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SERVING CATHOLICS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA IN THE DIOCESE OF CHARLOTTE

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Fight for

life

list

PAGE

Despite

marches onward

reassurances, minority Christians in Iraq

BISHOP JUGIS, OTHERS FROM DIOCESE OF CHARLOTTE PARTICIPATE

TRUE CAMPAIGN' AGAINST CHRISTIANS UNDERWAY, SAYS PRIEST

l by

MARK PATTISON

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON

—

Bush,

speaking via telephone to

March

President George

VATICAN CITY

Each time a church

°'f#0

is is

church leaders there quickly explain that the incident does

not signal an assault against Christianity.

But Christians

Iraq

are afraid.

that in a cul-

a tiny minority in

overwhelmingly Muslim na-

bnost dependent," he said, "the handicapped, the elderly, the

tion,

More Coverage

freedom under

former President Saddam Hussein's otherwise oppres-

though secular, rule. U.S. -led embargo, then war and occupation of Iraq that toppled Saddam's dictatorship brought further sive,

The

Judge litmus

Christians enjoyed rela-

tive religious

See MARCH, page 8

tests; Terri

in Iraq

threatened or kidnapped, most

ture that does not protect the

—

attacked or a religious figure

**6

eral government is "working to promote a culture of life, to promote compassion for women and their unborn babies." The president spoke at the beginning of the Jan. 24 rally.

page 9

CAROL GLATZ

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

for Life participants, said the fed-

"We know

are afraid

CNS

Schiavo decision

photo from Reuters

hardship to the people there.

page 15

Ann Marie Cosgrove

and Barbara Gough of Boise, Idaho, walk toward the Supreme Court during the annual March for Life in Washington Jan. 24. Both women said they had abortions in the 1980s and were demonstrating for unborn children and their rights.

Abortion

politics; Life Principles

A KNIGHTLY

of Minneapolis

GIFT

of Martin Luther King Jr.

MURRAY

EDITOR

BELMONT

—

Music performances unite past, present

Members of

the Knights of Columbus Council 10852 of St.

Matthew Church made their largest

side, Photo by Kevin

pictured: Richard White, Operation

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could be

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fell

out-

warmth of Jesus'

love

flowing through

Jesus Christ through tradi-

felt

The

the

room

ers

sang

at the Hilton at

Stroller Sing-

Uni-

The

Stroller Singers,

Torrence Chapel

Church

tional black music.

The American

versity Place Jan. 22.

co-chair; Joe Hughs,

grand knight; and Greg Argenas, Operation

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—

in Cornelius, were performing for about 100 people who had gathered to celebrate the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to praise

CHARLOTTE

through the Knights of Columbus' Operation LAMB campaign to Dennis Kuhn of Holy Angels (second from right) accepts a donation from Knights of Columbus Council 10852. Also help people with mental retardation.

EVANS

though a cold drizzle

raised

See knights, page 6

STAFF WRITER

money was

KAREN

Charlotte recently

single donation to Holy Belmont. The knights toured Holy Angels Jan. 15 and presented an $18,000 check. The

Angels

See IRAQ, page 13

Annual event celebrates life

donates to Holy Angels KEVIN

infrastructure and

A LEGEND LIVES ON

Council raises funds,

Damaged

AME

diocesan

from Zion

See MLK, page 6

The big goodbye

Parishioner honored for service

Mad science in school;

Cell phones

to poor, parish

High Point excellence

role in the

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African

Affairs Ministry

Perspectives

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The Catholic News & Herald

January 28,

Current and upcoming topics from around the

In Brief

world to your own backyard

2005

new

Bishops' secretariat publishes directory of lay groups WASHINGTON

(CNS)

—

The

U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Family, La-

BLIND FAITH

ity,

Women

and Youth has published

the eighth edition of its Directory of Lay

Movements, Organizations and Professional Associations.

In a Jan. 7 letter to'the bishops

accompanying edition,

Gary,

2005-2007 Melczek of

the

Bishop Dale J. chairman of the Committee

Ind.,

on the Laity, said the directory "contains most of the commonly known Catholic movements and organizations that are national in scope and whose membership consists of a majority of lay persons."

The

4-6-page publication contains

more than 115

brief descriptions of

U.S. Catholic lay

movements, profes-

sional associations, organizations, secular institutes, third orders and lay associations, and lay missionary/volunteer service groups. It also provides for each listing a

name, address and phone number for contact, as well as Web and e-mail addresses, where available. According to the directory's introductory material, some of the listed groups that are not exclusively lay are included "because their

work

affects the

and mission of the laity and/or because their membership has a significant lay component." life

The

directory includes Catholic

groups that exist to support lay ministry, such as the National Association for Lay Ministry and the National Center for the Laity, along with many well-known Catholic agencies, such as Catholic Charities USA and the National Catholic Educational Asso-

whose missions are broader. secretariat said it welcomes suggestions for groups to be included in future editions, and the last page of the directory is a form to

ciation,

The

facilitate that.

Diocesa n,

—planner CNS

Hicksville, N.Y., Jan.

13. Regan,

who

at Holy Trinity

blind,

"Jeopardy!" teen tournament, scheduled for broadcast

BOONE

VICARIATE

NORTH WILKESBORO

answer a question during class

Kerri Regan, 17, offers to

High School

photo by Gregory A. Shemitz, Long Island Catholic

Diocesan

was a contestant

the

late January.

need for prayers, or would like to offer your time in prayer for others' needs, please call the Rosary CJiain 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

confidentiality agreement, 17-year-old Kerri Regan could not reveal if she bet big bucks on the "Jeopardy!" daily double. But she did

mention her secret to qualifying as one of only 15 high school students to appear on the "Jeopardy!" teen tour-

nament "I

this year.

read a lot and soak up a lot of

useless trivia," said Kerri, a senior at

on her desk. She often wonders why people are so a small Braille computer interested in her

same

life

because,

the

everyone else except I read Braille and take a dog to school." But it is hard not to marvel at her everyday life. She finds her chair every day among hundreds of chairs in the lunchroom. She reads books by feeling the words with her fingertips. She listens to people without being prejudiced by as

triever that constantly accompanies her.

Kerri

blind and the Labrador

her

Kerri appeared on "Jeopardy!" Jan.

ap-

In addition to taking advanced

placement courses, Kerri worked at Catholic Charities and was runner-up for homecoming queen. She is a leader in the Science Olympiads, which recognize achievement in science, and participates in youth ministry programs at her school and parish. Kerri plans to attend college and become a history teacher. She has been seeing world, but she also

knows

that

She also appeared on commercials with Trebek promoting the quiz show's

God

will help her

that

comes her way.

teen tournament.

"Every once in a while, I still whack into fire doors or get lost," she said, but added, "Honestly I have never thought about being anything else (but blind)."

27.

Recently, with her

dog

at her feet in

her advanced placement government and politics class, Kerri typed notes into

— The

Maximilian Kolbe

St.

overcome anything

Sunday of each month

at 2 p.m. at

tance of this ecumenical council. Msgr. John

life

McSweeney will give several presentations on

call

really

was and

its

to the Church. All sessions will

New

Life Center,

room

importance

meet

102, of St.

in the

Matthew

Church, 8015 Ballantyne Commons Pkwy. The program meets Mondays, Feb. 7 and 28; March 7 and 2 1 and April 4 from 7-8:15 p.m. or Tuesdays, Feb. 8; March 1, 8 and 22; and ;

April

6:30-7:45 p.m. Childcare

by reservation at (704) 543-7677

HUNTERS VILLE

available

ext. 1011.

—

Women's Catholic Scripture Study meets Wednesdays, 9:3011:30 a.m., at St. Mark Church, 14740 Stumptown Rd. The class will focus on the book of Exodus and will meet through May 2005. For details,

members

trained to be an advocate for herself in a

guide dog.

more about

8015 Ballantyne

re-

Marilyn Borrelli

call

(704) 542-2283.

Statesville Ave.

affects others' lives.

Labrador

more information,

many Catholics are still unaware of the impor-

CHARLOTTE —

to the 2-year-old black

Matthew

Commons Pkwy. For

the closing of Vatican Council II approaches,

plaud her wit, intelligence, devout faith, adaptability and the way she

her, but he really loved her dog, referring

at 7 p.m. at St.

Church, 8015 Ballantyne

Our Lady of Consolation Church, 2301

ardy!" almost every night.

She beat 1,500 teens for the chance to fly to Los Angeles and participate in the show, where players pick a category, host Alex Trebek gives a clue and the contestant who -hits the buzzer first must supply the correct response in the form of a question. She said Trebek enjoyed talking to

Cancer Support Group and friends meets the first

Tuesday of each month

ers the first

VICARIATE

their appearance.

faculty

for survivors, family

CHARLOTTE

Holy Trinity Diocesan High School in Hicksville. She also tunes into "Jeop-

Holy Trinity

— The

CHARLOTTE

CHARLOTTE — As the 40th anniversary of

what Vatican

you have a

Fraternity of the Secular Franciscan Order gath-

'Jeopardy!' teen

HICKSVILLE, N.Y. (CNS) Because of

and third Monday of each

(704) 576-0456. If

special

CHARLOTTE

—

first

month 7-9 p.m. in the conference room. Formore information, call Deacon Jim Hamrlik at

(336) 667-9044.

Catholic high school student

competes in tournament

—

take place on the

the church office at

call

(704) 948-0231.

sition is a

Christians in Career

ministry of

helping people

St.

career crises.

Those

interested in learning

SFO and

CHARLOTTE

—

Thank God It's Friday (TGIF), a weekly support group for separated and divorced women, meets every Wednesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the New Life Center building, room 114, of St. Matthew Church, 8015 Ballantyne Pkwy., including a potluck dinner. TGIF is a healing ministry sponsored by Catholic

Social Services, Charlotte Regional Office

and

St.

Matthew Church. For details, call Karen-

Wepasnick

at (704)

541-1891 after 3 p.m.

CHARLOTTE — The Happy TimersoS St. Ann Church meet the first Wednesday of each month p.m. in the with a luncheon and program at parish activity center, 3635 Park Rd. All adults age 55 and older are welcome, For more information, call Charles Nesto at (704) 398-0879. 1

The meetings

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2005

January 28,

FROM THE VATICAN

Newspaper

Pope says high number of migrants,

kidnapping of Pope Pius XII VATICAN CITY

refugees requires dialogue VATICAN CITY

reports Hitler ordered

(CNS)

— Adolf

Hitler personally ordered one of his se-

nior Nazi officers to arrange the kidnap-

—

Pope high number of (CNS)

Instead, the pope said, it should be a process of mutual sharing that can gradually shape societies and cul-

the sensitive

million asylum seekers, refugees, in-

question of social integration of migrants. He said integration should not be seen as "an assimilation that leads migrants to suppress or to forget their own cultural identity."

ternally displaced people, returned

ping of Pope Pius XII toward the end of II, according to new information cited by an Italian newspaper. Instead of carrying out Hitler's order, the officer met secretly with the pope in May 1944 to warn him of the plot. A month later, the Nazis were fleeing Rome, and Hitler's plan could not be carried out. The reconstruction of the kidnapping scenario was published Jan. 15 by the Italian Catholic newspaper Awenire, based on testimony taken by church experts examining a possible declaration of sainthood for Pope Pius. Purported plans by the Nazis to abduct Pope Pius and take him out of Italy first came to light in the

refugees and stateless people in the

Nuremberg

world. The recent earthquake and tsunami in Asia and Africa increased

but details have been sketchy.

John Paul II said the migrants and refugees

world

in the

when

requires dialogue to favor friendship

tures

and cultural understanding. The pope made the remarks at a Sunday blessing Jan. 16, which the church celebrates in many countries as the World Day for Migrants and

comers are accepted.

Refugees.

"I offer

cordial greetings to

all

migrants and hope that dialogue may favor the growth of sympathy and understanding among the various cultures," he said.

The pope examined

new-

"valid aspects" of

"In this process the migrant

on taking the necessary steps

intent

toward

social inclusion, such as learn-

ing the national language and complying with the laws and requirements at work, so as to avoid the occurrence of exasperated differentiation," the pope said.

The United Nations estimated that at the start of

that

number by

2004 there were

several million.

World War

trials after

According

to Awenire,

II,

ness or any other sufferings? Learn in

how

suffering

your life and the lives of

Germany received sworn testimony March 24, 1972, from Gen. Karl -

perts in

others. Loretta Bedner, regional director of the

deSales Spirituality Center, will present "Healing

Our

Deepest

Wounds" Feb.

7-9 p.m. and Feb.

9 a.m.-l p.m. at Immaculate Heart of Mary ;Church, 4-145 Johnson St. A Spanish presentation 15,

Rs also available. Seating is limited. To reserve jour space, request the Spanish presentation, or reserve childcare, please call Larry Kwan at (336) 882-7204 orJane Hughes at (336) 8823393 by Jan. 31.

military. The group meets the first Tuesday of each month in the church office conference room, 10-11 a.m. For more information, call Cathy Yochim at (704) 636-6857 or Joan Kaczmarezyk at

VICARIATE

HICKORY — St. Aloysius Church. 92

SALISBURY

— Sacred Heart Church,

St.

NE,

Second

Study is a program whose members not only learn the Scriptures, but come to a deeper understanding of their faith in a setting that builds Christian fellowship.

Evening and daytime classes will be held each at the church, Wednesdays, 6:45-8:30 p.m., and Thursdays 9:30-11:15 a.m. For more informa-

Ann Miller at (828) 441-2205, or e-mail

stalscss@charter.net.

HENDERSONVILLE — The

Widows Lunch

Church, meets at a different restaurant on the Wednesday of each month at 1:30 a.m. Reservations are necessary. For more information and reservations, call Joan Keagle at (828) 693-4733. first

)

HICKORY — A

the

Charismatic Mass Thursday of each month

NE,

at 7 p.m.

Joan

Moran

1943 Hitler had

the idea of abducting

Pope

Pius and removing him from the

Owens

St.

For further information, contact

VICARIATE

—

Our Lady Rosary Makers of

Sacred Heart Church, 128 N. Fulton St., are making cord rosaries for the missions and the

WINSTON-SALEM

told the pontiff of Hitler's

him

on guard. Gumpel, who is working on the sainthood cause of Pope Pius, said Wolff s account coincides with other evidence that has emerged about Hitler's mistrust of the pope and his to be

Jesuit Father Peter

hatred of the church. Vatican historians have documented Hitler's antipathy

toward the pope on

other occasions, arguing that the Nazi dicas an enemy of Naand a friend of the Jews. Despite criticism by some Jewish groups, the work on the sainthood cause of Pope Pius has continued in recent years. This spring, the Vatican's Congregation for Saints' Causes is expected to begin discussions on the material gathered to date.

saw the church

tional Socialism

VICARIATE

KERNERSVILLE

—

Holy Cross Church, Cherry St., hosts a Senior Coffee House the first and third Monday of each month, 10 a.m.-l 2 p.m. in the DeSales House behind the church. Call the church office at (336) 9965109 ext. 12 for directions or information. 616

WINSTON-SALEM

— The Healing Com-

a grief support

reaved that meets the

days of the month

first

group for the beand third Thurs-

conference

room B

at St.

Leo the Great Church, 335 Springdale Ave. For further details, call Joanne Parcel at (336) 924-9478.

CNS

Pope John Paul your parish or school sponsoring a free event open to the general public? Please submit notices for the Diocesan Is

date in writing to Karen A. Evans at kaevans@charlottediocese.org or fax to (704) 370-3382.

extends his hand over two lambs

Vatican Jan. 21. Pure wool from the lambs liturgical

zine,

— 2:30 p.m. Mass

Gabriel Church, Charlotte

—9 a.m. Mass School, Charlotte

Feb. 2

— 9:45 a.m. Mass

Our Lady Feb. 3

in the following events:

Grace School, Greensboro

— 10:30 a.m. Mass

Charlotte Catholic High School, Charlotte

his private

study at the

vestment called the pallium, a narrow circular band worn around the

become

a four-color

with the

first issue

homes by

"While this dramatic change

Bishop Peter, J. Jugis will participate

be used during the year to make a

NC CATHOLIC TO CONVERT TO MONTHLY MAGAZINE FORMAT RALEIGH (CNS) — NC Catholic, diocese, said the paper's "relationship

rive in

Episcopal calendar

will

PHOTO FROM L'OSSERVATORE ROMANO

shoulders of the pope and some archbishops.

will

St. Patrick

Wolff

order and warned

That's good wool

the newspaper of the Raleigh Diocese,

Jan. 31

ing the Vatican clandestinely in civilian clothes,

Sebastian

(828)-327-0487.

SALISBURY

St.

returning to Rome, Wolff ar-

For

will be the celebrant.

Planner at least 1 5 days prior to the event

Jan. 30

Upon

ranged to meet with the pope. After enter-

celebrated

Chapel of St. Aloysius Church, 92 1 Second

SALISBURY

told the church investigators.

(704) 639-9837.

panions

Bunch, sponsored by Immaculate Conception

first

said that in

with Hitler again in Germany. "I received a personal order from Hitler to kidnap Pope Pius XII," Wolff

offering a weekly Catholic Scripture

Study. Catholic Scripture

tion, call

128

N. Fulton St., celebrates a Charismatic and Healing Mass the first Sunday of each month at 4 p.m. Prayer and worship with prayer teams will be available at 3 p.m., and a potluck dinner will follow the Mass. Father John further information, call Bill

Wolff

him out of the idea. Then in 1944, as German forces were in retreat, Wolff met

(704) 797-8405.

Putnam, pastor, HICKORY

SS, or Nazi elite guard, in Italy.

first raised

Vatican, but his aides were able to talk

tator

church ex-

Friedrich Otto Wolff, head of the Waffen

can be a source of grace

Easter, is

monthly magaplanned to ar-

March

most

our diocesan publievolved continually over its history," said Father Joseph Vetter, who headed a publications committee to study the feasibility and desirability of converting the newspaper to a magazine format. Father Vetter, a former editor of the newspaper and former chancellor of the cation, the

NC Catholic has

being

ceased

weekly newspaper due to

rising costs."

While the magazine

27.

certainly the

when

with readers changed

will contain in-

formation on upcoming events, the diocese will utilize

its

new

Web

site,

now

under construction, for current news and events taking place in the diocese.

The late

site,

March,

scheduled to be online in

will

have

comprehensive

diocesan calendar and a regularly up-

dated "e-pistle," which will contain a combination of news items and scheduled events.

4 The Catholic News & Herald

January 28,

2005

AROUND THE DIOCESE ACROSS THE SPECTRUM

Father Tom Stott dies at 58 —

Father Tom Diocese of Char-

ALBANY, NY. Stott, a priest of the

lotte

on medical

was

leave, died at the

Hospital in Albany, N.Y., Jan.

18.

58.

Father Stott was pastor of St. Dorothy Church in Lincolnton until brought about his medical leave. He was residing at his family home in Albany. his failing health

Mass was

funeral

celebrated at

Francis de Sales Church in Albany Jan. 21. Burial followed in Our Lady of Angels Cemetery. Bishop Peter J. Jugis celebrated a memorial Mass for Father Stott at St.

St.

Dorothy Church

Father

Jan. 28.

Father Stott was ordained to the priesthood by then-Bishop Michael J. Begley at St. Ann Church in Charlotte on Oct. 15, 1983. His assignments

Winston-Salem, and pastor of

Stott

Joseph of the Hills Church in Eden, St. John Church in Waynesville and Holy Angels Church in Mount Airy. Father Stott was also a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War.

included assistant pastor at St. Ann Church and St. Leo the Great Church Photo by Joanita M. Nellenbach

Tom

St.

Father James Hawker, vicar for education for the Diocese of Charlotte, speaks at the parish catechetical leaders' retreat at the Catholic Conference Center

Hickory Jan.

3".

Catechists gather for reflection, inspiration at retreat by

JOANITA M. NELLENBACH

— 'The

tional ministry within the church,"

ther James

Hawker

campus

formation,

ministry and

RCIA

Fa-

"During the Year of the Eucharist,

schools,

evaluate your

ministry, youth

a great grace,"

Jugis said.

said.

Father Hawker, vicar for education for the Diocese of Charlotte, spoke during a one-day retreat for those involved in parish and

campus Catholic education

try,"

als like

spiritual reflection before-

Commenting on

the importance of

this,

dimension as the primary focus of their ministries. This is a way of responding to the need that their catechetical mintual

istries

His project included building a picnic area for the Charlotte school and staining and repairing an existing play structure.

Boy

Scouts.

from the Gospel of Matthew: "Matthew had to wrestle with problems, wrestle with reality, just as we do every day, in our jobs, with ourselves.

spirit

of the Lord

"The

year's readings

ture

help others to

Among is

make

Matthew's themes, he

cult: "Jesus,

Matthew

makes

very plain through

house of God."

cause

Father Hawker commented on

are

all in this

together."

Contact Correspondent Joanita

of a paralytic

mailjnell@4net.net.

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Parents

Can

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present in power and love," Father

so grateful for individu-

Hawker

call to

two or three

into this ministry."

Bishop Jugis spoke on the Year of the Eucharist, which runs until October, saying that, "The Eucharist is where our

"When

said.

Jesus said

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said,

is diffi-

that discipleship requires hu-

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We try to make sense out of reality and

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"The

re-

Matt, a junior at Weddington

mility, trust, zeal for the

he said, "All the minisof the church have to have the spiri-

tries

Jugis opened the

you who hear the Lord's

"Do

such retreats as

am most grateful for your minisBishop Jugis told more than 60

attendees.

come

spiritual practices

hand, read the readings."

the Catholic Conference Center Jan. 13.

Bishop Peter day's program.

own

regarding preparedness (for Mass), which is challenging when classes are sandwiched between Masses," Bishop

(Rite of Christian Ini-

of Adults) gathered together in one place for prayer, reflection and conversais

"Ecclesia de Eucharistia"

for prayer reflection.

tiation

tion

document

II's

Lutheran Preschool to earn the rank.

intensified for us."

bishop suggested that those in educational ministry use Pope John Paul

said.

"Having leaders from Catholic faith

the highest rank in

The

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After visiting Hayesville over the years, Moeller retired and he and

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Edgar Moeller

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activities.

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poverty really is in Clay County," he said. "You got to know (people) and how times were really tough here. One man told me he made 22 cents on an assembly line." It was the same pay Moeller had earned years earlier in that Depres-

Ed and Barbara were married 52 when she died of Alzheimer's

years

1999. Moeller continued volunteering.

disease in

Moeller is leaving Hayesville this for Atlanta to be close to his

"It's

—

Edward.

just part of being a Catholic

that you'll help the poor," he said.

seems to me that was sort of a requirement no matter where I went." His neighbors, all natives of the area, were "the best I've had in four states," he said. "Honest, hard-working, God-fearing people. They think family is the most important thing, and I think that's right. They're not chasing the almighty dollar." Moeller's greatest satisfaction,^ though, was to help wherever he could. "There is more reward," he said, "in doing for others than any money you earn in a profession or job." "It

"Ed(gar) has been our resident Catholic on the board and has made such a terrific contribution," said Rev. Rufus Stark, chair of the Hinton Rural Life Center (HRLC), a Methodist organization that provides housing and other services to the poor and elderly in and near Clay County and trains Methodist pastors. Mollie Stewart, HRLC staffer, said Moeller was the first person she met when she arrived in Clay County; she'll miss the hugs he gives her whenever they meet. "We feel so honored to have had him on our board and helping to extend services to Clay County," said Karen Borchers of United Way of Cherokee and Clay County. Judith Alvarado, executive director of REACH of Clay County, gave Moeller a plaque during the luncheon. "Ed has touched my heart and the hearts of many in REACH," she said. "I love you, we love you and we're going to miss you. You'd better stay in touch."

Moeller was a lector and usher at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church. He founded the local Meals on Wheels and the Elderly Neighbor program, which provided home repairs, visits and transportation for the elderly; was on the Southwest Regional

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WORD TO LIFE

A roundup

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SUNDAY SCRIPTURE READINGS:

Values of believers, nonbelievers in politics discussed in book, by panel where morals espoused by WASHINGTON — new taken account the

In his

Why

Gets It,"

Wrong

the Right

and the Left Doesn't Get

the Rev. Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourn-

magazine and founder of the Call to Renewal anti-poverty movement, argues

are

"Many

ers

that

it is

time for the religious values of a

broader cross section of Americans to have a role in the public sphere. His book begins with the observ ation

"many of

that

us feel that our faith has

been stolen, and

"How be

known

it's

time to take

did the faith of Jesus as pro-rich,

back."

come

pro-war and only

pro-American?" Rev. Wallis asks in the book. "What happened here? And how do we get back to a historic, biblical and genuinely evangelical faith rescued from

people do draw their moral

convictions from religion," Father Hehir said,

"but

many do

not."

value to those

who

don't share the reli-

Matthew

ourselves,

be amused crow about

—

most frightens

know

Who am

us.

ask

to be brilliant, gor-

geous, talented, fabulous?

who

"Actually,

You

their successes, but the appeal of the

short-lived.

—

ness, that

likes a showoff.

may momentarily

it is

Internet (and often incorrectly attrib-

DAN LUBY

athletes or politicians

braggart

For

false reticence

be a form of self-indulgence: by our good works including

uted to Nelson Mandela), writer Marianne Williamson expresses the idea eloquently: "It is our light, not our dark-'

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

when

itself

and justice and honesty and compassion that the Gospel becomes real for people. In a quote made famous through the

Shining lights serve as beacons

Nobody

can

don't

same temptation.

acts of charity

5:13-16

though, such

fact,

more imporwant to suc-

think they're

religious practices, of course, but also

Corinthians 2:1-5

3) Gospel:

to the

Psalm: 112:4-9

"I would structure debate always with morality as the mediating factor between religion and politics," he continued. The interests and claims of those who would impose their religious values

on the country must be justified and translated in ways that "shows their

cumb

2005

tant than others,

Isaiah 58:7-10

in public policy

but not simply on the basis of their connection to organized religion.

Fifth

Cycle A Readings:

religion

into

FEB.

who

people

Sunday in Ordinary Time Feb.

book, "God's Politics:

2005

January 28,

are

you not to be? Your playing

are a child of God.

small does not serve the world.

in-

...

gion."

stinctively that such behavior belies a

were born to make manifest the glory

Father Hehir gave the example of using religious justifications about war "religious claims can be used both to set limits or to expand the reasons for

sense of entitlement, of being exempt

God

—

from customary responsibilities of behavior and etiquette.

let

why

Sunday's Gospel,

sciously give other people permission to

waging war."

where Jesus urges us

to let our "light

do the same."

Rev. Wallis said the priest's proposal of using moral factors as a middle

ground between those who are religious and those who are not "is exactly right." don't believe religion has a

mo-

nopoly on morality in a pluralistic sociWallis said. "We can't allow that." And in some ways, he said, religious people must be "disciplined by democracy. can't say 'this must happen because I'm a Baptist and that's what we

Maybe

that's

shine before others so they

may

that

some of us,

it is

own

our

see your

good deeds and glorify the heavenly Father," makes many of us uncomfortable. Having been turned off by the spiritual showboating and self-promotion of

within

in everyone.

light shine,

And as we we uncon-

the conversion season of Lent ap-

proaches,

may we

embody

to generosity,, humility in

not just

us. It is

and

Christ's call

reconciliation

our relationships with others that our daily lives.

his

light shines forth in

ety,"

WEEKLY SCRIPTURE

contemporary distortions?" At a Jan. 1 8 forum hosted in Washington on faith and politics, Rev. Wallis

believe.'"

noted that a bumper sticker distributed by Sojourners during the past election read, "God is not a Republican or a Democrat."

was commemorated with a federal holiday the day before the Brookings event, provided perhaps the best model for

its

...

"When

God

either party tries to politicize

or co-opt religious communities for

their political agendas,, they

mistake," he said. religion

make

a terrible

predictable nor loyally partisan."

He said that God's politics are "never partisan or ideological. But it challenges everything about our poliby reminding people of those neglected by politics the poor, the vulnerable and others left behind. "God's politics challenge narrow national, ethnic, economic or cultural selfinterest, reminding us of a much wider world and the creative human diversity ''of all those made in the image of the tics,"

—

Creator," said Rev. Wallis.

remind us of the creation itself, a rich environment in which we are called to be good stewards, not mere users, consumers and exploiters," he

politics

said.

Father

Bryan Hehir, secretary

social services in the

for

Archdiocese of Bos-

that while he agrees with

many

said

points in

Monday, Genesis

said,

Rev. King spoke, Rev. Wallis

"we knew who

Isaiah

was and who

religion

He proposed

middle ground,

(Fifth

Wednesday), after

Sunday

1:1-19,

in the process."

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2005

FROM THE COVER But confusing the church

Christians in Iraq

still

afraid,

being an

in Iraq as

especially to the Chaldeans," said

Chaldean Catholics,

life

for

everyone. "Christians live like Iraq,

all

people in

the majority of Iraq's Christians, "resent

certain fundamentalist groups see the

ern because they are original inhabitants"

church as a symbol or reflection of the Western world or when they assume church members are collaborators with

in Iraq,

Filoni, the apos-

are even

worried;

it's

understandable

the church finds itself in double the culty,"

diffi-

he said Jan. 18 between meetings

with Vatican

Syrian-rite

officials.

Basile

Iraq, said

18 that Christians feel unsafe be-

cause "the U.S. soldiers deployed in vari-

ous parts of the country, and

whom

local inhabitants see as occupants,

the

have

helped create a negative image of Christianity

among

people of other

West-

dating back to "before the time of

Mohammed

and the coming of Islam,"

Msgr. Stern

said Jan. 2 1 in

Rome.

said religious, priests

Mosul have

Christians in

faiths."

Anti-Christian campaign But not everyone interprets the violence against Christians and their churches as being just part of the general chaos or as a confused sense of the enemy. Dominican Father Mikhael Najib told Vatican Radio from Iraq Jan. 18 that "there is a true campaign under way

faced

and lay numer-

ous threats that have escalated in number and intensity as the Jan. 30 date for scheduled elections in Iraq neared.

Mosul,

northern Iraq, is home to pro-Syrian groups.

many Kurds and Certain

Muslim

factions

were appar-

way

ently threatening Christians as a

pressure them "to not align themselves

with either the pro-Syrian (groups) or the Kurds," Father Najib

Archbishop

Georges Casmoussa of Mosul, Jan.

"But given these attacks, Christians

the idea they are being identified as

the U.S.-led occupying forces.

they have the same worries," said

Archbishop Fernando tolic nuncio to Iraq.

who make up

Unwanted connections The added difficulty comes when

IRAQ, from page 1

the reigning chaos have altered

Msgr.

Robert L. Stern, secretary-general of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association.

despite reassurances

against Christians."

arm of the West "is very offensive,

said.

vote or not

Most

Catholic leaders in Iraq and

want the

especially the Vatican

Jan.

elections for a transitional National

30 As-

sembly to go ahead as scheduled. Archbishop Casmoussa told Vatican Radio he did not think this was "the right

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spoke after unidentified him less than 24 hours after kidnapping him Jan. 17. But Archbishop Filoni said the vote "will be carried out," even though it will not be held "in a normal situation." Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said violence will prevent pockets of Irainsecurity.

Iraqis released

qis

from voting.

Whether

the poll results should be

considered valid

large

numbers of

people do not vote "will need to be seen

according to

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(the voting process)

carried out," Archbishop Filoni said. Latin-rite

Archbishop Jean Sleiman

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lem," said the

official.

Vying for control than 62 percent of

population

Iraq's

Muslim, while 34 Sunni Muslim, a different is

Shiite

percent is branch of Islam.

Under Saddam, power was generhands of the Sunni minority, while Shiite institutions were under strict control, and the mostly Sunni Kurds in the North were persecuted in their drive for autonomy. A political struggle between Sunni and Shiite groups after elections could pose a real threat to Christians, Archbishop Sleiman said. "The real danger is in the division. If the Sunni don't share in elections, it will be sure to cause problems," he said. Sunnis "have to be more realistic. They have to share power; they cannot have it again like before," he said. Whether elections will lead toward a ally in the

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January 28,

Perspectives

collection of columns,

and viewpoints

editorials

2005

The writing on the wall of water Did God have a role in the disaster/ The

Leave the

phone in

cell

Dec. 26 tsunami was more a

"wall of water" than a wave. Is there

more than 160,000

It also raises in

Mass

the

people,

left

than 2 million homeless and destroyed property to an extent never seen before. question:

How

wise and loving

Focus should be on God, nothing else

many

the minds of

this

could an all-powerful,

God

let

something

happen?

this

God

world

in the

They

are so annoying.

Adam

For countless ages from

and

Eve to the early 1990s, human beings managed to exist in various conditions of peril, demand and activity without being in constant telephonic contact with one another. So why in the world does everybody from CEOs to teenagers have to be constantly yak, yak, yakking about everything and nothing? Recently I came back from a trip. In an airport these days, you would think that you have suddenly been transported to a giant mental hospital, a traveling Bedlam. People sit on benches and in snack bars talking into tiny microphones concealed on their persons, but

many

they look like so

schizophrenics

talking to themselves.

When

the plane lands people

phone

the obligatory three

calls:

make

One is

say, 'Yeah, I've just

landed in Atlanta" or wherever; the second, as they wait for their bags,

"Now we

to say,

for the bags"; the third call

going to the

car,

I'll

call

are waiting

is,

"Now

I'm

you from the car."

that question, but

Parish

mind. Letting

might

Diary J.

have a better solution. Leave the cell phone in the car. You don't need it. Some things are more important than your phone call. Church is one of them. Of course, some people, such as doc-

sooner was

emergency medical workers, police officers and firefighters have to be on call. They can put the phone on "vibrate" mode and go outside to answer when

summoned.

The

"My

rest of us should

pay attention

middle of the eucharistic prayer or homily.

Likewise, their

"full

and

active" par-

means no phones. There's a spiritual principle here. need to be fully present to God and to each other. cannot always be thinking that something else, somewhere else is always more important ticipation

we are with and the we are in. Most of these calls can wait. Hang

than the person situation

up the phone, and now. Please God.

live life in the

here and

boyfriend," she said, pointing

don't care,"

said,

Why

do most people even bring them to church? The whole idea of prayer, whether communal or private, is annoying.

lift our God. Last Good Friday one woman got no fewer than three phone calls in the middle

that

put other things aside to

hearts and

minds

of the service of the passion of our Lord.

many

parishes these days, our

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and are subject

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the writer for purpose of verification. Letters

ity,

from

taste.

for publication,

people to turn off their

Mark

9:24, "Lord,

believe; help

my unbelief" Was God there when

We will, disaster

everywhere. So, yes, God was there when the fateful waters rolled. Did God cause this disaster to

happen? then, didn't

God

prevent

suspect, dutifully

pay our

and permissive wills of God, acknowledging that God did not strike, a natural disaster did.

Why and to what purpose, then, did God, the Creator of all things natural, who

Who can say? Who knows the mind of God?

God

it?

can't say

from happening?

nature.

respects to the distinction between the

permit

No.

Why,

human

positive

struck?

God

share the same

We might now be more inclined to share

and don't know anyone

can.

Depending on the quality and quanof our response worldwide, we might come to see ourselves as somehow tity

trying to

Maybe. The message,

tell

us something?

better off for the experience: larger of

faith

assures us,

would be one of love. Love for the victims, who, our faith would want to persuade us, somehow were swept with baptismal force into the arms of a waiting, welcoming Creator. Love also for surely

the rest of us survivors worldwide,

who

heart,

fully

human, participants

human

a consciousness of

never

known

solidarity

before.

But the evidence

for that will

have to

be measurable. It will have to become visible in terms of peace, justice, eco-

nomic development and love

for

one an-

response to God's love can now show ourselves to possess a faith, hope and

other.

love strong enough to sustain the gener-

the contrary in our world that hope

osity, resourcefulness

and commitment needed to rebuild South Asia. We can work for a safer future by taking steps to provide a tsunami early warning system for the Indian

strained and faith

Ocean similar

St. Basil the Great said, "Sin is the misuse of powers given us by God for doing good." How we use our power now has something to say about the prospects for our own salvation.

to that

now

available

There

now

much

evidence to is

stretched.

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Catholic Church? (Ohio)

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my side of the globe can begin thinking of ourselves more frequently and consistently as global citizens with responsibilities toward

our wealth and technology without diluting culture here or there, and certainly without dominating those who are down.

Mass. People and priest celebrate the Mass together. The congregation would not

to the phone. "I

out here into print

issues,

find

to the

settled in

someone's dinner plans or business affairs, when the phone rang for the woman across the aisle. I shot her a withering gaze.

slip

greatest natural disaster we've ever seen

tors,

Ocean.

Those of us on

thou

the seat, contemplating freedom from

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whom we

Jesus in

body, hand-to-ear or just babbling in the

refuge there.

some

has been on

myself repeating the words the father of the possessed boy spoke to

want the Mass interrupted by the priest stopping to answer his phone in the

These were not the homeless. These were the "connected." The train going up to New York had a "quiet car" where you were not supposed to talk on the phone. I took

not disqualify anyone from the community of believers, but in the face of the I

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Does life really need such play-byplay commentary? Recently I got off the subway in New York. Coming toward me on the sidewalk was a phalanx of people. Every single one of them was talking to someair.

clarify

confuse a believing mind.

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FATHER WILLIAM BYRON, SJ

in the Pacific

don't pretend to be able to answer

Around

sending a message to the harsh language of this di-

saster? Cell phones!

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2005

January 28,

The politics Catholics must

'turn

of abortion

up the heat' to make changes

working

special assistant for public policy in

In the late 1980s while

East Coast diocesan Catholic Charities office, I experienced a "baptism of fire" in the politics of abortion. During that time I worked with a small but dedicated group of pro-life advocates to pass state legislation requiring parental or guardian permission before a minor girl could

Making a Difference

There's no getting around it: have got to turn up the heat! Stay in touch with your state Catholic conference. Learn about the pro-life bills they are promoting. And regularly write, e-mail or call your state legislators urging their full support. I recently spoke with Richard Doerflinger, deputy director of pro-life activities for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, to find out what legislation is likely to be introduced this session of Congress. He said the "Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act," if

would

require abortion providers to inform women seeking an abortion that an unborn child of 20 weeks and possibly younger passed,

TONY MAGLIANO

—

CNS COLUMNIST

when

And

receive an abortion.

feels

Because minors usually need parental/guardian permission just to get their ears pierced, one would think that passing a law requiring similar permission for a surgical abortion would be a breeze. Not so. In the struggle to protect unborn babies, minors and parental rights, common

thesia could be given to the child

The overwhelming and

ing

propagated by Planned Parenthood and the city's leading newspaper, our little force fought back with a campaign

contacted

pastors, asking

them

all

the Catholic

to encourage their

parishioners to get actively involved.

We prayed. We wrote articles. We met

much from

favored the

much.

Many

they were not hear-

constituents

who

dered brutally through abortion every day. Parental rights will be weakened, and vulnerable women will be harmed physically, emotionally and spiritually through the lie of abortion.

—

who

stitutional attorney

Americans United

—

Politics

flew in from Chicago a con-

represented

for Life to testify be-

fore the entire state Legislature.

when

comes

like abortion.

hurt.

that anes-

for Life

Doerflinger also mentioned the "Child Custody Protection Act." This bill would make it illegal for adults to transport minor girls across state lines for an abortion in an effort to avoid home state

rough game, especially

to highly divisive issues

Way

back

in the '80s,

learned that most politicians do not see the light until they feel the heat.

Please contact your two U.S. senators and congressperson, urging them to support the above federal legislation actively.

And

don't forget

the president! After his recent re-election,

George Bush

said he

a lot of "political capital,"

had earned and that he

intended to use it. Let's turn up the heat on him as well, and insist that he spend a significant amount of that capital on the unborn. (The White House comment desk's phone: 202-456-11 1 1; fax: 202-456-2461).

a strange combination of sorrow and joy

The sorrow comes because we commemorate a Supreme Court decision that, although

authencontinues to allow the destruction of more than a million children a year. Yet the joy comes because we gather with thousands of other pro-life activists, proudly taking part in the greatest human rights cause of our day, and we know that our cause it

lacks

all

tic validity,

While

by step, incrementally, toward the protection of every life, it is equally

Guest

necessary to clearly and frequently

where we want to go: to the protection of every life, without articulate

Column

The children conceived in rape and incest must have equal protection. The children of mothers with

exception.

FATHER FRANK PAVONE

medically complicated pregnancies

must have equal protection.

GUEST COLUMNIST

will prevail.

important to march, we should also understand that the March it is

is, at its core, an educational about the "Life Principles." Miss Nellie Gray, founder and president of March for Life, has always stressed this point and I want to re-echo it.

for Life effort

The

Life Principles express, in a

succinct way, the absolute inviolability of every physical human life, and the fact that such a life has a right to protection regardless of the circumstances of its

conception.

The

—

Life Principles are

about equality the equality of the born with the unborn, the healthy with the sick, the strong with the weak, the adult with the embryo.

One

of the Life Principles states, 'The life of each human being shall be preserved and protected from that hu-

man

being's biological beginning

when

father's sperm mother's ovum."

the

fertilizes

the

This formulation protects us from

some play when they re-define "conception" or speak in abstract terms about their philoso_phy of when a human being becomes a person. The fact is that every biological, living human being is a human person. The March for Life, as an educational effort, has a theme every year, and this year's theme emphasized that it is the duty of each American to uphold the Life Principles without exception or compromise. Our duty to these children is absolute and admits no exceptions. Althe linguistic tricks

though

pope says at audience The Pope

Speaks

before the abortion.

A sad day each year The March

trust in God,

—Iff

I' II

I II

POPE

JOHN PAUL

protective laws.

bill.

American Catholics are aroused to the point of passionate action, 4,000 unborn babies will continue to be mur-

with every legislator.

And we

lost.

Until the consciences of millions of

counter the powerful campaign

of truth.

majority of clergy

laity just didn't care

legislators told

sense was out.

should have won, but

lost because of Catholic apathy.

pain

Repeated call to be saved shows

legitimate to

work

step

In an excellent analysis of the legitimacy of the incremental approach, Angel Rodriguez Luno, professor of moral theology at Rome's Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, wrote, "the absolute personal opposition to abortion on the part of the lawmaker [must be made]] known to all, thus preventing any confusion or scandal." Leaders in the pro-life movement must, with even greater reason, avoid the scandal that can unintentionally arise if people think that we are granting moral legitimacy to even a

single abortion.

We are not; we never can. The sad commemoration January

that comes every good time to reaffirm

Even in misery, we can count on the Lord, says pope by

CINDY

WOODEN

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY

— The

prayer,

"O Lord, save me," repeated in the Psalms, in the New Testament and in the lives of modern believers is an acknowledgment that God is the only one who can save people, Pope John Paul II said. "Authentic trust always sees God as love, even if at times we find it difficult to understand fully his actions," the pope said Jan. 26 at his weekly general audience. During the gathering in the Vatican audience hall, Pope John Paul looked at the "deadly nightmare" described in Psalm 116 and in the psalmist's praise for God who heard him and saved him. In the psalm, "the image is that of a prey caught in the trap of an inescapable hunter," the pope said. Risking death, the psalmist also experiences "psychological pain" and says, "I fell into distress and sorrow." "But from that tragic abyss a cry was launched toward the only one who could extend a hand and snatch the anguished supplicant from that inextricable tangle," the pope said.

The

psalmist cried, "O Lord, save

me," and the Lord, "invoked with faith, extended his hand, cut the ropes that

bound the

tears in his eyes

supplicant, dried the

and stopped

his pre-

cipitous slide into the hellish abyss,"

the pope said.

The psalmist "returns to the land of the living," praising God for his loving tenderness, he said. The pope

said the

psalm reminds

believers that "in misery and aban-

that fact.

donment one can always count on the Father Pavone of Priests for

Life.

the national director

Lord, the father of orphans and the defender of widows."

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January 28,

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WARNING BEFORE THE WAVES

Indian bishop says earthquake before tsunamis was 'God's alarm' by

ANTO AKKARA

they were lucky to survive.

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ful

But,

when

the water receded after

PORT BLAIR, India — The power-

four days, 28 bodies that could not be

Indian Ocean earthquake that pre-

the village's 50 families were missing.

ceded the tsunamis was "God's alarm," said Bishop Aleixo das Neves Dias of Port Blair, which encompasses India's

Andaman and Nicobar

where

Islands

more than 7,500 people were

believed to

have died.

"God has mysterious ways of communicating with his people. I feel that the earthquake was God's alarm," Bishop Dias told Catholic News Service in a Jan. 22 interview. Most of the islanders who escaped the gigantic waves that flooded the islands "were alerted

flat

by the earthquake,"

the bishop said.

Bishop Dias visited the Triad-area of the Diocese of Charlotte in August 2004 as part of a missionary trip.

"We were

getting ready to go to ,

church (Dec. 26) when the earthquake began," recounted Rajini Tirkey, a Catholic housewife from Campbell Bay,

near the southernmost tip of the

Andaman

Islands.

CNS when

meet Bishop Dias and

came

she

collect rosaries for

her children.

watching the sea while the

women and

children from Catholic families in the village got together to pray.

"When they saw the huge waves coming, they shouted, and all of us ran to the jungle," recalled Tirkey.

she and her three children,

were submerged when the waves overtook them twice, Tirkey said ages 6 to

Tirkey said her house "has become You can go and fish there now." "Besides our houses, there is no trace of our church, too," added Tirkey, who was airlifted by the Indian Air Force to Port Blair a week after the disaster. Some other Campbell Bay residents like M. John, his wife and seven chillive in a relief camp at a Catholic dren school in Port Blair. "It is God's blessing we are alive today. Had the earthquake not been there, we would have rushed out of the houses, and the sea would have swallowed us," said John, a government contractor who said the tsunamis had left sea.

—

him

a pauper.

John's house disappeared into the sea,

while the 4,000 coconut trees in his

submerged

14-acre grove are ter

and soon

"We

seawa-

will decay.

We do not do next," said John, while

are penniless now.

know what

children from the bishop's

John and Bishop Dias'

office.

wife hoped to get help: John's name was his

missing in the government gees, although the family

Sensing danger, the men kept

Though

were found; other members of

his wife left to collect clothing for their

"Soon there were craters all around, and water started flushing out like fountains," said told

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Inside the camp, John spends the day reading newspapers and meeting every government official who visits. He is eager to find out the government's compensation and rehabilitation plans for the tsunami victims.

said that following a powerful

1982

earthquake the government did not keep

promise to compensate the

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islanders.

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Kanniyakumari, located on the most southern

"The fact that the government is not even prepared to admit the actual casualty figures

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