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PAGE 12 — The Georgia Bulletin, November 7,1985
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BY JEFF ENDRST
UNITED NATIONS (NC)
— The Holy See has called
for “decisive” cuts in
nuclear arms stocks and
said that “no changes in
strategic doctrines or
policy can replace the
necessity for such reduc
tions."
Sister Marjorie Keenan,
a member of the Holy See
Observer Mission to the
United Nations, told the
political committee of the
U.N. General Assembly
Oct. 29 that the Vatican
repeatedly has called for
concrete steps toward
“disarmament under effec
tive international control.”
“The Holy See will not
cease to repeat that the
arms race must be revers
ed," said Sister Keenan, a
member of the Religious of
the Sacred Heart of Mary.
She cautioned the United
Nations against overlook
ing the fact that “con
ventional weapons have
been and are being used,
causing not only the distrac
tion of human lives but also
the disruption of whole
societies."
Peace must be con
sidered comprehensively in
the modern, increasingly
interdependent world, she
said.
A local war is a threat to
the peace of all states, she
said, and “the Holy See sup
ports agreements at the
level of particular types of
weapons or of armed
forces, as well as those that
set up geographical limits
on the development of
arms, respecting always
the security needs of the
states concerned."
On the subject of nuclear
weapons, she recalled Pope
John Paul II’s radio
message to the people of
Japan last August. The
pope, commemorating the
40th anniversary of the
bombing of Hiroshima, said
that “ the immense pain and
horror and the death that
human beings are capable
of inflicting upon one
another” were “not in
evitable.” The pope said the
world “needs to regain con
fidence in its capacity to
choose moral good over
moral evil."
Sister Keenan also told
the committee that
“modern technological
weaponry has closely link
ed some of the greatest
scientific achievements to
military uses, to secrecy, to
isolation between scientists
in their research."
“This potential alienation
of scientists and of science
itself from the purpose of
serving the good of all
humanity raises serious
questions of a moral
order," she said.
“The scientific revolution
of 40 years ago that began
with the use of atomic
weapons must be turned to
the building of peace," she
said.
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Pope Beatifies Priest Journalist
BY SISTER MARY ANN
WALSH
VATICAN CITY (NC)
— Pope John Paul II has
beatified a Dutch priest-
journalist who died in a
German concentration
camp during World War
II.
The Nov. 3 beatification
of Carmelite Father Titus
Brandsma, who died in
the camp at Dachau, Ger
many, in 1942, highlighted
the weekend in which the
pope also offered Mass for
his predecessors, met
with members of a
religious order celebrat
ing the 150th anniversary
of its foundation, and
recited the rosary over
Vatican Radio.
MARTYR BEATIFIED —
Carmelite Father Titus Brand
sma (right), a Dutch journalist
who was executed in the Nazi
concentration camp at Dachau,
is heatified by Pope John Paul II
during a ceremony in St. Peter’s
Basilica. Father Brandsma was
killed by an injection of acid on
July 26, 1942. (NC photo from
UPI-Reuter and KNA)
The pope beatified
Father Brandsma before
thousands of Carmelites
and Dutch pilgrims who
traveled to Rome to honor
the priest. A Carmelite
spokesmen said Father
Brandsma was the first
journalist beatified in the
church.
The pope recalled the
sufferings of Father
Brandsma at Dachau,
describing the Nazi con
centration camp system
as “the shameful stain of
our century," and said the
priest loved his enemies.
“Not to respond to
hatred with hatred, but
with love is perhaps one of
the greatest tests of a
man’s moral force," the
pope said in his homily.
Father Brandsma was
first imprisoned in the
Netherlands. He was ill
when he entered Dachau.
He died 67 days later, July
26, 1942, in a camp
hospital after being se
verely beaten and in
jected with a lethal drag.
He was 61.
The nurse who ad
ministered the injection
"testified later to always
recalling the priest's
countenance’' and the fact
that he had compassion
for her, the pope said.
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journalistic associations
participated in the Mass
in St. Peter's Basilica.
The basilica was resplen
dent with flowers sent by
the Dutch national
florists' organization.
Father Brandsma's ar
rest in 1942 at his
monastery in Nijmegen,
the Netherlands, came
shortly after he collected
written pledges from the
nation's Catholic news
paper editors to refuse to
print Nazi propaganda.
The pledge said the news
papers would not print
statements on the pro-
Nazi Dutch National
Socialist Party lest the
newspapers “not be con
sidered Catholic any
more" and “perish in dis
honor."
Father Brandsma had
lectured and made radio
statements against the
Nazis even before Ger
man troops invaded the
Netherlands in May 1940.
The pope, who was ac
tive in anti-Nazi resis
tance in Poland as a youth
during World War II. also
praised Father Brandsma
during his noontime
Angelus talk in St. Peter's
Square.
He said Father Brand
sma's life was a witness to
the Gospel and that all
persons are called to do
the same in their own
way. He said the extraor
dinary Synod of Bishops,
Nov. 24-Dec. 8, was called
to help strengthen that
witness.
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