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October 1, 2010

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‘The measure of love is to love without measure’ October is Respect Life Month: Charlotte’s own Be Not Afraid ministry attracts national attention. 12-13 Vigils outside abortion mills are going on now. How can you get involved? 19

‘Brother Towns/ Pueblos Hermanos’

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WCU campus minister (left) designed the tartan Pope Benedict XVI wore during his recent visit to Great Britain. 3 Calendar 4 Diocese 3-11

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The N.C. Council of Churches and documentary filmmaker Charles Thompson have partnered for a statewide series of showings of Thompson’s immigration saga “Brother Towns/ Pueblos Hermanos.” Throughout October and November, from Asheville to Wilmington, audiences can watch Thompson’s film and then take part in discussions about immigration. “Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos” tells the story of two towns, Jacaltenango in Guatemala and Jupiter, Fla., linked by immigration, family and work. 15

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The facts of faith

St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus Feast day: Friday, Oct. 1

Pope Benedict XVI

Attention to liturgy is path to God VATICAN CITY — Describing the exemplary life of a 13th-century German nun, Pope Benedict XVI stressed the importance of liturgy in building a close relationship with God. The pope illustrated the virtues of St. Matilda of Hackeborn during his weekly general audience Sept. 29 with several thousand pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square.

St. Matilda was one of several influential women who lived at the convent of Helfta, in the Saxony region of Germany, he said. St. Matilda, a mystic whose lovely voice led her to become the leader of the convent’s choir, progressed in spiritual understanding through the formal prayers of the Church, the pope said.

“Dear friends, the personal and liturgical prayers, especially the Liturgy of the Hours and holy Mass, are the roots of the spiritual experience of St. Matilda of Hackeborn,” Pope Benedict said. “By letting herself be guided by the sacred Scriptures and nourished by the Bread of holy Communion, she followed a path of intimate union with the Lord,” he said.

Her example, he said, can teach Christians to “intensify our friendship with the Lord, especially through daily prayer and attentive, faithful and active participation in the Mass.”

St. Matilda was born in 1241 or 1242 to a noble family whose eldest daughter already served as abbess at the Helfta convent, he said. Fascinated by her sister and the convent atmosphere, the young Matilda also decided to follow a life of contemplation and service to God, Pope Benedict said.

St. Matilda should be an example of devotion to Christ, he said, encouraging Catholics to “grow, too, in that devotion through the power of her intercession.”

— Catholic News Service

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t. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, or St. Thérèse of Lisieux, was born Jan. 2, 1873, in Alençon, France, to pious parents, both declared venerable by Pope John Paul II. Her mother died when she was 4, leaving her father and elder sisters to raise her.

On Christmas Day 1886, St. Thérèse had a profound experience of conversion. Almost a year later, in a papal audience during a pilgrimage to Rome, in 1887, she begged for permission from Pope Leo XIII to enter the Carmelite Monastery at 15.

She devoted herself to living a life of holiness, doing all things with love and childlike Society of the trust in God. She Little Flower: struggled with life www.littleflower.org in the convent, but decided to make an effort to be charitable to all, especially those she didn’t like.

“Charity gave me the key to my vocation. I understood that the Church had a Heart and that this Heart was burning with love. I knew that one love drove the members of the Church to action, that if this love were extinguished, the Apostles would have proclaimed the Gospel no longer, the martyrs would have shed their blood no more.

I understood that Love comprised all vocations, that Love was everything, that it embraced all times and places ... in a word, that it was eternal!

Then in the excess of my delirious joy, I cried out: O Jesus, my Love ... my vocation, at last I have found it ... My vocation is Love!”

She offered herself as a sacrificial victim to the merciful Love of God on June 9, 1895, the feast of the Most Holy Trinity and the following year, on the night between Holy Thursday and Good Friday, she noticed the first symptoms of tuberculosis, the illness which would lead to her death a year and a half later on Sept, 30, 1897.

She was 24.

“Her last words, ‘My God, I love you,’ are the seal of her life,” said Pope John Paul II, who proclaimed her a Doctor of the Church in 1997.

She is only the third woman to be so proclaimed,

A saintly life

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after St. Catherine of Siena and St. Teresa of Avila.

Since her death, millions have been inspired by her “little way” of loving God and neighbor.

— Catholic News Agency

Your daily Scripture readings SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK OF OCT. 3 – OCT. 9

SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK OF OCT. 10 – OCT. 16

Sunday, Habakkuk 1:2-3, 2:2-4, 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14, Luke 17:5-10; Monday (St. Francis of Assisi), Galatians 1:6-12, Luke 10:25-37; Tuesday, Galatians 1:13-24, Luke 10:38-42; Wednesday (St. Bruno, Bl. Marie-Rose Durocher), Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14, Luke 11:1-4; Thursday, Galatians 3:1-5, Luke 1:6975, 11:5-13; Friday, Galatians 3:7-14, Luke 11:15-26; Saturday (St. Denis and Companions, St. John Leonardi), Galatians 3:22-29, Luke 11:27-28

Sunday, 2 Kings 5:14-17, 2 Timothy 2:8-13, Luke 17:1119; Monday, Galatians 4:22-24, 26-27, 31-5:1, Luke 11:2932; Tuesday, Galatians 5:1-6, Luke 11:37-41; Wednesday, Galatians 5:18-25, Luke 11:42-46; Thursday (St. Callistus I), Ephesians 1:1-10, Luke 11:47-54; Friday (St. Teresa of Jesus), Ephesians 1:11-14, Luke 12:1-17; Saturday (St. Hedwig, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque), Ephesians 1:15-23, Luke 12:8-12

Is Jesus really present in the Eucharist?

Yes! Recent years have seen a growing concern about Catholics’ understanding of the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. Some surveys show that a number of practicing Catholics are not clear about the doctrine of Real Presence. Some think of consecrated bread and wine as only symbols of Jesus’ presence rather than the genuine change of bread and wine into the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ.

The Eucharist is, for Catholics, both a meal and a sacrifice. The Lord gave us the Eucharist at the Last Supper because He wanted us to share in the life of the Trinity, the loving communion of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. We become united to God at our Baptism, and receive a further outpouring of the Holy Spirit at our confirmation. In the Eucharist we are nourished spiritually, brought closer to God, again and again. As Jesus says in John’s Gospel: “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him” (Jn 6:56).

This meal of fellowship and unity, though, also is understood as a sacrifice.

Why? Because Jesus died for our sins. Human sin was so great that we could never share fully in the life of God. Jesus came to reunite us.

At the Eucharist, we make present again the sacrificial outpouring of Christ’s life so that our life can be restored.

This gift of life is happening in eternity, always. We remember this in a special way when we sing the Holy, Holy, Holy at Mass, recalling the words of Isaiah 6:3, the hymn of the angels before God. We sing our praise before the “Lamb of God,” slain to take away the sin of the world, all that separates us from God (see Jn 1:29).

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A new look for your Catholic newspaper

Cardinal Newman recognized for impact on campus ministry

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hy does your diocesan newspaper look different this week? This redesign is part of our continuing work to improve this tool of communication and evangelization for the Diocese of Charlotte, and it’s a renewal of our promise to help readers draw closer to Christ.

With these changes, we reiterate what Bishop John Donoghue wrote in the inaugural edition of the paper Sept.

6, 1991: “I want The Catholic News & Herald to be a voice for evangelization.

The unique challenge for us all is to find an effective way to bring the saving message of Christ to all our people, to develop ways by which we can share the good news with our brothers and sisters, especially those who have fallen away from the Church, and with the thousands of people who are unchurched and have never had the opportunity to learn about Christ.”

To continue our mission, we’ve updated the paper’s design to keep pace with expectations of today’s readers like you.

Our signature red logo reflects the liturgical color symbolizing Christ’s sacrifice. The printed words are also easier to read, thanks to new typefaces that have both classic and contemporary styles. You’ll see also that the name of the paper has been abbreviated. This will link the paper more closely with our future online news efforts through www. catholicnewsherald.com. Stay tuned for this exciting venture to come soon.

Of all the changes we’re launching this week, the ones we hope you enjoy the most are the additional stories in “Our Faith” and “Viewpoints.”

At the foundation of our evangelization efforts is education. As a story on page 22 describes, too few Catholics in the U.S. know the basic tenets of our faith. We hope these pages particularly will prompt you to learn, to think and to discuss. As we better understand our faith, we can’t help but be inspired to participate more actively at Mass, get involved in local ministries, and live truly Christian lives.

We hope you are inspired by what you read here – first, to learn and to understand our faith, and second, to live out Christ’s teachings in your own life.

As always, we welcome your suggestions. Contact me at 704-370-3334 or plguilfoyle@charlottediocese.org and let us know what you think.

Patricia L. Guilfoyle is editor of the Catholic News Herald.

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CNS | Cathal McNaughton, Reuters

While traveling along a street in Edinburgh Sept. 16, Pope Benedict XVI wears a shawl made of the St. Ninian tartan, a special plaid designed for the pontiff’s trip to Scotland by Matt Newsome of Sylva. The pope was on a four-day visit to Great Britain. Newsome, Catholic campus minister at Western Carolina University, designed the tartan for the Scottish bishops in honor of the Holy Father’s visit, and he was in Scotland for the historic occasion.

Where faith and fabric meet Designer of papal tartan makes journey to U.K. Matthew Newsome Special to the Catholic News Herald

SYLVA — I have two major interests that I will gladly discuss with anyone who will listen. One is the Catholic faith, which I embraced as a convert at 23. The other is traditional Scottish clothing.

I have made my living from kilts and tartans, serving as the director of the Scottish Tartans Museum in Franklin, where I have been since 1997. It’s the only museum outside Scotland dedicated to Scottish dress.

The past three years I have also been proud to serve as the Catholic Read more campus minister at Western about Pope Carolina University. I Benedict XVI’s minister to students in the historic four-day same building in which I visit to Great discovered the Catholic faith Britain. See while in college. I count page 20. myself blessed to have two occupations that are near and dear to my heart.

Usually, however, the two have little to do with one another.

All that changed this summer when I received a phone call asking if I could design a special tartan for the Scottish bishops to honor Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to their country. I did not allow myself to get too excited until the tartan was actually put

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Matt Newsome, campus minister at Western Carolina University, designed a St. Ninian’s Day tartan in honor of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Scotland and England last month. Newsome is pictured with Keith Patrick Cardinal O’Brien Sept. 9, when the tartan was presented to the Scottish Parliament. into production. I was absolutely thrilled when I was invited to come before the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh for the official unveiling of the new tartan, see page 14

On Sept. 19 Pope Benedict XVI presided over the beatification of John Henry Cardinal Newman during his historic four-day state visit to Great Britain.

Besides being a renowned modern theologian and accomplished scholar, Blessed Newman was a great proponent of Catholic higher education. In his treatise “The Idea of a University,” Newman argued that the university ought to be committed to the search and communication of all truth, Newman including the fundamental truths revealed by Christ through His Church.

Blessed Newman’s great emphasis on education during his lifetime caused him to be seen as a leader in the movement of campus ministries in universities.

These centers of Catholicism amidst the widely secular world of higher education were essentially inspired by Blessed Newman’s call for young people to embrace and understand their faith, so that they may further the message of the Church.

The Cardinal Newman Society, founded in 1993, has taken Newman’s teachings and applied them to university life in a Catholic environment “to promote awareness within the Catholic academic community of the nature and value of a truly Catholic university education” as per the society’s mission statement.

Blessed Newman’s feast day falls on Oct. 9, not the date of his death, which is typical for feast days, but the date of his passage from Anglicanism into the Catholic Church.. More information about the Cardinal Newman Society is online at www. cardinalnewmansociety.org.

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ASHEVILLE

Bishop Peter J. Jugis Bishop Peter J. Jugis will participate in the following events: Oct. 1 – 2 p.m.

Mass and Solemn Profession of Sister Marie Thérèse of the Divine Child Jesus, PCPA St. Patrick Cathedral, Charlotte Oct. 1 – 8 p.m.

Vineyard of Hope Ballantyne Hotel, Charlotte Oct. 3-8 Annual Priest Retreat Maggie Valley Oct. 9 – 5 p.m.

Deacon Recommitment Mass Catholic Conference Center, Hickory Oct. 10 – 3 p.m.

Rosary Rally St. Patrick Cathedral, Charlotte

ST. LAWRENCE BASILICA, 97 Haywood St. — Theology of the Body for Teens, Lower Conference Room, 6-8 p.m. Oct. 4, will meet the first and third Monday of the month, for 15 sessions, open to grades 9 and above. Call 828-689-9544.

This week’s spotlight: Blessing of the Animals

BELMONT

OUR LADY OF ANNUNCIATION CHURCH, 416 N. Second St., Albemarle — 11 a.m. Oct. 2

BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE, 100 Belmont-Mt. Holly Road — “Faith, Society, the Corporation and our Collective Carbon Footprint,” Student Commons Mezzanine rm., 6:30-9 p.m.

Oct. 12. Contact Sister Rose M. Tresp, RSM, at rtresp@ mercysc.org or 956-324-7057.

QUEEN OF THE APOSTLES CHURCH, 503 N. Main St. — Bereavement Support Group, Education Building Room F, 7 p.m. Oct. 6. Call 704-825-9600.

— Centering Prayer Sessions, Education Building Room B, 7-8:30 p.m. Oct. 11, 18 and 25, and Nov. 8, 15 and 22. Contact Peggy Geiger at dokgee16@gmail.com or 704-865-0898.

— Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults Class (RCIA), 10-11:15 a.m. every Sunday. Call Cam Tracy at 704-53-0654.

BRYSON CITY ST. JOSEPH CHURCH, 316 Main St. — Planning for your heavenly journey home, adult education program for those coping with aging, illness and preparing for the last stages of life, begins with 4 p.m. Mass Oct. 13, followed by a light supper and presentations.

CHARLOTTE CAMPUS MINISTRY, 9408 Sandburg Road — Wednesday Dinners, 6:30 p.m. every Wednesday, open to all college students. Visit www.sco.uncc.edu/catholic.

OUR LADY OF CONSOLATION CHURCH, 2301 Statesville Ave. — Public Square Rosary Rally, noon Oct. 16. Contact Hyginus Okechukwu at 704-969-0982 or 704-408-7321.

ST. ANN CHURCH, 3635 Park Road — Joyful Mystery Sung Rosary, 7 p.m. Oct. 8 ST. JOHN NEUMANN CHURCH, 8451 Idlewild Road — “He Taught them in Parables,” mini-series on the Parables, Parish Hall, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 6. Call 704-536-6520.

ST. MATTHEW CHURCH, 8015 Ballantyne Commons Pkwy.

— Companion Training for Welcome Home for Returning Catholics, for those interested in assisting returning Catholics, 8-11 a.m. Oct. 2, NLC Room 239-241. Contact Julie Jahn at urblessed@carolina.rr.com or 704-560-9202.

— St. Matthew “yoU”niversity: Different Paths for Different Folks Mini Seminar, explores the history and prayer method associated with Ignatian, Benedictine and Franciscan spirituality, Banquet Room, 9:45-11:30 a.m. Oct. 2. RSVP to Michael Burck at 704-541-8362, ext. 4.

— Growing in Relationship with God, NLC Room 234-235, 6:308 p.m. Oct. 5. Registration required by Oct. 4 to Eileen Crusan at 704-543-7677, ext. 1179. Leave name and preferred date of attendance.

— Growing in Relationship with God, NLC Room 203, 9:45-11:15 a.m. Oct. 7. Registration required by Oct. 4 to Eileen Crusan at 704-543-7677, ext. 1179. Leave name and preferred date of

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QUEEN OF THE APOSTLES CHURCH, 503 N. Main St., Belmont — front lawn, after 8 a.m. Mass Oct. 9, animals must be up to date on vaccines. Pictures or proxies of pets are also welcome. Call Marilyn Whitney at 704-830-4484.

ST. LUKE CHURCH, 13700 Lawyers Road, Charlotte — 10 a.m. Oct. 9 ST. HELEN MISSION, 341 Dallas-Spencer Mountain Road, Spencer Mountain — 10 a.m. Oct. 2 OUR LADY OF MERCY CHURCH, 1730 Link Road, Winston-Salem — 11 a.m. Oct. 2. Contact Betti P. Longinotti, SFO Minister, at plstudio@clearwire.net or 336-725-3751.

Note: All animals must be on leashes or in cages.

attendance. Child care available by reservation at 704-5437677, ext. 1003.

— Guiding Parishioner Strengths (GPS) presents: How full is your bucket- Strategies for increasing the positive moments in your life, Banquet Room, 10 a.m.-noon or 7-9 p.m. Oct. 12.

RSVP by Oct. 7 to Sharon at hawaii1945@aol.com.

— Moving on After Moving In, gathering of women to support one another in a time of transition, NLC Room 239241, 10:30 a.m.-noon, every Wednesday until Nov. 10. Child care is available. Contact Maureen Regele at Maureen@ southcharlotteliving.com or 704-541-0101.

ST. LUKE CHURCH, 13700 Lawyers Road — Annual Fall Festival & Craft Extravaganza, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 16 ST. PATRICK CATHEDRAL, 1621 Dilworth Road E. — 69th Semi-Annual Rosary Rally, 3 p.m. Oct. 10, will include the Holy Rosary, a Eucharistic Procession and Benediction.

For information, or if children aged 7-17 would like to participate in the procession, call Tina at 704-846-7361.

— Eucharistic Adoration, following the 12:10 p.m. Mass and concluding with Benediction at 6 p.m. every Wednesday ST. PETER CHURCH, 507 S. Tryon St. — Introduction to Islam, presented by Kathryn Johson, Ph.D., Biss Hall, 10:15 a.m. Oct. 3 — Jewish Catholic Dialogue Group, 5 p.m. Oct. 3. This year’s theme is “Life Cycles: How Each Faith Celebrates.” Call Ann Weber at 704-364-9850 or Gail Breen at 704-522-1495.

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL CHURCH, 6828 Old Reid Road — Charlotte Catholic Women’s Group reflection, with speaker Father Remo DiSalvatore, OFM Cap., from St. Thomas Aquinas Church, begins with 9 a.m. Mass Oct. 4. Contact Linda Granzow at jlgranzow@windstream.net or 704-847-7872.

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— Annual Health & Wellness Fair, Msgr. Pharr Activity Center, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 10. Contact Peggy Gibbons at peggy@ weddingsbypeggy.com or 704-588-5870.

— The Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians Meeting, 7 p.m. third Wednesday of each month. They welcome IrishCatholic women who are interested in sharing their Catholic faith, Christian charity and the traditions of the Irish people.

Contact Mary Herbert at mherbert@carolina.rr.com or 704231-9546.

GASTONIA ST. MICHAEL SCHOOL, 704 St. Michaels Lane — St. Michael School Annual Fun Fair, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 2. For more, visit www.SMSGastonia.com.

GREENSBORO OUR LADY OF GRACE CHURCH, 2205 W. Market St. — Charismatic Healing Mass, sponsored by the Flames of Fire Prayer Group, 1-3 p.m. Oct. 16. Call Ben D’Apollo at 336-8123730 or Lorraine Brown at 336-292-5186.

ST. PIUS X CHURCH, 2200 North Elm St. — 50th Anniversary Fall Festival Celebration, 12-10 p.m. Oct. 2, rain or shine.

— Ministry of Mothers Sharing (MOMS), Kloster Center, 7-9 p.m. Oct. 7, will meet for seven weeks. Contact Mary Easton at ebjeaston@yahoo.com or 336-202-1768.

HICKORY ST. ALOYSIUS CHURCH, 921 Second St., N.E. — Charismatic Mass in Spanish, Sebastian Chapel, 7 p.m. Oct. 7. Call Joan Moran at 828-994-0880.

HUNTERSVILLE ST. MARK CHURCH, 14740 Stumptown Road — Centering Prayer Group, Chapel, 8:15 a.m. and 6 p.m. every Wednesday

LINVILLE ST. BERNADETTE MISSION, State Hwy. 105 — Natural Family Planning Class, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 2.

RSVP required to Batrice Adcock, MSN, RN, at cssnfp@ charlottediocese.org or 704-370-3230.

WINSTON-SALEM HOLY FAMILY CHURCH, 4820 Kinnamon Road — Catholics Returning Home, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31.

For non-practicing Catholics interested in returning to the Church. Contact Sean or Kelly Hines at hinesnc@adelphia.net or 336-940-6053.

OUR LADY OF MERCY CHURCH, 1730 Link Road — Transitus, 7 p.m. Oct. 3. Contact Betti P. Longinotti, SFO Minister, at plstudio@clearwire.net or 336-725-3751.

— Morning/Daily Mass with renewal of Franciscan vows and profession promises, 8:30 a.m. Oct. 4. Contact Betti P. Longinotti, SFO Minister, at plstudio@clearwire.net or 336-725-3751.

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Making room for moms

Diocesan News in Brief Intern joins CNH staff CHARLOTTE — The Catholic News Herald is partnering with Belmont Abbey College to offer journalism internships for qualified students to learn more about working in the Catholic media.

The first intern as part of the new program is Morgan Castillo, a junior at Belmont Abbey College.

She is studying English, and is a member of the Honors Institute at Belmont Abbey. When not Castillo in school in Belmont, Castillo lives in Sparta, where she attends St. Frances of Rome Church. She is the daughter of Ralph and Pam Castillo.

“I am very excited about interning with the Catholic News Herald this semester, and I hope to learn more about journalism as a career option, and particularly in a faith-focused, Catholic environment,” Castillo said.

Room at the Inn raises $2M for first college maternity home SueAnn Howell Staff writer

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Food pantry workshop set KERNERSVILLE — The final “Providing Food Assistance with Dignity” workshop will be held Wednesday, Oct. 6, at Holy Cross Church in Kernersville to help churches and community groups meet growing demands for food assistance in their areas. The workshop will be held from 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. and includes lunch and a drawing to award a $200 grant to a participant for a food pantry of their choice. For details, contact Joe Purello, director of the diocesan Catholic Social Services Office of Justice and Peace, at 704-370-3225 or visit www.cssnc.org.

Learn more about the rosary KANNAPOLIS — The 2010 N.C. Rosary Congress will be held Oct. 7-9 at St. Joseph Church in Kannapolis.

Learn more about the rosary and our Blessed Mother from internationally known speakers and enjoy sacred and contemporary music by local vocalists.

Bishop Emeritus William G. Curlin will speak about Mary’s intervention in our world through her apparitions with emphasis on Our Lady of Lourdes.

Rev. Monsignor Mauricio West, vicar general and chancellor of the diocese, will celebrate Mass. The congress will also include exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, a musical rosary, and a rosary fiesta by the Filipino-American Rosary Groups of the Carolinas.

For details, contact Joy Brennan at 704-920-8473 or brennankan@yahoo.com, or Nancy Policastro at 704-960-4121 or nejp2002@hotmail.com.

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Dr. Peter A. Cohen is pictured with a “Holocaust Torah,” rescued from Nazis during World War II and now in the collection of Appalachian State University. Cohen reads from it during the Jewish High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur for the local Jewish congregation, Temple of the High Country. Recently, parishioners of St. Elizabeth of the Hill Country in Boone viewed the historic Torah during a program Cohen led as part of a long-standing Catholic-Jewish partnership the two congregations have fostered.

St. Elizabeth hosts Jewish High Holy Days services Barbara Case Speers and Dr. Peter Cohen Special to Catholic News Herald

BOONE — St. Elizabeth of the Hill Country in Boone recently welcomed the local Jewish community, Temple of the High Country, to celebrate the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

The partnership between the religious communities stretches back more than 20 years ago, and both say it has enriched their faiths.

The church in the mountains has hosted the local Jewish community since 1989, when Dr. Peter A. Cohen, then a professor at Appalachian State University, went to St. Elizabeth’s former pastor asking to use the church for their services. The church instead welcomed them for all of their High Holy Days observances.

Cohen now drives four hours to Boone from Clemson, S.C., where he is a religion professor at Clemson University, to lead the High Holy Days services for the Jewish community. To further the relationship between the two congregations, he hosts special educational programs for St. Elizabeth parishioners to learn more about the Jewish faith. His most recent classes were Sept. 16 and 19 in conjunction with the High Holy Days, and a large group gathered to ask questions and learn from the visiting teacher, as well as view a historic Torah he’d brought with him.

The Torah, which contains the first five books of

the Bible, is read from during each Jewish service.

It is traditionally crafted on kosher animal skin, inscribed by hand using a sharp-quill ink pen and special ink. The Torah that Cohen used at St. Elizabeth, he told parishioners, is a “Holocaust Torah” – rescued from a collection of 1,500 that the Nazis had stolen during World War II. The Nazis had warehoused them to include in a “museum of extinct races.” This Torah had come to be in the collection at ASU’s library as part of a legal trust, and it’s on display when not being used for religious occasions.

Temple of the High Country members are planning to break ground on a synagogue next May, and they hope that the High Holy Days services of 2012 will be celebrated there. But meanwhile, the close partnership between the two congregations continues.

St. Elizabeth’s current pastor, Father Joseph Mulligan, notes, “The bond that the Catholic and Jewish communities have in the high country is highly treasured. It is unlikely that many other places in our land can boast of such a warm and caring relationship across religious lines. For many years now, Dr. Cohen has been an integral part of our faith development programs. In a world of such tension, discord and division, we have created a Jewish-Christian mutuality and cohesiveness that surely God blesses in our presence at St. Elizabeth’s in Boone.”

BELMONT — Room at the Inn is hoping to do something no other prolife pregnancy counseling center has ever done: build a maternity home adjacent to a college campus to serve college students and their babies.

Of the $3 million needed to build the new facility, Room at the Inn has reached the $2 million mark in their capital campaign with more than $330,000 of that coming from the Knights of Columbus.

In fact, the Knights of Columbus have pledged to raise a total of $1 million towards the new center to be built near Belmont Abbey College so they can name the facility the “Father Michael J. McGivney Center For Life,” after their founder.

“Reaching the $2,000,000 is a testament to the amazing generosity of our community, including the North Carolina Knights of Columbus,” said Debbie Capen, Room at the Inn’s assistant director.

Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, is so enthusiastic about the new college-based facility that he invited Jeannie Wray, executive director of Room at the Inn, to be filmed for one of his upcoming shows. Wray was flown by Priests for Life to its headquarters in Staten Island, N.Y. Her interview will be broadcast in an upcoming episode on EWTN. Donations are still needed to meet the $3 million mark to begin construction.

Learn more For details about Room at the Inn and its unique project, go to www.rati.org.

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Evangelizing in a big way MURPHY — The Evangelization Commission of St. William Church in Murphy has been sponsoring a billboard on U.S. 64 for more than a year, as it seeks different ways to welcome non-practicing Catholics back and promote the Church in the western North Carolina area.

Pictures are worth a thousand words, the saying goes, and the current message featuring the Eucharist is reaching hundreds of people each day driving on the busy highway in Murphy.

Its message of “Always Welcome” ties in with the diocese-wide Catholics Come Home campaign launching this fall.

“It is our hope and intent to reach anyone who may be thinking about coming back to the Church, or who is looking for a Catholic church,” said commission member Gail D’Andrea.

The billboard campaign, begun in 2008 through the generosity of commission member Don Edgerton, changes quarterly and most often reflects a particular event

St. Lawrence joins International Day of Prayer for Peace

CHARLOTTE — The 69th Semi-Annual Rosary Rally will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10 at St. Patrick Cathedral, 1621 Dilworth Road East, Charlotte. This 34-year diocesan tradition will include the rosary, a Eucharistic Procession and Benediction.

Homilist will be Bishop Peter J. Jugis. Come honor Our Lady and pray for our country.

For details, or if children aged 7-17 would like to participate in the procession, call Tina Witt at 704-846-7361.

Pray the rosary for reparation MOUNT AIRY — A Public Square Rosary Rally will also be held at noon Saturday, Oct. 16, at the Ararat River Trail on Riverside Drive. (Meet by the new skate park.) This Public Square Rosary, sponsored by America Needs Fatima, will be one of 5,000-plus rallies across the U.S. Join in offering reparation for the sins and offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary and to pray for the conversion of the U.S. Participants will take a short walk on the trail while praying the rosary. Wear comfortable shoes. For details, call Holy Angels Church GREENSBORO — The Respect member Peggy Bowes at 804-814-8738.

Life ministry at St. Pius X Church in Greensboro recently kicked off a “Purple Hat Ministry” to knit caps for abused babies and raise awareness about infant abuse.

The purple caps represent the “period of purple crying,” when many newborns cry inconsolably and parents can become extremely frustrated. The hats remind the new parents to practice extra patience and, organizers hope, reduce the instances of shaken baby syndrome.

Parishioners knitted baby caps, which were delivered to the Women’s Hospital in Greensboro last month, to accompany educational “Purple Crying” DVDs given to new mothers.

The hats were inspired by parishioner Krisan Walker following the success of an existing knitting group with crafting

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‘Catholics Come Home’ workshop held in Charlotte CHARLOTTE — Father John Putnam, judicial vicar and diocesan coordinator for the “Catholics Come Home” campaign, recently conducted a workshop for about 85 diocesan and parish staff who will be involved in the evangelization campaign kicking off this Advent.

The workshop, encouraged by Father Roger K. Arnsparger for members of the education vicariate as well as for parishes, was designed to help staffs recognize the role each plays in evangelization. Four presenters, including Chris Tonsing of St. John Neumann Church and Brion Blais of St. Ann Church in Charlotte, and Donna Smith of St. Mark Church in Huntersville,

baby blankets for crisis pregnancy centers. Walker, who works with disabled and severely abused children, serves on the Infant Fatality and Prevention Team for Guilford County, which funds the distribution of the DVDs to local hospitals.

“The hats will be a visual reminder of protecting and respecting life,” Walker said. “If we educate parents on this ‘period of purple crying,’ then we truly feel we can protect our families from the trauma of infant abuse.”

Hat knitter Lupina Doyle has recruited more than a dozen fellow St. Pius X members to knit more purple caps, and the ministry has received inquiries from other local churches and hospitals about getting involved. For details, go online to www.purplecrying.info.

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complemented Father Putnam’s presentation about the Tribunal with their own life stories of what brought them back to robust involvement in the Church.

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St. Matthew prepares to welcome Catholics home CHARLOTTE — St. Matthew Church’s Welcome Home for Returning Catholics program will host a training session for those interested in being a companion to a returning Catholic from 8 to 11 a.m.

Saturday, Oct. 2, in the New Life Center room 239-241.

St. Matthew developed this program to open its doors even more to those who have

ASHEVILLE — Members of the Basilica of St. Lawrence joined the broader Asheville faith community in commemorating the International Day of Prayer for Peace in front of Asheville City Hall Sept. 22.

The event was heralded by the ringing of downtown church bells, including the basilica’s, for five minutes. People from a variety of religious traditions including Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Buddhism, offered words symbolic of their religion’s attitude toward peace. Alice Cella, representing the basilica, recited the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi and added, “When He said many times in Scripture, ‘Peace I give you. My peace I leave with you,’ Christ Jesus left His legacy of peace, one which we Catholics take seriously and try to steward well.” The event ended with youths planting chrysanthemums around a community “Peace Pole” and a sunset release of white doves during the singing of “Let There Be Peace on Earth,” led by members of the basilica.

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Belmont Abbey College appoints St. Gabriel member to new role BELMONT — Chris Egan, a parishioner at St. Gabriel Church in Charlotte, has been appointed special assistant to the president at Belmont Abbey College. Egan’s focus will be helping the college’s president, Dr. Bill

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Thierfelder, attract more benefactors and resources to the rapidly-growing 134-yearold Catholic college. When Thierfelder took the helm as president at Belmont Abbey College in 2004, the school had fewer than 800 students. Now, enrollment is at an all-time high of 1,741, making it the fastestgrowing college of all N.C. independent colleges and universities. During Egan’s career as an account executive for the retirement services division of Citistreet, a division of Citigroup, he quickly built up a trusted client base of 1,100 customers. He was promoted to training a sales force of more than 400 account executives, and then promoted again to regional manager, where he built an award-winning team of 29 people who brought in $50 million in new assets.

“I’m thrilled to be joining Belmont Abbey College at a time of such positive growth and exciting new possibilities. The world needs a college like Belmont Abbey, which dares to unabashedly say that it finds its center in Jesus Christ,” Egan said.

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St. Joseph’s pastor, Father Jim Collins, stands with Miguel Caraballo, who had the original idea to start the indigent clinic.

‘Samaritan Clinic’ is result of one man’s prayer More than 4,000 indigent patients treated in church clinic over past 15 years Barbara Case Speers Correspondent

NEWTON — Every Saturday a small clinic, tucked away inside the parish hall of St. Joseph Church in Newton, opens its doors to uninsured people who can’t get medical care anywhere else. The waiting room – once not much more than a storage closet – quickly fills up with people hoping to see the doctor, Dr. Douglas Miller.

St. Joseph’s Good Samaritan Clinic has served more than 4,000 people since it opened 15 years ago. That’s about 20-24 people each Saturday, Miller estimates. The clinic doesn’t ask for payment; patients may give a $5 donation, if they like.

Miller and Miguel Caraballo, both parishioners at St. Aloysius Church in Hickory, worked together to open the indigent clinic after Caraballo prayed to Jesus, asking for help for the Hispanic community. Caraballo was seeing Hispanics neglect their health because they had no means to pay a doctor or because they could not speak adequate English. The only place they could turn to was the local hospital’s emergency room.

One day while praying in church, Caraballo says, he heard the word “sacrifice” come from the altar, although no one else was present. His mother-in-law, who worked for Miller, urged him to talk with the doctor.

Miller says he was initially hesitant about the idea of an indigent clinic. He already worked long hours at the local hospital, and he and his wife had 12 children. Volunteer

work wasn’t on his agenda. But in prayer, he realized how the Lord had blessed him and his family, and it was time to give back in thanks to God. Now, he says, his medical profession is rewarding, but nothing compares to his appreciative Hispanic patients, who offer up prayers for him and his family. He cherishes their prayers.

Besides Caraballo, Miller is joined in the volunteer ministry by an administrator and translator, Carmen Morales, and nurses Patty Tucker and Jeanne Gerhardt.

Morales, a member of St. Joseph Church who got involved with the clinic early on, said the work fills something that had been missing in her life. Tucker also joined the group early after hearing God’s call. Tucker took charge of scheduling the nurses for each Saturday, and she has been a mainstay of the clinic ever since.

Tucker said she believes health care is a right for all people, not a privilege for some. The church and its pastor, Father Jim Collins, support the clinic, she said, because, “The Church has the talent to make it happen, here or anywhere.”

“The clinic is a good ministry for doctors and nurses. I support it because it is an outreach to the community, especially those who need assistance in medical care,” adds Father Collins.

St. Joseph’s Good Samaritan Clinic could use donations. They have no computer system, so files are handwritten. A group is coming in soon to build benches in the waiting area for more seating. To volunteer or make a donation, go online to www.stjosephrcc.org.

CHARLOTTE — The Foundation of the Diocese of Charlotte recently awarded $60,000 to the following groups for 20102011: Basilica of St. Lawrence, Asheville, $1,500 for Hispanic Marriage Ministry; Catholic Social Services, Western Region, $5,000 for food pantry services; Holy Family Church, Winston-Salem, $3,000 for food pantry services; Holy Trinity Middle School, Charlotte, $4,000 for learning language program for special needs students; Our Lady of the Americas, Bisco, $2,000 for Hispanic faith formation; Our Lady of Consolation Church, Charlotte, $3,000 for St. Martin de Porres emergency outreach services; Our Lady of Grace Church, Greensboro, $2,500 for St. Vincent de Paul Society financial aid funding; Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Charlotte, $4,000 for food pantry services; Our Lady of the Highways Church, Thomasville, $2,000 for youth faith

formation training; Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Monroe, $5,000 for educational materials and tuition for faith formation; Our Lady of Mercy Church, Winston-Salem, $5,000 for Learning Support Program; Sacred Heart School, Salisbury, $2,500 for tutoring for students; St. Andrew the Apostle Church, Mars Hill, $1,500 for Hispanic Ministry; St. John Neumann Church, Charlotte, $5,000 for Living Your Strengths stewardship program, and $3,500 for the middle school faith formation program GPS4Life; St. Leo School, Winston-Salem, $2,000 for a reading program for ESL and special needs students; St. Michael School, Gastonia, $2,500 for technology equipment for enhanced learning; St. Vincent de Paul Society, Hayesville, $5,000 for financial assistance to those in crisis; and St. Vincent de Paul Society, Murphy, $1,000 for financial assistance to those in crisis.

Monroe among several parishes, schools to get grant MONROE — Presenting a $5,000 grant from the Foundation of the Diocese of Charlotte to Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Monroe Sept. 19 was Marvin Enderle, a member of the parish finance committee who also serves on the diocesan Finance Council. The money, part of the foundation’s annual grants to parishes and programs across the diocese, will be used

to help fund the faith formation program at Our Lady of Lourdes, which has 112 young adults and 199 children for the 2010-2011 school year. The grant will assist in buying educational materials, textbooks and tuition necessary for students to prepare to receive first Communion and the sacrament of confirmation next spring.

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Bishops urge support for the DREAM Act David Hains Director of Communication

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Bishop Peter J. Jugis of the Diocese of Charlotte and Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of the Diocese of Raleigh have asked Catholics across the state to support the DREAM Act. DREAM stands for “Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act.” It provides a pathway to American citizenship for the children of undocumented aliens who live in the U.S. The act applies to young people who entered the U.S. before age 16, who have been here for at least five years continuously, who have earned a high school diploma, and who have no criminal record and are not a threat to national security. The bill would repeal federal restrictions limiting the ability of states to offer these young people in-state tuition and would create a pathway through which undocumented immigrant students could obtain conditional permanent residency. It would allow immigrant students, brought to this country as minors by their parents, the chance to pursue a future through college education or military service, which would benefit them and the country.

The bishops’ letter describes the DREAM Act as “practical, fair and compassionate.”

The letter was e-mailed to more than

Despite defeat, Catholic official sees progress on DREAM Act. See page 18.

3,100 participants in Catholic Voice North Carolina, the non-partisan voice of the state’s two Catholic bishops. Recipients of the e-mail were urged to contact their elected federal representatives to express support for the DREAM Act. Within hours of the e-mail being sent, more than 150 people sent more than 450 e-mails to their congressional representatives.

The DREAM Act was a provision of a defense spending authorization bill that failed to pass in the U.S. Senate. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) then re-introduced it as a standalone bill. Published reports indicate the bill may be taken up after the November election.

The bishops’ support of the DREAM Act conforms to the long-standing support of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for immigration reform that includes a pathway to citizenship as well as secures borders.

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New faith formation center opens in Murphy Morgan Castillo Intern

MURPHY — Last year on Catechetical Sunday, Sept. 20, St. William Church in Murphy began work to renovate an old building next door that had been bequeathed to the parish. The plan: to turn it into a faith formation center for the parish.

The building was originally a trailer that had been altered and expanded over the years. Owner Louise Kilgore bequeathed it to the parish in her will.

After one year of diligent work by many volunteers, the old building has been transformed into a center for catechetical education. An open house for the new faith formation center, called La Casa de Maria Seiglie, was held Sept. 18-19.

The facility was named in honor of parishioner Maria Seiglie. Seiglie has been a catechist at St. William for more than 45 years, preparing children to receive the sacraments of first Communion and first reconciliation.

A donation of $24,000 given by the estate of Mary Capella was critical in making

this project a reality. Capella had been a parishioner of St. William, and her donation enabled the parish to refurbish the faith formation center and subcontract the necessary labor to complete the construction work.

A team of volunteers, including the “St. William Construction and Clean-up Crew,” labored on the project for a year, contributing more than 3,000 hours of volunteer labor.

“The building would not be possible without the efforts of our dedicated, hard-working parishioners,” said Michelle Calascione, parish catechetical leader.

Prior to opening La Casa de Maria Seiglie, St. William’s faith formation program had outgrown its designated space in the parish hall. The classrooms were too small for the growing parish, and the setup was inconvenient.

“Our parish needed a place where faith formation was the focus,” Calascione said.

La Casa de Maria Seiglie contains six classrooms for faith formation classes, and it will house youth group meetings as well as Scripture study.

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MAGGIE VALLEY — Dr. David Peterson, a cardiologist with Western Carolina Cardiology in Clyde, demonstrated the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) to the Knights of Columbus and members of St. Margaret of Scotland Church in Maggie Valley Aug. 25.

The AED was donated to the parish by the Knights of Columbus Council 12478 five years ago, and it is located in the church sacristy for emergency use.

Peterson said cardiovascular disease is the top killer of people in the U.S., among both men and women, and he added that sudden cardiac arrest results in 500,000 deaths per year.

“It is not only among the elderly. Sudden cardiac arrest can result from something as simple as a baseball being thrown into the chest,” Peterson said. Thanks to the Knights, he added, St. Margaret is the first church

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in the Diocese of Charlotte to have such a machine for emergency use.

Peterson, a parishioner at St. Margaret, gave the demonstration because he said that if bystanders don’t start CPR on a cardiac arrest victim or know how to operate the defibrillator, death could result within four minutes. He showed the ease of use of the AED and went over other safety precautions.

“AEDs are easy to use, and the hope is that people will pick them off the wall and use them in an emergency,” he said.

Fellow parishioner and instructor Maxene Lackey, R.N., also gave a CPR refresher training to the group.

The parish has not had to use its AED in the five years it has been in the sacristy.

“But, when the need comes, this will save someone’s life,” said Jasay Ketchum, Grand Knight of the Maggie Valley council.

Carol and Paul Viau are parishioners at St. Margaret of Scotland Church in Maggie Valley.

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A consecration ceremony for the Hispanic Ministry of the Immaculate Heart of Mary was held at St. Mark Church in Huntersville recently. Pictured from left are Elizabeth Alvarracin, Maria Paz Eckmann, Leyda Carrillo, Deacon Edwin Rodriguez, Marta Barrera, Jaqueline Jarrel and Caroly Cashman.

Carmelite Clothing Mass celebrated The Our Lady of Mt. Carmel group of Charlotte held a Clothing Ceremony during Mass Sept. 18 at St. Ann Church in Charlotte. Father Timothy Reid, pastor of St. Ann and spiritual director for the Carmelites, celebrated the Mass.

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Essential functions include: • Providing leadership to the parish Stewardship Commission, serve as a resource for the Pastor, parish staff and ministries in developing Stewardship as a way of life in the parish.

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• Oversee production of all print publications, handle all public relations and marketing programs and develop and manage the church website. Plan and manage and effective parish marketing and communications effort.

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Candidates must be a practicing Roman Catholic Steward of high moral character with knowledge of and adherence to Catholic beliefs and practices. A minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience developing and managing parish Stewardship programs, capital development and fundraising as well as managing the marketing and communications of parish internal and external media relations. A BA or BS degree is required; concentration in business or marketing and communications is a plus. Qualified candidates should submit their resume and cover letter with salary requirements to: Father David DeJulio, Pastor St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church 9724 Cross Creek Blvd.

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Respect Life Month ‘The measure of love is to love without measure’ What can we do?

Pray for the sanctity of life Join thousands across the diocese and the nation Sunday, Oct. 3, for “Life Chain,” to pray for the lives of precious unborn children.

Stand for one hour in peaceful prayer as a witness to the sanctity of each human life.

For details, go to www.LifeChain.net. n In Belmont, Queen of Apostles Church parishioners will gather at North Main Street at North Central Avenue, 2 to 3 p.m. n In Charlotte, the following Life Chains will be: St. Patrick Cathedral: 2-3 p.m., Kings Drive and Morehead Street (suggested parking at The Map Shop, 1500 E. Morehead St.).

St. Matthew Church: 2-3 p.m., Ballantyne Commons Parkway at Rea Road St. John Neumann Church: 1:30-2:30 p.m., Idlewild at Valley Grove Road St. Vincent de Paul Church: 12:45-1:45 p.m., Old Reid Road at Park Road St. Ann Church: 2-3 p.m., Park Road at Hillside Avenue St. Gabriel Church: 2-3 p.m., Providence Road at Sharon Amity Our Lady of Assumption Church: 1-2 p.m.

Shamrock at Crestmont Drive St. Thomas Aquinas Church: 1-2 p.m. n In Greensboro, Life Chain will be 2:30-3:30 p.m., forming along Battleground Avenue, on the north side of Carroll Street beside Oakcrest Center. For details, call Bernie and Elaine McHale at 336-292-1118. n In Hendersonville, Life Chain will be 2:30-3:30 p.m., and the route will be in two locations along U.S. 25: the entrance to Patton Park at Clairmont Avenue and at Hendersonville High School football field. For details, contact Sharon Asbury at sasbury@morrisbb. net or 828-697-6188.

Month-long program begins this Sunday Morgan Castillo Intern

Respect Life Sunday, Oct. 3, will kick off Respect Life Month at Catholic parishes nationwide and throughout the Diocese of Charlotte.

Observed in nearly all 195 dioceses in the U.S., this year’s theme for the annual celebration of human life is: “The measure of love is to love without measure.”

Organized by the U.S. Bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, the Respect Life program began in 1972, and aims to advance the message of the value of human life to Catholics, Christians and peoples of all faiths.

Defending life does not simply encompass pro-life advocacy against the tragedy of abortion, but protecting life for all humans, in every stage and circumstance.

Pope Benedict XVI states, “Life is the first good received from God and is fundamental to all others; to guarantee the right to life for all and in an equal manner for all is the duty upon which the future of humanity depends.”

Respect Life Month reminds Catholics of the magnitude and necessity of the protection of this right.

This week and throughout October, the Catholic News Herald will spotlight local ministries that focus on loving life in all its stages, from conception to natural death. This week: Be Not Afraid aims to counsel and support mothers who face a poor prenatal diagnosis. Coming editions will spotlight the serious problem of sex trafficking in the U.S., the emotional situations

surrounding end-of-life care, and the work of prison ministries in our diocese.

In addition, the U.S. Bishops’ Respect Life Program publishes a packet each year that contains information in English and Spanish, liturgy resources, prayers and more. This year, the issues being highlighted by the U.S. Bishops include the death penalty and Divine Mercy, end-of-life care, infertility treatments in line with Church teaching, sexual trafficking, population control, depression and suicide among youth, and the promise of pro-life youth.

To access this year’s packet, more information about Church teachings, issues, prayer resources and more, visit the U.S. Bishops’ web site at www.usccb.org/prolife/programs/rlp/.

A brochure for this year’s program – available for free from the web site – offers vignettes from the experiences of Catholic families dealing with a teen’s unexpected pregnancy, an elderly relative’s persistent vegetative state and the impending birth of a special-needs child.

“There are no easy answers to challenges like these that families face every day, but there are clear answers, and we know deep down which answers are right and which are wrong,” the brochure states. “Without trying to minimize the enormous sacrifices facing each of these families, the question comes down to this: Is it morally permissible to have a member of our family killed to avoid the tremendous personal sacrifice his or her care requires of us? The answer should be obvious: no.”

n About Abortion: a great resource to educate yourself about abortion, www.abort73.com. n In Huntersville, St. Mark Church members will meet at 2 p.m. at Stumptown at Ranson roads. A parish family picnic is also planned. n In Waynesville (Haywood County), St. John the Evangelist Church members invite everyone to join them in silent prayer and witness for the unborn at 2:30 p.m. on Russ Avenue. Call Christine Ryan at 828926-1331 for details. n In Mint Hill, St. Luke Church members will meet at 12:30-1:30 p.m. at Lawyers Road.

1-800-395-HELP or www.optionline.org.

n Rachel’s Vineyard: Post-abortion recovery, counseling and support, 1-877-467-3463 or www.rachelsvineyard.org. n Rock for Life: reaching young people with the pro-life message through music and education, www.rockforlife.org. n Silent No More: Offering true stories from women who regret their abortions, www.silentnomoreawareness.org.

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n In Winston-Salem, Life Chain will be 2:30-3:30 p.m. at Hanes Mall Boulevard. Gather in front of Home Depot. Call Mary Poehailos at 336-408-1186 for details.

n The right to life Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person – among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being life. (CCC 2270)

n Abortion Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law. (CCC 2271)

n Natural family planning Called to give life, spouses share in the creative power and fatherhood of God. A particular aspect of this responsibility concerns the regulation of procreation.

For just reasons, spouses may wish to space the births of their children. It is their duty to make certain that their desire is not motivated by selfishness but is in conformity with the generosity appropriate to responsible parenthood (CCC 2367-2368).

n Conception methods photo provided by Sandy Buck

Sandy Buck (right), co-founder of Be Not Afraid – Charlotte, holds newborn baby Skylar, who was born Aug. 7 and lived for 99 minutes. Be Not Afraid aids mothers who face a poor prenatal diagnosis.

Disability seminar set for Oct. 5

n CareNet: umbrella organization for crisis pregnancy centers. To find a center near you, go to www.care-net.org. n OptionLine: a 24-hour help line to connect you to a crisis pregnancy center or for counseling, in English and Spanish,

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The National Catholic Partnership on Disability will conduct a live Internet seminar discussing “Poor Prenatal Diagnosis of Lethal and Non-lethal Conditions and Disability,” 1-2:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 5. Topics to be discussed include Church teaching, pastoral, family and medical support, and examinations of medical issues. To register or get details, visit www.ncpd. org or contact Dr. Nancy Thompson at 319-270-6923 or nthompson@ncpd.org.

Techniques that entail the dissociation of husband and wife, by the intrusion of a person other than the couple (donation of sperm or ovum, surrogate uterus), are gravely immoral. These techniques (heterologous

artificial insemination and fertilization) infringe the child’s right to be born of a father and mother known to him and bound to each other by marriage. (CCC 2376) Techniques involving only the married couple (homologous artificial insemination and fertilization) are perhaps less reprehensible, yet remain morally unacceptable. They dissociate the sexual act from the procreative act. The act which brings the child into existence is no longer an act by which two persons give themselves to one another, but one that “entrusts the life and identity of the embryo into the power of doctors and biologists and establishes the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of the human person. (CCC 2377)

n The gift of a child A child is not something owed to one, but is a gift. The “supreme gift of marriage” is a human person. A child may not be considered a piece of property, an idea to which an alleged “right to a child” would lead. In this area, only the child possesses genuine rights: the right “to be the fruit of the specific act of the conjugal love of his parents,” and “the right to be respected as a person from the moment of his conception.” (CCC 2378; cf. CDF Donum vitae II, 8) The Gospel shows that physical sterility is not an absolute evil. Spouses who still suffer from infertility after exhausting legitimate medical procedures should unite themselves with the Lord’s Cross, the source of all spiritual fecundity. They can give expression to their generosity by adopting abandoned children or performing demanding services for others. (CCC 2379)

Local pro-life ministry gains national recognition ‘Be Not Afraid’ assists families facing poor prenatal diagnoses SueAnn Howell Staff writer

CHARLOTTE — For mothers and fathers who have been given heartbreaking news about the health of their unborn child, “Be Not Afraid” is a lifeline.

Co-founders Sandy Buck and Tracy Winsor of “Be Not Afraid” in Charlotte know firsthand what it is like to have an adverse prenatal diagnosis during pregnancy and the need for support while carrying the baby to term. For more than two years, they have diligently provided information and support for families faced with grave or difficult circumstances.

On Oct. 5, their efforts will gain national recognition with a live internet seminar

sponsored by the National Catholic Partnership on Disability, entitled “Poor Prenatal Diagnosis of Lethal or Non-Lethal Conditions & Disability.” It is co-sponsored by the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., and the Catholic University of America.

The training seminar will be held in front of a live audience at the Catholic University of America, featuring a panel of presenters familiar with prenatal medical issues, Church teaching and pastoral, family and medical support.

Buck and Winsor will travel to Washington, D.C., prior to the webinar to participate in a question-and-answer session at the Catholic University of America Oct. 4, then prepare for

the webinar to be held the next day.

“The national attention via the webinar is the culmination of years of work,” Winsor says.

A parent support specialist, Winsor will serve as a presenter on the panel during the webinar.

“Sandy and I are also working with Monica Rafie (founder of BeNotAfraid.net, which opened in 2002) on a pastoral care guide for parents carrying to term and a ministry development guide,” Winsor adds.

Be Not Afraid services have been approved by the bishops in the dioceses of Richmond, Va., and Charleston, S.C., where sister services are being offered to families there.

BNA mentoring programs for lay ministers are also taking place in the diocese of Lafayette, La., and the Archdiocese of New York.

“We are also doing some long-distance support for moms in Georgia and Florida,” adds Winsor.

Be Not Afraid Charlotte offers free counseling and support services to all families. More information can be found at www.benotafraid.net/nc.

The NCPD, which is coordinating the live webinar from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 5, is offering the event to provide information to help families and faith communities address the issues of poor prenatal diagnoses and disabilities so that they can become better educated and formed in our faith. There is a $30 fee for the webinar for those who are not affiliates of NCPD or members/constituents of the webinar partners. Go to www.ncpd. org for more information and to register.

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Priest jubilee Mass celebrated A jubilee Mass for priests of the Diocese of Charlotte who are marking their 25-, 50- and 55-year anniversaries of priestly ordination this year was celebrated by Bishop Peter J. Jugis (center) at St. Patrick Cathedral in Charlotte Sept. 14. Bishop Emeritus William G. Curlin; Rev. Monsignor Mauricio West, chancellor and vicar general of the diocese; and more than 20 priests concelebrated the Mass. Pictured with Bishop Jugis are (from left): Father James Byrne, OSFS; Father Vincent Smith, OSFS; Father Thomas Clements; Father Kieran Neilson, OSB; Father Francis Reese, SJ; Father James Solari and Father Brian Cook.

St. Ninian tartan.

Before my trip to Scotland Sept. 6-17, I read all I could in the news about the historic papal visit to the U.K. Sadly, it was not all that complimentary. Britain is a very secular country in the 21st century.

People were upset at Pope Benedict’s stance against contraception, homosexuality and women’s ordination. In other words, they were against the pope for espousing Catholic teaching.

As I arrived in Scotland, and the time drew closer to the Holy Father’s arrival, I feared for the reception that he would find.

I couldn’t help but think of Luke 18:8, when Jesus asks whether He would still find faith on the earth when He returns. Would Benedict find the faith when he arrived in Scotland? The papers were reporting that local parishes were having trouble giving away their allotted tickets to the Glasgow Mass.

Catholics, according to the news media, simply were not that interested in their pope.

But the press was wrong.

I was in Glasgow Sept. 16 to attend the Mass at Bellahouston Park. As I walked closer to the park, I was looking for the massive protests the media had predicted. I saw only one man holding a sign opposing pedophila (no arguments there).

In contrast, I saw thousands of pilgrims, from school children to the elderly, gathering together hours before the Mass began.

The crowd was estimated at between 65,000 and 100,000. People were enthusiastically waving Scottish flags, Vatican flags, even German flags, and banners that read “Benedict XVI, Welcome to Scotland.”

When the popemobile appeared, it was as if a rock star had entered the arena, not an elderly German professor. The love the crowd felt for Benedict was palpable.

I talked to a man there who had been in Edinburgh earlier in the day and witnessed the St. Ninian’s Day parade. He told me that the pope had been wearing a scarf in the St. Ninian tartan that I had designed.

“That gesture,” he told me, “the pope wearing the tartan, really meant a lot to the Scottish people, Catholic and non-Catholic alike.”

Later, in my correspondence with people in the Scottish Catholic media office, I was told that the Holy Father was very touched by the welcome he received in Scotland.

Pope Benedict XVI’s message to the Scottish people, which he delivered in the Gaelic language at the end of his homily, was “God’s peace and blessing to you all; God surround you; and may God bless the people of Scotland!”

The message the Catholics of Scotland sent to their Good Shepherd by their welcome was: “We welcome you. We love you. Don’t believe what the talking heads say. We are here, keeping the flame of the faith alive.” I was very pleased, and consider myself blessed, to be there with them.

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CDA installs new officers in Cherokee Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court of St. Mary, Mother of God 2534, celebrated the installation of its new officers with a Mass Aug. 14 at Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission in Cherokee. Pictured above, Father Shawn O’Neal, pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Joseph Church in Bryson City, was the celebrant and homilist, and concelebrating was Father Alejandro Ayala, pastor of St. Mary, Mother of God Church in Sylva. With them is Cathey Harrison, recording secretary for the court. Also attending the Mass were: Diane Clarke Hawkins, district deputy; Gwendolen Parris, court regent; Patricia Cross, proxy for Glenda Jarrett, vice regent; Lorraine Beauchemin, past vice regent; Sheila Storey, state regent; Joan Powers, financial secretary; Magdelena Weichel, treasurer; and Rita Goffinet, past recording secretary. Father O’Neal serves as the court chaplain.

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On TV n Sunday, Oct. 3, 10-11 p.m.

EDT (EWTN) “Strengthening Marriages.” Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage, joins host Franciscan Father Michael Scanlan and panelists Regis Martin and Scott Hahn, all of the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. They discuss the nature of the current marriage crisis in the West, and they examine what Catholics can do to protect the institution of marriage.

‘Alpha and Omega’ Opposites are forced to become allies when two kidnapped wolves, disciplined and serious Kate (voice of Hayden Panettiere) and free-spirited, fun-loving Humphrey (voice of Justin Long), embark on a challenging journey to find their way home. Despite colorful animation and eye-popping 3-D effects, co-directors Anthony Bell and Ben Gluck’s adventure falls back on a tired formula of bathroom humor, slapstick action and wisecracking characters. Potty jokes aside, basically harmless fun for the entire family.

Catholic News Service: A-I (general patronage), Motion Picture Association of America: PG (parental guidance suggested)

‘Devil’ Rapidly fizzling horror entry in which Satan stalks an elevator stuck between floors in a Philadelphia high-rise. Director John Erick Dowdle, working from a story by M. Night Shyamalan, puts reliable scream queen Bojana Novakovic and a handful of others through some decidedly less-than-scary paces. Fleeting crude and crass language, dubious use of Catholic imagery.

CNS: A-III (adults), MPAA: PG-13 (parents strongly cautioned – some material may be inappropriate for children younger than 13)

‘Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole’ 3D-animated adventure in which, after being kidnapped and enslaved by a force of militaristic owls led by a scheming queen (voice of Helen Mirren), a plucky owlet (voice of Jim Sturgess), accompanied by a diminutive fellow captive (voice of Emily Barclay), escapes and embarks on a quest to enlist the help of a legendary group of heroic warrior owls to defeat the evildoers. Director Zack Snyder’s engaging adaptation of the first three novels in Kathryn Lasky’s popular “Guardians of Ga’Hoole” series of children’s books. Intense scenes of animal combat preclude endorsement for the youngest of this otherwise unobjectionable tale.

CNS: A-II (adults and adolescents), MPAA: PG (parental guidance suggested) — Catholic News Service

The N.C. Council of Churches has partnered with local filmmaker Charles Thompson on the documentary “Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos.” The film chronicles two towns, one in Guatemala and the other in Florida, linked by immigration, family and work. photo provided by the N.C. Council of Churches

Immigration documentary captures voices on the border ‘Brother Towns’ partnership between N.C. churches and filmmaker Chris Liu-Beers Special to Catholic News Herald

The N.C. Council of Churches and documentary filmmaker Charles Thompson have partnered for a statewide series of showings of Thompson’s immigration saga “Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos.”

Throughout October and November, from Asheville to Wilmington, audiences can watch Thompson’s film and then take part in discussions about immigration.

“Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos” tells the story of two towns, Jacaltenango in Guatemala and Jupiter, Fla., linked by immigration, family and work. It traces the paths of people who travel thousands of miles from home in the hopes of making a living and being able to send money back to their families. While conducting graduate field research in Jacaltenango, Thompson realized violence and economics had driven thousands of people from the Guatemalan town to Florida. His film captures that as well as the voices of people opposed to undocumented immigrants and advocates for helping migrants.

“Our country wouldn’t be where it is today without immigrants.

The question that we hope to address with this film and related discussions is how we can all live together in this complex and globalizing world,” said Thompson, director of undergraduate programs at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies.

Chris Liu-Beers is a program associate for the N.C. Council of Churches.

See the premiere Join the N.C. Council of Churches and local filmmaker Charles Thompson for the premiere of his documentary “Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos.” It will be shown: n Oct. 7: Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte (cost: $3 per person) n Oct. 19: Appalachian State University, Boone n Nov. 1: First Congregational UCC, Asheville n Nov. 16: N.C. A&T University, Greensboro All showings begin at 7 p.m. and all except for the Levine Museum showing are free. For details, go to www.nccouncilofchurches.org or www. brothertowns.com.

n Monday, Oct. 4, 9-10:30 p.m. EDT (PBS) “A Letter to Elia.” In this episode of the series “American Masters,” Martin Scorsese explores the life of celebrated director Elia Kazan (1909-2003), probing Kazan’s sense of himself as an immigrant and an outsider and recounting Kazan’s influence on his own work. (TV-PG: parental guidance suggested) n Tuesday, Oct. 5, 6:30 p.m.

EDT (EWTN) “The Last Appeal: Faustina, Apostle of Divine Mercy.” Andrea Syglowski and Caitlin Moreland star in the story of a peasant girl chosen to spread the message of the Divine Mercy to the world. n Wednesday, Oct. 6, 6:30 p.m. EDT (EWTN) “Francis and Clare of Assisi.” Be transported to medieval Assisi and experience the dramatic conversions of St. Francis and St. Clare. n Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1 p.m., and Thursday, Oct. 9, 8 p.m.

EDT (EWTN) “Faustyna.”

About the life of St. Faustina, the apostle of Divine Mercy.

John Mulderig writes for the Catholic News Service. More reviews are online at www.usccb.org/movies.

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Schools Briefs Miss Teen N.C. visits BMHS GREENSBORO — Miss Teen North Carolina, Lauren Matz, joined Pure Fashion of The Triad Sept. 19 for its kickoff at Bishop McGuinness High School in Kernersville. Matz spoke to the young women about her personal journey to becoming Miss Teen N.C. and her current work as a leader in the community to promote support of individuals with mental and physical disabilities.

The 2010-2011 Pure Fashion sevenmonth training program by the faith-based organization features several seminars and training sessions for young women about etiquette, public speaking, make-up application and modeling, prepping participants for the finale show in March 2011.

“The Pure Fashion program is a fun, fashionable means to unite and strengthen families to remain above society’s negative influences,” said event organizer Trish Klier.

Middle School Youth Day coming up Oct. 16 CLEMMONS — The Diocese of Charlotte’s Youth Ministry will host the Middle School Youth Day for grades 6, 7 and 8 Saturday, Oct. 16. The event will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Holy Family Church in Clemmons. Learn about Jesus, the Church and our faith, and enjoy “extreme” games, music, workshops, prayer, new friends and good food. Cost is $25 and includes lunch.

Call the Office for Youth Ministry at 704-370-3259 or e-mail Paul Kotlowski, director for Youth Ministry, at pjkym@ymail.com.

MACS open house dates set CHARLOTTE — Open house dates for all MACS schools are as follows: n All elementary schools: 1:30-3:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, and 9 a.m.noon Tuesday, Oct. 19 n Charlotte Catholic High School: 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24 n Holy Trinity Catholic Middle School: 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 31, and 9-11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3 We welcome your school’s news. E-mail items to Editor Patricia Guilfoyle at plguilfoyle@ charlottediocese.org.

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Cheering for the home team St. Gabriel students pose in front of a banner that reads “St. Gabe’s cougar spirit.” More than 600 people from the school showed support for Charlotte Catholic High School by attending a family tailgate event Sept. 10 when CCHS defeated Charlotte Latin.

K4J kicks off with lesson about St. Peter Students at Our Lady of Grace School in Greensboro recently enjoyed a kickoff assembly for the school’s new K4J (Kids 4 Jesus) program. The program reinforces the religion curriculum of the school through activities related to virtues and saints. Students in pre-kindergarten through the fifth grade will enjoy activities each month that will be coordinated by parent volunteers and classroom teachers. Middle school students will work as captains for the program and assist in skits, public announcements and assemblies. Pictured are Zarek Sobkowski as “Vice” and Noah Williams as “St. Peter/ Fisherman” as eighth-grade students performed a skit for students to learn about St. Peter and the virtue of loyalty as he listened to the call from God to go out to become a fisherman of friends. To do this, Peter had to “Put Vice on Ice and Net Friends for Christ.”

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OLG students receive Miraculous Medals During the first Mass of the 2010-2011 school year, all of the students at Our Lady of Grace School in Greensboro received Miraculous Medals donated by the Mission Effectiveness Committee, part of Our Lady of Grace Church. After Father John Eckert blessed the medals, the students walked down the aisle to have Father Eckert place the medals, hung from a string, around their necks. The Medal of the Immaculate Conception is popularly known as the “Miraculous Medal.” It is unique because the design was revealed by the Blessed Virgin in apparitions to Sister Catherine Laboure (now St. Catherine) in 1830 in France. The Virgin Mary said that special graces would be granted to all who wear the medals, especially around their necks. Each student was asked to wear the medal daily to remember that Our Lady watches over and protects all of them, in much the same way as does their immediate family, their church family and their school family.

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Archbishop Wuerl to guide Anglican groups joining U.S. Church Vatican aims to create ways Anglicans can join Church yet retain distinctive practices Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has named Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, D.C., to guide the incorporation of Anglican groups into the Catholic Church in the U.S. His appointment was announced Sept. 23 by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C. In this position, the archbishop is a delegate of the congregation and heads the U.S. bishops’ ad hoc committee charged with assisting the Vatican congregation in implementing the apostolic constitution “Anglicanorum Coetibus” (“Groups Wuerl of Anglicans”), which provides for creating personal ordinariates for Anglicans who want to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church.

A personal ordinariate is a canonical structure similar to a diocese that covers the area of a bishops’ conference. It allows Anglicans to join the Church while retaining their distinctive patrimony and liturgical practices.

The constitution was issued by Pope Benedict XVI last November. No ordinariates have been established anywhere yet, according to Vatican officials.

The announcement about Archbishop Wuerl said that the ad hoc committee’s duties are to facilitate implementation of the apostolic constitution in the U.S. and “assess the level of interest in such an ordinariate” in the U.S. Other members of the ad hoc committee are Bishop Kevin W. Vann of Fort Worth, Texas, and Bishop Robert J. McManus of Worcester, Mass. The committee will be assisted by Father Scott Hurd, who was ordained an Episcopal priest in 1993, joined the Catholic Church in 1996 and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., in 2000.

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Bishops urge HHS not to mandate contraception, sterilization coverage Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two officials of the U.S. bishops’ Office of General Counsel have told the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that it should not mandate that group and individual health plans include coverage of contraception or sterilization as part of what the federal agency considers preventive care for women.

“These drugs, devices and procedures prevent not a disease condition, but the healthy condition known as fertility,” said Anthony Picarello and Michael Moses, general counsel and associate general counsel, respectively, at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

They said contraception and sterilization “pose significant risks of their own to a woman’s life and health; and a federal program to mandate their inclusion would pose an unprecedented threat to rights of conscience.”

Picarello and Moses made the comments in a Sept. 17 letter hand-delivered to the HHS Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight. Their letter was sent as HHS continued its deliberations on a final list of required preventive services under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health care reform bill signed into law by President Barack Obama in March.

Picarello and Moses said contraception cannot be considered “preventive” on the grounds of preventing abortion because

“abortion is not itself a disease condition, but a separate procedure that is performed only by agreement between a woman and a health professional.”

“Studies have shown that the percentage of unintended pregnancies that are ended by abortion is higher if the pregnancy occurred during use of a contraceptive,” they said.

“Prescription contraception as well as chemical and surgical sterilization are particularly inappropriate candidates for inclusion under mandated ‘preventative services’ for all health plans,” they said.

Such services are not like other preventive measures, for example blood pressure and cholesterol screening, diabetes screening, counseling with regard to tobacco use and obesity, and screening for sexually transmitted diseases, they said.

“These services are emphasized because they can prevent serious or life-threatening conditions that once they do occur, will demand treatment to cure or reverse them,” they said. “This rationale simply does not apply to contraception and sterilization.”

They also noted that such a mandate would threaten “rights of conscience for religious employers and others who have moral or religious objections to these procedures. In this regard, the (Obama) administration’s promise that Americans who like their current coverage will be able to keep it under health care reform would be a hollow pledge.”

Contraception and sterilization “pose significant risks of their own to a woman’s life and health; and a federal program to mandate their inclusion would pose an unprecedented threat to rights of conscience.”

Anthony Picarello and Michael Moses USCCB general counsel and associate general counsel, respectively

Despite defeat, Catholic official sees progress on DREAM Act Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Although the U.S. Senate failed to pass legislation that would have helped children of undocumented immigrants work toward legal status and get a college education, an official of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops expressed confidence Sept. 24 that the idea “is gaining more support on the merits.”

“These issues take some time to pass, even if the American public is ahead of their elected officials,” said Kevin Appleby, director of migration policy and public affairs for the USCCB Office of Migration and Refugee Services.

He was commenting on the Senate’s 56-43 vote Sept. 21 against a defense authorization bill that included the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors, or DREAM, Act as an amendment.

The measure would have regularized the legal status of those who came to the United States before age 16, lived here at least five years, graduated from a U.S. high school and were pursuing higher education or military service.

According to the Migration Policy Institute, approximately 114,000

young people who have already obtained at least an associate’s degree would be immediately eligible for conditional lawful permanent resident status under the legislation.

Another 612,000 high school graduates could be eligible if they graduated from college or completed two years of military service.

The DREAM Act, introduced in Congress in various forms since 2003, has been supported by Catholic leaders, including North Carolina’s two bishops, and those in Catholic higher education.

Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles, a longtime supporter of the DREAM Act and comprehensive immigration reform, said in his blog that he has met with “enthusiastic young men and women who graduate from a college or university here in Los Angeles, but because they lack legal papers, they cannot find employment. The same is true of these young people who join a branch of the military.

That makes no sense whatsoever.”

“I met recently a young man who just graduated from a major university in Los Angeles with his degree in engineering,” he said.

“He is so anxious to put his education and skills at the service of our country and our community, but lacks legal residency papers.

What a waste of the gifts and talents of these young people all across the country.”

Virginia executes woman; Kentucky execution stayed WASHINGTON, D.C. — Virginia executed 41-year-old Teresa Lewis with a lethal injection Sept. 23, making her the first woman to be executed in the commonwealth since 1912 and only the 12th woman to be put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.

Lewis was convicted of planning the 2002 murders of her husband and 25-year-old stepson. The two men who killed the victims received life sentences.

The Virginia Catholic Conference was among the opponents of her execution and had urged people to petition Gov. Robert McDonnell to change his Sept. 17 decision to deny clemency to Lewis. The alert noted that Lewis had acknowledged her crime and would expect to serve the same sentence as the two men who committed the murders, Matthew Shallenberger and Rodney Fuller.

A last-minute appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court by Lewis’ attorneys to block the execution failed. They argued that her IQ of 72 put her almost at the level of disability that would exempt her from a death sentence.

In Kentucky, the execution of a death-row inmate remained on hold indefinitely after a Kentucky judge stopped it over questions raised about the man’s below-average mental abilities and possible problems with the state’s execution process. In Frankfort, Ky., Franklin County Circuit Court Judge Phillip Shepherd blocked Gregory Wilson’s scheduled Sept. 16 execution, saying “the court has found serious questions about whether all statutory and constitutional requirements have been met.”

Haitian bishops consider program to oversee Church reconstruction WASHINGTON, D.C. — Haitian bishops agreed Sept. 24 to the creation of a broadbased reconstruction program involving

Church partners from around the world that will guide how parishes and Catholic schools destroyed in the January quake are rebuilt.

They were meeting in Miami Sept. 2226 with Catholic officials from the United States, Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guadalupe and Mexico and the Inter-American Development Bank. The bishops were considering the proposal developed over several months primarily by the USCCB and Catholic Relief Services.

The four-day gathering came on the heels of meetings Sept. 20-21 the Haitian bishops had in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, to discuss reconstruction needs and other Church programs. Called the Program for the Reconstruction of the Church in Haiti, the plan would establish a commission with Haitian and international members to review and approve parish projects and ensure that building plans meet construction standards based on appropriate building codes.

CNS | Don Blake, The Dialog

Bishop urges Congress to aid working poor in tax debates WASHINGTON, D.C. — The head of the bishops’ domestic policy committee has urged Congress to make the working poor a priority in current tax-policy debates.

“Too often the weak and vulnerable are not heard in the tax debate,” wrote Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., in a Sept. 20 letter to Congress.

He asked Congress specifically to preserve and improve the child tax credit and the earned-income tax credit. The tax cuts for all individuals, enacted in 2001 and 2003, will expire at the end of the year unless Congress takes action to extend them.

President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress are pushing for an extension of tax cuts for all but the wealthiest Americans, while Republicans want to extend the cuts for all taxpayers.

“Poor children and their families have compelling needs ... yet they often lack

‘40 Days for Life’ begins across the U.S. and in Charlotte Barbara Oliver holds a “40 Days for Life” sign along with others as they pray in front of the Planned Parenthood facility in Wilmington, Del., Sept. 23. This year’s “40 Days for Life” campaign began Sept. 22 and continues with prayer and fasting, peaceful vigil and community outreach until Oct. 31 in hundreds of U.S. cities, including in the Diocese of Charlotte: n Charlotte: Join the prayer vigil outside A Preferred Women’s Health Center, 3220 Latrobe Dr. (located off Wendover Road, between Randolph and Monroe roads in the Arnold Palmer Business Park), from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily, rain or shine.

For details, e-mail 40daysforlifecharlotte@gmail.com or call 704-996-4597. For the latest news, check out the Facebook page “40 Days for Life Charlotte North Carolina.” n Winston-Salem: Join the prayer vigil outside the Planned Parenthood/Forsyth Women’s Clinic, 3000 Maplewood Ave., from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. For details or to volunteer, call Toni Buckler at 336-782-6062 or visit www.40daysforlife.com/ winstonsalem.

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powerful allies and influential advocates,” Bishop Murphy noted.

He particularly stressed the importance of extending the income eligibility requirements for the current child tax credit.

He said if this provision is not continued, 600,000 more children will become poor and 4 million children already in poverty will fall into deeper poverty.

— Catholic News Service

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Highlights of the pope’s visit

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has asked Catholics around the world to use 2011 as a time to reflect on the impact of their work and their free-time pursuits on their family life.

The reflection, he said, should help the Church prepare for the Seventh World Meeting of Families, which will be in Milan May 30-June 3, 2012. “The Family: Work and Celebration” will be the theme of the gallery.

“Work and celebration are intimately tied with family life,” impacting the choices family members make and their relations with each other, with society and with the Church, the pope said in a letter to Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family.

The World Meeting of Families and the Pontifical Council for the Family were established by Pope John Paul II in 1981 when he published his apostolic exhortation, “Familiaris Consortio,” on the role of the Christian family.

Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury embraces Pope Benedict XVI at Westminster Abbey in London Sept. 17. The pope steered clear of ecumenical differences during his visit. In ecumenical terms, he made his biggest impact simply by his historic presence in two places never before visited by a pope: Lambeth Palace and Westminster Abbey.

CNS | Filippo Monteforte, pool via Reuters

Pope urges Catholics to act as light in today’s world OXFORD, England — Against a backdrop of the twinkling London skyline, Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholics to act as a light for those around them in a world “filled with growing noise and confusion.

“No one who looks realistically at our world today could think that Christians can afford to go on with business as usual, ignoring the profound crisis of faith which has overtaken our society or simply trusting that patrimony of values handed down the Christian centuries will continue to inspire and shape the future of our society,” he told a crowd of 80,000 people at a prayer vigil Sept. 18.

“Each of us has a mission, each of us is called to change the world, to work for a culture of life, a culture forged by love and respect for the dignity of each human person.”

Pope expresses sorrow to clergy sex abuse victims LONDON — In a personal meeting with five victims of clerical sexual abuse, the pope expressed his “deep sorrow and shame” over their suffering and promised the Church would do “all in its power” to investigate cases of abuse and safeguard the young. The Sept. 18 meeting was just hours after the pope publicly denounced what he called “unspeakable crimes” committed by some priests against young people. The Vatican said in a statement that during the 30-minute meeting with victims, the pope was “moved by what they had to say and expressed his deep sorrow and shame over what victims and their families had suffered.”

“He prayed with them and assured them that the Catholic Church is continuing to implement effective measures designed to safeguard young people, and that it is doing all in its power to investigate allegations, to collaborate with civil authorities and to bring to justice clergy and religious accused of these egregious crimes,” the statement said.

Pope: British bishops must satisfy spiritual hunger BIRMINGHAM, England — Meeting British Catholic bishops at the end of his visit Sept. 19, the pope said he had spent four days witnessing signs of spiritual hunger that bishops have an obligation to help satisfy. He urged the bishops to give people real spiritual nourishment, not just easy or popular answers to their questions and doubts: “As you proclaim the coming of the kingdom – with its promise of hope for the poor and the needy, the sick and the elderly, the unborn and the neglected – be sure to present in its fullness the life-giving message of the Gospel, including those elements which call into question the widespread assumptions of today’s culture.”

— Catholic News Service

Pope: Reflect on impact of work, free time on family

CNS | Andrew Winning, Reuters

Pope to visit pilgrimage site, consecrate church in Spain

Pope Benedict XVI leads Mass and the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman at Cofton Park in Birmingham, England, Sept. 19. Blessed Newman, a 19th-century theologian and a prolific writer on spiritual topics, left the Anglican Church and embraced Catholicism at age 44. An image of Blessed Newman appears at left.

VATICAN CITY — During his November visit to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela and Barcelona, Spain, Pope Benedict XVI plans to preside over the consecration of Barcelona’s still unfinished yet most famous church, La Sagrada Familia.

The pope is also scheduled to meet with Spanish bishops, the king and queen of Spain, and the prince and princess of Asturias during the Nov. 6-7 visit. He will visit the northern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela, which became an important pilgrim destination in the Middle Ages.

Tradition holds that the remains of the In Glasgow, he donned a tartan scarf (see related apostle St. James the Greater are buried story, page 3), then told Catholics it was not enough to there. The pope’s visit coincides with the live their faith privately; they should defend Church Santiago de Compostela Holy Year, which teachings in the public square. occurs every time St. James’ feast day, July “There are some who now seek to exclude religious 25, falls on a Sunday. belief from public discourse, to privatize it or even to In Barcelona, he will preside over the paint it as a threat to equality and liberty. Yet religion is consecration of La Sagrada Familia, the in fact a guarantee of authentic liberty and respect,” he unfinished masterpiece by Catalan architect said at a Mass with more than 80,000 people.

Antoni Gaudi. Construction of the church The pope’s words were clearly aimed at critics such began in 1882 and it is expected to be as Richard Dawkins, the popular British author who completed by 2025. has championed atheism. But the pope’s most eloquent answer to atheists came in his meeting Sept. 17 in London with some 4,000 Catholic students, when he described belief in God as a “friendship” that can fill one’s life with love of virtue.

“We need to have the courage to place our deepest hopes in God alone, not in money, in a career, in UNITED NATIONS — Ghanaian Cardinal worldly success or in our relationships with others, but Peter Turkson encouraged nations to keep in God. Only he can satisfy the deepest needs of our their commitments to the Millennium hearts,” he said.

Development Goals and said they “should be The beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman used to fight poverty and not to eliminate the in Birmingham Sept. 19 was the central religious event poor.” of the visit. The pope held up Blessed Newman as an Cardinal Turkson, president of the inspiration in two key ways: in the wider culture, for Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, his vision of religion’s “vital” role in society; and in the represented the Vatican at the Sept. 20-22 Church, for his vision of Catholic laity who know their summit of heads of state and government on faith well and can defend it articulately. the Millennium Development Goals, which

In Britain, despite protests, pope gets a fair hearing John Thavis Catholic News Service

LONDON — In terms of his primary objectives – preaching the Gospel to his flock and defending the influence of religion in society – Pope Benedict XVI can look at his four-day visit to Great Britain as a success.

The big question before the Sept. 16-19 visit was whether the German pope would be given a fair hearing in a country where skepticism about religion runs high. The answer was a resounding “yes.” Not only did the pope speak his mind, but he also received unprecedented coverage in the British media.

Papal events were broadcast live, and every newspaper devoted several pages each day to the pope’s words, which focused largely on the right of the Church to have its voice heard in the public square.

The flip side of such interest was that the pope’s critics also had their day in the limelight. Thousands of protesters took to the streets in peaceful but vehement dissent on issues ranging from AIDS and condoms to the Church’s record on sex abuse.

Pope Benedict came to Britain as a teacher, and his lesson plan was clear from the beginning.

In a meeting Sept. 16 with Queen Elizabeth II and about 400 civic and cultural leaders in Edinburgh, Scotland, he warned against “aggressive” forms of secularism that undermine traditional religious values.

Cardinal tells world leaders to fight poverty, not eliminate poor

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October 1, 2010 | charlottediocese.org/catholicnews set out to halve poverty by 2015. Addressing the leaders Sept. 20, the Ghanaian cardinal told them that he spoke not only as a religious leader, but also as an African and a man coming from a poor family.

The summit was convoked to assess the progress made in the past 10 years toward reducing poverty, combating disease, fighting hunger, protecting the environment and improving access to education.

The battle against poverty can be won, but it will require solidarity with the poor, favorable financial and trade policies, and assistance in fighting corruption and promoting good government, the cardinal said. In addition, he said, more work needs to be done to reduce the foreign debt of the world’s poorest countries.

Economic policies and technology alone will not be enough to fulfill the development goals, he wrote. Rather, the international community must work “to expand our vision from the donor-recipient paradigm to see each other for who we are: brothers and sisters with equal dignity and opportunity to access the same markets and networks,” he wrote.

With new government, Church hopes to resolve attacks on priests in poor Mexican state OAXACA, Mexico — Father Carlos Salvador Wotto, an octogenarian priest in this southern Mexican city, was murdered July 28 at Our Lady of the Snows Parish.

State judicial officials attribute his murder to a robbery gone wrong. Church officials in Oaxaca, capital of a culturally rich, but impoverished state of the same name, disagree.

“They’re saying it was a robbery, but there wasn’t really a robbery,” said Father Wilfrido Mayren Pelaez, director of the peace and reconciliation ministry of the Archdiocese of Oaxaca. “They disguised a murder as a robbery. There wasn’t enough money, there weren’t enough things of value taken,” he said.

The murder marked the latest in a series of attacks against priests, who have at times clashed with an outgoing state government controlled for 80 years by a local chapter of the Institutional Revolutionary Party notorious for corruption, coercion and thuggery. But Oaxaca voted for change July 4, opting for a coalition headed by Gabino Cue Monteagudo. And the governor-elect has promised to do away with old party vices, improve governance in one of Mexico’s most-impoverished and least-transparent states, and provide justice in cases of human rights abuses allegedly committed by figures linked to the current administration of Gov. Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. Church officials are among those with high expectations as they press for the crimes committed against priests to finally be fully investigated and resolved.

the good news of salvation in Christ, Pope Benedict XVI said.

“The fundamental law of human perfection and, consequently, the transformation of the world, is the new commandment of love” taught by Jesus Christ, the pope said in his message for World Mission Sunday 2010. The annual observance will be marked Oct. 24 at the Vatican and in most countries.

In his message for the day, the pope focused on how faith in Christ must lead Christians to build strong faith communities, which become signs for the world that it is possible for people of different races and cultures to live and thrive together.

The fact that World Mission Sunday is held in October, the month the Church dedicates

to the rosary, is a further reminder of God’s love for the world, a love that took flesh because Mary said yes to God’s plan, the pope wrote. To be missionaries today and respond to people’s need for hope and their desire to live in a new way means “to become champions of the newness of life made up of authentic relationships in communities founded on the Gospel,” he said. “In a multiethnic society that is experiencing increasingly disturbing forms of loneliness and indifference, Christians must learn to offer signs of hope and to become universal brethren, cultivating the great ideals that transform history and, without false illusions or useless fears, must strive to make the planet a home for all peoples.”

— Catholic News Service

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Bishop Peter J. Jugis

Living the mystery of the Eucharist

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hank you for your participation in our diocesan Eucharistic Congress last month. Our diocese came together as one family around the Eucharist to celebrate our faith and our love for the Lord. One parish in particular had six busloads of parishioners who came to the Congress!

Our priests were very generous in offering the sacrament of confession to us during the Congress. All told, dozens of hours of confessions were heard by the priests. In addition, many, many volunteers provided countless hours of volunteer service for the Congress. Overall, it was the selfless sacrifices of scores of people that contributed to the tremendous blessings of the Congress for everyone.

In his apostolic exhortation, “Sacramentum caritatis,” Pope Benedict XVI tells us that the Eucharist is a mystery to be lived.

The mystery of the Eucharist is to be a part of our daily living. This is a very rich concept that has many ramifications for our lives. Here I offer but a few ideas of what it means to live the mystery of the Eucharist.

To live the mystery of the Eucharist means to bring Christ’s mercy and love into our dealings with others.

When you consider that in the sacrifice of Christ, God shows us His merciful love, then living the Eucharistic sacrifice means showing His merciful love to others. We recall Jesus’ words: “Be merciful just as your Father is merciful.” During the Mass we ask for mercy for ourselves. At the beginning of Mass we say: “Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.” Before receiving Holy Communion we again ask for mercy: “Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the jugis, SEE page 24

St. Thérèse and the monk

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By the numbers

Rico De Silva

Correct answers on religion: Atheists on andReligion agnostics, Jews and Mormons Correct Answers are and among thearehighest-scoring groups Atheists and agnostics, Jews Mormons among the highest-scoring asked questions about religion. groups when asked 32when questions about 32 religion.

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Does God have a sense of humor?

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once saw a newspaper cartoon that read: “And there was silence in Heaven when God sneezed.” After my initial chuckle, instead of disWASHINGTON, D.C. — Catholics know about as much missing the thought of it as absurd, I as Americans in general about religion, getting right only pondered: Does God have a sense of half of the 32 questions in a survey for the Pew Forum on humor? And if He does, what makes Religion & Public Life.

Him laugh?

In the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey released Sept.

As the Creator of the Universe and 28 at a Washington symposium on religious literacy, “giver of all good gifts” (Jas 1:17), all Pew found that those most likely to answer the most of creation is worthy of our praise bequestions correctly were atheists and agnostics. Panelists cause it reflects God’s infinite goodness suggested that might be the result of the analytical and profound beauty. I feel laughter process and study that many people go through before is a reflection of God’s joy and an they decide to define themselves as atheist or agnostic. integral part of His “personality.” We That group on average answered 20.9 of 32 questions read in Genesis that when God created correctly, compared to the total average of 16; Jews all things, He saw that it was “very averaged 20.5 questions correct and Mormons, 20.3. White good” (Gn 1:31). Therefore, if a sense of evangelical Protestants got an average of 17.6 questions humor is good to have, and since God is correct, while white Catholics averaged 16 correct answers All-Good, then He must have the best and Hispanic Catholics averaged 11.6 correct answers. sense of humor. (Seriously.)

Black Protestants got 13.4 questions correct, while white Laughter, like music, has a universal mainline Protestants answered 15.8 questions right. appeal, and, as with music, humor is The questions tested general knowledge about various a matter of personal preference. Just religions, about U.S. laws affecting religion and about key mentioning the name “Charlie Chapfigures and beliefs of major religions. For instance, overall, lin” is enough to put a smile on the at least two-thirds of those surveyed knew that public face of almost anyone over 60. Howschool teachers cannot lead a class in prayer; that Mother ever, I hear some women don’t find the Teresa was Catholic; that Moses was the Bible figure Three Stooges amusing. The comedic who led the exodus from Egypt; that Jesus was born in genius of the Marx Brothers and “I Bethlehem; and that most people in Pakistan are Muslim. Love Lucy” are all-time classics. The Only about half of the entire sample knew that the irreverent humor of George Carlin “golden rule” is not one of the Ten Commandments; that and Richard Pryor was descriptive of the Quran is the Islamic holy book; that Joseph Smith was the rebellious ’60s and ’70s, and it had a Mormon; that the Dalai Lama is Buddhist; and that the an either “love it or hate it” dimension four Gospels are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. to it. The widespread appeal of TV’s Fewer than one-third of the whole group correctly “Seinfield” defined comedy during the answered that most people in Indonesia are Muslim; ’90s. that public school teachers are legally allowed to read God has given us great comics not from the Bible in class as an example of literature; and only to make us laugh out loud, but that only Protestants, not Catholics, teach that salvation also to give us a foretaste of Heaven, comes through faith alone.

“Where God will wipe away every tear” On the questions specifically about Catholicism, 55 (Rev 7:17). percent of Catholics correctly identified the church Saints have also used humor to help teaching about transubstantiation, that the bread and them fight the good fight in this “valley wine used in Communion become the body and blood of of tears.” St. Teresa of Avila, a DocChrist during the consecration. Overall, about 40 percent tor of the Church, constantly prayed, CNS graphic | Nancy Wiechec got that question right.

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y relationship with St. Thérèse skyrocketed when I unexpectedly ran into her during my first trip to St. Patrick Cathedral in New York City, when I was studying sociology at St. Bonaventure University.

Immediately upon opening the large, heavy wooden doors of the cathedral, the childlike healing face of St. Thérèse looked at me. It was the 100th anniversary of her death and I was looking at a large postersized photo of her on a stand. Her eyes, the size of lakes, filled the room with her spirit.

Her head and shoulders were habited in the familiar Carmelite dress.

It was as if the room was filled with mystical smoke from heaven and her friendship. And as I walked past her through the smoke, it was as if I went deeper into my call to become a religious.

Her autobiography, “A Story of A Soul,” has had a great impact on my life. St. Thérèse wrote the book out of obedience, and thank goodness she did. Her book elevated her to become known as one of the greatest saints of modern times. Even though she never left her Carmel in Lisieux, France, her autobiography is one of the finest spiritual classics of our time and has been read by millions of people all over the world.

St. Thérèse is famous for her “Little Way.” It appears to me that the heart of her teaching comes from a passage from a letter that she wrote to Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart: “I was still being tormented by this question of unfulfilled longings and it was a distraction in my prayer, when I decided to consult St. Paul’s Epistles in hopes of getting an answer. It was the 12th and 13th chapters of First Corinthians that claimed my attention,” St. Thérèse wrote.

St. Thérèse expounded on the Scripture passages, noting that St. Paul explains that all the gifts of heaven, even the most perfect of them, without love, are absolutely nothing. Charity is the best way of all because it leads straight to God. “Now I was at peace; when St. Paul was talking about the different members of the Mystical body I couldn’t recognize myself in any of them; or rather I could recognize myself in all of them. But Charity – that

Brother Edward Mancuso was the key to my vocation…. Love, in fact is the vocation which includes all others; it’s a universe of its own, comprising all time and space – it’s eternal. … To be nothing else then love, deep down in the heart of Mother Church; that’s to be everything at once – my dream wasn’t a dream after all,” St. Thérèse concluded.

My dream was to become a monk at Belmont Abbey, but it didn’t happen overnight.

After I left St. Bonaventure University I went back home to New Jersey, where I worked in advertising and lived on my own. Two years later I stumbled across a Benedictine monastery. The very first moment I stepped onto the grounds, I felt a mini-explosion in my heart. The love of Christ was leading me in an unmistakable way to look towards the Benedictine life.

I found my way to Belmont Abbey, and it was as if God was guiding me. The love that opened in my heart was just as St. Thérèse described: a driving force of love that motivates us to be charitable, to be obedient, to do things for others in love.

When I arrived at Belmont Abbey, I found out what obedience truly was, and through it I received a gift from God: the most peace I have ever had. Through my obedience to the abbot and the monastery and with the peace and love I now have, I feel a joy and a motivation to be charitable and to spread the love of Christ.

St. Thérèse was a big part of my call. Her prayers helped get me here. She shows each of us that this is what the call of Christ in our lives can do.

Brother Edward Mancuso is a Benedictine monk at Belmont Abbey in Belmont.

Letter to the editor

Thank you for your story Thanks for your recent article concerning pet therapy. I am currently working with my 14-pound dog Buddy for pet therapy certification. Buddy is one step away from certification.

For anyone interested in pet therapy, I have found two online resources in the Charlotte area. If you think your dog would be a good therapy pet, e-mail info@handsoncharlotte.org or go online to ptincpettherapy.shutterfly.com. Hands On Charlotte asks only that your pet be friendly and well behaved and likes to be petted. Pet Therapy in the Carolinas Inc. requires that your pet be certified by passing a test followed by two observations.

I have found pet therapy to be very rewarding. I know I get back far more than I give.

William J. Barker lives in Charlotte.

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Peggy Bowes

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Try a rosary workout

’m thrilled to share my passion for exercise and devotion to the rosary in a regular column for the Catholic News Herald. As a devout Catholic and a fitness professional, I view exercise as a means to care for our Temple of the Holy Spirit. We are all created in God’s image, and our human person – body and soul – is a gift from God. It is of utmost importance to care for both.

One way to accomplish this is by praying the rosary during exercise.

October is the Month of the Rosary – a perfect opportunity to try a rosary workout. It takes about 20 minutes to pray the rosary, which is also the minimum time most experts recommend for aerobic exercise.

As Catholics, we understand the blessings and benefits of praying the rosary, but why combine it with a workout?

We’ve all heard that rhythmic exercise, such as walking, running or biking, relieves stress, improves restful sleep, prevents disease and boosts energy.

What we don’t often hear are the psychological benefits. Exercise can promote clearer thought and a heightened awareness. This sharpness and clarity of mind can be directed toward meditative prayer with a little practice.

I wrote a book called “The Rosary Workout” based on this concept, and I can testify that the combination of exercise and the Blessed Mother’s favorite prayer is powerful.

You don’t have to be a runner or an athlete to enjoy the benefits of a rosary workout. Try praying the rosary while you walk during your lunch break at work, after dropping off the kids at the bus stop, or as a family after dinner.

An audio version of the rosary can be downloaded to your MP3 player or smart phone for use at the gym or on the trail.

With a little discipline and perseverance, your efforts will pay off.

You’ll have more energy, you’ll sleep better, and perhaps you’ll notice a little more room in your jeans. More importantly, you’ll experience the many blessings and benefits associated with regular rosary prayer as you “glorify God in your body.” (1 Cor 6:20).

Peggy Bowes is a member of Holy Angels Church in Mt. Airy, and the author of “The Rosary Workout.” Find more information at www.rosaryworkout.com. Her column will appear the first week of each month.

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JUGIS: The Eucharist FROM PAGE 22

world, have mercy on us.” We, who receive God’s mercy through the sacrifice of Christ, must be ready to extend His love and mercy to others.

To live the mystery of the Eucharist also means to bring Christ’s peace and reconciliation into our dealings with others.

When you consider that in the sacrifice of Christ, God has reconciled us to Himself and established us in peace with Himself, then living the Eucharistic sacrifice means extending His peace and reconciliation to others. During the Mass, with the sacrifice of peace and reconciliation present on the altar, we are told to offer each other the sign of peace, and we turn to those nearest to us to offer Christ’s peace. At the end of Mass we are told to go in peace. In addition to daily actions of peace and reconciliation with others, making use of the sacrament of reconciliation is a large part of living the Eucharistic call to peace and reconciliation.

To live the mystery of the Eucharist also means to live a life of praise and thanksgiving to God. We praise God for His greatness

DE SILVA: Humor FROM PAGE 23

St. Ignatius of Loyola’s motto was “To seek God in all things and above all things.”

I propose we could look for God and His humor in all things, to help lighten life’s

and His goodness, and we thank God for the many blessings we have received through the sacrifice of His Son. During the Mass we are reminded that Jesus himself celebrated the Last Supper in a spirit of praise and thanks to God: “He took bread in His sacred hands, and looking up to heaven to You His Almighty Father, He gave You thanks and praise.” A Eucharistic spirit of praise and thanksgiving to God is not only what we live in our daily lives, but it is also what we bring back with us to the celebration of the Mass, as we say in the Eucharistic Prayer: “We come to you, Father, with praise and thanksgiving, through Jesus Christ your Son.” To live the mystery of the Eucharist also means to be humble. Jesus chooses to come to us in such a humble way. He is really present under the humble species of bread and wine. His sacrifice of the cross is the extreme sign of His humbling of Himself.

During the Mass, one of the priest’s prayers refers to the humility with which we offer the Eucharistic sacrifice: “Lord God, we ask you to receive us and be pleased with the sacrifice we offer you with humble and contrite hearts.”

The Holy Father wants us to live the mystery of the Eucharist in our daily lives.

To live out Christ’s Eucharistic sacrifice burdens.

The late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen once said the only thing Jesus reserved for Heaven while on earth was His laughter. Because as Sheen said, “The one thing that will make Heaven, Heaven, is to see God’s smile.”

Rico De Silva is a member of St. Gabriel Church in Charlotte.

St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church presents Day of Reflection featuring

Dr. Scott Hahn Saturday, October 30 10 am – 4 pm Internationally known theologian, author, speaker and professor at Franciscan University, Dr. Hahn will give three talks about the Holy Trinity, the sacraments, and how God empowers us in difficult times.

NOTE: Tickets must be purchased in advance - $10 Please bring a bagged lunch. Book and CD sales.

Call 704-549-1607 for details.

Complete the order form and mail with cash or check and a stamped, self-addressed envelope by October 20 to the address below. Tickets will be mailed to you.

St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, 1400 Suther Road, Charlotte, NC 28213 Attention: Scott Hahn Event. Please make checks payable to St. Thomas Aquinas Church.

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charlottediocese.org/catholicnews | October 1, 2010 means to extend to others what we have received in the Eucharist: Christ’s love and mercy, and His peace and reconciliation. To live out Christ’s Eucharistic sacrifice means to be humble and to live a life of praise and thanksgiving to God for His great blessings.

Next year’s Eucharistic Congress will be celebrated Sept. 23-24, 2011, with the theme: “Do this in memory of me.” May our Good Shepherd continue to feed us, and make us strong in faith, hope and charity as we live the mystery of the Holy Eucharist.

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