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Number 26 • March

1992

Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools

Announce Plans For High School KEANE

By JOANN

Associate Editor

—

CHARLOTTE The Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools Board announced a two-phase plan Feb. 26 that will catapult the community's educational needs into the 21st Century.

Phase

ability to

be implemented

current high school facility, increasing en-

ground breaking

Road campus of

$2.1

on the Park High

"The

1996. If the

new

1,200-student high

new

high school

is built,

the

fully,

students in grades

Existing

grades K-5.

campus

6-8.

K-8 schools would convert to Utilizing the existing

CCHS

for a middle school alleviates the el-

believe

all

whom

four years to properly

and construct a new

member Joseph

facility,"

Treacy,

who

lic

Schools board to study

all

the possibili-

ties."

"More and more people want

their

more than we could have taken care of in the Bishop Donoghue. "Current

past," said

construction and renovations to existing

schools will only carry us for a few years.

why we have to be serious about the

space for more children. So, we're stepping out in faith and planning these schools." "It's going to require sacrifice," said Bishop Donoghue. "But, it is encouraging at the same time. People are indicating that

by turning

to Catholic schools for the edu-

cation of their children, they realize the

Long-term funding for this project will

value outweighs the financial obligation."

come from

family capital contributions,

Treacy said the plans for the future

increased enrollment revenues, and from a

"will give our parents the confidence that if

county-wide capital campaign.

Prelimi-

they enroll (their children) in kindergarten

and layout

or grade school level, they will have the

nary planning for

site selection

opportunity to matriculate on to middle and

begin immediately. Plans for both phases, however, are

subject to contingencies.

Six Capuchin

also chairs the board's facilities committee.

CAROL HAZARD

—

we need

design, plan,

will

HICKORY

will

high school and middle school, to provide

said board

Associate Editor

approximately $3 million.

engineering and architecture,

the road,

That's

"The board's plan is based upon imput

Capuchin Friars Move Novitiate To atholic Conference Center

"Hope-

Donoghue.

ementary school, representing a saving of

of a number of experts in facilities planning;

— Author

down

children enrolled in the Catholic schools;

need for construction of an additional

JOANN KEANE

John

not too far

worked into the regionalization plan. I have encouraged the Mecklenburg Area Catho-

middle school, serving approximately 850

to know new life."

regionalization plan calls for a

said Bishop

plan's second phase calls for the

current high school will be converted into a

Photo by

summer of

1995.

School would be operational for the 1994-

Charlotte Catholic

school, opening for students in August,

— and you —

of 1994, with

95 school year. construction of a

your heart, allowing it

in the fall

in the spring or

new high school. However, we need to meet certain conditions before we can proceed,"

The

invites you to let spring into

If the

study finds the availibility of

feasibility

expansion of the

calls for

million structure to be built

mown.

study for a capital cam-

paign will begin in the spring of 1 993.

necessary funding, a capital fund drive will

One

rollment by 200 to 250 students.

;nt

run a successful capital campaign.

feasibility

Phase

One

re-

high school and there will be seats available for them."

friars

Vincent Fortunato, 40, superior of the friary

quires meeting city regulatory requirements

coimmunity and novie at the Catholic Conference Center in i:kory. Four are working at the center and I other two are novices. The two young men pitch in and work und the center. However, their main )rity is to take time out from the pressures jveryday life and spend time with God. it way they can determine if religious life

and formations director. "By bringing our formations program here, we are making a

and surrounding neighborhood needs, meeting current debt obligations, which includes

current regionalization plans are imple-

commitment to this area." The Capuchins hope to draw men

the

two new Charlotte area elementary

serve as a guide for other areas of the

established a

sally for

them.

into

the order from the steadily growing Catholic

The peaceful

hillside in

ideal for formations,

says.

Hickory

Not only

is it

love of nature. Moreover, the center gives

They are the second Capui community to move into the Diocese Charlotte. Three of their brothers came summer to staff Immaculate Concep-

the novices "an opportunity to be involved

Franciscans.

Parish in Hendersonville.

followers of

St.

Francis, the

Capu-

bring with them a contemplative spirit

»rayer.

But with this new group, they also

)g the novitiate

holic

program, moving it to the

Conference

Center

from

imington, Del.

"For us to i

little

experience a or no

mented

upon demonstrating the ability meet current debt obligations, meeting or exceeding enrollment projections, and the

same

ideas will

diocese.

For information on other action taken

attrition.

Like Phase One, the second phase

in Charlotte, these

that as

by the area board, see a related story on

Page

conducive to reflective thought required by novices, it is also in keeping with St. Francis'

ability to

conditional

Fortunato.

Capuchins of the First Order of

and the

stable enrollment with

population in the Southeast, says Father

The six friars, arriving in Hickory since uary, are

schools,

Bishop Donoghue points out

move

with people without over burdening them."

The

ability to relate

well to people

Capuchin lifestyle, says Father Fortunato. The Capuchins follow in the spirit of St. Francis, a joyful messenger

essential to the

of God

who

lived a simple life in brother-

hood and prayer eight centuries ago. The religious order seeks flexiblepeople

who love people and the world, says Father It looks for people who can accept human weaknesses and be sensitive

Fortunato. into

North Carolina

our formations program

expand See Friars, Page 2

ministry into the South," says Father

DIOCESAN SUPPORT APPEAL

The second group of Capuchin

friars in the

Catholic Conference Center in Hickory.

February

1 -

April 5, 1992

Diocese of Charlotte has established a novitiate

Members of

center, are (1-r) Brother Eric Hall (a novice), Father

the

community,

who

at the

also will operate the

Vincent Fortunato, Father John Aurilia, Brother

Robert Yurrgel (a novice), Brother Isidore Corwin and brother Joseph Jacovini.

Photo by

CAROL HAZARD

News

"atholic

& Herald

Word

Charlotte Area Parents Get

On New

School Tuition Plans

—

CHARLOTTE The Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools Board of Education announced plans for expanded programs and increased student services. During the Feb. 26 meeting, they unveiled tuition for the upcoming 1 992-93

rently offered, or offered only at

school year, as well as outlining the new

basis for the high school.

parish support program.

grams currently

The new plan awards subsidies based upon the family and financial situation of individual families. Parish subsidies will now be placed into the parish support program. The plan will be administered by Tuition Aid Data

tee

Services of Minneapolis.

ing

The school calendar for the upcomyear was also announced. The programs committee spelled

out a plan to expand the range of prooffered. The commitrecommends bringing elementary

Tuition will reflect a true cost of

education for each child. In the past, parishes have "subsidized" families on a per child basis, or on a percentage

schools into parity with one another and

new

also addressed

services not cur-

one

school.

Details of the plans were mailed

March 4

to parents

of children enrolled

Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools.

Father Vincent Fortunato

(c),

novitiate in Hickory, serves

superior and novice director at the Capuchin friary

clam linguini for dinner

to novices

Irish- American

Author Carroll To Speak At Belmont Abbey —

BELMONT

James Carroll,

cal

and

Friars (From Page

Mortal

Friends was a subject that attracted much comment. Among the real people who

social issues, will be the featured speaker

appear

March 16 at a "Meet the Author" event at Belmont Abbey College. The Friends of the Abbot Vincent

Kefauver, Boston Mayor James Michael

Taylor Library group

seph, John and Robert).

which

gathering,

sponsoring the

be held

will

in the

Main Library Reading Room beginning A reception and book at 7:30 p.m. signing will immediately follow the pro-

gram. Copies of two of Carroll's published works, Memorial Bridge (1991) and Mortal Friends (1978) will be available for purchase.

Many

of Carroll's characters are

Irish Catholics

who attempt to reconcile

their personal aspirations with social

and religious demands. This perspec-

own

tive parallels Carroll's

tory

—

until 1974,

recent his-

he worked

two

vocations, that of being a Paulist priest

and

While serving

writer.

in the priest-

hood, Carroll wrote several books on spiritual matters, concerning the importance of prayer and hope. All of Carroll

Curley, Cardinal Richard Cushing and

moral concerns.

Kennedy family

(Jo-

Prince of Peace (1984) is regarded most ambitious work. Set in the Vietnam era, it traces the lives of two childhood friends who become

as Carroll's

Roman

Catholic priests and correlates

which arise between youthand the Church hierarchy to the larger social conflict in the United States at that time between young people and figures of authority. Carroll is also the author of Family Trade (1982) and the suspense novel Firebird (1989). Paul Gray of Time proclaimed, in a review of Family Trade dated June 21, 1982. "Like Graham Greene and John Le Carre, Carroll brings global strife and problems home to hearts and minds, their points of origin." the conflicts ful idealism

Admission

writings are infused with religious and

the novel are Sen. Estes

the

"Meet the mem-

$3 for Friends bers and $5 for non-members. Author"session

from people who are self righteous, who think they have it all together." Their guiding light is the example set by Christ, His compassion and His loving

novitiate program.

The one-year program is

of time devoted to developing one's

spiri-

Francis

Beatty

Award Dinner

dinner

sponsored by Catholic Social Services has been cancelled. At the dinner, the Col. Francis

Beatty

Award was

gram, the novices will spend another three to four years before taking their final

vows.

In this stage of their formation, Brothers Eric Hall

and Robert Yurgel are

the spirit of the

have been presented to Price H. Gwynn III of Charlotte, former moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

The March 2 annnouncement of the cancellation said:

"Price H.

Gwynn

commitment

continued inter-

and both reaffirmed the presence of more common bonds than divisive differences between their

faith cooperation,

churches."

The award was instituted last year honor of Beatty, a prominent Catholic layman and Charlotte civic leader. The first recipient of the award was James Babb, a Catholic layman, civic leader and former Charlotte broadcastin

III,

former mod-

Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and John F. Donoghue, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte, announced jointly the cancellation of the March 19, 1992 dinner to be sponsored by Catholic Social Services. Mr. Gwynn was to receive the Francis J. Beatty Award for humani-

erator of the General

tarian services at the dinner.

"Bishop Donoghue and Mr. Gwynn expressed the mutual hope that this cancellation will avoid any possibility of

potential

talks it

din foi

about the South and

has for formations.

"The North

depleted, because

and the five who will follow them are the Northeast, the order

receiving

and more inquiries from the South, he The number of Capuchin novice the East Coast province fluctuates betv

two to. five a year, says Brother Jaco The province is made up of about 75 fi

to them. In effect, they are learning chastity,

obedience and poverty.

After completing the novitiate pro|

not so

much what you are giving

up but what you

are gaining," says Brother

"It is

living

Hall, 25. Their gain

a deeper

spirituality,

he says.

summer, Brothers Hall and Yurge most likely return to the provincialai Union City, N.J. With five new no' this

taking their place, plans are already u get to

know Him

(Christ) pretty

"We

in prayer, lessons, quiet time

way

expand the

friary in

Hickory

take

New

Diaconate Class Being Forme

and

BELMONT

—

Donoghue has given

Bishop Johi his approval

get a taste of ministry,

the start of another permanent diaco

Brother Hall will help out once a week at the

formation group in the fall of 1992 Msgr. Anthony Kovacic, dioo

ference center.

House of Mercy, a home for AIDS in

patients

Belmont. Brother Yurgel will go to work with the youth

Salisbury Sundays to ministry.

They and their brothers say they live a life. And in many ways they do, dividing up household chores, fraternizing normal

and resolving differences much

a fam-

ily.

men from ages bonded together not by blood or background but through living, working, eating all meals and praying together. They Yet, their family of six

25 to 68

seem

some

respects closer than

ing executive. traditional families.

Laughter comes

tions,

Brothers Hall and Yurgel spend their

from personal or institutional differences on the issue of abortion. In making the announcement, both stressed

of food services. Also involved in

vows without being bound

the next."

stemming

community.

Brother Jacovini. Although the two no\

Upon completion of the novitiate pro-

one day at a time. We don't count the days. Every day brings something different. What we struggle with one day may seem trivial

conflict or misunderstanding

their

to the Hickory

Brother Joseph Jacovini, 47,

discovery.

helping out around the house and the con-

March 19

known

are so many religious houses up there,"

days

— The

He walks. Wearing his habit, Brc Corwin hoofs it several miles a day, wa and smiling to passerbys, spreading j will and making the Capuchin prea tance.

and relationship with God. It follows a -year of postulancy, a period of

well," says Brother Yurgel, 27.

Award Dinner Cancelled

dom" where

tual life

"We

Catholic Social Services

enrichment, "an oasis of peace and

their

an uninterrupted, intensive period

typically

growth,'

another ministry of perhaps equal im

Hickory half way through

is spiritual

center should be a plao

a person's capacity

coming in because he is afraid of intimacy," says Father Fortunato. "If he can't be comfortable with intimacy, then he will lose sight of intimacy with God." In an unusual step, the two novices

came

icia

vision

The

"We don't want a guy who is

Also important for intimacy.

"My says.

people can grow spiriti and learn about themselves and each o Brother Isidore Corwin, 68, is in ch of grounds maintenance. However, he

care, says Father Fortunato.

Carroll's intermingling of histori-

CHARLOTTE

and

tee

whose best selling novels have examined comtemporary moral, religious and

members of

(1)

CAROL HAZ/

to human struggles, he says. "We stay away

fictional characters in

Robert Yurgel

Photo by

Hall.

The pace

the friary

cyclable.

director.

many

unfrenzied.

easily.

Father John Aurilia, 51,

This newspaper is printed on recycled newsprint and is re-

the vicar of

and the director of the Catholic Conference Center. Father Fortunato, in addition to his other duties,

assistant

As director, Father Aurilia says he hopes to make people feel comfortable and at home at the center.

director of the permanent diaconate, that all men of the diocese who complete the second year of the

Ministry Training Program this

may apply for admission to the diaco program. Requests for applications for program should be sent to Msgr. Ko\ at Queen of the Apostles Church, 5C Street, Belmont, NC 28012 Permanent deacons, who are dained to perform many of the funct

Main

of priests while continuing professions, were

common

their

in the

(

Church. The vocation fell into di but was revived following Vatican The permanent diaconate wa; vived in the Diocese of Charlotti retired Bishop Michael J. Begley the first permanent deacons were dained in 1983. The dioicese now hi permanent deacons.

irch 6,

The Catholic News &

1992

Asylum Hearings Scheduled At DSA Reaches 45

Percent Of Goal

Catholic Social Services Office By

CHARLOTTE — The Diocesan Support Appeal,

Associate Editor

which was kicked off

CHARLOTTE

weeks ago, has met 45 percent of its goal so far. The amount pledged to date is $720,831. The goal is $1,590,000. "While it's a good start, we still need people to be as generous as they can o help us meet the goal," says Jim Kelley, director of the Development Office. ive

Services

— Catholic

was important Social

opening its door to the Immi-

gration and Naturalization Service.

"People have been very generous in the initial response to this DSA. But as the figures show, we still have 55% to go." The DSA supports 23 ministries in the Diocese of Charlotte, serving thousands of people in the western half of North Carolina. By meeting 45 percent of the goal at this time in the campaign, the DSA is progressing as expected. "We're comparable to where we

come to Charlotte to interview who have filed applications for

will

people

Biscoe is the first parish to exceed its goal. Vith 57 percent of parishioners making pledges to date, the Hispanic mission s at 103% of its goal. Parished are given a target goal based on offertory collections. At year's :nd, after payments are calculated, parishes that exceed their goals will get the idditional money back. Parishes that fall short will be billed and the money vill come out of parish funds. People who have not taken the opportunity to make a pledge should have received a letter from Bishop John F. Donoghue this week. The campaign tfficially ends the first week in April. The goal is usually surpassed each year by mid May, said Kelley. in

ting a hearing," she said.

swamped with requests Dave Lewis, an INS adjudicator who came to Charlotte last week for the first interviews at CSS. The is

for asylum, said

agency, which was restructured last year

uled so far for the required interviews.

pect a hearing within six to eight months,

CSS

tion, to

working with Amnesty

human

In-

rights organiza-

help people apply for asylum.

"We the

in the

are particularly interested in

human

rights issue of political asy-

lum and anything we can do

to further

said.

Although new applicants can ex-

many

of the people

who

the reorganization are

Lewis. The INS

however, and

on hold, said

trying to catch up,

60 meet

hiring an additional

officers for a total of

the

applied before

still

140

to help

demand.

the cause, including providing the

As part of the restructuring, the INS

space," said Margaret Pierce, immigra-

operates in seven regional offices. All

tion coordinator for the Dicoese of Char-

interviews must be conducted by offic-

lotte.

ers associated with the regional offices.

CSS offered the office at the request

In addition to Charlotte, the Arlington

of INS Outreach, which called the Church looking for space to conduct the interviews, said Pierce. "We thought it

office handles Atlanta, Norfolk, Balti-

Sponsor a Child like Tita

more, Washington and Pittsburgh. "We (the INS) are the first stop to determine if a person can stay in the country," said Lewis. To receive asylum, immigrants must prove a well-founded fear of persecution based on race, nationality, religion,

membership in a Lewis told a gathering of about a dozen CSS and Amnesty Inter-

political opinions or

($20 a month)

social group,

who lead immigrants though the application process. "The person's own story is the most national people

CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION for

in the

under new regulations to consolidate and standardize procedures, is working on a backlog of 1 50,000 applications, he

ternational, a

people

United States. The interviews will be conducted in office space provided by CSS at the Catholic Center in Charlotte. The site is the only one in North Carolina schedpolitical

vere last year," says Kelley.

asylum

to give the

application mill a better chance of get-

The INS

Every three months, an INS officer from a regional office in Arlington, Va.,

year's

Our Lady of the Americas

CAROL HAZARD

CHILDREN & AGING

important consideration," said Lewis.

Although proper identification can help a case, it is secondary to the person's account. "The trail of evidence vanishes if a person can't tell me enough to

Founded and Directed by

validate their fears."

CATHOLIC LAY PEOPLE

Personal accounts are checked for credibility, said

source

Lewis.

One

excellent

a congressional report on hu-

Your $20 monthly support provides a needy

man

NOURISHING FOOD, MEDICAL GO TO SCHOOL and HOPE FOR THE FUTURE. Your child will grow

compiled and updated by U.S. ambassadors, he said. Although people with a history of

child with:

CARE, in

the chance to

the daily knowledge of God's love and your

love.

You

photo of your child, family history, translated personal letters, description of your child's country and quarterly newsletreceive a

Olongapo City in the Philippines. Often sleeping in doorways, she survives by stealing and selling cigarettes, salvaging plastic bags or hauling cargo to market places. Your concern can make

hardcore criminality or drugs will be categorically denied asylum, most cases are not that simple, said Lewis. INS

the difference in the lives of children like

differences that may effect personal tes-

Tita

roams the

streets of

Tita.

FOR THE CHILD

WHO IS WAITING

Guatemalans, for example,

Plus you have the personal satisfaction of helping a child in need at a Catholic mission site.

Christian Foundation for Children & Aging supports Catholic missions in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Dominican RepubColombia, Venezuela, Peru, lic, Haiti, St. Kitts-Nevis,

children

come unto me.

YES!

GOD'S LOVE.

Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Philippines, India,

Mark 10:14

visible

peans.

Kenya, and

Madagascar.

would

like to

blessings with those

need,

They

feel

inter-

more than East Euro-

nalize their fears

You can make

little

officers try to be sensitive to cultural

timonies, he said.

ters!

Let the

rights violations in every country

uncomfortable speak-

ing openly about persecution, whereas

East Europeans tend to give blow-by-

blow accounts. Each decision is reviewed by the Department of State Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. Denials, which can be appealed, are reviewed by the Policy Review Unit, a separate branch of the INS.

would Boy

Elderly I

sponsor Girl Teenager

Man

Elderly

enclose $20 for first month $120 for six months

D I

like to

cannot sponsor

at this

Woman

Child in Most Need Handicapped Aging in Most Need

$60 for three months $240 for one year time but

enclose

me further information

Child Sponsorship

regarding:

Aging Sponsorship

Volunteer Program

Attn:

and Aging

Robert Hentzen,

Catholic

X z u

grant from the Bryan Family Foundation to help fund the agency's Hispanic

Center in Winston-Salem.

Casa Guadalupe will receive

Name l

Address

President

City Box 410327 Kansas City, Mo. 64173-0158 (913) 384-6500 Member:

State

P. O.

153

—

Social Services has received a challenge

Christian Foundation for Children

Receives Grant For Hispanic Center WINSTON-SALEM

my gift of $ as r>

Please send

CSS

_Zip

I to: Christian Foundation for Children & Aging (CFCA) . Financial report available upon request - Donation U.S. tax deductible U.S. Catholic Mission Association - Nat'l Catholic Development Conference Catholic Press" Council Nat'l Catholic Stewardship Association - Int'l Uaison of Lay Volunteers in Mission

Make checks payable

$10,000

amount by

the center can raise an equal

May

Pedro Castillo, the director, said he hopes to use the money to help defray operating expenses and hire an assistant to coordinate volunteer services

iholic

News

Herald

March

The Pope Speaks WASHINGTON (CNS) — Here is the text of Pope John Paul

II' s

message for Lent 1992, on the theme

"Called to Share the Table of Creation," released in Washington by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Lent began

Dear brothers and

March

sisters,

Creation belongs to ev-

warnM

Editorial

eryone. Yes, as Lent draws near,

when our Lord

Jesus

Christ calls us in a particular

Hate Groups

+ way to conversion, I wish to address each one of you and V invite you to think about this truth and to do good deeds which will show your

£.

There has been a feeling

North Carolina in with their activities held up to the recent years that hate groups have been full light of public exposure on the decline in the state. Sure, the various factions of the Ku Klux Klan have staged marches occasionally or so we thought. but nobody took them seriously But now comes the annual report of North Carolinians Against Racist and Religious Violence. The

—

^jf m

fit-

—

sincerity of heart.

—

Durham-based group's report

disturbing to say the

least.

NCARRV says that organizing by hate groups in North Carolina hit an all-time high in 1991. The watchdog group says there were 71 organizing incidents involving hate groups in the state in 1991, an increase of 115 percent since 1985 when NCARRV issued its first report. The report also lists 58 cases of harassment, vandalism, illegal cross burnings, killings, assaults and even what it calls a "foiled bombmaking plot in Guilford County." The ftport says these incidents were "all motivated many with by racist, anti-Semitic or anti-gay bias documented Klan involvement." Groups specifically mentioned in the report included the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Confederated Knights of America, the Aryan Knights, the SS of America and the Populist Party. The NCARRV says North Carolina is the headquarters for three national Klan groups, one neo-Nazi organization and the Populist Party. Christina Davis-McCoy, executive director of NCARRV, says it appears that racism and bigotry are now "socially acceptable." She says the success of politicians such as David Duke "has given all supremacist groups a sense of legitimacy and confidence, especially in North Carolina." We hope that she's wrong and that people are not legitimizing the hate mongers. Unfortunately, we're afraid she just may be right. It's time for all of us to take a strong stand against

—

these groups.

The Catholic

ews & Herald

This same Lord, whose supreme proof of love we Easter, was with the Father from the

Our vision of the past must be comp mented by a look around us and toward the future ^ Centesimus Annus, 3). We must try to discern mysterious presence of God in history, where engages us and calls us to give Him definite respons Five centuries of the Gospel's presence on that cor nent have still not produced a fair distribution of goods of the earth. And this is all the more painful wl anniversary.

(

think of the poorest of the poor; the indigem groups, and together with them many campesin

offended in their dignity by being excluded from exercise of even their most fundamental rights, w] also are a part of the goods destined for all situation of these brothers and sisters of ours cries for justice from the Lord. Consequently, a genen and bold reform of economic structures and agrar policies needs to be fostered, so as to ensure well-be

and the conditions required for the rightful exercise human rights by the indigenous groups and great masses of the poor who have so often bt

unjustly treated.

celebrate at

beginning, preparing the wonderful table of creation,

which He meant to invite all without exception (cf. 1 :3). The Church has understood this truth, made known since the dawn of revelation, and she sees it as an objective to be proposed to people as a way of life Acts 2:44-45; 4:32-35). In more recent times she has repeatedly preached the universal destination of the goods of creation, both material and spiritual, as a central theme of her social teaching. Continuing this long-standing tradition, the encyclical Centesimus Annus, published on the occasion of the centenary of my predecessor Leo XIII' s Rerum Novarum, is meant to encourage reflection on this universal destination of goods, which comes before all particular forms of private property and which should give them their true meaning. However, it is sad to see how, in spite of the frequency with which these clearly expressed truths have been proclaimed, the earth with all its goods which we have compared to a great banquet to which all the men and women who have lived or will live have been invited is unfortunately in many ways still in the hands of a few minorities. Wonderful are the goods of the earth, both those which come directly from the generous hands of the Creator and those which are the result of the activity of human beings, called to cooperate in the work of creation through their intelligence and labor. Moreover, all human beings need a share in those goods in order to reach their fullness. It is thus all the more painful to note how many millions of people are excluded from the table of creation. For this reason I earnestly invite you to concentrate your attention on this year commemorating the fifth (cf.

—

Letters To

their

For those people and for all the dispossessed of world for we are all children of God, brothers i sisters to each other, and the goods of creation meant for us all we must work hard and with delay so that they can occupy their proper place at table of creation. In the season of Lent and also dur campaigns of solidarity Advent campaigns weeks for the poor a clear awareness that it is Creator's will to place the goods of creation at service of everyone should inspire work for the gei ine and complete development of the person and off

—

people. In a spirit of prayer listen carefully to the

and commitment we

words: "Behold,

lie

am at the d

and knock" (Rev 3:20). Yes, it is the Lord Himself v knocks gently at the heart of each one of us, with forcing us, waiting patiently for us to open so that can come in and sit down at table with us. But, ag< we must never forget that according to the cen message of the Gospel Jesus calls us through e, of our brothers and sisters, and our personal respof ^ will serve as the criterion for being put at His right h;

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thirsty...

naked... sick... in prison"

The

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By BOB GATELY comments we made in a Feb. 7 editorial and which Diana Ronald column on

page regarding the need for a revision of motion picture rating system could be applied just as easily to the television

iplements in her guest

this

ustry.

In fact, the ... ,

„

«'""'

'\. j

need for some policing

for television than for movies.

probably greater

Anyone who

patronizes a

motion picture makes a conscious decision to go out to the theater, put down several bucks for a ticket and sit through a couple of hours of what may be trash. Television trash comes into the home, sometimes in the form of drama and just as frequently in the guise of a talk show or "news" show. Just for the record, I'm not talking about legitimate newscasts (although even some of them are beginning to

By FATHER JOHN CATOIR you may hit the moon.

Don't be afraid

to shoot for the stars,

average.

Here are a few suggestions

— Give up — Give up good — Give up negativism; be — Give up complaining; be — Give up pessimism; be an — Give up harsh judgments;

way onto the home screen. the news business, I'm not generally

hatred; return

eventually seem to find their

more than 30 years I

sure think something needs to be done.

There has been

now

in favor

— Give up worry; Divine Providence. — Give up discouragement; be of hope. — Give up be more — Give up be more mature. — Give up gloom; enjoy beauty around — Give up pray — Give up your — Give up full

anger;

patient.

pettiness;

the

jealousy;

—

gine there'll be a real battle.

Boy, do they learn

fast!

Next thing you know, one of them

ing for a shopping center on one of the

will

be applying for

sites.

you.

for trust.

gossiping; control

Union.

The property in question doesn 't even include the choices parcel of land.The site former VA hospital located at the highest point in Washington and worth was to have been turned over to the Soviets in a swap for the ut $70 million of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow. But the transaction has been held up by dispute over the bugging of that new embassy. If the deal is ever completed, I

think kindly thoughts.

trust

much talk about the Japanese buying up big chunks of America

—

for evil.

optimist.

your Lenten

grateful.

A little dose of re-regulation

seems the Russians are getting into the act. I noticed a news story the other day about the battle between some of the ublics which once made up the Soviet Union over something like $20 million th of choice District of Columbia real estate. Russia and the Ukraine, in ticular, are pushing rival claims to the diplomatic property once owned by the iet

positive.

might be an idea whose time has come.

you

bitterness; turn to forgiveness.

And, of course, those sleazy movies we've been talking After

to help

resolutions:

shows.

sorship, but

for thought: "Fill your

minds with everything that is true, everything that is noble, everything that is good and pure, everything that we love and honor, and everything that can be thought virtuous or worthy of praise." (Philippians 4:8) Those are high ideals, but not impossible ones. How can we aim so high and still live in this nitty gritty world? Perfection may not be possible, but aiming for it isn't a bad idea. Someone asked the King of Swing, Benny Goodman, why he continually practiced his clarinet. He replied, "So that, even when I'm bad, I'm good." When we set our sights high, even if we fall short we may be well above

cross the line) but about the so-called "inside story" type

iut

some food

Paul, in his letter to the Philippians, gives

St.

One Candle

Light

Notebook

Editor's

thoughts.

sin; turn to virtue.

Paul encouraged us to

St.

pure."

realized

saints agree on up on yourself.

matter

this:

"fill our minds with everything that is true, good and wouldn't be easy, but he knew there is always grace. All the Holiness is possible. Your holiness is possible. Do don't give

how unworthy or sinful your life may be, remember He heals and purifies, and leads you to holiness.

Jesus takes

all

those sins away.

holy life is possible. "Pray as you can, do not pray as you can't. The only way to pray well is to pray often. The less one prays, the worse it gets." Abbot John Chapman (For a free copy of the Christopher News Note, "Spirituality, Happiness, and Health," send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to The Christophers, 12 East 48 St., New York, N.Y. 10017) Father John Catoir is director of The Christophers.

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iderstanding

The Sacrament Of Penance

By FATHER JOHN DIETZEN have been a Catholic it seems forever. With 12 years of Catholic cation behind me, it makes me feel extremely peculiar to need more |»rmation on the new form for the sacrament of penance. I still use the same yers and old-style confessionals as in the past, but it makes me feel extremely se not to know the proper form today. Can you help? (Illinois) Q.

New Movie Code

Needed

Sorely

By DIANA

RONALD

Congratulations on your Feb. 7 editorial calling for a movie code and a realistic rating system.

A. First, don't ever be ashamed to ask questions. There are a lot of stupid answers ind, but

almost no such thing as a stupid question. In fact, if you take your religion seriously, your lengthy Catholic school background may be part of the "prob-

lem." I long ago learned the truth of a remark made by one of our seminary professors: "The more you know, the more

you know you don't know; that goes for everything, but most of all for things relating to life, God and our faith."

Real ignorance lies not in having many questions but in we have all the answers. As for confession, don't worry that much about the format or the words you should use. They flow easily even if you're not that familiar with the new rite. Parts of the ritual, such as a reading from Scripture, 'er together with the priest and so on can be accomplished perhaps more ifortably when the priest and penitent are sitting together, but that is not essential. As I have explained at length several times in this column, if there is a change lis sacrament, it is more in how we approach it than what we do during the rite. Repentance for sin and a firm purpose of amendment are necessary of course, cannot lose sight of the fact, however, that our sins (or our good actions for that .er) are past; they are a part of history, they cannot be changed. They can only be placed into the forgiving and healing hands of God, and of :se in the hands of those we have injured by our sinfulness. The graces of this sacrament are, therefore, oriented more to the present and the thinking

more attention to those movements and inations in our hearts (we used to call them capital sins) which give rise to the acts and omissions, and how we can deal positively with those movements in need, in other words, to give

ill

althier I

and holier way.

realize this is terribly brief.

this it

sacrament, what

There are many good things to read, however,

should bring to

and what we should expect

to get

today.

fA free brochure on confession without serious sin and other questions about the vxment ofpenance is available by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to mer John Dietzen Holy Trinity Parish 704 N. Main St. Bloomington ,111.61 701 htions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address.) Copyright © 1992 by Catholic News Service ,

Office

in the early '30s, the

came

into existence.

Martin Quigley, who published the Motion Picture Herald, Father Dineen of Chicago and Father Daniel A. Lord, felt that the time was ripe for a motion picture code. Father Lord was prevailed upon to write it. He based this code on the Ten Commandments and it was used by the Hays Office to regulate motion pictures. The American public then enjoyed an era of wonderful, successful films. As time went on, the Hollywood moguls declared the code "outmoded" and claimed that we needed so-called "adult" (a euphemism for trash) films. They said that films should not cater to the "12-year-old mentality." They felt "restricted" within the framework of the code, obviously because they wanted to step outside the boundaries of morality and good taste and proceed in an immoral direction. The idea that the code was "outmoded" was utterly ridiculous because it was based on the Ten Commandments and applied to the "nature" of man and not to the

Hollywood would have us believe. So diligently did they promote these became practically non-existent and around 1956, stage was set for its revision to make it more "flexible." At that time, I became concerned about this revision. I envisioned this great art

"times," as

ideas that adherence to the code the

its potential for good, gradually going downhill and falling to the depths of degeneracy and lunacy. Drawing up a petition in protest of this revision to the Motion Picture Association, I went to churches of all denominations and also to

form, with

absolutely no interest in helping to raise a public

outcry. I

also

went

to see

Msgr.

Little,

for help in circulating the petition.

place, that things

ing with the Introduction to the Church's Rite of Penance, which you can borrow i your parish priest or purchase through a Catholic bookstore. It would be hard to find a more succinct and direct expression of how the Church

a one time avid movie goer, there are

Back

some synagogues. There was

than to the past.

some points I would like to make. American public was faced with the dilemma of offensive motion pictures, although not as bad as the trash of today. There was such a rising cry of protest across the nation that Hollywood decided that it had to regulate itself before censorship set in. It was thus that the Will Hays

would

get worse.

who headed told

him

the Legion of Decency, and asked

that if

we allowed this revision to take And so, it has come to pass.

didn't agree.

Since then, the stench of Hollywood's rotting morality has become so unbearaway from its films. Their rights to enjoy

able that decent people are forced to stay

clean and

wholesome

films without being offended, are being seriously violated.

a strong public outcry, as occurred in the early '30s when people were more sensitive to the attacks on the traditional moral values, which prevailed then. With today's breakdown of those values coming from all different directions, however, I wonder if the American public has become so desensitized, is dead. its very soul so conditioned that its conscience I would rather believe that there are enough of us out here to take on this uphill

What

needed

—

by staying away from the theatres altogether and by calling for a return to the Code based on the Ten Commandments. Cardinal Mahoney may very well have started the ball rolling in that direction.

battle

old Lord-Quigley

ilholic

News

Herald

March

6, 19>

How Does Canon Law Affect Us? Interpretation

MERCY

Of The Law SISTER JEANNE

Crosswinds

MARGARET McNALLY

The following is a continuation of last week's column.. Aristotle seemed to be the first to discuss the concept of equity as distinct from and superior to legal justice. This was included in Greek law. The Romans picked up the philosophy from the Greeks, which allowed the Romans to break down the rigidity of their laws.

Roman law, the praetor solved his cases using equity. In dealing with nonRoman citizens, he had to use natural law and rely on his own discretion when In

adjudicating a case. Eventually, this system prevailed. In England in the 12th century, there

was

a parallel with the chancellor using equity as the King's

conscience.

Equity placing

all

understood as fairness, rather than sympathy or pity; equity is wisdom elements in perspective and reaching a tangential point between the good is

of the individual and the good of the community. In

canon law, equity

the rightful claim of the individual.

The canons speak of

an "equitable solution," "equitable" meaning "good and equitable." In the code, there is equity in general, natural equity and canonical equity. Canonical equity is natural equity endorsed by the code. Essentially, equity is a rectification of the limits of legal justice and, in turn, comprises epikeia, interpretation

and dispensation. Epikeia, as written in Aristotle's "Ethics"

the

"When the law and a case arises under this that is exceptional, then it is right, where the legislator owing to the generality of his language has erred in not covering that case, to correct the omission by a ruling such as he would have enacted if he had been aware of the circumstances." This existed because laws are instituted for the common good, not the private good and laws cannot cover every incident which rarely takes place. Epikeia is the spirit of the law not the letter of the law. It is assumed that if the legislator knew of this particular incident he would relax the law according to the circumstances. Epikeia is not the same as a dispensation because in applying epikeia, it is the individual who takes on himself/herself the responsibility of waiving the observance of the law, whereas in a dispensation, the one who grants it must have authorization to do so. Canon lawyers see epikeia as the benign interpretation of the law in accordance with what is equitable and good. It interprets the mind of the legislator as having made a clause of exemption in the law for a particular case due to extraordinary circumstances. It is humanness itself. Epikeia militates against the absolutism of the law according to one's conscience without losing the sight of the common good. It has been said that one cannot satisfy justice without epikeia. Modern canon law does not look favorably on epikeia. Canon law favors dispensation. Dispensation flows from equity. Dispensation is translated as a wound inflicted upon the law. A dispensation is a relaxation of the law in a particular case when it is expedient. Only a person with proper or delegated authority may grant a dispensation. A dispensation must be interpreted strictly. For example, the bishop may dispense his diocese from fasting on a particular feast or for a particular occasion. This is not a universal dispensation but one for a specific population of people (his diocese) and for a specific occasion (the feast). The specificity for the granting of dispensations is found in several of the canons. A familiar principle in the Orthodox Church is oeconomia or ecclesiastical economy. This is a principle of law, which expresses the mercy of Jesus in the face of human weakness. The word comes from the Greek nemo, referring to the family or household and the nemos, the sustaining, regulative principle for good managesame today

was

in Classical Greece:

states a general rule,

Divine economy was spoken of by St. Paul, referring to God in unifying the whole world into one plan. The early Fathers developed the idea of divine economy to apply to the Incarnation and all Jesus did to save us. Economy touches God's infinite love for humankind. It is the supreme operation of the Law of God's will in which justice and law are in perfect harmony. Ecclesiastic economy is an accommodating principle that allows a deviation from the strict observance of an established ecclesiastical order without destroying that order. The basis is Christ who showed that the law did not constitute an end in itself.

Economy

not a carte blanche at the Church's disposition.

Its

usage

limited

which the Church cannot violate through excessive liberalism, indifference or rigorism. Economy is permitted for the good order of the Church and to avoid scandal. Economy is used whenever a strict application of the law would put in peril the essential aim of the church, e.g. the salvation of souls. In its essence, economy is the pardon through the Church of a fault committed by children of the Church or others outside the Church who wish to return to the Church in order to be in full communion. There are limits to the exercise of economy. These are the fundamental principles of dogma and morality. Economy is not totally a dispensation. Each act of economy stands alone. No precedents can bind any fundamental rules of

faith

decision. In the Eastern Church, ecumenical synods, regional synods of bishops

and the can exercise economy. The local bishop generally handles such matters as recognizing a marriage within the forbidden degrees of consanguinity or an ordination performed by an Orthodox bishop acting in another diocese with the permission of the local bishop. Nothing has been juridically codified even though some procedures have come down through practice. Economy has not the power to grant a divorce, but it can recognize by the Spirit, the bond of love and its sacramental absence where a marriage has ceased to be a true sacramental sign. local bishop

with her son.

but wondered

indicated a willingness, if

she thought the whole

come in for the first appointment, since she was describing a family problem. She said she would try. family could

day of the appointment, everyone came and, in fact, they looked like a happy family. This was a little the

surprising to

in light of the initial

phone call. As each person talked about what they thought their problem was, I was impressed that this family did not have any major problems. In fact, it had

many ily.

of the qualities of a healthy fam-

They respected one another

appointments was scheduled. Duri these sessions, I introduced them some tools they could use to make th

communication better. They becai motivated to work in this area and

make some adjustments in their inter! tions with each other.

During the first weeks, calm down and was

Timjj

started to

focal point of the family.

less

members were

meeting, family

fee]

good about themselves and began sharing some techniques pretty

found helpful; techniques

them genuinely

the fo

e th

that hel]

listen to others

and

listened to. I,

too,

was impressed with

progress and realized that sometin families need a

encouragement and u mately their love for one another.

improve

little

their relationships

At their last session, the family g£

me a gift. They had talked about it Timmy ended up selecting the gift me. It was an angel, because that is w he thought I had been for their fami

fairly

well and expressed a strong commit-

ment to being a family. The area in which they were lacking, however, was communication. No one really seemed to know what the other was feeling, thinking or even do-

Texas School Plans First Reunion, Seeks Grads DALLAS,

Texas

— For

the

time in its 50-year history, Christ King School in Dallas is planning

sab*

lis.

one another when someone did something

ing. In addition, they didn't affirm

what I saw and they would be willing to

told the family

wondered

trying to loc

old graduates.

The reunion

well or pleasing to another. I

alumni reunion and is

scheduled April

12 with a party from 7:30 p.m. to night April 11.

Mass

come in together for several meetings. I

12:30 p April 12 willl followed by a recepti

wanted to see if improved communicawould diminish their trouble spots. With their agreement, the first of four

Interested alumni should coni KathyHart(214)691-2864orMaryai Matthews (214) 361-8737.

tion

been said of economy applies only to the Orthodox Chur Western Church where economy is exercised, such as to dissolution of non-consummated marriages; non-sacramental marriages annu by papal dispensation; dissolution of a marriage of two non-baptized persons wf^ no subsequent baptism involved. Equity, epikeia, economy and dispensations are the remedies for the applicat of the law when the law does not take into consideration the human condition. Aboflft all else, these are for the fulfillment of the supreme law, the salvation of souls Mercy Sister Jeanne Margaret McNally is a licentiate in canon law and judge and defender of the bond in the Tribunal of the Diocese of Charlotte.

While

all

that has

there are examples in the

ment.

Crosswinds is a series of columns by staff members of Catholic Social Services about their experiences. In order to preserve client confidentiality, the staff members will not be identified. Timmy was a vivacious, outgoing 9-year-old who in the last few months was becoming disruptive in school and antagonistic toward his parents, brother and sister. His mother called Catholic Social Services and asked if we could help her

*He saints 6*

Bed

WAS BORN NEAR POITIERS, LEOBINUS FRANCE, AND WORKED AT THE

MONASTERY AT NOAILLES. HE SPENT SOME TIME WITH THE HERMIT ST. AVITUS, AND THEN LIVED IN AN ABBEY NEAR LYONS

WHEN RAIDERS ATTACKED THI MONASTERY, HE WAS TORTURED TO FORCE HIM TO REVEAL THE HIDING PLACE OF ITS TREASURE AND WAS LEFT FOR DEAP. HE

RECOVERED REJOINED ST. AVITU AT LE PERCH E, AND AFTER AVITUS' DEATH CONTINUED LIVING AS A HERMIT. LEOBINUS WAS ORDAINED AND WAS MADE ABBOT OF BROU, HE RESIGNED TO BECOME A MONK AT LERINS, BUT RETURNED TO BROU ON THE ADVICE OF ST. CAESARIUS. SOON AFTER, LEOBINUS WAS APPOINTED BISHOP OF CHARTRES, WHERE H INSTITUTED REFORMS AND PARTICIPATED IN COUNCILS AT ORLEANS AND PARIS. HE DlEC

ON MARCH 14, AROUND THE YEAR 558. AFTER A LENGTHY ILLNESS. HIS FEAST IS MARCH

1992

trch 6,

The Catholic News & H

and recurring rough language. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is O morally offensive. The Motion

—

Picture Association of America rating is R restricted.

—

"Final Analysis" (Warner Bros.) Overripe Gothic thriller stars Richard Gere as a San Francisco psychiatrist duped into being a defense witness for a

NEW YORK (CNS) — The following are capsule reviews of movies re-

Roberts). Director Phil Joanou blends

cently reviewed by the U.S. Catholic

nifty plot twists with nicely

Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting.

"Medicine

Man"

(Hollywood) Belabored drama has Sean Connery as an eccentric medical researcher in the endangered Brazilian rain forest forced to enlist the help of an or Martin 1

Sheen

talks with University

theater after addressing a capacity

(CNS photo by

Ivism.

of Dayton students backstage

crowd on

the "inner thirst" that

compels him

Larry Burgess, University of Dayton)

screen presence do not compensate for a tedious script and Miss Bracco's dread-

Sheen Cites Inner Thirst' Reason For His Activism

fully shrill performance.

Some

tribal

ctor

nudity, very brief violence and an in-

stance of rough language. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-II adults and adolescents. The

— He

first

step of opposition,

the sign in a chapel in

Rome

that

record that the Ohio EPA (Environmen-

community

1 e. He saw it again in Tijuana, Mexico. "I thirst," the sign read.

Actor Martin Sheen, speaking Feb. to about 500 University of Dayton lents,

faculty and staff, cited an "in-

thirst" as part

of what compels him

ctivism.

That phrase crosses all of boundaries," he said. "I think we're 5ty for our humanity." '"I thirst. '

Sheen, a Catholic, returned to Ohio ace criminal trespass charges conted te

with jumping the fence

a toxic

incinerator in East Liverpool.

"Wherever we find people respond because of our

in need,

own

need,"

iaid.

Sheen and the 28 other fence-jumpwere acquitted Feb. 14. |(uittals

He called the

group after exhausting "every conflable legal and otherwise means to it."

He added, "We It's

certainly did not

scheduled for its

first

Iiity

burn

But nonetheless, the comthere is now united and another

spring.

The

rich

it ' s

a matter of public

Protection Agency) and the U.S.

material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

EPA

go on record as being opposed to this facility now." Born Ramon Estevez in Dayton in 1940 to immigrant parents who met in language school, Sheen graduated from Chaminade High School in Dayton. He caught the acting bug there with a threeline part in a production of "The Caine Mutiny." He left Dayton in 1959 to begin his acting career. He changed his name to Sheen because he admired Archbishop J. Sheen. His film credits include "Apocalypse Now" and "The Final Countdown." Sheen also played the title roles in the television movies "The Execution of Private Slovik" and "Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story."

Fulton

Sheen said he

an anomaly in the

entertainment business because of his

"Each one of us are entitled to clean md fresh water ... and what's being le in the name of progress or need is I a dumping ground has been created §ie skies," he said. Sheen said he joined the fence-jump-

it.

tal

a "small victory" in trying to

the incinerator's opening.

—

Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 parents are strongly cautioned that some

—

DAYTON, Ohio (CNS) part of Mother Teresa's

unwelcome assis-

Bracco) sent from the States to check up on him. Lush cinematography and Connery 's considerable tant (Lorraine

at the university's

activism in social causes.

has also

been involved in helping the homeless and farm workers and protesting the Gulf war. He said he would not participate with protest groups that are not

Good Company" (First

Run)

a day's outing in the

countryside, a group of elderly

when their bus down and they have to spend the in an abandoned farmhouse. By

night

placing non-actors in this bare-bones situation, Canadian director Cynthia

comes up with a convincing porof seven old women among them, a nun, a lesbian and a Mohawk Indian matriarch who pass the time while waiting to be rescued by exchanging reminiscences of their past lives and sharing common concerns about their present circumstances. Simple yet compelling evocation of the mixed blessings of old age, though young children may find some of it confusing. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-II adults and adolescents. The Scott

—

trait

—

Sound

—

re-

"Hard Promises" (Columbia) Lifeless romantic comedy concerns a young mother (Sissy Spacek) torn

between marrying her solid, dependable fiance (Brian Kerwin) or taking back her dashing ex-husband (William Petersen) who shows up on the eve of the wedding. Aside from its trite characters and sheer predictability, director Martin Davidson makes positive values look positively dull. ences,

momentary

Some sexual refer-

fisticuffs

The

sional profanity.

and occa-

U.S. Catholic is

A-II

—

adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America ratis

— parental guidance sug-

"Mississippi Masala" (Goldwyn) Upbeat interracial love story involving a

young woman

(Sarita

Choudhury)

with family roots from India and an enterprising African-American (Denzel

Washington), both of whose families and friends disapprove of the couple's romance. Only a sluggish pace detracts from director Mira Nair's warm-hearted exploration of racial taboos and family values. Very brief bedroom scene with a flash of nudity, momentary violence and minimal rough language. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-III adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R

—

restricted.

America rating

— parental

guidance suggested.

women, implied pre-marital encounter, some sexual innuendo and toilet humor. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-IH adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is

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fly so the

younger boy can escape

their brutally abusive, alcoholic stepfa-

ther

(Adam Baldwin).

Director Richard

Donner mixes a serious story about child abuse with elements of magical fantasy mesh. Continual

that don't successfully

menace

and momentary The U.S. Catholic

to children

graphic violence.

Conference classification

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—

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women

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matic ending. Brief violence, short scene of adultery with nudity and intermittent

Quebec

"Wayne's World" (Paramount) Dopey comedy about two bumblers (Mike Myers and Dana Carvey) whose cable-access talk show is threatened by a smarmy producer (Rob Lowe). Direc-

shaded performances to heighten suspense, then drops the ball with a wildly melodra-

Conference classification "Strangers in

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Sheen's impromptu talk kicked off a campus and community drive to bring attention to the homelessness problem.

(Kim Basinger) accused of murdering her abusive husband (Eric patient's sister

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them

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By Father David Catholic

News

O'Rourke,

Service

Can people change? When someone they love is heading down the road to nowhere, people often ask that question.

To see a person in difficulties, espe-

The pushes and shoves behind

cially difficulties of his or her own mak-

—

ing whether simple distress or real trouble can make us wonder about the human ability to change. People can and do change. But the bigger the change, the harder it is. And some people don't change because of personal rigidity. There is the reality of original sin, and its effects are seen in the unwillingness to change what needs changing in us. I want to look at real change, and the first thing I want to say is that with most of us dramatic change comes about only when we're forced to it.

—

The push

personal

change "Change

What

is it

even for people

change can come from

point? Let

that moves us to this

me describe.

External circumstances can move people to change. For example, trusted family members or resources we count on may no longer be there. New and possibly overwhelming responsibilities

may fall to us. Job changes or a significant rise or of income, the birth of a child or the death or departure of a loved one: All are powerful enough events to push us to a turning point. Internal forces also can be a factor. Then people may be forced to change for reasons coming from within. •Personal pressures may be left unattended too long. • Decisions we know we should make can be postponed once too many times. •Important life-agenda items can be neglected. fall

A loss of self-respect is an example of an internal pressure that fosters change.

...

willing to change. For all

external circumstances or it can come from within us. But in either case what happens is that we come to a point where we know that things can't keen going the way they are. Something has to give.

is difficult

change involves

loss,

and

pain.

And we flee

loss involves

from pain." Whatever the cause, the inner pressure for a change builds up. One of my friends worked in a financial office at a responsible job he never really

But he put up with it because of the good pay and the talk of advancement. In those days he described him self as a company man. After a dozen years the routine began to get to him. Then he was offered the big promotion.

"It's

liked.

realized that I was looking my future in the face. As a reward for doing such a good job being bored stiff managing our California accounts, I was going to spend the best years of my "I

life

being bored

stiff

overseeing the

My friend had felt trapped 'between boredom and a good salary. To become happy, he first had to recognize this. What needed to change was his sense of being trapped. He needed to reach the point of knowing he had options. Another friend had devoted her youth and many years to being a good wife and a good mother. She was content with that role and very good at it, and would have been happy to have it go on

entire

forever.

ther:

Naturally, however, the children left home and started their own lives, in this case many miles from home. They simply did not need her in the same old ways anymore.

West Coast!" He knew he couldn't go on as he was Something had to give. He had to ei•change his attitude, or •change his job.

grew up,

FOOD FOR THOUGHT Step 1 in making a significant change in your life is recognizing the need to change. But it is difficult for a husband to admit that the role he assumes at home needs reassessment and transformation; for parents to acknowledge that current patterns of adult-teen interaction in their home must be remodeled; for a successful teacher, doctor or homemaker to admit that her attitude toward herself and her work needs an overhaul. So we tend to say, "It might be nice to change, but ..." Change entails the willingness to act in new ways or to alter one's outlook on people, work, leisure, success. Also vital: acknowledging it is up to you to want to change, not up to others to create ideal situations that make change on your part unimportant. Naturally, the path toward significant change does not run straight uphill. Along with steps forward, we may find ourselves taking some steps backward or standing still at times. Thus, commitment and patience are required. Obviously, then, personal change isn't easy. It might not be accomplished unless we seek support and insights from others. But change conversion is possible. Isn't that what Lent is about? David Gibson, Editor, Faith Alive!

—

not just that I have to figure ou

what to do with the next 30 or 40 years, she said. "I'm not a mother in the sam way anymore, and I don't know how t think of myself."

These friends of mine did change But what is important here is that th changes

first

required a push.

Change is an important part of life.

changes affect the course of our life w can call our experience a conversior And if a change involves a renewal c our faith we can call it a religious COD] version.

Change

is difficult,

however, eve) For al

for people willing to change.

change involves pain.

And we

ive and loss involve from pain.

loss,

flee

e'r' Change is difficult, too, because we

so attached to the way we do thingtW^ Even troubles can be like old friends, i' Out lot of people depend on their way e! doing things even when it doesn't work Of course, it is when we realize ou way of doing things isn't working the

we may be pushed to change.

—

even seriou In any event, change change usually is written in ver human terms. It deals with familie and jobs and our hopes for ourselve and those we love, all of which

—

things

life is

made

of.

That

why

possibility of change merits our seriou

—

attention because it can affect us intimately in ways that offer hope to

(Father O'Rourke is a California / tor and free-lance writer.)

The Catholic News

How change gets under your skin By Brother Cyprian L. Rowe, Catholic News Service

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tion into Paul into an apostle who bore the Christ-message to the gentile stretches of the empire.

FMS

transformation. Not even our skin is the very same m day to day. But underneath the

Sometimes transformation is imper-

Life is

anyone noticed a difference in Dismas after he asked Jesus to remember him and Jesus said that he would be in paradise "Life is trans- with him that day. No one noticed but a soul had formation. Not been transformed. even our skin No one necessarily recognizes the old who finally understand is the very

change too. was transformation when roman brought herself up Im a childhood of drugs and Institution. Coming through rigors and the terrors of Civil Rights movement, n, spirits

ceptible. It is unlikely that

that years do not dictate the end-

obtained a higher educaand became a senior facperson at a university. |jy This woman had to say to h

Same from day jng of their missions on earth, or the young who make a decision to day. But

for God even as they are surrounded by pot, fine cars, fancy companions and the "airiest the skin, Jordans" ever made. spirits change But such transformations too." happen all the time. \i. I can do better than this!" A student wrote to me that lit is magic that this woman, she had never before thought of herself Eiesha Ida Mae Holland, was able to as racist. Then she saw Eyes on the Ike such a life into art. Her play Prize, and read Bury My Heart at I'm the Mississippi Delta now is Wounded Knee. azing New York theatergoers every She knew then that though she never tit as they behold the reality of grace had actively hated anyone, hurt anyone fcasforming a person who, by every or cursed anyone because of race or lial measure, should have died dirty anything else, she had never really loved It alone. "the stranger." She had never really [Vansformation is the message of the verse. Most of the time it is not so imatic. It is normal like the movelit of the seasons, the growth of chili ti and the resurrection of addicts who lide that heaven is not in wine or

underneath

some point, like evperson who wants to make important, worthwhile |nge: "I am worth more than (

self at

—

wept when she heard that those "not of her household were brutalized in their bodand souls. She was transformed. Plants and animals have the law of transformation written ies

into their beings. learn.

The woman of Mississippi Delta did not get to be a professor just by getting off drugs. The decision to transform her life was not only a decision against drugs, it was a decision for full life.

That meant hard work beyond the fight for sobriety.

Grace makes

all

things

possible we are told, but oh the rigors of the journey.

(Brother Rowe

a research

associate in the Department

of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School ofMedicine in Baltimore, Md.)

Where the strength

or in sex, crack, pot or beer. I temember the young thug in Scripwho held the others' cloaks while ly stoned Stephen to death because Iphen was a follower of Christ? And It wasn't enough for Saul. Iro satisfy his bloodlust, Saul needed Ire Christians to kill. He put together l

Hu-

mans do, too. We can

change comes from

)tine,

By Father John

and rode off to Damascus. was terrified when a mighty l:e knocked him from his mount. But |)sse

Isaul

—

It terror prepared his soul pre|ed it to listen when the voice said: "I Jesus whom you are persecuting." With this Saul began the transforma-

JRTHER NOURISHMENT •vercoming a fear

is like

opening a

I.ew frontier that leads to personal

Spanish Jesuit Carlos G. suggests in Let Go of Fear, ackling Our Worst Emotion. Father alles believes that by recognizing

rowth, alles

own

fears,

<nowledge of lain

strength,"

we become

stronger.

my weakness he

writes.

Our fears

if we look the face, not denying their xistence, the writerthinks. "When we

an be considerably quieted tern in

to face our fears, we on our way to overcoming them," e says. (Triumph Books, an imprint f Gleneida Publishing Group Inc., 20 White Plains Rd., Tarrytown, N.Y. 0591 1991. Hardback, $13.95.)

ecome ready re

Catholic

News

Castelot

Service

Those who want to change must be willing to let God change them, willing to work as if everything depended on themselves, but to pray as if everything depended on God. The great King David in the Hebrew Scriptures had the world on a string. He

was powerful, respected, obeyed. If a next-door neighbor caught David's eye and inflamed his desire, he took her. When her subsequent pregnancy put him in an embarrassing situation that could be resolved only by her husband's death, David had him killed. The prophet Nathan boldly confronted David with the enormity of his crimes, and the king, with amazing humility, confessed: "I have sinned against the Lord" (2 Samuel 12:13). David's conversion had begun, but it was not complete. A shattering experience followed. Bathsheba's baby, the fruit of the king's unchecked lust, became critically ill. Frantic, the king the almighty king did public pen-

—

ance.

"He kept a fast, retiring for the night to lie on the ground clothed in sackcloth." When news of the baby's death reached David, he was devastated, but "he went to the house of the Lord and worshiped."

He came out a changed man. Nathan's rebuke sparked David's conversion, convinced him he needed a radical change of direction. But David did not change himself. His very desire to change was motivated by a force outside himself.

man"

others, as Jesus had promised: "Once you have turned back, you must

strengthen your brothers" (Luke 22:32). The powerful intervention of Jesus saved Peter from himself. He did not change; he was changed. It took a shattering experience of the

(26:74).

Robbed now of his sense of power, where would Peter get the strength to change? The awful words of denial had

risen Lord to batter down St. Paul's prideful defenses. The change in this man, who had persecuted Christians, was a dramatic turnabout. And remember that Paul wrote, "By the grace of God I am what I am" (1

hardly stopped echoing in the surrounding stillness when "the cock crowed, and the Lord looked at Peter.... He went out and wept bitterly" (Luke 22:60-62). Evidently that look sparked not just shame but hope hope in Jesus' mercy

—

Corinthians 15:10).

and love. Judas hanged himself in despair. Peter became a pillar of strength for

—

a Scripture

MARKETPLACE

FAITH IN THE

What

(Father Castelot

scholar, author and lecturer.)

when a person attempts positive way?

the greatest difficulty faced

change

None

some significant,

fathom whether the change is really have to see that you've been doing something wrong and deal with the regret." Brian Daschbach, Glen Burnie, Md. 'Risk.

God's

will.

of us likes to take risks, trying to

Also, to

make a

positive

change you

first

—

"The commitment. You have to make up your mind to do it and Mary Ellen Brooker, Wrightstown, N.J. you have decided."

—

to stick to

what

'Giving up something else, balancing your time and resources to make room your life for the change. The busy-ness of our lives makes it hard to change." Christopher Kauffman, Lubbock, Texas

—

"The challenge

the presuppositions of those around us

— especially those

The impetus for change comes from inside us. But we are surrounded by people who love and accept us as we are and might be afraid of the impact our change might have on them." Mary Fauls, Glencoe, closest to us.

—

III.

"The greatest challenge lies in realizing that myself can do nothing.... It is even have to keep praying to accept the grace to change." Peggy Knibbs, Bend, Ore. I

In our age of self-sufficiency, selfhelp books of all sorts assure people of their power to change themselves. But in reality only God can change them. Even after Jesus predicted that Peter would deny him, Peter the "rock" insisted: "Even though I should have

—

to die with you, I will not deny you" (Matthew 26:35). Filled with all this self-assurance, Peter went right on to deny publicly that he even knew "the

grace.

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Vatican Denies Italian President's

Charge Against Bishops VATICAN CITY (CNS)

— The

Vatican has denied Italian President Francesco Cossiga's allegation that the Catholic bishops are pushing for his resignation. The Vatican also asked for dialogue between the president and the

The Pope

The News

aid to El Salvador, said the Jesuits at

now

Salvador realize they have a "political space" to voice a call for reforms. "The

same ones who

wouldn't mind polishing us off too, but it's too expensive politically," said Fa-

the country prepared for April 5-6 national parliamentary elections.

The

Vatican said it issued the statement because Cossiga protested to the Holy See.

In Africa.

Central American University in San

has traditionally marked church-state

The Feb. 26 Vatican statement came while Cossiga and the bishops were engaged In a running battle as

199

peace and reform, said a U.S. priest appointed to replace one of the victims. Jesuit Father Charles Beirne, in Chicago Feb. 13 to speak against military

bishops to restore the cooperation that relations.

killed the Jesuits

ther Beirne.

Honolulu Bishop Returns To

Work

After Quintuple Bypass Surgery

HONOLULU

(CNS)

—

Bishop

Joseph A. Ferrario of Honolulu returned to work for two hours Feb. 20, a little more than five weeks after undergoing

Woman Charged With Endangering Fetus Decides On Abortion FARGO, N.D. (CNS) — A woman

quintuple bypass heart surgery.

charged with recklessly endangering her fetus by sniffing paint underwent an abortion Feb. 22, prompting charges by a local pro-life group that North Dakota officials illegally assisted in an abortion. The woman, 28-year-old Martina Greywind, still faces a trial on the endangerment charges in April. She could be sentenced to up to a year in jail. The Lambs of Christ, which has been trying to shut down the Fargo Women s Health Organization for the past several months, said in a Feb. 24 letter to North Dakota Gov. George Sinner that state taxpayers had been "forced to allocate time and funds to be illegally used for promoting the performance of an abortion."

Center

The 65-

year-old bishop underwent open heart

surgery Jan. 14 at in

St.

Honolulu.

Francis Medical

He was discharged

from the hospital Jan. 21 and ery

his recov-

was going, in his words, "better than

expected." After his cardiologist rec-

ommended that he increase his physical activity, Bishop Ferrario made the 15minute drive to his chancery office in downtown Honolulu from his residence on the windward side of the island of Oahu for a couple of hours of work.

Pope John Paul II arrives at a stadium Mass in Conakry, Guinea. During ther Mass, the pop urged Guineans to work toward "a harmonious evolution" rather than revolution after 2 years of Marxist rule. (CNS photo from Reuters)

For Slovakia's Bishops, Msgr. Tiso Controversy A Delicate Issue NEW YORK (CNS) An espe-

Former Ambassador Says U.S. Benefits More From Vatican Ties

—

cially delicate issue facing the bishops

of Slovakia is the controversy over Msgr. Jozef Tiso, who served as president of

Slovakia during the Second World

War

Thousands Mourn Salvadoran Right-Wing Leader At Funeral SAN SALVADOR (CNS) —Thou-

and was hanged as a war criminal in 1947. Cardinal Jan C. Korec of Nitra

sands of mourners, holding clenched

cal

said during his U.S. visit that a histori-

WASHINGTON

(CNS)

—

The

cerned about the problems of starvatior of famine," he said. International develi

Holy See. The Church is a source of information, and the United States benefits from

opment efforts "were made more effec tive, more efficient by understandin the problems from a moral, religiou

"the type of channels" the Vatican has,

perspective."

the

carried the coffin contain-

commission had been formed to review the case, and the bishops were taking no official position on it. Vaclav Havel, current president of the Czech and Slovak Republic, has said he considers Msgr. Tiso justly sentenced, and the issue is widely considered to be

ing the late leader's body to the gravesite

intertwined with feelings of Slovak na-

gathering information about Third World

tionalism.

Wilson said in a Feb. 24 telephone interview from Los Angeles. Vatican gains from the diplomatic arrangement include "recognition of its status as a sovereign state" and having "a direct line of communication for exchange of information, thoughts, ideas"

fists

high and chanting "D'Aubuisson

lives," turned out for the funeral in

San

Salvador of right-wing leader Roberto D'Aubuisson. Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani was one of the pall-

who

bearers

Las

Illustres

Cemetery on Feb. 22.

member

Cristiani is a

Republican Alliance, D'Aubuisson's The government declared three days of mourning in honor of the

Cardinal Krol's Condition Improved

PHILADELPHIA (CNS)

political party.

who died of a heart attack the age of 48. He had a long

nal

John

Krol was

still

— Cardi-

sick but im-

The

late politician

proving, his doctor said Feb. 25.

Feb. 20

8 1 -year-old cardinal, retired archbishop

of Philadelphia, was admitted to Tho-

bout with cancer.

mas Jesuit Slayings Give Successors 'Political Space,' Priest

Jesuit university

Says

free to

work

9 with a high fever and irregular heartbeat. His condition was listed as critical 1

CHICAGO (CNS) — The legacy of

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Jefferson University Hospital Feb.

for

at the time,

but his personal physician,

The Vatican is concerned not only about political issues but about moral and

issues,

upgraded Feb. 25 to "guarded."

was

The United

States

was "very con h

with the United States, he said. Wilson, a member of President

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Gift

Giving

Planning

Important Part Of

Every Catholic's

Life

This is the first article on planned giving, part of an ongoing series by the Office of Development. Planned giving stories will appear every other month. Stories on stewardship will appear once every month.

By JIM KELLEY Giving that

an important part of every Catholic's

life.

After all,

through giving

we grow as Christians and are able to carry out Christ's work in the world. Many people don't feel they have the financial resources to give as much as they

would

like,

while also carrying out their responsibilities to their loved ones and

others. If you

have ever felt

this

way,

believe you will be interested in information and

assistance offered by the diocese. In fact, every Catholic interested in

use of his or her resources will want to

What

know more about

St. Benedict the Moor in Winston-Salem attend a Renewal retreat at Hickory. Members (1-r) are: (seated) Rhonda White, youth Monica Ford; (second row) Aurelia Boyd, Bobbie May, retreat speaker, Willie

lembers of a confirmation class from

ig,

youth director; (rear) Tony Hinson, Tryla Green, Bobby

Vaughn, Ben Vaughn.

fill

Photo by

Smith, Kimberly Jones,

MARION CARDOZA

Renewal Called Of Church Tradition

charismatic 3 art

By MARION CARDOZA HICKORY Charismatic renewal

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

However, before that can happen, unconfessed sin must be unloaded, said May. "We concern ourselves with outward appearances, not knowing that

baptism in the Holy Spirit is part of le tradition of the Church, said Deacon lugo May of Hickory at a Charismatic enewal Retreat Feb. 22 at the Catholic r

all

sponge.

Deacon May helped wife Bobbie,

are shriveled

like a

dry

We must be immersed, soaked

sacrament of reconciliation."

in the

lead the Saturday re-

May encouraged the participants to

They are paChurch in

read "the love letters" in the Bible.

"The charismatic renewal belongs Deacon

can't understand and receive His for-

piritual director, 'eat

for about 75 people.

into action. If we don't know and understand the Scriptures, we

"Then put them

ishioners at St. Aloysius lickory.

inside

Conference Center.

the heart of the church," said

giveness.

restores us to

/lay.

Bobbie

May

said people first need

heals our souls of sin and

become

effective vessels

of God."

3 prepare their

hearts for the Lord, to be pen to the renewal process and the ccompanying gifts of the Spirit. "When we allow Him to come and Iwell in us, there is no darkness," she

Joyful music, sung in English as

well as in the Spirit, punctuated the retreat.

Since speaking in tongues has been misunderstood by many people, May spoke at length about the meaning and purpose of "this gift." When she and her husband first came into the renewal 21

"When we treat Jesus as a stranger, ve think of Him as our judge and we feel inworthy. When you treat Him as a riend and open your heart to Him, He aid.

gift

planning

ways of giving

that suit

a process that helps you

you

best.

Some methods

are familiar, such as giving by cash or check, while others

may

Jharismatic ctor,

making the best

planning.

planning?

is gift

Quite simply, identify

gift

be new to you, such as giving through

life

insurance

or in your will.

The gift planning process helps you plan so that you, your loved ones and others for whom you care will be provided for as you desire. At the same time, you may discover new ways of giving to your parish, Catholic agencies, Catholic schools or the diocese that you never realized were possible. For example, by planning a gift by will, you can fulfill a desire to make a special gift without diminishing financial security for yourself or your loved ones. A bequest can be arranged as part of the will-making process. That simple addition can speak volumes about your faith. A stronger mission. Why does the diocese offer information and assistance with gift planning? First, as people grow in their stewardship life, they realize that limiting their stewardship of treasure to just their income doesn't really reflect all that they have. Hence, more and more people are including their assets in their long range plans related to stewardship of treasure. Second, we hope to provide information that will be helpful to you and your loved ones as you make plans for your future security. Third, we are ever mindful of the need for future financial stability to carry out the church's mission in our diocese and know that gift planning can help strengthen the base of financial support for parishes, Catholic agencies, Catholic schools and the diocese. For example, bequests (gifts from wills) are steadily accounting for more and more support to charitable and religious organizations of all types nationwide. In 1990, an estimated $7.81 billion in the form of bequests went to charitable institutions in America, according to the American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel Trust for Philanthropy. Ready to help The diocese also has a responsibility to Catholics in our area to provide information about ways to enhance their stewardship. A gift planning program does just that.

Our Diocesan Development Office will be happy to answer questions you may have about methods of giving (at no obligation, of course). We can also work with you and your attorney or other financial advisor as you consider a particular method of giving.

See Charismatic, Page

â&#x20AC;˘ecomes your friend."

you to watch for this column, which will appear every two months in The & Herald. I will be sharing information and ideas about ways to give that can save you money and enhance your overall plans. If you would like more information about anything you see discussed, feel free to write me at 1524 E. Morehead St., Charlotte 28207, or call me at (704) 331-1709 or 377-6871. The size of a gift to the church is not what is more important. But all believers are called upon to participate in the act of giving and the exercise of good stewardship. Our gift planning program can assist you to that end. You may discover surprising benefits for yourself and Christ's mission. Jim Kelley is director of the Office of Development. I

invite

Catholic News

THE ORATORY THE 12TH ANNUAL CARDINAL NEWMAN LECTURE Saturday March 10 a.m.

14,

1992

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

4 p.m.

Dr. Sandra Schneiders,

IHM

The Oratory is happy to present Sandra Schneiders, Ph.D., for the Newman Lecture. She is professor of New Testament and Spirituality for the Jesuit School of Theology at

Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union

All are

wish

welcome

to bring a

as guests of the Oratory.

Beverages will be provided for those

who

WANTED:

Dynamic, spiritual, experienced youth minister to serve parish of 2,400 families. Those interrested should send a resume and salary requirements to Susan Krasniewski, St. Gabriel's FDC, 3016 Providence Road, Charlotte NC 28211

bag lunch. Positions Available: Assistant principal, guidance counselor, and instructors

MARY AND MARTHA 8 p.m. Friday

The home of Mary and Martha was a place of John tells us how much Jesus loved these

sisters

and pain,

life

and death.

this

28, 1992

hospitality for Jesus.

The Gospel of

and their brother, Lazarus. They were

family for him and he shared with them experiences activity, faith

Lenten

common to life ~ prayer and retreat we will look into these

experiences with these friends so bonded by love.

$40 $15 commuters

Computer Sciuence, Latin, Spanish, Chemistry and Physics. Acquinas High School is a diocesan high school. (9- 1 2). Submit resume and salary requirements to: Father John Fitzpatrick, Principal, 1920 Highland Ave., Augusta, GA 309045305. in

March 27 - 5 p.m. Saturday March Fr. Conrad Hoover, CO.

Pre-register by

March

Position

music

Open:

St.

Thomas Aquinas

in Charlotte is looking for a part-time

knowledge of Catholic

liturgy, must be both an instrumentalist and vocalist. Salaried position. Interested persons should call the parish office at (704) 549-1607 to arrange an interview with the priests of the parish. Further information available upon request.

director. Prerequisites include:

The

News

atholic

Herald

March

6, 19<

Qpmtwiqtuzmonoj Llamados a compartir la mesa de la creacion

Noticias Breves Papa

que nueva Evangelizacion exige igual celo por parte de los dice

Religiosos

Por

Santo Padre Juan Pablo

creacion es para todos.

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Ciudad del Vaticano (CNS) El Papa Juan Pablo II dijo a los miembros de las ordenes religiosas que la nueva

(mensaje cuaresmal 1992) Si, al

acercarse el tiempo de Cuaresma, tiempo

evangelizacion del

Senor Jesucristo nos hace un especial llamado a la conversion, quiero dirigirme a cada uno de vosotros para invitaros a reflexionar sobre esta verdad y a realizar obras concretas que

misma cantidad del celo mostrado hace

en que

2 de febrero, deberian abarcar la accion de gracias por los religiosos que se dedicaron a "convertir aquellas tierras en santuarios de la presencia misericordiosa y fiel" de Dios. Ellos no habrian podido llevar dicho trabajo misionero a su termino si su consagracion a Dios no hubiera sido como un fuego interior viviente, que revelara la cercama de Cristo, como senal de esperanza para todos los puebel

Este mismo Senor, cuya maxima prueba de amor celebramos en la Pascua estaba con el Padre desde el principio preparando la maravillosa mesa de la sin

exepcion

cual quiso invitar a todos

(cf.

,3)

Iglesia ha

comprendido esta verdad manifestada desde los comienzos de la Revelacion y la ha asumido como un ideal de vida propuesto a los hombres (cf. Act 2,44-

En tiempos mas recientes ha predicado una y otra vez, como un tema central de su Magisterio social, el destino universal de los bienes de la creacion, tanto materiales como espirituales. Asumiendo esa larga

los.

El Santo Padre Juan Pablo

45; 4,32-35)

"Centesimus annus", publicada con ocacion del centenario de la "Rerum novarum" de mi predecesor Leon XIII, ha querido promover la reflexion sobre este destino universal de los bienes, que es anterior a cualquier forma concreta de propiedad privada y debe iluminar su verdadero tradicion, la Encfclica

sentido.

Sin embargo, es doloroso constatar

como,

a pesar de

que estas verdades,

claramente formuladas, hay an sido tantas

veces repetidas, bienes- que

la tierra

con todos sus

hemos comparado con un

(foto

CNS

de Reuters)

muchos campesinos, heridos en dignidad por ser mantenidos incluso

margen

del ejercicio de los

su al

mas

elementales derechos, que tambien forman parte de los bienes destinados a todos. La situacion de estos hermanos nuestros clama la justicia del Senor. Por consiguiente se ha de promover una

generosa y audaz reforma de las estructuras economicas y de las polfticas agrarias, que aseguren el bienestar y las condiciones necesarias para un legftimo ejercicio de los derechos los

grupos indigenas y de

las

tratados.

existido y que existiran - en muchos aspectos, esta todavfa, por desgracia, en

destinatarios de los bienes de la creacion

cual han sido invitados

manos de unas minorfas. Los bienes de la tierra son

maravillosos, tanto aquellos

que nos vienen directamente de generosa

mano

del Creador,

como

los

que son el fruto de la accion del hombre, llamado a colaborar en esa creacion con su ingenio y su trabajo. Mas aun, la participation en esos bienes es necesaqria

para que cada ser

humano pueda

llegar

Dios, hermanos unos de otros y

debemos esforzarnos con todo empeno y sin dilaciones para que ocupen el puesto que les corresponde en la mesa -

voluntad del Creador es poner los

debe inspirar el trabajo por una autentica promotion integral de todo el hombre y de todos los hombres. En actitud orante y comprometida hemos de escuchar atentamente aquellas palabras "Mira que estoy a la puerta y llamo" (Ap 3,20). Si, es el mismo Senor quien llama dulcemente al corazon de cada uno, sin forzarnos, esperando pacientemente que le abramos la puerta para que El pueda entrar y sentarse a la mesa con nosotros. Pero, ademas, nunca debemos olvidar que - segun el mensaje central del Evangelio - Jesus llama desde cada hermano y nuestra respuesta personal servira de criterio para ponernos a su derecha con los bienaventurados, o a su izquierda con los desdichados: "Tuve hambre, tuve sed, era forastero, estaba desnudo, enfermo, en la career... .(cf.

Por eso, os invito de manera espeatencion en este afio conmemorativo del quinto centenario de la evangelizacion del continente americano, que en modo alguno ha de limitarse a un mero recuerdo historico. Nuestra vision del pasado tiene que ser completada por una mirada a nuestro alrededor y hacia el futuro (cf. centesimus annus 3) tratando de discernir la misteriosa presencia de Dios en la historia, desde la cual nos interpela y nos llama a darle respuestas concretas. Cinco siglos de presencia del Evangelio en aquel Continente no han logrado aun una equitativa distribution de los bienes de la tierra; y ello es particularmente doloroso cuando se piensa en los mas pobres entre los pobres: os grupos indigenas y junto con ellos

Mt.25,34).

Pidiendo fervientemente al Senor los esfuerzos de todos en

que ilumine

sepultado el 8 de febrero despues ( morir de un ataque cardfaco. Un estimad de 1 500 personas congestiono la catedri

epoca colonial de Cuemavac cerca de Ciudad Mejico, para participi en una eeremonia altamente emotiv: que fue en parte un servicio religioso de

en parte una asamblea politic* Queremos Obispos que tomen partk con los pobres, cantaban grande secciones de la multitud al Obispo ac tual de Cuernavaca, Monsenor Lui Reynoso Cervantes.

ifii

serv

Sacerdote Brasileno obtiene galardon de anti-esclavitud Londres (CNS) El Padre Ricard Rezende, ex-director nacional de comision pastoral de tierras de lo Obispos Brasilenos, ha sido nombrad recipiente del Galardon Internacions de Anti-Esclavitud para 1992. ElPadr Rezende, que es actualmente parroco d Rio Maria, Brasil, recibio el galardoi por su lucha contra el trabajo esclavo ei el estado amazonico brasileno de Para La medalla de plara es otorgad anualmente por la entidad Anti-Slaver International, basada en Londres.

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Nuestra Iglesia II

PADRE

Por

RUEDA

SILL

El Reino de Dios objeto central del

mensaje de Jesus, siguio siendo tambien en la predicacion de los Apostoles, si bien con otras formulas. Por eso no se puede hacer una dicotonria entre Iglesia y

Reino de Dios porque los dos

Iglesia

francos de Mejico que

I'Cor

campanas de solidaridad - campanas de Adviento y semanas en favor de los mas desposeidos - la conciencia clara de que

doloroso constatar cuantos millones quedan exclufdos de la mesa de la

cial a centrar vuestra

MonsenorSergio Mendez Arceo, obispo jubilado de Cuernavaca, uno de los

estan

bienes de la creacion al servicio de todos,

creacion.

presentaron sus ultimas condolencias a

comun de la creacion. En el tiempo de cuaresma y tambien durtante las

mas

a su plenitud. Por ello resulta aun

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

grandes

masas de campesinos que con tanta frecuencia se han visto injustamente

todos los hombres y mujeres que han

Obispo rojo de Mejico sepultado en eeremonia emotiva Con flores Ciudad Mejico (CNS) y punos cerrados en alto, los dolientes

mas

Es Apostolica

humanos de

Para estos y todos los desposeidos del mundo - pues todos somos hijos de

gran banquete

exige la

500 anos por los misioneros que vinieron a las Americas. Las festividades de 1 992, dijo el en la Basilica de San Pedro

manifiesten la sinceridad del corazon.

creacion a

mundo

lien

clerigos

muy

relacionados.

no es

La el

Reino, pero su finalidad es estar al servicio de este,

como nos dice la "Eclesiologfa Elemental". Asi que la Iglesia es como la explication y continuidad de ese Reino

la tierra.

Apostoles se fue formando y creciendo,

poco a poco una comunidad a

que

los

Judios llamaron "secta de los nazarenos"

y que a los ojos de muchos venfa a ser un grupo religioso mas, de todos los que ya

aunque con caracteristicas

propias y

cultura era rural y su situacion economic

muy baja. Se les llamo Judeo-Cristianos Eran bien vistos por el pueblo. Otro grupo era los que habfan vivic en las colonias Judias, que existian ei las ciudades riberenas del

Mediterraneo

Hablaban Griego comun, lefan la Bibli en Griego y teman menos apego a la lej mosaica que los Palestinos. Su estilo en urbano y su position economica muchx mejor. A estos se les conoce conw Cristianos Helenistas.

La union

entre estos dos grupos

no tuvo ningun problema. Er las reuniones que se hacfan en las casat escuchaban las explicaciones de lo: Apostoles, compartfan sus bienes celebraban la "fraction del pan" o sea eucaristfa de hoy. Pedro ocupaba ur lugar preferente en la comunidad j principio

torno a la predicacion de los

existian,

Sinagoga y el Templo. cumplian la le; de Moises y el rito de la circuncision. Si

muy

diferentes a las del

Judafsmo de aquel tiempo.

tambien Santiago y Juan, por eso se le: llama "columnas de la Iglesia". Asi fue como empezo a formarse verdadera Iglesia de Cristo, con predicacion y trabajo sin descanso II los Apostoles, pasando por dificultade:

parte de los primeros

y preocupaciones, hasta nuestros dfas Pero siempre adelante y firme en las

Cristianos venfan de Jerusalen o al menos eran de origen Palestino. Hablaban Arameo, por tanto su mentalidad era semita. Leian la Biblia en Hebreo y se sentfan muy arraigados en las tradiciones

ensenanzas de la Buena Nueva. Jesus es el modelo, el guia y el maestro, el puente entre Dios y el hombre, la cabeza visibk de la estructura de la Iglesia en el mundo Los Apostoles los continuadores de esa

Judias, sobretodo en cuanto a la

del Padre y del Hijo y del Espiritu Santo.

obra y los responsables de transmitir el mensaje, la parte humana de la cual sc vale Dios para hacer conocer a lo: hombres sus deseos y dones. Por esc decimos que nuestra Iglesia es

Amen.

Apostolica.

mayor

favor de los

mas pobres y

necesitados,

os bendigo de todo corazon en el nombre

larch 6,

Cardinal

NEW YORK (CNS) — A new iniLebanese-Americans of 11 religious communities in a campaign aid Lebanon was launched at a meetig Feb. 26 called by Cardinal John J.

"You promised and you

)

Elias Hrawi had extended his best wishes

New

Some 40 key came from

York.

Chedid said Lebanese President for success in the project.

leaders, lay

and

cleri-

across the country in

comments to reporters, the cardiwould write a report on the

nal said he

meeting

at his

residence and send

;sponse to an invitation to meet at his

participants for wider distribution in the

They included members of

Lebanese- American community. One participant, he said, had offered use of a mailing list with 50,000 names. One option under consideration, he said, is getting large numbers of Lebanese-Americans from all over the coun-

sidence.

Druze and Muslim communities, as

'ell

as the various Christian bodies

presented in Lebanon. Maronite Archbishop Francis M. ,ayek

and Sunni and Shiite imams were

tnong the clergy participating.

Cardinal O 'Connor, president of the

Near East Welfare Associaon, pledged his and the agency's suport for efforts to obtain more U.S. ssistance for Lebanon as well as such atholic

ending the U.S. govrnment ban on travel to Lebanon by m. citizens and restoring U.S. consuir services in Lebanon. Msgr. Robert L. Stern, Catholic Near

try to petition the

government for per-

mission to make a pilgrimage to Lebanon. He said he was willing to accompany them, and offered the services of Catholic Near East in making arrangements.

Decific goals as

ast general secretary, and other top

taff

attended the meeting. The

ssociation's U.S. staff, a et

delivered as

usual," he told the cardinal.

Conference Center

Effort

ative to unite

al,

New

O'Connor Aids

.ebanese-American Unity

»'Connor of

The Catholic News

1992

member said,

exemption from the general ban on

Letters (From Page strive to preserve.

The foregoing could

Our Lady of Lourdes presenter

Charismatic (From

Lebanon through "collaboraon of the various governments inolved."

sued.

was

my home

proud. If the

questioned them.

Father

group together, the ardinal was following up on a promise

Edmund

"Why do you do that?"

"What does it mean." For years, she was hard pressed to explain it. Then one day, a longtime

—

nun

—

to understand

it.

told her: "That's the

is-

God

Holy

you, praying for

all

hears and underSpirit praying for

your needs even

those you aren't aware of."

May

A nine-member confirmation class from St. Benedict the Moor Church in Winston-Salem attended the retreat. The experience was new for all of them except Youth Director Rhonda White. "I went through a terrible time in my life some years ago," said White. "A told my husband to lead me in this direction. It (the renewal) has helped me

said she then realized the im-

now have

portance and the need for this heavenly

to bear all things ever since.

language. Praying in the Spirit

a personal relationship with the Lord."

also a

less

Murphy, N.C.

in places like Miami. Many priests have responded accordingly and are encouraging catechists to do "Life in the Spirit" seminars, he said.

nun

way of resting in God, since it's effortand comes from the heart not from the head, she said. More importantly, this form of prayer is a way of entering

Kirsch

Hickory.

MARION CARDOZA

they asked.

the platform

from which those statements were

In calling the

Page

years ago, she said family and friends

stands. It's the

accurately quoted,

OLL

retreat at the Catholic

Holy Spirit expressing in your heart what you can't express. You don't have

tend to confuse some readers. parish and of which

Renewal

Photo by

friend

displeased that

avel to

Participants in a Charismatic

White said the Lord prompted her to how-

bring the class to the retreat. Also,

ever, she said she thought the group of

young people "would respond

to the

made during a visit to Lebanon in arly January, when he told officials he 'ould encourage more support from

have used a poor choice ofwords, which

His presence.

ebanese- Americans

may appear

Power is released when people praise and thank God in all things, said May. "The devil will attack us any way he can. We overcome him through the power of praise and a prayer of faith." Deacon May spoke about Fanning the Flame, a book written by theologians on the history of the sacraments of baptism, confirmation and the Eurcharist. The book shows that "historically, when people were baptized

also as a director, said she

and confirmed, they prophesied, prayed for healing and received it, and spoke in

Catholic charismatic publication.

After the meeting, Antoine Chedid,

ebanese consul general in

New

York, osted a gathering to honor Cardinal >'Connor on the "historic" occasion.

Editor's note: Father Sullivan

may

contradictory to doctrine.

However, the point he was making

the context of the article was that people must make a conscious decision at some

time in their cognitive

life

Jesus.

into praise

and worship, bringing us into

The renewal practices spoken about

common until the 7th or 8th

when "they went by the wayside," said Deacon May. "What we need

centuries,

15.

QUE ES LA LITURGIA EUCARISTICA O MISA? £

do now

— not with clubs and axes —

but with prayer, love and care

to 'fan

the flame' back into the fire that

should be. La Misa es la cumbre y la fuente de nuestra vida catolica. Es una maravillosa cena ceremonial en la que somos nutridos por el cuerpo y la sangre de Jesus bajo las apariencias de pan y vino.

And we need

diocese and our parishes first." The flame has been fanned in

our

many

parishes around the country, he said, referring to powerful charismatic groups

Santa Misa nosotros participamos de nuestra vocacion sacerdotal en la forma mas elevada. Nosotros alabamos a Dios, le damos gracias, celebramos el memorial de nuestra redencidh, la Unimos nuestras pasidh, resurreccion y la ascension de Cristo. voces a la de Jesus, con los angeles y los santos y nuestros hermanos y hermanas, para alabarle mediante el ofrecimiento, otra vez, del sacrificio de Su Hijo en la cruz.

God

calling them."

Willie King,

tongues."

today were

Spirit of

who works with White was

"really

touched" by the experience and would

more meetings. of the youths said, "It helped bring out the Holy Spirit in me. Very like to attend

One

And, it was different in a good way." February marked the 25th anniversary of the charismatic renewal in the Catholic Church, according to the February 1992 issue of New Covenant, a uplifting.

The

1967 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh during the baptism in the Spirit of several students at a retreat. In 1980, a Gallup poll showed that 18 percent, or about 50 million, of the Catholic population in the United States called themselves "charismatics," according to the magazine article. Many attribute this new outpouring of the Holy Spirit as an answer to the prayer of Pope John XXIII, who prayed for a new Pentecost at the beginning of Vatican II. Marion Cardoza is a parishioner at Our Lady of Lourdes in Monroe. renewal started

La liturgia eucarfstica nos dice que la noche que iba a ser entregado, antes de morir, Jesus tomo' pan y dijo: "Esto es mi cuerpo que sera entregado por vosotros." Entonces tomo' el caliz con vino y dijo: "Este es el caliz de mi sangre, sangre de la alianza nueva y eterna, que sera derramada por vosotros y por todos los hombres, para el perdon de los pecados." En esta consagracidh de la liturgia, el pan y el vino se convierten en el Cuerpo y la Sangre de Cristo. Esto se llama "transubstanciacidh."

Jesus dijo tambie"n: "Hagan esto en conmemoracidh mfa." Fue* entonces cuando Jesus le dio'a Sus apostoles y a sus sucesores el poder de que lo que El hizo, lo hicieran ellos en cada Misa. La Eucaristfa es el acto supremo de adoracion y culto del Pueblo de Dios. En la Eucaristfa los fieles son nutridos espiritualmente al escuchar la predicacidh de la Palabra y al recibir al Senor en la Santa Comunion. Las experiencias de la congregacidn, fortalecen y mantienen viva la Fe y, al compartir la cena eucarfstica, les une un sentido de comunidad como Pueblo de Jesucristo. As' todos son inspirados de nuevo para vivir y ser testigos del Evangelio de Jesus.

Please pray for the following deceased priests during the month of March.

Reverend John H. Huston, 1976 Reverend Francis Gorham, 1981 Reverend Justin J. Pechulis, 1983 Reverend Robert A. Gibson, 1987 Reverend Francis J. Morrissey, 1949 Reverend James Gallagher, 1950 Reverend Aloysius Adler, 1954 Msgr. William T. O'Brien, 1960 Reverend John M. Breunig, 1985 Reverend John D. Kells, 1990 Reverend William Mayer, OSB, 1904 Reverend Patrick Donlon, OSB, 1913 Reverend Prior Nicholas Bliley, OSB, VG, 1943 Reverend Ambrose Gallagher, OSB, 1946 Reverend Florian Checkhart, OSB, 1951 Reverend Richard Graz, OSB, 1952 Reverend Michael Mclnerny, OSB, 1963 Reverend Vincent Campbell, OSB, 1965 Reverend Joseph Tobin, OSB, 1978

;

Catholic

News

Herald

March

Diocesan News Briefs

Stressed, Anxious or Depressed?

GREENSBORO Senior Citizens

Day

— Senior

CHARLOTTE

citizens

are invited to celebrate the Feast of St.

Northern Ireland for six weeks to a safe environment and creates opportunities

Donoghue

for friendships crossing sectarian lines.

Patrick with Bishop John F.

an 11 a.m. Mass March 14,at St. Patrick Cathedral, followed by a tradi-

during the six

tional Irish lunch.

through July

One

To register for lunch,

your par-

call

group or the cathedral

ish senior

office,

parent must be in the

home

week period from June 20 3 1 For more information, .

Barbara Carter (919) 299-5680, or Barbara Sullivan (919) 282-0543.

call

Adult Ministry is hosting its annual spring conference at Belmont Abbey College March 21 from 9 a.m. -5 p.m.

The theme

"Our Catholic

Identity."

Alzheimer's Workshop BELMONT "Helping Families Face Alzheimer's, A Conference for Clergy (and others who work with Alzheimer patients and families)" will be Thursday, March 19 at Belmont Abbey College in Grace Auditorium.

—

Tom Calabro and Joanna Case will

The conference

will help clergy,

make presentations on "What Makes Us Uniquely Catholic" and "How To Live

pastoral visitors and people

a Sacramental Life."

Resources for both patients and

Cost

YAM

$15. Send registration to

Morehead St., Charlotte, NC 28207. For more information, call Pam Newton, (704) 3776871.

who

visit

the sick to better understand the disease.

caregivers will be available.

Office, 1524 E.

The seminar

will begin with regis-

and conclude

tration at 8:30 a.m.

fol-

lowing a 1:45 p.m. round-table panel discussion.

All

young

adults are

welcome.

$20 and includes lunch and a booklet, "Understanding and Caring Cost

Day Of Prayer For Women HOT SPRINGS —The Jesuit House of Prayer

sponsoring a day of prayer

and reflection for women March 21 from 10 a.m. -3 p.m. Dore Hansel will lead the group on the theme, "The Heal-

for the Person with Alzheimer's Disease.

For more information, contact the Office of Continuing Education, (704) 825-6671.

(704) 622-7366.

and include music, dance, refreshments and a good time. Cost is $5 per person. For more

Month

History

Women's

History Month,

Belmont Abbey College is sponsoring a presentation on "Women as a Topic in Ibsen's 'A Doll's House'" Film March 24 at 6:30 p.m. in Stowe Hall,

—

222.

Another

talk

on "Gender StereoMarch 3 1 at 4 p.m.,

Stowe Hall, Rm. 222. The presentations are free and open

also in

to the public.

St.

uptown Charlotte is hosting a Patrick's Day party March 14.

Serving the Poor

—

BLADENSBURG, Md.

St.

Daughters of Charity extend an invitawomen ages 1 9-40 to give

one or two weeks of

their

summer

service to the poor.

program with the

designed to help the

sisters

with their

ministry by providing day care, health

and

social ministry to

Southeast (the Carolinas, the District of

Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia and Florida). For more information, contact Sister Catherine Norton, Daughters of Charity, 5717 Emerson St., Bladensburg, 20710, or call (301) 864-2957.

Knights'

St.

Paddy's Dance

GREENSBORO — The Knights of

Columbus

will hold a St. Patrick's

p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Music will be provided by Bill Scarborough.

Cost

$30 per couple and includes

dinner, beer, wine and set-ups. For more

information, call

Rocky Riccio (919)

852-7381. Irish Children's

Summer Program

GREENSBORO are needed for the

Children's

Summer

— Host

families

Piedmont

Irish

program.

The program brings Catholic and Protestant boys and girls ages 9- 1

CHARLOTTE — A five-week

from

se-

"Contemplative Spirituality for Lent," will offered at St. John Neumann in two separate sessions; Tuesday evenings March 10- April 7 from 7 p.m.-9 p.m., and Thursday mornings, March 5April 2 from 10 a.m.-l 1:30 a.m. ries,

The series will look at practical ways to integrate contemplative spirituand prayer into our daily lives. Also studied will be some of the great saints and doctors of the Church who have contributed to a rich Catholic heriality

Pro-life Training Session

—

ASHEVILLE

Birthright

Asheville, a pro-life emergency pre nancy service, is offering a volunte

March 21 from 9 a.n 4 p.m. at Trinity Presbyterian Churcl For information, call Birthrigl' (704) 252-1306, or Karen Brown, (70* 628-1932.

Lenten Retreat

—

HICKORY

Bobbie May.

The focus

human

life

(704) 535-4197.

the heart, the seat

wherein dwells both dar

light.

The

retreat will center

Cindy Cook

retre;

will be

ning March 13 at 7 p.m. and endii March 14 at 3 p.m. Spiritual director

Topics include Contemplative Spirituality, Desert Fathers and Mothers, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Julian of Norwich and St. Teresa of Avila.

are interested at that time. Please call

Lenten

the Catholic Conference Center begi

ness and

Only those interested in the Thurday morning sessions are asked to call and register to determine if enough people

"The Contemplative Heart,"

tage.

—

ASHEVILLE County

scripturally bas< Na

on prayer and deve tsn'l

opment of a deeper relationship wi God. Cost is $74 for a single room ai meals, or $59 for a shared room ar meals.

ltd

send a non-refun<

(made out to Bobb May) to Bobbie May, 5617 Clearlal Dr., Hickory, NC 28601. For more able deposit of $ 1 0

Buncombe

Department of Social Services

looking for foster families. The

num-

ber of foster children in the department

custody has nearly doubled in the three years.

The agency has 320

last

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CHARLOTTE

—

The Refugee is

Dloceean Events

need of the following for newcomers; pots, pans, mixing bowls, glasses, knives, cutting boards, towels and linens.

items, contact Sonia

Mar.

& Grand

Prix

Party

The Atrium, Charlotte First Union Center Jim Brownd (704) 364-7425

or Suzanne Monet, (70) 331-

1720.

Mar. 8> Confirmation/Rite of Election St. Patrick Cathedral, 12:15 Mass

Tax Help For Seniors

Sister Sue

CHARLOTTE — Tax filing assis-

tance

FOUR GREAT NAMES to

KNOW

offered free to senior citizens by

Shepherd's Center. To schedule an appointment, call (704) 334-4637. Appointments are made Wednesday and Friday mornings at Myers Park Baptist Church. Elijah's

Mar. 13

1st Friday Family Feast

St. Paul's Parish Center

Greensboro, 6:15 p.m. Pat Arnett (919) 232-1437 Mar. 13-15 Engaged Encounter Catholic Conference Center, Hickory

Cave Retreat

HIGHLANDS Hoover

Thomas (704) 334-2233

—

Father John

Jane

Anklin (704)

MITSUBISHI MITSUBISHI

6951 E. Independence

for

531-3131

377-6371

offering "recession-priced

retreats," for $

provide their

00 per week. Retreatants

own

Lay Ministry Training

food.

After May, the cost increases to

$175. For more information, contact Father John Hoover, Elijah's Cave, P.O. Box 543, Highlands, NC 28741, or call (919) 526-2418.

"Social Ministry" Living

7001 E. Endependence

5354444

Waters, Maggie Valley

10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Sister Timothy Warren (704) 334-1305

HYURDOI 4100E. Independence

5354455

Day

dinner and dance March 21 from 6:30

children, the elderly and the homeless.

Opportunities exist throughout the

trai

training session

The

tion to single

care, education

ing will be provided.

information, contact the parish, (704)

To donate

live-in

Jarvis at (704) 255-58 19. Special

Greensboro. Fees are based on a sliding scale, according to income. Therapy is offered by mental health professionals. To schedule an appointment, call (919) 274-5577. in

Peter Parish

Hayden

—

Office of Catholic Social Services

types" will be given

The

Day Fun

CHARLOTTE

Festivities begin at 7:30 p.m.,

BELMONT — As part of a celebra-

Rm.

Service office in the Franciscan Center

Foster Care

St. Patrick's

tion of

If interested in becoming a fostl parent for children ages 10-18, call Je;

formation, call (704) 327-8692.

Touch of the Lord." To register or for more information, contact the Jesuit House of Prayer, P.O. Box 7, Hot Springs, NC 28743, or call, ing

Women's

— Counseling

available through the Catholic Social

Contemplative Spirituality for Lent

(704) 332-2283.

Young Adult Spring Conference BELMONT— The Office of Young

6, 19*

Secular Franciscan Meeting

CHARLOTTE

—

The

St.

Maximillian Kolbe Fraternity will hold inquiry sessions during March, April and May for people interested in the Secular Franciscan Order. The first session is March 8 at 2 p.m. at St. John Neumann in the council room. For more information, contact Jennye Johnson, (704) 357-3322, or Conventual Franciscan Father Richard Bellow, (704) 536-6520.

Mar. 14 Mass/Luncheon Feast of St. Patrick St. Patrick Cathedral father Frank O'Rourke

(704)

THE

"if:

334-2233 to

DEALERSHIPS Mar. 14 F3arB-<2 Dinner Benefit North Irish Children

Church Hall, 6:30 p.m. St. Margaret Mary Pat Barry (704) 636-3353

WHERE YOU ALWAYS GET YOUR MONEY'S WORTH! F.J. LaPointe, President

Member of St.

Gabriel's

Aaich 6, 1992

World and National Briefs leport Says TV 'Devalues' Children, Slderly, Minorities, Women

WASHINGTON mercial television

— Com-

(CNS)

"devalues and stereo-

miorities and women, the American Psyhological Association said in a report sued Feb. 25. By excluding them from rograms and presenting negative im-

jrpes" children, the elderly, ethnic

ges

of such activity in

tity

would never have

rally, students

when I came yesterday that so much was happening in ecumenism on believed

the local level in the United States.

much encouragement

Cardinal

Edward

It is

for all of us,"

Christian Unity, said Feb. 22.

also

maintains prejudices and racism

people should exercise more leadership

nd has a negative effect on self-esteem, A task force of nine sychologists, appointed by the assoiation, conducted a five-year review of

in local

ecumenism.

le report said.

on TV's

xisting research

effects

New

Lay-led Program Launched To Help Defend Catholic Faith NEW YORK (CNS) A new lay-

—

program was launched Feb. 23 in New York for "the educated Catholic

ulnerable groups in society.

led

Educational Choice Flounders, hreatens Public Schools, Aide Says WASHINGTON (CNS) Choice

who wishes to play an active

—

education that could benefit non-

public schools

not moving because

National Education Association oesn't want it and public schools are ;ared of it, a congressional aide said eb. 24. "Public school people obvile

usly feel very threatened

it," said

role in the

Goodling, R-Pa.,

who

the ranking

member on the House Subommittee on Elementary, Secondary nd Vocational Education. "Probably le most important reason" that choicei-education programs aren't moving is iat "groups like the NEA," the major ;acher union in the country, he said, don't want it to happen." iinority

Tridentine

Mass to initiate the Dietrich von Hildebrand Institute. The cardinal,

accepted through April

retired curator of the Vatican

expected to be submitted for approval at November's general meeting of the U.S. bishops.

Museum

and Library, also gave the institute's first lecture on "The Apostolic Origins of Priestly Celibacy." He was scheduled to give two other lectures.

two days

atican' s top

—

Ohio (CNS) AfColumbus at a national

all

Comments on

Students, Educators See Need For Honest Answers About Sex WHEELING, W.Va. (CNS)— Giving teen-agers honest answers about sex

nationalized Catholic schools after the

communist takeover

resign their positions. In

The government discovered the clandestine education network and has generally tolerated

Relief

—

The

contract

Algerian Archbishop Says

ROME

(CNS)

Civil

War

— Algerian Arch-

bishop Henri Teissier defended the army's recent breakup of free elections, saying the move helped prevent civil war in the North African nation. "If the Islamic Salvation Front had come to power, a type of civil war would have exploded in (Algerian) society," the archbishop said. "The authorities' ob-

was

jective

CRS spokeswoman Jennifer Habte said CRS expects to stay in 6.

was

to guarantee the civil peace,

and I think this objective was reached. These measures, by insuring normal

more than the months under the USDA pact. The limit for emergency funding is six months, she said. CRS said it would seek aid from other U.S. government the Russian Far East for

social life, prevent the conflict that

six

many people," he

feared by

said in an

interview in an Italian magazine.

Pope Urges More Local Responsibility For African Church POPONGUINE, Senegal (CNS)

—

Although the church in Africa still needs and deserves outside help, it is time for

Urge Social Conscience Vote LONDON (CNS)

— The

African Catholics to take more responsibility for their communities, Pope John

British

bishops urged Catholic voters to express their views on major social issues

Paul

such as abortion, health care and genetic engineering when they go to the polls in a general election later this year. Catho-

shrine of

II said.

At the oceanside Marian

Our Lady of

Liberation Feb.

21, the pope celebrated

with

members of the

ference,

should vote "in a well-informed and socially responsible manner" and send

lics

THE EUCHARISTIC LITURGY (MASS)?

it.

Coup Helped Prevent

British Bishops

have con-

children in unofficial schools.

Far East under a contract with the U.S. government. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which signed the six-month contract with CRS, estimates the value of food aid at $29 million. The rest of the money will go for shipping, storing and signed Feb.

areas of

tinued to pay the nuns to instruct their

(CNS) Catholic Relief Services in March will begin a $41 million emergency food relief program for 500,000 people in the Russian

distributing the food.

many

the south, however, parents

The final draft

With CRS For Program In Russian Far East

1975. Teachers

— most of them nuns — were forced

U.S. Contracts

—

Vietnam's communist authorities have asked some church-run schools to reopen to help face a continuing education crisis, Vatican Radio reported. The government made the request to groups of nuns in the southern part of the country, Vatican Radio said Feb. 24. Vietnam

the pastoral will be 3.

Schools

VATICAN CITY (CNS)

1994.

WHAT

Many observers expect

Vietnam Asks Nuns To Reopen

agencies to stay through the winter of

15.

be April

Some Church-run

U.S. bishops in mid-Febru-

BALTIMORE

students participated in a recent "chas-

Disciple's Response,"

ary.

ecumenist said he was

Of U.S. Ecumenism

COLUMBUS,

later than July 9.

The pastoral, "Stewardship: was distrib-

to the draft.

Maria Stickler celebrated a Pontifical

msultation on local ecumenism, the

xtent

will de-

government, must by law take place no

—

uted to

might be the best way to keep them from experimenting with it, educators and students in the Wheeling-Charleston Diocese agree. "When we were younger, you heard all kinds of stories and you didn't know if they were true or not," said Erin Palermo, a ninth-grader at St. Francis Central School in Morgantown. "It would be a lot easier if people were more open about it." Palermo and her fellow seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade

atican Official Surprised

which

election,

termine the shape of the next national

Stewardship Pastoral Draft Calls For 'Truly Radical' Response WASHINGTON (CNS) Time, talent and money are all important to good stewardship, says the first draft of the U.S. bishops' pastoral letter on the subject. "But to be a disciple and a good steward involves something more, something truly radical: committing one's very self to the Lord Jesus!" according

defense of the faith." Cardinal Alfons

tndrew Hartman, aide to Rep. William E

The

concerns.

performed skits, held a prayer service, watched a video and listened to talks on the medical implications of premarital sex and on the church's teaching on sexuality.

Cassidy, president

of the Pontifical Council for Promoting

had advice for Catholic parishes: Lay

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6, 19'

Daughter Breaks Her Father's State Basketball Scoring Record NEW BRUNSWICK,

N.J.

— John Somogyi was glad

(CNS)

to see his

when she plays basketball at the University

of Virginia next

fall,

she will wear

New Jersey state record of 3,3 10 points

the

scored in high school basketball games

Rutgers University.

recently fall to a female.

St. Peter High School, in the Metuchen Diocese, is part of the Somogyi family heritage. John and his wife, the former Nancy Burns, both

"This gives said.

tion of

—

it opens doors," "This has captured the imagina-

put greater effort forth

opportunity to

girls the

young women

in athletics.

gives them recognition."

But Somogyi was even more glad to is

New

wore

graduated in 1968. His wife's

sister,

graduated in 1939 and 1937.

The

his daughter,

Kristen, a point guard at St. Peter

School

that her father

Judy, graduated in 1970 and her parents

see the record stay in the family.

new record-holder

same No. 14

High

Brunswick.

Kristen at

Somogyi works very hard

honing her basketball

skills,

working

out three times a week with weights and

running and following routines mapped out for her by her dad. But she describes herself as a "normal kid." sleeping, talking

She enjoys

on the phone, occa-

Jack Stecher

Mecklenburg Area Catholic School board member, checks a numtfl Mona Wingert and Joe Armstrong look a

(1),

during the school lottery as Franciscan Sister

Photo by JO ANN

sionally getting into trouble, being funny,

KEAN

golfing, going to the beach, playing

volleyball and just

when she

"bumming around"

isn't practicing basketball.

She views her athletic career as a wonderful opportunity to meet interesting people, as well as an opportunity to and as a real lesson in life. used to get frustrated with the refs," she said. "I've matured and don't let things bother me."

Assures Fair, Equitable Placement Of Pupils In Schools

Lottery

Basketball will, of course, play an

important part in her future plans

at the

University of Virginia in Charlottesville,

where she says there is a great blend of academics and athletics. She hopes to study communications or education at Kristen Somogyi,

New

who

broke her father's

the university.

Associate Editor

— Joe Armstrong

CHARLOTTE

has a bingo machine on his desk. Seems fitting;

Catholics and bingo go hand in

delegates spent

missions proceedures and policies,

Schools

fications.

isn't

playing for fun, he's play-

lic

school students.

vying for the

such as the Olympics and professional basketball overseas. She sees her experience in sports as a positive thing that will help her throughout her life. "Determination, work and competition will always be part of my life and will help me in living and in learning from other people," she said.

schools necessitated a fair and equitable

This year's abundance of applicants slots in Charlotte area

Call

Gene

News

& Herald

cla

The process ran smoothly, allov till

registration time frame.

The 1992-93 school year called f| admissions according to classificatic At the elementary

dents were guaranteed re-admissic

as an important element in the lottery.

tained their status.

Every remaining child was prioriand assigned a number. The numbers were placed in the tumbler. Whirl, whirl, a turn of the handle, out pops a number. Bingo. Placement.

Mecklenburg Catholics, Catholics oij side Mecklenburg County, siblings

In years past, registration for

many

parents meant camping outside one

level, current

Their siblings were placed the priority

From

st|

at the top

that point, non-participa

Catholics and non-Catholics currer enrolled (as of Sept.

1990)

Then

registe

non-participating Catholic students

tending any regional Catholic eler

who were

tary school

school on Sept.

not attending

til

990, and non partul

pating Catholics and non-Catholics.

The

to a first-come-

students

who were participating Cath

was unaccept"The input received indicated this was unacceptable to those who had gone through the pro-

lies that

applied prior to Jan. 15

first," said

cess. Parents could only try for admis-

to their

sion into one school."

put on a waiting

process boiled

down

first-serve roulette.

"It

able," said Armstrong.

This year's registration was streamlined by the board, eliminating the pains-

first

round of

lottery plao

were able to assign everyone to second choice if they didn't make Stecher.

th<

tht

Students assign

second choice, however, list at

will

their first choi

school. Lotteries were held for a sm; tering of classes.

taking process, while giving parents the

lottery was round or be placed are students in t

The March 3

options of registration locations, and

Still to

forms that allowed them

other priority categories.

to prioritize

list.

The

school, staking a place in line.

Signs Football Grant-ln-Aid...

form

The Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools board determined a lottery was the reasonable method for final placement in the grade levels with too many children and too few classrooms. The bingo machine comes into play

Sullivan at (704) 331-1713

for information regarding advertising rates.

the nuances that

system to place the students.

tized

Advertise in The Catholic

all

weeks working on

parents to apply at any time within

other possibilities in his daughter's fu-

The coincidences between father and daughter's basketball careers are many. Kristen Somogyi broke her father's record at the same school he attended (from 1965-68); she wears the same No. 24 that her father wore 24 years ago; and

tuning

ing for the future of prospective Catho-

(CNS photo from The Moni-

ture,

Jack Stecher chaired the board admissions committee. He, and

However, the regional executive director of Mecklenburg Area Catholic

Her father pointed out that there are

tor)

their choice of schools.

hand.

Jersey state high school basketball

scoring record.

KEANE

By JOANN

travel

Foundation Plans Party To Benefit School

—

CHARLOTTE

Continuing

its

tradition of support for Charlotte Catho-

CCHS Foundation

lic

High School,

sponsoring the 12th annual Grand Union Plaza in the

the

Prix party at First

Atrium Sunday, March

furniture, elegant dining at local restau-

Since 1 98 1 the Grand Prix has rais more than $ 1 30,000 to benefit CCCE

signs a grant-in-aid to play football at East Tennessee State University.

Motor Speedway race

and lighting

The

last

fixtures.

couple's

after all others have

name remaining

lope

i«s fee

Prix.

Prix tickets.

tickets

Mike Hosemann

Grand

mountain getaway weekends, jewelry, rants, Charlotte

Catholic High School watches as senior tackle

free ticket to next year's

throughout the evening by emcee Ty Boyd. The grand prize is a 1992 Grand from Dick Keffer Pontiac. Other prizes include beach and

at Charlotte

new teal-colored, four-door car. T

second place winner will receive Oriental rug from Dilworth Oriem Rugs and third place will qualify foi

Each $150 ticket admits two. The winner of an additional "Se ond Chance" drawing will win a fiv day cruise for two to Mexico. Secori chance tickets are $25 and are availal

Prize winners will be announced

Jim Oddo, head football coach

the

with or without the purchase of Gra

For

ticket information, call

Raymond

(704) 366-0315.

been drawn will win fa