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Kindness and justice
truth shall
and peace
PASTORAL
meet;
ASSIGNMENTS
shall kiss.
Truth shall spring out of the
and justice shall look down
earth,
Pastoral changes
from heaven.
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Psalm 85:11-12
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U.S. bishops discuss church problems,
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deacon formation at their June 19-21 spring meeting in St.
report on sexual abuse
Louis.
response
Three of their five half-day sessions were closed to the media, but reporters were briefed on the general nature and con-
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U.S. bishops
declare Catholic Korean-
tent of those sessions.
American Day
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Mysteries wrapped
in
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Photo by Joanita M. Nellenbach
People kneel in the dirt and grass as altar server Carlos Parra censes and Father C. Morris Boyd elevates the Eucharist during a Hispanic Mass held in a field in Bethel, near Canton, June 22.
Priests bring sacrament to Hispanic farm workers By JOANITA M.
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Correspondent BETHEL, N.C. The woman asked for the sacrament of reconciliation. She and the priest were standing on a dirt lane bounded by old single-wide trailers, farm machinery, cars and pickup trucks, with mountains in the background. Finding a place where they could sit behind a car, Father C. Morris Boyd heard the
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Kevin Moran unravels the history ofthe ShroudofTurin in a
Queen of the Apostles Church in Belmont. Moran is a member ofthree Holy Shroud studygroups andis a parishioner ofQueen oftheAposdes Church. Behind Moran is a life-size negative image ofthe shroud, presentation at
which clearly shows a man bearing the wounds ofa crucifixion.
The Shroud ofTurin has been a source of widespreaddebate between those who believe it to be-the burial cloth ofJesus Christ
and those who claim itis a forgery. For full story, see page 5.
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of these people
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Conception in Canton, the mission church of St. John in Waynesville, before assuming administrator duties at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Jefferson
and
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Father Barr, parochial vicar of
Our Lady of Good
Methuen, Mass., his brother Augustinians in Haywood County. Prior to Mass, a Council
was
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visiting
woman
asked
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Spanish for
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Mother Teresa Award
Behind' books
Concorddoctorsprescribe
contradict church
Knights ofColumbus honor
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North Carolina,
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Father Boyd celebrated His-
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confession.
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evening of June 22.
Augustinian Father Francis Barr had just concelebrated Mass for some 60 Hispanics, many of them farm workers, amid fields of tomatoes, pep-
woman's
rishioners and three priests.
the
saying 'thank you' to them. forget sometimes who does the backbreaking work." Father Boyd, former pastor of St. Francis of Assisi in Franklin, returned to the Diocese of Charlotte in early June from a yearlong sabbatical in Mexico, where he studied Spanish and worked at two parishes totaling 64,000 pa-
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