October 6, 2006
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Perspectives Promoting the Eucharistic Congress; a call to action for Catholics; the most precious of angels
Established Jan. 12, 1972 by Pope Paul VI OCTOber 6, 2006
Meeting needs
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Sidewalk counselors teach respect for life by
KAREN A. EVANS staff writer
KAREN A. EVANS
CHARLOTTE — A young woman walks slowly out of the reproductive health clinic, holding a small white bag. “Look — she’s had an abortion,” Andrea Hines says. The bag holds postoperative medications and instructions, and possibly birth control pills. A few minutes later, the woman stops her car where Hines and Veronica Cortes are standing. She talks with Cortes for a moment, and takes the pamphlets Cortes offers. Hines stands a few feet away, holding a sign reading, “I regret my abortion.”
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CHARLOTTE — While Catholic schools are known to provide excellent, wellrounded education with focus on the Catholic faith, some students have been left out due to a school’s limited resources and budgets. Through the Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools (MACS) Special Needs Endowment Fund, specialneeds students could eventually be the beneficiaries of a Catholic education. When the Betty J. and Stanley J. Livingstone Charitable Foundation closed recently, the principle Photo by Karen A. Evans
See MACS, page 5
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Helping to save innocent lives
New endowment provides for special needs in classroom by
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A young woman talks with Margaret Nogy, a member of Helpers of God’s Precious Infants, as Karen and Francesca pray outside a reproductive health clinic in Charlotte Oct. 4.
Wall of fears
Border fence bill passes amid strong opposition from religious leaders by PATRICIA ZAPOR catholic news service
CNS photo by Carlos Barria, Reuters
Jorge Alverez of Mexico walks into U.S territory after crossing the fenced border from the beach of Tijuana in Mexico May 6. The U.S. Border Patrol reported it had arrested 724,613 undocumented migrants crossing from Mexico into the U.S. since Oct. 1 last year, a rise of 6 percent from the same period a year earlier.
WA S H I N G T O N — Legislation calling for construction of a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexican border passed both houses of Congress before they adjourned until after the November elections. The fence was criticized by advocates for comprehensive immigration reform, who said the bill was little more than an election-year stunt aimed at
See SIDEWALK, page 7
Back to court
Cases on partial-birth abortion set stage for court’s October opening by PATRICIA ZAPOR catholic news service
voters who want a crackdown on illegal immigration. In a Sept. 29 teleconference, Kevin Appleby, director of migration and refugee policy for the U.S. bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services, said the bishops opposed a fence for a variety of reasons. For one thing, half of those who are in the country illegally come in legally and stay beyond
WASHINGTON — With the Oct. 2 opening of its new term, the Supreme Court will quickly face cases on the federal law banning a procedure known as partial-birth abortion and others on protecting the environment, all of which are drawing attention from the religious community.
See WALL, page 12
See COURT, page 12
In Our Schools
Culture Watch
Ongoing discussions
BMHS in top 50; OLA gets Blue Ribbon
Saint John’s Bible’s next volume; rapping priest’s CD
Catholic-Muslim dialogue on faith
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