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PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, January 8,1981
Healing Ministry Brings Hope To Sick And Disabled
NEW YORK (NC) - Moving from chair to chair in the
music room of St. Francis Prep, crowded with the sick
and disabled, the priest touched them, prayed silently and
occasionally relieved the tension with banalities.
Outside, a queue of wheelchair-bound people, excited
by reports of a mysterious warmth at the touch of the
“healing priest,” waited.
The priest, Redemptorist Father Edward McDonough
of Boston’s Mission Church, had traveled to the gathering
of about 300 sick and disabled as part of a healing
ministry which has occupied him for the past six years.
Everyone watched as he put his hands on a crippled
woman’s shoulders. She swayed and fell into his arms.
Another disabled woman murmured when she was
touched, “I feel very warm vibrations. Thank God.”
He prayed over a man and asked him if his legs felt
warm.
“Yes,” the man said.
“Do you usually walk with a cane?”
“Yes.”
•* •
Father McDonough told the man to walk without the
cane and, smiling, the man walked in a circle. “You’ll be
in the marathon next,” the priest said.
After an hour the room cleared and a new group
entered in wheelchairs and on canes and walkers.
Outside people recounted their experiences in the
music room.
“I felt warm, I felt such a tingle in my body,” said
Julie Bocca, an arthritic. “My leg, my foot, my head have
been bothering me terribly, but when he touched me, all
that went away. I feel the best I’ve ever felt.”
“I felt a sense of peacefulness, of serenity,” said a nun
with multiple sclerosis. “I didn’t expect to be healed right
then and there ... I just have faith that maybe someday I
will be healed.”
Elaine Carroll, a 15-year-old student at St. Francis
Prep, said she had suffered broken vertebrae in an
accident three months earlier. “I was amazed when he
started to reach around for my back. He started to bend
me over and I haven’t bent since September. I was
touching the floor. I can still do it too. They said it would
take two years before I could bend over again. I’d have to
take pills and wear braces ... I don’t even have the brace
on now and I can walk. Usually I can’t walk without it.”
After the last people filed out of the music room,
Father McDonough sat down in a cloakroom for a
cigarette and a soft drink.
“I never could have thought of a healing ministry,” he
said, “until the Lord started using me to gether people
together to pray that the Lord would heal, and all kinds
of healing took place.
“In the past six years, I can honestly say I’ve seen
every kind of healing you could think of take place, some
of them many, many times.” He cited cures in cases of
polio and cancer, blindness, deafness and brain tumors. “I
exercise the gift in the context of a Christian community
of prayer,” he said. “I don’t really claim that it’s my
prayers more than anyone else’s... I don’t think it’s
surprising that God answers prayers.”
He said he has conducted healing services for as many
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He earned bachelor’s
and master’s degrees at the
University of Manitoba
and then went to England
to study at the University
of Cambridge, where he
earned a B.A., an M.A. and
a Ph.D.
In 1936, he became a
teacher at the University
of Wisconsin and,
influenced by the writings
of G.K. Chesterton,
converted to Catholicism.
He taught at St. Louis
University and at
Assumption University in
Windsor, Ontario, before
joining the faculty of St.
Michael’s College.
He is survived by his
wife and their six children.
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force. The first year of
S a n dinista rule in
Nicaragua “produced a
mixed record ... of
tolerance and respect for
human rights in spite of
counterrevolutionary
violence” while critics in
the opposition increased
because of government
moves against labor,
independent media and
political freedom.
Costa Rica continued
its strong human rights
policies, COHA said.
Cuba showed a mixed
record. It has reduced the
number of political
prisoners in the past two
years, but “reports are
afloat that the jails are
being repopulated by the
hundreds.” Cuba allowed a
mass exodus unparalleled
by any other communist
country, but also sent out
common criminals and
mental patients. In spite of
claims of Cuban
involvement in Central
American violence, the
Havana leaders have used
restraint in this area,
according to COHA.
Cuban-U.S. relations
remain tense, it noted.
In Jamaica the hope is
“that gang politics will be
replaced by a responsible
two-party system.” The
Dominican Republic is
given a clean slate except
for* the conditions of
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com pany will broadcast
only in the city of Atlanta.
It looks like it may be in
DeKalb, and North Fulton
too, but that’s not quite
certain yet.”
The new religious
station will appear only in
the city of Atlanta
initially, but quality
programming from these
communicators will be
sufficient to put local
Atlanta religion,
eventually, on every cable
system in the Metro area.
slavery in which migrant
workers from Haiti are
kept. Haiti is considered a
dictatorship with flagrant
violations of civil rights,
COHA said.
CO HA viewed Bolivia
in the “ranks of serious
violators as a result of the
massive killings which
took place after the July
coup staged by Gen. Luis
Garcia Meza . . . The
bloody repression has
continued.”
Brazil kept up “its
ambivalent march to a
political opening and
freedom, and at the same
time the military
arbitrarily arrests
dissidents, pressures the
media and curbs trade
union activity,” COHA
said.
Argentina, Chile and
Uruguay still hold
thousands of political
prisoners without charges
or trial and in the three
nations secret police
tactics against the
moderate opposition “are
the order of the day.” A
decrease in the number of
killings and disappearances
“may be attributed to
their governments’ success
in eliminating political
opposition and the fact
that continued repression
has intimidated all voices
of dissent into silence,”
CO HA said. It gave a
similar appraisal to
“Our people,” says Ike
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are everywhere, so our
programming should go
everywhere. And
eventually it will.”
When Cable Atlanta
opens for business,
hopefully very soon, a
small revolutionary group
will attempt to be first in
the nation to place local
interfaith religious
television each day into
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too long been
unrepresented in large and
important areas of
American life,” the
statement said.
“With special urgency
we call public attention to
the continued immigration
of the large Hispanic
population, one of the
oldest ethnic American
groups, which is just now
beginning to receive
appropriate recognition,”
it added.
The statement also said
that ethnic discrimination
can take place within the
church itself because of
the existence of
“ecclesiastical minorities,”
such as Catholics of the
Eastern Rite.
“The differences which
the Catholic Eastern
Churches reflect are
differences of theological
insight, spirituality,
liturgical practice and
church discipline.
“Despite the rapidly
increasing numbers of such
fellow Catholics in our
country, discrimination
against them in the valid
expressions of their
traditional customs,
practices and discipline
seems to persist,” the
statement said.
The statement rejected
the “melting pot” theory.
‘‘Any measure of
reflection would indicate
that this would not, and
indeed should not, be the
future for America. The
t otal homogenization of
people within a nation is
no less disastrous, as
history shows, than that
same process among
nations.”
Instead, the document
called for “integration”
rather than “assimilation”
of ethnic groups into
society. “It (integration) is
a continuing process that
demands constant
vigilance, not just on the
part of lawmakers and
public policy designers,
but also on the total
citizenry.
“All institutions must
reflect this commitment in
order to live up to the
American ideal ... In a
special way, because of
their moral authority, the
churches must be leaders
in upholding human
dignity.”
Although overt
hostility to immigrant
groups as in the 19th and
early 20th centuries has
largely disappeared from
American life, the
statement noted that “for
too many . . . discrimina
tion has taken on more
subtle and less visible
forms.”
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as 2,500 people in Ireland and has seen as many as 60 sets
of crutches and canes left behind after a service.
“I think there’s a lot of miracles in healing,” Father
McDonough said, “but they’re not defined as such by the
church, and so technically they’re not miracles.”
He called the low priority given to the healing service
by church leaders “unfortunate.”
“Priests are trained theologically,” he said, “and many
of them still hold onto a theory that’s been given up by
the church, that we can’t expect miraculous healing now.
Priests do believe that God can heal, but they don’t
believe there’s great healings taking place in the context of
healing services. The majority of medical doctors are more
receptive to . . . healing services than the majority of
priests.”
He said the healing service is not extraordinary in the
tradition of the church and especially of the early church.
“We go around trying to create a climate of faith,” he
said, “so that people will believe that Jesus heals, andi
heals today, and heals all of us in His own way.”
Paraguay.
Human rights fare
better in Peru under the
new civilian government, it
said, although it has not
investigated allegations
that in the previous
military regime Argentine
refugees were murdered.
In the northern part of
South America, the COHA
review found democratic
Colombia falling “into the
hands of the military” and
dissidents being tried by
military rather than
civilian courts. Guerrilla
and other forms of
violence have brought
about a long state of siege
that has allowed hundreds
of cases of torture and
arbitrary arrest. Ecuador
and Venezuela were given
good marks, although
Venezuela’s policy of
support for El Salvador
was criticized.
Guyana continued to
use the language of
socialism but its security
forces beat members of
the opposition, the
government restricts the
press (including church
media) and assassinations
of respected citizens place
this country among
violators. A December
re-election of Premier
Forbes Burnham was
“riddled with fraud,”
according to COHA.
of our channel will be
this,” says John Allen.
“Go to your churches and
synagogues and become
members of that
community^ We are not
going to be the electronic
church. We are going to
point to the direction of
belonging to the local
community and being of
service there.”
It’s new. It sounds like
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all, good men and women
are working to make it
happen.
ethnic in a special way has
been singled out in some
circ les, as if this
identification handicapped
such a one for reasons
both of religion and
national origin.”
The statement also
noted the existence in the
past of the “national”
parish which served
particular ethnic
immigrant groups.
“The many great
ministries rendered by
these parishes have not
received the praise,
gratitude and support they
have deserved, neither
from historians of the past
nor scholars of the present
day,” said the statement
which also noted that in
some cases national
parishes should continue
to serve a new generation
of immigrants.
YOUNG GUERRILLAS - Young guerrillas
make their way down a trail in El Salvador
carrying automatic rifles. Thousands of the young
militants are teen-agers who volunteered or were
recruited for battle in the troubled Central
American nation.
Latest Victims:
Land Reform Team
WASHINGTON (NC) - Two U.S. agricultural advisers
killed Jan. 3 in El Salvador, Michael P. Hammer and Mark
David Pearlman, worked for the landless peasants as did
the four American missionary women slain a month
earlier.
Hammer, 42, of Potomac, Md., was a Catholic and a
graduate of Georgetown University. His family said a Mass
of Christian burial will be scheduled after his body is
returned to the United States Jan. 6.
Hammer and Pearlman, 36, of Seattle, worked for a
Salvadoran government land reform program under
contract which the American Institute for Free Labor
Development has with the U.S. Agency for International
Development. The institute is an educational arm of the
AFL-CIO and sponsors projects in several Latin American
countries.
The murder of the advisers was blamed by President
Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador on rightists opposing
redistribution of land.
Early in December four U.S. missioners - two
Maryknoll sisters, one Ursuline nun and a lay worker --
were abducted and murdered near the San Salvador, El
Salvador, airport. The killings and those of six prominent
opposition leaders led to temporary suspension of U.S.
military aid to the Salvadoran government, which was
then reorganized.
Killed with Hammer and Pearlman at a hotel in San
Salvador was Rodolfo Viera, a peasant union organizer
who headed the government’s Agrarian Reform Institute.
Viera had criticized members of the government as it
became increasingly conservative. Friends said he was
being pressured to resign. He was considered a supporter
of Col. Alfonso Majano, a liberal government member
ousted in December and now in hiding.
Last March economists and sociologists of the
Jesuit-run Central American University in El Salvador
withdrew their support of the land reform program which
had Hammer and other Americans as advisers. They had
been instrumental in drafting the reform legislation along
the lines of Catholic social doctrine, following studies of
the country’s land tenure practices, but disagreed with the
approach and the methods of the Salvadoran government
program and its U.S. advisers.
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