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PAGE 16—The Georgia Bulletin, September 1,1983
Philippine Cardinal Declines Panel
MANILA, Philippines (NC) - Cardinal
Jaime Sin of Manila refused to join a
presidential panel of inquiry into the
slaying of Filipino opposition leader
Benigno Aquino Jr. and said the
government of President Ferdinand
Marcos must at least share blame for
Aquino’s death.
Cardinal Sin, the leading church figure
in the overwhelmingly Catholic country,
told a Catholic men’s dub in Manila Aug.
27 that, no matter who actually
murdered Aquino Aug. 21, the
government cannot “wash its hands
clean” of responsibility for his death.
The same day he announced on Radio
Veritas, a Manila-based Catholic radio
station which broadcasts to all of
Southeast Asia, that he was refusing a
Marcos request to be on the five-member
special panel being formed to investigate
the assassination.
Church spokesmen said the cardinal
would be too busy in the next several
months and did not feel qualified to be
part of a judicial inquiry.
(The New York Times quoted church
sources as saying, however, that Cardinal
Sin felt he would be only a “dissenting
voice in the wilderness” if he joined the
panel.)
Aquino, Marcos’ chief political
opponent, was killed by a close-range
shot to the head as he was disembarking
from a plane at the Manila Airport Aug.
21 under heavy military guard.
Aquino was a senator and leading
presidential candidate before martial law
was imposed in 1972. Under martial law
he was the leader of the non-violent
political opposition calling for a
restoration of democratic freedoms and
constitutional rights. Arrested within
days after martial law was imposed, he
spent nearly eight years in prison before
going into exile in the United States in
1980 in order to obtain heart bypass
surgery. He faced re-arrest and a death
sentence upon his return from exile.
VIENNA VISIT -- In
Vienna, on his Sept. 10-13
visit to Austria, Pope John
Paul II is scheduled to
celebrate an outdoor Mass
in the Donaupark (left) and
is expected to visit St.
Stephan’s Cathedral, built
in the 13 th and 14th
centuries. (NC Photos
courtesy Austrian Press and
Information Service)
Poland's Bishops Criticize New Government Regulations
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WARSAW, Poland (NC) - Poland’s Catholic bishops
Aug. 26 criticized the tough “special regulations” enacted
by the government in ending martial law and said
authorities had missed the chance fora “national accord”
provided by Pope John Paul II’s visit to Poland in June.
In a communique issued after a one-day meeting at the
national Marian shrine in Czestochowa, the bishops also
called for a general amnesty for those imprisoned under
martial law, the restoration of independent trade unions,
rehiring of workers fired for their political views, and a
government dialogue with workers and intellectuals
“responding to their just aspirations.”
“We regret that the chance for authentic national
accord presented by the pope’s visit was not used,” the
bishops said.
Nuestra Senora
de la Caridad
Queridos Hermanos en Cristo:
Tal como se ha estado ofreciendo cada ano, nos
estamos preparando una vez mas, para celebrar
digna y cristianamente la festividad religiosa de
Nuestra Senora de la Caridad, Patrona de Cuba.
Sirvan pues estas lineas para inVitarlos muy
cordialmente a que nos acompanen en la celebracion
de la Santa Misa, que en honor de Nuestra Senora,
tendra lugar el Domingo dia once de Septiembre de
1983 a las 7:00 p.m. en la Catedral de “Cristo Rey.”
Este ano el orador sagrado sera el Rev. Padre Rafael
Pedroso, sacerdote encargado de la vida espiritual
del Colegio Immaculata-La Salle de Miami y que fue
tambien Coadjutor de la Iglesia de Sts. Peter and
Paul, el cual nos ha sido recomendado por Monsenor
Agustin Roman, Obispo Auxiliar de Miami.
A continuacion de la Santa Misa, tendremos una
solemne procesion con la imagen de la “Virgen de la
Caridad del Cobre” y terminaremos con una
recepcion para todos los asistentes, donde se
ofrecerea un delicioso buffet.
Les rogamos que comiencen a divulgar esta
informacion entre sus familiares, amigos y vecinos y
al propio tiempo les pedimos que nos ayuden con sus
oraciones y sacrificios para que esta celebracion
alcance los exitos y los resultados que todos
deseamos.
Para el mejor lucimiento de esta festividad
necesitamos ademas, la cooperacion de todos para
que nos ayuden a sufragar una serie de gastos
ineludibles, tales como gastos de ornamentacion,
flores, propaganda, sellos de correos y transporte y
donacion para el orador sagrado invitado.
Esperando que con su asistencia y generosidad
nos ayuden a mantener la fe cristiana y la devocion
a la Santisima Virgen Maria como prueba de amor a
la Madre de Dios y de todos nosotros, los
saludamos.
“Restrictive regulations passed by the Sejm
(Parliament) in July . . . are a fresh cause for anxiety,”
they added. The new regulations, passed as part of the
return from martial law to civilian government,
incorporated into civilian law modified versions of major
government powers that had been assumed as emergency
measures under martial law.
Among problems that still need to be resolved, the
communique said, were “the problem of a general
amnesty . . . re-employing people fired for their
convictions, restoring union pluralism, restoring the right
to higher education of students who have been dismissed,
and the restoration of all clubs of Catholic intelligentsia.”
As the bishops met, an estimated 200,000 pilgrims
gathered at the shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa to
mark the 601st anniversary of the arrival in Poland of the
famed icon of the Madonna.
The bishops’ statement came just five days after a
leading Soviet spokesman had called elements of the
church in Poland a threat to Polish communism.
On Soviet television the previous Sunday Leonid
Zamyatin had said that the pope’s visit to Poland had
encouraged “certain . . . aggressive circles of the Polish
church to become significantly more active.'”
The bishops’ communique stressed that the Polish
episcopate accepted Pope John Paul’s teachings during his
visit to his homeland.
Echoing repeated papal calls in Poland for dialogue and
the people’s right to self-determination, the bishops said,
“When the dialogue between the government and the
nation ceases to exist, social peace is threatened - and can
even disappear completely.”
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