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PAGE 13 — The Georgia Bulletin, March 12, 1987 NIGHT OUT — Rep. Joseph Kennedy, D-Mass., talks with reporters before bedding down for the night on a heating grate behind the Library of Congress in Washington. Politicians and Hollywood celebrities spent the night on cold streets in the nation’s capital to call attention to the plight of America’s homeless. Joining Kennedy are, from left, House Majority Whip Rep. Tony Coelho, D-Calif., Kennedy’s wife Sheila, and Rep. George Miller, D-Calif. (NC photo from UPI) NCCB President Speaks Out For Archbishop Marcinkus WASHINGTON (NC) - The president of the Na tional Conference of Catholic Bishops has ex pressed his "personal and fraternal support" for American Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, president of the Vatican bank, following reports of the issuance of an arrest warrant for Arch bishop Marcinkus in Italy. The NCCB president. Archbishop John L. May of St. Louis, described Arch bishop Marcinkus as “a man of integrity and hones ty." He also criticized some hews coverage of the con troversy and cautioned against a "rush to judg ment." Archbishop May and Archbishop Marcinkus were seminary classmates in Chicago and were or dained together in 1947 by Cardinal Samuel Stritch of Chicago. '' 1 wish to extend words of personal and fraternal sup- ^S/aorris jfirv S$/asUas METRO WIDE DELIVERY MAJOR CREDIT CARDS BY PHONE ( />-, AlWMkY* *WMCT 1 ftowm m nfWjP ^ ™ —— 11 FLOWER SHOPS 255-7127 5975 Roswell Rd. Hammond Festival Center 565-2217 1401 Johnson Ferry Rd. Merchants Festival port at this difficult mo ment to Archbishop Paul Marcinkus," Archbishop May said in a statement issued March 6 by the NCCB in Washington. "While I cannot pretend to be in possession of all of the facts pertaining to the present situation, I do know Archbishop Marcinkus to be a man of integrity and honesty," the St. Louis prelate said. • ‘The media caricature of him which has sometimes appeared in accounts of re cent events bears no resemblance to the reality of Paul Marcinkus as a per son of high moral charac ter," he said. "I feel confident that a full disclosure of the facts would absolve Archbishop Marcinkus of any suspi cion of wrongdoing," he said. "Pending that, I would suggest that the pre sent rush to judgment be suspended as a matter not only of charity but justice Are Your Loved Ones Protected? SIMPLE WILL *75; COUPLES *99 Call For Appointment 371-8233 CYNTHIA L. HORTON Attorney At Law Most legal matters handled Saturday hrs. by appt. 3400 Peachtree Road, N.E Atlanta, Ca 30326 (404) 261-7212 “The only insurance people you ’ll ever need” Benedictine Physicist Wins Templeton Prize BY TRACY EARLY NEW YORK (NC) - Benedictine Father Stanley L. Jaki, a world authority on physics and this year's winner of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, said March 5 that people who want public- schools to teach the biblical doctrine of creation as science are turning the Bible "inside out." To be consistent, said Father Jaki, a distinguish ed professor at Seton Hall University, anyone who in terprets the first page of Genesis as science must treat every page of the Bible as science. “Nobody can have it both ways,” he said. Quoting St. Augustine, Father Jaki said that the Bible tells not how the hea vens go but how to go to heaven. The Bible is a message of salvation, not science, he said. Father Jaki made the remarks at a New York news conference called to announce his receipt of the 1987 Templeton Prize, established by Presbyter ian investment counselor John J. Templeton to honor individuals who have pio neered new ways of understanding God. Moth er Teresa received the first Templeton award in 1973. Templeton made a point of establishing the award’s monetary value above that of the Nobel Prizes or others and calls it "the world's largest annual prize." It is currently 220,000 English pounds, equivalent to about $330,000. The priest will receive the prize in May from Prince Philip at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England. Father Jaki, who has published books and ar ticles on the relation of science to theology and philosophy, said the method used by science made it in capable of saying "any thing whatsoever" about creation. Science, he said, tells us about processes, but not about how things originally came out of nothing. All that scientists are "entitled to tell us," Father Jaki said, is that today they can trace the universe back 17 billion to 18 billion years. But he said they "cannot spot a first moment." Father Jaki is credited with doing significant work in renewing the traditional arguments for the ex istence of God, particularly the cosmological argu ment. He said the critique of this argument by the philosopher Immanuel Kant was thought to have discredited it, but that more recent developments in scientific theory had offset Kant’s argument. In some little-known letters, Albert Einstein acknowledged that "priests" could use his relativity theory. Father Jaki, a native of Hungary who went to Rome for study in 1947 and then to the United States to teach in 1950, said his prize money would be used by his order to aid other Hungarian Benedictines who are in ex ile. Father Jaki has been at Seton Hall, in South Orange, N.J., since 1965. Currently, he is also a visiting fellow at the In stitute of Advanced Studies and the Center for Theological Inquiry, both in Princeton, N.J.
