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Exploring Catholic identity
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identity,
Sullivan,
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key
to Catholic
Franciscan priest
college students
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campus ministry
is the first of a on the diocesan Catholic
retreat.
By JIMMY
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Associate Editor
CLOVER,
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Catholic identity, college students from across the Diocese of Charlotte
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heard an earnest explanation of
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Mass
the
Catholic school students greet
Sosa on Denver
a
weekend focusing on the dynamics of ...Page
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series
how
central to the faith.
is
Father Jude DeAngelo,
ConvenWinstonSalem, told the students on Feb. 5 that everything Catholics do as people of faith is done in the name of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Mass, he said, is the primary example of that devotion, and is one
visit
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that requires reverent, spiritual preparation to be fully appreciated.
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"You have an important job," said Father DeAngelo, Catholic campus minister for students of Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State universities, N.C. School of the Arts and Salem College. "It's not just the priest that has to get ready. It's not just the altar servers that have to get ready.
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beginning ...Page
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Abe Weaver,
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19, of Western Carolina University, Ai Lin Loh, 20, of Appalachian State University, and Samatha Shaver, 20, of listen intently as Bishop William G. Curlin addresses students at the Campus Ministry Retreat.
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Entertainment .Pages Editorials
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Catholics celebrate 25th anniversary of Appalachia pastoral
& Columns
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THOMAS
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A column by Father John C. Aurilia,
OFM
Cap
— Ap-
writing team that drafted the letter. Father Sanders also noted that the letter was among the first to use a
grass-roots listening approach to shaping it, rather than relying on teams of experts.
Issued by the bishops of Appalachia
Appalachia is harsh." It explains the wide range of problems that face the vast region, which stretches from
in 1975, the letter
St. Valentine
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palachian Catholics gathered to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the pastoral letter "This Land is Home to Me" Feb. 5 at Wheeling Jesuit University.
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marked the impor-
tance of Catholic social teaching and applying it to a particular place. "This Land is Home to Me" was the pastoral letter issued by the bishops of a particular region, according to Father Joe Sanders, part of the original first
The
letter notes that "the truth of
New York
all
Alabama. And
the
way
to northern
notes that, despite the enormous diversity of the region, "it's all tied together by the mountain chain, and by the coal in its center." it
The 1975 document
focused on
the economic and political plight and powerlessness of the poor people of
Appalachia amid America's flourishing industrial economy.
The cry of the region's poor had long gone unnoticed, according to those involved in drafting the document.
"We have listened to these cries, and now we lend our own voice," the bishops said in the pastoral letter. "This letter is but one part of an unfinished conversation with
See
APPALACHIA,
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