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SERVING CATHOLICS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA IN THE DIOCESE OF CHARLOTTE
Deploying the power of prayer
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Students hit high notes with music Programspromote discipline,
learning
MARY MARSHALL
By
CHARLOTTE
—
The
Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools (MACS) instrumental music program is thriving,
and students are benefiting. Twelve years ago, Dr.
CNS photo by Karen Callaway,
Northwest Indiana Catholic
Left: Pope John Paul II delivers an impassioned prayer for populations "threatened by war" March 19 during remarks at his weekly general audience in St. Peter s Square. Above: Benedictine Sister Patricia Crowley, left, of Chicago, and Catholic parishioner Dolly Arnolds, third from left, of Evanston, 111., join Muslim women in noon prayer at the third annual Catholic-Muslim Studies Conference in Chicago
March
20.
Stanley Michalski, coordinator of instrumental music for MACS, began the program with just a handful of students at the elementary level. Today, five elementary schools, Holy Trinity Middle School and Charlotte Catholic High School have a combined total of 525 students participating in the
program.
"Continuity and the fact
program
that the
builds
from
the elementary level on up are
Popeprays for victims ofUS. -Iraqi war,
the keys to the success of the program," said Michalski. He also credits the program's success to the support of the
Religious leaders, organizations
respond to war on Iraq
dietfamilies
administration at each of the
By CINDY WOODEN Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY
— As
"To her we
television stations broadcast pictures of captured U.S. soldiers, Pope John Paul II prayed for all the victims of the war and for
pope
their families.
those suffering because of the war. Pope John Paul also spoke about the fighting in Iraq March 22 as he welcomed the employees of Telepace, an Italian-based
are suffering," the
said as dozens of people the square waved rainbow-colored peace banners.
in
The pope tion
said his affec-
and prayers are with
the U.S.-led attacks on Iraq,
network celebrating
the pope asked the Blessed Virgin Mary's intercession to bring peace to the region.
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CHARLOTTE — Members of the Diocese of Char-
prayer, continued moral re-
lotte joined "U.S.
flection
hours of war and their families
Raising his voice in an emphatic prayer, the pope also prayed March 23 for "the gift of peace." At the end of a beatification Mass in St. Peter's Square on the fourth day of
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MURRAY
war with Iraq, we are deeply aware that now is a time for renewed
By KEVIN
E.
States
Catholic bishops and other religious leaders across the country in calling for prayers for civilians and troops affected by the war against Iraq, for guidance and wisdom for the nation's leaders, and most of all
for peace.
The made
church
leaders
their pleas in state-
ments released before and
af-
George W. Bush's announcement March 19 that the war on ter U.S. President
Iraq had begun. "Now that the
United
is
at
curriculum; there's math involved with counting, readtire
ing with the notes, sensitivity with the execution and social
of Charlotte.
wholesome
"Our hearts and thoughts are with those who bear the burdens of this terrible battle: the men and women of the armed forces and their families and
students learn discipline that develops a lifestyle. The ben-
friends," said
Msgr. West,
in
that
it
is
a group effort,"
said Michalski.
"Music
activity
is
a
where
enormous especially day and age when we've pulled back from the emotional, artistic and aesare
efits
in
this
thetic part of learning."
"The program
"the people of the United States and Iraq, the leaders of our nation and the world
learning at the elementary
See PRAYER, page 9
See MUSIC, page 15
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themselves
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institutions.
"Music transcends the en-
and authentic citizenship," said Msgr. Mauricio W. West, diocesan administrator of the Diocese
Helping communities help
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MACS
many
ways," said
Nuns pledged
Francis
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to stay in
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