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PAGE 4 — The Georgia Bulletin, September 7,1989 STATEMENT DAILY BREAD — Young people await their dinners at a camp in Budapest, Hungary, established by German and Hungarian Catholics to assist East Germans fleeing their communist country. Thousands escaped to more reform-oriented Hungary. Hilda Young On The First Day Of School It is not fair that mothers across the country are accused of doing handsprings because the school year is beginning. I know several mothers. And I’d be surprised if many of them could do a respectable somersault, much less a hand spring. “I did try to jump in the air and click my heels while the bus was driving off,” admitted Suzanne this morning at the annual T.H.I.S. (Thank God It’s School) breakfast meeting of the Caffeine Club. “But my feet never left the ground.” Liz laughed with a doughnut hole in her mouth. “Mmm- mph. You must have looked like a take of a Toyota commer cial.” “Come to think of it,” replied Suzanne, “I did have the urge to sing ‘Who Could Ask for Anything More?”’ I nodded. “Oh, I could ask for someone to rake the motor cycle parts off the lawn, sandblast the garage floor and resurface the bathroom sink, but I’ll settle for listening to the refrigerator catch its breath.” “Yours too?” said Liz. “The only thing mine said more this summer than ‘What’s there to eat?’ was ‘I’m bored,’ and ‘Will you drive me to ...’” She made a level motion with her hand that indicated “fill in the blank.” “I’m going to miss my little Emily so much,” sniffled Carla. We had forgotten Carla. How insensitive could we have been? Her 6-year-old had left for her first full day of first grade. The* <( (USPS) 574880 'S Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta Business Offic* U.S.A. $15.00 600 West Peachtree, N.W. Canada $15.00 Atlanta, Georgia 30308 Foreign $17.50 Phone: 888-7832 Most Rev. Eugene A. Marino, S.S.J. Publisher Gretchen R. Keiser Editor Rita Mclnerney Associate Editor DEADLINE: All moterlal for publication must be received by MONDAY NOON for Thursday's paper. POSTMASTER: Send Change of Address to THE GEORGIA BULLETIN 601 East Sixth Street, Waynesboro, Georgia 3083(1 Send all editorial correspondence to THE GEORGIA BULLETIN 680 West Peachtree Street N.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30308 Second Class Postage Paid at Waynesboro, Ga. J83u Published Weekly except the second and last weeks In Juno, July and August and the last week in December eat 601 East Sixth St., Waynesboro, Ga. 30830 “Did you see the way her lip was quivering when she stop ped and looked back at me from the top step of the bus?” Carla asked tearily. “Then how she pressed her nose to the window and waved like a little rag doll until the bus was out of sight?” It brought back memories of my own “babies” leaving home for school after summers of picking berries together, making cobblers, visiting grandma, grocery shopping, pull ing weeds, going to the swimming pool, playing Old Maid. It brought back memories of the days when mom was at least as much fun to be with as their buddies. I wondered if Suzanne and Liz had similar thoughts. I detected moist smiles. Suzanne put her arm around Carla. “It’s OK, honey. She’ll be home pretty soon.” “I know,” cried Carla. “But she’s growing up. Know what I mean?” We did. (Copyright (c) 1989 by Catholic News Service) RESOUND Headline Misleading To the Editor: The Georgia Bulletin article (Aug. 24, 1989), about Jerusalem House was a superb account of the efforts of a coalition of religious and civic groups and individuals who are concerned about the plight of people with AIDS who have no place to live. Your readers may want to know that the headline, “Dwelling To House Street PWAS”, is misleading because the goal of Jerusalem House is not so much to take people off the streets, as to prevent them from having to turn to the streets, or have to worry that they may have that as their only place to live. While Jerusalem House is intended for all people with AIDS who need a place to live, we anticipate that most of our residents will be those individuals who, because of AIDS, have lost their jobs, their insurance and their homes. Jerusalem House will be a home — temporary for some, long-term for others; it will be for people who today may be our neighbors, our co-workers, our relatives and our parishioners. We welcome the support of the Georgia community and our readers of the Georgia Bulletin. Sister Valentina Sheridan, R.S.M. Jerusalem House Board of Directors Atlanta The Week In Review NAMES AND PLACES — Sister Bernadette Kenny, a member of the Medical Missionaries of Mary, was recently cleared of a charge that she had violated a court order by impeding coal traffic to show support for the coal miners strike in Dickenson County, Va. She was among 16 people arrested July 12 for driving slowly and allegedly delaying Pittston Coal Co. trucks. This strike tactic has been used by the United Mine Workers in their five-month-old strike. The nun has admitted sympathy with the strikers, but denied she was assisting them. Rather, she said that she was delivering medicine as part of outpatient services from St. Mary’s Hospital in Norton, and had to drive the oversize vehicle over the mountain roads. Trooper James Elmor, who ordered her vehicle pulled over, testified that Sister Kenny was wearing a camouflage armband and told him, “The Lord had willed her to participate in sit-downs, but she didn’t have time to be arrested.” Camouflage material has been used among the strikers and their sympathizers as a sign of solidarity. Judge Jackson Kiser dismissed the charge in U.S. District Court of Abingdon, Va., ruling that the government had failed to prove that the truck behind her Winnebago motor home belongs to Pittston. BISHOP SAM C. JACOBS was installed Aug. 24 as the 10th bishop of the Diocese of Alexandria, La. Active in the charismatic renewal movement, he is believed to be the first bishop of Lebanese descent ordained a Latin-rite bishop in the U.S. Bishop Jacobs called on Catholics in the central Louisiana diocese to place Jesus first. “Unless Jesus is Lord of my life, I will not be a full person,” Bishop Jacobs said. “No matter what I do ... it is nothing unless Jesus Christ is Lord.” SISTER IDA ROBERTINE BERRESHEIM has been elected the new general superior of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Sister Katherine Hanley is the new assistant general superior of the St. Louis, Mo.-based congregation whose members staff positions in the Atlanta archdiocese. ***** ACROSS THE NATION — Hawaii State Health Planning and Development Agency has approved Hawaii Planned Parenthood’s request to move to another site in Honolulu. The move was expected to take place around Sept. 1. Planned Parenthpod and the diocese have battled since 1987, when the organization first proposed performing abor tions at its office in a building situated on land owned by the diocese. The diocese lost challenges to the state’s process that grants certificates of need for new medical facilities. The abortions started in November 1988. Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario said the diocese’s two other lawsuits regarding the abortion clinic would be dropped “after the relocation has been completed.” RENOVATION has begun on a former Catholic grade school in Pittsburgh to convert it into a residence for single parent families. Work on the residence, scheduled to be finished next spring, will cost an estimated $1.3 million. The building will be named the Dorothy Day Apartments after the Catholic social activist and writer who lived among the poor. Funding has come from Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority, state funds, foundations, loans and bonds. The former Corpus Christi school closed in 1970 and had been vacant since 1980 after the Pittsburgh Board of Education moved its offices from the building. ***** INTERNATIONALLY — Dutch Catholic businessman Piet Derksen will give more than $300 million to evangeliza tion and charitable projects of the Catholic Church worldwide from the sale of his controlling interest in recreational centers in northern Europe. A Dutch daily newspaper De Volksrant reported 665 million guilders ($300.71 million) was to go to Living Water, one of two Dutch Catholic foundations founded by Derksen. It finances Catholic charitable, vocational and evangelization work worldwide. After being healed from what was diagnosed as an incurable illness, a healing Derksen attributed to the prayers of his wife, Gertrude, the Dutch tycoon reportedly promised God in 1980 that he would give all his money to the poor. POPE JOHN PAUL II has asked world religious leaders to pray that “war be banished from every part of the world” and that it “disappear as an instrument for resolv ing conflicts.” He made his appeal in a taped message televised via a giant screen in Royal Castle Square in War saw, Poland Sept. 1 to a gathering of international religious leaders commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Ger man invasion of Poland, which sparked World War II. In the text of the message from the Vatican press office, he; said, “The invasion of Poland began a long and painful period of suffering for the population — for the Christians,, for the Jews and for everyone.” Religious leaders must con vince people “to follow the road of dialogue and negotia tions which respect the rights of everyone,” the pope said. The anniversary ceremonies were boycotted by numerous; Jewish leaders because of a dispute over a Carmelite con vent at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz.
