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"You are proof that marriage works'
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Bishop celebrates Mass
debate Gathering
Raleigh explores
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for jubilee couples
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By JIMMY
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I will Espouse
you
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Associate Editor
CHARLOTTE — Be loving, hon...Page
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Faithful
Citizenship: Civic Responsi-
and holy in the riage, and God will have a happy life William G. Curlin
vocation of mardeny no grace to together, Bishop told a group of silver and golden wedding jubilarians during a weekend the Catholic Church celebrated as the Juest
bilee for Families.
Millennium
"We come to celebrate your love, your devotion, your dedication to
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each other all these many years," Bishop Curlin told some 200 couples at the diocese's annual Mass honor-
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bility for a
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ing couples
who
are celebrating their
25th and 50th wedding anniversa-
Local News
ries.
"We
that
you have witnessed
God
to bless
and to bless you for to
St.
ask
Benedict Church
come
all
you for all your life,
in
the years yet
in his love."
Bishop Curlin presided at the at St. Thomas Aquinas Church Charlotte on Oct. 15, day two of
Mass
dedicates parish center
in
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the Catholic Church's celebration of family life in the Jubilee Year. The bishop commended the couples for the sacrifice, understanding and sensitivity
they have brought to each
Former justice and peace
other
director takes concerns to
"You -have something to tell our world about," he said. "You are proof
national level
that marriage works.
in their
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that
it
is
You
something something sacred
that marriage
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years together.
is
are proof beautiful, in
God's Photo by Jimmy Rostar
eyes."
For Jo Ann Last of McLeansville,
who life
fvery Week
See
Readings ...Page
Editorials
celebrates 25 years of married with husband Raymond this year,
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ANNIVERSARY,
page
Pope defends
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"Faithful Citizenship: Civic
Responsibility for a
Millennium
"
New
life
him and thousands of umbrellas shielding mothers, fathers and infants
societal attacks
before him, Pope John Paul II urged families to place children first and re-
the family, children
VATICAN
— With
the sound of rain pattering behind
"In the Catholic tradition, responsible citizenship is a virtue; participation in the political process is a moral obligation."
human
An encounter with the pope the previous afternoon gathered some 250,000 pilgrims under drier skies. Rain or shine, the theme was the same: Surrounded by the "winter" of
News Service CITY (CNS)
Catholic
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Life program.
family,
By BENEDICTA CIPOLLA
& Columns
25th and 50th Anniversary Mass Some 200 couples celebrated their silver and golden anniversaries at a special Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas Church Oct. 15. The. annual Mass is sponsored by the diocese's Family
on the
institution of
mark
a "spring-
More than 150,000 people thronged St. Peter's Square despite heavy rain Oct. 15 for an outdoor Mass marking the culmination of the
time" of hope. "They represent the flowering of conjugal love," said the pope, stressing children's "message of life" and, with their newborn neediness and dependence on their parents, an "appeal
Jubilee for Families.
to solidarity." Deploring a
spect the traditional family.
growing
at Jubilee modern "more
attitude that views children
as a threat than a gift," he said
children were not merely an "acces-
sory in the project of a conjugal life." "They are not optional," he said, "but a very precious gift, inscribed in the structure itself of conjugal union." Calling on the faithful to "reverse this trend" of regarding children as a burden, the pope called the contemporary situation of children a "challenge to all of society."
See FAMILY, page
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