Funding for the digitization of this title was provided by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta.
About The Georgia bulletin (Atlanta) 1963-current | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1990)
-— - — . Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta $15.00 Per Year Vol. 28 No. 11 Thursday, March 15, 1990 FAITH JOURNEY — Over 650 people who are journeying toward joining the Catholic Church at Easter came to the Cathedral of Christ the King on recent Sundays with sponsors or godparents for the Rite of Election. Above, Bob Ridgard, RCIA director at St. Patrick’s, Nor- cross, gathers the parish group under their sign for the celebratory mo ment. (Photo by Linda Schaefer) Priests, Nuns Asked To Test AIDS Vaccine LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Los Angeles Archbishop Roger M. Mahony has asked priests and nuns from his arch diocese ages 65 and older to volunteer to be human guinea pigs for a proposed AIDS vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, who formulated a vaccine for polio. Archdiocesan officials confirmed March 11 that Arch bishop Mahony had asked for volunteers in a Jan. 25 let ter sent to 3,500 priests and nuns at the request of Dr. Brian Henderson, an associate of Salk. The letter said 10 volunteers are sought. No human testing has begun, pending approval from California health authorities. The vaccine has been tested on three chimpanzees without signs of infection. Under California law, the state can permit AIDS testing on uninfected individuals without federal approval. The vaccine has already been tested on 100 people with the AIDS virus, and the U.S. government has given approval to test 1,000 more. The vaccine is considered risky because it is the only vac- (Continued on page 6) 'Irish Women Built American Church' BY SISTER MARY ANN WALSH WASHINGTON (CNS) - “Irish women built the American church,” and their impact is still felt today, according to Sister Dolores Liptak, a historian and expert on Catholic im- migrant studies. “The church’s work force may be less Irish now, but it’s still predominantly female,” said the nun, author of “Immigrants and Their Church.” Her book was published by Macmillan in 1988 as part of a six-volume work authorized by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops as the official bicentennial history of the Catholic Church in the United States. “Look around and see who makes up the ■ (Continued on page 13) 650 Elect Fill-Up Cathedral Twice BY MILAM McGRAW PROPST Three o’clock in the afternoon, Sunday, March 4, and Sun day, March 11, the doors of the Cathedral of Christ the King opened wide to welcome over 650 people from 48 parishes and missions in the archdiocese of Atlanta. They came from Athens, from Lilburn, from Marietta, from Stone Mountain. They came from the new mission church, Our Lady of Vietnam, proudly escorted by their pastor, Father Francis Pham Van Phoung. Some came by car from towns all over north Georgia, some came in a big yellow school bus from the parish of Saints Peter and Paul in Decatur, some walked down the hill from Christ the King, some came in wheelchairs. They all filed into the cathedral, two by two, each on the final step of a long journey to participate in the Rite of Election. Standing behind parish signs that helped to arrange the crowd and bring them into the cathedral for seating, the flock showed what the numbers reveal. The Rite of Chris tian Initiation of Adults, used across the archdiocese for those entering the Catholic Church at Easter, is growing. (Continued on page 6)
