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PLO Official Visits Vatican
BY JERRY FILTEAU
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
Farouk Kaddoumi, foreign
affairs minister of the
Palestine Liberation
Organization (PLO), met
for the first time March 18
with the papal secretary of
state, Cardinal Agostino
Casaroli, to discuss the
Middle East.
At a press conference in
Rome two days later
Kaddoumi said the Holy
See “has taken a very clear
position of solidarity with
the struggle of the
Palestinian people.”
Following the evening
meeting in the Vatican,
the Vatican Press Office
issued a brief communique
saying the main themes
discussed were “how to
reach a just and stable
peace in the Middle East,
the Palestinian problem,
the question of Jerusalem
and finally the Palestinian
presence in Lebanon.”
It said the cardinal
wanted to “know directly
the PLO viewpoints on the
situation in the Middle
East and the solution of
the Arab-Israeli crisis in its
various aspects.”
Kaddoumi’s visit to the
Vatican came 12 days
after Israeli Foreign
Minister Yitzhak Shamir
was scheduled to meet
with Pope John Paul II.
That meeting was
cancelled because of a
flight delay which brought
Shamir into Rome too late
in the afternoon for a
meeting before the Friday
sunset which marks the
beginning of the Jewish
sabbath.
The Middle East issue
that most interests the
Vatican concerns
establishment of a special
internationally guaranteed
status for the city of
Jerusalem.
Last year before the
Israeli Knesset
(Parliament) formally
declared Jerusalem the
united capital of Israel, the
Vatican issued a white
paper sharply condemning
any unilateral action
affecting the city’s status.
The Vatican said that
ST. FRANCIS
Jerusalem’s status as a
holy city for Judaism,
Christianity and Islam
makes it too international
in scope for the issue to be
resolved by action on a
local or even regional level.
Also present at the
Kaddoumi-Cardinal
Casaroli meeting were
scheduled Vatican-PLO
meeting. In a brief
encounter last September,
following a papal general
audience, a PLO
representative handed
Pope John Paul a written
message from Yassir
Arafat, head of the PLO.
In the message Arafat
ADL Reacts
NEW YORK (NC) - The B’nai B’rith
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has criticized the
March 18 meeting between the papal secretary of
state, Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, and Farouk
Kaddoumi, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
foreign affairs minister.
According to Abraham H. Foxman, associate
national director of the ADL and head of its
international affairs division, the ADL has sent a
letter of protest to the Vatican. The letter was to be
hand delivered to Cardinal Casaroli’s office by an
ADL representative. The representative was not,
however, expected to meet with the cardinal,
Foxman said March 23 in a telephone interview.
Foxman, who as a child was saved by a Catholic
woman from Nazi slaughter of Jews in Poland
during World War II, issued a March 19 statement
for the ADL, in which he termed the PLO
“murderers and blackmailers.” The statement said
the PLO-Vatican encounter had ‘‘caused serious
misgivings in many quarters.”
Foxman said the meeting was “not only ... ill
considered but it comes at a most inauspicious time
- a time when international terrorism, spearheaded
by the PLO, is on the rise in Latin America and
elsewhere, when nuns and a Roman Catholic bishop
are senselessly murdered and voices are raised in
alarm around the world.”
The Vatican’s visit with the PLO would only
nurture more violence, the ADL said.
“For the Vatican secretary of state to officially
receive a PLO representative is to give these
murderers and blackmailers a form of legitimacy
and recognition that encourages more barbarism,
more blackmail, more hostage-taking - so that none
of us, wherever we may reside, can feel safe in our
homes, our embassies, offices or in planes,” Foxman
added.
The ADL believes in dialogue, but not under all
conditions, the statement concluded. “Civilized
values and common sense dictate that before one
sits down with murderers and terrorists they must
publicly renounce and desist from terror as a
philosophy and as a modus operandi,” it said.
Archbishop Achille
Silvestrini, secretary of the
Council for the Public
Affairs of the Church, and
Nemer Hammad, the
PLO’s representative in
Rome.
It was the highest-level
invited the pope to visit
Palestinian refugee camps
in Lebanon.
In December 1979 an
Arafat representative told
a press conference in
Rome that the pope and
Arafat had exchanged
several letters discussing
the Palestinian situation.
The Vatican neither
confirmed nor denied the
report.
At the press conference
March 20 Kaddoumi said
he had reiterated Arafat’s
invitation to the pope.
“Now it is up to the
pope to decide how and
when to come among our
people,” he said.
He also said that the
PLO and the Vatican agree
in opposing Israeli
annexation of Jerusalem
but disagree on the basic
question of the status of
Jerusalem.
The Vatican has asked
for an international status
for Jerusalem guaranteed
by a “juridicial safeguard,”
which would not
politically tie Jerusalem to
any one state in the
Middle East and which
would allow access to the
city by Christians,
Moslems and Jews.
“We reject the Vatican
thesis because we hold
that this problem cannot
be separated from the
Palestinian question, of
which it is a fundamental
element,” he said. “To
accept and treat it
separately would, for us,
be to accept a concession
from the start.”
Kaddoumi said the
position of the pope and
the Vatican on Middle
East issues carries “moral
and religious weight, and
thus also political weight,
of the first rank.”
With Kaddoumi at the
press conference was
Catholic Melkite-Rite
Archbishop Hilarion
Capucci, who now resides
in Rome and is apostolic
visitor to Melkite-Rite
Catholics in Western
Europe.
Kaddoumi describes the
archbishop as “a hero of
the Palestinian people.”
The archbishop, a Syrian,
once spent several years in
an Israeli prison after
being convicted on charges
of gun-running for
Palestinian terrorists
before he was released at
the request of Pope Paul
VI.
Comic Book Hero
BY CHRIS SHERIDAN
NEW YORK (NC) - Of all the superheroes popularized
by Marvel Comics - Spiderman, the Hulk, the Submariner
-- the one who made his debut in a comic book last
October is one of the most unusual: St. Francis of Assisi.
The 50-page comic book, “Francis, Brother of the
Universe,” Marvel Comics’ first religious publication,
based on the life of the 13th-century founder of the
Franciscan order, has been so well received that both
Marvel executives and church officials are considering
cooperating on more religious comic books.
“It’s in its second printing,” said Franciscan Father
Roy Gasnick, director of the Franciscan Communications
Office in New York and author of the comic book’s
scenario. “The original printing was 250,000 copies. The
Paulist Press has already sold its 100,000 copies and has
ordered 50,000 more. And Marvel has sent out 150,000 in
normal distribution and 30,000 to their Collectors’ Club.”
The priest said in an interview that a Japanese edition is
due out in the spring and that Marvel is negotiating for
distribution of the comic in 10 countries. “James Galton,
the company president,” he said, “is so pleased with the
result that he approached us on doing the history of the
church. But my initial reaction was that it would be too
big a chunk. So I suggested as a starter four issues on the
history of the church in this country. -It sounds like a
great project if we can get it off the ground.”
Father Gasnick said he wasn’t tpo surprised at the
comic’s success. About 65 books a year are written on St.
Francis, who remains a powerful force in contemporary
society because he “was so complex a person that he
touched many fields of human endeavor,” the Franciscan
said.
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PAGE 3—The Georgia Bulletin, March 26,1981
Solid Silver
Death Of An Archbishop
BY MSGR. NOEL C. BURTENSHAW
SCENES AT ST. THOMAS MORE - The
newly elected student government board of
commissioners at St. Thomas More School
(above) sit down to one of their policy-making
meetings. Pictured (l.-r.) are Mark Valenzuela,
Todd Garcia, Kitty Young, Beth Mettler, Brian
Wenke, Tricia Wall, and Kirsten Stimmel. Not
pictured is Patrick Brisbane. Sr. Maragaret Mary,
principal of St. Thomas More School, (below)
presents fifth grader Page Orr with a first place
trophy for her project on plants at the annual
Science Fair held at the school recently.
The Chancery staff gathered around his bedside on
the second floor of his West Wesley Woods home. The
final annointings were administered. It was four o’clock
in the afternoon on March 26, 1968. The first
Archbishop of Atlanta, Paul J. Hallinan, was dying.
It had been a four year battle for the 58-year-old
Archbishop. A uniquely rare kind of hepatitis, probably
contracted in Rome at the Council, had laid claim to his
robust life. After those years of fighting and optimistic
medications, now it was all coming to an end.
The Archbishop,
realistic even as he kept
faith and hopes high, had
recognized the end
approaching. Family and
friends, always a close
part of his great-hearted
life, were summoned
during the final weeks.
His brother Art and his
cousins visited from
Cleveland, his home.
Cardinal Dearden, his old
seminary professor (“we
used to call him ‘Iron
John’”) came from
Detroit and classmate
Cardinal Krol from
Philadelphia.
Civic leaders, who marched many journeys to justice
with him came too. Ivan Allen, the city’s mayor, Rabbi
Rothschild, Rev. Sam Williams, Dr. Benjamin Mays.
They came for final conversations, final prayers, final
recognition of the leadership-bond, binding their
community efforts even at the end. He had wanted to
see Dr. King also, but somehow the final meeting never
took place.
On the morning of March 26, Archbishop Vagnozzi,
Apostolic Delegate to the United States stopped by the
house on his way to Florida. He spoke with the dying
Archbishop even as he faded in and out of
consciousness. Friend and constant companion of his
illness, Dr. Joseph Wilbur, attended the Archbishop
many times during that final period. As evening
approached word fanned out to the parishes and the
priests came to the house for last visits.
The long line of clerics came to his room, some to sit
and be present, others to read the divine office, others to
kneel and offer communal prayers, others merely to sit
in momentary silence. Many of the priests had been
close cooperators with Archbishop Hallinan in his
constant drive for renewal. Others had disagreed with
the visions he explored. All were now united in the
brotherhood of the sacrifical priesthood gathered this
night around the final moments of the departing
high-priest. It was an evening that will be remembered.
Bishop Joseph Bemardin, attending a ceremony in
Florida, was last to arrive. Assured by the attending
nurse that the Archbishop was still “too strong” and
would not die that night, he decided to remain in the
house but retire to the small guest bedroom. It was past
midnight.
The Bishop remembers well the frantic knocking on
his bedroom door. “It was like a dream, but the words
were very clear. ‘He’s going, hurry’.” The future
Archbishop of Cincinnati hurriedly dashed into the
sickroom. “He gave a final few gasps” remembers the
Bishop. “There was just an instant for a prayer and he
was gone.” It was the early hours of March 27, 1968.
Paul J. Hallinan had passed into his eternal reward and
into the history of the North Georgia Church.
Hallinan had transferred from the historic Diocese of
Charleston in 1962, to the newly founded Archdiocese
of Atlanta. He had loved the solid foundations of the
Church in Charleston. “John England was pioneer of the
Church in the South,” he would say “and he planted the
faith firmly, first of all, in Charleston.” He loved to go
back and visit the narrow streets of that city and
casually ramble once more around the elegant Cathedral.
He would always pay a visit to the crypt-chapel where
all the Bishops of Charleston were buried. “It is a lovely
chapel,” he would say, “and the people can and do come
here to remember those men who served as Bishop.”
Often he had wondered if a crypt of that kind should
not be made a part of the Cathedral of Christ the King in
Atlanta. “Since there are only two Bishops of Atlanta, '
Bishop Hyland and myself, maybe we should build one.” '
It was a thought he often expressed.
After a Mass of the Resurrection, beautifully 1
celebrated in the renewed liturgy that he helped create, 1
Paul J. Hallinan, first Archbishop of Atlanta, was buried |
in the priest’s plot in Arlington Cemetery. ,
The Diocese of Atlanta, founded in 1956, was twelve (
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Evangelizacion - Tarea del Cristiano
BY SISTER THERESA
AHERN, M.S.B.T.
Desde la tercera
Asamblea General del
Sinodo de Obispos la
evangelizacion del mundo
contemporaneo ha sido un
tema de sumo interes para
toda la Iglesia Catolica.
Los resultados de dicha
Asamblea fueron
ordenados y condensados
por el Papa Pablo VI en la
exhortacion apostolica
E V ANGELII NUNTI-
ANDI en 1975. Junto a
documentos oficiales,
papales o episcopates,
teoloogos de la
evangelizacion avanzan el
tema cada dia con enfasis
en la mision de cada
cristiano a ser misionero,
Nunca se habia escrito y
hablado tanto de mision o
de evangelizacion como en
la decada posconciliar y
hasta hoy dia.
Aqui en Atlanta nos
hemos quedado a la par
con la Iglesia Universal. El
ano de la evangelizacion
fue celebrado y
conmenorado en toda la
Arquidiocesis. Y ahora, el
Arzobispo ha anunciado
una conferencia sobre el
mismo tema. El sabado, 28
de marzo, en la escuela de
San Pius, se celebrara
“THE ARCHBISHOP’S
CONFERENCE ON
EVANGELIZATION.”
Todos estan invitados a
compartir, aprender, y
rezar como una
comunidad verdadera-
mente evangelizadora. El
program a empieza a las
10:00 de la manana con
oracion. Despues habran
talleres sobre la
evangelizacion: visitacion
de hogares, alcance en el
vecindario, comunica-
ciones, evangelizacion en
la comunidad de habia
hispana, y otros talleres de
interes a las personas
ocupadas en la
evangelizacion.
La invitacion a esta
conferencia se extiende a
todos los interesados. La
responsabilidad de
evangelizar es de todos y
por eso, la invitacion debe
entenderse como una
invitacion a todos. La
evangelizacion no es
monopolio de los
sacerdotes, diaconos, y
religiosos. Todos los
cristianos, sean obispos,
sean laicos, sean hombres,
mujeres, adultos o ninos,
todos estan llamados a la
tarea de la evangelizacion.
Asi, todos estan llamados a
prepararse mejor, y a
compartir con los demas
para que ellos se preparen
mejor en esta gran labor de
llevar el mensaje de Cristo
al mundo que tanto lo
necesita.
El metodo de
evangelizar es mas un
modo de ser, de vivir, y de
hablar. El cristiano es la
Buena Nueva o nada de lo
que dice vale la pena. Una
comunidad viva es una
comunidad misionera.
cuando un cristiano tiene
una relacion personal con
Cristo, se quiere lanzar en
dejar a conocer a su amigo.
Cuanto mas profunda-
mente se convierte una
persona, MAS ealienta su
vida el don recibido y
MAS se comunica. La fe
no se defiende sino se
comparta.
Para crecer en una
mentalidad completa-
mente evangelizadora es
necesario seguir meditando
sobre el tema, y
aprendiendo sobre el. La
Conferencia del Arzobispo
sobre la Evangelizacion es
una gran oportunidad de
hacer esto mismo. El
sabado, 28 de marzo, de
10 a 4, incluyendo un
almuerzo que proveera el
Comite, sera un tiempo de
crecimiento, y de
motivacion en la tarea de
la evangelizazion - Tarea
de cada cristiano.
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