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This week, The Catholic New World has its designs on parish restorations and architecture.
Finding the faith beneath the grime If God is in the details, then the Almighty is present in the
work of Jose Hernandez, Bob Bennett, Jason Howell and Frank Peppler.
Church design can enhance worship experience What makes a church Catholic? Canonical requirements call for
remarkably little: a table to serve as an altar, a tabernacle
to reserve the Eucharist, a place for the word to be proclaimed
and a place for the people to gather.
News Campaigns get muddied in Michigan The supporters of the candidates for the Republican presidential
nomination exchange anti-Catholic and anti-religious charges against
each other.
Comment To mix a metaphor, politics plus religion equals more than the
sum of the two parts.
Pope to permanent deacons: Bring Christ to the world Several deacons and their wives from the Archdiocese of Chicago joined more than 2,000 people who attended the Feb. 19 Jubilee for Permanent Deacons at the Vatican.
Perspective "An awareness of this diversity must never lead the Church to
the uncritical acceptance or even unwitting perpetuation of terms
like "minorities" and "minority groups," which are rarely neutral
and which may contradict what it means to be an American by inviting
stereotypes and reinforce prejudices," writes St. Louis Auxiliary
Bishop Edward K. Braxton, a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Spirituality Our Catholic ancestors invented carnivale or carnival just before
Ash Wednesday as an emotional and digestive break before embarking
on 40 days of rigorous fasting and self-denial. Literally, the
word "carnival" itself means "farewell to meat."
Interview This week, Catholic New World staff writer Michelle Martin talks
with Father Robert Barron, a professor at Mundelein Seminary of
the University of St. Mary of the Lake.
Parish Pride The last parish before Kane County in the western "boonies," its 3,500 families boast eight deacon couples, and anticipate a brand new church in 2001. Groundbreaking for a new rectory will take place at 9 a.m. March 5 with Bishop Gerald Kicanas.
Church Clips 'Holy Cyberspace'- The saga of Maryknoll Sister Suzie Gubbins, sister of Father Bill Gubbins of Old St. Pat's (W. Desplaines) is also on the Maryknoll webpage. Father had a letter from his sis recently. She reports from E. Timor: "Kids have started school, sitting on the floors of the one public school intact but looted. We set up our clinic in two classrooms of the Catholic junior high. It was new and only burned a bit-ceiling, a wall and windows out. Everyone brings everything to our convent and we move it all out to meet needs. Still no phones or e-mail." If you want to help Suzie, write P. O. Box 317, Maryknoll, NY, 10545-0317.
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