The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1983 (10. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1983-10-01 / 10. szám
October, 1983 THE EIGHTH HUNGARIAN TRIBE Page 5 The Geauga County Hungarian Cultural Club of Ohio will hold their Eigth Annual Fall Festival and Dinner on Saturday, October 29, 1983 at the former Rose Farm on Pekin Road in Russell, from 6:30 p.m. to Midnight. The Geauga County Hungarian Cultural Club Dances: Children’s Group and the Adults Group will perform in their beautiful Hungarian costumes. They will perform the traditional Hungarian Dances of the “Szüreti Mulatság — the Hungarian Grape Festival” under the direction of Mrs. Steve Beres of Painesville, Ohio. For more information call Dorothy Nagy in Newbury 216—564-5219. Donation: Members $9.50; Non-Members $12.50 CHRISTIAN TRADITIONAL FAMILY LIFE ENDORSED Pope John Paul II enjoined American Roman Catholic bishops to speak out in support of traditional church positions on divorce, premarital sex, homosexuality, abortion, contraception and the ban against women in the priesthood. The pope, enunciating what he said were reflections on the role of bishops, asked 23 American prelates at his summer palace at Castel Gandolfo to withraw their support from any person or any group that promotes the ordination •of women as priests. He urged the bishops to support “the dignity of women and every legitimate freedom that is consonant with their human nature and womanhood,” but he reminded them “that the church’s teaching on the exclusion of women from priestly ordination is extraneous to the issue of discrimination and that it is linked rather to Christ’s own design for his priesthood.” On the questions of marriage, sex, contraception and abortion, the pontiff held fast to the uncompromising positions that he and earlier popes have spelled out in the past. While acknowledging that the church view “sometimes irritates and offends,” he told the bishops to proclaim without fear or ambiguity the many conroverted thruths of our age.” “The compassionate bishop proclaims the indissolvability of marriage,” he went on, as well as “the incompatibility of premarital sex and homosexual activity with God’s plan for human love; at the same time, with all his strength, (the bishop) will try to assist those who are faced with difficult moral choices. “With equal compassion he will proclaim the doctrine of Humanae Vitae and Familiaris Consortio in its full beauty, not passing over in silence the unpopular truth that artificial birth control is againss God’s law.” Humanae Vitae was the 1968 encyclical of Pope Paul VI that restated the church’s ban on birth control; Familiaris Consortio was issued by John Paul in 1981 and dealt with Christian family values. On abortion, the pontiff said only that bishops should “speak out for the rights of the unborn, the weak, the handicapped, the poor and the aged, no matter how the current popular opinion views these issues.” The Geauga County Hungarian Cultural Club of of Ohio
