South Texas Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, May 2, 2003 Page: 6 of 20
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in the news
May 2, 2003
- South Texas Catholic
Nati°n
Way of Cross stops
include familiar sites
WASHINGTON (CNS) - On a chilly,
sometimes misty Good Friday in the na-
tion’s capital, some Catholics processed
with a large cross past familiar landmarks
and others wound their way through a
neigh-
bor-
hood
touched
in
recent
days by
a triple
murder.
At St.
An-
thony’s
Church
in the
Brook-
land
neigh-
bor-
hood of
Wash-
ington,
three
dozen
people
gath-
ered at
noon
April
18 to
begin an outdoor Stations of the Cross
that included a stop outside Colonel
Brooks Tavern, where three kitchen work-
ers had been shot to death 12 days earlier
in a robbery. “I think all processions are
bringing the church to the people. ...
It extends what we do in this building
out into the neighborhood,” said Msgr.
Richard Burton, pastor of St. Anthony’s,
interviewed just before the Way of the
Cross began in front of his church, itself
a Brookland landmark since 1892. “We
walk with Christ every day. That’s what
it’s all about.” Two hours later, about 125
people gathered at St. Peter’s Church on
Capitol Hill for a Way of the Cross along
the National Mall. That event was spon-
sored by Communion and Tiberation, a
Catholic lay movement that promotes
communion with Christ and others in the
church as the source of true freedom in
today’s world.
Volunteers with Jesuit
corps say experience
‘ruins’ them for life
NASHVITTE, Tenn. (CNS) - Being
“ruined for life” is not necessarily a bad
thing if you’re a member of the Jesuit
Volunteer Corps. In fact, it’s the corps’
motto, “It’s hard to get back to your old
way of thinking” after being part of the
group, said Elizabeth Bormann, 23. Ac-
cording to the corps’ mission statement,
volunteers “live always conscious of the
poor, committed to the church’s mission
of promoting justice in the service of
faith.” Bormann spends her days working
at the House of Mercy, a transitional home
for women struggling with addictions and
their children. Although the women she
helps are her age, their life experiences on
the streets of Nashville are quite differ-
ent from her upbringing in central Iowa.
“While I was getting a college degree,
they were out getting a fix,” she told the
Tennessee Register, Nashville’s diocesan
newspaper. Bormann doesn’t have trouble
relating to the women, she said, in part
because of her current living situation. Je-
suit volunteers receive a monthly grocery
stipend and a personal stipend, which
together totals only $140. The agencies
they work for pay room and board, but no
salary.
Priest on Bush panel
praises parish role in
Hispanics’ education
WASHINGTON (CNS) - Catholic
parishes play an important role in narrow-
ing the education gap between Hispanic
youths and the rest of U.S. society, said
Father Jose Hoyos, a member of President
Bush’s Advisory Commission on Educa-
tional Excellence for Hispanic Americans.
Churches are influential in convincing
Hispanic youths and their parents of the
need for a good education and for learn-
ing English well, he said in an April 16
telephone interview. Father Hoyos, a
priest of the Diocese of Arlington, Va., was
commenting on the advisory commission’s
final report, which cited statistics show-
ing that Hispanic educational levels are
well below the national average. “Hispanic
families are church-oriented. Children lis-
ten to priests,” said Father Hoyos, pastor
of Holy Family Church in Dale City, Va.
“Most of the kids who come to the church
for advice are the best students.” Church-
es start programs, build up Hispanic self-
esteem and help inform Hispanics about
available educational opportunities, said
the priest.
Tom Wiener holds up a
crucifix as people walk and
pray the Stations of the Cross
in New York’s Times Square
April 18. Public processions
recalling Christ’s passion
were held in Washington,
New York and elsewhere on
Good Friday.
Empty at the tomb: Few
pilgrims attend Easter
Mass at Holy Sepulcher
JERUSATEM (CNS) - The smell of
incense and burning candles wafted
through the cavernous Church of the
Holy Sepulcher as at least four denomina-
tions celebrated Easter or Palm Sunday.
The Tatin-rite Catholic Easter Mass was
celebrated in front of the tomb of Je-
sus, while at the other end of the tomb
a group of Coptic Orthodox clergy and
faithful chanted atonal Palm Sunday
prayers. The Syrian, Greek and Armenian
Orthodox processed separately into the
church to mark Orthodox Palm Sunday
— in the Holy hand, Orthodox Easter falls
one week after Tatin Catholics celebrate
Easter. But that was in years past. This
Easter, only a few hundred worshippers
gathered around the tomb, a far cry from
the crowds of years past. Few local Chris-
tians attended Easter Mass, as did even
fewer pilgrims, mixed with a smattering
of foreign Filipino and Romanian workers
and a group of Western nongovernmental
organization employees and diplomats.
Eater, local Greek Orthodox worshippers
began trickling into the church with their
palm fronds and flowers.
Franciscan priests lead the
procession around the tomb,
believed to be Christ’s burial site,
at the Church of the Floly Sepulcher
in Jerusalem April 20. With Israeli
soldiers lining the streets to secure
the area, attendance at Floly Week
services was down.
World
CNS photos/Reuters
An estimated 50,000 people stand in the rain during Easter services at St.
Peter’s Square April 20. Pope John Paul II gave his “urbi et orbi” blessing to
the city of Rome and the world, and greeted the crowds in 62 languages.
During Easter, pope
prays for peace in Iraq,
tolerance among faiths
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Proclaiming
hope in the risen Christ, Pope John Paul
II prayed for peace in Iraq and the Holy
hand, for understanding among believ-
ers of different faiths and for a renewed
awareness among Catholics of the gift of
the Eucharist. In the April 17-20 liturgies
of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, the Easter
Vigil and Easter morning, the 82-year-old
pope repeatedly referred to his concerns
about Iraq and to his new encyclical
letter, “Ecclesia de Eucharistia,” on the
importance of the Eucharist. Using a new
chair with wheels on the bottom, the pope
celebrated the liturgies almost always seat-
ed; he held the cross in his lap for the last
station at the April 18 Way of the Cross
in Rome’s Colosseum and blessed the
new fire and Easter candle April 19 from
his chair atop a moving platform. But the
pope knelt on a prie-dieu on the platform
as the Blessed Sacrament was carried in
procession to the altar of repose at the end
of the Holy Thursday Mass of the Ford’s
Supper, and he knelt for the adoration of
the cross on Good Friday. Pope John Paul
continued the celebrations April 21, Eas-
ter Monday, greeting pilgrims in St. Peter’s
Square from his apartment window.
Vietnamese in remote area
celebrate Easter for first
time in 40 years
VINH QUANG, Vietnam (CNS) -
Catholics in four remote parishes in
northern Vietnam celebrated Easter for
the first time in 40 years. Joseph Tran
Thai Phong, head of the Vinh Quang par-
ish council, said thousands of Catholics
from three neighboring parishes flocked
to his church for Palm Sunday, Holy
Thursday, Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday
Masses, reported UCA News, an Asian
church news agency based in Thailand.
Phong said many Catholics, including
members of the Hmong ethnic minor-
ity group, stopped working during Holy
Week to attend Masses and other services.
Dominique Tran Van Tri, 65, said the
parishes in the area had been priestless
since 1963, when the last priest was ar-
rested and imprisoned. In recent years,
the government has allowed priests from
other areas to come for pastoral activities
two or three times a year, he said.
Bishop OKs meat on Good
Friday after chemical spill
contaminates fish
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (CNS) - A
Brazilian bishop authorized the eating
of red meat and poultry on Good Friday
after a chemical spill contaminated fish
in a major river. Bishop Roberto Gomes
Guimaraes of Campos said city residents
could choose meat or chicken for their
meals on Good Friday because of a ban on
fishing in the heavily polluted Paraiba do
Sul River. A late-March chemical spill con-
tributed to the pollution. Most Catholics,
however, stayed with tradition. The city’s
barbecue restaurants remained closed or
served salads and sandwiches. In the fish
markets, customers searched for fish that
came from waters other than the Paraiba
do Sul.
Good Friday celebrations
in Mexico, Middle East
contrast in size
IZTAPATAPA, Mexico (CNS) - From
Passion plays to pilgrimages, Catholics
from Mexico to the Middle East celebrated
Good Friday in starkly contrasting ways.
In Iztapalapa, a borough of Mexico City,
some 800,000 people observed Mexico’s
most popular Passion play. Some 4,500
actors took part in the production,
which begins at the East Supper and fol-
lows events through the Crucifixion. In
Jerusalem, real-life soldiers patrolled the
streets, having a visible presence during
an annual procession along the path that
tradition holds Jesus walked before he was
crucified. The group of several hundred
faithful — which included local Christians
and clergy, foreign workers, some Israeli
Jews, employees of nongovernmental
organizations, diplomats, and very few
foreign pilgrims — made their way along
the Via Dolorosa.
Javier Perez, dressed as Christ, is
dragged through the streets by actors
dressed as Roman soldiers during a
re-enactment of the passion of Christ
in Iztapalapa, Mexico, April. 18. While
the event drew more than 750,000
people, services in Jerusalem were
sparsely attended because of Israeli-
Palestinian hostilities.
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