
He also called on the
churches to lead America
out of racism, terming
racism the “cancer of the
American soul” and
naming it as the number
one threat to the nation’s
tranquility.
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Africa and the Far East.
Father John Kelley has
flown 2 0,0 00 miles
between these points and
back this year - at his own
expense - to spread an
understanding of the
charismatic movement.
Father Kelley says this
doesn’t put him in good
standing with most
charismatics because “I’m
against being a
charis-maniac.” However,
Father Kelley believes
every baptized Catholic
needs to realize that
there’s a bit of the Holy
Spirit in each of them and
that this - not speaking in
tongues - is the essence of
the charismatic movement.
“I don’t want the
church, or in particular,
St. Jude’s in Sandy Springs
- to become charismatic. I
want church members to
realize the church is
Spirit-filled and that this is
Catholic-doctrine
embracing,” Father Kelley
remarked.
Father Kelley believes
all Catholics who want to
grow will realize that the
“Spirit” of God is at the
root of any spiritual
expansion. “You don’t
need a special revelation to
be charismatic,” Father
Kelley cautions. “Personal
awareness of how the
Spirit is present in our
everyday lives is what
being charismatic is all
about,” he observed.
Fr. Kelley returned in
September from Nigeria
where he helped lead the
country’s first Charismatic
Conference. He will lead a
weeklong seminar at St.
Jude’s entitled “You will
Receive Power” October
26-31 (open to everyone,
$4.00 registration fee). He
says the aim of this nightly
seminar is to show the
participants that the Holy
Spirit is present within
them.
Father Kelley
emphasizes that the Holy
Spirit doesn’t expect us to
be ‘holy prophets’ but
does expect us to act upon
his inspiration in everyday
acts.
“The humanness of the
spirit is that it allows each
man to have his own wants
and needs - to shape his
destiny in a personally
fulfilling way - while
conforming to the Holy
Spirit,” he says. He
analyzes that this
appreciation of the Holy
Spirit’s role in our lives is
what is revitalizing the
church.
“Charismatics have
always been in the Church
- they’re just gaining more
visibility today.” Father
Kelley observes. He says it
became apparent after
Vatican II that the Holy
Spirit had intensified His
presence in the parish
churches. Because of this
Father Kelley left the
monastery in Conyers
after 18 years and began
pastoral work.
He says that being a
charismatic doesn’t elevate
one above others. “No one
group of priests or
laypeople have a corner on
any of God’s gifts,” Father
Kelley remarked. He
proved that inspiration
from the Spirit isn’t
confined to a church, too.
The setting for this
interview: Chi Chi’s
Mexican restaurant’s
lounge, in front of a
wide-screen tv during the
World Series.
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NOBEL WINNERS - In Buenos
Aires, Argentine sculptor and human
rights activist Adolfo Perez Esquivel
(left) shows newsmen the telegram
he received advising him that he had
won the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize.
Czeslaw Milosz (right), Nobel Prize
winner for literature, pauses outside
his office at the University California
at Berkeley. Milosz, an exiled Polish
poet and novelist, received the prize
for poetry written in Polish. (NC
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