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News & Herald

Western North Carolina

Volume 2 Number 26

in the Diocese of Charlotte

.enten Reflection

March

•

1993

5,

Priest Ministers

To

Bomb Survivors NEW YORK (CNS) — The pastor of World Trade

the Catholic church nearest the

Center

Jesus sent two of them with these instructions:

the

city,

"Go

and saw

into

and a man carrying a

the Feb.

felt

26

blast in his rectory

He

his lights flicker.

spent the rest

of the day ministering to survivors.

grabbed the holy

"I

and

my

and

oils

jar of water will meet you.

Robert M. O'Connell, pastor of

Follow him

Church. "We're just a block away, so

to the

house he

there about eight minutes after

enters,

and say to

the

owner of

the house: 'The Teacher says

Where

is

disciples

the

room where my

and I will eat the

Passover meal?' Then he

show you a

city

phone interview March

in a tele-

said he gave the

,

the sacrament of the anointing of the

sick,

formerly called extreme unction or last

rites.

"He was still alive when they took him I don't know whether he died later

out, but

and

everything just as Jesus

had told them; and they pre-

didn't get his

I

name."

"Firemen were yelling that two more were trapped, and we went toward them through a doorway, and then there was

pared the Passover meal.

Mark

1

man

or not.

found

some of the debris

Msgr. O'Connell, speaking

will get everything

went into the

got

and we found one guy

nearly buried, and pulled

large upstairs

ready for us." The disciples left,

I

happened.

it

off of him."

room, fixed up and furnished,

where you

St. Peter's

"I put the police shield on my coat, and went inside, down to the level of the PATH trains where the blast occurred. The whole ceiling had collapsed. There were two or

three cops there,

will

coat

'I'm going over,'" said Msgr.

said,

smoke

around.

all

It

was

pitch black, but

they put on a bubble light of a Port Authority

14:13-15

car

down

there,

they would

and told

know where

me to stay by it so was. They

I

back in about 10 minutes and said,

came

'Let's get

the hell out.'"

Msgr. O'Connell said he then went to an outside location where a

had been

command post

and worked there till about gave the anointing of the sick

set up,

9:30 p.m.

He

to several

more

injured people, and sought

to give general support to the thousands less heated within the tting for

Old City of Jerusalem, The Upper Room,

also called

"Coenaculum,"

Photo by

the Last Supper.

is

seriously affected, he reported.

the

JOANN KEANE

"Most of them were wanted fresh

air,"

he

said.

just

dazed and

"Some of them

needed to use oxygen for five or 1 0 minutes.

ispanic By

I

Leader lives The

Faith'

Like

was

off at

Associate Editor

Hve in the

—

Medina was Church, it was difficult to imagine he would have Carlos

time for anything

lector

else.

But when the and Eucharistic

minister Cursillo

made

—

a

his first

weekend

come to Mass. Within on

a year,

moment

Medina was

wept. "It was the starting point for my deep

the Pastoral Council of the Hispanic

conversion," he recalls.

president of the council.

"From the moment moved into town, Carlos presented himself they (the family)

Active in the Hispanic Ministry Medina ,

worked with youth groups. From 1983 1985, he did research

— —

grant laborers in the field

to the

to

— he

spiritual

renewal in

for the National

decided to give "100 percent

he says.

'

do so many

Medina responded.

him how he

things. "It is not "It is the

Lord.

I

instrument."

>

funded by the Diocesan Support

istry is

—

being very active in his

spiritual activities."

commitment grows,

Medina had been "a Sunday Catholic,"

Msgr. Kerin says. "I can only speak the

who goes to church once a week and doesn't think much about it for the rest of the week. Now, he goes to 7 a.m.

See Medina, Page 16

the kind of person

mountains," says Msgr. Joseph A.

Mass every weekday morning at Our Lady of Assumption and the 7 p.m. Sunday Mass

who headed

at St. Patrick Cathedral.

f everyone was like Carlos, we would

would do anything from the most physical to carrying or moving something

—

Every year,

Appeal.

ne of his five sons asked j;ed to

Hispanic Pastoral Plan. The Hispanic Min-

community with tremendous enthu-

siasm and zeal," says Msgr. Kerin. "He

interviewing mi-

others,

five died."

Msgr. O'Connell

of the blast himself if it had gone

some

slightly different time.

"The Port Authority lets car there, and I was going

me

keep

"When

my

to take our

housekeeper to the eye doctor," he

Catholic Center. The following year, he was

'

of

with the Lord so deep," Medina

many

also reflecting that he might have been

in the area

CAROL HAZARD

HARLOTTE

am just amazed that only

said.

went off at 12:18, 1 was getting ready to go over there in about a half hour to get my car."

"My car is on level four, and the blast was on level two, and went up to four," he said. "But the directly damaged part was on the south side, and my car is closer to the north.

I

the blast

haven't seen

it

yet;

it

may be

See Blast, Page 2

[j

the Hispanic Ministry

lien

Medina

arrived in Charlotte in

iheNicaraguan-bom immigrantcalled (i

He and his family had no job, no money, no place to live,

Msgr. Kerin.

ig;

p matter. He didn't want anything ne Church. He wanted to know what *;ld

do

sgr.

for

it.

Kerin welcomed the Medina

to Charlotte

and invited them

was the trip to Charlotte from Miami. "I was driving a truck and had my wife and four little kids with me, and suddenly I started thinking, 'What am I

The

years in the diocese,

to

'Why do you put' these lives into my hand? What do you want of me? I am here. Do what you want with "I

asked the Lord,

me.'"

The

Diocesan Support Appeal

turning point

doing,'" recalls Medina.

The annual Diocesan Support Appeal, a major source of funding for 23 agencies and ministries,

was so powerful, "the

is

now under way. The DSA began Feb. 7 and will continue through March 28. This year's goal is $1,750,000.

incident

a

pancake."

it

Catholic

News

&

March

Herald

Program Tops,' Says U.S.

Charlotte Refugee

Ambassador Warrren Zimmerman at

(1)

watches Montagnard

By

women

Official

perform ethnic dance

Photo by

reception in his honor.

5

CAROL HAZARD

CAROL HAZARD Associate Editor

CHARLOTTE

— Catholic Social

Services' Refugee Office has brought national acclaim to the City of Charlotte.

"We consider this the top city in the country for refugee resettlement," Ambassador Warren Zimmerman, director of the Bureau of Refugee Programs for the U.S.

Department of

State, said at a

Montagnard community, said his people Refugee Office) help in time of need ... Please do not abandon us. We ask for continued help. Please keep us in your hearts and minds." Y Brun Nie is the newly elected Charlotte representative to the N.C. Montagnard Association.

Although free at last in North Caro"will never forget your (the

Feb. 25 reception in his honor at the

lina, his

International House.

hardships,

Charlotte

the best city not only in

is

terms of job opportunity, but also in "the

warmth of the people and

the extra

energies that are put into helping people lead

new

lives,"

Zimmerman

said.

Margaret Pierce, director of the Refugee Office, said she wasn't surprised by Zimmerman's remarks. "CSS

tation

to the

people are

still

facing

more than 100 people

at the

While eager to become productive Montagnards need job training, help in overcoming the language barrier and medical attention for the

citizens, the

many who are sick, he said.

"No Montagnard wants to become a

service to refugees," she said. Pierce has

burden to society.

The reception was hosted by the CSS Refugee Office and the Montagnard community. The Montagnards, from the South Vietnam, fought communism alongside American Special Forces in the Vietnam War. In the second wave of Montagnards to come to Charlotte, 150 arrived here last November for resettlement by the Refugee Office. The first group came in 986.

Y Brun Nie, a leader of the highlands

in

1

We

We want to be strong

want

be good parents.

We want our children to grow up in a healthy environment."

Moreover, they want to remain faithful to their heritage, Y Brun Nie said.

His speech was followed by songs, dances and instrumental pieces performed by members of the Montagnard community. After the presentations, people helped themselves to a buffet of ethnic dishes prepared by the Refugee workers.

Office

to

staff.

Holy Angels Receives Grant For Child Development Center BELMONT

—

Holy Angels,

Belmont, recently received a $15,516 grant from the Knight Foundation for the Little Angels Child Development Center.

Little Angels Child Development Center currently offers on-site child care

Holy Angels' staff, providing a safe, loving, and learning environment. A wide variety of activities and experiences help the children for the children of

develop socially, intellectually, physically, emotionally and spiritually. The center also provides the perfect oppor-

and without, disabilities to interact in an environment that is conducive to their growth and development.

These funds will be used to improve the learning and play centers in each tunity for children with,

classroom, increase the integrated ac-

between children without disand children with disabilities, and improve the ability to stimulate the development of children regardless of tivities

abilities

abilities, financial or social

and

Common Ground On WASHINGTON

background

ing for

some common ground March

The funds

Holy Anmore children

will also help

gels prepare to enroll

from three groups: employees; children who do not have disabilities, children supported and referred by the Department of Social Services and children from Catherine's House, a shelter for homeless women and children located near Holy Angels.

Holy Angels, sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina, provides programs and residential services for children and adults with developmental disabilities. Programs include" Holy Angels Main Center; Maria Morrow Center; Fox Run ICF/MR (Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded); group homes (Oakcrest, Brookview, Pinehaven); Lakewood, South Point and Belhaven community group homes; Great Adventures and Little Angels Development Center.

1

and conservative approaches to improving the plight of American children and families. liberal

CAROL HA

Seek

Issues I

Edelman and O'Beirne

oi

different approaches to problems

ing children and families. Ed blamed child poverty on the fa

ing sponsored by various Catholic groups

"their parents don't have enou| come."

"There are not enough decei at decent wages for millions of i

opened

can workers," she

The annual

social ministry gather-

in Washington with a panel discussion on "Putting Children and Fami-

First:

lies

Finding the

Common

Ground."

is

said.

"What w

jobs of American workers."

Edelman also said there is "a wrong with our welfare syster warned against viewing welfare cause of all our social and ecc problems."

Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund, which has strong ties to

fare system has caused a rise in

the Clinton administration.

"The family time deficit is the most important problem facing the nation today," said Kate Walsh O'Beirne, vice president for government relations at The Heritage Foundation, a think-tank closely associated with the Reagan and Bush years.

But the third panelist, John Carr,

CD

the restoration of solid value

"As communism has been collapsing all around the world, the American dream has been collapsing all around this nation," said Marian Wright

is

She disputed the view

that

among unmarried teen-age "What lures teens to have

th

mi bal

hopelessness," she said. "Hope best contraceptive."

O'Beirne said the

Am

m tie

family's greatest problems were

by the government's increased den on them and its failure to sel,> t;

families really want. "Children .\rc

secretary of the U.S. Catholic Confer-

gest problem

ence Department of Social Development and World Peace, said those of all

tion

political persuasions agree that the fu-

ture of our children

race.

— Dioc-

(CNS)

esan social ministry activists went look-

between

reception.

Photo by

homeland.

Social Ministry Activists

Y

Brun Nie said in a presenread by fellow countryman Cilbe

his

»

many

has a 17-year history of outstanding

headed the office for two years.

Montagnard plays reed instrument from

the future of the

is

nation.

Carr criticized an "unnecessary po-

is

a lack of time anc

from parents," she said Although surveys show that]> "want to work less and have mo with their kids," government p such as expanded child care and leave are designed to

make

thSj [

larization" that has resulted

from some

adapt to the needs of the worlPm

calling for better values to aid children

rather than vice versa, she adder

and families and others calling for better

O'Beirne said governmen one-third of the income of a two

public policies. "We believe our children and families need both," he said.

He mourned

the fact that "in this

family, in contrast to the "protax policy" of past years.

town, children are seen more as campaign props rather than the center of national life."

He expressed puzzlement

at a society that

has

its

ward

that "the only people

love on

who

But Carr described the current pe-

American shape a

life"

new

Blast (From Page

don't

TV are married couples."

riod as "a potential

I]

1)

values so back-

make

new moment

in

with a "possibility to

policy" on children and

St.

Peter's

He called on the approximately 200

is

in a busi

where few people live, so its primarily to commuters on wee and especially holy days.

Msgr. O'Connell said he pla special

Mass

tragedy, but

families.

for those affected

would wait

until

ei

World Trade Center office to come back to work.

ees at

participants in the meeting,

able

them diocesan

"Today, I'm taking over a if anyone needs coun they can call here and priests available," he said.

most of and peace workers, to "take the option for the poor social justice

saying that

'

into the public debate."

»vl

"

The Catholic News

Cch 5, 1993

&

M.

-ope Affirms U.S. Delegation For

994 World Synod Of Bishops WASHINGTON

(CNS)

— Arch-

op William H. Keeler of Baltimore, ident of the National Conference of lolic Bishops, will lead the NCCB gation to the fall 1994 world Synod ishops in

Rome.

The monthlong synod will discuss of religious

iiture

gation includes

NCCB

The

life.

some of

the U.S.

ops most actively engaged in issues

synod council, a 15-bishop body that meets between synods to follow up on the work of the previous synod and plan the next one.

Cardinal Hickey is currently in his second term as Vatican liaison with U.S.

women

are not

religious whose superiors members of the Leadership Con-

ference of Women Religious.

ligious life in recent years.

the Council of

Names of the four NCCB

Women

delegates

two alternates were released

in

hington Feb. 24 following word

Rome

Pope John Paul

had

He played

a key role last year in the formation of

Major Superiors of

Religious, a second canonical

organization in the United States for

women's

leaders of

orders. Cardinal

ago.

Hickey attended his first synod in 1990 and at the end of that meeting was elected to the synod council.

Archbishop Quinn, also a former NCCB president and veteran of several synods, headed a papal commission to

—

study religious

i

that

II

oved the list.

Chosen as NCCB delegates in addito Archbishop Keeler were: Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of

—

Cardinal James A. Hickey of

in the 1980s.

hington.

Archbishop John R. Quinn of

the United States

life in

The commission

is

cred-

— Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly of

improving communication and mutual understanding between bishops and religious. The archbishop is also a consultant to the NCCB Committee on Religious Life and Ministry, which was formed as a result of the

Ky. Auxiliary Bishop Carlos A. tla of San Francisco. \rchbishop Kelly is a member of >ominican order and Bishop Sevilla

commission study.

Archbishop Kelly was a member of the Quinn commission. He was also first chairman of the Committee on Religious Life and Ministry and is cur-

fesuit.

rently a consultant to the committee.

rhe bishops elected their delegates

Bishop Sevilla

Francisco.

who will attend the synod needed to replace a delegate who

Alternates, if

make

ot

it,

are:

sville,

Nov. 17 during their meeting in Washington. They

is

the current chairman

of the Committee on Religious Life and

nal

Ministry.

ucted the elections during an ex-

announce the names at the time were still subject to papal

pt

ase they Dval.

pope did not veto any of the selections. The approved list

fhe »ps'

isponded to the

News

olic

list

reported to

Service last

November

mrces in the hierarchy,

lrhe Synod of Bishops was estabJd by Pope Paul VI in 1965 to bring |sentatives of the world's bishops her in Rome every two, three or years to advise the s

of church

pope on major

•

More

than 150

Synod of Bishops

members of

the

are elected delegates

from bishops' conferences around the world. Each conference gets from one to four delegates, based on the size of the conference.

General superiors of the world's male religious orders are allowed to

synod delegates. Women religious have no comparable delegation because ordination is a prerequisite for synod membership. The heads of more than 20 major departments of the Ro-

elect 10

man Curia

are automatically

members

of the synod.

have always

bishop of each Eastern Catholic Church and all the Eastern-rite metropolitan

the U.S. bishops

their conference president as

r of the U.S. delegation, and they nued that practice with their elecjf Archbishop Keeler to the 1994

Red Cross Recognition Luncheon.

Photo by

archbishops who govern outside the home territory of their rite. In the United States there are

two such Eastern metro-

Up Blood Supply

For Pumping JOANN KEANE

By

Associate Editor

—

CHARLOTTE

Charlotte area

Catholics are quick to sleeves.

roll

up

Cardinal Bernardin, a former

NCCB

synods served from 1974 to 1990 on the

dent, is a veteran of several

Remember His Wll In Yours.

When the American Red Cross

Sulyk of Philadelphia and Byzantine Archbishop Thomas V. Dolinay of Pittsburgh.

"A valid Will stands as a continuing expression of our concern for loved ones, as well as an ongoing commitment to the Church and the

community

in

which we

Bishop John

F.

Donoghue

mm ou can express your commitment to your Church by making a bequest to the Diocese of Charlotte. Simply have the following statement included in your Will:

Roman

Catholic Diocese of percent of (or Charlotte the sum of $ [he residue of my estate) for its religious, educational "/ leave to the

\ind

pulled

down

top

site participation.

On

Parish visit the

members of St. Ann Red Cross offices, offer-

ing the gift of

life.

blood donors, Catholics queue numbers.

During the American Red Cross

in record

Volunteer Recognition Luncheon, Catholic parishes received more honors than other area churches.

Patrick Clark,

Red Cross

director

a regular basis,

St. Thomas Aquinas most first time donors.

Accolades were bestowed upon St. Gabriel Church for most donors during

Kudos went to

for

for blood services of the Greater Caroli-

the year for bloodmobiles.

nas Chapter, says church blood donors are one of its major supporting groups.

for most improved. Clark says St. Patrick

"Churches seize the need to support life by giving their blood," says

human Clark.

"The church program is one of our saving lines," says Clark.

"Thoughout the year, an average of 7,000 units (pints) of blood come from life

The Greater Carolinas Chapter sup-

St.

Patrick Cathedral took honors

slipped in the past few years, and this

year donations are up significantly.

Churches recognized for the highest participation

according to member-

ship size were: St. Luke, St. Vincent de Paul, St.

Our Lady of the Assumption, and

Ann. "It

only takes five minutes to actu-

ally give blood," says Clark.

The

entire

plies

blood to 120 hospitals. "We use an average of 75 units of blood per hour,"

process, from check

says Clark. In the Charlotte area alone,

only 45 minutes.

42,000 pints of blood must be collected annually to keep up with surgical and medical needs. About one sixth of that

says Clark. "That's what we're talking

in,

screening, and

follow-up time spent in the canteen, "Forty five minutes to save a

is

life,"

about."

live'.'

Pope Urges Christians To Reflect On Lives, Need For Forgiveness ROME

—

(CNS)

During Lent,

Christians are asked to take time to

and their need for forgiveness, Pope John Paul II said before beginning his annual Lenten rereflect

on

their lives

treat.

"We are asked to remove ourselves, from the often franrhythm of modern existence to review our whole life in the light of the Word of God," the pope said Feb. 28 during a morning visit to St. Eusebius

charitable works.

Parish in

Rome.

more information on how to make a Will that vorks, contact Jim Kelley, Director of Development, Diocese of Charlotte, 1524 East Morehead St., Charlotte, NC 28207, (704) 331-1709 or 377-6871.

ing their retreat, which "I also

was to begin that

penitential

The Church suggests ties for the

three activi-

observance of Lent, he

said.

"With prayer we place ourselves in a position of listening to God, and we cultivate our friendship with him. With fasting we set aside the temptation, and frequently the slavery, of abundance to make our hearts free. With charity we make those who are needy our neighbors, becoming for them a living witness of the tenderness of God," the pope

that

ment of regenerating

silence to better

prepare yourselves for the celebration of Easter," he told the

crowd

In his homily at St. Eusebius, the pope said Christians are called to go into the desert with Jesus for fasting and prayer, "learning from him the secret for

victory over evil."

6.

you can find, in the climate of Lent, some mo-

hope

Square.

said.

Reciting the Angelus at the Vatican the same day, he asked people to pray for him and members of the Curia dur-

evening and end March "or

Ann Church

up

tic

li

St.

recognition for fixed

calls for

insofar as possible,

V

supply comes from churches.

their

politans: Ukrainian Archbishop Stephen

ng-

\

JOANN KEANE

Charlotte Area Parishes Honored

churches, and that helps keep us going."

ship are the patriarch or other chief

d

Vincent de Paul, donates blood during a recent bloodmobile

Vincent de Paul was one of several Charlotte area parishes honored

St.

during therecent American

Also holding automatic member-

life.

ince the synod's first assembly in ,

Bill Pharr, pastor of St.

ited with significantly

ilternates last

ve session, closed to the press, and

Msgr.

visit to the parish.

in St. Peter's

"In fact, only through an authentic journey of interior purification will it be possible to have a full experience of Easter and rise with the Lord to new life,"

the

pope

said.

Catholic

News

&

Herald

March 5.J

Pro-Life Corner "Of course, pro-abortion groups are

delighted that the presi-

dent has publicly endorsed their efforts to make abortion easily available, morally inconsequential and financially profitable. Providers like Planned Parenthood Federation of

America and

Editorial An End At

The Respect

have

end

their

The

The Pope Speaks

over allowing

to the controversy

own

language.

federal judge's ruling applies only to this

year's parade but a parade coordinator says he will

March 18 to seek a permanent ruling.

New York Mayor David Dinkins, who supported

return to court

homosexual group's position, says he will accept the federal ruling. However, the reaction of the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization apparently is another

the

story.

Members

are quoted as saying they will

March

VATICAN CITY (CNS)

— Lent

at the

John Paul

"We

is

like all

and

power

in the

church

"is essentially minist<

required for the pope to carry out his missir

is

service as the

supreme shepherd of Christ's

The pope explained that the Church's

II said.

flocl

teachin

time

papal authority and especially about the primacy o

of special graces pass in vain," he said at his weekly

bishop of Rome over other bishops was raised b> Eastern churches separated from the Roman C;

general audience Feb. 24,

Church.

Ash Wednesday.

The pope asked Catholics to join him in "opening our-

bring about the reunification of the churches of the

selves to beginning this jour-

dressed.

cannot

let this

ney of spiritual renewal, welcoming the invitation of the Church to turn inward and seek a deeper contact with the Lord through regularly listening to his Word, a more intense commitment to prayer and penance, and greater attention to the poor and suffering."

Also at the audience, the pope greeted the bishops of Lithuania who were in Rome for their "ad limina" visits, which bishops make every five years to report on the status of the Church in their dioceses.

The pope told the crowd that he would be making his first and long-awaited papal visit to Lithuania and the

When the Council of Florence in the

t

patriarchs.

The pope said Church tradition clearly shows was not Christ's will that papal authority be "sir one of arbitration in conflicts between local chur it

or of giving only a general direction to the autonon activity of the churches

and of Christians with

and exhortations."

"In the exercise of his authority, the success^

Peter

is

called to imitate the

ploying his power in a

main audience talk, the pope continued his teaching on the role of the pope. Papal power, he said,

striving to build

In his

1400s trit

and West, primacy was one of the questions it The council said primacy gives the pope authority he needs to serve the universal Church Pope John Paul said; it is part of his "full pow< pastor, rule and govern" the church in a way that not diminish the privileges and rights of the Eas

other Baltic nations in September.

spirit

example of Christ, of humble service

up the Church's communion and love," the pope said.

in

have a

17 parade.

—

VATICAN CITY

hope there

a precious time

j

Patrick's Cathedral.

We

is

of prayer and penance meant to lead Christians to a deeper love for God and for one's neighbors, Pope

They don't say what they plan but these are some of the same people who have made a practice of disrupting Masses at St.

"presence"

(704) 331-1720

Last?

homosexual organizations to march as units in New York City's St. Patrick's Day parade. But, somehow, we doubt that we've heard the last of it.

The judge ruled that a parade is a form of speech covered by the First Amendment. He said that Ancient Order of Hibernians can hold its traditional parade on Fifth Avenue again this year and can continue to exclude homosexual groups.

By basing his ruling on freedom of speech, Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy accepted the position advanced by the American Civil Liberties Union which had supported the Hibernians. He didn't even go into the questions of freedom of religion or assembly.

The ruling overturns a decision by the New York City Human Rights Commission. It held that a parade is a type of public accommodation like a hotel or restaurant and that discrimination against the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization violated the law. That would seem to be stretching the term "public accommodation" but groups like the commission often seem to

no doubt profit handsomely."

Bishop James T. McHugh

Diocese of Charlotte

Life Office

We hope that a ruling by a federal judge last week will put an

their clinics will

no trouble

but,

based on the

text of

(CNS) Here is the Vatican Pope John Paul IPs remarks in English at his

instituted the primacy in the Church as "a perpet

and foundation for the unity of and communion" (Lumen Gentium, 18). The "E| ministry" of the bishop of Rome is meant to enabl College of Bishops and indeed all the faith cooperate fruitfully in promoting the Church's mission. In the exercise of his authority, the sued of Peter is called to imitate the example of Cm,employing his power in a spirit of humble service striving to build up the church's communion in and love.

Today the Church celebrates Ash Wednesday beginning of Lent. I encourage you to make this season a time of genuine spiritual renewal, listenii God's saving word, drawing nearer to the Lo: prayer and penance and opening your hearts needs of the poor and suffering. Upon all of yot your families I cordially invoke the abundant bles: of God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. visible principle

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Providing decent

life, said Pope John Paul II. "Housing is a personal and family right," the pope said in a Lenten message to the Brazilian bishops. The text was released at the Vatican Feb. 25.

The Church defends the right of everyone "to possess what is necessary to develop a dignified existence, to work, to form a home, and to pleasantly pass the time from childhood to old age," the pope said.

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"is

not only physical, but also loving,

and educative," he added.

It is

the "space

of the family, the place where people project their

innermost

self,"

he

said.

The pope prayed

that Brazil finds solutions to its

housing problems that are in keeping with "solid and charity." Providing housing "is an ir tant factor in social stability," he said.

The pope said Christ is sympathetic to the pre

justice

of decent housing because the situation durin earthly existence in Nazareth was similar to Brazil

so

is

facing today. "It was not different from t

many people

facing poverty,

abandonmen

privation," he said.

Each year the pope sends a Lenten messa support of the bishops' Fraternity Campaign, combines fund raising with educational programs a Brazilian social problem. This year's theme ing.

is

)

1

The Catholic News

h 5, 1993

The

By 'm not usually given

view of recent events

"I told

in

you so" but

it's

By FATHER JOHN CATOIR A vocation is a calling from God, but individuals are not the only ones who have

pretty hard

Somalia.

Each and every family has a vocation to live as long as a loving community, is a good time to begin thinking about your family's vocation.

A family is a small group of persons sharing their lives together on a deep, personal level. Sometimes relationships within a family are almost too close for comfort. Disagreements will arise, and resentments will set in, disrupting the delicate balance needed for an atmosphere of emotional comfort. It takes a lot of laughter and forgiveness to offset the negative forces in any family

a calling.

mission in the African nation, officials in Washington said they would be there only long enough to get food to the starving people and restore a semblance of order. Then, they said, the Americans would turn everything over to a

and Lent

United Nations peacekeeping force and head for home.

Not too long ago, they said the job was j ust about done and the pullout would begin in the very near future.

situation.

when everything fell apart and the various war lords and their gunmen began fighting in earnest. The U.S. forces are right in the middle of it although by some miracle there have been few American

Of course,

that's just about

is

it

beginning to appear that the U.N. peacekeeping force

is

is

very well but what happens

shot

is

down? And,

fear that

I

it's

when one of those CI 30s making

the air

only going to be a matter of time until that

which ever side is responsible American ground forces. ve said from the start that some sort of intervention is necessary to end the jattling in what was once Yugoslavia in order to keep it from spreading to the f the Balkans. But I maintained then and still maintain that it is a European m and the intervention should be by European troops.

It

:ns.

will bring pressure for retaliation against

or the introduction of

masking Racism

By SCOTT SPIVAK 'amp of the body is the eye. It follows that ifyour eye is clear, your whole body filled with light. But ifyour eye is diseased, you whole body will be darkness. ?

the light inside

,

you

is

darkened, what darkness that will be!"

an evil which

is

Icism

still

endures

a sin that divides the

is

human

dignity of those called to be children of the

Father," said U.S. bishops in the pastoral

and Sisters

to Us.

Racism

in

its

letter,

community everyone

most treacherous

state is

often hidden within ourselves our culture, and within our institutions. Racism is masked.

How can we combat racism? The pastoral

racism, provides us with

many

letter on

practical suggestions.

While these suggestions are very necessary and concrete ways to fight racism, let me share what I believe to be at the heart of our battle.

We are born into a world view, unfortunately one which sees some human beings inherently superior or inferior because of race. Have you ever wondered why young children are not concerned with the skin color of laymates? It is because we have inherited the legacy of racism. We have d racism and we must therefore be educated to unlearn racism, e all have a perspective or lens through which we view the world and her For Christians, this lens is shaped and polished by our Christian story of >n, sin, incarnation, redemption and our resurrection destiny. This story helps ee' all people as brothers and sisters, ir lenses however are misaligned and dirty. Shaping and cleaning our lenses B us to expose the ugly head of racism which invades many aspects of our lives, onsciously and unconsciously. Racism has become part of our story and we ame it to reshape our stories to conform it to the life that God has in store for

me would

argue that racism is no longer a part of our society. It is true that has enacted civil rights legislation and many minorities have achieved neasure of success. Closer inspection, however, reveals that racism's ugly ss

is

i

largely

moved from the personal level to the structural or institutional level,

vel consists

of any institutional policy or practice which benefits one race

pense of another.

It

orated into the very at the

is

at this level

framework of

where the

sin of racism

society, spreads,

at

becomes

and further influences

personal level.

amples of this become evident when we examine the close relationship racism and economic justice. The ugly head of racism is manifested in the nic gap which exists between white and non-white Americans. According to :n

census, "the

median net worth of white households was more than

1 1

times

presence of this social sin of institutional racism also becomes evident >imine the close relationship between racism and our environment.

when

TiO

black households."

(S

e

l

<tte

1

Observer

race as the

hus waste unities

in

an

most

article,

The "Environmental Racism," reported a study which

significant factor in determining the location of future

facilities. Three out of five African-Americans and with one or more hazardous waste sights.

Latinos live in

unarguably important in our pursuit to unmask racism. But is Ion that which provides us with a new vision? The late Archbishop Lyke of told us that while education is helpful, it is not enough. "Racism is not a lack |

-ucation

is

See Racism, Page 6

is

a prereq-

in the

make

family needs to

a

commitment

to the goal of

happiness.

The husband-wife relationship sets the tone. On their wedding day the couple made a public promise to God that they would share their love for one another with any children God might send them. In the marriage ceremony they invoked Jesus as Lord, and took a vow binding themselves to this life-long commitment.

Announcing such a courageous public declaration is one thing, but making it stick is quite another. Normally, when the honeymoon is over the lovers begin to learn that true love is in the will. Romantic emotions can only last so long. When romance wanes, faith can be a powerful motivating tool in overcoming the problems that plague every marriage. "Lord, not my will be done, but Yours." (Matthew 26:39)

There can be great suffering

life.

same

Brothers

we forgive those who

Forgiveness

Word of God together and receive the Eucharist together, there is a good chance they will achieve that elusive balance needed for a happy home. To become a loving

It is

all

to

Good intentions alone may

some of the tenacious resentments that plague family

In such cases a spiritual counselor

In

homes of those who do not know how

in the

a skill that takes time to develop.

not be enough to break through

family, and violates the fundamental

:4)

What else can a family do to promote harmony? Pray! With God's help all things members pray together, attend church together, listen to the

(MT 6:22, 23

our society.

in

human

1

are possible. If family

forgive and forget.

acism

1

Rite of Marriage.)

military action. hat's all

to foster the spirit of forgiveness

home.

When a man and woman have children they become a new creation, a family. The children must then learn how to do their share to build a loving community. Selfishness will always rear its ugly head, but all is not lost, love can overcome all kinds of selfishness. "Love can make it easy, and perfect love can make it a joy." (Taken from the Old

going to consist

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

how

uisite for a peaceful

y of the American troops already on the ground and that keeping the peace involve a lot of fighting.

nd that brings me to our latest "humanitarian" military operation, the air drops )lies to besieged towns in Bosnia-Herzegovina. President Clinton says that's will be involved just an airlift of food and medical supplies. There'll be

Learning

key. "Forgive us our trespasses as

trespass against us." (Luke

ties.

.nd

One Candle

Light

military forces began their humanitarian aid

When U.S. I

He

BOB GATELY

going around saying,

to

the temptation in

[|;ist

Notebook

Editor's

&

might be helpful.

to foster the sense of family vocation. loved you," He was speaking to each was calling family members to cooperate in

circumstances, the important thing

is

When Jesus said, "Love one another as I have and every member of his family. He

community of love.

(For a free copy of the Christopher News Note, FAITHFUL FOREVER, send a stamped, self addressed envelope to The Christophers, 12 East 48 Street, New York, NY, 10017.)

Father John Catior, is the director of The Christophers building a

Cremation And Funeral Masses

By FATHER JOHN DIETZEN Q. Some months ago you said, in answer to a question, that if a body is to be cremated the ashes should not be present at the funeral Mass. I have since heard that this practice is followed in some places. Is it

permissible

now?

(Florida)

A. The general rule of the Church is that "if the body of the deceased cannot be brought to the church for the funeral Mass prior to its cremation, the Mass can be celebrated but without the ashes of the deceased present"

(Congregation for Divine Worship, January 1977).

The reason given is that "the body, not the ashes, receives liturgical honors since it was the temple of the Spirit of God in baptism. It is important to respect the true meaning of the sign in order that the liturgical catechesis and the celebration itself be authentic and fruitful."

However, I know that in some parts of the world where cremation is a common and expected custom, the Church has adapted to these local customs, allowing the ashes to be placed on a table or other appropriate place in the church, such as near the paschal candle, during the funeral Mass.

The Congregation for Divine Worship has explicitly granted permission for this practice to the Diocese of Honolulu and perhaps to other dioceses if they have asked.

One of your parish in

priests could tell you, or find out,

what procedures are possible

your diocese.

Q. Please help me and others understand something we hear often, but which is never explained. What does the term "Latin-rite priest" mean?

(Indiana) A. Most simply, a Latin-rite priest is one who serves in a rite of the Church whose language has been, from the fourth century to the 20th, the language of the Roman Empire, which was of course Latin. The main such rite or church, in our liturgical

experience,

is

naturally the

Church.

There have ^een other

one we

rites,

call the

Roman

Rite or the

Roman

Catholic

however, which used the Latin language. Most of See Dietzen, Page

1

he Catholic

News

&

March

Herald

5,

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How Does Canon Law Affect Us? The

Eucharistic Minister MCNALLY

By SISTER JEANNE-MARGARET Canon 230.3 gives prominent roles

ways

explicit recognition to

in liturgical services.

lay persons

The canon permits

may

exercise

the authorization of lay

persons to confer baptism and to distribute Communion.

Keep in mind, however that the bishop's authorization is needed for lay persons to baptize outside danger of death 861.2).

(c.

Canon 9 0 defines the ordinary 1

ministers of Commun-

ion as the bishop, priest or deacon. special ministers of

Communion

The extraordinary or members of the

are

christian faithful.

The Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacraments 1973 decree Immensae caritatis gave all ordinaries

in a

(bishop and vicars general) the faculty to appoint qualified persons of either sex to serve as special Eucharistic ministers for a given time or permanently, if needed. The

bishop

may

extend this faculty to individual priests to

permit them to appoint Eucharistic ministers.

Again, the law does not give a definition nor does it place restrictions in the word would then be up to the discretion of the bishop, the pastors

"qualified." "Qualified"

and the community.

To give you the total picture I must include the following. In 1987 some bishop from some diocese wrote the congregation and complained of abuses of this role of the laity. The congregation responded in terms of "substantial abuses" (meaning?) and considered these abuses to be Eucharistic ministers distributing Communion to a small number when the celebrant or a concelebrant could do this and Eucharistic ministers distributing Communion to themselves and the faithful while the ordinary ministers remain inactive. In light of indications of these abuses the congregation

Lifeline

bad shape. His brain function

is

almost gone. He's just a

How often we hear this today. It is the subject of books, talk shows, television dramas, and seminars.

home

Having worked

in nurs-

understand what is meant by the term "vegetable." I also understand that the intention of most folks who use it is harmless. Nevertheless, I have a real problem with it.

When I was a child I learned that vegetables were ing

administration,

I

those "other" things that kept showing up on

my plate at

did not eat them

would: 1) not grow up to be big and strong and 2) not have any dessert. This latter threat served as enough incentive to motivate me to consume everything on my plate, even the mealtime.

I

also learned that

if I

spinach and (Ugh!) beans. But never during these formative years did

admonish

me

vegetables

There

I

is

ministers are present though not taking part in the Eucharistic celebration

with the prospect of metamorphosis

was doomed to become one. a fiction in vogue today that needs

human beings cease

to be

to function. In hospitals

to

—

that if

be addressed.

I

I

my

parents

did not eat

It is

my

the idea that

human in proportion to the degree that their brains cease we hear the word vegetable, or the more clinical term

(PVS) used to describe people in the final stages of certain is, I believe, based on a distorted view of human nature which measures our humanity by the degree of cognition of which we are capable. According to this school of thought, medical science, with technical assistance, is capable of telling us just who is and who is not a full human

persistent vegetative state

The

terminal illnesses.

(;

and deacons). This went into effect as a law June 1, 1988.

This translates into lay Eucharistic ministers should not distribute Comrn if a priest or deacon is anywhere in the church again unless the numb communicants is so large as to require both ordinary and special Euchi ministers. This is not likely to happen very often. The promulgation of this noi appeared in the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano However, Canon 7| "The law comes into existence when it is promulgated. Canon 8 reads: "Uni ecclesiastical laws are promulgated by being published in the official comme Acta Apostolicae unless another form of promulgation is prescribed for indiv cases." This norm was eventually published in the AAS but not immediately \ raised the question as to whether prior to its AAS publication was it, in fact a Many questions could be raised about this decision. Why did the congreg feel the necessity of requesting and why was it not promulgated immediate indeed there were serious abuses? Is this a practical law that can easily be foil in view of this same congregation's instruction in 1973, the Code of 1983 anc a qualification in 1987? Does this fulfill a major purpose of law, that is to bring and maintain harmony in the community? What happens if the usual or practice becomes custom? Canon 27 states: "Custom is the best interpreter of A law is interpreted according to the mind of the legislator. What do we do? things precedence is given to faith and charity.

Mercy Sister Jeanne-Margaret McNally is a licentiate in canon law and a of The Tribunal of the Diocese of Charlotte. !

tells us,

but because

God tells

questions, the so-called "gray areas" (e.g. people

By JIM MCINERNEY in pretty

vegetable now."

Canon Law to provide an exact interpretation of the law. Their response giv 20, 1 987 was the Eucharistic ministers may not exercise this function when o

because a scientist

Of Beans And Beings

"He's

requested the Pontifical Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of the

us. When we approach the who are comatose) we give

law the benefit of the doubt.

But if we take the distorted modern approach we arrive at different conclu When confronted with persons who are comatose, who have lost most brain fui but are still breathing, we either deny their humanity, or resort to evasive c tions. Hence, we talk about "vegetables." As a result we end up defining the in terms of the nonhuman. We describe what something (or someone) is sayir the existence of things we cannot me it isn't. Unwilling to accept mystery we punt. This frightens me, because the same sort of ev; weigh and control and denials prefaced the abortion-on-demand movement.

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—

The Judeo-Christian tradition tells us that the first transgression of our was the sin of pride, which led to rebellion, trying to do things our way insfc God's way. Pride makes us incapable of appreciating the gift of life. It rem unable to accept a mystery we cannot comprehend.

Just because something is a mystery it doesn't mean

it isn't true. Our wi some problems, some not, some solvable, some unsolvab is not a problem to be solved. It was never meant to be. It is a gift from God. To

full

of mysteries:

mystery, and to accept it, is the very opposite of pride.

Both Passover and Easter are more than commemorative holy days. Th lessons to be learned. These lessons can be summed up in one word. HUMI Whether we are a nation humbled by slavery or an entire world humbled by are not forgotten by our Creator. He loves us and will never forsake us.

And he certainly won't turn us into string beans!

So, the next time you hear someone refer to a patient as a vegeta this

"Horseradish!

Humans

are beings, not beans."

idea behind this language

being.

At

this

when Jews and Christians are preparing for Passover or mind that the religious traditions behind these ancient

time of year

Easter, let's

keep

in

human life. According to the Judeohuman life, for all that we claim to know about it, is a mystery and a gift from God. As such it is to be protected, nurtured and cared for, regardless of how poorly it might function. observances offer us a very different view of Christian tradition

The proper role of science, in our tradition, is to observe and describe things, not to give them value. For example, a scientist is capable of saying that you and I are human. Now because we are human, you and I say that we have value. Why? Not

ST ADRIAN

THOUGH HIS EARLY UNCERTAIN,

ADRIAN WAS

PANNONIA, HUNGARY, IN "H NINTH CENTURY. HE BECAME BISHOP THERE AND CAME TO

IN

SCOTLAND AS A MISSIONARV WITH A NUMBER OF HIS COMPANIONS. AFTER EVANGEL/ZING FIFESHIRE,

Racism

(From Page

of knowledge;

it

is

5)

the lack of eyes, a lack of the capacity to see, to

know and

understand."

Archbishop Lyke saw a key to our new understanding. What we need is a change We can speak the words of justice, but the words will be empty to those to whom we speak if their hearts are not open to the truth. With a change of heart we can become one with all of the oppressed races in our society and transform our institutions into ones that will promote life and enhance human dignity. This change of heart, or conversion, will allow us to experience Jesus, unmask racism and see with the eyes of God. By seeing with the eyes of God we will recognize others as images of God and will enable us to see all people as brothers and sister.

Scott Spivak is the diocesan coordinator of the Justice and Peace Ministry. of heart.

LIFE 15

BELIEVED TH/' BORN OF ROYAL

IT IS

ADRIAN RETIRED

A MONASTERY ON THE ISLE C MAY IN THE FIRTH OF FORTH. IT WAS THERE THAT HE AND /

COMPANIONS WERE MURDERED BY MARAUDING HIS

DANES. HE MAY ALSO HAVE DONE

MISSIONARY WORK IN IRELAf* AND EVEN MAY HAVE BEEN BISHOP OF SAINT ANDREWS. ADRIAN IS BELIEVED BY SO. SCHOLARS TO BE THE SAME ST ODHRAN OF IRELAND. HI FEAST IS MARCH ©

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"Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media" (Zeitgeist)

NEW YORK (CNS) — The follow-

Dense 167-minute documentary on times and political commitment of linguistics scholar Noam Chomsky, who, since voicing opposition to the Vietnam War in 1969, has written much and spoken often against American foreign policy, transnational economic elites and abuses of power around the world. Canadian filmmakers Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick concentrate on Chomsky's analysis of the me-

ing are capsule reviews of movies recently reviewed by the U.S. Catholic

the

Conference Office for Film and BroadThe reviews include the film's classification by the USCC and is rating by the Motion Picture Association of America. casting.

"Army

I;rs of Charlotte Catholic

High School's African-American Heritage Club and

representing 29 nationalities join hands in unity at the school's assembly in

f:s

lance of Black History Month.

|)HS Students Urged To Learn

Love And Respect Others

I

of Darkness" (Universal) Mindless sword-and-sorcery movie about a present-day macho guy (Bruce Campbell) zapped back to the Dark Ages where he must rescue a damsel in distress (Embeth Davidtz) and do battle with legions of undead skeletons before he can return to his own time. Director Sam Raimi's inept attempt at comic

;r

—

Catholic High School students

Larretta Williams,

"Yes

/

community and for a world that need of healing," said Mercy Sister

for our is

tte

)

City Council

Ella Sarborough encouraged

to

Humanity"

in

a

assembly Feb. 1 of the school's observance of [History Month. loo often we reflect more on them Is' ," Sarborough told the gather'00 students, faculty and parents, brget that God made us all and |:d for us to be one." She advised iltural all-school

'

look to the Scriptures for in learning to love and respect

in

who coordinated

the

"The seed of change is in educaand within each of our personal

is

club

by the

—

—

MPAA

its

heartfelt in-

flat

drama

is

weak

scripting.

A-

Some stylized violence, sexual

innuendo and rough language. The

a familiar story marred by

direction and

is

MPAA.

tainment.

tentions, director Scott Rosenfelt's ear-

nest

classification

All-too-obvious thriller concerns a devious secretarial fill-in (Lara Flynn Boyle) whose ambitions to advance her cookie company boss (Timothy Hutton) and then herself include killing her way to the top. Director Tom Holland lets Hutton stumble around while the murderous leading lady and co-star Faye Dunaway chew the scenery in this unappetizing, cookie-cutter formula enter-

"Family Prayers" (Arrow) Melancholy tale set in 1969 as a sensitive Jewish boy (Tzvi Ratner-

sive gambling. Despite

USCC

— adults and adolescents. Not rated

"The Temp" (Paramount)

restricted.

USCC classification is A-III — adults.

Minor men-

MPAA rating is R — restricted.

The

violence and an ongoing sense of

advisor.

The

quent comic violence and mild sexual innuendo. The USCC classification is A-III adults. The rating is

while the marriage of his parents (Joe Mantegna and Anne Archer) unravels under the strain of his father's compul-

Sister Larretta

coverage of genocide in Cambodia with that of East Timor. Raises provocative questions about contemporary justice issues.

Stauber) prepares for his bar mitzvah

Marcus Waldo.

case study comparing the U.S. press

II

tion

Officers of the African-American Heritage Club are President Kristi Bellamy, Vice President Theo Abbott, Treasurer Issac Wallace, and Secretary

control in a democratic society," with a

briefly interesting special effects. Fre-

event.

experiences."

dia as ideological agents of "thought

horror fails miserably, save for a few

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life,

Is to Ice

lives

and others. unity were offered in

jiyers for

Home-Alone Troubles For Teens

languages, and students repre29 different nationalities were

By CHRISTOPHER CARSTENS As teens get into high school, their

lit 1

ceremony celebrating

^ized in a

and ethnic diverselections, including John

lool's cultural jusical

jn's

"Imagine" and Michael

"Heal the World" were led by |HS Choral Ensemble, imbers of the school's African:an Heritage Club presented an Jtation of "Cry Freedom" (from jsical play "Voices for Peace"), jamatization expressed hope for ince and unity through a positive l's

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direct adult supervision.

Parents of high school juniors or seniors

now quite commonly leave their

teens entirely on their own for a night or

two. Sometimes

it

works out well

— but

four kids

know

not always.

Since

last fall,

I

personally have gotten into similar problems. It starts out innocently enough.

"Mom

and Dad are away tonight. I'll have a few of my friends over for a little get-together. What could go wrong?"

Here's what could go wrong. Before first period, you invite five or six people you know well. "Mom and Dad are out of town and I'm having a party tonight. Keep it quiet." High schools being what they are, the word immediately gets passed along to a few kids who mention it to some of their friends after second period.

By lunch, 320 kids have heard that there's a party at your house tonight, and that your parents won't be there. So as you and your friends sit down that night for some popcorn and rented vid-

know

There are two guys from school at "We heard you were having a party." You don't want to be unsociable, so you invite them in. It doesn't until the fifth seem like a big problem time the doorbell rings, announcing the arrival of yet another group of "friends."

While you're making popcorn for

One house

—

all

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soon kids are drinking all over the house.

Soon you realize that you've never seen half the people now playing loud music and drinking your parents' liquor.

It's scary to watch the house fill up with drunks as your driveway becomes a landing zone for pickup trucks filled with strangers who heard that things were getting lively over at your house.

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Fitting feelings into faith's

Human feelings are so powerfu pushing and pulling at us an crying out within us, that they ten to get held accountable for ever

bad thing that happens. It appear can wreak havoc

journey

that feelings

But is that all there is to feelings Shouldn't they get credited wit

many good

L Rowe, FMS

By Brother Cyprian Catholic

News

things that

happen 0

since they so powerfull motivate us either in one directic

well,

Service

or the other?

"It's

much

not so

lieve. It's like it

ference

that I don't bedoesn't make any dif-

When

it

comes

to motivatirf

people, the feelings play such large role that it is difficult

don't feel it." after a pause, "It's like being colorblind at a light. You move if I

Sank added

believe God would dismiss the as a proper place for grace

because you know where the red and the green and the yellow are, and not because you really see them."

Then he asked, "Does that make

—

sense?"

People are motivated not sole, by their feelings, however. Jt

Sank had been

in psychotherapy with me for a couple of years at that time, struggling and progressing in the way he dealt with his own feelings.

ability to think clearly (usually

consultation with others) and "see" what is possible for us

plays a

"I never thought I could get to feeling so bad that believing in something

I

for the offered, "Irrelevant?"

word and

"We started working together because nothing was right. Maybe not nothing, but it felt like nothing was going right. And I felt like I would never sleep again.

"It had been months that I had hidden out in my room. And I did not believe in home and not in family and not in my mother, my father. Let me

David Gibso

"Even in the possession of others' tremendous compassion, there is a loneliness to the faith journey because of feelings. But they are part of our humanity and it is symbolic suicide to try to kill

the feelings."

different. Better?"

He shook his head a slow yes. "But even after that, when we think faith will never fade again, it does. And not because of anything, really. We just

the last thing feel

we

pain, yet

in

where God is found, writes Benedictine John Main in his book, The Way of Unknowing (Crossroad, 370 is

a

real part of

Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017. 1990. Paperback, $8.95).

Sometimes

such silence it feels as though God has withdrawn from us, Father Main observes. This experience is all the more difficult when we are attempting to prove to in

ourselves that prayer "works." This silence of God, however, can help us learn that it is God we should love, not some manifestation of

God's presence Reflection:

"that satisfies us."

When

does the silence often

make me

am

I

that

I

hurting,

experience God, too,

feel that

has abandoned

me? Or

is

asking me to begin to listen give up my demands that

please

me and

recognize the

does offer.

gifts

to

wake up one day feeling alone.

"And God is sort of a notion we can not much different from talking about a vacation we never take. Sometimes it makes me feel worse."

"Do you believe less?" I asked.

"I don't know. I'm not sure."

"You're not sure? Are you sure of anything?"

"It seems to me that what we've found out is that what's in me is what there is. It's what's been put there."

Sank was beginning to sound like he talk about, but

FAITH IN ACTION

God

—

God

begin

God

to

to

actually

~

Editor, Faith Aliv

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throw in God and myself."

"And then?" I asked when the silence had ripened.

"And then," looking at the poster of an escaped slave on my wall, "I guess I began to believe more."

"What are you telling me? Are you saying that belief can make us feel

silence

1

can happen.

It pays, therefore, to "thir* clearly" about the ways God mig' be present to us in our happim or sadness, in our pleasure anger or distress.

What is God trying to tell us?

was a question he pondered a good while. Then he said:

may be want when we

the decisior

the feelings are couple with clear thinking, great thinf

It

Silence

vital role in

people make.

When

would be..."

He was struggling so

1

The feelings —the emotior are essential to human natun And grace builds on nature work.

it's

on his own deep truth.

"Put there for what?"

"To be made whole. To be brought to wherever I can take it."

was

closing in

"Alone?" I asked.

He chose the words carefully, but after these years of thinking things through, the clarity and the strength

had sharpened.

"We're always alone and we're never alone. We're what there is. The mind. The heart. The possibilities.

"You know, I've been reading a lot in African religions recently. Even our ancestors

— so directed toward com-

munity and so connected world

to the spirit

— understood that at some deep

level there was a loneliness in seeking the divine."

Sank said that through this he was discovering that what he is feeling now or at any time is part of his journey in

life. "It is

But

right

if I

use

it

for growth.

and shouldn't want to run away from what I feel. I should try to find out what it is saying to me."

Sank was drawing from down deep.

He said, "I guess what I've learned I

can't

here mostly

is

to accept that our hu-

manity and everything about it is a message from the divine; that it's part of the universe, constantly pulling us to the divine....

"It's sort of like Jesus in the agony in the garden when he certainly wasn't feeling good. Or on the cross when he felt abandoned. You can't avoid destiny even when feeling bad is part of it.

Or feeling good or maybe even feeling nothing."

I

asked, "So are you saying that

feeling and belief are connected but faith must never be dependent upon feeling instead that faith must connect feeling with something higher or something deeper?"

both looked inside. I thought a ^ him and how far he had come ii work, our work together. It had b< H long journey and like all long jour <w even when they are done togei they are done alone.

Even in the possession of ot — tremendous compassion, ther loneliness to the faith journey be of feelings. But they are part humanity and it is symbolic suic try to kill the feelings.

"Finally," he whispered, "I :

sponded.

I

know,

though, that whenever all doesn't feel well over long periods of time, you and I will have the same conversation."

"Maybe so," I answered.

We sat silently for a few minutes while we

:

,

;

understand how it works tog even in pain the feelings do? (he grabbed his stomach), and called seat of wisdom up here (poi)

—

1

to his head). "They're really same, aren't they?"

"You're telling me."

I

wantedM

answer his own question.

"I guess God knows what God< he concluded.

(Dr. Rowe,

a Marist

brother,

isi

search associate in the departmA Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Um sity School of Medicine in Baltii and on the faculty of the Gram School of Social Work at the Univi$[ of Maryland, Baltimore.)

—

"I guess that's what I'm saying," Sank re-

,.

'

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I FAITH IN THE

Taking the indirect route to happiness

By Steve Heymans Catholic

News

Service

Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis dean ongoing

es his early life as

for something to satisfy an inmptiness. r what, exactly, he wasn't sure. But ed to satisfy that emptiness took him

:h

his inner,

vas only when is able to go

d

his fixation

his inner life

was able to

te

that jewel of Ions

— joy —

1 came to him iiectedly.

lie

most ado-

Lewis had Ictive inner liis imaginand emotional Its,

Igh literature and play. This play I/ed inventing whole imaginary is, such as his "Animal-Land," which came the inspiration for

Isrnia chronicles.

I described himself as having a tual lust," a desire to indulge and

w in his inner world of passion

him to "flounder mazes" of spiritualism, Norseman

Motion. This led )logy,

But

for.

it

came

could obtain happiness by going after happiness di-

pantheism, magic, theoso-

id the occult. wrote that indulging in the oc•eated an attitude which "spread >usly to the stern truths of the

needs and a willingness

to live for others."

"A person whose Naugatuck, Conn.

faith is really alive is really loving."

—

Billings,

Mont.

"Someone who's

active

Gospel, not just preach nursing

homes and

it.

—

who practices what they preach. They live out the People who have a lot of care for the sick, who visit the

hospitals."

— Dave Heckman, Kokomo,

came

it,

to

publication, please write: Faith Alive! 3211 Fourth St. N.E., Washington,

when he turned

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20017-1100.

outward and attended to something outside him-

But

self.

object of

was

have become sacrosanct.

meant when we describe someone as

for Lewis, emotions can and should be shaped by religious convic-

is

tions.

Hope is the appropriate feeling or response of one who knows God will return in glory. And hopefulness is a disposition that can be engendered in us through parents and environment.

As Lewis points out, joy is perhaps one of the greatest emotions. But it is more than a emotion. It can become a part of us.

Though now considered

obsolete,

I

think the notion of "religious affections" still has much to teach us. The notion of religious affections does not pit "feeling" against "believing," but emphasizes their complementary nature.

Whereas emotions refer to feelings, moods, sensations and other states of being, "affections" describe a person's basic way of being and acting.

Affections are feelings in sine with our ultimate goals and vision of life.

Affections are dispositions which reflect our basic attitude toward life.

Like joy, for example, hope is a kind of emotion. But the word "emotion" does not do justice to the depth of what

— —

"hopeful."

In fact, by participating in God's life, in a joyfulness that compels us to become joyful persons. And what better witness to God's kingdom than the presence of a joyful community?

we participate

(Heymans is director of campus ministry at St. John's University, Collegeville, Minn.)

of panic. He asked Jesus to help and was told: "Everything is possible to one who has faith." Torn between faith and

By Father John Catholic

J.

News

To be human

is

Castelot Service

to feel,

and

our call to faith is not a call to be

— insensitive.

"Then he said to them, *My soul is sorrowful even to death....

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Mark 14:24,38).

No one was ever more conscious of enjoying a deep interpersonal relationship with the Father than Jesus, but that relationship did not dehumanize him, did not prevent him from feeling the deepest of emotions.

In the Garden of Gethsemane, those emotions reached the level of agony. Did his agony signify that his faith in the Father was any less sincere? Of course not, cost

him dearly.

When he stood outside the tomb of his dear friend Lazarus, his faith was never stronger, but the tears of Martha and Mary tore his heart out; "he became perturbed and deeply troubled....

And Jesus wept" (John

spirit, Jesus shared our flesh-and-blood existence, so vibrant with deep feelings of all sorts.

Faith enables us to smile through our tears, but it does not stop us from crying. It is like the star that guided the Magi. A star guides us through the darkness but it does not eliminate the darkness, which still envelops us. And darkness can be scary.

It has been my experience that the times when I need faith and trust most

of

all

'rough our tears, but

it

us to smile does not stop us from crying."

sorts. Faith enables

such times that

feelings are most intense, so intense as to cloud convictions.

The convictions are there, and they are strong and certain, but they do

ately

deep feelings

when I find it most difficult to

trust. It is precisely at

have

Jesus shared our flesh-and-blood existence, so vibrant

11:33,35).

Not a disembodied

of all are

may

with more immedifelt emotions that raise doubts. In the long run the to contend

and intensely

convictions emerge

all

the stronger for

the struggle.

There was a

man whose

lent seizures terrified

he could only cry out: "I do behelp my unbelief!" (Mark 9:23-

terror, lieve,

Ith

Ind.

An upcoming edition asks: How would you express forgiveness to someone who hurt you? If you would like to respond for possible

him

convictions collide

it

— Dottie Deetlebaum,

"People of faith are people with a certain courage that comes from truthfulness because they don't think their own ideas are better than what reality is.... From that comes a peace because they don't have to fight reality."

Teresa O'Connor,

When feelings and

but

— Patrick Sheedy,

Shoreview, Minn.

Happiness, or

—

unfeeling

—

"That person would have hope,... would be a person of compassion and have a sensitivity to

joy as he described

God; in turning attention to God, he discovered a joy more profound, more satisfying than all the various forms of spiritualism combined.

At the end of the book, he succinctly defines joy as the byproduct of attending to God the Christian God who is a being other than ourself.

True joy and happiness will not come when we pursue them as goods in and of themselves. In attending to God, Lewis' inner psychological/spiritual world was put in perspective.

Lewis' view of things may seem odd in a world which bestows upon the emotions an autonomous status. Emotions

alive?

rectly.

attention

was nourished

is

would be evident in the way they treat others and in their attitude toward They would see more value in suffering than the world tends to see in it."

Donna Hayden, Frankfort, Ind.

That life

whose faith

"It

only after he abandoned the assumption that he

Lewis found the joy he had been searching for ... only after he abandoned the assumption that he could obtain happiness by going after happiness directly.... It came to him when he turned outward and attended to something outside himself."

onallife.

describe someone

life....

In the end, Lewis found the joy he

my directions, f which in-

d

How would you

creed. The whole thing became a matter of speculation: I was soon altering 'I believe' to 'one does feel."

Eventually he realized that the excessive inward focus of his journey ironically stunted his emotional and spiritual self.

had been searching

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him to the point

24).

That is the normal human tension, the wrenching conflict between deep convictions and sometimes overpowering feelings.

God, offering us the gift of faith, invites us into an interpersonal relationship. But God is ultimate mystery, and the invitation is at the same time a challenge to accept and embrace mystery.

Mystery is unsettling, triggering all sorts of feelings. Faith doesn't solve the mystery completely it can't; but it does enable us to accept and even to

—

embrace it. And to embrace mystery is embrace and to be embraced by God.

to

(Father Castelot

is

a Scripture

scholar, author and lecturer.)

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said. "I

am

War II,

of World

Mrcela, a 1 9-year-old Catholic Croatian, claims he narrowly escaped being killed

by Serbian soldiers by saying, "Jesus save me." Mrcela made the plea when a

"For nine months each year, I travel to tell people that we must unite in love because hate breeds hate and accomplishes nothing." Mrs. Opdyke, a 70-

Serbian put a knife to his throat. The

year-old Catholic

United States talking about the Holo-

—

Croatian said he "just

mission," she said.

also shares

Jews

World

ing for using all means necessar ensure the delivery of humanitarian

countries.

Congressman Recommends

To Combat Conditions

how

ARLINGTON,

she hid at least a dozen

from

Nazi's house.

in a

HONG KONG

Assumption-St. Paul Parish, north of Albany. He and another Catholic

refugees,

many of whom crowd

of his

(CNS)

— China's

that

sentence was seen by

due for release

BOSTON

in 1996.

(CNS)

— The

MANISCALCO

(CNS)

J. Maniscalco, 47, a priest of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, N.Y., has been named director of the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Media Rela-

Francis

tions.

in his

ROME

home Diocese

are normal occurrences at

commotion Feb. 24 was

the world heavyweight boxing

who wanted

(CNS)

— Hermes Herrera

at the

Africa to publicize famine relief efforts.

many

Archbishop Criticizes U.N. For Failure To Support Bosnian Relief WASHINGTON (CNS)— The real problem in getting relief aid to Bosnia-

YOUNGSTOWN,

Ohio (CNS)

®

Herzegovina has been the U.N. Security its

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own

to get supplies through, a

Catholic official said. Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick of Newark, N.J.,

Service Feb.

1

This newspaper printed on recyc newsprint and is cyclable.

Mother/Daughter Program Sunday, March 21 for 13-17 year-old

gir

reli-

never counted. But they are many." Herrera, 5 1 sees attendance at Catholic ceremonies as part of his diplomatic role as representative of a communist government. "It is no problem for me to participate, even though I

Story Of Holocaust Must Be Told, Says Woman Who Helped Jews.

individually" to get their support, R< told Catholic

1 p.m.

gious events in Rome and in St. Peter's,"

he

end of the audience.

a papal blessing would be "a great symbol" to cap a weeklong trip he made to

an atheist

day's work. "I participate in

of Albany,

for

champ

a papal blessing. Riddick

Council's lack of support for

ambassador to the Vatican, and mixing Marxism and Masses is part of a normal

N.Y.

Pope John

Paul IPs weekly general audience, but

who spends most of the year attending religious events. He is Cuba's is

May to return to parish

— Cam-

Bowe told reporters later that he thought

Cuban Diplomat Mixes Marxism With Masses

Johnson said instead of trying to d up more public support for his cor versial economic recovery pack President Clinton ought to be seel the backing of key members of Q gress. George E. Reedy, Johnson'sp secretary in 1964-65 and currently fessor emeritus at Milwauki Marquette University, said Clinton making a political mistake by trave the nation to promote his economicpi age of budget cuts, job growth in tives and tax hikes spelled out in his; State of the Union message. "T; ought to be a line of members of ( gress walking into the White He And Clinton should be talking to t

era lights flashing and people yelling

commitment

mation for the Rockville Centre Diocese and editor-associate publisher of The Long Island Catholic, diocesan newspaper. Msgr. Maniscalco, who starts his new appointment March 15, succeeds Father Kenneth J. Doyle, who

work

Boxing Champ Bowe Meets Pope At End Of Audience VATICAN CITY (CNS)

with the pope

has been both director of public infor-

the post last

secretary to former President Lyndc

one of the cardinals resides. Previous

New

i

—

BOWE

dinners were in Washington, Chicago

sponsored annually by The Catholic

guests at the event.

Since 1985, Msgr. Maniscalco

RIDDICK

The

Johnson's Press Secretary Ui Clinton To Concentrate On Cong WASHINGTON (CNS) A p

University of America in a city where

York. In addition to honoring Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston, the dinner pays homage to Cardinals James A. Hickey of Washington, Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago, John J. O 'Connor of New York, Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Philadelphia and Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles.

Three other cardinals will be special

— Msgr.

before....

Bowe, the 25-year-old holder of the World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation titles, spoke

this year's host cardinal,

WASHINGTON

worse today than they \ situation must not be mitted to last. It need not last. The* much that can be done." tions are

The $ ,000-per-person

and

Long Island Priest To Become Bishops' Chief Spokesman

per of the Diocese of Arlington, "Co

part of the

black-tie event

came up." Wolf new

the Arlington Catholic Herald,

honored at the fourth American Cardinals Dinner April 24 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel and Towers in Boston. is

J.

six U.S.

who head archdioceses will be

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gious persecution

some

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Su)

Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., also said everywhere he went, "the issue of

church observers as part of a ploy to improve China's international reputation. Father Vincent Zhu Hongsheng, 79, jailed for violating laws governing religion, was "officially freed" by Shanghai Intermediate Court Feb. 17, the same day the government paroled two prominent pro-democracy student leaders, Wang Dan and Guo Haifeng, UCA News, a Thailand-based Asia church news agency, reported. Father Zhu was

are Catholic.

even though he survived the attack, he was tortured and beaten in a Serbian concentration camp. told the

full

his third visit to southern

ommended four specific steps of act

release of a Jesuit priest three years short

Tome, are visiting U.S. parishes to try to raise money for Croatian Croatian, John

H

Va. (CNS)

said conditions are worsening and

Chinese Jesuit's Release Seen As Ploy

members of

Ac!

In Sudan

U.S. congressman who recently retui

Croatian police uniform, recounted

his recent experiences for

left

Church." Herrera said that attending Catholic events expresses Cuba's appreciation of Vatican stands in favor of world peace and solutions to poverty and the mounting foreign debt of Third

woman, not only tells groups what she saw during the war, she

knew that Jesus is

stronger than the knife and that he would

He

my

caust. "This is

make a miracle for me." Mrcela, dressed in a

she travels around the

1

chairman of the U.S. bishops' Co: tee on Migration and a member oft Committee on International Policy, the Security Council must "put tei into the resolution passed last yearc

respectful of the beliefs of the Catholic

Croatian Tells Parishioners He Narrowly Escaped Death By Praying Mario ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS)

5,

said. "I've

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New Organ

3wton Church's

Is

&

Her;

Sweet Music To Ears

CAROL HAZARD

By

Associate Editor

— The music

Hig of a cathedral than a small

ment but without an accompanist. The music is turned on or off by remote

nY church.

control.

ftiWTON

is

more

No,

new $18,600 organ

S Joseph's

good

En its

as a

internal

The music

le

moves

&

souls.

importance of music in worFather Richard Hokanson. |j)f the best ways to get people Ir is through music. Good music to a deeper expression of worllsaid

Hokanson

lWhat

family's

and reeds.

7)

VCR, camcorder, jewelry, ste-

reo equipment.

acknowledged leader is

The moral is simple. Having grownups around helps keep things safe. If you have a party when your parents are gone, it can get out of control and you'll find yourself in trouble

you hadn 't imag-

Don't do it.

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ined.

Service

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in the building

of electronic classical organs.

a result of years of technical research and development.

Today, our digital organs can be found around the world, from Africa,

and Belgium,

Australia, France

in the

world

in Seoul,

European organ duce the It's

reflected every

llhere's

at St.

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in

Newton.

CAROL HAZARD

to

one of the

largest

organ

Dietzen, (From Page

5)

these are no longer used; vestiges of a few remain in some parts of Europe and are even having some influence in current local adaptations of the liturgy.

Latin-rite priest also means, for all practical purposes, priest of the Roman Catholic Church or the Latin Church.

Some other Catholic churches are, for example, the Ukrainian Church, the Melkite and the Chaldean. These, and more like them, are Catholic churches just as is the Roman Catholic Church; and they are part of the universal Catholic Church acknowledging the primacy of the bishop of Rome. But their liturgies, including their liturgical language, are different from the one with which most of us in the United States are familiar.

(A free brochure explaining Catholic teaching and practice on annulments is available by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Church, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701 Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address.)

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installations

South Korea. Using principles used by the great

builders,

best,

new organ

his dad's shoes!

When the name is Johannus, you can count on over 20 years as an Our success

Father Richard Hokanson plays the

They even took a pair of

its

In

s

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Herald

March

'Qpmmiqiiemorios

Arturo Cantu formo parte del equipo movil

de los Jovenes Catolicos Unidos, que visitaron a los jovenes hispanos de Biscoe

para invitarlos a participar en

el

programa

Rogelio Hernandez se destaca en primer lugar atento a la celebration de la liturgia

dominical en Nuestra Senora de

las

Algunas familias hispanas a Clarke,

Americas, Biscoe.

OSFS, despide

la salida del

templo catolico en Biscoe.

El Padre

a todos los feligreses con un saludo cordial.

regional de la Pascua Juvenil.

Dar Esperanza

Estamos Llamados A Actuar En Su Favor

A Un Mundo De Necesidad

Operacion Taza de Arroz es un programa cuaresmal de oracion, education, ayuno y limosna patrocinado por los Servicios Catolicos de Ayuda (Catholic Relief Services) y su diocesis.

CRS ha respondido a las necesidades de la humanidad

desde el ano 1 943, primera el extranjero de una agencia fundada por los Obispos de los Estados Unidos, una agencia que permite a la comunidad catolica de este pais llevar alivio a las victimas de lacrueldad de las deportaciones en masa y la guerra. intervention en

Desde entonces, millones de mundo se

refugiados en todas partes del

han visto forzados por la guerra o la opresion a huir de sus patrias. Enormes campos de refugiados del tamano de ciudades pequenas fueron atendidos, junto con otras agencias, con provisiones de alimento, atencion medica y ensenanza.

Para muchos de nosotros las

Los refugiados son personas que no quieren dejar sus pafses, pero sienten

que deben hacerlos para proteger a sus familiar, as! como Maria y Jose huyeron para proteger a Jesus (Mateo 2:13-14).

Al igual que la Sagrada Familia, los refugiados de hoy estan motivados por el temor, pero tienen esperanza en el futuro. Esa esperanza les da valor para huiry viajaracompanados porelhambre, la sed y el terror. Cerca de 15 millones de personas alrededor del mundo comparten estos sufrimientos.

Lea Mateo 25:31-46. ^Es esta simplemente una historia o realmente nos dice Jesus que el se identifica personalmente con el "forastero"? El Papa Juan Pablo II ofrece su reflexion sobre este pasaje: "Cristo mismo, en un pasaje conmovedor del Evangelio, desea identificarse y ser reconocido en

cada

de Africa, los que padecen hambre en Somalia, Peru y otras partes del Tercer Mundo estan distantes. Tal vez no llegamos a imaginar realfsticamente a los que carecen de las cosas mas basicas de la vida. Con la economfa en el estado en que se encuentra hoy, con el aumento del desempleo, hay hambre por todas victimas de

la

sequia en

el sur

Dios, somos interdependientes.

Africa no estan todo.

muy

Y mucho mas

lejos despuij

cerca, aqui

i

vivimos hay gente que padece ham| pobreza y estamos llamados a act su favor.

Vamos

a privarnos de algo qu

gusta cada dfa de esta Cuaresmaj

partes y debemos hallarla, hacerla nuestra

poner el dinero ahorrado en la Ta Arroz para alimentar a un ninoj hambre.

y actuar en defensa de los pobres.

La Constitution sobre la Iglesia en

ofrecen las cajitas de Operacion Tal

el

Mundo Moderno empieza con

palabras: "El

gozo y

la

estas

esperanza, el

En

todas las iglesias catolicj

Arroz y donde depositarlas cuando llenas.

Tambien pueden envkl i

dolor y la angustia de las personas de nuestro tiempo, especialmente de los

contribution directamente a Cat!

pobres y afligidos, son tambien el gozo y la esperanza, el dolor y la angustia de

Baltimore,

de Cristo".

El mundo de hoy es complejo y esta interconectado. Como pueblo santo de

de Arrox es parte de

los seguidores

Relief Services-USCC, P.O. Box

Su contribution hambre

1'

MD 21298-9663.

del

a Operacion la soluci<

mundo.

refugiado..."

Noticias Internacionales Historia

De Pablo Y Maria En

El

Peru

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

El Ciudad de Vaticano (CNS) ano 1492hatenidosufestividad. Ahora la Iglesia quiere conmemorar el de 1 493 al que se recuerda poco en la historia, pero que es de gran importancia para la

despues que el explorador Crisl Colon desembarco en las Americ.

El Papa desea dar gracias a Die el regalo de la fe y ademas dar un ns

evangelization.

Monsenor Cipriano CalderorW^

.

Pablo es un cultivador campesino de los Andes de Peru.

El y sus vecinos hablan quechua y estaban incorporados solo marginalmente a la vida de la nation. Porque no conotian

mejorar

metodos modernos de cultivo, su

semilleros para cultivar hortalizas.

production era baja e inadecuada para mantener a sus familiar durante el ano.

La migration por temporadas a empleos de salario bajo en Ayachucho era un

esta manera,

en

las tierras bajas

calidad de vida de esas Las mujeres se reunieron en grupos de madres para recibir information basica sobre salud y nutrition, ademas de aprender sobre la

familias.

valor de las

De

Maria no solo entendio el verduras, sino que pudo

ayuda a Catholic Relief Services para

tambien cultivarlas para su familia.

A pesar de las dificultades, sequfas y actividades guerrilleras, Pablo y su esposa Maria, asi como sus vecinos persistieron y han aumentado el alimento

capacitar a Pablo y sus vecinos a producir

para sus familias.

alimento para sus familias que fuera

"Mis

medio para

sobrevivir.

Una agencia diocesana

suficiente para todo el ano.

local pidio

CRS ofrecio

partrocinar un equipo de personal tecnico

y ayudar tembien a comprar mejores semillas. El equipo establecio 6 centros de adiestramiento que formaron una red para servir de 8 a 1 2 comunidades cada uno. Pablo fue adiestrado en uno de los centros en tecnicas basicas de cultivo, pero muy mejoradas.

Fue tambien escogido para ser promotor, responsable del adiestramiento de otros cultivadores.

La participation de Maria, esposa de Pablo, y de otras mujeres en las comunidades fue importante para el exito del proyecto.

Esto hizo que toda la familia participara en el esfuerzo para

hijos

Como

dice Maria:

no sufren hambre, nuestra

vida es mejor, no perfecta, pero tenemos

un futuro".

La Mesa Directiva del Instituto Pas-

SE

II

Centro Catolico Hispano de Charlotte, el sabado se reunira

en

la

evangelization, seguij

presidente de la Comision Pontj)

para

la

America

Latina.

La indulgencia

plenaria,

Monsenor Calderon, en

Se ofrecera una indulgencia plenaria a los que participen en las ceremonias

requisitos, incluyendo la penitenci; i

liturgicas especiales organizadas por las

ramental, la reception de la Eucari

iglesias locales durante el periodo entre

la

Mundo.

28 de febrero, primer domingo de Cuaresma, y el 30 de mayo, festividad

\

oracion por las intenciones de

el

El jubileo fue declarado en un edicto,

redactado en febrero.

latin,

Ciudad Guatemala (CNS) humanos Arquidiocesis de Guatemala recibic j poco el Galardon de los Derej Humanos de la Comision NacJ oficina de los derechos

publicado

el

6 de

Los primeros misioneros

mas de un ano

Francesca como reconocimiento p j trabajo en Guatemala.

Nuestro Obispo Juan ha anunciado la peregrination que el esta organizando para asistir al Congreso Eucaristico, que tendra lugar en Sevilla, Espana, del 7 al Seguira mas 13 de junio, 1993. information en adelante.

Rigci San Salvados (CNS) Menchu, ganadora del Premio Nol la Paz en 1992, coloco una of' floral en la tumba del asesii Monsenor Oscar Romero, quieii Arzobispo de San Salvador, durai primera visita a esa nation ve

cristianos llegaron an Hemisferio Occi-

el

6 de marzo, de 10 a.m. a 5 p.m. Vendra el director del SEPI, nuestro querido Padre Mario Vizcaino, Sch.P., quien celebrara la Misa en espanol al dla siguiente, domingo 7 de marzo, a las 10:30 a.m. en el CCH. jDamos la bienvenida a los visitantes!

impulso a

la que c| perdonado todo castigo temporal! los pecados a quienes asistan acontecimientos y llenen cm\

de Pentecostes.

Noticias Diocesanas toral del

ha declarado un jubileo de 3 meses para Espana y la America Latina, a fin de senalar el quingentesimo aniversario de la llegada de los primeros misioneros al Nuevo El Para Juan Pablo

:

dental a fines de 1493,

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1993

5,

Congress Expected Bring Many From East Europe

Herald

icharistic

EW YORK

— This

(CNS)

groups to encourage participation

year's

in the

iional Eucharistic Congress in Seville, ij

congress.

U June 7- 1

Although some parts of the congress program will be restricted to official del-

3 will see larger delegations

before from Eastern Europe, said

'er

hbishop of Seville.

Amigo

Irhbishop Carlos an

jig through

22

I'ork interview Feb.

"Eucharist and Evangelization," and

a

that the con-

as

tion,"

emational eucharistic congresses in Seoul,

1985 in Nairobi, Kenya; 1981

Corea;

France; and 1976 in Philadel-

ndes,

hope the congress

"I

|by Eastern Europeans not possible

1989

is

has

it

will give

people a

more acute understanding of the Eucharist and a greater commitment to evangeliza-

I" that allowed a freedom for partici-

in

to

Archbishop Amigo

said.

Joachim Meisner of Cologne, Germany, Carlo Maria Martini of Milan, Italy, nals

and Jaime Sin of Manila, Philippines.

Archbishop Amigo said invitations were sent to representatives of non-Catholic

Amigo

80 delegapresenting some 100 countries were

chbishop

said

He

attend the Seville congress.

led to

would

out 100,000 people

ome part of each day

'

partici-

s program,

come from

the Spanish Reformed, to participate in an

ecumenical round

The congress

and

table.

num-

ber of cultural events, such as a Korean

concludes the congress,

musical group and a 16th-century Spanish

aniards have a tradition

of participat-

drama, he

To

and are

popular eucharistic events

said.

demonstrate the connection of the

about the upcoming congress in

Eucharist to charity, he said, the Seville

he said. King Juan Carlos and

Archdiocese is undertaking projects to house

Sophia are expected to be present for

poor elderly people and establishing a cen-

untry,

event with the pope, he said.

a city with a great eucharistic

;ville is

and for a long time

,

have thought

I

national eucharistic congress

there,"

ice

he

offerings taken at the congress

said

would be

used to expand programs of help for drug addicts

and

to build

new

churches in six

or meetings arranged

in the

United

by the North-

panic Pastoral Center with Hispanic

Theological material, he said,

is

being

published in seven languages and, the

first

time for a eucharistic congress, in Braille.

— of

explosive temper

some homes

—

am

I

protect client confidentiality, the staff mem-

lack.

bers are not identified.

It

In a support group with

which I work

in

CSS, we listened the other night to a tape.

The speaker, a young father of a 2-year-old, said he

had observed so

and

little

(compared

that if all that

He

be capable of handling a driving license (so

we don 't hurt a stranger) and that a marriage license can be bought (with compliance to

minimum civil standards) with no real preparation so that we don't hurt one another.

Some years back, Erma Bombeck

kingdom) was for

to the animal

are required to

essentially

kept them undersized as long as they are

the protection of the parents.

seems strange that we

some tests to demonstrate our ability to

pass

why

that the reason

suspected

raw energy came packaged

in

ended one of her columns with the comment: "Marriages, our last and best chance

grow up!"

larger sizes that the sheer physical energy of

to

children would wipe out any parental role or

people I counsel and have found

control and/or parent!

I

I

have used

this

have also substituted nouns

quote with it

effective.

(for

example:

He made his observation in humor and

"Our job, our last and best chance ...") when

However,

calling individuals to consider changing

sat in counselling

their reactions rather than their environ-

the group laughed with him.

have

I

sessions and, at times, hear of such

raw

ment.

Meet

Catholic, Lutheran Leaders

To Decide Future Of Dialogue —

WASHINGTON (CNS) TopCathoand Lutheran theologians and church officials from the United States and Europe

for setting aside the condemnations.

met

Trent's condemnation of Martin Luther's

lic

recently in Florida to decide the future

directions of Catholic-Lutheran dialogue.

poor neighborhoods.

said,

Amigo was

chbishop

should

He

mentally handicapped.

ter for the

in individuals

that occurs within

awed at the life skills so many of us seem to

since then, as

will also include a

anger

bers about their experiences. In order to

and

several of them, such as the Anglican

when

cted a million for the final day in Paul II

churches, and acceptances had

Crosswinds is a series ofcolumns writby Catholic Social Semit es staff mem-

God made children

Principal speakers will include Cardi,

ten

slogan, "Christ, Light of the People."

its

j/ould be held in the context of a "new

een held every three to five years,

open

said, other events are

anyone. The theme of the 45th congress

Vallejo,

interpreter, said in

most recent ones

he

egates,

Crosswinds

They agreed

that

their churches to set

a primary task

They

will

It

be the 450th anniversary of the Council of teachings on justification.

The Lutheran World Federation

for

is

said 1997 might be a target date

will

up a process by which

hold

its

some Reformation-

The

federation and the Vatican's Council

they might declare that

era condemnations are not applicable today.

ninth worldwide assembly in 1997.

for Christian Unity are co-sponsors of the international Catholic-Lutheran dialogue.

S

Official Calls

Sudan

The U.S. Catholic-Lutheran dialogue

Africa's 'Silent Crisis

is

now 27 years old and recently completed

its

VSHTNGTON (CNS) Sudan

;

— The

situa-

a "continuing cycle of

is

famine," said Catholic Relief Ser-

;

jnior director for Africa Feb. 23. fidan is

being described as Africa's

because so

(crisis'

much

attention

has been focused on Somalia," said iiiras at

a round table on the situation

by the House Select Com-

Kn called l>n

Hunger. the midst of a civil

Ilan is in

war

the South.

ernment

human

and animists from

black Christians

and of trying

rights violations

to

impose Islamic law and Arabic language on non-Muslims.

The 1 0-year civil war has displaced an

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Though members of the Committee on Hunger expressed optimism about progress

be "lulled into a

During the meeting Shiras recommended several ways to reverse the situa-

Catholic Relief Services

is

currently

the only American relief agency working

in

going on.

CRS is providing food for more

em

tion in Sudan.

false sense

of hope."

He said international pressure

on parties involved in the Sudanese should be increased. These groups should both guarantee and be held accountable for the safe passage of relief goods, he said.

recommended

the creation

of "safe harbors" for displaced people,

re-

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,

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For the new round of U.S. dialogue, the consultation

recommended

as a topic "the

communion/koinonia with a focus on the steps required for the realization of full

communion between

us."

Koinonia, aGreek word meaning 'com'

munion," has emerged increasingly

in re-

cent years as an explicit topic or theme of

ecumenical discussion. The Vatican

last

year issued a document on the Catholic understanding of communion, and the topic will

be the main theme of the Fifth World

Conference on Faith and Order when

summer

this

it

in Spain.

Chairing the Feb. 18-21 meeting in

West Palm Beach were Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee, chairman of the U.S. Catholic bishops' Committee on Ecumenical and

and

Interreligious Affairs,

Bishop Herbert Chilstrom, the presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in

America.

The meeting's main purpose was to set participants described

bill

and

full communion" to witness made so far and the commit-

future directions of the U.S. dialogue, but

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Foreign Disaster Assistance, told the round-

CRS,

Maid, Maintenance

&

|ence. |lic

States.

and development agency, was founded 50 years ago and currently operates relief pro-

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ment

James Kunder, director of the Office of

dan and the

lions include:

the progress

convenes

in:

Life If

United

Community Offers Peace of Mind

13

planning for some sort of 'public affirmation

conflict

Shiras also

Aside from distributing food in southSudan, CRS is working with other

tradition. The recommended

understanding and practice of the church as

sand could face starvation in the coming Foreign Disaster Assistance.

Florida consultation group

of the goal of

efforts.

months, according to the U.S. Office of

than 120,000 people in the region.

fabriel

training.

government, Shiras said people should not

is

Principal

and

between theUnitedNations and theSudanese

Sudan, the area where most of the fighting

Gabriel School

ers with seeds, tools

million Sudanese citizens, and

the Eastern Equatoria region of southern St.

agencies on plans to provide Sudanese farm-

without assistance several hundred thou-

estimated

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jthe

The fundamentalist Muslim govKhartoum has been accused of

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one another and

how the directions they

take in the future can be most beneficial to

one another.

Among

fiimttitre

it

depth consultation to reflect on

all

tional dialogues

the national

and

interna-

undertaken by the Catholic

Church since the Second Vatican Council, the U.S. Catholic-Lutheran consultation has

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been regarded as one of the most effective at breaking

new ground and

reaching

levels of ecumenical understanding.

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March

Diocesan News Briefs Grand Prix

CHARLOTTE — The

brief meeting in the social hall

13th annual

Grand Prix benefitting Charlotte Catholic High School is March 7 in the Atrium in First Union. Tickets are $ 1 50 for two and include a chance to win a 1993 Grand Am from Dick Keffer Pontiac.

For tickets or more information, call Lynn Holmes, (704) 525-7289.

at

8:30 p.m.

caregivers and $30 for professional caregivers.

Lunch

is

included.

The event is sponsored by the Southern Piedmont Chapter of the Alzheimer's

Association, The Junior League of Char-

and Parke-Davis, WarnerLambert Co. Registration deadline is April 2. For more information, call the Alzheimer's Assocation at (704) 532-

Father Joseph McGovern, will be pre-

House of Prayer

12-14.

For information or reservations,

House of Prayer, P.O. Hot Springs, NC 28743 or call

write to Jesuit

Box

7,

(704) 622-7366.

Walking on Holy Ground

CHARLOTTE

—

Father David

Valtierra of the Oratory in

Rock

Hill,

"Walking on Holy Ground," an evening of Scripture and spirituality, on Friday, March 12 in the parsh hall at St. Peter Church, 507 S. Tryon St., at 7:30 p.m.

S.C., will present

Father Valtierra will discuss the

burning bush story in Exodus and the transfiguation story in Luke's Gospel in

order to explore the connections be-

one's

own

to read Scripture

and

spiritual journey.

Indoor Attic and Bake Sale

CHARLOTTE — An Indoor

Attic

and Bake Sale sponsored by the Knights of Columbus Ladies Auxiliary Council 7343 is Saturday, March 27 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the St. John Neumann Church hall, 8451 Idlewild Rd. For more information, call (704) 567-1936 or (704) 365-2699.

St. Pat's

Dance

HIGH POINT

—A

St.

Patrick's

Day Dance in the Immaculate Heart of Mary gym is Saturday, March 20 from 8 p.m. to midnight. Live music will be

provided by the Tony DiBianca Band.

Cost

is

$7.50 a person. For more

information, call John or Pat Lindsay at

(919) 869-3991.

Evening Of Reflection CHARLOTTE The

—

Vincent Women's Guild is hosting "An Evening of Preflection for Women" on Monday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul Church. The theme is forgiveness and will include a video presentation, followed by reflection and prayer.

The service will be followed by a

St. Pat's

Day Bridge

SHELBY

—

Benefit

Mary's Ladies Guild is sponsoring a bridge benefit on Thursday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the parish hall. There will be prizes for scores and door prizes. Other card games and boardgames are welcome.

Cost is $5. Tickets will be available at the door. For more information, call Patti McMurry, (704) 482-6203, or Linda Fairchild, (704) 482-1087.

St.

Stations of the Cross

STATESVILLE

—

During Lent, St. Philip the Apostle Church is having stations of the cross on Fridays, March 12,19 and 26. The first was Feb. 26. On March 5 and April 2, stations will be during the regularly scheduled 5 p.m.

Holy Hour.

—

Isabela, will sell religious articles after all

Masses March 20-21

at St. Philip the

Apostle..

Items, including Bibles, prayer

books and prayer cards, will be available for Easter, Mother's Day and First Holy Communion.

St.

Mar. 6 Shamrock Tournament St. Patrick, Charlotte

George Awards The diocesan Committee on Scout-

ing

is

Games

George Award. The award

Weekend

Joe Vuceta (704) 333-3174 Mar. 7 Grand Prix The Atrium, Charlotte, 6 pm Jim 3rowd (704) 364-7425

accepting nominations for the

St.

given in recognition of service or accomplishis

ments in scouting. Nominations are open to adults involved with

Cub

Boy

Scouts or related youth

on Jesus

as the single

director

is

Robert

and dancing School March 13 from 7:30 p.m. to midnight. Cost is $40 per

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Scouts,

activities.

tion Center,

Card Party And Fashion She

WINSTON-SALEM

couple.

The menu beer,

Theresa's Guild Annual Card Fashion Show is Tuesday,

present.

from 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at Church in the Bishop Begley

is

ribeye steak, dessert,

wine and set ups. A live band will play music from the 1950s through the For reservations, call Bill Jarrell III at (704) 372- 1 090, Randy Monk at (704)

364-9184 or the church

office, (704)

334-2283. The deadline for reservations

March

is

Saturday,

A

Lenten Retreat

6.

— The Catholic Con-

HICKORY

is hosting a "Design for Wholeness," a Lenten Retreat, March 12-13. The director is Bobbie May and the musician is Deloris Stevenson.

Cost is $74 for a single room and meals, or $59 a person for a double room and meals. A non-refundable deposit of

ference Center

pm Fr.

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ence Center.

Cost is $6 a person. Profits donated to the church. Tickets purchased at the door or before t from Helen Roulo, (919) 724-0.'] i

Camp

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KINGS MOUNTAIN Hill Oratory is offering religious!

for children in grades

session

is

July

1

1-17.

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The second

18-24.

Cost is $85 per session and ii ] room, board and all activities. dren will stay

at the

Oratory

For reservations, write

to

Bobbie

For registration forms,

May, 5617 Clearlake Dr., Hickory, NC 2860 1 For more information, call (704)

ther William Pentis at

327-8692.

at

.

Feast Senior citizens are invited to celebrate the Feast of St. Patrick with Bishop John F. Donoghue at St. Patrick Cathedral on Saturday, March 13, beginning with 1 1 a.m. Mass followed by dinner.

For reservations, call (704) 3342283.

Seniors

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cal

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required.

is

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Shroud Presentation

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Bill Rabil will give a

presentation on the Shroud of Turen at

Good Shepherd Church Sunday, March p.m. after noon Mass. VenNina Cooper will give a mes-

at 1:15

sage about Easter.

Open House

—

Pius X School is hosting an open house Sunday, March 7 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

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Alzheimer's Symposium

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and Bingo

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March

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The Catholic News

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World and National Briefs

inists

t

Launch Fund-Raiser

sible paternity

and maternity." In the

Women Candidates WASHINGTON (CNS) — Femi-

face of the disintegration of the family

America launched a campaign for pro-life

what a family is, the U.N. year offers Catholics "a providential opportunity to give good answers," he said.

»iPro-Life

in

for Life of

gj

w-raising

Hen candidates Feb.

Called the

18.

Sn B. Anthony List, the bipartisan imittee was developed to provide

money

many

countries and questions about

Church-State Separation Goes Too Far, Attorneys Tell High Court

campaigns and lo-life The list "was levels. formed to I Ir the legacy of Anthony's work in

school district policies go beyond neutrality to discriminate against religion

women the vote," said Frederica

while attempting to keep church and

ft

for the political

women

Iig

WASHINGTON

at the national

Iiewes-Green, spokeswoman for nists for Life of America, which is

(CNS)

— Public

state separate, attorneys in

two cases

Supreme Court. At

oral argu-

told the

j

ments Feb. 24, attorneys said policies of the Center Moriches Union Free School District in New York and the Catalina Foothills District in Arizona went so far to keep church and state separate that they were hostile toward religion. In Zobrest vs. Catalina Foothills, a Tuc-

soring the effort.

Life Officials Criticize

Chinese Abortion

est

Moves Pill

VASHINGTON (CNS) — Moves it

a Chinese clone of the French-

abortion

:

:d

pill,

RU-486,

in the

son, Ariz., family is suing the public school for reimbursement of the costs to provide James Zobrest, who is deaf,

States are merely a ploy to divert

from the French company that the patent on it, according to U.S. fe officials. Richard D. Glasow, ion

ition

with a sign language interpreter while he attended Salpointe Catholic High School. In the New York case, an evangelical church asked to use the school to show a film series on family problems.

director of the National Right

Committee, said a Feb. 17 an;ement by Lawrence Lader, head

fe

jortion Rights Mobilization, that

would begin testing the abortion pill was "fundamen-

ganization

dishonest." Richard Doerflinger,

Catholic Charities Expands Drug, Homeless, Family Programs

director for policy develop-

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CNS)— Pro-

ed the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for

grams to prevent and treat alcohol and drug problems head the list of 172 new community initiatives by 154 Catholic Charities USA agencies. New programs were launched in cities as large as Sacramento, Calif., and Kansas City, Mo., and as small as Bismarck, N.D., according to a February report from the nation' largest human service organization. Sev-

:se

iate

,ife

announce-

Activities, said the

"was

to a great extent a public

move" designed to give the "some distance"

?ns

h manufacturer the current

round of discussions.

ards End,' 'Lorenzo's Oil' Christopher Awards

lEW YORK (CNS) — land "Lorenzo's Oil" Ibvies named to receive jr Awards.

are 1

993 Chris-

Iven annually to honor producers, Ijors, writers and illustrators whose exemplifies "the highest values of

The SAN SALVADOR (CNS) Lawyers Committee for Human Rights has called on the Clinton administration to help uncover the masterminds behind

|ilighten audiences as well as en-

the 1989 murders of six Jesuit priests

Hi

—

and two "Though

them."

ly

—

should use the United NaInternational Year of the Family 4 to emphasize the right to life and mote the family as the strength of

Kiurch il

:ty,

trial

"We

said a Vatican official. Cardi-

new

administration.

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Army,

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the radio reported Feb.

Church Leaders Focus Attention

22, citing diplomatic sources and

On

dan

Plight

Of Refugess

ROME

(CNS)

— Church

leaders

focused attention in February on the plight of the world's growing refugee population particularly East Europeans seeking safe haven or employment

—

elsewhere on the continent. At a major meeting in Hungary, Vatican officials and other experts agreed that host countries in Western Europe cannot turn back groups of refugees without considering the human needs of each individual. The United Nations, meanwhile, reversing a decision by its high commissioner for refugees, ordered resumption of relief programs in BosniaHerzegovina. Church officials had warned that suspension of humanitarian aid would only "punish the victims" of

it

radio.

The

lull

Ugan-

made homes

apparently has

possible for people to flee their

without "excessive risk" of getting caught

The

in the cross-fire, the report said.

report said that the mostly black

Christians and animists of southern Su-

dan are

in an intolerable situation because of famine and the war with the fundamentalist Islamic government

which draws

Arab

strength from the

its

majority of the North.

Mexican President Hints At Visit By Pope MEXICO CITY (CNS)

— Mexi-

can President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has hinted that Pope John Paul II might reschedule the

trip to

forced to cancel

Mexico he was "With all due

last year.

76

•

the fighting in Bosnia.

politeness,

comes

Yearbook Shows New Vatican Relations With 16 Countries VATICAN CITY (CNS) In 992

—

1

the Vatican established diplomatic relations with 16 countries

Paul

and Pope John

named 144 new bishops

II

for

I

will insist that

to the

Dominican Republic.

in the

Archbishop Says Catholic Health Care Faces 'Serious Challenges' LOUISVILLE, Ky. (CNS)— ArchThomas C. Kelly of Louisville

mind and

spirit

— and they

are strong

healing and comfort in times of

C.A. Zxmmer,

WEST KINCEY AVENUE SUITE

forces and the Sudanese Peoples' Lib-

out.

man

administration."

Z 9801

—

has called on Catholics in his archdio-

de-

Chronicle of Death Foretold: The Jesuit Murders in El Salvador charges that the Bush administration withheld information that could have led to the prosecution of those who planned the murders.

•

sources said such a move would be premature and said an acceptable model for such groups had not yet been worked

Sudanese Refugees Flood Uganda VATICAN CITY (CNS) Some 450,000 Sudanese fleeing civil war and famine in their homeland have crossed the southern border into Uganda in February, Vatican Radio reported. The flood of refugees was due in part to a lull in fighting between Sudanese government

cese to support Catholic health care institutions as they face "serious chal-

in

Council on the Family, a a New York address Feb. 22 that llics should emphasize the family ("first original cell of society" and jtress the "necessary stability" of flnily and the meaning of "respon-

BOX 1 409

Anglican dissidents were close to agreement on setting up a national network of former Anglican parishes in communion with Rome. Catholic that

San Salvador.

in a letter to the

pntifical

)•

cardinal issued a

brief statement following press reports

took place, the Salva-

women a

serve renewed attention by the Clinton

1

Albania with the nomination of four new bishops.

advocates for the dignity and basic hu-

fonso Lopez Trujillo, president of

Call or write for

tion of the church in

bishop

doran government has never seriously investigated the key questions of who gave the ultimate orders to kill the Jesuits and who orchestrated the coverup," Michael H. Posner, director of the New York-based rights organization, wrote

Year To Stress As Society's Strength EW YORK (CNS) The Catho-

ch Urged In U.N.

new Polish dioceses and the reorganiza-

Americas

on decreasing the use drugs and alcohol.

director of The Christophers, in louncement of this year's awards, d the winners for using "their creand God-given talents to educate i

book, which will go on sale within a few weeks, highlights the addition of 13

Annuario Pontificio, the Vatican year-

said

Group Urges U.S. Action To Uncover Masterminds Of Jesuit Murders

r,

Rome. The

in

general overview of the

pressure to

USA,

based Christophers. Father John

man spirit," according to the New

made

many more. A

dioceses throughout the world. The 1 993

dent of Catholic Charities

The Christopher Awards

be

those changes and

ria offices, reflects

local agencies focus

programs for people with addictions. Jesuit Father Fred Kammer, presioffer

among

—

book and directory of dioceses and Cu-

His Holiness Yucatan," the president said in a surprise announcement during a visit to the Yucatan peninsula in southern Mexico. Pope John Paul had been due to spend one day last October in the Yucatan on his way back to the Vatican after celebrations marking the 500th anniversary of the evangelization of the

enty-five Catholic charities agencies now

"Howards

Cardinal Tells Dissident Anglicans Unity Decision Lies With Rome LONDON (CNS) Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster has reminded Anglicans considering leaving the Church of England over the issue of women's ordination that any decision about union with Catholics would

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tional

The

Record,

who come

and physical

to

them for emo-

crisis."

He urged every Catholic in the arch-

lenges to their growth and vitality."

In a pastoral letter published Feb.

rights of all

diocese to "participate in the Church's

—

brant Catholic health ministry grows

by living healthy by reaching out to others who are suffering from ill health, by contributing our time, talent and money to organizations which engage in the ministry of healing, and by actively supporting Catholic hospitals and other

out of the serious responsibility which

health care organizations."

Louisville archdiocesan newspaper, Archbishop 18

in

Kelly said

it

is

"not a narrow, parochial

interest" to support the Catholic health

care system.

"Our concern

we have

for maintaining a vi-

as Catholics to preserve

lifestyles,

The archbishop

and

defend the dignity of human persons," he said. "What's at stake here is a tradition of caring that goes back many centuries but which is needed today more than ever before," he added.

Archbishop Kelly said Catholic health care professionals "understand and appreciate their responsibility to minister to the whole person body,

—

Thanks For Favors Thanks to God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Jude and St. Therese for prayers answered and favors granted.

AK

healing ministry

lics

also asked Catho-

to support "legislative proposals

which

will guarantee that

no one

in this

deprived of the basic right to competent and compassionate health region

care." lic

is

Another challenge facing Catho-

health care institutions

is

the "struggle

and moral values" on which they were founded, Archbishop Kelly said.

"The sheer size and complexity of to maintain the ethical principles

many

health care institutions

makes

it

very difficult to establish and maintain an atmosphere that clearly reflects the religious

and moral values of a sponsor-

ing religious community," he said.

"These challenges plexity as

proposed.

new

will increase in

com-

health care legislation

is

Catholic

"he

News

&

Herald

Carlos Medina with his wife, Martha, and Handmaids Sister Pilar Dalmau, director of the

Photo by

Hispanic Catholic Center.

Medina

(From Page

says he wishes

his family."

ticipate in the

Medina, 43, encourages people to pray, read the Bible and get closer to Christ. Although he works fulltime for a uniform company in shipping and receiving, he manages to find time to

people

reach out to people, help them through their sorrows, celebrate their

triumphs

and, most importantly, encourage

grow

He

them

studying to

become

a perma-

nent deacon. Moreover, he directs much

of his energy into the Cursillo move-

ment.

It

here where Medina, the

is

Cursillo rector for

1

993, witnesses con-

much like his own. most wonderful experi-

versions of hearts "It

was

the

all

Catholics would par-

program.

"We could take

who call themselves Catholic and make them ministers of the Lord,"

he says. Medina is on regional and national Cursillo teams.

Despite his activity, his inquisitive mind and ability to quote Bible verse, Medina says he can never do enough.

"My

purpose

is

ence I have ever had," he

recalls.

Medina

always to enough."

Lord

to bring the

am

other people," he says. "I

in their faith. is

sacrifice, but

it

to

willing

is

never

Many would disagree. "Anything need, he

is

I

the first person to help," says

Handmaids

Sister Pilar

Dalmau,

(CNS)

— When

Father Isidore Rozycki finished saying

tor of the Hispanic Ministry.

Says Rafael Silva, "The Cursillo movement in this city is doing as well as

gious cult outside "It

came

armed

reli-

Waco, Texas.

"I've gone by (the eral times.

I

compound)

always wave

Rozycki of the overhead sounds. But he said some of his parishioners must have known something was going to happen, because "some sheriff's deputies were at Mass, but they left early."

That morning, more than 100 federal law enforcement agents raided the compound of the cult, called the Branch Davidians, to search for guns and arrest David Koresh, the group's 33-year-old

at the

sev-

guard

he added.

the cult, reportedly

tipped off about the raid, immediately

upon the agents of the Bureau of

Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

And in

the shootouts that followed, four agents

and two cult members were killed and more than a dozen agents were injured.

As of March 2 the two sides remained at

priest described the cult as a

group that has such a tremendous hold on people." The cult, formed in the 1 930s, claims to be an offshoot of the Seventh-day Adventist Church although the denomination denounces any "fanatical

connection to it.

Following the Feb. 28 shootouts,

was interviewed over the phone by CNN and radio stations. He said he would release two children from the compound build-

the group's leader, Koresh,

beliefs

was broadcast. Sixteen children

had been released by dawn March 2. On the air, Koresh claimed he was Jesus Christ and said he was frustrated that people didn't believe his doctrines.

"He keeps spouting off scriptures.

He must have a photographic memory the way he quotes the Psalms and other

a standoff.

passages," said Father Rozycki.

hope it gets resolved soon," Father Rozycki told Catholic News Service in a phone interview March 1. The priest from the Diocese of Austin, Texas,

priest

"I

is

pastor of St. Joseph's, amission church

located in the

miles from the

He

town of Elk, just two cult's compound.

said the town, 15 miles east of

Waco, consists of the Catholic church, a general store and a few houses, including the fenced-in compound where 75 members of the Branch Davidians reportedly live.

agement of Medina.

"His dedication and integrity is an example not only to me but also to the community," Silva says. "If somebody needs something, he is there for that

two and half years ago, son promised his mother-in-law h« his wife would raise their children C Lissette,

lie.

The couple found out

The

added that Koresh 's "hold on people" reminds him of Jim Jones, the cult leader who led a mass suicide in

Johnson the impetus

to fulfill his p

led the way, givinj

Some people say he is too pushy.

"But he comes with the truth," says Silva. "He sometimes tells people what they don't want to hear. They want to know what can be done for them, not what they can do for Christ."

Says Elio Gonzales, a longtime

reading material and directing

"He

absolutely has the living

the

RCIA

hi

Initii

Medina

is

not Johnson's spO

But for Johnson and scores of ofhe is the person they go to for advic* direction. "If I have a question, he person

I

call," says

Johnson.

"When I have any kind of pro I

preaching with action."

Medina prods people to go to church

casions,

live their faith. Or,

(Rite of Christian

for Adults).

He is 24 hours a day in the process of talking to people about God and

call him," says Elana Silva, married to Rafael Silva. On sever,

Medina has helped the work through marital problems*

He always starts

J

^

responds and he

with prayer, she says.

Cut Vatican Diplomatic Ties WASHINGTON is

—

(CNS)

except for a 1 987 shooting incident

compound when seven

members, including Koresh, were

cult

ac-

cused of attempted murder.

"People in the area are very worried about the children" who live on the compound, said Father Rozycki.

Presi-

unlikely to heed requests

by various Protestant

religious groups

formal diplomatic ties with the United States, political observers say.

"They do this every time we have a Baptist president," said University of Scranton Professor William J. Parente

to sever

of the

Parente,

ence

Center in Washington. Except ft People's Republic of China, Isra< Jordan, every leading nation in the formally recognizes the Vatican ernment, he said.

"For the United States to respi anti-Catholic prejudice like that

The National Associa

who

teaches political sci-

at the Jesuit university in

Pennsyl-

vania, noted that changing times have

diminished the diplomatic necessity of exchanging ambassadors.

But the prestige, convenience and direct access that come with formal recognition not to mention its subtle

—

importance to Catholic voters

—

are too

Evangelicals and the Christi, Commission of the Southern B

Convention have led a call for the I States to end diplomatic recogr which was established in 1970.

The United States has had son! of diplomatic link to the Vatican rr! the time since 1784, though rel

were informal for decades

after a

valuable for Clinton to reject, he said.

cal misunderstanding in 1867.

Nor is the request from more than a half-

World War

dozen religious groups expected to stir much interest from the general public.

Similar campaigns were waged Presidents when two other Baptists Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter took office. Baptist teachings emphasize separation of church and state.

Roosevelt re-established a public matic liaison by naming Myron C

—

country

is

\

be rather strange," said Father Re

effort.

"Most people recognize

He said the Branch Davidians had a relatively quiet presence in the commuwithin the

Medina

ise.

1978.

nity,

a montl

they were to have a baby. The news

person."

dent Clinton

ing each time a lengthy statement of his

leader.

fired

ies at the store,"

The

as a surprise," said Father

Members of

the

CAROL HAZ

Clinton Considered Unlikely To

and he waves back. I've also seen some

a heavily

rest." Silva

he helps them learn more about the faith. When Kyle Johnson married his Salvadoran wife,

of the members stop by and get grocer-

compound of

because he does not

is

participated in Cursillo with the encour-

and

28, he heard helicopters fly-

the

it

faith.

ing overhead as federal agents stormed

Mass Feb.

Photo by

Catholic Center.

friend,

direc-

Texas Priest Near Shootout Calls Cult 'Fanatical Group' WASHINGTON

Medina receives Communion from Father Robert Graves, chaplain of

1)

highest of Carlos, Martha (his wife) and

to

CAROL HAZARD

—

that the

secular and that the danger of

II

Ej

President Fra

lor as his personal representative

Holy See. In a letter to the

White

Houfj

religious groups protesting the

ship claim the diplomatic

amounts

rel

relati<

to unconstitutional

suj

a religion because the Vatican,

"t

pope taking over the United States government is remote," Parente said.

"It would be absolutely insane for Clinton not to have diplomatic relations

form a civil state, Holy See of the Church."

with the Vatican," said Jesuit Father Thomas J. Reese, a political scientist

not responded to questions abc letters despite repeated conta

and senior fellow at Georgetown University's Woodstock Theological

Catholic

the

in

By March

weeks.

1

News

the

is

in substar

Roman Ca White Hou

Service ovei

h

i: