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Volume 7 Number 32

Serving Catholics in Western North Carolina in the Diocese of Charlotte

April 24, 1998

Ask Only One Thing, Says Bishop: Be A Saint I

''Live and preach in

sucl;an'a\) that life goes in ever-^ heart,

MIKE KROKOS

A native of San Jose, Costa Rica, Sanchez had professed as a member of the Congregacion de Misioneros de San

promise of obedience, the church called for prayers through the Litany of the Saints. By the bishop's laying on of hands and the prayer of consecration, Sanchez was ordained a deacon. The newly ordained was invested with the stole and dalmatic, the outward signs of the office, by Father Ken Whittington, pastor of St. Charles Borremeo Church in Morganton. The ordination rite concluded as the bishop presented Rev. Mr. Sanchez the Book of the Gospels and offered a sign of peace. As a deacon. Rev. Mr. Sanchez is instituted a messenger of the Word of God, Bishop Curlin said. "Your message is to preach the salvation, mercy and love of

Jose, until his decision to join the Dio-

God.

his ministry. After the

Editor

CHARLOTTE — Taking

a signifi-

cant step in his faith journey, seminar-

every) swin't."

ian Ricardo

Sanchez was ordained

to the

transitional diaconate April 19 at St.

Patrick Cathedral.

Bishop William G. Curlin presided over the liturgy at which Sanchez pledged a lifelong commitment to the church. "You bind yourself today to Jesus Christ," Bishop Curlin told Sanchez. "You must say, I give you my life. I promise until death that I will live a holy, saintly, priestly life."

cese of Charlotte

last year.

St.

Meinrad Seminary

in St.

The ordination

began with the

Meinrad,

Ind. rite

"You

has spent

the past year in priesthood formation at

of Christ."

The diaconate

sembly and to Sanchez about the deacon's duties. In his homily, the bishop asked the seminarian to center his life on Jesus.

Church. There are two types of deacons: transitional and permanent. For centuries, what today is known as the transitional diaconate has been the final stage of preparation for men in their stud-

"We

ies for the priesthood.

it is

must root ourselves daily

to the as-

in Christ

to love

God's people

upon what

as Jesus loved

them. Otherwise, being a deacon and priest won't mean a thing," the bishop said.

jfe."

"Live and preach in such a way that goes in every heart, every spirit in church," the bishop added. During the ceremony, the candidate committed himself to the obligations of life

this

Pro-Lifer

abortion providers. Defendants were Scheidler' s Chicago-based organization; Scheidler and two other league leaders,

round," Scheidler said in his statement.

Timothy Murphy and Andrew Scholberg; and Operation Rescue National, now

to sift through

Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-

Life Action League, said he will appeal

based

—

CHICAGO

(CNS) After a guilty was reached April 20 in his fed-

eral racketeering trial in

Chicago, Joe

and expects "a solid victory."

had

expected the defeat and charged that the case brought against him and his co-defull

lies

and misstate-

ments."

Chicago's Cardinal Francis E. George also lamented the decision and said the

archdiocese

may

get involved in the case.

The lawsuit, filed under the Racketeer

Women

full

lies

and

was nearly impossible

all to

discern the truth."

who would engage in peaceful, nonviolent civil disobedience, RICO tramples the First extortion statutes against those

Amendment."

But he was optimistic about his appeal. "We're expecting a solid victory at

unjust.

the appellate level, if not sooner after post-

tively equates

Cardinal George called the decision

Cardinal George also issued a statement on the day of the decision. "The Archdiocese of Chicago will

the defendants liable under the anti-rack-

consider joining in the appeal of the deci-

tion."

awarded the two clinics more than $86,000. The money represents damages in compensation for security costs each clinic incurred. Under the fed-

eteering law and

triple the

tional Organization for

from using abortion clinics. The jury of four women and two men, which began deliberating April 16, found

eral statute, the

Naand two the

case was

plaintiffs'

misstatements.

"The decision in this case effecfreedom of speech with "The decision very likely will have a chilling effect on freedom of speech and religion for those who oppose the violence of abor-

known

RICO, was brought by

"The

trial

civil suit

Influenced and Corrupt Organization law, as

Rev. Mr. Sanchez spent a portion of last spring and summer assisting Father Whittington at St. Charles Borromeo Church, which has a large Hispanic community. Many of its parishioners were in attendance at Sunday's ceremony, along with family members and friends. Rev. Mr. Sanchez will be ordained to the priesthood in June 1999.

charged that the defendants used violence to prevent women

in Dallas.

The

In a statement, Scheidler said he

fendants "was

lic

Found Guilty In Racketeering Trial, Plans Appeal

By BILL BRITT verdict

the first of three

Bishop Curlin spoke

Scriptures, in trying to reflect

•aintl^jmiestly Ojmesti^

ranks in ordained ministry in the Catho-

in prayer, in the Eucharist, in reading the

liveaho%

brother, the burden

Eric Houseknecht, diocesan vocations director.

leathUmtlwii

"You must take the word of God and live in such a way that you shine with the love

presentation of the candidate by Father

'lpron\iseunth

bear,

of God's holy people, " the bishop added.

"We

judge could decide

this

filed," Scheidler said.

sion by filing an amicus curiae (friend-

Scheidler' s attorney,

Tom

racketeering," said the cardinal.

Comparing the pro-life fight with that of the African- Americans in the 1960s,

of-the-court) brief," he said.

Brejcha,

the cardinal said: "If the courts had been

said he questioned the constitutionality of

used to stop the organized

the law.

counters throughout the South in the '60s

"RICO

damage award. expected a defeat during

motions are

is terribly

sit-ins at

lunch

flawed," he said.

"Combined with use of

federal or state

See Racketeering, page 2

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April 24, 1998

Educators Challenged To Look To Future By

CAROL ZIMMERMAN

LOS ANGELES (CNS)

— The

nearly 9,000 Cathohc educators

who met

for four days in

Los Angeles

for their an-

nual convention were challenged to look to

new ways of educating

youths to best

prepare them for the future.

During general session talks and a full schedule of workshops at the Los Angeles convention center, participants at the National Cathohc Educational Association's April 14-17 convention were able to take in an overview of all that they do and what they could do even better.

were urged to keep their faith at the foreground of what they do. In a workshop on talking to teens about sex, presenter Wilham Nolan, head of the religion department at TotinoGrace High School, said that what frightened him most

to pray for the defendants in the case.

The

their

essential Catholic identity.

"We must remember

NCEA reported that Catholic

school en-

even

Dame

law professor G. Robert Blakey, has said that the case against Scheidler and the others is " a nightmare for anybody who wants to picket." He said the law was passed to be used against organized crime and drug cartels. Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry had been a defendant in the law-

be private schools with reU-

the convention kicked off, the

chief architect of the anti-rack-

eteering statute. University of Notre

gion departments" added on,

and therefore are losing

would have been no civil rights movement." The cardinal said he would continue there

about some Catholic schools today is how they are "trying to

Racketeering, from page

that

we're not Catholic, that

rollment had increased nationwide for the

the school's Catholic," he said.

which was filed in 1986, but in late 1997 he signed a settlement agreement

sixth consecutive year.

"As Catholic educators we

that

have the responsibility to pass on Cathohc tradition and have students look at it honestly and

federal antitrust laws.

critically."

Action League conspired with other

Enrollment reached 2,648,859

stu-

dents at Catholic schools in the current school year, said Leonard DePiore, president. That

number

NCEA

3,400 above

1996-97, and more than 81,000 ahead of the levels for 1992-93, the

rollments

showed an

first

year en-

increase.

"Parents want their children to

grow

into adults with strong moral values,"

what Catholic schools dehver and that's why more fami-

DeFiore

said. "That's

lies are enrolling."

In the convention's opening session,

Alan Keyes, a former presidential candidate and U.S. representative to the United Nations, also emphasized the backbone of morality and values of today's Cathohc schools. But he added that Catholic education would "lose its strength," if teachers did not "exemplify a zeal" for their faith within the classrooms.

In several workshops, the educators

suit,

Monika Hellwig, executive

commerce by

Cathohc Colleges and Univer-

tion chnics.

sities, took this challenge to an even deeper level. In a workshop geared to religious educa-

cue, Terry

authority to

life

under the anti-racketeering law.

Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan

Los Angeles

(left),

April

Mexican American Cultural Center in San Antonio, said Cathohc schools can

She urged the educators to continue to study their faith and read the Scriptures prayerfully, asking what they mean. She also encouraged them to be "people of prayer and people of intellectual humility who ask what they don't know about." Catholic school teachers were also

the

play a key role in healing the

many

divi-

sions in today's society,

In a keynote address. Father Ehzondo

urged the NCEA members to think of their schools as "greenhouses" with the potential to produce new understanding and acceptance of people from a variety of

ways.

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their efforts to close abor-

added Operation Resand others as defendants, and

hi 1988,

Father Virgilio Elizondo, founder of

Tuesday

under

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also pursued several additional counts,

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would not have the

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Priests

Mark Silver Jubilees Network Hosts AiDSWalk '98

By KATHY SCHMUGGE

effort to serve the

Correspondent

fected by the

—

GARY April

CHARLOTTE

the Char-

lotte

Diocese and Fa-

ther

Tim O'Connor

and Father Joseph Vetter of the Raleigh

Diocese celebrated their 25th anniversary

as priests.

Jubilee

Mass

held at St. Michael the Archangel

p^.^^ ^^^^ Fathers Joseph Vetter, Wilbur

Thomas and Tim

Church honored the O'Connor conceiebrate a jubilee mass observing

their 25th

classmates for their anniversary as priests, years of priestly sersisters. Give them your mercy and love." vice in North Carolina. "We recognize that 25 years is a (sigFather Thomas provided the link benificant span) of someone's life," said tween the two dioceses. While a seminarDiocese of Raleigh Bishop F. Joseph ian for the Diocese of Raleigh at the PonGossman, who presided over the silver tifical College Josephinum in Columbus, jubilee celebration. "I express my own Ohio, he and the other two jubiharians personal gratitude to these men. They were given the opportunity to serve the have made a great impact and I wish for newly formed Diocese of Charlotte in them God's blessing and the support of 1972. As a native of Lexington who atthe people they serve." tended Bishop McGuinness High School Charlotte's Bishop WilUam G. CurUn in Winston-Salem, Father Thomas dedelivered the homily to the congregation cided to minister to the Charlotte Diocese of approximately 1,000 guests and 70 so that he could be closer to family. Fapriests who concelebrated the Mass. He ther O'Connor and Father Vetter stayed

O'Connor

thanked the three priests for their dedica-

behind. Father

tion

and commitment, and encouraged to continue centering their lives on the Eucharist. "The transparency of the

rector at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Ra-

them

leigh; Father Vetter has

should nourish the people,"

Father Thomas' assignments for the

priest's soul

presently the

been on a recent

Acknowledging that it task, Bishop Curlin urged

God and

not an easy

the priests to

repeat the words of the

responsorial psalm,

The Regional Interfaith AIDS Network was founded in 1992 to call area

will host

congregations of

Proceeds from the mile-and-a-half walk will be utilized by RAIN in its development, training and coordination of care teams, whose members provide direct services to those living with AIDS or the virus that causes it, HIV. The goal for this year's walk is $50,000. Organizers are hopeful that businesses will underwrite expenses to allow all collected pledges to directly

tical

"You

are,

O God, my

I have all I need." Bishop Curlin also asked the congregation to pray for and love their priests. "Carry them in your hearts and lift them up every day as they lift you," he said. "You are their family, their brothers and

inheritance;

Our Lady

of the Annunciation Church in Albermarle; pastor of Our Lady of Consolation

Church

and associate pastor at both St. Leo the Great Church in Winston-Salem and St. Patrick Cathedral in Charlotte. in Charlotte;

Father Thomas

support

RAIN

Registration begins at

currently the vicar of the

Hickory vicariate and pastor of St. Aloysius Cathohc Church in Hickory, where he has

been since the summer of 1987.

all faith traditions to

offering spiritual, emotional and prac-

support for people with AIDS.

Since its inception, served more than 230 men, at

work

in eight counties in the Caroli-

nas.

The network hosted AiDSWalk last year, using

CHARLOTTE $500

raised

and civic organizations

To assist RAIN by participating as a walker, sponsor or team coordinator, or to receive more information on the network or walk, call (704) 372-7246.

will be

— Mini-grants of

awarded

to parishes,

of Charlotte, where the Catholic Relief Services diocesan committee administers

program to promote solibetween our churches and global communities. The Lenten Operation Rice Bowl program provides an excellent opportuthe mini-grants

grams

darity

for local initiatives

tional issues or projects.

on interna-

The

grants, of-

Operation Rice Bowl program, will go to projects that reflect the diversity among Catholics; a range of international, immigration or migrant issues; and a range of approaches (such as linking faith and justice, education, advo-

nity for educating parishioners as well

as collecting funds to help the disadvan-

taged.

national office provides

program focusing on prayer,

The diocesan 1998 donations to the Operation Rice Bowl Lenten program are being totaled. Seventy-five percent

of the diocesan contribution will be forto national Catholic Relief Ser-

For more information, contact the and Peace at (704) 370-

Office of Justice

3325 for more information or additional applications. The postmark deadline is

May

16.

developing countries world-

Rice Bowl funds remain

in the

Diocese

Remember

"A valid Will stands as a continuing expression of our

concern for loved ones, as well as an ongoing commit-

In Yours.

ment to the Church and the community in which we live'.' Bishop William G. Curlin

ou can express your commitment to your Church by making a bequest to the Diocese of Charlotte or to your parish. Simply have the following

statement included in your Will: "/ leave to the

Charlotte (or ( or

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Catholic Diocese of

parish, city) the

sum of $

percent of the residue of my estate) for

religious, educational For more information on

fasting,

learning and giving.

cacy, the media).

still

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more than $3 1 ,000.

schools, vicariates, or other diocesan pro-

sisters in

Visit

the first St.

Cathedral and School as base. About 200 walkers representing congrega-

p.m. in the First

vices to be used to help our brothers and

Parochial Vicar: Reverend Walter Ray Williams

has

Operation Rice Bowl To Award Mini-Grants

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Rector: The Very Reverend Paul Gary

RAIN

women and

children. There are currently care teams

tions, businesses

services.

The walk begins at 3 p.m. in the courtyard of the TransAmerica Life Companies building, 401 N. Tryon St., continues through Uptown Charlotte and ends in the sanctuary of First United Methodist Church, 501 N. Tryon St.

fered through Catholic Relief Services'

sabbatical.

Charlotte Diocese have included

said.

turn to

United Methodist Church fellowship hall.

gional

AIDS Interfaith Network (RAIN) its second annual AiDSWalk on May 3 in Uptown Charlotte.

Father Wilbur

Thomas of

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The Pope Speaks Pope John Paul

CPro^/oi'fe

Corner

VATICAN CITY

(CNS)

— Here

Pope John Paul IPs remarks weekly general audience April 15. text of

in English at his

Upon

the Vatican

all

the English-

speaking pilgrims and visitors, especially those from England,

Ireland, Scotland, Gibraltar,

For

effective

preachers of the

Gospel of Life: each of us might find the

that

courage those truth

to feed the

whom we

which

world and

love with the

will set

them free;

Dear brothers and sisters, In our catechesis on the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, we continue to reflect on baptism, through which we receive the Holy Spirit, become children of God and are incorporated into the church. Baptism is the essential foundation of the communion which unites

"Unitatis Redintegratio," 3).

(cf.

we approach the beginning of the third Christian millennium, we must work all the harder for that unity night before he suffered.

to the Lord.

cordially greet the new deacons of the Pontifical College and the Pontifical Scots College, and the from the Institute for Continuing Education at the Pontifical North American College: May your love of Christ and his church be a continual source of strength and joy jn your ministry. I extend a special welcome to the "Voices of the World" choir, made up mostly of choirs from Ireland, North and South, from Italy and from Poland. Your presence is an occasion for us to thank God once more for the important steps recently taken in bringing lasting peace to Northern I

Irish

priests

piscopal Galen Jar Bisliop Wflliaiai G. CiirKmL will

Happy

invoke the love

Easter!

Polish Church Leaders Say

Poland

Baptism, then, is a fundamental point of departure for ecumenical dialogue. Regarding our brothers and sisters of the other Christian churches and communities, the Second Vatican Council teaches that those who believe in Christ and have received baptism are constituted in a real, though imperfect, communion with the Catholic Church

and grace of the risen Savior.

the disciples of Christ.

which Christ desired and for which he prayed on the

We pray

Sweden and the United States of America,

Pope Will

Visit

1999

WARSAW, Poland (CNS) — Pope John Paul II is make an eight-city tour of his home country in mid1999, said CathoHc Church leaders.

However, a Polish bishops' conference official cautioned that the timing had not yet been confirmed and

that formal Polish church and government invitahad not yet been issued. Addressing a conference of priests April 16, Archbishop Jozef M. Zycinski of Lublin said Pope John Paul would visit the cities of Warsaw, Gdansk, Krakow and Torun, as well as Bydgoszcz, Lowicz and Siedlce and the national shrine of Jasna Gora. However, he added that the final shape of the visit, unofficially planned for early June 1999, would depend on the health of the pope, who will be 79 by then. Speaking on PoUsh state TV's main April 16 news bulletin, the secretary-general of the Polish bishops' conference. Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek of Sosnowiec, said full details of the papal visit were to be discussed by church leaders at an April 20 meeting and would need confirmation by the Vatican.

tions

Ireland.

take part in the folowing events; April 26

—

Sisters

General Meeting Sisters of Mercy Motherhouse, Belmont

4 p.m. H.E.L.P. meeting St.

Coming Of Age

11 a.m.

Mass of Mercy Superiors

Amy Welbom Getting a Perspective on Body Piercings I'm going to begin with a confession that might frustrate you if you are the parent of a child who has been trying to talk you into permitting some kind of body-piercing procedure. I

had

things differently

37-year-old

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Writer:Jimmy Rostar Hispanic Editor: Luis Wolf Production Associate: Julie Radcliffe

Staff

Secretary: Jane Glodowski

live in Florida,

and

—Why do

we just do

here. It's not that unusual for

stroll

defy

want to do

just to rebel?

parents?

Think about

it.

What is

that? It's selfish, cruel

and incredibly immature.

looks good!

my own to

mother did ask

grow up

vel ring at Christmas,

Sorry,

exactly

when

my little purple nacould do was shrug.

after seeing

childish.

I want this because it's cool and because it me apart as an individual? Don't you see? Those two statements are inherently contradictory. Saying something is "cool" means that the members of your group or the group you want to be a part of approve of it. So is it really a courageous act of individualism,

all I

Mom.

considered the height of avant-garde behavior.

How

times have changed!

can stop at a convenience store literally in the middle of Nowhere, Fla., and have a girl with a nose stud take my gas money. But within a period of one week, I encountered three former students of mine who presently roam the planet with pierced tongues. Now, of all piercings, the tongue I

have no great theories on piercings. Many of them seem no more or less unnatural to me than an older person dying the gray out of her hair, then teasing it and spraying it into helmet-like durability. If piercing has any negative connotations for me, it's that the increasing popularity of this rather expen-

strikes

pause.

as terrifically unsanitary

and actually

pretty gross. I

sive act is a symptom of a society of kids with way too much money and too much time to throw away on silly things.

Now,

before any of

is it

actually insecure conformity?

Finally, if you're obsessed with getting a piercing

or a tattoo because you see self-expression, consider

how

some profound

superficial that

act of

is.

Instead of pinning your identity on a piece of metal,

E-mail: catholicnews@charlottediocese.org

—Do

sets

A decade ago, having two piercings in one ear was Nowadays,

you're in that stage in life at which you're anxious to be treated like an adult by your parents, then don't do something because you want to irritate them. That's

and

business really gives

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I had my navel pierced for the same reason I got my ears pierced. When I wear my midriff tops, I think

was going

News

women to

and

or other unusual decorations.

The Catholic

down

to their parents

say, "See, this old lady got

navel pierced a few months back.

Well, you know,

Paul the Baptist Church, Charlotte

umn

her navel pierced, so should

teen readers take this col-

don't you reflect on who you are inside, what you were put here for and the gifts God gave you that make you really individual? Consider the possibility that it would be more satisfying and worthwhile to have your individuality recognized by making a mark on the world rather than having a mark put on you.

why

Amy Welbom

CNS columnist.

One Candle

Light

Father Thomas

Being Perfectly

Human

He would

ers.

stand up and speak out

Ellsberg explains: "Chavez beheved

have the potential to make a positive difference with your life, pick up Robert Ellsberg's Christopher A ward- winning book, "All Saints" (Crossroad). It's not only about canonized saints but also about those individuals who gave hving witness to holiness by allowing themselves to be perfectly, wholly human. For example, Ellsberg's entry for April 23 is Cesar Chavez. This amazing man wrote a new chapter in the history of American labor by organizing the first successful union of farmworkers in the early 1960s. Chavez grew up in a family of migrant workers amid backbreaking work and crushing poverty. He never finished elementary school. And after he married and started to raise a family he wanted out but fate intervened in the

was necessary to impart a sense of digand community to the farmworkers. This union would not rely on outside funding but on the basic principles of sacrifice and solidarity." Those who worked for the United Farmworkers committed themselves to voluntary pov-

that

—

urgings of a Catholic priest. Chavez be-

he must do all he could for his family and fellow migrant work-

gan

to realize that

McSweeney

ply preach nonviolence

he lived

for justice.

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was

the

—

man thing to

nity

are really honest with our-

erty.

The second principle was a commitment to nonviolence, a refusal to respond in kind no matter what the provocation. "Over and over again, when faced with defeat, Chavez drew on the power of his personal commitment and charisma to breathe

new

life into

the struggle."

Chavez believed and argued that sacrifice, you force others

"When you

powerful

to sacrifice. It's an extremely

weapon." Reading Ellsberg's struck with the idea that

tribute, I was Chavez did not

just write about sacrifice nor did he sim-

selves

generosity. That

it. And for him it most perfectly hu-

do.

why one

local labor struggle into a

"When we

moral cause that brought hope to the hopeless and

must admit that

aroused the conscience of

our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of person we are." And it is true. Only by giving our lives do we ultimately find ourselves. For Chavez, the truest act of courage, the strongest act of being human was to sacrifice himself for others in a nonviolent struggle for social and

individual could transform a

economic justice.

He believed that to be human was to suffer for others. He would pray, "God help

the nation.

Celebrate your human-

Appreciate everything you have in common with your sisters and brothers ity.

makes you

as well as everything that

"one of a kind." Welcome the calm that the best you can then leave the rest to God.

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Question Corner Father John Dietzen

When

to Offer the Anointing of

the Sick

Our parish has a weekly celebraof the sacrament of anointing of the The priest says it is for spiritual

Q. tion sick.

and physical healing, and invites every-

Some people

one.

Unfortunately, some people, including priests, differ from the church's teaching in both directions.

— Some —Others,

receive the anointing

still

wait until death

is al-

most imminent.

every week. I

come, fearing their loved one would know the end is near. That understanding of the sacrament has changed.

priest to

was taught

this

sacrament

ill and wrong?

those seriously death. Is this

for

danger of

tion,

own What

A. As you must know, the sacrament we know as anointing of the sick was formerly called extreme unction, the last anointing.

Popularly referred to as the "last many felt it should be delayed until the final moments of life, so much so that (even in my own pastoral experience) family members didn't want the

rites,"

they have suf-

comforted by

understanding of the sacrament and can seriously lessen its spiritual impact on

it.

Explicit provisions that

the anointing

peated

may be

the individual

re-

you men-

who receives

and on the community. Perhaps many Catholics need to remind themselves again that the real sacrament for the dying is not it,

fed

the sickness be-

comes more serious and that a person should be

anointed before a serious

surgery, are additional indications that

anointing of the sick, but the Eucharist.

inclinations.

we need not be excessively concerned about how "terminal" the sickness is (In-

the church believes and in-

troduction 5-12).

When administered at the time of passage from this life, the sacrament is called "Viaticum," something "with us

like the priest

broaden the meaning according

their

sacrament

ficient use of reason to

Your

structs is clear in the introduction to the

anointing and care of the sick. This sacrament (which, incidentally, includes not only anointing but laying on of hands and the prayer of faith offered by the priest) is for those who are dangerously ill due to sickness ritual for

or old age.

Children as well

may

receive this

priest is correct also in point-

ing out that the sacrament

for serious

on the way." Received

this

way, the Eucharist

mental or emotional illnesses as well. The rite makes no distinction between physical and other kinds of ailments. On the other hand, something important is being ignored when the anoint-

a special sign of our participation in the

ing of the sick becomes a weekly affair. This has no basis in the long Christian

umnist.

mystery of the death of the Lord and his passage to the Father.

Father John Dietzen

CNS

col-

Parish Diary Father Peter Daly

Confirmation Season It's

confirmation season in most par-

Bishops are out riding the circuit. Directors of religious education are hyperventilating, getting their young ishes.

charges ready to be interrogated by the successors of the apostles.

Boys

are buying their first real suits.

gelical revival, filled with Pentecostal fer-

weak on some doctrinal con-

This year they held an

vor in the power of the Holy Spirit. You can almost hear the preaching of the apostle Peter to the crowd on the first

tent.

Certainly they cannot

all-night lock-in (sleep-over)

Pentecost.

of our young people are re-

40 years ago. But this does not mean

Some

things rehgious or are poorly

ceive from the bishop in front of family

prepared. Their grasp today

have wondered

this in the right order.

Jr.

can wear

have the bishop lay hands on him. In our parish confirmation will take

place in a big striped tent. For the second

year in a row, walls of our

we have overflowed

little

church.

the

actually like

these open-air confirmations.

They have

a nice feeling, with the breeze, like the

Holy

Spirit,

blowing where

will.

The tent evokes the sense of an evan-

friends.

Maybe we should confirm ask questions

Holy

later,

we do

first

and

since the gifts of the

"wisdom, understanding, counsel and knowledge." Then we could see these spiritual gifts at work Spirit include

immediately.

complaint

has been a com-

among parents,

directors

of religious education and clergy that today's confirmandi are not well prepared.

does seem that they are a

little

tive,

commandments of

love of

life:

God and

In love of

in-

initia-

a Eucharistic chapel set

our parish

library.

During the night they took turns praying in

shifts

for the prayer intentions they

more experiential than intellectual. In some ways they have a better hold of the central

which

own

cluded, on their

the Christian

love of neighbor.

God, they see much

better

I ever did at their age that prayer spontaneous act of love for God.

than

For example,

In recent years

mon

in the parish center,

kids could

they are not interested in

Parents and "young adults" are arguing

new earring (or nose ring) when he goes

way

when they contem-

to nail biting

and

about hairstyles and whether

sponses the

plate the traditional grilling they will re-

duced

Girls are getting their first formal dresses.

his

recite the catechism re-

year our adolescent theologians attended "Youth 2000," a relast

program for young Catholics. They were so impressed with the nighttime treat

had collected from the parish over several weeks. It was touching to see them so sleepy-eyed in those huge baggy pants and oversized T-shirts, kneeling and sitting in prayer all night. In love of neighbor, I think they have a good understanding of the demands of both justice and charity. When I was confirmed back in 1 96 1 we may have memorized the corporal works of mercy, but we ,

never thought that getting ready for con-

prayer vigil and Eucharistic adoration that

firmation might actually require us to do

they wanted to replicate

the corporal

our parish.

works of mercy.

6 The Catholic

News

& Herald

April 24, 1998

Planning For ThoseYou Love By JIM

KELLEY

Grayson Warren Brown

Director Daily plan-

Concert

Friday

May

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Brcnen, intcrnalionally-known

wiU lead a>firi L-filkd from his

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to classrooms,

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— The Role of the Choir and Music

ways we both plan for and proour future. Making an estate plan way to protect the future or our loved ones.

Grayfon will conduct a dynamic and inspiring workskof interested in spirited music

made kim one of

and

coujicd

to liturgy aruf scriflure,

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His do\vn-to-eart(i affroack

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included in the

cost.

The

- -

One

practical

can be the "Four P's" of

estate planning.

The Four People.

P's

What people

are

you

re-

Who do you wish to prolist

can name

em-

are other

a spouse, children, parents, firiends,

ployees, the church, or others you wish

them for financial assistance. Think about it for just a moment. People who would never make a house payment late often neglect making plans for the ultimate disposition of that same house. Individuals who take pride in collecting coins, stamps, or other items of value may overlook preparations to pass on such treasured property to somespecial. It

may come

as a surprise to learn

(dl interested.

Form

fortunate circumstances.

tect

one

like a veggie fundi.)

your music ministers

work

Taking a little time to organize your thoughts can help you avoid such un-

vide for in the future? This

leave even simple estate planning arrangements for those who rely on

the Liturgy

inadvertently neglect to pro-

vide for the continuation of God's and that of the church they love.

different types of insurance coverage

fail to

—

may

gifts

sponsible for?

Express Your Own Wishes truth is, as many as 60 percent of adult Americans who die each yeiir

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Catholic agency, Catholic school, the

planning for the future. These notebooks way of planning, while savings accounts, retirement funds, and

Music Liturgy Workshops

Saturday,

ite

Diocese of Charlotte, or the diocesan Foundation unless you have a valid will, trust, or other arrangements in place. Devoted Catholics who have been faithful lifelong stewards of God's many

represent one

The

North Carolina law prohibits gifts from your estate to your parish, favorthat

starting point

A big part of today's world involves

has given him unique insight into the fower that

backgrounds.

ftl

ner notebooks pop up everywhere, from ex-

muj-a-iomj style concert

Raised in inner<iLy

comfosilions.

Diocesan Development

remember. Property.

Include houses, cars, cash, securi-

ties

(including stocks and mutual

funds), life insurance, retirement ac-

counts and other assets. Also note your liabilities (for example, a mortgage or other debts) so you can accurately determine your net worth. Plans. Match your property to the people and organizations you decide to include. Loved ones, of course, must be provided for first. Other responsible Catholics have turned their estate plans into Christian estate plans by naming their parish. Catholic agency. Catholic school, the diocese, or the diocesan Foundation to benefit from "what's left" after specific gifts

—

to individual heirs.

Planners.

Dignity

Now list all of your prop-

erty.

advisors,

The

final list is for

who may

your

consist of your at-

torney, accountant, investment profes-

Names

AfforJahilitif

of those attending the Grayson Warren Brown workshop:

sional,

and representatives from favor-

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The Next Step Once your

are complete, it's time to contact your attorney to either formalize plans or update existing plans. Periodic reviews with your attorney can help keep your plans up to date for the sake of those you hold dear. For additional information concerning your specific circumstances, please contact me, without cost or obligation, at the Diocese of Charlotte, 1123 S. Church St., Charlotte, N.C. 28203, (704) 370-3301, or Cindy Rice at (704) 370-3320. lists

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Camino a

24 de abril de 1998

Presos poli'ticos cubanos libertados a pedido del Papa van a Toronto

Encuentro 2000

TORONTO (CNS) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Doce presos polfticos

cubanos puestos en libertad a

continuacion de la visita del Papa Juan El Comite de

Obispos para

Pablo II en enero a Cuba, llegaron al Aeropuerto Intemacional "Pearson", de

Toronto.

s u n t o s Hispanos se reunio en

Dallas

Ellos llegaron el 6 de abril y dos

como parte del acuerdo del Canada para

de para

febrero

1998

aceptar a algunos de los presos polfticos.

dialogar acerca del

encuentro nacional que se ha planeado para

ano 2000. Los miembros del las recomendaciones

comite recibieron

presentadas por el sub-comite del Encuentro y votaron sobre varias

En una

iniciativas.

hermanos obispos,

carta dirigida a sus el

monseiior Gerald

R. Barnes, presidente del comite para

Asuntos Hispanos y el monsenor Gabino Zavala, presidente del sub-comite del Encuentro, informaron a los obispos de los planes

y preparativos para

encuentro nacional.

Los obispos Barnes y Zavala dijeron el nombre oficial del encuentro es 2000". "Encuentro Tambien mencionaron que las personas seleccionadas para servir en el Comite Director Nacional reflejael compromiso

que

del comite

mas

tem'an fij ada su llegada en fecha posterior,

5 de

de ser un comite de amplia

base e inclusivo tanto dentro de

El gobiemo de Cuba anuncio a mediados de febrero que habfa puesto en libertad a 300 presos polfticos como respuesta a una solicitud del Papa. A principios de marzo, el Primer Ministro del Canada, Jean Chretien, anuncio que 19 presos polfticos habfan aceptado

ir al

Canada como condicion de su liberacion. Entre los 14 a quienes el Canada ha aceptado, tres recibieron permisos especiales porque no pudieron pasar las verificaciones de seguridad, segiin dijo

un funcionario del gobiemo federal que pidio que no se le identificara. Aunque no se dio razon alguna para adoptar las medidas especiales, el gobiemo canadiense confirmo que se habfa negado a aceptar a otros cinco presos polfticos cubanos "debido a la naturaleza de las acciones por las cuales se hallaban en prision".

La Ley de Inmigracion del Canada no permite el ingreso a ese pais a

cualquier persona declarada culpable de

comunidad hispana como de la Iglesia. Encuentro 2000 "brindara a los catolicos de Estados Unidos posibilidades para el dialogo, y mejor comprension y

cualquier delito que conlleve una

colaboracion entre todos ellos mediante

un enfoque catequetico y evangelizante,

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

PRESOS POLITICOS EN LIBERTAD Los ex-presos poli'ticos cubanos Alberto Ferrandiz (a la izquierda) y Pedro Salvador (a la derecha) abrazan a un amigo en el aeropuerto de Toronto el 7 de abril. Los dos hombres se hallaban entre un grupo de 1 2 presos poli'ticos puestos en libertad por el gobierno de Cuba a instancias del Papa Juan Pablo II durante su visita de enero a la nacion islena gobernada por los comunistas. sentencia maxima de prision de 10 aiios o mas, si hubiera sido cometido en el Canada. Sin embargo, la ley incluye una disposicion que da al Ministro de Inmigracion la autoridad para emitir permisos especiales a dichas personas. Algunos miembros del gmpo de exiliados fueron encarcelados por

distribuir

"propaganda enemiga",

noticias acerca de Cuba.

Durante su visita, el Papa Juan Pablo clemencia para cierta cantidad de presos polfticos cubanos por razones solicito

humanitarias.

Cruces en Jerusalen

que esperamos nos ayude a estar mejor integrados como Iglesia en Estados Unidos", manifestaron. El presidente del sub-comite es el

obispo auxiliar de Los Angeles, monsenor

Gabino Zavala. Otros miembros comite son

del

Un peregrine cristiano ora contra una li'nea de cruces de madera en la pared de la iglesia del Santo Sepulcro, en Jerusalen, el 9 de abril. Miles de peregrines

obispo auxiliar de Boston,

monseiior Emilio AUue, el obispo auxiliar

de Miami, monseiior Agustin Roman; y

hermana Maria Elena Gonzalez, Mexicano Americano de San Antonio. El sub-comite y el Comite Director la

presidenta del Centro Cultural

Nacional se reunira en

en Washington, D.C.,

tomaron parte en los servicios de Semana Santa y Pascua de Resurreccion en la

St. Paul' s College, el

22 de marzo de

1998, para dialogar acerca del proceso

Tierra Santa.

del encuentro a realizarse en todos los

niveles de la Iglesia, el evento en

si,

los

participantes, la logfstica, y otros asuntos.

(Tornado de /En Marcha! puhlicacidn del Secretariado para Asuntos Hispanos, 32 11 4"' Street, NE, Washington, DC 20017) ,

tal

como volantes polfticos, o por telefonear a las estaciones de radio de Miami con

The Catholic News and Herald

2 Suplemento de

24 de

abril

de 1998

Mensaje del Padre Rev. Vicente H. Fiimerty,

Amigos y amigas en

CM.

Cristo:

EL PAPA

vocacion cristiana que hemos recibido, Dios nos ha concedido ser un gran don y una gran responsabilidad para seguir reflejando y dando su amor a todos los hombres y mujeres. Somos administradores del amor de Dios. En manera sencilla y humilde buscamos compartir ese amor con todos, pero especialmente con los mas pobres y abandonados de nuestra

ACEITE CRISMAL - El Papa Juan

sociedad.

durante los

"OTRO CRISTO"

Nuestra vida,

BENDICIENDOEL

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Pablo

bendiceel

aceite crismal

como cristianos, es un continue CAMINAR. En el camino,

servicios del

Jueves Santo en la Basilica de San Pedro, el pasado 9 de abril. El Papa dirigioacientos de

todos caemos, pero unos se levantan y siguen su camino, otros prefieren no levantarse. Todos nos detenemos a descansar, unos lo hacen para retomar fuerzas y otros lo aprovechan para descansar toda la vida. Unos corren, otros caminan y otros tantos van a "gatas". Unos se entusiasman, crean, inventan

y arriesgan por encontrarle sentido a su camino, otros se conforman con un camino ya hecho y trillado por otros para vivir siempre en la seguridad. Unos Uegan a la meta y otros se quedan a medio camino....

sacerdotes,

obispos y cardenalesde

Roma en

cQUE CAMINO ESTOY TOMANDO YO? EN EL CAMINO, de todos los hombres y mujeres hay pruebas, obstacu los

promesasque

o tentaciones que son muy buenas para nuestra vida si las sabemos aprovechar. De esto Jesus nos ha puesto la muestra. Sujeto a mil tentaciones o pruebas, de

ordenacion.

renovacion de las hicieron en su

todas Jesus salio vencedor. Ciertamente, el nunca presumio de sus propias

capacidades sino confio siempre a

voluntad de su Padre.

Como cristianos,

podemos vanagloriamos de nada. Nuestras

seguidores de Cristo, tampoco

debilidades y carencias nos recuerdan que somos "siervos inutiles" de Dios. Nuestras flaquezas son el recordatorio de que Dios elige a los debiles y

pequenos para construir

Reino de

Verdad.

cCUAL ES Ml TENTACION MAS FUERTE? ^QUE MEDICS UTILIZO PARA NO CAER? a

Sabates recibe el premio "Grace" de 1998

Hermanos y hermanas, en este tiempo pascual, les invito a que se miren mismos para ver que camino estan tomando. No teman a la Cruz. Toda

nos llevaraaunamejor vida, a la nueva vida que es la vida de Cristo Resucitado en nosotros. Que Dios les acompane en vuestro peregrinar, especialmente en esta epoca en que celebramos la resurreccion del Senor. dificultad, sufrimiento, contratiempo, si lo enfrentamos,

BELMONT - Felix S. Sabates, hombrede negocios de Charlotte, recibio el premio "Grace" de 1998 en una ceremonia que en su honor se celebro recientemente en Belmont Abbey College. Este premio, que Ueva el nombre de Chuck Grace, presidente de Cummins Atlantic, honra a personas de negocios que han contribuido al mejoramiento de la sociedad. Jim Mattel, presidente de Mattel Motorsports,anunci6unadonaci6n de $10,000 para becas en nombre de Sabates y su esposa Carolyn. Donaciones adicionales a los fondos de la beca "Sabates" beneficiaran a estudiantes de ascendencia hispana. Para mas informacion sobre contribuciones si'rvase Uamar al (704) 825-6661.

ayudan en la tristeza, dice un psicologo Los

rituales

WASHINGTON

(CNS)

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

muerte y

agonfa, y ha hecho

muerte de un ser

investigaciones extensas en las culturas

querido, "la participacion en los rituales

afro-americanas El es tambien fundador

ayuda a los sobrevivientes", dijo Ronald K. Barrett, profesor de psicologia de una universidad catolica y miembro de un grupo de la Teleconferencia Nacional sobre la Afliccion de la Fundacion Hospice de los Estados Unidos. Las acciones de los rituales dan a los afligidos "acceso a una comunidad que los apoye en su tristeza. Eso les ayudan'a en su perdida y su expresion de la

y director de un proyecto urbano de prevencion de las pandiUas, los narcoticos y la violencia en Los Angeles.

guardar luto por

afliccion", dijo el.

que

ensena en la Universidad Loyola Marimount de Los Barrett,

Angeles, se haespeciaUzado en el estudio

las diferencias entre culturas

En una Catholic

entrevista telefonica

News

con

iCrlsto

ha resucitado!

Service, el dijo que "las

Cristo ha resucitado, ha triunfado

culturas difieren ampliamente en sus

enfoques a la muerte y a la agonfa, pero no hay evidencia de ninguna cultura que reaccione con indiferencia". El agrego que los estudios sobre la pobreza o la ausencia de los rituales indican que "las personas crearan rituales" cuando esten separadas de los rituales tradicionales de sus culturas.

mal y

muerte y vive para siempre. Hoy esta presente entre nosotros de un modo nuevo. Es necesario vivir totalmente esta vida nueva que Cristo nos ha merecido. La realidad del Resucitado nos Uena de entusiasmo, de paz y de alegria. Su presencia gloriosa en medio de nosotros fundamenta nuestra fe y nos hace sobre

La imagen que Cristo resucitado puede mostrar a las personas de hoy para convencerlos y convertirlos, es nuestra vida. Por eso nuestra vida debe

de ser siempre Pascua. Es resurreccion para los cristianos, cuando buscamos la justicia por encima de nuestros egofsmos, cuando amamos a nuestro projimo por encima de nuestros intereses y de nuestra propia vida. Cristo sigue resucitando, cuando

resucitar a la paz, a la esperanza, al

Padre Vicente en radio El Padre Vicente H. Finnerty, CM.,

Director del Apostolado Hispano de La Diocesis de Charlotte, tiene un programa

de radio todos los sabados de 12:30 a 1:00 de la tarde donde habla sobre diferentes temas de la religion y la

fe.

Al Padre Vicente tambien se le puede escuchar los sabados despues de las noticias de las 3 de la tarde en "Radio Lfder" en su segmento "Un minuto con Dios", por la estacion 1030 AM.

WNOW

perdon,

amor y

a la alegria. Ser

puesto; cuando luchamos sin odio, sin

El cristiano es luz, alegria y

todos. Y, en fin,

que se deja invadir por liberacion que le viene de Cristo.

libres

que

cree,

Nuestra resucitar

fe,

nuestra esperanza de

depende estrechamente de

capacidad de redencion, nuestra

banda

capacidad de resurrecion estan en medida de nuestra fuerza de amar.

mejor para cuando nos sentimos

violencia, buscando lo que es

resurreccion. Cristiano es la persona

nuestra capacidad de amar. Nuestra

170 de

ultimo lugar sin

Cristo.

WCXN en la frecuencia AM de su receptor.

atropellar a nadie para conseguir el primer

Este programa puede escucharse sintonizando

nosotros escogemos

cristiano es creer en la resurreccion de

y luchamos por la liberacion de las

esclavitudes que oprimen a nuestros hermanos y hermanas. Si asi lo hacemos, la resurreccion ha comenzado en nuestras vidas.

Impreso con permiso de los Padres Sociedad de San Pablo

Suplemento de The Catholic News and Herald 3

24deabril de 1998

La crisis ecologica Nota: La opinion expresada por

Amazonica han estado en la mira de

compariias intemacionales que solo ven el provecho inmediato de sus accionistas.

periodica.

Parece que quieren decir como el. monarca frances: "Despues de mf, el Diluvio". Los bosques tropicales pierden cada afio una superficie mayor que la de Belgica y Holanda combinadas y con ellos desaparecen, sin remedio, y desconocidos para la Ciencia, miles de especies animales y vegetales. Una de las mayores y mas valiosas reservas de la tierra, por su biodiversidad y por servir para regular el sistema

colaboradores

Por OTONIEL FRANCO Hay temas que conviene recordar siquiera una vez al ano. Tenemos el di'a de San Valentin, el del Arbol, el de la Madre, el del Padre y unos cuantos mas. ^Por que no recordar el dfa de la Tierra el 22 de abril? El hombre ha venido modificando la faz del planeta desde la remota epoca cuando paso de la etapa de recolector de frutos e insectos a la de individuo asentado en comunidades estables,

dedicado a labores agricolas y al cuidado de unos pocos animales que habia domesticado. Eliento proceso cultural, de mas de seis mil anos, no produjo mayores trastornos en el ambiente, debido a que la naturaleza tenia tiempo de reparar el desequilibrio ecologico que una reducida poblacion humana causaba con sus actividades. No obstante, algunos antropologos han Uegado a afirmar que el cinturon de desiertos, que va desde China hasta el norte de Africa, estu vo en epocas prehistoricas cubierto de bosques y sabanas de galena que los primitives pobladores fueron agotando, a lo largo de siglos, por el uso indiscriminado del fuego para acosar y cazar animales propios de la zona, antes que como medio de preparacion de la tierra para el

Hoy sabemos que

uso

reducen la capa de ozono y agudizan los cambios de clima. Mientras el hombre no aprenda a vivir en comunion y armonia con las leyes de la naturaleza, al igual que un Aprendiz de Brujo, estara jugando con su propia existencia y con la del resto de los seres vivos.

La Europa

del siglo

XVI

hallo en

egoista inclinacion al lujo, al placer y a la

de tumba y quema. Los bosques de

codicia.

yproductividad.

Fue con

advenimiento de

Revolucion Industrial y el crecimiento desmesurado de la poblacion, el uso de pesticidas, la polucion de aire, tierra y

aguas con desechos humanos e industriales, el uso de modernas maquinarias para el cultivo, la explotacion

Zona Templada

exceptuamos los de Canada

y de Rusia, han perdido el 90% de la superficie original. Los de la Zona

Otoniel Franco trabaja la Oficina de Refugiados del Catholic Social

Tropical, desde Sumatra, Borneo y Africa

Service.

del norte,

Ecuatorial hasta los de

Video de

Sr.

como voluntario en

papal a

Cuba

MILWAUKEE (CNS) — Se ha publicado un documental en cinta de video sobre la visita del Papa a Cuba. Titulado "Una bendicion para Cuba, el viaje historico del Papa Juan Pablo II a Cuba en 1998", la cinta recopila tomas en vivo de la informacion del canal por cable Odyssey de la visita papal, durante los dfas 21 y 25 de enero ultimo.

del

Los puntos culminantes de las cuatro Misas Papa en la nacion islena se presentan con su

traduccion

al ingles.

vfdeo de 60 minutos de duracion, se incluyen notas breves y antecedentes historicos sobre las ciudades que visito el Papa Juan Pablo La Habana, Santa Clara, Camagiiey y Santiago de Cuba. La cinta cuesta $1 9.95. Para adquirirla, hagan el favor de llamar al 1-800430-0930. el

—

el 11

deabril.

Esta es

primera

celebracion publica de Pascua

en La Habana,

desdeque

Fidel

Castro declare en 1969 que todas las fiestas

religiosastem'an limitarse a celebraciones dentro de las

que

iglesias.

Dirigentes cristianos

muestran apoyo a fecha comun para Pascua ROMA de

(CNS)

— Los dirigentes

las iglesias cristianas

mundo han mostrado

de todo

su apoyo a una

propuesta para establecer una fecha

uniforme para la celebracion de la Pascua de Resurreccion. La iniciativa, que esta siendo coordinada por el Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (WCC en ingles), con sede en Ginebra, Suiza, ha resultado en numerosas cartas de aprobacion por parte de autoridades eclesiasticas prominentes, dijo el Padre Thomas Fitzgerald, sacerdote ortodoxo y director del Programa para la Unidad y la Renovacion del WCC, en una entrevista telefonica el 7 de abril. Al escribir al en respuesta al plan, el Cardenal Edward I. Cassidy, director del Consejo Pontificio para el Fomento de la Unidad Cristiana, dijo: "La Iglesia Catolica esta lista para respaldar a las conclusiones de esta consulta, y a trabajar junto con otros

WCC

Hoya

visita

medianochedela de Pascua

vigilia

residuos que envenenan la atmosfera,

devastador que los metodos tradicionales

sabanas contribuye a su rejuvenecimiento

Habana durante la celebracionde

Gran Pantanal del Brasil, tiene sus dias contados. Compamas madereras, ganaderas y proyectos hidroelectricos amenazan con destruirlo y con su destruccion vendria una catastrofe incalculable, no solo para America, sino para el Globo en su totalidad. Los recursos de la Tierra son limitados y, aun cuando algunos son renovables, los combustibles fosiles desaparecen para siempre, dejando solo

de bosques y la minen'a a cielo abierto, que se produjo un efecto mucho mas

controlado de los incendios de bosques y

Cardenaldela Habana, Jaime Ortega Alamino, enciende el cirio Pascual fuera de la Gated ral de La

fluvial, el

otros continentes un alivio a la pobreza de sus masas. Los actuales habitantes del Planeta Azul no tendremos, al menos a corto plazo, la posibihdad de colonizar economica y masivamente, ni siquiera nuestro satelite, o algun planeta cercano; mucho menos tener la perspectiva de un proximo viaje a las galaxias. No pocas mentes reflexivas se preguntan si podremos salvamos de la destruccion total, que hoy a sabiendas estamos provocando, o si estamos en un camino sin regreso debido a nuestra

cultivo.

CIRIOPASCUAL EN CUBA -El

las

representan necesariamente la de este

nuestros

cristianos hacia este objetivo

muy

deseado".

En una practica que

data de cuatro

mayon'a de

los protestantes y catolicos

celebran

Pascua de Resurreccion en

mientras que los ortodoxos

dfa,

observan esa festividad separadamente. En algunos anos, las celebraciones

La Pascua de Resurreccion de este ano cae el domingo 12 de abril coinciden.

para los protestantes y catolicos, y de abril para los ortodoxos. El el aiio

WCC

pasado a

fecha

desarrollo una propuesta fin

de que se

comun para

fijara

una

Pascua de

Resurreccion, comenzando

—

15 de

la proxima vez abril del ano 2,001 que las dos festividades de Pascua caeran el mismo dfa y que se observarfa en todos los anos

—

subsiguientes.

Los participantes de la reunion de Aleppo acordaron un calculo de la fecha de la Pascua basado en una formula desarrollada por

Primer Concilio

Ecumenico de Nicea en

el afio

325.

Segiin este sistema, la Pascua de

Resurreccion caerfa siempre en el domingo despues de la primera luna llena de la primavera.

siglos hasta la reforma del calendario

por parte del Papa Gregorio XIII,

Baile para recaudarfondos Se ha organizado un baile para recaudar fondos para la construccion del Centro Catolico Hispano de Charlotte. el Founders Hall, NationsBank Corporate Center, el proximo 16 de mayo y sera amenizada por la orquesta "Continental Brass", que

El baile se celebrara en

vendra directamente de Miami para esta ocasion

El precio de los boletos es de $25.00 por persona. Para informacion de

obtener boletos llamar

(704) 335-1281 o

(704) 552-1003.

como

4 Suplemento de The Catholic News and Herald

24 de

de 1998

abril

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Chiapas necesita respuesta del gobierno canadiense, dicenfuncionarios OTTAWA

(CNS)

—

El estado

mina terrestre lista para hacer explosion, y el gobierno canadiense debe adoptar medidas para inutilizar al detonador, dicen los funcionarios eclesiasticos.

"Mientras estuvimos en Chiapas, vimos las consecuencias dramaticas de los tratados de libre comercio en la

de Religiosos Canadienses, en una conferencia de prensa en la Colina del Parlamento el 2 de abril. El Padre Trottier, que acababa de regresar al Canada despues de una visita de una semana de duracion a Chiapas, como parte de una delegacion de investigacion de hechos, dijo que el presencio "el drama de los pueblos indigenas de aquella region de Mexico y de la Iglesia que ha caminado con ellos a traves de sus luchas y de su agonia

dijo

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Canada y

los Estados

Unidos en

Chiapas.

todos los

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iglesia de Nuestra

las

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segunda lengua, que asistan a una reunion para discutir clases el

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7th.

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1:30

The Catholic News

April 24, 1998

& Herald 7

Entertainment Limitations of Science

Explored

In "City

By GERRI PARE

NEW YORK (CNS) — A cardiac

Of Angels'

love in his eyes, but doesn't pursue her physically.

When

another of Maggie's patients

surgeon loses her heart to a mysterious man who is actually a celestial being in "City of Angels" (Warner

the lovestruck angel learns

Bros.)-

a crossover from angelic to

Brad Silberling demonstrates a sure visual hand in depicting modem Los Angeles inhabited by numerous

tus

compassionate angels all garbed in black pants and dusters as they watch over Angelenos and escort the dying

to accept the

home. Perched unseen by mortals on highway signs or rooftops, angel pals Seth (Nicolas Cage) and Cassiel (Andre Braugher) compare notes on to their eternal

their assignments. Cassiel is comfort-

able with his celestial state while more and more Seth yearns to experience

human

This longing intensifies when he witnesses caring Dr. Maggie Rice (Meg Ryan), devastated after losing a cardiac patient during surgery. is

Maggie

to eternal life.

also able to see Seth,

from him that

human

gone She is intrigued by messenger of God who appears at odd times with intense that her patient has

this self-described

sta-

possible, since he himself did

years earlier.

Meanwhile,

Maggie slowly comes

man she loves is not of this

earth, her surgeon boyfriend

(Colm

Feore) pops the question.

CNS

The real question seems

be one of free will. Both the ex-angel and Cassiel remind Seth that God gave both man and to

spirits that choice.

And that is where it is less than heavenly. One can only take so much of Cage gazing

dog cial

Ryan with

his droopy,

problems of a pragmatic

positively resolved

its

spe-

scientist

And

it is

by her taking a leap

this interesting exploration

opposed to the boundlessness and the mystery of faith moves to an ultimately sappy conclusion life-affirming by all means,

—

but awfully syrupy at the same time.

the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting. Each videocassette is available on VHSformat.

Theatrical movies on video have a U.S. Catholic Conference classification and Motion Picture Association ofAmerica rating. All reviews indicate the appropriate age group for the video audience.

"Buffalo Soldiers" (1997) Uneven Western in which a black troop of U.S. cavalry hunts

down

band of Apache renegades in 1880 New Mexico, then has to decide whether to take them back or let them escape into Mexico. Directed by Charles Haid, the TV movie's attempt to dress

contemporary themes of

cial justice in

Westem

ra-

cliches proves

sexual situations and crude language.

"The

Ice

Storm" (1997)

Somber drama set during Thanksgivweek in 1973 when a suburban housewife (Joan Allen) learns her husband

ing

(Kevin Kline) is having an affair with a neighbor (Sigoumey Weaver), while the neglected adolescent offspring of both families furtively explore until a

sudden

ice

tiheir

storm causes a sober-

Ang

more wrong-headed than thought-pro-

ing tragedy. Directed by

voking, though

movie does a marvelous job

succeeds better in

sexuality

depicting the violent realities of life on

ing the era and

the fi-ontier and gets fine performances

lowing the disordered emotional lives of its characters and the consequences of their parental neglect of family responsi-

fi-om a mostly African- American cast

headed by Danny Glover. The result is adult fare because of grisly violence,

bilities.

its

Numerous

discontents while fol-

sexual situations, oc-

MOVIES ONLINE Can't remennber how a recent film was by the USCC? Want to know whether to let the kids go see it? Now you can look film reviews up on America Online. Once you're connected to AOL, just use the keyword CNS to go to Catholic News Service's online site, then look for movie reviews.

minor violence, discreet

the

sexual situations and fleeting nudity, the U.S. Catholic Conference classi-

afterlife.

lieve

all

Cage's reply offers her food

for thought: "Just because

mean

doesn't

it's

you don't be-

aspects of the film

are engagingly presented as the angel

human

some rough language. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-IV adults, with reservations. The Motion Picture Associarestricted. tion of America rating is R

casional profanity and

—

"American Pop" (1981) by Ralph Bakshi presents a history of American popular music through the story of an inmiigrant family from the turn of the century to the feature

present, with the great-grandson gaining

fame

A-III

—

adults.

The MoAmerica

—

parents are

strongly cautioned that

some material

under

PG-13

may be

inappropriate for children

13.

Pare

made, the film becomes heavy-handed

with Christian symbolism prefiguring the ending.

Animated

tion Picture Association of

Once his decision

love with his beloved. is

fication

rating

not true."

longs to experience a lifetime of

as a rock star. Interesting concept

on the staff of the U.S.

Catholic Conference Office for Film

and Broadcasting. Little Mermaid" (1989) Enchanting Disney animated feahappy ending to the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a feisty mermaid (voice of Jodi Benson) who falls in love with a human prince. Written and directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, the characters are delightful, the music is exhilarating and the underwater animation is magical. Youngsters will

"The

ture adds a hopeful,

how its enterprising heroine faces

love

and

but the story lacks dramatic focus and

many

learns to take responsibility for her

of the characters are unappealing,

if not repulsive.

Depiction of some sleazy

environments and the use of drugs. The U.S. CathoUc Conference classification is A-ni adults. The Motion Picture As-

—

sociation of

America

rating

—

re-

to typical parental pressures

own

choices.

patronage.

related homicides, gradually

officials.

may

come

to re-

The Motion

A-I

— general G — gen-

Picture Asso-

ciation of America rating

eral audiences. "IVIrs.

"L.A. Confidential" (1997) StyUsh cop drama set in 1950s Los Angeles where three police detectives (Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce), each working on apparently un-

The U.S. Catholic Con-

ference classification

stricted.

Brown" (1997)

Fact-based historical drama explores the close personal relationship that

developed between the reclusive

widowed Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) and her gruff groomsman (Billy CormoUy) who bullied her out of years

be related to corrupt

of mourning at Scotland's Balmoral

Directed by Curtis Hanson, the

Castle and back to her royal duties in

densely plotted

London at a time when the monarchy was falling into public disfavor. Direc-

alize they

classified

Due

Ryan is credible as the physician disanswers, but doubting the existence of

turbed that science cannot provide

Lee, the

in re-creat-

—

children under 13.

The philosophical

But all

The following are home videocassette reviews from

Videos

—

faith.

the limitations of science as

photo

Actor Jack Johnson plays the young Will Robinson in a scene from "Lost in adults and Space." The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-ll adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 parents are strongly cautioned that some material may be inappropriate for

puppy-

eyes. Silberling does take the time

falling in love with a spirit.

able to see

Seth and he gently assures a skeptical

to build their relationship with

sensation.

Amazingly, Maggie

(Dennis Franz)

all

darkly cynical story

with murders most foul as the detectives their way through a miasma of chicanery and deceit. Recurring violence, fleeting nudity, recurring sexual innu-

work

tor

endo, some profanity and intermittent rough language. The U.S. Catholic Con-

motivations of her loyal servant. Fleet-

ference classification

A-IV

—

adults,

John IS4adden's period piece is an absorbing character study of a monarch's emotional

and the

The

U.S. Catholic Conference classifica-

with reservations. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R re-

tion

stricted.

—

fragility

ing male nudity and brief violence.

ture

—

The Motion PicAssociation of America rating is

—

A-in

adults.

parental guidance suggested.

The Catholic News

& Herald

April 24, 1998

People In The Joan Kroc Funds New Peace and Justice Institute

ALCALA PARK,

one another," he added.

Bishop Urges Caution After Accounts Of Priest With

—

(CNS) The University of San Diego is becomCalif.

ing a major force in the cause of world peace, thanks to a $25 million gift from philanthropist Joan Kroc. is

The donation

the largest individual contribution to

Stigmata

—

ST. JOHN'S, Antigua (CNS) Bishop Donald J. Reece of St. John'sBasseterre, Antigua, has urged caution about judging the holiness of a Canadian

who

higher education in San Diego history.

priest of his diocese

The Catholic

the stigmata. Parishioners

university will use the gift

to construct the

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Institute for Peace and Justice on its campus and to develop academic and public programs. Priest Extends SOA Protest To Prison; Gets Solitary ESTILL, S.C. (CNS) A few weeks into his six-month prison term for protesting at the U.S. Army School of the Americas, Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois has been placed in solitary confinement for refusing to work while imprisoned. In an open letter released April 13, Father Bourgeois said he had decided to refuse to work while at the federal prison in Estill until "the U.S.

—

Army

SOA

all

the

reportedly has

who touched Father Gerard Critch at Mass "were thrown to the floor by an invisible force," and some were healed of illnesses. The 40-year-old priest from the Canadian province of Newfoundland is also said to have briefly levitated during a Mass. Doctors could not treat Father Critch 's excruciating pain from the stigmata

—

marks of Christ's crucifixion wounds on the hands, feet and side and he was flown to a New York medical facility on the private jet of American banker R. the

—

Allen Stanford.

Cardinal To Skip Baseball

Season Because Of Good Friday

Games

NEW YORK (CNS) — The playing

calls for the prosecution of those

graduates responsible for

of major league baseball games on

Good

suffering and death in Latin America."

Friday has drawn a protest from Cardi-

Cardinal Criticizes 'Culture Of Divorce' In Pastoral Letter BOSTON (CNS) The pervasiveness of the "culture of divorce" makes it even more important for the Catholic Church to stand firm on the lifelong commitment that is marriage. Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston said in a new pastoral letter. "The disheartening fact is that many persons no longer believe that it is

John J. O'Connor of New York. "I love the Yankees, I love the Mets. I love baseball," he wrote in his April 16 column in the New York archdiocesan weekly, Catholic New York. "This was to be the summer that even if the creek rose, I was going to get to some games. Not this year." The cardinal said he would not attend any games "because all over the country, it seems, major league teams played on Good Friday."

—

possible to construct a civilization of love, and so they fall into a practical de-

them to seek compromises and accommodations instead of relying on the help of the Lord," spair that constantly urges

the cardinal wrote. "Like the culture of

death that threatens the good of life,

human

the widespread acceptance of the

News

nal

Vatican Official: Conditions Not Right For Papal Mid-East Visit

VATICAN CITY

(CNS)

— The

Vatican's minister for foreign affairs raised doubts about the prospects for a papal

visit to the

Middle East soon, con-

sidering the state of the peace process

Speaking April 16

—

PEACE AGREEMENT A woman reads her copy of the Northern Ireland peace agreement after it was delivered by a postman in Newtownards April 1 7. will vote on the agreement May 22.

Citizens

shall see

Paul

what happens." Pope John

repeatedly has said he wanted to

Holy Land

connection with church celebrations of the year 2000. visit the

Archbishop Tauran said "the great dilemma of the Holy Father" was that a pastoral visit to the Holy Land "must be a symbol of peace and an encounter between the people." Citizen Powell Recruiting New

'Army' To Aid Children In Need LISLE, 111. (CNS) Five years af-

—

ter his retirement as

chairman of the U.S.

Joint Chiefs of Staff, private citizen Colin

Powell

looking for more than a few

good men and women to join a new Addressing more than 800 people

battle.

April 15 at Benedictine University in

culture of divorce aggressively under-

there.

an Italian

Lisle,

Powell

mines love as a principle and power of communion, and threatens the right of

radio reporter. Archbishop Jean-Louis

come

a part of

Tauran said "for the moment" the conditions were not right, but "in two years.

four-star general's

married persons to pursue happiness with

said, "I

America's Promise

want you

all to

be-

army." The retired

"army" is called The Alliance for

Youth, a nonprofit organization that encourages mentoring and tutorial outreach by businesses and volunteers. The enemies he is targeting are the neglect, hopelessness and apathy that prey on U.S. children in need. Two Rwandan Priests Receive Death Penalty For 1994 Killings

—

Two KIBUYE, Rwanda (CNS) Rwandan priests were condemned to death for having participated in a 1994 campaign of ethnic violence. Judges in

Kibuye deliberated for a week in the trial of Father Edouard Nturiye, 49, and FaEmmanuel Kayiranga, 36, before handing down their sentences April 17 for crimes against humanity. They were found guilty of kiUing about 2,000 Tutsis who sought refuge at Nyange Church in Kivumu, about 50 miles west of the ther

Rwandan

capital of Kigali.

—

Mercy Sister Mary Michael O'Grady Dies At 89 BELMONT —

Sister

Mary Michael

O'Grady died April 7 at Sacred Heart Convent in Behnont. She was 89 years old and Mercy. The Rite of Gathering was held on Easter, April 12, in the Cardinal Gibbons Chapel at Sacred Heart Convent. A Mass in her 74th year as a Sister of

of Christian burial was celebrated April 13 in the chapel, and burial followed at

Belmont Abbey cemetery. Sister Mary Michael was bom Oct. Mayo, Ireland. Her birth name was Margaret Ann O'Grady, and she took the nahie Sister Mary Michael upon entering the order ofthe Sisters ofMercy on Oct. 17, 1923. She completed her undergraduate work at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and at Mount Mercy College in Pittsburgh, Pa. She earned a master's degree in letters from the University of

the

Mercy

Sister

Mary Michael O'Grady

1908, in Westport, County

Pittsburgh.

In addition to Sister Mary Michael's

many

professional memberships, she

served as director of the Junior Classical League, moderator for the Library

Club of America, advisor to the Foreign Student program at Sacred Heart Junior College in Belmont, and director of the Language Laboratory and Children's Literature Laboratory, both sponsored by Sacred Heart College. Sister Mary Michael taught in the elementary schools of the Diocese of Raleigh and served as an instructor and later as an assistant and associate professor of English and Spanish at Sacred Heart Junior College. During her tenure at Sacred Heart Academy and College, Sister Mary Michael was the college sponsor of the Library Club of America Book Center and of the Gaston Classical League. She also taught in the Upward Bound program at Johnson C. Smith

University and tutored foreign students in math, reading and social studies. In the mid-1970s. Sister Mary Michael volunteered to use her teaching abilities to serve in Appalachia as principal and teacher at St. WiUiam's School in London, Ky. In the late '70s and early '80s, she taught math, reading and history in Mercy Hospital' s Continuiug Education Program to low-income hospital

workers, preparing them for classes at Central Piedmont Community College

which provided high school credit classes. Sister Mary Michael is the daughter of James and Bridget O'Grady. She is survived by several nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews and numerous cousins. Memorials may be made to the Sisters ofMercy, 100 Mercy Dr., Belmont, N.C. 28012.

The Catholic News

April 24. 1998

Employment Opportunities Music Director/Music Teacher: 675-family Catholic parish on coast of North CaroHna seeks professional musician to provide music services for all aspects of parish life, as well as serving as music teacher for 150-student K-5 school. Individual must have organ and choral directing skills. Bachelor's degree and practicing Catholic preferred, but will consider person with demonstrated level of experience. Salary based on degree and experience. Send to: Search Committee, St, Egbert Catholic Church, 1706 Evans Street, Morehead City, NC 28557. Application deadline is June 1, 1998. Youth Minister: Would you like to serve starting in June, 1998 as a full-time Youth Minister in a young, growing. Catholic Community in central North Carolina? Candidate must be a faith-filled, enthusiastic, organized, creative and team oriented person. Qualifications: BA in Theology, 3 years experience in Youth Ministry, knowledge of Life Teen desirable. Salary and beneifts commensurate with degree and experience. Send resume and a statement of your vision of Youth Ministry to: Rev. James W. O'Neill, O.S.F.S., St. Paul the Apostle Church, 2715 Horse Pen Creek Road, Greensboro, NC 27410. Youth Director: seeks a high energy, positive Roman Catholic person for FT St. Michael Catholic Church of Cary, employment beginning 7-1-98 at a culturally diverse parish of over 3,000 families. (700+ high school youth.) Responsible for building an innovative youth program. Developing an environment that will allow youth to be fully human and fully alive is key. Must have the ability to create programs that inspire, empower, and involve youth. Looking for fresh ideas, proven ability to organize, motivate, and inspire volunteer staff ot carry out activities. Experience in the following area might prove helpful: Parks and Recreation, Camp Director. Youth Ministry etc. For information write: St. Michael Catholic ChurchYouth Director. Attn: Norma Powers, 804 High House Rd., Cary NC, 27513.

resumes

Pastoral Associate for Faith Formation:

new

ministry in a growing parish of 800 families in western North Carolina. Responsible for and nurture of pre-elementary faith formation programs as well as adult education. The position also serves as a staff consultant for OCIA, the nursery and Children's Word programs, and other educational outreaches of the parish. Applicant should be degreed in Religious Education or related field. full-time,

the administration

Some

experience

collaborative way.

1998.

Send resume

Applicant must be committed to working with staff and members in a is generous. Position available July 15, Search, St. Eugene Church, P.O. Box 8160, Asheville, NC 28814.

beneficial.

Salary to

negotiable. Diocesan benefit package

Director of Faith Formation

—

Full-time, Benefits: faith community of over 650 families is seeking an enthusiastic and knowledgeable individual our faith formation program. The position is responsible for initiating, designing and implementing a structured religious formation program for the children of the parish. Successful candidate will be a practicing Catholic, have a degree in Religious Education or related field, have strong interpersonal and organizational skills and have successful work experience in a leadership role. Send resume to: Search Committee, St. Mary Mother of the Church, 1008 Vandora Springs Rd., Gamer, NC 27259. Assistant Principal: Our Lady of Grace School, a K-8 Catholic school in Greensboro, NC, is accepting applications for an Assistant Principal for the 1998-99 school year. Applicants must possess the following qualifications: practicing catholic, a current teaching/administration license for the state of NC, have a master's degree in education and at least five years teaching experience. Please send resume and salary expectations to: Roberta Hutchcraft, Principal, Our Lady of Grace School, 2205 W. Market St., Greensboro, NC 27403. The deadline for apphcations is Friday, May 15, 1998. Administrative Assistant: Providence Ventures, LLC, a Charlotte-based marketer of Catholic books, videos and gifts is currently seeking a full-time administrative assistant. Responsibilites include handling incoming telephone inquiries, outgoing promotional mailings and lights secretarial duties. Strong communications skills are highly desirable for this position, as well as proficiency in Microsoft Office 97. Please submit resume to: James V. Hetzel, Providence Ventures, LLC, 229 N. Church St., Ste. 400, Charlotte, NC 28202. Phone: (704) 3589970. Fax: (704) 358-1360.

Our growing to lead

Order Entry

Specialist:

Providence Ventures, LLC, a Chariotte-based marketer of Catholic books, videos and gifts is currently seeking a full-time order entry specialist. Responsibilites include order entry and handling customer service inquiries from field sales representatives. Strong communications skills are required for this position. a.s well as proficiency in Microsoft Office 97 (and/or data entry software) is highly desirable. Please submit resume to: James V. Hetzel, Providence Ventures, LLC. 229 N. Church St., Ste. 400, Chariotte, NC 28202. Phone: (704) 358-9970. Fax: (704) 358-1360.

& Herald 9

Fund Raisers Benefit Room At The Inn —

GREENSBORO

Proceeds from recent fund raisers have been donated to the newest addition of

Room try

at the Inn, a

based

minis-

in Charlotte

Greensboro for

and

single,

pregnant mothers. In two individual efOur Lady of Grace School and the Ladies

forts.

Auxiliary of Knights of

Columbus

Piedmont

Council #939 raised more than $4,300 for the Catholic

organization.

Over a three-week penod, students of Our Lady of Grace School collected mostly in $1,709.64 pennies. Baby bottles were placed in each classroom as reminders of whom the

—

money

would

Members of the Ladies Auxiliary of Knights of Columbus pjedmont Council #939 present a check to Albert Hodges, executive director of Room at the Inn, following a recent fund raiser. Pictured from left are Saraya Taylor, Betty D'Amelio, Maryann Grabasky, former Knights of Columbus State Deputy Jim Neely, Hodges, and Janice

Maxham,

auxiliary president,

Roberta

benefit.

Hutchcraft, principal; Jarrett Saia, stu-

dent council president; and

Mike

student council vice-president, presented a check and a framed

poem

Cindy

of Room at the Inn during a school assembly. Members of Knights of Columbus Ladies Auxiliary presented proceeds in excess of $2,600 to Albert Hodges, Room at the Inn executive director, following the group's recent dinner-dance and raffle for a trip to Holden Beach. The

Milam

were sold over a week's

raffle tickets

time.

Dillon,

nonprofit, independent Catholic

ministry.

Room at the

Inn has two loca-

A Charin 1994, and an eight-bedroom mansion was purchased in Greensboro last year. The organization offers single expectant mothers with or without previous children a comprehensive program that includes housing, food clothing and counseling for up to a tions in western lotte

North Carolina.

home was opened

year following the birth of their children.

Teachers:

A Little Time Makes A Big Difference.

Thomas Aquinas Parent's Morning Out/Preschool is currently taking applications for two teachers for our MondayAVednesday two year old program for the 1998-99 school year. This is a paid position for 10 hours a week for 37 weeLs. If interested, please call Lori Schoeneman at 549-0199, ext. I, MondaySt.

Thursday between 8:00 a.m.

1:30 p.m.

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Please send the above registration form and your check of $5

per person to: Conference, Deacon Tim Rohan, Our Lady of Grace, 2205 West Market Street, Greensboro, NC 27403 $50 per person for room and bath. Children under 12 are

So...

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free.

For further information, please call Bette Steinkamp at (336) 476-9717 or Hannah Hammer at (336) 273-9205.

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10 The Catholic

News

& Herald

April 24, 1998

Diocesan News Briefs Fashion

BELMONT

—

Show

May

16 at

10 a.m., 2:30 p.m., and 7 p.m., and

May

Campus May

15 at 7:30 p.m.,

17 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $18, and admis-

sion includes the fashion show, door

bag and Mexican fiesta treats. Proceeds will benefit Holy Angels, which prizes, a gift

provides residential, developmental, social

its annual Charity Date Auction at St. Gabriel Church April 27 at 7 p.m. Proceeds benefit Catholic Social Services. For details, call Ken at (704) 532-8206.

Charlotte hosts

"A Fiesta for Josephina" is the theme of the 1998 Girls Fashion Show in Curtin American Hall on the Sisters of Mercy Sacred Heart

and other services and programs

Family Rosary Day CHARLOTTE The 44th Semi-

—

Annual Family Rosary Day is May 3 at St. Vincent de Paul Church at 3 p.m. and includes rosary recitation, hymns, a homily and a procession. Father John T. Putnam, pastor of Holy Infant Church in Reidsville, will be the homilist.

CCHS Presents "Oklahoma"

children and adults with mental retarda-

and other

tion

disabilities.

CHARLOTTE — The Fine Arts De-

To purchase

Catholic Bishops

partment of Charlotte Catholic High School presents the musical "Oklahoma" May 1 and May 2 at 7:30 p.m., and May 3 at 4 p.m. in the school gymnasium. General admission tickets are $6. The Athletic

Association hosts "dinner theater"

tickets, call

(704) 825-0417.

Pastoral Letter Training

BELMONT — Training for Gastonia Vicariate parish implementation of N.C.

WiUiam G. Curlin and Joseph Gossman's economic justice pastoral letter, "Of One Heart and One Mind," is May 2 from 9:30 a.m.-2:45 p.m. at Queen of the Apostles Church, 503 N. Main St., Belmont. All interested parishioners, parish leaders, businesspersons and educators are invited. There is no cost, but registration is encouraged by calling (704) 370-3231. Natural Family Planning

Course

— The Couple

CHARLOTTE

Couple League begins a four-part course on natural family planning May 14 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Matthew Church. For more information and to register, call Alex or Maria Muiioz at (704) 849-0891, or Richard or Carmen Cashman at (704) 552-1 334.

and 2; admission is $14, which includes dinner at 6 p.m. in the cafeteria and a reserve seating ticket to the musical. Call Kathryn

informational

(704) 375-4339.

Lady Hibernians Meet

— The Ladies An-

Order of Hibernians meets April 30 at 7 p.m. cient

America St. John

in at

Irish ancestry are invited to attend this first

Lawson, (704) 522-9728.

is at

Assumption Church,

4207 Shamrock Dr., May 14 at 7 p.m. If someone you know would like to learn English, call Maralee Battaglia, (704) 921-1818, after 2 p.m.

Charity Date Auction

CHARLOTTE — Catholic Singles of

Tim

Kentucky Derby Spring Gala CRAMERTON The Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina 1998 Spring

—

May

2 from 4-9 p.m. at the Cramerton Mountain Country Club. This

Gala

GREENSBORO

— "Pentecost

North Carolina: Springtime for Christians," a statewide conference celebrating

the year of the

Holy

Spirit in preparation

for the millennium, is

May

15-17 in Odell

newal, and Franciscan Father Paul Will-

ond language"

class for immigrants

more information. Pentecost Conference

mittee of the Catholic Charismatic Re-

meeting. For more information, call

the

—

Knights of ColumGregory Council 6700 hosts a Second Degree, honoring Knights founder Father Michael J. McGivney, April 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the parish center at St. Michael Church. A Third Degree is May 2 at 12 p.m. in honor of Richard Grebner, past state deputy. CaU (704) 864-9409 for St.

Soci-

CHARLOTTE

year's gala features a

theme with

live

Kentucky Derby

coverage of the event on

iams, pastor of St. Anthony of Padua in Greenville, S.C. Music will be performed by Hearts of Fire and Keith, and child care will be provided. For more information and to register, call Bette Steinkamp, (336) 476-9717, or Joyce Brown, (704) 547-1836. 50+ Spring Fling HICKORY The 12th Annual Spring Fling for parishioners ages 50 and up is April 29 at the Catholic Conference Center from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. and includes breakfast, bingo, music, games, lunch. Mass and fellowship. The cost is $10 per person. To register call your parish seniors club or the elder ministry program, (704) 370-3250. Jesuit House of Prayer Retreat "St. Paul & HOT SPRINGS

Church

—

Women"

at the Jesuit

Around The Diocese

ter

May

women

1-3 retreat for

House of Prayer. Mercy

Margaret Verstege

facilitates.

Sis-

Limited

space remains. Direct inquiries and reser-

Box

Eucharistic Adoration the Blessed Sacrament is in the chapel area of St. Joan of Arc Church every first Saturday of the month from 2-4 p.m. Call the church office, (704) 252-3 1 5 1 for more information. BREVARD Sacred Heart Church hosts eucharistic adoration each first Friday following the 9 a.m. Mass. The parish also hosts First Saturday devotions with adoration. Call (704) 883-9572 for further information. CHARLOTTE St. Thomas Aquinas Church hosts eucharistic adoration each first Friday following the 12:15 p.m. Mass and lasting until midnight. Call (704) 549-1607 for more information. DENVER Nocturnal adoration is the first Friday of each month at Holy Spirit Church. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament begins at 7 p.m. each first Friday evening and concludes Saturday morning at 8 a.m. with Benediction, followed by first Saturday rosary and Mass. Call Jim Kennedy, (704) 732-2673, for

vations to Jesuit House of Prayer, P.O.

For more information, write to the Living Waters Catholic Reflection Center, 103 Living Waters Lane, Maggie Valley, NC 28751, call (704) 926-3833, or send a fax to (704) 926-1997. Faith-Sharing for Returning

ASHEVILLE

— Exposition of ,

—

information.

—

HICKORY Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is the first Friday through first Saturday of each month at St. Aloysius Church. For information, call Jean Marie Hirsch, (704) 495-4339, or Sonja Bjerg, (704) 328-5074.

the

GREENSBORO — St.

Paul the Apostle Church hosts eucharistic adoration

at 9:30 a.m. every first Friday and ending at 9 a.m. Saturday. Call (910) 294-4696 for details. Eucharistic adoration is at St. Joseph Church every first Fri-

beginning

NEWTON —

day of the month following the 12:10 p.m. Mass and lasting more information, call (704) 464-9207 for more information.

until 8

p.m. For

bara Dalley, (704) 289-6606, or Dot King, (704) 289-3438, for more information.

Group Rosary

Hot Springs, NC 28743, (704) 622-7366. Living Waters Retreat "Everyday MAGGIE VALLEY

—

Mystics"

May

11-17 retreat discern-

ing and celebrating mystical

NEWTON

—

The rosary is prayed in the chapel of St. Joseph Parish following the 10 a.m. Mass. Scouts Gather for Camporee

every

first

Sunday

—

Knights Host Degrees

GASTONIA

bus

annual chicken dinner April 26

its

from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. at the church, 2301 Statesville Ave. Baked or fried dinner plates are $6 each. For more information, call

information.

Auditorium

(704) 543-1 127.

CHARLOTTE — The Rosary

hosts

and silent auctions. Tickets are $75 each. Proceeds benefit four ministries of the Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina. Call (704) 829-5260 for tickets and more

the faith in gentle conversation. Call Bar-

live

Our Lady of Consolation Church

tickets,

Rosary Society Chicken Dinner ety of

cluded are buffet dining, live music, and

at Greensboro College. Speakers include Father Patsy laquinta, chairman of the National Service Com-

Claiborne for

session on a planned "English as a sec-

Our Lady of

Neumann Church. All Catholic women of

English Class Information

CHARLOTTE — An

May

a large-screen television. Raffle tickets will be sold from 4-5:15 p.m. Also in-

moments of

peace that are achieved through child-like faith. Franciscan Father Thomas VigUotta facihtates. Cost is $260. "The Hills are Alive" is a May 22-28 nature retreat fo-

RUTHERFORDTON The annual Boy Scout Camporee took place weekend of March 28 at Camp Bud Schiele in Rutherford County, with 220

Catholic the

Scouts,

Cub

ticipating.

scouts and their leaders par-

The wiimers of the

petition were: First Place

Dragons,

St.

com-

craft

— Troop 174

Gabriel Church, Charlotte;

— —

Second Place Troop 958 Cobras, St. Leo the Great Church, Winston-Salem; Third Place Troop 182 Eagles, St. Charles Borromeo Church, Morganton. Attic Treasure Sale TRYON The St. John the Baptist Church Ladies Altar Guild Attic Treasure Sale is May 2. Items will be collected soon. For details, call (704) 859-9574. BMHS Hosts Fund Raiser WINSTON-SALEM The Bishop McGuinness High School Home School Association presents its annual dinner and

—

auction fund raiser

May

2 in the school

gymnasium. The event features a silent and live auction, fine dining and live music. Tickets are $50 per person. Raffle tickets for a

$2,500 cash prize are $ 1 each

or $5 for

New this year is a raffle for a

1998 Honda CR-V sports utility vehicle or $15,000 cash. A Umited number of 350 are available for

$100 each. All proceeds For more infor-

will benefit the school.

mation or to buy 4247.

tickets, call (336)

725-

Student Wins Oratorical Contest

WINSTON-SALEM

—

Jessica

Carda, a senior at Bishop McGuinness High School, recently won the North Carolina Right to Life Committee Oratorical

Competition held in Greensboro.

winner, she will represent the state in

the National Right to Life

Committee

Oratorical Contest in Orlando, Fla., in

BMHS,

Carda is a member of the student council and swim team, and shares in the writing of a weekly column for the High Point Enterprise newspaper. Day of Reflection

June.

WINSTON-SALEM

—

The

St.

Monica's Guild of St. Benedict the Moor Church presents "Uplifting Women Youth Involvement in through Faith

—

the Parish tion"

Community,

A Day of Reflec-

May 2 from 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Guest

speakers are Mercy Sister Laretta Rivera-

cusing on the experience of God's love in

WilUams and Keith A. Caver, retired mili-

Dominican

tary officer, lay minister, motivational

with Domini-

speaker and leadership consultant. No fees wills be charged, but you must register by April 27. Call Catherine Gomez, (336) 723- 1318, weekdays between 6-9 p.m. for more information.

a springtime mountain setting.

Father Martin

lott facilitates

can Sister Jeannette Stang. Cost

$260.

Catholics

MONROE —

Landings, a program

for Catholics returning to the church, offers participants a

chance to gather with a

small group of lay people to talk about

The Catholic News & Herald welcomes parish newsfor the Diocesan News

Good photographs are also welcome. Submit news releases and photos at least 10 days before the publica-

Briefs page.

tion date.

The Catholic News

April 24, 1998

World And National News SS.

SIXDONH

c !a

CITVX

TORINO

(I'mO

president of the

eral.

sociation says the time

Pope Says Jesus' Resurrection

Demands Efforts For Peace Jesus' VATICAN CITY (CNS)

—

human

death and resurrection restored

meaning to human suffering and demands concrete efforts to bring peace to the world. Pope John Paul n said during Holy Week and Easter services. The pope, who turns 78 in May, cut nothing from his traditional liturgical scheddignity, gives

even walking in a driving rain around

Rome's torch-lit Colosseum April 10 for the nighttime

Way

He appeared

of the Cross service.

have

difficulty

keeping

his balance while standing during a

Good

Friday liturgy in St. Peter's Basilica again during the Easter morning

and

Mass

in St. Peter's, but his message did not waver. The Easter "proclamation of peace is for all those who are undergoing a Calvary seemingly without end,

Pilot

and the world).

BOSTON (CNS) — The MassachuCouncil of Churches, which repre-

sents 15 Protestant denominations, has

called on public officials and public

events planners to "avoid imposing im-

pediments

to religious

worship" such as games on

the scheduling of youth sports

Sundays. "This issue causes considerable conflict within families is

Shroud

depicted

of Turin, believed

in this

mural.

The shroud

Group Says Welfare Changes Mean More Hunger, Less Health Care WASHINGTON (CNS) Lost

—

welfare benefits under

seem too

new

regulations

to a ing.

to eat

and unmet health care

needs, according to a survey being con-

ducted by Network, a Catholic social Working with a sociologist at Drexel University in Pennsylvania, Network and four other national religious organizations are conducting an ongoing survey of social service agencies in 10 states, said Network's national coordinator, Mercy Sister Kathy Thornton, at an April 7 press conference. Sister Thornton said initial data from 900 people receiving assistance from partici-

justice lobbying group.

pating organizations found that 25 percent had been discontinued from welfare assistance. Another 45 percent never received welfare. Just 30 percent are currently receiving

some type of welfare aid.

Ritual Helps In Grieving,

to be the burial cloth of go on public display April 18-

Psychologist Says

WASHINGTON (CNS) — In grievhelps the survivors," said Ronald

K. Barrett, a psychology professor

community

to support

them

in griev-

That would help them in their loss and expression of grief," he said. Barrett, who teaches at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, has specialized in the study

at a

Catholic university and a panelist for the

when

children

are placed in the position of having to

of cross-cultural differences

start flying privately

— The As-

Pilots

may be

right to

owned, single-en-

gine aircraft on humanitarian missions to

Cuba.

"We can make some small conand

tribution in the humanitarian sense

Cuba

close the gap in a sense between

and the U.S.," said Dave Freudenberg, a member of St. Joan of Arc Parish in Boca Raton. "With our change in U.S. policy (regarding direct flights to Cuba) and since I knew Catholic Charities was open to more contact with Cuba, I called my parish and asked how we could be of help, knowing that the pilots had already expressed an interest in going to Cuba," he told The Florida Catholic, newspaper of the Palm Beach Diocese.

Vietnamese Catholics Want Holy Priests, Laity Tell Seminarians BAC NINH, Vietnam (CNS) While parish priests might bring many

—

choose between church or recreational activities," said the Rev. Diane Kessler, the council's executive director. Rev. Kessler, a United Church of Christ minister, made the comments in an announcement issued by the council about the effort. The Pilot, newspaper of the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, agreed in

a priest

his holiness," said

a lay participant at the late-March semi-

nar on lay people's expectations of the

The

spiritual leadership of future priests.

seminar was held in Bac Ninh, about 20 miles northeast of Hanoi, reported UCA News; an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. "It is good to rebuild churches, improve education and create jobs for lay people. However,

not

enough

for a priest to do just that, because we lay people can also do the same," the layman explained.

Salvadoran Archbishop Decries High Number Of Holy Week Deaths SAN SALVADOR (CNS) A Sal-

—

vadoran archbishop decried the high numbers of deaths caused by crime and traffic accidents during this year's Holy

Week. Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle of San Salvador said April 12 that the high figures were due to "the irre-

an editorial.

Black Theology Conference Draws Diverse, Ecumenical

CHICAGO

skills to their

(CNS)

Crowd

— Too

often, a

sponsibility of

some people who cause

innocent victims." In one case, a woman was killed and another 14 people injured

conference on black theology is really a conference on black Protestant theology.

when an

sive research in African-American cultures.

Catholics are notable only by their ab-

procession April 9 in the town of

death and dying and has done exten-

American College Of Louvain Doing Self-Study WASHINGTON (CNS) The

—

American College of Louvain, located at the

world's oldest Catholic university

Leuven, Belgium, has begun a selfstudy aimed at a new development plan. Results are to be reported to the U.S. bishops in November. The college, founded in 1857, is one of two U.S. nain

tional seminaries abroad.

The other is the in Rome, es-

North American College

ing a loved one's death "participation in ritual

many

will

Hospice Foundation of America's National Bereavement Teleconference. Ritual actions give the bereaved "access

be translating into families with

little

at the cathedral of Turin in Italy.

Boca Raton

most from

fairer liv-

setts

story of the

(CNS)

Rome

rights, for

Massachusetts Churches Urge Curb On Kids' Sunday Sports

Christ,

BOCA RATON, Fla.

his address "urbi et orbi" (to the city of

and human employment, for

for their dignity justice, for

ing conditions," he said April 12 during

June 14

Private

Could Take Aid To Cuba

Aircraft

work, lay people want them to be holy most of all, participants at a seminar told seminarians of Bac Ninh Diocese in northern Vietnam. "Between a talented and a holy priest, I would choose the latter because what we expect

thwarted in their aspiration for respect

The

Hopes Small,

The survey, which brought a response of almost 70 percent, surfaced information that could have a wider bearing on U.S. seminary programs in gen-

ule,

Briefs

church. f.a

& Herald

tablished in 1859.

The

first

phase of the

self-study, carried out last fall,

survey of the heads of

was

U.S. dioceses concerning their vision of the American College of Louvain and its role in the formation of priests to serve in the U.S. all

sence.

Not so at a recent gathering of pre-

eminent theologians at the University of Chicago. Not only did the audience contain as many white faces as black, the lineup of speakers also was an ecumenical smorgasbord of men and women. Headlining the April 2-5 conference was

impatient driver charged his

vehicle into a Holy Thursday religious Suchitoto, El Salvador, police said.

Violence

Still

Reigns

Says (CNS)

Television, Study

WASHINGTON

—

The

amount and kind of violence shown on changed over the past three years, according to the third and television has not

James Cone, whose groundbreaking

final

book "Black Theology and Black Power"

lence Study. While well-intentioned pro-

defined the discipline in 1969, as well

grammers and producers may have

West of Harvard and Stephen Carter of Yale. But also among the nine speakers were two well-known Catholic theologians: Father David Tracy of the University of Chicago and Rosemary Radford Ruether of Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston.

to "limit or alter the nature of violent

as authors Cornel

annual National Television Vio-

portrayals," the study said, "they

tried

were

not cumulatively sufficient to significantly alter the television environment overall."

The Catholic News

& Herald

April 24, 1998

Boom. What Boom?

Appalachian Poverty Remains Entrenched By PATRICIA ZAPOR CHARLESTON, W.Va. (CNS)

become known

as welfare. Medicare, food stamps and Medicaid. Television news crews and documentary film makers swarmed into Appalachia to show the rest of America just who Johnson meant when he de-

—

of the United States may be economically booming, but in the hardcore poverty pockets of Appalachia, it

Much

can be hard to tell. That becomes apparent to student volunteers from around the country who descend on the region each spring to try to battle poverty by shoring up rundown houses and helping children practice

clared

their reading.

They come from

"War on

Poverty."

Today, parts of Appalachia appear be doing quite well: urban areas including Charleston and Atlanta are thriving; statewide unemployment rates have shrunk; high technology industries and tourism are infusing money into some

universities like

Notre Dame in Indiana, East Stroudsburg in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, Marquette in Milwaukee and Salem from Catholic State in Massachusetts

places; a

colleges and Catholic campus ministry programs at public universities. They're among the thousands of volunteers who spend a week or more in Appalachia each spring break working through organizations like Habitat for Humanity and the Christian Appalachian

of Richmond in Virginia said other sections of Appalachia are seeing almost none of that improvement. One lesson of the years since Johnson declared "War on Poverty," has

ter

—

Providing Healing

CNS

Duba and Kevin Leonard on the

drywall insulation in

photo by Patricia Zapor

Notre Dame install a sheet of Karen Morton's home in Campbell's Greek, W.Va., March. The students were participating in an alternative spring break project.

Julie

of the University of

ceiling of

port the

"web of life"

in the region.

The 1995 statement stressed the abandonment of the people there by the post-industrial economy and pervasive damage to the environment by clear-cutting, strip mining and dumping of garbage and toxic materials. The socioeconomic crisis in Appalachia is a "conflict between a culture of death and a culture of life," that constitutes a "profoundly

moral

crisis," the

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Ever since

St.

Joseph Hospital was founded in 1948

bishops said.

The

region,

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sells

pricey

from

poverty. There are mansions bought by

and steel fortunes of families with names like Morgan and Rockefeller and rented tar-paper shacks hanging prewith cariously on remote hillsides the coal

—

outhouses out back. In the mid-1960s. President Lyndon Johnson focused attention on the disparities of Appalachia when he outlined his "Great Society" programs that would

been that improvements in the economy are really location specific, Couto said. "The places where there is a concentration of low-income groups are a lot like barrios," he said, explaining that like inner-city pockets of poverty, parts of Appalachia remain crippled by the lack

of employment opportunities, despite the thriving economies around them. For instance, the West Virginia Kids Count Data Book notes some economic improvements, such as a decline in un-

employment from

9.4 percent in 1980 to

7.9 percent in 1995.

But

in the

same

period, the

number

Certified Public Accountant

of jobs in high-paying industries decUned by 1 8.9 percent, while the number of jobs in low-paying industries increased by 43.2 percent. Jeff Allen, director of the Charleston District Outreach Ministry in West Virginia, said 90 percent of his clients are elderly, but some are disabled or sim-

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But Richard Couto of the University

Project.

In some ways, the students are part of a long tradition of Catholic efforts in a region where only a tiny fraction of the population is Catholic. In 1974, the poverty of Appalachia inspired the region's Catholic bishops to write a pastoral letter about the effects of a shifting economy, strip mining, exploitation of labor and other issues. Twenty years later, 25 Appalachian area bishops issued a new call to sup-

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