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As airport re-opens, chaplain prays terrorists' victims now in hands of God

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Campus ministries open doors in wake of tragedy ...

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News JIMMY ROSTAR

By

Photos by Joann S. Keane

Associate Edtor

Faith formation

CHARLOTTE

community celebrates

have gone to

his

— Ted Boone

own

could

church on Sept.

14,

a

date President Bush declared a national

ministry

time ofprayer following the worst terrorist ...

Pages 4-5

attacks ever in the United States.

But the

building maintenance employee of Char-

lotte/Douglas International Airport called to be with

Many respond to social

traffic

justice call at conference

felt

extended family as the

industry got back to

air

work

Boone was among several dozen people, mostly aircrew members and air-

who

port personnel,

gathered in an out-

doors courtyard at the Charlotte airport ...

Pages

14

for a

noon prayer

'This

service.

future and hope that nothing else like this

ever happens again," said Boone. 'This kind of made

my

me feel

a

and have

little bit better,

prayers go to die families

who

lost someone."

Rev. Mr. Ben Wenning, a permanent

Every Week

deacon of the Charlotte Diocese, serves as the head chaplain at Charlotte/Douglas.

At

10-11

"Have mercy on

& Columns

who were .Pages

12-13

in the

wake of the

attacks. all

the holy innocents

tragedy on Tuesday and all of those who are in service to them," he prayed. "Make them worthy to

caught

in the resurrection

"Do not

let

your hearts be

of the dead."

Following readings from Psalm 23 and the Gospel ofJohn, Rev. Mr. Wenning

troubled. You have faith in

God; have

faith also in

me."

14:1

in

the Scriptures that they will one day be

with the Lord.

"We

-John

comfort

place the souls of

were unjustly

all

those

who

on Tuesday in the hands of God," he said. "Now, though we

mourn

killed

for them,

hands for those

we need

whom

he

to be

left.

God's

In prayer

have

lost

said he has coun-

numbers of the mourning

seled countiess

Mandeville, Jamaica, where they are plan-

ning a three-month voluntary teaching Instead,

on

selves joining

this day they found themhands with others outside

after the tragedy, both in the airport

the Charlotte airport, uniting in prayer as

chapel and at his parish,

they recited the

Charlotte.

now

As

Gabriel in

St.

the nation's air

indus-

traffic

grim realities of wrought after four planes were hijacked from U.S. airports Sept. 1 1, Rev. Mr. Wenning said the sorrow has a special deals with the

destruction

poignancy here.

we

understand

said.

"We work

"As airport employees, the basic team concept," he great as a team.

We know we have to play

We function together, and everything

well.

works.

bedded in that ofGod."

A

is

in

em-

your mind a presence

retired air-traffic controller, Rev.

Mr. Wenning

called

on those gathered

to

Our

Father.

"Not only do we need to pray for the persons who have lost loved ones and all the workers, but we need to pray for our government officials because they have a tremendous responsibility of determining who is guilty and what action to take," said Rev. Sites, a retired minister of the United Brethren in Christ Church.

Mossie

tragedy

Sites said the

everyday

in times

of sorrow, but in

many times, when things are gowe forget about what God has done for us and the freedom that we have "So

ing well,

here in America," she

Her husband

said.

agreed. 'It shouldn't be a

day of prayer just today," he

said. "It

work with them

to be a matter of prayer for

all

in this

most

trying of times and in the future. "Let us today th

we

suffered

remember a'

that

—

in

ought

of us at

all

times."

on the

tragedy that should

way we've never been united our work because of the security, in our hearts because we need to carry Christ with us." The Rev. Wilber and Mossie Sites were grounded in Charlotte on their way from their Chambersburg, Pa., home to unite us in a

before

a

life.

carry that sense of God's presence back to

— both

is

painful reminder of the need for a sense of

God, not just ask you in your hearts, based on our

tragedy and the Scripture, that also

1 1

said the faithful can find great

who

stint at a Bible college.

Wenning

Rev. Mr.

in the

share the joys of paradise, for they believed

to be available to

loved ones."

the service which he led, he prayed for

God's healing presence

.Pages

we need

in action,

those tiiousands of families

"I

Entertainment

Editorials

and

try

a time to look toward the

is

Rev. Mr. Ben Wenning presides at a noontime prayer service at Charlotte/ Douglas International Airport. Rev. Mr. Wenning, a permanent deacon for the Diocese of Charlotte, serves as airport chaplain. He conducted the prayer service for airport workers and travelers. Above left, Rev. Mr. Wenning reads from Scripture during the service.

As

the prayer service neared

Rev. Mr.

Wenning prayed

"for

its

close,

comfort in

our sadness, certainty in our doubt and courage through Jesus." And in closing, he offered an invitation to steadfastness:

"God

time to go back to work for yourselves for all

you

do."

bless

—

and for the

you

all.

It's

for Christ

and

airport.

Thanks

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The World

September 21, 2001

Brief

in

Tapestries and telescopes: Taking stock of the Vatican's assets The VATICAN CITY (CNS)

Small Catholic presence helps stabilize fledgling

Kazakstan

—

KARAGANDA, Kazakstan (CNS) When Pope John Paul II comes to this vast

—

is embarking on what could be die world's biggest inventory of artistic and historic objects. In September, the Vatican announced it would

land between Russia and China, he will find

undertake a two-year project to identify

pendent on foreign clergy and outside church aid. Catiiolic leaders said tiiey do not

world's smallest state

a country with fabulous riches and 16 million

and catalog all of its holdings, ranging from ancient papal carriages to contemporary mosaics.

modern

It's

times,

the

first

growing reputation. "I think the pope will speak about faith," said Ukrainian-born Bishop Jan Pawel Lenga of Karaganda.

office is

being asked to take stock of its assets and their state

The inven-

of repair or disrepair.

tory will cover every corner of the 109-acre

Vatican City State, plus papal

'Everyone here knows perfectly well that there are big problems witii corruption. It

and

villas

other properties outside the Vatican walls.

While some Vatican Vatican

Museums

— —

institutions

like

doesn't help to repeat

CCHD

the

up-to-date Usts of property, other offices

have acquired things over the years,

in-

home,

in

VATICAN CITY

Rome

— More

(CNS)

will gather at the Vatican for a

meeting on a topic dear to

tiieir

CCHD. The

monthlong hearts and

Pope John Paul

II will

CNS photo from

Guatemalen women

which features speech-giving, small-group discussions and a list of final policy state-

Reuters

projects

Pregnant women in Camotan, 130 miles west of Guatemala City, line up for medical assistance. About 1.6 million people in Central America need food and other assistance due to a severe drought.

the 10th ordinary assembly of

Hope of

of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the

broad and the

list

of discus-

sion points extensive.

Pope asks Haitian Catholics to be force in fragmented society

CASTEL GANDOLFO,

(CNS) The Catholic Church in Haiti must focus its efforts on being a model of unity and service for a deeply fractured and impoverished-Haitian society, Pope John Paul II said. "In the difficult context of your country, the seeds of division are numerous," the pope told Haiti's bishops, who were malting their "ad limina" visits to die Vatican, which bishops are required to

—

Italy

ductions and notes, not in the scriptural

with the bishops, priests

Boschi, an expert in archeology and a bibli-

visible," starting

and committed Catholics, but extending to all of society, the pope said. "I encourage

you to discover new ways so that the church in Haiti becomes a house and a school of communion," he said. Bible edition to reflect study of Dead Sea Scrolls, says scholar ROME (CNS) Work on a third

—

edition of the popular Jerusalem Bible

is

under way and will include changes based on ^formation culled from the Dead Sea Scrolls, said a Dominican working on die project. But the changes will be mainly in the Jerusalem Bible's well-known intro-

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who are stuck in the cycle ofpoverty. Theologian warns against abusing biotechnology

Dominican Father Gianluigi

texts, said

cal scholar at

Rome's Angelicum Univer-

After Father Boschi spoke of the

sity.

revision project at an early

September con-

7 p.m.

WASHINGTON

—

(CNS)

In the

inaugural lecture of the Pope John Paul

II

Cultural Center, Dominican Father Benedict Ashley warned that humanity

on myths and scholarship sur-

must use

biotechnological advances "posi-

rounding the Dead Sea Scrolls, several newspapers reported the Vatican had au-

tively to

enhance and cultivate nature,

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September 23 CHARLOTTE

— The

sary Mass with Father PJchard Bellow today at 2:30 p.m. at St. Gabriel Church, reception will 3016 Providence Rd.

A

where par-

more about" the

details, call

Care Ethics at St. Louis University, said, "There can be no doubt for Christians that technological control of nature is a good gift of God that makes us responsible to use well,

Nancy Cardo

23 HENDERSONVILLE

— The

it

not to abuse it" Father Ashley's Sept.

10 lecture kicked off the center's

Forum

ties for

separated and divorced peer support all to a 10th anniver-

group. For

theo-

fall

first

Inter-

lecture series.

mentia will be held today from 10-11:15 room E of the ministry center at St. Gabriel Church, 3016 Providence Rd. With advanced notification, activi-

Pathfinders, a

follow in the fellowship hall

The

it."

Center for Health

a.m. in

group, welcomes

ticipants can learn

rather than recklessly distort

cultural

Diocesan. planner

(704) 752-0318.

at

the memory-impaired are also

being provided. For more information about the support group or the nonprofit Shining Stars Adult Day Respite Program for the memory-impaired,

which meets every Monday and Wednesday and on a third day offered at Sardis Presbyterian Church, call Suzanne Bach

at (704) 376-4135.

24 MORGANTON

—

St.

Charles

Borromeo Church, 714 West Union St.

is

beginning a

LANDINGS

St.,

ministry to

Dedication and blessing of

Francis of the Hills Fraternity of the

welcome

Bishop McGuinness

Secular Franciscan Order will meet to-

returning to practicing the faith back to

High School, Winston-Salem

day from 3-5 p.m. at Immaculate Conception Church, 208 7th Ave. West, in the office wing. Visitors and inquirers are welcome, so for more information, call

the church.

published

Charlotte, NC 28203, 44 times a year, weekly Christmas week and Easter week and every

two weeks during June, July and August

—

September 30

Catholic Diocese of Charlotte, 1123 South

its

fund 317 local

those

make every five years. 'It is essential to make communion ever stronger and more

Th

N

—

It will

in 47 states, die District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Many of the groups funded by CCHD provide a hand up to the unemployed, new immigrants and

gious

the synod and the second to focus specifically

on the world's approximately 4,500 bishops. The official tiieme, "The Bishop Servant

agency has distributed more

years of existence.

up for aid

line

in

an all-time high for

is

than $260 million to 4,000 projects in

preside

over the Sept 30-Oct 27 Synod of Bishops,

up

tions to a national collection taken

parishes each year,

close to their daily lives: the role of the bishop

is

The

announced it will distribute $10 programs nationwide to address and combat poverty. The amount of grant money, which comes from Cadiolics' dona-

dian 200 bishops from around the world

die World,"

Develop-

million to

challenges facing bishops

It is

—

Human

for

initiative,

Synod to focus on

ments.

(CNS)

Campaign

ment, the U.S. bishops' domestic anti-poverty

never been cataloged.

in the church.

WASHINGTON Catholic

cluding gifts and purchases that have

at

all tiiat"

grants for poverty

programs announced

maintain

or Library

including

citizens,

expect the pontiff to speak out against the corruption for which Kazakstan has a

such inventory in

and every Vatican

mostly impoverished

a minority Catholic population heavily de-

October 5

—

5 p.m.

75th anniversary St.

Mass and dinner

John, Waynesville

Pat

October 6

— 4 p.m.

Dedication and blessing of church St. James, Concord

Cowan

at (828) 884-4246.

24 CHARLOTTE

— A support group

meeting for caregivers of family and from Alzheimer's/de-'

friends suffering

inactive Catholics interested in

The

first

sions will begin the

of 10 weekly ses-

week of Sept.

further information, call at (828) 584-3199.

26 CHARLOTTE

—

24.

For

Tom Henderson All families

who

have suffered a loss are invited to attend the monthly memorial Mass at St. Patrick Cathedral, 1621 Dilworth Rd.

September 21, 2001

The World

The Catholic News & Herald 3

Brief

in

Pope says he hopes

trip to Asia strengthens religious ties

CASTEL GANDOLFO,

versary of the pope's encyclical letter on

human work, "Laborem

(CNS) Pope John Paul II said he hoped his visit to Kazakstan and Armenia in late September would strengthen ecumenical dialogue and interreligious ties. The pope, welcoming new ambassadors from both countries, confirmed that he would make

—

his trip as

Italy

John's University in

University of St.

no

New York

WASHINGTON

and Washing-

life

Accepting the credentials of the Armenian ambassador, Edward Nalbandian,

pope

with joy to his

and the speed with through the committee are just two of the points which have angered rural life advocates. Holy Cross Brother David Andrews, head of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, called it "a disaster of a farm bill" during a Sept. 10 press briefing. "We need a farm policy that is also a

which

new ambassador from

Kazakstan, Nurlan Danenov, the pope emphasized the rich ethnic, religious and cultural diversity of the vast Asian country and said this diversity represented "a challenge and an opportunity."

Vatican Radio welcomes study that shows no antennaelink

CNS

ered arms over her pregnant belly. Suffer-

ing from malnutrition, she has spent 20

would

by doctors in hopes of saving herself and the baby inside her bony body. "We lost our entire corn crop when the rains didn't come, and

to health."

He

said the radio

maintain measures adopted in recent months to lower radiation levels in residential areas to strict limits established by Italian law. The study, commissioned in April by Italy's health ministry, concluded that leukemia rates around the Santa Maria di Galeria transmission center outside

Rome were no

higher than in the

days

in a

church-run

Guatemalans fight malnutrition, famine after

summer drought Antonia Ramirez crosses

(CNS)

thin, lesion-cov-

7:30 p.m. Call the church office at (704)

334-2283 with the name(s) of loved ones so they may be remembered during the Mass.

— The

bits

of tortilla," said

the Chorti Indian in the Jocotan

clinic,

140

miles from Guatemala City in northeast-

ern Chiquimula province.

As she

Greens-

In

what

officials call

1998, a

summer drought destroyed

crops across Central America and

thousands of farmers awash

in

left

debt and

famine.

couples to get away from jobs, kids, chores and phones for 44 hours and focus only on each other. The next Marriage Encounter will be taking place to-

day through Sept. 30 at the Holiday Inn in Winston-Salem. Registration closes

Luncheon

at the

quickly.

and the weekends fill up For further details and to regis-

Greensboro Country Club Pavilion today at noon. The speaker will be Franciscan Father Louis Canino, director of the Franciscan Center. For information on how to support the luncheon and council, directions and the Sept. 21

ter, call

Tom and

work, Pope John Paul

Emilie Sandin at (336)

274-4424.

system

tion will be given at

Irish Catholic

men

to join

them

and Contact Michael Slane at (336) 665-9264 for time and location.

—

Marriage Encounter Weekends are designed for

and the

1

CHARLOTTE

—

Pavone,

who was

appointed to Priests 1993 by Cardinal Egan's predecessor, Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York. "We are shocked at what has happened and frankly can't make heads or tails of it," Anthony DeStefano, executive director of Priests for Life, said in a statement Sept. 10. Neither Father Pavone nor the spokesman for the New York Archdiocese, Joseph Zwilling, could be reached for comment. for Life in

Ann

Church, 3635 Park Rd.,

hold a meeting and luncheon, in the parish activity center today at 1 p.m. Featured at the event will be Bob will

Wilusz, accordion player. All adults 55

and older are invited

4

CHARLOTTE

3

—

Weighing

the

Truth is a new faith-based, weight-management program that nourishes the

mind and spirit. The goal of this unique bible-based program is focused on a way of living that will help to body,

change one's way of eating. The program will begin at St. Gabriel Church, 3016 Providence Rd., tonight at 6:30 p.m. and will continue on Wednesday evenings for 10 weeks in the parish cen-

For further information, call Victoria at (704) 544-8729 or Aurelie

May 3

at (704)

847-6210.

CHARLOTTE

— The Happy Tim-

has been cited

as the reason for reassigning Father

Mass. The next Mass will be celebrated on Nov. 5. For more information, call the church office at (336) 778-0600 or Jim Passero at (336) 998-7503.

October

for parish priests in the

more information,

28 WINSTON-SALEM

more

p.m.,

marked need

New York -Archdiocese

laying on of hands will take place after

ter.

for

7.

resume full-time parish work. A

ers of St.

—

Holy Family Church, 4820 Kinnamon Rd., will be celebrating a charismatic Mass tonight at 7:30 p.m. The sacrament of reconcilia-

Sprow

Ancient Order of Hibernians Guilford County Division, the oldest and largest order of Irish Catholic men, is looking

'The

in

CLEMMONS

1

room. For more information, call: St. Matthew - Marilyn Borrelli at (704) 542-2283 and St. Gabriel - Eileen

— The

said.

Correll at (704) 362-5047, Ext. 217.

at 7 p.m. in the office building conference

at

II

receive a restricted

social events.

26 GUILFORD COUNTY

Law

who are at the center of

needs of the people all

for meetings, educational seminars

(336) 288-6022.

it

more important than ever that economists, government leaders, social scientists and business leaders focus on the talents and

Churches in the Charlotte area will be having their regularly scheduled cancer support group meetings for survivors, family and friends on the following days: St. Gabriel Church, 3016 Providence Rd., tonight and every first Monday at 7 p.m. in the ministry center library and St. Matthew Church, 8015 Ballantyne Commons Pkwy., on Oct. 2 and every first Tuesday

registration deadline, call Janet

make

which human needs, especially, and inadequate consideration must be overcome," the pope said in a Sept. 14 message to an international meeting on work The Sept. 13-15 meeting, hosted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, marked the 20th anni-

on the floor.

Sept. 23,

ladies to its Fall

ing changes in the world of work

swollen-bellied, thin-limbed toddlers cried

invites

all

—

current vision of the economic and social

Women

boro Council of Catholic

rector of Priests for Life, has been

spoke,

in

—

—

NEW

Pope says focus must remain on needs of workers VATICAN CITY (CNS) Continu-

fed

the worst disaster since Hurricane Mitch

East, that will be taking place tonight at

26 GREENSBORO

clinic,

we've just been eating

beside her

nation's capital.

GUATEMALA CITY

Father Pavone asked to step Priests for Life post YORK (CNS) Father Frank Pavone, a priest of the New York Archdiocese who is national di-

down from

asked by Cardinal Edward M. Egan of New York to leave that position and

caused or causes

harm

§rown

seri-

ously founded reason to think that our activity in the past has

photo by Frank

Priests visit former Soviet prison cell Ukrainian born Father Vasyl Hovera visits a prison cell in the former Soviet penal camp at Dolinka, Kazakstan, which he hopes to convert into a museum. The priest volunteered to minister in Kazakstan despite his father's 14-year exile to the nearby coal mining town of Karaganda.

between the broadcaster's antennae radiation and child leukemia rates. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the radio's program director, said Sept. 15 he hoped the study finally would give peace of mind to people living around the transmission tion

no

bill

sailed

spects and defends God's creation. The current House bill fails to do this," said Brother Andrews.

—

is

it

food policy, that provides food for the hungry, from family farms, which re-

CITY- (CNS) Vatican Radio welcomed study results from an international panel that found no connec-

center, "confirming that there

conservation to put the brakes on a 10-year farm bill that passed the

ered by the

country celebrating 1,700 years of Christianity. In a ceremony Sept. 17 with the

leukemia

—

House Agriculture Committee earlier this summer. The length of time cov-

he looked forward visit to Armenia, a

VATICAN

(CNS)

new

said

first

seek

Catholic and other religious groups have joined with secular organizations that promote family farming and wild-

ton.

Sept. 15, the

in

universities co-spon-

Catholic, religious leaders to halt new farm bill

given to suspending the trip after the terrorist attacks in

St.

and the Minnesota

soring the meeting.

was

serious consideration

Thomas

were among the

planned Sept. 22-27. Vatican

sources said

Exercens."

New York

call

to attend.

For

Charles Nesto at

(704) 398-0879.

CHARLOTTE

St.

John

Neumann

Church, 8451 Idlewild Rd., will host adult bible study on the Acts of the Apostles on Thursday nights

from 7:30-9 p.m. beginning tonight and concluding March 2 1 with a break for the month of December. Michael Coyle, a Franciscan University theol-

ogy graduate, is leading the informative study. For details, call the church 536-6520 or (704) 598e-mail or mecoyle@email.uncc.edu. office at (704)

3049

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

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The Catholic News & Herald

September 21, 2001

Faith formation so

Mountain home

Sapphire Valley transformed into faith formation center in

we

share."

This year, two summer work program students from Lithuania and one from Estonia made their home with the Klingels.

"We've always used our home

for

other things, and each time we've had a

By JOANITA M. N ELLEN BACH Correspondent

SAPPHIRE VALLEY mornings Klingel faith

this

fall,

home

will

— On Sunday

the David and

Deanna

be transformed into a

formation center. Bedrooms and the

open living room will become classfor some 25 young people who are parishioners at St. Jude Catholic Church. After 9 a.m. Mass, everyone involved in faith formation will head over to the big,

rooms

Klingels,

who own

a spacious green-roofed,

two-story log cabin in nearby Country

Club Estates. Students will arrive carrying tote bags containing their Bibles and supplies. Each tote bag is decorated with a digital picture of the student, and each student has added symbols to individualize his

or her bag.

Deanna

in the latter church's

tion director at

Jude's parishioners (55-60 families in the

we've always been given a

winter and nearly 200 in the summer) sought a site closer to their own church. St

home

Jude

share

the Mountains in Highlands.

Then it's off to the rooms where David and Deanna have set up folding tables and chairs. Cyndy Gajda teaches first grade, Marsha LaFontaine teaches second and third, and Denice Dunn and Susie Young have fourth and settle into

fifth.

Sixth grade on up

the sofas and on the floor in front

of the stone fireplace in the living room,

where Gary Marrone, with an assist from David Klingel, teaches the class. If a class needs to view a video, students view them on the television in the basement family

is

and an

office,

"There aren't

many

places around

Johanna

said, "so that's

a good time

but until

it's

— —

ready

more,"

we

than

since

said. "So, little bit

more

needed, we've just always

assumed that was because we needed to it."

In addition to the formal faith formation activities that will

parish-

ioners hope that will be in January

bit

little

St.

building a 4,000-square-foot addi-

home on

they

the Klingels'

fill

Sundays, the parish

ning family day

is

also plan-

each month.

must hold classes elsewhere than at the church. So the Klingels have opened their

These might include making Advent

home.

wreaths, parents and children cooking to-

"We offered it two years ago and never heard anything back," David year,

we

offered

it

said.

open.

and

Klingels'

intergenerational activities that could reach out to senior citizens.

again and got a very

home seems

At Christmastime,

'People bring ideas from their previous parishes," Sister Johanna said. 'We have a lot of talent."

to be always

their seven children

One idea that the Klingels had was the They asked a friend, Bill Burden, to make a set and he fashioned

their families will gather at the house.

Over

the years,

when

activities

gether for a bake sale and various

"Last

positive response."

The

here to run off to on Sunday mornings,"

basement But

tion with a parish hall, kitchen, classrooms

room.

Sister

"We have an opening ceremony, at which we share and the children tell what they've done that week, such as a service project," said Franciscan Sister Johanna

and faith formaSt Jude and at Our Lady of

Orlette, pastoral associate

Stations of the Cross.

the Klingels lived in

for the parents to gather for adult faith

Atlanta, they

formation, too."

students and foster children.

At one time, all the students from St Jude and Our Lady of the Mountains met

McDonald houses came into existence, their home served as a hospital host home where

14 simple white wooden crosses on green backgrounds with little roofs. These Stations have been fastened to trees along a winding path through a wooded area be-

families could stay while their children

hind the Klingels' house. They've been

were being treated at local hospitals. One Filipino boy had been diagnosed with three forms of cancer at 18 months of age. He and his mother lived with the Klingels for six years while he was undergoing

used in several faith-formation

treatment at the Scottish Rite Hospital

will

welcomed college and exchange

In the days before Ronald

including a

in

call

home.

just love to see the children and

"I

David said. "They're good bunch of kids. They don't come

their enthusiasm,"

are helping both boys with their

said.

Whatever the activities, the Klingels continue to welcome the faith forma-

tion classes to their

a

college expenses.

"The boys

which

each station.

boy's brother also lived with the Klingels,

Mom," David

activities,

service in

the children brought flowers to place at

Atlanta; for a while the father and the

who

Palm Sunday

me Dad, and Deanna, "The Lord blessed us,

in

with long

up the

faces.

They

just brighten

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The Catholic News & Herald

Faith Formation

5

Catechists urged to light fires of faith at workshop By DENISE

KASPER

Correspondent

CLEMMONS

—

Catechists, par-

ish leaders and parishioners of the Diocese of Charlotte's Northern Region joined together for an all-day faith formation workshop on Sept. 8. This was the seventh-annual workshop, called Lighting the Fires of Faith VII, and was set into motion with a keynote address from Sister Rosa Monique Pefia. Her talk, addressing this year's theme of "Love

Beyond All Telling," was delivered

in

English and Spanish. Sister Rosa paraphrased the two

someone who was

lessons

what

—

about relating to the students and trying different methods of teaching," she said. The workshop was developed for the 22 parishes and missions in the Northern Region of the Charlotte Diocese. "The presenters ... were excellent," said Franciscan Sister Bernadette Svatos, faith formation coordinator

and

sisters.

wanted to make clear what is important and what is secondary; what comes first and what is our "I

priority in religious education," she

not the doctrine, the church or praying those things are secondary. First it's important said.

"It's

—

for people to care for each other; to

care for the children in front of us as persons of faith and persons learning their faith."

last

year?

Data provided by the Office of Faith Formation, Diocese of Charlotte

sponsored by the diocese, Sister

Northern Region of the "The people who attended (generated) a great amount of enthusiasm. It is the most important event

note address, bilingual. "It's important to know that (we the region," she said, noting that Sister

presentations from publishers, getting

hosted for catechists in this area." This annual workshop is usually held in August, but because of a scheduling conflict with some of the presenters, the date was moved back to September. Sister Bernadette said that she felt having the workshop just a week before Catechetical Sunday was very appropriate. Addressing the increasing numbers of Hispanics in the diocese, Sister Bernadette said that painstaking efforts were made to make some of the teaching modules, as well as the key-

Rosa Monique herself led a teaching module on the Scriptures in Spanish. Father Michael Buttner, pastor of Holy Family Church in Clemmons,

an introduction to some of the latest teaching materials on the market. "We are asking (catechists) to do a very important job," Sister Bernadette said. "They need to be prepared for this."

diocese.

ers

...

2,974 catechists serve generously in this ministry? 15,067 elementary-age children attend faith formation? 2,894 high-school age teens continue in faith formation? 3,357 adults pursue continuing faith formation? 821 participated in the RCIA process last year? 780 catechumens and candidates entered the Catholic Church

attentive to

catechists have to say.

for the

One succinct message, however, was woven throughout her speech: Above all, we need to love our broth-

more

that

there are 170 parish catechetical leaders in the Diocese of Charlotte?

"It's

bilin-

repeatedly.

as well as

know

Did you

She added that if catechists approach their students with this in mind, students will perceive God in their teachers and be more interested in their

gual would not hear the same speech

speeches, so

Faith Formation in the Charlotte Diocese

are) trying to

work more

Bernadette

During

bilingually in

welcomed participants to the event. Tracy Welliver of St. Pius X Church in Greensboro led the opening prayer service, and the music ministry of St. Pius X provided the music. Raquel Cudd from Our Lady of the Highways in Thomasville read in Spanish. Teaching modules discussed cultural awareness, catechetical skills

and theory, the sacraments, peace and justice issues, morality, Scripture, the

Creed and the call and role of the This workshop is part of

said.

lunch, catechists listened to

She added that these workshops who would like to attend and suggested that any inquiries about upcoming catechist are open to anyone

education opportunities be directed to individual parishes.

"These workshops are for catechists as well as any interested people," she said. "We are never through with faith formation."

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September 21, 2001

the News

Pope names 16 experts, 23 international meeting of bishops at the Vatican had "great importance for the whole church," and would focus on church

observers to Synod of Bishops

—

VATICAN CITY John Paul

II

(CNS) Pope named 16 experts, includwoman, and 23 observers to

has

ing a religious

experience since the Second Vatican Council.

upcoming world Synod of Bishops. Along with 15 priests, most of participate in the

The

"principal reference point" of the

sociology of religions, to serve as an expert

27 gathering, which will examine the role of bishops in the church, will be the council and especially its document on bishops, the pope told pilgrims Sept. 9 during a noon blessing at his summer

adviser to the synod looking at the role of

residence outside

whom

Sept. 30-Oct.

are professors of theology or canon

law, the

pope named Salesian

Sister Enrica

Rosanna, a Rome-based professor of the

bishops in the church.

The synod

is

teaching will be read

sched-

Rome. "The council anew in kght of recent

uled for Sept. 30-Oct. 27 at the Vatican

decades and above

with more than 200 bishops participating.

new evangekzation, as even the theme itself suggests," he said. The theme of the bish-

The synod

named by the pope laymen and five laywomen, six priests and four religious women. Cardinal says church's governing functions could be decentralized ROME (CNS) While the papacy is an essential element of the Catholic Church, there are many possible ways to decentralize governing functions in the observers

to marry

SYRACUSE,

October 2000 and was

set

for a late-September release in Italy. In its Sept. 13 edition, the Italian Catholic

maga-

zine Famiglia Cristiana published the book's chapter

CNS

Decid-

in

life,

says veteran au-

—

are thinking about marriage to ask

PHOTO BY BRAD REYNOLDS

the right questions and discuss issues they

Bishop Whelan of Fairbanks dies at 89 Bishop Robert L. Whelan is seen in an undated file photo outside Sacred Heart Cathedral in Fairbanks, Alaska. Bishop Whelan, who headed the Diocese of Fairbanks from 1968 to 1985, died Sept. 15 in Spokane, Wash. He was 89.

should face. Msgr. Champlin, rector of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

FILE

in

Syracuse and author of more than 45

books, said he looked back over his years in the priesthood to gather information for the book.

on the papacy.

Vatican official addresses Catholic Charities conference NEWARK, N.J. (CNS) "The

—

call to

important choices

who

the cardinal said in a book-length inter-

in

—

one of a person's most

is

—

on even some of the functions until carried out by Rome are necessary,"

German

N.Y. (CNS)

ing to get married

thor and pastor Msgr. Joseph M. Champlin. His newest book "Should We Marry?" is aimed at helping high school and college students and couples

head of the Vatican's doctrinal congregation. "Undoubtedly, regional forums which

in

'The Bishop:

Msgr. Champlin's new book helps couples decide whether

church, said Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,

view with journalist Peter Seewald. The book "God and the World," was published

is:

Servant of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the Hope of the World."

—

now

with a view to the

ops' meeting, or synod,

include eight

take

all

grants to the United States.

Catholic couple receives

chaplain award

love of neighbor" appears to be

great success" in our time, a Vatican official told hundreds of Catholic Charities USA workers Sept. 10. Archbishop Paul Josef Cordes, president of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum," challenged them to consider "what it is that makes charity specifically Christian." Catholic Charities directors and staff members gathered in Newark Sept. 6-10 for the organization's annual national convention. The conference, hosted by the Archdiocese of Newark and its Catholic Community Services, had as its theme "Gateways to Hope and Dig-

Army

FORT MCPHERSON, Ga.

"a

(CNS)

—

The Award of the Order of Aaron and Hur, the highest award of the chief of chaplains of

ongoing military rekgious support mission. The name comes from the Book of Exodus, where Aaron and Hur supported Moses' arms as he held up the staff of God during a battle. The award honors those who are exemplary in "supporting the arms" of the

the U.S. Army, was presented to Lt_ Gen. Lawson Magruder III and his wife, Gloria, upon his Army retirement this summer.

chaplaincy.

The

Pope says upcoming synod has

award, which

tional cases,

is

is

granted only in excep-

conferred upon those

The Magruders, who

Catholic, received the

at a

Mass

are

in the

Cantonment Chapel of Fort McPherson.

who

'great importance' for entire

have made a significant contribution through active support of the chaplaincy program Army-wide and to the Army's

award

church

CASTEL GANDOLFO,

— Pope John

Paul

II

said

(CNS) an upcoming Italy

immi-

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—

headed the Diocese of Fairbanks, Alaska, from 1968 until his retirement in 1985, died Sept. 15 at the North Central Convalescent Center in Spokane. He was 89. He suffered from Alzheimer's disease but no exact cause of death was given. Following a Sept. 18

House

in

memorial Mass at the Jesuit Spokane, his body was to be

transferred to Fairbanks for his fuMass and burial. "Bishop

neral

Whelan was

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a

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nity," a reference to the region's role

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Report cites global progress The campaign was

By JERRY FILTEAU

News Service

Catholic

WASHINGTON

(CNS)

— A new

a major popular

force behind the treaty to

ban anti-per-

sonnel land mines, signed in

December

report says the production and use of

1997 by more than 120 nations

anti-personnel land mines has dropped

tawa.

The

around the globe.

The 12

worldwide

report, released

by the International Campaign

Sept.

to

Ban

Landmines, said nations destroyed 5 million mines from their arsenals last year. It reported "an encouraging decline" in the yearly toll

— from an

The Catholic News & Herald 7

from the Cover

of land-mine casualties

six

treaty took effect in

months

tion ratified

At

after the

in

March

Ot-

1999,

40th signatory na-

it.

the time of the

lease, a total

new

of 141 nations

report's re-

—

nearly

three-fourths of all countries in the world

— had

joined the treaty.

The United

estimated 26,000 a year in the

States has not signed the

claims a continuing military

mid-1990s to about 15,000 to 20,000

treaty.

last year.

need for anti-personnel mines to maintain the effectiveness of its anti-tank mines in the defense of South Korea.

'The anti-personnel mine is fast becoming a relic of the past century," said Stephen Goose, arms division program director of Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch, a founding member

It

The

U.S. Catholic

Campaign

to

Ban

in

human

eliminating land mines mine

casualties to extensive

awareness campaigns and increased mine action funding as well as demining efforts. Despite advances on many fronts, the report noted a

number of

setbacks

"new use of anti-personnel mines in 23 conflicts by as many as 15 governments and at as well, including apparent

30 rebel groups/nonstate actors." "As of mid-2001, it would not appear that anti-personnel mines are being used on a massive scale in any conflict," said a summary of report findings. "The most regular use is least

likely occurring in Russia (Chechnya),

Sri

Lanka and Burma. In all three ingovernments and rebel

stances, both

forces are using anti-personnel mines."

U.S. press conference at the Organization

Landmines, sponsored by the U.S. bishops' conference and other national Catholic organizations, has pledged continued efforts to get the United States to sign on. The report said the number of countries producing land mines has dropped from 55 to 14 in recent years. The latest to drop from the list of producers are Turkey and Yugoslavia. It also noted "an almost complete halt in trade," saying that not a single international shipment of land mines has been

of American States headquarters in

publicly identified since 1998.

of the international campaign, produced

and edited the 1,175-page "Landmine Monitor Report 2001." News of its release was almost totally overshadowed in the United States by the Sept. 1 1 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon • and World Trade Center.

Amid heightened

security concerns,

the campaign canceled

Washington

its

long-planned

to release the report. Press

conferences also were canceled in

Rome

More than 50

nations have destroyed more than 27 million land mines

and Ottawa that day, although they went on as scheduled in other parts of the

in recent years, including 5 million in

world.

that have ratified the treaty have

The campaign

posted the report, a

summary and related on Internet at materials the www.icbl.org/lm/2001 and asked U.S. 75-page executive

journalists to read

them

there or obtain

2000, the report

said. It said

29 nations

now

finished destroying their land-mine

The new report says that out of 73 countries suffering casualties from land mines and unexploded ordinance in 2000, 45 "had not experienced any active conflict during the research pe-

many cases, the conflict had ended years or even decades ago." The 2001 report identified about riod. In

CNS

clude the thousands of casualties that

land mine walks out of the

are believed to go unreported as vic-

Penh's

tims are killed or injured in remote areas away from any form of assistance or means of communication."

Cambodia in this 1998 file photo. The number of Cambodians killed or maimed by land mines has fallen from more than 500 victims a month

In addition, it said, no figures at all were available from such high-casualty areas as

Myanmar and

Vietnam.

lost part of his leg to a

It

estimated that about 230 mil-

245 million mines remain

in

existing stockpiles, however, including

RESPECT LIFE

Managua, Nicaragua. The International Campaign to Ban Landmines won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for

a shortage of land safe for cultivation

we

11.2 million in the

summary

report and

also

were

presented to the Third Meeting of State Parties to the 1997

Mine Ban Treaty

Sept. 17 in

its efforts

to eradicate anti-per-

sonnel land mines, which

kill

far

more

noncombatants than combatants, often years after warfare ends.

is

major obstacle to economic development, accounted for one-sixth of that. The report credited decreases in a

INTERCESSIONS FOR LIFE - OCTOBER 2001 to

natural death;

We pray to the Lord. October 14th: For a might honor

We pray to

all

spirit of

gracefulness and care for

who have chosen

all

parents and grandparents, that

the inestimable value of parental love;

the Lord. gift of faith, that we might see God's face who are forgotten;

October 21st: For the the homeless, and

all

in

the hungry, the abused,

We pray to the Lord. October 28th: For scientists and medical researchers, that all might use the gifts of intellect and ingenuity for the glory of God and the protection of the lives he has placed into their

hands;

We pray to the Lord.

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The

Phnom

Hospital

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:

College students react to disasters in Northeast By

ALESHA

M. PRICE

formed Benedictine Father Kieran

Staff Writer

Janet Price

Neilson, chaplain at the Catholic college.

"To hear the sadness, fear and worry in the people's voices that I spoke to made the whole event very

a senior student peer

Western Carolina Univer-

minister at

(WCU)

sity

is

Cullowhee, and she has

in

been trained to use her own experiences and insight to help her fellow students cope with everyday campus events and life

wasn't happening in a* or to 'others;' it was happening to people with names and loved ones," said Jerilyn Buresh, a former Diocese of Charlotte campus ministry intern, who knows firsthand about the incidents. As a Red Cross

to be with family over the

surreal and seems like a movie watch anymore. As time moves on, it's like a bad movie I would have walked out on," said Price of the media coverage of the day that shook the na"It is

I

military caseworker, she

can't

tion at

The Sept.

"Now

terrorist attacks that occurred

young

cluding

worked with people immediately,

after

the attacks.

have affected

11

was on duty

when the news broke that Tuesday morning and also fielded calls and

foundation.

its

It

away

city far

happenings. However, Price needed

go home weekend. to

me.

real to

adults

many

puses around the country. Several students were directly affected, while others

talk of retaliation

chills

number of people that I have spoken to. For me, the military are not just

share in the grief and sorrow of the

and those

is

me to the bone, not because I'm fearing for my own safety or the ways in which my life may be impacted, but for the countless

on college cam-

victims, their families

there

and war. That

people in-

in-

volved in the terrorist attacks in the northeastern past of the country. According to Colleen McDermott, diocesan director of campus and young

defenders of my country; they have people .who love them," she said.

what she has

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

adult ministries, from

witnessed and in keeping contact with

campus ministers, college students seem to be having a time coping because of their situations being away from home, across the diocese difficult

—

and

and living during a time when terrorism had not

feeling helpless

afraid

touched them personally until over a

week ago. 'They

are

young and

are afraid of

terrorism, war, being drafted and retaliation,

and they are angry, sad and

confused," said

McDermott.

"But, they

have been praying at Masses, vigils and during Eucharistic adoration, and they are hopeful because they see the country pulling together, seeking unity

and forming community."

communities cope, many of the colleges and universiIn order to help their

ties suspended classes and offered prayer services and times of discussion for their students. The Catholic campus

ministers opened their doors and pro-

vided comfort and solace for those seeking answers and desiring the normalcy

of familiar surroundings.

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Read

Book Review

Book

recalls frightful

Spanish

Word to

war

civil

September 30, Twenty-sixth Sunday in

Reviewed by

JOHN

H.

CARROLL

News Service is a democratic member of

Catholic

Today, Spain the European

Union and

NATO and one of

Europe's great tourist attractions. are alive today

there

Still,

many elderly Spaniards, other who remember

The documents were opened to the They include commufrom the Soviet security service (forerunner of the KGB), from the

NKVD GRU (the

Soviet military intelligence or-

activities in Spain.

war between

the

and the Republicans. Historians

The documents show

on

that Soviets

the ground to support the Spanish Repub-

SPAIN BETRAYED: THE SOVIET UNION IN THE SPANISH CIVIL

lic

spent

their

much

own

of their effort extending

control over the parts of the

country under Republican government.

WAR, edited by Ronald Radosh,

A

campaign also was under way to wipe out any opposition groups, whether Socialists, Anarchists or Trotskyites. NKVD and GRU officers moved in to take over the Republican Army and penetrated

parallel

Mary

Habeck and Grigory

R.

Sevostianov. Yale University Press

(New Haven, Conn., 2001). 537 pages, $35.

volunteer International Brigades including

Abraham Lincoln

the American preliminary to

World War

The

II.

Beginning with the end of World War and the beginning of the Cold War, much of the world press portrayed the Republicans and their International' Brigade of foreign volunteers as representing democracy and freedom in their resistance to the Nationalists and their fascist German and Italian allies. In recent years, however, that legend has been challenged by newly declassified documentation. II

The Soviet Union in War" certainly repre-

"Spain Betrayed:

the Spanish Civil

new trend. Professors Ronald Radosh of George Washington University, Mary R. Habeck of Yale and Grigory sents this

Sevostianov of Russia's

Academy of

Sci-

ences have amassed and edited a large collection of documents that reveal that the

were scarcely true

Soviets

allies

of the

public of

its

gold reserves and American

arms deals. There are references

dollars in

to the treatment

of Catholics, a major Soviet target. 4,

cow advised

the Soviet

Mos-

Embassy

ernment appreciate the religious feelings of the people, and that the only reason why certain monasteries were occupied during the struggle was tiiat they were strategic

Then on Oct. 17, 1936, Frenchman Andre Marty, the Comintern head of international volunteers, in a long report "On the Situation in Spain" declared: "The government must come out with a declaration on the church freedom of religion for all.

—

ought to know that we

because they serve fascism

—

will arrest

God

that

is,

but they

Communism"

are shooting at the people and spreading

lished

fascist

chives.

The

ments

in the history

tional

communism.

The

studies will deal with develop-

of Soviet and interna-

propaganda."

One

of the great ironies in this sordid

chapter of Stalinist perfidy regarding Spain was the execution of numerous So-

upon

viet officers

their return

home after may won-

service in the civil war. Readers

der what Ernest Hemingway, a lover of

editors of "Spain Betrayed"

have

divided the documents into three chapters,

1937 and 1938-39, each with a foreword putting the material in the con-

2)

Psalm 146:7-10 1 Timothy 6:11-16 Gospel: Luke 16:19-31

6: la,

By JEAN Catholic

4-7

reply to a suggestion

that

someone

participate in a mission

World community:

seen poverty.

Although on first reading it appears to be everyone's favorite cautionary tale of hell's fiery furnace that

DENTON

News Service

awaits bad people in the

more important,

In his parable, Jesus

it's full

It's

too much.

the

"But

—

real. It is what is happenwhat those people are liv-

it's

We

ing with right now. need to know about their suffering. Our life isn't all that goes on in the world." "I know it is terrible and all, but I don't need to see it over and over, every night. It's depressing. I just turn

war

event

it

realizes that

it

is

him, then there's no

crossing that chasm.

QUESTIONS: may change.

When have you turned away from someone impoverislied or siffering in some way? When have you experienced Jesus' life-giving presence in being with or ministering to such a person?

Instead of

may

be an earthquake or a famine, or it might even be the "riffraff" in our own downtown, but the complaint is the same: "I don't need to a

man

—

lieve that

it off."

The

rich

us.

water to his parched lips. For those of worldly privilege, if we don't look upon and stand with and minister to those who are lowly and suffering, the cooling water of Jesus' Spirit won't reach us. We simply won't see Jesus the Savior as he is. And if we don't see him, or be-

to look at that."

ing. That's

condemned

among

shows that

Lazarus, in his closeness to God, is the one who can bring the cooling

just don't

I

afterlife, it is,

Jesus' advice to be

attentive to the Lazaruses

of pictures of the war, die bodies., all the victims with these horrible injuries, and those awful refugee camps with the babies and children who are dirty and crying and have been separated from their

want

"I've

don't need to go put

differ.

been in this conversation more than once: "I just don't even turn on the news these days. Night

parents.

I

myself in the middle of it." This weekend's Gospel begs to

I've

after night

about

common

military positions of the rebels."

priests not because they serve

series that is being pubby the Yale University Press. Each volume in this collection will be based on previously inaccessible documents from former Soviet party and government ar-

Amos

3)

in

Madrid: 'The government must also declare that the Spanish people and its gov-

racy and freedom. part of the "Annals of

On Aug.

1936, the Comintern Secretariat in

Believers

is

Brigade.

Soviets also cheated the Spanish Re-

Spanish Republic or of the cause of democ-

This volume

1)

ganization), British intercepts of Soviet

1936 to 1939 as the test-tube war or the

Nationalists

civil

C Readings:

Or what

the

to a Third

nications

have referred to that tragic struggle from

the frightful Spanish

Cycle

public in the 1990s.

messages between Moscow and Madrid, and papers from Russian state military archives, Comintern and Politburo. Together they give a clear picture of Soviet

Europeans and Americans

see people suffering."

Ordinary Time

Weekly Scripture Scripture for the week of Sept. 23-29 Sunday, Amos 8:4-7, 1 Timothy 2:1-8, Luke 16:1-13; Monday, Ezra 1:1-6, Luke 8:16-18; Tuesday, Ezra 6:7-8, 12b, 14-20, Luke 8:19-21; Wednesday (Sts. Cosmas and Damian), Ezra 9:5-9, Luke 9:1-6; Thursday (St. Vincent de Paul), Haggai 1:1-8, Luke 9:7-9; Friday (St. Wenceslaus, St. Lawrence Ruiz and Companions), Haggai l:15b-2:9, Luke 9:18-22, Saturday (Sts. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael), Daniel 7:9-10, John 1:47-51 Scripture for the week of Sept. 30-Oct. 6 Sunday, Amos 6:1a, 4-7, 1 Timothy 6:11-16, Luke 16:19-31; Monday (St. Therese), Zechariah 8:1-8, Luke 9:46-50; Tuesday (The Guardian Angels), Exodus 23: 20-23, Matthew 18:1-5, 10; Wednesday, Nehemiah 2:1-8, Luke 9:57-62; Thursday (St. Francis of Assisi), Nehemiah 8:1-4, 5-6, 7-12, Luke 10:1-12; Friday, Baruch 1:15-22, Luke 10:13-16; Saturday (St. Bruno, Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher), Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29, Luke 10:17-24

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"New

A Documentary

York:

By GERRI

PARE

NEW YORK (CNS) — The final two episodes of Ric Burns' splendid 1999 docu-

mentary chronicling the history of New York City concludes with 'The City of

Tomorrow" p.m.

airing Sunday, Sept. 30, 9-11

EDT, and 'The

City and die World"

airing Monday, Oct. 1, 9-1 1:30 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

EDT

remarkable,

astating loss civilized

coming so soon after the devand all of the to the city

world

—

— which happened

film

was completed But

also

may

resilience

airing the

after the

program

serve to remind the world of the

of

New

Yorkers,

who

bond together as never before

are sure to

to restore their

city to its rightful place as the leading

tropolis

me-

by New Yorkers who moved to Washington under FDR transfonned how people viewed government as taking care of

With his expansion of governLa Guardia was compared to

its citizens.

ment

services,

a "lower-case

FDR"

became a

as the city

offers detailed profiles

Moses and La Guardia, matched lent archival footage of each

Moses, of whom

it

was

—

said,

to excel-

especially of

The

program expands on

evening's

of

"he loves the

public but he hates people."

this

it

had for the

evening opens in the late 1920s as the city suddenly plunges from the gaiety of the Roaring '20s to die bleak first

New York

After the war, fied its its

home of

the United

which had become hampered by

the city as primarily a transportation entity.

to fight for

its

very existence

Newcomers

—

into

their search for blue-collar

came just

post-industrial

as the city

Tammany Hall. With the resignation of popular Mayor Jimmy Walker ("charming but one historian notes) in 1932, the most influential mayor, Fiorello La Guardia, began the process of reinventing awful,"

An

est builder of civic

works the city ever saw.

Togetiier, with President Roosevelt's

influx

nadir

—

in a spirit

of

liit its

to flourish again in

it

'90s.

of skilled immigrants with an

people, not just the wealthy, such as the

Meanwhile, Moses greatly increased his power by assuming control of the housing authority and the huge influx of federal dollars for urban renewal. The government paid

opening of Jones Beach.

the state to tear down slums so private enter-

allows

prise could build housing for the poor, but

allows difference to be celebrated

much was

drives civilization

led to the civic rebirth

The

and renewal

for the

plight of

Deal mortgage and loan programs

segregated the populace and produced raslums.

cial

While Moses

built

255 new

playgrounds, only two were in black neighborhoods, and La Guardia dismissed racism as beyond his ability to solve.

The

city's

the city, alongside Robert Moses, the great-

which allowed

the 1980s and

to a

up

way to the story of how people became fed up with the political corruption of

austerity

economy.

New

lines gives

city

only to begin a turnaround

manufacturing

was changing

Beanie's request for an

emergency loan and the

streamed

chronicle of institutionalized racism, as

long bread

R

down Mayor Abe

poor neighborhoods, but unfortunately

jobs

city.

—

episode ends with great footage

from the 1939 World's Fair, where the vision of the future centered on cars, connecting the city to the

New

As

new

ideal

of suburban

living.

the country inched toward

Deal funding, they orchestrated massive

War

rebuilding of the infrastructure, plus the

complete their costly projects before

building of parks, bridges, parkways,

ies

II,

La Guardia and Moses

would be diverted

to the

World

raced to

monwar effort The all

in

entrepreneurial spirit and an openness to

change helped

A

watch

on

on neighborfurther decay and the

New

•

Pennsylvania Station, in the mid-

THE JESUITS

its historical

and architectural

And when Moses

trea-

planned a Lower

Manhattan Expressway cutting

a

now

so horribly

and came back,

this

pro-

wide

and

that in

God's loving care

rebuild. It

is

to be prayed

on which the pro-

gram ends will not be cynically seen as ironic, but as prophetic. Co-producer, co-writer and director Ric

Burns has

1960s actually woke the city up to the need to

sures.

heartbreaking to

incredible emotional reso-

that the optimistic note

rot,

The destruction of the Beaux Arts mas-

preserve

its

will persevere

the city began a spiral of decline.

terpiece,

is

nance, points to the challenge, detennination

As manufac-

York's piers began to

that

Yet just as the city faced near-

and hope of a people

turing centers were demolished for high-

ways and

— and

includes the building of the World

gram, with

held

effect

"white flight" to the suburbs.

it

and

potential

and freedom.

half-hour

certain bankruptcy

Moses

12 public jobs at once. His insistence

hoods, leading to

final

New York

that full

the fabled skyline at night

building expressways through the bor-

oughs had a calamitous

as

to reach your

altered forever.

their emotional support system.

Consolidating his power,

as the

Trade Center, with breathtaking scenes of

of

shops and neighborhoods along with

local

New York

sums up

historian

you

The

segregated housing. Bleak, monotorose, destroying the fabric

revitalize

place to be at the approach of the millennium.

instead built for the middle class

nous projects

biggest

Bronx was arson. It became clear the city had borrowed too much and for too long. President Gerald Ford turned

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belonging that characterized the postwar city.

his vision

The

In the 1970s crime rose.

Opening shots on the streets of Harlem convey a real sense of neighborhood and

Park or waiting

in

Moses' 50-year career of accomplishment,

woes and had

and the rich. Whole areas were reduced to rubble and the poor who were evicted ended

footage of the evicted living in shacks they"

success

Nations, but gradually faced grave urban

theme,

With a keen awareness of the growing role of cars in society, Moses began the first

more important that cars. Their marked the beginning of the end for

people were

City solidi-

premiere international status with

selection as the

by author Jane

residents, led

Jacobs, banded together to protest that

years of the second half of the 20th century.

constructed along the piers and in Central

of the Great Depression. Poignant

more organized

tumultuous

Harlem in the Depression, where the unemployment rate exceeded 50 percent, leads into the terrible

reality

swadi through vibrant neighborhoods, the

for the final

second

exposing Moses' dark side and the consequences

one anxious

leaves

installment's assessment of the

when bankruptcy loomed.

gigantic laboratory of civic reconstruction.

urban highway system and projects that

of the world.

The

philosophy, created

largely

The program

The timing of these programs, of course, is

program

The New Deal

1 on PBS

Film" to air Sept. 30-Oct.

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& Columns

Editorials

Addressing Race Relations Race

The Pope

relations

is

Family

a current topic of discussion in

various corners of our society. Often those discussion

Reflections

center on interracial/inter-community relationships. In

Speaks

these "Family Reflections"

we

address interpersonal and

interfamily race relations.

During the recent Labor Day weekend while ing by car to relatives, talk-radio

program

black babies.

The

we

that focused

on the

II

Pope says believers

NORTON

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A week

Societal trends indicate that they are indeed factors

We

during the audience to the Sept. 1 1 attacks, which in previous days he had called "inhuman" and an specific reference

expression of the "forces of darkness." But in remarks in English, he told some 12,000 visitors in St. Peter's Square, "I invite you to pray in these days that almighty God will guide the minds and hearts of world leaders so that the ways of justice and peace may

Why

are our experiences so different from societal

so for those families

It is

we know

that have

foster-parented and adopted "not-in-demand" children

because they have been intentional about loving beyond themselves.

It is

so for our family because

we have

been

and colors in our inner circle of love. Encouraged by our multi-racial, multi-cultural parish, we have discovered the blessings of living in diversity. Because the family in the pew across the aisle may be Filipino, we too are just a bit Filipino. Because a fellow parishioner's first language may be Spanish, we are responsible to learn Spanish words of hospitality. Because our Catholic Church is universal, we are each accountable for reaching beyond the borders of race,

it.

We

And

Questions for Reflection Who among your inner circle of love are persons of a different race?

Who

in a lower economic class? have you been intentional about loving beyond

is

How

borders of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation,

its

allies

were

Column

from supplication to

praise,"

American Red

roles.

During the early stage of any disaster, money is typically the most valuable resource needed by response and relief professionals. Financial support af2.

fords rescue and recovery agencies the greatest flexibil-

meeting the immediate needs of disaster victims. raised within the Diocese of Charlotte will be forwarded to the local dioceses and their charitable ity in

Funds

GERARD CARTER

agencies involved in direct disaster response within the affected region.

terrorists

flew hijacked commercial airliners into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The pope devoted his Sept. 19 audience to reflection on Psalm 57, a believer's confident prayer to God for deliverance. "The one praying feels assailed by a sort of squadron of death. Around him is a band of hunters who lay traps and dig pits to capture the prey," the pope said. "But this atmosphere of tension immediately dissolves," he said. "Such trust in divine justice, which is always alive in the Psalter, prevents discouragement and surrender to the arrogance of evil. "In practice, one experiences the movement from fear to joy, from night to day, from night-

eco-

Cross and other key private response groups will often

Guest Columnist

which

and

nomic class?

significant disasters, federal offices, the

Guest

more than 5,000 people

killed in the attacks, in

to serenity,

to its

be called upon to take key leadership

States and

U.S. officials feared

said.

it

not simply take

intentional about choosing a variety of cultures, flavors

dition.

mare

We

passively wait for will

have to work it. have to be intentional the freedom we gain from it will be at the cost of consternation from those who profess conventional wisdom. Because our family has been intentional about loving beyond our race and class, our children are freer to make such choices for themselves. However, their freedom to love will not make such choices any easier in our classist, racist world. They too will have to be intentional about loving beyond themselves. The Kingdom of God, though at hand, is still just beyond us. about

norms?

we cannot The Kingdom of God

value diversity,

happen. course.

lamic leaders of the country's ruling Taliban council were meeting to discuss whether to accede to a U.S. demand for bin Laden's extra-

he

as

we

foster-parented children

poised for potential military action in Afghanistan, where Osama bin Laden, prime suspect in the attacks, was thought to be hiding. Is-

were

build a society

cited several families

prevail."

The United

and economic class to where compassion and justice are first. Loving beyond race and class is as counter-cultural the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The lesson for us is that if

ethnicity, language, education

factors.

wonderful variety of colors and ethnic origins.

eral audience.

The pope made no

and babies with special challenges, though in great supply, were not in great demand among most of those seeking to adopt. Responding to this, our conversation with each other gravitated to how we choose the people we love and whether race and class are

TERRI LYKE

Guest Columnists

babies. Black babies

after

massive terrorist attacks in the United States, Pope John Paul II said believers need not fear the powers of evil and can trust in God's loving protection. "God, who upsets the tactics of the impious by making them stumble over their own evil plans, sides sooner or later with the faithful one," he said Sept. 19 during his weekly gen-

ANDREW &

for desirable

we know that have adopted and who would not be in great demand. And when we reflected on those in our own fnner circle of love, we saw that race and class are not factors beyond genetics. The people we choose in our lives are a

Catholic Newsservice

(CNS)

market

ences seem to differ radically from societal trends.

loving protection VATICAN CITY

adopting

that motivate relationships. Yet, our personal experi-

can trust in God's By JOHN

crises in

point of the radio conversation was

that race clearly influenced the

POPE JOHN PAUL

travel-

listened with our children to a

3.

Once

the

initial crisis situation

has stabilized, the

goods may be considered. To be certain the items gathered are actually needed and that donated goods can be transported and distributed to collection of material

Make sure response As people

is

helpful

across the world respond with compassion

and kindness to the tragedy that struck our nation last week, the spirit of volunteerism has shone like a beacon through the haze of the attacks. But coming with those heroic reports of a nation banding together are stories of how some fruits of those volunteers' efforts are sadly going to waste. News reports early this week said the amount of food donated in New York is so overwhelming that much of it is being dumped. Clothing is filling warehouses nearly 100 miles away from the site where the World Trade Center

disaster victims,

Red

Cross, the Salvation

4.

Since

without a specific role or in connecan organized recur and recovery effort, no volunteer outreach should be undertaken in isolation or without connection to a recognized relief effort already

underway

is

the

most

helpful to those it is

harmed by the

terrorist

important to communicate

the following guidelines to assist individuals, parishes,

of the greatest roles we can play as a church is to continue to offer our prayers in solidarthose who are suffering from the effects of the

community ity

attacks in the Northeast,

in the affected region.

One

disaster.

lotte

generally not helpful for volunteers to

tion with

Agency

the Federal Emergency Management among those urging volunteers to pace themselves when it comes to giving material goods in the wake of disaster. To ensure that our response in the Diocese of Char-

it is

visit disaster sites

Army and

are

in

Army, American Red Cross, other churches and news media outlets, before beginning any drives.

5.

of the American

important that efforts be made

tion

was destroyed. Officials

it is

partnership with other local agencies, such as the Salva-

with

To

all

financially contribute to relief efforts in

New

York, Washington and southwestern Pennsylvania, send checks to the Diocese of Charlotte, 1 123 S. Church Street, Charlotte

NC

28203.

Make

checks payable to

the Diocese of Charlotte and write Victims of Disaster in the

memo.

schools and other diocesan agencies. 1.

The

initial

recovery efforts

responsibility for directing rescue falls

to those

government and

and

civic

agencies charged or chartered to provide this assistance.

Local police, the

first line

and medical responders are typically of response in the case of disasters. For

fire

Carter is director of special ministries for the Diocese of Charlotte. For more information on disaster relief and developing parish and community disaster response plans,

write

him

address above.

at Catholic Social Services at the

September 21, 2001

Light

World Trade Center

One

towers.

The terror of Sept. 11, in fact, produced heroes beyond number, so many that it's impossible to tell you about all of them. So let me tell you about one. His name is Tim

Candle

Stackpole, captain in the

MGSR. JIM LISANTE Guest Columnist

"He Lived to Help People" The Christopher message reaches out to people throughout the country and, indeed, all over the world. But our home is in New York It always has been, ever since our founding in some of us 1945. The people on the staff are New Yorkers

—

who were our

— have

neighbors

—

2001 the men and women-

11,

hit us so hard.

that day's terrorism stunned the entire country

Of course

and forever

all Americans live their lives. And far many people from other parts of the nation made the supreme sacrifice. But New too many people York bore the brunt of the attack. The emotional shock

changed the way that certainly

—

—

and the staggering loss of life will haunt us forever. In the midst of the horror, however, stories of heroism have emerged, helping mightily to console us in this hour of grief Police

New

and

officers

and

firefighters,

York's Bravest, wrote

New York's

many

Finest

of them. So did

doctors and nurses and other medical workers, rescuers, helpers of

all

kinds

who

save the lives of others. rallied

New Yorkers

risked their

Our own

own

Cardinal

lives trying to

life

words of comfort. One of bis saddest duties was to offer the Mass for Father Mychal Judge, a beloved Franciscan and Fire Department chaplain, killed by falling debris as he anointed a fireman at the base of one of the

funeral

New York

Fire Department.

I

in a

for his city.

"When he

Edward Egan

of all faiths with his presence and his

Tim

column by Denis Hamill of the "New York Daily News," and I am confident that Denis will not mind if I share some of his fine reporting with you. I had heard about Tim Stackpole before. In 1998, he was one of three firefighters who were swallowed into a roaring inferno when a floor gave way during a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn. Somehow, miraculously, he was rescued, along with Capt. Scott LaPiedra and Lt. Jimmy Blackmore. But all three were burned horribly. Of the three, only Tim Stackpole would survive. He came home after 65 days in the hospital and pronounced: "I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I'm George Bailey in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' In tragedy, I've learned just how amazingly beautiful people and fife truly are." That would have been the time, of course, to retire on a disability pension and simply enjoy the gift of life with his wife, Tara, and their five children. Not Tim. "It was just him," Tara Stackpole told Hamill. "It was what he loved. He lived to help people. He'd give you his heart on a plate." Tim Stackpole went back to work Not right away, to be sure; there were long hours, then days and weeks, of arduous rehabilitation. Then it was light duty. And finally he was back on the job, promoted to captain early in September. He was on the job Sept. 1 1. His assignment took him direcdy to the command center set up at the base of Tower One, World Trade Center. When that tower collapsed, Tim Stackpole was lost forever. In Hamill's words, the firefighter who came back from the dead finally gave his read about

by adoption, the rest of us born and bred. That's why the events of Sept. unspeakable attack on our city, on the

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Editorials

said.

"It

got hurt

was a miracle

in '98,

he should have

that he didn't.

I

believe

Tara was part

died," it

of God's plan that he'd have three more years to touch

He changed people's lives by how he lived." Thank you, Tara, for the gift of your faith. Thank you,

people's lives.

Tim, and God be with you

forever, for the gift of your

life.

When Terror Hits Close to Home We get up each morning and begin our

day,

On

Sept

expecting everything to go on as "normal."

how

I greeted the morning, happy because grandson Mikael's 13th birthday. I was planning to surprise him with pizza and a nice gift Then I turned on television to get the news, and suddenly life changed. Chaos was all over the screen as I saw the 1 1,

it

that's

was

my

World Trade Center in New York and then the blasting at the Pentagon. Shock can mesmerize you, and I was transfixed for several minutes until the reality of what was happening hit me. Then my world came crashing down. I live in Connecticut but I have three children who live in lower Manhattan. I ran to the phone and couldn't reach any of them because all the circuits were busy. I panicked. I persisted in calling, and after dozens of tries I first reached Sue, my son Paul's wife, surprisingly at home. She works for the federal government a few blocks away from the now destroyed twin towers. Miracles happen. She was off that day! Paul, on route to work for several hours had been unaccounted for. Sue had just finally made contact with him, and he was fine. I was on my knees destruction of the

in gratitude to the

Q.

Why does God give the gift offaith

only to a select

Eventually

Question

group ofpeople? If he knew they could not possibly attain salvation, why did he create them in the first place?

Then

interpret that belief to

mean

that those

ports this interpretation. In fact, our Catholic prayers and liturgies as-

sume just the opposite. The second Eucharistic Prayer, for example, remembers our brothers and sisters in the faith

who have

died, but then asks

God

to bring "all the departed into the light" of his heavenly presence. In other words, we petition that the gift of faith will come to fruition in eternal life for all people who have died. Perhaps, with all the so-called "pagans" in the world who do not know or believe in God or Jesus Christ, it is to some degree understandable that we suppose the gift of faith is limited in scope. Our good sense, however, if not our faith, ought to convince us that the vision and knowledge we possess in such matters is very tiny. Thus, the fourth Eucharistic Prayer asks God's mercy on Christians who have died, and then "on all the dead whose faith is known to you alone." No one, I believe, has put these thoughts more directly and plainly than Pope John Paul II. The world is obviously not Catholic from a denominational point of view, he writes. It is, nevertheless, "profoundly permeated by the Gospel. can even say that the mystery of the church, the body of Christ, is in some way invisibly present in it" ("Crossing the Threshold of Hope," Page 112).

We

He and

his

My daughter Mary I

couldn't reach.

in the vicinity

to me.

of the disaster,

and shocked, as were others in the neighborhood when the first explosion was heard. Initially there was confusion, but it was the second explosion that blasted their innocence. Two planes could not have crashed into the World Trade Center by accident! surprised

FATHER JOHN DIETZEN

who

"have faith" (usually certain formal religious beliefs and membership) are loved by God more than others. While we owe an eternal debt of gratitude to God for this gift, nothing in Catholic doctrine sup-

son Frank

safe.

Mary got through

in late afternoon,

Mary had been

to God's love

we

my

and her husband Rick were the ones

We

tion,

Lord.

reached

family were traumatized, but

Corner

A. What makes you think that God does not give the gift of faith to everyone? believe, of course, that faith, our ability to know and respond

and providential care, is pure gift, an unmerited, unconditional offer to share his life. Sometimes, however, as indicated in your ques-

I

CNS

Columnist

When the towers fell, Mary saw this, a moment of on earth. 'Mom, we all screamed, and we just held on, hugging one another," she said, expressing such a human, mutual caring for one another. It was such proof that love and concern explode for good just as surely as hell

Based on this conviction and Catholic tradition, he declares that "Christ came into the world for all these people. He redeemed them all and has his own ways of reaching each of them" in this present age of salvation history (Page 83). Fortunately for all of us, the reach of God's majestic plan of salvation, including his invitation to faith, extends far

beyond the range of our

feeble,

limited imaginations.

A

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cruel, destructive fire

Mary spoke strangers,

explodes for evil

then of how for hours people, once

became

kin,

helping one another deal with

the loss everyone in that area

them.

As time passed and

knew had touched many

the terror escalated,

brought out food to share. She and her neighbors made hot tea and sandwiches, trying to comfort the hardest hit All of us, watching the TV reporting well into the night were suffering deeply because of what hate had wrought. Now my prayers were continuous, as I begged the Lord to help our leaders not use that word "retaliate" so angrily.

We have seen people

kill,

it

so often in the world,

how one

the odier retaliates and the cycle of hate

in sight. That cannot be God's way, pope insists. The Lord, who gives life, begs us to love our enemies as we find ways to identify diem and stop their evil. As I wondered if we can value life enough to work to end die hate and anger that lead to killing, I turned on the morning news. I saw where six men had been pulled out of die rubble, alive, and everyone escalates,

no end

as our beloved

was

rejoicing.

Clearly,

we still value life. There

is

hope!

14 The Catholic News & Herald

September 21, 2001

Around the Diocese poor representation in capital cases of many now on death row, Frazer added

Many respond to social

that in the 12 states without a death pen-

there

alty,

justice call at conference

is

almost half the amount of

violent deaths.

Lisa Alexander,

Casa Guadalupe

GERALD POTKAY

By REV. MR.

that

—

GREENSBORO away

as far

leigh

Residents from

and Ra-

as Boone, Charlotte

converged at

St.

Church in Greensboro name of social justice.

is

expected of them, he

said,

adding

that the leadership of Jesus and the early

Correspondent

church was different from the idea of the time then, even as

it is

today.

Paul the Aposde

Using excerpts from Pope Leo XIII,

15 in the

Father Kloster stressed that the role of government should be aligned with the

Sept.

A conference entitled "We are Called"

poor, the marginalized and the outcast.

with the various parishes those rich trea-

Governments have the responsibility to push for the rights of workers, he said, adding tiiat throughout this country and the world, Christians must step back and

sures of Catholic social teaching that are at

ask

was sponsored by Catholic

Social Services

of the Diocese of Charlotte.

This conference was called to share

work within the

show how

diocese and to

they can and will be expanded upon.

The light

teachings were presented in the

of the terrorist disaster that slammed

into the nation

Through

on his

Sept.

"Why are there so many poor?". "We are here today to carry the

his

welcoming address, Oblates of St. Francis de Sales Father James

W. O'Neill, pastor of

St Paul the Aposde,

said that in spite of

chal-

We are

empowered to live our role of leadership. Our responsibility is not to lord it over them but to serve." the church and have been

need for

Christians are called in a special

have a personal relationship with God. Without Jesus, he said, people are not going to change the world. Therefore, people must recommit themselves daily to Christ in the Eucharist and in prayer, he said. He said that we are "the presence of Jesus in the world,

the light of Christ in the darkness by living their baptismal faith.

The community and the world are in need of healing which can only come through prayer, he said, as the world offers prayers for leaders, for victims and for survivors. This is a time of renewal and rededication of the call that brought the participants to learn

more about the justice

and peace alternatives through this conference, he said. The keynote speaker was Father George M. Kloster, pastor of St. William Church, Murphy, and Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Hayesville. Father Kloster spoke of Jesus as the one who serves. He said greatness is measured by the service afforded to the poor, the marginalized and the outcast. This was exemplified by Jesus washing the feet of his disciples, he said.

Through

the reluctant Peter,

modern-

day Christians are given the role of servant

In the

first

of the afternoon programs,

of the Franciscan Center, accompanied by

Frank Massey gave a workshop on the El

indelible

to be

program provides a "house of refuge" during her workshop, "Welcoming the Stranger." She told how this ministry is operated on a premise of volunteerism whose focus is on social issues, especially immigration issues, with much of the work based upon interpretation for the Department of Social Services and the translation of records and documents that normally would carry high legal fees.

Salvador experience.

...

all

who

They told of an immersion program of a week to 10 days on the life situation of El Salvadorians, enabling the participants to meet, talk and

walk with the indigenous people to undergo, a complete transformation.

looking for the presence of Jesus in others."

A "living wage" workshop was led

by

Sheila Kingsbury-Burt, the outreach coor-

It's

other environments, they

said.

A second afternoon workshop was the "Campaign

is an ongoand Bread for the

CRS

World

to renew and increase tourism and understanding of Africa According

ways

in

to

con-

to get people involved in the

The

final

workshop of the day was by Colleen Assai, coordi-

"Discipleship" led

nator of discipleship at

Paul the Apostle,

St.

and Lisa Broussard. Their program was based on the theme of Christians as a community of disciples nourished by the Eucharist

who

are then sent to be the

'The current

talents

and

and

who are at the center of

work, Pope John Paul

II said.

economic which human needs, especially, receive a restricted and inadequate consideration must be overcome," the pope said in a Sept. 14 message to an international meeting on work. The Sept. 13-15 meeting, hosted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace,

and

system

social

vision of the

in

marked the 20th anniversary of the pope's encyclical letter on human work, 'Laborem Exercens." St.

John's University in

New York

and the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota were among the universities cosponsoring the meeting.

The model

of a job in a factory or an

with rigidly set hours

St. Paul,

ship

is

not as

the

program

that

is

active at

they demonstrated that disciple-

a matter of "Coming to do as I

The

is

no longer the

change, while bringing some

tensions between "technological innova-

and the need to safeguard jobs and between economic growth and environmental compatibility," the pope said. tion

"The decisive factor, the arbiter of this complex phase of change, once again must be man, who must remain the true protagonist of his work," the pope told participants. A purely economic analysis of work and its mutations can never answer the most important questions about the one rjerforming the work and the benefits the

work of each person brings Gloria Kan, an

I

do —

to society.

official

in

Department of Economic and fairs,

Eucharist to the world.

Through

involvement by the participants on the issue. In addition to discussing charges of

all

on the

positive benefits to individuals, has created

Purello indicates that there

ing campaign by

bills.

stressed personal

needs of the people

Human

Africa today.

the death penalty,

leaders, social scientists

business leaders focus

it

participants.

and the Catholic Campaign of Development.

mum

Ted Frazer

government

make

that economists,

esan director for Catholic Relief Services

economic and health issues confronting

At a workshop on

more important than ever

of Justice and Peace, and Terri Jarina, dioc-

crete

Charlottean

Continu-

predominant model, the pope told meeting

importance of an increase in the state mini-

participants to press for passage of these

—

office

Jarina, they are looking at practical,

wage and how research and studies have shown that increases in minimum wages do not result in job losses. Kingsbury-Burt brought to light several proposed Senate bills for both studying the impact of minimum wage and the increase of minimum wage, as well as a state earned-income tax credit. She urged

VATICAN CITY (CNS)

seph Purello, director of the diocesan Office

Tax Center

She spoke of the

WOODEN

News Service

ing changes in the world of work

by Jo-

for Africa," presented

dinator of the North Carolina Budget and in Raleigh.

Catholic

re-

matter of getting people aware of

ally a

seek justice and peace to

—

By CINDY

plained that the Catholic Social Services

improve the role of government in our ," Father Kloster said. 'We are society will

those events of the last

way

director of

Franciscan Father Louis Canino, director

Bishop William G. Curlin gave the luncheon address. His words reflected the

week which left marks on the hearts of all human beings, and in spite of the emotional issues of death, suffering, anger, hatred and anxiety which humanity is now facing, all

program

Winston-Salem, ex-

lenge of Jesus to Caesar that world rulers

called to live the values of service.

1 1.

opening prayer and

in

Pope says focus must remain on needs of workers

the U.N. Social Af-

told the conference that flexibility in

the workplace does have potential benefits,

including the possibility of firms employ-

ing more people and allowing others to adapt the rhythm of work to personal or

say."

family needs.

Kan said, those who find only work take on a second part-time to make ends meet; too often nei-

Often,

part-time position

Classifieds

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Rev. Mr. Carl Hubbell has braved the harsh winters of Michigan, Canada and North Dakota, the blazing summers of Texas, the rainy seasons in England and the temperate climate in Turkey. During his over 20-year career in the Air Force, he and his family chartered their course over several states and countries as he was moved from location to location.

Remaining

begin attending the Methodist church

given

himself.

ever

His first encounter with Catholicism came via one of his high school

It was a good lesson to learn, because the Hubbell family would have to

hamburger from their

"Most of them

went

Hubbell had just been assigned there, and he and his family spent time in Izmir and Ankara, the

his

capital, in the '60s.

the predominately Islamic" country, where the local priest was not allowed to wear his collar outside of the church walls, the family attended Mass in an old Italian church and at the base. Hubbell volunteered to be the director of religious education for the children of the military and U.S. embassy personnel. "It was a unique experience in that kind of a school setting, and I had fun. It was great be-

ery effort for us to

feel

comfortable."

Rev. Mr. Hubbell, a convert to Catholicism, has traveled a great distance

from

his childhood in Pontiac, Mich.,

where he was raised with his seven siblings in the Mennonite faith, which he described as "much like the Quakers." He was exposed to the Methodist faith

through

his sister

Schools Institutions

and decided to

friends)

were

several more times before his retirement from the service at age 49.

From England to Columbus, Ohio, then to Grand Forks, N.D., where Mrs. Hubbell said there was rich soil, awful weather and wonderful people, and to Turkey twice with San Antonio and Newfoundland, Canada, thrown in for good measure, Rev. Mr. Hubbell said that he knew he had found his faith and was able to convey

Catholic."

work

to

message to his seven children. "(Through all of the that

for

many

we

travel),

re-

mained steadfast

others in

town. In 1953, he decided to join the Air Force during the Korean War

located.

and there was a rigid set of laws," said Mrs. Hubbell of their stay in the southeastern European country. "The people loved our children and welcomed everyone who came to the country. They were extremely friendly and made ev-

(his

used to downgrade and never

I

move

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cause I was able to recruit some excellent people to help me," he said. "It was like going back in time a couple of thousand years. It was rural,

re-

learned that) wher-

(I

After graduating high school, he

to

In

Mr. Hubbell

a chance.

was, that was home."

berate them. I thought I would be-

where the country of Turkey

was

and

Catholic,,

others.

map

area. Rev.

lics as a teen.

close to

family had to pull out a

restaurant, with other kids

membered being surrounded by Catho-

come

The

girl

who was attending the Catholic school. They would hang out at Bert's Grill, a

God might be a challenge for some while in midst of upheaval; however, for Rev. Mr. Hubbell, constant travel created new opportunities to practice his faith and share his spirituality with

figure out

neighborhood

friends, Carole, a

it

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our

in

faith."

The settled

family

in

Florida,

communications

where Hubbell began working for a growing communi-

technician. Basic training occurred in

cations company, which became MCI.

New

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and was trained a

York,

ming and

as

Wyo-

Idaho.

His friendship with Carole developed into a relation-

couple's

who had married.

Mr. Hubbell

to attend classes in order to get "I

was always impressed by

Carole's parents because they were

very strong in their faith, and something touched my heart." The Air Force sent the couple to England for three years. There, they had their first three children. Mrs. Hubbell says that she had to learn to enjoy the experience. "I was homesick for three years, and it taught me a lesson that I could have seen a lot if I had

our retirement home." However, Florida would not be their last stop. Rev. Mr. Hubbell's brother lives in Robbinsville, N.C., and the couple would venture to the mountainous area of the state and liked what they saw. They subsequently bought

some property in Murphy from a couple who attended St. William Church there. In the interim, they saw a house they liked, sold the property and moved to the westernmost city in the Diocese of Charlotte.

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