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Established Jan. 12, 1972
by Pope Paul VI
JANUARY
16,
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SERVING CATHOLICS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA IN THE DIOCESE OF CHARLOTTE
2004
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THE LEGACY
Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr honored at memorial celebration KEVIN
BY
MURRAY
E.
nation in the United States in the 1950s and '60s. After his assassination in
EDITOR
—
CHARLOTTE Martin Luther King Jr.'s life may have ended nearly three decades ago, but his dream and
1968, Rev. King became a symbol of protest in the struggle for racial justice.
"Martin Luther King Jr. was not a Catholic, but he was a good Christian a speaker
spirit live on.
Almost 100 people gathered for the annual diocesan
...
Leadership
where he an injustice that we today consider to be outrageous," said Joseph Powell, chairman of the Commission for African
Within Our Church and
American Catholic Ministry
Community," the event, sponsored by the diocesan African
N.J.
American Affairs Ministry, featured workshops and fo-
and the
Jan.
self in a situation
srfw
10.
Themed "Empowering
O urselves
for
cused on the Courtesy Photo
work
atholic students
in winter
who found him-
of the Gospel
Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at Our Lady of Consolation Church in Charlotte
who
life
of Rev. King,
challenged and helped
for the Diocese of
Metuchen,
"He had the gumption will to stand up and say 'this is wrong' and 'we need to change this,' which is
foster positive changes to seg-
wonderland
regation and racial discrimi-
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other Triad-area schools were closed due to bad weather Jan. 9, third-graders at St. Pius X •chool in Greensboro "study" the composition of snow crystals during their science class. Principal lark Akerman reported that only a few students missed school that day Ifhile
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Despite Iraq war, ambassador says U.S.-Vatican cooperation flourishes bassador to the Vatican Jim
'NEVER, EVER' DID POPE DESCRIBE U.S.-IRAQ
Nicholson.
WAR AS IMMORAL, SAYS AMBASSADOR
diplomatic
The war Nicholson Vatican
BY JOHN THAVIS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY Vith
bombs dropping
in
laghdad, Iraq, and words flyig at the Vatican, 2003 was ot an easy year for U.S. am-
standing
ways, the Vatican raised questions about the wider legal and political implications.
times
it
seemed
like
Someopen
level
season on the world's only superpower, with cardinals,
or at least under-
Vatican experts and Catholics
the U.S. posi-
scholars weighing in with comments. But despite the perception of tensions U.S.-Vatican rela-
— — of
tion: that it
armed
minefield for as he pressed
officials for
of support
—
in Iraq created a
some
was time to use
force against
Saddam
Hussein.
As the U.S.-led "war on terrorism" advanced in other
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involvement King
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Jan.
10.
A Look
in
of
life
of
Metuchen,
Inside
The Catholic News
program director
Herald
Murray
discusses
N.J.,
during the annual diocesan Martin Luther
celebration at Our Lady of Consolation Church
Hispanic Center welcomes first
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the
parish
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Charlotte
Fighting for Life
&
'Life principles'
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