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RITA McINERNEY
TELEVISION
The MASS will be celebrated by Monsignor Noel
Burtenshaw on Sun., May 5 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 choir is from St. Michael’s parish in
Gainesville under the direction of Marilyn Clarkson.
The lector is Carroll Keen.
AN EVENING WITH FATHER KIERAN -
Father Richard Kieran, pastor of St. Joseph’s parish
in Athens, speaks on personal renewal -- “Come
Back To Me With All Your Heart” - in talks
presented as part of a week of renewal at
Transfiguration parish in Marietta. This is the fourth
of a five-part presentation: “Church: Missionary
Community.” Mon., May 6 from 8-9 p.m. on AIB
CABLE.*
CHRISTOPHER CLOSEUP: “Stand Up! Speak
Out!” -- Would you rather die than give a speech?
Communications consultant Bill Hayden and
instructors from the Gabriel Richard Institute
present a short course in public speaking. Father
John Catoir hosts. Carol Tipton interprets in Sign
Language. Wed., May 8 at 8 p.m. on AIB CABLE.*
MOTHER ANGELICA LIVE: Mother Angelica
hosts interesting guests in this program interwoven
with Bible study and music. Also, in this special
series, the television audience is invited to call in
and ask questions live. Wed., May 8 at 9 p.m. on
AIB CABLE*
AMERICAN CATHOLIC: “The Eucharist”- This
program focuses on the Eucharist as a Sacrament of
Christian Unity. Father John Powell, S.J., reminds
us of St. Paul’s words: “If we eat one bread and
drink from one cup, are we not all one in Christ?”
In the Eucharist we share the common bond of
Christ’s life in us. In a moving reflection, a recent
convert to Catholicism describes how his sharing in
the Eucharist celebration fills a void in his life by
bringing him closer to Christ. Wed., May 8 at 9:30
p.m. on AIB CABLE.*
INSIGHT: A series of powerful dramas. Each
program offers some insight into a deeper meaning
of the human experience. Fri., May 10 at 10 p.m.
on AIB CABLE.*
*(AIB CABLE is your interfaith channel on Cable
Channel 8 in Alpharetta, Atlanta, College Park,
DeKalb, East Point and North DeKalb.)
RADIO
LIFT YOUR HEART: Weekly radio production
of Sacred Heart Program, Inc., on Sunday at 6 a.m.
on WPLO (590 AM).
Pope Denounces Godard's
PAGE 9—The Georgia Bulletin, May 2,1985
Cambodia Survivor Says Refugees
Need People "Who Care To Help Them"
HIS STORY -- Dith Pran, a with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy at a
Cambodian refugee whose tragedy Washington benefit showing of the
is told in “The Killing Fields,” talks widely-hailed movie. (NC Photo)
BY JOHN THAVIS
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
A French film in which an
actress portraying the
Virgin Mary in a modem
setting appears nude in
several scenes has been
condemned as a distortion
of the Christian faith by
Pope John Paul II.
The film “deeply
wounds the religious
sentiments of believers,”
said a telegram released by
the Vatican press office.
The telegram was sent in
the pope’s name by
Cardinal Agostino
Casaroli, Vatican secretary
of state, to Cardinal Ugo
Poletti, papal vicar of
Rome.
While the telegram did
not name the work, it
clearly referred to the film
“Hail Mary” by director
Jean-Luc Godard.
“The Holy Father joins
in unanimously deploring,
with the faithful of
Rome’s dioceses, the
showing of a cinematic
work that, in treating
fundamental themes of the
Christian faith, distorts
pnd scorns their spiritual
significance and their
historical value,” the
telegram said.
“It deeply wounds the
religious sentiments of
believers, the respect for
BY MARK ZIMMERMANN
WASHINGTON (NC) -
Dith Pran, the former
Cambodian refugee whose
story is told in the current
film, “The Killing Fields,”
says that his story of
survival is one shared by
thousands of refugees.
“All refugees have the
same story. I believe this
movie is a universal story
about human beings who
have suffered,” he said at a
Washington press
conference preceding a
recent benefit showing of
the film.
The benefit, attended
by about 375 people,
raised nearly $7,000 for
United Nations relief work
in Southeast Asian refugee
camps. The screening was
sponsored by Sen. Edward
Kennedy, D-Mass., and
Sen. Robert Dole,
R-Kan., in conjunction
with the U.S. High
Commission for Refugees,
U.S. Catholic Conference
Migration and Refugee
Services and the Refugee
Resettlement Progam of
Associated Catholic
Charities of Washington.
MRS, working with
diocesan offices, is a
leading resettlement
agency for Southeast
Asian refugees.
“The Killing Fields” is
a graphic portrayal of
Pran’s four-and-a-half
years in Cambodian camps
after the Khmer Rouge
came to power in 1975.
Before the film
Kennedy spoke of the
horrible conditions Pran
endured in Cambodia,
where three million people
were killed or died of
starvation or diseases in
the mid 1970s. He said
that if a memorial was
designed to these
Cambodians similar to the
Vietnam Memorial in
W a s h i ngton, which lists
“Hail Mary"
the sacred” and for Mary,
who is “venerated with
such filial love by
Catholics and so dear to
Christians,” the telegram
said.
Pope John Paul has
emphasized devotion to
Mary during his
pontificate, including the
letter “M” on his papal
coat of arms. The pope’s
motto, “Totus Tuus,”
refers to a pledge to the
Virgin. The pope has
stressed in talks that Mary
is a link-between the Old
and New Testaments and
has said that in her the
church reaches its “highest
perfection.”
the names of Americans
who died in Vietnam, it
would be more than three
miles long.
After the movie, Pran,
who earlier had accepted a
special invitation to serve
as a goodwill ambassador
for the U.N. High
Commission for Refugees,
urged the audience to be
mindful of the plight of
refugees today, including
the estimated 250,000
South Asian refugees still
living near the
Thailand -Cambodian
border.
People who cannot
contribute money for
refugees can help in an
equally important way: by
showing newly arrived
immigrants small acts of
kindness, like helping
them set up their first
bank account or teaching
them some English, Pran
said. “They need the
people like you who care
to help them,” he said.
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Books Of Interest To Catholics
BY RICHARD PHILBRICK
WASHINGTON (NC) - Here is a
list of some new books of particular
interest to Catholic readers.
“Jews and Christians: Getting
Our Stories Straight,” by Michael
Goldberg, Abingdon Press, $12.95,
224 pp. Professor of St. John’s
University, Collegeville, Minn.,
suggests that the age-old doctrinal
dispute between Jews and
Christians has its source in a clash
of interpretations centered on two
specific Bible stories.
“A Man In Three Worlds,” by
Andre Chouraqui, University Press
of America, $22.50 cloth, $10.75
paper, 234 pp. Autobiography of a
political, religious and literary
person who published a translation
of the Bible.
“Six Modem Martyrs,” by Mary
Craig, Crossroad, $9.95, 271 pp.
Brief biographies of Archbishop
Oscar Romero, Father Maximillian
Kolbe, Martin Luther King Jr. and
others.
“Jesus and Community: The
Social Dimension of Christian
Faith,” by Gerhard Lohfink, Paulist
Press, $9.95, 211 pp.
Professor on Catholic theology
faculty in Germany challenges the
modem church to live out its
message in contrast to the society
around it.
“My Country Right or Wrong?”
by Eileen Flynn, Loyola University
Press, $3.95, 98 pp. Examines the
moral responsibility of the soldier
who may be ordered to push the
nuclear arms button and describes
what constitutes proper human
conduct under these circumstances.
“The Awakening Call,” by James
Finley, Ave Maria Press, $4.95, 155
pp. Practical book that provides
insight into the actual practice of
contemplative prayer.
“Wellsprings,” by Anthony de
Mello, Doubleday, $12.95, 240 pp.
Described as “a book of spiritual
exercises.. .meant to lead from
mind to sense, from thought to
fantasy and feeling.”
“Contemporary Catholic
Theology,” by John Tully Carmody
and Denise Lardner Carmody,
Harper and Row, $9.95, 228 pp.
Extensively revised edition of a
1980 book aimed largely at
undergraduates.
“Sin: A Christian View For
Today,’’ by Father Xavier
Thevenot, Liguori Publications,
$2.95, 80 pp. Translated from the
French. Explores basic questions
about sin using the Bible, church
tradition and findings from human
sciences.
“To Comfort All Who Mourn,”
by Carol Luebering, St. Anthony
Messenger Press, $4.95, 90 pp.
Outlines what a community can do
for its grieving members.
Bibliography included.
“Fresh Bread” by Sister Joyce
Rupp, OSM, Ave Maria Press,
$4.95, 159 pp. Handbook for
spiritual growth shaped for reading
and prayer throughout the year.
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