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Volume 4 Number 42
•
August
4,
1995
Knights Of Columbus Gather For State Installations In Fayetteville By CHARLIE
BOWLING
FAYETTEVILLE
—
About 500 members of the North Carolina Knights of Columbus attended the annual organization meeting and Installation Banquet July 21-23 at the Howard Johnson
harder with youth programs which in-
about evenly divided between the Charlotte and Raleigh Dioceses.
ball,
Deputy Luther J. Stultz took over the reins from James L. Neely, who has served in that office for the past two Other elected officials installed at the Saturday evening Mass celebration years.
included Father Thomas J. Gaul, State Chaplain, John A. Harrison, State Secretary,
Group Worked To Calm Anger Towards Susan Smith
Robert J. Singer, State Treasurer,
Susan Smith
to death for killing her
two
young sons last October would not have brought the boys back "and would reflect negatively on us as Christians," said Father Richard Harris, pastor of
"To prison
its
in the first
my way
percent.
of thinking,
in
life
Union's tiny Catholic parish. On July 28 Smith was sentenced to life in prison after she was convicted of killing her children by rolling her car into a lake while they were strapped in
reads:
their car seats.
tality."
Father Harris, pastor of St. Augustine Church, was among those who gathered for a series of prayer services sponsored by the Downtown Ministerial
At the July 25 meeting at Duncan Acres United Methodist Church, Father Lennart Pearson, pastor of the Episcopal Church of the Nativity, said it takes
Association during the Smith trial. They were held in hopes of softening attitudes
community.
Father Harris said the ministers decided to hold the prayer meetings to help project a positive
which has
at its
"Welcome
image of the town, entrance a sign that to the City
hospitality to
foster programs for vocations, but they provide financial support for seminarians for all the years of their studies. Southern Pines was singled out as con-
tributing to 11
seminarians and their
sister council in Pinehurst has three
0 years
1
Grand Knight
The 21 year
million and Carolina.
it
is
Some
by
six
over $6.7 used entirely in North $25,000 was contribtotal is
known
as the
semi-
RSVP
program.
Other fund-raising efforts benefited priest retirement, disaster relief to the
flood areas in Georgia and assistance
and funding to scholBelmont Abbey College. A check was presented to the Direc-
arships at
inception in 1974," Stultz said. local
is
tor of
Room at the Inn and a pledge made
to continue their support to the
home
in
Charlotte. It was announced that about 200 Knights volunteered recently to act as
uted to Special Olympics by the coun-
ushers at the Charlotte Coliseum for the
and state. "Considering that we live in a state with so few Catholics, we need to continue our award winning growth com-
visit
cils
of Mother Teresa.
A total of were also
1 1
new
installed
District Deputies
from the Charlotte
Diocese.
Reflections
of Hospi-
•
more than
is
golf.
will continue their theme, "In Solidarity With Our Priests." Many of the local councils not only
for Oklahoma City
since
like a thousand deaths,"
bowling and
The Knights
retarded people in the State. "That
about what we raised
he told the New Catholic Miscellany, newspaper of the Charleston Diocese. "She will have to think about her terrible crime every day." is
all local
narians in what
to increase that figure this year
—
lenged
Anthony M. Petite, State Advocate and David L. Onofrio, State Warden. State Deputy Luther Stultz acknowledged the success of "Operation Lamb" which raised over $650,000 to assist
He challenged each
By PAUL A. BARRA UNION, S.C. (CNS) Sentencing
Warden David Onofrio chalcouncils to work even
clude State volleyball, basketball, soft-
State
Ministerial
State
They represent over 8,300 members
ticipated
Four members of SPLUNGE (L-R) Erin Leonard, Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, High Point, Patrick Reich, Youth Minister at Immaculate Conception Church, Hendersonville, AN Taylor, St. Paul the Apostle Church, Greensboro and Onie Rodriguez, St. Matthew Church, Jacksonville, Fla., spend some of theirtime gardening for Hope House, a residential home in Asheville, for men and women suffering from AIDS. Photo by Eduardo Perez
cent net growth goal in 1995, '96," he added.
from 84 councils paralong with family members.
Hotel. Delegates
Lending a green thumb.
pared with the other 50 states," Stultz stated. "We should exceed our five per-
make
Of Bells Mark 50th Anniversary Of Bombing Tolling
a good
WASHINGTON (CNS)— Remem-
residents, tormented by a too horrible to imagine and pes-
an ecumenical gathering, but one of the things we have in common is the need for forgiveness," he said. Since the murders and the town's
brances of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki "carry a unique burden," said a Catholic moral theolo-
from a fuller context that included Pearl Harbor and "the total brutality of the Japanese and Nazi expansion." But troubling questions still sur-
by intrusive press coverage, reacted by advocating the death penalty
human
face, he said, questions about alterna-
inundation by reporters, "things will never be quite the same for any of us,"
race must learn
from the 1945 destruc-
tive strategies, other motives, Allied
the rural Southern
town about capital
punishment.
Many :nme tered
for Smith.
who
Most of the 100 or
so people
turned out for the weekly services
opposed
A
that sentence.
CNN-Gallup-USA Today
poll
onducted during the trial found 68 perent of Americans polled favored the ieath penalty. South Carolina is considred to be at least as tough, with a
governor and attorney general who owed to be tougher on crime when they ivere elected in
1994.
Augustine parishioner Marion yrd, a Union native, opposed capital unishment and said he thought life in son would be no break for the mother, ho ki lied her 3-year-old and 1 4-monthSt.
ld sons.
"This
is
gian in a reflection on what the tion of the
two Japanese
cities.
all
At the final prayer service, Father Harris stressed the need for healing in
insistence on unconditional surrender, and the need to drop a second bomb.
peoples a special moral scrutiny," said Father Francis X. Meehan, writing in
Father Meehan, who s pastor of S S Simon and Jude Parish in West Chester,
Union.
The Catholic Standard and Times, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Philadel-
Pa., said the
phia.
enshrined even then in international law
said Father Pearson.
Remembering "requires of
"In this humbling and unbelievable
—
tragedy which has befallen our city where our tradition is that no one is a stranger and that all are welcomed we
and his path to peace, unity and healing," he said. Another parishioner, Myrna B. Kennedy, said she was astounded at the strength and number of voices of her
His article, "Hiroshima: The Search for an Objective Morality," was published to mark the 50th anniversary of the Aug. 6 and 9 blasts. Across the country, other observances included special Masses, peace vigils and the tolling of bells. Achieving objectivity about the
See Smith, Page 12
bombings is hard, said Father Meehan, because people remember that they saved
—
move gently among ourselves to find his strength
American
lives
and cannot be isolated
i
tions
most troubling moral ques-
come from "a criterion of morality
and within
all
religious traditions: the
norm granting immunity to civilian populations
from
direct attack
and
terror."
He called the 50th anniversary "less a time to celebrate, and more a time to beg the wisdom of God." In Missouri, Archbishop Justin F. Rigali of St. Louis recalled remarks made
See Bomb, Page 6
Says Second Choices
Priest
Do
Work On
First-Rate By
MARK PATTISON
—
WASHINGTON
After (CNS) making his first feature film, "Romero" Paulist Father Ellwood "Bud" Kieser thought that maybe the making of his
"Dorothy Day," might be
latest effort,
turned out that he didn't get the
star he wanted. Or the writer he wanted. Or the composer he wanted. "But God was always able to show me that my second choice was better
my
than
In the first part, Dorothy, in New York, has an abortion. The second part
has Dorothy relocating to Staten Island,
where she finds God, has a child with her common-law husband and decides to raise the child as a Catholic.
easier. It
Film
first,"
In the third segment, Dorothy cofounds the Catholic Worker with Maurin. The Catholic Worker movement espouses voluntary poverty and
service in the midst of the poor.
The
said Father Kieser of
Paulist Productions and the producer of
part details Dorothy's
final
"dark night of the soul," Father Kieser
"where she pays the price for
that
both movies.
said,
His hoped-for star to portray the Catholic Worker Movement's cofounder was Michelle Pfeiffer. He had trumpeted that choice nearly from the time he vowed he would make the biographical drama. "I don't know Michelle personally, but I know her husband," Father Kieser told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview from Lake George, N.Y., where he was on vacation. He was hoping that the friendship was enough to get Pfeiffer to forgo her
kind of lifestyle."
Moria Kelly
"Serving the poor is not easy, and this film does not romanticize the poor," he said. "Being celibate involves a price. Being poor yourself involves a price. Being nonviolent in the face of violent conflict has a price. All this happened to
the movie "Dorothy Day."
usual multimillion-dollar pay and star
street-smart,
movie budgeted at $4.2 million, $220,000 of which was supplied by a
tions to assist in the effort.
up Moira Kelly, an
Mother Teresa. But one who has had affairs and an abortion." Her story "gives people an experience of God's presence in the situation. It tweaks nerves in American society. It
More movie
is
about women's rights, it is about dignity, it is about fulfillment.
mid-July.
"It is about the need for God, it is about abortion, it is about single
erly people living in poverty.
in a
Catholic Communication grant.
Campaign
But no go.
Instead, he lined
Irish-born Catholic.
audi-
—
ences have heard her than seen her she was the voice of Nala in "The Lion King " but Kelly has also starred in "With Honors" "The Cutting Edge" and in two roles in "Chaplin." "Moira is a believer and she acted this part from her heart. That's why she gave the superlative performance we see in this film," Father Kieser said. "Moira will be a major star after this
—
her."
The
Day
priest said
He didn't name his first choices
walks along a street with Mary Ostrow in a scene from CNS photo by John Johnson, Paulist Pictures
Catholic Charities Aid Chicago Heat
he knew Dorothy
personally, having been in
Rome
with her for the fourth session of the
Second Vatican Council. Dorothy Day, he said, was "a feisty,
American version of
it is about lay ministry, it is about the homeless, it is about finding God in the poor, it is about commitment
parenting,
and sexuality." With all that, finding a company to distribute "Dorothy Day" should be no problem, Father Kieser said, despite earlier reports to the contrary.
picture."
(right)
ALEXANDRIA,
—
Va. (CNS)
Catholic Charities USA has wired $25,000 to Catholic Charities of Chicago to aid families suffering from the recent heat wave. It has requested dona-
Most of
were
the heat victims
Some emergency used for fans. The rest
eld-
from the "Rocky"
his stirring scores
movie
series.
distributor,
he
said.
it
to a
"We want to show
them what we can do." Looking into the
an Episcopalian priest," Father Kieser said, "and John is quite a holy man in his
ing on a cable series on New Testament characters, a series
own
millennium, and "we're also thinking
And
Conti "composes the music
from the place
in his heart
where he
believes," he added.
be used to
nation's largest private social service
is to
network, with
from the heat and to provide counseling and outreach to affected families. "Not only were many people too poor to afford air conditioning, but they lived in neighborhoods where they were afraid to open their windows," said Jane
Charities agencies of dioceses across
Alexandria,
mation call (703) 549-1390, Ext.
on Jesus for the third
life
the nation.
Donations may be sent Catholic Charities
Heat Wave, 1731 King
USA
to:
— Chicago
Street,
No. 200,
VA 22314. For more infor18.
"Right now the majority of requests
coming in Chemazar,
Angela manager
are for fans," said
associate division
of Chicago Catholic Charities.
Congressional elimination of fed-
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across the country concerned about
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Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP,
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"That's where Dorothy makes
1
institutions, including the Catholic
USA. "They were
of Molokai," the famed "leper priest" of
Michael Rhodes, who also directed "Romero." "Dorothy Day" looks at its subject' director
Catholic Charities
eral funding for the
othy has her share of run-ins.
The
at
of doing something on (Blessed) Damien
Also featured are two-time Oscar nominee Melinda Dillon as Sister Aloysius, who befriended a young Dorothy; Martin Sheen as Peter Maurin, her mentor; and Brian Keith as the archbishop of New York, with whom Dor-
—
help poor families cover burial costs, to help pay high electric bills resulting
future, Father
Kieser said Paulist Productions is work-
right."
"This tragedy is just one more ex ample of how desperately we nee(
degrees."
father, incidentally, is
"John Wells'
director of gov-
affairs for
year round," she said Catholic Charities USA is the
basically forced to shut themselves in
for
ernment
LIHEAP funds
finish the picture first, then take
known
USA deputy for social policy
Mindy McFadden,
funds are being
Gallagher, director of disaster response
Bill Conti, best
Charities
this year.
late September, he will shop the movie around to distributors. "We're going to
is
among
the poor, said Sharon Daly, Catholic
ity
more than half the nation's total, week of oppressive heat and humidthat gripped much of the country in
writer or composer, but for writer the
composer
acute heating and cooling needs
in a
Chicago had some 400 heat-caused deaths,
After post-production wraps up in
John Wells, co-creator of NBC's new smash "ER." The movie's
Wave Victims
Chicago Catholic Charities, said that because of current limits on the federal home energy assis tance, only 38 percent of the eligible population in Chicago has received ak
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big decisions," Father Kieser said.
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August
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The Catholic News
1995
Finnerty
Is
Director of Hispanic Ministry
Finnerty as the
new
poor people was a rich and enlightening pastoral experience. His work afforded him many experiences working in team ministry, in the formation of small base communities and lay leaders, with the youth pastoral and the working class. He experienced difficult moments during Noriega' s government. A fellow priest was murdered by soldiers for no
director of the His-
panic Ministry for the Diocese of Char-
and of the Catholic Hispanic Cen-
lotte ter
of Charlotte.
The Charlotte community had the opportunity to welcome Father Vincent during two Masses celebrated on July 16, and enthusiastically showed him their support. Father told them he ac-
reason at
the lack of Spanish speaking
priests in the Diocese.
H
e
was born
He was
n
0
January 1
transferred to
1986, and for five years,
1952 n
31,
Finnerty said this experi-
ence strengthened and renewed the commitment of the people with God and his kingdom of justice and brotherhood. He also said that the lay people are the strong foundation of the Panamanian Church.
cepted this position gladly because he
knew of
all.
spiritual director at the
Mexico worked
in
as
Vincentian semi-
nary and taught in the seminary of the
work and at that time he also started to know and to share with simple country
Archdiocese of Mexico. There he had the opportunity to learn and practice new things, mainly as spiritual companion and teacher of the social doctrine of the Church. In 1991 he was appointed provincial director of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul in Mexico. He continued giving spiritual direction to individuals and to groups As provincial director he would visit the sisters' houses around Mexico. He visited Baja California, the Tarahumara in Chihuahua, the Otomies in Hidalgo and Puebla, Monterrey, Nuevo Laredo,
folk.
Guadalajara, Aguascalientes, Morelia,
He attended public schools until he was 1 8-years-old. He attended Niagara
New York,
Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas. In Chiapas he visited the sisters in Altamirano, one of the four towns
where he had
his first contact with the
that the Zapatistas took over. In this
priests of the
Congregation of the Mis-
Williams-
town,
a
small
town about 50
,
miles north of Syracuse,
New
Father Vincent Finnerty
York.'
His father was a farmer and from an early age he learned the value of hard
University at Niagara Falls,
sions,
town the
known as the Vincentian Fathers.
This congregation was founded in the 1 7th century in France by St. Vincent de Paul. Finnerty said that the life of St. Vincent impressed him so much that he started to feel a burning desire to imitate him, following Christ, the evangelizer
that there
He
1
979.
Father explains
were several instances of ten-
He said that he never saw as much poverty as he saw among the Mexican Indians.
Father Finnerty expresses great en-
thusiasm as new diocesan director of the Hispanic ministry. His immediate
He had two
plan
is
to get to
know and
listen to the
different
time. First, in a five year span, he lost
agents working with the Hispanics and
two brothers and
to
make himself available. At the end of the interview, he told
before his ordination. This was a very
us about the great impact that the faith
difficult test
of his family's
faith.
The
of simple people has had in his
was
his vocation.
After his ordination he was sent to work in Puerto Armuelles, Panama, dis-
of Baru, on the border with Costa work there with humble and
trict
Rica. His
Remember HisWll
things."
"A valid Will stands as
a
continuing expression of our concern for loved ones, as well as an ongoing commit-
ment to the Church and the community in which we live."
In Yours.
life.
He
mentioned Juan Diego and his devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe and recalled the Virgin's words to Juan Diego: "Am I not here because I am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow? Am I not your health? Are you not lucky to be on my lap? What else do you need? You do not have to grieve or be afraid of other
second experience was the opportunity to work briefly as a seminarian in Panama. That was when Father Vincent realized that working in the missions
Bishop William G. Curlin
— For
"SPLUNGE
Special People Living a Uniquely Growthful Experience, July 1 8-23. This fourth annual inner city retreat
sored by Hospitality House
provides an experience of serving the poor, hungry and homeless.
vices to the homeless in the community.
—
"During those
days participants met the challenge of a simple life-style, broadening their understanding of central city issues, exposing themselves to six
different life-styles and cultures, explor-
ing the Scriptures and integrating
them
with their daily experiences," said Cathie
SPLUNGE and Barnabas Church.
Stout, coordinator of
youth minister
Youth
at St.
— who
are least
1
5 years old
statement included in your Will: "I leave to the
Charlotte (or (or
Roman
Catholic Diocese of
parish, city) the
percent of the residue of my estate) for
religious, educational For more information on
how
and to
its
charitable works."
make
a Will that works, contact
Jim Kelley, Diocese of Charlotte. Office of Development, 1524 East Morehead St., Charlotte, NC 28207. (704) 331-1709 or 377-6871
introduce our
youth to social service agencies," said Paul Kotlowski, diocesan coordinator of Youth Ministry.
Seven
SPLUNGE participants
vis-
Hope House, located in Asheville's Montford District. Hope House is sponited
— an orga-
nization of five programs developed to
provide food, shelter and support ser-
Hope House is a facility for homemen and women who are HIV positive or suffering from AIDS. It is a home less
for up to five residents who pay rent based on income while receiving the benefit of support services that address problems unique to these individuals. At Hope House, SPLUNGE participants baked cookies and pulled weeds from the garden for four residents cur-
rently living there.
kids baking us cookies and working out
less fortunate.
to see
—
in
"The experience
is
physically and
spiritually challenging,"
"SPLUNGE flection
The
is
built
said Stout.
on education,
re-
teens split into groups to expe-
rienced the inner city.
One experience
was Block Studies. Participants were dropped off in city neighborhood blocks, with their team adults, and had to find out as
who
"It's
and
their living condi-
tions. "It
was
interesting evaluating a
neighborhood and getting peoples' different perspectives of their own neighborhood," said Susan Van Skiver, a 17year-old from St. Paul the Apostle Church, Greensboro. "People realize the bad element from the good element in
They know how to the crack-dealers from the good citi-
their neighborhoods.
zens."
them taking an interest in trying to make a difference in the community," said Louis, a Hope House resident. "Our motto at SPLUNGE is 'Live said Stout.
new
commit themselves to helping the needy. They visited the Department of Social Services, Child Abuse Center, Manna Food Bank, Catholic Social Services, the Asheville-BunChristian Ministry
and Kenilworth Wellness Center.
"We hope participants find a
appreciation for the gifts and bro-
kenness of the city while they dare to
own
confront their
ignorance, preju-
dices and fears."
Living simply
is
just
what
partici-
They ate three light meals a day, with no snacks, and were allowed only two showers during
pants did for six days.
the experience.
"SPLUNGE was worthwhile for me because
it
taught
preciate the
me how
little
to really ap-
things
I
take for
granted, like taking a shower," said Erin
Leonard, a parishioner
at
Immaculate
Heart of Mary Church in High Point. "It made me see how complicated my everyday life is when I live simply for a
week." "This program offers teenagers the become socially respon-
ganizations that
combe Community
wonderful
in the garden, but it's just as
much as possible about the people
live there
wonderful not only to see these
simply, so that others may simply live',"
and action."
opportunity to
sible," said Stout.
"By challenging them new found experi-
to evangelize their
ences of justice and peacemaking, they have the chance to take back to their parishes a sense of social awareness."
Congressman Thanks Pope, Flynn For Helping Free Americans WASHINGTON
(CNS)
In Iraq
— Pope
Richardson said the Vatican helped
John Paul II and U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Raymond Flynn were "enormously helpful" in expediting the release of two Americans from Iraq in
him by giving him "important strategic advice" and by telling him that Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Aziz was
mid-July, according to the U.S. con-
Aziz' s Catholicism gave him an "important personal connection" with Richardson, who belongs to the Cathedral of San Francisco de Asis in Santa
gressman who brought the Americans out of Iraq.
News
a Chaldean Catholic.
Fe,
N.M.
D-N.M., said
Richardson said Pope John Paul and
he had hoped to stop in Rome to thank Pope John Paul and Flynn for their help but had not been able to because of the pope' s vacation and his own busy sched-
other Vatican officials had "laid the
House of Representatives. "I wasn't able to thank them then, but I want to thank them now," he added.
ian aspects" of the situation.
28, Rep. Bill Richardson,
ule in the
sum of$
we can
growing in their faith are given a hands on experience in service to people in need and who are
and interested
In an interview with Catholic
or to your parish. Simply have the following
means
through which
Service in his Capitol Hill office July
ou can express your commitment to your Church by making a bequest to the Diocese of Charlotte
a valuable
is
days 14 teens from the Diocese of Charlotte and three from the Diocese of St. Augustine, Fla. experienced the reality of inner city life in Asheville, N.C. The Faith Formation office and St. Barnabas Church sponsored SPLUNGE six
Participants also visited various or-
of his father occurred just a few days
Live
EDUARDO PEREZ Staff Writer
ARDEN
tell
The death
his father.
By
communities and pastoral
very important experiences during this
May Simply
Others
still
exist.
entered the seminary and was
May 26,
have a rural hospital to
sion during the conflict and they
of the poor.
ordained on
sisters
care for the natives.
So That
Live Simply,
WOLF
By LUIS A. Bishop William G. Curlin has appointed Vincentian Father Vincent H.
e
On
July 16, Richardson gained the
release of William Barloon of
Iowa and
David Daliberti of Florida, who had been sentenced
to eight years in an Iraqi
prison for crossing the border between Iraq and
Kuwait on March
13.
necessary groundwork" for his diplomatic efforts by sending several messages to Saddam "raising the humanitar-
Such
efforts are
grounded
in the
Catholic Church's tenets, such as hu-
manitarianism and the importance of communication, he said. "Instead of always considering one another adversaries, sometimes we need to talk," he said.
News
& Herald
August
Pro-Life Corner
Church, Society Must
4,
1995
Make Room For Women
—
The Paramount Human Life Amendment (HJR 90) has been Introduced In Congress. If your Congressman Is not a co-sponsor, you should determine why he or she Isn't and make sure that he or she becomes one. Contact: Congressman House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515.
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) The church and society must make more room for the input and involvement of women, Pope John Paul II said. "Without the contribution of women, society is less alive, culture is less rich and peace is more insecure," the pope said July 23 during his midday Angelus address at Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer residence south of Rome. Continuing his series of talks in preparation for the U.N. World Conference on Women in September, the pope said, "Those situations in which women are prevented from developing all of their potential and from offering the richness of their gifts are to be considered profoundly unjust not only to women themselves, but to all of society."
Pope John Paul
said society
attention to the family
life,
must give special
needs and responsibilities
of mothers of young children. (Diocese of Ckartotte The Respect Life Office (704)331-1720
must conis open to the economy, politics
"But, except in those circumstances,
it
vincingly adapt itself so that a wider space
women
in all areas of culture,
and church
so that the entire
life itself
nity increasingly
is
enriched by the gifts belonging to
E
said,
have
gifts that the
church and
society desperately need.
piscopal Calendar
"It is
not a question of placing
women and men in
opposition to each other," the pope said. While they
Bishop William G. Curlin will take part in the following events during the
share the
"and
same
values, their
emphases are
different
of enrichment." Pope John Paul said women "have been given a particular ability to accept the human being in his or her
next few weeks:
that diversity is the source
August 5
concreteness."
Catholic Social Services Retreat, Catholic Conference Center, Hickory
"This singular trait, which opens her to an affective and spiritual maternity as well as a physical one, is part of the design of God, who has entrusted the human being to women in a special way," he said.
6
pm Confirmation William,
St.
Even if this sensitivity to others is a characteristic of femininity, he said, "women, like men, must watch to avoid the temptation of a possessive egoism and
Murphy
August 8 Ecumenical Meeting with Lutheran and Catholic
place themselves at the service of an authentic love."
Pope Says
Bishops, Raleigh
Military Action In
Bosnia Could Be Justified August 10 Diocesan Foundation Board Meeting
LES COMBES,
August 12 5 pm Confirmation Christ the King,
High Point
August 14
Campus
Ministers Meeting
August 15 Holy Day (Our Lady of Assumption) 7:30 pm Mass St.
—
As a "last resort" to defend innocent civilians in Bosnia-Herzegovina, international military action could be justified, Pope John Paul II said. "This remains the last resort. There has always existed the principle of a just war, which is defensive. Even this type of war is ugly, but it (war) is that way," the pope told journalists July 22 as he ended his mountain vacation in Les Combes. The reporters asked his reaction to a July 21 decision by 16 European and North American countries to authorize NATO forces to bomb Bosnian Serb Italy
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suffering,
everyday we see how much they suffer, including through the images on television," he said. For the past three years, Pope John Paul has pleaded for an immediate end to the fighting and for the sides involved in the Balkans conflict to treat peace negotiations seriously. He also repeatedly has asked the international community to devote all possible energy to mediating an end to the fighting. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro- Vails told reporters July 22 the pope believes even a defensive war involves moral problems, which is why it truly must be the last resort for resolving conflict. "The priority now is humanitarian, to respond to the incredible sufferings of these thousands of people which have reached a level not seen in Europe since the Second World War," Navarro- Vails said. "The pope's priority is not political, strategic or military, but humanitarian," he said. He added that the Vatican had been not been asked to mediate, although the papal nuncio in Bosnia met July 22 with Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic. Pope John Paul called on Catholics throughout the world to work for an end to the war through the use of prayer, "the great means we have at our disposal to obtain that which seems humanly difficult." The pope called for the prayers July 23 during his midday Angelus address at Castel Gandolfo, his sum-
mer
August
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the Ant" has de-
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my
can
we
Rome.
not once again turn our worried
attention to the martyred people of Bosnia?" he asked
pilgrims gathered in the courtyard of his
can
we
villa.
"How
not listen to their heart-rending cry for help?"
"With courage and generosity may everyone make their contribution to restoring the
minimum conditions
for peaceful coexistence in the Balkans," he prayed.
Ant Brigade
want
to destroy every ant within a three-mile
my
infested rhododendron roots." Ursula rubbed her hands together. "Nuke 'em, eh?" she said gleefully. I nodded. She pulled a smallish plastic container off the shelf, glancing left and right as
she did.
"Zeees
vill
dooozee jop," she whispered.
"When did you develop the funny accent?" I asked.
Until recently.
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if attacks continue on U.N.-declared safe zones harboring Bosnian Muslims and Croats. "If one attacks and wants to trample the right to life and the right to exist, then there is the right to defense," he said. Pope John Paul said the Vatican was not advising the international community on how to proceed in Bosnia, but outlining the moral principles that should guide specific political and military decisions.
tion. I
Service
II
positions
of Bud's
DAN MORRIS
Catholic
Pope John Paul
human commu-
masculinity and femininity," he said.
Women, he
The Pope Speaks
neighbor.
Bud sprayed his lawn with something that caused massive panic in the insect world. Lines of refugees were soon seen wandering down my driveway, up my drain spouts, around my mailbox, into my water meter and over my shingles. Many of them claimed they had seen teensy road signs pointed our way. Bud denies this. But I overheard the troublemaker cackling and telling one colony (all their possessions on their backs) that they'd be safe and welcome at Uncle Dan's and "Ant" Eileen's. Cute.
Negotiations broke
down
quickly.
The
ants
were
"Only ven I zell zees," she smiled. "Veel it verk?" I asked. She tapped the label. The directions were written in three languages in print small enough to make ants squint. As near as I could make out, an ounce of the stuff diluted in five gallons of water and then misted into the air would drop a charging rhino. She also sold me a sprayer, a mask, a shoulder harness, extension hose, rubber gloves and a set of teensy road signs.
my
"You look like a character from 'Ghostbusters,'" wife observed as I suited up for battle. 'Take the children to Canada and return in a
week,"
I
said bravely.
Two
hours later
I
had misted
carrying scrap lumber out of the garage into the yard
everything from the house foundation, roof rafters and
while claiming to be bargaining in good faith. We retaliated with brooming, brushing, boot stomping and
gutters to decorator rocks, electrical service panels
aerosol spray. (Note: Ants consider pine-scented
room
deodorizer a performance-enhancing drug.) I sought U.N. help (Ursula's Nursery). "Ursula," pleaded, "I've given up on inter-species
I
communica-
and 1937 Buick I keep stored in the garage. I want to believe it has worked. But I could have sworn I heard the sound of an itsy, bitsy violin coming from under a fir tree and wee voices singing "Antland UberAlles." the trunk of the
August
4,
1995
The Catholic News
& Keral J
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Two Prayers There is a beautiful prayer taken from the Native American tradition which speaks volumes about the spiritual maturity of the people we, once
To approach the Lord without shame is I
a lofty goal and yet so basic, so fitting.
am deeply moved
Holy
Spirit
manifested in
prayer. Native
savaged them. 0 Great Spirit whose voice I hear in the winds, and whose breath gives life to
beauty of nature they see the manifestation of God's beauty. The prayer also expresses an awareness of Divine Provi-
world, hear
all the
1
am
me!
and wisdom.
strength
eyes ever behold the sunset.
Make my hands
respect the things
I seek strength, not to
be greater,
fight my greatest enemy — my
selfishness.
Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes, so that when life fades, as the fading sunset,
is,
God's on-going care and to end it
deep
spirit
for the grace to be
of humility; asking
more humble and less
presupposes a belief that all of us must one day face our Lord to give an accounting of our stewardship.
my spirit may come to You with-
out shame.
These are the same truths expressed
own prayers. It's easy to see how much alike we all are. God is not limited in the way He reveals Himself to His in
^^^^
From beginning
selfish
You have made, and my ears sharp to hear Your voice. Let me learn the lessons You have hidden in every leaf and rock. but to
protection. reflects a
Let me walk in beauty, and make my
Father John Catoir
it
honor the Creator of the universe. In the
dence, that
small and weak, I need your
One Candle
this beautiful
Americans who pray
The more I think about it the more I come to see that it was we who called savages.
Liaht
by the power of the
our
children.
People all over the world share the same fear of death, but Jesus said, "Be not afraid." St. Francis de Sales (15671622), once the bishop of Geneva, tried to cope with his own fears through a prayer which he wrote to promote his
trust
of God.
Do
not fear what may happen tomorrow. The same loving Father who cares for you today, will care for you tomor-
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stamped, self-addressed envelope to The
He or He
Either fering
will shield
Christophers, 12 East 48th Street,
will
York,
strength to bear
you from sufgive you unfailing
it.
Be at peace, then, and put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginings. For me, these two prayers say more than a thousand sermons.
Becoming Comfortable With It was entirely too quiet in our basement playroom. My three-year old daughter, Teresa, and her best friend, two-and-one-half-year-old, Elliot, were playing with a toy kitchen set when I had checked on them just a few minutes earlier. Elliot's sister, Jilly, and my son, Bobby, were playing happily upstairs. I called downstairs, "Teresa, what are you and Elliot doing?" "Nothing,"
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she replied in a voice implying that trouble of epic proportions
was brewing
I
ran downstairs and couldn't be-
my eyes. They
had found a set of Bobby's magic markers and decided to color their arms, legs and faces with lieve
every color in the box. artistic
The
frenzy was also
trail
left
of their
on a few and
stuffed animals, an Etch-A-Sketch,
newly painted white wall. I'm sure parenting experts would tell me that there was a creative way to handle the situation. But it was 9:30 in the morning, I had five hours sleep the night before, and it was already 90 de-
a
|
grees outside. Besides, these little people
were old enough to know
better. I
was
angry.
A terribly its
unpleasant voice forced
way through my clenched
teeth, "I
want you both to sit on the stairs, right now! You know that we only color on paper. This was a very, very, very bad idea!"
wasn't our idea," Teresa answered in a tone much too brazen for a child in a heap of trouble. "Yeah," Elliot piped in. "It was "Well,
it
away to cool off moments or finding something
short fuse that stepping for a few
below.
funny in a tense situation. Although anger is a universal emotion, it's a subject many of us are uncomfortable with. Each of us has our own way of handling or mishandling our anger. Some bury their anger, other explode over a minor incident. Some people believe it's not right to express their anger, others express it to everyone except at the person who's the cause of their anger. Some people walk away the moment a cruel word is spoken and others will stay to an argument's bitter end, needing to have the last word. Because we live in a society where child abuse and domestic violence affect far too many families, we need to give parents and children healthy ways to channel their anger. As a growing number of teenagers brings guns to schools and lose their lives in arguments over girlfriends, designer clothes and drugs, we need to teach children effec-
ways
tive
to resolve conflicts peace-
fully.
The pressure on all families are great
at the top
and everyone can benefit by learning new skills to cope with anger and stress.
of the stairs in time to hear the accusa-
A few months ago, Elliot's mother,
Jilly' s
and Bobby's idea!" and Bobby appeared
Jilly
But even these five-year-olds were able to see the humor in watching Teresa and Elliot wiggle their way out of this jmess. Within a few minutes we were all Jaughing and everyone was given a sponge to help clean up. It's too bad ion.
pvery angry (easily.
moment
isn't
resolved this
Nothing works better
to cure a
Fran, and
I
attended an anger manage-
ment workshop given by
Jerry Gross, a
professional counselor at the Vienna
Family Therapy Center in Virginia. Throughout Mr. Gross' presentation, he discussed some specific and practical strategies for handling anger in families:
Know and understand your anAre you an aggressor or an
1.
ger.
It's
avoider? 2. Identify the beliefs
anger and
try to
you have about
change those
that are
unhealthy. 3.
Take
responsibility for your an-
4.
Take
the anger to the one with
ger.
whom you are angry. Don'
t
kick the dog
ger
is
important to remember that ansome unresolved
often a sign of
in each of us. Do we feel inadequate as a parent? Are we discour-
problems
aged in our job? Are we overwhelmed and under appreciated? Are there issues that need to be worked out in our relationships with family members or friends?
or yell at the kids.
While we struggle with how
to
Don't use dirty tactics, e.g. "You're just like your mother (father)." 6. During arguments, stay in the
handle anger, it' s good to remember that anger isn't all bad. It can motivate us to
present.
speak out against an injustice. It can help us see more clearly those things
5.
7. Try to avoid the words "always" and "never." 8. Don' t fight in the kitchen or in the bedroom. 9. Have regular family meetings and let everyone be heard.
10. Practice
for adults 1 1
all
.
"time out" procedures
or attitude.
Whenever
Sign "No Violence" pledges with
family members. 12. Help your family to accept an-
read the story of Jesus
Be more
Learn whether your child tends to stuff or ventilate their anger and help them find a middle ground. 14. Affirm your children when they handle their anger appropriately (or try very, very hard).
During the teenage years, try to remember the good seeds you've planted. Trust in all the good you've put into your child.
felt
am
I
reas-
anger,
He
expressed it as well. It truly is a human emotion. He also made it crystal clear that resolving our anger is so important that He will be in our midst when we are settling
our disputes.
A few days ago, Elliot' s mother told
13.
15.
I
getting angry in the temple,
sured that Jesus not only
and children.
ger as a legitimate emotion. comfortable with conflict.
we really value in our lives. And if we're angry at ourselves, it might just help us to change a destructive behavior
that
me that she's been praying for creativity in
handling the challenging
moments
with her children. Something
tells
me
and Teresa, pray for creativity and
that children, too, like Elliot
on some
level
assistance in handling the tough
mo-
ments with their parents. And judging by their response to the magic marker fiasco, I'd say their prayers have already been answered.
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News
From Page
& Herald
August
by Pope John Paul II during a 1981 visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. "It is with deep emotion that I have
come here today as a 'pilgrim of peace,"' pope said
make this
at the time. "I
visit
...
wanted
to
out of a deep personal
remember the past commit oneself to the future."
conviction that to to
is
"Surely, those reflections of the Holy
ful
Of Bells Mark 50th Anniversary Of Bombing —
book, Hiroshima survivors or "hibakusha," which literally means "bomb-affected people" are often ignored in debates over the meaning and legacy of the bombings. Rachelle Linner recounts the stories of this dwindling group in her first book, "City of Silence: Listening to Hiroshima,'" recently published by Orbis
—
can serve as a powercatalyst for our own reflec-
Father
...
wrote Archbishop Rigali in his column for the July 28 issue of his newspaper, the tion...,"
5/.
Louis Review. "They offer an incentive for
a still more fervent commitment on the part of all to the pursuit of
she
came
She
still
to the
United States in 1973.
works for her order in Chicago.
Clothed in her black habit, she tried could only move a few feet.
to run but
my
whole body was on flat on the ground, said my religious vows and prayed. When I opened my eyes I was not dead yet." She hurried to the river with the other nuns. She saw naked people running wildly from the center of the city, where the bomb had hit. She thought some were wearing rags, but they were not. "It was their skin that had peeled off." She saw others who were black and swollen, "carbonized," she said. At the river the nuns helped those they could. "It felt like
fire,"
she said. "I lay
Sister
peace and ... of the justice that produces peace." The archbishop urged the world, in remembering "the tragic events" of 50 years ago, to echo the pope's message on
Yamada, who never suffered
radiation sickness, says even today she
to cry
"was sent by God to end the war for Japan." Another eyewitness, 78-year-old Jesuit Father Klaus Luhmer, recently spoke with The Catholic Standard and Times in Philadelphia by phone from his Tokyo home. On Aug. 6, 1945, he was at
Enough with war!
a Jesuit novitiate about four kilometers
end of World War which he said: "We need the
out loudly:
II,
thinks the bombing
in
when he heard
Let's build peace."
north of Hiroshima
Events planned in St. Louis included parishes ringing church bells, holding prayer
distinctive drone of airplane engines. "I
saw the purple-yellow
blast
the
and
ran as fast as
I
could," he recalled. "I
was an ordinary blast, but there was no sound and no debris." When he and the other Jesuits at the house looked outside, they saw the entire city on fire, but did not learn until after the bombing of Nagasaki that the cities had been struck by atomic bombs. imagined
it
Luhmer said his own resiwindows and part of became a temporary hospital.
Father
dence, which lost the roof,
He went carry out
into the city that day to help two injured priests who recov-
ered and lived to old age, according to the Jesuit. "I was sick, I suppose for three or four weeks," he said. "It was probably
caused by the radiation, but we didn't know it then." Because of his proximity to the blast zone, the priest said he has "an atomic health pass which entitles me to medical care." Father Luhmer, retired from a 34year teaching career and living at the Jesuit residence at Tokyo' s Sophia University, said he still has not made up his mind about whether the bomb was justified. But today, he said, nuclear weapons, like poison gas "should be absolutely abolished."
services, gathering signatures
for a petition to abolish nuclear
weapons and holding a procession through downtown. Elsewhere in Missouri, Bishops
CNS Books. She went
to
Photo
Hiroshima in 1985 and to research
Michael F. McAuliffe of Jefferson City and John J. Leibrecht of SpringfieldCape Girardeau joined other church fig-
to interview survivors
ures in the state in calling for "reconcili-
home and peace throughout the
She said she undertook the project because she feared the "spirit of
In the Pittsburgh Diocese churches
Hiroshima," personified in the hibakusha and their quest to be heard, was in dan-
ation at
world."
were to ring their bells as part of an observance planned by several peace groups, including Physicians for Social Responsibility and the
Thomas Merton
testimonies taken in the years following the bombings.
ger of being lost as they age and die.
A
theme she found from the testimonies was: "It is war we hate ... not
consistent
Americans."
One survivor recently recounted the
Center.
New
Jersey observances included
horrors of the blast in an interview with
an Aug. 5 interfaith service to be held at a Montclair Unitarian church with ad-
The New World, Chicago's archdiocesan newspaper. Sister Theresia Yasobu
dresses by Auxiliary Bishop
Thomas J.
Gumbleton of Detroit, a former president of Pax Christi USA, and Akiolnoue, a survivor of Hiroshima.
The
St.
site
Aug. 6 of a prayer service and an exhibit of photographs showing the effects of the bomb on people and places. Pax Christi of Southwest New Jersey scheduled prayer services at three other Catho-
churches.
According
Yamada was
to the author of a
new
Transfiguration
quietly reading the Bible
garden when the atomic detonated miles away.
in her convent's
bomb was "I
Francis Peace Garden at a
Keyport, N.J., church was to be the
lic
saw a light like a shining rainbow.
A small beam became bigger and bigger and covered the whole sky," recalled Sister
Yamada, now
77.
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the Society of Helpers of the
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By JERRY FILTEAU WASHINGTON (CNS) — The raon Hiroshima and Nagasaki before prominent U.S. Catholic moral theologians dioactive dust had not yet settled
questioned the morality of using the
atomic
bomb on
Japanese
cities.
"Nobody challenged their theology. It's just sad that nobody wanted to listen," says Jesuit Father
McSorley 50 years
Richard T. Father
later.
exercise in America-bashing.
Then other
the revised exhibit treated the as
there
if
when bombing
berated the Smithsonian
critics
were no
critical
questions to
be raised. A review of the early August 1945 news files of the National Catholic News Service, forerunner of today's Catholic News Service, shows that even amid the excitement of Japan's imminent surrenserious Catholic commentawere sharply critical of President Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb. The news service was then, as it is now, the main source of national and
some
der
Questioned A-Bomb
God. This prinit were foreseen that as a result of such an attack on the civilian population the morale of the people would be broken and the war brought to a speedier close. A good end does not justify the use of an immoral
The same news report quoted Jesuit geophysicistFatherJamesB.Macelwane of St. Louis University defending the bomb's use on the basis of a "total war"
means. "Secondly, even in the supposition that the bomb were employed directly only against a strictly military objective, such as a munition factory or an airfield, it would be against the law of God to use
of
violation of the law of
ciple
would hold even
if
McSorley, professor emeritus of theology at Georgetown University is a longtime peace activist and director of Georgetown's Center for Peace Studies. The first U.S. atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima Aug. 6, 1945, leveling most of the city and killing an
tors
estimated 200,000 people.
a 1 200-word piece dated Aug. 9, quoted one Jesuit scientist defending the bomb but another Jesuit scientist and three moral theologians condemning the ac-
aimed
tion.
of the stupendous power of the bomb,
Three days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. That city's more hilly terrain and smaller size contributed to less destruction: 39,000 killed immediately and about 25,000 injured. Fifty years later, Americans still have not come to a resolution of the debate over the morality of the U.S. action to hasten the end of the war in the Pacific.
When
the Smithsonian Institution
international
news
for U.S. Catholic
if
harm done coincidentally
the
to the
were out of proporthe benefits consequent on the
tion to
destruction of the military objective.
newspapers.
The main theological reaction story, ,
more bombing of
"This latest excess
is
still
immoral than the Germany," said Jesuit Father John C. Ford of Weston College in Massachusetts. A year earlier, in a major article in Theological Studies, Father Ford had
"For example, if the bomb were at the munitions factory but it could be reasonably anticipated that 5,000 or 6,000 civilians would be killed in their
homes
in the vicinity as a result its
condemned the Allied carpet bombing of German cities as a clear vio-
University of Los Angeles, saying: "Even
war
granting that our military leaders in-
lation of just
to the
Father Francis J. Connell, a widely known theologian
tended the destruction of military objectives only, still the act remains immoral ... because the evil effects consequent upon the use of the atomic bomb are completely out of proportion to the good
who
effect,
principles.
Redemptorist
later
became
dean of the theology school at The Catholic University of America, said initial information from military authorities
on the two bombs was too scant to make adefinitivejudgment yet
—
at that time the
second bomb had been dropped only a few hours earlier. But he opined that from initial accounts "there are
"The old
namely, the destruction of legiti-
mate, recognized military objectives."
Even in the midst of a war-weary America thrilled at the prospect of an early end to the daily loss of American lives, he added the caution: "The mere opinion or even the fact that the atomic bomb would bring the war to a quicker close and save countless lives does not justify the use of this immoral means, because a good end never justifies the
distinction
between com-
batant and noncombatant has lost
War
much
no longer simply a struggle between armed men, it is primarily a clash of mechanism," he said. "Therefore, to win the war the enemy s production must be stopped and his ability to wage a mechanized warfare thereby must be destroyed. The atomic bomb is a means to that end ... (and) is therefore just and moral insofar as the war itself is just and moral." But the report quoted another Jesuit physicist, Father John T. Delaney of Loyola College in Baltimore, calling the its
significance.
is
'
bomb
"a sacrilege" that "has perverted
science to the cause of slaughter and destruction."
Another condemnation of the bomb
use would again be unlawful according
fundamental moral principles." Fathers Ford and Connell were among the leading figures in U.S. moral theology at the time. The article quoted a third theologian, Jesuit Father Joseph A. Vaughan, head of the ethics department of Loyola
clearly
publicly
it
civilian population
theory.
was
carried in the
news
service in
its
widely syndicated column, "Sursum Corda," by Paulist Father James M. Gillis, editor of the Catholic World, who was also nationally
known as a longtime NBC
commentator and author of several popular religious and theological books. radio
Writing less than a week after the second bomb was dropped, Father Gillis said bluntly, "The use of the atomic bomb is indefensible on ethical grounds." Father McSorley said that from a perspective of 50 years later it would be interesting to go back into the archives of U.S. diocesan newspapers and see how widely the comments of those theologians were reported and how U.S. Catholics
reacted to them at the time. Even more interesting, he suggested,
would be to see their comments reported again in the Catholic press today and to compare the response they evoked among Catholics then with the response it evokes today.
use of evil means."
grave reasons to fear it
(the atomic
bomb)
lends itself to
that
methods of warfare contrary to the law
of God."
He went on
CNS
Photo
outline
to
two prin-
ciples: set out this
year to mark the 50th anni-
versary with an exhibit in Washington, parts of the proposed exhibit containing
commentary critical of the U.S. decision were excised because of pressure from veterans' groups who called it an
"The first is that it is never permitted in war to attack directly the noncombatants of the enemy nation. Consequently, if the bomb were employed for a direct attack on a residential section of a section in which a Japanese city there are no important military objectives its use would be a flagrant
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and ideologically. This diversity should be respected, reflected and celebrated in
our social ministry. Social justice
coalitions across racial, ethnic
geographic
lines
and
can be an impressive
sign of the unity of the
Body of Christ."
U.S. Catholic Bishops, Communities of Salt ana" Light
—
File
Photo
olic
News
& Herald
August
Nuevo
1995
Colaborador del
Director del
Ministerio
4,
"Comuniquemonos"
Hispano
regresa
al
La Confirmation VIII
seminario
Por
encuentro sacramental con Confirmacion recibimos el del Espfritu Santo, para que nos el
Cristo, en la
Por LUIS A.
WOLF
Don
Arturo De Aguilar es un seminarista
Por LUIS A.
WOLF
Nuestro Obispo Guillermo G. Curlin ha nombrado al Padre Vicente Finnerty, CM., Director del Ministerio Hispano para la
Adquirio experiencia en el trabajo de conjunto, en la formacion de comunidades eclesiales de base, en la formacion del laicado, en la pastoral juvenil y en la pastoral obrera. Vivio
momentos
diffciles durante el gobierno de Noriega, incluso un companero de congregacion fue asesinado por los militares sin motivo alguno. El Padre
comenta que esta experiencia fortalecio y renovo el compromiso del pueblo para con Dios y su Reino de justicia y fraternidad y enfatiza que los laicos son el pilar fuerte de la Iglesia panamena. En 1986 fue trasladado a Mexico y trabajo por cinco anos
como
Director
Espiritual del Seminario Vicentino y dio clases en el seminario de la
arquidiocesis de la Ciudad de Mexico.
Ahf tuvo
comunidad de Charlotte tuvo
la
oportunidad de darle la bienvenida al Padre Vicente en las dos Misas que celebro el domingo 16 de julio y le
expreso
su
apoyo
con
mucho
entusiasmo. El comunico que acepto esta posicion con gran gusto al saber de la escasez de sacerdotes
en
la
de habla hispana
enero de 1952 en Williamstown, un pueblito situado a unas 50 millas al norte de Syracuse, en el estado de Nueva
York. Su padre era campesino y el Padre Vicente aprendio desde temprana
valor del trabajo duro y responsable y al mismo tiempo empezo a compenetrarse y compartir con la gente el
sencilla del
campo.
Hasta los 1 8 anos estudio en escuelas publicas. Fue admitido a la Universidad de Niagara, en Niagara Falls, estado de Nueva York, donde tuvo su primer
contacto con los Padres de la Congregacion de la Mision, conocidos
como los Vicentinos. Esta congregacion fue fundada en el siglo
1
7 en Francia por
San Vicente de Paul. El Padre comenta que le llamo mucho la atencion la vida de San Vicente y su forma de darse a Dios y empezo a sentir un ardiente deseo de imitar a San Vicente, siguiendo a Cristo, el Evangelizador de los pobres.
Entro en el seminario y fue ordenado sacerdote el 26 de mayo de 1979. El nos relato que tuvo dos experiencias muy importantes durante este perfodo. Primero, en
el
oportunidad de descubrir y
de acompahante espiritual y maestro de la Doctrina Social de la Iglesia. En 1991 fue nombrado Director Provincial de las Hijas de la Caridad de San Vicente de Paul en Mexico. Continuo la labor de direccion espiritual individual y el asesoramiento a grupos dirigiendo el
transcurso de cinco anos,
hermanos y su padre. La muerte de su padre ocurrio unos dfas antes de ordernarse sacerdote. Todo ello fue una prueba de fe diffcil para su familia. La segunda experiencia fue la se le murieron dos
oportunidad de trabajar brevemente, cuando era seminarista, en Panama. Desde ese momento el Padre supo que queria trabajar en las misiones. Al ordenarse sacerdote lo mandaron a trabajar a Puerto Armuelles, Panama, en el distrito de Baru, que hace frontera con Costa Rica. Alia trabajo con gente humilde y pobre y fue una experiencia riqufsima en cuanto a la pastoral.
Mexico cuando todavfa no
actuar
trabajar en la Diocesis,
sabfa
si
ser
Director
a las
varios anos de estudio dejo el seminario
que el mismo Espfritu suscita en nuestras almas y que conocemos como sus siete
y se traslado a los Estados Unidos donde tuvo di versos trabajos. En los lugares donde vivio, el vio el estado en que muchos de sus compatriotas vivfan y la necesidad que tenfan de gufa espiritual. Eso le desperto el deseo de hacer algo por ellos y trabajo con un grupo juvenil en una parroquia. Asesorado por un padre, muy amigo de nosotros, decidio regresar al seminario y fue aceptado en la Diocesis de Charlotte para cursar sus estudios en el seminario de Boynton Beach. Trabajo un verano con el Padre Jose
Waters donde conocio todas las comunidades que el Padre Waters atendfa. El
Otomies en Hidalgo y Puebla,
encontraba informacion para sus
Monterrey, Nuevo Laredo, Guadalajara, Aguascalientes, Morelia, Yucatan,
escritos.
Campeche, Tabasco y Chiapas. En este ultimo lugar acompano a las Hermanas en Altamirano, Chiapas, uno de los cuatro pueblos tornados por los Zapatistas el lro. de enero de 1994. Las Hermanas tienen un hospital rural en
periodico, Arturo ayudaba en la oficina
ese pueblo para atender a los indfgenas. El Padre explico que hubo muchos
momentos de
tension en el conflicto y que aun siguen las tensiones. El dice
que nunca habfa visto tanta pobreza como la que viven los indfgenas de Mexico. El Padre Vicente nos expreso su gran entusiasmo como nuevo director diocesano de la pastoral hispana, asf como sus deseos de conocer las diferentes comunidades hispanas en la diocesis. Su plan inmediato es conocer y escuchar a las comunidades y a los agentes pastorales que estan trabajado con el pueblo hispano y ponerse a su disposition.
Al terminar la entrevista, nos hablo de la gran influencia que la fe de la gente sencilla ha tenido en su vida. De modo particular menciona a Juan Diego y su devotion a Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe y nos recordo las palabras de la Virgen a Juan Diego: "i No estoy yo aqui que soy tu Madre? ^No estds bajo mi sombra ? I No soy yo tu salud? I No estds por ventura en mi regazo ? i Que mds ha de menestar? No te apene ni te aquiete otra cosa.
cristianos.
Son esas cualidades sobrenaturales
Hermanas en los diferentes estados de Mexico. Conocio Baja California, los Tarahumara en Chihuahua, los
Como
Provincial tuvo la oportunidad de visitar
como
sacerdote era su vocation. Despues de
proximo ano escolar estudio en Belmont Abbey, de donde se graduo el pasado mes de mayo. Desde el mes de diciembre ha colaborado con artfculos publicados en esta pagina. Los fines de semana visitaba diferentes comunidades donde
ejercicios espirituales.
Diocesis.
El Padre Vicente nacio el 31 de
edad
la
practicar nuevos dones, especialmente
ha regresado al seminario en Boynton Beach, en la Florida, para completar sus estudios. Arturo entro en el seminario en
vaya formando y madurando como hijos e hijas de Dios, viva reproducion de Cristo resucitado, y por lo mismo, activos, fuertes y dinamicos ciudadanos del Reino de Dios en el mundo, que es la Iglesia. Los efectos de la Confirmacion, estan pues, relacionados con la mision y accion del Espfritu de Dios en nuestro
que es conocido por casi toda la comunidad hispana. Despues de un ano de estudiar y
Ademas de
su colaboracion con el
del Centro Catolico de Charlotte. Allf
contestaba el telefono y hasta iba
cuando
al
una llamada de emergencia. Hay muchas facetas en la vida de Arturo que son muy interesantes, pero esta pagina no es lo hospital
se recibfa
suficientemente extensa para contarlas. El influyo la vida de
muchas perso-
nas por su manera de ser y le estan muy agradecidas por sus favores. Yo particularmente le expreso mi gratitud
dones. El don de la sabiduria que nos abre a las realidades sobrenaturales y nos comunica el gusto por las cosas de Dios.
El don del entendimiento que nos hace penetrar en las realidades de la fe y nos lleva a un recto conocimiento de las mismas. El don de la ciencia que nos da una exacta vision de las cosas creadas y del fin que tienen en nuestra existencia. El don del consejo que nos forma un juicio cristiano en todas las cosas y nos
mueve
a
siempre
comportarnos
conforme a la voluntad divina. El don de piedad que nos relaciona con Dios como nuestro Creador y Padre,
y nos lleva a honrarlo y adorarlo. El don del temor de Dios que nos
impulsa a tener un gran horror al pecado y una vivfsima contrition por haber ofendido a Dios. El don de fortaleza que nos hace valientes y audaces en la practica de todas las virtudes y nos capacita para superar las dificultades que pueden surgir en relation a las mismas. Es indudable que estos magnfficos dones concurren grandemente a nuestra madurez cristiana, pero, de ninguna forma agotan la accion del Espfritu que actua en nosotros con la multiforme variedad de sus gracias en funcion del bien de la Comunidad, como son, en su conjunto, todos sus carismas.
(Con permiso de los Padres de Sociedad de San Pablo).
la
la ayuda que me proporciono en los meses que trabajamos juntos. Gracias a el, el "Comuniquemonos" tuvo artfculos interesantes, incluso algunos controversiales, que impidio que esta pagina dejara de publicarse, y su trabajo en la oficina fue de gran ayuda
To Our Friends
para mf.
cese of Charlotte and director of the
Arturo se ordenara de diacono alrededor del proximo mes de mayo y se esta pensando que los otros dos seminaristas, Martin Mata y Fidel Melo, se ordenen de sacerdotes al mismo tiempo. Se espera que estas ordenaciones se celebren en Mexico y ya hay personas que estan preparando un viaje con ese motivo. En proximas ediciones tendremos artfculos sobre Martin Mata y Fidel Melo que tambien son bien conocidos en la comunidad hispana.
Catholic Hispanic Center of Char-
por toda
Le estoy muy agradecido a Arturo por toda su cooperation y le envfo mis mejores deseos al continuar sus estudios.
Father Vincent H. Finnerty, CM,
was appointed as the new director of the Hispanic Ministry for the Dio-
lotte. Father Finnerty, a native of Williamstown, New York, belongs to the order of the Congregation of the Missions of Vincentian Fathers. Arturo De Aguilar, who has been
writing articles for this publication, returns to the seminary in
Boynton
Beach, Florida. Article 8 of a series about the Sacrament of Confirmation explaining the Seven Gifts that the Spirit
bestows on
us.
Holy
August
4,
1995
The Catholic New
Diocesan News Briefs Auction And Yard HENDERSONVILLE
and yard sale benefiting Immaculata is Sept. 23 at the National Guard Armory. All items of value, except clothes, are needed. For information, tion
School
call
Terry
McCool
(704) 697-8924.
at
Ice
Sale
— An auc-
Cream
Kaltreider, Rector of the Basilica of St. Lawrence, D.M., will create his famous ice cream sundaes in the crypt of the church following 7 p.m. Mass on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Aug. 15.
ing Ministry: is
Commissioned To Heal,"
an ecumenical retreat Sept. 22-24
at
sponsored by Our Lady of Grace Church and other local Catholic and Protestant churches. Deadline for registration is Aug. 21. Cost is $5. For registration and information, First Lutheran Church
call
Betty Ford at (910) 282-3208.
Weekend Of Discernment
A
weekend of discernment
for
vocation
is
Aug. 11-13
at the
Blessed
Holy
Trinity,
the third
Sunday each month from 4:30-
6 p.m.
at
the Basilica.
Welcome Aboard FRANKLIN There was
—
a "wel-
buffet dinner in honor of
CHARLOTTE
Day Of Reflection
WINSTON-SALEM VICARIATE
May field will present plans for the Little Flower Senior Residence. A complimentary luncheon will be provided. For information, call Anne Mclntyre at (704)
zen day of reflection led by Father Richard Contiliano is Thursday, Sept. 14 at Holy Angels Church, Mount Airy. For
citi-
for people with
HIV/AIDS and terminal
illnesses is Aug.
1 0 and the second Thursday each month at 7 p.m. at St. Joan of Arc Church. For information or transportation, call (704) 252-3151.
Drivers
an-
CGA National Headquarters, Scranton, Pa.
18505 or
call
(800) 836-5699.
Needed
GREENSBORO
—
Fellowship
and Catholic Social Services offers group support for birthmothers the second Thursday each month from 7-8:30 p.m. at Family Services, Inc. Discussions center around issues of grief and loss experienced in the adoption process. For information call Rebecca Nagaishi at (910) 722-8173 or Becky DuBois at (910) 727-0705.
call Scott
Spivak
at
and abuse, needs drivers willing to transSunday Mass. For in-
port residents to
formation, call Sister Phyllis at (910)
272-4681.
Divorced and Remarried Catholics Group meets at Sunday, Aug. 13 at 6 p.m. outside of War Memorial Stadium to attend the Greensboro Bats vs. Savannah Cardinals baseball game. For information, call Brenda at (910) 292-41 14.
Holy Hour
BLOWING ROCK — A Mass followed by exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Church of the Epiphany.
Youth Ministry Training
ASHEVILLE
—
A
support group for separated/divorced
is the theme for the Youth Ministry Adult Leadership Training session Aug. 25-26 at Belmont Abbey College. Cost is $20 and includes
LLC
The overnight fee is $16.50.
Call
at (704) 331-1723 for and information.
Youth Ministry registration
at
For Directors Of Religious Education
Institute
information, call (704) 255-0146.
•
HICKORY — A regional
institute
sponsored by the National Association of Parish Coordinators/Directors of Religious Education of the National Catholic Educational Association and the Office of Religious Education for the Diocese of Charlotte, "Storytelling and Spiritual Development," is Aug. 19-20 at the Catholic Conference Center. Cost is $75 for
NPCD/NCEA members
and $100
for non-members. Registration ends July
Introducing:
24. For information or registration, con-
Personalized Burial 8f Cremation Services Advanced Funeral Planning Family Owned & Operated
47 15 Margaret Wallace Road
Newnan
at the
Office of
Religious Education, Diocese of Charlotte,
To T^e Community"
Needs
Volunteers
— Volunteers
CHARLOTTE needed
to start training
Ministry. Call
371-3001,
now
are
for Crisis
Anne Davant
at
(704)
ext. 114, to help.
Religious Life Presentation
— A presentation
GOLDSBORO
for those in religious life by Sister Doris
Women
ship Conference of
Religious
and Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, is Saturday, Sept. 16 from 10 a.m. -2: 30 p.m. followed by liturgy at 3 p.m. at the Holiday Inn. For information, call (9 1 9) 821-9751.
Anniversary Mass
CHARLOTTE
— An anniversary
Mass and reception
for couples married
25 and 50 years is Sunday, Oct. 22 at 2:30 p.m. at St. John Neumann Church. Call your parish office by Aug. 18 to participate.
Living Waters Retreats The Aug. 16-22 week-long retreat, "Silence on Fire," directed by Reverend William Shannon (author of Silence on Fire) focuses on contemplative spirituality. Donation is $200. The Aug. 24-30 week-long nature retreat, "Be Still and Know that I am God," is directed by Dominican Father Martin Iott. Donation is $210.
To tact
register for these retreats, con-
Living Waters Reflection Center,
1420 Soco Rd., Maggie Valley, NC 2875 1 For information, call (704) 926.
3833.
Ultreya
And Leaders' Schools
WINSTON-SALEM
—
Ultreya meets the second Friday each month at 7:30 p.m. at Our Lady of Mercy Church. Leaders' School is the fourth Tuesday each month at 7:30 p.m. Ultreya for the Asheville, Arden and Hendersonville areas meets the second Friday each month at 7:30 p.m. at St. Barnabas Church. Leaders' School is the second Sunday each month between Masses. ASHEVILLE Ultreya meets the second Tuesday each month at 7:30 p.m. at St. Eugene Church.
ARDEN
—
—
CHARLOTTE
—
Vietnamese
Ultreya meets the third Saturday each
month
at
7 p.m.
at St.
Ann Church.
Leaders' School is the second and fourth
Friday each month
Community Of Justice
The Catholic News & Herald welcomes parish news for the diocesan
—
at
7 p.m.
day, Sept. 23 from 9:45 a.m. -3: 15 p.m.
news briefs. Good photographs, preferably black and white, also are welcqme. Please submit news releases and photos at least 10 days before the date of pub-
at Holy
lication.
Human Development present "A Call to Dam Mmhh Dehord & Jo(m DeBord
call
(704) 331-1714.
The Justice and Peace Ministry and The Campaign for
704-545-3553 Ties
tact Christine
CLEMMONS
(at Idlewild Rd.)
and dinners;
trips
DeLuca at (704) 888-6050.
Crisis Ministry
Become New,"
7:30 p.m. Catholic Social Services. For
FUNERAL HOME
camping,
nics,
the Diocesan Office of Faith Formation/
Catholic
meets on the third Friday each month
BELMONT— "Behold, All Things
meals.
Support Group Meets
Families interested in activities like pic-
Gottemoeller, president of the Leader-
SDR Group Meets GREENSBORO — The Separated,
suffering with alcohol/drug addiction
"Our family Caring For Yours"
Our
Sept.
Catholic Families With Kids CHARLOTTE Catholic Families With Kids promotes unity to
WINSTON-SALEM— Family Ser-
Hall, a treatment facility for persons
Re-establishing an Old Tradition in Funeral Service
"Strengthening
is
required. For information
and registration, (704)331-1714.
vices, Inc.
— A Healing Mass
Healing Mass
ASHEVILLE
nual "Million Candles for Peace" obser-
vance sponsored by Catholic Golden Age, the largest national nonprofit organization for Catholic age 50+, is Tuesday, Aug. 15 at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. In conjunction with the Mass, members will participate in a Pilgrimage Day beginning at 10 a.m. The Solemn Liturgy of the Assumption, celebrated by Archbishop John P. Foley, is at 12 noon. For information about Catholic Golden age, write
is
Birthmother Support Offered
Barnabas Blast" (formerly Fall Fling) is Sunday, Aug. 27 from 12:30-7 p.m. at St. Barnabas Church. Events include Carnival games, crafts, prizes, bingo, karaoke, refreshments and more.
Golden Age Observance
— The
a per-
Bach (704)
Fans Are Needed
D.C.
fee
Terri or Phil
355-6872.
WASHINGTON,
No
15.
—
is
Family Fun ARDEN— The Second Annual "St.
information, call Suzanne
United Services for Older Adults is in need of fans to provide senior citizens with relief from the heat. New fans and used fans in good condition or donations to purchase fans are welcome. For information, call Melanie at (910) 333-698 1
— There
Novena to the Blessed Mother at Vincent de Paul Church on Mondays at 8:30 a.m. For information, call Eva at (704) 542-1614.
staff as Parochial Vicar.
— A CRISM sponsored Catholic
545-5046.
(704) 355-6872 for
Perpetual Novena
having Father Collins, who was ordained by Bishop Curlin in June, added to the
Club of St. John Neumann Church meet Wednesday, Aug. 9 at 11 a.m. in the parish hall. Keith Adams and Sharon
at
and Bishop William G.
strengthen Catholic families through
of Assisi Church. Nearly 200 people attended to express their gratitude for
CHARLOTTE — The 50+ Seniors
the Catholic Center. Call
Suzanne Bach
CHD,
tor for
Curlin. Deadline for registration
fellowship, socialization and prayer.
732-
50+ Seniors Meet
or unresolved grief meets
St.
Father Jim Collins recently at St. Francis
6414.
new
petual
come aboard"
call (803)
ing with
Aug. 10 with Masses at 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. There will be veneration of a firstclass relic of St. Lawrence and the faithful will be blessed with it at both Masses. The feast day is one of six days throughout the year on which a plenary indulgence may be gained by the faithful at
Pe-
23803 or
include Ron White, education coordina-
Services for widows and widowers deal-
feast of their patron saint Thursday,
Catherine Norton, 123 Franklin tersburg, Va.
port group sponsored by Catholic Social
—
Ala. For information, contact Sister St.,
working to end poverty and injustice in America and North Carolina. Presenters
Patron Feast Celebration ASHEVILLE The Basilica of St. Lawrence, D.M. will commemorate the
women interested in exploring religious Trinity Shrine Retreat in
— A CRISM sup-
CHARLOTTE
information.
Ecumenical Retreat
GREENSBORO — "Christ' s Heal-
Survivors Meet
Social Father Carl
—
ASHEVILLE
Be...
A
Community of
Justice," Satur-
Family Church. Participants will
celebrate 25 years of the Catholic Church
olic
News
& Herald
August
4,
1995
World and National Briefs Head Of Women's Conference Says U.S. Should Attend WASHINGTON (CNS)
—
Women's
issues are so important that
the United States should send a delegation to the Fourth
World Conference on
Women, despite its concerns about human rights in China, said the secretarygeneral of the conference. "Much as the questions on China are important, they are not as important as the questions on
women,"
said Gertrude Mongella, a
Tanzanian Catholic appointed to head the Sept. 4-15 conference in Beijing. "The agenda on women is so important that, personally, I feel the United States must attend" to represent American women, Mrs. Mongella said at a Washington press conference July 26.
Catholic Leaders Seek
Senate Support To Stem Foreign Aid Cuts
Sees Catholic Church
Historian In '90s
As Church In Crisis DAYTON, Ohio How would
—
a
from now characterize the U.S. Catholic Church in the 1990s? According to R. Scott Appleby, an associate professor of histhe historian
Dame,
would see a church in crisis
with the potential for decline. That can be seen in the gap within the church, he
between the broad range of ministries dedicated Catholics undertake and low church attendance and giving. Appleby addressed about 80 people in mid-July at the University of Dayton. He is an expert on fundamentalist movements worldwide, director of the University of Notre Dame Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, and editor of The Fundamentalism said,
Project.
WASHINGTON (CNS)— Officials of Catholic Relief Services and the U.S. Catholic Conference met July 19 with
Changes In Faith & Values Channel Seen Spurring Catholic Programs
— Changes
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in an
NEW YORK
stem proposed deep cuts in U.S. foreign humanitarian aid next year. McConnell is chairman of the Senate Foreign Operations Subcommittee on Appropriations. Barbara Kohnen, a
announced by the Faith
USCC
"We have to decide as a church whether
effort to
official at the
meeting, said the
(CNS)
& Values chan-
an interfaith cable network, will push Catholics to produce better programs, according to a priest who is a nel,
leading figure in Catholic broadcasting.
senator told the group that he "supports
we
foreign aid" but "foresees a difficult
media," said Paulist Father John Geaney
do intend
really
war can be overcome,' thus
to deal with the
Warlords
Who
Teens
VATICAN CITY
(CNS)
agers to terrorize
members of rival
eth-
emony
who have a right to peace and desire it greatly, we ask those involved in the conflict to lay down their weap-
lier in the
Burundi,
and the habit of violence" are at the basis of the civil strife between Hutus and Tutsis, the bishops said.
tended by suspicion over the cause of
Female Feticide SEOUL, South Korea (CNS)
Catholic and other groups have ex-
how he
pressed concern over a link between
the Kiev Patriarchate of the Ukrainian
illegal gender testing and abortions of female fetuses in South Korea, where a
Autocephalus Orthodox Church was at first reported by his secretary, Father Borys, to have died of a heart attack July 14. But press spokesman for the Ukrainian Orthodox Brotherhood of St. Andrew, Volodymyr Katelnytsky, told news agencies in Kiev that the church leader in fact was found dead, with four broken ribs, at Kiev's Botanical Gar-
ate action against
of death." "Even
BALTIMORE first
(CNS)
— For
contracted with a U.S. -based Catholic health care system to provide medical
The Baltimore-based
CRS announced July 26 that
it
Fla.
— Eight Catholic bishops from
Ecuador and Peru held an unusual press the
time, Catholic Relief Services has
services overseas.
Bishops Of Peru, Ecuador Call For Days Of Peace In August
NORTH PALM BEACH,
had signed
an agreement with the Daughters of Charity National Health System to man-
age the Balombo Hospital in Angola's
Benguela province. Under the agreement, a team of three nurses belonging to the Daughters of Charity religious order will arrive Aug. 25 to staff the hospital and train local medical staff to eventually assume responsibility for the
traditional preference for male offspring
fetuses are reportedly killed yearly
conference in Florida July 25 to announce plans to celebrate a new peace between their South American nations in August. "With the present world situation torn by inhuman wars that afflict
what it calls a "culture if
there
is
a law, the
morality and conscience are recovered
The press spokesman said police began an investigation into the death
both by the doctors and parents," a church
only
Position Available
Room
Performing gender tests is illegal in South Korea. A doctor is subject to a 10 million won (US$13,230) fine, a prison term of up to three years and the possible loss of his or her medi-
at the vigorous insistence of the church leader's son, Taras Romanyuk. The question about the manner in which the patriarch died came just days after a violent clash between police and the patriarch's followers at the planned
cal license.
burial site.
and elsewhere, the Ecuadorean and Peruvian bishops proclaim the need that 'two Christian countries such as ours show by what we do that the temptation
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St.
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All lived within the
Community
-
Because of the nature of the Monastic Guest Program, it is available only to men. Our Retreat Program, however, is open to both women
and men for private
at the Inn
Residential Program, has a weekend, live-in position
dens.
official said.
than 60 miles of the town, will provide
sis.
The 69-year-old head of
rica
The Balombo Hospital, the only functioning health facility within more
and children suffering from potentially deadly diseases such as cerebral and anemic malaria, diarrhea and tuberculo-
died.
the peoples of Bosnia, Chechnya, Af-
facility.
direct medical care to over 40,000 adults
by
The
practice will not die unless medical
ensure audience appeal.
(CNS)
demise and turmoil at his burial. One of the biggest controversies concerns
his
—
grams and applying
Daughters Of Charity Agree With CRS To Staff Angolan Hospital
—
Gender Tests Said To Fuel Korean
Catholic Church has called for immedi-
and development assistance. U.S. food aid has already been cut 24 percent since 1993, and further cuts are projected.
Leader KIEV, Ukraine (CNS) The death of breakaway Orthodox Patriarch Volodymyr Romanyuk has been at-
Illegal
fewer hours to specifically religious pro"stricter criteria" to
in the cathedral,
Suspicion, Turmoil Surround Death Of Ukrainian Church
search for power, the spirit of vengeance
million needy people in 79 nations, proin relief
Word
cal crisis.
abortions following such tests.
more than $300 million
a Liturgy of the
children," the letter said, according to a
would need more advertisers and that it would be devoting
viding
City's cathedral ear-
July 28 Vatican Radio report. "The
remains strong. About 22,400 female
it
Mexico
day. In a homily given during
ons immediately," the bishops said in a pastoral letter. "Everyday, almost every hour, our country is losing many of its
watch." Faith Values announced July 24 that the subsidy it had been receiving that
in
Archbishop Rivera called for a return to family values and urged Mexicans to remain united in the midst of the country's current economic and politi-
to
was ending,
Ahumada. In an evening ceremony in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the new archbishop of what is the world's largest archdiocese concelebrated a Mass and was formally installed by papal nuncio to Mexico, Archbishop Girolamo Prigione. The transfer of the archdiocesan management took place in a solemn cer-
nic groups. "In the name of the people of
programs, especially programs such as food aid that depend heavily on a partnership with the U.S. government. In 1994 CRS estimates it helped some 21
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administration by his predecessor, Cardinal Ernesto Corripio
— The
will force significant reductions in its
produce programs "the folks will
formal handing over of the archdiocesan
bishops of Burundi have condemned "warlords" who recruit and arm teen-
with usable ideas but needs the funding
the chief overseas relief
a day of ceremonies which included a
Recruit,
and development agency of the U.S.
CRS,
—
archbishop of Mexico City, Norberto Rivera Carrera, was installed July 26 in
Condemn Arm
Burundi's Bishops
Catholic Church, fears that U.S. aid cuts
ahead given overall budget reduc-
stalled,
25 statement. The press conference was held at the close of a July 22-25 conference at Our Lady of Florida Spiritual Center in North Palm Beach sponsored by the Missionary Society of St. James the Apostle, which sends diocesan priests to South America.
"Strong programming can be created, but it's not there now." He said the church has access to talented people
battle
tions."
Mexico City Archbishop InUrges National Unity MEXICO CITY (CNS) The new
contrib-
uting to world peace," they said in a July
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People Illinois Youth Gored By Bull In Spain GLEN ELLYN, 111. (CNS) Shock
"But we are continuing
reigned as 400 relatives and friends
Bosnians in many places were afraid to gather in
Funeral Held For
—
still
gathered
at St.
James Church
in
Glen
Ellyn July 20 for the funeral of 22-year-
Matthew P. Tassio. To the world Tassio was the young American tourist killed July 1 3 in Pamplona, Spain, when he was gored by a bull in the annual old
to
work with the people in camps." He said that
numbers
large
tries
from the University of Illinois and had a job lined up at Motorola, but he and a friend decided to take one last fling before entering the world of work. They traveled to Egypt, Italy and France before venturing on to Spain. Matt joined the crowd of daredevils racing ahead of the bulls through the city s narrow streets. He was knocked down, and as he was getting up a bull '
speared his chest, severing his aorta. He died almost instantly. Injuries are common in the event but Tassio' s death was the first in 15 years.
Despite Bosnia War NEW YORK (CNS) The Catho-
—
Church's ministry is continuing in Bosnia despite major adjustments forced by the war, a Franciscan priest from Bosnia reported in a New York interview. "We had about 70 Franciscan parishes in Bosnia, and about half have lic
been emptied and
their
churches de-
stroyed," said Father Franjo
Radaman.
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many
now impossible, churches in
such areas as humani-
tarian
aid,
Radaman
said.
Father Almost
every parish has a small Caritas operation, provid-
pharmacy or other
ing a
services, he said.
Byzantine Diocese Of Parma Gets First Married Deacons
PARMA,
Ohio
(CNS) —Bishop Andrew Pataki of the Byzantine
Diocese of Parma took four men through the fi-
Church Ministries Continue
L
ways with smaller
groups. Although
maintain active programs
just graduated
UaJ
had to be provided in
other
He
He had
...
Mass
for
traditional activities are
liked to taste, to see, to explore.
ml0
the churches, so minis-
at
running of the bulls. To the mourners at St. James, Matt was a fun-loving friend with a ready smile and a zest for life.
The News
In
on
nal steps
their
way
to
the diaconate in ceremo-
22 at the CatheJohn the Baptist in Parma. The bishop nies July
dral of St.
conferred the orders of
lector and subdeacon on Justin
acolyte,
—
ASHEVILLE Members of St. Joan of Arc Parish, and its Caring Hearts AIDS ministry, were among the hundreds of those who took part in Asheville's second annual Red Ribbon Walk and Run on Father's Day, June 18. The event was a fund-raiser for Loving Food Resources, a food bank in Asheville for people with HIV/AIDS and other terminal illnesses, which become a focal point in the nearly year and a half old AIDS ministry at St. Joan of Arc Church. Participants in the Father's Day event made a $10 donation, received a red ribbon T-shirt, and were able to take part in the one mile walk, or a separate 5 kilometer run. Those unable to attend made donations in various amounts to have feather's pinned to walkers in their honor. Altogether, St. Joan of Arc Church and its parishioners helped to raise nearly $1 ,400 for Loving Foods, an increase of $500 over last year's event. Designed to create a Catholic presence and response to AIDS, Caring Hearts was formed at St. Joan of Arc in February of 1 994. Members have packed and delivered hundreds of boxes of groceries for LFR, held monthly Healing Masses, one of which was celebrated by Bishop William G. Curlin, and are currently planning a second retreat for people with HIV/ AIDS to be held this autumn at the Jesuit House of Prayer in Hot Springs, NC. For information on the Caring Hearts ministry, call the St. Joan of Arc Parish Office at (704) 252-3151
O' Connell of St. John the Baptist Church in Minneapolis; Larry Hendricks of Sacred Heart Church in Livonia, Mich.; Richard Guiden of St. Mary Church in Whiting, Ind.; and Michael Kenes of St. Nicholas Parish in Munster, Ind. Each of the men was to be ordained a deacon by Bishop Pataki in his home area, beginning July 23. Although the ordination of married men to the Eastern-rite priesthood is not permitted in the Western Hemisphere, it is allowed in other
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said South Pacific
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will
"Japan is the only country in the world that has suffered the effects of a nuclear bomb," committee head Kimura Kenzo said. "The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are witnesses to the horror of nuclear radiation," he said.
"In Hiroshima, 140,000 people died in one second. In Nagasaki, 70,000 people died in one second," Bishop Joseph Atsumi Misue of Hiroshima, a del-
"To this day, people hit by the blast in agony," Kenzo said. "The
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still
suffer
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