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PAGE 4 — The Georgia Bulletin, September 14, 1989 STATEMENT Challenged To Reach Out As the tenth anniversary year of the pastoral statement of the United States Catholic Bishops on Handicapped People nears its close it is good to look back on what is happening in the arch diocese for and with people with disabilities. Most recent good news is that we now have a priest trained in American Sign Language and eager to bring the Sacrament of Reconciliation to the hearing impaired. Some parishes are offer ing signed Masses weekly. New churches are de signed to be more accessible to our brothers and sisters in wheelchairs. Healing Masses and religious education for children with disabilities sweeten community at a suburban parish. Churches are recognizing the need to identify and welcome the isolated and are conducting surveys of the disabled hidden within the parish. This will permit them to reach out to parents fighting the odds to see that their special child is recognized in the parish family as both a peer and a blessing. Committees and task forces are in the wings and they are needed, yet sometimes all it takes is one loving person to enable parents, child and community to become ac quainted with one another in the celebration of the Eucharist. It is at the parish level that the challenge of the bishops’ message must be accepted and nourished into a transforming grace. For we all need to recall the love and care Jesus showed to the sick and the lame. We must open wider the doors of our churches, schools and parish halls. We have to discover for ourselves that people whose learning skills may be slow, whose limbs must be reinforced by steel braces and whose frail bodies require activating by high tech wheelchairs have radiance, courage and love to share with those who can acknowledge them as equal partners in the Body of Christ. —RMI RESOUND RESOUND Lobby For EWTN subscribe to, asking them to add EWTN to their program ming. It is offered free of charge to cable systems. To the Editor: Your Catholic faith is a precious gift from God. Please help in spreading a greater understanding of your faith to Catholics and non-Catholics alike in the metro area. EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network) is only a three-hour drive from Atlanta in Birmingham, Alabama and presently on 560 cable systems around the country. Its programs include “Mother Angelica Live,” a nightly rosary, Scripture commentaries, explanatory shows on Catholic beliefs and practices with universal appeal to Catholics and non-Catholics. Currently EWTN is carried on cable systems in Albany, Augusta, Brunswick, Columbus, Dalton, Douglas, and a portion of Lawrenceville, Georgia. Help in our call to evangelize and learn more about our faith. This 24-hour network has a variety of programs to enrich your life. Please contact Mary Ann Lollar, marketing representative for EWTN at 5817 Old Leeds Road, Birmingham, Ala. 35210 for information on coor dinating the metro area into one campaign for receiving EWTN on all local cable systems. Also take the time to write a letter to the cable system you The' & (USPS) 574880 Catholic'Archdiocese of Atlanta Business Offlc* U.S.A. $15.00 680 Wait Paachtraa, N.W. Canada $16.00 Atlanta, Gaorgla 3030S Foraign $17.50 Phona: 800-7832 Most Rev. Eugene A. Marino, S.S.J. Publisher Gretchen R. Reiser Editor Rita Mclnerney Associate Editor DEADLINE: All matarlal for publication must bo received by MONDAY NOON for Thursday'* paper. POSTMASTER: Send Change of Address to THE GEORGIA BULLETIN 601 East Sixth Street, Waynesboro, Georgia 30830 Send all editorial correspondence to THE GEORGIA BULLETIN 680 West Peachtree Street N.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30308 Second Class Postage Paid at Waynesboro, Ga. 30830 Published Weekly except the second and last weeks in June, July and August and the last week in December at 601 East Sixth St., Waynesboro, Ga. 30830 Brenda Petrey Lawrenceville Public Debate Unseemly To the Editor: On the Larry King program of Wednesday evening (Sept. 6) I watched two Catholic priests disgrace their religion not only by their actions, but by their words as well. Whenever an individual stands in front of an audience in the garb of a Catholic priest, he is accepted as being representative of the Catholic Church and should govern himself accordingly. He is not just another citizen with the right of free speech and if he is not aware of that, he should be so advised. Father (Vincent) Miceli is out of order when he expresses his personal opinions while dressed as a priest. Father (George) Stallings has no right to preach love unless he practices it. Is there not a passage in Scripture that comments about “turning the other cheek” or has that passage been eliminated by revision? Cardinal Hickey had his name tossed around by both principals and this should not happen especially by his “brothers in Christ”... Father Stallings’ dilemma is a combination of human, personal and religious concerns. The Catholic Church is big enough and compassionate enough to resolve all items... Please remember all concerned in your prayers. If our Church is to be torn apart let us not be a party to it. John Hoag Jr. Decatur Old Magazines Needed To the Editor: I am a lay missionary volunteer, who is teaching English here in Tanzania. Our students here at the seminary want to learn more about American culture. I want to help them improve their English. You can help us both. Please send us magazines you don’t want anymore. Any magazine that has lots of full color photos will be most ap preciated; the students will even study the ads. So instead of throwing them away, send us your magazines by airmail today to English Club, Arusha Catholic Seminary, P. O. Box 3044, Arusha, Tanzania, East Africa. Anthony Tassinari Arusha, Tanzania The Week In Review NAMES AND PLACES — Retired Bishop John J. Cassata of Fort Worth died Sept. 8 in St. Luke’s Hospital in Houston after undergoing surgery five times within a month. He suf- fered from heart disease. Named the first bishop of Fort Worth on Aug. 22, 1969, Bishop Cassata, 80, had previously served as auxiliary to Bishop Thomas K. Gorman of Dallas- Fort Worth. He retired in 1980. ***** ACROSS THE NATION — Officials of the archdiocese of Cincinnati have disagreed with the pastor of Dayton's Sacred Heart Church who refuses to give Communion to persons he deems are dressed inappropriately. The pastor, Father Roger E. Griese, told the Dayton Daily News of his dress code at the end of August. The code prohibits the wearing of shorts, miniskirts, halters, tank tops and other clothing Father Griese considers immodest. “We are always glad when people come to church,” said Father Steven Walter, archdiocesan worship office director, and “the only time someone would be denied Communion would be if they were a public sinner.” Pastors who believe that someone should not receive Communion would discuss that privately with the individual, Ray George, archdiocesan communication director told the Catholic Telegraph, arch diocesan newspaper. ***** BARNSTABLE, Mass, police averted violence at an Operation Rescue anti-abortion protest by waiting out demonstrators staging a sit-in at an abortion clinic in near by Hyannis on Cape Cod. Police officials said they wished to avoid an incident like that in Brookline, Mass., earlier this year when two policemen and 13 others were injured. Some 60 members of Operation Rescue began their demonstra tion at WomanCare Inc. in Hyannis about 4:30 p.m. Aug. 28, refusing to leave the second-floor waiting room. Another 200 persons gathered outside the building as the demonstra tion began. Barnstable police closed windows and refused the use of rest rooms and drinking water in order to en courage demonstrators to walk out. ***** INTERNATIONALLY — A second Catholic seminary has opened in the Soviet Union, Vatican Radio has announced, quoting a report by the Soviet news agency Tass. Located in Telsiai, Lithuania, the seminary has 23 students. The only other Catholic seminary in the Soviet Union is in Kaunas, Lithuania. Vatican Radio quoted Tass as saying that the Kaunas seminary was insufficient to satisfy the growing need for priests. Lithuania currently has 655 parishes and only 25 priests. Tass also was quoted as saying that 25 new Catholic parishes have been registered, and permission has been granted to remodel seven churches and build six others. SOVIET PRESIDENT Mikhail Gorbachev wants to meet Pope John Paul II during a visit to Rome this November, said Nikolai Lunkov, the Soviet ambassador to Italy. It would be the first meeting between a pope and a Soviet leader. It would come at a time of increasing pressure on the Soviet government from Ukrainians seeking legaliza tion of their Catholic Eastern-rite church. Pope John Paul has called for legal recognition of the church and has also expressed a wish to visit Catholics in the Soviet Union. ***** SCIENTISTS at a Paris symposium said Sept. 7 they would try to prove that the controversial Turin shroud, which many Christians believe bears the imprint of Christ’s body, is not a medieval fake. More than 300 people attended the start of a two-day conference in Paris, the first since Cardinal Anastasio Ballestrero of Turin, Italy, announced last Oct. 13 that carbon-dating tests showed the image on the 14-foot strip of linen was a forgery from the 13th or 14th century. The findings seemed to rule out the possibility that the shroud, which bears the bloodstained image of a beard ed man, was used to wrap Christ’s body after his crucifix ion. But scientists, who for years have been baffled by the yellowing cloth under lock and key in Turin’s cathedral since 1587, are determined the matter should not stop there. “If the scientific world had accepted the shroud as a medieval fake this symposium wouldn’t be happening,” said Antoine Legrand, a French historian who has studied the cloth for more than 50 years. Correction An article in the September 7 issue of The Georgia Bulletin on the friend-of-the-court brief filed by the archdiocese of Atlanta in the case of Larry McAfee incorrectly described the source of definitions of ex traordinary and ordinary means of medical treat ment. The definitions were taken from the 1958 dissertation published at the Gregorian University in Rome of then Father Daniel Cronin, who is now the bishop of Fall River, Mass.
