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SEWING ANGELS

FIGHTING FOR LIFE

Stem

I

cell experts,

activists exhort

Stitching the fabric of compassion

Catholics to Tote bags touch

understand issues

lives

ofmany

'COST TOO HIGH' FOR

EMBRYONIC STEM-CELL RESEARCH, SENATE PANEL TOLD

NELLENBACH CORRESPONDENT Editor's note: This story

CATHOLIC NEWS

by

SERVICE With the

contains descriptions of domes-

—

WASHINGTON

rapid advances in

medicine, science and technol-

ogy, beginning-of-life issues

seemed a remote possibil2000 have emerged as

that

ity in

hot political topics in 2004.

At the forefront

are

human

cloning and stem-cell research

human embryos. Hu-

using

man

cloning, at least of

JOANITA M.

by

em-

See STEM CELLS, page 8

tic violence.

—

MAGGIE VALLEY Her abusive husband could everything she had, she erything

—

take

ev-

said,

but her tote bag.

She received the bag when she fled empty-handed to the

REACH

shelter. If

she could

return to her house, accompa-

nied by a police officer and

while her husband wasn't there, the bag would hold whatever necessities she could quickly gather.

The Sewing Angels of St. Margaret of Scotland Church

CATHOLIC FIRST, HISPANIC

SECOND

make

Hispanic ministry coordinators help I

I

the bags.

"Women services

home

by

when they

coordinator

Photo by Joanita M. Nelienbach

for Esther Metz sews tote bags

See SEWING, page 5

immigrants feel at

cry

get them," said Rita Noland,

has sewed and donated

20

1

in St.

tote

in N.C.

KAREN

A.

CHARLOTTE

— "They

Mexicans." "They are here to take our jobs, make some money, then go back to

official

says

Mexico." "They abuse our don't

want

to bother to

turn to their

"They leam

by

VATICAN CITY

These are a few of the misconceptions diocesan Hispanic

Ministry coordinators are working to correct. Following a day-long

CNS

A displaced woman walks through

in

photo from Reuters

camp, which houses tens

Dirail

thousands of displaced Sudanese

the Darfur region of Sudan,

Sept. 21.

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of

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SARAH DELANEY

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

to

speak English."

3d

The Sewing Angels ministry in Haywood County.

abuse

Refugee camps becoming permanent homes, Vatican

all

health care system."

hall.

for victims of domestic

HOME SWEET HOME?

EVANS

STAFF WRITER

are

Margaret of Scotland Church's parish

bags to a shelter

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Culture

Watch

ingly becoming permanent homes for people fleeing war, extreme poverty or persecution, and wealthier nations

must make a greater commitment to helping refugees re-

own

countries, a

official said.

Some seven

out of 12 mil-

worldwide have been kept from their homes for

lion refugees

more than 10

years, a situation

that leaves "masses of people

without hope" and spawns "generations of children be-

See CAMPS, page 12

Serving up faith

Perspectives

Pope reviews 20th century in

Seeing God's signs;

Catholic churches supply

new book

classifying relics

food for fund-raiser

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The Catholic News & Herald

October 15,2004

Current and upcoming

In Brief

topics from around the

world to your

own backyard

Nations ignoring nuclear disarmament treaty, says Vatican official NEW YORK

FAITH

IN

ACTION

(CNS)

—

Failure

An

by

spending also makes

the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in-

ists

acquire such weapons, said the Vatican representative to the United Nations.

The 1968

treaty

in a "fragile state"

is

because the "original bargain" of "no pro-

exchange for nuclear disarmament" is not being observed, said Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's permanent observer at the United Nations in New York. Instead, there has been an "ongoing struggle" between the non-nuclear countries to obtain weapons and the nuclear nations to further modernize their weapons, he said Oct. 7 at a meeting of the General Assembly's First Committee, a subcommittee that deals with disarmament and international security. "Proliferation of these weapons liferation in

greatly increases the likelihood of terrorist acquisition,"

he

said.

Diocesan. planner ASHEVILLE Atchison, Kan. The 38-year-old nun

facility in

Scholastica Monastery

in

is

Mount

director of maintenance at

St.

Atchison. Sister Elaine says she can do almost any job the

community may need done, but she admits

work

electrical

is

not really her forte.

VICARIATE

—

HENDERSONVILLE 4.

at 7 p.m.

p.m.

Benedictine nun takes her

The

CHARLOTTE

full

well

how

The

38-year-old,

to blend

of maintenance at

Monastery

me

prayer.

who is the director Mount St. Scholastica

in Atchison, describes her job

as a ministry

lege for

work with

knows

and says

it is

"a real privi-

to be in charge of the stew-

VICARIATE

a

hand

in

place up" ever since she joined the

com-

munity 17 years ago. And while lay people might think it unusual to see a sister building cabinets,

gluing

PCV

Benedict' talks about

how important

it

manual labor and

really

is,

as well as

reading and praying and your nity

the

life,"

she

commu-

Manual labor comes naturally to nun. Growing up on a family farm,

she learned to operate and maintain

all

kinds of farm machinery at an early age.

than capable of tackling almost any task. In fact, when Sister Elaine first

working

maintenance, she also worked part time as a firefighter and an emergency medical technician. But she started

in

eventually stopped that

work").

she

felt

that

it

interfered

work because too much with

her community and prayer

Now

she

is

campus with 16 buildings and a cemetery. The buildings range in size from

close to St. Benedict's vision of

what

small sheds to the five-story administra-

Mount

monastics do," said Benedictine Sister Irene Nowell, director of ongoing formation at the monastery.

tion building of the former

"She works in caring for the land and the other material things we have

carpentry work along with gardening,

"She also has the other side, in regard to her prayer life and participation as one of six sisters on the prioress's advisory

"But everything intrigues me," she said. "I'm kind of 'a jack of all trades' and

council."

Gary Kearney,

Sister Elaine agrees.

"The 'Rule of

New

the

Room

Life Center of St.

on

104 of the

Matthew Commons

Church, 8015 Ballantyne Pkwy. Bob Bartoldus, marriage

tribu-

St.

from, not toward, security," he said.

Disarmament

must include

efforts

stopping the spread of conventional weapons in Africa and other regions facing conflict, he said.

Family Life Center. To Grover at (704) 545-

—

Peter Church

St.

is

presenting the Fifth Annual Kennedy Lecture Oct. 23, 9 a.m.-l p.m., at the

Tryon

St. Susan A. "Women's Work and the Church in

church, 507 South Ross,

PhD,

will present-

as Unopened gifb the 21st Century. "

the

Women The lecture

work of women-in

will explore

the church as a gift

that too often remains "unopened." Ross

of women's

will share stories

work

in

and will offer theological reflections on what it might mean to open these gifts and share them with the church and the. world. For details and reservations, call the church office at (704) 332-2901, ext. 12, or visit in society

www.stpeterscatholic.org.

CHARLOTTE learn

— Would you

like to

more about your Catholic

faith,

present information on the annulment process. Coffee and light snacks are provided. For more infor-

mation, contact the church office at (704) 543-7677.

St.

lotte, will

—

MINT HILL

Sister Veronica

of classes on the History of the Catholic Church beginning Oct. 22 at St. Luke Church, 13700

Grover

will teach a series

Lawyers Rd.

classes will

meet Fridays

Matthew Church, 8015 Ballantyne

Commons Pkwy.

This

that will cover a

new

is

a drop-in class

topic of interest

each week. Each participant will receive

Update from St. Anthony Messenger Press to keep. Pre-registrajust drop in! tion is not necessary

a Catholic

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Childcare

is

available at these sessions

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a local contractor, "be-

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Scholastica College.

mowing and

is

life.

very

in the buildings," said Sister Irene.

—

responsible for a 60-acre

is

Sister Elaine does

is

nal advocate for the Diocese of Char-

said.

pipe together or smashing gypsum board with a hammer, it makes perfect sense to her based on the Benedictine motto "ora et labora" ("prayer and

"What

"Annulments"

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That experience made her more "keeping the

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She has had

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topic of the St.

—

leading the world

"Increased reliance on guns

and small

church and

motto to heart Benedictine Sister Elaine Fischer

contact the church

office at (828)

CHARLOTTE

—

he said. Tighter export controls and greater monitoring of weapons stockpiles are needed, he added. sors,"

CHARLOTTE Immacu-

Oct. 31 session begins

info,

office at (828)

order's 'prayer and work' (CNS)

Global military spending in 2003 was $965 billion, a jump of 1 1 percent from 2002, said the archbishop. Conventional weapons "are being produced and sold internationally, on black markets as well as by state spon-

1224.

and weekday sessions meet

For more

formation

Kan.

peaks," he said.

at 7: 1 5 p.m. in the

9:15-9:45 a.m., 1-1:30 p.m. and 7-8:30

ATCHISON,

is

register, call Sister

late Conception Church, 208 7th Ave. West, will present Parish Mission Oct.

31 -Nov.

military spending this

expected to top $1 trillion and "will soon surpass even the Cold War

year

photo by Joe Bollig, The Leaven

Benedictine Sister Elaine Fisher works on renovating the Dooley Center, a retirement

easier for terror-

it

to get conventional weapons, he said.

Worldwide

creases the possibility that terrorists will

CNS

overall rise in global military

nuclear and non-nuclear states to adhere to

Charlotte,

NC

28237.

October 15,

The Catholic News & Herald

2004

FROM THE VATICAN

Vatican says

Vatican to publish catechism on

'

VATICAN CITY

for Justice

The

(CNS)

— The

and Peace.

council said in a statement

"Compendium of

Oct. 8 that the

NEW YORK (CNS) — The U.N.

mdispensible instrument, says cardinal

long-awaited catechism on church social teachings will be published Oct. 25 by the Vatican's Pontifical Council

Social Doctrine of the

Church"

is

the di-

vided into three parts that present the foundations, contents and pastoral applications of Catholic social teachings.

Pope John Paul

II

endorsed the

idea of a catechism of social doctrine

longer than anticipated.

The compendium

will be unveiled

at the start of this fall's plenary as-

sembly of the

pontifical council.

Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the council, called the compendium "an indispensable instrument for announcing and implementing the Gospel."

He make

said

would help Catholics

it

favors reforms of U-N.

Security Council

church social teachings Oct. 25 Compendium

it

the necessary "moral and pasto-

discernment of the complex events that characterize our times." Part of the catechism is expected to deal with the theological and anthropological underpinnings of the ral

Security Council should be reformed so that it better represents the world's

contribute substantially to reach the goals that constitute a priority for the

wide range of classical social doctrine themes, said Cardinal Martino.

was held to discuss ways to revitalize and strengthen the United bly that

Nations.

CHARLOTTE

Time for questions and refreshments will follow. For more inmation.

formation, contact Phil Koch at (336)

—

Catholic Social Ser-

Elder Ministry and the Mecklenburg Area Task Force on Aging will sponsor a Health and Safety Fair

282-0255.

vice

10 a.m.-2 p.m. at St. Ann Church, 3635 Park Rd. Demonstrations Oct.

19,

and exhibitions geared toward seniors and caregivers include free osteoporosis, blood sugar and blood pressure and spinal analysis. Information will be presented on housing options, in-home health care, nutrition and scam prevention. For additional information, contact Sandra Breakfield at (704) 370-3220 or Sherill Beason at (704) 370-3228.

CHARLOTTE

—

25 or 50 years this year will be honored at an Anniversary Mass Oct. 24 at 2:30 p.m. at St Gabriel Church, 3016 Providence Rd. Please call your church office if you wish to be included.

GREENSBORO

—

— Adult

Pen

Rd.

Faith Formation presents the second of a series of Issues Forums Oct. 2 1 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul the Apostle Church, 2715 Horse

Topics

Natural Family Plan-

nmgclasses are being offered at St. James

Church, 251 Union St., Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. Learn a natural method that is just as effective as the Pill

and

is

in

accord with Catholic teaching. Contact

Susan Chaney

at (704)

MOUNTAIN

—

is

The permanent members

are the United States, United Kingdom, Russia, China and France.

Archbishop Migliore stopped short of suggesting that the veto

it.

"For practical reasons, not all the bodies of the United Nations can be arranged on the model of the General Assembly," said the archbishop. In the General Assembly, each state has one vote and no state has a veto.

Regarding general U.N. reforms, Archbishop Migliore said that "the nations that have attained a superior degree of scientific, cultural and economic development have the responsibility

to

tion to the

make

a greater contribu-

common

cause."

The United Nations "needs come a more outward-looking

to be-

organization capable of listening more carefully to the needs and demands of the global community," he said. "Changing historical conditions" reinforce the need for an international body such as the United Nations, he said.

"The universal common good

is

confronted with problems of worldwide dimensions; problems, therefore, which can be solved only by an authority possessed with power, organization and means coextensive with these problems and whose sphere of activity is worldwide," he said.

to

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composed of five permanent members and 10 rotating members elected to two-year terms. council

permanent members votes against

720-0772 for

more information or email questions

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St. William Church, 765 Andrews Rd., will sponsor its fifth season of Renew, a six-week spiritual renewal program. Small Christian communities meet once a week, Oct.

17-Nov. 21, to share faith, find meandeepen relationships, pray, learn and support each other in the struggle ing,

to live faith in

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The Security Council is the United Nations' most powerful body. It is the only body whose decisions are obligatory on member states and the only one authorized to enforce resolutions through military action. The

SALISBURY

as the rule of "great

substantive decision can be approved by the council if at least one of the

which included consultation with experts and bishops' conferences, took

by reservation by calling (704) 5437677 ext. 1011.

known

nomic groups and civilizations, said the Vatican representative to the United Nations. Such revisions would "improve the credibility and efficacy of the reformed Security Council," said Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations. Reforms must also improve the "actual capacity and political will to

church's social teaching, as well as a

The preparation and

veto,

power unanimity," means that no

review,

2000.

power over decisions held by the five permanent members be ended. The

population, geopolitical regions, eco-

overall majority of the member states," he said. The archbishop spoke at an Oct. 4 session of the U.N. General Assem-

1999, and the Vatican hoped it might be ready during Holy Year in

3

all

aspects of

more information,

life.

For

Michael Kauffman at (828) 835-3310 or email mskauffrnan@webworkz.com. Is

will

your parish or school sponsor-

ing a free event

include euthanasia, living wills, self-as-

eral public?

and the death penalty. Panelists include Dr. Terence McConnell, ethicist, UNC-Greensboro; Ed Meyer, attorney; and Dr. Cris sisted suicide

call

for the

open

to the

gen-

Please submit notices

Diocesan Planner at least

15 days prior to the event date

Karen A. Evans

writing to

in

at

kaevans@charlottediocese.org or

Villapando, director of diocesan faith for-

fax to (704) 370-3382.

ipiscop r r al

.

.

Calendar

Bishop Peter J. Jugis will participate

Oct. 16— 11a.m.

Oct.

Sacrament of Confirmation

Fall

Our Lady of Mercy Church, Winston-Salem

St.

Oct.

17-11

a.m.

in thefollowing events:

21— 2:30 p.m. Mass

Day of Reflection for Seniors

Mark Church,

Oct. 22

Huntersville

— 7 p.m.

Sacrament of Confirmation

Aquinas/Luther Conference

SI Elizabeth of the Hill Country Church, Boone

Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory

Oct. 18-20

Oct.

23— 5 p.m.

CNS

Afghan election workers carry ballot boxes to a counting center Afghans voted

in

the country's

first direct

in

photo from Reuters

Kabul Oct. 10.

presidential election, which

will

also be

Provincial Assembly of Bishops and Priests

Sacrament of Confirmation

a major test of U.S.-led nation-building efforts under way since the 2001 ouster of

Charleston, South Carolina

Immaculate Conception Church, Hendersonville

the Taliban.

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October 15,

2004

AROUND THE DIOCESE

Local student walks halls of

Chalking up fun

leadership in Washington Youth leadership conference offers historic perspectives

— Lauren Caddick,

GASTONIA parishioner of

St.

a

Patrick Cathedral in

Charlotte, joined 200 middle school

students from throughout the United States at the Junior National

Leaders Conference

DC,

in

Young

Washington,

actually keep this city

and our country

Mike Lasday, executive director of the Congressional Youth running," said

Leadership Council, the nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that sponsored the conference.

Oct. 9-14.

"One of the goals of the conference

Themed 'The Legacy

is

own

of American Leadership," the conference introduced

to encourage students to build their

young people

ment within their communities," said Lasday. In addition to examining notable U.S. leaders and historic figures, Caddick studied the impact of leadership throughout critical periods of U.S. history, including the Civil War and Reconstruction, World War II, the Great Depression and the Civil Rights Movement. Upon completion of the conference, students took home a greater sense of understanding of the role of individuals in U.S. democracy, as well as the responsibilities of being a leader. Caddick, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William Caddick in Gastonia, is also a Girl Scout and a member of her school's Junior Beta Club.

to the rich tradition of

leadership throughout U.S. history, while helping them develop their own leadership

skills.

Caddick, who attends Cramerton Middle School in Cramerton, participated in educational activities and presentations led by individuals in highlevel positions as well as

who

young people

exercise leadership skills within

their communities. Students also visited

historic national landmarks, including

Colonial Williamsburg, Va.

"By participating tional

Na-

in the Junior

Young Leaders

Conference, stu-

dents such as Lauren Caddick learn early that young people are not only welcome in Washington, D.C., but they

leadership skills through active involve-

Photo by Joanita M. Nellenbach

Eleanora Azerbaeb, 22 months, daughter of Cindy and Russ Azerbaeb, helps Lia

Beard of

St.

Barnabas Church

in

Arden draw chalk pictures on the walk

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FROM THE COVER "They're so touched that someone

...

would care enough to do this."

Barbara Williams.

when

saw

I

enjoy sewing and

"I

in the (church) bulletin,

it

I

thought that was something I'd be interested in. It seemed like a worthwhile cause.

Stitching

I

enjoy the camaraderie of the

sewing) just kind of sucks you

ladies.

(The

in."

But the Sewing Angels' gifts of love Haywood County.

the fabric of

aren't limited to

Angels abroad

Now the ministry has embraced Grace Uwimfura, originally from Rwanda and now living in Atlanta. Speaking recently during the weekend Masses at St. Margaret of Scotland Church, Uwimfura asked for

compassion SEWING, from page 1

help for the Giving Back Foundation,

REACH

which she founded to help African war widows and orphans. Augustinian Father Francis J. Doyle, pastor of St. Margaret of Scotland Church, met Uwimfura 10 years ago when he visited Notre Dame Sister Jane

(Resources, Education, Assis-

Counseling and Housing) of

tance,

Haywood County, which

assists victims

of domestic violence. "They're so touched

someone who didn't even know them would care enough to do this." "I decided to start making tote bags last fall after I had been to a St. Margaret Women's Guild meeting and Nancy Por-

McAndrews, who was working

that

ter (of the guild) said

REACH

needed

suitcases for the people entering the shelter," said

and Clare Danielewski of St. Margaret of Scotland Church in a tote bag. The Sewing Angels ministry has sewed and donated a shelter for victims of domestic abuse in Haywood County.

Esther Rapp

(left)

Maggie Valley

lay out

1

20

tote bags to

Clare Danielewski, a parishioner

Margaret of Scotland Church. "When a woman comes to the shelter, she usually just leaves home and has nothing," said Danielewski. "They may give her a pillowslip or trash bag to keep at St.

her belongings

in."

Danielewski invited other the parish to help her

From

Photo by Joanita M. Nellenbach

make

women

in

tote bags.

July through October (Domestic

woman

An

when

uses

she's in the shelter."

bag is 19 inches square; pull up the lining and the bag doubles in size. Children's bags are 14 inches

growing process. First it was it became smaller, then it had one (exterior) pocket, then I came up with the idea of making two pockets, one

"It

was

a

larger, then

phone, baby bottle or water bottle, and one for the important papers for a cell

Close to

home

North Carolina

in

One

hus-

band repeatedly followed his wife to the bathroom and dictated how many sheets of toilet paper she could use.

An-

'Their self-esteem

"When

—

such a low point hit,

so low," Noland

is

come

they

to us, they're at

they've been called

sexually abused

—

they don't

they deserve anything. Abusers are

con

artists.

They

will use

anything to get

that person under their thumb."

The

tote

bag

is

often the only

new

thing the victim has.

Fabric stores and individuals do-

much of the

fabric for the tote bags,

often sturdy tapestry in bright colors,

and the Sewing Angels raise

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October 15,

2004

HISPANIC MINISTRY 'VIVA MEXICO'

Hispanic ministry coordinators help

Celebration highlights

welcome immigrants 'We must

Mexican independence by

go beyond the limiand language barriers," he said. "Hispanics want to be invited into the community by

HISPANICS, from page 1

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Anglos."

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m

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meeting of the eight coordinators Oct. 6, four of the coordinators and Franciscan

'

amis, ordinary people gathered to shake

Andrea Inkrott, director of diocesan Hispanic Ministry discussed the challenges Hispanics face as newcomers to a sometimes-inhospitable land, and the accomplishments they have made. Sister

off control of another nation.

Only this wasn't Paul Revere riding through sleeping Massachusetts villages on April 18, 1775, shouting that the British were coining. This was Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, who, shortly before dawn on Sept. 16, 1810, roused Mexican Indians and mestizos people of mixed European and American Indian ancestry in Dolores in the state of Guanajuato to strike for Mexi-

—

The most important idea the coordinators wanted to convey was that Hispanics are "Catholic first, Hispanic second," said Eduardo Bernal,

—

coordinator for the

1821.

Today

its

Pedro Trinidad, coordinator for the Winston-Salem Vicariate, said

independence in

the priest

is

known

it is

common

misconception that all Hispanic immigrants are Mexican. "We come from El Salvador, Colombia, Cuba," he said. "It is important to understand that we come from a

as

Father Hidalgo and the father of Mexico's independence. Around 100 people, mostly Hispanic, many of them parishioners at Holy Redeemer Church, gathered the

Photo by Joanita M. Nellenbach

evening of Oct. 1 in the Andrews Recreation Center for a Mexican Independence Day celebration. Hurricanes hitting western North Carolina had prevented them from celebrating on the actual September date. "So many Americans think Cinco de Mayo is Independence Day, but that celebrates Mexico defeating France," said Jose Martinez, a Holy Redeemer parishioner originally from Guanajuato.

Rafael and Roseo Martinez dance with

Rafael

Jr.,

during

2,

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Day

Mexican

a

celebration

in

that contribute to the immigrant Hispanic population, many Spanish dialects, cultures and celebrations

food

sales, raise

celebration the

money

for the

community

is

December

planning in

honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

'The people

principal

we

Martinez

meaning

to

show

it's

more family

oriented,"

said.

The communitywide

Battle of Puebla.

is

can have fun without alcohol

or drugs, that

Cinco de Mayo (May 5) in 1862, Mexico defeated France in the

party turned

out well.

"Guanajuato is where independence Martinez said. "On (the 16th) a priest was the one who convoked everybody to get up and get arms. He rang the bells and everybody came to the church. They were the poor; the rich didn't care." This night the recreation center pulsed with music to set the blood pumping and feet dancing. Green, white and red paper banners declaring "Viva Mexico" (Father Hidalgo's cry to the peasants) were strung around the bal-

"For the first one, I'm happy," said Father Michael Kottar, administrator of

started,"

Holy Redeemer Church. "We have here from Murphy and

people

Hayesville (as well as Andrews)."

Dr. Darius Chrostowski, his wife, Beata, and their children, Eric,

Emily and

were among the non-Hispanic

tendees.

Holy Redeemer

at-

parishioners,

they emigrated from Poland eight years

ago and moved to Andrews from Chicago three years ago. "It was a nice party, something different," Beata said. "A few years ago, there were not so many immigrants coming (here), but everywhere things

hall.

Beneath a Mexican flag above the DJs provided the music against a background of flashing colored lights. Adults danced; kids raced around the room chasing balloons. Besides celebrating Mexican independence, the Hispanic community's goals were to have fun and, through ticket and stage,

come with

them.

1.

is

a challenge

to integrate

cultures while keeping the faith

we

have as Catholics," said Enedino Aquino, coordinator for the Greensboro Vicariate. Churches throughout the diocese are making efforts to reach out to Hispanics. For the past six years, an annual retreat has taken place in the Asheville Vicariate aimed at strengthening faith programs and training laity. Our Lady of Grace Church in Greensboro offers a "Health and Hispanic Fair" that includes traditional music and dancing along with free

must stand up

in

sup-

port of Hispanics," said Bernal. "Talk to your Hispanic neighbors and find

out about them. Invite them to church

— Protestants do

this."

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us as a blessing from God.

Inviu^

upon

all

open up the existing cultures and

allow

new

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HISPANIC MINISTRY

'BROTHERS AND SISTERS

IN FAITH'

Hispanics into fold KEVIN

by

E.

MURRAY

Mass was quite a change for some of the non-Hispanic members of the addition of the

EDITOR

and

CAROLE McGROTTY

40-year-old parish, said Father Lawlor.

CORRESPONDENT

CHARLOTTE

— As

population continues to cese of Charlotte,

grow

Diowork-

in the

many parishes

are

ing to meet the demands of that growth. In addition to Spanish-language Masses, parishes across the diocese have instituted Hispanic ministry and Hispanic faith formation programs.

saw the need

"I

as

soon as

I

for such a ministry

arrived in Charlotte in July

of last year," said Father Mark Lawlor, St. Vincent de Paul Church.

pastor of

"We had Mass

last

our

first

ters such as parish boundaries

Lourdes Church with the

a

as Catholics.

follows then that approximately

new

Monroe

in

to assist Photo by Kevin

ministry.

"A couple of (non-Hispanic)

Spanish-language

December and we now have

very steady ministry." St Vincent de Paul Church became the 50th of 93 parishes and missions within the diocese to have an active Hispanic ministry. The need was great, according to Father Lawlor, especially with nearby Protestant churches offering both religious and social services in Spanish. Approximately 6,700 Hispanics live within the parish boundaries, according to the diocesan Office of Planning, and 75 percent of them identify themselves "It

have had to educate some on matand the makeup of the universal church," said Father Lawlor. "As pastor, I am responsible for the pastoral care of all the Catholics who live within our parish. Our membership in the church is by virtue of baptism and not dependent on your financial status or even legal status.'^ Rev. Mr. Edwin Rodriguez recently transferred from Our Lady of "I

the Hispanic

parish-

ioners have expressed their willingness

ways

to help out in such

as teaching

have' attended the

Mass

to learn the

Spanish language and have expressed that they enjoyed the liturgy."

was standing room only for the Sept. 12 Spanish-language Mass at which Father Lawlor dedicated a statue of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, who was declared the patroness of Cuba by Pope Benedict XV in 1916. "We now have a choir and have begun preparation for first penance and It

first

Eucharist," said Father Lawlor.

At the

Basilica of St.

Lawrence

Asheville, sacramental preparation

Lawlor.

fered in both English

"We

than 300 Hispanics regularly

attend the Spanish-language Mass.

The

Murray

Father Mark Lawlor, pastor, and Rev. Mr. Edwin Rodriguez, deacon, dedicate a statue

Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre during the Spanish-language Mass de Paul Church in Charlotte Sept. 12. of

at St. Vincent

English," said Father Lawlor. "Others

5,000 Hispanic Catholics are currently living within our parish," said Father

More

E.

glish

pray

is

in

of-

and Spanish. Spanish and in En-

in

when we meet

Elizabeth Girton, director of faith for-

Sunday evenings. Father Boyd hears

mation

confessions in Spanish before the Mass.

at the basilica.

A

Hispanic catechist works with who often speak little or no English and teaches them ways to prepare parents

their children to receive the sacraments.

Parents and children have books with English on one page and similar text in Spanish on the opposite page.

The catechists work cover

the same

material with both the English- and Spanish-speaking parents.

same thing at same time," said Girton. "It works well. We've been doing it this way for "All are learning the

the

Three Sundays a month, Father Boyd celebrates Mass in Spanish at the basilica and once a month at Immaculate Conception Church in Canton. Father Wilbur Thomas, pastor of the basilica,

More groups

Father C. Morris Boyd, parochial formation

helps educate

young people

in

two

cul-

parishioners as dedicated Catholics.

"They

he hopes to help "integrate community into the whole parish and still keep the customs that also enrich ours."

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he

He said

this (Hispanic)

Why choose a

large

are starting.

Father Boyd describes the Hispanic

vicar, said the parish faith

tures.

monthly Spanish-lan-

A Hispanic youth group also meets on Sundays, a leadership group meets with adults and two small Christian community prayer and Scripture groups meet weekly in their homes.

five years."

together," said

celebrates a

guage Mass.

number of

parishioners at-

tend the Spanish-language

Mass on

live

and breathe

their faith,"

said.

Opening the church doors to Hisis good for any parish, said Fa-

panics

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"Having another culture present reminds us that we are brothers and sisters in the one faith," he said.

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October 15,

2004

FIGHTING FOR LIFE

Drenched

Catholics exhorted to uni

in conviction

search involves embryos created in vitro

STEM CELLS, from page 1

by uniting a sperm and an egg

in a

laboratory. bryos,

now

is

As

a laboratory reality.

such, Catholic leaders

logians believe people in the ally

and theo-

pews

re-

need to understand the issue of

Supporters of embryonic research say stem cells from embryos can be transformed into more types of specialized cells than adult

stem-cell research, especially in light of

the

upcoming

presidential election.

stem-cell research

Stem-cell expert Father Tadeusz

is

again faces the question of. whether to all

types of

human

cloning.

Charlie

and Dot Martin, parishioners of Queen of the Apostles Church

unsavory weather during the parish parishioners had to fabricate

Life

Chain Oct. 3.

new signs when the

In

in

Belmont, endure

addition to braving

a thunderstorm,

pre-printed ones could not be located

Church supports three of four types of

of embryonic stem

cells.

,

Noting the Catholic Church runs the biggest network of hospitals in the

What is a human embryo? What is cloning? What are stem cells, and from where do you get them? And what's

world, the priest said the church "vigor-

if

we

take

stem cells from certain sources like living, growing human embryos?" Father Pacholczyk, who holds a doctorate in neuroscience from Yale University and has completed advanced studies in Rome in theology and bioethics,

is

director of education at the

Na-

tional Catholic Bioethics Center in Phila-

delphia.

He

has served as a national

spokesman on stem-cell research and

On angels' wings

Father Pacholczyck said the Catholic

Father Pacholczyck, "people need to be aware of what the real parameters of the

the price that's going to be paid

I

vastly over-

stem-cell research, opposing only the use

debate," said

discussion are:

Courtesy Photo by TJ Stocker

"is

Myths and misconceptions

not just national in scope but

'To have an informed

shows that the greatest

sold."

international as the* United Nations

ban

cells can.

promise for curing disease

Pacholczyck said the debate on such research and the closely related issue of cloning

stem

Father Pacholczyk said embryonic

presented congressional testimony.

Stem cells are basic cells capable of transforming themselves into the specialized cells present in specific body organs. Currently, embryonic stem-cell re-

ously supports healing

manner nity,

...

but always in a

that respects true

human

"And embryonic

stem-cell research

where you violate human order to get what you want in

represents a step

dignity in

the end

—

a possible cure.

sion to violate the

embryo

And is

Father Pacholczyk charged the secular media with doing a poor job of reporting clearly the facts on these issues. He singled out two of his "10 great myths" on stem cell research as "really critical that

people understand."

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2004

,

FIGHTING FOR LIFE

stand stem- cell issues promise. In reality, "the stress on the de-

stem-cell research instituted

embryos as a way to bring about medical cures and miracles is vasdy oversold. The true cures are coming from adult and umbilical cord stem cells. And

Aug.

struction of

...

people need to realize that"

Adult stem cells, he said, have exand been in use for years. "So literally tens of thousands of people have already been cured of various ailments and treated for various disorders with adult stem cells," he said. "And if you asked the question, 'How many people have been cured of any disease using stem cells from embryos?', the answer is exactly zero," said Father Pacholczyk. "Nobody has ever been cured of any disease.yet." He said it was pointless to wait "10 isted

years or 20 years and invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a project that fizzle.

We have cures

Many

work

that

may

today."

supporters of embryonic re-

search favor legalizing the cloning of

human embryos

solely for research pur-

poses to provide

more

tion.

cells for investiga-

This type of cloning

is

often called

by Bush on

2001. Bush restricted the use of

federal funds for

search to

embryonic stem-cell re-

cell lines that

existed at that time.

"At this very moment, some of the most pioneering cures and treatments are right at our fingertips, but because of the stem-cell ban, they remain beyond

our reach," Kerry said in an Aug. 7 radio address. "That is not the way we do things in America. Here in America,

we

don't sacrifice science for ideology."

tion

In response,

Bush

was the

to actually fund stem-cell

first

said his administra-

2003 budget including

research, with his

$24.8 million for research on the existing

embryonic stem-cell

and $190 milstem ceDs.

lines

lion in funding for adult

'The

principle that

human embryos human life

myth

key

Father

and that the federal government should has not encourage their destruction been accepted on a bipartisan basis for a number of years," says the Bush campaign Web site. "Every year since 1996, Congress has adopted legislative language stating that federal funds may not

—

tion of

human embryos."

from one another. "That is a smoke screen," the priest said. 'Those two types of cloning do not differ from each other in the way that you make the cloned embryo. They're

Regarding cloning, Bush has said he would sign legislation banning all human cloning. A total ban bill has passed the House of Representatives and a similar bill is in the Senate. Kerry supports a rival Senate bill that would ban cloning for human reproduction but would allow the cloning of human embryos for

exactly the same."

medical research.

being sold is the claim that therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning are fundamentally

Pacholczyk said the public

is

different

"The creation of cloned embryos,

make

ther to

a baby or to harvest cells,

occurs by the same series of technical

he

steps,"

'The only difference is be done with the cloned human said.

what will embryo that

is

produced: Will

be given

it

woman's

womb

"Government has no business

ei-

forc-

ing taxpayers to support research that relies

on the

human

life,"

any Wil-

direct destruction of

said Baltimore Cardinal

liam H. Keeler, chairman of the U.S. bishops'

Committee on Pro-Life

Opposing sides The June 5 death of former President Ronald Reagan, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, revived the political

administration policy.

order to be bom, or will its

stem

it

in

be destroyed for

cells?"

Cardinal Keeler said that there

human

debate over federal funding of

The

initial

A microscopic view shows a colony

of undifferentiated

is

"ethical errors"

and "dwindling hopes of

medical benefit" mitigate against public

funding of embryonic stem-cell research. "Congress should take stock now and realize that the promise of this approach is too speculative, and the cost too high," said Doerflinger" before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation's subcommittee on science, technology and space. He was one of five witnesses at the subcommittee's hearing on "Embryonic Stem-Cell Research: Exploring the Controversy." 'That cost includes the early human lives destroyed now and in the future, the required exploitation of women for their eggs and perhaps for their wombs, and the diversion of finite public resources away from research avenues

he added. avenues to medican all live with."

tients with terrible diseases,"

"Let's agree to support cal

we

progress that

Both Doerflinger and Cardinal

human embryos

that otherwise

would be

discarded can be used for experiments. discard 'excess'

fact that

embryos

that the federal government should intervene to assist in their de-

such

Parkinson's disease.

Services Department.

soon die automatically become fodder for

When it comes to stem-cell research, W. Bush

priations committees in the Senate

and

House of Representatives. The cardinal urged federal lawmakers to oppose efforts to include such federal

the appropriations

bill

funding

in

for the

Richard Doerflinger, deputy direc-

struction

many

— any more than

abortions are performed in the

must use

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from

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very beginning, regardless of

the circumstances of its origins,"

it

says.

Regarding human cloning, separate statements by church officials have supported the total ban contained in a bill that passed the House in 2003 and in a Senate bill. Bush supports both bills. Kerry supports a rival Senate bill that would ban cloning for human reproduction but allow

it

for research purposes, said

a spokesman in Kerry's Senate

office.

Catholic bioethicists have noted that

the church's opposition to using embryonic stem cells

stem

is

not a hindrance to re-

They cite research with more promising,

cells are said

"Because

more

to be

adult stem

since embryonic unstable.

and the

scientists,

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—

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"the destruction of

human embryos

for stem-cell research

is

intrinsically

and can never be justified because it directly targets and destroys innocent human life," said Bishop Peter J. Jugis. "There is a lot of work the church must do on many fronts." Editor Kevin E. Murray and CNS writers Nancy Frazier O'Brien and evil

Jean M. Schildz contributed

to this story.

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candidates, they

ment, "Faithful Citizenship:

A

Catholic

Call to Political Responsibility," the bish-

CALL

is

compounded when human life by cloning or other means only is

ends, the rest of society

experiments also has ominous impli-

cations for

Kerry has vowed to

argument that Congress funding power to promote

killing," said Doerflinger.

tor of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for In testimony before a Senate sub-

the fact that

U.S. creates an

Republican President George sides of the debate.

as objects of research

cells as

gument

begins at conception.

life

no ar-

creates

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"was exaggerated," Cardinal

cells

"The destruction of human embryos

search.

stem

cells

man

some parents

embryonic stem-cell research, which de facto destroys the embryos. The debate surfaced even as many scientists favoring such research said stem cells hold out little hope for Alzheimer's patients, but offer promise in the fight against other major illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes and

Keeler said in a July 7 letter to the appro-

human embryonic stem

embryonic stem-cell research and human cloning on the principle that hu-

Keeler have rejected the argument that

"The mere

promise of embryonic

photo from University of Wisconsin-Madison

being studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The U.S. bishops oppose human embryonic stem-cell research because it requires the destruction of embryos.

that offer real reasons for hope for pa-

Activities.

no need to experiment with embryonic stem cells because knowledge of stem cells has advanced through the use of morally acceptable adult stem cells, animal stem cells and embryonic stem cells eligible for funding under current Bush

the protection of a

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Watch

Culture

WORD TO LIFE

A roundup

of Scripture, readings, films and more

SUNDAY SCRIPTURE READINGS: OCT. Oct. 24,

'Memory and Identity': In new book, pope looks back at 20th century

30th Sunday

VATICAN CITY

Cycle

— This month,

—

unveiled

II's latest

"bestiality" ^ whose true

a

Vatican

everyone, not even by those of us

...

—

dous

the result

—

a time

summer

in the

of 2002, at

when much of the world thought

that he and his pontificate

with God's plan for humanity.

when

the

war was

over,

I

thought to myself: The Lord God allowed Nazism 12 years of existence, and after 12 years the system collapsed. Evidently this was the limit imposed by divine providence upon that sort of folly," he said. If, communism had a longer run, there was meaning in that, too, he said.

of a nervous system disorder believed to he still has be Parkinson's disease considerable creative energy. As evidence, they point to the pope's book of

poems written

evil

"Later,

were running

out of steam.

and philosophical reflection on the use of freedom and its limits, on the concepts of homeland and nation, and on the Christian roots of

'To me it was quite clear that communism would last much longer than Nazism had done. For how long? It was hard to predict. There was a sense that this evil was in some way necessary for

Europe."

the world and for mankind," he said.

The idea for the book jelled in 1993, when the late Father Jozef Tischner, a

Wolfgang von Goethe,

The scribes

Italian publisher, Rizzoli, de-

as "a historical

it

and dramatist, and

pope's former Archdiocese of Krakow,

point that sometimes evil

proposed a series of conversations on the tumultuous events of the closing century including the rise and fall of Nazism, fascism and European communism. The pope was happy to oblige, and the two were joined by another philosopher friend, Krzysztof Michalski. Their many hours of conversation were tape-

cause

felt it

was better to let the century end before drawing definitive judgments.

Ten

years

later,

the pontiff picked up

the transcripts and set to

work

useful be-

creates opportunities for good.

church toward a wider audience. Rizzoli will try to make sure that can happen, as it seeks partner publishers in various languages around the world. The pope already has tasted publishing success on a global scale with some earlier works. The autobiographical "Crossing the Threshold of Hope" has worldwide sales of more than 20 million since 1993, and the poetry volume, "Roman Triptych," has been translated into 20 languages since its release last year.

recorded; afterward, the transcripts sat

drawer. Apparently, the pope

is

In his book, the pope is clearly reaching beyond the borders of his own

—

in a

it

editing

and correcting. According to excerpts

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October

23,

2004

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what we pretend are much

Readings:

delusion to which only a

puts the

34:2-3, 17-19, 23

Jesus

Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18 Luke 18:9-14

Common

need

but

it

knew

resist.

well this primal strategy

—

from our deep and deeply disconcerting need for mercy and conversion. To his first hearers, tax collectors were an obvious trigger for righteous indignation. They were despised as collaborators with the occupying Romans and betrayers of religious truth. Contrasting them with the religiously correct Pharisees would in-

for

DANLUBY

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

now

In the high political season

reflection

little

seems hard to

for distracting ourselves

healing, forgiveness by

lie,

—

cline listeners to anticipate the story's

Admire the

Pharisee,

condemn

campaign charges and countercharges explode around us like broadcast pipe bombs. It is easy to become indignant about one outrageous claim or

lesson:

another.

least has the grace to recognize his

upon

us,

"How

can they say that with a we ask like-minded friends incredulously, angrily. "How can they twist the facts so deliberately? Resort to scare tactics so callously? Appeal straight face?"

to the baser instincts of the electorate so

shamelessly?"

we wonder.

When we

.

experience divisive and

easy to feel a fierce sense of righteous anger. While most people don't deliberately court such feelings, it is difficult to deny their allure when circumstances place them in our path. Deeply rooted in wounded human bitter tactics,

it is

the tax collector.

Jesus turns such self-serving logic

on

its ear.

The

public sinner at

need before God; the publicly virtuous Pharisee is blind to the self-importance and spiritual pride which block the flow of God's grace. As election day draws near and the opposing arguments grow more strident, may God's kindness reveal to us our common need for healing and forgiveness.

Question: Reflecting on God's love for sin-

how can I find common ground with those whose politics I deplore? ners,

WEEKLY SCRIPTURE

a

fellow Pole and a philosopher in the

St.

instinct to

less serious failings in ourselves. It is a

C

Then he quotes from Johann German poet Paul, to make the

seems to be an

nature, there

to minimize

3) Gospel:

who

were living at the epicenter," he said. "For a long time, the West did not want to believe in the extermination of the Jews. Not even in Poland did we know all that the Nazis had done," he said. Here and in other places the pope tries to reconcile this obvious and horren-

insist that despite

officials

the pope's physical decline

dimensions be-

came known only after World War II. 'The full extent of the evil that was raging through Europe was not seen by

corrections to a Polish assistant.

2) 2

pope sees the

Rizzoli, the

2004

24,

find in the egregious flaws of others a

Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18

1)

20th century as a stage where good and evil did sharp battle. The pope calls Nazism a form of

book has been 200-page reflection on the ideological struggles of the 20th century and their significance to all believers. Due out in Italy in early 2005, "Memory and Identity: Conversations Between Millenniums" will be his third book in the space of two years. Like some of the pope's previous books, this one was more than a decade in gestation. In recent months, he has returned to these unfinished projects with new focus, dictating changes and

Pope John Paul

by

released

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Middle School. Classes have begun, clubs and sports are under way and phase two of the Campus-Wide Beautification Project

The

complete.

is

which began last year, an effort to show the excellence and beauty that are inside the school reproject,

is

on the outside. The project refrom requests of students, parents and staff and was paid for by PTO fundraising and generous gifts. Phase one involved a new fence and entrance sign in front of the campus, and was completed at the end of the last school year. Phase two a number of smaller projects was completed during the summer. One noticeable change was the paint students were greeted with a fresh coat of paint on lockers and hallways. Several murals also have been added. The cafeteflected

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Working hard alongside Garrett were schoolteachers and

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Perspectives

Pope asks Catholics to spend time adoring Christ in faithful Blessed Sacrament A

collection of columns,

editorials

All saints and

and viewpoints

by

departed however,

I

Guest

All Saints Day, Nov.

we

1,

Sacrament and

Christ: the Beatitudes.

we

2,

doesn't take a genius to understand that

the resurrections in our lives take place

when

only

the Gospel's Beatitudes bea different

approach and a different version of the same message. Matthew places this sermon on the mountain. For Luke, mountains are for praying and plains are for preaching. Luke's version of the sermon is on level ground, where all kinds of people can hear it. Both Matthew and Luke begin the sermon with eight pronouncements. In Matthew, all eight are blessed, but Luke again levels the field by making four of the pronouncements Beatitudes and four

forts the afflicted able.

and

afflicts

inclu-

brings the inclusiveness of healing.

While Matthew aims the sermon at Luke points out that Jesus

the disciples,

includes also Judeans, Galileans, Tyrites

and Gidonians. The message of the kingdom is not for the Jewish people only. Our saints can be defined as heroes and role models. I like the way a little girl described the saints while visiting a beau-

was late rays were stream-

cathedral with her aunt.

ing through a stained glass

It

window

that

little girl

pointed to one of the

figures standing out in the strong light

and asked,

'Who

'That's

Then

is

pointing to another, the girl

With "Well,

St.

John,"

satisfaction, the little girl said,

saint

is.

A saint

somebody the light shines through." The saints and our faithful departed were not perfect, but the light was shining through them, was it not? the

so

may

window

hinder the transparency of

or even break the window,

now is the time to clean the window or

replace

it,

if

necessary.

Someone has suggested is

one story

condition.

man

illustrating

of the liturgy of

the church in apostolic times." The verses offer a "grand icon of Christ, the heart of*Christian spiritu-

and worship," but also the one

ality

who

creates unity

among

all

the crea-

tures of the universe and gives

ing to

human

history, the

mean-

pope wrote.

The passage emphasizes how people are called to be "holy and without blemish" in God's sight, a cleanliness that is not so much the ritual purity referred to in the Old Testament, but rather a purity in love, he wrote. In Christ, the text said, "we are transfigured creatures," sons and daughters of God and brothers and sisters of all people.

staggered back, carrying with

huge boulder. With a loud grunt he dropped it before the old man.

Then

that

God

The monk ize,

my

replied,

"You must a big sin,

heavily on his conscience. But repents, the burden

"But

if

a

is

lies

it

he truly

He

is

for-

is

constantly doing

small things that are sinful, he

and more

less

is

likely to re-

sinner, out of habit. Understand,

therefore, that

it is

just as important to

break the habit of committing as it is to avoid a big sin."

The good news totally accessible to

is

little

sins

Lord comes

that our

you when

it

the question of successful living.

He

is

to

of-

you guidance, he offers you light. Humble acknowledgment of our absolute need for the light that comes in through the saints and faithful departed is living successfully and joyfully.

fers

late

Pro-life

'Roe Effect'

column

based on assumptions

delivers horrible truth Regarding

Editor Kevin column ("No dis-

Murray's pro-life count for fallen angels," Oct. "bravo"

— what

a great

liver the horrible truth

taken away.

is

man

lifted.

if

Editor

real-

son, that sins are like those

man commits

Letters to

returned car-

couldn't carry out his instruction.

our human

Two men called on a pious old

man

the second

rying a bag of small pebbles, which he promptly laid at the monk's feet. "Very good work," said the monk. "Now, each of you take your stones and put them back where you found them." The first man staggered back to the place from which he had brought the huge boulder. But the second man was unable to remember where he had found each of his little pebbles. So he returned to the wise old man and told him that he

created people because he loves stories:

Here

stone, representing

He encouraged people to commit themselves, like the Blessed Virgin Mary, "to following Jesus, the way, the truth and the life." "Be frequent adorers of the most holy Eucharist," he said. In his main audience talk, the pope focused on the canticle of blessing found in St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians and used each week in the church's evening prayer. The canticle from Ephesians begins, "Blessed be the God and father of Our Lord Jesus, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens." The pope's text described the can.

tide as a "marvelous expression of the faith and, perhaps,

a

main a

reply.

is

Sins

must bring me a

II

his Oct. 13 general

each one of his wrongdoings." The two men set out to carry out the

likely to repent

was the

now I know what a

man pondered the matter and then said, "Each of you

holy

for a while,

the aunt replied.

asked about another figure. 'That's

significant or terribly significant."

The

given and the load

that?"

St. Peter,"

them

stones. If a

featured the figures of several saints.

The

The second man said, "Oh, I have committed a number of small sins, none of

Luke the

two elements of

afternoon and the sun's

ted a terrible sin, a grievous sin."

him

siveness: the inclusiveness of the hearing

tiful

old monk agreed to help. "But he said, "you will have to tell me about your sins." The first man said, "I have commit-

the comfort-

Future hopefulness and future hope-

evangelist brings

of our guilt?"

rid

The

first

lessness are both included. Dr.

and get

this

first,"

who com-

the classic prophet

is

do

JOHN PAUL

monk's instructions. After a while, the

Four hopes and four nopes.

Jesus

monk to seek his advice. 'We acknowledge our sinful ways," they told him, "and we want to clear our consciences. Can you advise us on how to

come our Beatitudes. Luke and Matthew have

curses.

Cap

On All Souls Day,

read Lazarus' resurrection. It

POPE

for

the pope reminded visitors that he officially will begin the Year of the Eucharist Oct. 17.

AURILIA,

OFM

God

audience, held in a St. Peter's Square,

FATHER JOHN

the State of the Union Address of Jesus

Nov.

offer praise to

the gift of salvation.

At the end of

read

Speaks

before Christ present in the Blessed

Column

celebrations.

— Pope John The Pope

Paul II asked Catholics to spend time during the coming year in adoration

the Scripture readings assigned

to both events unfold the reasons of both

On

WOODEN

VATICAN CITY

We

feel that

CINDY

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

The Catholic calendar places back to back the celebrations of our saints and our departed brothers and sisters. may speculate and come up with sophisticated theological reasons;

2004

Let the light shine, let it shine! Father Aurilia is pastor of ImmacuConception Church in Hendersonville.

tion to

l), I

way

say

to de-

about abor-

like us." And that pro-lifers beget pro-lifers and pro-chokers beget

much

your readers.

Thank you

In Cathy Cleaver Ruse's column ("The 'Roe Effect,'" Oct. 8), she said that those 40 million people who "would be among us today" (had they not been aborted) would be "very

for

not

dancing

around the issue. It was delivered head on with no gloss, no apologies. If more diocesan newspapers would deliver the true facts about

pro-choicers.

abortion to their readers, maybe we as Catholics would be jolted out of our appalling state of complacency and use every means in our power,

if you use the Wirthlin Worldwide numbers, the difference between conservatives having abortions and liberals having abortions is 1 in 4 vs. 2 in 5. Not exactly a mile-wide gap

both as individuals and as a community, to stop the annual slaughter of over 1 million of our brothers and sisters.

Keep up the good work!

— Cindy Brown Executive Director,

Room

Her

entire article is based on totally unsubstantiated assumptions. I also find it interesting these

two

that

there.

Perhaps the pro-choice movement is killing itself. But the pro-life movement, evidently, is not very far behind.

at the Inn,

— Matt McGarry

Charlotte

Charlotte

October 15,

The Catholic News & Herald 15

2004

The double whammy LongerRvesequaladdtionalresponsb It's

-

4 o'clock on a Wednesday

arms,

I

t

my

scan

weighted by

its

to-do

list

and

Mom

af-

ternoon; the sitter has just arrived. A bit limp from chasing my 3-year-old all day with a 20-pound baby in my

Our Turn

feel

contents: articles half-

written, book proposals in limbo, dogs needing annual checkups, groceries, laundry, bills. But I push all of

THERESE

J.

BORCHARD CNS Columnist

that aside.

log onto the Internet google word "bleand the pharospasm," an abnormal involuntary blinking or spasm of the eyelids. My mom has this rare disorder and in the last four months has become immune to treatments. That means she is legally blind, unable to do the routine activities most of us take for granted: drive, run errands, walk from point A to point B without assisInstead

^

I

tance.

After a few good cries and vent sessions with close friends on how I'm

not ready to become caretaker to one

more person and how 'supposed to help

my

life,

me

reality settles.

the denial that

my mom

is

at this stage in I

my mom

kiss

goodbye

will see again

and be able to baby-sit my two munchkins for a week, allowing my husband and me to enjoy a week in

shoulders of their adult children. "This is the first time in history that American couples have had more parents than children," says Carpenter. "The average American woman can expect to spend 18 years caring for an older family member, compared to 17 for her children." Mostly it's that we're worried about because even though both men and women are living longer there still exists a gender gap, indicating that* men are dying before women, leaving the latter to move in with the children or find assisted living until the ripe old age of 77 or 78, the average age of death for a woman. So which adult child shoulders the brunt of caretaking responsibilities for Mom? The faithful daughter. According to a 2002 study by the Family Caregiver Alliance, 28 percent of care to older adults is provided by daughters, 26 percent by other relatives, 24 percent by spouses and only 16 percent by sons. In India, a mother is wished "many sons," because with daughters

Barbados, or even a night out sometime.

Unfortunately,

whammy,

is

this,

the double

one of the curses

—

along with bags under the eyes and around-the-clock exhaustion that women endure when they start their families in their 30s and early 40s. As you age, so do your parents. So new

—

moms, who

traditionally had nana and papa to pitch in, end up doing double duty, especially since people

come expensive dowries. But in America Mom might statistically be

According

Our Mom,

to Brian D. Carpenter,

an assistant professor of psychology at Washington University in St. Louis, by 2050 more than 20 percent of Americans will be over age 65 and living longer, healthier lives than ever before. The inevitable assistance they will need will fall mostly on the

still

young

Question

Corner FATHER JOHN DIETZEN

CNS

Columnist

Q. Please explain

what

start

honoring

constitutes a

When

first- or second-class relic?

did we

relics? (Illinois)

A. "Classes" of relics traditionally on the closeness of their relationship to a particular saint. Firstare based

class relics are parts of the body,

most

often part of the bone. Second-class

items used during the saint's such as clothing. Third-class are objects that have touched a first-class relics are

life,

Veneration of

at 64, is

blessed with four daughters: one to write the checks, one to run errands,

one to cook and the other to write columns about all the things she should be doing but can't with two children of her own more than 500 miles away from her mom and sisters in

classified?

relic.

better off with the other gender.

are living longer these days.

How are relics

Ohio.

of the saints,

relics

especially of martyrs, goes back at

second Christian century. the saint and of asking his or her intercession before least to the It

was

God

a

way of honoring

in heaven.

Sale of relics

absolutely forbid-

is

den by the church, a rule which may seem odd and unnecessary to us but which was required because of abuses that grew through the centuries.

More than 1,000 years ago, possessing a major relic of a saint began to

Roaring engines and the Lord's whisper Sometimes we don't see God's signs There

who

is

waits for instructions

^ as a hurricane

I Neighbors

comes

tell

to his

man from God

an old joke about a

approaches his home.

him

to leave, the sheriff

door and does the same,

but the man refuses because he has not yet heard from the Lord.

The storm comes and smashes his house and he dies. When the man arrives in heaven the first thing he asks [ God is, "Why didn't you send me a sign that the storm would kill me?" "Are you kidding?" asks the Lord, I "I sent your neighbors and the sheriff, but you wouldn't listen." \ The joke came to mind as I read Irecent press accounts of Dale I Earnhardt Jr., the swashbuckling superstar of NASCAR automobile racing. Junior, as he is always referred to, has legions of adoring fans, sponsorships that are worth millions and the legacy of his departed and nearly deified father, Dale Earnhardt Sr. Junior was in a terrible accident j

at

a

racetrack in California in July

and has only recently talked about it. During the accident, his car caught fire and the cockpit became an inferno I* with the temperature rising from 115 f* degrees to more than 7.50 degrees in a I second and a half. That's hot. FortuI nately, Junior escaped from the burning vehicle and suffered only some

Catholics

&

the Media DAVID HAINS Guest Columnist

second-degree burns. But what is amazing about this accident is Junior's account of his escape from the car. He doesn't remember specific details but he has spoken about a feeling that someone rescued him. Videotape shows he got out of

own account, in an interview with CBS News, he said, "I swear somebody had me unthe car himself.

By

his

questions that Junior was rescued so that he might drive again. But surely another possibility exists. As with the man in the hurricane who can't seem to see the signs posted by God, it's fair to ask if Junior is missing something. Was he helped out of the car this one time or was an unseen hand leading him to a different life? Most of us have heard stories of people who survive near-death experiences and radically change their lives as a result. For Junior, that doesn't appear to be the case he immediately returned to the life of fast cars. In early October, he won the race at Talladega and celebrated by

be a source of prestige for churches and monasteries. Buying, selling, even stealing bodies or parts of bodies of saints became common. Today, such transfer or "alienation" of major relics from one place to another without the pope's permission is forbidden. Catholic regulations concerning relics are in the Code of Canon Law, No. 1090. Questions

we

cult unless

are willing to listen,

be sent to

Father

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derneath my arms and was carrying me out of the car." Junior clearly feels that some unseen force helped him get out of the

through a

of prayer, to what God is trying to tell us. It is an interesting news story to hint that the late Dale Earnhardt Sr. hovers protectively

edited for

burning wreckage. But who? Certainly the Lord is capable of such a miracle, but the media assumed his late father offered an unseen hand from beyond the grave. Again, in the

above

poetry, form letter or petitions. Items submitted to

CBS interview Junior says, "It freaks me out today just talking about it. It just gives me chills." There

is

an assumption

in

the

life

his son's racecar. It

news story

is

a better

to consider the possibility

that the Lord's plan racetrack, even

if

is

in place at the

the driver

may

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'Holy Smoke' tastes so good

His favorite part, he said, is "the day we give the key to the new owner. We have a special ceremony and a blessing. It's such a satisfying thing with

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Catholic churches

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unteers construction chair. "There are 60-plus children in good homes that

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