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Women's Council Installs New Officers For 1989-90 PAGE 7 — The Georgia Bulletin, August 24,1989 BY JEROME KRAMER The combined leadership day and annual convention of the Atlanta Archdioce san Council of Catholic Wo men culminated on Satur day, Aug. 12, with Mass celebrated by Archbishop Eugene A. Marino, SSJ and the installation of the Coun cil's new officers and com mission chairs. The choir of Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Decatur provided the music for the Mass, ap propriately concluding a well-orchestrated two days. Besides regular busi ness, the Council offered a luncheon and fashion show, and workshops on the legis lature and on family and community affairs. The focus of the arch bishop’s homily was faith. “Faith is the indispensable condition for salvation. It’s the indispensable condition if God is to work in us and through us,” he said. “We know that we are to be heralds of the Church. ... and yet we don’t act on what we know by super natural faith with the same conviction, with the same degree of intensity, with the same emotions, as we act on the things that we know and accept on the basis of natural faith.” “Now is the acceptable time; now is the moment of salvation," he continued. “It’s a realization that in this present moment — the only moment over which I have dominion..that with ♦ postleship of rayer The September intention of Pope John Paul II is for youth’s fidelity to the Gospel values. An expansion of the intention prays that young people, inspired by the Gospel, realize their ideals of liberty, human progress and the common good. Values held in esteem by many, and especially the young, include the dignity of the human person, truth, personal freedom, authenticity, justice, friendship and peace. 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I can be ready for this moment.” At the end of Mass, outgoing Council President Sandy Odendahl handed a red rose to each of the new officers and commission chairs as they accepted their responsibility to work in the upcoming year. The new president is Betty Herbert of River- dale. The executive vice president is Dee Flanagan of Marietta with Anne Moore of Loganville as first vice president, Dona An derson of Duluth as second vice president, and Ruth Perkins of Stockbridge as third vice president. Jane Walker of Doraville is recording secretary, Helen Murtha of Morrow is cor responding secretary and Bertha Hunt of Stone Mountain is treasurer. During the legislative in formation workshop, State Sen. Joseph Kennedy, who is on the appropriations committee and who is mak ing a bid for lieutenant governor, explained the budget appropriations pro cess, pointing out that next year’s budget will be in ex cess of $8 billion. He em phasized that personal con tact with legislators, and contact by the AACCW as a group with legislators is the most effective way of raising issues of concern. Both Kennedy and lob byist Cheatham Hodges, who also spoke, praised the AACCW for its impact on legislation in the past, men tioning child abuse legisla tion and legislation on por nographic and obscene materials. AACCW OFFICERS — Following a closing Mass, new officers of the AACCW gather with Archbishop Marino. Sandy Odendahl, far right, front row, is the outgoing president. New president is Betty Herbert, back row, third from left. Pope Deplores Colombian Slaying BY JOHN THAVIS VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II con demned as “unworthy of human beings” the assassination of a Colom bian anti-drug campaigner who was the country’s leading presidential can didate. At the same time, the pope urged Colombians to support their government’s drive against drug traf fickers. The pope, who was visiting Spain, made the comments Aug. 20 in a message to the papal nun cio in Colombia, Arch bishop Angelo Acerbi. A text of the message was released at the Vatican. “The sad news of the brutal assassination of Luis Carlos Galan by drug traf fickers fills me with sor row,” the pope said. He said the killing, reportedly by several masked gunmen at a cam paign rally Aug. 18, was a “merciless” act. “I ask God that acts such as this, unworthy of human beings, will never be repeated,” the pope said. He appealed “in the name of God” to the criminals involved to “re nounce these inexplicable and abominable gestures that have cost so much blood and tears.” “I am certain that the Colombian people and their authorities will take just and adequate action to eradicate definitively the scourge of drugs, which creates so many victims,” the pope added. Galan, 46, was an outspoken opponent of the drug trade. 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