NATION : Eastern Europe Church Aid Set
U.S. Roman Catholic bishops launched a major program today to help churches of Eastern Europe recover from their prolonged suppression under communism.
Presenting the plan, Archbishop John L. May of St. Louis said churches there have suffered a “man-made disaster” resulting from years of persecution.
With the collapse of communism, he said, they are “like a man just emerging from the darkness of a cave, standing there, blinking in the bright light of freedom.”
At the annual meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, a succession of about a dozen bishops took the floor to back a national church collection to pay for the aid project.
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