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Today's good times of economic pros-
mask the growing gap between rich and poor," the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Domestic Policy Committee warned in a message for Labor Day 2000. Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles said the jubilee year observance of the U.S. holiday, celebrated Sept. 4 this year, "is a good time to reflect on the progress and problems of the American economy and how it can serve all of God's perity "can
children."
Among
Local
the issues raised in his two-page message were:
News
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for a "Catholic con-
versation on economic globalization," especially about
who
Rev. Dr. Fred
Dobensdies at age
65
it
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"who
it
lifts
up and
The
obligation to seriously consider "a general amnesty for those
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Photo By Frank Bradley
celebration of giving
A family-style celebration honoring Sister Loretto John Meehan included naming a bridge in her honor. The Catholic
pictured at
sister,
left,
served
for three decades in the western mountains. See stories, pages 8-9.
leaves behind."
The responsibility of Catholic voters to "raise the ethical and moral questions surrounding the dignity of work and the rights of workers" during the 2000 campaign.
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In
who come to the U.S. fleeing oppression and destitution and who make significant contributions to our workers
society."
The
honor afforded
all
people."
"Many
of these workers, regardless of their immigration status, have contributed greatly to the
cardinal said immigrant
workers deserve "the dignity and
See
LABOR DAY,
page
14
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Retirement and Benefits Collection thanks those giving the best years of their lives Priests'
Servite priest prays for
healing of body, soul
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JIMMY ROSTAR
Associate Editor
Decades apart in age and years of priestly service, Fathers Joseph Kelleher and Christopher Davis nonetheless share a common bond as servants- of God who bring Christ to the faithful of western
Every Week
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Entertainment
North Carolina. .Pages
Editorials
10-11
Priests of the Diocese of Charlotte,
& Columns .Pages
"Human work proceeds
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two have chosen paths
Christ and his people through in-
numerable ways: the sacraments, the celebration of Mass, pastoral outreach, a helping hand. For the priests who serve in
directly
from persons created in the image of God and called to prolong the work of creation by subduing the earth, both with and for one another."
— Catechism of
the
that bridge a sacred union between
the Catholic
See RETIREMENT, page
Church Photo by Jimmy Rostar
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Father Joseph Kelleher serves up some fries at Bishop McGuinness High School. The diocesan priest firmly believes in what he calls a ministry of presence.
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California to honor Cesar Chavez with paid holiday
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said California
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the
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Mozambique where
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church leaders from Africa, Latin America and the Vatican discussed ways to end the dozens of civil conflicts around the world. Talks at the Aug. 22-28 conference in Maputo, Mozambique's capital, noted that illegal drug trafficking and interests in national resources play a role in
some
may
appear to be ideological, he said in an Aug. 22 tele-
conflicts that
CNS photo by Valerie O'Sullivan
Monks hold texts from early monastery County Kerry, Ireland, monks hold up old texts on Innisfallen Island, where ruins of a sixth-century abbey are found. Early Celtic Christian spirituality is engaging modern believers in the United States. In
Ugandan Vice President Speciosa as a girl at-
tended Catholic schools, criticized an Education Ministry proposal to remove religious education from classrooms. "I have heard that they want to scrap the teaching of religious studies in schools. But as a staunch Catholic, I cannot allow this to happen. We should give religion priority," she said Aug. 20 at the opening
The
of
from the
Ssekamaanya of Lugazi.
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Kazibwe
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asks
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office of the
lains at the
Pentagon
chaplains worldwide.
e-mail also
sought prayers for victims of the Kursk disaster.
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Wandira Kazibwe, who
to U.S. military
College, Namagunga. a former student of the school. The ceremony attended by Ugandan officials, members of the diplomatic corps and. the papal nuncio to Uganda, Archbishop Pierre Christophe began with a Mass celebrated by Bishop Matthias
Mary's
head of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services has requested prayers for the crew of the sunken Russian submarine, the Kursk, and for their families. Archbishop Edwin A. O'Brien asked Catholic military personnel and families around the world to offer their weekend Mass Aug. 19-20 for the 118 Russian sailors presumed lost aboard the Kursk and for their loved ones in Russia. According to Auxiliary Bishop John J. Glynn of the Military Archdiocese,
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North
official says willing to invite cardinal
SEOUL, South Korea (CNS)
—
Kim
Sou-hwan and Archbishop Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk of Seoul "can soon visit" North Korea, a South Korean government official said upon returning from Pyongyang. Culture and Tourism Minister Park Jie-won told media Aug. 14 in Seoul that North Korean government officials responded positively to the possibility of a visit by the two South Korean Catholic prelates, reported News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. Park, a Catholic, and 46 heads of South Korean news
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in
all local
The document was necessary be-
churches.
said clarification
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stressed his "bone-deep"
official
current conflicts are more difficult to resolve than past wars because they involve economic, not just political issues, said Bishop Diarmuid Martin, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Bishop Martin was among more than 60 participants at a Vatican-organized
and
The
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Manifold issues make wars hard to resolve, says Vatican
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a charis-
matic Mass being held at St. Patrick Cathedral, 1621 Dilworth Rd. East, at 4 p.m. with prayer teams available at 3 p.m. and a potluck dinner at 5 p.m. in the St. Patrick School cafeteria. Also, a series of teachings of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is being offered beginning today before the charismatic
Mass
at 3 p.m.
For more
infor-
mation about the Mass or the classes, call Josie Backus at (704) 527-4676. Churches in the 1 1 CHARLOTTE Charlotte area are having their September cancer support group meetings for survivors, family and friends on the following days because of the Labor Day weekend: St. Gabriel Church, 3016 Providence Rd., to-
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night at 7 p.m. in the conference room of the ministry center, St. Matthew
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In
Balancing act: Popes to be beatified were very different JOHN THAVIS
By
News Service
Catholic
VATICAN CITY new chapter
(CNS)
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and for castigating modern thinking with his "Syllabus of Errors," he has not enjoyed widespread popular de-
A
saint-making history
in
votion.
will be written Sept. 3 when Popes John XXIII and Pius IX are beatified in a single ceremony. The joint beatification marks an intersection in the lives of two very different figures, and the contrast was
apparent as
Rome
"Everybody asks for him. He's the most popular pope of all," said Amelia Astrologo, who runs a religious souvenir store in the shadow of
Two
Square.
TV
Italian
specials
were be-
ing prepared to honor Pope John, highlighting his humble beginnings, his sense of humor and his social conscience.
Pius IX, on the other hand, remained uncelebrated in Italy, despite his impending step toward sainthood. Best known for trying to hold on to temporal power, for overseeing the proclamation of papal infallibility
At the tomb of John XXIII on the lower level of
marks an intersection
St.
been
different figures,
death in 1963. On the other side of Rome, at the Basilica of St.
the outdoor
solve a mildew
to
problem.
The common wisdom about
the
pairing of these two "blesseds" is that it's a balancing act, an effort by the Vatican to move forward two saint-
hood causes that individually might provoke political opposition in the church.
For many, John XXIII
is
still
seen as the guiding light and Pius IX
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information, call these contacts: St. Vincent - Betty Childers at (704)
554-0733,
St.
Matthew
-
Marilyn
Borrelli at (704) 542-2283 and St. Gabriel - Eileen Cordell at (704) 352-
5047, Ext. 217. For further informaBob Poffenbarger, Sr., coor-
tion, call
dinator, at (704) 553-7000.
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sion tonight at 7 p.m. for anyone interested in the program. The Loyola
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Gloria
— Rev. Timothy
Patterson, rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church and founder of the Servant Leadership School of Greensis
eries,
it
be
known
that the church
afraid of science or its discov-
and he sparked an ecumenical
revival by reaching out to separated
one
IX
Pius
in
as
"pope
last
king" of the 19th
century,
John
is
still
re-
by
by the Roman Curia, and Pope John's sainthood cause slipped into the Vatican's painstakingly slow process of verification and documentation. In linking the beatification of the two popes, Pope John Paul may want
most human of
pontiffs
to highlight a certain continuity be-
to reign in the 20th century.
During
tween the First Vatican Council, which was called by Pope Pius, and
the
as the
Cuban
missile crisis in
1962, he
seemed to be the voice of the people when he pleaded for superpower peace. When Time magazine named him "Man of the Year" at the end of that year, it said his "warmth, simplicity and charm" had won the hearts of Catholics and non-Catholics around the world. Pope Pius reigned for almost 32 years, the longest pontificate since the days of St. Peter, spanning a period of
intense church-state tension in Italy. Pope John, elected at age 77, ruled for less than five years. He was
chosen as a transitional pope, yet he ended up recasting the church's relationship with the modern world. It wasn't just Vatican II, but the way Pope John exercised his authority as he put it, he wanted to be known as a "good shepherd" defending truth and goodness. He was the first to break free of
Vatican
II.
But that risked being overshadowed by yet another contrast between the two papacies. Jewish organizations have recently criticized the Vatican for promoting the cause of Pius IX, who, in what is viewed as a supreme act of religious intolerance, in 1858 approved the seizure of a baptized Italian Jewish boy from his parents and arranged for his forced education in the church.
A century later, John XXIII met with U.S. Jews at the Vatican and told them: "I am your brother. ... We are all sons of the same Father." For the church, sainthood goes beyond personality traits and papal policies. When these two popes are beatified Sept. 3, perhaps Pope John Paul II will offer some insight into how such different figures can both be deemed universal models of holiness.
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Pius
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St. Peter's
Several shop owners said they've never carried prayer cards of him and that no one's ever asked for one, ei-
remembered
is
presenting "Servant Leader-
ship: Christian Vision for the Third Millennium" at the Franciscan Center, 233 N. Greene St. A love offering is being taken at this lunchtime session held from 12:10-1 p.m., and for
further information, (336) 273-2554.
call
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16 CHARLOTTE The Ancient Order of Hibernians, Sons of Erin Division, is having its annual "Halfway to St. Patrick's Day" party to raise funds in support of the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. The party begins at 5 p.m. this evening and lasts until 10 p.m. at the St. Matthew
Church
Ministry Center, 8015 Ballantyne Pkwy., with dinner and music provided by the Celtic Folkers and entertainment by area Irish dancers. For ticket and other information, call Mike Callinan at (704) 841-9195, Tim Lawson at (704) 5229728 or Gene McCarthy at (803) 831-8381. FOREST CITY The Health Council of Immaculate Conception
—
Church, 1024 W. Main St, is sponsoring its "Unity Fiesta" today from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
The
event includes health
Mexican foods, cream and games and
screenings, Polish and
homemade
ice
prizes for children. Proceeds will benefit
the church fund.
mation,
call Claire
For more
infor-
Feldmeth, parish
nurse coordinator, at (828) 245-4017.
—
21 BELMONT Catherine's House, 402 Mercy Dr., hosts its First Millennium Open House today at 2 p.m. The open house will showcase many of the new programs, offer tours of the facility and present the Mercy Sister Barbara Sullivan Volunteer of the Year
Award
to
Mercy
Sister
Maureen
Dees. Catherine's House provides transitional housing for women and
who are homeless. For further details, call (704) 825-9599. children
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September
Around the Diocese
1
,
2000
Charlotte City Council votes in favor of moratorium resolution CHARLOTTE — of an make an Novem— because Charemotional crowd of hundreds, ber In front
stand,
the
on Aug. 28 voted 8-3 in favor of endorsing a moratorium on capital punishment in North Carolina. Charlotte became the seventh town in North Carolina to approve a resolution asking the state government for a moratorium, or suspension, of the death lotte City Council
penalty to allow for intense study of the issue
and time to address alleged injus-
tices therein.
More
than 200 people flooded the chamber to attend the meeting, which people on both sides of the
council at
issue spoke about or applauded their stance. Speakers included clergy, con-
cerned citizens and family members of
murder
victims.
"Innocent people have been sentenced to die in North Carolina," said James Ferguson, a member of the Charlotte Coalition for a
(CCMN) that race ...
No
Moratorium
Now
and president of the N.C.
Academy of is
Trial Lawyers.
one who believes
"We know
death penalty.
a factor in the
in fairness
could
allow such a system to go on."
Charlotte
who
Mayor Pat McCrory,
has steadfastly opposed the city
council's
involvement
has no place within the city council's jurisdiction, vetoed the council's deci-
Because of the veto, the council will at its next meeting Sept. 5. Seven votes will be needed to override the veto. "With all respect to all those involved, I think this is a poorly written resolution," McCrory said. "I do not think it belongs on the Charlotte City Council's agenda. I believe if you want to deal with this issue, ask the two gubernatorial candidates where they stand, ask your state legislators where they sion.
vote on the issue again
those are the
decision makers in this process, and you
have every right to do just
Among
that."
the arguments voiced by
those in favor of the moratorium resolu-
however, was that a city council is a step in reaching lawmakers at the state level on an issue that affects local tion,
first
citizens.
In an Aug. 25 letter to McCrory, Bishop William G. Curlin urged the mayor and city council to support the moratorium resolution. "I have served in ministry for over forty-three years and have been witness to many tragedies in human life," Bishop Curlin wrote. "I have comforted many families who have borne the tragic killing of a loved one. However, I have also witnessed the tragedy of those who have been put to death though innocent
of a crime.
One
such death alone calls for a careful study of the penal system that
can lead to executions of possible innocent people." Like the death penalty itself, the moratorium issue is making headlines nationwide as scrutiny of capital punishment grows. Ted Frazer, chair of
CCMN,
debate he says
in a
issue in the
this
election
—
voiced hope that the city coundebate will help shed light on an imperfect institution and that the government will allow time to study such a cil
Photo by Alesha M. Price
LIMEX participants discuss program At a LIMEX gathering session at St. John Neumann Church in Charlotte, from left to right, Jay Mazaleski, a member of the North Wilkesboro learning group; Marianist Father Bernard Lee, Ph.D., professor of theology at Loyola University in New Orleans; Linda Schlensker, a facilitator for the Asheville area group; Peg Ruble, diocesan Central Regional Coordinator of Faith Formation and a facilitator for the North Wilkesboro group; and Clarence Fox, a facilitator for the North Wilkesboro group, look at a recent
LIMEX graduation picture. Father Lee, former director of the LIMEX program, was the featured speaker, along with Bishop William G. Curlin, at the gathering session on Aug. 27. The Loyola Institute for Ministry Extension Program, or LIMEX, offers a master's of religious education or a master's of pastoral studies to students in partnership with a sponsoring diocese. In the Diocese of Charlotte, there are currently five learning groups with certified facilitators, with Joanna Case and Connie Milligan serving as the diocesan
LIMEX
liaisons.
vital issue.
"This issue
is
trying to create fewer
more
victims," Frazer said. "We're talking about human life in this state, and we're talking about shaping a
victims, not
society in a positive
than what
way that
is
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more fair
we have now."
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in Prayer as
Jimmy Rostar and
Saint Therese,
Stephen Dear of People of Faith Against the Death Penalty contributed to this story.
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Papal Mass, vigil mark culmination of World Youth Day ByJOHNTHAVIS
grimage
News Service ROME (CNS) Joining 2 million young people on the outskirts of Rome, Pope John Paul II closed a week of World Youth Day festivities with a call to change the world by embracing the Catholic
—
Aug. 19 and the concluding Mass 20.
a
The two
marked the
culmination of Holy Year 2000's biggest and longest encounter. Young people
from 160 nations made pilgrimages through the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, confessed their sins in the dust of an ancient Roman racetrack, attended
religious talks by dozens of bishops, in a
and
Way of the Cross down the
streets of the Eternal City.
"From what
was a positive experience for everyone. For our kids to gather with kids from 160 countries, to interact, share faith and show love for the Holy Father, was a witnessed,
I
it
source of inspiration and revitalization," said Paul Kotlowski, director of youth ministry for the Diocese of Charlotte.
Kotlowski and a diocesan group of 19 Rome, along with sev-
teens traveled to
eral parish groups. "Ultimately,
it
was
important for us to come together and recognize our power as a united young Church and to experience church that is bigger than our own diocese and our country."
The pope
played host, welcoming the youths in rousing ceremonies Aug. 15 and sending them home
week with an
end of
at the
invitation to accept
Christ and change their societies with his spirit of sacrifice.
"Our society desperately needs this sign, and young people need it even more so, tempted as they often are by the illusion of an easy and comfortable
lit
Way of the Cross through Rome
—
killed in
CNS photo by Nancy Wiechec As confetti falls around him, Pope John Paul II rides into St. Peter's Square Aug. 15 to begin World Youth Day celebrations. A Swiss Guard keeps an
eye on the young people reaching out for the pope.
life,
by drugs and pleasure-seeking, only
people at
St. Peter's
to find themselves in a spiral of despair,
semblage ever
meaninglessness and violence. It is urgent to change direction and to turn to
From
Christ," he said in his closing sermon. In a speech that he jokingly de-
scribed as "too long," the pope spoke about the faith and feelings of doubt that
people experience, especially in a society marked by injustice, war and attacks all
on
life.
To
long cheers from his audience, the pope praised their resolve to build a better world, one in which "you will not let
yourselves be
made
into tools of vio-
lence and destruction."
work.
You
will defend life at
St.
Peter's Ba-
stretched for nearly a mile as
desperately tried to move 8,000 people an hour through the Holy Door, a highlight of the jubilee pilgrimage. The rush prompted church officials
designate a second, temporary "holy door" in the basilica. officials to
"To walk where the early martyrs and Paul and Peter walked, to go through the holy doors, was powerful. Every day was full of profound grace,"
II, criminals put to death by capital punishment and pastors slain in service to the church, like the late Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero.
"It was powerful to hear witnesses from countries torn by internal war, conflict or poverty and to experience
Catholic Christian solidarity because of
our one baptism with people much more challenged by
who
are so
Kotlowski.
Canada's young participants were spotlighted in two ways: when the pope invited some of them to stay at his sum-
mer
residence with him, and when he announced that the next World Youth Day "would take place in Toronto in
2002.
Contributing
to
story
this
Rome.
said Kotlowski.
through the doors
at St. Peter's.
A
Staff Writer Alesha
pil-
M.
Price contrib-
uted to this story
every mosaid.
In opening ceremonies Aug. 1 5, split between the basilicas of St. John Lateran and St. Peter, the pope said the journey
of faith is "part of everything that happens in our lives," and he pointed to his own youth and his priestly vocation as an example. Outstripping all predictions, more than 700,000 people turned out for the
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The young people suffered through heat that at times reached above 100 degrees but, like the pope, seemed to
marched
—
guages worked nonstop in two-hour shifts and said they were surprised at the heavy turnout. On Aug. 18, some 300 youths from
80-year-old pontiff joked, laughed, shed a few tears and even sang an impromptu prayer as he presided over a celebratory vigil
one way
is
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Aug.
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—
Gabriel Catholic School from 1994 to 1999, when he retired. Since then, he had been working for the Diocese of Charlotte as a director of development for campus ministry. Rev. Dr. Dobens is survived by his wife, Muchie, of the home; son Max, his wife Jacky and their two sons, Aiden and Sean; and son Christopher, all of
New York
sity.
He received
his
Andrews
of SpringMass. Funeral services took place on Monday, August 28, 2000, at 1 1 a.m. at St. Gabriel Catholic Church, 3016 Providence Road, with the
doctorate of theology from the Pittsburgh
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He
and Judy_
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field,
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served with
the U.S. Army's 2nd Armor Division from
1954-1955. Rev. Dr. Dobens had dedicated his life to education, spending more than 30
Most Reverend Wil-
liam G. Curlin, D.D., Bishop of Charlotte, administrative and Rev. Dr. Frederick Dobens presiding the Mass educational roles at of Christian Burial. Rutgers University, The family reColgate University, ceived friends on Siena Heights College, St. Joseph's Sunday, August 27, at the church. University and Belmont Abbey The family has asked that in College. lieu of flowers you honor the Rev. He remained active in the naDr. Dobens with a donation to the tional fraternity, Pi Lambda Phi, American Heart Association, 1229 holding several offices over the Greenwood Cliff, Suite 109, Charyears. lotte, NC 28204, or to the AmeriIn 1978, Dr. Dobens was orcan Cancer Society, 500 East dained a permanent deacon in the Morehead St., Suite 211, Charlotte, Catholic Church and had served in NC 28202. St. Gabriel Church since 1993, after relocating here with his wife, Muchie, of 38 years. He served as principal of St.
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From the Cover
Test of party platforms
is
how they touch the person,
advance common good, say U.S. bishops
—
WASHINGTON Party plat forms "should be measured by how they touch the human person," according to testimony submitted this
is sacred from conception to natural death; that people are more important than things; and that the measure of every institution is whether or not it
summer
enhances the
Democratic and Republican party platform committees by the nations' Catholic bishops. The testimony is the text of "Faithful Citizenship: Civic Responto the
sibility for a
New
and dignity of the
life
human person," they said. The bishops explore how
this
teaching has been applied to specific issues under the headings of Protecting Human Life, Promoting Family
Millennium," the
bishops' quadrennial political respon-
Pursuing Social Justice and Practicing Global Solidarity. Life,
statement, which summarizes the church's moral teachings on important policy issues. "Faithful Citisibility
we
they advance the said
all,"
common good
of
Msgr. Dennis M. Schnurr,
Faithful
general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference, in his letter of transmit-
Citizenship
"In addition, it has been our experience that our moral framework does fit
the categories of any
The statement
the public policy agency of the nation's Catholic bishops. Like other national organizations, the conference presents its public policy positions every four years to the platform committees of the two
their conventions.
The
bishops use their political responsibility statement to highlight themes of Catholic social teaching that shape Catholic thinking about public policy issues.
"We
believe that every
human
life
also
platform committee: U.S. Senator Richard Durbin and Mayor Sales Belton of the Democratic Party, and
political
responsibility.
Without en-
dorsing candidates or parties, the bishops pressed Catholics to be active participants in the political process.
Governor Thomas Thompson of the Republican Party.
"The next millennium requires a focused more on moral principles than on the latest polls, more on the needs of the poor and vulnerable than the contribu-
A
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tions of the rich and powerful, more on the pursuit of the common good than the demands of special interests,"
they
state.
This story was submitted by the United States Catholics Conference.
exhorts
Catholics to take their civic responsi-
is
major political parties. Msgr. Schnurr urged the members of both parties' platform committees to study "Faithful Citizenship" carefully as they prepared for
The bishops' testimony was directed to the chairmen of each party's
velopment
political party."
The USCC
convictions."
nator for the U.S. bishops' social deoffice, visited the diocese in March to speak to parishioners,
tal.
not easily
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and dioceses across the country. Since then, an additional 65,000 printed copies have been distributed. In western North Carolina, ongoing educational efforts sponsored by the Office of Justice and Peace in the Diocese of Charlotte continue. Joan Rosenhauer, special projects coordi-
firmly believe that
permanent deacons and
priests,
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Sister John
1
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2000
Meehan recognized for 30 years of service
By FRANK BRADLEY Smoky Mountain Sentinel
HAYESVILLE
—
"What
I
(first)
noticed about Sister John was she never talked about herself, she talked about
other people," Bishop William Curlin said Monday during a celebration honoring the Glenmary nun who has spent almost 30 years serving the people in Clay and Cherokee counties.
"Your
who lotte,
life is your sermon," Curlin, bishop of the Diocese of Charsaid. "Thirty years of tremendous
is
love and service you have given to can only try to express our
people.
We
You
gratitude.
are the
Mother Teresa
of the mountains."
"You are carved on all our souls, all our minds. We see you as the presence of Jesus. God spoke to you, and you said, "Here I am, Lord.'" "You visited the sick, were concerned about the poor and cared about people nobody wants," the bishop continued. "You put in our heart your heart."
The occasion was a Mass and farewell celebration in honor of Sister Loretto John Meehan, held at ImmacuHeart of Mary Catholic Church in The celebration and dinner that followed lasted almost three hours with many in the church and in the community paying tribute to Sister John. Today, Sister John is scheduled to make her departure from these mountains and return to her native New York. "When I came to this area, I had no late
Hayesville.
Photo by Mary Carol Campbell
Sister Loretto
John Meehan has always been known
Judy Wilson, a nurse who worked with Sister John for 15 years, said
he couldn't make it (the ceremony) but his popemobile couldn't travel the moun-
John's "biggest gift was her personal
tains."
interaction with the patient.
where I was going," she said last week during a ceremony naming a
Her
natural
caring enabled her to do anything for anybody," Wilson said. "She set an example we should all strive for in the care
"When asked 'how you get down here?' I said blame it on the Holy Spirit," she said. Sister John's parents were born in Ireland and immigrated to New York. Sister John was one of four children. She became a Glenmary nun and came to Hayesville in 1971 to work with two other nuns as part of Glenmary Nursing bridge in her honor. did
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for a dinner in the parish hall. Sister
she had
She also received a letter from Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of New York City welcoming her return. Then Gwen
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Around the Diocese
In celebration of giving: Sister Loretto
John Meehan
By JO ANN ALBERTS Smoky Mountain Sentinel HAYESVILLE In August SisLoretto John Meehan will be com-
John in Hayesville in 1980. Each patient was treated as an indi-
Sister
—
ter
vidual with a very special dignity.
pleting a circle as she returns to Mount St. Vincent, New York, to begin a new assignment. Anna Josephine, called Jo at
home, was born
Harlem,
in
New
there,
St.
old folks.
Vincent, went to college to St. Joseph
John was interested
in
Ap-
John
Council declared it "Sr. John's Day." And how did she respond at the end of the picnic and day of celebra-
left
the big city
Glenmary
the sisters established the
Sisters' Home Nursing Service. Their primary mission was commitment to physical, emotional and spiritual
healing while respecting the dignity of all persons, and then to work for the Church in both parish and diocese.
Every day began with
Murphy
for
Mass
tion in her honor? She danced a mountain clog solo for the crowd! "Sister John is the best thing that has happened to Hayesville in twenty
environment and
and moved into rural Appalachia. She arrived in Asheville, N.C., in 1971 en route to the town of Hayesville. She resided with the Glenmary Sisters in a building across from Clay Farmer's Exchange. In 1954, Bishop Vincent Waters had set up a parish to serve Cherokee, Clay and Graham counties, and had invited the Glenmary Home Missioners to staff it. Rev. Joseph Dean, a Glenmary priest, had become the first pastor. In 1958 Bishop Waters had asked the Glenmary Sisters of Cincinnati, Ohio, to come live and work in Hayesville. He purchased a motel where the sisters lived. A chapel was set up and the small number of local Catholics could attend Mass. In the third wing of the motel,
a trip to
at the old Provi-
to the lonely
The
Town
own
into a foreign
culture, Sister
of her
more impor-
day Jubilee on the Georgia Mountain Fair; many drove in from other states to pay tribute to a lady who had touched their lives in some way with her kindness and generosity. The
research for a particular place in which to serve, and reported her findings to her authority. Like her parents who had left family and familiar surroundings to
move
but
nurse "wastes time" on her patients ... and this proved to be the best medicine of all. In 1984 hundreds of her friends and admirers turned out for a Satur-
School of Nursing. Upon becoming a sister, she was given the name Sister Loretto John Meehan. Her first nursing assignment was among the retired sisters of the Convent of Mary the Queen in Yonkers, N.Y. Sister
a
skills,
was her own presence
and then on
palachia, did her
home because
She entered professional
tant than the medicine she brought
York, to Irish immigrants. After high school in the late '40s, Jo entered the Sisters of Charity of New York at
Mount
years,"
said
Rose
Sister
Mary
Commerford. Photo by Frank Bradley
The local Civitan Club named her "Citizen of the Year 1994" for her
The new community center, formerly occupied by Good Shepherd Home Health, was named in Sister John's honor. It will be used to house non-profit
outstanding achievement and unselfish service in the betterment of our
service organizations in Clay County.
community.
dence Hospital where Ivie Funeral Home is now.
In 1996 Sister John was honored with the "Nurse of the Year award in Home Health for the State of North Carolina." In that same year, she celebrated the 25th year of her Appala-
In the early days, Sister John a camper, which better suited her since she might be called on to be carpenter, plumber, cook, undertaker, supply clerk and more. She had to be resourceful to acquire
drove with
needed clothing for a patient to wear to a hospital or to provide (or obtain) transportation for a very ill patient to receive more medical attention. A very moving article by Father Patrick O'Donnell in the "Glenmary Challenge" in 1974 revealed one aspect of Sister John's work. He wrote, "Most of what happens at the
Glenmary Service
Sisters'
Home Nursing
not startling ... but it adds up to a staggering work of charity. Occasionally, little miracles creep into the scene, like when the medical prois
was ready
to throw in the Carleen Medford. The sisters at Hayesville were asked to do their best with physical therapy blended with spiritual comfort and hope. Sr. John found Carleen in a wheelchair, her head to one side, unable to move hands or feet. 'Raise your arm, Carleen.'
fession
towel on
'"I
Sister.
little
can't.' 'Please try,'
Sr.
encouraged
John dropped
in
working patiently with the
daily,
child in
professional physical therapy, spiked with love. Finally, a finger would
chian mission.
Through the years many changes have occurred in Cherokee and Clay counties. The Glenmary Sisters' Home Nursing Service became an agency of the Catholic Diocese of charlotte and had its name changed
Good Shepherd Home Health
to
the
move, then a hand, an arm, and even-
The
was excited. In three months Carleen was walking, laughing, and chattering like a magtually a leg.
pie.
Inc. It has now moved under wing of Murphy Medical Center.
Agency,
This
child
the
story,
which originally ran in
Smoky Mountain
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Readings
1
2000
,
Book Review
Book offers
insight, profiles of
in civil rights
Reviewed by
CAROLE NORRIS GREENE
Catholic is
which
is
ride the bus with someone, go to school with someone, live among or
News Service
difficult
to ar-
marry someone because of race. The book includes sidebars with
incomprehen-
intriguing facts and historical anec-
to talk about that
shameful. Harder
ticulate to children the
Word to Life
movement
youth
It
courage for
still
dotes, haunting photo-
cru-
sible
some people toelty of
ward others whose
r
skin
a
speeches, a
differen t Yet
timeline,
is
graphs, sto-
color. this
is
i
e
s
,
learning ac-
pre-
tivities
for
cisely
what
kids in each
Mary
C.
chapter, and
Turck has
the texts of Title VII of
skillfully done in her
the
Civil
book "The
Rights Act
Rights
of 1964 and of the Vot-
Civil
Movement for Kids: A
History
September 3, Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B Readings: Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8 1)
"The Civil Rights Movement for Kids: A History with 2 1 Activities", by Mary C. Turck. Chicago Review Press, Inc. (Chicago, 2000). 190 pp., $14.95.
with 21 Ac-
ing Rights Act of 1965.
Web
sites
for youths,
tivities."
civil
This comprehensive learning re-
rights
organizations, videos on the topic and books for further reading are also in-
source includes profiles of the courageous black and white leaders in the civil rights movement who struggled to change the oppressive laws which ordered one not to eat with someone,
cluded.
The
timeline starts in 1948 with
See REVIEW, page
2)
Psalm 15:2-5 James 1:17-18, 2lb-22, 27
3)
Gospel:
"Mommy's
By BEVERLY C0RZINE Catholic News Service It is a Sunday evening as my 2year-old granddaughter, Olivia, my daughter-in-law, Laura, and I enter their living room to admire Laura's
new
curio cabinet,
Standing before us
wood and stunning
is
an elegant
among
three generations.
Laura and
I
catch her sparkling
kneel
I
down
book are
ration.
warm
brown so that
eyes. I
can be
flutes, china, a spe-
there for her admilook at Olivia and feel her
I
of Sept. 3 - 9, 2000 James 1:17-18, 21-22, 27, Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23; Monday, 1 Corinthians 2:1-5, Luke 4:16-30; Tuesday, 1 Corinthians 2:10-16, Luke 4:31-37; Wednesday, 1 Corinthians 3:1-9, Luke 4:38-44; Thursday, 1 Corinthians 3:18-23, Luke 5:1-11; Friday (Birth of the Virgin Mary), Micah 5:1-4, Matthew 1:1-16, 18-23; Saturday (St. Peter Claver), 1 Corinthians 4:9-15, Luke 6:1-5 6-8,
Readings for the week of Sept. 10 - 16, 2000 Sunday, Isaiah 35:4-7, James 2:1-5, Mark 7:31-37; Monday, Corinthians 5:1-8, Luke 6:6-11; Tuesday, Corinthians 6:1-11, Luke 6:12-19; Wednesday (St. John Chrysostom), Corinthians 7:25-31, Luke 6:20-26; Thursday (Triumph of the Cross), Numbers 21:4-9, Philippians 2:6-11, John 3:13-17; Friday (Our Lady of Sorrows), 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-27, Luke 2:33-35; Saturday (Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian), 1 Corinthians 10:14-22, Luke 6:43-49
and
little
tells
For
a
say,
nodding
in agree-
"It's
passes.
Later
when
I
leave,
I
catch a
Olivia has wisely called cross." Its
We
message
as parents
is
"Mommy's
crystal clear.
and grandpar-
ents have been entrusted with great responsibility to pass on the mystery and the good news of God's
We
It's
our job.
are part of a living tradi-
tion that stretches back in time for thousands of years. I ponder the gift of family and the importance of the sacred traditions we pass on to our children and our children's children. I think of Olivia, a tiny little girl with brown curly hair, who is a blessed link between my future and
my
past.
all
hand grasping my finger as she names the items before us
week
that
cross. Pretty. Pretty." I
love for us.
on her eye level and affirm her choices, I am aware of the gift of this moment.
Champagne
it is
very pretty." "Very pretty!" echoes back to me. Laura and I exchange an understanding smile. The moment
discuss the history
and beauty of the objects that lie before us. Olivia punctuates our adult conversation with her own words of praise for the items that
As
ment.
Family
glass.
treasures rest safely behind glass doors in just the right position to catch the light and spark a conversation
wonder what
glimpse of the Celtic cross that
cabinet, crafted out of a rich cherry
cial
Readings for the Sunday, Deuteronomy 4:1-2,
14-15,
7:1-8,
I
seems to link generations of women and the objects of beauty they pass along down the generations. Then Olivia's eyes fall on Laura's crystal Celtic cross. "Yes,"
14
Weekly Scripture
Mark
21-23
my
that rests in a hallowed space in
own home.
me they are pretty. moment am reminded I
of
my own mother
and her love of beautiful dishes and glassware. I
Question: Whether you are the first link in your family's chain or the 15th, how are you passing your faith along to your children and grandchildren?
think of her pink Depression glass
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Around the Diocese those 71 diocesan priests in current
Retirement, from page
1
active ministry
who
will
with
eligible for retirement benefits.
community of becomes an extended family.
these 46 counties, the
years and beyond. "I hope to offer a presence that lasts long after they're
And
with the annual Priests' RetireBenefits Collection, scheduled in parishes for Sept. 9-10 this year, the diocesan family of faith can offer its thanks to those ministers of Christ who give the best years of
gone from
ment and
The efits
a relative term.
Now
Retirement and Bendesigned to provide
is
financial security to priests of
Father Davis credits Father Conrad Kimbrough, a senior priest in
serve here, as they enter their retirement years.
the diocese, for fostering his calling to converting to Catholicism and,
ders
1 1
who
The
collection's goal this year
is
$776,000, according to Bill Weldon,
Winston-Salem
resident, he continues an active schedule of filling in at parishes on the weekends, and his ministry to young and elderly alike brings
third for the retirement funds of the
had important conversations with
—
I go all over the not just in the Triad, but throughout the diocese," said Father Kelleher. "Sometimes," he adds with a chuckle, "I get calls and I have to say, 'I'm sorry, I've been booked for two months.'" Visits to Maryfield Nursing Home in High Point keep him in touch with some of the diocese's senior priests and residents, including Bishop Emeritus Michael J. Begley. And ongoing involvement at Bishop McGuinness High School in Winston-Salem from celebrating Mass in the school chapel to serving fries on the cafeteria lunch line continues a presence that he and the school com-
—
—
concern that people give very real and tangible
a
ited today."
"We're living off the fruit of their labor," he said, "and it's just
work and
— Father religious order priests
who
serve
here.
The amount of the collection factors in 3 percent of each parish's an-
BMHS
lection,
who remains in contact with graduates into their college
very awe-inspiring."
Christopher Davis
which also helps provide for
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way as a way of showing they appreciate their priests is a very heartwarming thing to see," added Father Davis. He thanked those senior priests in the diocese who worked so diligently "to persevere to make the church that we have inher-
see."
nual offertory income. Twenty-two retired diocesan priests currently benefit from the col-
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"There are many, many times during the day when I thank God for having what I have, and I ask him to bless the people who provide for me," said Father Kelleher. "I'm grateful for that, and I hope to still be available to pray and to work for their salvation." "To receive the care and concern that people give in a very real and
"To receive the care and
"On weekends,
wanted to do
—
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really
I
said Father Davis,
—
priesthood.
and a
will be used for diocesan clergy,
life,"
only thing that really gave me a sense of peace was to really think about being a priest and the ministry of celebrating the sacraments and the Mass." Both Fathers Kelleher and Davis said that to serve the family of faith in the diocese a family who in turn will provide for their well-being in their times of need brings a humble sense of gratitude.
—
later, to the
It was as the organist at St. Benedict Church in Greensboro that Father Davis then a college student considering a future in music
chief financial officer for the Diocese of Charlotte. Two-thirds of the funds
a
those in active ministry is Father Davis, who in July entered a pastoral assignment as administrator of Holy Infant Church in Reidsville and sacramental minister at St. Joseph of the Hills Church in Eden.
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The Pope
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POPE JOHN PAUL
II
Pope says World Youth Day exceeded By
'all
expectations'
JOHN NORTON News Service (CNS) Pope John Paul World Youth Day celebra-
Catholic
VATICAN CITY
—
thanked God for a tion he said exceeded "all human expectations" and prayed that the young people would ignite the world with God's love. "I will never be able to forget the enthusiasm of those young people," he told pilgrims at his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square Aug. 23. "I would have liked to have embraced them all and expressed to each one the affection which ties me to the youth of our time," he said. More than 2 million young people from 160 countries crowded an 800-acre field on Rome's outskirts Aug. 19-20 for a prayer vigil with the pope and Mass with him the following morning. It was city's largest gathering of people in living II
memory. "Flying over the area in the helicopter," said the pope, referring to his arrival and departure
from the field, and impressive
Labor Day: Then and Now Labor Day became a federal
1894, workers
marched
September
& Columns
Editorials
major
in
demon-
strate the strength of labor organizations in their communities. In the afternoon after the parades, workers and their families enjoyed recreation together in parks and other public places. One hundred years ago workers, especially in railroad and steel, regularly worked twelve-hour shifts six days a week. In 1880 one-sixth of American workers (1,118,000) were children under the age of 16. In 1889 alone, 22,000 railroad workers were killed or injured on the job. Because wages fluctuated with the economy, the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892 cut pay between 18 percent and 26 percent leading to the Homestead Strike that ended in bloody violence. Only a century ago the human dignity of American workers was sacrificed to the new wave of industrialization. A sense of solidarity and purpose gripped union members that first Labor Day with slogans like "an injury to one is an injury to all." They were optimistic about making a difference. The issues at the time included securing the eight-hour workday, eliminating child labor, minimizing unsafe work conditions and mandating a fair wage. Labor Day 2000 finds most workers in the U.S. living a middle-class
Faith
GLENMARY FATHER JOHN RAUSCH Guest Columnist
times. The social fabric of loyalty between many workers and employers appears shredded. But, the single greatest difference between the first Labor Day and Labor Day 2000 remains the global economy. Today that arrangement weakens the rights of workers everywhere. Corporations are free to move capital across international borders, finding countries with low wages to produce goods. The International Labor Organization, an arm of the U.N., adopted resolutions covering five basic
human
rights for all workers. They include the right to organize unions and the right to bargain collectively with employers.
Today over 46
million children under 14 work and fields and millions of adult workers log 70 hours a week on assembly lines. Prison labor is forced to produce for international markets and women suffer discrimination in the workplace. Many times these labor abuses translate into cheap prices for American discount stores. Labor Day today usually signals the end of summer for American workers. For people of justice it offers a time to pause and reflect about how far labor has come and what issues remain. in factories
life.
The
eight-hour day has become standard and is outlawed. Yet, 10 million workers still
child labor
minimum wage and vast numbers work with no health insurance. While companies cannot easily change wages according to economic highs and lows, they can employ a contingent workforce of temps, part-timers and contract labor. In today's market system, workers see themselves as independent entrepreneurs selling their work skills to the highest bidder. Even well-educated workers recognize they will work for numerous companies before retirement and possibly change careers two or three receive
admired from above a singular an enormous human carpet of joyful people, happy to be together." The youths' community and personal experience of encountering Christ during the event, he said, showed that the young people felt themselves "a living part of the church" and "a people
Father Rausch
writes,
teaches
and organizes
in
Appalachia.
"I
sight:
we will use to maneuver this phase. Welcoming a new child into our family setting for the first time was scary. Though we were excited and well prepared, there was so much we didn't know. There were so many "what-ifs" to consider that we found ourselves sometimes stuck in fear. Watching Andrea board the school bus for that
Family Reflections
God in journey." The pope said the young people were not afraid of their own human frailties and limitaof
ANDREW & TERRY
tions "because they count on the love and mercy of the heavenly Father, who sustains them in daily
2000
Economy of
holiday in
cities to
1
the first time gave us pangs of fear, a sense of loss, a remorseful knowing that things will not be the
LYKE
life."
"Beyond every race and culture, they feel like brothers gathered by a single faith, by a single hope, by a single mission: to ignite the world with God's love," he said.
"To all the young people I would like to repeat: Be proud of the mission which the Lord has entrusted to you and carry it forward with humble and generous perseverance," the pope said.
"Christ and his church count on you!" he said.
Experience
moaning our
will
be
in
ROME (CNS) — As
Toronto
Pope John Paul II drew World Youth Day 2000 to a clamorous close in Rome, he announced the next site for the gathering would be in Toronto, Ontario, in 2002. "Right from now I invite the young people of the world to set out for Toronto," the pope told a 2 million-strong crowd that convened on a university campus on Rome's outskirts for the climax of this year's youth day observance. "I offer a special greeting to the Canadian delegation, who wanted to be here at this celebration to accept the task which will be theirs," he said Aug. 20 as Canadian flags began waving furiously.
tells
us that standing
still
we have and be-
loss are not healthy options.
Our
children are ever-evolving, whether we like it or hot. To "get with the program," we have had to
Launching stages in family life lay ministers who have worked with families for many years, our view of the various stages of family life can be skewed by theory when our
through.
experience at a stage is lacking. For example, our only understanding about raising teens was what we had heard and seen in
There is a pattern of the Paschal Mystery at work here: bearing the cross of change, entering the tomb of anxiety and embracing the resurrec-
As
others,
our
Pope announces 2002 World Youth Day
same.
And so it has been for each stage traversed: pangs of fear, a sense of loss.
Guest Columnists
and what we scarcely remembered from
own
adolescence.
Now
in the
trust in "letting
God. At each stage thus far, there was a go and letting God" factor that got us
newness in family life. Having lived this pattern through the previ-
tion of
midst of adoles-
cence, our family experiences give us practical wisdom into which we may apply some of the learned
ous stages of family life, we anticipate the joy of watching Andrea evolve as a young adult college
theory.
student.
Frankly,
we now know
the "real deal" about
raising teens.
We
are entering a
new
stage of family
life
As
we
are enrapt with this experience
life
—
We
are learning to let are also trusting that
go
in
God
is
brand new ways. with us through
every step and every stage of family
Andrew
&
life.
Terry Lyke are coordinators of mar-
riage ministry for the Archdiocese of Chicago.
clinicians of family
for this stage for years. tions and purpose.
Yet there gnaws in our
tempers the anxiety and gives us hope.
—of — we
which we are learning the lesson of experience the launching stage. Our older child, Andrea, is leaving for college. With the similar trepidation of her first day of kindergarten, of launching.
It
So, again, as with other families sending their first-borns off to school kindergarten or college
is
we have prepared understand its func-
life,
We
an ever-present anxiety that
gut. Transitioning previous family
stages have taught us something important
September
1
2000
,
Light
we
One
use has
more than one meaning.
The crux
of the matter
our intention: neither from lying if we intend to deceive our listener. Oh, by the way, should our deception fail, we are still lying because that was what we were trying to do. According to Augustine, even if we speak the truth but know that for some reason it won't be believed and that is what you want, you have lied. Wow! You would have to be a saint to live up to is
silence nor vagueness protects us
Candle
MSGR. THOMAS
J.
McSWEENEY
that standard!
Guest Columnist
But if we see a lie, the intention to deceive, as a betrayal of our shared search for truth, Augustine's
arguments are understandable. Lying
White Lies White
n.
lie,
lie.
Who hasn't at
for fibbing? Either the
truth would embarrass the other person or be too inconvenient for ourselves, so we lie. From "Tell him I'm not here!" to "Honestly, you look thinner in that dress!"
—
harmless, face-saving
lies.
No
big
thing.
No big thing unless you read St. Augustine (354-430 A.D.), Bishop of Hippo, Doctor of the Church and one of the most intriguing and influenChristian writers of
tial
all
time.
the case that even the slightest intention to mislead others in their pursuit of truth is a
His stand
—
unequivocal whenever you tell a your sacred obligation to the truth. You cannot be a liar and still pretend to serve God who is himself truth. But what about those times when we are just silent and keep the truth to ourselves? Silence is vague. Somebody can take from your silence whatever they want. That isn't lying, is it? Well, to Augustine it is. Many of us would probably quibble, saying that we cannot be held responsible for the way someone interprets our silence. We might argue that it would be the same as a listener getting a sin.
you
different
is
a barrier
Studies in the dynamics of communication that people who lie often begin to believe their are truth. A sort of cognitive dissonance sets in
show lies
whereby one's mind becomes so conflicted that truth is unrecognizable. Lying also affects relationships. Once a deception has been practiced in matters where all should be fair and open, confidence can never be completely restored. Indeed, the worst of all deceptions is to think one thing and say another. It cheats both the other and one's self
Other
He makes
lie,
is
to that search.
a minor or harmless
some time found an excuse
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violate
meaning than we intended because a word
sins are easier after that.
Augustine would be the first to say he knew something about sins. His mother Monica prayed for his conversion, even as he lived a rather earthy life. Yet, he struggled for years with his own search for truth. Finding his answer in God, he then spent the rest of his life trying to live out his belief in the One Eternal Truth. I suspect that most people aren't ready to swear off the occasional "white lie." But as we travel on our
own
search, we might reflect a little more not only on what truth is, but Who Truth is. As Augustine prayed: O Omnipotent Good, who cares for each of us as if no one else existed and for all of us as if we were all but one! Your law is truth and truth is Yourself. You made me for Yourself, and my heart is restless until it rests in You.
Question
all raised Catholic
with a Catholic education, and we enjoy a good, loving relationship with all of them. Today, the two who are, and have been, the most gentle
and
caring,
and most
spiritual,
Corner
abstain they are going to hell?
How
can God,
compassionate and merciful, a God we cannot understand or know everything about. Have I been wrong?
CNS
(Rom.
impossible to go into great detail in this column, but their opening summary of what they desire to offer mothers and fathers is itself constructive. Their message, the bishops affirm, speaks of "accepting yourself, your beliefs and Values, your questions and all you may be struggling with at the
moment; of accepting and loving your child as a gift of God; and of accepting the full truth of God's revelation about the dignity of the human person and the meaning of human sexuality. "Within the Catholic moral vision there is no
contradiction among these levels of acceptance, for truth and love are not opposed. They are insepara-
Columnist
bly joined and rooted in one person, Jesus Christ." God does not love someone any less simply because he or she is homosexual, says the letter, and that love is always and everywhere offered to those
sands of other parents in the same circumstances, including Catholics like yourselves.
It is
—
—
Leach.
passage
homosexuals.
are relatives, family. "The bloodstream of every Catholic liberal, conservative or confused traces back to the same pool of blood at the foot of a cross," writes
FATHER JOHN DIETZEN
A. No, you are not wrong. You are thinking and hoping and fearing in the same way as many thou-
One of the most caring and helpful documents ever issued by the bishops of the United States was titled "Always Our Children." First published in September 1997 and intended primarily for parents of homosexuals, it considers, as gently and as honestly as possible, many crucial points for families of
wholly by love. Because divinity is everywhere and in everything, and Catholic saints above all others have articulated this with passion and poetry. Because more than any other faith, it is about hope beyond sense." And a Maryland postal worker, Quentin Cupp,
know we
who gave
them such beautiful gifts and strong human urges reject them? I have always sought and loved a God who is
in a life after this life defined
Maria Shriver, Babe Ruth, Knute Rockne, Bob Newhart, Flannery O'Connor, Father Andrew Greeley and Gary Cooper. Read these, and you
are self-pro-
I don't know the details of their personal lives, but my church tell me that if these two are not able to
like being Catholic because Catholicism is about light. Because all of Christ's message can be boiled down to a single word: 'love.' Because I need to believe in a future driven by love and "I
The authors have assembled an incredible array of affirmations about being Catholic from people living and dead: Martin Scorsese,
claimed homosexuals. Both of them, one son and one daughter, claim to have known from an early age they were different. As their mother, I believe this is true. does
—
affirms: "I like being Catholic because you are forgiven for everything. You can start all over again."
Parents of Homosexual Children
Q.We have four grown children,
Why people like being Catholic Being Catholic means being part of a family which has given us "a way of seeing," a new book titled "I Like Being Catholic" (Doubleday) shows through the words of scores of people famous and not famous, clergy and laity. The book's authors are Michael Leach and Therese Borchard (Doubleday). Borchard, summarizing the conviction of so many others, writes: "My faith opens my eyes to the good and the beautiful in everything around me. Everything that I enjoy in an average day is pregnant with the goodness of God." Some of the testimony is a sheer, soaring love story, like this by journalist Brian Doyle:
who
are open to receiving is
it.
St. Paul's
well-known
quoted that nothing can separate us from
the love of
God
that
comes
to us in Christ Jesus
8:39).
The
bishops repeat the church's teaching that is objectively immoral. Whether such activity is subjectively sinful, how-
same-sex genital behavior
whether an individual actually sins personally engaging in these activities, depends on several
ever, in
factors.
Traditionally, a grave sin must involve a serious matter, and must be done with full knowledge and deliberate consent. (The Catechism of the Catholic Church discusses these briefly in Nos. 1856-61.) Whether and how these conditions may be present in an individual circumstance is often extremely difficult to unravel, even for the indi-
vidual involved, let alone for anyone else. As the bishops significantly note, our sexual orientation, heterosexual or homosexual, is only one
component of our self-identity. "Our total personhood," they note, "is more encompassing See DIETZEN, page
14
The power of this book is that it helps us remember who we are because of our baptism, which connected us with something magnificent. As life hands us confusion, blows, boredom, temptation, whatever, we sometimes walk away from the "noble family" we belong to, to use the words of the famed convert Clare Booth Luce. A priest once told me that when a couple came to him saying they wanted a divorce, he would say: "Once you two loved each other so much you wanted to spend the rest of your lives together. Can you remember that? Can you regain that beautiful time?" I feel that if people who have put the Catholic Church aside would read this book, they would remember the original love story they had in their life and perhaps yearn to find it again. In a final essay about tomorrow's Catholics, Leach sees "signs of new life everywhere" among the young. The church they shape may look different in some ways, but, he affirms, "there is nothing to fear.... The center is Christ, and it is he who draws all things together and makes them new. To be Catholic is to appreciate change and to see the face of Christ in everyone." The new century of Catholicism, he writes, "may be more filled with faith, hope and charity than any before it."
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Labor Day,
September
the News
Human
than sexual orientation. priority,"
he
said.
work "At the same time, workers, parjobs with little pay and few ticularly those in the growing service benefits, they are often mistreated industry, must be assured of their right to choose whether to organize and abused." Commenting on the prosperity of and join unions or other associations our times, Cardinal Mahony said, to promote and defend their dignity," "Just beneath the surface of economic Cardinal Mahony said. prosperity lies the re"The church has ality of what our bishlong stood and con"The values of our ops have described as tinues to stand with three economies living workers and their for their willingness to
faith call
"A
first
economy
finds many people prospering in this new
information age and global marketplace," he said.
"A
second
us to shape
unions
economic policies that protect dignity,
human
economic
promote
communities." some measure, versation on ecobut are squeezed by nomic globalization Cardinal Roger M. declining incomes, framed by our tradiMahony struggle to afford tions and values." health care, and worry The conversation about the cost of a college education would include business and labor or Catholic schools for their children." leaders, economists and theologians, In the third economy, he said, "those who shape globalization and there are "a substantial number of those touched by it," he said. people who are left behind and cannot "We must join together escape poverty." workers and employers, entrepre"For Christians, these realities neurs and union leaders, tradesrepresent not just troubling statistics, people and policy-makers to but the struggles of brothers and sisbuild a society that respects each ters, members of one human family," person and their work," the cardiwell by
—
—
—
Cardinal to
Mahony
nal said.
said.
"The values of our faith call us shape economic policies that
protect human dignity, promote strong families and create vibrant communities." Rapid globalization of finance,
trade and
work
—
which can
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—
"This is our continuing challenge and our necessary work as we begin this new millennium."
The full statement
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President Harry
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CHARLOTTE —
Those currently involved in volunteerism or those who
stem-cell research as immoral, unnecessary
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News Service (CNS) Calling it immoral and unnecessary, the Vatican condemned the production and use of human embryos for stemCatholic
—
VATICAN CITY
cell research, despite its
humanitarian
aims.
In a seven-page statement released Aug. 24, the Vatican's Pontifi-
Academy
cal
for Life
and
has a
successes.
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Vatican's
statement
U.S.
close material cooperation in the pro-
ties,
right to its
its
own
intervention which
to release federal
embryo
funds for embryonic stem-cell research projects. In
own
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it
embryo
life;
is
right,"
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cells are basic undifferenti-
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producing cells that can form various body tissues. Because of the cells' abil-
a detri-
the state-
said.
The process stem
cells
"seri-
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rably damages the human embryo, cutting its
act to that right."
ing scientists to obtain stem cells by cloning human embryos, a process known as "therapeutic cloning."
is
of removing the
a detrimental
August, England's chief medical officer recommended allow-
has a
mental act to that
good of that
is
it
and, therefore,
any intervention which is not for the good of that
mid
Stem
—
ment
for the
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said,
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The Vatican
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human
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Servite priests prays for healing of body, soul By JOEY REISTROFFER Correspondent
—
HENDERSONVILLE
A
by
far, is the best. It inspired me. I've never met anyone like him before." Rev. Mr. Patrick Crosby said Fa ther Rookey's healing Mass "was awesome." He was close by when Fa-
Immaculate Conception
at
Catholic Church last Wednesday night. After a special blessing by Servite Father Peter Mary Rookey, she stood up, took a few tentative steps, then walked back down the aisle, pushing her wheelchair. Only the Lord knows whether she was cured, but Father Rookey's healing Mass in Hendersonville Aug. 23
Rookey laid hands on the woman with lupus. "He kept touching her legs and asked if she could feel warmth in her legs. Finally he asked if she wanted to get up, and she said ther
Mr. Crosby said. Father Rookey, however, takes no credit. He gives it to the Lord. "The spirit was powerful tonight," he said. "The spirit does all the work, not me. I'm almost 84 (years old.)" Yet for almost five hours, Father
yes," Rev.
certainly bolstered her faith.
About 1,000 people from Tennessee to Florida flocked to see Father
Rookey in the North Carolina hill country on Wednesday. They came with aches and pains. They came with terminal diseases. They came on crutches, and they came with canes.
They had heard about this who has been celebrat-
Servite priest
ing healing Masses
all
disappoint
not
did
in
Hendersonville.
He
described the curing of a
Down syndrome
child in Belfast,
Northern Ireland. He also talked about once blessing a blind girl in Northern Ireland, who then regained her-sights,,-J,*. These are the stories that brought
—
n
the
crowd of
'
—
,
believers to
Immaculate
Conception.
The day had
filled
before, Father
the
pews
Rookey blessed people seeking healing and anointed them with oil. Once blessed, many in the crowd fell backward in what Father Rookey
Photo by Joey Reistroffer
Father Peter Mary Rookey blesses a pilgrim during a healing Mass Aug. 23 at Immaculate Conception Church in Hendersonville. Father Rookey, a Servite priest, celebrated three healing Masses in the diocese recently. He is popular throughout the world for a healing ministry he brings to many.
called a "resting of the spirit."
In this state, he said, they are
over the world
for decades.
He
at
St.
being
is
to several healing Masses. This one
wheelchair-bound woman suffering from lupus was brought up to the altar
who
Beatrice Ferrenger,
treated for cancer, agreed. "I've been
Rookey
Thomas
Aquinas Catholic Church in Charlotte. He also packed St. Matthew Catholic Church in Charlotte on
lowed by witness testimonies
Monday. "They come looking
down until 1 1 p.m. Through it all, Father Rookey
fulness.
kept the evening fresh with his humorous wit and his humble appeal to
physical healing," Father
the Lord.
won't take place until later. Let Jesus be your guest tonight. Let Him work His work in you." Then he urged the people at Immaculate Conception to "be humble like a little child" and have courage, saying "Courage, thy faith has made ye whole." Perhaps courage, faith in the
—
for healing
either physical or spiritual," said
Jim Hrechko, Father Rookey's
"And they stay
tant.
assis-
until the bitter
the healing
healings and finally the laying on of
hands.
The gathering
In Hendersonville, the service be-
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Lord and
woman
a
rest-
there can be a
many
plained, "but
During the Seven Sorrows of
end."
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spirit
made
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