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The
Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
Vol. 28 No. 18
Thursday, May 3,1990
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TEARFUL MOMENT — Michelle Dimoll
(left) and Joseph Cook of Atlanta and Sharon
Gross of Virginia gather at a cross erected on
the Ellipse in Washington April 28 during Rally
for Life ’90. The cross, part of a “cemetery of
the innocents,” represents an abortion per
formed in the United States. (CNS photo from
UPI)
• 7 Pastors Given New Assignments
Archbishop Eugene A. Marino, SSJ, announces the
following pastorate assignments, effective Thursday, June
14, 1990:
Father Edward A.J. Danneker ... presently pastor at the
parish of Saint Mary, Rome, to pastor of the parish of Saint
Luke, Dahlonega.
assignment as pastor, at the parish of Saint Mary, Rome.
Father Patrick J. McCormick ... presently pastor at the
parish of Sacred Heart of Jesus, Hartwell, and dean of
the northeast rural deanery, has been granted permission
to enter active duty as chaplain with the U.S. Navy for a
period of three years effective July 1, 1990.
Rally For Life
Draws 250,000
BY LIZ SCHEVTCHUK
WASHINGTON (CNS) — A massive crowd of pro-lifers
braved heat, long trips and toe-to-toe gridlock caused by
their own turnout to rally against abortion in Washington
April 28.
At the Rally for Life ’90, a crowd estimated at 225,000 to
250,000 by U.S. park police and at twice that number by the
event’s organizers heard President Bush, Vice President
Dan Quayle, other politicians and such religious leaders as
Cardinal John J. O’Connor of New York denounce abortion
and urge continued efforts to combat it.
According to Jane Walker at the Georgia Right to Life of
fice, an estimated 1,000 people from Atlanta attended the
event. Most traveled in nine chartered buses and private
cars although others made the trip by air or train, she said.
Filling virtually every inch of space around the
Washington Monument, the crowd included men and
women, teen-agers and children of various races and
religions — on blankets, in lawn chairs, and in some in
stances, in the waters of the Reflecting Pool that fronts the
Lincoln Memorial. Temperatures reached 86 degrees
Fahrenheit, prompting admonitions from rally organizers
to participants to avoid dehydration.
The Washington-based National Right to Life Committee,
sponsor of the rally, said alter the event that the 569,000
crowd count calculated by news media stationed in the top
of the Washington Monument was probably a better atten
dance gauge than the 225,000-250,000 estimated by the Na
tional Park Service police mobile command post.
During the rally itself, Dr. John Willke, National Right to
Life president, suggested that the crowd had reached
700,000.
Speaking by telephone hook-up from the White House,
Bush pointed out that he had addressed a similar event, the
Jan. 22 March for Life, commemorating the anniversary of
the Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion nation
wide.
“And I said then and I reaffirm now that your presence on
the mall today reminds all of us in government that
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Father John R Henley ... presently in study at the In
stitute for Continuing Theological Education at the North
• American College in Rome, Italy, to pastor at the parish of
Saint Anna, Monroe, and at the mission of Saint Matthew,
Winder.
Father Leo P. Herbert... presently pastor at the parish of
Saint Catherine of Siena, Kennesaw, to pastor of the parish
of Corpus Christi, Stone Mountain.
Father Terence A. Kane ... presently pastor of the parish
• of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Atlanta, to pastor of
Saint Catherine of Siena, Kennesaw.
Father John P. Kelley ... presently pastor of the parish of
Saint Anna, Monroe, and the mission of Saint Matthew,
Winder, to pastor of the parish of Sacred Heart of Jesus,
Hartwell.
Father Thomas A. Kenny ... presently pastor at Corpus
• Christi, Stone Mountain, to rector of the Cathedral of Christ
the King, Atlanta.
Father Richard A. Kieran ... presently rector at the
Cathedral of Christ the King to pastor of the parish of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Atlanta.
Father James A. Miceli ... presently parochial vicar at
the parish of Saint John Neumann, Lilburn, to his first
New Rector Began At Cathedral
Father Kenny
BY GRETCHEN REISER
The new rector of the Cathedral of Christ
the King, Father Tom Kenny, has been
pastor of Corpus Christi parish, Stone
Mountain, for 13 years, but began his
priesthood at the cathedral.
Ordained in Ireland 25 years ago, on
June 20, 1965, Father Kenny was assigned
to the cathedral for two years as an assist
ant and returned there for six months in
the 1970s.
His first pastorate was St. Michael’s in
Gainesville where he spent six years and
oversaw the building of the church twice,
as the structure was hit by a tornado and
destroyed when nearly completed. “We
had to build it from the basement up
again,” Father Kenny said.
He was also an assistant pastor at Holy
Cross parish under then pastor, now
Bishop Eusebius Beltran, and oversaw a
Norcross mission, one of two that blos
somed under the wing of Holy Cross in the
post-Second Vatican Council days of the
late 1960s.
A native of Easkey, County Sligo, Father
Kenny studied and was ordained at All
Hallows Seminary, Dublin, and also
received a bachelor of arts degree from
University College, Dublin.
Of his departure from Corpus Christi,
Father Kenny said that after so many
years he has seen an entire generation
grow up. “You form very many and very
close relationships at all levels of
sacramental life. It’s difficult to pull up
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