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PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, May 2,1985
FRIENDLY TIGER - Angele
Cauchon wears her homemade
“Tiger Tuxedo” while directing cars
into the St. Boniface-St. Vincent
parking lot near Tiger Stadium in
Detroit. The parish adds
much-needed income while
providing parking space for baseball
fans in its 500-car lot at $4 per car
space. (NC Photo by Tom Ewald)
Three Men Arrested In S.C.
With Anti-Catholic Posters
BY JOHN E. CONICK
FLORENCE, S.C. - Three men from
Arkansas were arrested here April 20 and
released the following day after paying a
$108 fine for vandalism which consisted
of placing anti-Catholic posters on vacant
buildings.
Police found 10 - 15 posters plastered
on six buildings in the area which were
similar to ones appearing throughout
the southeast as well as other locations
throughout the United States and
Canada.
Arrested were Martin L. Howard, 34,
of Dyer, Ark.; Dalen B. Garris, 36, and
Theodore Franckiewies, 22, both of
Alma, Ark., according to police reports.
After receiving several calls from
concerned citizens, police were able to
locate the individuals after leaving one
location, according to a police
spokesman. Police found numerous
posters in their automobile.
Police said no organizational affiliation
by the men was determined. However,
police in Canada believe the signs come
from the Tony and Susan Alamo
Christian Foundation. Canadian police
are “99 percent sure” the posters come
from the foundation based in Alma, Ark.
Posters found here allege the Vatican
controls everything from the Mafia to the
telephone companies. Another type of
poster is beginning to appear linking the
Church to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
Capt. Wayman Munford of the
Florence Police Department said the
posters were pasted on the building in
such a manner making it hard to get them
off. Members of St. Anthony parish here
took them down.
Tony Alamo, head of the foundation,
has denied responsibility for the
anti-Vatican posters but said he agrees
with their content. He said he would
deny involvement even if he were the
source because “the Vatican doesn’t
admit things.”
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Worldwide Women's Group Urges
Participation In Church Decisions
BY SISTER
MARY ANN WALSH
NC News Service
Many women leave the
church because the church
is insensitive toward their
desire to “participate
fully” in its “life and
mission,” an international
Catholic women’s
organization has told the
Vatican Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith.
In a confidential report
sent to the congregation in
1982, the World Union of
Catholic Women’s
Organizations also urged
admitting lay women to
the permanent diaconate
and establishing education
programs for priests on the
role of women in the
church.
The organization
represents Catholic
women’s groups with a
combined membership of
30 million.
National Catholic News
Service recently obtained a
copy of its report.
On April 22, 1985, the
organization’s board of
directors, meeting in
Cologne, West Germany,
urged member groups to
pursue a program of study,
reflection and action on
the report in order to give
input to the 1987 world
Synod of Bishops on the
laity.
The 17-page report
criticizes the church on
several points, including
the scarcity of women in
decision-making positions,
refusal to permit girls to
serve at the altar, and
refusal to admit women to
the diaconate.
The international
organization is “deeply
concerned with the fact
that the church is losing a
considerable number of
women and will continue
to do so unless more
sensitivity is shown
towards women’s concerns
and aspirations to
participate fully in the life
and mission of the
church,” the report said.
It cited examples of
discrimination toward
women including lack of
‘‘proportionate
participation in the
decision-making processes
in the life of the church.”
“We cannot ignore the
relative absence of women
from advisory or
decision-making bodies or
positions in the church,”
the report said. The
absence of women cannot
be justified “on the
grounds of their
inexperience in certain
kinds of church affairs or
on their lack of certain
skills,” the organization
said.
It also cited “a need to
review the question of
altar girls,” and said that
the organization “is at a
loss how to tell a young
altar girl that her service is
no longer permitted
simply because she is not
male.”
“The recognition of the
ministry of young girls
might help to avoid the
current loss to the church
of many young women,”
the report said.
The world union, which
represents womeh in 111
nations, also reported that
in many countries, such as
Switzerland, Great Britain,
Germany, Canada and the
United States, women “are
now fulfilling all the
functions of a deacon.”
‘‘The permanent
diaconate has been
reinstated for lay men,”
the report said. “It would
seem that the time has
come to admit lay women
also to the permanent
diaconate.”
The report also
criticized exclusively male
liturgical language.
“Many women feel
alienation and rejection
because of the use of
exclusive language in some
church documents and
liturgies,” it said, “even
though most are aware
that there is no intention
of excluding or rejecting
them.”
The report urged that
education programs for
priests be changed “to
include study of the
rightful role and dignity of
women in the church” and
added that they “should
be conducted by women
as well as men.”
The need for
affirmation of unmarried
women and childless
married women also was
underscored in the report.
“The woman who is
single, whether by choice
or circumstances, should
have positive affirmation
of her vocation,” the
report said.
‘‘The attention
constantly directed either
to the family with children
or to Religious seems to
treat her as peripheral to
the life of the church,” it
added. “The married
woman without children
often has a similar
problem.”
Membership in the
international organization,
founded in 1910 and
headquartered in Paris,
includes, in the United
States, the National
Council of Catholic
Women and, in Canada,
the Catholic Women’s
League.
The world union is
recognized by the Vatican
as an international
Catholic organization.
Eighth Grader At St. Jude's
Takes Oratorical Prize
Cathy Miller, an eighth
grade student at St. Jude
the Apostle School, Sandy
Springs, was named first
place winner of the
Archdiocesan Oratorical
Contest held April 23 at
St. Pius X High School.
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They are Sisters consecrated to
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Rome, Ga. 30161
The competition was
sponsored by the Modem
Woodmen of America for
students from schools in
the Archdiocese.
Topic of the oratorical
contest was “Explorers
and Their Achievements.”
Judges for the final
competition were: Sister
Patricia Clune, Mrs. Sue
Harper, and Thomas
Brassington.
Cathy received a trophy
and a $50 U.S. Savings
Bond for her achievement.
Her school also received a
trophy. Second place
winner, Laura Neal of St.
Joseph School in Marietta,
and third place winner,
Shameka Thomas of Sts.
Peter and Paul School in
Decatur, also received
trophies.