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By NC News Service Archbishop Gennaro Prata of Cochabamba, Bolivia, celebrated a Mass before an overflow con gregation Jan. 23 for three Am erican women missionaries and an orphan boy killed Jan. 21 when their jeep was caught in a flash flood while, crossing a river near Cochabamba. Two other Americans, a priest and a woman Religious, es caped with minor injuries. Those killed were: Sister Ger aldine McGinn, 46, of Bronx, N.Y.; Sister Gilchrist Conway, 41, of Chicago; and Sister Mary Mahon~y, 42, of Chicago. Sister McGinn, a Dominican, and Sister Conway, a Sister of Providence, were Maryknoll as sociate missionaries, people who sign temporary contracts to work 1n Maryknoll projects. Sis ter Mahoney was assigned to Bolivia by her Dominican mother house in Sinsinawa, Wis. The women frequently traveled. by jeep, mule or horseback to their 36 mission stations. A IS-year-old handicapped boy, adopted by Sister Conway, also died in the accident. A priest and another sister escaped with minor injuries. The accident occurred when the missioners' jeep became stuck in mud while crossing a river bed. As they attempted to extricate it, the flash flood claimed its victims. Sister McGinn was a school teacher ill the United States be fore' entering Maryknoll work with Quechua-speaking Indian farmers in 'Bolivia. Sister Conway, a past presi dent of the National Catholic Education Association Adult Division in Washington, pre viously headed the Indianapolis archdiocesan adult education office. Sister Mahoney had taught art and religion in elementary and high schools in Wisconsin, Illin ois and Wyoming.
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Cursillo adviser DALLAS (NC) - Father Wil liam J. Dougherty, director of the Center for New Life retreat house in Childs, Md., has been appointed to a two-year term as national priest adviser for the Cursillo Movement, succeeding Father George V. Salazar of Santa Fe, N.M. The new director said the pur pose of CursiIlo, a worldwide movement within the church, is "to Christianize the environ ment, to bring Christian leaven into the world ... to bring about the kingdom." According to 1982 statistics, more than 3 million people worldwide have participated in a Cursillo weekend. More than 500,000 have participated in the United States.
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BELLEVILLE, m. (NC) "We just don't realize our gifts - what it is to have two eyes, ordinary health, a couple of good meals," said Bishop John D. Wurm of Belleville. Bishop Wurm, 56, underwent surgery Nov. 2 for a malignant tumor in his liver. The cancer has spread to his eyes and possi bly his brain. He has received chemotherapy and radiation treatments and was hospitalized Jan. 24 for the third time since the operation. He was listed in good condition Jan. 26 atSt. John's Mercy Medical Cen ter in St. Louis. The simple things are what bring joy to life, the bishop said in an interview' published in his diocesan newspaper, The Mess enger, "to share with the people that I am very much at peace." ' Earlier the newspaper had published a letter from the bish op explaining his condition and saying that his sufferings were being offered for "increased vo cations to' the 'priesthood and religious life, a resolution to the unemployment problem and good crops and a productive harvest" in his rural diocese. ' "I presently have double vis ion and one of my eyes is not opening properly. I am still very hopeful that the radiation treat ments will resolve the problem," he wrote. "There are signs, however, of additional cancer in the area of the brain." "It is just the simple things that really bring joy and happi ness," said the bishop in the in terview. "I sit on the back porch and enjoy the birds, the creatures of the Lord."
Continued from page one On the education and forma tion of Catholics, he cited Cath olic schools as a "privileged in strume.nt" of Catholic education, but also called adult religious education "a major concern." He said vocation awareness did not mean just promoting vo cations to priesthood and reli gious life, but awareness of "the universal call to holiness" for Christians who are single, mar ried, widowed or divorced. "Springboard" DioceSe In a lighter vein, some church punsters have decided to rename the Springfield-Cape Girardeau diocese. They want to call it Spring board. They point out that the four bishops who have led the small rural diocese in its 27 year history have been promo ted to larger sees. Three were made archbishops. One is now a cardinal, and another is a very likely candidate for the red hat. The springboard diocese's first leader was Bishop Charles Helm sing, who was there less than six years before being, transferred to the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., with three times as many Catholics. The second was 'Bishop Igna tius Strecker, appointed in 1962 and seven years later made arch bishop of Kansas City, Kan. The third, Bishop William Baum, lasted from 1970 to 1973. He then became archbishop of Washington, D.C., then a car dinal, and is now the top-rank ing U.S. prelate in the Vatican. Bishop Bernard Law, fourth bishop of the diocese, was there from the end of 1973 until this January, when he was named archbishop of Boston, the third largest archdiocese in the coun try, and one whose last three archbishops have become car dinals.
The,' bishop said he is grateful that he did not die right away, but has time "to pray,' to medi tate oand to review my past priesthood. I have tried to be a good priest; I really have. "Yet sometimes when you get out there, because of the human condition; you think you are act ing and speaking from the heart, but sometimes you are speaking from the self." The 'bishop also shared with we're going to cash in on them (the prayers)." his people the prayers of thanks Bishop Wurm, who has head giving he has prayed after Mass ed the Illinois See since 1981, "every day for 30 years." One of them, he said, is "Lord, said "the most traumatic part my God, in this moment now, I of my experience was the fact that I was so active and all of a willingly and in submission, un dergo whatever kind of death sudden everything seemed to it would please thee to send me, stop. At first I was shocked ... with all of its sorrows, pains and to be stopp~ in my tracks, with out even a chance to say heno anguish." or goodbye to the people." . "Then I also say the prayer .The bishop said his condition of St. Ignatius: Take, 0 Lord, has caused some suffering, "but all my liberty, my memory, my what has become a great source understanding, my will. Give me of strength for me are the mys only 'your love and your grace.· teries of, the rosary ... I can't' With these I am rich enough and read the Office (because of his ask for nothing more. eye condition), but I meditate "I said these prayers with real on the mysteries, and every as sincerity," 'he said. "I really pect is such a powerful prayer. didn't know what a poweiful im "I have always tried to be a pact they would have on me. simple, good priest,· a Marian Now I have come to realize the priest, trying to serve the peo-' Lord is asking something of me pie. That's pretty much the way as a result of these prayers. I am it has been. I know that we are ready and willing to respond in all sinners, make mistakes and any way he wants." offend people. For that I am "If he wants me to stay a long sorry.. ." time; ,if he wants this to be a The bishop said he is hopeful transitional period of suffering; that he will "get over this. But I if he wants me, I will do his am also' realistic and realiie I wHl," the bisho~ said. could die any time. And every He said "many times you don't day as I celebrate Mass, I think: think of it, and then 30 years Viaticum" (the last time he re later the Lord says: 'All right, ceives communion).
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