l
UU-MLl
V—-
>
-
w
-
OH 111H T3<WH3
atholic NEWS HERALD 3MII
H0I103TI03 ON
3&*mmmmmmm«*m*m
ill
May 17
Volume
Number
t
1 1
&
2002
,
34
Serving Catholics
i
By KEVIN
College student
contemplates
woman
Western North Carolina
the Diocese of Charlotte
in
To Halley's comet and beyond
n nsiae $ d
I
in
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
...Page
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
...Page
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
8