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April 16, 1999
Volume
8
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Number
31
Serving Catholics
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in
Western North Carolina
in
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,
7
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.
16
...Page
seas;
— Genesis
1:
20,
22
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
3
Photos by Joann S. Keane
remember
Macedonia's Brazda camp:
business, church leader ...Page
15
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
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13
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
more
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
8
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
An
of tents
in a
refugee
Macedonia, April
5.
camp
in Brazda,