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PAGE 2 — The Georgia Bulletin, November 26,1987 New Director Of Development Assumes Funding, Liaison Role BY GRETCHEN REISER John Aisthorpe, the arch diocese’s first director of development, is concerned that the growth of the Catholic population be paralleled by the necessary financial support and plan ning to undergird and chan nel that growth. Aisthorpe, who began the new position in July, had a 24-year career in the U.S. Navy from 1960 to 1984, when he retired from the military. A graduate of Notre Dame University in business administration, his service in the Navy in cluded intelligence work, active duty in Vietnam where he served as an ad visor to the South Viet namese Army and assign ments in Washington, D C. and Atlanta as Reserve In telligence Program Of ficer. A native of Memphis, Tenn. and an Atlanta resi dent since 1978, he and his wife, Mary Kay, have been presidents of the Home and School Association at St. Joseph’s parish in Marietta and he is a former presi dent of the Atlanta Notre Dame Club. Aisthorpe said his naval career emphasized plan ning and communications, skills he hopes to use to assist parishes and the archdiocese in his new post. While economic condi tions indicate that the arch diocese will continue to ex perience unprecedented growth in the Catholic population, communication both between parishes and the archdiocese, and out side the church to draw support for the church’s ministries, will be more and more critical, he said. Among his concerns will be encouraging financial support by Catholics for the church and church ser vices, providing a part of the needed information as long-range plans are con sidered and weighed, and serving as a resource and line of communication on development to parishes and schools. Eventually he foresees working to en courage planned giving to the Church in such forms as wills and bequests, a form of giving not often considered. An obvious supporter of Catholic education, whose four children went to Catholic elementary and high schools, and a booster of the Village of St. Joseph who rallied the Notre Dame Club to build a ballfield for the facility, Aisthorpe said he has spent much of his time in the first months studying the task of diocesan development and planning and learning from his colleagues in other dio ceses. $10.00 off BRAKE JOB Life Time Warranty 1459 Scott Boulevard Decatur, Georgia 30030 378-1400 With This Coupon $5.00 off TUNE-UP or PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE .Offer Jx£ires_ 12/3J/87. $5.00 Off OIL CHANGE plus FILTER 'pOiOt ZueUify s4t A (food “Piice POINSETTIAS POINSETTIAS POINSETTIAS POINSETTIAS Direct Grower to Consumer Have a New Experience: Visit Our Greenhouses For Your Poinsettias. MORRISON FARMS, INC. 3086 Osborne Rd. 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With the “tremendous growth potential and de facto growth” in the arch diocese, those managing the finances of the arch diocese have become in creasingly aware of the need “to be maximizing the resources we have — also, wherever possible creating new sources” of income, said Father Peter Ludden, chancellor. The creation of the new post was in itself a sign of the growth, Father Ludden said, since it expressed the recognition that financial needs of the future needed the full-time attention of one individual who could help the archdiocese and parishes in this area of financial development. John Aisthorpe — First Archdiocesan Development Director. Pope Asks Bishops To Seek Hurt, Alienated Catholics BY JOHN THAVIS VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II en couraged bishops from England and Wales to reach out to fallen-away Catho lics, including those alienated or hurt by their experience in the church. 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Send resume to: Mr. Robert Kattus, Jr. c/o St. Francis Xavier Church P.O. Box 130669, Xavier Circle Birmingham, AL 35213 England, and Cardiff, Wales. The bishops were on their “ad limina" visits to . the Vatican, made every five years by heads of dioceses. The pope blamed “the pressures of modern living” and an "atheistic" secularism for the fall-off in religious practice. He said the truths of church doc trine and the sacraments “are often replaced by in dividual religious senti ment or a vague and il lusory search for the divine or the sacred." “Some would seek to justify themselves by claiming that one can be a good Christian apart from the church. With Scripture and tradition, however, we must insist on the un breakable bond that exists between Christ and his church,” the pope said. Others have been hurt or alienated by a member or minister of the church. The pope told the bishops that “we who are shepherds must go in search of these sheep." 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