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PAGE 14 — The Georgia Bulletin, January 19, 1989
Faith Of Poor Strong In Laos, Vietnam, Bishop Mulvee Finds
BY KATHLEEN
GRAHAM
WILMINGTON, Del.
(NC) — Bishop Robert E.
Mulvee of Wilmington,
reviewing humanitarian
aid projects in Southeast
Asia, found the sense of
faith of the poor there “so
strong, so palpable, I could
almost reach out and touch
it.”
Bishop Mulvee went to
Laos and Vietnam to
review humanitarian aid
projects administered by
International Cooperation
for Development and
Solidarity, known as
CIDSE from the initials of
its French name. CIDSE is
an umbrella organization
for international Catholic
relief agencies, including
the U.S. bishops’ Catholic
Relief Services.
During the December
trip Bishop Mulvee, a CRS
board member, met with
Coadjutor Archbishop
Francis Xavier Nguyen
Van Thuan of Ho Chi Minh
City, who was recently
released after 13 years of
imprisonment and put
under house arrest, and
Cardinal Joseph Marie
Trinh Van Can of Hanoi,
Vietnam. He conferred
with relief officials and
visited CIDSE projects in
Vietnam and Laos.
Vietnamese “have in
credible stamina in the
face of rebuilding their
lives and their country,”
Bishop Mulvee said in an
interview with The Dialog,
newspaper of the Wilm
ington Diocese.
He said he found his ex
periences “overwhelming”
in a corner of the world so
poor that a little bag of
M&Ms candies was receiv
ed by a Vietnamese child
with a measure of
gratitude and a sense of
wonder that U.S. children
might reserve for far
greater gifts.
The bishop celebrated a
Dec. 8 Mass in Hanoi’s
cathedral, which was
jammed with more than
4,000 people. That liturgy,
“the most moying I’ve ever
witnessed,” marked the
feast of the Immaculate
Conception, which is not a
holy day of obligation in
Vietnam, the bishop said.
Bishop Mulvee’s first
stop was in Laos, where he
and his escorts visited a
rice experimentation pro
ject outside the capital city
of Vientiane and a training
school for teachers of arts
and crafts.
Also on the bishop’s
itinerary in Laos was the
National Institute for
Traditional Medicine, an
alternative to imported
pharmaceuticals. CIDSE
has purchased equipment
for laboratories, and ac
counts for 80 percent of the
aid to that facility.
The bishop also was
given a brief education in
agricultural cooperatives
in a nation where 85 per
cent of the 3.6 million peo
ple are employed as
farmers, about 25 percent
of them in cooperatives.
Bishop Mulvee then trav
eled to Vietnam, stopping
first in Hanoi in the north-
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“Everywhere I went in
Vietnam, I found courtesy
and respect for me and for
the work of CIDSE,” the
bishop said. “At no time
was the Vietnam War men
tioned or did I feel animosi
ty toward me as an
American.”
One Vietnamese woman
asked Bishop Mulvee to
pray for her son, a soldier
who had fought for his
country and disappeared
during the war.
“I prayed for him and for
all the American military
personnel missing in action
in Vietnam,” the bishop
said. “I remembered them
at each Mass I offered
while in Southeast Asia.”
Among CIDSE projects
in northern Vietnam
visited by the bishop were a
plant where intravenous
bottles are manufactured,
a cooperative where blind,
deaf and handicapped peo
ple make boxes, and a shoe
cooperative.
IN VIETNAM — Bishop Robert E. Mulvee of Wilmington, Del., and
Marian Cadogan, a representative of International Cooperation for
Development and Solidarity, pose for a photograph, along with a group
of children, in Hanoi, Vietnam. Bishop Mulvee visited Vietnam and
Laos in December to review humanitarian aid projects. (NC photo
from The Dialog)
Chile Threatens Force To Get Church Files
SANTIAGO, Chile (NC) — The Chilean government has
said police will use force to enter the Santiago archdiocesan
human rights office if the medical records of a suspect in an
assassination attempt are not turned over by Jan. 24.
The Chilean Supreme Court has ordered the Vicariate of
Solidarity, the human rights agency, to deliver records of a
man the government has linked to an attack against Chile’s
president, Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
But the archdiocesan vicar general, .Msgr. Cristian
Precht Banados, reiterated the church decision to withhold
the files, calling the government actions “intimidation.”
“We have always defended human rights, and we have
never supported terrorist acts of any kind,” said Msgr.
Precht.
In November, military court Judge Fernando Torres
Silva ordered the records to be given to the government
after an investigation concluded that a man who received
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have been involved in the assassination attempt. The
suspect had been wounded by police during an attempted
bakery robbery, but Torres Silva said he believed the two
assaults were linked.
Vicariate lawyers won an appeal of the court order,
however, and a higher court admonished Torres Silva for
“abuse of authority.”
However, the Supreme Court upheld the original court
decision and ordered the clinic to hand over the records.
Shortly after the Supreme Court decision was announced,
Auxiliary Bishop Sergio Valech Aldunate of Santiago, who
heads the vicariate, said the decision would require the
vicariate’s clinic to violate professional ethics, which “we
will not do for any motive.”
Bishop Valech said he would go to any length to keep from
turning over the records.
“Here,” he said, referring to the vicariate, “I’m in
charge of the house, and I take the responsibility. We will
not hand over the medical records.”
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