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january 22, 2010 Serving Catholics in Western North Carolina in the Diocese of Charlotte vOLUME 19 no. 10 A generous Hundreds march for life in uptown response Fourth annual march draws record crowd in Archbishop calls Charlotte U.S. Catholics to help Haiti SUEANN HOWELL Special to The Catholic News & Herald NEW YORK (CNS) — Catholic Americans are heroic CHARLOTTE — The and inspirational in their bright sunshine was in direct generosity, said Archbishop contrast to the dark truth of Timothy M. Dolan of New abortion that was brought to York, and he anticipated a light on the streets of Charlotte huge response to the second on Friday, Jan. 15. More than collection taken for Haiti in 200 marchers gathered for the U.S. parishes the weekend fourth annual March for Life after an earthquake shattered Charlotte at the Pastoral Center that country. on South Church Street to give He spoke to reporters after witness to the harmful effects Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral that abortion has on men, Jan. 17. women and children. Parishes across the United In Mecklenburg County States were asked to take up a alone, there are more than 4,400 second collection Jan. 16-17 to abortions performed each year help ease “the terrible suffering according to 2008 statistics. of our brothers and sisters That is roughly 85 abortions photo by sueann howell in Haiti” after a magnitude Marchers line the sidewalk in front of the Federal Courthouse during the recitation of the rosary as part of the March for 7 earthquake. See LIFE, page 9 The request came Jan. 13 Life in Charlotte Jan. 15. from Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Archbishop Dolan, who is chairman of It takes a village Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ overseas relief People from all walks of life stand up for the unborn and development agency. CRS will use the funds for relief and SUEANN HOWELL March for Life Charlotte to rehabilitation efforts in Haiti. Special to The show their concern for an issue The archbishop told Catholic News & Herald that affects everyone. reporters that the New York Both were attending the Yankees baseball organization CHARLOTTE — Kenya fourth annual pro-life march pledged $500,000 to Haitian is a long way from North for the first time. relief, half of it to CRS. Carolina. Just ask Berle Oloo “We decided to come; we He said news from CRS and her sister, Sylvia. That were Catholics back in Africa, gave a “glimmer of hope” is where the former Belmont so we decided to come to although there were problems Abbey College students and support adoption….We want to with “the two Ds: delivery and current parishioners at St. make more awareness to stop distribution.” Michael Church in Gastonia abortion,” said Berle Oloo. In a Jan. 15 press release, are from originally. “I have been thinking that photo by sueann howell On Friday, Jan. 15, they Men, women and children hold pro-life signs at the corner of Trade and Tryon were among the hundreds of See HAITI, page 6 Streets in uptown during the March for Life in Charlotte Jan. 15. people who participated in the See MARCH, page 8

Culture Watch Around the diocese In The News Noted Catholic composer dies; A Year for Priests: Father Pope visits Rome synagogue; taste of homelessness; Inspiration Cahill; Seminarian For Pope Benedict, a from ‘Blind Side’ instituted as lector different shade of green | Pages 10-11 | Page 4 | Page 7 2 The Catholic News & Herald January 22, 2010

Current and upcoming topics from around the world to your Federal trial on same-sex marriage InBrief own backyard initiative opens in San Francisco Catholic leaders strongly support Proposition 8 SAN FRANCISCO (CNS) — all couples. Proposition 8 provides A challenge in federal court to the that “only marriage between a man constitutionality of the voter-approved and a woman is valid and recognized 2008 California ballot measure that in California.” defined marriage as the union of one The California bishops and Catholic man and one woman began Jan. 11 in the leaders across the country strongly San Francisco courtroom of Chief U.S. supported Proposition 8, with the bishops District Judge Vaughn Walker. saying that the acceptance of same-sex At the first federal trial on same-sex marriages would be a “radical change marriage and a possible preview of a in public policy” that would “have debate that may eventually reach the U.S. many profound effects on our society.” Supreme Court, a lawyer challenging Such a change “discounts the biological Proposition 8 told Walker that marriage and organic reality of marriage” and is a basic civil right and the courts must “diminishes the word ‘marriage’ to extend it to all couples regardless of mean only a ‘partnership’ — a purely sexual orientation. adult contractual arrangement” with no But Charles Cooper, representing thought given to children, they said. advocates of Proposition 8, said voters The Catholic Church teaches that approved the measure because they marriage is a permanent union between wanted to preserve the institution of one man and one woman. marriage — “an institution of overriding The trial is expected to run at least cns photo by j.d. long-garcia, catholic sun cultural and social importance.” through Jan. 20, with expert witnesses U .S. Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, prefect of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature at the Voters approved Proposition testifying on such questions as the impact Vatican, delivers the homily at the Jan. 12 Red Mass at St. Mary’s Basilica in Phoenix. The annual Red 8 in November 2008, overturning of same-sex marriage on the stability of Mass, now in its 40th year, marks the opening of the Arizona Legislature. a May 2008 state Supreme Court opposite-sex marriage and whether a ruling that enlarged the definition of married mother and father promote the Archbishop says state-sanctioned marriage to include optimal child-rearing environment. you to set aside some time from the pace and Diocesan concerns of the new year and reflect on your administering justice built spiritual life and relationship with God. The planner retreat, Second Journey – an Ignatian retreat for people 40 and over, will be held on Saturday, Jan. 23 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The theme on obedience to God’s law for this retreat is “New Life.” Parking is free in For more events taking place the Green Parking Garage next to the church PHOENIX (CNS) — Hundreds of of natural death, and the integrity of the on 507 S. Tryon Street. To register, call (704) judges, attorneys, lawmakers and public faithful and indissoluble union of man in the Diocese of Charlotte, 332-2901. officials crowded into St. Mary’s Basilica and woman in marriage through which visit www.charlottediocese. CHARLOTTE — St. John Neumann Church is in Phoenix Jan. 12 to attend the 40th spouses, in cooperation with God, create hosting a special event, Fishers of Men, for the annual Red Mass marking the opening of and nurture new human life,” Archbishop org/calendarofevents-cn. Year for Priests, Monday, Jan. 25 from 7 p.m. to the Arizona Legislature. Burke said. 9 p.m. Father Patrick Hoare will be joined by a fellow diocesan priest and a Dominican sister Many in the congregation were A longtime friend of Phoenix Bishop CHARLOTTE VICARIATE to share their stories and personal reflections Thomas J. Olmsted, Archbishop Burke drawn by the evening’s homilist, U.S. CHARLOTTE — Samaritan’s Feet is on their vocation. All ages are invited to Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, who was making his first trip to the Phoenix coming to St. Mark! Area 6-12th graders are honor those who have devoted themselves to heads the Vatican’s highest tribunal, area from Rome. invited to earn service hours while supporting a consecrated life and to learn from them how known as the Supreme Court of the Near the end of the Mass, the a great cause. Over 300 million children in to discern our won vocation in life. For more the world go without shoes. Samaritan’s Feet information, call Sandra St. Clair at (704) 841- Apostolic Signature. attorneys present rose to renew their 7562. oaths. Led by Justice Michael D. Ryan of has a goal of donating 10 million shoes in 10 The Red Mass was first celebrated years and delivering them to those in need. CHARLOTTE — A St. Peregrine Healing during the Middle Ages, when the faithful the Arizona Supreme Court, many in the A major retailer has donated 1 million shoes Prayer Service will be held at St. Matthew gathered to invoke the inspiration of the crowd stood to repeat in unison their oath and help is needed to help tie and sort them Church on Thursday, Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m. This Holy Spirit upon those charged with the of admission to the state bar. to be shipped around the world. Sign up to solemn prayer service will include the blessing administration of justice. In those times, In addition to a number of legislators help in the St. Mark Activity Center from 11 with the relic of St. Peregrine for those suffering and other elected officials, Gov. Jan a.m. to 2 p.m. or 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, from cancer or other serious diseases. The Archbishop Burke said, there was a clear January 23. A donation of $5 to help cover the church is located at 8015 Ballantyne Commons understanding of the essential unity of Brewer was at the Mass. Bishop Olmsted cost of shipping would be most appreciated. Pkwy. For more information call (704) 543- reason and faith. singled out the governor for proclaiming Lunch will be provided at no charge. For 7677. Obedience to the law of God, written Jan. 17 as a day of prayer for the state of more information and to sign up, email the CHARLOTTE — St. Gabriel Church will host on every human heart, is the “solid rock Arizona. The bishop also thanked those youth ministry team at St. Mark Church at four educational seminars for senior citizens [email protected] by Jan 20. upon which the administration of justice who helped pass a slew of pro-life bills that address legal and end of life issues, plus the rests,” he said. during the last legislative session. CHARLOTTE — The members of St. Peter latest on Medicare, Medicaid and community Church Ignatian Spirituality Team invite services. Each seminar will take place on four The administration of justice in the Maria Salapska, president of the St. United States finds itself in a critical Thomas More Society, the organization situation, he continued. “More and more, that sponsored the Red Mass, was we witness the violation of the most pleased with the heavy turnout — an January 22, 2010 fundamental norms of divine natural law estimated 600. 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FROM THE VATICAN ‘Don’t squander Sunday homily’ Morality offers solutions without ROME (CNS) — Archbishop in Rome. The archbishop’s talk was Donald W. Wuerl of Washington part of celebrations for the college’s encouraged U.S. seminarians in Rome 150th anniversary. impeding progress, says pope to see the Sunday homily as a privileged Strengthening communion within VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Christian Personae” (“The Dignity of a Person”) of moment and urged them not to squander the Catholic Church should be one of the moral values do not infringe upon 2008, which highlighted how scientific the unique weekly opportunity to reach primary goals of homilists, the bishop freedom and scientific research; rather progress should be guided by the concern their parishioners. told the seminarians. they offer honest, concrete answers to to defend the sacred nature of human “It is from the pulpit that Sunday Through their studies the future biomedical questions facing the world life. The document presented teachings after Sunday we have an opportunity priests should prepare to address the today, Pope Benedict XVI said. — and in many cases moral prohibitions directly to touch our people in a way that many challenges to church unity and In today’s secularized world, many — in areas such as stem-cell research, nothing else we do can,” Archbishop teaching that have arisen in contemporary people consider religion to be a series human cloning, gene therapy and embryo Wuerl said. “Every priest has hundreds U.S. society, he said. of “prejudices that reject any objective experimentation. or even thousands of hearers each There should be a visible unity understanding of reality” and that hinder Pope Benedict said the document Sunday. We must not squander between all those who preach and freedom and scientific progress, he said is part of the church’s contribution to this opportunity.” teach in the name of the Catholic in a speech Jan. 15 to members of the forming the consciences of all people, The archbishop cited statistics Church, he said. “This allegiance Congregation for the Doctrine of the not just Christians. showing more people in the United includes acceptance of the necessary Faith, who were having their plenary The church bases its pronouncements States go to church on any one prudential judgments of the bishop meeting at the Vatican. on natural moral law, which is not Sunday than all the people attending required to sustain a unity of faith and “The Christian faith instead offers something exclusive to religious belief, major sporting events throughout an practice,” he said. a contribution of truth even in the field he said. entire year. “From the pulpit the priest must of ethical philosophy, without offering Natural law is inscribed on the hearts Archbishop Wuerl spoke Jan. 10 proclaim the truth — the complete and prefabricated solutions to concrete of all people and is fundamental in any during the 2010 Carl J. Peter Lecture unvarnished truth — that is the way to problems, like in biomedical research reflection on rights and responsibilities in at Rome’s Pontifical North American salvation,” he said. But a good priest also and experimentation, but by proposing civil society, he said. College. “meets the members of his flock where reliable moral positions from which Pope Benedict underlined that the The annual lecture seeks to foster they are, to support and walk with them human reason can seek and find valid proposal “is in no way in opposition to preaching skills for seminarians who on their pilgrimage to the Father,” and in answers,” the pope said. the ecumenical movement, but shows will return to the United States as parish this way helps build up the communion The pope dedicated a significant rather, (the church’s) ultimate goal of priests after completing their training of the Catholic Church, he said. portion of his address to the importance reaching the full and visible communion of the Vatican document “Dignitas of the disciples of the Lord.”

consecutive Wednesday mornings from 10 a.m. HICKORY VICARIATE until 12 p.m. The seminars will be held on Jan. HICKORY — St. Aloysius Church offers 27, Feb. 3, 10 and 17 at St. Gabriel Church a monthly Charismatic Mass on the first Ministry Center. For more information, call Thursday of every month. The Mass is in Suzanne Bach at (704) 335-0253. Spanish every other month. February’s CHARLOTTE — Shining Stars Adult Day Mass will be in Spanish and will take place Respite Caregiver Support Group meets the on February 4 in the Sebastian Chapel at last Monday of every month from 10:00 a.m. to 7 p.m. at 921 Second Street NE. For more 11:30 a.m. at St. Gabriel Church in Room E of information call Joan Moran at (828) 994- the Ministry Center located at 3016 Providence 0880. Rd. Meetings are also held the third Tuesday of each month from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Sardis Presbyterian Church, in Room 105 WINSTON SALEM VICARIATE located at 6100 Sardis Rd. The meetings are free WINSTON-SALEM — Our Lady of Mercy and open to the public. For more information, School will be hosting an Open House on call Suzanne Bach at (704) 335-0253. Tuesday, Feb. 2 from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. Our Lady of Mercy is SACS accredited and enrollment is available for grades Pre-K GREENSBORO VICARIATE to 8 for the 2010/2011 school year. For a GREENSBORO — The Greensboro Council student-led tour, or for more information, call of Catholic Women is having a covered-dish (336) 722-7204 or visit our website at www. luncheon at Saint Paul the Apostle Church on ourladyofmercyschool.org. cns photo by debbie hill Wednesday, Jan. 27, beginning at 12 Noon. The church is located at 2715 Horse Pen Creek Road Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., greets Mohammad Abu Saifan, 3, at his family’s house in the at New Garden Road. The speaker will be from West Bank city of Hebron Jan. 13. the YWCA. Please bring your favorite dish to share. There is no charge for this luncheon. For Is your parish or school sponsoring a more information, call Anne Crooks at (336) free event open to the general public? 855-1402 or e-mail: [email protected]. The quest for Mideast peace All Catholic Women and new members are Deadline for all submissions for the always welcome! Diocesan Planner is 10 days prior to JERUSALEM (CNS) — Calling for “love and hope are alive” among GREENSBORO — The Ladies Ancient Order desired publication date. Submit in writ- justice for the peoples of the Holy Land, the people. of Hiberians will meet at 7 p.m. on February 4 ing to catholicnews@charlottediocese. a U.S. bishop joined a group of European Mandated by the Holy See and in the Kloster Center at St. Pius X Church, 2210 org or fax to (704) 370-3382. bishops in urging political leaders to be organized by the Bishops’ Conference N. Elm St. For more information, call Alice courageous in seeking a just peace in of England and Wales, the Holy Land Schmidt at (336) 288-0983. the region. Coordination meets every January The bishops, including Bishop in the Holy Land as a demonstration Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., said of solidarity with the resident Episcopal that despite the region’s deep wounds, Christian community. calendar Bishop Peter J. Jugis will participate in the following events: New editor named for The Catholic News & Herald After a search of several months David Hains noted that the final selection newspaper that is delivered to more than January 22 — 11:30 a.m. a new editor of The Catholic News & was a difficult choice because several 56,000 homes throughout the diocese. Mass for Life Herald has been named by Bishop Peter excellent candidates emerged from the Larson replaces Kevin Murray Basilica of the National Shrine of the Jugis. Patricia Larson, who currently screening process. who resigned in August. Interim editor Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C. works as the interactive coordinator of The Catholic News & Herald will Heather Bellemore chose not to pursue The Herald newspaper in Rock Hill, be adjusting its delivery methods in the the position. Of her Hains said, “Heather January 29 — 10:15 a.m. SC, will begin her duties as editor of the coming months to include interactive and is a hard working innovator whose Catholic Schools Week Mass diocesan newspaper Feb. 1. online technologies such as Facebook, short tenure has left a positive mark on Bishop McGuinness High School, Kernersville Diocesan director of communication twitter and e-mail with the printed this publication.” 4 The Catholic News & Herald January 22, 2010 AROUND THE DIOCESE Lector instituted to ministry Year for Priests Interviews with priests around the diocese

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FATHER PATRICK CAHILL What are some of your favorite books/ Photo ñ North American College Parochial Vicar, St. Gabriel spiritual reading/magazines? Charlotte You can’t go wrong with the Bible! Seminarian Jason M. Christian of the Diocese of Charlotte receives the book Place of Birth & Home Parish – Born in I also enjoy reading the New York Times of Sacred Scriptures at Mass in Rome on Jan. 17. Christian, who resides at Ohio, grew up in NC, St. James Church, when I get the chance. Concord the Pontifical North American College in Vatican City while he studies for the Who is a hero to you? High School – Charlotte Catholic High My dad. He is always there for us, no priesthood, was among 51 seminarians at the college who became lectors. The School, Charlotte, NC matter what. Most Rev. Paul S. Loverde, Bishop of the Diocese of Arlington, Va., celebrated College/University – Belmont Abbey College, Catholic University What are some ways that we can help all people/families understand the Mass and instituted the new lectors. Handing the book of Sacred Scriptures Seminary – St. Charles Borromeo their role in promoting and Date of Ordination – June 2, 2007 to each seminarian, he said, “Take this book of holy Scripture and be faithful supporting vocations? in handing on the Word of God, so that it may grow strong in the hearts of His I think that being Catholic is a very cultural experience. When going people.” The institution as lector is one of the ministries seminarians receive as What assignments have you had to church is a part of the way you are since ordination? raised, you know it is important – I they proceed toward diaconal and priestly ordination. think especially if both parents go. I spent two wonderful years as When someone expresses an interest in parochial vicar at St. Matthew Church in religious life, by all means, encourage Charlotte (2007-09); currently parochial them to pursue it! vicar at St. Gabriel Church. I am also Teaching the teachers a chaplain to the Charlotte Police What advice would you give a young Department. man who is contemplating a vocation to the priesthood? What have been some of the greatest joys for you as a priest? Call me at St. Gabriel’s! I’d love to share what a joyful and humbling thing I love being a role model for our it is to be a priest. Being a priest is a youth. I think being a priest should be privilege and, if God calls you to that something that people see as a legitimate vocation, it is a precious gift. and honorable thing to do. It was also pretty cool to offer the invocation at the “Oath of Office” ceremony for our new mayor, Anthony Foxx, and the Charlotte City Council. Who influenced you most to consider the vocation to priesthood? Father John Allen when he was vocations director for the diocese. What was your background before you entered seminary? I was a college student. What would people be surprised to know about you? Courtesy photo I am a huge LeBron James fan. I have a picture of him in my office. The Father Roger Arnsparger, diocesan vicar for education, directs a training Bobcats are my team, but I pretty much always like to see LeBron succeed. I session for formation leaders, youth ministers, principals, campus ministers think I’d be in heaven if Michael Jordan and religion department heads at the Catholic Conference Center near Hickory brought him to Charlotte. on Jan. 14. The theme for the training was “Catechizing for Life in Christ: What are some of your hobbies? Content and Method.” Sports and spending time with my family. January 22, 2010 The Catholic News & Herald 5 IN OUR SCHOOLS National Vocation Awareness Week Students at Our Lady of Grace School celebrated National Vocation Awareness Week January 10 to 15. The highlight of the week was a school Mass on Wednesday, January 13. Bishop Peter Jugis con-celebrated the Mass with Our Lady of Grace pastor, Father Fidel Melo, and parochial vicar, Father James Stuhrenburg. Also attending were representatives of religious life including a brother from Belmont Abbey and several sisters from religious communities in Greensboro and High Point. Following the Mass the guests attended a luncheon in the school library, hosted by the members of the school board’s Mission Effectiveness Committee that organized the day’s activities. After lunch the bishop and special guests visited the children in their classrooms, discussed vocations and answered the students’ questions. Currently 17 men are in seminaries preparing for priestly ministry in the Diocese of Charlotte.

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Bishop Peter Jugis visits Mrs. Brumbeloe’s third-grade class at Our Lady of Grace School in Winston-Salem Jan. 13. After celebrating a morning Mass, the bishop, priests of the diocese, seminarians, brothers and sisters all visited with students to talk about vocations and their calling by God to ministry in the church. Looking on are Father James Stuhrenburg, left, parochial vicar of Our Lady of Grace and Father Christopher Gober, diocesan director of vocations.

courtesy photo Fifth-grader Michael Sandy proudly stands with his cousin, seminarian Wendell Sawyer, at Our Lady of Grace School in Winston-Salem Jan. 13. Sawyer is studying for the priesthood at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia. He and other seminarians have been adopted by classes at Our Lady of Grace. The students and the seminarians correspond frequently. It is the Lord! Southeast Regional Divine Mercy Conference St. Philip Benizi Catholic Church 591 Flint River Rd., Jonesboro, GA 30238 Monday (Presidents’ Day), February 15th 9am to 6pm

A full day of intense learning and resources for clergy and lay leaders, but open to everyone. This is a unique opportunity to receive the latest information, resources, and strategies on how to celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday. Featured speakers - If you want to be energized, then don’t miss this one-of-a-kind conference, which is open to all, but especially designed for clergy and lay leaders. courtesy photo $50 attendance fee* must be paid in advance and includes light breakfast, snacks, lunch and a chance Seminarians lead the way at the beginning of a special Mass to celebrate to win a life-sized framed Divine Mercy image. National Vocation Awareness Week at Our Lady of Grace Church in Winston- DEADLINE: February 12th cut off date (*Priests attend free in honor of their vocation in Fr. Seraphim Salem Jan. 13. Pictured from left are Santiago Mariani, Casey Coleman, Wendell Fr. Pablo the Year for Priests) Michalenko, MIC Straub, CSsR Great hotel accommodations are available at Sawyer and David McCanless. All four men are studying for the priesthood at Register now at: low cost. St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia. The seminarians are featured www.MercySunday.com This will be a most informative conference that will set your parish on fire for souls! in the Diocesan Support Appeal video that will be shown throughout the diocese or 1-888-732-0722 over the weekend of Feb. 6 and 7. 6 The Catholic News & Herald January 22, 2010 From the Cover Late Haitian archbishop portrayed as humble man

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Haitian In a Jan. 14 e-mail to Catholic News Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot was Service, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, known as a humble man who was close papal nuncio to Haiti, said the archbishop to the poor in the Archdiocese of Port- “was hurled from the balcony outside au-Prince. his room … (from) the force of the Archbishop Miot, 63, was among earthquake … and he died, it seems, from hundreds of thousands of Haitians who the impact.” died in the Jan. 12 earthquake. Haitian Holy Cross Father Rodolphe For years he served as president of Arty, associate pastor of St. Thomas the Haitian bishops’ justice and peace the Apostle Parish in Naperville, Ill., commission, and he often spoke of the described Archbishop Miot as “humble” need to help the citizens of the Western and “very close to poor people in Port- Hemisphere’s most-impoverished nation. au-Prince.”

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-VYJVTWSL[LKL[HPSZHUKVUSPULYLNPZ[YH[PVU]PZP[! ^^^0NUP[LK)`;Y\[OJVT January 22, 2010 The Catholic News & Herald 7 In THe News For Pope Benedict, a different shade of green VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Over the said he was thinking of legislative last few months, Pope Benedict XVI has initiatives in countries in Europe, North opened a wider dialogue on the subject America and South America. Three days of environmental protection, and in the earlier, the Parliament in heavily Catholic process put a sharper focus on an issue Portugal was the latest to pass a law that that’s become central to his pontificate. would legalize same-sex marriage. It’s increasingly clear that the “green” In the same speech, the pope label slapped onto Pope Benedict after underlined that protecting the he installed solar panels at the Vatican environment makes no sense unless and joined a reforestation project in it begins with protecting human life, Europe was not the whole story. Now including the life of the unborn. Here, the pope is defining which shade of too, the pope was emphasizing that the green — in moral arguments that are not church’s “green” philosophy always always popular. puts the human being at the center, The pope began weighing in on precisely because humans are made in environmental themes in 2006. His God’s image. strong defense of the Amazon’s fragile Critics might argue that the pope was ecology, his appeals for safe water and hijacking environmental issues to push

cns photo courtesy of l’osservatore romano via reuters his warnings on pollution’s burden on the the church’s agenda on the usual topics poor all received general acclamation. of abortion and homosexuality. But in Pope Benedict XVI shakes hands with Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni, the chief rabbi of Rome, at the main When he approved the installation of fact, the pope’s analysis of morality and synagogue in Rome Jan. 17. solar panels on several Vatican buildings ecology went in several other directions, and funded tree-planting in Hungary, the too, challenging conventional policies. Vatican drew praise for trying to become One of his strongest points to the Pope visits Rome synagogue the world’s first carbon-neutral state. audience of diplomats — and one that But lately, the pope’s words on received relatively little coverage in ecology have raised eyebrows and even mainstream media — was that the Honors memory of Holocaust victims some objections. protection of creation demands a re- In a speech Jan. 11 to the diplomatic allocation of resources away from ROME (CNS) — Laying a wreath Commandments are central to the values corps accredited to the Vatican, the pope military spending and the development at a memorial to Roman Jews rounded that Christians and Jews share with each extended the discussion of “human of nuclear weapons. up by the Nazis in 1943 and joining other and must share with an increasingly ecology” to same-sex marriage. It echoed an appeal he made for in a standing ovation to a dwindling secularized world. “Creatures differ from one another disarmament in his World Peace Day group of Holocaust survivors, Pope Acknowledging one God as the and can be protected, or endangered, in message Jan. 1, which was dedicated to Benedict XVI broke the ice with Rome’s creator of the universe, calling for different ways, as we know from daily the environment. In that text, the pope Jewish community even before he began respect for human life and upholding experience. One such attack comes said the continued existence of nuclear to speak. the dignity of the traditional family, from laws or proposals which, in the weapons “threatens the life of the planet The pope made his first visit the Ten Commandments are “a beacon name of fighting discrimination, strike and the ongoing integral development of to Rome’s main synagogue Jan. and a norm of life in justice and love, at the biological basis of the difference the present generation and of generations 17, strongly affirming the Catholic a ‘great ethical code’ for all humanity,” between the sexes,” he said. yet to come.” Church’s commitment to improving he said. That prompted protests from Likewise, the pope probed the link Catholic-Jewish relations, its respect The pope told his audience that homosexual activists, including the between war and ecological damage. and appreciation for Jewish faith, its while Christians and Jews pray to the head of an Italian gay organization, who He noted that many current conflicts condemnation of anti-Semitism and his same God, “they often remain unknown said the pope’s linkage of gay marriage around the world arose from a struggle own hope that Catholics and Jews can to each other. It is our duty, in response and ecological irresponsibility was for natural resources, and in turn inflict work together to bring biblical values to God’s call, to strive to keep open the “almost comical.” immense harm on the environment. back to society. space for dialogue, for reciprocal respect, Pope Benedict, however, was not He looked at the connection between In his speech, Pope Benedict said that for growth in friendship, for a common trying to score a cheap political point. environmental destruction and migration, “the closeness and spiritual fraternity” of witness in the face of the challenges of His argument touched on what might be and pointed to the drug trade in places Catholics and Jews flows from sharing our time, which invite us to cooperate called the leitmotif of his pontificate: that like Afghanistan, where agriculture is the Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament. for the good of humanity in this world man is not God, and that man’s actions largely dedicated to the production of “It is in pondering her own mystery created by God.” should correspond to God’s plan — or, narcotics. “If we want peace, we need to that the church, the People of God of After the pope’s visit, Rabbi Di as he phrased it to the diplomats, to “the preserve creation by rechanneling these the New Covenant, discovers her own Segni told reporters, “I think the speech structure willed by the Creator.” activities,” he said. profound bond with the Jews, who were calmed the atmosphere,” which was This is a long-held opinion of the He sees the ecological crisis as chosen by the Lord before all others to tense after Pope Benedict advanced the German pontiff. 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photo by sueann howell Brothers from the Missionaries of the Poor, who are part of the first international mission established in the United States and are located in Monroe, NC, pray the rosary during the March for Life Charlotte in front of the Federal Courthouse on W. Trade Street.

photo by sueann howell March for Life Charlotte participants gather in The Square at the corner of Trade and Tryon Streets Jan. 15 to listen to speakers from Silent No More, a group for post-abortive women who regret their abortions. Standing up for the unborn

year attending the march,” said Beth MARCH, from page 1 Ohlhut, parishioner at St. Ann Church in Charlotte and mother of eight. Ohlhut’s three eldest children will be attending the Washington, D.C. March for Life on Jan. 22 with their grandparents, Allen and adoption is a better option. I don’t Gini Bond, long-time pro-life activists understand why anyone would choose to and parishioners at St. Mark Church have an abortion,” said Sylvia Oloo. in Huntersville. Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine Friday, Jan. 22 marks the 37th of Siena, originally from the Philippines anniversary of the Roe versus Wade and now at St. Thomas Aquinas Church decision by the United States Supreme in Charlotte, were among the marchers Court that legalized abortion of tens as well. of millions of unborn Americans. The The Missionaries of the Poor, Catholic Church defends all life from an order of religious brothers who conception to natural death. now help the poor in Monroe, NC Bishop Peter Jugis, will celebrate and have missions around the world, Mass at the Basilica of the National also participated. Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Some members of the St. John in Washington, D.C. at 11:30 a.m. with Neumann Church youth group in Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese photos by sueann howell Charlotte, five of whom are adopted, of Raleigh prior to the National March (From left) Marchers gather under the statue of a woman holding a child at the corner of Trade and marched holding signs encouraging for Life on Friday, Jan 22. All are invited adoption. Tryon Streets in uptown; (top) Bishop Peter Jugis leads the rosary in front of the Federal Courthouse in to attend. Senior citizens, some with walkers, Charlotte; (bottom)a father and son show their support of life during the March for Life Charlotte Jan. 15. came to the march to make their voices heard. “I wish we didn’t have to be here. If we were doing what we should have been doing 37 years ago, we wouldn’t have to St. Michael Catholic School - Gastonia be here today,” said Mary Pat Arostegui, LING parishioner at St. Matthew Church in ENROL Pre-K Elementary Middle School Charlotte and long-time coordinator of NOW Teams of Our Lady, a national Catholic faith-building organization for couples. “I hope that young people who are not necessarily pro-life will take a second look at the issue… take a look at some of the pictures of the born babies… and say to themselves, ‘maybe Open J House there is a reason that we should wait,’” an. 31 1 s 1:30am continued Arostegui. Feb. -1:30pm 3 9:00 – 1 Families with small children 1:00am marched with strollers, carrying signs www.SMSGastonia.com 704-865-4382 illustrating the development of babies in Enriching Souls and Educating Minds since 1942 the mother’s womb. “This is our fourth January 22, 2010 The Catholic News & Herald 9 from the cover March draws record crowd that recognizes the right to life of the child in the womb,” said Bishop Jugis. LIFE, from page 1 Once at The Square, clergy, laypersons and children offered prayers, testimony and songs to call attention to the truth of abortion and the mercy per week. There are seven designated of God. abortion facilities in Charlotte. Pro-life Father Mark Lawlor, pastor of St. advocates pray regularly in front of two Vincent de Paul Church in Charlotte, led of those facilities in central Charlotte. the opening prayer at the Pastoral Center The Most Reverend Peter J. Jugis, and gave witness at The Square saying, bishop of Charlotte, helped lead the “There are so many people in the whole procession which began at 12 noon. country or in our culture who are kind The route took marchers along S. Tryon of on the fence or not really interested Street, past St. Peter Church to the center (in pro-life causes), so I think that a of Uptown — The Square — at the prayerful, positive witness will cause corner of Trade and Tryon Streets. people to take a good look and to really “We are participating in the March think about some things that are on the for Life Charlotte and the prayer vigil at books and the law of the land that are the U.S. Courthouse to urge that our laws unjust against the little ones.” photo by sueann howell protect the right to life of the child in the Women who regret their abortions A ndrea Hines, regional coordinator of Silent No More — a group for post-abortive women — addresses womb. We are working for a more just gave public witness to the harmful effects March for Life Charlotte participants at The Square Jan 15. and compassionate society — a society it had on them and can have on women. Andrea Hines, regional coordinator of the group Silent No More, a group for post-abortive women said, “We have to be out on the streets. It’s the only way the pro-life message gets out there. We “Yoga, swimming, exercise… have to be creative....The march covers all aspects of life, from families bringing their kids to post-abortive women.... I can right here.” People need to understand that there do it all are consequences to every choice. We ~ Norene Hunt, Pennybyrn resident since 2008. ~ (Silent No More activists) talk about the aftermath of the choices we made (to have abortions).” After the talks and a Marian song performed in Latin by area Catholic home schoolers, the march then proceeded from The Square at Trade and Tryon streets to the Federal Courthouse at 401 West Trade Street. There, Bishop Jugis, flanked by the Knights of Columbus, led those gathered in praying the sorrowful mysteries of the rosary for an end to abortion in our country. The rosary was followed by The Divine Mercy Chaplet, led by Tom and Heather Martin, parishioners at St. Mark Church in Huntersville. Tina Witt, organizer of Charlotte’s fourth annual March for Life credits the large number of participants to “a lot of prayer, people on the ground Pennybyrn resident Norene Hunt starts each day with Yoga, and credits it with working hard months beforehand, tremendous support from the diocese keeping her back pain-free. She also attends exercise classes, swims and walks and Bishop Jugis, parishes participating daily. “With everything under one roof, it’s easy to stay active here. I love looking directly with donations for ads and two digital billboards, an ad in the local outdoors while I exercise and seeing the lovely view.” Achieving balance is Charlotte paper, and ads in The Catholic important to Norene. “Pennybyrn retirement living has a wonderful, open spirit, News & Herald.” with people who will do anything for you. It feels good.” What does Witt hope the fourth annual March for Life Charlotte will accomplish? You too can start each day with wellness. “We hope we will wake up a lot Call (336) 821-4050 or toll-free (866) 627-9343. of people with a total witness of holy example and peacefully praying and evangelizing, too,” continued Witt. “This is something done throughout the ages by great saints who would protest the injustices. We hope to be a visible witness to those just driving by…even if they saw one sign…that that will be a seed for them to meditate on what is the reality of abortion.” Bishop Jugis added that “The church will continue to bring this issue before the conscience of our country, and will www.PennybyrnAtMaryfield.com 109 Penny Road, High Point, NC 27260 continue to ask the question: When are Located less than a mile from downtown Jamestown and only 10 minutes from Greensboro. we going to correct the grave injustice of abortion?”

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A roundup of Scripture, Culture Watch readings, films and more Noel Goemanne, noted church musician and composer, dies at age 83 DALLAS (CNS) — Noel Goemanne, choirmaster positions at St. Rita Parish in a noted Catholic church musician and Detroit and Our Lady Queen of Martyrs composer of many pieces of music Parish in Beverly Hills, Mich. He also and Masses performed by choirs and held those positions in Dallas, first at organists throughout the world, died St. Monica’s Parish and Holy Trinity Jan. 12 in Dallas from complications of Seminary, then at Christ the King. colon cancer. He was 83. At the suggestion of a choir A native of Belgium, Goemanne member, he arranged a version of Johann had lived in Dallas since 1972. He had Pachelbel’s “Canon in D” for singers; directed the choir at Christ the King up to then the composition had been Church until this past summer. arranged for every instrument but voice. A funeral Mass for him was His arrangement was used in several celebrated Jan. 16 at Christ the King. scenes in the 1980 Oscar-winning movie He is credited with creating more “Ordinary People.” than 200 sacred compositions and about Among his many honors were 15 Masses. He received the Pro Ecclesia numerous awards from the American et Pontifice Cross from Pope Paul VI in Society of Composers, Authors and 1977. He composed the processional for Publishers; an award from the Institute Pope John Paul II’s visit to San Antonio of Sacred Music in Manila, Philippines during his 1987 multicity tour in the (1974); and honorary doctorates from United States. St. Joseph College in Rensselaer (1980) According to a Jan. 15 obituary in and Madonna University in Livonia, the Dallas Morning News, Goemanne Mich. (1999). was always an outspoken advocate of the Born Dec. 10, 1926, in Poperinge, cns photo courtesy of benedictine abbey of st. paul outside the walls importance of music, even as a youth. Belgium, Goemanne was a graduate of The “Codex Pauli,” a book with specially designed type and ancient illustrations, celebrates the life During World War II he was arrested for the Lemmens Institute of Belgium. Some of St. Paul. The limited-edition book contains 13 New Testament letters written by St. Paul as well as publicly playing the music of the Jewish of his most popular choral works include commentaries by several current Christian leaders. composer Felix Mendelssohn during “I Have Touched the Face Of God,” the Nazi occupation of Belgium, the “Jubilate Deo,” “Joyfully We Sing Your paper said. Praise,” and “Lead Us Safely Home.” New limited-edition volume pays In 1952, he and his wife, Janine, Goemanne was a member of the came to the United States and settled in American Society of Composers, tribute to St. Paul Victoria, Texas, where he was church Authors and Publishers, the American organist at St. Mary’s Church. Guild of Organists, the American Choral VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A and former presiding bishop of the In response to the liturgical changes Directors Association and the National new book — the “Codex Pauli” — to Evangelical Church in Germany. in the church brought about by the Second Association of Pastoral Musicians. He be presented to Pope Benedict XVI Abbot Edmund Power, head of Vatican Council, he was quick to adapt is mentioned in the International Who’s celebrates the life of St. Paul and his the Benedictine community at St. Paul his music, composing the first English Who in Music, “Organ Preludes” by Jean impact on Christianity in a volume that Outside the Walls, said the book also Masses in the spirit of the council. Slater Edson, “The History of Catholic compiles ancient illustrations, specially includes the 13 New Testament letters During that same period he traveled to Church Music” by Karl Gustav Fellerer, designed type and contributions written by St. Paul and the texts in Italian college campuses, giving workshops on and Vlaanderen, a publication on art and from an international group of and Greek of the Acts of the Apostles and sacred music. He established the sacred culture in the Netherlands. Christian leaders. the Letter to Hebrews, as well as several music program at St. Joseph College in In addition to his wife, he is The first copy of the limited run of apocryphal texts from the first century Rensselaer, Ind. survived by a daughter, a son and 998 printed will be presented to the pope that refer to Paul, his preaching and Goemanne held organist and three grandchildren. Jan. 25 during his visit to the Basilica of his martyrdom. St. Paul Outside the Walls. Monks of the The 424-page “Codex Pauli” was Benedictine Abbey of St. Paul Outside printed using an original font, which

7UDYHOZLWK)U0LURDQGRWKHU&DWKROLFV$SULO  the Walls, who edited the volume, will has been named “Paulus 2008” and give it to the pope as a reminder of the reflects the handwriting used in the 9th- special year he dedicated to St. Paul in century Carolingian Bible, preserved at 2008-2009. the basilica. The book includes original Abbot Power said, “This is not only commentaries contributed by several a work of scholarship, but a work of important Christian leaders, including: art. It’s a unique work, using modern HAWAII Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch techniques, but all the illustrations are Bartholomew of Constantiople; Russian taken from codices kept by the library :DLNLNL0DXL²'D\VIURP Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow; and archives at the Abbey of St. Paul    Melkite Patriarch Gregoire III Laham of Outside the Walls.” -RLQRWKHU5RPDQ&DWKROLFVLQ+DZDLLGXULQJWKHSULVWLQHVSULQJWLPHGXULQJWKHSHDNIORZHU Damascus, Syria; Anglican Archbishop “So it’s a very beautiful book. It’s EORRPLQJVHDVRQ0DVVZLOOEHFHOHEUDWHGVRPHGD\VRQWRXU7KLVZLOOEH)DWKHU0LUR¶VWKLUG Rowan Williams of Canterbury, England; a tribute to Paul and his writings, but WULSDVD<07FKDSODLQ+HLVSDVWRURI+RO\)DPLO\5RPDQ&DWKROLF&KXUFKLQ&UHLJKWRQ3$ and retired Lutheran Bishop Eduard also a tribute to a monastic tradition and DQGKDVEHHQLQWKH3LWWVEXUJKGLRFHVHIRU\HDUV

A taste of homelessness Texas Catholic college students get first-hand experience and raise awareness

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (CNS) Some passers-by were impressed — It’s been said that a good way to and asked a lot of questions. Some people get to know someone is to walk a mile showed compassion and donated money. in his shoes. The students raised a total of $190.98. With that in mind, several students A proposal was sent to the student from the Catholic campus ministry government requesting it match the program of the University of Texas at funds raised. The Knights of Columbus Brownsville/Texas Southmost College donated another $100 to the cause. spent a day much like a homeless person The money was used to purchase might by escaping the elements in food for the homeless of Brownsville. cardboard boxes and asking strangers “Bags of hope” containing food, letters for money. of encouragement and prayer cards were The students camped out on campus handed out at a local park where many cns photo courtesy of warner bros. grounds and approached passers-by homeless people sleep at night. Quinton Aaron as Michael Oher and Tim McGraw as Sean Tuohy star in a scene from the movie “The for donations. They received mixed The student exercise, held in late Blind Side.” Tuohy, who with his wife adopted Oher, said his actions were influenced by his own father. reactions from the people walking by but December, was part of an ongoing social said the overall responses were negative. justice project. Throughout the semester “A lot of people laughed at us the students have conducted research on and others walked by like they didn’t homelessness and poverty. Inspiration from ‘Blind Side’ care,” said Carlos Ventura, 21, a Hilda Escandon, who leads the Brownsville resident. campus ministry program at University “People just passed by and ignored of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost NEW ORLEANS (CNS) — No taking No. 2 to Christ. No matter how us, some people were rude but most College, described the homeless one loved a good story better than Ed close we get, Christ figures out a way to people just walked by and said, ‘No experience as “humbling.” “Skeets” Tuohy, the legendary basketball keep packing the stadium.’” thank you,’” said 20-year-old student “Most of the people that walked coach of Isidore Newman School in New Skeets’ son Sean — who went on Lupita Capistran. “We felt rejected.” by wouldn’t even make eye contact Orleans. Skeets was a lanky kid who was to become the all-time assists leader When it began to rain heavily, with us,” she told The Valley Catholic, recruited out of St. Philip High School in the Southeastern Conference during the students refused to leave their newspaper of the Brownsville Diocese. in Chicago to play basketball for Loyola a stellar career at Ole Miss — and cardboard-box camp, pointing out that For Escandon, the goal of the project University New Orleans in the 1950s. daughter-in-law Leigh Anne took in and the homeless often have to endure adverse was to raise awareness among students Although he went on to a Louisiana then adopted a homeless black teenager weather conditions. and the community about the issues that Hall of Fame high school coaching career from the other side of the tracks in north “My feet are soaked,” said 24-year- affect people every day. before his life was cut far too short at age Memphis, Tenn. old student Misael Martinez. “It’s not a Even though the students endured 49 by a major stroke, Skeets was more a They nurtured and tutored their very pleasant feeling and the homeless poor weather conditions, they said student of the game than a practitioner. adoptive son, Michael Oher, within an feel this way every time it rains.” feeling homeless was even harder to take. He considered the hours he inch of his 6-foot-4, 308-pound frame The students intended to spend “As time passed, we felt our spirits spent riding the bench at Loyola an so that he could keep up academically a full 24 hours camping out but were sinking,” Martinez said. investment in the future and he grew at a college-prep school. Through unable to get clearance to do so from “We put ourselves in their shoes and to know the game inside and out, and endless hours of study and dedication, campus officials. we got a little taste of what their lives are more importantly, he knew how to coax Oher not only survived, he thrived. In Although the day was full of glitches, like,” Capistran said. “I can’t imagine the best out of kids. He understood 2009 he became a first-round draft pick there were many positives. feeling like that every day.” human nature, probably because he had of the Baltimore Ravens. He is now a tried just about every trick in the book millionaire left tackle protecting the as a player. “blind side” of quarterback Joe Flacco. The box-office smash “The Blind In an interview with the Clarion Side” is the story of Skeets’ adoptive Herald, newspaper of the New Orleans grandson. Based on the story of a real Archdiocese, Sean said his father would person, it has become the No. 2-grossing have been a “proud Irishman” to see the film in the history of the movie industry. good that has been accomplished by and The success of the movie is “second through Oher. behind ‘The Passion of the Christ,’” Sean “Dad didn’t want to solve the world’s said in amazement. “The screenwriter crisis,” Sean said. “He just wanted to told me, ‘Sean, I know how competitive help a kid. He wasn’t a grand thinker. He you are, but I don’t think you’d mind was a grand doer.”

cns photo courtesy of the valley catholic Misael Martinez, a student from the University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College, and Sister Sharon Horace, a Daughter of Charity, take refuge in cardboard boxes to escape a rainy day in late November as part of a social justice project about homelessness. 12 The Catholic News & Herald IN OUR SCHOOLS January 22, 2010 Bake sales benefit Haiti How to spell success

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courtesy photo Spelling bee winner Alex Pinder, right, poses with teacher Helen Rasmussen and runner-up Elizabeth Eighth-grader Emma Myers at Our Lady of Grace School in Greensboro holds a bag of cookies from a Ampolini at St. Leo School in Winston-Salem Jan. 15. Fourth- and fifth-graders participated in the contest student-sponsored bake sale. The students have been holding the monthly bake sales throughout the at the school. Alex will represent the school in a district spelling bee in February and he will also receive school year to raise funds for charities. The class voted to send all of the proceeds from the first semester a certificate of recognition at the end of the school year. Alex’s winning word was a-l-t-i-t-u-d-e. to the survivors of the earthquake in Haiti. The contribution was over $500. Selling the goodies are Emma’s classmates Kable Young, center, and Jonathan Buechner. Helping the homeless NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING CLASSES sponsored by Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Charlotte Research studies have found Natural Family Planning to be 97-99% effective when used correctly. Engaged and married couples, clergy and anyone interested in learning more about Church-sanctioned methods of natural family planning are welcome to attend. Engaged couples can receive verification of attendance to fulfill diocesan pre-Cana requirements. INTRODUCTION CLASSES CHARLOTTE - St. Ann Church February 2 – 7 pm CHARLOTTE DIOCESAN PASTORAL CENTER February 3 – 6:30 pm CONCORD - February 17 – 7 pm SALISBURY - Sacred Heart Church February 18 - 7 pm CLASS SERIES Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 CHARLOTTE Diocesan Pastoral Center February 3 March 3 April 7 Start 6:30 pm courtesy photo NORTH CHARLOTTE Students from Our Lady of Grace School drop off donated goods at the Urban Ministries of Greensboro. February 20 March 27 April 24 The students were concerned about the impact the recent freezing temperatures had on the homeless in Start 1 pm Greensboro. A request went out to the school and church community for blankets, towels, hats, scarves, gloves and toiletries. Over 2,000 items came into the school within a week. Pictured are students Will WINSTON-SALEM Murray, Patrick Murray, Andrew Horne, Victoria Edwards, Caleb Carmichael and Zachary Palenchar. your local Catholic Charities agency St. Leo Church February 21 March 21 April 18 Start 1:30 pm Information: (704) 370-3230 RALEIGH [email protected] Our Lady of Lourdes Church www.cssnc.org/naturalfamilyplanning.html Classifieds February 28 TBD TBD Pre-registration required. Start 2 pm Holly Springs Classified ads bring results! Over 160,000 readers! More than 55,000 homes! January 30 February 27 March 27 Rates: $.80/word per issue ($16 minimum per issue) Start 9 am Deadline: 12 noon Wednesday, 9 days before publication How to order: Ads may be E-mailed to [email protected], Take a local class or learn from the faxed to (704) 370-3382 or mailed to: convenience of your home with a FREE home-study course CD. Keep your NFP Cindi Feerick, The Catholic News & Herald, 1123 S. Church St., Charlotte, NC 28203. charts online or use your iPhone! Payment: For information, call (704) 370-3332. January 22, 2010 The Catholic News & Herald 13 AROUND THE DIOCESE Service with a smile Where is the free space?

Courtesy photo St. Matthew Church Junior Girl Scout Troop 7501 makes a delivery to Room At The Inn of Charlotte Dec. 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. For their Bronze Award community service project, the scouts organized a 6-week collection of baby toiletries, diapers, wipes, formula, clothes and equipment at St. courtesy photo Matthew School. Families dropped off items in a bassinet in the school lobby and brought items to a Three-year-old pre-schoolers play bingo with some slightly older ladies at St. Leo The Great Church in family movie night. Pictured are troop members Erin Becker, April Burg, Lindsay Cramer, Sofia Escobal, Winston-Salem Jan. 19. The ladies are members of the Gold Club that meets monthly in the parish center. Megan Fiato, Morgan Fiato, Natalie Fischer, Caroline Gorman, Katharine Johnson, and Erin McCullagh. The group is playing Alphabet Bingo which helps youngsters learn their ABCs. Unlike the regular bingo The troop is led by Nannette Gorman and Jackie Johnson. game, Alphabet Bingo does not contain a free space on the center of the playing card.

Artist: Rex Babin 14 The Catholic News & Herald January 22, 2010

A collection of columns, WORD TO LIFE Perspectives editorials and viewpoints S uNDAY cripture Readings: jan. 31, 2010

Fourth Sunday in not jealous, he is not pompous, Jeff is not inflated, he is not rude, he does not Ordinary Time seek his own interests, he is not quick- tempered, Jeff does not brood over Discovering God’s call injury, does not rejoice over wrongdoing Cycle C Readings: but rejoices with the truth. Jeff bears One of the major tasks of young 1) Jeremiah 1:4-5, 17-19 all things, believes all things, hopes adults is to discover God’s call. It is Psalm 71:1-6, 15-17 all things, and endures all things. Jeff a process we all go through in one Guest 2) 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13 never fails.” way or another. 3) Gospel: Luke 4:21-30 Wow, these beautiful words from St. Each of us has a unique call — one Column Paul had just become evidence that could only we can answer. Discovering our call indict me on numerous violations of the law of love. In truth, more times than I isn’t as easy as picking up the phone or SISTER MARGIE texting a message to God or our pastor. care to admit. I am not patient or kind. LAVONIS Living in love Too often, I am jealous, pompous, rude, It takes hard work to find out how God guest columnist wants us to live our lives. We must inflated, and quick-tempered. I lose faith, take time for prayer and reflection that for others fail to hope and quit. And I certainly fail includes serious discernment. much of the time. When I was a campus and young She said she thought I should consider The retreat master asked us not adult minister, and also in my ministry religious life. At first it was a shock but to get too down on ourselves; rather as vocation director for the Sisters of then I began to seriously reflect and pray JEFF HEDGLEN we were to use this as fodder for self- the Holy Cross, I was often asked the about that possibility, and here I am cns columnist reflection, growth and the sacrament of question of how a person knows God’s many years later. I often have wondered reconciliation. Since that day I have often will and plan for his or her life. There if my life would have been different had “Love is patient, love is kind. It used this passage for my examination of are no easy answers, but there are some I just ignored her. is not jealous ...” conscience before the sacrament. things that can help us discover how God Most of the time the discernment These words from the First Letter It is often said that people will rise wants us to live our Christian lives. of God’s will is not easy because it to the Corinthians, Chapter 13, in this to the expectations you set for them. First and foremost, it is important is usually a choice between two or week’s readings have to be some of the Based on this passage from Scripture, to remember that God calls everyone. more good options. It would be much most loved and remembered words in God must really think we are capable Each of us has a vocation. We received easier if one were good and the other the Bible. They certainly are the most of greatness. We may never live these our most important call at baptism. In definitely not for us. For instance, definitive Scripture on what real love is. words to perfection, but the one who is that primary sacrament of our faith, we valuing marriage and loving children This New Testament passage is used to their perfect incarnation is offering us the became members of Christ’s body, the doesn’t automatically count one out set the tone for weddings every Saturday challenge to at least attempt to never fail. church, and were called to help bring of religious life or priesthood. The across the globe because it is the standard ministers of God’s church must be warm for how we should look at one another about the reign of God in this world. It Questions: is not just a role reserved for religious and loving as was Jesus. And many lay and how we should treat one another. brothers and sisters or ordained ministers. people have a deep spirituality and do But the meaning of this Scripture Have you ever thought of 1 Through baptism each Christian shares in great service in the church and the world. changed for me one day during a retreat. Corinthians 13 in this way? How does the priesthood of Jesus Christ and in his That doesn’t necessarily mean they are Instead of being an altruistic measuring this view of the passage impact you? mission to reveal God’s love to the world. called to religious life or priesthood. stick for love of others, it became a What are some ways you can strive to The challenge is to discern, or to figure There are some things a person can mirror to my soul. The retreat master love like this? do to make the right choice. A good way asked us to read the Scripture, replacing out, how God wants us to carry out this Scripture to be illustrated: mission with the gifts we have received, to start is to list the pros and cons of each the word “love” with our own name. In and what is the way of life to help us do option, pray about them and listen to so doing, the famous text became: “Love is patient, love is kind. ... this best. which one draws you the most. See what “Jeff is patient, Jeff is kind. He is Love never fails” (1 Corinthians 13:4, 8). The majority of Christians live feels right and gives you a clear sense of God’s call through the sacrament of peace. I remember one of my professors, marriage. Others are called by God to during a class in graduate school at WEEKLY SCRIPTURE live the single, ordained or consecrated Boston College, saying that the deepest life as a religious brother or sister. Most desire of our hearts is usually God’s will SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 24-30 people discover their call by listening for our lives. Listen to what your heart Sunday (Third Sunday in Ordinary Time), Nehemiah 8:2-6, 8-10, 1 Corinthians 12:12-30, to the deepest desire of their hearts. For tells you. Luke 1:1-4, 4:14-21; Monday (The Conversion of St. Paul), Acts 9:1-22, Mark 16:15-18; instance, some have a deep longing to Finally, recently I was viewing Tuesday (Sts. Timothy and Titus), 2 Timothy 1:1-8, Mark 3:31-35; Wednesday (St. Angela share their lives with one special person videotape about community life and the Merici), 2 Samuel 7:4-17, Mark 4:1-20; Thursday (St. Thomas Aquinas), 2 Samuel 7:18-19, and to raise a family. Others have a presenter offered this advice: She said 24-29, Mark 4:21-25; Friday, 2 Samuel 11:1-10, 13-17, Mark 4:26-34; Saturday, 2 Samuel passion to give their entire lives to the the key to discovering one’s vocation 12:1-7, 10-17, Mark 4:35-41. Lord through prayer, community and in life is to discern which lifestyle SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 6 service to the people of God. Then there will make a person happy, healthy and Sunday (Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time), Jeremiah 1:4-5, 17-19, 1 Corinthians 12:31ó13:13, are those who are conflicted between the holy. To be happy really means having Luke 4:21-30; Monday, 2 Samuel 15:13-14, 30, 16:5-13, Mark 5:1-20; Tuesday (The Presen- two. They feel a pull between marriage inner joy and loving my life (most of tation of the Lord), Malachi 3:1-4, Hebrews 2:14-18, Luke 2:22-40; Wednesday (St. Blaise, and a church vocation. the time!). A spiritually healthy life is St. Ansgar), 2 Samuel 24:2, 9-17, Mark 6:1-6; Thursday, 1 Kings 2:1-4, 10-12, Mark 6:7-13; It is important to be aware of the one that enables me to use my gifts and Friday, Sirach 47:2-11, Mark 6:14-29; Saturday (St. Paul Miki and Companions), 1 Kings many ways God reveals his call to us. grow into the person God wants me to 3:4-13, Mark 6:30-34. One essential way is through prayer, be. A holy life is one that gives God an taking quality time to actively listen to important place in my life as I spend time God and by seriously taking into account growing in relationship with God. what others say to us about our lives. My prayer for each of us is that For example, maybe several people we will discover what will best help have asked you if you have ever thought us to live happy, healthy and holy of considering priesthood or religious Christian lives. life, or observed that you would make a As disciples of Christ we all have the wonderful mother or father. Very often same mission. The key is to discover the those comments are planting seeds and best way for us to carry it out. should give us pause to reflect on what we hear. Sister Margie Lavonis is a freelance When I was in high school one of writer and member of the Sisters of the my teachers — a sister — asked me Holy Cross at Saint Mary Church in what my plans were after graduation. Notre Dame, Indiana. January 22, 2010 The Catholic News & Herald 15

Guest Christians must We do believe Column For Christmas, I received a copy of yet faith happens to us every day. We act pray for unity, “Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures,” by faith. A common-sense reflection on it F Ather JAMES written by then-Joseph Cardinal often illustrates the point. Benedict tells SCHALL pope says Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. (I us to check our experience. Few of us guest columnist was also given some new shirts, in case know the ins and outs of any complicated anyone might think Schall is a one- technical system, market, or contraption. dimensional man.) We know that electricity works. We The Pope In the last section, Benedict questions turn on the switch. What is electricity? whether, logically, a man can be an We vaguely recall experiments in high Himself. He said that He is sent by the Speaks “agnostic” – someone who decides, with school… But somebody obviously knew Father, His Father. He tells this to a intellectual consistency, that he can what it was, because he examined it. number of fishermen who seem by no really know nothing about the important The difference between faith and means naïve. He does a number of things POPE things. Hence, he need not take a stand on reason in technical affairs is that we can to confirm His divine power. They see BENEDICT XVI anything. Such a mind is so delicate that accept the testimony of others that they what He does. it verily ceases to be a mind at all. know. We do not take our busted car to These apostles and others In the end, however, such a man still the beauty stylist. We do not go to the surrounding Christ are told to make known this Good News, that He is. has to live and decide whether his living grocer in order to cut our hair. We go VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Why He did not do it Himself might is just that – meaningless – or has some to those who know: the mechanic, the search for Christian unity “is not a be wondered about, but He is crucified purpose. He cannot have it both ways. In barber. In all crafts and professions, linear process,” because as churches in a public trial in Jerusalem under the his daily actions, he has to live as if his some are better than others. So we, in resolve their past differences, differing authority of Rome. Since that time, right life does or does not matter. fact, live and act in a daily world of trust. approaches to new questions create new up to today, we have folks who live in From here, Benedict turns to faith We think nothing of it. difficulties, Pope Benedict XVI said. the company of those who attest to these itself. Does it make sense? Is it a help? Is religious faith, in principle, During his weekly general audience truths, the ones that have been handed We go around affirming that “we any different? Not really. This faith Jan. 20 — in the middle of the Week of down about this Man-God. believe” in many things, even though understands that something else that we Prayer for Christian Unity — the pope But at the basis of all our ability to we ourselves have not checked out the do not see is true, because we accept said the unity that Jesus wants for his “believe” is not more belief, but finally evidence. That does not much bother the testimony of someone who saw. The disciples will require human effort and seeing. The apostles saw what He did us. We trust that is so. Now, it is an only issue, then, is whether the witness conversion, but ultimately it will be a gift and told us. Christ on His part simply understanding of Catholics that faith is is telling us what he saw, however odd it of God for which people must pray. said, “I have seen the Father.” He did not not blind. In a teaching that goes back at might seem to those who did not see. If Discussing the ecumenical say, “I believe in the Father.” The reason least to St. Thomas Aquinas, we believe we thought for a moment that the witness landscape, the pope said, “we must be is that He did see. only if someone else sees and we have was telling us something that was not aware, on the one hand, of how much reasonable evidence for its being known as he said it was, we might still believe real progress has been made in Christian Reprinted with permission from by someone. It cannot be otherwise. If we him, but we are deceived. This is why the collaboration and fraternity over the InsideCatholic.com. Fr. James V. cannot, logically, reduce faith to seeing, credibility of the witness is such an issue. past 50 years, but at the same time, we Schall, S. J., teaches political science at we cannot hold it. The essence of the Christian faith — know that ecumenical work is not a Georgetown University. His latest book, This is not strange doctrine. Often, that is, what it attests – is that God, the linear process. Old problems, born in the The Mind That Is Catholic, is published faith is made to appear a silly enterprise Logos, became man in Jesus Christ, who context of another age, lose their weight, by Catholic University of America Press. that only the naïve would accept – and was true man. This is how He described while in our own context new problems and difficulties are born.” Pope Benedict did not list the new problems, but in the past he has noted how the approach of different Christian Penance begins with compassion Guest communities to modern moral and social sensitivities has created new Column divisions, for instance when they have In the Catholic faith, we experience the issue is multi-faceted and must be led some churches to ordain women or to the healing mercy of God through addressed as such, in our prayers, in our GEORGIANNA recognize homosexual unions. many gifts… gifts of prayer, hope and words and in our actions. PENN The new divisions, he said, call on forgiveness, gifts that are meant to be In “Hope After Abortion,” an article all Christians “to be always ready for a guest columnist shared with others. published in the Jan. 2010 issue of The process of purification, through which As a newly confirmed Catholic, I Columbia magazine, author Supreme the Lord will make us ready to be united.” used to think the word penance was a Knight Carl A. Anderson quoted the Christians will never be able to give bad thing. But now, after experiencing words of Pope John Paul II as saying, by supporting post-abortion healing a united witness to the world until each of the healing grace of penance, through “There are situations of acute poverty, ministries and by being sensitive to how them is united to Christ, he said. reconciliation, my heart is changed. anxiety or frustration in which the we speak about abortion in our churches. Ecumenism does require intellectual Penance is a gift, penance is healing, struggle to make ends meet, the presence Anderson also writes, “We must be effort and theological dialogue, but even penance is compassion. of unbearable pain, or instances of sensitive to the fact that so many who more it requires Christians who know When we stray from God, it is gifts violence, especially against women, hear us speak out on the issue of abortion and experience the love of God through like these that pull us back to the light. make the choice to defend and promote have been hurt by it themselves. We must Jesus and are prepared to share the We were called to help pull others back to life so demanding as sometimes to reach seek to heal — not condemn.” Gospel with the world, he said. the light on Jan. 22, the Day of Penance. the point of heroism.” When a woman heals from the A new, united church constructed To do this, we can start with prayer, by With love and compassion as our wounds of abortion, we save many lives. with human hands and minds, the pope praying for hope and forgiveness to touch foundation, we are called to pray for the She will more than likely never make said, “would be something human, while the lives of those who have been affected legal right to life, but we are also called an abortion decision ever again, saving we want the church of God, made by by abortion. to action, action that is grounded in love. her life and the lives of others. Our God. God will create unity when he wills, The wounds of abortion run deep A friend of mine works with domestic call to fight this fight with compassion when we are prepared.” and become systemic roots of self abuse victims. She often tells me that a is imperative. Pope Benedict asked God to listen destruction if not addressed in our post- woman stuck in a cycle of abuse who Remember the Day of Penance, pray to all Christians, who plead especially abortive women. Since almost 50% of all is told over and over again that she is with hope and forgiveness in your heart, intensely for unity during the Jan. 18-25 abortions are from women having repeat unworthy will certainly not see the life speak words of compassion and act out Week of Prayer. abortions, these women are a top priority. growing inside of her as worthy either. of love. Give the gifts that have been Participating in the audience were If we could fathom how many women We can help those women by so freely given to you where they are members of the Continuation Committee are stuck in this cycle of self destruction, supporting our domestic abuse needed most… to this fight for life. of Ecumenism in the 21st Century, a then wouldn’t we ground this call for life safe houses. body convoked by the World Council of in these healing gifts of grace? We can also help by supporting Georgiana Penn is a Respect Life Churches and made up of representatives On the Day of Penance, we were our local crisis pregnancy centers committee member and parishioner of St. of 15 Christian communities, including called to pray for the end to abortion. But and maternity homes. We can help Pius X Church in Greensboro. the Catholic Church. January 22, 2010 The Catholic News & Herald 16 in the news Facing violence with courage Christians navigate extremism in the Middle East

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — church can better prepare people for the Christians in the Middle East are called challenges they face. to be courageous builders of peace in a Bishops’ conferences and other region too often marred by violence and groups in the region were asked to oppression, said the outline for the Synod respond to the questions by April 4. of Bishops for the Middle East. The responses will form the basis of the Islamic extremism, too, represents synod’s working document. a threat to everyone in the region and A major problem many face in it must be confronted by Christians the Middle East is political conflict, banding together with Muslims who for example: the Israeli occupation of share the same concerns, it added. the Palestinian territories, divisions in The theme of the synod, scheduled Lebanon and the war in Iraq, which for Oct. 10-24, is: “The Catholic Church has “unleashed evil forces within the in the Middle East: Communion and country” that target all Iraqis, the Witness: ‘The community of believers document said. was of one heart and mind.’” The The increasing influence of Islam on quotation is a description of the unity politics and the retreat of Christians from of the early church from the Acts of the political life, as can be seen in Egypt, Apostles. have led to intolerance, inequality and The synod’s outline said the two injustice, it said. cns photo by paul haring main goals for the October assembly In some countries authoritarian Croatian Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops, speaks at a Jan. 19 were “to confirm and strengthen regimes force all citizens, including Vatican press conference previewing the theme of this year’s Synod of Bishops for the Middle East. The Christians in their identity through the Christians, to silently accept the status synod is scheduled for Oct. 10-24 at the Vatican. Also pictured is Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the Word of God and the sacraments and to quo, it said. Vatican spokesman. deepen ecclesial communion among the The influence globalization is having particular churches.” on cultures, including in the Middle working for peace seem impossible, it in these holy lands, but more still to A renewal of faith and improved East, can help promote human rights, said, “considering that war and violence maintain the spirit of the Gospel among ecumenical collaboration also will help but it also risks destroying local value are virtually forced upon us.” Christian peoples and (in) their relations Christians better understand their role systems, the institution of the family and “The solution to conflicts rests in with non-Christians,” it said. in Muslim societies and how they can spirituality, it said. the hands of the stronger country in its Despite its small size, Christianity aid their nations by being authentic Responding to threats to traditional occupying and inflicting wars on another plays an irreplaceable role in the Middle witnesses of Christ, it said. values, Islamic fundamentalism has country. Violence is in the hands of the East, it said, because it upholds the The only way to find the strength spread — blaming the source of all social strong and weak alike, the latter resorting values of peace, justice and forgiveness, to overcome the fear or desperation ills on neglecting Islam, it said. to whatever violence is within reach in which are fundamental to promoting the often felt by the Christian minority and “These extremist currents, clearly order to be free,” it said. common good. to carry out the mission to “assist your a threat to everyone, Christians and Christians must courageously While global policies and local church and your country to grow and Muslims alike, require a treatment in denounce those who oppress, who work politics “will likely have an impact on develop in peace, justice and equality common,” it said. against their country’s best interests, a decision to stay in our countries or for all citizens” is to deepen one’s faith, Christians and Muslims share or who resort to violence in order to emigrate,” the faithful will find reason it said. some of the same concerns, especially overcome oppression, said the outline. to stay in their home countries when The “lineamenta,” or outline, of regarding the threats of atheism, It will take a great deal of courage they accept their vocation as Christians the synod’s theme was released during materialism, relativism and indifference, for Christians to convince people that — finding hope and strength in God and a Vatican press conference Jan. 19. said the outline, and working together to violence has led only to failure and working to bring peace and justice for all, The document contained dozens of overcome these tendencies is needed. that, with dialogue, “peace is the most the document said. questions about some of the problems Living in a region caught up in realistic path to follow even though the Christians are called to proclaim the confronting Christians and how the so many military conflicts can make majority of people might reject it.” message of Christ “despite difficulties The Middle East is the cradle of and persecution,” it said. 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Spirituality of John’s Gospel

9 am — 4 pm Thursday, March 4 OR Saturday, March 6 Dr. Peter Judge This day of reflection will provide an overview introduction, guided readings, ideas for personal reflection, silence, prayer, journaling, Eucharist and lunch. The same program is offered both days.

Cost: $35 — includes lunch