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Serving Catholics in Western North Carolina in the Diocese of Charlotte

Volume 5 Number 12 • December

8,

1995

Welcomes Agreement To Resume

Cardinal Daly

Northern By AGOSTINO

Irish

BONO

Peace Talks

with disarmament being an agenda item. The Republic has supported that position. Britain and its Northern Irish supporters have said that disarmament should be a condition for allowing Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing, to enter peace negotiations. Britain and Ireland signed a Nov. 28 agreement establishing a "twin track" approach by which the international commission would study the disarmament issue while the two governments would continue talks with all sides involved in the Northern Ireland conflict so that full talks could start by the end of February. The twin-track approach Was strongly supported by U.S. President Bill Clinton. The British-Irish accord was reached on the eve of Clinton's visit to Britain, Northern Ireland and Ireland. Clinton's visit "can mark a watershed and a new beginning," said Cardinal Daly. "The support of the United States administration for the peace process is of immense importance for ail oi us at this time." first,

Irish

Announcement to

many who

and

a great

is

relief

are depressed

frustrated by slow progress

since the cease effect

1

fire

went

into

5 months ago.

ROME agreement peace talks

(CNS) to

—A

British-Irish

resume Northern

Irish

February is a "welcome breaking of the logjam," said Cardinal Cahal Daly of Armagh, Northern Irein

land.

The announcement is "a great relief

many who have been

feeling depressed and frustrated" by the lack of progress in the 1 5 months since a cease-

to

fire

went into effect, the cardinal, who

is

primate of Ireland, said in a written

The

statement.

The statement was in

issued Nov. 29

Rome where the cardinal was attend-

by the recommendations of the international commission established to determine whether the Irish Republican Army and its Protestant guerrilla opponents should disarm before all-party talks start. The disarmament issue has been the

main obstacle

The IRA has

to starting those talks.

guerrilla

end

to all laying

down

of preconditions for entering

into inclusive all-party talks,"

he

said.

"Further procrastination and delay would only

Photo by ELIZABETH MAYBACH Holy Trinity Middle School eighth grade students Kristine Johanson and Rob Wick help load presents for needy families in Pike County, Ky. For several years parishioners at St. Ann have donated food, supplies and gifts for the mission. This year, Holy Trinity students participated in the Thanksgiving gift drive with them. See story, page 3

put everything that has been achieved at risk," he said. "It is

15

incomprehensible to a watching world that after the guns went silent, talks have not

months

yet begun," the cardinal said.

said that talks should start

Profile In Faith:

Reverend Mr, Fidel Melo

Presence Of Newly Ordained Deacon Uplifts Taylorsville

Community

By ELIZABETH

TAYLORSVILLE Melo was ordained

a

— When

Fidel

deacon on Nov.

19, St. Patrick Cathedral was filled beyond capacity. More than 400 people crammed into the pews and stood lined

against the church walls during the ser-

They came from all over the diocese to see this young Hispanic ordained a deacon, and Rev. Mr. Melo knew most of them by name. Rev. Mr. Melo was born in 1961 in the Mexican state of Queretaro. "It was

very early in

my life when I received the

Rev. Mr. Melo said. "It was a sudden thing, because I never imagined that I would follow this way. When I finished elementary school, the pastor in my parish called me and asked me if I would like to go to a vocational experience in the seminary. At that time, I decided to follow this call to learn." RevfMr. Melo remained in the semicall,"

See

Profile,

Reflections:

page 3

Pope

Talks

About Mary As Model For All By CINDY WOODEN VATICAN CITY (CNS) — when

^

emphasis to Often

Pope pope are on

to

Mary

II,

the eyes of the

has been seen with a rosary in his hand as he rides in the

popemobile; he

women

the first

offered

of women in society as a preparation for the U.N. women's conference; as the year drew to a close, he shifted his

general

Mary

as a

proof of the Godgiven dignity of

women and

as a

model "to encour-

her children.

The pope began 1995 with documents and speeches looking at the role

at his

audience Nov. 29

desires the union of all

the stereo.

Sunday of Advent

approaching, the pope

"As a mother, Mary

has visited the world's major Marian shrines; he prays the rosary with people who pop his compact disc into

and

in the church,

in particular.

With

the eyes of the world are on

John Paul Mary.

He

MAYBACH

Staff Writer

vice.

all

Once these pledges are made there should "be an

ing Vatican meetings.

The cardinal asked all sides to abide

cardinal reiterated calls for

groups to pledge to use only peaceful and democratic methods to achieve their political goals.

age all Christians to

open themselves to the saving power of the grace of God, for

whom

nothing

From

the earliest days of his pon-

is

impossible."

tificate, Pope John Paul has shown his devotion to the Mother of God in word and example, as well as in his coat of

See Mary as Model, page 6


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