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PAGE 4 — The Georgia Bulletin. March 1. 1990
STATEMENT
They Serve Because Of You
To the more than 150,000 people who make up
the Catholic family in parishes and missions
from Blue Ridge to MiIledgeviIle and Carrollton
to Athens, these are some of the people who
serve in your name:
Patrick Kingery, a seminarian studying in
Baltimore to serve the Church in the future as a
bilingual priest in north Georgia;
David Dye, campus minister for the Catholic
Church at Georgia State University in Atlanta,
who brings the presence of the Church and the
teachings of the Church to the diverse student
body at this urban university;
Mary Ellen Hughes, head of the Office for
Family Concerns, whose days and weekends are
spent directing a variety of essential programs
for families, whether they be engaged couples
on the brink of marriage; single-parent families
struggling with difficulties; remarried families
with step children, or marriages in pain that need
healing;
Betsy Styles and Pat Chapman, more than full
time workers on behalf of the elderly of the arch
diocese, who are on the telephone and out in
RESOUND
NONVIOLENCE AT WORK
To the Editor:
I appreciate Father Don Caron’s review ot my book Ac
tive Nonviolence: A Way of Personal Peace in the Jan. 25
Georgia Bulletin.
The dramatic changes happening in the world just now
reveal the power of active nonviolence to change even the
most hardened political structures. It can have the same ef
fect in our personal lives, as I’ve found time after time. Ac
tive nonviolence is a way ot living that can bring out the
best in ourselves and others.
Pope John Paul II’s remarks during his recent visit to the
African country of Chad seem to reflect the ' nonviolent im
patience” I tried to describe in the last part of the book. The
Holy Father called on the international community to
“recognize the errors, abuses of power, injustices and ex
ploitation” that helped cause the present tragic conditions
of poverty he saw down there. His message to all of us was
in effect to think globally while we continue to act locally.
Gerard A. Vanderhaar
Memphis. Tenn.
MORE ON YOUNG
To the Editor:
Your Jan. 18 article on Andrew Young’s visit to St. Pius X
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parishes, directing new efforts to help the older
generation, supporting the caregivers who are
tired or worried, and brainstorming with
parishioners about how to support the older peo
ple in their midst;
Anne-Marie Meehan, who oversees a staff of
nearly 20 professional counselors, to put the
presence of the Church together with the trained
expertise of mental health counselors for mar
riages, individuals and families.
These six people, whose work has been outlin
ed in recent Georgia Bulletin articles, stand for
many others who could have been profiled if
time and space permitted. All of them are sup
ported by the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal.
All of them work with a commitment of self
that is motivated by their faith and love.
What we want you to know is when you sup
port the Appeal, you are giving to people like
yourselves, who serve on your behalf in the name
of the Church, in the name of Jesus. None of us
can do it alone. All of us would like to do more
and with your support we can.
High School did not include an important piece of informa
tion most of your readers will be interested in: Young is a
strong supporter of so-called “abortion rights. He goes so
far as to declare that peaceful, hymn-singing rescuers sav
ing babies at an abortion mill are the equivalent of “the
segregationists who fought desperately to block black
Americans from access to their rights.’
Could this attitude account for the shocking, often an
ticlerical police violence against unarmed rescuers during
the administration of this peaceful, loving man ?
Peter Harich
Atlanta
MIXED SIGNALS
To the Editor:
In your Feb. 22 issue, there appeared a captioned photo
and a story which clearly left the impression that a former
mayor of Atlanta was an invited speaker at an arch
diocesan black tie dinner.
What we have here is one on whose watch there was an
abysmal doctrine, culminating in'our designation as the
crime capital of the country (FBI); a conniving pro
abortion mentality, directed toward non-violent pro-lifers,
which included police brutality, frivolous and unwarranted
arrests, inordinate detention, excessive bonds, fines and
jail sentences; the proclamation of “Gay Pride Week;” and
the appointment of an acknowledged prostitute to a city
board. Romania’? No, Atlanta.
Regardless of this gubernatorial aspirant’s chosen sub
ject matter, when no Catholic barred his addressing St.
Pius X High School students (January ‘90) and 330 persons
at the archdiocesan dinner (February ‘90), we were told by
key-level officials of responsibility in our archdiocese they
had not known Andrew Young was pro-abortion.
Isn’t it time, in the interest of forming a good conscience
in each of us, and expanding our ability to make sound deci
sions at the polls this election year, that someone more
highly placed in the archdiocese inform all Catholics as to
where this individual stands on matters which Christ
teaches differently - ?
Because such a person unavoidably becomes a role model
to those at our Catholic schools and at archdiocesan func
tions, merely by his presence, don’t we send mixed signals
to Catholics and, indeed, to our non-Catholic brethren as
well?
Shouldn’t we be more sensitive to the souls of the faithful
when we engage speakers? If not, we may also wind up be
ing subjected to the prattle of the Robert Mappelthorpes,
Molly Yards. Marion Barrys and Andres Serranos of this
world.
Don’t you have to like Presbyterians Pro-Life, or were
they simply ahead of their time? Their guest speaker was
Mother Teresa (1988).
Mr, & Mrs. Tim Crow
Decatur
(Editor’s Note: As a point of clarification on the Feb. 22
article, former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young and his wife
attended the Hispanic Gala as the guests of a member of the
archdiocese. Young was spontaneously acknowledged at
the dinner and was not a planned speaker.)
The Week In Review
NAMES AND PLACES — Jesuit Father Albert J. DiUlio,
47, was named 21st president of Marquette University,
Milwaukee, on Feb. 22. He will take office in late summer,
succeeding Jesuit Father John P. Raynor, who will retire
after marking 25 years as Marquette president on Sept. 1.
Father DiUlio has been president of Xavier University in
Cincinnati, Ohio, since 1986. When he arrived as president,
Xavier was in financial straits and troubled by faculty and
board dissension. During his tenure the university ex
perienced a financial turnaround, new construction, new
faculty research projects and new courses. Marquette
enrollment tops 12,000 while Xavier, also Jesuit-run. is
about 6,500.
AROUND THE NATION — In a liturgy celebrating ethnic
diversity, Bishop Charles V. Grahmann was welcomed as
coadjutor of the diocese of Dallas on Feb. 21. Bishop
Grahmann, 58, founding bishop of the diocese of Victoria,
Texas, will become the bishop of Dallas upon the retire
ment of Bishop Thomas Tschoepe. who will be 75 Dec. 17.
He has been ordinary since 1969. In his homily, Bishop
Grahmann challenged the Catholics of Dallas to strive for
unity amid diversity and to bring their talents to the Lord’s
table He said he was concerned about Christians “who
wage wars and struggles” that confuse and divide. The in
stallation was held in an overflowing Cathedral Santurario
de Guadalupe in downtown Dallas.
CARDINAL JOHN O’CONNOR of New York has confirm
ed reports that he met with Ivana Trump, who is involved in
highly publicized divorce proceedings against her
billionaire developer husband, Donald Trump. The
meeting, held Feb. 16 at the cardinal’s office, lasted 45
minutes. The cardinal, speaking to reporters Feb. 18,
declined to discuss the conversations but said he would be
available to meet with Donald Trump if he wished. Mrs.
Trump is a Catholic; her estranged husband is Protestant.
*****
INTERNATIONALLY — Chernobyl’s nuclear power
plant is still “shooting out radiation daily,' ’ according to an
American woman who acompanied 98 tons of relief supplies
to the Ukraine. The cargo included $371,000 worth of
medicines from the New York-based Catholic Medical Mis
sion Board. Nadia Matkiwsky, of Short Hills, N.J., a
spokeswoman for the Children of Chernobyl Relief Fund
Foundation, told Catholic News Service the situation is still
“desperate.” A reactor meltdown at the plant in April, 1986,
spewed nuclear fallout over the Ukraine, parts of
Czechoslovakia, Poland, Scandinavia and the Soviet Baltic
states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Mrs. Matkiwsky
and five others with the relief fund left Kennedy Interna
tional Airport Feb. 10 in a huge Soviet military cargo plane
with medical and food supplies. She returned Feb. 19. While
in the Ukraine, she said, she saw the “dead zone” around
the reactor from a distance of about two kilometers, or 1.2
miles. The party also went with a convoy of trucks that took
some supplies to Lvov for use in western Ukraine where
many children and families have been relocated. Food is
scarce because of the persistence of the radiation and there
is a shortage of water because it was being used to cook a
Chernobyl reactor back in'use, she said
IN LONDON, controversy has been renewed in the
Church of England over a report on pastoral care for
homosexuals, and a member of Parliament has called for
the resignation of Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canter
bury. The report, prepared by a seven-member group
assigned by the House of Bishops, urges the church to con
sider both its traditional condemnation of homosexual
behavior and the experience of homosexual Christians.
Although it makes no recommendations, the document is
seen as a plea for a more tolerant attitude toward homosex
uals in the church. One section says So often the choice
(for homosexuals) seems to be between loneliness and the
risks of casual clandestine relief, and living in what the
church sees as sin but experienced as companionship and
love.” Archbishop Runcie said the report was "not an ac
cepted policy document” and was being considered by a
panel of bishops. Conservative Party member of Parlia
ment Harry Greenway said the archbishop should resign
because “he should have repudiated - the report) outright
and without qualification.”
ABIDJAN Catholic cathedral was the scene of a violent
clash Feb. 24 between police and students occuping the
edifice in a demonstration for reforms. The turmoil, accor
ding to some observers, reflects the growing political
unrest in French-speaking West Africa, and is bolstered by
the example of political change in Eastern Europe. The
200-odd students occupying St. Paul’s Cathedral in the
Ivory Coast capital demanded establishment of a multipar
ty state and better living conditions. Some said the govern
ment has failed to provide scholarship money since last fall
and interruptions of water and electricity at the National
University of Abidjan made study impossible. The incident
was the latest in a series of protests against the 30-year-rule
of President Felix Houphouet-Boigny
-GRK