A Story of Hardship, Even Death, but Also of the Triumph of the Human Spirit of the Men and Women Who Work with Those Who Have Nothing

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Catholic Archdiocese of Miami Vol.XXXI No.12 Friday, April 15, 1983 Price 25C Silver Jubilee Year Poverty and love A story of hardship, even death, but also of the triumph of the human spirit of the men and women who work with those who have nothing.

i At the invitation of Broward- based Food For The Poor, a Catholic lay organization. Voice Editor Robert O'Steen recently toured poverty pockets of Haiti and Jamaica where the small number of priests receive support from the food organization. Following is his report on conditions there.

By Robert O'Steen Editor, The Voice

PORT AU PRINCE/KINGSTON- Poverty here has a certain odor about it. You can smell it faintly on the downtown streets and stronger in the ghettos. A mixture borne on the air of unwashed bodies, human waste and the slow decay of buildings and society. Fr. Richard Albert kneels to talk to children (foreground) in 'Brooklyn,' Haiti, one of the world's worst slums, It is here that Broward-based Food as a South Florida group tours the area. (Voice photo by Robert O'Steen). For The Poor has brought three Americans to see the overwhelming problems and needs, along with the sions of a five-day trip: space to walk. distrust and harassment of the Then the mounds move here and government) the hard-laboring minor miracles a handful of mis- Human cordwood sionaries, priests and Sisters there and you realize: these are women, for 15 cents get a place to somehow manage daily. It is both You wind your way from Port au human beings, stacked body to body sleep and two simple meals. They suf- apalling and inspiring. "I want others Prince late at night, up torturous on the floor, hundreds huddled fer, as do most poor Haitians, to see what it is like here in Haiti and turns of rough half-paved road to against the cold mountain air. These weakness, parasites, stunted growth, Jamaica," said Ferdinand Mahfood, apathy. Yet they work like horses. founder of Food For the Poor. So he has brought the three to see and tell: 'the next day Father Harry was sent word that he Stones in toilets Father Basil Pennington, a Trappist could find the bodies of the thieves at such and Then, the next day there is the monk and nationally-known propo- countryside school and clinic built nent of centering prayer as well as such a place' out of nothing in five years by mis- lecturer and author; Gerry Kelly, a sionary couple James and Carol lay worker for FP; and the Editor of Herget. The Voice. Kenscoff, at 5,000 feet elevation are the women, it is explained, who "When the kids from the hills first There is too much in the five-day where you are greeted by Father Jean walk with 50-pound baskets of pro- came here," says Carol, some had no trip for it all to be told. Suffice it to Cico. He is a native Haitian priest, duce on their heads down and up the clothes. They had never seen a toilet say that in this part of the world young, handsome and owner of a mountain as long as 12 hours at a and we had to stop them from drink- there are people, like the famed smile to put Ben Vereen to shame. He time to get to Kenscoff to sell their ing out of it. Then they clogged it up Mother Teresa, though without the takes you inside a long, low wooden produce or a couple of chickens. with stones because they didn't know media attention, who are quietly building barely lit by the classic single They used to sleep on the cold to use toilet paper. Yet from that ig- working their way toward sainthood, naked light bulb. All along the floor ground, rain or not. Now, thanks to norance, some of the kids have gone though they would scoff at that. are what look like mounds of rags, Fr. Cico and his formation of the to the fifth grade in two years, given Here are some whirlwind impres- piled side by side, leaving almost no Poor People's Coop (much to the continued on page 10 INNER VOICE " YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED ST. MARTHA Dedication ceremonies for the new dedicates Pastoral Center of the Archdiocese new home begin with a Mass on Saturday at 11 a.m. NUKES PASTORAL followed by an Open House from 1 to 4 p.m. Back Page gets conservatives' OK Another Open House will be held Sunday Pages 4-5 from 1 to 4 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Board calls for women's rights

By Bob Cubbage Conference, based in Seattle, is the Catholic Church and society. By Raising the issue of women's public policy agency of the state's three adopting and publishing the statement, ordination, the statement notes that in The 12-member Washington State Catholic bishops, who head the the WSCC said it hopes to initiate and 1976 the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Conference's board of Archdiocese of Seattle and the promote discussion of women's the Doctrine of the Faith reiterated the directors has adopted a statement Dioceses of Spokane and Yakima. Its equality. church's long tradition of ordaining urging ratification of the federal Equal action in regard to the ERA is regarded "The church strongly advocates that only men. "We have seen,- however, Rights Amendment and calling for as a precedent because no other .state the sensitivities of its members be that there are substantial numbers in equality for women in the church. Catholic conference is believed to have heightened with regard to inequalities the church who question whether the The statement, prepared by the backed the ER£. and that societal measures be enacted tradition of ordaining only men is of organization's Moral Advisory ' 'While we are aware of the evils that to overcome them," the statement unchangeable divine law," the Committee, also calls for more study some anticipate as ensuing from the says. statement says, and discussion on the. issue of women's ERA and the threats that, in the minds Although the WSCC supports "We urge, in all loyalty to the holy ordination to the Catholic priesthood. of some, it may pose to traditional ratification of the ERA, the statement father and the constant tradition of the THE BOARD likewise went on the values, we believe that the symbolic urges "continuing study of the church. . . the undertaking of in-depth record in support of a Washington and practical value of this measure to amendment, its meaning and its studies on the meaning of priesthood, state legislative measure which provide equal opportunities for women implications." the way the priesthood has historically encourages President "Reagan to in our .society is worthy of attention," . "LET THE wisdom of civil and adapted to different cultures, the promote speedy passage of the ERA, the WSCC directors said in their canon law, ecclesial leadership and enduring elements of priesthood that reintroduced in Congress after it failed statement. faithful men and women guide us in transcend all cultural changes, and to be ratified by enough states by 1982. For five years, the board has been our efforts toward public policy in the finally, the relationship of these The Washington State Catholic discussing the role of women in the whole area of human rights," it says. elements to women," the WSCC said.

Bishop FitzpatricK sends amnesty letter^ In an open letter to President Reagan, Bishop John J. Fitzpatrick of Brownsville, Texas, asked the president to grant amnesty to all Salvadoran and other Central American refugees awaiting a solution to the military and political upheaval in their countries. Central Americans seeking political asylum who enter this country illegal- ly face arrest and depoitation by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Bishop Fitzpatrick also called for an end to military, economic and social aid to Central American countries "so that those nations may be self-determined in their pursuit of freedom and human dignity which will lead to national recovery and peace, much the same as we American people did over 200 years ago." Philippine layman disappears MARYKNOLL, N.Y. - Karl Caspar, 35, the first layman to serve as executive secretary of the Mindanao-Sulu Pastoral Conference, serving 17 Philippine dioceses, disappeared according to Maryknoll sources. Maryknoll Father Dan Diiscoll, director of the Mary Knoll Justice and Peace Office, said that Gaspar disappeared after either stopping at the home of West German friends whom the Philippine military had arrested, or after he had visited the Davao City ecumenical center, which the military had raided two days earlier. Six persons, including a United Church of Christ minister, were reportedly arrested at the home of the Germans. The Philip- pine government has accused the Catholic Church of aiding dissident and guerilla movements. Father Driscoll said Maryknoll sources .have said Gaspar was not associated with any Guerilla movements. Dallas Catholics protest Bishops' pastoral

DALLAS - Saying the U.S. bishops' proposed pastoral on war and peace has caused them "dismay, disappointment and concern," a group of lay Catholics in Dallas has issued an open letter to the bishops urging major changes in the document. The group, Concerned Catholics for Peace Through Strength, expresses "major reservations about the proposed pastoral letter" in a statement sent to U.S. bishops. A copy of the statement appeared in a full-page ad in the Texas Catholic, newspaper of the Dallas and Fort Worth dioceses. The bishops' proposed pastoral, "with its expression of terror that man will destroy all life, contradicts" the church's COLOMBIAN QUAKE - Workers attempt to clear the rubble left by an "fundamental belief" in Christ's second coming, wrote the group. It said the earthquake which wrecked the cathedral in Popayan, Colombia, on pastoral "is permeated by fear...and unholy terror unbefitting men of faith." Arid Holy Thursday, burying many worshippers. Pope John Paul II sent faulted it for showing a "totally leftward orientation." condolences to families of the victims, (NC photo) Police arrest alleged killer of priest

PA VIA, Italy - Italian police arrested a 35-year-old university physics researcher Vatican Bank probe continues as a suspect in the murder case of a priest, two Religious brothers and five other people over the past six years. The suspect, Silvano Romano, was transferred to a prison VATICAN CITY (NC)-The joint Vatican-Italian commission studying the ties in Verona, Italy, after four hours of questioning the previous day in Pavia. He was between the bankrupt Banco Ambrosiano and the Vatican bank plans to take its in- held on a "provisional arrest order" but there were no formal charges. According to vestigation to Latin America and the Caribbean, said Father Pierfranco Pastore, police, Romano is suspected of having a key role in a neo-Nazi group called Ludwig, assistant director of the Vatican Press Office, April 5, confirming Italian press which has claimed responsibility for the killings of eight people since 1977. One vic- reports. A key issue in the investigation is if the Vatican bank is liable for any of the tim was Father Armando Bison, 71, who was hit on the head with a hammer and re- bad loans, several of which were to Latin American concerns, made by the Banco mained in a coma until his death March 9. Romano is reported t;i£have admitted stu- Ambrosiano. The loans led to the collapse of the Italian bank. The Vatican owned dying the activities of the Ludwig group but to have said he is not involved in its slightly over 1 percent of Banco Ambrosiano stock. crimes.

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PAGE 2 - THE VOICE - Friday, April 15, 1983 New ways to beat high

President Reagan is greeted by Msgr. John Meyers, NCEA president, before addressing Catholic educators school in Washington. (NC photo) Reagan: 77/ work for credits' costs WASHINGTON (NC)-Rejecting would give tax breaks to parents who move as quickly as possible through criticism that he is strong on rhetoric save for their children's college educa- Congress" this year. supporting tuition tax credit legislation tion and a proposal to allow local Last year's tax credit proposal made on Capitol Hill but weak on action, school districts to establish an educa- it only through the Senate Finance^ Catholic President Reagan told Catholic tional voucher system using federal -Committee. educators that "like Teddy Roosevelt, school aid for the poor. Reagan said he has heard talk that educators I'm going to charge up that hill" to "I'm strong on rhetoric but not work for passage. 'I want the legislation physically pushing the bill" on Capitol He introduced no new proposals but Hill. He then' compared his efforts to are finding outlined the education package now in to move as quickly as former President Theodore Roosevelt Congress. The current proposal in- possible through Con- who, as a horseman in the Spanish them cludes tax credits for up to half of the American War, led his volunteer tuition parents pay to send their gress.' Rough Riders up San Juan Hill. WASHINGTON (NC)-Marathons, children to non-public schools. The president received a standing He said that although some educa- ovation when he appeared and another grants for low income families and REAGAN SPOKE in the final tion lobbies have protested tuition tax negotiated tuition are all ways Catholic when he left the stage. minutes of the 80th annual National credit legislation, calling it an attack on Among other speakers at this year's schools are beating the high cost of Catholic Educational Association con- public schools and destined to help teaching. convention were Cardinal Joseph Ber- vention in Washington April 7. NCEA private academies and finishing nardin of Chicago who spoke on war At workshops at the National officials estimated that more than schools, "the majority of private and peace; Father Henri J. M. Catholic Educational Association con- 10,000 Catholic educators attended the schools are church-run" and paid for Nouwen, who opened the gathering on vention, held in Washington April 4-7, April 4-7 convention, by parents who "pay taxes to fund a spiritual note; ABC-TV News an- Catholic school administrators were In his address Reagan said he would public schools as well. . chorman Frank Reynolds, who told presented with a variety of approaches "get to the heart of what I know the "I just don't think that'* fair," educators that "we have a common to help parents and schools finance National Catholic Educational Reagan said. obligation. . . to tell the truth as we see Catholic education. Association is interested in... We need HE TOLD the educators that he was it;" and Father Alfred McBride, who Jerome N. Julius, a Minneapolis tuition tax credits." disappointed that the tax credit pro- said the greatest choice and hardest member of the advisory committee of The president also mentioned posal didn't get further in the last Con- challenge today is to create a Catholic the National Forum of Catholic Education Savings Accounts that gress and "I want the legislation to educational philosophy. Parents Organizations, explained how to set up a marathon to raise money for choice. School in Boulder, Colo., said in his non-public schools. income an average of 23-25 percent, "The kids have fun, they look for- workshop on the topic. helps its financial stability, lowers the HE TOLD of the growth of Min- ward to it," Julius said of the annual "There is no negotiation that goes parish subsidy and attracts new nesota's Marathon for Non-Public October event. He showed slides of on," Franken said. Instead he defined families to the school, Franken said. Education, which grew from one people walking, running, biking and the program as "a process by which The program has been in the Denver marathon in St. Paul-Minneapolis in roller skating in the 12-mile St. Paul- parents determine their level of finan- Archdiocese for almost 10 years. 1974 to activities which included about Minneapolis marathon. cial support for the school in light of 260 schools around the state last fall. Juliusadded that the marathons are their awareness of the actual per-pupil SISTER of St. Joseph Barbara Flan- He suggested that other groups good public relations for the schools. cost." nery explained the program used in the follow Minnesota's example of involv- "We've opened a lot of doors" for He suggested calling the program the Diocese of Oakland, Calif. Family Aid—Catholic Education (FACE) was begun in the Oakland Negotiated tuition is #a process by which parents determine their level of Diocese in 1978. Parents apply for grants through their local schools and financial support for the school in light of their awareness of the actual per- families with the lowest income are the pupil cost/ first eligible for $150-200 grants. Then families with slightly higher incomes are eligible for any remaining grants. ing the Knights of Columbus in the ac- Catholic education, he said. "educational commitment plan" or Money for the grants comes from tivities. "They have staying power," Julius also recommended that "fair share" instead of "negotiated foundations, business, individuals and Julius said, and can contribute much schools check into the corporate mat- tuition" to indicate that there is no parishes. Fund-raising events and of the manpower. ching programs that some firms take confrontation between parent and memorial funds also add to the part in. These companies offer to school over the amount of tuition each revenue. There is no cost to the schools for match gifts from employees to secon- family pays. Parents are not asked to "if we cannot help a family we make the marathons, "nothing is skimmed dary schools and some elementary disclose their finances, he added. sure they get help" from other off the top," Julius said. Money from schools. "People have need to give," organizations, Sister Flannery said. the Knights of Columbus and from "You don't have to beg or borrow- Franken said, and want to pay a fair "The key is reaching out to everyone; other fund-raising projects are used to just fill out the form and the money amount. The program strengthens the it's an open process." defray expenses. , rolls in," he said. parents' commitment to the school and In this school y&tr 539 grants total- The monies pledged are turned over "NEGOTIATED tuition" is a some parents pledge their time and ing $78,660 have been distributed. The by the participants directly to the misnomer, Michael J. Franken, prin- talent as part of their contribution. first year 314 grants totaling $29,239 school or educational activity of their cipal of the Sacred Heart of Jesus The program increases the school's were given out.

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THE VOICE - Friday. April 15, 1983 - PAGE 3 No 'cop-out' to Reagan on WASHINGTON (NC)-The third and -Catholic social commentator And they appeared to be particularly document is, we believe, summed up in draft of the U.S. bishops' war and Michael Novak, said the new version anxious to avoid letting the these two sentences: 'A justifiable use peace pastoral opened to generally, but was a vast improvement. administration use the pastoral to of force must be both discriminatory not entirely, favorable reviews in the endorse its position opposing the and proportionate. Certain aspects of days after its April 6 release. nuclear freeze. both U.S. and Soviet strategies fail But the initial response to the draft Failing grade both tests...,'" Archbishop Roach and pastoral also brought a mild rebuke of While Hughes had said the third Cardinal Bernardin said. the Reagan administration by two top But initial Reaction was not all draft no longer endorsed the freeze, the officials of the bishops' conference favorable. The president of the Roach-Bernardin statement said But at least one bishop, commenting American Catholic Philosophical neither the second draft nor the third on the third draft's shift from "halt" Association, Germain Grisez, a draft advocated a freeze "as such," to "curb" in its call for an end to the 'The basic moral judg- professor of Christian ethics at Mount and thus should not be used to oppose arms race, said he favored sticking St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, any specific proposal. with "halt." ment of the document Md., said he would give the third draft "The basic moral judgment of the Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan of is ... summed up in a grade of D ''at best" and maybe an F for its moral acceptance of deterrence these two sentences: policy. "A justifiable use of The now draft is scheduled for discussion and possible final vote at a •Vatican repeats own force must be both special meeting of the bishops in discriminatory and Chicago May 2-3. proportionate. Certain The Reagan administration I disarmament stand comment that apparently sparked the aspects of both U.S. PIACENZA, Italy(NC) - Pope John Paul JI's top aide icaffilmed the Vatican protest by Cardinal Bernardin and stand on disarmament April 7, saying that "deteirence based on equilibnum - and Soviet strategies Archbishop Roach was a statement certainly not as an end in ttielf but as a stage on tbc way 10 progressive disarma- read to reporters April 6 by State fail both tests/" ment - can .still be judged to be morally acceptable." Department spokesman John Hughes. Cardinal Agostido Casaroli, papal secretary of state, was addressing an inter- In it, Hughes said the administration national conference in Piacen^a on the theme, "Development of Peoples Is the" was pleased that the third draft New Name of. Peace." after the administration said the new endorsed "many of the far-reaching draft "explicitly endorses" many of The statement he quoted came from a June II, 1982 speech thai he delivered on objectives which the administration behalf of Pope Jolm Paul to the U.M. Second Special Session on Disarmament. the objectives of current U.S. defense seeks," such as negotiated agreements policy. In the Piacenssa talk, Cardinal CasaroE described the arms race as * 'one of the for reductions in nuclear arsenals. most insupportable burdens for the world economy" and "one of the most The two bishops—Archbishop John Cardinal Bernardin and Archbishop serious and constant threats to the peace it is intended to safeguard." Roach, in a joint statement of their R. Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis, "CERTAINLY the church does not dose its eyes to the reality of the president of the National Conference own, responded April 10 that they "could not accept any suggestion that situation," headded. "Just recently... Pope John Paul II recognised that 'deter- of Catholic Bishops, and Cardinal rence based on equilibrium - certainly not as an end in itself but as a stage on the Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago, there are relatively few and insignificant differences between U.S. way to progressive disarmament - can stitl be judged to be morally acceptable/ chairman of the pastoral letter's "'However,' the message continues, 'to insure peace it is indispensable not to be drafting committee - said the draft, policies and the policies advocated in the pastoral," content w|ih a minimum which is always fraught with a real danger of rather than endorsing current policies, explosion,'" Cardinal Casaroli said. is still "explicitly critical" of many of The pope's U.R comment on the morality of deterrence, as an interim policy those policies. Their statement also rejected the with disarmament as its long-term goal, has become a central point of reference Meanwhile, several critics of earlier view that administration criticisms of for U.S. bishops' efforts to analyze the morality of nuclear warfare, nuclear drafts of the pastoral, such as Bishop earlier drafts had played a major role deterrence in general, and specific defense policies. Edward W. O'Rourke of Peoria, 111., in the changes made in the third draft.

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PAGE 4 - THE VOICE - Friday, April 15, 1983 nukes draft, bishops stress

Worcester, Mass., who reached retirement shortly after the third draft was completed, said halt "is a stronger word" and more appropriately represents the message that should be recommended to the leaders of government.

Better document Other bishops commented favorably on a number of other sections of the document. Bishop Daniel P. Reilly of Norwich, Conn., a member of the drafting committee, said the third draft makes clear that the bishops are not leaning toward either the just war theory or pacifism. While the just war theory still dominates the thinking of a majority 'The bishops really 'Many of our fellow 'If the bishops had come of bishops, he said in an interview with had an open process citizens regard deterrence to these revisions on their The Visitor, newspaper of the Diocese ... they really did as an end in itself. The own, I would feel less of Providence, R.I., the pacifist theory listen ...' bishops do not accept bad. But if they have has always been present in the church that.' come to this in collusion and must be recognized. Michael Novak, Abp. Thomas Kelly, with the government...' Archbishop Thomas Kelly of American Enterprise Louisville, Ky., said he thought the Louisville, KY Father Daniel Berrigart^ section on nuclear deterrence had been Institute strengthened in the third draft. And he said the section's conclusions are deterrence against a conventional "Whoever has been putting these Berrigan, who said he felt "a sense of contrary to widely held American attack. arguments together shows a grave lack betrayal." views. Novak, a resident scholar at the of competence in philosophy and Father Berrigan, who has been •'Many of our fellow citizens regard American Enterprise Institute, a theology," he said. imprisoned repeatedly for anti-war deterrence as an end in itself," said conservative think-tank in His principal objection was to the activities, said April 8 that he had not Archbishop Kelly. "The bishops do Washington, said the new draft also draft's acceptance of a U.S. deterrence read the third draft and was basing his not accept that." showed that "the bishops really had an policy which threatens to kill millions remarks on initial newspaper reports, Novak, meanwhile, said that while open process, that they really did of non-combatants and destroy an some of which described the draft as he still had some disagreements with listen" to criticisms of earlier versions. entire society. endorsing certain elements of U.S. the third draft, it had made "great While Grisez said he considers it defense policy. strides" from the second. permissible to stop an attacker even if "If the bishops had come to these The new draft recognizes that "no Not competent that requires killing, he said it is wrong revisions on their own, I would feel less first use" is an ideal, said Novak, who to choose to kill non-combatants in a bad," he said. "But if they have come added that he agreed with the bishops Grisez, though, said none of the war. to this in collusion with the that U.S.-NATO strategy should seek three drafts of the pastoral was "a Also initially critical of the third government, or while ignoring people to end its reliance on nuclear competent piece of work." draft was Jesuit Father Daniel like myself..."

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I'm hap- fleeing for their lives—and hundreds of these kids end up to the point, girl, where I feel like riding to your py to say she's back home now, reconciled with forgiving at our UNDER 21 center. If you ever wonder why our doors momma's and killing everybody in the house. and loving parents. Because 1 told you, next time you leave me stay open 24 hours a day...why I will fire any staff member Because of you we are able to be here for Margie and the who turns a child aWay...and why I insist that our en- you gonna pay, or somebody in your family's gonna pay. I take this too serious, girl. You un- thousands of other kids—boys and girls, young men and trances be patrolled day and night, seven days a week by young women—entrapped and enslaved in this vicious in- armed guards, this transcript will make it totally clear. derstand what I'm saying! You went into the hospital. You came out, and now you just got- dustry. New York City Police Department, a Mid-Manhattan ta go to work! Point blank! What more can I More than anything else I need your prayers for my kids, Precinct, today's date is 8-16-82 and the time is fourteen hun- tell you? Now it's time for you to sell your tail." my casually heroic staff, and for myself. We also urgently dred hours. This investigation is being conducted under ma- Margie:" "You're starting to make it one of those need your continued financial help. I think you now know jor case 04128 on complaint number 5847. The following is a 'pimp/hooker' relationships. I mean why we need both so desperately. recording of a telephone conversation between the complai- you're starting to whip me and things like I guess, too, I should ask you to pray for Sweet Talk. I nant, Margaret Steward, and the subject, Jerome Thatcher that. I mean,- if you really cared about me, don't want to pray for him...but I'll try. We pray for you and a.k.a. Sweet Talk. you wouldn't be sendin' me out in the your kjds all the time. My name is Margaret Steward and I live at 874 W. 29th streets to do that stuff." Street. I was born on April 6, 1965. The following is" a Sweet Talk: "Ijust want you to get through your mind that Kids like M argie need a place to run to, a place where telephone conversation being recorded by Police Officer this ain't no cat and mouse game, girl. You they can be safe. Here is my gift of: * I O'Brien. This recording is being ma'de with my knowledge know I'm a pimp and I know you're a whore. and I hereby consent to such a recording. You know what I'm saying. Hey, I'm thinking please print: about coming to pick you up, OK?" Margie: "Yes, can I speak to room 190" Sweet Talk: "Hello?" Margie: "I'm already in the building, they ain't gon- NAME: na let nva out." Margie: "Hello." ADDRESS: Sweet Talk: "Hey, Margie, what's happening? Where you Sweet Talk: "Damn it, if you wanted to come out of there, at?" you'd come out of there! Now don't go han- ding me this crap across the phone! You hear CITY:__ JSTATE: Margie: "At the home." (our UNDER 21 center) me?" Sweet Talk: "Why'd you call?" ZIP: •A I (GGE) Margie: "Because." Margie: "I can't leave now! Security's out there, and because..." Sweet Talk: "You had me thinking that you wanted to Please send this coupon with your donation to: come back to me....I want to know why you Sweet Talk: "Hell with security. Just tell them you're going called?!" home to your momma. What're they gonna do, tell you no you can't go!?" COVENANT HOUSE Margie: "Cause I'm scared to come back," Father Bruce Ritter Sweet Talk: "Why's that?" Margie: "No, they're gonna tell me to wait. And they're gonna call her 'cause, these peo- P.O. Box 2121 Margie: "Because look at all the stuff that happen- ple up here are scared to let me go out- Times Square Station ed to me. You broke my cheek, and side." New York, NY 10108 Father Bruce Ritter, OFM Conv., is the founder ana President of Sweet Talk: "You don't want to be with me now?" Covenant House/UNDER 21, which operates crisis Centers for Margie: "I don't know, I gotta go." Because the street is NO PLACE FOR A CHILD 1 homeless and runaway boys and girls THE VOICE - Friday, April 15, 1983 - PAGE 5 ' ...Long-overdue '...Far too vague and response to abuses by Two views on jopen to misunderstan- some physicians...' ding, misinterpretation and mistaken applica- 'Baby Doe' rul tions...' Fr. E. Bryce, Bishops reported to the federal government. Doe controversy by failing "to set Fr. J. Paris, Committee on Pro-Life "Baby Doe" was the name given to clear ethical standards for the practice an unidentified Indiana Infant who of medicine." Professor of Social died a year ago* after his parents asked Ethics that he not be fed. The baby suffered BUT FATHER Paris, testifying WASHINGTON (NC)-Two priests, from Down's syndrome and had a before the Senate subcommittee on more specialized but overburdened one the director of the U.S. bishops' deformed esophagus which doctors family and human services, said that children's hospitals because the com- pro-life office, the other a Jesuit ethics said could have been corrected by while the government ought to insist on munity hospitals feared being reported ' professor, disagreed April 6 on the surgery. customary care for handicapped in- for not giving customary care. He said value of the Reagan administration's Father Bryce, in comments on the fants, the new rule is "overly blunt." there also have been cases where new "Baby Doe" rule to protect han- new Tule submitted to the Department "The directive as written is far too , pediatricians have felt compelled to dicapped infants from being denied of Health and Human Services, said vague and open to misunderstanding, treat handicapped infants who are customary care and feeding in a the measure was a reasonable extension misinterpretation and mistaken ap- beyond help because of the new rule. hospital. of existing federal law on the treatment plications," Father Paris said. Also testifying at the Senate hearing Father Edward M. Bryce, in a state- of handicapped newborns. At the Senate hearing, the subcom- was Dr. C. Everett Koop, the pediatric ment on behalf of the bishops' Com- He said it is premature to argue that mittee chairman, Sen. Jeremiah Den- surgeon and pro-life activist who was mittee for Pro-Life Activities, said the the rule will interfere with sound ton (R-Ala.), read Father Paris appointed U.S. surgeon general by new rule was a "long-overdue response medical judgment and said he found it passages from Father Bryce's state- President Reagan in 1981. to abuses by some physicians" who difficult to understand how the rule ment and said he agreed with the Koop said 10 years ago it would have have allowed medical treatment to be imposes new burdens on physicians, bishops' committee official that it was been scandalous not to treat a han- withdrawn from handicapped babies. since it merely provides reporting and premature to argue that the rule was dicapped newborn who had a chance But at a Senate hearing the same day enforcement procedures. having a bad effect. ' of surviving. But he noted that many Jesuit Father John J. Paris, associate The bishops' pro-life director also But Father Paris said he knew pf physicians now believe Down's syn- professor of social ethics at Holy Cross said segments of the medical profes- cases where community hospitals were drome babies do not have a life worth-., College, called the new rule "a tragic sion laid the groundwork for the Baby transfering handicapped infants to living. mistake" which already is creating problems for the medical community. Church backs immigration reform WASHINGTON (NC)--The general matter." employers who hire undocumented THE NEW rule, which went into ef- secretary of the U.S. Catholic THE USCC had backed immigra- aliens"; fect March 22 but is the subject of a Conference has called for passage of tion reform legislation in the previous •backs "an immediate increase in court challenge, orders hospitals an immigration reform bill by the 98th Congress as well. visa allocations for lawful immigrants receiving federal funds—virtually all Congress, which is currently Msgr. Hoye outlined possible legisla- from Canada and Mexico and opposes hospitals in the United States~to post considering such legislation. tion. He said the USCC favors: counting refugees as part of the annual notices warning that failure to provide "Enactment of comprehensive, •"a fair and generous legalization allocation of such immigrants"; food and treatment to handicapped in- equitable immigration reform legisla- program for undocumented (illegal) • supports establishment of "an infants is a violation of federal law. The tion is long overdue," said Msgr. aliens," giving legal residency to all dependent Immigration Appeals notices also provided a toll-free Daniel F. Hoye in a statement April 6. such persons in the United States as of Board," appointed by the president telephone number (800-368-1019) so "The Catholic Conference hopes the Jan. 1, 1983; with the advice and consent of the that suspected violations can be 98th Congress will act promptly on this •"opposes barring legalized aliens Senate; from federal financial assistance pro- • and opposes attempts to turn a pro- ' You can depend upon' 365 MIRACLE MILE grams which' base participation on gram for admitting temporary workers CORAL GABLES financial need"; - into a "massive, institutionalized" 915 E. LAS OLAS • "opposes imposing sanctions on guest worker program.

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WASHINGTON (NC)-The Na- reach out to inactive Catholics. tional Catholic Evangelization Association plans to launch a new pro- REFLECTING on the need for this gram of outreach to inactive Catholics type of outreach effort to inactive on July 1, said Paulist Father Alvin II- Catholics, Father IUig said a recent lig, director of the association. Gallup poll "found that 26 percent ofv. Father IUig said the program, called all baptized Catholics over the age of "Another Look," will have four major 18 currently do not practice their purposes: faith." He said also that recent research by Dean R. Hoge, associate -To make the 51 million active U.S. professor of sociology at the Catholic Catholics more conscious of the 15 University of America, indicates that million inactive Catholics so that they almost 40 percent of Catholics between will pray and work for their return to the ages of 15 and 29 leave the Catholic the church. • Church for a period of two years or more. -To prepare material to be distributed among the relatives and Among the reasons for leaving the friends of those who are no longer ac- church, Father IUig said, are marriage tive in the Catholic Church.. to a non-Catholic, ineffective preaching, too much or too little -To assist some of the 19,000 liturgical change, a personal quarrel Catholic parishes in the United States with a priest or parish staff memBSiy^ to set up a ministry to inactive conflict of conscience between lifestyle Catholics. and church principles, and the imper- sonalism of large Catholic Darishes. -TO INVITE inactive Catholics to take "another look" at the Catholic Divorce, re-marriage to a non-practicing Catholic or a dispute with a Church. "Catholics never become inactive priest are a few of the reasons why Catholics become ihactive, says for purely theological reasons," Father The first organizational step m the director of the National Catholic Evangelization Association. The IUig said. "The human factor plays-an establishing the program will take association has launched a special program to reach these lost extremely high role in place within the next month, Father II- Catholics. disidentification." lig said. He said he plans to send to about 180,000 persons on the associa- Father IUig said that the association inactive Catholics will be kept in con- THERE IS a hopeful side to the pic- tion's mailing list a letter asking them will then write to these inactive fidence. ture, he continued. "Many individuals to send him the names of friends and Catholics three times a year to invite are waiting for an invitation to return relatives who are inactive Catholics.' them to take "another look" at the This initial effort will be followed by to the practice of their faith, to take These 180,000 people will also be asked Catholic Church. The request of any a campaign in the Catholic press aimed 'another look.' "The program called to pray for the success of the new pro- person to have his name taken off the at reaching those who have a friend or "Another Look" is "one attempt to ject and to send any suggestions for ef- mailing list will be honored. The names relative who is an inactive Catholic. extend this invitation to our inactive fective outreach to the inactive. of the people sending in the names of The secular press will also be used to brothers and sisters," he said.

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The golden cross atop the Ar- Archbishop-Metropolitan Stephen munism and Russian subjugation. All assure you that God is indeed with us," chbishop's gold-trimmed miter sparkl- Sulyk of their Philadelphia Archepar- but one of their bishops died in concen- Archbishop Sulyk said in his homily, ed, his white stole, embroidered with chy journeyed here for the occasion, as tration camps and their native church even though "a daily cross of oppres- rows of blue and red crosses, gleamed did fellow Ukrainian Catholic priests was forced to flee or go underground. sion and subjugation" afflicts Ukrai- as the afternoon sun finally broke from New Jersey and Philadelphia. But it flourishes in the United States, nians. A priest from nearby St. Dominic through rain-filled clouds. where four bishops and more than 200 "Our people languish in a never- Parishioners clad in three-piece suits Catholic Church also attended, in priests in. three dioceses tend to the thankfulness fpr Assumption's ending Good Friday in our native and evening dresses eagerly awaited spiritual needs of their flock, in their land," he continued, "yet we know He- commencement of the solemn generosity in allowing the Roman own language, with their own Catholics to use the Ukrainian is still with us.. .We can see the Lord's ceremony as the black-cloaked and 1,000-year-old traditions, making sure hand upholding our church. . .leading purple hatted Knights of Columbus Catholics' church until their own was neither culture nor religion pass away. finished. ,our church into full maturity and formed the honor guard. One with Rome, Ukrainian hierarchical formation." In the middle of a Cuban Catholics nevertheless celebrate the neighborhood, South Florida's Ukrai- THE MORE than 200 Catholics of liturgy according to the ancient Byzan- The Archbishop recalled that nian Catholics gathered beneath the Ukrainian descent who belong to tine rite established by Constantine at adherence to the traditions of the Byzantine dome of their church on Assumption parish are among 200,000 the time of the Great Schism. Ukrainian Catholic Church had enabl- Flagler and NW 57 Avenue last Sunday who live in the United States, im- v ed many to resist Communist subjuga- for a special celebration. migrants and descendants of im- ASSUMPTION is one of only two tion and assimilation into the state- With a Byzantine rite Mass full of migrants who began arriving in the late Ukrainian Catholic churches in controlled Eastern Orthodox Church. symbolism and pageantry and punc- 19th century, according to Father Florida. He asked them to pray for needed tuated by the sad, haunting melodies of Richard Seminack, Assumption's But the local church's jOy was vocations and concluded, "Accept the Ukrainian hymns arid responses, the pastor. tempered last Sunday by remembrance living proof of history that God is with members of Assumption of the Blessed Massive immigration continued of suffering brothers and sisters in the us and has given us our church as the Virgin Mary parish celebrated the 30th throughout the 1940s and 1950s as Ukraine. secret of Heaven to keep our people anniversary of its foundation. their homeland was ravaged by com- "I came in the name of God to alive." ***• Help pave the way for priest's schooling

Dear Friends in Christ: assists in the training of young men for establish a full Parish Burse of tributed toward their Parish Burse by The Church in South Florida is the priesthood at our Archdiocesan $50,000. Many people have con- donations to this Annual Appeal and growing rapidly. This year the Ar- Seminaries. also by bequests in their Will. chdiocese of Miami plans to open A Parish Burse is an investment in OFFICIAL The Annual Parish Burse Collection several new parishes which reflects the the future of the Church in South will be held this Sunday, April 17.1 en- importance of providing more priests Florida. By means of the Parish Burse ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI courage your continued generosity to for the Church in South Florida. an investment of $50,000 is made, for this important Appeal. The Chancery announces that We are all aware of the critical need which the interest alone is used to Thanking you on behalf of our for more priests to serve our Catholic educate a seminarian for the years of Archbishop McCarthy has made the following appointment: future priests and asking God to bless people in South Florida. Our popula- his seminary formation. you and your loved ones, I am tion is increasing rapidly but the Such a Burse is perpetual; as soon as THE REVEREND FRANCISCO number of priests is not increasing pro- one seminarian is ordained, another is G. DIAZ - to Associate Pastor, Our Sincerely yours in Christ, portionately. educated through the interest of the Lady of Divine Providence Church, Edward A. McCarthy The Burse Fund of the Archdiocese Burse. It takes many contributions to Miami, effective April 4, 1983. Archbishop of Miami Most parishes surpass their ABCD goals

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Generosity and hard work of the St. Dominic Fr. Lerhinan 8.200 3,749 Fr. Vicente St. Margaret pastors and laity in the Archdiocese Our Lady Queen of Heaven 28,000 42,790 St. Edward Fr. Stearns 4,480 6,649 Fr. McGrath (Lauderdale) of Miami's parishes put the 1983 18,480 18,157 Msgr. McGrenehan St. Mark Our Lady Queen of Heaven 56.000 47,540 St. Elizabeth Fr. Block 41,440 43.289 ABCD campaign 18 per cent over its Fr. Gonzalez (LaBellel 2,000 1,000 Fr. McCann 36,960 37,400 St. Martha Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Fr. McLaughlin 28.000 30.509 goal for a total of $4.8 million Fr. Hanly ' St. Elizabeth Seton 36,960 36.110 Fr. Powell St. Martin de Porres Our Lady Queen of Peach 5,600 2,134 pledged. Many gifts are still coming St. Francis of Assisi Fr. MacGabhann 16.800 12,867 Fr. de la Calle 1.500 1.500 Fr. Cann St. Mary Mission, Pahok in. Following is a list of the Resurrection 22,000 15,000 St. Francis de Sales Fr. Bibiana 1.500 800 Fr. O'Connor 14,560 13,801 St. Mary Cathedral parishes' goals and amount actually Msgr. Fernandez 11,000 11,400 Sacred Heart. Homestead St. Francis Xavier Fr. LaCerra 22,400 34.137 pledged as of March 18: Fr. Dorpty 22,400 22.027 Fr. Mason St. Mary Magdalen Sacred Heart, Lake Worth 1,500 2.247 St. Gabriel Fr. Conway 30.000 30,000 Fr. Stack. 36.960 42,797 Msgr. O'Donovan St. Mary Star of the Sea San Isidro 60.480 60.480 St. George Fr. O'Leary 16.800 15,443 PARISH Fr. Castellanos PLEDGED 1.680 1,700 Fr. Lowney St. Matthew San Lazaro 17.920 15,195 1983 AS OF St. Gregory Fr. Puisis 33,600 31.305 PASTOR Fr. Perez GOAL 3/13/83 5,000 5,000' Fr. Cassidy St. Maurice All Saints San Marco ' . 47,040 56.360 43,680 44,092 St. Helen Fr. Mulcahy Fr. Mulderry 5,000 5.000 Msgr. O'Dowd 24.640 38,101 St. Michael : Annunciation San Pablo Fr. Murnane 35.840 36.238 28,000 28.500 St. Henry Fr. Paz Fr. Anderson 12.656 9,203 Fr. Licari 13.400 18.676 St. Monica Fr. Reynolds 23,520 18.573 Ascension San Pedro Fr. McMahon 10,000 15.059 St. Hugh Fr. Murphy ' . 30.800 34.738 Fr. McGrath 12.000 18,009 St. Patrick 20.160 30,110 Assumption St. Agatha Msgr. Vaughan Fr. Murphy 36.960 37,150 Fr. Balado Msgr. Rastatter 61.040 59.792 20,160 28,184 St. Ignatius Loyola St. Paul the Apostle St. Agnes 35,000 35.000 Blessed Sacrament Fr.-Flynn Fr. Brice ,42,000 57,860 Msgr. McKeever Fr. Martin 28,000 19.219 24.640 37.362 St. James St. Paul of the Cross St. Ambros Fr. Kelly 42.560 29.226 V Blessed Trinity Fr. Paul Fr. Connaughton St. Jerome *' Fr. Carney 24.640 24.941 61,600 167,225 St. Peter, Big Pine Key 51.000 47,134 Christ the King St. Andrew Fr. Slevin 20.000 20,000 Fr. Grogan Fr. Quinlan Fr. Guinan 16.800 17.054 39,200 68.405 St. Joachim St. Peter, Naples 6.720 15.154 Corpus Christi St. Ann. Naples Fr. Martin 4.4B0 7,027. . R. Goggin Fr. Farrell Fr. Paniagua 14,000 12,571 56.000 54.349 St. Joan of Arc Sts. Peter and Paul 16.800 31.385 Epiphany St. Ann. Naranja Fr. Pusak 89.600 130.488 Fr. Lopez Fr. Fernandez Msgr. O'Doherty 67,200 112,053 1.500 2.710 St. John the Apostle St. Philip 28,000 33.399 Gesu St. Ann. West Palm Beach Fr. Vuturo 39.200 39.200 Fr. Dbherty Fr. Edwards 20,000 13,587 Fr. Browning 28.000 22,385 St. John the Baptist St. Philip Benizi 1.500 2.465 Good Shepherd St. Anthony Fr. Kelly 61,600 61.600 Fr. Bibiana Fr. Clements 11.200 8.162 Fr. Harmon . 39,200 36,674 St. John Bosco St. Pius X 4.000 4,000 Fr. Vallina Holy Cross St. Augustine 20.160 20.000 Msgr. Bushey St. John Fisher Fr. O'Loughlin 1,500 2,001 Fr. Lechiara 35.000 42.559 St. Raymond 56.000 56.260 Holy Family St. Bartholomew Msgr. McMahon 17.000 •15.108 Fr. Fenech Msgr. Delaney 39.200 40.990 Fr. O'Dwyer 29,120 29.023 St. John Neumann St. Richard 23,520 36.352 Holy Name Fr. Hickey St. Bede 11.200 20,263 , Fr. Vereb Fr. Keller 13.440 10,134 32,480 33.055 Fr. Mullane St. Joseph, Miami Beach St. Rita 21.280 27,102 Holy Redeemer St. Benedict Fr. Bennett <•• 61.600 92.297 Fr. Dockerill Fr. Kenney ; Fr. Hernando 16,800 20.962 2.800 7.741 St. Joseph, Stuart . St. Robert Bellarmine 11.200 9.117 Holy Spirit St. Bernadette Fr. Morgan 25.000 61.358 Fr.Fernandez Fr. O'Dea 40,320 28.500 Fr. Quinn 28.000 28,500 St. Joseph the Worker 13.440 16.003 St. Bernard St. Rose of Lima Immaculate Conception Fr. Romero 560 816 Msgr. Fogarty Fr. Morras 56.000 70,050 Fr. Hourigan 40,000 53,801 St. Jude, Boca Raton 56,000 50,340 St. Boniface St. Sebastian Little Flower. Coral Gables Fr. Totty 19.040 18.035 Fr. Eivers Fr. Hostler Msgr. Glorie 84,000 84,000 28,000 37,037 St. Jude, Tequesta 32.000 39,629 St. Brendan St. Stephen Little Flower, Hollywood Fr. McAtavey , 24,640 34.279 Fr. Milford Fr. Nrckse 47.040 112,724 28.000 30.351 Fr. Cashman ' 44.800 46.506 St. Juliana St. Thomas the Apostle Mary Immaculate St. Catherine of Siena Fr. Rynne 44.800 44,713 Fr. Engbers 58.240 73.200 39.600 34.250 Fr. Devaney ,13,440 11,203 Fr. Hudak St. Justin Martyr St. Thomas More Nativity St. Cecilia Fr. Januszewski 11.200 21.455 16.800 16.535 Msgr. Dover 42.000 52.763 Fr. Quinn 80.640 81,000 Fr. Ordax St. Kevin St. Timpthy Our Lady of Divine Providence St. Charles Borromeo Fr. Morras 19,040 20.473 16,800 17,252 Fr. Mealy 25.760 20.169 Fr. Rubio 13.440 15.129 Fr. Saghy St. Kieran St. Vincent, Margate Our Lady of Guadalupe St. Christopher Fr. Barrett 13,440 20.543 13,500 15,784 Fr. Gunther 31,360 33,815 Fr. Sanders. 1.680 815 Fr. Manning St. Lawrence St. Vincent de Paul Our Lady of the Holy Rosary St. Clare Msgr. Fazzalaro 22,400 19.000 44.800 48.194 Fr. Grass 7.840 3.147 /Fr. O'Shea 39.200 39.200 Fr. Brohamer St. Louis St. Vincent Ferrer Our Lady of the Lakes St. Clement Fr. Fetscher 75.000 163.943 48,160 49.120_ Fr. Skehan 80.000 80.000 Fr. Whyte 47,040 50.624 Fr. McDonnell St. Lucy St. William Our Lady of Lourdes St. Coleman Fr. Chepanis 47.000 54.487 Fr. Flenrmmg Msgr. Barry x" 56,000 51.873 39.600 40.000 Msgr. O'Shea 13.440 24,000 . St. Luke Visitation St. David Our Lady of Mercy ' J Fr. Connolly 40.320 40.475 Fr. Dalton Fr. O'Reilly 16.800 32.173 30,240 22.080 Fr. Reilly 5,600 6.546 St. Malachy Msgr. Donnelly 38.080 41.600

THE VOICE - Friday, April 15, 1983 - PAGE 9 Poverty..

continued from page 1 Harry whose works and deeds are the right chance at learning." known to the people. Only a crazy And then there is Brooklyn. Not person would dare tamper with the one in New York, the one in Port Father or his guests. au Prince, the sprawling ghetto that Someone did once. makes Liberty City look like a dream. Gunmen broke in one night not A ghetto's ghetto. And in the middle long ago and stole a freezer used in of it the magnificent Father Laurence the food program while the wat- Bohnen, a kind of miracle worker. chman looked on helplessly. But that's another ,story (see pages "The next day," Mahfood relates, ' 12-13). "Father Harry was sent word that he could find the bodies of the thieves at Jamaica and violence such and such a place and that he And Jamaica. You can forget could find the freezer at another Montego Bay and the sugar-beached place." tourist spas you see in the brochures. "When I went to find the freezer," Most Jamaicans don't live anywhere says Father with a morbid grin, "I near that level. Rough-edged was afraid to open the freezer. I was Kingston is more typical, and its ghet- afraid of what I might find." But tos, unlike the quiet grind of Haiti's, there was nothing to fear. And no have spawned meanness, political Ferdinand Mahfood, founder of Broward-based Fbod For The Poor, one else has since tried to bite the awareness and anger. hand that feeds them. - holds a shy child in Haiti's 'Brooklyn' ghetto as assistant Gerry Kelly Its poverty and its politicians have looks on. " Or, rather, feeds the "worst ones" produced the notorious gunmen, each day. young men and boys given guns to be And it is the same at St. Pat's used for political purposes. Kingston where Father Michael Linden, S.J.," is probably one of the only places in also heads a parish and school, the the world where killings rivaled or teachers having to choose who will be 'A Fool surpassed those of major cities in the fed and who will go hungry. U.S., several hundred in a year. It ...for adopting the hungry was because of this that the government in the 1970s outlawed private Ferdinand Mahfood is a fool. 'Male mother Teresa' guns and created the infamous Gun Also there is Father Richard Ho At least, that is what he says he must be. Court. Anyone who would "adopt" all the poor people of Haiti and Jamaica, Lung, a man of slight build and tiger- among the poorest in the world, must qualify as some kind of fool. In Kingston anyone caught with like courage, who has stood up to But he surely qualifies as a special one, challenging the darkness of even a bullet in his possession is lock- politicians, risking his life, threaten- disease, malnutrition and nakedness, Apocalyptic Horsemen who drive . ed up for life. No parole. Life. Some ing to publish an embarrassing letter thousands of Caribbean natives yearly to South Florida shores, desperately nineteen and twenty-year-olds have if a certain politician didn't live up to trying to escape their hopeless state of existence. already been there five or six years his promises. It is a story of light and dark, at once the tragedy of poverty and the and their, only future is no future. Father Ho Lung, who has been grandeur of the those handful of men and women who are willing to wade It is this kind of environment called a "male mother Teresa," also into crushing despair of poverty and spread around love in a seemingly un- Father Alwyn Harry, S.J., works in. ministers to Eventide, a home of caring world. St. Anne's School teaches 3,000 kids human discards, elderly, retarded Mahfood is a Pompano Beach lay Catholic, an import-export "a day and feeds some of them. The businessman who is a transplanted Jamaican by birth. He was converted a school gets 240 half-pints of milk a few years ago from a kind of cool casual Catholicism to a deep commit- day. But there are 3,000 kids. So the ment to daily Mass, extensive prayer and active involvement with the poor teachers make the awful choice of (see Voice, article Jan. 22, 1982). giving the milk to "the ones who Draining his own pockets of thousands of dollars, he began to help need it the most." priests working in poverty-stricken areas of Jamaica and Haiti. But he saw that he could do only so much, alone. And he bagan to have a vision, a Street 'mafia' dream born of the natural relation of the Caribbean to its neighbor to the The three Americans walk the north. Mahfood felt there could be a bridge, a "Living Bridge" from the sullen streets near St. Anne's in safety Church in America to the Church in the Caribbean. "This is important," only because of the presence of Father he says, "not only to help the poor but to help the Church in America become aroused with love for the Third World's people." So he founded Food for the Poor, Inc., and went begging. That was about a year ago, February '82. Since that time Food For The Poor has made 35 shipments of food, medicine, hospital.equipment, wheelchairs, I books, seeds, Bibles, clothing. . . This includes 18 tractor trailer loads (40-foot semis) of goods. These supplies are all funneled through the priests and nuns of Haiti and Jamaica so there is no overhead, theft or inefficiency. The support has come from every imaginable source: concerned individuals sending in a few dollars; St. Maurice church, a Broward parish involved in a major outreach to the poor, has given thousands of dollars; a Salvadoran Brother in Michigan who sent two tractor-trailers worth of seeds; the Gerber baby food company; a shipping company gave used blankets; the St. Vincent de Paul Society has given a variety of things; prayer groups have given money; Sister Regina Marie of Holy Cross Hospital has given medical supplies and other help; the Joyful Noise Ensemble has performed "The Witness," a musical renactment of the Gospel, in parishes at no charge and passed on the collection fo Food For The Poor. In a sense it a story of what one man can do. Mahfood knocking on doors, making phone calls, flying scores of people to Haiti and Jamaica to see the needs for themselves. Using his import company's facilities for shipping and handling and secretarial support at his own cost. Plus, of course, the.help of dedicated workers at his Essex Exports, including the blessing and help of the Jamaican partners in the business-Mahfood's three brothers! „ And there are scores of letters of gratitude from missionaries working with clinics, mentalinstitutions, children's homes, homes for aged and schools. ' ' ' c It is a great success story. And yet. The seasons change, and the first year's harvest has been used up, "There are hungry children waiting to be fed and elderly in need of comfort. But the support has fallen way off," Mahfood saidv "Our life blood is individuals who care. We need business people with connections to food or medecine or anything. We need priests who will invite us into the parishes or clubs to make a presentation or a performance of "The Witness," We need parishes that will give us a special collection once or twice a year. Or one Bingo a year. Anything. "But what is most important is for parishes to become involved with the poor, whether through Foor For The Poor or some other project, not only for the poor but for our own good. We are not just rich people giving to the poor, I tell the people at "Witness" shows. We are God's people in a Ninety-five-year-old Jack Walton, a sightless leper, sings robustly to Ministry, doing what God expects of us in this country. If we do not feed entertain Fr. Richard Albert who ministers to the elderly and Hansen's the hungry, how can we claim to be Christians?" patients in St. Monica's Home near Kingston. PAGE 10 - THE VOICE - Friday. April 15. 1983 and love come togethei children, human shells who were literally wallowing in their own bodiiy wastes, no medical treatment, no plumbing and little food until Father exposed it through the local media. (See also Voice, Feb. 12, 1982) They are better cared for now but are still a heart-rending sight. His activities are too many to men- tion; but he is also an outspoken ad- vocate of Gun Court reforms, needed, he says, to save some youths whose lives have been ruined on mere hearsay evidence, sacrificed to political expediency since, Father Ho Lung says, it is the political forces who have given the guns to the gunmen to do their bidding in the first place. •

Elections are coming up next year and, it is said, the gunmen.are already beginning to dig up their buried weapons and clean them. . .

Consider Father John White of St. Richard's in Kingston, certainly a saint. Literally. He was found bludgeoned to death two months ago in his rectory. Motive unknown. A martyr to the cause of the poor. Home for lepers St. Monica's is a home for lepers and elderly discards, at one time as pathetic a sight as Eventide, a The joy of giving is evident in the faces of Gerry Kelly and Fr. Basin Pennington lunchtime in a Port au Prince showcase of misery and despair. slum school. Now, the people there actually smile himself but of Father Harry, the poor of Haiti and Jamaica by this and nod as guests enter. Father and say "God bless you" even as your middleclass instincts recoil in- priest of the gunmen's ghetto. handfull of priests, to say nothing of Richard Albert, another transplanted "Father Harry has walked to the the Sisters and lay people also not American, has created St. Monica's wardly against the contact with leprosy, tuberculosis, malaria and gallows with young men 28 times and mentioned but also deeply deserving. to give these poor souls a measure of watched them die. Twenty-eight dignity and comfort. countless other possibilities common This is the grim visage of Third times! I only went a few times and it World poverty and the beauty of the One man with fingerless spatula « in these hapless climes. And even as your love and compas- is a terrible thing to see. I watched almost forgotten few who work there. hands and a missing face joyfully Father and he never turned away They struggle not only against pover- plays the harmonica for guests. A sion mixes with revulsion at disease, almost as if old age and poverty were when the moment came. His head ty but discouragement at a seeming 95-year-old man with no feet or eyes would jerk slightly. And the next time lack of concern from the rest of the left, apologizes that he cannot see his contageous, you marvel at Father Albert hugging anyone and everyone he would be there to walk the next world. And they will tell you it is the guests and sings a rousing song en- one to the gallows. He is a real Ferdinand Mahfoods and Food For ding in a great laugh. he can get his hands on as he has done throughout, from Brooklyn, priest." The Poor and the occasional caring As you walk through, the people Haiti, to his St. Monica's. He leans He and all the others not even individual who comes along that reach out to you for a touch, as they down over the bed of an ancient and mentioned here. keeps them going, gives them that did at Eventide, hungry for human dying lady, whose eyes, sightless And this is just the surface, a few rare feeling that out there somewhere, contact. Your heart aches for them pools of infection, both flow with the brief examples of the ministry to the there is at least someone who cares. and you touch and hold and smile effects of Hansen's disease (leprosy). She is fearful she will not be there —Would you like—, when next he returns. to join in...? He speaks words of comfort directly in her ear, that God is with her. Food For The Poor needs help to "Don't you worry. I'll be back. You help others. Anyone interested in hold on, dear. You hear me? I'll be volunteering their time or goods or back to see you. I promise. Trust me. funds in any way, may call 944-1959 in Trust me." And, incredibly, he kisses Dade, or 973-4150 in Broward. her squarely on the cheek, the love Also, the organization is willing to flowing from him as from a dep- provide a free tour of Jamaican and thless fountain. Haitian poverty to any pastor, business person, agency representative or others A 'real' priest genuinely interested in getting involved in helping the poorest. Just call. On the way back to town, Father Albert speaks admiringly not of

Fr. Lawrence Bohnen works 'miracles' of feeding 12,000 slum children Father Jean Cico smiles as hundreds of women huddle on the floor in daily with the help of Ferdinand Mahfood and others. Here they ex- the co-op that provides shelter after miles of walking to market. amine stacks of bean cartons sent by Food For The Poor. THE VOICE - Friday, April 15, 1983 - PAGE 11 A former student, now an enthusiastic teacher. Miracle of F Salesian Fr. Laurence Bohnen explains how he mixes beans with Story and Photos by grain to give the students one somewhat balanced meal a day. Robert O'Steen traveler who has seen the ghettos of Editor, The Voice Calcutta and Africa looks about him PORT AU PRINCE - The van and says he has never seen anything stops in the dusty road and you step worse than this. ••If out into one of the world's worst This is "Brooklyn," Port au ghettos. Prince's slum. When you consider Up to 150,000 human beings jamm- that Port au Prince's average ed into thousands of chicken-coop neighborhoods are not unlike shacks, acre after acre of squalid no- American ghettos, then it follows that plumbing, no electricity, no-diet liv- Brooklyn is a ghetto of a ghetto. ing. A ghetto's ghetto. The hot tin-roofed shacks are prac- Some years ago the government, tically wall to wall and the "streets" concerned that the capital city look are just dirt alleys a few feet wide, nice for tourists, burned and some with drainage ditches blackened obliterated the innercity hovels, sen- with burnt refuse and filled with ding thousands to the only open area human waste and garbage which north of town, where the people overflow into the shacks in rainy hand-built their rabbit warren city season. and dubbed it, strangely, Brooklyn. The shacks, six to ten feet wide Remarkable Priest may sleep as many as a dozen or more people a night. As American In the midst of all this, however, visitors walk by, the people pour stands one remarkable man, a candle forth with curiosity, especially the in the darkness of human degrada- children, gathering around extending tion, bringing hope and meaning hands to touch the strange white skin, beyond all measure of what one smiling innocently up out of their human being ought to be able to do. poverty, white eyes and teeth punc- Twenty-eight years ago came tuating their dark faces. : Father Lawrence Bohnen, a new Sale- How many of their brothers and sian priest, a Dutchman who had sisters have died of sanitary diseases been a teacher of Greek until he felt such as simple diarrhea no one the calling. When he arrived, there knows. was only LaSaline, a bad enough Father Basil Pennington, a world slum even then. He set out to build Fr. Pennington feeds a lad surprised at the sight of the large white man

Father Bohnen draws slum kids as if to candy. PAGE 12 - THE VOICE - Friday, April 15, 1983 A panorama of tin shacks and teeming people greet Fr. Basil Penn- ington (right) and Fr. Bohnen (far right) in Brooklyn, Haiti, a ghetto ather Beans of 150,000 people. •schools to give the slum kids a chance dusty courtyard of the central to escape, a dream already against the Technical School. A student brass . odds. Then came the purging of the band enthusiastically begins a Sousa innercity dwellings and the creation march and the first class starts of the huge sprawling Brooklyn next through the lunch hall. They don't to LaSaline. stop, they simply pass through the Despair would have been the easy hall as bread sticks and milk are pass- way, but the. amiable Dutchman's ed out. - favorite saying is, "We have no pro- - blems here. Only solutions." The visiting Americans are enlisted Arid he lives by his word. He built to feed the poor. one-room school, houses one at a time Basket after basket of the bread throughout the ghetto over the years, v sticks and rm'Jlcare brought out to until now there are an incredible 125 you asthechildren come on and on, schools with 465 teachers. a hundred, two hundred, five hun- But perhaps the most incredible dred, a thousand and you are not part of all is the. fact that in the midst even half done. Your arms grow tired of this enormous slum Father Bohnen with the effort of giving as the band feeds 12,000 children a day! plays tirelessly on and the children, All by begging their dark surprised faces look up in- to the strange foreigner's and utter a He has done all this by begging. polite "rnerci" as they go by so crowd Periodically he goes to America and ed as to overflow past without their his native Holland and begs, aquiring bread, and then another thousand everything from cash to 1968 army and another and the bread surplus biscuits. and milk run out and But his most important need is 1968 army biscuits are substituted,.. beans because of their protein and vitamins. Suddenly it is over. The music "You know what my name means stops and the room is silent. You in Dutch?" he asks. "Bohnen means become aware of a strange exhiliara- 'beans'. So my slogan is: 'Beans for cion at the hunger that has been Father Beans,"' jokes the stocky defeated that day, though yon know crew-cut priest who appears to be it is a never ending straggle that starts about 50 but is in fact an astonishing over the next day and that there are 70 years old. many children in Brooklyn who do not get such daily ration. ^^Fteigding time is a phenomenon. The children line up class by class in the Yet, somehow, 12,000 children -will again be fed and taught. ' Father Beans will manage. He will work another miracle. Somehow.

The sad countenance of poverty shows in the eyes of a child as she eats the one somewhat decent, though hardly luxurious meal she will have that day.

isands of kids gather at the central school to lunch time. THE VOICE - Friday. April 15, 1983- PAGE 13 Something no one wants to read

No one really wants to read about poverty. It is unpleasant, ft has a tendency to prick at our consciences, make us squirm a little inside. And, if we listen to that little voice inside of us it may even begin to make demands of us. The editor of a national Cathojlic magazine recently said, "We know that our articles on poverty, especially foreign poverty, are the least read in the magazine." Perhaps that is why. If we listen to that voice inside we - . know that poverty does exist, that it won't go away even though we look away, and, yes, it does make demands on us. The fact is, the needy of the world are a test of every Chris- tian who is part of the middleclass world. How we respond to those who are naked and hungry is about as good a test of what we are as you will find in this life. This applies to laity, EDITORIAL ~~~" priests and, for that matter, non-believers too. ' All the church going and club joining of a lifetime cannot alter the reality of the middleclass American who simply looks away or perhaps gives a dollar to the once-a-year overseas aid collection in church on Sunday. And so we have presented a special report in today's Voice about just one small part of the world's poverty and a few people who are fighting it. We hope some parishes, organizations, individuals will be moved to get involved, even in a small way, whether through Food For The Poor as seen in our report, or in some other way. There is one parish in Fort Lauderdale that developed a food program a few years ago and has become an inspiration to its own people and to others and has grown spiritually because of it even while helping the needy. We hope others will follow. N How can we do less? AND DON1" FORGET THETPRESCRIPTION'

To go along with the story: As a How many promises are being made Irishwomen Enough of priest, (Father Ralph) went to confes- and broken nowadays of marriage and slurred by movie sion and was forgiven. Surely nobody undying love by those young people Thorn Birds' would condemn somebody for the rest who just move in together? Luther was To the Editor: To the Editor: of his life for some weak^moments. worse. He broke the promise of obe- About "The Thornbirds," one point Will you please get off the "Thorn ("The spirit is willing but the flesh is dience to the pope, also. not covered was the negative portrayal Birds" now? weak.") of the Irish women who were directly It is just fiction. If it was the usual Also, Meggie didn't report "Rape". Louise Kaiser, jnvolved with the priest-in-question. (fiction) it wouldn't sell and money is She entered the relationship at her own Hialeah fiaTbara Stanwyck was more offensive, what we all need. risk. in my opinion, than her brother's daughter, since her lustful desire for the priest was hardly imaginable, no less when she was filmed in a scene that For contented singles was far more pornographic than those between the priest and nis girlfriend in CELEBRATING THE SINGLE ("a-loneness") or one of solitude ("all- of trial and error, experimentation, their moments of passion. LIFE, by Susan Annette Muto. oneness"). and regrouping after mistakes. The If these Irish women, considered to Doubleday (Garden City, N.Y., The author addresses all singles - author's language smacks too much of be "good Catholics," had the respect 1982). 191pp., $12.95. those single by choice or by cir- the old "blind faith" approach and, of a man of the cloth that Catholic Reviewed By cumstances beyond their control. even more disconcertingly, the dualism women do have, they would never Sister Anne Marie Gardiner Avoiding pitfalls, such as becoming a of sacred and secular words. entertain a thought of tempting the NC News Service work-aholic, as well as developing sup- priest to break his vow of celibacy. As port systems - in friends, extended For single people secure in a Catholic, and as a woman, I am "Celebrating The Single Life" is one families; church groups - are all themselves, grounded in faith and sure .deeply concerned about how people woman's attempt to share the values, presented for the single reader's con- about God, "Celebrating The Single feel about Catholics, as portrayed in the insights, the joys as well as the sideration. Life" will renew their convictions and, this TV movie. As a member of the limitations of the often forgotten voca- THE STRETCH of Muto's work lies no doubt, invite them to deeper Catholic League for Religious and tion -- being single. in the depth of reflection she brings, solitude. Civil Rights I know that anti-Catholic Muto's book affirms the uniqueness the parallels drawn from classical For the majority of singles, however, sentiment is very strong in the U.S. / of the single life and affirms it for its religious and world lijerature, and the Muto's work will probably sound For women in religious films to be own sake. models of single persons presented foreign and strange, cut through with a portrayed as "evil" and "seductive" The single vocation needs to be seen (Dag Hammarskjold, Soren vocabulary of trancendence and a love does a gross disservice to all the and celebrated for itself, not "in com- Kierkegaard). ^ of mosastic solitude that will appear to religious and moral women in our parison," or even more destructively, Perhaps those very strengths are be only remotely related to the daily society, just as the portrayal of a priest not as "second best to" marriage or weeknesses as well. While giving a nod questions of survival, identity and as a man tempted by passions of lust consecration in community life or of recognition to loneliness, question- meaning. greed, and ambition offends all those priesthood. Therein lies, the central ing and the search of transition times, priests who are the Church's true strength of Muto's work. Muto relates only to the reflective, (Sister Gardiner, a member of the representatives. She makes very straightforward secure adult of staunch faith. School Sisters of Notre Dame, is a claims. Being single is neutral in itself, Missing from her treatment are the pastoral minister, teacher and Leslie Anne Casden • it is the quality of one's response that human dynamics of strong emotions counselor in the Baltimore- Miami Beach makes that experience one of loneliness andconfusing conflicts, highs and lows Washington area). PAGE 14 - THE VOICE - Friday, April 15, 1983 A story of needless pain

The thirty-year-old woman's story told to me on a Still, after the divorce, she judged herself excom- flight out of Denver in the "You are a priest, but I municated, unable to receive penance, unworthy of will never see you again" atmosphere was not all that communion, a bad person, not suitable to continue unusual in these days of frequent divorces. her volunteer efforts teaching religion to those tiny But every person on this earth is unique and each BY FR. JOSEPH tots. It broke her heart to see the children approach story of a broken marriage has its own drama, its the altar for the Eucharist while she, the supposed own history of disillusionment, death, pain, feeling M. CHAM PUN sinner, remained in the pew. Soon in conflict and of failure and fumbling, confused attempts to move anguish the woman resigned from this task she loved on and make something worthwhile out of the rest of so deeply. life. Unfortunately*,'as in the case of my brief plain companion, some of those agonies were unnecessary and could be avoided. HOW SAD. What needless suffering.

I found it almost incredible to hear she judged She went through Catholic schools from grades stand by us,-comfort us in the loss, remind us of our K-12 and, at age 20, exchanged vows at the altar reconciliation and communion were forbidden her positive qualities and gently help us close the door on merely because of the divorce. Yet such erroneous before a priest celebrating their nuptual Mass. A few that past and open the way to new beginnings. in her family had reservations about the future of thinking continues among many in similar cir- that union, but, in her words, "I was stubborn, in If ever we need God, Jesus and the Church it is cumstances. love, wouldn't listen to anyone and felt sure our mar- throughout those disaster days and months following riage would work." a divorce. Regrettably, for many reasons, those who

The Church, on the contrary, actually urges people in stressful circumstances like that to draw ever closer "Still, after the divorce, she judged herself excommunicated, unable to those two sacraments, finding in them the presence to receive penance, unworthy of communion, a bad person ... it broke of Christ who especially wishes to help us during dark hours. her heart to see the children approach the altar for the Eucharist while This woman has now, five years later, met another she, the supposed sinner, remained in the pew." man and hopes in time to marry again. She understands that annulment procedures in her diocese require three to seven years for completion. A delay of such duration appears like another in- superable obstacle between her and the Church she Five childless years later the end came, preceded by suffer such marital break-ups often either do not seek really loves. " who knows how many seemingly inconsequential and or do not receive much, if any emotional, mental and While naturally a more complex issue than the sim- clearly huge disagreements, breakdowns, hurts and spiritual assistance from the Church. ple confession after divorce question, nevertheless attempts to save a sinking ship. that seems an excessively long process. In our diocese This woman, for example, has both by training the very thorough and careful annulment system ad- TO FEEL THAT I failed, or worse, that I am a and conviction Catholicism deep in her bones. She judicates cases in four to six months, a reasonable failure is one of the most devastating experiences and taught little children Sunday school, helped wait which gives hope to almost hopeless people like emotions any individual can suffer in this world. youngsters prepare for First Communion and par- this woman from the midwest. During those moments and at this period we ticipated each week at Mass even though her work ar- desperately need support, some people who will rangements made that extremely difficult. Alt Publishing Corp. It all goes together There was a letter the other day from a man who thinks the problem in the Church is that the Church brought into positions of service in roles that free the has been diverted by attention to social issues from clergy to concentrate on spiritual matters. The the proper purpose of prayer, worship and helping Catholic report concerned the use of the laity as lec- people to growth in interior spiritual life. tors, ministers of Communion, in parish and Then there was an interview in the National BY diocesan financial and administrative positions, a Catholic Register with a well-known Catholic writer, DALE FRANCIS new lay involvement that unites the people of God. a man generous in his advice to leaders in the There is even more that could have been said for Church, who explained that for the past few years he there are exciting developments in the Church. What has not been going to Mass on Sunday mornings but is important to understand is there will always be to a soup kitchen to ladle out soup to the poor. He movement, an emphasis here, then there, but what explained, "I prefer seeing a sermon to hearing one, must be remembered is that for Catholics there is no and I prefer to worship through my actions." ment of Catholics in social issues is, therefore, not a choice between the spiritual and social action - it all So there you have two extremes: one of a man who choice but flows from organic necessity from our goes together. wants emphasis on the spiritual to the exclusion of spiritual commitment. social action, the other of a man who chooses social Therefore, there can be no dichotomy between em- (Dale Francis is a nationally syndicated columnist) action to the exclusion of the Mass. It is riot my pur- phasis on tbe spiritual and on social issues in the pose to make judgment on either, I do not doubt that Church. It all goes together. It should not be forgot- both are so centered on a part of the truth of what it ten that the spiritual formation provides the founda-

"There can be no dichotomy between emphasis on the spiritual and on social issues in the church. It all goes together."

means to be a Catholic that they miss the whole of tion for the social action but it must also be the truth. remembered that as unite ourselves more fully with I DON'T BELIEVE there are many Catholics at Jesus Christ we are compelled be our very faith to these extreme positions. I believe most Catholics service to others. recognize that being Catholic requires personal s coversion, a formation through prayer and worship,- A SPECIAL REPORT on religion in the April 4th a search for constant growth spiritually through the issue of U.S. News and Worl Report was titled: sacraments and through a personal relationship with "Religion's New Turn: A Search for the Sacred." Jesus Christ. So most Catholics understand there The news magazine reported that there has been a must always be a spiritual emphasis within the revived emphasis on worship and basic questions gf Church. faith in Protestantism. The social gospel reached its But most Catholics understand, too, that our for- ascendancy in Protestantism decades before it mation as followers of Christ is not just for our own became a major influence among Catholics. That personal benefit but a preparation for acting for was accompanied by a lack of emphasis on doctrine Christ in the world. Our Lord said that what we do and worship, not so much through intent but because for the least of those among us we do for Him. We of enthusiasm for the social gospel. The swing of the are compelled by the very logic of our faith to act , pendulum has long been under way, today even the within,society to not only help the victims of inequity most liberal churches are shifting an emphasis and injustice but to proclaim the principle of the towards worship and basic doctrine. "My Mother said he was sent from heaven. They dignity and worth of every individual. That very must've wanted some peace and quiet." commitment requires us to oppose racism, economic The news magazine's report on the Catholic inewuities, deprivation of human rights. The involve- Church dealt with the way in which the laity is being THE VOICE - Friday, April 15, 1983 - PAGE 15 Young Tootsie as feminist people Sometimes I find certain criticisms of feminists hard to The speech sounds familiar to Hoffman because it is ex- understand. actly the same one that Hoffman had given to the young For example, a friend recently saw the movie "Tootsie," woman he was going out with. helping where Dustin Hoffman impersonates a woman and The entertaining fHm is well written and well produced. becomes a soap opera star. My friend was infuriated. She It ends on another note of truth: Hoffman becomes aware interpreted the film as a put-down of women. that friendship is the real basis of a relationship. the world She felt "Tootsie" was implying that women really can't speak for themselves. A man dressed like a woman has to HE HAS been Miss Lange's best friend as Dorothy, but do it, she complained. In "Tootsie," the woman imper- wants her to love him as a man. After all, "we are Dear Readers: sonator stimulates other women to stand up for their friends," he reminds her. "We're through the hard part. v rights. A short time back I promised to The rest should be easy." report from time to time on the things I don't understand why a woman should be offended by young people are doing to make our "Tootsie." By viewing events through Hoffman's eyes, world better. So here goes: the film exposes some of the built-in denigrations women From Missouri, Martha Wilde have to deal with in relationships with men socially and at writes: "I know of several young work. people who are doing a wonderful job BY I also found it hard to understand how some feminists ANTOINETTE could be offended by "Sophie's Choice," criticizing BOSCO author William Styron for having created a weak woman. In a recent interview with Styron, the Pulitizer Prize winning author showed his annoyance at that criticism. "I did my best to create a very complex female who, God knows, had been victimized by men. I wasn't writing a pro- BY TOM feminist document," Styron told me. LENNON After that commentary, I had to see the film for myself. I was amazed at how different my conclusion was. As I see WHAT WOMEN, should regard rather suspiciously, in it, the movie is about a man's awakening. In dealing with my opinion, is a new genre of books being promoted ag- people as a woman, Hoffman discovers how different the gressively these days as romance novels. environment is for men and for women. A few weeks ago a newspaper reported that Harlequin Books sold 200 million romance books in 1982~and that's each summer at a cerebral palsy camp FOR INSTANCE, the Hoffman character in the movie just one publisher. Pocket Books is now publishing in Rocky Mount, Mo. These young protests loudly when she is addressed by cutsie and de- "Follow Your Heart Romances" for girls 10 years old and people come from all Over the state and meaning labels instead of her actual name. "My name is up. volunteer at least one week (some give Dorothy. . . not babe, kid, cookie, tomato, honey or toot- Avon Books is running a promotion campaign to hype more) of their summer to take on the sie," says Hoffman, as he puts the womanizing director in interest in their new romance series. They're offering shirts responsibility of caring for a person his place. that say "Mr. Right"-for men and "I Found Mr. Right" with cerebral palsy. One of the funniest scenes come when Dorothy-berates for what they call, "lucky ladies." "This camp is staffed mostly by the director for playing with Jessica Lange's feelings, being The bottom line in the promotions for romance novels is college students who supervise the unfaithful to her and unwilling to offer any real commit- that what a woman wants and needs as a man; that without efforts of about 50 high school age ment,. men life is full of empty spaces and a woman is nothing. volunteers. These young volunteers The man begins to flounder and answers somewhat as That's the kind of dishonest message feminists~and all work one-on-one with the handicapped follows: "Well, I never really promised her anything. I women- should protest. campers." never said I wouldn't go out with other women." . •;. (NC News Service) From Ohio Father Clarence Heis gives a glowing report of some teen- agers who organized a SEARCH weekend to help other young people To be is to be chosen learn more about Jesus and his presence in their lives. "THESE FOUR young persons/' Malachi is an Amerasian. He was adopted from a Cam- and death we have been purified and adopted as members says Father Heis, "were thorough, bodian orphanage by a New York family. One day he and of the family of God, thus becoming brothers and sisters methodical and sharp. I couldn't tell his new mother, Mrs. Deirdre Levinson, met a group of his of Jesus. you how much I appreciated the way friends. They were in a cruel mood and one of them Because God is Love, He reached out to us, becoming they carried out their responsibilities blurted to Mrs. Levinson, "You're not the real mother of human like us in all things but sin. He did this not merely and showed their love for others." to share our nature, but to make us more like Him, to In a fleeting minute and a half at divinize us, to make us a new creation. Through Jesus McDonald's last week, two college Christ, our humble origins and sinful tendencies are indeed students gave witness to their belief in overcome by grace, and we are becoming God-like God and love for him. creatures. This is what the good news is all about. Alleluia. The handsome young man (with BY FR. Rejoice in it and be glad. Wright State lettered on the back of his jacket) and his attractive girlfriend sat JOHN CATOIR down at a table for two with their trays Fr. Catoir is director of the Christophers. in front of them. Then, as he held her right hand with his left hand, they both quietly but audibly said a prayer before meals. Malachi, are you?" "He's not your own son." My friend George is still young, She caught her breath and answered calmly, "Did your though he is a bit older than when he parents search the wide world for you?... Well, we search- busted his tail taking care of my yard. ed the wide world to find this boy." Now he's an expert at home Later the youngster asked her in awe, "You wanted to improvements. A couple of weeks ago get me? You wanted a brown boy like me?" She told him he spent four days painting and there wasn't a boy like him anywhere. plastering several rooms in my house. "YOU CAN search the four corners of the world," she later wrote, "but where will you find a half-American, half HE CHARGED me considerably English-Jewish-Cambodian boy of his age who can match less than he might reasonably have his speed for the 100-yard-dash, who can play the recorder done. Although I argued with him so melodiously, throw a fishing line as dexterously, make about the low price, I could not defeat friends as firmly?" his friendly spirit and goodness. Now Malachi surely realizes that he was chosen above all Fifty-three public school students others. It's an important lesson for every adopted child. trom three Baptist churches in my To be adopted is to be very special; to be adopted is to be home town united to present a youth chosen. musical, "As Our Faith Unfolds." In a Permit me to use this true story as a parable. Reflect for way that challenged their adult a moment on the lesson that Malachi learned that after- audience, they told how faith came ot noon. Think about the fact that you too are one of a kind, ;hem as little children and developed a mixture of many ancestors. You were invited to the table nto.a sturdier adolescent faith. of life by your parents and by God's special gift. To be is to be chosen. The odds against any particular ovum or (If you would like to report on what spermatozoa becoming a baby are more than 500 trillion to oung people in your area are doing to one. And yet you were chosen to receive the gift of life for make the world better, we'll try to all eternity. write about your news in a later OUR FAITH goes beyond science; it teaches us that we 'GIVE SOUR HUSEANP SOME SLACK, column. Send your story, comments or are, by the grace of God, adopted children of the Father. MRS LEAHSV VOLJVE BEEN KEEPING- questions to Tom Lennon, 1312 Mass. Jesus is the mediator of this adoption; He is the Son of HIM UNPER VOUR THUMB TOO MUCH/' Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.) God, sharing in God's divine nature. By Christ's suffering (NC News Service) PAGE 16 - THE VOICE - Friday, April 15, 1983 "—s Two expressions of pain

Recently we wrote a column on homosexuality in anything to change it. I have prayed until I am blue in with my husband. At the time we were living under which we made a distinction between sexual the face and it hasn't changed things one bit. the same roof, but considering a separation. I took preference and sexual behavior. We noted that some the full brunt alone. I thought my heart would break. people, through no fault of their own, have strong I have gone to one of the best doctors in this field homosexual inclinations. and he was not able to help either. The one thing he Later I shared it with my oldest son. It wasn't easy People with homosexual inclinations are not im- did, because I read it would help, was prescribe male for him, but his love for his brother erased all the moral. Morality involves what people do, whether hormones. The only thing they did was increase my desire, but not in the right direction. upset. We both knew he needed our love and sup- they are homosexuals or heterosexuals. port. Through the years their relationship has re- We received much mail in response to that column. If I went off the track and went to confession, mained a loving one. Half was hateftil. priests have little understanding and consider anyone I sought counsel from my family doctor. My doc- The other half of our mail was from people who like this a terrible sinner. They say they can abstain, tor said, "Margaret, accept your son as you have ac- have suffered from society's cruelty. Particularly, we but they forget they chose this, and if I were straight I cepted other physical and emotional facts in your were touched by two letters, one from a mother and could marry and have an outlet. What, if anything, is children." one from a young man. We are publishing them there to hope for? — Pennsylvania I could not have asked for a more gentle, warm and kind son than he. To me my sons are both God's Dear Dr. Kenny: When my son shared with me children and special in his eyes and my eyes too. that he was a homosexual, I was stunned. As he I know my son has many pitfalls ahead. I only poured his heart out to me, I could feel the pain. know I will always be proud to call him my son. BY DR. JAMES So dear parents, let's just love them and accept He thought of taking his life rather than hurt me. them as God's special children. I would not change AND As he talked, I could only see the face of the son who him as he is the best young son any mother would be MARY KENNY brought me breakfast when I was ill, who helped with proud of. ~ Florida the chores, who played with his brain-injured younger brother. The young man who one day said, "Mom, when I get married I am going to have (Reader questions on family living and child care children." to be answered in print are invited. Address ques- without further comment as an elequent expresion of tions: The Kennys; Box 8721 St. Joseph's College; the pain involved. All these thoughts raced through my mind. I Rennselaer, Ind. 47978) could only embrace him and tell him how much I lov- Dear Dr. Kenny: I am a male adult and I am ed him. homosexual. I am not proud of this and I would do The most difficult part was that I could not share it NC News Service Catholic mothers

As if we didn't have enough worry lines, a study 7) Could it have something to do with Chicago, has come out claiming that Catholic mothers give rise like the water used in baptism or the air surrounding to lower IQ children than other mothers. Well, Catholic churches? maybe. BY Before we accept Dr. Blau's conclusion that "the I'd like to examine the issue a bit more closely, impact of high-control religious institutions is perhaps even irreverently. I'm tempted to regard it as DOLORES adverse to a child's intellectual development," I in- I did the time an amateur palm reader looked at my CURRAN vite her to reflect upon statistics that say Catholics hand at a party and told me I was mildly retarded. are the most highly-educated of all among mainline "Really?" I asked. "What are the signs?" American religions. How does she reconcile this with ' 'Well, the tip of your little finger doesn't reach the her findings? top line on your ring finger," he said. It's enough to make one fall away. Here we are, IT TELLS ME that we mothers must be doing a "Oh," I replied. How else does one respond to a Catholic mothers, fighting the odds in passing on en- magnificent job with our low IQ children. Just think charge of mild retardation? (Before you pass it off as during values, counteracting new sex and giving of what we could do with Episcopal and Presbyterian being mildly valid, examine the length of your little kids a purpose in living only to discover that our children, given the opportunity. It boggles the mind, finger.) faith has rendered us dumb. what there is of it. ^. Before I succumb to a terminal Excedrin headache The Catholic League for Religious and CivifRights BACK TO the study. Dr. Zena Blau, a University over it, I have a few questions to ask of.Dr. Blau. 1) has denounced the Blau study as "dangerous 6f Houston sociologist, announced last year that she Why is it the mother's responsibility when it was the nonsense," saying, "Intellectual ability is no more had examined the IQ test scores of slightly more than children whp were tested? 2) What about dads? 3) If I dependent on the church one's mother attended than 1000, Chicago-area school children and concluded switched to Presbyterianism tomorrow, would my on the color of one's skin, and suggestions to the that the mother's religious affiliation is a major fac- children become brighter? 4) What about converts? contrary are as dangerous as they are foolish." Right tor affecting a child's educational development. 5) What does this study say about the intellectual on. According to her study, children whose mothers level of priests, bishops and sisters, most of whom, As one Catholic mother among many, I don't in- were non-religious had the highest scores while those we presume, have Catholic mothers? 6) Did she fac- tend to raise my children's IQ by becoming an with Catholic mothers had the lowest. The children tor in variables like educational and income. level, atheist. Instead I'll take a chance on giving them of Protestant mothers ranged in the middle, with ethnic and immigrant status, religious practice, fami- some Words to live by while wending their way Episcopalians and Presbyterians allegedly producing ly stability, and economic motivation and opportuni- through college with a higher proportion of Catholic brighter offspring than Baptist women. ty? Or did she grasp at the easiest straw? peers than any other group. It's enough for me.

(Contributed by Muni and Terry Reilly)

for the forgiveness we have received had been raised from the dead. Write a have learned in school. Sing an OPENING PRAYER because of Jesus' Death and letter to someone describing the "Alleluia" song together. Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of Resurrection, the more we will be able incident and include your feelings at power and might, heaven and earth are to enter into the spirit of Easter. that time. Then exchange letters with SHARING full of your glory. Our hearts are re- Experiences of sin and forgiveness, each other. joicing, filled to overflowing with sadness and joy are truly Easter Share your memories about Easter, praise for you, Father, Son, and Holy experiences all year long. and what you like best about this great Spirit. Hear our family's praises along SNACK TIME feast. with the alleluias of all the thronging Enjoy Easter eggs, jelly beans, lamb crowds of heaven. Jesus Christ is risen, ACTIVITY IDEAS cake, or whatever your family's Easter CLOSING PRAYER Alleluia, AlieluialvOur family's hearts tradition may be. shout for joy. Alleluia. Amen. All Families Dearest Lord, thank you for this ALLELUIA LETTERS Materials: precious gift of hew life through our paper and pencils. Read the Easter ENTERTAINMENT Savior, Jesus Christ. Thank you, too, SOMETHING TO THINK account in Matthew 28:1-16. Pretend ABOUT Have elementary grade children in for this time together and what it has that you were with the women at the the family teach everyone an Easter meant to our family. Praise you, now The greater the appreciation we have tomb when they discovered that Jesus song or a song about spring that they and forever. Amen. THE VOICE - Friday, April 15, 1983 - PAGE 17 Scripttira LEARNING TO LOVE Readings: Acts 5:27-32,40-41; Revelation 5:11-14; John 21: 1-19 By Fr. Richard Murphy, O.P. that is, they listened to Jesus. sheep") are inscribed for all to see. The invention, His body and instument of You sometimes hear people talking As usual, Peter had taken the in- vicar of Christ is thus constantly salvation throughout the ages. about others in unflattering terms. Few itiative, and the rest had joined him. reminded that he has a power and an When the apostles came to Jesus, He criticisms are as cutting : "He/she has But' until they followed Jesus' advice, authority that connot be divorced from had already made provision for their a closed mind," or "He/she has a they had caught no fish. When they love. repast. He does not depend upon them; mind like a weathervane." Neither came ashore with 153 big fish, Jesus If we have open minds and listen, they depend on Him. Yet He uses what remark is a compliment; both make us was waiting for them; He had bread there is a lesson for us too in the scene they have! stop and think, asking the question, and fish ready and they brought some that unfolded on the shore of the Sea Do I listen to Jesus Christ and to His "Have I a closed mind?" or, "Am I of theirs. of Galilee. Jesus will meet us in our church? Do I accept the guidance of- still learning?" AS MENUS go, bread and fish are own environment as He met the fered me by the Vicar of Christ? "He Jesus can teach even the profes- rather simple fare. But on this occasion apostles in theirs. We must be open- who hears you," Jesus said to the sionals and experts ho^io live. Very especially, it was the host and not the minded and willing to learn from Him disciples, "hears me." We must much alive, He has at His disposal menu that was important; people, not and from His church. acknowledge legitimate authority "glory, power, honor and blessing," things. "A crust, a jug of water, and SOMETIMES people say they prefer everywhere, obeying traffic lights, be- and myriads of angels to do His will. Thee." to be called Christians rather than ing honest, respecting others and their THE APOSTLES were professional Jesus asked, "Simon son of John, Catholics. This sounds better than it rights. And above all, we must learn fishermen. They knew their business. It do you love me more than these?" analyzes, for the church was a central about love. "You must love the Lord was unlikely that there were tricks of However gently put, it was an embar- part of Jesus' teaching. To be a true your God with all your heart ... and the trade that they did not know. They rassing question, and Jesus would ask Christian, we must accept His plan, your neighbor as yourselves" (Mat- were men of action and judgment. it three times, so that Peter could make His teaching. The church is Jesus' own thew 22:34-40) Alas, there come times when these up for the three times he had denied his qualities are not enough. One such Master. For each affirmation of love, time was after the resurrection, and Peter was enjoined to carry out his role they were having no luck at all. Until, as shepherd of Jesus' flock. He had Everyone has a place been given authority by Christ; now he is reminded that he must exercise that authority with love. in God's house High up in the apse of St, Peter's in Becker Rome, in letters three or four feet high, Q. In a recent issue of our diocesan ninth anniversary of the local chapter Funeral Home Jesus' question ("Do you love me?") newspaper I read that an archbishop of Dignity, an organization of Catholic and His command ("Feed my lambs/ celebrated a Mass this fall to mark the homosexuals. Ron E. Becker Funeral. Director I always believed we should pray for Jrunereii those so afflicted. 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SCENE ONE: A beach. The sun well, it is a compelling story. This time, hugs the horizon. Setting? Rising? it wasn't. It was a drag. It was root Stuck there?- Who knows? On the sand 'canal work without the emotion. sits Hester Prynne, a large A on her KANGA: No emotion? Why, it was bosom. It stands for Australia. From filled with emotion! the ocean rises a kangaroo, soap suds HESTER: I mean emotion for me. Sure, the screen was jammed with * jealousy, hate, lust, revenge, romance, anger and one kangaroo. But the entire project failed to stir in me a single BY reaction beyond a sight which said, "When will it end?" JAMES KANGA: How about the actoroos? BREIG HESTER: there have been allegations in the past that Richard Chamberlain can't act. I'd say he put those to rest. They are no longer allegations; they are proven facts. As for Rachel Ward-well, she made Ali billowing from its pouch. A thorn bird McGraw look like Gertrude Lawrence sits on its head. The kanga is wearing Olivier. wool underoos. It approaches Hester. KANGA: Didn't you like any of it? KANGA: Tie me down, please-, HESTER: Henry Mancini's music HESTER: Turn off the soapsuds, will was nice to whistle on the way to the you? I saw enough of them on your fridge. But how come no one has mini-series. And take off that wool commented on the fact that a great before I start baa-ing. Any more sheep deal of the ten hours was spent and I was going to start sending focussing on a priest who wants to threatening letters to Lambchop. sleep with a little girl? There was a KANGA: But only one 'rob. Me. nasty and sordid streak of pedophilia Boy, was I overworked. Hop here, in the plot which was never commented hope there, they said. Make it look like on. As for the writing, the script Down Under. , adhered to the tone of the book, which HESTER: It looked more like Over has the sort of stilted style suited for Done. It's a story that's been told fat tomes which people read while Surrounded by cheering desert tribesmen, a triumphant Alec Ramsey before- and better. I should know. getting to sleep at night or soaking up played by Kelly Remo astride The Black, gives a victory salute. The . KANGA: Didn't you like Ralph De the rays on beaches like this. Which film is the second based on a series of young adult novels. Brickhouse? reminds me—one more scene of the sun HESTER: De Bricassart. on the horizon and I was going to KANGA: Whatever. become a cavedweller. HESTER: Don't you Jove how Stallion bites dust people in mini-series with pretensions KANGA: -Then why did so many talk to each other? They always use millions love it? one another's full names—even a chewy • THE BLACK- STALLION with Francis Coppola as its director. mouthful like Ralph De Bricassart. HESTER: Love,it? Or endure it? RETURNS The focus is upon the greasers, That sounds like someone with a There's an exhiliration that comes In this dreadfully uninspired remake especially Ponyboy (C. Thomas cheekful of Cracker Jacks. , from just getting through it, like a of "The Black Stallion," a popular Howell), Dallas (Matt Dillon) and KANGA: "Ralph De Dessertcart, marathon runner at the tape. But, also, and critical success, the horse's original Johnny (Ralph Macchio). In a clash come here," they would say. it is a well-established genre, like the owners spirit him back to Morocco with the socs, the boys from the right HESTER: That's it. And they would western or horror movie. Its genre is with the greatest of ease, and, Kelly side of the tracks, Johnny comes to say it in every accent but an Australian the sprawling epic about a big house, Reno, now a teen-ager, pursues them, Ponyboy's aid and stabs one of the one. Meggie is the only baby ever born heaps of land, pregnant women who stowing away on a Pan Am clipper and socs. Abetted by Dallas, the baddest of in Australia to Irish parents who grew cry a lot and big-jawed men. "Gone then making his way across the desert the greasers, they hide out in an up with an English accent. with the Wind," you know. It doesn't to reclaim his beloved horse. The KANGA: But she loved Ralph De appeal to me, but I don't mind it if it's climax is, as you might suspect, a horse done well. And it wasn't. CAPSULE REVIEWS Bridlepath. . t race, but one of the dullest ever HESTER: Apparently, he was very KANGA: Any suggestions? committed to film. Corny, muddled, a abandoned country church, and in the colossal bore. Directed by Robert course of this rural idyll, their latent appealing to the senile and the HESTER: Cut several hours, diapered. Dalva, who did not direct the original, sensitivity comes to the fore, and they eliminate a lot of the speeches, train from a screenplay by Richard Kletter read "Gone with the Wind" to each KANGA: Now, now, millions of the actors, buy another kangaroo or people loved the show. and Herome Kass based on the novel other. All of this is pretty dopey two- by Walter Farley. The U.S. Catholic despite or perhaps because of HESTER: Millions of people like - KANGA: Thanks. Twinkies, too. Mushy, soft in the Conference has classified it A-I, Coppola's elevated technique. Dillon, HESTER: --insert some drama in general patronage. so good in "Tex" (a much better center and forgettable. place of the hoakum. KANGA: Which-the Twinkies or adaptation of a Hinton novel), KANGA: And stop people from • THE OUTSIDERS overdoes it here. The violence in the the series? saying "Ralph be Fricasse" when HESTER: Take your pick. It was ten The S.E. Hinton novel, immensely rumble scene is very pronounced even "Ralph" will do? popular among teen-agers, about rival if it has little to do with reality. The hours of silly, soapy, sappy, soppy, HESTER: Precisely. melodramatic nonsense about sheep- "greasers" and "socs" in Tulsa, U.S. Catholic Conference has KANGA: Want to hear the legend Okla., in the 60s makes it to the screen classified it A-III, adults. shearing. about the thorn bird? KANGA: Maybe you're jealous that HESTER: Not again, please! A your story was ite-told. . masochist bird—who needs it? Birds do HESTER: Not at all. It's a good something besides sing, you know. story-the man of God tempted by the KANGA: What's that? flesh. Adam and Eve, Samson and Cancer researcher Dr. Claire Thuning, whose faith is an important tool in HESTER: They lay eggs. So long, her work, and St. Anthony Farm, a unique rehabilitation project in the San Delilah, David and Bathsheba, Kanga. See you in the reruns. Abelard and Eloise, me and-well, let's Francisco area, will be featured on next week's edition of "ReaLto Reel," not go into that. When it is handled END OF SCENE. Sunday, April 24 at 7:30 a.m. on WCKT-TV Channel 7.

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THE VOICE - Friday, April 15, 1983 - PAGE 19 Women's Council celebrates The Miami Archdiocesan Council of will begin at 12:30 and Mary Meisner Catholic Women will celebrate its 25th will be the guest speaker. Anniversary this year with three days On Tuesday, newly-elected officers of work, prayer and fun April 24-26 at eill be installed at a 4:30 p.m. Mass the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood. celebrated by Archbishop Edward A. Delegates representing the McCarthy. Father Patrick O'Donnell MACCW's 1,000 members and nine will be the homilist. . deaneries will gather Sunday at 4:30 Archbishop McCarthy will also be p.m. for the opening Mass, to be guest speaker at the Tuesday banquet, celebrated by Fr. Laurence Conway, beginning at 7:30 p.m. moderator of the organization. In addition, delegates will have the "•4 opportunity to participate in many On Monday, at 11 a.m., Auxiliary seminars and share shops during the Bishop Agustin Roman will celebrate a, convention. RETIRED YOUTrf DIRECTOR. Fr. James Murphy (center) who recently Mass, which will be followed by the an- For more information, call retired as director of the Office of Youth Ministry relaxes with youth nual Awards Luncheon. The luncheon 983-6381. council members, friends and acting Youth Ministry director Jose Menendez (left) at a recent party held in his honor. Fr. Murphy who has been responsible for training youth leadership in the archdiocese since St. Francis holds'hospital week' 1975 says he is pleased to be leaving his position "at a time when "We Treat You Like Family" is this a.m., 11:00 a.m. and 2-:00 p.m. young people have found a renewed interest in religion." year's theme for HOSPITAL WEEK, All lectures will take place in May 8-14, at St. Francis Hospital, Wiegand Auditorium, St. Francis Fr. Powell celebrates jubilee Miami Beach. A wide variety of ac- Hospital, 250 West 63rd Street, Miami tivities and lectures are planned for Beach, and will last between 45 The members of Saint Elizabeth In 1970, he came to the Archdiocese both the employees and the Miami minutes and one hour. For further in- Seton Parish are planning to celebrate . of Miami where he has served at St. Beach community. formation please contact Public Rela- the 25th anniyersar of ordination of Thomas Aquinas High School, Blessed Week long activities begin Monday tions at 868-2783 their pastor, Father Bernard F. Powell Sacrament Church, Saint Clement May 9th and include a Bake Sale, a on Sunday, April 17, 1983 beginning at - ; Church, Saint Maurice and Chaplain Cookbook Sale including low salt, low 3:00 p.m. Director of South Florida State cholesterol, low calorie recipes, and a 'Big John' honored On May 24, 1958, Bernard Powell Hospital. Health Quiz on exercise, rest and diet. was ordained a priest. He is a graduate -• In 1980 Father was named first "HEALTH SCREENING, LEAR- John Ingraham, who has been of Saint Bernard's Seminary in pastor at St. Elizabeth Seton Parish in NING CENTERS" will be the first lec- sexton at St. Patrick's Church for 47 Cullman, Alabama, where he majored Golden Gate and founding principal of ture topic of the series beginning on years, will be feted at a testimonial in philosophical and theological Saint John Neumann High School. Tuesday, May 10th at 9:00 a.m.~and luncheon at the Konover Hotel, studies. Father Powell's first assign- Realizing the need for Catholic school 3:00 p.m. Other lectures scheduled are: Sunday, April 17th, beginning at 1:00 ment was to the bishop's residence in education and responding to the plea Wednesday, May 11th, "EXERCISE PM. Mobil, Alabama. He was named foun- of parents, Father built Saint Elizabeth FOR HEALTH," Tips / Techniques Some 250 well-wishers, • including ding principal of Catholic Central Sjeton School which has a complete For All Ages, 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 many out-of-towners from as far away High School in Montgomery, kindergarten through eighth grade pro- p.m.; Thursday, May 12th "PER- as Arizona and California, will be in Alabama. gram. SONAL SAFETY - GOPHER IT." attendance. Reduce Your Vulnerability As A Vic- "Everyone who has been in contact Barry hosts holocaust seminar tim Of Crime, 7:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m., with 'Big John' over the years, loves and 2:00 p.m.; and Friday May 13th him," declared Mrs. Maureen Joseph, MIAMI SHORES - A survivor of ministrative skills of college presidents "SAFETY/FIRE PREVENTION IN who along with Mrs. Louis Burkett, is the Nazi Holocaust, a liberator, a and school officials, clergymen, civic THE HOME," Methods Of Securing in charge of the arrangements, on psychiatrist and a psychologist will be leaders and the financial expertise of Property Against Fire / Theft, 7:30 behalf of the Patrician Club. presenters at a School of Social Work business men and women. seminar, Friday, April 22, 1983, at Reservations should be made by call- Barry University. Registration will ing Barry University, ext. 420. Dance for sister-diocese begin at 8:30 a.m. and the program will be from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in room Holy Cross hosts The Youth Group of St. Raymond singers, musicians, actors or dancers. 103, Barry Library. Subject of the breast cancer lecture parish in Miami will sponsor a dance For more information, call 443-2657 or seminar is "The Holocaust — A Living recalling "Music Through the Years" 541-ROXY. History: Implications for Social "Breast Cancer •- A Curable on Friday, April 22 from'8 p.m. to 2 Workers." Disease" is the program to be given at a.m. at La Salle High School, 3601 The seminar has been designed by Holy Cross .Hospital's .next free health South Miami Avenue. St. Rose of Lima per- the Southeastern Florida Holocaust lecture, set for Wednesday, April 13, at forms Broadway plays 7:30 p.m. Memorial Center for social service pro- Donation is $4 and all proceeds will fessionals. It will be of special value to The program will feature a special benefit Catholic school projects in the St. Rose of Lima will present The persons engaged in social work. video tape that outlines the latest Best of Broadway featuring scores The Southeastern Florida Holocaust developments in dagnosis, treatment Archdiocese of Miami's sister diocese of Port-au-Paix, Haiti. from "Grease," "The Music Man," Memorial Center is educating people and rehabilitation of breast cancer pa- and "Sound of Music" on April 22nd - about the meaning of the Holocaust, tients, in addition to a panel of physi- April 24th at 8 p.m. in the St. Rose of how it scarred the conscience of the cian specialists including a diagnostic The dance will feature a sound and Lima auditorium. Donation is $3 for world and why it must not happen radiologist, a pathologist, a surgeon, a light show by Roxy Productions, as. adults. $1.50 for children 12 years and ^again. This is being accomplished radiation oncologist and a medical on- well as dance, "balloon drop" and under. Tickets are available at St. Rose itawiugh educational and ad- cologist. costume contests. Those planning to of Lima rectory. Call 758-0530 for attend are invited to dress as famous more information.

Bazaars THE DADE CATHOLIC SINGLES CLUB ST. JOHN NEUMANN CHURCH will host a entries to select from. Donation $8 adults and $4 will go bowling at 8:30 p.m. April 16 at the Don free concert of the West Point Cadet Chorus at children. Tickets and information call Marie THE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS HIGH Carter Kendale Lanes, 13600 N. Kendall Drive. St. John Neumann Catholic Church, 12000 S.W. Sibert at 842-2406. SCHOOL will present its flea market and auc- All Catholic Singles, ages 20 to 39 are welcome to 107th ave. on April 16th at 8 p.m. tion in the school cafeteria on April 16th at 6 join. For more information call Brian at THE WOMEN'S CLUB OF ST. JOSEPH'S p.m. at 3000 S.W. 87th ave. Entertainment, food 441-0594. and drink. CHURCH 8670 Byron Ave. Miami Beach will hold a "Hello to Spring" Luncheon, Card Party Meetings with Something Fresh from the Garden. Dona- THE ST. DAVID WOMEN'S CLUB will Entertainment sponsor a Flea Market on Saturday April 30, THE THIRD ORDER OF ST. DOMINIC, tion $4.00. Date April 18, 1983. ' 1983 from 9:00 A.M. to 6:30 P.M., and on Sun- The Dominican Laity, will hold their monthly day May 1, 1983 from 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. THE BARRY UNIVERSITY Department of meeting on Sunday, April 17, 1983 at Barry 1 University. The recitation of the rosary will begin ST. ROSE OF LIMA CHURCH will hold a on the Church grounds, 3900 South University Fine Arts will present the "King Stag" by Carlo Parish Picnic on Sunday, April 17. Games will Drive, Davie, Fla. Gozzi, a comic fable about men transformed into at 11:00 a.m. in the Cor Jesu Chapel. The animals or into other men on. April 21-30th at Eucharistic liturgy will be celebrated at 11:30 begin at 1:00 P.M. A picnic dinner will be served 8:15 p.m. in the Barry auditorium. General ad- a.m. followed by prayers. A business meeting at 4:30 followed by a Talent Show. ST. RlERAN'S Garage Sale will take place on mission is $3. and religious instruction for all members will be Saturday, April 16th and Sunday, April 17th held in the Board Room of Thompson Hall after BISCAYNE COLLEGE CENTER FOR from 10:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. They are located the services in the Chapel. Visitors are welcome. at 3605 S. Miami Ave. (near Mercy Hospital). CONTINUING EDUCATION will hold a THE WOMEN'S CLUB OF HOLY FAMILY serenity retreat on April 29th - May 1st. Serenity CHURCHand Ann Tisdale will present "A retreats are held throughout the country and are Singles-Divorced Night on Broadway on April 17 at 8 p.m. in the Potpourri largely attended by members of the Alcoholics Widowed parish hall, 145 N.E. 11th Ave., N. Miamt. Anonymous and Al-Anon but are in no way con- Featuring ''Linda Washburn and Friends" the MAURAWOOD RESIDENCE, an ar- nected with these fellowships. Cost of the THE NORTH-SOUTH DADE SINGLES performance is $3 for adults and $1 for children chdiocesan maternity center, will hold a benefit weekend is $65 double occupancy and the CLUB will go horseback riding at Quail Ridge. under 12 years. For information and tickets call on April 24th from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at telephone contact is Jim MOrris 822-3480 in April 17. For reservations Bob Murphy at Ann Tisdale at 944-9095. Public invited. Maneros Restaurant, West Palm Beach. Three Miami. 672-3517.

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By Father James A. Black Anger, as exhibited by a young man against his grandfather in a 1979 scene from the NBC-TV series, NC News Service "Little House on the Prairie," can leave some painful scars. The forgiveness and healing do not come easy. By seeking forgiveness, we risk an encounter with another's anger. (NC photo). "You're not paying attention!" I was speaking to the back of the ther interruption. Again, deeply in- classroom, last seat, middle row. The bell signaled the end of Granted she had a streak of volved in my-lecture, I saw further the period and the students filed out mischief in her, but it wasn't really That was where Lisa sat. activity in the rear of the classroom. For Lisa, class was another oppor- of the room. All except Lisa. harmful. She was a better than Lisa snatched her hand back after SHE CAME up the center aisle, average student and had a bright tunity to talk with friends. Today was passing another note. no exception. dropped something on my desk— future. I MADE an instant judgment. She probably the note she had been pass- "Sorry. It won't happen again," had been given two chances already. she said ing around the classroom—and left Yes, I would have to apologize. "Awright, that's it. I've been more without a word. I found her at her locker. Her than patient. I've got important I was surprised to discover a sealed smile faded quickly when she saw me. THE MATERIAL was dull. I ap- material to cover and you can't even envelope. With Lisa, it could be I began to speak. proached it ambitiously, filling the chalkboard with diagrams. Then I would erase everything, only to fill "Oh, that's OK. You didn't know 'My first reaction was to rationalize. Ninety-nine about it or anything," she responded. g board again. She tried to brush off the incident. A few kids were trying to stay with times out of a hundred, Lisa would have deserved me. But monotony, combined with the reprimand. But this was the other time. I'd the heat rising from the radiator, was But I pressed on. "No, it's not taking its toll. been hasty and I knew it.' OK, "I said. ' 'When I corrected My challenge to Lisa had obviously you, I did it in a way that embarrass- gotten her attention. She adjusted her ed you in front of all your friends. I pen and checked her notebook. can't promise it won't ever happen "Well, to continue," I said, and bother to pay attention." anything. I tore it open. again but I'll really try to be more was soon lost in the droning of my I began to speak faster. "If you've I'd forgotten the day. With the sensitive in the future." voice. So were my students. Then got something to say, you ought to lowering gray clouds outside, it ap- Lisa passed a note to the boy across" have the courtesy to say it to the en- , peared as though it might snow. The There was a brief pause while she the aisle. I stopped again. The entire tire class! When are you going to wind was becoming gusty; hardly wrestled with herself. Then, "Thanks. class returned to consciousness one by grow up?" . unusual for mid-February. And don't worry about it," she said. one, waiting to see what I was going Lisa smiled, gathered her books and Lisa reddened and lowered her Her valentine fell from the disappeared down the hall. to do. envelope to my desk. It had been Lisa lowered her eyes. head. Obviously there would be no further disturbance. She was reduced signed by the entire class. A few minutes passed without fur- to embarrassed silence. Today, some 10 years later, Lisa I stood silently. My first reaction and I are still friends. Whenever she was to rationalize. Ninety-nine times sees me at a football game or at a out of a hundred, Lisjg would have school reunion, she always waves or deserved the reprimand. But this was stops by to say hello. I've taught that other time. I'd been hasty and I several of her brothers and sisters and knew it. my relationship with the family is a good one. MY ACTIONS had probably disillusioned a lot of the kids. All But I believe it turned out that way they had learned today was how to because 10 years ago a young girl stay out of my way. But I had hurt helped teach a teacher what recon- KNOW YOUR FAITH Lisa especially. ciliation really meant. PAGE 22 - THE VOICE - Friday, April 15. 1983 True meaning of Pathways reconciliation

By Katharine Bird from their compatriots and rode slowly out onto NC News Service the plain between the warring sides. KNOW YOUR FAITH, The riders' hope? That the white flag would The battle waged ferociously, with first one side signal a truce betwen the foes; that the temporary and then the other jockeying for a commanding truce would give each side the time needed to in- ing up. In wartime, the surrender may be position on the pj^iin. Bodies lay crumbled on the itiate negotiations. necessary. But in personal relationships, the simple ground all around; the fighting men could scarcely surrender of just one person who gives up might maneuver their horses around them. THE SCENE I've just described was a familiar not be sufficient to create real peace. Then, responding first slowly and then more one in the Western films so popular in Hollywood a few years ago. There is more to reconciliation than that. And in rapidly to the sounds of trumpets calling their seeking a personal reconciliation, the message of forces to regroup, the warring factions pulled Then and now, the white flag remains a powerful the white flag can be downright misleading. apart. Slowly a space cleared between the bitter symbol. It challenges both sides to put down foes. . weapons, to talk over divisive issues. IN SHORT, if one person surrenders for the Sometime later, a small group of unarmed But, for many people, the white flag flashes sake of peace, the real differences between the per- horsemen, bearing a large white banner on a pole another message - it is a symbol of surrender, a sons just might remain unsolved; real differences raised prominently above their heads, separated sign that one side no longer can fight on and is giv- might even go underground to fester in silence. Real reconciliation is a means of restoring friendship or harmony between two people - and it takes two people to do that. It is a way of settling or resolving differences. And the reconciliation of a relationship often is vitally needed for the well-being of people. Reconciliation, as popes and religious leaders are fond of pointing out, is a basic need for all persons .given the many divisions that can divide one person from another. • ..Many factors can bring people to the point of (seeking reconciliation. Once they arrive at that point, however, it is essential to recognize some of the roadblocks to reconciliation, the kinds of at- titudes and behaviors that can interfere with it. These may include: • not listening to what another person actually says; • a basic lack of trust in the other, along with an over-concentration on one's own understanding of the situation; • getting stuck in a position where each side considers the other unreasonable - and simply awaits the other's surrender; • focusing on the negative qualities in the other person and the positive qualities in oneself; • an unwillingness to grow, to change, at least a bit, when circumstances warrant. AN INDICATION of just how vital reconciliation might be in people's lives is seen in the choice of it as the topic of discussion for the fall 1983 Synod of Bishops in Rome. Representative bishops from throughout the world will study the many places where reconciliation is needed in the modern world and the ways to promote it. The working paper for the synod indicates, on the one hand, that the synod will consider recon- . ciliation as it relates to the sacrament of penance. There it is an important means of reconciling people who are alienated from God and from the Christian community. Moreover, the working paper says, the bishops also will look at the many ways the "tensions and At St. Mark's Church in Vienna, Va., Father Bob Hoeffner hears the first confession of ajecond divisions which continue to weigh down the world - ^grader. Reconciliation, as popes and religious leaders are fond of pointing out, is a basic need for the larger arid smaller world in which Christians as all persons, given the many divisions separating one person from another. individuals and as a community live"/ - represent a (NC photo) '. ' ' • challenge to seek reconciliation.

By Father John Castelot patriots was crying to heaven for a wife had to be put to prophetic use. NC News Service punishment that would surely and When the astonished people com- swiftly come. He told the people that mented on his apparent indifference, Like Jeremiah, Ezekiel was terrified any hopes they might have to the Ezekiel told, them that when they ful- at the task laid on him by God in the contrary were utterly vain. ly realized what was happening to sixth century B.C. Before long, the Jews learned how Jerusalem, they too would be stunn- Ezekiel realized it would be pain- true the prophet's words had been. ed. They would sit and moan ful to serve as God's spokesman to Chapter 24 in Ezekiel tells of an inci- pathetically. Numb with grief, they the Israelites exiled in Babylon. For dent which illustrates the personal would be unable to shed the tears Ezekiel would have to throw cold suffering the prophets often had to which normally would flood from water on their fervent hopes for the endure. them. Poor safety of Jerusalem and a quick Just before the siege of Jerusalem, That sad realization was soon to return to that city. Ezekiel's wife died. Just before she break upon the Jews. It would bring Since the people refused to listen to died, Ezekiel received this strange a new era for God's people-and for Ezekiel him, Ezekiel had to take the most ex- command from God: Ezekiel. traordinary means to capture their at- "Son of man, by a sudden blow I News of the fall of Jerusalem tention. am taking away fror* you the delight reached Ezekiel about five months That involved all sorts of symbolic of your eyes, but do not mourn or after it had taken place. It marked actions and imaginative pantomimes. weep or shed any tears. Groan in the opening of the second phase of With their curiosity aroused, the peo- silence, make no lament for the • his ministry to the exiles. ple finally had to ask Ezekiel to ex- dead." In the first phase, Ezekiel's primary plain the meaning of these actions. POOR EZEKIEL! In his heart- concern had been to squelch their EZEKIEL tried, by every means at break, he was even denied his mourn- empty optimism. his command, to convince the exiles ing. At God's bidding,- even such an Now Ezekiel had to keep the people that the sinfulness of their com- intimate experience as the loss of his from falling into* despair. THE VOICE - Friday, April 15, 1983 - PAGE 23 more Bikini

St. Martha parish finds new home in Pastoral Cen ter

Story and Photos by Prentice Browning

Everyone seems to agree: it was The design of the church was based i fortunate that St. Martha parish was on the concept of a plaza which forms the center of many small Euro- A 60-foot tall cross marks the entrance to the new St. Martha looking for a new church at the same Church at 9401 Biscayne Blvd. time the new Archdiocesan Pastoral pean towns, a said architect Ben Center was being planned. Lopez. The main church, with a seating structure which faces the atrium and This, at any rate, was the sentiment The church itself is divided into capacity for 550 people is built central area of the Pastoral Center. at the dedication of St. Martha's new two halves. around an altar on the side of the On the south side is a multi-purpose church this Sunday by Archbishop filed area with chairs. In the middle is Edward A. McCarthy, a ceremony at- a small Eucharistic chapel. tended by hundreds of St. Martha The chapel is used during the day parishioners obviously pleased in their by St. Martha parishioners and ar- new surroundings. chdiocesan employees who wish to Archbishop McCarthy blessed the spend a few moments in prayer. new church before the dedication FR. MCLAUGHLIN believes the Mass and consecrated the building by chapel is symbolic of Christ's exhor- anointing its walls with Holy Oil. tation to St. Martha not to worry too The lights were turned off before much about worldly concerns. Pray- the Archbishop blessed the fire, a ing at the chapel and church is a way traditional ritual before the lighting to "slow down and get your priorities of the first candle. in order," said the pastor. THE CHURCH forms the physical At the dedication Mass, the Ar- and spiritual center of the new chbishop also saw importance in the pastoral offices, which overlook a fact that St. Martha is the patroness stepped atrium at the base of the of ministry, therefore the location of 12,000 sq. ft. structure. the church is particularly appropiate, But the church may never have he said. been past of the Pastoral Center had The Archbishop also mentioned the it not been for the fact that Fr. John comfort of the new church when McLaughlin, pastor, was not com- compared to the old hotel quarters, pletely satisfied with a proposed site but he emphasized that the parish for a new church on Biscayne should re-dedicate itself to the Boulevard, near a disco and a busy "spiritual temple which is in your commercial area. hearts and minds." ( St. Martha was formerly located in ALTHOUGH the members of a the old Bikini Motel, at 114th St. and parish may belong to numerous Biscayne). organizations and clubs, the parish When the pastor mentioned the church should be their most central possibility of a church on the grounds affiliation he said. of the new center, Archbishop Mc- "No purpose is nearly so important Carthy was immediatly taken with the as the purpose that brings you idea. together." THE ARCHITECTURAL firm of "The plumbers and carpenters can Brown, Lopez, Brown also found in- go home," Archbishop McCarthy spiration in the idea. Archbishop McCarthy prepares to anoint the walls of the St. concluded. "All the rest of you are Martha chapel with Holy Oil during dedication ceremonies. just beginning to build. Our spiritual task never ends."

About 500 parishioners gathered Sunday evening for the concelebrated Mass which marked the dedication of the new St. Martha Church.

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