November 18, 2005
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vOLUME 15
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Today’s parish minister more likely to be a layperson — and a woman
Bishop Jugis dedicates new adoration chapel
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KAREN A. EVANS
Editor’s note: This is the next part in an ongoing series on Vatican II’s legacy.
KANNAPOLIS — Although the Year of the Eucharist officially ended in October, dedication to the Eucharist continues to grow throughout western North Carolina. Bishop Peter J. Jugis dedicated the Pope John Paul II Adoration Chapel at St. Joseph Church in Kannapolis Nov. 6. “I myself spend time each day in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament,” said Bishop Jugis in his homily before dedicating the small chapel. “It is the real
Photo by Karen A. Evans
WASHINGTON — Prior to the Second Vatican Council, about the most involved lay people became in the day-today activities at the average Catholic parish was as members of the Holy Name Society or the Altar Guild. With several priests typically assigned to a parish and a nearby convent full of nuns, lay people filled only minor or peripheral roles in most parishes, such as answering the rectory phone, perhaps serving as “room mother” to an elementary school class, leading the Cub Scout pack or
Bishop Peter J. Jugis holds a monstrance containing the Blessed Sacrament during a ceremony dedicating the Pope John Paul II Adoration Chapel at St. Joseph Church in Kannapolis Nov. 6.
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New statement calls for rejection of ‘illusion’ of death penalty by PATRICIA ZAPOR catholic news service
WASHINGTON — A new statement on the death penalty that calls on society to “reject the tragic illusion that we can demonstrate respect for life by taking life,” was approved by the U.S. Catholic bishops Nov. 15 in a nearly unanimous vote. The statement, “A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death,” builds upon the 1980 statement by the bishops that See USCCB, page 12
PATRICIA ZAPOR
catholic news service
staff writer
Building a ‘Culture of
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Seems like a miracle: a saint in the family
Triad Catholic reflects on recently canonized relative by
JUSTIN CATANOSO
special to the catholic news & herald
GREENSBORO — October 23 was a day long-awaited by the Catanoso family — in America and in southern Italy. On that day at the Vatican, with more than 200,000 people crowded into St. Peter’s Square and the world
watching live on television, Pope Benedict XVI performed his first canonization, elevating five Catholic heroes to sainthood. One of those venerated was Padre Gaetano Catanoso, a humble mission priest from Reggio di Calabria, Italy, who See SAINT, page 7
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An enormous banner portraying St. Gaetano Catanoso hangs outside St. Peter’s Basilica during the canonization Mass for him and four other new saints in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 23.
Joy and faith
Culture Watch
Perspectives
Seniors gather for spiritual well-being
Guide for Catholic funerals; ABC TV film on pope
Essence of Thanksgiving; what a theologian is
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