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Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
Vol. 20 No. 21
Thursday, May 27,1982
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Four To Be Ordained
To Priesthood June 5
BY GRETCHEN KEISER
The Archdiocese of Atlanta will
receive four new priests next week.
The ordination of Deacons James
P. Adams, Wayne H. Dyer, Udo
Endrikat and Daniel Stack will be
celebrated at the Cathedral of Christ
the King on Saturday, June 5, at 10
a.m. Archbishop Thomas Donnellan,
joined by priests of the archdiocese,
will ordain the new priests. Friends,
families and parishioners have been
invited to attend the ordination,
which will be followed by a
reception at the Cathedral’s Hyland
Center.
A 1971 graduate of Georgia Tech,
Deacon Jim Adams worked as a civil
engineer for Lowe Engineers, DeKalb
County and Wiggins Associates
before entering the seminary.
A native of Johnson City, New
York, where he was born Sept. 26,
1946, he grew up in Dunedin,
Florida, and came to Atlanta to
attend Georgia Tech. His college
years were interrupted by two years
of service in the Army at Fort Hood,
Texas, but completed in 1971 when
he graduated with a bachelor’s degree
in civil engineering. A parishioner at
Our Lady of the Assumption, he
spent some seven years working at
his profession before entering St.
Vincent de Paul Seminary in
Boynton Beach, Florida.
Since then he has worked as a
deacon at St. John Vianney parish in
Lithia Springs and with the Camp
Promise program at St. Anthony’s
parish in Atlanta’s West End.
Following ordination, he will become
an assistant pastor at St. Jude’s
parish in Sandy Springs.
Deacon Wayne Dyer has come to
the archdiocese from the Midwest
where he was the oldest in a family
of five. Born Feb. 12, 1951 in
Rockford, Illinois, he graduated from
Mundelein College in Chicago in
197 8 and began his theological
studies at the Catholic Theological
Union in Chicago.
He continued his studies at
Washington Theological Union in
Silver Springs, Maryland, before
coming to St. Vincent de Paul
Seminary in Florida.
He worked as a deacon at
Transfiguration parish in Marietta
and will also be assigned as assistant
pastor at St.. Jude’s following
ordination.
Deacon Udo Endrikat, who has
been studying at Holy Apostles
Seminary in Cromwell, Conn., is a
native of Germany who came to the
United States in 1963. Trained in the
Rev. James P. Adams
(Continued on page 2)
Rev. Wayne H. Dyer
FATHER BRENNAN MANNING
A Healing Message To Broken World
BY THEA JARVIS
There are those abroad in the
world who attempt to crash the
barriers, break the molds, tear down
the restraints and scale the walls we
have placed between ourselves and
our God.
Franciscan Father Brennan
Manning is one of those visionaries.
The silver-haired priest led St.
John Neumann parish in Lilburn
through a week of renewal for the
second year in a row May 16-20 and
attracted capacity crowds from all
over the archdiocese.
Father Paul Reynolds, the Lilburn
pastor who brought Father Manning
back to his most “favorite parish in
the whole country,” characterized
his guest as one who “creates an
extraordinary impact on people.”
Brennan Manning is a compelling
figure. At the age of 47, his fame has
grown with the popularity of his
books -- “Prophets and Lovers,”
“The Wisdom of Accepted
Tenderness,” “Stranger to
Self-Hatred,” “Souvenirs of
Solitude.”
Dressed in stark black Franciscan
garb, sandals on his feet and a rope
belt about his waist, Manning appears
somewhat of an ascetic, his manner
serious and intense, lightened here
and there by his use of a humorous
anecdote.
But beneath the ice-blue clarity of
his steady gaze and the unflinching
directness of his personal presence
lies a core of gentle, healing
testimony.
“I’m nothing special,” Manning
offers easily to those who wonder if
fame in the spiritual arena will go to
his head.
Indeed, the former Marine
sergeant from Brooklyn, New York is
no more special than any other
pilgrim who has traveled the arduous
journey of faith and arrived at a
point of deep and lasting conversion.
(Continued on page 2)
FATHER BRENNAN MANNING addresses a capacity crowd at
St. John Neumann Church in Lilburn during a parish renewal
week.
FATHER DAN MCCORMICK
Twenty-Five Years A Priest
BY MSGR.
NOELC. BURTENSHAW
On June 1, 1957 the Most
Reverend Francis E. Hyland, the
first Bishop of Atlanta, travelled to
Long Island, New York to ordain
the very first seminarian of his
newly established Diocese. That
seminarian was Daniel J.
McCormick.
Father McCormick had studied
in St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore
for service in the Savannah-Atlanta
Diocese. In July 1956 the new
North Georgia Atlanta Diocese was
established. Father Dan was
designated as the first priest to be
ordained for the Diocese.
Last year Atlanta celebrated its
25th jubilee year. Now it is Father
Dan McCormick’s turn. The Atlanta
priest will commemorate 25 years
of priesthood on Sunday next, May
30.
“It’s going to be a happy time,”
says Father Dan who is stationed at
St. Thomas More Church in
Decatur. “Unfortunately my
mother and father will not be here.
My father is recovering from
surgery so coming all the way from
San Rafael in California is out of
the question.”
Fr. Daniel J. McCormick
However, the celebrating priest
looks forward to having his sister,
Jean, with him. She is Mrs. Jean
Cahill and also lives in California.
“Cousins and relatives from other
parts of the country will be here,”
says Father Dan. “Of course the
Archbishop will be there along with
the priests of the Diocese. It will be
a nice celebration.”
Over the period of his 25 years,
Father McCormick has served in
many parishes throughout North
Georgia. He was an assistant in Our
Lady of the Assumption, the
Cathedral and Immaculate Heart of
Mary. He pastored parishes in
Cedartown, Norcross and Peachtree
City. Father Dan also spent almost
two years as a member of the
Trappist community in Conyers. “I
have always been interested in that
prayer life,” says Father
McCormick. “I enjoyed my stay
with the monks. I hope I bring their
spirit to the parish ministry.”
Many of the priests and sisters
and laity who worked with Father
McCormick over the years will be
participating in the silver
celebration. “I want them to know,
all of them,” says the well known
priest, “that I am offering this
liturgy for them in particular and
for their families.”
The celebration for Father Dan
McCormick at St. Thomas More
will begin at 4 p.m. and a reception
will follow in the parish hall. The
occasion is special for this priest of
North Georgia - the first-ordained
of the now growing Atlanta
Church.
Pope Decides To Visit Britain
Despite South Atlantic Conflict
BY FATHER KENNETH J. DOYLE
VATICAN CITY (NC) - After
consulting with Argentine and British
bishops and issuing another call for
peace in the South Atlantic, Pope
John Paul II did not change his plans
to visit Britain May 28-June 2,
despite the continuing hostilities
between Argentina and Britain.
“The trip is decidedly on,” said a
well-informed Vatican source on May
24.
Insiders privy to many of the
discussions which led to the pope’s
decision to go ahead with the trip
said the decision was a victory for
collegiality and for courage.
It was only after bringing together
Argentine and British cardinals for a
public Mass for peace May 22 and
two days of intense discussions that
the pope made up his mind, the
sources said.
The Argentine cardinals who
participated in the Mass were
Cardinal Eduardo Pironio, prefect of
the Vatican Congregation for
Religious; Cardinal Raul Primatesta
of Cordoba and Cardinal Juan Carlos
Aramburu of Buenos Aires.
Joining them were English
Cardinal George Basil Hume of
Westminster and Scottish Cardinal
Gordon Gray of St. Andrews and
Edinburgh.
Others who concelebrated the
Mass with the pope were Archbishop
Alfonso Lopez Trujillo of Medellin,
Colombia, president of the Latin
American Bishops’ Council and
English Archbishop Derek Worlock
of Liverpool and Scottish
Archbishop Thomas Winning of
Glasgow, who had been in Rome
since May 18 to encourage the pope
to make the trip.
The courage is being equally
assigned by close observers to the
British churchmen, the Latin
American prelates and the pope.
The British are given credit for
emphasizing to the pope and the
Latin Americans how much the trip
means to their people. The Latin
Americans are given credit for their
willingness to explain the decision to
their countrymen. The pope is given
credit for having seemingly reversed
his course, not on whether he wanted
to go to Britain, for all along he
strongly has, but on whether he
could go given the heavy fighting.
The pope had said in a talk in St.
Peter’s Square on May 16 that events
in the Falklands dispute between
Argentina and Britain had
“disturbed the atmosphere” of his
pending trip and that for the visit to
proceed, “the framework must be
one of peace and security.”
Coupled with Cardinal Hume’s
suggestion a few days before that the
pope would be forced to postpone
the trip unless there were positive
developments toward peaceful
negotiation in the South Atlantic,
the pope’s remarks seemed to turn
the odds against the trip, although
the pontiff said that there was still
time for the situation to change.
But then the British hierarchy
went to work. Archbishops Worlock
and Winning rushed to Rome to
St. Pius X
Graduates 182
One hundred and eighty-two
seniors will be graduating from St.
Pius X High School at ceremonies to
be held Friday night, June 4, at the
school’s Activity Center.
Mario R.L. Valenzuela, class
valedictorian, and Kelly McGonegal,
class salutatorian, will address their
classmates at the graduation
ceremonies which will begin at 8:30
p.m. Father Terry Young, school
principal, Father Richard Kieran,
secretary for education, and
Archbishop Thomas Donnellan will
also address the graduates.
Archdiocesan honors will be
presented by Sister Roberta Schmidt,
C.S.J., superintendent of schools.
The Baccalaureate Mass for the
Class of 1982 will be held the night
before graduation at Immaculate
Heart of Mary Church in Atlanta.
The Mass on Thursday, June 3, will
begin at 8 p.m.
reinforce what Cardinals Hume and
Gray had told the pope the week
before: that much was at stake if the
British visit were cancelled.
Having heard that the pope was
under strong and daily pressure from
Latin American authorities to
postpone the trip, lest it be
interpreted as support for British
military strategy, the British prelates
decided to press harder.
“Up until that point the British
had been the laid-back, nice-guys.
While the Latin Americans were
pressing the British were pretty much
saying, ‘We’d like you to come and
we think that you should, but we
understand the crunch you are in,”’
said one high Vatican source.
“But when (Archbishops) Worlock
and Winning came, and when
(Cardinals) Hume and Gray came
back later in the week, the British
began to press back,” added the
source.
“It wasn’t that the pope took any
convincing on the importance of the
trip,” said a British priest living in
Rome. “He wanted in the worst way
to go.”
But what the pope did need,
sources suggested, was some help in
weighing the issues and some
recommendations as to how to
continue with the trip while making
it a bit more palatable to the 250
million Catholics in Latin America,
about one-third of the world’s
Catholic population.
That help came, apparently, when
a stratagem was devised eliminating
any “political-looking” elements
from the trip, such as a meeting with
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,
the person with the ultimate
responsibility for deciding British
strategy.
The plan was reinforced by the
government’s public announcement
that the visit was important to all
Britishers and that Mrs. Thatcher
would be happy to do without
meeting the pope if it meant the visit
could go on.
On May 19 the pope decided to
invite to the Vatican the British and
Argentine cardinals and Archbishop
Lopez Trujillo to celebrate with the
pope a Mass for peace. They would
also talk, in collegial fashion, about
the British trip, weighing all its pros
(Continued on page 6)
Official
Appointment
Archbishop Thomas A.
Donnellan announces the
following assignment,
effective June 1, 1982, and
extends a cordial welcome to
the Archdiocese of Atlanta
to Reverend John P. O’Brien,
O.P., as Pastor of Holy Cross
Church in Atlanta.
CAMP MEETING - An Argentine soldier passes out rosaries to
fellow soldiers as they enter a tent chapel for Mass on the Falkland
Islands. (NC photo from UPI)
Three Parishes To Revive
Month-Long Summer Camps
BY MSGR NOEL BURTENSHAW
One year ago the Catholics of the Archdiocese of Atlanta responded to the
tragedy of the murdered and missing children in many ways. They offered their
services to support projects in their communities. They gathered in prayer for
those wounded by the loss of children. They collected funds for summer
programs in the city and, finally, they held a most successful summer camp
project for Atlanta’s children.
Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan has announced that the summer camp
project will again be held in Atlanta this year.
Three parishes will host the camps. The parishes involved are St. Anthony’s,
Sts. Peter and Paul and Our Lady of Lourdes. St. Anthony’s camp will operate
from June 21 to July 16, Sts. Peter and Paul from July 6 to July 30 and Our
Lady of Lourdes from June 28 to July 23.
Last year Sister Margaret McAnoy coordinated the project for the
archdiocese. The three parishes hosting the camps this year will provide their
own coordinators and formulate the four-week program for the children.
To help finance the camps, Archbishop Donnellan has asked every parish in
the archdiocese to take up a collection at all Masses on the weekend of June 5
and 6. In his letter to the pastors, the Archbishop reminds them that
“problems remain and our camp efforts this year aim at dealing with them;
chiefly providing safe, enriching, supervised summer care for children who
otherwise would not have it.”
The Archbishop goes on to remind the pastors and their parishioners that
the summer camps are projects in these three locations “representing all of us
in this ongoing effort to make Atlanta a safer place for children, especially
poorer children.”
The generosity of Catholics and others last year made the camps an
experience in Christian service during the summer. That same generosity is
looked for once more this year.
The funds collected at each Mass on June 5 and 6 will be forwarded to the
Chancery Office for distribution to the three par shes for the expenses of their
camps for Atlanta’s children.