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campus ministry

is the first of a on the diocesan Catholic

retreat.

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During

Catholic identity, college students from across the Diocese of Charlotte

heard an earnest explanation of

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Catholic school students greet

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series

how

central to the faith.

Father Jude DeAngelo,

ConvenWinstonSalem, told the students on Feb. 5 that everything Catholics do as people of faith is done in the name of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Mass, he said, is the primary example of that devotion, and is one

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that requires reverent, spiritual preparation to be fully appreciated.

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"You have an important job," said Father DeAngelo, Catholic campus minister for students of Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State universities, N.C. School of the Arts and Salem College. "It's not just the priest that has to get ready. It's not just the altar servers that have to get ready.

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19, of Western Carolina University, Ai Lin Loh, 20, of Appalachian State University, and Samatha Shaver, 20, of listen intently as Bishop William G. Curlin addresses students at the Campus Ministry Retreat.

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Entertainment .Pages Editorials

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Catholics celebrate 25th anniversary of Appalachia pastoral

& Columns

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THOMAS

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A column by Father John C. Aurilia,

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— Ap-

writing team that drafted the letter. Father Sanders also noted that the letter was among the first to use a

grass-roots listening approach to shaping it, rather than relying on teams of experts.

Issued by the bishops of Appalachia

Appalachia is harsh." It explains the wide range of problems that face the vast region, which stretches from

in 1975, the letter

St. Valentine

PAPEIKA

palachian Catholics gathered to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the pastoral letter "This Land is Home to Me" Feb. 5 at Wheeling Jesuit University.

The love story of *

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marked the impor-

tance of Catholic social teaching and applying it to a particular place. "This Land is Home to Me" was the pastoral letter issued by the bishops of a particular region, according to Father Joe Sanders, part of the original first

The

letter notes that "the truth of

New York

all

Alabama. And

the

way

to northern

notes that, despite the enormous diversity of the region, "it's all tied together by the mountain chain, and by the coal in its center." it

The 1975 document

focused on

the economic and political plight and powerlessness of the poor people of

Appalachia amid America's flourishing industrial economy.

The cry of the region's poor had long gone unnoticed, according to those involved in drafting the document.

"We have listened to these cries, and now we lend our own voice," the bishops said in the pastoral letter. "This letter is but one part of an unfinished conversation with

See

APPALACHIA,

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February

Brief

World Catholic population up,

1.045

about 17.4 percent of the global population, the Vatican reported. billion,

on a dispute between students in the freshman dormitory and three nonstudents who were asked to leave the dorm less than an hour before the Jan. 19 fire broke out. "This was not an

The

statistics, from 1998, were included in an updated pontifical yearbook presented to Pope John Paul II on Feb. 5. The number of Catholics represented a new high, up about 40

accidental

proval of a federal police raid that

ended

nine-month strike by stu-

dents at Latin America's largest university. About 2,500 police wearing full riot gear but under orders not to use firearms entered the main campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico at dawn Feb. 6. Stu-

who

dents

had occupied the main campus since April

university's

20 did not

and were led

resist arrest

to buses that carried

them

to various

The strike affected almost 270,000 students in the university and in the UNAM's network of senior

city jails.

high schools

Mexico

City. Cardinal

Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City expressed satisfaction that the installations were recovered in "a peaceful way."

UNAM

Church leaders demand end to Canadian 'head tax' on immigrants

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Bishop William G. Curlin will take m thefollowing events:

part

— 7 pm

February 24

Confirmation Holy Angels Catholic Church Mount Airy

February 26 Meeting with

— 10:30 am

Women Religious Catholic Conference Center, Hickory

—

Confirmation St

Mark

Catholic Church, Huntersville

for

for enrollees in

them seems to be going nowhere. He wondered whether the church might not expose its concepts more to modern ways of thinking. Writing in the French Catholic newspaper La Croix, Cardinal Eyt directed his comments

Canadian society. Cardinal, Vatican official differ on church response to problems ROME (CNS) In an unusual public exchange with a leading Vatican official, a French cardinal has suggested that the church show more openness as it confronts modern doctrinal and disciplinary problems. Cardinal Pierre Eyt of Bordeaux said that while today's lay Catholics have

February 27

except

on questions of theology, politics, bioethics and other issues, the hierarchy's dialogue with ideas to contribute

also a

March

— 7 pm

Confirmation Hispanic Center, Charlotte

March 4

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be deliberately set, newspaper says

NEWARK, weeks

after a

Diaconal recommitment day St Patrick Cathedral, Charlotte

—

CHARLOTTE

—

church

office at (704)

16 CHARLOTTE rection for

—

Two

fire

Gabriel

364-5049. "Spiritual Di-

Gays and Lesbians"

Church, 507 South Tryon St. The discussion is being led by Jesuit Father Gene McCreesh. Call the church office at (704) 332-6808 or (704) 3325342 for more information. GREENSBORO The Greensboro

—

Council of Catholic Women is assisting the Servant Center with a mailing for

community

service project.

or interested ladies should

gather this morning at St. Paul the Apostle Church, 27 1 5 Horse Pen Creek Rd., at 9:30 a.m. in the F and Confer-

— Death

(CNS)

threats continued in January against

members of two prominent churchrun human rights groups noted for their defense of indigenous people in

southern Mexico, the groups said. In City, the Jesuit-backed

Mexico

Miguel Augustin Pro human rights center said Feb. 1 its lawyers who defend peasant leaders in the state of

Guerrero found two threatening; letters inside a desk within their offices Jan. 31.

The

center said the threats

appeared to be related to

investi-

its

women by

soldiers in Llano Largo,

Guerrero.

ence Rooms. For more information, call Carolyn Kingman at (336) 855-1920.

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GREENSBORO

Fi "anciscan Center, St., is

St.

takes place tonight at 7 p.m. at St. Peter

the council's

Mexican church groups

MEXICO CITY

gation of the April murders of three indigenous men and the rapes of two

Church, 3016 Providence Rd., is holding a charismatic Mass this afternoon at 4 p.m. For details, call the

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N.J. (CNS) dormitory

February

announced in late December it would "no longer procure or provide human tissue derived from elective pregnancy terminations for research and education." State Sen. Martin G. Madden, a Republican representing the district where the company is located, said he was "very pleased" with the company's decision and hopes that it does not change that stand. Death threats continue against rel,

Jose and Blanca Garcia prepare a Christ figurine to mark the Feast of the Presentation at their family store in central Mexico City Feb. 11. Mexicans celebrate the day by dressing the nativity figurine and taking it to Mass. The feast marks the ceremony in which Christ was brought to the temple and Mary was purified after his birth.

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sion by a

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Someone

an anonymous official quoted in the newspaper. Maryland firm stops selling

1997, and the percentage of the global population marked a slight increase, too. The Americas, considered as a single continent by the Vatican, had the strongest concentration of Catholics in the general population, with 63.1 percent. It was followed by Europe with 41.4 percent, Oceania with 26.9 percent, Africa with 15.6 percent and Asia with

MEXICO CITY

fire.

said

fire,"

million from

can church leaders expressed ap-

2000

The Star-Ledger newspaper of Newark reported Feb. 2. The report said investigators were seeking four suspects and were focusing

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Mexican church leaders welcome police raid ending strike

erately set,

number of priests rises VATICAN CITY (CNS) The number of Catholics reached

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The

233 North Greene

presenting "Benedictine

Baptists: Breaking

Down

Among

Barriers"

this afternoon from 12:10-1 p.m. The presenter is Benedictine Father Samuel Webster, retreat master, spiritual director and faculty member at Wake Forest School of Divinity in early Christianity, worship and spiritual life. For pre-registration and other

information, call (336) 273-2554. The Catholic

WINSTON-SALEM Home

—

School Educators' group

tak-

ing part in a discussion, led by Father Ray Williams, about the explanation of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The session is being held this morning at 10:30 a.m. at St. Leo the Great Church, 335 Springdale Ave* Reconciliation

Call

available after the session.

Mary Matheson

(336) 768-

1276 for further information.

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Mercy Sister Mary Barbara Sullivan remembered for service BELMONT —

Sister Mary Marv Bar Rarbara Sullivan, RSM, 74, died Saturday, Feb. 5, 2000 at Mercy Hospital.

She was received as a Sister of Mercy on Aug. 15, 1950, and was in her 49th year as a Sister of Mercy. The wake service was held at 7

Monday, Feb. 7, 2000, in the Cardinal Gibbons Chapel at Sacred p.m.,

Heart Convent, Belmont. Visitation followed the wake. A Mass of Christian Burial was held at 1 1 a.m., Tues.,

2000

at the Cardinal

Gibbons

Chapel with burial following

at the

Belmont Abbey Cemetery. Sister Mary Barbara was born Aug, 7, 1925 in Corinth, Mississippi. Her birth name was Mary Frances Sullivan; she took the

name

Sister

Mary Barbara upon entering the religious order of the Sisters of Mercy on Aug.

1949.

partment, for the National Catholic Educational Association in Washington, D.C. In 1971-1972, she served as the first Director of Field Services for -the

NCEA,

as well as the Director of

Adult Education. Later, Sister Barbara held several positions in the Diocese of Charlotte.

She served

Coordinator of Federal

NCEA

schools in the Diocese of Charlotte became certified by the North Carolina Department of Education. In 1977, Sister Barbara became the first religious sister to hold a political

office

for

North Carolina

Mayor Pro Tern of the City of Belmont. During her term in office, she spearheaded the building of 32 units of low rent housing for the elderly. as

Barbara served in the U.S. Naval Nurse Corps during 1948 and 1949. She went on to receive her Master's Degree in Education Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1965. ministry assignments include supervisory posts in orthopedic and surgical nursing at St. first

Joseph's Hospital, Asheville, Mercy Hospital, Charlotte,

and NC. She

1992, Sister Barbara assumed the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of Catherine's House, a transitional shelter for women and children. At Catherine's House, she devoted

her energies untiringly to the residents. By the time she retired in 1998, Catherine's House, under Sister Barbara's leadership, had provided food, clothing, shelter and opportunities for spiritual, emotional and intellectual

growth

360 women

to over

and children. Until her death, Sister Barbara continued her housing ministry as a volunteer paralegal advocate at Legal Services of the Southern Piedmont, helping families about to be evicted in the

Gaston County

area.

North Carolina

lies.

when she was

elected to the Belmont City Council. In 1979 she was again elected to public office, serving a term

Presidential

Award

Out-

for

standing Service to Catholic Education in 1975. In 1995 she received the prestigious Carpathian Award for Personal Advocacy, which is awarded by North Carolina Equity, Working

Photo courtesy Sisters of Mercy

Sister

Mary Barbara

Sullivan,

RSM,

died at age 74 after nearly 50 years of service to the Sisters of Mercy in

North Carolina.

Sister Mary Barbara studied voice and piano at Salem College, Winston-Salem. She was a graduate of Belmont Abbey College and the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, receiving her degree as a registered nurse in 1947. A navy veteran, Sister

Her

Barbara's efforts in education and her unflagging vigilance and advocacy on behalf of women and children who are homeless were recognized by numerous nominations and awards. She was twice nominated for the Gaston County Outstanding Woman of the Year award and nominated for the Distinguished Women of North Carolina award and the TBS/Sprint Century of Women Special Achievement award. She was awarded the

In 1970 she served as the acting Executive Secretary, Elementary De-

Programs and Special Projects and, from 1984-1989, was Superintendent of Catholic schools. During her tenure as superintendent, all Catholic

Sister Mary Barbara Sullivan, RSM 1925 - 1950 - 2000

Feb.

gious community

Women

and Fami-

1998, Sister Barbara was named Belmont's Citizen of the Year. Sister Barbara's passing is a tremendous loss to her family, her religious community and the civic com-

munity she so tirelessly served. She remembered as an excellent piano player and singer. She was also an avid sports fan who had a particular fondness for UNC-Chapel Hill will be

basketball games.

resentative to the National Catholic Education Association. She served on many Boards of Directors, including the Charlotte Diocesan Board of Education, Sacred Heart Campus School Board of Education, Sacred Heart College Board of Trustees, Southern Pied-

mont Health Systems Agency and South Point Lifesaving Crew. Sister Barbara was also a Board member for the Gaston County Council on Aging, the state and local division of the American Cancer Society, House of Mercy, Legal Services of the Southern Piedmont and the NC

Low Income Housing

Coalition. In addition, Sister Barbara chaired the

Belmont Housing Authority Board of Directors and served on the Editorial

Sister

Mary Barbara was

daughter of the

the

John Daniel

late

Sullivan and Julia Barbara Flowers. She was the stepdaughter of the late J.W. Jamison. She is survived by her

Anne Hackney

sister,

of Myrtle

Beaoh, SC; her nieces, Jenny Taylor of Myrtle Beach, SC and Babs Smith of Durham, NC; her nephew, Sam Hackney, III of Monroe, NC; her grand-

nephews,

NC,

Tommy

Orr of Charlotte,

Jason M. Taylor and Stephen C. Hackney; and her grandnieces, Jennifer Taylor Maher and Samantha Anne Hackney. Memorials may be made to Catherine's House, P.O. Box 1633, Belmont, NC 28012 or Legal Services of the Southern Piedmont, lll-A Third Ave., Suite 200, Gastonia, NC J.J.

Taylor,

II,

was later a teacher and principal at various North Carolina Catholic

Sister Barbara belonged to numerous national, state and local edu-

schools and, for many years, served as educational consultant to her reli-

Advisory Board of the magazine

cational associations, serving in 1972-1973 as the southern states' rep-

"Highlights for Children". In spite of her humility, Sister

28052.

retreat

invited to St. Patrick Cathedral, 1621

allowing couples preparing for marriage to concentrate exclusively on each other

Dilworth Rd. East, for a Mass for those who have suffered a loss. The Mass is being celebrated tonight at 7:30 p.m. In order to have the name(s) of the

On-site childcare is provided, so to reserve a space or to share your story, call Betsy Strauss at (336) 885-5210.

south of Charlotte, today and tomorrow. For registration, directions and other information, call Dorothy Menze at (888) 310-8040 or (704) 364-6726:

Engaged Encounter

weekend

free of tensions

and pressures. This weekend's retreat is being held at the Blue Ridge Assembly, 20 minutes east of Asheville, today and tomorrow. For

Mass and

registration, directions

church

and other

in-

formation, call Dorothy Menze at (888) 310-8040 or (704) 364-6726.

CHARLOTTE

—

Where You

Are:

"Living Jesus Practical Path to

Holiness" is the theme for St. Ann Church's Parish Mission, taking place today through Feb. 23 at 3635 Park Rd. There are six morning and evening sessions, after 9 a.m. Eucharist in the morning and beginning at 7 p.m. at night from Feb. 21-23. Oblate of St.

Francis de Sales Father Murray, executive direc-

Michael S. tor of the De Sales Spirituality Center

Washington D.C, is leading the event. For further information, call in

the church office at (704) 523-8671.

23 CHARLOTTE

—

All famil ies are

deceased remembered during the for further details, call the

office at (704)

25 CHARLOTTE

—

334-2283. St.

Luke Church,

26 CHARLOTTE

— The

St.

Gabriel

Church Adult Education Department presents "Journey into Lent 2000" today from 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. This year's theme "Are there doors in my life that I have closed?" is being explored by Mercy Sister Jeanne Marie Kienast,

27 HENDERSONVILLE

pastoral associate at St.

the

ing

Church

quirers are

Drama

of the church's singing groups. and dance are also part of the

performance as they

tell

the Biblical

through song and dance. There are two performances, one at stories

7:30 p.m. tonight and on Feb. 27 at 5 p.m. Call the church office at (704)

545-1224 for more

HIGH POINT

details.

— Immaculate Heart of

Mary Church, 512 Montlieu Ave., is sponsoring a meeting for Catholic di-

in Charlotte.

Matthew The theme will

wing. Visitors and in-

welcome to sit in and For more information,

Caryn Cusick, adult education coordi-

the St. Gabriel

participate.

Pat Cowan at 28 CHARLOTTE

call

(828) 884-4246

— The Alzheimer/ D

Church Ministry Cen-

nator, at (704) 362-5047, Ext. 276.

ter,

ROCK

are provided for the

HILL,

S.C.

gaged Encounter

—

Catholic En-

weekend

retreat

lenges and questions and suggestions.

held at

tonight at 7:15 p.m.

office

Dementia Support Group meets today from 2-3:30 p.m. in rooms and E of

This serves as a time ad place to share joys and sorrows, successes and chal-

moms

new

cover "the doors to reconciliations, unresolved grief and new beginnings." Continental breakfast is being served, but please bring a bag lunch. For more information about registration, call

allowing couples preparing for marriage to concentrate exclusively on each other free of tensions and pressures. This weekend's retreat is being

vorced, single

St.

from 3-5 p.m. at Immaculate Conception Church, 208 7th Ave. West, in

13700 Lawyers Rd., is hosting "Tales of Wonder," a musical production featurall

— The

Francis of the Hills Fraternity of the Secular Franciscan Order meets today

Winthrop College, 30 minutes

3016 Providence Rd.

paired.

Activities

memory-im-

For more information,

Suzanne Bach

at (704)

call

376-4135.

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

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February

Around the Diocese

Catholic identity, primary way to be in worship, and you have to be pre"It

Pope notes low

from page 1

rates,

Father DeAngelo explained how the elements of the Mass prayer, music,

the

—

pared."

candles, the altar, the liturgies of the

Father DeAngelo's message was part of this year's diocesan retreat for

Word

college students in Catholic

ministry.

The gathering

Camp

Thunderbird focused on the who, what, when? where and how of Catholic particularly as experienced by college-aged students. The retreat included group and individual prayer, the sacrament of

reconciliation, the celebration of Mass, and a

message

from Bishop' William G. Curlin.

Colleen

strangers, with ancestors in faith. the Mass, he added, Catholics offer

di-

ocesan director

students, so that they're able to express and understand it in their own

gether.

McDermott, who

spirituality,"

said

met

with campus ministers

last fall

things there

—

sage

history, part catechism,

left

must "revive the culture of love and rediscovering (their) mission as assumed by them at the moment of their marriage." The pope's appeal came during the Italian church's annual Day of Life, life,

parents,

—

established two decades ago after the country's legalization of abortion. Italy's declining birthrate featured

prominently

in a recent report by the country's bishops, which pointed to gov-

ernment

Contact Associate Editor Jimmy Rostar by calling (704) 370-3334 or email jtrosta r@cha 7iottediocese.0rg.

statistics for 1998 recording 533,000 births and 577,000 deaths. The country's average of 1.2 children per couple, some projections suggest, will reduce the population from the current level of 57 million people to 41 million by 2050.

Campus ministry is one of the 35 programs and ministries that receives funds from the annual Diocesan Support

About 4 million abortions have been performed in Italy since the procedure was legalized 22 years ago, Olimpia Tarsia, national secretary of

ber. "I

walked away from the retreat

feeling Christ's presence in a very profound way."

life in

the Italian

Appeal.

Movement

e mmfe ra!ionPse^^ces domestic &

international

adoption

pregnancy support

material assistance

counseling

for Life, told

Vatican Radio.

& Peace, Special Ministries 370-3228 (704) 370-3298 fax 370-6930 (704) 370-3290 fax 370-3225 (704) 370-3377 fax 370-3228 (704) 370-3377 fax

Administration, Refugee, Justice Executive Director: Elizabeth Thurbee (704)

Refugee Justice

Office:

Peace:

Special Ministries

One You're Gonna Want One!

Cira Ponce Joanne K. Frazer Gerard A Carter

(704)

(704) (704)

Area

Director:

Charlotte Area Office 1 1 23 South Church St., Charlotte, NC 28203 Gen King (704) 370-3232 (704) 370-3377 fax Western Area Office 35 Orange Street, Asheville, NC 28801

Area

Director:

Sr.

We Warn You: If You

and legislative decihe said Feb. 6 during the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square. He said that the government needs "to remove the obstacles which hinder families," and that couples

—

will enter the

church at this year's Easter vigil. "Knowing is so much better than not

children.

sions,"

her "with a better concept of the Mass in general what it means to be together." "It helps to meet other people who are Catholic to relate to them, to talk with them, to share experiences," said Price, who has been involved in retreats in high school and college as both a participant and a team mem-

examine the Mass step-by-step. "It was a very interesting perspective," said Myrick, a freshman at Belmont

In a conversation with students

cultural, political

and a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Janet Price said Father DeAngelo's mes-

of us coming to-

Abbey College who

why you're there at church and why you're doing what you're doing." One of four retreat coordinators

—

they seek and often lack. "So of our students are very spiritual and have a strong desire to know about faith, yet they are often uncatechized," she said. "As I meet people, I see a recognition that there is a search for Catholic identity and what that means. There is that strong desire to be involved, and a strong need for community."

of the worst to experience is to be

from,

"It educated me a little bit more about the meaning behind the Mass and really what it means to be Catholic that coming together as a community and as a church," she said. "I've been Catholic all my life, and I've never really stopped to think about and understand what each part of the Mass truly means." As a participant in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults process, J.R. Myrick appreciated the chance to

many

— Pope

calling Italy's negative

II,

cannot but be for Italian society a motive for attentive reflection and stimulus for renewal, both in mentalities and in

One

"To have Father Jude look over it, you understand where it all comes

—

McDermott said discussions like the one Father DeAngelo led give college students the information about

was part

all

John Paul

lost.

For Nadra Wagner, a sophomore at North Carolina A & T University in Greensboro, Father DeAngelo's presentation and the entire retreat was a learning experience.

what's really essential: Who are we? What does the church teach about human dignity? Where are we going? When are we living out our faith? How do we live this out?"

that

it's

News Service (CNS)

VATICAN CITY

cline registered in recent years

really understanding.

"Every action that we do is a sign of unity with one another in Christ."

and past retreatants to discuss new possibilities for the 2000 retreat. "Out of that," she said, "came

faith

because

JOHN NORTON

"The worrying demographic de-

—

real,

birth

birth rate "worrying," urged Italians

all

"A retreat like this needs to be internal and integrated for college

of campus ministry, said the focus of this year's retreat results from an effort to combine Catholic theology with lived experience.

to have

of life's struggles and joys to God as they continue in their journey of faith. "It's not just you and me it's us and the Lord Jesus," Father DeAngelo said. "When you come to church, this is the best thing to do. This is where we're real; this is where we're really

2000

urges Italians to

Catholic

—

faith,

McDermott,

—

have more children

Bishop William G. Curlin's dialogue with college students from across the Diocese of Charlotte.

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Our Lady of Grace youth aid GREENSBORO — Seven teens

and three adults from Our Lady of Grace Church in Greensboro recently spent two days in Windsor, N.C, as-

ceived over twenty inches of rain and the second with Hurricane Irene, when the saturated town received another nine inches of rain. The effects

sisting the rebuilding efforts of the Interfaith Council of Bertie County.

instances.

were devastatingly the same

Students helped drywall, putty and sand the walls of the ruined homes belonging to two elderly women.

in N.C.

flood relief

both

Kathy Powers, head of the Interfaith Council's Relief Center, said that

there are

The

75-year-old aunt of one of the owners visited the students working at the site. The retired nurse and the

still

several areas in Bertie

County thaj have not been

assisted.

Moreover, efforts to identify and help those people have been hampered because many former elderly

primary caregiver of a 40-year-old mentally- handicapped son was imresidents, believing they don't qualify pressed that the youth would take for assistance, have gone to live elsetime from their Martin where. Luther King Jr. holiIn fact, the Federal day weekend to work Emergency Manage"We have to continue on the home of somement Agency (FEMA) to find ways to assist one they didn't know. was pulling out of the The group spent these people, as many county during that

the night at the local fire station before continuing work the next

had so

little

week

with which

to begin."

ened, even with

— Meredith Lambert

evident damages

The next morning,

many

the area's fire chief

showed the students a video of the flood, which covered most of the 232year-old town, including both of the homes the students had worked on the day before. About 95 percent of the town was covered with six to 12

much of which was

contaminated. The town also lost two residents who drowned during the flooding.

The

who

fire chief,

for

their services has less-

day.

feet of floodwater,

demand

youth he can't even think about drinking water after all they have been told the

through, said that Windsor actually experienced two floods the first with Hurricane Floyd when they re-

—

homes

still

abandoned after the floods.

The

Interfaith Council plans to continue to assist flood victims and will

work

to raise funds to help those

who have

fallen through the gap of federal and state assistance pro-

grams. Because the Interfaith Council was sharing FEMA's rented office space, Our Lady of Grace Ch urcn youth helped move the council's office to a new site. This entailed transferring hundreds of boxes of donated supplies.

see

now

Photo courtesy Ruth Fleming

en members of Our Lady of Grace parish recently helped rebuild a home in Windsor, NC. The water line on the window awning indicates the level to where flood waters rose this fall. Participants were, from left to right chaperones Annie Short and Ann Lambert, Meredith Lambert, Lasanio Small' Tia Thomas, Cornelius Short, Sheena Bergeron, Christopher Callaghan and Nicole Bergeron. Not shown is Ruth Fleming, Youth Minister at Our Lady of Grace Church. I

needed is money to help rebuild," said Nicole Bergeron, one of .the parish's youth.

Most

of the

homes damaged by

the floods have had to be completely gutted and rebuilt, including the heating and cooling systems.

Many

of the flood victims received only $100 to $200 from fed-

that people don't really need donations of old clothes, house-

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hold goods,

According to Powers, FEMA made a distinction between hurricane and flooding damages but declined

but what's really

etc.,

relief

were not

programs because they designated flood zones.

by wind-driven rain and tornadoes, which hit rural areas aid to areas hit

the hardest.

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definitely

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is still

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Meredith Lambert agreed, have to continue to find ways to these people, as many had so with which to begin."

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As a result of the mini-service trip, the youth have made fundraising for the flood victims one of their priorities.

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Pope opens door to new entrance of Vatican Museums

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to the Vatican

seums. At a Feb. 7 ceremony, the pope

than a driver's license, said a Catholic woman appointed to head a new Aus-

bronze door to inaugurate the revamped space. Praising the museums' role as a "temple of art and culture" for all people, the pope said "the museums are, on a cultural level, one of the most significant doors of the Holy See opened to the world." Biblical scholar says Catholics need not fear the Bible WASHINGTON (CNS) For many years biblical scholar Steve Mueller has been concerned that

tralian government council on marriage and the family. But Pauline Frick is

communication

down

into un-

charted territory. To allay those fears Mueller, a Catholic, has written "The Seeker's Guide to Reading the Bible: a Catholic View," published by Loyola

he treats Bible reading as spiritual "journey." Mueller has been an instructor at the Denver Catholic Biblical School for the past 14 years, and also has writPress. In

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ten articles and lectured on biblical

theology and spirituality. Draft stem-cell guidelines should be scrapped, priest tells NIH

WASHINGTON

(CNS)

—

The

general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference has called on the National Institutes of Health to scrap the pro-

posed guidelines that would permit federal funding of stem-cell research involving human embryos. The official, Msgr. Dennis M. Schnurr, said in an 1 1-page submission to the agency that withdrawal of the guidelines was "the NIH's only morally and legally responsible course." Msgr. Schnurr's Jan. 31

submission was

response to an NIH request for comment on its draft guidelines for federal funding of em-

physician-assisted suicide halted

SAN FRANCISCO (CNS)

—

Legislation to legalize physician-assisted suicide in California was halted Jan. 31 when its sponsor declined to bring it to the floor of the state As-

sembly

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tients,

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Catholics applaud Illinois

governor's moratorium on death penalty ROMEOVILLE, 111. (CNS)

—

Catholic leaders in Illinois praised

Gov. George Ryan's decision to halt executions in the state, the first such moratorium in the nation. The Republican governor, who supports the death penalty, made the anall

nouncement

Jan.

31.

cited the

"shameful record of convicting innocent people and putting them on death row" and said he couldn't risk the execution of an innocent person. Joliet Bishop Joseph L. Imesch, who provided testimony in favor of the moratorium at a public hearing in Chicago, was delighted with the state's

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Mercy

bryonic stem-cell research. The deadline for public comment, originally Jan. 31, was later extended to Feb. 22. California bill to legalize

mother of four, by Prime Minister John Howard to chair the 10-member National Marriage and Family Council. It is an 18-month appointment. Italian bishops cautious to approve Catholic-Muslim marriages

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) After opening the Holy Doors of Rome's four major basilicas, Pope John Paul II opened his fifth door of the jubilee: the

Archbishop

Ennio

Antonelli, secretary of the Italian bishops' conference, emphasized the need to protect constitutional rights in the family sphere. At jubilee for religious, pope

stresses benefits of vows

VATICAN CITY

(CNS)

—

Reli-

gious men and women gain more than they lose when they take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, Pope John Paul II said. "Far from being a renunciation which impoverishes, (the vows) constitute a choice which frees the person for a fuller realization of his potentialities," he said Feb. 2 during a Mass in St. Peter's Square celebrating the Jubilee for Consecrated Life. The vows also give an important message to the world, he said: "Those who vigilantly await the fulfillment of Christ's promises are able to

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Catholic school students greet Sammy Sosa on Denver visit —

DENVER (CNS) When Chi cago Cub's home-run hitter Sammy Sosa got off the plane at Denver Internationa] Airport, 30 grade school students from area Catholic schools greeted him with a hearty

"Believe all

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forgetting one's roots. "We are born the same way, but we grow up in a different way

God and

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education comes from the house," Sosa said. Often when athletes get to superstar status and make big salaries, he added, "they forget who their friends are, they forget everybody. One reason I do this is to set an example, superstars can do that." A Catholic, Sosa treasures his family and his faith in God, and he said he has never forgotten that others were willing to help him when he was growing up poor. When Sosa

— Sammy Sosa

"Bienvenido!"

Clutching baseballs and trading cards, the students were hoping to get

autographs from Sosa, who was in to address a Latino educa-

Denver

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Sosa and

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—

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was

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70;

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dren.

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Catholic Schools New:

School groundbreaking signals ALESHA

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He mentioned the people who "among those who recognized

Staff Writer

KERNERSVILLE '

—

year,

students in the Piedmont-Triad area will continue their education in a new

environment, when the new Bishop McGuinness Memorial High School will open its doors for students in August 2001. In a symbolic begin-

ning to the school's establishment, Bishop William G. Curlin dug the first hole during the groundbreaking ceremony at the site on Feb. 6. Current and future Bishop McGuinness students, parents, educators and diocesan officials were present for the final day of celebration, which included words from the bishop, Father Mauricio W. West, chancellor and vicar general, George L. Repass, principal of Bishop

McGuinness and Bishop McGuinness student council president Laura Hoeing.

embodied

in its mission, and what begins today will ensure the excellence we seek for perhaps years to come," he continued.

Flanked by the Abbot Vincent G. Taylor Assembly of Greensboro Knights of Columbus, Bishop Curlin blessed the field, which will become a place of learning for many area students.

Parker Sloan, a ninth grader at Bishop McGuinness, said, "I will be happy when it is finally built because

we will have more room and more op-

torch, carried in

consecrate this ground

by student represen-

and

tatives from Our Lady" of Grace School and St. Pius X School

are here to

Greensboro, Immaculate Heart of Mary School in High Point, and Our Lady

present

these young students."

— Bishop William

Mercy School and St. Leo School in

G. Curlin

because ter,"

said

grader at

relations.

Greg Means, an eighth Leo School, who carried

St.

site.

classes,

the

"It

good,

of the new because of fields and sports programs."

academically, because

and

education, which shaped his own life. "I would not be a priest today if I had not had the blessing of Catho-

faculty into the

education;

believe

the support

excited about the school will be technologically bet-

the torch onto the

the sacrifice because you can't beat the quality of education and the values you receive," he said.

I received parents and the inspiration I received from my teachers motivated me to give my life to the Lord." "We are here to consecrate this ground and lay the foundation for a Christian education; we are here to make Christ present in the lives of these young students," he said. In his benediction, Father West led the crowd in prayers of interces-

from

bring the middle schools in the Triad area together and served as a light for the future, said Eddie Mitchell, Bishop McGuinness director of devel-

surrounding community. She mentioned the camaraderie and family atmosphere found in the current building that will follow the students and

lic

Winston-Salem, represented a way to

the lives of

all

athletically,

new Repass addressed the crowd,

gathered in semi-circle fashion, and thanked all involved with the process on diocesan and community levels.

sion:

"You

inspire us in the firm

we begin to day with Your blessings that the school

brought

hope

build to-

will be completion with Your

protection."

Hoeing, a senior at Bishop McGuinness, talked about the vari-

new

facility.

"... With all of these improvements found in the new school, one thing at Bishop McGuinness is not going to change, and that is the sense of community and fellowship found in every hallway and classroom ..." The response from parents, teachers and students is positive; many are in support of the new school and anx-

iously await

its arrival.

looking forward to having a larger facility and having a bigger classroom," said Bob Klepf, senior calculus and pre-calculus teacher at Bishop McGuinness. "With a la*rger student population, we'll be able to offer more courses and schedule more levels of honors classes." Victor Archibong, an Our Lady of Grace Church parishioner, has chil"I

dren who have attended Bishop McGuinness, and his son Tony is

CHARLOTTE

The CCHS

Foundation will host its annual gala and auction on February 26, 2000, from 7 p.m. until midnight at the new Renaissance Charlotte Suites Hotel. Gala 2000, formerly called the Grand Prix Party, will feature dinner, dancing and an auction, to support Charlotte Catholic High School. Musical entertainment will be provided by "From the Top," a seven-piece orchestra.

At Gala 2000, you will enjoy all the southern hospitality Charlotte has to offer. Gala 2000 promises to make this year a memorable one. Join us in the Grand Ballroom at the Renaissance Charlotte Suites Hotel ocated at 2800 Coliseum Drive.

finally

together. Catholic education

coming worth

Bishop McGuinness alumnus Nitz agreed with his fellow Our Lady of Grace Church parishioner: "We have been waiting, and this couldn't be a more perfect time. The

Tony

benefits of the school are less specific

and more holistic because this will embrace the whole Triad community. Bishop McGuinness provided a wonderful environment and opportunity for me and my children, and the new school will bring better technology, more space and a better athletic and arts environment."

The groundbreaking ceremony was the culmination of three days of festivities, including a fine arts evening with poetry and music and soccer and basketball battles between the alumni and current students.

Contact Staff Writer Alesha

Price by calling (704) 370-3354 or e-

ma il amprice@cha r lottediocese. org.

He expressed his excitement over the new school. "It is currently a junior.

Charlotte Catholic High School hosts Gala —

breaking during

site

his remarks, bishop commented about the importance of Catholic

make Christ

a joy to see that

the

Photo by Alesha M. Price

Bishop William G. Curlin invites young participants to assist him ground at the new Bishop McGuinness Memorial High School the ceremony on Feb. 6. ous service groups at the school and how they have been beneficial to the

football."

lay the foundation for

a Christian education;

opment and public

tions for clubs and sports programs, like

"We are here to

stood in the ground.

The

are the

need to provide for a growing Catholic presence in the Triad and those who have long-awaited and hoped for [The new facility] and who were involved with the planning process, which began so many years ago." "What will be built upon this site will provide a more ample means for the school to achieve the vision

The windy day finally overcame the flaming torch as

new beginning

2000

At this year's auction, there will be a variety of items up for bid, such as, fine jewelry, gift certificates to Charlotte's hottest restaurants and clubs, autographed memorabilia, golf packages, sporting event tickets and many others. There will be a silent and a live portion of the auction. The Foundation needs items that can be used in the auction. If you would like to donate an auction item, please call the CCHS Development Office at

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Catholic High School. The CCHS Foundation has previously funded uniforms for the marching band, technology needs, the Spring musicals and Fall plays, the automation of the library and many other educational demands that cannot be met through tuition alone. Order now, as

(704) 543-91 18.

apply.

tickets are limited.

The winner

of this year's Grand Spree London-Paris Holiday will be announced at Gala 2000. The Grand Spree trip includes seven days and six nights in London and Paris, round-trip World Traveler transat-

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Raffle tickets for the LondonParis holiday are just $5 each or $25

and can be purchased by calling 704-543-9118. The winner of the 2000 Grand Spree LondonParis holiday will be announced the for six tickets

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Tickets for

Gala 2000 are $75 and

can be purchased by calling the Charlotte Catholic High School Development Office at (704) 543-9118.

10 The Catholic News & Herald February

Readings

Book Review

Graham Joyce's "Indigo" full Catholic

Graham

News

ASHER

Service

Joyce's writing

rich,

his

descriptions powerful, and his story original, but "Indigo" is a bizarre, uncomfortable tale.

as Jack follows a twisted trail

He's accompanied by his half-sister, Louise, whom he barely knows, and her toddler, Billy.

Rome

his

Billed as a thriller, the It is

book

engrossing

around about his some danger as

into drugs, sex and

young artmind games

hopes they would understand his

invisibility quest.

Jack becomes attracted to one of the

"Indigo" By Graham Joyce Pocket Books (New York, 1999) 258 pp., $23.95.

cess server), never really

knew

trapped

his

follow his last wishes, including finding a publisher for Daddy's obscure

tome, "Invisibility: A Manuscript of Light." Jack has to publish it to receive any money. The bulk of Chambers' to a

woman named

Natalie

Shearer, and Jack has to find her.

Louise from Chicago to Rome, where their father had a house, between the It's

a strange trip.

Jack discovers his father was a

madman, came

a cultlike figure

fixated

ible, or, as

on how

he says,

who

be-

become invis"the art of making to

oneself unseen." He also is obsessed with wanting to see the color indigo

clearly.

Indigo

her world of sex and

ity/indigo theme. Finally, Jack rejects her weird ways, and he and Louise track down the real Natalie in an asylum. She thinks she's invisible. Then Natalie

—

disappears from the asylum, and Jack thinks maybe his father isn't really

dead and has taken her away. He and Louise return to Chicago, and the task of publishing the manuscript. There's more to the weird story of their father, including evidence he

and

That search takes Jack and

Colosseum and the Appian Way.

gets

with the pagan festival Lupercalia and images of being a shewolf, which is really too much to take on top of the book's peculiar invisibil-

couple of times but Timothy remained an enigma. Now he's dead, and Jack has to

is left

knew and

nated

Timothy Chambers. Jack vishim at his Chicago apartment a

estate

his father

drugs. She lets him believe she is the Natalie he is seeking. She also is fasci-

father, ited

women

one of the

seven primary colors, but supposedly the most difficult for the naked eye to distinguish in the spectrum. Timothy Chambers' dual obsesis

News Service

32:1-2, 5,

tally

suffer the

same

fate.

a leper kneels before

him

week's Gospel, no one would blame Jesus for taking a discreet step backward. No one would wonder had Jesus politely pretended not to notice and kept walking. I dare say it's what most of us do today when "otherness" as mental or physical illness or social class or skin color or any of a host of "deviations" from the social norm confronts us with our own vulnerability, with the fragility of the acceptance and inclusion and approval we so need,

in this

Three boys peer nervously across the cafeteria where, at a table by himself, the class geek, all bad hair and thick glasses and dirty

—

hand-me-downs, eats his sandwich, sloppily. Even the most oblivious passerby recognizes him as a social

—

pariah.

the scene unfolds, Homer, one of the boys, rises and walks forward. The outcast is a brain, and

Homer

and

When

Corinthians 10:31-11:1 3) Gospel: Mark 1:40-45

father and ends up in he learns his father drew ists

DAN LUBY

in parts

to discover things

2000

was thought contagious by touch. Lepers had to tear their clothes and dishevel their hair and cover their faces and call out "unclean," so that no one might touch them acciden-

Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46

Psalm 2)

estate of his recently deceased father.

Englishman who is down luck (he's a bobby turned pro-

weird and hard to grasp. suspenseful.

Jack, an

Catholic

step toward invisibility and seeing indigo. It's inventive, for sure, but

opens with Jack Chambers traveling to Rome to wrap up the

Sunday

13, Sixth

Ordinary Time, Cycle B Readings:

Each one describes another

script.

February

sions are inventive. Joyce intersperses "excerpts" from the Chambers manu-

Word to Life

of rich, suspensful writing Reviewed by JULIE

needs his help to realize his

mitting social suicide. If he sits down with this hopeless nerd, the shame of his differentness, his poverty, his sorrow, will settle on Homer like a poisonous mist. He too will become an outcast. This scene from the movie "October Sky" mirrors the thinking at work in the treatment of lepers during biblical times (and for centuries before and after). They were feared

—

Fortunately for the leper and challengingly for us Jesus

—

dream of building a working rocket and winning a scholarship. His friends warn that he's com-

does not step away or pretend not to notice.

touches horror

— —

He acknowledges and

his friends gasping in the brother who yearns

to belong.

Questions: in your life has risked exclusion by touching you at a time of need? What is one concrete way you can include someone who suf-

Who

fers

because of isolation?

and reviled because their calamity

his followers practiced "trepan-

ning," a surgical procedure in which a small disc is cut out of the skull, per-

"Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him and said: 'I do will it. Be cured"' Mark 1:41

haps to alter the brain. And there is how the father becomes obsessed with seeing indigo it is spurred by seizures experienced by his second wife (Louise's mother). The book is fast paced and one has to appreciate Joyce's colorful literary and imaginative style, but the the matter of

—

story's fantastic nature

buy.

what sion.

And

is too much to the characters, while some-

likable,

have no .moral dimen-

Asher

national editor at

CNS.

Weekly Scripture Readings for the week of Feb. 13 - 19, 2000 Sunday (Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time), Leviticus 13:1-2 44-46 Corinthians 10:31-11:1, Mark 1:40-45; Monday (Sts. Cyril and Methodius) James 1:1-11, Mark 8:11-13; Tuesday, James 1:12-18, Mark 8-14-21 Wednesday, James 1:19-27, Mark 8:22-26; Thursday (Seven Servite Founders), James 2:1-9, Mark 8:27-33; Friday, James 2:14-24, 26, Mark 8:349:1; Saturday, James 3:1-10, Mark 9:2-13 l

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Entertainment

drama

Epic

"Titus" tells tale

Roman war

hero and family

ANNE NAVARRO

Catholic

emperor's court partakes

News Service

NEW YORK

—

(CNS)

also arresting.

so thickly that at times

/ronged mother avenges the death of ler first-born son at the hands of a Roman war hero by bringing death and despair on the hero and his fam-

But Shakespeare so eloquently expressed the effects of hatred sowed in the human heart that it is hard to escape how current his tale seems today, especially in light of the recent atrocities in Bosnia

The

— adults,

stays true to his words, reproducing a higher percentage of text than any other recent screen adaptation of his work.

with reservations. The Motion Picture Association of America rating

—

restricted.

Although Titus (Anthony Hopkins), Rome's finest general, returns victorious to his homeland with his Goth

He has

This begins the

Anthony Hopkins portrays Titus

Tamora's sons, the punkish princes

Shakespeare's early work.

MTV

The film's

finds herself the wife of the

stellar performances give the bloody audacity some balance.

Lennix makes his Aaron seethe with contempt for the years of humiliation and prejudices his black skin has endured and presents a man in whom hate has only borne more hate.

recently

appointed emperor Saturninus (Alan Cumming). It is in this new position of power and with the help of her Moor servant and lover, Aaron (Harry Lennix), that she is able to make Titus pay dearly for

pity that Hopkins announced his plans to retire while still filming the picture because 4ie gives one of his best performances as Titus. It

the death of her son. In -a misguided rage, Titus kills one of his sons to protect the honor of

And Lange's

Saturninus. Two of Titus' other sons are framed for the murder of his sonin-law (the emperor's brother) and beheaded. His only daughter is raped

Tamora

passionate

brings vengeance and loathing to an

new

height.

is an unending descent of destruction culminating in a twisted banquet serving a "family" recipe. But

"Titus"

by Tamora's two sons, who cut out her tongue and shove twigs into the stumps where they have chopped off her hands. Lucius (Angus Macfadyen), the only son he has left, is exiled from Rome. And this is only part of the carnival of carnage in director Julie Taymor's "Titus." Certainly not for the fainthearted,

film,

ture in the center.

vicious cycle of bloody revenge. In an unusual turn of events,

Tamora

dark

den that looks part studio and part video arcade. Hanging on the wall of this dirty bachelor pad is a dart board with Titus' scarred pic-

sons in the war, and as reparahe sacrifices Tamora's eldest son,

right before her eyes.

in a

lost all but four of his

many tion,

this

Taymor uses touches of humor mixed with modernism to lighten it.

CNS PHOTO FROM

FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES

in the recent film adaptation of

Demetrius (Matthew Rhys) and Chiron (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), live

prisoners of war: Tamora (Jessica Lange), the queen of the Goths, and her three sons.

and Rwanda and

the murderous high school rampages in the United States. And Taymor

"Titus" U.S. Catholic Conference

A-IV

seating.

ily in the epic drama "Titus" (Fox Searchlight Pictures).

classification is

an orgy painted can be nauin

Revenge

—

Conference classification

is A-II adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 parents are strongly cautioned that some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

scenes but the movie's moral perspective is implicit throughout. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-III adults. The Motion Picture

cess,

several explicit sexual situa-

—

The Motion

of Shakespeare's

Picture Association of America rating

R — restricted. V is

—

parental guidance suggested.

"Muriel's Wedding" (1995) Obsessed with fantasies of her wedding day, a young woman (Toni Collette) lacking self-esteem excitedly rushes into an arranged marriage, abandoning her wheelchair-bound roommate (Rachel Griffiths) in the proonly to come to her senses after a family tragedy. Despite the infectiously buoyant tone of the proceedings, Australian writer-director P.J.

Hogan's giddy comedy-drama never digs deeply into the title character's development as a person until the undeserved feel-good ending. Discreet bedroom scenes, fleeting nudity and a few instances of rough language. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-III adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R restricted.

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pulsive.

Navarro

—

"Moonstruck" (1987) Charming romantic comedy set in an Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn where a widow (Cher) accepts the proposal of a fastidious bachelor (Danny Aiello) but then falls in love with his darkly emotional younger brother (Nicolas Cage). Director Norman Jewison concentrates more on the comedy of character than on incident and the result is pleasantly amusing, emotionally operatic and humanly uplifting. Several sexually suggestive

lence,

adults, with reservations.

Watching the arms of Tamora's sons go slack after their throats are slit is jarring. A scene in which the

ultimately disappoints as the lovers' characters are only superficially developed. Romantic complications and an instance of rough language. The U.S. Catholic

Association of America rating

and nudity, the U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-IV

first successful play both visually scintillating and re-

"Love Affair" (1994) Sentimental remake of the 1939 "Love Affair" in which a couple (Warren Beatty and Annette Bening) have a shipboard romance though each is engaged to another, then plan to meet three months later to get married, until a tragic accident jeopardizes their future. Director Glenn Gordon Caron's sumptuous, postcard-pretty melodrama is sweetly old-fashioned in its execution though it

even though the stunning visuals and key performances are engrossing, three intense hours of unavoidable gore may keep some viewers away. Because of recurring graphic viotions,

Taymor's three-hour version

Out on video

"Sabrina" (1995)

on the staff of the U.S.

Catholic Conference Office for Broadcasting.

Film and

Let stairs be our

—

Gauzy romantic

fantasy in which a workaholic billionaire (Harrison Ford) falls in love with his chauffeur's daughter (Julia Ormond) while trying to distract her from an infatuation with his engaged brother (Greg Kinnear). Director Sydney Pollack's long but lush remake of the 1954 Audrey Hepburn version is featherweight fluff laboriously plumped up with contrived romantic

emotions. Fleeting violence and very mild sexual references. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-II adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG parental guidance suggested.

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The

wage movement

best of times for shareholders reveals still hard times for low wage workers.

Speaks

POPE JOHN PAUL

.k.../_L

on U.S. leaders to use moral values to save democracy WASHINGTON (CNS) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; In an address calls

Great times for CEO pay scales show flat times for workers making minimum wage. A surplus for the federal budget masks the mounting indebtedness of low skilled workers. The mighty national economic engine has already roared out of the station pulling a train of unprecedented prosperity, while the working poor stand on the platform left behind. The movement for a "living wage" addresses the widening income gap. Since 1994 ordinances passed in 42 cities and counties with proposals in 80 more mandate that private firms eligible for local government contracts pay their workers substantially more than the minimum wage. At $5.15 an hour set in 1997, the minimum wage means a

wage of $10,712, well below the fedpoverty guidelines of $16,000 for a family of

gross annual eral

delivered by his apostolic nuncio, Pope John Paul II told the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 3 in Washington that people of faith with

four. Plainly put, businesses that benefit

political authority bear a

at a time prosperity has highlighted social inequalities. Welfare reform in 1 995 never intended to eliminate poverty, but simply to get people off welfare roles. Stories written about welfare-to-work show the

moral responsibility democracy from self-destruction. "Democracy is our best opportunity to promote the values that will make the world a to save

better place for everyone," said the pope. "But a society which exalts individual choice as the ultimate source of truth undermines the very

foundations of democracy." His address was delivered by Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, the apostolic nuncio to the

United States. The annual prayer breakfast draws thousands of people of all denominations from across the country. In addition to religious it typically is attended by the presi-

from public contracts should pay workers enough to keep them out of poverty.

The living-wage movement comes

when

working poor beaten by a system that continues to bloat CEO paychecks and by government contracts that reward corporations with pork. Of the welfare recipients who went from welfare in 1998 to work in 1999, only 28.8 percent earned above the federal poverty level of $14,500 for a family of three. Approximately 6 million single-parent families, mainly headed by women, survive on low-wage

jobs.

For people of

leaders,

dent and

many members

of Congress, the Cabinet, the judiciary, diplomats and state and local politicians. first lady,

The

pope's remarks said that the vision of which Christians are particularly called in this jubilee year has a public dimension, "for the deeper understanding of the truth faith

wage addresses

faith, a just

injustice of the system.

the

"Workers must be paid

wage which allows them to live a truly human life," writes John XXIII, summarizing the church's 20th century social teachings on wages. Trying to calcu-

FATHER JOHN

RAUSCH Guest Columnist

late a just wage in dollars and cents, however, posses a daunting task. Numerous variables cloud the calculations. Fr. John A. Ryan, a theologian focusing on economics, published his doctoral dis-

sertation in 1906 as "A Living Wage: Its Ethical and Economic Aspects." After careful analyses of living expenses and social expectations, Ryan suggested a $600 a year minimum for a decent living wage in an American city. At the time, the average wage for urban workers remained only $571, so about 60 percent of America's industrial labor force fell below Ryan's proposed living wage. Today, the U.S. Catholic bishops reflecting about the just wage include provisions common in the American economic system: "adequate health care, security for old age or disability, unemployment compensation, healthful working conditions, weekly rest, periodic holidays for recreation and leisure, and reasonable security against arbitrary

Many of these provisions, though not have become American law and form part of a worker's social wage. Yet, the list indicates what a dismissal."

all,

modern economy expects for "a truly human life." Orthodox economists argue that raising the minimum wage for businesses contracting with loSee

ECONOMY OF FAITH,

the foundation of any just society," he said. The pope noted that the United States

was

begun as an experiment in ordered freedom, which the exercise of individual freedom would contribute to the common good." The American concept of separation of the institutions of church and state "was accompanied from the beginning of your republic by the conviction that strong religious faith, and "in

the public expression of religiously informed judgments, contribute significantly to the moral health of the body politic." In the Western democratic tradition, men

WTO

FATHER JOHN CAT0IR

CNS

Columnist

Spirituality and world politics Recently the Seattle police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at men and women protesting the practices of the World Trade Organization. The press, and the

program "Sixty Minutes

testers as wild anarchists

II,"

depicted

who were

all the probent on violence.

Not so! The fact

is that a broad coalition of sane, nonviolent protesters representing 70 nations came to

the state of Washington to express their objection to the WTO's agenda. This organization represents big business interests, and has consistently put free trade above human rights, fair labor standards,

environmental safeguards and public safety. As a result there has been a worldwide ground

and women in political life "are not mere brokers of power in a political process taking place in a vacuum, cut off from private and public morality," the pope's address said. "Your vocation as 'representatives' calls for vision, wis-

began in 1948 with the establishment of the United Nations. I also believe that free trade, if

dom,

managed

a spirit of

contemplation and a passion and truth." The pope said that in the United States, which has a heritage that has become synonyfor justice

swell of opposition. I,

for one,

not afraid of the globalization

trend. It

properly, will be a potential boon for the world's economy.

However, the existence, has

ery walk of

WTO,

managed

life

the five years of

its

from evby attempting to sweep away any to alienate people

local laws that inhibit free trade.

See

THE POPE SPEAKS,

page

WTO

approach

to the great moral issues of public life points to the urgent need for a rigorous and reasoned public discourse about the moral norms that are

page

for Today

believe in Christ have a moral responsibility to reflect his teachings in all areas of life, the pope's address said. utilitarian

2000

will be endangered by exposure to dangerous chemicals found in the food we import. Many countries drench their products in pesticides. have laws regulating the food that comes into this country, but the wants no restrictions on imports. U.S. farmers oppose the because they are afraid of going belly-up. They share with labor

Spirituality

Those who

"The spread of a purely

of Faith

about human nature and human fulfillment given to us by faith naturally inspires efforts to build a better and more humane world." When economic and political systems fail to respect the spiritual nature of mankind, immense suffering results, as the last century shows, he said.

Economy

The

The Pope

Pope

living

February

& Columns

Editorials

What

does all this mean to the ordinary citizen? Mothers, for instance, have joined the protest because they are afraid that their children's health

leaders a fear that they won't be able to compete with countries paying substandard wages to an exploited labor force. We already have seen mass firings as a result of NAFTA, which is our free trad agreement with those south of the border. Many members of the clergy have seen the ero sion of gains they made in the area of human right and environmental protection. Even the Vatican ha

WTO

its protest to some practices. After five years of frustration, it all came to a head. Representatives of 70 nations gathered to form

voiced

an international coalition against the. powerful cartel of multinational corporations. Big businesses operate internationally with no real system of checks and balances protecting the consumer. Without protests of some kind, their power will increase geometrically.

The WTO has shown a callous disregard toward those who oppose its goal of maximizing profits come hell or high water. In Seattle it caught a little bit of hell for it. I do not condone the violence of the small radical minority, but I am making a case for hundreds of protesters who came from all over the world to express their outrage.

Why

WTO

am I writing about the in a column dedicated to spirituality? Because spirituality can no longer be relegated to the level of private devotion, it must be part of our whole value system. Today, theologians and spiritual writers agree that whole person. Your spiriway you pray and worship God, but also the way you think about money, politics and family. We are all going to -be judged on love. In view of this, we must all ask ourselves how Jesus would react to this situation. What would Jesus do? spirituality involves the

tuality includes not only the

February

2000

Editorials

Ask for a doctor! A At the pulpit, I leaned

doctor!

One

Light

alerted the congregation:

Candle

there

FATHER THOMAS

Guest Columnist

the cathedral

twenty-nine years of priesthood. It's been my privilege to offer Mass at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City during the past four years. Dec. 8 was the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a holy day for Catholics celebrating Mary's unique place in God's plan of salvation. The Cathedral was full to capacity. Christmas shoppers, workers, international travelers crowded into the pews or patiently stood along the side aisles. office

The

music cantor and I had entered the sanctuary and were starting Mass when I noticed a couple in their 60s move from the aisle into a pew where a younger fellow made some room for them to sit. They captured

lector,

attention immediately because the older fellow beamed a broad grin and nodded cordially

He saw me watching him and and eyed me apologetically but

—

thetically. It

was one of those

little

his wife settle in I

smiled sympa-

moments when two

people have a spontaneous, brief exchange of good will

and warmth.

The

was proceeding when, just muted chorus of voices drew my where my new acquaintance had liturgy

before the Gospel, a attention back to

microphone and

"A man

in distress. If

been sitting. Several faces turned to me in alarm and whispered all at once: "A doctor! A man here needs a

3000 worshippers suspended in utter and apprehension. If I had closed my eyes, I would have thought the Cathedral empty. "I am going to tend to our friend here," I said. And in seconds, I had moved through the opening at the communion rail and knelt next to the motionless man, who only moments before had been smiling at me. stillness

In connection with

responsibilities as a

They

celebrating their wedding anniversary. had just finished seeing the Radio City

Christmas Show and wanted to get to Saint Mass because it was there they had

riage off the "official"

list

life

for

and

many

help, that kept

mar-

centuries. Marriage,

was widely accepted

particularly sexual intercourse,

necessary to alleviate sexual desire and to have children, but in itself it could not be a source of grace, since sexual desire and fulfillment, even in marriage,

was always bad. wrote more about marriage

Augustine, who than any other early theologian, believed sexual relaSt.

were committed tions

his wife,"

finds in

sinful, sin.

and anyone

"A man who

them

too ardent a lover of an adulterer, if the pleasure he

he taught, "is her is sought for

its

own

sake" ("Against

For centuries this teaching made assume that marriage is a sacrament.

Julian," 2,7). difficult to

who engaged

The

sacramentality of marriage, of course, was closely related to the church's involvement in the wedding cer-

emony. In early Christian centuries the church generally

Roman marriage laws. A Christian marriage was simply one between two baptized persons who dedicated themselves to live their faith in Christ together.

.•followed

name of Valentine from our

religious and secuvocabulary has not been very successful.

different St. Valentines

husband couldn't be in a better place." Returning to the pulpit in the silent presence of all

in that great Cathedral,

page for

eyes searched the

resume the Gospel: "And Mary said: 'Behold, I am the handmaid of the -Lord. May it be done to me according to your word." No sermon was spoken. But, I know Mary's words of wholehearted acceptance of God's will had a profound meaning for us. Death and life, faith and hope, all come from God's loving hands. a place to

Question

Corner

a far as

we know,

there are at least three

—

all of them martyrs and they are mentioned in the early martyrologies on Feb. 14. One is described as a priest of Rome, another as bishop of Interamma (present Terni), and these two men seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century and to have been buried on the Flaminian Way. The third Valentine was martyred in Africa with some companions, and nothing more is known. Today, there is no longer an official liturgical commemoration of St. Valentine; however, eveybody knows that Feb. 14 is Valentine's Day. If anyone thinks otherwise, just visit a

—

greeting card shop. The awesome array of cards lavishly decorated with hearts and loaded with the language of love is not named after Romeo and Juliet. They are Valentine's cards, and nobody can tell us otherwise. It is

healthy, after

all,

to celebrate love in

2000, especially when the world stresses anger and fear; whereas God stresses love. Our culture, especially through the advertising media, conveys the message that our feelings and emotions are determined by circumstances. Are they? For example: Buy. this car, and you will be happy. Buy this shampoo, and you will feel loved. The truth is that we can change shampoos and still feel lonely. Perhaps, it is time to re-program our thinking. The old-fashioned way of love is still valid and new. "John 3:16" is not simply flashing on billboards; he is flashing in our hearts. The love story of Valentine may not be historically sound, but it is a powerful story that still fascinates young and old people, because it is our own love story. this year

FATHER JOHN DIETZEN

CNS

Columnist

themselves sources of God's

tine,

been married 43 years ago to the day. And then she said, "Bless you, Father, and all these people who are trying to help. Bless you. My

for a pledge of money, for

was the oath of loyalty to Roman officers and gods, taken by recruits for military service. This was the meaning of the word picked up by the early Christians for their primary ceremony of initiation. When people committed themselves to a new life of holiness and service of Jesus Christ, baptism ritualized that commitment and at the same time was the channel of grace needed to become faithful Christians. Other sacraments later followed this understanding, each in its own way. It was this understanding, that the sacraments are

popular

lar

Later

existence of these people

Patrick's for

dea-

"sacramentum" was the example in lawsuits.

men and women. The

Roman priest and martyr, St. Valenwho was annually honored on the 14th day of February. The effort to remove the

New York

any information you might offer about of Christian marriage. Certainly the first converts to Christianity from among the pagans and Jews did not receive the sacrament of marriage as we know it today. My question is, When did the church establish matrimony as a sacrament? Why was this done? times, a

years ago, the liturgical leaders of the Catholic Church decided to clean up the calendar of saints. They removed a number of pseudo-saints from the official roster of holy

calmly explained that her husband and she were

the history

A. In pre-Christian

Some

was founded more on imagination than on fact. One such saint was the alleged but very

con, I'm. requesting

L atin term

Valentine's Day: Our love story lives on

fellow priest arrived with sacred oils for the anointing, so I stood to embrace the wife. She

The history of Christian marriage Q.

Valentine's

the silence.

An event took place a few weeks ago that was me one of the most profound experiences of my

for

doctor, now!"

into the

doctor here, please come forward." Several men and women moved toward him. Sensing things would soon be under control, we continued the liturgy with a sung prayer leading to the Gospel. But, I had spoken only a few lines, when an usher came toward me, stood at my side, and said softly into my ear, "He's dead, Father. His wife is asking you to come to him and anoint him. Now." There she was, in the midst of continuing efforts to revive her husband, summoning me to come. As I looked out to the congregation, I was struck by

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By the year 400, some bishops and priests began to bestow a blessing to the couple, either the day before the marriage or at the festivities following the civil ceremony. The only Christians then actually bound to receive a church blessing of their marriages, by decree of Popes St. Siricius and St. Innocent I, were priests and deacons. It took a long time before theologians could also acknowledge marriage as a sacrament, an authentic source

of grace just as the other six sacraments. Augustine's concept that original sin was transmitted from parents

by sexual intercourse remained strong. Thomas Aquinas onward, however, it increasingly was accepted that Christian marriage is a true sacrament, continuing throughout their life, and enabling husbands and wives to live and to children

From

grow

in a

St.

holy

life

together.

the ecumenical councils of Florence (1439) and Trent (1563) listed marriage as one of the seven sacraments. According to Trent, the fathers, councils last,

and tradition of the church "have always taught that marriage should be numbered among the sacraments." Catholic teaching today contains many other profoundly rich biblical, theological and psychological insights on the sacrament of marriage. That marriage is a full-fledged sacrament, however, a source of divine grace for Christians in that vocation, remains of course the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church.

The real love story begins with you and never ends. Love indeed has many hands: Hands that reach Hands Hands Hands Hands Hands Hands Hands

that love that offer

hope

that feed that teach

that heal that nurture that comfort.

How many

hands do you have?

Capuchin Father John C. Aurilia is pastor of Immaculate Conception Church in Hendersonville,

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The Pope Speaks,

Appalachia Pastoral,

from page 12 mous with freedom

there is a burden for religious believers in public life to serve a "prophetic" function.

"As one

who

itself,

people, with the truth of Appalachia, with the living God."

Joe Holland, professor of philoso-

phy and

religion at St.

Thomas Uni-

versity in Miami, delivered the key-

personally grateful for what America did for the world in the darkest days of the 20th century, allow me to ask: Will America continue to inspire people to build a truly

note address of the anniversary celebration, in which he examined the contemporary state of Catholic social

better world, a world in which freeis ordered to truth and good-

"Catholic social teaching is today the core of Christian spirituality,"

ness?" said the pope.

Holland said. "Justice and peace are constitutive elements of the Gospel

dom

"Or will America offer the example of a pseudo-freedom which, detached from the moral norms that give life direction and fruitfulness, turns in practice into a narrow and ultimately inhuman self-enslavement, one which smothers people's spirits and dissolves the foundations of

social

life?"

teaching.

message." Holland went on to say that "the Western, modern, bourgeois way of life is not sustainable." He noted that the self-sufficient communities of Appalachia are a model of lifestyle that can serve as an alternative to excessive consumerism.

time," that of "cherishing every hu-

"Some talk about a population problem among the poor," the bishops wrote in 1975. "There's an even bigger consumption problem among

man

the rich."

The pope said the world looks to the United States for leadership on "the great civil rights issue of our and

life

tection for

all

providing legal pro-

members of

human those who

breakfast, President Clinton talked about the need for reconciliation

among

rival

groups

— from nations

war with each other

to hate crimes

...

forget in the heat of political battle

our

common slip

humanity," Clinton

said.

from honest difference,

which is healthy, into dishonest demonization."

Gretchen "The letter is as true towas 25 years ago."

Shaffer said,

day as

Todd Garland,

executive director of the Catholic Committee of Appalachia, pointed to the pastoral letter's easy-to-read, poetic style. "It's so

meaningful and easy to read, that

many

committed within the United States. Within Washington, "we often

"We

Sister of St. Joseph

the

community, but especially are weakest and most vulnerable." Also speaking at the prayer

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people actually read this docu-

ment again and again. "Hardly a week goes by where we don't get calls for reprints of the letter. After 25 years, that's amazing," he added. "The voices still cry out to us, and urge us to continue our efforts for justice in Appalachia."

Michael Vincent, director of

Catholic

Community

from page 1 Services

Southern Region in the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, noted that "This Land is Home to Me" is a "pastoral of hope. It puts the reality of Appalachia out there, and moves us to-

ward

justice not only in economics, but in ecology as well." Carol Warren, director of the diocesan Justice and Life Office, agrees. "In the coming century, our care for the earth may be the ultimate life issue," she said. "None of us will sur-

vive without food and clean water, commodities increasingly denied to the neediest

among

us."

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Home

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Web

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YOUNG

News Service ST. NICHOLAS, Minn. (CNS) Channel surfers have lately been riding the wave of the popular primetime television quiz show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" hosted by

—

Regis Philbin.

The basement of St. Nicholas Church in St. Nicholas is no New York TV studio, and Philbin was nowhere near the church the evening of but about 65 contestants

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These contestants, however, were not your run-of-the-million quiz show contestants. They were freshfaced seventh-, eighth- and ninthgraders in the religious education program at Holy Cross Parish, Pearl Lake, and St. Nicholas Parish, which are in the St. Cloud Diocese. Regis wasn't on hand to ask contestants, "Is that your final answer?"

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