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Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
Vol. 28 No. 44
Thursday, December 13, 1990
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SERRAN DINNER - Sister Margaret McAnoy, IHM, president of the
Atlanta Conference of Sisters, introduces sisters of the archdiocese at the
annual dinner for Religious given by the Serra Clubs. Bishop James P.
Lyke, OFM, is seated. More photos on page 7.
Vatican, Jewish Leaders
Resume Stalled Dialogue
BY CINDY WOODEN
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John
Paul II and international Jewish leaders,
meeting for the first time in three years,
promised to continue the dialogue begun
with the Second Vatican Council and
outlined areas of continuing concern.
During the Dec. 5-6 meeting, Jewish
leaders asked the Vatican to establish
diplomatic relations with Israel.
The pope, meeting the 30 members of
the International Jewish Committee on
Interreligious Consultations Dec. 6, called
for peace among Christians, Jews and
Muslims in the Holy Land.
Seymour D. Reich, chairman of the
committee, also asked the pope to continue
speaking against anti-Semitism, especially
in his native Poland and other East
European countries.
Sponsored by the Vatican’s Commission
for Religious Relations with the Jews, the
meeting was a celebration of the 25th
anniversary of “Nostra Aetate," the
Vatican n document on relations with
non-Christian religions. The document was
promulgated Oct. 28, 1965.
Vatican meetings with the international
Jewish group, the church’s official Jewish
partner in dialogue, broke off in 1987 after
several incidents that Jews felt displayed
Catholic insensitivity.
The incidents included the presence of
a Carmelite convent at the former Nazi
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TBS Pro-Abortion Video
Unfair, USCC Aide Says
BY SISTER MARY ANN WALSH
WASHINGTON (CNS) - Turner
Broadcasting System violated "ordinary
standards of fairness and journalistic
objectivity" by airing a pro-abortion video
without giving equal time to the opposing
viewpoint, a church official said Dec. 6.
Helen Alvare, the U.S. bishops’ pro-life
spokeswoman, criticized the Atlanta-based
cable TV network the day before it was to
air "Abortion Denied: Shattering Young
Women’s Lives."
The half-hour video, produced by
Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for
a Feminist Majority, is part of a public
relations campaign being waged by Ms.
Smeal’s fund against parental notification
laws.
The video tells of Becky Bell, a
17-year-old Indiana teen-ager who died in
1988 and whose death, the film says, came
about because of a state law requiring
parental notification for abortion on
minors.
According to the video, Becky didn’t
want to tell her parents that she was
pregnant and so procured an illegal
abortion. When she died, "septic abortion
with pneumonia" was listed as cause of
death in her autopsy report
In her statement, Ms. Alvare termed the
TBS broadcast "fairness denied" and said
that "in the film not a single dissenting
voice is heard despite these groups’ claim
to represent ‘freedom of choice.'”
"Americans have no real choice if they
are deprived of the relevant facts," she
said.
Ms. Alvare, a lawyer, also issued a
point by point rebuttal of several state-
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Grey Nuns Foundress Canonized
BY JOHN THAVIS
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II canonized
the first Canadian-born saint, Marie Marguerite d’Youville,
and praised the "heroic charity" of her work among
Montreal’s poor.
The saint was a young wife and mother when her
husband died in 1730. Seven years later, concerned about
the living conditions of those around her, she founded the
uSrey Nuns with three other women.
"K Jay SL Marguerite’s heroic charity, which led her to
serve ^the Lord Jesus by caring for the least of his brothers
and s' isters, be an example for the whole people of God,"
the pope said after the canonization in St. Peter’s Basilica
Dec. 9.
Concelebrants at the canonization Mass included seven
Canadian bishops and Bishop James P. Lyke, apostolic
administrator of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, one of more
than 20 U.S. dioceses where the nuns are represented.
The Mass was attended by some 3,000 Canadians,
including about 35 bishops and 300 religious sisters.
In Montreal, some members of the black Catholic
community expressed outrage at the canonization, noting
that St. Marguerite inherited about a dozen slaves from her
husband and allegedly bought and sold dozens of others.
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INSIDE
Father Rohr
at All Saints page 6
Teamwork
thriving in Alpharetta page 8
Christmas Books
for young readers page 12
Partnership
its pains, hopes page 14