March 27, 2009

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March 27, 2009

The Catholic News & Herald 1

www.charlottediocese.org

Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte

Perspectives The cross and joy; Easter hope; the disease of ‘a thousand things to do’

Established Jan. 12, 1972 by Pope Paul VI march 27, 2009

CONSCIENCE MATTERS

N.C. bishops call for help in defending health care workers’ rights

| Pages 14-15 Serving Catholics in Western North Carolina in the Diocese of Charlotte

In Africa, pope challenges attitudes, cultural trends by JOHN THAVIS catholic news service

LUANDA, Angola — Pope Benedict XVI’s in-flight statement opposing condom distribution in AIDS prevention drew sharp criticism and was seen by many as a distraction fr om his main mes s age in Africa. But a closer look reveals that very little of what the pope had to say during his March 17-23 African journey was easy or accommodating. On issues ranging from abortion to corruption,

KEVIN E. MURRAY editor

CHARLOTTE — Charlotte Bishop Peter J. Jugis and Raleigh Bishop Michael F. Burbidge are encouraging local Catholics to help keep a regulation that gives federal protection to the conscience rights of health care providers and institutions. “The right to life and the freedom to exercise one’s religious and moral beliefs in the medical field without See HHS, page 6

no. 21

Bringing Christ’s message to a ‘land of hope’

USCCB comments cite reasons for HHS to keep conscience regulation by

vOLUME 18

See AFRICA, page 7

CNS photo by L’Osservatore Romano via Catholic Press Photo

Pope Benedict XVI kisses a child as he leaves Amadou Ahidjo stadium following Mass in Yaounde, Cameroon, March 19. In his homily the pope urged African families to reject the “tyranny of materialism” and other social changes that risk eroding the continent’s traditional values. The service was attended by more than 40,000 people.

Festivities of green

Considering the alternative

Students spend spring break doing service projects in western North Carolina by

KATIE MOORE staff writer

Courtesy photo

Student volunteers, Becky Whaples and Kelly Laccinole, paint a wall at the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center in Robbinsville March 12. As participants in Catholic Campus Ministry’s alternative spring break, the students spent a week doing service projects in western North Carolina counties.

M U R P H Y — A s m all group of college students and campus ministers from around the Diocese of Charlotte recently made a big impact on four rural mountain counties of western North Carolina. As part of an alternative

spring break, the students spent March 7-14 performing service projects with a Catholic agency and local nonprofit organizations. The project was a collaborative effort between diocesan campus ministry and the Office of Economic See SERVICE, page 5

Photo by Kevin E. Murray

The 13th annual St. Patrick’s Day parade and festival was held in uptown Charlotte March 21. For photographs of participating Catholic schools and organizations, see pages 8-9.

Culture Watch

In Our Schools

‘Beacon of hope’

Menus and saints’ lives; filmmaker works to help poor

Students experience styles of music, art in school

Catholic church reopens in New Orleans’ 9th Ward

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