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Pearline

Thompson

has always admired and respected Catholicism. While growing up in Greensboro, she thought that the religion held a special place within the hearts of those who followed the faith. However, Thompson did not grow up Catholic and did not have much exposure to the religion. "I can remember the priests and

nuns when I was growing up, and I thought they were scary with their robes and habits. They were looked upon with suspicion by my people who had very little understanding of the religion," said Thompson. "But they, the Kaflicks, as we said in our Southern dialect at the time, were curious to me, and I wanted to know more about them." This initial curiosity prompted her to convert to Catholicism later in her

Asheville conference

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GREENSBORO

life.

Born in the early 1930s, Thompson grew up in an era of segregation and watched the country and her city change from a place where the races did not mix in all aspects of life to one where her oldest daughter attended the first integrated classes at the same high school she attended.

"Greensboro was very segrewere most Southern towns

Aquinas Luther gathering

gated, as

addresses topic of justification ..Page

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ANN ALBERTS

Correspondent The building up on

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The Season of Advent

William Catho-

the

hill

lic

Church once was the home

St.

for a

But now it is known as the Bishop Begley Center for Economic Development and is the site for some very important changes for many people who live in western North Carolina. Melissa Block, Director of the Office for Economic Opportunity, along with the advisory board to the Office, has been diligently working on a number of projects for Cherokee, Clay, Graham and Swain Coun-

Murphy Readings

family.

ties.

The ever-widening income gap

begins

December 3

back then, and we care of one another.

grew up taking I

didn't

know

the

Depression was going on, and I didn't know we were poor because we had the same things as everyone else," re-

membered Thompson. She grew up in a predominantly African-American neighborhood as the only child born to a stay-at-home mother and a father who worked in various positions for the railroad. She was raised in the Congregationalist faith, now known as United Church of Christ, and was very active in her birth church. Her parents were able

to send her to Lincoln University of Missouri, established as a historically

black college and university, or HBCU, where she majored in journalism.

She met many African-American Catholics while at school and wanted to know more about the religion. "They seemed so sincere, caring and steadfast in their faith and sure of

what they were doing.

Neumann

I joined the Club, an organization for

See

THOMPSON,

page

4

Without equal opportunity, there is no economic justice, say development center officials By JO

Every Week

Photo by Joann S. Keane

in

no more evident than in this region, where once families could live a decent life on the the United States

is

available industrial jobs.

As indus-

awarded $18,800

tries

gram has

behind. The Office of Economic Opportunity has, as its purpose, to be a to bring force for positive change about a diverse economic base and an

grantees in the four counties served. Through this program the Diocese of Charlotte hopes to support organizations that are already working toward economic justice for the people

have moved away, communities and working families have been left

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just

to 12

Graham and

educated and stable workforce in far western North Carolina. The office is an outreach of the Diocese of Charlotte's Office of Justice

of Cherokee, Clay,

and Peace. to dedicate a pool of funds for small grants to support burgeoning eco-

Family Resources of Cherokee County received a grant of $2,000 for a project called Family Support Self-Determination Network's

nomic development

Course.

Some months

ago,

it

was decided

activity in these

four counties — with

priority to be given to projects which promote sustainable economic developmen and systemic change. And now, the first cycle of grants have been awarded. The Office of

Economic Opportunity's Growing Opportunities Small Grants Pro-

Swain Counties.

The programs

to

be supported

are as follows:

The project will serve CheroGraham and Swain Coun-

kee, Clay, ties

and will immediately and directly 45-50 people. The course pro-

affect

vides recipients, including the disabled, with marketable job skills and

See

GRANTS,

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The Catholic News & Herald

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The World

in

November

Brief

Salvadoran generals face another civil lawsuit in Florida

Act on the grounds that the program's producers failed in their statutory duties to be fair and objective. "The program essentially consists of one person making outrageous

Fla. generalsturned-Florida-retirees found not liable Nov. 3 in the murder of four mis-

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The Salvadoran

1980

sionaries in

2000

vision-

WEST PALM BEACH,

(CNS)

17,

claims against

will face a similar

gation,

some

members of the congresome dead," said

living,

lawsuit early next year. Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, former Salvadoran director of the National Guard, and former Defense Minister Jose Guillermo Garcia were found not

the order's provincial, Sister Helena

deaths of the four churchwomen in the recently concluded case of Ford vs. Garcia. Living in Florida since 1989, both men were sued under the 1992 U.S. Torture Victim Protection Act. They now face a second lawsuit being brought under the same fedthis time by four survivors eral law of the Salvadoran civil war. The same judge, Daniel T.K. Hurley, is expected to hear the case in May. Debt relief bill signed into law

nearly 300 U.S. and Latin American bishops urging the School of the Americas be closed, the founder of the movement against the Army school called it "a scandal" that the U.S. bishops' conference has not formally joined the effort. There was some discussion among the U.S. bishops at their national meeting a year ago about such a resolution, but a proposal was not put forward. As opponents of the U.S.-run training program for Latin American militaries at Fort Benning, Ga., pre-

civil

O'Donoghue.

SOA foes look for formal support from U.S. bishops WASHINGTON (CNS) With

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liable in the

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WASHINGTON

A glo(CNS) bal effort for debt relief prompted by Pope John Paul II bore fruit Nov. 6 as President Clinton signed a bill setting $435 million to forgive debts owed by the world's poorest countries. aside

At

White House ceremony

a

Lueders

Worker cleans windows at new Pope Center

A worker cleans windows next to a large image of Our Lady of Guadalupe at the

new Pope John Paul

Cultural Center in Washington Nov. 12.

II

Cardinals, bishops, donors and other guests attended a ribbon-cutting and dedication of the interactive museum and study center, which is due to open to the public in March.

celebrat-

ing approval of the legislation, Clinton praised the bipartisan political effort responsible for the bill's approval in Congress. "I believe this is one of the most important moments of the last eight years for the United States of America," Clinton said. NCC seeks closer ties with

Catholics, evangelicals WORCESTER, Mass, (CNS) The National Council of Churches is seeking closer ties with Catholics and evangelicals even if it means risking its own identity. That's what the Rev. Robert Edgar, NCC general secretary, told The Catholic Free Press, Worcester diocesan newspaper. He was in town for the fall assembly of the Worcester County Ecumenical Council, held at St. John's Episcopal and St. George's Catholic churches Nov. 2. "Years ago we would have invited them to come to

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our

CNS photo by Martin

he said of churches such as the Catholic Church, which are not members of the NCC. But now, he said, the talk is of building a new table, to which all can come as equals. table,"

press conference in Washington.

German church starts payments for WWII forced laborers COLOGNE, Germany (CNS)

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The German Catholic Church has begun paying compensation to people who were used as forced laborers in church institutions during World War II. The chairman of the German bishops' conference, Bishop Karl Lehmann of Mainz, and Hellmut Puschmann, president of German Caritas, the church's charitable agency, announced Nov. 7 in Mainz that within days, payments of $2,500 each would be going to a man living in Poland and a woman living in Germany.

Puschmann

said

it

was expected

that

10 people would be paid compensation before the end of the year. Catholic leaders hail assisted

suicide defeat

WASHINGTON

Maine

in

(CNS)

and national Catholic

— Local hailed

officials

the repudiation of physician-assisted suicide by Maine's voters Nov. 7. Gail

Quinn, executive director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life

Episcopal, calendar ,

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December

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Catholic Health Association, said, "This vote marks another victory for human dignity and the integrity of the physician-patient relationship." Marc R. Mutty, public affairs director of the Diocese of Portland, Maine, called the campaign to defeat the proposal "a

very hard-fought battle" that took "a tremendous educational effort." Irish Sisters of Mercy sue TV station after program alleges

abuse DUBLIN,

Ireland (CNS)

— The

Sisters of Mercy are taking legal action

against an Irish television station after a program alleged members of the order assisted in ritual sexual assault on a child in their care during the 1960s. The nuns are suing TV3 in the High Court under the 1988 Radio and Tele-

D ioce$an planner November 21

GREENSBORO — The Adult Edu-

Program at Our Lady of Grace Church, 2205 W. Market St., continues tonight from 7:30-9 p.m. in the activity center. Father Eric Kowalski is presenting "Hey, That Wasn't in the Brochure," a session about theology, the practice of priesthood and the life of a priest. For cation

further details, call (336) 274-0415. All families who 22

CHARLOTTE

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have suffered a loss are invited to attend the monthly memorial Mass at St. Patrick Cathedral, 1621 Dilworth Rd. East, tonight at 7:30 p.m. Call the church office at (704) 334-2283 with the name(s) of loved ones so they may be remembered during the Mass. 24 CONYERS, Ga. The Holy Spirit

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Trappist-Cistercian Monastery for

reception

in

Peter, Charlotte

Conyers, Ga., and the

men

Our Lady of

Muslim leaders urge unity

Ac-

the vote "an encouraging sign for efforts to respect the life and dignity of vulnerable people." Father Michael D. Place, president of the

Theology on Tap Mass and St.

Catholic,

WASHINGTON

tivities, called

The

N E

pared for their annual mass demonstration at the school Nov. 18 and 19, Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois, said that he is saddened by the bishops' lack of formal support for the grassroots movement. He spoke at a Nov. 9

Catholic and

(CNS)

Muslim

—

leaders, at a

large interreligious gathering Nov. 12 in Washington, said unity is more im-

portant than peoples' differences. At least 3,000 Catholics and AfricanAmerican Muslims attended the final session of the "Faith Communities Together" weekend at the Washington Convention Center. "May our love continue to bring all people together in unity, as it has us Christians and you Muslims today," said Chiara Lubich, founder of the worldwide Catholic Focolare movement, a co-sponsor of the gathering. "Today we are not 'us' and 'you'; we are 'we.'" "Creation is one continuous whole, one creation with one God and Lord," said Imam Warith Deen Mohammed, leader of the Muslim American Society, the gathering's other co-sponsor.

the Angels Trappist-Cistercian tery for

women

Monas-

in Crozet, Va., are host-

ing two live-in experiences this weekend through Nov. 28 and Jan. 3-7 with personal testimonies and conferences given by the monks. The retreats are free, but space is limited. For reservations and details, call Natalie Smith at 340-5705 or e-mail (954) deserttraveler@aol.com.

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HENDERSON VILLE

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The

Sf

Francis of the Hills Fraternity of the Secular Franciscan Order meets today

from 3-5 p.m. at Immaculate Conception Church, 208 7th Ave. West, in the office wing. Visitors and inquirers are welcome, so for more information, call Pat Cowan at (828) 884-4246. There is a sup27 CHARLOTTE port group meeting for caregivers of family and friends suffering from Alzheimer's/ dementia today from 23:30 p.m. in rooms D and E of the

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ministry center at

St.

Gabriel Church,

3016 Providence Rd. Activities for the memory-impaired are also being pro-

November

1

2000

7,

The Catholic News & Herald 3

KnightS, public SChOOl

Documents on

Combine tO get

possible Padre Pio

sight-saving operation for student

miracle submitted

JOHN STRANGE NC Catholic Staff CHAPEL HILL Such language By

to Vatican

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barely allowed in public schools these days, but Carole Klein can hardly contain herself. "Miracles have been happening on is

a regular basis," said Klein, a teacher

Chapel Hill High School. "They've been popping up like Kleenex." for the visually impaired at

Klein's miracle

is

that her student,

Francisco Salazar, is about to have sight-saving surgery, thanks to the school's students, the Chapel Hill community, and the North Carolina Knights of Columbus. "The students have taken up the fundraising themselves," Klein said. "This is not something they're being made to do. They're doing it because they want to."

On Tuesday

afternoon, Nov. 8, in Klein's office, students were emptying old milk jugs filled with money. That day's count: $208.85.

As of Nov. 8, the school and community had raised $5,687; the Knights' donation of $2,000 put the fund at the $7,000-plus needed for Salazar's surgery, scheduled for Nov. 28 in Nashville, Tenn. Since then, the North Carolina Lions' Club and other organizations have put the fund at about $1 1,000. The surgeon, Dr. Ming Wang, is only one of a few doctors in the country who can perform the groundbreaking operation. He is doing the surgery for free, but hospital costs are expected to top $ 1 1 ,000. The Salazars needed 70 percent of the projected costs before the surgery could be performed. They have no health insurance.

Salazar, a junior at the school, has been blind since he was 10 years old when sulfuric acid, which he found in a discarded bottle, splashed into his face and badly damaged his eyes. He was living in his native

Mexico

at the time;

For more information about the meeting or the Adult Day Respite Program for the memory-impaired, which meets every Monday and Wednesday from 8:30 a.m.-l p.m., call Suzanne Bach at (704) 376-4135. vided.

December 1

CHARLOTTE

—

St.

Thomas

Aquinas Church, 1400 Suther Rd., hosts Eucharistic adoration every

first

Friday from 1:15 p.m.-midnight, and Eucharistic holy hour takes place every Friday from 7:30-8:30 p.m. The Blessed Sacrament Chapel in Aquinas Hall is open everyday from 8 a.m.-9

For more information, call (704) 549-1607. HIGH POINT All are welcome to attend Christ the King Church, 1505 E.

p.m.

—

Kivett Dr., for a Latin

Mass

at 7 p.m.

tonight followed by adoration and benediction. A Mass in the SyroMalabar Rite in Malayalam is being celebrated on Dec. 9 at 6:30 p.m. For details, call (336) 884-0244.

News Service ROME (CNS) Italian Capuchin priests have submitted documents to Catholic

visually impaired,

and her student,

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the Vatican detailing the healing of an 8-year-old boy which they hope will be the miracle accepted for the canoniza-

Francisco Salazar, speak with Knights of Columbus State

Deputy

WOODEN

By CINDY

Carole Klein, a teacher for the

tion of Blessed

A

Bob

Padre

spokesman

Pio.

for the

Capuchins

in

Foggia, the province to which Padre Pio belonged, said the documentation

Singer outside Chapel Hill High

was delivered

School.

Sainthood Causes

to the Congregation for in late

October. Nov. 12-13

In conjunction with a

on the life of Padre Pio broadcast by RAI, the Italian state television, the network and several Italian newspapers reported the priest television miniseries

Photo by John Strange

he and his family moved to North Carolina two and a half years ago. Standard corneal transplants have been nearly useless because of the damage. However, about a year and a half ago, Klein and the Salazar family learned of Dr. Wang's technique of transplanting an amniotic membrane into the eye to aid in healing the newly transplanted cornea. That surgery was performed a year ago in August, giving Salazar vision in his right eye for the first time in years. Klein stressed that the membrane, as well as the limbal stem cells needed for the next phase later this month, were not from abortions, but rather from donations made from live births. Sometime after the surgery, Salazar's eye perforated several times. That damage has been repaired, but resulting scarring in the eye is beginning tore-cloud his vision. This next, and it is hoped, last, surgery will include limbal stem cells and a fresh corneal transplant, which should end the string of operations. "Everything has just seemed to fall

into place," said Klein, a parishio-

ner at the

Newman

Catholic Student

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2 MORGANTON The St. Charles Borromeo Church Ladies Guild is having their 2nd Annual "Cookie Walk" beginning this morning at 9 a.m. in

Murray

Hall.

A

variety of cookies are

being sold at the church at 314 W. Union St. Call the church office at (828) 437-3108 for details.

SYLVA

—

Eucharistic adoration takes

first Saturday at St. Mary Church, 22 Bartlett St., following 9 a.m. Mass until 3 p.m. For more information, call Annette Leporis at (828) 497-

place every

7464.

3

CHARLOTTE

— The

Charlotte Harp Society

is

40-member

giving a con-

cert at St. Vincent de Paul Church,

6828 Old Reid

Rd., today at 2 p.m.

free-will offering

is

A

being taken during

Center

the University of

at

neon

letters."

"Thank you

to all of the people helped me," said Salazar. "I'm really excited to have the operation."

who

Salazar

mas More

is

a parishioner at St.

To

help Francisco

Salazar and

27516.

friends on the following days: St. Gabriel Church, 3016 Providence Rd., tonight at 7 p.m. in the conference room

of the ministry center, St. Matthew Church, 8015 Ballantyne Commons Pkwy., on Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. in the conference room of the office building and St. Vincent de Paul Church, 6828 Old Reid Rd., on Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. in the activity center in classroom 5. For more infor-

mation,

call:

St.

Vincent

Childers at (704) 554-0733,

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group meetings for survivors, family and larly scheduled cancer support

Betty

Mat-

Bob Poffenbarger,

information, call

Sr.,

coordinator, at (704) 553-7000.

CLEMMONS — Father A.J. Gallant is the celebrant at a charismatic

Mass

at

Holy Family Church, 4828 Kinnamon of reconciliation

CHARLOTTE

-

St.

thew - Marilyn Borrelli at (704) 5422283 and St. Gabriel - Eileen Cordell at (704) 352-5047, Ext. 217. For further

Rd., tonight at 7:30 p.m.

Churches in the Charlotte area are having their regu-

his

made payable to CHHS/FRANCISCO and sent to Carole Klein, Chapel Hill High School; 1709 High School Road; Chapel Hill, NC

family, checks should be

7088.

4

Tho-

Chapel Hill, where he plays guitar as part of the Hispanic choir. "I decided to play guitar because I think it is a way to say thank you to God. I don't know any other way," he said. in

For more information, call Drennan Thompson at (704) 554the concert.

North

Carolina in Chapel Hill. "The good Lord helps people who need help. Whenever there has been a need, there has been a response. And these kids have gotten together to take care of their own." Klein was a Dominican nun for nine years, and said she can see God working in Salazar's life. "This is all so obviously God's plan," she said. "I know to look for God's plan, but never in my life has it ever been in such bold,

The sacrament being given at 7 p.m., and the laying on of hands is taking 1

said there

is

no way

to

know how long

the Vatican investigation would take. If the congregation's panel of physicians finds there is no natural explanation for the healing of the boy

who had

acute meningitis, the documentation will be turned over to a

panel of theologians. The panel studies the connection between the healing and prayers for the intercession of Blessed Padre Pio. If they agree there is a connection, the cardinals and bishops who are members of the congregation vote on whether or not to accept the miracle. If the pope agrees with a positive judgment, a date is set for the canonization. Matteo Pio, the boy whose last name is being withheld to protect his privacy, lives in San Giovanni Rotondo, the town where Padre Pio built a huge hospital. His father is a urologist at the facility, and he and his wife, along with dozens of staff members, prayed for the boy's healing throughout the 12 days he was in a coma in January.

resume on Feb.

5.

tion, call (336)

For more informa778-0600 or Jim

Passero at (336) 998-7503. The Heal7 WINSTON-SALEM ing Companions, a grief support group for the bereaved, meets tonight

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Conference Room A at 7:30 p.m. at Leo the Great Church, 335 Springdale Ave. Call Joanne Parcell at (336) 924-9478 or the church at (336) 724-0561 for details. Rachel's Vineyard, 8 HICKORY an all-weekend post-abortion retreat, sponsored by Transfiguration Ministries and the Respect Life Office, is being held at the Catholic Conference Center, 1551 Trinity Lane, this evening through Dec. 10. For more information or to pre-register, make a confidential call to Debbie or Martha at (336) 659-1342. in

St.

—

is

place after Mass.

uled Jan.

could be canonized as early as 2001. However, the Capuchin spokesman

The normally

Mass has been

sched-

cancelled due

to the holiday, but the schedule will

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Thompson,

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the Catholic college community, learned more about Catholicism and decided to convert in 1953," said

Thompson. It was not an easy decision for her because she was leery about some of what she called guidelines and rules. "I had reservations about some of the things I had always heard like Catholics couldn't divorce or remarry, but I thought about it and decided to do it.

My

parents didn't mind at

all,"

said

Thompson. During

that time, she had go through a year's worth of instruction and study at the local church and school in Missouri. After graduation in 1954, she came back to Greensboro and began working for The Future Outlook, a newspaper specializing in happenings and events of the African-American community. It was a two-person operation; she wrote articles and editorials about the burgeoning civil rights movement, solicited advertisers and helped with the printing and distribution. For a short time, she also worked for The Carolinian, another African-American newspaper in to

Raleigh.

Within a two-year period, she had become better acquainted with and married her husband Jasper Thompson, a postal worker, had begun attending St. Mary Catholic Church and had the first of four children in 1956. It was not love at first sight for her because her earliest memories of

her husband were peppered with rocks catapulted as she and her friends would walk to the library in his neighborhood. However, true love triumphed over childish antics, and the couple settled in her childhood neighborhood. Thompson and her family attended St. Mary, originally built for the growing African-American Catholic population in Greensboro in

Her husband attended Mass even though he was not Catholic, and Thompson said that her children "didn't

As

Thompson watched the movement unfold in her own hometown with the Woolworth's civil rights

demonstration, which she was not allowed to attend because she was pregnant with her second child. During this time, she also began sit-in

working

in social services

and

later

received her master's degree in social

work.

Over

makeup of the con-

time, the

gregation at

St.

Mary Church

and found a home at

tling in the area

the church.

Thompson has become a member of the Greensboro Vicariate Network, a host site member for the SHARE food program, a member of the African American Affairs Ministry of the Diocese of Charlotte and many other church and community organizations.

This grandmother of three works non-stop, and her husband always tells her to slow down. "When he asks me why I spend so much time at church, I say that it is because I want to spend a lot of time in heaven," said Thompson with a -

chuckle. "I sometimes think that I chose to convert because the Catholic way of worshiping and relating to faith and

God seemed so was accustomed.

different to I

what

I

realize that Christ

has sheep in other flocks, but I think that this is the only way for me."

M.

Price by calling (704) 370-3354 or email amprice@charlottediocese.org.

built because St.

reserved for black Catholics who were former slaves and descendants

30

YEARS EXPERIENCE

Caring for Charlotte Area Catholic in

St. Philip

the Apostle Parish in Statesville participated in the annual

community Hunger Walk on Oct. 7. Father Peter Fitzgibbons, pastor, led the walkers by running two miles. St. Philip, for the fourth year in a row, was the first in all categories: money raised ($2,545), number of walkers (39), and number of youth participating.

Eagle Scout rank awarded to Clemmons parishioner CLEMMONS — Gregory Each

station pictures a scene from journey through Jerusalem on the way to his crucifixion. A plaque

Harrison was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout by Scoutmaster Denny Boyce of BSA Troop #731 in Clemmons on Nov. 12, 2000- Greg, 16, received his award at a ceremony conducted at Holy Family Catholic Church in Clemmons. Father Frank O'Rourke, pastor of Holy Family, at-

Jesus'

at each station describes each scene in

English and Spanish.

marks the entrance

Their Hour of

ing

With

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Charlotte 704-334-6421

HENRY C. ROZELL III 2nd Generation

Luke the Evangelist Catholic

in Raleigh. After receiving the approval of Father O'Rourke, Greg had to raise money for the program. He made a presentation to the Knights of Columbus Council #9499 in Clemmons, and the group decided to support the $700 project. Harrison is the son of Anne and

members of the

Columbian Squires Circle #3752, and church members, Greg designed and built 14 Stations of the Cross, along with a gravel path and three benches behind Holy Family Church. It is a quiet and secluded place where anyone can rest and reflect. The project took more than six months and 300 hours to complete. It entailed designing each station, re-

John Harrison.

Greg is a junior at Bishop McGuinness High School. He attends Holy Family Catholic Church and is an officer

in the

the Catholic

Columbian Squires,

young men's organiza-

tion.

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trail.

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One of the final steps of achieving Eagle Scout is to complete a project that the help of other scouts,

7-foot cross

states that some of his friends thought his project was odd many of them not knowing what the Stations of the Cross are. Greg got the idea for the project while visit-

tended.

tests the scout's leadership skills.

A

to the

Greg

five large trees, grading a path through the heavily wooded area and constructing the stations and benches.

two or three benches

courtesy phot.

Hunger Walk

also

changed from predominantly African-American to multicultural with the influx of Asians, Hispanics, Caucasians and Africans that began set-

moving

Mary's was

2000

the years passed and the coun-

a family."

Families

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try evolved,

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Around the Diocese

Asheville

Mother of slain

PFADP conference explores

student still prays

wealth of death penalty issues By

JIMMY ROSTAR

the mobilization and education of the

Associate Editor

ASHEVILLE

—

At

community

religious a

weekend

conference exploring issues surrounding capital punishment, those in attendance were called to action in order to effect justice in a system under increasing scrutiny.

North Caro-

in

lina.

Dear, founded

its

chapter

a

organization whose Western North Carolina year ago, said of the

Asheville gathering that "people

there uplifted, energized and

left

com-

"A Cry for Justice, A Call to Action" was the theme of thefirst confer-

forted by the fact that there are a lot of

ence of People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, an anti-capital punishment alliance sponsored by the North Carolina Council of Churches. From workshops to an awards banquet at First Baptist Church, to a rally that culminated the event at City-County Plaza, the conference's theme rang loudly Nov. 11-12 as participants took a hard look at the death

death penalty and taking action around it." Dear said the conference indicates

penalty's spiritual, legal and social di-

mensions.

A ters,

group of minisattorneys and

"First

workshops,

comes

from issues of

race and class to spiritual reflections

who

but

comes it all

prayer,"

action based on

for its aboli-

what they know

tion altogether.

general session

on the abolition movement preceded the workshops.

and throughout

comes prayer," Dear said. "And then we hope people will take action based on what they know and all

it

what they

feel in their

hearts."

"We've gotten to the point for an organization like ours that the challenge

the death penalty to

A

on various

sides of the issue seek moral, historical and legal answers to some pretty tough questions surrounding a death penalty system that many accuse of being fraught with injustices. "First comes edutionally

people will take

moratorium on

working

the death penalty, from people tradi-

Dear said. "And then we hope

on sup-

porting death row inmates, from working for a

the need for a response to an overwhelming request for information on

throughout

punishment law

to outreach for victims' families,

are concerned about the

education, and

whose themes ranged from understanding capital

who

cation,

community organizers facilitated

people

and what they feel in their

"The conference involved a mix of perspectives around the death penalty," said Stephen Dear, executive director of People of Faith Against the Death Penalty. "The conference included stories from a man who lived on North Carolina's death row, and from mothers of men on death row and of murder victims. There were people in tears." Based in Chaepl Hill, People of Faith Against the Death Penalty is an interfaith group devoted to the elimination of the death penalty through

hearts."

is not convincing people to take action, though of course we want people to do so," he said. "The

challenge for a small organization like ours is to keep up with the

demands

for this

ing awareness. People are wanting information. They want speakers; they want moratorium resolutions and petitions. It's a nice problem to have, although it is a challenge." People of Faith Against the Death Penalty's first conference coincides with a month when two men were slated to die by lethal injection in North Carolina. Convicted in 1991, Michael Sexton was put to death Nov. 9, while Marcus Carter, convicted in 1990, is scheduled to die Nov. 22. Both were convicted of murder in

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—

209

men and

six

women

action groups, city councils and other concerned citizens locally and nationally are voicing their wish to see a moratorium, or suspension, on capital punishment to allow for study of increasing allegations and evidence of inequity in the death penalty pro-

cial

cess.

Those

possible injustices include

— on North

Carolina's death row. All received their death sentences for murder. Sexton's death, the first execution in North. Carolina this year, came at a time of increased scrutiny of the death penalty system nationwide. A growing number of faith communities, so-

redemption By

innocent people to death row. It is especially the latter that has contributed so greatly to a concern in society about the death penalty system, Dear said. "A major reason (people are so concerned) is that 89 people have been released from death row because they were proven to be innocent," Dear said, referring to statistics dating to the early 1970s. "Those are 89 people who were brought before juries, tried, convicted and sentence, by local citizens, to die and then were later proven to be innocent." Dear said that while that number may fluctuate, sharing these stories brings new awareness and a growing discomfort. "People are finding a great distaste in the fact that we're sending people to death row who are later proven to be innocent," he said. "They're asking why this is happening and they're finding out something that has been known for a long time but has not seeped into people's conthat the death penalty sciousness system is awash with error and racial

many

—

and

class bias."

her different from other mothers is the fact that she prays for the redemption of the murderers of her child. On May 31, 1999, according to police, her 18-year-old son, Brian, was awakened from his sleep, beaten and marched up a hill, forced to do humiliating acts and to watch the murder of his friend, and then shot in the head.

Nathan Herring and Terrell Yarbrough, both 19, were convicted of kidnapping, robbing and killing Brian Muha and Aaron Land, 20, of Philadelphia. The two victims were students at Franciscan University in Steubenville.

Herring was sentenced to life in prison without parole in the slayings. Yarbrough, who had Brian's rosary around his neck when he was arrested, received the death penalty. It has been a year-and-a-half since Brian Muha was murdered, and Rachel Muha understands what it is to suffer. "People say to me, 'I couldn't do what you're doing,'" she said. "I think

know how powyou have to go through something like this. God comes to your aid immediately. Don't you never

that

erful

God

at re-

storative justice as a communitybased approach to criminal justice that proponents say increase victim justice

really

until

is

God

will

never give up on

you. Trust him."

In addition to People of Faith Against the Death Penalty's conference in Asheville, a group called Charlotte Coalition for a Moratorium Now is planning a Dec. 8-10 conference at the Great Aunt Stella Center in Charlotte. "Restorative Justice: Preparing to Meet the 21st Century" will examine the criminal justice system and focus on potential solutions for its perceived problems. This "town meeting"-style event will include a presentation by Bud Welsh, the father of one of the Okla-

homa City bombing victims. The conference will look

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—

ask him for help. Now he knows more than I do." Yet stronger than her own pain is Rachel Muha's faith and her desire for

her son's murderers to have a chance at redemption. But forgiveness is a daily battle. When a police officer informed her

was dead, "It was blackcouldn't see anything," she wanted to hate them so much.

that Brian

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People

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November

the News

Chicago pastor appointed auxiliary bishop

WASHINGTON

—

(CNS)

7,

1

2000

is ecumenical," the pope's chief ecumenist told the U.S. Catholic bishops Nov. 12. "This is a truth too little appreciated by many Catholics," added Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for

Fa-

ther Jerome E. Listecki, pastor of St.

Ignatius Parish in Chicago, has been appointed an auxiliary bishop of Chicago by Pope John Paul II. The ap-

Promoting Christian Unity. The Aus-

pointment was announced Nov. 7 in Washington by Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, the papal nuncio to the

tralian-born Vatican official spoke at a half-day workshop on the ecumenical

States. Bishop-designate Listecki, ordained 25 years ago, was appointed pastor at St. Ignatius earlier this year. Born March 12, 1949, the

16 meeting of the National Conference

role of the bishop before the

United

of Catholic Bishops in Washington.

Bishop Fiorenza reviews jubilee year events in presidential address WASHINGTON (CNS) Bishop Joseph A. Fiorenza of

Chicago native attended Quigley South High School, Loyola University, botli in

Chicago, and

St.

Mary

—

of the

in Mundelein, 111. He earned a law degree at De Paul University College of Law.

Galveston-Houston focused on the church's jubilee year celebrations Nov. 13 in his presidential address opening the fall meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Highlighting the church's ecumenical commitment, the beatification of Pope John XXIII and the canonization of Mother Katharine Drexel, the NCCB president stressed the importance of the Second Vatican Council in preparing the church to enter the new millennium. At the end of the meeting's first session Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, papal nuncio to the United States, also spoke about the jubilee year in his remarks to the bishops.

Lake Seminary later

Jerusalem patriarch meets Arafat, expresses solidarity LatinJERUSALEM (CNS) rite Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem met with Palestinian National Chairman Yasser Arafat in Gaza and expressed Christian solidarity with the Palestinian leadership. During the hourlong meeting Nov. 6, Patriarch Sabbah told Arafat he supported efforts to end the current violence and reach a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Patriarch Sabbah, who initiated the meeting, was accompanied by small

—

CNS

self,

—

To

candidate of the newly launched

Nothing Party

—

ceiving a relic of his church's patron saint

from Pope John Paul

new ways between

(Parti Rien).

Armenian Orthodox leader praises pope's return of relic VATICAN CITY (CNS) Re-

Montreal church-run agency nominates homeless candidate (CNS)

II,

to peace and reconciliation

us."

Ecumenism

at heart of church, Vatican official tells bishops WASHINGTON (CNS) "The

—

church cannot be true to

itself

unless

it

the pa-

Armenian Oriental Orthodox Church said the return of the relic is a symbol of ecumenical triarch of the

the

sound of resonant bass harmonies, a Catholic soup kitchen presented its own candidate for the Nov. 27 Canadian federal elections a homeless man. "If the homeless have the democratic right to vote, then they also have the right to run for Parliament," said

"It's

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Armenians, the Catholic Church bears witness to the brotherhood between our two ancient churches," said Catholicos Karekin II of Etchmiadzin, head of the Armenian Apostolic

—

Pierre Anthian, director of the choir of

Church.

Pope

John

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Luther Aquinas conference addresses topic of justification BY ELLEN NEERINCX SIGMON

eluding ones from Diocese of Raleigh

Correspondent HICKORY At least two of the speakers at this year's AquinasLuther Conference held at LendirRhyne College Nov. 12-14 said that a person's vision or image of God was

Bishop F. Joseph Gossman, Archbishop John F. Donoghue of Atlanta, and the letter from Bishop William Curlin that appeared in the Nov. 3, 2000 issue of The Catholic News &

important in understanding the doctrine of justification the belief that one attains salvation by faith, and not by works. Father George Kloster, ecumenical officer for the Diocese of Charlotte and pastor of St. William Catholic Church in Murphy and Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Hayesville, talked about some of the ways that people view God. He said that the images of God as a loving parent specifically that of the forgiving father of the prodigal son in the Bible, and that of an artist making a beautiful creation, loving the people that are being created are helpful in understanding justification. Father Kloster gave a banquet address entitled "Justification and

Bishop Leonard Bolick of the NC Synod of the ELCA gave a personal

—

G

Herald.

—

tribute at the banquet, as did Dr.

Yoder and other colleagues of Dr. McDaniel at Lenoir-Rhyne. The Center for Theology has sponsored the Aquinas-Luther Conference for eight years. This year's theme was "Aquinas & Luther: On Justification."

The event is co-sponsored each year by the Hickory Lutheran-Ro-

—

man

Catholic Covenant Committee, consisting of representatives of St. Aloysius Catholic Church, Holy Trinity

—

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concept might be slow to make it to Lake Wobegone or to Murphy, North Carolina," said Father Kloster, "but justification as God's forgiving, healing, restoring love

and well on Main

alive

is

USA." Father Kloster said that most people at the "grass-roots level" were not paying much attention when the signing of the Doctrine of Justification took place on Oct. 31, 1999, in Germany. "Nothing, absoStreet,

happened in nothing Murphy, North Carolina," he said, mainly because the doctrine is

lutely

"more theological than pastoral. I'm not sure that most Catholics would list this as one of their most essential beliefs,"

he

Father George Kloster speaks during the banquet with Rev. Dr. Michael McDaniel, far left, and Dr. Larry Yoder looking on.

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hopefully

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said.

During the conference's keynote address on Nov. 12, entitled "What Kind of God: Martin Luther on Justification Then and Now," Dr. Hans Schwarz, professor of systematic theUniversity of ology at the

Regensburg, Germany, talked about Christ,

who came

to earth as a

human

being and lived without sin. "He was the only human being to be as God intended a human being to be," he said. Because God was willing to come to humanity in this way, he

"Justification

God

theological concept might

be slow to make

it

to Lake

Wobegone or to Murphy, North Carolina," said Father Kloster, "but

as God's

justification

forgiving, healing,

restoring love hopefully

this

not leave us in dark-

ness."

Dr. Schwarz also talked about today's society in which many people try to control their own lives, without turning to God. "In our modern rat race, we overestimate our own abilities," he said. "Deep down we have the feeling that will save us unless

we

save

"We cannot work our way up God, but our works are indicators of our faith," he said. "True to

is not lazy." Before Father Kloster's banquet address Monday evening, Dr. J. Larry Yoder, director of the Center for Theology at Lenoir-Rhyne, had a surprise cooked up for Dr. Michael McDaniel, the director emeritus of the center and former bishop of the NC Synod of the

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1

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2000

Archbishop Marino, first U.S. black archbishop, dead at 66 By

NANCY FRAZIER O'BRIEN Catholic

News

WASHINGTON

support Archbishop Marino through a campaign called "To Archbishop Marino With Love," whose goal was to send the archbishop at least 25,000 notes of "support and love" during the month of September

— Arch-

Archbishop Marino, archbishop when he resigned, had been

of Atlanta

serving for the past five years as spiritual director of an outpatient program for priests with mental illness, substance abuse and sexual behavior problems. The Clergy Consultation and

Treatment Service is a program of St. Vincent's Westchester in Harrison, N.Y., a psychiatric branch of St. Vincent's Medical Center in Manhattan.

The archbishop found that work "very fulfilling," said Father Robert M. Kearns, superior general of the Josephites, the order to which Archbishop Marino was ordained in June 1962.

Father Kearns said Archbishop suffered an apparent heart attack after participating in a weekend retreat at St. Ignatius Re-

Marino

House

in

Manhasset, N.Y.

The

retreat had ended Saturday evening with a Mass of anointing of the sick. "The priest anointed the arch-

bishop, then the archbishop anointed the priest," said Father Kearns. Before he went to bed, Archbishop Marino said he was going to leave early to visit his brother in New Jersey, so no one was surprised when he did not appear for breakfast, the Josephite leader said.

Archbishop Marino was discovered dead in bed later that day by a housekeeper, Father Kearns said.

Memorial Masses were scheduled for Nov. 15 at the Salesian High School chapel in New Rochelle, N.Y., and Nov. 16 at St. Francis Xavier Church in Baltimore, with a Mass of Christian burial set for 1 a.m. Nov. 20 at the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Biloxi.

He was expected to be buried alongside his parents at his home church of Our Mother of Sorrows in Biloxi.

Archbishop Marino was the ranking member of the AfricanAmerican Catholic hierarchy when he admitted in August 1990 that he had been having

a

two-year

affair

with

Vicki R. Long, a 27-year-old single

mother who had earlier claimed that another priest was the father of her daughter.

Archbishop Marino had submitted his -resignation as archbishop of

Atlanta that June, citing "severe stress" and the need for a long rest, and Pope John Paul II had accepted it that July.

who

(CNS)

66.

treat

folding, then-Bishop

lic

bishop Eugene A. Marino, who was the first black archbishop in the United States and whose resignation in 1990 was linked to his affair with a woman, died unexpectedly Nov. 12 at a retreat house in New York. He was

James P. Lyke, eventually succeeded Archbishop Marino as archbishop of Atlanta, said he hoped the archbishop's "one unfortunate mistake in his life" would not overshadow "his marvelous history of ministry, life and love in the church over the past 30 years." Archbishop Lyke died in 1992.

Despite the scandal, black Catholeaders across the United States

Service

rallied to

1990. His brother and five sisters said in an open letter later that year that the archbishop had received "hundreds of messages: letters, cards, telegrams and phone calls" offering prayers and support. In an interview with Catholic News Service as the scandal was un-

Born May 29, 1934, in Biloxi, Eugene Antonio Marino was

Miss.,

the sixth of eight children of Jesus Maria Marino, a native of Puerto Rico who had also lived in Liverpool, England, and Lottie Irene Bradford, a native of Biloxi.

Educated- through high school at Our Mother of Sor-

parish schools at

rows Church in Biloxi, Archbishop Marino also earned a bachelor's degree at in

St.

Joseph's Seminary College

Washington and

gious education at sity in New York.

a master's in reli-

Fordham Univer-

Ordained a priest of the Society of St. Joseph on June 9, 1962, he taught religion, biology and physical science at Epiphany College in Newburgh, N.Y., in 1962-68 and served as spiritual director of St. Joseph's Seminary in Washington in

See

ARCHBISHOP,

page

15

November

17,

2000

Election

At Vatican, historian says conclaves beat U.S. system By

JOHN THAVIS News Service CITY (CNS)

Catholic

VATICAN

up the process. But Msgr. Burns said popular resentment was aggravated by the fact that the cardinals in Viterbo spent more time hunting game and feasting than voting. Any contested ballots in conclave history have been done in private, before the new pope is unveiled, he said. In fact, under the complex Vatican rules that govern voting in

But papal conclaves have two big advantages over democratic elections, said Msgr. Charles Burns, a Vatican historian.

"Number one, we are not in a Number two, the voting cardi-

hurry.

the

new pope walks through the door, there's no public bickering and no recriminations," Msgr. Burns said Nov. 10 in an interview with Catholic News

conclaves, In

a papal election, there

scrutinizers carefully check the

are no punch holes. Each cardinal

fills

by hand,

in

number of

think those

elements make for a certain kind of success," he added.

handwriting

that can be identified as his

own as far as possible.

Each cardinal

Msgr. Burns,

who

the Vatican archives, said this year's presidential election in the United States illustrated how an overaggressive media can help create a bitter climate before all the votes are at

sible. If

as far as pos-

more than one name

ten on a ballot,

it is

Msgr. Burns

is

writ-

is shut off from the public gives the conclave result a cer-

said.

1200s lasted

is

in the

meantime.

a real advantage," he said.

tween Republican Gov. George W. Bush and Democratic Vice President Al Gore. At the time he wrote, the outcome of the election was uncertain, pending a recount of ballots in Florida. He reminded Catholics, however, that "perhaps the most chilling results" of a one-vote margin were two narrow victories by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in elections "marked by widespread apathy." "Tragically, that electoral apa-

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As a group people of God

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Catholics should not vote only because of "the fear that the angry will prevail

amid the apathy of contented," the Bishop Nevins said.

"We

all

ages and

and

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faiths should

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our political decisions in

a

spirit of

may God'swill in

process," he added.

I

beliefs."

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we is

a great struggle in

our culture over religious values and moral issues," Bishop Angell said. "In a very real sense, it is a nation."

Archbishop JusRigali of St. Louis, in post-election comments to be published Nov. 13 in archdiocesan his newspaper, the St. tin F.

Louis Review, called on Catholics to "re-

member

in

prayer

who

are

elected" to national, state

and

local offices

and to "appreciate ever more our personal responsibility and the value of each individual vote."

will prevail in

is

best."

renewed respect for renewed appreciation for tradi-

tional families. will

prevail

our political

said in a statement that prayer

"We

"What

those

political process,"

a

prayer

and reverence, and

"We will pray for the conversion of minds and hearts," he said. "We will pray for a renewed respect for life,

and religious

battle for the soul of a

hands, our voices,

he added. Also calling for prayers was Bishop Kenneth A. Angell of Burlington, Vt,

our

port for respect life issues, family values

are actually seeing

religious values, a

EdMcDevitt, CO. orFr.Joe Pearce, CO.

begun

"citizens of the

sions in a spirit of prayer and rever-

who

Campus Ministry Youth Summer Camp

of our people, win the support of our and heal the soul of our country," he added. "We have just politicians,

a

positive

the effort to vote." As "citizens of the

ence,

without vows and serve the

As

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of voting in Florida.

reason for making

"what we do Retreat

have

also

much more

"May we make

of priests

life

world," he said.

our political deci-

and brought people of

a community

Holocaust of 6 million Jews and count-

Known as

1575.

backgrounds to the Church.

Pr.

in

Joy," St. Phillip lived this

Rome by St. Philip Neri in

"The Apostle of

CNS

Alex Canet of Miami drops his vote in a ballot box at a Miami fire station Nov. 7. The race for president between Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush proved to be too close to call by the next morning and hinged on the outcome

thy would provide

United States, but also of God's citizens realm," Americans of

Join us in

in

erence to the U.S. presidential race be-

the

—

in the Italian

Nov. 16 edition of The Florida Catholic newspaper, said the Continental Congress in 1776 defeated by one vote an effort to make German the official U.S. language and Rutherford Hayes won the presidency in 1876 by one electoral vote. He was one of several bishops commenting on the election in statements or columns soon afterward. Bishop Nevins made no direct ref-

war

of thrust

In papal conclaves, post-election confusion can occur, but it usually lasts only a few minutes. In 1978, the white smoke signifying the successful election of a pope was mistaken for black, and vice-versa. The smoke signals are one reason a recount has never been held in conclave history the ballots are burned after each voting session.

where you have to have your president installed by January. We're not

J. Nevins of Venice, column scheduled for the

a

in

Fla.,

throughout

That

for conclaves to last a month or longer, in ballot after ballot until a two-thirds majority was reached by a candidate. "It's not like a political situation,

Bishop John

less casualties of

and parry has gone on

common

commentary.

tion

God

wanted."

—

(CNS) Like situations in U.S. and world history, the 2000 elections show the importance of a single vote, a Catholic bishop said in a post-elec-

reer resulting in the

'We don't know what kind

one

some past

pope may be a compromise candidate, not the first choice of the majority, but in the end he is "the guy who

A new

Papal conclaves, on the other hand, have virtually no publicity, no campaigning and no deadline. Up until the 1900s, he said, it was not un-

WASHINGTON

Hitler's career, a ca-

tain decisiveness.

geons," he said.

of

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By CATHOLIC

nullified.

said the fact that the

voting process

"To get a scoop, they declared Bush the president. And that is really what has put the cat among the pi-

in the

own

identified as his

counted.

town of Viterbo

fills

out the ballot by hand, in handwriting that can be

recently retired after long service

under a time factor,"' he A famous conclave

ballots

against the number of electors and void the vote if the two do not tally. In a papal election, there are no punch holes.

out the ballot

Service. "I

uncomfort-

life

able for voting cardinals and speed

selecting popes.

When

make

clave palace to

show power

vote, bishop says

local faithful tore the roof off the con-

United States, the Vatican has had its share of protracted and deadlocked elections over two millennia of like the

nals are held to secrecy:

Elections

more than two years and provoked somewhat of a popular revolt, when

— Un-

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2000

pray to melt the hearts

"We

should be encouraged that throughout the country, a number of those elected at various levels of government are leaders with a proven track record in defense of human life," he said. "We continue to pray and rededicate our own efforts to work to extend the protection of the law to the unborn," he added. "We continue to look with hope for determined efforts ... to put an end to capital punishment, to reinforce marriage, family life and parents' primary role in the education of their children."

10 The Catholic News & Herald

"Eulogy:

A Memoir"

about convent

life

MERCY SISTER HELEN MARIE BURNS News Service Memoir" is aptly

all

the

drama runs

community

a simple

vowed in service. While

and

Blanchard implies that the mystery encompasses even those whose lives make up the story, she comes closer than most to an authentic portrayal of

titled.

Author Mary Bergan Blanchard gathers friends, acquaintances and strangers for a viewing and a burial. Memories flow. Stories that are mostly true abound. Praise comes from a variety of quarters. Here and there a word of

its

November 19, Thirty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time Cycle B Readings: 1) Daniel 12:1-3

Psalm

16:5, 8-11

2)

Hebrews

3)

Gospel:

ordinary truth.

By

10:11-14, 18

Mark

13:24-32

DAN LUBY

News Service Consider two couples, both ex-

honest complaint recognizes the humanity of the deceased. "Eulogy" is a brilliant commendation of an era past and a subtle critique of that which is praised. It is both a robust discourse on a particular way of life and a quiet repudiation of much that was once treasured. Above all, however, it is a good story, a tale about meaning and about mys-

changing names and combining people's characters." In the way of all art,

pecting their first baby, both looking forward eagerly to the promise of family joy, both hyperbusy

A

careers, social obligations, church

tery.

and engaging dialogue. teachings in this vocation tale are many. Perhaps the most important comes late in Mary's life and in the pages of the book. She and her best friend, Jimmy, are struggling

and attends carefully to what's happening to them. They resign from committees, refrain from volunteering for new projects, paying attention instead to pamphlets and videos, and classes about pregnancy and labor and childbirth. They ob-

through

with the implications of her growing

serve

her 20 years as a Sister of Mercy and her more recent years as wife and mother. These flashbacks unfold in a story that is her "tribute to those I met along the way." All the elements of rich story-telling appear: well-defined characters, deep friendships, intense struggles, antiquated structures, warped personalities, love and loss, upheaval and dislocation. This is a tale about convent life in the church in the halcyon years of the mid-20th century and the turbulent years of the late-20th century.

frustration, strain, and discourage-

however, her fiction is quite true. childhood remembered as "a wonderful age" gives way to the "abyss of adolescence" and her choice to become a nun, a "decision that had crept up on me." Blanchard relates the rise and fall of that decision with wit and grace and a sure hand for simple description

maturity.

The

Meaning and journey un-

fold in masterful flashbacks

ment with her

life

as a nun.

Mary declares, "I thought this life was my way to do good and that I thought

belonged to God!" Jimmy wisely replies, "Don't you think everybody does?" "Eulogy" offers a gentle read for those who wonder about convent life in former times, a pleasant piece of nostalgia for those whose lives span the decades of the '50s, '60s, and '70s in American Catholicism, and a challenging reflection for those who wish to take time to read between the lines. should do

it.

I

2000

I

cated.

When the day arrives, one couple is ready, bag packed, hospital route planned, forms completed. The other is awash in panic, frantic at the intensity of the pains, freaked out over arriving at the wrong entrance, unprepared for medical queries.

Blanchard admits that she has "taken long liberties arranging times,

Blanchard's mother's burial rites frame Blanchard's own journey into the meaning of call, the meaning of fidelity, the meaning of growth and

17,

Word to Life

thread of mystery: lives

Catholic

A

a tale in church

Through

Reviewed by

"Eulogy:

November

Readings

Catholic

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Happily, all survive, and in the end all become excellent parents. But the couple that paid attention, that looked for signs of what was coming, were quicker to discover the devotion and energy so vital to

demanding work of

commitments. It's easy to get distracted from the slow and subtle

the

changes which mark the early

In today's Gospel, Jesus acknowledges that even he does not know when the King of Glory will arrive. But he urges us to note the signs of his arrival, to live a wakeful and attentive life, resisting the

stages of pregnancy.

One

couple fights off distraction

raising a

newborn.

distractions of a too-busy world,

embracing a more measured and mindful pace. As the Christmas, shopping season swings into high gear, may God bless us with the grace of at-

new stages of fetal development, signals of the nearness of labor, omens of the fateful day when the baby will be born. The other couple dawdles. They notice some changes of course, but busy with more immediate demands for their attention, they

tention.

QUESTIONS: ter

What's one way I can pay betattention to what my life is try-

ing to

tell

me?

In preparation for

leave the booklets unread, the videos unwatched. They attend classes

Advent, what's one unnecessary task I can let go of in pursuit of

but halfheartedly, listening more phone calls than for the information being communi-

greater peace?

for important

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buy Samuel Adams

a

new

suit be-

cause they felt his crumpled red one would present a bad image at the Continental Congress) and gossipy tidbits (Jefferson's hatred for Thomas

Paine prompted him to encourage people to pray for Paine's death).

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the revelations of their personal lives offer a different insight into the fight for American independence and identity.

Though not an

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$2,500 to provide training for 12-15 weavers (at this time) by at least one instructor. This intensive training program will work with local residents to help them become skilled weavers and will assist them in their marketing, efforts. Weavers will meet for instruction at the Stecoah Valley Community Center. The training will be ongoing. Swain/Qualla Habitat for Humanity's grant in the amount of $800 will be applied toward training students from the high school in the

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Catholic

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talization Association, in an effort to "Light Up the Square," making it

works with families

traditional crafting.

The

the training.

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public.

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to the area.

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marketing and

Graham County's Yellow Creek Botanical Institute designed a plan which they entitled Entrepreneurial

the participants of the 2001 developas well as to the

"Founding Fathers"

project.

ment conference

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"Buy Local" logo, and customers will receive flyers thanking them for keeping their dollars in the community, (see www.mtnmicro.org) Heaven's Helping Hands was awarded $400 for an Outreach Car Ministry. This program purchases cars, makes needed repairs, then gifts them to people in need, either as a means of transportation to work or to escape domestic violence. Beyond the grant award, the Office of Economic tinctive

from the original animal is given to another local family and the program continues. This is a very sustainable

above project along with other farmers who would like the opportunity to transition from crops like tobacco and/or timber will now benefit from a $2,500 grant-to fund training in raising natural botanicals indigenous

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November

& Columns

Editorials

Family Reflections Talk to anyone married for ten or more years and they'll agree, if they're honest, that things are not quite the same as they had envisioned them to be when the marriage began. Some unanticipated goodness is realized while other dreams are deferred, if not lost. It seems that for every hurdle a couple successfully clears, there is a stumbling block, a detoursomething that goes awry, something that dies

The Pope

Speaks

in

17,

2000

Family Reflections

ANDREW &

them.

TERRI LYKE

Guest Columnists

With every dream

deferred, for every sacrithere is a sense of dying.

fice of self for the other,

Many

couples never get beyond that dying ex-

perience.

They mourn

separation

Thanksgiving in jubilee year should focus on Christ By JOHN THAVIS

is

the only

their losses so

remedy

that

much

that

makes any

sense.

that they appreciated the goods of the earth as

Kathleen Hughes, in her book, Saying Amen: of Sacrament, says, "Every loving is a dying-a dying to my own time, comfort, convenience, wants, needs, concerns, interest. f_It~j is a dying to self-interest and self-aggrandizement in an act of generosity and self-giving and it all happens not just when one or the other feels like it but daily, and for all the days of ordinary time as well as in the high holy seasons of a marriage." A wife who attended a marriage retreat with her husband phrased it this way: "Sometimes it seems like we have a one-eyed, three-legged dog of a marriage. But we're still making it day by

a "priceless gift of divine providence."

day."

News Service Thanksgiving (CNS) meaning in the jubilee year,

Catholic

—

VATICAN CITY takes on a special

as Christians express gratitude for the created

world and for the Savior who redeemed it, Pope John Paul II said. The pope spoke about Thanksgiving, celebrated on different days around the world, at a Holy Year Mass with farmers Nov. 12. He said Thanksgiving began as a feast day for those involved in farming, as a

"This year

way

to

show

takes on a higher spiritual

it

value, during the jubilee that celebrates the

2,000 years since the birth of Christ," he said. In the Holy Year, people will give thanks not only for the earth's fruits and resources, but for Christ as "the savior of humanity and, in a certain sense, of the cosmos itself." In remarks in English, the pope offered a Thanksgiving blessing, especially to those

who work

in agriculture

and rural

A Mystagogy

.

.

.

To talk about dying in the same breath as loving calls for conversion-conversion from what is of us to what is of God. Most couples can't fathom this at their weddings. When they make their promises to each other, to the community and to God, they can't know what they are committing themselves to. The notion of dying to anything is so remote from their immediate sense of hope, and their outpouring of love

no casualties in the springtime of their marriage. Yet even in the vows they speak on their wedding day, there is a foretelling of the rhythm of dying and rising-in good times and bad, in sickness and in health, for better and for worse-

for each other has

that will be intrinsic to their

Marriage that

is

together.

life

lived as sacrament has that

We

Paschal Mystery character. die to self so that our new self-the marriage-may have life. And the relationship that is fashioned by this is by far a more precious work of art than the buried, limited vision from which it began.

Sacramental marriages first

glance, that visible

may

not

glow that

have, at evident at

all

is

weddings. No marriage is perfect. Some may appear less perfect than others from outward appearances. But before we rush to' judgment, we must look deeper to discover the covenant that holds them together. Revealed beneath the surface

is

the couple's story that parallels the

Paschal Mystery-of dying and rising. From their story we experience their covenantal love is of God-SACRAMENT! Though it may look like a one-eyed, three-legged dog of a marriage, it may be the face of God.

that

life.

"In your daily encounter with the beauty

of God's creation, may you grow closer to the Lord of life, strengthen your commitment to be good stewards of his bountiful gifts, and grow in solidarity with others, especially our broth-

and

ers

sisters suffering

The Bottom

one thing, November becomes the perfect month to pause, using the excuse, if one wants, of the early dark days and cold nights to justify a change of pace and

Line

routine.

from poverty and

hunger," he said.

"May

the

labors and

fill

Lord of the harvest bless your you and your families with his

peace," he said.

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Pope prays

for victims of Austrian mountain ski car disaster

VATICAN CITY

—

(CNS)

As

caught

Nov.

fire

1 1

in

a

when a cable-pulled ski car mountain tunnel near

Salzburg.

The Thomas Nov.

IS.

The

was released

at the Vatican

papal telegram to Archbishop Austria, signed in the

Georg Eder of Salzburg,

pope's name by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state, was released Nov. 12.

Austrian authorities said the cable car caught fire and stopped about 600 yards into a tunnel on the Kitzsteinhorn mountain. As of Nov. 13, the cause of the fire and the total number of dead had not been determined. Eighteen people survived, mainly by flee,

ing

was

forth light. I

downwards thinner.

in the tunnel

where the smoke

think

it

was

brilliant that

some great ancestors November to be

decided to underscore a day in late

If you have asked people, as I have, what is the toughest month of the year, the answer you're likely to get is "November." I have searched to find some good

stuff about

November, and have

to admit that

it's

definitely skimpy.

ancient Saxons called November "windmonth," because of the heavy gales that were prevalent at that time of year. Even poets have complained about this 11th month, calling it, in the words of Thomas

The

Hood, "No sun, no morn, no shine, no no leaves, no birds, November!"

butterflies,

no bees,

was prevalent that monotonous month that it actuinfluence on the minds of people. One

In past centuries, the belief

November was such ally

had an

evil

a

churchman was said to write in the late 1700s: "November, the dreadful month, when the little witches drown themselves and the great ones sell themselves to the devil." I haven't the foggiest notion what he meant by all of that. This poor month is even misnamed. November actually means "nine," coming from the Latin, and it was the ninth month until January and February were added. Some of the Romans tried to change the name, but then some others filibustered and won out with no name change. Politics is, as we know, an old game. Yet,

all

fact, there's

the

news about November isn't gloomy. In this month to give us joy. For

much about

was a brilliant idea to get us to stop for a day so that we could consider our lives and all in a sense gambling that that we have been given called Thanksgiving. It

November: Bleak for a Reason?

pope's telegram to Austrian President Klestil

Columnist

relatives

awaited identification of victims in a ski car disaster near Salzburg, Austria, Pope John Paul II promised his prayers for those who died and for their families. In separate telegrams to Salzburg's archbishop and Austria's president, the pope expressed sorrow at the loss of life and his solidarity with the victims' family and friends "in these hours of deep sorrow." Some 170 people, including eight Americans, died

CNS

Now we have the perfect opportunity to stop the rush of activities and take the time to meditate on what our life is all about, where we're going and who is there to help us. In the stillness of our homes, we can take a great spiritual journey. Perhaps November is dark so that we can stop long enough to recognize our own responsibility in bringing

—

would generate in most of us a total and honest thank you to God. Years ago a man named Wilferd Petersen thought

this

about all the things that inspired gratitude in his life, and he wrote an essay for This Week magazine that he called "The Art of Thanksgiving." Consider some of his thoughts about this "art": It is thanking God for the gift of life by living it triumphantly. It is thanking God for your talents and abilities by accepting them as obligations to be invested for the common good. It is thanking God for happiness by striving to make others happy. It is thanking God for beauty by helping to make the world more beautiful. It is thanking God for inspiration by trying to be an inspiration to others. It is thanking God for each new day by living it to the

fullest. It is

adding acts of thanksgiving to your prayers of

thanksgiving.

have joyfully passed on these thoughts as a way of I so very much want to share with my readers: Thank you for your wonderful letters, and happy Thanksgiving! I

leading to the greeting

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than all the other education I have received. Christophers taught me that I could make a difference - that I did not have to be the most brilliant or the

One

Light

The Catholic News & Herald 13

& Columns

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The

Candle

Coming of Age

something I try to do even now in my golden years. I hope when I stand before our God one day, He will say, 'You tried to light the way - you

most

successful.

It is

tried to be a Christopher.'"

FATHER THOMAS

J.

McSWEENEY Guest Columnist

Words The

Full of

Thanks

mail pouch that arrives each

Manhattan

almost invariably

office is

morning

full -

at

our

and, just as

Thanksgiving is you about a few of them, since

often, full of pleasant surprises as well.

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our loyal Christopher friends

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CHRISTOPHER CARSTENS CNS Columnist

A Teen

Relationship

Gone Wrong

out normally enough. Mike and Lisa were both sophomores, they went out a few times, then they became a couple. From the beginning, Lisa made Mike feel special and strong. She was an anxious person, and said again and again that Mike made her feel secure and happy as nobody else ever had. How did it get so messed up? By the time I talked to Mike in my office, he felt like a prisoner of Lisa's moods. If he called her late, she'd be frantic that he was with another girl. If he couldn't spend all day with her Saturday or Sunday, she'd get depressed and threaten to break up with him. Lisa would call Mike, sobbing about how terrible her life was, and more than once he had fights with his parents when he insisted on racing over to see her after 10 at night. He admitted to me that she'd call up and say she wanted to hurt herself Frantic, feeling responsible for her well-being, he'd leave the house against his parent's wishes. He wouldn't tell them It all started

—

why.

When she got too the dark thinking about ways to kill herself. She said she did it when she felt depressed Mike thought maybe she did it when she felt ignored. Lisa threatened suicide.

unhappy, she'd

sit

in

—

"It scares me to death," said Mike. Whenever they weren't together, he'd worry about what she

Reader Confused by Vatican Document Q. Like

am

the writer

saddened

of a

letter in

our diocesan paper, I

was doing.

Question

Corner

"Dominus Iesus. " Several of my Protestant friends at work have asked me what it is all about, and I don 't know what to say. As I understand, it says, among other things, that other churches are not really churches at

Catholic Church

is.

Also, that people

other denominations are

somehow

gion and that their salvation Is this really

At

best,

explain

defend.

to believe

of it.

today?

is

necessary for salvation.

The

declaration repeats

gions."

Holy

Spirit of

active everywhere, "not only in individuals, but

also in society

"The

and history, peoples, cultures and

risen Christ

is

now

at

work

in

reli-

human

hearts through the strength of his Spirit" (No. 12).

Second, Pope John Paul II has taken the oppormore than once in recent weeks to alleviate the hurt caused by the language of the document and to explain its meaning. His purpose in approving the declaration, said the pope, was to invite all Christians to renew their fidelity to Jesus the Lord. "Dominus Iesus," he continued, "does not deny

tunity

CNS

They took her to see her own therapist, and she was getting the help she needed. and I hope Lisa evenWhat Mike learned is that it's entirely postually learned as well

ing.

Columnist

— —

help us understand?

the long-standing Catholic belief that the

Jesus

FATHER JOHN DIETZEN

difficult, if not impossible, to

Can you

A. You're not the only one who is wondering. priests and bishops have been trying to put that document, released by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in September, in the context of the remarkable, officially approved, understandings and agreements with other Christian communities over the past few decades. Even Cardinal Edward Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, reportedly remarked that "neither the timing nor the language of the document were opportune." First, a clear major intent of the document is to insist on the Christian belief that all saving grace of God comes to the human family in and through Jesus Christ. There is no salvation outside of him. This does not mean explicit and conscious faith in is

Untangling Mike's own emotions took months of therapy and support from his family. He finally broke up with Lisa because he saw that their relationship was too destructive, and he had the courage to tell her parents what was happen-

belong to these

Many

Jesus

talking to Lisa.

only the

in jeopardy because

is

fell

deficient in their reli-

what we are supposed

such things are very

and

who

all,

Mike's relationship with his parents fell apart and sneaked around to be with Lisa. He asleep during class because he was up all night

as he lied

named

by the recent Vatican declaration

salvation to non-Christians but points to

mate source

who gives ways known

in Christ,"

tion to everyone "in

its

ulti-

graces for salvaonly to himself

(Midday Angelus blessing remarks Oct. 1, 2000). Above all, the pope seems to wish strongly to emphasize that the ecumenical directions and successes of the past several years are here to stay.

As

he told Queen Elizabeth when they met in October, "There can be no turning back from the ecumenical goal we have set ourselves." In other words, the Catholic Church's teaching about salvation of people in other religions of the world, as expressed for example in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (Nos. 846-848), has not changed. Nor has its commitment to honest dialogue with other religious communities. We believe as Catholics that the fullest saving gifts of God are present in the spiritual resources of the Catholic faith. But as Pope John Paul wrote in his 1995 encyclical "Ut Unum Sint" ("That They May Be One"), speaking specifically of other Christians, elements of holiness and truth are present and active in these different communities. "To the extent that these elements are found in other Christian communities, the one Church of Christ is effectively present in them" as well. The Christian life and witness produced over the years in these communities is the ultimate proof that the Spirit is there and accomplishing its saving work.

sible to love

somebody too much.

When you make

another person responsible for your sense of value, well-being and happiness, you both become prisoners.

Lisa demanded that Mike spend his life taking care of her emotions. That's an unreasonable de-

mand. There are some warning signals. If a girlfriend or boyfriend says, "You are my world," be careful, because there's no way you can live up to that expectation. If you feel

it's

your job to make sure somebody

else doesn't get too angry, too sad or too lonely, be

suspicious. Finally, if

anyone ever says to you something

that translates "I'm going to hurt myself physi-

you hurt me emotionally," there is a bigger problem than you can possibly handle by

cally because

yourself.

That kind of emotional blackmail places you Mike did nothing, and Lisa

in a terrible trap. If

—

but if he spent the hurt herself, he'd feel guilty life trying to stop her, he'd end up angry

rest of his

and

resentful.

you care about the other person, tell his or her parents or a school counselor exactly what's going on. The person making those threats needs professional help. This isn't a time for doing things If

on your own.

14 The Catholic News & Herald

November

Around the Diocese

1

7,

2000

Tour geared to explore plight of farmers and workers By

WENDY

E.

MURRAY

Correspondent

ASHEVILLE

—

Life

some-

is

times hard and heartless. Ramira Sarabia, father of seven

and

migrant worker for 26 years,

a

work of harvesting crops for five hours after finishing his eight-hour factory job. In order to feed his family, he endured low wages, backbreaking work and deplorable living conditions. Now he is an organizer with the recalled the arduous

"Our job is to further the education of journalism in fields of study about agriculture. We need to understand the problems of food production, as they relate to the treatment of migrant workers. "It is our goal to define these problems in terms of fair labor, the future of family farms, and good treatment of the land. "We have an opportunity to apply Catholic social teaching as it applies to the dignity of human per-

Farm Labor Organizing Committee [FLOC] - AFL-CIO, attempting to

sons."

orient his people to advocate for de-

ist

cent benefits, fair wages and human dignity. Joining him in this pursuit were a group of journalists led by Glenmary

Robert Gronski, an Iowa journaland a policy coordinator with the National Catholic Rural Life Conference serving as a resource person on the tour, stressed the need to create resources to assist in the cause for

Father John Rausch. They toured Tennessee and western North Carolina, in an effort to see

social justice.

hand the disparity between the food processing companies and the migrant harvester. Speaking at a gathering at St. Eugene Church, Asheville, Father

North Carolina," he

first

Rausch, a supporter of

FLOC,

was overwhelmed at the of Latino workers in

"I

number

"We as people of faith need realize how dependent we are on these men and women for food production in our

lives."

The

stated:

said.

NCRLC

is

expressing

its

solidarity with farmers at this time of

due to low farm prices, weatherrelated disasters, and that the land, air and water are seriously at risk. Gronski urges Christian leadership to address this urgent, resurging crisis in rural North America through intentional, compassionate outreach and ministry. Any diminishment of dignity violates Catholic convictions that economy is for the human person, not persons for the economy. Among many of the stops on the tour, the journalists visited the crisis

Monterey Mushroom Farm

in

view of the Church, all agricultural workers those both here temporarily or permanently are entitled to safe working conditions, adequate housing and benefits for themselves and their families. This is paramount;it deserves the support and affirmation of the community and the na-

Ten-

nessee, a 100-acre farm that produces

one-third of the fresh mushrooms in the United States, and the Wayne Scott farm of Unicoi, Tenn., a grower of tomatoes and strawberries. Both use migrant workers.

Recently, Bishop Nicholas DeMarzio, Bishop of Camden, N.J., and chairman of the U.S. Catholic bishops' Committee on Migration, addressed the plight of farm workers in a statement before the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration: "In the

—

—

tion."

Matt Emmick, another organizer

FLOC

said that "undocumented" workers pay transporters $1,300 to

for

get across the U.S. border, many loaded into completely enclosed trucks with only a chance to get out at night and subsiding on one hamburger a day. When they arrive at the farms, their living quarters resemble chicken-coop enclosures. When asked whether it was worth it for any Latino man, he stated that even though the wage is below minimum standards in North Carolina, migrant workers earn three times more than what they would earn in

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the Ncw$ from underprivileged situations are lacking in creativity or imagination." Bishop Marino played a key role

Pope John Paul IPs

Mexico.

1968-71.

The Mt. Olive Pickle Company, second producer of pickles in the

the Josephites in

country, is locked with FLOC in a national boycott over unionization.

1971, serving also as director of spiritual and educa-

black Catholic leaders in New Orleans in 1987 and was one of the authors of the black bishops' 1984

tional formation for the society.

pastoral on evangelization.

FLOC's

He was

Baldemar

President

elected vicar general of

visit

with

when he was 40, Father Marino was named an auxiliary In 1974,

Velasquez stated in a Raleigh debate, "Our job is to reconcile the conditions of the farm workers and the experiences they have to suffer from, to reconcile the people from the bottom to the people from the top." Although most workers are scared and intimidated by the growers' association, "workers need their

own

in

bishop of Washington, becoming the third black priest in modern times to achieve the rank of bishop in the U.S. Catholic Church.

Emmick. migrant workers went on strike in Ohio at the Campbell Soup Co., wages were increased for pickle workers from voice," said

Bishop Marino took an active role in the bishops' conference and in educating the predominantly white U.S. Catholic Church about the evils of racism and the contributions that black Catholics could

—

such soul-filling inspiration that black members of the body of Christ can bring with them, for the uplifting of all Christ's members as they gather around the table of the Lord for the breaking of bread." "To a 1976 meeting of religious educators, he said, "It is a mistake said, "It is

—

...

to

assume that children who come

named

In his

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—

—

the good of all. As those involved in the journaland as those ists' tour discovered they encountered know as a daily reeating is a moral act. ality

—

to joining St. Vincent's in July 1995.

make. Citing "two soul-stirring moments" during the 1976 Democratic convention an address by Rep. Barbara Jordan of Texas and a benediction by the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. Bishop Marino

—

Bishop Marino was

black U.S. bishops.

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in Mississippi, with the was going to say handidouble I of being cap, but I'll say blessing black and Catholic, I never thought I would see the day when I would be standing here preaching God's holy word in this place, as a priest, indeed as a bishop of the church. "Generations of black Catholics never lived to see a black priest or sister, let alone ever dream that their son or daughter might become one."

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