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Raleigh Bishop Says Aliens 'Cruel By
Number 44 • August
1
28, 1992
Roundup Of
And Unnecessary'
GUY MUNGER
RALEIGH, N.C. (CNS)
— Bishop
F.
Joseph Gossman of Raleigh called a recent
roundup of 200 illegal
aliens in
lina a "cruel, heartless
and unnecessary use
North Caro-
of force."
"Laws are
important, but so are human
dignity and family cohesi veness," the bishop said in a
homily
Gabriel's Church in
at St.
Greenville in early August.
He decried the methods used by agents of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service when they raided two large farms in the early morning hours of July 23, arresting
migrant workers,
many of whom had been
asleep.
The migrants were loaded on buses and sent back to Mexico after being processed at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C., and being shown to the media.
An INS
spokesman
said the arrests
up about 187 jobs that could go to American workers or authorized workers." But Bishop Gossman did not agree. "The claim that migrant and resident farm workers are taking jobs from American "freed
BISHOP F. JOSEPH GOSSMAN citizens that.
is
a joke.
You know
that.
I
know
INS knows that," he said. The bishop said he hoped and prayed would not be
repeated. For his
such
tactics
part,
he said he would do what he could to
change the law "and
live
up to
this nation's
former image of welcoming and accepting people, who come here in need from anywhere and for any reason, especially the all
poorest and the neediest."
Hispanic Catholic Congress Issues Call For laureen Nicholls puts the finishing touches on her classroom prior to the
of school. Nicholls
start
LOS ANGELES (CNS)
a first gade teacher in the Mecklenburg Area Catholic schools. See the eight-page back-to-school
Photo by
ipplement in this issue.
JOANN KEANE
3enedictine Father Martin Hayes;
He Never Met A Stranger' By
CAROL HAZARD
Father Hayes,
Associate Editor
BELMONT
—
Benedictine Father
who embraced monastic
abbey at age 20, loved golf and cigars and all forms of life. life at
the
oke as he was with a kind word. Upbeat and
"He took time to smell the roses," said Abbot Burnett. "He enjoyed attracting and
ampassionate, he was loved by priests and
feeding birds, squirrels and rabbits.
isters alike.
tivated
jfertin
William Hayes was as quick with a
When
alumni visited Belmont Abbey
would look him him "Pop." He was
lp.
Students called
He cul-
two gardens of beautiful flowers
for the black beret he
wore with a
'Marty" to his fellow priests, "Uncle Billy"
green shamrock pinned to the front, friends across the diocese.
ircle
weekends at nearby parishes. "He never met a stranger," said Abbot
until the end, the kind-spirited
Jenedictine
He
monk had something funny to
died Aug. 14
at
Mercy
Hospital,
wearing out physically from a series of
He was 81. "Heaven will never be the same again," aid Abbot Oscar Burnett during the eulogy Father Hayes' funeral. "God must be very appy to have Father Martin home at last
Burnett.
it
...
it
be fun when the saints come
were never
to
him always
bitter
or cruel, but amusing."
a while to get used to his
"It will take
absence," said Benedictine Father Placid Solari,
sub prior. "It's important in a monas-
community that you have people who grow old and become enriched by it. Father
tic
Martin never got to be an old man."
narching in? Father Martin will be in that lumber.
"Whoever spoke
expected a wise-crack in reply. His remarks
urgeries.
Won't
made
He enjoyed help-
ing pastors on
of friends in North Carolina.
Up ay.
wide
Father Solari recalls visiting the abbey as a
boy
in the '50s
and his fascination with
Father Hayes' interest in homing pigeons.
Andrew Relief People wishing to contribute to Hurricane Andrew relief efforts reay »ake cash donations through their parishes, Relief coordinators
Father Hayes trained and raced pigeons,
request only cash be sent,
ther
Httrricant
t
back
cultural events to learn
other's Hispanic cultures
as well as non-Hispanic cultures in the
United States.
— Learn more
home
The meeting,
to their dioceses.
titled
"Hispanic Con-
Convent
the Sacred Heart
Hayes was
in
Mercy
— Work
communication beand parish pastors. During discussion on youth and family
life,
Alicia Rivera, associate director of the
cese of Chicago, called the family the "nucleus where a person's identity
Hispanic Catholics to become youth minis-
groups that operates in cooperation with the U.S. bishops. In discussion of "new evangelization,"
Dominican Father Jorge Presmanes, associate pastor of St. Dominic Parish in Miami, reported that congress participants had concerns about "clericalism," which he described as Church officials using their titles to promote their own agendas and, in so doing, stifling the efforts of laity. Pope John Paul
II
has called for a "new evangelization"
in light
of the 500th anniversary of the
coming of
lished."
ters.
Church leaders also asked for more mixed families," and immigrant families split up because part of the family is in the home country and part of it works in the United States. direction for "culturally
One
congress participant said the See Hispanic, Page 2
Back To School ;A Special Supplement
Christianity to the Americas.
Among
evangelization-related action
— Undertake an
day of the meet-
aggressive campaign
to publicize the Pastoral Plan for Hispanic
Ministry, approved
by
the U.S. bishops in
—
tian
*Si£jht
Specia
1987.
Wilson.
See Hayes, Page 3
estab-
Council for Hispanic Ministry, an inde-
lic
pendent umbrella organization of Church
'
Ann Marie
is
sored by the two-year-old National Catho-
was spon-
friend, confidante, advisor
into one," said Sister
to better
lay leaders
at
Belmont, Fa-
of other denomina-
tions.
She said a major concern of Hispanic Church leaders was how to encourage
gress 1992: Roots and Wings,"
the abbey.
chaplain to the Sisters of
about ecumenism to
relate better to those
to roost at
and father figure. 'He was everything mixed
Remember to pray for hurricane victims.
— Sponsor
more about each
ing were:
As
political is-
sues.
Office of Family Ministries in the Archdio-
directives released the final fly
Offer workshops in parishes on
economic, cultural and
nomic and health issues. After small-group discussion, the Church leaders developed a list of action
shipping them to distant locations so the
"Wings of Love" could
social,
evangelization as well as political, eco-
directives to take
known
—
Hispanic
tween
Father Hayes, a distinguished person
o his family and Father Martin
to his
at
—
Church leaders have pledged to establish more small faith communities, become more ecumenical in their approach, and take the Gospel from the Church to the election booth and the school board. Meeting at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, some 800 Hispanic Catholic leaders from across the country attended a four-day meeting in mid- August at which they listened to speakers address
the abbey."
College for reunions, they
Wide-Ranging Programs
Establish small parish-based Chris-
communities and then use them to do
evangelization.