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*.•/*kA! • ITHE UPPER PENINSULAt* lt;*#ufThe Newspaper Of The Diocese Of MarquetteMAY 16, 197512 PAGESTWO SfCTIONSVOL. 4. NO. 44Expect 10,000RomeFor Charismatic CongressANN ARBOR, Mich. (RNS)— — At least eight Roman Catholic bishops are expected to take leading roles in the four-day 1975 International Congress on the Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Church to be held in Rome on May 16-19, over the catacombs of St. Callixtus, the burial place of early Christianittation.A highlight of the congress, according to Louise Bourassa, acting press coordinator, will be a Pentecost Sunday Mass celebrated by Pope Paul at St. Peter’s Basilica for the world assembly.Charismatic Renewal, will include such topics as prayer and Scripture, family life, Christian unity, healing and parish renewal.MEETING THE FIRST VIETNAMESE refugees in the area, The Most Rev. Bishop Charles A. Salatka is shown with (from left) John Havican from Marquette, his wife, Vo Thi Thu Lang, her sister Vo Thi Thu Dung, and brother, Vo Thanh Tung.Some 10,000 participants, more than 4,000 of them from the U.S. and Canada, will gather under a large canopy and in four smaller tents for general sessions, workshops and liturgical services focusing on the congress’ theme, Renewal and Reconcil-Ms. Bourassa, a member of the editorial staff of New Covenant, a maga/ine of the Charismatic Renewal published in Ann Arbor,Mich., said that congresschairman Ralph Martin,editorof New Covenant, andCardinal Leo joseph Suenens, Primate of Belgium, will speak during the opening session.A special general sessionfocusing on renewal andreconciliation will be directed by the Rev. Michael Scanlan, I.O.R., president of Steubenville (Ohio) College, author of Inner Healing. It will treat the renewal of the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation.« iBishop Challenges Massacre Reports Vietnamese Family Conies To U.P.CONGRESS workshops, presented by an international group of leaders in theAfter the Pentecost Mass at St. Peter’s, Cardinal Jan Willebrands, president of the Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity, will speak at a general session on “The Holy Spirit and the Church.1 9As 'Undocumented And PrematurerLOS ANGELES (RNS)A FAMILY of refugees from thehighlandsof Vietnamis in Marquette, trying to adjust to a whole new life.Anational Roman Catholic nespaper here reported that “hundred of Vietnamese orphans” and several Catholic nuns have been killed by the Vietcong, but a Catholic bishop recently returned from Vietnam challenged the reportas “undocumented and9 9premature and said it “played into the hands of theCommunists ”In addition, the Register reported that Dr. McKinney “was told by a mother superior in Saigon” that besides the 400 children killed in Danang “the Communists also killed the nuns in charge of the facility.”THE REGISTER report later said that Dr. McKinney’s reports of “mass executions” were in “direct contradictionto manv of thp mmmpntti iBishop Hurley, who said he guessed’’ that the Communists would executesome South Vietnamese leaders, would not deny that atrocities may occur during and after the takeover. He suggested that the world press demand access to the occupied territories to find out if atrocities are taking place.John Havican fro m Marquette, a former Seabee who returned to the Kontum area as a construction supervisor, and ended up as a hospital administrator, is home with his bride of eight months, VoThi Thu Lang, and her family.VO THANH CO, the fatherin law, lost a leg in the traumatic days of evacuation,when a roof collapsed at an island debarkation point. The first amputation took place in the gar age of a doctor’s home.For Co and his wife, Phan Thi Kim Anh, the adjustment is most difficult, although they manage to communicate a little with the elder Havicaris as well.IT’S EASIER for the younger people. John, ofcourse is home, and hoping to find work which will, with Gl benefits, help him to return to hospital work on a professional level, through Nursing school.Lang is 26, and worked a little as a beautician in Vietnam. Her sister, Vo Thi Thu Dung, is 25.Kids' games are kids’ games, apparently, the world over, so their brother lung, and little nephew Vo Thanh True, have a little Ies difficulty getting used to this cool countrv.Fr. Paul Prud’hommeDiesDetroit79FUNERAL SERVICES will beheld Saturday at II at St. Joseph's, Sault Ste. Marie, for Fr. Paul M. Prud’homme, S. J., who died in Detroit Tuesday.Bishop Charles A. Salatka will be principal concelcbrant.mostly among the Indians. Among his last acts wastranslation from the Chippewa of two of Bishop Baraga’s works.Born in 1895 in France and ordained in Canada in 1927, Fr. Prud'homme worked in the diocese for 35 vears.Retired since 1968, he lived in Marquette for a time, later moved to Cleveland,Cincinnati and Detroit. Infection set in after a seriousoperation earlier this year.
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