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Serving Catholics in Western North Carolina in the Diocese of Charlotte

13,

1997

Bishop Urges Graduates: Continue To Live In Faith By

MIKE KROKOS

schools in the Diocese of Charlotte were

done service projects each year. Within us, we have God's holy presence. Within us, we have a giving spirit. We can look beyond ourselves and see the needs of

recently urged to continue living faith-

others."

centered lives as they begin their jour-

Grauman also encouraged her classmates to take the best of what is within them and use it to help form their future.

"I urge you to look within you to discover who you are and what truly mat-

Editor

Graduates of both Catholic high

ney into adulthood.

"Ask God

you what He wills and happiness," Bishop William G. Curlin told seniors at Bishop McGuinness High School in WinstonSalem and Charlotte Catholic High School during baccalaureate Masses last week. "Jesus promised to help those who to give

for your peace

you," she added.

ters to

BMHS

senior Allan Charles Huebner was honored as valedictorian, and Mark Joseph Nalavanko was saluta-

put their trust in

torian. In his

Him."

address

God lives in you, you must believe He lives in

"If you believe

The diocesan shepherd delivered the baccalaureate homily to 148

those around you.

Charlotte June 4

at

St.

On June 7 at Holy FamChurch in Clemmons, 72 Bishop McGuinness graduates were encouraged Gabriel Church. ily

Photo by Joann Keane

Finishing touches. Erin Leonard offers a helping hand to Kristy Hoffman prior commencement exercises for the graduates of the Bishop McGuinness

to continue patterning their lives

1

"The primary goal of a Catholic school

997.

is

identical to the goal

when I became your bishop:

I

professed

'to

help you

God in yourself and one another,'" Bishop Curlin noted. "If you believe God lives in you, you must believe He lives in those around you."

Father Mauricio West, vicar general and chancellor, and Dr. Michael Skube, find

Bosnia

Visit

Yields Universal

Insight For Charlotte Reporter

superintendent of schools, conferred di-

By

JIMMY ROSTAR

war

Staff Writer

CHARLOTTE

—

in

November

1995,

Crump

conflict's effects linger in the

The war

in

hearts of

many

— including

says the

minds and

himself.

plomas at the graduations.

During commencement exercises June

5,

Mercy

Sister Paulette Williams,

CCHS

Steve Crump, whose work in television has depicted humanity's extremes, says the 43-month war in the former

"I'm sure with time it will ease a bit, but there's not a day that I don't think about something I did or saw over there or walked away with," he explains. "This outweighs anything I've ever seen in terms of ... the environment of devasta-

Yugoslavia offered a mind-boggling per-

tion."

That is what Charlotte Catholic has provided opportunities to grow in faith, and opportunities to share in faith. Let the calling of your name be a reminder of your baptismal commitment to bring

Bosnia-Herzegovina may be over, but for a Charlotte journalist, its reality remains as a vital lesson to the world.

how

and

the stage for a theater of divisiveness and

That devastation, he adds, is not limited to the demolished city buildings and the shell-pocked countrysides. "People

hate.

are willing to

His take on the war comes from firsthand experience: In March, he went to Bosnia at the invitation of the United

ways," he says, "but at the same time the wounds are very deep."

An assignment reporter with in Charlotte for 11 years, he also produces independent news projects that have taken him to South Africa, Ghana and more than a dozen U.S. cities.

A native of Louisville, Ky., Crump is the product of 12 years of Catholic education, and a graduate of Eastern

spective of

political, cultural

personal differences can continue to set

States Information

Agency

to help estab-

independent print and electronic news outlets in three cities of the wartorn country. The assignment gave Crump an opportunity to share Western lish

insight with the journalistic

community

in the region.

work together

in

some

WBTV

And

while the U.S. -mediated Dayton peace accords officially ended the

principal, told graduates their di-

ploma represented more than academic values and academic success: "It represents

many hours

of service and

think the key

word

lenge yourself," he said. "It's the challenges in

life that

bring out the most in a

'opportunity.'

is

think

life is

only meant to be endured.

own, individual excelwhat it's all about."

Father Jim Scherer, a marriage and family therapist and certified social worker from the Archdiocese of Atlanta who currently works in Greensboro, was Striving for your

lence

the

is

BMHS

graduation speaker.

In closing the baccalaureate Masses,

Bishop Curlin offered a prayer to all graduates: "God grant you His peace always. Wherever there is nobility of char-

Wherever there is greatness of Wherever there are all those things that make for goodness and light, there may you always find your home." acter, spirit,

For Charlotte Catholic and Holy Graduation photos, see page 3.

Trinity

—

Christ into the world."

Kristen Lorraine

Grauman was

Charlotte Catholic's valedictorian, and

As a father is kind so the

LORD is kind to those who

He knows what we are made of; He remembers that we are dust.

Psalm 103: 13-14

Elliot

nectedness of the Class of 1997.

"Many

came together as strangers and have grown to be close friends," she said. of us

"This shows that within us, we have an accepting nature, and a willingness to for school

We

Masses and

have gathered

retreats,

we've

to his children,

honor him.

was salutatorian.

In her speech, Grauman spoke of the con-

Maria Lorraine

nurture one another.

See Journalist, page 2

of the Class of 1 997 to pursue their dreams. "Be confident in your abilities, and be ready and willing to chal-

many

opportunities for a lived faith experience.

I

members

person's potential. There's no reason to

their faith as well.

to the

class of

around

ment exercises June 8, Nalavanko en-

couraged

Bishop William G. Curlin

Catholic seniors

at

commence-

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Day

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Hopes First-Hand Look Leads To Understanding, from page

Journalist

between its need for and the continuing tension between its people. "The con-

Kentucky University. He's worked in Kentucky

as a region

and Michigan, as well as North Carolina.

Our Lady of Consolation

Catholic Church has received two

Awards from

Emmy

Academy

the National

—

put neighbor against neighbor, but with the peace friendships are renewed

Crump's recognitions

—

part of the effort of mending the pain,"

says Crump.

of

With just under 8,000 U.S. military

the

troops

still

stationed in poverty-ridden

Tuzla at the time of filming, the program suggests that the experience and aftermath of war have weighed heavily on the international peacekeeping factions as

further in-

Unda-USA,

well.

A Catholic priest — chaplain of the

military tent city in Tuzla

for an inde-

— mentions

pendent piece on black photographers

men and women in their late teens being

who shot the American civil rights move-

faced with "questions of ultimate real-

ment.

ity-

While conducting journalism

Crump

train-

agrees with the minister's

ing in Bosnia's capital city of Sarajevo

sentiment, adding that the American

and the towns of Tuzla and Banja Luka

presence could lead to growth not only for Bosnia's inhabitants, but for the

Crump

to the north,

visualized another

some respects, with more questions

was

trying to seize an opportunity

of a lifetime," he says, "not only as a journalist, but as

ways had a

somebody who has

al-

great deal of curiosity."

A result

of that interest

is

"Healing

of a Nation," a half-hour program scheduled to air on Charlotte's

WTVI, on June 23

PBS

affiliate,

8:30 p.m.

at

The documentary chronicles Bosnia

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Near Tuzla, Muslims join for worship in a newly built mosque that replaces a 300-year-old structure lost in the war.

Such

resiliency

marks the hope of

the collective Bosnian population, while

issues of refugees,

war criminals and

sectarian hostilities

still

threaten an at-

times fragile peace. Pope John Paul IPs

Sarajevo in mid- April, just days following Crump's departure, further underscored the ongoing blend of the dangers of ill will and the call for peace in Bosnia. Almost two-dozen mines were discovered along the pope's motorcade visit to

route in the capital's streets; later, the pontiff celebrated

Mass

for a

welcom-

troops, too. "I think in

ing crowd of 50,000.

people will leave than answers," he says.

Questioning is an element of the faith that continues to play a vital role in Bosnia's mending. Amidst that scarred landscape of locales both urban and rural are a number of places of worship lying in various stages of destruction, victims of random and intentional acts of

For Crump, the complexity of the Bosnian conflict provided occupational insight. "As a journalist," he says, "you're always taught not to take a stand; you're taught to remain in the middle.

documentary.

"I

During one segment of the program, a Catholic congregation gathers for Mass

while a blown-out stained glass image

clude a Gabriel Award, presented last year by the national Catholic broadcasters association

violence.

of the crucified Christ serves as a silent witness to the damaged surroundings.

most recent in February 1997 for coverage on WBTV of the Matthews-Murkland Presbyterian Church burning in June 1996.

Television Arts and Sciences

torn

flict

In recent years, the parishioner of

Charlotte's

still

internal reconciliation

television in Georgia, Florida,

Charlotte, N.C. 28236

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Charlotte reporter Steve

Crump recently

spent a month in Bosnia to help establish independent print and electronic news outlets in three cities of the war-ravaged country.

He also produced a

documentary chronicling June 23.

his visit that airs

You're taught not to point fingers unless someone is so blatantly wrong.

"But, in some ways, being (in Bosnia) evokes a certain amount of humanity.

It

inspires a certain

amount of

understanding, and perhaps it leads people to question why the violence happened and what people can do to better understand each other."

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June

Dear Friends

Once

13,

1997

Weekend

Masses: Saturday Vigil

in Christ,

again,

we

Sunday

are about to participate in the annual Peter's

Pence Collec-

works of the Holy Father. The 1997 collection theme, "Proclaiming Jesus Christ, the Same Yesterday, Today and Forever," reflects the theme of the

first

As we prepare

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Bishop Curlin And Fellow Jubilarians To Be Honored

By JIMMY ROSTAR

CHARLOTTE — Bishop William G. Curlin is among 10 priests serving in the Diocese of Charlotte celebrating their priestly jubilees while another retires from active duty in 1997. Pa-

from the 46-county dio-

cese are invited to join in the yearly celebration at a special at

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'97

Graduates Move

On

as director of the Society for the Propaga-

Staff Writer

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The Catholic News

June 13, 1997

Mass June 25

a.m. at St. Patrick Cathedral in

tion of the Faith.

Redemptorist Father Francis Sands, currently parochial vicar of St. James

Church

in

Concord,

versary honoree.

22, 1947, in a

seminary.

was

vice

is

another 50th anni-

He was ordained on June

New York

Redemptorist

Among his years of priestly serwork in Puerto Rico

pastoral

for

He arrived in Concord in

nearly a decade.

March 1996.

Msgr. Joseph Kerin,

Charlotte.

who commemo-

William G. Curlin was born in Portsmouth, Va., and moved with his

rates

40 years as a priest in 1997, was ordained on May 30, 1957, in Wilmington,

Charlotte Catholic High School salutatorian Maria Lorraine Elliot receives her diploma from Father Mauricio West, vicar general and chancellor, at

family to the nation's capital at age 9.

During high school, he began to ex-

N.C. From North Wilkesboro to Tryon, Winston-Salem to Charlotte to Huntersville, he has served as pastor in several parishes. He also served as the Diocese of Charlotte's second chancellor, and last month was appointed pastor of the diocese's newest parish, St. Mark Church

commencement

plore the possibility of a vocation. in 1951,

He

Mary Seminary and on May 27, 1957, was or-

entered Baltimore's

St.

dained into the priesthood by the late Cardinal (then Archbishop) Patrick O' Boyle of Washington.

For 37 years, Father Curlin practhroughout the Archdiocese of Washington. With assignments as assistant pastor and pastor of five parishes, he also served as archdiocesan director of vocations for men; as director of a seminarian house of formation at The Catholic University of America; as director of a program for inner-city elderly people; and as founder of the

years as a priest. Ordained on June 8, 1957,

Mount Carmel House

priestly service has included

homeless

Washington and regional bishop of an

is

also being honored for

Wilmington, Del., he served as a minand teacher at parishes and schools in Pennsylvania until arriving in North ister

Carolina in 1977.

He has

served as pastor

of Our Lady of the Highways in Thomasville since then.

Jesuit Father Lawrence Hunt was ordained 40 years ago in Maryland. His such appoint-

ments as administrator of a Jesuit novitiate in Pennsylvania; as educator and pastor in a number of locations in India and the eastern United States; and as director of a social welfare center in the state of Bihar, India.

40 years a

priest in 1997,

during the jubilee of the diocese he

now

serves.

Celebrating his 60th anniversary

is

Benedictine Father Bernard Rosswog, a monk of Belmont

Abbey whose minNorth Carolina surpasses a half-century. Ordained on June isterial

work

in

13, 1937, Father

Rosswog has served

within western North Carolina as pasrector of Belmont Abbey College and Cathedral, and teacher.

Msgr. Arthur Duncan celebrates his 50th anniversary this year. Ordained into the priesthood of the Raleigh Diocese on May 1, 1947, he has ministered as pastor to a number of Tarheel parishes. In addition, he served as director of the Home Missions Apostolate's Western Division, as a diocesan consultor and as director of tor,

the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.

Also celebrating his 50th anniveris Msgr. Anthony Kovacic, a native of Bizeljsko in the former Yugoslavia. Ordained on April 6, 1947, in Rome, he has served as pastor in parishes throughout North Carolina, as a diocesan consultor and as director of the permanent diaconate. Although retired, Msgr. Kovacic continues to serve sary

Michael Skube,

in

brought him to North Carolina in 1994, when in April of that year he was installed as the third shepherd of the Diocese of Charlotte. Bishop Curlin

celebrates

Dr.

MACS superintendent.

40

area in southern Maryland. His ministry

Also shown are

Oblates of St. Francis de Sales Father

John Murphy

for

5.

in Huntersville.

ticed his priestly ministry in parishes

women.

In December 1988, Father Curlin was ordained as auxiliary bishop of

exercises June

superintendent of schools, and Dr. Charles LeBlanc,

tor of St.

He

Benedict the

ston-Salem, and

Holy Trinity Catholic Middle School student Kristin Geppert is presented a diploma from Father Mauricio West. The school's eighthgrade graduation exercises took place June 3 at St. Matthew Church

currently serves as pas-

its

Moor Church, WinGood Shep-

mission,

herd Church, King.

Jesuit Father Francis Gillespie celebrates 25 years as a priest this year. He received his master's of divinity from Woodstock Jesuit College in 1972 as well, and his ministry has included pastoral and educational work in several Latin American countries. In the U.S., he continued as an educator, researcher and administrator before coming to North Carolina in 1993.

He has served as pastor of Our Lady of

Assumption in Charlotte since 1994.

The second of the silver jubilarians is Father Carlo Tarasi. He was ordained in May 1972 for service in the Missionary Society of the Holy Apostles in Cromwell, Conn. He was later incardinated into the Diocese of Charlotte. He has served sevthe

in

Photos by Mike Krokos

Charlotte.

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"A valid Will stands as

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continuing expression of our concern for loved ones, as well as an ongoing commit-

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

In Yours.

Bishop William G. Curlin

eral Catholic congregations in western

North Carolina as pastor of St. Dorothy Church, Lincolnton; and Our Lady of the Annunciation, Albemarle.

Also among those to be honored at the June 25 liturgy is Father Conrad Kimbrough, administrator of Holy Spirit Church in Denver, N.C, who is retiring this year from active service. A former Episcopalian, this convert to the Catholic

was ordained by Bishop Michael J. Begley of Charlotte in February 1978. In addition to his work in Denver, he has served as pastor of churches in Lenoir, Lincolnton, Hendersonville and Greensboro.

faith

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

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June 13, 1997

Pope John Paul II

the lost sheep:

Pope Stresses Evangelization In World Mission Sunday Message

For homeless teens and lonely old people, For

who have lost hope or search for meaning, That God might send us gentle shepherds in the those

model

We

ot

His Son;

pray to the

VATICAN CITY (CNS)

LORD.

gelize

The Diocese of Charlotte Respect

— The approach of

the

year 2000 highlights the duty of every Christian to evanLife Office

among

World Mission Sunday message. While not all Christians are called to work II

said in a

in missionary territories,

each can and should effec-

tively evangelize in their daily lives, the

said.

The

was released May 28 at the Vatican. World MisSunday this year is celebrated on Oct. 19 in most

text

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pope

sion

dioceses.

Bishop William G. Curlin

will

take part in the following events:

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—

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portrait of Mary and the baby Jesus gazed down Pope John Paul II and Poland's former president, Lech Walesa, knelt together in prayer.

They were praying in front of a bejeweled icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa, also known as the Black Madonna, and the pope later addressed his remarks to Mary.

The Pauline monks who live at the Jasna Gora monastery said Walesa used to pray there often when he was in office.

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Confirmation

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June 22

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—

11

a.m.

Confirmation/Blessing of

Charlotte

Faith Formation

June 15 Mass

— 11 a.m.

Building

St.

— 11 a.m.

Christian attitude has been a great act of love for her."

Mass

Meeting

June 24

— 5 p.m.

Confirmation St.

June 18

— 7 p.m

Confirmation

Immaculate Heart of

June 25

Mary Church,

Jubilee celebration of

Hayesville

priestly ordination

&

recognition of those

June 21

— 11a.m.

retiring from active

Principal Celebrant

service

Mercy

St. Patrick

Sisters Jubilee

Christian tradition."

fer."

— 6:30 p.m.

This time, he came as something approaching a private citizen. With his wife Danuta and their 12-yearold daughter Brygida, he sat in the back of the sanctuary, intently reading a prayer book. On the lapel of his

Walesa wore a pin bearing

image of

dark blue

suit,

the Black

Madonna and the logo of Solidarity,

ish trade union

Newton

braced Walesa's daughter and greeted her mother before moving toward the ebony altar housing the portrait.

As the pope and others in the sanctuary knelt, a fanfare sounded from the back of the chapel, and the curtain covering the Black Madonna was raised slowly.

Gem by gem, the glittering portrait came into view.

When the curtain reached the eyes of the images of Mary and Jesus, there was only silence.

The pope hunched over the prie-dieu, his head bare.

After a few minutes of silent prayer, he spoke.

Pope John Paul's message was addressed to Our Lady of Czestochowa, whom he had made protector of his homeland. He prayed first in the name of all people, in particular the young, and implored Mary to encourage his compatriots in "the wise use of regained freedom, in the spirit of what is most beautiful in our

The monks started to sing, and some applauded.

Pope John Paul made his way down the aisle, sharing

1

Charlotte

Joseph Church,

him warmly, claspThe pope em-

ing his hand.

ary to the door.

June 23

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CSS Board

He reached Walesa and greeted

along the sides of a red carpet leading from the sanctu-

Consolation Church,

June 17

Au-

John the Baptist Church, Tryon

of Assisi

Church, Franklin

Charlotte

in

common good prevail over and divisions," he said. "May, all who exercise public service see in you the humble handmaid of the Lord; may they learn to serve and to recognize the needs of their fellow countrymen, as you did at Cana in Galilee, so that Poland may become a nation in which love, truth, justice and peace reign."

Afterward, in a greeting to hundreds of thousands of pilgrims outside the monastery, the pope said that kneeling before that famous icon, Poles had long "found the strength to remain faithful to the Church, when she was persecuted, when she had to keep silent and suf-

St. Francis

Our Lady of

World Youth Day

gust 1991.

the millions of non-Christians in the

world, Pope John Paul

704.331.1720

for

the

the Pol-

he headed.

A curtain of sculpted silver and gold covered the Black Madonna.

About 150 Pauline monks and priests stood in lines

"May

desire for the

selfishness

"We

always said

He urged

small gestures of affection and stopping to talk with a

few of the older men.

As a student, he used

faithfully.

chapel.

sanctifies,"

to make pilgrimages to this As Father Karol Wojtyla, and later as bishop and cardinal, he led processions here. His last visit was

at

'yes' to the

his listeners to follow

Church, and

this

Church teachings

"For it is Christ who speaks, who forgives and who he said. "A 'no' said to the Church would the same time be a 'no' said to Christ."

Cathedral,

Charlotte

Mass

Letters

Sacred Heart Convent,

Belmont

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is

issue of This

"How Pope

Rock magazine

fea-

Pius XII protected the

Jews," by James Akin. It recounted the many examples of aid that Pope Pius XII quietly gave the Jews.

For starters, the article quoted the book Three Popes and the Jews by Pine has Lapide. It said the final number of Jewish lives in whose rescue the Catholic Church had been instrumental is close to 860,000.

To

set the record straight,

why

not print salient

excerpts from the above article?

See.

Secretary: Cindy Geppert

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June 13, 1997

Light

One Candle

Father Thomas

Keeping The Fire Alive There is a much-photographed statue of Prometheus at Rockefeller Center that I often walk past. The other day I stopped to recall the Greek myth. Prometheus, one of the Titans, gave humanity the gift of fire. This gift, according to the legend, angered the gods because fire gave humankind a new existence. The gods believed it was too powerful for mere mortals, raising them above other creatures, drawing them close to the divine life.

In the Judeo-Christian experience,

we have no angry gods, but the One True God who has given us a share in His Dicomes to each of us through the fire of compassion. What else but God's compassion for His people sent Jesus to live and die and live again vine Life. This gift

It is

a gift that

is

and your own safety, and do what you can to help. An act of compassion involves our humanity at the highest level of caring. It is a blessed selflessness and it can even reach heroic levels.

But it is possible, I think, that our innate capacity for compassion can become numbed in a time that stresses immediate personal gratification, and anesthetized in a world whose daily horrors overwhelm us and isolate us into a state of inaction. "There is so much need, what can I do?"

constantly avail-

an immediate participation in the suffering, the being of another to such a degree that you forget yourself is

McSweeney

peers and culture, those fac-

celebrity

ing serious illness, raising

and loneliness. You have to pay attention to

friend told her: "I rather think

see that these neighbors,

chose to be poor, they did so to arouse our compassion." "Well, if that's the way you see it," and back she went to a life of comfort and coldthat if they

family members, friends

and strangers need your compassion.

Compassion, you see, is not about self. It's about value seeing the value,

—

the share in the divine life that

is

in an-

Vicious, mindless terrorists blow apart

what needs to be done.

But sometimes, between the awareness and the response, a veil may be drawn. Some hearts even turn to ice, the

chil-

Then

there are the people right

The elderly house-bound person, someone in mental and emotional crises, a young person pressured by around

us:

Her

loss

down a life for another. We already know

dren.

there.

just

a family, paying debts, or

businesses in a brief convulsive spasm. buildings and people. War, disease and

who was

response was, "Well, you know, they have chosen to be poor in this lifetime." My

We are constantly bombarded in the media with obvious and not so obvious calamities: Earthquakes and hurricanes, flood and fire destroy lives, homes and

able for us to share with one another.

Compassion

J.

and responding to it at the most basic level. So you and I offer a shoulder to cry on, a hand with chores, our prayers, our time or our money. Occasionally one of us heroically even lays

famine torment men, women, and

to save us for eternity?

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other,

ness.

Most of us try harder than that even though we get tired and apathetic. Still, I wonder, why do we forget that none of us can handle God's gift of fire without being ourselves warmed and illuminated?

For a free copy of the Christopher Note, "Live the Golden Rule,

News

write to The Christophers, 12 East 48th

A

New

Street,

York,

NY.

Father Thomas

vanquished.

fire

mine who had gone to Peru was struck with the poverty and friend of

beauty of the children.

He spoke

J.

10017.

McSweeney

is di-

rector of the Christophers.

with a

Question Corner Father John Dietzen

Who

Doesn't Get To Heaven?

Q. My dad is an agnostic and my mother is Southern Baptist. I became a Catholic a few years ago.

Recently, my wife and I took my

they do not reflect the belief of the Catho-

mother with us to Mass, then went with her to her Baptist service. After detailing the beauty of the golden streets of heaven, the pastor there said: "Some things you won't see in heaven. You won 't see Adolph Hitler.... You won 't see Jeffrey Dahmer.

deliberately

We

took offense to that. Who is anyone to tell us who is in heaven and who is

not? What

is

the Catholic Church's

position on heaven,

who goes

there

and

who doesn 't?

he had never been born' (Mt 26:24) his words do not

Christian denominations.

or Judas. But the secrets of

allude for certain to eternal

The church teaches, and always has, that human beings have it in their power

their hearts are

hidden from us, nor can we have a clue about what the powerful grace of Christ might have accomplished in their final moments and hours.

damnation" (p. 186).

Again, we simply do not know.

Church

selves

nor,

I

think, of

to turn

themreject

and completely

radical selfishness rates

most other

away from God. They can

his invitation to friendship

which

and

life

by a

definitely sepa-

them from other people and from

God. Thus, hell is theoretically possible any of us if we end our lives totally closed off from goodness, from God. The question is whether any human being has ever ended life on earth in this condition. We do not know; nor can any for

human A. I'm not sure how that pastor's remarks square with Baptist teaching, but

among them perhaps Dahmer

Hitler or Stalin or

lic

knowledge tell us.

Certain men and women are seen from our perspective to be good candiinsights or

dates,

if

Q. Is it permissible for a Catholic to be buried in a

Pope John Paul II movingly speaks of this mystery in his book "Crossing the Threshold of Hope."

"Can God, who loves man so much," he asks, "permit the

man who

rejects

non-denominational cemetery? The one I speak of has a separate section for members of the Jewish faith.

Other

him

be condemned to eternal torment?

"The silence of the church is, therefore, the only appropriate position for to

mingle people of all faiths.

sites

may a non-Catholic spouse be

Also,

buried with her in a Catholic cemetery? know it is done, but there seem to be

I

where

restrictions

I live.

Christian faith.

"Even when Jesus says of Judas, the would be better for that man

See Dietzen, page

traitor, 'It

Spirituality

1

Today

Father John Catoir

Now 65, 1 will not live to see the cri-

Vocation Problem or

Management Problem?

"One out of 20

parishes in our coun-

By

2000 the already relatively small number of priests will be reduced 40 percent. It's

try is

without a priest.

the year

worse elsewhere. More than 65 percent of the church worldwide does not have ordained priests.

"At

least currently

we have one

priest for every 1,000 Catholics, but in

the Third

World

there

is

one

"Vatican statistics show that of 368,000 parishes in the world, 157,000 have no resident priest.... Since 1966 the number of seminarians in the United

by four-fifths" (Father Bausch, "The Hands-On Par-

States has fallen J.

many

ish").

Looking at those statistics I am not sure whether we have a vocation problem or a management problem.

of

whom

are over 50.

What's more,

priest for

every 40,000 Catholics.

William

looming in the future, but I am concerned about the well-being of our younger priests.

In 1988 the bishops' Committee on Priestly Life and Ministry issued a report that said many of the 53,000 priests in the country are "overworked, lonely and sexually troubled." We are now down to approximately 50,000 priests, sis

I

all over the counhave seen places where new priests are given two parishes to pastor, some with a mission church thrown in for good measure.

I wonder what the burnout rate will be if this pattern continues. More than 15,000 priests actually left the active ministry in recent years, and more will

give retreats to priests try,

and

I

surely follow.

who see all this,

but they are afraid to commit.

Can anyone blame No one wants to fail

Life Since Vatican

in his or her vocation.

of today's parishes are served by a cadre of dedicated lay staff members and volunteers. Without them, the priests could

Vo-

cation directors are being

asked to perform miracles.

Some worry, this

say, is

"Not

to

not function. We are most them for their invaluable help,

the age of the

However there are mixed reviews stimulating an expansion of lay

leadership, Vatican

grateful to

but more

on lay involvement.

"By

II

rejected a pattern

is

needed.

The problem is too immense to place the blame on any one group. Many abused by the system, and if anyone in authority is re-

of 'clericalism' in the church.... But as

priests feel

clericalism fades, a new problem the clericalism of the creemerges dentialed laity and lay cliques which may exercise the same kind of centralized power associated with the old-fashioned pastor. In one Southeastern parish, a

they wonder

—

handful of couples 'the clique'"

is

actually

II").

Many

them?

laity."

priests today are be-

ing asked to double up on their jobs.

and Jim Castelli, "The Emerging Parish: The Notre Dame Study of Catholic

There are potential seminarians

known

as

(Msgr. Joseph Gremillion

ally

paying attention to their needs. Pre-

cious

little

seems

to result

from the ex-

pensive surveys they commission about priests.

I

all

wonder what Jesus would say about

this?

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Founder to Speak At Evening Of Recollection Ministry

CHARLOTTE — The founder of a ministry promoting the sacramental will focus primarily

during a

Lukas

will address the Charlotte con-

She

will then invite

any individuals wish-

ing to do so to meet with one of the

Gabriel

extension, the pious union

and proceed to her for a greeting and prayer. The events begin at 6:30 p.m. and are detailed in the Diocesan News Briefs (p. 14) under the "Evening of Recollec-

called Missionaries for the Eucharistic

tion" headline. All are invited to attend.

Church on June

priests in attendance for a blessing

19.

Mary

Ellen Lukas, a resident of Hazelton, Penn., is the founder of Our Father's

Work ministry and is the

ration for

its

to

inspi-

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The following are home videocassette reviews from and Broadcasting. Each videocassette is available on WHS format.

Theatrical movies on video have a U.S. Catholic Conference classification and Motion Picture Association of America rating. All reviews indicate the appropriate age group for the video audience. the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Film

Documentary

From

Effort Shifts

Recording Poverty To Ending

It

in Newark, which was co-founded

by Msgr. William Linder, pastor of St. Rose of Lima Parish there, and has housing, child care, and re-

neighborhood. more important," Msgr. Linder says. As a result, he adds, "you'll do things you wouldn't ordinarily do to make it work. And you stick with it tail interests in its

"The people

are

longer."

Wolf, in a telephone interview with Catholic

News

Service, said

poverty has been a recurrent theme in her adult career,

her

beginning with

job after college working the poor in Puerto Rico.

first

among

wanting

"I started off

to

do

children and families in poverty"

CNS

photo by

KQED

A young cities.

girl helps keep her neighborhood a documentary on revitalizing inner "Block by Block," by filmmaker Ginger

Wolf,

is

clean

TV

documentary six years ago, Wolf said. But she started hearing good things about community development corporations.

"Five years ago, it was not anywhere near the (visibility) it has now," she added.

"I changed my focus and

for a

in

airing

on

PBS

thought, 'Jeez, this

is

a wonderful

story.'"

affiliates.

Wolf chose her seven cities show that the face of poverty

By

MARK PATTISON

WASHINGTON

(CNS)

— Any

to

documentarian can do a television show about poverty, but Ginger Wolf did a documentary on people rising

nese residents of San Francisco, and His-

out of poverty.

loved "the passion in

"Block by Block," Wolfs hourlong program on the successes of urban neighborhoods, zeroes in on churches as being a mainstay in neighborhoods where other institutions have pulled out.

It has aired on public television in about 20 cities by her estimation.

But people in most of the seven big cities featured in her documentary have yet to see it.

Wolf traveled to New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Baltimore and Newark,

would

New York

and Los Angeles.

Wolf said, she (whom) I met. I

In the taping process, all

just get wired, rejuvenating

woman (Emily Watson) comes to believe God will cure her paralyzed husband

wealthy family. Director Frank Capra's last movie is an embarrassingly sentimental remake of his 1933 "Lady for a Day" and, despite the fine cast, seems little but silly. The U.S.

Provocative but uneven drama set in Scotland, where a mentally confused

(Stellan Skarsgard) if she has sex with

Catholic Conference classification

other men, a morally bizarre concept

A-II

leading to dangerous situations and a

rated by the

seemingly miraculous outcome. Danish writer-director Lars Von Trier's contrived yet absorbing narrative centers in the emotional saga of a simple-minded, deeply religious heroine who goes over the edge trying to save her husband by

tion of

ambiguous results. Restrained sex scenes and sexual references, brief nudity and occasional rough language and profanity. The U.S.

a single

sacrificing herself, with

from

stories."

There were more stories than could into an hour-long show. In four of the seven cities profiled, Wolf will also direct a local follow-up program with mayors, major players in the process community groups and funding organifit

—

is

Not

adults and adolescents.

Motion Picture Associa-

America.

"Zeus and Roxanne" (1997)

A dog and a dolphin form an unlikely friendship while the dog's wid-

owed owner

(Steve Guttenberg) and

mom

(Kathleen Quinlan) be a scientist studying the dolphin are nudged towards love and marriage by their enterpris-

who happens

to

Catholic Conference classification

ing children. Director George Miller

IV

accentuates the postcard-pretty Car-

—

adults, with reservations.

tion Picture

ing

is

R

—

restricted.

ibbean setting, but the romance

is

highly contrived and the cuteness of the animals relentlessly stressed.

"A Pocketful of Miracles" (1961) Colorful Damon Runyon story about how a band of Manhattan hoods and (headed by Glenn Ford) turn poor old Apple Annie (Bette Davis) into a socialite so her daughter can marry into a grifters

Trial

Brief intense menace. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-II adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of

—

America

rating

PG

is

— parental

guidance suggested.

-

And Error

Richards Pleads His Case With Courtroom Antics

meeting all those charismatic, dedicated people, and trying to tell each one of their

be

is AThe MoAssociation of America rat-

—

is

"not just African-Americans on the East Coast." Also featured are Appalachian whites lured by the promise of a better life in Indianapolis, Chipanics in

"Breaking the Waves" (1996)

NEW YORK

(CNS)

— An actor

Tuttle tumbles into

bed with a dreamy

impersonates a lawyer in the phony courtroom comedy, "Trial and Error"

waitress (Charlize Theron) who's opened his eyes to the wonders of the

(New

Nevada landscape.

Line).

Days before he's to wed the boss's daughter, ambitious Los Angeles attor-

ever, prove as

ney Charles Tuttle (Jeff Daniels)

as shallow as the plot.

to

Nevada to get a continuance

is

sent

These charmless characters, howbogus as the trial and Directed by Jonathan Lynn from

by Sara Bernstein and Gre-

in a fraud

case against a distant relative of his fu-

the script

goal was to do them in lots of over the country. They've become big projects," Wolf said. And at a cost of $65,000- $75,000 each, "funding has

ture in-laws.

gory Bernstein, the result is a slickly packaged, slightly soiled comic mis-

nity

development corporations to rid neighborhoods of poverty and other

become a major issue."

Her next projects include

morning Tuttle

ills.

promotional video for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington, and a fund- raising video for the Knights of Malta and their efforts to institute a capital campaign for the Holy Family Childhood Hospital in Bethlehem.

But after those are completed, "I think I would like to do another video on neighborhood economic development,"

Feeling responsible, the well-meaning but dim Rietti passes himself off as Tuttle but can't stop the judge (Austin

Wolf

artist client

N.J., to record the efforts of

commu-

As Father Charles Dahm, of

St.

Pius

X Parish

in

pastor

Los Angeles

and a key participant in the Pilsen Resurrection Development Corp., says in the special, "The challenge is

to build a healthy

move

community, not

into one."

Narrated by celebrated actor James Earl Jones, "Block by Block" was funded in part by the Catholic Communication Campaign.

Among programs profiled in the

show

is

the

New Community

Corp.

zations.

"My

cities

finishing a

said.

"I think there are

some

exciting

things on neighborhood entrepreneurship,

and how

that is playing out."

Tuttle' s best friend,

would-be actor

Richard Rietti (Michael Richards), meets him there for a bachelor's party and by

fire.

make it into

ous,

is

too

stiff to

the courtroom.

problem is the laboriheavy-handed treatment given to

Part of the

such lightweight material.

The chief drawback, however, is none of the characters are sympathetic

enough

to root for either in the trial

the case drags on with the

proceedings or the romantic posturing outside the courtroom.

There's nothing heart-warming

trying to coach the

about these empty stock figures and

Pendleton) from starting the trial.

And a trial it is for the audience as

fuming Tuttle bumbling Rietti as

the prosecutor (Jessica Steen) presents

their silly antics.

Because of sexual situations and

the evidence against their grimacing con-

Though

occasional profanity, the U.S. Catho-

(Rip Torn). there are a

few comic mo-

ments, the predictable proceedings lack

grow increasingly tiresome.

Even worse is the contrived romance which develops outside the courtroom as

wit and

Rietti falls for the shapely prosecutor

and

lic

—

Conference classification

ciation

is

A-III

The Motion Picture Assoof America rating is PG- 1 3

adults.

—

parents are strongly cautioned that some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

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&

June

Herald

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1997

13,

ol statue ol Isaiah

Reading Isaiah with new eyes By

Dr.

Eugene News

Catholic

only of ourselves but of all suffering huJ.

Fisher

Service

f you were asked to choose five books of the Hebrew Bible that were most important for the spiritual and liturgical life of the church, which would you choose?

Most Catholics would start with Genesis and Exodus, which give us our basic notions of the meaning of human life, of creation and what it

manity.

Isaiah helps us to see that our suffering, like Jesus' and the Suffering Servant's, is only a way station on the way to the Promised Land.

some-

thing that the Jews have always known. There is more than one way to read the Suffering Servant texts.

The texts can refer to an individual Messiah. Much of Jewish and Christian tradition understood this.

—The texts can refer to the people

—

that our suffering, like

ries.

Jesus' and the Suffering

way on the way to

Servant's, is only a

—By extension, therefore, the texts can — Christians — refer to the for

church.

Are such

differing interpretations

compatible? faces" of their

Medieval Christianity in much the to

What

be "people of God." next? Responses may

differ.

I

would point

to Isaiah

and

Jeremiah. These two are often relied upon by the New Testament authors. St. Paul derived his notion of a "new covenant" from Jeremiah, and the book remains essential to the liturgy of the Catholic Church to this day.

So, too, Isaiah.

ceive of

con-

Advent or Lent without the

theologically pregnant texts than Isaiah's Suffering Servant passages.

To us Christians, Isaiah speaks of

and death. Isaiah gives

to those events within the

framework of biblical

Israel's history.

How could the one we proclaim as the Messiah, the vindicator of Israel, suffer the humiliation of ignominious crucifixion at the hands of a merely human and transitory empire such as ancient Rome? We read what God says to us through the prophet: "Here is my servant whom I uphold,

my

whom I am well whom I have put my

chosen one in

pleased, spirit;

upon

he shall bring forth justice to the

nations"

filled

by Jesus, also speaks of the

would argue that

in such debates, certainly the Christians were deprived of the rich heritage lost,

of Jewish reflection on the sacred texts, but also Jews who might have profited

from Christian reflection as well.

The sacred texts have remained sacred to generations of Christians and Jews precisely because they touch multiple, ever deeper levels of human and spiritual realities.

As one working

full

time in the

of Catholic-Jewish relations,

I

field

believe

—

that today Jews and Christians who alone in all the world hold to the sacredness of the Hebrew Bible need each other to provide the necessary dialogue

—

for full

understanding of it.

and

these are the words of the living God."

cal text's "inexhaustible riches."

There is a wonderful rabbinic story in which Moses comes back after centua debate among the rabhe is confused because he cannot understand the Talmudic reasoning. Then one of the rabbis cites a

ries to witness

At

first

(Is 42:1-4).

Over the centuries, Christians have taken comfort in the hope offered in Isaiah that Christ's death was not the end, but only the beginning of a story leading to the ultimate vindication not

Logical rules are applied. The issue goes back and forth.

At one point, the "bat kol" (voice of God) intervenes to settle the argument in favor of one side. But both sides protest: The Law has been given to humanity, they argue, and the debate contin-

passage

(Dr. Fisher is associate director, Sec-

retariat for

Ecumenical and

Interreli-

gious Affairs, National Conference of Catholic Bishops.)

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

bibli-

biblical text,

For Christians, there are no more

meaning

of the Isaiah texts as prophecies ful-

and Moses is comforted.

But the debate goes on. Passage after

writings of these prophets.

Jesus' suffering

of "multiple levels" of

meaning, from the literal to the mystical, different but not contradictory.

And the Catechism of the Catholic Church, while stressing the importance

bis.

One cannot

I

both sides

sacred texts.

same way spoke

means

tory."

For, as the rabbis say: "These

Jews speak of the "70

the Promised Land."

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staged affairs in which Christians imposed unfair rules on the Jewish participants to ensure a Christian "vic-

who Biblical scholarship tells us

of Israel, who suffer defeat, exile, rebirth and vindication over the centu-

"Isaiah helps us to see

station

All

is cited.

ues!

Finally, the "bat kol" intervenes again, declaring (in defeat?): "These and these are the words of the living God." Both sides, God declares, are right.

God's word is not a "dead letter," but a living reality for each successive generation of God's people. So, too, with the depth of riches of the Suffering Servant texts.

In the late Middle Ages, Jews and Christians held formal disputations to argue over whether the prophecies of Isaiah and other Hebrew biblical prophetic texts referred to Christ or to the

Jewish people.

Usually, and sadly, these were

Is poetry the language of God's kingdom? Maybe so, which may explain why the prophet Isaiah will never go out of style.

Isaiah helps us put the

—

kingdom of God into words and it's poetic. In a Mass reading for Sunday Sept. 7, Isaiah will be heard

to say:

"(God) comes to save you. Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of the deaf be cleared; then will the lame leap like a stag, then the tongue of the dumb will sing" (35:4-7).

Isaiah wants people to know also that "the Lord of hosts ... will destroy death forever" (25:6-8;

Dec. 3 Mass).

Isaiah gives us so many words we use to speak of the Messiah, such as these words Catholics

keep for Christmas:

"How

beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings glad tidings, announcing peace,

bearing good news, announcing salvation" (52:7; Christmas Mass).

Then there is the theme of hope. Irresistibly, the prophet assures us that we'll "soar as with eagles' wings" if we "hope in the Lord" (40:31; Dec. 10 Mass).

For Isaiah, peace is possible a time when "one nation shall not raise the sword against another"

—

The Old Testament authors saw God's hand at work in the events of their history

— salvation history.

(2:4-5; Dec. 5 Mass); rather, "the wolf shall be a guest of the lamb"

(11:6-7; Dec. at

The Hebrew Scriptures still put faith into words for Christians. They reveal God's presence in our world, for example; they interpret the meaning of suffering and are filled with the promise of hope.

2 Mass).

No wonder the

church

home with

Hebrew

this

feels so

prophet.

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Faith Alive!

June

13,

& Herald 9

The Catholic News

1997

In the footsteps of Moses

By Father David K. O'Rourke, Catholic News Service

tions

we experience when things

fall

— they cried out to God. What happened? There was a miracle — the miracle of the manna.

OP

apart

T

find the history of Moses and of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt greatly appealing. Let me explain why by telling a story.

Last Sunday I was working in the kitchen at our parish, where we serve dinner twice a month to the hungry. We had a big crowd

Something nourishing

fell from the sky early in the morning, and this happened each day until the people

cause they were hungry.

What a wonderful image this gives us of what God does, as well as of what the church does: feeding the hungry; providing people with the most basic necessities when hope is running out.

This image has been translated

— as God had Moses do the desert — in

and they will take you up on your

come

I

all have wondered aloud.

in

of home.

— There

is the hunger for fairness and decency and security in our families and our lives.

Again, we and our church believe we should take stands on the side of justice and decency.

The dinner our parish served that

we

their diversity.

"What do they

offer."

times and have longed for the wel-

both agreed was needed, I looked out into the hall. I was struck again by how many were out there and by

mon?"

remembering that we, like wanderers at

people

think it needs something."

As I strained to paddle the handgarlic

us,

have been

"You offer to feed hungry

I

powder and

—

There is the hunger for a community to belong to.

Today in our churches we try to open our doors to the strangers too,

—

fuls of chili

able.

among

around 250 men and women of all ages and descriptions, along with some children.

The parishioner working at our big, black stove was a curmudgeon of an old friend named Pete, with a temperament as spicy as the chili he was stirring.

After stopping to rest from the sheer effort of maneuvering the twohanded paddle through 20 gallons of thick chili, he told me to "git out there in the hall and git me a count, and then come back here and taste this.

toward freedom and integrity, so all of us try to make our church communities places where God's purpose and guidance are clear and avail-

com-

afternoon included fresh salad, chili

beans with

"They're hungry," Pete said.

That tells it all: why they were there and why we were there.

It also brings us back to the biblical Book of Exodus. For, in Exodus, as Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt through the desert to the Promised Land, they ran out of food.

In desperation, and anger, and the same emohope, and terror

—

serts.

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got back on their feet again.

What did God do for them

into

when

they were hungry?

God

didn't give

them thunder, or

rainbows, or rose petals.

What hap-

pened was much more down to earth: God gave them something to eat be-

many

photo by

J.

Michael Fitzgerald

different kinds of care be-

cause all around us we have people who experience hungers of different

but

rice and all sorts of desTwenty gallons is a lot of chili,

it all

disappeared.

You offer to feed hungry people as God had Moses do in the desert and they

will take

— —

you up on your

offer.

kinds.

—

There is the hunger for purpose and direction in life.

Just as Moses led the Israelites

(Father O'Rourke

is in

residence at

Mary Magdalen Church in Berkeley, Calif., and a free-lance writer.)

St.

Discovering the salvation in our history

—

By Father John J. Castelot Catholic News Service

TA

he world's bishops at Vatican

Council

down some

basic prinOne basic principle is to bear in mind that not all the Bible's books are to be read on the II laid

ciples for reading the Bible.

same level.

The bishops

referred, for instance, to "various types of historical writing," recognizing that not everything

that looks like history is history.

For example, the indication that the universe was created in just six days is not as reliable as the fact that the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem and dragged the people into exile.

Professional historians are the first to admit that their enterprise is not an exact science. "History" has been defined as "the remembered past,"

and much depends on who remembered what and why they recorded it.

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contents copyright

©1997

by

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Of course, the more remote the events are, the more difficult it is to recover

from slavery in Egypt. Without it their whole subsequent history is sim-

them.

C.H. Dodd, a noted historian, de-

ply unintelligible.

scribed history as "event plus meaning." History is not just a flat record of events, but an interpretation too.

The fact that biblical history in-

volves an interpretation does not make it any less reliable. A good historian looks for patterns in past events.

Biblical authors discerned patterns in God's dealings with people. The fact that an ancient people saw God's hand at work is already an interpretation on their part an interpretation based on their faith in God as Lord of

In fact, this event was so impressive a sign of God's power and saving love that the account developed into a religious epic with embellishments of all kinds:

— The 10 plagues.

— The parting of the Red Sea. — Manna raining down from

heaven.

FAITH

IN

—Water from the rock.

All these details have some basis in fact, but as recorded are not literally factual.

The exodus itself is solidly factual; the details of the description serve to interpret it as one of epic

import: "event plus meaning."

(Father Castelot is a Scripture scholar, author, teacher and lecturer.)

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—

history.

With the insight of faith they saw God leading the people in stages toward attaining a divine purpose. This process is called "salvation history."

Accordingly, the bishops at Vatican II wrote that "the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the sacred Scriptures."

The key phrase here is "for the sake of our salvation." A knowledge of specific details is not necessarily conducive to salvation, and the record of such details is not guaranteed to be

"without error."

The central event of the Israelite people's history was their liberation

What Old Testament book strongly? Why?

or message draws you

Nothing can separate us from the love of God. It reminds me that upon God, that he's always there for us and that his love is unconditional."

Patricia Ducharme, Glendale, R.I. "Isaiah:

we can

rely

—

"Psalm 91, where you're praising God with songs and tambourines. the sense of joy that draws me."

Dolores Tate, Mobile, Ala.

—

It's

"The story of Esther because she is a strong, intelligent woman, and the shows a relationship between a man and woman where they are more partners in the true sense of the word."

Cynthia Beckes, Cleveland, Ohio story

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News

s

& Herald

June 13, 1997

People In The News Poll

Says Many Romans Have

Low

Cardinal

Religious Interest

ROME (CNS) — A poll on religious residents

Irishman

—

sue of Sociological Studies, a journal of

Mother Teresa At Capitol Washington Cardinal James Hickey leads applause as Mother Teresa accepts the Congressional Gold Medal in a June 6 ceremony at the Capitol. Rep. Jon Christensen, R-Neb., is on

the Catholic University of the Sacred

the

in their faith.

The

results,

published in late May,

were greeted with skepticism by some church experts.

The study was conducted in 1995 and the results interpreted in a recent is-

five markers of religiousfrom "none" to "high."

The study found 19.1 percent of Romans responding showed no interest

high as the national

showed

interest in religious matters,

it

said.

Rome residents indicating a medium interest in religious faith

made up 35

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photo by Bob Roller

percent of the sample, while 13.9 percent

the

fell into

"medium-high" range

New Labor

personal attitudes and behavior, Roberto

Secretary Praises Anti-Sweatshop Initiatives (CNS) U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman said she looks forward to working closely with Newark Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick and other religious leaders nationwide to eliminate garment industry sweatshops. Archbishop McCarrick, who chairs the U.S. bishops' Committee on

Cipriani, a professor of sociology at

International Policy,

Rome III University,

time for back-to-school he will launch an 'anti-sweatshop' classroom instruction effort for every one of the 188 elernentary and high schools in the archdiocese," Herman said May 30 at Marymount University in Arlington.

and 10.6 percent

The

"high" category.

results indicate that only

Romans

four

in the

one

in

follows religious affairs

closely, particularly in regard to their

wrote in an

article.

Another sociologist, Sister Enrica Rosanna, challenged the interpretation, however.

"To speak of Rome as an atheistic city is nonsense," she told the Italian

newspaper Avvenire. She said religious attitudes were too complex to be reduced to simple categories.

Sister

Rosanna,

Rome pontifical

who

teaches at a

institute specializing in

ARLINGTON,

—

Va.

is

creating a "no sweat" archdiocese. "In September

—

—

just in

No

Constitutional Right, Says Justice Scalia

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (CNS)

— Neither abortion nor

the right to die are guaran-

some jurists to create constitutional rights where none previously existed, said U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin J. Scalia. Scalia, speaking to almost 500 members and guests of the Justinian Law Society in Providence in late May, said that those rights were never addressed by the original framers of the Constitution and should never have become rights through teed by the U.S. Constitution, despite efforts by

the court system.

measure the vitality of the Church in Rome, which she said was high, but rather the general attitudes of the whole population. She said the results reflected some typical and sometimes ambivalent attitudes on religion in modern society.

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a "victim of official amnesia,"

said Cardinal Cahal B. Daly, retired arch-

bishop of Armagh, Northern Ireland.

Speaking

Rome

in late

O'Connell,

at the Irish

May,

College

in

the cardinal said

who died 150 years ago May

European and world figure." said that the study of O'Connell

and his pioneering use of nonviolent demonstrations were vital to understanding modern Ireland and to resolving the present problems of Northern Ireland.

"He seems to be one of today' s many victims of official amnesia, whereby whole periods and events of national history are deleted from the record because they do not fit into the secular image which 'public and official Ireland' seeks to give itself and to project to the world at this time," Cardinal Daly said.

"O'Connell did not see his struggle for civil and political rights for Catholics in sectarian terms. He saw Irish Protestants as potential allies rather than en-

emies," the cardinal said.

This year the Irish Republic celebrates the 75th anniversary of the foun-

dation of the state, but

many Irish politi-

cians and businesses are ignoring O'Connell, who won the right for Cathothen British-ruled Ireland to hold high office.

A spokesman for one large business, the Dublin Corp., said that in 1991 the lics in the

Abortion

education, said the questionnaire did not

aim

fought anti-

He

matched with

little

become

great

ness, ranging

average. Another 21.4 percent

in the 19th century

Catholic laws in Ireland and Britain, has

was "not only one of the greatest Irishmen of modern times, but also a

The responses were then

in religion, twice as

who

15,

left.

Heart in Milan.

The poll involved a nationwide sample of 4,500 people who responded to a questionnaire about their religious attitudes.

'Official

ROME (CNS) — Daniel O'Connell,

40 percent of have little or no interest

attitudes in Italy said that

Rome

Denounces

Amnesia' Over Important

named

for the cause

of sainthood for Father Michael J. McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus.

Hartford Archbishop Daniel A. Cronin designated Dominican Father Gabriel B. O'Donnell as postulator and notified Supreme Knight Virgil C. Dechant, according to an announcement from the Knights.

The naming of a postulator

is

a pre-

liminary step toward canonization. Ac-

cording to canon law, the postulator has the authority to begin an investigation

of the candidate's writings, practice of heroic virtue and devotion to God.

Promoters of Father McGivney' cause sought permission from Archbishop Cronin because the priest lived and worked in what was the Diocese of Hartford. It will be the work of the archdiocesan investigation to study any

the intercession of the late priest.

Father McGivney was born in Waterbury, Conn., on Aug. 12, 1852.

He was ordained a priest on Dec. 22, 1877, and while serving at St. Mary's Parish in New Haven in 1882, he founded the Knights of Columbus. In 1884 he was named pastor of St. Thomas Parish in Thomaston. He died from tuberculosis at age 38 on Aug. 14, 1890.

His body is interred at St. Mary's in New Haven.

During the U.S. Catholic bishops June 19-21 meeting in Kansas City, Mo., Archbishop Cronin is to seek the approval of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops on the appropriate-

corporation held a major lecture marking the 150th anniversary of O'Connell' election as lord

poor.

His ideas were enthusiastically adopted in mainland Europe, particularly his notion that a person could be loyal to a nation and a practicing Roman Catholic.

"Surely the future in Northern Irelies with leaders who subscribe to

land

O'Connell' s principles of non-violence and non-sectarianism. The example and the message of Daniel O'Connell need to be recalled and need to be followed in the North at this time," Cardinal Daly said.

O'Connell was made a papal knight emancipation. He was traveling to Rome on a pilgrimage and to ask the Vatican for further famine relief when he died in Genoa, Italy. for his efforts in securing Catholic

At his

ness of initiating the priest's cause, ac-

cording to norms established by the Vatican Congregation for Sainthood Causes.

mayor of Dublin.

O'Connell is known in Irish folklore as "The Liberator" because of his work to defeat laws that barred Catholics from the judiciary, the senior civil service and public office in Britain and Ireland.

He was also known as "King of the Beggars" for the work he did for the

still

was cut out, Rome, where it

request, his heart

embalmed and taken

to

remains in an honored place in the

Irish College.

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HICKORY — On May

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members

Church and three Lutheran parishes Holy Trinity, Mount Olive and St. Andrews celebrated the three-year anniversary of a covenant signing. The ecumenical group, under the leadership of chairperson Vince Ferrati, took part in a May 21 meeting where an ecumenical prayer service was held, followed by study and fellowship. Shown

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The

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A Visit To Well

Dual Celebrations

Of Mercy Retreat

Quench

Facility Will

HAMPTONVILLE — A visit to the Well of Mercy, that is, may be just the thing to quench the thirst for spiritual healing and relieve the stresses of modern-day life.

Well of Mercy is a brand-new, 109-

purchased in December, 1991, with the blessing of the entire community of the Sisters of Mercy.

After years of hard work and dedication, the facility was ready for dedication on June 8, 1997. It includes two cot-

acre retreat facility located just an hour's

tages, a two-story central building

well, the

Mercy

drive from Charlotte.

Donna Marie

ited to five days.

unique

this

dedicated to providing psy-

facility, are

—

chological and spiritual growth opportunities for all

who go

with contemporary challenges and personal pain over the years. But Sisters

Donna and Brigid envisioned a more private place somewhere less clinical

—

and

right onto Troy Mill Rd.

to the well

woman

—

to

Go

1.1 miles,

onto Hunting Creek Rd. ( immediately after getting on gravel road). Go turn

quiet,

healing and, inspiring.

The

come

Directions from Charlotte: Take I77 North to exit 65 (Rt. 901 Harmony/ Union Grove).

Follow 901 South 1.5 miles, turn left onto Eagle Mills Rd. Go 3.3 miles, turn

Heart College campus, where counseling programs have helped thousands deal

that was, instead, nurturing

All are invited to

just like the Samaritan

drink in the Creator's unconditional love and acceptance.

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Diocesan News Briefs Charismatic Masses

— A charismatic

HIGH POINT Mass

is

celebrated the third Thursday

each month in the Maryfield Nursing Home chapel at 7:30 p.m.

CHARLOTTE A charismatic Mass celebrated by Bishop William G.

—

is July 13 at 4 p.m. at St. Patrick Cathedral. Healing prayer teams are available at 3 p.m. A potluck dinner fol-

Paul parish Vacation Bible School is June

Knights Present

23-27 for rising K-5 graders. Cost is $10.

Call Peggy Pohlheber, (704) 588-7311,

Check For $3,100 MT. AIRY

for details.

of

lows Mass

in the school cafeteria. Call

Josie, (704)

527-4676, for information.

Ultreya

CHARLOTTE

—

The south CharJune 22 in the St. Gabriel Parish Fellowship Hall from 1-3 p.m.

Potluck lunch and leaders' school are included. Child care is available. Call Teresa Sanctis, (704) 54 1 -6850, for details.

Vietnamese Ultreya is the third Saturday each month at 7 p.m. at St. Ann Church. Leaders' School is the second and fourth Friday each month at 7 p.m.

Ultreya is the fourth Saturday each month at 3 p.m. at Our Lady of Consolation Church. Leaders' School follows.

WINSTON-SALEM Ultreya is the fourth Saturday each month following 8 a.m. Mass at St. Leo Church.

Ultreya

lotte

is

—

— Morganton/

MORGANTON

Hickory area Ultreya is the fourth Tuesday each month at 7 p.m. at St. Charles Church. Leaders' School follows.

SALISBURY Ultreya for the Salisbury/Albemarle areas is the last Friday each month at 7:30 p.m. at Sacred Heart Church. Leaders' School follows.

—

School coordinaneeded at St. Patrick Cathedral.

Call Louise Bowers, (704) 334-2283.

GREENSBORO — The St. Paul the

Apostle Church Bible School

is June 1620 from 9 a.m.-noon each day. Call (910) 294-4696 for further details.

—

WINSTON-SALEM The Our Lady of Mercy parish Vacation Bible School is July 14-18 in the school from register or volunteer.

drive;

Parish Picnic

parish picnic

Commission presents "The More We Know," a session featuring representa-

is

and Jim Merison, cochairman of the drive.

June 29 at Harmon Field.

Volunteers are needed. Extra grills may also be needed. Call Dick Belthoff (864) 468-4265, for more information. ,

SPLUNGE SPLUNGE

in

Cincinnati

Uniquely Nourishing Growthful Experiences), an inner-city service experience for youth ages 15 and up, will take place in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 13-19. Previous participants may not attend. Space is limited to the first 25 applicants (five from any one parish). The cost is $160.

A $75 non-refundable deposit is due by June 30. For registration and information, call the Diocese of Charlotte's Office for Youth Ministry, (704) 523-21 18.

Mass Schedule Changes at

Our Lady

of Lourdes Church from June 1-Aug. 31 are as follows: Sat.: 5 p.m.; Sun.: 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m.; Spanish: 1 p.m.

from the Medicare and Social Security offices, from 7-9 p.m. on June 18.

Call (910) 294-4649 for further details.

Benedict the Moor,

and Charlotte attending the 30th anni-

pants.

versary

(Special People Living

MONROE — Masses

chartered for travelers from Statesville

MAGGIE VALLEY

Bible Seminar

Summer Bible Seminar is July 14-18 from 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at St. John Neumann Church. The topic is "Good News of Great Joy for All the People," covering the infancy narratives. Child care is available for $3 a day per child for those registering by July 1 The seminar cost is $25 for the week or $6 per .

day, but free for active catechists. Register

call

with faith formation coordinators or Kathleen Lewis, (704) 895-8470.

— The

tion call the parish, (704) 252-6042.

BELMONT — Perpetual Eucharis-

adoration

is at

the

Belmont Abbey

Chapel, located behind the abbey church and monastery. For information, call (704) 399-2701.

CHARLOTTE

—

St.

Thomas

Aquinas Church hosts Eucharistic adoration Fridays in the chapel from 7:308:30 p.m. Call (704) 549-1607 for inforPerpetual Eucharistic adoration

Gabriel Church. Contact Kathleen Potter, (704) 366-5127, for information.

Evening of Recollection CHARLOTTE Mary Ellen Lukas of Our Father's Work ministry visits St.

—

Gabriel Church on June 19.

The format

includes rosary, confessions and Eucharistic

Mass

adoration at 6:30 p.m., followed by at

7:30 p.m. Lukas discusses the

Eucharistic adoration is at St. Matthew Church Fridays following the 9 a.m. Mass and lasting until the 9 a.m.

Saturday Mass. Call Pat Gundaker, (704) 366-9687, or Bernice Hansen, (704) 846-

2958, for details.

HIGH POINT

Eucharist at 8:30 p.m., and a healing service takes place at 9 p.m. For information, call Jesuit Father

362-5047,

Leigh Fuller, (704)

ext. 206.

Vacation Bible Schools The St. Vincent de

CHARLOTTE

—

June 28

at St.

Aloysius Church. Sale

prayer of Jesus and the prayer of the Church. Cost is $250.

To register, contact Living Waters Reflection Center, 1420 Soco Rd., Maggie Valley, N.C. 28751. For information, call (704) 926-3833.

12 p.m. Proceeds benefit the parish

rael, the

Meinrad Seminary Confers Degrees Bryan ST. MEINRAD, Ind.

St.

Lamberson, a seminarian of the Diocese of Charlotte, was recently awarded a master of arts degree from St. Meinrad School of Theology. He is one of 43 St.

Meinrad students conferred master's degrees by the Rt. Rev. Lambert Reilly, the Benedictine archabbot of St. Meinrad Archabbey and chairman of St. Meinrad' s board of trustees. Bishop John McRaith of the Diocese of Owensboro, Ky., gave the convocation address.

Lamberson months

will spend his

summer

Faith

Through Culture Series

—A

MINT HILL

mini-series ex-

ploring faith through various cultures

begins at St. Luke Church on June 19 from 7-9 p.m. with a focus on the Hispanic community. To share ideas, help organize and participate, call Peter Conrad Rodriguez, (704) 753-4951.

Moms Group CONCORD — The Moms Group of St. James parish meets the first and third Thursdays and second and fourth Fridays each month from 9:30-1 1:30 a.m. in the church basement. Summer planning is underway. For details, call Michelle Fehlman, (704) 784-3691.

The group is planning a family outing to the Columbia Zoo on June 28. For details and to RSVP, call Danielle Martini, (704) 784-4848.

in clinical pastoral training at

Hospital,

Tampa,

Faith in Art Exhibition

Fla.

ASHEVILLE African-American Christians Gathering WINSTON-SALEM The African

—

American Affairs Ministry of the Diocese of Charlotte and St. Benedict the Moor Catholic and Grace Presbyterian churches in Winston-Salem co-sponsor "People of

God

Uniting

— An African

"Faith in Art"

is

— An

exhibition titled

being planned for

late

Eugene Parish Hall. All painters, sculptors, photographers and mixed-media artists are invited to participate. The deadline for inclusion is July 1. For more information, call Rev. Mr. Jos Vandermeer, (704) 645-5356.

August in the

St.

The Catholic News

&

Herald wel-

Perpetual Eucha-

American Gathering of Catholics and

the Maryfield Nurs-

Protestants" June 20-21 at Grace Pres-

comes parish news for the diocesan news

Home chapel. For details, call Joe or

byterian, 3901 Carver School Rd., at 7

briefs.

ristic

ing

—

is

building fund. Call Pat Mozgala, (704) 324-4476, for large item transportation.

is at

St.

Parish Garage Sale

HICKORY — A parish garage sale

Prayer" is a July 1-7 retreat directed by Father Sidney Griffith, ST, focusing on the psalms as the prayer of ancient Is-

Tampa General

mation.

among the partici-

items and baked goods will be accepted at the parish hall June 24-27 from 9 a.m.-

—

Basilica of St.

Lawrence hosts Eucharistic adoration daily from 6 a.m.- 9 p.m. For informa-

tic

—

is

For information, call the African American Affairs Ministry, (704) 33 1-1727.

"The Psalms: School of Contemplative

Eucharistic Adoration

ASHEVILLE

commemoration of the Catholic

Charismatic Renewal in Pittsburgh, Perm., June 27-29. For reservation, accommodation and conference information, call Michael An, (800) 882-3004.

Living Waters Retreat

tives

CHARLOTTE — The Sixth Annual

David Swann, area

director of Crossroads;

TRYON — The St. John the Baptist

—

Paul the Apostle Church Family Life

Wittenauer, council Grand Knight and cochairman of the fund

9 a.m.- 12 p.m. each day. Contact Sister Angela Case, SSJ, at (910) 722-7001 to

Family Life Commission Forum GREENSBORO Forum III of the St.

Holy Angels Church recently presented a check for $3,1 00 to the Crossroads Behavioral Healthcare Facility after the Mt. Airy Knights' third annual Operation LAMB concluded. The funds will assist people with mental retardation. Pictured from left are Chuck

A Vacation Bible

tor is

Curlin

—

The Knights Columbus Council of

adoration

Mary Lanham,

is at

(910) 454-4551.

National Charismatic Conference STATES VILLE A bus has been

—

p.m. each night. Father Paul Williams, pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Church in Greenville, S.C., is preacher, suit

and Je-

Father Lawrence Hunt, pastor of St.

Good photographs, preferably black and white, are also welcome. Submit news releases and photos at least 10 days before the publication date.

,

June

13,

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1997

World And National News

rectory.

II

is

projected

onto a huge screen in the center of Wroclaw, Poland, June 1 as he blesses the

congregation during a Mass marking the conclusion of the 46th International

Eucharistic

Pressures On Family Raised As Main Concern At Laity Meetings

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The con-

cerns of people trying to figure out their responsibilities as Catholic laity increas-

home, according to parworkshops on the role of lay Catholics in the world. At one of a series of sessions being held around the country on the subject, Tom Donnelly ingly begin at ticipants in

of the National Center for the Laity said a surprising percentage of participants

is

intended to help couples better

—

Cara Reports Enrollments

In

Seminaries, Ministry Programs

ginning next January, Catholic couples

WASHINGTON

wishing to marry in the Diocese of Wilmington will be required to partici-

(CNS)

—

The

number of post-college U.S. Catholic seminarians rose by 120 last year, the Center for Applied Research in the

pate in a three-stage preparation process

that will take a year to complete,

Wilmington Bishop Michael A. Saltarelli has announced. These changes are part of the newly revised diocesan Marriage Preparation Policy and Guidelines.

Bishop Saltarelli said this expanded pro-

Apostolate said.

It

said there were 3,292

seminarians in theology or pre-theology

programs

at the start

of the 1996-97

school year, up from 3,172 the previous year.

It

Fertility

Monitors Can Be Acceptable The VATICAN CITY (CNS)

—

dorsement to high-tech

fertility

monitors,

ning

resent Christian values in the workplace,

intentions are right.

he explained. Donnelly was part of a

monitors which "read" a woman's cycle

some of the

current

trends in lay participation in the

Church

May

31 conference in Washington.

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S.

photo from Reuters

prepare to enter a lifelong commitment.

Newspaper Says

Vatican

greater emphasis on the struggle to rep-

For Synod Post

cess

lows euthanasia in Colombia. Archbishop Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo, president of the Colombian bishops' conference, called the decision "a legal absurdity and a human monstrosity," adding that "nobody has the right to decide on the moment to terminate life, not even his own."

In May, Colombia's Constitutional Court, which acts as the country's supreme court, determined that physicians who end the life of a terminally ill patient upon the patient's request would not go to jail, thus approving the practice of euthanasia.

saying their use for natural family plan-

Retired Archbishop Not Eligible

Policy Requires Yearlong Preparation For Marriage WILMINGTON, Del. (CNS) Be-

Constitutional Court's decision that al-

involved in the center placed

at a

New Diocesan

—

The BOGOTA, Columbia (CNS) Colombian bishops have condemned a

Vatican newspaper gave a qualified en-

panel that discussed

CNS

Bishops Reject Legalization Of Euthanasia In Colombia

most concerned about how to balance the pressures of job and family. In the are

past, those

Congress.

15

Briefs

2,183 men preparing to become permanent deacons and more than 20,000 Catholics enrolled in lay ministry formation programs. Nearly two-thirds of those in lay ministry formation were women.

The figures, released in late May, were contained in the first edition of the CARA Catholic Ministry Formation Di-

The image of Pope John Paul

& Herald

is

acceptable as long as a couple's

Computerized mini-

through hormone measurement were recently introduced in Italy. The devices indicate several days each cycle in which couples should abstain from sex to avoid pregnancy, and manufacturers claimed a

94 percent success

rate.

bishops have been notified that Archbishop John R. Quinn, whom they elected last November as one of their 15 delegates to the special Synod of Bishops for America, is ineligible for the post because he is retired. Bishop Anthony M. Pilla of Cleveland, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bish-

Polish Church Leaders Hail Tribunal Ruling On Abortion Law WARSAW, Poland (CNS) Leaders of Poland's Catholic Church have

ops, said in a letter to bishops that Rome's rules for the synod do not allow

try to overturn the decision in a national

retired bishops to serve as elected del-

He said a replacement for Archbishop Quinn would be elected when the bishops meet June 19-21 in Kansas City, egates.

Mo.

—

welcomed a

violates the constitution.

However, supwould

porters of legal abortion said they

referendum. "This decision comforts those who never accepted the new law's formulations," said Bishop Stanislaw Stefanek of Lomza, chairman of the church's Family Commission. "Doctors and lawyers spoke against this law, while

many

reported that there were at least

Constitutional Tribunal rul-

ing that the country's 1996 abortion law

gynecologists, faced with conflicts

between

their

conscience and imposed

procedural and legal norms, refused to

Diocesan School Board Openings: The Diocese of Charlotte School Board has four board member positions to be filled. The term is for three years. The Board is responsible for proposing policies to Bishop Curlin to enact in governing 17 schools. The Board meets monthly from Sept. -June on agreed upon dates from 6:30-9 p.m. The Board

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mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth. But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade." With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it. (Mark 4:30-34)

that the

Roman

Catholic Church should not solemnly define new teachings about the Virgin Mary. "The response of the commission, purposefully brief, was unanimous and precise:

It is

the road

not opportune to abandon

marked out by

the

Second

Vatican Council and proceed with the definition of new dogma," said a June 4 announcement in the Vatican newspaper.

In recent years, the

John Paul

II

newspaper

said,

Pope

has received petitions from

"certain circles" asking that Mary be formally proclaimed as "Mediatrix" (Mediator), "Corredemptrix" (Co-redeemer) and

Advocate.

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Our J3acfy ofi£e JKoun fains alish Our Lady of the

Profile

•

Mountains 315 N. 5th

St.

Highlands, N.C. 28741 (704) 526-2418

HIGHLANDS S.

Vicariate:

— Bishop Vincent

Waters of Raleigh purchased the

present property of

Mountains Church fore the church later, local

Our Lady of

in July 1945.

was

Smoky Mountain

Pastor: Father Richard T.

McCue

the

BeParochial Vicar: Father Collins

built five years

Catholics gathered with

from Waynesville for Masses playhouse theater. In 1954, Father Charles O'Connor, pastor in Brevard, extended his ministry to Highlands Catholics. From then until 1972, Our Lady of the Mountains Church was staffed by diocesan clergy of Sacred Heart Church in Brevard.

Additions to the church buildings marked the mid-1960s, and a small apartment was built onto the structure

James

priests

Masses: Late Sept. -early June: Sun.: 11 a.m.; early June-late Sept.: Sat.: 7 p.m.; Sun.: 9 a.m.

in a

Number of parishioners: 220 summer; 85 in winter

in

in 1972.

That year, ministerial responsibilHighlands shifted from Brevard

ity for

to Franklin.

Glenmary Father Michael

Langell, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi

Church, served the two communities for a decade before diocesan priests were assigned to the Franklin parish in 1982. During Father Langell' s pastorate in Highlands, the church patio and basement parish hall were constructed.

A

In December 1986, Father John Hoover became administrator of Our Lady of the Mountains Church, a development which carried parish sta-

versary in 1990, a bell and tower were

Father Ayathupadam, Father

ral care.

added

Berg became the parish's third resident pastor. Father Berg retired in the sum-

congregation grew, especially during

church grounds. Throughout the two acres of property, an effort has been made to provide parishioners and visitors with opportunities for prayer and contemplation in a peaceful moun-

summers, the need for more worship

tain setting. In addition to the sanctuary,

space became a pressing reality. In October 1989, the addition of a two-

churchgoers visit a grotto dedicated to Mary, a meditation garden, a fish pond and a small grove of trees.

In the fall of 1992 Father Hoover was

story

wing was completed, providing

another 100 seats in the sanctuary and parish hall.

When the Our Lady of the Mountains family celebrated

its

40th anni-

work

to the

Raymond

mer of 1996.

Our Lady of the Mountains again assumed mission status in July 1996, when its care and that of St. Jude Church in Sapphire Valley was re-

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turned to the clergy of Franklin. Father

succeeded by Father Joseph Ayathupadam, now pastor of Our Lady

Richard T. McCue, named pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Church in 1994, now serves the three churches of the twocounty parish along with Father James

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