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PAGE 3—The Georgia Bulletin, September 3,1981
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Volunteering In Vanceburg
Benedictine Vocations Director
A CAMP PROMISE “THANK
YOU” went out to the staff of the
three camps at a special dinner
honoring those who worked so
diligently at the archdiocesan summer
camp program. Pictured above,
Deacon Dan Stack chats with the St.
Anthony’s staff members with whom
he worked closely for three months.
Sister Madeline
Contomo, O.S.B., a former
teacher of religion at St.
Pius X High School in
Atlanta, was recently
named Vocation Director
for the Benedictine Sisters
of Sacred Heart Convent in
Holy Family’s Fifth
This coming week, September 5-11, Holy Family Church
in Marietta will hold an informal Open House to celebrate
the fifth anniversary of the opening of the parish church.
Coffee will be served in the parish center after all
weekend Masses and will be available in the priests’ living
quarters and in the parish center from Monday-Friday after
the 9 a.m. Mass until noon and from 7:30-9 p.m.
Each evening there will be a program in the church from
7:30-8 p.m. One evening will be for children of all ages with
performances by Holy Family’s clown ministers. Other
evenings will include concerts by the teen folk group, the
adult choir, Father Paul Bemy and parish organists.
Holy Family invites all to its open house. It is their
feeling that the parish church is not only the house of God,
but also the spiritual home of the people of God.
Scouter Development
A Catholic Scounter De
velopment Program will be
held at St. John’s Church in
Hapeville Sept. 12
beginning at 8:30 a.m. and
ending with Mass at 5 p.m.
The program is an
educational and spiritual
day designed to help adults
reflect God in the scouting
program. For more
information, call Fr. John
Kieran (478-0178) or
Henry Kiel (938-1965).
TONY LOTTI congratulates Grand Knight Dick
Gil (r.) as Past Grand Knight Jim Bradley (1.) looks
on.
New Officers Elected
Knights of Columbus Council 5362 in Jonesboro
recently installed new officers for the coming year. Dick Gil
will be presiding as the new Grand Knight, following in the
footsteps of Past Grand Knight Jim Bradley.
Cullman, Alabama. She
hopes to foster vocations to
religious life through the
general education of the
Catholic community in the
meaning of Benedictine life
today, and through contact
with women who are
particularly interested in
religious life.
Hospitality to women
seriously considering
religious life will be an
integral part of her
ministry. She will schedule
vocation retreat weekends
at the Benedictine
motherhouse and
correspond with those who
wish information about
religious life.
Sister Madeline may be
contacted at Sacred Heart
Convent, P.O. Box 700,
Cullman, Alabama 35055
(205/734/4622).
Sr. Madeline
Contomo, O.S.B.
Parish Breakfasts
Monthly Parish
Breakfasts will begin
Sept. 13 and continue on
the second Sunday of each
month through June at the
Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception, 48 Martin
Luther King Dr. in Atlanta.
Following the 9:15 a.m.
Mass, the Holy Name parish
breakfast has served as a
‘‘homecoming’’
opportunity when former
parishioners frequently
return and enjoy fellowship
with old friends. Everyone
is invited to come and
enjoy these breakfasts at
the shrine.
This summer, 282
college and high school
men volunteered their
services in areas served by
the Glenmary Home
Missioners. Bob Wilson, of
Immaculate Heart of Mary
Church, Atlanta, was
among them, spending his
summer as a staff member
at the Glenmary Farm near
Vanceburg, Kentucky.
Bob and the other
volunteers received no pay,
but were responsible for
their transportation and
contributed $25 each
towards food costs. The
volunteers worked in eight
of the 12 states of
Appalachia and the South
in which more than a
hundred priests and
Brothers serve one and a
quarter million people.
Glenmary began the
summer volunteer service
program 27 years ago. The
order was founded to
establish the Catholic
Church in rural America.
Bob Wilson
Catholics Oppose
Creationism Laws
BY NC NEWS SERVICE
Catholic officials in Minnesota and the Clarion Herald,
newspaper of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, have
opposed the enactment of laws requiring the teaching of
“creation science” along with evolution in public schools.
Two states, Arkansas and Louisiana, have enacted laws
requiring the teaching of “creationism” in any classroom
where evolution is taught. And Georgia may take the same
step in January.
An editorial in the July 30 issue of the Clarion Herald
called the Louisiana law “an unfortunate example of a
misguided political attempt to plant religiously grounded
beliefs in scientific terrain.”
On July 21 Gov. David Treen of Louisiana signed a
“creationism bill” into law. The law requires that the
“scientific creationism” theory be given balanced
representation in Louisiana public school classrooms with
the theory of evolution, which is taught as scientific fact.
Treen said the law does not make the teaching of
creationism mandatory nor provide for the teaching of any
religious belief. But state Superintendent of Education J.
Kelly Nix said he believed the new law requires teachers to
include instruction in creationism in science curriculums.
That requirement will necessitate teachers’ workshops and
new course guides and library books as well as textbooks,
Nix said.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) plans to
challenge both the Louisiana and Arkansas laws in court.
The Clarion Herald editorial noted that Pope Pius XII in
1950 in his encyclical “Humani Generis” said that both
anthropologists and theologians should study general
evolution.
The editorial said that the inspired writers of the book of
Genesis “did not intend to produce a scientific cosmology,
nor did they intend to indicate how God accomplished His
creation.”
“Genesis is not a scientific tract,” the editorial said. “It is
intended to transmit the religious truth that God is the
author, creator and governor of the universe.”
The New Catholic Encyclopedia states that “general
evolution, even of the body of man, seems the most
probable scientific account of origins” and that the Bible
“remains silent about the way in which God has unfolded,
and is unfolding, His creative plan,” the editorial pointed
out.
The conclusion that the universe was created by an
eternally existing uncaused cause, called God, seems
inescapable, the editorial said.
“The teaching of evolution in the scientific curriculum,”
it went on, “is not going to include reference to an uncaused
cause, because that is metaphysical rather than scientific,
and it spills over from the philosophical to the
theological-religious.”
The creationism law, the editorial said, “may be simple
in its intent, but it seems inevitable that it will be
cumbersome, confused and ineffective in its application.”
In Minnesota the state Catholic conference and the
director of education of the St. Paul-Minneapolis
Archdiocese expressed support for the stand of the National
Education Association (NEA) against laws demanding that
“creation science” be taught along with evolution in public
school classrooms.
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