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CUBA'S CHURCH WHO WILL MINISTER? OAS report says How will declining religious freedom numbers of priests not as limited now affect Church's mission? Page 5 Page 7 Largest weekly newspaper in Southeastern U.S. Vol. XXXI No. 48 Catholic Archdiocese of Miami Price 250 Friday, January 27,1984 New drug program here Test project to help parishes By Betsy Kennedy "Recent statistics from the Na- Voice Staff Writer tional Institute on Drug Abuse in Washington reveal that children are The federal government has funded using drugs at an average age of 11 Catholic Community Services to years, 8 months. Because their bodies launch D.A.R.E. (Drug, Alcohol, are still in the growth stages, it really Rehabilitation, Education), a new drug program aimed at prevention on the compounds the problem." parish level in the Archdiocese. Hard Facts D.A.R.E. will be aimed at helping abusers like Mary Ann, a bright, Other figures released from the In- spunky 12-year-old who goes to school stitute are disturbing to Faraglia. Six- each day with "a buzz on." She takes ty percent of high school seniors have the newest fad drug sold on the elemen- experimented with marijuana. tary school campuses — bootleg Another 60 percent have ex- Quaaludes, each shaped like Pac Man, perimented with other illicit drugs. the video game character. But the true (And this figure may be higher, character of this drug is a deadly mix- because it does not account for the ture of barbiturates which substitute for number of students who have drop- the now illegal methaqualone, the main ped out of school.) As high as 93 per- ingredient of prescription Quaaludes. cent have experimented with alcohol, "We're seeing younger and younger and 34: percent admit to alcohol drug abusers like Mary Ann," said An- use on a regular basis. nette Faraglia, the director of the A former teacher in New York City fledgling program. and a former drug counselor at Village South Rehabilitation Center — BOSTON-BOUND—-^ in South Miami, Faraglia felt appall- ed by the youthfulness of the addicts who came to her for help. Many of them were empty husks of what they once had been. They were no longer cheerful, productive, healthy teenagers. Instead they had become John Joseph Moorman's, holds a self-made profile sign while participating with brothers Matthew, 4, and Mark Isaac, 13 months, in the South Broward wan, apathetic shadows who lived on- Respect Life Office's "Walk for Life." See story below. (Voice photo by ly for their next chemical boost. Ana Rodriguez-Soto). "I wondered why parents had let it - come to this... I talked to parents in Prevention For more than 10 years, CCS has the elementary schools who swore The D.A.R.E. program of the been conducting a full program at St. their children had not experimented Archdiocese will focus on prevention Luke's Center, offering counseling, with anything. Then I would talk to and early intervention, and will be methadone maintenance primarily the kids and they would admit to us- guided by the philosophy that "peo- for detoxing and returning people to ing all kinds of substances." ple are the most important resource in productive society, and a day care When Faraglia worked at Village the fight against substance abuse." center for the children of addicts. Bishop Bernard Law of Missouri, South, ' the average age of my clients "This program is an outgrowth of "The important thing is to try and Harvard grad, ecumenical leader, was 21. It kept dropping until it was the drug treatment program we have to be Archbishop of Boston, the provide prevention for this grave U.S.' third largest diocese. Story, an average of 12 or 13 years old. I had in the diocese for 14 years," said social illness as soon as possible in page 3. began to realize that prevention must Father Sean O'Sullivan, the division our schools and communities." be the answer." director. (Continued on page 12) Walk for life 'til toes fall off By Ana Rodriguez-Soto Then he re-joined. the group, who the south Broward Respect Life Of- tative Tom Bush during a brief rally Voice News Editor sang hymns in Spanish and English fice which organized the second an- at the church parking lot. Bones chilled, hands numb, faces between decades of the Rosary. nual Walk for Life. Bush listed hopeful signs that stoic against the bitter gusts of cold From 9 to noon Saturday, But their actions and the cold, America's pro-abortion mentality is wind, the 20 or so young men from passersby on busy State Road 441 dismal, gray day seemed to symbolize changing. "No question," he said, St. John Vianney College Seminary in couldn't miss Celio, his friends and all prolifers, deeper resolve: As sure "public opinion is beginning to Miami repeated Hail Marys and Our more than 300 others, young and old, as the sun, invisible throughout the sway." Fathers as they walked around the who joyfully walked, jogged and gloomy Saturday, would return to • More and more Catholic and parking lot of St. Stephen Catholic roller-skated despite the hostile warm South Florida on Sunday, the Christian schools are opening each Church in Hollywood, holding black weather to make a simple point: The bitter, chill wind cast upon life by year, all of them teaching the futiire and brown rosaries and carrying Supreme Court decision legalizing nine Supreme Court justices one day generation that abotion is wrong. posters proclaiming human life as abortion 11 years ago is a moral will be stilled. • Christian theologian Francis sacred. wrong which must be sighted. "We have the truth and the truth is Schaefer's book, "The Christian "We decided we wanted to do The walkers, mostly members of that human life is sacred and we will Manifesto," has sold more copies something active for prolife in the 10 south Broward parishes, prevail," Father Dan Kubala told the than the Jane Fonda "Workout" general and show our extreme disgust students from St. Thomas Aquinas walkers. The director of the Respect book. with the law of the land," explained and Madonna High Schools and Life Apostolate of the Archiocese of • One Supreme Court Justice, San- Victor Celio, a seminarian who vow- children from the area's Catholic Miami shared the back of a red pick- dra Day O'Connor, has said she is ed to walk "until my toes fall off." schools, also were raising money for up truck with former state represen- (Continued on page 9) Pope tells lawmakers Families must fight drug abuse VATICAN CITY (NC) — If U.S. lawmakers want to fight drug abuse, they should "favor unhesitatingly all initiatives which aim at strengthening the family in American Society," Pope John Paul II told a U.S. con- gressional delegation Jan. 19. The group, representing the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, met with the pope in the Apostolic Palace. "AS YOU TRY to make your fellow citizens more and more con- scious of the dangers of drug abuse; as you promote legislation, on the na- tional and international level, which seeks to draw up a comprehensive plan of deterrence against trafficking in narcotics, may you ever strive to meet the needs of the family, for it is a key element in establishing stable, loving relationships and in offering to every person the support needed for a fulfilling life," the pope told the 36 Americans. "The flow of narcotics has reached' immense proportions, so that no na- tion is immune from its debilitating effects," the pope said. The church's interest in the drug problem, he added, "is focused on the crucial role that the family must pay in the solution to the problem." "The family stands at the very KING HONORED — During an ecumenical service in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Coretta Scott King, Cdl. foundation of society, and through Joseph Bemardin of Chicago and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, join hands and sing, "We Shall Overcome." The its role of service to life is vitally link- ceremony revered slain civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King. (NC photo from UPl). ed to society's advancement," the pope explained. "It provides the everything possible to ensure that unencumbered by threats to their The Delegation visiting the pope in- forum for the fostering of authentic families have all the help that they authentic realization as person," the cluded seven members of the House and mature communion between per- need in order to fulfill their respon- pope said. committee: chairman Charles B. sons and is the place of origin and the sibilities." Rangel (D-N.Y.), Daniel Akaka most effective means for humanizing "It is by no means extraneous to "THE SCOURGE of drug traf- (D-Hawaii) Frank Guarini (D-N.J), and personalizing society." your work as public servants to foster ficking and drug abuse," he added, is George W. Crocket Jr. (D-Mich.), social conditions in which individuals one of the factors which "menace the Harold. Sawyer (R-Mich,), Harold He added that "the church en- may grow and develop in a way com- individual and impede the growth of Rogers (R-Ky.) and Louis Stokes :ourages the public authorities to do mesurate with their human dignity, a healthy social climate." (D-Ohio). News Weakland of Milwaukee. Archbishop Weakland was notified that the Vatican Reagan predicts end of trial for doctrinal congregation ruled the case involved "the indirect violation of the sacramental seal" and that any "penal measures" against the priest would be Salvadoran ex-guardsmen left up to the archbishop.