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Triad area Korean Catholics celebrate new church, 3 St. Patrick Cathedral, ‘mother church of the diocese,’ marks its 75th anniversary

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Catechetical Sunday: Sept. 21, 2014 48,127 people participated in catechetical programs in 2013

Pope Francis

Just as God freely offers salvation, don’t give hoping to benefit

Father Louis J. Cameli

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hristians are called to help those who have nothing to give and love those who don’t love back, Pope Francis said. Salvation and changing the world for the better require “doing good to those who aren’t able to repay us, just like the Father did with us, giving us Jesus,” the pope said at his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square Sept. 10.

“How much have we paid for our redemption? Nothing! It was all free! So do good without expecting something in return. Just as the Father did with us, we have to do the same. Do good and keep going!”

“It’s not enough to love the one who loves us. It’s not enough to do good to those who help us.”

People are called not to be selfcentered, but to model themselves after Jesus’ gratuitous love, he said.

The pope continued a series of talks on the nature of the Church, focusing on “the Church as a mother who teaches us the works of mercy.”

The Gospel is all about showing others mercy, the pope said. He referred to “The Judgment of the Nations” in Matthew, Chapter 25, which reveals that those who feed the hungry, clothe the naked, welcome the stranger, care for the sick and visit the imprisoned inherit God’s kingdom.

“Could a Christian who isn’t merciful ever exist? No! A Christian must by necessity be merciful because this is the core of the Gospel,” he said.

The Church “doesn’t give theoretical lessons about love and mercy. She doesn’t spread a philosophy to the world, a path to wisdom,” he said.

The Church backs up what she says by mirroring what Jesus did. While Christianity is also about the written Word and Church teachings, the Church “teaches, like Jesus, by her example, and words serve to illuminate the meaning behind her gestures.”

Asking how the Church shows people the way, Pope Francis said the lives of saints and mothers and fathers who teach their children what true mercy and hospitality entail offer good examples.

Calling God’s people into new life

I CHARLOTTE — The beautiful fact about the Catholic faith is that we have all been catechized by adults who have given of their time, talent and treasure to the fruitful ministry of catechesis.

From our bishops, priests and deacons, to our religious sisters and brothers, faith formation teachers and our parents, each of us has received the truth of the Gospel, passed on to us by “instruction by word of mouth,” the very definition of catechesis.

There are more than 7,802 trained catechists in the Diocese of Charlotte, according to the latest statistics from 2013. Nearly 55 percent, or 4,260 catechists, serve in non-traditional formation programs such as RCIA, Scripture sharing groups, marriage preparation, vacation Bible school and small church communities. More than 45 percent of catechists serve in our faith formation programs for children in prekindergarten through the 12th grade.

Last year more than 40,325 men, women and children participated in a formal

catechesis in parishes. Faith formation programs welcomed 22,919 children in prekindergarten through eighth grade and 3,915 youth in grades 9-12. A total of 13,491 adults were also catechized.

Combined, a total of 48,127 people taught or participated in catechesis in the diocese in 2013. That is an increase of more than 1,709 people from 2012.

The Diocese of Charlotte, in its 20122013 annual financial report, reported expenses associated with education formation offices at $1,630,133. This covered all expenses related to the Education Vicariate, which includes the Office of the Vicar, Adult Education and Evangelization, Campus and Young Adult Ministry, Catholic Schools Office (preK12th grade), Faith Formation (preK-12th grade), Youth Ministry, Media Resource Center and RCIA programs.

— SueAnn Howell, senior reporter

More online At www.catholicnewsherald.com: Download a free guide for going to confession, and hear what Pope Francis has to say about the sacrament of reconciliation At www.usccb.org/catecheticalsunday: Learn more about how you can grow in knowledge and faith about the sacrament of reconciliation

n a very short time, Pope Francis has captured the imagination of Catholics and non-Catholics alike. His gestures of Gospel-inspired simplicity and directness coupled with his wise and practical proclamation of God’s Word have galvanized believers and have even gained the sympathetic hearing of those outside the family of faith. Echoing the question that people in the Gospels posed about Jesus, we might ask, “Where did this man receive this wisdom and his contagious faith?”

News reports have given us a glimpse of the vocational journey of Jorge Mario Bergoglio. As a young man, he was on a professional track, as were many of his contemporaries. He was studying chemistry. Then, when he was 17 he went to confession, and in that sacramental encounter he somehow discovered his call to become a Jesuit and a priest. Obviously, we do not know the details of that sacramental moment, but we do know how decisive it was for his vocation. And I am not surprised.

The Unexpected Power of the Sacrament of reconciliation We know, of course, that the sacrament of reconciliation brings us the forgiveness of our sins. What we may fail to appreciate fully is that the sacrament also changes our lives, as it changed the life of Jorge Bergoglio. Forgiveness and transformation are the great gifts that God gives us in the sacrament of reconciliation. These gifts with all their life-giving power are sadly, for so many of our Catholic people, out of sight and out of mind. We desperately need ongoing catechesis on the sacrament of reconciliation that expands the vision cONFESSION, SEE page 11

Your daily Scripture readings SEPT. 14-20

Sunday (The Exaltation of the Holy Cross): Numbers 21:4-9, Philippians 2:6-11, John 3:13-17; Monday (Our Lady of Sorrows): 1 Corinthians 11:17-26, 33, John 19:25-27; Tuesday (Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian): 1 Corinthians 12:12-14, 27-31, Luke 7:11-17; Wednesday (St. Robert Bellarmine): 1 Corinthians 12:3113:13, Luke 7:31-35; Thursday: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Luke 7:3650; Friday (St. Januarius): 1 Corinthians 15:12-20, Luke 8:1-3; Saturday (Sts. Andrew Kim Tae-gon, Paul Chong Ha-sang and Companions): 1 Corinthians 15:35-37, 42-49, Luke 8:4-15

SEPT. 21-27

Sunday: Isaiah 55:6-9, Philippians 1:20-24, 27, Matthew 20:116; Monday: Proverbs 3:27-34, Luke 8:16-18; Tuesday (St. Pius of Pietrelcina): Proverbs 21:1-16, 10-13, Luke 8:19-21; Wednesday: Proverbs 30:5-9, Luke 9:1-6; Thursday: Ecclesiastes 1:2-11, Luke 9:7-9; Friday (Sts. Cosmas and Damian): Ecclesiastes 3:1-11, Luke 9:18-22; Saturday (St. Vincent de Paul): Ecclesiastes 11:912:8, Luke 9:43-45

SEPT. 28- OCT. 4

Sunday: Ezekiel 18:25-28, Philippians 2:1-11, Matthew 21:2832; Monday (Sts. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael): Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14, John 1:47-51; Tuesday (St. Jerome): Job 3:1-3, 11-17, 20-23, Luke 9:51-56; Wednesday (St. Therese of the Child Jesus): Job 9:1-12, 14-16, Luke 9:57-62; Thursday (The Holy Guardian Angels): Job 19:21-27, Matthew 18:1-5, 10; Friday: Job 38:1, 12-21, 40:3-5, Luke 10:13-16; Saturday (St. Francis of Assisi): Job 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17, Luke 10:17-24

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Diocesan wedding anniversary Mass set for Sept. 28

Photos by Patricia L. Guilfoyle | Catholic News Herald

Grace Liu, 7, and Justin Ju, 8, present Bishop Peter Jugis with a bouquet of flowers at the end of the dedication Mass for St. Peter Yu Korean Church. Both are wearing “hanbok,” traditional Korean clothing worn on formal occasions.

Who was St. Peter Yu? St. Peter Yu Tae-chol was one of thousands of victims of religious persecution against Catholic Christians during the 19th century in Korea.

He was the youngest of the 103 Korean Martyrs who died alongside St. Andrew Kim Taegon and St. Paul Chong Hasañg, the first native Korean priests in Korea. The 13-year-old was the son of a government interpreter named Augustine Nyou Tjin-kil, also a martyr. After giving himself up, he was tortured and then sent to prison, where he was strangled on Oct. 31, 1839.

Pope St. John Paul II, who canonized the 103 Korean Martyrs en masse in May 1984, said, “The Korean Church is unique because it was founded entirely by laypeople. This fledgling Church, so young and yet so strong in faith, withstood wave after wave of fierce persecution. Thus, in less than a century, it could boast 10,000 martyrs. ... The death of these many martyrs became the leaven of the Church and led to today’s splendid flowering of the Church in Korea.”

— Source: Wikipedia

Triad area Korean Catholics celebrate new church Patricia L. Guilfoyle Editor

GREENSBORO — Sept. 7 was a day of rejoicing for Greensboro area Korean Catholics, who gathered to witness as Bishop Peter Jugis dedicated their new church on Romain Street during a special bilingual Mass.

More than 300 people, some dressed in “hanbok,” traditional Korean clothing worn on formal occasions, prayed and sang joyful hymns in Korean as Bishop Jugis sprinkled the walls of the church and the people with holy water and anointed the altar with sacred chrism – the final step in transforming this former Protestant worship space into a Catholic church for the close-knit Korean Catholic community in the Triad.

In his homily, Bishop Jugis described the symbolism of a church’s dedication.

The church is both a physical temple of God and a dedicated place for people, as the spiritual temple of God, to gather to worship Him. Holy water and sacred chrism are used to consecrate the building to God, just as we are similarly consecrated to God in the sacraments of baptism and confirmation, Bishop Jugis said. All of the symbols used in the dedication rite – holy water, sacred chrism, incense, candles – remind us that we gather at church to offer ourselves up to the service of God and to give Him glory.

“We’re not here to serve the world, we’re here to serve Almighty God,” he said.

A church exists for three reasons, he also explained.

“The first is for the worship of God,” he said.

“That is why we build this church. Everything is

More online At www.catholicnewsherald.com: See more photos from the Korean Mass to dedicate St. Peter Yu Church, and listen to a portion of the Litany of the Saints chanted in Korean.

focused on the altar, where the sacrifice of Christ is to be offered.”

“The second is to sanctify us on our way to eternal life,” he continued, through reception of the sacraments, to help us grow in holiness and to follow Jesus more closely.

“The third reason is to be a center of evangelization. We are meant to go out from here into our schools, into our places of work, into our community activities to bring Jesus to others.

What we celebrate here at this altar – the love of Christ, the sacrifice of Christ – we are to take with us, to evangelize, to bring the good news of Christ to others.”

“Thank you for the work that you have done to prepare this church. I am proud of the work you have done, and we ask St. Peter Yu to continue to guide and to pray for us as we grow in God’s grace,” he concluded.

Donations from many individuals as well as Triad area parishes made purchasing and furnishing St. Peter Yu Korean Church possible, noted community council president Jong Hun Choi in remarks at the end of Mass.

CHURCH, SEE page 23

CHARLOTTE — Couples who were married in 1964 or 1989 are invited to attend the Diocese of Charlotte’s annual wedding anniversary Mass on Sunday, Sept. 28.

The Mass for couples marking their jubilee wedding anniversaries of 25 and 50 years will be celebrated by Bishop Peter J. Jugis starting at 2 p.m. at St. Matthew Church in south Charlotte.

A reception for the couples will be held immediately following the Mass.

In November of 2009, the U.S. bishops released the pastoral letter “Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan,” which expresses the meaning and their support for traditional marriage.

“We rejoice that so many couples are living in fidelity to their marital commitment,” the bishops said. “We thank them for proclaiming in their daily lives the beauty, goodness, and truth of marriage.

In countless ways, both ordinary and heroic, through good times and bad, they bear witness to the gift and blessing they have received from the hand of their Creator.”

Marriage is a special blessing for Christians because of the grace of Christ, but the Church also teaches that marriage is a natural blessing and gift for everyone in all times and cultures. It is a source of blessing to the couple, to their families, and to society and includes the wondrous gift of co-creating human life.

For resources on married life, go to www. foryourmarriage.org.

For more information and to RSVP for the upcoming jubilee wedding anniversary Mass, contact your parish office.

— Rico De Silva, Hispanic communications reporter

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Diocesan calendar of events ASHEVILLE — Theology on Tap: 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22. All young Catholics aged 20-30 are welcome to attend and learn more about the faith. For details, call Gloria Schweizer at 828-226-3809.

Bishop Peter J. Jugis Bishop Peter J. Jugis will participate in the following events over the coming weeks: Sept. 12 – 7 p.m.

Sacrament of Confirmation St. Joan of Arc Church, Candler Sept. 19-20 10th Eucharistic Congress Charlotte Convention Center, Charlotte Sept. 24 – 7 p.m.

Sacrament of Confirmation Sacred Heart Church, Brevard

— Respect Life Seminar: 2-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4.

Topics include Catholic teachings on life issues, our response and actions to protect life, pre-birth and end-of-life issues. Light refreshments will be served during the seminar. For details, call the parish office at 828-254-5193.

— Protecting God’s Children Workshop: 9:30 a.m.

Thursday, Sept. 18, in the Banquet Room. All volunteers must attend a workshop. This program is intended to educate volunteers to recognize and prevent sexual abuse. To register, visit www.virtus. org.

St. Eugene Church, 72 Culvern St.

QUEEN OF THE APOSTLES church, 503 North Main St. — Young at Heart Covered Dish Supper: 5 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 13, in the MAK Family Life Center. All parishioners over the age of 50 are invited to attend.

For details, call Cathy Boyd at 704-825-4669.

Sept. 28 – 2 p.m.

Wedding Anniversaries Mass St. Matthew Church, Charlotte

— Community Breakfast: 8-11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, in the MAK Family Life Center. All are welcome to attend.

Sept. 29 – NOON Forward in Faith, Hope and Love Campaign Meeting Pastoral Center, Charlotte Sept. 30 – 7 p.m.

Sacrament of Confirmation St. Francis of Assisi Church, Jefferson

— Mass and brunch for all college students in Asheville area: 11 a.m. Sundays. Rides to Mass leave UNCA Highsmith Bridge at 10:45 a.m.

— Special Prayer Service for Our Lady of Sorrows: 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 15, in the church. All parents who have lost a child, regardless of their age, are welcome to join for a special prayer service celebrating the life of their child. For details, call Rita Brennan at 704-543-7677, ext. 1007.

BELMONT

Sept. 26 – 7 p.m.

Sacrament of Confirmation Sacred Heart Church, Burnsville

— Bingo and Movie Night: 6:30-10 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

20. Everyone welcome.

— Blessing of the Animals: Sunday, Oct. 5, after 8 a.m.

Mass.

CHARLOTTE — Eucharistic Congress: Friday, Sept. 19, and Saturday, Sept. 20, at the Charlotte Convention Center. For details, visit www.GoEucharist.com. Also check out the pull-out section inside this week’s edition.

— Rachel’s Vineyard Weekend Retreat: Nov. 21-23.

Retreat is intended for men and women to begin their healing journey after an abortion. For details, call Shelley at 828-230-4940.

— 20th Annual Fundraising Dinner for MiraVia: Thursday, Oct. 23, in the Crown Ballroom of the Charlotte Convention Center. For reservations, call 704-5254673, ext. 10.

St. John Neumann Church, 8451 Idlewild Road — Fellowship Day: 8 a.m.-noon. Saturday, Sept. 13. This is an opportunity for parishioners and the youth of many different cultures to help out with repairs and landscaping the SJN campus and to foster socializing with each other. For details, call the parish office at 704-536-6520.

St. Matthew church, 8015 BALLANTYNE CoMmONS PKWY. — Blood Drive: 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 14 — Christians in Career Transition: 7 p.m. Monday, Sept.

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EDITOR: Patricia L. Guilfoyle 704-370-3334, plguilfoyle@charlottediocese.org ADVERTISING MANAGER: Kevin Eagan 704-370-3332, keeagan@charlottediocese.org SENIOR REPORTER: SueAnn Howell 704-370-3354, sahowell@charlottediocese.org Online reporter: Kimberly Bender 704-808-7341, kdbender@charlottediocese.org GRAPHIC DESIGNER: Tim Faragher 704-370-3331, tpfaragher@charlottediocese.org COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT/CIRCULATION: Erika Robinson, 704-370-3333, catholicnews@ charlottediocese.org Hispanic communications reporter: Rico De Silva, 704-370-3375, rdesilva@charlottediocese.org

— Community Shredding Event: 9 a.m.-noon, Saturday, Sept. 20. Have your confidential documents shredded

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— St. Peregrine Healing Prayer Service: 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 25, in the church. Healing prayer service is offered for all those suffering with cancer or grave diseases. For details, call the parish office at 704-543-7677.

— Annual Lebanese Festival: 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27. Entertainment and foods will be provided.

Hosted by the Maronite Mission of Charlotte. st. patrick cathedral, 1621 dilworth road — Our Lady of the Rosary Prayer Vigil: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7. Come pray for peace and an end to violence in the Middle East during evening prayer and a rosary procession around the grounds of the cathedral. For more information, call Michelle McNulty at 704-9966411.

ST. Thomas aquinas church, 1400 suther road — Fatima Procession: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13.

Monthly devotion to Our Lady of Fatima in the church.

We will recite the rosary, have a candlelit procession and close with a litany. All are welcome.

GREENSBORO ST. Mary Church, 812 Duke St. — Parish Picnic: After trilingual Mass at noon. Sunday, Sept. 28. Please bring food typical of your culture.

St. Paul the Apostle Church, 2715 Horse Pen Creek Road — 40th Anniversary with a Multicultural Celebration: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, followed by Mass at 5 p.m. Games, lunch and multicultural dishes will be provided. For details, call Chris Nunez at cassal@ stpaulcc.org.

— Seasons of Hope, Grief Ministry: 2-4 p.m. Meets for six weeks on Sunday afternoons. Sept. 28-Nov. 2. Anyone mourning the loss of a loved one is encouraged to attend. To register, call the parish office at 336-2724681.

HIGH POINT Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 4145 Johnson St. — Free Spanish classes: 7-8:30 p.m. Thursdays, Sept. 18 to Nov. 6. For details, call Nancy at 336-884-0522.

— Red Cross Blood Drive: 8 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, in St. Edward’s Hall. To register, call Robin at 336-885-2596.

MAGGIE VALLEY St. Margaret of Scotland CHURCH, 37 Murphy Dr. — Life in the Spirit Seminar: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Sept. 17 to Oct. 29. For details, call Don or Janet Zander at 828926-2654 for information and pre-registration.

— Healing Mass and Anointing of the Sick: Every third Sunday of the month. Individual prayers over people after Mass by Charismatic Prayer Group members.

MINT HILL St. Luke Church, 13700 Lawyers Road — Adult Education Fall Film Festival, “Moving Movies”: 7-9 p.m. Fridays, Sept. 19 to Oct. 3. Popcorn and light refreshments available. For details, call Mary Adams at 704-545-1224.

SWANNANOA VALLEY St. Margaret Mary church, 102 Andrew Pl. — Rummage Sale: 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13.

Hosted by the Knights of Columbus Council 13016.

WAYNESVILLE St. John the Evangelist Church, 234 Church St. — Living Will Workshop: Tuesday, Sept. 23. Hosted by Catholic estate attorney Sarah Wenzel. Participants will begin to consider important factors concerning end-of-life decisions, utilizing Catholic Church teachings. For details, email Mary Musgrove at maryemusgrove@yahoo.com.

— Exposition Holy Hour and Confession: 6-7 p.m. First Wednesday of the month.

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‘We can only love if we have first been convinced of Christ’s love for us.’

Bishop Peter Jugis

Mass celebrates priestly brotherhood SueAnn Howell Senior reporter

CHARLOTTE — Eight priests, whose combined years of ministry total than 200 years, were honored by Bishop Peter Jugis Sept. 9 during a special Mass at St. Patrick Cathedral. Six priests are celebrating jubilee anniversaries of priestly ordination this year, and two priests were recognized following their recent retirement.

Those celebrating jubilee anniversaries of priestly ordination are: Father Charles Reese (65 years); Father Gabriel Meehan (55 years); Benedictine Father Francis Forster (50 years); Benedictine Father Arthur Pendleton (50 years); Father Conrad Hoover (25 years); and Father Joseph Mack (25 years).

Recently retired priests Father Robert Conway and Father Robert Ferris were also honored.

In his homily, Bishop Jugis spoke fondly of the brotherhood of the priesthood, as more than 15 priests gathered to concelebrate the Mass for the special occasion.

“Our hearts are filled with joy today as we celebrate with our brothers their ordination anniversaries and entrance into retirement,” Bishop Jugis said. “We are glad to have our brothers here with us at this Mass.

“It is a great grace that the Lord gives to us to be brothers in the one priesthood of Jesus Christ, sharing together in the same sacred ministry as brothers to each other and as brothers of the High Priest Jesus Christ.”

He reminded them that this occasion was a good time to reflect on the value of the priestly brotherhood, no matter where priests live or how they serve God and His Church.

“The Lord has called us to be a community of brothers … a marvelous grace, a beautiful blessing He has given to us.”

Bishop Jugis noted how the readings for the Mass reminded them of the pastoral charity that they all exercise in their ministry. He recalled how charity, or love,

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Bishop Peter Jugis is shown after the Jubilee Mass with three of the priests who were honored Sept.

9: (from left) Benedictine Father Arthur Pendleton, Father Conrad Hoover and Father Robert Ferris. appears in both the first reading from 2 Corinthians 5:14-20 and the Gospel reading from John 21:15-17.

In the Gospel, he noted, “Jesus asked Peter about his love. ‘Do you love Me?’ ‘Yes, Lord I love you,’ Peter responds. ‘Then tend my sheep,’ (Jesus says). He is, in effect, telling him as the first priest of the Church: exercise pastoral charity towards the sheep, towards the lambs.”

Bishop Jugis explained that Peter was able to respond in love because Jesus first loved him. And in turn, Peter is able to love Jesus’ flock because Jesus first loved him.

“We can only love if we have first been convinced of Christ’s love for us. It is because we know God’s love and have come to experience it most intimately in a living friendship with Jesus that we are able to exercise that love as pastoral charity in our ministry.

“We learn as priests to deny ourselves, and in place of that self-denial to take on Christ, to lose our identity and to let Christ be our life. ‘He must increase, I must decrease.’ And that is why we are impelled by the love of Christ in our pastoral ministry – because Christ’s love has first captured us, has first taken over our lives, and we’ve taken on Christ.”

Former Tryon deacon dies aged 74 GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Deacon Joseph Henry Fugere, 74, formerly serving at St. John the Baptist Parish in Tryon, died on Aug. 14, 2014, in Gainesville, Ga. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Aug. 18, 2014, at Holy Cross Church in Providence, R.I. Raised in Johnston, R.I., Deacon Fugere was ordained on June 8, 2002, for the Archdiocese of St. Louis by Archbishop Justin Rigali. Soon Fugere after he moved to the Archdiocese of Miami where he was active in marriage preparation, advocate for the

marriage tribunal, RCIA and baptism ministry.

Upon his relocation to Rutherfordton, he requested faculties and an assignment for the Diocese of Charlotte. Deacon Fugere was assigned to St. John the Baptist Parish in January 2010 by Bishop Peter Jugis. He served in the Charlotte diocese until December 2013, when he requested retirement from active ministry due to health concerns.

His move to Flowery Branch, Ga., allowed him and his wife Gloria Ann (née Tomasso) to be near their daughter Lori Fugere. His son Joseph lives in Alaska.

He cherished his four grandchildren, continuing a legacy of helping youngsters by coaching football and basketball.

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Confirmation celebrated

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St. Mary youths confirmed SYLVA — Bishop Peter Jugis confirmed 16 youths Aug. 26 at St. Mary, Mother of God Church in Sylva. In his homily, Bishop Jugis spoke about the gifts the Holy Spirit bestows on us at confirmation, and how He guides us throughout our lives. He strengthens us so that we will always be able to be stewards of our faith. The parish gave special thanks to Rick and Sandy Beauchemin, Sarah Freeman, Celeste Franzen and Jane Sullivan, who taught the confirmation class to make hand-tied twine rosaries which Bishop Jugis blessed for them, as well as thanks to the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Daughters of the Americas.

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CHARLOTTE — Bishop Peter Jugis confirmed 66 young people at St. John Neumann Church on Sept. 5.

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In Brief Lebanese festival coming up Sept. 27 CHARLOTTE — The Maronite Catholic Mission of Charlotte will host its annual Lebanese Festival on Saturday, Sept. 27, at St. Matthew Church in south Charlotte. The festivities will run from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. and will feature Lebanese music and entertainment, as well as Lebanese food and sweets. St. Matthew Church is located at 8015 Ballantyne Commons Pkwy. For details, email abouna@mmocnc.org

Shredding event to benefit environmental projects

Upcoming Days of Reflection Join Catholic Charities for an opportunity to gather with other seniors from around the diocese to deepen and share one’s faith. Days of Reflection provide the chance to experience the inspiring power of God’s love and be nourished by His word as one continues a life-long journey of faith.

HUNTERSVILLE — Have your personal and confidential documents shredded and recycled and help raise money for energy efficiency projects and environmental stewardship, during a Community Shredding Event Fundraiser being held from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, in the parking lot of St. Mark Church, 14740 Stumptown Road. Thanks to event partner PROSHRED Security your documents will be shredded in a mobile shredding truck while you watch. Paper items only, though paper clips and staples are OK. Donations of $5 to $10 per file size box of paper is requested.

• September 16 – St. Luke Catholic Church, Charlotte Presenter: Father David Brzoska • September 24 – Catholic Conference Center, Hickory Presenter: Monsignor John McSweeney • November 12 – Holy Family Catholic Church, Winston-Salem Presenter: Father Brian Cook Visit our website for more information or contact Sandra Breakfield at 704.370.3220, 704.370.3228 or sabreakfield@charlottediocese.org.

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This event is sponsored by the Charlotte Region Catholic Environmental Advisory Council, which includes representatives from five Charlotte region parishes, Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlottte and the Sisters of Mercy.

Mary Ann Glendon to discuss ‘Religious Liberty Under Siege’ BELMONT — Dr. Mary Ann Glendon will deliver the Cuthbert Allen Lecture at Belmont Abbey College at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16. Her talk, entitled “Religious Liberty Under Siege,” will be held at the Belmont Abbey Mary Help of Christians Basilica.

Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University and a former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. In this free public lecture, Glendon will argue that commitment to religious liberty is weakening both internationally and domestically. This “first of freedoms” is in serious danger of becoming a second-class right, too easily trumped by other rights, claims and interests in the West and too often violently attacked in other parts of the world.

She now serves on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and writes and teaches in the fields of human rights, law and political theory. Her widely translated works include “The Forum and the Tower,” “Traditions in Turmoil,” “A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” “A Nation Under Lawyers” and “Rights Talk.”

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OPERATION RICE BOWL Apply now for a CRS Rice Bowl Mini-Grant for up to $1,000 Consider applying for a CRS Rice Bowl Mini-Grant. Applications are available for grants for up to $1,000 to assist the projects of Catholic entities of the Diocese of Charlotte that work to alleviate hunger and poverty. Applications must be sent by U.S. mail and postmarked

by Oct. 15, 2014. The application is available at www.ccdoc.org/cchdcrs. Projects must conform to eligibility criteria. All applications require approval and signature by a Diocese of Charlotte parish pastor, office/department head, or school principal.

CRS expands its programs in West Africa as Ebola crisis continues to grow more serious

CRS Rice Bowl raises funds for global and local assistance Joseph Purello Special to the Catholic News Herald

When one thinks of the good works of CRS across the globe, what often comes to mind is the provision of food to hungry people, the response to natural disasters like the typhoon that struck the Philippines in late 2013, or the current efforts being made to stem the crisis of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Not only are funds raised by CRS Rice Bowl for such important global outreach, but funds raised by CRS Rice Bowl also support local charitable ministries of the Church in the U.S. In the Diocese of Charlotte, 25 percent of Rice Bowl funds distributed support the CRS Rice Bowl Mini Grant Program offered in the fall. In November 2013, $1,000 grants were distributed to 16 parishes of the diocese: six in the Smoky Mountain Vicariate, three in the Salisbury Vicariate, two in the Gastonia Vicariate, and the remaining five grants to parishes in the Albemarle, Asheville, Boone, Charlotte and Greensboro vicariates. Grants were awarded for a variety of ministries including food pantries, community gardens, thrift stores, St. Vincent de Paul Societies, children’s nutrition programs, and general outreach to families in need. The annual CRS Lenten Rice Bowl Collection and the CRS Mini-Grant Program are coordinated by Catholic Charities’ Office of Social Concerns and Advocacy.

What did these $1,000 grants mean to these parish based ministries? The Society of St. Vincent de Paul/St. Eugene, St. Lawrence, St. Joan of Arc Conference used

its $1,000 Rice Bowl grant to support its ministry of offering financial assistance to families in need. In an email report sent to the Office of Social Concerns and Advocacy, conference president Robert Phillips stated that grant funds “helped pay to keep power and heating fuel in place for families in our area that would have experienced power disconnects and heating fuel shortages during the winter months when heat is so critical. We were also able to help some of our clients avoid eviction from their homes and brought food to them as part of our visit.”

Knights of Columbus Council 10495 in Albemarle used its $1,000 grant to support its Food for Families programs, with the funds earmarked to buy food items to help fill Christmas baskets last holiday season and buy the food needed by the council to serve dinner at the local soup kitchen on four Saturdays. Immaculate Heart of Mary Mission in Hayesville was able to use its $1,000 grant to help purchase turkeys, hams and chickens for the Clay County Food Pantry to assist families in need in Clay County.

The CRS website has a short video in which CRS shares its gratitude for Rice Bowl participation. In this video, information is provided on how to join CRS as an advocate to fight global hunger, in partnership with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ campaign, Catholics Confront Global Poverty. Go to www.crs. org/hunger-pledge.

Joseph Purello is the director of Catholic Charities’ Office of Social Concerns and Advocacy, and the CRS diocesan director.

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St. Patrick Cathedral, ‘mother church of the diocese,’ celebrates 75th anniversary Phelan family reunion marks parish milestone SueAnn Howell Senior reporter

CHARLOTTE — The unmistakable lilting sounds of an Irish bagpipe band greeted hundreds of faithful as they entered St. Patrick Cathedral to commemorate the cathedral’s 75th anniversary at Mass with Bishop Peter J. Jugis Sept. 1.

The Mass celebrating the dedication of the cathedral, which took place in 1939, was a joyous liturgy marked with the singing of “Salve Regina” and a closing Gaelic hymn to St. Patrick.

“Today this church reaches an important milestone,” Bishop Jugis said during his homily. “Seventy-five years since its dedication in 1939 – with the hand of St. Patrick and the hands of Our Blessed Lord always raised in blessing and protection over us and over this place.

“For 75 years St. Patrick has also had his hands raised in blessing over us, since the day this place was transformed from a building into the house of God through the prayers of dedication and consecration by the bishop.”

Bishop Jugis then quoted from the first reading from 1 Kings 8, in which King Solomon asked God to watch over the temple as the special place of worship for the Jewish people. He drew a parallel to the sacredness of the cathedral to the people of the Diocese of Charlotte.

“The Lord indeed did have a very special blessing and honor prepared for this church, by elevating it to the dignity of a cathedral and placing it as the ‘mother church’ of the diocese, first in rank among all the churches of the diocese,” he said. “All of the churches, as it were, are contained in this one – a symbol of the unity of the diocese.”

He enumerated all the honors the cathedral has in its

role as the diocese’s mother church, especially as the sacred place where the annual Chrism Mass is celebrated, in which all the priests of the diocese come to renew their promises and the bishop consecrates the holy oils used in the sacraments throughout the year.

“Blessings are overflowing everywhere on that day. Just ask those who participate in that Mass of Chrism each year,” he said. He added, “The ordination of all priests of the diocese in some way has its starting point at St. Patrick’s, with the consecration of the sacred chrism at the Chrism Mass, which is used for anointing priests’ hands for offering the sacrifice of Christ. Their ordination, in effect, begins here at the Chrism Mass.”

He explained how the cathedral has an important role in the sacramental lives of people throughout the diocese.

Those who are baptized are anointed with the oil of catechumens, the sacred chrism which is blessed at the Chrism Mass. Likewise, all catechumens in the diocese are anointed with the oil of catechumens during their preparation for baptism.

Every person who receives the sacrament of confirmation is anointed with sacred chrism, which is also blessed during the Chrism Mass. And the sick also receive spiritual benefit because the oil of the sick used to anoint them is blessed at the cathedral.

“St. Patrick Cathedral has an important role in the dedication of every new church and altar in the Diocese of Charlotte because the sacred chrism used to anoint the altars and the crosses on the walls of the churches is consecrated here at the Chrism Mass,” Bishop Jugis continued.

“Now we see why St. Patrick Cathedral has been designated a special place of pilgrimage for the whole diocese during this year of celebration, because every

priest and every parish church is tied into what takes place in this cathedral.”

“St. Patrick Cathedral has an important and essential role to play in building the entire diocese into a spiritual house made of living stones as St. Peter says in today’s reading,” Bishop Jugis also said, referring to 1 Peter 2:4-9.

“Here in this place we exalt and worship Jesus and we announce with St. Peter, ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’ May we always take seriously our mission to bring Christ and His Gospel to all people. He is the true source of blessing for the whole Church and for all mankind.””

Bishop Jugis concelebrated the Mass with five other priests of the diocese: Father Christopher Roux, rector and pastor of the cathedral; Father Larry LoMonaco; Father John Putnam; Father Peter Shaw; and recently ordained Father Paul McNulty. Deacon Carlos Medina and Deacon Brian McNulty assisted at the Mass.

Dr. Gianfranco DeLuca graced the congregation with organ accompaniment throughout the Mass, which also featured the St. Patrick Cathedral choir.

The 75th anniversary celebration on Sept. 1 also featured Irish bagpipe music, including the perennial parish favorite “Highland Cathedral.”

PHELAN FAMILY CELEBRATION

On Sept. 7, the Phelan family that built the cathedral attended a special Mass and family reunion celebration to mark the parish milestone. More than 150 relatives, guests and longtime parishioners gathered to reflect on their close relationship with the beloved cathedral and ANNIVERSARY, SEE page 9

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reconnect with extended family members and friends.

Jerry Jones, one of the Phelan cousins who has been a lifelong parishioner at the cathedral and has ushered there for the past 50-plus years, helped organize the Mass and family reunion. As one of several historians of the family, he also brought one of the papal blessings given to the Phelan family on the occasion of the dedication of the cathedral. He said was thrilled with the turnout for the anniversary celebration.

Jones said they are a really faith-filled family which has always been proud that St. Patrick’s was built in honor of his great-grandparents, Patrick Henry Phelan and Margaret Adele Phelan.

“My great-grandparents who built the cathedral had 11 children,” Jones explained. “The 10 surviving children had 45 grandchildren and those grandchildren (which my mother was one) had 124 great-grandchildren. We’re everywhere! A lot of us haven’t seen each other in decades.”

One of Jones’ cousins, Pat Dale Wheeler, and her husband, Humpy Wheeler of NASCAR fame, also helped with the preparations.

“It’s such a part of my life,” Pat Wheeler said about the cathedral. “Everything that ever happened to me in the Church happened there: my baptism, my first Communion, my confirmation, my marriage.”

She remembers that “20 percent of the people (at the cathedral) in the beginning were kin. It was our whole life. Everything we did was related to the church. My mother played bridge. My daddy was a Knight of Columbus. My brothers were altar boys. I sang in the choir. We all went to O’Donoghue School.”

When asked about being a part of the Phelan family, Humpy Wheeler said, “There’s so many of them! It’s incredible. I know when I married my wife I inherited about a thousand relatives I didn’t know I had.”

Monsignor Mauricio West, vicar general and chancellor of the diocese, celebrated the Mass Sept. 7. He was joined by former cathedral pastor and rector, Father Paul Gary, who is now the pastor of St. Luke Church in Mint Hill.

During his homily, Monsignor West shared his observations of the Phelan family’s history of faith, philanthropy and love for one another. He encouraged them to imitate the selfless deeds of their ancestors, saying, “As they did, so you must now do. Follow the path they have taken, the path of faith in God and of loving service to family and to all of God’s people.

“You all come from good people. Live and love like you do. God bless you.”

(Clockwise, above) Pat Dale Wheeler and her husband, Humpy Wheeler, are pictured during the Phelan family Mass on Sept.

7; Bishop Peter J. Jugis distributes Holy Communion to St. Patrick parishioner and cantor Kelly Schiffiano at Mass Sept. 1; the Ceol na Gael Irish Pipe Band from Charlotte plays outside the cathedral before and after the anniversary Mass Sept. 1.

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LONGTIME PARISHIONERS OVERJOYED

Benedictine Father Kieran Neilson’s family is also one of the founding families of the cathedral. He still remembers being a young boy at the dedication Mass in 1939.

“I have many happy memories,” Father Kieran said. “I was a little fellow, 7 years old, and I remember it. I remember the schola from Belmont Abbey that sang. I remember the festivities. I went to Communion that day since I had made my first Communion (at St. Peter Church) by then.”

He also recalls being called upon to help serve Mass at the cathedral – a lot.

“Boy, I’ll tell ya, when you live that close to the church, you can get called on to serve in a heartbeat!” he joked. “I can’t tell you how many times I served Mass there.”

He believes the priests who served at the cathedral and at Belmont Abbey helped foster his own priestly vocation at Belmont Abbey Monastery.

“Monsignor Manly and Monsignor Freeman helped direct me to the abbey. I knew the monks from when I was a little boy. When I started school here (at the abbey), I got to know them better.”

His sister, Pat Neilson, is a daily Mass-goer at the cathedral and attended the Mass with Bishop Jugis on Sept. 1. The youngest of her family, she was born a year after the cathedral was dedicated. In 1947, her family moved into the home she still lives in on Dilworth Road.

“We sat in the front for Mass,” Nielson recalled about attending Mass at St. Patrick’s. “We sat in the last pew for the novenas.”

She misses the praying of the Sunday evening novena to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal.

“As a child I was fascinated by the priest disappearing in a small door to the side of the sanctuary to climb up to the pulpit to preach. “He gave the ‘give ’em hell’ speeches on Sunday nights. Families came, and I can’t tell you how many friendships my daddy made on the front steps after the novena.”

Ann Hoover, 95, is another longtime parishioner who also worked at St. Patrick and St. Ann schools for 34 years. Her son, Father John Hoover, attended O’Donoghue School with Jerry Jones.

“I moved to Charlotte in 1947,” Hoover said. “My husband’s family, the Hoovers, grew up a few blocks from St. Patrick’s. My mother-in-law went to 6:30 a.m. Mass every day.”

She is thrilled about the church’s 75th anniversary. “I pray for our church every day. The Lord has blessed me. We’ve had wonderful times at St. Patrick’s.”

Joyce Arrowood and her late husband Bill were married by Monsignor John Patrick Manly in his first nuptial Mass at the cathedral in 1950. Her husband served in the military and they moved away shortly afterward, but they returned to the parish in 1972.

“The memories of the weddings and events we’ve had here are what I cherish,” Arrowood said.

Phelan family members all said they treasure their memories of growing up at St. Patrick’s, and they are thrilled that the church built in their ancestors’ honor is now the cathedral for the Diocese of Charlotte.

Reflecting on the church her family helped build, Pat Wheeler said, “It’s not the biggest in the world, but it’s very beautiful.”

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History of St. Patrick Cathedral

Photos provided by Diocese of Charlotte Archives

These images depict the cornerstone laying and a benediction service during St. Patrick Church’s construction in 1939, as well as its construction. At top right is a scene from the dedication Mass in 1939. See more photos from the cathedral’s history online at www. catholicnewsherald.com.

Pastors 1939-1942 1942-1948 1948-1963 1963-1966 1966-1968 1968-1977

Father Maurice McDonnell Monsignor Arthur Freeman Monsignor John P. Manly Father D. Edward Sullivan Father Francis J. Tait Monsignor Richard F. Allen

1977-1980 1980-1988 1988-1996 1996- 2008 2008-present

Monsignor Joseph A. Kerin Monsignor Thomas P. Burke Father Francis J. O’Rourke Father Paul Q. Gary Father Christopher A. Roux

CHARLOTTE — The construction of Mount Holly’s St. Joseph Church in 1843 and Charlotte’s St. Peter Church in 1852 marked a growing presence of Catholics in the Charlotte region. It also made way for the building of St. Patrick Church, which would become the cathedral church of the future Diocese of Charlotte.

St. Peter Church was still in the care of the Benedictines from Belmont Abbey when John Henry Phelan of Beaumont, Texas, donated funds to have a church built in Charlotte in memory of his parents. Construction of St. Patrick Church began in March 1938.

Frank Frimmer, an Austrian native known for remodeling famous Old World churches, designed and supervised construction of the church, with its gray stucco face, 400-seat nave, balcony and 77-foot tower. The altar contained relics of St. Jucundius and St. Justina, and two side chapels were crafted as shrines honoring Mary and Joseph. Stained glass windows, designed in Syracuse, N.Y., depicted the Annunciation, St. Patrick, Joseph’s deathbed scene, David with his lyre, St. Cecelia and life events of Jesus.

On Sept. 4, 1939, Bishop Eugene J. McGuinness of Raleigh consecrated the church under the patronage of St. Patrick. It became the first church in North Carolina to be consecrated immediately upon completion and in 1942 became a parish, with Goldsboro-native Monsignor Arthur R. Freeman as pastor.

A rectory and convent were completed in 1941, and a Catholic grade school built on the property in 1930 was expanded in 1943 to include high school grades.

During the next few decades, the influx of Catholics added to the need for more churches in Charlotte, and three parishes grew from St. Patrick: St. Ann, St. Gabriel and St. Vincent de Paul.

During the late 1950s and early ‘60s – with the founding of Charlotte Catholic High School – the school reverted to elementary grades and was named St. Patrick School. A cafeteria and gymnasium were added in 1959. The school, now part of the Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools system, has an enrollment of approximately 300 students.

On Jan. 12, 1972, Pope Paul VI established the Diocese of Charlotte, and St. Patrick Church was designated the cathedral church. Monsignor. Richard Allen, pastor at the time, was appointed the first rector.

The cathedral experienced a major renovation in 1979. The original character of the building, including memorials and windows, was preserved while the church was brought up to the new post-Vatican II liturgical standards. A new altar was constructed from the original, and artwork of local and religious significance was added. A new locally built pipe organ was also installed in the balcony.

The cathedral remained closed for six months, and Masses were celebrated in the school. On June 10, Bishop Michael J. Begley of Charlotte presided over the celebration of the cathedral’s reopening.

The parish has continued to grow and St. Patrick Cathedral has been host to many diocesan events, such as the memorial Mass in September 1997 honoring the life of Mother Teresa.

That Mass was celebrated by then-Bishop William G. Curlin, who initiated another extensive refurbishment of the cathedral earlier in his episcopate. Father Frank O’Rourke, then rector of the cathedral, oversaw the work.

The majority of renovation efforts to restore St. Patrick Cathedral to its original condition were completed by Easter of 1996, yet work has continued. The altar, baptismal font, statues and ambo were moved or given new prominence, and a hardwood floor was installed. The dark oak wainscoting from the 1979 renovation was removed to brighten up the cathedral and make it appear as it did in 1939.

Later renovations include Stations of the Cross brought in from Maggie Valley and a Celtic cross outside the cathedral. A permanent copper roof was installed and completed in 2000.

On March 28, 2007, a 700-pound bell was raised in the bell tower. The bell, a gift from Herb and Louise Bowers and family, originally was cast in 1875 in St. Louis, Mo. The bell was blessed after Mass on March 31, 2007.

On June 3, 2006, ground was broken for the construction of a Family Life Center to provide room for the various ministries of the cathedral, as well as banquets and celebrations. It was dedicated to former rector Father Paul Q. Gary, who initiated the project for the cathedral parish.

More recent renovations include restoring the tabernacle to the center of the sanctuary, on an enlarged high altar made of marble from the original 1939 altar, and restoring the baptismal font to its near-original state. The ambo was also given new prominence opposite the cathedra, or bishop’s chair, and the sacred oils blessed each year during the diocesan Chrism Mass were moved to a shelf at the side of the sanctuary.

In October 2013, a new, larger staircase was constructed for the front entrance and dedicated to Bishop Emeritus Curlin.

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of the sacrament in the minds and hearts of believers. If we fulfill that need, we will have a great renewal of Christian life.

For many Catholic people, their expectations of the sacrament of reconciliation are limited and do not match its full and genuine reality. The very notion of “going to confession” often means a dispiriting encounter with our failures, that is all. To go regularly to the sacrament only reminds us of the dismal cycle of repeated failures that mark our lives. We stay stuck, people wrongly conclude, in the routines of our lives and our sins.

Why bother to confess our sins and seek sacramental forgiveness? It is better to avoid thinking about it.

Some may even take another step and rewrite the morality of their behaviors.

Often, these are behaviors associated with sexuality, such as artificial contraception and sexual activity outside of marriage.

Other behaviors, for example, having to do with justice or upholding the truth or respecting all life, can also be subject to personal moral revision. Either I tire of revisiting my sins and failures, or I decide – apart from the community and traditions of faith – that these behaviors are not really sinful. If they are not sinful, then why would I bother bringing them to confession?

The downturn in the practice of Catholics approaching the sacrament of reconciliation is entirely understandable if they find it depressing simply to keep encountering their failures or if, with a revisionist morality, they have “eliminated” sin in their lives. The remedy is a vigorous and clear catechesis of the transformative power of this sacrament.

We Are a People in Deep Need of Healing Catechesis for the sacrament of reconciliation must begin with our need for healing and forgiveness. This may seem obvious, but it is not. If morality, as it is often perceived, is about keeping or breaking rules, it does not effectively claim my personal attention. After all, the rules are outside of me. If, however, we start not with the sin but the sinner, we will begin to move more effectively on a personal path that touches the heart.

“All have sinned and are deprived of the glory of God,” St. Paul says (Rom 3:23).

The net result of sin is not primarily that rules have been broken but that people are broken. They find themselves wounded, and divided and distant from God, others and even their very selves. Catechesis and effective preaching can help people to identify and know their experience.

They come to recognize that “what they have done and what they have failed to do” has left them empty, immobilized and profoundly disappointed. In the first place, catechesis leads people to self-knowledge and their need for healing.

We Break Through the Isolation that Sin Imposes on Us We do not carry or reveal our sin-sick souls in public. The brokenness and the deep need for healing we feel usually stays buried within us, so we feel alone and even isolated. As we approach the sacrament of reconciliation, however, we break through that isolation. The Church and her minister provide the safe place where we can stand before God in our deepest need without fear and without shame. With our examination of conscience and our confession of sin, we let God’s light shine

on every corner of our souls. With startling clarity, we realize that God knows us as we are. We can echo the Samaritan woman’s words to her townsfolk, “Come see a man who told me everything I have done” (Jn 4:29).

We Meet the Undeserved Mercy of God In the sacrament of reconciliation, we do not meet ourselves and our failures. In fact, we first encounter the undeserved mercy of God. We cannot make ourselves worthy of God’s mercy and healing. We can make no claims. All we do is stand before the One who has waited for our arrival.

This is the story of the father in Jesus’ Parable of the Prodigal Son (Lk 15:11-32), the father who waits and scans the horizon for the return of his errant child. His son’s return, the simple gesture of turning back home – not any good deeds and certainly not any claims he might have – triggers the father’s lavish and undeserved mercy and the restoration of his son.

Undeserved mercy is foreign to our world, in which everything must be earned. And perhaps if a little something is freely given, it is grudgingly measured out. For all us who are accustomed to our measured-out world, the undeserved and richly abundant mercy of God is a new, transformative experience.

God’s Forgiveness TURNS Our World Around Once we truly recognize that God’s mercy and forgiveness have healed and transformed us and made us part of the new creation, we will not only want to change our lives, we will feel compelled to do so. After Jesus touched Zacchaeus with His mercy, Zacchaeus re-ordered his life in an entirely new and original way: “Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I shall give to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone I shall repay it four times over” (Lk 19:8). When we leave the sacrament of reconciliation, we resolve to sin no more and to live in a new way.

As sincere as our resolutions may be, however, we may find ourselves stumbling here and there. We do not give up. Despite possible continuing failures, we have grasped our great hope, and that hope is not in ourselves and not in our own efforts.

Our hope is in God, a hope sealed in the sacrament.

The sacrament of reconciliation is necessary, because we all sin and we necessarily need forgiveness. Still, people will not come back to the sacrament for this reason alone. What will awaken them to the sacrament will be a clear sharing of our experience of conversion, of life change, that unfolds in and through the sacrament.

We can take a cue from Pope Francis, whose own experience of the sacrament led to his vocational awakening and a new life of discipleship. Regularly, he reminds us of the experience of mercy, forgiveness and conversion. He tells us that God never tires of forgiving us, as long as we do not tire of asking for forgiveness.

Father Louis J. Cameli was the founding director of the Office for the Ongoing Formation of Priests for the Archdiocese of Chicago. He also served in the faculty of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary in a number of roles, including professor of spiritual theology, director of spiritual life, and president of the ecclesiastical faculty of theology. Appointed by Cardinal Francis George as the Archbishop’s Delegate for Formation and Mission, he currently serves as a resource theologian to the agencies of the archdiocese. He holds a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

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Home School Fine Arts Festival a success Katherine T. Lauer Special to the Catholic News Herald

CHARLOTTE — The inaugural Fine Arts Festival “Celebrating Truth, Goodness, and Especially Beauty” was held at St. Ann Church on Aug. 22-24, showcasing the talents of the homeschooled children of the Diocese of Charlotte who celebrated the fine arts in the form of film, stage theater, sacred music and visual arts presentations.

The summer fine arts program and culminating Fine Arts Festival was the vision of a group of homeschooling mothers who noted that truth, goodness and beauty are primary teaching goals of homeschooling families, yet with the attention during the school year on truth and goodness through academics, the beauty piece tends to get set aside. The families involved set aside this summer to teach the fine arts.

The festival raised $2,275 to benefit the ongoing restoration and beautification efforts at St. Patrick Cathedral in honor of its 75th anniversary. The children presented the donation to Bishop Peter Jugis during their “Back to School” Mass Sept. 4 at St. Patrick Cathedral.

Between 100 and 300 guests attended each event of the three-day festival.

The festival opened with a premiere of “War of Ages,” a 14-minute film written and directed by Vincent Schiffiano, and produced by teen members of the homeschoolers’ film club Angelic Films with the facilitating efforts of Betsy Hoyt. “War of Ages” tells a fictional tale of King Arthur and his friend Merlin attempting to rescue the king’s wife Guinevere and her son who have been kidnapped by the evil Morgan Le Fay. Celebrated heroes from different time periods (Sherlock Holmes, St. Joan of Arc, Robin Hood, and Maid Marion) are summoned to help restore peace.

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In Brief Annual Red Mass an invitation to pray for those working in the justice system CHARLOTTE — Join Bishop Peter J. Jugis and members of the legal and law enforcement communities as they celebrate the 12th annual Red Mass at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, at St. Patrick Cathedral in Charlotte.

The Red Mass is celebrated annually throughout the United States in conjunction

The 28 children involved in the project gained the technical skills involved from pre-production to postproduction and marketing, including scheduling production, establishing crew responsibilities, making costumes, building props, filming the movie and writing the musical score. The pre-production team worked about 20 hours per week, filming took four 12-hour days, and post-production work took about six weeks.

The next upcoming project for Angelic Films is a pro-life short film, “If I Can’t See It.” A young girl listens in on her parents as they argue over abortion while her life hangs in the balance. This short film will premiere at the Priests For Life/Stand True, March for Life Convention and Rally Jan. 21, 2015, in Washington, D.C. (See related story on page 24.)

On Saturday morning, the children’s Polyphonic Schola performed “Cantica Sacra Liberi” (“Sacred Songs of Children”) under the direction of Thomas Savoy, sacred music director at St. Thomas Aquinas Church and founder/artistic director of the Carolina Catholic Chorale.

More than 30 children (aged 9 to 18) took part, singing such hymns as “Sub Tuum Praesidium,” “Jubilate Deo,” “Resonet in Laudibus,” “O Come Ye Servants of the Lord,” and “The God of Love my Shepherd Is.” After the concert, younger children gave their own concert during a reception in the parish hall. The choir of approximately 30 children (aged 5 to 11) sang Catholic hymns and American folk songs under the direction of Meleah Corner. The reception also featured a silent auction of art created by students under the guidance of Misty Spinelli and Juliette Lee. The fine arts festival culminated with a production of “Taming of the Shrew,” an adapted play of William Shakespeare, by the St. John Paul II Theatre Guild. The

with the opening session of the U.S. Supreme Court. This special Mass gives all attending members of the legal community, including judges, attorneys, government officials and law enforcement, the opportunity to reflect on the God-given responsibilities of their profession. All are welcome to attend.

The Red Mass will be followed by a reception in the St. Patrick Cathedral Family Life Center.

No RSVP is needed for the Red Mass, but anyone wishing to attend the award banquet needs to RSVP in advance. For more information about the St. Thomas More Society for legal and law enforcement professionals, or to RSVP, contact Michael Hoefling at mhoefling@jahlaw. com or call 704-998-2205.

— SueAnn Howell, senior reporter

Learn more about adoption CHARLOTTE — Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte will hold an adoption information session from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16, at the Diocese of Charlotte Pastoral Center,

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Younger children in the homeschool program gave a concert during the reception of the Home School Fine Arts Festival held at St. Ann Church’s parish hall. two performances featured 78 students (aged 5 to 18) between two casts.

Children filled all the acting roles and also held all the technical positions, learning backstage management, setbuilding, lighting, sound and filming. The students also performed numerous dance pieces and the music, some of the pieces written for the play.

The production was led by Kelly Rosamond, director; Beth Ohlhaut, assistant director; and Trista Bremer, technical director.

1123 South Church St. in Charlotte. Get detailed information about Catholic Charities’ adoption programs, as well as the application and supporting documents.

To register, call Sherry Luc at 704-370-3232.

(Please make childcare arrangements, as this event is unable to accommodate children.)

For more information regarding Catholic Charities’ adoption programs, call Mishaun Mitchell at 704-370-3222 or go to www.ccdoc.org.

‘Life in the Spirit’ seminar set MAGGIE VALLEY — St. Margaret of Scotland Church in Maggie Valley will host a “Life in the Spirit” seminar, entitled “As a New Pentecost,” on Wednesday evenings at 6:30 starting Sept.

17. All are welcome. “Life In The Spirit” is a chance to rediscover the special joy in your life, renew your relationship with God, and deepen your spiritual life. It is also an opportunity to discover other Christians with a similar love of the Holy Spirit.

On Sept. 13 and 14, the parish will also host Dan Almeter, a member of a Covenant Community in Georgia and the International Chair Person for Covenant Communities and a member of the Pontifical Commission for Covenanted Communities.Almeter and his wife will speak at Masses on Sept. 13 and 14 about Covenant Communities and about the “Life in the Spirit” seminar.

This is the second “Life in the Spirit” seminar this year for St. Margaret of Scotland Parish.

For details, call Don and Janet Zander at 828926-2654 or the parish office at 828-926-0106.

Learn more about Belmont Abbey’s history BELMONT — John O’Connell, a historian and genealogist from Donoughmore, County Cork, Ireland, will present a lecture at Belmont Abbey College at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 15.

O’Connell’s lecture will discuss the history of the Connell/O’Connell family from their home in the parish in Ireland to the Carolinas.

As a result of long-term impoverishment and the immediate effects of famine, Ireland’s poor left the country in droves during the 19th Century. Some of those who left Ireland, including several members of the O’Connell

family, ended up in the Carolinas, where they made important contributions to the local community, particularly to the development here of the Catholic Church. That includes Father Jeremiah O’Connell, who made a gift of lands in Belmont North Carolina to the Benedictine monks of St. Vincent Archabbey in Pennsylvania. From there, in 1876, came the first members of the community that is now Belmont Abbey.

The talk is free and open to the public at Grace Auditorium. For details, email Dr. Patrick Wadden at patrickwadden@bac.edu.

Wilson receives Light of Christ Emblem LENOIR — Connor Wilson, 7, of St. Francis of Assisi Church in Lenoir, recently received his Light of Christ Emblem from Father Julio Dominguez, pastor, and Deacon Stephen Pickett.

The Light of Christ Emblem is given in special recognition by the Church to a Cub Scout for spiritual growth and religious knowledge.

Wilson is the first Cub Scout to complete all the requirements for this emblem at the parish.

He is in the second grade at C. Wilson Home School.

— Melissa Wilson We welcome your parish’s news! Please email news items to Editor Patricia L. Guilfoyle at catholicnews@ charlottediocese.org.

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CHARLOTTE — The Diocese of Charlotte will host the 10th annual Eucharistic Congress on Friday, Sept. 19, and Saturday, Sept. 20, at the Charlotte Convention Center. Bishop Peter J. Jugis will welcome everyone to the congress on Friday at 7 p.m. His welcome will be followed by a sacred music concert featuring a diocesan choir.

This year’s concert of sacred music will beconducted by Tiffany Gallozzi, with Dr. Gianfranco DeLuca and Dr. Larry Stratemeyer as organists.

After the concert, Cardinal Edwin F. O’Brien, Grandmaster of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, will deliver a keynote address on the topic “The Holy Eucharist: Making All Things New from the Upper Room to the New Jerusalem.”

On Sept. 20, a Eucharistic Procession in uptown Charlotte will start at 9 a.m. in front of St. Peter Church on South Tryon Street. Everyone is encouraged to line up along the procession route from the church to the convention center and join in the procession behind their parish’s banner as it passes by. Parents of First Communicants are asked to walk alongside their children to the convention center.

At 10:15 a.m., once the Blessed Sacrament has been placed on the altar and the Eucharistic Procession ends, a Holy Hour will take place in Hall A of the convention center. Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, will deliver the Holy Hour homily, “The Holy Eucharist: Building Our Spiritual Lives to Build a Culture of the Family.”

After the Holy Hour and welcome announcements, the English,

Hispanic and Vietnamese programs of the Eucharistic Get more info Congress will begin at 11:30 a.m.

At www.goeucharist.com: Speakers for the English track in Get more information about Hall A include: Mother Assumpta the 10th annual Eucharistic Long, O.P., of the Sisters of Mary, Congress, see the full Mother of the Eucharist in Ann schedule of events and Arbor, Mich.; Auxiliary Bishop speakers, register for the Donald Joseph Hying, auxiliary youth tracks, and more. bishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee; and Dr. Allen Hunt, syndicated radio host. A meditation on the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ will be performed by Doug Barry, host of EWTN’s “Life on the Rock.”

Speakers for the Hispanic track in Hall B will include Father Ernesto María Caro and Father Ángel Espinoza de los Monteros.

There will be book signings by some of the speakers during the day near the food court.

High school, middle school and children’s tracks are being offered as well. Bishop Hying and Dominican Sister Joseph Andrew of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, will be the featured speakers in the High School track. Michael Becker will emcee the Middle School track, and Jimmy Mitchell will speak and provide musical entertainment.

Adoration in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel will be offered throughout the day-long congress. Confessions will be heard in designated areas in Hall A (English) and Hall C (Spanish).

Vendors will be on hand selling Catholic religious items, clothing, books, CDs, DVDs and more. Food will be available for sale in the convention center. Please note that, because of federal security regulations, coolers will not be allowed inside the convention center.

The Eucharistic Congress will conclude with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, beginning at 4:15 p.m. Bishop Jugis will be the principal celebrant and homilist.

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meditation on the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, starting at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Hall A.

n LEARN HOW TO BUILD A CULTURE OF THE FAMILY: Listen as Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, gives this year’s Holy Hour homily at 10:15 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, in Hall A, entitled “The Holy Eucharist: Building Our Spiritual Lives to Build a Culture of the Family.”

n WALK WITH JESUS, LITERALLY: Join the Eucharistic Procession starting at 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at St. Peter Church, continuing through downtown Charlotte to the Charlotte Convention Center. First Communicants – wear those white dresses or suits and make Mom and Dad very proud.

n HEAR FROM THE HEAD OF THE ORDER THAT SUPPORTS CATHOLICS IN THE HOLY LAND: Cardinal Edwin F. O’Brien, Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, will deliver the 2014 Congress keynote address at 8:15 p.m. Friday, Sept.

19, entitled “The Holy Eucharist: Making All Things New from the Upper Room to the New Jerusalem.” n SING ALONG: Enjoy listening to the Diocese of Charlotte Choir and some of the area’s best Catholic musicians perform selections of sacred music – ranging from classical to modern composers – and sing along for the Eucharistic Congress concert’s traditional concluding hymn, “O God, Beyond All Praising.” The concert is the official kick-off for the 10th annual Eucharistic Congress, starting at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19, in Hall A.

Help the Congress The Eucharistic Congress is free and open to the public. However, it costs approximately $30 per attendee to cover the building rental, the audio/visual support and the transportation and other costs associated with the event. Tax-deductible contributions are welcome and can be made securely online through www.charlottediocese.org/donations.

Checks can also be sent to: Diocese of Charlotte, Eucharistic Congress, 1123 South Church St., Charlotte, NC 28203.

You also have the option of contributing through collections at the Eucharistic Congress.

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n PULL AN ALL-NIGHTER WITH JESUS: Eucharistic Adoration will begin Friday night at 10 at St. Peter Church, South Tryon Street, until 8 a.m. Saturday, and then will continue all day Saturday inside the Charlotte Convention Center. Come for an hour, or stay as long as you like. Spend a quiet moment with your Best Friend. n MEDITATE ON CHRIST’S PASSION: Doug Barry, host of EWTN’s “Life on the Rock,” returns to this year’s Congress to give a

n SHOP ‘TIL YOU DROP: Nearly 100 information and commercial vendors will be located throughout Hall B. Find Bibles and a wide selection of Catholic literature for adults and children, rosaries and religious medals, First Holy Communion gifts and other special occasion items, Catholic artwork and statues, information from Diocese of Charlotte ministries and lay groups, and much more. n FIND OUT WHY THERE ARE SO MANY EX-CATHOLICS: Dr. Allen Hunt, a Catholic convert who grew up in Brevard and now a nationally syndicated radio host, will talk about “Why 1 of Every 10 Adults is an Ex-Catholic,” starting at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Hall A. n YES, GO TO CONFESSION: Priests from around the diocese will be gathered in Hall A (English), Hall C (Spanish), and Room 208 (Vietnamese) to hear confessions starting at 11:30 a.m. Let’s keep ’em busy. Don’t miss out on this powerful opportunity to seek God’s mercy and peace in your heart! n RENEW YOURSELF WITH THE EUCHARIST: Join our own Bishop Peter J. Jugis for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, an inspiring conclusion to the Eucharistic Congress, starting at 4:15 p.m. Saturday in Hall A. Bishop Jugis will also give the homily. (This Mass fulfills your Sunday obligation.)

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Homilist at Saturday evening Holy Mass

“The Eucharist and Religious Life: Making All Things New”

Hall A – Saturday Vigil Mass, Sept. 20, 4:15 p.m.

Hall A – Saturday, Sept. 20, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

A Charlotte native, Bishop Peter J. Jugis is the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Charlotte. Ordained a priest in 1983 by Pope St. John Paul II, Bishop Jugis has served in parishes throughout the diocese. Under his guidance, the diocese began holding the annual Eucharistic Congress in 2005.

Mother Mary Assumpta Long is the co-founder of Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist of Ann Arbor, Mich., one of the fastest-growing congregations of women religious in the United States. The community’s apostolate is Catholic education. The sisters also host a series on EWTN entitled “Truth in the Heart” for elementary school aged children.

The Sisters draw from “the dynamism of the ‘new,’ the vitality of the New Evangelization, and the rich heritage of the ‘old,’ the cherished tradition of the Order

Cardinal Edwin F. O’Brien Keynote address: “The Holy Eucharist: Making All Things New from the Upper Room to the New Jerusalem” Hall A – Friday, Sept. 19, 8:15 p.m.

The Friday night keynote speaker at the 10th Eucharistic Congress will be Cardinal Edwin O’Brien. Cardinal O’Brien has been the Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem since his appointment O’Brien

by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. The order sustains and assists the religious, spiritual, charitable and social works of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land.

Cardinal O’Brien’s first assignment, though, after his 1965 ordination, was as a civilian chaplain at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He was later commissioned a military chaplain and in 1970 he became an Army chaplain with the rank of captain, serving with the 82nd Airborne Division.

The year after he served a tour of duty in Vietnam, Cardinal O’Brien left the military and began his doctoral studies at Rome’s Angelicum University. While preparing for his doctorate in sacred theology, he was also a graduate student at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.

Upon his return to the United States Cardinal O’Brien served as vice chancellor of the Archdiocese of New York and associate pastor of St. Patrick Cathedral. He was made a monsignor in 1986 and served two terms as rector of St. Joseph’s Seminary. Then, starting in 1990, he served as rector of the Pontifical North American College for four years.

On Feb. 6, 1996, Cardinal O’Brien was named an auxiliary bishop of New York, and he was consecrated a bishop by Cardinal John O’Connor at St. Patrick Cathedral on March 25, 1996.

Then, on April 7, 1997, he was named coadjutor of the Archdiocese of Military Services. A coadjutor is an auxiliary bishop who automatically assumes governance of a diocese upon the retirement of his predecessor. On Aug. 12, 1997, he succeeded as archbishop.

In July of 2007, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Cardinal O’Brien archbishop of Baltimore.

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Mother Mary Assumpta Long will speak about show how religious life assists in the “making all things new” for souls and the Church. “I will begin with the importance of the Eucharist in the lives of all.”

She will then speak about the noble evangelizing life of the religious. Though the Sisters continue the Dominican tradition of teaching in schools around the country, they “are also to be found proclaiming Christ in sundry ways all over the country: our television show, ‘Catechesis: Communion with Jesus Christ’ airs regularly on EWTN, we visit college campuses, and we send sisters out every summer to parishes for catechesis camps.”

Bishop Donald Joseph Hying “Making All Things New in Christ’s Youth” Hall A – Saturday, Sept. 20, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Bishop Donald J. Hying is the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Wis. Born in West Allis, Wis., Bishop Hying received his bachelors degree from Marquette University and his master’s degree from St. Francis Seminary. On May 20, 1989, he was ordained a priest for the Milwaukee Archdiocese by Archbishop Rembert Hying Weakland. He served as rector of St. Francis de Sales Seminary from 2007 until 2011.

On May 26, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him auxiliary bishop of the Milwaukee Archdiocese and he was ordained a bishop on July 20, 2011.

He has spent years helping the poor both in the United States and abroad. He was a team member at La Sagrada Familia Parroquia in Dominican Republic from 1994 to 1997. He has also been involved with both Casa Maria Catholic Worker House and Opus Dei. He has note that “both movements have something to say to the broader Church and maybe if there’s a gap that needs to be healed in the Church today, it’s that gap that maybe has been called traditional and liberal, where working with the poor should not be seen as liberal and going to Eucharistic Adoration shouldn’t be seen as conservative, it should just be that both of those are Catholic extensions of the faith.”

Bishop Hying will speak on “The Pentecost experience and the urgency of the New Evangelization.”

He says, “I will speak on how do we, as Catholic disciples today, continue to open ourselves to the power of the Holy Spirit, as we face the joyful and challenging task of communicating the Good News to our complex and troubled world.”

Holy Hour homily: “The Holy Eucharist: Building Our Spiritual Lives to Build a Culture of the Family”

Dr. Allen Hunt

Hall A – Saturday, Sept. 20, 10:15 a.m.

“Why 1 of Every 10 Adults is an Ex-Catholic”

The Most Reverend Joseph E. Kurtz, the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Louisville, will return to the Diocese of Charlotte for the 10th Eucharistic Kurtz Congress. Archbishop Kurtz was the keynote speaker at the 2014 Catholic Media Conference held in Charlotte earlier this year. Archbishop Kurtz will give the homily at the Holy Hour of the Eucharistic Congress.

The theme of his homily will be “The Holy Eucharist: Building Our Spiritual Lives to Build a Culture of the Family.” Of his homily, he says, “It will reflect upon the intimate bond between our Eucharistic Lord Jesus and the family. Decades ago, it was common to hear ‘the family that prays together, stays together.’ It is so true today, precisely because as we draw close to the Lord Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, He draws us closer to one another. Conversely, as we find ourselves distanced from Him, we become more self-centered and more distant from others.”

After being ordained a priest in 1972 in the Diocese of Allentown, Pa., Archbishop Kurtz took a special interest in family life. While serving for 27 years in charge of social services, diocesan administration, and parish ministry, he was also the executive director of the Catholic Social Agency and Family Life Bureau. He served in this position from 1976 to 1994.

Through Jesus, Archbishop Kurtz says, we can build stronger families and give greater importance to our family lives. He says, “The Gospel will be the episode from Sacred Scripture in which Jesus calms the waves on the Sea of Galilee and comforts His disciples in the wavetossed boat. So, too, will we find calm and serenity in our hearts and in our lives as Jesus calms the waves of our lives. It is that sense of serenity that slows down our hectic activity and gives proper priority to our families, the domestic Church.”

Elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on Nov. 12, 2013, Archbishop Kurtz serves on the executive and administrative committees of that body. He is the vice chancellor of the board of the Catholic Extension Society and he serves on the Board of Trustees of the Catholic University of America. In February of 2014, Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Kurtz to the Holy See’s Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

Hall A – Saturday, Sept. 20, 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Dr. Allen R. Hunt was born in Los Angeles but raised in Brevard, N.C., and Lakeland, Fla. He is an American radio personality and host of the nationally syndicated talk radio program, “The Allen Hunt Show.” Hunt is a former Methodist pastor who converted to Catholicism in 2008. On his program he addresses issues of morality Hunt and faith as a talk show host, but not in the context of a traditional religious program.

In his talk, Hunt will share his personal experience of converting from evangelical mega-church pastor to become Catholic. This experience focuses on the Eucharist, and how God revolutionizes our lives with His real presence in the Body and Blood of Jesus. Hunt’s unique perspective illuminates the remarkable power of the Eucharist.

Doug Barry with Eric Genuis “The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (A Meditation)” Hall A – Saturday, Sept. 20, 2:30-3:30 p.m.

Doug Barry is the founder and director of the Nebraska based Catholic apostolate RADIX. Since 1992, Barry has used his dynamic and explosive speaking style to spread and defend the Catholic faith to millions of people all over the world. He is best known for his powerful one-man performance of the Passion of Christ, which he Barry will perform at this year’s Eucharistic Congress. He also co-hosts EWTN’s evening television program for teens and young adults, “Life on the Rock.” He is a devoted husband and father of five children.

Eric Genuis is a musical tour de force. The career of this composer, pianist and performer began in Krakow, Poland, in 1997. A government dignitary heard Genuis’ music and he was invited to headline the entertainment for an AIDS benefit concert. Since then, word of mouth has continued to drive Genuis’ career and led him to perform worldwide. Genuis provides the musical accompaniment to “The Passion.”

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Children’s Tracks

(Note: For a detailed schedule and more information, see page 8.)

K-5 Track Room 217 – 12:15-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20

Padre Ángel Espinoza de los Monteros

Kids will enjoy games, arts and crafts, singing and learning about our faith with the joyful and fun Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia from Nashville, Tenn., returning again to this year’s Eucharistic Congress. The children will also experience a short period of Eucharistic Adoration.

“Es hora de volver a Dios” y “¿Educas y formas o sólo domesticas?”

Sala C – Sábado, 20 de Septiembre, 11:30 a.m. y 1:30 p.m.

Middle School Track: Jimmy Mitchell and Michael Becker

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Room 213 – 12:15-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20

“Una Evangelización Activa para el Nuevo Milenio”

Jimmy Mitchell is a native of Atlanta and graduate of Vanderbilt University, he spent a year after college as a seminarian for the Diocese of Nashville and two years as a missionary for Fraternus, a virtuebased mentoring and formation program for boys in middle school and high school. In the winter of 2010, he started Mysterium Records out of Nashville with the vision of building Mitchell Becker a community of artists dedicated to the restoration of Christian culture – particularly through the production of quality music, books, and live events inspired by a deeply Catholic understanding of the human person.

Emcee will be Michael Becker, a recent graduate of Belmont Abbey College with a B.A. in Theology. He has worked in youth ministry at both St. James the Greater Church and St. Mark Church. He has previously spoken at the Eucharistic Congress, Diocesan Youth Conference, and the Bishop’s Annual Lenten Youth Pilgrimage. He also spent two summers as a Totus Tuus teacher. He currently serves as the youth minister at Sacred Heart Church.

Sala C – Sábado, 20 de Septiembre, 2:30 p.m.

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High School Track: Bishop Donald Hying, Sister Joseph Andrew, O.P., and LIFT Grand Ballroom – 12:15-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20

Vietnamese Track Room 208: Saturday, Sept. 20 Noon 1-2:30 p.m.

2:30-3 p.m.

Lunch (off-site) Father Tri Duong, CM Confessions in Vietnamese (Father Tri Duong and Father Tri Truong)

Bishop Donald J. Hying is the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Wis. Born in West Allis, Wis., Bishop Hying received his bachelors degree from Marquette University and his master’s degree from St. Francis Seminary. On May 20, 1989, he was ordained a priest for the Milwaukee Archdiocese. He served as rector of St. Francis de Sales Seminary from 2007 until 2011.

Hying Andrew On May 26, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him auxiliary bishop of the Milwaukee Archdiocese and he was ordained a bishop on July 20, 2011.

Sister Joseph Andrew, O.P., of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, has taught in a variety of high schools, speaks at colleges and universities throughout the nation and beyond, and – as vocation director for her community – absolutely loves young people. She desires to use her gifts to spur each young person on to his/her greatest reality – finding and living the vocational call for which God created each. “Only in this manner,” she says, “can the love, peace and joy for which we were created come to claim our lives ... and prepare us for Heaven.”

LIFT Ministries of Boston returns to this year’s Eucharistic Congress to provide contemporary Catholic worship music. LIFT uses modern elements such as professional lighting and sound, video screens displaying worship imagery and song lyrics, creative environments and the latest in contemporary praise and worship music performed by a live band to enhance the worship experience. The things that make up LIFT – from the music to the environment to the speakers, etc. – are all designed to help the worshipper enter into the presence of God and experience a taste of heaven.

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CHARLOTTE — The Eucharistic Congress presents plenty of opportunities for the faithful to come and spend time with Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Eucharistic Adoration is a focal point for the Congress, as the Eucharist is the source and summit of our Catholic faith. Adoration offers a source of inspiration and peace for the thousands of Catholics who attend the annual two-day event.

Adoration will begin the night of Friday, Sept. 19, starting at 10 p.m. at St. Peter Church, 507 S. Tryon St., and will continue there until 8 a.m. Saturday.

Starting at 9 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 20, the faithful of the Diocese of Charlotte are invited to join in the Eucharistic Procession from St. Peter Church through uptown Charlotte to the Charlotte Convention Center, where the Eucharistic Congress is held.

The Eucharistic Procession, in which Bishop Peter J. Jugis carries a monstrance containing a consecrated host – the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ – is a highlight of the two-day Eucharistic Congress.

The procession, led by Bishop Jugis, will start at St. Peter Church. From there, the procession will proceed north on Tryon Street, then turn onto East Third Street. Then the procession will turn right onto South College Street, then left onto Stonewall Street and then continue on to the Charlotte Convention Center.

The faithful are encouraged to line the route and join the procession as it passes by on its way to the convention center.

The 2014 First Communicants will lead the procession along with Bishop Jugis.

(They and their parents or guardians, clergy, religious and banner carriers should gather on Tryon Street south of St. Peter Church no later than 8:30 a.m.)

Parents must walk alongside their children throughout the procession.

The Eucharistic Procession will culminate inside Hall A of the convention center, where a Holy Hour will be celebrated starting at 10:15 a.m. Saturday.

Following the Holy Hour, silent Eucharistic Adoration will be held in the Chapel in Hall B, adjacent to the Confession Area. Members of the Knights of Columbus will stand at the entrance to the Chapel, where everyone is invited to come in, kneel and pray for as long as they like. Adoration will conclude at 4 p.m., and the celebration of Holy Mass will begin at 4:15 p.m. with Bishop Jugis as the main celebrant.

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Décimo Congreso Eucarístico, 19 y 20 de Septiembre En el Charlotte Convention Center VIERNES

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Salón A 8 a.m. Hora Santa de adoración para los Viernes en la Noche, Concierto de Música sacerdotes en la Iglesia de San Pedro Sagrada 9 a.m. Procesión con el Santísimo por las Charla Principal por su Eminencia, el Cardenal calles del centro de Charlotte.

Edwin F. O’Brien, “The Holy Eucharist: Making All 10:15 a.m. Hora Santa dentro del centro de Things News from the Upper Room to the New convenciones Salón A Jerusalem” 11 a.m. El Santísimo Sacramento será transferido a la capilla de adoración Salón B 11:15 a.m. Anuncios de los Maestros de Ceremonias y procesión al salón Hispano Salón C 11:30 a.m. Fr. Ángel Espinoza de los Monteros “Es hora de volver a Dios” 12:30 p.m. Lunch 1:30 p.m. Fr. Ángel Espinoza de los Monteros “¿Educas y formas o sólo domesticas?”

2:30 p.m. Fr. Ernesto Caro “Una Evangelización Activa para el Nuevo Milenio” 3:30 p.m. Visita del Santísimo Sacramento al Salón Hispano.

Salón A 4:15 p.m. Santa Misa, concelebrada por el Obispo Peter Jugis y los sacerdotes de la Diócesis de Charlotte

Décimo Congreso Eucarístico a celebrarse en Charlotte Rico De Silva Hispanic Communications Reporter

CHARLOTTE — El Décimo Congreso Eucarístico de la Diócesis de Charlotte se celebrará en el Charlotte Convention Center el 19 y 20 de Septiembre.

El Congreso empezará la noche del 19 de Septiembre con un concierto de música sagrada, seguido de la Charla Principal del congreso por el Cardenal Edwin O’Brien. La charla en inglés se titula, “The Holy Eucharist: Making All Things News from the Upper Room to the New Jerusalem.”

El Congreso se reanudará el Sábado 20, a las 8 am. Habrá Procesión del Santísimo, oportunidad para confesarse, charlas en español, y actividades para niños y jóvenes también. Las conferencias en español serán dadas por los Padres Ernesto Caro y Ángel Espinoza de los Monteros, ambos sacerdotes mexicanos. El Padre Caro hablará acerca de “Una Evangelización Activa para el Nuevo Milenio.” El Padre Espinoza de los Monteros dará dos charlas: “Es hora de volver a Dios” y “¿Educas y formas o sólo domesticas?”

El evento concluirá en la tarde con la celebración de la Santa Misa por el Obispo Peter Jugis como celebrante principal y con los sacerdotes de la Diócesis de Charlotte concelebrando la Eucaristía.

Para mayor información vaya a www.goeucharist.com.

Padre Ernesto Caro “Una Evangelización Activa para el Nuevo Milenio” Salón C, 2:30 p.m. Sábado, 20 de Septiembre

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Nació el 24 de Julio de 1953 en Monterrey NL, México. Realizó sus estudios de Ingeniero Mecánico y Administrador y adquirió su maestría en Administración de Empresas.

Posteriormente Ingreso al Seminario Arqui-diocesano de Monterrey, N.L., México el día 20 de Agosto de 1983, alcanzo su licenciatura en Espiritualidad en la Universidad Gregoriana (Roma, It) y su doctorado en Mariología en la Universidad Marianum (Roma, It) y en el Instituto de investigación Internacional Mariano (Dayton, OH - USA). Fue ordenado el día 15 de Agosto de 1991.

Actualmente es miembro del Tribunal Eclesiástico de Monterrey y Párroco en la Parroquia de la Santa Cruz así como Profesor del Seminario Arquidiocesano Caro de Monterrey Organizaciones apostólicas: n Fundador y director espiritual de ARXE Instituto, colegio Católico que busca la excelencia académica y la perfección Cristiana (www.arxe.edu.mx). n Fundador y director espiritual de Vivir en Cristo, movimiento Católico para la formación de familias extendido actualmente en diversas Diócesis de México y de USA (www.vivirencristo.org.mx). n Fundador y director de Evangelización Activa, Institución dedicada a difundir la palabra de Dios y a Evangelizar usando el medio de Internet así como diferentes publicaciones en audio.

Padre Ernesto es un gran evangelizador y proveerá a nuestro congreso una gran aportación en el area de la catequesis.

Padre Ángel Espinoza de los Monteros “Es hora de volver a Dios” y “¿Educas y formas o sólo domesticas?”

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Nacido el 22 de Enero de 1966, en Puebla, México. Realizó su maestría en humanidades clásicas en el Instituto Humanístico de Salamanca España.

Posteriormente estudio Filosofía en la universidad Gregoriana de Roma y Teología en la Universidad Regina Apostolorum en Roma, en donde también obtuvo también su licencia en Teología Moral con especialización en Bioética Desde que se ordenó sacerdote en Noviembre de 1994, ha trabajado como orientador juvenil, y después como orientador familiar en Guadalajara México, en Medellín Colombia, donde fue además director del colegio Cumbres, en Paris donde colaboró en la formación de líderes adultos y a en Roma Italia donde actualmente dirige algunos apostolados.

Espinoza Sus áreas de interés se centran sobre todo en la familia y en la educación.

Sus campos de experiencia han sido el trabajo pastoral con jóvenes y familias.

Cada año toma su tiempo para hacer una gira de conferencias en diferentes países ayudando a muchas familias y jóvenes.

Entre sus más famosas conferencias se encuentran: “El Anillo es para siempre” de la cual tiene publicado un libro; “El amor en Familia”; “Crecer en Familia” “Si me quieres dímelo” que es una conferencia dirigida a los jóvenes que se preparan al Matrimonio y otras muchas más.

Padre Ángel tiene una personalidad muy carismática que traerá no tan solo una buena conferencia al Congreso sino una convicción profunda de como formar mejores familias cristianas.

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Charlotte Catholic High School getting parking deck, stadium expansion Construction could start as early as December SueAnn Howell Senior reporter

CHARLOTTE — Plans to build a parking garage and expand the football stadium are under way at Charlotte Catholic High School.

Officials with the Diocese of Charlotte Properties Management Office and Charlotte Catholic High School are preparing to solicit construction bids on both projects next month, with construction on the parking deck slated to begin possibly as early as December.

PARKING DECK

Charlotte Catholic, founded in 1955, is the largest of the three high schools in the diocesan system of 19 schools, with a current enrollment of 1,350.

Enrollment growth in recent years has brought with it serious parking woes for students. Only juniors and seniors who

already have a car are allowed to apply for a parking spot in the parking lot. When no parking is available on campus, students are forced to park elsewhere.

“We have nearly 150 students who park off campus on adjoining streets, plazas and parking lots. Parking has become a real safety issue,” said Kurt Telford, interim principal of the high school. “The new parking deck, in addition to other on-site parking, will provide sufficient parking for the students, faculty, staff and visitors of Charlotte Catholic High School.”

The parking garage at Charlotte Catholic will be the first for any diocesan school, and only the second parking deck among all diocesan properties.

Preliminary plans are to build a fourlevel parking deck, three levels above grade and one level below grade, with a total of 692 spaces, said Anthony Morlando, director of diocesan properties. For both safety and ease of loading and unloading the parking deck, It is being designed with

two independent ramps and two separate entry/exit points: one existing towards Walsh Boulevard and the other exiting towards Little Avenue.

The 250,000-square-foot parking garage will be built on the site of the existing parking lot adjacent to Charlotte Catholic’s stadium.

This will mean even more parking challenges for students later this school year, as construction will displace about 190 current parking spaces.

School leaders are currently organizing a shuttle bus service for students from a remote parking area, using MACS buses. Once negotiations for this remote parking location is finalized, the School administration will announce the full details of the transportation plan, Morlando said.

He added, “Security is of paramount importance within this parking deck.

The design team at Little is currently working with security consultants to

evaluate our specific needs and design a parking deck that is both visually open and well illuminated for safety. It will include electronic security features such as security cameras, occupancy sensors, and blue light phones for the safety of the students and visitors who use the facility.”

STADIUM EXPANSION

Charlotte Catholic is expanding and upgrading its stadium in response to its classification last year as a 4A school by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association.

“One of the requirements of 4A schools is to have a football stadium with a minimum seating capacity for 4,000 fans,” Morlando said. “Our existing stadium currently holds seating for around 3,100 fans. In addition to increased seating requirements, upgrades CCHS, SEE page 23

Catholic students to remain enrolled, despite Opportunity Scholarship court ruling David Hains Director of Communication

CHARLOTTE — Twenty-five students newly enrolled in Diocese of Charlotte Catholic schools will be able to continue their education, in spite of a recent Superior Court ruling in Raleigh affecting students receiving state-funded scholarships to attend private schools.

On Aug. 21 North Carolina Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood ruled that the Opportunity Scholarship program is an unconstitutional shift of state money away from public schools, upholding legal challenges filed by the North Carolina Association of Educators, the North Carolina School Boards Association and dozens of local school boards.

The Opportunity Scholarships, created by the state legislature in 2013 and administered by the State Education Assistance Authority, enabled qualified low-income parents to send their children to private schools, including area Catholic schools, with help from taxpayer money. The annual grants were up to $4,200 per child.

Nearly 5,000 students applied for the scholarships to offset the cost of private or religious school tuition, and more than 1,800 students were awarded scholarship funds to attend school for the 2014-’15 academic year.

The diocese’s Catholic schools started classes the day before the judge issued his ruling, with 25 students enrolled thanks to the Opportunity Scholarships.

Dr. Janice Ritter, diocesan schools superintendent, said the decision has been made to keep these students enrolled, despite the loss of the scholarships. School officials are finding other ways of providing assistance as needed.

The judge’s ruling included a permanent injunction that prohibited the state from releasing any funds.

The state Attorney General’s office has said it will appeal the ruling.

On its website, the State Education Assistance Authority said it planned to notify all Opportunity Scholarship recipients of the judge’s ruling. It also declined to answer any questions about the program or the litigation, stating that it would post any possible updates on the situation on its website.

N.C. Rep. Paul Stam, a supporter of the Opportunity Scholarship program, released a statement expressing disappointment but also indicating that the push for this private-school tuition assistance program would continue.

“If I were a parent whose child had been allocated a scholarship, I would send my child to school next week and tell her to study hard. If I were a school that had admitted these students, I would welcome them with open arms expecting payment a bit later,” Stam said.

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Making a splash with the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge CHARLOTTE — Students at St. Gabriel School finished their school day with a big splash Sept. 3. The students witnessed 50 teachers and staff members, including school principal, Sharon Broxterman, take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge at the school playground that afternoon.

Broxterman accepted the challenge from Charlotte’s Holy Trinity Middle School Principal Kevin Parks. The school raised more than $2,000 to benefit the Joe Martin ALS Foundation, a local non-profit organization that provides services to ALS patients and their families in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area free of charge. Charlotte Catholic High School is also supporting the Joe Martin Foundation. For more information about the Joe Martin ALS Foundation, go to www.joemartinALSfoundation.org.

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Bishop Jugis sprinkles holy water on the walls of St. Peter Yu Church, including the window of the nursery, to the delight of the children there. The youngest child at Mass was 8-month-old Haeseo Cho, pictured in the background being held by her mother Sun Young Kim.

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The Korean Catholic Community of the Triad organized in 2000, and by 2002 it had grown to the point of having its own pastoral minister. The current priest, Father Joseph Ri, came from the Archdiocese of Daegu, South Korea, in 2012.

The community has been supported

by St. John Lee Korean Church in Charlotte, as well as Triad area parishes including St. Pius X in Greensboro and Immaculate Heart of Mary in High Point. The community worshipped at Triad area Catholic churches and at Bishop McGuinness High School before purchasing the present building nearly a year ago.

The Sept. 7 celebration drew Korean Catholics from across North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Among the priests concelebrating the Mass with Bishop Jugis and Father Ri was Father Deokkyo

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are needed to the press box, ticketing gates, concessions, restrooms, additional storage, and greater fan accessibility.”

With this project, seating capacity at the stadium will increase 875 seats, from 3,128 to 4,003 seats. That will mean 420 more home seats and 455 more visitor seats.

Improvements will also include a new press box, a new concession/restroom/ storage building located at end of the home seating area, and additional pedestrian circulation on the home seating side.

Stadium main entrance modifications will include two home entrances and one visitors’ entrance, as well as improvements to the main entry gate area. No changes to the field are required.

In late October the diocese expects to invite bids from a selected group of diocesan-approved general contractors it has previously worked with, Morlando said.

Morlando cautioned that the final features and the layout of both the parking garage and the stadium expansion projects

Seo, pastor of St. John Lee Korean Church.

As the youngest of the 103 Korean Martyrs, St. Peter Yu was chosen as the Greensboro church’s patron because he symbolizes the strong faith and purity of the young Korean Catholic community in the Triad, noted Joseph Cho, who has been active for a number of years in the community.

“Father (Youngcheol) Kim, who named our community, wished that as a young community we would grow to a bigger and more mature community in faith, and at the same time nurture the next generation of community members with strong faith in their hearts, where they model their faith with that of St. Peter Yu,” Cho said.

John and Joanne Choi of Greensboro also described the community of approximately 200 families as a loving, supportive family which enables Korean Catholics to worship in their native language and keep alive their culture for their second-generation immigrant children.

A celebratory dinner after Mass featured traditional Korean food, including kimchi (a fermented Korean side dish) and tteok and songpyeon (dessert rice cakes).

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could change, depending on the results of the bids the diocese receives.

Also, he said, “The City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County plan reviews, which are currently scheduled for mid-October, may also alter the design currently in progress.”

“We hope to be able to award the project at the beginning of November, to allow material procurement prior to the start of construction,” Morlando said. “If all goes well, and the project comes in at or below budget, construction could begin as soon as Christmas break. However, if the project comes in over budget, we will need to reevaluate the design to find ways to bring the project back into budget.”

The final cost of the projects is dependent on the outcome of the competitive bid process.

The Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools Board has unanimously approved the use of a portion of the MACS capital fee for a period of five years to provide the funding for these projects.

No money for these projects is coming from the Charlotte Catholic High School Foundation, which had developed a $16 million plan in 2012 to build the parking deck along with a new fine arts center.

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On TV n Sunday, Sept. 14, 10:30 a.m. (EWTN) “I Was Glad: The Cross and the Holy Name.”

Father Rutler discusses The Cross and the Holy Name.

In Brief

n Monday, Sept. 15, 6 a.m. (EWTN) “God Calls Us to Himself: The Dignity of the Human Person, Made in the Image of God.” Father Wade Menezes discusses if we are to defend the sanctity of human life, we should begin with the dignity of the human person. n Tuesday, Sept. 16, 6:30 p.m. (EWTN) “The Road Up to the Kolyma River.”

Millions of Russians suffered in the gulags of the 20th Century. A moving look inside the struggle of an Eastern Siberian town that once served as a gulag.

‘As Above, So Below’ Claustrophobic chiller in which two archaeologists (Perdita Weeks and Ben Feldman) who share both an interest in the occult and a romantic history together search for the legendary, supposedly miraculous philosopher’s stone in the network of catacombs that lie beneath Paris. Despite the presence of a local expert on the tunnels (Francois Civil), the expedition goes badly wrong as the duo, the guide and the other participants all begin to have hellish hallucinations. But the initial promise of his alternate-history tale gets lost as quickly as his characters do, while gory images and an excess of hysteria induced swearing set this off limits to most moviegoers. Intermittent bloody violence, pervasive rough and crude language.

CNS: L (limited adult audience); MPAA: R

‘The Identical’ Evangelical Elvis fans seem to be the target audience for this reality-related drama in which Blake Rayne plays both a Presley-like entertainer and his identical twin brother.

Though the singer believes his sibling died in infancy (as Presley’s sadly did), in fact he was secretly given up for adoption by the duo’s impoverished parents (Brian Geraghty and Amanda Crew) and raised by a Protestant minister (Ray Liotta) and his wife (Ashley Judd). As the vocalist rockets to stardom, his obscure but equally talented lookalike defies Dad’s plans for him to enter the ministry and instead pursues a career impersonating his long-lost counterpart under the moniker of the title. Wholesome and faith-friendly, director Dustin Marcellino’s film is a homespun piece of entertainment with a goodhearted but naive tone.

CNS: A-I (general patronage); MPAA: PG

‘The Last of Robin Hood’ The final years of swashbuckling actor Errol Flynn (Kevin Kline) are the subject of this film written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, a lurid account of the decline and fall of a once-beloved matinee idol.

In 1957, Flynn is washed up as an actor, but still dashing and debonair, constantly prowling the movie studios for nubile young starlets to seduce. He lands one in Beverly Aadland (Dakota Fanning), a chorus girl on a Warner Brothers film. Beverly dreams of stardom, groomed from childhood by her pushy mother Florence (Susan Sarandon). In reality, Beverly is 15 years old, which doesn’t matter in the least MOVIES, SEE page 25

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Angelic Films: A Catholic Teen Film Club seen here (with Bryan Kemper of Stand True Pro-Life Outreach via FaceTime) during its first pre-production meeting for the pro-life short film “If I Can’t See It.” Pictured are (from left): Matthew Pressley, Elisabeth Fisher, Henry Hoyt, Betsy Hoyt, Emily Pressley, Emma Nunn, Zoe Griffin and Lily Griffin.

Angelic Films, Catholic teens hope to help abolish abortion ‘If I Can’t See It’ to premiere at 2015 March for Life youth rally SueAnn Howell Senior reporter

CHARLOTTE — The latest work of a Charlotte area Catholic teen film club will be showcased during the 2015 March for Life Youth Rally in Washington, D.C. “If I Can’t See It” tells the story of a young girl who listens in on her parents as they argue over abortion while her life hangs in the balance.

It is being produced by Angelic Films, which aims to make a difference in the world using film and social media by creating original films and media projects to assist local pro-life groups. Although the group is fairly new, they’ve already produced a few films for St. Mark Parish and School, as well as others.

Betsy Hoyt, a parishioner at St. Mark whose son Henry is in the film club, moderates and manages Angelic Films.

She has more than 15 years’ experience in the motion picture, radio broadcasting, news, corporate video and national advertising fields/industries. For the past two years she has been teaching high school level fine arts classes in film production. She has taught short film production, TV commercial production, post production, audio production, how to

market student films and more.

“Angelic Films was created for the teens, and by the teens, after seeing a need for them to fulfill their God-given mission to spread the Gospel of Life,” Hoyt says.

The short film was written by Angelic Films member and St. Mark parishioner Emily Pressley, a 19-year-old film student at Western Carolina University. The film’s inspiration came from Bryan Kemper of Stand True Ministries.

“The idea was brilliant. It was deep and emotional. It touched me, and I knew it was something that could touch others as well. It’s also extremely controversial and I like that about it,” Pressley says. “I don’t like cheesy films. I think if you want to send a message you have one chance to do it, so you have to make it good. And this is good. It’s not distasteful, it’s raw and honest and there’s beauty in that.”

The film will premiere on Jan. 21, 2015, during the March for Life Youth Rally at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C. “The film is to be shown to a pro-life audience of over 2,000 people,” Hoyt says.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for our Charlotte pro-life teens.”

Casting is under way on the film, which will be shot in Charlotte in November.

Roles are available for a young girl (aged 3-7 years), a young man (20-25 years), and a young woman (20-25 years). Auditions will be held at St. Mark Church on Sept. 16, 18 and 30, and Oct. 2.

“This is what I hope this project will accomplish: a project which people will watch and get a feeling to do some thing and end the culture of death,” says 14-year-old director, Henry Hoyt.

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n Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1 p.m. (EWTN) “St. Hildegard of Bingen: Light of God.” Known as “the spiritual and political conscience of her time,” St. Hildegard of Bingen was canonized and made a Doctor of the Church in 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI. n Thursday, Sept. 18, 6:30 p.m. (EWTN) “The Bacon Priest.” Father Werenfried van Straaten became known as “The Bacon Priest” when in 1947 he encouraged the donation of bacon to help feed rucksack priests ministering to Catholics who had been relocated to exclusively Protestant areas of post-World War II Germany. n Friday, Sept. 19, 10 a.m. (EWTN) “Marian Apparitions: Our Lady of La Salette.” Despite its remote location, thousands visit La Salette, France, each year, where Mary appeared to two children in 1846 preaching her message of conversion of all humanity to Christ. n Friday, Sept. 19, 6:30 p.m. (EWTN) “St. Kateri Tekakwitha: A Pilgrimage Into Her Heart.” Stories of St. Kateri, a miraculous healing and her 2012 canonization – with members of every Indian nation present, are intertwined portraying her as a model of the New Evangelization and a call for all people to treat God’s creation responsibly. n Saturday, Sept. 20, 8 p.m. (EWTN) “Night of the Prophet.” Through the eyes of a Roman journalist, a dramatization of Padre Pio, who is unveiled as a man of purity and Christian charity. n Monday, Sept. 22, 6:30 p.m. (EWTN) “Meeting Josémaria Escriva: Brazil.” Clips of many talks given by St. Josémaria Escriva around Brazil on topics ranging from marriage, family life, sanctity and more. n Tuesday, Sept. 23, 6:30 a.m. (EWTN) “Padre Pio’s San Giovanni: I Can Refuse No One.” Trace the life, times and events shaping the miracles associated with Padre Pio. n Thursday, Sept. 25, 6:30 p.m. (EWTN) “The Vocation to the Priesthood.” Men considering the priesthood should view this feature on the unique life of being a priest. Interviews include priests serving in dangerous missions where they emulate Christ’s love to all people.

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U.S. bishops recall ‘heroic history’ of Civil Rights Act of 1964 Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a statement marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called the legislation a “monumental step forward” but added that there is “still much work to do.”

“The act itself did not eradicate racial discrimination and injustice. In fact, there are reminders across our nation today that the embers of racial discrimination still smolder,” said the Sept. 9 statement issued by Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky.

The statement was issued on the memorial of St. Peter Claver, a Jesuit priest canonized in 1888 and known as the patron of African missions and interracial justice because of his work with slaves in Colombia.

The archbishop stressed the need to “continue to work against the destructive influence of racism on families, religious and civil communities, employment, the prison system, housing, hunger, educational achievement, and mental health.”

He paid tribute to men and women who made personal sacrifices and endured hardship to stand up for “racial justice against bigotry, violence, ignorance, and fear” in their work for civil rights. He also said he was “especially grateful for the vital contributions of the faith community during this period” noting that many “priests and religious sisters and brothers shared their faith with the AfricanAmerican community by their presence, faithful witness, and Gospel-inspired service.”

Archbishop Kurtz also said the U.S. bishops joined their predecessors “who repeatedly spoke against racism.”

In the 1963 statement “On Racial Harmony,” the bishops condemned segregation saying it “implies that people of one race are not fit to associate with another.” They also said “discrimination based on the accidental fact of race or color ... cannot be reconciled with the truth that God has created all men with equal rights and equal dignity.”

The 2014 statement notes that Church leaders, including Archbishops Joseph E. Ritter of St. Louis, Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington and Joseph F. Rummel of New Orleans and Cardinal Lawrence J. Shehan of Baltimore, worked in the mid-20th century to desegregate Catholic schools, hospitals and other institutions, “clearly signaling by their words and actions that racial discrimination has no place in the church or in society.”

Archbishop Kurtz also credited the bishops for describing racism as a sin in their 1979 statement: “Brothers and Sisters to Us.” The archbishop said the Civil Rights Act offered “an olive branch of hope” and promised a better quality of life for millions of Americans. He also said the legislation “championed human dignity and provided legal protections that began to transform communities around the country.”

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Father Salomon Perez speaks with two young skateboarders in a recreational facility he had built next to the St. Joseph of Flores Parish in Tonacatepeque, El Salvador.

Parishioners suffered from gang-related crime committed until Father Perez negotiated a truce. El Salvador has had many children leave due to violence and attempts at forcibly recruiting them into gangs.

CRS looks at Central American programs to help fight push factors David Agren Catholic News Service

MEXICO CITY — At an immigration center for receiving busloads of deportees returning to El Salvador, Catholic Relief Services’ Executive Vice President Joan Rosenhauer spoke with a widowed mother of six children who was awaiting her son.

Rosenhauer said she asked the mother why she had sent her son on the perilous journey through Mexico in an attempt to reach the United States.

“There is no hope for him here,” the mother responded, explaining her inability to feed her family and the problem of gangs forcing adolescents into lives of crime.

“It gave me pause,” Rosenhauer said after returning from a late-August trip to Central America. “Any parent can understand doing whatever you can to protect the lives of your children and make sure that they have food to eat and a decent life.”

The boy being returned home was but one of thousands of children attempting to abandon Central America – sometimes alone, sometimes with family – in an effort to escape pervasive poverty and violence. Many also try to reunite with parents, who have spent years working in the United States to support households back home.

Catholic communities in Central America are responding to the crisis. Scalabrini nuns run repatriation programs in Honduras, priests try to keep kids out of gangs in El Salvador, and religious operate shelters for undocumented migrants traveling through Mexico. Rosenhauer said Catholic Relief Services is focusing on supporting these communities as best it can.

“We know that there are successful programs that can address the issue of poverty and can address the issue of gang violence and the issue of domestic violence, too,” she said. “We just need to be able to scale them up.”

She said one program operating in El Salvador provides at-risk youth and some who have left gangs with vocational training and life skills, which allow them to gain employment, start businesses or return to school. Eighty percent were in such activities one year after graduation from the program.

Rosenhauer said she asked “what was the most helpful part of this program, and to a person, they said the life-skills training.”

“That helps (give) them new ways of coping with all of the challenges they face ... with the gangs, learning within their communities to deal with tense situations.”

Catholic Relief Services also works with agricultural and livelihood programs in Central America, especially among coffee growers, who have had crops wiped out by a plague known as coffee rust.

“Agriculture is still a key livelihood for people in Central America. We are looking at helping coffee farmers improve their production and be able to access markets,” Rosenhauer said.

During her trip, she met with Central American public officials, including Ana Garcia de Hernandez, first lady of Honduras. She said officials recognize the severity of the situation – Honduras has a murder rate topping 90 per 100,000 residents, highest in the world, while poverty is rife throughout the region, but resources are lacking.

“They were very anxious to bring these (Catholic Relief Services’) programs into their country, but they don’t have the resources to do it,” she said.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports detaining more than 66,000 unaccompanied minors between October 2013 and August 2014, an 88 percent decrease over its past fiscal year.

The Los Angeles Times reported the number of unaccompanied children being detained in the U.S. dropped by more than two-thirds in August, from a high of 10,600 in June.

The reasons remain uncertain, although some CRS staffers suspect few Central Americans wish to try the trip during the heat of the summer months.

Mexican officials also appear to be increasing enforcement efforts in southern Mexico, and the government has said it will stop migrants from climbing aboard the northbound trains known as La Bestia, citing safety reasons.

Rosenhauer, who works with CRS’ U.S. operations, called on Catholics and all Americans to reflect on the circumstances in Central America.

“It’s a complex intersection of causes, but it’s clear to me that the causes are severe enough ... that we will never address the problem we have on our side of the border unless we address the root causes that are leading these children to come to the United States,” she said.

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In Brief Feds continue HHS case against Little Sisters of the Poor DENVER — The federal government is pursuing its case against the Little Sisters of the Poor in an attempt to get the religious order to comply with newly issued interim rules regarding the Department of Health and Human Services’ contraception mandate under the Affordable Care Act. The government filed a brief Sept. 8 in the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, where the Little Sisters of the Poor run a home for the aged. Attorneys for the Little Sisters of the Poor said they would continue to fight the contraceptive mandate.

Diocese asks high court to hear case involving confessional seal BATON ROUGE, La. — The Diocese of Baton Rouge has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Louisiana Supreme Court decision that a priest may be compelled to testify as to what he heard in the confessional in 2008 concerning an abuse case. The legal step is the latest in a case involving Father Jeffrey Bayhi, pastor of St. John the Baptist Church in Zachary, La., and the sanctity of the seal of confession.

The petition to the U.S. Supreme Court comes after a Louisiana Supreme Court ruling in May outlining arguments that priests are subject to mandatory reporting laws regarding abuse of minors if the person who made the confession waives confidentiality. The state Supreme Court opened the door for a hearing in which the priest would testify about what he heard in the confessional.

Under Church law, the seal of confession is sacred under the penalty of excommunication.

In the case, a girl who was 14 in 2008 said she told her parish priest, Father Bayhi, in the confessional that she was abused by a now-dead lay member of the parish. The girl’s parents sued Father Bayhi and the Diocese of Baton Rouge for failing to report the abuse.

Courts strike down two same-sex ‘marriage’ bans, uphold another WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge upheld an amendment to Louisiana’s state constitution in early September that defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman, but later that same week, a federal court struck down samesex “marriage” bans in Wisconsin and Indiana.

In the Louisiana case, U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman said Sept. 3 the state did not overstep its authority in adopting a constitutional amendment approved in 2004 by 78 percent of the voters that banned same-sex “marriage.”

It was the first such decision by a federal court since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act last year.

Feldman said for gays to have rights superior to the democratic process, they must constitute a protected class, and no court has bestowed that status on them.

Archbishop Sheen’s sainthood cause suspended WASHINGTON, D.C. — The canonization cause of Archbishop Fulton Sheen has been suspended indefinitely, according to a statement issued Sept. 3 by the Diocese of Peoria, Ill., where the archbishop was born. The suspension was announced “with immense sadness,” the diocese said. “The process to verify a possible miracle attributed to Sheen had been going extremely well, and only awaited a vote of the cardinals and

the approval of the Holy Father. There was every indication that a possible date for beatification in Peoria would have been scheduled for as early as the coming year.”

Archbishop Sheen, who gained fame in the 1950s with a prime-time television series called “Life Is Worth Living,” died in New York in 1979.

The diocesan statement said the Archdiocese of New York denied a request from Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria, president of the Archbishop Sheen Foundation, to move the archbishop’s body to Peoria. Deacon Greg Kendra, in a Sept. 3 posting on his blog The Deacon’s Bench, said the reason for the request was for “official inspection and to take first-class relics from the remains.”

A Sept. 4 statement from Joseph Zwilling, communications director for the New York Archdiocese, said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York “did express a hesitance in exhuming the body” absent a directive from the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes and family approval.

Dolan backs St. Patrick’s Day Parade as gay ban is lifted NEW YORK — Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York said he continues to support the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee after it lifted a ban prohibiting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender groups from marching openly in the annual event. The cardinal, who will be the grand marshal of the 254th St. Patrick’s Day parade in March, said in a statement Sept. 3 that neither he nor his predecessors determined who could or could not march in the parade. He said he has “always appreciated the cooperation of parade organizers in keeping the parade close to its Catholic heritage. My predecessors and I have always left decisions on who would march to the organizers of the individual parades,” the cardinal’s statement said. “As I do each year, I look forward to celebrating Mass in honor of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland and the patron saint of this archdiocese, to begin the feast, and pray that the parade would continue to be a source of unity for all of us.”

The parade committee’s decision comes in an effort to defuse the controversy that arose prior to this year’s parade over the exclusion of gay banners in the annual celebration of Irish and Catholic heritage. The ban led New York Mayor Bill de Blasio to refuse to march earlier this year. Guinness also withdrew its sponsorship.

received exposure and that’s doubled. That’s pretty significant,” he said Aug. 29.

Cardinal pleas for solidarity with Iraq’s Christians WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington made an impassioned plea for solidarity with persecuted Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq and Syria and strongly urged that voices be raised against atrocities being committed there. “Today our solidarity with brothers and sisters of our faith and of other faiths in a part of the world where there is clearly an effort to eliminate them is something that we simply cannot in conscience ignore,” Cardinal Wuerl said in closing remarks during an Aug. 28 Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to mark the opening of The Catholic University of America’s academic year.

“Often we’re asked, ‘How is it possible that in human history atrocities occur?’ They occur for two reasons. Because there are those prepared to commit them, and there are those who remain silent,” he said. The ongoing displacement of women, children and men in the war-torn countries is, “the least of the things happening to them is something that we really are not free to ignore and sometimes all we have to raise is our voice. I’m sharing these thoughts with you because I don’t want to have on my conscience that I was complicitous in something as horrendous as this simply by being quiet.”

Immigrants, activists urge action on immigration reform WASHINGTON, D.C. — Hundreds of protesters took part in a rally and march in Washington Aug. 28 chanting: “Not one more! Not one more!” to urge President Barack Obama to stop the deportation of immigrant families, workers

and children. The participants, including many young children, also got their message across holding aloft placards saying: “Don’t deport my dad” and wearing T-shirts with the words: “Keep families together. We’re here because the president must act and he must act now,” one of the rally speakers said over a bullhorn to a cheering crowd erupting into shouts of “Si, se puede” (“Yes we can”) – a motto of United Farm Workers and a slogan of Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Catholic aid agencies seek funds to assist minorities in Iraq, Syria RYE, N.Y. — U.S. Catholic organizations have launched public appeals to fund assistance to Christians and other religious minorities displaced in Iraq and Syria. The Catholic Near East Welfare Association, Jesuit Relief Service, Knights of Columbus, Catholic Relief Services and Aid to the Church in Need are among Catholic agencies seeking funds.

Aid to the Church in Need, an international Catholic charity under the guidance of the Holy See, has pledged an initial $1 million, of which $458,000 has already been given. Edward Clancy, ACN’s director of outreach, said funds are being directed to local bishops in Syria and Iraq.

Clancy said Aid to the Church in Need has funded pastoral assistance to the church communities in Syria and Iraq “for decades,” including Mass stipends and vocation support. Because of the urgency of the current situation, it is now giving money for food and tents for the displaced.

Catholic Near East Welfare Association, a charitable organization mandated by the Holy See to work for, through and with the Eastern Catholic churches, launched an appeal July 28 for aid to Iraq. It released an initial grant of $75,000 to purchase infant formula, diaper and handicapped-accessible toilets and showers for camps for displaced Iraqis.

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Ice bucket challenge brings help to pro-life research center WASHINGTON, D.C. — More Catholics are beginning to take notice of a Catholic, pro-life medical research center in Iowa City, Iowa. This summer’s ALS ice bucket challenge craze has netted nearly $100 million in donations for the ALS Association as celebrities and commoners alike are taking to social media, posting videos of themselves getting doused with ice-cold water and collecting donations to fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

But because the ALS Association has acknowledged conducting research using embryonic stem cells – a practice opposed by the Catholic Church, and one the association said is funded by one specific donor and is coming to an end – a few dioceses have recommended making donations instead to the John Paul II Medical Research Institute, which conducts ALS research without using such cells. The institute focuses on developing core technologies that all diseases need, and doing this within a prolife value system. Compared to what the ALS Association is pulling in from the challenge, the institute’s income thus far has been, well, a drop in the bucket, but it represents a 100 percent increase in donations. “Last year, we raised $170,000 of private donations, primarily through word of mouth, people we know. Because we’re small, we don’t have an organizer for marketing, a professional fund-raising organization,” said Dr. Alan Moy, who co-founded the institute in 2006 with his wife Jeanne. “In the last 10 days, we’ve

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Pope says war is senseless slaughter, can always be avoided Carol Glatz Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY — War is just “senseless slaughter” and should never be seen as inevitable or a done deal, Pope Francis said.

“War drags people into a spiral of violence which then proves difficult to control; it tears down what generations have labored to build up, and it sets the scene for even greater injustices and conflicts,” he said in a written message to a world summit of religious leaders.

“War is never a necessity, nor is it inevitable. Another way can always be found: the way of dialogue, encounter and the sincere search for truth,” he wrote.

The pope’s message was presented Sept. 7 to people taking part in the International Meeting of People and Religions, organized by the Romebased lay Community of Sant’Egidio and hosted by the Diocese of Antwerp, Belgium.

More than 300 leaders representing the world’s religions participated in the global summit, which was being held Sept. 7-9. Its aim was to create an international alliance of religions dedicated to peace and dialogue and to countering fundamentalist ideologies and violence.

In his written message read to participants Sept. 7, the pope said this year’s 100th anniversary of the start of World War I “can teach us that war is never a satisfactory means of redressing injustice and achieving balanced solutions to political and social discord.”

Citing the wartime pope, Pope Benedict XV, Pope Francis said, “All war is ultimately ‘senseless slaughter’” that ruins lives and poisons relationships.

“We cannot remain passive in the face of so much suffering,” he said. He urged the world’s religious leaders to cooperate in “healing wounds, resolving conflicts and pursuing peace.”

For some Iraqi Christians, returning to homeland is not an option Doreen Abi Raad Catholic News Service

BEIRUT — Uprooted from his home in Iraq by the advance of Islamic State fighters, Nouree sees no future for Christians in his country.

“It’s like a nightmare,” the Chaldean Catholic father of six said from a modest apartment in Beirut where he and his family have temporarily resettled after fleeing Iraq. “They just came and took our villages,” Nouree said of the militants. He requested that his full name not be used to protect his identity.

“It’s not a coincidence. It’s like a plan to rid the region of Christians. We Christians paid the price, and the Yezidis (the minority religious community) did, too,” Nouree said. “Even though they pushed us out, we won’t forget our homeland. This is our past, our history.”

His village, Tel Isqof, about 19 miles north of Mosul, was home to some 1,500 Christian families, all of whom fled the advance of the Islamic State fighters in early August.

When the militants invaded Tel Isqof, Nouree said, the Kurdish regional forces, known as peshmerga, withdrew, leaving the villagers unprotected as they fled to Irbil, the capital of the Kurdish region of Iraq.

Irbil now hosts more than 100,000 displaced Christians and other Iraqi minorities.

“We have no trust,” Nouree said. “There is no credibility, in the government, (in) the Kurdistan forces – even some clergy are leaving.”

Michel Kasdano, a third-generation Iraqi Chaldean in Lebanon who volunteers his time to help Iraqi refugees, also has observed the same mindset among the refugees he meets: They do not want to return to Iraq and, their relatives remaining in Iraq want to leave.

A retired general with the Lebanese army, Kasdano has mobilized a group of friends and relatives who have met with some 50 Christian Iraqi families, now refugees in Lebanon as a result of the Islamic State attacks in their homeland.

Aside from listening to the tragic stories of the refugees, they distribute food, clothes and money to the families.

“In my opinion, there will be just a

CNS | Ahmed Jadallah, Reuters

A nun leads prayer for displaced Iraqi Christians who fled Islamic State militants in Mosul at a school acting as a refugee camp in Irbil, Iraq, Sept. 6. Irbil now hosts more than 100,000 displaced Christians and other minorities.

Some Christians who have fled Iraq say they do not want to return. symbolic presence of Christians in Iraq, like a museum,” he said.

It was clear 10 years ago that Christians were leaving Iraq, he said, not just because of threats, but “because there was no support, they saw no future.”

“There has been no concrete movement from the Church, the international community or government authorities to anchor them there,” he said. “Despite pessimism, I still have my faith, and I still believe Christianity must remain in Iraq.”

The future is unclear for Nouree and his family, but his priority is to get resettled in another country.

In Beirut, he registered his family with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and was issued an asylumseeker certificate. His next appointment is scheduled for March 2015.

Even before this summer’s mass exodus of Iraqi Christians, there were about 9,000 Iraqi refugees in Lebanon, most of whom fled their homeland after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Lebanon has also experienced a flood of more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees, equal to at least one-quarter of Lebanon’s resident population.

Pope: Iraq’s Christians are bold witnesses of Christ VATICAN CITY — Iraqi Christians are true and courageous witnesses of Christ’s message of hope, forgiveness and love, Pope Francis said. “The Church suffers with you and is proud of you, proud to have children like you,” he said Sept. 3 during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square. He said he wanted to assure Iraqis, and all those helpless and persecuted, of his closeness.

“You are in the Church’s heart,” he said, as he asked God to bless and protect them.

The Church is proud of those who persevere through such hardship, he said, because “you are the strength and real and authentic witness of her message of salvation, forgiveness and love. I embrace you all, all of you!”

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In Brief Pope appoints 14 couples to attend synod on family VATICAN CITY — More than 250 participants, including 14 married couples from around the world, were expected to attend October’s extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family.

In addition to 114 presidents of national bishops’ conferences, 13 heads of Eastern Catholic churches and 25 heads of Vatican congregations and councils, the pope appointed 26 synod fathers to take part in the Oct. 5-19 synod.

Almost all of the 26 papally appointed voting members are from Europe. Of these, none of the 14 cardinals, eight bishops and four priests appointed by the pope is from North America or other English-speaking countries. However, among the nonvoting members of 38 observers and 16 experts appointed by the pope, the majority are laymen and laywomen, including 14 married couples.

Pope Francis to preside over joint September wedding VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will preside over his first public wedding ceremony as pontiff during a nuptial Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica Sept. 14. The Vatican confirmed Aug. 29 that 20 couples from the Diocese of Rome will be married by the pope, the bishop of Rome. The papal Mass celebrating the couples’ marriage will come just a few weeks before the start of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family, Oct. 5-19. The mid-September ceremony will be the first papal celebration of a wedding since 2000.

Pope mourns murder of 3 nuns VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis mourned the deaths of three Xaverian Missionary Sisters of Mary, who were murdered in two separate attacks in their residence in Burundi. Sister Lucia Pulici, 75, and Sister Olga Raschietti, 82, were found dead Sept. 7 in their mission residence in the capital of Bujumbura. Sister Bernadetta Bogianni, 79, who had found the bodies, was killed the next night. In telegrams sent to Archbishop Evariste Ngoyagoye of Bujumbura and Sister Ines Frizza superior general of the Xaverian Missionary Sister of Mary, the pope expressed his sadness concerning the “tragic deaths” of these “faithful and devout nuns.”

In Google Hangout, pope helps launch social network VATICAN CITY — The wisdom of “It takes a village to raise a child” has been lost as kids are either overprotected by permissive parents or neglected, Pope Francis said. “The educational partnership has been broken” as families, schools and society are “no longer united together for the child,” he said Sept. 4 after holding his first Google Hangout – a live video conversation – across five continents with teenagers who belong to the international network of “Scholas occurentes,” uniting students of all faiths and cultures.

Parents and teachers used to stick together to teach kids important values, the pope said, recalling when he got into trouble in the fourth grade. “I wasn’t respectful toward the teacher, and the teacher called my mother. My mother came, I stayed in class and the teacher stepped out, then they called for me,” he told a group of educators and experts involved with the worldwide Scholas network. “My mom was really calm. I feared the worst.” After getting him to admit to his wrongdoing, his mother told him to apologize to the teacher. The pope

said apologizing “was easy and I was happy.

But there was an Act 2 when I got home,” insinuating stiffer punishment had followed.

Today, “at least in lots of schools in my country,” if a teacher notes a problem with a student, “the next day, the mother and father denounce the teacher.” The family, schools and culture have to work together for the well-being of the child, he said.

Gaza’s Catholics: Be Christ’s witness in midst of conflict VATICAN CITY — The priest leading the Gaza Strip’s only Catholic parish met with Pope Francis at the Vatican, thanking him for his support of those suffering in the war-torn territory. Argentine Father Jorge Hernandez of the Institute of the Incarnate Word had a 45-minute private meeting with the pope Aug. 29 – just days after the start of a truce between Israel and Hamas, which controls the coastal territory. The priest told Vatican Radio that the pope continued to offer his prayers and encouragement. He said the pope told him, “’The Gospel demands the sacrifices that Jesus Christ asks of every one of us, everywhere. It’s up to you to give witness to Jesus Christ there, in the land that saw Him suffer, that saw Him die, that also saw Him, however, come back from the dead. So, be strong, have courage, keep going!’”

Father Hernandez and three Missionaries of Charity were the only religious left at Holy Family Church during a 50-day campaign between Israeli forces and Hamas militants. The priest and three nuns were among the few to stay behind in the midst of the heaviest rocket fire to care for 29 severely disabled children and nine elderly women. They later opened up the parish school to shelter some 1,200 Palestinians who fled their homes during the airstrikes.

Pope sends condolences to family of journalist slain by ISIS MIAMI — Pope Francis sent a letter of condolence to the Miami-area family of Steven Sotloff, the second U.S. journalist slain this summer by ISIS, also known as Islamic State. “His Holiness Pope Francis was deeply saddened to learn of the tragic death of your son and brother, Steven Joel, and he has asked me to convey to you his prayerful condolences,” said the Sept. 5 letter, signed by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state. “He entrusts Steven’s soul to the Lord and offers prayers for you and all who mourn his death,” the letter said. “His Holiness urges people everywhere to reject violence, aggression and lack of compassion, and asks each one to pray and work for forgiveness, healing and peace.

Upon you and your loved ones, he invokes the Almighty’s blessings of consolation and strength.”

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With time for questions and answers this is a perfect introduction or refresher course for anyone interested in a deeper prayer life.

Saturday, October 18 from 9:30am – 4pm

Deepening Your Spiritual Life: Beginning (or Renewing) a Contemplative Prayer Practice This retreat will draw on the wisdom of Scripture, the saints and contemporary spiritual teachers to help us “connect the dots” between daily prayer and the ordinary demands of life.

Both programs presented by: Carl McColman, an associate of the Trappist Monastery in Conyers, GA. He is a popular retreat leader and author of numerous books. $10 – Friday evening only $40 – Saturday only (lunch included) $45 – both days with Saturday lunch included $80 – both days with overnight lodging and Saturday lunch included

Spiritual Companioning Workshop Saturday, October 25 from 9am – 3pm This day of training is designed for those who are interested in or already serve in the ministry of spiritual companionship. Facilitated by the Charlotte Spirituality Center this program includes learning skills such as “holy listening” and discernment techniques.

Presented by: Linda Flynn a spiritual director and retreat leader; she is one of the directors of the Charlotte Spirituality Center. $45 – lunch and materials are included

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Dr. Gerard Carter

Unaccompanied immigrant children: What you can do to help

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ope Francis has described their situation as a “humanitarian emergency.” Elected officials and social commentators have taken strong positions that belie political affiliation. People of goodwill stand diametrically opposed in proposing workable solutions.

They’re variously described (depending upon one’s perspective) as unaccompanied alien children, immigrants, refugees, illegal aliens, or the undocumented.

Of all possible terms, perhaps the best designation is the simplest and most accurate: children. These are children who make it across the Mexican/U.S. border without being accompanied by a parent and without benefit of proper immigration paperwork.

The number being reliably used is 60,000 children, just this year, who will make the incredibly dangerous journey across our southern border. Prior to 2012, an estimated 6,0007,000 children annually arrived in country. A sharp increase in arrivals began in 2012, with 13,625 children detained near points of entry. In 2013, the number of children crossing the border nearly doubled to 24,668.

According to 2013 statistics released by the federal government, these children are arriving primarily from Guatemala (37 percent), El Salvador (26 percent), Honduras (30 percent), Mexico (3 percent), Ecuador (2 percent), and from other nations (3 percent).

Although motivated by an array of individual reasons, there are four primary reasons they depart their homelands.

First, parents send their children on this journey to escape violence, danger and persecution. The continued reliance on illegal drugs by developed countries fuels a desperate and unsafe world for children and families in Central America.

Honduras, for example, was once a poor but relatively safe nation. Now because of the power and allure of the illegal drug trade, it has the dubious distinction of ranking number one in murders per capita. A second motivating factor is a desire to reunite children with family members already living here. Third, the same economic forces behind the growth of undocumented workers in the country also influence the number of children being sent to the United States to support

‘60,000 children, just this year, will make the incredibly dangerous journey across our southern border.’

families back home. Finally, children are brought against their will into the country as victims of human trafficking.

We at Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte have increasingly received requests from members of our faith community who want to know how they as individuals and we as the Church in western North Carolina can help these children. The following is offered to help guide our individual responses and to share the work currently being carried out collectively in our name by Catholic Charities:

I want to help these children. Can I open up my home and let them live with me?

Although some of these children enter the country without being detected, most are detained near the border by law enforcement and federal immigration officials.

After being detained, they are processed and housed until a determination is made regarding whether they may remain in the U.S. or are deported back to their home country. During this determination process, these children are detained in government-sponsored facilities, placed in licensed foster homes, or are released to family members.

Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte does not currently have an agreement with the federal government to accept unaccompanied children into our care or to place them in foster homes. Should such an arrangement be worked out, only licensed foster homes could be used. This requirement is the same for any agency in the nation.

Even though I cannot open my home to these children, what can I do?

1. Pray. Bring to Our Heavenly Father prayers of supplication for the protection of these little ones who are at risk for abuse and harm. Pray that our efforts as individuals, as communities, as agencies, as a nation, and as Church will bring about the care and comfort of these desperate children.

2. Advocate. As is the right of every American, we can advocate with members of the Congress for the humane treatment of these extremely vulnerable children. For contact information on members of Congress from NC, visit https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/NC. 3. Learn. The U.S. bishops are keenly involved in the response to the needs of unaccompanied children. To learn more, go to www.usccb.org/about/children-and-

migration/unaccompanied-refugee-minor-program.

In addition, the U.S. bishops have taken a strong stand on our national immigration situation and the need for comprehensive immigration reform. To learn more, visit www.justiceforimmigrants.org.

4. Act. Catholic Charities assists immigrants across a variety of programs. Directly help immigrants already in our communities by contributing to our food pantry, counseling and legal immigration programs. To learn more, go to www.ccdoc.org.

What’s Catholic Charities doing to help these children?

Catholic Charities here in the diocese is already serving unaccompanied children and children of recent immigrants to our country.

1. As a Catholic agency, we remember in our prayers the needs of these vulnerable children.

2. We’re working with the U.S. bishops to assist children who can be released into the care of family members. We conduct home visits, provide information and referrals when needed, and provide supportive services to families.

This program provides an alternative to detention and supports family reunification where possible.

3. We’re networking with representatives of the U.S. bishops, the larger Catholic Charities network throughout the U.S., and other community providers to determine how best to help those children who remain in the federal government’s custody because they cannot be immediately released to family members.

4. We’re advocating on behalf of these children, along with partnering agencies, and with governmental and elected officials.

If I want to speak with someone about how I can help, who do I contact?

For details about our advocacy efforts, email Joseph Purello at jtpurello@charlottediocese.org. To donate locally to programs that help immigrants and their children, visit www.ccdoc.org/donate.

Dr. Gerard Carter, Ph.D., is the executive director of Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte.

Regional forums about unaccompanied children being held Join Catholic Charities at one of three regional forums about the current situation involving unaccompanied immigrant children. Come and learn about this humanitarian crisis at our nation’s border, our Church’s response to this crisis, and suggested advocacy actions. No preregistration is required.

Asheville St. Lawrence Basilica (Laurentine Hall) 97 Haywood St. 7-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23

Charlotte St. John Neumann Church (Parish Hall) 8451 Idlewild Road 7:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17

Winston-Salem Holy Family Catholic Church in Clemmons (Parish Center) 4820 Kinnamon Road 7-8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 15

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Peggy Bowes

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, and five decades a day keep the devil away

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y two passions are the rosary and healthy living, and my goal is to convince as many people as possible to care for their earthly bodies through proper diet and exercise while enriching their souls by praying a daily rosary. Yet as a busy working mom, I like to combine the two as much as possible. Here are a few ideas I’d like to share:

Start with breakfast

Fruit juice is an easy way to start the day. My family loves orange-carrot juice, but any fruit juice will do.

Add more fiber to your breakfast by slicing bananas or strawberries on top of your cereal, or toss in a handful of fresh or frozen blueberries. A smoothie makes a terrific energy-boosting breakfast. Experiment with different combinations of fruit, juice, and flavored yogurt.

After you bless your food, pray the first decade of the rosary, taking a few minutes to reflect in silence before you start your busy day.

Healthier snacks

When your stomach starts to growl, try a box of raisins, a banana, apple, dried fruit mixed with nuts, or celery sticks spread with cream cheese or peanut butter. If you didn’t have a smoothie for breakfast, then whip one up for a snack.

Pray the second decade of the rosary and take a little spiritual break.

Brown bag it

Bringing lunch from home saves money, time and calories. Most grocery stores sell pre-packaged, individual salad kits that include toppings and dressing. Or swap the chips you eat with a sandwich for baby carrots, grape tomatoes, celery, radishes or bok choy. Include low-fat ranch dressing as a dip. If you prefer fruit, pack a tangerine, apple, grapes, kiwi or a peach.

While you’re eating lunch, pray the third decade of the rosary.

Dinner and (yes!) dessert

Dinner is a perfect opportunity to add vegetables to your diet. Frozen vegetables are a quick and inexpensive side dish. The new steaming bags make this especially easy, and some even include a sauce. Canned vegetables are also inexpensive and can be heated quickly. Potatoes and yams can be cooked quickly in the microwave if you’re short on time, but do omit or limit fatty toppings such as butter and sour cream.

A healthy diet can include an occasional dessert, and fruit is an excellent choice. Dip fresh strawberries in a bit of chocolate, or serve pineapple chunks with cream cheese dip. Baked apples with cinnamon and a little brown sugar will make your kitchen smell amazing.

Baked or poached pears are delicious, too. Make a lowfat cobbler with fresh or frozen berries by limiting the amount of topping and serving with low-fat whipped cream or a small scoop of frozen yogurt or ice cream.

Invite your family to join you as you pray the fourth decade of the rosary after dinner. Now you just have to find time to pray the last decade before bed.

Congratulations! You’ve prayed an entire rosary and added more fruits and vegetables to your diet.

Peggy Bowes is a parishioner at Holy Angels Church in Mount Airy. She is a motivational speaker and author of “The Rosary Workout” (www. rosaryworkout.blogspot.com).

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Father Robert Barron

The danger of soft atheism A

very instructive exchange between Gary Gutting, a philosophy professor at Notre Dame, and Philip Kitcher, a philosophy professor at Columbia, appeared recently in the pages of the New York Times.

Kitcher describes himself as a proponent of “soft atheism,” which is to say an atheism distinct from the polemical variety espoused by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. Unlike his harsher colleagues, Kitcher is willing to admit that religion can play an ethically useful role in a predominantly secular society.

I won’t delve into this feature of Kitcher’s thought, for I have explored the Kantian reduction of religion to ethics elsewhere, but I would like to draw attention to one particular move made in this interview, since it shows, with remarkable clarity, one of the fundamental misunderstandings of religion common among atheists.

Prompted by Gutting, Kitcher admits that he finds all religious doctrine incredible. Pressed for an explanation of this rather extreme position, he points to the fact of the extraordinary plurality of religious doctrines: Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, animists, etc., hold to radically different accounts of reality, the divine, human purpose, etc. And since all religions rely fundamentally on the same ground – some revelation offered to distant ancestors – there is no rational way to adjudicate these differences. Indeed, the only real reason that I am a Christian, he would maintain, is that I was born to Christian parents who passed the founding stories onto me. If you, as a Jew or Muslim or Hindu, have different foundational stories, there is no reasonable way I can convince you or you can convince me. It’s just your cockamamie myth against my cockamamie myth. This is, of course, a variation on the standard Enlightenment view that positive religion is untethered to reason and hence inevitably violent, force being the only way that one religion can supersede another.

The fundamental problem here is that Kitcher completely overlooks the decisively important role that a religious tradition plays in the development and ratification of doctrine. It is true that religion is usually grounded in some foundational events, but those experiences are not simply passed on dumbly like a football from generation to generation. On the contrary, they are sifted and tested through a complex process of reception and assimilation. They are compared and contrasted to other similar experiences; they are analyzed rationally; they are set in dialogue with what we know of the world on other grounds; they are subjected to philosophical investigation; their layers of meaning are uncovered through conversations that have unfolded across hundreds, even thousands of years; their behavioral and ethical implications are teased out and assessed.

Let us take just one example from the Bible to illustrate how this process happens. Genesis tells us that

the patriarch Jacob one night had a dream of angels ascending and descending on a great ladder that was rooted in the earth and stretched into the heavens. Upon awakening, he declared the site where he had slept holy and consecrated it with an altar. As the tradition has received this story and drawn out its implications, it has come to see a manifold of profound metaphysical and spiritual truths: that finite being and Infinite being are intimately connected to one another; that every place is potentially a place of encounter with the power that sustains the cosmos; that there is a hierarchy of created reality stretching upward to God from the earth and downward from God to the earth; that the worship of God is enlivening to human beings.

These conclusions are the result of the very sifting process I referenced above, and they provide the basis for something that Kitcher and his colleagues evidently find inadmissible, namely, a real argument about religious matters. It is not simply a question of pitting one ancient story against another; it is a question of analyzing, marshalling evidence and testing against experience.

When this takes place between interlocutors from different religious traditions, provided that they are people of intelligence and good will, serious progress can be made. The conversation partners will discover, perhaps, that they hold a remarkable number of truths in common, that there are points of contact between doctrines that seem utterly at odds, and that there are some of their teachings that are indeed mutually exclusive. And regarding those points of contention, authentic arguments can be launched from both sides.

As I hinted above, what bothers me about Kitcher’s proposal is that it effectively relegates all religion to the arena of the irrational. It is interesting to note that several times in the course of his interview he compares religious experience to the experiences of people suffering from psychosis. And this shows the real danger of such a proposal, namely, that a society dominated by advocates of Kitcher’s brand of atheism might tolerate religious people for a time but will, eventually, seek to marginalize them – or even hospitalize them for insanity.

If you think this last suggestion is paranoid, take a good hard look at the policy of the Soviet Union in regard to those who disagreed with its regnant ideology. In the mid-19th century, Blessed John Henry Newman fought tenaciously to defend the rationality of religious claims.

Kitcher’s interview – as well as the voluminous writings of his intellectual allies – convinces me that the same battle needs to be joined today.

Father Robert Barron is the founder of the global ministry, Word on Fire, and the Rector/President of Mundelein Seminary. He is the creator of the award winning documentary series, “Catholicism” and “Catholicism: The New Evangelization.” Learn more at www.WordonFire.org.

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“Behold, I make all things new.”

(Rev. 21:5)

Tenth Eucharistic Congress, September 19 – 20, 2014 Charlotte Convention Center

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Friday Evening, Concert of Sacred Music Keynote address by His Eminence, Edwin F. Cardinal O’Brien, “The Holy Eucharist: Making All Things New from the Upper Room to the New Jerusalem”

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Mother Assumpta Long, O.P. “The Eucharist and Religious Life-Making All Things New”

Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz “The Holy Eucharist: Building Our Spiritual Lives to Build a Culture of the Family”

Dr. Allen Hunt “Why 1 of Every 10 Adults is an Ex-Catholic”

Bishop Donald Joseph Hying “Making All Things New in Christ’s Youth”

Doug Barry and Eric Genuis “The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ” (A Meditation)

Fr. Angel Espinoza de los Monteros “Es hora de volver a Dios” Fr. Angel Espinoza de los Monteros “¿Educas y formas o sólo domesticas?”

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