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News & Herald rving Catholics in
Western North Carolina
in the Diocese of Charlotte
Volume 3 Number 34 * May
Group Makes 'Room At
Women By
6,
1994
For Crisis Pregnancies
In
Inn'
CAROL HAZARD Associate Editor
CHARLOTTE — It's a wearisome refrain pro-lifers hear.
expected to open next
You
"The idea
who
parents," said Nadol.
can't afford a child?
of Catholics
solution. They're Inn.
making
is
offering a
Room At The
They're opening a privately funded
home for women faced with crisis preg-
need bread." Welfare should not be only option, she said.
get the support they need to finish school
way, they will have money to start lives on their own. They will also do the cleaning and cooking. The home will be open to women of all faiths. "Our ministry is from a Catholic perspective, but it will be open to all regardless of religious affilation," Nadol
be offered the opportunity to find or deepen their relationships with Jesus. They will be able to stay at the home up to a year after their babies are born. If they decide to keep their babies, childcare will be provided so they can prepare for single motherhood. "It's a pretty rough road if there aren't any support systems in place," said Maggi Nadol, Respect Life coordinator for the Diocese of Charlotte. Nadol will be director of residential services for the home, supervising the house staff and program. The program is the first of its kind in Mecklenburg County and the first longterm Catholic program for single mothers in the Carolinas.
The home
—
a
new
seven bedroom, four-bath home off South
Boulevard near uptown Charlotte
Photo by
f ishop Hails Catholic
JOANN KEANE
Daughters
By JOANN KEANE
While living in the home, the mothbe required to save money even they are on public assistance. That
ers will
will
Daughters of America as First National Regent Grace Rinaldi looks on.
to get the
Not just any home, Room At The Inn will be a place where single mothers can or find a job. What's more, the mothers
William G. Curlin congratulates Lucille Kroboth, newly elected regent of the North
is
"We want to give them positive options in their lives. You can't hand someone a stone when they
nancies.
i
mothers on
track to raise their children as single
A group
slina Catholic
fall.
save the babies, but what about the poor mothers
from
—
if
said.
"We will strive to maintain a home
embraces the true message of our Catholic faith." Mass will be offered once a week. The home is modeled after a similar project that was started in 1985 by Chris Bell, founder of Hoboken, N.J. -based Good Counsel Homes. Bell, who has opened four homes for unwed mothers, that
flew to Charlotte last week to contribute
$2,500 in seed money for the Charlotte project. Franciscan Father Benedict
Groeschel, chairman of the Good Counsel board,
is
donated another $2,500. See Home, Page 3
the desk of
Burhn
"Bishop William
On Mother's
Day,
many
of us can recall
memories of past celebrations of this special day honoring mothers.
Associate Editor
CHARLOTTE — Bishop
Purlin offered thanks to the Catholic
second vice regent; Rose Marie Carney, state treasurer; and Maryanne Grabasky,
ighters of America during their state
recording secretary.
ference in Charlotte, April
William
29-May
Daughters are always doing tjiething great for someone," he said in 41 May 1 homily. I And rightfully so. The largest orgamtion of Catholic women in the United 1 jCatholic
>1
tes,
known
for philanthropic works,
tyates thousands /Jious
of dollars each year to
Catholic charities.
One hundred of the state' s 650 CathotiOaughters gathered at the Southpark tes hotel for their
20th biennial state
The conference culminated wh the election of new state officials for th next two years. cc
ference.
Elected were: Lucille Kroboth, re-
gu
of the North Carolina Catholic
Djghters of the Americas; Doreen ^rren, first vice regent; Joyce Rachid,
In a Saturday keynote luncheon address,
Msgr. John J. McSweeney, chan-
cellor and vicar general of the Diocese of
Mary, expounding on her innate goodness. "The kindness, compassion and incredible love possessed by Jesus were characteristics learned at his mother' s knee," said Msgr. McSweeney. Illustrating Mary's downto-earth goodness, Msgr. McSweeney urged Catholic Daughters to "be women of faith, like Mary." With a motto of unity and charity, Catholic Daughters strive to embrace the principle of faith working through love in the promotion of justice, equality, and the advancement of human rights and Charlotte, offered a tribute to
human dignity for all mankind. See Daughters, Page 2
When I was
a child, it was the custom to wear a red flower if your mother was living or a white one if she was deceased. Limited as our youthful resources might have been, every child found some means of buying a gift for his or her mother. (Remember those crayon Mother's Day cards of grade school that can be found stored away in attic trunks?) If memory serves me well, I think that my first Mother's Day gift was a bottle of inexpensive perfume that no mother should ever wear. But my mother assured me it was wonderful! The usual childhood gift was candy that eventually found its was back to the donor before the day
was
over.
The years pass is
that
and
all
too quickly. Yet, the important thing
we pause and
recall those countless acts of love
our mothers have offered us throughWe cannot take such love for granted!
sacrifice that
out their
lives.
Ascension Thursday Next Thursday,
May
of the Ascension of the Lord, a holy day •f obligation. Check your parish bulletin for the schedule of holy day Masses. 12, is the feast
As is customary, offices in the Catholic Center, including The Catholic News i
Herald, will be closed for the day.
a red flower or a white one that we wear this Mother's Day, let us lift our mothers to God in prayer a special and ask that He give them the best gift of all blessing that will last forever. They deserve the best!
Be
it
—