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PAGE 3—The Georgia Bulletin, January 29,1981
Do You Have A Vocation?
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BY JERRY F1LTEAU
VATICAN CITY (NC)
-- Pope John Paul II and
Jesuit Superior General
Father Pedro Arrupe met
Jan. 17 to discuss at length
the process involved in the
resignation of a Jesuit
superior general.
Fr. Pedro Arrupe, S.J.
Last year the Jesuits
announced that Father
Arrupe had begun the
process for his resignation
but halted it “for the time
being” at the pope’s
personal request.
For the meeting Jan.
17, the first private
discussion between the
pope and Father Arrupe
since that announcement,
neither the Vatican nor
the Jesuit curia announced
any details.
But a well-placed
source told NC News that
the whole meeting was
devoted to discussing the
process and implications
of a Jesuit superior
general’s resignation.
“No decision was
made” at the meeting, the
source said. He described
it simply as “an
informative conversation.”
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source added, the pope
said he wanted to discuss
the topic further with
Father Arrupe and said he
■yvished to meet with him
again about it.
The source said Father
Arrupe was “very happy”
with the meeting.
When Father Arrupe
announced last Aug. 1 that
he was halting his
resignation process at the
pope’s request, the news
touched off a flood of
speculation that a major
rift had developed
between the two
churchmen. Members of
the Jesuit order, one of
the largest and most
influential in the church,
make a special vow of
direct obedience to the
pope.
Informed sources
dismissed the speculation
about divisions as fiction,
saying the idea was
contradicted by the very
fact that the pope had
aked Father Arrupe to
remain.
Between then and Jan.
17, the pope and Father
Arrupe saw each other
briefly on a few public
occasions but did not meet
privately.
‘An Answer To Prayer’
■.
Over 300 adults and
teenagers gathered at St.
Jude’s Church January
11 for the first annual
Vocations Day,
conducted by Father
Richard Lopez, (above
left) Vocations Director
for the Atlanta
Archdiocese Assisting
Father Lopez in
answering such questions
as “What is a vow?”
“How do you know if
you have a vocation?”
and “What is the
difference between
secular and order
priests?” were Brother
John Ulrich, S.M. (above
right) of Marist High
School, Sister Sharon
Marie, O.P. of the Cancer
Home (below right) and
Sister Jean Strach, O.P.
of St. Jude’s. Father Pat
Bishop of St. Pius X High
School was also on hand
to discuss vocations, as
were members of Serra
and SERV, lay
organizations which
promote vocations and
assist those studying for
the religious life. (For
more information on
vocations, call Father
Lopez 394-3896).
BY
STEPHENIE OVERMAN
NC News Service
“I thank God and the
Blessed Mother who
protected our son and us
and is keeping all the
hostages safe. I put him in
the Lord’s hands a long
time ago and now he’s
bringing him home.”
This short prayer was
Teresa Gallegos’ response
to news that after over
400 days of waiting, her
son, Marine Sgt. William
Gallegos, was being freed.
Mr. and Mrs. Gallegos
embraced and wept when
they received a U.S. State
Department call at 2:20
a.m. Jan. 19 telling them
that, after more than a
year of captivity in Iran
for their son and 51 other
Americans, the hostage
crisis was resolved. The
Gallegos family belongs to
St. Leander Parish in
Pueblo, Colo.
In the Gallegos
home, champagne and
silver goblets were set out
to toast the breakthrough,
but many of the families
remained skeptical until
they received State
Department confirmation
that the hostages were
indeed out of the country.
“I’m just so excited, as
excited and elated as I can
be,” Barbara Rosen of
New York said when the
call came through, at 1
p.m. Jan. 20. Mrs. Rosen,
who is Catholic, had been
waiting for news of the
release of her husband,
Barry, a press attache.
The two Rosen children
-- Alexander, 4, and
Ariana, 2 - stood on their
front porch with American
flags to announce that
their father was coming
home. Mrs. Rosen said her
husband would take down
the yellow ribbons,
national symbol of hope
for the hostages’ safe
return, from the trees in
the front yard.
Of the time she has
spent waiting, Mrs. Rosen
said, “In any situation in
life, you change, you
grow. I think I’m basically
before Christmas 1979, it
promised not to turn on
the decorative lights till
Kevin was freed.
Mary Lopez, mother of
Marine Sgt. Jimmy Lopez,
said she and her husband
Jesus plan to have one day
alone with their son when
PRIVATE MASS -- Bishop Arthur Tafoya of
Pueblo, Colo., celebrates a private Mass at his
residence with Teresa and Dick Gallegos, parents
of Marine Sgt. Bill Gallegos, one of the 52
Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days. The
Mass was one of the events of a hectic week at the
Gallegos Pueblo home after they learned that
their son would be freed.
the same person I was a
year ago. I may be a little
more outspoken, a little
more comfortable with the
media. But I’m the same
person.”
“Light the Christmas
tree. It’s official. He’s
coming home,” was the
response of Barbara Timm,
Oak Creek, Wis. to news
that the hostages were
being released.
Her son, 21-year-old
Marine Sargeant Kevin
Hermening, is also
Catholic and the youngest
of the hostages seized by
t he Iranians when they
stormed the American
embassy Nov. 4,1979.
Mrs. Timm explained
that when the family put
the Christmas tree up
he returns, then they’ll all
go to Washington before
returning to their
hometown of Globe, Ariz.
Lopez said through an
interpreter that the
developments proved that
“one must have faith in
God. Without faith there is
nothing.”
A special Mass was
recently celebrated by
Bishop Francis J. Green of
Tucson, Ariz. for the
Lopez family.
Masses were also
celebrated for the families
of vice consul Donald
Cooke in Memphis, Tenn.
and consul general Richard
H. Morefield in San Diego,
Calif.
‘‘We’re going to
celebrate from now till
Paul gets home,” declared
a merchant Jan. 19 in the
small town of Homer, Ill.,
hometown of Marine Sgt.
Paul Lewis.
While the Marine’s
parents, Phillip and Gloria
Lewis remained secluded,
residents of Homer turned
out to decorate it with the
yellow ribbons.
When the hostages were
captured, Mrs. Lewis, a
member of the tiny
mission church of St.
Charles Borromeo in
Homer, said she made a
plea for her son’s safety
directly to the Blessed
Mother.
Margaret and Eugene
Lauterbach of Dayton,
Ohio were weary when the
long ordeal was finally
over and their son,
administrative officer
Steven Lauterbach, was on
his way home.
But they were mostly
thankful - so thankful, in
fact, that they were
making plans with their
pastor Father John Wall,
for Masses of Thanksgiving
“very soon” within the
week of the announce
ment and “again after
Steve gets home,” said
Mrs. Lauterbach.
“The prayers of
everyone have helped
greatly to bring them
home,” Mrs. Lauterback
said. “Our faith has helped
us all,” she said, expressing
her conviction that a deep
faith “has sustained Steve
also. I think his faith will
be much stronger when he
returns home.”
Eugene Lauterbach said
■the experience has
strengthened his religious
feelings. “Perhaps that’s an
inevitable thing,” he said.
“It’s a help. If a person’s
religious convictions don’t
offer them any moral
boost or strength, they’re
not of much value.”
Drinan Urges Scharansky Release
MICHAEL W.
PANTER, a second
year seminarian
studying for the
Archdiocese of Atlanta
at The Pontifical
College Josephinum in
Columbus, Ohio, was
recently instituted in
the ministry of
acolyte. The ministry
was conferred by
Bishop James D.
Niedergeses of
Nashville, in
ceremonies held at the
seminary. Michael, a
member of Sacred
Heart Parish
(Milledgeville), is a son
of Sara G. Key, also of
Milledgeville.
WASHINGTON (NC) -
Two days after
Inauguration Day, Jesuit
Father Robert F. Drinan, a
former member of
Congress, urged the
Reagan administration to
seek the release of
imprisoned Soviet
dissident Anatoly
Scharansky.
Speaking to about 60
people at a vigil Jan. 22
across the street from the
Soviet Embassy, Father
Drinan said the talks being
held in Madrid, Spain, to
review compliance with
the 1975 Helsinki
agreements on European
security and cooperation
and human rights should
be used as a forum to
discuss the fate of
Scharansky and Andrei
Sakharov. Sakharov is a
physicist who was exiled
within the Soviet Union a
year ago.
Participants in the vigil
were commemorating
Scharansky’s 33rd
birthday, which fell on
Inauguration Day. The
Jewish community in
Washington has sponsored
15-minute vigils across the
street from the Soviet
Embassy every day since
Dec. 10, 1970, to call
attention to the plight of
Soviet Jews and of other
prisoners of conscience in
the Soviet Union. The
embassy is only a few
blocks from the White
House.
Father Drinan, who
now teaches at
Georgetown University
Law Center, is chairman of
the U.S. branch of the
International Committee
home in pain. His weight
has fluctuated
substantially since his
incarceration and the
conditions of the camp
remain poor.”
Thanking Father
Drinan for his
participation, Rabbi
Stephen Lissfield said:
continue such efforts. Mrs.
Scharansky, who was
forced to emigrate alone
after their marriage in
1974, lives in Jerusalem.
At the beginning of the
vigil, Marcia Weinberg,
chairwoman of the Soviet
Jewry Committee of the
Jewish Community
Soviets Sentence Dissidents
NEW YORK (NC) - Soviet courts are
issuing severe sentences to dissidents as
authorities keep up a drive that has
imprisoned more than 200 dissidents in the
past 15 months, according to Amnesty
International.
Sentences of up to 15 years of
combined imprisonment and internal exile
have been imposed for convictions of
anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda, said
Amnesty, an independent organization
monitoring the international human rights
situation.
Especially hard hit are “members of
unofficial groups trying to monitor Soviet
observance of human rights agreements
reached at the 1975 Helsinki Conference of
Security and Cooperation in Europe,
national rights campaigners in the
non-Russian Soviet republics, including
Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Estonians and
Armenians; and religious believers,
particularly Baptists, Seventh Day
Adventists, Pentecostalists and Russian
Orthodox believers,” said Amnesty in a
press statement released in January by its
New York office.
Among those sentenced, said Amnesty,
was Nikolai Goretoi, 59, a leading
Pentecostalist , who received a 12-year
sentence last November.
for the Release of Anatoly
Scharansky.
He recalled that, when
he visited Moscow in
1975, Scharansky acted as
his guide and translator.
“Today,” Father Drinan
said, “we know that his
health is not stable. This
fall, Anatoly fell to the
floor of his labor camp
“We wish we still had him
in Congress.”
The rabbi then read a
letter from Scharansky’s
wife, Avital, expressing
appreciation for former
President Carter’s efforts
to free her husband and
other prisoners of
conscience and hope that
President Reagan would
Council of G reater
Washington, said the joy
felt at the release of the
U.S. hostages from Iran
was “bittersweet” because
other innocent people
were still imprisoned. “We
await the day when every
prisoner of conscience will
taste the sweetness of
liberty,” she said.
At the end of the vigil,
Ms. Weinberg collected
birthday cards for
Scharansky from those
present and sought to give
them to an official of the
Soviet Embassy to be
delivered to the
imprisoned dissident.
Standing inside the dosed
embassy gate, the official
refused to accept the
cards.
Scharansky. a computer
technologist, applied in
the early 1970s for
permission to emigrate to
Israel. After Soviet
authorities refused to
grant permission on the
ground that he had access
to secret information, he
was unable to obtain
employment.
In 1976, he joined with
others in founding a
committee to monitor
Soviet compliance with
the Helsinki agreements.
Arrested in March, 1977,
he was held in prison until
his trial in July, 1978, for
“anti-Soviet activities.”
Convicted, he has been
serving a 13-year sentence
in the Perm Labor Camp
in Siberia.
Dr. Roy W. Hall
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