] * MÊ -r- r—• •— 0 H oly Y e a r I — ^ c c First one to be observed worldwide begins March 25 c H z O 33 pe m By FR. KENNETH J. DOYLE own: of the 27 holy years in the In addition, be has announced News, "The feedback we're they have done since the first Holy church's history, this will be the that a plenary indulgence can be getting is excellent People Year in 1300. ÎOC VATICAN CITY (NC> - At 5 first to be celebrated simultane­ gained by Catholics in their own around the world have caught on Among those who journeyed to 1 0 2 p.m. on March 25 Pope John Paul r- — ously around the world. dioceses for participating in to this.” the Eternal City for that first II will strike the Holy Door of St. The pope has asked each of the certain Holy Year activities. Msgr Frayne, a native of celebration was the Florentine Peter's Basilica three times with a world's 2,405 dioceses on or about A plenary indulgence is the England, has worked for nearly a poet Dante Alighieri, who is silver hammer, thus opening a 1 H CO O March 25 to celebrate local remission of temporal punish­ decade at the Vatican office which commonly said to have received jubilee year marking the l,950th ceremonies in union with those in ment due for sins already serves tourists and is now the inspiration (or his "The Divine P r i e « _ * anniversary of mankind's Rome. He has called on each of the forgiven. assisting in the planning of Holy Comedy" during that pilgrimage D H * < _ rr. 3» C/1 redemption by Christ. world's 784.000,000 Catholics to Local observances of the Holy. Year activities Rome is preparing for an influx Fr. Ec r •ng, a That same papal act has opened "rediscover in their daily Year will apparently be Despite the availability of local ol some 6 million pilgrims during priest of J™ ilmost holy years for centuries. But the experience all the riches of widespread and enthusiastic. celebrations, pilgrims will not be (Continued on page t) 60 years _ 35 lg an 1983 jubilee has a novelty all its salvation.” Msgr. Francis Frayne told NC deterred from coming to Rome as illness. H m > sident of Canoi ^ ^ ■y on page 3. ^ I _______ _ 1/M •wrlfil 15 Cents ■ mli 139th Year, CXLIV No. 1 Established i n i 844: Am erica's Oldest Catholic Netos pa per in Continuous Publication Friday, March 18, 1983 ....3 B. B S i Science w inners Science winners from diocesan schools are listed on page 7. Guatemala chief may end siege; 9 We have sinned9 GUATEMALA CITY (NC) - population would be punished. He did not say whether special Saying that “ we have sinned,” A scolding Guatemalan President Efrain secret military tribunals, under Aiding m igrants Rios Montt March 13 announced which 10 executions have been an amnesty for guerrillas and carried out since last September, from the pope Brother Larry Engel works in promised to ease the state of siege would continue to operate. Arkansas with the Glenmary in his country. When six men condemned by the Pope John Paul II, during his Missioners to ease the plight oi The president’s remarks, on a secret tribunals were executed by trip to Central America, shakes Mexican migrant workers. He national television broadcast, firing squad on the eve of the a finger at Father Ernesto writes oi the bitter experiences came six days after Pope John pope's Central American tour, the Cardenal who serves as ol the people and of their faith on Paul II sharply criticized violence Holy See publicly protested the Nicaragua's minister of culture and is one of five priests holding page 8. and repression during his March 7 executions and announced that it visit to Guatemala. had sought a commutation of the government posts in defiance of A lso inside "W e know and understand that sentences. Vatican press the Vatican. See analysis of the we have sinned, that we have spokesman Father Romeo pope's trip on page 2. (NC Editorials Pages 4-5 abused power, and we wan ' i Panciroli has said Pope John Paul photos) Obituaries .................... Page 3 reconcile ourselves with the had discussed the executions with Home Again .................Page 6 people,” Rios Montt said. Rios Montt when the two met He said that he would shift from privately March 7. D e a t h s the state of siege currently in force, Shortly after Rios Montt came Father Edward R. Szelong, to a less restrictive "state of alert- to power last year he offered a 30- 84, Canonsburg. A " on March 23, the first day amnesty to guerrillas. At the Sister M. Alma Soisson, 91, anniversary of the coup that end of the amnesty period, member of the Sisters of Mercy brought him to power. however, he imposed a state of of Pittsburgh. He also promised an amnesty siege and embarked on a ruthless John C. Steighner, 97, Butler. for guerrillas but warned that campaign to suppress the people who continued to harm the guerrillas. N -arm s foe 700 hear Amarillo bishop so we would be capable of fighting By STEPHEN KARLINCHAK World War IV or Nuclear World A Catholic bishop who made War II. The nuclear arms race has headlines when he asked workers a language of its own.” at a nuclear warhead assembly Bishop Matthiesen said that plant to examine their con­ nuclear weapons are indiscrimi­ sciences concerning their jobs told nate in their targets and that their an audience in Pittsburgh that the after-effects may continue for number of nuclear weapons in the generations. Calling attention to world is "psychically numbing." an Old Testament reference of "There are enough nuclear Abraham being a blessing to three weapons with ensuing blast, fire and four generations, the bishop and radiation to destroy 1.5 said of a possible nuclear war million Hiroshimas," Bishop "Instead of being a blessing as Leroy Matthiesen of Amarillo, was Abraham, we will be a curse Tex., told the audience of about 700 to three and four generations." people who turned out for his He said that nuclear warfare recent lecture at the University of strategy has its roots in World War Korean Catholics gather in the lower chapel of St. includes some 100 individuals and families of Pittsburgh. “ It could destroy all II when technology made it Paul Cathedral in Oakland where they participate Korean ancestry who live in the Pittsburgh area, art, music and all social history. It possible and advisable to destroy in Mass each Sunday at 7:30 p.m. The community —Photos by John C. Keenan would destroy the ozone layer that an enemy's economic base. could leave the earth a sterile Among such tactics he cited were the use of unmanned German planet. BISHOP LEROY MATTHIESEN "The most urgent problem at bombers, and the saturation Korean Catholics bombings of Berlin, Hamburg, present is the possibility of extinction from nuclear war. The final assembly point for nuclear Dresden and Tokyo. Residents take pride in community here nations of the world spend the warheads in the United States. As for critics who tell Catholic combined income of one-half of Noting that 1983 is the 38th year clerics to worry only about the common faith and in their ethnic By PATRICIA BARTOS repression during the years, yet the world on nuclear weapons.” of the nuclear age, the bishop said salvation of their parishioners. they remained steadfast in their background. Bishop Matthiesen became a "The danger is that we will Bishop Matthiesen responded that Just under 200 years ago a And, in a throwback to that time faith. national figure in 1981 when he continue the nuclear build-up until few people criticized the Catholic umber of people in Korea first two centuries ago, they are still Dr. Andrew Chough speaks of asked the workers at the Pantex by design or accident all-out Church when its leaders justified iarned of Catholicism. trying to find a priest of their own this tough-minded religious nuclear warhead plant outside of nuclear war breaks out. the just war theory. heritage to minister to them. They took steps on their own to heritage with pride— in both these Amarillo to examine their "W e call it unthinkable or say it Concerning the proposed The Korean Catholic Commun­ naster the religion, eventually determined ancestors and the consciences about working in such will never happen but we are pastoral letter from the National ity here now numbers some 100 ecame converts and then began Korean Catholics of today who live a plant. The Pantex plant is the planning to survive a nuclear war (Continued on page 2) earching in China for priests to in the Pittsburgh Diocese. members, who meet each Sunday are for their spiritual needs. Here, again, the Koreans at 7:30 p.m. for Mass in St. Paul The Catholic community in organized themselves as a Cathedral's lower chapel in Lorea, still a tiny minority, community to support and Oakland. Fr• Champlin to speak here uffered much persecution and encourage each other in their Dr. Chough, a cardiologist on the staff of McKeesport Hospital, Fr. Joseph M. Champlin, whose ’and pamphlets on liturgy, is regarded as the founding father column appears in the Pittsburgh of the Korean Catholic Communi­ pastoral theology, love and Catholic, will give the keynote marriage. ty of Pittsburgh. address at the parish ministry Presently the group works with Fr.Champlin has also authored conference to be held Friday and Msgr.