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Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
Vol. 21 No. 30
Thursday, September 8,1983
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NINETY-NINE PERCENT of Marist’s
graduating class of 1983 has enrolled in
institutions of higher learning this fall, and among
the college-bound are scholarship winners Kathy
and Karl Harrison, shown above with their
mother, Mrs. Maye Harrison. The Harrisons joined
their brother Ira, a 1982 Marist graduate, at the
U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. this
summer. The Harrison “contingent,” who hail
from Blessed Sacrament Parish in Atlanta,
represent only the third time in West Point
History that every child from a given family has
been accepted at the school.
Women's Role, Legislation, Shelters --
Much On Agenda For AACCW Convention
BY THEA JARVIS
Author-educator
Monsignor George A.
Kelly will be the principal
speaker at the 27th annual
convention of the Atlanta
Archdiocesan Council of
Catholic Women, to be
held Sept. 23-24 at the
Lanier Plaza Hotel in
Atlanta.
Monsignor Kelly, a
professor at St. John’s
University in New York, is
recognized for his
scholarly studies of the
Church, including his most
recent books, “The
Biblical Theorists:
Raymond E. Brown and
Beyond,” “The Crisis of
Authority: Pope John Paul
II and the American
Bishops,” and “The Battle
for the American Church.”
Monsignor Kelly will
address the gathering of
archdiocesan women and
their guests Saturday
evening at a banquet
dinner which begins at 8
p.m.
Other weekend
activities start Friday
evening at 8 p.m. with a
prayer service and business
meeting, during which
Atlanta ACCW Province
Director and National
Council of Catholic
Women board member
Carroll Quinn will be on
hand to share her insights.
Also Friday evening,
Archdiocesan Scout
Chaplain Father John
Kieran will present an
informative film on
scouting and Cheatham
Hodges, executive director
of the Georgia Catholic
Conference, will give an
update on legislative
prospects in the state
legislature.
Saturday’s schedule
includes workshops
guaranteed to satisfy the
interests of all women of
the archdiocese, beginning
with an early morning
NCCW session conducted
by NCCW second
vice-president, Jean Hayes.
Other morning
workshops will focus on
“Women of the Church:
Where Have You Been? We
Are Here!” presented by
Sister Margaret McAnoy
and “TV. - Head of the
Family?” International
and organizational
workshops Saturday
morning will deal with
membership, publicity and
world concerns.
After lunch at 12:45,
the St. Vincent de Paul
Thrift Store, “Second
Hand Rose,” will entertain
and enlighten with a very
special fashion show.
AACCW members will
model the good, used
clothing available at the
store’s Chamblee location
to customers seeking
quality bargains and
Vincentians providing help
Msgr. George A. Kelly
for those in need.
Afternoon workshops
feature Dr. Kel McDonald
and Senator Paul Coverdell
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Pope Sends Prayers
To Korean People
BY SISTER MARY ANN WALSH
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II sent his
condolences to Cardinal Stephen Kim of Seoul and the
people of Korea Sept. 2, the day after a Korean
commercial airliner was shot down over the Soviet island
of Sakhalin.
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U.S. Bishops Told Not To Support
Groups Promoting Women Priests
BY FATHER KENNETH J. DOYLE
CASTE LG ANDOLFO, Italy (NC) - In a
strongly worded message, Pope John Paul II told
U.S. bishops Sept. 5 to reject the idea of women
priests and to withdraw support from any group or
individual advocating a female priesthood.
The bishops were also told to be faithful to
church doctrine at the risk of being unpopular.
The pope coupled his opposition to a female
priesthood with support for the dignity of women.
Bishops should work for “every legitimate
freedom that is consonant with their human
nature and their womanhood,” and “to oppose
any and all discrimination of women by reason of
sex,” he said.
The pope’s words came in a half hour talk
delivered in English to 23 U.S. bishops who were
making their “ad limina” visits at Castelgandolfo,
which occur every five years and are required so
that bishops can report to the pope on the status
of their dioceses.
“The bishop must give proof of his pastoral
ability and leadership by withdrawing all support
from individuals or groups who, in the name of
progress, justice or compassion or for any other
reason, promote the ordination of women to the
priesthood,” the pope said.
The exclusion of women from the priesthood,
the pontiff said, “is linked to Christ’s own design
for the priesthood.”
Previously, Pope John Paul had said that women
may not be ordained because Christ, faced with
the possibility of chosing women to be priests, did
not do so and the practice of the church of today
must model that of its founder.
In 1977 the Vatican Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith issued a formal declaration,
approved by Pope Paul VI, stating that women
could not be admitted to the priesthood. The
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There were 269 passengers, including Rep. Lawrence
McDonald (D-Ga) and at least 50 other Americans on
board the airliner, which, according to monitored
transcripts of Soviet military communications, was shot
down by a Soviet jet fighter. It was en route from New
York to Seoul, South Korea.
In his telegram to Cardinal Kim, the pope said,
“Shocked by Thursday’s tragedy involving a Korean
commercial airplane, I send my heartfelt condolences to
you and the Korean people at this time of intense sorrow.
“I especially unite myself to the families and friends of
the deceased and ask Almighty God to strengthen and
sustain them in their great loss. I join with you and all the
citizens of your country in earnestly praying for peace
among the nations of the world,” the pope said.
Soviet officians have now acknowledged downing the
plane. U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz said the
plane strayed into Soviet air space and that “at least eight
fighters” were sent to intercept the Korean Air Line’s
Boeing 747.
He added that the fighter which shot down the plane
“was close enough for visual inspection of the aircraft.”
Under internationally recognied procedures, aircraft
sent to intercept possible intruders are supposed to make
visual contact and escort the plane to a landing.
Tapes of contacts between Korean flight 007 and air
control in Tokyo show that the Korean Airline’s pilot
believed he was on course, and not in Soviet air space.
The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, in an
editorial published Sept. 3 and signed by the newspaper’s
director, said that hundreds of defenseless people were
“condemned to a horrible death without any hesitation.”
