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SEPTEMBER

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CATHOLICS

IN

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TERROR OF WAR

new liome

Vatican official says terrorism has unieaslied 'fourtli worid war'

Visiting nuns spread Gospel to North Carolina Hispanics SMALL CHRISTIAN

Christian to respond

COMMUNITIES INVITE FAITH INTO LIVES,

with God's love, says

HOMES

cardinal

WOODEN

BY CINDY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

JOANITA M. NELLENBACH

BY

CORRESPONDENT

ANDREWS — Nearly 20 crowded

MILAN, Italy War as

people

ing the Cold

Martino

two white-sheet-

covered sofas and a love seat and overflowing into the trailer's kitchen.

An Our Lady of Guadalupe

in

wall hang-

every part of the globe.

ing, covering the front of the television, was anchored to the TVs top with tall glass

votives depicting religious figures.

As

See TERROR, page 13

the

service began, Jose Martinez played his

guitar and everyone sang of God's

Suffering

mag-

nificent love.

It

was the evening of Aug.

the people had

come

21,

Defin-

the "third

world war," Cardinal Renato said terrorism appears to have unleashed the "fourth world war" in a way that touches almost everyone

into Daniel Hernandez's

living room, filling

—

in

and

for a prayer service

Mother Maria Trinidad Villaran, mother superior of the Franciscan Mi.ssionaries of Mercy.

Eduardo Bernal, Hispanic ministry

Sudan

led by

Photo by Ioanita M. Nellenbach

Mother Maria Trinidad visits with

Hispanics

another nun from

See VILLARAN, page 7

El

Villaran,

mother superior of the Franciscan Missionaries

Andrews during a prayer service Aug. 21. Mother Salvador spent several weeks in August ministering

in

of Mercy,

Villarin

and

western

in

North Carolina.

SOMETHING TO SQUAWK ABOUT

OEO assists many in western N*C"When Center to celebrate

1

was down and

out, people didn't treat

Bfth anniversary

well,"

this month

like

she

said. "It

me very

was almost

they wanted me to be needy and to ask for help. As I

more independent, they're much nicer."

Her change is based on

get

BY

JOANITA M.

NELLENBACH Photo bv Joanita M. Nellenbach

Debi Gaffey

communes

with a green-cheeked conyer. Enrolled in the

Economic Opportunity's ABLE matched-savings program, Gaffey expanded her business of selling jewelry and birds.

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her

—

Debi Gaffey's independence is

own

initiative

and the

help she's receiving through

CNS

A Sudanese

child

reaches for a

medicine bottle

camp

in

PHOTO FROM Reuters

in

Thousands

of

Sudanese children

suffer from malnutrition

obstacles are delaying

growing.

See OEO, page 9

Our Schools

a refugee

Sudan's Darfur province.

because

vital

food.

$EESrORYONPAGI:8.

Perspectives

Celebrating heritage

In

Hibernians convene,

Asheville teacher to

elect officers

programs benefit schools

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September

10,

2004

Ise

Current and upcoming

In Brief

topics from around the

own backyard

world to your

Election materials available for students, parishes, individuals WASHINGTON

MOURNING AFTER

— Three

(CNS)

religious organizations have

produced

nonpartisan materials to educate voters

about

political responsibility.

The

U.S. Conference of Catholic

Bishops, Catholic Relief Services and the Interfaith Alliance each has

made

elec-

tion-related materials available recently.

The USCCB sert that

summarizes the bishops' teach-

drawn from

"Faithful Citizenship:

document:

their

A

Catholic Call to

The zation of

rebels held hostage hundreds of school children and adults

the town of Beslan

in

the Russian province of North Ossetia. At least 335 people were killed that

ended Sept. 3

in

in

and heartless

program

through

politi-

addressed in "Faithful Citizen-

The program

ism.

faith, religious liberty

There

and plural-

also are guides for candidates

volved in the election process without violating U.S. law and tradition.

is-

Information can be found online at

sues such as trade and foreign aid and

www.interfaithalliance.org or by calling

how

(202) 639-6370.

includes election

they relate to church teaching.

in

the siege

a firefight between the hostage-takers and police. The pope

called the school takeover a "vile

questions for candidates

and houses of worship on how churches, synagogues and mosques may be in-

ship."

armed

faith traditions,

has produced an election year program, "One Nation, Many Faiths. Vote 2004."

It offers five

offering a 12-week

is

to guide college students

heavily

advocacy organi-

more than 75

at www.usccb.org/publishing.

cal issues

gym where

Interfaith Alliance, a nonparti-

san, grass-roots public

about

CRS

Local residents walk past flowers Sept. 6 and view the

(410) 951-7430.

tor, at

can be ordered by calling USCCB Pubhshing at (800) 235-8722 or online It

PHOTO FROM Reuters

campus ministers or univer-

and staff Materials can be printed from the Web site, at. www.crscampusconnection.org. Information also is available by calling Kevin Kostic, CRS campus ministry coordina-

Political Responsibility."

CNS

online sessions are designed for

sity faculty

released a bulletin in-

ings on the role of Catholics in the public

arena,

The students,

act."

Diocesa n,

strengthen healthy marriages will be offered byj Catholic Social Services Oct.

^HH^^HHs^^H Planner

9 a.m.- 12 p.m. atl

9,

Luke Church, 13700 Lawyers Rd. Contact Sherry Luc at (704) 370-3232 to register or for St.

additional information.

ASHEVILLE

Pope prays for siege victims, calls

deaths

VATICAN CITY

ASHEVILLE

'cruel epilogue'

—

Pope (CNS) John Paul II prayed for the more than 330 victims of the Russian school

would inspire wistoward reconciliation

tians of Russia,"

dom

and

efforts

At

a papal

Mass

in Loreto, Italy,

In a telegram Sept. 4, the pope said the takeover of the school in the

Sept. 5, the pope and others offered prayers "for the Russian people, stricken by the inhuman violence of

North Ossetia province town of

this tragic hostage-taking, for all the

Beslan was a "vile and heartless act of aggression against defenseless children and families."

The pope once again condemned "every form of terrorism" and said he hoped that a "spiral of hatred and violence would not prevail."

The school siege ended Sept. 3 in a shootout between police and the hostage-takers, believed to be Chechen rebels. More than 700 people were injured and some 450 hospitalized. About half of the dead

dead, for the wounded, for the

logue" to a savage attack.

and injured were children.

Some feared the tragedy could set off revenge attacks in the area. Most residents of North Ossetia are Orthodox Christians, while the neighboring breakaway republic of Chechnya is predominantly Muslim.

The papal telegram offered prayers for the eternal repose of the victims and words of comfort for the families. He also expressed his affection for the Russian people "in this moment of anguish."

He prayed that the Virgin Mary, "so deeply venerated by the Chris-

CORRECTIONS FROM SEPT Rev. Mr. Harold Markle

3

families so sorely tried."

ASHEVILLE

—

reports of the death toll began to arrive at the Vatican Sept. 3, the pope, who was staying at his residence outside Rome, went to a private

chapel to pray, a spokesman said.

In Milan, Orthodox Bishop Teofan of Stravropol and Vladikavkaz, the

Russian Orthodox diocese that includes the town of Beslan, described to hundreds of religious leaders from around the world how he personally carried wounded and dead children away from the school.

The bishop spoke

Monday of each month at 7 p.m.

in the rectory

building at the Basilica of St. Lawrence, 97 St. Inquirers are welcome. For more information, contact Beverly Reid at (423) 6338-4744 or bebereid@adelphia.net.

Haywood

BOONE

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NORTH WILKESBORO

—

If you have a need for prayers, or would like to offer your time in prayer for others' needs, please call the Rosary Chain at St. John Baptist de La Salle Church. The Rosary Chain is a sizable group and all requests and volunteers are welcome. For details, call Marianna de Lachica at (336) 667-9044.

Sept. 5

at

a

SPARTA

—

more

Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. at St. Vincent

will

be held

de Paul Church,

6828 Old Reid Rd. Father John Starczewski will be the guest speaker. For more information, call Peggy at (704) 588-731 1.

— New

CHARLOTTE

Creation Monastery will

host a four-session Spiritual

Growth Seminar

The

sessions will meet Sept. 30, Oct. 7 and 28 and Nov. 4, 7-8 p.m. For more informa-

Father John Vianney Hoover at (704) 541-5026. tion, call

—

HUNTERSVILLE

Elizabeth Ministry

is

Mark

Church, 14740 Stumptown Rd. Elizabeth Ministry offers confidential, one-to-one contact, information, comfort and healing for women who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth or early infant death. Please call Sandy Buck at (704) 948-4587j

forming a group

for

at St.

more information.

CHARLOTTE

—

Fun and

Fitness after &o\

classes are being offered at St. Gabriel Church,

3016 Providence Rd. This program of gentle exercise promotes joint flexibility and muscle strength. Registration is not necessary. For information, call Maureen Benfield at (704) 362-5047, ext. 221.

more

Frances of Rome Church.

Hendrix and Highlands Rds., sponsors the Oratory of Divine Love Prayer Group in the parish house the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 1 p.m. Call (336) 372-8846 for

— A Women's Talk

CHARLOTTE

this fall.

special

When

St.

information.

CHARLOHE

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marriage

enrichment

CHARLOTTE — For Better,

For Worse

workshop

—

a to

—

CHARLOTTE

Blessed Sacrament

is

Perpetual Adoration of the members of

available for all

the clergy and laity at St. Gabriel Church, 3016 Providence Rd. Any parishioner interested in the Apostolate and who would like to make a firm commitment to adoration for one hour a week is welcome to join the Perpetual Adoration Society. For details, call Kathleen at (704) 366-

5127 or e-mail

at terridugan@earthlink.co'm

meeting on religions and peace sponsored by the Rome-based Community of Sant'Egidio.

"How

can they claim to be fightwhen they kill chil-

ing for freedom dren?" he said.

The bishop asked

all

"Father."

planted a cross

in

NEW^^RALD

photo captions.

San Salvador should have read 1 492.

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people of good will to unite "against the evil of terrorism, which can strike in New York as well as in Madrid or in Beslan or anywhere."

The Aug. 21 dedication of Divino Redentor was misdated The date when Christopher Columbus

many

innocent young victims, and for the

ISSUE

was incorrectly identified as

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FROM THE VATICAN

Not on the

Vatican official says, especially on VATICAN CITY

(CNS)

— The

trollable pain

if

the patient and the

Catholic Church believes assisted sui-

patient's guardians formally request

murder, especially when discussing patients under the age of 1 2 who, in no way, can be said to make an informed request for help in dying, a Vatican offi-

Bishop Sgreccia said children under age 12 are not capable of making an informed request, nor are they "capable of evaluating or defining 'unsupportable'

cial said.

suffering."

cide

is

Bishop Elio Sgreccia, vice president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, wrote an article for L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, Sept. 3 condemning attempts to extend the Netherlands' assisted suicide law to patients under the

age of

12.

newspapers

Italian

in late

August

reported a judge had authorized a pedi-

extend assisted suicide to

atrics clinic to

something outlawed under

children,

Dutch law enacted

The

it.

doctors and parents find a

of pain to be too much, "is it not perhaps their suffering" and not the patient's that they find overwhelming? child's level

he asked.

In the case of children. Bishop Sgreccia said, "one cannot talk about 'helping them to die' or of 'assisted suicide,'

but rather death inflicted to

them from

pain,'

which

is

'free

precisely eu-

thanasia" and not assisted suicide.

Extending the assisted suicide laws,

in 2002.

current law allows assisted sui-

cide for patients 12-16 years old suffer-

he said, is a misguided attempt to deal with suffering "with the violence of an

ing from an incurable disease or uncon-

early death."

- The Charis: Group of St. Matthew Church will host a Prayer Service for the Sick at St. Matthew Chapel, 8015 Ballantyne Common.s Pkwy., the third Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. For more information, contact Barbara Gardner at chlt5nc@aol.com.

CHARLOTTE

— The Ladies Ancient Order of

Hibernians, St. Brigid Division I, an IrishCatholic group of women dedicated to their faith, country and Irish heritage, meet the third Wednesday of each month. Anyone interested in membership, call Jeanmarie Schuler at (704) SS-t 0720.

GASTONIA

VICARIATE

—

BELMONT

U.S. bishops at the Vatican for their "ad

— Elizabeth Ministry

•

—

it

one asked them for

who

strange than no

their opinions

on

the next president will be.

"It's

on

just not

John

B.

is

a peer

stances under which a bishop or priest

Communion to Catholic poliwho consistently support abor-

could deny

their radar," said

tion.

A few days later, the U.S. bishops approved a statement saying that politicians who act "consistently to support

"I'm really surprised no one

of

is

ask-

Ukrainian Bishop Basil H. Losten of Stamford, Conn. ing," said

presidential race did not

abortion on demand" risk "cooperating in

evU and sinning against the

common

good."

While making

it

clear that those

who

the bish-

cooperate with evil should not present themselves for Communion, the

New Hamp-

bishops said that the decision to publicly

Massachusetts, Rhode Island and

impose sanctions on a person, such as denying Communion, rests with each

come up with Vatican

officials,

ops from Maine, Vermont, shire,

June meeting outlining the circum-

their

McCormack

Manchester, N.H., Sept. 2, the last day of the Republican National Convention in New York.

While the

Cardinal Ratzinger, congregation prefect, sent the bishops a letter before

ticians

Connecticut did talk about it themselves. Bishop Losten said.

Although

among

bishop in his

specific candidates

were

own

diocese.

Faith, the bishops did discuss publicly

While the Republican convention and politics topped the news at home, the New England bishops were focused on prayer, their meetings with Pope

denying the Eucharist to Catholic

John Paul

not

named during

their Sept.

1

visit to

the Congregation for the Doctrine of the

ministry comprised of Sacred Heart Church parishioners who have lost babies before of shortly after birth. Confidential peer ministry, information and spiritual materials are offered at no cost or obligation to anyone who has experienced mi.scarriage, stillbirth or the death of a newborn. For details, call Renee Washington at (704) 637-0472 or Sharon Burges at (704) 633-0591.

CONCORD

(CNS) With White House under way,

limina" visits found

cians

SALISBURY

—

VATICAN CITY the race for the

Bishop

When

No one at Vatican

asks about Bush, Kerry

murder

kids, assisted suicide is

radar:

who

politi-

support abortion.

'The Holy Office thinks the statement the U.S. bishops made (in June) does agree with and complement the statement of Cardinal (Joseph) Ratzinger, even though some people want to believe it doesn't," Bishop

McCormack

said.

Vatican

II

and

their discussions with

officials.

"We are

not here to give a business

report, but to express our faith, have

our

faith

strengthened by the succes-

sor of Peter and to return home, in turn, to strengthen the faith of others," said Bishop port,

William

E. Lori of Bridge-

Conn.

Discover how beautiful

God's plan for marriage really is! Natural Family Planning classes are being offered at St. James Church, 251 Union St., Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. Learn a natural method that is just as effective as the Pill and is in accord with Catholic teaching. Contact Susan Chaney at (704) 720-0772 for more information or email questions to sujo94@aol.com.

All middle and high school youths are welcome to join Dennis TeallFleming for Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament every Tuesday, 5-6 p.m. in the Adoration Chapel at Belmont Abbey College for an hour of prayer and devotion. For details, contact Dennis at (704) 825-9600, ext. 26 or e-mail

WINSTON-SALEM

teallfleming@yahoo.com.

KERNERSVILLE 616 South Cherry

Remembering a missionary

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—

Holy Cross Church,

hold their annual There will be entertainment for the kids and adults with plenty of great food for all. We will gather on the picnic grounds. The Stewardship committee will have tables set up so that they can share information with the parishioners.

St., will

parish picnic Sept. 19 at 3 p.m.

GREENSBORO

VICARIATE

HIGH POINT

—

Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 512 Montlieu Ave., offers free "Gentle Fitness' classes Wednesdays and Fridays, 1:302:30 p.m. The classes are structured to the fitness levels of seniors and anyone wanting low-

impact aerobic workout. For more information, call

Deana

CLEMMONS — Holy Kinnamon

Collis at (336) 88.5-7029.

Family Church, 4820

Rd., offers Adoration of the Blessed

Sacrament every Thursday. Exposition begins at 6 p.m. and benediction is at 9 p.m.

HICKORY

VICARIATE

NEWTON — The Little Flowers Catholic Girls' Group

is

for all Catholic girls ages five

The group meets month

at St.

and up.

Monday of each Church, 720 West 13th St.,

the fourth

Joseph

Is

4 p.m.

your parish or school sponsoring a free

event? Please submit notices for the Dioc-

the Holy Family Hall. For more details, call Debbie Vickers at (828) 495-2039. at

in

esan Planner at event date

—

HICKORY A Grief Support Group meets the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the parlor of St. Aloysius Church, 921 Second St. NE. For more information, call the church office at (828) 327-2341.

least

15 days

in wanting to

prior to the

Karen A. Evans

at

kaevans@charlottediocese,org or fax to (704)

370-3382.

nil

Episcopa calendar l

Sept 8

-19

Colloquium

Rome,

Bishop Peter J. Jugis will participate in thefollowing events:

for

newly appointed bishops

Sept 25

— 5 p.m.

.

Italy

CNS

PHOTO FROM Reuters

Sacrament of Confimation

Sept 23

— 9 a.m.

St.

Mass

Our Lady of the Assumption School, Charlotte

Lawrence

Basilica, Asheville

Orphaned children cared Blessed Mother Teresa

in

for by the Missionaries of Charity walk past a portrait of

Calcutta, India, Sept. 5, the seventh anniversary of her

death. Mother Teresa was beatified by Pope John Paul

II

last October.

"

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September

10,

2004

AROUND THE DIOCESE Neumann

Church, has more than 20 members from around the Charlotte area.

The convention was overshadowed in part, however, when Father Patrick

CELEBRATING HERITAGE

Healy, senior priest at

St.

Mary

of the

and deputy national chaplain of the Hibernians, became ill July 8, the first day of the convention, and died the next day. He had been a priest for 53 years.

'That naturally put a bit of a sad-

Assumption Parish

-9

in Scranton, Pa.,

ness on the convention," said Schuler.

Two

former mayors of Belfast, meeting the work of Father Aidan Troy,

Northern to praise

Ireland, attended the

chairman of the board of governors of

Courtesy Photo

Members

LAOH's

of the

Brigid Division in Charlotte

St.

new chaplain. Pictured are (from

the organization's

Holy Cross School

in

Belfast, who JFK Medal.

North

received the Hibernians'

At the convention, delegates approved resolutions opposing Senate ratification of the proposed extradition treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom and reaffirming the organization's opposition to abortion.

The

closing

Mass

Basilica of SS. Peter

in the Cathedral

and Paul was

concelebrated by more than a dozen priests and followed with the installation of both the

AOH

and

News

Service contributed to

LAOH

national

officers.

Catholic

I

this story.

Gathering of faith

meet with Father Joe Pierce, left)

Julie

Byrne, financial

Donaghue, president; Father Pierce; Jeanmarie Schuler, vice president; and Mary Kay Crotty, mistress at arms.

secretary; Janice

Hibernians meet in Philly, re-elect officers BY

KEVIN

MURRAY

E.

EDITOR

—

PHILADELPHIA

Several

organization in the United States.

The

organization promotes Irish culture

and

defends the Catholic

faith.

the Diocese of Charlotte

Held every two years, the Hibernian

attended the Ancient Order of Hiberni-

conventions include business meetings,

members of ans'

92nd

biennial convention in Phila-

and other social activities.

'This wonderful gathering of over

elections

delphia in July.

"It

was

quite an experience," said

1,200 Irish Americans

...

was

Jeanmarie Schuler, vice president of the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians' St. Brigid Division 1, based in Charlotte.

Schuler attended the convention with women from her division and the

Our Lady of Knock Division

tion comprised of Catholic

in

Greensboro.

'The sisterhood among the members was evident," said Schuler. "Although I

came home exhausted,

am

I

also inspired

and live up to our motto: Friendship, Unity and Christian Charity."

The AOH, founded in 1836, deto try

scribes itself as the oldest lay Catholic

truly an

me and to the other officers to continu"^ our work," said Ned McGinley of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., who inspiration to

was

re-elected as

The LAOH,

AOH

president.

a nonprofit organiza-

was founded

Irish descent,

Photo by Joanita M. Nellenbach

Bishop Peter J. Jugis offers Communion the

of 1884 as

the Daughters of Erin to protect

young

immigrant Irish girls. The group officially became the LAOH in 1984.

Schuler was one of the original founders of North Carolina's first LAOH division in June 1998. The St. Brigid Division 1, which meets at St. John

to Bill

Tennant during thefirst Mass on

in AsheviUe

Aug.

1.

Some 150 parishionen

lined up with theirfolding chairs on the 13.3-acre site heated on Asbury Road.

women in

new properly ofSt Joan ofArc Church

In his hxmily, Bishop Jugis reflected on the day's readingsfocusing on the "seek

what is

necessity to

above.

spirit, and that's exactly what we're doing today new property," Bishop Jugis said. "The Eucharist, Everything we do as a parishfamily' will be the centralfocus oflfe on this new property. flows out from this altar into our daily lives, in everything we do. And everything is

"Keying busy about matters of the

as

we

celebrate the first

Mass on

this

...

^

of the Lord, the center of our spirituality.

Concelebrating Mass was Father John Pagel pastor. Assisting was Rev. Mr.

brought back

to the altar

Triana, permanent deacon.

For more on St Joan ofArc

Church, read the Parish Profile on page 16.

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AROUND TH E DIOCESE HOLY ROLLING

Long-standing order

Donated

Holy

cart allows

Angels to cruise the outdoors — Holy Angels

BELMONT has a

new

A

now

set of wheels.

specially designed wheelchair-ac-

cessible limousine golf cart has

been do-

nated to Holy Angels, a nonprofit corpo-

programs and serand adult residents with varying degrees of mental retardation.

The cart, named "Holy Rollers" and donated by Carolina Golf Cars, will take residents for trips around the campus ration that provides vices for child

while enjoying the built-in radio system.

Gary Babcock,

'To have the kids get outside and have an opportunity to ride around and see a few different sights appealed to me and hopefully to all the people and staff of Holy Angels," he said.

"We are so grateful to Mr. Babcock and his family and staff for their dedication and personal commitment to the Holy Angels," said Moody.

"He has demonstrated a generous and residents of

kind

his attention to

president of CaroGolf Cars and longtime supporter of Holy Angels, worked on this cart since

the cart."

before Christmas 2003. He, his family

dents to experience the highest quality of

and

life

"Holy Angels

lina

Knights and Ladies of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem

gather Aug. 7 for a Mass and reception welcoming and honoring members. Bishop Peter.

All

Jugis, Father Paul

J

members

are

Gary and Father John Putnam concelebrated the Mass.

of the order.

Scroll Mass confirms membership into Equestrian

Order ofthe Holy Sepulchre ofJerusalem BY

'WTien and Philip Witt,

CHARLOTTE — ScroUs were re-

all

of Charlotte.

Ladies of the Equestrian Order of the

The history of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre dates to 1099, when the Knights were established by

Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

Godfrey de Bouillon to guard and pro-

cently presented to seven Knights and

The

scrolls are significant in

tect the

wel-

thedral

Holy Sepulcher, the tomb

Jerusalem in which Jesus have been buried.

in the

long-standing lay order.

The

I

was

in college,

I

visited a

place for children with disabilities. Ever

STAFF WRITER

coming and honoring members

took the time and effort to ensure the comfort and safety of the residents in the cart.

He also wanted to make sure they have a great time and experience unique staff

opportunities.

KAREN A. EVANS

is

in

believed to

According to Alice Cella, regional representative for the Diocese of

Mass at St. Patrick CaAug. 7 was concelebrated by Scroll

Charlotte, the Order,

Bishop Peter. J Jugis; Father Paul Gary, tor of the cathedral; and Father John i 'utnam, pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Salisbury. Bishop Jugis, Father Gary and Father Putnam are all members of

with his donation of this cart every detail about

spirit

and

important for me,

since then,

it

family and

company

is

to

my

do something

generosity and thoughtfulness of our fi-iends such as Mr. Babcock who understands our mission."

Holy Angels was founded in 1956

by the

Sisters of

Mercy. Holy Angels'

residents have var3dng degrees of

AAer meeting with Regina Moody,

CEO

of Holy Angels, and

the staff and residents, Babcock said he

conceived a "stretch golf cart designed for wheelchairs that would be fun and different."

men-

retardation and physical disabilities,

tal

many

and

are medically fragile.

Programs include the Holy Angels Residential Center, four

said Babcock.

something

dedicated to provid-

regardless of disability," she said.

'W^e are able to do this because of the

special for people that are less fortunate,"

president and

is

ing unique opportunities for our resi-

Group Homes,

Community

four Intermediate Care

Mentally Retarded group homes. Little Angels Child Development Center, Great Adventures, Camp Hope and Cherubs Cafe & Candy Bouquets in downtown Belmont.

Facilities for the

whose members

must be invited to join, continues its work in the modern world. The weapons

(

of today are prayer and funding aimed at supporting and aiding the church and the Catholic faith in the Holy Land. The propagation and preservation of the

the Holy Order.

Bishop Jugis and Lieutenant John Piunno presented four scrolls from Rome confirming admission to Kerney and Jane McNeil of Asheville and Raymond and Lois Paradowski of

faith are

coupled with assistance to the

Catholic missions in that area.

It

sustains the efforts of Catholic

working to exist in a land torn by strife and bloodshed, laboring to make their lives more tolerable. Generous aid to the weak and those without protection, striving for justice and peace are the characteristic virtues of the Order of Holy Sepulchre.

Salisbury.

Promotion to the rank of comto General

mander was confirmed

Albert Esposito and Theresa Esposito of

Winston-Salem; and Joseph A. Tronco, Jr. of Charlotte.

Thirty-five area Knights and Ladies attended the Mass and reception, as well a.s the '2004 nominees for investiture, William Augerot, Jane and Michael Balbirnie

Contact Staff Writer Karen A. Evans by calling (704) 370-3354 or e-mail Courtesy Photo

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10,

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Community programs provide valuable supportfor Catholic schools

teacher to ASHEVILLE

— Pamela Budd,

visit

Japan

BY

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CHARLOTTE

ris

Catholic School, discusses a quilt with

student

through a variety of outreach programs. such a great opportu-

professionally, as well as for

Courtesy Photo

Pamela

Budd,

librarian

Jessica

similar to

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Asheville

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will

Budd to present as a gift to a thirdgrade class in Japan during Budd's

for

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visit in

Fulbright

November as part

of

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personal growth," said Budd.

Beginning in Tokyo, Budd and her group will receive a practical orientation to Japanese culture and meet officials and educators. Next, they will travel in groups of 20 to prefectures (states) outside of Tokyo to meet with local teachers and students at primary and secondary schools.

"When

I

return,

enth-grade, which

I'll

target the sev-

studying Japan," said Budd. "I hope to make Japan more real because I've been there."

She plans to compare and contrast U.S. schools and Japanese schools, religion, food and other cultural aspects. She said she also would take "hundreds of photos" to "give the students a sense that Japan is a real place as opposed to a faraway place."

Budd's group is scheduled to visit cultural sites and local industries; in addition the educators will spend a night with Japanese families.

"I'll be taking Japanese at a local community college, so hopefully I'll be able to communicate with the family," said Budd.

The program is sponsored by the Japanese government and was launched in 1997 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. government is

Fulbright Program, which has enabled

more than 6,000 Japanese

citizens to

study in the United States on Fulbright fellowships for graduate education and research.

The program

administered by the Japan-United States Educational Commission. The Institute of International Education, the nation's largest is

nonprofit educational and cultural ex-

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"I can't wait. It's something that I've been preparing for," said Budd. "I read every night about the country."

Budd was selected from a national pool of more than 2,000 applicants by a panel of educators to take part in the

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FROM THE COVER Kottar, administrator of Holy Redeemer Church in Andrews and Prince of Peace Church in Robbinsville. "It makes it very personal."

The Franciscan Missionaries of Mercy, an order formed three years ago, have seven sisters, who work in Santa Tecla and Mizata, El Salvador.

They minister to the very poor, in-

"The need for outreach to our own people and to others who speak Spanish is very great."

El

Salvador

cluding war refugees and farmworkers looking for urban jobs.

They give food and clothing to the unemployed, but their main work is

nuns spread

evangelization.

During the Aug. 21 meeting, Martinez read the story of Jesus and Zacchaeus (Luke 19), while the others followed along in their Bibles.

They reread the story in silence, then

Gospel to N.C. HIspanlcs

discussed

it.

Mother

Villaran explained that not enough to hear God's word, but that one must act upon it.

Zacchaeus, she said, didn't keep Jesus to himself but invited others to share, so those present at this meeting should not keep Jesus just for themselves but should invite others to the community.

Claudia Huerta said she did not read the Bible much in Mexico because she didn't understand it, but the discussions she has heard in the small faith community have helped her to understand it more.

The small Christian community, she said, is a unique experience and has a spirit she hasn't felt before.

"It was a great help what (Mother Villaran) was doing with the evangelizing, visiting the trailer parks and bringing God's word (to people)," said Father Kottar.

"It was nice to see the presence of a it's

VILLARAN, from page 1

coordinator for the

Smoky Mountain

Mother

Villaran and one of her nuns, Sister Maribel Ruiz, from El Salvador to work in western North Carolina Aug. 4-23.

Mother Villaran spent her time in Andrews in Cherokee County. Sister Ruiz worked in Cashiers, Sapphire Valley and Glenville Lake in Jackson County. They visited several families or groups each day.

"We announce the Gospel of Vicariate, invited

Jesus,"

Mother

Photos by Joanita M. Nellenbach

Mother Maria Trinidad Villaran leads a small faith community prayer service in Andrews Aug. 21. Jose Martinez plays guitar for the opening hymn. Also attending are Claudia Huerta and her son Guadalupe.

Villaran said. "It's a

very good experience for me (here) because this is my work in El Salvador to announce the Gospel, the

—

salvation from Jesus Christ."

"The need for outreach to our own people and to others who speak Spanish is very great," said Father Carl T. Del Giudice, pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Brevard and its mission, St. Jude Church, in Sapphire Valley.

The small faith communities in the United States engage mainly in faith sharing, but in Latin America, they also train people for various ministries such as music and Eucha-

praying for special intentions and saying together the "Our Father," "Hail Mary" and "Glory Be to the Father."

Afterward people stayed to chat and share a meal of roast pork and

ristic ministers.

spicy refried beans.

"Everything is guided by the church," Mother Villaran said.

In El Salvador, a nun from the

the Immaculate Heart of Mary, cel-

Franciscan Missionaries of Mercy visits a

community

for a

week

to in-

Spanish-speaking nun, and she worked with some of our core people in the Hispanic community," he said.

The

This

Mother Villaran

listens as Claudia

Huerta makes a point during a discussion of the

story of Jesus and Zacchaeus at a prayer service Aug. 21.

nuns spend about 15 weeks establishing the community, after which they have a conversion-to-Christ retreat.

Following that

retreat,

SCC members

can evangelize others.

While Martinez and others at the prayer service attend Holy Redeemer, many feel having an SCC is important.

Martinez explained that people

are in church for an hour a week, but

the small faith

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September

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FROM THE COVER The United Nations says Darfur the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

In northeastern Chad^s heat and rain, refugee graves are added daily

Farchana was the first refijgee camp Sudanese in Chad. Now 1 1 camps are under the direction of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, and other unofficial camps have been established along the Chad-Sudan border. for

Thousands £ee

Abdulaye said he arrived at Farchana in late May. He fled his village of Guerendi in February during a latenight ambush by the Janjaweed and government forces.

war, devestation

BY

He drew lines in the sand to describe how Sudanese soldiers in vehicles sur-

STEPHEN STEELE

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FARCHANA CAMP, Chad

— About

rounded

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His story is similar to the stories other refugees and the displaced have told humanitarian aid workers for

bodies are added every day,

The young

against the black Africans

who

inhabit

'This cemetery

is the s)TTibol of our Abdullah Abdulaye.

In northeastern Chad, temperatures reach 130 degrees. Dirt roads washed away by unrelenting rains prevent food and other supplies from reaching the refugees.

In Farchana and Bredjing, the refligees say they do not receive enough food and that their children suffer from chronic diarrhea and other maladies. Their tents are no more than 8-feet-by-lO-fe^t, with

suffering," said

arrivals

CNS

Sudanese refugees wait

for aid near the

Kounoungo camp

—

families as large as

1 1

—

placed in 4-foot-by-6-foot tents.

U.N. officials describe conditions in Farchana as "good."

One Doctors Without Borders official said 30 percent of the 1,200 patients the agency sees each week in Bredjing suffer from chronic diarrhea. The official said those numbers were "alarming" and

in

more than 30,000 non-Arab

militias

killed

ment

than 12,000 refugees are in Farchana. In Bredjing, the numbers have swelled to more than 40,000, with

new are

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every day.

About 200,000 Sudanese refugees in Chad, with a million more dis-

placed within Sudan.

pressure to control the Arab militias, known as the Janjaweed.

U.N. dead-

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"OEO does a wonderful job," said Claudie Burchfield of the Graham County Travel & Tourism Authority

the diocesan Office of Economic Oppor-

(OEO) at the Bishop Begley Center for Economic Development in Murphy.

Gaffey is enrolled in the OEO's Assets Building Matched Savings Program (ABLE), which will help her to tunity

(GCTTA).

George makes a

expand her small businesses: selling sil\-er jewelry at a local flea market and buUding an aviary to house the cockatiels, macaws and conyers she raises and sells. which promotes economic ABLE self-sufficiency through training and savings programs for schools, businesses and housing is just one way that the OEO

some from

OEO

47 nonprofit and faith-based organizations and community groups. will celebrate its fifth

an-

niversary this year with a festival in the

Church

pavilion behind St. William

Murphy

in

Sept. 24-25.

Granting community said Father George

The OEO,

William

Kloster, pastor of St.

in

Murphy

and Immaculate Heart of Mary in Hayesville, is "a visible sign by the Catholic Church that we are concerned

said,

'This region

is

being forced to

an adjustment from a traditional labor 5'

economy

ABLE

programs. the event," Burchfield said. "Now, everybody's talking about how much bigger and better it can be next year."

A $1,700 grant helped the continued revival of the Cherokee County Heritage Fair, held Sept. 4.

"We're trying to rekindle what we used to have," said Jessica Roberson, family and consumer agent with the Cherokee County Center of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service.

"I remember growing up here in the '70s when we had a county fair."

puter so that she could expand her jewelry

order her materials. She could advertise if she had a Web site.

Gaffey enrolled in ABLE, began saving and completed the small-business training program through the Con-sumer Counseling Service of Western

her products

North Carolina of

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buy Christmas gifts for needy children and groceries for the local food pantry.

"People were really skeptical about

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festival

could be

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this year.

Ribbons went to the best vegetables and canned goods, flowers, needlework and woodcarving. A Cakewalk and auction were held; clubs and homemaker groups exhibited.

went very well," Roberson said.

"Everybody seemed to like the fair and the walk. People kept pouring in."

Gaffey hopes that people will pour "It

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materials Gaffey acquired during

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all the time that I would like to do had the resources," she said.

Tliose resources would include a com-

know where

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at

any

ABLE

requires participants to save

$20 a month. Gaffey is saving $20 a week and will finish saving in March 2005, just in time to buy birds at least

for spring breeding.

"There have been a couple of weeks," "when I thought, 'I can really use that money for something else, but I haven't taken it; I've put it in (the bank)." she

said,

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WANT TO GO? Office of

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its fifth

anniversary

ion behind St. William

in

Church

will

the pavil-

in

Murphy

6-9:30 p.m., Sept. 24, and 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m.,

Sept. 25.

The

event, free

and open

to the

public, will include storytelling, music, arts

and

crafts, children's

games, face

painting,

food and drink.

Directions: Tal<e Hwy. off

64

to

Murphy Turn

Hwy. 64 on Bulldog Drive (road be-

tween Murphy High School and the BP station).

At the bottom of the

traffic light.

hill,

turn

left

at

Go about 300 feet and tum right

things

into the

if

to the rear of the church.

I

am

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time," she said. "I never did that before."

celebrate

Matching success

easy to invite

requires

variety of

The

and

ABLE

course teaches a

her training have helped her organize her

dis-

—

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event.

was

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it

Inc. that

participants.

all

play in the town. Tree-purchase proceeds

into the businesses she's

knrw

present, she has to use the

at the local public library to

make wage

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business.

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More than 3,000 people attended the combined

tree festival,

In the early 1980s, the fair

continued. Last year, though, it returned, combined with the county's

were

NX'e

ABLE matched-savings

the Office of Economic Opportunity's

third annual heritage walk.

During the three-day

"Without some assistance

Now Your

in

program, Gaffey expanded her small business by saving money and completing training

people will buy and decorate trees for dis-

to a service-oriented

career track," an

states.

Florida.

as

Debi Gaffey feeds baby jenday conyers. Handfeeding makes the birds easier to handle. Enrolled

lives.

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Photo by Joanita M. Nellenbach

skills, including budgeting and money management, and each participant completes a business plan.

Those who don't complete the training get back their savings but without the matching funds.

about the people in this area, especially the poor, who have been left behind in

many ways."

The OEO, he

as far

Events included logrolling, Appalachian music and dance, vendor booths and booths focused on activities of local community organizations, a Native American exhibit and a "taste of Robbinsville," with tickets sold to allow purchasers to sample food at various restaurants.

Any money taken in, over and above festival costs, went back into the community, this time to buy beds for Emergency Medical Service workers to use during their long shifts.

"We've really "had nothing that's used to grow community," Burchfield said. "It was just a wonderful event. It brought people together, and we've already had a spinoff. We've having a festival of trees, which wiU be held in conjunction with our Christmas parade."

has given grants totaling $101,000 to

OEO

help

needed dollars into the community.

A $2,500 grant helped revive the Graham County Heritage Festival, held July 4. More than 1,000 people attended,

of Justice and Peace in the Diocese of

The

received

fairs that

preserve the area's heritage and bring

counties.

in 1999, the

Murphy

grants this year toward

Since Catholic Social Service's Office

it

in RobbinsvUle and County Cooperative Ex-

,tension Service in

—

Charlotte founded

GCTTA

The

the Cherokee

reaches out to residents of Cherokee,

Graham and Clay

difference in these small western

communities."

—

Swain,

"Joan (Furst) and (Father)

(Kloster) are really involved. It

church parking

lot.

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WORD TO LIFE

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of Scripture, readings, films and more

SUNDAY SCRIPTURE READINGS:

Sept 19, Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary

back FCC

was the heartless treatment widows, children, servants, tenai

1)

Amos

2)

Psalm 113:1-2, 4-8 1 Timothy 2:1-8 Gospel: Luke 16:1-13

3)

Procedure to help £ght indecency

farmers, laborers, peasants. Sud people had no voice in the corridor] of power.

8:4-7

BY

Those who held the

DAN LUBY

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seem

Political candidates all

want voters

tative of the U.S. bishops said the bishops back a Federal Communications Commission proposal to compel radio and TV stations to keep tapes of what they've broadcast in case citizens make complaints against them for airing indecent material.

"The current procedure for indecency complaints, which puts the initial burden on listeners and viewers to obtain a transcript from the broadcaster of the program at issue but does not require the broadcaster to provide it when requested by the listener or viewer, inhibits the appropriate enforcement of indecency rules," said Katherine Grincewich, assistant general counsel to the U.S. bishops, in testimony delivered Aug. 27.

"Absent a transcript or tape, the (Federal Communications) Commis-

sion

make

forced to

is

sion based

memory

on a

its initial

deci-

listener's or viewer's

alone, a situation unfair to the

complainant, the broadcaster and the commission," Grincewich added.

"The

fleeting nature of indecent

broadcast programs for the

—

and the need proposed new program ar-

—

has, of course, been known the incipiency of the commission's regulation of indecent

chives

must rely instead on time-consuming and elaborate viewer or listener logs of programs or on broadcasters' vague quarterly propublic

—

—

gram/issues

lists."

The FCC

Grincewich added, "has recognized that licensees can easily defeat petitions to deny based on the quarterly lists by providing information they did not include on those itself,

lists."

Should the

FCC

approve the new

that citizens will have

much-needed

information" on which to base such a challenge.

In

its

drive to deregulate broad-

casting, the

FCC

in

1981 and 1983

fort

is

FEE UNTIL

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right to acquire copies of programs."

Grincewich asked the

FCC

to

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"take the next necessary step by defin-

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Sunday (Twenty-fourth Sunday

"The commission must move sively

...

deci-

to establish clear, enforceable

requirements that broadcasters determine the needs and interests of their communities of license, air at least a minimum amount of public affairs,

actions," she said.

In a July interview With Catholic

News

Service,

FCC

Commissioner

Michael Copps said the proposed rule became necessary because broadcasters did not respond to an FCC request to voluntarily make and keep tapes.

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Missionary's fight against Mexican

These 'Clouds' are dreary

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CORPUS CHRISTI,

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When

Mexico. he arrived

in 1963, he never imagined the area would be taken over by gun-toting drug traffickers, who

forced his dirt-poor parishioners to

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Father Pfeifer's story has been made into an independent film, "The Oath," which was shown in a private screening Aug. 6 at the Texas Independent Filmmakers Festival in San Antonio.

Father Pfeifer began working with the poor Zapotec Indians in the town of

San Pedro Martir di Quiechapa in Oaxaca a few years after his 1959 ordination in San Antonio as an Oblate of

Mary Immaculate

priest.

home to around 25,000 Catholics, scattered in small vilarea was

lages across a large mountain range.

The

had never seen electricity or running water, and had not had a priest in more tlian 40 years.

More than 30 missions "needed to be visited, by mule or on foot because there were no roads at that time and they were scattered," said Father Pfeifer.

The residents had no health care facility or doctors, so he became a paramedic and set up a clinic. He eventually lost count of the hundreds of babies he delivered and baptized. villagers

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he turned in names were involved in the drug trade or had been bribed.

The stress, paranoia and lack of sleep from living in fear took its toll on

Father

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sure shot

way up and

"My

blood pres-

I'm like a walking

pharmacy with

all the stuff I have to he joked.

Maria Luisa Zapata, the director and writer of the film, "The Oath," said she was inspired after hearing him give an account of his missionary work in San Antonio. Plans for release of the movie are still in the works.

"It's an exciting story of someone who truly believes in the Gospels, of God working through a dedicated missionary," said Father Pfeifer's brother.

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"The war

Vatican official: Terrorism has unleashed 'fourth world war' and juridical canons consolidated by a very long tradition" for defining war and regulating combat, he said. political

TERROR, from page 1

The The

cardinal, president of the PonCouncil for Justice and Peace, spoke Sept. 6 at an interreligious meet"ing for peace sponsored by the Romebased Community of Sant'Egidio.

Terrorism on the scale seen since Sept. 11, 2001, has become a type of war outside the bounds of "all of the tifical

ticularly in the "preventative

war" on

Iraq proclaimed by the United States

and

its

coalition partners,

is

particularly

disturbing

forces invaded they

had an obligation

to stay and to provide security while

new Iraqi government and consolidated. the

The

reaction, the cardinal said, par-

is

cardinal said

committed in the name of God."

terrorism" are completely new.

The

also outside

first

regards the ability of terone place, yet make

the bounds of traditionally accepted

rorists to strike in

definitions of national self-defense.

an "interruption" into the daily lives of people around the globe, he said.

The immediacy of news coverage brings images of the attacks into

Cardinal Martino previously has said that the war on Iraq was not justified, but that once the coalition

because these acts sometimes are

formed

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"the

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cardinal said people also can-

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Because the factors contributing to terrorism' are so complex, he said, the response must be as well. Because the causes are complex, "they can be removed only with joint action by a number of local and international actors," he added.

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Perspectives

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collection of columns,

editorials

and viewpoints

10,

P

2004

Pope says slaughter of children 'cannot leave

anyone

Cathedrals and

BY

indifferent'

WOODEN

CINDY

Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY — The

stadiums

ter of

Catholics

Modemstructures

Russian schoolchildren and the countless examples of the killing and exploitation of children around the world "cannot leave anyone indiffer-

&

ent,"

Pope John Paul

Marking

the Media

share similarities with

andentdiiwdies

DAVID HAINS

to build for

The Bank

of America football stadium is a short punt from the diocesan Pastoral Center in Charlotte. Driving by its concrete and steel majesty makes me wonder: What does this building

me

and pull

of?

On

Maybe

it is elegance on a grand an ocean liner that has somehow docked itself in the center of a city, ready to take on passengers for a weekly excursion into a fantasy war game. Other times, when I am hungry,

scale, like

it

looks

more

waiting for

And

then

Whoa!

like a giant cereal bowl,

breakfast of champions.

its

thought of a cathedral. an interesting com-

I

Now there's

parison.

Middle Ages when Europe

In the

went on

church construction binge, cathedrals were the stadiums of the day. Cathedrals represented the collective wisdom and state of the art engineering skill of people who wanted to create a monument to the most impora

tant thing in their lives

—

their rela-

heavens.

A

was at the center was its most impor-

cathedral

of a community.

It

tant structure.

If you

modmonuments are

look at the skyline of a

ern American

city,

the

it

off"

the other hand, a stadium only

have a tailgate party and then watch some wealthy muscular men beat the stuffing out of one ansays, "Let's

other." Sports, unfortunately, are a reli-

gion for many.

Perhaps the best thing about our

when comparing cathedrals to the frenzy of the new religion of sports is faith

the fact that the cathedrals have with-

a future of peace." his

weekly gen-

the

more than 320 children and

adults killed Sept. 3 at a school in

North Ossetia province and for all children around the world who suffer at the hands of adults.

Celebrating Mary's birth, he said,

"How

we not

think of the many defenseless little ones from Beslan, Ossetia, who were barbarously taken

can

hostage and tragically slaughtered?"

"They were in a school, a place for learning the values that give meaning to the history, culture and civilization of peoples: mutual respect, solidarity, justice

front entrance of Salisbury Cathedral in

they experienced abuse, hatred and death tragic consequences of a ruthless fanaticism and of an insane contempt for the human person," Pope John Paul said.

The pope asked the estimated 7,500 people at his audience at the Vatican to be mindful of "all the innocent children who, in every part of the world, are the victims of the violence of adults."

England. Peter, James and John and all the rest are weathered by time but they stm peer out to all who enter. And once

what did the people, were short and hard, do?

They knelt and prayed. inside a cathedral,

whose

lives

On

the other hand, to be admitted

stadium you must first pass through a metal detector. Once inside, video screens flicker images that change every few seconds. Your space to

a

II

He prayed for children who are forced to take up weapons "and educated to hate and to kill," for children forced to beg, for those who are physi-

and peace," he

said.

"But, instead, within those walls,

—

is a comfortable seat complete with its own cup holder.

Perhaps the trump card in this dis-

jai't

k

cally or sexually abused, for those

who

otl

are abandoned, for those killed in

war and

for those

who

die of

cai'

hunger

each day.

An

Russia's

stood so much. Stone statues of the Apostles are built into the facade of the

tionship to God. Inspiring spires built

by puny men and women, without the benefit of a sky crane or a welding torch, soared hundreds of feet to the

them

eral audience into a prayer service for

they were being built. Cathedrals are a way of saying, "Thanks, God, for giving me the brains to dream this up

POPE

the Sept. 8 feast of the

The pope turned dral,

Speaks JOHN PAUL

II said.

Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the pope called on Catholics to stand before her cradle and take seriously "the obligation we all have to safeguard and defend these fragile creatures and

Guest Columnist

remind

The Pope slaugh-

official

tariat of State

of the Vatican Secrethen led the assembly

in prayers, first for the children killed

Beslan, for their parents and More than 1,200 people were taken hostage in the incident, and more than 700 were injured.

Audience participants also prayed that "the Lord would soften the hardness of heart" of those whoin

friends.

make children suffer.

They also prayed for the increasing number of civilians kidnapped in Iraq, including

two 29-year-old

Ital-

women working for a volunteer organization who were kidnapped ian

j

Baghdad.

I The pope closed the service with] his own prayer: "God, our father, you| created men and women to live in communion with each^ther. Make us understand that every child is a richness for humanity and that violence is a dead end that does not lead to the" Sept. 7 in

'\

future."

within

cussion

is

Scr

iBOt

U.S.

the fact that the cathedrals

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made of steel, glass and concrete, nearly all of them erected to further commerce.

Thanks to media hype, community is literally and figuratively built upon the foundation of these structures.

pride

Like the cathedrals of yore, the stadiums of today are built with large

amounts of donated funds. In modern times,

we

refer to these contributions as

taxes and municipal bonds.

have survived. Salisbury Cathedral is more than 775 years old. Most stadi-

The gap between Catholics and

ums

the

are described as hopelessly out-

condemning the houses,

usually of poor people, to "progress."

But the big difference between the is, oddly enough, the

Both were

built for worship.

fitting tribute to

as

humans had

vision

It

is

David Hains

our Lord that as soon as a cathe-

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the wherewithal to en-

something as grand

.

when I attend Mass at St. Patrick Cathedral a mile and a half away or

place there.

after

drift.

|Ma

4 years

feel

chief reason for the existence of each.

months

similarities

1

dated after 20 or 30 years and the wrecking ball is called.

I like football and tailgate parties and the Carolina Panthers. But an awesome game isn't even close to the awe I

two structures

two structures

broaden as

priests continued to

of parishes dropped shghtly in the last

'

even at the gymnasium that serves as a church at St. Mark in HuntersvUle. So if your plans this fall include attending a big game, enjoy the weather and the spectacle that unfolds before you. But don't forget that every church in the Diocese of Charlotte is a cathedral to God's glory. Don't miss out on the awesome miracles taking

between Craftsmen often labored a lifetime without seeing their cathedral completed. Modern work crews erect a stadium in 30 But then the

the

number

tra(

Juc

is

tact

him

of commuof Charlotte. Con-

the director

nications for the Diocese

at dwhains@charlottediocese.org.

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September

The Catholic News & Herald 15

2004

10,

ing material values of our society.

All this talk about values! was George Bush, then John it was just about every media commentator. Doing what? TalkFirst

I

did

interviewed a university student

who

"You have

said,

Americans who rather

listening

values.

taken that word, in

its

I

the basics of life

spiritual

mean-

minimum,

ANTOINETTE

have long

fi-ee

New York

as in the recent

state welfare cuts.

BOSCO CNS

and the poor get slashed to an impossible

lionaires get off tax

liked the idea that

candidates for the nation's highest office

were talking about

Line

Columnist

It'^human

sacrifice all

That was written 35 years ago.

Back then I asked a philosophy pro-

material definitions, like "value invest-

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; such

why we

fessor,

have been left quite cold. There's a simple reason why. It's because such % alue can change with the wind. What

"American values" a few times because that sounds patriotic. But t doubt we'll hear anyone get up and say, "Hey, values are important because the quality of our lives depends on the values of the society

was valuable one day might be trash the

we

next.

I really got interested in this matter of values back in the late '60s when society was undergoing quite a shake-

and in society, is, "What is a more just and moral society, and how are we going to get it?"

monetary worth

as "this

house, furniture, jewelry, etc, has a value of...," I

so with spiritual values. These

are enduring, and, boy,

during values

do we need en-

like honesty, respect for

to maintain

life

ity crisis" resulting fi-om the "generation

gap."

it.

its final

going to hear

question of values was coming

God

In the presidential cainpaign

entering

The

now

weeks, we're probably

less

about values.

My

guess is that the media has made such fun of the presidential candidates' use of that word that they won't want to take the risk. We'll probably hear about

Teens were "rebellious," many becoming "hippies," and no one knew where the "new sexual fi-eedom" was taking us.

Anti-Vietnam war protesters were challenging national leaders and the whole ing what

many

study them, he

ter"

should

We "had bet-

said,

mans

as

we

confi-ont each

new

situation,

That's a values question.

Columnist Sidney Harris once wrote about values, saying that the crucial questions are ""What does it mean to be a human person?' And, 'What kind of society will best fit the needs of this person?'... Unless these two [questions] are

felt

were the overwhelm-

worked

by the ignorant mishandling of the very tools technology has provided us with."

I

hope our candidates are equally

when they speak

of values.

Examining the Bible's 'hidden' boolcs Q. In our interfaith Bible-study group, we frequently run into problems with the apocrypha, books that are in the Catholic Bible but not in the Protestant

If one of us refers to the book of Maccabees, for example, someone else will

Bible.

say that'^ not really part of the Bible.

What exactly are these books? Why

do some Bibles have them and others

not recognized

Protestant biblical tradition. These books include Tobias, Judith, Baruch, First and Second

Maccabees,

appendix to

(Ecclesiasticus),

Sirach

Wisdom, and

parts of

Daniel and Esther.

Typically, Protestants refer to them as apocryphal ("hidden") books.

Catholic biblical literature generally

them deuterocanonical, or second canon, books.

Most of the Old Testament was, of course, written in some idiom of Hebrew. Eventually a Greek translation calls

was needed because of the growing presence of Greek people and culture in .Jewish territories.

early Christian church. tions

Most quota-

from the Old Testament

in

the

Room "?

They

could be equipped with things

bandages, fish-lure resistant pews,

like

Handi Wipes and breath mints.

I was wondering that last Sunday when an unfamiliar family arrived at our church. I suspected they had come to Mass during a camping vacation in that the 5-year-old's hair was matted with burned marshmallow, and there was a slight scent of campfire smoke and mosquito repellent surrounding the group.

The noting and good to be

his translation,

father's eyes

looked

like

two

tiny pepperoni pizzas

and the mother's

hair was tied pound fishing

The

into a ponytail with

10-

read."

playing with a plastic tent peg, doing his

Comer

Early English Bibles, including the King James version, regularly contained the apocrypha at least in a separate section between the Old and New Testaments. Only in 1644, under Puritan influence, were these books ex-

best to stick

FATHER JOHN DIETZEN

CNS Columnist

Gospels, for example, whether spoken

by Jesus or someone else, are based on the Septuagint.

The aprocryphal books were not accepted, however, by the Pharisees,

who, about the year 100 A.D., established the list of canonical books for dispersed Jewish communities. Because they were written in Greek and because they originated rather late in the Old Testament period, perhaps 150 or 200 years before Christ, it was not considered proper to include them in the Jewish Scripture.

The history of these apocryphal

books

long and complex. Eventually, however, in the 16th century, the Protestant reformers dein Christianity is

sired to return as

much

as possible to

Accepting only the Hebrew canon of the Old Testament, without the books in the Greek version, seemed one way to do that. Thus biblical purity.

Probably around 130 B.C., the most influential translation of the Old Testament into Greek, called the Septuagint, was completed in Alexandria, North Africa, and it included the so-called apocryphal books. This was the version widely accepted by the

If you are an inveterate camper like myself you have probably wondered the same thing I have: If parishes can have "crying rooms" for families with youngsters prone to tantrums during Mass, why could we not also have a "Campers'

that they "are useful

in

Ben

DAN MORRIS CNS Columnist

Question

don't? (Florida)

A. Catholic Bibles contain all or part of several books in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) that are

Dan

out, society will extinguish

itself

insightful

Uncle

because the

basic question always challenging hu-

system, and seriously question-

political

Stephen Pepper,

be concerned about values.

indi\'idually

and everything needed

care for the earth and praise for the

us

up.

live in."

up then in high volume. Family life was shaken by what was called the "author-

others, justice, forgiveness, nurturing

who gave

campers at Mass?

for

'haves.'"

the other hand, in the term's

Not

special place

over again for the preservation of the

ings, quite seriously.

ing," or

What? No

to question the

material values of a society where mil-

was maybe one of the few

On

Island

some major stories on the question of what values are and why we I

The Bottom

ing about values.

I

Long

a reporter for the

should be concerned about them.

it

Kerry, and then

Aa

Catholic,

began

this difference

between "Protes-

tant" and "Catholic" Bibles.

way

into his brother's ear.

sure took

me

back to the days

when we camped with our would desert

was

children.

We

comforts for the thrills of sleeping with small boulders jammed life's

against our kidneys, cooking-kerosene flavored pancakes and slapping mosqui-

All the books discussed above are considered apocryphal by Protestants and recognized as authentic Scripture

toes

by Catholics.

It is important to distinguish these, however, from a host of other writings which both Catholics and Protestants view as nonbiblical, apocryphal literature. A number of them originated in the centuries before our Lord, but many were written by early Christians.

Some

are Gospels (the

Gospels of Thomas, Peter, Nicodemus, James, for example), some are Acts (Acts of John, Paul, Andrew, Peter, purporting to portray certain aspects of Christian life and teaching); others are letters or apocalyptic writings.

Nearly all of these apocryphal writings betray the influence of gnosti-

on our

The

foreheads.

It

was

great.

family sat in front of

us.

"Daddy," whispered the 10-yearold, "Jason's breath smells like fish guts."

"Does not," responded the accused.

"Shh you two," said the mother.

"Mommy," said Miss Marshmallow, "is it

OK to say 'fish guts' in church?"

"Only if you're the priest," said dad.

"Be quiet and pray."

Three seconds of silence, then: "I pray that Killer doesn't get sick in the van like he did when we left him in there the last time we went to church when we were camping," one of the kids said.

"Is that him I hear barking?" the mother whispered.

"Does the priest really say 'fish guts'?" giggled Miss Marshmallow.

"Jason, go check on Killer," in-

cism or other heretical tendencies which beset early Christianity. While

structed the father.

they often provide valuable windows into conditions under which the first Christian generations lived, they are not part of Scripture.

make hun

"But don't breathe on him or you'll sick," said his sister.

"Can I go with Jason?" asked 'Miss Marshmallow.

"No" and "Yes" said mom and dad simultaneously.

into Bibles pub-

under Protestant auspices. MarLuther himself included them as an

it

toddler

cluded.

Interestingly, the aprocrypha of-

ten found their

It

leader.

may be sent to Father Dietzen same address, or e-mail:

Questions

lished

at

tin

jjdietzen@aol.com.

the

I loved it. Maybe a Campers' Room would not be such a good idea after all.

Oh, Killer was just fine.

September

2004

10,

The Catholic News & Herald 16

PARISH PROFILE

St.

A decline in religious available to teach

Joan of Arc Church celebrates 76

in the parochial school led to

St Joan ofArc

School's closing in 1980; students trans-

renamed AsheviUe Catholic Eugene Church.

The convent became offices for Catho-

ferred to the

School at

years of Catholic ministry

lic

St.

Social Services after the school closed

and

later became the church's rectory when CSS moved their offices in 1997.

JOAN OF ARC CHURCH

ST.

919 Haywood Road 28806 (828) 252-3151

Although St Joan of Arc Church was

Asheville, N.C.

the smallest of Asheville's three parishes,

continued

tradition of reaching out

its

—

it

to

Hispanics and other minority Catholics, to Vicariate; Asheville

gay and lesbian Catholics and and HIV-positive individuals

seniors, to

Pastor: Father John Pagel

AIDS

Number

through

of Households: 252

its

'

to

—

Caring Hearts ministry.

Father John Pagel, assigned as St Joan of Arc Church's 23rd pastor in 1998, balanced the parish budget but discovered that the former school buildings constituted a large

and continuing

financial;;

drain on the parish.

A

%

parish planning committee orga-

nized "listening" sessions to discern the

hopes of the parishioners and launched an evaluation of the optifons facing the parish,

i

Doing nothing meant the eventual,! demise of the parish, but money was not

Father John Pagel

o '

ASHEVILLE

—

available to renovate the obsolete build-

In

its

76th year,

Joan of Arc Catholic Church is breaking the mold.

On Aug. 1, 2004, Bishop Peter J. Jugis came to a farm field west of town

—

new

Joan of Arc Church to both celebrate Mass and lend his support to what the parish calls "Our Journey of Faith."

The first Catholic churches in the the site for a

—

Although there

St.

Joan of Arc Church

In

Asheville

began as a 12-room house purchased

A

year

later,

Father

Gallagher was appointed as

Arc Church's

St.

through eighth grades. The Gardner House was demolished for a parking lot.

In 1968, the Franciscans could no

crowded parishes had to expand or

auditorium

European immigrants.

As these families worked

way

their

into the suburbs, they rebuilt their

churches where they

—

lived.

The

continurelo-

Arc

difference with St. Joan of

Church is that it is moving in advance of the demographic wave. The reasons lie rooted in the history of the parish.

In 1927, to serve the lic

St.

—

growing Catho-

its

Lawrence Church

parishioners, under

chased the 12-room Gardner House at Blue Ridge Avenue and Ha)rwood Road.

One room was remodeled the rest served as the

as a chapel;

first

parochial

families,

ishes that

Joan of Arc School accepted all the children who wanted to continue with

wave rather than swamped by

their parochial education.

tal

St.

built.

own parochial school in

ahead of the demographic|

is

The parish's

campaign kicks

off this

fall.

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In 1960, Bessie Prime, an elderly

Joan of Arc parishioner who lived in home, bequeathed her residence to the church. The house, a block from the church and school, became a convent for the sisters teaching at St. Joan of Arc School.

St.

a stately

During the 1962-63 school

school in western North Carolina. Bishop William J. Hafey of Raleigh named it for St. Joan of Arc. About 70 youngsters

Joan of Arc School buUt a brick addition

comprised the student body.

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bishop decided to split the St. Lawrence parish, establishing St. Eugene Church next door to the school and changing the school's

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St.

what the diocese expects growth in Catholig^ making it one of those rare par^^'

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escorted motor coach sightseeing throughout

the Pacific Northwest, the seven-day deluxe Alaska cruise, seven nights

Life materials

Men. thru

a six-night motor coach tour

Cascade Mountains; Washington; the Grand Coulee Dam; Lake Coeur d'Alene; Montana; Yellowstone (Old Faithful) and Grand Teton National Parks; Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Idaho Falls; Utah; the Great Salt Lake; Mormon Tabernacle; and more. You'll fly home after a night in Salt Lake City. Prices for this 15-day vacation start at only $1698 (per person, double occupancy)

for

round

trip airfare

$100 deposits are now due

.

in

quality hotels, transfers,^

from Charlotte, NC.

Friends and family are welcome

For information, reservations, brochure, and Father's

'YOUR MAN' TOURS

.

letter call:

1 "800-968-7626

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Carefree Vacations Since 1967!

Open

7 days a

Week