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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