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The Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta Vol. 25 No. 41 Thursday, November 19, 1987 $12.00 Per Year ATLANTA’S TABLE - A chef at the Cherokee Town Club, above, is among those helping a project that gives prepared food daily to shelters and soup kitchens. Below, Virginia Helms and James Blunt at St. Anthony’s receive food for the parish soup kitchen. Love Gospel, Not American Wealth, Bishop Gumbleton Urges At Seminar BY RITA McINERNEY Catholics are more taken up with the extraordinary wealth of the United States than they are with the Gospel of Jesus, Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton, auxiliary bishop of Detroit, told participants in a conference on the U.S. bishops’ pastoral on the economy Friday, Nov. 13. The bishop celebrated the Eucharist which closed the two-day session presented by the Committee for Continuing Education of the Clergy at the Pierremont Plaza Hotel in Atlanta. The keynote talk Thursday morning was given by Father William J. Byron, S.J., president of the Catholic University of America. Dr. Anthony J. Ipsaro of Denver, Colo., was conference facilitator. The pastoral, “Economic Justice For AH’’ was adopted by the U.S. bishops in 1986. In his homily, Bishop Gumbleton recalled the message of Pope Paul VI to a world food conference in Rome. A positive will is needed not to waste goods which must be for the benefit of all, the pontiff told food experts from around Atlanta's Table Bridges Food Gap BY PAULA DAY West Paces Ferry Road, a street sheltered by overhang ing branches, bordered by sweeping lawns and site of the governor’s mansion is being connected with the soup kit chens, shelters and street people in downtown Atlanta by a six-month-old project, Atlanta’s Table. The project, begun in April, is an effort to collect and distribute prepared food to Atlanta’s needy from the city’s restaurants, caterers, hotels and other sources. The tax- deductible contributions of quality food are picked up and delivered daily to the soup kitchens and shelters of the city. Rob Johnson, project director, explains, “A growing number of people, some of them church people, who attend ed functions in downtown Atlanta, became increasingly aware of the growing problem of homelessness and aware of food being thrown away at these functions.” This increased awareness, coupled with calls to the Atlanta Community Food Bank from restaurant manage ment who did not want to throw away leftover food, sparked the idea for the Atlanta’s Table project, which is sponsored by the Food Bank. The gap between abundance and need is bridged by Yvette Boulware, who drives the Table’s Ford Econoline refrigerated van. The 27-year-old woman is a New York native who came south to attend Spelman College and fell in love with Atlanta. Her deft handling of the van in Atlanta traffic, and her knowledge of back street short-cuts learned through trial and error are critical to the smooth flow of daily pick-ups and deliveries. Many of the donors are located in north Atlanta; the shelters and soup kitchens are downtown or in south Atlanta and so a well-used city map is right up front on the van’s dash. Ms. Boulware’s high energy level comes in handy as she loads pans containing 20 pounds of Cajun red beans onto a shoulder-high rack in back of the van. Her active mind is already planning where best to take the chili and lamb stew picked up earlier. (Continued on page 7) the world. He used the example of Jesus feeding the multitudes with loaves and fishes and the “collection of the scraps remaining” to illustrate that there is enough food in the world to go around. He said that in today’s society, con sumption tends to become an end in itself, with contempt for the needy. “Clearly he has to be talking about the U.S.,” Bishop Gumbleton said. “Talking about you and me. We live in a society where consumption is an end in itself.” The heroes of our society, he said, are the list of 400 richest people carried each year by Forbes magazine. This year’s list reported 26 billionaires in contrast to 14 listed in 1986. “It is grossly evil when they are held up as the great American success story in a world where a vast majority of people have an annual income of $1,000,” Bishop Gumbleton said. “What concerns me about the letter is that the bishops never got down to the root question, never critiqued the (Continued on page 6) Msgr. McDonough Recovering Well Diocesan administrator Monsignor John F. McDonough is in good condition at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta this week as he recovers from surgery. He is expected to be hospitalized for 10 days following a colostomy performed Nov. 12, and then to recuperate at Holy Spirit rectory in Atlanta where he resides. The surgery was performed after Monsignor McDonough was diagnosed as having a malignant tumor in the colon. Father Edward Dillon, who is pastor of Holy Spirit parish, said that the surgery and recovery were proceeding as anticipated by the doctors. “Everything has gone ac cording to the way the doctors predicted it would go and they are very satisfied,” Father Dillon said. “The recovery is on schedule.” After hospitalization, Monsignor McDonough, 73, is ex pected to have a recuperation period of several weeks and then to assume more responsibilities gradually. He has been administrator of the diocese since mid-August. INSIDE THE BULLETIN Older Priests Are Concern Of Bishops Supreme Court Nominee Has "Strong Faith" Page 12 Page 14
