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Serving Catholics in Western North Carolina in the Diocese of Charlotte

Umoja

BELMONT — Perpetual Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament was inaugurated on the grounds of Belmont Abbey, Feb. 5 following a 2:00 p.m. Abbey Mass with Bishop William G. Curlin as principal celebrant. At the conclusion of Mass, Bishop Curlin carried the monstrance in procession to the newly established chapel, located near the monastery. Room for the Perpetual Adoration chapel was provided by Belmont Abbey, and sponsored by parishes in Gaston and Lincoln counties, and the Abbey. The chapel was renovated and outfitted by sponsor volunteers.

Faith, Heritage EDUARDO PEREZ Staff Writer

BELMONT — The drum and

1995

Belmont Abbey Hosts Perpetual Adoration

Festival

Brings Unity Of By

17,

steady beat of an African

the scents of ethnic food transformed

Photo left: Worshippers kneel as Bishop Curlin carries the monstrance to the Perpetual Adoration chapel.

an otherwise quiet Saturday on the campus of Belmont Abbey College into a Umoja festival

on Feb.4.

Umoja

— Swahili

for unity

—brought 75

people together for a day to highlight and reflect

upon African American culture.

Sponsored by St. Helen mission in Spencer with assistance from Faith Formation's office the festival emphasized the of youth ministry need for unity in the African American community. The St. Helen choir provided funding for the festival by holding fund-raisers six weeks

—

—

prior.

"It is important for our community to unite and celebrate our African heritage. Though only in its first year as a festival, it offered people a chance to view some traditions and customs of African American culture," said Barbara Gardin, coordinator of Faith Formation at St. Helen.

"The festival gave area churches the opportunity to unite and celebrate Black History Month.

It was a great occasion to learn about African American culture," added Angela Stokes, event coordinator and choir director at St. Helen.

Along with African crafts, music and art, there was story telling, with African folktales rendered by Obakunle Akinlana.

who

Akinlana,

has performed throughout

the southeastern States,

is

a professional percus-

and storyteller. African folktales told were in the Yoruba southwestern Nigerian tradition using drums and other traditional instrusionist

—

—

ments to present the African experience. The art of storytelling has been passed down throughout generations in

my

family, said Akinlana. "It

is

community needs. Whether those

the job of a storyteller to enter into a

and give a lesson on its needs be settling quarrels or giving the community a sense of moral direction."

In addition to storytelling, there was a dance performance by Pamela Reid, a professional dancer currently touring the Southeast.

To the beat of African rhythms, Reid per-

formed Jamaican and Caribbean dances, and festival participants quickly joined in. "Dance has a particular place within African American cultures. It serves as a means by which hidden truths of a culture

can be seen," said Reid.

It is

important that we have festivals like this so people

See Umoja, Page 12

Families Helping Families African-American Ministry Plans For Future By

& Herald,

Following the implementation of the National Black

vicar for the Af-

Catholic congress plans, which focus on the African-

During a recent interview with The Catholic News Rev. Mr. Curtiss Todd, vice chancellor

and

rican-American Affairs talked about the ministry. Following

American

are excerpts from the interview:

specific plans; within African- American ministry guide-

How would you describe the ministry ofAfrican-Ameri-

lines.

can Affairs?

What we plan to do in the African- American Affairs ministry is not only for African-Americans, but for the

first

—

—

of and African- American contributions and customs.

Then they discovered Host Homes. Not only would they be able to temporarily foster children, but they

provides therapeutic counseling to youths ages 10-17

and

become

communi-

and share the contributions African- Americans have made to the Church and society.

ties,

got in

mind?

temporary foster care for

We hope that African- Americans will grow in knowledge and appreciation of our own roots and culture, and become more open and appreciative of other cultures. Quite simply, we hope to spread the understanding that every

Mable Stevenson, director of Host Homes says, "the program is to promote, restore, and maintain healthy relationships between parents and children as an effective means of preventing and resolving problems of abuse, delinquency and runaway be-

for African-American Affairs,

to guide, facilitate

active in their local

their families, as well as

children that are in

Church.

what

is

your

and support diocesan

crisis.

sole purpose of the

havior."

Serving Forsyth County and surrounding areas, Host is open year round and the staff is available 24-

As a diocesan ministry, African- American Affairs is here

dominately black parishes and missions; Our Lady of Consolation in Charlotte, Christ the King in High Point, St. Mary in Greensboro, St. Lawrence in Asheville and St. Helen mission in Spencer. By activation, I mean building up the parish communities and initiating local AfricanAmerican affairs in each of those locations. We want

What have you

would provide a safe haven for troubled youth.

Host Homes, a program of Catholic Social Services,

role in parish activity?

be activation of our six pre-

—

Six years ago John and Anne Harrison wanted to become foster parents, but thought

parishes to get involved.

As vicar

objective has to

those parishes to

WINSTON-SALEM

they didn't have the time or resources.

culture, every nationality has a place in the

do you propose

Staff Writer

One may wish to establish a stronger RCIA program, another may plan an outreach to individuals with AIDS, or it could be rights of passage. The key is for

celebrate

reaching out?

Our

implement

And beyond specific parish involvement?

We want the whole diocese to become aware

good of the whole diocese and the Church community. The ministry should work for the good of the entire Church, helping each of us recognize and embrace each other as brothers and sisters.

How

family, individual parishes can

EDUARDO PEREZ

activities.

Are there similarities between the African-American ministry and other diocesan cultural ministries?

Homes

hours a day, seven days a week.

See Host Homes, Page

it s own culture, its own way of celebrating diverse histories. Because of that culture

1

In a sense. Yet each group has

and tradition, We're distinctly different from Hispanic, Vietnamese and Caucasian, but only because of culture and tradition. Like other cultural ministries, we want to share our tradition, culture and history with the whole Church.

The African-American Ministry is funded by the Diocese Support Appeal.

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The Catholic News

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February 17, 1995

Bus Carries

By ANDREW

WASHINGTON — Tom

The fact that many movement against

O'Hanlon got up at 6:30 a.m. Sunday, packed his bags and waited outside in the brisk morning

the

cold to catch a chartered bus for a two-

dent

Message

Pro-Life

pundits had said

was

abortion

BARRON

tatters after Bill Clinton's election as presi-

ened or stopped as people became

eye.

Such violence has leaders on both

in

sides of the issue frightened.

all

Pat Marsh, co-president of Greensboro's Chapter of the National Organization for Women, said the threat of violence has scared more and more

times. Every year he joins thousands of

"We're here to give those (in Congress) on the pro-life side shoring up," said Maggie Nadol of Charlotte, the bus

like-minded people in the nation's capi-

trip's organizer.

day

trip to

Yet the bus riders don't believe a

protest abortion.

"Being a part of 100,000 people

to

me is a more effective way of getting the point across that we don't want abortion to occur,"

O'Hanlon

the recent turn of events

the sweeter.

Washington.

The January trip is an annual trek for O'Hanlon, one he's made at least ten

tal to

made

said during the six-

friendly Congress ensures the success of

"We

Triad. '

mood

that things in the last

two

Marsh

hour bus ride north.

"But if we were the only bus there, it would still be a great time to be there because we'd be voicing our opinion."

O'Hanlon was one of 40 people on the bus chartered by the Catholic Dio-

years might change," said Joesph Nelli

is

of Gastonia.

testers shout at cars

cese of Charlotte, which represents 95,000

of

worshipers in western North Carolina.

They arrived in Washington at a heady

clinics in

time for those opposed to abortion.

calls itself "pro-life."

would be naive to believe there will be a sea of change in "However,

think

I

it

up,"

it's

Massachusetts

potential setback for a

seen as a

is

movement

that

"When such violence erupts, you hear

society that

said the

we

Most

said they

were raised

to believe

wrong.

The spiritual nature of the trip was evident

we can

trip

with a prayer and a

—

said he opposes the

The group

then

took the time to

recite

don't want"

the rosary as the bus

confrontational tactics of

headed north.

Frankie Swanson of Hickory said the

groups such as Operation Rescue. But, he said, the violence threatens even the

march is a spiritual journey for her,

peaceful picketing he prefers.

cially

O'Hanlon said that after a doctor was

abortionists," Nelli said of the shootings.

shot in Florida, he feared that peaceful

gress.

"It

a black

riders in

Hail Mary.

a louder and louder cry to protect the

movement

to that percep-

as the group opened the

Republican victories in the recent election have given abortion protesters many friends and new-found clout in Con-

gives the whole

most

coming

that abortion is

throw away anything

violence scares him, too.

He

protests in

is

murder.

role for

tion.

very intimidating."

O'Hanlon

the abortion laws that exist right now."

And the December shooting deaths women at two Planned Parenthood

There's a callousness

and

are video-recording cars,

so

is

it

Faith and family played the biggest

permeating our

said. "Pro-

that abortion

not only wrong, but that

has

changed in Greensboro, and the intimidation level

riding to Washington

common belief:

—

"The

look forward with hope to the

Each of those shares a

She said the tension rising even in the

their cause.

new Congress

"I'm happy to see our opposition has remained calm," he said.

doctors from providing abortions.

is

afraid

to participate.

Greensboro might be

threat-

espe-

when she sees thousands of people

snake up the steps of the Capitol. She also loves the

Sunday night Mass

at the

National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Swanson said she's always believed wrong but didn't come face-

Church To Have Two Sets Of Brother Bishops

U.S.

abortion was

to-face with the issue until her husband

WASHINGTON (CNS) — When Bishop-designate

fourth child.

Washington, a diocese that was suppressed a few years

Kevin Boland of Savannah, Ga., says

J.

"brother bishop," he

may

One

be talking about his

blood brother as well as brother in the Bishop Raymond

J.

Boland of Kanhis older

is

brother.

many

The bishop-designate, who is 59, and were born and raised in Ireland and studied for the

hood

priestthere,

Bishop

J.

Kevin Boland

vannah Diocese

Raymond W.

tory of the U.S. hierarchy were:

tee.

Lessard,

The Bolands

bishop in the history of the

U.S. hierar-

Bishop

chy when he

was

Raymond Boland

was ordained

for the Sa-

St.

who

He

1841 as a coadjutor of Louis. In 1843 he became bishop of Louis and in 1 847 its first archbishop.

Two

has retired

among

in

are not the

first

or even

United States, however. In fact they are the ninth such pair.

The Hurley brothers, originally priests of the San Francisco Archdiocese, are

Quebec were

brothers from

Bishops John S. Foley of Detroit and Foley, coadjutor of Chicago.

was ordained a bishop in 1845, nearly two years after he was named first apostolic vicar of Oregon. He later became first archbishop of Oregon City, which later became the Archdiocese of Port-

The year tion his

after his episcopal ordina-

younger brother, Augustine M.

Blanchet,

was ordained as first bishop of in what is now the state of

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recently turned 68.

Charlotte,

When buy ing

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Francis T. Hurley of Anchorage, Alaska,

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O'Connor of Pittsburgh and James O'Connor of Omaha, Neb. Bishop Howard J. Carroll of AltoonaJohnstown, Pa., and Archbishop Coleman Bishops Michael

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Bishops Thomas M. Lenihan of Cheyenne, Wyo., and Mathias C. Lenihan of Great Falls, Mont.

The elder, 7 5 -year-old retired Bishop Mark J. Hurley of Santa Rosa, Calif., was

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got active in protesting

(continued on next page)

Thomas

F.

first

of Harrisburg, Pa.

also bishops.

cisco in 1968 and

Nelli

abortion in 1970

the founders of the church in the

land.

the only living sibling bishops in the

tively,

or-

Kenrick, was also born in Dublin.

St.

"Longevity and American Hi-

Bishops Jeremiah F. and John W. Shanahan, first and third bishop, respec-

ington Arch-

for health reasons.

could have lost him,"

I

when he formed the Gaston County Right To Life Commit-

diocese in 1957, Kevin

in 1959.

"I feel like

she said.

erarchy," other blood brothers in the his-

bishop of Baltimore in 1851.

His younger brother, Peter R.

Bishop Raymond Boland was made bishop of Birmingham, Ala., in 1988 and bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph in 1993.

Bishop-designate J. Kevin Boland was appointed head of the Savannah Diocese Feb. 7, replacing Bishop

Leipzig of Baker, Ore. According to

Kenrick was the 22nd

for the Wash-

— Raymond

spired her to protest abortion.

the late Bishop Francis

Historical Sketches of the

U.S. dioceses

ordained for

was

some time before deciding to have the baby. That child, a son, has in-

his series of booklets,

dained in 1830 as coadjutor bishop and administrator of Philadelphia. He became bishop of Philadelphia in 1842 and arch-

but both were

of the leading collectors of un-

years

She said she struggled with the decision for

Dublinborn Francis Pi

his brother, 63,

later.

usual facts about the U.S. bishops for

faith.

P.

sas City-St. Joseph, Mo.,

her while she was pregnant with her

left

By JERRY FILTEAU

The Catholic News

February 17, 1995

& herald

3

(continued from from page 2) "It

was obvious

at the

time that abor-

had significant victories in the state houses," Nelli said of why he formed

tion forces

the group three years before the land-

mark U.S. Supreme Court decision

le-

galizing abortion.

He

said he's never picketed a clinic,

but has published newsletters against abortion and lobbied the General Assem-

bly against the legislation supporting abortion rights.

"I

was concerned that if one

starts to

human

say a particular form of

life is

what is going to stop us from making that judgment about any worthless, then

human

life?"

Other riders shared Nelli's outrage over the callous attitude toward life they believe infects those

who

support legal

abortion.

"There's a callousness permeating our society that

we

we can throw away anything

March

for

life

participants

make

their

way up

Constitution

Avenue Jan. 23

in

CNS

Washington.

photo by Nancy Wiechec

don't want," said Nadol, the trip's

organizer.

The shootings

at the clinics

outside

Boston also misrepresent the peaceful side

by Kaplan against the

filed

case that

is still

picketers, a

pending.

is

murder fuels the tension at abortion even in Greensboro, said Marsh,

the local

less harassing

clinic patients.

language used to describe those favoring abortion rights had plenty of venom.

Some

of the riders have been more aggressive, though. They include Bernie

Words like "abortionist," "abortion mill,"

from providing abortions, Marsh said, which means that although abortion remains legal, it's not available in 84 per-

"murderers" and "pro-death lobby" creep

cent of the nation's counties.

and Elaine McHale of Greensboro, who picketed the house of a Greensboro doctor who performs abortions until the doctor got an injunction stopping picketers. Dr. Richard Kaplan said the picketers were harassing him and his neighbors.

The McHales declined comment because they are named in the lawsuit

into their sentences frequently.

Most

said they don't feel comfortable even

picketing a clinic,

Diocese

much

of Charlotte

"It

concerns

me

that they've

Marsh

more violence

we

is

abortion side," Nadol said. "There's no

thought that

way I'm going to condone killing someone, but that doesn't mean we can't keep

miles to shoot at a clinic in Norfolk, Va.

P.O. Box 36776 Charlotte,

is

wrong."

firmly held belief that abortion

NC 28236

winning the hearts and minds of people," said David Porter of Huntersville. "We have a long way to go to win the hearts and minds."

inevitable.

"Before,

The

"We have to win a consensus for the pro-life view,

with the two sides so far apart,

fears

martyrs out of the people on the pro-

saying that abortion

They are happy to have a Republican Congress, but unconvinced politics will solve the problem.

Many doctors have been scared away

And made

it

have been hassled or intimidated into

quitting.

NOW official.

And while the riders said they condemn using violence to stop abortion, the

of abortion protesters, riders said.

tors

clinics,

felt pretty insulated,

And they

wouldn't happen here,"

accept the idea that others

won't stop fighting for abortion rights. In

she said. "But then someone drove 500

group of marchers expects the go on for a long time.

short, this

battle to

Why wouldn't someone drive just a little

"I don't think there's much of a middle

Greensboro?"

The bus riders believe they will prevail not because of violence but because more people will learn their side of the

farther to

ground," said Nelli, the Gastonia activist.

"We

up because we're and death issue. can we compromise?"

can't give

dealing with a

"How

life

•

issue.

Andrew Barron is a staffwriterfor The Greensboro News & Record. This article was re-

They credit such education with some doctors' decisions to stop offering abor-

February

My Brothers and Sisters in

8,

tions rather that the idea that

1995

U.S. Bishops have extended their annual appeal to aid the

Church

and Eastern Europe for three years because of compelling evidence that the Church throughout the region is still in acute need of material support. The collection will be taken up in our diocese on Ash Wednesday March 1 in Central

—

The long years of repression have weakened the spirits of the young, all of whom grew up in fear. Poverty stalks them, materialism beguiles them, cults try to give them easy answers to their as: What do we do now? What is the meaning of our lives? As you know, during decades of communism, most church materials were destroyed or confiscated. The new governments many of which still employ former Communist Party officials have been slow to return the stolen property and in some cases have imposed heave taxes on the churches.

pressing questions, such

— —

Consequently, there are young men wanting to become priests, but no seminaries, books, or scholarship money for their studies.

There are young women wanting to become nuns, but convents are in disrepair and educational materials are scarce. There are millions of children to be educated, but few functioning Catholic schools with adequate staff and facilities.

Please be generous in your contribution to assist our brothers sisters in

printed with permission.

doc-

Franciscan Celebrates 50 Years Christ:

WINSTON-SALEM The

many

blessings,

I

as a

Franciscan Friar recently at Our Lady of

Fatima Chapel.

On Jan.

13,

1945 Father

Holden was ordained and he celebrated his first Mass the next day in Dorchester, Mass. On Jan. 28, 1945 he said his first solemn high Mass at St. Anthony Church in Washington, D.C. His mother and three sisters, two brothers, their families and a host of friends were present at the Mass.

His 50 years in the priesthood included assignments to missions around the world

and in the U.S. cities of New York, Washington, Winston-Salem and Charlotte.

a number of major projects underway both

Our Lady of

He continues to work on his golf game and very often pars a series of holes.

Father Hoover resides at

Mercy

HisWll

Franciscan order and local com-

munity.

"A valid Will stands as a continuing expression of our concern for loved ones, as

well as an ongoing commit-

ment to the Church and the community in which we live!'

In Yours.

and

in the

Rectory. At 76-years-old, he has

Remember

Bishop William G. Curlin

ou can express your commitment to your Church by making a bequest to the Diocese of Charlotte or to your parish. Simply have the following

Central and Eastern Europe.

Wishing you and yours Gods abundant

— Father Edgar

Holden celebrated 50 years

am

statement included in your Will: Sincerely yours in Christ,

"I leave to the

Charlotte (or

Very Reverend Mauricio W. West, V.G. Chancellor

1524

E.

Morehead

Street Charlotte,

NC 28207

Roman

Catholic Diocese of

parish, city) the

sum of$

percent of the residue of my estate) for religious, educational and charitable works?

(or

its

For more information on how to make a Will that works, contact Jim Kelley, Diocese of Charlotte, Office of Development, 1524 East Morehead St., Charlotte, NC 28207, (704) 331-1709 or 377-6871.

4 The Catholic News

& Herald

February 17, 1995

Guest Columnist

One More Reason

Why The Press

^Pro-Life Corner

Alternative

Needed

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Post-abortion service

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March 7, 7:30 p.m.

Our Lady of Mercy Church, Winston-Salem, NC Tuesday,

:

\m%£Mfi£t<0' sad to see a long-respected institution show evidence of losing its integrity. That is precisely, and unfortunately, what we find in the story of The New York It's

Times twisting and turning

message off

pro-life

its

in

The Kgspect Life Office

yes. Surprising?

easy option protected by law.

It is

of any

be no

editorial offices that there will

human

it is

secular gospel at the principal

media

who oppose this view are reliand dangerous kooks who do not deserve a

outlets that the people

gious nuts

VATICAN CITY (CNS) JohnPaul IPs remarks

stature.

Moreover,

Consecreted

accepted in most

references to abortion as killing or to the fetus as life

voice because they have nothing rational to say.

ence Feb.

in the

United States

is

facing a great

many pressures. Newspapers particularly are threatened by new media and new technologies, and by declining and a general loss of public trust. All serious news media are also threatened in their integrity by mass-appeal publications with standards that put buyer-grabbing sensation first and truth an also-ran. So there is work for publishers and

print literacy, shorter attention spans

who believe that a healthy community needs good news organs performing according to traditional editors

standards of fairness and accuracy.

One way

to

(704) 331-1 720

of Charlotte

— Here

in

is

in

the Vatican text of

Service to Church

Pope

English at his weekly general audi-

8.

Dear brothers and

sisters,

Continuing our catechesis on consecrated church,

The New York Times tried to prevent the U.S. Catholic bishops from answering an ugly Catholic-bashing abortions rights ad that the newspaper had run (without question, we'd guess) early last month. This was not a request to influence the news columns of the paper, or even to get an opinion piece published. It was a straightforward attempt to buy advertising space for a message.

The Times regularly runs such ads for all kinds of groups.

Journalism

'Diocese

No.

Most of the large news organizations in this country have become captive of the pro-choice view on abortion. It is accepted in most newsrooms and editorial offices that abortion should be and remain a free and newsrooms and

For information, call Martha Shuping at (910) 659-1342

an effort to keep a strong

pages.

Sad and unfortunate,

Dr.

we now

life in

consider the evangelical counsels as a

means of encouragement to all Christians, helping them to live more fully their vocation in the

ww£

The Pope Speaks

the

sign and

by their lives of and obedience, bear witness to the sublime plan of love accomplished by the Father through Christ in the Holy Spirit and are examples of that faith and filial obedience which makes us sharers in the life of the blessed Trinity. Men and women consecrated to God by the evangelical counsels are also a sign of the authentic destiny of the world and of the ultimate calling of every individual to share in God's glory through the resurrection. The evangelical counsels thus have an eschatological meaning: They point to the new and eternal life gained for us by Christ, and they show forth our hope in the future glory of God's Kingdom (cf. "Lumen Gentium," 44).

The church deeply desires that the consecrated life of chastity, poverty and obedience will always flourish in her midst. By their complete gift of self in loving

Pope John Paul

II

service of God's kingdom. Religious,

chastity, poverty

union with Christ's redemptive sacrifice and their witness of love of God and neighbor, religious become eloquent heralds of the Gospel message of charity and pioneers of the "civilization of love."

I

am pleased to greet all the English-speaking visi-

tors present at today's audience, especially the pilgrim

groups from England and the United States. Upon all of you I cordially invoke the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

demonstrate that the old standards con-

would be for some soul-searching up and down the chain of responsibility in our newsrooms on how the issue of abortion is covered. If American journalism is losing respect, a good part of the reason may have been exposed in the arrogant way The New tinue to be honored

York Times tried to stiff-arm the Catholic bishops.

One more Catholic press

reason is

why

Let

It

Snow, Let

It

Snow, Where's The Snow?

an alternative press like the

needed.

This editorial originally ran in The Catholic Messenger, newspaper of the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa.

Mother Nature has been toying with us lately. Over the last couple of weeks, the threat of snow in Charlotte has dominated newscasts. No accumulated measure of snow has disappointed children, while

some

— not

all

—

The newspaper staff falls snow day sounds like fun, it

adults breathe a sigh of relief.

A

into the later category.

The Cathouc

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February 17, 1995 Volume 4, Number 24 Publisher:

Most Reverend William G. Curlin

Editor: Robert E. Gately

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it melts away by Monday.

The weather is causing its share of cancellations.

Last Friday, secondary educators from Bishop McGuinness High School in Winston-Salem and Charlotte Catholic High School in Charlotte planned a shared

day of reflection

at the

Catholic Conference Center in

would have been the first time both high schools joined for a day of spiritual renewal with Bishop Curlin. A pesky storm breezed through, dumping ice, snow and freezing rain across our diocese. The schools

shepherd in our midst. But of course,

office plans to reschedule the event.

Thank you, Father Ron. We know of Washington's great

Hickory.

It

loss,

but

we

It was Feb. 22, one year ago, that the Vatican announced Bishop William G. Curlin would come to Charlotte as our third bishop. On that date, we met Bishop Curlin, an auxiliary bishop from Washington. He greeted us with a simple message, "I come here to help you find the Jesus in each other." Such a simple but powerful

philosophy; yet faith.

the

it

calls

friend of the bishop

—

He

a quite a day.

The

feast of the chair of St.

Peter the Apostle, George Washington's birthday, the assignment of our bishop, and the birthday of Daniel, the youngest

Keane boy. Does

this

mean he 's

destined

precocious beyond his years; perhaps that's a survival instinct. And he's a clever little fox. Last week he asked

in

told us last year,

"You are getting

be a great gift to serve you and bring Christ to you. He has been such a loving a truly pastoral bishop.

is

a Washington priest and

message becomes ingrained

—

aa Feb. 22

our everyday ac-

each of us to re-examine our

Father Ronald Potts

sad."

for greatness? Daniel turns seven this week, and I digress. He was a 4-month-old tot when I came to work for the diocese in the office of the former state-wide newspaper. As the youngest of three boys, Daniel is

Since then, those words have become clearer as

tions.

we are very

treasure our spiritual shepherd.

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could wreck havoc on our weekly newspaper production schedule. Although we've been lucky so far, I imagine we're in for at least one good showing of the white stuff.

will

—

knew what a hypothesis was. He knew the answer, but was just checking to see if I knew as well. Happy recurrent celebration, smart boy. if I

A Why

don't

lay?"

my

Children are drawn to diversity.

They

lay is a school holiday. It's the birthday

a box of Crayolas with 64 crayons.

answered lim. "Who is Dr. Martin Luther King ind why does he have a very long name?" iobby pressed on.

youngster

Dr. Martin Luther King,"

I

ferent.

I

4-year-old son

Bobby

explained to

ne

is

As my husband Joe and I talked later evening we spoke about how fortuwe both were in having parents who never lectured us about the evils of racnate

ism but instead gave witness through their

own words and example

homes or in their hearts.

As a child, I remember

my mother and father working on a mayoral campaign for one of the few African American residents in our town. I also remember hearing

at

many

"If you feel that

way

in

"So do

nestly.

Bobby,"

I

different

now,"

tinued.

"All

heart,

to

it

your

children. You

can 't put one

over on kids; they are very

con-

I

your

astute

of all different can play and go

hypocrisy

and

they

know

friends,

colors, to

pened to be black. The love and respect that they had for people of all cultures, races and faiths flowed form their hearts. As my mother said, "If you feel that way in your mind and heart,

,

replied. "It's

I

comes across

I

he said ear-

derful,"

your mind and

won-

think black skin is

when

they see

it.

that,"

he

it

when

they see

my house

Paterson, N.J. stayed with our family for

we can

drink

it

together."

Throughout the day, Dr. King's name surfaced in both the simple and profound observations of a child: "What happened to Martin Luther King's children after he died?" "I see that Martin Luther King had a mustache." "Did he get shot with a black gun or a brown gun?" "Even if people hated people with black skin, why did they still have to do mean things to them?" talked with

how

realized

Bobby

that day, I

racism and prejudice go

against a child's natural inclination to

embrace people and things

E

we celebrate Black His-

Month and it's tempting to think that we have conquered racism. In many ways,

tory

the urgency

Rights

and the passion of the Civil

movement appear to be gone,

the struggle against racism over. ies.

The

KKK

People in

that are dif-

piscopal Calendar

country

next few weeks:

two weeks during the summer. Lorenzo grabbed a piece of all our hearts and forever changed how we looked at racism. My mother told me, "we got involved in this program not because we thought we were do-gooders but because we thought it would be a real opportunity to

show your

children that people of other

have gifts that and enrich your lives.

in

from

U.S.

still

As racism becomes more

cit-

commit

in the

insidious

990's, parents have an even greater

1

responsibility to teach their children love,

understanding and respect for

all

people.

of different cultures, races and religions.

But on a sunny winter afternoon my husband and I watch Bobby and his friends

A recently published book declaring the

playing happily

Ameri-

intellectual inferiority of African

can has been discussed on the opinion pages of newspapers and on TV news

magazine programs. And the denial of

at the park.

We see their

wonderful black skin and their wonderful white skin side by side and believe for a moment that a piece of Martin Luther King's dream has become a reality.

There's Nothing 'Wrong' With Prayer

Family Reflections

By Andrew and

It's

a two-way

February 18 Noon Mass

we

and find family members

rants,

street."

was 10 years old in 1968 when Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy, another champion of racial justice, were assassinated. I remember being very confused about the bloodshed over race but I sensed an urgency in my family and in my country that we must never allow hatred and violence to triumph over love

Zcviptuvc 9teoJ>tog3 for

Sunday:

t!je tveefc

19 1

-

25

Samuel

Jmw&M i^lSy 26: 2, 7-9,

the food and before he returns to check

on

into a

room and find

prayer,

what registers

your mind?

wrong?"

For many

1-10 9: 14-29

Mark

1:

Is

it

families,

even those

that

pray regularly, prayer is extraordinary and reserved for particular times and places.

We pray at church; we pray before meals situations;

we

we pray when

in stressful

pray in times of special

Sirach

2:

1-11

Wednesday:

1

Peter

5: 1-4

Matthew

Patrick Cathedral

16: 13-19

home.

When we

when and where

place restrictions on

to pray, prayer outside

those parameters can be uncomfortable.

Yet,

it

is

very important to structure

Our optimum

is at

meals.

We

pray for any and everything while often It's

nary part of our daily elderly couple

who

become an ordiWe know of an

Thursday:

Sirach

5: 1-8

Mark 9: 41-50

7pm Friday:

Sirach

Mark

6: 5-7

10: 1-12

Winston Salem Saturday:

Sirach 17: 1-15 Mark 10: 13-16

—

Maybe that's okay in public maybe But at home prayer shouldn't be limited to structure. If God is central to our not.

life there should be nothing "wrong" when we are being attentive to Him outside our optimum time and place.

family

As parents we consciously allow our

find the solitude of

cars an opportunity to tune into

stead of the radio. Sister in

Bea

New

that her

cate

Jeffries

in-

of

Orleans ad-

optimum prayer time

is

in

It's

good

development to see an working relationship between a man and woman.

It is also important that we open our relationship with God to our children and each other.

I

visiting

her family

how

how

—

a sense that

the call to pray outside our structured

home

ing before a meal in a restaurant? Though

home

was, and

we

live in a

where God

house of There is

lives.

no wrong way to pray; not is there a wrong place.

about pray-

holy her

was a house of prayer. This is what we want for our domestic church it

prayer, a place

Optimum prayer time may be a very

we self-conscious

how we communi-

for their

personal thing. But how often do we heed

time? Are

That includes

— even our disagreements.

part of the ordinary in her life revealed to

people

mitted at a workshop she led several years

ago

other.

God

Many

commuting

children to see our relationship with each

in their

for over fifty years

the bathroom.

Leo

never demonstra-

(Andrew) remember when as a child my grandmother, I would often find her in prayer anywhere and anytime in her home. Who knows what her optimum time was? Her view of prayer as

life.

night before going to bed.

Xavier University

March 7

is

prolonged as it often is at home.

Never does our food get cold in a restaurant because we are praying. It's not our optimum time and place.

dinary can be an obstacle to prayer in the

hold hands and say the Lord's Prayer every

Tuesday:

Our praying

us.

tive or

need. This view of prayer being extraor-

prayer time as a family

Mark 9: 30-37

Home School Meeting

in

45-49

Sirach

member in

a family

unusual? Are you tempted to ask, "What's

the food gets cold.

Monday:

at restau-

of us the answers are "No." If you walk

prayer into our daily lives.

27-28

guns and pray

usually takes the form of sneak-

ing in a quickie after the waiter delivers

it

1 Corinthians 15:

6:

it

unusual? If they're watching

12-13, 22-23

Luke

stick to our

TV or reading, is uncommon? For most

tion, is

I

Therese, Mooresville for pastoral council retreat

March 1 Ash Wednesday Mass

in conversa-

it

St.

February 23 School visit and 1 pm Mass Our Lady of Grace, Greensboro

Terri Lyke

When you walk into a room in your home

will strengthen

cultures

of ^cbruarl)

St.

far

ployment and substance abuse."

but

unconscionable hate crimes against people

or before bed;

Bishop William G. Curlin will take part in the following events during the

St.

marches

still

this

is

our society have often resulted in what Washington Cardinal James A. Hickey calls "a new slavery of poverty, unem-

my

program run by Catholic Charities where a 5-year-old boy named Lorenzo from

I

This month

family participated in a

"Rachel likes to drink 'Sunny D' orange juice and so do I and she can come over

As

opportunities for African Americans in

justice.

it."

For a few years

said.

anytime and

and

comes across to

your children. You can't put one over on kids; they are very astute and they know hypocrisy

school together." "I

know

over the years of

stories

friends

nave black skin and

that prejudice

and hatred would not be tolerated in their

my mother's friendship with her college roommate who hap-

Gerard and Rachel and Rocky and :my Aunt Evelyn all

Marx

Eileen C.

that

sit

my

Family Matters

sage that sameness is more desirable than

were making

as if I

his all up. "Well,

A

when it comes to

colorblind

diversity.

I

lim.

Bobby looked

colors of the

along the way some children get the mes-

ago people who in the backs of )uses, movie theaters, restaurants and ;ven churches just because their skin was Mack. Those were the rules in the United States at that time. I told him that people .vere mean to people just because they lad black skin. But Martin Luther King relieved that everyone should learn to love one another and he told people we needed to change the rules. Another man •nought Martin Luther King was wrong and he shot him with a gun and killed

had to

many

nursery school playmates. But somewhere

:ould that a long time lad black skin

delight in the

rainbow. Children see the possibilities in

I

as simply as

Racism

Child Looks At

have to go to school toBobby asked ne one morning a few weeks ago. "To)f

& Herald

The Catholic News

February 17, 1995

And if we find a family member at

attentively in prayer outside our customary optimum time and place, there is certainly nothing wrong.

The Catholic News

6

& Herald

February 17, 1995

WASHINGTON ( CNS)

Excerpts From "Newsmaker" Interview With John Thompson Q: How do you see college sports programs as part of and a contribution to Catholic higher education?

We're interested in your approach from an educational point of view.

A: I don't know how I see it as it relates

have a reputation for being able to deal with people who are hard to reach and I think that's because I'm black. I think that goes along with people feeling that if you are black, if you are outspoken on educational issues,

if

you

feel that a per-

—

In an interview with Catholic News Service in his Georgetown University's Athletic Department, John Thompson, the men 's head basketball coach, talked about his educational philosophy and what it has to do with basketball, and discussed his Catholic faith and how he has experienced racism. Here are some excerpts:

office at

teaching you the course and

I

expect you

Thompson is strict.

I don't know how I feel about young men wearing earrings in their ears, but I think there are some things about me that

that

because so and I'm not cermany people today want to tain that I feel good about it disassociate themselves from being Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, or what-

son deserves a second chance, that that is what you're totally interested in doing.

That's not the case. I think that we're

they have to accept and some things about

We feel

can wear whatever they want in their ears,

the need, has

but don't come into my practice with that

ever

judged being able to compete, should have an opportunity. And if you take one person who is an at-risk student, you get a reputation for wanting only at-risk students, which is not the

to Catholic higher education

—

—

it is.

This

is

the oldest Catholic college in

the United States and

I

think that

we

should be proud of that and constantly say

we

should

that....

The main focus as I see

in

it

terms of

interested in a pluralistic society.

win and educating.

.

. .

I

don't feel

between frying

that there is a conflict

to

Our society, as much

is

case.

my responsibility is to get involved with educating young people and

who shows

everybody the desire and

that

We've had a

of young

lot

men who

have been exceptional students and done exceptionally well. We've had some kids who've been exceptional students who've

them

that

when

they're in their social circles, they

I

have

to accept. I tell

them

I

know at John Carroll High School...

but

respect him.

I

And

also what's

more

important is I remember his name. They're a lot of very liberal teachers that

I

I

it.

read in the paper constantly that a is

not popular with the students,

I

think that's igno-

rant because of that fact that

I

don't think

young minds are prepared at this point to determine what is good for them always. .

.

Q: For you personally, as you look back you mentioned a couple of educators who were influential for you are there role models in your life, people who you look back on and say they really made a differ-

— —

ence in my life?

A: I think a lot of people probably made

my life. I probably think my father made the biggest difference in my life; that's why I have their picture in my office. ... my parents were there; my mother and my a difference in

my

mother and

father I

whether

you win or lose, it's how you play the game, people listen to you more when you win than lose. You get more benefits, educational benefits when you win. I think that you' ve got to learn to

manage defeat

had

been a cross we've had. We

difficulty too. There's

section of students that

who have had problems in life; we don't either. I

significant part of

think that's the

it.

as an educational tool, but the objective

can never be defeat. The objective has got to be trying to be successful at what you're trying to accomplish. And that's

no

different

from anything

think the tool

is

else in

life. I

basketball but the objec-

tive is basically the

same.

Q: Do you have some difficulty with some of your freshman players who come in and really are more focused on the game than on the other part (of their education)? really... We've been doing 22 years, we're in our 23rd year, and most people who come here to school have some knowledge of what we expect of them. When we go through the recruiting process, we sit down, we explain to them that it is not just a question

A: Well, not this

now

for

of playing basketball,

it's

not just a ques-

tion of going to the formal, traditional

form of school.

We

feel basketball is

because there are many life lessons to be learned from basketball too. ... I haven't had problems with any incoming freshmen adjusting to what we do, and if we do, we don't have those problems long. school

...

Q: You do have a reputation

Is there a particular kind of student that you work especially hard to reach?

A.: No, no, not really. I think we probably

ably I established my educational philosophy from without even knowing it.

for be-

Is there a reason you chose to coach in a Catholic institution and what can Georgetown uniquely offer to ... Washington or to the African

Q:

American community?

ing firm, for toughness.... Is there

A:

some point

Catholic college;

I

lege chose me.

I

day where the coach part stops and you go home with family where there is a different approach?

A: No, not really.... We (my family) also in the

have a reputation for being private; we don't encouragp interviews. We don't sit down and do a lot of talking about ourselves. I think sometimes when you do that, that takes away the genuineness and sincerity from something.

If you do something for one of our kids then he is expected to say thank you or if he's to ask you for something he is expected to say please. If he is to come into the office and I ask him to remove his hat, then that is defined in today's

society as being strict or firm.

consider that being sider that as parents.

I

how

think kids

strict I

was

don't

I

or firm.

I

raised

by

con-

my

make mistakes. They

do come into the office with their hats on.

They at times don't say thank you or don't say please, and I'm certain at times I do too. But I think that what we try to do is to create

an awareness of the fact that still im-

these values and these things are

Q:

were there. They were people who

believed in and people who I think prob-

don't go out necessarily soliciting kids

run from them

portant.

If

you

tell

eteria the lady is

a person that (in) the caf-

who is giving you the meal

as important as the professor that's

it.

that's

about.

it,

disagrees

That's what a school is about, what an educational institution is I

respect that right.

I

may disagree

terribly with that position, but I respect

much their right.

And I think I have

very

the

same

rights,

I

don't think

I

chose to coach

in a

think the Catholic col-

was working

at

the

University of the District of Columbia

and they passed over

me

twice... I told

them several times that I work here but you didn't see me. Georgetown University came and got me and asked me to coach there and that's where I went.

The good thing about this university is you are held accountable. I don't always agree with how you are held accountable, but right to hold

I

me

will

defend a person's

accountable.

ance.

You un-

I

—

have the right to express it keeps you on balrespect the fact that this is an

university

I

I

think

educational institution that's willing to

question

had

never remember their names anyI think kids expect discipline, they expect order and they also expect to com-

that

person was demoted.

...

with

some of

they have the right to disagree

my opinion.

so that teacher was dismissed, or that

not

it,

the school takes or a student takes at the

teacher

it's

with

and I can remember Father Carney, a geometry teacher being very firm. I didn't like him; I mocked him, I laughed at him, ...

I

claim that

the student body,

Catholic high school here in the district

plain about

we may

I'm not guaranteed that if I bring a who has been incarcerated and

student in

whether those rights relate to some religious or social or economical view that

on....

more.

as

derstand what I'm saying?

to treat her with respect, then they say

I

itself.

As far as blacks are concerned, when first came here I questioned the univeran awful

sity

lot

because

I

thought that

my

image projected on national television gave a false image of the number of blacks that were permitted to come to always said to the presiwho's no longer living that it's very misleading to see a 6-10 big-mouth black man on the front page of the sports page being at a university and people thinking that this university is committed towards some of the needs of the 70 percent of the black people this university.

I

dent of the college

—

who

—

constitute this city, that they are in-

volved in

this city. So, I think that the

university has a lot of students that have tried to

be conscious of involvements

the city.

I

think that

more conscious of

it

has

become

in

far

integrating.

People who don't want to integrate, people who want to segregate, are basically ignorant people in my opinion

—

whether they're black or white. Because of the society we live in now we're going to be challenged more and more by communications and transportation to

that's

deal with variations of people.

We're not any longer a nation; we're We have three of our former players who went to South Africa this summer and they're NBA players.

They went to South Africa as good will ambassadors of a sort and one of them came from Africa and one of them came from Cambridge by way of Jamaica and the other one came from Chesapeake, Va. But I was very proud when I saw Bryant Gumbel interviewing them from South Africa and the things they were attempting to do. Well, those young men for the most part will have been questioned as to whether they should have been acceptable to Georgetown. And now I hear that they are grown and out of school and serving as good will ambassadors. So that makes you proud and it makes you see that you can't afford to be blinded by boundaries. That pertains to men acceptinternational....

ing

women or blacks accepting whites or

YOUTH MINISTER Growing parish in western North Carolina is seeking a Director of Youth Ministry whose job description includes coordination of a total youth program for high school students, including Confirmation preparation and oversight of a junior youth social program for middle school grades. As a new ministry in the parish, a director with organizational skills and with the experience and excitement to develop a program is welcome. Prefer degree in the field or comparable experience. Work with a growing and supportive pastoral staff. Salary and benefits package according to Diocesan scale

and guidelines. Position available July 1, 1995. Send resume Reverend Frank Cancro St. Eugene Parish, P.O. Box 8160 Ashevilie,

to:

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The Catholic News

February 17, 1995 whites accepting blacks.

always be in a position where you have questionsomeone questioning you

to

—

I think, based on our conditioning, get caught in that closet someall we times, but to stay in it a long time is a

questioning whether you're fulfilling your

very ignorant thing...

intentions.

A:

I

they're not religious aren't necessarily

Q: So, you?

not religious.

A:

that

I'm

Church for any-

— racism not just as an emotion of

thing other than

whether

my

to satisfy

and

to express

my

religious

depend on for their own survival...

So you find young people, old people, black people who are angry on the inside. What do you tell them?

attend

I

Paul/St.

Augustine Church when I'm in Washington. I go there for a per-

and

sonal

selfish reason. I

want

spiritual

uplifting.

want

resent

my

it

if

in

someone

in

I

as

basketball team in church.

I

resent

it

me for my autograph. I resent it if they ask me when my camp is starting. Those things have happened to me if

they ask

seen

else.

don't

much

know that I have the answers

as the fact that

I

NCAA when

tioned the

islation that

I

made

they

I

come to church to be worcome to church to worship.

didn't I

Sometimes I resent that and you're forced church

into a very private role in the

because of that. You understand what I am saying? Most of the time I have two nice little ladies who are at St. Paul and Augustine who help to administer things around the church. When I come in they

me

give

and

I

a

little

enjoy that

But

I

feel

chair back in the corner so...

and

I

have always

felt that

educational institutions and religious

if

institutions

were not advocates of change,

then we've got a big problem.

I

think

have been times certainly when the church has been very negligent and rethere

luctant, stood

And

back and not said

there have been times

things.

when

church, like most institutions, has

the

felt

it

necessary to be more aggressive. That's

why the thing I say to you as to why I like Georgetown University is so important as

it

relates to the church: that

you've got

PUT YOUR GIFTS at the

Service of Others

world as

is to

deal with unconscious bias

opposed

know

that

to conscious bias.

PRIESTHOOD in

The Diocese I

of Charlotte

somebody knows

When

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speech were

sciously doing

someone

That's really crazy.... it's strictly

want them

I

because I can catch up. I told the bothers me, it will bother

think the rest of kids,

me

said

I

it

education for

to graduate

it

you don't graduate from college.

And that is important because sometimes they're too young, too immature to realize the value of that. And sometimes kids if

come

here with the idea of mainly

...

playing basketball and basketball alone.

went to college to play basketball; I go to college to get an education.

I got exposed to education after I was in college by people I encountered ... then I learned to appreciate and broaden some I

didn't

my

of

more people go to heaven out of fear of the Lord than out of love of the Lord. So, I don't care which way you go as long as you get in. And if they do something because I made them do it, and then later on they understand

cerely believe

nonsense.

is

I

sin-

that....

I resent laws of today that say you cannot pray in school. I resent things

perspectives....

believe that

I

w«hy, that's

more important

they being

left

me

to

than

out and locked out and

shut out.

Q: And not

to take it for granted, education is so important. Why? Because the world is so tough out there?

A: I think knowledge is a source of power in the world. That's extremely important.

Knowing and being

able to expose yourchanges your view, your perspective. It helps you to understand a lot of the injustices that are committed against you and you commit against other people.

It helps you to function in the world you self

live in.

I meant to ask you, do you still have that deflated basketball in your

Q:

office?

A:

I I

that this is discriminatory, that

or

And where people are put underground with

level of people, they tend to get very sanc-

God and their feelings about God. I think I'm probably suspicious of people who

timonious with you and don't want to be sensitive or to understand.

But in answer to your question, I think

we've got to challenge. I tell people this and I constantly remind them that I went

my lifetime

— where

me Communion

right inside that door.

talk to the kids about

it,

particularly

they understand that

if

they

let

it's

discriminating against a certain income

churches in

it's

incoming kids, just in making them understand and know the fact that you can't predicate your whole life on nine pounds or 10 pounds of air in a basketball. If that's the whole focus of your life, then you've wasted an awful lot of time here.

I

me

think

I

...

I

this is discriminating against

to Catholic

You

without good works

don't have a problem can deal with him very But when you've got to convince it,

with that person. easily.

little bit

gious but in practice were not. Faith

that they're

—

—

Q: Do you think people, whether team members, students or fellow faculty members, can truly be suc-

air

out of

all

the balls in the world,

don't have a value in your

life.

game

a simple game. The

It's

the

you

an instrument. But

you

is

a

run around holding crosses in their hands

tool. It's

and throwing holy water on people too.

But I think that there's a healthy, healthy

your life for the game of basketball, you' ve wasted your life. But you can damned sure use the game of basketball to open up a lot of avenues and to expose your-

balance there.

I

— and

to

I like

it

had to receive second. I went to Catholic Masses where I had to sit in the back of the church, and they were preaching the same Gospel the Gospel hadn' changed. They were preaching the same Gospel that they're preaching today. So, at one point you're up on the altar saying all these religious things and how the Lord forgives us all and we're all brothers and sisters, but 'you' stay in the back or 'you' go to Communion second.

So it teaches you in my opinion to be a better Catholic than it does to abandon Catholicism because you challenge the system, you listen to their words and you make them live by their word if they're saying it themselves and you don't run from that.

I

—

Contact Father Frank O'Rourke Vocation Director

reli-

in

discriminating against me and they're con-

wasn't told to

Consider

And

some people who

leg-

young guy came up to me and told me that I could do that because of who I was, but if he did that he would lose his job.

I told him that I was damned sure glad that Rosa Parks didn't feel that way or I never would have had this job. And if you notice I have Rosa Parks' (picture in my office), one of the people I look up to an awful lot. I don't think that you have to be on a committee, I don't think you have to be of a certain stature to challenge a system and hold the system accountable for what it says it is. I often say to people: I'm glad I don't worship the people who bring the message as much as I go to church for the message.

It's hard. The hardest thing in the

shipped-

in practice than they are in speech.

a

thought would prevent poor

kids from having an opportunity and a

ing to church.

judged and others have judged who, when you examine them much closer, you'd say that they're probably more religious

think people

why you were com-

did not realize

too. So I know I've who I probably have

it

have to be willing to challenge the system, and I think you don't have to be a John Thompson in a newspaper. I ques-

before in church or innocently by people

who

that, I've lived

seen a lot of people

I don't know that I have the answer, and you constantly have to re-examine yourself, particularly when you are on the short end of things and you hear people preaching one thing and living another thing. You see yourself boxed into a system that does not permit you to grow or does not permit you to share equally with

go

somebody asks me about

religious,

A:

I sit

to

and want to do something for me. a corner by myself.

I

who

I thought were anything but and they claim to be. They jump on their knees in two seconds, bless themselves in one, and tell you about Christ as they shut the door and lock you out. I've

people

that other people unwittingly

of

St.

I've seen a lot of so-called religious

I like

religious belief

needs.

I

you or not because of the color of your skin but as a way life

extremely important to

it's

we do need

think

I

the traditional, formal type of

know, we have stricter religious laws than we have gun laws, in the school system.

at the notion of institutional racism

possess?

think

need to ask

I

religion brought out in our lives...

in a position to

know

don't

I

me

And more of

don't look at the Catholic

we

strengths that

I

7

for help....

A:

and I' m not reluctant to tell my team that.

I think religion is a personal and a private thing, and everybody who claims that

my battery;

the charging of

Q: What advice you would give to, whether it's a student or any other black person who's a Catholic out there who tends to get really angry

Q: As an African-American Catholic, where do you see the great

evaluate that.

ing your mission, questioning your role,

what they're doing without some space during the week for quiet time with God, without prayer time? Do you see your faith as a very important ingredient in your profession? cessful at

& Herald

I

—

do it purposely what I heard the

like to say to a student

priest say in

church today.

I

like to incor-

my teaching. Sometimes I me to say that. As I told you, a lot of my religion is

self to a lot

a private thing, but

we've kept

We lives,

it

I

think sometimes

too private.

publicly will talk about our sex

we

publicly will talk about drug

abuse, and we'll publicly talk about al-

coholism, but you privately discuss your religion.

I

fight

with myself about

much

to put in, so I've

that

am

I

gion as

it

made

players) decide

know Coach

reli-

me and let them (my

how to respond: Hey, you

said he heard the priest say

something in church today. Well, he went I'm not bragging about going to church as much as I want them to know that I need to go some place for strength.

It is

my

Everybody's got to have a tool, a ve-

by which they negotiate the use basketball to do that because that's what God gave me and the tool I feel most comfortable with, obviously, because I went in that direction.

But to use the ball as an end is a very foolish thing. That's what the deflation of it means. hicle, a thing

paths of

life. I

To anybody who

a decision

going to say things about pertains to

how

of various things.

live

tool.

porate that in

think that's contradictory of

if

deflated basketball

is

plays the game, a a very depressing

thing because you can do nothing else in the game with it. That's what make them understand: Hey,

I

if

want

to

the air

were let out of the ball, you still have got have a value or purpose in your life in which you're trying to do it. This worked as a symbol for me and I've gotten in-

to church.

to

And I think it's important for them to know that I am weak enough or I need

volved it).

in discussions

with kids (about

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'Qmtmiquemorws La Salud del Papa, juzguen por su hablar, no por su caminar

Las Apariciones Milagrosas Por Arturo De Aguilar El ano pasado cuando estaba en Florida

un companero del seminario me dijo que estaba un poco molesto porque en la parroquia donde habfa trabajado durante el verano un grupo de personas habfa planeado una peregrinacion para ir a ver a la Virgen y el pastor ni habfa apoyado a la gente, ni la habfa dejado asistir. Al preguntarle a que santuario era dicha peregrinacion

me

que dicen que

conto: -" la

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ha sido un factor que ha afectado la imagen de la Iglesia y ha creado disturbios dentro de ella. Nuestra Iglesia catolica rara vez aprueba oficialmente estos movimientos y si lo hace, solo despues de meticulosas investigaciones realizadas por una comision formal que lleva a cabo un

proceso que puede demorar varias decadas.

En cuanto

sabes

Virgen se esta

a

susodichas

las

CEILAN (CNS) como

Papa Juan Pablo II no es el tiempo que le lleva caminar a algun lugar sin el baston, sino el tiempo que el se toma hablando sin un texto.

Este principio ampliamente aceptado por los periodistas, fue revalidado por el papa hace algunos dfas en una vigilia de oracion en su visita a las Filipinas.

apariciones en Conyers, hasta ahora el

"Yo hablo con improvisation cuando

apareciendo en un lugar llamado Conyers,

obispo local, John Donohue, no

en Georgia? En todo el pais se estan organizando visitas al lugar". Yo le pregunte si ese lugar habfa sido ya reconocido por la Iglesia y me dijo que no, pero que el tenia deseos de "ver a la

prestado mucha atencion y la arquidiocesis de Atlanta no tiene intenciones de iniciar un proceso de

Virgen".

Se dan razones para

Hace algunas semanas mas de 25 mil

les

ha

— La clave para juzgar

se siente el

estoy disfrutando algo", dijo el Santo Padre.

investigation.

Aunque su caminar fue a menudo algo mas que un arrastrar los pies durante su visita a las Filipinas, Nueva Guinea,

Australia y Ceilan, el se limito rara vez a los textos preparados para sus 31

discursos y homilfas.

El papa explico a los periodistas que

usa el baston porque aun despues de nueve

meses de su cirugfa en la cadera, su pierna no esta lo suficientemente fuerte como para apoyarla.

El portavoz del Vaticano, Joaquin Navarro- Vals, insistio en que la pierna

no le causa dolor, pero "hay solo un movimiento limitado. El Papa da una impresion de fragilidad que es mucho mayor que la realidad."

furor sobre los inmigrantes

el

personas, llegadas de todas partes del pais, se congregaron

en Conyers,

GA

para

WASHINGTON (CNS)— Linda Chavez, Reagan y de una entidad

escuchar atentamente a una mujer. Esta

ex-auxiliar de los gobiernos de

mujer era Nancy Fowler, de 46 anos de edad, que segun decfa, tenia un

Carter, y ahora directora

"mensaje"especial de la Santfsima Virgen

que

Maria, posiblemente escatologico (que

hace referenda a los ultimos tiempos).

Despues de dos horas de oracion, la mujer llego y dio su mensaje: advertencias

multi-disciplinaria en Washington, dijo las percepciones erroneas y los problemas de asimilacion se hallan detras de gran parte de la hostilidad reciente hacia los inmigantes en Estados Unidos.

En una reunion informal con mes pasado, en

sobre inminentes desastres naturales como

reporteros el

huracanes y temblores y pafses en lucha

para Igualdad de Oportunidades, que la

contfnua.

Todo

esto sucederia a

menos

que las personas se mantengan en oracion como nunca lo han hecho.

Hace ya mas de un aho estos "mensajes de la Virgen" se han venido repitiendo cada mes. Muchas personas comentan que se han visto milagros como nubes con forma de la Virgen, el sol girando en el cielo o rosarios cuyas cuentas se convirtieron en oro.

Desde los primeros siglos de la Iglesia, versiones de las apariciones de la Virgen han abundado por todos los rincones del mundo. Concentraciones como las de Conyers han reunido a mucha gente en distintos lugares alrededor de personas que aseguran tener mensajes divinos, o de la Virgen.

Nos preguntamos por que estan surgiendo tantos movimientos "milagrosos" hoy dfa. Los teologos y sociologos coinciden en afirmar que son

comunes al acercarse el termino de un siglo, la necesidad de una espiritualidad que no ha sido bien encaminada, o a veces, por la poca factores

credibilidad en las instituciones religiosas.

La

proliferacion de todos estos

movimientos de apariciones y milagros

senorita

Chavez

Centro

el

que

dirige, ella dijo

las

creencias inexactas alimentan la sensation

de que existe una crisis de la inmigracion en el pais. La informacion incorrecta sobre el efecto de la inmigracion legal e ilegal es

mucho mas predominante que

la

ella.

Una hostilidad semejante fue dirigida

ella.

vuelta del siglo XX. Pero las circunstancias actuales son considerablemente distintas para esta generation de inmigrantes.

Lo mas importante es que hoy no se hace enfasis sobre la asimilacion como ocurrio hace unas cuantas generaciones, segtin dijo la senorita Chavez.

"Uno de los mayores problemas es el de nuestra fragmentation como sociedad", dijo. "Se esta alentando a las

hallan en el Congreso trata del asunto de

personas a pensar sobre ellas mismas

como grupos

individuales", en vez de

modo de funcionar como

enfocarse en

audiencias efectuadas alrededor del pais

inmigrantes a los servicios publicos, como

sentimiento contra los inmigrantes surge del temor a los recien especialmente latinos o llegados hispanos que tienen un papel demasiado

parte del

— —

la

el

una sociedad unida.

Disminuir

el

acceso

de

los

Aun

la asimilacion.

over the world, that increase as we approach the end of the century. The all

—

sociedad de este pais, dijo

Padre,

las

pronto

como

llegan.

—A

traves del

la

Pontificio

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world helps support communities in Latin America.

News about the health of the Pope, which is better han it seems.

Short article about

— —

reasons

why

immigrants

the prejudices against are increasing.

1

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over the

Proyectos

Brasil

Bolivia

foundation, "Populorum Progressio," all

se cerraran las

fundacion "Populorum Progressio" "Cor Unum", aceptando VATICANO — El Santo Consejo a

Antillas

by Arturo de Aguilar about the apparitions of the Virgin in Conyers, GA and how they relate to movements

si

manana, todavfa tendrfamos a 20 millones de inmigrantes con necesidad de asimilarse.

Ella explico que los inmigrantes tienen probabilidades mucho menores de usar los servicios apoyados por los impuestos, como la asistencia economica publica, que los estadounidenses nativos.

Y aunque los refugiados dependen en mayor medida de los programas tales como la asistencia economica publica y los cupones para alimentos, la polftica de los Estados Unidos es la de dar a todos los refugiados esa clase de ayuda tan fronteras

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Former Philippines President To Get Peace Award From U.N. Nuncio

Research Prepared For Lawsuit May Sink Surgeon General Nominee

loved

years later she would be the one travel-

out of his

WASHINGTON

ing in outer space?" Mrs. Conklin and

53-year-old priest of the Archdiocese of

NEW YORK

her family watched the launch from a

Miami

Renato R. Martino, Vatican nuncio to the United Nations, announced Feb. 2 that Corazon C. Aquino, former president of the Philippines, would receive the 1995 award of the Path to Peace Foundation.

She has confirmed she will come to New York to receive the award at the

— Preparation

(CNS)

year against the

for a lawsuit filed last

federal Human Embryo Research Panel may end up sinking the nomination of Dr. Henry W. Foster Jr. as surgeon general. Through her work with The Michael

Fund/International Foundation for Ge-

Research and the U.S. Coalition for Life, both based in Pittsburgh, Randy Engel uncovered documents that called into question Foster's claim to have pernetic

formed

dozen abortions duran obstetrician/ Nashville, Tenn. "Hav-

less than a

ing his career as

gynecologist in

ing spent the last year going through"

it.

special family viewing area at

that

Kennedy

Space Center. They- invited Father Bill Zamborsky, pastor at Holy Spirit Church in Mims and a longtime family friend, to bless the flight in view of the launch.

Wraps Up 10 Years Washington With Few Regrets Msgr. Lynch

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Msgr. Robert N. Lynch ended a more than

10- year

church career in Washington Feb. 2 with a few regrets,

some

pride in his accom-

plishments and a belief that "anyone who

in today's church."

officially

is

The

handed off the post of

general secretary of the National Confer-

ence of Catholic Bishops and U.S. Catho-

Conference

lic

Schnurr that day.

Mass In

mind

at

to Msgr. Dennis M. He celebrated the noon

NCCB-USCC

headquarters in

Washington, then headed for Florida on

Amtrak auto-train to begin a fivemonth sabbatical. He was to take up a

the

parish post in southern Florida after travels to

on July

(CNS)

— Archbishop

foundation's annual fund-raising dinner

June

1,

dation

he said. The Path to Peace Founwas established by Archbishop

Martino in 1991 to raise funds for projects

1

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related to the

work of the Vatican's U.N.

mission but not included

land and Bali.

in its budget.

materials tracing the history of the federal

government's involvement in human

Post-Abortion Counseling Helps Healing Process

embryo research and experimentation, "his name was very fresh in my mind" when his nomination was announced Feb. 2, said Ms. Engel in a telephone interview with Catholic News Service from

Dear Dr. Shuping,

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Destiny

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Shuttle Pilot

Rooted In "Star Trek" Episodes ORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) The path that

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might have started

into space

a

in front of

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N.Y., according to her sister.

Conklin, a in

member of St.

Margy

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sci-fi series

who became off "I

I know that it bothers her a lot. I showed her the information about the post-abortion services last year, but she didn't go. She said later that she hadn't attended because she didn't want to go alone, but also she felt hesitant to come,

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One reason that this service was able be such a powerful means of healing was that God wanted to be there; that God, just like the father in the Prodigal Son story, is waiting for the moment when a welcoming back home, forgiveness and restoration can be received by a son or daughter who stayed away too long.

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Last year we started with a song, an opening prayer and scripture readings, just as we normally would at Mass or at a Penance service. The readings, music and prayers focused on healing, forgiveness and moving from darkness into light.

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at

The

and "The Fourth Cup," by Scott Hann. Call (704) 364-9568 for in-

program

Retreat

Forgiveness Explored United for

will begin with the rosary

feature a video,

formation.

Ministry needs a volunteer to assist with general office administration. Computer

daytime chapel. The evening will include prayer, sharing and refreshments.

information, call (704) 664-3992.

information, call Scott Spivak at (704)

CRISM

HICKORY

at

7:30 p.m.

at St.

Pius

X Church in the

Spring Fling

Ring (formerly picnic) is Thursday, April 27. A planning meeting is Monday, March

$50. For registration and information, call

Feast of

(704) 343-9954.

at

Peter

St.

— The

ASHEVILLE

feast

of the Chair

of St. Peter will be celebrated on Wednesday, Feb. 22 at the Basilica of St.

Lawrence, D.M. Masses are at 12: 10 and 5 30 p.m. The feast honors St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and commemorates his :

pontifical authority as the First Pope.

Squires Receive Award

— The Columbian

CLEMMONS

Squires of Holy Family Church have

been presented with the 1993-94 Knights of Columbus Brother Barnabas Award for their outstanding activity, "Soup Kitchen Overnight."

6 from 1 1 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at the Catholic Conference Center. Anyone interested in helping to plan the event is welcome.

Call Suzanne Bach at (704) 377-6871 by March 2 for a reservation.

Interfaith

Forum

—

GREENSBORO terfaith

The Piedmont

Council presents the 1995

In-

Inter-

CHARLOTTE — The St. Matthew Parish

Mission

Center.

is

Feb. 26-28 at the Parish

The Sunday mission is from 5:30-

8:30 p.m. and begins with a soup and

sandwich supper.

On Monday and Tues-

day, mission times are from 7-8 p.m.

Maryknoll Father Ed Killackey will speak at the mission and at all weekend Masses.

For information, call the church at (704) 543-7677.

Hannah's

Sisters

Meet

CHARLOTTE — A support group

for

women who

have had miscarriages or meets Tuesday, March 14 at 7 p.m. at St. John Neumann Church in the library. For details call Patsy Albrecht at (704) 536-3348. stillbirths

Violence," Sunday, Feb. 26 at 3 p.m. at the

Main Branch of the Greensboro Pub-

lic

Library in the second floor confer-

needs volunteers to deliver meals once a week to needy, homebound elderly in Buncombe County. For information or to sign up, call Sarah Oram at (704) 253-

scouts or units led

at

14.

Abbey Experience BELMONT The Belmont Abbey

—

College high school visitation day is Friday, Feb. 24 at 9 a.m. Visitors will attend classes, tour the campus and learn more about North Carolina's only Catholic college. College officials will be available to answer questions. For information, call the Admissions Office at (704) 825-6655.

Ages And Stages

CHARLOTTE

— The CRISM Day of

Reflection for Charlotte and Albemarle

BELMONT

20.

at

10:45 a.m.

For information,

call

games and

Marko

crafts.

at

For information,

(910) 282-1554.

call

at

(704) 882-8646.

Camp

KINGS MOUNTAIN, S.C

— Applica-

tions are available for the Oratory Reli-

gion camp, a week -long experience for residential Christian living at Camp York.

The

fee

$90. Sessions are July 9-15

is

and July 16-22. To apply, contact The Oratory Religion Camp, P.O. Box

Rock

— A Charismatic Day of

—

seniors' club will visit Myrtle

May

March 21

St.

Gabriel

OWLS Beach

for three days of shows, tour-

ing and golf. Friends are invited. For details, call

Lou

at

(704) 541-6855.

Winter Concert

CHARLOTTE — Celebrated recording artist

(704)

at

1586,

Spring Theater Tour

CHARLOTTE

information, call Bobbie

1

29731. For information call Father William Pentis at (803) 3273236.

Hill, S.C.

guidance is Saturday, Feb. 25 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at Queen of the Apostles Church. Cost is $10. Bring a bag lunch. The presentation is by Bobbie May with music by Deloris Stevenson and includes plenty of opportunity for praise and worship during the day. For

John Michael Talbot will perform

Saturday, Feb. 25 at St. Gabriel Church.

327-8692.

— A Mardi Gras

T.

from St. Ann Parish Evangelization Com-

Program

GREENSBORO — The Piedmont Irish

mission. Preferred seating tickets cost $ 1 5,

Summer Program needs fami-

general admission tickets cost $10 and

Children's lies to

open

tickets at the

their

one parent must be

in the

door will be sold for $12,

The Catholic News & Herald welcomes parish news for the diocesan news briefs. Good photographs, preferably black and white, also are welcome. Please submit news releases and photos at least 10 days before the date of

home

8853 or (910) 282-0543.

publication.

CHRISTIAN SUMMER CAMPS

NO

cel-

In the Blue Ridge Mountains of

R T

Owned and

McShea Knights of Columbus

CAROLINA

H

Directed by

Roman

Catholics

is at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Murray Hall on Saturday, Feb.

Council 9579

25 at 7 p.m. Polish cuisine will be served along with beverages and dessert. Tickets are $8 per person before Feb. 20 and $ 1 0 thereafter and at the door. For tickets and information, call Joe Drozd at (704) 584-7141.

Orchestra Director To Speak

CHARLOTTE Charlotte

— The

Symphony

Joseph

FDR BOYS

director of the

Orchestra, Peter

O Rourke

P. Certified Public Accountant 4921 Albemarle Road, Suite 116 Charlotte, NC 28205

Tax

consultation, planning, and preparation for individuals

and small businesses.

Accounting services available.

(704) 568-7886

Two

mountain camps,

national forest,

of the Blue Ridge, surrounded by

swimming

•

drama* Whitewater canoeing* horseback

backpacking

•

arts

•

riding

•

archery

tennis

•

nature study

A

in the heart

Whitewater rivers and waterfalls offering:

Rock climbing •

•

riflery

•

and crafts

team sports

•

•

kayaking

•

gymnastics

•

and more...

place where a child can explore, build self-confidence and self-

esteem.

A

wholesome and challenging environment where our youth can

play, learn and

grow

in faith together.

Please contact us for more information, or for a visit Video Available.

Ages 8-17 • Session lengths available 2,3,4 weeks

f

"I will lift

up

if

available.

during the time the children are in the United States. For details, call (9 1 0) 299-

Suzanne Bach,

sacred and classical music on Sunday,

professional duties such as coordinating

Mary Ann Mims

Religion

spiritual

coordinator, at (704) 377-6871.

Feb. 23 at 4 p.m. Tickets are $ 1 0 for adults

—

call

Renewal centering on inner healing and

Mardi Gras Dinner Dance

iam

St.

ner will be served and

Little

least

The afternoon program includes speakers Peter Duca and Suzanne Bach. The program ends at 2:45 p.m. To register, call Lucille at (704) 5272189 or Mary at (704) 553-1860 by Feb. speak

day, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m.

Home Volunteers Needed Maryfield Nursing HIGH-POINT Home needs volunteers to perform non-

week

six

a.m. Jesuit Father Francis Gillespie will

copal Church will present a concert of

Nursing

John Neumann Church. DinMike Whitehead will speak on the topic of empowering children. For information or reservations,

p.m. at

children under age 13 (grades 2-7) in

— The

23 at Our Lady of the Assumption Church. Fellowship and continental breakfast is at 10 vicariates is Thursday, Feb.

HENDERSONVILLE — St. James Epis-

and $5 for students and available at the church or at Henderson County Travel and Tourism. Proceeds benefit the Parish Outreach Program.

parents and meets Saturday, Feb. 25 at 7

are en-

homes and hearts to 9 to 13-year-old children from Belfast, Northern Ireland for six weeks during the summer between June 21 -Aug. 2. At

McCoppin, will address the topic of music and spirituality with "Music and the Oneness of Creation" at the St. Peter Church adult education session on Tues-

Candlemas Concert

Gathering of Hearts," is forming for single

Scripture Study

CHARLOTTE

Group Meet new group, "A

—A

Tickets are available at parish offices or

ebration sponsored by the Father Will-

5858 or Brenda

Single Parents'

CHARLOTTE

couraged to attend. Saturday lunch is provided. For information, call Frank Thompson at (800) 521-3148 or Jack Eulitt at (704) 568-1601.

Irish Children's

at

(910) 292-41

by Catholics

not necessary. For

331-1714.

5286.

Newcomers Brunch

p.m.

For information, call Tommy at (9 1 0) 449-

skills are helpful but

scout troops, cub packs and individual

Charismatic Renewal

St. Barnabas Church will community Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation class Saturday, March 4 from 10 a.m.- 12 noon and Thursday, March 26 from 7-9 p.m.

offer a

MORGANTON

1

at the

CPR Class ARDEN —

will

Stanley Rd. on Sunday, Feb. 26 at

be

Catholic Conference Center April 28-30. This year's theme is "You are the Light of the World." The focus is on Bible stories and parables. Awards will be distributed after 10 a.m. Mass on Sunday. All Catholic will

ence room. The keynote speaker is Dr. Robert Schrag. Everyone is welcome and admission is free.

Remarried Catholics

meet for a Shoney's on

—

Camporee

Group Meets

GREENSBORO — Single, Divorced and

Ceil

Catholic

Camporee The Twentieth Annual

Rock Scripture Study on the Gospel of Luke begins Monday, Feb. 20 at 10 a.m. in the O'Donaghue Center at the St. Patrick Cathedral office on Buchanan Street. The fee is $3. All are welcome.

CRISM Singles

Catholic Scout

retreat for wid-

Forum, "Faith, Family and

faith

Delivery Volunteers Needed Meals on Wheels of Buncombe County

Parish Mission

CHARLOTTE — The Justice and Peace

owed, separated and divorced Catholics is at St. Therese Church on March 4 from 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Lunch is provided. For

sessions begin Feb. 20 and continue

Mary Jo Lucey

Office Volunteer

ness" by Father Ken Roberts will be viewed and discussed Tuesday, Feb. 21

HICKORY —This year's CRISM Spring

through four consecutive Mondays from 7-9 p.m. at St. Peter Church. The fee is

—A

GREENSBORO — The video "Forgive-

Assertiveness Training

CHARLOTTE — Assertiveness training

Day

MOORESVILLE

my eyes to the mountains, from whence my help" - Psalms 121:1

comes

Route 2 Box 389, Brevard, North Carolina 28712 (704) 884-6834

The Catholic News

February 17, 1995

& Herald

i 1

World and National Briefs Clinton: Charities Can't be Asked To Take On AH Social Programs

Committees Formed To Study

WASHINGTON

tion

charities

— Churches and

(CNS)

ought to be handling more of the

CTNA,

Design

Forum On

Transla-

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Cardinal Will-

Province To Assign Islamic Religion Teachers To Catholic Schools

U.S. Jewish Leaders

PALEMBANG, Indonesia (CNS)

VATICAN CITY (CNS)

— An

Indonesian provincial government plans

responsibility for social services, but the

iam H. Keeler of Baltimore has named two

to assign Islamic religious instructors to

government has an obligation to

ad hoc bishops' committees, one to design

local Catholic schools to provide for the

continue tax-supported help for the poor,

a bishops' study forum on translation of

majority of students in those schools

President Clinton said in an interview with

liturgy texts

federal

religion writers. "I don't think the

Ameri-

can people object to spending tax

money

on poor people," Clinton said Feb. 2. "I think what they object to is spending tax money on a system that perpetuates destructive conduct and irresponsible conduct."

House Speaker Newt Gingrich,

R-Ga., has said churches and charities ought to take

over for the government in caring

— To mark

the

50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, members of the American Jewish Committee governing board asked Pope John Paul II in a Feb. 6 meeting to issue an

are Muslim. But the head of the founda-

encyclical

Network

tion responsible for the schools said the

Semitism. A participant

Muslim

would not be allowed under such a plan because it violates their schools' autonomy. The controversy is outlined in a report to

the pope told the Jewish delegation he

commitment by Catholics and Jews to work

yearly

Xaverius Schools Foundation in Palembang, which manages Catholic

subsidy from the bishops this January, and

schools in Jambi and South Sumatera

"to pray and to work, together

of America.

The National Conference of

Catholic Bishops, which Cardinal Keeler

heads as president, established

CTNA

in

198 1 The network had to lay off more than .

half its staff and cut

its air

avert a major deficit.

It

time

got

last

its final

year to

new funding it is due to run of money later this year. Coadjutor

unless

it

gets

out

by reviving orphanages to replace the cur-

Archbishop Jerome G. Hanus of Dubuque,

and federal

Ask Pope To

On Anti-Semitism

to study the future of

and one

the Catholic Telecommunications

for poor or neglected children, for example

rent systems of foster care

who

Issue Encyclical

is chairman of the Ad Hoc Commiton the Forum. Heading the new Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of CTNA is Bishop

Iowa,

teachers

to teach

UCA News, an Asian church

provinces.

condemning

forms of

all

in the

anti-

meeting said

would Pope John Paul

carefully study their request.

also told the group "the horrors of the

Shoah," or Holocaust, must lead to a greater together for justice.

He asked the delegates and with Holy

others, in order to foster peace in the

news agency based in Thailand, obtained a copy of the report.

Land, which

Missionary Killer In Philippines Seeks Amnesty

German

and Muslims

is

so dear to Jews, Christians

alike."

der of an Italian missionary priest has

Schools Week, Philadelphia's Cardinal Anthony J.

Bishop Tours Church Building Closed By Predecessor Bishop WORCESTER, Mass. (CNS)

Bishops Not Rebelling Against Pope, Says Official VATICAN CITY (CNS) The German bishops are not rebelling against Pope John Paul II, said Bishop Karl Lehmann, Ger-

applied for an amnesty covering military

man

Bevilacqua said Catholic schools are es-

Daniel

counterinsurgency operations. Norberto

news reports that the bishops had disagreed with the Vatican over ordaining women.

sential to teach religious values in a secular

only two months, led a delegation on a tour

Manero is

"It

culture filled with "hostility towards all

of a church whose May 1992 closure by his

the amnesty, implemented as Executive

predecessor had prompted a 13- month

welfare benefits to struggling parents.

tee

Catholic Schools Needed, Cardinal

Bevilacqua Says

PHILADELPHIA (CNS) letter

—

In a pastoral

for Catholic

Joseph A. Fiorenza of Galveston-Houston.

New

—

P.

Reilly of Worcester, in office for

MANILA, Philippines (CNS)

— One of

two brothers convicted

1

in the

985 mur-

who committed crimes during

personnel

the

first

person to apply under

—

bishops' conference president, after

cannot be said that the church in our

country or the bishops would rebel against

ents exercise a real

freedom of choice in "The countries of Western Europe as well as Canada have

Canadian ethnic church, and the decision

their children's education.

by now retired Bishop Timothy

Harrington to merge the parish with an-

Order 348, UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand, reported.

Manero was convicted of murdering Father Tullio Favali in Tulunan, central Mindanao island, on April 11, 1985. The

found ways to enable parents

other also touched off a rancorous flurry of

slaying of the missionary, a

and ecclesiastical court action. Bishop Reilly's tour Feb. 4, conducted despite heavy

the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Mis-

a World Council of Churches delegation

sions, sparked nationwide indignation.

Witnesses identified Manero as the one

visiting his diocese of

religious influences."

He urged

school aid legislation to

let

private

Catholic par-

...

to deter-

in.

sit-

Closure of St. Joseph Church, a French

J.

mine what kind of education they wish their children to receive," he said. Cardinal

civil

Bevilacqua said Catholic schools benefit

snow and bitter cold, was the first time in more than 18 months that the building had

by providing both superior academic training and spiritual formation. the country

Cardinal's Opposition To Euthanasia Consistent With Ethic Of Life KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CNS) In a lecture on euthanasia, Chicago Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin questioned what would happen to trust in the medical profession if

—

family doctors

become

"licensed to kill."

Speaking to 800 people Feb.

1

at

Rockhurst

College in Kansas City, the cardinal noted "a disconcerting change in attitude" in the

United States that

is

fueling the

to legalize euthanasia in effect,

movement

and assisted suicide,

giving doctors a license to

kill.

been opened.

VATICAN CITY (CNS)

—

Pope John Paul on Hungary's government and Catholic Church to cooperate in redressing injustices suffered by the church under the former communist government. The pope made his comments in a Feb. 6 speech to Hungary's new ambassador to the Vatican, Jozsef Bratinka. The church's struggle to regain property confiscated by the former government, Pope John Paul said, provides an opportunity for Hungary to put into called

"We desperately need a societal attitude or

practice

climate that will sustain a consistent de-

of religious freedom and

fense and promotion of

educational, charitable and communications

life,"

said the car-

work of

dinal.

its

go ahead

new

constitutional guarantees its

respect for the

the church.

one which blew off part of the

iiicrri-mac

TIAVKEKLAKE SUMMER OF FUN. BUILDING CONFIDENCE & MOTIVATION"

papal stances," he said in a Feb. 6 state-

ment.

The statement was

Vatican and in Germany.

released at the

It

tion of remarks the bishop

was a clarifica-

made

Feb. 3 to

Mainz.

Head Of Overseas Catholic Fund Says World Bank, IMP Exploit Poor The LIVERPOOL, England (CNS)

—

World Bank and the International Monetary Fund seem to many to have become mecha-

Women Will Be

Messengers Of Values Needed For Peace VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Paul II prayed that women would be "messengers of the religious and moral val-

than helping them, a senior Catholic devel-

ues" that the world needs for true peace.

annual lecture in honor of Pope Paul VI.

midday Angelus address Feb. 5, the pope began what he said would be a

He

—

In his

series of talks about Catholic

women "who

have distinguished themselves by

work

for peace."

The

series

is

their

a follow-

message for the Jan. 1 celebraWorld Peace Day 1995 which focused on "Women: Teachers of Peace." up

to his

tion of

is

rich with

women who,

love,

CAMP

defend ourselves against the

nisms for exploiting the world's poor rather

Pope Prays

marvelous examples

sustained by faith and

were successfully able

difficult situations

camp

priest's

We

insinuation of such anti-Roman and anti-

skull.

of

"MORE THAN JUST A CAMP"

to his brother

fired several shots at the priest, including

"History

f

the

Edilberto to shoot Father Favali. Edilberto

Pope Urges Hungary, Church To Work Jointly To Heal Old Wounds II

who gave

member of

the pope.

to deal with

of exploitation, vio-

lence and war," the pope said at the

An-

opment

official in Britain said. Julian

CAFOD,

Filochowski, director of Catholic

Fund

for

the

Overseas Development,

spoke in Liverpool Feb. 4 at the aid agency's said 1995 was the 50th anniversary of World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. "For many people they seem to be mechanisms for greater exploitation .... rather than mechanisms for liberation or the

development. Certainly there

is little

to

celebrate in that jubilee for the poor,"

Filochowski

said.

Vatican Newspaper Says Disconnecting Respirator Was Murder VATICAN CITY (CNS) —The actions and intentions of a Michigan dermatologist who disconnected his premature son's respira-

gelus. tor

amount

though a jury

to murder, even

found him innocent of manslaughter, the Vatican newspaper said. "On an interna-

"A

DIABETIC"?

tional level

ing

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and on a

practical level, noth-

was lacking from

the crime being

homicide," said Franciscan Father Gino Concetti, a moral theologian

who

writes

commentaries for the Vatican newspaper.

Dr. Gregory Messenger was acquitted of manslaughter Feb. 2 by a court in Lansing, Mich. He testified he unplugged the respirator "out of love" hours after his son was born 15 weeks premature in February 1994 weighing only one pound,

1 1

ounces.

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& Herald

The Catholic News

12

Our Mother Of

February 17, 1995

Umoja

Chapel To Join Shrine's Ethnic Memorials Africa

WASHINGTON — A new chapel, spon-

tures, she said.

Auxiliary Bishop John H. Ricard of

who chairs the campaign, said

Baltimore,

the National Black Catholic Congress will

the planned chapel gives him, as

one of

last available

two million African American Catholics,

chapel spaces in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Concep-

"a sense of completeness, a symbolic

tion

in

one of the

completeness. With all of the ethnic groups that make up the rich fabric of the American Catholic Church, finally, African-Americans are there too."

Bishop Ricard said the idea for the chapel was generated from many sources, including the National Black Catholic Congress and the shrine.

He and congress members recently visited the chapel site. "Everyone was so impressed," he said. "There has been a lot of enthusiasm."

In the Diocese of Charlotte, Rev. Mr. Curtiss Todd, vicar for African-American Affairs views the chapel, "as

Washington Many of the

in

approximately 70 added inside the shrine since

dedication in 1959 reflect the

its

ethnic heritage of immigrant Catholics.

The newest chapel will be dedicated Our Mother of Africa.

to

1)

can have an awareness of different cul-

sored by African-American bishops and

be erected

(from page

Rosemary Jackson, along with her two children, spoke on the principles of Kwanza, an African American holiday that pays tribute to African heritage.

Kwanza Kwanza

is

celebrated Dec. 26- Jan.

first fruits

gives

It

about African history and art. "These days it

becoming very popular to learn your

is

own

cultural history as well as others.

African culture It is

terest in

it,"

has existed in

its

present

Host Homes receives adfrom the federal and state government, foundations, grants and dostate since 1987.

ditional funds

no longer a

which is awarded to eight people per county in North Carolina, and a Volunteer of the Year Award given out by the Southeast Network of Family Services. All in

"The program has endowed me with the realization that children

cese

who

is

make

able to

a

Left to right:

Chacy San

Eugenia

Filippo,

Stevenson and George Hage

The program has recently received

a three-year grant which enables tinue

it

to con-

is

unique

in the sense

paign."

that

The chapel site is near the main altar of the shrine's

and counseling in a volunteer setting," says

it

offers both a sheltering

program

go through counseling.

Counseling is the major component

the country. Chapel construction

Africa, to be

done by an African- Ameri-

of our program, says Chacy SanFilippo, a

not yet selected, will stand in a

Host Homes counselor. "Most of our work deals with families. It is a requirement that the child and his or her natural family go through counseling sessions that last from three months to a year," says SanFilippo.

All of Host Homes services foster are free. Families care and counseling volunteer themselves to become foster shelters for the troubled youths. The maximum stay of any child in a family home is two weeks. Stevenson says, "[Foster] families see what they do as a ministry. They treat the children as if they were their own."

dioceses, archdioceses, major religious

is

ex-

pected to cost $750,000. The balance

can

is

earmarked for an endowment fund to provide educational programs for thousands of pilgrims expected to

wall niche, opposite a panel containing

words of dedication, history or scripture.

One architectural detail, intended to symbolize the separation from their homeland experienced by African- Americans, will be a deep groove dividing the chapel.

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In the Diocese of Charlotte, contri-

coming in slowly, said Rev. Mr. Todd. Anyone wishing to make a contribution may do so by sending a check or money order to: The Mother of Africa butions are

Beth Manning

Loan

Officer

Call (704) 536-4575

After 5

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Stevenson.

orders and fraternal groups throughout

million has been initiated in parishes,

Host

the stress of our children in crisis, she says.

its efforts.

"The program

Besides the host family, the children also

to raise $2.5

Mable

Staff.

host families, says Stevenson. nations.

wood to represent African- American ethnic heritage. A statue of Our Mother of

campaign

Within the

last

year there have been

16 children placed with host families.

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The volunteer

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know that there are families that really take interest in children's' lives.

them

The foster fami-

and support that they may not be receiving at home.

John and Anne Harrison, parishioners of Holy Family Church in Clemmons, were lies offer

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David Harold, Catholic Social Services area director for Greensboro and WinstonSalem says, "The success of Host Homes

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lives need to be helped," says John Harrison.

Currently, the program has ten licensed foster families and an additional five in the process of being licensed. We encourage people to become

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contribution to the cam-

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who

through troubled times in their

of the Church. Because of this

urge everyone in the dio-

their six

they fostered 26 children.

African- Americans."

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all, in

years of being a host family

commitment, and contributions to the Church by

very significant undertaking,

Though do provide

new families.

1994 they were given the Governor's Award for Volunteer Service,

faith,

body

foster family, they

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can community, and a move towards acknowledging the

into the full

said Akinlana.

assistance in training

lization of the African- Ameri-

Americans

very rich in tradition.

a foster family from 1988 to 1994.

a positive step in the evange-

Just as important, Rev. Mr. Todd said, "The chapel will begin to visibly represent the inclusion of African-

is

very pleasing to see people take in-

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Host Homes was developed under the umbrella of Catholic Social Services in response to adolescents' needs and grassroots concerns.

browse over as well as buy.

Throughout the day the crowd learned

all

blood an opportunity to celebrate the rich traditions of our cultures, said Jackson.

"This festival offers the community a chance to experience and learn their

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— which means of — people of African

the harvest

own cultural backgrounds as well as other African cultures," said Rob Fuller, owner of Plum Good Books in Charlotte. Fuller

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