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PAGE 7—The Georgia Bulletin, September 1,1983
Prayer Services Readied Marchers For Task At Hand
WASHINGTON (NC) - Catholics,
Protestants, Jews and Moslems turned to
God for help before marching on
Washington for jobs, peace and freedom.
“If we trust only in our own strength
in this march, we will not succeed,” the
Rev. Arthur Flemming, religious
coordinator for the 20th anniversary
March on Washington, told an interfaith
service Aug. 26.
The service, sponsored by the National
Council of Churches, drew about 1,800
to the Metropolitan African Methodist
Episcopal Church in Washington.
The Archdiocese of Washington held a
prayer service for Catholics near the
White House Aug. 27.
During the four-hour interfaith service
the AME church rocked with
hand-clapping and spirited singing led by
gospel choirs. The service included
readings from the Torah, Koran and New
Testament, as well as 10 speakers.
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“Thou art our God, to thee we give all
praise for we are marching,” Auxiliary
Bishop Eugene Marino of Washington said
in a responsive reading at the interfaith
service.
After the interfaith service several
hundred participants walked carrying
lighted candles to the White House for an
all-night vigil, which opened with a “rite
of deliverance.”
About 4,500 Catholics gathered in
Lafayette Square in view of the North
portico of the White House for a prayer
service on Aug. 27 as the March on
Washington began to move from the
Washington Monument to the Lincoln
Memorial.
“We cannot really be the church unless
our faith is shown in action,” Archbishop
James A. Hickey of Washington said. “We
are taking the Gospel and teachings of the
church and putting them to work for all
to see,” he continued.
The archbishop stood beneath a yellow
Acceptance Of Unemployment 'Frightening'
CHICAGO (NC) - The
“most frightening aspect”
of high unemployment is
that Americans are getting
used to it, Cardinal Joseph
L. Bernardin of Chicago
said in a Labor Day
statement.
He also labeled the
feminization of poverty as
“one of the most serious”
national problems.
“Perhaps the most
frightening aspect of high
unemployment is that we
seem to be getting used to
it and seem to have
concluded that there isn’t
much we can do about it,”
Cardinal Bernardin wrote.
“Such thinking is
totally unacceptable in the
light of the church’s
teaching on economic
justice,” he said.
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Aug. 26, is the cardinal’s
first Labor Day statement
since he was installed in
the Chicago See in August
1982.
To say that “a fairly
high level of unemploy
ment might be inevitable”
is “a rather heartless
conclusion,” the cardinal
said.
“Some economists have
even argued that 7 percent
or 8 percent unemploy
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“The fact is, however,
that for some time now
the unemployment rate
has' hovered around 10
percent and in more than a
few areas of the country
remains as high as 30
percent,” he added.
Citing U.S. Labor
Department statistics,
Cardinal Bernardin said
one out of every three
people in the labor force
“has experienced
employment problems
during the last few years.”
In 1982, 26.5 million
people were affected, he
said.
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banner saying, “The Catholic community
still has a dream,” a reference to the
March on Washington’s theme.
“Twenty years ago in the magnificent
style of the black Baptist preacher,
Martin Luther King Jr. thrilled the ears,
touched the hearts and stung the
consciences of Americans,” Bishop
Marino, homilist at the Catholic prayer
service, said.
“He preached a message from God in
words that will live in our hearts for the
rest of our lives,” he added.
In his “sermon on the monument,” Dr.
King “challenged the nation to rise up and
live out its creed,” he said.
As listeners punctuated his words with
cheers, applause and cries of “Yes, sir” or
“Amen,” Bishop Marino made an
impassioned plea for the rights of all
human beings - the born and unborn.
“We must illuminate the truth that life
is God’s most precious gift, given to each
man, woman and child equally,” he said.
“And no one may take this right away
from us,” he said.
Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Francis of
Newark, N.J., and Bishop Walter Sullivan
of Richmond, Va., also participated in
the archdiocese’s service.
(Contributing to this story were Kaki
Roberts, the Catholic Standard of Washington,
and James B. Burke, NC News Service.)
BISHOP AT POW WOW - Bishop
John Kinney of Bismarck, N.D.,
wears an Indian shirt as he dances
at a pow-wow with people
attending the Tekakwitha
Conference at St. John’s University
in Collegeville, Minn. The five-day
conference brought together more
than 1,500 Native Americans from
100 tribes as well as bishops,
priests, Religious and laity who
work with them. (NC Photo)
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