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Number
Volume 10
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2000
24,
atholic NEWS HERALD
1
Serving Catholics
By
Archbishop
JIMMY ROSTAR
CHARLOTTE — For a man who dedicates his
honor
succeed
life
Cardinal Hickey
...Page
5
for outreach to people
whose
by AIDS is an affirmation of his concern for the entire body of Christ here on earth. Bishop William G. Curlin was honored as the 2000 recipient of the for Giving Award by the House of Mercy, an AIDS outreach facility founded and operated in Belmont by the Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina. The annual award
Thanks
U.S. Catholic bishops
meet in Washington,
D.C.
...Page
8
recognizes a person who has contributed to direct care, services or general support for people with AIDS and the virus that leads to
"When Mercy and
News
the Inn finds
I
it,
HIV.
think of the House of the ministry of Bishop
...Page
3
Charlotte
teen has
Gospel choir celebrates
20 years ...Page
7
2000 honoree. "For him, no one is left outside the circle of God's love." The honor was the centerpiece of the House of Mercy's Thanks for Giving Ball, the facility's primary annual fund-raiser, Nov. 18 at the Renais-
The Sisters of Mercy established House of Mercy in 1991 as a
housing and health care facility for people in the advanced stages of AIDS. The center offers medical, physical, psychological and spiritual support to these men and women and
MARK
Catholic
Week
Entertainment .Pages Editorials
10-11
& Columns
PATTISON
News Service
12-13
WASHINGTON
(CNS)
—
Forty-one Catholic bishops from 12 Southern states issued a pastoral statement Nov. 15 examining the hu-
man, financial and environmental problems associated with the poultry "Voices and Choices," as the pastoral is called, was a project of the
Catholic Committee of the South,
which encompasses the territory of
"Then the angel
'Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and " you shall name him Jesus. said to her,
the~Confederate-era South. Diocesan bishops from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia signed the poultry pastoral.
— Luke
1:
30-31
Giving Award. The tribute included the House of Mercy's naming a new prayer room in the facility in Bishop Curlin's honor. "We are very pleased that the bishop would be here for us as a fund-raiser and supporter," said Stan Patterson, House of Mercy's president and chief executive officer. "Bishop Curlin has been very supportive of organizations involved in providing care for those with AIDS, and we appreciate his coming to be a part of the program tonight."
Christ's love.
Photo by Jimmy Rostar
Stan Patterson of House of Mercy presents a clock to Bishop William G.
"At his very core, Bishop Curlin Nov. 18. is a priest," said Robert Gallagher, chairman of the board of directors, chief executive ofmoments in the bishop's life that built ficer and treasurer of Good Will Puba foundation for "what motivates him lishers, Inc., and a friend of the to such standards of service, self-sacbishop. "It is not something he does. rifice and dedication to others." It is who he is. He is not a social Through recounts of past converworker; he is not an administrator. sations with the bishop, Gallagher reHe is first, last and always a priest called glimpses of a young Billy forever." Curlin, whose faith was influenced by Gallagher, who has known Bishop Curlin since the bishop's arSee HOUSE OF MERCY, page 9 rival in Charlotte in 1994, recalled Curlin
neously
industry.
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fifth re-
for
Southern bishops issue pastoral statement on poultry industry By
f very
the
portrayed as a pastor, a man whose outreach to others is rooted in a profound response to
the
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West, diocesan vicar general and
smile ...Page
Bishop Curlin cipient of the
Throughout the evening's program, Bishop Curlin was
sance Suites Hotel in Charlotte. The black-tie affair included a silent auction, dinner, music and dancing.
reason to
sexual orientation.
Curlin, the word compassion comes to mind," said Father Mauricio W. chancellor, in a video tribute to the
abounds
race, creed, financial status or
to the Eucharist, an
lives are affected
generosity
the Diocese of Charlotte
in
does not discriminate based on
Associate Editor
McCarrickto
Room at
Western North Carolina
House of Mercy honors Bishop Curlin
Insid
Local
in
In introducing the
which
is
document
—
being published simulta-
in
English and Spanish
—
at
news conference in Washington Nov. 15, bishops from the South voiced their individual concerns a
about the poultry industry as it is organized today. They listed among their concerns the squeeze felt by family farmers under contract to poultry companies, the increasing vertical integration of the industry, consolidation of firms within the industry, low wages and poor treatment of an increasingly immigrant workforce. Bishop William B. Friend of Shreveport, La., decried the "depersonalization in food production" as a result of the pressure chicken processing companies put o« family farmers
who
raise poultry.
"From
it's
a pastoral point of view, of great concern," he said.
The document points out that contracts with poultry growers leave most of the major decisions in the hands of the company, from decisions on what facilities are used for raising the poultry to what growers will be paid less the cost for feed and supplies.
Regarding workplace concerns, Bishop William G. Curlin told of going this summer to a Tyson's chicken factory in the diocese to meet with the Hispanic workers. "I was just appalled with the stories they told about firings and unsanitary conditions," Bishop Curlin said.
One man told the bishop he had been fired because he had spent three minutes in the bathroom, and a
woman who
contracted a skin disease
See
PASTORAL,
page
15