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PAGE 14—The Georgia Bulletin, August 18,1983
ON THE AIR
BY MAGGIE DAHL
Media Coordinator
The following programming, on radio and
television, will be aired in the archdiocese during the
coming week beginning Sun., Aug. 21 and Sun. Aug.
28. Some of the programs have been produced
locally; others have been obtained from national
Catholic production apostolates.
THE MASS will be celebrated by Monsignor Noel
Burtenshaw on Sun., Aug. 21 and Aug. 28 at:
6:30 a.m. on WSB-TV (Channel 2) - Aug. 21
only.
10 a.m. on WVEU-TV (Channel 69) on UHF.
10:30 a.m. on AIB CABLE*.
The folk group this week is from Holy Cross
under the direction of Rev. Cayet Mangiaracina. The
lector is Ray Lerer.
CHRISTOPHER CLOSEUP: “Children Who
Drink” - Mon., Aug. 22 at 8 p.m. on AIB CABLE*.
“Two Extraordinary Women” - Sun., Aug. 28 at
6:30 a.m. on WSB-TV (Channel 2).
“Faith and Prejudice” - Mon., Aug. 29 at 8 p.m.
on AIB CABLE*.
INSIGHT: “Needle’s Eye” - Mon., Aug. 22 at
8:30 p.m. on AIB CABLE*.
“Little Miseries” - Mon., Aug. 29 at 8:30 p.m. on
AIB CABLE*.
Due to other programming Insight is being
cancelled for Aug. and Sept, on WVEU-TV (Channel
69) on UHF.
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AMERICAN CATHOLIC: “Love and Sexuality”
— Father Powell focuses on the relationships
between love, sex and personhood. If physical
sexuality is sought for its own pleasures, he says, the
result is distortion and the disintegration of true
love. A married couple who work in the Pre-Cana
program discuss the role of sexuality, commitment
and fidelity between two loving persons. Wed., Aug.
24 at 9 p.m. on AIB CABLE*.
“Christian Witness” - Each of us is called to
render a specific witness according to our gifts, says
Father Powell. Our witness must be of lifestyle not
lip service, joyful not mournful, real not plastic,
open and unabashed in our confession of faith. A
young handicapped woman shares her belief in
developing personal potential and capabilities for
service no matter what one’s circumstances may be.
Wed., Aug. 31 at 9 p.m. on AIB CABLE*.
MOTHER ANGELICA TALKS IT OVER ~ Wed.,
Aug. 24 and Aug. 31 at 9:30 p.m. on AIB CABLE*.
*(AIB CABLE is your interfaith channel on Cable
Channel 8 in Alpharetta, Atlanta, College Park,
DeKalb, East Point and N. DeKalb.)
RADIO
“LIFT YOUR HEART,” weekly radio
production of Sacred Heart Program, Inc. on Sun. at
6 a.m. on WPLO (590 AM).
RELIGION-WISE: A weekly look at the news
through the eyes of religion with Monsignor Noel
Burtenshaw, Rabbi Don Peterman of Congregation
Beth Shalom and Dr. Ted Baehr, President of Good
News Publication. They will discuss the week’s
happenings on Sun. at 6 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. on
WGST (92 AM).
Mother Angelica
Expands Talk Show
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (NC) -- “Mother Angelica Talks It
Over,” a half-hour audience participation show, will
expand to an hour and be aired live during October.
The show, hosted by Mother M. Angelica Francis of the
Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration, currently is
precorded for the satellite cable Eternal Word Television
Network. When the network decided to broadcast the*
program live, Mother Angelica said, officials saw the need
for the hour format to provide a more relaxed
atmosphere.
The new program will include a co-host, who, with
Mother Angelica, will interview a guest celebrity on topics
ranging from poverty to living with a drug addict.
The program also will include guest musicians and
audience participation.
FCC Acts To Deregulate TV
WASHINGTON (NC) - The Federal Communications
Commission this summer took steps toward TV
deregulation by proposing to lift guidelines covering TV
station operations in four key areas.
By adopting, on a 5-0 vote, a proposal to initiate the
TV deregulation process, the commission cleared the way
for a period of public reaction and comments on the
matter. If eventually ratified by further FCC action, the
proposal would:
- Repeal current standards that specify a minimum
amount of time stations must devote to news, information
and local programming.
-- Repeal a maximum limit on the number of
commercials per hour.
- Repeal a provision that stations formally “ascertain”
the needs and interests of the community.
- Repeal a stipulation that stations should keep strict
logs of all programming aired.
Similar directives or guidelines for licensing stations
were lifted from commercial radio in 1981. That
deregulation move has been upheld by a federal appeals
court.
“I feel fairly strongly this is something that’s overdue,”
FCC chairman Mark S. Fowler said of the planned TV
deregulation. He described the current guidelines as
“censorship - pure and simple.”
Church groups, such as the U.S. Catholic Conference,
and public interest organizations have opposed
broadcasting deregulation.
Richard Hirsch, USCC secretary of communication, was
skeptical of the merits of TV deregulation.
“The premise underlying this proposal assumes a
similarity between radio and TV that doesn’t exist -
namely, that there is as much competition in TV as there
is in radio,” Hirsch said. (There are approximately 850
commercial TV stations and many more radio stations in
the United States.)
NEW DESIGN - The New Orleans archdiocese
has approved a new design for the Vatican
Pavilion for the 1984 Louisiana World
Exposition. Construction cost which would have
exceeded budgetary limitations was the main
reason given for the change in design and a change
of architects. Designed by Blitch Architefcts, the
one-story structure set around an open area with
a reflecting pool will feature a 50-foot high
circular exhibit gallery topped by a sculptured
dome with a metropolitan cross. The exposition is
set to open May 12. (NC Photo)
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About Books: "Pontiff" Is Intriguing
PONTIFF, by Gordon Thomas and Max
Morgan-Witts. Doubleday (New York, 1983). 459
pp., $17.95
REVIEWED BY THOMAS P. McDONNELL
NC News Service
“Pontiff” is, possibly, foremost among the
books an occupant of the household of the faith
should select from this summer’s offerings to take
to his hammock for a long reading session.
For a Vatican watcher it is irresistible. Others
will find it at least a chock-full reading experience
and breezy entertainment.
The authors, an international reporting team,
have in the past had a strong penchant for covering
disasters as the titles of two of their works,
“Shipwreck” and “Earthquake,” attest.
Abandoning that course they explored the
Vatican. Their reporting seems thorough,
well-intentioned and done with an attitude of
goodwill. Having done their homework, they tell
more than the Vatican itself, historically speaking,
has ever been willing to reveal of any of its major
involvements - which is probably as it should be.
The most prominent example of this, and yet
one which contradicts the Vatican’s record of
reluctapce to reveal its own involvement in more
or less sensational and controversial events, is that
of the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul
II by the terrorist, Mehmet Ali Agca, and other
accomplices in the midst of some 80,000 people in
St. Peter’s Square.
From “Pontiff,” certainly, American readers
will learn more about Agca than has generally been
reported, especially that pertaining to his
periodically unstable mental condition and a
background almost sure to have conditioned him
for a career in terrorism and assassination.
“Pontiff” is an account of the behind the scenes
events in the Vatican during the reigns of the last
three popes - emphatically including, of course,
that of the extraordinary John Paul II. The subject
matter, though momentous, is only a smaller part
of that continuity which the authors recognize as
unique in its capacity for survival and which the
historian Toynbee has called “the greatest of all
Western institutions,” meaning the papacy and
what it represents.
“Pontiff” is sure to become a sourcebook for
future attempts to evaluate both John Paul II the
man and the complexities of his administration of
the church. Aside from the present pope himself,
the secondary hero of the book is probably that
marvelous Irishman, Father John Magee, private
secretary to all three popes, and quite enough in
himself to put Father Andrew M. Greeley on the
shelf.
The theme of a Greeley subplot, indeed, runs
through the whole book, much like that of Iago in
“Othello” or of Polonius in “Hamlet.” One way or
the other, never has the American priest-publicist
been so devastatingly epitomized as he is
throughout “Pontiff,” and it’s worth the price of
the book.
(McDonnell, a freelance contributor to the church
press, lives in a suburb of Boston.)
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