April 29, 1994 by Catholic News Herald

«« « »«.» UOOD-Sot

3 Catholic

5fOX133.no 3

0 N

News & Herald

Serving Catholics in Western North Carolina in the Diocese of Charlotte

Volume 3 Number 33

Pope Seeks

Clinton Help

U.N. Population WASHINGTON (CNS) — U.S. II

spoke by telephone April 22 as

part of the pope' s last- ditch effort to get

changes

document

on population and development. The call was arranged by Raymond L. Flynn, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, at the Vatican's request. It came on the last day of the third and final prepa-

Pope John

Youth Council member from Our Lady of Grace, Greensboro,

procesional for the closing liturgy at the annual Youth Conference.

Photo by I

Here

Comes The

CAROL HAZARD

Son'

Paul, "and we want to keep it way," said Flynn. The pope met the president in Denver last summer and is to that

him at the Vatican this June. The White House issued a brief statement about the conversation between the

receive

Flynn told Catholic News Service before the call that he had been summoned to the Vatican to discuss the pope' s "extreme disappointment with the

pope and the president, saying

U.N. document." He then flew to Washington and "briefed the highest-ranking U.S. officials" for four days before the phone call took place, he said. Flynn said he also had two conversations about the pope's concerns with Vice President Al Gore, who will head

and the situation in Bosnia. "They also expressed their deep concern for the tragic situation in Gorazde and the need to work toward an end of the

Pope John Paul and other Vatican have been working in various forums to change the draft document's sections on abortion, the family, young people and sex and the use of artificial contraceptives. Flynn said the pope also was "deeply concerned" about the document's "lack of focus on economic development and economic justice." Flynn said he brought from Rome a letter from Pope John Paul to the president and that he expected to carry back to

problem. Clinton, a Baptist, has had an "ex-

officials

drum

CAROL HAZARD

all

well as the president' s June visit to Rome

tragic situation through Bosnia," the

statement said.

Joaquin Navarro- Vails, the Vatican spokesman, said Pope John Paul and Clinton exchanged views "on the inter-

moment. The was the position of the Catholic Church on moral problems raised by the preparanational situation at the

principal topic of the conversation

tory meeting" for the Cairo conference.

Navarro- Vails said there also was "an exchange of views on the Calvary being lived by the peoples of BosniaHerzegovina."

He said the tone of the conversation was not confrontational.

Pennsylvania Governor Hails Progress In Pro-Life Movement keepNEW YORK (CNS) — Gov. Rob- community work two

Associate Editor

CLOVER, S.C.

— Under blue

skies

nd the sparkling backdrop of Lake

Bishop William G. Curlin told undreds of high school kids from across

/ylie,

Diocese of Charlotte to

hristian faith shine. I

let their

—

human

conditions.

friend of the bishop, inspires reverence in all

dear

"When you

Mother you

are with

by going

Mass every

wish for you toney, health, jobs I wish Jesus 'ould walk the earth in you," Bishop urlin said at the 17th Annual Diocesan outh Conference this past weekend at amp Thunderbird during the closing

day, confession twice a week, reading

turgy.

their farewells.

"Of all

the things

—

The conference "Here Comes Show Your True Colors" 'as a time to build faith and form be Son

—

iendships.

"Something about you should be so pwerful that says you are a Christian; it lould hang out," Bishop Curlin said. People should feel enriched by your life

Scripture and reciting the rosary every

day. "Suddenly the Christ in her meets the Christ outside her."

The Mass ended, but the band played on and the young people lingered to bid

and

"To see everybody come together feel the spirit, it's a high like no

Ruth Gierisch, a Diocesan Youth Council Member from St. Joseph Church, Andrews. "I come and feel like 'wow I am not other," said

focus on labels that separate blacks

Jesus is alive in the 90s." The realization

|om whites, liberals from conservatives any form of discrimination. Rather,

was powerfully affirming, she said, and she will remember it when she leaves

bt to

ley

should "see with the eyes of Christ."

Mother Teresa, he

said, sees Christ

limiting abortion in his

own state, refusal

of Pennsylvania and other states to fol-

low a White House directive on funding abortions for poor women, failure of the federal Freedom of Choice Act to pass and other developments. "We're winning this battle by any measure," said Casey,

who

in his last year as gover-

Although many people thought the 1 992 elections, Casey said, pro-life issues "have never been more central than now." The governor called on the pro-life abortion question was settled by the

health care, and seeking the resignation

istration,

David Kessler,

getting the abortion

pill,

for his role in

RU-486,

into

the United States for testing.

Casey, serving as honorary chair-

man, spoke at the "First Annual Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner" of the National Right to Life Committee, based in Washington.

Wanda Franz, a University of West who is

Virginia psychology professor

committee president, gave awards to Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York, former chairman of the bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Nancy S DeMoss head of the Arthur S DeMoss .

Foundation. The foundation, named for her late husband, sponsors pro-life television ads.

alone,'" said Natalie Miller of St. Therese

The bishop urged the 320 teenagers

impoverished."

tions, is

nor.

Church, the only Catholic church in Mooresville. "Being a teenager is so confusing. But I really feel (now) like

of the head of the Food and Drug Admin-

our direction," he said. As evidence, Casey cited measures

think you are with Jesus," he said. She radiates Christ

ment, contrary to widespread percep-

who come near

her.

goals:

ing abortion out of any national plan of

"making tremendous progress." "The tide is moving inexorably in

Mother Teresa

for

Casey of Pennsylvania said in a New York address that the pro-life moveert P.

around her amid even the most

horrifying

that they

discussed "the status of the preparatory meetings" for the Cairo conference, as

Teens Celebrate Christ At Conference

remained in the United States after the call, however, for treatment of a neck

traordinarily positive relationship" with

conference in Cairo.

African

the Vatican a response from Clinton.

September's U.N. -sponsored conference

the U.S. delegation to the Sept. 5-13

)lays

for

in the draft

ratory session for the Cairo conference.

3iane Kirwan, Diocesan

April 29, 1994

Document

President Bill Clinton and Pope John

Paul

•

fall

for college in California.

See Youth, Page 7

Commemorative Issue Additional copies of the April 15 commemorative issue of for the installation

of Bishop William G. Curlin are available by mail for $2 to cover the cost of postage. Send orders to The Catholic News & Herald, PO Box 37267, Charlotte,

NC 28237.

Copies also

Charlotte, for 75 cents.

may

be obtained

our office, 1524 East Morehead

St.,

2 The Catholic

News

& Herald

Grand Lady Of Greensboro Vicariate Gets Facelift JOANN KEANE

Associate Editor

—

Msgr. Joseph GREENSBORO Showfety inherited a hundred years of history with his June, 1993 assignment as pastor of St. Benedict church. S.

The first entry a baptism in

James

in the parish register lists

877, officiated by Bishop

Gib-

bons,

thenbishop of

It' s

a small price for saving one

of the oldest Catholic Churches in

North Carolina. Today, a scaffolding surrounds a chimney. Last week, the chimney was held intact by steel cables, keeping it from falling to the

Richmond.

ground, or

Genera-

worse,

tions of richly

crashing

steeped early Catholicism in

into

North Carolina whisper

ing bank.

from the pews. An earthy aroma blends

will

the neighborBricks

used. front

Both

down

several

towers will be taken

con-

fronting visi-

with

tors

re-

cleaned and re-

with stale in-

cense

moved,

thoughts of by-

feet,

and rebuilt

gone years and

using the same

the thousands

bricks.

of Masses held

building will be

within

pressured

the

The

brick confines

washed,

of the Motherchurch of the Greensboro Vicariate. S t

once the work

Msgr. Joseph Showfety looks over blueprints for the

again grace the

Benedict,

exterior of St. Benedict.

historic facade.

terns will

St.

beginning to show its age. Outside, mortar holding the brick veneer is deteriorating. From a distance the mortar resembles a weathery chalk.

Upclose,

like dust.

all

Agnes,

St.

It is

can be blown away

estimated that ten percent

the mortar needs to be replaced.

When

Msgr. Showfety arrived last year, he assumed a leak was from the

A roofing contractor refuted that

roof.

complete, in-

laid brick pat-

originally named

and

notion; water seeped through the walls,

not the roof. Utilizing $90,000 of church accumulated funds, the grand lady of the Greensboro Vicariate is getting a well deserved facelift.

will virtually look the same.

once

Benedict Only stur-

dier.

The church's facade transformed over the years; the original construction shows a wood frame building. In 1918, brick veneer was walled over the frame, its outward appearance. Completed in 1877, then-St. Agnes

changing

was named

for the 1 2-year-old Agnes, martyred for refusing to follow pagan practices of her day. In honor of the founder of western monasticism, St.

Agnes was renamed

to St. Benedict.

Photos by

Joann Keane

Maryfield Acres Retirement

Community Offers Peace of Mind Care Facility

Life •

One and Two Bedroom Homes

•

Park Like Setting

•

Hour Security •

•

Triad Location

Laundry Services Transportation

•

Priority

admission

nursing

and recuperation care are

Don't Delay Enter

Here's

Own Home.

Get Acquainted!

(919) 454-5211

1315 Greensboro

Road

High

27260

Point, N.C.

Entries Must Be]

Bishop McGuinness Memorial High School

Postmarked by

$10,000 Grand Prize

May 14

Today!

my order for Spring Raffle

tickets at a cost

of $100 each.

I realize that

only 300 tickets

Midnight,

will

be sold and il

my order is received after all the tickets have been sold, my money will be refunded in full.

Two ways to get your tickets now!

tickets. I would like to order of amount in the School" $ High McGuinness Here's iny check made out to "Bishop

QJ£ Charge

my Credit Card as indicated (circle one):

Visa

MasterCard Signature

Cardholder name Acct.

3 Floor Plans Available or Build

Let's

Ticket Reservation

Ticket Sales

Limited to 300:.

guaranteed.

Your

Delicious Dining

Maid, Maintenance

facility

•

upgn Bishop McGuinness H.S., the only Catholic high school in the Triad, announces its $10,000 raffle. Proceeds go to To purchase a ticket, return the computer program and improve the library's resources. Only 300 chances will be sold! NC 27103. form below with payment to: Bishop McGuinness H.S., School Raffle, 1730 Link Rd., Winston-Salem, education. Catholic of Thank you from the students at Bishop McGuinness for your support

—

Expires

Name

Home Phone

Address _

Qry/State/Zip

—YOUR PAYMENT MUST ACCOMPANY THIS ORDER FORM— Drawing

will

be held Wednesday,

May

18.

•

The Catholic News

dl_29, 1994

)ril

Herald 3

rom Circus To Church, seminarian Mixes Magic CAROL HAZARD

Associate Editor

Arturo DeAguilar had a magical

childhood. circus child in his

home

country of Mexico, he

combined magic with comedy and took the spotlight at

age

He brought his

magic

\RTURO DEAGUILAR seminary, and spent his

humor with more

years mixing

[;en

age |2, the magician turned seminarian [/as ready to experience more of life. The plan was to leave seminary for ne year. However, DeAguilar didn't srious aspirations.

Years

later, at

uturn for another three or four. |iore,

lanned.

enrolled instead in

St.

Boynton

seminarian for the

leach, Fla., as a

|)iocese

of Charlotte.

His change of heart grew from on lis

association with Father Joe Waters

f Holy

Trinity Mission, Taylorsville.

fishing the Diocese of Charlotte to see

DeAguilar worked Waters with the jiigrant and Hispanic community. His mentor, Father Waters gave '

he liked

here,

llongside Father

)eAguilar the inspiration to continue [is

journey. "This

a real holy man,"

)eAguilar, 27, recalls thinking at the line. "I

like to be like him. I am of good, but I am trying to

would

Lot that kind

private affairs, such as

was a ventriloquist whose character was an ugly old man. Again, wanting to assure that her fall in with unsavory people, DeAguilar' s mother sent her son to junior seminary. Never mind that the family wasn't religious, much less children didn't

The 12-year-old boy could grow up in a healthy environment and get a good education. However, the real draw was he might get to travel. DeAguilar was in seminary for three years, when his mother told him he could leave. But he wasn't ready. He wanted to finish his course work in philosophy. Besides, he was confirmed into the Catholic Church at age 17. Catholic.

Five years life.

wanted

later,

he yearned to

test

my life... I wanted to be away." DeAguilar uprooted to Miami to train performance horses. On a trip from Miami to Mexico, he met a seminarian from Louisiana who invited him to join his diocese. DeAguilar didn' know if wanted to be a priest for Louisiana or anywhere for that matter. His friend introduced him to the head of the Southeastern Region for

take charge of far

visit

a U.S. diocese to see

liked

and picked three possibilities. No one answered the phone in Mississippi. The next call was to

here,

need a

ride.

Father always

some [eople take advantage of his good will. Jut he

would say,

'It

him

that

may look like that,

be sure.'" Happenstance or fate? DeAguilar'

\ut I can't

jrri val

in the diocese follows a circuitous

He was but a toddler when his widowed mother made puppets and jhoreographed routines for him and his rree sisters. They were good enough for the circus, and there they stayed for lath.

{everal years.

Eventually fearing the environment

kas unsafe

Synod of North Carolina and Bishop Wiliam G. Curlin of

in the

Hispanic

division and prejudice because

don't understand each other's cultures ...

The humor doesn't always

translate

either."

will

work

in Charlotte

this

summer

the

Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte,

and he will bring his magic. Maybe, just maybe, he will have an opportunity to perform, and create bridges with humor

for the girls especially, his

Have you given thought

the Catholic Diocese of

in the Diocese of Charlotte?

By BOB

GATELY

Editor

"Lutherans and Catholics shape one another,

hope, for a better Christian

and life for all," Benedictine Abbot Oscar Burnett of Belmont Abbey told participants in a Lutheran-Catholic banquet at Christ Lutheran Church in faith

Abbot Burnett was speaker

at the

the keynote

April 21 banquet, the

second held as part of the interparish dialogue between Christ Lutheran and St.

dialogue

many differences, he distinction should be made

There are said, but a

said. "It is

causing unnecessary divisions

and confusion. There are many things worth fighting for, but we must weigh them seriously and not expend our energies in debating the secrets of Fatima and the like."

Abbot Burnett

Charlotte.

still

between those which are or are not essential in any

movement toward unity.

"Not making such distinctions is a problem in our day," the abbot

told the group,

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

teaching.

Once we are

disciples,

"Truth and unity are not opposites, Lord who prayed for our unity also prayed for our being consecrated in for our

the truth,

which

God's word, "Abbot

Burnett said.

Bishop Curlin, in his first ecumenical appearance since his installation April 13 as the third bishop of Charlotte, told the assembly, "As we pray together, we will see Jesus always.

among

us.

That's what

ment to the Church and community in which we

the live."

Bishop William G. Curlin

(or

Roman

Catholic Diocese of

parish, city) the

sum of$

percent of the residue of my estate) for

religious, educational

and

its

charitable works."

For more information on how to make a Will that works, contact Jim Kelley, Diocese of Charlotte, Office of Development, 1524 East Morehead

St.,

Charlotte,

about."

that

"our

cooperation and dialogue between the two denominations.

ou can express your commitment to your Church by making a bequest to the Diocese of Charlotte or to your parish. Simply have the following statement included in your Will:

Charlotte (or

see Christ

search for truth doesn't exist in a vacuum," pledged to continue the

well as an ongoing commit-

"/ leave to the

it's all

Bishop Menes, noting

HisWll

we will

possess the truth."

"A valid Will stands as a continuing expression of our concern for loved ones, as

In Yours.

"We

need to pray together, to pray side by side in order to bring about healing to no longer be alienated. How good it is for me to be here at Christ Lutheran Church this evening, where sisters and brothers dwell together in unity." He said, "As people who want to grow in faith, we can learn much from what Jesus said. He taught that to become His disciples, we must hold to his

Remember

Contact Father Frank O'Rourke, Vocation Director

(704) 334-2283

BOB GATELY

Lutherans To Pray Together

to being a priest

Charlotte, N.C. 28203

(1-

Abbot, Bishops Urge Catholics,

serious

1621 Dilworth Rd. East

were

Mark Menes of the Lutheran Photo by

Burnett said.

Church

Charlotte.

a better feel for the Diocese of Charlotte

Sister Pilar

him here," she told the director. "I came here I think because of God's will," DeAguilar says. "I would like to be a bridge between the American and Hispanic cultures. Sometimes there

kelps. I tried to tell

a Lutheran-Catholic banquet at Christ Lutheran

After two years in a bilingual Florida seminary, DeAguilar will attend Belmont Abbey College next fall to get

Handmaids

[He helps without expecting anything ti return," DeAguilar says. "People

Ind they

Benedictine Abbot Oscar Burnett of Belmont Abbey, Bishop

Gabriel Catholic Church. The is one of many resulting from the covenant signed in 1991 by the Catholic Dioceses of Charlotte and Raleigh and the North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Bishops William G. Curlin of the Diocese of Charlotte and Mark Menes of the Lutheran Synod both spoke briefly. The Catholic-Lutheran ecumenical dialogue in the United States, which began in 1965, "has found a large measure of agreement" between views on Scripture and tradition and "discovered significant points of consensus on issues," Abbot

Charlotte.

Center, Charlotte. "Sure, you can send

him in the middle of night. They're h jail or they got in a fight with someone

Hispanic Affairs. The director suggested

Father Waters never says "no."

[all

Speakers

work by myself and

Dalmau picked up

pe."

for

weddings and

baptisms. DeAguilar' s favorite sketch

What'

he didn't go back to Mexico as

Kincent de Paul Seminary,

mother decided the family should leave.

They performed one-hour shows

28207, (704) 331-1709 or 377-6871.

& Herald

4 The Catholic News

April 29, 199<

Pro-Life Corner Minority pre-born children are being aborted at more than twice th rate of white pre-borns (in 1988, 57.3 per 1,000 women for non-whitf compared to 21.2 per 1,000 women for whites). Source: Abortion Factbook, 1992 edition, The Ala

Guttmacher Institute

Editorial It's

Some of the people pushing for adoption of the United Nations document prepared for this year's population conference in Cairo claim that it does not who oppose

the draft

who

document

merely deals with what she calls "the health consequences

document

will be

And

she predicts that the draft in

Cairo "more or less" as

it's

something more than

approved

written.

From where we

sit,

The document apparently would deal with "unsafe" abortions by making "safe" abortions available on demand. Sadik concedes that some of the terminology used might be understood to imply abortion on demand. But misinterpreting language.

she claims that terminology corresponds to definitions

of the World Health Organization and these definitions

"make

mean

clear" they don't

Bishop James

member

McHugh

abortion on demand.

of Camden, N.J., was a

of the Vatican delegation to the preparatory

committee which drew up the draft. He says that, while the Cairo conference is supposed to be about population and development, the preparatory committee "degenerated into producing a document about life styles and permissive sexual behavior." He says Sadik is being "disingenuous" in claiming there' s nothing objectionable about "safe motherhood." Bishop McHugh notes that some of the literature circulating at the committee meeting listed abortion among the services needed to assure "safe motherhood." In a telephone conversation last weekend, Pope John Paul II asked President Clinton for help in getting changes in the draft document. It would appear from the results of the committee meeting, the president listened politely and did nothing. Bishop McHugh will bring the whole issue before the U.S. bishops at their June meeting. We hope they can exert some influence on the administration to seek changes in the document. But we aren't going to hold our breaths. When it comes to moral issues, neither the administration nor the U.N. appears to be willing to listen to the Church.

ews& Herald

St.,

Lifi

Suite 210, Miami, FL 33144

itf

Diocese of Charlotte

(704) 331-1720

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II said

POPE JOHN PAUL II

Church urgently needs to clarify the ministries performed by lay people in support of priests. While the increasing lay role has helped make up for the lack of priests in many areas, this must not be seen as a permanent solution to the clergy shortage, the pope said April 22. Lay people are not pastors, and the tasks they carry out in local churches must never erode the the

The Pope Speaks

specific nature of the ordained priesthood, he said.

The pope made his remarks to Vatican officials and experts from around the world

symposium sponsored by

who

participated in a

the Vatican's Congregation

for Clergy.

While the pontiff noted the Church' s "joyful recognition" of the development of the lay apostolate, his talk

Lay People's Work Shares God's Creation, Pope Says

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The daily work carrk

focused on the dangers of what he called "clericalizing the laity" and "laicizing the clergy."

out by lay people, especially

Where priests are in short supply, the assignment of is a temporary solution and should never be considered a normal situation, he said. That would be to view the priesthood in a merely "functional" role, provoking grave damage to the Church, he said.

certain tasks to lay people

Therefore, he said, lay people cannot be offered

way

when they are supportir

and children, is a way of sharing in God work of creation, Pope John Paul II said. At his April 20 general audience, the pope sa working is one way lay men and women move towa: holiness because it helps them perfect themselves, co: tributes to the good of their communities and of i creation and is an imitation of Christ. their spouses

or measure" lead to

The audience was the first of the year to be held

confusion about the differences between priests and laity in their distinct vocations, state of life, charisms

Square where, for the first time in weel sunny skies prevailed. Work, the pope said, helps an individual to devj his or her personality, ability and talents. That is 6i reason why governments and business leaders must he every unemployed person find a useful and fitting jo When one works, the entire community benefits, t pope said. By contributing to the improvement of t material conditions in which people live, work can he them reach "the superior goals to which God is callii

tasks that could "in any

—

and responsibilities The pope said one problem is that as lay ministries have burgeoned, the language used to describe their roles has at times been uncertain and confused. The terms used should never cloud over the distinction between the "baptismal priesthood" shared by all the faithful and the ordained priesthood of the clergy, he said. It is

the priest

who is pastor of the local church, and

never exactly pastoral, not even certain actions

when

they replace

and concerns of the pastor," he

said.

"To clarify and purify the language is becoming an

tin

St. Peter's

them."

the services and ministries performed by lay people "are

urgent pastoral task, because behind the language there can be traps that are much more dangerous than is generally believed," he said. In places suffering from a shortage of priests, the answer is not to seek "alternative solutions" but to mobilize the Church community to promote vocations, he said. The pope said the Vatican meeting would eventually lead to further instructions on the topic.

The Catholic

Internacional Sucursal en

— Miami),7105 SW 8th

Lay Ministers Don't Replace Priests

document

serves as general

secretary of the conference, claims that the

of unsafe abortion."

Miami (Human

The Respect Life Office

are misinterpreting the language.

Nafis Sadik, a Pakistani

VIDA Humana

jti (

(310) 549-4182, (305) 262-6464.

support abortion on demand. They say those, including the Catholic Church,

1011 First Ave., Ne\

International

A Matter Of Semantics

Not

Contact: Assn. of Black Catholics Against Abortion, York, NY 10022 (212) 371-1000.

"Love for one' s spouse and children, which inspir the majority of human beings to work, confers on

iti

work a greater dignity and makes its execution easi and more pleasurable, even when it is very difficult," t pope said. In a world where more and more people are reco nizing the obligation of paying a living wage for wo performed, he said, "there must always be a recognitii and appreciation of the value of work which is n directly lucrative," especially the

work performed

"the many women who dedicate themselves to the nee

of their homes and families."

April 29, 1994

Volume Publisher:

Number 33

So Much For

Most Reverend William G. Curlin

Hispanic Editor:

Sister Pilar

Advertising Manager:

Gene

Editorial Clerk: Sheree

Office:

PO Box

Dalmau

A year or so ago,

Sullivan

McDermott

1524 East Morehead

Mail Address:

St.,

NC 28207 NC 28237

Charlotte,

37267, Charlotte,

Phone: (704) 331-1713 Printing:

Mullen Publications,

The Catholic News

Inc.

Herald,

USPC

007-393,

pub-

by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte, 1524 East

Morehead

Charlotte,

St.,

28207, 44 times a year, weekly

except for Christmas week and Easter week and every two

weeks during June, July and August enrollees in parishes of the lotte

5t0

BOB GATELY

Associate Editors: Joann Keane, Carol Hazard

lished

Principles

Robert E. Gately

Editor:

and $18 per year for

Roman

all

for

$15 per year for

Catholic Diocese of Char-

other subscribers.

Second-class

corrections to

Charlotte NC. POSTMASTER: Send address The Catholic News & Herald, PO Box 37267,

C harlotte, NC

28237.

postage paid

some

anti-Catholic advertising

began appearing in newspapers in Gaston County. Among the newspapers which carried the ad was a regional publication of The Charlotte Observer. One of our associate editors complained to the parent newspaper. An Observer advertising executive agreed that it had been a mistake to run the advertising and indicated it never would happen again. It begins to appear that what he really meant was that it wouldn' t happen again unless the price was right. We come now to Saturday, April 23. On Page 1 1 of The Charlotte Observer was a full-page ad for a revival being held this week at a fundamentalist Hickory ad,

Many

Scripture

of them discussed "the beast" and

See Notebook, Pag«

which apparently was purchased by a

Hickory car dealer, consisted largely of readings.

Notebook

which would be "cast alive into a of burning fire and brimstone." All well and good. I grant anyone the right to qu Scripture. However, their explanation of that Script

church.

The

Editor's

"false prophets"

The Catholic News

1994

29,

& Herald

Voting One's Conscience In politics

nothing is simply black or as

But there were too many unanswered questions.

movie "Bob Roberts," which

the Iran-Contra scandals suggest that

Elections can not be reduced to

even when the issue

issue, i

pro-life.

The

>us as pro-life. In the

w in home video release, a malevolent candidate masquerading as a

:torial

reformer manipulates the media skill and defeats an arable opponent by means of smear tly

e American flag

the angelic looking candidate

lins,

Bob wins

Wrapping himself

and mouthing pious

torate.

—

the hearts of the

the surface he

all

—

be sure but he hatches a murder to achieve his ambition. This movie ood reminder that even the devil can

dness

pro-life to

;ath the surface,

Scripture.

because in 1992,65 ent of the Catholic electorate voted nst the only pro-life candidate,

Bush was certainly a good they voted against him for a

rge Bush.

but

which had nothing

ety of reasons

the pro-life issue.

yith

we do

not always

all

*>e

In the recent report of the seven year legal investigation surrounding the Iran-

Contra scandal, we learned that President

Reagan had "knowingly

participated or

acquiesced" in covering up the scandal. Prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh at least

conspiracy "of subordinate officers."

affair raises the specter of a secret

not.

government

George Bush

The sale of arms to Iran contravened

withheld evidence, and that contrary to

United States government policy and probably violated the Arms Export Control Act. These actions were fully known and even planned at the highest levels of the Reagan administration. Congress was illegally bypassed in order

Council) within our government, usurping constitutional powers by fighting a war without the approval of

complained

also

his claims

arms

Iran

that

Bush "was and

sales,"

fully that

aware of the

Bush failed to

disclose private diary notes and refused

be interviewed as Walsh wrapped up

his inquiry.

Though no hard evidence, no "smoking gun," was uncovered involving Reagan or Bush in the actual diversion of money from the sale of arms either

to Iran to supply the Nicaraguan Contras,

Had the three

was clear form the collected body of evidence that the public was duped into believing the affair had been a runaway

been equal in every respect rge Bush would have captured the

One Candle

the

iidates

Light

is difficult

know

facts.

raise this issue

recent revelations concerning

voting for the best candidate

because

consummate

cs and dirty tricks.

FATHER JOHN C ATOIR

Catholic vote precisely because he was

was

war in Nicaragua. Even if the motives of the administration were good, the process was evil. to finance a private

Reagan's military support of the Contras, in defiance of Congress, amounted to an outright constitutional confrontation which was arguably an impeachable offense. The whole sorry

(the National

Security

Congress.

Voting your conscience when so

many

factors are involved

surely a

complex matter. (For a free copy of the Christopher

News

Note,

"Decisions, Decisions,

send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to The Christophers, 12 East 48th St. New York, N.Y. 10017) Father John Catoir is director of The Christophers.

Developing Self-Esteem Q: Several of us were talking about

women's group

-esteem in a

rch. I have a lot of problems in this I really

don't like myself and I

know how to change.

all

—

ugh listening to what others say to us Suppose iUge 4 someone at church told you, Dout us throughout our lives.

messages

science project and said

an;sages,

was

take in thousand of these

some

some shape and form how

positive and

jative, and they

W see

whether

they really give an accurate picture of

Or perhaps

go for some accurate

in the Bible.

God

says,

"You

me, and honored, and I love you," (Isaiah 43:4). "I have chosen are precious to

you, not rejected you..." (Isaiah 49:9).

tsages themselves may not really have

You are made in God' s image and likeness (Genesis 1:27). God not only accepts

Wn true.

you (Ephesians

ourselves, even though the

The most powerful messages we are the ones from our parents,

I):

those negative messages and

our own, and

bin

faurselves.

We may

llselves about piling

how

make

repeating

start

them

say things to

stupid

are,

he delights

you

"Show me how this word is my life. Help me to see myself the

asking God, true in

heart."

Those

are prayers that

better next time." Notice the negative

about yourself, maybe some of the special

said that might be

this is

you say during the day, and see if

there's something positive that could be

more accurate. Books that may help are Healingfor

Damaged Emotionsby David Seamands,

short,

and Healing the Hidden Self by Barbara Shlemon. Dr. Shuping is contract staff with Catholic Social Services and also has a private practice as a psychiatrist in Winston- Salem. Questions for this column may be sent to: Dr. Martha W.

Practice talking nicely to yourself

Shuping, 1400 Millgate Drive, Suite B,

Winston-Salem,

Altar Girls: The

greatest non-issue of our times been put to rest. The Vatican has H<rmed presidents of bishops' conferees worldwide that bishops may allow I nen and girls to serve at the altar in

some

programs that were boys missing appointments and coming late are shaping up due to the altar girls' presence. deteriorating. Altar

thfr dioceses.

girls

PU-mortem analysis of the altar girl cc troversy. In the words of Psalm 1 we nut ask, ti«is,

"Why

this

tumult

among peoples

among

this useless

na-

mur-

miring?"

One reason the

often given

altar girls are

the fear

replacing altar boys

caons.

Studies confirm that most

men who

seminary were altar servers, but erroneous to believe altar girls elimi-

erar the

ns altar boys.

some cases

altar girls

piduced brother and sister combinatios and keep boys serving who might

damage

quit otherwise.

Altar girls have also helped revive

who

FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK

think altar

priestly vocations

may be

The Human Side

overlooking how this role at the altar might encourage women to consider religious

life,

become lay volunteers in

the missions or to take steps to enhance

Do we ever ask women

their spiritual life.

lectors

ar eliminating a source of priestly vo-

Ironically, people

NC 27103.

Non-Issue

altar server

l»

This momentous occasion calls for a

this

thoroughout the day. When you make a mistake do you say, "I can't do anything

God

things

God has given you.

more.

way you do. Let your words take root in

and do

it won't be overnight, one of those times where you'll have to keep on asking daily. Try making a list of things you like

right?" or "I'll learn

and

you can't think of any or your list is keep thinking and ask God to help you. Then thank God for the gifts that you've recognized, and ask him to help you to use and develop these gifts even

"He' s got to be talking to somebody else, not me." But those words are there for every one of us. Try taking a verse and

from

will answer, but

gifts or abilities that

You may read these verses and think,

down our gifts and abilities.

1:6),

(Isaiah 42:1).

ej;ive

t when that input is negative it can Ke a very destructive effect. We often

Crosswinds

saying negative things to ourselves out of habit, without ever questioning

who we are. One place

better than theirs.

because she was tired and worried about financial problems. And we may keep on

h d grade, several children laughed at

$md.

was

science project

You mother may have said hurtful things

develop our self-image

du sing like an angel."

MARTHA W. SHUPING, MD

But the negative messages we started may not have been true the kids may have been jealous because your with

and extraordinary ministers of

the Eucharist about the spiritual benefits

derived from their ministry?

One has

wonder what the real issue here might be. Psychologist Rosabeth Moss Kanter tells us, "The downside of change are feelings of loss to

of control and helplessness in face of decline."

Thus change becomes an en-

when people are when they have nothing in reserve, ... when they cannot even envision what the new state might be." emy.

"It

implies loss

unprepared for

it,

Interestingly, the Vatican says that

sees people close their minds she sings

"Ou

in dioceses that introduce altar girls, people should be prepared properly for the change. Regardless of the preparation offered, however, it appears from

out,

some

strongly negative statements al-

genes.

ready made about the Vatican' s decision on altar girls that some will continue to

them."

fa," a brief

phrase suggesting

that "life is too short"

and

it is

time to

move on. If the people persist, she laughs and says, "Well,

guess

it's in their

Some people are just meant to be the way they are, and you won't change

fight the practice.

When a wise Italian woman I know

See

Human, Page

Catholic

News

& Herald

April 29, \9i

A Difference

Making "When the West gives the impression ofgrowing and selfish isolation, then we are up against not only a betrayal ofhumanity 's a betrayal legitimate expectations that is a harbinger of unforseeable but also a real desertion consequences Pope John of a moral obligation. " Paul II With those words, the Holy Father warns us that we cannot abandon our brothers and sisters in the Third World. That we cannot forget that as members of the Christian community and citizens of one of the wealthiest nations in the world we have an obligation to reach out to the poorest of the poor. It is easy to forget, as we struggle over our monthly bills, that every day a half million people go hungry; that half the world' s population doesn't have safe water; that almost 20 million people are refugees; that 20 percent of the world's population is unable to produce and cannot afford to buy enough food to meet ofabandoning

itself to forms

—

needs and that more than

their basic

;

The

Third World KENNETH F. HACKETT

million children are undernourished and the

number

increasing at alarming

rates in parts of Africa It's

and South Asia.

easy to forget. It's

easy to forget because

all

Guest Commentary

of us

are concerned about issues that affect us

That's understandable. after spending 20 years

directly.

However,

working in the field of international relief and development for Catholic Relief Services (CRS), I have never ceased to be amazed at the innate goodness and

this

generosity of the Catholic community in

the

the United States. It's important call

on that

spirit

now

of generosity as our

government takes action

budget by 25 percent, placing in danger hundreds of thousands of people who depend on our help. This process is moving forward with little outcry from

leaders to take immediate action to

American people, who, we are told, are becoming more and more isolationist.

people. This mobilization of support

As CRS'

world.

regional director for East

program in Somalia. At the time, all of us

aid to the world' s poorest countries; this

American people to our cry for help. When the American people saw and read what was happening in Somalia, they acted decisively; forcing government

has included maternal and child health

programs, food-for-work and emergency relief.

Now Congress is preparing to cut

CRS

witnessed the reaction of the

My daughter is a widow with a

It's it's

help. This time for the hundreds

millions of people around the world w

depend on the generosity of the Amerii people through their government. O by calling and writing members Congress and the president will we ens that our voices will be heard. If we not heard, Congress will cut foi

Question Box

assistance.

As the U.S.

have.

gift,

a card or

firmation anniversaries, and so on, and

being present for the sacraments themselves or home celebrations of these special events through the years are just a few of the ways the uncle can exert a lot of healthy influence on his nephew. Third,

many Catholics are surprised

to learn that

no confirmation sponsor

absolutely required by general Church

law

ritual also says that "parents

may present their children for confirmation."

At the same time, canon law states

that parents

may

not be confirmation

sponsors (874 and 893). This has been interpreted to

accompany

mean

that parents

may

their children to the sacra-

mental anointing in the manner of sponsors but would not be on record, for example, as sponsors. Perhaps something like this is possible in your grandson's situation. His uncle would "present" him for confirmation but not be an official sponsor. Ask your daughter to talk with their pastor. He will tell her if this arrangement is

workable

in her parish

Q. I've just read in our diocesan paper your column on "Why change to 'The Word of the Lord'" after Scripture readings at Mass. I have a similar question. Instead of saying "The Lord

be with you," our priest says "The Lord is with you," with strong emphasis on the is. It's no big problem, but can priests make these changes? (Wisconsin)

in the first place.

The confirmation ritual (n. 5) and canon law (892) specify that "ordinarily" and "insofar as it can be done" a sponsor should be chosen for the candidate. So there may be no sponsor at all.

A. Without getting too involved grammar, the explanation lies partly

the fact that the Latin missal says simply

"Dominus vobiscum," literally "The Lord with you," with no verb. This is common

every day from hunger and consequences; where ethnic cleans and systematic rape are used as weapi of war; and where people are still den life, dignity and fundamental rights,

in Latin speech.

The approved English

translation,

to be

followed in English-speaking litur-

gies,

assumes the subjunctive or condi"(may) the Lord be with you,"

tional

cannot remain silent or indifferent." behalf of the people we serve, please and write your representatives todaj Kenneth F. Hackett is the execui

Service.

director of Catholic Relief Services.

*hc gL

and diocese.

maybe lunch

together on birthdays, baptism and con-

bishops recently

"In a world where 40,000 children

The

Second, apart from being an actual sponsor, numerous ways suggest themselves by which the boy's uncle could recognize the special relationship they

United States to answer our call

in the

His wife (my daughter's sisteris a practicing Catholic. Their children are being raised Catholic, with all the sacraments. Why can 't this man be my grandson's sponsor? What do you suggest? (New Jersey)

mod-

a difference in the life

again calling on the Catholic commur

in-law)

life.

not just saving lives, howe\

making

answering the call of Jesus Christ Today, Catholic Relief Service:

faith.

since they, at least ideally, involve

Son

La Paz, Bolivia; Battamba Cambodia; Harare, Zimbabwe; Calcutta, India. It's knowing that we

FATHER JOHN DIETZEN

sor must be Catholic, but the boy is very close to his uncle, a compassionate, loving and caring man. The problem is that this man is of the Jewish

eling a full sacramental

— donatec

child in

12-year-old boy who will be confirmed this year. I understand that the spon-

A. I can offer three thoughts which might help you understand the situation. A confirmation sponsor accepts the same responsibilities as a baptism godparent to help the one receiving the sacrament, by word and example, to live up to his or her baptismal commitments, under the influence of the Holy Spirit. Obviously, only another practicing Catholic can fulfill those responsibilities

unsolicited

—

eyes.

The Sponsor At Confirmation Q.

of dollars

have the desired effect. Today, farm, in Somalia are growing their own ft and cattle are grazing the countryside contrast to 1993 when there were 2,( men, women and children were dy every day from starvation. We did mi a difference and I saw it with my o

Africa in 1992, my office was directly involved in the agency s emergency relief

For 40 years, the United States has played a leading role in providing food

At CRS we saw thousai

alleviate the suffering of the

My experience tells a different story.

our

to cut

assistance to countries in the developing

the suffering.

saints

LUUioaeiYiuniruni

^Mumrm France, louismary SRIGNI0N

WAS EPUCATEP

AT THE JESUIT

RENNES ANP WAS ORPAINEP THERE IN 1700. HE BECAME A CHAPLAIN IN A HOSPITAL AT POITIERS, HE 0RGRHIZEVA GROUP OF WOMEN INTO WHAT BECAME THE DAUGHTERS OF OMHE WISP0M. HIS MISSIONARY PREACHING OF THE 6RERT INTERCESSORY POWER OF MRRY CAU5EP HIS CRITICS TO COMPLAIN TO THE BISHOP OF POWERS, WHO F0RBAPE HIM TO PREACH IN HIS PI0CESE. HE WENT TO ROME, WAS NAMEP MISSIONARY APOSTOLIC BY POPE

C0UE6E

CLEMENT XI, ANP BEGAN PREACHING MISSIONS IN BRITTANY, WHICH HE P/P UNTIL HIS PEATH. THOUGH HIS SERMOHS AR0USEP MUCH OPPOSITION FOR THEIR EMOTIONAL FERVOR, HE WAS TREMEHMUSL SUCCESSFUL, PRRTICULRRY IN FOSTERING

Human (From We will

Page 5)

Studies notwithstanding,

probably never see the

re-

cent decree on altar girls fully accepted.

Perhaps there is good in this. Diversity in our community prods us to keep refining the

meaning of our actions. Who knows,

we might even

see a call for studies to

spell out the spiritual blessings

many

women in ministry experience that as yet are not

known.

believe

the general consensus on the altar girl

decree

that

signals a

change the

Church had to make. It gives long overdue respect to women by allowing them to serve in a special

way

the

God who women

died out of love and respect for

PEV0TI0N TO MRRYRHD THE ROSARY. 10UIS WROTE, -TRUE PEVOTtON TO THE BLE55EP WR6/N/ "THE SECRET OF MRRY,'

ANP "THE SECfsET OF THE R0SRRY"

NAME JUST A

FEW,

est' HE ORGANIZE? SEVERRL PRIEST. THE INTO A GROUP THRT GREW INTO MISSIONARIES OF THE C0MPRHY OF MR rv: LOUIS PIEP AT $RINT'LRURENT~SURS£VR FRANCE, IN 1716, ANP WAS CANONIZEP IN 1947 HE WAS LATER PECLAREP A POCTOfl OF THE CHURCH. HIS FERST IS APRIL 28

IN 1716

1994

CNS Graphics

The Catholic News

129, 1994

>l|th(From page

ere

jerformed by Chris Lynch, a liturmusician at St. Patrick Cathedral,

and

lotte,

Comes The 5orT

weekend opened with rock

rhe

& Heraid

his

band Pipedream.

ying to an upbeat tempo, they per-

Hendersonville; Jessica Jankowski, St. John Neumann, Charlotte; David Sledge, Our Lady of Assumption, Charlotte; Philip Kuhl, Holy Family, Clemmons; Diane Kirwan, Our Lady of Grace,

the

led

ningkey-

Their g e

s a

;

rist

Father

mion :h,

Chris'

ler,

plays

guitar for

Fa-

>and.

Lynch

inistrator

Eliza-

Church, ne,

and

jus

min-

Appa-

an State ersity.

Above: Teens

Jcott

G. Curlin

Youth Conference receive

the

body of Christ from Bishop William

Jus-

ak,

nd Peace stry

Left: Stephanie Morgan (center), winner of the Bishop Begley Award, clutches the plaque

co-

she

inator, ;sed

ing

won for outstanding Christian leadership and service. With her are Emily Swonger of St.

Pius Tenth Church, Greensboro, Meredith Drosback of St. Paul the Apostle, Greensboro, and

Ryan Dunn of

St.

Ann Church,

Charlotte.

re-

Sun24 need to

Below: Bishop Curlin celebrates Mass for the youth with Father Frank O'Rourke

Ics

April

at the

at the closing liturgy.

master of ceremonies. Susan Spencer of

St.

serving as

Pius Tenth, Greensboro, interprets the

Mass

sign language.

faith

action,

are d to be light for other people," he

Begin to shine. You can make a rence. No one can do everything, veryone is called to do something." Overcome with emotion, Stephanie I,- gan of St. Aloysius Church, :ory, won the prized Bishop Begley rd. The award is a plaque 2 to a person who demonstrates the ;rship and compassion of retired op Michael J. Begley, the first )p of the Diocese of Charlotte. Eagle and Cross recognition pins

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

utstanding service to church, school

:ommunity were presented to Ryan n, St. Ann Church, Charlotte; lies Miller, St. Therese, Morganton; vn Farrell, Immaculate Conception,

Greensboro; and Hope Dow,

St.

Michael, Gastonia.

Saturday workshops were "Self-esteem" presented by Tom Calabro, Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools director of religious education; "What Scares Me About Confession" by Father Lynch; "AIDS" by Jerry Gardner,

former assistant resident director at the House of Mercy home for people with AIDS, Belmont; "Leadership Skills" by Paul Peterson, Boy Scout leader and former Diocesan Pastoral Council member, and "Sex, The Catholic Church & the '90s" by Mercy Sister Carolyn Mary Coll, former

Youth Ministry coordinaat St. Michael

and pastoral associate Church, Gastonia.

tor

Below: Ryan Dunn, Diocesan Youth Council chairman, hams it up during introductions Friday evening as his fellow council

members

share the humor.

Photos by

CAROL HAZARD

The Catholic News

& Herald

April 29, 19<

Where

to find

support for families Encounter weekends,

H. Richard Catholic

McCord

News

Jr.

Service

Last year she and her husband reached their 20th wedding anniversary and the end of their marriage. In a letter she told me she sought help through her parish for their collapsing marriage, but found nothing.

—

She concluded: "Trying to resolve the difficulties in a marriage alone does not work. We need people and

counseling sessions, the use of self-scoring instruments and interviews with a priest, are putting forth a lot of effort at this stage of family formation. However, there are other stages of married life that require just as much atten-

encouragement and support. We need someone does care about

tion.

not just the ones saving the family that look nice, but the ones who hurt." Her story is typical, not necessarily because she found no help, but because she sought it primarily in her church. Families want help from their par-

parish could

to feel like

—

ishes.

The Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life found in 1988 that nearly 50 percent of church-going parishioners wanted family programs to help them deal with concerns such as alcohol dependency, economic pressures and marital problems. Most said those services weren't available in their parnot for lack of good intentions in parishes, however. Perhaps what is needed is a strategic vision and is

plan.

But where to begin? Let me mention only two

possibili-

They're closely related, and they stem from what readers told me in letters on family support. The primary approach: Offer continuing support to married couples, helping them sustain their commitment and avoid marital and family

ties.

—

breakdown. The second approach: Reduce the painful effects of divorce on children

—

and

adults, and help these families rebuild their lives. In this article I'll offer thoughts on

strengthening marriages. In a subsequent article I'll discuss ministering to families after divorce. Society's prevailing assumption is that marriages cannot last a lifetime. The church may be the one institution left which can show, in teaching and pastoral activity, that marriage matters to couples, children, society and the church. How do we show that? Helping couples to prepare for marriage is a key place to start. Dioceses and parishes, through Pre-Cana classes, Engaged All

CNS

For example, a

nize social events, support groups or programs that address issues important to them. Typically, newly married couples run into difficulty because they lack skills in

lution

communication,

and

financial

conflict reso-

management.

contents copyright

parishes

make

professional

counselor's services available to offer therapy from a Christian perspective? There is also a program called The

Third Option, which has spread from the Diocese of Syracuse, N.Y. This program's philosophy is simple: Divorce is not inevitable; reconciliation is

possible.

The Third Option operates through

might be linked in parishes with newlyweds, serving them as mentors. Such

support groups led by trained couples who overcame serious marital prob-

relationships hold great potential for

sharing wisdom, encouragement, so-

and practical advice. That's an effective way for the church to keep marriages and families healthy in their formative years. Divorce occurs for many reasons

such as infidelity, abuse or abandonment. All too often, however, a marriage just seems to run out of energy. Neither spouse wants to expend the energy to keep the relationship alive. And nobody else offers encouragement or positive help. This situation is especially prevalent during a marriage's middle years. It cries out for the church's ministry. Marriage Encounter is a ready response. Couples describe the Marriage Encounter weekend as an experience of falling in love again. During the intensive weekend and in support groups, which are a suggested follow-up, husbands and wives learn how to put Christ at the center of their marriage

and how to open up new channels of communication between themselves. Marriage Encounter operates in most dioceses, but people often don't know about it. One person who wrote to me said: "We, as a church community, need to advertise our support of ongoing marriages as well as our support for failed ones. I believe there should be ... resources available for married couples to help them before their marriages get to the point of breaking down." But when a marriage gets into serious difficulty and even when a couple may have separated, there is still hope

and an opportunity

for

ministry. For instance, could your parish or group of

lems. It is not counseling. Rather, teaches ways to handle problems a rebuild relationships. It welcorr spouses alone or couples. Retrouvaille (Rediscovery) is sii lar. This outgrowth of Marriage I counter invites couples into an int« sive weekend and 12 follow-up s< sions.

more experienced couples

Older,

photo by Roger

make

an effort to identify newlyweds, welcome them to the community and orga-

lace

ishes.

This

^^^^^^^H ^^^^^^^B

Retrouvaille is led by teams couples and a priest. It emphasi; forgiveness, rebuilding trust, releai ing communication and improvi conflict-resolution skills.

"Families want help from

Could

married couples.... Reduce

and

help these families rebuild

(McCord is associate director of U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Famih Laity, Women and Youth.)

their lives."

FAITH IN THE

prom<

(

the painful effects of divorce adults,

parish

saving marriages? Now is the time to contact yo'Durp; ish or diocesan Family Ministry >try fice. If we want stable, healthy fai lies we must support the marriages which they're founded.

continuing support to

on children and

your

Retrovaille or a similar ministry

their parishes.... Offer

MARKETPLACE

Please share an insight about making family

life

work

in th

1990s. "Setting your priorities and making family time a priority.... People complain that they don't have enough time, but the problem lies with their priorities and choices." Lori Negro, New Berlin, III.

—

"It takes open communication so you can talk about problems without them becoming arguments. It's important not to be afraid to seek outside help ... to clear Denise up miscommunicating that seems too big for the couple to handle."

—

Lightfoot, Peoria, Ariz.

"It takes the husband and wife agreeing on the direction of the family.... When you don't have agreement on the goals and boundaries, then you send conflicting signals to the other members of the family." Jordan Colletta, Alpharetta, Ga.

—

takes team work.... Things work well around here when everyone gives of and does what needs doing. It is also important to have patience when things aren't running smoothly." Toni Cecchetti, Stockton, Calif. "It

their time

—

public high school. Sixty percent of our kids do not live with their working now with a child that said she wants to die because no one cares for her.... Families need to pray and worship and do things together if they are to survive in the 1990s." Kay Abeyounis, Wilmington, N.C. "I

teach

parents....

—

An upcoming attracted

edition asks:

a youth minister,

by the church's message on justice?

why do you you would

for possible publication, please write: Faith Alivel 321

Washington,

DC,

20017-1100.

think youth are like to

Fourth

respond

St. N.E.,

The Catholic News

29, 1994

pril

Ordinary people By Brother Cyprian L. Rowe, Catholic News Service

we? We thought we would have enough to make family things possible. We have a houseful of beautiful, good children who love us and one another, and are always away." They sat together, holding one an-

A reason

other, thinking the same thoughts about how things own those who think they own them. Everybody's got to own a personal telephone and a personal

By Father John

didn't

FMS

A woman I'll call Hortense was sick with many things. Her major problems were loneliness and depression.

television.

These brought her into my office. The story I'm about to tell began one evening at her home. "What?!" Hortense's shock was ap-

that

parent. "You're home tonight?" "No, not really, Ma," Zaria rushed. "I've just come to change." With a smile of guilt and reparation, she rushed to her room, brushing her lips ist

all of

them make

their babies grown,

how to hang out in the sanctuary of their individuality,

"Their society had

between college, marriage and family. had A student handed in a paper with a line she never forgot. It read: "Home is the place where family members come to change.

best to

free of

more impor-

dent.

looked surprised. "Oh, you reaUy read it?" He quickly added, "That's the way it works in my house." Hortense swore things would never

way

for

that

lost the notion

humans

absolutely need family.

This

made

its

family way back

to unity because

was blessed by

a negative event: the

them to find faith in one another. They

tant things." "You really don't believe this, do you?" Hortense had asked the stu-

be that

had

mother's depression. This forced

family."

They meet one another briefly as they exciting,

done

make everybody everybody else. Except that everyone ... had lost the notion that humans absolutely need

its

lude

and the notion that

everyone belongs to everybody else seems far away. Their society had done its best to make everybody free of everybody else. Except that everyone, knowing only

Hortense thought

rush off to

just de-

Then one day parents look up to find

her mother's

—

own

mands.

cheek.

back to teaching high school composition 25 years ago an inter-

their

her family. There

would be dinners and Sunday breakfasts with everyone, and a worship bench that everyone at the 1 1 o'clock Mass would think of as their family's bench. Now, on Friday night, she was alone in the entrance of her large bouse her husband away on business, her three sons at their friend Marvin's place watching

They prayed for strength for and from one another. Before they were able to achieve this, the mother and the father talked to each other and shared their needs. They then took the children singly and shared their need for each. The next step was to share family dinners at least three times a week, Sundays betalked.

ing fixed. The children first responded because of concern over their mother's depression. Eventually, however, they realized they really

cared to be together.

—

:elevision

peatedly. After all, the two people who made that original commitment don't remain the same forever. Sometimes they change so much that they become virtual strangers to each other! Married life begins in a community ritual. Two people proclaim their love and commitment publicly. Later on, recalling that "big day" is just one of many ways couples have for keeping their commitment alive. Wedding photos play a role here, helping to keep that day alive. But this also is where the Scripture readings chosen for the wedding can come into

love,

How?

In ways like these: "Love is patient, love is kind. Love is not jealous, it does not put on airs, it is not snobbish. Love is never rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not prone to anger; neither does it brood over injuries" (1 Corinthians 13:1-8). That's a helpful checklist on love! Recalling it years after a wedding serves as a supportive reminder to couples of what their life together is all about!

(Father Castelot

a Scripture

scholar, author and lecturer.)

FAITH IN ACTION On

Life

and Love: A Guide

Catholic Teaching on Marriage and Family Life (Twenty-Third

play.

The readings set the tone for everything that happened. The readings chosen were the ones that meant the most to the couple. These were "their" readings. So it proves supportive to recall the readings later when adjusting to yet another reality of life together. Many couples chose the Scriptural account of their creation in God's image. This reading helps a couple to view their love in a fuller context: Their ongoing love is creative; it is meant to mirror God's constant love for people and especially for them. The story of creation reminds the couple of their need for each other that it is not good for them "to be alone" (Genesis 2:18). Clinging close to each other, "the two become one body," secure in their mutual love and sup-

Publications,

185 Willow

St.,

Box

180, Mystic, Conn. 06355) is a useful compilation of church

documents in outline form. One theme which three papal documents underscore is this: "From conception

to the

time of

human beings are communal or social beings. The

death,

primary and formative community is the family. Human dignity is

uncovered and promoted

first in

the family." Reflection:

—

The

fact

"go

Sometimes we cannot " Instead, we need

alone.

support at times from others who share insights, experiences and problem-solving approaches. This week I will meditate on the kind of support that might benefit my family. (Here are three telephone numbers for couples seeking support in their marriages: Marriage Encounter, 1-800-795Love; Retrouvaille, Roger and Pat Blake, 713-455-1656; and The Third Option, Patricia Ennis, 315472-6728.)

feel very alone with their loss, or

that people are usually

—

much

less

alone that they think. Others they know surely others in their parish community have had experiences similar to theirs in the past. believe it can be a great Christian service to be sensitive to difficulties others around you may be experiencing, to be willing to listen to them if they want to talk about this and to share one's own similar experiences from the pas;. Then these others don't feei so alone. And that, in itself, is a beginning step toward their

—

recovery.

When

CNS photo by John

Duerr

(Marist Brother Rowe is a research associate in the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a dean of students at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.)

—

people feel alone feel that they are the only people they know who this problem with a child, or with a job, or with an aged parent they are at risk of losing hope. They wonder how they ever will survive this

have ever had

—

experience. Often we have a small opportunity to help restore hope in others by sharing with them, when this seems appropriate, how we survived some difficulty or how we coped with some confusing challenge in the past. One of the great riches of every parish community is the potential its members have to support each other in this way. '7

"am" nothing: Without a willingness to love people have no meaning. But love is not some ethereal abstraction. It occurs and gets expressed in the give-and-take of everyday life.

People need support from others when they

"We

thought it would Je different,

am nothing."

Couples planning their wedding can want from a wide variety of Scripture passages. Years later they may have good reason to recall those readings and return to them. Why? Because the original commitment of marriage must be renewed re-

their crisis, or their uncertainty.

and knew

reason.

move mountains, but have not

Castelot

Service

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

folding one another. He felt her ts

opened. It was her iiusband Rayford looming home early to surprise her. They sat down,

^adness

News

blazing fire. Deep waters cannot quench love, nor floods sweep it away." A favorite with many couples is St. Paul's hymn to love which boldly asserts: "If I have faith great enough to

stood alone. Sadness and disappointment were customary companions. She went into the den, turned on the

and fell awakening when the door

Catholic

If a couple reflects back on the reading from the Song of Songs, they draw strength from these strong words: "For stern as death is love, relentless as the nether world is devotion; its flames a

cheek again, flew out the door, slamming it. Hortense

asleep,

what your wedding readings were

port.

basketball teams fall one by one. Zaria sailed out of her room. She pecked her mother on the

Herak' 9

to recall

select the readings they

Not that these things are bad,

David Gibson, Editor, Faith Alive!

The Catholic News

& Herald

April 29, 1994

People Biography Published Of WindowCleaning Czech Archbishop PRAGUE, Czech Republic (CNS) The first full-length biography of the Czech Republic's Catholic primate has

—

been published

aid to people excluded from mainstream

being forced to earn his living as a Prague window cleaner under communist rule. The biography of Archbishop Miloslav Vlk, Window Cleaner and Archbishop, was published by Nouvelle Cite, in cooperation with the French after

New Program

For Teachers.

Say Receiving Ex-Anglicans Should Be Fast British Bishops

LONDON

(CNS)

— The English

and Welsh bishops' conference said the process for receiving Anglicans into the Catholic Church should be brisk. The conference said in a mid- April statement that reception of dissident Anglicans into

the

Church would involve a stage of

exploring contemporary Catholicism, but

Catholic Journalists Association. Czech

"the period between their decision to

President Vaclav Havel wrote the introduction. Author Alain Boudre said

leave the Church of England and their

he hoped the book would be read by people unaware of communist persecution. He said he tried to recount the "human and religious experiences" of Archbishop Vlk and the general plight of Christians, especially Catholics, under

be lengthy."

communist rule.

The News

society.

Paris, four years

following resumption of his priestly duties

reception into full Its

communion need not

statement also quoted

Vatican II' s decree on ecumenism, which states that the "sacred actions"

Christian churches separated from Rome

"most certainly can truly engender a life of grace and, one must say, can aptly give access to the communion of salvation."

French Bishops Take To Streets To Learn About Life On The Margin PARIS (CNS) When the French bishops met in April to discuss the

—

country

growing social problems, they

Catholic Aid Worker Tells Of Capture In Rwanda MANCHESTER, England (CNS)

— A Catholic how he

decided to do their own fact-finding. So they took to the streets of Paris one night to see and hear how people on the fringes of society try to survive. The slices of life on the margins that they collected included

told

speaking with homeless youths, chatting

Trust,

with patients

aid worker in

feared for his

Rwanda has when he

life

was captured by an armed gang and witnessed an innocent man being hacked to death.

Danny Lillis, project consultant

to the London-based Refugee Educational

was

Rwanda

April 14-15 and

psychiatric hospital

April 18-21 on fact-finding missions. In

and learning about unemployment from people out of work. The aim was to do

a report in the British Catholic weekly,

more than

Rwanda were being sustained by their faith amid the brutal massacre of

at a

issue statements of support

forthe poor and people on the margins of

French society, said Archbishop Joseph Duval of Rouen, president of the French bishops' conference. The result was that the bishops devoted one night of their

April 12-13 meeting visiting the sites of church welfare organizations offering

The Universe,

Lillis said the

Dr.Michael Skube, school superintendent for the Diocese of Charlotte, and Dr. Joseph Brosnan, Belmont Abbey College president, shake hands on a new master's degree program.

The agreement allows

for six teachers in

TheF/nnci'scan Center

people of

I saw remain packed to overflowing whenever Mass is celebrated; perhaps the people believe that only God and the Church can save them now," Lillis said in a fax from Burundi, where he went between trips to

Catholic Gifts Book Store

thousands. "The churches

[910] 273-2551

Hon.— Fri. 9am — 5pm

Statues

Religious Plaques

233 N. Greene St.* Greensboro, NC

The Oratory

Director of Religious Education: Fulltime position at St. Andrew Parish, Clemson, S.C., and two mission parishes. Part of team with Paulist priests. 300+ children, K-

Two Sessions:

PO Box

12,

Clemson,

Anniversary/

1st Communion/ Confirmation Gifts & Cards

Employment Opportunities

12, RCIA. Send resume to: Rev. John Kenny, CSP, 29633. Tel. (803)654-1757.

We carry 150+ Book Titles & Gifts for all occasions: Bibles Rosaries Nedals Tapes

Rwanda.

Meklenburg Area Catholic Schools to pursue Photo by CAROL HAZARD

master's degrees in middle school education.

Religion

For Boys and Girls

27101

Camp

Grades 1-6

July 10-16 or July 17-23

SC For Information Write:

PO Box

Child Care: Loving "grandmother" needed to mother and care for girls 10 and 7 and 1-year-old boy. Will exchange free housing, board in S.E.Charlotte home for child care. Details: Elizabeth (704) 364-9601.

Temporary Job: Senior citizens welcome.Copy names and addresses off microfilm. Work at your own pace, 2-4 hours a day. Job lasts 1-2 months. Work available in

Winston-Salem, Charlotte and Raleigh. Call Greensboro (910) 288-0909, askfor

Lorraine or leave message.

11586,

camp mcrri-mac "MORE THAN JUST CAMP A

1 '

Rock

Hill,

SC 29731

cajhp TIAUWItLAKE "A

SUMMER OF FUN. BUILDING

CONFIDENCE & MOTIVATION"

zxvpiuxt Readings for the Sunday: Acts 9:26-31;

Monday: Acts Tuesday:

Week of May

May 7

John 3:18-24; John 15:1-8.

14:5-18; John 14:21-26.

Corinthians 15:1-8; John 14:6-14.

Wednesday: Acts

A Summer Camp For 15:1-6;

John 15:1-8.

Thursday: Acts 15:7-21; John 15:9-11. Friday: Acts 15:22-31; John 15:12-17.

Saturday: Acts 16:1-10; John 15:18-21.

Girls

A Summer Camp

Ages 6-16

In the

For Boys

Ages 6-15

Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina For brochure and information write or call Spencer or Dorothy Boyd 1229 Montreat Road • Black Mountain, N.C 28711

(704) 669-8766

(

>ril

Beth Bond Named Assistant Faith Formation Coordinator

Out For Lunch.

lime

& Kerala

The Catholic News

1994

29,

CAROL HAZARD Associate Editor

CHARLOTTE

[xiily

Life ministers from Region

— Washington, D.C.,

to Florida

bey College during the 100th anniversary celebration of the d their spring meeting April

the National Association of

[:ond

from

iguinist Father

Nancy

ischer,

Belmont

grew up in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. children, she

Bond moved

Family Life Ministers. Trinitarian Sisters Miriam Fiduccia for the Diocese

Harry Brown, Elaine Henris, Carol Fisher, Fred

picnic at

1-13 at the college to share resources and conduct business

Family Life coordinator

left)

—

Abbey Church. The ministers

of Charlotte,

Farrell, Victoria

joined by

Madden, Jeanne

Rahaim and Richard Hitchcock.

CAROL HAZARD

Photo by

—

Beth Bond has been named assistant coordinator for the Office of Faith Formation and diocesan coordinator for the Young Adult Ministry. As assistant coordinator, she coordinates efforts of the diocesan ministries of Justice and Peace, Youth Ministry, Catechism and Young Adult. As the Young Adult Ministry coordinator, she works with people ages 1 8-35 single, married, divorced and widowed. A 1993 graduate of Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio, Bond majored in theology. The second of three

graduated

last

to Charlotte after she

May

be near her

sister

and pursue job opportunities in the Church. Her sister, Debbie Bond, is a

Beth Bond was named assistant coordinator of the Office of Faith

coordinator of the

Formation and

Young Adult

Photo by

Ministry.

CAROL HAZARD

teacher at All Saints Catholic School, Charlotte.

Although raised Catholic, Bond says

Archbishop Donoghue's Pilgrimage To Rome

her faith was never as important as

—

ATLANTA The itinerary of the pilgrimage which Archbishop John F. |)onoghue will lead to Rome June 26- July 5 for his reception of the pallium from [ope John Paul II. Some members of the Diocese of Charlotte have indicated titerest in making the trip with their former bishop. June 26 — Leave Atlanta connect New York Rome June 27 — Arrive Rome, optional walking tour June 28 — Tour of Rome, including Colosseum, Forum, to

via Delta.

to St. Peter's Basilica.

religious sites,

Peter's Basilica,

he Walls.

Church of St. Peter

in chains, Basilica of St. Paul's

Trevi,

Outside

— —

now. While in college, she had a personal conversion, she said. She became involved in the pro-life movement and as a result associated with Catholics and

who "loved God and were willing to stand up for their beliefs." Bond was drawn more to the Church and living out her faith. "It' s changed my life," she said. "It changed everything about me; the way I live, the way I look

other Christians

way I deal with problems. Growing up, Bond went to church

people; the

June 29 Papal Mass at which Archbishop Donoghue will receive the allium. Evening reception for American archbishops at North American College. June 30 Mass at St. Peter's altar. Papal audience with Archbishop tonoghue. Continue sightseeing in Rome: Villa Borghese, Spanish Steps, Pantheon, iazza Navona. July 1 Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel, Basilicas of St. Mary Major and John Lateran, Holy Stairs, Chapel of Domine Quo Vadis, Appian Way to the Catacombs, Tivoli and Villa D'Este. July 2 Full day excursion of Florence, visit the Basilica of St. Maria Dei fiore, Baptistery, bell tower by Giotto, Academy of Fine Arts, Piazza Delia

finoria.

which

—

|!t.

—

— 4—

July 3

Full day excursion to Assisi.

July

Full day excursion to Naples

ijirotto

and hydrofoil

trip to Capri. Visit

Blue

by hydrofoil,

visit

and return to Rome on coast road. July 5 Return to Atlanta.

|orrento

1994

to July 5,

$2,235 Per Person Double Occupancy

Includes Airfare from Atlanta, Hotel and Breakfasts

$300.00 per person deposit required.

Make check

payable

the

Roman

Catholics and the

Protestants as well as Catholics.

and I

If that isn' t anti-Catholic advertising

would not appear don't know what is. told

principles don't quite hold

comes

to picking

up when

up some advertising

This newspaper

printed on recycled

newsprint and

re-

want to remind our readers that we

summer schedule publication.

The

June 10 with an issue every two weeks from then until the end of August. If you want something with a time element to appear in the paper, you will have to be sure that it reaches us soon enough to appear at the proper time. I of

Trusting the State to

First

Middle

Last

First

Middle

give state agencies the right to

what guardians

—

Please send a free copy of

"How

Make u

Will Thai Works, " without obligation

Name )

Street

persons

named

above: City, State, Zip_

Room

Twin Room

Triple

Room Phone

wish Economy Class Airfare

Depature City:

Aircraft Seating:

Smoking

Non-Smoking

recommend

minor children or

other dependents. Without a will or other legal arrangement, your property or possessions

Zip

State

(

will care for

Your will can reflect what has been important to you throughout your life. For a free booklet about planning your will, return the form not the state's. below. Let your will be done

Address

Office

valid will,

cannot go to anyone outside your family or to any causes you have supported such as your parish, Catholic agencies, Catholic schools or the diocese.

Middle

City

you are by the state of determine how your

you don't have a

North Carolina to is to be distributed. You also

Your Will?

Other First

trusting the laws set forth

Spouse

Single

weekly

property

Last

Please reserve the following for

edition on our

would suggest that you allow a minimum at least two weeks.

cyclable.

Are You

Name

)

last

schedule will be the issue of May 27. The next issue after that will be published

to:

Book Soon Space Is Limited

Phone: (Home)(

approaching the start of our of bi-weekly

are fast

hate to think that the Observer's

Mail check and coupon to: Mr. Garo Garabedian, George's International Tours and Travel 11771 Montano Ave., #104, Los Angeles, CA 90049

Street

of me in the job."

etc."

George's International Tours and Travel, Inc.

Last

come here to get this job. I trust He will

give me the grace to do whatever He asks

Of course maybe the advertising powers-that-be figured we wouldn't object as long as the ad attacked

Following one reading from Revelations, the ad says, "The beast

many

denominations.

June 26

job. "I feel like He opened the door for me

revenue. But I'm pretty sure that a fullpage ad brings in quite a few bucks.

objectionable to Catholics and,

assume, to members of

again,

George's International Tours and Travel 11771 Montano Avenue. #104 Los Angeles CA 90049 (800) 566-7499 - (310) 472-7499 Fax (310) 471-4058

Even so, their was not a major part of their life. However, her family has undergone a similar conversion, she said. They all go to Mass every day and pray the rosary. "My life revolves around Church and God and what He wants me to do," Bond said. Her approach includes her faith

other

which we were

—

with her family every Sunday. Her mother taught Sunday school.

Notebook (From Page 4)

false prophets are the Protestants,

(sea permitting), garden of Augustus, travel back

)

Mail to Jim Kelley, Director of Development, Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte, 1524 E. Morehead Street, Charlotte, NC 28207.

The Catholic News

& Herald

La Hermana Nancy Stewart, DC, acompana a

comunidad hispana de Saint Pius X,

Greensboro. En esta ocasion trajo a dos familias a

Abel y Juanita Juarez con su Eduardo y Fabiola.

hijo, Abelito;

Escuela de Ministerios en Charlotte:

Socorro y Rogelio Maci'as con sus hijos, Marisol,

Sigan Mensaje Pastoral de

Obispos Catdlicos de los E. U. a la Familia La Familia Es una Serial de la Presencia de Dios. los

donde hay alguien un

joven.

"La Familia no quere decir solo

mama, papa abuelos,

y los hijos, sino tambien

tfas,

y otros" dice una

tfos

"En una

muy

familia no hay que mirar

lejos para encontrar nuestra cruz"

nota un padre.

"Mi hijo me hace preguntas misticas" dice una joven madre. "Aprendo tanto". "Mis hijos adolescentes fueron tan comprensivos durante mi divorcio. Dios estaba allf para mf recuerda una madre '

soltera.

La historia de la vida en familia es una historia de amor compartido, alimentado y algunas veces rechazado o perdido. En cada familia Dios se revela de manera unica y personal, porque Dios es amor y los que vi ven en amor, viven en Dios y Dios vive en ellos. (Jn. 4: 16). Por tanto, nuestro mensaje es uno que brota de amor y les ofrece una reflexion sobre el amor: como se vive en

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

la familia,

Algunos de nosotros hemos sentido de

discrimination racial o

los prejuicios culturales.

Algunos hemos

vivido en este pais durante varias generaciones y otros somos inmigrantes

Con nuestra familia, celebramos el nacimiento de un bebe o el triunfo de un ser querido. Nos regocijamos en las bodas y aniversarios de miembros de nuestra familia y tambien nos acongojamos con la muerte inesperada o la ruptura de una pareja casada.

hispana.

como

es atacado hoy,

como

crece y se enriquece y como necesita el apoyo de toda la Iglesia. ,

Les escribimos como sus pastores y maestros en la Iglesia, pero tambien venimos a ustedes como miembros de familias. Somos hijos, hermanos y tfos. Sabemos lo que es compromiso y lo que son los sacrificios de una madre y de un padre, el calor de la solicitud de una familia, la alegria y el dolor que forman parte del amor. Algunos de nosotros vivimos en familias con un solo conyuge; otros fuimos nihos adoptados. Algunos

vocacion basica de cada

pudientes y otros de familias donde diniero era escaso.

recientes.

a pesar de todo" declara

"Sigan el camino del amor, a ejemplo de Cristo que nos amo" (Ef. 5:2). El Senor emite este llamado a su familia sin importarle su condition o circunstancia. El amor fue el instrumento que creo su familia. El amor los sostiene en los momentos buenos o malos. Cuando nuestra Iglesia nos ensena que la familia es una "comunidad mtima de vida y amor", identifica algo que tal vez ya

cotidianas.

ama

Por eso,

Conociendo las alegrias y las luchas de ustedes, valoramos su testimonio de fidelidad conyugal y en la vida familiar. Nos regocijamos con ustedes en su felicidad. Caminamos con ustedes en su tristeza.

Camino del Amor: Nuestro como pastores y maestros se

ministerio

enriquece con nuestra experiencia en familia. Ademas, nuestra vocacion de lfderes nos liga a todas las familias.

Nos

da la responsabilidad de manifestar la verdad de Dios sobre la existencia humana y de compartir con ustedes los recursos salvificos que el Senor ha confiado a su Iglesia. Con nuestro Santo Padre,

consideramos que es un privilegio "anunciar con alegria y conviction la buena nueva sobre la familia". Si, hay buenas noticias que contar. Es posible que las hayan visto en los noticieros y en conversation con vecinos y companeros de trabajo. Pero la historia completa se encuentra en la Palabra de Dios. La Primera Carta de Juan lo resume asi: "Asf se manifesto el amor de Dios entre nosotros. Envio Dios a su Hijo unico para darnos la Vida por medio de el. No

somos nosotros

los

que hemos amado a

Dios, sino que el nos arao

. . .

Queridos,

fue el amor de Dios, tambien nosotros debemos amarnos mutuamente" (1 Juan

tal

4:9-11).

saben y

les

de Saint Joseph, Newton, a

la salii

cristiana la Iglesia domestica o la Iglesi

del hogar.

Esta maravillosa ensenanza s muchos siglos, pero fu reintroducida por el Concilio Vatican II. Hoy aun estamds descubriendo s inmensotesoro El objetivo de la ensenanza es simp] pero profundo. Al ser familias cristiana discutio por

ustedes no solo pertenecen a la

verdadera expresion de

para crear una comunidad de amor, para

ayudarse mutuamente a crecer y a servir a los necesitados, es crucial, no solo para la salification personal de ustedes, sino tambien para fortalecer a la sociedad y a nuestra Iglesia. Es participar en la tarea del Senor, es compartir la mision de la Iglesia. Es algo santo. Ustedes Son la Iglesia del Hogar: El bautizo conduce a todos los cristianos a la union con Dios. La vida en familia es sagrada porque las relaciones familiares confirman y profundizan esta union y permiten que el Senor los use a ustedes en su labor. Los momentos profundos y las ordinarios de la vida diaria comidas, el trabajo, las vacaciones, las expresiones de amor e intimidad, las labores caseras, el cuidado de un nino enfermo o un anciano y aun los conflictos sobre como celebrar las fiestas, disciplinar a los niiios o gastar el diner todos son hilos que tejen el man to de la

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

la Iglesia.

Iglesia domestica

es completa por si sola.

ustedes hacen en su familia

Iglesii

sino que su vida cotidiana es un

presenta una vision hacia la

cual deben avanzar.

Lo que

la iglesia

Amor

Algunos provenimos de hogares

de la vida en familia, se habla del amor con su paz duradera, su dolor puruficante, sus momentos de alegria y desengaho, sus luchas heroicas y sus rutinas

del

persona, casada o celibe, es la misma:

las heridas

"La familia

Camino

crecimos en hogares con alcoholismo.

Maneras de Amar: Cuando se habla

que

Douglas y Xiomara Plama con su hija Irma en de la celebration eucaristica en espanol.

de ustedes

y apoyada por las parroquias y otra comunidades de la Iglesia mas amplii Cristo te ha llamado y te ha unido consig mismo en y mediante los sacramento:

Ustedes realizan comunmente la misio de la Iglesia del hogar cuando creen e Dios ... aman ... cultivan la intimidad evangelizan ... educan ... oran juntos se sirven mutuamente ... perdonan :

prometio que estaria donde reuman en su nombre (Mt. 1 8:20). Damos el nombre de iglesia a las personas que el Senor reune y tratan de seguir su camino de amor y mediante las cuales el puede dar a conocer su presencia

...

afirman la vida

...

cultivan vocacione

Ninguna Iglesia domestica hace tod eso perfectamente. Pero tampoco lo hac ...

ninguna parroquia o iglesia diocesan:

Todos los miembros de la Iglesia lucha de Cristo Necesitamos ayudar a las familias

reconocer

que

son

Sehor usa para reunirnos, formarnos y actuar en el mundo. La Iglesia primitiva expresaba esta verdad llamando la familia

domestica.(continuara)

puene ( Para pedir este documento llamar al (800) 235-8722)

To Our Friends Today we begin to offer the texl of the pastoral message of the U.S Catholic bishops to the family, Follow the Way of Love, where they explair

how important it is to see the family a; the "domestic Church," where the mission of the Church entrusted tc

her by Christ

accomplished.

Iglesi'

tres se

La familia es nuestra primera comunidad y la manera mas basica que el

diariamente para hacerse discipulos fielt

Jesiis

salvffica.

ioij

buscanreconciliaci6n ... celebranla vid ... dan labienvenida ... obranjustament

santidad.

dos o

Debe estar unid

1 29,

ill

1994

The Catholic News

The One morning while I was waiting to the opthalmologist,

downhill since then.

eyes were

idling

jis

my time away. I read and re -

What would you say makes people happy? I asked myself that question after

explaining the future to others.

reading

vision.

installation

made me think. I believe that was no other than

this:

justice and love. Neither material wealth

nor power could fill people' s hearts. The dream did not offer that happiness to people but instead that of old American

hamster wheel that working life

crime.

for so many Americans. people were not happy. Happeaked around 1957 has gone

become

The motto, "the more the better,"

did not give people quality time for one another.

|,vever, ;ss

The comments of our new

Jesus' vision

race" for network marketing and

|< the

this.

bishop, Bishop William Curlin, at his

The old vision of the American jam was material wealth. In order to |ize that dream, one needed to work work hard. Americans adopted the I

decades while happiness declined."

concept has something to do with

lire

Ministry

seem to produce happiness. Consumption rose by more than 100 percent in the past few since acquiring gadgets doesn't

article by Mark B. Yarnell who network marketing. He had read jvard economist Juliet Schor's book, Overworked American, and said he jjnd that it has concepts of tremendous

Vietnamese Catholic

lie in

SISTER CECILIA TONG

rity are

|i this |;

"Why is that?" asked

Americans' public morality and integdeclining while crime and social problems increase. I was particularly interested in this observation by Yarnell "Most people are not as interested in material wealth as they are in free time,

title

the article with a lot of curiosity as

Ijid

Vision Of Jesus

Yarnell. Research tells us that probably

of a pamphlet called jjght by Next American Dream. The title |ght me by surprise because of my (jvious understanding of what the I erican dream was supposed to be. So the

& Herald

left

Cai nhin

ciia

"Enough is not enough" always

and women. There is no justice and thus no love. One does not see Jesus in others but only a stranger. One does not trust a stranger, thus one becomes defensive and hostile. The result is one surrounds oneself with material things to fill the gap. Will machines and stuffed animals

The answer is "abWhat is true happiness

give one happiness? solutely not."

then?

Anthony de Mello wanted us to discover that

in his

following story:

"Why

everyone here so happy

except me?"

"Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere." said the Master.

"Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside." Handmaids Sister Cecilia Tong is director of the Vietnamese Apostolate for the Diocese of Charlotte.

an infinite void in the hearts of men

Chua

Sang nay khi ddi tai phong kham mat, dong chii "Giac m6 moi aa ngubi My" lam toi de y ngay., Toi da co mot y tuong the nao giac mo cua nguoi My trong di vahg va vi the de giet th6i gib >i doc ngau nghien bai viet nay cua dng Mark B. Yarnell trong Network Marketing. Ong da doc sach ciia ba Julier Schor nha hi Kinh Te hoc tai dai hoc Harvard noi tieng. Sach v6i nhan de "ngubi My lam viec qua do." Ong Yarnell nhan rang cuon sach y se mang lainhieu gia tri sau sac cho nhung ai muon giai thich 10 nhuhg ngubi khac vf vien ahh tuong lai. v Giac mo xifa cua ngubi My la lam the nao de trd nen dai phu. a de cho giac mb do thanh su thuc, nguoi ta phai lam va lam that ieu. Nguoi My, ho giohg nhu nhung con chuot, luc nab cung ;hai lam viec, phai di chuyeh. Nhung khon thay ngubi ta khong |u'bc hanh phiic va tu nam 1 957 luc ma ngubi ta tuong dubc hanh i

hue tuyet dbi, thl chinh luc do dang bat dau suy sup. "Tai sao ay?" 6ng Yarnell hoi. Ngubi ta tim hieu nhu sau, cb

nen luan | sii thanh liem chinh true cua My dang xuong doc vi bao hanh a toi trang xa hoi dang tang them. Toi rat chu y doc nhung ddng i tubng sau day: Hail net moi ngubi gib day khdng thty su giaii |6 dem lai cho ho hanh phuc mia,nhung ngubc lai ho trong thoi va til do, vi ho biet rang nhuhg vat dung khdng mang lai cho |o hanh phuc. Su tieli thu da tang len ca tram phan trong nhung iam qua trong khi hanh phuc dang mat dan. Dng Yarnell da ndi le^

Ban nghi nguyen nhan nao lam cho con nguoi duoc hanh phuc? Toi thubng hay hoi minh nhii vay. Su chia se cua Due Giam Muc m6i William Curlin trong ngay nhan chuc da lam toi suy nghi. Toi tin rang cai vien tuong cua Chua Giesu van khong gi

ngoai

CONG BLNH

va BAC AI. Tien tai danh vong khong

lam cho nguoi ta hanh phuc. Giac mong cua nguoi My khi xua cung chang lam duoc gi cho con ngu'oi, trai lai chi gay them toi ac ma thoi. Cau dau luoi "co nhieu thi hay nhieu" khong cho ngubi ta thoi gian pham de lien he voi nhau. "Du van chua du" luon luon lam nan sau su trong vang vo day trong Jong nhan loai..

thay

Khong co cong bang thi khong co bac ai. Nguoi ta khong Chua trong nguoi khac ma cfyi thay nguoi la mat. Khong

ca va vi the nguoi ta tro nen tu ve va khinhkhi nguoi khac. Ket qua la con nguoi bao vay minh bang nhung tien nghi de lap day cho trong. Lieu may moc va nhung con vat nhoi bong ai tin nguoi la

hanh phuc chang? Cau tra loi tham dinh ngay rang "khong bao gib duoc:", Nhu vay hanh phuc that he tai o dau? Anthony de Mello muon chung ta tim trong truyen ngah sau day: "Tai sao moi nguoi o day that vui ve tru toi ra?" "Vi ngubi ta da hoc de tim thay su tot dep cung nhu ve diem kieu o moi noi." Su phu tra loi. "Nhung tai sao toi khong nhin thay sU tot lahh va ve diem kieu moi noi?" " Vi ban khong the nhin thay nhung gi ngoai ban neu ban khong chan nhan truoc nhung co cho chung

gi trong ban."

hu vay.

Archbishop Of Hanoi, Other Vietnamese Bishops Named flew

VATICAN CITY (CNS) I«in

Paul

has

— Pope

named a new Vietnam-

bishop, filled the vacant seat of the A:hdiocese of Hanoi and made other anointments in the hierarchy. The

— Coadjutor Bishop Joseph Nguyen Quang Tuyen of Bac Ninh,

n ions for bishop.

new bishop of Thanh Hoa.

64, has been

cal

Claudio Maria Celli,

Vatican

undersecretary of

The appointments were announced two weeks after a top Vatican wicial complained of the system by

the need to clear the nominations with the

wjich the government approves all

approval of new bishops

ions of bishops.

louncements:

The Vatican also made the following

further information.

Government approval of hierarchinominations was criticized in an April 8 Vatican Radio interview with Msgr.

akiliary bishop.

nomi-

333-5029 for

—

ben the apostolic administrator of Hanoi.

nri\ 23,

call (704)

named the

Coadjutor Bishop Pierre Nguyen Van Nhon of Da Lat, 56, automatically becomes the new bishop of Da Lat.

Paul Le Dai' Trong, 75, hdiocesan vicar general, was named

28205. Please

Pham

qartered in the

May 8 at the Vietnamese Pastoral Center

2117 Shenandoah Av.Charlotte

— Bishop Bartholeomy Nguyen Son

Lam of Da Lat,

N>gr.

p.m. on

Bac Ninh

as head of the

gvernment' s policy of clearing all nomi-

Vietnamese capital was 7-year-old Bishop Paul Joseph Pham Can Tung of Bac Ninh. He had also

Diocese.

Vtican also criticized the Vietnamese

Named to head the archdiocese head-

The FirstCommunion for Vietnamese children will take place at

In Brief

48, auto-

matically replaces Archbishop

Dinh Tung

Vietnamese Community News

state.

objected to

government.

Msgr. Celli said that the government is one of many restrictions on religious liberty in Vietnam.

Senior members of the Vietnamese Eucharistic group, led by Thanh Nguyen (second from right, top row), are active in the

Vietnamese children's program every Sunday.

News

14 The Catholic

Parish Picnic

STATES VILLE

& Herald

— The

April 29,

Bereavement Ministry

Feastday Annual Picnic is Sunday, May 1 from 5 p.m. -6:30 p.m. at St. Philip the Apostle Church. Barbecue will be catered by Fat Boys. Cost is $5 for adults and $3 ,

for children 7-12.

40 Hours

CHARLOTTE —

St.

Ann Church

offering a 40-hour devotion beginning

Sunday,

May

John Bernbrock

lead the service. Conventual Franciscan Father Richard Bellow will will

Monday, May 2, service, also at 7 p.m. The closing service, Tuesday at 7 p.m., will be led by Msgr. John J. McS weeney chancellor and vicar general lead the

of the Diocese of Charlotte. All are welcome.

Parish is offering a Bereavement Training series for people in Bereavement Ministry, R.A.I.N care teams, or grieving a loss on Thursdays in May from 7 p.m.-9 p.m. Instructors are registered nurses Micki Lukse and Mercy Sister Therese Galligan. Cost is $5 for materials. Pre registration

—

information is available at the education office, (704) office, (704)

255-0149, or the church 252-3151.

the Padre Pio Eucharistic Adoration

will begin a

—

Friday,

May

6, at

4:30

p.m. at Holy Redeemer Church. All are

welcome and encouraged will

be the

first

to attend.

Friday of each

CHARLOTTE

— Mercy Hospital

seven-week

"Caring Hearts," to help people care for spouses with heart disease on May 1 1 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the hospital, 2001 Vail Ave. Meetings are each Wednesday through June 22 and open to all. The $ 1 fee includes literature.

Voices For Justice'

Workshop

Mercy

—

CLEMMONS The Justice and Peace Ministry will host a workshop for members of

the Catholic Legislative

Network, "Voices for Justice" and interested persons at Holy Family Church on Sunday, May 1 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The workshop will focus on state level public policy and skills training for effective advocacy for children and families. For more information, call the ,

Justice and Peace Ministry at (704) 331-

1714.

Therese Galligan at (704) 379-5000 weekdays, 9 a.m. -5 p.m. Sister

Certified Campus Minister

CHARLOTTE— Barbara Neff, the Catholic Campus Minister at UNCC since 1986, has been certified by the

Catholic

Neff has demonstrated compliance with the competency based "Standards for Campus Ministers" and shares the goal of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops to have competent, trained leaders for ministry on college campuses.

at St.

May

Bishop Curlin

GREENSBORO

— Fourth

Bishop William G. Curlin will take part in the following events next

week:

Our Lady of Grace School Moses H. Cone

the

am -- Mass for the Catholic Daughters, State Conference, Charlotte.

Noon St.

5:00

with patients, doctors, and staff to learn about patient care and accident

St.

prevention, and to share their artwork,

On Wednesday,

April

20, the students presented a play about

Confirmation,

Church, will give an overview of the annulment process.

7:30

pm - Confirmation,

Our Lady of the Annunciation, AlPermarle.

May 4:

Spiritual Enrichment

St.

MOCKSVILLE

—

St.

Francis of

Methodist and First Baptist churches will sponsor a "Spiritual Enrichment Mission" May 1-3, 7:30 p.m., at First Presbyterian Church. Father Francis Cancro, pastor of St. Eugene Church in Asheville, will be the mission leader.

The

churches sponsor three other ecumenical services, including a Vacation Bible

Natural Family Planning

—A

WINSTON-SALEM

four-

session series on Natural Family Planning

be taught by the Couple to Couple League beginning on Wednesday, May 18, at 7 p.m. The series is taught by a CCL certified teaching couple and supported by the national office staff and international Medical Advisory Board. To register, call (910) 764-0629.

Mass. Space is limited. Fees are $10 one child and $ 1 5 for two or more child

from the same family.

will

—

Charlotte and Natural Family PI will co-sponsor a program for girls a

13-17 and their mothers on May to 4 p.m. at St. Ann Church

1 fr

Activity Center. Contact your pai coordinator of Faith Formation or

Adrian Award Presented

BELMONT

Mother/Daughter Program CHARLOTTE The Dioc

Lynn Vara,

(704) 331-1723 for phone registrati

associate professor of English at Belmont

For more information, call Carr Hamilton at (704) 663-64 1 1 or Peg Ri

Abbey

Dr.

was awarded the 199394 Adrian Faculty Excellence Award. The $1,000 award recognizes faculty members who demonstrate an inspiration influence on students. Varn has been at Belmont Abbey since 1986, is founder College,

and director of a peer tutoring writing and papers. She has taught University and UNCC.

Winthrop

Babysitting Course

CHARLOTTE —

(704) 845-2649.

Funds Run Low

—

CHARLOTTE

Donations were dq quarter and si

Crisis Assistance Ministry

$115,000 in the first emergency funds were depleted April The dramatic shortfall means low-incc families will not be able to get the 1 they need during financial crises in coming months.

Mercy Hospital

Want to help? Contributions cat

South will offer a babysitter' s course for

sent to Crisis Assistance Ministry,

children 12 and older on Saturday,

from 8:30 a.m.

May

p.m. Drinks and snacks are provided by the maternity

Box 31636, Charlotte, NC 28231-1(|

center. Registration is required by

May 3

and cost is $15. For information, Bobbi Kimsey at (704) 379-2309.

call

The Catholic News & Hei welcomes parish news for the dioct\ news briefs. Good photograph preferably black and white, also welcome. Please submit news relet and photos at least 10 days before \

The 36th Semi-

date of publication.

P.O.

Box 685 Maiden, N.C. 28650

pm - Luncheon Ann Senior Group, St. Ann

2:30

4X6'

466-0380

PAPAL PRESENTATION FLAG AND SETS

PAPAL

OUTDOOR FLAGS 3X5'

(704)

Flag

$38 $52

Complete

Perma-Nyl Flags Only

Mounted

$56 $74

VALPRIN 100% POLYESTER PAPAL FLAGS MOUNTED ON STAFF WITH SPEAR

Sets

$150 $164 Dozen Each

4X6"

$1.58

Reply:

Check, Visa, and Master Card only, add

6% NC tax Date

Signed

IMAGINE

May 3:

families at the center.

Assisi, First Presbyterian, First United

CHARLOTTE — Our Lady of;

pm - Confirmation,

James, Concord.

North Carolina for the patients and their

School.

Assumption Church is offering Vacat Bible School for children 3 years ol« 4th grade from June 27-July $

Matthew, Charlotte.

Rehabilitation Center as a year-long

community service project. They visited

and songs.

Forrester, a deacon at St. Paul the Apostle

9:00 grade

pi ;

Vacation Bible School

100% Nylon

19, at

Caring Students

treats

W. Friendly Ave.,

33 1

visit to

Piedmont Flag Company

May

adopted

with

May 6:

pm -- Ordaining Redemptorist Deacons to the Priesthood at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, in Washington. D.C. 2:30

(tsi

The Dessert-ery, 1706 Battleground Ave. Gordon

followed by a

CHARLOTTE -

Ultreyea for

welcome. For information, call (704) 365-2209 or (704) 541-7996.

students of

Catholic Center,

at 3

Schedule

7:30 p.m. in Room Gabriel Church. Everyone is

Thursday,

Sund $

speaker.

Family Rosary Day

Idlewild Rd. Call (704) 536-7985 for information.

attended a Cursillo

May 6, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at University

Campus Ministry Association.

—

who have

May

meeting of the Separated, Divorced, and Remarried Catholic Group is Friday,

center and author of numerous articles

CHARLOTTE The Knights of Columbus Council 7343 will host an Open House on Saturday, May 14, from noon to 4 p.m. at the newly renovated Columbus Swim and Tennis Club (formerly Idlewild Olympic Club), 7523

May Ultreyea CHARLOTTE — An

Annual Family Rosary Day

p.m. at St. Vincent de P Church. Father Damian Lynch from Elizabeth parish in Boone will be gij

series,

Swim Club Open House

those

— The monthly

GREENSBORO

Registration is in May after each week*

Vacation Family Program ASHEVILLE This year's Vacation Family Program, "Come Along With Jesus," at St. Joan of Arc Church is June 19-23, nightly, from 6 p.m. -9 p.m. with dinner at 6 p.m. Registration and

Caring Hearts

Meetings month.

required.

Call (705) 543-7677.

Prayer Group Meeting ANDREWS The first meeting of is

Meeting Scheduled

Matthew four-week

St.

with a 7 p.m. opening

service. Jesuit Father

Prayer Group

—

CHARLOTTE

St. Philip's

MUSIC BEAUTIFULLY PLAYED AT EVERY SPECIAL SERVICE OR GATHERING.

MA!

YOUR SELECTIONS OF MUSIC OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH PLAYED ON ORGAN OR ELECTRONIC KEYBOAR BY THE AMAZING SYNTHIA, ALL AT THE TOUCH OF A BUTTON. ]

CALL TODAY FOR A DEMONSTRATION IN YOUR CHURCH 1003

PECAN

AVE.

CHARLOTTE, NC 28205-

H]usie§ Electronics, Inc.

(704) 375-8108 1-800-331-0768

4pril

The Catholic News

1994

29,

& Herald

World and National Briefs Church Had More Than

f.S.

of racism and

60,000 Converts In 1993

WASHINGTON

—

(CNS)

The number of

on the Statehouse in Montpelier to support the bishop, whose diocese

The contingent representing various religions and political groups was only a small part of includes the entire state.

the 27,000 Vermonters

Said Not Unsurmountable

PROVIDENCE,

R.I.

(CNS)

who have signed

Church Leaders Urge Congress To Move Quickly On Foreign Aid Reform

tribal

—

Pope

Unity in Providence. Just as going to the tomb of the rucified Jesus on Easter found that the trge stone blocking their entrance had een rolled away, so too must those hurches seeking oneness in heart and

move

quickly in

Settlement Reached In Steven Cook Case

CINCINNATI (CNS)

—

The

Archdiocese of Cincinnati and Steven J. Cook have reached an out-of-court settlement in Cook's $10 million sexual abuse lawsuit again Father Ellis N. Harsham and the archdiocese. Cook's attorneys announced April

8 that they

paths by trusting in the Lord, said

Msgr. Thomas G. Doran, 58, a Rockford

that until late last

weaker Margaret O'Gara, professor at

priest who is auditor of the tribunal of the

Michael College in Toronto. Although churches have made significant iroads toward unification, the questions

Roman

hristian

appellate court,

Rota, the Church's central was named to succeed Bishop O'Neill, who is 76. Msgr.

—

violence that has ki led or wounded 1

tens of thousands in

Rwanda is a "graphic

example" of the destruction caused by the world arms trade, according to the head of the U.S. bishops' International Policy Committee. "Rwanda is a graphic example of weapons exported to a 'developing' area being used to destroy the

progress attained, and even

little

worse, eliminating hosts of individuals, their talents

and contributions forever,"

trade in arms."

Thousands have died

Rwanda in ethnic

apostolic pro-nuncio to the United States.

leir

Rwandan Violence A Result Of World Arms Trade, Bishop Says WASHINGTON (CNS) The

Conn., in an April 19 statement. "It is evidence that the world must curb the

on an open

stones blocking

away the large

daily newspapers.

national development that will contribute

would file for dismissal of the case later in the week. The settlement ends the sixmonth saga of a headline- making lawsuit

duI roll

Ohio

said Bishop Daniel P. Reilly of Norwich,

ApriH8.

(CNS)

8 after reports of a

human and

WASHINGTON

women

letter sent

John Paul II has accepted the resignation of Bishop Arthur J. O'Neill of Rockford, 111., and appointed a Rockford diocesan priest to succeed him. The pope also has named a Michigan priest as bishop of Helena, Mont. The appointments were announced April 19 in Washington by Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan,

hristian

—

Congress

Rockford Bishop Retires, Successor

the 3 1 st annual National Workshop on

—

one church leaders including the heads of groups for Catholic men and women religious have urged Congress to overhaul the U.S foreign aid program so that it promotes peace, alleviates poverty and protects the environment and human rights. Stating that "our nation has a unique opportunity to make aid a more

Angell in his

Named; New Bishop For Helena

instead are only

WASHINGTON (CNS)— Twenty-

settlement appeared in that morning's editions of two

Evangelicals and more," said Bishop talk.

press briefing April

named bishop of Helena. He succeeds Archbishop Elden F. Curtiss, who was named to head the Archdiocese of Omaha last May.

to peace," the religious leaders called

—

long the way, said the keynote speaker

Flower in Royal Oak,

"We are Jews, Christians, Catholics, Protestants,

ncountering surmountable roadblocks

Brunett, 60, pastor of the

effective tool to achieve

churches seeking unity are not

maze but

petitions against the current health care

reform proposal.

in 1993.

in a

than 800 people gathered on the

steps

priests

oadbocks on Path To Christian

>st

—

abortion as a covered medical procedure.

both reported slightly increased

hristian

(CNS)

Vermonters to reject the state's health care reform proposal that would include

Also dropping was the total umber of seminarians, which went from ,891 to 5,726. Religious brothers and

fnity

Vt.

Burlington Bishop Kenneth A. Angell led a rally April 14 encouraging

0,229.

umbers

Alexander

Shri ne of the Little

MONTPELIER,

eclined about 1.3 percent last year to

sters

remain

Mich., was

laking them the largest religious body in

country.

priests

Bishop Leads Rally Against Abortion Coverage In State Health Plan

United tates numbered more than 160,000 last ear, according to the 1994 Official atholic Directory. The total number of atholics in the country rose to 9,858,042 by the start of 1994, about 40,000 more than a year before, atholics continue to form about 23 ercent of the total U.S. population, lonverts to Catholicism in the

women

unresolved, she said.

February included Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago as a defendant. Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk confirmed that a settlement had been reached. He held a

U.S. Bishops, Priests, Lay People Monitoring South Africa Elections JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNS) A U.S. bishop and other American Catholics joined thousands of international volunteers, serving as monitors for South Africa's first nonracial elections. Plans were to have a minimum of six monitors at each of South Africa' s 900 polling stations, with

—

additional monitors placed in sensitive areas,

such as squatter camps and political

centers. Auxiliary

Bishop John Ricard

of Baltimore was invited by the Southern

African "Catholic Bishops' Conference to represent the U.S. bishops as

one of

the observers.

& Beautifully Handcrafted Hardwood Crosses

Christian Education Training Conferences at

Episcopal Conference Center Kanuga Conference

Center, Hendersonville, North Carolina, offers several

summer which may be of interest to other churches. based on the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, ecumenical encouraged.

training conferences this

Though worship participation

Join Herbert O'Driscoll and Friends of Arts the Groom for Christian Ed

At Kanuga, June 2 6-July

1994

One of the outstanding preachers of the Anglican Church,

Herbert O'Driscoll, Victoria, British Columbia, will deliver the

and Friends of the Groom will present storytelling and drama to both participants and the children's program; a myriad ofworkshops for both novice and veteran Christian educator will be offered; a crafts sharing fair will occur; a resource center will be in operation for curriculum keynote addresses;

KNOW

Tom Long

music and worship

basics;

FOUR GREAT NAMES

will

be an integral part of the conference

—

all

the

elements for a challenging training conference set in the mountains of beautiful

MITSUBISHI

Western North Carolina!

MOTORS

MITSUBISHI 531-3131

capable staff will present such workshops as: children's ministry; ministry with teenagers; adult Christian Education programs; recruiting teachers; providing

music; Bible instruction; storytelling and

drama

Author of Offering the Gospel to Children, Gretchen Wolff

New Haven, Connecticut, is keynoter forthe PreSchool

—a

conference directed to both parents of

7001

41 00 E.Independence

operate during adult conference sessions.

Kanuga Conferences

for

more information.

Kanuga Conferences, Postal Drawer 250, Hendersonville, NC 28793, or telephone: 704/692-9136.

Clip and mail coupon

to:

Name

Endependence

HYURDOI 5354455

With a diverse staff, both children and adults will be invited to discover the Gospel through word, image, liturgy, and play. Workshops will include music and movement; children's spiritual development; teaching skills and curriculum for children; creativity and expression; and storytelling tips and techniques. Programs designed for youth ages 3-15

5354444

preschoolers and preschool teachers.

Special rates for these ages apply. Contact

$16.00 FREE Shipping Bill's

and Handling

Wood Shed

2934 Rustic Ct. Hillsborough. NC 27278 (919) 477-7517

10 1/2'

X 7*

r Mxx\k {Xee\ (704) 663-5044 MON-SAT 9-5

BEAUTIFUL YARDS

START HERE

Wolff Pritchard for the PreSchool/Parenting Conference At Kanuga, June 26-July 1, 1 994 conference

$15.00 Figure Raised

as teaching tools.

Join Gretchen

Pritchard,

Figure Cut-out

6951 E. Independence

THE

aPOINjE DEALERSHIPS

•DOGWOODS •AZALEAS •HOLLIES •TREES OVER 25 ACRES OF HEALTHY SHRUBS & TREES GROWN HERE ON OUR OWN NURSERY

WHERE YOU ALWAYS GET YOUR MONEY'S WORTH!

Address City/State/Zip

Please send I

the 1994 Program Catalogue

want more information

specifically on:

F.J.

LOCATED BETWEEN MOORESVILLE & CONCORD ON HWY. 136

LaPointe, President

Member of

St. Gabriel's

fighting.

CALL FOR DIRECTIONS OR SEE YOUR YELLOW PAGES

16 The Catholic

News

& Herald

April 29, 199<

Where

Holy Angels Honors Volunteers For Outstanding Service BELMONT—Holy Angels, a home

memory of a Holy Angels volunteer who

handicapped children,

example in the art of caring and Grebner has been volunteering at Holy Angels for the past 1 3 years at Christmas. At first glimpse of him, the kids' eyes light up. He says "Ho! Ho! Ho !" and everyone knows who is coming to visit. He first came to Holy Angels to

for severely

honored four volunteers for outstanding service.

Gail Blackburn of Gastonia was

awarded the Ed Sabatini Special Advocate Award for advocating on behalf of Holy Angels. Blackburn helped between the Holy Angels and area

bring the family (Santa's elves) with

him.

employees. For the past several years, Stabilus employees have purchased Christmas gifts for children who live at Holy Angels. Blackburn also serves as a

created Christmas celebrations like Old

Holy Angels

resident,

The Volunteer Group of the Year award was presented to the Porterfield Family, residents of Charlotte and Columbia, S.C. The Porterfields have delivered Christmas presents to Holy Angels residents every year since 1979. As Holy Angels has grown, so has their shopping list but no resident is left out. The Volunteer of the Year award

was presented to Will Dempsey, a student at South Point High School in Belmont. Dempsey, the first volunteer at the Holy Angels' Pinehaven group home, has developed a special relationship with residents Trey and Amy. He also has recruited several of his friends to volunteer.

Rick Grebner of Charlotte received McClain Volunteer of the Year award. The award was named in

the years have passed, he's

Fashioned Christmas, Great Adventures Christmas and Christmas at Holy Angels. Holy Angels has 75 volunteers. Plenty of opportunities are available for anyone interested in volunteering. These include working with students, in clerical assistance, carpentry and serving as field

Whatever the talent, Holy Angels can use it. Holy Angels, sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina, is a private, non-profit corporation. Other programs include: Holy Angels Residential Center, the Maria Morrow Center, Little Angels Child Development Center, Great Adventures Fox Run ICF/MR group homes and community group homes Lakewood, South Point and Belhaven. For more information about volunteering, write to the Volunteer Coordinator, Holy Angels, 427 W. Wilkinson Blvd., Belmont, NC 28012 or call (704) 825-4161. trip assistants.

—

Are you between the ages of 18 and 35? A ministry in the Diocese of Charlotte

The ministry

offers retreats,

workshops and conferences for young adults.

The

To Begin

activities are

designed to

help deepen relationships with Christ

and His Church. For more information about young adult groups in your area, call the diocesan coordinator for the Young Adult Ministry, Elizabeth Bond, at (704) 331-1714.

to life for All Saints kindergarten students during Library

Week. Throughout the week, guest readers entertained children by reading the school library.

Photo by

University Receives

Deferred

DAYTON, Ohio (CNS)

Home

— A gradu-

beginning Perpetual Eucharist Adoration in

the chapel of the nursing

beginning June

home

students attend the university each year.

his family, with the university the benefi

university's

who never had the chance up a

remain

ciary of the trusts

upon

death.

that point, the gift will providt

nearly $200,000 annually in scholarshi]

money

that will be used to award mini $2,500 scholarships to economi : cally disadvantaged students who nr tain a 3.0 grade point average. "The donor has asked us to look

mum

tory. It

will help build a perpetual scholar-

ship fund to keep a University of Dayton

education accessible to students of

all

students with a glint in their eyes, th

financial means, according to Marianist

Brother

Raymond

who

L. Fitz, university

really

want a college education,' development director

said Tim Wabler,

president.

(910) 887-4299.

"Could you not spend one hour with

me?"

(Mat. 6:21) Maryfield Nursing Home is located at the corner of Penny and the Greensboro-High Point Road.

Card Of Thanks

Book and

Gift Store Located

Hendersonville, N.C.

Thanks to St. Jude and the Sacred Heart for prayers answered and favors granted.

EJT Phone (704) 692-4230 12

Noon

5 P.M.

Thanks to St. Jude for prayers answered and favors granted.

r±i

STIKELEATHER REALTY THE PLAZA CHARLOTTE, N.C. 28205 REAL ESTATE SALES AND INVESTMENTS JOE STEVENSON 2824

(704) 537-5998 (704) 372-4852

-Hi Carolina

$ —

Catholic

v Bookshoppe

1109McAlwayRd. Charlotte,

NC 28211

(704) 364-8778 In our 13 th year of

Serving the Carolinas

Monday -

Friday 9:30

Saturday 9:30

Books

5:00

1:30

& Gift Items

Special Orders/Mail Orders

Welcome

Million In

week with the Lord who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, call Dick Kellenbarger

found

about 80 economically disadvantaged

ratory school

Volunteers are being recruited from area churches to serve as guardians. If you would like to spend one hour once a

stories

JOANN KEANE

Approximately $36 million of th< $89 million endowment earmarked for scholarships. The donor established a series o trusts through a gift of common stock The trusts provide lifetime income fo

ate of the University of Dayton's prepa-

largest such gift in the university's his-

HIGH POINT— The Poor Servants Nursing Home are

bring;

Awareness

For Scholarships

Gift

anonymous, gave the Marianist-run university $4 million in a deferred gift, the

Sisters of Maryfield

For Sale Christian/Catholic

McSweeney,chancellor and vicar general of the Diocese of Charlotte,

The donor, who wishes

June

At Nursing

directed specifically

toward addressing your spiritual needs. Spiritual formation is the primary vision of the Young Adult Ministry.

Seven Blind Mice

scholarship fund that eventually will help

Perpetual Adoration

Young Adults

Msgr. John

to attend the university has set

the Dennis

Calling

Library...

set a fine

residents of

Holly.

The

sharing.

establish a relationship

special friend to

Is It? In

The monks of Belmont Abbey for the week of May 28-June

invite

Experience Benedictine monastic time, our meals, our prayer.

you

to share

our hospitality

3, 1994.

life first-hand.

Let us share our

For single Catholic men 19

to 29.

Without cost or obligation.

For more information, contact, Vocation Director, Belmont Abbey, Belmont, NC 28012; or call 1-800-743-6681.