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25,
Volume 10
t
NEWS
2001
Number
I
36
Serving Catholics
HERALD
& in
Western North Carolina
in
the Diocese of Charlotte
Inside Pope, cardinals identify challenges and solutions
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Page 7
Youth explore definitions of violence
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Page
14
News
Local
New BMHS nears completion, looks to future
...
Page 5 Photos by Jimmy Rostar
education in the Diocese of Charlotte gathered in Hickory May 1 7 to hear Father James Hawker, left), Dr. Cris Villapando, director of faith formation programs (bottom left) and regional faith formation coordinators lead a workshop introducing the new Handbook for Parish Catechetical Leaders.
Leaders
Charlotteans thank priests
in religious
vicar for education (top
through endowments
...
Page 9
Religious educators embrace
newresource at workshop
Disaster relief exp,ored ,ocally By
By
Every Week
JIMMY ROSTAR
The handbook
Associate Editor
HICKORY
— At
the
most
sections, replete
significant
gathering of diocesan religious educators
Entertainment
in five years, the
...Pages
10-11
vicar for education said the sharing of the faith is a
Editorials
& Columns
Diocese of Charlotte's
...Pages
12-13
in
something so
sa-
tongues as of
which parted on each one of them. And they were all filled jwith the holy Spirit and began to speak
and came
in different
fire,
to rest
tongues, as the
Spirit
2:
3-4
forms needed to maintain
records and other information.
The
sec-
and leader and
—
In the eastern
half of the state, generations of homes, businesses, land
and people's
spirits
were
when Hurricanes Floyd and
tions cover the role, responsibilities
devastated
calling of the parish catechetical
Irene washed out normal life for months. Residents of North Carolina are still cleaning up and rebuilding after the surging storms hit, while other states have
formation; guidelines for the direction of life-long faith formation;
catechesis for people with special needs;
succumbed
"The sacredness of who you are and what you do, along with the seriousness
catechesis in multicultural communities;
within the past year. Areas in Minnesota,
of your mission,
ception of sacraments; and important
is
phenomenal."
Father Hawker and the diocese's
formation catechetical
faith
addressed parish leaders and odier faith formaofficials
tion personnel at the Catholic Conference
Center
May
17 to introduce the
new
for Parish Catechetical Leaders,
the single most comprehensive religious
— Acts
Staff Writer
MORGANTON
education vicar, told catechists from across
Handbook
enabled them to proclaim."
with appendices that con-
cred and so serious," Father James Hawker,
the diocese.
Then there appeared to them
ALESHA M. PRICE
divided into eight
other faith formation personnel; catechist
holy calling.
'You are involved
tain diocesan
is
policies
policies;
concerning preparation for and re-
church documents relevant to the
faith
formation teacher. Information includes religious educa-
job descriptions, descriptions of catechesis aimed at different age groups, criteria for evaluating textbooks, sample budget forms, and maps showing the detors'
education resource available in this diocese to date.
textbook
See
HANDBOOK,
page
8
to various natural disasters
and Mississippi have been flooded have raged across parts of Florida. Both Louisiana and South Dakota have been on the list of Illinois
out, while wildfires
federally declared disaster states because of
winter storms.
There
is
never a lack of disasters
like
these that unfortunately create opportunities for
people to help those in need.
See
DISASTER RELIEF,
How-
page
4
2
The Catholic News & Herald
The World
May25, 2001
Brief
in
Bush urges more participation poverty DAME, Ind. (CNS)
in fighting
NOTRE
—
Quoting Lyndon Johnson, Knute Rockne and Dorothy Day, President Bush used his
Kansas Mental Health Center, and Joyce Thomas, a former assistant family teacher at Boys Town, Neb., who now is family
commencement address
support coordinator for Salina schools.
Dame
of Notre
at the University
to encourage individual
and corporate participation poverty. "Welfare as
in' battling
we knew
The
book, which has implications for the tragedies
happening today
in U.S. schools, is
has ended,
divided into sections on anger manage-
but poverty has not," Bush said. "When over 12 million children live below the poverty line, we are not a post-poverty
ment, respect, responsibility, communica-
America." Speaking to 2,500 graduates,
priest acquitted for robbery, says bishop
it
May
and faculty
their families
more
There's
service.
is
CAPE TOWN,
of
life
— A South
our
for
self-esteem.
South Africa (CNS)
African priest found guilty of
armed robbery three years ago was
said. "Citi-
empty without concern
and
Racism led to arrest of
to citizenship than
voting and paying taxes, Bush zenship
tion, relationships
Bush
20,
urged the audience to consider a
.
written by parishioner Diane Carrigan, psychosocial coordinator at the Central
acquit-
ted after a high court judge found the
trial
fellow citizens, without the ties that bind us
proceedings flawed and no cause for arrest
common good." Immigrants comprise 28 percent of new U.S. priests
His bishop said die appeal court's findings
to
one another and build a
WASHINGTON (CNS) — A higher
Potgietersrus, raised questia»H*of racism
percentage of foreign-born priests will be
among
more than 4O0 men being
the
dained this year in the United States.
and collusion
or-
The
tions. The largest number came from Mexico and Vietnam, with each of those
countries represented by 5 percent.
Of the
343 diocesan and religious seminarians preparing for ordination in 2001
who
lander and
percent are African-Ameri-
1
were released by
can. Results of the survey
the U.S. Catholic Conference
May
CNS photo
21 in
Washington.
Mothers pledge to fight efforts to target children in advertising
NEW YORK (CNS) — A coalition of
mothers, community activists and national
Solo pilgrim rides bike in empty courtyard Spanish Catholic pilgrim Fernando Videgain rides through the empty courtyard of the Church of the Nativity in Befhlehem May 14. The courtyard and Manger Square, usually teaming with tourists and pilgrims, have been deserted because of the fighting between Palestinians and
an end to all advertising, marketing and market research in schools; no targeting of children under age 8; no product placement in movies or TV shows aimed at children or adolescents; and an end to ads that promote "an ethic of selfishness and
for:
...
instant gratification."
Refugee aid coalition urges reversal of declining U.S. help
—
children and teens in their advertising and
marketing. 'Tor you, our children are cus-
decline in U.S. admission of refugees and
and other leaders has urged the
U.S. business
community
tomers, and childhood
to stop targeting
a 'market seg-
is
ment' to be exploited, a 'demographic' for
which you are competing," more than 100 women and their male supporters said in a report called
'Watch Out
Mothers' Statement to Advertisers." report, released
'funding for refugee aid. "Eight years ago the United States authorized the admission
Refugee Council
USA coalition, which held
a press conference in Washington to
for refugees.
Authors help children deal with anger in violent times
—
SALINA, Kan. (CNS) A new book member of St. Mary's Par-
The
Catholic Conference's Migration and Refu-
and deal with their anger and 'The ABCs of Teaching; Life
& H E R A L D
May
25,
Volume 10
•
2001
is
a
member of
the
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frustration. Skills"
was
—
High School St. Matthew, Charlotte June 7 7 p.m. Confirmation Holy Infant, Reidsville June 10 Noon Mass and blessing of cornerstone
— —
St.
June
Joseph Vietnamese, Charlotte
messages to nine new ambassadors to die Vatican
May
die pope's 81st birthday,
18,
he focused on dialogue as the way to build "a world in which all die members of the
human
race can occupy their rightful place and live in peace and harmony." The new ambassadors represent Nepal, Tunisia, Estonia, Zambia, Guinea, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, South Africa and Gambia The pope said that the UN-sponsored World Conference on Racism, to be held in South
CHARLOTTE — The
Mood, SFO,
3 CHARLOTTE
is
an opportunity for the
on the damage and ig-
reflect
hatred, prejudice
norance of one's neighbors.
West Smidi
St. in
St.
Maximilian
at (704) 573-4299.
— Because
of Pentecost,
call
Alice Schmidt at (336) 288-0983.
3 SALISBURY 128 N. Fulton
Kolbe Fraternity of Secular Franciscans will be meeting today from 2-4 p.m. at Our Lady of Consolation Church, 2301 Statesville Ave. All visitors and inquirers are welcome. For more information, call
—
forming a true human Pope John Paul II said. In separate
Greensboro. For further information,
planner
Skyler
family,
Benedict Church, 109
—
—
—
whole world to caused by ethnic
3
81 7:30 p.m. Baccalaureate Mass for Bishop McGuinness Memorial High School Holy Family, Clemmons June 1 7:30 a.m. Mass Knights and Dames of Malta St. Patrick, Charlotte June 2 ll a.m. Ordination St. Gabriel, Charlotte 5:30 p.m. Confirmation St. Thomas Aquinas, Charlotte June 3 11 a.m. Pentecost Mass St. Patrick, Charlotte, 4 p.m. 10th Anniversary of Signing of LutheranCatholic Covenant St. Pius X, Greensboro June 6 7:30 p.m. Baccalaureate Mass for Charlotte Catholic
Pope says respect for other races, religions key to humanity VATICAN CITY (CNS) Promoting respect for other races and religions is
Africa in August,
events:
—
Graphic Designer: Tim Faragher
Mail:
following
probably racism" played a part in the
designed to help adults
Diocesan
Episcopa., j calendar Bishop William G. Curlin will take part
Number
Mashiane
relieved" that Father
has been acquitted, "strange collusions and
how to get along with others
is
teach children
Th
NEWS
mously
the key to protecting legitimate cultural
ish in Salina
MRS
statement.
differences while
number will be admitted," said Mark Franken, executive director of the U.S. that
mark
its 55-page report with recommendations for improving U.S. refugee assistance in the 2002 fiscal year. The report urged the government to raise funding of the Migration and Refugee Assistance account to $800 million in 2002, an increase of $100 million over 2001, and to provide an additional $50 million for a separate emergency account
A
gee Services.
mid-May
bishop said that while he was "enor-
detailed
co-written by a
May 9 in New York, called
Pietersburg said in a
The
the issuance of
of 142,000 refugees. This year about half
for Children:
put the
"One gets the impression that, for whatever reason, Father Mashiane had to be arrested and punished," Bishop Mogale Paul Nkhumishe of
priest's case.
Israeli forces
WASHINGTON (CNS) Catholic and other refugee service agencies called on the U.S. government May 1 7 to reverse the
religious
by Debbie Hil
re-
sponded to the survey, 13 percent are Hispanic, 7 percent are Asian or Pacific Is-
in the events that
priest behind bars.
percentage of ordinands born outside the
United States rose to 28 percent from 24 percent, according to a survey conducted by the U.S. bishops' Committee on Voca-
of Father Boniface Mashiane,
in the case
formerly of Sts. Peter and Paul Church in
—
St.,
charismatic/healing
Sacred Heart Church, will
be celebrating a
Mass
at
4 p.m. today
followed by prayer teams and a poduck
Putnam will be For further details, call
dinner. Father John
celebrant.
Owens
die Bill
at (704) 639-9837.
4 CHARLOTTE
— Churches
in
the
Charlotte area will be having their regularly scheduled cancer support
group
a charismatic Mass, celebrated by Father
meetings for survivors, family and friends
Dean
on the following days: St. Gabriel Church, 3016 Providence Rd., tonight at 7 p.m. in the ministry center library and St. Matdiew Church, 8015 Ballantyne Commons Pkwy., on June 5 at 7 p.m. in the office building conference room. For more information, call: St. Matthew - Marilyn
Cesa, will be held at St. Patrick Ca-
thedral, 1621
Dilworth Rd. East,
tiiis
after-
noon
at 4 p.m. with prayer teams at 3 p.nx and a potiuck dinner at 5 p.m. in die school cafeteria.
Josie
For
Backus
further information, contact at (704) 527-4676.
3 GUILFORD
COUNTY — The Ladies
Ancient Order of Hibernians Guilford County Division 1, an Irish-Catholic social and charitable inter-parish group, will be having a meeting today from 3-5 p.m. at the Showfety Activity Center at St.
Borrelli at (704)
542-2283 and
St.
Gabriel
- Eileen Cordell at (704) 352-504-7, Ext.
217.
4 CHARLOTTE — Christians Transition
is
a ministry of
St.
in
Career
Matthew
May25, 2001
The World
The Catholic News & Herald 3
Brief
in
Jesuit says no culture ever fully 'culture of life' or 'of death' BUFFALO, NY. (CNS) Labeling
nia-based think tank as part of the His-
panic Church in American Public Life
—
Project.
an entire culture a "culture of death" is simplistic and unworthy of Christians, a Jesuit sociologist told a national meeting of catechetical leaders. "No culture is ever fully a culture
in
of life or of death," said Jesuit
Marymount
WASHINGTON
about discerning culture in the light of the
ogy
Gospel should cease using these gross terms to characterize a whole culture." Father Coleman delivered one of the major addresses at the 65th annual meeting of the National Conference of Catechetical
The
Leadership.
29-May
3,
sity
official
denominations, as well as participants
may
— The
(CNS)
photo from Reuters
Theologians must reaffirm church laws on sexuality, says Vatican
commencement services at the university May 20. In his address the president urged faith-based groups to take the lead in fighting poverty. right, during
restrictions on the ordination, appointment and transfer of priests, need improvement, said Thomas E. Quigley,
VATICAN CITY must recognize
}7 during their annual general meeting at
on Asian
the Vatican.
reli-
and morals as well as to support and all initiatives which can be valid alternatives" to living outside church teaching.
At U.N. conference, Vatican calls for shared duty to poor At a BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNS) U.N. conference highlighting an increase in extreme poverty in parts of the world, a
May 16. Pope says even in Italy, people live as if God does not exist VATICAN CITY (CNS) Even in
—
—
where the vast majority of people are more and more people
Vatican diplomat called for a "worldwide
baptized Catholic,
exist,"
Pope John Paul
dency
is
if
God
movement" of shared responsibility for the poor. "Our task is to make solidarity a reality," Archbishop Diarmuid Martin,
does not
'This ten-
II said.
often emphasized and spread
the media with serious risks for
by the moral
formation of individuals and of the collective," the pope told Italy's bishops. The pope addressed die country's bishops May
Church, 8015 Ballantyne
Commons
The meeting takes place tonight and
June 18 from 7-9 p.m.
in
June 18
room
ception, homosexuality, masturbation
7 in Conference Room
A at 7:30 p.m. at St.
more
details.
—
its
St.
Matthew
Christian Coffeehouse
Young Adult Night
Youth
tonight from 7-
11
Kathy
The
next Mass
at (336)
7 WINSTON-SALEM Companions, a
grief
— The Healing
support group for the
bereaved, will be meeting tonight and June
Annual
1st
•
room
at St. Gabriel
information, call
Church, 3016 Providence Rd. For further details, call the church office at (704) 364-
(704) 54(^8696.
5431.
Ongoing
13
CHARLOTTE
— The 50+ Club
of
CHARLOTTE
—
'Forever Young"
1343.
(704) 540-7255 for details.
—
Friday from 1 1 am.-noon and are always seeking new members. Come and join these seniors for "just
what the doctor ordered." Call Peg Hill
CONCORD
—
home
sup-
tonight for adults only with shared snacks;
pan. For further details,
women
St Thomas Aquinas Church, 1400 Suther Rd., from 1-2:30 p.m. on June 24 with childcare and a family potluck and St. Matthew Church, 8015 Ballantyne
office at
and
their children. Call Charity
(704) 521-2774 for a
form and other
details.
team
Gray
at
registration
is
Monday and
Room
maternity
at
an exercise group for people 55 and older at St Matthew Church, 8015 Ballantyne Commons Pkwy. They meet every
will benefit
at the Inn, a
at
Coon
St John Neumann Church, 8451 Idlewild Rd., will be having a meeting this morning at 1 1 am. with a program and lunch in the parish center. Donations are being accepted during the meeting. For more information, call Louise Brewer at (704) 3668357 or, Gloria Silipigni at (704) 821-
awards receptioa All proceeds
porting single, homeless, pregnant
Dan Hines
(704) 544-6665 or Aliceann
14 CHARLOTTE Churches in the Charlotte area are hosting ultreyas followed by a school of leaders on die following dates and times: St. Vincent de Paul Church, 6828 Old Reid Rd., from 7-8 p.m.
beverages, dinner and a post-tournament
will
998-7503.
— The
Links for Life Golf Tournament will be held today at Firethorne Country Club. Included in the package will be lunch,
be celebrated on July 2. For more information, call the church office at (336) 778-
0600 or Jim Passero
Bartlett at (704) 614-9100.
CHARLOTTE
11
7-8 p.m. in the family
4820 Kinnamon
place after Mass.
— The
with childcare and a family potluck. For
vited to participate in fellowship, Christian
The
CHARLOTTE
parent will meet tonight and June 25 from
opportunities and further details, call
tonight at 7:30 p.m.
in vitro fertilization.
724-
office at (336)
5431.
Mass
and
Pkwy., from 1:30-3:00 p.m. on June 24
8:30 p.m. in the parish center. All are in-
sacrament of reconciliation will be given at 7 p.m, and the laying on of hands will take
the
support group
4 CLEMMONS — Holy Family Church, charismatic
The survey was done by
Rivera Policy Institute, a Califor-
for adult children grieving the loss of a
and
be celebrating a
eration.
Tomas
several moral questions, including contra-
Leo the Great Church, 335 Springdale
Church, 3016 Providence Rd. For further details, call the church office at (704) 364-
Rd., will
works by Redemptorist Father Marciano moral theologian. The notification from the Congregation for
Vidal, a Spanish
work was erroneous or ambiguous on
Church, 8015 Ballantyne Pkwy., will be
at St. Gabriel
was published some
alongside a notification criticizing
United States and an increase in the Protestant population with each passing gen-
contemporary music provided by Kathy and David with Redeemed, refreshments and spiritual messages. For sponsorship
in the family
(CNS) A new national survey reports that 70 percent of the Latino population identified themselves as Catholic. The survey also showed
U.N. conference on poverty, told participants May 16 during the weeklong meeting. 'We must create a worldwide movement which understands solidarity as a
hosting
—
L'Osservatore Romano, signed with three asterisks to signify its publication was approved at the highest article in
levels of the Vatican,
—
WASHINGTON
garding the dignity of human life and sexuality are unchanging, the Vatican said. Moral theologians may be tempted to answer questions "with responses that are more conforming to the sensitivities and expectations of the world than to the thinking of Christ" said an article in the May 16 edition of the Vatican newspaper. The
the Doctrine of the Faitii said the priest's
10 CHARLOTTE
For more information, call Rev. Mr. Jim Hamrlik at (704) 542-6459 4 CHARLOTTE The widowed support group for those grieving the loss of a spouse meets from 6-7 p.m. tonight and
Seventy percent of Latinos identify as Catholic, says survey
Catholic theologians
that certain concepts re-
Catholics with each generation born in the
0561 for
the parish center's conference room.
commu-
and each nation," he said. The conference, which was expected to produce a program of action to combat poverty, brought together leaders of the world's poorest and richest countries, as well as U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, World Bank President James Wolfensohn and private business representatives. nity
In ad-
modern
a drop-off in the percentage of Latino
Ave. Call the church
the office area of
natural duty of each person, each
—
head of the Vatican delegation to the third
1
Pkwy., devoted to helping people in career crises.
part
encourage
Rights Caucus in
are living their lives "as
is
faith
Washington
Italy,
told the bishops, "It
of die mission of pastors both to encourage, with clarity, correct doctrine in matters of
severely limited in today's
Human
He
(CNS)
dressing moral problems facing
men and women,
Vietnam. But as with other communist states that have survived the Cold War, improvements have been noted," Quigley said during testimony at a meeting of the Congressional
who
with any religious
faith
as
'There can be no denying that
affiliated
be used to study the ways people turn to and religion to help cope with stress.
President attends Notre Dame commencement President George W. Bush is flanked by Holy Cross Father Edward Malloy (left), president of the University of Notre Dame, and Patrick McCartan,
past decade. However, certain issues, such
the U.S. bishops' policy adviser
not be
denomination. Data from the survey will
CNS
Relations between
official.
wishes to respond. Catholic Univer-
and their professors hope to recruit a sample from a wide variety of religious
'limited'
"severely limited," but the
is
http://
open to anyone
is
graduate students Michele Schottenbauer and Benjamin Rodriguez
the church and the Vietnamese government have improved during the
affairs.
at
how
stress.
sity
not persecuted, said a U.S. Catho-
gious freedom
30-minute survey on
who
WASHINGTON is
of America are recruiting online par-
research.cua.edu/psy
Catholic Church's ability to operate freely
Conference
Psychol-
meeting, held in Buffalo
USCC
church
—
Catholic Univer-
The Web-based survey
but not persecuted, says
lic
(CNS)
The
drew' about 900 religious
Vietnam church
is
a three-
people turn to religion in times of
the' country.
Vietnam
researchers. at
ticipants for a
education professionals from around
in
is
needs online participants
University
Los Angeles. 'Those who are serious
April
Hispanic project
by a $1.3 million grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts to examine the role of religion on the political and civic commitment of Latinos. Survey on religion and stress
Father John A. Coleman, professor of social values at Loyola
The
year ecumenical research program funded
Union
St.
St.
at
James Church, 251
North, invites anyone needing
a special favor, healing, petition or
Our Mother of PerNovena every Monday at 7
thanksgiving for the petual Help
call
the church
(704) 720-0600.
Phase submit notices ofeventsfor the Diocesan Planner at least 10 clays prior to the publication dak.
4 The Catholic News & Herald
May25, 2001
Around the Diocese
Catholic, Lutheran bishops to lead covenant anniversary celebration JIMMY ROSTAR
Associate Editor
CHARLOTTE
— Ten
years after the
Catholic and Lutheran communities in
North Carolina signed a covenant bonding them in the spirit of ecumenism and cooperation, three bishops will preside at an anniversary celebration of that signing and
that a reciprocal relationship can be estab-
go about doing
is
what to do and how
The
bishops will re-sign the covenant
near the close of the liturgy. Efforts toward full unity between
Bishop William G. Curlin of the Ro-
Catholics and Lutherans continue throughout the world. In October 1999, representatives of the Vatican and the
since then.
Catholic Diocese of Charlotte, Bishop
F. Joseph
Gossman of the Roman
Catholic
Diocese of Raleigh, and Bishop Leonard
Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on June 3 at St. Pius X Catholic Church in Greensboro will lead a Pentecost Sunday celebration at 4 p.m. The covenant includes a series of commitments made by the faith communities on Pentecost Sunday in 1991. The comBolick of the N.C.
mitments include statements about prayer, communication and action; shared celebrations, programs and educational opportunities; and deeper spiritual and social relationships between the faith communities.
The
original signers
were Catholic
Bishop John F. Donoghue of Charlotte,
Lutheran World Federation signed a joint declaration on the doctrine of justification, which focuses on the agreement that justifi-
and salvation come by faith alone. The- agreement states that justification does come through faith alone, but that good works are an essential sign of faith. The doctrine on justification was a cation
central issue of the Protestant Reformation
and had been a point of argument between Catholics and Lutherans since the 1700s. In a Lenten letter published March 5, 1999, in
The
Catholic
News &
Herald,
Gossman and Bolick exwhen Catho-
Bishops Curlin,
pressed their hope for the day lics
and Lutherans
will
be able to share in
"We
celebrate the authentic unity to
Bishop Michael McDaniel. The anniversary celebration- will mark a decade of statewide cooperation.
which our prayers, dialogues and common service have brought us and will continue
Covenants between local churches, shared observances of celebrations such as the an-
ences and overcoming historic obstacles,"
nual
Week
and
efforts at better
of Prayer for Christian Unity,
understanding one
another's faith traditions and practices continue.
"Over the past ten years much has been accomplished in pursuit of these goals, and yet, there is so much more to do," said
Bishop Curlin in a
May
18 letter to
parishioners of the Charlotte Diocese. "It
my prayer
to assist us in resolving traditional differ-
they
(CSS) Special Ministries has begun the steps to provide some of the answers.
is
that this celebration of renewal
will breathe
that people
new life into who were not
Elm
Pius
X
St. in
Church
is
Greensboro.
located at
2210
From Highway
west onto Cone Street. Then take a left onto Elm Street. The June 3 celebration will begin at 4 p.m. The parish
29 North,
office
Mr. Jerry
always been involved in disaster response, and we have a history of that," he said.
been the
The key
of
Collins, director
disasters
disaster responses for Catholic Charities
USA (CCUSA)
Charles Borromeo Church in
May
on
He
19.
ment them
the
Morganton
and
facts in
and
to
CSS
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workshop,
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tify
is
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and response plan and goal
for parishes to
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think in terms of the future,"
it
has been
difficult to
go further; the community will
faster;
and
it
will help to bridge
plan of action."
For more information
Rev. Mr. Collins took the participants
by
step through the provided materi-
about the diocesan disaster
of complied information from his work
CCUSA, the Red Cross and the board
with
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is
this effort
those gaps."
ence with disaster response in this diocese,
step
a part of our
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explained Carter. 'In our limited experi-
ma il jtrostar@charlottediocese. org
the Covenant,
Cross, Salvation
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and unplanned.
that sounds obvious,
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plies,
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at the
colleges
definition, are sporadic
be your only encounter with
let this
disaster response training; utilize local pro-
linked to plans on diocesan, local, state and
"Many
community more about
they can be of further assistance through continuing education.
a recently
is
from Catholic Relief Services and
The
the paiish resources and
needs, and to continue to learn
adopted document based on information
have a disaster
of
how
paredness and Response,"
other ^topics.
in other parts
groups, to form committees that will iden-
diocesan plan, "Disaster Pre-
goods and
lo-
and church authorities can man-
to share their information with their parish
first step."
The
only
Rev. Mr. Collins urged the attendants
"
to focus
diocesan plan, but this
is
beyond what
needed resources."
"From
see that there are
on which we need
areas
only our
Special Ministries.
are.
the country are called upon to provide
responses
effective
the
most immediately
age that Catholic dioceses
to disasters," said Gerald Carter, diocesan
director of
circumstances
cal, civil
acquaint parishioners with a model for efficient
Rescue and
to the disaster," explained Carter. "It
when
executable disaster relief plans.
providing
disasters occur,
local region.
best position to respond
workable and
'The purpose of the workshop was
it
channels
relief agencies already in place are in
order to imple-
own
all
of response typically comes
line
first,
from within the
provided the attendants
into their
that
"When
efforts at all times.
with a guideline or sample oudine of procedures, steps
making sure
are properly contacted and involved in the
Hillcrest
in
to responding effectively to
the adherence to a plan, but
is
also involves
and a permanent deacon
Holy Family Church
at
we can do some things The church has
unique role because
victims of disasters, the diocesan office invited Rev.
are trying to assist them. individual church has a really
that are not being done.
In order for parishes and individuals
who have
who
'The
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said. St.
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lished ever, the question
its
made
the progress that continues to be
man
ongoing implementation." The June 3 liturgy will include a homily, statements of witness from youth, and remarks from the three bishops reaffirming the spirit and the outcomes of the covactive in
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Foundations for
and learning
faith
New Triad Catholic high school
it
"The design and always-visible tower and chapel speak to the center of life on campus."
nears completion, looks to future By
JOANN
S.
KEANE
Editor
KERNERSVILLE
The
—
building, however,
Highway 66 Forsyth County meanders into Guilford County and High Point.
BMHS this
fall,
hunger
their
education ready to be
a pleasant easy-driving road, with a
huge surprise where you least expect it. Round the bend, and a new high school rises into sight, a shining beacon for
From facility is
education will
move
ready to meet the needs of a
"The design and always-visible tower
education.
and chapel speak to the center of life on campus. — Principal George Repass
school year inches towards completion, one chapthis
secondary
Catholic education in
the Triad draws to a close,
literally.
can go end to end in a matter of minutes, the
is
state-of-the art in
every way. Completely network wired,
each classroom is outlet-ready for computer plug in. BMHS students and faculty have room to stretch, reach and test new limits. Expanded programs will encourage high school curiosity to flourish.
Out
first inside
BMHS
look at their
new facility, punctuated by a room-byroom guided tour led by Principal George Repass. Between the
'ooohs
and
the educators are torn between
exhilaration and speechless awe. is
Photos by Joann S. Keane
Pictures of the under construction to
back, athletic fields
—
prepped for soccer, track and field, footwill place ball, baseball and softball BMHS Villains on a whole new playing field. At the heart of the facility, a 225-
—
North Carolina
spring afternoon, a handful of
BMHS
The new school
love?
a recent perfect
The new
rent school where you
What's not
Catholic education.
ahhs,'
tomorrow's leaders. It's a solid twohour tour to take in the full effects of the new school. Quite a change from the cur-
teachers say.
Memorial High School class of 2001 will be the last group of students to graduate off the campus on Link Road. Across town, the new Bishop McGuinness Memorial High School eases towards completion, and a new chapter readies itself. The metamorphosis of BMHS prepares to forever change Triad
teachers got their
technically
aware population of
The
Bishop McGuinness
On
Catholic
century,
in the Triad,
in
how
into the 21st
savvy,
There's an amaz-
ter
for a faith-laced
conception to reality, the
the Triad.
As
just the
satisfied.
tangible proof of
Catholic education in
ing transformation and it's all about Catholic
is
what's in store when students enter the hallowed halls
beginning of
off 1-40 in
It's
doesn't look like just a box built to hold
a program," says Repass.
Bishop McGuinness Memorial High School. Top, the exterior of the chapel is flanked at the left by one of the archways constructed within the new facility. Right, Principal George Repass along with teachers Connie Rafferty, Shirley Shaw and Susan Layman, inside the new gymnasium, and below, the outside courtyard.
seat chapel.
"The
fact that
state-of-the-art in
it is
every regard from its architecture to its technology has obviously had a big impact," says Repass.
see
it,
the
more
"The more people
enthusiastic they get."
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keeping faith always in sight. "It designed to be a classic, transitional, so
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Astronomer urges informed dialogue between science, religion
The
year-old state editor at lic
Florida Catho-
away with
diocesan newspaper walked
just $1,000 (before taxes), a free round-trip
—
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (CNS) There can be no productive dialogue between science and religion if eitiier side is dominated by ignorance, said the director of the Vatican Observatory. That revela-
flight to
New York and
accommoda-
hotel
and her husband, and $50-aday meal money. Palombo-Gonzalez said that before the taping she went to an empty dressing room and prayed. tions for her
Making history? Cardinal wears
came to Jesuit Father George V. Coyne while studying the Galileo affair as tion
Roman collar in Saudi Arabia WASHINGTON (CNS) — Wash-
part of a Vatican-appointed commission in
ington Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick
1988. "I think the church should learn, from the Galileo case and from other cir-
issues," he newspaper of the
may have made history in late March, during his visit to Saudi Arabia as a member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. "I believe it was the first time any priest, as a priest, has gone into Saudi Arabia," he said in an
Diocese of San Jose. Father Coyne said the
interview with the Catholic Standard, his
response to Galileo demon-
archdiocesan newspaper. "Priests have
was largely ignorant of
gone in (dressed) as tourists or businessmen, never identifiable as priests." Using his diplomatic passport, which clearly identified him as a priest, he wore his clerical black garb and Roman collar throughout his four-day visit. The four other commission members on the trip included Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. Summarizing religious freedom in that country, the cardinal said, "The situa-
cumstances, that listening
That
as speaking. tists
is
as important as the
many
church speaking out on told
The Valley
church's
initial
strated that
Catholic,
it
as important
is
hearing what scien-
is,
are really doing
believes he
Scripture and science.
Archbishop Sheen television,
announced
radio award
NEW YORK
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— The
Society
for the Propagation of the Faith has estab-
lished an
award
bishop Fulton excellence in
honor of the late ArchSheen that will recognize promoting the worldwide in
J.
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"Archbishop Sheen, a master communica-
much
promote the church's teaching and worldwide mission on radio and television," said Father John E. Kozar,
tor, did
to
national director of the society.
will
Deadline for the
New
known was
Archbishop Sheen, a well-
radio and television missionary,,
from
national director of the society
1950 to 1966.
Bishop sorry he didn't protest incidents that offended Jews ROCHESTER NY. (CNS) At a
—
Catholic-Jewish celebration
May
6,
Bishop
Matthew H. Clark of Rochester apologized for not speaking out sooner about two recent incidents that offended Jewish people.
One was
the Easter
World War
II veteran Francis E. Stueve, who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor, stands near a memorial to fallen soldiers at the U.S. Soldier's and Airmen's Home in Washington. "I've prayed to forget about that day," he said.
Sunday
publi-
in an April 22 New York Times Magazine article. Among other things, Ward blamed Jews for killing Christ.
Ward
Bishop Clark made his remarks at the Strong Museum to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Rochester Agreement between the Rochester Diocese and the Rochester Board of Rabbis and Jewish Commu-
two
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York Knicks
panels, the
basketball player Charlie
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From the Cover JOHN THAVIS
By
VATICAN CITY
—
(CNS)
In the
meeting of its kind ever held at the Vatican, more than 150 cardinals sat down to identify pastoral challenges and largest
Pope, cardinals identify
possible solutions at the start of the tiiird
millennium.
Pope John Paul II opened the May 21-24 consistory with a prayer and a re-
pastoral challenges, solutions
quest for the cardinals' input, saying he
wanted a
and
free
fraternal
exchange of
opinions.
The meeting's first day provided
short
speeches on a wide range of topics: the role
of die pope, the
personal holiness,
call to
pastoral problems of the family, opportuni-
by modern media, and the need and charity in globalization. Two particular suggestions came from U.S. cardinals: preparation of a document that would clarify what the church means by "new evangelization" and an annual worldwide Synod of Bishops with an open agenda. In his welcoming talk, the pope avoided specifics. He said the church needs ties offered
for justice
ways
to find the best
ern
to evangelize in
and that means
societies,
mod-
prioritizing
goals and evaluating every level of its pastoral operations.
He described the meeting as a followup to the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 and to his recent document, "Novo Millennio Ineunte" ("At the Beginning of the New Millennium"), which outlined pastoral aims and obstacles for the coming years.
The
cardinals, seated in the shell-
shaped Vatican Synod Hall, applauded the
who was
81-year-old pontiff,
to preside
over the three days of talks and celebrate a
Mass. It was die sixth time the pope has convened the cardinals for such a meet-
CNS
photo from Reuters
final
ing and the
time since 1994.
first
Pope John Paul II opens the consistory in Synod Hall at the Vatican May cardinals were meeting for three days of closed-door sessions.
21.
More than 150 of
the world's 183
All 183 cardinals were invited, but not all
could
the
make
155 were in attendance at
discussions. Fifteen cardinals spoke for six
The
to nine minutes each in the
it;
first session.
consistory
was held
behind closed doors, but without the ex-
treme secrecy of a conclave. Vatican spokesman Joaquin NavarroValls gave briefings on the content of the cardinals' discussions, and the Vatican released texts of some of the
At
main
talks.
sionary mobilization of the church at every level.
He said
the church should not aim at
"maintenance" but at mission.
sion.
Cardinal Roger
Cardinal William H. Keeler of Balti-
more, one of the
first
speakers, addressed
M. Maliony
of Los
Angeles suggested preparation of a "Direc-
New
the need for the church to take advantage
tory on the
of mass media, especially the Internet,
die term "new evangelization" has been
which he
the opening session, the cardinals
opening ses-
said offers a direct
evangelization.
He
channel of
cited the pope's obser-
Evangelization," saying
much-used and now needs
to be better
defined and applied in local churches.
heard two reports on the jubilee year, which provided an orientation for the dis-
vation that the church should participate
Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, dean of
of the media, not just try to
the College of Cardinals, moderated the
cussions to follow.
use
French Cardinal Roger Etchegaray,
who
presided over jubilee planning, said
Holy Year were part of the jubilee's "massive success" and had brought a needed spotlight to the the major ceremonies of the
liturgical life
He also
of the church. underlined the social aspect of
the jubilee, saying the biblically rooted call to charity entire,
and poverty must permeate the
church.
"Here, perhaps,
we
touch the most
provocative question, and the most urgent question for evangelization in the
lennium. Only a church that
become
a missionary church,
that
is
mil-
poor can and only a
is
demand
missionary church can
new
a church
poor," he said.
Italian Cardinal
Crescenzio Sepe, an-
in the culture
Cardinal Eugenio de Araujo Sales of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, speaking on the sensitive topic of papal ministry, said that fidelity to and unity with the pope was an
pilgrimage had
Now
it is
left
and
the church revitalized.
important not to lose the spiritual
momentum, he
said.
"All the strong
and intense stimuli of
the jubilee need to be further examined, dee|iened and above
all
put into practice by
a pastoral plan," he said.
Then began
the three days of o|xj n
The
"integral part" of the Christian faith.
According to sources, another cardinal said new structures were needed to promote more unity between local bishops and die pope. An annual Synod of Bishops that would meet at the Vatican with an open agenda might be such a tool, he said. Several speakers talked about the need to renew the spiritual life of individual Christians. Portuguese Cardinal Jose
schedule also called for small-
group discussions the morning of May 23. Reports from each language group were to be read that evening to the full assembly, along with a final report written by Mexican Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez of Guadalajara.
heads the Vatican's
sainthood congregation, proposed what he
logue, personal holiness, religious sects, the
Saraiva Martins,
who
between Vatican
called the "globalization of holiness" for the
relationship
whole church.
local churches, the role
Havana Cardinal Jaime Ortega also called for a bold, new pasto-
Alamino ral
plan of holiness for
all Catiiolics.
balization
the
life
on
"In every
Spirit. It
faithful to
injustice, the re-
church teachings
head of the Congregation for the
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acknowledged before the meeting, the thematic agenda was wide and the time for discussion limited about 15-20 hours during the meeting
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especially in
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New Age movements.
Tomko,
at die
first 'council'
doors to the pagans, and
church's use of mass media, ecology and
Cardinal Jozef
.mission at a
consistory, too," he said.
of Toledo, Spain, said the problems of the church's social teaching of today.
moment, but
was so
lem, at the
sexuality and other moral issues, the
As
its
decisive ones, the church listens to the
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of the church and
crucial time in history.
of the bishop, glo-
and economic
sponse of the
offices
themes, the
official
were expected to spend much time getting to know each other. For more than half the cardinals, it was the first time they had met in such an assembly. The group included more than 40 new cardinals named by the pope in February. The day before the consistory began, the pope asked for prayers by all Catholics for the meeting and said it would examine
In April, the cardinals received a letter
from the Vatican Secretariat of State outlining possible themes for their discussion. They included evangelization and dia-
other architect of jubilee events, said the jubilee experience of prayer, penitence
Other moderators scheduled May 21-22 were Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state.
first session.
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Hawker on
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said.
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personnel also contributed.
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the correct picture of the late Father Kirsch. We apologize to the family of Father Kirsch, and also to the priest whose photo is
great to have this handbook be-
cause this
Northern Regional faith formation coordinator. A host of parish and diocesan
Villapando said the handbook
uniformity to the resources available
to catechetical leaders in the diocese.
gional faith formation coordinator; and Franciscan Sister Bernadette Svatos,
significant in
Tracy Welliver of St. Pius X Church Greensboro said the handbook brings a
new
Kravatz, Southern Regional faith formation coordinator;
Last week, the wrong photograph accompanied the obituary for Father Edmund Kirsch. This
in
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Working with
and times of the church
'We are constandy receiving documents both from Rome and the United States Catholic bishops, and we need to incorporate those insights from the official teaching authority of the church," he said. "As policies are updated, it is important that this handbook was created as a living
function in the real world," he said, "and in
the real world,
a
Correction
terms of religious education.
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realize that
is
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future needs
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Around the Diocese
Charlotteans say thanks to priests through endowments By
JIMMY ROSTAR
generates income each year for seminarian education
Associate Editor
CHARLOTTE
—
Along
all
whom
they serve.
cannot be repaid,
in the
the Coxes established
is
treasure, too.
$7.1 million.
one-time cash
director of the Foundation and the
Diocese of Charlotte, including bequests
Diocese of Charlotte's director of development. "He values the priesthood
charitable gift annuities,
"Mr. Cox
gift.
Cox and
C. Richard
Cox
summer of 1 998, two endowment
the gifts into perpetuity.
difference in priests' lives forever."
year;
it's
his
made
significant imprints
Cox,
These endowments
their wills
and
a Depression-era
and
who have
endowments
and later made a living as an accountant and CPA. He shared more than 50 years of marriage with Loraine. Together, they raised nine children. Cox continues to spend his time in prayer, attending Mass and eucharistic
assist
endowments, we decided that we wanted to do something for the priests," said Mr. Cox, whose wife passed away in 1999. "Somewhere, "In both
every day, there you.
Our
is
a priest praying for
over the years.
We
wanted
our love and our thanksgiving to all the what they have done for our family and for people in the diocese." gifts to
are
the Foundation.
of hours every day
is
—
"I
and shares
diocese can have
an
And
—
home. And
At
is
life
remainder
insurance
you
how
important is
said,
on a
it is
Being a registered nurse
estate
gifts,
chari-
and from retirement plans. Cox said he and wife were impressed with the manner in which the diocese manages its finances and spends table lead trusts, real estate gifts,
gifts
its
resources.
"It's very important for people to understand that they can have complete confidence that what they give and what
they do is private," Loraine and I didn't
Cox feel
added. "If comfortable
with the administration of the financial affairs
of the diocese,
we
wouldn't have
established these endowments."
For information on planned giving, en-
dowments
or the Foundation,
Kelley at (704)
370-3301
call
diocesan director of planned giving, at (704) 370-3320.
"the
Contact Associate Editor Jimmy Rostar by calling (704) 370-3334 or e-mail jtrostar@charlottediocese.org
is
daily basis,
to
live life fully."
a challenge and about as far
not a road for everyone.
Then
from
again, neither
is
cloistered
life
as
you
being a Sister of
99 Lisa Atkins began her journey of discovery. One portion of the path was emotional and spiritually gruelling, the other, mentally and physically exhausting. She knows the workings of the human body from her studies. From her work at 1
1
,
saw the emotionally, physically and psychologically devastating effects of homelessness, AIDS and poverty. Lisa admits to doubts along the path, recalling them as times when she hadn't God. In May 998, she graduated from nursing spoken regularly with her best friend school and in September Lisa took her final vows as a Sister of Mercy. From the boardroom to the classroom and everywhere in between, Mercy needs many hands and hearts to bring about a better world.
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of Mercy, she
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deal with death
can get. Nursing
Cox
pray for them."
"When you realize
more comfortable
most important thing we can do for our priests
living
agreements,
endowments,
while financial concerns are
indeed important,
his talent at birthday parties
-
wills, charitable
retirements.
in his parish ministry center and at a
Catholic assisted
principal
gifts like these
studying for the priesthood know that educational expenses will not hinder their calling to serve, while retired priests who have served this
play songs from
the '20s and '30s," he said with smile
permanent
The
With
men
parish, St.
He
set
in
variety of planned giving options
Kelley said.
instrumental guitarist, playing a couple
to express
priests for
The endowments
home
Gabriel Church in Charlotte.
served here, the up permanent assets to the diocese in meeting those needs,
priests
sister in
fighter pilot,
adoration daily at his
best friends have been priests
a
offers financial resources to retired
Wichita, Kan., served in the military as a
beneficiaries of the Coxes' estate.
make
Because the Diocese of Charlotte pays for the education of its seminarians
farm with '
will
Catho-
and estate plans as a way of
needs.
will also be
his
continuing their stewardship even after
education and one for priests' retirement
Both endowments
on
who
their death," Kelley said.
Foundation
his parents
priests,
"More and more people across the remembering the church in
Stewardship of time, talent and
who grew up on
and he values
life,
dioces"e*are
a lasting thing."
treasure has always been important to
one for seminarian
leaving a legacy to his
lic faith.
in
something that would go on and on," said Mr. Cox. 'With endowments, you're building up something that will yield income every
Though
is
Seminarian Education Endowment Fund and Priest Retirement Endowment Fund at any time, thus furthering
"We wanted
a gift that
A
are available to parishioners in the
the A. Loraine
Coxes
managed
67 endowments with assets totaling
values," said Jim Kelley, executive
funds through the Diocese of Charlotte's
—
2000, the Diocese of Charlotte
The endowments will generate much more income over time than a In addition, people can contribute to
long appreciated the life commitment priests and men studying to be priests they agreed that ministry
never
is
carrying on the financial plans he and his wife set up years ago, he shares his
touched.
wife, Loraine.
offer those
priests' retirement,
while the principal itself
the
Dick Cox of Charlotte has been accompanied by priests. They have- baptized and confirmed his children, they celebrate the Masses he attends daily, they consecrate the Eucharist to which he is so devoted, and they gave last rites to his steps of his faith journey,
In their lives together, the
and
Mercy
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10 The Catholic News & Herald
May25, 2001
Readings
Book Review
New book chronicles Word to Life
affection for pope Reviewed by
FATHER JOHN
Catholic
"John Paul
II:
T.
MYLER
A
Personal Portrait of
Pope and the Man," by Ray Flynn,
the
—
is
personal and manly. Flynn was ambassador to the Vatican from 1993 to 1997 and mayor of Boston from 1984 to 1993. But his book, written with Robin Moore and Jim Vrabel, recalls
just that
only a
bit
of the diplomatic protocol of his
job. Rather,
a chronicle of a deepening,
it is
JOHN PAUL II: A PERSONAL PORTRAIT OF THE POPE AND THE MAN, by Ray
Flynn. St. Martin's Press
They had been
(New
stunned looks on their
know
didn't
—
with
that
faces, as if
miration
pope
the
for
grows
that
through personal en-
counters at grand events like World Youth Day in Denver and intimate moments like those between the pope and the ambassador at the
you could
many
like that
times.
The
in Boston.
know back then what a he was, and what a special
'Little did I
pope
JOHN PAUL II PORTRAIT/ THE POPE AND THE MAN A PERSONAL
and special he would be-
Flynn had met
cepted, wife,
to
and he, his Kathy, and their family
Rome
Among chapters
Ephesians 1:17-23
3)
Gospel: Luke 24:46-53
reveling in the attention
DAN LUBY
Catholic
The image
The
News Service transfixed me, 8
—
for
the 30
that long-ago
disciples
—
I
had
let
little
next to the television.
My
reminded me of
summer
night.
— frightened, — stood staring
The
awed,
shocked at the spot where, the Lord had disappeared. Two strangers shook them from their paralysis: "Why are you
sock on my left foot. Seconds before, there had been a loud and wholly unexpected machine-gun sound.
close to a
injury
last scene in the story of
Jesus' ascension
years old, sitting on the floor in the den after supper on a summer night. For a timeless moment the rest of the world disappeared as I gazed intently at. a tiny hole in the
wander too
my
had drawn.
standing there, looking at the sky?" Discipleship
—
is a call
to action.
Day by day we encounter wounds needing bandages, sorrow needing comfort, despair needing hope, injustice needing confrontation. The power of Easter is not only to demonstrate Christ's glory but to move us to imitation of him as well, to the daily task of proclaiming, in word and deed, God's love for all.
my toe
floor fan
siblings
QUESTIONS:
and I were frozen by the shock and confusion of all that bright red blood coming from my toe. v We might all be there still had not my father shouted for them to
What
is
one action
to
which you
feel Easter calling you? Wliere in
your
corner of the world do you need to be busy about the work of healing?
each ac-
tually only five or six
RAY FLYNN FORMER
li.S.
AMBASSADOR TO THE VATICAN
"You remember
—
most moving are the recollections of Pope John
Weekly Scripture
Paul's personal inter-
Ambassador Flynn, Your Holiness." And the pope replied, 'The our very good friend and
est in Flynn's family
and friends
— answering
a dying boy's
prayers, easing a mother's pain, reaching
out to the Flynn family during a time of
They chatted and then, Flynn writes, knew diat I didn't have much time, but
personal
One
crisis.
lengthy treatment
is
given to the
was something that I especially wanted the pope to hear. Lowering my voice a little, I said, T have heard you might preach against capital punishment, Holy Father. Someone must do it, and as usual it is you. I just want you to know it is a
pope's insistence on promoting the culture
message we need to hear in this country.'" 'Thank you, Ambassador," Flynn says the pope replied. "America is beautifi.il. She must always choose life instead of death." Flynn adds, "As I stepped away, I noticed U.S. Reps. Dick Gephardt and
tion to several U.S. proposals.
there
in front
2)
the hole in the sock.
from
Vatican. Flynn ac-
President
Kennedy
1:1-1
the
March
call
pages long
Patrick
Acts
Psalm 47:2-3, 6-9
am-
1993 phone
ary 1999. In the re-
"I
arms
bassador
times before a
over four years.
is
stand back.
to serve as U.S.
several
describes speaking with Pope John Paul II at the St. Louis airport in Janu-
be."
He scooped me into his and, while my mother staunched the bleeding, drove me to the emergency room. A few stitches later I was back watching television, this time on the couch,
of the Lord
Readings:
time stopped I watched that tiny hole in my sock, where a disconnected sort of pain was beginning. All around me, my siblings gazed in shared puzzlement at a halo of dark red blooming around
pope
the
lived in
always will
C
Wham! Wham! Wham! Now
come.
Clinton asked Flynn
example,
ambassador
27, Ascension
By
incidents
sented chronologically starting with Flynn's first meeting with Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Krakow during a 1969 reception for the Polish cardinal in a church hall
For Flynn
pope,
1) -
are recounted in compelling vignettes, pre-
special priest
Clinton said to the
Cycle
Flynn talked to and with Pope John Paul
most of
line,
they
— and
talk to
1994 "Shoah" concert.
ceiving
con-
a pope like that."
friend
ever affectionate ad-
my
versation with the pope. Both of them had
York,
2001). 204 pp., $22.95.
May
talking with Mrs. Clinton,
but had turned to eavesdrop on
News Service
of
me
in line.
Readings for the week of May 27 - June 2, 2001 Seventh Sunday of Easter, Acts 7:55-60, Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20, John 17:20-26; Monday, Acts 19:1-8, John 16:29-33; Tuesday, Acts 20:17-27, John 17:1-11; Wednesday, Acts 20:28-38, John 17:11-19; Thursday (The Visitation of Mary), Romans 12:9-16, Luke 1:39-54; Friday (St. Justin), Acts 25:13-21, John 21:15-19; Saturday (Sts. Marcellinus and Peter, Martyrs), Acts 28:16-20, 30-31, John 21:20-25
of life during the infamous Cairo conference of the mid-1990s. Flynn ended up meeting
with Clinton face to face in the Oval Office, insisting that the president telephone the
pope
to hear firsthand the church's opposi-
The great camaraderie between Flynn and Pope John Paul gives
a personal
Readings for the week of June 3 - 9, 2001 Pentecost Sunday, Acts 2:1-11, 1 Corinthians 12:3-7,12-13, John 20:1923; Monday, Tobit 1:1-2; 2:1-9, Mark 12:1-12; Tuesday (St. Boniface), Tobit 2:9-14, Mark 12:13-17; Wednesday (St. Norbert), Tobit 3:1-11,16, Mark 12:18-27; Thursday, Tobit 6:11; 7:1,9-14; 8:4-7, Mark 12:28-34; Friday, Tobit 11:5-15^ Mark 12:35-37; Saturday (St. Ephrem), Tobit 12:1,5-15,20,
Mark
12:38-44
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& Columns
Editorials
Dragging Unwilling Teens to Mass One recent Sunday morning we watched a little family drama one pew in front of us. This wordless battle of
The Pope
probably
wills
Speaks
is
played out in almost every parish, almost
every Sunday.
They were
Coming of Age
a father and his teen-age daughter
took her for about
14.
From
the
moment we
sat
—
I
down
behind them, everything about her said "I'm here against
my will,
and
POPE JOHN PAUL
Welcome from
II
Orthodox,
Muslim leaders was
pushing her
As
—
May
Speaking
May
millennium. his
May 4-9
visit to
the three countries,
cycle of long-desired biblical pilgrimages to
mark
die
of Christianity.
In predominandy Orthodox Greece and in
where the Orthodox form a significant part of the Christian minority, "I wanted to show the Orthodox churches the Catholic Church's affection and
Syria,
esteem, with the desire that the
One might
reasonably ask, "Shouldn't he just leave
it make any sense for their parents to drag them into Mass?" Absolutely.
out at home, does
It is
a Christian parent's responsibility to
At
baptism, parents
memory
he
sure
a teen-ager
go to
an obligation.
it's
make
their children in the faith.
make
life.
Does a parent have the right to make church? Absolutely. In fact
a solemn promise to raise
The
baptismal service calls
and best of teachers. You can't teach kids about the faith by leaving them at home on Sunday. People fear that dragging unwilling teens to Mass will turn diem against religion, causing them to stop going as soon as they can. Their argument supposes that somehow, if you let kids drop out when they're 13; some magical force will
first
draw them back when they're 25. Teens who drop out early mostly don't come
back.
said.
audience.
Muslims was "truly encouragDuring the visit, he became the first pontiff in Syria's majority
CNS
Columnist
Talking With Teens About Pentecost ever wonder if there's more to this Chris-
The way
is
pope prayed for an end to bloodshed and violence in the Middle East. He told the May 16 audience that remains there."
prayer continues and will not cease until
way
and the recognihe said. "I pray to the God of peace that young Christians, Muslims and Jews can grow up together as children of the same God," he said. The pope's last stop on the pilgrimage was Malta, a heavily Catholic island, where he beatified two men and a woman. "Once again, I wanted to indicate the path of to reconciliation
tion of reciprocal rights," .
holiness as the principal path for believers in the third
millennium," he
said.
—
people talk about it even religion you'd think that being Christian about nothing more than being kind to other people.
teachers sometimes
—
can't be
all
there
is
to
it,
you
suspect.
Jesus surely couldn't have been executed just for preach-
ing kindness.
Now
said.
In Syria, at a contested border with Israel, the
revenge gives
is
may
know what
be about, you can't possibly
leaving
if
you decide
to
you're
bail.
That's why it's the parent's responsibility to keep you going until you're ready to tackle the really big issues on you own.
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"God has made him both Lord and Messiah, whom you crucified."
That's the heart of it. That's the core of Christianity
Do you
But that surely
becoming
increasingly important and necessary at the begin-
my spirit
manner of subjects, including
—
— not
AMY WELBORN
history to enter a mosque.
"My
all
working through that period of rebellion and then discovering the value of the church in a brand new way. The third stage comes when the maturing young person finds that matters of faith and a spiritual life really are important. It emerges through a realization that some of the mind's questions must have religious answers, and some of the heart's empty places can only be filled through a relationship with God. However, you can't get to the third stage if you drop out in the middle of Stage 2. If you haven't stayed around long enough to get a sense of what adult life in the church
this Jesus
tianity business than you're led to believe?
a certain sense,
on
important part of growing up Christian
just simple humanitarianism, but living rooted is
Lord.
difference does that
make?
Lord, that means that everything he said Everything he said about material things being totally unimportant. Every word he said about living by the spirit of the law, not just the letter. Every hint he dropped about sacrifice. And, very important, everything Jesus said about God's passionate love for you is absolutely true. Imagine living that way. Imagine walking around in this culture of ours, in which human beings are nothing more than bodies to be exploited and wallets to If Jesus is
warm welcome
ning of the third millennium," the pope
most pass through Stage
A big difference.
one of the principal aims of the jubilee pilgrimage, that of gatiiering together in places of our common origin to witness Christ, our unity," he told the
is
An
So what? What
Several days later in Syria, the pope and local
"Interreligious dialogue with Islam
it.
a period of questioning during which they challenge
religion.
is
In addition, the pope said the
think about
their early teens,
in the conviction that Jesus
Orthodox patriarchs prayed together in a Greek Orthodox cathedral. "Deeply moved, I saw in this the fulfillment of
"in
2,
that day,
years.
ing."
kids don't
Christopher Carstens, c/o Catholic
Coming of Age
During a May 4 meeting in Athens with Greek Orthodox leaders, the pope issued a dramatic apology for past treatment of the Orthodox and said it was time to "heal the wounds" that have divided Eastern and Western churches for nearly 1,000
from
There are three stages in your life as church members. In Stage 1, kids go because their parents go. The
— even —During
of past
wrongs against communion would be fully purified and would open space for reconciliation and fraternity,"
CHRISTOPHER CARSTENS CNS Columnist
their parents' thinking
spoken, she
her at home? If teens want to sleep in on Sunday or hang
parents the
the pope traced the footsteps of St. Paul; completing a
new millennium
Mass were
father calmly following behind.
16 at his weekly general audi-
St Peter's Square, he said reconciliation with Orthodox Christians and dialogue with Muslims were among Catholic Church priorities for the new
pew,
back with a pencil eraser.
the final words of the
that their kids participate in the church's
in
During
cuticles
sat in the
heaved a sigh of relief and headed quickly for the door, her
pilgrimage to Greece,
Syria and Malta.
ence
and flipped She stared out the open door. She braided and unbraided some pieces of string in her purse. She wasn't rude, and she didn't disturb anybody except perhaps her father. He remained calm and did exactiy what he had come to do. He knelt and prayed, and she gazed off into space. When he stood to sing, she stood, shifting from foot to foot
While he received Communion, she
By JOHN NORTON News Service Pope John Paul II VATICAN CITY (CNS) said he was encouraged and moved by the warm welcome of Orthodox and Muslim leaders and youths during his early
it."
didn't look at
in sullen silence.
encouraging, says pope
Catholic
resent
I
him even once. She read the bulletin through a little book she found near her seat.
She
more
it's
Pentecost, and that story gives you even
to think about.
The
locked room, and they're is
apostles are gathered in a
terrified.
That's
why
the door
Why are they so scared? If Christianity were just about kindness, surely the apostles could get out there on the streets of Jerusalem and tell people about that without fearing for their lives, right? But there they are, praying and waiting. They've been told by Jesus to go out and spread the good news, and baptize all nations, but they just can't seem to get around to it. They're almost paralyzed there in that room.
For fear of telling people apostles' fear
to be nice?
I
don't think so.
the rest of the story, of course.
ends when,
in a
The
rush of wind and tongues
of flame, the Holy Spirit comes in their midst, setting
them on that
fire
and giving them the courage to get out of the good news. As Peter said
room and proclaim
be emptied, living as
if
Jesus
is
Lord.
Now
you can see why the apostles were a little hesitant. You might even share that hesitation. No, you won't be under the threat of arrest and imprisonment if you accept the good news the apostles preached. But you'll probably confront your own set of difficulties from your peers and maybe even from your family.
So maybe now you can
see the point of those gifts of
the Spirit, poured out on the apostles on Pentecost and
locked, of course.
You know
true.
shared with you at confirmation. If you're going to embrace Jesus as Lord of your life, you're going to need wisdom, understanding, counsel and knowledge to help you figure out how to live this way. You're going to need fortitude to help you be strong. You're going to need piety and fear of the Lord for those quiet times when it all gets to be too much, and you'll need to be re-fed and nourished for the next step. So there you go, young apostle of the 2 1 st century. Jesus is Lord. The Spirit's in your heart. Isn't it time to unlock the door and go outside?
May 25, 2001
Light
has not turned her head or led her
One
down
at first sight
and they married
writer and her producer husband
found a constant
Msgr. JIM LISANTE Guest Columnist
The Unknown Priest program gives you the
opportunity to meet some fascinating people. Sometimes,
based on biographical research, you get high expectations.
You come to believe that a guest will be something amazing. Too often, you find their pre-publicity doesn't match the reality. In the case of one recent guest, just the opposite
My
happened.
expectations were far exceeded by the
Much
monumentally print,
is
countries.
Her
world.
And
it
is
written about
all
the people in
almost didn't
World War
II
who
could have done more, or should have done more, to
With seventeen novels in more than sixty-two million books.
save
human life. But some folks did care. Some folks did get Some folks took the enormous risk. And some
successful author.
in thirty-nine
first
languages
stance. Published in 1979,
eighty-nine
in
A Woman
novel was called
remained on The New York over fifteen months. Her latest, it
Times bestseller lists for The Triumph of Katie. Byrne, will no doubt continue this winning streak. The London Daily Mail indicates that for three years running, the author ranked in first place on the list of highest-earning British women. Barbara writes with a unique and insightful
style,
growth and evolution of women faced with seemingly overwhelming odds. Her heroines grow before our eyes, becoming persons of impressive conviction and
celebrating the
substance. Personally, the author lives a
some glamour, but with
far
more
stability
involved.
died in the trying. a great writer
and a
wonderful person to interview. Unpretentious and
joyful,
of Sub-
life filled
Barbara Taylor Bradford she lights up a room.
You
is
sense, as she talks, that the pilot
and talented person
light behind this positive
loved husband. Neither Barbara nor Robert
is
is
her be-
Catholic.
But that doesn't matter. Caring and loving, getting volved and taking a stand are part of the universal
in-
call to
holiness.
I'm glad Barbara Taylor met and fell in love with Robert Bradford. And I'm delighted that an unknown priest
made
a decision to
make
a difference for the good.
Msgr. Jim Lisante
is
the director
of the
By
ANDREW &
TERRI LYKE
we endure
Typically,
the
mad
rush at an area
Mothers Day. This past Mothers Day was very different Andrew's siblings, their spouses, children and grandchildren forewent the usual and restaurant on
Mom
gathered with
at the 8:30
Mass
at St. Sabina's
and spent the rest of the day at Mom's. There was nothing very unusual about the day, from outward appearances. However, something very rich was evident in our gathering that day. It was our first visit to St Sabina's, where we were members for many years, since we joined our current parish in 1988. It was like coming home. Being there with so many family members to honor Mom seemed so appropriate and a perfect way to begin what would be a magical day. Gathering at Mom's after mass began in a typical fashion. Some hung-out in the kitchen, while others watched the NBA playoffs on TV. With children running underfoot, a few of us even took quick naps. In the late-afternoon we gathered around the TV to watch old family videos. However, before the tape began Andrew's nephew Craig made the announcement that he was entering the police academy after
much discernment. He asked for the family's support; we lifted him in prayer. The first video was from Christmastime 1991 -a
with
and normalcy
Column
The
to have
Barbara Taylor Bradford and she's a
she has sold
They're printed
in this chaotic
1963.
in
seem genuinely
Guest
it
happen at all. Robert Bradford lived as a child in Nazi-occupied territory. His life was at risk. That is, until a Catholic priest helped Robert cross into a safe neighboring country. At the border, now securely on the other side, young Robert turned to wave goodbye to his companion. His eyes beheld a horrible sight. The Gestapo had been trailing this refugee band and arrived too late to stop Robert, but just in time to apprehend and shoot the Catholic priest. His sacrifice made all the difference to one young life and perhaps many more. Today, Robert Bradford, a successful film producer, is an avid supporter of children's charities, including the Police Athletic League. It seems he learned early, and from a memorable teacher, the responsibility an adult has to a youngster in need of a friend.
person before me.
Her name
This
met Robert Bradford. She claims
blind date in 1961, she
was love
television
foolish paths.
woman knows who she is and what truly matters. So love, fidelity and common sense are her true touchstones. On a
Candle
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time of innocence before the deaths of brother Aaron, uncle Jimmie and Dad. In mid-May, there
May Cremated Remains Be
Question
Present During a Funeral?
My
husband and I have talked with our Q. parish priest about funeral arrangements, including realize cremation
is
naivete, while the
Corner
youthfulness of the "old folks."
The second video was of sister Lila's 40th birthday party in July of the same year. In typical fashion there was dancing, "doowop" singing and plenty of
permitted by the
church now, but what happens at the funeral
urn with the ashes allowed in the church?
Mass? Is
We
seem
the
to be
embarrassing moments to laugh
getting mixed answers, even from priests. (Florida)
at. Evident in both and pride in one another, and the magic we bring to our family gatherings. Looking around the crowded livingroom and
videos
A. Answers to your question have developed very slowly over the past 20 years or
so, as
FATHER JOHN DIETZEN
CNS
cremation has become
Columnist
more common in the United States. One estimate is that more than 20 percent of funerals in our country now involve cremation. In some states the figure is much higher. Percentages for Catholics appeal' to be not
As
I
much
in this
(and
some other
Christian denominations) because anti-
Christian groups, especially in Europe,
that
promoted
it
as a
symbolic rejection of Christian belief in the immortality of
It still
provided
is
it is
not chosen in disrespect for Chris-
tian faith or beliefs.
Because of the large volume of inquiries they were
United
States.
The Congregation
for Divine
Worship and
Since then,
readings and adaptations of the rites
have been prepared and approved for cremated remains of the body present
A number of bishops their parish priests to
liturgies
with the
in church.
and archbishops have delegated
make
the pastoral decision for a
church for the funeral Mass,
A
is still
movie dealing with exorcisms and devil worship spoke, as I understood it, of "diabolical obsession." Is that the same as possession? (Oklahoma) Q.
The magic
recent
— —
called to say
Day for her.
trol,
briefly,
possession usually refers to con-
or near control, of a person's body, as
inside,
by an
it
were, from the
evil spirit
Obsession
is
the term used for an experience of many is
It
how
was so
it
was a
for us
all.
there.
Sometimes when we gather as a family, the pain is most pronounced. We
can actually
feel their
absence. Despite
all that,
gath-
the waters of life.
going to the well and sipping John 4:14 says, 'Those who drink of
the water that
will give
The water
is like
I
that
I will
them
will
never be
give will become in
spring of water gushing up to eternal It is in
A. No. Very
is still
ering as family
possible.
such gatherings that
we
thirsty.
them a
life."
discover
who we
Within the family gathered the waters of life gush up and overflow in abundance. It is there we gather the people, prepare the food, give thanks to God, break the bread, tell the stories of our life and faith, and dance in die radiant, magical light of God's love really are.
molested physically in circumstances that seem to point to
an
evil spirit as It
is,
the cause.
more of an external than internal more than a "temptation" in the ordinary
therefore,
influence, but
is
sense of that word.
funeral to be celebrated in the presence of the ashes.
Thus, while the Catholic Church continues its preference for traditional entombment, it recognizes that a variety of circumstances geographic, economic, family considerations and so on can make cremation an under-
Mom
of losing family members
people through the centuries in which an individual
new
tears.
funeral liturgy.
the Discipline of the Sacraments granted this request the
following year.
and
next day
very special Mothers
Vatican permission for the bishop of a diocese to allow the
presence of the cremated remains at funeral liturgies in the
strong, perhaps stronger, yet seasoned by
having the body of the deceased present for the funeral Mass better expresses our belief in the dignity and sacredness of the human body, as it is honored in the
1996 the American bishops requested
receiving, in
appreciated the love and pride
is still
The
will
Nevertheless, cremation beforehand, with the ashes in
no longer raised seriously. For decades now, the church has no longer prohibited the practice,
when cremation
follow,
the soul and the resurrection.
That argument
that has transpired since the
we
time, tragedy
urges, however, that even
for
on so much
time of the videos,
column,
cremation formerly was forbidden by the Catholic Church
was our love
reflecting
standable choice.
different.
have explained several times
by their childhood younger kids marveled at the
older children were embarrassed
retired
We
cremation.
we were The
singing Christmas carols along with the video.
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14 The Catholic News & Herald
May25, 2001
Around the Diocese
Youth explore definitions of violence NELLENBACH
By JOANITA M.
talking.
Correspondent
BRYSON CITY
— The
setting was was violence and how to deal with it. Youth from four parishes in the Smoky Mountain and
—
peaceful, but the subject
Asheville vicariates learned
how
to deal
with violence and prevent potential vio-
During
The point of the exercise was not
on anyone. As Erin
lost
said,
"We
couldn't judge people right
away and
You're a green, you're a cause we might be green."
loser,'
say,
was the
J.R.
be-
loner, the only person
with a dot of a different color. Erin said she
felt
guilty for leaving
made
him out of her
the point that "some-
middle school retreat Living Waters, they learned that they have a part in making a new and better world.
group. J.R.
Paul Kotlowski, diocesan director of the Office of Youth Ministry, who led the
Others also knew about exclusion. Lia said that at her school, if a student talked to someone who wasn't accepted, no one would accept the student who initiated the conversation. She added that "people are scared of what they don't understand," and said that she and a girl who attends a Lutheran church became friends after they discussed what each believes and finding how similar many of their beliefs were. Aubrey said she had attended a service with a friend from another denomination and the pastor and others were
lence.
May
held
a
12 at
Camp
took his theme, "I Make All Things New," from Revelation 21:5, found in that weekend's readings for the fifth Sunday of Easter. The retreat concluded with some of the families joining the group for Mass celebrated by Father Ray Williams, pastor of St. Joseph Church in Bryson City. retreat,
Those
participating in the retreat
were: from
St.
Joseph, Chris Norcross,
Tiffany Carlson, Stephen Sauer, Brittney Helton, and
Mary
Herr, regional faith
formation consultant for the Smoky Mountain Vicariate; from St. William, Murphy, Stephanie Martin; from St. Mary, Sylva, Erin Hayes, J.R. Collins, and Kyle McCay; and from St. Barnabas, Arden, Aubrey Foss, Jennifer Foss (Aubrey's mother), Lia Beard, and Benjamin Torres. Kotlowski began the retreat with an exercise designed to to exclude people.
show how easy it is then went among
He
the group, placing a colored dot on each one's forehead.
When
they opened their
had to form groups of people with the same colored dots without eyes, they
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is of God; therefore, it should be something celebrated, not feared." Then it was time to focus on violence and the escalators that cause violence, what often happens when people emphasize differences at school and else-
sity
where.
definition.
When
leave people out, not because of
skin color, but
if
they're different" in
some other way.
surprised that a Catholic
would attend
opinions, hatred stored
"we'll be building the
came
kingdom.
we would
be one, but we've really messed that up over the that
kingdom by concentrating on the similarities rather than the
years. Build the
differences.
We
want
to find
something
and concentrate on that rather
similar
up
inside a per-
son and released as rage, expressions of misunderstanding between two or more people and resulting in harm, someone needing to get the upper hand, sadness, jealousy, regret, anxiety, hurting an-
other person emotionally or physically
because you don't understand them or they are different, anger taken out in a
And
"In finding similarities," Kotlowski said,
the group discussions ended,
Kotlowski wrote on a flip chart as the participants called out parts of the definition. Violence, they said, is sin, physical or emotional abuse, emotional stress, people bringing guns to school, displaying anger or hatred toward others resulting in emotional or physical harm, people being mean because of different
brutal way.
their church.
Jesus
What is violence? The retreatants
broke into groups to come up with a
than on the differences." 'We need to recognize that God is the author of diversity and differences,"
he added. "Just look
at the
awesome
diversity in creation. Ultimately, diver-
I
was
also violence to the
want
to be a life-giver with
someone who's negative?" Kotlowski asked. "God made us to love and to be loved and to belong.
constructive attitudes or
When
we're loved, we're given attention;
we need
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pentance. In a discussion of conflict resolution, Paul pointed out that "every warning sign is an opportunity to back out or to
introduce peace."
"So what does
with
there
environment as seen in littering, polluting, improper disposal of chemicals, use of pesticides, erosion, sport hunting, and overdevelopment of land.
"Do
J.R. said that even though we're the "image of God, we do violence to ourselves with drugs, alcohol, and sex." "Every human being is sacred and precious and a miracle, and J.R. brings up an excellent point that we do violence to ourselves because we don't believe that," Kotlowski said. The next step was to decide what was the opposite of violence. As Erin scribed on the flip chart, parts of the definition came in. Nonviolence, the group members said, is respecting self and others, love, being nice to everybody, honoring people's differences and
to belong. If I don't get attention
God making
1
all all
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Living the faith he called his wife to
plant,
Obstacles strengthen
tell
her to
sell
house and their dog and join him in Elizabethton, Tenn., where he later fintheir
ished his college degree in science.
shock It was very country and clannish, whereas outsiders and Catholics weren't thought of
deacon's faith, provide spiritual nourishment By
ALESHA
M. PRICE
Catholic. Because of his hectic
Staff Writer
MORGANTON all
his breath as the
The members
sides.
Rev. Mr. Jim
turned out for his
baptism into the Methodist
ered around the pond used for tisms. It
was
at that
that teen-aged
and gathchurch bap-
faith
me
extended family and
faith.
A
desire to dis-
cover more about himself and the world outside of his childhood
home
sent
him
to
Stephen F. Austin Teacher's College to become an agriculture teacher; however, a need for money and a job canned him to Beaumont, where his uncle owned a hamburger stand.
couple
moved
to
he said. "Everyone liked the mail I took special care of the cooks, and
they would take care of me.
When we
God had
said that
Everything was on track until threw Rev. Mr. Johnson a curve ball.
life
He
of being transferred to Texas, his home, Indonesia or Morganton, N.C. The Appalachian Mountains called the family to Morganton where they his choice
He
settled.
continued attending classes in
Nashville while advancing in his job and
began to explore the Diocese of Charlotte and his new parish home, St. Charles Borromeo. However, he received some devastating news. "I
had
finished the three years of class
but couldn't be ordained in Tennessee.
It
had extra food, I was able to feed everyone in die trailer park where we lived. (It was an example of) God's love shining forth because we shared what we had with others." In 1961, Rev. Mr. Johnson began
was very hurtful, but I figured that God would not have taken us this far and that
studying his wife's religion, and through
deacons from his class
her support and guidance, he converted.
"I
he had a plan."
He
received
word from
the Diocese of
Charlotte that he had permission to be
ordained in 1987. Since that day
when
the
Tennessee traveled to see him ordained, he has become involved with prison ministry, marriage encounter and has been the Boy and Girl in
them
Judith, his future wife, to
the Johnsons returned to Texas, but after
good
was love
the plant closed down, they needed to fig-
with problems, and
both of them, and they were married. He had first-hand experience with Catholicism through his wife, a devout, cradle
ure out what was next. A close friend of his from Tennessee told him that the state was booming, so he went to scout around for
young men," Mr. Johnson, father of four. "I encourage them to earn religious awards in their various faiths and to share their faiths with each other. You can go down the list
that
drew
the establishment. In any case,
it
at first sight for the
felt it
himself After obtaining a job at a research
Scouts' diocesan chaplain since 1985, also
serving as Assistant Scout Master and Scout Master and
Cub
me do a lot of boys from broken homes, those
use
me
God
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has been able to
as a minister to these
in
try to get
it
applies to
all
of us.
I
them to take an active role in their
spiritual lives
and with prayer, and Scout-
ing helps with
Rev. Mr. Johnson cites his wife and
is
work. His wife critic,
and
his homilies.
'My
there for me, and
have made
my
is
his
homily
and he says that e-
a good friend of his because he
receives ideas
it
from people for wife has always been
stories
I
this far
held at St. Gabriel
don't see
how
I
could
without the support of
wife and family."
Contact Staff Writer Alesha
M.
Price by calling (704) 370-3354 or email amprice@charlottediocese.org.
good men bring
Two
are
applied for the seminary
to
widowers who
upon
the deaths
men are fathers of children, some of whom now have children of their own," said Bishop Curlin. 'Two are also brothers who escaped Vietnam in order to find freedom in the United States."
According to
May
statistics
from a
survey conducted by the U.S. bishops' Committee on Vocations, of the nearly 400 men being ordained this year, 13 percent are Hispanic, 7 percent are of Asian descent and 1 percent are African-American. The percentage of those born in countries other than the United States was also higher from 24 to 28 percent. This is reflected in the class of 2001 of the Diocese of Charlotte
—
with Rev. Messrs. Tien and Due Duong from Vietnam and Rev. Mr, Fohn, who was born and raised in Germany. Rev. Mr. Fohn and Rev. Mr. Ferris both attended Pope John XXIII National Seminary in Western Massachusetts. Rev. Mr. Fohn was ordained to the permanent diaconate in 1989 prior to entering the seminary. Rev. Mr. Due Dong attended the Theological College of the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. while his brother Rev. Mr. Tien Duong completed his studies at St Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pa. Though educated at different seminaries in the country, all
four
men
will contribute their experi-
ences and knowledge as priests of the Diocese of Charlotte.
'Dach of the
men who
are being or-
dained had followed a wonderful journey to the priesthood.
uniquely gifted for trusted to their
them
own way
as
Each one of them is work that will be enpriests. All of diem in
have borne extraordinary
witness to their faith in their individual lives," said
that."
consultant and
Ferris to the holy
of their wives, and both
Father John Allen, assistant
director of vocations for the diocese.
The
family as his main source of inspiration for his diaconate
the gifts these
priestly ministry.
said Rev.
of Scouting laws, and
Executive Director:
Master.
"Scouting has helped for
Duong and Robert
will ordain
Due Duong, Tien
'This year's class has a rich diversity
the sight of Rev. Mr. Johnson cooking
could be the smell of the burgers or
Bishop William G. Curlin
other plans.
"Every time I made an excuse, God would take it away. Out of the blue, I got a raise, and I got a great deal on a car. You can't argue with God and win. I started with the classes and enjoyed them."
had
two widowers
families.
2.
Mr. Johnson
Nashville. But, Rev.
was a blessing in my life, and it was something I had wanted to do. My wife never pressured me at all and would take time to answer all my questions. She was and still is my rock." After a little over two years of duty,
It
with
Church on June
a
—
farming community in Nacogdoches, Texas, and remembers a time filled with food and discussions that revolved around the important presence of immediate and
asked him to
his parish priest
Mass
is still
That 'something speBerlin Crisis. His wife went with him to Tennescial' came later as he was ordained to the permasee, where she found a teaching job in a nearby nent diaconate of the Catholic Church and beCatholic school, and they Rev. Mr. Jim Johnson lived in a housing comgan his ministry. His faith journey took him munity with other drafted from the flatlands of Texas to the mounsoldiers and their families. tains of Tennessee and Western North "I had the best job a battalion mail clerk.
ministry and will begin their lives anew. This year's class of candidates includes two
priesthood at a
of it
begun working at a meatpacking plant when the Army called him to duty in 1960 because of the
Rev. Mr. Johnson's grew up in a small
and through ordained
brothers from Vietnam and
the church."
When
to
not financially stable and did not have adequate transportation to the classes in
The
clerk,"
the spirit alive in
God
final
lifelong dedication
my soul. Even to-
much
Houston, and he had just
Carolina.
feel
commitment
ordina-
be taking their
Rev. Messrs. Kurt Fohn,
to
group.
could
by helpDuring the
will
tested saying that he was a convert, was
tending a Catholic Mass."
Rev. Mr. Johnson, who taught Bible study and worked with the small youth
Catholic Church
ing to prepare other people. vigil, I
much
Four men steps toward a tions.
early
begin-
graduations, con-
Communions and
consider the permanent diaconate, he pro-
God had some-
said
do,"
learned so
was
nings for the diocese firmations, first
if it
as
feel
I
thing special for
I
"It
— Spring and —
summer are times of milestones and
made me
mystery to me, but back then, I felt as if I had really been to church after at-
tisms took place in that
that
was
also a part of the first
Eastern Tennessee.
in
more about the Easter
Staff Writer
CHARLOTTE
but the mystery of church
day, so
community bap-
it
They were
RCIA team
Latin at that time,
touched
in
pond, and at that time, felt
word of the Mass because all in
store for him. "All
work sched-
so great to see that, and
Johnson
one had something
BY ALESHA M. PRICE
than friendly reception caused them to embrace their faith even more and to become very active in the local church in prayer groups and faith forma-
which he had little exposure in his predominantiy Protestant hometown. "I had thought the only people who were Catholic were Hispanic. I didn't understand a
atordination
less
tion.
thought that some-
first
Their
he began attending the Mass and became acquainted with a religion with
time
welcome four
quite a culture
very kindly."
ule,
water round him, enclosing him on all
Johnson held rushed
—
was
"It
Diocese to
bishop said that daily prayer
key element
in
is
a
maintaining their ministry
as priests.
"As bishop of the Diocese of Charlotte, thank the good Lord for sending us these fine men who devote their lives to help I
build up the Body of Christ in Western North Carolina I pray also he bless them, their loved ones, friends and members of their
seminary faculty
them
to this special
who
helped bring
day of consecration."