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Saint Patrick
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not only
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converted the whole country
10 people
by his preaching and wonderful
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miracles, but also cultivated this vineyard with
so
fruitful
a
Pro-life
benediction and incense from
leaders
heaven, as to render Ireland a
gatherfor
most flourishing garden
in
the
conference church of God and a country ,
.Page
7
of saints. "Butlers Lives of
Priest
remembers
the Fathers, Martyrs
an J Other Saints"
baseball hero ...Page
Local
16
News
Diocesan Support Appeal to close
March 20-21 ...Page
14
New members appointed to
MACS board ...Page
15
fvcry Week Editorials
& Columns ...Pages
4-5
Entertainment ...Pages
Ireland
is
10-11
different
A commentary ...Pages
8-9
Photo, right, by Joann S. Keane
2
The Catholic News & Herald
Ihe World
March
Britf
in
mother church to undergo
U.S.
lease of
historic restoration
army
officers
1999
12,
abducted by
mother church of Catholicism in the United States will undergo a major
communist rebels near Davao City. "Our primary role is to serve as a communication channel. The official communication has been suspended,
historic restoration that archdiocesan
so there
leaders say will bring the old cathedral
bishop Fernando Capalla of Davao told UCA News, an Asian church
BALTIMORE
—
(CNS)
The
back to its original, 19th-century design. Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore announced that the archdiocese has selected two New York-based architecture firms to develop a master plan for the restoration of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in
Holy Door Hammer A young visitor to the
downtown Baltimore. CRS begins joint effort to stave off starvation in North Korea
Pope John Paul II will open the door on Christmas Eve this year to mark the start of the Jubilee Year
BALTIMORE
(CNS)
—
2000.
agency, as well as
New
last
time the
Patrick
CNS
PHOTO BY Nancy Wiechec
dioceses and the apostolic nunciature to Indonesia
had donated $50,000 to
assist the refugees, but further funds
tion for the Evangelization of Peoples,
on
for talks
es-
would open
that
major communica-
a
tions channel with Vietnam's
commu-
government. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls confirmed March 4 that a delegation headed by Msgr. Celestino Migliore, Vatican undersecretary of state, would meet Vietnamese officials in Hanoi to discuss diplomatic relations and other nist
church-state issues.
Missionary news agency says millions fleeing Indonesia violence
—
VATICAN CITY
(CNS) More than 2 million Indonesians were fleeing an island in panic amid violent clashes between Christians and Muslims, a Vatican agency reported. Local
3
The
I
if it
sign the treaty. Archbishop
A
mid-March
Leahy, D-Vt., outlined
to treaty compliance even
Vatican delegation was traveling to in
J.
new
would move the United States closer
were needed, the news agency Fides, operated by the Vatican's Congrega-
tablishing diplomatic relations, a step
for the
1
legislation he plans to introduce that
E.
Vietnam
— Amid
(CNS)
March
spokesman for the U.S. Catholic bishops urged the United States to join the ban. At a meeting with journalists and landmine survivors on Capitol Hill, Sen.
man
(CNS)
active.
treaty to ban land mines, a
75,000 metric tons of wheat donated by the United States. North Korea has been suffering from a chronic food shortage as a result of floods, drought
VATICAN CITY
is
WASHINGTON
ternational will oversee distribution of
—
Army
global celebrations
In-
and a failing economy. Vatican, Vietnamese officials to discuss diplomatic relations
People's
Land-mine ban treaty takes effect, archbishop urges U^. to sign
CARE, Mercy
World Vision and Amigos
Corps,
The
Thailand,
in
also issued to
Bishop Wilfredo Manlapaz of Tagum, whose diocese the communist-led
ceremony took place was in 1983.
emergency food distribution in famine-stricken North Korea. A consortium made up of CRS, the U.S. bishops' overseas relief and development
Arch-
in place,"
in
St. Peter's Basilica.
Catholic
no link
news agency based March 1. A pass was
Vatican Museums looks at a hammer used by a pope to open the Holy Year Door of
Relief Services and other charitable groups have joined forces to oversee
is
March 2. Hispanic ministry directors promote dialogue LOS ANGELES (CNS) About
reported
—
70 diocesan directors for Hispanic ministry from around the nation met in Los Angeles to discuss the process that will lead to Encuentro 2000 in Los Angeles next year. Bishop Gerald R. Barnes of San Bernardino, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Hispanic Affairs, said that "this is not going to be a Hispanic Encuentro, along the lines of the last three 'encuentros' for Hispanic ministry." Instead " this is
an appeal from all the bishops of the United States to all cultural and ethnic groups to initiate a multicultural dialogue at the parish level" leading to
Episcopal, calendar ,
Encuentro 2000, he added.
Bishops vote
call
on Salvadorans to
in presidential
elections
SAN SALVADOR
(CNS)
—
Bishops called on Salvadorans to vote responsibly and asked for a good turnout in the March 7 presidential election, the second since the end of the Central American nation's civil war seven years ago. "As Christians we must not only fulfill our obligations with God, but also our civic duties," said the Feb. 27 message from the Salvadoran bishops' conference. "But it is not sufficient just to place our vote. It is also necessary to exercise and fulfill this obligation with a conscience and as an act of responsibility," the bishops said. Philippine army permits clergy to negotiate officers' release CITY, Philippines
McCarrick of Newark,
does not
Theodore
N.J., chair-
of the bishops' International Policy Committee, welcomed the antiland-mine pact as an "important step toward a more peaceful and humane world" and urged the United States "to join the 134 other nations that have already signed the treaty." Vatican Radio to increase programming for Holy Year pilgrims
VATICAN CITY
(CNS)
—
To
reach Holy Year pilgrims with spiritual messages, commentary and practical advice, Vatican Radio plans to increase programming in five languages during the year 2000. Church officials plan to encourage pilgrims to arrive in Rome carrying a portable
—
—
radio even a cheapie so they can tune into one of two special channels for news and other programs in English, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, said Jesuit Father Pasquale Borgomeo, Vatican Radio's general director.
DAVAO
(CNS)
— The Philippine army
issued
conduct passes to two bishops
safe
and two priests to work out the
re-
Diocesan, planner Upcoming
3635 Park Rd., today through March 18. Each day includes Mass and Scripture sharing at 9:30 a.m., and Liturgy of the Word at 7:30 p.m. Dominican Father Michael Burke of the De Porres House in Raleigh, facilitates. For de-
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and priests serving the diocese. Choir rehearsals are March 21 and March 28 from 4-5 p.m. at the cathedral. If interested, call Dr. Larry Stratemeyer at
maculate Conception Church, 208 Seventh Ave., presents "The Passion of the Lord" today, March 20 and March 2 1 at 7 p.m. For details, call (828) 693-6901. Melodye Micere 17 Stewart, a featured speaker at the Mil-
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BELMONT
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Im-
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Woman March
in Philadelphia in
1997 and a Charlotte Post columnist, discusses literature of the "Harlem Renaissance" at 7 p.m. today in Grace Auditorium, on the third floor of St. Leo Hall on the campus of Belmont Abbey Q)llege. For details, call (704) 825-6890.
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series
p.m.,
1
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of natural family planning classes taught by the Couple to Couple League begins today from 7-9 p.m.
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Josie at (704) 527-4676.
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treat/mission
is
— A Lenten
at St.
re-
Ann Church,
The Sympto-Thermal method
is
March
1999
12,
In
Pope John Paul
beatifies
II
including Spanish By
JOHN THAVIS
Catholic
News
—
Spanish civil war. Celebrating Mass in St. Peter's the pope said the
7,
were men and women
new "blesseds" who had encountered found meaning
Christ and thus
in their
own
lives.
"Despite the trials of their lives, they did not harden their hearts, but listened to the voice of the Lord, Holy and the
them
Spirit filled
with God's love," he said in a ser-
mon.
The pope
pre-
over the two-hour liturgy sided in
front of
20,000
some
people
from various parts of Europe and beyond. The newly
German lay woman known for
"Despite the
were
nuncio to Cuba By
slain.
Pope John Paul
tered to other prisoners before his
death by ing squad.
The pope beatified
listened to the voice of
SchafTer,
Spirit filled
them
God's
love."
age 43
in
Balife
a suc-
cession of physical accidents and disease. She had wanted to be a missionary, but in the end accepted her infirmity as a
— Pope John Paul
Mary Ann Dowling at
(828) 696-2357. day of reflection for
parish catechetical leaders, with Bishop
William G. Curlin as the featured speaker, is today from 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Catholic Conference Center, 155rTrinity Lane. The gathering also Mass and discussion of
II
way of
sanctification.
Her
CNS
A
who
Barre hangs over Pope John Paul II as he celebrates the beatification of Father Barre and nine others in St. Peter's Basilica March 7. Father Barre, a 17th-century priest, advocated the right to education for all.
up small instructional programs for children in low-income set
areas of 17th-century France.
He pro-
moted the principle of the right to education for all, based on human dignity, and respect for the profession of teaching. He also convinced authorities to create flexible school schedules, so working-class children could continue to help out at home. The pope, speaking to pilgrims in
potluck dinner. Art will be on display to celebrate the feast of St. Joseph. For details, call Sheryl Oligny, (828) 2980336, or Denise Vish, (828) 645-6990.
CLEMMONS
—A
children's spring
and summer clothing sale is today from 9 a.m.-l p.m. and March 20 from 9-1 a.m. at Holy Family Church, 4820 1
includes prayer,
Kinnamon Rd. Items
next year's retreat. Participants are encouraged to bring Bibles. To register, send name, address, parish, and phone number to Faith Formation Office, Attn. Pat Onaindia, 1 123 S. Church St., Charlotte, N.C. 28203-4003. Include $5 (checks payable to Faith Formation Office) if you wish to purchase lunch. HIGH POINT A healing Mass is celebrated today at 7:30 p.m. in the chapel of Maryfield Nursing Home, 1315 Greensboro Rd. 19 ASHEVILLE The Catholic Association of Family Educators, a homeschool support group, meets today at
maternity, infant and children's cloth-
—
—
6:30 p.m.
in the liasemcnt of the Basilica of St. Lawrence, 97 Haywood St., for a
ing, toys,
available include
and baby equipment. Select
items will be offered at half-price March 20. Proceeds will benefit parish and children's programs. For more information, call (336) 945-4948. GREENSBORO The Family Life and Liturgy commissions of St. Paul the Apostle Church, 2715 Horse Pen Creek Rd., hosts a family Lenten meal today at 6:30 p.m. followed by stations of the cross or a prayer service.
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Children's activities are also available.
For
294-4696. Catholic Camporee for all Catholic Scout troops. Cub packs, and individual Scouts or details, call (336)
HICKORY
—
The annual
PHOTO FROM Reuters
tapestry depicting French Father Nicolas
grave has been a pilgrimage site since her death in 1925. Also beatified was Father Nicolas Barre,
—
(CNS) named an expe-
II
pointment March 6. The pope made his first pastoral visit to Cuba in January 1998. Since then, Cuba's government
also
Anna who died
marked by
with
fir-
varia after a
at
the Lord, and the Holy
Service
rienced Vatican diplomat, Mexican Archbishop Luis Robles Diaz, as his new apostolic nuncio to Cuba. As nuncio, the Vatican's equivalent of an ambassador, the 61-year-old Archbishop Robles is expected to play a key role in ongoing negotiations with the communist government of Fidel Castro on church rights and freedoms in the Caribbean country. The Vatican announced the ap-
time, during which he minis-
own
News
VATICAN CITY
a
trials of
JOHN THAVIS
Catholic
In beatifying Spanish Father Vicente Soler and companions, the pope said they had died not for any ideology but for the glory of God. In 1936, Spanish republicans forces rounded up the group and executed most of them in the street. Blessed Soler was held for
harden their hearts, but
taught. For details and location, call
—A
Mexican archbishop new
war, when more than 7,000 priests and religious
their lives, they did not
her faith in suffering and a French priest who taught among the poorer classes in the 17th century. The ceremony brought the number of beatifications by Pope John Paul II to 819, which represents more than one-third the total number beatified since the church established saint-making rules in 1588. The pope has also proclaimed 280 saints, compared to about 300 canonized by all his predecessors since 1588. Since his election in 1978, Pope John Paul has turned new attention to the martyrs of the 20th century. Among those declared blessed have
HICKORY
war martyrs
civil
beatified included a
Pope names
the faith during the Spanish
faith in the
March
10 people,
been more than 200 killed for
Service
Pope VATICAN CITY (CNS) John Paul II beatified 10 people, including seven priests and a lay brother who gave their lives for the
Basilica
civil
The Cathohc News & Herald 3
the News
St. Peter's
Square
after the
Mass, said
the newly beatified showed how to conquer selfishness and transform one's
life
into a gift for
God and
oth-
their
example encourage us toward that holi-
to take solid steps
ness to which we are through baptism," he said.
all
called
Conference Centhrough March 21. Biblebased activities and Mass are included. For details, call Jim Nass, (704) 542units
is
at the Catholic
ter today
7083, or Joe Vari, (704) 846-5155.
—
A support group for persons who are widowed, separated, divorced, or with new or unresolved grief meets today in the Fellowship Hall of St. Mary Church, 22 Bartlett SYLVA
St. Call
(828) 586-9452 for details. Catechist train-
20 CHARLOTTE
—
ing covering five certification modules
is
today at from 8 a.m.-7: 15 p.m. at St. Matthew Church, 8015 Ballantyne Commons Parkway. Also offered are two youth min-
trainmg sessions. Cost for catechist is $2.50 for one or two sessions, or $5 for three or more. Cost is $2.50 for one youth ministry session, or $5 for two. For details and to register, call Mary Betii Feeser, (704) 370-3247. Rehearsals for the band and choir that will perform at the closing liturgy of the diocesan youth conference in April are held today at istry
ti-aining
CLEMMONS
—
diplomatic corps
in 1967, he Vatican embassies in Honduras, South Africa, Lesotho, Ethiopia, Ecuador, Sri Lanka and Colombia. The Vatican did not say when Archbishop Robles would arrive in Havana.
worked
ers.
"May
has freed some political prisoners and made other concessions on religious activities, but has not altered its policy of complete control over the church's public role. Archbishop Robles, who succeeds Italian Archbishop Beniamino Stella as papal envoy to Cuba, has been nuncio to Uganda since 1991. Before that, he was nuncio to Sudan, a country where the government has been frequently accused of discrimination against Christians. After joining the Vatican's in
Holy Family Church, 4820 Kinnamon Rd.,
from
1
:30-4 p.m. Singers and in-
strumentalist are welcome. For details and to R.S.V.P., call Carolann Darling at (336) 998-9842. 2 1 MAGGIE VALLEY Organizers of the 52nd Women's Cursillo
—
Weekend
invite interested persons to
attend the closing today at 4:30 p.m.
Finger foods and paper plates are requested for quick clean-up. For details, call Teresa Sanctis at (704) 541-6850. 23 GREENSBORO "Reading the Bible with the Fathers of the Church" is the theme of an adult education presentation today from 7:30-9:30 p.m. in the activity center of Our Lady of Grace Church, 2205 W. Market St. Jim McCullough, the parish's director of religious education, facilitates. For details, call (336) 274-0415.
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Ediforials
Yet anotiier book on prayer — from me believe it might have been St. Augustine, or
Ipossibly Oprah, Bill Gates or Sears, who
The Pope
—
On the
first
Lighter Side
observed that prayer is like a gift from God and you not only don't have to have a receipt to return it, you can use it your whole life and still get your original investment back even if you are entirely satisfied. And it was a gift to begin with.
Speaks
All warranties
— implied or written —
as well as
coupons accepted.
The same
Pope, at audience, encourages
end to Ethiopian-Eritrean dispute JOHN THAVIS
By
News Service (CNS) - Pope John Paul encouraged Ethiopia and Eritrea to put a Catholic
VATICAN CITY
II
bloody border conflict and abide by the terms of an accord drafted by definitive halt to their
the Organization of African Unity.
The pope, speaking at his weekly general audience at the Vatican March 3, welcomed the news that after weeks of fighting, both countries indicated they would agreed to the peace plan, which was formulated last fall. "I applaud this wise decision, and I accompany it with fervid prayers. This is the only way to bring an end to this fratricidal war, to calm souls and to promote a new style of government and harmony on the African continent," the pope
said.
The most
wave of fighting began in early February. Although news organizations have not been able to verify events on the borrecent
der, Ethiopia claimed to territory,
which
it
have gained substantial
considers
its
sovereign land.
not entirely true for books on prayer which are selling like hotcakes, some actually being better digested if you pour maple syrup and butter on them. There are so many brands of prayer out there now it boggles the imagination: centering prayer, Taize prayer, meditation, labyrinth walks. Scripturebased prayer, "lectio divina," contemplation, devotional prayer, movement prayer, chanting prayer, musical prayer, charismatic prayer, blue-plate special prayer (OK, OK, I made that one up). Reflecting deeply, this leads one to a clear theological, sociological and even logical conclusion: There are a lot of people out there writing books about prayer. This, in turn, makes you realize it is a great time to jump on the bandwagon and write one while the market is hot unless, of course, one is gainfully employed and has responsibilities. As we all know, Catholics are a great market because we like to name, categorize, subdivide, methodologize and in general plant the flowers in a very straight row. (If Jesus and the apostles showed up at a parish liturgy, we'd probably pepper them with questions about Vatican Council II.) Yes, I admit it. I do have an idea for a book on
DAN MORRIS CNS Columnist
is
—
meaningful. That alone books, I'm sure.
is
good
for selling lots of
The title would be "Fire Engine Prayer: Recognizing That Life Is Full of Prayer All the Time, Even at PTA Meetings." So
far
here are some of the preliminary chapter
— "Call-the-Emergency-Room Prayer: That Kid Home." —and "Panic Prayer: God, Have Jammed on
titles:
It's
a.m.,
I
Me
the
Slam Into That
Pickup."
— Can You —"Prayers of Thanksgiving: "Silent Prayer:
ful
My (Grand)Child
Believe
How
Beauti-
Is?"
Thank You God
Homeowners' Insurance Cover Exploded Water Heater."
for Letting the
the
I am going to have to flesh these out a and throw in a little Latin here and there. But with a good illustrator and the right typeface, I'm
Granted,
little
half-way there.
Comments are welcome. Write Dan Morris
would need illustrations to fill a lot of the pages. And it would be good to use huge print and put only a few words on each page to create the wonderful effect that the words are, therefore, more it
1
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Brakes, Please Don't Let
prayer.
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Eritrea has asked the United Nations to con-
demn
Ethiopia for aggression. estimated 1 ,000 people have been killed over the past year in flare-ups along the Ethiopia-Eritrea border. In his regular audience talk, the pope spoke of the unique father-son relationship between Christ and God, one that was evidenced in Christ's own frequent invocations to God the
An
Economy
ment with option to purchase." Translated, this means the customer can return the merchandise and
of Faith
cancel the renewable one-week or one-month lease at any time. By making the last payment, or paying off
the balance early with costly stipulations, the customer in effect exercises "the option to purchase."
RTO
^^^H
^^^^^
Father.
Thanks to Christ's sacrifice on the cross, all people can share in an intimate relationship with God, the pope told some 25,000 people gathered in St. Peter's Square. "Our filial relationship with the heavenly Father depends on our courageous faithfulness to Christ, his beloved Son," he said.
Pope urges
U.S. Christians to
—
urged U.S. Christians to take educational and political
human
action against increasing attacks
life.
"The choice
in
favor of
life is
on
not a
demand of a just and moral society," the pope said in a letter to Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore. Cardinal Keeler, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities, was presiding over a March 3-5 conference in Washington on emerging technologies involving life and death. The conference was co-sponsored by the Pontifical Council for the Family.
private option but a basic
S.
RAUSCH Guest Columnist
Buying a Piece of tiie American Dream the showroom of my local rent-to-own (RTO)
Instore
work
against attacks on life (CNS) In a strongly worded pro-life message. Pope John Paul II
VATICAN CITY
FATHER JOHN
the Heritage model Corolla classic two removable leaves and four white oak The ticket on the table reads, "Manager's sits
dinette with chairs.
Special, $11.99, 61 weeks."
What
usually sells in 78
weeks has been reduced to 61, because the dinette was previously rented and slightly scratched. The dinette,
whose
sticker price asks $365.70, will sell if purchased through 61 weekly pa3Tnents for $731.39, but with sales tax and insurance the cost will jump to $833.42!
The RTO business represents a $4.5 billion industry with over 7,500 outlets. The industry claims it provides a valuable service by offering furniture, appliances, TVs, VCRs and stereos for short-term rental, many times to low income folks with bad credit or no credit at all. To its disadvantaged customers RTO sells a piece of the American dream one week
at a time.
But, critics charge that
argues this kind of transaction
is
not covered
by the federal Truth in Lending Act, which requires disclosure of the annual percentage rate (APR.) The
RTO trade group, the Association of Progressive Rental Organizations, revealed that only 25 percent of RTO customers manage to complete the course of payments to own the merchandise. In addition, "add-on" fees increase the price of the merchandise. A liability damage waiver (LDW) added to the rental fee acts like insurance against damage from lightning, fire, smoke, windstorm, theft or flood. Charges at other RTO places might include processing and delivery fees. The use of sophisticated advertizing and confusing tactics aimed at the most economically vulnerable people in society raises moral questions. Customers expect to own something in the end, but RTO gives no credit counseling or budgeting advice to help potential customers avoid losing money. Also, the denial that the bulk of the payments represents de facto interest distorts truth and supports a culture of the lie. "Ethics in Advertising," a statement issued by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, bluntly states: "It is morally wrong to use manipulative, exploitative, corrupt and corrupting methods of persuasion and motivation." Besides legislation to regulate RTO transactions so usury and consumer protection laws apply, com,
RTO preys on
the unso-
phisticated poor through exorbitant prices, uncon-
munity groups are promoting consumer education.
ventional contracts and "add-on"
The
Typically a low wage worker buying a TV with 78 weekly installments at RTO will pay twice or three times the original price. RTO structures its contracts as shortterm leases to evade usury and most consumer protection laws. local RTO contract reads: "This is a 'week-to-week' or 'month-to-month' rental agree-
My
fees.
Central Appalachia People's Federal Credit Union, which offers financial counseling and low interest loans, published an article in its newsletter entitled "The Rent-to-Own Scam." As a result, sev-
were spared seeing the RTO truck loaded with their bed, dinette and TV, driving their piece of the American dream back to the showroom. eral folks
March
12,
1999
alone in recognizing the needs of the immigrants and the contemptuous treatment of them. He helped
One
Light
them integrate
Candle
FATHER THOMAS
J.
McSWEENEY Guest Columnist
"Dagger John" Hughes: Irish in America
On being
From
1820 to 1920
five million Irish
immi-
grants entered the United States. The infapotato blight and famine of the 1840's turned a
mous
trickle into a flood. The overwhelming majority were young men and women, single and Catholic. Many who would call America home experienced a "devotional revolution"
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
practicing their faith was,
for them, a visible expression of all It
was only natural
it
meant
to be Irish.
that they should search out church
leaders for guidance and hope.
For a
full
quarter of the
nineteenth century, Irish immigrants looked to John
Hughes, the first Catholic Archbishop of New York, as their champion. Indeed, Hughes was himself an immigrant from Annaloghan, County Tyrone, Ireland. He set his heart and his will on helping his fellow immigrants carve out a place for themselves by assuring them an equal share in the civil and religious freedoms promised by the United States Constitution. This was no easy task. From his early days as a priest in Philadelphia to his death in 1864,
Hughes
used his considerable oratorical skills to assert a Catholic presence in what was then a profoundly anti-Catholic America. In this he became both beloved and controversial. According to his current successor John Cardinal O'Connor, "He was almost
tionalized anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic sentiment.
Then, rather than haggling over government subsidies for Catholic schools, he created a separate, private
system of parochial education. Again and again, Hughes encouraged naturalized citizens to exercise their growing pohtical clout at the ballot box. The story of "Dagger John" is a pointed reminder of how much has changed and how much hasn't over the years. Protestants and Catholics are no longer at each other's throats. In fact, despite faith differences, ecumenical pursuits are common. Signs that say "No Irish Need Apply" are long gone and Irish-Americans have dug their roots deep in this country of ours. The trouble is that if you substitute different
names and
Communion.
their culture.
A fellow
volunteer said
If they haven't gone
it is
and
nationalities
beliefs
you
find that
many
of the old problems have not gone away. Fear, even hatred, remains for people who are different. The only
thing that has changed
is
the
"Them" and
the "Us."
Historian Lawrence McCaffr-ey observes that the Irish "loved the United States because it had rescued them from poverty and oppression, and gave them
freedom, dignity, and hope for the future." Everyone deserves hope.
Happy
St. Patrick's
Day.
Question
before communion? Q. During the summer J drive Mexican migrant workers to Mass on Sundays. I noticed that only very few to
Lenten
into society."
Archbishop Hughes was dubbed "Dagger John" because of his tactical skills in defending his flock. It was an age when nativism was strong and all immigrants suspect. In 1844 he responded to threats of violence against Catholic churches by stationing armed parishioners around the buildings. Hughes warned: "If a single Catholic church is burned in New York, the city will become a second Moscow!" Stubbornly determined, aggressively opinionated, he was as capable of working with the political system as against it. When all soldiers were required to attend Protestant services, whatever their beliefs, Hughes negotiated changes. He was influential in secularizing the fledgling public school system, which had institu-
When must confession come
went
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Ediiorials & Columns
Corner
part of
to confession, they don't
feel "worthy" of the Eucharist.
Another volunteer said Catholic Church not to take
going
it's
in the
Catechism of the
Communion
unless recently
FATHER JOHN DIETZEN
to confession.
I couldfind no reference in the catechism to this kind of link between reconciliation (penance) and the Eucharist. Are
CNS
Columnist
many American Catholics bending church rules when they Communion without "suitablyfrequent" confession?
receive
A. Let's look first at some church regulations about these two sacraments as we find them in canon law and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
While Catholics are formally obliged to receive the Eucharist only once a year, during the Eastertime if possible,
we are strongly urged to receive this
sacra-
ment each time we participate in the Mass (Catechism, 1388; Canons 919-920). This simply recognizes the
Communion by all the faithholds in the liturgy of the Eucharist at Mass. Confession of grave (serious) sins in the sacrament of reconciliation is required at least once a year. This would follow, of course, from the obligation of annual significant place that holy
ful
Communion,
since
anyone conscious of grave
sin
must
receive the sacrament of reconciliation before receiv-
ing the Eucharist (Catechism 1457; Canon 989). Thus, confession of nonserious (venial) sins is not strictly required in church law at all. I say "in
church law" deliberately because reception of this sacrament with some frequency is clearly essential for our spiritual life and growth as Catholics. It is not possible to discuss this at length here. The catechism spells it out thoroughly in its long treatment of "The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation."
Then what
explains the frequent, though not
universal, belief you describe in
Mexico, which can be
duplicated in other Latin American countries and
other parts of the world? Many reasons contribute. A major one, however, seems to be that much of the colonization and evangelization of these mission countries took place during the time when a heresy (or set of heresies) called Jansenism had enormous influence on European Christianity. Centuries earlier, a strong movement toward frequent, even daily. Communion had begun to expand in the church. By 1562, the Council of Trent was urging people to receive Communion at every Mass they attended. During the 1600s, however, Jansenism, which affected France in particular, took a puritanical, extremely rigoristic attitude toward Catholic spirituality and the sacraments. Frequent Communion was one of its targets. No one, it was said, should receive Communion without perfect contrition, which a confessor would guarantee by delaying Communion at least a week. Only the urgent appeal of Pope Pius X in 1905 for frequent, daily Communion gave a death blow to this attitude. Unfortunately, by this time the Catholic people of Mexico were suffering a ruthless persecution which continued well into the 1 900s. Many were martyred. For this and other reasons, education in matters of faith was all but impossible, and Mexican people were isolated from these kinds of developments that were enriching other areas of the Catholic world. Inevitably, this affected the Catholic culture of the country and the way of viewing eucharistic Communion.
Reflection
FATHER JOHN ALLEN Guest Columnist
Alongside Christ on a journey of faith Stations of the Cross have been part The of Catholic tradition centuries. for
St.
Francis of Assisi, who lived in the 13th century, is credited with starting this practice. On a trip to Jerusalem, in an effort to bring peace between Christians and Muslims, he was admitted to an audience with the Sultan who governed the area. He tried his best to convert the Sultan te Christianity. Despite his great respect for Francis, the Sultan did not convert and sent Francis on his way. In the months that St. Francis was in Jerusalem he liked to walk the path that Jesus had walked centuries before on his way to the cross. Since Francis knew the New Testament almost by heart, he would recite the passages that had to do with Jesus' crucifixion. He prayed deeply over those scenes as he went from spot to spot in what we call the Via Dolorosa, the Way of Suff ering. On his return to Italy he began the practice of setting up wooden crosses along the paths where he walked so that he could still meditate on the way of suffering. He may have erected 25 to 50 crosses. As other people adopted his way of meditating they settled on 14 crosses, from the Judgment before Pontius Pilate to the Burial in the Tomb. Over time the Franciscan Friars were entrusted with the privilege of erecting the Stations of the Cross in all the churches throughout the world. The custom continues to this day of prayerfully meditating on the passion and death of our Lord while walking the way of the cross. One of the most vivid memories of my childhood is the Stations of the Cross made on the Fridays of Lent in the parish where I grew up. The words prayed on those Fridays were the ones written by St. Alphonsus Liguori more than 250 years ago. His meditations continue to
guide us in our prayer to Jesus as we accompany him to Calvary each Lenten season. They can remind us again this Lenten season of the call of our Holy Father in preparation for the new millennium to "undertake a journey of authentic conversion" and a return to the celebration of the Sacrament of Penance. With St. Alphonsus we can pray as we follow Our Lord in the mysteries of his suffering, death and resurrection: My Lord, Jesus Christ, You have made this journey to die for me with unspeakable love; and I have so many times ungratefully abandoned You. But now I love You with all my heart; and, because I love You, I am sincerely sorry for ever having oflfended You. pardon me, my God, and permit me to accompany You on this journey. You go to die for love of me; I want, my beloved Redeemer, to die for love of You. My Jesus, I will live and die always united to You. Father John Allen
is
Parochial Vicar at
Gabriel Church in Charlotte.
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Indian archbishop names postulator for Mother Teresa
CALCUTTA,
in
March
the News will oversee the
—
including the National Jesuit News,
America magazine, Company magazine and the Sacred Heart Program. Father Widner, 56, is currently on the staff at the Milford Spiritual Center in Ohio and has been a priest for 30 years and a Jesuit
pope waived the five-year
waiting period before the process can begin. Archbishop D'Souza told Vatican officials that Missionaries of Charity Father Brian Kolodiejchuk was scheduled to reach the eastern Indian metropolis of Calcutta in midMarch to begin the process, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. Father Kolodiejchuk is the superior of a Missionaries of Charity house in Rome.
for 13 yeai-s.
Group
MINNEAPOLIS
CNS
renamed the Peter S. and Carolyn A. Lynch School of Education to recognize a more than $ 10 million gift to the Jesuit-run school from the financier and his wife. Peter Lynch, a 1965 graduate of Boston College and a
Irish
A woman
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arms
strolls past a wall of graffiti
showing support for
Irish
Republicans in west Belfast in January. The graffiti is an IRA response to the turning over of weapons as spelled out in the peace accord. Britain was to hand over home-rule powers to Catholic and Protestant Northern Irish parties March 10, but issues over disarming IRA extremists have yet to be resolved.
member
—
is
friend Jesus.
"I
—
(CNS)
Julio
eager to learn about his like to be here," he said,
Corazon community
—
VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Paul II encouraged the Vatican's top communications officials to draw up
Cesar Ibarra
gesturing around the room where his church youth group meets. "I want to learn more about my faith." The 12year-old parishioner of the Sagrado.
College's School of Education will be
Pope encourages communications council to prepare ethics document
iieips Hispanic youtiis put center of tiieir lives
Clirist at
Boston College to rename education school for benefactors BOSTON (CNS) Boston
of its board of trustees, is vice chairman of Fidelity Management and Research Company. Carolyn Lynch is president of the Lynch Foundation, which funds innovative programs in education and social services.
communications minis-
try of the Jesuits in the United States,
India (CNS) Archbishop Henry D'Souza of Calcutta has appointed a postulator for the sainthood cause of Mother Teresa. Earlier, the
1999
12,
a
document on
"ethics in
communica-
moral guidance to media professionals. "In a field where cultural and financial pressures can sometimes blur the moral vision which should guide all human realities and relationtion" to offer
Council for Social Communications March 4. The pope said the mass media are potentially very creative, but without ethical reflection they can "spread destructive countervalues."
Former editor gets Jesuit communications post WASHINGTON (CNS) The Je-
ships, this task represents a challenge,"
the pope told
members of the
—
Pontifical
Conference USA in Washington has named Jesuit Father Thomas Widner as its new director of communications. He suit
at St. Stephen in Minneapolis is a member of the parish youth ministry team, called Friends of Jesus. Its purpose is to help young people put Jesus at the center of their
Adrian Hernandez, part-
said
lives,
time youth ministry coordinator.
Father
Norman Perry of
Anthony Messenger dies CINCINNATI (CNS) Franciscan Father Norman Perry, St.
—
award-winning columnist and editor of St. Anthony Messenger, died March 1 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati. He was 69 years old. He died of diabetes, kidney and- heart complica-
He had undergone surgery for colon cancer in mid-February. His funeral was scheduled for 7:30 p.m. tions.
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Conference participants get crash course WASHINGTON
(CNS)
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Dioc-
from esan and around the country got a crash course national pro-life leaders
in life issues
ranging from
for the
dying March 3-5 in Washington. With talks by six cardinals, the leadership convocation at the law school of
The
technology that do not diminish the
ture of death can be defeated with col-
sacredness of the
Catholic University of
Msgr. Thomas Hartman, director of radio and television for the Diocese of Rockville Centre, N.Y., who appears with Rabbi Marc Gellman, senior
Temple Beth Torah
rabbi at
promoting
tions
tives of other Christian denominations.
life."
Convened by Cardinals John O'Connor of New York and Bernard
F.
conference's first day traced the
of Boston in collaboration with the Pontifical Council for the Family,
history of feminism and abor-
life
but
on
Speakers
to kill infants,
some
right
and when the law
places says
it is all
right to
in kill
the feeble, the dying, that's' teaching a set
of moral
O'Connor
values,"
said
in
one
Cardinal of the
Historian Elizabeth FoxGenovese of Emory University
movement's claims that easy access to abortion would liberate American women, it has "degraded the status of women
an expert
demon; this is diabolical, what's happening in our country, this cul-
AIDS,
is
a
it
Patricia
conference's first talks.
"This
in
has elevated
it."
Funderburk Ware, teen pregnancy and
said adults
who
are buy-
"And it can only be driven out by prayer and fasting." Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo,
ing into the culture of death are failing the next generation. "The greatest tragedy of the sexual revolution has been
president of the Vatican's council on
the
the family, called the culture of death "a disturbing and spreading phenom-
said.
ture of death," he added.
enon" that is especially "manifest in the legal execution of the unborn child
womb." message Pope John Paul II in the
In a
to the gathering,
hailed the confer-
breakdown of the family, the breakdown of marriage," Ware Adults who accept the tenets of the sexual revolution "are placing not only themselves but their children at risk," she added. But many of the
CNS
voted to very specific and sometimes quite technical aspects of the spectrum of life issues from the vast array of new reproductive technologies to U.S. efforts to spread their family planning agenda
culture, saying that even if its content
worldwide to
were cleaned up, "it would still undermine moral values, it would still threaten the
in end-of-life situations.
But
a pair
television as the
who
often appear
"God Squad"
on
told the
convocation's sessions were de-
A
effective palliative care
Jesuit genetic researcher called
on the Catholic Church and the procommunity to help spread the
life
word about advances
in
reproductive
we
life,
it and have to work as
can't simply point to
despair," he said.
we can
to
"We
change
it."
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On
who
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can
close. Cardinal
News
Service that
he found the convocation "very en-
couraging."
the international front, speak-
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world faces a population problem, but not one of overpopulation. "It is a problem in many parts of the world of underpopulation, of looming depopulation," said Steven W. Mosher, president of the Populaers said the
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Special By TIMOTHY
J.
MEAGHER
"When
Irish
Eyes Are Smiling,"
"Who Threw
12,
1999
the
Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder," "Mother
Ireland
The
different now.
is
Irish are different too. It is not
just the prosperity, the software ex-
boom
plosion, the building
in Dublin, the
Machree." They took out green ribbons and buttons
on
Day. They lined the streets of South
St. Patrick's
New York
Boston,
City and Chicago and other cities
and towns to watch
lines of police
school bands and Irish club
liigh
and firemen and
men march
by,
and
they ate corned beef and cabbage that evening.
replacing the pubs. It
tfes
more.
something
is
the other changes that the eco-
It is
mnic boom has helped cause: fundamental hanges in the culture, even in the national identity
ofthe Irish.
It
is
notjust a change in
tone,
a new confidence, or energy
there
is
— though
that.
And
they saw themselves on stage or
in the
movies: Pat O' Brien as "Fighting" Father
Duffy or Jimmy Cagney as George M. Cohan. As those movies made clear, they were special in another way. The Irish knew they were different from other American Catholics because they were, they believed, the best American Catholics, the most faithful to
most
the church, the
loyal to the na-
meaning of being Irish. As Fintan O'Toole, columnist for the Irish Times suggested: "the fixed points on the compass of life
They were models, exemplars of being American and Catholic to the "newer races," to use James Michael Curley's phrase, like the Poles, the French Canadians and the Italians. And as any
Church, nation,
people of these groups, especially the Italians, can
tion.
changes
It is
For many It
in the
family — have "been
Irish
Americans
land remain fixed,
home
that the
remain
as
static,
be
difficult.
of us that Ire-
just as
we demand
memory. There
in
American world, this American Catholicism reached its peak. Irish Americans presided over a Catholic Church booming with construction, a blizIn the 1950s this Irish
Mayor Richard Daley who was very disappointed
story about the famed
of Chicago
never tired of reminding them
Irish
fact.
militant
a
is
remember, the of that
or neighborhood of childhood
once was
it
unsettled."
may
this
many
has been important for
—
new yellow
zard of
brick churches, schools
and hospitals. And few doubted
when he
visited Ireland and couldn't any thatched roof, white-washed cottages. If Irish Americans seemed to need this myth of the
certain past, a core of ethnic au-
meant
the Irish themit,
for
American
Irish
One
of the most important
and
reasons for this was the decline of Catholic Protestant tension and
needed
us,
change,
We
should not surprise
it
have changed,
too, radically
the last three decades.
way
And
rivalry in America. allels
us.
sus of what
As
n
a
it
Irish
meant be an
Irish
American.
not so
d
It is that,
was
consensus
anchored
that affords
maybe
centuries,
though
in
two important poles of Church and nation. Irish the
Americans were
as a full-fledged partner of the
European Union and an active trader in the world economy, Ireland is free from economic dependence on Britain. Even more, peris now haps, Ireland wealthier, on a per capita baIreland is now sis than England. Suddenly
cenit
new agreement
that helps.
much of the tury,
the
Ireland in decades,
through 20th
much
the best prospect for a just peace in Northern
Ire-
in
One
for Irish identity in Ireland, Fintan O'Toole points out, is the demise of the "overwhelming other 'England' by contrast with which Ireland could be defined." It is
there are striking
America changed over the last 30 years and Ireland is changing now. In the 1950s there was something of a consen-
parallels in the
There are par-
with the Ireland of today.
of the most important recent changes
over
wealthier,
fiercely "mili-
on a per
to the people of the Republic
capita basis than
tantly," as they liked to say,
of
Ireland,
England
no
Catholic, just as in Ireland. But
England. Suddenly
to the
longer seems so important,
was the United Americans were fierce American pa-
people of the Republic of
and the defining contrast of Irishness and Englishness has lost much of its meaning.
here, the nation
States of America. Irish
triots,
verging, their critics
seems so important,
they were American
many
own
and the
and Englishness has lost much of its meaning.
however, Irish Americans understood that they were a special kind of American Catholics. They were Catholics,
Irish in their
England no longer
defining contrast oflrishness
claimed on jingoes. If
Ireland,
way.
of them written in
They had
New
In America, too, the de-
fining
contrast
most American upeconomic progress
also disappeared in places. Irish
helped undermine that oppo-
own
songs,
York's Tin Pan Alley:
sition.
This upward mobility picked up enormous
momentum
in the
1940s and 1950s with the broadly
war and government programs like the GI bill. Irish Americans moved up occupational ladders into new jobs and out distributed prosperity brought by the
Photos by Joann Keane
between
Catholics and Protestants has
ward their
and Catholics
in
America. John F. Kennedy's election
and subsequent martyrdom meant new acceptance of Catholics by Protestants; the
Vatican Council encouraged
and the
to
the walls separating Protestants
Civil'
Rights
movement undermined
in-
tolerant attitudes and dis-
crimination of any sort.
cracked and crumbled.
poor
tradition
a
be
was what we were buying. Yet if it pains some of us to see
as they were, they
1
to
it
took
down
tants;
on what
it
finally break
War.
In the next decade, the
suburbs. Yet
movements and events of the 1960s
reach by Catholics to Protes-
1960s, the consensus
thenticity, then
new
the climactic
tion at the high point of the Cold
rural idyll as a touchstone of a
selves did little to dispel
Irish
Americans' commitment to the na-
find
of old neighborhoods into
new
out-
March
12,
The Catholic News & Herald 9
1999
Special business, Coca-Cola and General Motors. This demise of Catholic and Protestant rivalry meant that Catholics no longer felt embattled. Many, even devout Irish Catholics, no
longer
the need to identify so fiercely
felt
many
with Catholicism just as
Irish in the
Republic of Ireland toda}' no longer
feel
the need for an intense, anti-British nationalism.
And
so the old consensus on American identity shattered
Irish
1960s as the old consensus of
in the
become America in the '60s American writers turned on
Irish identity in Ireland has
"unsettled" today. In
some
Irish
their past.
"The
Fiction
rent In
in
most cases,
it
the 1760s to the 1980s," notes,
cities
now became harder, even
to hold the line of Anglo
impossible
Saxon Protes-
tant privilege. Irish Americans are
now
one of the most successful groups in the nation and are well represented at
the top
le\'els
of com-
such as those great old icons of American
panies
time yields perspecti\'e.
"spurred by anger and bitterness at the perceived
As Fanning
American writing marked by eager con-
wished "to exorcise aspects of their
points out,
"Irish
own
that they found disturb-
demnation of the
ing and embarrassing." Something of the same fero-
ethnic dimension of
cious rejection of an older Ireland characterizes
experience has given
writing by some Irish
way
upbringing and family
where banks or corporations had been closed to Irish,
From
ence and note that
oppressions, distortions, and injustices of their cu ture," they
some northeastern and Midwestern
Cathohc
As Charlie Fanning, author of in America: Irish American
Voice
Irish
Yet many
life
in Ireland today.
Americans were not ready to dispose so quickly of their ancestral past and ethnic identity.
Irish
Some clung to
the old fixed poles of militant
American Catholicism, more convinced than ever of its rele\'ance to their lives. Others, howex er, sought new meanings for their Irish American identity or combined these new meanings with older ones. They found their Irishness 1960s and trons, in
who
kept
it
Irish
that they can explore.
This
isn't just a
return to the past.
on in
free to
confidence.
The
step
University of America, hundreds of students turned out on a Friday night for a poetry reading in Irish by the famed Irish poet Nuala Ni Domhnail and this is Washington, D.C. where there is plenty to do on a
Irish
youth
language
so
long hemorrhaging
its
They can
identities change.
and
its
prosperity
it
has produced,
Brian
"Dancing
at
poverty
earlier
of the 1960s was not
American culture and idenhad changed. It had changed at the turn of the century when a new generation of American-born
Yet
if the Irish feel less
theless,
culture and identity, an identity
more comfortable
natives, than the Irish culture
and identity of their immigrant parents. And it had changed in the early 19th century, when a torrent of poor Catholic Irish immigrants fleeing famine and the revival of widespread anti-Catholic nativism
overwhelmed the
efforts of Protestant and Catholic ex-rebels of '98 to forge a non-sectarian Irish
ant dance by at
its
own
experi-
it
as
of Friel's play, after
less forced
all
we do our own
all,
here.
The
comes from the exuber-
of the sisters at the heart of the play,
once both an assertion of Irish traditional culture
and
a thrilling
testament to a kind of human defiance,
courage and dignity midst hardship. Ireland
is
differ-
ent now, and the Irish are different now, but they
remember while they change. Maybe change
is
not
such a bad thing, then.
Timothy J. Meagher is director ofthe Centerfor Irish Studies at
The
ington, D.C.
ponder
embattled and
as
understand the past's riches and search,
title
American Catholic
two of the Agnes
sisters,
to cling to the old formulas of the past, they, none-
probe and appreciate
Irish first forged the militant
play, as
Mundy
and Rose, set out on a journey to a lonely existence impoverished immigrants in London.
tity
also
new
cruel constraints in
end of the
their cousins across the sea?
American identity. Irish America might
its
streams of migrants
heartbreaking fashion at the
The decade
American
in
edy of that
the first time that Irish
to them,
poor so
Lughnasa," evokes the trag-
overdue.
learn first that the meanings of group
4>
are
now, too
a nation so
Friel's play,
has produced, are long
Americans learn anything from them understand the changes
among
so,
are long overdue.
new prosperity and the confidence and the freedom that
past to help
taking place
And
freedom that
youth in
five
Irish
we
that search with
and the confidence and the
streams of migrants overseas, the
it
America,
overseas, the
Friday night.
own
With
hemorrhaging
long,
are packed.... For a nation so poor
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
So can
our identity,
in
Irish.
For in
bookstores. Classes in
dancing or the
make
can the
theaters; Irish
and books ofpoetry
American
Catholic
in
way; Irish movies in
American
language are
now gone
flourish on Broad-
novels
Classes in step dancing or
their
what
ultimately, an appreciation of
culture and older story enriches our present.
Protestants and Catholics
Irish
packed. Recently, at
an accep-
It is
tance of change but with a searching, probing and,
Today Irish plays
American bookstores. Irish
escape, but
expansion of possibility"
the old antagonisms between
novels and books of poetry
the
must condemn and
as a source for the "creative
To-
movies
American theaters; in
understand their ethnicity not as a "destructive alienation" that they
alive here
Irish plays flourish
Broadway;
cans writers today. Fanning continues,
audience be-
its
few, hardy, largely immigrant Irish pa-
the 1940s and 1950s.
day
expanding
after, vastly
in the
more balanced
rendering of ethnicity." Irish Ameri-
discovery of Irish culture.
music became big business
Irish traditional
yond the
in a
to writing that fea-
tures a fuller,
Catholic University of America in
Wash-
10 The Catholic News & Herald
March
Read ngj
12,
1999
Books
Polish publisher releases
poems
60-year-old By
JONATHAN LUXMOORE Catholic
WARSAW,
News
Service
Poland (CNS)
after seeing
—
A
Polish publisher has released a collection
of poems written by Pope John Paul II as a university student six decades ago.
Leszek Sosnowski of Krakow's
1
Ephesians ,5:8-14
3)
John 9:1-41
A
"This student
—
my
young man's
In one poem, "Morning Hymns," Wojtyla expresses his sense of foreboding before World War II. "I
am David, I am a shepherd/ And I
sing songs of entreaty,/That you might show compassion to a Piast/ And allow
our harvest to be brought
when
the great Goliath rises
stroy
my youth/Then
I
/And up/To de-
in
...
beg you, Sion,
Moria:/ Come down and help us!" In another piece, the future pope reveals a struggle over the Christian faith. "I came through the deepest trough of failure and doubt, through a vast well of denials. And then one of the spirits came down to me, an angel rich with the Word, and he said to me: Believe! "And people came to me, and spells came to me, and it was then I started to see. And my faith was strengthened so much, that today it's stronger than ever it was when I merely seemed happy, but was eaten from inside and
consumed by
insects."
In a Feb. 19 interview with Catholic News Service, Sosnowski said the pope had consented to the publication
full
Among
Bujak, as a "sensational literary discov-
"stunning maturity of reflection" and "richness of language."
the poetry of a
Krakow
ofjoy, enthusiasm, clar-
other items, "Renaissance
Psalter," includes a full version of
Wojtyla's
ery" that revealed the
any author."
is
and gratitude," Sosnowski said. "Later, after his terrible burden of wartime experiences, he couldn't write the same way. Preparing for priesthood, he shut the collection up in a drawer and never returned to it. It was only at our proposal that he agreed to have it printed," he said.
brochure from Bialy Kruk pubpoems, printed with pictures by photographer Adam lishers described the
By
He
who
poem
to his mother, Emilia,
died in 1929,
when he was
8.
"Over your white grave/ 1 kneel in sorrow./Oh how long ago it was /How small it seems today! "Over your white grave/O mother, my extinguished love!/My mouth whispers powerlessly:/ Grant her eternal rest." In an editor's introduction, Skwarnicki said Wojtyla had not yet
—
decided to become a priest when writing the poems. However, his vocation was clear in the poetry's "divine, sacral style," Skwarnicki added. "Reading the Psalter, we glimpse the spiritual history of a future archbishop of Krakow and bishop of Rome," Skwarnicki, a Catholic journalist, said. "We should stress the exceptional depth of feeling revealed by this young poet, the richness of imagination and intensity of religious experience expressed in his sonnets, hymns and rhapsodies," he said.
Asked how he would use profits from the book, estimated at $ 1 70,000 on the first day, Sosnowski said the pope's personal secretary, Bishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, had recommended donating part to "some hospital or children's home," but stressed that Pope John Paul had laid down no conditions and was not expecting an honorarium, t
didn't
dan LUBY know he was
thought himself
blind.
He
sharp-eyed realist whose vision wasn't clouded by fuzzy logic masquerading as mercy. Among the many things he saw with crystal clarity was the moral and emotional cowardice underlying divorce. He knew that some people had to grit their teeth to stay with a partner who was a drunk or unfaithful. But experience as a priest had led him to conclude that most people who got divorced were simply too lazy or too selfish or too immature to stay with it. At the first sign of trouble they ran home to mamma or off with a new partner. It took a tragedy in his own family
to
a
show him
He cringed to remember his harsh judgment, his scalding words. His eyes were opened. He began to see not only vows dissolved, commitments undone, but also heartbreak and disappointment and loss. Seeking less to judge than to heal, he found himself looking more generously on other failures, including his own. His eyes were opened to the mercy of God in a new and deeper way. Sunday's story of the man born blind is not only about an ancient miracle. It is also a call to recognize blindness in our own hearts and to seek the healing power of God's love. stances.
a "letter of blessing" to the editor,
Marek Skwarnicki, and "waited impa-
whom
of others
sister's face the faces
he had sternly admonished against divorce, regardless of the circum-
6-7, 10- 13a
2)
lisher said the entire print-run of 10,000
copies sold out a day after publication.
Samuel 16: lb, Psalm 23:1-6
the Believers" (1998). He added that the pontiff had sent
ity
months before the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. The pub-
Fourth Sunday of
14,
Lent. Cycle A. Readings: 1
company's earlier work. "Renesansowy Psalterz" ("Renaissance Psalter"), was launched Feb. 1 8 at a Warsaw press conference and includes lengthy unpublished poems written
March
earlier editions of his
1)
tiently like
by the then-Karol Wojtyla more than
two
poetry issued by Bialy Kruk, "Songs of a Hidden God" (1997) and "Births of
Bialy Kruk publishers said the 78year-old pontiff" consented to the publication privately after admiring the
five
Word to Life
by pope
Questions:
What
are .some "blind spots" in
your life which others have helped you to discover? What is one thing to which our society is blind; how can you help heal that blindness?
his blindness.
His sister came to him with news of her divorce. She had tried, she sobbed, but she simply couldn't take it any more. He
unheard of that anyone ever gave sight to a person
"It is
was stunned. His conviction that only moral slackers got divorced
blind this
from birth. If man were not
from God,
crashed headlong into his certainty of her courage and commitment, and in the impact, his eyes were opened. He saw in his
he could
never have done such
a thing.
"
— John 9:32-33
Weekly Scripture Readings for the week of Mar. 14 • 20, 1999 Samuel 16:1, 6-7, 10-13, Ephesians 5:8-14, John 9:1-41; Monday, Isaiah 65:17-21, John 4:43-54; Tuesday, Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12, John 5:1-3, 5-16; Wednesday, Isaiah 49:8-15, John 5:17-30; Thursday, Exodus 32:7-14, John 5:31-47; Friday, 2 Samuel 7:4-5, 12-14, 16, Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22, Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24; Saturday, Jeremiah 1 1:18-20, John 7:40-53 Sunday,
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sette
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Reviews
Theatrical movies on video have a U.S. Catholic Conference classification
and Motion Picture
Association of America rating. All
reviews indicate the appropriate age' group for the video audience.
"The Bridges at Toko-Ri" (1954) Korean War melodrama from the James A. Michener novel about a lawyer (William Holden) recalled to active service as a jet pilot on an aircraft carrier (commanded by Fredric March) out to destroy the heavily defended target of the title. Director Mark Robson does equally well with the shipboard camaraderie (notably Mickey Rooney, Earl HoUiman and Charles McGraw) as with the short visit of the pilot's wife (Grace Kelly), all of which strengthens the emotional impact of
the 16th-century setting and costumes provide a fairy-tale atmosphere for proceedings built around a spunky, self-sufficient heroine who takes the lead in the action, with often amusing and, at times, heartwarming results.
Some stylized violence, menace and crude language. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-II adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG parental guidance suggested. "Polish Wedding"
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the pilot's final mission.
Tense wartime action
and a scene in a unisex Japanese bathhouse. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-II adults and adolescents. Not rated by the Motion Picture Association of America. "Ever After" (1998) Medieval romance from the Cinderella story of a young
—
Frenchwoman (Drew Barrymore) whose wicked stepmother (Anjelica Huston) has raised her as little more
,
headed by a baker (Gabriel Byrne), his unfaithful wife
(Lena Olin), their unwed pregnant daughter (Claire Danes), her cop lover (Adam Trese) and assorted other family members. Writer-director Theresa Connelly's thin script focuses on the wife's preoccupation with love, sex and motherhood as mirrored in the experiences of her daughter, with the rest of the clan serving mainly as comic relief
and the ribald treatment of sexual
than a servant until her wit, beauty and intelligence win the heart of the
bemused crown prince (Dougray Scott), though many complications intervene before the traditional happy ending. Directed by Andy Tennant,
(1998) Muddled tale of a Polish-American family
scenes laboriously overdone.
Numerous
sexual situations, ethnic stereotyping,
some
The U.S.
Catholic ConA-IV adults, with reservations. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 profanity.
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—
—
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In
Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun dies at 90
Retired ARLINGTON,
tice
Harry Blackmun,
Jus-
90, author
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry
of the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision that legaHzed abortion, died March 4 at Arhngton Hospital in the
Roe
Blackmun, who had retired from the high court in 1994, died following complications from the hip replacement surgery he had undergone nine days earlier. He fell at his home and broke his hip a day before the operation. Appointed by President Nixon in 1970, Blackmun wrote
v.
The Administrative Committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops later that year described
Wade
March is
4.
seen here
"This opinion of the
the decision to legalize abortion "was a
most
resignation April 1994.
6,
to protect the
fails
human
basic
—
right
life," the bishops "Therefore, we reject
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remembered
denying unborn
attorneys, parental rights and even baseball, but it is the abortion decision
children the most basic civil liberty
that will be his legacy.
the right to
best
—
life."
The Roe
"History will remember Harry
for
said.
Blackmun as the architect of the tragic U.S Supreme Court decision. Roe vs. Wade," said a statement from David O'Steen, executive director of the Na-
tion,
and
its
Wade
companion
Doe
case,
vs.
Bolton, permitted abortions through all
Right to Life Committee. "It is a tragedy for someone to go to his grave tional
nine months of pregnancy. Roe, which said women had a con-
stitutional right to
re-finance your
home
at
They quoted Pope John XXIII's 1963 encyclical, "Pacem in Terris," which said that "if any government does not acknowledge the rights of man or vioits orders completely lack lates them ...
opinion threw out most state restrictions on aborvs.
end their pregnan-
decision of the court, not
There were seven In
the right to
this decision of the court."
number of significant opinions
subject.
neous, unjust and immoral."
court his
sary of Roe decision, tens of thousands of pro-lifers rally at the Ellipse near the White House to protest abortion and then march to the Supreme Court. And in the years since 1973, Blackmun said he had received more than 60,000 pieces of hate mail on tlie In 1983, on the 10th anniversary of the decision, Blackmun emphasized in an Associated Press interview that
the court's decision as "erro-
Blackmun
announcing
vehement and sometimes
violent debates and protests.
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The
bishops also criticized the
court for failing to understand "scientific evidence" clearly showing the fetus to be of "compelling value" as a person.
1994,
nounced
my
decision.
votes."
when Blackmun an-
his decision to retire,
he
reit-
erated his belief that the opinion was correct. "I think it's a step that had to be taken as we go down the road toward the full emancipation of women," he
said.
Upon Blackmun's retirement, Paige Cunningham, president of Americans United for Life, said that, as the author of Roe, the justice "leaves a legacy of the most radical abortion law
Western Hemisphere." months on the court, Blackmun reversed his long-held supin the
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Around the Diocejt
Bishop Emeritus donates book collection to Belmont Abbey College
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BELMONT Bishop Emeritus Michael J. Begley, founding bishop of the Diocese of Charlotte, has donated his personal book collection to Belmont Abbey College. About 20 boxes of books were received Feb. 27 from Bishop Begley, who served as Charlotte's bishop from 1972-1984. Now living in High Point, Bishop Begley has a long and supportive relationship with Belmont Abbey, and is a friend of many of the monks who have lived and served there, including Abbot Emeritus Walter Coggin. As Bishop Begley requested, the book collection will reside in the Abbot Vincent Taylor Library on the college campus of the Benedictine institution. The collection will be catalogued this summer.
Maryfield employees honored at awards banquet HIGH POINT Sixty-seven employees of Maryfield Nursing Home and Maryfield Acres Retirement Community were honored Feb. 18 for their cumulative 821 years of service, commitment and dedication to the residents of the nursing home and retirement community. Also honored were five sisters of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God, the religious community that founded Maryfield. During the awards banquet, Maryfield administrator Sister Lucy Hennessey presented the Service in the Spirit of Love Award to Annie Quick, a 14-year employee credited for humility, dependability and a
—
friendly smile.
By
Charlotte Catholic High School football coach receives award Charlotte Catholic High School football coach Jim CHARLOTTE Oddo was recently named one of Delaware's all-time top 50 athlete. He was invited to a celebration commemorating the 50-year anniversary of Delaware's former athletes of the year. Oddo was an all-state offensive guard and linebacker at Wilmington High School in Delaware. In 1957, he was named Delaware's athlete of the year. Later that year, he was a member of North Carolina State University's championship football team. He plans to
—
return for his 26th season as Charlotte Catholic's football coach this
fall.
Good Shepherd Home Health names new hospice manager Ernie Zapetis has been named the new hospice manHAYESVILLE ager for Good Shepherd Home Health and Hospice Agency. He has served as a
—
medical social worker for Good Shepherd for the past 3 1/2 years. He has also volunteered with C.J. Harris Community Hospital's Hospice Program, and served as hospice coordinator for MartinTyrrell Washington District Health Department's Roanoke Home Care Hospice. Zapetis received his bachelor's degree from Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, and earned his master's at East Carolina University in Greenville. He is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., and received the 1997 Medical Social Worker of the Year Award from the North Carolina Association of
JIMMY ROSTAR
giving ministries providing rays of light to those in the diocese with some type of spiritual or material hunger.
Associate Editor
—A
CHARLOTTE
late-winter
mix of precipitation grayed the skies over most of the Diocese of Charlotte
In his
recent days, but
in
a spiritual as well as a practical standpoint.
gion are letting
received the light of Christ, and were
your
their light shine
light
through enthusiastic support of the
challenged to 'walk always as children of the light,'" he said. "The DSA gives us a way to live out that challenge in our lives," the bishop added. "It is a way to be Jesus for others and to see and help Jesus in our midst." Parishes who exceed their assessed Diocesan Support Appeal goals retain that extra funding. "Those who do not meet their goal are required to pay the balance through parish funds. With 49 percent of the goal already pledged, Rohrman said Appeal
annual Diocesan Support Appeal. The appeal, which funds 35
multi-cultural, educational, social service, and voca-
began ends March 20-21 with Appeal Sunday Weekend. The theme of this year's appeal is "Let Your Light tional ministries of the diocese, 7. It
Shine!".
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and associate director of the diocesan Office of Development. "This year's theme is certainly one that people could relate to, and by giving to the Diocesan Support Appeal, people are in many ways giving to Jesus by being 5,
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rector of the Diocesan Support Appeal
Since Feb.
"On the day of our baptism we
Sunday Weekend is a powerful reminder of the good that comes from the works of the campaign. "Parishio-
As of March 9, $1.43 million of the $2.94 million goal had been pledged by parishioners in the diocese. "I am encouraged; that's 7 percent ahead of where we were at this time last year," said Barbara Rohrman, di-
Herald has presented readers with various stories of how the Diocesan Support Appeal affects the lives of many: The permanent diaconate, cam-
Care. He serves on the pastoral council at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Ernie Zapetis Hayesville, and has taught social work classes part time at Western Carolina. He and his wife, Debby, have two children and one grandchild. "Hospice workers are not hired but called," Zapetis said. "This is a true vocation for me. I look forward to serving as the hospice program manager, hopefully building hospice awareness in our community and expanding our services."
in the Feb. 5 issue,
the 46-county re-
Let
a light for others."
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Bishop William G. Curlin noted the importance of the annual appeal, from
parishioners across
Feb.
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Mecklenbuig Area Catholic Schools greet future, new members ByJOANNS. keane Editor
CHARLOTTE
—
ture change
When
the Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools Board meets in May, a new membership will be introduced along with a new board structure. The change in constituency is a natural
is
at the
onset of the 1991-92 school year.
Since the inception of MACS, it a review would
was determined that
take place in five years. This analysis
would examine the effectiveness and efficiency of the school system, half a
decade into
progression as boards go; the struc-
its
As
part of the long-range
strategy for the school system launched
operation.
MACS
1^
WASHINGTON (CNS) —
Catholics nationwide are being asked to sign a "jubilee
New
to act for justice.
Those who take the pledge will promise "as disciples of Jesus in the new millennium" to: "Pray regularly for greater justice and peace. "Learn more about Catholic social teaching and its call to protect human life, stand with the poor and care for creation. "Reach across boundaries of religion, race, ethnicity, gender and dis-
— — — abling conditions. — "Live work, the marketplace and the family — "Serve those who are poor and vulnerable, sharing more time and — "Give more generously those need home and abroad. — "Advocate public that protect human promote human digpreserve God's creation and build peace. — "Encourage others work greater and peace." justly in
life,
political arena.
school,
talent.
to
in
at
policies
life,
nity,
to
charity, justice
for
Suggested uses of the jubilee pledge include distributing it at Masses, through religious education programs and in parish schools and through other activities. The kit contains a poster in English and Spanish and color and black-and-white brochures and information on ordering more copies of the materials. It also includes resources for parish councils, educators, social concerns committees, liturgists,
them incorporate the pledge into their efforts. "The jubilee pledge aims to help Catholics think beyond Y2K computer problems and look at where their faith leads them as they near the third Christian millennium," said Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of Belleville, 111., chairhomilists and others to help
man
of the millennium subcommittee.
stitution
of Americain Washington, accepted a
diocesan invitation to review the Catholic education structure and organization serving Mecklenburg County.
Through a consultative process with pastors, principals, teachers, parents and diocesan personnel, became
fully
immersed
James Hawker, Vicar for Education. "There is comfort in acknowledging so many persons on varisaid Father
who
ous levels that the
MACS
grow and
labored selflessly so regional system might
develop," he said. "The con-
tributions of these generous people
have enabled
MACS to realize so many
enviable achievements. Their dedication has borne fruit."
MACS
said, allows
The challenge, he man-
to adapt in a
ner ensuring a timeless vision will be
implemented
in a
timely manner. of Schuttloffel's
The summation
report "stressed an adaptation within structure and organization," said Father Hawker. One conclusion called for a
revamped school board.
This reconstituted MACS board would serve as a consultative body to Dr. Michael Skube, superintendent of Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Charlotte. After the decision to restructure the board, Mercy Sister Lourdes Sheehan, from the National Catholic Educational Association, was invited to share expertise regarding the com-
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In several death penalty appeals reviewed by the court during his final term,
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from page 13
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For more informaBon,
occasions for further consultaSkube. This past Saturday, the newly appointed MACS board met for the first time, gathering for an all-day workshop conducted by Sister Lourdes. "She took the board beyond MACS in scope," said Skube. "We wanted to introduce the board to national issues and organizations, and show how we can benefit with on a local level resources beyond our own diocese." The current MACS consultative board is an 1 1 -member group selected from diverse backgrounds. Seven represent each of the schools. "They come with the understanding of issues facing their specific schools," said Skube. Four members are appointed at-large. "In this instance, three of the positions were filled by people from the previous board who reapplied," added the superintendent. Board members were appointed to staggered terms of one, two and three years. The returning board members will fulfill one-year terms as they assist in the transition, said Skube. Appointed to the MACS board beginning in 1999 are: Cynthia Beamon, Anne Carter, Patrick Hughes, Stephen Immel, Dennis Jacobs, Ralph McMillian, Richard Menze, Sheila Passenant, Joan Stretch and Kim Villarreal. eral
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addition to helping us draft a
the intricacies of the rapidly growing school system. "Dr. Schuttloffel's report incorporated both comfort and challenge,"
Millennium," designed to help pastors and parish staffs plan activities leading up to the year 2000, went to 18,000 parishes in February. The pledge is being promoted by the U.S. bishops' Subcommittee on the Third Millennium and several other bishops' committees to mobilize Catholics for the
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In By PAUL QUIRINI
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
born. Salesian Father
former
recalls another
"Once when he was standing on
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
the steps of Sts. Peter and Paul Church he was spotted by several children and,
56-game hitting
they ran to him," Father Oliveri recalled. "He could not have been more gracious to them. His role model for
streak.
"Hopefully, there will be nobody who's going to break the streak," Father DiMaggio said. Growing up with the name Joe DiMaggio was an honor, but it put a great deal of pressure on him whenever he stepped inside the
the
went up
cisco,
show in New York City or a ball game at Madison Square Garden, I would get the best seats in the house," he said. Father DiMaggio saw Joltin' Joe play ball in person, but he later would
During
Visa and American Express cards to prove that he wasn't kidding about his name, and the priest and the ballplayer shared many laughs and shook hands after the game. "He was wonderful, always a gentleman," Father DiMaggio said. Sharing a name with the Hall of Famer is quite a thrill for Father DiMaggio,
the Garden, the two
Joes actually sat next to each other, and Father DiMaggio recalled the sur-
Yankee
he
my name's Joe DiMaggio.
said, "Hi,
Clipper's face after
What's yours?" Father DiMaggio pulled out his
Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools
and he owes
his sporadic
celebrity to the
While
Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools
emphasize
traditional
environment, today's programs and
A
If
All Saints
Catholic School
Our Lady of
program make
C-atholic
St.
School
Catholic School
more
you value
MACS
370-3273.
all
life
and a
a great
my name
him. He was truly a gentleman, and I don't think there will be another like him," he said.
Joseph DiMaggio, the
Paul baseball
was born
"I've life
with
United States from Sicily.
and
in
lot of
fun
my name because He was truly a
gentleman, and
I
don't
tress
in divorce in 1944.
The chancery office of the San Francisc Archdiocese said at tb time of DiMaggio's mar-
I
riage to
Monroe
that he
had incurred automatic
in
think there
another
will
like
be
him."
Father Joe DiMaggio
to the
excommunication
ac-
cording to Article 124 of the decrees of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore.
1898
The DiMaggios moved ily,
had a great
and a
of him.
Calif., on Nov. 25, 1914 to Giuseppe Paolo and DiMaggio, Rosalie
who immigrated
marriage to a Dorothy Arnold in Catholic ceremony ende^J
earlier
with because of
lot of fun
their fam-
story
which eventually included nine
Contributing
to
this
was Dan Morris-Young
in
San
Francisco.
after-school care
Catholic schools in
attractive
May 5-14
than ever.
ihea-; values,
Adriii.s.^ions
the
Assumption
Ann
are anything but old
state-of-the-art high school, before-
Charlotte
St.
facilities
as Joltin'
Marilyn Monroe. Hi had
"I've
Christian values in a secure
a nevv' transportation
planned Catholic funeral. The last public announcement about his status came shortly after his Jan. 14, 1954, civil marriage to actress
moments of
man known
Martinez,
and
DiMaggio's status in the Catholic Church remained unclear despite his
Joe.
player,
school.
it."
April 10, 1998.
a bas-
prise on the
PHOTO FROM Reuters
Italian-American baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, whose 56-game hitting streak endures as one of the most remarkable records in baseball, died March 8. He was 84. DiMaggio is shown tossing out the first pitch at Yankee stadium
called for tickets to a
to him.
"He was
i
CNS
much closer ketball game at
parish, said,
An example of his shyness, according to the New York Times, wa how "in his rookie year with the Sa: Francisco Seals baseball team in 1933] he was a sensation. He hit in an in credible 61 straight games. San Francisco had four newspapers then, and they all spelled his last name wrong^ He was too shy to say anything about
to bat in
DiMaggio said. As he got older. Father DiMaggio found out just how cool it was to share Joltin' Joe's
get
DiMaggio's
man."
if I struck out, which I usually did, people would say, 'Joe DiMaggio struck out,'" Father
I
exceptional."
terribly shy and terribly private
a
high school,
name. "Every time
young was
Father John K. Ring, pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in San Fran-
batter's box. I
Oliveri,
parochial
kind."
greatest baseball players of all time and to have met the legendary center
"Every time
Armand
vicar at San Francisco's Sts. Peter and Paul Parish from which it was reported DiMaggio would be buried March 11, remembered the baseball great as "a fine gentleman, rather reserved and very^
Clipper March 8, the priest spoke with Evangelist, newspaper of the Albany Diocese, about what it has meant to have the same name as one of the
the
1999
North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco the year Joe was
The
fielder with
12,
children, to the
One good Joe
News Service Joltin' ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) Joe DiMaggio is gone, and one of many fans who will miss him is Father Joe DiMaggio, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church in Johnstown, N.Y., in the Albany Diocese. Following the death of the Yankee Catholic
March
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