(fwd) Religious Emblems
Richard Sullivan (rj.sullivan@UKONLINE.CO.UK)
Mon, 27 Jan 1997 19:40:09 +0000
Recently I was stumped at a Roundtable by a Unit leader who
posed the following: =20
"We are a civilian Cub Scout Pack in London (Yep, London
England as in United Kingdom) without affiliation to the Military
chaplain services. We have Cubs who are working on their Parvuli Dei
awards with their local British Roman Catholic Pastor. The (British)
priest can't find any information on how to order these American
awards. What do we do?" Our navy Chaplain was also stumped.
I asked the question of the list and got directed to the NCCS
(National Catholic Conference on Scouting) and received the following:
=46rom: John Hammerschmidt=20
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 09:12:44 -0600
>Rich=09
> Carol Oldowski forwarded me your e-mail concerning Availibility=20
>of Emblems for youth in Scout units in the Transatlantic Council. I =
want=20
>to congradulate you, you have won the prize for the stumper of the year.
> Before I go any further let me introduce myself. I am John
>Hammerschmidt and I am currently the Chairman for the National Religious=
=20
>Emblems Committee for the National Catholic Committee on Scouting. =20
>To my knowledge this question has never been asked before. I will do
> some research and if I find out anything I will get back to you as soon=
=20
as I find something out. However that doesn't at this time appear to
likely.=20
We are having our annual Committee Meeting and Executive Board
Session starting the week of April 7, 1997. If I have not come up
with a solution before then it will be an agenda item for my committee
and we will have a resolution of some type after that.
As far as the boys are concerned, do not prevent them from
working on the program. If they wish to work on the Light of Christ
or the Parvuli Dei and meet the requirement let them do it. This
program normally takes 3 to 4 months to complete, so by the time they
have finished the emblem we will have a resolution to this problem.
The review for these two emblems is conducted by their pastor and he
seems willing to work with the boys so I do not see any problem there.
If they complete the emblems and review before the National Committee
reaches a final solution we will work something out. For the other
two emblems (Which you have not mentioned) the Ad Altare Dei and the
Pope Pius XII these require a review by a diocesan board of review. I
do not know how this would be handled but that will definitely be
discussed in Sacramento.=20
> Keep in touch and let me know how you are getting along.
.........
THEN, on Sun, 26 Jan 1997 11:25:18 -0600, John Hammerschmidt
wrote again:
>Rich=09
> I have found out that the Archdiocese for the Military handle all
>religious emblems for the Military and other American Citizen in B.S.A.
>units overseas. Your Navy Chaplain needs to get in touch with Mr. John
>Smith (yes his real name) at the Archdiocese office in Washington for
>details on how to operate these programs.
An so my fellow American (Scouter)s I say to you, "Thank you
Bob and Carol Oldenowski and John Hammerschmidt, and Mike Bowman, and
ALL the others who replied with good solid information and facilitated
the foregoing responses. Golly, I sure do enjoy this Scouting stuff.
On behalf of the Scouts in London, Thank you all.
Yours in Scouting,
Terry Howerton Sakima Group, Inc. SCOUTER Magazine Kansas City |
