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Catholic Archdiocese of Miami Friday, October 14, 1983 Price 250 Vo. XXXII No. 32 WORLD'S BISHOPS LIKE NUKE STAND U.S. bishops get feedback No conflict with Pope — Cardinal VATICAN CITY (NC)—The U.S. bishops' peace pastoral and a news magazine's implication of conflict between Pope John Paul II and the American hierarchy have caught the attention of bishops from around the world. "We're getting very much feedback on our nuclear disarmament letter," said Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago at a press conference sponsored by the U.S. delegates to the world Synod of Bishops. "They have been very supportive and encouraging and very grateful that we took the initiative," he said. "A number said that our letter gave them the motivation to work on their own statements." Archbishop John R. Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis, said that the bishops also have received some attention because of an article in the Oct. 10 issue of Newsweek which said, "Quit picking on the pope." "WE'RE NOT PICKING on him COLORFUL FESTIVITIES of 30 youth groups marked Hispanic Heritage Week at the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity and he is not picking on us," on Biscayne Bay this week, with twirling dancers, clapping hands and rythmic music representing dozens of Archbishop Roach said. He noted that nations. The St. Francis de Sales group (above) is in Costa Rican costume. The festivities followed the annual Pan the pope has spoken strongly to groups American Mass in the Shrine. (See Pastoral Letter to Hispanics, Pages 1A-4A) (Voice photo by Prent Browning). of U.S. bishops recently on numerous controversial church issues such as individual confession, the role of Religious and the need to combat were the holy father I'd watch us about human rights but focuses on Reach out, breakdowns in family life. carefully too." moral or internal church issues when "He speaks directly to us," Cardinal Bernardin and Archbishop he speaks to the United States," said Archbishop Roach said, but this is Roach said that they do not ascribe any Cardinal Bernardin. "There's no sure Hispanics simply "a new chapter in collegiality" negative meaning ot the pope's strong way of knowing, of course, but one and an example of how the pope relates words to U.S. bishops nor to a study of consideration is that in our country, we to a large bishops' conference. U.S. seminaries which the Vatican has enjoy freedom protected by the are urged Archbishop Roach called the U.S. ordered. government. There's no need to talk hierarchy "a big conference, one which "SOMEONE ASKED me why the about it so other topics are the focus." Pastoral letter...Pages 1A-4A hard to ignore." He added, "If I holy father speaks to certain countries Continued on page 5 By Araceli Cantero Local News Editor, La Voz On the anniversary of America's ETHNIC, RACIAL BLEND discovery by Columbus, Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy has issued a pastoral letter to Hispanics urging them to become more involved in their rich Catholic heritage, to reach out to Ca thedral's jo yous 2 5th unchurched brethen and be active in social concerns here and abroad. He also urges them, in the letter dated Oct. 12, not to be distracted by By Ana Rodriguez-Soto fountain of unity, not division. And to the soft, quick beat of a Creole Voice News Editor differences are praised, not slighted. the hunger for too many material hymn. goods available in this country. The harmony was quite audible last Children, fifth-graders from the What's black and white and love all Sunday, when the parish celebrated its "The purpose of this letter is the Cathedral school, began the celebra- evangelization of the Hispanic people, over? 25th anniversary as the Mother Church tion by joining hands and circling the The multi-racial, multi-lingual, of South Florida Catholics. who already number more than half a new wooden altar, each one dressed in million in the Archdiocese," auxiliary multi-national community of St. Mary The liturgy, a two-hour party of the native costume representative of Cathedral. peace and love, was sung and con- bishop Agustin Roman explained. the many different nationalities which But it does not apply only to There, unity under God is no joke. celbrated in English, Spanish and make up the Cathedral parish. Racial tension has been turned to har- Creole. During the offertory, Hispanics, since "in the Church we are mony. Trilingualism has become a colorfully-clad Haitian women swayed Continued on page 1 3, Continued on Page 3 Pope blesses newlyweds

By John Thavis couples' diverse languages. The couples were from Italy, Germany, the VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope John United States, Canada, Ireland, Nor- Paul II witnessed the marriages of 38 way, Poland and Lebanon. couples from nine countries in St. AN ITALIAN GYPSY couple, Peter's Basilica. He told them to scheduled to be part of the ceremony, "recognize the rhythms of human fer- had to miss it when the 20-year-old tility" and follow them in "responsible woman was hospitalized with appen- procreation." dicitis. By endorsing "responsible paren- thood" within the framework of "Your responsibilities are great," natural fertility rhythms, the pope the pope told the couples. "The creator reaffirmed church teaching allowing is calling you as newlyweds to procrea- the limitation or spacing of births for tion, to responsible procreation. To sufficient reasons but rejecting ar- assume the task of responsible paren- tificial means of birth control. thood in marriage means cooperating NATURAL FAMILY planning consciously with the love of the methods approved by the church may creator." ft . use a number of different techniques to "Responsible parenthood also determine accurately the woman's means to treat the mystery of life natural fertility cycle, but all the the greatest worship," the pope said __ methods rely on abstinence during the The ceremony was one of severa fertile period rather than artificial sup- special papal celebrations highlighting pression of fertility or artificial barriers the seven sacraments during the 1983 to conception. Holy Year of the Redemption. The pope spoke during a three-hour POPE JOHN PAUL arrived at his ceremony at the basilica's main altar window above the square a half-hour before he delivered his noon Angelus late for the Sunday noon, blessing. He blessing to thousands of visitors in St. asked those in the square to excuse him Peter's Square. for the delay, saying the nuptial liturgy RELOCATING-Looking forlorn, a Druze woman awaits transportation to The newlyweds, ranging in age from had to be long "because it concerned Beirut from the Christian-held village of Ghosta, Lebanon. She and about 20 to 69, took part in a nuptial Mass the whole lives of the newlyweds." 100 other Druze were released after spending nearly a month in the which the pope celebrated mainly in He asked for prayers for the couples Christian—controlled part of the country. They were bussed to the Latin, with songs and readings in the on "this day of their great sacrament." Moslem sector of Beirut, INC photo from UPO.

House approves human right legislation Planned parenthood gets reprieve WASHINGTON (NC) — Legislation extending for at least another year the requirement that President Reagan periodically certify human rights progress WASHINGTON (NC) — Planned Parenthood will be allowed to remain in, in El Salvador was approved by the House Sept. 30. The measure, introduced the Combined Federal Campaign, a federal employees' charitable drive, three days earlier by Rep. Michael Barnes (D-Md), was intended to serve as despite opposition from pro-lifers. Planned Parenthood got a reprieve from its interim legislation until Congress enacts a new foreign aid bill, which would in- removal from the campaign when a federal judge overturned its expulsion and clude new certification requirements. That bill was still pending in committee. j:he Justice Departmen, in an announcement Sept. 26, said it would comply with the judge's directions. Fourteen members of Congress had opposed the judge's decision, saying the government should fight the inclusion of Planned Pope is willing to give authority to synod Parenthood in the drive.

VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II is willing to give decisions of Anti-abortion books banned in Spain the world Synod of Bishops binding "juridical authority," said Archbishop Jozef Toriiko, synod secretary general, at the synod's first business session Sept. 29. Doing so would increase the status of the synod and expand the prac- MADRID, Spain (NC) — A section on abortion in two catechism texts has tice of collegiality in the church. The synod, a gathering of representatives of pitted Spain's Catholic bishops against the nation's 10-month-old Socialist the world's bishops, has only advisory powers unless the pope grants it government. Education Ministry officials banned the use of 200,000 copies of decision-making power. catechisms prepared by Catholic education specialists for fifth and sixth graders. The books repeated church teaching against abortion. A government official said the books were withdrawn because the church had failed to submit them for government approval. Church officials said the books were submit- Church needs to strenghten call ted, but they had received no response by the time it was necessary to publish for justice/bishop says them for the new school year. Hispanics oppose immigration bill LONDON (NC) — The church needs to strenghten its call for justice and its image as a church promoting justice, Asian and African bishops said at a WASHINGTON (NC)—The comprehensive immigration, bill will not be meeting in London in late September. They addressed a forum held in con- considered this year because of opposition by Hispanics, House Speaker junction with the world assembly of Pax romana, the international Catholic Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) said Oct. 4. The bill, which passed the Senate intellectual and professional organization. Speaking of the need for the church in May, would give legal status to some illegal aliens in the United States and to work for justice were Bishop Michael Bunluen Mansap of Ubon Rat- penalize employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens. Hispanics have argued chathani, Thailand, and Bishop Peter Kwasi Sarpong of Kumasi, Gwana. that employer sanctions would cause them to be discriminated against because they look "alien" to the employers.

Presbyterians and Catholics open , Fr. Pittau appointed general counselor joint center ROME (NC) — Father Joseph Pittau, one of the two men chosen by John Paul II to header Jesuit order for the two years prior to the recent ABERDEEN, Scotland (NC) — In what many regard as a major step for- tion of Father PeteSSans Kolvenbach, will be one of Father Kolvenbach's ward in ecumenism, Scotland's Presbyterians and Catholics have opened a general counselors. Announcement of 55-year-old Father Pittau's appoint- joint Church center in Aberdeen. The building, named after St. Columba, the ment by Father Kolvenbach was made by Jesuit officials in Rome. Jesuit con- sixth-century missionary honored for fostering Christianity in Scotland, will stitutions require that the superior general name at least two other general house churches for the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) and a'Catholic counselors to work alongside the four elected by the order during their general parish, a vestry and a meeting hall. " congregation.

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PAGE 2-Friday, October 14, 1983-THE VOICE 'No apology' needed for nuke abortion stands/bishop says WASHINGTON (NC) - The church such as capital punishment, grinding has "no apologies to make for failing poverty and nuclear war," the ar- to fit a political label" when it takes chbishop continued. controversial stands on abortion and The church, despite these criticisms, the nuclear arms race,. Archbishop "has a special obligation to raise its James A. Hickey of Washington told a voice on behalf of 'the least of group of public officals, lawyers these,'" he said. and diplomats. The archbishop spoke at the Oct. 2 THE ARCHBISHOP urged public Mass, named after the tradional officals to re-examine "public policies red robes worn by judges in the Middle which may be eroding respect for Ages. The color red also symbolizes the human life and threatening the very Holy Spirit. survival of our world." The purpose of the annual Mass, Calling public service "more than a sponsored by the John Carroll Society job...a vocation," Archbishop Hickey at St. Matthew's CAthedral, was to in- said that government is "an instrument voke the Holy Spirit's guidance on to safeguard human rights and seek the government officials. common good."

Citing the increasing number of THE CHURCH'S stands on abor- abortions, the numbers of hungry and tion and nuclear arms are not based homeless people, and nuclear warheads "on some partisan goal or ideological "threatening so much of mankind," the archbishop said that Jesus' message of justice and peace is "far from realiz- 'Others applaud our ed." defense of the un- Historically, he said, the church has had a "right and duty" to speak out on born, but think we the moral issues before government. are naive when we "It is no less our obligation today," he talk about other said. Members of the religious communi- threats to human life ty, when engaged in public affairs, such as capital must provide competent analysis, in- punishment, grinding formed debate, respect for the rights of others and a consistent concern for the poverty and nuclear common good, the archbishop said. PEACE VOLUNTEER-Bishop Arthur O'Neill of Rockford, III., commis- war.' "No debate is advanced by impugn- sions Maureen McLain of the McHenry deanery as the diocese's first ing the motives of others or engaging in peace volunteer at the Bishop Lane Retreat House. The bishop commis- shrill attacks or narrow appeals," said sioned 35 priests, sisters and lay people to help carry the message of the Archbishop Hickey. U.S. bishops peace pastoral to the people of the diocese. (NC Photo). program" but on the "fundamental dignity of the human person," the ar- chbishop said. Because of its defense of human rights,the church faces criticism from Vatican aide reems "1st World' values some groups, but must stand firm in its By Religious News Service "If the poor countries didn't need aid, where would the concerns, he said. NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS)—The new head of the Vatican's developed countries take their business or with whom would "Some say we like your advocacy of Pontifical Commission for the Family has accused developing they trade? So long as you need their aid, you will remain arms control and the defense of the nations of giving aid to poor countries to keep them in their slaves." poor, but this constant drumbeat over economic slavery. Bishop Gagrion also scoffed at the notion that overpopula- abortion is misplaced and unenlighten- "The reason why we give you aid is to make sure that you tion was the greatest threat to developing nations. "There is ed," he said. . remain our slaves," Bishop Eduoard Gagnon, a French enough food to feed all the souls in the world," he asserted. "Others applaud our defense of the Canadian prelate named on July 16 by Pope John Paul II to "No one need starve if only countries would agree to share. unborn, but think we are naive when head the Vatican body, told a.gathering of married couples After all, very little of the world is being utilized for the talk about other threats to human life and clergy. benefit of mankind." Pastoral urges Latins to deepen roots Continued from Pg, 1 past, present and future of Hispanics fully in society and the Church, to the United States have been preparing in Florida and strongly calls them to integrate themselves in political and a pastoral letter ofr Hispanics in the all brothers and sisters in the same evangelization. pastoral processes without losing their nation. family," he added. The letter recognizes the identity. The letter, currently in its final draft, The letter, published in a special contributions of Hispanics to the will be discussed during the next U.S. section in this week's Voice, personal growth of the Archdiocese of Miami It also calls Hispanics to conversion bishops' meeting in November and prayer of Archbishop McCarhty upon and the South Florida area while and to the evangelization of their already has been distributed for -discovering the situation of challenging them to move beyond the brothers and sisters, those with less consultatidffamong bishops in dioceses Sispanics in the Archdiocese within past. knowledge of the Catholic faith. with large Hispanic populations. the context of this year of Prayer," he It urges Hispanics to maintain their According to Bishop Roman, the said. cultural and spiritual values, such as According to Bishop Roman, the national letter has spawned similar Bishop Roman added that the letter respect for life and love of family, letter is an effort to meet Hispanics letters at the local level. Archbishop was written after extensive including parents, grandparents, where they are, rather than wait for McCarthy's is one of them, an effort to consultation with Hispanic priests, uncles and cousins. them to find their way into the Church. respond more concretely to the need religious and laity. It deals with the It invites them to participate more For more than a year, the bishops of for evangelization in South Florida.

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THE VOICE-Friday, October 14, 1983-PAGE 3 Book defames pope —Court

ROME (NC) » After a legal battle civil case in Italy - was initiated by a The magazine based its report on an lasting 10 years, Italy's highest court niece of Pope Pius, who said the book interview with the commander, Gen. has ruled that a book by American misinterpreted and deformed the Karl Wolff, now living in West author Robert Katz defamed Pop Pius historical facts. Germany, Wolff said his secret XII when it portrayed him as negligent Among the witnesses at the trial were meeting with the pontiff occurred at during a massacre of Italians by Nazi Italian Forgeign Minister Giulio the Vatican on May 10, 1944, two soldiers in 1944. Meanwhile, an Italian magazine The book described the rounding up and ex- reported that Pope Pius secretly met with German Commander in Italy in ecution of 335 people' including many Jewish 1944 to urge an early surrender to the Italians' by the Germans... (and) portrayed allies. Pope Pius XII as able but unwilling to act to In striking down a L978 appeals court decision, the supreme court upheld an stop the reprisal massacre.' earlier finding that the book, "Death in Rome," defamed the honor and Andreotti and the head of the German months before Rome fell to the allied reputation of the late pontiff. secret police in Rome at the time, Col. forces. Katz was fined and sentenced to 13 Herbert Kappler. months in prison after the orginal trial, Trial witnesses argued that Katz's The article quote Wolff as saying but the prison sentence was later thesis was unhistorical, and that there Pius XII offered to act as an suspended. was no evidence Pope Pius could have intermediary in negotiations with the known about the reprisal before it took allies, Wolff said he considered acting THE BOOK decribed the rounding place. independently on the Pope's advice to up and excution of 335 people, ON SEPT. 30, the same day the surrender immediately, but did not do Bishops including many Jewish Italians, by the supreme court made its ruling in the so. Germans after a bomb explosion in Katz case, the magazine Gente "No one ever made such a profound Rome killed 35 members of the reported that Pope Pius tried in a impression on me. I was so struck by speak on German secret police. secret meeting to convince the the passion and goodness of this man The book portrayed Pope Pius as commander of Nazi forces in Italy to that in my heart I already felt with able, but unwilling, to act to stop the give up. The report said the meeting repugnance the useless bitterness and prisons reprisal, massacre. took place a year before the Germans hatred of the Italian civil was," said The legal action — a penal and not a finally surrendered. Wolff about Pope Pius. PHOENIX, Ariz. (NC) — Gov. Bruce Babbit of Arizona called a special session of the state legislature after religious leaders, including a Latin America Church called Catholic and an Episcopal bishop, and lay people in Phoenix urged the legislature to address "the crisis refuge from dictatorship situation facing the corrections system." WHITFISH BAY, Wic. (NC) - 'It is the Church that Allende, a Marxist, in 1973. 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PAGE 4-Friday, October 14, 1983-THE VOICE Cathedral sets example of unity for S. Florida **• Continued from page 1 White ribbons, symbols of the "new life" won for all by Jesus Christ, then were distributed throughout the filled church.

TO FATHER Gerald LaCerra, ^chancellor of the Archdiocese and rec- "tor of the Cathedral, the parish is living proof that the multi-ethnic residents of South Florida can, with God's help, become a many-splendored sign of the living kingdom of God. "We truly do reflect the universality of the world. We do reflect that it is Lisa Genuardi (left) and Maria possible... to overcome sin and live as Cadet, dressed in typical one," he said during the homily. costumes, were two of the fifth graders from St. Mary School who circled the altar and Alluding to "The Man of La Man- distributed white ribbons' as a cha," a Broadway play based on a sign of unity. Above, a Haitian classic Spanish novel whose hero, Don dancer during the offertory pro- Quixote, tilts at windmills and pursues cession. (Voice photos by .Ana a dream, Fr. LaCerra said, "Perhaps Rodriguez-Soto) the greatest madness of all is to see the world as it is and not as it ought to be." 7, 1958. (See last week's Voice). has been called to give. He commented on the symbolism of he called Jesus Christ "a dreamer" Parishioners who remember the ear- "God has blessed us to be here with all altars as "the center of our Church who sees humanity as capable of ly days have seen the predominantly Little River on one side and Liberty Ci- (which) stands for Christ's sacrifice." creating "true peace." white, upper-class neighborhood, ty on the other, in the midst of por- change into a less affluent area nography, crime, prostitution and im- During this summer's remodeling, Christ asks, Fr. LaCerra said, populated by Haitians, Hispanics from morality," he said. "My God, isn't it the Cathedral's altar was moved closer "dream this dream with me. Dream almost every country in Latin America, magnificent?" to the people, toward the front of the that all can be one and we can all live in black Americans and remaining sanctuary, but it can be moved further dignity." whites. Currently, even Bahamian, back when ceremonies such as ordina- French-Canadian and Korean families "We're the people of dreams. We're tions require it. are listed in the parish registry. the ones to make God's kingdom a "THE CHURCH is full of reality where all can love as one, all can "The meaning of the altar has been dreamers," he continued, pacing back live in peace and the glory of God may rediscovered," Archbishop McCarthy and forth along the newly-remodeled be manifest," Fr. LaCerra said. said, explaining how the changes of sanctuary of the Cathedral. "It is the ADAPTING WAS difficult at first, Vatican Council II have made the continuation of Christ among the everyone agrees, and Christian THE CATHEDRAL is an ap- Church resemble more closely the early wallows of the world." brotherhood reached its lowest point in Christian communities. the summer of 1980, when riots, propriate selection for such witnessing, For 25 years, he said, the Cathedral refugees and a surge in street crime he explained, because it is the seat of and South Florida's Church have edge, discouraged many people, including the diocese, the first among equals On the anniversary of St. Mary's making ihe dream of Christ a reality... parishioners, from journeying to the from which flows everything Catholic elevation to a Cathedral, "We're living We stand as an open sign, an open in- Cathedral. r~-—..._ in South Florida. in the present," he said, "thanking the vitation that we have not forsaken the Lord for those who are here today and dream." Fr. LaCerra succeeded Msgr. John for the life of this parish, for the en- Donnelly, now pastor of St. Malachy in remarks after the liturgy, Ar- ' t thusiasm and the love." Althouth the parish of St. Mary was Parish in Tamarac, as rector in 1980. chbishop Edward A. McCarthy, actual founded 57 years ago, it was elevated On Sunday, Fr. LaCerra praised pastor of the Cathedral, thanked -, After the celebfation, parishioners to the rank of cathedral when the God for the parish's location and for parishioners for "making my dream agreed with Fr. La Cerra's glowing Diocese of Miami was established, Oct. the witness of peace and brotherhood it, come true." assessment of St. Mary's unity.

"THIS PARISH is a unique one," Alumnus Ralph Renick recalls said Ferdinand Forte, a native of Haiti who joined the Cathedral 15 years ago and "witnessed everything."

his Cathedral school days He compared the parish, with its many different nationalities, cultures, By Prentice Browning Renick, who said that when he Even then Renick was showing signs languages and ethnic groups, to "a Voice Staff Writer thinks of his roots he looks back to his of his future destiny. Renick's high flower blossoming in nature." early Catholic education, recalled school yearbook resolution was to "Roots" may have been the theme discrimination against Catholics dur- "stop taLking like a radio "No matter what nationality or race for the night. ing the early 1940's. commentator." you are, (the people of the parish) still accept you as a family," commented But in this case roots meant not a TODAY THE churehes are much PUTTING ASIDE personal 12-year-old Regime Monestime, a stu- historic trek to Africa but a quiet more ecumenical, he said, "maybe dent at the Cathedral school, which remembrance of the educational and because its like Noah's Ark, we're all recollections, Renick spoke of the cur- rent role that the cathedral plays sur- also celebrated the 44th anniversary of spiritual foundation set down by the in the same boat together." its founding Sunday. St. Mary Cathedral and school. Both Renick praised the nuns who taught rounded by a Community in need. were honored at a fund raising dinner at the school. "It may have been God's will to "All the people, like from Haiti and for the Cathedral last week held in "They were the most dedicated, the build at N.W. 2nd ave. and 71st St., to all the different countries, are still Miami Shores. smartest women." become a cathedral and be in an area welcome," added Michael Peters, also of what is a microcosm of a world in He recalled one day when the prin- 12. "We welcome them even though Over 400 people attended the $50 a need, of a community in need." they speak a different language." plate dinner and heard Renick speak cipal called him into the office after RENICK CONCLUDED his address both about personal anecdotes and school. Renick thinkng he was in trou- by praising the Cathedral for holding Helen Gernat, a member of Holy about the changing role of the ble was surprised when the principal, out a hand to the many nationalities Family Parish in North Miami who at- Cathedral Over the years. Fr. Ambrose, handed him a book titled that live near the church and yet "do- tended the celebration, was more en- "The Careers -that Changed the Leading in reminiscences was Ralph ing it very quietly, just simply carrying thusiastic. World." out the word of Christ." Renick, renown commentator and pro- "There was a chapter on journalism. "I love everything. My hair went up ducer of the Channel 4 evening news, "And doing it with faith, and that and chills went through me (during the who was, himself, a graduate of the I guess it made some impression on faith has paid off." me." multi-lingual Mass). Let them keep up Cathedral High School. the good work." 'The complaint (is) that the high-level (theological) agreements don't have much ef- fect on the grassroots or on church leadership. Progress without fan-fare marks latest ecumenical talks :*; "If that means a backsliding with By Jerry Filteau regard to the understanding of other NC News Service Christians' if it means falling back into ignorance, then it is something I have Gone are the heady days of the late to oppose," he said. 1960s and early 70s when every new But fostering institutional identity ecumentical agreement drew splashy does not have to mean that; he said. "I headlines and excited discussion. always tell (interfaith) groups, "If you really want to be ecumenical, learn But the American Catholic and your own tradition,'" he commented. Lutheran scholars who have just reach- "If you really learn your tradition ed a major new agreement on you're going to learn its strengths-and justification-a central issue that split you're going to be more ecumenical.' Lutherans from Rome more than 450 HE CITED the just-complet& years ago-are not disheartened by the Catholic-Lutheran agreement on apparent ecumenical doldrums today. ECUMENICAL SITUATION-Sen. Edward Kennedy applauds Rev. Jerry justification as an example of that Instead they see the drive for church principle. In a notable section near the unity as a strong, living force Within Falwell's comments following a speech by the senator at Falwell's Liberty end of the 21,000-word statement; the their churches. Baptist College. (NC photo). Catholic and Lutheran participants in the dialogue discuss in depth both the They view their own new agreement said Lutheran dialogue participant FATHER CARL Peter; Dean of the George Lindbeck, "is the complaint Catholic University of America's strengths and the weaknesses or as a significant contribution to church dangers in each side's tradition regar- inky; not as dramatic as some earlier that the high-level (theological) School of Religious Studies and agreements don't have much effect on another dialogue participant seconded ding justification, faith, merit, sin, agreements but in some ways more far- grace, satisfaction and related issues. reaching. the grassroots or on church leadership. Lindbeck's views. "There's a great deal more realism "We (Catholics) say, 'The strengths There is a "new realism" about "But within the last two, three, or today" than 10 years ago about the of the Lutheran position are simply ecumenism in the churches, said prac- four years; we've begun to see a amount of work that has to be done to undeniable. On the other hand; these tically every Catholic or Lutheran momentum developing. Larger and achieve church unity, he said. "We're are accompanied by weaknesses that dialogue participant in a series of inter- larger numbers of people are saying more realistic about moving institu- make me apprehensive.' And they (the views with NC News Service during the something should be done to imple- tions and realize it takes patient per- Lutherans) in turn do the same thing," mid-September meeting in Milwaukee ment the agreements. suasion. Father Peter said. at which they completed five years of "Now the fact remains that the "This is not just a matter of a few He suggested that was at the core of work on justification. dialogues tend to be a long distance years-it may take a long time. But interfaith dialogue. "Both sides teach, THE PERIOD of high optimism and away from what the rest of the church because of the dialogue, I don't think and both sides learn," he said, avid enthusiasm for ecumenism that is doing." the biases are going to be handed on;" "because the word of God' despite the accompanied the Catholic Church's After the "euphoria of the 60s and human sin of division, has been "These statements of convergence 70s" there has been "a certain tenden- preserved in both traditions - and has serious entry into the Christian unity won't make much difference until movement with the Second Vatican cy among a fair number to foster in- -irought life to millions in both tradi- practical reasons arise for effective stitutional identity," Father Peter said. tions." Council (1962-65) has disappeared; rapprochement," he added. they said. Also gone; however, is the : _~ kind of bitter opposition to ecumenism But when that time comes; the which that-enthusiasm used to pro- theological groundwork will already voke. have been laid, said Lindbeck, a HE'S GOT THE SPIRIT- Instead; the dialogue participants theology professor at Yale Divinity said they see a deeper more sustained School. Then he said, the scholarly YOU'VE GOT IT TOO ! and more realistic interest in and com- work "already in place" will show the mitment to church unity. members and leaders of the churches As St. Paul wrote to the Ephesians, through the Resurrection we "One of the constant themes both "how fast they can move with effective ,inside and outside ecumenical circles," theological responsibility." have been made "alive together with Christ." We share this life in Christ through our own lives and through the mission Church around the world. 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PAGE 6-Fridav, October 14, 1983-THE VOICE More questions than answers offered at conference __ _ - TV violencem WASHINGTON (NC) - The issue its marks on victims in his operating tions: Why viewers watch violent pro- Koop said. "That's a far more signifi- of violence on television prompted room. grams; why there is fear in society; why cant issue then whether or not one TV more discussion than easy answers "The real world of violence is a some people withdraw from the "real show or another promotes violence." nightmare, one from which the victim world" and become "mute when academic researchers confronted Murray, of Boys Town, said that "I network executives at a Washington may never entirely recover," the bystanders" in society, unwilling to aid surgeon general said. In contrast; TV their jieighbors. believe we do have evidence...that TV workshop Oct. 6. violence can cause aggression/' In fact, Dr. C. Everett Koop, U.S. heros slug it out with criminals or are He cited two examples of the latter surgeon general, suggested that shot routinely, only to continue behavior: The refusal about 20 years "Television can influence the at- although violence is "epidemic" in fighting and get the crook by the end of ago by 38 neighbors of a young New titudes, actions and values of viewers," society and prevalent on TV, the real the show, he said. York woman to get involved when she he said. Although TV violence research was attacked for 30 minutes and then reports differ in some aspects, the con- questions are why many people con- FOLLOWING years of study of TV tinue to watch violent programs; are murdered outside their windows, sensus is_that "violence on TV does violence; including by the government despite her cries for help, and the re- lead to aggressive behavior by children fearful, or withdraw from reality to itself, "we know too much about the hide at home ~ watching TV. cent case of a New England woman and teen-agers who watch the pro- problem to look the other way," Koop raped in a bar while other men watched grams," Murray added. ^ THE CONFERENCE, "Violence on added. without intervening to assist her. But Dr. Alan Wurtzel, vice president ^•Television: a National Health Issue?" Nonetheless, he said he does not for broadcast standards and practices want research reporting a link between was funded by the American Medical ~ 'Although violence is for the ABC network, disagreed. Association and sponsored by the Na- TV violence and real-world violence to "We don't believe that's the case at tional Coalition on TV Violence; one be used as an excuse for regulating the "epidemic" in society all," he said, adding that it is "simply of various parents' and TV viewers' content of TV shows. and prevalent on TV, unwarranted" to claim a cause-and- One researcher, Dr. John Murray, organizations worried about the issue. the real questions are effect relationship between TV Koop noted that the murder rate for director of Youth and Family Policy at violence and violent behavior. young white men has gone up about the Boys Town Center, Boys Town, why many people He said cause-and-effect theories do 400 percent since 1965, the suicide rate Neb., noted that there have been some not explain whether TV show violence 1,000 studies on the TV violence issue continue to watch has tripled for both young white and violent programs, are prompts youths to be violent or black men since 1950, and reported since the 1950s. whether, in contrast, youths prone to cases of child abuse "have more than While many reports have alleged a fearful, or withdraw violence primarily watch vilent shows. doubled" in the last six years. cause-and-effect link between violence on TV and violent acts in society, from reality to hide at Mary Megee, producer of a planned Thus, government must be concern- home—watching TV.' Public Broadcasting Service series on ed about violence, including violence research by the TV networks themselves rejects such conclusions. the TV industry, said journalists portrayed in TV shows, he said. should cover issues involving the mass Koop said in his 40 years as a Koop said experts on either side of But whether TV shows promote media, including the question of TV surgeon, "every day I saw the human the issue "should no longer have to violence sparked much debate from violence, more thoroughly. "We have toll of violence" in society, but the trade research studies like other conference participants. a policy question here but one which violence he sees on TV programs bears cannonballs" and instead should THE "DILEMMA of the detached the American public is not privy to," little resemblence to the kind that left cooperate in addressing other ques- bystander" needs to be addressed, Megee said. Passion Play marks 350th year known Castle Neuschwanstein constructed in 1869 Several package tours by King Ludwig II. Another one of Ludwig's available to Oberammergau, famous castles is found even closer to Oberam- mergau at Linderhof. Between 1874 and 1879, other attractions amidst terraced gardens and pools of cascading Oberammergau, with a population of about waters, he built a palace whose interiors rival 5,000, is world famous for an event in the town's those of Versailles in luxury. history having nothing to do with its picturesque Following are several package tours available and story-book setting. Next year, 1984, marks through the Catholic Pilgrim next year. Four of the 350th anniversary of this event — the the tours include Oberammergau Passion Play. miraculous deliverance of the town from the dead- Two are sponsored by The Voice: ly Black Plague. When in 1633, the Parish Fathers watched in horror the death and devastation brought about by the Plague throughout Europe, they took an oath: they, and the people of Oberammergau would enact the last days of Christ's life in the form of a Passionplay if the village would be spared, Indeed, the miracle took place, and thus began a tradition which has been carried on (1) Feb.28-Mar.13 Italy & Bavaria faithfully by each generation. St. Casimir Pilgrimage to Rome The play is performed only once every decade, (2) Apr.01-Apr.08 "Song of America" Cruise on the year ending in zero. (3) May 05-May 22 Egypt. — Holy Land — Greece Nineteen eighty four will mark the first time sponsored by 'THE VOICE* A The Oberammergau Passion Play (4) May 28-Jun. 12 The Holy Land that this tradition will be broken, due to the 350th (5) Jun U-Jul.Ol OBERAMMERGAU PASSIONPLAY anniversary. however, the first few rows and the stage, and of Rhine-Cruise, Holland, Belgium The play depicts the story of Christ's Passion, course, the actors, remain in the open, framed Paris, London, Strattford beginning with His entrance into Jerusalem, en- with the beauty of the mountains as the play's Sponsored by 'THE VOICE' ding with the Resurrection and Transfiguration. (6) Jun. 16-Jun.25 f he Holy Land natural backdrop. Performances take place four (7) Jun. 1,6-Jun.30 The Holy Land & Greece Each performance lasts an entire day with only a days each week commencing on May 21. In all, Optional Extension in break at midday for lunch. over 300,000 visitors from all over the world will Switzerland The production itself involves most of the have attended the Passionplay when the last actor (8) Jun.16-Ju.04 The Holy Land, Lourdes, Spain townspeople* including up to 500 children and . walks offstage (9) Jul.20-Aug.09 OBERAMMERGAU PASSIONPLAY Romantic Germany, Scandinavia even live, animals. There are about 125 speaking Tickets to the play are purchased through an of- (10) Aug.10-Sep.01 Holy Land, Switzerland parts, as well as a full orchestra with a chorus of fice in Oberammergau solely responsible for their OBERAMMERGAU PASSIONPLAY over 100 persons. It is a totally local endeavour; allocation. Entrance to the play can only be ob- Romantic Germany only legitimate village residents may participate,: ; tained together with accommodation in this village (ll)Sep.l5-Oct.01 OBERAMMERGAU PASSIONPLAY none of whom are professionals. ' Switzerland, Austria, Italy or others, within a radius of 30 miles. Visitors stay (12) Sep.14-Sep.16 Papal Visit to Canada -Toronto The requirements to be met by each actor are for either one or two nights only, with all meals in- optional extension to Ottawa, strict. He must be either born in Oberammergau cluded. Rooms are provided in hotels, inns or St. Anne de Beaupre, Montreal or have resided in the town at least twenty years. possibly in one of the many spotlessly clean homes IMPORTANT: Tours that include the OBERAMMERGAU- Nothing is artificial. Almost a year prior to the of the town's inhabitants. Who knows, you could PASSlONPLAY require bookings with deposit payments im-

play's opening, the men who will participate in the be the guest of one of the actors! mediately. THE CATHOLIC PILGRIM presentation begin growing their beards and A few miles from Oberammergau itself, stands ~ s 150 SE 2nd Ave.,Ste.lllO allowing their hair to grow long. There are no wigs the Benedictine Abbey at Ettal, set in Alpine Uip& Miami, FL 33131 or false beards allowed. Characters chosen for solitude in 1330. It is very likely that the original mail to: (305)358-1276 their parts are carefully screened, bearing in mind text for the Passionplay was written here by the Please send information on following tours: the roles which they are about to play. In the case monks of this community. of Jesus, a great deal of physical exertion is re- Also close by are some very famous attractions. ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) < quired. In one scene, the man taking His role Following the German Alpine Highway, towards Name. hangs on the cross for almost twenty minutes. Switzerland, one is able to visit the Royal Castle of The specially-built Passion Theatre can seat Hohenschwangau built by Maximilian II of Address almost 5,000 spectators under a vast roof. Bavaria between 1832 and 1836, and the better Zip .Tel.. THE VOICE-Friday, October 14, 1983-PAGE 7 Women's role elicits studies

By NC News Service "facilitate the full recognition of women as persons in our church and in Questions surrounding women's our society," according to the commis- roles in the church have sparked sion's statement of direction. preparation of a pastoral letter on women in Chicago, creation of a The commission, as outlined in the diocesan commission in Syracuse, statement, will also: N.Y., and plans for two national con- ©Work toward the fullest possible ferences in November. participation of women in the church; QCommend the positive ways women Citing the need to "bring women have been recognized; more into the mainstream" of the OBreak down male and female church, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of stereotypes; Chicago said he will prepare a pastoral ©Recognize the hurts women have^^ statement on the role of women during experienced within church structurd^P the next year. and the need for healing; OExamine the Syracuse Diocese's WOMEN, he said "Need and desire practices toward women; and to experience, in every sphere of life OPromote social progress and and activity, that radical equality with legislation which will enrich the role of its consequent rights and duties, which women in society. God intended all people, male and female, to have." But equality "is unfortunately not MEANWHILE, a conference on always respected," the cardinal said. women in the church will be held in Chicago Nov. 11-13. "It becomes more He cited as examples the crime of imperative than ever that women no rape and the "feminization of longer remain voiceless," in light of re- poverty," a phenomenon in which cent papal statements, said Maureen women's poverty is aggravated by Reiff, coordinator of the conference discriminatory hiring procedures. sponsored by the Women of the The church also should open up Church Coalition. ORDER OF MERIT-Auxiliary Bishop Joseph O'Keefe displays the more roles to women, he said. Lebanese Order of Merit awarded Oct. 5 to Cardinal Terence Codke of He noted that the revised Code of On Sept. 5 in an address to U.S. New York for his promotion of "peace and justice in the Middle East." Canon Law has made a number of bishops at Castelgandolfo, Italy, Pope Cardinal Cooke died of leukemia the following day. Bishop O'Keefe has changes which acknowledge women's John Paul II urged bishops to zealous- been appointed apostolic administrator until a new archbishop is named talents and dignity. ly manifest support for "the dignity of by Pope John Paul II. INC photo from UPD. "Still more needs to be done," he women" and to teach clearly that ex- continued, "both to open up to women clusion from the ordained priesthood various areas which traditionally have for women is "extraneous to the issue been male-dominated and to clarify of discrimination." some of the problematic matters which have arisen." The coalition's conference, titled Help Perpetuate BISHOP Frank J. Harrison of "From Generation to Generation: Syracuse has approved establishment Woman Church Speaks," will include of a Diocesan Commission on Women presentations on militarism, classism, God's Work in Church and Society. racism and sexism, a statement from The commission is intended to the coalition said.

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PAGE 8-Friday, October 14. 1983-THE VOICE Do Catholics worship Mary? By Henry Libersat developed me notion that Jesus was Editor not approachable because he was the The Florida Catholic "just judge," that he was made by First of two parts God the dispenser of justice while Mary, his mother, was made the They don't—at least not those who dispenser of mercy. understand Catholic teaching about Jesus, who once had been the way to the communion of the saints. the Father was now as unapproachable However, considering some of the as the Father—and so was his Spirit pietistic language used in Marian devo- 'I can understand since the Spirit proceeded from the tions and the historical development of Father and the Son. ' those devotions and of doctrine itself, I why Protestants it is no wonder many Protestants con- Now people needed an intercessor to shrink away from the reach the Intercessor. ANALYSIS I somewhat extreme Thus the somewhat extreme pietism pietism and and misleading language in Marian elude that Catholics do worship Mary devotions which call her, for example, and consider her somehow equal with misleading language "mother of mercy, our life, our Jesus Christ in the plan of redemption. in Marian devotions, sweetness and our hope." It is hard to know where to begin in It is Jesus who gives mercy, who is .treating this complex and confusing II even though I pray our life and our hope. 'subject. Ithe "Hail Holy I can understand why Protestants In the first place, Catholic readers III Queen'' and shrink away from this language, even may not fully realize that Protestants though I pray the "Hail Holy Queen" are correct when they say that Marian Ujsomehow understand and somehow understand the words do doctrine wasn't formulated until many ithe words do not not mean what they may imply to those centuries after the beginning of Chris- not of our faith. However, I wish we tianity. || mean what they may would change the words! As we look at the New Testament, 1 imply to those not of Catholic security in Marian doctrine lour faith. However, I Does this mean the Church has faces a little challenge. The first gospel taught error, that Mary does not written (Mark) had little to say about IIwish we would deserve honor, that praying to and Mary, and some scholars place her, in 1 change the words!' with the saints is actually wrong, ac- Mark's gospel, with family members tually idolatrous? who thought Jesus was out of his mind No. Mary is the Mother of God. (Mark 3:21). While she was protected from sin even In Mark (3:20-35), Jesus' sharp from the moment she was conceived in question, "Who are my mother and her mother's womb (doctrine of the my brothers?" sounds like a rebuttal. Immaculate Conception), her purifity However, later, in Luke (8:19-21), the comes to her through Jesus; she is sense of Jesus' answer is that "while daughter of Adam and needs Jesus to she is my mother, it is more important be made pure; she is virgin. that she hears and follows the Word of How can this be? Is this not con- God." Richard McBrien, Vol.2, p. 870). Yet, virtuous as did the rest of the Fathers. this document fails to provide a The Council of Ephesus in 431 ruled tradictory? Again, no. The fact that Matthew, the second gospel to be Scripture does not proclaim her ever written, provides only a little more reliable history of Mary's early life—or against the Nestorian heresy which her later life. No other documents pro- gave Christ two persons. Ephesus call- virgin does not mean she was not ever- about Mary than does Mark. Luke, ' virgin. however, attributes words of praise to vide such a a reliable history. ed Mary the "Mother of God" show- In the first century, Ignatius of An- ing that the Child she bore was both As Catholics, we know that the an angel and Elizabeth and records authority to teach without error resides Mary's own Magnificat. tioch gives witness to her virginal con- Qod and taan. ception; Justin draws a parallel bet- But Mary's perpetual virginity was in the Church, not in individual inter- Even in the gospel of John, the last pretation of the Bible; we know that gospel to be written, the gospel of the ween Eve and Mary—Eve heard the still a topic for debate. The highly serpent and disobeyed God; Mary esteemed St. Jerome (d. 420) called Tradition embodies revelation just as beloved disciple, the gospel of the one surely as does Scripture. We cannot who truly understood Jesus' divinity, heard God and obeyed him; Irenaeus "delirious nonsense" the belief that parallels this Eve-Mary concept with she remained virgin even during the understand Jesus without Tradition; Mary does not receive the praise ac- nor can we understand Scripture corded her in Luke. St. Paul's juxtaposition of Adam and physical birth of Jesus. Christ. From the Council of Ephesus on- without the understanding provided by And in the Book of Revelation, Tradition. Marian devotees are sometimes shock- Late in the second century came the ward, Marian feasts increased in first thoughts of Mary's remaining number. The proposition that Mary ed to learn, the "woman clothed with There are many respected scholars the sun and crowned with 12 stars" is virgin during the birth of Jesus and was assumed into heaven developed after the birth as well. from the so-called "argument of con- who now question whether Mary was not Mary, but the Church. ever-virgin, whether there was a John does, however, in the scene on The Church believed that Mary's venience and fittingness" (Ibid, p.873). virginity was proof of Jesus' It was fitting that Jesus should preserve miraculous conception when Jesus was Calvary when Jesus gives Mary and conceived in her womb. They reason John to one another as mother and messiahship, of his unique sonship his mother from corruption, so he under the Father. He was. both God must have. correctly that God is not limited and son, place Mary in the heart of the could have made Jesus the Son of God Johannine Christian community. and man. But the emphasis on the Faith in Mary's power of interces- virgin birth actually fed the Docetist sion grew and received encouragement even if Joseph had been his natural Mary is mentioned only briefly in the father. Acts of the Apostles—and St. Paul and Gnostic heresies which denied the under Germanus, patriarch of Con- humanity of Christ. stantinople (d. 713). Germanus put However, scholars are not the refers to her only vaguely when he says authentic teachers of doctrine—the that Jesus was "born of a woman." forth the idea that Mary had a mater- From the beginning of the third cen- nal influence over God, that she could pope and bishops are. To date, both For the first 150 years of Church turn away God's anger and vengeance. dogmatically and pietistically, the pope history, little was said about Mary. tury to the Middle Ages, Mariology grew. From the early 200s onward, and bishops adhere to the view, About 150 A.D., the Protevangelium developed over the centuries but rooted of James (an apocryphal document Mary's perpetual virginity was almost So, the theology surrounding universally accepted. Catholic devotion to Mary is not cut in what I call the Fundamental Marian first known as "Birth of Mary: Revela- Thread, that Mary was conceived tion of James") contains stories about She was seen as a model of all vir- and dried. Present, post Vatican II theology didn't just drop, from heaven without sin, remained ever virgin and the "early family life of Mary, her tues—with John Chrysostom (the was assumed into heaven. birth, her betrothal to Joseph, the an- Golden Voice) standing out as an ex- any more than did Germanus' ception. John came down hard on somewhat exaggerated views. 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THE VOICE-Friday. October 14, 1983-PAGE 9 ARCHBISHOP SPEAKS Keep the saints in Halloween

My beloved: I receive recently a very well written letter from one of our Catholic doctors •WV,-... who is engaged in family practice, expressing concern over the way we celebrate Halloween. He very properly pointed out that we are permitting this beautiful religious festivity to be perverted to a pagan observance. All Hallows Eve is intended to be a celebration of the vigil of All Saints Day, when we honor and give thanks for the saints. It can also be an occasion for giving thanks for the harvest of the season. Instead, as my correspondent writes, "monsters, witches, demon s, pumpkin faces, ghosts, black cats, the occult, the demonic, etc. get worshiped innocently by people of all ages, creed and races." He is unable to understand how any Catholic school in Miami or in all the world must yield to these pagan pressures. He points out, "classrooms get decorated with 'cute' but still horrible pictures of things that go contrary to our faith. Witches are hanging on the walls; ghosts are in the doors, all kinds of monsters are depicted as 'fun and nice.' "Is that what Christ would have liked for our children to celebrate? I don't have to tell you that, for Satanists, of which there are many cults here in the United States, for witches, 'Santeros' and all the other people that deal with the occult, the day of Halloween is a very important day." * I think what my correspondent has to say is "food for thought." Devotedly yours in Christ, Edward A. McCarthy Archbishop of Miami Write, fight pornography

The following statement on por-* barded with the wares of the sex en- of this year privately expressed his own It is important that the President nography was released this week by Ar- trepreneurs wherever they turn. concern about the traffic in por- now hear from the people on the mat- chbishop Edward A. McCarthy of Now, in many areas of our nation, nography when he was asked by a ter. Therefore, we suggest that con- Miami. they are being confronted with it in group of religious leaders to mount an cerned citizens write the President, their living rooms, as pornography attack on the vicious traffic by direc- thank him for his own concern, and re- The effects on our society of the moves into the home by way of cable ting aggressive enforcement of federal quest that he publicly voice that con- burgeoning traffic in pronography are television. This brazen assault on our anti-obscenity laws. He has formed a cern so that enforcement of the laws reaching a stage of crisis. The conse- young, our families, cannot help but White House Working Group on Por- will be expedited. quent permissiveness it breeds is drive countless souls away from Christ. nography to coordinate and investigate At stake is the very soul of our na- engulfing our young, who are bom- President Ronald Reagan in March enforcement of those laws. tion. are sent from God OFFICIAL Dear Friends in Christ: the good news of Christ and His this important appeal which will be Archdiocese of Miami Our Divine Lord has commissioned Church, and to support the Propaga- held next Sunday throughout the Ar- all His followers to be Missionaries of tion of the Faith Appeal. chdiocese. The Pastoral Center announces that His Gospel. We are all called to The Mission Sunday collection sup- May our Blessed Lady, Queen of the Archbishop McCarthy has made the evangelize: ports over 135,000 Catholic Mis- Missions, bless you and your family, I following appointment: "Go therefore, teach all Nations, sionaries throughut the world. You am THE REV. THOMAS VENGAYIL baptizing them in the name of the share in this magnificent Missionary - to Chaplain of the Palm Beach Coun- Father and of the Son and of the Holy Apostolate of the Church when you Devotedly yours in Christ, cil No. 2075 of the Knights of Colum- Spirit." generously-support this Mission Ap- Edward A. McCarthy bus, West Palm Beach, effective Each year, on Mission Sunday, we peal. Archbishop of Miami September 26, 1983. are reminded of our obligation to teach I ask your customary generosity to Miami-Palm Beach walk planned to raise funds for Lord's Place

ByDickConklin Voice Correspondent This means taking a job and setting That's when a new Lord's Place new shelter, joined by hundreds of Deacon Joe of St. Juliana's Parish, aside 75 per cent of the income for alias Brother Joe of the Lord's Place "angel"--an anonymous donor with a local supporters. their permanent home. The system special offer - contacted Archbishop soup kitchen, migrant ministry and CHRISTIANS of many denomina-'' family shelter, is beginning a long walk; works and (there is) already a waiting Edward McCarthy. Raise 90 per cent list of families for the shelter. of the money by the end of the year, he tions have offered to join Brother Joe said, and he would contribute the final on his walk and help sign up sup- - one he hopes will call attention to his 10 per cent or $28,500. porters. Church leaders like Episcopal unique project and raise enough money 'Brother Joe will walk Bishop Calvin Schofield will par- to pay for it. (His walk - from Miami the 70 miles from ticipate. to the new Lord's Place Shelter in West Brother Joe and his volunteers Volunteers are confident they can Palm Beach -will publicize the plight Miami to West Palm wasted no time in putting a new plan reach their formidable goal, but just in of Brother Joe's "street people'' and if sponsors give just together: he will walk 70 miles from case, they are planning a big ask friends along the way to make 10 cents per Miami to West Palm if sponsors give "Thanksgiving Fiesta"fund-raising Lord's Place Shelter a reality. just 10 cents a mile - $7. luau for November 18 at Singer mile-$7.' Island's Colonnades Hotel. The event The shelter is a converted motel in will cost $25 for individuals or. $45 per West Palm that already houses a dozen couple. families. The tenants, all couples with He'll start at the Miami Herald children, are people who can't afford a BROTHER Joe's well-publicized building in Miami on Friday, People interested in helping the place to live. They stay at the shelter month-long vigil in downtown West November 4 at 9 a.m. and arrive at the Lord's Place by participating in either for six weeks while Lord's Place Palm helped raise nearly half of the West Palm Beach City Hall two days the walk or the dinner may write to volunteers help them get back on their $285,000 heeded to purchase the later, at 2 p.m. on Sunday, November P.O. Box 7117,West Palm Beach, FL feet. shelter. 6. Then he'll walk the last mile to the 33405 or call 659-6006. PAGE 10-Friday, October 14, 1983-THE VOICE Ladies' Gospel Gourmet By Betsy Kennedy Voice Staff Writer him we are telling the community we are sorry, that they too are receiving While the rest of the world is reading the sacramental grace." bad news in the morning papers, a To illustrate the need for group of women meet to share the forgiveness, Gallagher also told the Good News they find in the Gospel of story of a woman who lived in the Lord. • . Jamaica. The woman's life was very These are the "Women of Light," blessed until her father contracted representing parishes throughout the leprosy (Hansen's disease). After years Archdiocese. Once a month on Satur- of torment and anguish, he was cured. day morning, they set aside their busy When he was reunited with his family, schedules and gather at the Sheraton an aunt and uncle came to visit who Riverhouse Hotel in Miami for a Bible had simply deserted the family during brunch. the father's long illness. Their fear had Myrna Gallagher of the Archdiocese driven them awav. Office of Lay Ministry leads the group in scripture readings. Kitty Janelle, lay The woman was filled with anger minister from St. John the Apostle, and resentment. The mother instead assists in organizing the event, and forgave them, showing Jesus 'healing Mary Beth Kunde, office, of worship, touch.' arranges for musical entertainment from various parishes. The group also "Pray to God this week, who do you listens to a personal witness story of want me to touch and lead back to the faith. sacramental church?" she told the Women of Light. Last Saturday, the reading was Luke 5:12-16 wherein Jesus cured the leper Focusing on the same subject of healing, Jennifer Block addressed the and told him to "offer for your healing group. what Moses prescribed: that should be a proof for them." WITH A RADIANT smile on her In a riveting interpretation of the face throughout her remarks, she said, scripture, Gallagher told the group "I often speak in public about my "the first time I saw a leper I could feel work with the retarded, but I rarely get the fear rise up in my heart-it took to witness about my whole reason for every ounce of my courage to approach being-Jesus and God my father." him." We can all learn by Jesus' example, She also shared Gallagher's initial she told the attentive listeners, because reaction to the sight of lepers. Block he saw the leper and "pain him worked with them at one of Mother honor." Teresa's homes in India and at first she "God created us whole. He didn't admitted it was a shocking adjustment. want us to suffer. He wants us to be She overcame her revulsion when she one." found them "appreciative and 3 But healing requires the most beautiful" and alight with wisdom that At the Women of Light monthly Bible brunch, Myrna Gallagher of the Office challenging kind of faith, she said. could illiminate the way for healthy of Lay Mihistrv delivers an impassioned talk on the gospel of Luke. Faith comes on three levels: first is people. in a small way the spiritual and the book learning kind, a necessary Then, with bibles tucked firmly under building block, next is the temporal No matter what befalls us, whether a material suffering of others in the debilitating illness or any tragedy, we world," like the poverty stricken peo- their arms and good news in their one, where we say for example, 'the thoughts, they went back to their daily plane is going to take me where I am have to realize "what we have at any ple she saw in India. given moment is what we need and schedules. going,' and last is the deepest level, the what God has given to usl healing faith we're called onto have in BLOCK TOLD her audience that scripture when we ask 'God help me, I "In every situation we can turn to God must have wanted her to finish The Dade chapter of Women of Jesus and he will transform that situa- some work in her life because she was Light will meet again at 9:30 a.m. on can't do this alone.' tion." God also forgave the unforgiveable, now cured and lives a healthy life. November 12 at the Sheraton but people don't show the same Block re-lived her personal healing Riverhouse. To make reservations, call forgiveness in their lives, rather they experience. Two years ago she was told "We have to be open to God in our Dade, 948-6152 or Broward, 584-4786. 'forgive but don't forget' when so- lives every moment, we have to be Ursula Bleasdell from the Caribbean by doctors at Jackson Memorial receptive every moment. meone transgresses against them. Hospital that she had cancer of the Service Team Advisory Committee "Our entire lives can change with from Arima, Trinidad, will be the Gallagher also dealt with the issue of breast. She accepted the burden of il- one telephone call." lness because there was something guest speaker. Early reservations are confession, which she said is a recommended. positive in it, she said. In closing, she told the group to necessary sacrament because when we A Broward group will meet for the sin we sin "against the community." "pray for me to continue to know After undergoing a radical masec- first time on November 19th. Contact "If we sin the family of God isn't God's love and healing." Sharon Coe in Broward, 721-8486. A whole. The priest is the symbol of that tomy and beginning chemotherapy The group shared a few final treatments she realized, "I was to share Palm Beach group is also forming community and when we confess to moments of reflection and prayer. soon. Aquinas High unit keeps the values going

By Clara Borrego Adams said' St. Thomas Aquinas organized, highly-structured, educa- educating the public about Catholic Voice Writer High School depends solely on those tional process that integrates that schools^' donations and tuition for support of message of God into all of the learning Father Vincent T. Kelly, superinten- teachers' salaries, scholarships, process," Matt said. dent of Education for the Archdiocese In this day and age, when teenagers building plans, and any additional Foundations such as St. Thomas of Miami, said the distinguishing fac- tend to create their own set of moral heeds. Aquinas' enable Catholic education to tor in a Catholic education is the at- values, one institution works to ensure Matt, also Board Member of the Na- happen, he said. mosphere of caring. the survival of Catholic Education and tional Catholic Education Association; "Catholic education then provides Sister John Norton, principal of St. its values. gave a "layman's overview" of three things: knowledge to become Thomas Aquinas, said the relationship "The St. Thomas Aquinas Founda- Catholic education and stressed the permeated with Catholic doctrine; at- between teachers and students at the tion is helping provide an environment heed for integrating Catholic values in titudes which reflect values based on school is unusual. where the young generation can en- the learning process. Christian charity; and habits condi- "The school is people, not a counter Jesus," Robert Matt, chair* "Catholic education has an added tioned by Catholic morality," Matt building," Sister Norton said. "The man of the National Council of dimension, the presence of Jesus Christ said. administration has certain control and Catholic Education (NCCE) told the as God," he said. Matt said his primary reason for get- discipline which leads to high academic Fourth Annual St. Thomas Aquinas If parents expect the younger genera- ting involved in Catholic education was standards." Foundation Dinner, in Fort Lauder- tion to practice the Catholic faith, they that all of his 14 children have attended Father, Harris, chaplain at St. dale. better place their children in fui en- Catholic schools. Thomas Aquinas, said togetherness is According to Julie Adams, chairper- vironment where they feel comfortable "Most successful business people, at the distinguishing factor within the son for the dinner, the foundation is a with Jesus and at home with religion. one time in their life want to pay off school. separate corporation formed to raise "In order for the young generation's the community for what they have got- "Whether Catholic or not, black or money for the high school through faith to survive intellectually in this ten," Matt said. "Therefore, I took a white, there is no color line,'' Father pledges and donations of cash and culture it becomes obvious that we pledge about 16 years ago to dedicate Harris said. "We are all a part of goods. must provide them with a well- all my public time to the ministry of one." THE VOICE-Friday, October 14, 1983-PAGE 11 CHRIST THE KING'S

Festival of love

It was a music festival in the best sense of the word: dancers, instrumentalists, choruses, and good participation from both the performers and the audience. » These were the elements that made a spirited concert at Christ the King church in Perrine a rousing success last Saturday night. It seemed obvious that this parish with as many as 25 different nationalities represented has achieved a special closeness that was expressed Dancers, led by Deborah Mello-True beautifully through a night of sharing (right) perform a lively interpretation of a song. choral number while musical director J.W. Snyder conducts. Many families Parishioners joined hands, clapped, participated in the festival, linking hands and were led by music director J.W. Snyder in songs such as a musical (above) while singling several religious version of the Lord's Prayer. Dancers SOngs. (Voice photo by Prentice Browning). led by Deborah Mello-True weaved in an out of several numbers and became 7 the center attraction when they danced to "Graceful as Morning" sung by a church chorus. Text and photos Playing the trumpet, Hector Lomily brought the audience to its feet with a by moving rendition of Ave Maria. An added ingredient was the warmth Prentice of the audience participation ."I hate to put them in the charismatic category," says associate pastor Fr. James Browning O'Shaughnessy, "they are basically people who are very fond of each Haitians, and other nationalities have other." been broken down, Fr. O'Shaughnessy Fr. O'Shaughnessy attributes the says, through about ten parish parish spirit to a parish renewal renewals. program. Before' the first parish This parish spirit, he says, is renewal two years ago, he said, there spreading to other parishes as well. was "a very subtle tension." "This sort of love knows no The barriers, between Jamaicans, bounds," he says. 1

LETTERS OF THANKS

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SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS-Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy peruses the "spiritual bouquets," pledges of Masses, rosaries and charitable Grade-school students at St. Jerome Catholic School in Fort Lauderdale hold up the letters works collected from more than 70 parishes. they received from priests after Convocation '83. The students, under the supervision of The Archbishop will present them to Pope John Principal Sister Maria Cartaya, wrote several letters each to every priest in the Archdiocese Paul II during a private audience later this letting them know they were praying for the success of the Convocation and offering month at the Vatican. (Voice photo by Prentice Rosaries said and sacrifices made on their behalf. The priests wrote moving letters back, Browning). - thanking the children. (Voice photo by Prentice Browning).

PAGE 12-Fridav, October 14. 1983-THE VOICE 'Numbers crisis' on absolution VATICAN CITY (NQ—When it pastoral creativity to meet the needs of rite of general confession and general of doing so, said Bishop Albert eomes to persons receiving the different groups of people. absolution be improved and that the Obiefuna of Awka, Nigeria, would be sacrament of reconciliation, the church Archbishop Gabriel Wako of obligation to confess sins afterwards be to improve the liturgy for the has a "numbers crisis." And as the Khartoum, Sudan, noted that from removed." sacrament of reconciliation. 1983 world Synod of Bishops develops, 1962 until 1972, his priests had the Some bishops cited a loss of the "We priests and faithful have not to it is becoming clear that the term Vatican's permission to practice sense of sin as a reason for the decline date felt the impact of any celebration "numbers crisis," has two different general confession and absolution. The in penitents while the Canadian worthy of the name in connection with meanings depending upon where one removal of that permission by Pope bishops said it was a "loss of a sense of this sacrament," said Bishop stands on the globe. Paul VI, he said, has caused God." Obiefuna. "It is precisely for this For those in underdeveloped mission "considerable pastoral problems." "For many a sense of mystery, reason that this sacrament has become areas, such as South America and "It is physically impossible for most holiness and importance of God has so unattractive." Africa, the crisis is one of not enough faithful to confess their sins been lost," Said Canadian Archbishop He recommended that the delegates priests to hear the confessions of all the individually once a year to a priest Adam Exner of Winnipeg, Manitoba. use "this providential moment to penitents who seek absolution. whom they can see only one once or devote all our energy especially in our But for those in the developed twice a year," he said. "It creates group discussions to evolve a liturgical world, such as the United States and confusion in the minds of the people More attractive celebration worthy of the name for this Western Europe, the crisis is one of too regarding the purpose and meaning of Other bishops said that even among sacrament. It should be such a few people seeking sacramental this confession after their sins have those sensitive to the reality of God celebration as will attract sinners back absolution from a priest. been forgiven and regarding the value and sin, a decline in the use of penance to the home of the father of mercies The views were presented in of the general confession and has occurred. These bishops suggested like the prodigal son." interventions to the month-long synod, absolution." that the church has to make the Numerous bishops have which began Sept. 29. Archbishop Wako asked "that the sacrament more attractive. One means recommended different kinds of To alleviate the .crisis in the education to attract people to the underdeveloped countries, several sacrament. bishops have recommended use of Bishops get feedback general absolution without prior or Continued from Page 1 subsequent individual confession of pilot studies. Clergy reach out sins. To alleviate the crisis in the Cardinal Bernardin also noted that "The study was extremely valuable Several delegates, including a developed countries, several bishops when the pope speaks in strong words and positive," said Cardinal cardinal representing lay viewpoints, have recommended education to to the U.S. bishops he quotes from Bernardin. "We had a good said priests share the blame for' the enable Catholics to appreciate what the their own documents. instrument to work with and it gave us decline in penitents and told the clergy sacrament of reconciliation can mean. "He is not telling us what we don't an opportunity to look at ourselves. they must reach out to the faithful. Bishops from both regions also know," said Cardinal Bernardin. "He We came out quite well. It was. a Cardinal Opilio Rossi, president of sought to enhance the meaning of the is affirming positions that we already motivation to improve ourselves." the Pontifical Council of the Laity, sacrament for their people. have taken." At a separate press conference, read from a paper prepared for the Cardinal Bernardin pointed out that Cardinal Joseph Hoffner of Cologne, synod at a meeting of lay people. The some Vatican actions may appear West Germany, said the German paper said that "the priest should not Celebration asked negative when they really are not. He bishops agreed with the U.S. pastoral. content himself with awaiting the The bishops of Africa have said that cited the seminary study and noted that "The American bishops published a return of the prodigal son: He must go the rite would mean more to Africans in his former Archdiocese of well. thought out letter on out to meet him, using the contribution if it were adapted to an African culture Cincinnati and in his current disarmament. We talked with the of the human sciences. He must know marked by festive celebration and Archdiocese of Chicago, he Americans about it and agree all across how to communicate the love of the personalism. Bishops of the United volunteered the diocesan seminary for the line," said Cardinal Hoffner. father." States have said proper use of all the study. 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in such cosmic affairs as war and Once again, Pope John Paul It has understands that the matter ultimately peace, world hunger and exploitation advised priests to "stay out of will be resolved on the legislative of the poor is to dilute Christ's politics." Speaking to a group of 36 level. Does he get involved in message of its substance. Yet all are U.S. bishops during an audience at his "politics" by writing a letter to his political as well as moral and social summer residence, the pope reminded state or federal representatives or issues; none will be decided in a them, as he has similar contingents, counseling the parents of parish school children to do the same? vacuum. that the priest's primary role is to The Catholic Herald celebrate Mass and administer the Catholics are taught that abortion is sacraments. The priesthood, he said, an objective evil and are expected to is a "full-time occupation." do everything in their power to pro- Few Catholics would argue with tect the lives of innocent, unborn this job description in theory or princi- children. They also realize, since the ple. But how can it be implemented in 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision, a world where reality impinges upon that the evil will be eradicated or theory and expediency demands an limited only if they can assert enough alteration of principle? political influence to change the Con- Kenneth Briggs, religion editor for stitution. DO they expect their priests the "New York Times," intimated in a to be any less concerned with this recent column that it is almost im- process than they are? possible to divorce politics from It is prudent for priests to refrain anything taking place today. For ex- from using the pulpit to explicate par- ample, it has become ordinary, rather tisan political views. It is sound prac- than rare, for bishops' conferences to tice to have them avoid seeking denounce governments that are op- elected political office. It is also wise presive or insensitive to human rights. to keep ministerial roles within the While such pronouncements are based church distinct. Priests by virtue of on moral and religious criteria, they their ordination receive specific cannot help but have political powers which only they can exercise. reverberations. But in a democratic, pluralistic And how does one remain aloof system, few things happen that do from politics in the U.S. where ques- not have political implications. How tions with profoundly moral dimen- does a priest, as citizen and leader of sions are energetically discussed in the Christian community, avoid get- the public arena.'A priest who strong- ting caught up trying to rectify ob- vious injustices? To expect neutrality ly supports tuition tax credits IM SAVING YOU FROM COMMUNISM'

Where are Better immigration bill needed Halo ween saints? sugar industry is requesting 6200 H-2 the causes of migration, some of which To the Editor: The Editor: workers and will hire 9000 before the are: As a child attending Catholic school On reading "Legalize all im- end of the season. * the disproportionate wealth bet- in Miami many years ago, I remember migrants—priests" (9/2/83) I was While some contend that it is ween US and 3rd World (much of always celebrating October 31st as All struck by the strength of Msgr. charitable and honorable to provide which is related to US economic policy) Hallows Eve. Each child dressed on Walsh's concern and its fidelity to our jobs for 3rd-World people, studies at * severe unemployment in 3rd World that date as his or her patron saint. A Catholic tradition. I was also struck by St. Leo College and University of and mounting unemployment at home, part of the day was set aside so that we the conspicuous absence of such con- Florida show that participants in the especially among minorities could each share something about the cern in the Simpspn-Mazzoli Immigra- H-2 programs who must endure * political and economic oppression. life of our patron saint. We were tion Reform and Control bill presently separation from their families, their * human and civil rights violations. always encouraged by the sisters and under consideration by the US Con- homes, their culture, are financially no No matter how strong the US im- the parish priest to have a sense of gress. For every "blessing" in the bill better off than their countrymen who migration control may be made, as holiness in preparation for All Saints there is a corresponding "curse." remained at home. Worse yet is the ex- long as 3rd World men and women sit Day. ploitation suffered by the H-2 workers. hungrily at our borders eyeing the Why is it that in recent years some Of the 6 million undocumented peo- Catholic school classrooms have had ple presently in the US, Immigration Congressman Miller in a report possible chance to get jobs and feed prepared by the Committee on Educa- families, our immigration problems ghosts, goblins, and black cats - things, and Naturalization Service (INS) associated with satanism, paganism, estimates that only 3/4 million will ac- tion and Labor of the U.S. House of will remain unsolved. I recall a young Representatives (July 1983) states that couple who crossed the US-Mexico and witchcraft - displayed as pro- tually qualify for legalization (surveys minently as pictures of Jesus, Mary done in farmworker communities the H-2's "cannot organize, strike nor border on a freight train—not "in" the effectively protest." Miller further train, but "under" the train, the hus- and Joseph on All Hallows Eve? Why reveal that only 1 of 35 will be eligible is it that at a recent Catholic church for legalization). This 3/4 million states that a worker may be "U-listed" band supporting the weight of his wife (blackslisted) which means that he "is and himself by holding on to whatever picnic, a priest walked among the peo- legalized will be balanced out by the ple drinking a can of beer, and the big deregulation of the H-2 program ^which not only fired and banned from the in- could be grasped and traveling in this dustry, he is for all practical purposes position, hanging onto the undersur- event of the day was to raffle a bottle would allow as many as 500,006 H-2 of wine? (guest-workers or off-shore workers) barred from the US labor market for face of the train, for nearly 100 miles. life." (Emphasis mine). A hungry man and a hungry woman. The bible says that man cannot serve to enter this country. The attorney two masters. Let us, in Gdd's name, general's office says that 375,000 H-2's Perhaps it is time that U.S. Catholics They didn't want a handout, only a job cried out loud and clear that, although and they were willing to risk death for get back to filling our children's minds would be employed by US companies and lives and our own with heavenly vi- in the first year. One is forced to immigration reform is desperately that job. needed and long overdue, Simpson- Unless we as Catholics push strongly sions of angels and saints and to serv- wonder how an industry can justify the ing our Master, Lord and Savior, Jesus importation of laborers when Mazzoli is not a good bill and therefore for a good bill, a humane bill, vast should not be made the law of the land. numbers of people will remain on the Christ. Let us ding to our baptismal unemployment in the US is so high, vow to denounce Satan and all his especially among minorities. Dr. Mar- We must send our congressmen back to fringes, in the shadows, their humanity the drawing board to produce a truly and dignity compromised and filled works and all his pomp. Perhaps, then, shall Barry, a Tampa based economist our young people will once again be marvels that an industry so heavily compassionate bill which reflects the with hungers few of us can com- dignity of man, the priority of labor, prehend. Let us not forget that these able to distinguish between being in the subsidized by US taxpayers can be world and being in the church and will allowed to "not hire" US workers. the sanctity of life and the God-given are our brothers and sisters in Christ. right of each person to develop the Nancy L. Couch begin to choose to live the religious life Furthermore, US workers will be Catholic Committee for once again. displaced by H-2 workers. One need fullness of his humanity and to par- ticipate in the shaping of his destiny. Justice and Peace Judy L. Nelson only look at Belle Glade where 6000 Palm Beach Gardens Miami Haitians are unemployed and yet the Such a bill should look more closely at

PAGE 14-Friday. October 14. 1983-THE VOICE Rediscovering the rosary

"I have taken to praying the rosary again. It series of gatherings to pray for marriage in was or that she would not get home to see her must be a good dozen years since I last prayed in general, and for marriages in particular-our own year-old baby again. this particular 'mode' (as they say) and there is a and those of couples we know who seem in need of sense of homecoming about it." The. speaker is Mitch Finley, a free-lance writer "I went in to see hen one night. She was too from Spokane, Washington who also co-authors weak to talk, and I sat with her. She had a rosary with his wife a regular Catholic newspaper col- at her bedside, and I asked her if she wanted me to umn. He likewise, I believe, teaches theology at a say the rosary with her. She nodded 'yes' but was west coast college. BY FR. JOSEPH too weak to answer so I said all the prayers. Those remarks, however, appeared last spring M. CHAMPLIN in "American"(May 7, 1983) as a brief opinion "The first time I said 'pray for us, now and at article,"Rediscovering the Rosary." the hour of our death,' she opened her eyes and Finley describes his new nightly devotional looked at me with such knowledge and understan- practice: "Daily, once our three children are off to some prayer right now. A small purpose, really, ding that I knew too well she knew she was sleep, when dark has fallen, I take my regular but one with vast implications. dying." walk around our nearly urban neighborhood. I "We lit the living room with fluttering candles walk about a mile in one direction, then return by and, yet prayed the rosary — not without self- the same route. With beads held in my coat consciousness, to be sure, since none of us had In the center south section of the United States, pocket, I walk, rather briskly, and pray. Once I thought of ourselves as rosary types for a good an Episcopal clergyman gently chided Finley for have finished the rosary, I continue grasping the long time." stressing that the rosary has "Catholic" written all beads but I move over to the Jesus Prayer." Finley's article triggered several letters to the over it, thus implying no others except Roman Catholics pray the beads. 'We lit the living room with fluttering candles and, yes, prayed the rosary — not without self-consciousness, to be "BUT I WOULD just like to add that the sure, since none of us had thought of ourselves as rosary rosary is widely used and valued by Catholics who are in exile from the Roman obedience. types for a good long time.' "The rosary has long been recited daily in the THAT WRITER'S RECENTLY rediscovered editor in a subsequent issue (June 11, 1983). Holy House at the (Anglican) Shrine of Our Lady fondness for the rosary has influenced or perhaps A WOMAN FROM the east coast recounte of Walsingham in England. It is said that John been reinforced by a similar shift in attitude her own rosary experience in the health care field Wesley always had a rosary with him as he travel- among several acquaintances. We see. this il- with desperately ill persons: "As a hospice nurse, I ed on his preaching missions. And perhaps the lustrated by a noble joint project they undertook spend a great deal of time with people who are dy- best book in recent years on the mysteries of the which included, for some reason, a Marian com- ing or are close to death. One was a young Philip- rosary is Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy by J. ponent. pine woman dying of cancer. She was a fairly re- Neville Ward, who is himself a Methodist minister "A few weeks ago, my wife and I joined eight cent arrival in Philadelphia, and the nurses taking — though I doubt that this implies a widespread other married couples for_ prayer. We began a care of her were not sure if she knew how ill she use of the rosary among Methodists." A man of faith

Things moved quickly in those days. In remembered from their times. You might guess newspaperwoman Jeanne Gosselin Arnold who, December 1945, when I got word I would be retur- the Popes will be remembered, historians working in Albany, N.Y., where Father Peyton ning to the States, I was on the island of Guam remember them but the began and still centers his work, knows it first and I stopped by to say a farewell to Bishop hand. Apollinaris Baumgartner, a Capuchin who had graduated from the School of Journalism at Col- What is best about Mrs. Arnold's story is the umbia University. He knew I'd become a Catholic way she catches the way Father Pat is and the way only a few months before so he asked me if I'd he talks and the impact he has on people. When he been confirmed. When I said I hadn't he said we'd BY decided he wanted to carry on his family prayer take care of that right then and we did. DALE FRANCIS crusade on radio, he decided at the same time he'd The afternoon of my confirmation, I was at ask Catholics in the entertainment world to help Mass, outside, the priest had a portable altar, him. Mrs. Arnold tells of those early days when those of us there were in shorts. \ stars like Irene Dunne, Loretta Young, Bing It was two months later, February in Manhat- Crosby, Pat O'Brien, Ruth Hussey, Jimmy tan, the wind whistling through the canyons of people seldom do. You would think Mother Durante and many others were won over by this skyscrapers, the snow stinging the face. I'd gone Teresa of Calcutta would be remembered and soft-voiced priest. They made the Family Theater, back to the daily newspaper I'd left on Pearl Har- among the laity we have known, Dorothy Day and on both radio and television, the important in- bor Day and I was at the Hotel Pennsylvania Catherine Doherty. And I think perhaps Father fluence it became. because a Catholic Bishop wanted to talk to me Patrick Peyton will be remembered, too, although The 303-page book, the paperback cover with a about starting a diocesan newspaper. Whatever that has never been his wish. All he wants is a color of Father Peyton, is $8.95 from The Family that was. I'd never seen one although I knew greater love of Mary and her Son. Rosary, Inc., Executive Park Drive, Albany, N.Y. Commonweal, The Wage Earner and the Register, There's a new book about Father Peyton that 12203. It is, I think, a book that belongs in three I'd encountered in the service tells in a fascinating way the story of what he has Catholic homes, to be passed on to future genera- I REMEMBER MAN* things about that brief been about. It is called "A Man of Faith" and tions, which would please Father Peyton, not stay at the Pennsylvania. Les Brown and His Band sub-titled, "Father Patrick Peyton, C.S.C., his because it's about him Trat because it is another of Renown was playing the ballroom, I remember life, mission and message." It is written by veteran way to carry on his message. that. What I remember most, though, since it was not my intention to leave daily newspaper work; was that North Carolina's Bishop Vincent S. Waters really convinced me by the people he ar- ranged for me to meet. BY TIME Afld the one 1 remember best, for I'd met no FRANK one Is* him before, was a priest so filled with love CAPSULES of J|s$s and Mary that the warmth of his love was MORGAN overwhelming. Time has passed so quickly, I've never losrhouch with this gentle man and it is dif- ficult for me to realize that an- Reverend William Spooiier was an early 20th niversary of our first meeting rolls around again century Dean of Oxford who lived for 86 years. he will be 75. He became famous for his slips of the tongue or Queen Victoria as "the queer old dean" instead of I've thought sometimes about Catholics a cen- spoonerisms. Some of his verbal distortions in- the "dear old Queen." tury from now, who among the Catholics living cluded:...advising his congregation that the next At a World War I rally, he tried to create eh* today will they remember? There's no way we can. hymn would be "Kinkering Kongs Their Titles thusiasm for the flying of the flags when the boys know. The Catholics who lived with them might Take", instead of "Conquering Kings Their Titles come home, but instead he shouted, "When the not have guessed that John Vianney, the Take." telling a bridegroom that it was boys come back from France, we will all have the somewhat ordinary cure d'Ars, or Marie Martin, "kisstomery to cuss the bride.".....referring to hags flung out!" Sister Terese of Lisieux, would be the ones most THE VOICE-Friday. October 14. 1983-PAGE 15 A personal Growing older, better wrestling When I first met Jane Porcino; we were both pregnant with tion: our fifth child and were active in church organizations. Back "I have a genuine belief that the world will change for older then, some 26 years ago, we didn't think much about what it women, and that older women will change their world. The match was going to be like when we got older. women's movement provided that enormous heave forward But about 10 years ago/ my friend got her first taste of the . toward new possibilities for all of us. Today our talents and Q. What is the purpose of life? Why transition from busy mother, community activist and church capabilities have the opportunity to flower. If we, women of was anyone even born? Why did God leader to —well, her own words tell it best. all ages, can harness our collective strength, we will become create us? Why were we created if we .She says: "In my 48th year, I suddenly felt, for the first 'boulder-pushers' together and will move forward in force. I must only suffer and die? If God time in my life that I no longer had a specific role to fulfil, or delight in what women are revealing, becoming; ac- wouldn't have created us; we wouldn't complishing." miss the happy times because we As an advocate for older women, Mrs. Porcino, a mother wouldn't exist; and we wouldn't have of seven has received hundreds of letters from women in mid- to suffer and feel pain. We wouldn't life and beyond. These are testimonials, she says; both to the feel anything at all. BY pain and isolation felt by many and to the strength and (Washington,D.C.) achievements shown by so many others. ANTOINETTE The author quotes extensively from letters and interviews. BOSCO As a result readers feel they are not only reading a book crammed full of facts and helpful advice, but also com- municating with sisters in every situation. This is one of the book's most appealing features. BY TOM a certain future to look forward to. I lost my sense of direc- tion , my self-image plunged and I went into a state of panic While Mrs. Porcino was waiting for the publication of her LENNON and deep depression. work; in progress for six years, her oldest son, Joseph, a "When I reached out for help, there was none to be found. 30-year-old violinist, died after a shorty valiant fight with My friends, many of whom were slightly younger, didn't cancer. She dedicates her book to her husband, Chet, and her want to discuss the problems of midlife, those changes that children', especially Joseph. signaled aging. My gynecologist patted me on the head as if I Her personal loss and subsequent coping add profoundly to were a little child' told me it was all 'just part of menopause,' her encouragement for women in the mid$t of transition. "It A. In my 22nd year deep sorrow and increased my estrogen dosage." is important," she writes, "to remember that while transition came into my life. For three bitter From her own experience and pain, Mrs. Porcino began to periods may be difficult at first, even those we don't choose months; often amid tears; I pondered wonder about the effects of aging on other women. Her can force us to continue to grow and improve the quality of some of the questions you now face. I search led her to earn a doctorate in gerontology, specializing our lives." wrestled with God. in what it means to be an older woman in the United States. Adults told me that all pain and suf- She helped found a National Action Forum for Older Mrs. Porcino's monumental book delivers what she set out fering are the result of sin; and I Women. to do: "To help women,- no mater what their age; to learn to believe this is true. But I argued this Now she's written a book called "Growing Older; Getting celebrate age; and to live out their lives in dignity," full growth way with God: "Why did you have to Better: A Handbook for Women In the Second Half of Life." and zest." let Adam and Eve sin? And even if they She deals with myriad problems and offers sound advice and She is decidedly a role model for how to do this. did sin; why do I have to suffer for practical help. Her position is stated in the book's introduc- what they did? NCNewsSevice I didn't just wrestle with God. I got angry with him.

At the end of three months; cir- The servant of love cumstances in my life changed abrupt- ly. The sorrow ended. So did many of the nagging questions. In some For 10 years I worked in my diocesan chancery office everybody has to care about everybody else. mysterious way; God had won the across the street from Eastside High School in Paterson, N.J, wrestling match. I began; slowly, to ac- The school had a bad reputation. Fights were constant, truan- It's the Golden Rule applied to a city school situation, and cept what Shakespeare calls "The Dai- cy was rampant, drugs were everywhere and rowdy behavior it works. It works because youngsters have an inherent sense ly Pain." was the rule. of justice and they come around when they know the rules are Now, Many years later; I am in- But that was before Joseph Clark became principal in 1982. going to be enforced fairly and firmly. Joseph Clark proves trigued to hear lots of athletes saying, He restored order to school halls arid classrooms alike. The again that discipline is the servant of love. "No pain, no gain!" I realized too that if I didn't ex- perience pain, a burning elecric blanket **<••' would never wake me up and I could die in bed. I also know now that if we hang in BY FR._ there; suffering can help us develop JOHN CATOIR courage, sensitivity and compassion. Each year now at the Easter Vigil Service I am reminded of the unhappy wrestling match of my youth. On that night the church sings those astonishing words, "O happy fault, O students respect him for that, some of them even know that necessary sin of Adam; which gained previously he was principal of Elementary School 6, once for us so great a redeemer!" thought to be the worst elementary school in the city. Under Clark's direction, the students became models of behavior and test scores surpassed those of students at every other Because of Adam's sin and our own school. sins; we know that God loves us more When I heard of the almost miraculous turn-around at than we could ever have imagined. He Eastside, I wondered, how does Clark do it? He knows that loves us enough to die on a cross for ^ order is a requisite for learning. Anyone serious about educa- us. Jesus entered fully into our pain. tion knows that the discipline problem/has to be solved first. Easter morning tells us that suffering Joseph Clark makes his presence felt, he demands order. and death are not the end of the story. Someday you will have your own Easter and pass into an eternal world For instance, when the first-period bell rings, 3,000 of surpassing happiness. students must walk to their next class. In years gone by, the Then you will understand more fully scene was pandemonium. Clark stands at the intersection of the purpose ofjife, God is building his two hallways and uses a magaphone to direct traffic. He human family here on earth. shows respect for each student and expects the best from He created us to know and love him them, calling them by name, "Mr. Jones, pick up that as an intimate friend; to serve him and paper." The 15-year-old picks it up and walks on. one another in this world and to be "A year ago at this time you would have seen students happy with him forever in the kingdom hanging all over the place,"said one senior, but now things are of heaven. different. Clark has given the school and its students pride. These answers aren't likely to satisfy Students must wear identification tags or face suspension. ft IT'S A CONTRIBUTION FOR OUR you totally; for life is endlessly The multi-raced school, once the scene of fights and drugs my serious. Your own wrestling match abuse, has been turned around. NSW CHURCH." may go on for a while; perhaps a long while. "Just because you've been discriminated against doesn't But keep on wrestling. Remember, give you the right to commit the same wrong." Clark tells ' No pain; no gain! students, he makes it clear that school is a place where

PAGE 16-Friday, October 14, 1983-THE VOICE Caring for independent elderly

Dear Mary; My mother is 86-years-old and lives Security check, if she gets one, can be sent directly least one call per day. Another option is to try to alone. She is doing pretty well physically,- but is to the bank for deposit to her account, thus hire a neighbor of your mother to check on her becoming forgetful. She doesn't pay bills on time, eliminating theft, loss or forgetfulness. If your daily. Finally, many communities offer a service forgets to call repairmen when she needs them, mother has other sources of income they can pro- through which an elderly person is telephoned neglects getting yard work done; etc. She does not, bably be arranged the same way. each day. Should the person have any problem; want to move and does not want someone living Bills that must be paid on a regular basis, such relatives are notified. In one way or another; you with her. I live about 45 minutes away and cannot as utilities or mortgage, can often be paid directly should be able to check on your mother daily. drive over every day. Do you have any by the bank after authorization from your If you feel she heeds to be observed still more suggestion?-- mother. Try to find a bank that will accommodate closely yet she does not want a live-in companion, Illinois your mother. Once you set up the system, all her you could perhaps convert part of her living regular income and expenses should be taken care quarters to an apartment. Your mother might then of. rent to a person willing to check on her daily and. ANOTHER WAY to arrange the finances perhaps run small errands in return for a reduc- BY DR. JAMES would be for your mother to authorize you to tion in rent. You might look for such a tenant write checks on her account. You can then pay her through your mother's parish, friends; senior- AND bills as needed. Again her bank can arrange such citizen club, women's club or similar organiza- MARY KENNY authorization. tion. Finding such a tenant might be more difficult Next you mention neglect of the house. A than finding an ordinary renter; but should your weekly check-up should enable you to spot and find the right person, both the tenant and you correct needed repairs to home or yard. Perhaps a mother would benefit and your own peace of mind responsible older teen in her neighborhood could would greatly improve. be hired to do yard work and inspect the house You are caught in a difficult situation. Your are every Saturday or a grandchild could assume this trying to help your mother while respecting her preferences about where and how she wishes to While your situation has no easy answers; there job. Whether relative or friend, treat this service as regular employment and pay the person who live. Congratulations to you for trying to help her are several precautionary measures you might without taking over her life. take. Let me respond to the issues you raise one by does it. one. A daily phone call can assu r e you that your (Reader questions on familyliving and child care First, the financial matters. Much of your mother is getting along all right. If you cannot ar- to be answered in print are invited. Address ques- mother's financial business can probably be range to do this yourself, you might set up a tions: The Keniiys; Box 872; St. Joseph's College; handled directly through a bank. Her Social " schedule with other relatives so that she receives at Rensselaer, Ind. 47978) When not knowing is better

"It's better not knowing what your .7. how to make crepes or can dill pickles. 13. how to determine the sex of a turtle. children are up to," said a Renowned Authority. 8. what happened to the rest of the worm in the 14. where the checkbook is when there's ac Well, maybe, but I know a lot of times in my half-eaten apple. salesman on the doorstep. parenting, ignorance has been truly blissful. There 9. who volunteered me to pass the cancer 15. what my child told the teacher about my are things I,m glad I never knew, like the time a housekeeping that made her laugh so hard. pet lizard and hamster were loose in the house. I 16. how to type a high school term paper. learned pf their escape only after their apprehen- 17. my adolescents' attitudes on pre-marital sex. sion, which saved some of mine, believe me. 18. how to build a campfire or cook a three- Here are other instances in daily parenting when course meal outside. ingorance is superior to knowledge. As a seasoned BY 19. about the situations in El Salvador, Chad or parent, I've learned that: DOLORES Nicaragua when one has an 18-year-old son. 20. that thirty-five is now considered middle- CURRAN age. IT'S BETTER NOT TO KNOW— 21. how to repair a stereo that has lost its volume. 22. what all the other mothers are letting their 1. how to put a worm on a fish hook. children do. 2. that there was a compulsory PTA meeting last envelope. 23. that the food I've just eaten took a trip to the night. 10. the prize of the jeans they paid for with their floor between the kitchen and patio. 3. who took my scissors when there was execu- own money. 24. that a needy houseguest went through my tion in my eye. 11. how my child described my temper tantrum junk drawers in search of a pin. 4. . how to gas the car. to Grandma. " 25. how other families get along on $50 a week. 5. that the mayonnaise sat Out all night. 12. how to divide fractions when a fifth gradr 6. my dress size in metric. doesn't know either. (c. 1983 Alt Publishing Co.)

(Contributed by Muni and Terry Reilly)

91:11 says, "He will give his angels Middle Years and Adult Families person who is "it" has to try to guess OPENING PRAYER charge of you, to guard you in all your Read aloud Luke 1:26-38 and who has the current. Take turns being Come let us worship the Lord in the ways." What a great comfort it is to Daniel 12:1. These passages mention 'it.' company of his angels. God our know God's angels are with us and can archangels by name. Do you think fathers, in a wonderful way you guide come to our.aid when we ask our Lord angels are present in our world? Does SHARING the work of angels and humans. Many for help. In the Gospel of Matthew anyone know of a story about the those who serve you constantly in 18:10 Jesus says, "See that you do not possibility of angels at work in the —Each shar e a time he or she was heaven keep our lives safe from all despise one of these little ones, for I tell world today? saved from a potential danger. harm on earth. We ask this through you that in heaven their angels always —Share a time someone felt clbse to Christ your son, Amen. behold the face of my Father who is in another family member. heaven." Yes, angels are wonderful be- —Each share what he or she likes SNACK TIME best about the family. ings-! Angel food cake and a fruit drink. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT ACTIVITY IDEAS CLOSING PRAYER Three very important Archangels are Young Families ENTERTAINMENT God our father, in a wonderful way mentioned in stories in the Bible: Read aloud Acts 5:17-20, then Acts ELECTRICITYHUNT'Have all the you guide our work and the work of Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. Angels 12:7. Have everyone draw and color a family members but one sit in a circle angels. May those who serve you con- are supernatural beings that show forth picture of an angel. Then read Luke and hold hands. Pass the current by stantly in heaven keep our lives safe God's greatness and perfection. Psalm 1:26-38. squeezing hands around the circle. The from all harm on earth. Amen.

THE VOICE-Friday, October 14, 1983-PAGE 17 God hears his faithful people READINGS: Exodus 17:8-13 2 Timothy 3:14-4:2 Luke 18:1-8

BACKGROUND: when refused to grant a widow's peti- my students came by the hospital and No life is without its share of pro- tion for justice. She asked him for help presented me with a large plague they blems; they are to be axcepted in your so frequently that he finally gave in to had purchased. own life as well. Fortunately, we don't her request. Surely God would hear the The plaque had a photograph of a have to solve all our problems by requests for help from his faithful peo- beautifulnature scene. It also had the ourselves. As next Sunday's readings ple. following quotation: "Nothing is go- In the second reading, from the se- ing to happen today that you and the cond letter to Timothy, the author urg- Lord can't handle together." ed the reader to remain faithful to Christian teaching and to preach the BY word of God constantly. As I look back on that situation a FR. REFLECTION: year later, it's clear to me that the Lord JAMES About a year ago, I had to take an really was presented during a difficult unsechduled break from my high time. Because of the prayers of many BLACK school tearing because of surgery. I people and the skills of my surgeon, told my students about the upcoming the operation was quite successful. situation, and then entered the hospital Moreover, I was backin the classroom for the first round of tests. much sooner than expected. indicate, God will give us his help. If you've ever been in that type of And the plaque? At this very mo- When the Hebrews were nearing the situation, you know exactly how I felt. ment it's hanging in my classroom near Promised Land after the exodus event, If you haven't, it's pretty easy to im- the door. I can't help seeing it several they were confronted by the army of agine the emotions involved. . times a day. It calls to mind an impor- the Amalekites. The Amalekites didn't I was anxious about the surgery tant experience that my students and I want the Hebrews to pass through their because it was rather serious. I was shared with the Lord and with each territory. The first reading, from the army through God's intervention. worried about all the time that would other. Old Testament bood of Exodus, In the gospel reading from Luke, be required for convalescence. After all, I don't want to forget tlie describes the defeat of the Amalekites Jesus told a parable about a judge The evening before surgery, some of message. Open up the Catholic vision

Q. Our former pastor was a kind, just isn't any black and white way to Catholic identity (how many Catholics will) provided by* those who, as we progressive priest. Jesus was the center say what you would like to hear and be felt radically abandoned by the church believe, by Christ's plan have respon- of religion. Canon law and other rules fair to your friend and your present when we started to eat meat on sibility for governing bur church. were of little importance. priest. Friday?), that they are naked and cold I think you will help your searching Now we have a 62-year-old priest At least two things are important in and homeless before the world. friend greatly if you try sincerely to from Eastern Europe. To him the considering what you might say to your We in the "FREE" countries cannot open up for him this Catholic vision of Catholic religion is following a set of friend. imagine how unfeasible such a process the church of Jesus Christ. rules. can be in nations where the church is First, the country of the priest you persecuted; fighting for its life; in con- Q. I'm in the dark about the word mention is one of many where clergy tinual combat with regimes determined "Eucharist." It is used a lot today both and the laity have felt the need to be to crush it \ or bend it to total for Holy Communion and for the severe and (at least what we could call) conformity. Mass. Why can't we simply continue BYFR. rigid in their practice of our faith. They Symbols of identity- however calling it Mass and Communion? have not enjoyed, as have Catholics dispensable they might be theoretical- (Illinois). JOHN since Vatican II, the luxury of ex- DIETZEN ly, become life and death matters. A. The word "Eucharist" comes perimenting and feeling their way in Things are either black or white, Con- from the Greek word "eucharistia," freedom through the difficult self- ditions and rules which in other cir- meaning to return thanks. It is one of examinination and renewal the church cumstances might be revised or replac- the most ancient designations for the has experienced since 1960. ed with minimal pain become Eucharist among Christians, since that A sincere friend of mine with no Change, especially change affecting demonstrations of faith, carried out was its primary purpose, to remember religion is wondering if there is any areas of life we consider vital to our with full awareness that consequences what God has done for us in Jesus place for him in the Catholic Church self-identity; is threatening; risky and may be death or prison, or worse. They Christ and thank him for it. since our religion seems to him a enormously demanding of our psychic become things for which people will That name is clearly much more package deal with no flexibility to energy and of our personal faith. The die. specific and meaningful than "the think or act as your conscience tells changes we have experienced; and con- The martyrs died rather than eat Mass," which is simply an English you. Is there a place for him in our tinue to experience; require a reshuffl- food offered before statues of the corruption of the Latin words which church or should he look elsewhere? ing of our vision of the church, and a emperors, an action which even St. formerly ended the Mass, "Ite missa Which of our priests is closer to the sometimes frightening expansion of Paul would judge morally neutral in est." truth? (Iowa) our understanding and trust in the role itself; but which in the circumstances The Church is, of course, returning of the Holy Spirit in the church. become a betrayal of one's own heart. to use of that word in many ways. Our Often in this process the people of Needless to say not all religious celebration of Mass is divided, for A. This question is extremely dif- God easily feel they are without rud- rigidity is traceable to such noble example, into the Liturgy of the Word, ficult to answer, frankly because there der, that they no longer have any reasons or •experiences. My point is and the Liturgy of the Eucharist. simply that people such as your priest The long prayer which the priest who "were raised; and who lived, with says, and to which the people respond, KRAEER FXJNERAL HOME Foi>Lauderdale •-••? " • Pompano Beach this type of rigid Catholic commitment which contains the narration of the 565-5591 R. 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Patty Duke returns to her Catholic roots

wanted to do the romantic, child's idea of a nun. I think there's a fascination with the lifestyle. 'How can they choose celibacy' is the hook, but there's more to the interest than that. "I didn't want to defy her," Mrs. Astin continued. "I didn't want to make her not human. I hope I succeed- ed. She has insecurities, maybe even a little neurosis. People should feel they Patty.-Duke Astin has worked a cou- could talk to her as a pal. She's not set ple miracles in her personal and profes- apart from people. Nuns are in the sion life, and the results were displayed business of reaching people, of com- in "September Gun," a two-hour TV municating, of touching the heart and film which aired on October 8. soul." Mrs. Astin knows about contem- Professionally, the actress who burst porary nuns not only from playing one on the scene as a child playing Helen but also from dealing with the faculty Keller in "The Miracle Worker "on at the Catholic school her sons attend. Broadway and in the film, was "dying And she sends them there because of to play a nun im traditional habit." her own re-discovery of her faith just a Miracle No. 1: That's her role in few years ago. "September Gun," which is set in the Old West and concerns a nun who hires "I was a Catholic as a child and it a gunfighter to help her travel with a stuck until I was 12," she explained. group of Apache children threatened "Then I lived with Christian Scientists by angry townsfolk. so I became a Christian Scientist for a. while. Then I half heartedly explored Personally, Mrs. Astin brought to other faiths, such as Judaism and Bud- her role a spiritual journey which led dhism, the way lots of us did in the Six- her from Catholicism to agnosticism ties. I went to agnosticism, but never and back to the Church. Miracle No.2: madeit all the way to atheism. "About four years ago," Mrs. Astin Patty Duke Astin, who played a courageous nun in the Oct. 8 TV movie, told me, "I felt a strong need to go "September Gun" says she has returned to Catholicism and a happier '...I wanted to do the back to my roots, including my way of life. romantic child's idea of religion. It was evolutionary, a grow- ing process. I was obviously searching familiar spiritual home. I expressed my It's that sense of religious search and a nun. I think there's a for something and it was the right time intellectual reservations and I liked his discovery which the actress brings to fascination with that when it became clear that I had lost answers. I said I still had questions and her role in "September Gun." In the lifestyle.' track along the way- I said to myself, he said, 'Good then you'll keep coming film, Sister Dulcina provides sanctuary 'Go back to square one.' back.' " for a group of Indian children whom "My husband (actor-comedian John "It was thrilling to go back," she town leaders want to pen up. Fighting she feels at home spiritually for the Astin of 'The Addams Family') in- noted. "It's now a more mature ap- that prejudice, the nun decides to trek first time in years. troduced me to Father Kieser. I resisted proach to my spiritual exploration than 200 miles to a church school and hires my childhood experience." To find out about both miracles, I and resisted, but felt the need for a Ben Sunday (played by Robert spoke with the actress recently as she Preston) to help her. filmed, in Williamsburg, Virginia, an If viewers devote two hours to the eight-hour mini-series on George ON RADIO film, Mrs. Astin hopes "they feel Washington. She plays Martha and I'll entertained because that's what I act save her comments on that role for a for. I also hope they feel like smiling future column. For this one, we'll stick and feel that a connection was made to "September Gun" and her religious THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI between two disparate people who ex- odyssey. Presents changed love which benefited people." What did you think of "September She was late calling me, she began, THE WORLD OF RELIGION because she had to finish doing her Gun?" laundry. When I suggested that major TODAY movie stars do not wash their clothes, Weekly Radio Religious News she riposted, "I may be an actress, but I'm still a person with dirty laundry." Magazine So much for the glamorous life of TV HIGHLIGHT entertainers. The remark prefaced an Sundays at 7:45 a.m. — WKAT, Miami Beach open and honest conversation in which On Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 10 p.m. Mrs. Astin spoke about her feelings 8 a.m. — WIRK-AM, West Palm Beach a program entitled "Christ Invites" toward Catholicism and the role of will air on the following cable Sister Dulcina. 8 a.m. — WIRK-FM, West Palm The Living Word Beach Sundays stations: Americable Associates, "I was dying to play a nun in tradi- 12 Noon — WAFC-FM, Clewiston 9:30 p.m. WIOD-AM (610) Miami, Selkirk Communications, Ft. tional habit," she told me. "I had Producer: Fr. Jose P. Nickse Lauderdale, Cablevision, Boca INSPIRATIONAL Raton, Video Design, Opa Locka. played a contemporary one for Father INFORMATIONAL (EUwood) Kieser (of 'Insight'), but I

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THE VOICE-Friday, October 14, 1983-PAGE 19 Pastoral Counseling New life office Center expands

The year-old Biscayne College Hispanics, especially those who are Pastoral Counseling Center is expan- having personal difficulties adjusting ding its services to better serve to a new culture and learning a new Hispanics and residents of South language. She can be reached at Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. 541-5258 or by calling Our Lady of Divine Providence or St. John the The center is, a private, non-profit Apostle parishes. agency which specializes in individual, Gabrielle Berryer, chairperson of the marital and family therapy as well as Psychology Department at Biscayne, vocational testing, psychological serves as the Counseling Center's con- evaluation, psychiatric consultation sulting psychologist, sharing the duties and consultation for business and in- with Jorge Caycedo, M.D. dustry groups. The Biscayne College Pastoral Affiliated with Biscayne College's Counseling Center is a result of the In- Institute for Pastoral Ministries, the stitute of Pastoral Ministries' and Saturday morning was hectic at the new Respect Life Office in Hialeah, Counseling^ Center also conducts a Father Pat O'Neill's efforts to make 2024 E. 4 Ave.» as volunteers prepared for the dedication and blessing variety of workshops which focus the Church more relevant and sensitive later in the day by Auxiliary Bishop Agustin Roman. From left, co-director issues from both religious and to the needs of all people. Fr. O'Neill is Joanna Eimer, volunteers Gloria Evans and Maria Teresa Fernandez and psychological viewpoints. Fees for president of Biscayne College. co-director Georgina Aladro, finish sorting through donated baby clothes. counseling services are based on a The office, open evenings and Saturdays, provides free pregnancy tests sliding scale and workshops are open "The problems found within and counseling about alternatives to abortion, as well as baby items for to the general public. families very easily find expression as needy mothers. Day volunteers and additional storage space are needed. well within businesses, small communi- The 24-hour Hotline number is 883-BABY. (Voice photo by Ana Rodriguez-Soto). Frank McGarry is director of the ty groups and organizations," said Center, whose main offices are located McGarry, the Counseling Center's at Biscayne College, 16400 NW 32 Ave director. "We all want to be part of a Pastor thanks Dania in OparLocka. He is assited by a pro- group, be successful in relating and fessional staff selected for its clinical working within the group and yet re- and interpersonal skills as well as tain our own personal identity." religious sensitivity. people The Center, he said, moves beyond Sr. Carmelita Centanni assists the purely spychological aspects of The Pastor of Resurrection Church able to continue Archdiocesan plans McGarry at Biscayne's main campus. in Dania has written an open letter these problems, integrating them with for an apartment complex for the spiritual concerns. thanking citizens and officials for their elderly and handicapped. Ida Blount, a family therapist in support in stopping a new road that private practice for more than seven For more information, call Special thanks is extended to the 625-6000, Ext. 142. would have destroyed church property. elected officials, State, County, and years, works in the South Dade area. The letter said: Local (Dania and Hollywood), who She is a wife, mother of three and ac- "The parishioners of Resurrection were concerned over the impact this tive member of St. Louis Parish in Kendall. She can be reached at Archdiocesan students Catholic Church In Dania, wish to ex- plan would have had on the church. named semi-finalists tend their thanks to the Catholic com- We would also like to express our 255-2706. munity and citizens of Broward Coun- thanks to all the media, newspapers Father Greg Cornelia, who has for scholarship ty fortheir support in expressing disap- and television stations who accurately assisted the Archdiocese of Miami's proval of alternatives for a trafficway Office of Lay Ministry, will serve loca- reported our progress and expressed The following students in the Ar- plan which would have paralyzed concern for sacred ground, and our tions in Broward and Palm Beach. For Resurrection Parish property. an appointment, call 471-5596 or leave chdiocese of Miami are semifmalists in thanks to an 'ecumenical a message at Holy Name Parish, the 20th Annual National achievement On September 22, 1983, Broward grbundswell" of persons all over Scholarship Program for Outstanding County Planning Council totally re- Broward County who signed petitions 683-3555 or St. Ambrose Parish, 427-2225. Negro Students: jected their staff's recommendation for and helped express the public's opposi- David L. Cole and Denise M. Leaks the preferred plan. The outcome of the tion to the Plan. Eliza Ascuy, trained and educated as a psychologist in Cuba, will work with from Archbishop Curley-Notre Dame Council's vote is "no road" through High School, Miami. Sherlyn N. Archie from Monsignor Grant fosters minority research in biomedicine Pace High School in Opa Locka. Barry University has been awarded selected from a pool of students who economic backgrounds will be admit- Howard J. Bruce and Tamara C. more than $600,000 to foster minority demonstrate superior ability and main- ted into the program. Application are Chisom, St. Thomas Aquinas High education in the biomedical sciences tain a B (3.0) average or higher in open to local and national high school School, Ft. Lauderdale. during the next five years. science-related courses in senior high students. It was the only university in Florida schools, to conduct medical research For more information, call to receive the Minority Access to The grant will pay tne students' full 758-3392, Ext. 332. Egyptian pyramids Research Careers (MARC) grant from tuition and more than $3,000 in ex- the U.S. Department of Health, pense? ' discussed at Barry Education and Welfare. During the next four years, more St. Andrew holds 7th The grant will allow trainees, students from a variety of socio- Greek Festival The second in a series of lectures on St. Andrew Greek Orthodox Church the construction of the Egyptian of Kendall announces that the Miami pyramids will be held Oct. 17 at 7:30 Family Enrichment Center Greek Festival is back for its 7th p.m. at Barry University, 11300 NE 2 spectacular year. The festival will Avenue in Miami Shores. include a selection of homemade Greek Dr. Joseph Davidovits, a French in- sponsors Sexuality conference dishes, including the famous Gyro dustrial chemist and adjunct professor sandwich, Moussaka, Spinach Pita, of chemistry at Barry, theorizes that "Beautifully and Wonderfully Workshops will include such and Baklava and other pastries. The the Egyptian pyramids were made of made" is the title of the first subjects as "Developing a Trust costumed Festival Dancers will synthetic stone and cast in place, rather Archdiocesan conference on sexuality Relationship with your Teenager," entertain continuously, and there will than quarried and hauled into position. to be held at the Biscayne college "Natural Family Planning," and "Sex be live bouzouki music. The boutique The focus of his second of seven lec- Library on Nov. 5th from 9 a.m. to or Sexuality in the Catholic School will carry wares from the Greek tures will be why the pyramids were 5:30 p.m. The keynote speakers,/ Curriculum?" Islands. built with stones made from Joseph and Mercedes Iannone who wity Registration is $10 per individual, "concrete." He will explain why speak on the topic "Sexuality: God''s $18 for married couple made payable The festival will be held on the natron, a sacred salt in early Egyptian Gift," have a national reputation $s- to the Family Enrichment center which grounds of the St. Andrew Greek times, was mixed into the material to speakers and writers in the area of is sponsoring the event, 18330 N.W. Orthodox Church, 7901 North Kendall form the stones. family catechesis and parish renewal. 12th Ave., Miami, Fla. 33169. Drive (5 blocks West of Dadeland) on Friday through Sunday, November 11, The lectures are free and open to the 12, and 13, from 11 a.m. until 10:30 public. For more information call p.m. daily. 758-3392, Ext. 371.

11 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. St. Thomas More Parish, 10935 South Doral Hotel in Miami Beach. Tickets are $25 per Cardinal Gibbons High School Band, 4601 The Woman's Club of Our Lady of the Lakes Military Trail, Boynton Beach, will hold its an- Bayview Drive, will sponsor a Pancake Breakfast person. For more information call Mrs. Adams nual Fall Festival Oct. 15 and 16. The festival 987-6129, after 6 p.m. Church will hold a Rummage sale Oct. 15 at 9 Oct. 23 from 8 a.m. to noon in the cafeteria. For a.m. in the parish center, 15801 N.W. 67th will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday more information call Sharon Hope 491-0934. Mercy Hospital, Department of Patient and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. For more Education, will hold a free community program Avenue. St. Rose of Lima, 418 N.E. 105 St, will hold a The Widow and Widowers Club of Broward information call 737-3095. parish renewal Nov. 4 to 6. For more'informa- entitled, "tou Hold the Key to your Heart," Mercy Hospital needs volunteers between the Oct. 18 from 11 a.m. to noon and from 7:30 County will hold a social gathering Oct. 16 from tion call the Rectory at 758-0539. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Wilton Manors recreation ages of 14 and 18 to assist with patients for four Sacred Heart Guild will hold a Fall Card Par- p.m. to 9 p.m. For more information call hours a .week. For more information call 285-2701. . hall, 509 N.E. 22 Drive. For more information ty, Oct. 22 at Madonna Hall, 430 No. M St., call 473-8913 or 937-8090. 285-2773. from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets are $2 and will St. Boniface Parish will hold its annual Fall The Women's Club of Ascension Catholic be available at the door. Carnival, Oct. 20 thru 23 on the church grounds ST. KIERAN'S CHURCH will sponsor a Church, 699 N.E. 70th St., Boca Raton, will Chaminade High School and Madonna located at 8330 Johnson St., Pembroke Pines. garage sale on Saturday and Sunday, October 23 hold a Rummage Sale Oct. 22 at 9 a.m. in the Academy will celebrate their 10th anniversary The Carnival will be open from 6 p.m. to 11 and 24 from 9 A.M. until 2 P.M. The Church is Parish Hall. For more information call 997-7470. with a "hawaiian Fantasy" on Nov. 5, in the. p.m., Thursday and Friday and from 1 p.m. to located on the grounds of Mercy Hospital PAGE 20-Friday, October 14, 1983-THE VOICE Knights exemplify patriotic degrees in Cocoa Beach Over 650 Sir Knights, candidates, compassing 22 assemblies of the "top" degree of the K of C, whose made by contacting local 4th degree families and guests are expected to par- Southern District of Florida, DeSoto principle is Patriotism, on Saturday. assemblies or by calling John ticipate in formal ceremonies exempli- Province, will begin on Friday, Oc- The weekend activities will take place Mullaney, 783-6684 or PHil Whitaker, fying the 4th Degree of the Knights of tober 21, 1983. in the Holiday Inn Resort, US A1A, 777-1907. Columbus. The gala festivities, en- Over 100 candidates will receive the Cocoa Beach. Arrangements mav be 'South Florida Circulation for Leisure Reading VOICE CLASSIFIED ADS

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THE VOICE-Friday, October 14. 1983-PAGE 21 It's when..

By Father John O'Callaghan,S.J. NC News Service There are ample grounds for despair in our world. When I was in Bihar, India, I saw the disastrous effects of a cold spell. Truckloads of bodies were brought into cities for cremation. Buses crowded with passengers sitting on the roofs and inside delivered corpses to their destination. People were dying from exposure to record low temperatures. These were not freezing temperatures. But in a country unused to cold and unprotected by central heating and warm clothing, the temperatures were deadly. —For several years, newspapers have detailed the poverty, bloodshed, and terror prevailing in much of Central America. And the Middle East. And Northern Ireland. —It is not uncommon today to find young or middle-aged men, obviously not "street people," begging for handouts on the streets of large cities. Ample grounds for despair. Yet life goes on. SUICIDE rates notwithstanding, the huge ma- jority of people cling to life, even in the midst of terrible hardship. Why? Because something, someone, is giving them hope. We humans must have hope, not just for our comfort, but to stay alive. Without hope there is Despair...

By Father James Black NC News Service For an hour, Mike sat alone in the room, his head in his hands. He was thinking about the terrible things that happened that night. Earlier, he had left the house quiet- ly, not wanting to wake anyone. He went to the shopping center and drove the car down behind the stores. He remembered feeling uneasy. What if someone came? He really hadn't wanted to do this, Like the trees that show hope for new life that will come in the spring, hope becomes a force in but his new friends said that they human lives, too, helping to shape our world. (NC Photo).

An unquenchable hope

By Father John Castelot revelation of the sons of God. Crea- Paul adds: "In hope we were sav- The survival of his people is a marvel NC News Service tion was made subject to futility, not ed. But hope is not hope if its object of history. Many times people had of its own accord but by him who is seen; how is one to hope for what good reason to think that the end of once subjected it; yet not without he sees? And hoping for what we the world was near. hope, because'the world itself will be cannot see means awaiting it with pa- An age like ours has a crying need freed from its slavery to corruption tient endurance." But they refused to give up hope for hope. It is an age marked by and share in the glorious freedom of HUMAN DESTINY and that of and it was this hope which sustained despair, darkened by a sinister pall of the children of God.'' the universe are bound up together, them over the difficult centuries. It gloom. was hope based on the conviction that God, who called them out of Some predictions of doom are sup- nothing and made them his people, posed to be based on biblical pro- had great plans for them. phecy, a supposition which betrays* an abysmal ignorance of what biblical Know Your This was true right from the begin- prophecy is all about. If anything, the ning. Early in the biblical story, message of the Bible is one of un- Abraham was promised a son, who quenchable hope. Faith would be the first in a long line of progeny. Even though Abraham and This is hope based on the wisdom Sarah were well beyond the age of and goodness of the creator who so begetting, he believed. loved the world that he gave his pnly son for it—not for its damnation, Paul puts it this-way: "Hoping much less its annihilation. GOD against hope, Abraham believed and As St. Paul says so eloquently in so became the father of many na- Chapter 9 of Romans: "I consider tions.,.. Without growing weak in the sufferings of the present to be as m the faith he thought of his own body, nothing compared with the glory to which was as good as dead (for he be revealed in us. Indeed, the whole was nearly 100-years-old) and of the created world eagerly awaits the dead womb of Sarah. Yet he never

PAGE 22-Friday, October 14. 1983-THE VOICE humans feel God's caring death in one form or another. I once visited the great cathedral in Cologne, honest conversations, during some Masses and We Christians find our deepest hope in the - Germany, with my father. It was the umpteenth when reflecting on Scripture. God whose care we experience. Yes, experience! cathedral we had visited and he announced A good friend testifies that jogging brings For God, I'm convinced, makes himself vivid- before going in that if he was in Europe another moments which I can only interpret as religious ly present in our lives, if we're alert. His hundred years he would never need to see experience, that is, a certain sense of God's presence gives us hope. another church. reality, of his nearness and his care. This sense For a gospel example of what I'm talking Imagine my surprise later when I saw a robed involves more than our minds. It touches our about, read the dramatic account of the cathedral official giving my father a profound hearts. It is an experience we enter into. Transfiguration in Mark's Gospel. The apostles' bow. When I asked my dad how much he had I'd like to suggest that readers look into their experience of God is described as a moment of donated, he named a substantial sum, with the lives to see whether something like that is not high hope. explanation: "In the face of such majesty, how part of their own experience. Don't do this for Remember the situation: At the time.Hhe could anyone give less?" He said this with real the sake of curiosity, but precisely to drawn apostles were confused. They were over the first emotion. hope from it." flush of enthusiasm about following Jesus, and I knew that somehow he had been deeply If you cannot find anything like that in your they had suspicions of coming tragedy. Doubts experience, or if it's been a very long time since must have been setting in. you've experienced it, that may signal a need to Then suddenly they had a vision of glory. create some quiet time and space so that God Clearly what took place was for them a can touch you. Jesus, after all, went away from "religious experience" and a tremendous con- the crowds periodically to be alone with his solation. Their reaction proves: "How good it is Father. for us to be here!" Clearly, that isn't easy for busy people. But evidently that moment of life-giving hope re- an easy temptation for most of .us is to escape mained a vivid memory, repeated often in the our. deeper selves and the Lord's presence by fl- early Christian community. inging ourselves into frantic activity. Ironically, instead of enriching our lives and What of us? Do we have similar experiences? GOD making what we do more vital, all that busyness I suggest we may have them more than we impoverishes us, insulating us from the ex- usually admit. They are probably not so perience of God. dramatic as the Transfiguration, though I think in the That, in turn, robs us of one of the taproots I know a few people who have had such ex- to hope. periences. But if our religious experiences are Such action could be fatal: for, without hope, not generally so clear, that does not mean they Human Situatioi life cedes finally to death. are not real and profound. and hope

tered window with his gloved hand, felt for the door knob, turned it and entered the pharmacy, just after 1 'He'd never even a.m. seen handcuffs HE WAS FRIGHTENED and lost before, except in the little time finding the drugs in a lock- movies.' ed box behind the shelves, just where he'd been told. He pried the box loose from the cabinet and headed for the door. He opened it and stared at two policemen holding guns. needed his help. "Well," he told It had been awful since then, Mike himself, "if I'm careful, I won't get thought. He was thrown against the caught." He remembered stopping at police car and searched. He'd never the pharmacy's back door. even seen handcuffs before, except in Next he reached through the shat- the movies. At the station, he was locked in a small room and questioned repeated- ly. His guilt was assumed; after all, he'd been caught inside the phar- questioned or doubted God's pro- macy. mise." (Romans 4:18). But the worst was yet to come: The police called his mom a"nd dad and IT WAS.FROM this people that they were on the way. Mike was 17. there came eventually the one who is What would he tell them? the immediate basis of our hope. Speaking of the hope we have They had always been proud of because of Christ's redemptive death him before. He had done moderately and resurrection, Paul says: well in school and seemed to be The drugs Mike was seeking for his friends were locked in a box insiae me popular enough. He was a reasonably pharmacy right where his friends said they would be. He pried the box loose "This hope does not disappoint, good athlete. He had a lot going for and headed for the back door where he ran into two policemen with guns. He for the love of God has been poured him. How would he explain this was thrown against the police car. searched, handcuffed and taken to the out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit away? He'd never been in real trouble police station. How could he face his parents? (NC Photo) who has been given to us.... For if, like this before. when we were God's enemies, we MIKE BEGAN to think about all didn't really know why he'd done it. you very much. We don't understand e reconciled to him by the death the things that could happen. There'd Mike debated his answer: Should he what you've done, or why you've f his son, it is all the more certain probably be a hearing in juvenile be honest or not? done it. that we who have been reconciled will court. He'd be taken away from "Because I was stupid and didn't "We're disappointed. But we'll be saved by him." (Romans 5:5,10). home and put in some institution for think about what I was doing," he stick with you and help you in any bad kids. His real friends—not the answered after a long pause. "I was way we can. selfish. I didn't think about how it Christians are people of hope. ones he'd gotten mixed up with this "We want you to believe that." time—wouldn't want anything to do would affect me, or anyone else, for Mike didn't say anything at first. Christians are people who take the that matter. I let some people talk me Bible's message of hope seriously. with him again. What would they He'd really let his parents and himself think of him at church? And what into something dumb. Now I've got down. Now they were saying that "Everything written before our time to pay the price. I feel like I'm kind was written for our instruction, that would this do to his parents? they'd stick with him, no matter what of at the end of the line." happened. we might derive hope from the His whole life would be changed lessons of patience and the words of because of one incident, he thought. MIKE'S FATHER took a deep His future, obviously, remained encouragement in the Scriptures." Mike began to feel desperate. How breath and let it out slowly. "Mike, uncertain. But now Mike began to (Romans 15.4). could he face anybody after this? your mother and I have been talking hope that, whatever happened, he'd He heard the sound of the key in and praying a lot on the way down to be able to handle it. As Paul says, "There are in the the doorknob. The door swung open the police station. If you've done His father had given him that end three things that last: faith, hope and there stood his father. something wrong, you'll have to pay hope. and love." "Mike, why?" he asked softly. for it. The events of the evening were still "Tell me why you had to do this." "But, Mike," he continued, bleak, but not quite as bleak as Mike fumbled for an answer. He "you're still our son, and we still love before. THE VOICE-Friday, October 14, 1983-PAGE 23 Priestly clown won't

fool around (when it comes to seeking Christ)

MILWAUKEE(NC) - Jesuit Father John E. Naus; 57, has a double identi- priest he had to learn how to put on ty. Students and teachers at Marquette make-up. That takes lots of time; and University in Milwaukee know him as beyond that' requires certain the teacher of Oriental philosophy, tools—such as the eyelash bath used to counselor and chaplain at a residence remove the sticky gum which keeps his hall. false clown's nose on. But they also know him as happy- "I have found it to work perfectly," sad Turnbleweed the Clown, whose ex- he said. "But I get some strange reac- pertise extends beyond philosophy and tions when I go up to the Relvon counter at Gimbel's Department Store in my Roman collar and black suit ask; 'Do you have any eye lash 'The parallel of Christ There is a serious side to Father and clown is meant in Naus and Tumbleweed too and the priest sees parallels between the no irreverence...were He clown's image and Christ. preaching today, he "The parallel of Christ and clown is would surely search for meant ii) no irreverence," he wrote in The Jesuit. He noted that Christ used metaphors...that would images of a shepherd and king. "Were be meaningful...' he preaching today; he would surely search for metaphors and symbols that would be contemporary and mean- teaching to constructing octopuses out ingful. And it does seem that Christ the of balloons; playing the guitar and Clown does speak to many contem- singing " I'm Being Swallowed by a poraries, especially the young." Boa Constrictor." "The clown reflects the rhythm of Ever since students in 1971 presented human life: joy and sorrow, success Father Naus with a clown's get-up, he and failure; fulfillment and frustra- has been clowning on campus and off. tion; smiles and tears," he added. "He At first, he has acknowledged; he tells us of the resilience of the human was "shy and bashful" about taking spirit not to give up." on clowning career, but with the As he put it, "Perhaps the prototype students' encouragement he created of this is Isaiah's suffering servant. Tumbleweed. Holy Thursday this poor man is Tumbleweed now appears on such covered with a fool's cloak, a mock occasions as Cub Scout dinners; crown on his bowed head and a stick children's parties and visits to han- for a scepter; he is spat upon and derid- dicapped children; hospitals and ed. But come Easter Sunday he rises Barnum and Bailey Circus headquarters triumphantly, ecstatically." in Florida; where he visits his old "My ciown role speaks more subtly -friends on "clown alley." (He has ad- it.) were inhibitions to overcome," he my message as priest," he stated. "We mitted he wanted to join the circus as a When he first became Tumbleweed wrote in an article in The Jesuit have every reason to hope because we child and has always been interested in there were a few problems. "There magazine. Then, too, as a middle-aged are the resurrection people."

DOMINIC WAS BORN IN UMBRIA, ITALY, IN 995.. WHEN HE LEARNED ST. DOMINIC THAT HE HAP BEEN ORDAINED BECAUSE OF HIS FATHER'S BRIBE OF A 6ISH0P, DOMINIC SPENT THE LORICATUS REST OF HIS LIFE DOING PENANCE AND PRACTICING SEVERE SELF DENIAL. DOMINIC BECAME fl DISCIPLE A LAKOTA PRAYER... OF JOHN Of MONTEFELTRO, LIVING THE LIFE OF A HERMIT IN SOLITUDE AND CONTEMPLATION. ABOUT 1040 HE B6CAME A BENEDICTINE AT FONTE AVELLANA HERMITAGE UNDER ST. PETER DAMIAN. DOMINIC LATER WAS THE PRIOR OF A HERMITAGE NEAR SAN SEVERINI AND PIED THERE ON OCT. W, 1060. Help me to know, like the DOMINIC'S SURNAME, LORICATUS (THE MAILED) WAS soaring eagle, the heights of GIVEN HIM BECAUSE OF THE My spirit is one with You, knowledge. COAT OF ROUGH MAIL HE WORE Great Spirit. From the Four Directions, fill NEXT TO HIS SKIN. HIS FEAST IS OCT. 14. You strengthen me day and me with the four virtues of night to share my very best Fortitude, Generosity, with my brothers and sisters. Respect and Wisdom; so that I will help my people You, whom my people see in walk in the path of all of creation and in all Understanding and Peace. people, show Your Love for Amen us.

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•A Pastoral Letter to the Spanish- Speaking of our Community on the Anniversary of the Discovery of America

A call to Evangelization By Edward A. McCarthy of Miami, 25 years of proclaiming and preparation of this pastoral letter. must reach the men and women of witnessing to the Gospel'in South The Bishop is in full accord with this our times. Archbishop of Miami Florida. message to our esteemed Hispanic God speaks to us through the signs <> brothers and sisters. of the times. The events, the condi- My beloved in Christ: On this occasion, I suggest that we The only immutable thing in the tions, the concrete situations, indicate pause briefly and reflect on the condi- pastoral ministry is the message. It is what in our world requires the light tions of the world about us that have living and eternal throughout the of the divine message, and suggest We celebrate today Columbus Day, led to our great emphasis on course of time. That message is the how it might be communicated. the day on which Christopher Colum- evangelization, on living and sharing person of Jesus. He is the way, the To ignore these signs of the times bus discovered America. the teachings of Jesus. truth and the life. would be to live in an unreal world, We need from time to time to In but nine years, we will celebrate separated in a disembodied way from make an analysis of the reality in Both other things are changeable in the reality of our contemporaries and, the 5OOth anniversary of the discovery which we carry on our ministry and the pastoral ministry. Reality changes of America and of the beginning of therefore, incompetent in giving valid to which we address our message, if and therefore the pastoral agents and answers according to the Gospel. the evangelization efforts of the we want to be effective in our work the methodology we use in proclaim- Catholic Church in the American and be true to the message of God. ing the Gospel message must change. The first reality we have to look at hemisphere. in our evangelization work is the I acknowledge with deep gratitude Not to adapt ourselves to the reali- human person. The value of the We are also celebrating this year the collaboration of our beloved ty would be to become ineffective in human person comes before any the Silver Jubilee of the Archdiocese brother Bishop Agustin. Roman in the the transmission of that message that apostolic program or project. Pro- THE VOICE Friday, October 14, 1983-Page 1A Discovering the Lord.

grams and projects are directed to the human person. The Present Challenge Last July we turned our eyes toward Florida Indians, the native in- habitants of this land. Now we want Our Historical Vocation to do the same thing with Hispanics, Because of our geographical situa- the first people who populated this tion, which makes us a natural port land after the native Indians, and of the Hispanic Mediterranean, as it who lived in Florida 55 years before were, and a bridge between the two the coining of the Mayflower pilgrims cultures, Miami shares in the benefits to Plymouth Rock and 40 years of the Latin American trade. before the foundation of Jamestown. We profit from the thousands of Latin American tourists who arrive annually at our coasts. Paradoxically, Natural and Historical we enrich ourselves also with the Vocation of Florida capital, the intelligence and the Latin .professionals who emigrate to our beaches, moved by the political and Natural Bridge Between in the Diocese of economical crises of their own na- Two Cultures tions. Just as we share in the benefits of our geographical situation, we'must Historical Past be willing as well to share in meeting the needs arising from the political When we analyze the reality of our and social conflicts of Latin America. Archdiocese, its history and the diver- Just as we are a natural port for sity of its ethnic composition, the role trade, we Jiave been called to be a played by its geographical position brotherly port for freedom and becomes obvious. democracy, a port of opportunities in Florida's geographical situation order that thousands of human beings makes it a port of the Hispanic might rebuild their lives and begin Mediterranean, as it were, and, as again in the same way our Irish, such, Florida has played a role, if not Italian, Polish, German and Jewish predominant, at least very important ancestors did in the 18th, 19th and . in the life and the development of the 20th centuries. Hispanic civilization in the Caribbean basin. And this dates back to the Our Christian Vocation discovery of Florida by Ponce de as a Diocese Leon in 1513. In the presence of this universal phenomenon of masses on the move The Archdiocese of Miami in search of freedom, our position and St. Augustine must be a prophetic one. It seems that the Lord wants us to St. Augustine, founded in 1565 by bear witness to a system of values, of Pedro Menendez de Aviles, was, attitudes, of behavior, that differ politically and ecclesiastically, depen- from those of the world, that reflect dent on Cuba. instead those of the Gospel. Its history is closely related to the Our actions must reflect not only a trade, the communications and the generous attitude but also an attitude defense of the Spanish Empire in the of respect and esteem for persons and New World. The founding of the city their culture. of St. Augustine and the then San The Faith we live calls upon us to Marcos Fortress was needed for the view the phenomena of immigration defense and the protection of the and human mobility with different Spanish Armadas and fleets on their eyes than those of sociology or way back to the mother country. The tallest cross in the country marks the site of the first Catholic parish politics. The history of American in America, the Mission Nombre de Dios founded more than 400 years We know all men are brothers and Catholicism in Florida begins with the ago in St. Augustine. (Voice photo from NC News) have a common Father. We know the founding of St. Augustine. Catholic Church is universal and this It was in the area of St. Augustine Hispanic history from the beginning. America. universality must manifest itself at all that the first efforts were made to It would be a mistake to consider The creation of the Institute of levels, Nobody can consider himself a evangelize the natives. Already since the presence of Hispanics in the Social Action, the Inter-American In- foreigner. In the Catholic Church 1566 these efforts were bathed in the Diocese of Miami as starting from the stitute of Social Training and the Of- there are no foreigners. All are blood of Hispanic martyrs such as political events of 1959 in the island fice of Latin American Affairs con- brothers and sisters. To this vision of Faith must be joined an effort to create and share the quality of life for which the Gospel calls. The offerings we must 'Just as we are a natural port for trade, we have been called to be a make to our brethren cannot be brotherly port for freedom and democracy, a port of opportunities in reduced to material things but must include necessarily the quality of life order that thousands of human beings might rebuild their lives and begin resulting from personal communica- again in the same way our Irish, Italian, Polish, German and Jewish tion, from knowing and respecting ancestors did../ each other. This makes human coex- istence an enriching experience and generates deep satisfaction and piness. Aware that we or our fathers also were "slaves of Egypt," we have to renew our Christian solidarity with Pedro Martinez, and later, in 1696, in of Cuba. stitutes proof, in our history, of the Cuban blood with the martyrdom of The fact is that at the time of the the poorest and needy of this world. concern of our Diocese and Bishop We must have in mind the words of the Cuban priest Luis Sanchez founding of the Diocese of Miami in Carroll for Latin America. Pacheco. 1958 Hispanics made up a significant Jesus, who identifies Himself with the The presence and death of Father number of the faithful and their More than 5,000 lay and religious poor and unfortunate: "Whatever Felix Varela in St. Augustine is also energy and productivity contributed students from more than 20 Latin you do to the least of my brethren significant. A Cuban priest and not only to the economic well-being American nations, representing more you do to me." thought-provoking philosopher, of the region but to the vitality of the than 70 South American dioceses, This solidarity must not remain as Father Varela had been Vicar General Church. participated over a four-year period mere good wishes; it must affect our of the Diocese of New York, founder in the Institute of Social Action. comfort and our pocketbooks. of Transfiguration and St. James Bishop Carroll's Vision Bishop Carroll was appointed in parish churches, and apostle of the Toward Latin America 1966 Acting Chairman of the Hispanic Contributions Irish immigrants. Bishops'Committee for Latin Let us now turn our attention to From the early stages, the Diocese America. In that capacity he visited our Hispanic brothers and sisters liv- Until 25 years ago, the territory of of Miami under Bishop Coleman F. almost every country in Latin ing in South Florida. the Archdiocese of Miami belonged Carroll lent an ear to the directives of America and promoted exchange When we analyze our reality, we to the Diocese of St. Augustine, and Pope Pius XII, John XXIII and Paul meetings, assistance programs and are aware of the positive contribution thus its history is related to the VI, and opened its heart to Latin leadership training. of the Hispanic people to our Arch- Page 2A-Friday, October 14, 1983 -THE VOICE A call to Evangelization

diocese. Beyond the trade, the pro- At the same time, I should like to fessional talent, the banking, the invite our Hispanic brethren to par- building industry, architecture, etc., ticipate more fully in public life and we should like to point out especially in the ecclesial life of bur Arch- *•*• the spiritual contributions, not only diocese. on the part of the Hispanic clergy Do not be assimilated, but do not and religious, but also of the Catholic isolate yourselves. Integrate laity. yourselves in the life of our civil and It is admirable to contemplate the religious community. Take part in innumerable apostolic initiatives and public life. Feel the responsibility to pastoral responses of our Hispanic take part in the political life of the people to the needs of their brothers community with your votes. and sisters. Support capable and upright can- We are aware of the thousands of didates. Prepare yourselves to serve in hours of voluntary work contributed public office, sacrificing perhaps by the Hispanic people to the more lucrative personal interests. building of the Kingdom of God in Do not permit the neglect of the our Archdiocese, and we are grateful and give thanks to the Lord for so much generosity and sacrifice. 'We know the Catholic Church is Challenges to the universal and this Hispanic Community universality must In this reflection on our reality, I manifest itself at all should like, however, to challenge our levels. Nobody can Hispanic people to preserve faithfully their spiritual values. consider himself a May they not be influenced by foreigner. In the materialism and consumerism which Catholic Church there are the cancer of our capitalistic society and a serious threat to are no foreigners. AH religion. I should like to challenge are brothers and them not to give their children more than needed but to share in the name sisters.' of Jesus with their brethren who are the neediest of our society. more capable and experienced people I urge them to keep the values of to leave the field open to opportunist: the Hispanic family, which includes and incapable policicians who, grandparents, uncles and aunts, because of the lack of competent can- nephews and godparents. Spend time didates, will have the opportunity to with all these family members. Ex- rule over our society. perience the sharing which generates Avoid in this participation in publi< community life and therefore quality life the "caudillismo" and the divi- of life. sion, perhaps the political blemish of The Hispanic community has been your histories. Learn to converse and blessed with a rich Catholic tradition to reach consensus and genuine that has been passed down from dialogue, having as priority the well- generation to generation. This tradi- being of the society and not the per- tion has been so strong that many of sonal interests of a few. them preferred to abandon their As I have said, to respond to God beloved homelands rather than give and His salvation plan, it is necessary up their Faith. to analyze the reality and the signs of Yet, now in this new land, what the times. A Cuban refugee prays during a Mass at Fort Chaffee, Ark., in the sum- tyrants could not take away from We challenge you to live the pre- mer of 1980. (Voice photo from NC News) them many of them are neglecting on sent and respond to it, without re- their own by failing to enrich their nouncing your history, which is part lives through the precious gifts of the of your identity, preserving the tion of Jesus, who came not to be Then they need to be more sensitive Sacraments and, most especially, the wisdom of the past, and projecting its served but to serve. to cultures which are not so dominant Eucharist at Sunday Mass. vision to the future. In this new conception of life, there in order not to oppress people who I urge them, at the same time, to We cannot live simply in the past if are no social classes because we are belong to other cultures or minorities. .retain the value and the dignity which we want to be true to God today. brethren and children of the same That oppression would be contrary to the Hispanic culture gives to the I call you to a higher degree of Father. the dignity of the person and, elderly and the unborn. Resist the conversion. The life here in the This sense of Christian therefore, to God's plan for human social or economic pressures to aban- United States for many of you has brotherhood originates from our beings. don them to their fate or to an imper- been a new beginning. I invite you to belief in the. same Father. It expands sonal situation in asylums and board- be reborn, to look at yourself and the horizons of our human communi- ing houses. others with a new vision, with Jesus' ty. It makes us feel as brothers not A Future Even More The respect for life which marks Hispanic culture must manifest itself Important in the care for the unborn. May Hispanics never become a part of the 'May (Hispanics) not be influenced by When I look at the future of our yearly crime statistics on abortion! materialism and consumerism which are the Archdiocese, I perceive an even more I admire the capacity for work of important future. the Hispanics in South Florida. I ad- cancer of our capitalistic society and a serious The population of the southeastern , mire their initiative, their commercial threat to religion. I should like to challenge United States will become 36 percent and industrial success. But I urge them not to give their children more than need- of the national population by the year them to be true to their culture. 2,000, according to demographic pro- Work to live, do not live to work. ed but to share in the name of Jesus with their jections. Refuse to permit work to deper- brethren who are the neediest of society.' According to all indicators, the sonalize you and to destroy your Hispanic population will become the family life. largest minority in this nation. Also I should like to acknowledge I should like to seize the opportuni- here the different use of time in the vision —that is Faith :— and to love only in our own families but in the ty of the preparation of the Third Hispanic culture and urge you to pro- things in a new way, with the heart of whole human family. National Hispanic Pastoral Meeting tect that social and human sense Jesus, which is charity. We need to build a sense of com- to address myself, as father and which time has in your culture. I urge munity beyond our own families and Pastor, to my Spanish-speaking sons our Hispanic people to keep "wasting I invite you to evaluate things in a feel social and community problems and daughters, whose presence is so time" with their children, their wives, true way, to look for the genuine in as our own personal problems. large in this portion of the Kingdom their relatives and friends. I tell them: life, and to leave the fantasy and the To be true, this feeling must lead of God. that is quality of life. social falsehood, the vanities and us to action — to sharing the things I wish to renew my invitation to Many of our Hispanic brothers and superficialities of the world which we do not need with our brethren them to participate in the Evangeliza- sisters have left their land in order to prizes "to have" more than "to be," who lack the things they do need. tion Program of our Archdiocese, enjoy freedom of thought and of and gives more credit to appearance As the Hispanics become more a which is in its fourth year. speech. May they respect other peo- than truth. part of this society and make In the first two years, we devoted ple's freedom to think and to have I believe that in this rebirth in God economic progress, it is possible that, our efforts to work in favor of the different views. That is democracy. it is necessary to conceive our own in some areas, their particular culture evangelization of community life — The contrary is oppression. , lives as a service to others, in imita- will become dominant. first at the family level, later at the THE VOICE- -Friday, October 14, 1983-Page 3A- Discovering the Lord.

parish level, the family of families. The following year consisted of a call to grow in Faith. This year we are committed to deepening our prayer life and to bringing the un- churched into the Catholic Church. We shall dedicate next year to work

'As an Archdiocese, and because of our call to be a bridge with South America, we must interest ourselves in the in- tegral development of our South American brethren, supporting a/i kinds of har- monious human pro- gress which favors the building of the Kingdom and de- nounces exploitation and oppression.'

for the growth of charity. The recent statistical surveys tell us that, generally, only 10 percent of 'Work to live, do not live to Hispanics practice their Faith. For known reasons, such as the shortage work. Refuse to permit work to of priests in their countries of origin, depersonalize you and destroy the other 90 percent do not practice your family life... I urge our their Faith regularly. That is why I challenge the practic- Hispanic people to keep ing Hispanic Catholics to share this "wasting time" with their Faith with all their brethren who, in children, their wives, their their historical moment, did not have the opportunity to receive the light of relatives and friends. I tell them: the Gospel. Reconciling is one of the that is quality of life.' aims of our Program of Evangeliza- tion; that aim means to develop in the midst of our parish communities a yearning and commitment to care - for everybody. We want to reconcile all of us in the same community of Faith of our fathers.This includes Catholics who live on the fringe of the Church, who keep themselves distant and the peo- ple who have lost their Church filiation. In short, opening the Father's house to all His children must be the great concern of the leaders of our Patroness of this Archdiocese, wants We are called to be a bridge bet- America, we must interest ourselves Catholic movements and organiza- to join everybody in the same ween the Hispanics of North and in the integral development of our tions and the Lay Ministers who work Catholic family they left in their West and the Hispanics of the South. South American brethren, supporting in this portion of the Church. countries of origin. Here our existential political ex- all kinds of harmonious human pro- The richness of the popular piety of The economic relations between perience can be an enrichment for the gress which favors the building of the the Hispanic people is well known by North and South America will grow other Hispanics of the nation, as can Kingdom and denounces exploitation its multiple expressions in this Arch- because of the relation between in- our experiences in the fields of in- and oppression. diocese. Popular piety is a prepara- dustrialization and primary sources of dustry, trade and pastoral ministry. My beloved brothers and sisters, we tion for proper evangelization. raw materials. More and more the Catholic invite you to walk together with us, "This popular piety is not Geography unites us again Church in the United States is aware scrutinizing the signs of the times, necessarily a vague feeling, lacking of historically so that the South of its responsibility at a world level. discerning the will of God, striving a solid doctrinal basis, as an interior American nations will have a The influence of our nation is felt for the building of the Kingdom of form of religious expression. Guided God among the human beings of this and sustained and, if need be, purified hemisphere. A Kingdom of peace, of by the continuous action of the 'As the Hispanics become more a part of this justice and of love. pastors and daily exercised in the life This message of love and con- of the people, popular piety is really society and make economic progress, it is fidence which I address to you is the piety of the poor and simple peo- possible that, in some areas, their particular shared with me by my beloved and ple," as our Holy Father, Pope John culture will become dominant. Then they need your beloved Bishop Agustin Roman, Paul II said in Zapopan, Mexico who has been our inestimable (January 30, 1979). to be more sensitive to cultures which are not assistance in its preparation. The popular piety of our Hispanic so dominant in order not to oppress people faithful is "indissolubly Marian." In who belong to other cultures or minorities.' May the Good Lord, by the in- it Blessed Mary occupies the same tercession of Our Lady, bless you preeminent place as in the wholeness abundantly. of the Christian life. necessary influence on our interna- everywhere. It is a great factor in Given at Bethlehem, where Jesus She is the Mother, the Queen, the tional politics and we on theirs. determining the world situation. the Word-become-Flesh, was born Patroness and the Model. We come Faced with this panorama we, as a As a prophetic Church, we must and where I am praying for you, on to her to honor her, to ask for her in- Church, must be aware of our call to announce and work for the Kingdom October 12, in the year of Our Lord tercession, to learn to imitate her, be a bridge. of God and denounce from our 1983. that is to say, to learn to be a real special world watchtower the prin- disciple of Jesus. We are called to be a primary ciples, the attitudes and the actions Devotedly yours in Christ, Because, as the Lord says, bridge between the two cultures. that are opposed to the building of "Whoever does the will of God is Already at the present time a bil- the Kingdom of God. brother and sister and mother to ingual Miami contributes to the whole me." (Mark 1:35) She, under the title economical progress of both con- As an Archdiocese, and because of Edward A. McCarthy f -of the Immaculate Conception, tinents, our call to be a bridge with South Archbishop of Miami Page 4A-Friday, October 14, 1983-THE VOICE