Pope Vi$It Here a Bargain by Ana Rodriguez-Soto Voice News Editor $947,000 of the Total Budget Is in Publicity and Sales Revenue, It'll Be a Million-Dollar Jackpot
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Pope vi$it here a bargain By Ana Rodriguez-Soto Voice News Editor $947,000 of the total budget is In publicity and sales revenue, it'll be a million-dollar jackpot. But in dollar earmarked for the outdoor Mass at ' The Pope terms, how much is brotherhood worth? Can you put monetary value on an the Dade County Youth doesn't cost "uplifting of the soul"? Fairgrounds, where between a quarter-million and a half-million us a dime.' That's how the Pope's visit will really profit South Florida, say religious, The money business and civic leaders contacted by The Voice in recent weeks. people are expected to gather at Although a $1.75 million price tag for 22 hours' stay may seem high at the 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 11. will be 'spent on moment, they predict that hosting Pope John Paul II will prove a bargain in the The logistics of preparing ourselves' for that single event are long-run, and not only in economic terms. -Msgr. Jude O'Doherty But first, a clarification. "The Pope doesn't cost us a dime," says Msgr. Jude overwhelming: miles of fencing O'Doherty, overall coordinator of the papal visit for the Archdiocese of Miami. to keep people in "corrals" of Most of the $1.75 million will be "spent on ourselves...in order for people to 1,000 each, with streets and avenues in between permitting safe and easy access; meet the Pope...Crowd control. Security. Traffic. Human need. That's where the a sound system that will enable the Pope to be heard throughout the square-mile money is spent." site; barricades; scaffolding for the press and seating for the handicapped and Indeed, according to Father David Russell, financial coordinator of the visit, VIPs; landscaping; directional signs; uniforms for stewards; facilities for drinking (continued on page 12) Reactions, meaning of Vatican teaching -Page 3 Vol. XXXIV No.6 Catholic Archdiocese of Miami Friday, March 20,1987 ABCD r Peace & love )- goes over the top! By Betsy Kennedy Voice Staff Writer Their cup runneth over — again ! In response to the needs of Catholic charities and ministries, parishes in Dade, Broward and Monroe raised $5,571,673 for the 1987 ArchBishops' Charities and Development drive. It is believed that parishes may have been inspired by the coming papal visit here in September and pushed harder than ever to top the minimum ABCD goal of $4.9 million to help defray costs of the historic event. The formal results were announced at a luncheon attended by approximately 125 pastors at St. Bartholomew church in Miramar. One VIP guest was participating for the first time in the ABCD activities. "Since the very beginning of this year's ABCD campaign, I have been amazed at the constant interest and work that all of our priests and people have put into it. This went on in all parts of the archdiocese...." said Auxiliary Bishop Norbert Dorsey, who was just elevated to bishop last April. "This means that all of our Catholic people are not only generous with time and material goods but are willing to make sacrifices to help the poor and needy. I am so proud to be a part of our Archdiocese," he said. An additional reason for the ^•-aticcessful fund raising efforts was Voice nhoto bv Prent Brownina because of increased efficiency in the parish reporting structure, said Charles The eyes of love are reflected back from little Gricel Gamino, a farmworker child, to Tom B. Starrs, director of ABCD. He said Kerr, a member of the St. Louis Parish Justice and Peace Commission, which helped cre- ate the new Catholic Center at the Everglades migrant camp. Story, photo, pg. 14. (continued on page 14) Father Jan,' death camp survivor, dies By Marjorie L. Donohue aspiration in life concentration camp along with six When the Nazis came to arrest Arch. Bureau of Information was to serve his other priests. Despite warnings from Father Jan, he recalled that one of the Father Jan Januszewski, a Polish God and his parishioners and friends that he should Nazi officers said to him, "Father, Jesus priest and pastor here who survived the Church, Father Jan, leave his church, he had refused. suffered, and now you must." Members horrors of a Nazi concentration camp, as he was affection- Since he "never had nay intention of his family had all been shot and his died Tuesday at the age of 75 of cancer. ately known, was to seek revenge" because he believed in younger brother, also a priest, had been At 11:30 a.m. today (Friday) born in 1911 in "divine justice," Fr. Jan was reluctant killed at his church altar four months Auxiliary Bishop Norbert M. Dorsey, Sadki, Poland. to discuss his experiences in the Nazi after ordination. C.P. was the principal celebrant of a Ordained at the age camp at Dachau. However, in 1971 he "The world thinks only the Jewish concelebrated Mass of Christian Burial Father Jan of 24 to the did give an interview to The Voice on people suffered at the hands of the for Father Jan in St. Justin Martyr Januszewski priesthood, he was the occasion of the death of his friend, Nazis, " Father Jan observed during the Church, Key Largo, where he was serving in a small village near the Father Adolph Fedorowicz, who also interview. "Certainly the Jewish people pastor since 1974. Western border of Poland when he was served in Miami, and whom he had met suffered beyond human belief. But there A soft-spoken man, whose greatest seized by the Nazis and sent to a at the Dachau camp. (continued on page 9) Interracial group now needed Rich nations more than ever, says cardinal BOSTON (NC) — Some 35 prominent civil rights advocates and Catholic leaders meeting in Boston must aid debt have helped chart a new future for the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice. Con- vened at the invitation of Cardinal Bernard Law of of 3rd World Boston, the participants noted that the interracial WASHINGTON (RNS) — A prominent U.S. justice conference's task has changed dramatically Catholic bishop told a congressional subcommittee over the years but that there is a continuing need for March 4 that a solution to the Third World debt a national Catholic group to foster interracial and crisis "should entail significant sacrifices on the part intercultural "communication, collaboration, recon- of those who benefit materially from this situation." ciliation and conversion, and celebration." Cardinal Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, Law said that recent racial incidents have created a who headed the committee that drafted the bishops' new willingness to examine the problem of racism in pastoral letter on the U.S. economy, testified before America. "It's a good time to do this, but we've got the House Subcommittee on Foreign Operations. to move quickly," he said. He acknowledged that the U.S. bishops are not experts on the Third World debt, which stands at an estimated $1 trillion. But he noted that their discus- Mass for gays ordered stopped sions with fellow bishops in Latin America and by New York Archdiocese American missionaries in the Third World have NEW YORK (NC) — The Archdiocese of New given them special insight into the impact of the York has ordered an end to the weekly Mass spon- debt on poor people in those countries. sored by Dignity at St. Francis Xavier Church, a Archbishop Weakland denounced the massive Jesuit parish in lower Manhattan. Dignity, a support transfers of wealth through debt repayments to in- group for Catholic homosexuals, has about 100 dustrialized nations from countries where upwards Homosexual support chapters around the country. In addition to pro- of 800 million people live in depths of poverty that moting social and spiritual support for homosexual he described as "so miserable that it is beneath any During a rally outside St. Patrick's Cathedral, a priest shows his support for Dignity, a men and women, it advocates changes in church ~~ *.. rational definition of human decency." teachings and practice regarding homosexual persons The prelate said that the debt — the largest part national organization of Catholic homosexuals. More than 90 percent of Americans diagnosed and homosexual activity. Many had expected the of which is interest — also stands in the way of as having AIDS, Acquired Immune Deficiency archdiocesan action since New York's Cardinal John much-needed economic development in the southern Syndrome, are adult males and two-thirds of J. O'Connor expressed support for a Feb. 4 direc- hemisphere at the same time it is adding to the prof- those have been identified as homosexually tive from Bishop Francis J. Mugavero in the neigh- its of Western banks. active. (NC photo) boring Diocese of Brooklyn that Dignity Masses While acknowledging that the bishops have no could not be held in churches or other facilities of formula to propose, Archbishop Weakland said the his diocese. U.S. Catholic Conference and other religious groups Congress urged to help parents have generally argued that both creditor and debtor nations must make sacrifices in finding a solution. of needy students despite courts Gutenberg Bible to be auctioned WASHINGTON (NC) — The head of the U.S. bishops' education committee, saying the U.S. to fund Catholic seminaries Pair charged in stabbing Supreme Court two years ago "virtually destroyed" LOS ANGELES (RNS) — One of the 47 known deaths of two Buffalo priests a program aiding disadvantaged non-public school copies of a portion of the Gutenberg Bible still in students, urged Congress to give parents grants to existence will be auctioned off in New York City NEW YORK (RNS) — Two youths were arrested help restore the program.