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2000

17,

Number 28

Serving Catholics

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Western North Carolina

the Diocese of Charlotte

With 'mea culpa/ pope culminates church's examination of conscience

Embracing Stewardship Regional workshop highlights giving of time, talent, treasure

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Qv JOHN irtUM TUAWIC By THAVIS News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Paul II made an unprecedented apology for the sins of Christians through the ages, the culmination of Catholic

—

the church's "examination of con-

more than a

science" for the jubilee year.

saint for party

culpa"

...Page

The

pope's long-awaited "mea 12 was echoed by local

March

churches in the United States and elsewhere and generally welcomed by non-Catholics around the world.

The pope's idea of a day of atonement, which met some resistance even Living the Faith

inside the Vatican, was designed to acknowledge shortcomings in the

Philadelphia prepares to honor a saint of

its

own

church's past, in order to give Cathosense of reconciliation and make future evangelization more credible. lics a

...Page

"We

forgive and we ask forgiveness!" the pope said during a historic

Lenten liturgy in St. Peter's Basilica. seven top Vatican officials pronounced a "request for pardon" for

Local News

He and

sins against Christian unity, the use

Getting to the bottom of

of violence

Teen Summit 2000 ...Page

Bringing

and wrongs

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abortion against society's weakest members. The pope said the church has had like

many

saints, but some of its members have shown disobedience to God and inconsistency with the faith in the past and present. "For the part that each of us, with his behavior, has had in these evils that have disfigured the face of the church,

biblical

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women to life

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serving the truth, hostility toward Jews and other religions, the marginalization of women, in

we humbly ask forgiveness," he said. Pronouncing the apology for Christian intolerance in the past was

CNS

photo from Reuters

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger lights a lamp symbolizing one of the seven petitions for forgiveness at the jubilee "request for pardon" service in St. Peter's Basilica March 12. Pope John Paul II solemnly asked for pardon for the past and present sins of Christians during the service. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which was created more

than 450 years ago under a different to run the Inquisition. "Even men of the church, in the name of faith and morals, have sometimes used methods not in keeping with the Gospel in the solemn duty of defending the truth," the cardinal said. Other Vatican officials expressed

name

regret for actions by Christians that have aggravated ecumenical divisions, increased discrimination

against minority and ethnic groups, "humiliated and marginalized" women, and shown contempt for local

cultures and religious traditions.

The pope called for "genuine brotherhood" between Christians and Jews, telling Jewish people that "we are deeply saddened by the behavior of those who in the course of history have caused these children of yours to suffer." At the conclusion of the apology .

pope embraced and kissed the crucifix and, in a final blessing, declared that "never again" should such sins be committed. Thousands of people attended the service, packing the basilica and watching on giantliturgy, the

screen

TV in See

the square outside.

"MEA CULPA,"

page

Network helps Greensboro families find their way home By

ALESHA

Entertainment

M. PRICE

Staff Writer

GREENSBORO

Pages 10-11

—

In the early-

Karen Olson felt compelled to give a sandwich to a homeless woman in a subway station in New York. After she talked to the woman and learned about her life, she and her two sons began delivering sandwiches in and around New York and New Jersey. When area churches became aware of Olson's efforts, that is how '80s,

Editorials

& Columns Pages 12-13

The Season of Lent "Living Lent is a matter of attitude"

A column by Father Trrrance Hyland, O.S.A.

the first Interfaith Hospitality Netto be formed in October

work came 1986 ity

New

Jersey.

The National Interfaith HospitalNetwork (NIHN) was later orga-

nized, which oversees the approximately 73 local networks throughout

the country. One of those 73 networks includes a group of Greensboro churches the Greensboro Interfaith Hospitality Network (GIHN) all trying to help homeless families in that area to find their own shelter from the storm. "This is a grass roots organization in which churches pair together to provide housing for families and provide transportation for them and their belongings to and from the host church," explained Jeanie Roberts-

—

GIHN director. GIHN beea n in

Wyatt, the

The

October

1999 to accommodate up to 14 people, or about five families, in a rotating schedule with the host churches using their facilities for five

weeks during the

The network was created through the efforts of Bruce Bergen, now, the president of the GIHN Board of Trustees, and a parishioner of St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Greensboro. He attended a meeting with members who wanted to start a local network, and because of his prior ecumenical work, he and others went to churches to pitch the idea. "The churches are not shelters but are' safe places. We aren't just feeding them; we are having dinner with them and trying to bring some hope to their lives," said Bergen. "For year.

the people of the churches, this puts a gentler face on homelessness because

See INTERFAITH, page

The Catholic News & Herald

March

The World

Brief

Two-year minimum wage hike has church support, but veto likely

WASHINGTON

—

(CNS)

as the California Catholic Conference,

were "saddened," however, by passage of a measure extending the circumstances under which the said they

has the support of Catholic Charities USA and other church organizations, but President Clinton said he would veto it because the bill includes business tax cuts. The House approved a two-step $1 increase in tbe hourly minimum wage to $6.15 in a March 9 vote of 282-143. The Senate has approved $1 wage boost over three years and different tax cuts. Organizations including Catholic Charities

death penalty is warranted. On another crime issue, the state's Catholic Charities consortium voiced regrets at the voters' decision to have more juvenile offenders tried and sentenced as adults "while allocating nothing for programs to prevent juvenile crime." Pakistani official confirms

notice on blasphemy cases

TOBA TEK SINGH,

Pakistan of Pakistan's National Security Council has confirmed a government notice that no blasphemy case will be registered without proper inquiry. Local papers reported council member Attyia Inayatullah said deputy district commissioners have been ordered not to register cases of blasphemy against the prophet Mohammed or the Koran

crease instead of the Senate version's

House

action.

Religious leaders urge moratorium on federal executions

—

WASHINGTON

(CNS) Repmore than 30 church-

based groups joined in a plea to President Clinton to impose a moratorium on use of the death penalty by the federal government. In a March 9 letter, religious leaders told President Clinton that "our nation is slowly realizing the truth of capital punishment: the death penalty, as applied in America today, threatens to shed innocent blood." It was signed by leaders of Baptist, Quaker, Episcopal, Lutheran, Greek Orthodox, Jewish,

United Church of

Presbyterian,

Christ and Methodist organizations, among others. Columban Father Michael Dodd, director of the Justice and Peace Office of the Columban Fathers was among the signers. Israeli officials pledge to keep politics out of papal visit

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ROME

(CNS) After meeting with Pope John Paul II, Israeli offipledged to keep politics out of the pontiff s Holy Land visit and called on Palestinians to do the same. "I hope that politics will not shadow what is a very important spiritual and religious visit," Haim Ramon, a Cabinet minister in charge of government planning for the trip, told reporters at a Rome press conference March 10. "I want to thank the cials

HERALD

March Volume 9

17,

2000

Number 28

•

Most Reverend William G. Joann S. Keane

Publisher: Editor:

Associate Editor: Staff Writer:

AleshaM. Price

CNS PHOTO COURTESY ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY

Scrolls This ancient fragment of text contains commentary on the biblical verses of Hosea 2:8-14. It is part of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in 1947 in the Judean desert. Fifteen of the texts, believed to be the earliest surviving copies of the books of the Old Testament, are on display at the Field

Museum

Chicago through June

Vatican, which is doing its best to make sure this visit is not used by anyone for political purposes. I hope the Palestinians will respect this. It is not just our request, but the request of the pope."

Don't just forgive debt, reorder

economies as

well,

WASHINGTON

says priest

(CNS)

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Ex-

ternal debts of poor countries should

be forgiven, but a reordering of the world's economy is also needed, said a priest serving in Bolivia. Debts of poor countries should be forgiven "for moral reasons, but it's not going to change things in the end," said Oblate Father Gregorio Iriarte, author and specialist in Catholic social justice.

Episcopal. calendar ,

Bishop William G. Curlin will take part in the following events:

accusations should be punished.

Father Iriarte spoke March 3 in Washington. "The problem of external debt

related to the deterioration

of commercial relations," said the priest. "The raw materials produced by the Third World are every day cheaper in relation to the intermediate products the people have to buy. So if what you produce is worth less every

day and what you have to buy worth more, obviously that's going

lead to debt," Father Iriarte said.

Bishops praise support for traditional definition of marriage

SACRAMENTO,

Calif.

(CNS)

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California's Catholic bishops praised

voters for approving a measure March 7 that defines marriage as a

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17,

March 21

— 7 pm Confirmation

Our Lady of the Annunciation, Albermarle March 25 Journeys to Justice Retreat St.

Gabriel, Charlotte

5:30 pm Confirmation Immaculate Conception, Forest City March 28 6:30 pm Diocesan School Board

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Mass and Meeting Pastoral Center, Charlotte

March 29 Priest personnel meeting

West

team of people involved in Catholic Renewal are presenting the mission and its theme "A Life in the Spirit," beginning this morning at Sun. Masses at 8:45 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. and continuing tonight at 7 p.m. Rev. Mr. Ron Steinkamp, permanent deacon at St. Pius X Church in Greensboro, is preAve.

senting the mission at the Masses. The mission will continue through March 21 at 7 p.m. For details, call Doris Blase at (336) 629-7478.

20 CHARLOTTE

— To learn more

about techniques and tools that can be used to help people through a meaningful death, St. Gabriel Church, 3016 Providence Rd., is hav-

Maryland bishops support Spanish translation for courts bill BALTIMORE (CNS) Concerned that Spanish-speaking Mary-

—

land residents are- not always given equal access to the state's justice sys-

tem, Maryland's Catholic bishops want the General Assembly to support a bill that would help eliminate the language barrier in the court system. S.B. 741 would require Maryland courts to provide certified language interpreters for Spanish speakers who are not proficient in English.

The

bill

would prohibit

a state de-

partment, agency or program from denying public services or discriminating against a person based on lan-

guage ing

ability.

workshop

Rights:

How

Care

entitled "Final for People in the

Last Phases of Life." The morning session, designed for professionals, lasts from 9 a.m.-noon with registration at 8:30 a.m. The afternoon session for family and friends lasts from 1-4 p.m. with registration at 12:30 p.m. Call the church office at (704) 364-5431 for

information.

HIGH POINT

— Immaculate Heart

of Mary Church, 512 Montlieu Ave., is having its annual Parish Lenten Renewal featuring Tom Kendzia, a composer and lecturer. Beginning tonight at 7:30 p.m., Kendzia is leading an

evening of song and reflection. Continuing through March 22 at 7:30 p.m., the renewal also includes a reconciliation service and a Eucharistic cel-

For more information, call Garrett at (336) 884-5212.

ebration.

Wanda

GREENSBORO

—

The

Franciscan Center is having a "Chrism Day of Reflection" today from 1 1 a.m.-2 p.m. with Mass fol-

March

17,

2000

The Catholic News & Herald 3

Around the Diocese By JOANITA M.

NELLENBACH at the

Correspondent

FRANKLIN

— Stewardship.

that each parish form a stewardship committee under the parish council. The stewardship committee would be responsible for helping the parish to be

It's

not just about money. That was the message to 20-plus parishioners of the Smoky Mountain Vicariate at the Charlotte Diocese's

aware of stewardship through

Regional Stewardship Day 11. Barbara Rohrman, the

first

diocese's associate director of devel-

event.

Rohrman at least

spiritually motivated; exemplify stewardship in their own lives; envision where stewardship can take the and have personal qualities such as accountability, optimism and

parish;

Embracing stewardship

said she hopes to hold

Regional workshop highlights giving of

two more regional steward-

ship days in other areas of the diocese.

time, talent, treasure

help parishes promote stewembrace stewardship as a

ardship, to

way of life," Rohrman said. "Too ofwhen I come into a parish to do a workshop like this, people get out ten,

their wallets, or (the pastor) brings

the finance council for

to talk to."

There's much more to Christian stewardship than that, she added. The Charlotte Diocese formed the Office of Development in 1986. Its

primary responsibility educate, encourage, and

to "help

people in the diocese to use their gifts of time, talent, and treasure so that they may assist

grow

spiritually." Charlotte was ahead of the game in another way. In

1989, it created a stewardship manual, one of the first dioceses in the country to have such a publication. In 1992, the bishops of the United States were asked to address the church's diminishing resources.

The

Gone tor did

are the days

The

it all.

when

phasizes that stewardship

not optional. Everyone

em-

integral,

called to be

involved.

Motivations to give time and talent, as well as treasure, range from fear to gratitude, Rohrman said. Fear is at the bottom of the ladder. Next above fear is reward: giving to get

something

Then comes soapproval ("I'll let people know what I did so they can appreciate how in return.

cial

good I am"). Need is next: People give

to those the need is over, the giving stops. Nearer to the top is sac-

in need, but

calls

upon

all

Christians to

The letter does not talk about money, but rather, describes stew-

who

when

—

rifice giving until it hurts. Some people give and give and then tell

a talk by Franciscan Father Louis Canino, director of the center. To make a reser-

16,

call

Mary

Violante at (336) 282-4099. 24 HICKORY "Rachel's Vineyard Retreat: A Journey of Post-Abortion Healing" is taking place at the Catho-

—

Conference Center, 1551 Trinity Lane, this weekend. This retreat, fa-

lie

by Dr. Martha Shuping, psychiatrist and pastoral minister, and Debbie Woodhams, licensed professional counselor and president of cilitated

Transfiguration Ministries, focuses on a biblical healing process based on Dr. Burke's book "Rachel's Vineyard." The weekend includes discussions, prayer, living Scripture exercises, private letter writing and a memorial

For more information, Dr. Shuping at (336) 659-1342.

service.

MAGGIE VALLEY

— Living

ters Catholic Reflection Center,

call

Wa10S

Living Waters Lane, is having a spetoday through March 26

cial retreat

must

But,

is to be a real align the giver with

Jesus.

The top reason for stewardship is gratitude giving until it feels good,

—

until you feel good about your giving, whether of time, talent or treasure. "Proportionate giving," rather

than tithing, is what the Charlotte Diocese prefers, Rohrman said, giving in proportion to what the person has been given. "And only you know what you've been given," she added. "Perhaps you've been given more time than others. Some people have been gifted with more talent. Stewardship is

something we plan. It's intentional, as in, 'I'll spend three hours this week working at the soup kitchen,' rather than, 'If I have any time left, I'll work

Weekday Mass attendance

in-

creased.

if it

"Perhaps you've been given more time than others. Some people have been gifted with more talent. Stewardship is something

plan.

intentional, as

spend three hours this week working at the soup kitchen,' rather than, 'If have any time left, I'll work at the soup kitchen'."

all that God has given them. "These linked realities, discipleship and stewardship, then make up the fabric of a Christian life in which each day is lived in an inti-

March

said, it

hurt.

fully into

•

Bible study groups increased.

In 1990 the parish had no prayer group; now it has five. •

• Invited to participate in community outreach programs, more

than 60 parishioners committed to a six-week seminar, "Moving Faith into Action," and are now involved in ministry to the hungry, elderly and

immigrants. Attendees

at the Regional Stewardship Day were eager to get involved in their own parishes. "She gave us a lot of good ideas," said Carole Johnson of St. William Church. "We're just getting started in stewardship. She gave us a lot of food for thought." Dan Lange is already involved in stewardship as a lector, lector chair-

mem-

ber of the pastoral council at St. Francis of Assisi. "I just thought it

joy-

lowed by lunch and

She said that moving

stewardship can take a parish seven to 10 years, but the results are worth it. Rohrman shared the example of Our Lady of the Assumption parish in Charlotte. Some of the fruits of its stewardship efforts are:

man, eucharistic minister and

fully appreciate

vation by

Rohrman sacrifice,

em-

brace stewardship.

ards as disciples of Jesus,

everyone how much

the pas-

bishops' letter

creativity.

•

mate, personal relationship with the Lord," it says.

bishops drafted a pastoral letter, "Stewardship: A Disciple's Response,"

which

a pro-

gram guided by an annual plan. Members of the committee would be

March

opment, spoke to representatives from Immaculate Heart of Mary, Hayesville; Our Lady of the Mountains, Highlands; St. Joseph, Bryson City; St. Margaret, Maggie Valley; St. William, Murphy; and St. Francis of Assisi, Franklin, which hosted the

soup kitchen'."

Rohrman suggested

It's

in, I'll

was wonderful

to have this workshop," he said. "So many people in the

parish want to do things, but they don't know who to ask." *

— Barbara Rohrman,

associate director

For more information about stewRohrman at the Office of

ardship, contact

of development for the diocese

Development, (704)370-3302 or e-mail stewardship@charlottediocese.org.

women, entitled "Women Healing and Being Healed." In the context of prayer, dialogue and personal reflecfor

age

tion, the focus

Ballantyne Commons Pkwy, today from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The speakers in-

of the retreat is on the unique role women enjoy as healers in relationships, the gifts women bring and those they often fail to accept. The facilitator and presenter is Dr. Patricia Kelly, counseling psycholo-

and mother of 12. For registration and other information, call the center at (828) 926-1997. gist, therapist

25 ASHEVILLE

— The

Basilica of St.

Lawrence, 97 Haywood St., is having a "Day of Retreat and Prayer" today, starting with 8 a.m. at 3:30 p.m.

The

Mass and ending

spirituality of St.

Louis Marie de Montford is being featured in the morning, and the revelations to Sister Faustina of the Divine Mercy are being featured in the afternoon. For reservations, call the church office at (828) 254-6042.

CHARLOTTE 'Yes' to

God"

—

"Women

Saying

the theme of an

day conference for

women and

all-

teen-

girls, ninth grade and up, being held at St. Matthew Church, 8015

clude

Mercy

Sister Larretta-Rivera

Williams and Joanna Case. There are going to be small group gatherings after each major topic and special sessions for teenage girls with Katy Volponi from Belmont Abbey. For

more information or call Kathy Murray 0398.

CHARLOTTE

—

to pre-register,

at (704) St.

849-

Matthew

Church, 8015 Ballantyne Commons Pkwy., invites everyone to "Theology

on Tap

... Unplugged: A Christian Coffeehouse" tonight from 6:45-8:30 p.m. in the family room of the parish

center. This is an opportunity for fellowship and socializing in an alternative Saturday night setting. Msgr.

John McSweeney, pastor of St. Matthew Church, is presenting a theology message "Get Ready 'Cause Here I Come." The music is being provided

by Redeemed, featuring Kathy and David. For further details, contact Kathy Piontek at (704) 614-9100.

DENVER

—

Holy Spirit Church, 537 North Hwy. 16, is having Irish Night 2000 tonight at 7 p.m. The dinner includes corned beef, cabbage and beverages. The proceeds will benefit the diocesan seminarians.

For more information,

church

call

the

483-6448. 3 1 HICKORY To experience the presence of Jesus while walking down the road to Emmaus, there is a men's Emmaus retreat at the Catholic Conference Center, 1551 Trinity Lane, beginning tonight at 7:30 p.m. and continuing this weekend until 3 p.m. on April 2. Space is limited. For more information about registration, call Joe Christian at (704) 543-1892. office at (704)

—

Please submit notices of events for the Diocesan Planner at least 10 days prior to publication date.

The Catholic News & Herald

March

Around the Diocese

ALESHA

One

M. PRICE

single 28-year-old mother of warned the audience about the dangers of unprotected sex and said

three

Staff Writer

—A

CHARLOTTE

local radio

young women should be more

station decided to give area teens a

that

dose of discussions of social issues violence with a sugar spoonful of a concert featuring national recording

careful about their lives.

artists.

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"The event was educational but I thought that the session about sex was the most important of the day," said Bianca Graham, a 16year-old junior at Charlotte Catholic High School. "People think that the cool thing to do now is to have sex, but when the consequences come, people aren't ready to face them." Seventeen-year-old Fernando Steele said, "This was very informational be-

also fun.

FM-98 sponsored

their first Teen Summit 2000, a day of talks and performances geared toward African-American middle, junior high and high school students. "There are so many issues that the youth have to deal with on a daily basis,

and

this

was

forum where

they could address issues like sex, violence in schools and drugs," said program diAndre' Carson,

it let kids know about things they should and should not do, depending on

cause

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we were

rector. "Hopefully,

their age.

able to

diculous.

Action group from Our Lady of Consolation Church in Summit 2000, sponsored by FM-98, on March 11 at Halton Arena on UNCC's campus.

The Youth

WPEG help

him and her family with

vention.

inter-

15,

freshman

and other things

friends

should

come second."

— Andre Tompkins

Charlotte Catholic High School, said that students should be tested for drugs at school to the boos and groans of the young crowd. Thirteen-year-old Courtney Colon made a plea on behalf of her brother, a victim of drug experimentation. She wanted to know what agencies could

and trust that what they have taught them. You need to pay more attention to your children." attended the event with their son, Nicholas, and daughter, Cerita. "It is important for me to support my children and to be a part of everything they do. I

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said Leslie Johnson, the parish

minister.

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toward your religion and the groups you are involved in to prevent those negative things from happening." Nanette Lide, one of the parish's youth minister, thought that the event was important for her kids to attend. "This gave them a platform to communicate their beliefs about abstinence and other teen issues, like community awareness, social justice and drugs, and to share their beliefs as Catholics.

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have experienced the negative side of drug experimentation because of what my brother has gone North Carolina at Charlotte. through," said Colon. "I wanted to The segments, with panelists know how he can get from the Chemical help, and I think that Dependency Center, "It is important for me to we can definitely try Teen Health Connecto help him, even if Metrolina tion, support my children and to he doesn't want it." AIDS Project and be a part of everything they After a 21 -yearother agencies and old mother of two organizations, were do. want to see if they are stated that there hosted by the learning what am teaching should be more parenstation's DJ's who them, that they have to tal involvement with gathered questions from the audience. believe in God first and their children, one of the

During the

What hit home for me was

segment about violence

further educate them and possibly change some viewpoints." Of the many teen and young adult attendants who listened to the panel discussions and benefited from the statistical and social information, the Youth in Action group from Our Lady of Consolation Church in Charlotte participated in the event on March 1 at Halton Arena at the University of

segment about drugs, one of the youth from OLC, Ashley Grier,

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Performer brings biblical-times women to life Dv inAMITA M. lin riin>/Mi By JOANITA NELLENBACH till

different

Correspondent

ASHEVILLE

—

— Who were they

women who surrounded Jesus and Mary? You can find out who one woman thinks they were. the

Woodford has written

Olivia

"Faith

and Hope: A Mother's Story" and "The Heart of the Cross," one-woman plays that bring to

who were

—

some of the

— and who may havewomen been life

part of Jesus' and Mary's world. "You watch the characters have

spiritual

awakenings," she said. are usually silent in Scripture, and in real life, their voices are often not a strong as men's. So, to

"Women

have a whole evening where women's voices are heard affirms our place in the world and our relationship to the church and God. At the same time,

men

are not threatened." She has been performing "Faith and Hope: A Mother's Story" for two years. Last

mances

Advent she gave perfor-

Grace Baptist,

United Methodist, and

Eugene Margaret

St.

Catholic in Asheville; St.

Mary

Emma

about Mary;

"I knew I wanted someone who wasn't caught up in the story,"

Woodford

said.

"Leah's attention

focused the same place as most

Everybody has their own time and their own season. She ends up as an old woman, dedicating her

people's.

whole

life

to Jesus."

Woodford graduated from Boston University with a bachelor's degree in theater and worked as an actress in New York. She did mainly

her cousin, Elizabeth; her mother, Anne; Anna, the prophetess; a shepherdess watching a flock of sheep on a hill above Bethlehem; and Leah, a young woman who was one of Mary's schoolmates. The audience can see how each woman changes because of her relationship with Mary. "I think what I do is end up putting myself in their shoes," Woodford

it,

forward to say

cried

all

scenes,

the still

way through.

cry.

The Easter play Mary

has a 10-year is not a character in the Christmas play, Jesus does not appear in the Easter play. The women in "The Heart of the Cross" include Veronica, Mary Magdalene, history. Just as

She uses few props. The most imis a shawl that she wears in a

portant

what

we just

did

what

"To watch someone you love die, the purest person you've ever met, [and he'sj not being embraced by the world. I safe in the world? Will

her own church and invited a friend who was a member of a Congregation-

some

said.

"I think,

Jesus did and went from town to town thinking "God will provide"; well, somebody has to do the providing," Woodford said. Referring to the Last Supper, she adds, "What would you do if 13 people suddenly showed up [Tor dinnerJ?" And then there is Jesus' mother. In this play, she does appear, standing at the cross, "not only losing her son, but losing him in such a violent, humiliating way," Woodford said.

didn't speak to me," she said. Moving to Asheville, she started the Healing Theater. "I wanted to create

"Faith and Hope: A Mother's Story" during six months spent recuperating from back problems. She read books, absorbing details about the time and place in which Jesus lived. "I wrote the Christmas play in 10 days," she said, "but I thought about it for six years and researched it for five months. When I was rehearsing

al-

herself never appears. Instead, the characters are women who knew or might have known her:

had to take care of the household details Jesus and his disciples visited?

when

God

how their characters were like them." Woodford began working on

Mary

Martha and Jesus' mother. What was life like for Martha, who

Shakespeare but left "because the quality and message of the theater

play, the actors stepped

other churches.

The play

volved in the world, starts out wearing the stole seductively but finally is blanketed in it.

where the audience was impacted," she said. T wanted theater that initiated some kind of reflection. In one

Swannanoa; St. John Catholic, Waynesville; and St. Margaret Catholic, Maggie Valley,

though,

for each character. For becomes an apron. For Anna, the prophetess, the shawl is bundled so that she seems to be carrying the baby in her arms as she pronounces about his future. Leah, init

a venue

Catholic,

among

way

Elizabeth,

be accepted in my community?" She wrote the play to perform at

Church to attend the program. "You've got to have this at my church," the friend exclaimed, which began a series of performances for people of various faith traditions, including a group of Hindus. She believes that the stories of the women she portrays are the stories of alist

Photo by Joanita M. Nellenbach

Olivia

Woodford prepares

for a

performance of one of her one-

woman plays about Jesus and Mary and the people who knew them. all

women.

'You're already whole, and your story has a wholeness," she said.

Woodford

will

perform "The

Heart of the Cross" at St. Eugene Catholic Church in Asheville on March 26, beginning at 7:30 p.m. *

Archbishop says Catholics first to respond

Mozambique

By BENEDICTA CIPOLLA Catholic News Service (CNS) Missionaries and Catholic charities were the first to respond to Mozambique's flood disaster, said a Vatican official. "They know the (Mozambican) people and are close to them," said Archbishop Paul Josef Cordes, head of "Cor Unum," the Vatican's charity promotion and coordinating agency.

—

VATICAN CITY

Archbishop Cordes held a press briefing March 14 to discuss his March 9-12 southern African country, where floods have claimed 500 lives and left another 260,000 people homeless since January. While foreign countries reacted slowly, he said, Catholic agencies took immediate action, and Pope John Paul II was one of the first people to draw attention to the crisis. In the Diocese of Charlotte, relief efforts are organized through diocesan trip to the devastated

contacts for Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops' international relief and development agency. If your parish chooses to take up a special offering, you can contribute in that way. Alternately, individual donations may be sent to the Diocese of

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla (CNS) Ann Nanni knows what the mother of the 6-year-old Michigan student killed Feb. 29 must be experiencing. Nanni's son was murdered in Florida more than a decade ago. "You

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more than a saint for a party # But some elements of the accomplishments of St. Patrick are clear, according to Snyder.

—

(CNS)

Christopher Snyder wants people to understand a few things about St.

First, his monklike simple existence was an inspiration to followers, including several of Ireland's home-

Patrick. First, the

wasn't

Irish.

patron saint of Ireland His ethnic background

grown

saints.

St. Patrick's

was probably Celtic, like the people of Ireland, but he was the son of a landowning British deacon. Patrick

practice of fasting and praying to this day inspires thousands of pilgrims to climb up a mountain in

originally got to Ireland as a kidnapped

Connaught each July. Croagh Patrick, named for the saint, is a traditional

teen-age slave, in fact. After escaping, he returned years later as a bishop.

Then

there's

pilgrimage

making the

that "drove the

snakes from Ireland" legend. "There weren't any snakes there before he arrived," explained Snyder, an assistant history professor at

Marymount University Va.,

and an authority on

—

reported an absence of snakes on the island. Most likely, the legend that St. Patrick chased the snakes from Ireland was an allegory for his success in converting people to Christianity from the pagan druid beliefs, Snyder said. There also is no proof that St. Patrick ever made a practice of teaching

about the Trinity using a shamrock, according to Snyder. According to legend, St. Patrick explained the principle of three beings in one God by using the three-leafed shamrock as a model.

The

story

may

well be true, but since the church's history in Ireland at that time was largely handed down

by oral

knowing

tradition, there's

for sure, said Snyder.

Sham-

St.

Patrick

more reserved. In his 1995 book

— the — Snyder's that

"How

the Irish

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A man

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feast day,

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Trinity story could have been the cause of their origin, he said. But, just as likely, the Trinity story

grown out of

Ireland who copied Greek and Roman books and scholarly works ies in

rocks have long been reputed in folklore to have special powers, so the

finity for

Cahill's central points

is that evangelization of Ireland was the key to the preservation of the documents of Western civilization. It was the monks at Catholic monaster-

Catholic Standard

dressed as St. Patrick, bishop and apostle to Ireland, waves from atop a float in the St. Patrick's Day parade in Washington March 12. Washington holds the annual parade on the Sunday prior to the saint's actual

may have

a pre-existing Irish af-

shamrocks.

Two documents known to have been written by St. Patrick account for most of what Snyder and other historians of the "sub-Roman Britain" period know about the saint. In one, his "Letter to the Soldiers

no way of

people

a little

his era in Britain. Scientific reports

the third century years before Patrick lived

many

Irish "saved civilization"

Patrick and

from more than 100

with

more recent claim-to-

for a

fame linked to

in Arlington, St.

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trek barefoot.

of Coroticus," Patrick excommunicated the Christian and Romano-

who had kidnapped

Briton soldiers

when

barbarians overran Europe, destroying much of what had been written, according to Cahill.

some of his new Irish converts and sold them into slavery. In the other, his "Confessions," Patrick told of his own faith revela-

"The notion of Patrick singlehandedly saving civilization is a big stretch," said Snyder, who said he hasn't read Cahill's book but is familiar with its premise. "That the Irish alone

tions, of his escape from slavery and journey back to the continent, where he studied for the priesthood and was

ordained.

saved civilization' is also a stretch." By inspiring his followers to learn more about the church, St. Patrick clearly helped improve literacy in Ireland, Snyder conceded. "So he may have contributed to the preservation of traditions."

Because Patrick only began to become famous 150 to 200 years after his death, the details of his life are unclear. Snyder said by the time word of Patrick's success in evangelizing Ireland became well-known, his life story was as much legend as fact. Tales abound of dramatic battles with wizards and druids, of rainfalls of fire and of other outrageous events.

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Jewish leaders also praised the pope, but some said he should have been more specific about the Holocaust. In Israel, where the pope was to visit later in the month, Chief Rabbi

church unity, care for aborigines and sex abuse. Swiss bishops acknowledged that Catholics did too little to issues as

prevent persecution of Jews by Nazis. Vatican officials emphasized that the church's apology was not a political but a religious act, addressed first of all to God. On March 7, they pre-

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The Pope

Speaks

Ted

surprised

Pope says priests called to lead by example By CINDY

WOODEN

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including the example of going to confession, Pope John Paul II said. "The priest himself, minister of God's forgiveness, needs to receive this forgiveness in a

humility and profound trust," the pope told priests from the Diocese of Rome. The priests' March 9 audience, an annual appointment with the bishop of Rome, was expanded to become the Jubilee for Roman Clergy and included a procession into St. Peter's Basilica, a penitential prayer service and indispirit

faith,

vidual confessions before the pope arrived. Priests must be the first in their parish to

heed the Lenten call to conversion, repentance, charity and reconciliation, the pope said. Going to confession, he said, is a "great help for overcoming indulgence in those forms of self-justification, part of the mentality and culture of our day, which make one lose a sense of sin and prevent one from experiencing the consoling joy of God's forgiveness." Although it is easy for a priest to get buried under a pile of pastoral commitments, he must not forget the importance for his personal and spiritual life of fostering a sense of communion with the bishop and his brother priests, the pope said. Pope John Paul said supporting continuing education programs, reaching out to priests who are undergoing difficulties, offering support and friendship to elderly priests, "openness to dialogue and meeting those who have left the priesthood" all demonstrate a commitment to "the ways of communion and reconciliation." "A united and harmonious presbyterate able to work together is a strong witness for the faithful and multiplies the effectiveness of ministry," the

pope

Nothing can replace personal witness and contact, Pope John Paul said. Even if they need to rely on using lay missionaries and foreign priests studying in Rome, he said, parishes should continue practice of visiting every

home

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boundaries during Lent.

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sense of belonging of

many

people who frequently live at the parish's margins" and are awaiting a sign that someone is willing to listen, to offer friendship and to help

them rediscover their faith, the pope said. Pope John Paul said the priests must make a special, personal effort to reach lies in difficulty,

those

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who who

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lems of faith or morals." The Holy Year, he said, "offers everyone the possibility of being listened to, accepted and encouraged to find the path of reconciliation with the Lord and with their brothers and sisters, even where everything seems lost or irreversible."

and I never saw or heard from Ted again. I never found out if he was able to walk or not. To me, that's not so important. What is important is that Ted learned a wonderful life lesson. Everything in life is a matter of attitude. And so, I believe that wherever life takes him, Ted will be okay because he has learned and lived the importance of attitude. As we continue living our Lent, it's helpful to remember that Lent is about attitude. It's about the way we look at life, our relationships and our circumstances. As the prophet Joel reminds us, Lent is about our interior disposition: "Even now, says the Lord, return to me with your whole heart, with state,

weeping and mourning: rend your your garments, and return to the Lord your God." \ We sometimes use the expression "wholehearted" to refer to living life with exuberance. When God invites us to return to Him with our "whole hearts," the invitation implies an exuberant fasting and hearts, not

We are invited to "put God first." A friend

Guest Columnist

of mine likes to compare this generous attitude with what he calls Easing God Out! St. Paul describes a whole-hearted response to God's invitation in even more challenging words: "Your attitude must be that of Christ Jesus ... who empties himself ... and became obedient to the point of death even death on a cross." Such is the extravagant love of God for us! In Sunday's second reading, Paul describes this generosity as the foolishness of God that is wiser than human wisdom and the weakness of God that is stronger than

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human strength. The lesson of

the cross teaches us that Lent is about self-emptying. It is about imitating the extravagant generosity of God in our relationships. It is about the foolishness of the cross that encompasses the power of God and the wisdom of God. In short, it is about attitude an attitude rooted in the self-emptying of Christ. My friend Ted was right. Everything in life is a matter of attitude. This is true of life, and it is true of Lent. Once again this spring, we have a graced opportunity for an "attitude adjustment."

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Augustinian Father Terrance Hyland is director of Living Waters Catholic Reflection Center in Maggie Valley.

a readjustment in my thinking. Christmas was the season of love and hope. The coming of God as an innocent baby was a natural for love-thoughts. Knowing that the baby who had come was the one who would jolt us into a new human and joyful way of interpreting life added to the excitement. Then Lent came, with its Good Friday uneasy love, and we got so caught up in the mourning that we shrouded the impact of what had happened. In his preaching Jesus had said, "Greater love than this no man has, that he lay down his life for his

That required

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ANTOINETTE BOSCO CNS Columnist

my mind

friend."

Lent: Invitation to create

ever-green world very young, it was clear to me that specific meaning. It was the time to

When was I

said.

FATHER TERRANCE HYLAND, O.S.A.

frequently at the rehab center. One day he grinned and pulled the blankets up from over his feet. He wiggled his toes and said, "See that, Father; everything in life is a matter of attitude!" Shortly after that I was transferred to another

response.

of Lent

by saying, "You know some-

think they're wrong! I think I will walk again because I have a good attitude. Everything in life is a matter of attitude!" As Ted's slow recovery continued, I visited him

2000

The Season

years ago, I was visiting patients in a Philadelphia-area hospital when I heard someone call out my name from a hospital room. I went in and found a young man named Ted whom I had taught in high school a few years before. Ted was wrapped in bandages, punctured by tubes and surrounded by electronic equipment. He had been in a car accident and had been told by doctors that he would most likely never walk again.

Several

thing, Father,

17,

Lent had a chalk up sacrifices, like grades on a report card, so would not forget how flawed a person I was. Even as I got older, I thought this was solely

time to think about my mortality, my destiny of ashes. I thought the importance of Lent was to keep the reminder of my death ever fresh, and so I kept

my body morning

uncomfortable with self-denials and

risings at 5:30 in order to

make

to 6:30

Masses. Lent for me was colored purple and fringed with black. The effect of the 40 days of Lent in the earlier years of my life was to put a focus on me, my soul and my salvation. Then gradually, well into my adulthood, I found that I had misinterpreted the road signs from Ash Wednesday to Easter. Lent wasn't deep purple; it was green, teeming with life. It wasn't suffering and death; it was love and hope.

Christmas was the promise that Jesus would transform the world with his love, and it was peaches and cream. But Good Friday was the fulfillment of the promise. Without Good Friday, Christmas would have been just another day on which another Jewish male child had been born. It would have gone quite unnoticed by history. Unless we embrace the fact that Lent is abou Good Friday, and Good Friday set the model f what it means to truly love, then we're stuck in th deep purple. Jesus defined love in terms of what he was willing to give of himself for another. And o Good Friday he showed us that he set no limit o his love.

Strange,

how we

all

yearn to be loved

like tha

completely, perfectly, no conditions attached. Strange,

how

difficult

it is

for us to love others that way.

the time for reflecting on love, as demonstrated by Jesus, by whatever method you I

think Lent

choose: fasting,

morning Mass or volunteering

soup kitchen. Lent

the time for trying a

in a

little

harder to say yes to his invitation to make this an ever-green world.

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comments.

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"When

God at the end of my life, would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me." So said Erma Bombeck, the housewifeI

stand before

turned-columnist, who spent the last 32 years of her life helping us laugh at ourselves and the everyday routines of family life.

"Too old for a paper route and too young for Social Security," she started to write with such engaging humor that her columns quickly syndicated to 700 newspapers, and her books, like "The Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank," became instant best sellers. I do not belong to her official fan club, but I do miss Erma. Whether on TV or in print, she consistently taught

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human response

to life's unending incongruities. Enjoy a few samples of Erma's vision and feel the bond between humor and humanity: "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." "Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what

"Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed." After she found out she was dying of cancer, Erma wrote: "If I had my life to live over, I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained or the sofa faded. I would have taken time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth. I would have cried and laughed less while watching television and more while watching life. "I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day. I would have sat on the lawn with my children and not worried about grass stains. But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute look at it and really see it live it and never give it back." Thanks, Erma. Your words still make me laugh at and cherish my humanity at the same time. I think it's safe to say you really did use everything God gave you. I hope all of us will be able to say the same.

â€”

...

Father Thomas

McSweeney

director

of The

Christophers.

The Eastern Star and the Masons

Question

a member of the Order of me to join. I know from your past columns that the Catholic Church still officially prohibits men from joining the Masons. But what is the position on women's auxiliary groups? I'd like to join, but frankly would not want to do so if it is forbidden by my

long-time friend

the Eastern Star

and has

invited

Corner

church.

A. As you say, the prohibition against Catholic joining the Masonic orders remains in existence, even in our country. However, without getting too technical, there is a principal of church law which states that any church regulation which restricts the right of a person must be interpreted strictly. That is legal language for saying that such regulations must not be extended to cases other than those actually expressed in them (Canon 36). Applied to your question, this means that the ban on joining the Masons means just that and nothing more. Thus, the restriction would not apply to the Order of the Eastern Star, which is an adjunct group, not a formal part of the Masons. In fact, as is well known I believe, women are not even eligible for membership in Freemasonry. The same would hold for the other two major auxiliary groups related to the Masons, Job's

FATHER JOHN DIETZEN

men

Daughters for girls, and DeMolay for boys. Other concerns naturally need to be weighed in making such a decision. As a 1985 background report for the American bishops noted, for example, "Although the possibility of scandal may exist, the fact remains that these women and young people do not swear Masonic oaths and are not considered Masons."

"Other Catholic Churches" Q. Not long ago you discussed intercommunion with "other Catholic Churches." You called them Eastern churches, but what are they? This seems to deny what I thought we always believed, that there is one Catholic Church. Who are these others? Are they really Catholic?

RAUSCH

CNS

A spiritual alternative images help capture a daily part of our economic life. How many times do we see a car circling the mall parking lot looking for a place? How about a person using a cell phone in a store, on the street or in a car? And what about those vibrations we feel from a car stopped beside us at a light rocking with the sound blasting from customized speakers? We are a buying people, a busy people, and Fallowness:

Three

frequently, a boisterous people. In the process

our

become dulled by bargains, disphone calls and deadened by noise.

In the midst of this self-imposed perpetual motion, one biblical theme especially helps us discover ourselves and find the path to peace.

The theme points out a direction rather than a step by step formula. Yet, it contains the potential to

change individuals and influence the

way we do

business.

"Rising very early before dawn, Jesus left and went off to a deserted place, where he prayed" (Mk 1:35.) Evidently, Jesus occasionally had to withdraw from the demanding crowds, from the stress of his enemies, even from his own inner circle. In silence Jesus entered the mystery of Self and God. At rest Jesus could converse with his Father while he let his body-spirit lie fallow. Fallowness, the key biblical theme, represents a movement from distracting noise to peaceful solitude. In Leviticus 25, fallowness applies to the land. The land must rest every so many years in order to remain fertile. Theologian Maria Harris reminds us we are "dust and breath" (Gn 2:7) and allowing our "human land" to lie fallow, brings balance and perspective to work

and

Columnist

spirits

tracted by

life.

In contrast, the business world continually bombards us with music in shops and restaurants and commercial announcements from in-

TV and radio have become they play as background noise even when people hold a conversation. Those watching prime time TV hear more than 20 commercials an hour telling them what to buy, invest and think. The antidote to noise pollution comes with fallowness, allowing time for solitude and store loud speakers.

A. In the creed

we do proclaim

recite together every

Sunday, and

belief in "one, holy, Catholic

apostolic" church. Perhaps most Catholics are like yourself. They are unaware that there are 22 Catholic churches in the world who profess that faith.

One

of them, and by far the largest,

the

Roman, church.

Latin, or

They

prayer.

have the same sacraments, profess the same basic Catholic doctrines and believe in the priall

macy of the bishop of Rome

in the universal church.

The other 21 churches are called Eastern primarily because they trace their origins to the eastern part of the Roman Empire, which later became the Byzantine Empire. Many of their traditions and customs, therefore, reflect quite different cultures than the primarily Western European cultures which have heavily influenced the

Roman

church.

In other words, the differences different

common

go beyond simply ways of celebrating the Eucharist. Each of

them has its own rich heritage of feasts, devotions, church structure and other elements of faith life which deserve to be part of the continuing life of the church. As the Vatican representative to an assembly of these churches said several years ago, the reason for the existence of the Eastern Catholic churches is that they might contribute their valuable and unique gifts to the universal church.

In everyday

choices: less

life it means making TV, fewer commercials, perhaps

driving with the radio off. Biblical fallowness allows us to "waste time" with others building healthy relationships, encourages a day off and time for a hobby so our "dust and breath" can

and our spirit can heal. Since few can easily find the flexibility to take time for solitude, fallowness begs a communal effort. Mothers of young children might need a program like Mom's Day Off to structure their time for fallowness. Married couples might consider Marriage Encounter or periodic retreats. Families could designate the Sabbath as a special day together with few outside activities. rest

Fallowness demands some structural changes, as well, since the business world See

RAUSCH,

page

14 The Catholic News & Herald

Network,

Interfaith many

of the

who

children

are in-

volved."

There are 19 churches currently in the network with 12 host churches, which actually house the families, and seven support churches who help with cooking or supplying the necessary 50 to 60 volunteers a week, over 1 ,000 volunteers total, at each church. Those include A.M.E., Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal, Church of Christ, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran and Evangelical area churches, who all

are

working jointly

to help

home-

less families.

"The ecumenical aspect is imporpoverty and because tant homelessness is an equal opportunity

Most major

want to the poor," said Rob-

disease.

religions

serve and assist erts-Wyatt. "This transcends religious differences because our common ground is helping unsheltered fami-

Breakfast is also served before the residents leave for work, the children go to school or the others are driven

back to the Pathways Shelter. The average length of stay for an individual family is 30 to 90 days, and the network can get most families into homes of their own within two months. Not only do they help with temporary housing but the GIHN also helps with debt counseling and management, budgeting, job-training skills and educational support for the children, explained Roberts- Wyatt. "We are able to work with them intensely since there are four to five

good

them a really own homes with

With

the network's 15-passenger

start in their

donated furniture, clothes, food and other things. We provide food and shelter so that they can save their money to afford their own homes," she said.

GIHN coordinator Catholic Church in Greensboro, became involved with the network after a call from Bergen. Church has hosted 1 St. Pius families since then with the help of their support church Bethel A.M.E. Church in Greensboro. "I have seen this work, and we have had our eyes opened," said Ross. "Hopefully, other outreach programs will come out of this to change

van purchased with the help of a local synagogue, volunteers transport the families from the Pathways Shelter of the Greensboro Urban Ministry during the day to the host church in the evening. Dinner is prepared, and the volunteers counsel and interact with the families or help the children with their

homework.

The

families sleep in either the

if the church has one, or formation classrooms. "We try

parish center,

the sleeping areas as homey This is not the old mentality of a shelter with just a cot in the

for St.

Pius

for the better."

* M.

make

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The demonstration reportedly was organized by a group of feminist activists opposed to patriarchy and

News Service OTTAWA (CNS) The desecration of a Montreal cathedral brought condemnation from the Catholic Civil Rights League and left a national newspaper wondering why there had not been more public outrage. "These acts are those of terrorists, deliberately planned and executed on the people and property of Mary Queen of the World Cathedral, and

â€”

the Catholic Church's stance against abortion.

Seven people were arrested and on

later released to appear in court

several charges, but a police official

would not be group. Such charges apply only to spreading hatred against specific groups, not for voicing issues of public concern or for expressing said hate crime charges

laid against the

those responsible should be charged to the full extent of the law," said Thomas Langan, president of the civil

their opinions, said the official.

Langan disagreed, saying, "This was nothing less than a hate crime

rights league.

group of vandals burst into the

cathedral

March

that meets the legal requirements for

the extreme form of vilification."

disturbing several

Similar desecration of a mosque or synagogue would be "a national outrage and would be energetically opposed by the Catholic Civil Rights League," said Langan. "Catholics should be treated like anyone else." *

afternoon worshippers. Witnesses said the group shouted anti-Catholic slogans, spray painted "Neither

God Nor

Master" on the altar, littered the church with condoms and sanitary napkins and tried to overturn the tabernacle.

Greensboro

2000

17,

condemns desecration of Montreal cathedral

Catholic

try to give

Patti Ross, the

lies."

faith

Catholic group

from page 1

families.

March

Ihe News

Economy of Faith, from page

on activity and noise. Americans now work 163 hours more each year than they did 25 years ago, and they spend 10 to 12 hours fewer each week with their children. Estimates range between 8 percent to 17 percent of the work force work longer hours than they desire because of employer demands. Fallowness has a justice dimension. In order to have time for fallowness, people need more flex time, less overtime, and above all, a living wage so they can avoid a mandatory second job. With the wheels of commerce moving ever faster by office electronics, fallowness represents a salutary way of refreshing the human spirit and keeping it connected with the divine. thrives

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Around the Diocese

Leo the Great Church spreads Mardi Gras spirit St.

SUSAN deGUZMAN Correspondent

—

WINSTON-SALEM games and

balloons,

food.

Beads,

were all part of the festivities for Mardi Gras this year at St. Leo the Great Church. Hosted by the St. Theresa Guild for

many

Schweighart reported that there were 25 homemade cakes baked for this game. Several children reported the "Cake Walk" to be their favorite part

parish-

at least

—

of the Mardi Gras celebration. Said

third-grader Adam Morgan, "I almost won

parishioner, Lyann Church, attended with

her two sons and two nieces.

the 'Cake Walk.'

She expressed her

Mom

seemed

be a very family-oriented parish.

"Everyone seemed to have a "This

something we can do

lot of fun,"

she said.

It's

little

ward

party before Lent."

—

know It

winning one

many

times as I had tickets for." Cupcakes by the dozens were also

terized by parties, parades and other

made

days leading up to Lent. Many Latin American and European countries call this merry time "carnival." New Orleans, Rio de Janiero, Nice and Cologne are among the cities with the best-known cel-

which represents

festivities in the

ebrations.

At St. Leo the Great Church, Mardi Gras was celebrated in a spirit

— and

don't

again, but I didn't. I played the 'Cake Walk'

Mardi Gras a French term meaning "Fat Tuesday" is charac-

of fun, too

Katherine Allen, a 10-year-old, shared, "Last year my family won three cakes, and I was really looking for-

for the family while

helping them learn Catholic traditions.

did.

what the cake was. was brown."

fondness for St. Leo the Great Church, noting that it

was served and

on the spinning wheel, gave entire cakes to winners. Parishioner Gwen

ioners gathered for this fun-filled family event March 7 the day before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent.

A new

light supper

came in the form of game prizes. The "Cake Walk," a game of guessing the number to match that

prizes

the third year in a row,

dessert

with a variety of

for the

"King Cake" game, a traditional

form

played in New Orleans. Kathy Bryan, co-president of the Guild and event organizer, explained that those interested bought cupcakes to try their luck at finding a plastic baby inside (and because they looked delicious). If they found one, they were allowed to

reach into the paper mache "King

Crown"

for a prize. In addition, find-

Photo by Susan deGuzman

Theresa Guild co-presidents Maggie Henning and Kathy Bryan of St. Leo the Great Church, shown at right with some of the attending children, organized the Mardi Gras celebration and festivities held March 7. St.

ing a winning cupcake was supposed to bring a year of good fortune. The children played a number of other games, including a duck pond, a fish pond, basketball and face painting. Trinket prizes were given to participants of these booths. •

David Bruce,

year." Several substantial prizes

given away by

raffle, too:

were

First prize

was a television set, second prize was Mardi Gras Special Edition Barbie, and third prize was a homemade quilt with matching pillow shams. a

A new parishioner, Lyann Church, attended with her two sons and two nieces. She expressed her fondness for St. Leo the Great Church, noting that it seemed to be a very family-oriented parish. "Everyone seemed to have a lot of fun," she said. "This is something we can do for the family while helping them learn Catholic traditions. It's a little party

third-grader,

shared that bingo was his favorite game. He said, "I played about five times. I wanted to win a golf chip game for my Dad." Kody Kuhn, his classmate, agreed that bingo was his favorite: "I almost won, and I kept on trying and trying." Maggie Henning, also co-president of the St. Theresa Guild and

before Lent."

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Living the Faith

Philadelphia prepares to honor a saint of By LOU

BALDWIN

News Service PHILADELPHIA (CNS) Catholic

â€” Dur-

dent and harmoniously fused in the consecrated bread and wine." Mother Drexel, who was born in 1885 and died in 1955, inherited a large fortune when her father died. She spent the money building and supporting schools and missions for

During the March 3 Mass, the cardinal announced that Mother Drexel, a native of Philadelphia, would most likely be canonized on Oct. 1. That date was confirmed by the pope during a March 10 meeting announcing the upcoming canonization of Mother Drexel along with 120 martyrs killed in China and a Span-

African-Americans

and Native Americans with the congregation she founded, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. More than a half-dozen church communities in North Carolina are among the recipients of Mother Drexel's benevolence. In 1904, Mother Drexel visited Belmont Ab-

nun who was killed in 1912. At a news conference following the Mass, Cardinal Bevilacqua explained that Oct. 1 isn't the day Mother Drexel becomes a saint, but ish

one.

The canonization process

for

bey.

Cardinal Bevilacqua pointed out many obstacles that Mother Drexel and her sisters faced, they often prayed before the Blessed Sacrament. It was only after ill health forced her retirement from active ministry that she was finally able to do what she always wanted to do, he said, "to spend her hours in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament." "For her, the Blessed Sacrament was a living, vibrant reality," he added. Among those present during the

started 36 years ago

in Philadelphia.

She was

beatified in

1988 and has since been credited with two miracles through her intercession for two people suffering hearing disorders.

"The miracle part

the easy

part," the cardinal said. Saints

must

have led "heroic lives, not just ordinary holy lives but heroically holy." In his homily, the cardinal spoke

Mass honoring Mother Drexel were Robert Gutherman, whose 1974 cure

of Mother Drexel's devotion to the Eu-

of a serious ear infection and hearing

With some saints, he said, this devotion "was seen in the hours that they spent in contemplation and adoration of the Eucharist. For others the reality of Jesus' presence in the Eucharist led them to share his way of living and loving and therefore be truly like the bread that was broken in order to be distributed to those in need."

impairment was the miracle approved for Mother Drexel's 1988 beatification, and Amy Wall, whose 1994 cure of deafness was accepted as

charist.

said

Mother Drexel "seemed

CNS

that with the

will be a canonized saint."

Mother Drexel

own

love one's neighbor were interdepen-

tional love."

She

2000

fuse these two ways of understanding Jesus in the Eucharist. For her the commandment to love God and to

ing a Mass celebrating the feast day of Blessed Katharine Drexel, Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Philadelphia praised the woman who will soon be named a saint as "a brilliant example of unselfish and uncondi-

"an admission that she already

its

17,

of Mother Drexel. But she also stressed that Mother Drexel's message is "not one of miracles but of mission." Her message speaks of quiet, simple, everyday action that contributes to the accomplishment of goals,"

Loughlin said. "Her vision is a long way from being accomplished." "Let us resolve today to honor Katharine Drexel through our prayer and through our celebration," she added, "especially through our work Sister

for social justice."

Philadelphia's African-American

community was

dent of the Blessed Sacrament Sisters,

the ceremony. Chief Buffy Red Feather Brown, representing Native Americans, led the Blessing of the

the Wall family, all of whom have played an important part in the cause

miracle attributed to the American nun, cleared the way for her canonization. She will become the second U.S.-born saint.

Mother Drexel's most recent miracle. Sister Monica Loughlin, presi-

warmly welcomed Gutherman and

photo from Catholic Standard and Times

African-American and Native American children are depicted with Mother Katharine Drexel in a painting. Pope John Paul II, recognizing a second

well represented in

the overflow congregation and also in

Four Winds.

June 26

Among those representing the Drexel family was Cornelia Biddle, a descendant of Anthony Drexel, who was Mother Drexel's uncle and founder of Drexel University in Philadelphia. "I am in awe of this woman," said Biddle, adding that Mother Drexel's miracle was the way she had lived her life for the "bettering of humanity." During her

lifetime,

Mother

Drexel helped establish some 63 schools, including Xavier University of Louisiana, the first Catholic university in the United States for AfricanAmericans. It is still operated by her

order.

Following the announcement of her upcoming canonization, Xavier University issued a statement describing their school as Mother Drexel's "very first miracle." *

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