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Serving Catholics in Western North Carolina in the Diocese of Charlotte
The Lord
Is
With You...
CAROL HAZARD
GREENSBORO — If
it
weren't for
is convinced she'd be dead. Believing unconditionally in a person's
prices to his store of oil.
overcome adversity, Berry perGreensboro a resi-
For this and other good deeds, the St. Paul the Apostle parishioner and founding member was honored with the Brotherhood Citation from the Greensboro Chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, one of the community' s highest honors. "I wish I could have been there to join the applause," wrote Mimi Silbert, president and CEO of San Franciscobased Delancey Street Foundation, in a letter of congratulations. "... our residents were thrilled to be among the many to stomp and cheer at your WONDERFULNES S If we could j ust find a way to get more people to be like you, then we wouldn't have the mess we have in our .
— Pope
that they are called to witness to Christ
and reminding them that many of their predecessors through history shed their truth.
The new cardinals from 24 countries
The induction of the youngest member of the college, 49-year-old Cardinal
Vinko Puljic of Sarajevo, the pope said, reminds the Church of the Christians of Bosnia-Herzegovina, "where, unfortunately, the devastating roar of weapons has not yet ceased and so much innocent blood continues to be shed without any prospect for peace in sight." He asked the thousands of people gathered in the Paul VI Audience Hall for the consistory to pray for the people of Bosnia, "a symbol of senseless fratricidal fighting that stains Europe and the world with blood." Hundreds of people who traveled to
Church, dressed in a distinctive red robe and hood, thanked the pope on behalf of the new cardinals, promising their continued fidelity as pastors and offering their closer collaboration in his ministry.
The pope a cardinal
is
said
making
the patriarch
a reminder of the faithful in
age 80 and thus eligible to vote in a conclave for a new pope. With the death
cardinals were left clutching their tickets
outside the hall, which has a capacity of
Nov. 27 of 87-year-old Spanish Cardi-
about 7,000.
Belarus, spent
including U.S. Cardinals William H. Keeler of Baltimore and Adam J. Maida
of Detroit and Canadian Cardinal JeanClaude Turcotte of Montreal.
The pope filled the College of Cardiits limit of 1 20 members under
nal Vicente Enrique Tarancon, the re-
Pope John Paul
total
said the group of
cardinals included those
who had
served the Church for many years and those who have suffered for their faith.
"He doesn't look at black and white, or rich and poor," says Larry Galbert, a
Delancey Street resident and director. "He looks at a man for what he's trying to do for himself." For Galbert, that means rising above a life in the streets dealing drugs and carrying guns to defend his turf, four gun wounds, three stab wounds and 1 8 years in prison. "I tell you,
he (Berry)
is
a
heavy man. I never had no father. But if I had a father that would be what I would want in a father." Galbert recalls how the Delancey Street furnace broke on a freezing day, and Berry sent a crew to fix the furnace, but never sent a bill. "If you saw him, you wouldn't know one person had that,much love," says Galbert.
Berry, 73, credit. "I
is
quick to disclaim any
am as wicked as anyone else,"
he says. "I don' t have any locks on virtue ... I drink hard, work hard, play hard and I can be the meanest SOB on the block." He also has a good sense of humor, says his wife, Jean Berry. "If I say a bad word about anything or anybody, he about faints."
"The tough guy image
is all true,
except there' s much more," says his son, Tom Berry, who now with a partner runs the family business, Berico Fuels.
"You
See Berry, Page 16
company retired chairman of the
Rome to see their local archbishops made
Church, the pope said Nov. 26 before calling forward each of the churchmen,
new
their
Friends and family say the successful fuel
nals to
mirror the unity and universality of the
archbishop of Madrid, the number of cardinals was 166.
and
don' t get to chair all the committees he'
country."
Lebanon, who experience "in their own flesh the consequences of the grave problems connected with the political situation in the Middle East." He also reminded those present of Christians in Eastern Europe who "for long years had to endure the oppression of an atheistic totalitarian regime." New Albanian Cardinal Mikel Koliqi, 92, was jailed or detained by communist authorities for a total of 38 years; Cardinal Kazimierz Swiatek of Minsk-Mohilev,
tired
his wife
Cardinals To Witness To Christ, Even With Blood
John Paul II placed red hats on the heads of 30 new cardinals, telling the prelates
blood for the
They recall how men for meals with seven children. And
he' d invite homeless
judge them.
borhood.
(CNS)
wholesale
dential alternative to prison for convicts.
and troubled black children ages 10-19. Turned down twice, Berry eventually helped opened a self-supporting and prosperous Delancey Street home for convicts in an affluent Greensboro neigh-
VATICAN CITY
at
how he befriends people and doesn't pre-
residential alternative for incarcerated
,
themselves
to help
sisted in bringing to
"Everywhere I go, I bump into Joe Berry, and he always lights up and gives me a hug," says Gill, a former resident. "He always acknowledges me and the work I' ve been doing." Since leaving the home four years ago, Gill has opened Atelier, an African- American studio, and is in the process of starting Upstream, a
you ... Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus." Luke 1 :26-31 one of the readings for the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Dec.8. Mosaic is in the Church of the Annunciation, Nazareth, Israel. Photo by CAROL HAZARD
and told
petitors during the oil crisis
them
ability to
In the sixth month, the Angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin, annd coming to her, he said "Hail! Favored one! The Lord is with
board thinks of others before himself.
people like Joe Berry, former drug addict Pat Gill
New
December 2, 1994
They recall how he telephoned his com-
Associate Editor
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Humanitarian Is 'One-Person St. Vincent De Paul Show' By
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new cardinals from Lebanon, Vietnam, Cuba and the The pope
said the
countries of the former Soviet bloc
show
that "the Church stands beside those who
suffer."
Cardinal Nasrallah P. Sfeir, the
Lebanese patriarch of the Maronite
0 years in Soviet prisons and labor camps. The pope had special words of praise for the "Catholics of Vietnam and Cuba, who are giving a courageous testimony of faithfulness to Christ and of silent service to their brothers and sisters in the 1
midst of many difficulties."
The new Paul Joseph
cardinal
from Vietnam,
Pham Dinh Tung, the
arch-
bishop of Hanoi since April, spent much of his 30 years as bishop of Bac Ninh under house arrest. New Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega
Alamino of Havana was detained in a Cuban work camp in 1 966-67 After the ceremony Cardinal Ortega told reporters that tensions between the Cuban government and the Church have been lessening. "At least there is tolerance, which makes life easier," he said. .
Six of the new cardinals are over age 80.
Two men
helped Cardinal Koliqi
climb the steps to Pope John Paul' s chair in the hall.
But unlike the other new
cardinals, the Albanian
was physically
unable to kneel before the pope to receive his biretta.
Cardinal Alois Grillmeier, 84, was up the steps in a wheelchair. The
carried
new German cardinal
is
a Jesuit theolo-
gian specializing in Christology. See Cardinals, Page 3