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Mercy

Sister of

regard for the lowly and the poor;

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Building Families

Parents and orphans

connect through Catholic Social Services By

KAREN

A.

EVANS

ters filed their initial

Staff Writer

—

CHARLOTTE Ted and Eileen Peters have waited more than two years to baptize their 21 -month-old

two-week trip to China. They brought Anna home Nov. 23. "It was the best Thanksgiving we could have a

They smiled, and Anna cried, Mr. George Szaloney sprinkled

daughter. as Rev.

holy water over Anna's head at Church Feb. 16.

Abandoned

at birth,

ters spent the first

1

8

St.

had," said Eileen.

Ann

The

Peters met their daughter for time Nov. 1 1 in Kunming, capital of the Yunnan province. From Kunming they traveled to Guangzhou, where they obtained a visa through the the

Anna Wei Pe-

months of her

life

Chinese orphanage. China's Family Planning Law allows each married couple to have only one child, and in a society where boys are" valued above girls, girls are often left at orphanages or worse.

Anna was just one of the approximate 14 million children, mostly girls, living in Chinese orphanages and one of the hundreds of millions of orphans worldwide.

Almost two full years after the Pein a

Photo by Karen A. Evans

Ted Peters with their daughter Anna. The Peters adopted Anna November from China through the International Adoption Program of

Eileen and in

Catholic Social Services.

From mountaintops to

valley soil

[

Catechists take faith

I

journey for

all

By JOANITA M. NELLENBACH

people

By

about community, moun-

This was Catechist Oasis 2003: 'The Well, the Mountain, and All the Seeds Sown," which the Asheville Vicariate Faith Formation Team sponsored at Lambuth Inn Feb. 1415. More than 50 catechists from 10 parishes in the Asheville and Smoky Moun-

and

tain vicariates participated.

LAKE JUNALUSKA

—

the conference room, carrying

water, or walking sticks, or

bowls of dirt. These "journeys"

meant that try

is

tains

catechetical minis-

valleys, diverse soil.

Father Francis pastor of St.

T Cancro,

Eugene Church

'The story of the woman the well

in

Asheville, used the Samaritan

woman

is

at

a love story about

intimate connection and of lives

Transand the sower and

at the well, the

figuration,

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Adopted Children Immigrant Visa Unit (ACIVU) at U.S. Consulate General.

Every child who is adopted China must obtain a visa Guangzhou in order to immigrate the United States.

in in

to

More than

5,000 children pass through Guangzhou each year on their way to their new homes.

See ADOPTION, page 8

for solutions to Iraqi crisis JOHN NORTON

pope Feb.

News Service

VATICAN CITY

the seed to illustrate catechesis.

Each session began with participants processing through

first

Pope, U.N.'s Annan hope

Catholic

(Correspondent

paperwork with

Catholic Social Services (CSS), their journey to adopt Anna culminated with

— As

the threat of a U.S.-led

war

Pope John and Vatican officials met U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and held out hope

be

II

for "effective solutions" that Photo by Joanita M. Nellenbach

would spare

Iraqi civilians fur-

Catechist Oasis 2003 attendee pours water into a "well" before the firstsession story of the Samaritan woman at the well, portrayed by Ann Stowe of Mars Hill.

Even

as

the pope

was

meeting with Annan Feb.

In

a

statement

after

Annan's Vatican meetings, pa-

spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the pope pal

underscored the "essential role of the United Nations in the

18,

"Hope was expressed

that

just and effective solutions to

Vatican sources confirmed re-

the present challenges can

be found, in respect for international legality of which the or-

ter

Tony

Blair,

a strong advo-

still

cate of military action against Iraq,

was scheduled

to

meet the

Behind Vatican walls,

encourages fighting 'the

officials

good fight'

sympathy for Saddam

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1997.

ports that British Prime Minis-

Catholic evangelize;

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would pope since

visit

present hour."

ther suffering.

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The

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against Iraq loomed,

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News & Herald

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2003

February 21,

Brief

in

New problems, hope seen in global fight against AIDS crisis in Africa

Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

On

14 the Vatican published the

Feb.

texts of the pope's message, Cardinal

WASHINGTON (CNS) — At a Feb.

10 workshop on global health during the

Rasper's speech to Archbishop Christodoulos and the archbishop's

annual Catholic Social Ministry Gather-

speech to the delegation.

workshop's speakers had

Vatican archive opening gets more attention from media than scholars VATICAN CITY (CNS) The

both bad news and good news about the

early opening of Vatican archival records

HIV/AIDS pandemic and efforts to adThe first half of the workshop covered the state of HIV/AIDS in the

related to

won-

ing in Washington, one participant

dered aloud

thing positive

AIDS

dress

crisis.

any upside

"if there's

can

I

The

tell

any-

...

people" about the

—

world today. Every measuring its toll

life

an

interest,

official at

rates, disease infection prevalence, funeral

Secret Archives

grave plots told the same story. According to Catholic Relief Services, more than 70 percent of the

earlier,

world's HIV-positive people live Saharan Africa, though the region

ture.

—

Some

1

home

is one new case every 8 seconds. In many communities more than a third of all

residents are infected.

Pope, Vatican officials meet Aziz, urge Iraqi commitment to disarm WarnVATICAN CITY (CNS)

photo from Reuters

Anti-war demonstrators gather in London's Hyde Park Demonstrators gather in London's Hyde Park to protest against war in Iraq Feb. 15. Millions of people took to parks and streets across the globe to demonstrate against a looming U.S.-led war on Iraq. The protests were said to be the largest of that kind since the Vietnam War.

—

Pope John Paul

equivalent of foreign minister. Vatican

government's willingness to cooperate with the international community, par-

spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls

ticularly in

II

and top Vatican diplo-

met with

Deputy

Iraq's

Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and asked Iraq for "concrete commitments" to respect U.N. disarmament resolutions. Aziz, a Catholic of the Chaldean rite, met pri-

said

the meetings "allowed a broad exchange

intervention in Iraq, which

Catholics, Greek Orthodox to move beyond

troubled past

would add

VATICAN CITY

further grave sufferings for those populations

hour Feb. 14, then proceeded to a 45minute meeting with Cardinal Angelo Sodano, secretary of state, and Arch-

years of embargo." In a statement, he said Aziz,

which are already

who

tried

by long

requested the meetings, as-

sured the church leaders "of the Iraqi

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The

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between the Vatican and Germany from 1922 to 1939 detailing diplomatic relations

mosdy of correspondence, not

in-

ternal Vatican documents; scholars already

have had access to many of the German governments' copies and originals.

Church official encourages

faiths to work together on public policy WASHINGTON (CNS) Catholics are more effective in shaping public policy when they work with other

—

churches, said Steven Spreitzer, liaison to

other religions for die Detroit Archdiocese.

do it by ourselves," he said workshop during the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington. To be effective in working with odier "Cadiolics can't

religions, Catholics

1 1

have to know about be understanding of their concerns, join for prayer services and seek common ground together, said Spreitzer, an official of the archdiocesan Social Ministry Office. Knowing about their faith traditions,

other faiths

is

helpful in finding reasons to

convince religious leaders to cooperate on a public policy issue, he said.

ticipation

is

anonymous and

vidual confession with a priest

is

indiavail-

Catho-

able following the prayer service.. All

ages five and up. The group will be meeting at St. Joseph Church, 720 West 13th St., at 4 p.m. in the

communication is confidential. Men and women of any denomination are welcome. For more information, con-

Holy Family Hall. For more details, Debbie Vickers at (828) 495-2039.

25 TRYON St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, will host Terri Jarina, Diocesan Program Director for Parish Social Ministry on Feb-

tact

Catholic Girls' lic

February 21,

day.

first

bishop Christodoulos of Athens and all of Greece as he formally welcomed a Vatican delegation visiting Greece Feb. 10-14.

24

planner

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full

expected at the doors of the archives the

at a Feb.

Karen Acken

Diocesan NEWS

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Secretary: Sherill

regard to disarmament."

Pope urges

of views on the noted danger of an armed

vately with the pontiff for about half an

^

He

consists

bishop Jean-Louis Tauran, the African's

officials

was announced a

but as of Feb. 14 only two dozen

are staggered through

CNS

ing of the disastrous consequences of war,

matic

The

scholars' requests to consult the material

1,000 people are infected daily;

that

the archives said.

Maiorino, secretary of the archive's prefec-

to only 10 percent of the world's population.

im-

has gar-

scholars had requested access, said

sub-

in is

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expectancy, death

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relations

World War

nered more media attention than scholarly

statistic available for

—

Vatican-German

mediately prior to

it.

is

for all

girls

call

—

ruary 25 at 7 p.m. in the social hall.

Ms. Jarina will speak on social justice and peace. All are welcome. For more information, contact Rochelle C. Tyson at (828) 859-9881.

25 CHARLOTTE A Rachel Network Evening of Prayer for PostAbortion Healing will be held today at 7:30 p.m. at St. Gabriel Church, 3016 Providence Road in the daily Mass

—

chapel. This service

who

is

open

to

anyone

experiencing issues related to abortion, whether their own or that of a friend or family member. Your paris

Martha Shuping at 659-1342 e-mail or mshupingO @sprynet.com.

Dr.

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26 CHARLOTTE - Fr. Andrew Ciferni, O Praem, and internationally recognized liturgist, will be at St. Peter Church, 507 S. Tryon St., tonight at

7pm

in the

Annex

can help us

to share

fully, actively

ways that and con-

sciously participate in the our liturgical celebrations.

For more information

church the (704) 332-2901.

call

27 BELMONT ers

office

'

at

— The Abbey Play-

and Belmont Community Theatre

will continue its presentation of Will-

iam Shakespeare's "Henry V" February 27-March at 8 p.m. in the Haid Theatre, Belmont Abbey College. One of the Bard's best-known works, 1

1

February 21,

2003

The World

The Catholic News & Herald

Brief

in

Pro-life official praises

States, the figure

House committee for passing ban on cloning

125 to one."

U.S. bishops' pro-life

(CNS) The spokeswoman ap-

offers 'care packages' for Catholic troops WASHINGTON (CNS) Spiri-

—

plauded the House Judiciary Committee Feb. 12 for approving a bill to ban hu-

Way

for

the measure to be considered by the

full

man

cloning, which clears the

packages" are now available to Catholic members of the U.S. military from the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, thanks to the generosity of anonymous donors. Each package contains a New Testament, a tual "care

House of Representatives. "The JudiCommittee should be commended for approving a real ban on human cloning," said Cathy Cleaver, director of

ciary

handmade rosary, a religious medal and small crucifix that can be worn on a dog-tag chain, a Catholic prayer book and two holy cards. The packages may be requested by a member of the U.S. armed forces or by his or

planning and information for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secre-

The commit-

tariat for Pro-life Activities.

Human

Cloning Prohibition Act, introduced Jan. 8 by Reps.

Dave Weldon, R-Fla., and Bart Stupak, D-Mich., in a 19-12 vote.

Pope tells Rome rabbi tee passed the

Catholics,

Jews feel need to

pray for peace

VATICAN CITY

(CNS)

the growing threat of a

CNSj»hoto by Nancy Wiechec

— With

war

in

Workers shovel out front of National Shrine in Washington Workers begin to shovel the steps of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Feb. 18. A paralyzing weekend snowstorm left area churches, schools and government offices closed for a couple of days. Washington Cardinal Theodore E.

Iraq,

Catholics and Jews feel the need to pray

God

and to commit thempeacemaking efforts, Pope John Paul II told Rome's chief rabbi. The gift of peace, "shalom" in Hebrew, is "a fragile gift which is placed in human hands," the pope told Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni and top representatives of Rome's Jewish community during a Feb. 13 meeting at the Vatican. Christians and Jews have an obligation to safeguard the gift of peace, the pope said. "In these days, the dangerous rumblings of war can be heard," the pope said. 'We, Jews and Catholics, feel the urgent mission of imploring peace from God, the creator and eternal, and of being peacemakers ourto

for peace

selves to

selves."

The audience was Di Segni's first

meeting with the pope since being elected head of Rome's Jewish commuofficial

nity in

November

Poverty, injustice are

weapons of mass destruction (CNS)

— The

weapons of mass destruction

local Catholics a general dispensation

economy

for a reduced group of nations with the exclusion of the majority leads

the world to a dead end," he told del-

egates to the Feb. 9-12 Catholic Social

Ministry Gathering in Washington.

"The wealthy North will never have enough steel walls to contain the avalanche of illegal immigrants unless there will be a political will to a real develop-

ment" in the poor regions of the world, he said during a homily at a Feb. 1 morning prayer service. The weapons of poverty

arid social injustice are already

work and

"in a silent

way

deficits

ized

is

are acting

the "ethical deficit" of a global-

economy, the cardinal

said.

Union leader says

"are

not toxic gases or deadly viruses," but "poverty and social injustice," said Car-

reorganization of society needed to fight poverty

dinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. "A globalized

union leader called for "a major reor-

"Henry V"

Church,

is a tale of honor, perseverance, loyalty and romance. King Henry the Fifth of England, thinking he has a right to the French throne, matches military forces against the French. The English forces are out numbered nearly 5-1, but they love their king and are willing to lay their

down for him. Reservations can made by calling (704) 825-6787.

lives

be

28 WINSTON-SALEM Great Catholic Church

St.

Leo the

be celebrating their 75th Anniversary with a Mardi Gras Fundraiser tonight at 6 p.m. in the Bishop Begley Parish Center. There will be lots of food, fun and games for young and old alike. Wear your costumes. We will be awarding prizes for the best costume of children and adults.

28 CHARLOTTE

will

— The

St.

Luke

Church Music/Drama/Dance Ministry presents Marty Haugen's "The Song of Mark: A musical setting of the Gospel of Mark" tonight and March 1 at

7:30 p.m. at St. Luke Catholic

WASHINGTON

Lawyers

13700

more

For

(CNS)

28 ASHEVILLE

— The

A

Road.

information,

(704) 545-1224.

—

call

Eugene present "Tales of Wonder, St.

organize ourselves as a society," Dennis Rivera, president of the Service Employees International Union Local 1199 in New York, told a group of Catholic social ministers meeting in Washington Feb. 10. "It is simply outrageous that the richest country in with 10,000 billionaires the world and a million millionaires has tens of millions of its people living in poverty and despair," Rivera told those attending the annual Catholic Social Ministry Gathering. He noted that the United States has the greatest gap be-

toms," the Vatican's ambassador to Mexico said during a visit. "The local officials are truly building a church that the indigenous people can relate to,"

—

—

tween rich and poor in the industrialized world. "The average CEO in Japan makes 28 times what his workers make," he said. "Here in the United

2

ARDEN —

Ivan Dragicevic, one of

the three Medjugorje visionaries who reportedly is still seeing the Blessed Mother after 21 years, will be at St.

moving story of creation in song, dance and storytelling. The cast is

Memorial Basketball Tournament will be held today and Sunday in honor of

comprised of over sixty individuals ranging in age from seven to seventy.

For ticket information call The Parish

Frances Ott, a 21 -year-old Charleston nursing student, who was killed in a car accident this past October. All proceeds will be used to establish a scholarship at Holy Trinity Catholic Middle School in memory of Frances.

Girls' games will be played at St. Ann Church and boys' games at Holy Trinity M.S. Games will run from 1 1 am to 9 pm on Sat. and 11 am to 5 pm on Sunday.

a

Eugene

office at (828)

1

CHARLOTTE

—

St.

254-5193.

Gabriel

School, 3028 Providence Rd., will host its

"Everything" Consignment Sale to-

noon and from 1 pm to 3 pm (l/2 price sale on selected items), featuring adult and children's clothing, toys, furniture and household items. For details call Linda Franks at day from 8

am

to

(704) 814-7817.

ery (APO).

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS

for details.

St.

be sent per request and only to

locations served by U.S. postal deliv-

CASAS, Mexico (CNS) The Catholic Church in the primarily indigenous

Culvern St., Asheville. This work by noted musical liturgist Marty Haugen

March

may

of poverty and called for churches and unions to form coalitions and campaigns to make it happen.

"Poverty is structured into the way we

Barnabas Church, 109 Crescent Hill Drive, from 5 to 8 pm, followed by a reception. 5 pm Mass; 6 pm Rosary; 7 pm Talk. Call 828-684-6098

of

nouncement on the archdiocese's Web site at: www.catholicmil.org/html/ care_req.html. Only one packet

ganization of society" to address prob-

lems

Players will A Musical Celebration of God, the Storyteller" tonight and on Mar. 6 and 7 at 7:30 pm at St. Eugene Church, 72

is

her relatives or friends. "This packet is provided and sent directly to the designated Catholic troop at no cost, as a way of spiritually supporting our Catholics in uniform," said an an-

Vatican official, visiting Chiapas, praises church efforts on Indians

and undermining peace," he said. More important than fiscal and commercial

Honduran cardinal:

real

McCarrick, among others, gave from attending Sunday Mass.

at

2001.

WASHINGTON

now approaching

Military archdiocese

—

WASHINGTON

is

w

1

7

CHARLOTTE — The Frances

WINSTON-SALEM

—

Ott

The

Knights of Columbus will host St. Leo's Fish Fry tonight and March 21

—

state of Chiapas

is

doing "a great job of

incorporating local traditions and cus-

-

Archbishop Giuseppe Bertello,

said

nuncio to Mexico, during a Feb. 10-13 the Diocese of San Cristobal de Las Casas. During a four-hour Mass in the Tzetzel Indian town of Ocosingo, Archbishop Bertello chewed a tobacco concoction, inhaled exotic incense and watched local church officials dance an ancient Indian jig with parishioners. visit to

Archbishop Bertello's visit and comments showed a warming in the relationship between the Vatican and the San Cristobal Diocese, with its so-called "autoctona" or "native church."

to support their seminarians.

more information, 0561.

7

CHARLOTTE

For

call

(336) 724-

—

Programa

Esperanza of Catholic Social Services will present a "Blending Cultures" class today

from 10 a.m. to 3

p.m. The Blending Cultures class addresses traditional Hispanic/Latino culture, reasons for immigration, fre-

quently asked questions about Latinos and working effectively with the Hispanic/Latin American community.

To

register contact

Anna M.

(704) 370-3248, email amj udy@charlottediocese.org.

Judy

at

Please submit notices of events for the Diocesan Planner at least 10 days

prior

to

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of the Gospel, with a body and a soul like us," he said, stating that St. Padre Pio,

Catholic evangelizer encourages fighting

"one of the greatest warrior in the

By

good fight'

spiri-

weapon.

Father Corapi also spent time discussing the "horrific" scandals in the priesthood, and explained the rippling affect it has had on all the clergy. But he encouraged the people to love their priests, even if they are not always loveable; and to pray for them because without a good shepherd, the flock will tual battle," called

'the

2003

February 21,

Around the Diocese

Father Corapi preaches importance ofEucharist, rosary

KATHY SCHMUGGE Correspondent

CHARLOTTE — When St. Patrick Cathedral parishioner Terri de Luca heard about a "no-nonsense" priest who had spoken at her friend's parish in Pennsylvania, she was determined to

his

it

scatter.

Father Corapi warned everyone not

bring him to North Carolina.

to be overly critical or preoccupied with

was Father John Corapi, nationally-known Catholic evangelizer from California, who spoke to over 1,000 people at St. Gabriel Church Feb. 14-15.

Over the two-day gathering, Father Corapi condensed major points in "Catechism of the Catholic Church" and brought meaning to the teachings through his personal experiences and

the faults of others, because Jesus said

That

SOLT,

priest

a

humorous analogy. His

that only the sinless could cast the stones.

"The priesthood is under attack from inside and outside of the church," he said, blaming the devil who wishes to get rid of the priests so there would be no Eucharist. Without the Eucharist, said Father Corapi, there is no life.

'The Eucharist is not something, it is somebody," he said. 'The Eucharist is the source and summit of our faith, the essence of our faith that gives meaning to our lives."

Father Corapi said he is often ad-

direct style, of-

ten accompanied with a youthful grin,

resulted in spontaneous applause and

occasional laughter; but the audience

was always

attentive, especially

when

he defended teachings not statistically "popular" with many Catholics.

in the

one session, Father Corapi

In

vised not to preach about the negatives

Photo by Kathy Schmugge

Father John Corapi gives a special blessing to Carmen Ziesig, a parishioner of St. Therese in Wrightsville Beach, N.C. who drove to Charlotte to see his talks at St. Gabriel Church in Charlotte Feb. 14-15.

shared his less-than-conventional past that lead him to a 'late in life" ordina-

concentration in Doctrinal Theology.

Father Corapi attributed the Blessed Mother and the rosary for leading him directly to Christ.

In a session on Mary, jokingly entitled "Your Mama Wears Combat

Army

during the Vietnam War; auditor Las Vegas hotels and casinos; and millionaire real estate broker for the rich and famous in Hollywood, Calif, a for

Boots" because of Mary's central role in the spiritual war that started with the

fast-paced lifestyle that eventually led

him to drugs and homelessness. At his lowest point, he remembered reaching out to a God he was not sure existed, and was given enough hope to lead him back home.

from heaven, Father Corapi stated that this kind of war was more dangerous than any of the historical wars, even the one brewing in Iraq.

"Genesis chapter 3 is a war story; good versus evil. God gave an order not to eat of the fruit or they would die," said Father Corapi. "The devil called God a liar. Adam and Eve were seduced by pride, and pride leads to disobedience, and disobedience leads to death."

fall

He eventually

returned to his Cathoand went on to graduate with high honors from both Holy Apostle Seminary in Connecticut, where he received his master's degree in Sacred Scripture, and later from the University of Nav arre in Spain, where he received a bachelor's, licentiate and doctorate in Sacred Theology with an ecclesiastic lic faith,

Father Corapi added that clared

war on

the serpent

God

when he

de-

is

lost

accentuated,

"Father Corapi that

a

is

young

"In these troubled and strange times of terror and terrorists, remember that fear is useless. What we need

Father Corapi. "So, go fight and one day we will make it to the finish line, and God will say "Welcome good and faithis

trust," said

and fight the good

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Working for workers' NELLENBACH

The Worker Center opened

Correspondent

MORGANTON

— As

Missioners. a student

needs

Lenoir-Rhyne College, Francisco Risso read about liberation theology and developed a passion for peaceand-justice issues. Today Risso, of the at

"We would

in the

out of his home.

'The goal of the Worker Center is to where workers can

try to identify the

community and

try to bring

start a drop-in center

learn about their rights," he said.

Risso

provides "advocacy to help workers ob-

to represent them."

tain their rights, to explain their rights

The workers formed Local 700 of Laborers International Union of North America. The local closed in December

said.

Justo Castro

Lux worked mainly with

the

and

their recourse

and

National Interfaith Committee for

Guatemalan community.

decide

Worker

(NICWJ), lives that passion by helping workers learn

They held

do."

about their rights.

A parishioner at St. Charles Borromeo Church, Risso, 31, is director of

immigrant rights and economic issues, and collaborated with other

NICWJ's goal

is

local

Worker

NICWJ's commu-

Center.

While El

still

Tiempo

the

"My

in college, Risso interned

also

It

the workers

what they want

to

2001, but did leave funds, center also pro-

motes worker organization. "By collective organization and bargaining, you could achieve things that aren't covered by the

Glenmary fund-

ing ended.

law," said Risso.

wife and

I

NICWJ,

were

based

in

Chicago, was founded in

thinking about living in

Latino, a Spanish-language

let

The

grassroots Latino groups.

Then

nity to support workers' rights.

at

cultural events,

conducted workshops on

to mobilize the religious

were from Latin America.

"They had organized themselves, and it was only after that that some unions came here to organize the workers," Risso said. "They voted for one union

people together to address those issues,"

He and Glenmary Co-Missioner

Justice

as a re-

of the Case Farms strike in 1995.

Most of the poultry plant's employees sult

work with the Glenmary Co-

to

them

their rights.

Center established to assist low-income workers

By JOANITA M.

doesn't have to treat

or that the workers won't assert

fairly

rights

it

5

commu-

were

some of which

to be used to help immigrants with

legal problems.

NICWJ

visited the area to see if a

Worker Center would benefit the community. The Morganton Worker Center one of the first three centers NICWJ opened in the southern United States last summer. The others are in Fayetteville, N.C., and Bentonville, Ark. In addition to conducting workers' rights workshops, Risso said, "I've been is

Washington, D.C. The community service, and some of Risso's time was spent in a

an intentional

out

this

support workers' rights.

trying to connect with Latino centers in

soup kitchen.

He then spent three years at the St. Martin de Porres (now the Father

(NICWJ) job was

start-

Christian, Jewish and

the surrounding communities, and I've

Muslim members com-

worked on

newspaper

in

internship involved

Mulholland)

Charles

Worker House, an munity

nity,"

we

Risso

found

ing, so

I

religious

decided to take

it

Risso's wife, Molly,

com-

teaches English as a sec-

in Raleigh.

"We did hospitality, anti-war activism, anti-death penalty work, and demonstrated at military bases North Carolina," Risso "I'm a pacifist. That's how I describe myself, so that's what motivated this kind of activism."

Risso arrived in Morganton in 1998

board of directors.

collectively to organize coworkers.

"for these

people

Although Risso's

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several individual cases."

One such

Risso said the employer told the couldn't pay full wages or any bonuses, but then hired two more workers. Twenty workers protested to the employer, who fired the men he considered to be the protest's ringleaders. The Worker Center has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board.

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a learning process," Risso said,

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women and

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care ministry got a look at U.S.-style health care within a Catholic pastoral framework during a Feb. 1 1 visit to Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring.

"I've

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E. McCarrick of Washington said lightheartedly to Archbishop Javier Lozano Barragan, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care

archdiocesan newspapers, has been named president of The Christophers.

When he starts May 1 he will be the first

Lords, said Feb. 12 that Catholics in poli-

layperson to head the Catholic multime-

counterparts in the United States.

Workers. Archbishop Lozano was

dia organization

Theodore

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sympathy for Saddam

little

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is

the

guarantor," he said.

By

What

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Catholic

News Service

VATICAN CITY

— When

Vatican

opened their copies of the bestselling Italian Catholic magazine Farniglia Cristiana in early February, they winced a little.

An insert in the magazine showed Pope John Paul II and President George W. Bush sitting back-to-back. Under the heading: "Whose side are you on? With Bush or with the pope?" the magazine officials

was asking readers to vote in a referendum on a new war in Iraq.

That kind of juxtaposition of Bush and the pope has made Vatican officials uncomfortable. While opposing a preventive attack on Iraq, the Vatican is worried that it is being mistakenly cast as a foe of the United States and a friend of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Privately, Vatican officials often begin statements about Iraq with the phrase, "I'm not defending Saddam

should Saddam do?

"Go away. And if he's not going to do that, show the kind of cooperation

after Aziz's papal audience

required by the inspection team," the official said.

mitments" the U.N. resolution on disar-

ring to a U.N.

mament.

1991 Gulf

The

Vatican's public diplomatic

moves have sometimes left the impression of a growing gulf between the Holy See and the United States. The pope met with

German Foreign

Minister Joschka

Fischer and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minis-

Tariq Aziz and planned a session with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan all strong opponents of a preventive attack on Iraq.

At the same time, the pope sent a personal envoy to Baghdad to show his

aimed for

Vatican repeated

Such solutions should also "avoid

its

argu-

further grave sufferings to those popula-

ments against war, but pointedly

called

for Iraq to respect with "concrete

com-

tions, who are already tried by long years of embargo," Navarro-Valls said, refer-

before Aziz's arrival, Car-

embargo imposed after the War. Annan met with the pope for about

dinal Roberto Tucci divulged to Vatican

half an hour and separately with Cardi-

Radio an episode that illustrates the Vatican's uneasy relationship with

Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of and Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, a retired French prelate who had just returned from a special Vatican mission to deliver a personal papal message to Iraqi

The day

Saddam

Hussein's regime.

A few years ago, Cardinal Tucci was

ter

—

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balance.

attempting to plan a papal

Abraham

birthplace of

part of modern Iraq.

trip to the

what

in

now

is

nal

state,

President

Saddam Hussein.

was to be the first stage of the pope's Holy Year pilgrimage to the roots of the faith, and because Abraham is also respected by Muslims

Navarro-Valls said that other regions of conflict especially the Middle were raised during the meetings, East and that Vatican officials thanked Annan

officials said it would be presume that diplomatic

as a prophet and patriarch the Vatican foresaw no big problems.

for his "constant personal efforts for peace

dialogue with the United States has been

But when Cardinal Tucci got to Baghdad, a committee of Iraqi officials told him that the pope's "Judeo-Chris-

solidarity with the Iraqi people.

But church a mistake to

cut off or downgraded. Flying in under the media radar in early February were

It

of his pilgrimage was in and that it had to be corrected in

—

—

in different parts

of the world."

Cardinal Sodano, speaking to reporters after the

meeting with Annan, ex-

pressed support for a resolution adopted

tian vision"

Feb. 17 by the European

error,

for the

with protecting the rights of Iraq's

two U.S. officials from the State Department and Department of Defense, who briefed Vatican counterparts on the U.S.

Christian minority, but they recognize

reasons for war.

said Iraq

human

Vatican

Hussein.

..."

They

that his overall

credit his

government

rights record

Moreover, they tend to put most of the blame for the current crisis on Saddam, for failing to demonstrate unequivocally that his regime has stopped

States.

made

But

ball is in

Vatican

this clear to the

United

at this stage in the crisis, the

Saddam

Hussein's court," one

official said

ters said yesterday:

no-fly zones.

the way, but to reach

soon became apparent that Iraq want the visit, and Cardinal Tucci left without ever meeting with Saddam to work out the problems.

Vatican officials say they have no illusions that the Holy See may be able to mediate the current crisis in some way. In fact, by mid-February many at

many

U.S.

government

The Aziz bit

of a corner.

in recent days.

The fact

The day before his

in a

arrival

as a

"new

dominate the world.

that Aziz, a Catholic,

hosted by Franciscan a

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have often been abandoned, with no record of who their parents are or what

or

Evans by e-mail

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happens the

Eileen said.

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all

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from a

place 15 babies a year," Beall said.

rise

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For the

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Guangzhou. China.

an orphanage," said Beall. Parents adopting a foreign-born child can provide that child with better opportunities than they would normally have, she said.

Chinese adoptees are usually at least a year old when they are placed with a family because first preference goes to Chinese parents. Also, orphanages wait to child

Americans adopted more than

about the adoption process. Adopting a child

the Peters were well

"I

20,000 children from other countries in 2002. International adoptions are on the

the way."

CSS was encouraging

in

from China and Russia. They also provide pre-placement assessments and

a lifelong jour-

support every step of

offers

Anna and

tions each year.

tion

"We were

was wonderful." She

mestic and about 60 international adop-

est rate since 1975.

on CSS.

sure

raved

coming to the Peters. 'They realized that we were adopting Anna, and seemed happy about it," Eileen said. "Anna and I were in the park one day, and an elderly lady gave me a thumbs-up sign."

due the practice of abortion.

ney and CSS

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facilitator in

all

got sick while I was there, and she went to get Chinese herbs for me," she said.

The Chinese people were very wel-

variety of causes are attributed to

before deciding

about the

taken care of

number, primarily children whose parents died from AIDS and those abandoned by impoverished parents.

In the United States, a significantly

When

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made

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number of children

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Eileen said. "She

Africa.

smaller

room

marily infants, pending their adoption.

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and

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sources for birth mothers.

since those first

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its

pregnancy support and foster care. Pregnancy support includes counseling and referrals to community re-

Peters have become a family. She has picked up English quickly and is healthy and strong, both physically and

Anna

the profiles of parents on the

In addition to

CSS

and

lap

more

approved waiting list to the specifications of the birth parents.

few

first

parents are

choice regarding the parents of their child.

next to the embassy."

Eileen confessed that the

is tiiat

be able to adopt an infant.

CSS offers open adoptions, which allows the birth parents to have more

'They call it 'baby central,'" Ted said.

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By KEVIN

E.

MURRAY

"The church developed

Acting Editor

LEXINGTON

—

Our Lady of

Church was the recipient of the 2002 North Carolina Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service, presented at an awards ceremony held at Trinity Baptist Church in Rathe Rosary

leigh Feb.

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By KEVIN

a direc-

tory of county and community services written in Spanish," she said.

"They conducted a cultural awareness workshop for the community providers and vendors."

Other parish services included transportation, domestic violence, women and youth groups, HIV prevention, pregnant teen assistance, tax assistance,

school

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after school

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graffiti

MURRAY

Acting Editor

CHARLOTTE —

Graffiti caused quite a stir at Charlotte Catholic High School Feb. 19.

Students waited patiently outside while police and fire officials searched the building the result of graffiti messages containing racist remarks and the words "bomb" and "10:00."

After three sweeps of the campus,

—

housing information, and education and work assistance, according to Donna Lane, the United Way of Davidson County co-

Carolinians who made a difference every day in your local community through selfless acts of service, you represent the true spirit of volunteerism. Your compassion and

Cassidy, principal. As a precaution, he said, "Before 10 o'clock, we took all

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"For the past three years, members of Our Lady of. the Rosary Catholic Church have served the Hispanic community," said Lane. "Dedicating 10-15 hours a week to this ministry, they work to build a greater understanding and trust between the Hispanic and English-speaking com-

surable benefits."

munities."

"It's

in

immea-

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to-

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Contact Acting Editor Kevin E.

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by calling (704) 370-3334 or e-mail kemurray@charbttediocese.org.

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damaged on

also

the property.

Father Cassidy believed the vandalism took place between midnight and 5:30 a.m.

Police said other racist and threatening graffiti was discovered on at least 20 cars at a nearby apartment complex.

"It seems there was somebody in the area playing pranks," said Father Cassidy. "This wasn't specific to us."

The police have no suspects, but they are reviewing surveillance tapes from school hallways cameras that face the windows. Empty spray cans were also discovered near the scene.

inside the school the previous night.

"Everything was checked out thoroughly," said Father Jim

A

dition.

found nothing suspicious and no indication that anyone had been

officials

Mike Easley, who attended the ceremony, wrote, "As special North

classes, health fairs,

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of the kids out of the building until we were sure nothing would happen."

Students and staff were soon allowed back to class; however, some parents chose to take their children home for the day.

"There was no evidence that anybody got into the building," said Father Cassidy. "In fact, the evidence points the other way."

The graffiti was discovered on the outside of windows overlooking a construction area of a new school ad-

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February 21,

Readings

2003

Book Review

Book offers look at Pope Pius XII Reviewed by

EUGENE News

Catholic

J.

Word to Life

made during the Second World War. Oddly, none of

FISHER

litical

Service

the books attacking this pope (and by

confused by the recent, historically muddled movie "Amen" by Greek director Costa-Garvas or who has read with dismay the glowing reviews of

extension, of course, the Catholic Cnurch as such) even attempts to portray the man himself as a fully rounded human being. Rather, these books, like the movie "Amen," present a cardboard caricature and on that caricature they place virtually the full blame for the Holocaust, which has been well described as the most heinous crime in human history. This, of course, is classic scapegoating.

Sister Margherita goes beyond caricature to present this pope as a man of vision, of vulnerability, of hope, and, yes, of compassionate commitment to the poor, the sick, and especially those who were the victims of Nazi and other ideological perversities of the 20th century, such as fascism and communism. With this information readers can begin to appreciate the complex realities he faced.

A scholar of modern Italian and Italian-American culture, Sister Margherita was the editor of "Twen-

Pope

Pius XII should read "Shepherd of Souls: A Pictorial Life of Pope Pius

The author, Sister Margherita Marchione, is a member of the Religious Teachers Filippini, professor emerita of Italian literature at Fairleigh Dickinson University and author of 40 previous books, three of which have been in defense of Pius XII. Here, she distills years of study into a short, approachable text augmented with an excellent collection of photographs of Pope Pius and his times.

"Sister Margherita offers us a practical understanding of how the play by the German author (Rolf) Hochhuth ("The Deputy," on which the movie "Amen" is based) helped create in popular culture a serious misreading of a great pontiff," Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore wrote in his preface to this timely and XII."

helpful book. "Certainly there

is

room

wide range of informed, scholarly opinion on the record of any pontificate, especially one as long and as seriously challenged by chaotic and destructive world events as that of Pius XII. But we also need to remind ourselves that too often in our own

for a

history as a nation classic anti-Catholicism has expressed itself in attacks on the papacy."

In "Shepherd of Souls" Sister Margherita takes us through the life of Eugenio Pacelli before he was elected pope in 1939, scant months before the German invasion of Poland catapulted the world into the unprecedented maelstrom of evil and violence we call World War II. She shows his great (albeit not always successful) efforts first to forestall and then to lessen the human suffering of the war. She shows how his brilliant encyclicals of the 1940s on the nature of the church

("Mystici Corporis"), the Bible ("Divino Afflante Spiritu") and liturgy

("Mediator Dei") and many addresses in the 1950s on social policy issues laid the theological and doctrinal foundations for the great insights of the Second Vatican Council.

This larger sense of Pope Pius' spirituality believe,

is

and theological vision,

I

necessary to assess the po-

Parents,.,

Century Italian Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology" (Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 1974) and author of "Americans of Italian Heritage" (University Press of America, 1995). Her recent books have focused on Italy, the Second World War and Pope Pius XII. She wrote "Yours Is a Precious Witness: Memoirs of Jews and Catholics in Wartime Italy" in 1997 and "Consensus and Controversy: Defending Pope Pius XII" (co-written with Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington) in 2002, both published by Paulist Press.

"Shepherd of Souls" should be in tieth

every Catholic parish library, school, and, indeed, home. If I would have a suggestion for Paulist Press, it would be to put this book out in a smaller, mass market paperback edition as inexpensively as possible, even if that would mean cutting back on its pictorial side, so that it could be ordered in bulk for school and parish groups.

Fisher

is

an

associate director

of ecu-

menical and interreligious affairs at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and

an adviser

to the Vatican's

for Religious Relations with "Shepherd

Pope Pius

of Souls:

A

Commission the Jews.

•

But

Febr. 23, Seventh

Sunday

Jesus' power, they decide to risk

in

Ordinary Time

Cycle 1)

2)

B

it,

to

the everlasting gratitude of their transformed friend and those of us inspired by the story thousands of

Readings:

21-22, 24b-25

later. They break open the roof over Jesus' head and lower their help-

Psalm

less

Isaiah 43:18-19,

years

41:2-5, 13-14

comrade before him.

It is noteworthy that Jesus

2 Corinthians 1:18-22

3) Gospel:

Mark

moved

2:1-12

is

to forgive this astonishing,

even violent interruption of his By

DAN LUBY

Catholic

preaching, not just by compassion for

News Service

the

Sweating beneath the weight they bear, four men stagger to a halt, stopped by a gathering crowd.

They lurch clumsily forward with

murmuring en-

tiny, uncertain steps,

couragement to each other and their paralyzed friend. When they catch sight of the house where Jesus is, people are spilling from every doorway and out into the dusty street.

Gently, they lower their suffering burden to the ground, to relieve their aching shoulders and discover a way through the crowd.

They strain to hear Jesus, and though they recognize his cadence and tone, they cannot

make out

so far are they from

the"

his

words,

conversation.

On the stretcher between their feet, the paralyzed man's eyes flutter open briefly, watery and seeing nothing.

When one of the bearers wonders aloud if they couldn't lower him through the roof, he is greeted with stares of disbelief and snuffles of de-

man on

the litter but also by the and persistence and daring of his

faith

friends.

All of us know, and most of us are from time to time, people so paralyzed by sickness or financial crises or

—

loneliness or fear

—

that they cannot

seem to bring themselves to God. AD of us hope for, and are called to ones in Sunday's faith, daring to cannot move them-

be, friends like the

Gospel, persevering in carry those

who

selves into God's healing presence.

Questions: What's a concrete action you can take to bring someone you love closer to the presence of

God? What immo-

burden do you need help laying at the feet of Jesus? bilizing

in

Scripture to Illustrate:

"When

Jesus

saw

said to the paralyzed

your

their faith, he

man, TVIy son,

sins are forgiven'"

(Mark

2:5).

Weekly Scripture Scripture for the week of February 23 - March 1 Sunday (Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time), Isaiah 43:18-19, 21-22, 24-25, 2 Corinthians 1:18-22, Mark 2:1-12; Monday, Sirach 1:1-10, Mark 9:14-29; Tuesday, Sirach 2:1-11, Mark 9:30-37; Wednesday, Sirach 4:11-19, Mark 9:38-40; Thursday,

Mark 9:41-50; Mark 10:13-16

Sirach 5:1-8, 17:1-15,

Friday, Sirach 6:5-17,

Mark

10:1-12; Saturday, Sirach

Scripture for the week of March 2 - March 8 Sunday, (Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time), Hosea 2:16-17, 21-22, 2 Corinthians 3:1-6,

Mark

2:18-22;

Monday

(St.

Katharine Drexel), Sirach 17:19-27,

Tuesday (St. Casimir), Sirach 35:1-12, Mark 10:28-31; Wednesday (Ash Wednesday), Joel 2:12-18, 2 Corinthians 5:20 6:2, Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18; Thursday (Lenten Weekday), Deuteronomy 30:15-20, Luke 9:22-25, Friday (Lenten Weekday), Isaiah 58:1-9, Matthew 9:14-15; Saturday (Lenten Weekday), Isaiah 58:9-14, Luke 5:27-32

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The city's criminal underbelly is run

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in martial arts equals his

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Although writer-director Mark Steven Johnson does pay attention to Matt's moral conundrum, including a very sympathetic portrayal of the priest,

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An encounter with

St. Padre Pio's cousin always marveled at how life brings unexpected surprises, sometimes one that is exactly what you need. Just before Christmas 2002 I met an old acquaintance I hadn't seen in several years. Anthony D'Andrea and I both happened to be visiting the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Conn. were doing the usual "How's everything?" talk, when D'Andrea handed me a holy card with an unusual likeness of Padre Pio, in profile, as a young priest. I accepted it gladly, telling him I would send it to my son Sterling, a retired Illinois state policeman.

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POPE JOHN PAUL

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—

culty, believers are called to praise

knowledge that he is always near tures, Pope John Paul II said.

Christians believe in a us,

God

in the

to his crea-

"God who

is

beyond

able to save us with his power, but also a

God

whose midst he wanted glorious temple,' demon-

close to his people and in to dwell in his 'holy,

strating his love," the pope said Feb. 19 at his

weekly general audience.

Continuing his series of talks about the Scripture used in morning prayer, the pope spoke about the "canticle of the three young

men" thrown to

worship an

into the fiery furnace for refusing idol.

The young men's hymn of praise, he

said, "is

last visit to his

son.

He

nodded, and then, surprising me, said, "Padre Pio was my cousin." He explained that the relationship came from his grandfather's side. Then he told me a story about the holy card.

Back in 1929, his father took his mother, who was not Italian, to Pietrelcina, the village where Padre Pio

was born, to meet relatives there. She noticed a picture on a mantle and asked who the "holy man" was.

"Haven't you told her about Padre Pio, our relative?"

They then took the Mrs. D'Andrea as a gift.

In the next 70 years, Padre Pio would become known worldwide as a saintly man who revealed Christ to all around him. Before his death in 1968, he gained a worldwide reputation for such spiritual gifts they asked D'Andrea's father.

picture

down and gave

it

to

as miraculous healings, visions, bi-location (bringing

him

visibly, if n'ot physically, to a

spiritual help),

and,

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person

in

need of

uncanny insights into people's

lives

most astounding of all, receiving the stigmata

—

bearing unexplained wounds like those of Christ. This extraordinary priest was canonized June 16, 2002.

The photo given to D'Andrea's mother shows a pensive young man just before he entered the Friary of Our Lady of Grace in San Giovanni Rotondo, on a

mantle

hometown,

in their family

D'Andrea died

in 1984,

"Nobody could make up these stoadding that he now lives according to Padre Pio's axiom, "Pray, hope and don't worry!" ries,"

he

said,

violent and

macabre

face of an with isolating the just one, with mockery and irony, asking with sarcasm, Where is your God?'" the pope is

satisfied

I'm always intrigued

when

a friend

stepped inside a church in 10 years baptize her infant;

Like the three young men, he said, Christians offer the proof of their praise even in times of trial, calling on all of creation the stars, the seasons, all the animals and all the faithful to join in their hymn of thanksgiving.

"I invite you all to maintain the firmness of your faith, even in the difficulties of life, always giving thanks to the Lord who created us and has called us to be with him in glory," the pope

denounced

said.

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curred frequently in the history of Israel as well as in the history of Christianity."

oppressor, but often

New York

Mrs. and then was passed down to in

D'Andrea, a father of eight, whose wife Pat was afwith two brain tumors. "I prayed specifically to Padre Pio for her life, and she lived two more years," D'Andrea told me.

The photo of his revered cousin that he cherished was cracked but intact. At the suggestion of a friend and with the help of his daughter, Monica, a calligrapher, he had the old print restored and the prayer cards printed. Now D'Andrea keeps a list of all of who have asked for prayers to Padre Pio, distributing the card with the unique photo.

Amos Miller, director of the Padre Pio Prayer Group that meets at St. John Cantius Church in Chicago, also will be distributing the cards. Thanks to a request from D'Andrea, this group will be praying for my son Sterling, who lives south of Chicago.

D'Andrea told me many remarkable stories of Padre Pio's intercession to help someone he has per-

which shines in the darkness of times of oppression and persecution, times which oc-

ways assume the

Pietrelcina. It

flicted

like a torch

"We know

home

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when

It's

and

ritual after children arrive an interesting trend among my youngadult friends. As soon as couples in their 20s and 30s recite matrimonial vows, nest a little and start their own families, they suddenly appreciate, even demand, a little I've noticed

tradition or ritual in their lives.

That's consistent with recent research about

young

book "Young Adult Catholics," by Dean Hoge, William Dinges, Mary Johnson and Juan Gonzales, documenting focus groups of young adults and a survey of Catholics between the ages of 1 8 to 39.

According to their research, about 70 percent of young adults drop all religious activity when they pack their bags for college. About half return to the church upon leaving the maternity ward with a cherubic infant. This group of Catholics weren't interested in rituadults, especially the

als

or tradition or anything holy as soon as they could that decision for themselves, but they surely want

make it

for their

Why?

own

children.

things religious

Because

And good

ritual

for the soul.

children.

Recently Syracuse University psychology professor Barbara Fiese

was part of a group of psychologists

that studied 32 clinical studies of family rituals.

results confirmed

The

what we Catholics always have

hasn't

who

previously

is

some

a natural evolution in

sense: the frighten-

do become our parents.

'The traditional stuff is still the best," my husband said to me one night when we tucked our then-9month-old into bed after we returned from a dinner fact,

party.

He was who

evening

referring to a couple

we had met

that

explained to us that they had no immedi-

ate plans of marrying, even though they'd been with each other for five years.

"Maybe when we're 40 and bored," they casually

remarked. For the time being they were content hanging out, playing the guitar and tambourine as part of a late-night band,

and drinking cocktails with boring

married folk like my husband and me.

As I packed up my son's binkis, botties, rattles, blankets and diapers, and rushed out the door before 10 o'clock, part of me envied their freedom from attachment: the idea of staying out all night and sleeping in all morning. After two seconds of daydreaming, my senses returned, and I realized that the boring folks with a routine

— with church

in the

night and family activities

and tradition are good for So even if a couple doesn't get anything out of Mass, they'll be there for the families.

who

so anxious to

caught purchasing a children's Bible at the local Christian bookstore; or when an acquaintance trades in his long nights at the pub to say prayers over his daughter's crib. all

ing notion that we, in

Tradition

a colleague

is

—

morning and prayers

at

are really the lucky ones.

We

belong to something larger than ourselves. Our son belongs to something too. And even though he will soon resist all structure and ritual and tradition as part of his adolescence and early manhood, he will one day appreciate it and pass it on to his children.

We should we be so lucky!

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2003

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number of his construcworkers just before Christmas. Now, he plans to hire them back. Finally, he said that like any family, he had relatives who didn't always have it so easy. He'd also use his resources to see that no member of his extended family would fall between the cracks.

So there you have it. A winner who remembers that (a) every grace is a blessing from God; (b) helping our churches helps them to help others; (c) it's always right business, he'd had to lay off a

tion

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Sharing the blessings many ways, he looks like a character actor from central casting. With his oversized 10-gallon hat and country-western wardrobe, Andrew J. Whittaker might make you laugh until you learn that he is the In so

lucky fellow who, already a millionaire by virtue of his construction company, went on to win a lottery prize of

$314.9 million. It's the largest undivided lottery winnings ever. The sheer numbers give you pause. But as happy a story as it is, it's even better when a winner

knows what

do with his wealth. meetings with the press, he has reiterated the same theme. Every blessing, he said, "is a gift from the Lord." And by his determination, God gives blessings so we'll "give many back." And that's what he In

all

to

his

intends to do.

he started writing checks to his churches.

He's been a member of three, so he's dividing ten percent of his winnings among the congregations he's prayed with over the years. He figures that since God gave him the blessings, he should remember those who nurtured his relationship with the Lord.

Whittaker believes: "I don't have luck, I'm blessed.

I just want to thank God for letting me pick the right numbers, or letting the machine pick the right numbers for me." And it's his hope that the churches use his First,

to

remember the people others

who may

not be as richly blessed as we are. will ever have the opportunity for

Andrew

J.

us wouldn't be able to say that

important

Jennifer

used to have a

gifts that

are blessed in

others don't.

And

other people. Someday, Whittaker will

No amount of wealth

little,

but

now

really? one of her songs, "I have a lot," and that's it,

in I

"J-Lo"

makes records and movies, and

is rich,

some

has everything she wants. Except one thing right

our

now: She's not going to get married to Ben Affleck in the Catholic Church. At least not right now.

See, they were going to get married on Valentine's Day weekend in the church. But Jennifer Lopez had a problem. She had been married not just

that's

die, like

is

Lopez sings

true.

Whittaker. But few of

we

opportunity: to share the things we've been given with

every

spares anyone from that.

not have been able to carry his lottery

will

Ms.

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giving on a scale like

one else.

And, he

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AMY WELBORN

earnings along with him to the judgment seat of God.

But based on his plans these days, I'd say he doesn't have much to fear. Some of the greatest theological minds suggest that what we carry with us to the next life are the generous blessings and gifts we've shared with others here on earth.

When your time comes to stand before God, the special good that you have done, the loving-kindness you have shown will be the greatest things you can take

once, but twice before.

The

first

marriage was a Catholic ceremony after it began. The second one was

and ended a year

wedding and ended eight months after it if you're still with me here So if she wanted to get married in the Catholic Church again, the first marriage would have to be annulled.

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Which

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because Jesus said some serious

What kind of church would we we didn't take it seriously, too?

So there's Jennifer Lopez's problem. And if the

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grandfather never spoke

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my mother after her marriage

When the children were born, he claimed we were bastards and of no concern to him.

I knew him by sight since I resembled him, but when I rode on a bus with him he never spoke. How does this extend God's love to everyone, all of us made in his image?

Only the Catholic Church hinders us from being a family. When will I no longer be a bastard in the eyes of the church? Sometime in the 21st century? in 1936.

any consolation, you are not the only one who thought so back in those days.

Before going further, we must admit that the Catholic Church's attitudes and policies concerning "mixed marriages" were much more restrictive and severe when your parents were married than they are now. For a long time the marriage of a Catholic and non-Catholic could not be celebrated in the church building; most of them took place privately and informally in the parish rectory.

Later, these marriages were permitted in church but could be only at a side altar; and of course no Mass was allowed under any circumit's

stances.

For reasons too lengthy to discuss again here, that policy changed drastically over the years, as everyone knows.

Even under the narrowest regulations of the past, however, there was no question, as far as the Catholic Church was concerned, that couples properly entering a Catholic marriage enjoyed a valid marriage union, even if one partner was not Catholic.

Their union was even, as now, considered a sacramental marriage if both spouses were baptized.

I'm sorry for the distorted understanding of his

if

news reports are correct, she's pretty ticked off about the whole thing, mad that the church won't hurry up and speed through the process.

Now we have to be careful here, because you're really not

J-Lo

is

supposed to judge other people's

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and more scarring, than physical you have discovered.

Whatever imperfections the Catholic Church may have suffered in this matter, I hope you can get past blaming it for what your grandfather did to your family. serious,

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who want to get married?

How important could it really be then?

Lots of us can be guilty of this kind of thinking, even if it's not in relation to marriage, can't we? We could all make a list of things that are really important to us: our families, our friends and even our education. But

how

important are they, really?

Are our families important enough to spend time with? Are our friends important enough to hear the truth about stuff they're doing that's wrong? Is our education important enough to take seriously?

Or are our words about how "important" these things are just words, leaving us surprised

when we

from our families, when our friends selfdestruct and when our grades drop?

Hope not We hope that we're working hard to make sure that our actions match our words about what's really important to us so that as life goes on we don't get any rude surprises, but lots of joy feel alienated

may

but

life in public. So it's OK to take this questions that don't mess and ask some questions just apply to Jennifer Lopez but to the rest of us too.

They say that she's mad because getting married in the church is really important to her. But important enough to try to understand what the

faith

more

lives,

a celebrity, and she doesn't seem to mind

living a lot of her

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JOURNEY,

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asked Pope Pius XI

coming together in a way that changes hearts," Father Cancro said.

condemn Nazism

By CINDY

WOODEN

—

man to whom she isn't woman comes to the well

Living with a married, .the

during the day's heat, avoiding neigh-

News Service

VATICAN CITY after

who

bors

ostracize her.

weeks

"Jesus asks her for a drink, and

Father Cancro said.

"Jesus chooses to establish an intimate relationship with her (by talking to her). Normally, a man would not talk to a woman. Jesus offers her a gift, something done only to make personal con-

Just a few

—

St Edith Stein a Catholic convert from Judaism who was soon to enter a Carmelite convent wrote to Pope Pius XI asking him to condemn the Nazi ideology.

—

The

saint,

who died in

at the

Nazi death

1942 and was can-

onized in 1998, wrote to die pope April 1933, saying the

ing and hoping that die church of Christ

would make

The

its

letter,

voice heard."

which

Edith Stein re-

St.

was published for the first time in German and Italian newspapers Feb. 19 after scholars were given copies of the original from the ferred to in other writings,

official

idea of writing an encyclical

against Nazi ideas contrary to the faith at the Vatican and at one draft was written, but Pope Pius died in 1939 without completing and pub-

had been discussed

least

lishing it Jesuit Father Pierre Blet, the Vatican's

1999

World War

II,

said in

would have been a mistake

it

publish the draft because while

demned anti-Semitism

it

it

to

said.

We

Is

worrying mil-

She

said the behavior of Hitier

their followers

— among them —

known criminal elements ing the

fruit

Some

Jews, she said, had committed

'Tor weeks not only the Jews, but tiiousands of Catholic faithful in

Germany

—

throughout the world have been waiting and hoping that the church of Christ would make its voice heard against such an abuse of Christ's name," she wrote.

I

She

believe,

called the Nazis' "idolatry of race"

nothing other than "an open heresy."

And, she said, "this war of extermination of Jewish blood" should outrage Christians because Jesus, his disciples

mother and

his

who

of people and it's

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Church

were Jews.

"All of us

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businesses.

and,

showed

they are reap-

of die hatred sown," she wrote.

suicide following a boycott of Jewish-run

—

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it still

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"I think discernment is one of the things that really struck me," said Carole Hubbell, catechetical leader at St. Will-

the

is still sown. Our God is so good that he allows the seed to be sown so that it has even a short-term effect. Our call is to

all

—

St Edith Stein wrote to the pope, "As a daughter of the Jewish people, who through the grace of God has been a daughter of the CathoUc Church for 1 Christianity that

that will alleviate

soil,

"Communio

Cancro

gene, said the

lions of Germans."

constantly unfolding."

seed

establishes community (communio) with her neighbors when she tells them she has found the Messiah.

enth-grade

dare to express to the father of

or rocky

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is sacramental," Father "As a catechist, you need to be a sacramental person participating in the sacraments and being a sign to others. must be people of the word: recognize the word and proclaim the word in our lives. The word of God is bigger than the words on a page or in a book. It keeps flowing through the unfolding of our lives.

"The ministry of the word challenges us to live in certain ways, to be truthful people," he said. "Truth-speaking nurtures us. [Part of this is that] we have to be honest about what we can and can't do.

Be honest about what you can commit yourself to."

Don Schiffhauer, who teaches con-

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she's perplexed,"

12,

whole world was "wait-

judgmental about how others receive the word. The Catholic worldview is that all is process, not event. All is grace, and all is

think the important element is the Father Cancro said. "It doesn't mat-

ground,

Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany,

camp of Auschwitz

and

hearers that change can

"I

dirt,"

Catholic

its

take place in any kind of soil.

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and improved the nature trail at the Nature Museum near Freedom Park.

member of the St. Matthew Church-sponsored Troop 8 since he started as a Tiger Cub at age Kelley, 18, has been a

five.

Kelley

is

senior class president at

Charlotte Catholic High School and plays guitar at Sunday Mass at St.

Matthew.

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Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities praised the introduction of the Par-

dure. Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, in-

Abortion Ban Act of 2003

troduced the bill Feb. 13 with more than 100 co-sponsors. The House has passed bills to ban partial-birth abortions four times, and twice the Senate joined in voting to end the practice, but President Clinton vetoed it both times. President Bush supports a ban.

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February 21,

Living the Faith

2003

Catholic nuns

Sister of Mercy leaves lasting legacy

take peace message

in

North Carolina

BELMONT — Mercy Sister Marie Patrice Manley, 92, died Feb. 13 at Maryfield Nursing Home in High Point

where she was a ceived as a Sister

1940, and

was

She was reof Mercy on Feb. 2,

resident.

her 62nd year as a

in

Sister of Mercy.

A

was held Cardinal Gibbons Memorial

Mass of Christian

Feb. 17 at

Burial

Chapel with burial following at the Belmont Abbey Cemetery.

Sister Marie Patrice was born Jan. 15, 1911, in Minneapolis, Minn. She was

named Catherine

Irene

Manley

at her

baptism. Following 10 years as a Visitation Sister, she entered with the Sisters of

Mercy on Aug.

15, 1939.

Marie Patrice graduated from Academy in 1929 and graduated from Sacred Heart Junior College. She then obtained her bachelor's degree in education from Belmont Abbey College. She also attended Mount Mercy College in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Sister

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In 1944, she began her ministry at St.

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From 1947^9,

taught eighth grade.

Charlotte Sertoma Club Service to

kind Award, and in 1973 the Belmont

and

Chamber of Commerce named

she

Marie Patrice Distinguished Citizen of

taught at Sacred Heart School in from 1949-1953, she taught at O'Donoghue School in Charlotte; and from 1953-54, at Sacred Heart School in Belmont

in Midwest

Sister

the Year.

Sister

Marie

30-second radio spot

Patrice's heart condition

and the sponsored ministry that

it

pro-

urges listeners to pray,

duced proved to all around her that, although her heart was not perfect, it was big enough

before significant heart

problems developed.

Advised by her doctor that the classroom was too stressful and strenuous, she responded to the needs of local textile mill workers by caring

encompass many

to

dren

who

chil-

Day

By FRANCISCAN SISTER

CAROL

HOVERMAN

you look into the eyes of God's most precious children who live at Holy

News Service Iowa Hoping to counter the country's moves toward war, communities of women religious in the Midwest are adding their

Angels.

voices to those calling for alternatives

can be seen every time

Nursery, located on the

work for peace

could not have

found appropriate care elsewhere. Her legacy

for their children as direc-

tor of Sacred Heart

Man-

she

Salisbury;

convent grounds.

Upon

her retirement

Later, at the request

Catholic

—

DUBUQUE,

to

war and

toward peace.

efforts

from Holy Angels, Sister of a local doctor, Sister Marie Patrice moved to Marie Patrice was asked Bardstown, Ky., where Mercy Sister to assist in the care of an she could be near the Marie Patrice Manley infant born with spina Trappist Monastery and bifida and hydrocephalis remained there until named Maria Morrow. The child desperhealth problems dictated a move to ately needed full-time care that her young Maryfield Nursing Home in High Point. mother could not provide. Sister Marie She maintained an active prayer ministry Patrice went into action in January 1956 until her death. to obtain permission to care for the mediSister Marie Patrice is the daughcally fragile infant. Thus began Holy Anter of the late William Joseph Manley

30-second radio spot produced by the communities began airing Feb. 13 on and radio stations in Cedar Rapids that cover eastern and central Iowa but also extend into Illinois and Wisconsin.

With the music of "Let There be Peace on Earth" as background, the

and Minnie Irene Troendle Manley.

She is survived by her godchild, Maria

"Work for peace! Pray for peace! A message from the Catholic sisters of

Morrow.

this area."

gels.

Marie Patrice served as administrator of the facility for 27 years from the day it was founded until 1982. Today, Holy Angels, Inc. houses over 65 residents in three different residential Sister

programs.

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Memorials may be made P.O.

Box

710,

to

Holy Angels,

6600 E. Wilkinson Blvd.

Belmont, N.C. 28012-8410.

Many of its residents are medi-

cally fragile

5505 Monroe Rd.

Academy where

to radio station

with varying degrees of men-

retardation and physical disabilities.

As

part of their outreach services,

Holy Angels operates a vocational training program Cherubs Cafe and Candy Bouquets in downtown Belmont. These programs provide employment for 12 adults with mental retardation.

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Violin music for the spot was played by Sister Marie Therese Kalb, a member of the Dubuque Franciscans, and J.L. Brimeyer, accompanist.

The spot originated with communications personnel from the 13 religious congregations of the upper Mississippi Valley that make up Sisters

United News. The group came together in 1993 to have maximum im-

women

religious

who

City; Sisters

of Charity of the Blessed Virgin

Mary, Dubuque;

Sisters of Humility,

Davenport; Sisters of Mercy, Cedar Rapids; Sisters of St. Francis, Clinton; St. Francis, Sisters of

and Sisters of

the Presentation, Sisters of the Visitation and Trappestine Sisters, all of

The other members are. the Benedictine Sisters of Rock Island, and from Wisconsin, the 111., Sinsinawa Dominicans and the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration of LaCrosse.

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Mary Pat Fourqurean served as 1551

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meeting planners and

says:

"We

are living the Gospel message in today's world.

Last year the group sponsored billboards around the state that urged people to "welcome the immigrant you once were."

Iowa communities of women religious that belong to Sisters United News are: Carmelites, Eldridge; Ro-

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During her ministry at Holy Angels, Sister Marie Patrice was a highly sought after speaker. In

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message

in

also plans to air the

LaCrosse and Madison,

Wis., as well as in Clinton, and western Iowa.

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