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Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
Vol. 28 No. 39
Thursday, November 8, 1990
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Needs Of Hostages, Peace
Prompt Church Activities
The delegation, spon
sored by the Fellowship of
Reconciliation, a religious
ly based pacifist group
headquartered in Nyack,
N.Y., had delivered 1,000
pounds of vitamins and
medicines and met with
Iraqi officials and citizens
in an effort at "humanizing
the face of the Iraqi peo
ple," said Chuck Quilty, a
delegation member.
The bishop’s efforts
marked one of several
attempts by Catholic lead
ers to bring Christian per
spectives in the aftermath
of three galvanizing events
in the Middle East in as
many months: the Iraqi
invasion of Kuwait; the
crushing of a rebel Chris
tian force headed by Gen.
Michel Aoun in Lebanon;
and the shooting of Pales
tinians at Jerusalem’s
Temple Mount by Israeli
soldiers.
Vatican Secretary of
State Cardinal Agostino
(Continued on page 14)
Bishops Face Text
On Catholic Schools
BY INES PINTO ALICEA
WASHINGTON (CNS) ~ When U.S. bishops meet in
Washington Nov. 12-15, they will be asked to vote on a
statement calling for more of their financial and moral
support for Catholic education through fund raising and
creating offices to help schools budget wisely and increase
parental involvement.
The statement also asks Catholic schools to create
financial development offices and school boards and to
continue reaching out to the disadvantaged.
Entitled "Statement of the United States Bishops in
Support of Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools,"
the document was developed by a U.S. Catholic Conference
blue ribbon committee on financing Catholic elementary
(Continued on page 12)
INSIDE
Knights' Sisterhood
First Columbiettes
form here page 3
Turkey Time
St. Anthony’s
annual dinner page 3
Blue Ridge Church
New sanctuary for
mountain parish page 6
Father Richard Rohr
To speak
on spirituality page 7
BY RITA McINERNEY
The homeless, refugees and immigrants, and people not
covered by health insurance in their jobs, are able to
obtain health care at the Gwinnett Community Clinic, Inc.
HispanicS and migrants in Habersham and Rabun
counties benefit from the Hispanic ministry program at St.
Mark’s Catholic Church in Clarkesville and St. Helena’s,
its mission in Clayton.
FOR human DEVELOPMENT
These are two of the five local programs receiving
grants this year from the Campaign for Human Develop
ment of the U.S. Catholic Conference (CHD) which
annually is the recipient of a collection held in parishes
throughout the United States. This year marks the 20th
anniversary of the national education and action program
established by the Catholic bishops to help combat poverty
in this country.
The collection will be held in parishes throughout the
archdiocese on the weekend of Nov. 17 and 18.
Last year $76,575 was contributed in the annual
archdiocesan collection. Three-quarters of this amount was
given to the national campaign while $19,750 was distrib
uted to the five North Georgia organizations.
In addition to the five 1990-91 local grants, a national
CHD grant of $30,000 was awarded to 9 to 5, National
Organization of Working Women, according to Pam
Buckmaster, diocesan director for CHD at Catholic Social
Services.
In his letter concerning the CHD collection to pastors
throughout the archdiocese, Bishop James P. Lyke, OFM,
borrowed from an invitation Pope John Paul II made
during a visit to Mexico last year:
“I invite all Christians and all persons of goodwill to
awaken the social conscience of solidarity; we cannot live
or sleep in peace while thousands of our sisters and
brothers, very near to us, lack the very essentials for
leading a dignified human existence.”
Bishop Lyke went on to say, “We cannot live or sleep
in peace while thousands of our sisters and brothers, very
near us, lack decent homes, jobs paying a living wage,
safe neighborhoods and communities. We cannot live or
sleep in peace while one of our sisters or brothers is a
victim of discrimination - in whatever form this evil
manifests itself.”
Since 1970, CHD has distributed over $125 million
dollars to more than 2,700 self-help projects for poor and
low-income families. Through such projects, people work
together to improve the conditions that affect their lives.
(Continued on page 12)
CHD Aids Five Archdiocesan Groups
HOSTAGES-KENNY - Bishop Michael H. Kenny (right) of Juneau,
Alaska, leads the way at the airport in Amman, Jordan, escorting Randall
Trinh and three other American citizens who were released Nov. 3 from
Iraq on humanitarian grounds. Bishop Kenny represented Pax Christi
U.S.A. on the visit to Iraq which began Oct. 20 and was organized by the
Fellowship of Reconciliation, a religiously based pacifist group with
headquarters in Nyack, N.Y. (CNS photo from Reuter)
WASHINGTON (CNS)
- A few extra days in Iraq
paid off for Bishop Mi
chael H. Kenny of Juneau,
Alaska, and a Muslim
businessman as they se
cured the release of four
American detainees from
Iraq.
Bishop Kenny and the
businessman, Tarek Mo
hammed El Heneidy of
Rockport, Mass., stayed
behind to negotiate for the
detainees’ release after the
U.S. peace delegation of
which they were members
headed back after a week
in Iraq.
Bishop Kenny arrived in
Amman, Jordan, with the
four detainees Nov. 3.
Bishop Kenny, who repre
sented the Catholic peace
organization Pax Christi
U.S.A. on the delegation,
returned Nov. 5 to the
United States. Detainees
came back via different
routes.