ANNUL- MENT for Princess Caroline? Page 4 Catholic Archdiocese of Miami Vol. XXX No. 39 November 19, 1982 Price 25C Bishops defend N-stand WASHINGTON (NC) — Members of a committee of the National Con- ference of Catholic Bishops that is drafting a pastoral letter concerning the use of nuclear weapons defended the bishops' competence to address that issue. "Our competence is in the area of moral teaching," said Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton of Detroit, one of the committee members, at a news conference on Nov. 15, the first day of the annual fall meeting of the bishops' con- ference in Washington. "We don't pretend to have extra- ordinary competence in strategic or military matters,'" Bishop Gumbleton said, noting, however, that the com- mittee did consult specialists in those areas. "We believe we are competent to make moral judgments," he said. Another committee member, Bishop Daniel P. Reilly of Norwich, Conn., noted that critics of the draft pastoral letter "sometimes say 'You don't know what you're talking about' " and that the same criticism is sometimes voiced about bishops teaching in the area of marriage and. the family. "WHO ARE the experts who can THANKSGIVING DAZE talk to us in this area?" Bishop Reilly Little Reina Marina takes time out from making Thanksgiving decorations to have a good yawn. asked. The bishops are taking a It's not that she isn't interested, but it is past noon and time for her/and her classmates at the stand, he said, as moral teachers. Little Havana Day Care Center to take their naps. The center is one of many projects funded by Another participant in the news the Archdiocese Catholic Community Services, whose annual report is in this week's Voice. t conference, Auxiliary Bishop Norbert Section 1A-8A. (Voice photo by Prentice Browning) . -.,,.;.: ., . ••: ..,-.;,.,.:' • ,:... • . •.•- •. .. (Continued on page 12) The new Pilgrims ...S. Florida is refugees' Plymouth this Thanksgiving This Thanksgiving, when you re- Bernie, his wife, and two young With Bernie, that summer of 1980, their homelands. And, like millions member the pilgrims of Plymouth boys weathered the day-long trip on came 125,000 others, in an unparal- before them, they looked toward Rock, don "t forget they weren 't the a boat called Thomas E. One of his leled exodus which the United States America as the land of the free where last ones. The new pilgrims, Miami's sisters, her sons, and their father government seemed powerless to their dreams stood a chance of com- latest, came a mere two years ago. came on another boat. stop. The stories of these latest "boat ing true. by Ana Rodriguez-Soto By no means did his immigrant's people," played every night on televi- Even if reports of streets paved journey end when he hugged his other sion and reported every morning in with gold have proven greatly exag- CRAMMED SHOULDER-TO- sister and brother-in-law outside the newspapers, served once again to re- gerated, immigrants still think of the SHOULDER into small pleasure gate of the last processing center, the mind Americans that this is, indeed, a United States as the land where op- crafts and shrimpers' boats, they be- former hangar of the Goodyear nation of immigrants. portunity welcomes those determined gan arriving in May, after crossing blimp. But as he told one of the vol- For like the pilgrims who started it enough to avail themselves of it. An the calm, sky-blue waters of the Ca- unteers taking care of the resettle- all more than three centuries ago, economic recession doesn't deter peo- ribbean with only the clothes on their ment, his life of freedom had already these Cubans were fleeing oppression ple who've never seen supermarket backs and their hopes for the future. begun. and lack of economic opportunity in (Continued on page 10) Priest says Vatican should recognize Israel By Tracy Early Noting that the pope reportedly Department of the Union of Ameri- Press, a weekly paper published in NEW YORK (NC) — To overcome told Arafat the PLO should recognize can Hebrew Congregations (Reform), Brooklyn, is religiously orthodox and Catholic-Jewish strains produced by Israel, he said the advice was "preten- the New York Federation of Reform politically a staunch supporter of the the meeting of Pope John Paul II tious" if the Vatican itself didn't ex- Synagogues and the Zionist Menachem Begin government. with Palestine Liberation Organiza- tend recognition. Organization of America. After the massacres in the Pales- tion leader Yasser Arafat, the Vatican While calling on the Vatican to rec- tinian camps, it said that Pope John should recognize Israel, Servite Father Pawlikowski, a professor at ognize Israel, Father Pawlikowski Paul was responsible because by Father John Pawlikowski told a the Chicago Theological Union and a said a "clear statement" was needed meeting with Arafat on Sept. 15, the Catholic-Jewish gathering. leading participant in Catholic-Jew- by Jewish leaders disassociating day before they began, he signaled "One of the principal objections ish dialogue, was the keynote speaker themselves from some of the at- Maronite Catholics in Lebanon that has been that it would look like a one- for a "conversation" held Nov. 7-8. tacks made on the pope since the Ara- "murder for a cause is to be ap- sided action," he told the Catholic- Sponsors were the New York Regency fat meeting. plauded." It subsequently rejected a Jewish gathering. "Now that the of-the Anti-Defamation League, the "Few people in the Catholic com- demand for a retraction by the Cath- pope has met with Arafat, I fail to see New York Archdiocese, the New munity know what the Jewish Press olic League for Religious and Civil how recognition could be considered York Board of Rabbis, Graymoor is, and think it represents all Ameri- Rights. one-sided. The climate now is right." Institute, the Inter-religious Affairs can Jewry," he said. The Jewish Bishops' commission calls Britain's treatment of prisoners unjust LONDON (NC) — The Social Welfare Commission of the Bishops' Con- ference of England and Wales has called Britain's treatment of criminals basically un-Christian. Punishment must always be just, reasonable and reasonably effec- tive, said the commission in a report titled "A Time for Justice," released Nov. 11. The report stated that "present sentencing practice in this country cannot command the support of the Christian conscience . the vast majority of those imprisoned are non-violent offenders . Who are more of a nuisance than a threat." The commission asked church leaders to press for an end to prison over- crowding and to help remedy social and environmental factors which predispose people to comitting crimes. It also called for greater concern among Catholics for the prison ministry. God is "waiting to be discovered" by youth, priest says LOUISVILLE, Ky. (NC) — God is out there "waiting to be discovered" by young people, but he has a lot of competition, Father Don Kimball, executive WAR MEMORIAL — Fred Stroher of Maine, who lost a leg in 1966 during the director of Catholic Media Ministry in Santa Rosa, Calif., told some 2,200 teen- Vietnam War, pauses near the new Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. age and adult participants at Youth Congress '82. In his keynote address at the The V-shaped monument lists the names of 58,000 Americans who lost their conference, which took place Nov. 6-7 in Louisville. Father Kimball, who is a lives in the war. <NC photo from UPI) disc jockey, told his listeners that commercials and "conditional love" were ex- amples of the competition to God's love, but that God is "willing to love you un- conditionally." Archbishop Thomas Kelly of Louisville spoke at the congress Archbishop Roach urges withholding about the bishops' proposed pastoral letter on war and peace. He said the admin- Guatemalan aid istration will not like the document, but that it is being written "to teach our peo- ple." As general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops until WASHINGTON (NC) — Archbishop John R. Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis, his appointment to the Louisville Archdiocese earlier this year, Archbishop Kelly president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, has urged the Reagan was involved in the first phases of the devlopment of the pastoral letter. administration to withhold military aid to Guatemala until there is "substantial and verifiable proof" that the violent repression of human rights has ended in that Central American country. In a Nov. 5 statement Archbishop Roach said that even though "recent statements by administration sources seem to suggest that the principal obstacle to resumption of military aid — Guatemala's human Priests sign statement calling for end to rights record — is being overcome," the impression of the bishops "is entirely different." The U.S. has not given military aid to Guatemala since the Carter ad- arms race ministration terminated it in 1977, citing human rights violations. PEORIA, 111. (NC) — Calling themselves a "people of peace," 97 priests of the Peoria Diocese have signed a statement calling for an end to the arms race. "We Washington bishops decry racism must not capitulate to the evils of our time. We must not be slaves to arms or bombs . For we are God's people — a people of peace." The number of sig- WASHINGTON (NC) — Washington bishops joined in offering support to a natures, representing about one-third of the active priests in the diocese (in- suburban Maryland Jewish congregation after vandals desecrated its synagogue cluding order priests), pleased Father George Dorsey, a former social action di- with Klu Klux Klan and Nazi symbols.