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the Diocese of Charlotte

Geese adopt parish home

Educators gather for

Then God

national conference

said, "Let the

waters

teem with an abundance of living

...Page

creatures,

and on

earth

let

birds fly

under the dome of the sky. ...And God blessed them, saying,

NFP helps decision on

"Befertile, multiply andfill the

'responsible parenthood'

waters of the

and

let the

birds

multiply on the earth.

...Page

seas;

— Genesis

20,

Extended coverage of the Balkan crisis

...Pages

Local

8-9

New

habitat, a pair of Canadian geese snuggled into a space of the cross outside the parish of St. John Neumann in Charlotte. Thursday, the female goose laid eggs and the two birds established heir domain for the season. On occasion, the female goose will raise up to inspect the eggs. She may nudge them carefully and primp the downy soft lining of the nest. Some time around the first of May, parishioners will take their first gander at the new goslings. It is said that a pair of Canadian geese will stay together, mate for life and are very protective of one another. And, if Mother Nature stays on a steady course, the pair of Canadian geese will return to the same nesting area from year to year.

Country music-loving priest wins

contest ...Page

Friends

Photos by Joann S. Keane

remember

Macedonia's Brazda camp:

business, church leader ...Page

Dante's Inferno' with angels of mercy ByJOHNTHAVIS News Service Macedonia (CNS)

Catholic

Every Week

BRAZDA, On

—

the edge of a sprawling refugee

camp

Editorials

& Columns ...Pages

4-5

Entertainment Pages 10-11

in northern Macedonia, things were coming unraveled. A man suffering from Down syndrome was trying to figure out how to put on a disposable diaper before it was

too late. Beside him, an emotionally disturbed boy rolled in the dirt. In the tent next door, six elderly

men and women

lay

on mattresses and

World Day

called out in faint voices for help. In

of Prayer for

suddenly moved into a performance of strange poses and gestures.

Vocations

Then a 4-year-old boy appeared, crying and bedraggled, separated from his family. Nearby, a woman wandered aimlessly, asking about her missing daughters. This single small patch of the

April ...Page

front of them, a schizophrenic

man

Brazda refugee camp, where some 20,000 Kosovars landed in early April, looked like something out of Dante's "Inferno." Except that there were angels of mercy, too.

Within minutes, the

drome man, diaper

Down

in place,

syn-

that sprang up overnight after

than 100,000 ethnic Albanian refugees

poured down the valley from Pristina, capital of Kosovo, and crossed over into Macedonia, a country that has its own ethnic tensions and is leery of

and the

See

disturbed boy were sitting calmly, being spoon-fed by a young Kosovar vol-

brazda CAMP,

page

unteer, Albjona Blakaj.

Another volunteer, Ilir Latifi, spoke to the bedridden elderly, one by one, and made sure someone brought a carton of milk or carried them to the bathroom. And thanks to a "lost-child" messenger, an excited woman from Kosovo soon approached the area and was reunited with her lost little boy. She smiled and cried and hugged him; he burst into tears. These emotional payoffs are few and far between in Brazda, a tent city

CNS

photo from Reuters

ethnic Albanian man from Kosovo eats biscuits behind a group

of tents

in a

refugee

Macedonia, April

camp

in Brazda,

The Catholic News & Herald

The World

April 16,

Brief

Bishop says U.S. pushing U.N. on abortion, family planning NEW YORK (CNS) The United

edly sparked by

WASHINGTON (CNS) — A coa-

taking a leading role in attempts

go even

to get the United Nations to

graffiti insulting Islam.

CRS, other groups call on (ingress to release hurricane aid

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States

1999

of Hispanic, religious, developrights organizations, including Catholic Relief Services, is

lition

further

ment and human

Rockville Centre.

the $956 million in hurricane reconstruction aid for Central America that

on abortion and family planning than the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development, according to Coadjutor Bishop James T. McHugh of tion

urging Congress to promptly release

He said the U.S. delega-

pushed "very hard"

the committee

preparing for a special meeting of the U.N. General Assembly to review devel-

Bill

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A key SALEM, Ore. (CNS) panel in the Oregon Senate has approved a bill that would give more

CNS

Timorese protest

PHOTO FROM Reuters

East Timorese men in Jakarta, Indonesia, protest April 9 a recent attack on a Catholic church in East Timor. At least 25 people died the April 6 attack by a paramilitary group in Liquisa.

give institutions such as Providence

Health Systems clear authority to penalize doctors who aid in suicides on health system grounds. Providence a network of Catholic hospitals, assisted-living communities, clinics and hospices is Oregon's largest health system. Founded by the Sisters of Providence, it tends about 1,500 licensed beds in the state. The bill would allow groups such as Providence to penalize violating doctors by canceling office leases and nixing some privileges. Wal-Mart urged to design policies that respect human dignity

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NEW YORK groups involved sponsibility

up pressure

—

(CNS)

in the

Church

corporate re-

movement have stepped on Wal-Mart to design

business policies that contribute to community and the dignity of the human person." An open letter April 5 to David Glass, WalMart CEO, said the company's growth "sustainable

woman,

News

told Catholic

Service April 8 that company executives had met on several occasions with groups represented among the signers, and

Wal-Mart thought

had been respon-

sive to their concerns.

Vandalism attacks on Italian churches believed related

ROME

—

(CNS)

churches were set on

fire

Two

Italian

and several were

spray-painted in what investigators believed to be a series of Satanist incidents.

During the night of April

vandals in the

village of Versasio, near the Swiss border,

broke into a 16th-century church and sprayed it throughout with occult symbols. They then stacked up the pews and chairs and set them ablaze. Only a statue of Mary and a shrine were spared the red paint and flames. One message sprayed on the walls

to achieve success in the marketplace"

among us." More than 25 killed at church, rectory in East Timor More DILI, East Timor (CNS) than 25 people were killed when a militia

came "without an ethical standard of measurement for its decisions." Betsy

group attacked a church and rectory in East Timor, said Bishop Carlos Ximenes

Reithemeyer, a Wal-Mart spokes-

Belo of

raised concern that

its

"strategic vision

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East Timor of hacking to death some of the victims. In a Dili press conference April 7, Bishop Belo said the military told him "there were 25 bodies inside the priest's house, but according to other witnesses outside, around the church, there were other bodies; I don't know exactly how many." Sectarian riots in Indonesia

disrupt Holy

nesia April 6-7, including 17 in Tual,

where nearly 100 people were injured and more than 140 houses were burned or badly damaged. Ethnic tensions developed after rioting In Tual

March

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St.

Joseph,

Newton

Ambon Jan.

19.

31, the tension broke

into Christian-Muslim clashes, report-

construction package, he said.

Catholics help stop death penalty in Massachusetts WORCESTER, Mass. (CNS) The successful campaign to keep the

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death penalty out of Massachusetts led local Catholics to rejoice and to pledge to continue their efforts. "A big thank-you to all people for any effort they made," said Rachelle Comtois, director of the Worcester diocesan Office of Social Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation, following the 80-

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73 House vote

March

29.

Connecticut bishops issue statement on Communion teaching HARTFORD, Conn. (CNS) Concerned about apparent misconceptions and lack of information about the Eucharist among Catholics and others, the Connecticut Catholic bishops have issued a formal statement on receiving holy Communion. Only those who "accept and believe what the Catholic Church teaches in general, and specifi-

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cally about the Eucharist" can receive

Communion

in a Catholic church,

they

This would include all Catholics, whether of the Latin rite or Eastern rites, and members of the Orthodox churches and the Polish National Catholic Church "if they spontaneously request it and are properly dissaid.

posed," the bishops said.

information, call (336) 699-4005. Catholic Social Ser-

Diocesan

HICKORY

planner

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St. Philip the Apostle Church is selling parish cookbooks with more than 300 recipes for appetizers, main dishes, desserts and a host of other recipes sent in by parishioners and friends. Cost is $10 each. Cookbooks can be purchased from St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church, 525 Camden Dr., Statesville, N.C. 28677, or by calling (704) 872-2579.

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Elder Ministry presents the 13th Annual Spring Fling today from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the Catholic Conference Center. Cost is $7.50. For details, call Sandra Breakfield at (704) 370vices'

3220.

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Belmont Abbey

series of

College hosts an "Abbey Experience" today for prospective students. Students will have opportunities to meet current Abbey students and professors, tour the campus, attend classes^ have lunch with the campus community, and attend a financial aid seminar. For reservations, call (888) 222-6665. 25 CHARLOTTE The Rosary So-

home

be-

ciety of

gins today from 7:15-8:30 p.m. at

St.

April classes

—

Indonesia (CNS) Sectarian riots in Tual, a town in Indonesia's Maluku province, interrupted Holy Week celebrations as local Catholics and others fled the town for safety. Meanwhile, police and local media said 40 people were killed in Christian-Muslim clashes throughout Indo-

21 CHARLOTTE

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1 1 am Mass April 25 Youth Conference Camp Thunderbird, Clover,

April 25 4 Confirmation

Week services

JAKARTA,

STATESVILLE

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He accused

pro-Indonesia paramilitary groups from

Ongoing;

Francis of Rome in Sparta

Secretary: Jane Glodov^^ski

killed in the April 6 incident.

Bishop William. G. Curlin will take

For the parish of St. Francis of Assisi in .Jefferson and its mission, St.

Advertising Representative: Cindi Feerick

-1998-

The

April 22 7 Confirmation

Hispanic Editor: Luis Wolf

cpa

Dili.

Rafael dos Santos, said 45 people were

part the following events:

Curlin

Associate Editor: Jimmy Rostar

NEWS

Editor:

was, "Satan, lord of hell,

Episcopal, calendar

conference com-

Georges and Mitch in Central America and the Caribbean had been proposed by President Clinton and approved by both houses of Congress. But it was not being acted upon because of wrangling in conference committee over cuts in other programs to fund the re-

opposed to assisted suicide

491, OK'd unanimously by the Senate Judiciary Committee April 1, would

a Capitol Hill press confer-

boosts rights of health systems

clout to health providers opposing doctor-assisted suicide. Senate Bill

7, Rep. Xavier Becerra, DCalif said the funds to aid reconstruction following last year's Hurricanes

New York.

languishing

ence April

opments since Cairo. Bishop McHugh was on the Vatican delegation to the recent meeting of the Commission on Population and Development at U.N. headquarters

now

mittee.

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spirituality for the

Gabriel Church, 3016 Providence Rd. Father John Vianney Hoover of New Creation Monastery in Boonville facilitates. The first session relates the sacra-

ments to human experiences. Other sessions are April 28 and May 5. For more

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Our Lady of Consolation

Church, 2301 Statesville Ave., hosts its annual chicken dinner today from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Dinner includes baked or fried chicken, dessert and a beverage. Cost is $6. A "Spirit Day" MAGGIE VALLEY for middle-school youth in the Smoky

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1999

April 16,

The Catholic News & Herald 3

Around fhe Diocese

Country music-loving priest By

Father Schratz, who has the

JIMMY ROSTAR

Associate Editor

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CHARLOTTE

Diocese of Charlotte Pastoral Center The Chancery

contest jaclcpot

liits

number programmed

station's

Thanks

to a

lucky number, a childhood recollection and a love for country music. Father Martin Schratz was reminded that persistence has its reward

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into

the speed-dial function on his phone, made it through the busy signals a few times over the weeks. But he couldn't seem to be the right caller.

April 16, 1999

Dear Friends

From dioceses where a few Catholics are scattered across tens of thousands of square miles to those that struggle with overwhelming numbers concentrated in smaller areas, the home missions find challenges in bringing the faith to all.

arrived.

$2,735, to'be exact.

For a month and a half, the Capuchin Franciscan friar called in twice a morn-

"It

was

was funny, because that day

caller

number

mas Aquinas Church and

station,

because that's

FM,

96.9 Char-

lotte to guess

station's

the

secret sound.

son

The who

per-

music aficionado.

Father

23," said

Schratz, a parochial vicar at St.

ing to his favorite radio

WKKT

Tho-

country to the Catholic Home Missions Appeal on the weekend of April 24-25, 1999 will help provide funding for priests to celebrate Mass in these areas as regularly as possible; it will help support religious education programs, so that our faith can be handed down to the generations that will follow; it will also help the smallest parishes of our country keep their doors open.

Your contribution

got all excited lucky number. I

was born on the 23rd."

— "Kat Kountry" — began the contest couple of

The fans

station

months ago with $1,096. A wrong guess meant another chance and more money. Several callers came

Our brothers and

close,

handle

and

one

Father Schratz had a pretty

cases there." "Really,

guess, the jackpot

good idea what

was creating the sound. certain hint evoked a

we were

$2,735. He'll turn the added. "When he said that convinced him. "One of the clues it, it almost caught me money was they both contain off guard. I looked liquid," he said. "When around the room and it in to the Capuchin we were kids, we used was like, 'Holy cow, he to scrape the covering got it!'" off of golf balls. Inside there was a The contest took some diligent little ball; there's a blue liquid inside. listening. "He had to know the jack"That's how I knew what it was." pot amount ... and if you don't listen His guess was a golf ball bouncall the time, you miss some of the ing in a coffee mug. clues," said Schadt. "Obviously he

Ray Berg

ters Reflection

through

27 CHARLOTTE

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spiritual

growth group meets today and May 4 7-8:30 p.m. at 2010 Countrymen's Court #69, off Sharon Lakes Road. Father John Vianney Hoover of New Creation Monastery in

from

as spiritual advisor,

May

2 at the Living

Reflection Center. Space

today

Waters

limited for

which focuses on an encounter with Jesus through relaxation and reflection. For more information, cafl Bobbie Mukosiej at (828) 665-2722, this retreat,

Nancy Sparacino

at (828)

255-0095.

May

28 CHARLOTTE

McGuinness Memorial High School hosts a car lease raffle and "Monte

facilitates.

— A workshop on

the N.C. Catholic bishops' economic

"Of One Heart and One Mind," is today from 7-9 p.m. in the Ministry Center at St. Gabriel Church, 3016 Providence Rd. The workshop will take participants through the topics of charity, education, advocacy, action and empowerment for the working poor. It will include prayer, reflection and discussion. For more information, call Greg Kurts at (704) 544-8406.

justice pastoral letter,

30 MAGGIE VALLEY women's Emmaus

retreat,

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with Father

GREENSBORO

Christ,

Very Reverend Mauricio

W. West

Vicar General and Chancellor

P.O. Box 36776, Charlotte, NC 28236 Phone; (704) 370-6299 Fax; (704) 370-3379

used the clues to his advantage and

was able to decipher the sound. He had to be right caller, too. Every-

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Carlo Night" to raise funds for technology in the school today. The raffle prize is a two-year lease of a two-passenger 1999 Mercedes SLK 230. Five hundred tickets will be sold at $60 each, or two or more for $50 each. A scrip raffle of $250 is also planned. Tickets are $5 each. The Monte Carlo Night social features games, auctions and a catered buffet dinner. Tickets are $75 each. All profits will be directed to library and classroom computer upgrades. For tickets and other informa-

answering us. "Sometimes it sounds like we're getting a busy signal, but we just have to persevere."

of Devel725-4247. GREENSBORO The Single Again Catholics group meets today at 9 a.m. in the Wal Mart parking lot on Battleground Avenue for a hiking trip at Hanging Rock. Call Annie at (336)

505 E. Kivett Dr. Praying of the rois at 6:30, and Benediction and adoration follow the Mass. Call (336) 884-0244 for more information.

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tion, call the school's Office

opment

at (336)

454-3343

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for details.

spiritual events.

Bishop

the busy signal and given up. That's the way it is with prayer sometimes. pray, and we don't think God is

thing lined up just right." Father Schratz has won radio contests before, including one that yielded front-row Garth Brooks concert tickets from "Kat Kountry" last year. He sees his latest stroke of good fortune as a spiritual lesson. "I used it in a homily not that I won, as much as it was perseverance," he said. "I could have heard

The group meets

regularly for a variety of social and

Call (336) 6994005 for details and directions.

Boonville

in.

at least a

memory

Mountain Vicariate

generously.

thought

still

week away from somebody getting it," he

had grown to

is at the Living WaCenter today from 12:306 p.m. Call (828) 669-0524 for details.

Sincerely

That was one of the

Schratz's correct

doesn't.

are depending on this Appeal; help us

Home" by responding

Wishing you the blessings of this holy Easter Season,

OFM

sisters

strengthen the "Church at

but guessed only the coffee rectly guessed mug part correctly. the source of By the time of Father Schratz's Father Martin echoing correct guess, the jackpot had grown the to $2,735. He'll turn the money in to Schratz, Cap "plink, plink, plink" would the Capuchin community. win a cash prize, Listeners were "No matter who wins the money, given clues along the way: there you're happy for them," said Paul were two objects creating the sound; Schadt, who hosts the station's one could be morning show with Shmicrowaved while the annon Alexander. "But By the time of Father other couldn't; one has sometimes it's special. cor-

in Christ,

Then Easter Monday morning

GREENSBORO

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North Carolina Right to Life sponsors Pro-life Day 1999 today with a series of discussions at the Embassy Suites in Greensboro. Topics to be covered include the abortion and breast cancer connection; new discoveries about fetal development; post-abortion syndrome and the adolescent; and euthanasia and assisted suicide. For schedule, registration and other information, call (800) 392-6275. Group, senior and student discounts are available.

HIGH POINT — A Mass in Latin is

celebrated today and each first Friday at 7 p.m. in Christ the

King Church,

Contact Associate Editor Jimmy Rostar by calling (704) 370-3334, or by sending e-

mail

to jtrostar@charlottediocese.org.

sary

GREENSBORO —

14 "The Love of the Father," a statewide conference

for the new millentoday through May 16 at Greensboro College, 815 W. Market St. Featured speakers are Catholic evangelists Peter Herbeck and Jim Murphy. Fees start at $55 for meals and a shared room on campus. Pri-

on preparing nium,

rooms and suites are also availFor details, call Hannah in Greensboro at (336) 273-9205, or vate

able.

Joyce

Charlotte at (704) 547-1836. A healing celebrated in the chapel of

20 HIGH POINT Mass

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Maryfield Nursing Home, 1315 Greensboro Rd., at 7:30 p.m. Please submit notices of events for Planner at least 10 days

the Diocesan

prior to publication date.

The Catholic News & Herald

Editor! What teens

When

The Pope

don't like about themselves trim and pretty

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ously was near tears. probed. Lisa's

"What

hate

1999

Coming of Age

she obvibrings you here?" I

office,

sobbing and her words began

exactly the same time.

POPE JOHN PAUL

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3-year-old Lisa

a picture

Speaks

April 16,

ah & Columns

almost

my best friend."

was

an unusual complaint. "What's that about?" "Janine is so perfect. She's pretty, and she's nice, and she gets good grades, and everybody totally hangs around her. When I look at her I feel fat and gross and stupid. I need to go someplace where I won't see her for at least a week so I can stop feeling

CHRISTOPHER CARSTENS

CNS Columnist

so horrible."

correct behavior, By CINDY

pope says

WOODEN

Catholic Nba/s Service

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While the love VATICAN CITY (CNS) of God the Father is abundant and unending, it requires a response of love and correct behavior, Pope John Paul II said. In addition to loving his children, God "also has the task of guiding them, admonishing them with severity

pope

necessary," like any father, the

said April 7 at his

weekly general audience.

The pope, who was spending several days

"This one guy asked me for my pager number, when he paged me, all he did was ask if I could hook him up with Janine." "The worst thing is," Lisa said with obvious amazement, "she's not even conceited. It's like she doesn't even notice all this stuff, and then she goes and says she thinks nobody likes her. I can't believe it." I recognized a familiar story. Lisa was seeing how Janine looked on the outside but she didn't know anything about life inside Janine's skin. That's the way it is with all of us. all live in our own messy, uncomfortable, confusing inside worlds, but with others all we see is their polished, shiny, put-together outsides. Often the inside and the outside don't match at all. Almost every teen-age girl hates her own nose. It's true they stare into the mirror, convinced that the big lump in the middle of their face is a disaster. Interestingly, they don't hate their friends' noses, they only hate their own. Most teen-agers are quite dissatisfied with some part of their lives, and it is often their looks. I learned that Lisa was deeply unhappy with her appearance, largely as a consequence of some very unkind teasing by an older brother. She thought she was ugly and it didn't matter what anybody else said. When you think you're dumb and funny looking, but

God's love requires response,

Castel Gandolfo south of Rome, returned to the Vatican by helicopter for the audience but was scheduled to go back to the papal summer residence until April 10. With St. Peter's Square still decorated with flowers from the Easter morning Mass, Pope John Paul said that by dying on the cross, Jesus showed that the greatest response to God's love lies in giving one's life for others. "While he proclaimed the love of the Father, Jesus never stopped recalling that it is a compelling love," a love which requires doing God's

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whatever happens

feels like proof If somebody says, "Hey, that's a cute jacket," you hear, "It hides those

big hips."

prove

this,

but

I'd

bet that Lisa's friend,

meant it when she said nobody wasn't just making Lisa feel good.

matter

Janine she worries side,

how

put-together she

living in her

liked her.

own messy

She

on the out-

inside. Inside,

if boys like her, and she worries whether or not she'll match up with the internal standards she carries. And Janine may worry that Lisa is so pretty

that all the guys will go for her. If Lisa pulls away, Janine will worry about that. "What's happening? Now my best friend is disappearing I must really be a mess." The solution is simple, but hard. If Lisa values her friendship, she'll need to use words. That means telling Janine openly and honestly what she feels. If Janine is a good friend, she'll take what she hears seriously. Honesty binds friends together. And then, maybe, she'll tell Lisa about her own fears and concerns. When Lisa hears and understands, both girls and their friendship will be made stronger.

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and following his law, he said, "The law which God gives to his people is not a weight imposed by a tyrannical master, but an expression of that paternal love which points out the correct path for human conduct and the condi-

can't

Janine,

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address: Dr. Service,

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will

Planning

tions for inheriting the divine promises," he said.

While God's law flows from

his love, "trans-

gressing it is not without consequences, bringing painful results," the pope said. "If one detaches himself from the Creator, he necessarily falls into evil, death and nothingness," he said. "On the other hand, adhesion to God is the source of life and blessing." The law given to the people of the Old Testament was not abolished by Jesus, as he told his disciples, but was deepened and expanded, the pope said. "Jesus points out that the heart of the law is the precept of love," he said. And, Jesus "develops its radical requirements," telling his disciples they must love their enemies as well as their friends since all are children of God.

"With Jesus there is a jump in quality," Pope John Paul said. "He synthesizes the law and the propliets in just one norm as simple in its formulation as it is difficult in its realization: 'Do to others that which you would have them do to you.'" With Jesus, he said, "the law is transformed and deepened as the law of love, the only thing which matches the paternal face of God." Pope names officers for European synod, scheduled Oct. 1-23 VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Paul II tapped church leaders to head the Synod of Bishops for Europe, scheduled Oct. 1-23 at the Vatican. In a statement released April 6, the Vatican said Pope John Paul chose as the three synod presidents Cardinal Franciszek Macharski of Krakow, Poland; Cardinal Joachim Meisner of Cologne, Germany; and French Cardinal Paul Poupard, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture.

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help to offset the negative impact of the state of North Carolina's intent to disengage itself from the business of accrediting non-public schools by the year 2000. During the initial stage of its efforts, the subcommittee has sought school administrators' views

Strategic

regarding issues and themes which dominate their thinking as they see the needs of the system from their professional perspectives. Assisted by Superintendent Mike Skube, Assistant Superintendent Sister Mona Wingert, and Director of Religious Formation

GEORGE REPASS Guest Columnist

Maureen Meehan, some twenty focus

Sister

Strategic Planning: Catholic Education Sub-committee for Catholic Schools work of this task group engaged in

The sessing

the needs for our schools

as-

energized by the present health and the future prospects for this important ministry in the diocese. With a total current population of more than 7,000 students in grades pre-K through 12, the system has experienced a record of astounding growth since the Diocesan 1986-87. In

its

Synod issued

its

planning document

review, the subcommittee has revisited

those recommendations as an aid in forming its baseline understandings of both the accomplishments and goals of the schools during the past decade. These understandings have been augmented by reference to emerging trends in Catholic school education both locally and nationally and the refinements in the schools' sense of mission, which have resulted from their ongoing self-study.

One

the committee has identi-

areas categorized under philosophical/mission concerns, social dynamics and needs in the schools resulting from demographic and cultural diversity trends, academic needs and the

fied

current development which promises to yield great insights for our planning efforts is the body of results from the self-study currently being conducted by our elementary and middle schools in their effort to obtain accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. This type of accreditation, already possessed by our high schools, will be a recognition of quality in our system and will

resources necessary for supporting programs for growth in these areas, student health ser\'ices goals, staffing and staff development concerns, and the ongoing needs for facilities expansions in light of the growing population of students seeking Catholic all grade levels. concern in assessing all dimensions of these issues and planning needs is the focus on sustaining a firmly Catholic identity in our schools. It is our conviction that all improvements must be undertaken in light of this overriding concern, which is at the core of our schools' sense of their mission. And it is this sense of mission, shared by all those involved in the work of our schools, which is best expressed in the words of St. Paul that "the love of Christ urges us

school education at

critical

on."

George Repass

principal of Bishop McGuinness

in Winston-Salem and vice-chair of the Catholic Education Subcommittee for Catholic

Memorial High School Schools.

April 16,

1999

The Catholic News & Herald 5

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grandmother, Geneva

Jefferies. Since his mother, unable to take care of him, Travis' beloved grandmother gives him the affection and care he needs. And this unforgettable boy needs so

his

One

a crack addict,

Candle

Parish

much.

FATHER THOMAS

McSWEENEY Guest Columnist

Positive anger? an emotion that most of us believe should be suppressed. "Count to ten" is the standard antidote to blurting out our frustrations. Yet my experience in counseling suggests that there are certain circumstances when we heal or recover our balance in life by becoming angry first. For example, people who are ill and in pain often get angry. I have observed that terribly sick people actually affirm life and their attachment to it through anger. Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen of the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and author of "Kitchen Table Wisdom" puts it this way: "Anger often represents an engagement with life, not always the most comfortable style of engagement, but perhaps the only style the person can manage at that particular time. It is far healthier than apathy,

Anger

hopelessness, and resignation."

But there is the possibility that left unresolved, longterm anger can lead to bitterness and resentment, attitudes that can be far more debilitating than any disease. A few months ago, PBS televised a touching documentary, "Travis," about a little boy who was born HIV positive and now suffers from AIDS. The program was so compelling that we gave it a Christopher Award at the annual presentation this February. That's where I met Travis, now 10 years old, and

Travis is his endearing, positive personality. "Don't worry about me," beams Travis. "I'm breathing, I'm happy to be breathing, and I can feel the sun on my face!" There isn't a trace of "Why me?" in this youngster. Whether a person is angry at a life-threatening illness or some event that is simply contrary to expectations, the rage is still really an expression of "Why me? This isn't the way my life's supposed to be. This isn't fair!" Children, I think, are so close to the essentials of life itself, they often see things more clearly than adults do. As we grow older we become attached to our preferences for living life in a certain way, where everything goes our way. For us to deal more effectively with anger, we might take our cue from all those who retain that vital connection to life, no matter what shape it takes. Directed at solving a problem or focusing our energy, anger is valuable and constructive. The real difficulty with anger is that we can become stuck to it. Rather than contend with the emotion, admit it, experience it, and let it go, some of us get so attached to the feeling of anger that it can dominate us indefinitely. Then there are those others who manage anger and move on. All emotions, including anger, can serve a purpose. And they are potentially life affirming. But only if we choose to make them so.

many

Father Thomas

therapy or counseling groups because

McSweeney

director

of The

Question

of eternal

life

with

the wrist. Is his soul in danger, or mine, because I can't to findforgiveness?

You and your husband have a heavy load to and I'm sorry for your hurt. No one can take away the pain, but there are a few things that may be helpful in light of your questions. Can you speak with your son and he be aware of it? Can he speak to you? One of the most consoling and remarkable ancient beliefs of our Christian faith, one we too often don't A.

carry,

Communion

think about,

that there

a conscious

the

of Saints.

communion,

proclaims

a living interac-

between those of us still here on earth and those who have gone before us into eternity. This truth was specifically reaffirmed at Vatican Council II, and later in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. "For all who belong to Christ," says the council, "have his Spirit, form one church and cleave together in him (see Ephesians 4:16). Therefore the union of the pilgrims with the brothers and sisters who have gone to sleep in the peace of Christ is not in the least interrupted" (Constitution on the Church 49; Catechism 954-955). That is an astounding statement. It says that even though your son's bodily presence is no longer here, your union with him "is not in the least interrupted" by death. tion,

my Y2K

compliance-readiness with What churches, which is

Y2K

this

stufP Even

are supposed to have

minds focused on things eternal, are worit. Of course, we would be silly not to take the problem seriously. We have become a computer-dependent world in many ways. Recently we received a survey form in the mail from our local electric company, which rents our parish hall sometimes. They said they wanted to be sure that all their "contractors" were "Y2K" compliant. It had a lot of questions. I did my best to respond to them honestly. The last question was the one that stumped me. "Will your essential functions be affected?" Now, I had to give this question a little more consideration. Just what are our essential functions? their

ried

about

The church

primarily a community of we could continue should our essential functions pretty well. be able to celebrate the sacraments, do works of charity, study the Scriptures and teach the faith, even if the computers shut down. might not be able to fill in all those forms that come to us firom the diocese and the government, which would be God's justice. probably wouldn't be able to generate so much paper, which would save the rain forests. might not be able to schedule so many events, which would give us all a needed Sabbath rest. is

charity and prayer. Probably

The power company survey made me wonWhat if we sent out a similar "doomsday

survey" to determine if people were "Second Coming" compliant? What would we ask?

— Have you hungry — Have you given drink the — Are welcomed your community? —What provisions have you made homeless? clothing the naked and — Are your programs the imprisoned working? and — Do you worship God and — Have you been building each other up with words of encouragement? — What provisions have you made meek land? — Have you been enemies, making peace and comforting those who mourn? — How much mercy have you shown? — what way have you hungered and — Have you preached good news the ends of earth? — Have you baptized nations and people of God's love? — Have you stored up fed the

lately?

FATHER JOHN DIETZEN

CNS

Columnist

being able to speak with him

seem

Columnist

Reflections on

der:

God? Is there such a thing as my and he be aware of it? What about the soul of the child who killed my son? He received a very light sentence, which was like a slap on

gift

CNS

Corner

questions are notfor these groups, but I hope you can help.

Tve searched the Bible on the death of a child, but found nothing that helped. My son did receive Communion and the other sacraments before he died. Does he have the

FATHER PETER DALY

Father,

I didn't go

Christophers.

Can't seem to forgive my soul is in deep mourning. Several months ago our 1 1 -year-old son was shot and killed by a neighbor boy one year older. He had found his older brother's unlicensed gun and shot our son in the face. Q.

Diary

from painful sores in his mouth and throat, and can eat only from a tube inserted into his stomach. Over the years, Travis has been on more than 275 drugs. Right now he takes 20 different ones every day. But what amazes people most about suffers

strangers

thirsty?

for

sheltering the

sick

for visiting

the

On the contrary, the catechism continues, "according to the constant faith of the church, this union is reinforced by an exchange of spiritual goods." Those in heaven continually help us in our weakness and intercede with the Father for us, putting their merits at our disposal "through the one mediator between God and men, Christ Jesus" (955-6). How all this works in God's providence we don't know, of course. But it is an instinct of Christian faith that goes back to the earliest centuries, which we announce each time we say the Apostles' Creed. How about forgiveness? In spite of the remark we often hear to forgive and forget, forgetting a terrible hurt is probably not possible, and anyway has nothing to do with forgiveness. Forgiveness, as we are reminded in the Our Father, is rooted in God's forgiveness of us. It is not an exercise in mental or emotional gymnastics, trying to maneuver our feelings into the way we "ought" to feel. It is profoundly and simply a matter of love, a response to Our Lord's command that we love one another as he has loved us (Jn 13:34). Your questions about the other child's soul show that your love and faith, your concern and care, are there, even though you may not feel it a lot at this point. That love is not negated or diminished by the fact that you remember with tears and still hurt terribly.

in spirit

truth?

for the

to inherit the

reconciling

thirsted for justice?

the

all

told

sufficient treasure in

heaven? I'd be willing to bet that most of us would have a lot harder time filling out the second form than the first. I'd also be willing to bet that it would be a lot more important to get compliant with the second one. One way or another, we will muddle through the computer glitches of Y2K. But if we don't get compliant with the concerns of the Lord's survey, we might not get through the Last Judgment unscathed. Now that's a survey to take seriously.

The Catholic News & Herald

Interfaith efforts

People

need more

—

NEW

lished April 4.

gathering in New York. "It is time for us to go a bit deeper," said Passionist Father Luis M. Dolan. "There is a lot of fuzziness in this." Father Dolan, a native of Argentina terfaith

now a U.S. citizen and lives in York, has spent many years working in interfaith activities, including efforts to relate them to the United is

New

Nations.

April 9 in Santiago, Chile. He was 9 1 Cardinal Silva

has donated $250,000 to Catholic Relief Services to assist refugees and others suffering from the current crisis in the Balkans. Newman presented the $250,000 check April 7 at

military coup that

New

York University. Parish prays for POW held in Serbia The EMMETT, Mich. (CNS) capture of three American soldiers near the border of Serbia and Macedonia has had special meaning for the people of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Emmett. Staff Sgt.

Actor donates $250,000 to CRS for Kosovo refugees WESTPORT, Conn. (CNS) Paul Newman, actor and creator of

archbishop of Santiago during the

senior adviser to an In-

Council of

Cardinal Silva dies at 91 Retired Chilean Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez died

served as

York, formed in 1995, and was a member of an interfaith panel speaking at a council program attended by about 100 people April 10 at the Catholic chapel of New terfaith

brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power. He is pictured here in

Washington

1987.

—

Christopher

Stone, one of the

held captive since

March

31,

men

the son

of Jim and Edith Stone of Avoca, who joined the parish about a year ago. It is in the Detroit Archdiocese. "On Holy Thursday, before the Mass, we had the rosary for him, and over 100 people showed up," Marian Pratt, parish secretary at

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Pope

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1999

quick end to

escalated fighting

—

Kosovo

VATICAN CITY (CNS) Concerned about the suffering of civilians and the danger of a wider war, Pope John Paul II called for a quick end to the escalated Kosovo fighting and a return to serious negotiations.

NATO

The pope made his remarks after forces launched air strikes against Yugoslavia, following refusal by Yugoslav leaders to accept a U.S.-brokered autonomy plan for the Kosovo province. Meeting with young people from the Rome Diocese March 25, the pope which is staining Yugoslavia with blood" had brought the victims and potential consequences for Europe and the whole

said that "the conflict pa:in to

world.

CNS

White

camp

tents dot the landscape over the Brazda refugee

Catholic Relief Services at the camp.

"I deeply hope that the weapons can be silenced as soon as possible and that the dialogue and negotiations can begin again so that finally, with the contribution of all, a just and lasting peace can be reached in the whole region,"

PHOTO FROM Reuters

Macedonia. among the aid agencies assisting refugees from in

The Vatican, meanwhile, said its diplomats were in contact with the Yugoslav, Russian and other governments to promote a return to negotiations. It asked Yugoslavia to demonstrate cooperation with the rest of Europe on the Kosovo question to find a solution "honorable for all." Papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the pope was following "with deep concern the suffering of the populations stricken by the painful situation in which they've come to be found." "This is a solidarity that extends to all, Albanians and Serbs, Muslims and Christians, Orthodox and Catholics, because all are children of the Father in

Kosovo

Brazda camp, from page

gaining more.

young male

NATO

set

up the Brazda camp to

help absorb a massive refugee population trapped near the border without

his

life

would be in danHe was put on a

ger from Serb soldiers.

train "just like in 'Schindler's List,

food, water or proper hygiene.

The

and was dumped at the southern Yugoslav border with thousands of

camp has functioned

mid-

others.

well, but in

NATO troops were preparing to

April,

leave Brazda, turning over security to

Macedonian

police

and management of

the facility to Catholic Relief Services.

As CRS coordinated macro-issues like food distribution, toilet construc-

tion and refugee registration, a small

team from the International Catholic Migration Commission, known as ICMC, focused on the Brazda camp's most vulnerable: the elderly, physically disabled and emotionally disturbed, all of them unaccompanied. The ICMC set up six large tents at the north end of the camp and went to

work

recruiting volunteers

healthier

among

the

Kosovar refugees.

Ilir Latifi said he stepped forward because he could see that these elderly

and disabled, who somehow were separated from their families during their flight, desperately needed help. "I

haven't slept for two days.

They

heaven," the spokesman said. For several days, the pope had warned against an escalation of the Kosovo conflict. As last-minute mediation efforts failed March 21, the pontiff urged leaders to end the chain of violence that has ravaged the Balkans in recent

said,

Then he spent four days at the infamous makeshift camp at Blace, in a section of no-man's land between Yugoslavia and Macedonia. He said the camp, without water, food and hygiene, was simply a "catastrophe" for

years.

"Those communities have already undergone a long 'Via Crucis' and are awaiting solutions that are respectful of history and of rights," he said. He asked those responsible to show courage in taking steps toward a negotiated settlement.

Speaking a few hours before the bombs and missiles struck targets throughout Yugoslavia March 24, the pope closed his weekly general audience with "a special prayer to the all-merciful God, that he grant the gift of peace, which is above all needed in Kosovo and Europe today." After the bombing began that evening, Navarro-Valls said that "recourse to force is always a defeat for humanity." "One cannot help but think of the eventual victims and sentiments of hatred that will inevitably arise. One is reminded of what Pope Pius XII said on Aug. 24, 1939: 'Nothing is lost with peace. Everything can be lost with

the estimated 40,000 people there. "I have no words to describe the situation at Blace. Too many people

—

died

old people and even babies," he

said. Latifi,

who lived

Austria for five

years, said he probably could be ap-

proved for transit to another Europeari country, but preferred to remain in the camp. He said he wants to go back to Kosovo as soon as possible, to find out the fate of his parents and his younger brother and sister. But unlike many other young Kosovar males, he said he will not go back to fight with the

Kosovo Liberation Army. "No, I will not go back

war,'" the

kill.

set up the Brazda

camp

The

border without food, water or proper hygiene. The

camp has functioned well,

but

mid-April,

NATO

security to

the

Macedonian

facility to

and management of

One 74-year

old

to them," Latifi

woman,

for ex-

ample, routinely gets up and announces she is walking home; the volunteers lead her back to the tent. Latifi has his own trauma to deal with, too. As he kept a watchful eye on a tentful of older

women,

Latifi

—

dressed in jeans, a windbreaker and a blue baseball cap, his only set of clothes described his journey. He said he left Pristina on the ad^'ice of his family, who thought that as

—

when

Macedonian

police broke up the

camp and ordered

Catholic Relief Services.

what has happened said.

police

53-year-old Useni Batia had become separated from her daughters, aged 7 and 5. The older girl was taking the younger one to find a doctor 1

troops were preparing to leave Brazda, turning over

refugees to board buses and trucks, can go to another country

maybe, but not before the

woman

find

girls,"

said despondently. Like

hundreds of others

camp, she has tacked a missing-person message to a wooden wall at the camp's entrance. Gazivoda, who has seen similar camps in Croatia, predicted tough times ahead for those who do not leave Brazda quickly. "At

home

at the

they all think they'll go few weeks. After a year, they

first,

in a

NATO

pounded military targets in Kosovo and throughout Yugoslav authorities said that among the victims of the first strikes were a group of Serbian refugees, including women and children, who were being temporarily housed at an army barracks. NATO ordered the attacks after months of unsuccessful diplomatic efforts to reach agreement between the Yugoslav government of Milosevic and an ethnic-Albanian separatist mo\'ement in the southern province of Kosovo.

would rather stay here and help," he said. Nearby, ICMC's Davor Gazivoda listened to another desperate case: Eight to help absorb a days earlier in Blace,

massive refugee population trapped near the

start thinking differently, like this will

said.

Vatican source said while the Vatican recognized that previous mediation did not have the hoped-for outcome, "the idea of bombing until (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic accepts negotiations seems too simple." He said a new diplomatic path should be found to end the crisis.

Yugoslav to

spokesman

One informed

need assistance day and night. Many of them are confused and don't know

NATO

said.

attacks

territory.

never end," he

said.

Camp management

becomes much more

difficult,

In a tent near the

camp

he added.

gates,

CRS

Mark Schnellbaecher was

official

chairing a meeting of nongovernmental organizations departure of

preparation for the

NATO soldiers. The top-

—

ranged from straightforward how to keep trash out of rapidly filling latrines to the more complex issue ics

—

of how to stimulate community leadership among the refugee population. Workers also discussed improving the distribution of food and material so that it does not all end up in the hands of the fastest and strongest refugees, leaving the weakest with nothing. Although most of the refugees said they were determined to return soon to Kosovo, the relief organizations were thinking long-term. Already,

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The Catholic News & Herald 9

Archbishop says all WOODEN

By CINDY

News

Service

VATICAN CITY

(CNS)

Catholic

— The

Vatican's chief diplomatic concern in

the Balkans crisis

to get both sides

to recognize the consequences of their

actions and end the suffering of inno-

cent civilians, the Vatican's foreign minister said. Finding a balance between combating evil and "the consequences of

always delicate," said Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, the therapy applied

the Vatican's chief diplomat. In a mid-April interview with the

magazine Famiglia Cristiana, the archbishop said the Vatican "always hoped that the political Italian Catholic

problems could be resolved through dialogue with respect for history and recognizing a need for humanitarian intervention." "No state can violate human rights

for the law, while also

Yugoslav conflict must recognize consequences

hiding behind the screen of national sovereignty," Archbishop Tauran said. The archbishop said the Vatican appreciates the intense diplomatic efforts that preceded the conflict in Yu-

Solana Madariaga for a cease-fire to give the people of the region "a bit of serenity and peace" for Easter. The pope, he said, also hoped a

goslavia.

sides the possibility of a

made

cease-fire

would "give the conflicting few days for

corridor: "Halting" military operations

and ethnic cleansing on the part of the

government in Belgrade; suspending the NATO bombardments; and allowing the return of refugees and the displaced with the help of humanifederal

the judg-

reflection."

tarian organizations, but guaranteed by

having exhausted all diplomatic instruments, only force remained as a way to impose a solution that could

"When

an international intervention force." "Obviously," Archbishop Tauran said, "all of this would require reciprocal concessions which, for the moment, have not yet matured." The archbishop said all Vatican offices and agencies are united to promote peace in the Balkans and lessen the suffering of the region's people. "It is important everyone understand that Europe cannot end this second millennium devastated by catastrophe and desolation," he said. "Sentiments of humanity, respect for international law and peace for all absolutely must win," he said.

"Political leaders

ment

that,

among the populations of Kosovo," he said. "Obviously, the responsibility for favor peaceful coexistence

such a choice is with those who maintained it opportune to adopt it," the archbishop said. "The Holy See took note of the decision, but has tried to make a reflection on its cons£?quences," he said. He said Pope John Paul II asked U.S. President Bill Clinton, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and Secretary-General Javier

NATO

populations are forced to leave their homes or when bombs are falling, it certainly is not a propitious moment for diplomacy and negotia-

Archbishop Tauran said. "It was hoped that the principal actors in this crisis would have accepted this initiation,"

tive to let peace win."

Archbishop Tauran said the Vatican also was disappointed that, so far, Milosevic has not responded to the pope's Easter Sunday appeal for the opening of a "humanitarian corridor" in the Kosovo region. The difficulty, he said, lies in the conditions necessary for setting up the

Warm welcome:

Impoverished Albania opens heart, By

JOHN THAVIS

Catholic

TIRANA,

News

Service

Albania (CNS)

When Anila Mjeda graduated

homes to

refugees

she recounted how 29 members of their extended family had fled the city of Prizren in a truck, after Serbian soldiers gave eth-

— as

Albanian residents 20 minNone of the group had seen anyone killed, but they

a research physicist last year af-

nic

ter nearly six years of studies,

utes to leave.

something in her heart told her she would be happier in a more people-oriented career. This spring, the people arrived

— 300,000

was real. "They would have killed my children," said Shala, whose two older boys were playing soccer on a small patch of concrete in all

of them, refugees from war-ravaged Kosovo and Mjeda was ready to greet them as a community services operator for

—

said the threat

front of her tent.

"Our

trip

down

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ate only bread

Catholic Relief Services in Albania.

hard.

She drove to the northern border city of Kukes and met

spent one week

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and

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where it was terribly cold. wrapped every scrap of clothing I had around my baby. Only

tains,

desperate families with a smile.

She listened to their painful stories and helped them calm down. She gave them water and food. She helped separated family

God

helped us survive," she said. spoke, an Albanian relief worker walked down one of members find each other. the camp's two main paths disAfter 10 days in what was tributing shoes. A pack of children perhaps the most chaotic spot on picked through the lot, some liddearth, she knew she had found ing up a pair like a trophy, others CNS PHOTO FROM Reuters her calling. It was not quantum finding nothing that fit. As the An ethnic Albanian man reaches out for bread during a rush for food at the refugee camp shoes came out of the box, it bephysics, but it was real. in Kukes, Albania, April 12. About 300,000 people from the Yugoslavian province of "I enjoyed the direct contact came apparent that all were wellKosovo have fled to neighboring Albania. and trying to find the best possible worn, many down to the heels. solution to their problems. I was Charity is relative, and Albaproud of our work. We did something nians are giving what they can. Many of burns and told the relief workers he was between, they handed out "BP5" proconcrete for these people. You could just the Kosovar families were wealthier and lucky to have escaped a deliberate burntein biscuits and other essentials. see their faces change as we welcomed ing of young males by the rampaging better connected to international By the second week in April, the them," said the 27-year-old Albanian. sources of income than their Albanian soldiers. Many had been shaken down refugees slipped from the media spotMjeda's actions were similar to rehosts before the recent crisis. At a creditfor money by masked Serbs light as they were systematically relothe price sponses by many in Albania, an impovcard pay phone in the Tirana camp, refufor not being beaten on their way out of cated throughout Albanian regions. erished nation that has nevertheless gees lined up to try to phone relatives in their homeland, they said. More than half were temporarily welfound something to share with an unThe trauma in the Kukes entry comed into private homes. Germany, Switzerland or elsewhere. precedented influx of refugees, their Some fear that if the country has to host point was tangible, and Mjeda, along In one of the camps, just outside ethnic Albanian cousins chased at gunthe Kosovars for long, Albania's social fabric with five other CRS workers, adopted the capital city of Tirana, about 1,000 point from the province of Kosovo in will be stretched to the breaking point. a simple methodology: Trying hard to Kosovar families were adapting to a the Yugoslav republic of Serbia. stay calm, they offered hugs and symnew and strange way of daily life. "The capacity to absorb 250,000 "I had never seen or experienced people in Albania is just not there. pathy, explained what would happen Bukorie Shala, 23, changed her anything like Kukes. It reminded me of to the refugees in Albania and listened baby's diaper in a tent occupied by From a humanitarian point of view, scenes from the biblical Exodus," closely to their wrenching stories. In seven other people. Her face drawn, our job is to convince the world that Mjeda, a Catholic, said in early April. Albania needs support," said Phil Many of the arrivals related eyeOldham, CRS' newly arrived country Our trip down here was so hard. ate only bread and spent one witness accounts of violence. One 11representative in Tirana. year-old boy had been shot in the jaw The hope is that the world will week in the mountains, where it was terribly cold. wrapped every by Serb .soldiers, after seeing his friend respond before the Albanian welcome killed. A 30-year-old man had serious scrap of clothing had around my baby. Only God helped us survive." mat is worn out. t

As she

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April 16,

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1999

Book Review

Concise catechism can fit in pocket or purse By

Word to ter,

JOHN FRANKO News

Catholic

Service

PITTSBURGH

(CNS)

—

pocket-size guide to the teachings of the Cathohc Church is now available to those who seek a better under-

standing of the

The book

faith.

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attention for

its

concise, yet

approach. "It's a brief,

Fr.

Kris D. Stubna,

Published by Our Sunday Visitor anything out there that presents the most important elements of the faith simply and clearly to the people," he said. Father Stubna noted the size of the book prohibits it from containing everything about the faith, but he said he hopes it gets people excited about picking up other books such as the "Catechism of the Catholic Church,"

"There

Pittsburgh

isn't

Bishop

Donald

the Bible. "Hopefully, by opening up other doors it will get people excited about other dimensions of the faith," he T said.

April

Questions: is there about the Jesus of the Gospels that challenges your ex-

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When, after a moment, nothing happened, I felt a hollow ache of disappointment. I had expected to see Jesus actually see him and he had not appeared. The disciples on the road to Emmaus in this Sunday's Gospel story had thought Jesus was the one to come. He had seemed to fit their expectations of what the Messiah would be like, but in the end they were disappointed. When he greets them on the road, they don't recognize him because they are blinded by the

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definition of holiness

human

said.

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—

mind, encouraging his ability to act and choose, giving courage and hope and inspiration makes him more holy," he said. his

man

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it is

colored glasses on.

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to see

things as they are in their depth. That's

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The

a universally

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al-

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day for women in March 2000 WASHINGTON (CNS) — Dioceses and parishes across the nation should plan events to mark the international Ju-

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bilee

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for

scheduled for

25, 2000, urges the U.S. bishops'

Committee on

Women

in Society

and

the Church.

The bishops have called for U.S. celebrations and chose as the day's theme "Women Saying Yes to God," a reference to the feast of the Annunciation, observed that day. "We've just completed a century in which women have made great strides both in society and in the church," said Archbishop John G. Vlazny of Portland, Ore., in a statement. "We have much to

we must

celebrate, but

tion

ways and everywhere true must be noticed, accepted and celebrated somewhere, sometime" so that

train people to see sacra-

"The. true patron saint of educais an anonymous boat boy who would have given everything to have known," Father Himes said. "Why? Because it is true, and there is no measure of the value of truth." t

holy."

"We must

mentally," he said. "But not to have rose-

Johnson reflected on would profit the boy to learn Latin and Greek. So he asked the boy. "Sir, I would give everything I have," the boy replied.

Father Himes said the church offers the sacraments because "whatever

always

there like a beating heart or another breath.

what

—

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for picnic in 1777,

religious activity that

and that

an education to people. When a young, uneducated oarsman was rowing Johnson's boat upriver

goes on in school is not religion. It is simply teaching chemistry, biology, economics, history bringing that student into a fuller, more authentic hu-

—

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this kind of

—

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unnoticed because

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The

opening

may go

holy action.

as you can because humanity is what you and I and God share in common,"

Father Himes

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also ensure that progress continues. In both the

church and society what

permitted by law often moves slowly into prac-

tice."

According to Paul Henderson, executive director of the U.S. bishops' Year 2000, "The jubilee days provide a wonderful opportunity to honor women for their contributions to society and to the church, to pray for them, and to reflect with them on the challenges of the next century." The bishops' Committee on Women has discussed possible activities Office for the Third Millennium/Jubilee

with several national organizations, including the National Council of Catholic Women and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. Suggestions for celebrating the day range from sponsoring liturgical celebrations and discussion sessions about women's gifts and equality to providing ways to recognize local women leaders; Later this year, the bishops' committee will make available a list of suggested resources that can be adapted for local use. These can be accessed through the bishops' jubilee Web site at www.nccbuscc.org/jubilee/ index.htm.

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The only

thing missing at Miriam Williams' memorial service in Greensboro a few weeks ago was her laughter and wit. That would have been the crowning touch to an evening filled with stories about this talented woman. The long-time member of St. Pius X parish and diocesan lay leader died Feb. 15 at Maryfield Retirement Center in High Point, where she resided in recent years and had become active in her new parish of Immaculate Heart of

remember business, church leader said Father Kloster,

now

pastor of

st.

William Church in Murphy and Immaculate Heart of Mary in Hayesville. "She was a positive kind of person and

knew

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the

at St.

Pius."

The

time some St. Pius parishioners including Williams traveled to Peru,

first

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tries.

Her career as a lawyer was spent mostly in the company of men. Williams, never one to be intimidated by

tapped to serve as chair of the diocesan Synod which convened in 1987. Through her efforts on the Synod's

others or the challenges of her profes-

Poverty Commission, Williams was able to help birth yet another worthy

was recognized as a leading authority on international trade agreements in the textile industry. She once told a reporter, "I started as any other young lawyer and fortunately was acsion,

ministry

in all

Mary. Williams' multi-faceted life included a career as legal counsel to a

a rich part of this

city, this

parish.

anyway but it is nice to make a difference. After all, this is why God made me to use my talents in ways to promote His

these things and more," Father

Kloster said. "Miriam brought herself to North Carolina

She contributed

kingdom.

it."

who

major manufacturing company and

went with no

"Miriam gave birth to a lot of George Kloster, former St. Pius pastor. "Among them were Dolan Manor (subsidized hous-

Father Kloster

(St. Pius'

annual parish retreat program), and ministry to the poor in Peru." When plans for Dolan Manor appeared doomed, Williams applied her legal expertise to hamnier out final details so building could proceed. Today, the 30-unit apartment complex behind St. Pius Church is fully occupied and a second building is under construction. "Miriam was one of the first group of parishioners to go to Illinois to ex-

perience a parish Jubilee there. She was so enthusiastic about the program that she provided financial support for the

group

to attend three

more weekends,"

real sense of mission,"

we must

that

said.

"Miriam insisted

be doing something.

suggested she explore ideas and give a report to the parish council. I thought that would soothe her conscience. She came back with such a detailed report that

we do

became the framework of what as a parish there today." St. Pius'

Peru ministry includes financial support of a school and church in the village of Manazo.

"Miriam's spirit goes on

all

these things and more," Father Kloster said.

"Miriam brought herself to North

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April 16,

1999

Life l$$ue$ Series By

nancy FRAZIER O'BRIEN Catholic

News

WASHINGTON

Service

(CNS)

—

In his 1995 encyclical "Evangelium Vitae" ("The Gospel of Life"), Pope John Paul II criticized "the

The

only form of birth regulation sanctioned by the Catholic Church is natural

negative values inherent in the 'con-

But

this isn't

Ethical Issues

different

your parents' natural

family planning. "People think

lived in respect for the full truth of the

conjugal it's

just rhythm,"

Theresa Notare, special assistant in the U.S. bishops' Diocesan Development Program for Natural Family Planning. Also known as the "calendar said

method," rhythm is the often unsuccessful method of avoiding pregnancy by monitoring a woman's menstrual cycle and abstaining from sex during likely days of ovulation. But scientific advances in the more than 50 years since the rhythm method was first used have resulted in a set of family planning methods that can be up to 99 percent reliable for couples who understand and are committed to the program. The natural family planning methods in use today are: the basal body temperature method, which monitors changes in a woman's waking temperature; the ovulation method, which monitors changes in the woman's cervical mucus; and the sympto-thermal method, which combines observations of temperature and cervical mucus with other indicators such as changes in the cervix and secondary fertility signs. Each requires a couple to abstain from sex between eight and 15 days a month to avoid pregnancy. The reliability of natural family planning depends entirely on how well

—

which is very from responsible parenthood

traceptive mentality'

Medical Progress

family planning.

Contraception and abortion a couple learns the

using,

method they are

how well they communicate and

how

strong their commitment spacing or limiting

Notare

births,

said. "It totally, to-

tally

relies

your she

"Courtship

nence, where

ban on

artificial

means

contraception, from

crucial to

from condoms and spermicides to the

birth control

barrier

condoms

pill,

methods

diaphragm and the now-discredited lUD. All of those

same

and spermicides control like

pill,

to the birth

barrier

methods

methods separate

the diaphragm and the

the

act

one of

primary the creation of children. Natural family planning, on the other hand, brings the its

purposes

the time of absti-

you show your love and

And

then there's the anticipation of the honeymoon, which adds excite-

couple together

about Notare

at the

—

making decisions parenthood,"

"responsible

—

family."

But Notare said the church's on abortion

clearly articulated stands

and

artificial

contraception have led

some to unfairly deem the Catholic Church as anti-sex. "The church doesn't want you to not have sex; it wants you to have the best sex possible," she tells married couples. "But that shouldn't be the focus,

should be the

fruit."

For information on in the Diocese

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lovemaking from

now-discredited lUD.

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Abortion whether surgical or chemical, as with the French abortion pill RU-486 or the "morning-after pill" is always condemned by the church as a grave evil. In their statement marking the 25th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that lifted most state restrictions on abortion, the U.S. bishops declared: "Abortion is an assault on human dignity, an act of violence against both mother and child and the whole human

like the

affection for each other in a nonsexual

MAY 1

contraception, reasoning behind the church's

be a blessing to a marriage. "You can take on the attitude of courtship and hon-

marriage,"

—

grasping the reasoning behind the church's ban on artificial means of

crucial to grasping the

natural family planning for more than 12 years to plan three pregnancies said the necessary periods of abstinence can

way.

—

One woman who had used

also linked abortion

and contraception, saying that "despite their differences of nature and moral gravity," they are "often closely connected, as fruits of the

understanding of natural family planning and why the Catholic understanding of natural Church promotes is

- and why the Catholic Church promotes

she said.

said.

anticipation to the mar-

riage."

family planning

couple behavior,"

eymoon

ment and

act."

The pope

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