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Offer i |Ge# In o the Dir Join the /§ MSC P6 at our First General Committee Meeting September 9, 1987 Rm 206 Rudder Tower 7:00 p.m. This semester's possible speakers already include: The Kuwaiti Ambassador John Stockwell ,former CIA agent and any, if not ally of the Presidential Candidates Page 6/The Battalion/Tuesday, September 8,1987 Tourists flock Warped by Scott McQ to Mass site for early visit SAN ANTONIO (AP) —Tourists already are descending on the site where about 500,000 people are ex pected to gather this week to attend a Mass said by Pope John Paul II. People are posing for photos on the altar steps and strolling through the site of the Sunday Mass, espe cially those who won’t attend. San Antonio was chosen by the pope as a stop in his nine-city U.S. tour because of its majority Hispanic population and the emergence of Hispanics within the Catholfc Church. “This will be our only opportunity to be so close to where the pope will be,” G.M. Rodriguez of Poteet said Saturday. Rodriguez brought his wife’s el derly aunt, Maria Ljajano, of Omaha, Neb., to seq the site and photograph her on the altar steps. “This is a once in a lifetime,” Lu- jano said. “I don’t think there will be another opportunity for me. I don’t know if I’ll be here next week.” WE. NOW RElTDfW 100 TO jn&WRPD SORtlGN FILM, *TA PWM PA3XTLL." ' GW0RPA5E F5 ZOP T0V KZAf AB „ FOOT MOK. DWA. PAUL, ARH 6UBT JIK LOGS BLFpZ E- CWORPZ- 3 8GPWAA 100 tfUTVEEP FurAK fWSTlTli V££ VLUPP. Si. r - BECAUSE ’stations ' TC HAVE. j SUBTITLEP. roc this Waldo by Kevin Thor Carlos Hernandez brought seven relatives to the site where he his worked 12-hour shifts since Thurs day overseeing the setup of double wide mobile homes near the altar. Hernandez took a break from fi nal preparations to take photos of his family. Hernandez’s 9-year-old daughter, Nicole, said, “It’s pretty good be cause I was standing where the pope will be talking to the people.” Hernandez’s wife, Herlinda Her nandez, said she wanted to be photo graphed at the jjiltar because she can not attend the Mas.s^, Mrs- Hernandez, a bus driver with the South San Antonio School District, will shuttle worsl>ipperS' to and from the site for 10 hours Beginning at 5 a.m. Sunday. “This (the photograph) will be my remembrance of the pope when yhe came to visits” she said. TIHE MACHINE, ■■ JW. GLADSTONE ?y j plam 00 TO THE BEGINNING OF TIME.' / Cl 'ck/ Joe Transfer by Dan Teah! I HEASLD Y'ALL ARt SUPPOSErrfi' BE hio • I JUST TELUN6 A 6REAT TAIL iJgS£! ..y i HEAR- VOU ASK. ABOUT US TH First Mexican-American bishoi overcomes humble beginning SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Pope John Paul IPs escort for his Sept. 13 visit is a man who dropped out of high school to support his family and was turned down on his first at tempts to enter the seminary. The job is a dream come true, said Archbishop Patrick Flores, who overcame humble beginnings to be come the country’s first Mexican- American bishop. “First, I’d never thought that I would ever go to Rome, much less think that Rome would come to us,” Flores, 58, said recently. The pope chose San Antonio as a stop in his nine-city U.S. tour be cause of its majority Hispanic pop ulation and the emergence of His panics within the Catholic Church. “For me it’s a historical event that is going to become a reality, the Lord willing,” Flores said. wheelchair arid told her, “You pray for me and I’ll pray for yotn” Fibres’ friends and associates say the archbishop is a simple, compas sionate man; a defender of the poor, who chose quarters at Assumption Seminary next to his chancery office rather than a more elegant resi dence. “He’s not an intellectual man, but he’s a man of great pastoral wis- Flores was the sixth son of nine children born to Patricio and Trin idad Flores, deeply religious, illiter ate migrant farmworkers who wanted their children to have an ed ucation. While growing up in Southeast Texas, Flores says he personally ex perienced racial discrimination —at tending segregated schools and be ing refused service at restaurants. other member of that enter/ ^ was John McCarthy, nowt? Austin. “He was an extraordihann sible person, but on thequt McCarthy said. “Everyboc ' him, but he was not tapped* ■ strong-leader type." “I tried to find the flaw in this man. I never found it. Not a single person have I heard say anything against him. He’s really respected. ” — Brother Martin McMurtrey In 1970 at age 40, Flores was con secrated auxiliary bishop of the San Antonio Archdiocese, becoming the country’s first Mexican-American in the church’s hierarchy. After a recent Mass in which 68 couples reaffirmed their marriage vows, Flores moved through the crowd, shaking hands, kissing babies and posing for photographs with worshippers. He blessed a tearful woman in a dom,” said the Rev. Virgilio Eliz ondo, rector of San Fernando Ca thedral and Flores’ friend of 20 years. “He’s a very compassionate man. He’s a very simple man, but not a simpleton,” Elizondo said. Brother Martin McMurtrey, who wrote about Flores’ life in “Mariachi Bishop,” also lauded Flores. “I tried to find the flaw in this man,” he said. “I never found it. Not a single person have I heard say any thing against him. He’s really re spected. Flores badly wanted to become a priest, but, in 1945, he dropped out of the 10th grade to help support his family. His desire to become a pastor never waned. He tried several times to get into a seminary, but was den ied because he was Hispanic, had not finished high school and did not have money, he said. In 1947, with the help of a nun and Bishop Christopher Byrne of Galveston, Flores reentered high school and in 1949, he entered St. Mary’s Seminary in La Porte. An- Later, during his earlypwfl work in poor parishes, M impressed by tlie need toM downtrodden, McCarthysasl "Now he’s a leader ituki Church in Texas, a leaden' ' Texas, in the context ben structure of the church and extraordinary leader in the’;' can Hispanic community, 1 thy said. Flores was instrumental ul lishing the Mexican-Amenfi tural Center in San Antonio* helped found the National! tion for Mexican-Ameri® tions and the National H Scholarship Fund. STUDY tiona HILLE1 ice-cr dent 1 NATIO in 141 WRITI1 Writi 6:30 i WILDL speak SILVEE ing at COLLE Scoat FINANi in 151 TAMU Klebe AMERI will s Build ON-CAl pel at TEXAS meet GYMN^ at 6:3 TAMU terwo ALPHA at 7 p AGGIEJ p.m. INTRAI Read RETAII BIOME of the 7 p.m UNDER have : Heep TEXAS 205-1 Texas STUDE1 Night TEXAS have ; at 2 p. MSC J< AWA PHI TH memt AGGIE] at 5 p. OMEGA rush i TAMU * White CHRIST praye: p.m. WHO’S VERS able a 7 thro COSGA availal vilion. 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