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7 The Message --for Catholics of Southwestern Indiana VOLUME 24 NUMBER 13 November 19', 1993
By PAUL R. LEINGANG
Message editor
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Vle a ,,L pro-
PeOple ?:er °PP°rtunity for
- - aeeci to obtain afford-
able cloth!ng. It will also pro-
Vide another Opportumty for
erabers of Catholic parishes
COncerned residents
area to volunteer their
Sheets, a member of the
Store BOard of Directo
an ever,. . rs
that ,t y nay Volunteer,
ae new Thrift Store
a second outlet for
people to obtain
and other items
the St. Vincent de
Y. The Walnut
Store will con-
Operation, at 727 East
now in its thirty-fifth
St. Vincent de Paul store to open on Evansville's West Side
Thrift Store
lrectors President,
new Thrift Store
more opportu-
to help in
Volunteers are
three-and-one.
on weekday
afternoons.
of St. Vincent de
nternational non-
dedicated to
It functions
Volunteer help.
the society has
Works: emergency
a food pantry, and
the thrift stores.
The society operates an
emergency assistance office
and food pantry at 1405 North
Elliott. The relatively new dis-
tribution/recycle center is lo-
cated at 11 South Kentucky
Avenue.
Although it is under
Catholic auspices, the society
gives help on a non-denomina-
tional basis. Members say that
"suffering knows no religious
boundaries."
The society was founded by a
French layman, Frederic
Ozanam, in Paris in 1833.
After spreading through
France and the rest of Europe,
the society came to the United
States in 1845. It was founded
in Evansville on Oct. 2, 1882.
Much of the early work of
the society involved providing
emergency assistance. In June
1950, the Evansville society
began filling requests for cloth-
ing. The first Thrift Store
opened in 1956 at the corner of
Uhlhorn and Fourth Avenue,
and continued there until fire
destroyed the building, June
26, 1979. The Walnut Street
Thrift Store opened in 1958.
The new store on Mt. Vernon
Avenue is not the first store to
be operated on the West Side.
The society had a store at 315
South Tekoppel from 1971 to
1982.
All of the efforts of the soci-
ety are supported solely by do-
nations. The society accepts
donations of usable clothing,
housewares, furniture, appli-
ances, and financial gifts.
It is important that donated
items can be .used without re-
pair, according to David
Bower, the new director of op-
erations. Furniture and appli-
ances are expensive to fix, and
the society will have to pay
landfill costs to dispose of un-
usable items.
Clothing that is not sold at a
Thrift Store eventually is baled
for shipment for Third World
and overseas distribution.
Staffing all of the Evansville
operations takes a total of 78
volunteers each week, accord-
ing to Bower. He noted that
there are 29 conferences in the
area--and that if each confer-
ence or parish would provide
three volunteers per week, the
need would be filled with nine
volunteer substitutes to spare.
Bower is suggesting to the
society leadership at each of
the parishes in the area that
they ask for volunteers to
make four-week commitments,
to work just one three-and-a-
half hour shift each week. He
believes more people would be
able to make such a specific
commitment.
The 29 parishes with St.
Vincent de Paul conferences
include 19 parishes in Evans-
ville, along with St. Clement in
Boonville, St. Francis Xavier in
Poseyville, St. John in Day-
light, St. John in Newburgh,
St. Wendel, St. Matthew in Mt.
Vernon, St. Philip, St. James,
St. Joseph in Princeton
and Sts. Peter and Paul in
Haubstadt.
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U.S. Bishops meet under Cloud of sex abuse
to this story L. Bernardin of Chicago. Among the actions taken by statement of solidarity with to help families recognize and
O'Brien,
tu, Mark Pattison,
. and Carol Zim.
ashington.
(CNS) --
day looking
documents on
-rican family,
and the
the U.S.
a quieter pace
Nov.
in Washing-
agenda centered
videos
ervices,
and World
The bishops
COnference of,
COmmittee
going into ex-
Work contin-
of sex
against one
top-rank-
Joseph
The cardinal, who has been
accused of sexually abusing a
teen- ager in the 1970s, re-
ceived a standing ovation from
his fellow bishops Nov. 15 after
Archbishop William H. Keeler
of Baltimore, head of the Na-
tional Conference of Catholic
Bishops, said the cardinal's
=distinguished career of service
to the church provides a firm
foundation for confidence in
his categorical denial of the al-
legations made against him in
recent days."
At an impromptu press con-
ference later the same morn-
ing, Cardinal Bernardin re-
peated his denial of ever
having abused anyone. On
Nov. 12, a $10 million lawsuit
was filed in OHio charging the
cardinal and a Cincinnati arch-
diocesan priest with sexually
abusing Steven Cook, now of
Philadelphia, when he was a
student in a pre-seminary pro-
gram in Cincinnati in the
1970s.
the bishops during the first
two days of the meeting were
adoption of a 1994 budget of
$41.7 million and approval of a
proposal to draft a special mes-
sage on abortion and other pro-
life issues to coincide with a
papal encyclical on the subject
expected next year.
Msgr. Robert N. Lynch was
re-elected to a one-year term
as NCCB general secretary
and Archbishop Thomas J.
Murphy of Seattle was chosen
as treasurer of the NCCB and
its public policy arm, the U.S.
Catholic Conference. The bish-
ops also approved extending
for a fifth and final year the
national collection to aid the
churcl in Eastern and Central
Europe.
The meeting's major docu-
ments were not scheduled for
full debate and. a vote until
Nov. 17 (one day after the
Message went to press). Also
pending were a number of
liturgy matters and a proposed
newcomers to combat what
Archbishop Theodore E. Mc-
Carrick of Newark, N.J., said
was an anti-immigration senti-
ment in many parts of the
country,
Among the documents was
one offered by the Committee
on Marriage and Family,
chaired by Cardinal Bernardin,
as a sign of the bishops' sup.
port, encouragement and com-
passion for American families.
The document, called "Fol-
low the Way of Love: A Pas-
toral Message of the U.S.
Catholic Bishops to Families --
On the Occasion of the United
Nations 1994 International
Year of the Family, is de-
signed as a Catholic contribu-
tion to the year, which has as
its theme, "Family Resources
and Responsibilities in a
Changing World."
=Implicit in this theme is a
sense of confidence in the fu-
ture of the family and a chal-
lenge to leaders, like ourselves,
use their own resources and re-
sponsibilities," Cardinal
Bernardin said.
"One way we can do this is
to offer words supported by
actions that encourage,
challenge, show compassion,
pledge support and instill hope
in families," he added, rhis is
the spirit which infuses 'Follow
the Way of LoveY
Introducing a new statement
on war and peace prepared to
mark the 10th anniversary of
the bishops' landmark peace
pastoral, "The Challenge of
Peace," Archbishop John R.
Roach of St. Paul- Minneapolis
said that =deadly violence and
harsh injustice still haunt our
world" despite the end of the
Cold War.
The 60-page draft statement
Archbishop Roach presented is
titled "The Harvest of Justice
Is Sown in Peace." It says that
to work for real peace, the
United States needs to avoid
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