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PAGE 3—The Georgia Bulletin, January 8,1981
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Pope, 30,000 Youth
Attend Peace Vigil
VATICAN CITY (NC)
- Christian church unity
must center on Rome,
Pope John Paul II told
some 30,000 Catholic and
Protestant youths gathered
in Rome for an
end-of-the-year ecumenical
peace vigil.
The European youths,
led by Brother Roger
Schutz of the famed
ecumenical community of
Taize, France, met in
Rome Dec. 27-Jan 1 for a
pilgrimage of prayer in the
parish churches and
catacombs of Rome,
which concluded with
participation in the
papally proclaimed World
Day of Peace Jan. 1.
Meeting with them Dec.
30 in St. Peter’s Basilica,
Pope John Paul focused on
two themes: church unity
and reconciliation, and the
Christian task of building a
“civilization of love” in
the world.
In his seven-language
address (French, Spanish,
English, Portuguese,
German, Polish and
Italian), the pope
particularly stressed the
“profound mystery” of
church unity and the need
to express it in a visible
way.
“In the first place,” he
said, “this unity of the
church, given by Christ,
marred by Christians and
therefore ceaselessly to be
rebuilt, was especially
entrusted to the apostle
Peter... It was not to
John, the great
contemplative, nor to
Paul, the incomparable
theologian and preacher,
that Christ gave the task
... but to Peter alone.”
He added that “the
charism of St. Peter passed
to his successors. This is
why at a very early time
the church of Rome
played a leading role ...
St. Irenaeus, bishop of
Lyons at the end of the
second century, proclaims
that every church desiring
to preserve the apostolic
tradition must for this
purpose make sure that it
remains in communion
with Rome.”
The pope also bluntly
rejected non-institutional
Christianity.
“Christians do not
pre-exist the church nor
subsist, as such,
independently of the
church,” he said.
He called the church
“the visible sacrament of
(Christ’s) saving unity”
and said that “the very
structure of the church,
with its hierarchy and
sacraments, does nothing
but express and realize this
essential unity received
from Christ its head.”
Pleading for ecumenical
efforts, the pope said,
“Fidelity to Christ
imposes on us the grave
duty to reconstruct full
unity.”
He praised ecumenical
progress but warned
against eucharistic sharing
prior to full reunion. “It is
true that we share a
common patrimony in
many areas,” he said.
“And there has been
notable progress in
understanding, charity,
and prayer in common,
even if out of honesty and
loyalty to ourselves and
our brothers we cannot
celebrate the Lord’s
Eucharist together, since
that is the sacrament of
unity.”
While noting
ecumenical efforts on
various levels, the pope
focused on spiritual
ecumenism as the heart of
the movement for church
reunion. “Conversion of
heart and sanctity of life,
coupled with prayer, are
the mother of all
ecumenism,” he said.
The papal comments
reflected strong approval
of the youth pilgrimage to
Rome and of the purposes
of the ecumenical
community of Taize,
which draws scores of
thousands of young people
from around the world
every year to meditate,
pray and dialogue in an
ecumenical atmosphere.
Linking Christian
reconciliation and social
action, the pope cited the
Beatitudes as the basis of
building a just and loving
society.
The young people on
the ecumenical pilgrimage
were housed by Roman
families and Catholic
institutions around the
city. In addition to
common prayer at major
churches and in the
catacombs, they broke
into numerous small
groups for prayer and
group discussions in at
least half of Rome’s 300
parishes.
ST. JOSEPH S
New Division
Saint Joseph’s Hospital
recently appointed Sister
M. Michelle Carroll,
R.S.M. to head up a new
administrative division at
the lOO-yr.-old institution.
The Apostolic
Effectiveness division will
seek to insure that the
Sisters of Mercy’s mission
Sr. M. Michelle Carroll
R.S.M.
is achieved through
hospital practices.
Operating responsibilit
ies of the new division
include general hospital
services which deal
directly with patients and
their families. The
Auxiliary, social services,
patient advocate, visitor
information services and
Hospice are a part of her
responsibility. In addition,
Sister Michelle consults
with other administrative
areas to assure that the
philosophy and values of
the Sisters of Mercy are
actualized.
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THE END OF ONE PROJECT
means the beginning of another. The
photo above shows the completed
Holy Trinity Church and parish
center in Peachtree City. The new
complex was dedicated by
Archbishop Donnellan on December
7, 1980. Father James Sexstone is
pastor. The photo below shows the
shell of the new rectory at St. John
Vianney parish in Austell. The
project will be completed for early
spring. Father James Fennessy is
pastor.
No Comment On Pope To Poland
VATICAN CITY (NC)
- The Vatican press office
declined to say anything
Dec. 30 about a Newsweek
report that Pope John Paul
II might go to Poland “to
be with his countrymen if
the Soviets invade.”
In a one-paragraph
story in the “Periscope”
column of news briefs
Dec. 29, Newsweek said:
“Pope John Paul II has
quietly passed word that
he would fly to Poland to
be with his countrymen if
the Soviets invade. He
disclosed this in
off-the-record audiences
with at least two recent
visitors, both of whom
came away with the
impression that the pope
has made his intentions
known to the Soviets. One
of the visitors, a French
diplomat, thinks the
prospect of John Paul’s
presence could help
account for the Kremlin’s
caution in the Polish
situation so far.”
Asked to comment on
the Newsweek story, the
vice director of the
Vatican Press Office,
Father Pierfranco Pastore,
said he had no comment
on what he termed
speculation.
St. Louis Remembers
Dr. Tom Dooley
ST. LOUIS (NC) -- A requiem marking
the 20th anniversary of the death of Dr.
Thomas A. Dooley, whose medical work in
Laos and Vietnam during the late 1950s
made him world-famous, will be celebrated
Jan. 18 in St. Louis Cathedral.
Oblate Father Maynard Kegler, United
States promoter of the cause for the
canonization of Dooley, will be the
principal celebrant and homilist of the
anniversary Mass.
The son of a well-to-do St. Louis family
and a graduate of Notre Dame University
and St. Louis University Medical School,
Dooley served for two years as a Navy
doctor in Indochina. He assisted some
600,000 refugees in Southeast Asia after
French forces stopped-fighting there.
In 1956 he resigned from the Navy and
founded Medico, an independent
non-profit international medical
organization to provide medical care in
remote areas in Southeast Asia. He raised
almost $2 million for the organization and
oversaw the establishment of seven
hospitals in four Asian nations.
BORN-DEAF PRIEST
He also wrote four books.
A controversial figure who avoided
bureaucratic red tape, Dooley was
criticized for the primitive medical practice
in his jungle hospitals.
For his work he was honored by both
the United States and Vietnam. He was the
youngest officer ever to receive the Legion
of Merit. He was also awarded Vietnam’s
national medal.
In 1959 he developed melanoma, a form
of cancer, and returned to New York for
surgery. After the surgery he continued to
follow a crowded schedule of fund-raising
lectures until December 1959 when he
returned to Memorial Hospital in New
York, where he died on Jan. 18,1961.
Often called a saint in his lifetime,
Dooley said that made him feel inhibited
about going into a bar to ask for a beer.
Medico was renamed the Thomas A.
Dooley Foundation after his death and still
supports hospitals in Asia and Africa.
President John F. Kennedy said it was
Dooley’s example that inspired the
establishment of the Peace Corps.
Sees Himself As “Broken Toy”
BY MARIAN WALSH
PROVIDENCE, R.I.
(NC) - “I see myself as a
broken toy,’’ said
Trinitarian Father Thomas
Coughlin, the first
born-deaf priest in the
United States and one of
only four born-deaf priests
in the world.
In an interview with the
Providence Visitor,
diocesan newspaper, he
said, “Our task is to repair
the broken aspect of
humanity and in that
process, mankind becomes
one.”
The 33-year-old priest,
a native of Malone, N.Y.,
has been a trailblazer.
He was turned down by
the first religious order he
sought to join, but was
accepted by the
Trinitarian Fathers.
Because of his deafness
he felt isolated from his
fellow seminarians because
he could not communicate
with them, but he
persevered and was
ordained in Baltimore in
May, 1977.
He served as a
missionary priest for the
International Catholic
Deaf Association since
ordination and has
traveled throughout the
world giving retreats for
the deaf. He expects to go
to the Philippines soon to
conduct a retreat there.
During his visit to
Providence, Father
Coughlin spent several
hours meeting students of
the Rhode Island School
for the Deaf.
The young priest spoke
to the students about God
and heaven. He told stories
and showed a movie.
He said the deaf have
difficulty thinking in
abstract terms. They think
in concrete terms so that it
is difficult to teach them
about God and heaven, he
said. He added that he uses
analogies and stories to get
the message across.
Father Coughlin said
that when he went to
church as a youngster, he
sensed a mystery - that
there was something there.
He did not know what it
was but he read books.
Father Coughlin spoke
in a soft voice as he used
his sign language.
He added that it is
easier to “talk” to the deaf
than it is to talk to those
with normal hearing
because the deaf can lip
read and understand sign
language.
During his stay he
spoke at the 20th
anniversary banquet of the
International Catholic
Deaf Association. He
emphasized that the deaf
need to take more
responsibility in the
church.
Father Coughlin added
that the deaf need to be
encouraged to develop
leadership qualities.
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