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By KEVIN

College student

contemplates

woman

Western North Carolina

the Diocese of Charlotte

in

To Halley's comet and beyond

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E.

MURRAY

Associate Editor

life

— The

CHARLOTTE

as

worked

astronauts

diligently aboard the space station

while their counterparts assisted from

religious

Mission Control. Their performances were

4

...Page

impressive, especially considering they

were only

sixth-

and seventh-graders.

Students and young astronauts club

members from Our Lady of Mercy School

Young adults must be

in

Winston-Salem traveled

to Discover

museum May

informed, says Jesuit

Place science

congressman

a space mission to launch a probe into the

5

...Page

of Halley's comet.

tail .

"When

think

Woman

17 for a

unique immersion learning experience

it's

kids

go on a

they

field trip,

just going to be time out of class,"

Kae Mattingly. work in the Chal-

said seventh-grade teacher

religious

"After watching kids

continues family legacy

lenger Learning Center, diey're so focused

in

and involved. They're busy doing

their

jobs (to complete the mission)."

Franciscan community

The Challenger Learning Center

...Page

16

(CLC)

is

growing network of

part of a

centers nationwide established by the

Challenger Center for Space Science Education, in

News

Local

memory

of the crew of the

9

was designed

ill-

Photos by Joann S. Keane

The CLC

fated Challenger space shuttle.

Above, Our Lady of Mercy School students get mission instructions from their flight director aboard the USS Horizon, a mock space station at Discovery Place in Charlotte. Left, students Matthew O'Neill and Patrick Lawler work with controller John Austin in the mock Mission Control Center to help build and launch a science probe into the tail of Halley's comet during an

to teach students crucial les-

sons in a unique atmosphere diat stimulates learning.

Spectrum of domestic

abuse brought to

Incorporating math, science and technology, the nearly two-hour mission

light

lows students to role-play

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7

church and community

and a space station, in teams including Navigation, Communications, Life Support and Medical students must perform a series of vital tasks at computer Horizon.

14

Working

consoles in order to

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al-

both a Mis-

sion Control Center

USS

Parish hopes to strengthen

in

maneuver the space

interactive learning simulation.

station along side the comet, as well as to

build

and launch the

scientific

probe into

its tail.

See HALLEY'S

Every Week

COMET,

page

15

Gathering concentrates on Hispanic growth

Entertainment

Pages 10-11 Editorials

By JOANITA M.

SYLVA

& Columns .Pages

12-13

ranks top in Hispanic population growth among the 25 U.S. Catholic dioceses with a

As a body

many

parts,

is

and

one though

it

has

the parts of the

all

body, though many, are one body, so also Christ. For all

baptized into

Jews

or Greeks, slaves or free per-

sons, and of

one Spirit we were one body, whether

in

one

we were

all

given to drink

NELLENBACH

Correspondent The Diocese of Charlotte

panics. In

minimum

of 25,000 His-

1995, U.S. Census figures

showed 146,100 Hispanics cese.

By

in the dio-

2000, that population had risen

to 235,829, a 61.4 percent increase.

To learn more about how to help the immigrants, members of the Smoky Mountain and Asheville vicariates met May 1 1 at St. Mary Church for a dialogue: 'Welcome Bienvenidos: Yes or No? (Hispanics, Hospitality, Harmony)."

Spirit.

1

Cor 12:12-13

The Smoky Mountain

Vicariate spon-

ing the Stranger

sored the conference. Presenters were Father George Kloster, pastor of St.

M.

William Church

in

Murphy and Immaculate Heart of Mary in Hayesville and vicar of the Smoky Mountain

Vicariate;

Eduardo

worker for the Asheville and Smoky Mountain vicariates; and Father C. Morris Boyd, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Church in Bernal, Hispanic ministry

Franklin.

A

was that not all parishes welcome the newcomers and that this nonwelcoming attitude is concentral concern

trary to scriptural and Catholic teach-

Among Us,"

[U.S. Con-

ference of Catholic Bishops, 2000]: "Per-

haps the greatest obstacle to welcoming the stranger is that many Americans have forgotten their immigrant past. TSTativism' assumes that there is just one image of a 'real American' and that immigrants either cannot live up to it or willfully refuse to

do

so.

"Like the Catholic 'Americanizers' of

who opposed the establishment of national parishes, the critics of multiculturalism today want immigrants and other distinctive groups to shed their languages, customs the 19th century,

ing.

Father Boyd quoted from 'Welcom-

See HISPANICS, page

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