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Number 35 • May
15,
1992
Mary Timothy, diocesan
direc-
Program
Ministry Training
Honors
1
Graduating Class
CAROL HAZARD Associate Editor
MORG ANTON —They came to learn tor
a greater love of the
her training in lay ministry development
faith.
The first graduating class of a two-year program for lay people received certificates of completion at a special Mass in their
honor
May
In
9
Charles Borromeo.
at St.
in the first
in
Arden. "The parish was very receptive, the
was moving,"
d the church's pastor, Father John Schneider. "Events like this bring the realization that our tholic
community
is
much
broader, that there
is
more than one way
to worship
and praise the
TTM REDO
Photo by
rd."
in the life
men
of today's
and Piedmont will gather at Franciscan Center in Greensboro on
tholics across the
iy 16, to kick off a three-event obser-
ice of the
first
anniversary of the historic
venantsignedonPentecostSunday, 1991 e two other "anniversary days" will be ae 6 in Asheville,
and June 20
in
eenville.
Featured speaker in Greensboro will be
dialogues and is expected to reflect on his
lic
visit as part
A major portion of the meeting will be five
theran-Catholic ecumenical activities in
United States and on the international
He has recently visited the Vatican to
el.
cuss the present state of Lutheran-Catho-
workshops helping parish leaders
to
As church
trained lay people, their role in the
an extension of the
"is not just
Rather,
it
a "special and distinct calling to
is
serve the lay apostolate, to foster
it
and
It
In whatever ministry they are involved
— whether
also
is
teaching, eucharistic, evan-
celebration.
The event will begin
.
at
10:30
The Franciscan Center is located at 233 in Greensboro. The phone number is (919) 273-2554. N. Greene St
Media Calls For Anti-Porn WASHINGTON (CNS) — Kevin
/lorality In
—
to
empower
lay people to minister
the Church.
It is
now
in
a prerequisite for the
ticipants
involved in the program.
tors
Valley or Greensboro.
and enthusiasm
in launching the
but was supported by a vicariate and not the diocese,
what
from
lg
tasteless television to illegal,
books and tapes. The two-hour telecast, titled "Pornoghy A Plague in Society and What You (l
an infusion of "video pom,
pom and dial-a-porn." He asked for "fellow warriors war of the 1990s" and
^work of America.
Beattie said.
comments from CarSal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles, idinal John J. O'Connor of New York, 1 Ervin Duggan of the Federal Commuations
Commission.
Speakers appearing live included Vic-
Cline, a
from the Biversity of Utah who has treated 300 sex ^fenders, and Terry Rakolta, president of clinical psychologist
Pelicans for Responsible Television.
cited a
need
"All the information in the world will
be of little value
included taped
if you don't get involved," "Our success is dependent
upon informed, vocal and Cardinal
Mahony
active citizens."
said
pom is not vic-
"While
we
ourselves might avoid di-
involvement in pornographic materi-
none of us can escape influence," he said.
als,
on
history, liturgy
"It (the
Church
program)
in focus," said
is
about putting the
graduate Elizabeth
See Lay, Page 13
Queen Of
Heaven...
unwanted pregnancies and "hun-
"All of us are forced to pay for this
tion of tivities.
that the production
and distribu-
pornography are not victimless ac-
We
are
all
victims."
Cline cited evidence that watching pom
abusers.
Many
who view
it undergo a what at first is 'stomach-churning" becomes acceptable, he said. Then comes "acting out" which
people
escalates until
pom
viewers eventually try
to practice the degradation they've seen.
Duggan, an FCC commissioner, urged viewers not to look to government regula-
timless.
rect
includes sessions
ministry, Scripture, Christology, church
"desensitization" so that
hops' Catholic Telecommunications
It
in the
for action.
Do About It!" was carried by the U.S.
Winston-Salem.
can become addictive and make people sex
cable
culture
as well as
emphasize
town, is now downstairs in the living room,'
ually explicit
—
a result of technological
"Pornography, which used to be down-
said, citing
in
Citizen Action
advances.
he
met
program
abuse of human dignity," he said. "We must
anization called on viewers to fight
independent
for the diocese.
siveness of pom
ends them in the media, including every-
An
group, which followed the diocesan format
Bishop Donoghue thanked Mercy SisMary Timothy Warren for her genius
he
During a national teleconference broad-
traveled as
program.
dreds of thousands of abortions each year."
from Washington, the New York-based
Some
two hours to attend five-hour meetings once a month in Hickory, Maggie as
permanent diaconate and the spiritual direc-
Media, which was founded by Jesuit Father Morton Hill 30 years ago, said the perva-
t
said.
Mary Timothy commended parfor the sacrifices they made to be
Sister
more
and become more involved
Beattie, president of Morality in
is
diocesan goals of parish renewal
Developed as the result of the 1986-87
Morality
war of the 1990s."
called
Diocesan Synod, the program was designed
Media urged citizens May 9 to become i-pom activists and be "fellow warriors culture
is
Mary Timothy.
Christian morality.
ter
$10.
belief that
or meeting the social needs of the church
a.m. and conclude at 3:30 p.m. Registration is
in
will
and sacraments, Vatican II documents, prayer, social ministry and
it
held in the afternoon.
Lutherans and Catholics to be a part of the
fits
you
we know you
gelization, spiritual or charismatic renewal,
effectively all
"We welcome
and evangelization, she
The curriculum
Christ as a result of their training, he said.
extended to
said,
make possible in our Church." The program reinforces the
much
graduates are "messengers of the
Or-
by the
In her remarks to the graduates, Sister
ordained ministry," said Bishop Donoghue.
implement various dimensions of Covenant at the local level. Two worship services will be a part of the schedule. Morning prayer will begin the day and the primary worship service will be is
New
forth to ministry, said Sister
the
invitation
in
in his address to the graduates.
further
An
relocating this
everyone by virtue of their baptism
they are better prepared as messengers for
Rev. Dr. James Crumley, retired Presid-
Bishop of the Lutheran Church in nerica. Now living in Columbia, S.C., shop Crumley has been a leader in
of his presentation.
is
Extension Society, the primary contributor.
said.
GREENSBORO — Lutherans
center
and women," saidBishopJohnF. Donoghue,
good news of Jesus Christ," said the bishop. They are sent into their communities, parishes, work places and homes to profess the good news in their words and actions, he
Covenant Signing Anniversary
The
Loyola University
the revitalizing effort
The
Lutherans To Observe
City. to
leans because of funding cutbacks
at-
provide encouragement."
Catholics,
Kansas
"The program has helped you to see more clearly the beauty of our faith and its importance
Institute
for Pastoral Life, an educational center in
Mary Timothy
in Charlotte present Spirit
over a 2 1/2-year period from the
tended the graduation ceremony.
utter
Church
in
Lay
Ministry Training Program. About 70
oncert at St. Barnabas
of the Office of Lay Ministry, received
month
112 people from 48 parishes
all,
20 counties were enrolled
mbers of the Peipetual Hope Gospel Choir from Our Lady of Consolation
Sister
more about the Catholic faith. They left with
their destructive
tion to curb offensive media.
'Too
often efforts to suppress only
create notoriety,"
he
said.
He said the FCC is determined to do its
Shannon Thomann, an eighth grade student at
Ann School in Charlotte, places a crown of
part but added, "In the end, this issue of
St.
ally transmitted diseases' ' and ' Violent sexual
decency and humanity
flowers on a statue of the Blessed Mother
crimes committed against women," he said,
ethics
Effects include "an epidemic of sexu-
and morality."
lies in the
realm of
during the school's
May
crowning Mass.
Photo by
JOANN KEANE
2
The Catholic
News
&
Herald
Archbishop Says Innocent As Well ATLANTA (CNS) — Archbishop James P. Lyke of Atlanta, commenting on the Rodney King case, said the tragedy of social injustice is that it "claims the innocent as well as the guilty."
"In a climate of injustice it is always
and to violent means to attain our
Injustice Hits
As
aware of
resort to
is
the tragedy of social injus-
their responsibility before the
sworn to protect. And of growing injustice, these dedicated civil servants must suffer the obstacles of doubt and distrust on citizens they are
yet, in a climate
many citizens," he said. Archbishop Lyke said the easiest
the part of so
easier to strike out, to terrorize
ends. This
Guilty
response to the Rodney King affair would be to "decry the violence against persons and property" that followed the acquittal of the four officers involved in the beating.
"There lence
man
—
no
is
justification for vio-
for the willful
harming of hu-
beings, or the looting and destruc-
tion of private property," he said.
who participated in peaceful
People
marches and
protests,
he
said, "acted
responsibly both in a legal and a moral sense."
Archbishop Lyke said that while the incident on a justice system that responds to wealth and influence and others blame it on "an abid-
some blame
Father Ceil Tice, diuocesan director of vocations, answers questions about
relij»
vocations during a small group discussion during a meeting attended by youth groups various parishes at St. Barnabas in Arden.
Photo by
I
MATT DOY
ing racism in our country" that occasionally erupts, the
ARCHBISHOP JAMES
P.
LYKE
—
is
it confuses our moral sense, it clouds the lines between right and wrong," said the nation's only active
tice
black archbishop in a
May 5 letter to the
people of his archdiocese.
He said it was not surprising that when Rodney King "experienced law enforcement at its worst" so many black men and women "identified with his victim status and
let their
anger be righ-
Saying that the violent response tive behavior," it
"tragic that
Archbishop Lyke called
some
will continue to
judge an entire race because of the actions of extremists." Similarly, he said, it is tragic that because of the actions of a few police officers
who "lost control," the integrity
bigger
is
At the heart of the problem, he said, "our lack of concern for complete
human
dignity."
an injustice that manifests itself at all levels and to peoples of all color," he said.
justice, certainly, but
Among color
line's,
social injustices that cross
he
cited:
— Exorbitant home and — Unemployment aggravated by
car
health,
insurance costs.
the exporting of jobs to cheaper labor
markets abroad. Substance abuse "tearing at the fabric of family life." Elderly people "pushed to the
By MATT DOYLE ARDEN — "If you're looking for a boring,
come
— — margins of decent — Husband and wife "both work-
hard to make
now?
a
life."
ing hard and
still
finding
it
humdrum
lifestyle,
don't be-
a religious. It's exciting."
That was the advice offered by Lisa Atkins, who is just beginning her life as a novice for the Sisters of Mercy in Belmont. The 23-year-old was a panel member who spoke with youth groups from Western North Carolina as they explored the option of religious vocations.
The meeting was at St. Barnabas and hosted by the parish youth group. The purpose was to answer or begin to answer the following question: What are you going to be doing 10 years from
His yearning for satisfaction lec born and bred Southern Baptist to Catholic Church and eventually to priesthood. He urged teenagers to
open
what God
to
is
saying to you
Father Tice said he was impre
with the turnout in Arden, althoug could not be sure of what the long •tr
would be. No one in the group was in a position to make a c, sion about vocations. However, "a effects
l(
may be
planted," he said. i Capuchin Franciscan Brother seph Jacobini told the group he | successful business and all that m< i\ could buy to seek his vocation. Mercy Sister Marian Arroyo c from Guam to become part of the
pa
Atkins told the teenagers she could be anything she wanted from a doctor to a musician as a Sister of Mercy. She
it."
of all law enforcement officers is brought See Lyke, Page
into question.
"Most police personnel
Teens Urged To Examine Lives For Calling To Religious Life
"The anger that welled up out of the black community was a reaction to in-
teously aroused." often resulted in "irrational and destruc-
problem
than that.
1
are deeply
urged them to examine their lives and
gious order that "raised" her on
P i
island.
She said she always knew
wanted
to part of the order. mi
see
Key
Vatican Says Families Are
(CNS)
porting and healing families
— Supis
a key
ingredient in drug abuse prevention and
have not known love; they do
know how
to love in the right
way
because they have never been loved in the right way," said a document released
May
8
by the council.
m
reintegrate themselves into society, the
document
tual journey to the
are trying to
said.
with a June 1991 council meeting of experts in the field, said the desire of the
Church directly
Cardinal Lopez Trujillo, the former
Abbey
Ne
Janey Juckem of Weaverville. Sc
who
phenomenon of drugs in an effective way, it must make the family its pastoral priority," the 32-page document said. The document, which originated
sick'; they
Benedictine Father Kieran
to religious
ences that led to their vocations. Some journeyed from faraway places while others stayed home to experience a spiri-
family accept those
Trujillo, president of the Pontifical
not
them
calling
of Belmont
"If the church wants to confront the
Council for the Family. "Basically, drug addicts are iove
is
She invited the girls to visit the motherhouse in Belmont. The youth groups heard from priests and religious who detailed their experi-
Lopez
treatment, said Cardinal Alfonso
God
life.
To Preventing Drug Abuse VATICAN CITY
if
addicts
Roman Catholic faith
tions for the Diocese of Charlotte, spoke
of his search.
He said he had tried many
jobs, but found there
something else
was
still
a need for
teaches students to strive for big mc she said. Her peers believe in the ne
be someone important.
The forum served to break Hank Gonner,
stereotypes, said
In
helped organize the event.
groups, the teenagers questionec lifestyles
The
in his life.
of priests and religious with old stereot
girls dealt
their lifestyle, Sister
just
Marian
i
expl:
how sisters today can use makeup
in
to
didn't
of nuns. In response to questions
— and not Church workers involved work with drug — minister victims is
it
what they did as long as they chc profession in which they could be hs The remark inspired 15-yea
and a vocation. Father Cecil Tice, director of voca-
said
The document did not blame
to "the
the
fully
I
and wear regular clothes
archbishop of Medellin, Colombia, re-
of a great plague, of which resorting to
families of drug addicts and said the
leased the Italian-language document,
drugs
only a sign and symptom." spoke of drug addicts as people
family's effective failure often occurs despite the will and intention of parents.
caught in "an unending adolescence," fearing the future, wanting immediate
share part of the responsibility for the
vocations."
negative values that pervade modern societies and for the lack of support
Mercy Sister Anita Sheerin Eugene Church in Asheville saic ents often downplay religious v
From Desperation to Hope, at a Vatican press conference.
Because love, self-esteem, maturity and responsibility values that drug addicts lack
family,
—
—
are first learned within a
Church programs
abuse prevention must family, the
document
for substance
start
with the
said.
is
It
satisfaction of all desires
and refusing to
accept responsibility.
Drug addiction "does not person's a seed
life
enter a
out of the blue, but
which takes root
in
is like
ground
that
Because drug addiction devastates all those close to an addict, the family deserves the Church's attention and
was being prepared for a long time," the document said. "The absolute or relative lack of
ministry during the treatment of an ad-
one of the most common characteristics of a drug-dependent person, it said, "because the family is the key element in the formation of a person s character and attitude toward society."
dict.
And because recovering addicts need welcoming attitude, love and support, the Church must help the parish and a
family life"
is
'
The mass media and government
given to families.
The Church is taken to task in the document for "the silences, shortcomings and inadequacies" of to the
drug addiction
its
responses
crisis.
The document calls for an explicitly Christian approach to the problem of
God's love them and of Christ's offer of liberation from "dependency-slavery" to drugs addiction, telling addicts of for
and
sin.
Hi
They knew
little
about the
sati
tion vocations offer, said Go. "People did not realize they couM
and satisfying
full
lives in
reli,
i
People complain about the shoi priests
want
and
religious, but say the;
their children to enter the
lif
said.
Parents often want their child
I
M y^
follow other careers, said Sister tin But where will vocations come fi!| they are not supported? she ask Matt Doyle is a parishioner
Eugene
in Asheville.
The Catholic News
ay 15, 1992
)atholic-Jewish Cooperation
Browing
Pro-Life Corner
Charlotte Area
In
Let
MARION CARDOZA CHARLOTTE — With the closing By
The hand
Dilworth area of larlotte last December, Rabbi Scott bite was without a site near the upwn area for his twice monthly Nosh
Temple
Israel in the
work week so people could
e
—
still
we offer our heart. Standing on the side of
hour lectures. Rabbi White, who came to Charge about a year ago as spiritual leader the city's conservative synagogue, d what seemed natural to him. He tend his lunch
ntacted St. Peter Catholic
Church
reflects the lines of life
and its uniqueness ... each hand shows potential for talent, each hand is personal, each hand is made by God. The hand reaches out in need in offering someone our hand,
Drosh, "lunch and lecture" series. He needed a central location during
f
My Hand Into Your Heart
life
means accepting
— — — —
in
middle of uptown Charlotte to find if space at the parish could be made ailable to him. Jesuit Father Gene McCreesh, pasrof the parish, said he had no problem th the idea. "This is Charlotte," he id. "Ecumenism is part of our daily es, reaching out to all people in a
is
;
r
working together for and in a special way to elder brothers and sisters (the Jew-
1
people) as a means of revalidating
ilcoming
spirit,
good of all
...
Jewish roots." Father McCreesh said he would pport a Catholic/Jewish dialogue in larlotte. "We used to have it," he said, et's get something going again." In some ways, it's already started. Father Joe Mulligan, pastor of St. r
ike
Church
Mint Hill and chairman Area Clergy Associa-
in
the Charlotte
was
invited to the groundbreaking synagogue in the Jewish Commity Center on Providence Road, ther Mulligan said he was honored at ing asked to recite a blessing for the n,
r
the
casion.
Although they haven't had a chance build a relationship, Father Mulligan /s he hopes they can work together ough the clergy association. Rabbi White's comfort with the tholic community stems from his fourar participation in a
Catholic/Jewish
Rhode Island before coming Charlotte. He was part of a group of tests and rabbis who met once a month discuss any number of topics. Among the members was Father llogue in
Iward H. Flannery, former executive
a child the handicapped
the elderly,
recognizing the humanity of those often ...
The Respect
secretary of the National Conference of
Catholic Bishops' Secretariat for Catholic/Jewish Relations in Washington.
Father Flannery
is
best
known
We
for his
book, The Anguish of the Jews, which was published in 1965. A revised edition was published in 1985. Father Flannery, who is in residence at St. Michael Church in Esmond, R.I., said he is still busy with the work he has done for the past 35 years. The 79-year-old priest heads a Catholic/Jewish dialogue for the Diocese of Providence, R.I. Through dialogue, Catho-
thank
God for
the unique infant
hand of Claire Calabro, and for
Elizabeth Sabates, a 1992 graduate of Charlotte Catholic High School, for sharing her mind, heart and hand to conceptualize our logo.
Says Church Needs More Enthusiasm Religious Education Leader SAN ANTONIO (CNS)— Tocom-
"Other denominations are enthusiabout religious education," Parent added. "If we are not there, our people will go to them. We must be enthusias-
can "show the Jewish people that we are not the enemy, that we have not rejected the Old Testament Scriptures," he said.
bat the drop-off in the
"enthusiastic about religious education,"
tic."
While in Rhode Island, Rabbi White became close friends with Father Edward St. Godard, pastor of Holy Family Church in Woonsocket R.I. "We just hit it off," said Father St. Godard. Rabbi White sang the responsorial psalm in Hebrew at Father St. Godard 's installation at the Woonsocket parish. And Father St. Godard participated in his first Passover Seder at Rabbi White's home. To foster mutual respect and understanding, Rabbi White said he will par-
according to the top staff member of a catechists' group. Neil Parent, executive director of
More than 350 people attended the San Antonio convention, which had as its theme, "A Mosaic of Hope Claiming and Cultivating Our Catechetical
lics
,
ticipate in area interfaith events.
Marion Cardoza
is
Our Lady ofLourdes
a parishioner of Monroe.
in
number of profes-
sionally trained religious educators in parishes, the Catholic
the
Church must be
newly renamed National Confer-
Sunday Mass
astic
—
ence of Catechetical Leadership, made the comment in an interview during the group's annual convention April 26-30
Heritage."
in San Antonio. The organization, formerly called the National Conference of Diocesan Directors of Religious Education, approved the name change at the
vest in people for the future of the
department at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, said the Church should look with hope to its "extraordinary" multicultural diversity. "It is a hope that I can sit at the table or, even better, construct a new table," she said. "Not only me as a black woman,
church," Parent said in the interview
but others
with Today' s Catholic, San Antonio
panics, Native Americans, blacks and
convention. "Parishes and dioceses need to in-
He noted
that
professionally trained educators
retire or resign,
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at
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is
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The sacram them of the grace to remain faithful to ej other in permanent unity. The sacrament of matrimony is likewise the bs
teachers of their children in the faith.
Editorial Lay Ministry
Continuing our catechesis on the Church as a priestly people, we now turn to the sacrament of matrimony. Jesus worked his first miracle at the wedding feast of Cana, thus pointing to the importance of marriage in God's plan of salvation in the Church. In the New Testament the marriage covenant is raised to I kJl m the dignity of a sacrament. .IT When Christian spouses express their mutual consent to marry, they are themselves the ministers of the sacrament of matrimony and thus exercise in a distinctive way the common priesthood of the faithful. Through marriage, spouses "share in and symbolize the unity and the fertile love between Christ and his Church" {Lumen Gentium, 1 1). They are also "fortified and in a sense consecrated for the duties and dignities of their state" {Gaudium etSpes, 48). Through the grace of the sacrament, they help each other to grow in holiness in married life. Because marriage and married love are by their nature oriented to the procreation and education of children (cf. ibid., 48), this sacrament provides spouses <
One of the major recommendations of the 986-87 1
Diocesan Synod was the establishment of an Office of Lay Ministry and development of a training program designed to bring lay people more fully into active participation in the various ministries of the Church. Since the Synod ended five years ago next week, the diocese has been hard at work implementing that
and other goals.
Mary Timothy Warren was named to head what became the Office of Lay Ministry Mercy
Sister
—
and
originally a branch of the Office of Parish Life
— and immediately began work on
Worship
a training
program.
With
the assistance of the Institute for Pastoral
Life, she set
up a two-year training program for those
—
interested in lay ministry. Training sessions
hours once a month
— were held
in
five
various areas of the
some people, each session meant an two hours of travel. But, more than 100 people from 48 parishes enrolled in the program. Their long hours came to an end earlier this month when 70 of them gathered at St. Charles Borromeo in Morganton for graduation. For some the graduation is another beginning. They'll be going on to the training program for the permanent diaconate or for spiritual directors. Others will become more deeply involved in
.
diocese. For
VATICAN CITY (CNS)
additional
history of the
Timothy a vote of thanks for making the program a reality.
Sister into
And
to
work she put
the
"The Church
he
New World, prin-
Gospel"
cipally the proclamation of the lations,
to
new popu-
said.
to a delegation
want
remind our readers
to
Church. I am pleased to greet a group of Knights and La of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher from United States. I pray that your pilgrimage to the H Land will deepen your love for Christ and your soliq ity with the Christians living in the place of his bi
My greeting also goes to the public officials fr Africa and Asia taking part in the Ninth Developm
in the
message has taken root
in the
Rome
Administrative Program being held in
your efforts to promote integral development in y countries be ever inspired by respect for all andi effective cooperation on behalf of the common go Upon all the English-speaking pilgrims and vi tors, and particularly the groups from the Philippir Korea, Indonesia, Canada and the United State cordially invoke the grace and peace of the Risen L(
of
faith, holiness
and generous service
.i
to others,'
said.
The pope
also praised the
"many
generation:
who, as dedicated lay people o priests and religious, have contributed to the growti the Church and the accomplishment of her missioi your own country." Columbus was an Italian who sailed for Spaii
from
Columbus Voyage Trip to Italy. The trip was sponsored by the Columbus 500th Anniversary Committee of Philadelphia. "From the seed planted by the first missionaries, Philadelphia participating
Americas,
has grown and has brought forth an abundant harvest
We
band and wife, and through the cooperation of all tr members, are called "to reveal to all people the act presence of the Savior in the world" (Gaudium et Sp 48). Not just individuals, but families too are callei be witnesses to the love and unity which mark
Italian- Americans
II.
recalls with gratitude the spiritual
significance of the discovery of the
the Christian
Communications Campaign
chapter in the
of the Christian family. Christian families, through love, generous fruitfulness, unity and fidelity of h
human family and led to the birth of new
The pope spoke May 7
of them, our hearty congratulations.
all
new
peoples and cultures," said Pope John Paul
the ministries of their parishes.
To
— The explorations of
Christopher Columbus "opened a
also ensures
Celebrations of the 500th anniversary should vide "a deeper appreciation of the faith and
]
spiri
vision which inspired your forbearers," he added.
the
"May it lead to a renewed commitment to conti work of building a society which fully respects
dignity of every likeness of
human being made
God," he
in the
image
said.
n
that the annual isl
Communications Camweekend in all the churches
collection for the Catholic
paign will be taken up this
We urge you tobe generous. Half of the money will in the
a
strong and internationally recognized legal system for
of the diocese.
remain
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The world needs
diocese to finance local projects.
defining and defending II
human
rights,
Pope John Paul
said.
He
told
members of the World
of the World Peace through
Jurist Association
Law Center May 9 that he
hoped they would "contribute to the establishment of that 'civilization of love' in which each human being is able to enjoy the respect, freedom and peace needed
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The pope
that human beings have certain which no individual, group or state may violate a "significant juridical achievement" and an "essen-
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principle of international law," he said.
"Because, as the Scriptures observe, peace is althe work of justice, efforts to attain lasting peace in the world must be linked to the patient and persistent defense of fundamental human rights."
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sp^
freer.,
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major
threat to
failure of East
he
rights
ended with
totalitarian regimes, wl
people of their inalienable right its progn
to the rights of the state or
said.
But a
them
human
European
tried to deprive
rights is
members
because "it involves the right of each individual to s the truth in accordance with his conscience and to in conformity with that truth in a spirit of respect
sacrifice
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told association
place must be given to the defense of religious
new
work
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in
threat,
the
i|
and other matters touching human rights tend tc determined on the basis of "public opinion or elect} advantage."
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Notebook
GATELY
Compulsory abortion? Impossible, you say? That happens only in places like ina, you say? Don't bet on it. At least a few people already are talking about it in "60 Minutes" last Sunday night. 3 country. It came up briefly on devoted lengthy segment to genetic screening or testing. That's program a The relatively new process by which scientists can determine if a person carries the . gene which can cause some diseases. And the number of diseases for which the responsible gene has been identia fied is growing almost every day. The program brought out the horror stories of people who had been found to carry genes which could '
By Every week
in
One Candle
FATHER JOHN CATOIR
Taize, France, thousands of young people of all faiths pour into
the small village to pray and reflect. Together they search for
purpose as a it
—
ways
to find their
in life.
Given the breakdown of religious fervor in Europe, this whole thing struck me minor miracle, so a few summers ago I decided to fly over and see first hand what
was
all
about.
1
What
I witnessed was amazing. Thousands of teenagand young adults loaded down with knapsacks and bedrolls, flooded this rural area, coming literally from all over the world to pray together several times a day in the huge tents provided for them. The story of how it all began goes back to 1940 when
'
POSSIBLY
lead to a disease in later
life
—
or in the
life
of
most medical records are supposedly confidential. But that apparently doesn't mean much. The program reported the case of one family which lost its health insurance because two of the three children carried a gene which could cause mild mental retardation. And there were reports of cases in ich people were denied jobs because of a gene which the potential employer feared ;ht lead to an increase in health insurance costs somewhere down the line. Where does compulsory abortion come in? a future child. Records of these tests
—
One of
many
the guests, an Illinois physician, noted that
stion are catastrophic
—
like
of the diseases in
and very expensive more expensive than many many cases, he said, the taxpayers wind up picking
trance policies will handle. In
He
probably will become necessary equire genetic testing for everyone to determine the likelihood of serious and ensive future illnesses. And, he conceded, it's not a very big jump from there to lpulsory abortion. He said he wasn't advocating it, but he could see the possible he tab through Medicaid.
d for
said he thinks
it
it.
Not very pleasant to think about, is it? The whole thing is just one aspect of the whole concept of "genetic engineering." le other aspects are
almost as controversial. Doctors,
in
some
cases, already are
remove undesirable genes from a fetus. They say that means the child will be lthy instead of prone to some major disease. All well and good. But they are also working on the possibility of implanting genes in a fetus. The to
as
i,
understand
I
it,
is
to
produce very healthy, very
intelligent children. In a
they would produce a super race.
d,
Funny,
I
always thought the idea of a master race ended
in 1945.
Dimmunion Outside The Mass By FATHER JOHN DIETZEN Q.
my
realize
I
question
is
late for this year,
but
is
ers
there a rule about
a
young theology student named Roger
left his
native
Switzerland to offer shelter to Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis. He settled in this tiny French farming village of Taize and invited others to join him. Today he has a core
group of 90 brothers, Protestant and Catholic, from 20 countries living together in poverty and striving to be a quiet presence of peace and unity in a divided world. Since the 1960s, the brothers have attracted overflow crowds. As a result, they decided to plan intercontinental gatherings in various locales and there have been
many such meetings over the years. At first, attendance was only a few thousand but in
time the crowds grew. The two most recent gatherings were a tremendous success.
1 99 1 about 80,000 youngsters trekked their way to Prague. A year later, 75,000 young pilgrims assembled in Budapest. And this very month, there will be a huge gathering in Dayton, Ohio. The idea for an American pilgrimage was born when the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on the Laity asked the Taize brothers to organize a youth gathering here. The brothers happily accepted the challenge, and the University of Dayton offered to host the meeting from May 21-25, 1992. Participants will come from a variety of Christian traditions from all over North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. I personally know of a group of 1 ,000, who are coming from Toronto, 20 bus loads of them and possibly more. Why are they coming to Dayton? In the words of the founder, Brother Roger of Taize, "To search for the wellspring of faith, to deepen an inner life with Jesus the Christ, and to prepare themselves to work toward a human family that is peaceful, free and reconciled." Keep them in your prayers. (For a free copy of the Christopher News Note, "To Pray As Jesus Did," 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.
In January
,
Encourage The
Of Our Youth
Gifts
Communion during Holy Week? I am old and unable to go to Mass, omeone brings me Communion at home.
jiving
asked about receiving on Holy Thursday, which I have done the past two This year I was told it is not allowed on Holy Thursday or Good Friday, hat right? Why would there would be differences of opinion about this? I
rs.
irida)
why you are receiving conflicting advice. The policy of the and applies basically everywhere. The Church's ritual governing Communion apart from Mass says that while normally Communion may not be distributed outside of the liturgies of Holy Thursday and Good Friday, people who are sick may receive Communion any time on those two days. On Holy Saturday it may be received only as viaticum, that is, if the person is dying (n. 16). The Sacramentary (missal) indicates the same thing. A. I'm not sure
irch is clear
The
introduction for the
rating the death of our
Good
commemoHoly Communion may
Friday liturgy
Lord notes:
be given to the faithful only at the celebration of the Lord's passion, but may be brought at any hour of the day to the sick who cannot take part in this service. In a note explaining the special limitations for
Holy
Saturday, the Sacramentary emphasizes the aspect of rest waiting "at the Lord's tomb" on that day. The Sacramentary continues, "Only after the solemn
vigil
during the night (the
|er Vigil liturgy), held in anticipation of the resurrection,
does the Easter
bration begin, with a spirit of joy that overflows into the following period of 50
Q. I am 76 years old.
Due to circumstances in my life I was never confirmed. having adult confirmation but a friend tells me I have been <nfirmed Christian since I was 18 and don't need confirmation. I feel it is serament I have not received and would appreciate your thoughts. (Colot
my church
is
»>)
By BISHOP JOHN
F.
DONOGHUE
have a lot of traveling ahead of me this month, just as I did last month. But I really do not mind it. My annual confirmation schedule is the perfect excuse for getting out of the office and traveling the highways during this gorgeous spring season in Piedmont and western North Carolina. In past years, I have had the welcome help of retired Bishop Michael J. Begley, whose presence has eased my schedule and in addition, he has brought such wisdom and joy to the confirmation ceremonies. This spring, due to reasons of health, he has asked that our Vicars General, Reverend Msgr. John J. McSweeney and Reverend Msgr. Joseph S. Showfety, be I
assigned to
fulfill his
have assigned them
portion of the confirmation schedule;
I
to assist with this request.
as the confirmation schedule may get, I must say meeting these young people is always a pleasure. I am so impressed with their energy and eagerness to become a more integral part of the Catholic Church and an even more vital tool of evangelization for our Christian faith. I applaud these candidates on their commitment and efforts to prepare for this sacrament. Prior to their confirmation, they spend several weeks in final preparation. In addition to discussing the meaning and purpose of the sacrament, the candidates participated in activities which signified their commitment to serve the Church. As part of that activity, I received letters from each candidate, describing his or her project and what it meant to the candidate in relation to their faith life. The range of activities described in those letters was both heartening and impressive. These young people have visited the elderly, helped out in the parish nursery, given assistance during parish events, and participated in a variety of parishsponsored outreach projects. Many have also committed to serving in several ministries in their parishes, from acting as ushers and readers to serving as Eucharistic ministers. Most importantly, they have done these good works with the support of a parish community which, I hope, will continue to encourage their
As hectic
that
participation.
A
I
'Cate,
confirmation
is
why your
would make such a statement. As you a sacrament which you should receive even now if you can
don't understand
friend
fb without serious inconvenience. is one of what we call the three sacraments of initiation into our can help you spiritually to enjoy and exercise the gifts and fruits of the Holy fj. pft in your relationship to God and other people. Jn our Catholic understanding of this sacrament it is not essential for salvation,
onfirmation
It
''however, a sealing and "confirming" of the
commitment and graces of baptism. See Dietzen, Page 6
There is a lot to be said for a parish that welcomes and nurtures the participation younger members, for the true spirit of community comes alive when every member feels a vital part of the whole. Inviting confirmation candidates to experience the real meaning of ministry is an important opportunity for our parishes to strengthen their ties to their youth. Also, it is a chance for our youth to experience firsthand how we, as members of the One Body, respond to the love of Christ in our day. Faith grows best when it is practiced. of
its
To
all
confirmation candidates,
I
ask that
God
bless
you with many years of
service to your Church. Congratulations!
Most Reverend John
F.
Donoghue
is
the bishop of the
Diocese of Charlotte.
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&
May
Herald
HOW Does Canon Law Affect Us?
15, 19'
Exploration Continues...
The Diocese By SISTER JEANNE Code of Canon Law,
MARGARET MCNALLY
is called a particular Church and is defined by Canon 369: "(A diocese) is so entrusted (to the bishop) that, adhering to its pastor and brought together in the Spirit by him through means of the Gospel and the Eucharist, it constitutes a particular Church in which truly exists and operates the one, holy, Catholic and apostolic Church of Christ." Dioceses are usually determined by their geographical areas. The diocesan bishop is responsible for the diocese he leads and shepherds. Obviously his mission must be shared with the priests and the
In the
a diocese
SJtM
laity.
One
of the structures which provides the bishop with
assistance in the governance of a diocese
curia (chancery).
The code defines
is
the diocesan
the curia as that
body
of institutions and persons which furnish assistance to the
bishop in the governance of the entire diocese. The bishop appoints the officers of the diocesan curia.
The law requires that the bishop appoint a vicar general him in the governance of the entire diocese. Basically, the vicar becomes the alter ego of the bishop. A moderator may be appointed to oversee the workings of the curia. Each diocesan curia must have a chancellor whose duty is to maintain the acts of the curia. The chancellor is really an archivist, but, in the U.S. the role of chancellor has become known as that of the moderator which gives the chancellor certain delegated powers of governance. This has raised a most interesting question as several dioceses have woman chancellors and they function according to the practice in the U.S. The issue then becomes what powers of governance do they have? The code also requires that a business manager be appointed to administer the goods of the diocese under the authority of the bishop. The business manager obtains income, pays expenses and manages investments. The law also created a financial council for each diocese. The financial council must be consulted in all matters of to assist
buying or selling land, preparing and overseeing the budget, etc. The law spells out sidedness in which the finance council "must be consulted" before the bishop may act. In certain cases the bishop is required to have the "consent" of this council to act validly. As an aside, this may be the only time a bishop has to obey a woman, if she were the chair of the finance council! The 1983 code stipulates that each diocese must have a presbyteral council, a body of priests who serve as a kind of senate to the bishop. They are to aid the bishop for the pastoral benefit of the faithful. Canon 502 requires the bishop to select from the presbyteral council six to twelve priests to be a college of consultors. They are responsible for specific functions stipulated in the law. Canon 511 explains, "In each diocese, in so far as pastoral circumstances suggest, a pastoral council is to be established." Its function, under the authority of the bishop, is to study and weigh those matters which concern the pastoral works of the diocese and to propose practical solutions concerning them. In the whole area of diocesan administration, it has been said that the canons may appear quite rigid, but in practice they are very flexible. Next week, we will speak of what is most likely, a more meaningful organization to each of us. the parish. Mercy Sister Jeanne Margaret McNally a licentiate in canon law, is a judge of the Tribunal of the Diocese of Charlotte. taxing, of important administration such as
,
Replicas of Christopher Columbus' ships
(1-r) the Pinta, the Nina and the Santa Maria, s on a launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center bef< takeoff on its latest mission. The Spanish ships were on their way to St. Augustine, as part of their American tour. (CNS photo from Reuters)
by the space
shuttle
Endeavor as
CRS Airlift
it sits
Of Baby FormulaTo Russian
Far East Arrives BALTIMORE,
MD -
The
first
De-
partment of Defense aircraft carrying baby formula for Catholic Relief Services'
(CRS) emergency
relief
program
Russian Far East arrived in Khabarovsk yesterday, at 11:50 A.M. local time. The aircraft left from Travis Air Force Base on Sunday, April 26, and made one stop to refuel in Japan before continuing to Khabarovsk. The aircraft was carrying 36,000 pounds of baby formula, all of which arrived safely. A second air shipment left April 27 and was scheduled to arrive today. CRS personnel were on hand to receive the shipment along with officials from the Krai (state) and the city. in the
Before their departure, CRS staff arranged a two-hour tour of Khabarovsk
The airmen were given a warm welcome by the
for the U.S. Air Force crew.
25 containers of commodities sent by sea in march, including badly needed non-fat dry milk, also began arriving at the port of Vostochnyi last week. Port operations went smoothly, and by April 28, the first shipments were arriving in Vladivostok first
for distribution.
These shipments are part of CRS' $4 million emergency food program for
Crosswinds
Crosswinds written by staff
is
a series of columns
members of Catholic
I
Far Eastern Russia, provided through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. CRS with distribute 30,000 tons of commodities to 500,000 people over the
when
this
week
note from the mother of a
In order to protect client confidential-
whom
the staff members are not identified.
Do we make often, after
we
a difference?
someup?
get ourselves into
thing, does that thought crop It
has
How
come up
for
me
as
volunteer receptionist post
I sit
at
at
CSS and
my hands are busy knitting small hats or booties. I've knitted countless
numbers
of these items over the years for infants in a local hospital's neonatal unit. I've
been told that when the infant goes home, the oufit goes with him or her as a little remembrance of when the baby was so tiny and in need of special warmth.
I
I
hospital.
major towns including Vladivost( Khabarovsk, Birobidzhan, Nakhofl and outlying areas. Smaller deliver are planned for Magadan and Sakha
CRS
Island.
will target institutions
well as individuals
who
are
most v
nerable in the region.
CRS
the international relief
is
baby
I
Catholic Conference.
Incorporatec
CRS
today has relief and dev opment programs in 75 countr throughout the world, with an ann 1943,
budget of more than $240 million
Thea" Scheduled For Broadcast
"Sr.
had shared
my name
with her.
The note
would
like to
have
the directions for the booties and
little
said, "I
cap that you made for our daughter, if you don't mind. I would love to help make them. I enclose an evelope with my name and address and I also stamped
Thank you so much." The note was
signed, "In loving memory of our daugh-
and gave her date of birth and some days later, the date of her death! ter"
ST.
Please call your
NBC
LUCIA
FILIPPINI
In fact, what we now know as the sacrament of confirmation was apparently once part of the baptismal rite itself. It's not something you should panic about. But ask your parish priest when you have a chance what opportunities there will be in your parish to receive this
sacrament. (A free brochure answering questions Catholics ask about receiving the holy Eucharist is available by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address.) Copyright Š1992 by Catholic News Service
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her exhilarating philosophy of fully
even
in the face of adversity.
FILIPPINI WAS BORN OF ROMAN N06ILITY IN 1672 ANP WAS BAPTIZED ON THE DAY
LUCIA
OF HER BIRTH. SHE RECEIVED HER FIRST HOLY COMMUNION AT A YOUNG AGE AND AT AGE 12 SHE WAS MADE A CATECHIST FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE PARISH. EVENTUAI
SHE BECAME THE FOUNDRESS OF TH RELIGIOUS TEACHERS FILIPPINI, WHO ARE DEVOTED TO EDUCATING YOUTH. - ESPECIALLY THE POOR. POPE CLEMENT XI CALLED HER TO ROME TO OPEN SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS. SINCE THAT TIME,
INSTITUTE. LUCIA'S BODY LIES INCORRUPT UNDER THE ALTAR DEDICATED TO HER IN THE CATHEDRAL OF MONTEFIASCONE IN ROME WHERE SHE DIED IN 1732 ON THE DAY SHE HAD PREDICTED. SHE WAS
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AND
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that the hosptial
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Herald
"Passed Away" (Hollywood) Ensemble comedy concerns the reunion of a bickering Irish-American family (Pamela Reed, Bob Hoskins, William Petersen and Frances McDormand) upon the sudden death of their father (Jack
Warden). Writer-director Charlie Peters turns in a fitfully funny
NEW YORK (CNS) — The following are capsule reviews of movies recently reviewed by the U.S. Catholic
Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting.
work together to clear a downtown sidewalk of debris as Los Angeles ns to recover from one of the worst U.S. race riots of this century. The violence left than 50 dead and more than 2,300 injured with damage estimated at $717 million. lbers of a family
;
(Christine Lahti) hitchhike to Alaska in
photo from Reuters)
S
"Leaving Normal" (Fine Line) A runaway battered wife (Meg Tilly) and a hard-bitten cocktail waitress hopes of
finally putting
Angeles Catholic Students eery Violence, Help Clean Up — Catho-
1
,
but some students merely moved
classroom outside, pushing brooms of pencils in an effort to clear is left from the previous day's riot-
:ad
Forty students and youth group
from St. Agnes Parish shovswept and bagged pieces of wreckfrom torched structures in Los Anravaged South Central area, n front of them stood a young girl ing a sign in English and Spanish
lbers
'
laiming to passing motorists, "Man:
Your Help to Cleaner Community." 'I think the main thing is to get the
vgnes Needs
lents')
energies involved into turn-
around from looting and oying to fixing up and rebuilding Dmmunity,"Holy Cross Sister Karla his thing
The Tidings, Los Ange-
is
Older
sister
Renee,
19, a
adults. The is A-III Motion Picture Association of
America rating
ing story line. Recurring violence, a
way
tructive
rwise
to
spend a day" that
would have been spent
"sit-
watching the TV or something." This is voluntary work,"said St. 2S School eighth grader Henry salez. "I saw these people needed so I just came and helped." Lean3n his shovel and surveying the
Gonzalez added quietly,
uction,
sad, the (rioters) are just destroying
"Brain Donors" (Paramount)
neighborhood." She added, "It wasn't a question of the justice system, the violence didn't prove anything, we didn't get anything
create a ballet
and now the community has
nothing."
Robyn Rouzan recalled receiving a phone call April 30 from a friend: "She said everybody was looting, she saw it on TV and nobody was getting caught. She wanted me to go get something with her because everyone else was doing it." Rouzan refused. "I didn't go with her because I feel it's wrong," she said. "It's not right to go out and get stuff for free like that. It's stealing."
nearby talking excit-
edly about going to steal "some things for their hair."
She said her reaction was one of "A lot of these teen-agers need a lot more support from their parents, families and friends," she said, "so that they don't resort to crime."
Despite the tragic dimension of the
Hernandez said, "I think the best thing is to have hope that everything will be OK. If we can work together as
riot,
I
think
we can make
sor.
of loonies (John Turturro,
company
Bob
for her to spon-
Director Dennis Dugan's
manner of comic cliMarx Brothers comedies be-
ches from
it lurches out of control and runs out of genuine laughs. Mild sexual innu-
fore
endo.
The
U.S. Catholic Conference
—
adults and is A-II The Motion Picture Asof America rating is PG
classification
adolescents. sociation
—
parental guidance suggested.
"Edward H"
lis
|
;s
13-year-old
sister,
Sarah, a St.
was imout and help clean up the
seventh grader, said
nt to get
(Fine Line)
medieval story jarringly joined to scenes of modern-day gay bashing. Much sexual activity with nudity and bloody violence including scenes of torture and cannibalism. The U.S. Catholic Conference morally offenclassification is O sive. The Motion Picture Association restricted. of America rating is R
images
—
—
it."
School Has Record Blood Drive.
it
|it
is all
we have
was gone," she
nudity,
of
The Motion
Picture Association
America rating
is
R — restricted.
"Shadows and Fog"
(Orion)
Drafted by vigilantes to hunt for a stran-
on the loose in a 1920s European town, a mousey clerk (Woody Allen) wanders the streets one foggy night afraid of his own shadow until he befriends a jilted circus performer (Mia Farrow) whose spunk inspires him. Using atmospheric black-and-white phogler
tography reminiscent of German silent movies, writer-director Allen creates a spooky story of chance meetings that hits as often as it misses during its forays into wry humor and philosophical
—
parents are strongly cautioned that some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
"American Dream"
it.
ev-
left,
said. "If
They
will all
,
Rodney King beating Junior Beth Geisler stands by as senior
«vhich led to the rioting.
You might not say they were guilty the charges, but they
(Prestige)
documentary chronicles the bitter and divisive 1985-86 strike by Austin, Minn., meatpackers against wage and benefit concessions demanded by Hormel management. Writer-director Barbara Kopple vigorously explores the human cost of corporate profits as workers, families and the entire community experience the financial and emotional Gritty
rubbed off on her brother, 10, "who wanted to go with [hen they heard what I was going to 0 I took them with me." fhe added she was "upset" with the
1
much
—
sive.
rating is PG-13
Souzan's desire to do something
cts in the
violence,
and frequent rough language. The U.S. Catholic Conference morally offenclassification is O grisly killings
—
jive
1
Tripplehorn). As directed by Paul Verhoeven, this cat-and-mouse thriller is an empty exercise in audience shock value, stressing graphic scenes of rough
helped some of her
one else will do
1
police psychiatrist girlfriend (Jeanne
adults. The Motion Picture of America
around."
d ister,
"Basic Instinct" (Tri-Star) Violent and sordid potboiler has a troubled homicide detective (Michael Douglas) willingly ensnared in an affair with a bisexual murder suspect (Sharon Stone) who throws suspicion on his
musings. Some stylized violence and sexual innuendo. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-III
jperson doesn't start cleaning up, jno
restricted.
in a
up a looted but unburned
ing else
—
sex and bloody carnage. Exploitative
'
market. That store
R
mix of sex and
'
,
ds clean
is
Marlowe s 1 6th-century play about King Edward II (Steven Waddington), his male lover (Andrew Tiernan) and his wife, Queen Isabella (Tilda Swinton), who concocts a murderous revenge. British director Derek Jarman wallows
even if she did not help create it. There are people who think kids ausing all the problems in L.A. and ve're the bad ones," she said. "And 2 gonna prove them wrong." tobyn Rouzan, 18, a senior at St. Academy in Ingle wood, Calif., a itricken suburb,
rating
Bizarre adaptation of Christopher
own neighborhood."
I
—
wacky
farce repeats all
in sexually violent
sadness.
one,
trio
momen-
and frequent rough language. The U.S. Catholic Conference classiadults. The Mofication is A-III tion Picture Association of America tary nudity
Nelson and Mel Smith) persuades a rich widow (Nancy Marchand) to let them
age
have a "feeling of pride" for
restricted.
A
She added she hoped her students
they did and called the cleanup "a
is
— R—
sexually suggestive scene with
freshman
Gloria Hernandez, 17, a classmate of Rouzan, recalled hearing some teen-
Id
Dafoe) finds
(Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and a FBI agent (Samuel L. Jackson). Roger Donaldson directs a wellacted thriller marred by a dense, confus-
Mount St. Mary's College, agreed. "I part of the black community and all they were doing was destroying our
girls standing
his identity, a persistent
quicksilver
am
it,
by assuming
rough language and some sexual innuThe U.S. Catholic Conference
at
out of
Bros.)
Investigating a man's mysterious death
contrived to be convincing. Recurring
not the answer."
irchdiocesan newspaper.
linnie told
I
violence
"White Sands" (Warner
himself up against a slippery arms dealer (Mickey Rourke), a seductive heiress
endo.
guilty of something," she said, but "this
cautioned that some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
New Mexico cop (Willem
classification
:hools in Los Angeles were closed
roots.
— —
Director
Edward Zwick's combination female buddy and road movie is too
ds
LOS ANGELES (CNS)
down
movie whose
one-dimensional characters are entirely predictable. Frequent sexual innuendo and an instance of rough language. The U.S. Catholic Conference classificaadults. The Motion tion is A-III Picture Association of America ratparents are strongly ing is PG-13
had
to
be
Tim Williamson
Catholic High School's recent blood drive for the American
and teachers donated blood
in this year's drive.
donates blood during Charlotte
Red Cross. A record 86 students
strains of the long dispute. Occasional rough language and shots of meathouse slaughter. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-II adults and adolescents. Not rated by the Motion Picture Association of
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Notes on "using" the Lord By Father David Catholic
K.
News
O'Rourke,
OP 'Looking at the world as
Service
—
make
the Lord into a support for hucomfort, especially when we look at the many challenges to comfort that Jesus places before his followers.
i
He is also a very orderly person in aspects of his life. For him the two order and religion go together. God is a God of order. When his oldest son was just born and began carrying on the way babies do, crying at night and requiring much attention, the father concluded that getting up at night and changing diapers was not part of God's
man
The answer is simple. People use the Lord because he is so useful. Let me describe some uses to which we put him how we fit the Lord to our own image
all
can think of another example of using the Lord, this time as a support
—
I
of him.
for
to
an orderly family.
One of my college classmates is
beat the disobedient into line. We can call upon the Lord's name as a flagbearer at times of national turmoil, to
a most religious man.
—
Looking at the world as it is, an< looking at the entire teaching of Jesui as it is, and recognizing that they don* quite fit our favorite image of Christ d reality can push us to change grow beyondfirst impressions and ear lier expectations. The richness of th< Lord invites as to expand our under standing of reality.
—
plan for him.
loyalty.
Someday
The Lord can be used as a banker, to and the sense that we get only what we work for. The Lord's name can be invoked to shore up a parent's
this
And that can lead us
kid would be old enough
little
inspire thrift
couldn't let you die. He never would be that cruel." "Sooner or later," I told her, "the Lord lets everyone die, and I don't look at it as cruelty." In my own mind I was on the mend because I was lucky enough to have been cared for by some of the best heart surgeons in the country. But there was no way she could look at my recovery as anything other than a direct sign of the Lord's approval of me and my ministry. Her Lord is one of comfort and support. There was nothing I had done to deserve the
if
i
—
level. At that point Larry would enter more fully into his child's life as a dedicated father, teaching his son the way to be and behave. Larry presented these views not just as personal preferences, but as religious duties, his calling in the Lord the proper order of things for him. Any suggestion that perhaps what the Lord expected of him was that he help his wife with all the responsibilities of caring for their newborn child was met with skepticism: "God did not create me to change diapers anymore than he created cows to fly." Larry looked at his male co-workers who helped at home as falling short in
Several years ago when I was recovering from a heart procedure, a friend came to see me. "I just knew you were going to get better," she said. "The Lord
/
That is what personal and spiritu growth are really about seeing moi of the Lord's truth than we once sa^ and adapting our lives and views
more orderly
alty, or thrift, or social control are what we need personally or hope to see in the community around us.
1
world around us, with ourselves.
enough to cope with life on a
As we know, there are many times and situations where obedience, or loy-
to interact
-
more fulfilling ways with God, with t\
and rational
authority.
what it is we
see.
(Father O'Rourke is pastor of &\ Dominic's Parish in Benicia, Cali\
and a free-lance
writer.)
—
their religious responsibilities. Larry's view is another example of how people can use the Lord to buttress ideas that
come from somewhere within their own minds or experiences. Psychologists tell us
loss of his favor. I find this point of view surprising. To me it seems completely arbitrary to
FAITH IN THE
11
'!
impressions and earlier expectations.
Lord?"
command
it
teaching of Jesus as it is, don't quite fit our favorite image of Christ or reality can push us to change to grow beyond first
"You have to stop 'using' the Lord," one homilist told his community. That made them sit up and pay attention. They were startled. You could almost read the questions on their faces as they looked back at him: "What do you mean? Why in the world would anyone want to 'use' the
The Lord can be used as a cudgel
cope with life is by trying to wrap oui minds around life and reality. We loo\ f at the world around us and try to fit into our scheme of things. But there is a difference betweei# trying to understand reality and rel shaping or distorting it. There is difference between discovering thj* world as God made it and trying it remake the world in our image. That is where real moral courag< and real faith come in.
and looking at the entire and recognizing that they
it is,
that one way we humans
MARKETPLACE
When you
"Giving and forgiving best describe
think of
Jesus, what two
aspects of his
my thoughts of Jesus."
— Anita Rooney, Sauk Rapids, Minn.
the Catholic faith, but was faithfully sent to Sunday school in my grandmother's church where the picture of Jesus prominently displayed.... So now, as an adult Catholic, don't see Jesus as the Lamb of God or the Suffering Karen A. Busch, Smithton, III. Servant, but as a good guy who wasn't too busy or too important to take time out for little kids." "I
was
with the
not raised
little
in
children
"I'm quite socially
was
I
concerned, so
I
find his
concern
for
people important."
personality spring
mind?
— Charlie Loschiavo, Scottsdale,
ndi
Ariz.
bi
"Caring and wanting to be
to
—
it."
helpful....
— Barbara Whitman, Corona,
Not that he has
to solve everything.
The important
thing
that he's there walking with
me through
Calif.
"Kindness and forgiveness. Probably because
I
need those two the most!"
— Maurey Pearson, Elmhurst,
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FURTHER NOURISHMENT
Jesus: The Jy
Father
Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS
Catholic
News
Service
a remarkable phenomenon: reading the Gospels, we have the imlession we are in touch with the perInality of Jesus. But when we try to
Here
is
Iscribe his personality, it becomes dure.
I We cannot even summon up pictures what Jesus looked like. I We have images, but they come from paintings, statues, stainedItists not from the Gospels. Itss windows I As far as Jesus' personality goes, fiat comes to mind is from movies, lere a kind of fake divinity devised by mmakers tends to overwhelm Jesus' manity. The four Gospels made little effort to 3sent the personality characteristics Jesus. That should not surprise us. In cient times, people did not focus so jch on individual personalities. That
—
—
.
original is
Religious education and theology professor Brennan Hill, author of Jesus, the
man for all seasons
a modern concern.
It parallels the rise
Christ,
many nations and cultures. But it tells
of individualism and interest in psychol-
us
ogy. Instead, ancient writers
alities.
about their individual person-
little
events and the impact on history's
So also with Jesus. The picture we have of Jesus is of one who had a great impact on people and events, and who would be decisive for
course.
history.
were taken up with events. The ancient writers were interested in the role people played in
Take St. Paul. We know a lot about Paul from his letters, which have a certain personal quality, something true of other letters from that time. But if all we had about him came from the Acts of the Apostles, we would know little about his personality.
However, we would know a lot about his influence on early Christian history.
Or take Moses. His story fills the Old Testament books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. We know a about his role in the formation of ancient Israel. But we know hardly anything at all about Moses the man. The same is true outside the Bible for figures like Ulysses, Hector, lot
Aeneas and Alexander the Great. All of them are presented as bigger than life. That allows them to mirror the experience of a vast range of different representing readers
We know Jesus made a difference in the lives of everyone who met him. For some, like the Samaritan woman he met by the well of Jacob, the difference was positive. For others, like those of the Pharisees who conspired to find a way to destroy him, the difference was negative.
Contemporary Perspectives,
looks at Jesus' life and mission his roles as teacher, prophet, miracle-worker, liberator and savior; his birth and death. ;
The author writes: Jesus "could speak as a Pharisee, as an apocalyptic prophet or as a wandering charismatic storyteller.... Jesus taught people that they counted.... He made them whole physically and spiritually, and thus empowered them to stand up for justice and equality.... Jesus was not a violent subversive, and yet, in the long run, his brand of non-violent resistance could be more subversive than that of the terrorist." (Twenty-Third Publications, 1 85 Willow St., Box 1 80, Mystic, Conn. 06355. 1 991 Paperback, $1 4.95.) .
In either case, the Gospels tell us hardly anything about Jesus as an individual human being with a definite personality of his own. What the Gospels tell us about are the universal qualities like love, openness and compassion for human beings, unflinching commitment to his mission and absolute dedication to God's will. Jesus, of course, had a personality. But the Jesus of the Gospels is bigger
than life. The Jesus the Gospels present is the Christ who saved us from eternal death by offering his life for us. He is the Lord to whom we turn in the risen Lord
—
—
prayer. For the
New Testament as
a whole,
Jesus meant not only the historical figure who grows up in Nazareth and spent much of his adult life inCapernaum, but Jesus Christ who is Lord of all. As presented in the New Testament, Jesus is a universal figure, human and divine His story is relevant for people of every race and culture. This is not a reason for disappointment. The Jesus of the Gospels is one every person can claim. Jesus is the original man for all sea.
sons!
(Father LaVerdiere is a Scripture scholar and senior editor of Emmanuel magazine.)
The unpredictable Jesus By Father John
"Jesus was anything but a simple, one-
dimensional personality.
He
Catholic
softie. J.
Castelot
tions.
News Service
We can only deduce what Jesus' personality
was from the way the evangehim interacting with oth-
lists
portray
ers.
And
to be pigeonholed to suit people's Ideas
of
be,
what he
'should'
what they would
ing in table fellowship with all sorts of people, often as an invited guest. Why?
That diversity suggests Jesus was complex, not at all transparent, predictable. He cannot be described by one or two neat, simple adjectives. Great people rarely are "simple." One of the strongest impressions we have of Jesus from the Gospels is his
Because he was a wet blanket? No. Had he been that, he would not have been
People who would have been terrified to approach anyone else did not hesitate to come to him. Lepers, for instance: They were cut off from all human contact. But they dared to come close to Jesus. Mark tells us of a leper who fell at Jesus' feet. Imagine the shocked crowd recoiling in horror! But,
Mark tells
us,
Jesus actually reached out and touched
Two
things
happen when you read the
contemporary figure's
story of
a well-known, admirable
life.
this untouchable.
Jesus' compassion knew no bounds. amazing confidence and even
It inspired
First, you come to know the person in an all-new way. Previously, your image may have been limited to glimpses from news reports. Now you discover the
courage (Mark 1:40-45).
is more complex than you ever realized. As the person's story unfolds, you may be surprised by the kindness he showed to suffering people or her persistence and patience when life became a struggle. Now you know the person better. Second, in knowing this person better you begin to know yourself better. Why?
Children normally are shy with But children flocked to Jesus. I think he must have had a glorious smile that put others at their ease.
person
Seeing exactly how this person manifested courage provides a lens through which to view your own wellspring of courage. Understanding how this person exercised compassion leads you to believe you too can live by the law of compassion. Taking note of how this person faced struggle stirs up confidence in your own ability to cope with difficult developments. Is it like this with the story of Jesus? Yes, only much moreso. It is possible, first, to know Jesus better. Second, in knowing him better we begin to see ourselves more clearly and to grasp our own true potential. David Gibson. Editor. Faith Alivel
strangers.
It was the officious disciples who tried to shoo the laughing boys and girls
away.
It
invited back.
Kind, compassionate, attractive, winwas also strong and deter-
ning, Jesus
mined. His disciples are portrayed wanting
accessibility.
have him be."
wrongdoing but, in fact, acknowledged it as such: "Your sins are forgiven ... go in peace" (Luke 7:48,50). Repeatedly Jesus is portrayed revel-
their portraits are quite di-
verse.
refused, and refuses,
He stood staunchly by his convicHe did not condone the woman's
was Jesus who reprimanded
these self-important disciplinarians. Sinners, too, even notorious sinners, sensed his warmth and compassion. A woman who was obviously a notorious sinner braved the hostile glares and sneering remarks of the dinner guests to throw herself at Jesus' feet and bathe
them with her tears. Yet Jesus was not an unprincipled
him
to measure up to their expectations of a popular Messiah, a dashing political liberator to crush the occupying Roman forces and raise his people to world-power status. He would have none of that. In fact, he baffled his disappointed followers by insisting on the way of the cross as the only way to real victory. His followers' perplexity did not wear Jesus down. He stuck to his guns and resolutely followed that path himself. Jesus was anything but a simple, one-dimensional personality. He refused, and refuses, to be pigeonholed to suit people's ideas of what he "should" be, what they would have him be. Those who follow him must accept him as he is, with all his perplexing and yet irresistibly attractive complexity.
(Father Castelot scholar, author
and
is
a Scripture
lecturer.)
10 The Catholic
&
News
Herald
People
Archbishop To
Sell
Residence,
In
Move
To Save Money
Into Rectory
SAN FRANCISCO (CNS) — Arch-
The News Former Hostage Anderson Says Catholic Faith Prevented Suicide
NEW YORK
(CNS)
—
Former
May 4 that
bishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco
hostage Terry Anderson said
has announced plans to sell his residence in a personal effort to reduce
only his Catholic faith prevented him
archdiocesan spending.
"It is certainly
our income has at a time when the need to help others has increased," he told the archdiocesan priests' council. "I hope that by doing
no
you
secret to
that
economy
declined with the
can be of some small assistance in Archbishop Quinn funding our work. this, I
'
'
would move
said he
into the St.
Mary
from attempting suicide during the nearly seven years he was kept captive in inhuman conditions. In one of the most complete accounts he has given so far of his captivity, Anderson told 1 ,500 newspaper editors and publishers meeting in
New York
that the hostages feared a
rescue attempt because their captors were trained to throw a live grenade in their
midst if rescuers came. The former chief
Cathedral rectory after his Balboa Street
Middle East correspondent for The As-
was sold.
sociated Press, Anderson was abducted
Two
the second time the archbishop
Lebanon in 1985 while driving his car. He became the last American hostage to be released from the Middle East last December. Anderson said he bore no hatred for his captors. He said he had forgiven them because he was a Catholic and "I am
new home,
residence, a converted convent, It
was
had made such a move diocese
money
to save the arch-
since he
came
to
San
Francisco in 1977.
Father McBrien Lecture Draws
Huge Crowd,
Pickets
INDIANAPOLIS (CNS)
— When
religious educators of the nine-parish
North Indianapolis Deanery first invited Father Richard P. McBrien to give a talk, they expected about 100 to 150 people to come. But protests circulated in the media by a small group of conservative Catholics
1,000 people
crowded into St. Matthew's parish gymnasium to hear him April 29. The Uni-
Dame theologian spoke
about the future of the Church. "I I
guerrillas in
required to forgive."
on
know
will disappoint those looking for her-
esy," he said in his opening remarks.
The protesters, who had branded Father McBrien as a dissenter and heretic in a full-page newspaper ad the week before
He
relied heavily
which he said he had remonths before being kid-
his faith,
newed
six
napped.
Woman
Converts At Age 102, De-
cades After Deciding
WOODSTOCK,
drew so much attention
to the talk that nearly
versity of Notre
by
To Be Catholic Va. (CNS)
—
When
Teresa Orndorff Tyrrell joined the Catholic Church a few weeks after her 102nd birthday, she became the oldest convert in the history of the Arlington Diocese. But it wasn't a move she made lightly or quickly. Bap-
—
Cedar Creek Christian Church, Cedar Creek, Va., in 1902, tized in the
Croatian boys
who
lost their parents in the
sage dated April 30.
A made vice lic
translation of the
message was
available to Catholic
News
Ser-
Union.
plosions that tore through Guadalajara,
Dame men
Needs of Airport Travelers Great, Says Chaplain NEW YORK (CNS)
three local radio
Ex-Notre Dame Basketball Coach Joins Federal Anti-Drug Team
—
'
s basketball
coach, has joined
a bigger team: the federal Office of
National Drug Control Policy. There,
right then to
do
—A
was declared May
!
Of
Laid-off California Diocesan Official Dies
REEDLEY,
Calif.
(CNS)
— The
to
is
chaplain at Chicago's O'Hare
be where people are,
it
must pay more
attention to the millions of travelers
who
continually pass through the nation's airports. Father John A. Jamnicky, who is also president of the National Catholic Conference of Airport Chaplains, said airport ministry
had grown in recent years, but still presents the Church with a vast unmet need and opportunity. Employees, he added, "Fifty thousand people work at O' Hare,
1
from coming in and small supplies th« had are being exhausted." "The precise reason why the Serbu army continues to perpetrate these ho rible atrocities is because no one fro the world community is doing anythii 1
them,"
it
said.
Muslims and Serbs collected tl bodies of fighters and civilians from tl of Sarajevo May 6 under cover
the cease-fire that enabled peace talks
k
continue.
Caritas Head Says True Number of Guadalajara Dead Are Concealed MEXICO CITY (CNS) Offi-
—
underground ex-
Some of the dead had lain in open since the previous weekend wh< Serbian guerrillas and the Yugoslav am laid an intense mortar and artillery ba rage on the center and suburbs of tl W Dozens of people were thought have died before leaders of Bosni#c Herzegovina and the Serb-led army n gotiated an end to the shooting May that appeared to be holding. Serbs make up 30 percent of Bosni Herzegovina's 4.3 million populatio But with army help they have captun 1-
The official number of people killed in the 10 explosions April 22, based on the number of bodies recovered, has been fixed
at
around 200, with 49 officially declared missing. Luis Adolfo Orozco, the head of Guadalajara's branch of Caritas, said he believes the true number of dead may be four times the official figure. However, a office
two-thirds of
its
territory since
Muslims and ethnic Cro£ independence in March
republic's
voted for
Archbishop Puljic said that unle campaign is stopped, will be too late for the Croatian peofij^. in Bosnia- Herzegovina for certain ai
spokesman for the governor's said there was no evidence to
the Serbian
support claims of hundreds of people missing.
in all probability for the
Muslim peop
there as well."
said. Father Jamnicky was interviewed during the annual meeting of the
he
airport chaplains' conference April 28-
Diocese of Fresno's Hispanic Apostolate
30
May
2.
in
rrtpiurs
Queens.
Bishop John T. Steinbock
of Fresno celebrated the funeral
Mass
on May 6 at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Reedley. Mrs. Gonzalez died of complications following two heart operations she underwent in late April. The surgery had for Casta Gonzalez, 68,
been delayed because of her lack of health insurance. Mrs. Gonzalez' husband, Zeferino, who was hired in 1980 by the Diocese of Fresno. In 1989, he and 20 of 54 diocesan employees were laid off or reassigned as a result of
financial troubles experienced
by the
diocese. Gonzalez had continued as director of the Hispanic apostolate with-
pay check or health insurance.
tli
1
'
ailing wife of the laid-off director of the
died
i
people in the midst of the siege "becau: the blockades have stopped any foe'
also present a challenge for ministry.
Ailing Wife
she!'
Archbishop Puljic 's message sa there was widespread "fear of famii and widespread hunger" among w
streets
5,
relief operation in that city.
priest
who
'
cease-fire
fire
ltd
Airport said if the Catholic Church wants
.
A
Mexico, are concealing the true number of dead, said the head of the Church
Bob
tween the office and the Justice Department in coordinating "Operation Weed and Seed," an initiative focusing on violent crime and neighborhood revitalization. "The quickest and soundest way of taking back our country is taking back our neighborhoods," Phelps said. "We've got to bring the same commitment to Operation Domestic Storm that we brought to Operation Desert Storm
the'
capital. it."
he will be a special assistant to director Martinez, serving as a liaison be-
quietly at
ing continued.
to stop
by the U.S.-based Croatian Catho-
my mind
him on
stations.
sit
although sporadic sniper
archbishop of Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, appealed to the world for relief for the city under an intense bombardment by the Yugoslavian army and its Serbian militia allies. "We raise our cry and plead with the entire civilized world to bring to an end this unjust aggression and destruction before it is too late," Archbishop Vinko Puljic said in a Croatian- language mes-
NEW YORK (CNS) Richard F. "Digger" Phelps, the former Notre
spots attacking
war
Bosnian Archbishop Calls Sarajevo Situation Desperate WASHINGTON (CNS) — The and
cials investigating the
sponsored what they de-
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Mrs. Tyrrell decided to convert after marrying William J. Tyrrell, a Catholic, in 1916 and promising her in-laws she would raise her six children as Catholics. One reason she stayed in the local Christian church so long was that many of her friends were members there. Now, most of those people are gone. "I knew I might be next," she said. "I made up
his talk, also
Yugoslavian
a church-sponsored orphanage in Zagreb.
Sister
McHugh New
Of BVM
President
Sisters of Charity
DUBUQUE,
Iowa (CNS)
—
Readings for the Sister
Delores Marie McHugh, vice president of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed
Week
of
May
17
She will succeed Sister Helen
Maher Garvey, who has been president since 1984. Sister Mary McCauley was chosen first vice president and Sister Mary Martens second vice president of the order, whose motherhouse is in
Dubuque. The new
officers will
assume
Monday: Acts
14:5-18; John 14:21-26.
Tuesday: Acts 14:19-28; John 14:27-31.
Wednesday: Acts
15:1-6;
John 15:1-8.
Thursday: Acts 15:7-21; John 15:9-11. Friday: Acts 15:22-31; John 15:12-17.
their posts in August. Sister Delores has
been vice president of the 1,11 2-member order since 1984.
May
23
Sunday: Acts 14:21-27; Revelation 21:1-5; John 13:31-33, 34-35.
Virgin Mary, has been elected the order's president.
-
Saturday: Acts 16:1-10; John 15:18-21.
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Lyke (From Page
2)
from the hospital he placed a a braid from Sister Thea Bowman's hair on his right lung and "simply asked her to help me face my illness with the same spirit of trust in God that ennobled her own release
"treasured relic"
— The "seeming expulsion of God and religion from the public education system."
Rodney
Catholics, in light of the
King episode, should our
own
examine "our our leaders and
re-
laws, our institutions,
Sister
consciences."
members of St. Joan of Arc Parish
Uf/
I Church
Easter Vigil are
at the
(1-r)
in Asheville, all
spouses of Catholics,
who joined
Janice Piasecki, Bill Blanchard, Laura Koob, Jim
Photo by
Ildington and Paula Jones.
TIM REID
lewcomers' Journey In Faith Inspired By xample Of Elderly Parishioner By TIM REID ASHEVILLE St. Joan
—
of Arc
urch's Easter celebration this year
an extra element that Five adults atholics
made
—
re special.
all
— were received
it
even
spouses into the
common and confirmation on Holy Sat-
arch and received their first
ay.
They had begun their faith journey he usual manner prescribed by the
week means
arch, attending a six
what
to learn
ss
When
holic.
d into
faith,
inquiry
be a their curiosity deepit
to
they enrolled in the Rite
Zhristian Initiation of Adults.
A dedicated team of lay teachers ded their spiritual development )ugh weekly sessions of Bible study, yer and discussion. But the five chumens Bill Blanchard, Jim idington, Paula Jones, Laura Koob Janice Piasecki chose to do more
—
—
n study their
new
faith;
they lived
it.
Blanchard and his wife Susan gave jlderly lady in the parish a ride
m
home
They were imwoman's strong faith
Saturday Mass.
ssed pite
by the
many
difficulties.
She rode the
or walked to church every
week
n though she had significant health blems, and she was finding t
to
it
diffi-
maintain or repair her home.
The Blanchards told other members *CIA about their new friend. Pretty
soon the group "adopted" the lady, helpmake house repairs, doing her
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At one point her home had no heat and no hot water, but the small group rolled up their sleeves and got the furnace fixed and a new hot water heater installed. They patched her roof temporarily,
roof. This is is
home
badly needs a new a big project, but the group
but the
determined to do it somehow, perhaps
with the help of other parishioners.
"Our goal is to continue to check up on her, we're not going to forget her once we get everything fixed," said Barbara Coddington, one of the leaders of the RCIA class. Other lay teachers were Dick Barcelou, Shirley Oligny, Jane Roberts and Mary Ann Wharton.
The
leaders took turns conducting
which have deepened the
the classes, faith
of everyone involved, Coddington
said. "It
has really created our own
little
community, which is nice." Coddington will always remember this class as the one that brought her husband into the Church. She said he had come to church with the family from time to time but seemed to have no interest in becoming a Catholic. She invited one of the couples from the
RCIA class to their home for dinner,
and Jim Coddington enjoyed talking with them. Although he actually declared at one point in the evening that he
"He started coming to the classes and participated," Coddington said. "Every time I think about it, there's a great welling of thanksgiving in heart.
God
is
never outdone
wanted
in
do
my
part" in
work
I
may
re-
continue to
for justice.
"But I also ask your prayers and your labor for the sake of our country for the land where we are born, where we grow up, where we raise our families and foster our friends, where we dream our best dreams and we realize our brightest achievements, where we seek to end our days in peace and contentment," said Archbishop Lyke.
—
"Let us ask God to bless our country and lead us all to a brighter day," he said.
WILLOW GROVE,
Pa.
—
DeChantel Hickey Erb, mother of Father Vincent Erb, a retired priest of the diocese of Charlotte, died
May
3 at her
home
in Willow Grove, Pa. She was 102 years old. Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated May 7 at St. David Church in Willow Grove. Burial was at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Philadelphia. In addition to Father Erb, she is survived by two daughters, Miss Marie Erb of Willow Grove and St. Joseph Sister Vincent dePaul of Philadelphia. Expressions of sympathy may be sent to: Reverend Vincent I. Erb, Regency Park Towers, 1001 Easton Road, Willow Grove, PA 19090. Father Erb served for 34 years as a priest of the Dioceses of Raleigh and Charlotte. He retired for heath reasons in 1984 while in residence at Immacu-
Heart of
late
He had Heart
in
in
High
Point.
Sacred
at
Brevard,
John
Waynesville, St.
Mary
served as pastor
St.
St.
in
Therese in Mooresville,
Charles Borromeo in Morganton,
St.
X
(now St. Philip the Apostle) in Statesville, Holy Family in Mount Airy
Pius
and
St.
Benedict
in
Greensboro as well
as several parishes in the Diocese of
Raleigh.
CatechistS (From Page continue to
3)
make wrong choices in con-
struction of the future," she said.
"We
are called to be a people of
hope with the human gifts of intelligence, will and love," she said. "We are empowered and called by the Spirit to use those gifts in construction of the future. As catechists we must not build a mental fortress."
Official His Excellency, the Most Rev. John F. Donoghue, announces the following appointments in the Diocese of Charlotte: Effective May 6, 1992 Rev. M. Joseph Kelleher from administrator to pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Lexington.
my
Church for eight years, and it's happened." "His reasoning is he believes the family needs to be one, we need to worship together," she said. "And we really do have a better family life. It has enriched it." finally
Effective June 13, 1992 Rev. J.T. Putnam, newly ordained, parochial vicar at St. Lucien Church, Spruce Pine, from June 13 - June 29; effective June 29, parochial vicar at Holy Family Church, Clemmons.
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Mother Dies At Age 102
laundry, providing transportation, etc.
generosity. I've
Serving the Carolinas for over 10 years.
a Franciscan Sister
ing her
would never become a Catholic, lj
Bowman,
who was a wellknown African-American educator,
of his right lung, said in the letter that he would soon undergo his first cancer treatment. He underwent surgery in January 1991 to remove his right kidney after a malignant tumor was discovered. In this case, his physician has said surgery is not an option because of the location of the cancer cells. "Like any of you would, I am wondering how it will go, and what the course of my future will turn out to be," he said in his letter. The archbishop said that upon his
Priest's
—
of Perpetual Adoration
to the lining
ft*
—
struggle."
Archbishop Lyke, recently released from the hospital after being diagnosed with recurrent cancer which had spread
1*
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Effective June 15, 1992 Rev. Msgr. Thomas P. Burke from parochial administrator, Holy Spirit Church, Denver, to pastor, Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Charlotte. Rev. John D. Hanic from pastor, Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Charlotte, to pastor, St. Joseph of the Hills Church, Eden. Rev. Thomas D. Stott from pastor, St. Joseph of the Hills Church, Eden, to pastor, St. John Church, Waynesville. Rev. John J. Tuiler from pastor, St. Charles Borromeo Church, Morganton, to parochial administrator, Holy Spirit Church, Denver. Rev. Kenneth L. Whittington from parochial vicar, St. Patrick Cathedral, to pastor, St. Charles Borromeo Church, Morganton. Rev. James P. Cahill, pastor of St. Mary Church, Sylvia, appointed vicar of the Smoky Mountain Vicariate. Effective
Rev. Joseph
I
to parochial vicar, St. Gabriel
\jVeW
Rev.
j
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June
29, 1992
W. Mack from parochial vicar, Holy Family Church, Clemmons, Church, Charlotte.
Andrew J. Latsko, newly ordained, parochial vicar at St. Lucien Church,
Sprice Pine from June 29
-
Sept. 8; effective Sept. 8, parochial vicar, St. Patrick
Cathedral, Charlotte.
Rev. Msgr. John
J.
McSweeney,
VG
Chancellor
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Q>tmwicfaSy%sj> anas
'(Tpmimiquemonos 'Una Nueva Evangelizacion' Por
MONSENOR JUAN LARREA HOLGUIN Arzobispo de Guayaquil Ecuador
Estamos viviendo el ano en el que se conmemora el quinto centenario comienzo de la Evangelizacion en America y con esta oportunidad resuena pa nosotros con mayor insistencia la palabra del Santo Padre, pidiendonos "una Nue\ Evangelizacion".
'ft
Danzas folkloricas de
Foto por
Israel.
P.
SILL
RUEDA
El Rey David y toda la casa de Israel iban danzando delante del area de Yave con todas sus fuerzas, con arpas, salterios, adufes, flautas y rimbalos. ( 2 Sam. 6,
5-16
Santa La musica y
la
Tierra
"Nueva Evangelizacion". "
el baile
entre los Judios
danzas.
Ha cambiado mucho la forma de vida, las ciudades, las polfticas. Se han incorporado nuevos instrumentos a la musica, han aparecido nuevas canciones, pero significado religioso y de culto que tienen los bailes judios en nada se han alterado. Para el pueblo Israelita todo tipo de danza tiene un valor explicito de alegria y optimismo y a la vez de comunicacion con Dios, que lleva a cada uno de los que lo interpretan a
participar del culto divino. Para los Judios
It
a limpiar las vidas, a enfervorizar los corazones para el
amor de
Dios.
no este inspirada en la fe y qi, no lleve a la caridad vivida con obras. Las meras manifestaciones externas religiosidad, pierden valor si no estan penetradas de las grandes virtudes teologale Examinemos, por tanto, esas expresiones exteriores y procuremos que se manteng; dentro de los Hmites del decoro, de la moderation y muy lejos de lo que pudie parecer superstition o fanatismo. Tenemos un gran numero de practicas piados excelentes, que pueden y deben ser empleadas con la maxima devocion, tales colli el rezo y meditation del Santo Rosario, o del "Angelus", las procesiones peregrinaciones o visitas a santuarios de la Virgen y muchas otras. Que se me$ sobre la respuesta de Maria a la gracia divina, que se la invoque asiduamente; qi Asi, pues se ha de evitar cualquier actitud que
i
sea realmente ella, "la Estrella de la
Nueva Evangelizacion".
cambia
concepto profano del baile, que tienen algunos, para darle un valor mas autentico y realista en el sentido mas completo de la palabra que transforma la danza en un rito. En el Antiguo Testamento leemos en el segundo libro de Samuel, que el Rey David tocaba el arpa y bailaba frente al tabernaculo sagrado en el santo sanctorum con entusiasmo y devocion religiosa como lo hizo tambien cuando entro el area de la alianza a Jerusalen. De esta misma manera los Judios de hoy, como los de la tierra prometida, llevan en sus venas el gozo de sus danzas y con ellas despiertan el entusiasmo entre los demas. Es contagioso ver a los jovenes y may ores concentrados en sus bailes, al compas de la alegria de su musica. Cada cancion es un mensaje, es un poema, es una cadencia de notas que suenan en el pentagrama, no solo instrumental sino del alma de cada uno de ellos. En el segundo libro de Samuel leemos tambien que hay que adorar al Senor con todo el cuerpo y el corazon, sin escatimar ningun movimiento corporal, balanceandose al escuchar la lectura o al hacer la oracion y que mejor oportunidad que a traves del baile. En cada danza hay una exprecion distinta y el Judfo que recuerda la historia de su pueblo, va viviendo esa modalidad como demostracion de sus origenes, frente a toda circunstancia. Si no nace de lo profundo del ser y no se vive intimamente, no tiene sentido. Esto sobra decirlo entre los Judios, cuando al escuchar ellos su musica comienzan a bailar, con pasion contagiosa donde se encuentran. Bailar es un carisma, bailar es un don y con el se puede como signo comunicarse con Dios. Hoy el espiritu Judaico no es de tristeza, sino de optimismo por haber recuperado la tierra prometida, por conservar las costumbres de sus antepasados, por estar organizados como pueblo escogido por Dios y mas aun por el amor a su religion, una de las mas antiguas del mundo. Este mismo espiritu se ve reflejado e interpretado en su musica y danzas folkloricas y en la manera de como cada uno de ellos la vive. La musica y el baile en los Judios es parte de su oracion y culto a su unico Dios, el Dios que los saco de la esclavitud de Egipto y es el mismo Dios de sus antepasados, Abraham, Jacob, Moises y los Profetas.
completamente
Para esta obra de doctrina contamos con los luminosos documentos de
ultimos Pontffices, que debemos releer, meditar y explicar a nuestros hermanc; Igualmente fomentando el amor a Maria, contribuiremos a enderezar las costumbret
Por PADRE SILL RUEDA Hoy como ayer la musica es la misma, las danzas son las mismas, y el espiritu alegre de los Judios es el mismo. Nada de este entusiasmo ha cambiado a pesar de los anos y a pesar de las derrotas y fracasos que el pueblo ha sufrido. Nada se ha alterado en el espiritu de los Judios en cuanto a la musica y la interpretation de las
el
Entendemos, siguiendo el pensamiento del Papa, que nuestro continente necesi un esfuerzo conjunto, de todos los fieles, para que la doctina catolica sea mej< conocida y asimilada, para que la fe influya profundamente en la vida e inspire I mas variados actos de la existencia, para que se forme mas perfectamente comunidad en la caridad. Estos objetivos: Doctrina, vida cristiana, caridad, conseguiran si ponemos en practica los grandes medios sobrenaturales: La oraci los sacramentos y las buenas obras. Todo ello requiere actualizar las motivaciones religiosas que nos llevan corresponder a la gracia de Dios, a ser dociles al influjo del Espiritu Santo. Em dichas motivaciones, ninguna como la sincera devocion a la Madre de Dios y Mad nuestra, la Virgen Maria. No solo porque en el pueblo cristiano existe una raigamb profunda de devocion mariana, sino porque objetivamente, Cristo quiso asociar su Madre de manera muy especial e intima a la obra redentora. Si nos empenamos por difundir en el pueblo de Dios, el solido conocimiento la doctrina catolica sobre la Virgen Maria, habremos puesto una base firmfsima pa
el
Noticias Locales Retiro de Matrimonios El Padre Jose Waters esta invitando para un Retiro de Matrimonios que tendra lugar en el Centro de Conferencias Catolico de Hickory N.C. los dfas 30 y 31 de mayo del presente ano, con la viticipacion de Angel e Iris Rivera,
Via Crucis...
Celebracion del Via Crucis alrededor del centro Cristo Rey.
Foto por
Dalmau Ministros Pastorales de la Diocesis de
al
CCH
al
numero 335-1281,
para arreglar con ellos
la participation.
de la Santa Misa en espanol y jueÂŁ para los ninos. La Misa comenzara a * 1 2 y 30 y despues de esta sera el almuei >
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Dia de recreo para Familias Hispanas El CCH con la direction de Arlid Barrera esta invitando a un dfa de descanso en el parque Frank Liske a las afueras de Charlotte, para el dfa 3 1 de mayo del presente ano, con la celebracion
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Apoyando
Blockade Bill Produces Conflicting Testimony At Hearing Clinic
WASHINGTON
j
(CNS)
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
oman 's tearful testimony about a threesummer at an ;ortion clinic being blockaded by Optation Rescue was disputed by the (ganization's director during a House After three
were blocked by
I
;
ortion protesters, the Rev. Keith Tucci,
irector
of Operation Rescue National,
members of
lid
the
House Judiciary
Itbcommittee on Crime and Criminal ^stice
he never saw the sorts of harasswoman said she was subjected
unt one t
outside the Wichita, Kan., clinic.
The subcommittee is considering would make it a federal cme to blockade an abortion clinic.
lluslation that
{
pporters say federal intervention
is
keep the clinics in business tcause local law enforcement is insuff ient. Opponents say state laws against t spass and harassment already protect fcsinesses and that such a bill would i
cessary to
cminalize civil disobedience.
Tucci warned that pssed, efforts to
if such a bill is block abortion clinics
\>uld escalate.
6 hearing, a woman Doe said she waited |- three 100-degree days in a car outSde the Wichita clinic while abortion
May
I
At the
i
intified as
swarmed
ptesters litly
Sylvia
yelling
the vehicle, "vio-
flowed indoors.
Doe, who said she was Catholic and eagerly awaited the birth of her Id, testified that doctors told her the Iby would have to be put on a life Ibport system at birth to await a heart [!
1
which had about a
flnsplant,
1
in
400
ince of success under the best pos-
th
would never be able to live myself if I knew I was responsible
this
|.n,"
F.
DONOGHUE
de mi oficina y viajar por las autopistas en esta epoca preciosa de primavera en la zona de Piedmont y el occidente de Carolina del Norte. Hace algun tiempo tenia la ayuda del Sr.Obispo retirado Michael Begley, quien con su presencia hacia mas facil mi horario y llevaba sabiduria y alegria a las ceremonias de las Confirmaciones, pero en esta primavera por motivos de salud no ha podido salir. Por lo tanto le ha pedido el favor a los Vicarios Generales, Monsenor John McSweeney y Monsenor Joseph Showfety para que lo remplacen en el programa de las Confirmaciones, el cual tambien yo he aprobado. En este programa agitado de las Confirmaciones, puedo decir que encontrarme con todos estos jovenes es siempre una alegria y satisfaccion. Estoy muy impresionado con sus energias y entusiasmos para ser parte integral de la Iglesia Catolica y tambien un instumento vital de evangelization para nuestros cristianos en la fe. Yo aplaudo estos candidatos en sus compromisos y esfuerzos para prepararsen para este Sacramento. Antes de su Confirmacion ellos han tenido varias semanas de preparation para discutir el significado y el fin de este Sacramento. Los candidatos participan en actividades que significan comprometerse mas a servir en la Iglesia. Como parte de esa actividad he recibido cartas de cada uno de ellos, descibiendo sus proyectos e intenciones con relation a su vida de fe. Los proyectos y actividades descritos en esas cartas son muy alentadores e importantes. Estos jovenes han visitado ancianatos, ayudado en las parroquias durante sus eventos y proyectos. Muchos han ayudado como ministros y lectores durante la misa y lo mas importante es que han hecho este trabajo con la ayuda de los comites de las parroquias, que
Later in the hearing, Tucci told sub-
committee chairman Charles
E.
Schumer, D-N.Y., he never saw the
sort
of incident
Doe related during
the eight
weeks he participated in the Operation Rescue blockades in Wichita. "I was there every day and I never saw her," Tucci said when asked what he thought of Doe's experience. "Do you think she was lying about what happened?" asked Schumer. "Yes," Tucci replied. Another witness told of being kept from a pre-natal appointment with her Michigan physician by Operation Rescue participants who blocked the way to his office and ignored her explanations
was seeking care
that she
for a preg-
nancy she intended to carry through. Also testifying in favor of the bill were the administrator of a family planning and abortion clinic; the Manassas, Va., chief of police; a Milwaukee physician; a University of Chicago law professor; and a Washington attorney who has obtained several injunctions prohibiting
blockades of clinics.
Joining Tucci in opposing the
bill
were the director of the Pro-Life Action League; a Texas sheriff who has said he would not stop abortion clinic blockades in his jurisdiction; and Michael Bray, the Bowie, Md., man whose case
espero sigan animandolos a participar. Hay mucho que decir de una parroquia que apoya y nutre la participation de sus miembros jovenes. El verdadero espiritu de comunidad se siente cuando cada
miembro
es parte vital de esa comunidad. Invitar a los candidatos que van a ser confirmados a experimentar el sentido de ministros, es una oportunidad muy importante para la parroquia mantener a los jovenes unidos. Tambien es una oportunidad para que los jovenes experimenten que significa ser parte viva del cuerpo de Cristo y como pueden responder al amor de Dios en nuestros dias. La fe crece mejor cuando se practica. Para todos los candidatos a la Confirmacion, le pido a Dios que los bendiga con muchos anos de servicio a la Iglesia. Felicitaciones !
!
against the Alexandria Women's Health Clinic
is
being considered by the Su-
preme Court
this term.
to use the 1871
The
clinic seeks
Ku Klux Klan
act to
prevent blockades as a violation of in-
le conditions. "I felt
oping baby's heart defect was not discovered until she was in the third trimester of pregnancy. Only a handful of physicians in the country perform third-
and screaming offensive,
Igusting slurs at us" before she was
OBISPO JOHN
viajado
salir
her home in Virginia because the devel-
women related their ex-
riences at clinics that
Por
trimester abortions.
jbcommittee hearing.
cualidades de los jovenes
mucho durante este mes, como lo hice el mes pasado. No me estoy quejando de ello. Mi horario de Confirmaciones anuales, es la excusa perfecta para
He
A
<y wait in a hot car last
las
I
baby's short life of suffering and said of her decision to have
Doe
terstate
commerce
The
bill
rights.
being considered would
authorize federal marshals to break clinics. Conwould carry a three-year prison sentence and a fine of up to $250,000.
upbloackades of abortion viction
abortion.
She said she drove to Kansas from
Members of the first class to complete the diocesan Lay Ministry Training Program gather with Bishop Donoghue at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Morganton May 9 for their graduation. (Another picture on Page 16)
Lay (From Page
-QUE ES LA CURIA DIOCESANA (A VECES LLAMADA "CANCILLERIA")?
a session without being
and
talking the
gram
CAROL HAZARD
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Guzynski of Greensboro. "It's knowing where we have been, where we are and where we are going." Said Connie Mitchell who traveled from Asheville with three people to attend sessions in Maggie Valley, "We never left
25.
Photo by
full
of discussion
whole way back. The proand intellectually stimu-
is spiritually
lating. It introduces
you
to areas
I
always
thought were off limits to lay people." They explored, for example, the sacraments and
"why
they are the
By
way
they are," she said.
studying the faith in depth, Ronald
Steinkamp of Thomasville said he developed a greater trust in the Church. His trust grew, for example, by learning about the role of the magisterium and the teaching authority.
obispo establece ciertas oficinas y ministerios para ayudar a cumplir sus responsabilidades. Cada oficina o ministerio se relaciona con el obispo como jefe de maestros, sacerdote y gobernador de la Iglesia local. Las personas nombradas ayudan al obispo a llevar a cabo la ensenanza universal y local, las leyes y practicas de la Iglesia El
Catolica.
La ley de
establecimiento de algunos el resultado de los deseos de la Iglesia local de responder a las necesidades especfficas de la gente de la diocesis y de la comunidad en la que esta ubicada. la
Iglesia
ministerios y oficinas. La
requiere
el
mayor parte son
Los representantes del obispo senalan
|
vibrante naturaleza de la Iglesia. Ellos demuestran que Jesus habita en la Iglesia local mediante el poder del Espfritu Santo. El es el que dirige la Iglesia local en su misidh de llevar esta area al Reino de Dios. la
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A Special Moment To
Diocesan News Briefs Confirmation Celebration Good Shepherd Church KING on Kirby Road invites all its Catholic neighbors to attend the sacrament of
28092. The check should be payable to St. Dorothy. For more information, call Bobbie May, (704) 327-8692.
confirmation celebrated by Bishop John F. Dohoghue May 22 at 7:30 p.m. A
Pro-life
—
reception for the bishop and newly con-
firmed will follow the Mass. For more information, call Jesuit Father Larry Hunt at (919) 725-9200.
Secular Franciscan Inquiry Session
—
CHARLOTTE
The
St.
Maximilian Kolbe Fraternity is having a Secular Franciscan Order inquiry session Sunday, May 17 at 2 p.m., at St. John Neumann Church in the council room. The session is open to anyone inter-
more about the Secular Franciscan Order. For more informa-
ested in learning
Conventual Franciscan Father Richard Bellow or Jennye Taylor Johnson at St. John Neumann Church, (704) 536-6520. tion, call
CLEMMONS — Eat out Tuesday,
May
and help feed the hungry. area restaurants have agreed to donate 10 percent of income earned on May 19 to Crisis Control Ministry. Oyster Bay Seafood Restaurant and Giselle's, both owned by parishioners of Holy Family Church, are 19,
Clemmons
among
the restaurants participating.
For more informaiton, Control at (919) 724-7875.
call Crisis
HICKORY
—A
retreat
designed to
be set aside for teachings, reflections, guided meditations, small group sharing, music and prayer. Directors are Father Richard Farwell and Bobbie May. Cost, which includes meals, is will
$135.50 for the three-night stay in a double occupancy room or $151.50 for a single occupancy room. To register, send name, address and $20 deposit before June 10 to St. Dorothy Church, Route 1 Box 460-C, Lincolnton, N.C.
demonstration.
College Living Rising high school juniors and seniors are invited to sign
up for "An
The Catholic University of America in WashExperience in College Living" ington. Session
July 19-25; Session
I is
July 26- Aug.
II is
at
more information, contact College Focus Weeks, School of Arts and Sciences, 107 McMahon Hall, The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. 20064. Or call Dr. Glen Johnson at (202) 319-5114. A separate "Engineering 2000" profor students interested in engi-
The Catholic University of America. For more infor-
neering
is
July 12-17 at
call (202)
319-5177.
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—
An
all-
night alcohol/drug free celebration for
community high school
seniors and from 8 p.m. - 4 a.m. For more information, call Mary Reese all
their guests is June 4
at
OWLS CHARLOTTE— The St. Gabriel's OWLS (Older, Wiser, Livelier Seniors) is
meeting Wednesday, May 20 from
a.m.
-
1
1
p.m. in the parish fellowship
Bring a bag lunch, dessert and beverage will be provided. The OWLS is open to anyone 50 and older. For more information, call Larry Guethlein at (704) 523-3449. hall.
CHARLOTTE
—
Charlotte-area
Party for
and 30s, are taking refugee children roller skating Saturday, June 7. For more information, call Pam Newton, diocesan director of Young Adult Ministry, by May 22 at (704) 377-687 1
CHARLOTTE
ested in assisting with
and awareness or
in
AIDS
Spaghetti Dinner
education
forming a parish
is
invited to call St. Joseph
Sister Judy
Monahan, pastoral associate
ministry
at St.
Ann,
at (704)
521-9589.
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Communion
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;|
younger. a
day of activities for Catholics 50 and older, is May 27 at the Catholic Conference Center from 10 a.m. -4 p.m. The picnic includes a box lunch, bingo, a drawing, cooking demonstration, slide presentations and a display table for sharing talents and creativity. Representatives from the Catholic Bookstore, the AARP and Elder Hostel will be present. For more information, call Rachel Greene at (704) 331-1720.
—
CHARLOTTE A day of prayer and reflection for parents who have lost children to death is scheduled for June 6 at St. John Neumann Church in the parish hall from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. For more information, call Cindy Cook at (704) 535-4197. Permanent Diaconate Formation BELMONT Men who will complete their second year of the Lay Min-
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take part in the peaceful, anti-abortion
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open processes that lead to inner healing of the child within is June 25-28 at the Catholic Conference Center. The theme centers on life patterns that need God's healing touch. Time
19
—
mation, contact the School of Engineer-
Inner Healing Retreat
,
Spruce Pine The Youth Group of St. Lucien Church, together with the youth of other community churches, will participate in a Life Chain, a silent pro-life demonstration Sunday, May 17 from 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. The human chain will form at the intersections of Routes 19 and 226 in Spruce Pine. The public is invited to
The
Hope Du Jour
Chain
15
F.J. LaPointe,
Member of
President
St. Gabriel's
The Catholic News
day 15, 1992
k
World and National Briefs More
fo
'This
cripture
is'
After
Readings
WASHINGTON
(CNS)
atican approval, U.S.
—
With
may
bishops
ow have parishes drop the words "this "in the acclamations following the :ripture readings at Mass. As dioceses change, readers will say only word of the Lord after each of the rhe
iopt the
'
'
two readings, and "The Gospel of ie Lord" after a reading from one of the ospels. In a decree announcing the tiange in U.S. liturgical practice, Archrst
Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinsaid it will become mandatory na-
jishop iti
jjnwide. next Feb.
28 but may be adopted
any time before
cally
that.
He
issued
decree as president of the National
ie
Jonference of Catholic Bishops in a to the
fjtice
bishops dated March 25.
Diocese Collecting Food Russian Namesake City
lorida ir
ST.
PETERSBURG, Fla. (CNS)
iting its
"special responsibility to help
namesake
,
u"
—
city in a strife-torn
coun-
diocesan Catholic Charities in
St.
begun a campaign
to
htersburg has
.nd food to the only Catholic church
aerating in St. Petersburg, Russia. Less Ian a year ago, the Russian city
Jiown as Leningrad and Russia
of the Soviet Union. But with the
jjirt
of
111
was was
communism, Russia and other
of the Soviet Union become independent and the people
jjrmer republics live
Leningrad decided to take back their ly's former name. Franciscan Father Enuarius Izzo, an American, is on the Biff of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in 5.
Petersburg, Russia. In a letter to Pat
flrmer, director
of Catholic Charities'
Tice of Social Justice ;r
and Peace, Fa-
Izzo described his parishioners'
food and the needs of those ring in surrounding communities riere he and another Franciscan hope [ed for
I
establish churches.
Sees Latin Bishops Finding preement On Liberation Theology YORK (CNS) A U.S. Jelit said documents prepared for a fall meting of CELAM, the Latin Amerin bishops' council, show agreement •|th some key points made by liberaffl theologians. Jesuit Father Arthur F.
McGovern, author of Liberation Theology and Its Critics, said the bishops probably wanted to "push liberation theology out of the limelight" and keep it from getting the attention it received
CELAM
meetings at Medellin, Colombia, in 1968 and Puebla, Mexico, in 1979. Nonetheless, he said, prepara-
during
documents for the upcoming sesDomingo, Dominican Republic, call for efforts to meet basic needs of the poor and ensure participation of the poor in society. These, he said, are key points repeatedly emphasized by liberation theologians when tory
sions in Santo
—
L.A. Police Chief Urged To Put Hispanics In Leadership Posts
LOS ANGELES (CNS)
suspected terrorists over for trial. Joaquin
Navarro-Valls, the Vatican spokesman,
— Cardi-
said the meeting at the Vatican
Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles has urged the new Los Angeles police
at the foreign minister's request.
chief to appoint Hispanic police officers
matic relations.
Vatican and Libya do not have diplo-
to top level police leadership positions.
"Given the large number and percentage of Spanish-speaking peoples living throughout the city and county of Los Angeles, I would hope that very soon you would appoint as a deputy or assistant chief one or more of our fine Hispanic officers," Cardinal in a letter to
Mahony
Cardinal Calls For Christians, Jews To Restore Moral Leadership
Biblical Scholarship
Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago called May 4 for a revival of Christian and
cal scholarship is
Orthodox Evangelization VATICAN CITY (CNS)
coexist peacefully even
if
Jewish moral leadership in the world. The alternative is "a new secular absolutism" in which another Nazi-like totalitarianism could emerge, he said in Baltimore during an international consultation of Catholics and Jews. He told the international dialogue group, which has focused primarily on internal questions of Catholic-Jewish relations for
many
years, that internal issues "surely
need to be pursued," but "we should never make them the exclusive agenda of our discussions and actions."
Operation Rescue Ends Buffalo Protests; Opinions Mixed On Results BUFFALO, N.Y. (CNS) The
—
"Spring of Life" rescue in Buffalo officially ended May 3 with mixed opinions on its results. Pro-life activists said 12
women
told them the protests had changed their minds about having abor-
Abortion rights activists disputed that claim, however, noting that Buffalo-area abortion clinics remained open throughout the two-week campaign. At tions.
least
597
were
pro-life protesters
ar-
Eighteen abortion rights activists also were arrested, mostly on charges of assaulting pro-life demonstrators. Buffalo-area pro-life activists vowed to continue their campaign on a smaller rested.
scale for the indefinite future.
And abor-
will be impossible for Catholics
Varied, Vatican Official Says
BALTIMORE (CNS) — Cardinal
VATICAN CITY (CNS)
—
Bibli-
moving away from
a
in a "conflictual evangelization."
approach and developing multiple methods of interpreting Scripture which highlight its pastoral meaning, a Vatican official said. These methods
of the bigger Eastern-rite churches, the
include studying the Bible as literature
Ukrainian and Romanian, were outlawed by communist governments in the 1 940s. Their property was confiscated by the state or turned over to the Orthodox
and understanding the rhetorical tech-
churches.
niques used, said Jesuit Father Albert
Pope Urges Western Investment In Eastern Europe
Vanhoye, secretary of the Pontifical B iblical Commission, in a May 5 Vatican Radio interview. Scholars are also examining new insights into the Scriptures provided by liberation theologians and feminists, he added.
Rare Interfaith Service Follows Holy Site Vandalism VATICAN CITY (CNS)
—
rare ecumenical
PORDENONE, Italy (CNS)—Pope John Paul II encouraged Western investment in Eastern Europe, saying it would help establish a labor-management ethic based on human rights. Western investments are a concrete sign of
and the weakand managers who returned to their factory on their day off to hear him talk. "At the moment in which the frontiers of Europe are solidarity "for the poorest
est," he said to workers
In a
ceremony, four Chris-
tian leaders reconsecrated Jerusalem's
Church of the Holy Sepulcher two days after it was vandalized. The Latin-rite Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Arme-
opening,
the Franciscan custodian of the
Land
led the
Holy
May 4 procession from the
Orthodox headquarters
to the
ecumeni-
cal service at the church which, accord-
Two
days
Israeli police '
tric
'
earlier,
a
man who Pope To Crisscross Angola On Seven-Day Trip VATICAN CITY (CNS)
described as an "eccen-
English-speaking tourist in his 30s
and a female companion were arrested after the church was vandalized. The the second time in
shrine
ready to counter those efforts.
three years that the four Christian lead-
have led a public prayer together,
VATICAN CITY
(CNS)
This newspaper is printed on recycled newsprint and is re-
Vatican Secretariat of State's section for relations with states, and Libyan
Foreign Minster Ibrahim al Bichari followed the imposition in April of United Nations sanctions on the North African nation.
Libya has refused
will crisscross
trip to Africa.
U.N. embargo against Libya in which a Vatican official urged peaceful resolution of international disputes based on law. The May 2 meeting between Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, head of the
The bishop establishes certain offices and ministries to help fulfill his Each office or ministry relates to the bishop's role as teacher, priest and governor of the local Church. The persons
II
complete schedule of the pope's trip May 5. It will be his first pastoral visit to the two countries and his ninth papal
— The
Vatican and Libya held a rare high-level meeting on mutual relations and the
(SOMETIMES
cyclable.
to turn six
responsibilities.
appointed help the bishop carry out the universal and local teachings, laws and practices of the Catholic Church.
Church law requires the establishment of some positions and Most, though, are the result of the local Church's desire to respond to the specific needs of the people of the diocese and community in which it is located. offices.
The various representatives of the bishop point to the vibrant nature They show that Jesus dwells in the local Church through the power of the Holy Spirit. He is the one leading the local Church in its mission to claim the area for the Kingdom of God.
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Pope Angola June 4-10 to meet with the Church's workforce and the country's civil authorities, the sick and wounded, and young people. On a day trip to the nearby island nation of Sao Tome and Principe June 6, the pope will celebrate Mass and greet the small Muslim community there. The Vatican released the John Paul
joint prayer service reconsecrating the
marked only
has become important to
,
ing to tradition, marks Jesus' burial place.
it
promote through every means a profession ethics which respects human rights and is capable of realizing a fraternal and intense collaboration among peoples," he said. The pope spoke at a factory in Pordenone on May 1 Italian Labor Day and a national holiday.
nian patriarchs of Jerusalem along with
tion rights activists say they will be
IS THE DIOCESAN CURIA REFERRED TO AS "CHANCERY")?
Two
scientific
Vatican, Libya Hold High-level Meeting
|
two
the
Churches since July 1991, said it and Orthodox to meet their obligation to announce salvation if they are involved
Becoming More
newspaper.
of the Church.
A
churches cannot work together. Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, who has headed the Vatican Congregation for Eastern-
said
reported Avvenire, an Italian Catholic
chief
—
Vatican official said Catholic and Orthodox evangelization programs should
rite
ers
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Urges Peaceful Catholic,
Official
Los Angeles Police Chief-
designate Willie L. Williams.
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nal
they advocate socialism.
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The
Monroe Parishioners Celebrate
Play's
The
15,
1992
Thing...
Jubilees of Parish, Priest By
MARION CARDOZA
—
MONROE
It
was
a
mander of Honor Guard, and George
week
for
rejoicing at Our Lady of Lourdes Church
Monroe.
in
The congregation
celebrated
its
50th Jubilee anniversary Sunday, May 10. It also joined together Wednesday,
May 6 to honor parochial vicar, Spiritan Father John
McAndrew, on
the 25th
Getter of Assembly 780 in Charlotte.
Banners were carried by Newton Wesley, president of the Men's Club, Lynda Brown, president of the Ladies Guild, and Dolores Lavelle, who represented the senior members of the parish.
This group participated ing
ceremony
after the
in a
May crown-
Mass.
A former parishioner of the church,
anniversary of his ordination.
was kicked Monroe Coun-
Father Edmond Kirsch of Murphy, N.C.,
Club Saturday evening May 9. More than 00 parishioners, priests and guests
death of his wife and was ordained four
attended.
ily.
The
Jubilee celebration
off with a banquet at the try
1
Sunday morning, Bishop John
F.
who
studied for the priesthood after the
years ago at age 65, delivered the horn-
Since the Jubilee fell on Mother's Day, Father Kirsch extended a greeting to all mothers in attendance. Among
them was Wanda Vilkauskas, Father Vilkaukas' mother,
who came
to
Cast members from Charlotte Catholic High School's annual spring musical take stage during the production of "Carrousel."
Mon-
roe with her husband, Vincent, from
New Jersey to celebrate both occasions with their son. Father Kirsch referred to the Bibli-
which marked by
cal passage,
outlines the Jubilee
festival
the Israelites every
50 years. A ram's horn was to be blown on the Day of Atonement to proclaim and announce the beginning of "a year of happiness," a year
when
all
debts
were forgiven and the people as well
as
the land rested.
Linda Brown, president of the Ladies' Guild
Our Lady of Lourdes,
carries a
banner
during the parish jubilee procession.
Photo by
MARIAN CARDOZA
ram's horn was blown on this day. However, debts were rested. Father Vilkauskas announced that an anonymous donor had cancelled the remaining debt owed on what parishioners call "God's
Donoghue celebrated an outdoor Mass. Spiritan Father Ed Vilkauskas, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes, Father McAndrew and eight visiting priests were concelebrants.
The
priests
came from near and
to share in the
far
joyous occasion, said
Father Vilkauskas.
Among them was
Father Norman Bevan, provincial superior
of the Eastern Province of the Holy
Ghost Fathers (Spiritans). About 650 people of the 1,000-
member parish attended as well as many and neighbors.
friends
A
catered lun-
cheon was served following Mass. The Mass was preceded by a Knights of Columbus processional, announced by a drum roll. The Fourth Degree procession was led by Joseph Hunt, com-
little
acre," a $30,000
Riots
VATICAN CITY Los Angeles quake" that
riots left
(CNS)
— The
were a "human earthbehind physical and
he
and heart of the parish."
Our Lady of Lourdes
parish,"
said.
In closing,
Bishop Donoghue
said,
and an example of what is "great" about the United States, said the newspaper, L' Osservatore Romano. The front-page editorial May 10
The
that people there are ready to rebuild
rial said. In this
reconcile
say that the Third
—
the Vatican's first detailed
com-
a chaotic collective violence that
left
sense,
how
is, it
we
"The questions about the causes
will
Marion Cardoza is a parishioner at
involve elements that are inextricably tied together: the 'society of gratifica-
and the society of unemployment and discrimination; 100 ethnic groups tion'
Our Lady of Lourdes.
precarious coexistence
— not only
blacks and whites; polished yuppie elites
Training...
and thousands of youths divided into armed urban gangs," it said.
Trappist Priest
safe,"
it
said.
Now that the "cyclone" of violenc is
over
Los Angeles, the
in
science, a need for recomposition,
hymn
"That great country across the At has always distinguished itself b the courage to begin or to begin ane\ lantic
when faced with new
graduation ceremonies for the
ram. (See story on Page
1).
first
class in the
Photo by
Lay Ministry Training
CAROL HAZARD
said
dent today,
it
added.
A Job
people make a job of it, according to a well-known Trappist priest and expert
"we use a
The
expert,
intended
when he
said:
"Come to me all
"very simple. It can be used by anyone who wants to be with God, to experience his love and presence," said Father Pennington.
According
lot
of psychic energy
is
to the priest, the first
step in centering prayer involves set-
in set
ing."
"Once we
Centering prayer
at recent
it
tling one's self down, usually in a seate
in an interview with the Times Review, newspaper of the Diocese of La Crosse.
Brevard
tasks,"
This kind of courage will be neede to face similar problems all over th world, which are becoming more evi
position with one's eyes closed becaus
"centering prayer," made the comments
Chuck Cowan of
of reconcilia
LA CROSSE, Wis. (CNS)— Rather
you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will refresh you." Father Pennington, who gives workshops about a method of prayer called
chats with lay ministry graduate
i
experiencing "an examination of con
than finding prayer refreshing, most
Father M. Basil Pennington, says that's not what Jesus
Mary Timothy Warren
editoria
said, there are signs that the city
Says Prayer
on monasticism.
Sister
re
"If we don 't give each other a hand we can drown even in waters that seemei
Should Be Refreshing, Not
Mercy
ii
said.
tion."
love Christ,
one cat even
surprisingly fragile civilization
ally
tions,
who also
said,
exists
"Abandoned behind the most ad vanced frontiers of technical and eco nomic progress are pockets of irratio nality and inhumanity," it said. The events in Los Angeles revea
community. As we work hard with our
said.
it
World
California.
desire to sing the
it
t<
a specific part of the world," the edito
"devastated souls" and alarming ques-
continue to bring Christ to this area."
said.
fact that such violence can oc
"Faith will continue to flourish in this
neighbors
it
"the evils of our age are not confined
Fortunately, there are hopeful signs
purchased for future expansions. The amount of the donation was approxi-' mately $1,500. Father Vilkauskas thanked the members of the congregation who had worked long and hard to bring about the happy jubilation. He also expressed his appre-
are
discouragement,"
cur in "mythical California" shows tha
said.
was
"You
is the dark po of violence, drugs and existentia
newspaper
mentary on the riots, which left 58 people dead, thousands injured and entire neighborhoods destroyed. The violence was sparked when an all-white jury acquitted four white policemen in the beating of Rodney King, a black man. For those who had seen the videotape of King's beating, the verdict was "clearly unjust," the newspaper said. The two days of rioting that followed were an explosion of retaliation,
as the "center
"In the background tential
moral devastation as well as serious questions about U.S. society, the Vatican
in
Lay Ministry
Newspaper Calls LA 'Human Earthquake'
piece of land next to the church that was
ciation to parishioners, referring to them
centei
JOANN KEANE
Vatican
No
at
Photo by
attention to the In love
we
are settled,
we
turn ot
Lord present within us..
turn ourselves over to hin
For these 20 minutes we are
all his," \
said.
Father Pennington suggests use what he calls "a love word, a pray word." A matter of personal choice, th word might be a favorite name for Go* such as Lord, Jesus, Father Love, "wh
<
meaningful for us." person is distracted, he said, th selected word "brings you back to tl
ever
is
If a
center."
After 20 minutes or so the prayer ended gently, perhaps by saying tl
Lord's Prayer slowly.
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