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Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
Vol. 20 No. 22
Thursday, June 3,1982
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LONDON GREETING -- Children reach out to
touch Pope John Paul II as he walks among the
crowd on hand to greet him on his arrival at
Gatwick Airport in London. It was the beginning
of a six-day visit to Great Britain for the pope.
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SAFE AND HAPPY PLACE
Camps Promise Summer Fun
BY THEA JARVIS
The hazy, languid days of summer
are just around the corner.
Families are breaking out their
picnic gear, planning vacations, and
looking forward to the slower, more
relaxed pace that summer brings.
For school children, especially, the
promises of summer seem endless -
at least at the beginning o£ the
season.
But more often than not, the
three-month duration of
long-awaited freedom becomes heavy
on young hands.
The increasing need for two-parent
incomes means many children spend
their summer relatively unsupervised
-- or placed in day-care situations.
Even with parents who are able to
remain at hqpne, children need
activities that keep their interest and
spirits high.
Last year, the Archdiocese of
Atlanta’s summer program, Camp
Promise, offered a safe and happy
place to be for countless Atlanta area
youngsters. This year, several
archdiocesan churches are offering
parish programs patterend on the
Camp Promise model. These parishes
have added their own creative
touches, insuring another enjoyable
experience for many of metro
Atlanta’s youth.
At Our Lady of Lourdes Church in
Atlanta, Garcia Alston will direct the
summer activities, which will run
from June 28-July 3.
Mrs. Alston, who teaches reading
and social studies at our Lady of
Lourdes School, has a wide range of
events planned for youngsters aged
six through 13 years, including
reading, bible study, music, arts and
crafts, gymnastics, swimming and
creative dance.
The Lourdes camp will utilize
facilities at the Martin Luther King
Center across the street from the
church for its swimming and reading
programs.
In support of these camps, a
special collection will be
taken up in all parishes of the
archdiocese on Saturday and
Sunday,June 5 and 6.
Students from Atlanta University,
as well as teachers from Our Lady of
Lourdes School, will staff the
summer program. Activities begin at
9 a.m. and end at 3 p.m. each
weekday. Day-care will also be
available from 3-6 p.m. for the
convenience of working parents.
Seminarian Jim Murray will be in
charge of summer fun at Sts. Peter
and Paul Church in Decatur, whose
summer camp is scheduled for July
5-30.
Children in grades kindergarten
through eight are included in this
“vacation bible school” format,
which will offer an informal faith
experience highlighted by crafts,
music, field trips and games.
Staff at the Decatur program is to
be augmented by religious from
Pennsylvania who will spend part of
their vacation at the month-long
camp, which is open from 9 a.m. - 3
p.m.
Sister Jean Booms, IHM, pastoral
associate at Sts. Peter and Paul, has
indicated that the camp will
primarily serve parish youth,
although neighborhood children will
also be included.
St. Anthony.s Church in Atlanta
will be providing a camp experience
this summer from June 21-July 16.
From 8:30-a.m. 3:30 p.m., there
will be structured classes in reading,
math, music and art. Field trips will
also be included. Unstructured
recreation will be offered from
3:30-6 p.m.
St. Anthony’s expects both parish
and neighborhood children to fill its
camp. All teachers from St.
Anthony’s School, as well as religious
from outside the Archdiocese of
Atlanta, will help staff the summer
program, under the direction of
Antoinette Carson, a fourth grade
teacher at St. Anthony’s School.
All these camps, which are
financially assisted by the
Archdiocese of Atlanta, will give
children the opportunity for a
happy, wholesome summer. Parishes
may charge a nominal fee for the
camp experience, and tuition
scholarships are available in some
cases.
For further information on the
summer programs, call 522-6776
(Lourdes), 241-5862 (Sts. Peter and
Paul) .or 758-8861 (St. Anthony’s).
It's Summer
Beginning with this issue, The
Georgia Bulletin is on summer
schedule. The paper will be
published every other week,
rather than every week, through
the month of August. Happy
Summer!!
Papal Visit Spurs Hope
For Christian Unity
By NC News Service
A visit to the seat of world
Anglicanism and a landmark
agreement in Catholic-Anglican
relations highlighted Pope John Paul
II’s six-day trip to Great Britain May
28-June 2.
On the first-ever visit of a pope to
England, Scotland and Wales, Pope
John Paul also pleaded strongly for
an end to British-Argentine hostilities
in the South Atlantic, met with
Queen Elizabeth II and embarked on
a full schedule of events designed to
give new spiritual vitality to British
Catholicism.
But his explicitly pastoral and
ecumenical visit reached its high
point on the second day, May 29.
The 62-year-old pontiff and
Archbishop Robert Runcie of
Canterbury, primate of the world
Anglican Communion, met at
historic Canterbury Cathedral to
pray and renew their baptismal
promises together and to sign a
“common declaration” establishing a
new Anglican-Catholic commission
to resolve remaining doctrinal
differences and recommend
“practical steps” for the reunion of
the two churches.
The pope’s visit was also his first
to a country at war and had almost
been called off a week earlier because
of the British-Argentine fighting in
the Falkland Islands, called the
Malvinas by Argentina.
The pope saved the trip by
stressing its pastoral, non-political
character and by agreeing to make a
quick “pastoral visit” to Argentina
two weeks later. Yet repeated papal
pleas for an end to bloodshed and a
negotiated solution to the dispute
over the islands punctuated the
pontiffs travels in Britain.
The pleas began with his arrival
May 28 at London’s Gatwick
Airport, where the pope appealed to
“all people of good will to join me in
praying for a just and peaceful
settlement ... a solution which
would avoid violence and
bloodshed.”
A short while later in Westminster
Cathedral, where he celebrated Mass
and administered Baptism and
Confirmation to a group of adults,
Pope John Paul departed from his
original prepared text to ask again
“for peaceful solution of the
conflict, praying that the God of
peace will move men’s hearts to put
aside the weapons of death.”
Two days later in Coventry, while
British troops in the Falklands were
marching from their beachhead at
San Carlos toward Stanley and a
possibly decisive battle with
Argentina’s entrenched infantry
there, the pope issued a strong
condemnation of all warfare, even
the conventional kind the British and
Argentines were engaged in.
“Today the scale and horror of
modern warfare - whether nuclear or
not - makes it totally unacceptable
as a means of settling differences
between nations,” he said at a Mass
before a cheering crowd of 350,000
at the Coventry airport.
“War should belong to the tragic
past, to history,” he added. “It
should find no place on humanity’s
agenda for the future.”
He also reiterated earlier
condemnations of nuclear war and
asked special prayers from the
world’s Christians for the success of
the U.N. Second Special Session on
Disarmament coming up in June and
July.
While the papal calls for peace
captured most of the headlines in the
general press because of the
Falklands crisis, Pope John Paul
focused the main attention of his trip
on a pastoral program of celebrating
the seven sacraments with the
Catholics of England, Scotland and
Wales and on furthering Christian
unity through his meeting with
Archbishop Runcie and meetings
with other Christian leaders.
In just the first half of his trip he
administered Baptism twice and
Confirmation twice, presided over a
service of the Anointing of the Sick,
and joined in leading the interfaith
renewal of baptismal promises at
Canterbury Cathedral.
His schedule on the second half of
the trip included an ordination of
priests and renewal of marriage vows
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MISSIONAR Y REPORTS
Hondurans A Prayerful People
Despite Poverty, Malnutrition
BY THEA JARVIS
Sister Jane Paris looks more like
one of the teenagers she used to
assist on diocesan retreat weekends
than a Central American missionary.
But the freckle-faced, smiling
Atlantan is no stranger to foreign
soil, and has experienced first-hand
the hardness of life in Honduras,
where she has been stationed for the
past two years.
During a May “home leave”
granted by her community, the
Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary in Monroe, Michigan, Sister
Jane took time to give local Catholics
an update on the Church and the
people of Honduras.
An informal presentation at her
former parish, Holy Cross Church in
Chamblee, where her parents, Bob
and Nancy Paris, are still members,
allowed Jane to share slides and
stories of “the most mountainous
country in Central America,” which
reminded her so much of north
Georgia.
What Sister Jane found in the rural
villages where she and a fellow
religious, through a grant from
Maryknoll and the invitation of a
Honduran bishop, acted as “pastors”
- a priest visits the people just once
a year - was a population that
struggles daily with the harsh realities
of an underdeveloped country.
Poverty, malnutrition, political
extremism and a limited presence of
Church outside major metropolitan
areas are some of the hardships
endured by the Honduran people.
“When you talk about the Church
in Honduras,” Sister Jane said
simply, “the people are the Church.”
Because priests and bishops are
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SISTER JANE PARIS, IHM, on “home leave” from her work in
Central America, shares her experiences with parishioners at Holy
Cross Church in Chamblee.
Now The Cardinal Has Ordained
Two From The Kelly Family!
CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION! Father James
Kelly, Jr. (far right) exchanges greetings with
Cardinal Terence Cooke (center) on the occasion
of his father’s ordination to the permanent
diaconate. Mr. James Kelly, Sr. (left) was
ordained in St. Patrick’s Cathedral May 1.
BY GRETCHEN KEISER
There are now two ordained in
the Kelly family: son Father James
Kelly Jr., who serves the
archdiocese of Atlanta and now his
father, James Kelly Sr., who was
ordained a permanent deacon in
New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral
May 1.
The unusual occurrence of father
and son being ordained, which may
have happened only twice before,
was heightened by the fact that
both Father James Kelly and his
father were ordained by the same
man, Cardinal Terence Cooke of
New York.
Even the cardinal seemed
“delighted” and called the two men
to his side at the Cathedral, said
Deacon James Kelly Sr. from his
home in Dutchess County north of
New York City.
Kelly, who is 70 and a retired
employee of Dutchess County
Community College, revived in his
retirement years an interest which
had been a part of his life since
youth. “They almost got me into
the priesthood in the 1920s, so I
was always interested,” he said.
“When they opened (the diaconate)
up to us old married men, I thought
I might get involved.”
The study for the diaconate,
which began in Orlando, Florida,
near a family retirement residence,
and then was carried out at Mount
St. Alphonsus Seminary in New
York, involved both Kelly and his
wife, Helen. As she joined him for
his study, she also accompanies him
in their joint apostolate, visiting
those in nursing homes and
hospitals.
“There is so much work to be
done that she’ll take one area and
I’ll take another,” Deacon Kelly
said. While some people may enjoy
having a visitor talk to him, most of
the time, “you sit there and listen.
That’s very comforting to them, to
let them know you are interested.”
In addition to Father James
Kelly Jr., the archdiocese’s director
of religious education who will
soon become pastor of Queen of
Angels parish in Thomson, the
Kellys have two other sons, Thomas
and Robert, and four
grandchildren.