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1993

15,

Bishop To Lead Diocesan Group

To Washington March For By JOANN

KEANE

from God, and only

Associate Editor

CHARLOTTE Roe

decide

—

Twenty years after Wade, two generations have been

ration of a president

of the Immaculate Conception, with Cardi-

—

the 1993

a proponent of legal

March

for Life will

Upon

nal

arrival in

Washington,

partici-

Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles

converge upon Washington.

serving as principal celebrant.

Donoghue will join the caravan of busses leaving the diocese bound for the annual march on the nation s capital.

Charlotte attendees will also have the op-

imperative that

"It is

demonstrate

portunity for

Mass on Friday

Sacrament Chapel

Donoghue. He speculates the 20th anniver-

an opportunity to lobby

Last

year, hundreds of thousands trekked to

Washington from all over the country march in opposition to the 1973 ruling.

"We

must stand up and proclaim that Donoghue. "If we're going to see an even worse

sacred," says Bishop

at the

Blessed

with Bishop Donoghue as celebrant. Marchers will attend the

may bring the largest crowd ever.

Diocese of

in the National Shrine,

with large numbers of people," says Bishop

sary

March for Life, and have legislators in

con-

The two-day

gressional office buildings.

home around midnight. Bishop Donoghue acknowledges the sacrifices required on the part of people to trip will return

join the

March

for Life. 'They

have

to give

euthanasia, as sweeping as abortion. Bishop

up a day or two of work, or mothers who have to leave their families. But it indicates where our priorities are as Christians." For more information, contact Maggie

Donoghue opposes

Nadol, coordinator of the Dicoesan Respect

life is

we don't,

situation."

dom

could lead to widespread the conventional wis-

that says individuals suffering should

be allowed

to orchestrate their

"They don't have

uatemalan Archbishop Resolves To

Bishop Donoghue.

pants will attend Mass at the National Shrine

La Fe Vive en las Americas

has the right to

should end," says

Cm Jan. 22, two decades since abortion became legal, and two days after the inaugu-

Bishop John

America— 1993 Appeal

God

that life

tossed into waste receptacles.

abortion

in Latin

when

Two busses from the diocese will join up with marchers in Washington. One bus leaves from Charlotte, with stops in Winston-Salem and Greensboro. The second departs from Asheville.

vs.

wiped from the face of the earth. Approximately 30 million tiny bodies have been suctioned, dismembered, and callously

Support the Church

Life

Balkan

that right.

own deaths. Life

Life Office, 1524 E. lotte,

Morehead

St.,

Char-

NC 28207, or call (704) 331-1720.

comes

War Pushing Europe To Edge

GUATEMALA CITY (CNS)— Arch-

they conducted a business of supply and

Of Abyss, Pope Warns At Assisi ASSISI, (CNS) — Pope John

fop Prospero Penados de Barrio of Gua-

demand, T give you a new roof, you give me

Paul U, praying for peace in Assisi, warned

St.

your

Europe that its ethnic wars have pushed it to the edge of an abyss of destruction. The survival of European civilization, already traumatized by wars in the 20th century, may depend on ending the war in the Balkans, the pope said during the twoday interfaith meeting in the hometown of

procession of young people winding through

ght

jiala

Spread Of Evangelical Sects

City said one

new

year's resolution

juatemalan Catholics should be to stop spread of evangelical sects in the

coun-

spirit.'"

bishops have adopted a

The archbishop, in a message to Cathoquoted Pope John Paul

saying that

proselytizing of the sects suffocates the stian faith"

and

their

message

"dilutes

oherence and the unity of God's word."

the 1970s.

Within

that

phenomenon

een the growth of fundamentalist sects. Emala's population, more than 30 perProtestant, includes

one of the

largest

entrations of evangelicals in Latin

an Aug. 7, 1990

World Migration

message, Pope John Paul defined sects Movements in which "salvation

con-

ded to be a prerogative of only a small

toral synods.

Known

as the

and culture

—

related activities.

Pope John Paul has made a special call American Indians, urging them to "uphold your Christian faith and support your legitimate aspirations to achieve the place you deserve in society and in the

pope has

criticized the tactics

Archbishop Penados toldreporters New

of the sects on many occasions. Some Guatemalan Church figures bethe evangelicals

bought

their follow-

Reyes of Vera Coban, president of the Guatema-

ppishop Gerardo Flores

shops' conference, told Catholic News

jjjtce

that "the Protestants contributed

'hillion after the ;

Jnited

earthquake

1976 and

World Churches reported

means "the methods

Catholic Church) will be will

(of the

be the same."

that

Mass For The Unborn The annual concelebrated Mass for the Unborn will be celebrated at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 17 at St. Gabriel Churn Bishop John F. Donoghue will be the

The somber

interfaith

meeting took

place in the Franciscan convent attached to

where St. Francis is buried. Under the rough stone, vaulted ceiling

the basilica,

of the meeting

Muslims

hall, the spiritual leader

Sarajevo described Bosnia-

Herzegovina as "a country bathed with the blood of innocent creatures of God."

Jacub Selimoski said 200,000 Muslims had died in the fighting and

more than

35,000 women, as young as 7 and as old as

way with our prayers and the offer-

with tranquility and indifference?' he asked.

specific

said,

continent of Europe and perhaps to

its

survival."

He came the

The horror of war

Europe moves

said

more than 30 Muslim

to Assisi

from

all

leaders

over Europe to join

pope and other Christians praying par-

ticularly that

U.N.-sponsored negotiations

believers to pray for peace while taking

would "bring a just and

concrete steps to promote negotiation, de-

not lead to the condoning of crimes, thus

nounce injustice and defend human pope said.

giving into violence and aggression."

rights,

"In the face of such a tragedy,

lasting

Selimoski said Bosnia

the

peace and

experiencing

a "horrible apocalypse" at the hands of "the

cannot remain indifferent; we cannot sleep,"

Serbian aggressors."

pope said after listening to five people from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia recount experiences of war in their home-

justice in addition to pleas for peace.

The

testimonies included

demands

for

See Assisi, Page 3

lands.

Mass.

night.

"We are now being asked to contribute in a

Jewish and Muslim leaders, the pope

principal celebrant of the Mass.

All Catholics are urged to attend this

to various

80,

flesh."

During a Jan. 9 meeting with Christian,

the

in Charlotte.

town

had been raped. "How can Europe allow an entire nation, a European naticn, to disappear from its midst and how can it wash its hands of it

their

different but the

and

•tieology

own

hill

churches, where they prayed throughout the

St. Francis.

With the flames of oil lamps flickering on an altar behind him in the Basilica of St. Francis, Pope John Paul echoed the Assisibom saint's prayer: "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace." The pope said people praying for peace must "feel the wounds of war as if they were inflicted on

Francis were followed by a candlelight

the frosty medieval

ing of our fast to the rebuilding of the

Church."

message

ijind

including use of native In-

dian languages for Masses andotherChurch-

Evangelization,"

aims to work more directly with the poor and incorporate the indigenous traditions

Evangelization

led

'The

"New

by superior individuals who ve they have a special relationship with whose secrets only they claim to

new approach bom

to Latin

:rica.

sects

from the conclusions of the Fourth General Conference of the Latin American Episcopate held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, last year and recent national pas-

The evangelical movement has been idingrapidlythroughoutLatin America

wave of

and regain some lost ground, Central American counteract the

Christian prayer vigil later in the Basilica of

Italy

interfaith

meeting and a nighttime

"he

News

Catholic

January

Herald

15.

)§

Rebates From 1992 Diocesan Support Appeal

Parishes Share By JOANN

The

Associate Editor

CHARLOTTE— Fifty-six parishes received a belated Christmas gift last week. The final tally of 1992's Diocesan Support Appeal allocated $204,460.3 to parishes exceeding their assigned goals.

"Every dollar paid over

target is

returned to the local parish," says Msgr. John J. McSweeney, vicar general and Parishes unable to reach

chancellor.

targets are responsible for

DSA

The 1992

KEANE

budget was $1,590000.

amount received was

final

$1,734,000.

Eugene Parish

St.

in Asheville re-

than $10,000

made

way back

its

ing outreach," says Father James Solari, pastor of St. Eugene. Since 1984, the

Asheville parish has given 10 percent of its offertory to various charitable organizations. .

Last year, $19,000 was disbursed to on the recommendations of the

the shortages.

charity

Checks were issued from approximately $17,000 to $60, reports Msgr.

parish pastoral council.

McSweeney. Oblate Father James O'Neill has earmarked the Greensboro parish of St. Paul the Apostle's $3,840 rebate for community projects and services.

While they

focus on local organizations, they provide help where it is needed. Monies

have gone to Holy Angels Nursery, Catherine's House (a shelter for homeless women and women with children in

Belmont), and hurricane relief

"Whatever collected over and above

"Monies returned over quota

not our opergoes to social projects but to charity," says ating budget

table use in our

—

Father O'Neill.

Commission

The Community

will decide the

Life

proper

al-

location of the funds.

Nearly 46.4 percent of the diocesan population contributed to the annual

to the

general parish funds. "A substantial portion will be dispersed through tith-

making up

own

appeal even

region

efforts.

for chari-

make

the

attractive to our pa-

"We

rishioners," says Father Solari.

of good here as well as supporting our diocesan agencies." "The success of the support appeal

can do a

lot

allows the

many

different

OFFICE OF THE BISHOP

ceived their largest rebate ever.

DSA

funded

December

Dear Co-Workers in the Lord: As you know, the "Freedom of Choice" Act was one of the most hf contested pieces of legislation to come before the U.S. Congress in 1992. It stopped only by the hard work of dedicated pro-life people. Since the elections, the situation in Washington has radically changed, abortion forces on Capitol Hill are well-organized and are preparing to foce bill through Congress. They also intend to secure government funding abortion and to overturn existing pro-life policies on the federal level. Presid

vowed to sign FOCA. That is why it is our responsibilr mobilize Catholics to defeat this dangerous legislation. On Sunday, January 24, 1993, Catholic churches across the United St hope to generate at least one million pro-life postcards to Congress, advoc the defeat of the "Freedom of Choice" Act and promote the value of life. I as support of your parish in helping meet this goal. Your parish Respect Life coordinator will be receiving a packet contaii a step-by-step manual and pro-life postcards for U.S. Senators and Represe tives. For those parishes without a parish coordinator, the packets will be elect Clinton has

directly to the pastor.

FOCA

that may prove helpful in educating Enclosed is a fact sheet on parishioners about this dangerous legislation. Should you have any questi please call Maggi Nadol, Diocesan Respect Life Coordinator, (704) 331-1'

ministries to continue to provide ser-

appeal. In light of a strained

the 1992

DSA

992 economy,

showed an increase of 9

percent over previous support appeals.

vices

—

Thank you for being a voice for life. With kind personal regards and every

as well as enhancing ministries

to the ever-growing

29, 1992

Diocese of Char-

best wish,

Msgr. McSweeney.

lotte," says

Most Reverend John

Echo

U.S. Religious Leaders Calls For Cooperation BALTIMORE

(CNS)

—

Using an and fast as a dramatic backdrop, Archbishop William H. Keeler of Baltimore called on major religious groups to unite relief efforts in the former Yugoslavia.

special prayer service, led by

was held

religious leaders of each faith, at

each

site.

Imam M. Bashar

Arafat, spiritual

asked "if we are seeking peace in vain because we are fighting in the name of

ops, said such a united effort by Catho-

religion."

lic,

Muslim, Orthodox and Jewish agenwould help promote trust and coop-

cies

among ethnic groups in the warBalkan region. "I propose to you this evening," he said during his homily Jan. 9 at

"Does

Bosnian

we promote

Assump-

reconciliation in

Mohammed agree

homeland?" he asked. Like other world religions, Islam

who

represented the American

Arafat,

Muslim Council

common

enterprises of relief

and rehabilitation?" Archbishop Keeler asked in his homily. "Such acts of solidarity, as Pope John Paul II has recently reminded us, will serve as 'the highway to justice and peace,'" he added. The archbishop's homily concluded a vigil of prayer for peace which visited four religious sites in the greater

Baltimore area.

The pilgrimage, which concluded at

the Catholic basilica, included stops

Greek Orthodox Annunciation

a religion of peace and tolerance, said

former Yugoslavia by utilizing our relief efforts singly and in collaboration to build trust and promote cooperation among ethnic groups there." Archbishop Keeler said the day was an "echo of prayer for peace" in union with a similar vigil hosted by Pope John Paul II Jan. 9-10 in Assisi, Italy.

gether in

Mus-

with the expulsion of people from their

Croatia, Bosnia and elsewhere in the

"Could we not conspire this night to employ the good work our humanitarian agencies have already undertaken to bring Muslims, Croats and Serbs to-

with Iraq

territory of brother

Does Jesus agree with the rape of women? Does Moses agree

lims?

torn

Baltimore's Basilica of the

at the service.

He cited

the Koran, which enjoins the faithful to "remain steadfast in religion and make no division therein." Rabbi Murray Saltzman, who led a Havdallah service at the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, pointed out that "a taste of peace" is available at each Sab-

bath observance.

But the Havdallah service, which brings the Sabbath observanceto a close,

recognizes that the world peace, he said. "Peace

is still

far

from

not passively

attained in the Jewish tradition," he said.

"One must

intervene in history."

In his homily,

Archbishop Keeler

called on Catholic Relief Services, one

of the world's largest private relief agencies, to

work cooperatively whenever

possible with other denominational relief efforts.

The U.S. bishops' overseas

aid agency has

its

headquarters in Balti-

more.

"Such an ecumenical and

interfaith

Cathedral in Baltimore, the mosque of the Islamic Society of Baltimore in

Herzegovina could have a marvelous symbolic significance for those now almost without hope, those

Catonsville and the synagogue of the

See Keeler, Page 16

at the

Baltimore Hebrew Congregation in

was

sent to all pastors in the Diocese of Charlotte.

Youth Day Above Politics, Will Remain In Denver, Bishops Sa; WASHINGTON (CNS) — Despite calls for a

occupying the

eration

tion, "that

Donoghue

leader of the Baltimore Islamic Society,

National Conference of Catholic Bish-

the

This letter

Balkans

Bishop of Charlotte

Pikesville.

interfaith pilgrimage

The archbishop, president of

Sincerely yours in Christ,

effort in Bosnia-

boycott of Colorado because

of the state's passage of a referendum against civil rights legislation for homosexuals, World Youth Day '93 events will continue as scheduled in

Denver

next August.

Law

Libraries

— have move<

conventions out of the state. The Colorado Catholic Confi

had remained neutral on Amendn and Archbishops Keeler and S made no direct comment on its i

their Jan.

1 1

statement.

Archbishop William H. Keeler of

But, they said, "there should

Baltimore and Archbishop J. Francis Stafford of Denver, president and vice president respectively of World Youth

question on either the Church'; and unequivocal teaching on

Day 1 1

'93,

made

that

announcement

in a joint statement issued in

Jan.

Wash-

ington.

"This special celebration of the world's faith and bright future rises

above political and social, issues," said the two archbishops in their statement. "World Youth Day '93, which will bring together young people of different nations, views and political persuasions, will be an opportunity to celebrate what all men and women have in common the right to be respected as persons created by a loving God," they said. "It is our hope that no one would try to use the event for any other purpose,"

—

sexuality or the dignity and w(

every individual." "We pray that the upcomir ebration in Denver will be an oc of grace, of healing, and of reco

and

good

will of all

Archbishops Keeler and S II' s mes young people when he announc event himself on Palm Sunday

repeated Pope John Paul

"In the midst of great historical cr

faced with epoch-making collap: serious, unresolved doubts, thei

much need there

Nearly 54 percent of Colorado voters approved the so-called Amendment 2 in November which prohibits civil rights protections based on sexual ori-

life

Gay rights organizations have called for a boycott of the state's billion-dol-

are confi

will be," they added.

they added.

entation.

— with God's help — we

tion,

for your emerging st need for your ability to b

that 'cornerstone'

— new

fell

which are more worthy of tl

man

person."

World Youth Day, aimed

scheduled for A 15, with the participation of Poti Paul the last two days. It will be the fifth such intern gathering of young people with th

aged 1 3

to 39, is

lar-a-year tourism and convention in-

—

and several national groups including the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the National Organization for Women and the American Association

dustry,

Previous World Youth Day gal were held in Czestochowa, Ifl Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Aires, Argentina; and

Rome.

jary 15,

(From Page

sisi

destruction." In an apparent reference to

father of justice,

awaken

whether they "would be able to lift themselves out of this abyss into which a mad craving for power and dominion had pushed them "That tragic experience sadly seems to have been reborn in some way in these last few years; it continues to make headway in the Balkan Peninsula," he said. The pope prayed that Christ would

conscience of the world and soften hearts of the powerful," the arch-

op prayed. At the interfaith meeting, the pope true religion fosters life. "It fosters

human being with

for every

all

her rights and not the oppression

by another;

ne person

World

War II, he said the atrocities had gone so far as to make Europeans wonder

tffective intervention."

|ect

fosters the

eful coexistence of ethnic groups, )les

"destroy the hate which divides the na-

>sition

tions."

and religions, and not violent or war," he said. The fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina pitted the mostly Orthodox Serbs nst Muslim Slavs and the mostly

in your churches in the joy of rediscovered and re-established peace." Most of the Muslim and Christian

Orthodox Patriarch Pavle Pope John Paul a letter explaining hurch could not be represented in 5i because of Christmas, which the odox celebrated Jan. 7, and the

Serbian

of traveling while Serbia

;ulty

leaders attended the Mass with the Catholic

bishops and delegates.

The official Jewish, Muslim, Catho-

and other Christian delegations included more than 125 people. Representing the United States and Canada were Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Philadelphia and Archbishop Aloysius

U.N. sanctions. (epeatedly Jan. 9 and 10 the pope emned discrimination based on eth-

lic

religious identity.

Tie religious leaders

gathered in

make everyone

see that only

Barbara Willis

At the end of the Mass, the pope gave each of the bishops from the Balkans an Easter candle, telling them he hoped Easter 1 993 "can be celebrated

Croatians.

olic

made more

Ambrozic of Toronto. At the same time, in the Assisi bishop's residence, the two Jewish del-

I'Und by love, resides the secret of a

egates and several guests prayed for

"to

itual

acceptance of the other and in

suiting mutual respect,

Iinity finally reconciled,"

peace.

said,

Rabbi David Rosen, director of interfaith relations for the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith in Jerusalem, prayed for those who have died in the former Yugoslavian republics and those who live and suffer there today. "We ask you to grant them, all the peoples of Europe at this time, and all humankind your power of reconciliation and your gift of faith so that fear and animosity will be overcome and bigotry and hatred will be vanquished," the rabbi

"he prayer and fasting of the weekIneeting, he said, were meant as a fie contribution "to the rebuilding I continent of Europe and perhaps survival."

Mass

Jkt

of the

in the

accumulation of

the next day, the

war

pope

Balkans as "a sins.

Human

use instruments of destruction to

to destroy others like

he pope,

who

Europe in the 20th century were marked "by hatred and by deep contempt for humanity, a hatred and contempt which did not forego any means or method of annihilation and

Archbishop Vinko Puljic of Sarajevo "We thank the world for its hulitarian assistance, but from here we for justice. The politicians slow m the solution of the problem, al'S looking for new reasons to avoid

"Oh Lord,

said wars in

[

The Catholic News

1993

them-

lived through the

Vicariate

(c)

Community

Life

meets with steering committee members of the Greensboro

Network

(1-r)

Sister

Anne Joseph Edelen,

Willis' granddaughter, Ashley.

Community Life Group Plans Food Distribution Program

Vicariate

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

GREENSBORO The Greensboro Vicariate Community Life Network has selected a food distribution program for

its first

Ten parishes

Anne Joseph. Parish Community Commission representatives met

Sister

to share information

which

their parishes

which ones

could be accomplished jointly.

An informational meeting about the

work with World

SHARE, Heart of the Carolinas to help people purchase food. The people using the program pay $ 1 3 and give two hours of community service a month to purchase a food package worth $35 to $38. "As a community life group, our principle concern is people with fixed or limited incomes," said Daughters of Charity Sister Anne Joseph Edelen, parish area coordinator for Catholic Social Services in Greensboro. "Because SHARE is a self-help program, it provides dignity to those who use it." The adoption of SHARE followed several months of meetings initiated by Life

social ministry in

are involved and to consider

joint activity.

will

on several types of

SHARE program was conducted in July. Other possible projects were

investi-

gated before the final decision was made. Just prior to the Christmas holiday, parish representatives participated in a

SHARE training session led by Barbara Willis,

community development man-

SHARE. am very pleased with the decision

ager for "I

which the group made and the is

know

that

commitment of each parish involved

the result of careful evaluation of the possibilities which were consid-

many

ered for this

first joint vicariate

outreach

program," said Sister Anne Joseph. Priests of the parishes have been invited to a luncheon later this month to update them on the progress of the joint vicariate program. During the month of February, participating parishes will recruit both volunteers to help with the

prayed.

â&#x20AC;˘[occupation of his native Poland,

Miriam Williams,

Frank Rodgers and Bridget Johnson. In the front row

program and individuals who want

participate in the food package pro-

morning before the Mass, the

In the

pope held private meetings with some Diocese of Charlotte

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of the religious leaders taking part in the meeting, including Selimoski, Rabbi Rosen and Anglican Archbishop John Habgood of York, England. After a 15-minute private meeting with the Muslim leader, the pope greeted

December 30, 1992

Muslim

the entire Dear Friends in Christ:

delegation, which

included delegates from Italy, Germany,

Since 1966, U.S. Catholics have helped our brothers and sisters in Central and South America and the Caribbean to carry out their pastoral ministry, through the Collection for the Church in Latin America. Funds from the collection are used to train seminarians, men and women religious, permanent deacons, catechists and other lay leaders. Programs are established to respond to the overwhelming social and economic problems of the region, where more than 50% of the people live in poverty. It would be impossible to carry out these projects and programs, without the help that comes from this collection. In the midst of poverty and oppression, the people of Latin America look to the Church as a source of hope. In the midst of great human need, the Church is a sign of God's presence.

Please be generous in your response to this collection, taken in our diocese on the weekend of January 23/24, 1993.

Wishing each of you God's blessings,

to be

Belgium, Albania, France, Turkey, England and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

gram. Parishes agreeing to provide the space for the once-a-month food distribution are Our Lady of Grace in Greensboro, St. Joseph in Asheboro and Our Lady of the Highways in Thomasville.

For more information on the Greensboro Vicariate Community Life Network, contact Sister Anne Joseph Edelen at Catholic Social Services Office, 233 North Greene St., Greensboro, N.C. 27401, or call Sister Ann Joseph at (919) 274-5577.

Remember

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

HisWll

well as an ongoing commitment to the Church and the community in which we live!'

In Yours.

Bishop John

Donoghue

ou can express your commitment to your Church by making a bequest to the Diocese of Charlotte. Simply have the following statement included in your Will:

Sincerely in Christ,

McSweeney, V.G.

sum of $

the residue of my

and

Roman

Catholic Diocese of percent of (or estate) for its religious, educational

"/ leave to the

Charlotte the

charitable works.

For more information on how to make a Will that works, contact Jim Kelley, Director of Development, Diocese of Charlotte, 1524 East Morehead St., Charlotte, NC 28207, (704) 331-1709 or 377-6871. 1

524

Moreheao Street. Charlotte.

28207

FAX (704) 358- 208 1

News

Catholic

January

Herald

15,

Pro-Life Corner

0 m "I've never regretted the decision not to have the abortion can't think of anything more beautiful than bringing a bat into the world. It wasn't the holiest kind of a conception but li is still beautiful." Sally,

an unmarried teenager

Editorial The Respect

The Need

(704) 331-1720

Diocese of Charlotte

Life Office

Latim America

Next weekend, Jan. 23-24, Catholics around the

Please join Bishop

country will be asked to contribute funds to help the Church in Latin America. The money is badly needed.

Donoghue

for the annual concelebrated

Sunday, Jan. 17, 1993, 2:30 p.m.,

About 41 percent of the world's Catholics live in About 80 percent of the people in the region are Catholics. But more than 50 percent of the people live in poverty and cannot give to the Church. The Latin American Church simply does not have the resources to meet the many calls it receives for help.

St.

Mass

for the

Unborn

Gabriel Church, Charlotte

Latin America.

Health care, for example, for

many

The Pope Speaks VATICAN CITY

virtually non-existent

Governments cannot (and in some and the people look to help. In many areas, the Church is the

people.

(CNS)

Church

for

ravaged by

from the Balkans to Middle East. The pope, at a Mass marking World Peace Day Jan.

In addition to the social

Church

ately to meet, the

needs

illustrates

trying desper-

cate hatred

another challenge.

emy

The Catholic Herald, Archbishop Penados of Guatemala

In a story elsewhere in this issue of

News &

Many

gelical sects in the region.

of these groups are

The price

well financed and can offer help to the poor. is

which they

work

"New

call the

a program

Evangelization."

aims

poor and to incorporate native culture and language into Church-related

directly with the

traditions, activities.

All of this requires

come in. Money from

money and

that's

where we

next weekend's collection will fund

by Latin Americans and endorsed by local bishops. It won't go for projects which some outsiders think might be beneficial. It will help the projects initiated

local

pope said

that in

many

the first en-

— from

human

the

being."

Evoking a theme of his peace day message for 1 993 places today poverty repre-

sents a "constant threat to peace."

frequently conversion.

The region's bishops have adopted

the

—

of peace

depth of the

City calls attention to the spreading influence of evan-

of this help

a great challenge

facing the Church: to "eradi-

Latin America faces

said the persistence of

conflicts across the globe

wars.

civil

world's trouble

the

only provider of education for the poor. In many areas, only the Church is speaking out for social justice for the oppressed poor. And it is often the only voice for peace in areas

in the

spots,

cases, will not) provide this care

the

— Pope John Paul

began 1993 with a plea for peace

"We must become aware that in many parts of the world there is still violence and injustice, to which we cannot remain indifferent and passive," he said. He said the poor, who suffer most from hatred and warfare, make clear one of the best reasons for peace: that war does not serve the common good. The pope said he was beginning the new year with apprehension. While the threat of nuclear war has lifted,

said, the

number of smoldering wars and

situations of chronic violence in the

world has

re-

particularly in Europe, Africa an

which has experienced two World Balkans shows tha spread of destructive warfare and violence ha In Europe,

this century, the fighting in the

ended," he said. He said Bosnia-Herzegovina and other fi Yugoslavian republics were "martyred lands"

months of incredible violence. Despite past failu peace, he said, new efforts must be made. The pope strongly condemned violence i Middle East, "from whatever side it may come, also deplored the reprisals that have followec appeared to refer to Israel s depo nation in Decern more than 400 Palestinians for their alleged lir hostile Muslim groups. The pope said the reprisals "do not respect h rights and unfortunately lead to greater discor '

conflict, creating further difficulties for the al

peace process." Returning to the theme of peace during a

fragile

Jan. 3, the

pope

insisted that silencing

bk-

weapons

be the first step toward peace in many of these * At the same time, the pope said prayer it weapon of peace, when it is not reduced to a verbal expression but accompanied by interior ance, fasting and a coherent and generous witnt

people to help themselves.

hope you

will give generously to this cause.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Bishops are called to unite their people in faith,

ordaining

new

bishops.

Mansell of New York was among the bishops ordained in St. Peter's Basilica Jan. 6, the feast of the Epiphany. During his homily before the rite, the pope read out the names of the bishops and their new positions: a Vatican diplomat, two curial officials, a bishop for Africa and seven auxiliary bishops. "Your names resound in this temple, placed at the center of the Church, as a sign of the call received from God and of the mission which he entrusts to you today

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the peoples of the earth," the

1 1 of our brothers who, coming from different nations, bring the homage of the peoples of the earth to God," he said. Three of the new bishops are Italian, two are Polish, and there was one each from Ghana, the United States, Slovenia, Peru, Sri Lanka and Hungary. The pope said that the Magi came offering gifts to

episcopal ordination of Printing:

testifies that the

king not only of one people

— but of

the East of

to visit Christ.

"Their gesture of adoration Israel

for

mained high, Middle East.

and they left as witnesses to God's humanity in the incarnation of his son.

Jesus,

"Even if their eyes saw only a newborn bab which guided them internally enabled thi recognize that which their eyes were not able ceive: It allowed them to understand the most ho light

God

offered to humanity."

The pope asked

the

new bishops

to "brin

offering of the Christian people to the feet of the< is, the gifts of your churches togethe your pastoral efforts." "In this way," he said, "the most holy gift God has bestowed on the world in Jesus Chri increasingly reveal itself, and humanity will co know how much God has loved it, not hesitat give his only begotten son for it." Reciting the Angelus later, the pope asked f gathered in St. Peter's Square to pray that th< bishops' ministry would be "always illuminated joy and the evangelical hope that Christ wants to all men and women." To the visitors gathered around the Vat

Savior, that

nativity scene, the pope said the three

"Dear brothers and sisters, we too prostrat selves at his feet and beg him for the light of the C and the joy of fidelity to his teachings," the pop "We ask, above all, for that peace which the cannot give, but for which it longs, often withou it."

Magi recoj

Jesus as the messiah and the prince of peace

realizing

n it

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try 15,

The

Notebook

Editor's By

Light

BOB GATELY

me, the problem of evangelical sects making inroads upon traditionally olic Hispanic groups is not confined to Latin America. It's going on in this even in some where try in almost any area with a large Hispanic population

telieve

—

the population I

know

not so large.

at least

Feminism

one Baptist church

in Charlotte that

such.

A couple of years ago someone here in the Catholic Center told about attending a meeting at which some Baptists were talking about plans to have at least a small mission in every Hispanic neighborhood in the area. They seemed to believe that they could make inroads even in an area where the Catholic Church has an extremely active Hispanic ministry. 1 the heavily Hispanic areas on the west side of Chicago, there seems to be an ;elical church every couple of blocks. Most of them are small storefronts but of the more well-heeled groups have managed to purchase church buildings loned by other denominations. Again, this is an area where our Church is very

One Candle

women and men

can gain Hispanic converts in the face of a strong Catholic may be doing in areas where the Church does not have the ces or Spanish-speaking personnel to combat them. y the way, some of the tactics used by some of these groups are a bit deceptive, eard of some that had placed such things as vigil lights and votive candles in hurches in an apparent effort to make people think they might be in a Catholic the evangelicals

think what they

human

if you're a Catholic, after all Pope John approved the New Code of Canon Law in 1983 which declared that by virtue of their baptism "all the Christian faithful have a true equality." In spite of this teaching, the notion of equality seems to be a major stumbling block in the Church. Recently the bishops of the United States voted against a document entitled: One in Jesus: A Pastoral Response to the Concerns of Women for Church and Society. Over a period of nine years the writers, Bishop Joseph L. Imesch and his committee, reached out to 75,000 women in 100 dioceses and 25 national women's organizations before submitting this fourth and final draft to the body of

shouldn't be difficult to be a feminist

The document reaffirmed the essential equality of and man in God's creation, but it failed to win approval, because the word 'equality' means different

bishops.

every

woman

things to different people.

The

fear of appearing to encourage the ordination of

women was

major factor

relieved to see the ice,

are equal in dignity as

persons.

Paul

has converted the house next door into an Hispanic church with a very large sign outside in Spanish proclaiming it as

FATHER JOHN CATOIR

the belief that

in the

debate. Liberals were

document defeated because the wording

became more and more conservative with each successive draft. Catherine Mowry LaCugna, a theologian at Notre Dame, writing

America

magazine, (10/10/92) disputed the traditional view that "man is the head of woman. ..woman is helpmate of man. ..she is equal to, though less than man. ..(that) woman's role is private and domestic, man's is public leadership and headship. ..that God has eternally decreed that men are superior, and woman inferior.. .this is not the preordained, intended order of creation, but the order of fallen humankind, fallen creation." Theological feminists like

Diocese of Charlotte plans to be well represented at the annual will for Life in Washington next week. One of our assistant editors ipany the group and we will be carrying a full account of activities. Watch for »ry and pictures in the Jan. 29 edition.

usual, the

Ms. LaCugna, believe

that true equality for

women

should be reflected in things like pay scale and ministerial opportunity. Given the explosive negative reaction which greeted the Anglican Church's

women, one can understand the deep reservamany Catholics believe that in eventually become more open to change. The

recent approval of the ordination of tions of the

Roman

Catholic hierarchy. However,

time the Church's hierarchy will

perception of women as the weaker sex has been changing drastically over the years.

m Groundhog Day To Candlemas Day

By FATHER JOHN DIETZEN been trying to And out the significance of Ground Hog Day. I know lurch celebrates Feb. 2 as Candlemas Day, and the Purification of the id Mother. Why was that day chosen, and is there any connection between list and Groundhog Day? (New York) I've

in patriarchies where women have been suppressed for centuries there is a deeper understanding of the truth than most people realize. A 17th century Ethiopian poet wrote the following: "Iron is strong, but fire tempers it. Fire is awesome, but water extinguishes

Even

it.

Water conceal

men master

Men

Igeons

was made

at that

time (Lv. 12).

Jiy firstborn male, animal or human, was considered as belonging to the Lord, lis were sacrificed; human firstborn sons were redeemed by certain payments

forceful, but the sun dries

it.

The sun

A storm cloud is explosive, but the earth subdues but

There is some connection between the two. According to the law of Moses bid Testament, a mother was ritually unclean for a period of time after giving |}0 days for the birth of a boy, 80 days after the birth of a girl. At the end of that tie mother came to a priest to be "purified." An offering of two turtle doves or

might, but storm clouds

it.

assuages

it.

The

earth

majestic,

it.

are powerful, but grief overtakes them. Grief

heavy, but wine

it.

But (in the end) women are the strongest of all." (For a free copy of the Christopher News Note, "Lift Up Your Hearts," send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to The Christophers, 12 East 48 Street, New York,

NY, 10017.) Father John Catoir

director of The Christophers.

langed over time (Ex. 34:19-20). ^•th

Mary and the presentation of Jesus in commemorated Feb. 2. When these events began to be celebrated in Rome, perhaps in the fourth or fifth centuries, the date was set on

of these events, the purification of the temple, are

Crosswinds

Feb. 2, 40 days after Dec. 25, the day the Roman Church celebrated the birth of our Lord. Other churches in the East celebrated the birth of Jesus, and therefore the Purification, at other times.

Eventually candles became a major element in celebrating this feast; thus the tradition of blessing candles

during the day's celebrations.

For some unknown reason, a folk legend developed during the Middle Ages that a sunny Candlemas day

meant a cold spring, ly settlers in the New World gave this tradition a typical American fanciful the woodchuck, or groundhog, peeps out of the hole and sees his shadow,

back to sleep through the cold days ahead. ascinating set of facts connects this feast,

Roman

fertility rite,

by the way,

to a longstanding

the Lupercalia, celebrated Feb. 15. But that's a

whole

ory.

woman to serve as a eucharistic minister when Ire many others available and willing? Should she perform a Commun-

lis it

correct for a divorced

ivice? (British

Columbia)

Crosswinds is a series of columns written by Catholic Social Services staff members about their experiences. In order to protect client confidentiality,

found that he was most comfortable with the baby and loved to hold the baby. Then, I realized that I could get a lot done while he kept the baby enter-

the staff members are not identified. Over the Christmas holiday, I ac-

tained."

cepted an invitation from one of our volunteers to have a meal with their family. This is a very special couple

and

who were now the proud parents of their second child and the occasion was the baptismal day for the infant.

To my

surprise, their

"really" elderly to me.

JWhy would you

think

some Catholics should be excluded simply because

been through the sad experience of a broken marriage? pe is no reason anyone should be unable to serve in such ministries simply fc of a divorce. We need to be careful of stereotypes and rash judgments, here

ftve

many other areas. li ask about women, but the same question, and answer, could be given about fact, as I have explained here previously, there are a number of divorced men now ordained priests, following an annulment of their marriage. free brochure answering questions Catholics ask about cremation and other ^regulations and customs is available by sending a stamped self-addressed ie to Father John Dietzen,Holy Trinity Church, 704 N. Main St. Bloomington, fP/. Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same [\

J "yright

that

he was 95.

give the infant lull

learned that he

the baby's great grandfather and

was

him

saw him hold the baby, his bottle, burp him and

throughout the day and their 2-year-old, Brendan, was wide awake and moving throughout the house with much speed. The elderly man reached over and tried to get

Brendan's attention, but the boy

scooted by.

With that, the mother spoke to Brendan and said, "'Great' called you." Brendan looked up and the mother repeated the message, "'Great' called you. See what he wants." The 2-year-old turned around, and came into direct eye contact with his elderly relative. 'Great'

to sleep.

As the evening wore on and I was chatting with the mother, I wondered

told

how

With a

secure she

cantly older

with this signifihandling her infant.

felt

man

She laughed and said, "Oh, he's part of our family, or more precisely, we are a part of his family. This is his home and we moved in shortly after we were married.

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home was

small and old, not modern and spread out as I had expected. There on the couch was an elderly man, who looked

The evening was drawing to a close I was getting ready to leave. Other members of their family had been there

When

our firstborn came along,

him

slow

down and

indicated

him five." hands, Brendan pro-

that if he agreed then to "give

slap of the

ceeded to slow down a little, and I smiled at such a wonderful title that I had never before heard so well expressed in such a life giving way. "Great" grandfather!

Catholic

News

& Herald

January 15,

How Does Canon Law Affect Us? By SISTER JEANNE-MARGARET MCNALLY The Code of Canon Law explicitly authorizes the conference

of bishops to

adopted November, 1992. The code placed two restrictions on the guidelines: The preaching of a homily during the eucharist is reserved to the ordained and preaching by a lay person in a church requires the authorization by the diocesan bishop. A homily on the sacred text means an explanation of the mystery. It is the proclamation of the good news calling for, under the grace of God, a response of faith (cc.213 and 762). Other than the homily, lay persons and religious may preach at liturgies for children (c. 766) or in case of the physical or moral incapacity of the ordained minister. Lay persons may be called upon to preach in

and confirmation. Other settings in which lay persons may preach are such as special celebra-

Lay persons who may be authorized to preach must good standing and live Christian lives, be active

solid grounding in Scrip-

necessary, in certain circumstances or it

the forms of preaching the

and

itself

church

—

the materialism of the '60s, the

here, the

and liturgy and have good communication skills. Lay persons may be asked to preach at liturgical celebrations outside of Mass. It is important to note that lay persons may be invited to preach if they can meet a special need of the community or confer a particular benefit upon the Church. It is the right of bishops to preach the word of God anywhere (c. 763). With due regard to canon 765, presbyters (priests) and deacons possess the faculty to preach anywhere with the consent of the pastor of the church. Lay persons can be permitted in a

become more involved in parish acti' more recently with the pa council and Men's Club. But my time and attention was still focused mair furthering my career, getting a nicer house and a new car every few yeaj embraced the symbols of success and the American way my industry helped toe In the years since, I've gradually

tions, retreats, missions, public assemblies, etc.

homily

pre-eminent;

it is

reserved to a priest or to a deacon.

increase of active lay participation in various forms of the apostolate and the deepened knowledge of Scripture and theology which many lay persons possess. Hence, in many parishes or communities there are persons who can be called upon to preach on those occasions when circumstances and the good of the Church require that they supplement the preaching of ordained ministers, in accord with canon 766. In addition to the guidelines presented by the conference of bishops, the norms issued by the diocesan bishop concerning the exercise of preaching are to be observed by all. Mercy Sister JeanneMargaret McNally is a licentiate in canon law and a judge of The Tribunal of the Diocese of Charlotte.

Hard Truths And The

New Administration

changing experience. Stewardship is a way for each person to fulfill their need to give of their regardless of what the needs of the par] talent and treasure in thanks to God community might be. I've used my design skills on the newsletbj In the area of time and talent brochures I have some pretty weak talents that I'd like to improve like speaking and making new acquaintances, which is another reason why I have

—

on stewardship.

had seen it all. I thought I was inured to the horror of it. I was wrong. It was the day after Christmas. I was visiting friends, enjoying great food, good cheer and fellowship. For a few hours, I forgot the small package I had brought with me. Then I remembered and asked the fateful question: "Do you mind if I use your VCR for 1 0 minutes? I need to view a short pro-life video." Permission was granted and as I walked into the small room that contained the television, the words of the person who gave me the tape came back to me. "You I

thought

What I thought was a moJ meager when compared to a bif now gradually increasing our commitment of treasure

giving of treasure was a real surprise.

contribution to the collection looked pretty

or 10%.

We are

that goal.

—

what made the difference for meI believe what was most important began giving to God off the top the "first fruits". Stewardship is giving til what's right, not what's left. In spite of economic setbacks and sudden rate h j trust we will somehow find a way to adjust our expenses enough to keep food table, gas in the Buick and the girls enrolled in school. I'd be naive to think tit could have any of this without God's help.

—

How has stewardship affected my life? Now I find myself doing things that I would have been embarrassed to dc ago things like sharing my faith experiences at work and praying over a

—

Burger King. I have paid more attention to our stewardship col ment, we have begun to see a tendency in our children to be better stewards. Th J they volunteered to help out with younger children during Adult Ed class Sunday. and

fries

with the kids

Marcy and

Finally, I've

made

community

friends for life with

I'd ever

God. Every human person

MCINERNEY

want

—

many the kind of people that m;[ And for that I am eternally gratj

to live in.

called to be a steward

—with a

natural responsibil!

some portion of this world. Each year, our stewardship renewal prograrr| invitation for you to reassess your priorities and commitments. It asks examine your life, your lifestyle and your willingness to truly live your faiil JeffRothe

a member of St. Ann Parish

in Charlotte.

should see this, Jim. It's really effective." I guess I should have taken that "effective" as a warning. I cannot tell you that I viewed every second of this

when I had to close my eyes and turn my head away. The name of the video is "Hard Truth," produced by American Portrait Films of Cleveland. It deals with abortion in a most effective way, by showing it. This, of course, is nothing new. There are plenty of visual presentations around showing us everything from the moment of conception to actual abortions and their grizzly aftermaths. But "Hard Truth" does it in a way that would give the most desensitized and calloused person pause. I think it is time we launched a concerted effort to put this type of film on prime time television. This sounds pretty awful, I know. But sometimes it takes the awful short film. There were times

hard truth to wake u§ up. We are subjected to scenes of murdered civilians in riots and in war torn countries. Why not murdered babies? We can be shown a man being savagely

bludgeoned by police

officers.

Why can't we be shown these innocent babies being

mercilessly decapitated by doctors?

has been 20 years since seven Supreme Court justices gave us abortion on Why have we not been able to get this message across? It is not enough to say that the big bad media are against us. Of course, they are. It is not enough to say that our culture does not like to be confronted with its own sins. Of course, it doesn't. It

demand.

Ross Perot swayed millions of voters with his very dry half-hour information commercials, which contained nothing more visually stimulating than charts and graphs. Maybe, just maybe, we can do the same with the In the last presidential campaign,

babies.

See Lifeline, Page 13

(

the finest

By JIM

'70s, the individualism

]

Also, since

Lifeline

consumerism of the

part of our culture, but contrary to Christian tradition.

was then that I realized that through my increased involvement with the Church had become the focus of my life. I've found greater fulfillij pleasure and personal satisfaction by working and worshipping with you peopL I could hope to expect from a job. I did more than further a career, I ve found a Now I can see, like I know many of you have seen, how stewardship can be

tithe,

One of the outstanding signs of the action of the Spirit in the church today is the

become

advantageous.

a part of the liturgy

serving on the communications commission and

'80s. It's all

ture, theology, tradition

preach

ROTHE

Ann's School. For the first few years here, my experience of this parish was limited to atter weekly Mass and maybe the annual ice cream social or St. Patrick's Day da As our children became of school age, Marcy encouraged me to serve o j school board and later the Educational Development Board. But I felt tha primary responsibility to my family was to get a steady job. I survived as a fre designer for a few years before finding that "steady job."

virtue of their baptism

members of the Church, have a

Among

Profile

Stewardship can be a life changing experience. My wife, Marcy, and I have been members of St. Ann Parish since moving here Vermont, in '79. Our daughters, Andrea, Trista and Abigail, are all enrolled

establish guidelines specifying those circumstances in which it is necessary or advantageous for lay persons to preach in a church. In the U.S., the guidelines were

Stewardship

By JEFF

Lay Preaching

;

sr.

MAURUS

MAURUS LIVEP IN THE 6th CENTURY. HE WAS THl

ST.

SON OF A ROMAN NOBLEMh NAMEP EQUITIUS WHO PLA(I HIM IN THE CARE OF ST BENEDICT

WHEN HE WAS

OLP.

YEARS

EVENTUALLY HE BECAME ST BENEPICT'S ASSISTANT ANP MAY HAVE SUCCEEDED AS RBEOT OF SUB/ACO WHEJ ST BENEDICT RETIRED TO MONTE CASSINO. ACCORDING TO LEGEND, MAURUS FOUNDED THE ASl OF GLENFEUIL, LATER CALL) SAINT-MAUR-SUR-LOIRE/ JN

FRANCE. IT IS BELIEVED THAT MA LI RETIREP AT THE RGB OF 70

larv 15,

1993

Mother

or Teenage

NEW YORK (CNS) — The follow-

CHRISTOPHER CARSENS

and blonde, the complete fornia girl, with a radiant smile and

few minutes.

he's 17

good looks, she was a cheerleader

"He says he isn't ready to be a father," He never sends any money at

fact,

in jun-

all.

and she really thought she d make the squad her senior year. Itie had that entire senior year worked in her daydreams. She'd been in ent government since seventh grade

no problem. usually ended

prom. Her date, so cute would pick her up in a rented and they'd have a wonderful

the senior s

tux,

studying journalism, but she can't see how she'd do that right away. Maybe

ing.

now

there's this

one

hitch: her

Nathan. Who'd watch Nathan while vas at the

tough. She

e's

being brave, but

ler

regular high school after she

it's

much time when Nathan was

the

baby

older

—

maybe. She dates a bit. Sometimes it's hard finding a guy who'll go out with a girl with a 6-month-old baby at home. She's dated some older guys in their 20s, but they seem in a rush for one thing or

same when

mom.

maybe when

later,

prom?

nior year just isn't the

adds with just

She and her parents are taking him to hoping the judge can somehow make him pay his child support. But he doesn't have a job, and he isn't looking. She says that after she graduates she 'd like to get a job and then move out on her own. It feels funny, having her own child and still being with mom and dad. She feels college is pretty much out of the picture. She had thought about

She was popular and grades

le recurring daydream

in school," she

court,

soon became a cinch for student icil.

"He's

a touch of bitterness.

high,

another.

>w she's finishing up at an adult

where

diploma

she'll get a

The

one brought up marriage after their second date. "That's not what I want,"she says. "I'm not ready for all that. I just want to be on my own for a while, by myself." She pauses and looks down at the

1 But she won't graduate with her

No cheerleading, no prom, no cap

own. jrgood friends are supportive. They land she still goes out with them lends, but

it's

around history 1 and who's going out with I body's old boyfriend.

revolves around getting the doctor and finding some-

to take

care of

mom

I her

"I'd

him on afternoons

works.

would only hurt

And

her.

her she's not ready for sex

her not to give

tell

all

then she smiles and goes on

up with her baby was born. The court ;d him two visits a week, and at ie was pretty regular, but now he (hows up once or twice a month, i; never sticks around more than a

She'll

the

IARLOTTE ,

—

make

through

all

this. It

had

Dalle-Teeze has a doctorate

in divin-

Rita of the United States

slor and temperment therapist, will

Sister

45-minute presentation on "Spiriat Our Lady of the Assumption h Jan. 16 at 1 p.m. er his talk, Dalle-Teeze and Imate Heart of Mary Sister Mary ogue will lead a lectionary work-

Catholic Conference staff has taught

elementary school, been an assistant director for the RCI A program and given workshops at East Coast conferences. They are consultants for William H. Sadler, which is sponsoring the lectionary workshop.

or catechists.

London Theatre Tour Sponsored by Belmont Abbey College Department of Theatre and Office of Continuing Education. •

•

Guided tour of London,

lic

theatreland,

Side

trip to

London ahows and Royal

pri-

May

including air fare, 1st class hotel

^mmodations, breakfasts

$ 1 575

30,

A-II

"The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" (1958)

serum to escape the police after being framed for murder by a gangster (Sheldon Leonard). Directed by Charles Lamont, the formula comedy's highlight is a boxing match in which the

Exciting Arabian Nights adventure with Sinbad (Kerwin Matthews) bat-

inept Costello gets

some help in

the ring

unseen client. Comic violence. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-II adults and adolescents. Not rated by the Motion Picture Association of America.

from

his

—

one-eyed Cyclops, a two-headed Roc, a ferocious dragon and a swordwielding skeleton in order to rescue a princess (Kathryn Grant) from a wicked magician (Torin Thatcher). Director Nathan Juran teams with special effects tling a

artist

Ray Harryhausen

"Captain Sinbad" (1963) Arabian Nights fantasy pits the title hero (Guy Williams) against a dastardly magician-ruler (Pedro Armendariz) who's abducted a lovely princess (Heidi Bruhl). Directed by Byron Haskin, the European co-production limps along with a weak storyline Silly

to create a satis-

fying fantasy that will enthrall youngsters

without boring their parents.

scary scenes with

menace and

Some

stylized

violence. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-I general patronage. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is G general audiences.

—

"Stay Tuned" (1992)

hideous creatures and grisly fight scenes may scare the very young. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is general patronage. Not rated A-I by the Motion Picture Association of

Silly satire about a Seattle couple (John Ritter and Pam Dawber) who must survive 24 hours in the netherworld where theDevil (Jeffrey Jones) projects them into the deadly programs offered on "Hellvision." Peter Hyams' anythinggoes direction ends up going haywire as

America.

the visual gags flag

but

some passable special effects. A few

—

"Carousel" (1956) Rodgers and Hammerstein musical from Ferenc Molnar's tragic romance in which a macho carnival worker (Gordon MacRae) dies in a robbery trying to

widow and

and the nonsensical Some mindless comic violence and occasional nasty menace. The U.S. Catholic Conferadults. ence classification is A-III

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

anything sacred about your secular world?

By Father Robert Catholic

News

Kinast

I was a seminarian and few years after I was ordained people would ask what religious order I belonged to. I customarily answered by saying,

Was God anywhere morning?

The answer is yes, but indeed "food for thought."

Christians can learn to be on

me or someone like you? Begin by asking whether you ar] undermined in the furthest reache of your mind by a sneakin suspicion that for

on the

Since the council, there has been a growing desire among Catholics to find the sacred within the secular. This desire has been stimulated by some remarkable recent developments. 1. It has been said that change is the only constant in the modern world.

you and

God

is just

too goo

therefore ordinarily

inaccessible.

David Gibson, Edited Faith AliveB:

The major change is the collapse Soviet Union and with it the ren <

of military domination from the the world's agenda. Economic aid and information i ing are the new levers of inflv Nations that casually classified other as enemies are now acquainted even friendly. Ethnic cleansing in the forme goslavia, apartheid in South terrorism in the British Isles 1

—

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its

Vatican Council II gave an excellent example of this with its description of the relationship between the church and the world, and its insistence that religion does not block involvement in secular life and is no excuse for avoiding secular life's challenges (Chapter 4

search conducted by someone likl

secular world has a sacred dimension. 2. Incarnation. Christians believe the Word of God through whom all things (the whole secular order) were made became flesh. The Word truly became human and shares in the secular existence of all creation. In Jesus of Nazareth the sacred and the secular are united in one person. 3. Transformation. Christians believe that the secular order will one

image and likeness in all creation. The

them properly.

lookout for God. In 1993, Fail Alive! will return again and again 1 the search for God in the world the here-and-now. How is

Nonetheless, Christianity, along with most world religions, believes the sacred and the secular are not opposed but related. 1. Creation. Relying on the tradition of the Jews, Christians believe God created the world (in Latin, the saeculum). There is something of God's

Given these central beliefs, the problem is not blurring the lines between the secular and the sacred. They

thiji

Was God

there whei| your well-planned day fell apart the seams yesterday?

essary. Literally, the word secular means pertaining to time, timebound or created. In this sense, what is secular is distinguished from what is eternal, timeless.

sions of this belief.

arour

struggled to get teen-ager to go to school

play on words. Of course I was religious (at least, I hoped so), but I was not part of a religious order. I was part of a diocese and in the Catholic idiom of the time that made me a secular priest. As a secular priest I celebrated the sacred liturgy, preached on sacred Scripture and fulfilled a sacred ministry. My playful response caught people off guard because words like sacred and secular seemed to point in opposite directions. The sacred was positive and worthwhile whereas the secular was negative and worthless. This dichotomy was unfortunate and unnec-

intended fulfillment and be transformed into a new creation. The resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come are expres-

is?!

when you

"I'm not a religious priest. I'm secular."

of the Pastoral Constitution Church in the Modern World).

propose that God's footprint: -™ actually are in our midst considering what kind of "midst"

—

Then I would watch people puzzle over my answer until they realized it was a

already are blurred. The challenge

It is no wonder people mentally confine God to some "place' outside the mess of real life Wouldn't it debase the divine tc

We say God always is preser But do we believe it? Or do imagine that God just couldn't just wouldn't always be presen here?

hen

to relate

times?

Service

for the first

day reach

The world is such a messl Is thai what you think, at least some J

Even if that's an exaggeration, it is true that every field of human endeavor is now marked by frequent change. Not every change is an improvement but it is a sign of creativity. And creativity reflects the image of God, the original creator. When scientists unlock the workings of micro-organisms or map the galaxies, when inventors develop new machines and products, when researchers discover a cure for disease, when business leaders find more efficient

of management, when new works, when farm-

methods

artists create

ers get more yield from their land, these are all secular accomplishments. Yet they share in and display the timeless creativity of God. 2. In the last few decades movements for equality and unity have reshaped social life. The most publicized is the struggle for equality between

women and men.

Similar efforts and energy are spent harmonizing racial, cultural and ethnic diversity, balancing power between rich and poor nations, establishing international agreements to promote trade, science, technology, art and to restrain tyrants, forming new alliances like OPEC, the European Community and the Pacific Rim. The motives behind these movements vary and their results must be

Middle East, political starvation! malia and the Sudan testify thai new world order has not yet arriv But enough radical changes occurred to give a glimpse of hov world might be transformed, not 4 a blinding flash from heaven but conversion on earth. Several years ago, by the stopped using my play on words I realized people no longer werei prised at the merging of the sej and the sacred. It's one punch lin 1

glad to give up. (Father Kinast is director oi Center for Theological Reflection t deira Beach, Fla.)

evaluated carefully but the phenom-

enon itself points toward the goal of the incarnation

—

to unite

heaven and earth, the sacred and the secular in a

common life.

As the next millennium approaches, 3.

increased talk of a new world order even though the world

there

order

replaces

barely a century old. Ail

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rary 15,

A God

;

wonder at nature's beauty and

unchained By Father Lawrence Catholic

News

Mick

Service

and through finite

flesh and the whole human condition. Moreover, Christians believe Christ forever has linked the divine and the human, and that Christ continues to be present through the

vould say it like this: God is loose world. vas conducting a day of reflection ' turgical ministers in a local parlecently, focusing on the various c is of Christ's presence in the EuItr

-eminded the group of the teachIf Vatican Council II that Christ is l;nt in the assembly, in the priest, Le word proclaimed and in the

1 and wine shared in communion, lien

asked them to

reflect

own experiences of Christ's presI After time for quiet reflection, I Ijd them to share those experi|i with others in small groups, lien the group reassembled, I I I for reports on what kind of expeles they recalled. Almost all were liences outside of worship: experif. of Christ's presence in difficult tions, experiences of Christ felt in p are of a friend, experiences of 1

ITH IN

ACTION

Council

stamping out any hint that iristian belief in a transcendent )d or life after death allows rsons to shirk their societal

immerse themselves

where you look in your

look into the eyes of my wife im O'Neill, Muncie, Ind.

the people around me....

Oonna Cook, Fresno, In

the silence of

loose

Often we miss God's presence because we live too much on the surface; our awareness may be too superficial. That's why we need times of worship and prayer, times for reflection and for probing the depth and meaning of our lives so that we will recognize the myriad ways the divine presence constantly is being revealed to us. God may be met most anywhere. (Father Mick is a priest of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a freelance writer.)

for signs of the sacred.

and daughter and

How

neighbors.

look at the daily occurrences

parents discipline their children with love.

When

heart. Without that,

life

just

becomes a

hectic running from

a recurring refrain

"God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good"

Rather than escaping the human and the created to find God, people can

life

process,

riences.

who

the Bible, there

"And God saw how good it was." At the end of the

our world."

learn to recognize the God present throughout their lives.

handiwork" (Psalm 19:2). Again: "From your presence where can I flee? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I sink to the nether world, you are there" (Psalm 139:7-8). In the story of creation that opens after each act of creation:

we may have focused on God's presence in the

—

everything in nature and in people, the 'good guys' and the 'bad guys.' do, God never abandons us." Lucille Mendelson, Stockton, Calif. other people

the charity iven

would say

people take time to

life.

look within me, too."

really listen to

somebody."

Calif.

—

twe n

God

and manipulate. For the Israelites that was blasphemy. Rain, sun and wind were not gods. But God somehow was present and active through them. They were, accordingly, "sacred." All were signs of God's presence and power. "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims his

one

activity to another."

The

'bad guys' help

— Duane Schafer,

(Genesis 1:31). Obviously the Creator and the material universe were distinct, but not totally. They were intimately related. Because of this relation everything that existed was sacred. This is made explicit on the sixth day when God creates humanity, male and female, "in his image" (1:27). Every human being is an icon, an image, a sacred sign of God's creative love. People always have felt the need to set apart certain places and objects as especially sacred, specific signs of God's universal presence and power. Good though this is, it was not without danger. It was sometimes a subtle attempt to domesticate God, to separate God from the nitty gritty of daily life. In biblical thought, it is not a matter of sacred vs. profane, but of varying degrees of sacredness.

Church and state may be legitimately separated; religion and life, God and God's world, are inseparable.

Wash.

kane, In

Chardin. like this:

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Pierre Teilhard de

seemed there was a clear distinction between the realm of the sacred and the realm of the secular, the holy church and the profane world. But God cannot be limited that way. The message of the incarnation is that God is not distant from us and may be found under the surface of all our expe-

len then.

who know how to

paleontologist, Father

church building and in the sacraments.

Do I function as though absent whenever daily life home or in the marketplace Ms a little overwhelming? This vek I will turn attention to a time day when I ordinarily do not I \nk much of God and ask mother God's voice can be heard

profane for

said the Jesuit

hope our worship

too exclusively

!lTH IN

In years past

flection.

those

ship.

no thought of secular and spiritual lues are totally separate." as

'"Nothing

times are often experiences of Christ's presence, but our worship also should sensitize us so that we more readily recognize God's presence beyond wor-

cular activity with igion,

call

Christ's name.

Father Robert last writes in his new book, wrror Meditations: Praying With h Images of Vatican II (Liturgical less, Collegeville, MN 5632100; $4.95). But just as mistaken, ither Kinast says, "are those Isponsibilities,"

baptism and we

If it was a shrine, it must have been a Canaanite one, with no religious significance for Jacob. It was just a convenient stopping place. But during the night he had a religious experience, a dream in which he saw a stairway stretching from earth to heaven, and "God's messengers were going up and down on it.... When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he exclaimed, Truly, the Lord is in this place, although I did not know it" (Genesis 28:16). His experience did not "make" the place sacred. The experience made Jacob aware of the Lord's presence there. The Israelites did not think in either-or terms: material-spiritual, body-

soul, profane-sacred. That sort of thinking was introduced by Greek philosophy, which set the tone for Western thought and culture. We are part of that culture, heirs of that either-or mentality. The outlook of biblical people was both-and. Many ancient religions looked upon the forces of nature as gods to worship

ourselves the church, the body of Christ. At the end of every Mass, we are sent forth to make Christ present in the world and to serve others in

was "concerned

fcth 1

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elements of creation that become the means of Christ's special presence in the sacraments. We hear God's word proclaimed through friends' and neighbors' voices. We share the love and the presence of Christ in a special way in communion with one another at the eucharistic meal. We are made temples of

God itican

"a certain shrine" for the night.

human persons who now form his body. Our worship itself contmuaUy reminds us that God is to be found not in the distant skies, but right in our midst. We use bread and wine, oil and water, simple

ist.

your

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his kinsfolk in Haran, Jacob stopped at

lhardin.

God?

Castelot

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V^n his way to seek a wife among

creation.

basic doctrine is the incarnation, the belief that the Son of God took on human

By Father John

One

profane for those know how to see," said the Jesuit Isntologist, Father Pierre Teilhard otbing

How "worldly"

experi-

ences of joy that revealed Christ's love. For a moment, I wondered if their reports indicated that our worship is sadly lacking a sense of Christ's presence. But it quickly occurred to me that their experience is just what faith teaches: that the infinite God is found

rPs.

answered prayer."

me to see that regardless

— Cathy Wendowski, Columbus, Ohio.

people working to save babies.

the large families that adopt another

kid."

— Kathleen Lawler, DePere, Wis. life is

asks: Is faith a source of happiness for you? Why? If you would like to respond for possible publication, please write: Faith Allvel 3211 Fourth St. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100.

An upcoming edition

(Father Castelot

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a sign of the sacred because through suffering you learn how to depend on God and how much Patty Burkhardt, Washington, D.C.

my illness

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...

gift."

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Herald

People

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Students Work Pro Bono To Help Haitian Refugees In Florida WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CNS) More than 120 law students from

Law

—

around the country left family and friends during the holidays to assist Haitian refugees in the Diocese of Palm Beach. The volunteer lawyers-to-be helped Haitian boat people seeking refuge in the United States make their way through

the complicated legal tion process.

asylum applica-

They wrote down

the Hai-

of hardship, separation from family and political persecution that had occurred since a 1991 tians' testimonies

coup in their homeland. The students worked pro bono Dec. 28-Jan. 8, living and conducting interviews with refugees at the Cardinal Newman Youth Center in West Palm Beach. military

Run For The Roses

Catholic College Coach's Past

WASHINGTON

—

(CNS)

John

man who brought the Indiana Hoosiers to the Rose Bowl more than a quarter of a century ago, is more than content now to coach at what used to be

the

campaign

really enjoy doing,

and

enjoy coach-

ing," the 65-year-old Pont said.

matter what the school and what the

he added, "football

level of play,

football."

Jesuit

Who Headed

College In

New Jersey

NEW YORK

Peter's

St.

Dies

(CNS)

—

Jesuit Fa-

John Neumann Parishioner Receives Bank's Top Honor

trail.

Honorees from each

CHARLOTTE

state include senior citizens, sick chil-

said his Catholic guilt

and laid-off laborers.

Bishop Leibrecht Urges Teenagers Tell Him Their Views

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (CNS)

last year.

Mulcrone, a

—

rishioner,

St.

New York

Hospital.

Mass was Jan. 6 at Ignatius Loyola Church in East Man78.

hattan,

The

funeral

Mulcrone. Mulcrone has led First Union s o prehensive due diligence exams of

in the Jan.

1 1

edition of The Mirror.

excellence.

"There are about 300 people \ should have been up there with me the stage to receive the award)," «

"Be

and part of, this helping Church." The letter, which also was

proud

of,

The exams analyze the risks and de mine the value of banks First Unio

school student in southern Missouri,

asked the young people to "think about practical ways we should, or should not, be the Good Samaritan to others" and to write to him with their ideas.

considering acquiring. is one of those people yo proud to be associated with, Joe Tronco, a First Union senior

"Pat

just

—

(CNS) Jesuit FaTimothy S. Healy, who headed the New York Public Library after 13 years as president of Georgetown University ther

Washington, died suddenly Dec. 30. He was 69. Father Healy suffered a heart attack and collapsed at Newark airport in New Jersey after arriving from a Christmas vacation in Scottsdale, Ariz. The author and scholar was pronounced dead at a New Jersey hospital shortly in

before midnight. President-elect Clinton,

Georgetown graduate,

said Father

where Father Yanitelli had served

New

Face Rough Road In Russia WARSAW, Poland (CNS) The head of Russia's newly inaugurated Je-

—

NEWARK,

N.J.

(CNS)

— When

Msgr. William Linder met Hillary Clinton in September, little did he know he d be seeing her again at her husband s '

suit

region says Catholics face a rough

road

publics. Jesuit Father Stanislaw Opiela said popular attitudes toward Catholics

Russia were "generally negative" and warned that some Russian Orthodox Church leaders want Orthodoxy declared in

the official state religion. In an inter-

view with Poland's independent Catholic weekly, Tygodnik Powszechny, Father Opiela added that, while Christian baptisms remained plentiful, serious interest in the faith was limited.

will

many of

the former Soviet re-

450 Families Discovered Just Last Year.1 Since last year, over 700 students have enrollc

new

Rose of Lima Church in Newark, be among about 60 special guests

attending a luncheon, the swearing-in

ceremony, an inaugural

and a con-

ball

cert gala during the presidential inauguration.

He and

the other guests, called

"faces of hope," represent the

women whom

the Clinton

lies.

See What More Than

inauguration. Msgr. Linder, pastor of St.

Mulcrone was surprised twice a awards ceremony, once with the av and again with the presence of 1 3 fai members, including his wife, Ela children Daniel and Colleen, his ents, mother-in-law and four of his brothers and sisters and their spousl Mulcrone, a lector, headed thd nance council at St. John Neumanr four years. He is a member of Home| Remodeling, which refurbishes h for people in the community. Occasionally, he gives semim the church. One was on financial ning for middle and lower income f;

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PAT MULCRONE

Father Healy, Head Of New York Public Library, Dies Suddenly

NEW YORK

tential acquisitions for the last two ye

mailed directly to each Catholic high

as pastor.

Jersey Priest Is Invited To President's Inauguration

am'

Catholic high school students published

Healy was "the epitome of the merging of faith and intellect, a walking demonstration that there need be no conflict between the two." Clinton called the priest a longtime friend whom he would miss very much.

was

John Neumann

25,000 employees for the corporate Tenth Legion Award for leadership!

arrest Jan. 2 at

St.

was selected from

Bishop John J. Leibrecht of Springfield-Cape Girardeau has opened a dialogue with teenagers in the pages of his diocesan newspaper by urging them to help others. "You belong to a church which helps others," he said in a letter to

College in Jersey City, N.J., and vicar for 35 parishes in the New York Archdiocese, died of cardiac St. Peter's

—

Pat Mule* was catching with him when he was awarded F Union Corp.'s most prestigious hq

dren, environmental and social activists

ther Victor Yanitelli, former president

]

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Pont, the

an all-women's Catholic college. "Everybody has that one thing that they

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nary 15, 1993

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MA Glance: VATICAN CITY (CNS)

— When

Vatican Statement

broke out between Croatian and libian forces in June 1991, Pope John

undone"

;

called the fighting "fratricidal

1 useless" and warned

could It a "hellish cycle of violence and that

is:." ||

Over the next several months he

urged the beginning of negoappeals that went unheeded, lons he conflict worsened and spread to laboring Bosnia-Herzegovina. [Here at a glance are some of the iican's most important statements and |»rts regarding the fighting in the Iner Yugoslavian republics: I July 1991 Pope sends telegrams (residents of Yugoslavia, Slovenia I Croatia, urging resumption of dialie and end to fighting. At the same he says "legitimate aspirations" of pies cannot be suppressed with force I words taken as moral support for i/enian, Croatian independence. August 1991: Pope sends envoy I promote peace efforts in meetings It Croatian, Yugoslavian leaders. 1- October 1991: Pope meets with ident of mostly Catholic Croatia to Itiss continued fighting. Pope writes I rs to Yugoslavian Catholic and OrIlox leaders, saying "history will fejatedly"

—

l;e us for

what we have done or

left

—

paper says Catholic churches, personnel being targeted by Serbian militias. Croatian bishops cite growing toll of dead, wounded and refugees. Pope sends emissary to gauge human damage of

secretary of state says international

com-

munity has a duty to disarm the aggressor. Vatican establishes diplomatic relations with Bosnia-Herzegovina; pope sends envoy to visit the republic s trouble

war, cites Europe's duty to halt the fighting.

— December 1991

Balkans

against Catholics in BosniaHerzegovina. August 1 992: Vatican says it has evidence of "inhuman" detention camps in Bosnia-Herzegovina, urges end to these and other "atrocities." Vatican

to stop the war.

— November 1991: Vatican news-

I-

Pope, after numerous appeals on behalf of civilian casualties in Croatia, sends another envoy and humanitarian supplies to war :

1992: Vatican repre-

victims.

sentative to Conference

January 1992: Vatican becomes one of first states to recognize independence of Croatia and Slovenia; move is attacked by Yugoslavian government. April 1992: Pope warns that spread of "blind violence" threatens Bosnia-Herzegovina, as Serbian militias step up attacks on Muslim, Croatian

Cooperation in Europe proposes sterner measures against Serbian aggression, including "no-fly zone" and militarily

—

on Security and

protected relief corridors.

—

nationalist rival-

ries.

—

December 992: Pope, in speech U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, says "the conscience of humanity 1

... asks that humanitarian intervention be obligatory where the survival of popu-

lations

and entire ethnic groups

is seri-

He denounces

Vatican secretary of state says situis "desperate and grave" and could legitimize outside armed intervention. His deputy says any use of force should be "protective and dissuaation in Bosnia

sive" so that

does not lead

to a

widen-

ing of the war.

community should use every to end war of "ethnic cleansing." Pope leads prayers for Bosnia after relief plane shot down; says war marks a "tragic hour for Eu-

Vatican's U.N. representative says Bosnia-Herzegovina could be helped by Somalia-style intervention. Other Vatican officials are more cautious but agree that Bosnian tragedy raises urgent questions about morality of military in-

means

May 1992: Vatican launches diplomatic effort to stop increasing death

overcome

efforts to

"climate of terror" in Bosnia, says international

villages.

mosques. Vatican repeats request for stronger international measures against Serbian forces and pledges to increase

ously compromised."

spots.

— September

at its disposal

rope."

—

tervention.

Vatican relief agencies plan for urgent humanitarian aid to victims.

October 1992: Vatican calls on United Nations to address the "plague" of ethnic cleansing.

July 1992: Pope welcomes Croatian ambassador to Vatican, says

November 1992: Pope, in letter Bosnian bishops, deplores continuing attacks on civilians, arbitrary depor-

Foundation Gift Funds Scholarship BELMONT— The American

and destruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

—

he wants to visit war-scarred republic when circumstances allow it. Pope deplores deaths of seminarians, attacks

tations, detention in concentration camps

and destruction of churches and

Schlafhorst Foundation has established

endowed American Schlafhorst

the

Foundation Scholarship

A Most Unhappy Birthday For Roe v. Wade. 29,000,000 Wasted Lives. 20 Wasted Years.

at Belmont Abbey College with a gift of $40,000. The scholarship will provide finan-

of North or South Carolina who are computer information systems majors and who have a minimum high school grade point average (GPA) of 2.8. The American Schlafhorst Foundation is based in Charlotte. It provides support for a broad range of projects cial assistance to residents

including those in education, health care

and the

arts.

Pope Backs Abortion Stand Of Bishops VATICAN CITY

(CNS)

—

Pope must speak out against a "culture of death" and said

John Paul

said the church

the Polish bishops are right to press for limits

on abortion.

The pope

said the

Church

in his

native country has a duty to defend

human life from the moment of concepand cannot remain

tion

silent

on the

when laws are being drafted. The pope made his remarks to

issue

group of Polish bishops at the Vatican Jan. 12, five days after the lower house of Poland's Parliament passed a

bill

The

leg-

introducing limits on abortion. islation

was

upper house

Roe

Wade has had more than enough

promises to solve social problems. In

fact,

failed policy. Yet abortion advocates are

time. Yet the

Supreme Court decision on abortion hasn't delivered on

signing of the

its

the problems are

provide

worse now. Child abuse has increased dramatically since 1973,

and more

Roe

women and children

an expensive

and robbed us of our

will to

has cost us 29,000,000 better for

American

It is

who

women

God who

what they need, but

abortion, even through the ninth

each human

life

month of

into existence.

call

It is

God

be considered by the

The pope did not discuss

the par-

;

ticulars of the leg slation, but said

aims to provide legal protection for the unborn child. The Church has every right to support such guarantees, he said.

"This

not a matter of imposing

Christian principles on everyone, as His

call. It

has never been quite so clear or

Let us not waste another year or another

obviously a

For more information,

calls

quite so urgent as now.

to abolish failed

greater freedom for abortion

their children with

would not

calling us to safeguard the value of those lives. Surely

we must heed

Our new Administration has promised

And

pushing for the

of Choice Act. This act

pregnancy. lives

and children.

policies.

women and

only with

are living in poverty now.

failure. It

Freedom

in late January.

202-541-3070 or write:

some have

life.

the right to life

— which should

—

also be

reflected in the legislation of the state,"

said.

The National Conference of Catholic Bishops Pro-Life Secretariat 3211 4th Street, N.E. Washington, d.c. 20017

objected, but of defending

the fundamental right of the person

"The Church, which defends

human this

the

being, cannot remain silent on

problem. It must remind people, and forcefully, of the crucial

clearly

See Poles, Page 16

Catholic

News

;

January 15,

Herald

'Qpmimicmemonoj Noticias Diocesanas el

Cambios de Fechas - Notificamos cambio de dos fechas debido a causas

inevitables:

-Dia de Oracion y Reflexion: cambia del sabado 16 de enero

-Baile de los Enamorados: se cam1

el Centro Catol Hispano, Charlotte. Vente de bolel con Consuelo Amessa, telefono (7(| 535-4381. j

siguiente 23 de enero.

bia del sabado

medianoche, en

3 de febrero al siguiente

20 de febrero.

Dia de Reflexion y Oracion - Todos quedan invitados a pasar un dia de enriquecimiento espiritual, que tentra lugar el sabado 23 de enero, en el Centro

Catolico Hispano, 2117 Shenendoah Ave. cerca de la esquina de Independence Blvd. y The Plaza, Charlotte.

Se Pide Colaboracion Nos gustaria poder ofrecer n| noticias de las 20 comunidades hispaifc de la diocesis e ilustrarlas con fotogralpa que nos den a conocer sus actividadej las personas que participan. Por favp envfen su information a

Hermjj

Dalmau, 2117 Shenendoah A enue, Charlotte, NC 28205 y se agradeceremos mucho. Pilar

Oportunidad de Trabajo Para persona bilingiie, contabilul

Comenzara a las 9:00 a.m. para terminar

compama que da

a las 5:00 p.m. Las platicas seran dadas

con una

por la Hermana Sagrario Nunez, Esclava del Sagrado Corazon. Para inscribirse, llamar al (704) 335-1281. Cada uno

beneficios. tel.

buei|

Llamar a Debbie o a Da>i (704) 543-1 1 1 1 en Charlotte.

traera su almuerzo y se ofrecerarefrescos

y cafe todo

La Hermana

Irene Halahan, Esclava del Sagrado

Corazon de Jesus, ayuda con

edicion

de nuestra pagina "Communiquemonos" cada semana y se encarga de todas las traducciones.

La Hna.

Irene es de

La Argentina y

trabaja en la biblioteca de las oficinas diocesanas.

Los Obispos Hablan Contra La Violencia Domestica â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

WASHINGTON documento

(CNS) En un publicado por dos

comisiones de los oblispos de los Estados

Unidos declaran que la violencia contra mujeres en el hogar o fuera de el nunca puede justificarse. "Violencia ffsica, sexual, sicologica o verbal es pecaminosa y muchas veces criminal" dice el documento. Se ofrecen consejos practicos a las mujeres maltratadas y a aquellos que las abusan. Este documento de 16 paginas se

"Cuando Pido Ayuda:

titula

Una

Respuesta Pastoral a la Violencia Contra las

Mujeres." Fue escrito por

Comite

de los Obispos de los EE.UU. sobre las Mujeres en la Sociedad y el Comite sobre

Matrimonio y

Vida Familiar.

Fue publicado en el mes de octubre del 92 y se envio una copia a cada obispo de esta pais para que propaguen la ensenanza que contiene.

parroquias y diocesis existen mujeres maltratadas y este documento las

Cuando

mujer es madre y

violencia tiene lugar en presencia de sus

un ciclo de violencia que puede continuar de generacion en generacion. En nino que vive en un hogar donde hay abuso ffsico "es mucho mas propenso a usar violencia en su hijos, se inicia

propia familia" declara el texto, mientras

que un 25% de los hombres que crecen en un hogar abusivo optan por no repetir la violencia.

persona usa para controlar a otra por medio del miedo y la amenaza"

incluyendo

abuso emocional,

sicologico, asalto ffsico y sexual. Esta triste realidad se encuentra en

diferentes razas y situaciones economicas, religiosas y educacionales las

los diversos niveles etnicos.

Por

lo general, la violencia

ocurre

dentro del domicilio familiar, muchas

veces "cubierto por un velo de silencio" nota el documento. Tradicionalmente

un paso inicial en el continuo esfuerzo de la Iglesia por conbatir la

violencia domestica.

sido considerado "no solo un asunto

Las estadi'sticas recognidas por la Asociacion Medica Americana estiman que hay de 3 a 4 millones de mujeres en los Estados Unidos maltratadas por sus maridos o companeros, un posible 37% cuando estan embarazadas, mas de un 50% asesinadas por sus companeros o

privado sino prerrogativa del esposo."

significa

ex-maridos.

La importancia que este asunto tiene en estos momentos de crisis economica ha de llamar la atencion de todos, puesto que la inseguridad del trabajo trae una intensification de la violenciaen el hogar. Tanto las mujeres abusadas como los hombres que las maltratan "necesitan la fuerza y sanation de Jesus" dice el documento.

abuso de

Retiro para Jovenes - Todos los jovenes de 15 a 25 anos de edad quedan invitados al retiro espiritual que tendra lugar del 29 al 31 de enero, en The Oratory, Rock Hill, SC. Saldran juntos del Centro Catolioco Hispano a las 7 p.m. el viernes para regresar el domingo al mediodfa. Todo sera en espanol. La casa de retiros provee ropa de cama y toallas, solo necesitan traer lo de uso personal El costo de $40 podra disminuir si muchos responden. Un equipo de .

sacerdotes, religiosas y laicos dirigira el fin

de semana. Baile de los Enamorados - Se invita

a todos a disfrutar de una noche agradable el

sabado 20 de febrero, de 7 p.m. a

El exceso de bebida disminuye

el conimpide pensar con juicio correcto, tambien da mas fuerza trol,

Los obispos entienden por abuso "cualquier clase de conducta que una

mujer por su esposo ha

Todavfa

hay quienes opinan equivocadamente que la intervention de otras personas ajenas a la situacion pone en peligro el concepto de la santidad del hogar. Muchos hombres que abusan a mujeres estan convencidos que tienen el derecho a hacerlo y creen que la violencia es un modo de resolver problemas o disipar tensiones personales o familiares.

Hombres abusivos tienden

a ser

extremadamente celosos, poseedores y se enojan facilmente.

A menudo creen

que la mujer es inferior al hombre. El uso del alcohol esta muchas veces relacionado con la violencia domestica.

el dia.

aumenta

la ira e

fisicas para la action violenta.

documento reconoce,

bargo, que es

fiffcil

sin

em-

explicar las razones

por las cuales las mujeres sufren en silencio y permanecen con sus abusadores sin econtrar solution. Explicaciones sicologicas dicen que las relaciones abusivas suelen empezar de manera agradable a ambos. Mas tarde cuando el primer ecto de violencia ocurre, la mujer no le da importancia y quiere creer a su esposo cuando le pide perdon y promete no volver a danarla. Desgraciadamente muchas mujeres se echan la culpa a si mismas de la acciones abusivas de sus maridos y pierden su propia estima, atrapadas en esta relation ofensiva, especialmente si tienen hijos y por otra parte, dependen de los medios economicos del hombre. Parte del problema, segiin opinan los obispos, es que la mujer se siente avergonzada de admitir que el hombre con quien ella se caso y a quien amo, la esta ahora aterrorizando. La Iglesia quiere animar a las mujeres con estos consejos: -Hablar de su situacion con alguien con quien tienen confianza. -Si tienen que quedarse en esta situacion temporalmente, deben tomar medidas de seguridad, tales como

James Scancarelli es un gran amigo hispanos y lleva ocho anos compartie] con nosotros en la Misa de las siete l noche en la catedral de San Patricio, Cllj t

A1H encuentra el

lotte.

calor de la amis

pues con su condad se gana a los

latir

esconder una Have del automovil fil de la casa o teneral algun dinero a m en lugar seguro. -Investigar sobre los recur] ofrecidos a mujeres maltratadas y al hijos, ya sea en agencias de servil publico o privadas, asf como en ofici! j

diocesanas.

Aconseja a los abusadores que:J -Tengan la valentfa de mirar honradez su modo de actuar. Emj a converncerse que pueden cambiaj conducta violenta si lo quieren. -Que se pongan en contacto coil parroquia o las oficinas que pue| informarle sobre programas rehabilitation para abusadores.

los parrocos y sus ayudai|

advierten:

-Asegurarse que

las

homi^

hablen sobre este asunto. -En la preparation de parejas

il|

matrimonio, mirar como resuelj disgustos y desacuerdos en sus famill ahora y como solucionan los problem el

Los obispos sugieren matrimonio

retrasai

hay signos o potenciajj

abuso.

-Tener preparado un plan de ac< para socorrer a alguna mujer que

yuda en

parroquia. Mantener but J

relaciones con la policfa y agencia tratan de serviv en casos de violeij

domestica.

The Catholic News

nuary 15, 1993

Ethnic Celebration...

UVt

M Q«1ST

JESTIS

•

OFFICE OF THE BISHOP

Amadiamos amigos en

Senor:

Como

ya saben la ley de Eleccion Libre fue una de las cuestiones mas discutidas que sse presento a votacion ante el Congreso de Estados Unidos en 1992. Se derroto gracias al trabajo de los que trabajan "A Favor de la Vida."

Desde

las

elecciones, la situacion en Washington ha cambiado

radicalmente. Los

miembros de la "Eleccion Libre" en el Capitolio estan bien

organizados y dispuestos a presionar al Congreso para que apruebe esta ley. Tambien se proponen asegurar fondos del gobierno para los abortos y

"A Favor de la Vida" a nivel federal.

contraarrestar la politica

El Presidente-

FOC A. Por lo tanto somos responsables de mobilizar a los Catolicos para derrotar Electo Clinton ha prometido firmar esa lay conocido bajo las iniciales

Parishioners at

many ethnic

Holy Family Church

El domingo 24 de enero, las Iglesias Catolicas a traves de los Estados Unidos se proponen mandar un millon de tarjetas postales al Congreso para defender "A Favor de la Vida" y derrotar la lay en favor de la "Eleccion Libre" y asf promover el aprecio de la vida. Les pido la ayuda de su parroquia par alcanzar esta meta. El encargado de "A Favor de la Vida" recibira las tarjetas postales y como escribirlas a Senadoras y Representantes. En las parroquias que no I tienen una persona encargada de "A Favor de la Vida," se mandaran estas

FOCA

| que podran ayudar en instruir a los mimebros de su parroquia sobre esta ley tan peligroso. El tienen alguna duda, llamar a Maggi Nadol, la encargada de "A Favor de la Vida." a nivel diocesano al (704) 331-1720. Les agradezco que sean una voz en favor de la vida. Con mi aprecio personal y mejores deseos en Jesucristo,

muy Reverendo John Obispo de Charlotte

Donoghue

get ready to dig into Chinese food, one of the

The event

well as their commonality as a family of God. In addition to food, parishioners sported ethnic

Lifeline (From Page It is

time

all

and brought other items associated with

their native cultures.

put the hard truth to the American people.

enterprise will come from,

Where

the

money

for this

God only knows. But there is too much at stake and we must bend

of our efforts to change public opinion. truths, the new administration will be the first since the legalization we will have a president totally committed to, not only its preservation, but

Speaking of hard of abortion that

I tarjetas al parroco.

Junto con las tarjetas encontraran una joja con datas pertinenes a

Clemmons

brought the parish family together to celebrate the diverse ethnic backgrounds of parishioners as

clothing, provided entertainment

esta ley tan peligrosa.

cuisines that graced the table at a special parish celebration during Advent.

advancement. Several crucial bills will be brought before Congress and the new president

its

has already publicly stated that he will sign them into law. Most notable

is the Freedom of do more than codify abortion as it currently exists. It will take away all possible limitations, even the most moderate, such as informed consent, parental notification and a reasonable waiting period.

Choice Act. This

bill, if

passed, will

Please don't think I'm complaining about our new president. The hard truth is we elected him and will get exactly what we deserve. Besides, Mr. Clinton never hid the fact that he was totally committed to abortion. I fully expect him to carry through on his commitment. One final thought. I was talking to a friend a while back who was relating a conversation he had with a business colleague about the poor state of the economy. This guy was trying to get

my friend to vote for anyone but President Bush. My friend said that he totally agreed

with everything that was said but that he was stunned. "Don't

you care about

the

still

going to vote for Bush. His colleague was asked. "Don't you care about your own

economy?" he

business?" "Sure,

abortion.

care,"

God

my friend replied, "but we are killing a million and a half babies a year

not pleased with that."

God is not pleased. That's the hard truth, and we will all have to pay the consequences if we don't do something about it.

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Herald

Diocesan News Briefs COPING CHARLOTTE — COPING, a support group for adult caregivers of elderly parents, meets the first

and third

Thursday of every month at St. Gabriel Church on the second floor of the new community center from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

A first

guest speaker

featured on the

Thursday. The third Thursday

sharing and support.

COPING stands for Caring for Older Parents In the Name of God. For more

weeks to a safe environment in the United States and creates opportunities for friendships across sectarian lines.

p.m.

The

cost of bringing each child in 1993

approximately $675.

Tax deductible contributions may be sent to: The Piedmont Irish Children s Summer Program, 3 New Bern Sq., Greensboro, N.C. 27408. Also needed are families willing to host a child. It is necessary that one '

parent be in the

and Jan Valder-Offerman will talk about their fall trip to El Salvador and show slides in the St. Peter parish hall on Jan. 1 7 at 10 a.m. and again on Jan. 20 at 7:30

home while the children

Think Summer

—

The OraKINGS MOUNTAIN tory Religion Camp is offering two one-

week

sessions July

Camp York

1-17 and July 18-

Kings Mountain is for girls and

The camp

State Park.

boys under age 13 who will be entering grades 2-7 in September 1993. Cost is $80.

364-5431.

(919) 282-6800.

Applications are available from The Oratory Religion Camp, P.O. Box 11586, Rock Hill, S.C. 29731.

Mass For The Unborn

Catholics United For Faith

Perpetual Adoration

information, call B.

Dengler

CHARLOTTE — The

nual Special St.

Mass

for the

(704)

Fourth An-

Unborn

is at

Gabriel Church Sunday, Jan. 17 at

2:30 p.m. Bishop John F. Donoghue will officiate.

DWS Ministry

—

The DWS (DiWidowed, Separated) Ministry

ASHEVILLE vorced,

from June 20 to July 30. For more information, call are visiting, approximately

of the greater Asheville area has a

new

new year. The group meet the first Friday of each month at St. Eugene Church, Asheville, in the Msgr. Brown Room and the third Friday of each month at St. Barnabas Church,

—

CHARLOTTE

Arden, begin

in the social hall.

The meetings

7:30 p.m. call

Connie

call (704)

(704) 684-8022.

Program

hosting a Justice and Peace

Workshop Saturday, Jan. 30 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The presenter is Dr. Thomas Bright, who holds doctor of ministry and masters degrees. Participants will be given practical resources for integrating justice

fully into

parish and school programs.

$40 per person. Lunch will be provided. Registration and fee must be mailed by Wednesday, Jan. 20 to the Office of Faith Formation, Justice Education Workshop, 1524 E. Morehead Cost

St.,

Charlotte, N.C. 28207.

Irish Children's

Program

GREENSBORO —The

Piedmont Irish Chi ldren s S ummer Program brings Catholic and Protestant boys and girls ages 9-1 from Northern Ireland for six '

Upcoming Dloceean Evente

CHARLOTTE

St. Gabriel

Martin Ketterer (704) 523-170&

— Joanna Case, a

Jan.

24 Open Houses

MACS

Schools All six Charlotte schools, From 1:00 pm - 3 pm

ing Options for Ministry with

Adults." The conference

design

people interested in establishing or panding ministries for older adults

The conference Registration fee

open

to all fai

$ 1 2. For more

mation, call Rachel Greene at Cath Social Services, (704) 33 1-1720. J

Annual Liturgy Day

CHARLOTTE — Come spend

day with a gifted liturgical musician composer whose love for music as pr to

God has helped create a new won

tradition within the U.S. Cath

Church.

Marty Haugen will be the prese, Annual Liturgy Day a Patrick Cathedral on Saturday, Pel

for the Fourth

Newman

Lecture HILL, S.C.

Lecture Saturday, Jan. 30 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jesuit Father Daniel

ministers.

— The Oratory

presenting the 13th annual

Newman

For more information, contact

Catholic High, will give a presen-

Warmaking State." Father Berrigan of New York City is known for his prophetic and scholarly commitment to peace and justice. As a

Office of Worship, 1621 Dilworth

lotte

tation

on "Catholic Identity"

at St. 1

John

8 from

6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

ing Christian in the

poet, prophet

cation

Program

at St.

Adult Eduis

Gospel

the

weekend of Jan.

spiritual

5- 1 7

starts Friday, Jan. 15 at

growth,

The program

7:15 p.m. in

Community Center cafeteria. The workshop offers an opportu-

nity for people ages

35 to 65 plus to look at their lives as crisis, transition and renaissance in the light of the Gospel. It confronts anew the question about the purpose of one's life. The workshop will be led by Immaculate Heart Sister Monica Stuhlreyer from St. Michael's Catholic Community in Sterling Heights, Mich. Sister Monica has completed a nine-month internship in advanced spiritual direction at the Center for Religious Development in Cambridge, Mass., and is a graduate of the Institute for Spiritual Leadership at Chicago's Jesuit School of Theology at Loyola University. The fee is $50. For more information, call Sharon Meese at (704) 3662738.

ioners Jerry Bone,

our time.

He has

written sev-

and poems.

Early registration

For more information, at (803) 327-2097.

not required.

call the

Oratory

East, Charlotte, N.C. 28203, or

call,

office at (704) 334-1805.

The Catholic News & Herald comes parish newsfor the diocesan

Good photographs, prefer^ black and white, also are welct Please submit news releases and ph at least 10 days before date ofpubk briefs.

tion.

St.

Gabriel's

Showing

CHARLOTTE — St.

eral books, articles

offering "Mid-Life Directions," a work-

shop for personal and

and former prisoner, he

has been a witness to the justice of the

Gabriel Church

Peter parish-

Barney Offerman

Retreat Weekends

—

MAGGIE VALLEY Living Waters Catholic Reflection Center is offering "Dreams: Journeying through the Inner Life," Feb. 5-7 and "Enneagram: The Nine Face of God," Feb. 11-14.

The dream workshop emphasizes dream journal to facilitate the exploration of the unconscious. Time is provided for theoretical input, the use of a

FOUR GREAT NAMES

dreamwork.

The Enneagram workshop is a challenging approach to holiness and self

KNOW

discovery. While at one level the work-

shop

a personality study,

spirituality

The

it is

also a

of conversion.

director for both

workshops

Father Bernie Tickerhoof. Suggested

donations are $75 for the dream work-

shop and $135 for the Enneagram. To register, write the Living Waters Reflection Center, 1420 Soco Rd., Maggie Valley, N.C. 28751. Or call (704) 926-3833.

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Jan. 22-23 Catechist/Youth Minister Retreat Montreat Conference Center, Montreat, begins at 6 pm and concludes at 3 pm on Jan. 23 Sheryl Peyton (704) 6&4-609&

an Interfaith Conference on Agin Providence Baptist Church, 4! Randolph Rd., Thursday, Jan. 28 fro a.m. to 4 p.m. The theme is "Crossroads: Expa at

Berrigan will speak on "The Peacemak-

El Salvador Slide

Jan 19 Pathfinders Peer Support for Divorced and separated 7:30 pm - 9 pm

Dana Bean

Ed Kilbourne will be the featured spe.

national speaker and a teacher at Char-

CHARLOTTE — The

—

College

call

On Aging CHARLOTTE — Singer/storyte

Conference

The all-day conference is open t people involved in liturgy, inclu< planners and presiders, musicians song leaders, ushers and Euchar

Special Catechist

Mid-Life Workshop

and Peace Workshop Belmont Abbey BELMONT

Justice

13th

ROCK

Mitchell at (704) 254-2209 or Joe Bolick at

Blessed Sacrament, (704) 553-0037.

starting at 9 a.m.

For more information, 364-9568.

Neumann Church Monday, Jan.

For more information,

is beginning this month at St. Gabriel Church in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel. To sign up for one hour each week or month to be in the presence of the

tion

Faith.

schedule for the will

CHARLOTTE — Perpetual adora-

The monthly

meeting of Catholics United for the Faith is at the Catholic Center, 1524 E. Morehead St., on Friday, Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m. The group will study the instruction on respect for human life issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the

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The Catholic News

1993

lary 15,

World and National Briefs Of Clinton U.N. Policy

iop Assesses Effect

Views

irtion

NEW YORK

(CNS)

/ities.

that pro-life

place at the former St. Joseph's Church building in Worcester against the wishes

is not a plea for sympathy Westley Allan Dodd," said Edward Dolejski, executive director of the Catholic conference at a Dec. 29 press conference. "I don't think anybody in our society is too thrilled about Westley Allan Dodd."

according to a

move

telephone inter-

forces expected

on the domesiront in carrying out his committs. Developing U.S. policy in rel to U.N. issues will be thornier, he ton to

directly

because of the implications for ions with other countries. But in

83-year-old Arthur

Sr.

of the pastor of the merged Notre

Dame/

Joseph Parish. According to Giselle Desroches, a spokeswoman for the Committee to Save St. Joseph's Church, the service marked the first time a body had St.

been brought into the building since the church was taken over by a group of dissidents May 25. Several memorial services have been held without the casket being brought inside, she said. Jesuit Retreat

House In Maryland

ase, U.S. influence is not decisive

To Close After 66 Years ANNAPOLIS, Md. (CNS)

N. population questions, he added.

Jesuits

have decided

— The

to close their 66-

year-old retreat house in Annapolis in

money and

an Parish Goes Against Trend,

August 1993

To Open New School A BALTIMORE (CNS)

their shrinking personnel pool to other

—

Jesuit

bucking the trend latholic school closings in urban :rs and plans to open a new middle ol in August for low-income boys Baltimore. St. Ignatius Loyola lemy, as the school will be known,

Baltimore

have a

maximum

capacity of 60,

g in 20 sixth graders for the next years to reach capacity. According suit Father William Watters, stuwill be recruited from the city's st income levels regardless of race,

or creed, with referrals coming

to save

uses. Jesuit Father

to put

Edward Glynn, head

selors.

Held In Occupied Church

Permission Mass. (CNS) ly six months after their Francorican parish was merged with an1, dissident parishioners conducted jjeral service at their closed church tout Priest's

—

VORCESTER,

but the presence or permission of a

ference. "This

tradition."

Governor Of State With Rights Problem Given Top Mexico Cabinet Job MEXICO CITY (CNS ) The gov-

—

ernor of the southern state of Chiapas,

where human

rights abuses

have been

Revived Catechumenate Changing , Bishop Says COLUMBUS, Ohio (CNS) The

Mexico's

revived catechumenate for adults "has

Patrocinio Gonzalez Garrido

begun to invigorate the whole Church," Bishop James A. Griffin of Columbus said in a pastoral letter on the Rite of

part of a Jan.

Whole Church

—

Christian Initiation of Adults. In just a

few years of experience with the revived rite, "we are experiencing a profound restoration of the very life and mission of the church," he said. The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults was inaugurated in the 1970s as part of the

nounced the decision in late December and said it had been approved by Jesuit superior general Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach after a long period of evaluation and consultation. While a number

gical reforms

litur-

interior minister, a post

which

includes jurisdiction over religious or-

ganizations.

The promotion of Jose comes as

4 cabinet shake-up which

also sees the head of the government's

human

fights body, Jorge Carpizo MacGregor, appointed attorney general. As well as overseeing Mexico's elections and security forces, Gonzalez has jurisdiction over the registration of Mexico's dioceses as religious associations under the terms of the recent reforms to church-state relations.

mandated by the Second

U.S. Catholics Return

Vatican Council.

Restored U.S. Prelates Find First Signs covery In Somalia

Of Re-

Partially

Rome Church

—

ROME

6,800 people came to Manresa for retreats in 1 990 and even more came in

Marine presence has dramatically cut the internal violence, said two U.S. bishops who visited Somalia in the last days of December. "The care-givers

After more than (CNS) seven years of waiting, U.S. Catholics living in Rome moved back into their 17th-century church with temporary lighting, no heat and two-thirds of a sacristy. The cloistered Cistercian nuns living in the monastery attached to Santa Susanna Church got the other third of

1991.

are extremely splendid, heroic, impres-

the now-divided sacristy as well as

of factors played a role in the decision to close, it was not prompted by a lack of business. Jesuit Father Terence Toland,

director of Manresa-on-Severn, said

WASHINGTON

—

(CNS)

Starv-

ing Somalis are being fed and the U.S.

down

sive people. They're doing extraordi-

prayers for blessings and for peaceful

Mahony

coexistence with their returned neigh-

Washington Execution Proceeds

nary work," Cardinal Roger M.

Despite Legal Challenges

of Los Angeles said Dec. 31. But the needs in Somalia are still extreme, basic

WALLA WALLA,

— Last-minute

efforts

Wash. (CNS) by religious and

social structures are

gone and careful

civil liberties

groups to stop an execution in Walla Walla were unsuccessful as the state staged the first U.S. hanging

planning will be needed to avoid turning the country into a permanent welfare state, he said. Catholic News Service

28 years. Westley Allan Dodd, 31, was pronounced dead a few minutes after midnight Jan. 5 after the state

interviewed Cardinal

Mahony by

tele-

after he returned to the Vatican Embassy in Nairobi from a three-day visit to review conditions and relief work in Somalia. Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop John H. Ricard spent

Of Latin America

—

return of the

Ameri-

a solemn celebration can community took place is planned for the spring Jan. 1, exactly 71 years after Paulist priests at Santa Susanna celebrated the first

—

Mass for U.S. Rome.

citizens living in or

visiting

Catholic Father, Son Killed By Ulster Extremists BELFAST, Northern Ireland (CNS

—

Protestant extremists shot dead a

Catholic father and son in Northern Ireland Jan. 3, acting on their pledge to

Somalia.

PHILADELPHIA (CNS)

—

The

intensify violence in 1993 "to a ferocity never imagined." In the first fatal

new

shootings of the

year,

men from

tinues to grow after more than

teer Force burst into the

its

interested in improving the

50 years,

more movement

leaders says he

home of 5

County Tyrone

-year-old Pat Shields, killing

Shields as he lay in bed and gunning

more members to it. "We don't want growth. We're looking for fruit-bearing capability, and that means

down

pruning back," said Jesuit Father John

identified, as

Vessels, international secretary for the Apostleship of Prayer. Father Vessels,

door.

than adding

masked gun-

the outlawed Ulster Volun-

international Apostleship of Prayer con-

but one of

V''

The low-key

bors.

phone just hours

Apostleship Of Prayer Still Thriving, International Secretary Says

Faces

lic

acute in recent years, has been appointed

Christmas week

The

nominations in their call to the priesthood, particularly in the Roman Catho-

for

of the Jesuits' Maryland province, an-

schools, parishes, principals and

ice

for a stay

President-

follows U.N. population Bishop James T. McHugh of

iden, N.J., said in a

Supreme Court rejected a plea

commitment

who

Couture

joined by the Washington Catholic Con-

jeping abortion legal does not autoically mean a similar orientation for ted Nations' policy,

The Dec. 29 service for took

—

Clinton's strong

Bill

priest or deacon.

his 20-year-old son, Diarmuid, in

a downstairs room.

They

also seriously

injured a 24-year-old son,

The

he tried

who was

not

to barricade the

Protestant Ulster Volunteer

during a meeting near Philadelphia with provincial directors of the Apostleship

Force admitted responsibility for the killings and said Pat Shields was a member of the Irish Republican Army's political wing Sinn Fein. This was denied

of Prayer.

by the

who works

Rome, was interviewed

party,

which called the shootings

sectarian.

The tormented faces

abandoned children who roam the

men and women

poverty.

The suffering faces

The weary faces

farm workers, struggling

streets.

make

a living amidst

of Latin

— A campaign

America look with hope

to the

Church

for leader-

ship and to us for support. Please stand with our brothers and sisters in Latin America.

Give generously in your parish.

in Latin

For more information, please eonlatt: Rev. George f. Emerson, America. National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Secretarial lor

3211 fourth

Uon

Street,

N.E., Washington,

20017 1194, 1202) 541 3050.

women

in the

scheduled to be

—

A prayer service related to the

upcoming campaign was held outside the Anglican St. James Church,

Collection Jan. 23-24

1993 Collection for the Church

launched in England this Easter. The campaign has the backing of two femithe Cathonist groups in the Church lic Women's Network and the St. Joan's Alliance.

the

to ordain

Catholic Church

oppression and violence.

The faces

Fnglish Groups To Campaign For Catholic Women's Ordination MANCHESTER, England (CNS)

Piccadilly,

America

Jan. 6, the feast of the

Epiphany. The service was described by the organizers as "an ecumenical act of solidarity, a statement of the desire of

women and men in the Roman Catholic Church to support women in all de-

Vatican Recognizes Division

Of Czechoslovakia VATICAN CITY (CNS)

— The

Vatican has recognized the division of Czechoslovakia into two countries. The Jan. 4 Vatican announcement said that the decision was made after the Vatican received requests from the Czech Republic and Slovakia to establish diplo-

matic relations.

The Vatican named its am-

Archbishop Giovanni Coppa as

bassador to both countries. Previously, he had been ambassador to Czechoslovakia. On Jan. 1 Czechoslovakia peacefully split into two independent nations. ,

Catholic

News

January

Herald

Kwanzaa Demonstrates

Crusader Corner

15,

Diversii

Of Winston-Salem Parish By you

Just as

By WILLIAM K. ACH WINSTON-SALEM In order to

conference schedule under way, make sure you're really ready, but that's what Belmont Abbey faced yesterday as they took on the Royals of nearby Queens College. The Royals have found success for their young program, which is in its fourth. Queens was formerly a school for women, and has only recently gone co-ed. They have had

start getting the

game

there's nothing like a

always

difficult

against a tough next door neighbor to

winning seasons twice and they successfully defended their Marriot Classic title last week. Last season, the Royals were one of only three teams to defeat Belmont Abbey during their late season streak (Pfeiffer and Wofford being the other two). Queens won that game 63-59

at the

Abbey.

The Crusaders, who broke a three game losing streak Monday against Lees-McRae, won 73-51 to even their record

The Crusaders got strong rebounding from Allen Johnson, who had a season high 14 boards. Jake Robinson, Abbey's freshman standout from Gastonia, scored a game high 1 5 points as the Abbey pulled away late after having their 1 8 point lead

On in a

row

tion

home, and

tournament

victories.

their 21st straight in the Carolinas

The game, however, yielded

their 40th

Umoja

Conference, including six

several positives for the

Junior center Skip

Lowe

held his

own

Adams, who has

William K. Ach is a member Benedict the Moor Parish in Win Salem.

Principles of

Kwanzaa

Poles (From Page

(Unity)

11)

Polish Church leaders called! legislation a big step

Nia (Purpose)

or incest, or

Kuumba

health

Imani (Faith)

would (Creativity)

forward in pro

The law, if appro

restrict abortion to cases of

when a mother's lif endangered, or if prenata

damage

search indicates serious

Basic Table Setting 1 A place mat (Mketa) .

—

Abortion was available virtu usually

—

2. A candle holder (Kinara) seven candles

—

for

Seven candles (Mishumaa Saba)

3 green (left),

black (center), 3 red

A variety of fruit (Mazao) repreEars of Corn (Vibunzi) senting number of children in the home if any 6. Gifts (Zawadi) 4.

—

Communal cup (Kidombe cha

Lenten

and was reportedly widespread, able current statistics on abortio Poland are not available. The pope said pro-life sentime generally strong in Poland, but

evident in the number of divorces, i

growing use of contraceptives and i continuing practice of abortion.

Week

led

68 point shy. Head coach Elaine Kebbe is hoping that her team will follow Adams' lead as the Crusaders take on red hot Mt. Olive, undefeated in conference play. The Lady Trojans are much improved, starting out this year 8-4 after losing 20 games a year ago. Belmont Abbey's start should lead the Lady Crusaders into the 20 win territory by the end of the year. The Lady Crusaders, who played 1 3th ranked Lees-McRae at home on Wednesday night, play at Queens College on Monday at 7 p.m.

Abbey Basketball Notes

— The Crusaders have players averaging double by Stan Maynard with average. — The Lady Crusaders have not had player while opponents have had players — The Crusaders 2-0 when opponents shoot under .500 and when they — 78-57 women only Abbey on Saturday. five

Prayer and Reflection

the

HOLY LAND

Friday,

Under the Fr.

figure scoring, led

foul out,

their

March 5 - Sunday, March 14

Leaving Charlotte, NC, Baltimore, MD, and Tampa, F spiritual

leadership of

Francis Cancro of Washington D.C.

Fr.

a 13.9

concerned about "sympt of a serious crisis of the couple an* family" in his homeland. He said tl that

(right)

demand under communism

just

fetus.

Belmont Abbey in scoring and rebounding in every game this season, is a two-time Kodak Honorable Mention All-American. She is among the national leaders in points, rebounds and steals this season. She is averaging 23.6 points per game and 14.3 rebounds per game. She is also looking to break the 2,000 point barrier sometime in the next week to 10 days. She is

seasons.

tion of the unborn.

of straw

Great players are hard to find, so maybe that's why the Belmont Abbey Lady Crusaders are so intent on winning this season. Next year, you see, will not only be 1993-94 but it will be the year 1 A.A., After Adams. If there is, or was any doubt about how India Adams was going to perform for her senior campaign, the 5-9 forward from Radford, Va., quickly put those doubts to rest. She has captured all three Carolinas Conference Player of the Week awards, and she also has the only NAIA District 26 Award, which she won last Sunday.

irrespecti

—

Ujamaa (Cooperative Econom-

on defense. Other good notes for the Abbey were senior Stan Maynard recapturing his long range touch. He was four of nine from three-point range after slumping earlier this year. Also, Belmont Abbey's interior defense did well, allowing Pfeiffer only 13 offensive rebounds. They had been averaging almost 21 a game. Belmont Abbey returns home for conference play on Saturday when they take on Mt. Olive in the second game of a doubleheader at 7:30 p.m. They play at Wofford 7 p.m.

all,

an event appropriate Christmas season, but applicable

ethnicity

4. ics)

on behalf of

culture, race, creed, condition

point in the debate," he said.

Harvey, who stands 6-11, scored 14 points and had 10 rebounds, well below his season average. Lowe, 6-6, had 10 points and six rebounds. Lowe has had success against big men before, doing a great job against 6- 10 John Lloyd in the Abbey's big win against Presbyterian. Freshman Kevin Willingham, seeing his first significant action of the season, scored four points and grabbed five defensive rebounds. The freshman from Dematha High in Maryland didn't turn the ball over and he made several good plays

Monday

has for them.

affirmation of Jesus Christ's inc tion

Ujima (Collective Work and Re-

against pro prospect Antonio Harvey.

The Kwanzaa Celebration

sponsibility)

Crusaders.

importance

tion)

young

Each day, a principle of Kwan and each person express

recited

Kujichagulia (Self-Determina-

win

described as follows:

The Seven

to a scant four with 8:58 to play.

which was

green.

means "the first" or "the The Kwanzaa Celebra-

harvest."

first

and sharing

Each day a candle is lit beginr with the black one, then alternating tween the green and red starting «

racial, cultural

and ethnic diversity, selected members St. Benedict the Moor Church in Winston-Salem presented Kwanzaa during the 9:30 a.m. liturgy Sunday, Jan. 3, the Feast of the Epiphany. Begun in 1 966 by Maulana Karenga, a professor of black studies who sought to recognize and pay tribute to the culture and ancestry of African Americans, the Kwanzaa Celebration is held from Dec. 26 through Jan. 1. The word "Kwanzaa," whose celebration is neither a religious holiday nor a substitute

the previous Saturday, the squad lost to Pfeiffer,

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whose only hope is in God and who would be so heartened by help given them in the name of God," he said. "Utilizing relief to promote recon-

be sure, would be only a first and just peace," Archbishop Keeler said. "But it would bear living testimony to the belief that we are children of one God, a God who shows no favoritism and whose mercy is for all who plead for it."

ciliation, to

step toward an enduring

After the Mass, Archbishop Keeler

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