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PAGE 4 — The Georgia Bulletin, October 12,1989 STATEMENT A New Day In Forsyth? The Forsyth County Commissioners distinguished themselves September 25 by voting for the needs of their own elderly poor, even though they had to stand up to the loud and threatening voices of other county residents. By a vote of 3-1, with a fifth commissioner abs taining, they approved a plan for 20 efficiency and one-bedroom apartments for the elderly of moderate and low income. It is a plan sponsored by The Place in Cumming, whose Adrian Dominican sisters have lived and worked in For syth since 1975. Despite the 14-year history of Sister Kathryn Cliatt and Sister June Racicot in Forsyth, and despite the compassion normally extended PEOPLE OF FAITH Of the world’s 5.1 billion population, 4 billion people profess a belief in some religious faith. Percent of world population U CHRISTIANITY 1.7 billion (About one-half are Catholic) 32.9% ■ ISLAM 880 6 million 17.4% ■ HINDUISM 663.5 million 13.1% ■ BUDDHISM 311.8 million 6.1% ■ TRADITIONAL CHINESE RELIGIONS 172.3 million 3.4% ■ TRIBAL RELIGIONS 92 million 1.8% ■ JUDAISM 18.2 million 0.3% ■ OTHERS 167.5 million 3.4% ■ NON-BELIEVERS 1.1 billion 21.6% Source: Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year. 1989. % 1989 CNS Graphics PEOPLE OF FAITH — Approximately 4 billion people in the world adhere to some religious faith. Christians comprise 1.7 billion of these religious believers, larger than any other single group. (CNS graphic) The' Georgia*^ <1 (USPS) 574880 Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta Business Office U.S.A. $15.00 MO Wait Paachtraa, N.W. Canada $15.00 Atlanta, Caorgla 30303 Foraign $17.50 Phona: 883-7332 Most Rev. Eugene A. Marino, S.S.J. Publisher Gretchen R. Reiser Editor Rita Mclnerney Associate Editor DEADLINE: All material 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 30830 Send all editorial correspondence to THE GEORGIA BULLETIN M0 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 Ml East Sixth St., Waynesboro, Ga. 30830 toward the elderly, and despite the very modest size of the proposal, it generated loud and even ugly opposition in Forsyth and was rejected by a county and city planning commission. Although now approved by the county com missioners, it is still an endangered plan, vigorously opposed publicly and behind the scenes by some residents. As is usually the case, no one is opposed to the elderly poor, they just don’t want them in their neighborhood, especially if federal funding will enable the plan to be economically and racially unbiased. Catholic Social Services, which is the um brella agency of The Place in Cumming, is distinguishing itself with the care being given to the elderly of all races and religions at its three personal care homes in northeast Atlanta, East Point and Riverdale. The sisters in Cumming have sponsored an elderly housing plan because for more than a decade they have watched the old being forced to move out of Forsyth County by the lack of af fordable housing. They are not outsiders, but women long concerned about the people of For syth. When international publicity bathed Forsyth County in a glare of unwelcome attention in 1987, some residents said it was unfair to label them as a small-minded bigoted community. Today they have a chance to prove that point. Will they? -GRK Hilda Young What Is Honesty? Honesty is: —Like a muscle kept in shape with little exercises like returning miscounted change, paying for stamps at work, and telling the truth about your children’s ages at the movies. —Taking an unfiltered look at yourself and admitting you have weaknesses to address — from gossiping too much to procrastinating on everything but Publisher’s Clear inghouse million dollar drawing. —Patting yourself on the back once in a while for the good things you do for others, for the gift of self you share. —Telling your 15-year-old daughter she has the fashion sense of a streetwalker. —Apologizing to your 15-year-old daughter for snipping at her when you really were just mad at yourself for dropping a contact lens. —Gently pointing out to the new permanent deacon he would find better homily material around his dinner table than in erudite theology books. —Is not a harpoon or an assault weapon discharged without thought or caring. —Wanting to join in when people criticize the church youth program but saying instead, “Then maybe we had better become involved.” —Risky when you ask your in-laws to smoke on your back porch, not in your house. —Painful when you suggest a dear friend take a hard look at the role of alcohol and drugs in his or her life. —Letting the blunt wisdom of 10-year-olds sink in. Like, “If you jogged a little bit and ate less you wouldn’t weigh so much,” or, “If that family doesn’t have a house, why can’t they come and stay with us for a while?” —Acting upon the truth with love and justice as allies. Copyright (c) 1989 by Catholic News Service The Week In Review NAMES AND PLACES - Jesuit Father Thomas Smolich will use his $39,802 winnings from the television game show “Jeopardy” for a down payment on a $130,000 day care center at Dolores Mission which he runs in Los Angeles. The priest said he hopes the center will be open by next March for 30 children from two to six-years-old. The center will also provide job training for mothers who are studying to be day care providers, he said. “It was fun winning lots of money because I believed in what I was winning it for,” he told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview Oct. 6. PENNY LERNOUX, prominent Catholic journalist and author, died of lung cancer Oct. 8. She was 49. Ms. Lernoux was Latin American affairs writer for the National Catholic Reporter and wrote numerous articles for Maryknoll magazine based in Maryknoll, N.Y. She had been at Maryknoll doing research for a book on the Maryknoll sisters when she became seriously ill and was hospitalized. She was diagnosed as having lung cancer about five weeks before her death. She will be buried in the Maryknoll Sisters’ cemetery after a funeral Mass scheduled for Oct. 11 at the Maryknoll Sisters’ Center. Her most recent book, “People of God: The Struggle for World Catholicism,” was critical of the Vatican for its censure of Latin American liberation theologies. She is survived by her husband, Den nis Nahum, a daughter, Angela, 13; her parents, Maurice and Beatrice Lernoux, of Hemet, Calif., and a sister, Lisa, of San Diego. ***** ACROSS THE NATION — The Rev. Jerry Rose, presi dent of the National Religious Broadcasters, has denied charges of anti-Catholicism made by the Rev. Robert Schuller on “Nightline” on Oct. 5. The accusation is “sim ply not true,” Mr. Rose, an Assemblies of God minister, told Catholic News Service Oct. 6. The group does not admit Catholics, he said, because it is an “evangelical organiza tion with an evangelical statement of faith” that limits membership to those who subscribe to such a statement. Mr. Schuller, a minister of the Reformed Church of America, made the charge as “Nightline” host Ted Koppel sought reactions to the conviction of the Rev. Jim Bakker on 23 counts of fraud and one of conspiracy in connection with fund raising for his PTL Ministry. Mr. Schuller, found ing pastor of the Crystal Cathedral in Hollywood, who said he was not a member of the association, said “There have been some very fine Roman Catholic television ministries and there are today, and they’re excluded because they’re Roman Catholic...I cannot exclude Roman Cathlicism. I cannot be a part of that. I have too much respect for the Roman Catholic Church, for the Jewish faith, as well as for other Protestant faiths. And if the NRB would accept Mother Angelica and other Roman Catholics into their membership, I’d be happy to join today.” Father Bernard R. Bonnot, president of the U.S. bishops’ Catholic Telecom munications Network of America, and Bill Steltemeier, president of Eternal Word Television network, founded by Mother Angelica, said Oct. 6 that they had no interest in joining the NRB. ***** INTERNATIONALLY — A Colombian bishop, Jesus Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve, was kidnapped and killed, reportedly by rebels led by an ex-priest, in a rural area near the Venezuelan border Oct. 2. The body of the 73-year- old bishop of Arauca was found with several gunshot wounds, including two to the head, 24 hours after he was ab ducted with several other persons after being stopped on a country road. It was unclear from reports whether the bishop’s companions — three priests, a seminarian and the Arauca diocesan secretary — escaped or were freed by their captors. Colombian authorities said the killers are members of the rebel National Liberation Army. The unit which kidnapped the clerics was reportedly led by a Spanish ex-priest, Alfredo de la Fuente. The rebel army is headed by another former Spanish priest, Manuel Perez, authorities said. Pope John Paul II on Oct. 4 called Bishop Jaramillo a “new victim of unjustifiable violence.” GHANA has ordered religious bodies to register with the government and provide authorities with financial and other information on demand. The West African country also has banished the Mormons and the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Under the Religious Bodies Registration Act, churches will be required to record the names and other in formation on the members of their governing bodies with the government registrar general’s office. They will also be required to furnish a government Religious Affairs Com mittee with whatever information it requires. The National Commission on Culture has been empowered to reject a church body’s application for registration and the Religious Affairs Committee may recommend against legalizing a religious organization. Registration can be canceled if the government deems a church’s activities contrary to public order, public interest, public safety or public morality.
