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VOL. XXXIII, NO.9
-to inform. Inspire, catechize, and evangelize the people of the Church..."
—2ml synod of corpus chrtsti September 1998 S1.00
CATECHETICAL
SUNDAY
September 20
/^ome, Holy Spirt, fill the
M hearts of your people! Help
us, heal us, hold us in love.
Mold us, meld us, make us your *
own. Shake us, shape us, show us
your truth. Form us, free us, fill us
with grace. Defend us, mend us,
send us your power. Touch us, teach
us, turn us to you. Unite us, ignite
us, delight us with joy. Come, Holy
Spirit, fill the hearts of your people,
and renew the face of the earth!
PRAYER FOR CATECHISTS
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United States Catholic Conference
Diocesan events affirm human life
'Alan Keyes to speak at Sept. 11 Celebration for Life
■ Concepcion, Realitos on path of annual pilgrimage
By Paula Espitia
A walk across the southern
egion of the diocese and an
ddress given by a former U.S
(residential
andidate will be
he highlights of
heal prolife
vents in Sep-
ember and
Ictober.
s.!; For the ninth
c **ar in a row, a
£,|mip of pilgrims
oojd by local pro-
c ^ jife leader
§, x'jkanuel Garcia,
o •£.-(fill spend a
L v t?eek in prayer
h.
Alan Keyes
3^ nd thanksgiving as they travel
3 through the small towns of
_ a J fenavides, Rios, San Jose,
? ^ jfealitos and Concepcion Oct. 2-
;• As the walkers prepare for
0 <heir pilgrimage of thanksgiving
c 2 continue to seek others
o ef uterested in joining them, the
r ^celebration for Life Committee
0 5 ? gearing up for their annual
£ -itndraiser which benefits four
Jj apeal organizations (See page 16)
£ ill
O' 2
which assist women in crisis
pregnancy situations.
The Celebration for Life will
be held on Friday, Sept. 11 at the
Corpus Christi
Country Club,
6300 Everhart.
Alan Keyes will
be the guest
speaker at the
event and Dr. Sam
Douglas, pastor of
Yorktown Baptist
Church in Corpus
Christi, will be the
Master of Ceremo-
nies for the
annual event.
Keyes, a 1996
presidential candidate received
his Ph.D. in Government Affairs
in 1979 from Harvard University.
He served in the U.S. Foreign
Service and on the staff of the
National Security Council before
being appointed Ambassador to
the United Nations Economic
and Social Council by President
Ronald Reagan in 1983. He was
Assistant Secretary for State for
International Affairs from 1985
to 1987.
He currently hosts the Alan
Keyes Show: America’s Wake Up
Call, which is a nationally
syndicated radio and television
program.
He is known for his conserva-
tive pro-life and pro-family
message.
Tickets are available at
Birthright of Corpus Christi,
(512) 884-2622; Corpus Christi
Hope House, Inc., (512) 852-
CARE; Corpus Christi Pregnancy
Center (512) 991-2008 or 853-
9348. The 1998 Walk for Life
with Our Lady of Guadalupe,
patroness of the unborn, will
begin on Friday, Oct. 2, as
walkers arrive in Benavides by
12:30 pm and will leave from
Saint Rose de Lima Parish at 1
pm on a path toward St. Joseph’s
Church in San Jose. A Mass will
be celebrated at San Jose at 7 pm.
The walkers will leave from
the church at 8 am and head
See PRO-LIFE, page 16
PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) —A
state agency’s announcement
that 10 people have died after
requesting assisted suicide under
Oregon law “confirms the tragic
path on which the practice of
medicine and the doctor-patient
relationship is headed,” the
Oregon Catholic Conference
said.
“Sadly the ministry of health
care has been abused by the
violation of medical ethics in the
killing of terminally ill persons
by their physicians,” said an
Aug. 18 statement from the
Portland-based conference,
which represents Oregon's
Catholic bishops.
“We pray for the souls of the
deceased,” the statement said.
“We pray also for the physicians
and others who assisted in these
suicides that they may recon-
sider their professional ethics
and their participation in these
deaths.”
Earlier on Aug. 18, the
Oregon Health Division said 10
people had "obtained prescrip-
tions for lethal medications”
since the state’s Death with
Dignity Act took effect in
November 1997.
Flowever, two of the 10 people
died from their illnesses before
taking the lethal drugs, the
health division said.
“All 10 reports received by the
division documented full
compliance with the provisions
of the act,” said Dr. Katrina
Hedberg, medical epidemiolo-
gist. Each patient was terminally
ill but capable of making and
communicating health care
decisions, was evaluated by a
second physician, and waited 15
days between the first and
second request for a prescription
for lethal medication, Hedberg
said.
Among the other details in the
health division’s preliminary
report:
— Cancer was the underlying
See SUICIDE, page 21
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