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15,

1998

Synod

Indian Bishops At 'Pleased'

May

By Nuclear Tests,

Cause Worldwide Alarm By

LYNNE WEIL

VATICAN CITY

(CNS)

— Indian

church leaders attending the Synod of Bishops for Asia were "pleased" at their country's nuclear tests, which caused

worldwide alarm. Archbishop Alan de Lastic of Delhi, chosen to speak on behalf of the group, told Catholic

News

Service

May

12 that

the underground detonation of three

been belligerent about nuclear capability."

"Personally," he added, "I would

everyone to throw away their weapI do have some concerns about spending money on nuclear tests when it could go to support the poor. We are a nation of contrasts we have high technology, and yet at the same time, so many people are poor." like

ons.

—

nuclear devices the previous day was "a

Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban

The archbishop noted that the Indian bishops had "not formally dis-

Treaty, a document banning nuclear

cussed the matter. But are pleased about it." In a brief

it is

clear that

announcement

just after

the explosions in a desert near India's

border with Pakistan, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee congratulated "the scientists and engineers who have carried out these successful tests."

In April, Pakistan, India's rival since the

two

states

tic

missile capable of striking India's

major

testing. The document was approved by the U.N. General Assembly and has been ratified by 13 countries. The document is under congressional consideration in the United States.

Citing India's refusal, Pakistan also rejected the treaty. Archbishop de Lastic said the test in the interest

ban document was "only of the big, powerful coun-

tries."

Reminded that

were established 50

years ago, successfully tested a ballis-

the Vatican gave the

its full approval by signing i. 'n September 1996. the archbishop saiu.

treaty

cities.

"Yes, the Vatican has a strong nwra)

Vajpayee aide, Brajesh Mishra,

authority."

told journalists that the tests "estab-

Msgr. Diarmuid Martin, secretary

lished that India has a proven capabil-

of the Pontifical Council for Justice and

weaponized nuclear program." The governments of Pakistan and the United States immediately condemned the Indian nuclear tests, and

Peace, lold

ity for a

other countries followed

The Ascension of the Lord is depicted in this painting by 15th-century German artist Johann Koerbecl<e. The feast of the Ascension is celebrated May 21

In 1996, India refused to sign the

sign that India has progressed."

suit.

Archbishop de Lastic said that his country intended to use nuclear power "only for peaceful purposes, and there is no way one can say that we have ever

CNS May

12 that in signing

the treaty, the Vatican "stressed that the banning of tests was clearly linked to the broader question of further devel-

opment of nuclear weapons in today's world. The hope was that the banning of tests would be implemented as soon

See Nuclear, page 2

1998 Diocesan Support Appeal Tops $3 Million, Exceeds Goal By

MIKE KROKOS Editor

CHARLOTTE

— Pa-

rishioners continue to

demonstrate their generosity to the ministries that serve the

46-county

area of western North Carolina.

a result, the

1998 Diocesan Support Appeal has topped $3 million, making it the most successful campaign in history. "When I met with the Holy Father in March, I praised the extraordinary generosity of my brothers and sisters in the Diocese of Charlotte," said Bishop William G. Curlin. "The announcement that the DSA has surpassed its goal is proof of parishioners' commitment to diocesan ministries. I

offer

who make

rector of development. "This indicates

dividuals sent in prayer cards to Bishop

parishioners are embracing stewardship as a way of life," she said. "People

Curlin.

body of Christ and feel a need to reach beyond individual and parish needs, and share what they have with those less fortu-

heartfelt gratitude to all

have made sacrifices

this possible."

$3,190,000

May had

been

pledged, putting the appeal at 16 percent of 1

$2,760,000 goal. To date, 60 parishes and missions have exceeded their goal; another five are at 90 perits

cent of their targeted goals. All told, more than 1 8,000 households have do-

nated to the campaign, making that the largest number to ever participate in the annual appeal. The goal was also reached and sur-

passed in a record amount of time, added Barbara Rohrman, associate di-

nate."

"Part of the purpose of the appeal is

to spread the

message about the

availability of ministries in the dioRohrman added. "This unprecedented response is further evidence that people are being educated as to the vast extent of our diocesan ministries and what they do to change people's

cese,"

lives."

Prayer is a focus of the DSA campaign as well. Prayer requests were at an all-time high as more than 6,000 in-

He remembers

in daily

those petitions

Mass. funding allows 35 diocesan

DSA

see themselves as part of the

ministries to offer services in parishes

and missions throughout the western Each parish and mis-

part of the state.

sion was assigned a specific goal for DSA. Once achieved, 100 percent of funds over and above the goal are returned to the parish. Missions and parishes that fall short will be assessed the difference from the weekly offerthe

tory.

Operational costs for the

DSA

are

approximately 3 percent of the campaign goal. This amount ranks low when compared to other dioceses.

See Support Appeal, page 3

The Catholic News

Message

& Herald

May

of the Holy Father

—

(CNS) Here is the Vatican text of Pope John Paul II's remarks for the 32nd World Communications

Day May

24:

Dear Brothers and 1.

Sisters,

In this second of the three years

from page

The means of

technological and especially medical progress in the service of human life, a

tion are indeed the

—

social

communica-

new "Areopagus"

a great forum which, at

greater awareness of our responsibility for

today's world

the environment, efforts to restore peace

its

and justice where they have been violated, a desire for reconciliation and solidarity

truthful information, constructive ideas

among

peoples, particularly in the

com-

best,

makes possible

the exchange of

and sound values, and so creates commuThis in turn challenges the church in

nity.

plex relationship between the North and

her approach to communications not only

Holy

South of the world. In the church too there

to use the

Spirit and to his action in the Church, in our hves and in the world. The Spirit is the "guardian of hope in the human heart" {Dominum et Vivificantem, 67). For this

are many signs of hope, among them a more attentive hstening to the voice of the Holy Spirit prompting the acceptance of

leading to the Great Jubilee of the year

2000,

turn our attention to the

and fulfillment life. Hope of heaven stirs genuine concern for the well being of men and women here and now. "If any one says, T love God,' and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen" (1 John 4:20). Redemption, which is God's heaUng of the divine-human relationship, goes hand in hand with the healing of our relationships with one another; and the hope bom of the redemption looks to this double

charisma and the promotion of the laity, a deeper commitment to Christian unity and a growing recognition of the importance of dialogue with other religions and with contemporary culture (cf. Tertio Millennio Adveniente, 46). 3. Christian communicators will communicate hope credibly if they first experience hope in their own lives, and this will happen only if they are men and women of prayer. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, prayer enables us to be "ready always with an answer to everyone who asks a reason for the hope they see in us" (1 Pt 3:15). This is how the Christian communicator learns to present the message of hope to the men and women of our times with the force of truth. 4. It can never be forgotten that communication through the media is not a utihtarian exercise intended simply to motivate, persuade or sell. Still less is it a vehicle for ideology. The media can at times reduce human beings to units of consumption or competing interest groups, or manipulate viewers and readers and listeners as mere ciphers from whom some advantage is sought, whether product sales or political support; and

healing.

these things destroy community.

reason, then, the theme for the 32nd World Communications is "Sustained by the Holy Spirit, Communicate Hope." The hope in which the Spirit sustains is above all eschatological. It is hope of heaven, hope for salvation hope for perfect communion with God. Such hope is, as the Letter to the Hebrews puts it, "a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner shrine behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf (Heb

beUevers

—

6:19-20). 2.

But the eschatological hope dwell-

ing in Christian hearts

deeply related

to the search for happiness in this

This

why

it is

so important that

task of

communication

It is

to bring

the

people

Christians prepare for the Great Jubilee

together and enrich their lives, not to iso-

of the dawn of the Third Millennium by renewing their hope in the final coming of the Kingdom of God, while also reading more perceptively the signs of hope found in the world around them. Among the signs of hope are these: scientific.

late cial

and exploit them. The means of socommunication, properly used, can

media

Gospel but actually to integrate the Gospel message into the 'new culture' created by modem communications, with their "new languages, new techniques and a new psychology" {Redemptoris Missio, 37). Christian communicators need a formation which enables them to work effectively in a media environment of this kind. Such a formation will have to be comprehensive: training in technical skills; training in ethics and moraUty, with particular attention to values and norms relevant to their professional work; train-

human

ing in

to spread the

culture, in philosophy, his-

tory, social sciences

before

all else, it

will

and aesthetics. But, have to be a forma-

tion in the interior life, the Ufe of the spirit.

Christian communicators need to be

men and women ion with

more deeply

God

in order to

ability to foster

schooled in hope by the Holy Spirit, "the new evangeUzation"

principal agent of the

(Tertio Millennio Adveniente, 45), so that

they can communicate hope to others.

The Virgin Mary is the perfect model of the hope which Christian communica-

themselves and share with others. "Mary gave full expression to the longing of the poor of Yahweh and

tors seek to stir in

would be extended to all nations and would take place under efas possible,

fective international controls.

"The need to proceed applies

ered nuclear states and others which have a nuclear capacity," Msgr. Mar-

"This obviously requires both effective international control and tin said.

greater security and cooperation

among states." Members of the Asian synod

a radiant model for those

other arms issues

May

12.

In one of their final sessions be-

19-May 14 meeting to an end, the synod members advanced a series of propositions for Pope John Paul II's consideration as he formulated a message on the gathfore the April

came

ering.

One of the propositions read in "weapons of mass destruction, conventional and nuclear, are a wasteful expenditure in national budgets and part,

exceed the moral requirements of selfdefense."

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pilgrim path towards the Great Jubilee,

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munity based on justice and charity; and, in so far as they do that, they will be signs

the

Holy

of hope.

Mary whose deep

Spirit

listening to

opened the world

to the

great event of the Incarnation, the source all

Readings for the week of May 17 - 23, 1998

our hope.

Sunday

The Ascension

Diocese of Charlotte

Acts 15:1-2, 22-29 Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23 John 14:23-29

Monday Acts 16:11-15 John 15:26—16:4

Tuesday Acts 16:22-34 John 16:5-11

Wednesday

Father Mauricio West Vicar General

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and Chancellor

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them out as far as Bethany, raised his hands and blessed them. As he blessed them he parted from tliem and was taken up to heaven. They did him homage and then returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and they were "Then he

God." (Luke 24:50-

The

feast of the

Ascension

May 21.

Acts 17:15,22—18:1 John 16:12-15

led

continually in the temple praising 53)

dis-

cussed nuclear arms proliferafion and

themselves with all their hearts to the promises of God" (Tertio Millennio Adveniente, 48).

to all

countries, both those officially consid-

of Spirit-filled prayer,

into commungrow in their communion among their fellow human beings. They must be

entering ever

human com-

help to create and sustain a

1998

Nuclear,

32nd World Communications Day VATICAN CITY

15,

Ascension Thursday Acts 1:1-11 Ephesians 1:17-23 Luke 24:46-53

Friday Acts 18:9-18 John 16:20-23

Saturday Acts 18:23-28 John 16:23-28

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CRISM Spring Fling

Springs Eternal During Annual Seniors Event

Vitality

KATHY SCHMUGGE

Correspondent For all intents and purposes, it could be considered the most

—

HICKORY

anticipated senior event of the diocese.

And on

April 29, over 100 senior

bers of the diocese

came

mem-

to the Catholic

Conference Center in Hickory for this an-

—

nual senior gathering

For many elders,

the spring fling.

was

their 12th

consecutive year of participating in the gala affair sponsored by Catholic Social

Services elder ministry.

arrival,

each participant was

given a full itinerary of the day

with

filled

a variety of activities. Attached to

a white sheet of paper with a song

was title.

part of the ice-breaking activities,

everyone was asked to sing their song out loud to find others with the same song. Spontaneous eruptions of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," and "Nothing Could Be Finer Than To Be In Carolina," brought together groups who would later sing their tunes in unison.

Thelma Hatchet of St. Mary Parish in Greensboro listens intently as bingo caller Joan Shearer announces another number. Bingo was one of many CRISM Spring Fling

Those who have attended in previous years enjoyed some of the familiar activities which have become traditions such as bingo, the sing-a-long, walking New items were also added this year such as dancing with a live band, crafts, and viewing a historical video on the diocese.

tours and the closing Mass.

—

activities.

Gerry Carter, director of special min10 diocesan programs director Sandra Breakfield to ensure the quality of those popular events for seniors. "This is a day of fellowship, a day of fun and I hope each one of you brings some special istries

memories home," said Breakfield. Adding to the playful atmosphere was the presence of Golden Classic Vending, who provided a booth of free popcorn, cotton candy and snowcones throughout the day. "Don't worry, there are no calories, they don't count today," joked Carter. Judging from the steady flow of business, many enjoyed a little indulging at the concession stand. "I come [to the Spring Fling] to get out of town," said 91 -year-old Harry

Minnemeyer from

some reporting expenses the diocese.

Many

as high as 15 percent.

page "The

local appeal is handled

Though

component of the campaign, it is not the appeal's only purpose, added Rohrman. "People are realizing by helping others is

in the diocese, they are living the Beatitudes

— feeding

the hungry, doing

for

Christ."

Bishop Curlin agrees. "Everywhere we look, we see the outstretched arms of the church seeking to bring Christ to those in need. St. Paul said, 'In the twilight of life, God will judge us by the love we gave to the needy.' I truly believe He will give a rich reward to those who have so generously and unselfishly provided charitable outreach."

Catholic

all

the three sessions with dif-

ferent partners. His only limitation: find-

ing partners with his energy level.

Frank Bollero from St. Philip the Apostle Church in Statesville says this was his first, but not his last. He came with 10 other people from the Statesville senior's group. "It is a great opportunity to

meet other Catholic seniors from

Results from the Triad-area CathoSchools Survey will be presented at

Concluding the day, as always, was a spiritually uplifting Mass, this year celebrated by Jesuit Father Vincent Alagia from Hot Springs Retreat House. Father Alagia seemed to connect immediately with the group as he reached out to everyone.

"They say

that today there are

Alagia, illustrating

how

times

takes society awhile to catch on."

sor and Epley researcher, the

the

More than 11,000 surveys were February to Triad-area Catholic parishioners and to parents of children who attend Catholic schools in the Triad to determine their opinions and attitudes about building new Catholic in

schools in the area.

The independent research study commissioned by the diocese was conducted by Epley Associates, a statewide communications and research firm. Return rates for the survey were substanwith an overall return rate topping

upcoming meetings. Comprehensive results

early this

fall.

Triad Catholic Schools Facilities Survey results will be presented May 26 Greensboro in the Holiday Inn Four Seasons/Koury Convention Center use the South (Guilford Ballroom Lobby Entrance of the Convention Cen-

—

May

27 Clemmons; and ter);

Heart of

Holy Family

May

ment to the Church and the community in which we live." Bishop William G. Curlin

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

statement included in your Will: "/ leave to the

Charlotte {or

our website at www.stpatricks.orj'

Charlotte, NC: 2820^

Catholic Diocese of

parish, city) the

sum of $

For more infonnation on

CO i)33

Roman

percent of the residue of my estate) for religious, educational and charitable works."

(

2iS

how

make

a Will that works, contact

Jim Keliey, Diocese of Charlotte. Office of Development, 1123 South C huicli St.. C hariottc. Nf 28203, (7(M) 370-3301

28 at Immaculate High Point. All meetbe held from 7 - 9 pm.

Mary

ings will

"A valid Will stands as a continuing expression of our

In Yours.

will help di-

ocesan and local Triad leaders develop recommendations to Bishop William G. Curlin about Triad Catholic Schools

concern for loved ones, as well as an ongoing commit-

Visit

number of

surveys returned indicate a high interest Javidi will present survey results during

this

month.

Remember

1621 Dilworth Road East

seniors are liv-

"We have much and offer society but some-

ing longer, fuller lives. to contribute

boro and Winston-Salem later

50 percent. According to Dr. Mitch Javidi, a N.C. State University Associate Profes-

Parochial Vicar: Reverend Walter Ray Williams

seniors in the emergency room because of sporting accidents," said Father

in the issue of Catholic Schools. Dr.

tial,

Rector: The Very Rei cretid Paul Gary

dif-

ferent churches in the diocese," he said.

public meetings in High Point, Greens-

mailed

the financial goal

Pius

he danced

Meetings Scheduled For Triad School Survey Results

other dioceses and archdioceses use outside organizations,"

noted Rohrman.

St.

Church in Greensboro with a smile. "This is my third year and I enjoy the line dancing, the good food and the wonderful people I meet," he said. While the live band played, Harry did not seem to tire as

lic

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The Pope Speaks

Corner

CPror^/Bife

Pope John Paul

VATICAN CITY

(CNS)

— Here

Pope John Paul II's remarks weekly general audience May 6. text of

Dear brothers and

Since the legalization of abortion in 1973 (Roe

vs.

Wade), over 35,000,000

pre-born babies have been

murdered

in the

name

of choice.

the Vatican

in English at his

sisters,

Continuing our catechesis in preparation for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, we reflect today on Mary, our model and guide in faith. When she was asked to become the mother of the Messiah, Mary's faith enabled her to give a humble and generous response. The depth of her faith is shown in the Gospel account of the wedding feast of Cana. In obedience to an inner inspiration, she says to Jesus: "They have no wine" (Jn 2:3). Although Jesus says that his hour has not yet come, Mary's understanding of the mystery of divine mercy prompts her to tell the servants to do whatever he commands them. In this way, she gives the

example of a

faith in Jesus

which

rises

above

all

Mary's

there

is lost,

tendency

also a

to lose the

sense

of man, of his dignity his

life;

in turn,

and

the systematic

violation of the

moral

law,

faith

was frequently

of Jesus, especially

lic life

those from England, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Thailand and the United States of America, I invoke the abundant blessings of Almighty God.

Pope To

Revisit

Croatia, Says Local Bishop's Conference ROME (CNS) Croada's bishops have announced that Pope John Paul II will make his second

—

pastoral visit to their country and will beatify a controversial cardinal.

Pope John Paul will visit the Croatian capital, Zagreb, the national shrine of Marija Bistrica and the coastal city of Split Oct. 3-4, said Archbishop Josip Bozanic of Zagreb.

jection of her son.

tested during the pub-

when she witnessed

At the foot of the

the re-

cross, her pilgrim-

age of faith had its moment of most severe testing. Mary continued to believe that, because Jesus was the Son of God, his sacrifice would bring salvation to humanity. The Resurrection was the definitive confirmation of Mary's faith, and it filled her heart with intense joy. I warmly welcome the Lutheran visitors from Norway and Sweden and the members of the Swedish Christian Association for Religious Studies in Goteborg. I extend a special greeting to the delegation of the Ministry for the Interior of Thailand, led by the

The communist government of what was then Yugoslavia tried Cardinal Stepinac after World War II and sentenced him to jail for collaborating with the puppet regime established by the Germans in Croatia during the war.

He died under house arrest in his hometown, Krasic, Nazi symview him as a hero for postwar communist attempts to suppress reli-

in 1962. Serbs consider Cardinal Stepinac a

pathizer, while Croat Catholics resisting

gion in Croatia.

During his two-day pastoral visit to Zagreb in September 1994, Pope John Paul asked Croatian Catholics to

lead the

way

in reconciliation efforts in the

former Yugoslavia.

minister.

Upon

the first day, he said, the pope

will beatify Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac.

obstacles.

"When the sense of God

tors, especially

all

the English-speaking pilgrims and visi-

estimated 70 percent of

Croatia's 4.5 million people are Catholic.

especially in the serious

Coming Of Age

matter of respect for human

Amy life

and its

You Are What You Write

a kind of progressive darkening of the capacity discern God's living

and

saving presence."

— John Paul

Welborn

produces

dignity

part of

Evangeliurn Vitae

II,

ered that the girls gleefully

EUie sat outside my office, wads of tissues clutched in her hand and friends anxiously fluttering about. "I have to talk to you," she hiccuped. Accompanied by her "personal assistant," Ellie shot into my office and onto a chair even before I had the door fully open. "It's OK," she gulped, waving what now looked like a giant spitball toward her friend. "She knows. She's a it,

Ellie

too."

and

Jill

in big trouble. Not with a teacher mind you, but with a group with

were

or an administrator,

much more power:

their peers.

seems

and

that Ellie

Jill

kept a certain notebook.

On the lines of this pure white paper, they penned pages The Catholic

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about them and even insulted their parents.

Kids who weren't privileged to move in the exalted circles of the popular discovered why, and read what the movers and the shakers of their class really thought about them.

Of course Ellie was upset. Now, Jill wasn't thrilled either, but being of a clearer head than her friend was able to take responsibility. "We shouldn't have done it," she said to me simply. "It was wrong." Ellie could admit it too, but neither could she stem her fury with the future private investigator who'd found

They also passed notes to each other with the same generous theme, and these notes were stuffed in the book a slam book, as it's called in some places. Can you guess why Ellie was upset (in a state of hysterical fear would be a more apt description). The notebook had been found. A classmate not a friend, not an enemy found the notebook, which one of the girls had left on top of

the thing.

the lockers.

lected

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The classmate read through it. Then for some strange The girl herself described

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dissed them behind their backs, made crude jokes

reason, she did something odd. it

as a sort of quest for justice, but

whatever her reason

she did it. She took the notes that mocked Guy and handed them over to Guy. She sorted out the notes that made fun of Susan and helpfully passed them on. After she'd finished her mission of spreading those particular epistles to all concerned, she proceeded to share the notebook with a rapidly expanding group of interested parties. This had started in the morning, and now, after lunch, Ellie and Jill were starting to hear about it. People they'd called friends to their faces discov-

"It wasn't hers" she pouted, "and she shouldn't have taken it." Granted, so the next period I found little Sheriock Holmes, talked with her and then got all three of them together after school for an apology session. There wasn't any serious trouble that came out of it. One boy who was rather cruelly targeted in the "Col-

Works of Ellie" assured me that he was OK, even

though he didn't quite get why she had to be so mean. Ellie gulped that yes, indeed, she had learned her lesson. She wouldn't ever write stuff like that down again so it could be found. And if she did write it, she'd throw it away as soon as possible. Was that the only lesson Ellie should have learned? Shouldn't she have been alerted to the harm that the vicious side of her personality could inflict on others and even herself, and committed herself to doing something about

Amy

it?

Welborn

CNS columnist.

May

15,

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1998

One Candle

Light

Father Thomas

Ten Romeo: Flying Fast And Fair Harmon has been a com-

Dr. Millard

niitted Christian all his life. In 1984 he took an early retirement from adminis-

tering college

campuses for the State York to be a full-time

University of New

humanitarian.

His lifelong avocation as a pilot, fueled by an innate desire to make a difference, literally took flight in 1985. You may already know about him and his aircraft, a single engine Beech-36, called

Ten Romeo. He opened Soviet skies to Western light aircraft by flying into

Moscow. Since then he has saved a children's summer camp in Tallinn, Esby flying

food that wasn't available locally, brought a Soviet child to the United States for medical care and returned him home to a normal life. He has also flown 156 speed records in Ten Romeo, and has been twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He says: "In all these humanitarian tonia,

and through the life-threatening experiences I often face, the Lord has indeed been my partner in attempting to make the world a better place." Seventy-two-year-old Mil, Ten Romeo and the Lord aren't headed for the hangar yet. Over Easter 1997 Mil began a new mission. "The Spirit efforts

seemed to suggest that I attempt to build a 'Medicine Bridge' between Key West and Havana ... The real task is to remove medicine and food from sanctions that deny help to hospitalized children just 90 miles from our shores. These sanctions steal the generosity from Ameri-

McSweeney

would

find a

way

to get the

needed supplies from Grand to Havana. And that's what happened. Over Cuba his engine began to run rough and developed an oil leak, and Mil was forced to make an

Cayman

penicillin

collected

just doing the

Jose Marti Inter-

national Airport in Havana.

trated in four attempts to get State

partment permission to land

indeed malfunctioning.

can hearts!" Mil's plan, however, nearly put

him

out of business as a humanitarian. Frus-

man his

DeHavana, plans. He made Grand Cayin

destination with an overflight of

Havana

speed record. With $50,000 in donated medicines on board, he just knew the Lord in order to set another

mentation showing that Ten Romeo has blown a gasket, but his plane was confiscated and Mil was slapped with a $34,000 fine, not including legal fees.

I spoke with Mil by phone this week and am glad Ten Romeo has been returned, but he had to remortgage his home to cover the penalties. But he is not bitter: "After all. Father Tom, I'm

emergency landing

Havana, he immediately gave the and asthma medicines he had from doctors to Caritas Cubana, a religious organization that had agreed to distribute the medicine. Because the U.S. Federal agents were suspicious that his landing was "contrived" since he had been seeking entry for so long. Mil knew he would have to prove that his plane was

he altered his

& Herald 5

Landing

Albany, N. Y., he and his

plane were surrounded by 12 customs officers and a covey of FAA officials as well as two chase planes that had tailed him from Miami. Mil produced docu-

to report that

work of the Lord." people say and believe that way." And God does especially when he works through people as determined as Mil Harmon. He

Many

"God

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

will find a

is, for me, a singular example of someone who turns faith into action. Somehow, I don't think we've heard the last of Dr. Millard Harmon or Ten Romeo.

Father Thomas

McSweeney is diand a CNS

rector of the Christophers columnist.

Question Corner Father John Dietzen

A Young Woman Afraid to "Come Home" to Church

lady in

early 20s.

child at 20. Several years ago

12-step program, found

Q. A friend sent me your recent column about baby boomers and confession. I'm not a "boomer". I'm only 25, but

who

could relate to the person

wrote to

ized he I

was

there for

joined a

God and all

those years

pray several times daily now. Each Sunday I walk the two blocks to church, I

feel

I'm not a

grew up with a mother who was,

"real" Catholic because of the abortion

and still is, angry at the Catholic Church. As a result, I was baptized and made first penance and Communion, but we had little involvement with the church. I now live in a different town and have established a relationship with God, which I would like to deepen by joining a parish, going to confession and becom-

and the premarital sex. I consider myself pro-life now, but feel I can't really be that because I already committed the sin. My family is all fragmented alcoholism, drug abuse, anger at God and others, and so on. In becoming a practicing Catholic I would be alone in it. I'm scared to be a young lady alone in pews full of whole famihes. I guess I need advice. Father. What should be my first step? How can I, with all my sins, and not knowing how to do

ing a practicing Catholic.

But where do I start? I am asking for your brochure on confession, but it's deeper than that. Father, I was a promiscuous young

it,

deepen

with

relationship

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

and read slowly and

etly

God and my church?

re-

flectively the first part of the

parable of the forgiving Fa-

real-

rejected him.

only to walk back home.

you.

also aborted a

A. I was deeply moved by your letter, not only in compassion for you. but because so many other "baby boomers" or post-boomers responded to that column in ways similar to your own. My only straight and honest answer for you is, God wants you back! You have done some very wrong things. You obviously acknowledge that and are deeply repentant. However, whatever you have done is past, and there's no possibility or need to

unravel the degree of sinfulness.

We just

put that in God's hands in the sacrament

(Lk 15:11-24).

ther

this

two or three

times. Realize this father Jesus

And

talking about

God.

the father's anxiety to

be reconciled to his child is God's attitude toward you. I hope others who think repentance, forgiveness and return are out of reach will do the same. Finally, you can be sure you're not the only one in church with the same kind of story. There are many, and a number of them feel as alone as you do. Do what you know is right, pick up your life as a Catholic and

move

on.

of penance and rely with total trust on Please give yourself time to

Spirituality

CNS

col-

Scriptural research, but

it is

Father John Dietzen

his forgiveness. sit

qui-

umnist.

For Today

Father John Catoir

Who Jesus

Some people have faith, but it is watered I know a woman who considers

down. Martin Buber once wrote, "The athe-

from

staring

ist,

his attic

window,

of-

God than the believer caught own false image of God." That's the way I felt about the late astronomer Carl Sagan. He was a good man who was filled with a love of planet Earth. Compared to fire-breathing fun-

herself a Catholic, but she

mersed

New Age

totally

im-

She beand considers

thinking.

ten nearer to

lieves in reincarnation

Jesus to be human, saying he was just

in his

This

an echo of the second-cen-

tury heresy of Christian gnosticism

which

not a shred of evidence in the

Christological errors have been in the

that there

pernatural. cal

True enough, there

no empiri-

evidence for God's existence, but

ence

sci-

not the only source of knowledge.

We have philosophy and the knowledge

that

Faith it

church since the beginning. People either exaggerated Christ's divinity to the point of denying his human nature, or they

made him

form of faith.

into a super human being, denying his divinity like the gnostics.

the acceptance of revelation;

Believing that Jesus was a divine per-

comes

to us in the

not the product of reason alone.

common

scientism.

son takes a leap of

faith that transcends

not the result

sense or rational

We do not believe

we understand fully, we beUeve so as to understand

because better.

Some

entire universe for the existence of the su-

was a breath of fresh air. However, he was an agnostic insisting

like us, only holier.

combined elements of Platonic philosophy and Eastern mysticism. It is an error that denies the divinity of Christ, and therefore any claim that he was unique.

damentalists, he

reason. Faith

Catholic theolo-

gians have gotten caught up in

New Age

thor

ther

thinking.

think one such au-

Missionary of the Sacred Heart Fa-

Michael Morwood, who wrote,

'Tomorrow's Catholic, Understanding God and Jesus in a New Millennium" (TwentyThird Publications, Mystic, Conn. 1997).

Father Morwood is a good man who is probably a lot holier than I, but it seems he ended up denying original sin, the need for a savior, the role of Christ as redeemer, the divinity of Jesus and the doctrine of the Trinity. He presents his thinking as new knowledge based on recent

as old as the church itself.

His archbishop was quick to say that his book is filled

with serious errors.

Father Morwood defended himself on the basis of freedom of conscience. In a sense he's right, anyone

free to believe

anything he or she wants, but individual Catholics are not free to rewrite the Nicene Creed. We need the magisterium to guide us in understanding the mysteries of our faith. Free-lance theologians have the mission to delve into the facts that surround the mysteries. We hope that in the process they do not throw out the mysteries as well.

Father John Catoir

CNS colum-

6 The Catholic

News

& Herald

May

Church Teaching On Suicide Explained In Wake Of Deaths By CINDY WOODEN VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Two recent suicides

— of

a Swiss

Guard

at the

Vatican and of a bishop in Pakistan

—

prompted questions about Catholic Church teaching on suicide. While the Catholic Church considers suicide an affront to God, the giver of life, and an offense against the bonds of love and friendship which tie people to one another, in most cases the church avoids passing moral judgment on a person who felt pushed to such an extreme. Vatican officials were preparing

man freedom and

Guard who committed suicide after murdering his commander and the commander's wife when news reports came that a Pakistani bishop committed suicide May 6. The bishop reportedly took his

own

life to

protest a death sen-

tence issued against a Christian convicted

of blasphemy.

can lead to an act of

"Reflection on this has led to the conclusion that some forms of suicide can be considered the result of an illness

which human freedom was seriously damaged. This person does not have the fullness of his freedom. Therefore, if he is a victim because his freedom is not is not morally imputable," Navarro-Valls said.

fully functioning, this act

The spokesman referred to the young Swiss Guard as "a victim, of himself, but a victim."

Criminal

guilt,

said,

would be up and moral

legal authorities to determine

would be determined "obviously, by God alone." At the same time, he said, the church guilt

has a pastoral obligation to ensure that the Catholic burial of a victim of suicide does not give scandal and does not contribute to the anguish of others.

the

A funeral Mass was celebrated for young Swiss Guard in the Vatican's

separate funerals for the Swiss

St.

Anne Church

members who died

the day after a funeral

in St. Peter's Basilica for the

Swiss Guard

commander and his wife. For much of this century,

the Catho-

Uc Church prohibited public funerals and Catholic burials for those who committed suicide. The prohibition was contained in the 1917 Code of Canon Law, but was dropped from the new code promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1983. Joaquin Navarro-Valls, Vatican spokesman, said the change was in line with "a greater understanding of human psychology, especially regarding certain illnesses, including very serious forms of depression."

The spokesman, who

trained as a

medical doctor and holds a degree in psychiatry, said such illnesses could allow someone to appear to function normally, but to experience such interior anguish "that it seriously places in jeopardy hu-

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The "Catechism of the Catholic Church" also gives the church's teaching on suicide.

"We are the stewards, not owners, of the life God has entrusted to us. It is not ours to dispose of," the catechism says. "Suicide contradicts the natural inclination of the human being to preserve and perpetuate his life. "It likewise offends love of neighbor because it unjustly breaks the ties of solidarity with family, nation and other human societies to which we continue to

have obligations,"

LAHORE,

While suicide is contrary to love of neighbor, the catechism says, "grave psychological disturbances, anguish or grave fear of hardship, suffering or torture can diminish the responsibility of one committing suicide." "We should not despair of the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own lives," the catechism contin-

"By ways known

him

stani

Pakistan

(CNS)

— Paki-

Bishop John Joseph of Faisalabad, a

leading critic of Pakistan's harsh Islamic

blasphemy laws, committed suicide

May

6 in an apparent protest against an application of the law. Pakistani police and a bishops' conference official said May 7 that Bishop Joseph shot himself to death in front of a court building in Sahiwal, 270 miles south

of Islamabad, after visiting the family of Ayub Masih, a Christian condemned to death under the blasphemy law.

According Peter Jacob, executive sec-

alone,

God

can provide the opportunity for salutary The church prays for those who have taken their own hves."

seph addressed a meeting organized to pray for victims of the blasphemy laws.

"We have to do something big to undo the law and to be remembered" were Bishop Joseph's last words to the parishioners, reported one of them, Rubina who

Shjarif,

said the bishop urged con-

tinued prayers and fasting for Ayub.

At the Vatican, members of the Synod of Bishops for Asia were informed that Bishop Joseph had died, but the announcement made no mention of the cause of death. Archbishop Armando Trindade of Lahore, president of the Pakistani bish-

retary of the Pakistani bishops' National

ops' conference, led the traditional Latin

Commission for Justice and Peace, Bishop

prayer for the dead in the synod

Joseph, 65,

took his

who chaired the commission,

life in

front of the court building.

UCA

Jacob told News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand, Bishop Joseph went to the court with Dominican Father Yaqoob Farooq. As they approached the building, the bishop asked the priest to stay behind, and he that

hall.

The blasphemy laws were introduced 1986 under an Islamization program pursued by the late president. Gen. Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. They have been widely criticized as discriminatory toward non-MusUms and as wide open to abuse by Muslims seeking retribution against in

their

non-Muslim neighbors.

went on alone. After hearing a shot, the priest ran to the scene and found the bishop dead of a

gunshot

wound

to the neck,

Jacob

—

said.

The site is where Ayub the name Masih is used to identify people as Christians was shot at Nov. 6 while awaiting a hearing on his blasphemy case. Ayub was convicted April 27.

—

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15 de

mayo de 1998

Seminarista ordenado

diacono en Charlotte WOLF

Por LUIS A. - El pasado 19 de en la Catedral de San Patricio, el obispo Monseiior Guillermo G. Curlin ordeno come diacono al seminarista Ricardo Fabio Sanchez. La ceremonia de ordenacion fue muy emocionante tanto para Ricardo como para los asistentes. La iglesia estaba llena con personas locales y de otras partes de la diocesis, principalmente del area de Morganton y Salisbury. Despues de su presentacion como

CHARLOTTE

abril,

candidate a la ordenacion y el consentimiento de los asistentes con su aplauso, el Obispo Curlin se dirigio a Ritardo con palabras muy elocuentes. En su homilia, el Monseiior Curlin le dijo al seminarista "^Que es lo que yo, como tu obispo, quisiera que fueras tu? Yo te pido una sola cosa: que seas un santo". El obispo le pidio que centrara su vida en Jesucristo, en sus oraciones, en la Eucaristia, que leyera las escrituras y reflexionara lo que es amar al pueblo de Dios como Jesus lo amo. "De otra forma ser un diacono y un sacerdote no significa nada", dijo

el.

El obispo termino su homilia diciendo

"cuando vengas al frente de este altar y te postres con la cara en el suelo, te pido que digas lo que yo dije cuando fui ordenado sacerdote y tambien cuando fui nombrado obispo hace 10 aiios. Yo dije, Sefior ayiidame a ser un sacerdote santo. Oh Seiior, ayiidame a ser un obispo santo. Yo te ruego que digas, Oh Senor, ayiidame a ser un sacerdote santo

Obispo Curlin impone las manos sobre la cabeza del seminarista Ricardo Sanchez. La Iglesia usa este gesto para conferir el Espi'ritu El

Santo.

y que seas uno

En el rito de ordenacion Ricardo Sanchez prometio obedecer el celibato y obedecer y respetar al pastor de la diocesis y a sus sucesores.

Despues de durante

como

la letania

de los santos,

cual el candidate se postro

acto de humildad, siguio la

imposicion de las manos del obispo sobre la cabeza del candidate, la investidura

con

la estola y la dalmatica, la presentacion del libro de los evangelios el beso de la paz. El nuevo diacono nacio en Costa Rica donde estudio teologia en la

Universidad Anselmo Llorente Lafuente,

en San Jose. Fue miembro de la Congregacion de Misioneros de San Jose, de la cual pidio dispensa de sus votos le fue concedida el ano pasado en Roma. Seguidamente solicito ser admitido como seminarista en la Diocesis de Charlotte, donde fue perpetuos, la que

aceptado.

Sanchez estuvo cuatro meses en

parroquia de San Carlos Borromeo, en

Morganton, con el Padre Kenneth Whittington y varies meses en la parroquia del Sagrado Corazon, en Salisbury, con el Padre Thomas Clements. El se encuentra en su quinto ano en

seminario de St. Meinrad, en St. Meinrad, Indiana, donde esta terminando el

sus estudios para ser ordenado sacerdote el

proximo afio.

Padre Arturo de Aguilar: La vida por un solo dfa el

Con motivo de haberse celebrado pasado domingo el "Di'a de las reproducimos a

Madres"

continuacion un articulo publicado en el "Comuniquemonos" en su edicion del 12 de mayo de 1995, escrito por el que es hoy el Padre Arturo de Aguilar, cuando este era un seminarista estudiando en Belmont Abbey y ayudando en la oficina del Centro Catdlico Hispano y en la confeccion de esta publicacion. ,

Al comenzar a escribir este articulo no se me ocurrfa nada. Despues de mucho pensar lo linico que me vino a la mente fue una simpatica poesia llamada «Mama soy Paquito». que habla de un pequenuelo arrepentido de sus travesuras y esto me recordo mi infancia. jCuanto tuvo mi madre que batallar por las travesuras que mis hermanas y yo realizabamos, sin contar los lios en los

que como todo nino, a veces nos meti'amos Pero ante cualquier situacion, !

mi madre siempre estaba ahi para protegemos o para reprendemos cuando era necesario. Si hay alguien de quien he estado siempre orgulloso ha sido de mi madre. No creo que ella sea la linica madre que ha tenido que luchar contra viento y marea para sacar adelante su hogar y a su familia, pero al menos para mi siempre ha sido el gran ejemplo a seguir. Hoy dia, algo que se ve cada vez mas son mujeres pugnando a brazo partido por salir adelante, por no ser arrasadas por las corrientes de sociedades que las codifican y utilizan. A veces, dentro de las mismas familias la mujer es simplemente utilizada: la que lava, la que cocina. la que cuida a los nifios. la que limpia la casa y ademas de todo eso, es la

psicologa familiar,

consejera y

amiga. jVaya trabajo que se echa

encima una mujer al casarse! Como recompensa a todo su trabajo, lo que obtiene es el amor que los hijos y el esposo le dan. Otra recompensa mas oficial es la que la sociedad, por tradicion ha impuesto: el dia de las madres, que muchas veces se convierte en el dia de mas trabajo de las madres. Las madres en su dia, normalmente tienen que Umpiar la casa, cocinar para los invitados a una fiesta que muchas veces ella misma tiene que organizar y al final limpiar todo. A pesar de todo esto, muchas de ellas les

reconocimiento.

Esto

hizo pensar

son felices pues sus hijos se reiinen,

^que sera lo que quisiera en realidad una madre? Por esto le hice esta pregunta a una sefiora amiga mi'a y lo que me contesto fue muy sencillo: «no quisiera un dia para mi sola, sino mejor un minuto. pero un minuto de amor y agradecimiento de mi familia al dia... o por lo menos a la semana». A la vez yo me pregunto ^cuantas veces nos acordamos y agradecemos todo lo que nuestras madres hacen por nosotros? ^O agradecemos lo que hicieron en nuestra nuestras infancia, soportarnos

una tarde

travesuras, llevandonos a la escuela,

traen regalos y pasan

agradable.

Despues, todo vuelve a

normalidad.

La vida por un solo

dia. Este es el

de esta reflexion: las mujeres, familia, dan toda su vida de trabajo, de penas y alegn'as por su familia: hijos y esposo y lo que reciben a cambio es un solo dia de

tftulo

madres de

amor y de

alimentandonos

simplemente

escuchandonos? Yo no creo que un regalo material pueda demostrar del todo nuestro agradecimiento o nuestro amor, no creo que pueda mas que una palabra amorosa, un abrazo o un beso... al dia, o

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Pentecostes

Mensaje del Padre Rev. Vicente H. Finnerty,

Amigos y amigas en

Dentro

CM.

celebraremos Ano tras ano

Cristo:

En este mes de mayo celebramos muchas cosas: el dia de las Madres; Pentecostes, cuando los apostoles recibieron el Espmtu Santo; dos fiestas de

Maria, la de Fatima y la de la Visitacion.

Sabemos que mayo es el mes de Maria y por eso hoy vale lapena que centremos nuestras reflexiones en ella.

Todos los que venimos de pueblos latinos queremos mucho aMaria. La

queremos cada uno a nuestro modo, pero todos la queremos de veras. Por eso hablar de Maria o escuchar algo que nos recuerde el amor que ella nos tiene, pienso que no sera

muy dificil.

dos

semanas

de Pentecostes. dispone a celebrar el aniversario de su nacimiento. Ella nacio en la cruz el Viemes Santo, pero manifesto su nacimiento ante el mundo el dia de Pentecostes, cuando los Apostoles fueron "revestidos del poder desde lo alto". El soplo oxigenador del Espmtu ha venido a despertar en la Iglesia energias escondidas, a levantar carismas adormecidas, a difundir aquel sentido de vitalidad y de alegria que hacen joven y la fiesta

la Iglesia se

actual a la Iglesia, dispuesta para anunciar

su etemo mensaje a todas las personas

Todos hemos recibido mucho de Dios a traves de Maria. Sin embargo, no se trata de que amemos a Maria por los favores que nos pueda conseguir de Dios porque seria un amor egoista. Se

trata

de amar a Maria porque

los tiempos nuevos. "Como el Padre me ha enviado, asf tambien los envio yo... Reciban el Espi'ritu Santo".

El Espi'ritu Santo es

sabemos que ella nos ama. Asf que, en este mes de mayo, nuestra palabra

regalo que nos envi'a Cristo resucitado.

tiene que ser de gratitud. Gratitud a Dios porque la ha creado, a Cristo porque

nos la dio como Madre y gratitud a Maria porque continuamente cuida de

Espiritu Santo quiere continuar su obra

nuestra fe, alimenta nuestra esperanza y mantiene vivo nuestro amor.

Hermanos y hermanas, Maria confio en Dios. ^Como

El es

^Confiamos de veras en Dios?

Cuando el Seiior le hablo a Maria, nada estaba claro para ella. Tendria que ser Madre misteriosamente, tendria que Uevar a cabo la gran mision de ser Madre del Mesias. ^Como fue posible que una mujer sencilla como ella pudiera decir que si? Porque antes de haber escuchado a Dios, y a le amaba profandamente, por eso cuando le escucho, confio plenamente en El. Esta es

gran promesa del Padre.

Hoy

pero a traves de nosotros. alma y la vida de todo cristiano.

fypmtu Santo

Somos los cristianos que debemos ir por todo el mundo y proclamar las maravillas de Dios. De un Dios que nos ha creado, que nos ama; que nos ha enviado a Jesus, que lo ha resucitado; que nos llama a todos a la vida plena. Reafirmemos hoy nuestra fe y confianza en la accion del Espmtu Santo; esto es, en seguir a Jesus que camina

con nosotros. Propongamonos con decision firme tomar muy en serio todos los compromisos de nuestra vida diaria y de actuar siempre animados por la fuerza y vitalidad del Espmtu que hemos recibido. (Tornado de "Unidos en la Oracion", con permiso de los Padres de la Sociedad de San Pablo).

Manifestantes vueiven a instar por cierre de Escuela de las Americas

confien en Dios, aunque no vean claro.

Confien, aunque sequeden solos confiando. Confien, porque launicamanera

de que Dios siga creyendo en la humanidad es que,

la Iglesia,

Reciban

es nuestra

confianza en Dios? De veras, de veras, quiza confiamos en pocas personas.

la invitacion que Maria nos hace:

mayo de 1998

menos, parte de la

humanidad conffe en El

Hermanos y hermanas Maria ofrecio a Dios lo que tema: su sencillez, su

WASHINGTON

(CNS)

—

Los

organizadores de una asamblea y vigilia en Washington, que insta al cierre de la

Escuela de las Americas en Fort Benning, Georgia, dijeron que los acontecimientos

disponibilidad, su tiempo y su vida. Esta actitud de Maria es un llamado a

nuestro tiempo, a nuestras actitudes. ^Que ofrecemos aDios y a los demas, lo

que nos sobra o lo mejor que tenemos? Maria vivio tambien rodeada de vecinos, de gente que era mas pobre que

ella,

no vivio lejos de los enfermos, ni tampoco distante de los que estaban

solos.

Esta es, pues, la invitacion de Maria en este mes de mayo. Que sepamos

hacer un mundo mas humano, mas de hermanos, con nuestra oracion, con nuestra capacidad de pensar de que forma nos necesitan en la familia, en el trabajo,

en las amistades. Que sepamos no solo agradecerle a Maria que

quiera ser nuestra

Madre

e intercesora, sino

que tambien intentemos

acercamos a su vida, a la sencillez que practice, a la acogida de la palabra y

la voluntad de Dios, a la decision de mantenerse

siempre cerca de Jesus.

Tambien quisiera recordarles que Maria sigue cerca de nosotros

Ella,

que estuvo cerca de Jesiis en los momentos dificiles, recibio de su Hijo, la mision de estar cerca de nosotros. Si es cierto que todos pasamos mucha horas de soledad, de incertidumbre,

de incomprension, no es menos cierto que podemos compartir esa soledad, incomprension o incertidumbre con Maria. Quien se acostumbre ahablar con

Maria de una forma espontanea y

natural,

comprobara que su

fe es

mas

segura y que su vida tiene mas claridad y serenidad.

En definitiva, que este mes de mayo nos haga recordar que al pronunciar el nombre de Maria,

nos comprometemos con su sencillez, su confianza en

Dios y su amor a los humildes.

queremos como Madre buena, escucha nuestra oracion en el dia de hoy. No te alejes de nosotros, aunque nosotros nos alejemos de ti. Ensenanos a amar a Cristo como lo amaste Tu, Maria,

tu".

que

ofreces a

mas de 1,000 manifestantes. El 26 de abril se efectuo una asamblea de cinco horas en el Parque Lafayette, lugar de protestas frecuentes frente a la Casa Blanca. Una vigilia y accion de cabildeo fueron efectuadas el 27 de abril en los peldanos orientales del Capitolio; un segundo dia para la vigiUa y el cabildeo estaba seiialado para el 28 de abril. Los oradores de esos acontecimientos, organizados por SOA Watch, incluyeron a personas de los Estados Unidos asf como a representantes de Colombia, Panama y Honduras, que hablaron sobre las atrocidades que eUos alegaron que estaban siendo cometidas aun por militares graduados de la SOA en sus pafses. Durante los anos recientes, los opositores de la escuela han argumentado que la misma no cumple su papel de fomentar los derechos humanos para los latinoamericanos, sino que en vez de eso atrajeron a

hace lo opuesto. Heather Dean, director interino de SOA Watch en Washington, dijo al

News

FotoCNSde Reuters

Un soldado camina frente a

la Escuela Americas, del Ejercito de los EE.UU., en Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia, el 24 de abril. Las protestas recientes sobre la escuela militar han destacado la controversia acerca de esa

las

instalacion.

Service que los participantes estadounidenses se proponfan visitar a sus congresistas durante los dfas proximos para instarles

cerrar la escuela.

a la aprobacion de legislacion a fin de

conciudadanos.

Catholic

viene de por lo menos a

Segun dicha entidad, de

pagina

los

graduados para

la escuela regresan a sus pafses

torturas, encarcelar y

matar a sus

la sema:na.

Concluyo mi reflexion pensando en que

es a nuestra

madre a

que debemos

nuestro ser y por eso debemos estar totalmente agradecidos. La proxima vez no dire: « Mama, soy Paquito ya no hare travesuras...» mas bien le dire: «gracias mama,

amo». Y tratare de ser mas explfcito madres!

las

demostrar ese amor. jFelicidades a to

)

15 de

Suplemento de The Catholic News and Herald 3

mayo de 1998

Documento del Vaticano explora significado

las

peregrinaciones CIUDAD DEL VATICANO

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

(CNS) Un nuevo documento del Vaticano explora la historia de las peregrinaciones y su significado, a la luz

Vista parcial

los asistentes al

Foro Hispano

Foro Hispano en Charlotte Por LUIS A. WOLF - El pasado 30 de con una asistencia de mas de 100

CHARLOTTE abril,

personas, se llevo a cabo un Foro Hispano

charla con informacion sobre las caracteristicas y el numero de la poblacion hispana en el Condado de

Mecklenburg. El resto del programa trato sobre los

organizado por la Casa Intemacional, en el edificio de los Ministerios Bautistas

Metrolina.

programa,

que

fue

muy

informativo, mantuvo interesado a todos los asistentes.

Despues de la bienvenida que dio Linda Holland, directora ejecutiva de la Casa Intemacional, la seiiora Dawn Custalow Griffiths, administradora de los programas de ingles como segunda para adultos, lengua del Central Piedmont Community College presento a Gilda Rubio-Festa, instructora de ingles de

CPCC. La senora Rubio-Festa hizo una presentacion

muy

interesante sobre la

perspectiva historica de los hispanos en

Estados Unidos y de los diferentes gruposdeinmigrantes. Ella complete su los

problemas de trabajo, vivienda, salud, educacion, seguridad publica y mujeres maltratadas. con unas escenas cortos de casos que ocurren o pueden ocurrir. Para concluir el abogado Alan

Gordon respondio a relacionadas con

varias preguntas las

leyes

inmigracion.

(De acuerdo con varias fuentes de informacion se estima que hay 45,000 el condado de Mecklenburg y aumentando diariamente. De acuerdo con un arti'culo del Business Journal de Diciembre de 1997 se estima que a Charlotte llegan 1 2 hispanos al di'a y que dentro de los proximos cuatro afios

hispanos viviendo en

la poblacion hispana en Carolina del Norte sera el grupO minoritario mas numeroso en el estado.)

El nuevo

presidente del consejo, dijo:

WASHINGTON (CNS)â&#x20AC;&#x201D; El Comite subvenciones en abril de casi $2.3 millones

America Latina. Una segunda vuelta de subvenciones sera aprobada en noviembre proximo. Las subvenciones de primavera fluctuaron en importancia desde una de la

$1,000 para la ensenanza para cuatro hermanas de la Compania de Santa Teresa de Jesus en Costa Rica hasta $550,000 para ayudar a financiar al Consejo Episcopal de la America Latina (CELAM y tres de sus proyectos especiales para todo

continente en 1998.

La mayoria de a $20,000.

los

proyectos

La mayor parte se halla en

los

terrenos de la evangelizacion, la

suizo que asesino a su comandante y a la esposa de este antes de suicidarse. del Coronel Alois

Estermann y de su

Meza Romero,

esposa, Gladys

producto de "demencia momentanea" por parte de un miembro disgustado del cuerpo papal selecto, Cedric Tornay, de 23 afios de edad. El Papa se arrodillo en oracion el 6 de mayo en la capilla de la Guardia Suiza en el Vaticano, donde yaci'an los cadaveres de los tres. En un telegrama

catequistas, maestros, dirigentes laicos,

personal religiose o dirigencia diocesana.

Hubo tambien

algunos proyectos de

justiciay desarrollo social auspiciados por la Iglesia, tales la

como uno de $40,000 para

Arquidiocesis de Castries, Santa Luci'a,

para su proyecto de "Produccion de

fue el

anterior, el Pontifice califico a los

Alimentos y Auto-Dependencia", y $30,000 a la Escuela de Derecho

asesinatos

Diocesana de Jeremie, Haiti', para su trabajo

incomprensibles".

en la promocion de los derechos humanos

Estermann, designado por el Papa como jefe de la Guardia Suiza solamente horas antes de que fuera muerto, habrfa de ser homenajeado en una ceremonia del Vaticano por su ascenso. En vez de eso, cerca de 200 familiares y amigos estuvieron asistiendo a los servicios funebres en

y la dignidad a traves de la ley en Haiti.

La Conferencia Episcopal del Ecuador usara una subvencion de $56,250 para producir y distribuir 50,000 Biblias.

financiados estaban en la escala de $5 ,000

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

El entristecldo Papa Juan Pablo II oro ante tres feretros, pidiendo la misericordia de Dios para el guardia

El Vaticano dijo que el asesinato

seminaristas,

Republica Dominicana, una

subvencion de $21,332 se usara para

comprar

libros para la biblioteca del

seminario nacional

de los antiguos hebreos desde Egipto, los relates del Evangelio sobre la vida de Jesus y el desarrollo de las tradiciones de las peregrinaciones en la Iglesia del principio y en la Edad Media.

Despues

se refiere a las decisiones

del Concilio Vaticano II que han ayudado

a preparar a la Iglesia

modema

para

medios de viaje y comunicaciones modemos han cambiado la naturaleza los

las

peregrinaciones

Vaticano, la

Tierra Santa y los santuarios de todo el

mundo. Las ultimas paginas del documento contienen varios modos de interpretar las

peregrinaciones, recomendando

asuntos que podrian exigir atencion pastoral especial.

asesinados

ensenanza para

los

las peregrinaciones", el

Papa entristecldo era porcomandante de guardia y esposa

catequizacion, el desarrollo pastoral o la

para financiar a 1 20 proyectos eclesiasticos

"Tenemos

deseo de que este documento apoye a mision del Santo Padre y ayude a todos los peregrines a aceptar su invitacion" a conmemorar el ano 2,000. el

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO

en America Latina de los Obispos Estadounidenses sobre la Iglesia de la America Latina anuncio

documento de 16 paginas,

incluyendo a las notas aclaratorias, fue el fruto de la gestion de varios anos por parte del Consejo Pontificio para los Migrantes y los Viajeros. El Cardenal Giovanni Cheli,

(CNS)

Unidosfinancia proyectos

su exposicion sobre "la riqueza

que se halla en la experiencia documento empieza por la historia de la creacion del hombre en el Libro del Genesis y continua a traves de las diversas etapas del exodo de

tercer milenio, y hace notar de que modo

Clero.

de Estados

Iglesia

de las celebraciones de la Iglesia Catolica para el aiio 2,000. Varios funcionarios del Vaticano presentaron el documento, titulado "La Peregrinacion en el Gran Jubileo" el 28 de abril. Ellos informaron que el ultimo documento del Vaticano dedicado a las peregrinaciones habia sido producido en 1936 por la oficina, que se convirtio despues en la Congregacion para el

espiritual

"humanamente

Vaticano. El Papa les dirigio algunas

observaciones emocionadas en una audiencia general el 6 de mayo. "Lo que deberia haber sido una reunion alegre se ha transformado en

una tragedia dolorosa, que oprime los corazones de todos y que ha sido causa de gran sufrimiento para mf, dijo el Papa en aleman. El ofrecio sus condolencias a las familias de Estermann y de su esposa, diciendo que el oraba porque Dios "les diera la bienvenida a sus almas en paz".

El Papa dijo que tambien simpatizaba con el sufrimiento de la familia Tornay.

Agrego que Tornay

"se halla ahora ante el juicio de Dios,

cuya misericordia le encomiendo". Despues de haber sido puestas sobre aviso por un vecino a ultimas horas del 4 de mayo, las autoridades del Vaticano descubrieron los cadaveres de Estermann, de 43 afios de edad; de su esposa de 49 anos y de Tornay, en un recibidor del apartamento de los Estermann, inmediatamente debajo del edificio a

residencial del Papa.

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mayo de 1998

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St.

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ASHEVILLE Lawrence, 97 (704) 252-6042

St.

Haywood

St.

BISCOE

Our Lady of the Americas, 105 Hayde Rd.

los

(910) 428-3051

confesiones antes de las misas

domingos

1:30

am y

BURNSVILLE Sacred Heart, Main

& Summit

St.

3er.

domingo

del

mes 6 pm

CHARLOTTE pm

Centro Catolico Hispano

todos los sabados 7

Shenandoah Ave.y The Plaza (704) 335-1281

domingos 1 0 am, 1 2 pm,

2pm y 7 confesiones antes de las misas

CLEMMONS MUJERES GUATEMALTECAS

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Mujeres de Guatemala observan el cortejo unebre de Monsenor Juan Gerard! Conedera el 29 de abril en Giudad Guatemala. El Obispo Auxiliarde esaciudad fue asesinado el 26 de abril, dos di'as despues de haber presentado un informe sobre los abuses contra los derechos humanos durante la guerra civil de 36 anos en Guatemala.

Holy Family, 4820 Kinnamon Rd. (910)766-8133

todos los domingos 4

Sagrado Corazon, (910) 632-8009

601

Rt.

todos los sabados 6

CIUDAD GUATEMALA

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Un obispo pidio a

(CNS)

los guatemaltecos

que sepulten sus diferencias y se unan para superar "este

momento delicado"

de la nacion centroamericana, a continuacion del asesinato de Monsenor Juan Gerardi Conedera, Obispo Auxiliar de Ciudad Guatemala. "El dar paso a las divisiones ... las rupturas, las indecisiones, o las luchas

busca de plazas privilegiadas en este momento, seria hundirse nuevamente en el caos de la internas

muerte y del sufrimiento", advirtio Monsenor Gerardo Flores Reyes, Obispo de Verapaz, el 29 de abril en los funerales del Obispo Auxiliar. Al dirigirse a los millares de personas reunidas dentro y fuera de la catedral de la capital, el dijo que Monsenor Gerardi fue asesinado porque "el combati'a por la reconciliacion y la paz verdadera ... esa es la razon de que trataran de silenciar su voz".

"Su muerte debe

un llamado los que hemos optado por la vida, por la verdad y por la justicia, para que mantengamos nuestra unidad en este momento altamente delicado para nuestra ser

muy serio para todos nosotros,

nacion", dijo

Monsenor Flores.

El llamado a la unidad llego mientras los guatemaltecos se hallan aun estremecidos por el asesinato del 26 de abril, que envio ondas de sacudida y tristeza a traves de la poblacion,

profundamente religiosa. Pero

asesinato produjo tambien un fervor

renovado dentro de

Iglesia de

Guatemala, asi como expresiones de apoyo desde el exterior. Por primera vez en la historia reciente. la capital. Ciudad Guatemala, quedo paralizada virtualmente durante el entierro de tres horas el 29 de abril.

En escenas que recordaban

al entierro

en 1980 del Arzobispo asesinado, Monsenor Oscar A. Romero, de San Salvador, las personas Uoraban en las calles. Mas de 250 obispos y sacerdotes de toda Guatemala y alrededor del Hemisferio Occidental asistieron a las ceremonias.

las calles frente a la catedral,

despues de la Misa de Funerales, las personas lloraban mientras el feretro era sacado y puesto en un coche funebre. A su paso, los concurrentes lanzaron rosas y claveles, y las personas

empezaron

a aplaudir.

El coche funebre dio la vuelta a la

plaza,

rodeado por estudiantes

universitarios a quienes se habia dado el

di'a

libre.

sepultado en

Monseiior Gerardi fue

bajo la catedral. Un mensaje enviado por el Consejo de los Obispos de la America Latina (CELAM), dijo que "este crimen la cripta

... junto con el ejemplo de la vida de Monsenor Gerardi, fortalecen nuestro compromiso de trabajar para

terrible

aquellos que no tienen voz, y aquellos que sufren en todo el continente".

FOREST CITY Immaculate Conception, 1024 W. Main

Llamado a unidad de guatemaltecos en funerales de obispo

DOBSON

St.

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(704) 245-4017

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Michael, 708 St.Michael's Ln.

3er.

domingo

del

mes 3:30 pm

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St.,

(910) 272-8650

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7th.

Ave.W..

fflGH POINT

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JEFFERSON San Francisco de

Asis,

Main y

2do.y 4to. domingo del mes

Ivy

:30 pm

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KANNAPOLIS St.

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St. Joseph St.

Joseph, 108

KERNERSVILLE Holy Cross, 616 S.Cherry

St.

todos los domingos 12:30

(910)996-5109

LINCOLNTON St.

todos los domingos 12

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(704) 735-5575

MONROE Our iMdy ofLourdes, Deese y Franklin

Streets

todos los domingos 1:30

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W. Union

St.

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(704) 437-3108

MOUNT AIRY Holy Angels, 1208 North Main (910)786-8147

St.

NEWTON St.

Joseph, 720

West

13th. St., (704)

464-9207

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St.

ler., 3er., 5to.

domingo

del

mes

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Infant,

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St.

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ler.

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ler.

STATESVILLE

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W. Main Ave.

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(704) 632-8009

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todos los domingos 12

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(910) 463-5533

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May

The Catholic News

1998

15,

& Herald 7

Entertainment Thefollowing are home videocassette reviews from the U.S. Catholic Conference Officefor Film and Broadcasting. Each videocassette is available on VHSformat.

» *

^ IQw^/S

Morgan Freeman stars as President Beck in the "Deep Impact.'" The U.S.

"Black Angel" (1946) Dark crime story from the Cornell Woolrich novel in which the wife (June Vincent) of a man convicted of murder

action thriller

Catholic Conference classification

is A-lll

—

The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-1 3 parents are strongly cautioned adults.

—

that

some

Roy

Scorsese's idiosyncratic selection of

Hollywood's most important movies from the early silents to the 1960s, in-

adults and adoby the Motion Picture

termixing venerable screen classics with trashy B-movies whose influence

lescents.

Not

A-II

rated

—

"Gattaca"(1997)

Weak sci-fi yam of a future in which

in the millions

larger than

on a

when a comet

predicted

Mount Everest is discovered

direct collision course with the

lands on the

bers try to set the warheads deep in

— and

surface

fail.

its

With only four im-

planted, the resulting explosion simply

First observed by high school astronomy buff Leo (Elijah Wood) and confirmed by an astronomer (Charles Martin Smith) whose death in a fiery

creates

Eastern seaboard, the

car crash

more devastating and

a gratuitous action

which a tidal

the comet' s existence

has been kept secret from the public.

two comets

wave

on course, one of Carohnas, creating

still

will hit off the

drown the entire other's power even

that will

final.

Unfortunately, as a disaster epic, the thrills are

few and

fleeting while the per-

— and

Enter ambitious network reporter

sonal stories appear contrived

who

allowed to become schmaltzy.

Jenny (Tea Leoni),

stumbles onto

(Morgan Freeman)

admit to the worid

it is

true,

but that a

are

ing the spacecraft landing on the are effective and

manned

command

attention.

spacecraft (led by Robert Duvall) loaded with eight nuclear war-

collision,

while remote,

heads

welcome

that there is not the typical last-

being sent to explode the comet. directed by

Mimi

movie then follows four as

Leder, the

story threads

Armageddon approaches. There is White House plan to save a million

the

people, most chosen by lottery, in

underground

cave

spacecraft's mission

become

a trusted

should

a;n

the

fail.

Meanwhile, Jenny's career soars but her relationship with her divorced

parents (Vanessa Redgrave and Maximillian Schell) changes dramatically. Young Leo is chosen in the lifesaving lottery and can bring his family but is more concerned about his girlfriend (Leelee Sobieski, looking like a

Since the real danger of an earth-comet exists,

almost

minute, completely happy ending.

accompanied by stridently cloying music meant to tug at the viewer's emotions. While sure to have a big impact on its box-office opening weekends, "Deep Impact" may have only slight impact on viewers' memories. Because of a massive natural catastrophe, suicidal and sexual references, occasional profanity and an instance of rough language, The U.S. Catholic Conis

A-III

—

adults.

The Motion Picture Association of America

rating

PG-1 3

—

parents are

some material be inappropriate for children under

strongly cautioned that

may

rector

13.

murder investigation

lic

on the staff of the U.S. CathoConference Office for Film and Broad-

casting.

—

tion of America.

"Phantom Lady" (1944)

threat-

Intriguing crime thriller in

an engineer (Alan Curtis)

which

convicted

of a regimented world ruled by dispas-

of murdering his wife until cleared by

sionate logic but succeeds too well in

his faithful secretary (Ella Raines)

showing how

finally locates a missing witness, thereby flushing the real killer (Franchot Tone). Director Robert

despite

dull such a place

would

be,

manner of complications

all

caused by computerized identity checks and swarms of investigators on the trail of an impostor. Stylized violence, sexual situations and occasional rough language and profanity. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-III adults. The Motion Picture Association of America

—

rating

PG-1 3

—

parents are strongly

may be

in-

This Town" (1997) drama in which an ordinary housewife (Kathy Baker),

"Not

Siodmak

ratchets the suspense as the

secretai7

comes

violence.

shaken by acts of violence against Jews and other minorities in 1993 Billings,

community

into taking

action to stop such crimes of hate. Di-

rected by Donald Wrye, the television

movie presents an absorbing account of how one woman's efforts gained support from those of many faiths in uniting the town against racists and hatemongers, with successful results that leave viewers a

more thoughtful about

little

of hate crimes and

Some

how

adolescents.

racist violence

and

A-II

—

and Motion

adults

the

—

Two Women" (1997) Fact-based dramatization about two Catholic women who risk their lives to save Jews during World War n, one of

whom

a Polish governess

who protects her employer's only child from Nazi round-ups, then raises him as a Jew, (Elizabeth Perkins) late

the other a

who

Frenchwoman

(Sela

Ward)

hides a Jewish family in the

of her

home

attic

until the liberation. Di-

rected by Peter Bogdanovich, the

Showtime pay cable movie convinc-

the nature

ingly re-creates the terrors of the era in

which these desperate activities took place, poignantly evoking the human drama in each story with fine performances from the two leads. Heartwrenching depiction of the plight of Holocaust victims, considerable menace and an instance of rough language. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-II adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-1 3 parents are strongly cautioned that some ma-

rhetoric.

The

—

adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America ratparents are strongly cauing is PG-1 3 tioned that some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. "A Personal Journey with Martin

—

Scorsese Through American Movies" (1994) mov-

most impressed him as a youth, director Scorsese focuses on the Western, gangster films and musicals as the Ameriies that

Not rated by

Picture Association of America.

to stop them.

U.S. Catholic Conference classification A-II

on a

The U.S. Catholic Confer-

ence classification

her

to rely for help

man whom viewers already know is the unbalanced killer. More menace than

Stirring fact-based

stirs

who

"Rescuers: Stories of Courage

appropriate for children under 13.

After recalling the Hollywood

Pare

of the genetic

Andrew Niccols sets up the premise

Mont.,

Small moments of individual self-sacrifice and courage would probably be more moving were they not lumped together and

ference classification

Hawke)

masquerade

member

cautioned that some material

However, the action scenes involvcomet

the literally earth-shattering story, forcing the president

as inferiors, one of whom (Ethan carries off an elaborate

on the director helps explain the uneven quality of his own body of work. Stylized violence, sexual innuendo and instances of rough language and profanity. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-III adults. Not rated by the Motion Picture Associa-

ens to reveal his true identity. Writer-di-

"Messiah" spacecraft comet and four crew mem-

Lastly, the

Earth in "Deep Impact" (Paramount).

— provides movie opening —

genetic engineering has created a master

race that treats those conceived naturally

elite until a

juvenile Helen Hunt).

lection of film excerpts to illustrate

The U.S. Catholic Conference

Association of America.

PARE

Dauman

More menace

classification

By GERRI

Griffith to Billy

Film Institute, the threevolume documentary runs three hours and 46 minutes, offering a choice colfor the British

than violence and an alcoholic central character.

NEW YORK (CNS) — A death toU

D.W.

Wilder. Produced by Florence

whom they suspect is a shady night-

unsurprising twist ending.

'Deep Impact" Thrills Are Few And Far Between

with a program devoted to Hollywood rebels from

to find the real

William Neill goes for atmosphere rather than action, with plodding results and an

for

rectors of the silent era, concluding

husband (Dan Duryea)

club owner (Peter Lorre). Director

children under 13.

can contribution to world cinema, then turns in the second part to the great di-

joins forces with the victim's estranged

killer

may

material

be inappropriate

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

—

terial

may be inappropriate for children

under

13.

8 The Catholic

News

& Herald

May

People In The

15,

1998

News

Raleigh Pastor Welcomes His

Father Into Catholic Church STRANGE

By JOHN

RALEIGH,

University of South Carolina School of

—

N.C. (CNS) After same name, father

years of sharing the

Medicine to study microbiology, but by 1986 he had decided he wanted to be a

and son now share the same Catholic

priest.

Again, he said, his parents' reaction

faith.

During the Easter Vigil this year, Father David Dean Brockman, pastor of St. Luke Church in Raleigh, welcomed his father. Dr. David Dean Brockman, Church. For Dr. Brockman, a psychiatrist and

into the Catholic

psychoanalyst

prays

May 6

before the coffins of the three

o a ciouble-

v ci rr.s

May 4 in the Vatican. Swiss Guard Commandant Estermann and his wife, Gladys Meza Romero, apparently were shot dead by Swiss Guard Cedric Tornay before he turned the gun on himself.

has a practice in the

getting grandchildren, but

said.

proudest father you can imagine," he added. According to Dr. Brockman, his son's ordination re-awakened a feeling that something had been missing in his

catalyst in his journey

was

his

— — and

become a Catholic was active in the United

son's decision to

nnurder and suicide that occurred

the family

Church of Christ in Glenview,

111.

"When he was

own

his subsequent ordination.

(CNS)

cese. "I think the in their

proud-

Swiss Guard members gathered May 6 to grieve for their commander, shot to death along with his wife by a member of the corps. At a funeral Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, relatives of Col. Alois Estermann and his wife, Gladys Meza Romero, joined envoys of the Swiss government and the Swiss military, Vatican officials and the army of 100 whose claim to fame had always been protecting the pope. Each year on May 6, new recruits to the Swiss Guard are sworn in at a ceremony marking the their predecessors' valor in the service of Pope Clement VII during the Sack of Rome. But this year, surprised to learn he was to be denied a pay raise and promotion that would go to some of his comrades at that ceremony, 23-year-old Cedric Tornay apparently acted out a grudge against his commanding officer.

School Students COLLEGE PARK, Md. (CNS) Retired Sen. Bob Dole has met some

— in-

told reporters minutes before

Vielman,

who

appearance

was

arrested in what has

terest

him.

"It's

who

it's

in-

not always the people

top, but oftentimes it's everyday people with a problem that needs to be solved," he said. During his visit to the

school. Dole spoke to an assembly of

through eighth-graders and then visited children in the lower grades April

fifth-

30.

He was

invited

his Capitol Hill

barber, Antonio Calabro, to

who is married

Holy Redeemer second-grade teacher

Christine Calabro.

Suspect Arrested For Bishop Gerardl's Murder Denies Charges GUATEMALA CITY (CNS) The man accused of murdering Auxiliary Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera of Guatemala City denied the charges and said he was threatened to confess while in detention. "I'm innocent, I don't know

—

anything,

...

don't

know why they accuse know who he (Bishop

don't even

Gerardi)

is,"

24-year-old Carlos Enrique

May

has a previous criminal

including Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa and Polish leader Lech Walesa. But he told students at Holy Redeemer School, in the Washington

suburb of College Park, that often

ther

same applies

to reli-

the Catholic

the first suspect

become

the

country's biggest-ever murder investigation.

Catholic

Woman

Israeli

Soldier

Works As Liaison At Checkpoint EREZ CROSSING, Gaza (CNS)

—

Church began,

ironically,

Brockman

to attend the

In his sophomore year. Father Brockman joined a fraternity Pi Kappa Phi, his father's fraternity which at the time had many Catholic stu-

—

woman and first Christian woman to become an officer in the Israeli Defense Forces. Kharman works as a liaison between Palestinian workers from Gaza and the

Erez Crossing, where tens of thousands of Palestinians pass every day. Her job, she said, is to help both sides. Israeli administration at the

dearly loved.

whom

postponed

she

think-

ing in that direction."

RCIA

program.

"There's something about the

Mass

that's so peaceful, that's so graceful, so

comforting," he said.

was a Newman Club on campus, and Father Brockman partici-

from

pated with his fraternity brothers, attend-

church, but the peace he finds goes be-

ing

Mass

in Greenville.

"Gradually over time

became more

and more associated with the parish, and I enjoyed it very much," he said. "To me the parish had a profound sense of the sacred. I was very attracted to the Eucharist.

believed in the real presence of

Christ even though

thing about

didn't

know

any-

Late in 1980, his junior year. Father

tian Initiation of Adults fall

program

in the

of 1981.

did not

his parents of his de-

and when he went home to Chicago on school breaks, he would attend

Mass secretively. On Pentecost of 1982, he was confirmed and received his first Communion. Father Brockman' s parents did not learn about their son' s decision until that

"mixed." For Dr. Brockman, the issue wasn't leaving the family's church for

their reaction as

much

another, but rather the secrecy. "It

that

he had not confided

was

in us,"

said.

Father

Brockman

Brockman went on

to the

said he finds comfort

his grief for his wife within the

yond that. "It answers something that has been there since I was as little boy." For Father Brockman, their story affirms the Holy Spirit's role in existence.

When

wanted

be a

told him,

"No

human

he told his parents he he said, his father

priest,

matter what, love will de-

termine the answer. If you love me, you this."

Father

Brockman

smiled.

"He was

determine the answer. God's love brought this about. It wasn't something I was doing to be rebellious.

right: love did

In fact, this tell

cision,

Dr.

won't do

it."

summer. Father Brockman described

first

declined, but not for doctri-

Brockman said. "It would have meant abandoning her

nal reasons, Dr.

Martha Ann Brockman died in 1997 on her son's birthday, Feb. 16. A few months later, Dr. Brockman entered the

the 27th

school, where four generations of Brockmans had been educated.

Arab

the

after the ordina-

Brockman' s mother, became ill, Dr. Brockman suggested to Martha that the two of them become Catholics. Martha

He was

Brockman decided he wanted to be a Catholic. He entered the Rite of Chris-

life.

friends (in their church),

Erez Crossing will find at least one Iswho speaks their language. In her green army uniform, a silver ring on her thumb and her long auburn hair tied loosely in a ponytail, Caroline Kharman, 21, looks just like any other Israeli woman soldier. The only thing that distinguishes her from her colleagues is the little gold crucifix dangling at her throat and the struggle she went through to enlist in the army. Kharman, a Melkite Catholic from the northern Galilee village of Usifya,

the

while he was attending a school affiliated with the Southern Baptist Church, Furman University in Greenville, S.C.

Palestinians crossing the checkpoint at

raeli solider

religious

was

and before Martha, his wife and Fa-

Brockman

Father Brockman' s connection with

record for rape, assault, and drunk-anddisorderly conduct,

the people he meets every day

told the N.C.

dents. There

Vielman

his first court

teresting people in his long years of public service,

tion

gious development."

est celebration of the year, but instead the

Catliolic

their chil-

Catholic, newspaper of the Raleigh Dio-

— They should have been reveling

Retired Sen. Dole Pays Visit To

Brockman

dren," Dr.

Vatican Murder-Suicide VATICAN CITY

grow and evolve through

ordained

A number of years

"Children influence parents, and parents

wound

totally healed.

Alois

Funeral Masses Held For Three Slain

Chicago area, the journey to CathoUcism has been "a long and circuitous one," he

A Pope John Paul

who

was mixed. "Mom was quiet: 'If it makes you happy,'" said Father Brockman. "But Dad was pretty upset by it." "I was disappointed that this meant he would not be a parent," said Dr. Brockman. "It was a wound from not

nothing

I did. It's

kind of

overwhelming, actually."

At the Easter Vigil April

Brockman anointed

11, Father

his father with the

chrism, and the two embraced and kissed

each other on the cheek. "I love you. Dad," Father Brockman said. "I love you," his father answered. Dr. Brockman watched as the priest moved away to administer the sacrament to the other candidates. "My son," he murmured. Later Father Brockman gave his father his first

Communion.

May

15,

The Catholic News

1998

Parking Improvements Included In Project

Children's Beliefs

St. Pius X Church Grows With New Parish Center,

Solicited For

GREENSBORO — Since its the

fall,

new

about God.

Dandi Daley MacKall, who has more than two dozen books for

is working on a new for Prima Publishing called "Why Kids Believe." "What I need are kids 10 and under to write a page or two on God anything they want to," says MacKall. "They could be triggered with 'Explain God.' Or maybe 'How does God work?' I'm looking for unrehearsed, childlike

children and adults,

open-

book

parish center at St.

Columbus, youth retreats, school functions, a monthly movie series and much more. Bishop William G. Curlin visited

ioners and friends attended the liturgy,

then toured the parish center and two

to their parents.

November for a candlelight

dedication service. Hundreds of parish-

published.

MacKall' s previous books include called "Kids Are Still Saying the Darnedest Things," religious books for beginning readers, "Kindred Sisters: New Testament Women Speak to Us Today: A Book for Meditation and Reflection," and the Cinnamon Lake Mys-

honesty."

Children should write on regularsize paper, in case the handwriting is photographed for the book. Those too young to write can dictate their answers

Pius last

sion

—

a 1993 collaboration with Art Linkletter

—

pancake

breakfasts sponsored by the Knights of

St.

child's

— some or

written

Pius X Church has been a place bustling with activity. The building is used for a variety of gatherings, including meetings, hospitality Sunday,

Each submission should include the name, age, school, city and state all of which could be included in the book as well as a note of permission from the parent and a phone number and/or address where a free book could be sent if the submis-

looking for the views of

children 10 and under on their beliefs

School Addition ing last

About God

New Book

WEST SALEM, Ohio (CNS) — An Ohio author

& Herala >

teries series for children.

All submissions should be mailed

Dandi MacKall, 1254 Tupelo Lane,

OH 44287.

West Salem,

new wing new parking

other capital improvements: a at St.

Pius

X School and a

Employment Opportunities

lot for the parish.

"Our people needed a new place to gather," said Father Frank Connolly, pastor, of the parish center. "We had outgrown our other meeting places. This was very much needed, and it gives us the

room

out our

to effectively carry

ish

Director of Faith Formation,

The 850 families who compose the X Church family and non-parmembers of the school raised more

Pius

than $1.2 million to pay for the additions. Pat Spivey, current chairman of the church's parish council and co-

chairman of the dedication activities, said the campaign to raise funds for the was a joint effort. "So many parishioners helped raise money," Spivey said. "The school and parish center enable us to more effectively minister both within the parish and in our outreach programs as well."

exceeds 1200.

Median age of

Thomas Aquinas

the parish

St.

Pius

school students work in a new in the schoors new wing.

room

in the center

would house books, tapes and computer programs that parish members would have access to. St. Pius X Church is located on the corner of Elm and that

Cornwallis streets in Greensboro.

and parent formation.

May 29

to:

28213 or fax This

ACS

Office of Faith Formation,

to:

(704)549-1614

a full-time position for the 1998-99

and

DRE St.

working with the

salary history to Brett Ballard, Director of

—

Pre-K

of the faith community.

AfforJahility

28115.

28804.

Two

choir rehearsals

Send

Position begins immediately. at the

re-

above address. Phone: (704)

mountains of western North Carolina, seeks a principal for

Candidate must be a practicing Catholic with Prior administration experience desirable.

Send resume or

Position August

28814.

letter

who

at least

Salary

a Master's Degree in

Diocese

negotiable.

of inquiry to Principal Search, P.O.

Box 8160,

Ministry Intern: Intern will develop Catholic

Campus

Ministry

Wingate University,

a Baptist insti-

through collaboration with the local parish and the Catholic students, staff and faculty. Require-

application to

June

its

a strong

and curricular development and the building

LIMEX

(Loyola Institute of Ministry ex-

tension program), a four-year graduate program leading to Master's Degree in Religious Education

St.,

LIMEX

will be sent

upon

receipt of resume.

Colleen McDermott, Director of

Chariotte,

Campus

Benefits:

Rm/Bd; $400/mo

LIMEX. Send resume and

—

stipend (to be

cover

letter

Ministry, Diocese of Charlotte, 1123 South Church

28203-4003. Phone:(704) 370-3212. E-mail: campusmin@chariottediocese.org

Teaching Position: Charlotte Catholic High School has the following teaching positions and counselor position open begin-

ning in August, 1998: Part-time

dynamic

and life

is a Paulist priest, author and and teacher who is demand around the country.

^ t-imeral 1

5505 .Mc.rce cl.arloiic,

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Center

Charlotte

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Catholic High School. 7702 Pineville-Matthews Road, Chariotte,

His teaching blends

Hill,

in the

increased annually); health insurance; $2000 tuition grant for

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11586. Rock

The salary is based on Send your resume to:

Desire a creative, highly motivated principal for our 250 students

8 program.

educational administration.

Cliurcli,

manner.

Eligible for lay retirement plan; budget for

Music Ministry

ments: practicing Catholic; Bachelor's Degree; enrollment

our annual

Visions in Faith, The Oratory,

and as directed by the Diocese of Chariotte,

director.

leader, solid administrator with skills to assist both faculty

tution,

questions for today's believers.

For

in a collaborative

Additional income from weddings.

Asheville Catholic School, located

Dignity

current Catholic teaching into difficult

degree

Elementary Principal:

RICHARD SPARKS, C.S.R

Sparks

and parents

Therese Catholic Church, 217 Brawley School Rd., Mooresville,

sume and

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experience in the field of

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IN FAITH JUNE 14-17, 1998

Fr.

Some

Search Committee, Asheville Catholic School, 12 Culvern Street, Asheville.

conferences and materials.

VISIONS

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documents of Vatican

staff, students,

preferred.

Applicant must be committed to implementing the ideals of

and masses per week; rotate Saturday evenings with

434 Charlotte Avenue RO. Box 1 1 586 Rock Hill, SC 29731-1586 (803) 327-2097

and offers

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Organist — Pianist:

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Margaret Straney.

academic year with responsibility for the administration of the

beneficial.

the Catholic Faith as outlined in the

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Responsibilities

formation program which includes a variety of faith-filled objectives and outreach.

faith

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Student enrollment

commensurate with education and experience. Send resumes

St.

attn: Sister

Religious Education in the Catholic faith or a related field

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contemporary

seelcing a Icnowledgeable,

vibrant and fast-growing.

experience and educational background and includes a diocesan benefit package.

features a large

1800+ family parish program.

Director of Religious Education at Asheville Catholic School:

offers a generous benefits package.

Richard sparks returns

Catholic Community,

its

young; parish

education and/or theology required, five years experience in

in religious

parish administration or equivalent. Salary

for a parish resource

meeting room that can be divided into smaller rooms, a full kitchen, other meeting rooms, a nursery and a large youth room. Plans are now underway

FR.

include organization of classes 1-9, sacrament formation, recruitment of volunteer teachers/assistants

projects

The parish center

St.

experienced, creative, enthusiastic person to lead

computer lab

various ministries." St.

Faith Formation:

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.olic

News

& Herald

May

15,

1998

infor-

Diocesan News Briefs p.m. Baby-sitting is available by caUing Joe

Casacchia, (336) 632-0729, to

Benefit Concert

HENDERSONVILLE

R.S.VR

mation, call (336) 699-4005.

chase of a new organ for the new Immacu-

Holy

Conception Church building, schedfall.

Living Waters Retreat MAGGIE VALLEY "The Hills are Alive" is a May 22-28 nature retreat focusing on the experience of God's love in a springtime mountain setting. Dominican Father Martin lott facilitates with Dominican Sister Jeannette Stang. Cost is $260. "Healing Touch" is a May 29-31 retreat focusing on holistic health. All are

—

War Veterans of the U.S.A. hosts the Fourth Annual Veteran's

Post 1914, Catholic Benefit Seminar at

St.

lotte,

NABRS

Char-

training sessions for those interested in

and educational assistance, and more. For more information, call (828) 667-5722.

survivors' benefits, scholarship

Young Adult Group ASHEVILLE An Asheville

—

young

adult group,

"CYAA,"

area

for single

and married 20- to 40-year-olds, gathers on Saturdays after the 5:30 p.m. Mass at St. Eugene Church. For details call David Hill, (828) 252-7118. Choir IVIembers Needed CHARLOTTE Members are needed for a diocesan choir to help celebrate the ordination Mass of Rev. Mrs.

—

Dean Cesa, Christopher Davis, Matthew Leonard and Peter Pham June 6 at 10 a.m. in St. John Neumann Church, 8451 Idlewild Rd. If you are interested in singing, call Dr.

Larry Stratemeyer, (704) 334-

2283, ext. 22.

Retrouvailie

CHARLOTTE program

— Retrouvailie

May

103 Living Waters Lane, Maggie

Ordination Celebration MOUNT HOLLY Father John Vianney Hoover of New Creation Monastery invites you to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of his ordination May 24 at St. Joseph Church on Highway 273, six miles north of Belmont Abbey. Mass will be celebrated at 4 p.m. with an outdoor

bereavement mincongregations are

$15.

(704) 362-5047, ext. 201. Alive in the Spirit

CHARLOTTE

—

Seminar

"Alive in the seven-week seminar on a fuller life in the Holy Spirit, is at St. Matthew Church Mondays from June 8-July 27. Cost is $5. To register, call Lisa Gray at (704) 543-0489. Spirit," a

Humor Program GREENSBORO — "Amusing Grace

— God's

Incredible Gift of Laughter"

a program exploring Scriptural references

and the healing power of humor May 21 from 12:10-1 p.m. at the Franciscan Center. The Rev. Jay Hilbinger, pastor of First Lutheran Church in Greensboro, facilitates. A $3 donation, which includes lunch, is suggested. For more information and to register, call (336) 273-2554. to

Adult Education Series

GREENSBORO

— Franciscan Fa-

Greg Gebbia of the Franciscan Center in Greensboro leads "Beyond Shamrocks and Other Understandings of God," an adult education discussion on a Christher

tian understanding of God,

May

19 at 7:30

at Our Lady Monroe from May

be held

will begin at 7 p.m.

each

evening.

The tradition of the Novena was established by the apostles tion,

when, at Jesus'

direc-

they gathered in prayer to await the Spirit in the

days leading up to the

The Second Vatican Council emphasizes the honor and also the duty,

Pentecost.

especially of lay people, to pray and invoke

Holy Spirit in every phase of their life. There will be hymns, prayers, scripand guest homilists each night. the

ture, intercessions

Spanish Rosary

—

NEWTON The rosary is prayed Spanish at St. Joseph Church every Friday at 6:30 p.m. in

—

are the Gregorian chant version of "Ave Maria" and "Salve Regina," Ramondi's "O Sacrum Convivium," and a "Schola" original price, "Veni Creator Spiritus." Vacation Raffle SYLVA St. Mary Church is conducting a raffle for an all-inclusive, weeklong vacation at a Sandals resort. Tickets are $5 each or six for $25, and are on sale until May 30. The drawing will be held May 31. For tickets or more information,

—

call or write to St.

Mary Church

586-9499, 22 Bartlett

St.,

at (828) Sylva,

28779.

Around The Diocese

Church Fellowship Hall 28, June 4, 1 1 and 25 from 7-

9:30 p.m. Cost

problems are not unique, helps couples identify their values and priorities, and teaches couples to start anew. The pro-

facilitates.

information, or

in the St. Gabriel

for married couples that brings

hope, teaches communication on a feeling level, helps couples realize that their

—

28 at 7 p.m. for all veterans, their famiUes and other interested persons. Several presenters will offer information on veteran compensation, pension programs,

istry in their parishes or

get

28751, call (704) 926-3833, or send a fax to (704) 926-1997.

Valley,

CHARLOTTE — Basic bereavement

becoming involved

member,

$95.

receive a retreat schedule, write to the ter,

(704) 544-0621, or (800) 470-2230.

30.

"Schola Cantorum" Performs

Living Waters Catholic Reflection Cen-

Bereavement Ministry Training

Barnabas Church

May

Nick or Irene Fadero

tion, call

— May

REIDSVILLE The "Schola Cantorum Carolinae Borealis" sings at the 9 a.m. Mass at Holy Infant Church May 3 1 Music will be provided for the Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus and Agnus Dei. Among the hymns

To register,

gram begins July 24. For further informa-

and those interested in physical healing. Concepts of human energy fields will be introduced, and therapeutic touch will be explained and demonstrated. Irene C. Cost

Veterans Benefit Seminar ARDEN The Rev. Ralph F. Neagle

will

of Lourdes Church in

invited, especially health care personnel

Morelli,

Holy Spmt

the

uled for completion this

Photo by ChloeVanAken

MONROE — A nine-day Novena of

Immaculate Conception Church, and the Immaculata Youth Choir are featured at a benefit organ concert at First Baptist Church, 312 5th Ave. W., on May 29 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased by calling (828) 891-1497. Proceeds will be applied towards the purlate

Mercy Sister Margaret Straney, center, has been elected to the office of president Albany Regional Community of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas. She will leave her present ministry as director of faith formation at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Charlotte, and will begin her four-year term July 1 Also pictured are Mercy Sisters Peg Sullivan, left, and Helen Dillon, right, who will join the leadership team as counselors.

Our Lady Of Lourdes To Host Novena

— Zoltan

Marczi, director of the music ministry

of the

picnic (bring your own). For

School News

—

ASHEVILLE The following students at Asheville Catholic School have been named to the A Honor Roll: seventh-graders Ann Marie Coddington and Elizabeth Lamy and eighth-grader Richard Thompson. Named to the A/B Honor Roll are: seventh-graders Brandon Adams, Andrea Brown, Molly Campbell, Elizabeth Dray, Melanie Fann, Kathryn Gravatt, John Green, Ellen Lennox, Katie Lenzen, Michael Maloney, Nicole Minkin, Andrew Nix, Keith Obergfell, Travis Pace, Holly Reed, Jack Rutland, Stephen Sanchagrin and James Stickney; and eighthgraders Joanna Ball, Tyler Whatmore, Grant Caffrey, Kelli Stahl, Chris Engle, Courtney Sinsky, Morgan Garner, Brandon Powell, Patrick Kelly and Emily Kuhns. CHARLOTTE The Charlotte Catholic High School annual Spring Fine Arts Festival is May 1 9 in the gymnasium beginning at 7:30 p.m., with presentations in choral, dance, band and visual arts. Admission is free and everyone is invited to attend. WINSTON-SALEM Nineteen Bishop McGuinness High School students who took the 1998 National Latin Exam have been honored with special recognition awards. Receiving the highest award by BMHS students, the "Silver Maxima Cum Laude" honor, were William Ketcham in exam, the Latin exam, Christine Davis and Laura Hoeing in the Latin and Stephanie Moser and Keith Gatlin in the Latin III exam. Forty-two BMHS students were among the more than 103,000 students in the U.S. and abroad who participated in the exam. The BMHS Latin program was created and developed by Linda Kennedy, who has

—

taught at the school for 15 years.

May

The Catholic News

1998

15,

World And National News riches that the world's

Virgin Islands Coadjutor,

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Named

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Chicago

Islands,

by Pope John Paul

II.

named Father Joseph N.

also

tor of All Saints Parish in

The pope

Perry, pas-

Milwaukee,

as auxiliary bishop of Chicago.

will

young people

Case In European Court Two DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS)

—

Northern Ireland building firms owned by Catholics have taken a case to the European Court of Human Rights, alleging they were denied government contracts because of sectarian discrimination.

The

British

government

contest-

13th active U.S. black Catho-

ing the claims on the grounds that the

bishop.

The appointments were an5 in Washington by Arch-

decisions to refuse the contracts were

bishop Agostino Cacciavillan, apostolic pro-nuncio to the United States.

vice of the Royal Ulster Constabulary,

nounced

May

Theologian Calls Irish Police Force Sick Day Immoral ThouDUBLIN, Ireland (CNS)

—

sands of police officers in the Irish Republic

who

called in sick for a day in

going on strike for a pay increase were acting "doubly immorally," said a CathoUc theologian. About 5,000 police, 80 percent of the force, refused to go on lieu of

May 1 In some police stations not one member of the police force, or duty

Garda, turned up for duty. Msgr. Denis Paul, a moral theologian, said, "It is not a good standard of behavior from people who are there to uphold and enforce the law. It is dishonest and doubly immoral because they are telling lies and denying the truth, while also receiving sick pay under false pretenses."

Alaska Hospital Monitoring Constitutional

Amendment on

Abortion

WASHINGTON (CNS) — A Catholic

hospital in Anchorage, Alaska, has be-

come

increasingly interested in a pro-

posed state constitutional amendment that would permit hospitals to refuse to perform legal abortions, according to a hospital official. Janet Oates said Provi-

dence Alaska Medical Center, run by the Sisters of Providence in Anchorage, "initially was not concerned about the constitutional amendment" recently passed by the state Senate and currently under consideration in the House. But a state Supreme Court decision last November changed that. In a ruling involving Val-

made

ruling and permanently enjoined en-

forcement of a new hospital policy that limited lawful abortions.

Outdoor Confirmation Of 2,800 Draws 20,000 To Wichita

—

WICHITA, Kan. (CNS) Pope John Paul IPs personal representative to the United States challenged thousands of confirmation candidates

May

3 to ac-

yers for the clients

that since their

not appeal against such de«

After they submitted the lowest bid, John tract

by Northern Ireland Electrical SerMarch 1995 for work involving

vices in

the demolition of a

power

station.

The

was revoked and went to the second-lowest bidder. The Tinnellys complained to the Northern Irish Fair Employment Commission, alleging that "sectarian trade union pressure was incontract

sanne Devlin, Sooner

News Reports On RU-486 Testing Said To Not

volved."

Caribbean Church Assembly Urges Action On Violence KINGSTON, Jamaica (CNS)

spokeswoman

life

Guard Spied For East Germany

and

tance, transform the social structure of

and bring about the new heaven and new earth." He broke into song twice

in his

homily

at the

closing Mass.

98 Head For Iraq With Medical Supplies; 5 Protestors Arrested

WASHINGTON

(CNS)

— As

Americans, including Detroit Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton, left late May 6 for Iraq with medical supplies, five people were arrested the same day outside the White

House

for protesting

ongoing U.N. economic sanctions

for the U.S. Catholic

fail to

are incomplete

examine what she called "the

appalling psychological ordeal" that use

of the abortion regimen causes. Helen

Alvare, director of planning and infor-

mafion for the U.S. Catholic bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, was commenting on recently released data on the Federal Drug Administration's first formal testing of RU-486. The Associ-

ated Press reported April 29 that the U.S.

least consideration." "It is not the first

at clinics

the country.

May

women

and university hospitals around The procedure was considif pregnancies were ended within 15 days of taking the drug.In the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the drug was ered a success

slightly less effective in this trial than in

European studies. Abortions were triggered in 96 99 percent of women.

earlier

the earlier trials

U.S., Church Officials Stress Support For Cuban People WASHINGTON (CNS) U.S.

—

ening the island's communist regime. At

by the sanctions number 1.25 million, including 700,000

the people of

Cuba while

not strength-

children, according to protest organizer

Art Laffin of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker house in Washington. Laffin was one of the five arrested for not having a demonstration permit. "The economic sanctions against Iraq are an act of counterpopulation warfare which

for Catholic

in all

things of

life,

including

quest for beauty, power and

"These sanctions are a genocidal weapon of mass destruction which must

Church relief efforts in Cuba and warned that when Pope John Paul left Cuba, a "window of opportunity" was shut. Noriega said a Cuban church

be eliminated."

official told

said.

pro-

documents

time that incongruities (have been) written about an honest man," the spokesman added. The Berliner Kurier said

study was conducted on 2,121

park. Estimates of the deaths at least in-

hibited under international law," Laffin

by a Berlin tabloid newspaper Estermann had passed to the former East German secret police was "not being given the a report

that Col. Alois

The

nancies in 92 percent of test subjects.

government and church officials said it was important to find ways to support

—

found that the drug ended preg-

testing

against Iraq. Representatives from 10 peace groups, including Pax Christi USA, were among the 40 people at the directly caused

pope's departure, university students were instructed that "the words of the pope are not to be repeated." Vatican Denies Reports That Swiss

VATICAN CITY (CNS) Within days of the shooting death of the Swiss Guard commander, the Vatican issued a terse denial to reports that the officer had spied for a communist government. In a two-sentence statement May 8, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said

were among the topics raised at the Caribbean Catholic Church's celebration of the Year of the Holy Spirit. Speakers at the final session of the mid-April Antilles Catholic Assembly '98 in Kingston emphasized the work of the Holy Spirit and urged participants not to be concerned only with issues like evangelization and religious education, but to look at social issues. Bishop Charles Dufour of Montego Bay, Jamaica, said the Holy Spirit is alive and active and can "change human hearts, bring repensin,

— A pro-

RU-486

U.S. testing of

erty

Whole Story (CNS)

bishops said news reports on results of

Capital punishment, violence and pov-

the

Tell

WASHINGTON

—

Call-

A memorial statue showing Jesus weeping stands in front of a building that was damaged in the Oklahoma City bombing in April 1 995. The statue was dedicated recently by Oklahoma City Archbishop Eusebius J. Beltran.

those gathered to seek the "superior per-

Tinnelly and Sons were awarded a con-

on.

Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan, papal pro-nuncio to the United States, delivered that message during an outdoor Mass in Wichita, where nearly 2,800 young people received the sacrament of confirmation. The archbishop asked

human

two firms say

God

more than 20,000 people looked

the

may

cisions, they are denied natural justice.

While a crowd estimated

fessing their faith and accepting

spective"

on the ad-

an April 30 policy forum in Washington sponsored by the Institute for U.S. -Cuba Relations, speakers who were in Cuba during Pope John Paul IPs January visit addressed the implications of the visit on U.S. -Cuba policy. Roger Noriega, a staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged international support

cept the responsibility of publicly protheir lives.

for "security reasons"

Northern Ireland's police force. But law-

ley Hospital, a private facility in Palmer,

Alaska, the court upheld a lower court

Briefs

to find so attractive today. N. Ireland Catholics' Discrimination

become the lic

seem

Auxiliary Bishop George V. Murry, one of the 12 active U.S. African- American Catholic bishops, has been appointed coadjutor bishop of St. Thomas, Virgin

& Herald

him

that within hours of the

7 that files kept by the government

East Berlin, which were archived af-

ter

German unification, showed that from

1981 to 1984 Estermann sent at least seven reports to the secret police agency

known as the Stasi. Nuns, Priests Join Student Protests Over Indonesian Crisis

YOGYAKARTA,

— Catholic nuns

Indonesia (CNS)

in habits

and seminar-

ians and priests wearing white robes have

given a new look to student rallies for reform in Indonesia. The nuns, seminarians and priests first joined a student demonstration April 2 1 at the campus of

Yogyakarta's Jesuit-mn Sanata Dharma University, where most of them are studying. Since then, their presence has

been routine in student protests. They have been seen marching through streets to join rallies in other campuses, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. Student protests over Indonesia's economic crisis began in February and developed into

demands

down and

for President Suharto to step

take responsibility for wide-

spread job losses, skyrocketing prices

and the collapse of the rupiah.

The Catholic News

& Herald

Diocese

May

Extension Program Offeis Challenges, Rewaic^

JIMMY ROSTAR

Sponsor

need to get wherever

Confirmed

Nicholson

faces an hour-and-a-

half drive from

of Charlotte

Co-

lumbia, S.C., to south

MonShe's up some

Charlotte each

has taken up sponsorship

of the

Loyola Institute for Ministry Ex-

day.

hope new groups

facilitators

students

begin pursuing

will

master's degrees

religious

education or pastoral studies throughout western North Carothe

lina in

community relations groups. "The journey really is as important

touches on papers or reading the last lines of an assignment. Al-

though two years into an intensive educa- From left, Clarence Fox of Davidson, John Kummer of Rock tion extension pro- Hill, S.C., and Doris Nicholson of Columbia, S.C., discuss an gram, she's still only assignment during a recent LIMEX session at Charlotte halfway through. Catholic High School.

beams

The program

currently be-

while saying

implemented

more than 40

"What I've wanted to gain from this to learn more about my faith and to grow closer to our Lord," says Nicholson. "And that has been the biggest gain for me. He knows all about

dioceses nationwide.

The Raleigh and Charleston dioceses are now sponsors, with learning groups already

place.

For now, a Charlotte-based

the only

LIMEX program

western N.C. The program

locally tory: