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PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, January 7,1982
Pope Backs Solidarity —
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pilgrims has come here,
whereas before they used
to come regularly.” He
said that he was concerned
over the fate of those
imprisoned, and lamented
the arrest of innocent
people and the violation of
civil rights.
The pope spoke of the
world’s concern for the
condition of the prisoners
and observed that “the
‘state of siege’ is extended,
notwithstanding the
requests for its
suspension.”
By Jan 1, according to
Vatican sources, Jaruzelski
still had not responded,
neither with a message to
the pope nor with any
concrete expression of
good will. Martial law
continued, with its
suspension of many civil
rights. The pope’s
impatience grew, even his
irritation, some say.
So on New Year’s day,
the gloves came off. Gone
was the subtlety, forgotten
were the diplomatic
niceties. The pope’s words
had zest to them, a
stinging directness.
The “state of siege”
became the “state of war,”
which is what the Poles
have been calling it all
along. And for the first
time since Dec. 13, the
pope strongly, solidly and
unequivocally sided with
Solidarity.
What he had implied
previously he now
pronounced ringingly.
Taking note of many
banners in St. Peter’s
Square which were
inscribed “Solidarity,” the
pope said: “This word is
the expression of a great
effort that working men
have made in my
homeland to assure the
real dignity of the
worker.”
“Workers have a right to
establish independent
unions whose competence
it is to guard the social,
family and individual
rights of workers,” he
added.
The church has always
taught that such a doctrine
is a foundation for justice
and social peace and “the
word ‘Solidarity,’ which I
see here on so many
banners, indicates a force
which aims at such a
justice and such a peace,”
the pope said.
“Solidarity is part of
the current patrimony of
the workers of my
homeland and, I would
say, of other countries,
too,” he added.
Many Vatican
commentators interpreted
the pope’s strong backing
of the union as a clear sign
that the restoration of
Solidarity would be a
precondition of the
Vatican’s willingness to
help negotiate a settlement
to Poland’s crisis.
Seen as also sustaining
this interpretation was the
papal appeal for prayers
for Poland “so that the
heritage of freedom and of
peace, which is the work
of generations, not be
dissipated, and that there
not be lost the legacy of
these last difficult months
and years.”
Since Dec. 13 the pope
has tried to maneuver
cautiously.
For all the complexities
of the Polish situation,
clear issues of right and
wrong are at stake and
many people look to the
Vatican to define them. In
Poland, thousands have
been jailed and dozens,
maybe more, have been
killed, because they
defended free speech, free
association and the right
to strike.
On the other hand, the
church must be the
bridge-builder, the
promoter of dialogue. In
the present situation, for
the church loudly to
champion the cause of
Solidarity might run the
risk of alienating the
Polish government and
inflaming the passions of
the unionists to a futile
armed struggle.
NCCB Secretary Named
Louisville Archbishop
WASHINGTON (NC) -
Pope John Paul II named
Bishop Thomas Kelly,
general secretary of the
National Conference of
Catholic Bishops and the
U.S. Catholic Conference
(NCCB-USCC), to be
archbishop of Louisville,
Ky., on Dec. 29.
As NCCB-USCC general
secretary for the past five
years, Archbishop Kelly
has been chief
administrative officer for
the U.S. bishops’ twin
national conferences,
speaking for the bishops
on public issues and
representing them in
dealings with the Holy
See.
In those years he was
called on to address issues
ranging from U.S. foreign
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to domestic issues of
abortion, illegal aliens, a
full range of social welfare
issues and a variety of
questions about
church-state relations.
The 50-year-old
archbishop, a member of
the Dominican order,
succeeds Archbishop
Thomas J. McDonough,
70, who retired Sept. 29 as
archbishop of Louisville
and has been apostolic
administrator of the
archdiocese pending the
naming of his successor.
He will leave the
NCCB-USCC in
mid-February to take
possession of the
Louisville Archdiocese.
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brings a remarkable
combination of attributes
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and skills to his new
assignment,’’ said
Archbishop John R.
Roach of St. Paul-Minnea-
polis, president of the
NCCB-USCC. “Among
these are pastoral warmth,
administrative ability,
intelligence and good
humor, and a deep love for
the church and its
people.”
‘‘Although,
professionally speaking,
his responsibilities have
immersed him in issues
and structures, he has
performed his tasks with
unfailing sensitivity and
compassion for persons,”
Archbishop Roach added.
“I know few men who
have combined the roles of
administrator and pastor
so well and so gracefully.”
He also noted the new
archbishop’s “abiding
commitment to the Order
of Preachers and the spirit
of its founder, St.
Dominic,’’ and
commented: “To the
detachment of a dedicated
Religious he adds the
special Dominican vision
of scholarship harnessed to
the pastoral needs of the
church.”
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ARCHBISHOP Thomas A.
Donnellan is the center of the
laughter and high spirits aboard a bus
taking children from Perry Homes in
Atlanta to the camp at St. Paul of
the Cross parish last summer. It was
the Archbishop who appointed Sister
Margaret McAnoy as coordinator of
the day camp project, Camp Promise.
Sister Margaret
Person Of The Year—
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bringing new life to that little school in the black
community that was, at that time, in danger of closing. In
1980, Sister Margaret became part-time teacher at St. Pius
X and part-time coordinator of the Cursillo Movement.
She is now full-time coordinator of the Cursillo
movement.
The motto given to the Camp Promise volunteer project
was “When we need the best, we ask for you.” Camp
Promise well deserved this challenging motto. But most
easily, those same words could have been applied to this
valiant woman when the decision was made to choose her
as the Camp Coordinator.
Sister Margaret McAnoy is our person of 1981. The
Georgia Bulletin, representing the parishes of our
Archdiocese, is most happy with this choice.
Pope’s Recovery A Note Of Hope In Violent Year
BY JERRY F1LTEAU
NC NEWS SERVICE
A year of violence,
1981 saw attempts to
assassinate Pope John Paul
II and President Ronald
Reagan and the murder of
Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat.
It was a year of hunger
strikes to the death by 10
Irish Republican Army
(IRA) prisoners in
Northern Ireland, growing
civil war in El Salvador
and Guatemala,
heightened nuclear
rhetoric by world
superpowers and growing
church resistance to
nuclear weaponry, new
refugee problems in Latin
America, economic chaos
and a military takeover in
Poland, and worldwide
economic belt-tightening
that hit hardest on the
Third World poor.
AMERICAN HOSTAGES
On the U.S. scene, the
year started with release of
the American hostages in
Iran, but it was also a time
when both domestic and
foreign decisions by the
new administration
provoked sharp new
debates on morality and
public policy, and a year
in which another 1.5
million abortions took
place.
The assassination
attempt on Pope John
Paul II May 13 in St.
Peter’s Square was clearly
the major religious news
story of the year.
A shocked world, which
only two months earlier
had seen President Reagan
narrowly escape death,
waited in horror again as
the white-robed figure
from Poland, generally
acknowledged as the
world’s most important
religious leader, underwent
nearly five hours of
emergency surgery after
being hit by two bullets
from the gun of a young
Turkish terrorist, Mehmet
Ali Agca.
Struck down three days
before his 61st birthday,
the most energetic pope of
recent history spent a
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slow, painful four and a
half months recovering his
strength, first in a Rome
hospital and then at his
summer villa south of
Rome. He returned to the
Vatican at the beginning
of October to preside over
beatification ceremonies at
St. Peter’s Basilica.
The shooting forced the
globe-trotting pontiff to
cancel already scheduled
trips to Switzerland in
June and France in July,
and plans for visits to
Spain and Mexico later in
the year.
The pope personally
forgave his attacker in his
first public statement after
he was shot. But the
Italian government, which
by treaty with the Vatican
had jurisdiction in the
case, was not so
compassionate. On July 22
Agca was convicted of the
attempted assassination
and sentenced to life
imprisonment.
SADAT SHOT
On Oct. 6, two days
after the pope returned to
the Vatican in reasonably
full health, Moslem
fundamentalists gunned
down Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat as he was
reviewing a military parade
in Cairo.
The death of Sadat, the
leader who made peace
with Israel and a promoter
of interfaith understanding
among Moslems, Christians
and Jews, highlighted the
tenuous nature of the
Israeli-Egyptian peace
treaty and raised new
questions about the
long-term prospects of a
full Middle East peace.
Poland’s economic crisis
and the continuing
pressure for social reforms
throughout the year by
Lech Walesa’s independent
labor union, Solidarity,
made Poland a major focus
of world concern.
This year began with
Walesa visiting the pope in
January and gaining
important church backing
for Solidarity. In a series
of struggles Solidarity
gradually gained
significant liberalization of
Polish society.
But in mid-December
Polish Prime Minister
Wojciech Jaruzelski
imposed martial law,
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Military Council of
National Salvation to
govern the nation.
The church, the other
major force in Poland,
which during the year
frequently played a major
mediating role to avert
confrontations between
Solidarity and the
government, was again
expected to be a major
actor in the new situation.
Cardinal Stefan
Wyszynski of Warsaw and
Gniezno, primate and
symbol of the Polish
church for 33 years, died
in May at the age of 79,
but his successor,
Archbishop Jozef Glemp,
quickly established himself
as another strong church
leader.
Just before martial law
was declared he issued a
sharp statement warning
the government not to
pass emergency powers,
which he said would
provoke catastrophic
confrontation.
REAGAN
ADMINISTRATION
In both American and
world terms the inaugural
year of the Reagan
administration was
perhaps the most
significant new factor
governing events of 1981.
Domestically his federal
cuts in social spending
were sharply attacked by
many religious groups,
including the Catholic
bishops and their national
agencies, because of their
impact on the poor.
On the foreign scene the
Reagan administration
clashed head-on with the
U.S. Catholic Conference,
the bishops’ national civil
action arm, over foreign
aid, human rights and
Central American policies.
Declaring El Salvador
the battleground for U.S.
determination to stop
Soviet-backed communist
insurgency in Latin
America, the Reagan
administration funneled
military aid to the
government. Archbishop
Raymond Hunthausen of
Seattle suggested in a
headline-making speech
that the United States
should engage in unilateral
disarmament and that an
appropriate Christian
response to America’s
“nuclear Caesar” might be
tax resistance.
RIGHT TO LIFE
Another major issue on
the religious scene in 1981
was the continuing fight of
the Catholic Church and
non-denominational
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States.
In a major policy move
the U.S. bishops for the
first time backed a specific
constitutional amendment
to overturn the 1973
Supreme Court decision
overturning most state
laws restricting abortion.
Cardinal Terence Cooke
of New York, chairman of
the bishops’ Committee
for Pro-Life Activities, and
Archbishop John Roach of
St. Paul-Minneapolis,
appointment of an
abortion opponent, Dr. C.
Everett Koop, as U.S.
surgeon general over the
objections of proponents
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president of the National
Conference of Catholic
Bishops, testified before a
U.S. Senate constitutional
subcommittee Nov. 5 in
favor of the Hatch
amendment. It would
declare that abortion is
not a right granted by the
U.S. Constitution and
would allow states and
Congress to pass legislation
restricting and prohibiting
abortions.
Some right-to-life
groups, seeking an
amendment that would
directly prohibit abortion,
accused the bishops of a
sell-out for backing a
weaker amendment.
The abortion issue
figured in other public
controversies in 1981 as
well. Among them were
the appointment of Justice
Sandra Day O’Connor as
the first woman on the
U.S. Supreme Court,
despite objections by
pro-lifers over her abortion
views, and the
Other major events
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- Pope John Paul made
his first trip to the Far
East in February,
delivering a major radio
message to mainland
China, preaching social
justice in the Philippines
and issuing a dramatic plea
for global disarmament
from Hiroshima, Japan,
where the first atomic
bomb was dropped.
-- Mother Teresa of
Calcutta, the slight,
70-year-old figure in a
white sari who had
received the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1979 for her work
among India’s poor, called
attention to the U.S. poor
and the unborn as she
toured the United States
in June, lecturing and
founding several centers
where her Missionaries of
Charity will work.
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