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Number 34 • May

National Right To Life Leader

Most Americans

1992

Says

Basically Pro-Life

CAROL HAZARD

Associate Editor

GREENSBORO

— Most Americans

are fundamentally pro-life and believe abor-

banned com-

tion should be restricted if not pletely, said National

Right to Life Presi-

Wanda Franz at an N.C.

dent

conference in Greensboro

Right to Life

May

Some 80 percent of the American public

approve of provisions

nia law

now

in the

Pennsylva-

under review by the Supreme

Court, said Franz.

These "modest and moderate" provisions include informed consent about the risks associated with abortion, parental con-

sent for minors, information about the de-

velopmental stage of the baby in the -life

Action League of Greensboro placed

Day and the gift of life. Each

rther's

this

and two other billboards

billboard bears the

:h.

in the city to celebrate

names of 240 contributors who gave $5 Photo by CAROL HAZARD

womb

and a 24-hour waiting period, said Franz. "Opponents are totally out of step with the American public," she said.

Day Of

They are trying to push through conFreedom of Choice Act, a bill that would cement unrestricted access to abortion through the ninth month of pregnancy

Yayer For Religious Vocations

and allow for abortions based on the baby's sex, Franz said.

gress a

)iocese Joins In World

National Right to Life President

was

workshop

would invalidate everything we have worked for in the last 20 the books," she said. "It

Associate Editor

CHARLOTTE

— On May

"The number of

0, general

has dropped

priests

years."

considerably in the past 20-30 years," says

Prayer for Vocations during Masses

Bishop John F. Donoghue. In some areas of

organization has dubbed the

oss the diocese.

dom

iational response.

by permanent deacons, religious women, and in some cases, lay couples. "Deacons, religious women and the laity can do many good things in a parish, but they cannot do the things that are most essential in our

lyer

spiritual

At a glance,

the country, parishes are being staffed

a day to offer up

it's

aitions for those

answering the

call to

day brings to the needs for increased

In reality, the

ve.

efront the specific

It's not just a day of and awareness, but an educational ightenment for the people in the pews.

"It's

"We

to Life

we can to stop this

radical piece

George Bush, the best friend the babies have had of anyone (in Washington)." Franz, a developmental psychologist,

Carolina Right to Life

at the all-day leader-

show fewer

Papal Document WASHINGTON

FATHER CECIL TICE

[uires

everyone's attention.

"It's

not just

esponsibility for the ordained or reli>us.

While

;ry (of

usually a priest or sister's

an individual) to consider voca-

everyone needs to be involved, as well

\\,

praying to increase vocations," says Fa-

neither promotes nor endorses break-

ing the law to stop

women from

"The Lord always

calls the faithful to

Him

through religious consecration;

profession of vows, the priesthood, or

gious communities. /

to hear

Father Tice.

apostolic exhortation, based

on the recom-

which met

of Helena,

Com-

"I think

fathers of the

Rome

October 1990 to

reflects the

synod," Bishop Curtiss

He acknowledged

said.

many Ameri-

cans view the Church's requirement of celibacy for priests as an obstacle to voca-

a telephone

cultural conditions,

tions.

that

"The sexual revolution and

attitudes

toward sexuality are a problem," he

interview.

The document

"concentrates on the

contemporary factors

said, but

that

may

also cites

encourage

"He

(the

we need

pope) points out in

said.

this letter that

to recover a Christian attitude

toward sex,

marriage as well as in (the

question of) celibacy."

He described that as a catechetical chal-

priestly vocations.

The papal text, released by the Vatican

fully to the call,"

April 7, is titled Pastores Dabo Vobis (/ Will

understanding of sexuality

developed

Give You Shepherds).

among American

said, there

It is

forum

life

chains, pro-life

in the afternoon

drew

about six people running for office.

a post-synodal

will be more vocations to a celibate priesthood because "more people will see it as a positive gift and support rather than as

something negative."

outlining the problems for potential vocain

on sponsoring

A candidate

consensus of the

difficulty to-

The

and respond

and

looking for an office in Raleigh to be near

on Vocations. "The document does a good job of Bishop Curtiss said

Conference workshops included seschurch groups and letter writing campaigns.

mittee

tions,"

Washington

of the organization. Holt recently became a

discuss priestly formation.

Mont., chairman of the U.S. bishops'

sions

trays the challenges the church faces today,

— A new

F. Curtiss

march

cut in half to 250,000 people after

abortions, said Barbara Holt, state president

mendations of the world Synod of Bishops

Bishop Elden

was

Park Service.

obtaining

document by Pope John Paul II on vocations and priestly formation accurately porsaid

Franz referred to a crowd estimate of an

On Vocations Seen As On Target

obstacles" presented by current social and

Tice.

(CNS)

out."

a pro-life lawmaker questioned the National

sues.

registered lobbyist in North Carolina

See Tice, Page 16

Vocation awareness, says Father Tice,

American public that everybody is pro-abortion, and they have a willing media to help them get the message

that

statistics

"Abortion

"Pro-abortionists have tried very hard

grassroots efforts in support of pro-life

to die."

to convince the

cial

In 1991,

said Franz.

April 5 pro-abortion

were 864 reported, up from the 620

claim

they (pro-abortionists) can't deal with,"

from the unborn to the elderly, and mobilize is-

espe-

stops a beating heart." "That's an argument

The 1992 OffiCatholic Directory shows an increase

published seminary

diocesan director of vocations.

to Life slogan

reflects the national trend.

reported in last year's directory. Recently

«,

no one has

position,

The Right

educate the public about pro-life issues

rate

hit the

all,

women will die in the alley, said Franz.

then

of ordinations

has not

pro-life issues)

However, the current

there

you, too," says Father Cecil

Opponents (of

Charlotte Diocese, yet," says Father. Tice.

priesfless parish

life

unborn."

that if abortions are restricted or banned,

President

ship training and

is real.

in ordinations to the priesthood.

we need

values and the right to

cially the

"With our

of legislation," said Franz.

"Our ace-in-the-hole

The average person is going to vote for

majority of Americans support strong fam-

the "Free-

bill

have got to do

CAROL HAZARD

strong pro-life candidates," said Franz. "The

workshop conference. N.C. Right to Life, a 1,000-member organization with 25 to 40 chapters, seeks to

"The

spoke before about 150 members of North

While the decline has not affected the Diocese of Charlotte, the threat

to Kill Act."

everything

development; the offering of the

Eucharist and the forgiving of sins."

not so much to say we're here, but

The Washington-based Right

Greensboro.

legislators.

ily

Day

;rcessions will be offered for World

Photo by

"Informed consent would be wiped off

By JOANN KEANE

Wanda Franz

the speaker at a recent state organization

lenge for the Church. If arenewed Christian

Catholics,

The pope sees amore intense catechesis

as laying the

groundwork"

for increased

vocations, he said.

Bishop Curtiss said

that the U.S. bish-

Committee on Priestly Formation, of which he is a member, has been revising the Program of Priestly Formation, the bishops' national statement of seminary norms and policies. The committee had been waiting for the new papal document before putting the finishing touches on the revised edition, and now it can complete that job, he ops'

said.

See Vocations, Page

— &

2 The Catholic News

May

Herald

Campaign Has

Catholic Communications By JOHN Catholic

Big Impact

WOODS

News

Service In 1990, for example, the collection

Donations to the annual Catholic

Communication Campaign translate into national impact when the campaign underwrites a mass media effort such as the movie "Romero." The campaign, which was launched in 1978 by the U.S. bishops to provide funding for values-centered media projects, has become a key resource for the Church's communications ministry

Through money collected in parishes each spring, the campaign makes both a local and national impact because proceeds are divided equally between both levels.

Ramon

million, said

raised $6.1

Rodriguez, national director for the campaign.

The local share is used at the discretion of the local bishop,

Rodriguez

said.

Sometimes the funds underwrite diocesan communications offices, newspapers and radio and television stations, for example. Frequently dioceses also allocate funds for special

United States.

in the

,4 8,

and radio

broadcasts of the Mass.

Funds for national efforts go primatwo areas: the U.S. bishops' Catholic Telecommunications Network of America, or CTNA, and media

rily to

projects with a national focus.

CTNA,

a nationwide network,

given annual funding from the campaign and received almost $1 million

from the campaign

January 1992,

A producer for Catholic Telecommunications Network of America calls the shots froir network control room during a teleconference on education. CTNA was founded by the

bishops for evangelization and pastoral service.

(CNS photo by Teresa

Zabala).

said Rodriguez.

The

rest

of the $3 million allocated

for national efforts

was earmarked

for

$100,000

grants to individuals and groups pro-

posing projects to implement ideas out-

by the campaign office for valuescentered media efforts. Grantees are selected by the 23member U.S. Catholic Conference Communications Committee. The committee oversees the campaign and includes bishops, religious and laity associated with the mass media industry. Seven projects, chosen from 70 grant applicants, were awarded a total of $803,164 at the June 1991 meeting of lined

"Sr. Thea:

Her

Own

documentary on the

Story," a one-hour

life

of the

late Sister

Thea Bowman, was produced by Oblate Media and Communications with funding from the Catholic Communication Campaign. NBC will show the documentary on national television June 14.

the committee. Grants for 14 additional

announced

projects were

January

1992, including several projects in developing nations. The average grant was in "the

$200,000 range,"said

Rodriguez.

Among

the projects approved in

1991 were a multimedia public service campaign to promote spirituality in daily life; a newspaper supplement to enhance awareness of the church's communications ministry and draw ad revenue to diocesan newspapers; and a media literacy program for Catholic schools.

Oblate Media and Communications in St. Louis received funding to locate previously produced public service announcements for redistribution. Will

Shaw, director of production and marketing for Oblate Media, said that a project such as that one would be finanimprobable for the eight-person company without a grant from the cam-

we could have money somewhere else, but I don't know how," said Shaw. The project is not the first that Ob"It's possible that

Urges Prayers For Vocations To Priesthood

raised the

Media has received from the campaign. In 1990, the campaign funded late

—

VENICE,

Bishop Fla. (CNS) Nevins of Venice has urged people to pray and work for priestly vocations, saying, "We desperately need many more." In a 2,000-word pastoral message

remains an instrument of grace leading and journeying with his people along

he said priests are called "to preach the word of Christ," to celebrate the Eucharist for the people and to be ministers of

blind us to the reality that the over-

John

reconciliation.

In the

Roman

Catholic Church, he

the path to eternal life."

He acknowledged but said, "The few

dedication which includes celi-

bacy"

—

commitment "rooted and

founded in the Gospel itself." -The message, titled "The Dignity of the Priesthood,"

was dated April

16,

Holy Thursday. In it he quoted Cardinal Amleto Cicognani, apostolic delegate in the United States from 1933 to 1958: "After the dignity of divine motherhood bestowed on Mary, there is no greater dignity in the world than that of the priest."

who

fail

who

fail

should not

whelming number of priests in this counand dedicated men. They deserve the support of their Cathotry are splendid

lic

people."

added, priests are "called to lead a life of total

that there are

"tragic instances" of priests

said

some

parents object to the

idea of a religious vocation for their children, and

young people

when he

personally asks

to consider a vocation to

priesthood or religious

life, "I all

often hear, 'Forget about

it,

society," Bishop Nevins said, but "throughout the centuries dedicated and

'No way, Bishop!'"

"What causes this lamentable response which will surely hinder the work of Christ in our beloved country?" he asked.

He said that since he came to Venice 1984 as first bishop of the newly formed diocese, he has ordained 13 priests.

Perhaps no single institution has had such a profound influence on the development of their time.

Christian civilization as the Catholic

has also recruited a

number

of priests from elsewhere.

When

holy priests have been a great influence

on the people of

was

established, the south-

western Florida diocese had 45 active diocesan priests, 23 religious priests

and 22 priests from other dioceses. It had about 1 16,000 Catholics in 40 par-

priesthood.

"In imitation of Jesus Christ," he

be a man of prayer; a mediator of peace between God and humanity; a man who strives for holiness and who is humbled by his own human weakness, for he always said, "the priest is called to

ishes.

At the start of this year, the diocese had 62 active diocesan priests, 56 religious priests and 69 priests from other dioceses.

grown lics

The number of parishes has 48 and the number of Catho-

has risen to about 161,000.

vary.)

Catholic Communication Camp;

funding enabled production of the c cally acclaimed theatrical mc

"Romero" about the slain Archbis Oscar Romero of San Salvador. It pk in theaters

nationwide and

later

broadcast on network television.

The funding was

critical to the]

velopment of the script, producec Paulist Father Ellwood Kieser, pi dent of Paulist Productions in Pai

Palisades, Calif.

film like "Romero," whicl

tained high visibility across the Ur

campaign's

cia)

goals: to evangelize through use

idea

States, fulfills the

Oblate Media's one-hour, videotaped documentary on the life of the late Sister Thea Bowman entitled, "Sister Thea:

Her

Own

Story."

Oblate Media also produced "Fire in the Pews," a half-hour videotape on the spiritual life of black churches in

Washington, New Orleans, Chicago and New York, with backing from the campaign in 1987. Both videotapes were distributed

direct mail.

Tne documentary on also soon will be seen vision.

Sister

Thea

on network

tele-

NBC has scheduled a showing at

media, to achieve national impact high visibility, and to increase fund

Rodriguez said the camp how its money is s

watches closely in

order to help those

who receive gr

meet campaign goals. He said pn ^ leaders need to be savvy enoug matters of distribution and promote get their message to the masses. Another campaign effort is its m letter, Proclaim, which is tailore con Catholic communicators across th< tion. The campaign also present annual Proclaim award to a U.S. dio to

in recognition of excellent use of

funds from the campaign. The campaign has been base

USCC headquarters in Washington 1989,

when

moved from New

City.

Group To Study Ways To Assist Persons With AIDS Interfaith

CHARLOTTE — On May interfaith

16, the

community of Charlotte

will

have the opportunity to discover how they can reach out and provide volunteer assistance to persons with

AIDS

concept, and

volved.

how

"It's

they can becom an opportunity for

viduals to live out their faith in a effective, challenging

way," said

ren.

will outline a grassroots

Keynote speaker will be Mar Austin from Texas, founder of tht

organization's plans to establish a vol-

gional AIDS Interfaith Network (RJ

unteer network in the Metrolina area

Austin's organization has designs implemented AIDS education for

workshop

Church

that will

Myers Park

Baptist

work one-on-one with AIDS

and synagogs.

patients.

eral use in churches

Debbie Warren, a member of the Ecumenical AIDS Ministry, hopes to organize this program based on the successes of a Texas-based interfaith AIDS

volunteers provide direct care, help errands, and provide pastoral

educational organization.

Warren says

the day-long seminar

will introduce interested persons to the

Sell

the campaign.

too

Bishop;'

in late

This vocation "has always baffled

cially

paign.

Florida Bishop

noon Sunday June 14. (Check NBC afffiliates. Times and dates

Austin's talk will outline

RAIN'

erations.

To register, mail a check for Debbie Warren, 1928 #21 17 Landing Ave., Rock Hill, SC 297 to:

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Pro-Life Corner

Brothers and Sisters in Christ;

bestowed upon us

be cherished and safeguarded. Jesus ide a strong statement concerning the sacredness and dignity of motherhood by oosing to enter the world as an infant. Mary gave her "yes" to being the mother Jesus, when she responded, "Be it done unto me according to thy word." Mary's willingness to bring a child into less than ideal circumstances speaks ;arly of her love for the gift of life. Since she was unmarried, she perhaps had many estions on how she could provide for a child. She may also have feared being an tcast with no way of obtaining food, clothing or housing. Today, a message is being sent to those unable to speak for themselves: The right life will be protected for a very select group. Our society often looks for an "escape tch" in dealing with our problems. This is particularly true regarding crisis ;gnancies. In the United States, there are presently 1 .5 million abortions each year, WO each day, with abortion legal through the ninth month of pregnancy. At the ne time, 2 million couples are waiting to adopt children. I realize that many women are faced with a crisis pregnancy, but does the right life depend on being wanted by the mother? The answer to abortion is offering an ernative, insuring protection and help for the mother and child. I ask your prayers and support for any women contemplating abortion as a viable lution to a troubled pregnancy, that the Lord will touch their hearts and help them ilize that every human life is sacred. I ask that you especially pray for those women to have undergone abortions. Ask the Lord and His Blessed Mother to help them d to heal them. Let them know of your love for them and the Lord's desire that they

The

gift

life

one

on the side of life must come as human beings, made I the image and likeness of God; as Christians united through baptism, and as Itholics, sharing in the faith handed down through Peter. I I would like to take this opportunity to wish all mothers a Happy and Holy Dther's Day.

Our response

"It is not only war that kills peace. Every crime against life is an attack against peace, especially if it corrodes the morals of the people, as often happens today with abortion, the suppression of dawning life with horrendous and sometimes legal facilty."

reconciled with Him. in standing

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Pope Paul VI Respect the

Most Rev. John

Pro-Execution A Contradiction VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A The might be cardinal said

how someone,

"in

exceptional circumstances," could

kill

tion."

cide in cold blood like that which oc-

orgetown University has revoked icial

recognition of a student-run club

dealt with the abortion issue. School officials announced April they have denied GU Choice access university benefits on the grounds tthe student group violated an agree

nt to stick to irtion

open discussion on

and instead moved into abor-

said Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini, presi-

dent of the Pontifical Council for Pasto-

said.

Jesuit Father

Leo

O'Donovan,

ral

to the university

community

that

brcing the agreement with the year-

group was "extraordinarily

difficult

the

"Not everything sanctioned by the law is moral," he said. "That is valid both for abortion and for the death pen-

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an inconsistency and an unacceptable contradiction," he said in an April 25 interview with the Italian "This

alty."

Cardinal Angelini, speaking of the

two executions,

Meanwhile, in a front-page editoApril 26 the Vatican newspaper

seems

show "a

earlier

James A. Hickey of Washington, Georgetown

sion.

had no instruction from the

condemned

news conference. Rumors

he had been

summoned

that

Rome

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Romano

who was

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paper said, the death penalty is not a deterrent for crime as some supporters of capital punishment would argue. "In developed and well-off societies, there seems to appear a primitive instinct for revenge which explodes to

not true," he added.

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According

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Today, instead, there is the possibility of therapy; there is imprisonment, even for a long time. But absolutely, one cannot kill, as now, 14 or 16 years after a crime."

Cardinal Hickey" on

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noted author and

Do you wish that you

the death

April 23 Texas execution by lethal in-

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Now let this Catholic

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after the death of Harris

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Do you go to Mass

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lay because of four last-minute court

He said he had "a few conversations

Scripture at

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L'Osservatore

with Cardinal Hickey, and only with

How to Get More Out of

al-

the side of the defense of

Harris' execution, with

Vatican," Father O'Donovan told an April 24

The

decisions, should have been a turning

no longer admissible."

every

primitive

chamber execution of Robert

efits.

to have the Vatican revoke

ways be on

and barbaric the April 21 Cali-

jection of Billy

the Vatican, and a group that has sought

alarming.

death."

and ultimately unmanageable." GU Choice had been given the same privileges of any other campus group, such as access to funding provided by student fees and to other university ben-

dinal

Catholic Church, in any case, will

Alton Harris.

viewed

"This revival of

said,

the culture of death

revenge."

Cardinal Angelini,

of Jesuit-run Georgetown, said in

:tter

some who support

continuation of capital punishment,"

fornia gas

Catholic status had any part in the deci-

n-rights advocacy.

curred a few days ago."

"We are called to always serve life and also to do all we can so that the laws which regulate society are at the service of life and not against it," the cardinal

States, there are

The newspaper

Father O'Donovan denied that Car-

of passion, "but not a homi-

in the heat

"Among the individuals and groups

as cruel

Group

itudent Abortion Rights

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against legalized abortion in the United

society that

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Pope John Paul

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Here is the Vatican remarks in English at his

danger of death.

It should be requested by all v suffer serious illness or the infirmity associated w

weekly general audience April 29.

advanced age.

Dear brothers and

vidual benefit of the one

The

When

sisters,

she celebrates the sacrament of the anoint-

ing of the sick, the

Church

shown

clearly

be a

priestly people. This sacra-

ment has

its

origins in the

ministry of healing and con-

cern for the sick which marked the messianic mission of Jesus and which he

Editorial Pray For Vocations

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J[ m

Pope John Paul II has proclaimed this Sunday May 1 0 as World Day of Prayer for Vocations and has urged all of the faithful to join him in praying for an increase in the numbers of young people who answer the call to religious

of those that agree to consecrate themselves to Christ is diminishing. From this we see the need for an increasing pledge of prayer and initiatives able to

from having grave consequences for the people of God." The pope also said, "The Christian people need men and women, that in offering themselves to the this crisis

Lord, find the

full justification

of their very exist-

ence..."

Father Cecil Tice, the diocesan director of

vocations, says elsewhere in this issue, the situation

10:11). In the

the Church, and let

in 1995.

But as Father Tice says, the diocese is "just maintaining the status quo" and that is largely because of a slower rate of

attrition.

While most national attention has been focused on the shortage of priests in recent years, the situation

even more critical in the ranks of religious women. The Sisters of Mercy of the Americas have one novice at their North Carolina motherhouse in Belmont and other orders around the country report similar slowgious they

number of young women entering

There are few

life.

reli-

to replace the older sisters as

them

and courageous men and women will continue to respond to God's call to proclaim the word throughout the world: Let us pray to the Lord." says, "That faithful

sacrament of the anointing of the sick, Christ for those who are ill and He helps them to bear their afflictions in union with Him. They receive a grace of the Holy Spirit, whose inner anointing frees them from sin, grants comfort and strength, and inspires great trust in God's mercy and love. This anointing can also be instrumental in bringing about physical healing. Although it has traditionally been called "extreme unction," the sacrament of the anointing of the sick is not intended simply for those in

ROME (CNS) — Pope John Paul

II,

visiting

one

extend a warm welcome to the seminarians o! ! American College who will be dained to the diaconate tomorrow, and to the memb of their families. Dear friends: strengthened by sacramental grace which you will receive at y I

Pontifical North

faithful

your personal holiness and your diaconal minisuy liturgy, word and charity (cf. Lumen Gentium, may you always help God s people to grow in faith to live fully the new life bestowed by the risen Lo Upon all the English-speaking pilgrims, from Gi, Britain, Australia, Canada, Thailand, Korea and United States, I invoke Almighty God's abund '

May Volume

8, ,

1992

Number 34

Most Reverend John

;

poor conditions of Italian hospitals and their failure to provide adequate treatment in a number of recent

emergency cases. The pope acknowledged

society,

and religious agencies to the state. "But woe if, after having organized a national

VATICAN CITY (CNS)

— Pope John Paul

young

Young people today need "models of an upright moral life who are faithful to the Church's teaching," the pope said April 28. He was addressing members of the World Union of Catholic Teachers, in Rome for their annual congress. The pope said formation programs for Catholic teachers should try to produce "educators and witnesses, people who are masters in the field of Christian doctrine and witnesses for their entire lives."

Hospital patients

know human

suffering well,

so sometimes have to battle feelings of desolation said.

The pope noted that in Italy there are frequ complaints of legislative delays, bureaucratic sl( ^ ness, hospital inefficiency and disinterest among he

The main problem, he

said,

remains

of moral values.

"On this front, we need a real improvement, a t men and women can bring love

of conversion," so

care to suffering individuals, he said.

said

stu-

ft*-

than to physical care," he said.

care workers.

modern

that in

health service, the sense of personal responsibi

"The presence of public structures does not empt individuals from that active participation and human sentiment, to which the sick are entitled no

blessings.

disappears," he said.

dents.

f+\

ever more ft Son of the Father and spouse of the Church. Through the examph

systems must keep love for the sick person at the center of their operations. This love "can be threatened inside a hospital setting if a close watch is not kept on passions, selfishness, individualism and the interests of a prevailing consumerism," the pope told staff and patients at the San Giovanni Hospital April 25. The pope s talk reflected growing concern over the

doctrine and examples of virtue for their

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may you model your lives

Christ, the obedient

of Rome's oldest hospitals, said modern health care

Catholic teachers should be competent instructors in

Publisher:

will thus enable others their fam and those who care for them to realize t sickness and infirmity can be a "spiritual sacrific ric offered in union with Christ our Savior and with all other members of His mystical body, the Church,

on Jesus

In the

but

— —

They

11).

friends

ordination,

shows His love

it,

passion and death of Christ, and so contribute to good of the whole People of God" (Lumen Gentii

Lord"

(Jas 5:14).

receives

growth of the entire Church. The Sea Vatican Council exhorts the sick who receive sacrament "freely to associate themselves with

care of the sick has passed legitimately from families

retire.

One of the suggested intercessions for this Sunday Masses

Testa-

who

spiritual

pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the

—

Three diocesan priests were ordained last year, two more will be ordained this year, two next year and four

in the

6:13;

New

ment, the Letter of St. James urges the Christian who is

has not yet reached crisis proportions in the Diocese of Charlotte at least as far as priests are concerned.

downs

ciples (cf.

sick to "call for the elders of

message for the occasion, the Holy Father cannot deny that in some areas the number

"We

impede

in turn entrusted to his dis-

life.

In his says,

jfg^n

effect of this sacrament is not only the

said Catholic teachers' task of educating

rooted in their baptism, and

"it is

necessary

first oi [

be disciples of the unique teacher, Christ." Catholic instructors are therefore expected to pil tice the sacraments, pray, read the Gospel and fol| the Church's teachings, he said. to

The pope praised

the teachers' organization!

new formation programs in I European countries. He said this was an invalua helping establish

contribution toward "forming the generations

l (

tomorrow gradually

will be leading these countries,

moving toward

which

a democratic system.'

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is in

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are the symbols?

Sullivan

Some

of us

still

do.

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influenced by our Catholic churches.

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my Church.

I apologize to no one for being Cathc can be one in my heart with my non-Catholic friei and I am. My Church must stop apologizing for bf I

My question to

Msgr. McSweeney is where are the crucifixes and symbols of our faith in our churches? Walk into the main Church of St.. Gabriel's any day of the week, and In fact, it is no different than a non-Catholic church. there are some Protestant churches that are more inspiring!

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Yes, Monsignor, I should not dismiss religious symbols as useless relics of the past. And yes, we do need these signs to totally agree with you,

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The

Editor's By BOB

Light

Notebook

GATELY

—

This month marks the 25th anniversary of dedicate

to all

of Norwich, a 14th century mystic,

"Do

Opposition to capital punishment

which

fear

many

—

a fact

world." (John 16:33)

otherwise pro-life Catholics choose to

Julian's mystical revelations fascinate

Dre.

Cardinal Angelini concedes that, at one time,

But now, he says,

;pted the death penalty.

U Osservatore alty

seems

Romano

show

"it is

many

Catholic theologians

no longer admissible."

said in a front-page editorial that use of the death

a "primitive instinct for revenge."

revenge can be particularly satisfying

when

However, I don't see how

takes a dozen or so years to exact

Personally, I think that spending 40 or 50 or more years behind bars is more of mishment than death. I'll admit, I would be happier if a life sentence in North olina meant life in prison as it does in many states. As it stands now, a life tence here usually I

with her wisdom. In the

—

who know me at all well know that I am opposed

part of the pro-life position of the U.S. bishops

life

if you were responsible for all the tribulations and do not want you to be imprudently depressed and sad for I tell you whatever you do, you will always have some sorrow. That is why I want you to be wisely aware of the state of penance in which you always dwell, and to accept it as your personal and profitable penance." (Chapter 77 of her book, Revelations) This passage mirrors our Lord's own words revealed in the Gospel of St. John. "Do not let your hearts be troubled." (John 14:1) "In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the

agree.

to the death penalty.

who has touched my

not blame yourself as

miseries you must endure:

where many Catholics favor use of the death penalty. The cardinal noted that many Catholics who oppose abortion support capital punishment. He said that's an "unacceptable contradicI

syndicated columns. I'd like to

following passage, she quotes the words which Jesus addressed to her:

particularly pertinent in this area

People

readers and to a special spiritual friend of mine, Blessed Julian

Romano. The statement by Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini seems

tion."

One Candle

By FATHER JOHN CATOIR

There appear to be some signs that the Vatican is prepared to speak out more mgly on the issue of capital punishment, particularly in the United States. those of Robert Alton Harris in Since the two most recent U.S. executions there have been strong statements ifornia and Billy Wayne White in Texas against capital punishment by a member of the Roman Curia and by the Vatican newspaper, Osservatore

—

think

it's

idatory life

means 25 years

at the

most.

about time for a change in North Carolina law to provide for a sentence without parole for someone convicted of first-degree

some members of the General Assembly who would be push for such a change. It might even result in more first-degree murder victions. If there's no death penalty, a juror might be more willing to vote for a ty verdict. And a prosecutor might not be so willing to settle for a plea bargain ause he tinks the jury might be reluctant to vote for a death penalty. der. Surely, there are

ing to

precisely

because they reflect the Gospels so beautifully. Who is Julian of Norwich? We know little about her personal life. She was born in 1343, and lived alone in a small cell attached to the Cathedral of St. Julian of Norwich in England, thus her name. She devoted her entire life to prayer and fasting. Though she was illiterate, her private revelations were recorded by a local priest. In the following passage, she gives a vivid description of God's love. "For as the body is clothed in garments ... and the bones are clothed in the flesh and the heart in the breast, so are we, body and soul, clothed and enclosed in God's goodness. Yes and even though all these things may disappear, God's goodness will not. His goodness is ever whole and much closer to us than anything else." (Chapter 6) We are enfolded in the blessings of an all-loving God. Though we will have crosses, Blessed Julian encourages us to embrace them as our personal and profitable penance. Then, she adds this upbeat piece of advice: greater "The greatest honor you can give to Almighty God in your penance than your sacrifices and mortifications the greatest honor you can give God, is

—

because of the knowledge of His love." was so taken by this insight that I made it the theme of my book, Enjoy the Lord. Living gladly because of the knowledge of God's love is the most important

to live gladly I

hy Have Greeters

Church?

I have ever learned. (For a free copy of the Christopher News Note, "God Delights In You," sned a stamped, self-addressed envelope to The Christophers, 12 East 48 St., New York,

spiritual idea

By FATHER JOHN DIETZEN Where and when did the position of greeters originate? Do we not feel come in the house of God without someone greeting us at the door? Is it more

N.Y. 10017.)

Father John Catoir

iortant than prayer? (Iowa)

Visitors of course always appreciate being

sn't

welcomed

But it goes beyond that. Perhaps more often than not, people arrive at the doors of church for Sunday Mass with something less than the ideal time of reflection behind them. Families may show up after rising at the last minute, searching frantically for someone's shoe or sock or dress, each other in and out of the bathroom and maybe arguing with a child who want to go to Mass in the first place. Even couples and individuals could

jably tell their It is

peful

own

assisted.

Iquilly

by a smile and a kind,

to prepare all these people to share in the

Mass more

and reflectively and actively.

Someone

will object,

suppose, that

By JIM

Listen to the words of John Michael Talbot in his book, Reflections on the He challenges us to rethink a number of issues, one of which is our response

it is

precisely those cares and frustrations

we should bring to place before God at Mass. That is true. But a little less inner and a little more inner quiet can make our encounter with God's word and a lot

needs of the poor:

to the

for ourselves, are we willing to give more than just money to a ministry? Are we willing to accompany Jesus and His ministries as they preach and heal: Will we donate a day, a week, a month or even a year to go to the mission field ourselves to preach the good news to the poor? "Are we willing to become poor to save the poor? Are our hearts truly compassionate toward the needy? Do we really give up our wants to save the lives of the needy? These are questions Jesus calls us to answer today. If we cannot answer them, we cannot know the fullness of salvation, which is the good news preached to the poor! is believe in Him, love from our hearts and give. He will He is God." What moved Talbot to write such strong words? He believed that "we must be on fire to relieve the suffering we see in this world." He believed that "we cannot be passive about the poor if we follow Jesus." He believed we "must respond from

"All Jesus calls us to do

fruitful.

Caring and thoughtful greeters can help greatly in making that happen and [once immeasurably the prayer that goes on in our Sunday worship.

rest, for

us.

... with our whole life ... giving our whole life so that at least might be saved." Christ came into this world to be a servant of love, laying down His very life for Is there a greater witness of charity? Is is not obvious what He expects of us, how

cherishes the giver, the lover?

the depths of our heart

one

[toil

.-ord's sacrifice

WALLACE

Gospels.

[ch

Cry For The Poor

Why are the lives of the saints and their writings so adorned with acts of charity? Why is our diocese so adamant about parish stewardship programs?

do the

similar story, at least occasionally.

the task of the greeters (and, again, the ushers),

word of welcome,

Christ's

"As

mercy.

?ing

director of The Christophers.

Responding To

A. The practice of assigning volunteers to serve as greeters or hosts at parish day Masses is, I believe, becoming quite common. Ushers, by the way, at least partially fulfill this role if they do their jobs well. The source for this practice is not hard to find. It lies in our responsibility to be hospitable and just plain courteous to people when they come to our spiritual home, to treat them as Christ and to exercise the spiritual works of

and

life

Christ loved so that

He could

not turn

down anyone's needs once

they were

encountered.

your column on receiving the Eucharist some time ago, you said that Jiving Communion by intinction precludes the option of receiving Comiion in the hand. In our parish we have Communion by intinction. If the communicant pes to receive the host in the hand (not having it dipped into the chalice) he [he simply extends the open hand, as when Communion is distributed under species. Thought you would like to know. (Missouri) [Q. In

While actually drinking from the Communion cup is identified by liturgical more symbolically desirable way to receive the precious blood, jtimunion by intinction is of course permitted. am grateful to this pastor for telling us how at least one parish does it. l(A free brochure answering questions Catholics ask about Mary, the Mother of is, is available by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to Father John hen, Holy Trinity Church, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. Questions ^'his column should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address.) Copyright © 1992 by Catholic News Service j.A.

liments as the

The following verses of scripture have moved me

to seek a lifestyle of serving

the poor for the love of Christ:

— Amen you, me. (Mat. 25:40) — Amen say you, I

did

say to

as long as

you did

one of these

least brothers,

you

so long as you did it not to one of those least, neither did to shall go into everlasting punishment; but the just into life and these you do it to me, everlasting." (Mat. 25: 45-46) For I was hungry, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger and you took me in naked, and you covered me; sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me. (Mat. 25:35-36) Beloved let us love one another, for love is from God, and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God. He who does not love, does not know God, for God is love. (1 John 4:7-8) Give alms out of thy substance, and turn not away thy face from any poor person; for it shall come to pass that the face of the Lord shall not be turned from thee. According to thy ability, be merciful. If thou have much, give abundantly; if Tobit 4: 7-8) thou have little, take care even so to bestow willingly a little. I

— — —

—

See Wallace, Page 6

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Herald

Stewardship

May

How Does Canon Law Affect Us?

Profile By

The Bishops' Conference

TOM RAWE

BELMONT — Until I started reading small articles about stewardship, and then noticed the time, talent, and treasure printed on our church envelopes,

much about

thought

never really

the significance of stewardship.

had been working on the Finance and Administration Committee almost since we joined Queen of the Apostles in 1981. With the help of many in the parish, we embarked upon various projects like clean up days, painting days, the church and I

rectory renovations.

But

at first

was doing

this

work because

thought

was supposed

that.

—

to us.

the sharing of

life,

time, talents and treasure in a planned and

blessings. It has given me security and me knowledge and satisfaction that I am taking the first steps on my spiritual journey. And this is the whole message of stewardship: The giving of ourselves first to God out of love for all that He has given us. When we do this, strength.

way has brought many

has given

begin our spiritual journey toward God. This is what it is all about. This is why we are all here seeking God's presence. So please, think and pray about your commitment to God, your commitment to

the

way

he calls us to follow. Think about how you fit into God's plan. a parishioner of Queen of the Apostles in Belmont.

life that

Tom Rawe

Letters (From Page

Hi!

Catholic by stripping us of our symbols.

Put our symbols back in the Church.

Remind ing.

us visually of Christ's suffer-

challenge the priests and the bish-

ops to have courage of leadership, and to stop the watering down of our faith.

a student at the

James

project will run through

Stephanie Alder

send material to the address below. Billy Joe Ortiz c/o J.F. Leonard School 60 Allen Street

Student seeks help

Lawrence

Dear Readers,

Wallace

(From Page

Leonard School in Lawrence, Mass. My Social Studies teacher has planned an interesting project and we could use your help. I will be researching and studying all about North Carolina. Please send postcards or pictures of your city. This

Sincerely in Christ, Charlotte

By SISTER JEANNE

May 22.

exercising together certain pastoral offices for Christ faithful of that territory.

it isf promote, in accordance with the law, that greater goo

which the Church

The

is regulated by law (c. 455. 1 ). Because the conference is an integral part c whole College of Bishops, the faithful are bound to adhere to the instructions an teachings of the Episcopal Conference (cc. 753, 754). However, any decree issue; by the conference has no binding force unless it is first reviewed by the Apostolr!

decrees

See.

There are approximately 86 canons that mention the Bishops Conference Without a comprehensive listing, some of the actions of the conference are th setting or determination of:

giving

knowing

pray that

will not turn

down the needs of others whom I encounter

that perfection of spiritual life consists essentially of charity.

As we reach to the least of

out to others,

brothers,

IVl!

—

Church in a specific locality. The bishops of the U.S. attend

official

conference building or headquarters

conference meetings twice a year.

"Yci

located in Washington, D.C., near Catho

University.

are

Given the major teaching and legislative role of the Conference of Bishops, v reminded that in all things the good of souls "must always be the supreme la

of the Church. "

(c.

1552)

Mercy Sister Jeanne Margaret McNally a ,

licentiate in

canon law,

a judge

the Tribunal of the Diocese of Charlotte.

the Saints fa ELDEST SON

OF SI ADABALD AND ST RICTRUPIS OF FLANDERS, HE

life.

am not sharing what is mine but am sharing what was given for the common

use of all. Also,

love; that's the template for our

230.1)

(c.

was

—

qualifications for the installation of lectors, 236) - norms for formation of the permanent diaconate. (c. 766) - norm for preaching by lay persons in church, (c. 772.2) - norms for preaching on the radio or TV. (c. 804.1) - norms on religious education in schools and media, (c. 1067) - norms on pre-nuptial investigation and banns, (c. 1246.2) - decision to abolish or transfer the observance of holy days, (c. 522) - allowing a bishop to set a limited term in appointment of pastors, (c. 755.2) - promoting Christian unity. (c. 891) - determining the age of confirmation other than the age of discretion, (c. 1 126) determining how the declarations and promises in a mixed marriage ai to be made. (c. 1421.2) - permitting lay persons to serve as judges. Perhaps one of the most relevant aspects of the conference is that the authent magisterium (teachers) in the Church is to be found in every individual episcop office, (c 375. 1 ,2) Whenever a number of bishops gathered in Episcopal Conference "Whether they teach individually, or in Episcopal Conferences ... Bishops communion with the head and members of the College, while not infallible in the teaching, are entrusted to their care ..."(c. 753). Thus the Episcopal Conference its very nature may be said to be a continuum of the authentic magisterium of t (c.

MA 01840

His love was borne out by entering the human experience. He was born to poverty, scorned by the chosen people of Israel, humbled by His own humanity, betrayed, wrongly accused and found guilty, scourged and crucified, suffering the pain of all the sins of all time; all in the name of love. So can I turn down Christ's needs in the poor, can I say to Him "sorry, there are more important uses of my time, talent and treasure?'.' I pray to God I will not turn down Christ's needs and that I will always recall that charity is love of neighbor, that mercy is but the manifestation of love, that in life

offers to all people."

authority of the Episcopal Conference to issu

the

Please

sharing, caring, loving.

whole

By forms and means of apostate/

suited to the circumstances of time and place,

Did you hear God speaking to us? Was this but His call for the poor? He beckons us to join Him in eternal happiness, to taste this joy here on earth through giving, Christ's

MARGARET McNALLY

While the Bishops' Conference or the Episcopal Conference may not be most pressing topic you wish to read, nevertheless, this conference is important our lives because of its role in teaching and legislation. Bishops' Conferences new in the Church coming from Vatican Council II and then the 1983 Code of Can Law. However, the gathering of bishops had an ancient conciliar tradition assemblies of bishops were not new. At Vatican Council II, bishops expressed need to have an effective policy-setting mechanism at national level and, as a result, conferences were official] established in canon law to meet this need. Only the Holy See can establish, suppress, or chan an Episcopal Conference (c .449.1), Canon 447 defin the conference as "A permanent institution, namely, assembly of the bishops of a country or of certain territor t]

I guess I always felt that I couldn't I really didn't see the spiritual significance. complain about the way the parish was directed or maintained if I wasn't involved. Or maybe I felt that if I wasn't part of the solution, then I was part of the problem. I always thought about Jesus' message: "Whatever you do for the least of my brethren, that you do unto me." And I always felt sort of guilty about being blessed with many gifts and not really doing much to help with the many needs of the Church and our society. So I began to help out in small ways around the church, applying what talents I had for the benefit of the parish. I felt a responsibility to help, but I still didn't feel like I was working strictly out of live for Christ. It was not Until after several years of parish work that I began to feel God's blessings and grace. When I began to contribute of my time, talent and treasure because I wanted to, because I felt a need to, then I really started to feel God's blessings and rewards. It was a matter of changing my attitude from "supposed to" to "want to and need to." I realized that this was what commitment to Christ's Church was all about helping His mission by sharing of our time, talents, and treasures in whatever way we feel we are called. When we share out of love of God, out of love for each other, out of love for our parish then we are doing what Jesus called us to do. We don't have to be a super mom or super dad and keep 18-hour days to fulfill this commitment. The important thing is that we make the commitment, that we view stewardship as a way of life. The important thing is that we do give of our time, talent and treasure in a planned and proportionate way, and we give because we want to, because we need to. God has given so much to us. We give back because God expects us to be good stewards of the time, talents, and treasures that He has given

proportionate

8, 1<

us meditate on God's words, "What so ever you you do unto me." Then, we will bask in the joy of

let

ministering to Christ-in-the-poor.

Contemplate the total message of charity, which is love of Christ. It will change your acts of mercy to acts of sharing God's gifts and, in so doing, we give personally to Christ and receive the joy of everlasting salvation. For the needs of the poor, for our very salvation, I pray that we would no longer let our Christian requirement of feeding, welcoming, comforting, clothing, housing and loving those in need go unmet. Jim Wallace is a parishioner at Our Lady of the Highways in Thomasville. He and his wife, Ann, have served as missionaries in Haiti and are trying to go to the Dominican Republic to work with the poor.

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WAS BORN IN FLANDERS IN 634, SERVED AT THE COURT OF KING CLOVIS U, AND ON THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, PLANNED TO MARRY. DISSUADED BY BISHOP ST AMANDUS' OF MAESTRICHT, MAURUNTIUS ENTERED THE MONASTERY OF MARCHIONNESS, BECAME A V£f\COH AND WAS FOUNDING ABBOT OF THE ABBEY OF BREUIL, WHICH HE BUILT ON HIS ESTATE OF MERVILLE NEAR th£rouanne. he RULED FOR ST. AMATUS OF SENS WHEN THAT PRELATE WAS BANISHED BY KING THIERRY HI. 7

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and Paroles, the movie age

He.

details her cour-

refusing to cooperate in the graft

and corruption of the governor

who

appointed her to office. Directed by

Roger Donaldson,

NEW YORK (CNS) — The following are

home videocassette reviews from

the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for

Any More"

"Alice Doesn't Live Here (1975)

A widow (Ellen

this

inspiring film

to a

superb perfor-

owes much

mance by

Sissy Spacek in the

Several scenes of violence.

title role.

The

U.S.

Catholic Conference classification is A-II adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 parents are strongly cautioned that some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

—

Film and Broadcasting.

young son (Alfred

portrait

Burstyn) takes her

Lutter)

on a sojourn

—

across the Southwest trying to pursue

her dream of a singing career but winds

viewing by children

estricted television

They suggest

;rts.

that parents

os and movies early in a child's

not desirable, according to Catholic media

— and should —

can

life.

set

(CNS photo by

viewing rules for television,

Jack Hamilton)

Says Parents Can And hould Guide Children's Viewing

Critics

up as a waitress in a greasy spoon where she's courted by a rancher (Kris Kristofferson). Director Martin Scorsese's somewhat ambiguous picture of the struggles of a single parent in

contemporary America offers some insights on the condition of women in a male chauvinistic society. Several sordid situations and rough language. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-IV adults, with reservations. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG parental guidance suggested.

—

By INES PINTO ALICEA News

Catholic

Parents can

Service

— and should — guide

children's viewing of television,

;os

and movies, according to two whose reviews appear in the

critics

press.

fiolic

James Breig, a syndicated TV collist, and Henry Herx, a movie and reviewer and director of the U.S. Iiolic Conference Office for Film Broadcasting, said parents can set ving rules early in a child's

The media experts

from one another.

"Even

"None But

Many parents regularly talk to their children about what they view and budget children's time between television, play,

homework and

are not

"Listen to your children," said the

and

a year, according to "Television

"Sit

down

as a family and decide

ood pediatrician and school, they should spend time guiding their d's viewing habits, the pamphlet

Both critics said parents also could buy a lock-out device which would make only certain channels accessible on the

The

television.

In the years before the child set,

can

parents can control

Herx warned against using TV viewing as a reward.

ving by turning on the television

when they feel an appropriate show

n, said Breig.

older,

of the world.

can do

The

best thing par-

about what the child being on television. The parents can i

|o harm"

talk

coming from incorrect mes-

ps.

Parents also must be aware of the jmple they give, Breig said. I

they will watch horrible shows."

Parents must open the

communica-

lines with their children early so

dren understand that television itasy

world and

fruit,

keep talking to them about what they are viewing, especially because of the adult nature of many films, Herx said. Breig said if parents have been communicating with their children about what they are viewing all along, the job should be easier once the children reach

shows and ads

"Hopefully before then you have instilled in them some values and the ability to critique so they are judging themselves," Breig said. If

tearjerker exchanges the credible premise

of the nario

934

full

original for an

empty

sce-

of bad acting and bogus senti-

mentality.

Some

sexual innuendo, styl-

ized violence and unenlightened racial

The U.S. Catholic Conferadults. ence classification is A-III Not rated by the Motion Picture Association of America. attitudes.

—

movie that the would have prohibited, the par-

a child sneaks in a

Conference

The

mom.

Brief

U.S. Catholic

classification

A-II

—

"Stella Dallas" (1937)

Sentimental tale of a small-town wife

(Barbara Stanwyck) whose husband (John Boles) gets a good job in New York while she stays behind raising their daughter (Anne Shirley) until she realizes the youngster will have a better life with her father and his new wife. Director King Vidor's classic tearjerker about a mother's love and self-sacrifice has a well-plotted

script, neatly

defined

and a stand-out performance by Miss Stanwyck. Some domestic strife. The U.S. Catholic Conadults ference classification is A-II and adolescents. Not rated by the Motion Picture Association of America. class distinctions

—

"Marie" (1985) In telling the fact-based story of

When children start going to movwith their friends, parents need to

parents

desperately to pass for

Marie Ragghianti, a divorced mother of three children and the first woman to head the Tennessee Board of Pardons

of curiosity," Herx said. ies

tries

building up a great deal

treating

adolescence.

"Watch what you watch," cautioned "g. "If you watch horrible shows,

(Sandra Dee) falls for her mother's beau (John Gavin), while the other (Susan

as a

making a mistake by

fents

"Kids are very impressionable," said x. "They can come up with strange

whom

"Parents who use TV as a reward are

forbidden

However, as a child grows have to be more active.

friend

Kohner)

parents just don't think of these things."

Notes.

on how parents

stylized violence.

and adolescents. Not rated by the Motion Picture Association of

white. Director Douglas Sirk's silly

Just as parents take the time to pick

News

—

ing, not

guide viewing habits.

A Viewer's Guide" published

The U.S.

watch television, they're not interactcommenting and not critiquing what they see on television." "These are basic, easy things parents can do," Herx said. "Sometimes

rate a

Sincere, affecting and

Moore) who becomes her best and their daughters, one of

"When all the kids go to a different room

he Christopher

mousey beau.

sion together.

,200 hours of televi-

lphlet provides tips

even the square-jawed Grant can make the shallow lead sympathetic, though Miss Barrymore copped an Oscar for her shining performance as his long-

television."

together what to watch," Breig said.

You:

ten and directed by Clifford Odets, not

believe parents

ch more than l

Oscar Homolka as the

family patriarch, Ellen Corby as the spinster aunt and Edgar Bergen as her

life is

good times and

universal in theme and appeal.

reasoning skills."

critical

bad, convincingly portrayed by a fine

Stevens, the interplay of family

cast including

helping their youngsters," Herx said.

America. the Lonely Heart" (1944) Darkly muddled story of a British drifter (Cary Grant) who returns to his home in the London slums to look after his dying mother (Ethyl Barrymore) but can't resist the easy money offered by a local mobster (George Coulouris). Writ-

richly depicted through

reading.

average about lours weekly in front of a TV screen, 1

—

mother Dunne) on her Norwegian- American brood in San Francisco circa 1910. Produced and directed by George

who

U.S. children,

Remember Mama"

America.

they roll their eyes," said

|more powerful than

Mature theme and treatment. The

"Imitation of Life" (1959) Tawdry romantic claptrap about a struggling actress (Lana Turner), the self-effacing black woman (Juanita

children.

brat.

adults

newspaper of the Diocese of works

raising her only child to be a spoiled

America.

ngelist,

lig, "they still listen.

misguided hero-

ample, parents could say the child is allowed to watch 14 hours of television, with the child selecting four of those 14. The parents pick the rest. But the best method of controlling a child's viewing habits is to watch televi-

The

any, N.Y., said the approach

own

its

suffering yet ever hopeful

editor of

tale

of whose mistakes

ine, not the least

Catholic Conference classification is A-I general patronage. Not rated by the Motion Picture Association of

who

|i his

ultimately destroys

Both critics said a way to control viewing habits is to limit how many hours children watch per week. For ex-

Breig,

an acerbic

obsession with material success

(Irene

develop

also

how

Blyth). Directed by

it's

the nurturing influence of her

to express thoughtful opinions

ng. It's

(Ann

Michael Curtiz,

product with dreams," Herx said.

That way, said Breig, when some-

what we saw was not something we believe

turns his attentions to her adoles-

manipulative and they're selling their

Christopher pamphlet. "Encourage them

that

who

cent daughter

are trying to sell something, they're

g objectionable comes on you can

'You know

(Joan

Crawford) who shucks a useless husband (Jack Carson) in rising from waitress to head of a restaurant chain, then falls for a scoundrel (Zachary Scott)

tion is A-III adults. Not rated by the Motion Picture Association of

"Children should be taught when they are very young that commercials

"Those who don't do

with the child.

woman

Cain's story of a driven

(1948) Engaging, warm-hearted version of the John Van Druten play in which a daughter (Barbara Bel Geddes) recalls

differ

ching and critiquing programs and /ies

(

Misplaced ambition fuels James M.

U.S. Catholic Conference classifica-

life.

also advocate

"Mildred Pierce" 1945)

"Up

the Sandbox" (1972) Seriocomic story of a somewhat mad Manhattan wife and mother (Barbra Streisand) who counters an acute iden-

by creating a fantasy life allowing her to escape a myriad of troubles and even transcend them. Directed by Irvin Kershner, the housewife's struggle tity crisis

ents should try not to get too angry.

end of the world," Herx "Talk about what they saw and that

"It's not the

said. it

was not a good

idea. If the talking is

reasonable then the lines of

communi-

cation will be open."

Copies of "Television and You: A Viewer's Guide" can be obtained by writing or calling The Christophers, 12 St., New York, NY 10017; (212) 759-4050. AskforNewsnote 338. Single copies are free; bulk rates are $4 per

E. 48th

100 and $30 per 1,000.

for liberation

what makes the film

engagingly healthy and at times quite wise, despite flaws in some of the flights of fancy, such as a scene in an abortion clinic.

The

U.S. Catholic Conference adults, with is A-IV

classification

sociation

—

The Motion Picture Asof America rating is R

reservations. restricted.

—

May

Whose

responsibility?

Mine or God's By Father_Robert Catholic

News

Kinast

Service

Once there was a young married couple with a small child. They lived simply and saved their money and finally were able to buy a little farm. The farm was in terrible condition: The land was full of rocks and had not been fertilized for years; the barn was f ailing apart; a well had to be dug for irrigation. This young couple worked constantly, clearing the land, making repairs. At the end of the first year they had a good harvest. They were so happy that they asked the parish priest to come and bless their efforts. As the priest went

around the farm,

he prayed. "We praise God who has blessed this land and made it fruitful. We praise God who has given this sturdy barn to preserve the crop. We praise God for providing the water which nourishes the fields." As the priest was leaving, he asked the child if she was grateful for all God had done for her parents. "Oh, yes, Father, I am. But you should have seen this place when God had it all to him-

They could do nothing donor was found. As

until a

days turned into weeks and then into months, they re-

mained confident that having done all they could, God •would do the rest. They were right up to a point. When a donor was found, the surgery went smoothly but its long-term success

—

depended on Janet's willing-

self."

The child seemed to understand that life is a partnership with God. Human beings have their part to play and so does God. Unlike human partnerships, however, these parts are not always spelled out ahead of time. They are discovered as people live their lives. This is especially evident when human beings feel they are up against their

limits.

Janet had a deficient respiratory system and a short life prognosis if she did not receive a lung transplant. She and her parents decided the risk of the transplant was worth the possibility of a nearly normal life. They completed all the medical andfinancial preparations and then they had to wait.

ness to fight through the pain and danger of rejection. No one could do that for her, not even God. Janet succeeded. She now lives like other young women her age and faces a new set of responsibilities: further education, career, independent living. This is how the partnership with God works. God initiates life and entrusts it to us. We have the responsibility of nurturing and improving what God has given: our own life, the life of others, the life of the world we inhabit. God accompanies us in this task but does not take over.

Janet and her parents did not expect God to terminate someone's life so Janet could obtain a new lung. They did expect God to give them the patience, the courage, the support they needed to carry through the responsible decision they made and to accept its outcome, whatever it

When people realize that their old way of

would be.

When people face their limin a situation like this, they often say they are "turning it

handling a situation just isn't working, "they turn to God for a new perspective," a whole new way of doing things. CNS

its

over to God."

What

does this

mean? It means the people see their responsibility in a given situation but don't know how they

can fulfill •

it.

One spouse knows that the

other is drinking to excess but no amount of persuasion or conillustrations

by Janine Applegate

MARKETPLACE

FAITH IN THE

When a problem seems beyond your control and you ask God to take over,

are you freed

"I I

wouldn't say

have

just

was

enough."

would say

"No.

called to will

—

buy into Henry Nouwen's concept work for justice and trust that God

make

fruitful."

was

freed from further worry.

— Sarah Yaworsky, Rochester, N.Y.

of fruitfulness. will

make

— Harry Murray, Rochester, N.Y.

You can ask God

to help,

and he

will

still

have

do everything

guide you. But you

still

have

can

we are not necessarily called to be effective, but we are Praying is part of it, but one has to act on the trust that God

Christians

that effort

fruitful.

"Of course not. It is important to put matters in God's hands.... But God has also provided us with resources to solve those problems, and we need to use them. For example, we can't just pray and let evil run its course. We need to combat it, looking for the resources God provides and trusting that they will come." Marianne Simmons, Rochester, N.Y.

—

iVc

When people turn situations lil these over to God, it means they wa things to be different. They are n convinced that "nothing can be don< (B They just don't know what they cand 1 they turn to God for a new perspectiv Of course, sometimes people tui things over to God expecting that Gtfl— do their work for them. A paris ioner once asked me to bless her hon so she and her tenant would get aloi better. When I asked what the pro will

lem was between them, she said, don't know. We never talk." I av gestedthe blessing might do more go they talked first. Facing human limitations is a hui bling experience. But it can open up new experience in one's relations!) with God. When people "let go andl God," they allow God to influence the if

perception, their thinking, their fe» ing and their decisions. This experience should not be served for extreme crises. It shou characterize the daily life of every t

was

visiting a 92-yes told me, "When I wa up each morning, I say, 'Lord, I thai you for this day and I give it all to yo Then I get out of bed and watch he the Lord gives it all back to me." It doesn't have to take 92 years learn that life is a partnership in whi we turn predicaments and limitatio over to the Lord and make room i taking on new responsibilities.

Recently

"No. don't think God is totally responsible for anything. help yourself." Jan Horst, Park Ridge, III. I

old

freed of further responsibility.

to trust that that is

ule

of the cycle of poverty but they cai afford the better schools.

liever.

of further responsibility?

do.

frontation seems to stop the behavk • Parents know that their chi needs a quality education to break o

man, who

(Father Kinast is a Florida-bos pastoral theologian.)

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Media Ministry eating to the world through today's technolo oplement

To The

Catholic

News

& Herald

May

Becoming More Involved

)hurch

1992

Television

By JULIE SLY Catholic

News

Service

Religion via the airwaves

increas-

on date rape. Others include telecourses

as mainline groups, including the

for religious education directors, priests,

holic Church,

move

into

ven-

liturgy directors

Today, for example, church pro-

m options abound on national Catholetworks. In addition, local dioceses

make

)

and educators.

Teleconferences address pressing

;s.

substantial use of cable tele-

Church concerns,

as do frequent by officials of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and telebriefings

U.S. Catholic Conference.

CTNA was founded by the bishops

on.

The major

efforts

by mainline

gious groups include the Catholic

for evangelization

and pastoral service,

Lattanzi said.

ecommunications Network of

"Our purpose

different

from

that

erica, or

of other networks," he said.

"We

are

rnal

trying to help

CTNA, Mother Angelica's Word Television Network, or

TN, and the Vision

Interfaith Satel-

Network, also called VISN. Founded in 1981 by the U.S. bish-

CTNA now

cially the laity,

Church leaders, espeto go out and do their

work."

has outlets in more

EWTN was founded in 1981 by Mother Angelica, a cloistered Poor Clare

120 U.S. dioceses, religious

nun. From a garage-turned-studio broad-

therhouses, Catholic health care fa-

casting to 60,000 viewers from the

and Catholic colleges and unifies. Frank Lattanzi, CTNA's vice »ident for marketing and business, mated that the network's diocesan Hates reach 7 million households onwide. "Our major goal is to have every ;ese affiliated with CTNA," he said, ny dioceses show CTNA programs local cable television stations, he

grounds of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Birmingham, Ala., EWTN has grown to a 24-hour cable network

ties,

id.

CTNA

programming ranges from

lership development courses in health ;

to minicourses for college students

now

reaching more than 23.3 million

households on some 820 cable systems in

This Mass, celebrated by Bishop Donoghue

showing on VISN, the around the diocese.

interfaith cable

at St. Patrick

network and

EWTN provides "family-oriented" programming, including talk shows such as "Mother Angelica Live," a teaching series on spiritual and scriptural topics, and prayers and devotional shows.

Founded faith cable

in 1988,

VISN is an inter-

TV network presenting reliand values programming

gious, faith

from the perspective of the mainstream

VISN

Judeo-Christian tradition.

repre-

54 faith groups. Programs address spiritual as well as social issues and include documentaries, drama, live call-in, profiles, worship and preaching, feature films with discussion and children's programs. Nelson Price, president and chief sents

now

1991 and 1 1

Box 36776

Charlotte, N.C.

28236

(704)377-6871

two

reaches approximately

million cable households.

He cited

promote the network to systems and to "reach a broad

goals: to

cable

who watch

Chancery

religious programs."

Dear Friends in Christ:

—

"There's Power in the Message," is the theme of the Catholic Communication Campaign. This is true, because it makes us think of the Power of God's message and the power of the media to make a positive contribution or a negative one.

witness are presented."

Established by the U.S. Bishops in 1978, the Catholic Communication Campaign initiates an funds high-visibility media projects with national impact. The annual collection is divided equally between diocese and the national CCC office. The local share is used to support diocesan communication projects and programs. The national share supports a variety of projects which have a national impact.

under age 50, Price noted. "The target audience is a broad spectrum of people who are on spiritual journeys and are

A recent

survey showed that more VISN viewers were

than 58 percent of

interested in a better

way

to live their

supported by these equally as

Our mission is to proclaim Christ's message of love to all we can reach. The contributions to the Communication Campaign enable us to continue our efforts to spread the Good News via our diocesan paper, TV, radio, videos, etc. We thank you for your past generosity and ask your continued support when this collection is taken in our diocese on the weekend of May 16-17.

Wishing you and yours God's abundant blessings,

your^in Christ,

Church

officials

about pursuing to

promote

Understanding this is critical to answering the question of how to teach, preach and evangelize most effectively today, she said. Sister Angela Ann Zukowski, presi-

dent of

V.G.

their product

approximately 60 percent of U.S. diosome type of TV

ceses are involved in

production, primarily for cable systems.

much

of the

good television programming that's out there," said Clare Colella, director of

communications for the Dio-

EWTN

cable systems in the diocese, including

Morehead Street, Charlotte, N.C. 28207

FAX (704) 3581208

The Church must look

"how we

and radio to their fullest extent," said Sister Angela, a Mission Helper of the Sacred Heart. "We don't look at the most creative program we could produce that would have the greatest national impact, and then invest our resources in that," she said. "When bishops look at the cost of producing a program, panic sets in and they fall back on the more traditional ways of communicating. What we need to do is produce a variety of programs

for a variety of audiences."

broadcasting, said the Church has not

two-sided problem: Church leaders tend to be pastoral and distrust the mass media, and at the same time

cese of San Bernardino, Calif. The diocese presents Catholic programming, and VISN, on seven including

a national associa-

communicators, said

ways

creative

"It's a

electronic

Unda-USA,

tion for church

television.

must be serious

new and

there's ignorance about Rey. Ms'gr. John J /McSweeney Chence/llor

Geaney, direcIntercommunity Telecommunications Project in Silver Spring, Md., who has worked for 30 years in Catholic

Catholic media experts cautioned that

much

Paulist Father John

lives."

1524

JOANN KEANE

they are by a Sunday liturgy or homily."

could use

"Our programs promote high moral and ethical values in an interesting and entertaining way," Price said. "The network is unique because of its diversity all viewpoints, theologies and social

April 29, 1992

Sin€terelv

taped weekly for

church leaders don' t realize this," Colella said. "People are reached through radio and TV. They are touched, moved and

cross section of people, not just people he

Photo by

Work has grown by 77 percent during

P.O.

Cathedral,

available for use on cable systems

states.

executive officer of VISN, said the net-

Diocese of Charlotte

mountain and desert areas. "People depend on electronic techmany nology on an ongoing basis

—

tor of the

been able

to deal aggressively with ra-

dio and television.

Within Catholic television, he

said,

Church leaders "should decide on a firstrate television effort or stop what they're doing and save a lot of money." "The major problem the Church our inability to promote," Fasaid. "It is almost incredible that with 53 million active Catholics, we can't produce large TV audiences when there is something worthwhile to watch." faces

ther

Geaney

Supplement

The Catholic News

Herald

May

Even Watching Can Influence TV Networks Letters, Calls,

NANCY FRAZIER O'BRIEN Catholic

News

Service

and even your choice of what to watch can have an influence on network programming, according to officials of the networks and a media monitoring group. Letters, telephone calls

And when you think a show has gone beyond the boundaries of community acceptability and all else fails, you can go after a local station's broadcast-

show support (for a particular show) is by watching it," she said. That theory in reverse is what leads Morality in Media, founded in 1968 by a Catholic priest, and other organizations to sponsor a "Turn Off the

—

TV Day" each year. Claiming that millions of people darkened their screens for the 1991 ob-

Media

ing license with a petition to the Federal

servance, Morality in

Communications Commission.

Kevin Beattie said it sent a message "that the American people are fed up with the sex, vulgarity and violence coming over the airwaves into their homes, tired of the unrelenting and escalating assaults on their deepest convictions, and deeply concerned over TV's influence on the mores of this

"If you're upset with a program,

want

to hear," said Janice

director of media relations for in

New York,

"t's also helpful

hear from people

who

Gretemeyer,

ABC-TV when we

are pleased with

a particular show."

The network's Audience InformaDepartment monitors and tallies all and phone calls received and passes the information along to network management, Gretemeyer said. Betty Wein, senior editor for Morality in Media, said her organization

tion

its

members

—

make

their

views known in letters to advertisers sponsoring offensive programming, to the network or cable system airing it, and to the local stations. "Every letter counts," she said. "If something offensive is on TV today and you write a letter, you may have prevented the network from going one step

The networks

But,

Wein

said,

Morality in Media

has found that "form that

much

letters

don't get

attention" at the networks or

the advertisers, so a personal

message

preferred.

Gretemeyer said the networks also "rely heavily" on the Nielsen ratings, currently the "only tool we have" to measure viewership.

"One of the

best

said there

noticeable change in

was no

viewing on Turn Off the TV Day in 1 99 1 But Wein said the 4,000 Nielsen households really don't reflect the nation's 248 million people in any meaningful way. Vicki Riley, president of the Delaware-based Concerned Viewers for

who

Quality Television, catalyst for the

weeks

post office box

served as a

campaign, said that three

after the

blackout day,

is still

Films Present Distorted View Of

Church;

being bombarded

letters

a difference."

According to Gretemeyer, ABC's Broadcast Standadds and Practices Department tries to prevent problems before any viewers can be offended. That department "looks at every program, every commercial, every public service announcement, from concept to rough cut to final program," she said. See Influence, Page 4

Trivialize All Religion

By DAVID SCOTT News Service "Mermaids" was a box-office senCatholic

when became

sation

also

"my

from people expressing concern about TV and asking how they can with

ways a person can

it,

hit theaters in

a popular

home

1990.

video.

would be

be Catholic. She ultimately decides that Catholicism would fill her life with mysterious habits and rituals and would make her feel guilty about sex and fearful of death. Another popular home video, the 1990 film "Godfather III," offers an equally dreary portrait of Catholic life focusing on less-than-pious Catholic gangsters and showing a Vatican hierarchy that is sinister, decadent, and ruled by back-stabbing prelates and doubleit

malign priests and nuns as laugh: characters out of touch with the chani ing times, Keyser indicated.

Those trends continue today. A goi

a teen-age girl imagines what like to

—

case in point, Keyser said, ter

the Catholic Church, published by Loyola University Press. Though Catholicism is pictured negatively for the most part in U.S. movies, Keyser said he sees no particular Hollywood bias or conspiracy against

American women

giving her a distorted ethical system

wrong approach to sexuality and as le ing her to a fixation on death," he sa

and

Church in Hollywood films is far from black and white and has changed over the years. In the so-called "Golden Age of Hollywood," films like "Angels With Dirty Faces" (1938) and "On the Waterfront" ( 1 954) depicted the Church and its priests "as a powerful force for

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said.

From

become

rival as a source

telei

attitu(#id

and as creator of a "world view,

Hollywood has its own "catechisif

And it is one tha odds with religious valu Taken together, Hollywood movies fer a picture of an "earthly heaven" "riches, youth, beauty, health and sex entirely at

activity."

Despite the competition, the Chui shouldn't give in to the temptation

support censorship of films or any

should help

— through

sermons

articles in the Catholic press

—

wh human condition, if not spec

treat the

to bu

the audience for "serious films

where one could get

of religious "quotas" in Hollywc movies, said Keyser. Instead the Chu

was a

real place

different sense of values."

cally ecclesiastic questions."

Aggressive Hollywood criticism of the Church emerged only in the turbulent '60s and '70s. Catholic teachings on sex outside of marriage and birth control were targeted for potshots and one-liners in countless popular films and were ridiculed even in serious films such as Diane Keaton's "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" and John Travolta's "Saturday Night Fever," both of which came

As examples of such films, he ci "Gandhi," "Romero," "Tender Merci and "Chariots of Fire." And the t religious film of all times, in Keyse

"M*A*S*H"

(1970) typify the period's tendency to

estimation, remains

"The Nun's Sto

(1959).

Such films show that Hollyw< can make the cross come alive on silver screen and can help people "what the good life is" and "how function in this world when one's fo i

IX.

the Church's cW

of values and

social change," according to Keyser. "It

out in 1977. Movies like r

Keyser

The

VCR to theaters, the medium §b

film has

the

\Kj

religion,

sion to

world, Keyser said.

Despite persistent anti-Catholic ste-

your parish.

identify, treating

or system of values and beliefs about

reotypes and prejudices, the image of

tholicism as bizarre and antiquated

said.

with in cinematic terms," he added.

Hollywood has a hard time putting religion on the screen in general, he "The question of this world and other worlds is most difficult to deal

THE CATHOLIC

young

this

Winona Ryder, with whom lots of you

the Church.

said.

in the messages we pick up from why the Catholic Communication Campaign J^'^B supports positive messages in TV radio, and print, through k _~y projects in your community and throughout the country.

the chare

about the prejudices against Cathol

at the

College of Staten Island, N.Y. Keyser is co-author with his wife,

There's power

"Mermaids." "Here we have

Winona Rye

and

English professor and media critic

the media. That's

starlet

Barbara, of the 1984 book Hollywood

dealing priests.

Those images are typical of the way Hollywood has cast the Church-in re-

WHAT MESSAGE ARE THEY TUNED TO?

played by the

But as disturbing as those skew images of the Church might be, Key: is more worried about the growing tt dency of films to trivialize religion al gether. Recent movies like "Black Rot and "At Play in the Fields of the Lot are exceptions to Hollywood's rec< pattern of giving the Church and re gious believers only bit parts in movi The Church should be concern

cent years, according to Les Keyser, an

appeal

in a positive light are the excepti'

Hollywood's recent pattern of trvializing religion, according to a media critic whobelieV th Church can help build an audience for serious films. (CNS photo from Columbia Picturt to

make

further."

Films such as "Gandhi," which present religious values

nation."

the letters

also urges

president

on the other world."

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were a convention of Catholic authors, one at first would be hard pressed to find what they have in comIf there

mon. They would include

poets,

colum-

playwrights and novelists,

nists,

men

and women, priests and religious, married and single, young and old.

What they'd hold in common, however,

would be the faith that helped form

their thinking.

M. Cantero, executive

director of

Precious Blood Father Clarence Williams

Archdiocese of Miami's Spanish-lan-

heads the Detroit-based Black Catholic

ge newspaper, would

Televangelization Network.

icelli

urch spend lic

like to see the

more money

to reach His-

Catholics through electronic and print

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dia.

;hurch

Media

lispanics,

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News

me-

she said, the

money

have isn't funneled into Spanish-language newspapers, radio or television. "It seems the Church is not willing to spend money for these means of evan-

ck and Hispanic church media obvers.

But inroads to the black and Hiscommunities are being made ough radio and other electronic means. "We have stories to tell. We're doa lot in the Church, yet we're praclic

gelization."

When

English-language diocesan

newspapers were started, "bishops realized Catholics needed their own identity and, therefore, their own press, and they gave the newspapers big subsi-

invisible in the Catholic press,"

d Beverly A. Carroll, executive diof the U.S. bishops' Secretariat

tor

Church at all levels, the Church does

limitations face the

dies," said Cantero.

Black Catholics.

ish-language diocesan newspapers

ibe to diocesan or national Catholic

tend to

vspapers or magazines "because there

of current Anglo newspapers"

n't

enough stories in them that reflect

demand

we're involved in," said Carroll. The only way to fill that void, she

"we

(budgetary) standards

ing that "Hispanics for the

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Albany. His hometown and Irish-Catholic background provide settings and char-

tary

acters for his fiction.

taught English

Kennedy won

a Pulitzer Prize in

1984 for Ironweed and since then has worked as a novelist, screenwriter, and teacher.

ignor-

most

part

Many

of Kennedy's characters are

Kennedy credited the Church with giving him "an understanding of a mythical structure for

my own

life

and other

"The main effect (of my CatholiKennedy said, "is that I keep

cism),"

writing about Catholics.

who

"I'm constantly aware of

its

fasci-

Catholic, that the Church influences her

"The best of what

tholicism that

can

feel

Gordon's father was a Jew who

of touch (with Hispanic Catholics)

parts of the nation, Spanish-language

converted to Catholicism. Her mother,

not aware of the

Catholic radio programming

power

the

media

% have to evangelize," she said. While recognizing

that

many is

plenti

who was Catholic.

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economic

Irish and Italian, also was She defines herself a Catholic

111.,

1917, Powers pur-

Powers has written short

on priests. His 1962 novel, Urban, which won a 1962 National Book Award, and Wheat That Springeth Green, published in 1988, focus on priests. In many stories, Powers examines particularly

how

the characters live out their faith.

Often the stories are tinged with humor, even satire. Author Jon Hassler explores the same territory. His 1 990 novel, North of Hope, drew critical acclaim and comparisons to Powers.

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Powers, another contemporary might well be called tho dean of U.S. Catholic fiction writers. Born in

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tool for the church.

seems to me that many times the Church power structure are

Catholic

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Mary Gor-

vidual." Similarly, novelist

that as people find themselves busier and busier with less time to read, radio becomes a powerful

"It

While teaching, Gordon wrote ficand essays. Her first two novels, Final Payments and The Company of

sued a variety of jobs before becoming

n of

>se in

raise her children.

Jacksonville,

I consider Catouched by and touch combines aesthetic idealism and moral intensity, and an image of love and responsibility and beauty that feeds you and enables you to go on with it,"

and see that Cantero notes

community college

concluded, "in society and in the indi-

glish isn't going to

Hispanic Catholics nationwide reached by the church through me-

home and

at a

gave up teaching to work

nation as a force for social change," he

guage newspaper of the Archdiocese Miami, says a relatively small por-

doesn't read Enbuy that newspaper column," she said.

later

writer,

Occhiogrosso's 1987 book, Once a

Hispanic

and

the permissiveness of the contemporary

language newspaper is "a token sign" or "gesture," but does not address needs of Hispanic Catholics.

and secondary schools. After gradu-

ating from Syracuse University she

from the vantage point of women. The Company of Women, for example, examines the lives of seven women and their relationships with Fa-

ke a point of hiring African-Ameri-

tor

Gordon attended Catholic elemen-

Women, explore

don noted

M. Cantero, executive diof La Voz Catolica, Spanish-

women

and abortion.

an interview with "Contemporary Authors," an annual research work, In

or one page in Spanish in an English-

In her view, publishing one article

Church over

such issues as the ordination of

Catholic.

itends, is for the Catholic press to

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how

live out their Catholic Faith.

ters

Franciscan-run Siena College in Loudonville, N.Y. He initially worked in journalism in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Miami, but eventually returned to

people's."

But with young and struggling Span-

Relatively few black Catholics sub-

Jon Hassler's novels examine

Kennedy, an Albany, N.Y., native, attended Catholic schools, including

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illy

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Efforts

Hispanic and black Catho-

hind," says William Kennedy, author of the novels Ironweed and Billy Phelaris

Greatest Game, "It's permanent baggage that you carry in your mind."

To Reach Blacks Seen Mixed

U.S. Church efforts to use the to reach

has pro-

HANSEN

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duced documentary programs on black Catholic worship throughout the world.

"Once you're indoctrinated as profoundly into a religion as soundly as I was, you're not going to leave it be-

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many

to the following addresses:

years before becoming a professor and writer-in-residence at St. John's Uni-

Minn. North of Hope tells of a priest who must deal with losses in his life. In an versity in Collegeville,

earlier novel, Staggerford,

story of a

Christ to a troubled

One of

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tells the

girl.

the major Catholic charac-

ters in that novel,

pears in

young man who becomes

A Green

Agatha McGee, reapJourney, where on a

tour of Ireland she learns the truth about

an Irish pen pal with whom she corresponds. Another Catholic author, Andre

Dubus, has written primarily short stories. However, in 1991 he published the autobiographical Broken Vessels, a work prompted by a near-fatal highway accident five years earlier which resulted in including the amputa12 operations

—

tion of his left leg

—

You can J.F.

Powers' novel Wheat That Springeth

Green focuses on from Knopf)

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priests.

Dubus examines aftermath and his

the accident,

own

Dubus was born La.

life in

its

the work.

Lake Charles,

He served in the Marines from 1958

1964 before pursuing a career in writing and teaching. Most of his fiction has been pub-

lished in such collections as Adultery

and Other Choices, Finding a Girl in America and The Last Worthless Evening.

The

stories focus

isolation, lone-

Often they liness and relationships. have a dark edge, yet there is always a faith in something more. In a 1987 interview in America magazine, Dubus pointed out that his Catholicism permeates his writing. "I see the

Catholicism permates his writing.

Dubus

lic,"

Dubus says

his

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Influence (From Page

see

whole world

noted, "so

as a Catho-

can't help but

my characters through the eyes of a

ability."

Gretemeyer said the networks some-

ful. Catholic lay people and priests must be given credit for most of it, said

By viewing show

the programs,

other hand, a complaint that a statioL-

guish network programming from cable," noting that the network often gets calls complaining about programs that did not appear on ABC. Other programs airing on ABC's 1 25 member stations originate not with the network but with the local stations, which "are mandated by the Federal

broadcast indecent material, accompi

Communications Commission to serve the public interest," Gretemeyer noted. viewer feels a station has vio-

If a

community standards in gramming, he or she can file a lated

FCC

its

pro-

petition

Caribbean, Latin America and Africa, "black and white communities could see that to be black and Catholic

Spanish-language radio stations in Mi-

ami and get on the

said.

she said.

"It's for

inquire about filing a peti-

our children," Wein addi for their legacy in

"We're fighting

midst of a cultural war.

And we

neej

troops."

not

absurd or an anachronism" as is sometimes believed in the United States, he

air,

it."

which

Miami Auxiliary Bishop Agustin Roman, originally from Cuba, "can go anytime he wants" to any number of

new two-hour

who

can be entertained by the commissio because a statute prohibits the broadca: of such material." Wein of Morality in Media said th most important way to have an infl; ence on television is "don't be silent.] "We don't care how you do it letters to advertisers, to the networks, the stations," she said. "People had tremendous clout and they don't knoi

asking that the station's

in a fact sheet distributed to

The priest credited numerous Catho-

daily

Miami radio show called "Amanecer" (Dawn) starts each day with a greeting

lic

and blessing from Bishop Roman and then goes on to offer four half-hour segments on a constantly changing variety of topics, from charismatic renewal to drug addiction and attacks against the Catholic Church. The radio broadcast even reaches Cuba, Cantero said. Cantero herself goes on the program for a half hour every two weeks with a news segment called "La Voz Catolica Informando" (The Catholic Voice Informs) that is based on information published in her diocesan news-

Josephite Fathers, the Divine

lic

foundations, the U.S. bishops' Catho-

Communication Campaign,

the

Word Fa-

and the American Board of CathoMissions for funding his efforts. Seeing one's own community in the media is especially important in modern times, contends Father Williams. "Nowadays, if you're not on TV in this country, people don't think you exist,"

thers lic

said the priest.

paper.

Working with electronic media both to reach black Catholics

and teach the

community about black Precious Blood Father

larger Catholic

Catholics

Clarence Williams, president of the

Detroit-based

Black

Catholic

Televangelization Network.

Father Williams, pastor of

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those

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FURTHER NOURISHMENT

An adventure By Steve Heymans Catholic

Bob Weir,

News

Service

guitarist for the Grateful was the birth of his

ead, once said it st child that

made him grow

up. "Af-

r all," he said, "you can't be on drugs hen you've got a 1-year-old to tend to. lat would be irresponsible!"

We like to think responsibility is like hair and getting a driver's license: comes naturally with age. But if Weir right, becoming responsible is not me stage into which we naturally delop. It is that time in life when there's where else to "pass the buck." In short, young people don't just heme "responsible." They become recial

(onsible for something.

This

a scary thought for me, as

meone who works with

nts.

college stuare very concerned with the

that leads in

new

statistics on alcohol use by young people. We are constantly telling them to be responsible young adults. Yet, when all you have to be responsible for is making it to Psych 101 by 1

What is

street.

This

is ironic.

attractive to

young people about sex, alcohol and drugs is not the sex, alcohol and drugs in themselves; it is the adventure, a newness and excitement otherwise not found. We all know that this adventure of sex, drugs and alcohol leads nowhere. But adventure is necessary to living

meaningful

lives.

in part, those of us

Psycho-Spiritual

are adults have to take blame for not offering young people a significant adventure. Often we have not offered a worthwhile alternative to the adventure of the

p.m. tomorrow, why not spend an evening with the boys?

"What is attractive to young people about sex, alcohol and drugs is not the sex, alcohol and drugs in

For, as Christians,

and theology, writes

of difficult

and what happens when the power and wisissues faced

dom

are experienced

God

ordinary

life

context. Writing of grace,

our feet. Paul the evangelist goes so far as to call Christians "spiritual warriors." We "gird our loins with truth," put on

to us, is that

the "breastplate of righ-

military

in that

he says:

"Grace, divine presence freely given

ourselves that

power greater than

we can

Sometimes

attend

to,

tap

—

presence invited or uninvited has been comforting. At other times that presence has been disturbing, challenging me to more profound conversion and into....

that

—

transformation of life." (Thomas More

Press, 205

West Monroe

St.,

Sixth

60606-5097.

Chicago, III. Paperback, $13.95.) Floor,

superpowers.

But perhaps Paul does not have a superpower army in mind; he may well be thinking of an underground revolution a "guerilla" movement. But this is not a violent revolution. It is a revolution of faith, hope and love.

—

The "responsible" students with

whom I work are responsible precisely because they have this sense of adventure. Whether they volunteer in a soup kitchen or help as eucharistic ministers, they see themselves on the move. They are response-able, that is, able to respond. What they respond to is the mystery of the Gospel, not knowing where they will be taken, but on the move nonetheless. Seeing ourselves on an adventure to which God calls us has a practical side: It allows us to step back from our business-as-usual way of doing things. It affords us a new perspective, an imaginative way of seeing and acting. Without a sense of adventure and the CNS

try

seems we have an exciting adventure right at

themselves; it is the teousness." How much more adadventure, a newness venturous can one get? Such militaristic images and excitement not appeal in our may And otherwise not found." age of conscription and who

Paschal Journey: Reflections on Growth, Father Patrick J. Brennan, who holds degrees in clinical psychology, minisIn

directions

imagination in affords, we too easto convention and all its trappings: We remain the victims of old ways of doing things. Thus there is a connection between this adventure and the imagination, an indispensable attribute for Christian vital ily

succumb

living.

Ironically, these student don't see themselves as responsible. They're just having fun being of service to God and neighbor. To label that "responsible" would sound terribly boring to them. Perhaps they're right. Jesus doesn't invite us to be responsible. He invites us to share in new life. "I have come so that they may have life and have it more abundantly." (John 10:10).

Now

that's

sponding

something worth

(Heymans is director ofcampus minJohn's University, CollegeMinn.)

istry at St.

photo from Cleo Freelance Photo

ville,

Don't give up! Just shift into another gear By Father John J. Castelot Catholic News Service strange, but true, that people seemingly insoluble oblems only when they stop trying so rd. Beating their heads against brick ills solves nothing and it hurts! When they wake up to the futility of all and hand the problem over to God, ey have taken the only sure step toird an eventual solution. It is

id solutions to

—

When

Jesus came down from the

ount of Transfiguration, he found his sciples surrounded by an excited owd. Their efforts to cure a boy had tracted much attention, and those

jme

efforts

had brought nothing but

ment. Rather one's involvement shifts from an unaided and futile effort to a different kind of effort, the effort to trust.

But the man realizes he needs help even here: "Help my unbelief!" Now, finally, he does trust, and Jesus cures the boy.

The disciples, too, learn a lesson: not that they should simply stop trying to help people, but that their unaided efforts were misguided. Acknowledging the futility of one's sincere efforts does not lead to inaction but to action backed up by trust in God's power, with the emphasis on the latter. It is not a question of either-or but of both-and.

listration. I Jesus inquired into the situation and turned that the boy had experienced ghtening seizures all his life. His poor ther was frantic. He had sought the lip of the disciples to no avail. Then he turned to Jesus with the tenItive but hopeful plea: "If you can do lything..." (Mark 9:22). Jesus, sensing le tentativeness of the request, exBimed: "'If you 'can!' Everything is posi)le to one who has faith." The man's reaction is heart-rending, It eloquent: "I do believe, help my un-

—

Mief!" | It is

not a matter of washing one's

Inds of

all

responsibility

and involve-

The prophet Elijah had been waging a long battle with the ruthless Queen Jezebel. His last effort, a successful skirmish with her court prophets, brought down her murderous fury upon him.

He couldn't win for losing. He ran for his life. But he ran in search of the God who had apparently abandoned him. Elijah found

God in a dramatic way.

Having found God, he found the solution to his problem.

He did not simply give up but returned to do things God's way. St. Paul, so conscious of his weakness and now burdened by a mysterious chronic ailment, threw himself into

God's arms and learned that it was here that he wouldfind success, in spite of apparentfailure. "My grace is sufficientfor you, for power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:9). Paul did not give up the struggle, but he now struggled with strengthened confidence and a renewed perspective.

(Father Castelot

a Scripture

scholar, author and lecturer.)

FOOD FOR THOUGHT There are times when a person's utmost efforts to take care of things, to manage events responsibly, lead only to frustration. This happens particularly in situations involving another person: one's child, spouse, co-worker, student. The other person may not respond to our wellintentioned direction. I

may be convinced am right. Still the other person may function differently than I

wish.

Perhaps the other's behavior is truly negative, destructive. Or perhaps the other person is pursuing his or her unique and ultimately positive course in life. Whatever the case, an important question finally dawns: What do do when my old ways of functioning in a situation aren't working? At this point people often begin to speak of turning it over to God. If quiet my voice in order to allow God's voice to be heard, may begin to see that my old way of functioning in the situation wasn't the only possible way. Perhaps God's gift to me will take the form of a new perspective. Slowly may begin to see the other person differently. Slowly, too, may begin to see myself and my role in others' lives in a new light.

—

re-

to!

David Gibson, Editor, Faith Alive!

atholic

News

May

Herald

People

the building since Feb. 26, the

paper in Nashville, has been named editor of Cross Roads, the diocesan

from St. Anthony Medical Center, where

—

Piwowarski,

who

Linda

Lexington.

day be-

fore he suffered his second stroke in less

than three years. Prior to visiting the

accompanied by

office, the bishop,

physical and occupational therapists

a patient, visited his Valparaiso

home.

paper. Shaughnessy, 29* succeeds D.G.

Lithuanian Bishop Brizgys Dies: Lived In Chicago After Nazi Exile Lithuanian CHICAGO (CNS)

who had been editor of the

Bishop Vincentas Brizgys, exiled from

assistant editor of the

FitzMaurice,

paper since

its

mm mm

has been serving as

administrative assistant of Cross Roads,

was named

founding

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Shaughnessy Named Editor Of Lexington Diocesan Newspaper ThoLEXINGTON, Ky. (CNS) mas F. Shaughnessy, assistant editor of The Tennessee Register diocesan news-

newspaper

news-

—

homeland since 1944, died of a heart Chicago after nearly half a century of ministering to

1990.

his

attack April 23 in

Pope Appoints

Two

Auxiliaries For Toronto

VATICAN CITY John Paul

(CNS) appointed two

He was 88

auxiliary

nearly 52 years.

bishops for Toronto, one born in the United States and the other a native of Italy.

Named were

Lithuanian Catholics around the world.

— Pope

Msgr. John Stephen

years old and a bishop for

From 1951

retirement in 1984, he

was

until his

the papally

designated bishop in charge of pastoral assistance to

all

Lithuanian Catholics

From abroad he helped

Knight, a 50-year-old pastor in Thorold,

outside Europe.

Ontario, in the Diocese of St. Catharines, and Father Nicola de Angelis, 53, currently superior general of the Sons of the Immaculate Conception, a Rome-based religious order. He worked from 1 970 to 1980 among Italian immigrants in the Toronto area and became a Canadian citizen in 1975. The appointments were announced at the Vatican April 27.

organize and support the underground

Wisconsin Bishop Resigns For Health Reasons At 74

—

WASHINGTON (CNS) Pope John Paul II has accepted the resignation of Bishop Cletus F. O'Donnell, 74, of Madison, Wis. The Wisconsin prel-

Catholic Church in Lithuania that thrived

1970s and '80s despite Soviet

in the

attempts to suppress

it.

Vatican-appointed Chinese Bishop Fan Dies At 85

—

HONG KONG (CNS) Vaticanappointed Bishop Peter Joseph Fan Xueyan of Baoding, China, head of China's underground bishops' conference, died in mid-April at the age of 85. The exact date and place of his death have not been confirmed, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency

suffered a severe stroke last

based in Thailand. Catholic sources in China's Hebei province said Bishop

September, resigned for health reasons, according to the Madison Diocese. Bishop O'Donnell, a former chairman

Fan died at home in Baoding April 16, Holy Thursday, and his body had not been buried by April 23. Anthony Liu

Canon Law Com-

Bainian, a Beijing-based official of

ate,

who

of the U.S. bishops'

mittee and past president of the National

Catholic Educational Association, has

been bishop of Madison for 25 years. Archbishop AgostinoCacciavillan, U.S. apostolic pro-nuncio,

announced the

Chinese-approved Catholic organizaUCA News April 23 that Bishop Fan died April 13, and it was unlikely he died at home. Liu said he did not know about funeral arrangements. tions, told

resignation in Washington April 28.

Madison Auxiliary Bishop George O. Wirz will govern the diocese until the

The

shrine at Medjugorje

a support group

threatened by the spread of ethnic fighting in Yugoslavia an

WINSTON-SALEM — To stop the in

16, consecrating

and Mary by using prayers supposedly given by the Blessed Mother in

Bishop

Controversial Franciscan liberation theo-

logian Father Leonardo Boff said he

of the faithful.

28, said that he had intended to remain

will use a secular publisher for his

diocesan

administrator.

bishop of the diocese

until

he turned 75,

but as a result of his stroke he had

submitted his resignation to the pope.

Brazil

MERRILLVILLE, Bishop Norbert Ind., 70,

Ind.

(CNS) —

Gaughan of Gary,

who is recovering from a stroke,

made

a 30-minute visit to the diocesan pastoral center and chancery in Merrillville April 27 He had not been to .

All

the village

believers say the Blessed

fasting can

war be stopped

...

invite a

ing organized by Caritas, a Medjugorje

who have said 'yes' to me t renew their consecration to my son Jesi and to his heart and to me so we can tak you more intensely as instruments (

From Conquest

support network in Birmingham, Ala.

peace in

Evangelization, the book has a

cism" which defends the creation of a "brown" Catholicism integrated with

The network asks that people begin praying at noon EST and make or renew their consecrations at 12:40 EST, the time which the apparition of Our Lady is

African-Brazilian culture. Father Boff

supposed to appear

est book on the history

New

new-

of Latin America.

Titled Latin America:

chapter "The Future of

Bishop Gaughan, Recovering From Stroke, Visits Diocesan Offices

(CNS)

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Vocations (From Page

said the

new

papal text would not

does that in

and

ongoing consultation

with the Vatican and

"we knew we were in

sync" with the pope's views on

heir

New

Lives By

Its

human and

Mass with priests of his

diocese, Bishop Marshall said the text re-

formation" as a priority and neces-

flects

Pope John Paul's continued

efforts

during his pontificate to define more clearly, in sacramental terms, the

Its final

papal docu-

chapter, dealing with the

priests in the

Before Vatican

priests after ordina-

uniqueness of

Church.

was common

II it

refer distinctively to priests as "another

CAROL HAZARD

tion.

theology since the council, which recog-

Associate Editor

In that chapter, Bishop Curtiss said, the pope 'picks up on the same four themes of human, spiritual, intellectual and pastoral formation and gives them "new emphasis."

tion,

moved to the Philadelwhen he was in fifth grade. He recalls a nun talking to him

Latsko

Christ," he said, but that

"not enough' in '

nizes that every Christian, lay or ordained,

The bishop suggested unraveling in Church

that

life that

called to live a holy, Christlike

life.

The new papal document, he

said, re-

emphasizes that "the relation of the priest to

some of the

Jesus Christ and in

found

contributed to

in the

Him

to the

Church

very being of the priest by

a sharp vocations decline in the United

means of his sacramental consecration and

States in the quarter-century since Vatican

anointing."

U may

be coming to an end.

some time

new document

said the

another

a council to

step in the pope's struggle against the erro-

wrestle with the issues raised by the coun-

neous notion that "the priesthood is becom-

"It takes

cil,"

said.

"There

after

lot

of disruption

ing obsolete."

after the family

Sa-

about the priesthood but Latsko wasn't

Heart School of Theology in Hales Latsko has seen the numr of seminarians grow from about 90 160 from all over the world. ri

make

ready to

commitment. As

the

said.

But

a way, the univer-

Choice's budget for 1991-92,

DeGioia said, was $135. The group would have had a $ 1 05 budget for 1 99293, he added. nior

cable to

longer exists."

his

II,

Athough old enough to retire, Latsko consented to work at a subsidiary in Charlotte.

The move brought him in touch with Jesuit Father Gene McCreesh, pastor of St. Peter in

uptown

Charlotte.

"God sent me to the right person

...

One

thing led to another and the next thing

knew, I was talking to the bishop." Latsko resisted, however, as he had in his younger years. "With a little nudge here and there, finally I said 'what the

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students.

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sity

to hold its first

McTaggart

said.

meeting April 27,

The new group

not

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She disputed DeGioia's assessment of GU Choice's violations. "At the time we thought we were acting in complete compliance with the agreement,"

—

McTaggart

said.

She called the

inci-

"general legislation for abortion."

dents "a few minor things," adding,

A March opinion essay in Georgetown's student newspaper, the Hoya, written by new leaders of the group, said GU Choice received univer-

"We

—

sity funds "for the purpose of providing proper education for the pro-choice side." A March GU Choice meeting was adjourned and hastily reconvened

—

to discuss plans for the April 5 abortion-

rights rally in

Washington.

seemed the club did not do a very good job of educating its members," DeGioia said. The club's biggest expense, according to DeGioia, was $645-$700 spent to host a lecture by Kate Michelman, head of the National Abortion Rights Action League, in early 1991 as the funding

contend

didn't

do anything

wrong." *

Referring to DeGioia's objections to

GU Choice activities, McTaggart said,

"We

could not keep operating under

that kind of regulation.

was

stifling."

Cardinal Hickey, in an April 24 statement, said he was happy with

Georgetown's decision, calling it "consistent with the commitment of Georgetown University as a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher learning.

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ment.

which is "something new" for a papal document on vocations and priestly forma-

jrner, Wis.,

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U.S. seminaries in the

all

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will turn

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who

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Its

—

59 three days before the ordination, spent 34 years at estinghouse Corp. Putnam, 26, entered the seminary directly after graduating om college. They will receive their assignments from Bishop John F. Donoghue in June.

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Formation) to a great extent."

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in the

Bishop John A. Marshall of Spring-

priestly

sary basis for solid "intellectual and pastoral

Seminarians

this it

Among elements in the new document

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takes a while for the

had been engaged

Church members

LATSKO

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that

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'Qpmimiquemorioj La Virgen de Lujan, patrona de Argentina

Santa La Tumba vacia de Cristo

Tierra

Pasado

sabado, ya para amanecer el dia primero de la semana, vino Maria Magdalena con la otra Maria a ver el sepulcro. Un angel del Senor bajo del cielo y acercandose removio la piedra del sepulcro y se sento sobre ella. El angel les dijo: "No temais, al que buscais no esta aqui, ha resucitado." ( Mt. 28,1-6 ) el

Por PADRE SILL RUEDA Todavfa se percibe en el ambiente un halito de misterio. Al entrar en la catedral del Santo Sepulcro en Jerusalen y comprobar que la tumba de Cristo sigue vacia, se llena nuestra alma y todo nuestro ser de un gozo indescriptible. Alii estuvo por tres dias el Salvador del mundo y rompiendo las leyes de la naturaleza y dominando el pecado, salio Cristo victorioso del sepulcro para nunca mas morir. La tumba no fue capaz de retenerlo y menos la muerte. El Senor crucificado es ahora el Senor resucitado y todo alii en Jerusalen lo atestigua. Sobre aquel lugar sagrado se eleva hacia el cielo la catedral que un dia mando construir Santa Elena y despues fue restaurada por los Cruzados, en el centro del barrio cristiano de la ciudad vieja. Toda ella llena de recuerdos sagrados formando un conjunto arquitectonico desordenado. El sepulcro probablemente era una cueva funeraria judia, con un espacio cortado en la roca, de donde una puerta llevaba al interior del cuarto sepulcral. La puerta habia sido cerrada por medio de una piedra redonda, rodante, grande y pesada, por la cual dice el Evangelio que Maria Magdalena, Salome y la otra Maria estaban preocupadas porque no sabfan quien les podia rodar la piedra, para

poder entrar a perfumar

cuerpo de Jesus. Pero que gran sorpresa se llevaron

sepulcro vacio y la presencia de un angel que les comunicaba la gran noticia de que Cristo habfa resucitado.

encontrar

Fue a partir del ano 326, cuando Santa Elena, madre del Emperador Constantino,

Por PADRE SILL RUEDA Al solo hecho de evocar la Virgen de Lujan, todo el pueblo Argentino resuena en coro de alabanzas y salves a la que por muchos ahos ha sido su patrona. Desde las altas montanas de la cordillera o por la inmensidad de las pampas, cruzando los rios caudalosos y serenos se oye el tintinar de las carretas y los gauchos que alegres van en romerfa hacia el santuario. Desde los pueblos y las grandes ciudades todos quieren festejar a su manera, el 8 de mayo, la fiesta de la Virgen que en un arrebato de amor se escapo del cielo para hacer su morada en Argentina. La misma imagen que en 1630 estuvo bajo

la fiel

custodia del negrito

Manuel, en 1887 fue solemnemente coronada ante 20 mil personas y en 1 930 proclamada oficialmente por la Santa Sede como patrona de la Argentina, es la misma que hoy vemos cada vez mas embellecida en su santuario, derramando bendiciones abundantes sobre sus hijos. Ante esta imagen original, con su manto de brocados y lleno de luces, oraron Obispos y Virreyes, nobles y plebeyos, santos y malos y todos ellos

alcanzaron algo de sus divinas gratia El General Belgrano le envio como trofe

dos banderas conquistadas en la batal] de Salta. San Martin le deja su espada el Coronel French la nombra Patrona su Regimiento y jura sus banderas en

santuario. Todos los dias sigm acudiendo a sus pies los que estan cerca de ella para implorar sus ruegos los que se han alejado de la patria pc distintos motivos, la llevan tambien mil dentro en sus entranas. La misma Virgen decidio donde le

deberia construir su Santuario y k la caja con la imagi

que llevaban

muy bien que los planes Dios son distintos a los planes de \ hombres y por eso alii levantaron catedral. Su mirada es serena, sus mand juntas en actitud de oration y el rosari que la circunda esta marcado con It alegrias y penas de su pueblo. Maria bajo esta advocation adquiei mas brillo, no solamente en el puebl Argentino o America Latina sino toda la Iglesia, porque ella es realmeni la Estrella de la Nueva Evangelization entendieron

cristiano-Bizantino llego a Jerusalen y encontro en una cisterna subterranea, la cruz de Jesus y otras reliquias que los judios habian escondido alii para tapar su crimen.

La catedral fue construida, incluyendo bajo su techo los tres lugares santos venerados por

y la cueva de la invencion de la cruz. Restos de esta catedral se conservan hoy en el mismo lugar, ya que en 614 el edificio fue destruido y reconstruido de inmediato. Y en 1010 volvio a ser destruido y otra vez reconstruido, pero ya con un piano mas pequeno. La domination la tradicion: El sepulcro, el calvario

musulmana sobre

los lugares santos sirvio para que en Europa se organizaran los Cruzados y estos fueran a conquistar la Tierra Santa. A finales del siglo XI cuando los Cruzados llegaron a Jerusalen se dedicaron de inmediato a reconstruir y embellecer la catedral del Santo Sepulcro, de la cual todo el trabajo de ellos se conserva hasta nuestros dias, a pesar de los muchos danos que el edificio sufrio causados por incendios, terremotos y negligencias de los que lo administraban.

ejercitos

los

Este conjunto religioso y sagrado para nosotros esta dividido entre seis cristianas: Ortodoxos Griegos, Armenios, Franciscanos, Etiopes,

comunidades

Copticos y Sirios cada uno defendiendo lo suyo y si es posible ampliando sus propiedades. A pesar de todas las diferencias y limitaciones de los hombres; alii sigue vacia la

tumba de

Jesus, para mostrar al

mundo,

gran verdad de su

resurreccion y de la pascua nueva que todos los Cristianos seguimos viviendo.

Alegremonos pues y gritemos a coro desde los cuatro puntos cardinales mundo: lAleluya, Aleluya el Senor ha resucitado! !E1 es nuestra Pascua!

Mayo

mes de

las

del

Madres I

Por

PADRE SILL RUEDA

mes de mayo

llega a nuestros

calendarios cargado de recuerdos y de celebraciones. Pues es en mayo que

amor

los

acariciandonos y bendiciendonos, sus caminando de prisa para darnos

conmemoramos cada ano la fiesta de las Madres, tanto la del cielo como la de la tierra. Este mes esta dedicado a la Santisima Virgen y es en mayo tambien

pies

cuando las flores pintan de colores la primavera para que todo renazca de

cuna y nos ensena a pronunciar y a escribir en el cuaderno nuestros primeros borrones. Ella nos asiste toda la vida, nos entrega su amor, se va envejeciendo a nuestro

sacrifique en la vida como ella y todo lo hace pensando en sus hijos. Maria, la Virgen del cielo, tambien es nuestra Madre, porque nos comprende y nos da a caudales su amor. Desde el principio de la formacidn de la Iglesia hasta nuestros dias, su maternidad amorosa se ha visto protegiendo a los hombres en las pruebas dificiles y caminando con todos nosotros en las luchas diarias; lo atestiguan los hechos de las apariciones marianas a traves de

lado y todo lo sacrifica por tenernos

la historia.

felices.

Nuestra Madre del cielo y nuestra Madre de la tierra tienen mucho en comun, ellas son nuestros angeles

nuevo.

Cuando celebramos la fiesta de las Madres nuestros corazones se hacen ninos y sentimos otra vez las dulces palabras de la Madre que nos habla

desde

las letras del alfabeto

Al llegar a esta fecha nuestros sentimientos se hacen mas sensibles, pues en cada evocation a ella, sentimos ausencia los que la hemos perdido y .

pit

que la tienen viva. De cada palabra que se hable de ella, vemos tambien su figura, sus manos su

Su corazon siempre dispuesto a entendernos. Las Madres son un regalo del cielo. No hay una mujer que mas se algo.

Grupo de jovenes mejicanos de Yadkinville que hicieron el papelde apostoles en el lavatoi de los

Foto Por

pies.

Semana Santa en Con

Yadkinville

gran entusiasmo y fervor se Semana Santa en el Centro

celebro la

Catolico de Cristo

Rey

del pueblo de

noche

bendicion del fuego y

el cir

pascual, la bendicion del agua y la mi de resurreccion en la cual se bautizar<

participacion de

varios ninos. Todas estas celebracion

numerosas familias hispanas de esa zona. Cada uno de los actos religiosos de la Semana Santa se realizaron con mucha devotion y colaboracion de todos. Se

dentro de un marco de humildad sencillez con la participacion de

Yadkinville, con

comenzo la preparation a los dias santos con charlas para los hombres y mujeres y con un acto penitencial donde se hicieron confesiones. El jueves santo

con el lavatorio de los pies a doce jovenes mejicanos. El viernes santo con el via

protectores y las unicas capaces de

crucis alrededor del edificio y la lectura

comprendernos.

pasion del Senor. El sabado por

Hermana Andrea,

directora del Centi

Padre Joe Mack como capellan y Padre Silverio Rueda como ayudanfc Es de admirar el espiritu de fe este centro de Cristo Rey, de todos s fieles la mayoria emigrantes de Meji en busca de trabajos agricolas. Q Cristo resucitado les ayude a crecer m en el amor y la comprension entre tod para poder form ar una Iglesia verdade: el

HNA. ANDRE I

The Catholic News

1992

iv 8,

longressman To Speak At Belmont Abbey Graduation

BELMONT — U.S.Representative R-N.C, will address 174 Belmont Abbey College gradual in ceremonies May 17 at 10 a.m. I Ballenger will receive an honorary jictor of Laws degree. Mercy Sister luline Clifford will receive a Doctor of Ess Ballenger,

1 Ballenger, founder of Plastic Packling Inc. in Hickory, served in the

Carolina Senate and House of

iirth

¥i<

Vida

Representatives before being elected to

Queridos Hermanos y Hermanas en Cristo

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Iimane Letters honorary degree. Ichael F. and Kathleen O. Dugan will |:eive Doctor of Law degrees.

Regalo de

Sister Pauline, a native of Ireland,

has been president of the Sisters of

Mercy of North Carolina since 1988. The Dugans of Laurel, Md., added to their family of four daughters

adopting hard-to-place children, those with handicaps, emotional illnesses or older in age.

El regalo de la vida, dado a nosotros es algo que hay que compartir y defender. la sacralidad y dignidad de la

Jesus hizo una gran declaracion concerniente a

maternidad, escogiendo entrar

mundo como

nino.

Maria dio su "si" para ser

Madre de Jesiis, cuando ella respondio: "hagase en mf segiin tu palabra". La voiuntad de Maria de traer al nino, no fue una mera circunstancia, sino un hecho que habla claro de su amor por el regalo de la vida. Sin ser ella casada, se hace muchas preguntas de como va a sostener a su hijo. Temores de que iran a decir de

Commencement ceremonies will be preceded by a baccalaureate Mass May

ella.

16 at 5 p.m.

Como

obtener comida, vestido y vivienda para

nino

etc.

Hoy el mensaje ha sido enviado a aquellos que no pueden hablar por si mismos: derecho a la vida sera protegido por un grupo muy selecto. Nuestra sociedad a

veces busca un escape a todos los problemas que tiene, especialmente los que se En los E.U. se realiza cada afio un millon y medio de abortos. 4.400 cada dfa. Al mismo tiempo hay dos millones de parejas esperando para adoptar un nino.

refieren a los embarazos.

Crosswinds

Yo creo que muchas mujeres deberian enfrentar este problema mas serio, porque derecho a la vida depende mucho del querer de la madre. La respuesta al aborto parece que ofrece alternativas y no es asi, con la vida no se puede jugar. Es problema de todos, todos tienen que ser responsables en este caso. Les pido oraciones y mucha ayuda para las mujeres que contemplan la posibilidad de un aborto, como solucion a un problema de embarazo. Que el Senor les toque los corazones y las haga pensar que toda vida humana es sagrada. Les pido tambien especialmente por aquellas mujeres que han tenido abortos, para que Dios y su divina Madre, les ayuden y las haga recapacitar en sus decisiones. Muestrenles su amor y el deseo que Dios tiene de que se reconcilien con El. Nuestra respuesta estando en el lugar de la vida, debe ser la de seres humanos, hechos a imagen y semejanza de Dios, como cristianos unidos por el bautismo y como catolicos compartiendo la fe que hemos recibido. Quiero tambien aprovechar esta oportunidad, para desearles a todas las Madres, un feliz y santo Dia de las Madres. el

Crosswinds is a series of columns by Catholic Social Services staff mbers about their experiences. In

itten

ler to

protect client confidentiality,

staff members

are not identified. God's grace

are told that

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rein is our equality. tainly leet !o.

know

that

each of us, and that I,

as a counselor,

some of the people

have larger burdens to bear than I know, too, that I can hardly

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could

move through

life

had

some of their shoes. was recently impressed by the rds of a young woman who, in our irth session, shared more about her winging. Her story verified for me t God's grace is equally available for :h of us. She described incest by her rier, an incest she was incapable of ifronting for a good number of years ler young life. Perhaps to lighten the in in I

jrview,

asked her

why

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Protestant.

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her future, since she

Her response was

that

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had never given it a name. She just knew that she did not feel good about herself.

As she walked, the word "incest" loomed louder in her mind. She noticed a church. It happened to be Catholic. The front door was unlocked and she went in. She said she met Jesus there in a powerful way, and opted to "hang out" there for about a year and a half. She attended RCIA, but never quite wanted

change churches. She knew that God had met her once before and gotten her on her feet. Now, to formally

Sinceramente en Cristo:

was time to get those feet going in more constructive avenues. So, she called CSS. She is feeling good about herself, but feels she has more work to do for herself. Regarding her father, she has kneeled by her bed each morning since she

felt

encountering Christ's grace three years

ago and prayed for her grant

my Dad

father:

"Lord,

peace, prosperity and

knowledge of you this day." She said prior to that time she would go home for a visit and there was always "uproar." She could never understand why so much emotion was unleashed, but she dreaded the

visits.

Now, when

she goes home, the visits are peaceful.

She has turned her Dad over to the Lord and is able to trust that, in His time that her be it on earth or in heaven Dad will have peace and know the Lord.

—

Monsenor John

Donoghue

Obispo de Charlotte.

Dates Changed For Leadership Training CHARLOTTE — The dates for the

process includes skills development,

been changed. The week-long training institute for youth in the diocese will be June 14-18 at Belmont Abbey College. CLI was established in 1980 by the diocese to foster the leadership potential of each individual and heighten his or

worship and recreation. The Institute is designed for youth (at least 5 years old), young adults and adults who are now working in or are interested in parish, school, or diocesan leadership roles in youth serving minis-

her awareness of the responsibilities of

tries.

youth ministry, and

in the Christian

community. The Institute offers an opportunity for leadership development through an intense period of learning and community living. The program is an in-depth ganizational skills, communications skills,

motivation

growth which

skills

and personal each young

will enable

person to take a leadership role

^OR QUE LA IGLESIA CATOLICA TIENE UN

PAPA?

Jesus reconocid la necesidad que tiene el pueblo de un ifder que proporcione una direccidn confiable y unidad. El nombrd a San Pedro como la piedra, la base de Su Iglesia, y prometid que "los poderes del infierno no la podran veneer." (Mateo 16:18) San Pedro tenfa que ser la fuente de la unidad y la cabeza de los apdstoles. le

Por voiuntad divina, el Papa es el sucesor de San Pedro, el Ifder visible de la Iglesia de Jesus. El Papa es el instrumento de Jesus, quien garantiza la unidad del Cuerpo de Cristo. El es el Ifder del colegio de obispos y sirve como guia moral y espiritual de todo el Pueblo de Dios.

Jesus tambien le did a la Iglesia el don de la infalibilidad. Esto significa que bajo la guia del Espiritu Santo, la Iglesia nunca errara al ensenar el mensaje esencial de Jesus. El Papa expresa la ensenanza inf alible de la Iglesia cuando habla "ex-catedra, " es decir, cuando habla como cabeza visible de la Iglesia sobre materia de naturaleza religiosa o moral, usando toda su autoridad y recursos y pronunciando una ensenanza definida y consistente con la creencia

la Iglesia.

;

Thanks To

St.

El Papa tambien ensena ordinariamente de modo no infalibie. Sus encfclicas y decretos nos dan una gufa confiable sobre temas espeefficos de nuestros tiempos.

in a

Jude

Thanks to St. Jude for prayers answered and favors granted.

Early registration fees prior to

May 22

—

— received

are $ 1 70, increasing

must Diocesan Youth Ministry Office at 1524 East Morehead St., Charlotte NC 28207 by June 5, with an $80 deposit for each applicant. The balance is due on or before June 12. Space is limited to 30 applicants. For any further information, call the Youth Ministry Office at (704) 331-

to $ 1 80 thereafter. All registration

be received

in the

1723.

Retired Priest's

Father Dies At 91 LAKEWOOD,

Ohio —Martin

Lash, 91, father of Father Joseph J. Lash, a retired priest of the Diocese of

RPN

Charlotte, died here April 24.

ABOUT ROUGEMONT Within walking distance of the new All Saints Catholic School in southeast Charlotte,

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ideal rural location with all the

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leadership in a high school or parish

experience of community building, or-

23.

The

parish or school youth ministry.

Christian Leadership Institute (CLI) have

Bissell-Hayes Realtors

Mass of

Christian Burial

was

celebrated April 28 at Ss. Cyril and

Methodius Church in Lakewood. FaLash celebrated the Mass with Father Jerome Duke as concelebrant. B urial was in Holy Cross Cemetery. In addition to Father Lash, he is survived by a daugher, Mrs. Anne Beno ther

of Phoenix, Ariz., three grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a niece.

Father Lash served as a priest in the Dioceses of Raleigh and Charlotte from 1 957 to 1 976 when he was granted leave to serve as a Veterans Administration chaplain.

retired

from the

1985 and since then has made his in Cleveland.

home

News

Catholic

Herald

May

Diocesan News Briefs Yard Sale

—

KINGS MOUNTAIN

Christ the

King Ladies Altar Guild is having a yard sale Saturday, May 9 from 7 a.m. - 2 p.m., 7 14. Stone St. Household, yard

and baby items will be for sale. Coffee and biscuits will be offered in the morning and hot dogs and drinks in the afternoon.

Lutheran-Catholic Anniversary

GREENSBORO

—

Lutheran-

Permanent Diaconate Formation Program Has Openings BELMONT Men who will com-

—

Lay Minand who are the permanent diaconate

plete their second year of the istry

Program

interested in

this spring

may

apply for the new formation program. All requests should be made to Msgr. Anthony Kovacic, Queen of the Apostles Church, 503 N. Main St., Belmont, N.C. 28012. Or call (704) 825-5277.

Catholic Covenant anniversary obser-

vance

scheduled for

May

16 at the

Religious Items

CHARLOTTE — The Schools Of-

Franciscan Center, 233 North Greene St.,

May

16 from 10:30 a.m.

3:30 p.m.

The Rev. Dr. James Crumley, former president bishop of the Lutheran Church in America, will speak on "Lutherans and Catholics: The Past, Present and

fice

needs crucifixes, statues and other

religious items for

two new schools

Charlotte.

To donate

Armstrong

items, call Joe

(704) 331-1718.

Father Joseph Kelleher at

Future."

CRISM

(1)

and retired Bishop Michael

Begley participate

in the festivi

picnic (Catholic Retirees Invited to Special Ministries).

Christian Neighbors

Cost is $7.50 for advance registration, $ 1 0 at the door, and includes lunch. To register, send name, address, parish name and check to the Franciscan Center, P.O. Box 29047, Greensboro 274089047. Checks should be

made out to the

Franciscan Center

Calix Society

CHARLOTTE Society meeting

— The next Calix

May

1 7 at St. Vincent de Paul, beginning with 4 p.m. Mass followed by a covered dish dinner and discussion of Scriptural meditations. The society is made up of members of Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12 Step Programs who seek to deepen their recovery by exploring Catholic traditions. For information, call Brian at (704) 527-5076 or Doug at (704) 342-0615.

Teen Volunteer Program

CHARLOTTE

— Teens ages

13-

8 interested in volunteer work at Mercy

an earlier

—

SWANNANOA

St.

Margaret

Mary parishioners have organized Christian

sick

Neighbors, a committee to visit the and shut-in members of the parish.

The group welcomes

all

ages,

For more information, call Mary Wilke at (704) 298-2042 or Matt Propst at (704) 298-9647. The group will meet in the parish hall May 20 at 10 a.m.

Caring Hearts

CHARLOTTE — Caring Hearts, a

support group to help spouses and sig-

cope with the care and

who has heart new group. The

group meets Wednesdays from noon to 1:30 p.m. or from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The next

session

June

May

13.

The

last

All parishioners age 50 and older are invited to attend the sixth annual CRISM (Catholic Retirees Invited to Special Ministries) picnic Wednesday, May 27

Catholic Conference Center. Bishop John F. Donoghue will celebrate Mass and retired Bishop Michael J. Begley hopes to be there as well. Bishop Begley is the honorary president at the

CRISM. Activities include a 50/50

drawing

and the other to the conference center), bingo and door prizes, lunch and ahealth fair.

The theme

for the fair

"Heart

by dietician Ruth Wilts, will give pointers on selecting heart smart foods in

— The Office

TOPSAIL BEACH

sponsoring a beach retreat weekend for married and

Surviving Parents

CHARLOTTE — A day

Young Adult

of prayer

and reflection for parents who have lost 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. children to death

Ministry

15-17.

The theme

May

"Ministry and Dis-

cipleship."

The

$55. For

Pam Newton

more informa-

(704) 3776871 or (704) 554-9697. Registration deadline is May 1 1

On Aging ASHEVILLE

Council

—

The Asheville Aging is

Vicariate Regional Council on

Upcoming Dloceean Events

meeting May 14 from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. at St. Eugene. Hank Gonner, director of chaplain services at St. Joseph's Hospital, will

speak about advanced directives and

May 10 Mothers Day

living wills.

Alzheimers

May 10 World Day

John Meares, a representative of the

American Association of Retired Persons, will have an information table

about the organization. David Jones, a Charlotte podiatrist, will discuss the

cost

tion, call

restaurants.

single people in their 20's and 30's

representative from the

Association of Asheville

of Prayer

and Imagination." "Mark your calendar for M; and plan to have a great day with y CRISM friends from throughout Diocese of Charlotte," says Rat Greene, CRISM coordinator. "Wi expecting a large crowd again this ye Pre-registration

required.Gre

asks people to register by

May

22.

send your name, dress and the name of your parisl CRISM Picnic," 1524 East Moreh St., Charlotte 28207-1696. Cost $ and checks should be made ou CRISM. For more information, Rachel Greene at (704) 331-1720 register,

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A film, shown

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]

God With My G

onstrate the art of wok cooking, a "heart

rector of volunteer services, at (704)

Beach Retreat

Hickory

Smart." Dietician Bonnie Irvin will dem-

Hospital should call April Levine, di-

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17.

For more information, call the Mercy Cardiac Rehab Center at (704) 3663914. Cost is $10.

May 27

HICKORY — It's picnic time!

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female.

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CRISM

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Branflick, a

Hickory couple, will speak about what they have gained from Elderhostel, a college course program for seniors. Judy Gritzmacher, manager of Carolina Catholic Bookshoppe in Charlotte, will display books, cards and religious articles available for sale or

browsing.

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World and National Briefs Urged To 'Touch Lives' To Back To Church DeaTEANECK, N.J. (CNS)

eacons

ring Catholics

—

school was founded in 1935 and is the black community's oldest parochial school.

enrolls

78 students from kin-

ns and others involved in ministry ust "warm it up, touch lives, touch

dergarten through eighth grade.

ople," a Chicago priest told a na>nal meeting of permanent diaconate

dominantly African-American

rectors.

Father Patrick Brennan, di-

of the Office of Evangelization rthe Chicago Archdiocese, said at the ctor

annual convention of the National Permanent Diaconate

ith

jsociation of irectors in

Teaneck

that

most

vay Catholics are out of the

fallen-

church not

St.

use of "human relations issues."

The

22-26 convention, with the theme ivangelization: Go Forth and Teach Nations," drew more than 160 peranent diaconate directors and reprentatives from throughout the United II

ates

and Canada.

its

pupils are not Catholic. Lawrence,

who appealed for donations in his weekly column, said Overtown had stalwart people who paid heavily for urban development. Trade Embargo Draws Mixed Response In Caribbean Nation WASHINGTON (CNS) The international trade embargo imposed on Haiti after a military coup last September gets mixed reviews in the Caribbean Haiti

—

the one hand, a group of

Haitian bishops said at a meeting with

SARASOTA, Fla. (CNS)

—

Chris-

ns and Jews will "never forget" the iman suffering of the Holocaust, shop John C. Favalora of St. Petersrg told a Yom Hashoah (Day of the )locaust) observance at a Sarasota itholic church. Bishop Favalora said ws and Christians will "never forget ; destruction of 6 million Jews. Never rget the destruction

of countless other

rsons: Christians, Gypsies, political isoners, all the result of inordinate

te."

than 500 Jews and Chris-

ns attended the April 28 service at St.

lomas More Church in the Diocese of inice. Venice Bishop John J. Nevins ;lcomed rabbis, priests, Holocaust rvivors and members of Jewish and iristian congregations to the obsernce.

iami Herald Backs Catholic hool Scholarship Campaign

MIAMI (CNS) i,

— The Miami Her-

a major U.S. daily newspaper, has

U.S. bishops in Washington that the

embargo is destroying their country. On the other, members of a U.S. church delegation recently returned from the

Caribbean nation said Haitians told them

community has embargo and that

that the international

never enforced the they wished it would.

Cardinal Bevilacqua, Two Priests Among Honorees At Ellis Island NEW YORK (CNS) Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Philadelphia and two priests were among 124 prominent Americans named recipients of the 1992 Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Ceremonies were held April 26 at the re-

—

David Lawrence Jr., pubher of the daily, announced the paper s pport April 26 and called for dona>ns to a scholarship program to keep jse in June.

Francis Xavier School open.

The

Washington.

way

ridership,

video and

still

and U.S. Park Police

photographs. Rep. Chris-

topher Smith, R-N.J., had written to National Park Service chief Robert E.

Langston April 15 about crowd

esti-

mates.

Pope Talks With U.S. Bishops About Youth Day Trip VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope

—

John Paul

talked with officials of the

Bay. The priests

Washington, and Father Casimir A. Pugevicius, a priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore who has directed Lithuanian Catholic Religious Aid in Brooklyn for the last 16 years. Abortion-rights March Estimate Cut In Half

WASHINGTON

Crowd

(CNS)

—

was making a regular consultative

visit

to the Vatican.

New German Foreign Minister A Catholic And Career Official

—

BONN, Germany (CNS)

queries from a pro-life lawmaker, the

National Park Service revised the

mate on the turnout

at the

esti-

April 5 abor-

—

VATICAN CITY

(CNS) Pope warned of new dangers facing his Polish homeland and said the country is in need of a "great prayer." The pope made his impromptu and at John Paul

times emotional remarks

Polish dur-

ing a general audience at the Vatican

April 29. While he did not specify the threats to Polish freedom, his

comments

a continued political crisis

tion.

To Hierarchy Won't Weaken Lay Groups, Says Pope VATICAN CITY (CNS) Close,

Ties

—

consistent ties to the hierarchy

make

Catholic lay organizations more elo-

quent witnesses of the role lay people have in the church, Pope John Paul II said.

Addressing 1,200 delegates

to the

national assembly of Italian Catholic

Action, the pope said, "The pastors of

must be able to count on you at every moment." The association, which has almost 600,000 members, sponsors works of charity and educational programs based on Catholic the Italian church

social teaching.

a 55-

Klaus Kinkel worked with the country 's retiring popular Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher for years at the ministry he will now run. Kinkel has pushed for stronger laws against the German trade in prostitutes from Third World countries and against child pornography. But he also supports his party's

After

Pope Warns Of New Dangers Facing Polish Homeland

in the country that reflects growing economic discontent. The major political parties had failed during the month of April to form a new governing coali-

rently justice minister,

New York

"must not be squandered."

1993 World Youth Day in Denver. The topic came up during a one-hour private meeting at the Vatican April 28. "I think he's looking forward to (the trip)," said Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. The pope finds the youth celebrations a valuable experience and "he says he's always enlivened by them," the archbishop said. Joining Archbishop Pilarczyk in the papal meeting were Archbishop William H. Keeler of Baltimore, vice president of the bishops' conference, and Msgr. Robert N. Lynch, conference general secretary. The group to attend the

The Catholic University of America

Upper

that

came during

honored were Jesuit Father William J. Byron, the soon-to-retire president of

ment"

U.S. bishops' conference about his plans

Germany's new foreign minister is year-old Catholic lawyer and career government official who once ran West Germany's intelligence service. Cur-

stored Ellis Island immigration center

rown its support behind efforts to save inner-city parochial school slated to

Park Service reviewed bus counts, sub-

nation.

orida Catholics Hold Holocaust membrance Service

by Metropolitan Police

commu-

Overtown section near downtown Miami where civil and racial unrest made headlines in the '80s. Most of

the U.N.

conference as "a unique opportunity for the promotion of sustainable development and the integrity of the environ-

To arrive at the new figure, the National

nity in the

The bishops described

result.

ting the

Francis Xavier School serves the pre-

cause of doctrinal disputes but be-

Dril

march in Washington, cutnumber in half to 250,000. The original estimate of 500,000 was made tion-rights

liberal line

on abortion, which would allow abortion on demand in the first three months of pregnancy, provided the dergoes counselling.

woman

un-

North Must Sacrifice To Help South, Say Bishops Of England, Wales LONDON (CNS) Citizens of the rich nations of the Northern Hemisphere

—

must

sacrifice to help raise the living

Journalist Criticizes Opus Dei Celebration Plans Announced

ROME (CNS) — As Opus Dei, an

international Catholic organization, pre-

pared a five-day celebration for the beatification of its founder, a U.S. journalist repeated criticisms of the Vatican's handling of the case. Ken Woodward, religion editor of Newsweek magazine, said at a

Rome news conference that the

speed with which the beatification of Msgr. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, Opus Dei founder, was approved shows the group's "extraordinary power in the Holy See" and its influence on Pope John Paul II. The pope is scheduled to beatify the Opus Dei founder at a Vatican

Mass May to

Rome

Italian translation

of his

Woodward was

17.

promote the

book, "Making Saints: lic Church Determines Saint,

Who

How the CathoWho Becomes a

Doesn't and

Why."

standards of their poorer neighbors in the South, said the Catholic bishops of

England and Wales.

In a statement dis-

cussing the June 3-14 U.N. Conference

on Environment and Development, the

This newspaper is printed on recycled newsprint and is recyclable.

bishops also noted that rapid population growth is an effect of poverty, not a

24.

WHAT

A BISHOP?

The New Testament teaches us

that the apostles

were to carry on

the work of Jesus. is a successor of the apostles. The bishop has the authority given by Jesus to the apostles to be a teacher of doctrine, a high priest of worship and a minister of governance. The sanctifying, teaching and ruling role of the bishop is one of service to a diocese. The diocese is a portion of the people of God which is entrusted for pastoral care to a bishop with the cooperation of the priests so that, adhering to

Today a bishop

same

[

its pastor and gathered by him in the Holy Spirit thorough the Gospel and the Eucharist, it constitutes a particular Church in which the one, holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ is truly present and operative. (Code of Canon Law, Canon 369)

However, the bishop has other responsibilities. As the apostles worked together for the conversion of the world, so the successors of the apostles, the bishops, work together today. This is done on national and world-wide levels, as well as on the level of neighboring dioceses that have been grouped together in what is called a province.

THEORftTOFY VISIONS IN FAITH Wednesday June 17, 1992 Sunday June 14 DR. ELIZABETH JOHNSON

—

This annual seminar for theology renewal features Dr. Elizabeth Johnson of Catholic University in Washington, D.C. This update is designed for laity and religious, clergy and teachers. Sessions will be late afternoon and early evening with a supper break. The Oratory provides a community setting for this seminar, while we hope the schedule encourages commuters.

For more information write: Visions in Faith The Oratory PO Box 11586 Rock Hill SC 29731

I'atholic

News

Herald

May

Latsko

(From Page

11)

heck. "' His decision was confirmed each

director of vocations, talked with Bish

year in the seminary, he says. Today, he can say with confidence, "This is it.

John

year,

went through the formal applu

is the life for me." During summers while in the seminary, Latsko was at Queen of the Apostles in Belmont and Immaculate Conception in Hendersonville. He was

tion process.

This

ordained into the diaconate this past February.

Latsko 's vocation was a long time making, says his mother, who says she was not surprised by his deci-

in the

sion.

Archabbey church. Pictured Valentine and

Meinrad Seminary

Indiana outside the

Thomas Williamson, Eric Houseknecht, Joseph Robert Evans, James Runde and W. Keith Nesbitt.

front)

(1-r,

Mark Lawlor;

St.

(rear)

students than in the classes,

upcoming ordination

names of

however.

In the Charlotte Diocese, three priests

were ordained in 1 99 1 two will be ordained

potential seminarians

'Thirty

gious.

and

reli-

names (men and women)

were submitted

to the vocations office,"

says Father Tice.

this

month, two

none

in 1993,

1994 and

four in 1995. "We're just maintaining the

There's a lesser degree of

status quo. attrition retire,

than there used to be.

and as the population

priests

increases, there

could be a question," says Father Tice. Father Tice recalls

By Name"

last years'

"Called

Parishioners were

campaign.

provided information regarding vocations.

The campaign

"The

invited everyone to offer

or the invitation of the Lord

call

that has to

be nurtured, within a household,

within a family and with the local church," says Msgr. John

McSweeney, chancellor

and vicar general for the diocese.

McSweeney

"The

tors or recruiters are

and the

local parish priests;

fathers,

by the example

they give in the happiness of their particular

McSweeney.

Novena Of Masses To Mark Mother's Day WASHINGTON

—

Thomas

St.

Aquinas Society members from across the nation will celebrate Mother's Day with a novena of Masses beginning May 10 at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. During the novena, a traditional Catholic form of prayer, a Mass will be offered each day for nine days for the mothers of the more than 6,000 members of the St. Thomas Aquinas Society. The society, established to meet the spiritual needs of Catholics 55 and older,

away, Latsko says he

with a small 's,'since

it's

based at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn.

members will join in the Mother's Day observance by attending Society

novena services in person or by forwarding their Mass intentions to society headquarters, Post Office

Box 64346,

was selected for the observance because it was built through the generosity of millions of American Catholics as a tribute to Mary the Mother shrine

"My parents were very supports which surprised me," said Putnam. By then, however, his parents h come to accept his choices. "I think was natural for him," said his fath John Thomas Putnam Sr. "We feel was called for the priesthood. If h( satisfied with it, then we are." Putnam Sr. wouldn't have said

scared

first,"

"It

conversion. "I was a

(meaning

little

was hard

lot) upset. It

to accept."

From his perspective, Roman Cal lies

and Southern Baptists were mi

apart.

He has come to realize,

howev,

that they are "not that far apart,

don't have as

much ceremony,"

si|

Putnam Sr. "We have that spiritual |j ing inside, we're just not so stern

things."

The spiritual feeling was precisely what

inside, hej

the people in the church."

lacked in the Southern Baptist faith recalls attending his first Mass: "So

Latsko is becoming" a priest for the Diocese of Charlotte, and not for his hometown of Philadelphia, for one reason. "It never happened there," he said. "It

happened

in Charlotte."

Putnam

Seminary

become a priest.

reaction to his desire to

want

to put

family

through any more than they'd already been through," recalls Putnam.

Putnam,

now

26, shelved his inter-

couple of years, and studied

biology instead of theology

Rhyne

Lenoir-

College.

his

sophomore

ered the priesthood.

person to

talked with the

who had influenced his decision

become

Catholic, the late Msgr. Eu-

poised on yet anol in his conversi

graduates this

week

in Baltimore,

St.

witll^

Mar w

Md.

Since he was a convert and h limited experience of Catholicism, :

four years in the seminary gave him.!

opportunity to immerse himself in faith,

I* «

—

develop his ideas about theolc

and prepare him for the pastoral pract of the priesthood, he said. "The seed has been sprouted, lowed to be fertilized and grow, an am prepared to embark on life a. priest," said Putnam. "I don't kn exactly what to expect, so I have a healthy anxiety. But I am also vi excited and ready to be a priest."

lii

His parents will cheer him on. Tl J?

year, however,

the pre-med student seriously consid-

where

master's in divinity from

John Thomas "J.T." Putnam Jr. grew up Southern Baptist in the Newton/ Hickory area. It was hard enough on his parents when he converted to Catholicism at age 16. He could just imagine their

est for a

said 'this

J.T. Pui

supposed to be.'"

major stepping stone

Putnam

"I didn't

thing inside

process.

J.T.

was hect

said, referring to his

ever,

Paul, Minn. 55105.

The

little

a transition in

I'm looking forward to it. I'm espeforward to working with

life.

and, in his seni

cially looking

St.

best vocation direc-

mothers and

vocation," says Msgr.

few weeks

his ordination a

Msgr.

served as vocations director

for seven years.

to the

Church," says Margaret Latsko, who resides in Woodlyn, Pa. "He played priest when he was little. I gave him two Turkish towels for his robes and he used a water goblet as his chalice. It was in his system all the time. It just wasn't the right time until now."

With

Tice (From Page

Donoghue

10 years ago, however.

"He was always close

Diocese of Charlotte seminarians attending

8, 19

Chark month, as they did his ordii

will attend his ordination in later this

tion to the diaconate last year in

Baf

more.

of Jesus and patroness of the United

gene Livelsberger.

He then contacted Father Cecil Tice,

States.

lev.

m erica

Local (From Page will talk

14)

on "Alzheimers

— All About

It."

For more information, Sister Anita Sheerin, (704)

call

Mercy

254-5193.

Job Search Support Group GREENSBORO Our Lady of Grace Church is forming Seekers, a support group for unemployed parishio-

—

ners to share advice and tips for employ-

Windjammers

—

BAHAMAS

Rising 11th and

12th graders and college students are invited to island

two-masted

hop aboard

sailboat.

keling, fishing

The group

and a

environment. The group will meet weekly. For more information, call Kathleen Martinek at (919) 275-3605.

ment

a 65-foot

Swimming,

lot

in a Christian

of fun included.

June 25 and return July 5. Cost is $360. For more information, call Msgr. Richard Allen or trip secretary Jean Ponischil at St. Ann as soon as possible at (704) 523-4641. Or call (704) 3752366.

CHARLOTTE

—

African-

American Liturgical Celebration at Our Lady of Consolation Church is Sunday, May 24 at the 1 1 a.m. Mass. Parishioners will wear African apparel.

HOT SPRINGS —The Jesuit House IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND HOLLAND — Daily Mass and oppor-

Amsterdam

are included in a 15-

day excursion beginning July 13. For more information, call Msgr. Richard Allen or trip secretary Jean Ponischil at St. Ann at (704) 523-4641. Or call (704) 375-2366.

Highways

spaghetti dinner

tion for

men

day of prayer and reflecSaturday, May 16 from

9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Dr. Gerard Stamm, an Asheville psychologist, will lead the program.

Satur-

House of Prayer, P.O. Hot Springs, N.C. 28743. Or

Box

call,

(704) 622-7366.

Conference Center in Cullman. 1 theme is "Remembering our Past/Lea ing for the Future."

Box

Ccp 5

Neon, Ky. 41840.

Cost

$2 for children ages 6-12, $3.50 3 and older, $3 for senior citizens. The dinner is free for children 5 and for

—

Ministry

presenting "Middle Sch

Yard Sale

SHELBY Mary

— The Ladies Guild of

is hosting a yard sale 9 at the parish from 7 a.m. - 2 p.m. For more information, call Mary Borchert at (704) 482-8690 or Marsha Hunt at (704) 865-6895.

St.

Middle School Fling GASTONIA The Office of Yo

Parish

Saturday,

May

Fling: Finding a Piece of the Puzzle day of games, food, sports, prayer workshops at St. Michael Church Sal day, May 9 from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. Cos $13 for youths and $7 for adults. For more information, contact

Office of Youth Ministry

at (704) 3 1723, or your parish youth ministei

The Catholic News & Herald v comes parish newsfor the diocesan /

Mission

Forum

CULLMAN, ALA.

—

The CathoCommittee of the South in collaboration with the Glenmary Home lic

Good

photographs, preferc black and white, also are welt Please sumit news releases and p> at least 10 days before date ofp> briefs.

tion.

MMSSKMO

Evelyn Dettling, Catholic

mittee of the South, P.O.

mm'

May 23 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, May 24 from noon to 3 p.m.

For more information or to register, contact the Jesuit

sponsoring a Miss

19-21 at the Benedict

day,

presenting "Man's Identity

as Person," a

and seeing Flow-

the

Forum May

Sister

— Our Lady of

younger.

of Prayer

ers in

Spaghetti Dinner

Missioners

All are invited. The cost is $75. more information, contact Benedict

Men's Day

Vacation Abroad

the beauty of the World's Fair of

are sell-

benefit the state charity drive.

snor-

African-American Celebration

ing $5 raffle tickets for a trip to Hawaii and a 10-day Caribbean Cruise for two. The drawing will be May 15 at the State Convention in Charlotte. Proceeds will

THOMASVILLE

will leave Charlotte

tunities for prayer, golfing

Give Me Five The Knights of Columbus