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PAGE 14—The Georgia Bulletin, September 1,1983 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 Sunday, Sept. 4. 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., Sept. 4 at: 6:30 a.m. on WSB-TV (Channel 2). 10 a.m on WVEU-TV (Channel 69) on UHF. 10:30 a.m. on AIB CABLE* The folk group for the mass is from All Saints parish under the direction of Mari jean Kaylor. Your lector is John Yetman. CHRISTOPHER CLOSEUP: “A Visit with Jim Henson and Friends” -- Mon., Sept. 5 at 8 p.m. on AIB CABLE.* INSIGHT: “Missing Person’s Bureau” - Mon., Sept. 5 at 8:30 p.m. on AIB CABLE*. jf: >fc AMERICAN CATHOLIC: “Religious Experience” - Because it cannot be proved scientifically, religious experience is something unique to all human beings, says Father Powell. He proposes that the most direct route to religious experience is to ask for grace to give, to share, to console another, to tell someone you love them and then to tell them again. Two people describe their personal experiences in coming to an awareness of God’s presence and how they have been affected since them. Wed., Sept. 7 at 9 p.m. on AIB CABLE*. ^ MOTHER ANGELICA TALKS IT OVER - Wed., Sept. 7 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). Claretians Publish Free Parish Newsletter CHICAGO (NC) - A new newsletter for parishes, “U.S. Parish,” will be distributed free by the Claretian Fathers and Brothers starting in September, according to Father Mark J. Brummel, editor of Claretian Publications. One copy of the newsletter will be sent without cost each month to every Catholic parish in the United States. It is being subsidized by the Claretians to encourage lay involvement in parish ministry and to introduce parishioners to the Claretians’ other publications, according to Tom McGrath, marketing director. The publication cannot be bought. Parishes are encouraged to photocopy it or route it to the proper people. U.S. Parish is designed as “the newsletter that makes good parishes better,” Father Brummel said. “Parishes are people, and the quality of the parish depends on the involvement of people in the life of the parish.” The September issue includes items on parish music, starting a social-justice group, the value of Catholic education, agenda items for parish-council meetings, catechist planning, youth ministers, family life, sermon ideas, and a regular section, “What other parishes are doing.” In addition to the new newsletter, the Claretians publish two magazines, “U.S. Catholic” and “Salt,” three newsletters, “Bringing Religion Home,” “Generation,” and “GooseCom,” and various pamphlets. Miami Cable Ban Unconstitutional MIAMI (NC) - A U.S. district court judge ruled that a Miami ordinance against “indecent material” on cable television is unconstitutional. Judge William M. Hoeveler, citing the First Amendment guarantee of free speech, prohibited the City of Miami from enforcing its Jan. 13 ordinance and upheld the cable TV subscriber’s right to receive and the cable programmer’s right to transmit any shows they please. The ordinance bans “patently offensive” representations of “a human sexual or excretory organ or function.” Although Hoeveler said he is “sympathetic with the defendant’s attempt to protect the perceived deterioration of the ‘moral fiber’ of the city,” he stated in a summary judgment that the ordinance “exceeds the limits of proper constitutional action” and violates the First Amendment. Home Box Office, Inc., one of the plaintiffs, shows only films rated G, PG or R and all programs are listed in a guide so subscribers know what programs will appear, the judge pointed out. He added that the city’s ordinance is “wholesale” in its prohibition and added that cable television provides “viewing controls” to subscribers through “lock boxes” and “parental keys” which permit subscribers to protect juveniles from unsuitable programming. “It is difficult,” Hoeveler wrote, “to predict where our tolerance of licentiousness will end. The “end” however cannot be induced by use of a blunderbuss. The understandable anxieties of the city fathers cannot provide the basis for approving legislation which in its reach exceeds the dangers they contemplate.” Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre, who introduced the local legislation after viewing nudity on cable television in New York City, said the city probably will appeal the ruling. The judge was “in error,” said Jesuit Father Morton A. Hill, national president of Morality in Media, Inc. “He neglected to recognize that the law is aimed at the purveyor, not the viewer. To pay is not to legalize. Some pay for heroin, but the drug laws are aimed at the sellers.” The Supreme Court in 1978, “likened the broadcasting of the indecent to the pig entering the parlor. It is the same pig whether transmitted by air or by wire. We are confident the City of Miami will establish this on appeal,” Father Hill said. Under the provisions of the ordinance the city manager would rule on complaints from viewers and violations could cost a cable company its license. Judge Hoeveler said the city manager’s role has “an intolerably high risk of arbitrary action.” Exclusive cable television rights in Miami were granted late in 1982 to Miami Cablevision, Inc., whose marketing £ I director, Bruce Stover, said the firm does not show pornography at this time and has no intention of doing so. Meanwhile, Miami is among more than 20 cities across the nation fighting Senate Bill S66, Which is expected to f, 1 go to the House in the fall and would strip the cities’ power to control fees and regulate programming on cable television. Miami city commissioners have approved a $50,000 i * fund to provide money for attorney’s fees, lobbying and research, and travel expenses for city officials and commissioners to fight the bill’s passage. . The city’s cable television law authorizes the city to set ' • and regulate rates, control some aspects of programming and assure public access through designated public channels. APPLAUSE FOR LINDA - Olympic medalist Linda Fratianne goes through a skating routine with Goofy in Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom on Ice at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Miss Fratianne, a member of Our Lady of Lourdes t ' parish in Northridge, Calif., said she loves the applause she has received during more than three years as a professional but she misses the ^ t challenge of amateur competition. (NC Photo by Chris Sheridan) ' 1 1 — About Books: Henri Nouwen's "Gracias 11 GRACIAS, by Father Henri J.M. Nouwen, Harper and Row (San Francisco, 1983). 188 pp., $12.95. REVIEWED BY FATHER AUGUSTINE HENNESSY NC News Service Some degree of self-revelation is the first courtesy of friendship. Even strangers seated side-by-side in an airplane can relieve the first awkward silence only by evoking the simple self-revelation involved in disclosing their destinations. If they trust each other, genuine communication might add interest and zest to their journey. •= But it requires unusual trust for a man to publish his spiritual journal. He exposes his moods, bis indecisiveness, his hurts, and even his sins, while he is sharing his hopes, his insights and fondest memories. He exposes himself to the delight of being discovered as an authentic communicator and to the danger of being subjected to mockery, or at least, to gentle debunking. In writing “Gracias,” Father Henri Nouwen has manifested his sturdy belief in the Communion of the Saints. He obviously believes that all of us touch each other’s lives as we pursue our destiny. And because he tries to be real in all he reports, he treats his readers as friends. His book is titled as it is to express his indebtedness to the people of Bolivia and Peru with whom he spent six months of his life. From Oct. 18, 1981, until March 29,1982, he immersed himself in their lives while searching his own heart to discover whether or not he was being called to settle down with them permanently. What he learned from them most is to be grateful for life - even when it is almost unbearably burdensome. He learned that “everything that is, is given by the God of Love.” He learned new reasons for saying, “thanks.” He expressed his indebtedness for this insight, “What I claim as a right, my friends in Bolivia and Peru received as a gift; what is obvious to me was a joyful surprise to them; what I take for granted, they celebrate in thanksgiving; what for me goes by unnoticed, becomes for them a new occasion to say thanks.” Appropriately, Father Nouwen dedicates his book, “To all who bear witness to the presence of the suffering Christ in Latin America.” Such a dedication is written without any intent to be either patronizing toward the people or envious of the missioners there. Father Nouwen learned how “to set the tone” for his own reflections from a creed written by a Third World bishop for those who come to Latin America as missionaries. This creed reaches its climax with this advice: “Be with us and be open to what we can give. Be with us as a companion who walks with us - neither behind nor in front - in our search for life and ultimately for God!” Father Nouwen’s pen-pictures of poverty, prison life, comradeship, needless cruelty and other realities of South American life stay vividly in one’s consciousness. All is made a little clearer by one sentence, “Liberation theologians do not think themselves into a new way of living, but live themselves into a new way of thinking.” (Passionist bather Augustine P. Hennessy, theologian and editor, preaches parish renewals and conducts retreats for diocesan priests and men and women Religious.)
