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Volume 4 Number
Next Year's Seniors
Our Lady
New
At
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Earlier this year, the Diocese of Charlotte purchased the former Stearns Catalytic building, with plans to reno-
19,000-square-foot facility into
options
enrollment has been
at
or
firmly committed to this
"Our rapidly increasing Catholic popumakes it necessary to plan now to meet future growth. Part of that plan lation
includes the education of children in their
Catholic
faith.
A
—
a gift often
honoring Mary
is
at St.Benedict
Church
in
their
academic achievement but also by moral values.
their living in accord with
Be assured
that strong Catholic values
are interwoven throughout the curricu-
enrollment increases have ptaced additional concerns on the already over-
crowded high school. In the past two
principal of
What's Love Got To
lum of CCHS. This Catholic identity."
Do
With
is
essential for
its
. \
;
CCHS. See School, Page 2
It?
Help For Troubled Marriages
Mary Sept.
Greensboro. Photo by
at great
allowing us to serve 1,200 students," said Mercy Sister Paulette Williams,
By the feast of the Birth of
made
"The future success of our young people will not be determined merely by
years alone, Catholic elementary enroll-
The Church celebrates
is
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Catholic education
one of the greatest gifts parent can offer
near capacity for a number of years. Since the implementation of regionalization of the six .MeckJ en&$£ J
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am
their child
lytic building provided attractive
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project," said Bishop William G. Curlin.
personal sacrifice.
for the future of secondary Catholic education.
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Catholic school students.
locked on Park Road, the current high school had little to look forward to in the
way of expansion possibilities. The Cata-
*
percent. Elemenhave absorbed the growth, but as students gravitate toward the high school level, there are fewer pi aces available for the ever-growing number of
a state-of-the-art high school. Land-
CCHS
First
tary schools
CHARLOTTE One year from now, the Charlotte Catholic High School class of 1 996 will begin their senior year. Unlike the 40 graduating classes that preceded them, this group of students will enter a new and considerably larger Catholic high school, located on PinevilleMatthews Road.
1
1994
ment has grown by 32
Associate Editor
vate the
Be
Will
2,
Charlotte Catholic High
JOANN KEANE
By
September
•
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8.
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JOANN KEANE
Associate Editor
After nine years of marriage and two children, Dean and Bridget Young were
ready to
Bishops' Labor Statement Says Social Contract Seen Unraveling
CAROL HAZARD
call
it
quits.
Dean wasn't "cut out" for marriage, or
so
he
thought. Besicks,
he was
Waived with
— Many
Bishop Ricard suggested, "It may be
see the social contract between workers
time to revisit the (U.S. bishops' 1986)
and employers unraveling amid a changing relationship between employees and
economic pastoral and its call for new forms of partnerships and cooperation between those whose investment and management provide jobs and products and those whose daily work is the source
WASHINGTON
(CNS)
their bosses, said the U.S. Catholic
Conference' s
1994 Labor Day statement.
"The expectation is that an employee who works hard, follows the rules and increases the productivity of the
pany will receive an adequate family wage, other benefits and a job until paid retirement," said the statement by Auxiliary Bishop John H. Ricard of Baltimore, chairman of the USCC Committee on Domestic Policy. "The company, on the other hand, gets a skilled employee who is loyal, punctual, productive and who will use the training and skills developed on the J job for the best interests of the company," Bishop Ricard said. "Yet many observers see this social contract unraveling as ties between employer and employee come loose, with '
common task,
mutual loyalty and much more uncertainty and less sense of
distrust.''
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The
statement, Work:
Still
separated.
Marriage counseling wasn't help-
at the
Center ofthe Social Question, was dated
September 1994 and released Aug. 25. Bishop Ricard noted that Economic Justice for All, the bishops' pastoral on
economy, calls for new labor-management partnerships that could lead to less adversarial relations. However, it
the
says, such partnerships are only possible
when "both groups possess real freedom and power to influence decisions." "We have seen," Bishop Ricard said, "the erosion of the balance when permanent replacements take the jobs of striking workers. It's time for unions and
employers to seek the
common good
instead of the single-minded pursuit of
economic advantage." See Labor, Page 3
and
Bridget had
ing.
of prosperity."
com-
someone else.
He
"He
didn't think
Dean and Bridget Young and
I
any cared more; that's how broken our
even better.
commu-
nication
"I
was," recalled Bridget. In a last ditch effort, the Concord couple decided to try Retrouvaille, a weekend retreat for couples in troubled marriages. As part of the agreement,
Dean stopped seeing
the other person.
Although similar
in
format
riage Encounter, Retrouvaille for redisovery
their chil-
dren, Nicholas, 5, and Benjamin, 3.
—
is
to
Mar-
— French
for couples dealing
with serious problems. Marriage Encounter is to help good marriages get
would have said there was no way
our marriage would have made it," Bridget says. "The weekend was a total miracle for us."
The Youngs
—
— parishioners
at St.
still encounter difficulJames Church ties, but they seldom fight, Bridget says. They have learned positive ways to communicate and express their feelings without blaming the other.
Ayear after their Retrouvaille experience, Bridget describes their marriage
See Marriage, Page 3