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Serving Catholics in Western North Carolina in the Diocese of Charlotte

Volume 4 Number 6 • October

Ann

St.

Bless the beasts and children

Ailing

Bosnian Child

CAROL HAZARD

1994

Opens Heart

Parishioner

To Help

and find an apartment, clean and furnish

Associate Editor

— To

CHARLOTTE St.

it.

at least

one

"You're the only one crazy enough do this," the translator told her. While organizations have come to the aid of Bosnian war victims, Souders is the only individual to take on the responsbility, she was told.

Ann parishioner, Fatima is a miracle.

This Fatima has nothing to do with

Mother to

the appearance of the Blessed

three Portu-

guese children in 1917.

Fatima

This the

"They're such a loving, tender family ... One person really can make a differ-

from

arrived

ence."

Watching the evening news one night 14 months ago, Souder's heart went out

Charlotte last

Friday with her mother, father and 2y e a r - o 1 d

to a

to help these

United Nations, which put her in touch with the International Organization for

MARILYN SOUDERS

Migration.

prepared.

St.

Ann

—

Souders set up a "Sarajevo" tax-free account through St. Ann and raised

$2,500 for food, clothing and shelter for the Bosnian child and his or her family. A $500 check was sent with the message that the "Bethel Foundation was established as a means to use God' s monetary blessings" to help people in need. Souders thought she had her child a couple of times but plans fell through at the last minute. Then, she heard about Fatima and the child was indeed on her way. The family's home outside of Sarajevo had been shelled. They lived in abomb shelter and, for one 1 0-day stretch,

— mostly

She had called doctors

members of

who

agreed to

She had arranged free hospitalization at Presbyterian Hospital. Mostly she relied on her family and treat the child for free.

fellow parishioners for support.

Somebody has

people, she said to herself. She called the

For more than a year, Marilyn Souders has tried to bring a child in need of medical attention to the United States from war-torn Bosnia. Souders didn't know who would come or what the medical condition would be. But she was.

desk of IRishap William

mother whose child was maimed

the war.

brother.

t.h,R

see the

name of

Bosnia who

from

smiles on their faces," Souders said.

girl

on horseback, Father Richard Hokanson, pastor of St. Joseph in Newton, blesses animals and children for the Feast of St. Francis from high in the saddle. See additional pictures on Page 2. Photo by JOANN KEANE

when

the

11 -month-old

Arriving

so worthwhile

"It's

Then, she waited. And waited. Finally, word came. Fatima Delic, who was born with a double cleft lip and palate, would arrive in Charlotte. Souders had two days to finalize medical plans

survived only on water. See Fatima, Page 16

P,wrl'm

Vocations Are Everyone's Business We lift our hearts

in prayerful

deacons and religious

who

thanksgiving for the priests,

from us? Pope John XXIII often

of Charlotte. Their generosity and dedication are witness to their

Is this the message our youth hear Church obtains the vocations it prays for.

daughters to consecrate their lives in His service?

serve us throughout the Diocese

Is this

deep love for Christ and His Church.

said that the

included in our daily prayers?

Do we recognize

everyone

that

in the

Diocese of

Charlotte has a vested interest in promoting vocations to the priesthood and religious life?

During the past decade, our Catholic population has

Our Catholic presence

North Carolina

double in the next 10 years.

Some parishes

tripled.

expected to

If the future predicted

are already

priests

new increase in membership by erecting and parish centers. The diocese recently

and

preparing for this

vocations.

larger churches

the Harvest to send

purchased a building that will enable us to double our

Charlotte

present high school enrollment. Within the past

members a

two years, our elementary schools' enrollment has increased by 32%.

growth

Western North Carolina

be adequately served by

we must all join together to ensure our obtaining future each member of the diocese to join with me in begging the Lord

religious, then

invited

is,

laborers into the vineyard, for our harvest in the Diocese of

indeed, abundant.

beg you

also, especially parents, to offer

our younger

clear understanding of the invaluable service provided us by those dedicated

men and women whose lives

feed us the bread of life, heal our pain-filled souls, guide

us through our darkest hours and reach out with loving compassion to the least and

Everywhere we look, we behold growth in the Diocese of Charlotte. However, the numbers of priests, deacons and religious have not increased to

adequately meet this remarkable growth. While

for

diocesan priesthood,

will

are blessed with

need more seminarians

20 candidates

are to adequately fulfill

most vulnerable Lord

Jesus,

our midst.

you called us

be living stones in your Church on earth, hear our prayer

for an increase in priests and religious,

who uphold

us in your love.

the needs of our rapidly

a shortage in

growing diocese. Religious communities are also experiencing applicants. What explains this decrease in vocations to priesthood and

religious life? In African nations, the Far East

Communist domination, service. Is

forth

and bear

we have

failed as a people to identify a call to priesthood

from Jesus himself? "You did not choose me, but

fruit

am,

always

there exists an abundance of vocations to these ministries of

possible that

religious life as a call

With every best wish,

Prayerfully in the Lord,

and European nations formerly under

chose you

and to

Most Rev. William G. Curlin

abundantly."

Bishop of Charlotte

we, as a diocese, speak on behalf of vocations to the priesthood and religious

Are we honored

that

God would

call forth

life?

from our homes and our parishes sons and

(See pages

9 for more on Vocatioxis)

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1994

Father Richard Hokanson, pastor of St. Joseph, Newton, blesses animals of all kinds for the Feast of St. Francis. (Left)

Father Hokanson blesses Susan Martin's dog, Mosby.

(Above) Eight-year-old Dennis

Gilfillan

holds his hamster up for a sprinkling of holy water.

Photos by

JOANN KEANE

Parish Honors Father Hunt For

50 Years Of Service As Jesuit By

WILLIAM ACH

— Members

WINSTON-SALEM

of St. Benedict the Moor Parish honored their pastor, Father Lawrence Joseph

Hunt, for his 50 years of service as a Jesuit.

Expressing gratitude on behalf of all parishioners, the St. Monica' s Guild pre-

sented Father Hunt with a gift of luggage at a recent

Mass. Displayed

at the altar

was a sign with the greeting "Happy 50th Anniversary Father Hunt." Serving the faith community and the

Diocese of Charlotte with the same gentle and humble spirit he showed as a missionary in his work in India, Father Hunt is still

many ways

One

—

left

with Mother Teresa by his par-

Father Lawrence Hunt at a parish cel-

Photo by

ROBERT CARVER

and cerebral palsy, Bose was able to communicate only with a smile and a keyboard on which he punched out characters with great effort on the narrow

nificant contagion (of leprosy) under

tape.

for his

am really missing you and rememme or the message said. "I am feeling

not,"

very sad and too lonely that

today's conditions."

and

Mission to the Leprous

for a

home

Philadelphia.

money

timore Sun referred to Father Hunt as

in 1990.

afflicted,

he exemplifies Christ's words

Matthew 25

the least of

" As

much as you did it to

brothers,

you did

me."

An eloquent man, his eloquence finds expression in his eyes and his hands. He sees his duty in human rather than abstract terms,

and seeks in

his

own way to

Junior College, Wernersville, Pa.

then studied philosophy

Woodstock

College in Maryland until 195 1 He served as Dean of Men at the University of Scranton until 1954 and studied theology at Woodstock College from 1954-1958. Following his ordination in 1957, Father Hunt was a tertiary until 1 959 at Auriesville, N. Y., and served as administrator of the Jesuit Novitiate in Wernersville until 1962.

help change the attitudes of people ev-

erywhere about "the imagined but insig-

See Jesuit, Page 3

CAROL HAZARD Associate Editor

HENDERSONVILLE — BINGO.

for elderly Jesuits near

A feature story in The Bal-

Moor

Strong in his convictions about the importance of bringing comfort to the

CAROL HAZARC

Answer To Life's Meaning In Older Age Tied To Christian Faith

in India

any word to you. When are you returning back?" After struggling for 20 years to reform India's treatment of leprosy victims, Father Hunt returned to the United States in 1 984 as Dean of Student Life at St. Joseph University. He was associate pastor of Holy Cross Church, Dover, Del., and St. Mark Church, Catonsville, Md. He was assigned to St. Benedict the

cannot say

Photo by

coordinator for Catholic Social Services.

Father Hunt was honored in 1984 at a benefit near Baltimore to raise

"an ostensibly simple man of God and complex man of action" and told of "the radiant smiles of literally thousands of leprosy patients who have passed his way so openly grateful for his mere lack of revulsion or fear." Father Hunt was born in Catonsville, Md. on Feb. 14, 1927 and graduated from Loyola High School in 1944. On Sept. 21, 1944, he joined the Society of Jesus and was a novice from 1944-1948

a break

ebration of his 50 years as a Jesuit.

ents as an infant. Afflicted with leprosy

bering you whether you believe

for

of St. Gabriel

narrow tape wound around a piece of cardboard a letter written to him by one of his Indian pupils, Babu Bose, who

was

at the Ninth Annual National Symposium are (l-r) B. J. Dengle Church, Charlotte; Matt Propst, St. Margaret Mary Church, Swannanoa Father Anthony Marcaccio, pastor of Sf. Margaret Mary, and Suzanne Bach, CRISK

Pausing

a missionary.

of his prized possessions

Ceramic

classes. Bridge.

good social programs for older people. But they neglect the most important matter Sure,

all

these outlets provide

for people as they age,

and that

the

No matter how far science has pro gressed to provide for longer, healthie it can't address the deeper issues "Despite great contributions, ultimatel;

lives,

science has failed in the arena most criti

Sapp said. "Our basic view of aging

cal,"

not

scientific matter at all. It's a question o attitudes.

What it means to grow old is

meaning of life. "The meaning of old age is linked to the meaning of life itself," said Dr.

theological, philosophical question;

Stephen Sapp, keynote speaker at the Ninth Annual National Symposium Ministry With The Aging Sept. 27-30 at

out a positive and useful

—

the

Kanuga Conference

Center.

About

300 people from 27 states in health care and social service professions, clergy and lay people in ministry with older adults attended the interfaith conference.

The conference was sponsored by Mars Hill College, United Health Services Inc lic,

—

Pruitt Corp.

and the Catho-

Episcopal, Baptist and Evangelical

Lutheran churches. is

"The question of meaning in old age which the

precisely the question to

Christian faith has the answer," said

Sapp, author, editor and religion professor at the University of Miami.

matter of value, therefore of faith."

The United old,

said.

States has yet to figur

way to gro\ And yet, everyone is aging

"Aging Together: Building the City c God:" That was the conference theme That the

the starting point for rethinkin

way we

see the aging process.

need a new image, a new cul ture in which growing older is seen not a a problem to be denied but as an oppoi tunity, a resource to be celebrated." If the church doesn't address th issue, no one else will, he said. "We nee to encourage people to be open to th spiritual enrichment aging can bring. need to encourage people to get out an serve others and provide ways to do it.

"We

See Aging, Page

October

1994

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Chains

Parishioners from St. Paul the Apostle form part of the Oct. 2 Life Chain in Greensboro. Taking part are (l-r) Peter Van Schoick, Sandra Jones, Drew Jones, Russ Jones, Jerry Minton and Marie Scotto. Photo by JOHN GILLIGAN

Rope Still Hopes To Make Trip To Lebanon As Soon As Possible CASTEL GANDOLFO,

— Pope John Paul

(CNS)

Italy

said he

hopes to travel to Lebanon as soon as possible to show his "respect and friendship" for all the religious communities in the country.

and foreign-back militias are still active on its soil. The pope said he hoped that further steps in the peace process would insure Lebanon's right to live in safety, freedom, justice and dignity.

The pope was forced to cancel a trip after a series of bombings and

May

threats raised security concerns in the

Middle Eastern nation. At that time, there were misgivings among the Christian and Muslim communities about the

Jesuit (From Page

visit.

the state of Bihar in India in 1963.

The pope,

remarks Oct. 1 to the new Lebanese ambassador to the Vatican, Youssef Arsanios, said his visit would aim to help the Lebanese church prepare its national synod. One goal of the synod is to deepen the dialogue between Christians and Muslims, who live side by side in the country, he said. The pope remarked that Lebanon, after many years of sectarian strife, had still

not consolidated civil peace.

He said

Father Hunt began his assignment in

served as principal of Loyola High School in Jamshedpur, rector of DeNobili

became

director of the

Damien School Welfare Centre

aging

vanced leprosy, a leprosy control project for a population of 1 ,100,000 with clinics at 58 locations, a leprosy worker's

aging

dren of patients and leprosy education

The phrase is often used by Lebanese Church leaders who complain that Syrian and Israeli or Israeli-backed forces still occupy parts of the country

against older,

hospital facilities for patients with ad-

training center, hostel facilities for chil-

programs for the public. William Ach

a parishioner at St. Benedict the Moor Church, WinstonSalem. is

Aging should not be a "we

versus them" situation, pitting younger

Dhanbad, providing welfare services and

and their legitimate desire for ereignty."

ing in later years. It has isolated people, reduced them to a scientific model. It has put them in a class by itself. "If we break down class distinctions, we can more readily recognize

No more categorizing. No more deni-

major

the Vatican supports the Lebanese people "full sov-

(From Page

grating labels.

Dhanbad. In 1975, he

Aging

High

School, and pastorof St. Anthony Church in

Bob Gallagher (r) leads a group of St. Gabriel parishioners in the Charlotte Life Chain Photo by MAGGI NADOL which drew about 10,000 participants.

Sapp

"We

said.

wisdom of those who are older," Sapp said. "One learns to live by living. It only makes sense to ask those who have lived

need a

way we conceptualize must come to understand

shift in the ...

the longest."

not something that applies only

to old people.

In closing, he said, "If we are to build

We are all aging together.

a city of God,

Aging is a dynamic process, involving movement and growth. "We are making the same journey even if we are at different stages ... Whatever our age, we have certain claims on society, also certain responsibilities.

Our

happen

—

responsibility

to society doesn't reach a certain age.

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October

1994

Pro-Life Corner A Los Angeles abortionist, Leo Kenneally, whose negligence caused the deaths of two young

women and

injuries to five

others, was given a lenient one-year license suspension because,

as the abortionist's lawyer put it, the medical board believed him to be

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"an extremely valuable asset to this community." Los Angeles Times, 8/15/94

Editorial

Is?

The Respect

What Is The Answer? There

no question

vocations to the priesthood and to religious life in The questions arise when the Church attempts

general.

discover the cause of the shortage and the solution to

Pope Says CASTEL GANDOLFO,

Archbishop Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa, secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Institutes of

Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, told Vatican Radio there is too much emphasis on material well-being and pleasure in

some countries.

own

ideas of the cause of the

At a recent Serra regional conference in New Orleans, the head of one of the nation's largest seminaries said that vocations will increase when the Church is perceived to be under serious attack or there is a deep search for spiritual values.

Msgr. Gregory Aymond, president/rector of Notre

Dame Seminary

New

increase "where there

Orleans, said that vocations

oppression and where the

courageous acts of the Church come to the forefront." In answer to a question, he said he foresees some event such as a social upheaval in the United States that will trigger an increase in vocations. "I do believe something will happen in our culture and help us hit rock bottom. I don' t know what form that will take," he said. "But I don't think it will happen any time soon." sort of disaster to bring about

an increase

in vocations.

But we do think there are steps that can be taken now to help solve the problem.

Vocations are everyone's business. Some answers may come from the four-week world Synod of Bishops on religious life which began this week in Rome. Promoting vocations is one of the topics for discussion at the synod. start

of the synod, aVatican official said

an interview that a major reason for a drop in vocations in the West is the progressive loss of Christian in

values in society.

The Cathouc

News & Herald October

Volume

Editor:

Peace

Italy

(CNS)

"ill

Itl

commitment of all, Pope John Paul II said. "The work of peace in the framework of the pastoral mission of the Church must become, for all the faithful, a more concrete commitment," the pope said Sept. 29 during a meeting with members of the Pontifical Counand Peace. While the end of the Cold War and its division of the world into two opposing blocs brought hopes for an era of peace, it also led to a profound change in the balance of power and security in the world, he said. "This provoked a feeling of instability and uncertainty," the pope said. The Church as a whole and individual Catholics cannot give into despair nor walk away from a renewed commitment to ensuring peace and promoting develop-

cil

4 di

is I

for Justice

ment, he said.

"On the contrary, Christian hope calls for courage; must be examined with the convicmove toward authentic development and lasting peace with respect for humanity and

the world situation tion that

possible to

Pope John Paul

said his early

September

visit to

Zagreb, Croatia, confirmed for him "the Christian conviction that peace is not a Utopia, but that it is if

one really wants

it,

whereas war is deprived

of all justification."

The pope also emphasized the important contribution the Church can make to discussions about economic development. While praising market economies freedoms they give people, he said ethical and moral values also must be protected in the marketplace. "In the theories and practices of liberal economies, the requirements of justice, equity and solidarity risk appearing to be contrary to the search for efficiency," he said. While states should guarantee economic freedom for their people, the pope said, they must also guarantee that such freedom is exercised for the benefit of all. He said the Vatican will participate in next year's U.N. Conference on Social Development with the aim of "supporting an economic order able to promote the participation of all, especially through employment." New ways must be found, he said, "to prevent the disintegration of society, to eliminate poverty and to for the

—

Most Reverend William G. Curlin

'Jl!

are not Utopian ideals, but real possibilities requiring the

Pope Says Some Religious Orders May Not Last Forever VATICAN CITY (CNS) The Catholic Church always will have members who are called to religious

Number 6

Real Possibility

— Lasting

guarantee social protection, especially for the poorest."

1994

peace and authentic development throughout the world

possible

Page 1 of this edition, Bishop Curlin outlines some of them and asks for our help with those steps. We won't repeat the bishops suggestions here but we urge you to read them and to take them to heart. InJiis letter on

Publisher:

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for creation," he said.

Maybe Msgr. Aymond is right and it will take some

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the problem.

Others have their problem.

Diocese of Charlotte

Life Office

that there is a shortage of

although individual religious orders have no guar-

life,

antee they will last forever, Pope John Paul

II said.

"The guarantee of lasting until the end of the world, which has been given to the Church as a whole, is not necessarily given to individual religious institutes," the

pope said Sept. 28 at his weekly general audience. While all members of the Church are called to a life of holiness by virtue of their baptism, he said, some live their baptismal call "in a particularly intense way by embracing the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty and obedience." The Holy Spirit is the source of the spiritual gifts given to individuals and religious communities to benefit the Church and the world in every age and in a

variety of circumstances, he said.

Under the Holy Spirit' s guidance, the pope said, the communities can take on new tasks and ways of operating according to the needs of the times and the places

work without betraying

they

the tradition of their

"Institutes which are no longer suited to their epoch,

founders.

or which

no longer have vocations, can be forced

close or to unite with another," he said.

While the life of individual orders is not guaranteed last, Pope John Paul said, the practice of Catholics

publicly consecrating themselves with the promise of

vows

iti

will continue throughout history.

•k

"The idea of a church composed only of lay people committed in a life of marriage and secular professions does not correspond to the intentions of Christ, which are

shown to us

God

in the Gospel,"

continues to call

said.

men and women

"to give

themselves totally to Christ and his kingdom by way of celibacy, poverty and submission to a rule of life," the

pope said. "Those who follow this way in the future, as

in the

an important role in the development of the holiness of the Christian community and its evangelizing mission," he said. past, will continue to play

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The Catholic News

St. 4 was St. Francis of Assisi's and we need him more than I love his quote: "For what else are

Oct.

feast day,

ever.

the servants of

God

but his minstrels

whose work is to lift up people's hearts and move them to spiritual gladness." If

only people grasped this simple

Many

wisdom.

hear the voice of the

Church, some even read all the carefully worded ecclesiastical documents, but the

Gospel never touches them. The poor are not visited, the oppressed are not consoled, and the lonely remain in isolation without a sign of love. The world is filled with apathy and selfishness. Our mission as Catholics is to carry God's love into the fray every day. The spirit of poverty which St. Francis lived

cold-hearted

They forget that it is not through knowledge that one attains they have become.

union with God, it is love that opens us to the higher realm of the Spirit, only humble love will enable us to enter the Kingdom of God.

Every soul contains the seeds of even the lowliest person. Peasants and beggars with no formal education have advanced to great heights of holiness precisely because of their capacity to love. Having stripped themselves of the excess baggage created by selfishness, they learn to reject anything false,

anything that makes them less accessible

needs of others.

to the

Countless clergymen down through the ages,

love to those who need it most.

But many Christians are virtually blind and deaf to

bishops, have walled themselves off from

of the poor. Even the clergy live lives of comfort and ease while ofh-

they have used their passing power as a

rs suffer.

Apathy is only part of the problem. worse is to be blind to one's own spiritual poverty. Those who pride themselves in their knowledge of the ScripFar

and

that includes

It's

many

secret that

Catholic

means of dominance and self-assertion. These very abuses caused the Great Schism and the Protestant Reformation. These hypocrites left behind a legacy of shame, pain and division. Through St. Francis, the Holy Spirit

identity. In

addition to ensuring excel-

lence in education, they are seeking ways

hat will impact their lives and, through

hem,

their culture.

One way night do this

universities

and colleges

Needed

When

did

last

iiare to

In other words,

imagine.

ind lifting our thoughts to heaven? Jts

that people all of a

Why

sudden are

by love

in order to

show

forth

and

The

prophetic voice of St. Francis to be min-

spirit

of poverty

the excep-

tion than the rule.

that difficult.

Christ promised to abide with us

and

forever,

strels

What is the answer to such mediocrity? The answer is love, which is most

called us through the

of joy and spiritual gladness.

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perfectly expressed in the cross of Christ.

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The Lord asks us to surrender to His will,

Christophers,

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York,

ence of love. The sinful people of God must learn to live for love and the Church

Father John Catoir The Christophers.

12 East 48th

St.,

New

NY 10017.) is

director of

The World Of Ideas

The Human Side

where are the Catho-

—

Father Eugene Hemrick

together, identifiably as Catholics, and

stand to be corrected, but

believe

too few Catholics today

sense that their true vocation intellectual life in

who

to the

some form.

security than by an

adventuresome spirit

bringing

down Soviet power.

Perhaps because of the pace of life, too many spend all their time reacting to events and don' t take the extra step needed to influence and transform their world. Like news commentators, they focus heavily on problems of the moment and

bent on changing the world for the better,

jump from one topic to another. What is needed is the willingness to

than love for the world of ideas.

Poetry, theater, music and ideas have always been feared by dictators because of their power to fire the imagination and

world today needs a Catholic intelligentsia, it is not just to move mind and heart, but to speak to the soul. Father Hemrick is director of research for the United States Catholic

"suffer" with an idea, to respect its scope

—

its

infinity

— and humbly

bow

before God with it. That is where the idea

Where are the musicians whose compositions are capable of moving the soul

rule

Gospel. Jesus Himself said, "Learn of Me for I am meek and humble of heart," but the Church is slow to reform itself.

men and women who are devoted to original ideas, new harmonies and creative images who are willing to come

we have

answer prompt my suggestion. Where oday do we find Catholic playwrights, lovelists, poets, musicians and philosophers who combine the best of Catholic imagination with their disciplines and *vho make an impact on our culture? Where, for example, are the Cathoic playwrights who probe the plight suffered by Third World people? One well thought-out play could do more to faise consciousness than any of us might

must

the loving face of God. It's that simple,

lic

world of Catholic ideas.

has urged the Church to shed all forms of triumphalism, to return to the spirit of the

^^^^

wise?

to sacrifice a lifetime for their vocation?

Several questions that are difficult

experience the

by planting the idea in itudents that some of them just might lave a vocation in some form to the is

Father John Catoir

moving force of a poem by a Catholic writer whose spirituality was rich and

in students a Catholic tradition

;o instill

One Candle

rediscovering Gregorian chant?

and colleges are searching

a facelift to restore their Catholic

for

popes and

Loving neither God nor man,

the poor.

Catholics aniversities

Light

love,

continually challenges us to bring God'

the plight

HenJ

Francis Of Assisi

how

tures often fail to see

of "vocation" comes

in.

disturbing to see

It is

how many

Catholic students today are motivated

more by

the desire to achieve financial

no matter the personal

did because he dared to challenge his

cost.

A number of professors who once dreamt of mastering their fields are abandoning the teaching profession to join industries that are driven

The death of Socrates occurred as

more by

students' idea of the gods.

ered a threat to Greek civilization.

profit

create a revolution.

Giuseppe Verdi, the great Italian composer, rallied Italy against Austria through his music, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's writings played a role in

Because he

challenged them to think, he was considIt is

the power of ideas and creativity

move the mind and the heart. But if the

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What You May Not Know About Sexually Transmitted Diseases In answer to several questions ibout sexually transmitted disease, I <vant to

some information

give

sn't often

that

presented.

the virus.

For example, some cervical cancer ;an be linked to a venereal disease. When i medical school instructor made this statement to my class several years

ago I

He added, "It's the best medicine." (In fact, some

«vas surprised.

<ept secret in

cancer is caused by the Human Papilloma Virus, the virus that causes

cervical

/enereal warts.) Unfortunately, the virus •an

be carried undetected for years, with

symptoms

present.

And

so, the virus

spreads from one person to another, with-

anyone knowing. It can lead to cervi:al or other cancers in women, and also o a male cancer in the genital area.

)ut

Kbout 8,000

women

them young women) die from cancers related to this virus. About 30 percent of single, sexually active Americans carry

a year (many of

Did they teach about chlamydia in your high school sex education course? It's a major cause of infertility. In some groups studied, 30-50 percent of young men and women are infected. About 70 percent of people who have this are not aware and so they continue to spread it. Chlamydia can damage the fallopian tubes making

impossible for a woman

Crosswinds Martha W. Shuping,

antibiotics to get it under control.

And as

to get pregnant or causing tubal pregnan-

the infection smolders, it' s causing inter-

cies. It

can also cause miscarriage and with antibiotics,if you know you have it. Everyone knows about gonorrhea, but do you know about the drug resistant

nal scarring that

stillbirth. It is treatable

impossible.

strains? Painful pelvic infections

may

take longer to clear as you try various

may make pregnancy

Herpes is more of an embarrassment and a nuisance. But I've had patients in my office suffering from emotional distress at having picked up a virus they'll be dealing with for the rest of their lives.

Medication can reduce the frequency and intensity of outbreaks, but the virus never goes away. Outbreaks can occur repeatedly overtime. If you are no longer dating the person who gave it to you, but hope to get married someday, think of the issues that can arise when you tell your future spouse about this. See Crosswinds, Page 16

6 The Catholic

News

& Herald

October

priest told

was

forgiven.

The

penance was minimal, but I live daily with the pain and shame of what I did, and six years later still pray for for-

My question is this. I just read in the new Catechism ofthe Catholic Church that one who has an abortion "incurs excommunication latae sententiae," by the very commission of

teachings contained there as necessary for people to understand

and apply them

correctly.

The subject you bring up is a good example of why the pope said that. Some elements of Church teaching and law are quite complicated, and the entire picture

Question Box

cannot be put into focus every time an

Father John Dietzen

comes up. Let me explain. The sentence imme-

intricate subject

giveness.

one you quote (in No. 2272) says that this excommunication is diately after the

incurred "subject to the conditions pro-

vided by canon law." That is a weighty sentence. Canon

committed

carried through.

local cat-

law places many conditions which must be present before a person incurs such an excommunication, conditions about which many or most Catholics would be unaware. The same paragraph also has two other words which you passed over, but which are highly significant. It notes that "formal cooperation" in an abortion constitutes a grave sin and can incur excommunication. This space is too short to go into what formal cooperation means, but it introduces even more conditions before an individual is excommunicated. To give an idea of what I'm talking

echisms, which take into account various situations and cultures," in other

about, in order to incur this excommuni-

cation the

cation a person must be at least 18 years

the gravity of the crime of taking unborn

words

old and must be aware

the offense. Have I been excommunicated, or did the priest have authority to absolve me? Since my confession I have been receiving the sacraments. Is

wrong? (Iowa)

that

A. Several times in the documents preparing and presenting the new catechism it is noted that it is meant particularly as a guide and resource for bishops, priests and other teachers of the faith. Pope John Paul II says, for example, in his letter introducing the work, that it is

intended as a reference text, a norm for

teaching the

encourage and

faith, "to

assist in the writing

new

and expand on the

to explain

when

All My 4-year-old son, Bobby, sat at the kitchen table with paper and marker in

hand and began studying the artwork taped to the wall that his cousin Patty had given him a few weeks earlier. Although she was barely 3 1/2 years old, Patty had written all the letters of Bobby's name and then topped off her masterpiece with blue glitter and a hot-pink snowflake sticker. at

me and with great

frustration said, "I can

make letters like

can only make mountains." I glanced over at his orange and brown drawing and said, "Oh, but you make the most wonderful mountains F ve ever seen. Did you know that every kid has special things that they can do and sometimes kids don't know that they can do special Patty;

the act

comparing another child's

with our own child's, as

ties

wish

didn't

to activities that bring

our children en-

joyment and recognition

for their skills.

As we juggle our schedules

found that parents spend approximately

two hours a day with their children, and today's average working dad converses less than eight

minutes a day with his

bat."

children, four minutes if his wife also

''Mom, I told you, I can only make mountains!" Bobby said. So much for my parental words of wisdom. At an early age, children understand

works outside the home. In the hurried lives of today's busy parents, we sometimes forget that what our children need and want most is our time.

some things in life that come easy to them and other things they

It's also easy to forget that our children are not only blessed with the gifts of

will struggle with.

music, sports, art or intelligence, but

that there are

It' s

critical to a child'

development to discover which activities bring them joy and satisfaction. But it seems that there is a tremendous amount of pressure on very young children today to exhibit their talents and "show their

more important gifts of kindness, patience, love, wisdom, sensi-

stuff to a society that rewards the achiev-

to other children, for Jilly's strength of

ers

and ignores

all

others.

ents enroll their children in ties

also with the

and faith. My friend Fran recently me, "When I pray at night with my

tivity

told

children,

thank God for Will' s kindness

character and for Elliot's cooperation

Many parents feel this pressure and respond in a variety of ways. Some parmore

activi-

than a child can possibly handle.

know of a dad who is a frustrated athlete and a mom whose modeling career never quite took off. Their children are pro-

grammed

during the day. The kids need to see that

recognize their wonderful gifts. Towe thank God for all that He has given us."

gether

We need to teach our children that any talent or skill that they have is a gift form God. We have a responsibility to way

to fulfill their parents' unfinished dreams rather than pursue their

pleasing to God and that helps the human

own. Other parents seek

family. St. Paul writes eloquently about

encourage and pro-

use these precious gifts in a

that is

vide the right amount of opportunity for

we have received: "There are many gifts butthe same Spirit;

their children's talents to flourish.

there are different ministries but the same

their children in their endeavors

know

wrong

still

excommunication is same time. You appear to

that an

incurred at the

be a good example. Furthermore, if circumstances surrounding the pregnancy are such as to cause grave fear and confusion in the mind of the woman, or if she is under severe pressure from family or perhaps close friends, again the tion

would not be

excommunica-

incurred.

the catechism explains, by at-

taching here the penalty of excommuni-

life

Church wishes

make

clear

sounds as if he knew what he was doing. For those interested in checking references, the most relevant parts of canon

law here are 1398, 97, 1323 and 1324. (A free brochure outlining basic Catholic prayers, beliefs and practices available by sending a stamped selfaddressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Church, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, 1L61701. Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address.) Copyright © 1 994 by Catholic News is

Service

and the harm done to the innocent one

Gifts

—

Family Matters Eileen C.

Marx

Lord; there are different works but the same God who accomplishes all of them in everyone. To each person the manifes-

tation of the Spirit is given for the

com-

mon good." See Family, Page 13

for soccer

recent University of Maryland study

shows you how to us glitter and glue and you show her how to swing the baseball

that abortion is seriously

not

scope of God's mercy. Trust what the priest told you.

restrict the

many people who know

fall into this trap.

A lot of time and energy are devoted

or talent. Bobby, the nicest part of

having a talent is that you can share what you're able to do with other kids. Patty

Obviously,

put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society. It does not wish to

abili-

girls? But God gives every child a special gift

that such an excommunicagoing to be incurred if the act is

much as we

games, dance recitals, T-ball practice, piano lessons or scout meetings, one of the most important activities we need to schedule is time with mom and dad. According to The Washington Post, a

become big boys and

Prize. It's just as natural to find our-

things until they

tion

Good

As parents, we enjoy taking pride in our children's accomplishments. And when we see even a hint of a talent or skill, it's only natural to put our lives on fast-forward and see our children batting in the final game of the World Series, performing in the National Symphony Orchestra or accepting the Nobel Peace selves

Bobby looked

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And Excommunication

Abortion Q. Several years ago I committed a grave sin by having an abortion. I did so because of a genetic test result, which I realize does not make the sin any less. I confessed the sin and the

the spiritual gifts

OURLMJYof ifceROSAFOr

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Streep deftly

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teacher-

Bacon brings fine shadings to maWade, at first winning over young Roarke and flirting with Gail,

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birthday.

Strathairn as well uses his stiff

nipulative

The setup has Bostonian to

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As mother and son

prepare to set

out on the river, Roarke mentions to

Wade (Kevin Bacon) that his mom had once been an expert guide on the river. And, at the last minute, Tom shows up, still clingfriendly fellow rafter

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Dear Friends In Christ; Awareness have had a wonderful opporwork side by side with The Catholic News &

In planning for National Vocation

By FATHER PLACID SOLARI

Week in

Chants. It seems almost everyone has either heard or heard about the CD of Gregorian Chant by a group of Span-

tunity to

monks. Although monks suddenly seem popular, one wonders if this unexpected publicity has brought with it any great appreciation of their monastic life. A visitor to a contemporary Benedictine abbey would find that plainsong is only one part of a larger, richer tradition of

You will work of

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By SISTER MARIAN

Father Placid Solari with student

life all

along with stability in community, assist us in changing our lives so as to live

accompanied the first monks has grown into Belmont Abbey College, the only Catholic college on the East Coast between Washington and Florida. But what is this monastic tradition?

peace with God and others as true children of God.

reception of

newcomers

into the

mon-

Let the one who is to be received in the presence of the whole community in the oratory promise stability, fidelity to monastic life and obedience. This is done in the presence of God and His saints. ..and from that very day he is to be counted as one of the community. This brief passage captures the essence of the life lived today

astery:

—

Benedictine communities around the

—

world seeking God in community. Another way of looking at monastic life is to

see

as creating a "space"

which one can seek God. The

aspect of this space

space

—

is that

first

of physical

the abbey.

A monk makes a distinctive vow of stability,

whereby he commits himself and work of a community

to the life

and remains with

that

for the rest of his life.

So, visitors to

Belmont Abbey

will find this

community,

all

life in

the

the monastic

many

—

details

campus minsponsoring a mod-

teaching, administration, istry

— involved

ern Catholic college and assisting in pastoral care for the Catholics in the

Diocese of Charlotte. They will find

many ordinary ways of daily life, the monks are simply living one of many distinctive

ways of religious

life in

the

Church.

The next time you hear the Gregorian Chant and someone wants to know who these monks are, tell them they are simply people who are seeking God through

work and prayer together

tims of yellow fever fol-

in Christian

community. Father Placid Solari is vocation director for Belmont Abbey. For more information, call (704) 825-6702.

monastic family This allows for a

Dublin, Ire-

Sisters

the

are so well adapted."

Mercy vow needy with courage and compassion, with a special concern for women and children. Since their founding in 1831, the Sisters of Mercy have ministered in the areas of Catholic education and health

to serve the

tian

community, the monastery pro-

vides a space where others to share in the

monks'

life

may come

and prayer.

The other aspect of "space" is more interior.

its

meals and other ture to daily

set

times for prayer,

activities gives struc-

life.

The chants

— —

top of popular music charts

at the

community prayer,

as the

monks come

together several times a day to praise

God and

His word. Furthermore, shared responsibility for the welfare of the monastery and life together under the Rule of St. Benedict and an abbot divide the tasks of daily life among the monks. Finally, monastic practices such as daily meditative reading of and reflection on the Bible, celibacy, personal prayer, obedience and the attempt to simplify one's listen to

nearby.

came

motherhouse

The

sisters be-

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with the 1913

Sisters of Mercy in

Learn

construction period of

Guam

following World

lina celebrate a beginning of their foun-

sisters

opened another branch of

dation unlike other regional

communi-

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find plainsong, but as part of the monk's

of Charlotte

the possibilities of the religious life through interviews with a who have answered the call.

variety of people

Hands Of Love (The Little Sisters of the Poor) ~ A documentary about the vocation of the Little Sisters of the Poor that tells about their work with the aged poor, their daily life and includes the story of their foundress, Blessed Jeanne Jugan.

Contact Father Frank O'Rourke Vocation Director 1621 Dilworth Road East

28203 334-2283 (704)

Charlotte, N.C. To rent a

gland of Charleston,

went Wilmington,, N.C,

settled location

carry on his

to share thei

ARROYO

The Sisters of Mercy is an apostolic religious community dedicated to the mission and ministry of the Church in

lead to the creation of an interior

ence in two dioceses. The school which began with two young students who

In his Rule, St. Benedict estab-

Spirit."

Mercy Sisters Celebrate 12

vibrant and important religious pres-

lishes the following procedure for the

same

We are in the process of inviting each of these communities

space where the experience of God may take root and grow. These elements,

a small, almost invisible minority to a

their roots

will also find in this issue a listing of the

there are "a variety of gifts but the

how-

monks of Belmont have

have

27 communities of men and women who bring vitality and life to ou diocese by their presence as they share with all of us the charism of their particula community. The approaches and gifts found in these communities testify tha

War and Catholics in North Carowere few and scattered.

ever, the

that

the Sisters of

religious

Civil

8 years,

—

(Maryvale) in Vale, N.C.

You

1 1

communities

Mercy of the Americas in Belmont, the monks of Belmont Abbey and the Congregation of Our Lady Help of the Clergy

life.

In the intervening

find reflections and/or photos about the

religious

here in our diocese

The tradition has made its home in North Carolina since 1 876 when a small community of monks founded Belmont Abbey in Gaston County. The time hardly seemed favorable for founding a monastery. The area was poor, the economy still in ruins from the recent lina

Herald in gathering information that will make all of us more aware of the variety of ways that men and women can serve the Church as priests, sisters, brothers and deacons.

ish Benedictine

Christian

our diocese,

video, call the Media Center (704) 331-1717

ity

II km

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October

1994

The Catholic News

with us so that

we may become aware

Herald 9

Are Everyone's Business'

15: 'Vocations stories

J J) J

of the

many

opportunities for

ministry in the Church.

Vocation awareness

incomplete without taking a look

at the

Permanent

our parish communities and the variety of ways they extend the presence of the Church both within and beyond the parish boundary adds immeasurably to the strength of the Church in our diocese. You will find listed in this issue videos available through the Media Center that can spark interest in vocations and bring to light that vocation awareness is ongoing and should be kept at the forefront of our minds and hearts. Remember to pray for vocations and continue to look within your families, parishes and communities for people whom you believe have special gifts to serve the Church as priests, sisters, brothers and deacons. Diaconate.

The deacons' work

Vocations are indeed everyone's business.

Hpourke

location Director

To inquire about the possibility of serving as a priest Charlotte, call Father O'Rourke at (704) 334-2283.

in the

Diocese of

ars In N.C. offers prayerful thanks

communities ikeir generous and

lo ike following for

Maryvale Sister Mary Norman chats with former students of a pre-school the near their motherhouse/farm house in Vale. Photo by CAROL HAZARD

sisters run

unselfisk skaring in ike failk life of

The Permanent Diaconate

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In Ministry

By REV. MR. CURTISS TODD From the Apostolic Age, the diaconate has been visible in the Church.

(325) was known as the Golden

the Diaconate. Accordingly, the order

apostle Paul in his letter to the

Philippians sent his greetings not only

flourished and gave witness of love for

to the bish-

Jesus through works of charity, the

ops, but also

celebration of sacred rites and the ful-

to the dea-

fillment of pastoral duties.

Even

home Photo by JOANN KEANE

eun by the sisters.

j|idministrative offices in cities through-

out the country. Since the establishment 3f the new Institute of the Sisters of [[Mercy of the Americas in 1991, the jiiisters

continue to sponsor programs,

Institutions

and ministries

that address

heeds and concerns of their time. Today, as did our predecessors, the iSisters of Mercy strive to respond creatively to the urgent needs of their time, ^specially to the needs of women and 'children who are homeless, uneducated land poor. Steeped in prayer and sustained by their community's support, [he sisters are actively involved in health pare, education and pastoral ministry, jrhey minister in the areas of providing shelter to women and children who are jtiomeless, caring for people with AIDS, land ministering to people who are mentally and physically challenged. jio

The Sisters of Mercy invite women them in their efforts to be atten-

join

tive to the

needs of the impoverished

—

economically, physically, psycho-socially and spiritually. There are several ways to become directly involved with Ithe works of mercy in the mission of the Church: Vowed Membership, lay involvement (for women and men) as Associates or by serving in the Mercy

royo

munity.

Marian Therese Arvocation minister for her comFor more information, call (704)

525-8577.

Sister

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disappearance began to appear.

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what

happened. In general, it appears that both priests and deacons experienced an identity crisis, causing rivalry that occasionally boiled over into open conflict,

and finally became the diaconate's

undoing. There were problems and

on both

failings

The

sixth chapter of the

sides.

was was no

the fifth century, the idea

Book of Acts tells of

promoted

that the diaconate

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food and waiting on tables of service. These men were presented to the apostles who prayed and laid hands on them. St. Irenaeus and other second and third century writers cite this passage as the "proof text" for the Order of Deacons. The word deacon comes from the

of the hierarchy of orders bishop, priest and deacon was obscured. Contemporary German theologian Karl Rahner says that by the Middle Ages, the Permanent Diaconate was

'filled

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—

becoming a

—

"legal fiction."

During World War II, priests imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps speculated, theorized and discussed that the Permanent Diaconate would be good for the Church. Following the war, the discussions continued. In

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10 The Catholic

News

& Herald

October

People Angela Lansbury Wins Gabriels' Personal Achievement Award DAYTON, Ohio (CNS) An-

was not surprised the Oct. 21 U.N. was canceled.

—

gela Lansbury, star of

CBS'

long- run-

hit

—

HAVANA (CNS) Cuba's bishops urged the United States to seek solutions to the plight of thousands of Cu-

sponsored by Unda-US A. WCVB-TV in Boston was named television station of the year for the second straight year. For

bans who left the island in flimsy rafts and are now detained at U.S. -run camps.

the 10th time in the awards' 22-year history,

KOKF

The bishops,

Oklahoma City was

named radio station of the year. Also, 36 and radio programs were given Gabriels, and another 24 shows earned are a project of

The Gabriel Awards

Unda-USA

Dayton,

the U.S. branch of the worldwide association for Catholic broadcasters. is

the Latin

word

for

in a statement issued Sept.

23 after a plenary assembly, said they were encouraged by talks that led to a U.S. -Cuba accord on immigration two weeks before and by meetings between Cuba's foreign minister and moderate Cuban exiles. Referring to the exodus of around 30,000 Cuban boat people in a five- week period from early August, the bishops said they were concerned by the

certificates of merit.

visit

Cuban Bishops Urge Solutions To Refugee Plight

"Murder, She Wrote," has been named recipient of the Personal Achievement Award from the Gabriel Awards, ning

Unda

"wave."

Cubans detained at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba,

plight of

Pittsburgh Man Gives $10 Million To Catholic Education

Panama and

PITTSBURGH (CNS)— Pitts-

in other U.S. detention

centers.

burgh businessman John E. Connelly has given the Pittsburgh Diocese a $10 assistance in Catholic schools for fami-

Fired Teacher Alleges She Was Too Catholic For DePaul University CHICAGO (CNS) A former

believed to be

million

endowment

to provide tuition

approach to the problem based on educating and empowering women, he said. The Vatican, Flynn said, got the world to listen to its moral and spiritual reservations about certain aspects of the U.N.'s proposals.

Trial Ordered For Death Row Inmate Backed By Pope, Bishops CHICAGO (CNS) The Illinois Supreme Court ordered a new trial for a death row inmate for whom Cardinal

New

—

Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago and Pope John Paul II have made appeals.

On Sept. 22, the court ruled that Manuel Salazar's 1985 conviction for the shoot-

a monthlong meeting at the Vatican on

ers.

prayed to Mary for the synod's success. He also prayed for "an increase in spiritual fervor among men and women religious, as well as members of secular institutes and societies of apostolic life."

Vincentian-run Catholic school alleging

denied allegations that he is being used by gangland leaders. The allegations concern efforts by Bishop Antonio Riboldi of Acerra to act as an intermediary between police and criminals ready to give up their illegal ways. Several criminals who turned state' s evidence were quoted in Sept. 28 newspapers as saying that the bishop's activities were orchestrated by crime bosses who planned to fake a massive surrender in exchange for a lenient law that would put criminals back on the street in a few years. These allegations are "pure fantasy," said Bishop

— —

lic.

are more orthodox than those of other faculty members. DePaul Unilic beliefs

versity officials declined to comment on

the case but gave general explanations of the school's philosophy.

Catholic Educational Association for previous outstanding contributions to

knowledges

Head Hopeful For Pope's 1995 Visit

— The

General Assembly said he hoped Pope John Paul II would come next year and expressed regret the pontiff would not be addressing the assembly in October. Foreign Minister Amara Essy of the Ivory Coast, who is also a former U.N. ambassador, was elected president of the General Assembly Sept. 20. He succeeds

five re-

met with Pope John

summer residence at Castel Gandolfo Sept. 1 6. "He seemed to

papal

be rather

tired,"

Essy

— Arch-

bishop Juan Sandoval Iniguez of Guadalajara has lauded the recent arof five bodyguards of top Mexican

rests

drug traffickers allegedly responsible for the murder of the archbishop' s predeces-

Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas the same time, however, Archbishop Sandoval cautioned that the case should not be closed until those behind the killing are captured. "We praise the actions being carried out by sor,

Ocampo. At

the state security forces against delin-

quents

Anglican Leader Defends China Trip

(CNS)

— The

spiritual

who disturb

the peace

statement.

Sept.

14, Jalisco state

Tijuana's Arellano Felix drug cartel,

won

support for their

country's repression of religious free-

which

most important positions at the U.N. International Conference on Population and Development, said the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. "Both achieved much of what they wanted, and the Vatican did so without compromising on the truth," said Ambassador Raymond L. Flynn in a Sept. 23 letter to people who had asked his opinion about the Cairo conference. "The U.S. gained in-

dom. Archbishop George Carey of Can-

can authorities for the May 1993 shooting death of Cardinal Posadas.

leader of the worldwide Anglican Com-

munion has

rejected criticism that his

London Sept. was not condoning unjust

terbury, England, said in

23 that

Judicial Police agents and Mexican Army

troops arrested five alleged

members of

believed responsible by Mexi-

to deal with the challenge of population

stabilization"

and for a comprehensive

MONASTIC GUEST PROGRAM Month long monastic contemplative experience Within the enclosure of a Trappist-Cistercian community

crtpiure

Requirements: Ability to live the

full

monastic schedule

Prayer

Work Community Events

Readings for the

Week of October 9 - October

Silence -

Sunday:

Wisdom

7:7-1

;

Hebrews

Tuesday: Galatians 5:1-6; Luke

Mark

4: 12-13;

Monday: Galatians 4:22-24, 26-27,

31-5:1;

1:42-46.

Luke

Saturday: Ephesians 1:15-23;

12:1-7.

Luke

12:8-12.

Community

17-30 or 10: 17-27.

Luke 11:29-32.

Thursday: Ephesians 1:3-10; Luke 11:47-54. Friday: Ephesians 1:11-14;

10:

& Solitude

All lived within the

Because of the nature of the Monastic Guest Program, it is available only to men. Our Retreat Program, however, is open to both women and men for private retreats

1:37-41.

Wednesday: Galatians 5:18-25; Luke

and order

of society," he said in a Sept. 23 written

ternational support for an 'action plan'

said, so

Riboldi.

Archbishop Gives Qualified Praise

To Arrests In Cardinal's Case MEXICO CITY (CNS)

recent trip to China bolstered that

the United States

gional blocs. At a press conference Sept. at the

—

"The Consecrated Life and Its Role in Church and in the World." The pope

the

Flynn Says Vatican, U.S. Won Support For Priorities In Cairo ROME (CNS) The Vatican and

—

Ambassador Samuel R. Insanally of Guyana in the largely ceremonial post,

Paul

ac-

Italian

LONDON

president of the United Nations

22, Essy said he had

"DePaul

responsibility to remain

message drawn from authentic religious sources, both traditional and contemporary," said a statement from Vincentian Father John P. Minogue, university president.

New U.N. General Assembly

among

its

faithful to the Catholic

Catholic education.

rotates annually

Court saying the Chicago uni-

versity mistreated her because her Catho-

Washington Sept. 1 2. At the dinner, Connelly, chairman of J. Edward Connelly Associates, was given the Seton Award by the National

which

Lynne C. Boughton filed suit in U.S.

District

the gift at a dinner in

UNITED NATIONS (CNS)

a teaching post and

eventually fired because she is too Catho-

W. Wuerl of Pittsburgh first announced

new

was denied

Italy

bishops, religious and lay experts began

ics

United States for Catholic school tuition aid. "I think education is the key to all the problems moral, financial, social and spiritual of the country and our society," Connelly told the Pittsburgh Catholic, diocesan newspaper. Bishop Donald

that she

—

and other minorities. But police officials said the ruling is a blow to Murrin' widow and children and to police offic-

ian bishop noted as a crime-fighter has

made

CASTEL GANDOLFO,

(CNS) Pope John Paul II said he hoped the world Synod of Bishops on religious life would spark new energy

Salazar were jubilant, saying he

filed a federal civil rights suit against the

It is

Pope Says He Hopes Synod Will Prompt New Vocations

victim of police hostility toward Hispan-

instructions to the jury. Supporters of

DePaul University faculty member has

need.

systems" but "making the point that if the (Chinese) government takes religious liberty seriously; then we are going to be keeping an eye on this." While on a 12day trip to the Asian communist state, the archbishop met with the head of the government-approved China Christian Council and publicly criticized the smuggling of Bibles into the country.

among religious orders and new vocations among young people. The pope made the remarks at a Sunday blessing Sept. 25, a week before more than 200

ing death of Joliet police officer Martin Murrin was tainted because of improper

in the

lies in financial

the largest single gift ever

1994

The News

Bishop Denies He's Being Used By Gangland Leaders ACERRA, Italy (CNS) An Ital-

—

No Monastic Guest program: Br. John Corrigan, O.C.S.O.

offering required

Retreat Program: Br. Stephen Petronek,

Mepkin Abbey

HC 69, Box 800 Moncks Corner, SC 29461 (803) 761-8509

O.C.S.O

October

1994

The Catholic News

He r,;

Group Asks Cable TV Systems To Carry EWTN Catholic Channel CHARLOTTE — "Every day we TV programming featur-

see a torrent of

ing violence,

illicit

sex, materialism

and

sometimes even attacks on Christianity and Catholicism," says Bob Loughlin of Charlotte. "Cutting through this bar-

Word

rage, the Eternal

Television Net-

work (EWTN) shines a beacon of God' truth to reveal the joy of the Catholic faith."

Members of the Greensboro Vicariate Community

Life Network at a recent meeting Frank Rodgers, St.Pius X, Greensboro; Miriam Williams, Immaculate Heart of Mary, High Point; Martie Elkins and Vi Plante, both St. Benedict, Greensboro; Suzie Romanowski, Christ the King, High Point; Pat Nuget, St.Pius X; Sister Ann Joseph Edelen, Catholic Social Services; Marilyn Duraj Showers.Our Lady of Grace, Greensboro; and Gerri Minton, St. Paul the Apostle, Greensboro. Photo by BRIDGET JOHNSON (l-r)

Vicariate

Community

Group

Life

Calls For Year Of 'Salt

And

Light'

Felt called by God, a diminutive Franciscan nun, Mother Angelica, received permission from her order to found

a monastery and satellite TV network in 1 98 1 in Birmingham, Ala. With the help of friends, many non-Catholic,

EWTN

has grown into the nation's largest religious cable network, reaching more than

35 million homes. Determined to bring EWTN to Char-

Decade of Evangelization, local parishioners from area Catholic churches formed Friends lotte area families in this

EWTN. They

JOHNSON GREENSBORO— The Greensboro By BRIDGET

Vicariate Community Life Network has

proclaimed the coming year as a "Year of Salt and Light." The group, which has parish

community

from nine of the beginning

its

1 1

life

representatives

vicariate parishes, is

Joseph Edelen. Sister

Ann

Joseph as-

sumed the newly created position in October, 1

1991. Beginning in February,

992, the representatives of the vicariate

began meeting to reflect on social ministry in their lives and the lives of their parishes.

The

third year of joint ministry

vicariate includes eleven par-

be conducting a

weekend of

Oct. 15-16.

The

petitions

will be presented to Charlotte' s two major

EWTN be 24 hours. Coincidentally, that is same weekend as the observance of the Children's Sabbath, supported by the cable systems requesting that carried

seen.

"Bombarded by news about violence in American society, there is perhaps no

please call Cathy

Adams

now

2972 or Loughlin

the parishes at the festival.

Greensboro.

parish, diocesan

will continue to

serve as advocates of social ministry in their

own

parishes.

A special commis-

sioning service initiated this year of fo-

members pledged to conadvocacy of social ministry within their own parishes. The network was instigated by the diocesan office of Catholic Social Services to implement

cus in which tinue their

its

long range goal of developing social

ministry at the parish level.

The

parish

area coordinator of the Vicariate Net-

work is Daughters of Charity Sister Ann

parish or

community

Because of contacts made

at net-

work meetings, "Catholic" Habitat for Humanity Houses have been built in Greensboro and High Point, by the five Greensboro parishes and Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in High Point. Representatives from St. Joseph Parish in Asheboro have led efforts in their community to develop an ecumenical outreach program for the poor. Network members also have shared in a retreat on the social teaching of the Church and a day of reflection on the call to ministry.

better time than

Catholic Conference Center Monday, October 17 10:30 am - 3 pm Father Richard Farwell

Chaplain

Come early for Continental Breakfast 9-10

For information,

Suzanne Bach

the Diocese of Charlotte.

at (704) 377-6871, ext.

Reservations are essential

iName I

Address I

lAmount enclosed

"EWTN pro-

and national Church have participated in many ministries. I have found this Vicariate Community Life Network to be a wonderful way for us to develop our own personal and parish commitment to so-

to help at

EWTN,

(704) 568-

(704) 545-3001.

CATHOLIC

&£

activities, I

cial ministry," said

member

Miriam Williams,

of Immaculate Heart of

Mary

Parish and chairperson of the Diocesan

Synod convened by former Bishop Donoghue in 1986. For further information, write Sister

Anne Joseph Edelen Services, 233 N.

Catholic Social

Green St., Greensboro,

27401 or call (910) 282-2970. Bridget Johnson is a member of St.

Paul the Apostle Parish and serves on the advisory committee for the Greensboro Vicariate Community Life Net-

Families

need work-

place policies that pro-

mote responsive

child

care arrangements;

employment terms and conditions for parents; and family and medical leave for flexible

parents of newborns, sick children,

work.

and aging

parents.

Wlaty Ryefefc ReoMy 7800 Providence Road

— Putting Children

Cwid Wobk RenKo*

first

you are willing

and Families First

An wpmwwd puimiwat wfea twm.

314 Send $7 to: CRISM Day of Reflection 1524 E. Morehead St., Charlotte, NC 28207

on the Miriam

"In my many years of involvement in

Charlotte,

call

Space limitations force us to accept the

to focus

crisis," says Trinitarian Sister

CRISM Day of Reflection

gramming includes daily Mass, two for-

ized by violence.

Fiduccia, Family Life coordinator for

work in one's

was discussed on "The Abundant Life" with Johnette Benkovic Devotional promats of the rosary, and scripture study. Spanish language programs can also be

and provides the opportunity to purchase a monthly food package at a substantial savings. This program involves 60 volunteers and is expanding its service into a low-income public housing project in

teer

In a recent letter to diocesan pastors

and associates, Bishop William G. Curlin urged support for the EWTN petition effort. EWTN can be seen only between 9 p.m. and 1 a.m. on Vision Cable from Matthews, while Cablevision of Charlotte does not carry any EWTN programming. However, cable systems in Raleigh, Asheville, and Andrews have recently added EWTN. In addition to "Mother Angelica Live" with its guest and call-in format, unique programs on EWTN recently included: "Family Specials for Children" featured animation of St. Patrick in Ireland, Columbus' journey to the New World, and St. Francis Xavier and the Samurai's lost treasure; "Catholic Cajuns" explored the relationship between the Cajun's Catholic faith and their colorful culture; "St. Charles Forum" carried an interview with Christoph Schonborn, chief editor of the Catechism of the Catholic Church; and outcomebased education in the nation's schools

diocese to call attention to the plight of many children and families victim-

stretching from Eden to Thomasville, including the parishes in Asheboro, High Point and Greensboro. The network has initiated the SHARE food program which encourages volunishes,

the Catholic, Christian nurturing of our children."

the

and cooperation. Jointly, the network will reflect on the recent U.S. bishops' pastoral statement Communities of Salt and Light: Reflections on the Social Mission of the Parish. Other activities will include a retreat, regular meetings focusing on additional joint projects and a Festival of Salt and Light on June 10, 1 995 to celebrate and share the stories of each parish's social ministry efforts. Bishop William G. Curlin will join with

Network members

will

petition effort in Charlotte churches the

vides a valuable opportunity to reinforce

275.

Call (704)542-2002 W: (704) 541-6100

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October

1994

'(^mtmiquemorwj La Misa La

CCH Forma

Consejo Provisional

Liturgia Eucaristica

En una reunion celebrada el pasado voz alta

Esta parte de la Misa contiene elementos de dos antiguas tradiciones: la cena, o fraccion del pan, accion que

quinto), el sacerdote recitaba en

Jesus nos dejo en conmemoracion de El

depositaba en

y la tradicion hebrea de ofrecer sacrificios a Dios. Estos dos elementos se entrelazan

peticiones muy elaboradas, que se decfan

en las acciones simbolicas y oraciones de la Eucaristia.

Liturgia Eucaristica tiene una

parte

inicial:

preparacion y (el pan y el

una sencilla oracion sobre

las ofrendas

que se habfan trafdo mientras el altar.

Mas

las

tarde, esta

oracion se convirtio en una serie de

en silencio como sehal de que el sacerdote se preparaba para comenzar la Oracion Eucaristica. Este silencio le dio el nombre

una de

las

oraciones: la oracion

presentation de los dones

"secreta".

vino) y una parte central la proclamation

La reforma liturgica que empezo el Vaticano II ha simplificado las oraciones del Ofertorio, debido a que el Ofertorio se habfa convertido en algo tan elaborado que disminufa la importancia de la

;

oracion eucaristica.

La culmination de

Liturgia

el rito de comunion. Se "Padre Nuestro", el saludo la fraccion del pan, que va acompahada del canto del "Cordero de Dios". Sigue luego la comunion de los

Eucaristica es

con de paz y inicia

Oracion Eucaristica que le segufa. Ahora el sacerdote deposita el pan y vino sobre el altar y dice dos breves oraciones sobre las ofrendas. Estas oraciones, hermosas por su simplicidad, se remontan a las oraciones judfas usadas en las bendiciones del "sabado". Es posible que Jesus haya usado palabras similares cuando bendijo el pan y el vino en la Ultima Cena.

9 de septiembre, presidida por el Padre

Jaime Byer y con asistencia de personas de la comunidad que han sido miembros de consejos anteriores y que han participado en actividades del Centro Catolico Hispano, se formo un consejo provisional para reemplazar al anterior que se disolvio hace unos meses. Este grupo estara activo hasta que se celebren las proximas elecciones el proximo mes de mayo, de acuerdo con los estatutos establecidos por la constitution del CCH.

son:

Las personas que forman este consejo Tony Anaya, Guillermo Anzola,

"Cristo envio a sus Apostoles para

nunca se transformaban realmente en el & cuerpo y la sangre de Cristo; otra razon fue para que la comunidad participara, invitandola a preparar y traer el pan y el

y dice otra oracion que proviene de las antiguas

vino, asf como otras donaciones para los

expresando nuestra humildad delante de

pobres y sosten de los ministros; la tercera

Dios.

(SC

LAS OFRENDAS En

(Ofertorio)

—

los primeros anos de la Iglesia, la

Liturgia Eucaristica

(el

consagrar y

compartir el Cuerpo y la Sangre de Cristo) era una accion sencilla y breve que se

hacfa despues de tener lecturas, oraciones

y una comida comunitaria. No fue hasta alrededor del siglo cuarto que se empezo a dar enfasis en la preparacion del pan y vino, que eran los "regalos" que se iban a ofrecer durante la Eucaristia. El enfasis aumento por tres razones: una razon teologica, para dar un honor especial al pan y al vino debido a los argumentos hereticos que deci'an que estos elementos

mezcla de agua y vino. El sacerdote vierte unas gotas de agua en el vino como senal de que nosotros, como Jesus, tenemos en nuestra humanidad una parte de la divinidad de Dios. La oracion que acompana esta accion es una parte que desde el siglo once todavfa tenemos. A continuacion de lo anterior el la

sacerdote se inclina sobre

gente aumentaban, asf

el altar

oraciones de preparacion. El sacerdote

ahora reza en nombre de la comunidad,

EL LA V ADO DE LAS M ANOS

era una cuestion prdctica, pues las

donaciones de

antiguo gesto que todavfa es

parte de la oracion sobre las ofrendas es

Despues de orar sobre

—

las ofrendas, el

PROCESION DE LAS OFRENDAS — Desde el siglo cuarto

y su significado es comprendido universalmente: como el sacerdote del Templo en el pasado, el sacerdote hoy dfa se lava las manos en un ritual de

Sacramentos confiesa la fe recibida de los Apostoles, de ahf viene el antiguo proverbio: la ley de la oracion es la ley de la fe. La Iglesia cree como ora. La Liturgia es un elemento constitutivo de la

cuarto esta costumbre se llevo al extremo

acompanados por un canto de

y Tertuliano advirtio a los sacerdotes

ofrenda. El sacerdote, de pie delante del

que no era necesario lavarse las manos antes de cada oracion. Durante los siglos de las grandes procesiones del ofertorio el lavado de las manos tenia un significado practico asf como teologico. Era necesario que el

altar, recibfa

todos estos presentes y mas

tarde supervisaba su distribution. Para

once la procesion de las ofrendas no era practica debido a lo mucho que la congregacion habfa crecido y se reemplazo por una colecta de dinero (no

el siglo

Tradicion santa y viva. Por eso, ningun rito sacramental puede ser modificado o

manipulado a voluntad del ministro o de comunidad. Incluso la suprema autoridad de la Iglesia no puede cambiar

solamente en virtud del servicio de la fe y en el respeto religioso al misterio de la la Liturgia a su arbitrio, sino

Liturgia".

"Celebrados dignamente en la fe, los Sacramentos confieren la gracia que significan (Concilio de Trento DS 1 6051 606). Son eficaces porque en ellos actua

mismo. El es quien bautiza. El es quien actua en sus Sacramentos con el fin de comunicar la gracia que el SacraCristo

mento significa". "La Iglesia afirma que para

los

Nueva Alianza son necesarios para la creyentes los Sacramentos de la

salvation" (Concilio de Trento DS 1 604).

"La gracia sacramental es la gracia dada por Cristo y

propia de cada Sacramento".

que

"El Espfritu cura y transforma a los lo reciben conformandolos con el

las velas e incienso para la iglesia se

Hay evidencia que en los siglos tercero y

Hijo de Dios".

(Tornado del Catecismo de la Iglesia Edition Espahola - Con permiso de los Padres de la Sociedad de San Pablo)

Catolica

Funcionario Eclesiatica Dice que Dividira Arquidiocesis de Ciudad Mexico CIUDAD MEXICO (CNS)

— Un

funcionario eclesiastico ha confirmado

To Our Friends

que algunas partes de la Arquidiocesis de Ciudad Mexico seran separadas para crear cuatro diocesis nuevas, a

This week the history of the Mass

celebrante se lavara a menudo las manos

continuacion de lajubilacion del Cardenal

focuses on the beginning of the Liturgy

obstante los nobles segufan ofreciendo

despues de recibir las ofrendas del pueblo,

Ernesto Corripio Ahumada. El Padre Antonio Roqueni Ornelas, asesor legal

finales de la edad media, la procesion del

que muchas veces trafa pescado, polios vivos, asf como el pan y vino. El algunas

of the Eucharist: The Offertory, the Offertory Procession, the Prayer over the Gifts, the Washing of Hands, and

ofertorio se hacfa solamente en las

culturas todavfa esto se practica.

eclesiastico que comprende actualmente

La ultima lectura del Ofertorio, "Orad, hermanos y hermanas ... ", ha sido parte de la liturgia desde el siglo octavo. En esa epoca el celebrante

mas de 950 millas cuadradas y presta servicio a mas de 1 7 millones de catolicos sera dividido una vez que el Vaticano

empezaba

Cardenal Corripio, quien presento su renuncia al Papa Juan Pablo II, como lo exige el derecho canonico, al cumplir 75 anos de edad el pasado 29 de junio. Las cuatro diocesis nuevas

los regalos simbolicos de

pan y vino).

grandes fiestas y fue desapareciendo

gradualmente

hasta eliminarse completamente, aunque la colecta y la cancion del ofertorio continuaron. Hoy dfa la Iglesia ha revivido una sencilla procesion, en la cual miembros de la comunidad llevan el pan y vino, mientras se canta una cancion de ofertorio.

ORACION *

la Iglesia celebra los

sacerdote se lava las manos Esto ha sido

purification antes de ofrecer el sacrificio.

Cuando

parte de la liturgia desde sus comienzos

.-Los regalos de pan y vino para la Eucaristia, la comida para los pobres y

"La fe de la Iglesia es anterior a la fe

que habfa que atender.

trafan

y son responsables de preparar y convocar las proximas elecciones a su debido tiempo. Todos debemos apoyarlos y ayudarlos con espfritu de hermandad y orar para que el Espfritu Santo los gufe en su trabajo.

del hombre, el cual es invitado a adherirse

como el numero de cristianos necesitados

participaba en la Procesion del Ofertorio.

Todas estas personas se han comprometido a llevar a cabo su mision

del Espfritu Santo,

59).

a ella.

hasta la edad media toda la congregacion

Padre Jaime Byer, Carlos Medina, Edwin Rodriguez, Rafael Torres y Luis Wolf. oficio, sin voto:

Los Sacramentos de que en su nombre proclamaran a todas las naciones la conversion para el perdon de los pecados" (Lc 24, 47). "De todas las naciones hagan discfpulos bautizandolos en el nombre del Padre y del Hijo y del Espfritu Santo" (Mt 28, 19). "La mision de bautizar, y por lo tanto, la mision sacramental esta implicada en la mision de evangelizar, porque el Sacramento es preparado por la Palabra de Dios y por lafe que es la aceptacion de esta Palabra". "Los Sacramentos estan ordenados a la salification de los fieles, a la edification del Cuerpo de Cristo y a dar culto a Dios. Pero como signos, tambien tienen un fin instructivo. No solo suponen la fe, tambien la fortalecen, la alimentan y la manifiestan con palabras y acciones. Por eso se llaman Sacramentos de lafe"

fieles.

Maria Kraft, Luis Lecaros, Noemf Miranda, Peter Miranda, Angeles Murphy y Olga Parra. Miembros Ex-

OFRENDAS ia

SOBRE

— Cuando

LAS

comenzo

romana (alrededor

del siglo

Oracion Eucaristica en

silencio de espalda a la congregacion.

Esta ultima oracion era como

que

prdxima parte de

la serial

Misa

empezaba. Todavfa es parte de nuestra celebration debido a que hace incapie en la participation de toda la comunidad en la

ofrenda Eucaristica. (Continuard)

arquidiocesano, dijo que el territorio

acepte oficialmente la jubilation del

correspondent aproximadamente a los cuatros vicariates arquidiocesanos que existen actualmente.

the last prayer of the Offertory.

interim council is formed at The Catho-

Hispanic Center of Charlotte until May. We study The Sacraments of Faith from the Catlic

elections next

echism of the Catholic Church (Spanish Edition).

Church

official says

the Archdiocese of Mexico City will be split to create

four

new

dioceses fol-

lowing the retirement of Cardinal Ernesto Corripio Ahumada.

October

1994

The Catholic News

Bishop

National

Roman

Calls For 'Radical

Change Of Government'

Observance

MIAMI (CNS)

—

In a pastoral

Cuba

let-

ter to Cubans

and all people of good will, Miami Auxiliary Bishop Agustin Roman urged a "radical change of govern-

Children's

ment in Cuba" as the only just solution to

Sabbaths

Children's Defense

both the present refugee crisis and the decades-long suffering of Cuba' s people.

Fund

The

Oct. 14-16 ATTENTION all Faith Formation teachers,

liturgy commissions,

parishes, adult education teachers, Family Life and Community Life commissions, and Catholic schools, Do you know about the national observance? For free Catholic resource material, call Trinitarian Sister Miriam Fiduccia, (704) 343-9954.

,300- word letter, titled Let

Save the Cuban Nation, subtly criticizes the recent immigration accord reached between Cuba and the United States. "We do not reach good through an agreement with evil, nor is justice achieved if we yield to injustice," Bishop Roman wrote.

He recalled his own forced exile 33 years ago, and a 30-year succession of

Interfaith

Services For Children's Sabbath

In recognition of the National Observance of Children's Sabbath, three

children's interfaith prayer services have been scheduled. In Charlotte, the service

Wednesday, Oct. 1 2 from 6-7 p.m.

Independence Park. In Winston-Salem, the Winston-Salem State University in the auditorium. In Asheville, the service is Sunday, Nov. 20 at 7 p.m. at Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church. is

service

Sunday, Oct. 16

at 3

p.m.

Cuban refugee

crises, from the 1965 Camarioca exodus which precipitated the Freedom Flights to the 1980 Mariel boatlift and this August's tide of 30,000

Cuban rafters. The root cause of such desperate emigrations, Bishop totalitarian

Roman

said, is

regime that dehumanizes the

human being, that annihilates the person,

Henderson County Catholics, Episcopalians, Methodists Meet ETOWAH — Immaculate Concep-

The conference begins with registraand dinner at 5 p.m. Friday. It will end with a Festival Service of the Word with an act of Healing Saturday at 3 p.m. Capuchin Father Allen Dec, parochial vicar at Immaculate Conception Church, will be the preacher. A choir represent-

tion

Wilderness Episcopal churches

denominamake up the consortium of

will also represent the four

Lutherans, Anglicans, lics,

Roman

ing

and United Methodists.

The

cost

ister at their

the churches at the

own church offices.

Others

number, denomination and parish and $10 to LARCUM Conference, Etowah United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 63, Etowah, NC

dress, telephone

Principal

28729. Registration will also be available the day of the conference. For information, call Van C. Kussrow, Jr. at (704) 693-1490.

Michael's Catholic School, Pre-K

through eighth grade, enrolls 230 students with a professional staff of 25. located in Gastonia, N.C., a grow-

20 miles west of Charlotte. It is fully accredited by the State of North Carolina and Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Applicant must have a master's degree ing area about

educational administration or related

field,

minimum

5 years teaching/ad-

ministrative experience

This newspaper is printed on recycled newsprint and is recyclable.

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flee at

asked.

"There will be no solution for the present crisis the origin

we do not go to that root,

of the great

...

crisis that

involves not only the rafters but the

whole of the Cuban nation," Bishop

Roman added. "In order for there to be a solution,

"Notwithstanding the fact that life circumstances in Cuba were progres-

deep change in the heart of each Cuban and a radical change of government in Cuba," he wrote. "We must leave behind the hatreds that have destroyed our na-

sively deteriorating

when

from the moment was imposed

the Marxist system

upon the country, the situations in 1965 and 1980 could be deemed as paradise when compared to the present one," Bishop Roman wrote. "Those were the times when the Cuban government boasted of enormous sugar crops ... when we were told that every Cuban had a guaranteed job and

indispensable that there be a change: a

tion in order to give

God and which

way to the love of among brethren,

to the love

the only thing that can save us.

And we must

leave behind the present

oppressive and caudillistic structures in order to give way to a democratic regime,

founded on full respect for the fundamental rights of human beings."

enjoyed the best free education and medi-

Family

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I thank God for blessing my family and friends with so many gifts. But it

often disturbs

me to think of the millions

who

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many of our children will learn to create their own masterpieces and others will find the faith in themselves to make and to move mountains. Family Matters columnist Eileen

protecting them and nurturing their gifts.

know of many men and women profes-

dents

and college and high school

who

Marx

Md. 1994 by Eileen Marx

lives in Silver Spring,

stu-

volunteer as tutors, mentors,

coaches or Big Brothers and Big Sisters as a way of how we can join together to use our gifts to build a more just and

Cenacle Of Prayer

caring community for all children. Last week Bobby called excitedly

of the world-wide Marian Movement of

—

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$10 and includes the presentations, refreshments, and lunch on Saturday. Members of Henderson County LARCUM churches should reg-

William Weinhauer of theEpiscopal Diocese of Western North Carolina; Rev. John Boggs, pastor of Long's Chapel (UMC), Lake Junaluska; Rev. Mr. Hugo Mays, a Roman Catholic deacon, and his wife, Bobbie; and Dr. Thomas Droege, professor at Carter Center of Emory

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members of

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Catho-

Speakers will include retired Bishop

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carries the root of evil in

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Lutheran perspective.

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Admission

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for bishops, priests,

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welcome

concelebrateMassat7 p.m. at Palmetto Expo Center (Hall B), Exposition Ave. in Greenville. For more information contact Theresa Fritz, 106 Chantilly Dr., Greenville, SC 29615, (803) 244-3036 or Harriet McAfee at (803) 242-54^4.

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& Herald

October

1994

Diocesan News Briefs Adult Education

CHARLOTTE — The adult educaprogram

tion

Peter

at St.

Church

will

Why

Are We Turning to the Mystics?" on Wednespresent "Spirituality Today:

Oct. 30-Nov. 6.

The Catholic Daughters

of the Americas encourage wearing white

ribbons and writing state officials asking

them

to designate Oct. 30-Nov. 6 as "Pornography Awareness Week."

day, Oct. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the church hall. Jill Raitt,

chairperson of the De-

partment of Religious Studies at the University of Missouri at Columbia, will talk about mystics who appeal to people today because they address post-modern problems. All are welcome.

MOORES VILLE — The adult edu-

Fall Fling

ARDEN — An autumn celebration

games and entertainment is Sunday, Oct. 30 at St. Barnabas Church from 1-6 p.m. Donations of prizes and hand-made items are

Annual

Fall Festival at Bishop McGuiness High School is Saturday, Oct. 29 from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Upholstery fabric, handmade items, baked goods,

and food will be available. There will be an attic sale and entertainment for children. For information, call Peter Hines at (910) 725-4247.

GREENSBORO —A series of grief support meetings will be offered Oct.

cation program at St. Therese

Church "The Nature of Our Story" Wednesday, Oct. 1 9 from 6: 30-9: 30 p.m. Susan Brady will conduct a class on the Old Testament.

fund. For information, call the church

7:30-9 p.m.

presents

office at (704) 684-6098.

Annual Barbecue

Neumann

permitted across the

Dine-in service will be in the

The

street.

new parish

$6 for a plate with potato, slaw, drink and desert or three sandwiches. Hot dogs will also be sold. For details, call (704) 786-9131. center.

price

NEWTON — St. Joseph Parish will

have a Family Picnic at the Catholic Conference Center in Hickory on Sunday, Oct. 9 beginning with an outdoor Mass at noon. Bring sports equipment and a salad, snack or desert to share. A

game is planned. Parishioners from Beth Eden and Faith Lutheran

CHARLOTTE — The regular meet-

office at (704)

464-9207 for informa-

tion.

BELMONT

prize will be given for the best costume.

Bring your lunch. Beverages and dessert will be served. There are still openings for the Florida trip (Oct. 24-25). For information, call Anne Mclntyre at (704) 545-5046.

Growing Through Suffering Apostle Parish

—

St. Philip the

presenting a

Day

Reflection centering on the theme of

God' s presence in suffering and the journey toward spiritual wholeness on Saturday, Oct. 15 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost is $ 1 2. Bring a bag lunch. For information, call Bobbie May at (704) 327-8692.

A Vision CHARLOTTE

—

BELMONT The Office of Faith Formation, Justice and Peace Ministry, ence for parish leaders, educators, catechists, business persons, clergy and

Lutherans and

parents,

Nov. 4-5

Belmont Abbey

Catholics will gather on Saturday, Oct.

College. There will be seminars on the

Luke Lutheran

theme, spiritual refreshment through song

Church for "Sharing a Vision for the Covenant Between Lutherans and Catholics in North Carolina." Lutheran Bishop Mark Menees will reflect on the opportu-

and music and a closing liturgy celebrated by Bishop William G. Curlin. Keynote speakers are Father Bryan Hehir and Sister Amata Miller. Registration is $25. Five or more from the same parish can register for $20 each. Deadline is Oct. 25. For information, call Scott Spivak at (704) 331-1714.

15 from 9:30-noon at

St.

presented in the covenant. Call

nities

(704) 523-7981 to register.

Pornography Awareness The Seventh Annual White Ribbon Against Pornography to raise conscious-

Help For The Poor

ness to the harmful effects of pornogra-

phy and the need

for obscenity laws

work with the poor in Appalachia during one of Glenmary s volunteer ses-

an application, write the Glenmary Home Missioners, P.O. nati,

Bishop William G. Curlin will take part in the following events during the next few weeks:

—

Belmont Abbey

presenting a seminar on Vio-

seminar on St.

Thomas

Aquinas Church on Saturday, Oct. 15 from 9:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. For information, leave message for Rick Pelfry at (704) 948-0647 after 5 p.m.

Amazing Grays

— Gasoline Alley

Jim Scancarelli will be the guest at the Amazing Grays seniors' meeting at St. Patrick Cathedral on Oct. cartoonist

13.

Friday, Oct. 14 from 8:30 a.m. -4 p.m.

the meeting.

Speakers are Joseph A. Kinney, executive director, National Safe Workplace Institute; Dan Wilson, president and senior consultant, Asset Protective Associates, and Karen Molli, Employee Assistance Program coordinator, GastonLincoln Area Program. N.C. Attrny. Gen. Michael Easley is the luncheon speaker. The cost is $65 for Belmont Abbey College Associates members and $95 for non-members. For registration and information, call (704) 825-6672.

toiletries for the House of Mercy , a home

Polish Music

BELMONT — Collegio di Musica

from Charlotte's Wroclaw, Poland, will perform Monday, Oct. 10 at 8 p.m. in the Abbey Church at Belmont Abbey. The performance, sponsored by Charlotte's Carolina Pro Musica and Charlotte Sister Cities Committee, will feature Polish Chants of the Middle Ages, psalms of the Renaissance, Mass music of the Baroque, songs from the romantic period, Polish folk songs and music of the 20th century. Admission is free. Sacra, a music group

Third Annual Bazaar

CHARLOTTE

—

St. John Neumann's Third Annual Craft Bazaar is Saturday, Oct. 15 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. There will be hand-made items, door

prizes

and food.

1 1

a.m. benediction will precede

Members are asked to bring

Belmont for people with AIDS.

Parish Stewardship Day

HICKORY

—

A Parish Stewardbe held at the Catholic Conference Center on Saturday, Oct. 15 from 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. There is no cost and lunch will be provided. To register call Pat Signs at the Office of Development in Charlotte at (704) 331-1710. ship

Day

will

The Catholic News & Herald welcomes parish news for the diocesan news briefs. Good photographs, preferably black and white, also are welcome. Please submit news releases and photos at least 10 days before the date of publication.

FOUR GREAT NAMES to

KNOW

Craft Sale

lence in the Workplace at the college on

CLEMMONS — Hand-made gifts

Single Catholic men 18-40 are needed

sions Dec. 16-22 or Dec. 27-Jan. 2. For

piscopal Calendar

1 6,

from

sister city

Faith Doing Justice

—

healing will be presented at

CHARLOTTE College

presents "Faith Doing Justice," a confer-

Sharing

Violence In The Workplace

Wednesay, Oct. 12 at 11 a.m. in the church hall. A Halloween party willl follow the meeting, and a is

softball

churches are also invited. Call the church

Healing Seminar

50+ Club

STATESVILLE Family Picnic

4 and

at St. Paul the Apostle Church. All those experiencing a loss of any kind are welcome.

ing of the 50 Plus Senior Club of St. John

Parking

(803) 327-2097 by Oct. 14 to register.

CHARLOTTE Grief Support

30; Nov. 13, and Dec.

—

Father Conrad Hoover at The Oratory Center for Spirituality Oct. 28-29. Call

featuring crafts, food,

needed. All proceeds go to the building

The 43rd Annual CONCORD Barbecue at St. James Church is Wednesday, Oct. 19 from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Takeout will be available in the church hall.

experience and guidance of Praying With Thomas Merton, a contemporary master of prayer, at a discussion led by Oratorian

Box 465618,

Cincin-

Ohio 45246-5418.

and baked good will be for sales at Holy Family Parish's "Ye Olde Village Shoppes" on Saturday, Oct. 15 from 8 a.m.- 1 p.m. Raffle tickets will be sold for a prize drawing.

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MITSUBISHI

Independence

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silent auction will

feature framed watercolors and crafts.

Reflections

Fall Festival

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October

The Catholic News

1994

World and National Briefs Wisconsin Bishops Set

ence of Catholic Bishops and the dio-

'Mary's Farm' Features 50 Foot

Norms For Priestless Sundays

ceses that the pope was supposed to visit

Statue

MADISON,

Wis. (CNS)

—

In a

joint letter the Catholic bishops of Wis-

consin have outlined norms for parish

worship when no priest is available for Mass. They stressed that "the celebration of Mass is the central event of the Church' s worship." No alternative, even a service with Communion, can ever be "an adequate substitute," they said. But the "acute shortage of priests" in Wis-

this

WINDSOR, Ohio (CNS)

October took out insurance to cover

was canceled. The Vatican announced Sept. 22 that the pope would not come Oct. 20-23 as losses if the trip

planned because the leg he broke April

was healing too

slowly.

The

its

cerpts

Of Our Lady Of Guadalupe

— What

creators believe will be the world's

tallest statue

of Our Lady of Guadalupe

last

taking shape in the fields of a 50-acre farm outside tiny Windsor in northeast-

trip

ern Ohio.

The statue is part of a Catholic

Italian

were published Sept. 23 by the news agency SIR

Cuban Bishops Urge Solutions To Refugee Plight

—

HAVANA (CNS) Cuba's bishops urged the United States to seek solutions to the plight of thousands of Cubans who left the island in flimsy rafts and are now detained at U.S. -run camps.

has been tentatively rescheduled for late

couple' s still-evolving dream to use their

1995. Details on the insurance were not

farm as a place for

family-centered activities while learning

The bishops,

about the Catholic faith. The Servants of Mary Center for Peace is in the process

dress the issue, they said.'

immediately available. A spokesman for Marsh and McLennan, the firm that brokered the policy, said the firm gives out no information on any policy without written permission from the client.

released Sept. 22 by the Wisconsin Catho-

Catholic League Starts Ad Campaign Against Condoms In School

23 after a plenary assembly, said they were encouraged by talks that led to a U.S. -Cuba accord on immigration two weeks before and by meetings between Cuba's foreign minister and moderate Cuban exiles. Referring to the exodus of around 30,000 Cuban boat people in a five-week period from early August, the bishops said they were concerned by the plight of Cubans detained at the U.Sr~\ naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, in Panama and in other U.S. detention

consin

not likely to disappear in the

near future, making

necessary to ad-

The 4,000word letter, "Making Do With Less: Sunday Worship Without a Priest," was lic

BOSTON

Conference.

Corrosive Effects Of Abortion Decried In Respect-Life Statement

WASHINGTON

(CNS)

—

(CNS)

— The Catholic

League for Religious and Civil Rights, in some 200 ads on the Boston subway system, says

The

it is

dents can get free

"nonsense" that

condoms

stu-

in schools

"corrosive effects" of legal abortion "go

while being urged to abstain from ciga-

far bey ond abortion," said Cardinal Roger

rettes,

M. Mahony of Los Angeles, chairman of the U.S. bishops'

Committee

for Pro-

will

The ads also New York and

alcohol and drugs.

be placed on the

Washington

transit systems, said C.J.

Life Activities, in a Respect Life Sunday

Doyle, operations director for the Catho-

message. "Our

lic

civil society is rent

"The league

league.

wanted

just

divisions over the

most basic principles

present an alternative point of view,"

As a

result the family, in

said Doyle in a Sept. 23 press release. "It

of morality.

visitors to enjoy

of becoming a shrine, a retreat center and a place for families to spend a peaceful

day together. But that 50-foot statue, now under construction in a sea of mud and concrete on Ed and Pat Heinz' farm, has neighbors talking and visitors coming from several states away.

China Has Dual Policy Toward Catholics, Speakers Say At Meeting TECHNY, 111. (CNS) China's communist leaders are showing unprec-

—

edented tolerance toward the public Catholic Church, according to speakers at a Catholic conference on China. But officials persecute the underground Church that retains adherence to Rome and view religion cynically as a way to

not the lack of condoms, but the ab-

strengthen the state, the speakers said.

Mahony said in the message, dated Oct.

sence of values that threatens students

which was Respect Life Sunday this The statement was released Sept. 27. "Even before Roe vs. Wade and the onslaught of legalized abortion, popes and bishops predicted that the abortion license and an ideology of sex divorced from commitment and procreation would have devastating effects on marriage and the family," he said. "Those predictions have proved true beyond most people's

today."

The 14th annual Catholic China conference was held Sept. 23-25 at Divine

year.

schoolmarm teaching "Values 101," who tells an unseen student to abstain from smoking, drinking and drugs but offers

wildest expectations."

Religious Leaders

Insurance To Cover Losses From Canceled Papal Trip

particular, has

been battered," Cardinal

WASHINGTON (CNS) — If Pope

John Paul II had suddenly canceled his 1979 or 1987 trips to the United States, it would have meant substantial financial losses to

dioceses preparing to greet

him. Not this time. The National Confer-

The ads

depict a caricature of a

condom when she is asked "This may make sense to

cannot destroy religion, you control

about sex.

but it sounds like nonsense to us," the ad

China historian and director of the Maryknoll Society's Center for Mission Research in New

reads.

York.

Urge Major Reforms As World Bank Turns 50 WASHINGTON (CNS) More

Vatican Urges Rights For Women, Including Homemaker Subsidies

than 200 U.S. religious leaders have

preparatory document for an interna-

urged the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to mark their 50th anniversaries with major reforms to achieve

tional conference on women in

condomaniacs and the surgeon general,

—

"global, social, political and

economic

justice." Signers of the "Declaration for Change" include about 20 U.S. Catholic

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995, the

women deserve better pro-

homemakers and greater access to political positions. At the same time, the Vatican warned that one of the greatest

many women

and Jewish leaders. "Sustainable, equitable development will be achieved

tion.

only through a redistribution of power and resources from the rich to the poor,"

summer to the United Nations, which is

transformation of the international eco-

nomic system."

centers.

Pope Says Predecessors Proclaimed God's Love With Their Lives VATICAN CITY (CNS) Popes Paul VI and John Paul I proclaimed with

—

and their lives God' s love for humanity, Pope John Paul II said. Instead of celebrating a Mass as scheduled at the Vatican in memory of his predetheir words

cessors Sept. 28, the pope

remembered

an early morning Mass at his summer residence and later in the day during his weekly general audience at the Vatican. Pope John Paul I died Sept. 28, 1 978. Pope Paul VI died Aug. 6 the same year. The Vatican had announced Sept. 26 that the pope asked Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, dean of the College of Cardinals, to preside in his name at the annual

them

memorial Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. It was only the second time that Pope John Paul II had not led the liturgy. The first was in 1981 when he was recovering from surgery and an infection after he was shot.

tection against violence, subsidies for

today is the burden of poverty and lack of educaa

The Vatican outlined its position in document presented in Geneva this

organizing the Fourth World Conference on Women, to be held in Beijing in

September of next year. The Vatican did not make the document public, but ex-

Chinese Catholics Obliged

To Adhere To Rome, Pope Says Pope VATICAN CITY (CNS)

—

John Paul II, in a letter expressing his "deep affection" for Chinese Catholics, said the faithful there are obliged to

recognize their link with Rome. The pope's message, published Sept. 26,

touched a perennial sore spot in relations between the Vatican and China's communist government. China has granted legal recognition to an "official" church

which does not recognize Rome's authority in Chinese Church affairs. An

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Delic family at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, weary after their long trip from Bosnia. With them is interpreter Matt Monteleone. Photo by JIM SOUDERS

The

Fatima

(From Page

Want To Help?

Delic was fighting on the front lines the day he was told the family was to be evacuated. Clutching their children, the parents dodged machine-gun fire as they

made their way to a helicopter that would bring them to safety. They flew from Bosnia to Italy to New York City and finally to Charlotte.

Meanwhile, Souders put her plan into action. Dr. David Matthews, a plassurgeon who specializes in cleft lips and palates, postponed his vacation so he could see Fatima. Plaster was poured tic

mouth on Monday to make a mold for a mouth piece that will be ready in two weeks. (The first surgery will be done in a month or so.) Fatima into the baby's

screamed bloody murder. Before the deed, as the process was being explained to the mother, little Fatima reached out to Souders. "When

contribute, send checks pay-

Ann Church,

3635 Park Rd., Charlotte,

NC 28209.

townhouse. She asked for a 10 percent discount a Wal-Mart for supplies She received a 25 percent discount. Interpreter Matt Monteleone bought a special coffee pot at

and coffee at an Armenian grocery store. Parishioners donated clothes, furniture, a microwave, linens, curtains, new toys, utensils, a

and

high chair, play pen, car seat

stroller.

A team of eight women from St. Ann pitched in as well. "It's been a labor of love," said Souders. "All of us are moth-

baby came to me, that was it," Souders said. She melted. Dr. Larry Glass and Dr. Kathy Reardon, both St. Ann parishioners, are

and if that was our child, we would want someone to help us. We know how this young mother must feel." She thanks especially her husband, Jim, and her children, who have* sup-

turns out

ported her throughout the ordeal. In the

that

taking care of the children.

(It

8-pound Fatima has a bilateral ear infection.) Family practioner, Dr. George -Raad also from St. Ann is caring 1

able to "Sarajevo" to St.

—

for the parents.

ask somebody for something," Souders said. Catholic Social Services donated food and dia-

"Everywhere

go,

A couple from her daughter' s ballet

pers.

class drove to their

mountain cabin

this

past weekend to retrieve their living room

ers

minute frenzy, Nicholas, 15, was awarded top honors at his school for earning straight A's and Joanna, 11, entered and won a hot air balloon competition at her school. Souders missed both last

events. last, her Bosnian family on faith," she said. "The hardest part was clearing the red tape; the rest just had to work out."

But

long

here. "I did

sofa and two chairs for the Delics'

CroSSwinds ^

(From Page

Think about how

relationship,

when

might affect a

new

partner learns

you have a painful disease that they can catch through intimate contact that you caught from someone else. Many people experience tremendous shame. Unfortunately, about 10 percent of all Americans at any given time transmit this virus through their saliva there doesn't have to be a sore visible for the virus to be passed. Possibly as many as 70 percent of Americans now are positive for the virus, though not all are contagious all the time. And there's AIDS. Studies of couples in which one partner had AIDS show that even with condoms, many of the partners eventually picked up the virus. So much that

—

...

give a woman early warning about pre-cancerous changes. Prompt antibiotic treatment may prevent scar-

tests will

For more information, read Sexualand Sexually Transmitted Diseases by Joe Mclhaney Jr. M.D. It also covers ity

Dr. Shuping

and gives

issues

tips

contract staff with

Catholic Social Services

and also has a

Winston-Salem. Questions for this column may be sent to: Dr. Martha W. Shuping, 1400 Millgate Drive, Suite B,

NC 27103.

Card Of Thanks

for safe sex.

The

solution to avoiding sexually

transmitted diseases

to abstain

pre-marital sex and to marry

who

has also abstained.

from

someone

you've

Thanks to the Holy Spirit for all things and for your mercy to me and mine.

ATH

1964, the second Vatican Council approved the restoration of the Permanent Diaconate. In 1967, Pope Paul VI, in an apostolic letter, gave specific directives for implementing its restoration. The minimum age for ordination for permanent deacons in the United States is 35, although dispensation at 32 1/2 can be granted with approval of the Holy See. The Diocese of Charlotte has a three-year period of spiritual formation.

Academic studies cover courses in theology, Scripture, homiletics, canon law, counseling, Church history, the sacraments, social encyclicals and Church doctrine. Spiritual formation is

ongoing

and each candidate must have a spiritual director/advisor with whom he meets frequently.

The candidate may be married or single. If single, he must commit to the law of celibacy and cannot marry after ordination. If a married deacon becomes a widower after ordination, he is not permitted to remarry. If married, the

deacon's wife and family play a major role in his formation and must give their support. Wives are encouraged to attend all classes with their husband. In

its first

Handbookfor the Perma-

lotte defines the three-fold ministry of the

permanent deacon as follows: Ministry of Charity Loving and serving individuals and deacon's most characteristic ministry. Like the Lord, he washes the feet of others. For many people, the deacon's chief witness will be in person-to-person

encounters. For the aged, the sick in hospitals and homes, prisoners, the poor

and the rejected a deacon can be one who cares and brings good news from the heart of the Christian community. Ministry of the Liturgy It is the duty of the deacon to the extent that he has been authorized by competent authority to administer baptism solemnly, to be custodian and dispenser of the Eucharist, to assist and bless marriages in the name of the Church,

al-

ready had several partners, it's not too late to stop. See your doctor. If you've 'picked up something, early treatment ;ave you a lot of trouble later. Pap

As a sharer in the ministerial priest-

the community of persons in Christ is the

private practice as a psychiatrist in

Winston-Salem,

Ministry of the Word

Diaconate (From Page 9)

nent Diaconate, the Diocese of Char-

ring and infertility.

many relationship on how to say no.

Mayor Carolyn Allen of Greensboro (r) presents a proclamation to Grand Knight Gary Chapman of Piedmont Council No. 939 of the Knights of Columbus. The proclamation designated Sept. 22-24 and Sept. 29-Oct. 1 as "OPERATION LAMB Days" in Greensboro. During OPERATION LAMB, members of the council devoted 10,000 man-hours to raising funds for the area's mentally retarded.

Thanks to St. Judefor prayers answered and favors granted.

NRR, FBR PJ,

DVM

to bring

Viaticum

to the dying, to read

the sacred scriptures to the faithful, to

administer sacramentals, and to officiate at funeral

hood, the deacon

sent to preach the

word of God. He

fulfills this role

reading the Gospel and preaching at prayer services, Bible vigils, penance services,

and so on.

also prepares

people for events like marriage, confirmation, reception into the Church. The Permanent Diaconate is envisioned as an opportunity whereby a mature man of faith may by the laying on of hands, give a permanent visible witness to his response to the

God who calls him

to share in the ministry of Jesus Christ

through the sacrament of Holy Orders.

By his ordination, the deacon is publicly committed to service in the name of Jesus Christ, and the Church in turn makes a public commitment to him.

For more information, contact Msgr. Anthony Kovacic, (704) 825-3698. Rev. Mr. Curtiss Todd, a permanent deacon, is

vice chancellor for the Diocese of

Charlotte.

Notebook (From Page 4)

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without trampling been about as bad all over the First Amendment.

a matter of

fact,

sion coverage of the

trial

barring televi-

may just make

the situation worse. If the

can' t be in the courtroom, they their

people add

11 just

cameras to the circus outside.

you haven't read Carol Hazard's

story in this issue about Marilyn Souders

Bosnian you to do so. shows what one person can do to

and her

efforts to help a sick

child, I urge It

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