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ALESHA M. PRICE Staff Writer

Holy Trinity students write letters of

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0'Donoghue School graduates gather for reunion

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It

was

a day of

gasps and shouts, tears and smiles and hugs and kisses surrounded by a warm,

September day. Memories of bobbysocks, glass soda bottles,

and

women

World War

rations

II

religious in long, black habits

spilled from the minds and fell from the mouths of those for whom Catholic education was a way of life. Graduates from the O'Donoghue

School in Charlotte gathered for their

We are all commissioned,

multi-class reunion

Mepkin Abbey abbot tells

Charlotte.

on

what is now St. Over 40 men and women, some of whom had not seen each other for over 50 years, met again to reminisce about old times and to catch up on what has hapbuilding,

audience Page

...

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first

22 at their old Patrick School in

Sept.

pened since graduation. Helen Brown Herlocker from the class of 1948 said that she and several others had discussed the idea of a reunion for many years but had finally decided to bring the plans to fruition recently.

Local

The

reunion consisted of a tour of Charlotte

News

Catholic

High School (CCHS), Mass

at

St

Patrick Cathedral, social time and dinner.

Parishioners demonstrate

"It

has been exciting and nostalgic to

work on

me

cultural diversity ...

Page

4

Author writes book on

because

them

St.

native's view ...

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which stands adjacent to

Patrick Cathedral, was opened in

1930 and served as an elementary school staffed by the Sisters of Mercy. It was named for the late Dr. Denis O'Donoghue, a longtime benefactor of the Catholic church in Charlotte, whose bequest provided a jump start for Catholic education during the early part of the century.

In 1943, the school was expanded to

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10-11

& Columns 12-13

"You shall love the Lord, your

all

all

your heart, with

your being, with

strength,

in

opera-

and with

all all

your your

mind, and your neighbor as yourself."

Those who

Luke 10:27

arrived early for the Sat-

who

Minnick,

taught physical edu-

cation and coached girls' basketball

dents face today.

"The

were mischievous, but our smoking or someone of wine. There just wasn't any

kids

biggest problems were

trouble back then," said Minnick,

so

religious.

there with the kids

much from

was so

exciting.

The words

many

Dinner was

of the

made them

latecomers came in and saw their friends

our

and extended family from years ago. Mary Agnes Harris Moeslein, a

Betty Minnick with a smile addressing

five

boys and 12 to

'We were just

ing Catholic High back then, so forge our gether.

own way and do

start-

we had

to

things to-

We grew up together and started

in the first grade,

and

we gradually added

a class each year," she remembered.

"I

miss the closeness of the school. Charlotte

was so small back tiien, and you knew everyone so well. I would visit with Helen (Herlocker)

all

of the time."

Benedictine Father Kieran Neilson,

1950 and campus minister at Belmont Abbey College, agreed, "I enjoyed the closeness of the school and reclass of

member the influence that the Sisters of Mercy had during my formative years."

whom

Father Neilson,

his classmates af-

fectionately call "Patty" because of his

baptismal

Mass

name

'The Mercy derful

Patrick, concelebrated

at the cathedral that afternoon.

tiieir

Sisters

were very pro-

thinking and were

women who

said Herlocker. "It

won-

really cared about us,"

was

and I think all of us to happy times."

just like family,

this

day remember

slightly delayed as

to almost fight to library," said

1948 graduate, had 14 girls in her class.

gressive in

graduates talked about their grade-school

special.

for

learned

"nuns" and "family" were

days and reflected on what

room

I

the kids and the nuns."

O'Donoghue high

little

acted

"Being able to simply be

heard throughout the day as

get a

who

go-between for the students and the

women

hood of Charlotte were impressed at the sight of the school whose enrollment far surpasses the less than 60 students in the

we had

from

1946-1955 at O'Donoghue and CCHS and later taught at St. Ann School, was one of the few lay teachers at O'Donoghue at one point during its history. She said that what she remembers most about those days is that there never seemed to be any of the serious problems that stu-

brick building in the Dilworth neighbor-

late '40s.

li-

She also said that the school lunch menu was miles ahead of anything served at her old place of employment.

as a

school classes in the

CCHS

brary.

urday gathering were treated to a tour of the current CCHS building. Many of those who attended classes in the old

"Students,

-

large space set aside for the

taking a sip

School in later years.

...Pages

God, with

was

1954 when the first CCHS building was constructed. The O'Donoghue School reverted to elementary grades and was named St. Patrick tion until

Entertainment

Benedictine Father Kieran Neilson, Martha Pfund and Patsy Hartle Bardford, O'Donoghue School graduates, laughed about their school days at their first multi-class reunion on Sept. 22 held at St. Patrick School in Charlotte. The school, in operation from the '30s through the 50's, served area students until Charlotte Catholic High School was built in the '50s. those she taught while she looked at the

reunion."

school,

include upper grades and

Editorials

some of whose

husband Joe, now deceased, also graduated from the school. "CCHS has had reunions, and we've been included. However, it hasn't been the same. We wanted an

O'Donoghue

Amistad saga from

haven't spoken to

I

for years," said Herlocker,

The

Photo by Alesha M. Price

the reunion with people calling

Contact Staff Writer Akslia

calling

(704)

370-3354

amprice@charlottediocese.org.

M. or

Price by

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The World

September 28, 2001

Brief

in

Canon law society publishes new translation of Eastern church law WASHINGTON (CNS) The

grants and refugees, said Philippine bassies in the

of the some

—

Octaviano of the Ov erseas Workers Welfare Administration told UCA News, an

Canon Law Society of America has pub-

new English

lished a

1

translation of the

Asian church news agency based in Thailand, that its Task Force USA Watch had

Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, the general laws that govern Eastern

plans

"to"

evacuate Filipinos in the Middle

Catholic churches throughout the world.

East to safer grounds

The 900-page book was approved by the U.S. Catholic eparchs, who are the bishops

of fighting.

of the Eastern churches. nal Latin text

new English or other

The

betical subject

day

includes an alpha-

life,

who

said a pastor

management specialist to

index of nearly 200 pages,

tables cross-referencing

Law and vice versa. The Code of Canon Law is the 1983 book of general law governing the Roman

ment could be

canons of the Code of Canon

CNS photo from

or Latin Church.

Vatican observers urge nations to serve peace by ending poverty

—

Vatican

observers at separate international meetings

Reuters

the world by working together to alleviate

Sept 18-21 annual meeting of nations who signed the treaty banning land mines and at the Sept 1 7-2 1 meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vatican representatives

on

spoke of the Sept

New York

terrorist attacks

1 1

tives'

speeches Sept 24.

personal heroes

ASTANA,

Kazakstan

in

Kazakstan (CNS)

— Pope

gave him a chance to honor some long-remembered personal heroes. Among them were the priests and bishops of Polish descent who suffered and died in Soviet gulags after being deported from their homeland in the 1930s. At a Mass in the Astana cathedral Sept 24, the pope recalled several martyrpastors whom he has long admired and some that he knew personally. "In heart and spirit I relive the unspeakable trials of

John Paul

all

those

II's visit

who

to Kazakstan

suffered not only physical

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and imprisonment, but public ridicule and violence because they chose not to renounce the faith," he said in a sermon before some 350 priests, nuns, seminarians and lay missionaries. exile

National Catholic-Baptist conversation held on salvation

WASHINGTON

(CNS)

tional conversation, Catholic

how

— At

a na-

and Baptist

Baptists under-

stand salvation and the similarities and differences

between

of Catholics.

their beliefs

Among

and those

differences, Baptists

emphasize the discontinuity between grace

and

human

nature, while Catholics

more on the

continuity between cre-

sinful

focus

High School in suburban Chicago, she is proud of the niche her all-girls high school has

made

The

ing power of the Spirit

was held

Sept. 6-8 at

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said

Mary Church

of the Blessed Virgin

in

Maplewood. Father Lachowitzer considers the

skill

so important that he invited Jesuit

Father Jim Radde, a

certified counselor, to

workshops during Lent on conflict management as "a fundamental way of strength-

(CNS)

As

women's education and

defies

De La

bright for these schools in Chicago. Salle Institute, a

boys school run by Christian

Brothers, just announced

nearby

girls school,

would sponsor a

it

and another

girls

high

school has just expanded to include a middle school program.

Evacuating Filipinos from Mideast is concern U.S. attacks Philippines (CNS)

MANILA,

relational aspect

of all parish

life."

Catholic childhoods

serve as inspiration for 'Grounded for Life'

HOLLYWOOD sion

may

(CNS)

—

Televi-

be a heightened form of reality,

but the inspiration for plot lines in the

Fox sitcom "Grounded

for Life"

comes

straight from the Catholic childhoods of its stars and its writers. 'To me, that's where the Catholic themes come from, from people's lives," said Tom Purcell, one

'We have quite a few Catholics on our staff," said Purcell, citing himself and writers Greg Thompson and Jim O'Doherty as products of of the show's writers.

if

— Re-

Corrigan, both Catholics, went to Catho-

suspected terrorists in the region, said a

lic

—

president of

Episcopalian

Bill

Donal Logue and Kevin Fitzgerald

of single-sex

Prigol, executive secretary of the bishops'

Queen of Peace

commission for the pastoral care of mi-

'There's a lot of input."

Manila

Father Paulo

priest. Scalabrini

events:

Aposde Church, 525 Camden

Curlin will

— 7 p.m.

Mass and dinner

John, Waynesville

— 4 p.m.

Dedication and blessing of church

St Joseph, Kannapolis

3 LENOIR

D ocesan planner September 30 STATESVILLE

JViMam G.

stars

is

schools. 'We all have a lot of life experience with different Catholic issues," Purcell told Catholic News Service.

Catherine Karl

take part in thefollowing

October 6

ening the

any-

United States launches attacks against

believes strongly in the future

education.

St.

by the

life,

Martin, another writer. In addition, series

75th anniversary

§ charlottediocese.org

and parish

Catholic education, as

October 5 — 5 p.m.

Phone: (704)370-3333 FAX: (704)370-3382

riage, family

Middle East could be the Philippine government's biggest problem if the

McGuinness High School, Winston-Salem

Beason

1123 South Church

it is

marFather

in

South East Baptist

Dedication and blessing of Bishop

Advertising Representative: Cindi Feerick

just as

laying evacuation plans to Filipinos in the

in Wake Forest, N.C. Chicago Archdiocese strongly supports single-sex schools

September 30

Graphic Designer: Tim Faragher

—

improving relationships

conversation

Seminary

-

in

one who believes such schools are out-of-date. 'We didn't just forget to go coed," Karl said. "There is a rich history and future in singlegender education." And the future looks

ated nature and grace and the transform-

Bishop

Publisher:

events that provoke terrorism

lead

iscopa. calendar

& H E R A L D

S

manage-

instrumental in defusing the

Peshawar, Pakistan, stack sacks of wheat Sept. 24. Aid groups stationed along the Afghanistan and Pakistan border, already struggling to shelter and feed hundreds of thousands of displaced Afghans, were bracing for an onslaught of new refugees in fear of a U.S. attack.

The

X

York and

Charles Lachowitzer, pastor of Presentation

theologians discussed

Pope honors long-remembered

New

in conflict

effective in

and Washington. The

Vatican released the texts of its representa-

conflict

Workers stack food aid near Afghan border Afghan workers at the U.N. World Food Program warehouse near

urged nations to bring peace and security to poverty and to control the arms trade. At the

brought a

his parish earlier in

of the terrorist attacks in

Washington, education

(CNS)

Conflict

the year to lead a series of workshops. In light

canons of

the Eastern code with the corresponding

VATICAN CITY

—

Minn. (CNS)

need to be emphasized and taught in every-

sources from which the It

PAUL

ST.

resolution skills are so important that they

documents

citing the papal

official

canon was developed.

and has

must be taught everyday, says pastor

translation includes footnotes

on each canon

of a spillover"

skills

and the new English transla-

tion in parallel columns. It costs $60.

in case

Conflict resolution

•

the origi-

It carries

em-

Middle East cannot reach all million Filipinos there. Ross

having

its

—

Ave.

Dr., will

be

parish picnic today from 3:30-7

Food will be served from 4-6 p.m., and there will be games, a scavenger hunt

p.m.

bingo from 6-7 p.m. and other family activities.

Hodges

For more information,

All are invited to St.

SW,

to

join

the

Secular

Franciscans from the Hickory/Newton area for a special celebration of the pass-

Philip the

St.

—

Francis of Assisi Church, 1025 College

call Jennifer

ing of St. Francis tonight at 7 p.m. The Transitus celebration recalls the passing of St. Francis' soul from death to a fuller life with Jesus. For further inforcall Ruth Thoni, SFO, at (828) 294-0347 or Bill Brockhoff, SFO, at

mation,

(828) 464-5113.

3 WINSTON-SALEM

at (704) 838-1825.

— There

will

be a celebration of St. Francis' passing

October 3 HENDERSONVILLE

— There

a special celebration of the

life

be

and pass-

ing of St. Francis of Assisi with the Franciscan priests and brothers and the Secular Order of Franciscans at Immaculate Conception Church, 208 7th Ave. West, at 7 p.m. tonight. Refreshments will be served immediately after the Transitus celebration. For further details, call Helene Gillogly at (828)

883-9645.

Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, corner of Cherry and 3rd Sts., tonight at 7 p.m. Each year on Oct. 3, Franciscans ritually remember the passing of St.

at will

Francis from this

life

to

God. For

fur-

ther details, call Josephine Rosaschi at

(336) 723-8241 or Sue Borschke at

924-0645 (336) borschkenc@att.net.

—

or

e-mail

5 BELMONT - Queen of the Apostles Church, 503 N. Main St., will be hosting its 1st Annual Fall Festival and

September 28, 2001

The World

The Catholic News & Herald 3

in

Brief

pleased with Alaska assisted suicide ruling ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNS)

we're past $100 million for sure," said Paul

Pro-lifers

Kilbertus,

—

Alaska

Pro-life leaders are grateful that

is

the latest state to decide that assisted suicide

not a constitutional right

is

The

state

do not

afford tenriinally

ill

the bishops and

tions, national collections,

Su-

corporate sponsorships as well as govern-

preme Court ruled Sept 21 that "the Alaska Constitution's guarantees of privacy and liberty

communications director for the

World Youth Day committee, at a news conference Sept 24. 'We know that a lot of that money is going to come from registra-

ment

contributions," he said.

The Canadian

patients

Conference of Catholic Bishops has not bud-

com-

geted for any possible shortfall but has

in

Alaska should

agreed to take responsibility for any "extraor-

rejoice at the decision, said

Robert Flint

dinary expense" that could be

the right to a physician's assistance in

Everyone

mitting suicide."

Conference, public policy Catholic bishops.

arm of the

"The judges have

British Columbia,

state's

their organizational structure HANOI, Vietnam (CNS) The Vietnamese bishops' conference announced it would revamp its organizational structure to involve younger members and enlarge the scope of church activities. At the end of

and compassion for the sick is ited by our constitution," he said.

—

Cardinal urges viewing 'light

of

—

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CNS) New technology is not the enemy, but

their Sept.

of Christ" what

is

committee from seven members to four, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. They also

good or bad about

technology, said Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore. 'Perhaps nowhere is it more urgently necessary to bring Christ's

modern

presence "and teaching to the

world than

in the area

of bioethics," he told

a gathering of Catholics Sept. 22 at the

Missouri state Capitol in Jefferson City.

The

cardinal,

bishops'

who

chairman of the U.S.

is

Cbmmittee on Pro-life

said that "without careful

fall

extremes about technology. distrust "all

new

Photo by Jimmy Rostar

Ladies Guild assists Refugee Resettlement Office Judy Devlin and Ronnie Vagnone wrap buckets of cleaning supplies for clients of the Diocese of Charlotte's Refugee Resettlement Office. The Ladies Guild of Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Charlotte packaged the supplies, which will last the clients for about a year. The supplies were donated by Joe and Ronnie Vagnone of the parish.

into

They

two

either

technologies as unwar-

nian capital. Despite those

trials,

Arme-

nians have offered an extraordinary wit-

ness of Christian

even during the "un-

life,

route from a part of the city with

Embassy

come "them

derwent

bassy to the Holy See

as signs of progress despite

the very real threats

and human

life

In

some of them pose

to

dignity."

Armenia, pope pays tribute to country's history of suffering

YEREVAN,

Armenia (CNS)

— On

day of a long-awaited visit to Armenia, Pope John Paul II paid tribute to the country's history of suffering and joined his Orthodox hosts in a prayer for Christian unity. For centuries, "martyrdom has been the special mark of the Armenian church and the Armenian people," the pope said at an airport arrival ceremony Sept 25 in Yerevan, the Armethe

first

Fish/Chicken Fry today and Oct. 6 with the proceeds to benefit the Belmont Parish Nursing Program. Lunch will be served from 10:30 a.m1:30 p.m. and dinner from 4:30-7:30 p.m. today. On Oct. 6, a yard sale will be held from 7 a.m.- 12 p.m. with festival hours from 1 1 a.m.-10 p.m. Call the church office at (704) 825-5277 for

more information.

6

CHARLOTTE

—

St.

Vincent de

church building fund. For details, call Karen Quick from the Busy Bunch Craft Group at (704) 588-0326.

CHARLOTTE

— The

St.

Patrick

School Fall Festival will present its theme "Generations that Rock" with food, fun and games from the '50s-' 90s. The proceeds from the festival, to be held on the school

campus located

at

1125 Buchanan St., will benefit school academics and beautification. For more information, call the school at (704)

20th century, he

said.

Smil-

is

The

many

The men,

the Aventine Hill.

in Kazakstan, the 81 -year-old pontiff made

ranging

the trip to help celebrate 1,700 years of

identification but

Christianity in Armenia, the first nation to

bic,

adopt Christianity as the national religion.

Daniela Pugliese said Sept. 25.

in

U.S.

and charitable and

will

be in addition to

seminaries, laity, religious and liturgy. The assembly elected Bishop Paul Nguyen Van Hoa of Nha Trang as president and Arch-

Em-

along the route, on

ing but moving very slowly after four days

described as

Pham Minh Man of Minh City as vice president Head of Colombian diocesan social action office slain The TUMACO, Colombia (CNS) assassination of the head of the Tumaco

bishop Jean-Baptiste

Ho

Chi

—

age from 18 to 22, carried no had some papers in Ara-

diocesan social action office was aimed at

spokeswoman

Bishop Gustavo Giron Higuita of Tumaco. He criticized the Sept. 19 slaying

Interior Ministry

curtailing church

human

rights work, said

Italian police arrest five Afghans near U.S. Embassy to

Costs of hosting World Youth

of Sister Yolanda Ceron, director of social

Day expected to exceed $100

action for the diocese, as a "grave offense

Vatican

million

—

ROME

(CNS) Italian police arrested five young Afghan men Sept 24 near the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See as part of heightened security measures

lowing terror attacks

in the

United

fol-

States,

the Italian interior ministry said. Italian

media

said the

men had

333-3174.

6 WINSTON-SALEM

a

map

tracing a

— Conventual

Franciscan Father Jude DeAngelo, campus minister at Wake Forest University, will

perform Franciscan animal

blessings at 1 a.m. this morning in Winston-Square Park next to the 1

Sawtooth Center. All are asked to bring their pets on a leash or in an appropriate carrier.

Paul Church, 6828 Old Reid Rd., will be having its craft sale on Oct. 6 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Proceeds will benefit the

6

in the

south of the Vatican.

These

for arts,

the existing commissions on clergy and

to Italy, to the Trastevere dis-

trict

new commissions

church music and sacred

social services.

embassies, including the separate U.S.

speakable terror and suffering" they un-

establish

culture, evangelization,

Activities,

ranted interventions," he said, or they welall

will

catechetics,

discernment in

the light of Christ," people

17-22 meeting in Hanoi, the

bishops said they will trim the standing

Catholics need to discern through "the light

outgoing president of the

Vietnamese bishops to revamp

not prohib-

Christ'

over, said

bishops' conference.

realized

that society's obligation to foster protection

technology through

left

Bishop Gerald Wiesner of Prince George

executive director of the Alaska Catholic

For

details,

call

Sue

Borschke at (336) 924-0645 or e-mail borschkenc@att.net. The 51st Semi7 CHARLOTTE

—

CORNWALL cost of hosting

Ontario (CNS)

World Youth Day 2002

tee of the

'We

Canadian bishops three years ago.

don't have the hard

sanctuary. All are invited to bring their

Mother

for display.

The

evening, spon-

sored by the Confraternity of Christian Mothers, will conclude with a social in the Holy Family Hall with participantsupplied ethnic desserts. Call the church office at (828)

327-2341 for

7 WINSTON-SALEM

details.

— There

will

be a life chain held on Hanes Mall Blvd., west of Stratford Rd., today from 2:303:30 p.m. For

.

more information,

(336) 940-2558.

Day

St.

—

numbers yet but

favorite statue or picture of the Blessed

10 CHARLOTTE

Vincent de Paul Church, 6828 Old Reid Rd., today at 3 p.m. Father Matthew Kauth, parochial vicar at St. Matthew Church in Charlotte, will be the speaker. For further information, call Kathleen Potter at (704) 366-5127. 7 HICKORY St. Aloysius Church, 921 2nd St. NE, will be hosting its annual ethnic family rosary in seven different languages on International Rosary Sunday at 7:45 p.m. in the main

in

Toronto next July is expected to exceed $ 100 million (US$63.7 million), well above the $21 million estimated by an ad hoc commit-

Annual International Family Rosary will be held at St.

— The

call

— The 50+ Club of

John Neumann Church, 8451

Idlewild Rd., will be conducting a meeting this morning at 1 1 a.m. with a program and lunch in the parish center. Donations are being accepted during the meeting. For more information, call Bobbe Conlin at (704) 643-1376 or Gloria Silipigni at (704) 821-1343.

13

CHARLOTTE

Christian Mothers'

— The

Group

St.

Gabriel

will be host-

ing a children's consignment sale today from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. with items sold at

against the Catholic Church, which in

Tumaco and Colombia

fights for justice,

and peace." Bishop Giron said Sister Ceron, a 38-year-old Colombian member of the Sisters of Mary, was killed instantly by gunfire around noon as she was in the doorway of the Church of Our Lady of life

Mercy

in

Tumaco.

from noon-2 p.m. on the church grounds located at 3016 Providence Rd. Consignors are half-price

needed to provide quality children's clothing and equipment and maternity clothing. To set up consigning appointments from Oct. 1-5, call Renee Foster at (704) 366-2073, and for general information, call Sally McArdle at '(704) 541-1756. 14 CHARLOTTE St Vincent de Paul Church, 6828 Old Reid Rd., will be

—

hosting a harp concert this afternoon at 2

Over 40 harpists from the Charlotte Chapter of the American Harp Society will present a concert of light classical

p.m.

and sacred music featuring children, Suzuki and handbell ensembles. A love offering will be taken at the event For

more information, call the church office at (704) 554-7088.

Please submit notices of events for the Diocesan Planner at least 1 0 days prior to the publication date.

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The Catholic News & Herald

Community Life Commission workshop to be

over 500 parishioners and ered recently at

St.

Mountain Vicariate will sponsor a one-day workshop for Community Life Commission members

Greensboro

and

Mass, one could see

persons interested in the social ministry of the church. The workshop, led by Augustinian Father Joseph Genito, director of the Augustinian Justice and Peace Office in Philadelphia, will be held Oct. 13 from 10 a.m. -3 p.m. at St. Francis Church in Franklin. Father Genito has been involved with social justice work, human rights issues and justice all

and peace ministry for many years since being ordained in 1975. Father George Kloster, diocesan Smoky Mountain vicar and pastor of St. William Church in

letter

multicultural

of

friends gath-

Mary Church

Mass and

in

festival.

As everything was being prepared for many people dressed of their native country. This

in attire

is

a

parish that has changed from being a

predominandy small black community of the 1960s to a multicultural community consisting of people and races from every continent in the world but Antarctica. with

It is

this diversity

of national

origins that the idea of a multicultural

celebration

by

was conceived and put

into

Congregation of the Missions Father Robert J. Prior. action

their pastor,

During the Liturgy of the Eucharist "Holy, Holy, Holy" was sung in Nigerian with the Our Father being

Because the church building comfortably, the day's

Mass was

in

English by

the Gospel according to

Rev. Mr. Montagnard

Upon

K'Briuh

St.

Mary's

4O0 communicants with the "I Love the Lord" and "My Country 'Tis of Thee." At the end of Mass, Father Prior thanked all for coming and asked that they keep the Spirit of Christ whom they had just received, alive in their hearts and in charist to over

choir,

musical background of

Luke was read by in

native

his

dialect

the conclusion of the Gospel

Shaw gave a short homily. he told of a God who is merci-

proclamation,

Through ful to all

it,

people in

all

all

they

recessed to the

all

singing of "America, the Beautiful."

the compassion and forgiveness of this loving Father, for

Then

their world.

times. All should seek

The religious celebration continued with the partaking of a vast variety of potluck ethnic foods from all traditions and

are children of this

one God, he said. None, he said, should sink into the mire of self-righteousness and selfishness which characterized the behavior of the scribes and Pharisees. Rev. Mr. Shaw went on to say that when we are in sin,

were games and both children and grownups alike amid the strumming of guitars and violin. Door prizes were also cultures. Finally there

small

rides

for

given before the close of the day.

cel-

The

celebrant for the day's

Mass was

Manh Nguyen

They were

as

by Rev. Messrs. Pierre K'Briuh and Vincent Shaw. assisted

was joined by the crowd in singing "Alleluia, Sing to Jesus". At its conclusion, Father Prior gave a few words of welcome and encouragement to

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The

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CHARLOTTE God

— Communion

with

can be achieved through Christ-like

National Association of Catholic

Diocesan Lesbian and

(NACDLGM)

Gay

was founded

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Ministries

1994 as a

relationships with others, keynote speak-

national resource of ministry information

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and a support entity for Catholic parish and diocesan ministries to gay and lesbian persons and their families. Conference participants comprised people from parish and diocesan ministries in the United States, as well as those seek-

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Bishop William G. Curlin of Char-

Raymond Kemp of the ArchWashington, D.C, Dr. Keith Egan of Notre Dame University and Father J. Augustine Di Noia of the John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, D.C, addressed conference participants on a lotte,

Father

diocese of

number of issues to

facing

them

as ministers

gay and lesbian Catholics

in today's

church.

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their messages, they

his

In addition to the keynote speakers, a

host of ministry personnel from dioceses across the nation led workshops on topics

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and at local parishes, diversity campus ministry, and leading retreats for gay and lesbian persons. in dioceses in

The

weaved

common theme of communing with God

through

ing to establish such ministries.

church and revealing Christ's

organization says that while local

Catholic ministries differ in structure, services

and

activities,

they and the organiza-

tion itself share in the mission of pastoral

love to others:

"A Journey Together: Living the Just the theme of the conference

Word" was

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is

rooted in Catholic moral and

social justice tradition.

Photo by Jimmy Rostar

Egan shares a moment with Father Conrad Hoover, pastor of St. Ann Church in Charlotte and a local orgainzer of the national NACDLGM Dr. Keith

conference here.

who question why we have

'For those

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the Eucharist,

When

plained.

would

SUCCESS Jfc SHARE come o

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many of his

and

to believe

left

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Jesus

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Pope says

universities can help students discover creation ROME (CNS) The wisdom born of

sulted in a miracle.

to terrorism 'obligation' WASHINGTON (CNS) The U.S. response to terrorism "need not arise from a

—

study and prayer can help people discover,

promote what

respect and

Assisi described as the

Pope John Paul

ation,

Francis of

St.

harmony of all

II said.

archbishop terms response

Military

—

cre-

backlash of anger" or retribution but out of

In a message

"a reasonable obligation of

immediate and

to Franciscans involved in higher education,

long-range self-defense," said Archbishop

members of the order, like St must help people make

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Francis before them,

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CNS photo from

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the terrorist attacks in your city." project isn't

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CHARLOTTE

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Holy Trinity

Catholic Middle School students have a letter-writing campaign on the horizon, one they hope will lift the spirits of their New York City peers.

Though writing

letters

Holy Jonathan

rorist attacks happened," said

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Jerome. "We're trying to express our feelings to the children

up there on a

student level."

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located three schools located in the

borough of Manhattan. "That [areaj was most impacted by those events," said Father Hanic. "Family members of the students were in the World Trade Center." Family members, he

mandatory

at

Holy Trinity students are well

World

the first plane crashed into the

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Dara

fore the eyes of 13-year-old

Angelo. "We saw this on TV. Students in New York saw it there. And that has to be so much worse." "We had community prayer together," said Father Hanic. Responding to such horrific events is difficult, but the Catholic campus rallied in faith and prayer. Two weeks following the life-altering events, students of the Charlotte Catholic middle school are in the throes of formulating their thoughts. The visual images of the terrorist attacks are difficult to process, yet

Holy

—

said, work for police or fire departments. These children "had relatives, they had friends that were actually

killed in the incident."

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'In the prodigal son, the [younger] son does everything wrong," Abbot Kline

Correspondent

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Everyone who has Mass has heard the familiar dismissal statement, but it's more than just a tidy way to finish the service.

"How many

said.

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by the abbot; "Youth Strategies," facilitated by Mary Ann Poli, director of Youth Ministry at St. Barnabas; "Small Faith Communities," facilitated by Linda Schlensker, chair, Diocesan Refor Small Christian

God

Photo by Joanita M. Nellenbach

Commu-

Abbot Francis Kline chats with Robert Kane,

tion.

said.

Spirit is

Peter's

knows what he has

sorrow

to do.

the basis of his ministry

is

behind

at the basis of

times

after

been

I'd

he

is

raised

"Whose

are forgiven

"Whose

..."

sins

you

(John 20:23).

you

tells

the dis-

they

shall forgive

"When

Jesus

shall forgive,"

it's

their sins being forgiven so that they

can

said

sins

forgive others," the abbot said. "[THfe's say-

tion.

Just thing,

it's

what

is

Mass about? For one

ing that]

about reconciliation.

'When we come

we

about

en-

"Our Sunday celebration is to put our whole lives and our problems in perspec-

The Sunday

is

theological gathering of God's people. says,

You

Then we have

is

the relation-

the intimate relation-

ship of the Eucharist.

We cannot take the

Eucharist into our bodies without

ing what we're doing.

God wants

know-

a living,

The to

theological function of the readings

He

God

Mass,

tell

do.

those

Some

would rather just and have Communion. added that the readings have to come

first,

God." In

fact,

the Gospel reading for the

weekend of the conference is the story of the ample of God's desire to reconcile with human beings and have an intimate rela-

gets in there.

is

doesn't stand

He

sends out

God

"When the priest says, 'Go, the Mass we go out with all this joy and

forgiveness,

and we're supposed to

tell

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this year,

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the

have sinned against me, but

at every

what they should

people, the abbot said,

not the center of

celebration

that

listening

said.

the world.

is

The readings

counter God's saving love," Abbot Kline

tive [to realize that we're]

The first thing he's concerned we know we're forgiven."

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"Prodigal Son" (Luke 15:11-32), an ex-

unfaithful."

Jesus offers peace, then ciples,

the eye and saying,

conscious relationship with us every day.

from the dead, Jesus appears to the disciples in the upper room. "Put yourself in that scene," Abbot Kline said. "What would you really do? I'd be embarrassed. I'd think about all the Then,

our faith. Every time, it's a commissioning. For Christians who live at the depth of the Paschal mystery, this is not a surprise." To get to that depth, Catholics need the readings, the Eucharist and reconciliaIt's

Abbot Kline

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dismissal rite has a very impor-

tant function.

fled,"

'Peter denies him, but Jesus looks at

him, and Peter

and how Christians are called to be reconciliation to one another. The commissioning at the end of Mass, he said, "means that there is grace

Holy

"At the apogee of Jesus' ministry, the

aposdes denied him and

Word and the Liturgy of the Eucha-

The

God

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so prodigal."

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Charlotte author tells 'Amistad' story from native's view By

JIMMY ROSTAR

I

Associate Editor

CHARLOTTE

— 'The winds had

turned into aggressive gales,

filling

waves swelled

foremast; the

Consolation Church in Charlotte.

The

the

to higher

swaying the schooner back and forth on the staggering and turbulent crests of the ocean's waves. The schooner zigzagged, feigning to capsize here and

The masts hummed

in protest,

While

afloat.

this

.

Mende

tribal

1839 against

purchased them

member

in

of the

group, led the rebellion that

call La Amistad. Though demanded that the Spaniards' hired crew return them to Africa, the captain secretiy changed course to the

overtook the ship the mutineers

with

was taking

Northeast and landed in

The

brewed below deck." So writes Joseph Lambert in his newly published "Amistad Wahala," the chronicle of slaves whose capture, revolt and fight for freedom added to the growing 19th-century argument over the instituplace, trouble

Long

Island,

N.Y.

surviving crew reported the up-

rising, the slaves

were put on

were arrested and they New Haven, Conn. An

trial in

ensuing drama pitted former U.S. Presi-

dent John Quincy

Adams

as the slaves'

defense attorney against the federal gov-

ernment

tion of slavery*.

More

who had

Havana. Sengbe Pieh, a

each rush of the passing gale, keeping the

schooner

slaves revolted in

the Spaniards

heights,

there.

took a very deep interest in the story," Lambert, a parishioner of Our Lady of

said

as the case reached the

Supreme

than a century and a half after

Court, while questions over property

the slave rebellion aboard a Spanish ship,

rights and a person's inherent right to freedom reached international audiences. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of

bound from Cuba, the Charlotte author says the incident's lesson

is

a historical

reminder of people's right to freedom.

With

the slaves.

a profound curiosity in the story

of 53 African slaves from what

is

now

The Amistad

Lambert wrote the book on group whose uprising at sea and

eventual

trial in

Lambert,

the United States led to a

landmark decision before slavery

itself was

was popularized

who came

States in 1992, calls his fiction

— one

film.

to the

work

United

a historical

that keeps intact the facts of

the saga while adding a

abolished here.

A

story

1997 Steven Speilberg

in a

Sierra Leone,

that

They returned to Africa in Janu-

ary 1842.

human

face to the

Lambert

events with dialogue, emotion and the cul-

pursued the project with firsthand knowl-

tural perspective of a native Sierra

edge of the people, history and culture of

Leonean.

native of Sierra Leone,

"While researching and writing I could imagine the pain and

that country.

"Especially

coming from

and knowing the

atrocities

mitted at the time against

%J

Leone that were comSierra

project,

my countrymen,

See

AMISTAD,

page

this

Photo by Jimmy Rostar

suf-

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Readings

Book Review

Book on anti-semitism work

Word to Life

of professional historian Reviewed by

EUGENE

Catholic

FISHER

J.

to understand

News Service

Unlike the wholly discredited "Hider's Pope" by journalist John Cornwell, David I.

'The Popes Against the Jews:

Kertzer's

The

Vatican's Role in the Rise of

Anti-Semitism"

is

the

work of

Modern

a profes-

Vatican's role in European antiSemitism, Kertzer misconstrues the

1)

document "We Remember: A on the Shoah." Kertzer says

2)

Holy

See's

Reflection

"We Remember"

that

which I would hope every Catholic would read, is the useful material,

MODERN ANTI-SEMITISM, by David Kertzer. Alfred A.

2001).

Kertzer has done

— unpar—

in a professional historian

is

358 pp., $27.95.

comes out of Kertzer's

actual

research.

Kertzer has written up his results in lively

and compelling

search

is

fashion.

contained in the

first

This

re-

of the three

parts of his book, a bit over a hundred

sadly enough, reads

rest,

more

tone and content often

remind the reader of the bad old days of natrvist, lic

—

anti-immigrant

—

i.e.,

anti-Catho-

bigotry.

Kertzer's original research used 19th-

and 20th-century material from the archives of the Vatican's

now

Inquisition,

Holy

member"

in

logic,

Catholic schools, the U.S.

bishops' conference put

this

it

the Congregation for the

that the

It was only in 1998 Holy See opened these archives to

In

'

Center and Pentagon tragedies, many have returned their focus to God. I've always added the phrase "or on takeoffs

groundwork

attempt

for racial, genocidal anti-

at genocide."

The

bishops continue, "One

way

that increased faith to face

to

put the 'connectedness' between the Christian teaching of anti-Judaism and Nazi anti-Semitism is that the former is

life

with confi-

Sundays readings offer us encouragement to do just that A couple of weeks ago the answer to my personal quandary about how to convey the message of this week's readings waltzed into my office, emptying

my

trash, cleaning

my

floors.

way.

Immediately he no longer had a He hungered for the word of God and turned his energies to taste for alcohol.

News Service these days after the World Trade Catholic

different in a noticeable

way:

Judaism by stigmatizing not only Judaism but Jews themselves for opprobrium and contempt. So the Nazi theories found tragically fertile soil in which to plant the horror of an unprecedented

Office of the

Doctrine of the Faith.

He was

When

I

would ask how he was doing, he would give a joyous reply, praising God. He was sincere, and he worked very hard. One evening he and I started talking and* found we were about the same age, had grown up here and had done similar

tant to

blood.

The Hebrews reading is a favorite

verse of certain evangelists, but don't that

make you think

"How

we

shall

any

it

escape

if

let

less true:

we

salvation as great as ours?

ignore a

Announced

by the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who had heard him. God then gave witness to it by signs, miracles, varied acts of power and distribution of the gifts of the Holy Spirit as he willed." One of those miracles picks up

first

pieces of litter in

my

office five

week and empties my the results of its work two weeks. God hasn't his

in

proclaiming

nights a

trash. I've seen in just the past

quit confirming

redemptive word, and

faithful to

it

we must

be

with our lives

both word and deed.

QUESTION. Have you prayed

opening, he launched into a shortened

Like the prodigal son, he had squan-

tell

Most of us haven't experienced the redeeming love of Christ in this way, but in truth we've all been redeemed by his

work in local high schools at about the same time 30 years ago. From that version of his personal witness.

life. And he was not relucanyone who would listen.

living a holy

use you in

among

lately for

God

making his kingdom a

to

reality

us?

a 'necessary cause' to consider in ex-

researchers.

Kertzer narrates, for example, cases

plaining the development and success

House of Cat-

of the latter but not a 'sufficient cause.'

and the appallingly

Christian anti-Judaism alone cannot account for the Holocaust." Many other historical factors, which Kertzer studiously ignores, were involved. Kertzer, having set up his straw person, proceeds to waste an awful lot of the reader's time demolishing it with great relish.

Scripture for the week of Sept. 30-Oct. 6 6:1a, 4-7, 1 Timothy 6:1 1-16, 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^, 5-6, 7-12, Luke 10:1-12; Friday, Baruch 1:15-22, Luke 10:1316; Saturday (St Bruno, Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher), Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29, Luke

Kertzer's prosecutorial stance leads

Scripture for the week of Oct. 7 - 13 Sunday, Habakkuk 1:2-3, 2:2-4, 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14, Luke 17:5-10; Monday, Jonah 1:1 2:1, Luke 10:25-37; Tuesday (St Denis and Companions), Jonah 3:1-10, Luke 10:38-42; Wednesday, Jonah 4:1-11, Luke 11:1-4; Thursday, Malachi 3:13-20,

of forced baptisms in the

echumens

in

Rome

squalid conditions of the Jews in the

ghettos of the Papal States.

He writes

about the efforts of ghetto

He

Jews

to gain their freedom.

how

those efforts became linked in the

describes

minds of the people who ran the Papal States with all that they felt was dangerous about the Enlightenment and its

him

ideology of militant secularism.

These Enlightenment theories were dangerous to the monarchical

in fact

ideas behind the Papal States.

All of this will be painful

—

— but

ultimately healthy reading for American Catholics who were dealing with the idea of religious freedom back in

odd

imply that there is no relationship between the phenomena being distinguished. In a guide on how to use "We ReKertzer's

"Christian anti-Judaism did lay the

The

HENSLEY

dence. This

pages.

like a polemic. Its

17:5-10

tween Christian anti-Judaism and modern racial anti-Semitism. But making a distinction does not, contrary to

material that

—

13-14

1:6-8,

Luke

True, the Holy See's document does out at one point the logically and historically necessary distinction bespell

Knopf (New York,

—

had responded to an altar call reluctantiy, he said, with a friend tugging him to the front and God had changed his life.

and landings" to the traditional wisdom, 'There are no atheists in foxholes." Now I would add "or in a national emergency." And all of us find we need

turn a both/and into an either/or.

I.

2 Timothy

By JEFF

of modern antiSemitism." Nowhere does it say that, of

What

Only three years ago at The Potter's Church in Oak Cliff, a Dallas suburb, he

Readings:

3) Gospel:

liv-

ing, destroying his family in the process.

Hebrews 1:2-3, 2:2-4 Psalm 95:1-2, 6-9

bility for the rise

donable

dered a number of years in riotous

"The

states:

course.

THE POPES AGAINST THEJEWS: THE VATICAN'S ROLE IN THE RISE OF

C

Twenty-Seventh Ordinary Time

about the

his point

Catholic Church can bear no responsi-

sional historian.

The

7,

in

Cycle

it.

making

In

October

Sunday

would say that the papacy's loss of temporal power was ultimately one of the better things to happen to the Catholic Church in its long history. I

The bishops of the world, gathered together and guided by the Holy Spirit at the Second Vatican Council, I believe, saw it whelmingly

facts.

this

way

in

voting over-

for the declarations

on

reli-

gious liberty and on the Jews in "Nostra Aetate."

Before the Second Vatican Council the saying went, "error has no rights." Since the council the right of

For example,

Kertzer omits the telling detail that the deportations of the Jews of Rome did stop on the day of the conversation between the Vatican secretary of state and the

German ambassador

in 1943.

Sunday,

Amos

10:17-24

—

Luke

11:5-13; Friday, Joel 1:13-15, 2:1-2,

Luke

11:15-26, Saturday, Joel 4:12-21,

Some

the

Germans

end their deportations

to

preted,

it is

However it-is

stopped, and that the Jews of

went

inter-

a fact that the deportations

Rome

into hiding, in large part in the

[fcW

monasteries and convents of the city, with the knowledge of the Vatican,

YOUR

which regularly supplied them with food to feed the hidden Jews. This book may have been begun as serious scholarship, but

it

ended up

as

anything but, which is a loss for all of us, Jews and Catholics alike, since the author is capable of

much

better

work than exhib-

ited here.

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Luke

11:27-28

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of the Jews of Rome.

1776.

also

omit key

to

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Guest Column

Luke's

heading to Jerusalem, crossing a Samari-

He sent messengers ahead, as any good leader The Samaritan villagers, however, refused to

tan town.

would

is

St.

do.

This caused James and John to ask Jesus if fire from heaven to consume the village. Jesus, in turn, rebuked the disciples because he is not in the business of punishment revenge, or destruction; he is in the business of love. Jesus asks his followers to pray receive Jesus.

command

they should

Father

0FM

The

Jesus

worth

Pope honors long-remembered personal heroes

the Bible.

Catholic

ASTANA, II's visit

out

News Service

Kazakstan (CMS)

to Kazakstan gave

who

suffered

Paul

him a chance to honor some

and died

in Soviet gulags after

being deported from their homeland in the 1930s.

whom

he has long ad-

mired and some that he knew personally. "In heart and spirit all

trials

of

those who suffered not only physical exile and impris-

onment, but public before

some 350

and violence because they he said in a sermon nuns, seminarians and lay

priests,

faith,"

missionaries.

The

this is poetry,

them

our Lord says that he sends the disciples the midst of wolves," he creates an image

in

"like

which

is

Of course

more powerful than prose. He sends

sheep" to exhibit the qualities of vulnerability fragile creatures. The Scripdown with the lamb." I may add much sleep! When a communist

and harmlessness. Sheep are ture says "the lion will that the

lie

lamb won't get

lamb, an impressed visitor wondered to

make

that biblical prophesy

come

how

Many

First

promise with

true. "Simple," said to

com-

things are worse that defeat and

one of them. You are never defeated

evil is

Second:

until

you

defeat

yourself.

Kazak martyrs

pope's connection with the

goes back to his youth and helps explain his determination to visit the

where almost

of the 180,000 Catholics are descen-

is

the shortest route to

Fourth: Don't take your defeat like a his wife for

dants of deported families from Germany, Ukraine and

Poland.

of fear

defeat.

former Soviet republic in Central Asia,

all

The highway

Third:

man who blames

back repeatedly.

One day she saw

man

Our country

has learned, in a very painful way, that

a small boy playing by a fountain.

A

rode up on horseback and dismounted to take a

The man saw the child and suddenly remembered boyhood innocence. Then, looking in the fountain and seeing the reflection of his hardened face, he realized what he had done with his life. Tears of repentance welled up in his eyes and began to trickle down his checks. The young woman took one of these tears back to heaven and was received with joy and love. At this time, we don't have the World Trade Towers, we don't have more than 5,000 people presumed dead, but we have the upper hand to control terrorism in an effective drink. his

way,

it.

love and duty are not easy, but they are the only vitamins

When growing up in

which give us energy to kve our daily lives. There is a story from the Middle Ages about a young woman who was expelled from heaven. As she left, she was told that if she would bring back the gift that is most valued by God, she would be welcomed back She brought back drops of blood from a dying patriot. She brought back some coins that a destitute widow had given to the poor. She brought back a remnant of the Bible that had been used for years by an eminent preacher. She brought back some dust- from the shoes of a missionary laboring in a remote wasteland. She brought back many similar things but was turned

they managed

"we just put in a new lamb every morning." By connecting Jesus' event with the latest tragedy of Sept. 1 1, we understand some important paradoxes:

ridicule

chose not to renounce the

When

lambs

zoo-keeper,

the unspeakable

I relive

"like

zoo-keeper boasted that in one cage they kept a wolf and a

At a Mass in the Astana cathedral Sept 24, the pope recalled several martyr-pastors

were at risk which was King David as a boy had to face a man dodging Saul. In the best

of grace (lamb) to defeat the violence (wolves).

— Pope John

long-remembered personal heroes. Among them were the priests and bishops of Polish descent

indeed vast and abundant.

tradition of David, Jesus continues to be the poet laureate of

JOHN THAVIS

By

is

that the disciples

taking, just as

Goliath and later as

Kazakstan

in

knew

harvest

C. AURILIA, CAP.

Guest Columnist

for laborers to help the elite corps of disciples in their

mission of love.

JOHN

we

who died "on duty" we have the who lost their loved ones. According to Jesus' are we winners or losers?

have heroes

tears of those

philosophy,

southern Poland, one of the

future pope's spiritual directors

was Father Tadeusz

Federowicz. Father Federowicz was assigned to the

Archdiocese of Lviv in what

he learned that a group of

now

is

Ukraine, and

his parishioners

when

Late-night comics took on

Family

was being

deported to Central Asia, he obtained permission to

Reflections

share their plight

He

new

invented a

deportees, the

pope

The pope

type of pastoral care for

recalled with pride at the

Mass.

of us to destructive behavior.

remembered Father Wladislaw

also

whom he also had known personally in Krakow. The priest ended up in a gulag in Kazakstan, and when offered his freedom he chose to remain among

ANDREW &

TERRI LYKE

Guest Column

the prisoners. Eventually he secretly founded a congre-

former Soviet

Is

still

active today in

The pope

recalled the "unshakable confidence in in

who wrote "We

Bukowinski,

spare ourselves but

if

a diary entry by Father

have been ordered not to

necessary, to give our lives for the

of Christ"

flock

communism pope

under the 'long winter" of

trials

on

in Kazakstan,

several occasions the

said the pastoral challenges

today are somewhat

different

The spiritual void left by the atheistic regime makes people "vulnerable to the myths of consumerism and

hedonism imported from the West" he

told the region's

bishops.

For that reason, he with an

effort to

said,

evangelization should start

educate people in the faith and help

restore their spiritual ideals.

The pope also encouraged beyond

its

Gospel.

the local church to look

traditional ethnic borders in

The number

Kazakstan

announcing the

of Catholics has shrunk in

in recent years, as ethnic

Germans and

Ukrainians have gone back to their ancestors' homeland.

The

tragedy strikes

tragedy strikes, families rally. Over the years our family has endured tragedy in the dying of members. When a loved-one dies, no matter what other

we

we

gather,

we

local pastor at the

Astana

cathedral, Father

his congregation

used to be half

German but now has just two or three German families. also said that in 12 years as pastor,

baptized one native

Kazak

he had

nearby community was of whom brandished American flags as though they were weapons against

Arab

extraction.

mosque

the target of a hateful mob,

in a

many

who

we

Indeed,

This is our blessing not our military might and rather our capacity to stand our economic prosperity strong in the face of tyranny and still be free to love. May God keep on blessing America!

life

during tragic times. When tragedy strikes we become more generous and more loving. There have been times when a family member's grief erupted into anger. The experience of tragedy can provoke us into destructive behavior, scapegoating and looking for someone to blame. At those times, our family becomes even more generous and more loving. smother the hate with love. hold on to each other as though each member is precious. And as we love each other through the difficult time of grief, we rise transformed by the loving that has

We

We

us.

same way, our nation

is

rallying in this

we

put aside

other urgencies to gather, to console, to prepare services, to reach out,

and to pray.

The weekend after York and Washington,

are a family.

prepare services,

Even those of us

are less inclined toward religion, worship and

In the very

we

we

prayer join in the intentional prayerfulness of family

bonded

Leadership, religious and political, quickly renounced such xenophobic hatefulness and called us to the higher symbolism of freedom for which our flags stands. The generous and loving spirit of America will smother the hatefulness of the few. And like families our nation is rising transformed by the love that binds us.

pray.

console,

reach out to others, and

horrible time of grief Just like a family

Otto Messmer, said

He

When When

urgencies,

While evoking the

A

into

and people of

their victims.

numerous

territories.

God's power" demonstrated

styles in their

Anger has erupted

hateful scapegoating of followers of Islam

Bukowinski,

gation of nuns that

more somber

monologues. Professional sports teams halted play. In different ways patriotism has risen in our nation and revealed a compassionate people. However, this national tragedy has provoked some

the terrorist attacks on

New

D.C., houses of worship re-

ceived extraordinary crowds of faithful worshippers.

— —

Questions for reflection • How has a family tragedy been transforming? • How has the terrorist attack on America made you more generous and more loving? • What are you doing to smother hate during this national tragedy?

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apparentiy suggested diat people should donate a particular

One

Nothing new tiieir income to the church. most folks recognize "titiiing" as a type of responsible stewardship. But for tliis disgruntied listener, it was too much. He told me, 'You know, I really resented that guy

percentage of

about

Candle

Coming of Age

this;

telling

me how much

should put in the basket. That's

I

my

decision, Father, not his!"

He's certainly right about that. Each person must decide for himself or herself what to share with our

MSGR. JIM LISANTE

question remained. So

Guest Columnist

'You mean

The Past As Past Wearing

clerical

clothing

is

a

respond to our priestly uniforms

terrific

magnet. People

in a variety

of ways, but

Then

see you, Padre!"

Some

categorize.

what we do

"Good

to

there are stares that are harder to

people seem intrigued that anyone does

Some gaze

you as if you were by far, the most interesting are those with a bone to pick. These folks would for a living

at

That man who've

didn't

talking to

one

them

priest will

In one exchange, a

my chance

to tell him seem to think that get the message to every priest

all!"

is

They

also

woman waylaid me at an airport to

knew her town's priest, Father Paul. I asked her the name. She wasn't sure. Then I asked her where her hometown was located. She told me it was in northern Minnesota. I explained that I come from New York, don't know many priests from Minnesota. The woman looked a little puzzled. "I thought that you all knew each other," she ask

if I

priest's last

admitted.

At a recent wedding reception, a man came up to tell me was baptized a Catholic Christian, he "hasn't seen the inside of a church for almost 40 years." Presuming he wanted to tell me his story, I asked, "How come?" Seems tiiat when he was about 20 years old, he heard a priest preach a sermon he didn't like. The priest was his pastor and that while he

You might

tion

came up very

be surprised to

know

AMY WELBORN

home

I

have met

isn't

many

people

communities because of past

faith

working out our

seriously in the early decades of Chris-

is

a

difficult

thing

our religion as bigger than the relation-

with a single person equally important3

Probably because

I

members of a Can you imagine how

recognized them as

church, not the whole community.

which was

"passio" (suffering)

—

— from

because they believed the Father

on the cross along with the Son. The church's theology of the Holy Trinity was not yet

suffered

fully developed.

Questions about the divine sonship of

Other theologians, including Tertullian and new teachings as contrary to the

Hippolytus, rejected the

The

affirmations about Jesus in the Gospel of John.

church's later formalization of Trinitarian dogmas, of course, confirmed those intuitions.

Modalism was condemned by at 220 and Dionysius

Callistus in the year

As

the saying goes, this

wanted to know, but

it

is

least

two popes,

miss the next 40!

Question

to celebrate a special day. During Mass our asthmatic son was driven out of the church by the incense.

We much

realize the symbolism

of incense, but that

is

not

help for people with serious reactions to these

chemicals. Doesn't the church realize there are

many men

Win

or

lose,

it

weekends of his life so far. Then Sept 1 1 came. And passed. And for days, smoke billowed out from a mass grave in Manhattan. The game, of course, was canceled. But even before that my son suddenly, unimaginably, had become exciting

indifferent to it I

only spoke with him over the telephone and only

in quick conversations before

it

he dashed to

class

or

in his voice.

Suddenly,

Maybe you'd been spending

into buildings.

Corner

You saw

a

buildings

lot

of time fretting

with parents,

filled

brothers, sisters, friends

and grandparents burn and

collapse.

—

You saw hundreds

thousands

—

of people

forget about everything else, drop their daily routines

and worries, and rush to help in any way they could. probably one of those people, whether you gave blood, or a little cash or lots of prayers.

You were

FATHER JOHN DIETZEN

CNS

Smoke

Columnist

billowed out for days from the rubble of

the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In a

Pennsylvania, a plane

children for whom incense is not only annoying but downright hazardous? (California)

left

field in

nothing but an ugly gash

burned through the earth. Within an hour, as you watched these horrific things on the television at school, several things probably became very clear to you.

know from my mail on the subject that your son is one of many Catholics who experience serious physical reactions to incense. But I don't know what can be done A.

about

it

except for pastors to be aware of the problem.

In a previous

me

Life

is

precious and precarious.

I

column

I

reported that surprisingly to

have

tried without success to produce a nonallergenic incense with a satisfactory aroma. The ones I spoke with suggest only that priests use less incense during the liturgy.

at least manufacturers

An Ohio pharmacist informs me of a product called "Maxi-Masks," blue masks designed specifically to filter out allergens of this kind. They may be bothersome, but they are inexpensive and might solve the problem for

There

more

shadows of this world than and opinions. There is right and there is wrong. Evil exists. I think I know what's important now. is

to the

"differences of opinion" or various lifestyles

in that moment the strangest things hapThe motivation for those petty spats evaporated. The doings of mindless celebrities were exposed as incredibly shallow. And for the life of you, you

So

pened:

couldn't think of a single reason not to

tell

your parents

you loved them. If you're like

my

whether or not that

son,

you

football

couldn't care

game

any

less

ever got played at

all.

people.

These are strange, perplexing, sad and even

A

home

crew helping to film it department was going to be one of the most

spectator but as part of a media for his college's athletic

were sniping back and forth with other kids in school about webs of loyalty and friendship. Maybe you were spending a lot of time reading and thinking about the comings and goings ofa certain movie, sports or music celebrity. Maybe you weren't speaking to one or both of your parents. Then you saw planes dashed into the ground and

free brochure answering questions Catholics ask about receiving the holy Eucharist is available by sending

Q I recently took my family to a cathedral miles from our

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present They might be surprised by all the good been done these past 40 years. What a shame if they

spiritual that's

probably more than you

should answer your question.

one of the

ready to go, not just as a

about your appearance or your weight Perhaps you

many

in 260.

it

mistakes of the past as an excuse for not celebrating a

Jesus and his relation to the Father were heavily debated,

however, and Christian teaching about the three persons in God was gradually being formulated.

primed for

life had shifted, and with it priorities and a sense of what was important Perhaps the same thing happened to you.

told

and

"pater" (father)

He was

hear

I

and women and

"patripassianists"

interested in as a student at

you about happened to be a Catholic, but the same story could be told in any religious community. I can't help but hope that he - and those like him - will look again at the great good they miss when they use the

The man

God reveals himself in three "modes": Father, Spirit

been looking forward to a particular football game.

This game was part of a great rivalry that he was very

grace to be reconciled.

of clergy and theologians advanced the

Modalists were identified by several names, one of

Priorities rearranged For weeks, perhaps months, my oldest son had

went back to work, so I couldn't see his face But I could

and Son were actually two names for the same divine person. They were called "modalists" because

Son and Holy

Columnist

few homes would be intact if every time people fought or disagreed someone walked out? Families, friendships and marriages endure because we acknowledge differences, express disappointments, try to heal wounds, and then move on. Human beings don't have perfect relationships. But part of the glory of all faiths is the power to forgive, the

idea that Father

they believed

CNS

differences equally

that your ques-

tianity.

One group

me, a larger

have met a few priests, who, from my viewpoint just measure up, but they never cost me my beliefs.

I

Did God the Father Also Suffer on the Cross? Q. Did God the Father and the Holy Spirit suffer the crucifixion with God the Son? This odd question arose in our discussion group. Most of us agreed the answer is no, but we had no good reason. (New York) A.

But

we have

or write to complain, but with a priest right in

think of

not unique.

is

vital? Isn't seeing

never

I

for

that

left their

to handle.

ship

what

But

it.

slights or misunderstandings. Yes, hurt

object than a person. But,

front of them, they reason, "This

asked

an affordable amount

dear price to pay."

more an

call

I

is

community.

you stayed away from praying with your faith community, reflecting with them over the sacred scriptures and receiving the sacraments for 40 years because of one priest and a message you didn't like?" The man nodded. "Well," I concluded, "that seems like a very

they certainly do react. In die best of circumstances, you get a kindly nod of the head and a smile that says

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frightening times. There's a lot of hard thinking, listen-

ing and praying for peace,

we all

wisdom,

should be doing We're praying

justice,

strength and peace once

more.

And with

everything

else,

never, ever take the gift of

Because

we're praying that well life

for granted again.

we can't What we've seen won't let us.

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and then when these factions

tion,

Amistad,

other's

from page 9 must have endured

they were chained below deck," he

said.

as

"As

someone from Sierra Leone, I have explained some of the culture that existed at the time and used the language they would have used. I've done a lot of research and just told the story as

Lambert

it

should be

told."

between James

through Covey, an abolitionist who actually accompanied the freed slaves back to Africa, Covey's adopted brother, and a wealthy African who paid to hear Covey's stories of the Amistad aca discourse

count.

Lambert shares the account "from perspective with deep

spiritual considerations," including

how

the slaves were evangelized. "The captives themselves, in the days the saga was going on, were introduced to Christ and to his teachings," Lambert said. "Most of them did acknowledge Christ, and some

men,

women and

children

heaval. "Deep, there,"

he

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ternatives to the death penalty, brings a

He

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successful slave revolt in U.S. history,

but more importantly, it showed the resolve of a people determined to prove their freedom. That historical lesson of respect is universal, he said. "Man shouldn't be bad to another man, to put it very simply," Lambert said. "We go to a land from our history to know where we are going in must learn from our the future. past mistakes. "That's the Christian way to move ahead."

went through, forgive. They were

after all they

they were able to very appreciative of their freedom. The story took Lambert more than six years of research and writing a process he thoroughly enjoyed. "When I sit down to write, I engage my mental faculties in full," he

—

said.

and use

I

"My creativity comes into play, am able to visualize things and

my

creative

Lambert

mind

to tell a story."

said he learned

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in

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by murder vicmembers who support al-

series of speaking engagements to North Carolina next month.

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"Whenever you Blood of Jesus

in

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of me."

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said. "It is

on the

the

"We

Holy

its

Egan, who founded and now directs the Center of Spirituality at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame University, is a professor of theology at Notre Dame. Through friendships grounded in a love for God, Egan said, people experience the presence of Jesus. "A sacrament is a manifestation of Christ in our lives," said Egan, who wrote about this topic in a book co-authored

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Spirit.

"For many people, the church's continued existence is an insolvable mystery," he

no

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institution in the history

from its enemies and so by its friends.

'There are a thousand reasons

many many

why

it

should have perished with the centuries.

There

is

only one reason that explains

survival: Pentecost.

Holy

Spirit,

the

will continue until the

end of time."

Father Kemp, a former Washington pastor

who

in his presentation.

"We

have seven sacraments especially chosen by the church as reflections of those moments in the life of Jesus in which Jesus manifested to us in a sav-

Tradition."

and, because of his abiding presence, that

work

cross."

coordinates the biblical justice

program "Living the Just Word," spoke of

ing way."

communion with God

noting that biblical justice centers on a

The faithful can find other sacraments by celebrating the common gift of sharing in the reality and presence of Christ, Egan said. Friendship is one such

sense ofjustice that sees the world binding

example.

one person to another - "one world, one God, all brothers and sisters."

"The

in

terms ofjustice as

discussed in Scripture.

"We are preachers of one God," he said,

'F>verybody

is

called in the

Hebrew

somebody else," he said. 'The work of ministry is a work that belongs to us all."

for

Kemp

said the

gift

of friendship, before

we

in

of friendship with

way

to realize

life

good-

in

how

God

in

accord with

human

rela-

was a theme Father Di Noia

tionships

you

to...

work of Christian faith, "communion is meant to be pro-creative, just like God," he

said.

The

challenge in any ministry

where human sexuality

Gay and Lesbian

ensure that church teaching on the cre-

Persons: Catholic

is

discussed

communion

to

is

Theological and Pastoral Perspectives."

ative role of sexual

Father Di Noia reiterated the need to base ministry to gay and lesbian Catholics in full communion with church teachings and explained how moral law is

veyed, while reassuring those being min-

designed to help rather than hinder the faithful as

they seek to connect with

God

and one another. "God wants us to be in communion with him and with one another in him," he said. "Our union with one another, the church, is nothing other than the extended family of the Trinity invisible now, but visible in glory and cer-

—

tainly

visible to us

...

when we

share the

Father Di Noia, a Dominican priest who served until April as executive director of the U.S. Catholic bishops' Secretariat for

Doctrine and Pastoral Practices,

was appointed Paul

in

1997 by Pope John

to the International Theological

II

Commission. In May, he became director II

Forum

at the

Pope

Wash-

Cultural Center in

D.C

ington,

He

Christ

is

con-

Christ-like

"No moral theory which does not confront the truth of their situation really helps them," he said.

something

True

"It's

not ministry.

said that in the context of minis-

ministry, that pastoral response

is

friendship

is

about bringing

others into the fullness of realizing their

God, he said. 'The Catholic faith is about

relationship with

trans-

forming the human person," he said. "We don't have to deny the struggle (people

may

encounter), but

The

on the contrary, we it."

conference also provided an op-

portunity to pay tribute to two ministers to

gay and

lesbian Catholics

whose work

has been well-known for decades. Bishop Walter Sullivan of Richmond was honored for his quarter-century of work with the gay and lesbian community, while Father Gene McCreesh a Jesuit who

—

served the Charlotte Diocese and

here

who spear-

— was

praised as a

champion of those in

spiritual need.

In a videotaped message from Towson, Md., where the ailing priest is in hospice care, Father McCreesh offered greetings and prayers to the conference participants.

'The one thing I wish

vital,

to join the Lord's

said.

own

to

all

of you

voice that

loves us

Catholic tradition says that laws are

sons and daughters of God, rejoicing

made for you and me to seek freedom. Freedom leads us to the greater good."

the grace that

In the context of church teaching on sexuality, he said, people

must make known the

fullness of

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that this

is

the night in which

come and

to join," he said.

"We are together as brothers and sisters, as

"How

God

blessed

has given to us

we

all

all.

are to have such a

God."

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ma il

the church's teachings.

434 Charlotte Avenue, P. O. Box Rock Hill, SC 29731-1586 (803) 327-2097

all,

are invited to

who

minister in Catholic gay and lesbian ministries

all

(is)

God

"Most people think that when you a law, it is to prevent someone from doing something," he said. "But the

make

human

It's

else."

headed the national conference's appearance

important to understand the differences between legalistic and moralistic mentality - that is, the enforcement of rules as lawgiver or offering guidance that benefits someone. When it comes to church teaching in he

istered to that chaste love

is

love.

have to acknowledge

glory."

try, it is

Please allow us to introduce

'We cannot divide our bodily being from our spiritual being," he said. 'What we do with our bodies matters to our soul. This is the root of the church's teaching about human sexuality: that communion, by its very nature, is creative." Working in even the broadest frame-

explored in his address, "Ministry with

John Paul

love."

himself is a key

revealed through Jesus furthers that truth.

goodness

who

An awareness

new covenant

in

of the Intercultural

is

who grow

the church's teachings on

our particular ways ever become friends, exists in God," Egan said. "In the triune God is friendship Father and Son bonded and joined together in the Spirit,

—

covenant not for just ourselves alone, but

Father

Growing

Friendship as a sacrament was the

Egan explored

are living the trinitarian are friends

ness with each other," he said.

topic

is

our relationship with others, he added.

when we

and each other through the work of the

"There

said.

same love

that he shared

of the world diat has withstood so

at work in the faithful today, he That relationship with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, then, progresses to

can be

is

the Eucharist, his love

Bishop Curlin spoke of his prayer that commune with God

people will continue to

said.

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Living the faith

Faith surrounds, enriches deacon's By

ALESHA

M. PRICE

Staff Writer

CLEMMONS been a way of

life

— Catholicism has for Rev.

Schumacher since he was remembers his days as an with a fondness in his

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his

He

altar server

ter,

lic

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It

knew went to Cathowas the norm, and

Mr. Schumacher.

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gion has remained with him through his life and propelled him into ordained ministry as a permanent deacon. He cannot imagine not being a deacon and has found a source of strength that he did not have prior to ordination in 1988. "I have found that I have the

charged, he began

years while settling in

working

the

grace and ability to do things I wouldn't have or couldn't have done

children

is

my

in

counting department of National Gypsum

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company in 1983, he began working for Piedmont Airlines, now US

and

settled with his wife

Rev. Mr. Jerry

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Schumacher

tems analyst and moved again to Winston-Sa-

while

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the sixth grade and enjoyed it." His early dedication to his reli-

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Schumacher thought that their children were too young for their father to make that kind of commitment to

would

the one thing that kept me going." After being dis-

in

the

time of the

I

The Schumachers

It (his faith)

with his wife. it was not the first time idea of the permanent

had come up in the Schumacher household. During the

don't was a misI

have become a deacon had I stayed up

needed.

learned

that

meant so much presence

it

However, diaconate

take to

to

discussed

some complications

attended Mass. The chapel me, and

Msgr. Kovacic suggested the permanent diaconate to Schumacher, and he

for us in the begin-

ning, think

ways

Catholic education meant a lot to me," said Rev.

God and

belief in

tor at St. Leo the Great Church in Winston-Salem where Schumacher had become active as a parishioner.

of discussion during that six-week time frame, and we had to decide what to do. It caused

my

maintained

"I

Catholic school. I

company relocated to Charlotte. "It came as quite a shock for me and my family. There was quite a bit

describing how the base chapel was a sanctuary for him.

and heart. He grew up spirit

around many Catholic families in his childhood neighborhood in Buffalo, N.Y., and he and his friends would walk to church and to the nearby

"Everyone

cipitation in Buffalo, in 1978, the entire

and Schumacher had succumbed to a lung infection. During his time in the service, he wrote to his sister, a Franciscan sis-

Mr. Jerry

a child.

honeymoon. Their wedding took place in the midst of basic training,

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