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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, January 29,1981
PIUS X HIGH SCHOOL
Discrimination Deliberated
BY MARY
CATHERINE LUEDTKE
To commemorate
Martin Luther King day,
St. Pius X High School
hosted an all-day
workshop January 14 in
which students and
teachers discussed
problems of discrim
ination in our society.
The program was part of
St. Pius’ annual Martin
Luther King birthday
celebration. It was
co-sponsored by the
American Jewish
Committee, the
Anti-Defamation League
of B’nai B’rith and the
National Association for
the Advancement of
Colored People.
Workshop leaders
invited by Father Terry
W. Young, principal,
included prominent
members of the business,
government, media,
armed services and
education communities.
In his lecture on the
nature of anti-Semitism,
Mr. William Gralnick,
Atlanta Director of the
American Jewish
Committee, said that the
history of anti-Semitism
is closely tied with the
history of Christianity
for various political,
economic and
psychological reasons. He
encouraged students to
study this history and
added that the Catholic
Church more than others
has squarely faced this
issue.
Mrs. Betty Cantor of
the Anti-Defamation
League described
evidence of rising
anti-Semitism in the
’80’s. Calling it a danger
to a democratic society,
she added that teenagers
are largely responsible
for its perpetration.
In another workshop,
Thomas Dortch, Jr.,
administrative aide to
U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn,
called the civil rights
movement a coalition of
blacks and whites to
insure equal opportunity
and access in every area
of life. A member of the
NAACP, Mr. Dortch
outlined the contri
butions of blacks to all
Americans, and said
discrimination is costly
to all Americans.
Roy Patterson of
WETV-TV discussed
discrimination as it
relates to the media,
which he accused of
brainwashing people. He
added that blacks are
often presented as
buffoons, and that the
media should be
representative, but is
currently a distortion of
black life.
An overview of state
government and how it
handles discrimination in
employment was
presented by Randy
Humphrey, special
assistant to Governor
George Busbee. Calling
Affirmative Action a
RANDY HUMPHREY (I.),
executive assistant to Governor
George Busbee and Roy Patterson of
WETV television discuss some of the
issues relating to discrimination in
our society. Patterson and
Humphrey were part of an all-day
workshop at St. Pius X High School
commemorating the birthday of slain
civil rights leader Martin Luther
King, Jr.(Photo credit: John
DeSantis)
corrective tool to make
up for long standing
inequalities, he admitted
that the program is
controversial, but is
needed because people
are reluctant to change
voluntarily.
Father Young said the
program is held each year
to reinforce Christian
teaching, and to
remember what is needed
to rid our society of any
kind of discrimination.
PRO-LIFE SINGER
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Each Life Is Special
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Jeff Steinberg
Intense Marcher Listens
WEEK OF PRA YER
BY STEPHENIE OVERMAN
WASHINGTON (NC) - Pausing during his March for
Life vigil concert Jan. 21, singer Jeff Steinberg told about
300 right to lifers that each person is special, “certainly
not to be thrown in the trash can because he’s not
perfect.”
During his performance, held on the eve of the eighth
annual March for Life against abortion, Steinberg told of
his own struggle against severe handicaps. The singer was
born without hands or arms and with malformed legs.
“Don’t ever look at a handicapped person and say ‘I
know what he can do or can’t do’ . . . only God
knows,” Steinberg said, telling of his career, his
conversion to Christianity, his marriage and the birth of
his son Benjamin.
He spoke out against abortion, saying, “One set of
hostages (in Iran) has been freed, but there’s another set
of hostages,” including the unborn child whose life is
“weighed in the balance by the doctor who decides
whether he’s really alive, whether he’s worth
living . . . He’s a hostage as long as the surgeon’s knife
hangs over his head.”
Steinberg sang contemporary Christian songs as
marchers from as far away as Wyoming and Alaska
listened and children played on the gymnasium floor near
their parents. Organizers said 300 people had attended the
vigil supper before the concert.
A group from South Dakota who had traveled by bus
for three days to attend the march sat together under
their “South Dakota for Life” banner.
Eighty-eight-year-old Ignatius O’Connor of Boston stood
with his “Abortion is Murder” sign. O’Connor has
attended every march in Washington and said he has been
marching with his sign every day since before the 1973
Supreme Court abortion decision.
Participants in the vigil included Bishop Joseph V.
Sullivan of Baton Rouge, La., the invocation speaker at
the march, and Auxiliary Bishop Thomas W. Lyons 'of
Washington.
Winners of the student essay, poetry and poster contest
were announced at the vigil and the students were to be
presented their awards at the march. Schu Montgomery, a
college student from Louisville, Ky., was first prize winner
of the essay contest for the article “Restoring the
Paramount Right to Life.”
James Addison, a high school student from Scotia,
N.Y., and Karyn Lena, a junior high school student from
Latrobe, Pa., received first prizes for poetry. Addison
wrote “Life’s Rose” and Miss Lena composed “I’m Only
One Month Old.”
Cynthia Campbell, a high "school student from
Arlington, Va., won the poster contest for her picture of
an eagle with a scroll which said “Paramount Human Life
Amendment. It’s American.”
At the end of the vigil Nellie Gray, March for Life
president, received a special award for her organizing
efforts over the last eight years. The theme of this year’s
march is “The Paramount Human Life Amendment,”
which Miss Gray called a “positive” amendment. “It
protects all life,” she said.
Ecumenical Progress Examined
BY JERRY FILTEAU
NC News Service
What is the state of ecumenism today?
Since the Catholic Church seriously entered the
ecumenical movement less than two decades ago major
strides have been made, according to leading Catholic
specialists in ecumenism.
In a series of commentaries broadcast on Vatican
Radio and in articles published in the Italian Catholic
daily, Avvenire, the specialists, mainly from the staff of
the Vatican’s Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity,
cited accomplishments in Catholic relations with other
Christian churches.
Their comments appeared during the annual Christian
unity week Jan. 18-25. Here is a summary of their
remarks on ecumenical relations with specific Christian
groups.
ORTHODOX:
“A new phase in relations with the Orthodox churches
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has been opened,” said Msgr. Eleuterio Fortino of the
unity secretariat.
He was speaking of the new Catholic theological
dialogue with all the Orthodox churches, jointly
announced in November 1979 by Pope John Paul II and
Orthodoxy’s chief prelate, Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios
I of Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey). The dialogue
officially began last May.
The dialogue commission, the most prestigious one
established in modern history, aims to resolve the major
theological-doctrinal issues between the Catholic and
Orthodox churches.
Meanwhile, said Msgr. Fortino, the “dialogue of
charity” between Catholics and Orthodox “not only must
accompany the more strictly theological conversations,
but must be intensified.”
The “dialogue of charity” consists of acts of
friendship, esteem and joint prayer, frequently at the
highest levels of church authority.
WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES:
The Mixed Working Group of the Catholic Church and
the World Council of Churches recently completed a two
year study “on the common witness that can and must be
given by Christians,” said Msgr. Basil Meeking, a member
of the unity secretariat.
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LIGHTING THE FIRE OF ECUMENISM calls
for a “dialogue of charity,” according to Msgr.
Eleuterio Fortino of the Vatican Unity
Secretariat. The dialogue “not only must
accompany the more strictly theological
conversations, but must be intensified,” he said
during the annual week of Christian Unity.
Last year, he added, the group published a document,
“Toward a Confession of the Common Faith,” suggesting
steps for the still-divided churches to be able to profess
their “one apostolic faith” without denying their own
traditions.
Msgr. Meeking noted that SODEPAX, the joint
Catholic-WCC organ for cooperation in justice and peace
areas, was recently disbanded, but added that the Catholic
Church and WCC are studying new methods of
cooperation on social issues. Both sides were emphatic in
stating that the disbanding of SODEPAX meant no
lessening of a commitment to cooperation on social issues.
He also cited last May’s WCC-sponsored World
Missionary Congress in Australia as an example of
Catholic-WCC cooperation.
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“Deadly Dozen”
Minus One
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (NC) -- The inclusion of Sen.
Lawton Chiles (D-F7a.) on a pro-life “hit list” for 1982
has been called premature and inopportune by church and
pro-life officials in Florida.
“I don’t know of any active right to life people in
Florida who are ready to write off Sen. Chiles,” said
Thomas A. Horkan Jr., executive director of the Florida
Catholic Conference.
Chiles is one of 12 senators who have been targeted for
defeat in 1982 by the Washington-based Life Amendment
Political Action Committee (LAPAC) for his position on
abortion. LAPAC’s list of the “deadly dozen” was
announced Jan. 8.
Horkan, who called Chiles “a moral person who has
expressed personal opposition to abortion,” said he hopes
the senator will decide to support a constitutional
amendment on abortion.
“Eventual support or opposition to any candidate
should be based on the respective positions of each
candidate, and no one knows who the candidates will be,”
Horkan added.
Also criticizing the inclusion of Chiles among the 1982
targets was Jean Doyle, executive director of Florida
Right to Life and chairwoman of the National Right to
Life Committee. She said she hoped the “inopportune”
announcement would not impede the dialogue her
organization has established with Chiles and others.
Washington Rally—
(Continued from page 1)
Miss Gray’s heroes had
taken a day off from their
factory jobs, their shops,
their farms and their
schools, ridden long hours
in buses and marched
down Pennsylvania Ave.
on a bright winter
afternoon to show their
opposition to abortion.
Some of her heroes
pushed baby carriages.
Others, too old or weak to
march, stood along the
sides and waved the
marchers on.
Six-year-old Billy
Simmons knew why he
had come from Carroll
County in Maryland to
Washington with a group
of 35 pro-lifers. “I’m going
to march for life,” he said,
waving a sign.
His mother, Janis
Simmons, said it was the
children’s first march,
“but they picketed with us
at abortion clinics this
summer.”
Busloads of junior high
and high school students
marched, many with
school flags and letter
jackets. “They are our
future,” said Msgr. Denny
Dellamalva of Mother of
Sorrows Parish, part of a
group of about 80 people,
including many students,
from Murryville, Pa. “We
want to place in them now
a respect for life from an
early age. We meet with
them and inform them
(about abortion) before
we bring them here.”
Music accompanied the
marchers on their route. A
lone bagpipe played; a
trumpet sounded. A group
from Chicora, Pa., sang
“The Spirit is A-Movin’,”
“We Shall Overcome” and
‘ ‘Jesus Loves the Little
Children,” as Steve Libera
from Arlington, Va.,
joined in with his guitar.
Some of the marchers
carried posters calling for a
“Paramount Human Life
Amendment” - the march
theme - a constitutional
amendment designed to
protect life from the
moment of fertilization.
“Reagan needs us,” said
Dave Lyth of Lehigh, Pa.,
as he walked past the
White House and the
reviewing stands and
bleachers still standing
after the inaugural parade.
“He needed our votes.
We all got out and voted
for him with few
exceptions and we expect
his support of a human life
amendment,” the
Pennsylvania native said.
Catholic participation in that meeting “was probably
more intense than it had ever been for other World
Council meetings,” he said.
ANGLICANS:
Msgr. William Purdy of the unity secretariat traced the
history of Catholic-Anglican relations since Archbishop
Geoffrey Fisher of Canterbury, then Anglican primate, in
the “courageous action of a pioneer,” visited Pope John
XXIII 20 years ago.
Since then an international commission of Catholic and
Anglican theologians has reached major agreements on
theological and doctrinal issues and is due soon to publish
a final report ending the first phase of the dialogue.
As a symbol of the dramatic change in
Catholic-Anglican relations in two decades, Msgr. Purdy
recalled Aug. 6,1978, the day that Pope Paul VI died.
The world’s Anglican bishops were meeting in
Canterbury at the time.
“Steps were taken immediately to send delegates from
the conference to the funeral and the Catholic observers
(at the conference) were invited to celebrate a requiem
Mass at Canterbury, which the whole assembly attended,”
said Msgr. Purdy. “It was a moment that was rich in
historical significance and deeply moving.”
LUTHERANS:
“Not even 15 years have passed since the Catholic
Church and the Lutheran World Federation started an
official dialogue at the world level,” said Msgr. Aloys
Klein of the unity secretariat.
But that brief period has been “a phase of great
consistency and ecumenical fecundity,” he said.
He noted that one of the key dialogue points between
Catholics and Lutherans has been study of the
450-year-old Augsburg Confession, the major confessional
document of Lutheranism.
The dialogue commission “has recognized and
appreciated it as an extraordinary ecumenical document,”
said Msgr. Klein.
“In the framework of these efforts there has clearly
emerged the solid basis of the already existing communion
between Catholics and Lutherans on the central truths of
the faith,” he said.
He noted still unresolved Catholic-Lutheran
differences, particularly in the areas of ministry and
sacraments, but also cited dialogue conclusions which
expressed agreement on some of these points and viewed
the unresolved issues as the “common tasks” for both
churches.
In the Christian unity week series other commentators
noted advances in other ecumenical areas.
In Avvenire Brother Roger Schutz, prior of the
ecumenical monastery of Taize, France, an international
pilgrimage center for young people, wrote that there is an
intense desire for church unity among youths.
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