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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, November 27,1980
YOUTH MINISTRY
‘Stress Awareness’
BY LIZ FEDOR
ST. PAUL, Minn. (NC)
- While youth ministers in
the 70s concentrated on
helping young people
develop an inner peace and
sense of joy with God,
youth ministers in the 80s
need to make teen-agers
sensitive to structures in
society which manipulate
them, according to
Michael Warren, a
nationally known author
and lecturer on youth
ministry.
He gave the keynote
address to the National
Conference oh Youth
Ministry held Nov. 12-15
in St. Paul. Sponsored by
the U.S. Catholic
Conference, the meeting
drew about 500 people.
The foundation that
youth ministers built in
the 70s, which focused on
guiding young people
through their struggles in
family-and friend-relation
ships is great, he said. But
a failure to recognize the
social, political and
institutional structures
which influence these
young people is naive, said
Warren, an associate
professor of catechetical
ministry at St. John’s
University in New York.
To illustrate the need
for a new type of youth
ministry in the 80s,
Warren painted a scenario
,of a girl named Donna.
She is 15 years old,
wearing a tube top, white
cut-offs and standing
before a display window
of the Neiman-Marcus
Department store in
Dallas.
With her hair in a
ponytail, Donna gazes
longingly at a $175 dress
in the window which she
saw in Seventeen
magazine. Donna who is of
medium height, weight
and appearance wishes she
could be like the girl in the
magazine wearing the
dress, but she cannot be.
Donna is gazing at the
dress on a school day. She
has been suspended. In
addition to her school
problems she thinks she
may be pregnant.
Rhetorically, Warren
asked the assembly how it
would minister to
Donna.
He said he posed the
same situation to youth
ministers in other
workshops and many said
they would need to know
more about Donna before
they could evaluate the
situation. They wanted to
know who Donna’s friends
were, how she got along
with her family, and if she
attended church.
Those questions are
important, Warren said,
but they only deal with
Donna’s relationships.
What, he asked, about the
social structures which
govern her life?
Donna is a sophomore
in high school who was
unjustly suspended from
school when she tried to
defend herself against a
false accusation.
Donna is confused
sexually in a society which
promotes sex through
entertainment, he said,
such as teen-age sex in the
“Blue Lagoon” film and
highly suggestive songs.
Donna is the economic
target of a massive
advertising campaign
which dictates what kinds
of clothes she should wear
and what kind of record
albums she should buy,
according to Warren.
Part of Donna’s
problem lies in the fact
that she is unaware of how
outside institutions and
social structures are trying
to influence her, Warren
said.
This is where the youth
minister’s role comes into
play, he said.
It is the job of the
youth minister to help
young people, particularly
those 16 and older, to
“unmask the anonymous
oppressors” in their lives,
he said.
With their new-found
awareness, these young
people are equipped to
speak for themselves and
make intelligent decisions,
he said.
Cathedral Students
Celebrate Liturgy
BY LAUREEN MILLER
A slide presentation reflecting thankfulness for the
beauties of creation in the Atlanta area set the tone for
the Mass of Thanksgiving celebrated by the Christ the
King School Community. The liturgy was planned by the
students in the eighth grade.
In the offertory procession, representatives of each
grade carried symbols expressing the gratitude of their
particular grade. These were placed in a gift basket
symbolic of the baskets of food distributed to the poor
earlier in the week.
The students of the eighth grade prepared a meditation
after Communion in the form of a dramatic presentation
illustrating the abundance of blessings bestowed on
American people and their families.
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Father Joe Cavallo and Susan
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at the student center at Emory
University.
- Campus Ministry -
The Look Of The 80’s
BY KAEDY KIELY
They both look young enough to be
typical graduate students and if you
were to run into them on a college
campus, you might mistake them for
such. But typical students they are not
- in fact, they are not even typical
young adults. They are the campus
ministers at Newman House on the
Emory University campus in Atlanta.
Father Joe Cavallo came to Newman
House in the Fall of 1977 after having
served at several parishes in the Atlanta
area. Susan Sendelbach arrived just last
fall after working with runaways in
Atlanta for a year. She has also worked
in a parish and has done some hospital
and prison ministry in Washington, D.
C. where she attended Catholic
University of America.
Together, Father Joe and Susan work
as campus ministers, which involves
working on programming liturgy and
counselling for the college communities
at Georgia State University and Agnes
Scott College as well as Emory.
Newman House offers a wide variety
of religious experiences to its college
students. Among them are adult
education classes and prayer groups.
Instruction classes are held for Catholics
who wish to return to the faith, those
who wish to be confirmed, or simply
those who "wish to keep abreast of the
church teachings. There is also a
scripture class which meets once a week
and a variety of weekly prayer groups
that are all well attended.
“We have plenty going on here,” says
Susan “and the students really relate to
this ministry.”
One of the best opportunities
students have is the pastoral counselling
offered by Father Joe and Susan. Both
ministers are well trained to take on this
task and they understand that young
people can encounter special kinds of
problems that are difficult to grasp
when they enter college.
Many students feel more comfortable
talking their problems out with
someone who shares their religious
views. “I feel that people seek out
Father Joe and me as counsellors not
only because we are trained in
psychology and other counselling
techniques,” says the student minister,
“but because we are religious leaders.
Through our discussions with these
people, we help them reflect upon how
their lives, and the crises within their
lives, reflect their spiritual growth.”
The students come to Father Joe and
Susan with problems which range
anywhere from conflicts with their
school or their faith, to problems with
drugs or sex. Students also have the
opportunity to receive the Sacrament of
Reconciliation and the other sacraments
too.
Besides offering counselling and
educational classes, Newman House also
gives the student a chance to get
involved in various types of activities.
One of those activities is the cards
system which is available to every
Catholic and gives them the chance to
write down and share their interests,
talents, time and suggestions.
A student can get involved in
anything from being a lector or singing
in the folk group at Mass, to planning
socials or helping with retreats. “One of
the reasons our ministry is so good is
because we always have excellent
participation from the students and
faculty,” Susan comments. There is a
group of students on a steering
committee, who act as “peer ministers.”
Their job is to round up members of the
community and get them involved in
specific committees which range from
Mass preparation, to phoning.
“They do a marvelous job,” says
Father Joe. “The sheer numbers of
volunteers around our Center proves it.”
A Mass is held for Emory students,
faculty, and staff members, and their
families each Sunday. The Liturgy is
offered in a large classroom on the school’s
campus, and what the room lacks in
atmosphere, the Emory community
makes up in enthusiasm. Father Joe
fondly says that the Emory community
is his parish. As Susan agrees, Father Joe
sums it up in a nutshell by saying: “It
can be an exciting community as we
together explore our dreams; it can be a
joyful community as we celebrate who
we are; but it can also be a painful but
comforting community as we are
challenged to grow not only
intellectually but spiritually to come to
terms with where we are going in life.”
Newman House is a tool which
Catholic students can use to help better
build and shape their lives to participate
not only in the Catholic community,
but in the rest of God’s community as
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NEW YORK
School Prayer Meetings Out
NEW YORK (NC) - The separation of
church and state prohibits public schools
from allowing groups of students to hold
voluntary prayer meetings on school
property, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Rejecting arguments that the students
were attempting to exercise their rights of
free speech and religion, the 2nd U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in New York
ruled Nov. 17 that such prayer meetings on
school property would have created “an
improper appearance of official support”
for religion.
“We must be careful that our public
schools, where fundamental values are
imparted to our children, are not perceived
as institutions that encourage the adoption
of any sect or religious ideology,” the
appeals court ruled.
The case involved six students at
Guilderland High School near Albany,
N.Y., who filed a discrimination suit
against the school board in 1979 for
refusing to allow students to gather
voluntarily for prayer in an empty
classroom before school began. They said
other groups, such as a private dance
company and a local choir, have been
permitted to use school facilities.
Organized as Students for Voluntary
Prayer, the group was represented in court
by the Catholic League for Religious and
Civil Rights, which said the appeals court
decision would be appealed to the Supreme
Court.
Robert Destro, the Milwaukee-based
league’s general counsel, said he felt the
Supreme Court would not be able to
accept the appeals court’s reasoning, which
he said denied the right of free speech on
public school property.
The three-judge appeals court, in
affirming a lower federal court decision,
said the students are free to worship as
they please before or after school “in a
church or any other suitable place.”
U.S. Circuit Judge Irving R. Kaufman,
who wrote the opinion, said prayer
meetings at school would have required
supervision in order to maintain the normal
school schedule and to insure that the
sessions were voluntary.
“To an impressionable student, even the
mere appearance of secular involvement in
religious activities might indicate that the
state has placed its imprimatur on a
particular religious creed,” he wrote. “This
symbolic inference is too dangerous to
permit.”
Kaufman said that while the court could
not rule in the students’ favor, the court at
the same time could not be critical of the
students’ objectives.
“Introspective activity that seeks to
strengthen the moral fiber of our nation’s
young adults deserves our support, but
only in our role as private citizens,”
Kaufman wrote.
“We hope that the Students for
Voluntary Prayer can conduct their prayer
meetings and religious discussions at
another place and different times,” he said.
“To permit these activities to occur in the
classroom of a public high school
immediately prior to the commencement
of the school day, however, would
contribute to the erosion of principles
articulated by our colonial fathers and
embraced by religious dissenters for several
hundred years.”
HIGH COURT COMMANDMENT
- Second grade teacher Juanita
Totten of Okolona Elementary
School in suburban Louisville, Ky.,
looks at a copy of the Ten
Commandments on her classroom
wall. The U.S. Supreme Court has
struck down a Kentucky law that
requries the posting of the Ten
Commandments in public school
classrooms.
Former Long Kesh
Prisoner Deported
LONDON (NC) -A
young Irishman honored
by the Massachusetts
Legislature for heroism in
“suffering over three years
of torture and
degradation” in a
Northern Irish prison was
deported from the United
States and arrested on
arrival in London, a British
police official said Nov.
20.
The Irishman, Liam
Carlin, a 23-year-old
unemployed laboratory
technician from
Londonderry, Northern
Ireland, was held under
the Prevention of
Terrorism Act when he
arrived at London’s
Heathrow Airport Nov.
14, the official said. He
added that Carlin, who
was released last March
after spending four years
in the Maze Prison at Long
Kesh near Belfast,
Northern Ireland, would
be held at least until Nov.
21.
Police said U.S.
immigration authorities
detained Carlin for
entering the United States
illegally and put him on a
London-bound flight. He
had been in the United
States for several months.
In September the
Massachusetts House of
Representatives awarded
citations to Carlin and
Francis McCann of Belfast,
who had also been
imprisoned in Northern
Ireland, for heroism “in
suffering over three years
of torture and degradation
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