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June

Volume

25,

1999

Number 39

Serving Catholics

Inside

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Herald ...Page

New priest assignments

WEAVERVILLE Children and adults played volleyball or strolled on the green grass around the weathered barn or fished in a nearby pond. Parents shepherded gurgling toddlers eager to explore on legs new to walking.

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Not a family reunion but a reunion of families. Some 250 people had come to the Claxton Farm, near Weaverville, from such places as Atlanta, Ga.; Mobile,

Slowing the fast track: Cardinals propose bishops stay put

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Ala.; Alexandria, Va.; Indianapolis, In.,

Greensboro, Charlotte and Asheville, N.C.; to enjoy a picnic

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Local News Church welcomes new

members through RCIA

12-13

grounded

in a

shared experience the parents were Americans, the children were natives of Russia and China. The International Adoption Program, sponsored by Catholic Social Services of the Charlotte Diocese, and administered out of CSS's Western Regional Office in Asheville, had made the miracles possible. Parents had achieved "the dream of a lifetime," as Robert Boggs wrote in a letter to the

CSS

CSS Hand

office in Charlotte.

Boggs and

his wife, Denise,

who

live in Alexandria, are typical

Hand program

who

parents

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fvery Week Editorials

the Diocese of Charlotte

By JOANITA M. N ELLEN BACH Correspondent

Catholic News

State honors

to international adoption program

staff of The

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Western North Carolina

CSS lends services, essential spirit

Writer joins

& Columns ...Pages

4-5

Entertainment Pages 10-11

of the avail themselves of the

International Adoption Program. They had found their best route to adoption by going to another country. The Boggs started with a private nonprofit agency in Washington, D.C., but things didn't work out. "We contacted Catholic Social

Photo by Joanita M. Nellenbach

dandelion intrigues Grace Kohrs, now 19 months old. She came home from Russia Dec. 23 with her new parents, Kathy (holding her) and Richard Kohrs of Hickory, N.C. tell them apart. "We put them facing each other on the couch,

sister,

Services in North Carolina (Asheville)

and their eyes

based on an excellent article written in

for

ment," Boggs said at the picnic.

contact with Lois Miller (the International Adoption coordinator in Atlanta) and

company's newspaper by a very satisfied couple who had adopted a little boy from Russia," Boggs wrote. They worked with Carol wife's

Meyerriecks, the International Adoption coordinator in the Asheville CSS office, to complete the necessary pa-

perwork and home study. In December, the lAP offered them the chance to adopt twin girls who had been born the previous August. They immediately accepted, and in April traveled to

Moscow

to see the children.

first visit with Anna and was emotional. "We were just crying," Boggs said at the picnic. "We couldn't believe how great they

Their

Irina

looked." first

Meeting their new parents for the time was also an eye-opener, of

sorts, for the babies,

kept

who had been

separate cribs so hospital per-

sonnel could

and they reached each other; that was a neat molit

up,

Emma, is 18 months old. "We knew we wanted two

dren,"

Marlene

said.

"Our

chil-

first

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we felt so comthem we never considered going anywhere else."

Anna and Irina, renamed Glenna Roberta and Natalie Alyene in honor of their new American grandmothers, were kicking and cooing in their portable playpen and smiling at all the admiring looks from parents whose own stories were similar to the Boggs'. Over by the pond, Aaron Kohrs, 5, was fishing while his mother, Kathy, watched over Russian-born 19month-old Grace, blowing the seeds off" dandelions nearby. Kathy and her husband, Richard, had adopted Aaron, born in this country, through CSS in

she had wanted to parent her own youngsters. "I had always wanted children, but never found the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with," she

Charlotte.

said.

trust CSS,"

Kathy

said. "It

must

be wonderful to know you're a part of getting all these children homes." Marlene and Jim Sidon of Atlanta also adopted two children through the lAP. Nikolai is now 2 l/2; his new

Carol Meyerriecks

fortable with

Jim said

his greatest joy has been,

"Just seeing the changes in the chil-

dren.

It's

such a blessing having the

two of them. We're so Clara Brunk also

fortunate." feels fortunate.

Principal of a school in Mobile, Ala.,

Through lAP she is the mother of Dawson Eugene, now 11, and

Vasily

Vladimer Ethan Ross, now 6, whom she adopted last summer. Clara said

See

adoption

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The World

June 25, 1999

Brief

Women ask for greater recognition work (CNS)

in Catlioiic cliaritabie

VATICAN CITY Women

San Francisco-based 9th CirCourt upheld the constitutionality of the same program. Catholic leaders support right to live in Hong Kong case, the

cuit

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delegates to the general as-

sembly of Caritas Internationalis

(CNS) Catholic leaders supported the right of mainland Chinese born to Hong Kong par-

more women in decision making and focus more programs on improving the lot of the world's women. In soup

Hong Kong, despite theJ government's bid to limit their numbers. Local Catholics should not harden!

ents to live in

kitchens and refugee camps, orphan-

ages and health clinics, women form the majority of Catholic charities employees and volunteers, the women delegates said. Yet, when it comes to the structures which govern and coordinate Catholic aid programs, women "are almost invisible at the national, regional and international levels," said a report to the June 14-19 general assembly at the Vatican.

Money needed most

show kindness andj share with the mainlanders who are entitled to the right to live in the Specia

their hearts, but

Administrative Region, Cardinal John Baptist

chung

— More

manpower or material goods, money is what is most immediately than

needed to rebuild war-torn Kosovo and the surrounding region. Catholic humanitarian aid leaders said. troops were entering Yugoslavia's

NATO

6. The letter was signed May 31^ two weeks after the Chinese government sought interpretation of the Basic Law, the Hong Kong Special Ad-

ministrative Region's miniconstitution,

CNS

the Fair Labor Association began earlier in

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University, criticized for

its affiliation

with the Nike company, has announced participation in two projects to fight exploitation of factory workers in poor countries by multinational companies. Vincentian Father James Maher, chairman of a Corporate Code of Conduct Task Force at the New

York

university, said in a telephone interview June 15 that affiliation with

PHOTO FROM Reuters

Etiinic Albanians in Prizren Ethnic Albanians watch a convoy of Serb civilians and policemen leave the city of Prizren in Kosovo June 14. The Catholic bishop of Prizren made a plea for improved understanding among the people of the city, while Serbs exited in large numbers as NATO troops moved into the area.

drawal of Serb soldiers and paving the way for refugees' return, when the Balkans-based coordinators for Caritas Internationalis met at the Vatican in mid-June to assess the situation. "The Kosovars are prepared to reconstruct everything themselves," Father Segundo Tejado, who runs Caritas Albania, said in a June 1 5 interview. "Before the fighting started, they already had a parallel system of self-government, hospitals and basic infrastructure independent of the Serbs, and all run by Kosovars."

NEW

the month.

said the associa-

which includes more than 70 U.S.

tion,

colleges as well as Nike and other

manufacturing companies, emerged from discussions initiated by the White

House

after the publicity over child labor being used in Honduran factories to produce items for the line of entertainer Kathie Lee GiflFord. Father Maher said

that on July

St.

John's would also

become part of Global Alliance Workers and Communities.

for

Cilurcil team in Sierra Leone delivers food behind rebel lines FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (CNS) About 9,000 people trapped behind rebel lines in Sierra Leone received a food shipment delivered by

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the nation's interreligious council. About 400 bags of rice were distributed to towns and villages 30 to 50 miles from the capital, Freetown, said Father Theophilius Momoh, an executive member of the interreligious council. "We will go farther than that in the future," Father Momoh said. It

was the

first

such delivery since late

May, when the cease-fire between West African troops backing the government and Revolutionary United Front rebels took

effect.

Court takes case over tax funds for parochial school computers WASHINGTON (CNS) The Supreme Court this fall will consider

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whether

violates the Constitution

for parochial schools to receive

com-

puters purchased with federal and state funds. The court announced June 14 it would hear the appeal of a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling it is unconstitutional for religious schools to receive educational materials other than textbooks that have been bought with tax funds.

that said

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In a ruling last August, the

New

Or-

leans-based 5th Circuit said previous U.S. Supreme Court decisions allowing religious schools to use publicly funded textbooks do not extend to permitting other sorts of tax-supported instructional materials, such as computers or library books. In a separate

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Chinese National People's Congress.

Caribbean bishops' president hangings 'vicious'

calls Trinidad

PORT OF (CNS)

SPAIN, Trinidad

— The president of

Clarke of Kingston, Jamaica, asked after the June 4, 5 and 7 hangings. "It's one act of violence against another act of violence. It seems to me more an act of revenge, and I don't think that's what justice is all about. There must be other ways." Nine convicted men were executed by hanging for murdering an entire family in central Trinidad five years ago.

Bishops

world leaders debt not charity COLOGNE, Germany (CNS) Debt relief for poor nations "is not a tell

relief is justice,

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an international symposium of Catholic bishops on the eve of the Group of Eight economic summit in Cologne. Nations have an "urgent need to break the chains of unpayable foreign debts," said 16 cardinals, archbishops and bishops, representing some of the world's richest and poorest nations, at the end of the day-long symposium June 13.

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Perpetual eucharistic adoration is at Belmont Abbey in the adoration chapel, located by the monastery in the small red building (second door). Parking is by the water tower. Adorers are always needed and welcome. For further information, call

Marie Siebers

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Kernersville

Charlotte

the Blessed Sacrament

welcome.

Seminarian Conference 7

Confirmation Our Lady of Lourdes,

For

call

HIGH POINT — Perpetual adoration of Home

chapel.

Theresa Farley

at the Mar}'field

For

at (336)

details, call

273-1507.

Provincial Meeting

Bishops of the Carolinas and Georgia

June

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details,

Kathleen Potter at (704) 366-5127.

Nursing

July 12

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and

June 29

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question of charity but of justice," said

July 11 4 pm Charismatic Mass St. Patrick Cathedral

the Carib-

bean bishops' conference called the early June executions in Trinidad "vicious acts" that would not satisfy the need for justice. 'What have they accomplished?" Archbishop Edgerton

Confirmation Holy Cross

June 28

from the Standing Committee of the

Diocesan, planner

ipiSCOpQi. calendar ,

N E

Chen^

said in a pastoral letter issuel

June

Kosovo province, enforcing the with-

University joins projects f igiiting worker exploitation overseas YORK (CNS) St. John's

Hong Koni

just

Kosovo

reconstruction VATICAN CITY (CNS)

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HONG KONG

asked that Catholic charities involve

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community Ultreya meets

Christian

toda}' to share

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the News

Writer joins staff of The Herald Catholic News

JIMMY ROSTAR

rooms

earlier this year

The Diocese of Charlotte Bishop William G. Curlin announces

proved to be a

Associate Editor

valuable experience as she entered the

CHARLOTTE The Catholic News & Herald welcomed the latest

professional world. "If you can teach

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June 15. Alesha M. Price has joined the newspaper team as staff writer, a position addition to

editorial staff

its

involving writing feature and

news stories on people and events throughout the Diocese of Charlotte. Price is a native of

Thibodaux, La., a town of 30,000 people located an hour southwest of New

Alesha M. Price

Orleans. She attended Catholic elementary and high school and was a parishioner of St. Genevieve Church in Thibodaux. A lifelong enthusiast of reading and writing, she earned a bachelor of arts degree in English from Dillard University in New Orleans in May 1996. Following graduate work at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mi., she earned a master's degree in English Literature from the school in May 1998. At Dillard and Michigan State, she honed her craft in research, writing and editing assignments. Her writing was published in the schools' newspapers as well.

Upon

high school kids, you can do just about anything," she said with smile. "They tell

what you are doing wrong, how

faith,

and

this

good way

explore different parts of Catholicism," she said. "We're pleased to include Alesha as a member of The Catholic News & Herald team," said Joann S. Keane, editor. "Her writing will surely complement our paper as we strive to bring the Good News to the 46 Western counties of North Carolina." Price is eager to learn more about the diocese now that she's a Charlotte resident. "In order for me to become better acquainted, I would like to find

do more community involvement, volunteerism and I would also like to have fun." t a church parish,

Priests;

From:

Is:

Rev. John Allen

Paroctiial Vicar

Administrator,

St,

should be done. It was rewarding, and I'm glad I did it." After searching for new opportunities in writing, she heard about the opening in The Catholic News & Herald staff and was immediately interested. "I had been searching for jobs for the past year, and I saw the advertisement," she said. "I thought of this as a sign from God. I thought, Catholic and I'm a writer, and I can synthesize the two.'" Price said the staff writer position will be a positive learning experience as she contributes to the publication's growth. "I want to become even closer to

the following pastoral assignments, effective July 7, 1999.

—

Rev. Roger Arnsparger

Rev.

James Byer

returning to Thibodaux after graduate school. Price wrote a variety of pieces for the local Chamber of Commerce's magazine, and taught English and dance in a local high school. She said substitute teaching in junior and senior high school class-

mailjtrostar@charlottediocese.org.

experiences, prayer and plans for apos-

details,

Rev.

tolic action

today at

p.m. at St.

Matthew

(704) 542-1 741, for

information.

July

HOT SPRINGS — "Radical Love in

the Parables of Jesus"

a retreat for

women

focusing on a fresh call to openness and enthusiasm to the call of the Gospel, today through July 4 at the Jesuit House of Prayer. For details, contact Jesuit House of Prayer, P.O. Box 7, Hot Springs, N.C. 28743; (828) 622-7366; http://www.geocities.com/ ~jesuit_housenc 3 First Saturday devotions are today at the Belmont Abbey

BELMONT — Mass

by and the sacrament of reconciliation at 10:15. For deBasilica.

at 9:30 a.m., followed

recitation of the rosary

tails, call

Terri or Phil at (704) 888-6050.

9 HICKORY

today through July 1 the Catholic Conference Center. For

ter at

weekend

— A Marriage Encoun-

S.J.

OFM Cap

Rev. Lawrence Heiney

at (336) 274-4424.

Rev.

is today through July 16 in Greensboro. The host parish is Our Lady of Grace Church. Cost is $160. For details, call the diocesan Office for Youth Ministry at (704) 370-3243.

ers,

1 a

6 CHARLOTTE program

—

Retrouvaille

Spirit,

Denver

Parochial Vicar,

St. Patrick

Cathedral, Charlotte

Our Lady of

Ukranian Catholic Diocese,

the Annunciation, Albemarle

Stamford, Connecticut

Pastor,

Spiritual Director,

Peter, Charlotte

Parochial

l\Jlatthew,

Introductory Seminary, Raleigh

Pastor, Our Lady of

Vicar,

Charlotte

Consolation, Charlotte

at his request

Raymond Hourihan

Pastor,

Retirement, at

(Effective Sept. 1)

St John, Waynesville

Rev. Eric Houseknecht

Administrator,

Rev. Peter Jugis

Rev. Joseph Kelleher

Our Lady

his request

Full-time Director of Vocations,

of Consolation, Charlotte

Three-month sabbatical

Administrator,

Full-time Judicial Vicar,

Holy Spirit, Denver

In-residence, St. Mark, Huntersville

Administrator,

Retirement,

at his

request

St Dorothy Lincolnton Rev.

Thomas

Kessler

Rev. Michael Kottar

Diocese ofAllentown,

Administrator,

Pennsylvania

St.

Parochial Vicar,

New Jersey

St.

Our Lady

of The Americas, Biscoe

Rev. Matthew Leonard

James McAndrews, Sept

Parochial

S.J.

McGowan, OSA

Msgr. John

Sept

McSweeney

Dorothy, Lincolnton

Diocese ofMetuchen,

Administrator,

Vicar,

Our Lady

Matthew, Charlotte

Administrator, St. Francis,

Jefferson

Parochial Vicar,

of Consolation, Charlotte

St. Gabriel,

Associate pastor,

Administrator,

Springfield,

Mass.

St.

Charlotte

Therese, Mooresville

Parochial

Vicar,

Administrator,

St. Peter,

Charlotte

St. Peter,

Holy Rosary Church,

Pastor,

Lawrence, Mass.

St.

Rector, Basilica of St

Pastor,

Lawrence, Asheville

St.

Charlotte

John, Waynesville

Matthew, Charlotte

Rev. Fidel Melo

Parochial

Rev. Gordon Pillon

Administrator,

Returning to

St Joseph, Newton

of Peoria,

Rev. Ricardo Sanchez

Newly ordained

Parochial Vicar,

Rev. John Schneider

Pastor,

One-year sabbatical,

St Barnabas, Arden

at his request

Sabbatical

Rector, Basilica of SI

Holy

Vicar,

Family Clemmons

Administrator,

Our Lady of the Americas, Biscoe

Rev. Cecil Tice

home diocese

III.

Holy Family,

Clemmons

Lawrence, Asheville

Rev, Wilbur

Thomas

Administrator,

Full-time Vicar for Priests,

St Francis, Jefferson

In-residence, St.

Pastor,

Reassignment by

St Matthew, Charlotte

religious

for married couples that

brings hope, teaches communication

on a feeling level, helps couples realize that their problems are not unique, helps couples identify their values and priorities, and teaches couples to start anew. The program begins today in Charlotte. For details, call Rev. Mr. Nick or Irene Fadero, (704) 544-0621, or (800) 470-2230.

Holy

One-month sabbatical,

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SPLUNGE 1 1 GREENSBORO (Special People Living Uniquely Nourishing, Growth-filled Experiences), a week of fun and challenging activities teaching teens 15 and up something about themselves and oth-

St Leo,

St Michael, Gastonia

Rev. Dennis

Tom or Emilie Sandin

Phillip, Statesville

Barnabas, Arden

Pastor,

Rev. Eugene McCreesh, S.J.

ervations, call

Pastor,

(Effective

Church, 8015 Ballantyne Commons Parkway. Call Don or Cheryl Bohlen,

In-residence

(Effective

Michael or Stacy Holcomb at (704) 844-8 181. For res-

St.

Parochial Vicar,

James Devereux,

Rev. Jude Duffy,

Rev.

call

Kentucky

Winston-Salem

Rev. Mark Lawlor

Contact Associate Editor Jimmy Rostar by calling (704) 370-3334 or e-

Administrator,

Parocfiial Vicar,

Rev. Alexei Choquet

Michael, Gastonia

Diocese of Lexington,

St Rev. Dean Cesa

Gabriel, Cfiarlotte

Rev.

Edmund Walker, OFM Cap

Rev. Robert Weisenbaugh, S.J. Pastor, (Effective

Sept

Rev. Ray Williams

Rev. Robert Yurgel,

OFM Cap

Vicar,

St Patrick

religious

his

community

Reassignment by

St Therese, Mooresville Parochial

Eugene, Asheville

his

community

Parochial Vicar, Leo, Winston-Salem

Cathedral, Charlotte

St.

Parochial

Parochial Vicar, Our Lady

Vicar,

St Matthew, Charlotte

of Consolation, Charlotte

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Can you see the face of the poor? Traveling rural roads in nearly any

The Pope

poor.

POPE JOHN PAUL

Pope tells assembly change of heart needed for reconciliation LYNNE WEIL

Catholic

News Service (CNS) Reconciliation

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

VATICAN CITY

between peoples in conflict can only be realized through social restructuring and individual changes of heart, Pope John Paul II said. In a message to the Catholic aid agency Caritas Internationalis, the pope said reconciliation "requires a conversion of hearts and also changes, sometimes radical, within society." Pope John Paul addressed the final session of the agency's June 14-19 general assembly. Heads of Caritas national member organizations in 1 56 countries had gathered at the Vatican to discuss humanitarian response to world events; the meeting's main theme was reconciliation. The pope said "social and international justice" and "the practice of the virtues which promote the ability to live together with the aim of building unity" would lead to "a new society and a better world." "In a world which knows so many divisions and heartbreaks, between persons and between human communities, I fervently hope that all ...

the disciples of Christ are able to discern better the signs of hope,"

all

They

wears a subtle face etched with the lines of personal struggle and the wrinkles of an economic system indifferent to the needs of the poor. The face of rural poverty becomes more visible by uncovering the hurts and injustices through a few profiles. Donna choked back tears as she told how her six-year marriage ended in divorce the year before. A hideous knife scar nearly the length of her left forearm testified to the life of violence she knew as marriage. Unable to focus her life. Donna moved between friends wearing thin her welcome as the months passed. The seductive urge of suicide stalked her when friends at her third residence finally asked her to leave. Penniless and depressed. Donna found herself homeless in a small town. Homelessness frequently evokes urban images of men sleeping in doorways or pushing shopping carts down the street. Rural homelessness evades radar like a stealth fighter. It becomes hidden by overcrowding a relative's home when hard luck hits. Families frequently sleep in campgrounds or in their cars while in transit looking for work. At least 20 percent of the homeless school-aged children are not in school, because they move too frequently or lack proper clothing or have unmet health needs or have emotional problems or need to care for a sibling. Women and children swell the ranks of the rural homeless when violence, divorce, or economics disrupt their lives. Andy and Norma worked the flee markets sell-

the

Pope John Paul wrote.

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be the artisans of peace and reconcilibecomes ever more one world of fraternity and solidarity where everyone, recognized in his dignity as a child of the ation, so that liumanity

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same Father, may live a peaceable life and develop the gifts that he has received." The pontiff praised Caritas Internationalis promote reconciliation through

education and grass-roots community work. He noted that the agency has always shown "particular concern for those who live in ever more trying situations of poverty, especially refugees and displaced persons." He cited as examples recent campaigns to stave off hunger in North Korea and to aid those affected by conflicts in Africa and in the Balkans. Pope John Paul also pointed out tliat after he had called for the reduction or removal the world's poorest countries' external debt, Caritas Internationalis

responded with a campaign for debt relief That campaign produced a message from the general assembly which a representative took to the June 18-20 summit of leaders of the world's seven leading industrial powers plus Russia, known collectively as the G-8, in Cologne, Germany. The message said in part, "We consider repaying debts to the rich while children starve a scandal before God." In its June 18 final statement, the Caritas general assembly said its 350 delegates had "deepened and renewed their commitment to the hard work of reconciliation and to developing ways of promoting a better world in which justice, peace and truth prevail." Caritas laid out a four-year plan of action to last until the

agency's next general assembly.

main aim, the statement efforts of Caritas people

said,

from

was all

to "integrate

Its tlie

over the world

their continued stri\ing for intci-nal unity be-

yond

all

existing national^or .^thiO.i'^ differences."

ANTOINETTE BOSCO

CNS

Columnist

Are media violence and teen crime linked? Columbine High School shootings are The becoming known the wake-up to the as

call

problem of violence among our youth. People continuously talk about the Littleton, Colo., school killings, laying blame on parental blindness, meanness in schools, lack of spiritual teaching, the easy availability of guns and the media's fixation on violence. In mid-May, President Clinton, in California to attend a Hollywood dinner, urged the film industry

way it portrays killing. He was on thin because some in the entertainment business

to rethink the ice

here

were concerned that Hollywood would become the scapegoat for the escalation of violence in America. Yet, the president was right to speak out about the effect media violence can have on young people. He cited only a few of the many studies that show how a continual diet of violence desensitizes youth and can lead to aggressive behavior in the adolescent

and teen years.

One doesn't have to be brilliant to figure out that being immersed in violent images and action at a young age can play havoc in a young mind. And kids are immersed tiiat

in violence.

The president cited

the latest figures

the "average American child wUl see 40,000 drama-

tized I

murders by the time he or she reaches age first

of Faith

notice satellite dishes next to trailers

and newer-than-jalopy cars parked nearby. Life in rural America appears like life in Anywhere, U.S.A. Popular images of poverty jump from the pages of magazines, where old ideas about poverty cloud the subde expressions of rural poverty today. The shack on the back road has become a mobile home that rusts and fully depreciates in 20 years. The satellite dish, bought on time, may no longer function. Today rural poverty

"May they

for its efforts to

Economy

state

visitors frequently overlook the invisible

Speaks

June 25, 1999

Edit oriQh & Co umns

became conscious of how

violence can be about 20 years ago

effective

when

8."

media inter-

FATHER JOHN

RAUSCH

Guest Columnist

made in their small woodworking shop. Having no credit, they went to a rent-to-own ing crafted items they

business to buy their major purchases. For $70 a, month they took home a nineteen inch and a VCR.

After a

them

number of months

the rent-to-own designated

and invited them to pur-

as preferred customers

Norma chose a washer. burden began to strain their budget.

chase an additional appliance.

Soon the

They

financial

finally

returned

all

the mercliandise witli only

and lost their entire investment. People without credit have few economic options. Unable to get a bank loan they frequent check cashing outlets and rent-to-own businesses that charge usurious interest rates. They must buy every major purchase on time. The slippery slope of debt easily allows them to fall behind on rent and utilities. The rural poor still lack the healthcare denied 43 million Americans and suffer disproportionately from diabetes because of poor diet. They work for low or minimum wages and get trapped in part-time or temporary employment. They live pay check committed and pray nothing breaks down. When they walk through town, their discounted clothing covers their insecurities and worries. And, nobody notices them. three pa3Tnents

left,

Glenmary Father John Rausch

teaches at the

Appala-

chian Ministries Educational Resource Center in Berea,

a psychologist who was researching this subject. He told me about a boy who had put crushed glass in the family dinner after getting the idea from a TV show. He described how a small girl had been doused in gasoline and burned by a gang, simply to re-enact a television scene. Liebert emphasized that "a higher exposure to television violence is associated with greater approval of violence and a greater willingness to use it in real life." And that was more than 20 years ago! Since then, we have seen much worse evidence of the connection between media violence and actual crime. In December 1997, when a 14-year-old went on a shooting spree in a Paducah, Ky., school, he told investigators he had seen school shooting done before in a scene from the movie called "The Basktball Diaries." A character in that film dreams of breaking down a school door and randomly shooting five classmates while other students cheer. Classmates of Eric Harris, one of the shooters in

viewed Robert Liebert,

Littleton, told investigators that their classmate

obsessed with the computer

game "Doom."

In that

was

game

the youth pushing the buttons battles powerflil demons.

shoots to win, not to conquer

prize

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

to be able to

evil,

but for the bigger

to even greater violence.

It is reported that some 15 million copies of "Doom" are in homes, where youngsters can control the 3-D gun and see "the gruesome images of shattered

bodies, bleeding clumps of flying flesh and disembowelments," wrote Colorado reporter Deborah Frazier. After the Columbine massacre, Denver Catholic

Archbishop Charles Chaput was reported to

say,

"Common

sense tells us that the violence of our music, our video games, our films and our television has to go somewhere, and it goes straight into the hearts of our children, to bear fruit in ways we cannot imagine, until something like Littleton happens."

Let us all protest the excessive violence that invades our homes through the media. Let us love our children enough to protect them from the brainwashing that tells them the way to solve problems and be powerful is to blast and destroy others.

June 25, 1999

f diloriah

Light

there in the casket and

McSWEENEY

"You can keep your fork!"

my columns before, you know Ifhow much I love to share a good story. Well, here you've read

was told to me over Father Miles O'Brien Riley, a communications specialist in San Francisco. I would be surprised if you don't pass it along the next time you share a meal with family or friends. There was a woman, Jenny Flanagan, who had been diagnosed with cancer and had been given three months to live. She asked her pastor to come to her house to discuss certain aspects of her final wishes. She told him which songs she wanted sung at the service, what scriptures she would like read, and what she wanted to wear. "Oh, yes, there is one more thing," she said, "and this is very important. I want to be laid out in my casket with a fork in my right hand." "A fork?" the pastor asked, not quite knowing what to say. The woman explained, "In all my years of attending church socials and functions where food was involved, my favorite part was when whoever was clearing away the dishes of the main course would lean over and say 'you can keep your fork.' It was my favorite part because I knew something better was coming." "Dessert wasn't going to be Jell-O or some watery pudding. It was going to be something substanreally takes the cake! It

my friend

cake or

pie.

just

"I tell

you,

friends," confessed the pastor, "I

just cannot stop thinking about that fork, and

I'll

bet

you won't be able to stop thinking about it either." And he was right. If you have a vivid imagination, it is an image not easily erased from your memory. For me, Jenny's fork makes clear what Jesus meant when he said, "I am the bread of life." It is not enough to regard this as simply a beautiful and poetical phrase. Bread sustains life. It is that without which life cannot go on. Jesus is the essential of all life, and the hunger of our souls is fulfilled when we know Christ and through Him know the Father. The restless soul is at peace; the hungry heart is satisfied. So the next time you reach for your fork, let it remind you that there is something better coming.

And give thanks

to our Father,

more than mere human

who offers us so much

existence.

Through His Son,

the Father offers us not just a fuller eternal

life still

life

here, but an

to come.

Father Thomas

McSweeney

director of the

Christophers.

Question

Q. I cannot understand why it is said that Jesus loves us no matter what we do, that we cannot do anytliing to "earn " this love and our salvation because it is a gijtfrom

Corner

God.

it is

FATHER JOHN DIETZEN

CNS A. We need first to acknowledge that it is quite understandable that you don't understand this relationship between God's love and our freedom. We're dealing with a mystery as big as God. As the first letter of John puts it, God is love, so we will never wrap our minds around this mystery of his love any more than we ever will comprehend the Trinity. It's a subject we must always approach reverently and with much humble acceptance of our limitations.

That

said,

are reminded constantly by Scrip-

ture and by Jesus himself from the

Mount

Sermon on

the

to the resurrection, that everything material

and spiritual in our lives is lavished on us by an extravagant Creator. Everything is a grace, a gift. This also is one of St. Paul's favorite themes. God raised Jesus to new life and glory, he wrote, that God might show the immeasurable riches of his kindness to us who are with and in his Son. Your salvation, Paul insists, "is not from you; it is the gift of God; it is not from works, so no one may boast" (Eph 2:6-9). Even our very first desire to do good and to share his love is God's gift, not a result of our initiative. Again, as the Letter of John says, "We love because he

first

loved us"

Jn 4:19). seems, can deny that part of the acceptance of God, however, and of his

So no one, mystery.

Our

and gifts is up to us. It is a heavy responsibility, and obligation, of a return of love. As Jesus put it, what you have received as a gift,

life

Reflections

did.

The relationship between God's love and our freedom

JVhy then should people not do what they want, even if considered wrong in the eyes of society? IVJiat difference does it make if they are to be loved and saved through God's grace?

Family

knew

that she had a better grasp of heaven than She knew something better was coming. Sure enough, at the wake people walked by the woman's casket, saw the pretty dress she was wearing, her favorite bible, and the fork placed upright in her hand. Over and over the pastor heard the question, "What's with the fork?" And over and over he smiled. During the eulogy, he told the congregation about his conversation with Jenny shortly before she died. He also told them about the fork and what it symbolized to her.

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want people to see want them to wonder 'What's with the fork?!' Then I want you to tell them, 'Jenny always knew that something better was coming once God called her from this life.'" The pastor's eyes welled up with tears of joy as he hugged the woman goodbye. He knew this would be one of the last times he would ever see her. But he

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give as a gift (Mt 10:8). Live up to what you have and who you are. That is the message behind everything he requires, especially his great commandment of love of God and neighbor. To mature in such a vocation, which is the vocation of all Christians, takes enormous and persevering awareness, openness, fidelity and generosity, and most of all, total trust in that love the Father has for us in Jesus.

We don't just "do whatever we want" because we have been called to respond to love, which, if we are serious about it, is much more demanding than we usually

want

to admit.

Perhaps no one has said all this more perfectly than St. Therese of Lisieux shortly before her death. In the last full sentence of her life story she wrote, "Even though I had on my conscience all the sins that can be committed, I would go, my heart broken with sorrow, and throw myself into Jesus' arms, for I know how much he loves the prodigal child who returns to him." That combination of love, fidelity and trust, all of which are God's gifts to us, is what he asks in return. Why and how it all works is the mystery. Questions for this column should be sent John Dietzen, Box 325, Peoria, III. 61 651

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ANDREW & TERRI LYKE

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Columnists

Overcoming ambivalence to

racial and cultural diversity we moved from Chicago's South InSide1977 to a suburban community southwest of the city. At that time there were few families of color and very few African Americans living there. In our nine years there we had many challenges and opportunities because of our minority status. People were generally polite. No one expressed to us in any way that we were unwanted. No crosses were burned on our lawn. No pipe bombs or hateful defacing did our first home ever endure. It would be presumptuous to surmise that the few who were unfriendly had racist motives. But somehow, in our first few years, we felt out of place. Though there was a Catholic church in the community, our Sunday worship was at a South Side parish in Chicago. Even as the African American population grew in the area, we had to travel to Chicago or Joliet to shop for hair-care products or go to a barber or beautician. The nearby grocer didn't carry certain foods we were accustomed to, either. Eventually, stores were stocking products with black people in mind. In time our trips to the city were just for Sunday worship and visits to family and friends. Recently we saw a commercial on late night TV promoting a housing development in that area. Prominent in the commercial were the faces of families of color. Ob\'iously they were marketing to those interested in living in a racially and culturally diverse community. What changed? Businesses and community institutions and organizations began to value the people of color there. That value had to do with the economic power that these black families brought with them. It made economic sense to make families of color to feel at home. Our sense is that this phenomenon helped to heighten the value of diversity within the community. Though we found a strong sense of belonging among our neighbors and in the community, the local parish seemed most ambivalent about our presence. Such ambivalence to racial and cultural diversity persists in parishes across the country.

The new Black Middle-Class is exercising its option to live anywhere it can afford. Unfortunately, many white Catholic parishes in these sprawling affluent communities are clueless about reaching out to them as they arrive. Offices of Black Catholic Ministries have been established in

many dioceses. Too often

their interests

do not include evangelization in white parishes. Perhaps we the Church in America can follow the lead of marketeers and ad agencies. Though it is not the economic power of families of color that is

foremost, the richness of cultures and the histo-

have shaped them give deeper and broader concreteness to the Gospel. In the context of the People of God, those stories and cultures are the inheritance of everyone. And as in business, it will help to heighten the value of diversity within ries that

the community.

Welcoming people of

their gifts in white parishes just

Andrew

color and

makes good

sense.

& Terri Lyke are coordinators of mar-

riage ministry for the Archdiocese of Chicago.

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Ihe Kew$

Hume dies of

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MANCHESTER,

Hume

experience," said

Holy Cross Brother Richard Daly, executive director of the Texas Catholic Con-

England (CNS)

Cardinal George Basil

tive process, in

cancer at age 76 of

ference, the public policy

arm of the state's

Westminster, England, died the evening of June 1 7 in a London hospital where he was in the final stages of

Catholic bishops. "It

inoperable abdominal cancer. A church spokesman said the 76-year-old Benedictine, president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, had just been anointed when he

referring to the 1973 U.S.

Texas

CNS

Earthquake damage

cese of Rockville Centre, N.Y., in February and had served as Camden's ap-

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accomplished extraordinary what Dominican Father

things. That's

Bede McGregor said first attracted him to Frank Duff. "It's the normality

first

Teresa's heroic virtues, the

the National

becoming 1 1

first

step to

A petition dated June

a saint.

asks Archbishop

Henry D'Souza of

Calcutta to initiate an inquiry into the life, heroic virtues and reputation of holiness of

Mother Teresa, foundress of

novel

in 1963,

at his

He was

Collegeville.

was named. The appointment was announced June 8 in Washington by Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, apostolic

home

—

81 and died of

Powers was Regents' Professor of English and writer-inresidence at

sionaries of Charity Sister Lynn, whom the congregation has chosen as vice postuiator for the cause, handed the petition to the archbishop June 10, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.

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St.

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Catholic

— Two

bishops stay put

remove exmore important dioceses and would return to policy would help

an earlier church model, in which the bishop is seen as "wedded" to his flock, said Cardinals Vincenzo Fagiolo and Bernardin Gantin. The unusual recommendation provoked discussion in Rome, where next year's Synod of Bishops will focus on the bishop's role and office in the church. Cardinal Fagiolo, retired head of the canon law council at the Vatican, floated the idea in an article published in April by the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano. He recalled episodes in which a bishop's appointment to a small diocese would prompt comments like, "They're only sending him there for a few years, then he'll get

"And

one forever. So a bishop, once nominated for a determined see, as a rule should remain

are set, and transfers merely risk creat-

ing disorder and confusion, he

Even where is

to a

In a

May

said.

missionary territories,

a certain

movement of bishops ought to be

legitimate, "transfers

more uncomfortable

and difficult, not to dioceses that are convenient and prestigious," he said. But what

—

may seem

like a

modest

proposal expecting bishops to stay put would drastically alter the current practice of naming bishops. A look at Pope John Paul II's appointments in 1997, for example, shows that he transferred as many bishops as he created, almost always to larger dioceses. Four new archbishops were named in the United States, all of

—

...

said.

dioceses that are

bothered him and others, he wrote, that the greatness of the bishop's ministry was being measured by the size of his diocese."The dignity of the episcopacy lies in a gift that excludes any idea of promotion or transfer, which should be made rare if not eliminated. The bishop is not a functionary who passes through on he

Cardinal Gantin said that for young church communities that see an expansion in the number of dioceses, transfers of bishops can make sense. But for much of the world today, the dioceses

way

a father

there forever," he said.

a better post."

tion,"

ceives a bull of appointment that dissolves

figure and a pastor.

prestigious posi-

— —

Goyret said. For another thing, the pastoral demands of a large archdiocese may require someone with experience, who is not "starting from zero," he said. This is

especially true for sees that have

special cultural or civil significance,

he said. Father Goyret also noted that an especially long list of dioceses on a bishop's curriculum vitae is not necessarily a sign of careerism; it might

like national capitals,

mean just

the opposite.

depends on whether the bishop experiences his promotion as a chance "It

to offer

more service to the church, or as move up," he said, t

an opportunity to

Dick Miller receives MotherTeresa Memorial Award GREENSBORO — The Knights of Columbus recently honored Richard (Dick) Miller of Saint Benedict's Catholic Church in Greensboro the 1st

chairs. Cardinal Giorgi was named arch-

bishop of Palermo after five earlier more than 25 other Italian bishops are in their third diocese. When a bishop is transferred, he re-

General of the Missionaries of Charity. In her letter she accepted, "with gratitude, our request 'as a token of love for our dearest Mother.'" Early in the year, parish priests and Catholic Social Services agencies were asked to submit nominations for this award. Many nominations were

iliary bishops, a position that for is

the

game of musical

first

many

step in episcopal ministry.

In Italy, the transfers can resemble

cumstances. Cardinal Gantin, who retired after heading the Congregation for Bishops from 1984-98, said that when a bishop is named, the diocese receives a father

bond with the existing diocese. Re-assignment is technically considered an exception at the Vatican, but no one bats an eye when it happens. "Exceptions have always been made to this rule. The question today is whether the exception and the expectation of advancement is becoming the rule," said one Vatican official. Cardinal Gantin said that when he was at the helm of the bishops' congregation, he was shocked that some bishops openly requested promotion after a few years in a diocese. He said that at bishops' ordinations, he would occasionally hear toasts offered for the prelate's future career advancement. Father Philip Goyret, a scholar in his

always been to choose a bishop from among the local clergy who will remain in the diocese until retirement. But it may be a bit romantic to insist on such a rule in the modern church, he said. For one thing, the nature of the universal church today, featuring frequent contacts with other bishops and the Vatican, malces it clear that the bishop's "spousal" relationship is less with a particular diocese than with the church of Christ, Father

annual Mother Teresa Memorial Award. State Deputy John Harrison and Monsignor Joseph S. Showfety of Saint Benedict's presented the award to Dick Miller at Sunday Mass. During the presentation, State Deputy Harrison stated that "one of Mother Teresa's favorite mottoes was 'Do Small Things With Great Love.' This motto challenges each of us to serve our church, community, families, and our Lord with the same love and humility of Mother Teresa. Since her death, the Knights of Columbus have sought to find a way to remember the life of Mother Teresa. The Knights of Columbus approved the development of the Mother Teresa Memorial Award to be presented to two North Carolina residents (one per diocese) who best exemplify this motto in their lives. Approval for the institution of this award was received fi-om Sister Nirmala M.C., Superior

them moving "up" from smaller dioceses. Throughout the world that year the pope also named more than 40 aux-

interview with the Ital-

magazine 30 Giorni (30 Days), Cardinal Gantin picked up the baton, saying it would help discourage careerism among bishops if church law were modified to ban transfers and promotions except under strict cirian

has written extensively on

the bishop's ministry, said the ideal has

Cardinals propose

pectations of promotion to

his

Rome who

Slowing the fast track:

Vatican cardinals, voicing concern over episcopal "career climbing," have proposed that bishops remain in the original diocese to which they are named, with rare exceptions.

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Pope says democratic Poland must be anchored in moral truths By

JOHN TH AVIS

Closing a national synod that he convened in 1991, he said the church must better reach people in their daily lives, especially the young. At a Mass attended by half a million Warsaw residents June 13, the pope beatified 108 martyrs of World War II and said they were examples of "total self-giving." The group included bishops, clergy and lay people, some killed in Nazi death camps, some who died because they defended Jews and one woman who gave up her life in exchange for a daughter-in-law who was expecting a child. The pope used the Mass as an oc-

News Service WARSAW, Poland (CNS) Honing his spiritual and political mesCatholic

sage during a 13-day

—

visit to his Polish

homeland, Pope John Paul II hailed the country's new democratic era but said it must be anchored in moral truths to succeed.

"Today as never before the nation needs the light of the Gospel and the strength that comes from it," he said. "Freedom demands constant reference to the truth."

The 13

pope's heavy schedule June 9-

was highlighted by an unprec-

casion to give thanks for restored free-

edented speech to the Polish Parliament and the beatification of 108 World War II martyrs at a Mass in

downtown Warsaw. He also helicoptered

doms under democracy. He remembered a Mass he celebrated in the same square in 1979, when he called upon

and environmental protection to industry leaders. The pope emphasized that the church's saints, martyrs and traditions of past centuries must find a place in the "new" Poland of economic and political freedom.

CNS

delighted pope as he clapped along with the others, celebrating 10 years of political freedom after the fall of com-

munism.

the past, in order to carry our faith and love for the church and country into

In a speech followed attentively by lawmakers in the hall and by the nation on TV, the pope praised the victory of democracy and said the moral

future generations," he said.

The

79-year-old pontiff

fell at

his

lesson of the Solidarity movement must not be forgotten. "As we rejoice together at the positive changes taking place in Poland before our eyes, we cannot fail to recognize as well that in a free society there must also be values which guarantee the supreme good of man in his

residence and needed three stitches to close a cut on his head June 12, but

barely slowed him down. He got a hero's welcome wherever he went, drawing crowds of more than 300,000 people at most events. For the pope, perhaps the most satisfying

moment came June

1 1

when

Every economic change must help to build a world that is more human and more just," he said. He added that Europe's new-found economic unity must have a spiritual

the broad spectrum of Polish political leaders including ex-communists

totality.

—

— joined

in a

long standing ovation

Parliament.

"What has happened

PHOTO BY Reuters

Pope John Paul II holds tight his crosier during the first Mass of his 13-day trip to his homeland June 5. The Mass was in the seaside village of Sopot.

"With immense sensitivity, we must stop and listen to this voice from

them on

Spirit to

communist Poland. He

preaching ecumenism to Catholics and Orthodox faithful, sexual purity to young people

the year 2000 and hand

Holy

"renew the face" of said the changes of the last 20 years had answered that prayer. In several events, the pope evoked the memory of the country's wars and drew lessons from wartime heroism and suffering. On June 11, the pope prayed at a monument at Umschlagplatz in central Warsaw, where in 1942-43 more than 300,000 Polish Jews were packed into railway cars and sent to the Naz gas chambers of Birkenau. He prayed that the Jewish people receive "love and appreciation from those who don't yet understand the magnitude of their the

to four cities

Poland,

eastern

to us!" said a

dimension, warning of "new divisions

and new

conflicts"

on the continent.

Aides said Kosovo was constantly on the pope's mind during his visit. Later June 11, he offered bishops and church leaders a simple blueprint for evangelization in Poland's changing society: Preach and practice the beatitudes. He said the church needs to emphasize its ethical and social teachings using the universal catechism as a guide to provide firm moral

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Poland

In brief... beatifies 108 Polish martyrs; recalls first homecoming WARSAW, Poland (CNS) Pope John Paul II beatified more than 100 Polish Catholics who died in World War II and recalled the changes that have occurred in Poland in the last 20 years. In his homily at the June 13 beatification Mass in Warsaw's Pilsudski Square, Pope John Paul said that in 1979 at the site, he had asked God "that his power might be poured into the hearts of men and women, and hope stirred in them." The events that followed should be seen as God's "response to our cry," he said to a crowd of more than 500,000 people.

Pope

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Pope says Poland must not ignore post-communist poor In a corner of Poland largely untouched by the ELK, Poland (CNS) country's recent economic revival, Pope John Paul II warned that his homeland must not turn its back on the new poor of the post-communist era. "Let us not harden our hearts when we hear the cry of the poor," the poj^e said during a Mass June 8 in the northeastern city of Elk, a small regional hub that

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Touring Augustowsky Canal Pope John Paul II tours the Augustowsky Canal by boat June 8

Leszczewo Pope John Paul II greets the Milewska family, farmers in the

During his 13day trip to his homeland, the 79year-old pontiff visited the woods and lakes where he used to go kayaking as a young priest.

village of

Papal Trip,

"Miracle on the Vistula," an outnumbered Polish army turned back a Soviet advance. The pope was greeted by a few elderly survivors from the campaign, who kissed his ring and wept. In other events June 9-13: Traveling June 10 to Siedlce and Drohiczyn in eastern Poland, a region troubled by centuries of Catholic-Orthodox tensions, the pope urged Christian communities to put aside differences on the eve of the third millennium.

in northeast Poland.

from pages

that commemorates the several hundred thousand Poles who were deported by Soviet forces between 193941.

Many died

Siberia

in brutal labor

camps

and elsewhere. encounter with Ecumenical Council,

Earlier, at a papal

the Polish Poland's Chief Rabbi Menachem Joskowicz thanked the church for helping to remove some 300 crosses from the perimeter of the former Auschwitz death camp after a 10-

month

dispute.

Then he asked

the

pope to ensure the removal of the last cross, which is 30 feet tall and was once used at a papal Mass.

The

rabbi's

comments drew

criti-

cism from other Jewish leaders, and a Vatican spokesman said the "papal cross" would probably remain, reflecting the desire of most Polish Catholics. On June 13, the pope stopped at a cemetery outside Warsaw and prayed for victims of the 1920 Battle of Warsaw, which the pope termed a great victory in Poland's struggle for sovereignty.

In the battle,

known

as the

Visiting the village of

Leszczewo in northeast Poland, June 9. The pope dropped in on them unexpectedly while resting from public appearances during a 13-day trip to his homeland.

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"We must

admit the

faults

has fallen upon hard times in recent years. "Let us strive to act and to live in such a way that in our country no one will be without a roof over their head or bread on the table; that no one will feel alone, left without anyone to care for them," he said. The pontiff was welcomed by about 200,000 people in Elk, a city surrounded by woods, lakes and farms near the Lithuanian border.

Pope takes day off — sort of -~ to visit old stomping grounds

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WIGRY, Poland (CNS) In the middle of a busy trip to his Polish homeland. Pope John Paul II took a day off sort of to visit the woods and lakes where he used to go kayaking as a young priest. The day was planned as a brief retreat from a grueling schedule of public events. But as usual in Poland, it was difficult to keep the pope from the people for very long. The pope arrived at a secluded former monastery in Wigry June 8 and took a boat ride on the local lake. The next morning he was driven to a nearby village, where he dropped in unexpectedly on a farming family to talk about the recent economic problems that have beset farmers in the region. Pope departs Poland after series of unplanned visits WARSAW, Poland (CNS) Pope John Paul II ended his longest pilgrimage to Poland after drawing crowds of hundreds of thousands at a series of unplanned, last-minute events. The pope began the last day in his homeland June 17 with a private Mass in Krakow's historic Wawel Cathedral, after which he spent about 20 minutes in silent prayer. In a brief address, he recalled that his priest's training had begun in an "underground seminary" during the city's wartime German occupation, and later during "gradual normalization under communist rule."

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mitted and pardon each other in turn," he said. His strong call for Christian unity June 10 was coupled with acclaim for a small group of 19th-century Catholic martyrs killed when they refused to hand over their church to the Orthodox. He said they were models for the "new evangelization" needed in modern times. The following day, he visited the Church of St. Basil in Warsaw and told Basilian Fathers to continue their evangelizing work in Eastern Europe. He specifically mentioned Ukraine, where Orthodox leaders have been unhappy with

the church's higher profile in recent years.

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pope

traveled to Sandomierz in southeastern Poland June 12 and, from a white altar symbol-

warned young people to popular erosion of sexual values. "Today the culture of death sets before you, among other things, socalled Tree love.' In this sort of disfigurement of love we reach the profanation of one of the most cherished and sacred values, for promiscuity is neither love nor freedom," he said. More than 300,000 people attended the papal Mass in sweltering heat. In the trade center of Zamosc izing purity,

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June 25, 1999

Readings

Book Review

New books' stories enhance historical Reviewed by Catholic

study of religious order

PEGGY WEBER News

Service

Superiors of religious communities today may think they have a challenging life as they face difficulties with economics and vocations. However, their life looks a little easier

com-

pared to that of Mother Febronie

Joseph

in 1837.

She got off

American Life" By Carol K. Coburn and Martha Smith. The University

of North Carolina

Press (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1999). 327 pp., $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.

boat on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River after visiting her sister in Missouri but missed the path through the woods to the convent. When she did not return, a search by the villagers ensued.

Her

they call the book an unlikely collaboration. "A fifth-generation German Lutheran, American historian began a

Siiaped Catholic Culture and

rior of the Sisters of

Carondelet

In the preface,

How Nuns

order's archives state that "ex-

hausted with hunger and fatigue, she took shelter in the hole of an old tree recommending herself to God." She survived to live in her log cabin convent and continue the ministry of her community.

historian life in

who

professional collaboration with a fourth-

generation Irish Catholic, European has spent her entire adult

a religious

They

June 27, Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Cycle A Readings: 1) 2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16a Psalm 89:2-3, 16-19

community."

makes "SpirShaped Catholic Culture and American Life" by Carol K. Coburn and Martha Smith so fascinating. The authors offer many interesting anecdotes about the earlier days of a religious community. Certainly, It is

a story like this that

How Nuns

there are several fascinating stories in this book, including one describing sis-

backgrounds were

different,

their

goals were the same.

"We

intended to place Catholic sisters within the mainstream of

News

Service

Elaborately carved wood and forged iron; ragged scraps of fabric blowing in the wind; expansive bronze gates; narrow slits in crumbling stucco the entry to every village home opened onto hearts full of yearning. Here was a blind man longing to see the colors of the flowers and the faces of his friends. There was a bed-bound woman aching for health and the strength to hold her babies. Behind this door a family of

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who he

look at early religious

However,

life

truly

others. It probably

The authors, both professors at Avila College in Kansas City, Mo., write that, "although historically al-

gious communities.

and its subsequent influence in American society could not have occurred without the activities and la-

10:39

and not

all

Still,

God. She was the one who went out of her way, out of herself, to look beyond the travel-stained clothes and the windblown hair to see hunger in need of food, fatigue in search of rest. She brought him to her table to eat. She fashioned a place in her home for him to stay so that when he was near he did not pass by but stopped

And when

rested.

knew of her fulfill-

heart's desire: "This time

America.

Questions:

Where could you

God

your day-to-day

make room

for the

is.

How

can you be more whose need open the door to God's blessing? to rest?

may

religious communities.

this

history

shows the

struggles and growing pains of reliIt

shows

Weekly Scripture

class diffi-

gender bias and anti-Catholic prejudice in American society. It is a great historical perspective on religious life and puts today's discussion of vocations and religious life in a new light, t culties,

Weber is a reporter and columnistfor The Catholic Observer, newspaper of the Diocese of Springfield, Mass., and author of "Weaving a Family.

Readings for the week of June 27 - July 3, 1999 Sunday, 2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16, Romans 6:3-4, 8-11, Matthew 10:37-42; Monday, Genesis 18:16-33, Matthew 8:18-22; Tuesday, Acts 12:1-11, 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18, Matthew 16:13-19; Wednesday, Genesis 21:5, 8-20, Matthew 8:28-34; Thursday, Genesis 22:1-19, Matthew 9:1-8; Friday, Genesis 23:1-4,19; 24:1-8,62-67, Matthew 9:9-13; Saturday, Ephesians 2:19-22, John 20:24-29 Readings for tiie weei< of July 4 - 10, 1999 Sunday, Zechariah 9:9-10, Romans 8:9, 11-13, Matthew 11:25-30; Monday, Genesis 28:10-22, Matthew 9:18-26; Tuesday, Genesis 32:23-33, Matthew 9:3238; Wednesday, Genesis 41:55-57; 42:5-7, 17-24, Matthew 10:1-7; Thursday, Genesis 44:18-21, 23-29; 45:1-5, Matthew 10:7-15; Friday, Genesis 46:1-7, 2830, Matthew 10:16-23; Saturday, Genesis 49:29-33; 50:15-24, Matthew 10:24-33

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contem-

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by the courageous faith of the character she plays on stage. Born and raised in Cebu City, Philinspired, in part,

ippines, Almedilla attended a Catholic

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got on stage,

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was very

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sang there three Wednesdays in a row and Richard J. Alexander, then executive producer of 'Les Mis,' saw an episode and asked me to audition." Almedilla landed the role of Kim in the Broadway musical "Miss Saigon" and performed in a number of other productions before being cast as called. "I

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Charlotte Vicariate Patrick Cathedral, Charlotte: Ashley Nicole Barnhill, Tracy Elaine Osborne, Michael Walter Rickheim, Beth Ann Zak,

Sara Stroup, Susan

Charlotte: Melissa Cocchieri, Christina Cox, Gina Finucane,

Thrower Zorovich; Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Char-

Moore; Charlotte:

Dorothy Almaraz, Janet Batres, Vikki

Neffke, Bruce

Lori Robinson Vieth, John Charles Walsh, Maria Clatta Walsh, Carla

Elizabeth Church, Boone: Christy

Dawn Munoz; Lucien Church, Spruce Pine: Joseph

Jill

Thomas Aquinas Church,

St.

Amy Shaheen, Jes-

Bishop, Michael Clay, Katie Earner, Trina

St.

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NeSke, Robin Schmutz,

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Butler, C. Michelle Sain, Steven

Madden, Barry McGinnis, Stacey Meehan,

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Greg Hebeisen, Sallie Mark Kinstle, Randy Lane, Nancy Lochary, Than-Thi Luong, Gay

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Thomas

more than 600 men and women throughout the Diocese received into the Catholic Church this Easter season Charlotte who were of through the Rite of Christian Initiation ofAdults process. Thefollowing are tlie names of these men and women as submitted by their parish and mission churches. Also included are the names of several children who participated in

Herald welcomes

Da\id Caldwell, Ainiee Holder, Sarali Baumann; St.

Monahan, James A. Moss, Matthew Nadolski, Ken Perry, Todd Rhoads, Steve Rickman, Brian Roepe, Kathryn Seymour, Shirley Smith, Scott Minick, Suzanne

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Mark Church,

St.

Huntersville: John

Holloway, Gary Porter,

Amy Dirig;

McCauley tor,

Gastonia Vicariate

Queen of the Apostles Church, Belmont: Sheri Balke, Daniel George, Christopher Hayes, Alex Hunt, Natalie Hunt, Jeremy Stone, Jennifer Thomas, Laura Ricci, Christina Ricci, Brittany Ricci, Robert Ricci, Teresa Garrett,

Deborah McTeague, Debbie Will; Holy Spirit Church, Denver: Destry Ballard, Da\id Baxter, David Foley, Kari Lamich

Michael Church, Gastonia: Ivan

St.

McFalls, Cindy Nguyen, Angela Nocom,

Amy

Tran, Taunia Zagala, Joy

Watson, Kathryn Watson, Lauren Watson, Patrick Watson, Peter Whitehurst, Rob Wiley, Lisa M. Wooten, Steven Barrow, Kelly

Deane

Mindy M.

Blevins,

Bolduc,

Nicole Suzette Boxley, Sherrie Pillion Carson, Tammy Annette CroU, Melissa Gonzales, Gregory Kyle Hefner, Thomas Allen Hyatt, Abby Anne Johnson, Antoine N.' Kouakou, Donna Latta, Adam Little, Linda F. Lugo, Crystal Ann Nichols, Philip Owens, Robert Clayton Peacock, Shannon Beth Quinn, Teresa Ray Sowinski;

Phillips, Ellen

Mary Church,

Fagge, Thomas J. Hill, Faith Kostelnik, Joy Olczak, Steve Bullard,

St.

Pam

Ferrell, Carter

Mitchell, Sturgis,

Nicholson, Weisenhorn;

Shelby:

Collette Bridges, Kevin Lavelle, Gail Streicher, Kevin Streicher;

Kern, Sallie Myers,

Bullard,

Dru

Brandon

Baker, Evelyn

Cummo;

Greensboro Vicariate Saunders, Krista Schneider;

Joseph of the

Eden: Mark Li-

Hills,

Pius X Church, Greensboro: Mary Buczek, Michael Frettoloso, Jonathan Gomes, Joshua Gomes, Hamilton Hudson, Stanhope Johnson, Mark Mayhew, Barbara Miele, Maisha Pajardo, Gloria Phillips, James Pressly, Robert Staples, Wayne Vaughn, Adam White; Immaculate Heart of Mary, High Point: Travis Griggs, Dawn Leviner, Kathy McLaughlin, Ken Shackleford, Jerry Crotts, Cynthia Gervais, Dale Leviner, Helen Radin, Tracie Oberrieder; Christ the King Church, High Point: Linda Ilderton, Willa Graham, Rebecca Kageorge, Emily May, Frank Shelar Jr., Fern Trottier, Michael Wenig; Holy Infant Church, Reidsville: Jon Daniel Briggs; Our Lady of the Highways Church, Thomasville: Darlene Brown, Jolene

gon, Toni Rene Mott, April Rene London,

Ariana Marie London; Our Lady of Grace Church, Greensboro: Christopher Basinger, Margaret Holland Bell, Sally Nickles Blaser, Kerri Michelle Brancazio, Robert A. Burger, Charles Lee Cady, Dean Edward Hall, Leslie H. Hertwig, John William Kelly, Elaine Jean Kenny, Anne Knapke, Kerry L. Lee, Alexa Little, Alissa Marie Lord, Joy Macksood, Sherri Mangum, Evan Matthew McColl, Julie Milunic, Matt Milunic, Eddie Mitchell, Kathy Kenerley Murphy, Holly

Malinda Parr, Deborah Lynn Richards, Monica Rose, Susan Ann Sa\'ageau, Brian Sickelbaugh, Darren Mark Smith, Worth

Lew

Sylva: Ashley Moran,

John Church, Waynesville: Kera Amber Middleton;

Leigh Riley,

Winston-Salem Vicariate Holy Family Church, Clemmons: Rebecca Andrews, James LaMott Darling, Gay Louise Diamond, Loretta Ruth Dull, Martha Hughes Ford, Murray Vernon Godley III, Sharon Faye Cliborne Haizlip, Tammy Hauser, Terry R. Hicks, Paul

Makio Hopgood, Kimberly

Wayne

Lesser, Franki Miller, Jeffrey

Sessoms, Steven Michael Smeal, William Franklin Yarbrough;

Holy Cross Church, Kernersville: Annette Teresa Buckley, Stephanie Katliryn Burke, Keith John Crouch, Slieila

Mary Defoor, Deana

Helena Lamanna, Alice Francis McGowan,

Ambrose

Coates, Jan Billings, Nick

Kristi

Mae

Newcomb, Kenneth Joseph Osmann, Amanda Elizabeth Trader, Robert Gabriel

Byrd;

Salisbury Vicariate James Church, Concord: Glen

Merritt, Richard Isaac

Wittner; St.

MacFarland, Daniel

Benedict the

Moor

Winston-Salem:

Church, Kenisha

Baham, Connie Wall; St. Leo the Great Church,

Holland, Linne Scott, Elena Elder,

Tami

St.

Joseph Church, Asheboro: Terri

St.

Hernandez, Nancy Mendoza, Nancy McCall,

Mary Church,

Jesse Stamper;

Anderson, Christopher Caro, Caroline Farmer, Michael Farmer, Tammie Fie, Harvey Fink, John Fink, Beth Fonnesu, Shannon Gilreath, Darin Hatfield, Robert Johnson, Lesa Joiner, Megan Kenzik, Steven Lamothe, Shauna O'Brien, Wendy Propst, Ricky Royall, Julia Slattery, Pam Stafford, Glenn West; St. Francis of Assisi Church, Lenoir: Margaret Ballerini, Gary Bryant, Alethea Dillard, Jeffrey Pasour, Carolyn Welsh, Nichole Kennington, Johnathan Madon, Martha Jane Madon; St. Charles Borromeo Church, Morganton: Ema Elena Ortiz, Juana

Erin Fagge, Christopher

Jeanna

St.

Hickory Vicariate Aloysius Church, Hickory: Carole

Ken

Lawrence,

Ferrin, Joseph Block, Richard Kimet; St.

Janine

Tammy

St.

Paulette Murray-Blair,

St.

Brown, Lee Anna Jones, Melanie Katlarsy;

Alfred Vic-

Benedict Church, Greensboro: Linda Davis, Ryan Edwards; St. Paul the Apostle Church, Greensboro:

Thelma

St.

Wayne

April Cheree Wainwright, Susan

Baptism

Cassidy, Flo Holland, Inga Kish,

Elizabeth Toto,

Squires, Meredith Lee Victor,

Greg Williams, Edward McCoy; St. Francis of Assisi Church, Mocksville: Kevin Neidl,

Winston-Salem:

Julie Bell,

Stephanie Bowers,

Ann

Esch,

Pamela Frandano, Beverly Gonzalez, Kelley Grabowski, Dorianne Hageman, Heather Hamby, Chong Suk Kern, Sara Lehman, Melodie Long, Jef-

Smith;

St Theresa Church, Mooresville: Dana Landro, Cathy Connell,

Amanda Davis, Doug Davis, Tracy Matthew, Amanda

frey Priddy, Valerie Relacion,

Morgan, Wesley Weaver;

Pedro Rocha, James Saddler,

Amanda Sherman, Smoicy Mountain Vicariate St. Joseph Church, Bryson City: Steven Thomas Cole;

Sicignano, David Smith,

Olivia

Drew

smith, Kelly Smith, Callie

Eucharist

Francis of Assisi Church, Franklin: Carol Kistler;

St.

thomas,

Norman Wiginton, II;

Good Shepherd Church, King: Michael Dunn;

Immaculate Heart of Mary Church,

Our Lady of Fatima Church, Winston-

Donna

Salem: Stephanie Butler, Garrett Butler; Our Lady of Mercy Church, WinstonSalem: Jacqueline Rogers, Jennifer Danna, Anne Lundahl, Brian Dillard, James Lai

Hayesville: McAuliffe,

Schopp,

Betty

Mary

Reynolds, Gracie Lash;

Margaret Church, Maggie Valley: Marlene Cole, James Donovan, Barbara

St.

Tami Johnson, Sliawn Gaddis; William Church, Murphy: Kara

Enloe, St.

Schutt, Vivian Schell, E\'a Law,

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The Foreign

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room, board and familiy

life

for the stu-

dents, an athletic 16-year-old

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enjoys gardening and a 1 7-year-old girl who enjoys sports and reading. Both

homeless. Students Mary Tate and Maggie Skrabec led the project, which amassed toiletries, clothes, food and other materials that were donated to area homeless shelters. "The students have more self esteem and have improved their performance at school," Degiralamo wrote in the Spring issue of The Franciscan Flyer newsletter. "The poor have benefited, not only in material ways, but in knowing that the community cares for them." The project was a collaborative effort including the Franciscan Family of Greensboro.

Our Lady of Mercy School receives Target grant

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WINSTON-SALEM Our Lady of Mercy School recently was chosen from among 1,000 schools nationwide

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Inspired by the faith story of Third-order Secular Franciscan Anne Degiralamo and after watching a film about a Philadelphia soup kitchen, eighth-grade students at

Our Lady of Grace School logged more than 350 service hours in

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES Director of Faith Formation: Our Lady of the Assumption parish seeks a fujl-time director for its faith formation programs. Candidates with experience

in this

parish ministry, or possessing a college

background in theology or religious studies, are encouraged to apply. The competitive candidate will possess good organizational and interpersonal skills, and a \ ision of faith formation emphasizing grade .school through middle school youth, but not excluding adults. Exemplary oral and written communication skills required, as well as basic computer skills. The salary range is mid to high 20's, commensurate with experience. Good benefits under diocesan coverage. Send resume with names of references as early as convenient to FF Search Committee; c/o Father Gillespie, SJ, 4207

Shamrock Drive, Charlotte,

Catholic High

School has the foUowign teaching positions open beginning August 1999. Full-time Social studies,

Biology/Environmental science. Must For application, call (704) 543127, Mon.-Thurs. 8am-l 1:30 am.

full-time

certified.

Teachers: Sacred Heart School (Pre-K - 8) has the following part-time positions open beginning August 1999: Music, Librarian, Computer, and Counselor. All applicants must have, or be in a position to obtain. North Carolina certification. Please send resume to: Principal, Sacred Heart School, 123 N. Ellis St., Salisbury, NC 28144; Fax(704)633-6033. Principal: An academically challenging school with 300 students in grades K4-8th is seeking to fill

the position of Principal. Applicants shall have

the following qualifications: master's degree in

Administration

School

(or

Administration

if not holding an Administrative degree, be willing to work for one; at least 5 years of teaching experience; have, or be eligible for, a South Carolina principal's certificate, or have certi-

from Target stores. The "Target Outstanding Schools Award" was given based on fund-raising, volunteer work, community involvement and other factors involving the Winston-Salem Catholic school. Sandra McMonagle, principal, and Sister Geri Rogers, sixth-grade teacher, submitted the application.

Director of Development: Bishop McGuinness High School, a diocesan college preparatory school, grades 9-12,

is in

search of a Director of Develop-

ment and Public Relations

for the

1999-2000 school

year (to begin summer 1999). Responsibilities include oversight and coordination of all institutional advancement activities, including fundraising, alumni activities, liaison with media and public, student recruitment, and work with diocesan Development Office staff as school enters transition from current to new campuses. Qualifications: degree in appropriate field of preparation, experience in this or related field a plus; computer skills; demonstrated effecti\'eness in human relations and motivation; mastery of written

communication

for publicity purposes, etc.

Send

re-

sume/qualifications to George L. Repass, Principal,

1730 Link Road, 'Winston-Salem, N. C. 27103.

Teachers: Bishop McGuinness High School, 'Winston-Salem, NC, a diocesan 9-12 college prep institution,

needs teachers

the following areas for the

coming school year: Modern Languages (Spanish, French), Math, and History. Send resume/application to George L. Repass, Principal, 730 Link Road,

from another state; be a practicing CathoFor application, .send resume to: Rev. Arturo Dalupang, St. Anthony Catholic Church and lic.

School,

PC Box

5327, Florence,

29502.

Business Manager: Computer literate Business Manager wanted for local non-profit organization. Responsibilities include bookkeeping, accounts payable/receivable, payroll, taxes, financial reporting, budget preparation and supervision. Salary to the low $30's including full benefits and retirement program. Send resume to Search Committee, 708 St. Michael's Lane, Gastonia, 28052 or stmich@bellsouth.net.

Pastoral Musician:

Paul the Apostle Parish is .seeking a part-time Director of Music available August 1, 1999. Must possess skills in keyboard, vocal

NC 27103. (N.C. Certification/some experience preferred.) Winston-Salem,

Technology Services Coordinator: The Diocese of seeking a Technology Services Coordinator. Applicant should have the experience and technical know-how to help create a communications system to link parishes, schools, and social service

Savannah

institutions in the diocese

which encompasses South

Georgia. Communications skills a must. Five years' experience required. Experience with radio/TV technology a plus. Please request application form and send resume and salary expectations to: Office Communications, Diocese of Savannah, 601 E. Liberty St., Savannah, GA 31401-5196 or by e-mail to Diosav@msn.com

knowledge of Vatican

Duties include coordination of music for worship services, directing the Adult Choir, training parish cantors, providing music for all sacII

all

liturgy.

years ago. More than 100 student^s of MACS' five elementary and one

middle schools participated in the program. Thirty-one MACS students participated in three of the six

Academic in

Wheeling, W.Va., winning more than a dozen individual and team awards.

Bishop McGuinness awarded volunteer honors

WINSTON-SALEM

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Bishop

McGuinness Memorial High School and graduating senior Mary Addie Heaton have been awarded State Volunteer Organization of the Year and State Volunteer of the Year by Special Olympics North Carolina. Heaton was recognized for her involvement with Special Olympics through her high

mum

of 3 years' experience preferred. ResponsibiliRCIA, liturgy committee, social concerns, health care, parish hospitality, and effective include

Managerial experi-

ence is a plus. Good communications and an understanding of parish life are necessary. Salary is commensurate with education and experience. Send resume with references to: Diocese of Savannah, Mr. .John Benware, 601 E. Liberty St., Savannah, GA 31401 or fax: (912)238-2335.

Pastoral Services Director: professional, ministesupervision and facilitation of worship and service in parish life. Motivated and creative person needed to serve a growing, active faith community of 700 families north of Raleigh. Master's degree in Theology or Pastoral Administration and a minirial

were honored by the Special Olympics North Carolina Piedmont Triad Area at a dinner in Greensboro May 12. Greensboro parishioner inducted into Phi Beta Kappa Society GREENSBORO Stephanie Dorko, a rising senior at Trinity College in Washington, D.C., has been inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The daughter of Michael and Robin Dorko, she is a graduate of Grimsly High School and is a parishio-

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ner of St. Mary Catholic Church, both in Greensboro. She is a sociology ma-

Founded in Dec 1776 at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., Phi Beta Kappa is the nation's oldest undergraduate honors organization. The chapter at Trin-

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established in

1971.

Middle School Teacher: Immaculate Heart of

Mary School

sible for teaching

team ministry. Availability for pastocounsel and crisis intervention important. Active, Confirmed Catholic supportive of our Church's history and tradition a must. Full-time position. Salary

and benefits. Send resume with salary requirements and professional references to: Search Committee, St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, 520 W. Holding Ave., 'Wake Forest, NC 27587.

Diocesan Regional Coordinator (Office of Faith Formation): Charlotte dioce-se has an opening for the Charlotte area. Diocese seeks a person with a Master's degree in Religious Ed/allied field, 5 years of demonstrable succe.ssful experience in parish/diocesan work. 'Well-rounded in catechist formation skills.

Collaborative. Sensitive to cultural minorities.

Good

written/oral communication skills. Salary range $24,000 - $28,000. Plea.se send resume and 3 letters of recommendation to: Dr. Cris Villapando, 1123 S. Church St., Charlotte, NC 28203, Attn: Search Committee, or fax to: (704)370-3244. Inquiries: (704)370-3244. Deadline: July 15, 1999.

in the

Language Arts. Please send rePaula Robinson, 605 Barbee Avenue, High Point, NC 27262 or call (336)887-2613.

sume

to:

Assisted Living Caregivers: Homemakers and CNAs - enjoy rewarding work with flexible parttime schedules as a Kelly Assisted Living caregiver. If you have life skills and are caring and compassionate, please call us in Charlotte at (704)523-7884.

Direct Care Professional: Full-time and parttime needed,

opmental

Prefer experience in develExcellent benefit package in-

all shifts.

disabilities.

cludes medical, dental,

and

life

LTD

House Cleaners: $12/hour.

9 hours a week: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday daytimes. Charlotte area. Call Maid in Heaven: (704)643-5545.

Organist: Our Lady of Grace Church in Greensboro, North Carolina is seeking a full-time organist to assist our music director. Applicants must be fully competent on organ and piano, able to lead congregation in singing, coach cantors, and function as

music director for weddings and funerals. Send resume to Music Director, Our Lady of Grace Church, 2205 'West Market St., Greensboro, NC 27403. (336)274-6520. Fax (336)274-7326.

and fun! Between Charlotte and Gastonia. Apply at Holy Angels, 6600 Wilkinson Blvd., Belmont, NC or call (704)825-4161. Special

Ed Teacher: BA/BS

Ed and NC round posi-

in Special

tion.

pre-tax options; and fun! Between Charlotte and Gastonia. Apply at Holy Angels, site childcare;

6600 Wilkinson

All Saints Catholic School

August 1999: Primary teachers; Assistant principal; Physical Education; and part time for Art, Music, Counselor, Substitute teachers. All must have North Carolina certification. Please send resume and rePrincipal, All Saints Catholic

Endhaven Lane, Charlotte, Fax (704) 544^2184.

28277;

Director of Music/Organist: St. Peter's Catholic Church, 507 S. Tryon St., Charlotte, NC 28202. 750family congregation. Four weekend masses and holy days; one adult choir; work with faith formation/ children; 35-40 hours/ week. Salary negotiable, commensurate with experience; additional fees for weddings and funerals; retirement benefits; continuing ed; 4 weeks vacation. 'Written contract. Two-manual Zimmer renovated in 1993. Position open 8/1/99. Contact Alan Houck at church address or (704)8757440 days;(704)948-9536 evenings; (704)875-7473 fax;

Belmont,

or call

Faith Formation Director: An established Catholic parish of 600 families just outside of Charlotte is seeking a full-time Director of Faith Formation. Responsibilities will include the creation of a Faith

Formation Process that

grow

offers

ALL

parishioners

in their faith at all

stages of

This includes: catechetical ministries for children

and youth, as well

RCIA, sacramental

preparation,

ministry training, and adult formation. Qualifications: at least two years' parish experience, organiza-

and

tional skills,

cate with

ability to

work with and communi-

ages. Salary will reflect qualifications.

all

Mail resume with references to: Search Committee/ Faith Formation, Queen of the Apostles Church, 503 N. Main St., Belmont, NC 28012.

PROPERTIES FOR SALE

Home

for Sale: 3Bedroom/2Bath Modular

Home

42" riding mower, utility shed, carport, and other extras. $25,000 fully furnished or $20,000 unfurnished. Call (704)597-1545.

(No

land). Includes

Home for Sale: Ocean Isle Beach. 4 Bedrooms, plus sleep loft (or, den/5th bedroom). 3 /2 baths. Furnished with style. Gated community west end. 'Walk to beach. Pool. Tennis. Year-round

Beach

enjoyment; fireplace; ample room to entertain. Lou Hayes Realty, agent Bill R. $294,500. (888)-398-

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Kindergarten Teacher: Immaculate Heart of Mary School has an opening for a certified teacher to teach Kindergarten for the 1999-2000 school year. The

7086. (Seller

is St.

Matthew

parishioner.)

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teacher will be responsible for teaching all subjects including Religion. Please send resume to Paula

Robinson, 60S Barbee Avenue, High Point, 27262 or call (336)887-2613.

Blvd.,

(704)825-4161.

opportunities to

(K-5) has the following positions open beginning

to:

Excellent benefit package includes medical, life and LTD insurance; paid time-oflT; on-

dental,

life.

Elementary Teachers:

insurance;

paid time-off; on-site childcare; pre-tax options;

Certificate in Severe/Profound. "Year

School, 7000

profit or fund accounting field.

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ral

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Around fhe Diocese

"We had always planned on doing a special needs adoption," Linda said. "Carol said, 'How about going to

and because they want an infant. Since its first adoption, in 1994, the lAP has placed 175 to 200 children, 95 percent from Russia. The other 5 percent are from China. Carol and Elizabeth visit Russian orphanages every six months to photograph and videotape children available for adoption. The children are initially available only for adoption in After Russia. to wait as long

Adoption Picnic,

from page i in New York no one could take her away from me; that was my daughter," Staub said. "It's the best thing we ever did. Actually, I said to Kathie three or four months after we got Alex, 'Well, are you ready to go back?'

down

that despite some adjustment problems, the boys are doing well. Vasily

spoke no English when he came to America from a Russian orphanage for gifted and talented children, but has won a presidential award for academic

improvement

at his

new

school.

so lucky, and

father had

do it again. I'd do Other parents

I'd

played the French horn at the orphanage and will be in advanced band in middle school this fall. "He's just the kindest, nicest child you could ever want," Clara said. "I'm

wanted

about

sought interna-

months,

tional adoption as

sian families

way

to prevent

Chinese

Thurbee, director of CSS for the Charlotte Diocese said her agency found adoptive parents for 23 American children

cials

Photo by Joanita M. Nellenbach

Safe in Dad's arms,

"We've done good job of plac-

said.

ing white infants, black infants, and biracial infants. A good number of the people who adopt internationally are older. Many times they may be in second marriages. They may have children from a previous marriage, but they haven't had the opportunity of parenting together." Parents who choose to go the international route often do so, she said, because they believe they will not have

said,

"They have to refinalize

the adoption in the United States, and

then they have to apply for citizenship for their child."

worth

It's all

"With Lois and Carol and everyone else involved, it's for the kids," Lyle Staub said. "You can see how much love they have for the kids. If there are saints on this earth, it's those two ladies. I mean, look at these families, how happy they are. Look at these

country, adoption takes one to two years. ther

International adoption is an opportunity for children to thrive who might not otherwise have much a chance to survive and grow. That's the case with Elena, 11 1/2 months old, who came home to Asheville with her new parents, Linda and Alan Geer just a week before the picnic. During the picnic, Elena" was smiling away, despite a cleft palate the split her upper lip all the way to the back of the roof of her mouth.

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very active domestic program," she

The Staubs started the adoption process in June 1997, working with Lois Miller. In February 1998 they traveled to Moscow to pick up their 10-month-old daughter, Alex. "All I knew was, when we touched

offi-

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last year.

through the Internet. We went to Mass one day and got the bulletin, and there was something about adoption."

unCarol if she would have the (corrective) operation there, and they said, 'How can you even ask? don't have food, and you want her to have an operation?'" After parents have spent several days getting to know their prospective child, they make the final decision to adopt. They go to a Russian court to finalize the adoption before bringing the child home. After returning home, Elizabeth

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Living the Failh

State honors CSS

Hand to Hand program By

jimmy ROSTAR

Associate Editor

WINSTON-SALEM

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Dio-

cese of Charlotte Catholic Social Services project designed to reduce teen

pregnancy has been honored by a state agency that provides services to children and families. Hand to Hand, a CSS adolescent mentoring program operating in Forsyth County since 1989, was selected as one of six state award winners for 1999 by the North Carolina Partnership for Children. The Catholic Social Services program was recognized in the Family Support category. Constance McVey, director for Hand to Hand, accepted the award on behalf of the program at a Smart Start Awards Banquet attended by Gover-

healthy births and parenting skills, and postponement of any future pregnancies until clients are in different life positions.The program model works, McVey said. "Nationally, a young woman who has a baby as a teen-ager typically has a second child within 24 months," she said.Among the clients in the Hand to Hand Program, less than 5 percent have a second child in that same timeframe, she said. In addition, eight clients are graduating from high school, and one is graduating with honors from college this year.

"When McVey

bears

McVey said cently. "We think life,"

to high standards:

"Outreach to

young

girls are

all

what we're

about,"

in these positions as

said.

early as they are. However, they have chosen not to have abortions but to bear

Hand

McVey

"We teach the

importance of family

and having a value system."

Hand program

provides a variety of learning and support services to firsttime pregnant and parenting teens, the majority of whom are under 15 years of age. Serving about 100 young women each year, the program educates clients about possibilities of adoption as a way of forming families, and supports them in parenting efforts if they decide to raise their children themselves.

McVey

said the

program

instills

three goals in clients: self-sufficiency.

educa-

statue, locally

referred to as the

"Pink Lady"can be seen at St. Jude Church in Sapphire Valley.

The

statue

was completed by the late Fran Trainor, who was a parishioner at the church.

North

Carolina's urban ar-

Forsyth County

eas,

Photo courtesy of A.J. Mackie

to other groups, the

Department of Health and Natural Resources statistics, she said that in 1997 there were 815 preglina

nancies in the 10-19

age group here. considering that nearly 300 of those pregnancies ended in induced abortions, teen pregnancy becomes an Clients of the

gram

issue,

Hand

McVey

said.

Hand

pro-

are either referred by themselves,

other agencies or entities such as health departments, churches and schools. They enter the program on a voluntary basis.

where

Unlike social

many

work models

social

workers provide services

merican

Hand

sister,"

McVey

the program,

"We

try to be unconditionally ac-

cepting of them as people, but not par-

ticularly of negative behaviors," McVey said of the program's clients, who come from a variety of family, educational and faith backgrounds. Because it provides people to listen and personal attention, the program reinforces clients' belief in themselves,

are the backbone of

McVey

explained. "Chil-

added.

dren need role models more than they need critics," she said. "The population that we're working with has a lot of

"Outreach to women and children, and upholding the sanctity of life are what we're all about," McVey said.

things to struggle against already."

"We teach the importance of family and having a value system." "We have a wonderful, strong,

McVey

said

many

clients

come

from poverty, broken homes, and environments where education is not val-

Christian staff of

The

mentor-client relationship, she added, allows the young women to understand the consequences of life decisions and invites involvement by family members and other supporters. The program is funded by Catholic Social Services, the Forsyth Early Childhood Partnership, the United ued.

these

it's

women who

young women.

ministry.

It's

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not a job; it

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They

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