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8 Religious Faith in the Public Forum As Catholics, we must be ever vigilant against a secular view of life that is being imposed on people of faith.

BY CARDINAL DONALD W. WUERL

12 The Year of Faith and Vatican Council II Following the authentic teachings of the Second Vatican Council, the Church works to communicate her perennial message to the modern world.

BY MSGR. PETER J. VAGHI

16 A Lily for All Nations Catholics celebrate Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, who will soon become the first Native American saint.

BY ANGELA CAVE

20 High Stakes for Life in Massachusetts As doctor-prescribed suicide is sold as “compassion,” Catholics and others witness to the true dignity of life.

BY JUSTIN BELL

24 The Real Social Network St. Joseph’s Youth Camp gives kids a place to disconnect from technology and reconnect to each other.

BY J.D. LONG-GARCÍA

Pope John Paul II greets Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, in this photo dated Oct. 22, 1978. The two were present at each session of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s and proceeded to implement and articulate the council’s teachings.

AD DESIGN: Justin Perillo — POPES: CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano

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Building a better world The Knights will continue to build a culture of life and respond to threats against the free exercise of religion.

BY SUPREME KNIGHT CARL A. ANDERSON

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Learning the faith, living the faith The Second Vatican Council did not reinvent the Church but instead was rooted in sacred tradition.

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Knights of Columbus News New Order-sponsored Petition Calls for Civility in Politics • Knights of Columbus Files Formal Comment on HHS Mandate • Pope Presents Pallium to Supreme Chaplain • Looking to the Future in Haiti

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Star Council Winners

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Columbianism by Degrees

21 Fathers for Good

BY SUPREME CHAPLAIN ARCHBISHOP WILLIAM E. LORI

The defending Super Bowl champion coach credits Catholic roots with teaching him how to be a good leader.

PLUS Catholic Man of the Month

BY WALLY CAREW

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Our Christian Duty ON OCT. 21, Pope Benedict XVI will canonize seven new saints, including Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th-century Native American woman who fled her home to freely practice her faith (see page 16). Ten days earlier, the Church will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, the 20th anniversary of the new Catechism of the Catholic Church and the beginning of the Year of Faith called for by Pope Benedict.

The pope first announced the Year of Faith in October 2011, a year after establishing the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization. His September 2010 letter inaugurating the new Vatican department began with these words: “It is the duty of the Church to proclaim always and everywhere the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” This simple statement summarizes the purpose of Vatican II, the Catechism, the Year of Faith and the new evangelization itself.

During the past 50 years, many have interpreted the Second Vatican Council in terms of their own ideas of what the Church should look like. Certainly, Vatican II brought authentic developments to Catholic teaching, but it did not overturn all that came before (see pages 4, 12). For example, the council’s Declaration on Religious Freedom articulated the right to religious freedom, stating that no one should be “forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly” (Dignitatis Humanae, 2).

This right is founded on respect for human dignity and the valuable contribution of religion to society (see pages 3, 8). At the same time, the council affirmed

the “traditional Catholic doctrine on the moral duty of men and societies toward the true religion and toward the one Church of Christ” and the “moral obligation to seek the truth, especially religious truth” (DH, 1-2).

The freedom espoused by Vatican II is not the freedom to disregard Catholic teachings and tradition, nor is it disconnected from the truth of human nature.

Rather, authentic freedom is compatible with authority and obedience, and the rights affirmed by the Church are founded on prior duties. At the heart of the Second Vatican Council’s teachings lie the universal call to holiness and the responsibilities of baptized believers: “All the faithful of Christ are invited to strive for the holiness and perfection of their own proper state.

Indeed they have an obligation to so strive” (Lumen Gentium, 42). The council’s Decree on the Mission Activity of the Church further states, “The principal duty of both men and women is to bear witness to Christ, and this they are obliged to do by their life and their words, in the family, in their social group, and in the sphere of their profession” (Ad Gentes, 21).

In the end, the full implementation of the Second Vatican Council and the work of the new evangelization must take place wherever Christians are present.

Following the example of the saints, we are called to embrace the sacred duty to worship God, to practice charity, to seek the truth, to be holy, and to witness to Christ in all we say and do. In so doing, we will find lasting joy.♦ ALTON J. PELOWSKI MANAGING EDITOR

Protecting Human Dignity and Religious Liberty A CONCISE EBOOK by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, challenges the secular mindset that devalues religious freedom and human life. Published June 19, True Freedom: On Protecting Human Dignity and Religious Liberty (Image, 2012) explores the need to transform our culture into a culture of life. The 37-page book is available online for just 99 cents.

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COLUMBIA PUBLISHER Knights of Columbus ________ SUPREME OFFICERS Carl A. Anderson SUPREME KNIGHT Most Rev. William E. Lori, S.T.D. SUPREME CHAPLAIN Dennis A. Savoie DEPUTY SUPREME KNIGHT Charles E. Maurer Jr. SUPREME SECRETARY Logan T. Ludwig SUPREME TREASURER John A. Marrella SUPREME ADVOCATE ________ EDITORIAL Alton J. Pelowski alton.pelowski@kofc.org MANAGING EDITOR Patrick Scalisi patrick.scalisi@kofc.org ASSOCIATE EDITOR Steve James DESIGN ________

Venerable Michael McGivney (1852-90) Apostle to the Young, Protector of Christian Family Life and Founder of the Knights of Columbus, Intercede for Us. ________ HOW TO REACH US MAIL COLUMBIA 1 Columbus Plaza New Haven, CT 06510-3326 ADDRESS CHANGES 203-752-4580 OTHER INQUIRIES 203-752-4398 FAX 203-752-4109 CUSTOMER SERVICE 1-800-380-9995 E-MAIL columbia@kofc.org INTERNET kofc.org/columbia ________ Membership in the Knights of Columbus is open to men 18 years of age or older who are practical (that is, practicing) Catholics in union with the Holy See. This means that an applicant or member accepts the teaching authority of the Catholic Church on matters of faith and morals, aspires to live in accord with the precepts of the Catholic Church, and is in good standing in the Catholic Church.

________ Copyright © 2012 All rights reserved ________ ON THE COVER A painting of Kateri Tekakwitha titled “Holding on to Faith” by artist Nellie Edwards.

COVER: “Holding on to Faith” by Nellie Edwards, distributed by NelsonGifts.com

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BUILDING A BETTER WORLD

Defending Our Inviolable Rights The Knights will continue to build a culture of life and respond to threats against the free exercise of religion

by Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson DURING THIS year’s Supreme Convention, we were privileged to receive an extraordinary message from the Holy Father conveyed by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.

Responding to the theme of our convention, “Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land,” the message said: “At a time when concerted efforts are being made to redefine and restrict the exercise of the right to religious freedom, the Knights of Columbus [has] worked tirelessly to help the Catholic community recognize and respond to the unprecedented gravity of these new threats to the Church’s liberty and public moral witness. By defending the right of all religious believers, as individual citizens and in their institutions, to work responsibly in shaping a democratic society inspired by their deepest beliefs, values and aspirations, your Order has proudly lived up to the high religious and patriotic principles which inspired its founding.”

Of course, the concern of the Holy Father regarding “unprecedented” and “new threats” to the free exercise of religion in America must be understood in light of the administration’s actions first in the Supreme Court case of Hosanna-Tabor vs. E.E.O.C. and then in its more recent U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ mandate requiring health insurance to cover contraceptives, sterilization and abortifacient drugs.

We have opposed the HHS mandate because it forces Catholics and all Americans to participate in actions

that violate our conscience. The mandate also violates the right of Catholic employers — including the Knights of Columbus — not to be forced to pay for or be complicit with procedures and prescriptions that are intrinsically evil.

The Knights of Columbus is committed to ethical and sustainable business practices. As a company, we will not invest in other companies that are not morally or economically sustainable. If an investment does not work morally, we should not invest in it.

The HHS mandate, however, would force the Knights of Columbus as an employer to provide services and products as part of our employees’ health insurance that we would never invest in.

Ironically, the administration has exempted more than 190 million health plan participants and beneficiaries from its health insurance mandate — but it refuses to do so on the basis of religious liberty and rights of conscience.

Religious liberty is not simply another political issue. It cannot be compromised or recognized for some and denied to others. It is fundamental to the dignity of the human person and a basic human right. And like the right to life it, too, is inviolable.

Restricting the free exercise of religion for individuals and institutions is not just politics as usual; it is, like abortion, intrinsically evil, and no competing political consideration can make it less evil.

The U.S. bishops have made clear in their document Faithful Citizenship

that we have a duty to avoid being complicit with intrinsic evil. They have even said, “It is important to be clear that the political choices faced by citizens … may affect the individual’s salvation.”

As Knights, we have been steadfast in refusing to invest in companies that provide intrinsically evil products. We need to follow those same values when we vote. It is time that, as voters, we refuse to support politicians who promote intrinsically evil policies. And it is time for us to apply such a standard universally, to every candidate in every race for every office.

As I stated in my annual report to the convention, the Knights of Columbus will continue to pursue its great mission of building up a new culture of life and a civilization of love through its witness to our principles of charity, unity and fraternity.

We will continue to be what our Holy Father’s message described when it recognized the Knights of Columbus as “a pioneer in the development of the modern lay apostolate.”

But to do this we must continue to have the freedom of religious exercise that is guaranteed by the First Amendment.

It is my sincere hope that Catholics will defend our fundamental human rights to life and religious liberty in the courts and at the ballot box against those who would seek to make faithful Catholics complicit with intrinsically evil actions and policies.

Vivat Jesus!

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LEARNING THE FAITH, LIVING THE FAITH

Continuity and the Second Vatican Council Vatican II did not reinvent the Church but instead was rooted in sacred tradition

by Supreme Chaplain Archbishop William E. Lori

IN OCTOBER 2012, the Church less formality in the Church. will observe the 50th anniversary of Catholics were told that, thanks to the opening of the Second Vatican the council, the Church would now more attentive to the council’s Council. Like any anniversary, this is be more open to the world — that is, “spirit.” a time to both look back and look to the spirit of the times. Priests were Actually, there is a better way for us ahead. to be regular guys; sisters donned lay to appreciate the council. Pope BeneAmong those who took a leading clothes; family life began to change, dict XVI calls it a “hermeneutic of part in the council was a young often drastically; and strict doctrine continuity.” What he means by this bishop named Karol Wojtyła, who was often replaced by a variety of the- phrase is that the best way to delve later became Pope John Paul II. ological opinions. into the authentic meaning of the When he was archbishop of Krakow, To be sure, the Second Vatican council is to see its connections with Wojtyła referred to the council as Council did open the door to various Christ, the Scriptures and the whole “the seminary of the Holy of the Church’s tradition.

Spirit,” adding that it is “historThe Second Vatican Council ically a thing of the past, but In their wisdom, the fathers of the doesn’t represent a break with spiritually still in being.” In the past, but rather an orother words, this momentous Second Vatican Council understood ganic development flowing gathering of bishops from all all that the Church has that the best way to respond to the from over the world was not just a gibelieved and taught through gantic strategic planning meetmodern world was to understand the centuries. You can see this ing for the future of the clearly if you consider how and treasure the heritage of the Church, but was overshadowed many times the Second Vatiby the Holy Spirit and, in the can Council refers to the Church more deeply. power of the Holy Spirit, concouncils that preceded it, as tinues to shape the life of the well as the teachings of popes Church going forward. practical changes in the life of the and doctors of the Church, ancient Church and called upon all Catholics liturgical texts, and masters of the BUILDING ON, NOT to engage the world more robustly. spiritual life.

BREAKING WITH THE PAST But sometimes that was taken to Many remember the years just after mean that the council constituted a A JOURNEY the Second Vatican Council, but few complete break with the past. Every- THROUGH HISTORY people actually read the council’s 16 thing prior was deemed by some to In their wisdom, the fathers of the documents. All too often, the impor- be old and outdated. Everything Second Vatican Council understood tance of the council was reduced to going forward was new and fresh and that the best way to respond to the one little phrase: “the changes.” One of the Holy Spirit. In fact, a phrase modern world was to understand and change that everyone noticed was was coined to express this point of treasure the heritage of the Church that, beginning in 1969, Mass was no view: “the spirit of the council.” We more deeply. The council’s document longer regularly celebrated in Latin, were sometimes told to pay little at- Gaudium et Spes makes it clear that but rather in one’s native tongue. tention to what the Vatican II docu- we are best equipped “to read the The council is also associated with ments actually said and instead be signs of the times” by opening our4 ♦ COLUMBIA ♦

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selves to the fullness of the Church’s tradition and to the person of Christ.

Let’s think about it this way: What if we, as members of the Knights of Columbus, suddenly stopped talking about Father McGivney because he lived a long time ago under very different conditions? What if we said that our principles of charity, unity, fraternity and patriotism are old-fashioned and should be traded in for new principles? Or suppose we radically reorganized the insurance program so that it bore no resemblance to Father McGivney’s original vision?

What would become of the “new and improved” Knights of Columbus? Of

HOLY FATHER’S PRAYER INTENTIONS

Offered in solidarity with Pope Benedict XVI GENERAL: That politicians may always act with honesty, integrity and love for the truth.

POPE: CNS photo/Paul Haring — ST. ISAAC JOGUES: CNS photo/Crosiers

MISSION: That Christian communities may have a growing willingness to send missionaries, priests and lay people, along with concrete resources, to the poorest Churches.

course, the Order has changed with the times so as to meet new needs and varying conditions — but always those changes have been in continuity with our deepest roots.

In a similar way, the Catholic Church has been journeying through history for some 2,000 years and, obedient to the mandate of Christ, has proclaimed the Gospel in every epoch, culture, language and place.

To be sure, the Church has grown, and her teaching, worship and discipline have developed — but organically. What is new is integrated with what went before; we don’t get to “remake” the Church’s teaching with

each passing generation.

This has nothing to do with being “liberal” or “conservative.” In fact, those terms, which are borrowed from politics, have done a lot of damage to the Church’s unity. St. Paul reminds us there is “one Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Eph 4:5). The Second Vatican Council and the Catechism of the Catholic Church have set forth the teaching of the Church in a way that is complete, reliable, lifegiving and beautiful. In the Year of Faith that lies ahead, let us open our hearts to Christ and to all he teaches us in and through our beloved Church.♦

C AT H O L I C M A N O F T H E M O N T H

St. Isaac Jogues (1607-1646) ISAAC JOGUES was born in 1607 to a bourgeois family in Orleans, France. He attended Jesuit schools from an early age and entered the religious order at age 17. After years of study and teaching, during which he showed an aptitude for language and for reaching his students, Jogues was ordained in 1636.

Father Jogues longed to undertake missionary work, following in the footsteps of others who launched missions in New France a decade earlier.

He and a number of companions were sent to Canada and began to minister among the Huron Indians. In 1642, returning from an expedition to Quebec, Jogues and others were captured

by Mohawk Iroquois, enslaved and tortured. Over the next 13 months, Jogues endured gruesome suffering, losing several fingers before being rescued by the Dutch. Returning to Europe, Jogues was greeted as a “living martyr” for the unimaginable pain he had suffered and was granted dispensation by Pope Urban VII to celebrate Mass with his mutilated hands.

Despite his experience in the New World, Father Jogues chose to con-

tinue his missionary work. He returned to Canada and even served as an ambassador to his former captors.

Amid an uneasy truce between France and the natives, a double calamity of famine and disease struck the Indians and was blamed on the Jesuits’ presence. The Iroquois captured Father Jogues and his companions, and Jogues was killed with a tomahawk on Oct. 18. Devotion to the French priest spread widely after his martyrdom.

Pope Pius XI canonized Isaac Jogues in 1930 with seven other North American martyrs. Their collective feast day is celebrated on Sept. 26 in Canada and October 19 elsewhere.♦

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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS NEWS

New Order-sponsored Petition Calls for Civility in Politics

RESPONDING TO AMERICANS’ growing frustration with campaign rhetoric and the tone of the national discourse, the Knights of Columbus launched on July 24 a national, non-partisan initiative to give voice to Americans’ desire for civility in politics.

A series of full-page national newspaper ads — beginning with an ad in the July 24 issue of USA Today — encouraged readers to sign an online petition at civilityinamerica.org. Facebook users can likewise show their support by “liking” the petition at facebook.com/civilityinamerica.

The petition reads: “We, the undersigned citizens of the United States of America, respectfully request that candidates, the media and other advocates and commentators involved in the public policy arena employ a more civil tone in public discourse on political and social issues, focusing on policies rather than on individual personalities.

For our part, we pledge to make these principles our own.”

The campaign finds support in a Knights of ColumbusMarist Poll conducted in July that shows that nearly 8 in 10 Americans (78 percent) are frustrated with the tone in politics today. The survey also found that: • Nearly three-quarters of Americans say that campaigns have gotten more negative over the years (74 percent).

• Two-thirds of Americans (66 percent) believe that candidates spend more time attacking their opponents than talking about the issues.

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• By an almost 20-point margin, Americans believe that campaigns are mostly uncivil and disrespectful (56 to 37 percent).

• Nearly two-thirds of Americans say that negative campaigning harms our political process a great deal or by a significant amount (64 percent).

“The American people want and deserve civility and a conversation on the issues rather than personal attacks,” said Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson at the time the campaign was launched. “In our own lives, all of us have friends with whom we disagree, and we long ago learned how to have civil relationships despite our differences.

Since our elected officials work for and represent the American people, this petition is a step forward in making our voice heard and in making clear to our public servants how we would like them to conduct themselves.”

By the time the Supreme Convention began in Anaheim, Calif., Aug. 7, more than 15,000 people already signed the petition.

The supreme knight discussed the initiative in his Annual Report and said, “Catholics can transform politics....

We can raise the level of our national political discourse.

We can transform politics, too often disfigured by personal attacks and partisan divisiveness, and we can do it starting now. The American people want and deserve civility. Our nation needs a conversation on the issues, not the personal vilification of political opponents.”♦

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS NEWS

Knights of Columbus Files Formal Comment on HHS Mandate

HHS: Douglas Deas/The Catholic Miscellany, Diocese of Charleston, S.C.

BISHOP LORI: CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano

THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS filed a formal comment with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services June 19, calling on the government to rethink the health care mandate that seeks to force many Catholic employers to provide coverage of contraception and procedures that violate Catholic teaching.

The letter, signed by Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson, urged “the administration to rescind the mandate altogether,” or at least “expand the religious exemption so that it covers all objecting individuals and organizations from cooperating in actions that genuinely offend their religious beliefs and moral convictions.”

The letter continued, “To exempt only some institutions on the principle of respect for religious liberty, as the government seems to contemplate, and to refuse to exempt individuals makes no sense. The right to the free exercise of religion enshrined in the First Amendment extends to the people.”

In sum, the letter urges that “whatever the intent of the mandate, and whatever form it takes, it should not compel religious individuals to pay for what they believe is morally wrong. It is time for this administration to chart another course.”

The full text of the letter is available at kofc.org/mandate.

For the past century, the Knights of Columbus has worked diligently to protect the right to religious freedom both in the United States and abroad.♦

Pope Presents Pallium to Supreme Chaplain

Pope Benedict XVI presents a pallium to Supreme Chaplain Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore during a Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica June 29. Symbolizing the light yoke of Christ while also recalling a lamb borne upon the shoulders of a shepherd, the pallium is the premier symbol of an archbishop’s pastoral ministry, jurisdiction and communion with the Apostolic See. Among the 44 new archbishops who received pallia, 11 are Knights.

Msgr. Steven L. Brovey and Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone of Charleston, S.C., process with the Blessed Sacrament, assisted by Fourth Degree Knights carrying a canopy. The eucharistic procession to Battery Park marked the launch of the Fortnight for Freedom.

Knights throughout the country participated in similar Fortnight for Freedom events from June 21-July 4.

Looking to the Future in Haiti OVER THE PAST two years, the Order’s “Healing Haiti’s Children” program — in conjunction with Project Medishare — has been an overwhelming success. Through the program, the Knights committed to provide each child who lost a limb in the 2010 Haitian earthquake with a series of prosthetic devices.

More than 800 prosthetic and orthotic patients and thousands of rehabilitation patients have traveled from all over southern Haiti to the Emilio Moure Clinic for Hope to receive treatment of the highest standards.

According to Dr. Robert Gailey, director of rehabilitation services for Project Medishare, the program is now ready to move onto its next phase: a transitional program of education, practical training and long-term employment for local Haitian staff.

“We feel the Haitian people are now ready for a restructured strategy focused on sustainability,” Dr. Gailey said. The program’s extension will allow the Knights of Columbus and Project Medishare to continue their joint mission in Haiti by creating a lasting program for our Haitian technicians and the people they serve, he added.♦

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ReligiousFaith inthe PublicForum As Catholics, we must be ever vigilant against a secular view of life that is being imposed on people of faith

by Cardinal Donald Wuerl

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rom time to time in my responsibilities as the archbishop of Washington, I have occasion to pass through the rotunda of our nation’s Capitol, where there is a statue representative of the history of each state. When I served as an auxiliary bishop of Seattle, I was always proud of the fact that the statue allotted to Washington state was of Mother Joseph, a Sister of Charity of Providence who was considered one of the pioneers in the formation of the state.

Representing California in the same expanse of space is a statue of Junipero Serra. It is hard to imagine another person who has left such an impact on any state as this quiet, modest, faith-filled Franciscan, whose footsteps left in their wake communities along most of California’s coast. Traveling north from San Diego, through San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano to Los Angeles, and onward to Santa Barbara, Guadalupe, San Jose, San Francisco and beyond, it is as if one were reciting the Litany of the Saints. Interwoven into the very geography of California is its religious history and the Catholic faith that played such an important part in both its founding and its spiritual and moral identity. The highway signs do not simply remind us of our faith history; they also proclaim how deeply imbedded the faith is in our culture and in our vision of human dignity, morality and purpose of life.

THE EXPERIENCE OF RELIGION IN OUR NATIONAL HISTORY Not long ago, during a visit to a Catholic high school, a student asked me what exactly it is that the Church brings to our society or, as she put it, “What does the Church bring to me?”

The answer to that question is as significant today as it was when Junipero Serra began his journey in the late 18th century. It is heard when Catholics stand up today to speak in defense of human life and human dignity, and when we extend a hand to immigrants, the less fortunate, the needy and all of those who turn to the Church for the great works of Catholic health care, education, social service and charities.

This is how we answer who we are and what we bring.

What the Catholic Church brings to the world, to our society and to each one of us is Jesus Christ, his Gospel, his vision, his way of life and his promise of a world of truth, justice, compassion, kindness, understanding, peace and love.

We speak of a good and just society. With the eyes of faith, we see God’s kingdom coming to be among us.

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We recognize that same vision among the first Catholic colonists who arrived in Maryland in 1634 and set about establishing a civil government based on religious freedom and God’s law, believing them normative elements of a truly good and just society.

This theme is repeated over and over again in a whole series of founding documents, including the Fundamental Orders of 1639, which was an effort at the first written Constitution that set permanent limitations on government power; the Virginia Bill of Rights, authored by Thomas Jefferson, and the ety of faith communities, we face today the assertion of the Declaration of Independence in 1776; and the U.S. Constineed to substitute a so-called secular frame of reference within tution in 1787.

We are a free people who recognize the sovereignty of God which public policy should be articulated. It is as if we were supposed to paint over all of those road signs, erase all of our and God’s law in our personal and societal life. This is a cornerstone of the American experoots and start over — this time withrience, and it finds expression out God. in our deep-seated conviction, Among the earliest European expressed in the Declaration of colonists to arrive in the New World Independence, that we have inwere the pilgrims who landed on the e should look to alienable rights from “the Laws coast of Massachusetts. Before they of Nature and Nature’s God.” ventured to shore to establish what our most deeply held Indeed, Jefferson stated that would be for them a new society, they the ideas set forth in the Declareached an agreement known as the convictions when we ration were not original to him, Mayflower Compact. In 1620, these but were the common opinion intrepid women and men seeking a life address matters that affect of his day. In a letter to Henry of freedom determined that they would recognize two principles by Lee, dated May 8, 1825, he our nation’s activities at which their freedom would be guided: wrote that the Declaration is the law of God and the common good. “intended to be an expression home or abroad.

They began this first written articuof the American mind and to lation of a political philosophy in the give that expression proper tone English Colonies, which has served as and spirit.” a foundation for the American political experience for almost Jefferson recognized no distinction between public and pri400 years, with the words, “In the name of God, Amen.” At vate morality. There is little room in his thought for the idea the heart of this formula is the understanding that God and that one can be personally against gravely wrong actions but God’s law — however it is known — is normative for human publicly in favor of them. He wrote in a letter to James Madiaction, and that in the application of that basic belief into son, dated Aug. 28, 1789, “I know but one code of morality positive civil law, the common good would also exercise a nor- for all, whether acting singly or collectively.”

Out of all of these many threads, there is woven one commative function.

In drafting the Declaration of Independence and other founding documents, Thomas Jefferson recognized the public nature of morality and the importance of religious freedom.

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Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington delivers the homily during Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

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mon principle: the belief in the binding character of moral law is fundamental to any understanding of American thought. Government must be guided by foundational moral principles. All human government must be limited.

The understanding that God’s law is at work and discernable through our rational nature and human reason also finds resonance in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which speaks not only of the foundational nature of the natural moral law, but also describes the commandments themselves as privileged expressions of the natural law.

RELIGIOUS FAITH AS THE CONSCIENCE OF SOCIETY We have become accustomed over centuries to the voice of the Church as the voice of conscience. Today, that voice is challenged in so many matters: abortion, embryonic stemcell research, physician-assisted suicide, immigration reform and so many other issues that touch on the common good.

This explains the Church’s defense of family, marriage and human rights.

As believers, we look to our faith. We are both citizens of the nation and members of the Church. We should look to our most deeply held convictions when we address matters that affect our nation’s activities at home or abroad.

Our choices in the political arena must be conscientious ones. As Catholics, we also look to our Church for guidance that can only come from God. Christ promised that he would not leave us orphans. He established the Church as his new body so that he would remain present with us, and he sent the gift of the Spirit, who guides us and reminds us of all he taught. As members of Christ’s Church, we look to her teaching — guided by the Holy Spirit — to help form our conscience. The bishops are not just one more voice; they speak with Christ’s authority. Jesus told his Apostles, “Whoever listens to you listens to me.” (Luke 10:16). The bishops, the successors of the Apostles, continue to speak with authority today.

The voice of faith today is still the voice of conscience. It is the echo of God within us. As faithful citizens, we must speak out in defense of Gospel values, our faith heritage; we must proclaim the dignity of each person; and we must insist on the obligation of the state to foster such values. To do this is to give voice to our own identity. We are a people of faith, and faith counts in life.

The secular view of life being imposed on our diverse society does not reflect the reality of a nation made up almost entirely of people of faith. The recently espoused and increasingly imposed secular view of separation of God from public life does all of us a disservice because it is not reflective of the actual situation in which people live and institutions thrive.

Indeed, the secular model as the sole model for public political discourse fails us. The secular model is not sufficient to

sustain a true reflection of who we are as a people. Every culture in human history that has endured has recognized as innate to the human experience the need for a transcendent authority to sanction and recognize right from wrong.

As we face the challenges of today, we should do so with confidence, hope and enthusiasm. As both believers and citizens, we not only have a right and an obligation to speak to the values that guide our nation, but we do so out of a 2,000year tradition and with wisdom guided by the Holy Spirit.

We share the wisdom and love of God, and we bring something that no one else can to the effort to build a good and just society.

We should be proud of who we are — Christ’s Church. We must be proud of our history, our heritage and our faith. We must be proud of what we bring to today’s world. We bring Jesus Christ. We bring the power of the Holy Spirit, which makes us capable of transforming our circumstances, our community, our lives, into everything that Jesus says we can be, everything he calls us to be.♦ CARDINAL DONALD W. WUERL is archbishop of Washington.

He is a member of The Catholic University of America Council 9542 and the author of Seek First the Kingdom: Challenging the Culture by Living Our Faith (Our Sunday Visitor, 2011).

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The Year of Faith and Vatican Council II Following the authentic teachings of the Second Vatican Council, the Church works to communicate her perennial message to the modern world

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Bishops of the world line the nave of St. Peter’s Basilica during the opening session of the Second Vatican Council Oct. 11, 1962.

A HISTORIC COUNCIL Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council, the 21st ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, in Rome on

Oct. 11, 1962. Announced Jan. 25, 1959, less than 90 days after John XXIII’s election as pope, Vatican Council II was the only such council convened in the 20th century and only the second since the Protestant Reformation.

John XXIII’s principal aim was to ensure that the sacred deposit of Christian doctrine be guarded and taught more effectively. In his opening homily at the council, he encouraged the council fathers to work out ways and means of expounding these truths in a manner more consistent with a pastoral view of the Church’s teaching office. In addition, he urged the council fathers to work for the unity that Christ so desired.

The Second Vatican Council met at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome for four sessions, which took place over four years. At the beginning, 2,540 council fathers — bishops from every corner of the world — met in the nave of the basilica, joined by 1,000 superiors of religious congregations, official observers, theologians and other experts. Provisions were also made for the media, governmental representatives and official attendants

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he Year of Faith called by Pope Benedict XVI begins Oct. 11, 2012, the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, and will end Nov. 24, 2013, the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Universal King. This special year also coincides with the 20th anniversary of the publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, referred to by Pope Benedict as “an authentic fruit of the Second Vatican Council.”

When Pope John Paul II introduced the Catechism in 1992, he noted that “the principal task entrusted to the [Vatican] Council … was to guard and present better the precious deposit of Christian doctrine.” This task of Vatican II is also reflected in the theme for the synod of bishops that will meet in Rome in October: “The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith.” In calling for the synod and the Year of Faith, Benedict XVI is ensuring that the Church continues to implement and develop the important work that the council began five decades ago.

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striking. What also merits note is the vast scope of the subjects treated at the council, from the liturgy to ecumenism, from priestly formation to religious freedom. These topics and more have been explained and developed over the past 50 years under the guidance of the successors of St. Peter.

To this day, the term “Vatican II” conjures up a variety of images, impressions and deep emotions. For some, the council deeply challenged the very roots of their faith. According to this line of thinking, nothing has been the same ever since. At the other extreme, the Church was perceived as not going far enough. In some

Pope John XXIII signs the bull convoking the Second Vatican Council Dec. 25, 1961. theological circles, there is a cry for Vatican Council III to take care of “unfinished business” — namely, their own agenda of Church reform.

Yet, as the synod of bishops called by Pope John Paul II in 1985 declared, “The large majority of the faithful received the Second Vatican Council with zeal.” The synod’s report, which coincided with the 20th anniversary of the close of Vatican II, also affirmed the legitimacy of the council and “the need to promote further the knowledge and application of the council both in its letter and in its spirit.”

Twenty years later, in his first Christmas address to the Roman Curia in December 2005, Pope Benedict spoke of two ways of interpreting the council: “On the one hand, there is an interpretation that I would call ‘a hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture’; it has frequently availed itself of the sympathies of the mass media, and also one trend of modern theology. On the other, there is the ‘hermeneutic of reform,’ of renewal in the continuity of the one subject-Church which the Lord has given to us. She is a subject which increases in time and develops, yet always remaining the same, the one subject of the journeying People of God.”

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from other Christian churches.

In contrast, there were only 750 council fathers at the First Vatican Council in 1869-70. That was still significantly more than the 259 bishops who, at various stages, attended the Council of Trent (154563). Trent was the last general council before Vatican I and was enormously important for the Church.

“The Council of Trent marked the beginning of an intense process of spiritual and pastoral renewal in the Church,” observed Pope John Paul II in a homily at the Cathedral of Trent, in northern Italy, on April 30, 1995.

“Similarly, the Second Vatican Council, a true ‘grace of God and gift of the Holy Spirit,’ gave the Church of our time a renewed awareness of her mystery and her mission, prophetically spurring the entire community to renewal in obedience to the word of God, in order better to serve men and to bring them the Gospel message more effectively.”

Indeed, Blessed John Paul II’s greatest legacy was to help the Church interiorize both spiritually and practically the teachings of the Second Vatican Council. It is no accident that Karol Wojtyła took the name John Paul. Doing so indicated his commitment to the work of Blessed John XXIII, who received the inspiration for the council and convened it, and Pope Paul VI, who was the main craftsman of the council and brought it to a conclusion in 1965.

Pope Benedict XVI, who served at the council as a theological advisor, has furthered this mission in his own pontificate. The council was formative for each of the popes since the council, and their magisterial teachings reflect that.

The pope concluded, “It is precisely in this combination of continuity and discontinuity at different levels that the very nature of true reform consists.”

It is often said that particular post-Vatican II changes or proposals in the Church are in keeping with “the spirit of Vatican II.” That may or may not be true with regards to specific issues.

But what is absolutely true is that the Holy Spirit was actively present at the council and guided and inspired its 16 carefully written documents. In these documents lay the lasting legacy of the council awaiting anew our prayer, study and reflection.

They need to be read not just individually but in their totality.

In approaching the council’s teachings, one must remember that Vatican II was, above all, a pastoral council and that each document has a pastoral tone designed to feed souls. The council was meant to be open to non-Catholic Christians, those of other living faiths and indeed the whole world.

Although no new dogma was decreed, the council put forth binding teaching in the many expressions of the ordinary magisterium — the authoritative teaching of the bishops in communion with the pope. This is why the council is so very important and cannot be ignored.

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Father Joseph Ratzinger, right, consults with a bishop in this photo taken in 1962 during the Second Vatican Council. The future Pope Benedict XVI attended all four sessions of the council as a theological adviser to German Cardinal Joseph Frings of Cologne.

THE CATECHISM, A FRUIT OF THE COUNCIL While the Second Vatican Council produced many important fruits, perhaps the greatest has been the promulgation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. This document, which John Paul II called the “sure norm for teaching the faith,” is linked to the Second Vatican Council in many ways — symbolic and

substantive. Promulgated 20 years ago on Oct. 11, 1992 — 30 years after the opening of the council — it is also one of the two points of reference for this Year of Faith.

It was at the synod of bishops in 1985, called to celebrate “the graces and spiritual fruits of Vatican II,” that the synod fathers first expressed the “desire that a catechism or compendium of all Catholic doctrine regarding both faith and morals be composed.” They stated that the presentation of the doctrine must be both biblical and liturgical. With all that had gone on in the Church subsequent to Vatican II, the synod fathers decided that the time was right to create a summary of Catholic teaching for the universal Church.

Thus, the Catechism is both a response to and completes the work of the Second Vatican Council. It is reflective of the newness of the council, including all its documents, which it quotes extensively. At the same time, the Catechism includes references to the books of the Old and New Testaments and to other general councils. It also highlights the lives and teachings of the saints and the doctors of the Church. Although overwhelming at first glance (there are nearly 700 pages of text in the English edition), the Catechism is carefully organized and accessible to lay readers.

Like all catechesis, the Catechism is about giving “reasons” for our hope in Christ and recouping a sense of “joy” in being a Catholic Christian. It is about putting people in personal touch with Jesus Christ and his teaching in and through his living Church.

When calling the Year of Faith that will begin Oct. 11, Pope Benedict wrote, “All can find in the Catechism of the Catholic Church a precious and indispensable tool. It is one of the most important fruits of Vatican Council II. … It is in this sense that the Year of Faith will have to see a concerted effort to rediscover and study the fundamental content of the faith that receives its systematic and organic synthesis in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.”

The Year of Faith will be a great grace for the entire Church, and it will help each member of the Church understand anew, or for the first time, how it was and is that the Second Vatican Council sought to make the Church’s venerable teachings more understandable and meaningful in a world of rapid change. ♦ MSGR. PETER J. VAGHI, a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, is a member of Potomac Council 433 and a third generation Knight of Columbus. He is the author of a four-part Pillars of Faith book series, based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church and published by Ave Maria Press (avemariapress.com).

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A Lily for All Nations Catholics celebrate Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, who will soon become the first Native American saint

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iracles attributed to her intercession abound: A boy was cured of a 65-percent hearing loss. A man defied doctors by walking after a spinal cord injury. An ironworker fell through two floors — losing 16 vertebrae and fracturing his ribs and skull — and lived and walked to tell the tale.

Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk maiden who, despite resistance, devoted her life to the Gospel, is credited with answering countless prayers. Recently, one story — that of a child saved from a fatal flesh-eating disease — was deemed a miracle by the Vatican, paving the way for Blessed Kateri’s long-awaited canonization next month in Rome.

As the Oct. 21 date of her canonization draws near, Catholics across North America have been celebrating and planning pilgrimages to witness history in the making — the first Native American saint. Perhaps none are more excited and grateful than the approximately 600,000 Native Americans, representing more than 300 tribes and nations, who belong to the Catholic Church.

KATERI’S GIFT OF FAITH Blessed Kateri, known as the “Lily of the Mohawks,” was born to a Christian Algonquin mother and a Mohawk chief father in 1656 in a Mohawk village called Ossernenon (modern-day Auriesville, N.Y.). When she was 4, a smallpox epidemic took her parents’ lives and left her with impaired vision, poor health and pockmarks.

Raised by her uncle in Caughnawaga, near present-day Fonda, N.Y., Kateri was inspired by Jesuit missionaries to study Catholicism in private at age 18. She continued her domestic duties, but resisted offers of marriage, reportedly to her uncle’s displeasure. After her baptism two years later, her family and village ostracized, ridiculed, slandered and threatened her.

In 1677, Kateri fled to St. Francis Xavier de Sault, a Jesuit mission in Quebec, with a note from the Jesuit priest in her village that read, “I send you a treasure. Guard it well.”

There, among Christian friends, she led a life of prayer, love for the Eucharist, devotion to chastity and intense penitential practices. She taught prayers to children, made wooden

crosses and placed them throughout the woods, worked with the sick and elderly, and attended Mass daily. In 1679, she took a vow of perpetual virginity — the next best thing after starting her own religious order, a request she and her associates had been denied.

After suffering from years of ill health, Kateri died at the age of 24 after uttering her last words, “Jesus, I love you.” Her remains are now in Kahnawake, near Montreal.

It is reported that Kateri’s smallpox scars vanished after her death and that she appeared to her friend Anastasia, among others, with a message: “The cross was the glory of my life and the glory of my death, and I want you to make it yours.”

Kateri’s cause for canonization opened in 1932, after more than a century of beseeching from Catholics devoted to her.

Pope Pius XII declared her venerable in 1943, and Pope John Paul II beatified her on June 22, 1980.

Finally, Pope Benedict XVI signed the decree necessary for her canonization last December.

“It is a vision that is fulfilled on the part of many Native American Catholics, those who have come to know and love her,” said Sister Kateri Mitchell, a Sister of St. Anne and executive director of the Tekakwitha Conference, an organization that promotes evangelization among indigenous Catholics in the United States and Canada. “It’s definitely going to reaffirm and reawaken in many of our people the gift of faith. [Kateri’s] spirit will live on in the lives of our people in a much deeper and more profound way.”

Bringing stories of hope inspired by the canonization, more than 800 people gathered for the 73rd annual Tekakwitha Conference in and around Blessed Kateri’s upstate New York birthplace this past July. The five-day event was filled with sounds of traditional Native American instruments and vocal chants, the smells of burning sweet grass, and the sights of dancing, traditional dress and harvest vegetables intertwining with Catholic rituals.

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HOPE AND HEALING FOR NATIVE AMERICANS After Kateri’s death in 1680, soil from her grave was used to heal sick people and animals. Modern believers often pray for less tangible causes, like the end to substance abuse on reservations or for native children to finish school and practice the faith.

“She’s listening,” said Christine Willow, a member of the Northern Arapaho tribe living on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Ethete, Wyo. Willow, who spent years worrying about her three children, now adults, believes Blessed Ka-

Msgr. Paul Lenz, the vice postulator for Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha’s cause for canonization and director emeritus of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, is pictured by a painting of the soon-to-be saint. teri has been hearing her prayers. “My two daughters are mothers now, and they really devote their lives to their children,” she said.

Joan Staples-Baum, director of the Tacoma Indian Center in Tacoma, Wash., and a member of the White Earth Chippewa tribe from Minnesota, believes the canonization “may be the start of something bigger. There are not too many people who come to Native American communities and spend time there and don’t love the people. It could just be the beginning of greater healing.”

Indigenous people in Canada, known as First Nations, are also celebrating the upcoming canonization. About 25 percent of them are Catholic.

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Though prejudice persists against indigenous peoples — and some Americans falsely believe that the country’s original inhabitants no longer exist — many natives have described the news about Blessed Kateri as a step toward acknowledgement of their presence in the pews and the public square.

“It means that we’re finally being recognized by the Church, by the country and probably by the world,” said Staples-Baum, who will travel to Rome with 10 others from her parish in October. “It’s just confirming us as a people.”

The Tekakwitha Conference, which was originally founded as a group of clergy serving native populations, opened to laypeople in 1980. Today, it sponsors about 130 Kateri Circles in American parishes, which report that more natives are turning to the Church for baptisms and burials.

Msgr. Paul Lenz, the vice postulator for Blessed Kateri’s cause for canonization and director emeritus of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, said the news of the canonization will motivate renewed faith among native Catholics.

“They’re going to realize who she is and what happened to her,” Msgr. Lenz said. “She gave such a good example of wanting to love Jesus and wanting to get to heaven.”

Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia, a member of the Prairie Band of the Potawatomi Nation and chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee of Native American Affairs, remembers studying about Kateri in Catholic grade school, when she was still called “venerable.”

“I’m deeply grateful to God for giving us a miracle to authenticate to her,” said Archbishop Chaput, one of three Native American bishops.

He noted that the biggest challenges that native Catholics are battling today involve the same secular forces facing other American Catholics.

“I don’t think it’s any harder to be an Indian and Catholic than to be an American and Catholic,” he said.

Many Native American Catholics recognize they have the extra burden of balancing the Catholic faith with tribal cultures that often espouse their own sets of spiritual beliefs.

“It’s a question we all face,” Archbishop Chaput said. But Blessed Kateri prioritized her Catholic faith, he added, and “it didn’t make her any less an Indian.”

Blessed Kateri’s canonization, the archbishop said, has the potential to reignite the faith of Native Americans. “But at the same time, it’s much easier to talk about the saints than to become one.”

Archbishop Chaput said that whether or not there will be a renewal of faith among Native Americans is yet to be seen, but he remains optimistic: “To be a Christian means to be a person of hope.” He is sure of one thing: He will be in Rome Oct. 21.

“I wouldn’t miss it for anything in the world,” he said.♦ ANGELA CAVE is a staff writer for The Evangelist, the newspaper for the Diocese of Albany.

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in many cases, feels isolated by both. Native Americans face high rates of poverty, addiction and depression, as well as generations-long identity struggles rooted in oppression and prejudice that began in the colonial era. Many of the country’s more than 500 tribes have gradually lost languages and traditions as a result of government-imposed reservations and boarding schools, while many native religions were suppressed until the late 1970s.

KNIGHTS WELCOME NATIVE AMERICAN BROTHERS

Top: An Akwesasne Mohawk youth dances during a powwow at the 73rd annual Tekakwitha Conference in Auriesville, N.Y., Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha’s birthplace.

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Above: Jake Finkbonner, whose recovery from a rare disease was attributed to the intercession of Blessed Kateri and provided the final miracle needed to canonize her, hands off a relic of the future saint to an organizer of next year’s conference, which will be held in El Paso, Texas. Sister Kateri Mitchell, director of the Tekakwitha Conference, and Bishop Robert J. Cunningham of Syracuse look on.

Bottom: Jerry McDonald, an Akwesasne Mohawk, beats a drum during a round dance at the conference.

When Michael Witek of Cardinal Stritch Council 616 in Memphis, Tenn., passed away last fall, his fellow council members were quick to offer condolences and support to Michael’s widow, a Catholic Cherokee named Paula. The Knights even volunteered to lead the funeral procession.

“They were so supportive,” Paula Witek said. “I didn’t even have to ask.”

Paula and Michael had prayed for Blessed Kateri’s canonization daily for almost two decades. “To me, it’s like full circle,” Witek said. “It’s the answer to so many prayers.”

When Native American men are hesitant to join the Knights, Witek encourages them to keep an open mind. “Both sides have to get over their prejudices,” she said. “I think [Blessed Kateri is] part of the answer, because she appeals to so many people. She can really be a bridge, just like she’s done with the native tribes.”

At least seven Knights of Columbus councils are named after Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, but not all are connected to Native American culture. The stigma sometimes associated with Columbus has, in fact, discouraged many natives from joining the Order.

But Deacon Alfred “Bud” Jetty, past state deputy of South Dakota, believes the Knights’ reputation and good works should supersede any negative associations. A member of Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe, Deacon Jetty has worked for years to bring about a reconciliation between mainstream U.S. society and Native Americans.

In Deacon Jetty’s experience, Knights have great respect for natives. “I can see that from the way they act and the way they treat people,” he said, adding that the Order donated more than $400,000 to a culturalexchange program with South Dakota reservations and public schools.

When he became state deputy in 1991, Deacon Jetty saw it as a sign that “the K of C is an organization for everybody. It doesn’t matter what race you are or where you came from.” — Angela Cave

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As doctor-prescribed suicide is sold as “compassion,” Catholics and others witness to the true dignity of life

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atrick Matheny of Coos Bay, Ore., received an in-person express delivery in November 1998. He waited more than four months before ingesting the lethal drugs that the package contained. The prescribed drugs were legal due to the state’s thenrecently passed Death with Dignity Act, which still allows a person to end his or her life with deadly capsules.

Matheny, who was 43 at the time of his death, was nearly paralyzed from ALS and unable to self-administer the barbiturates mixed into a chocolate drink. He received assistance from his brother-in-law, Joe Hayes, who reportedly held the glass while Matheny drank through a straw. Authorities found that there was no breach in the law with Matheny’s death, but questions remained as to how much assistance one person could give to another in taking the prescribed drugs.

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Welcome to the world of physician-assisted suicide and its murky realities. In 1997, Oregon became the first state to legalize the practice. Its neighboring state, Washington, became the second in 2008. Assisted suicide was then made legal in Montana through a court ruling the following year. Now, Massachusetts voters can expect to see a similar petition on the November ballot.

Matheny’s situation and death has become fairly well known, as it was documented in the newspaper The Oregonian and later cited by a number of groups. Some two months before his death, reporter Erin Barnett’s feature article showcased Matheny’s progression of thoughts about the fatal choice as his physical abilities deteriorated.

“I really believe I can still accomplish some things and have

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a purpose in life,” Matheny said in the story. “So it’s not time, and I think I’ll just wait until I get the inner calling — or don’t get it.”

But Matheny also said at another time, “The idea of waiting too long scares me the most.” He understood there would probably be a point when he could not physically take the drugs, even if his mind was set on doing so.

Sullivan. “The people who are behind ‘Death with Dignity’ are part of a national network that has been trying to legalize assisted suicide for decades.”

Sullivan is among those who take issue with the collection of approximately 80,000 citizen signatures to get the measure considered by the state legislature. Complaints have been made that collection propaganda used misleading and ambiguous phrases like “compassion for the terminally ill.”

“Some of the people who signed those petitions claimed that they never understood that it was about assisted suicide. They really did think that it was about compassion and choices in dying. Well, that’s a very different thing than suicide,” said Sullivan who gives talks about physician-assisted suicide and related issues.

SO-CALLED DEATH WITH DIGNITY Similar to the legislation in the Pacific Northwest, the Massachusetts Death With Dignity Act seeks to allow those 18 years of age and older the choice to self-administer lethal drugs. This is after an attending or consulting physician determines that the individual has a terminal disease that “will, within reasonable medical judgment, produce death within six months.”

The measure requires that the process be “entirely voluntary HOPE FOR THE DYING on the part of all participants” and that the adult have “the ca- In contrast with a worldview that favors total autonomy over pacity to make health-care decisions.” one’s own life and death stands the Catholic teaching on the Careful to avoid the term “suicide,” the ballot petition states sanctity of life. Responding to physician-assisted suicide, the that a patient’s death certificate would list the terminal disease U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement in as the cause of death. Instead of the June 2011 titled “To Live Each Day term “assisted suicide,” the phrase with Dignity.” “to end a patient’s life in a humane In six pages, the document adand dignified manner” is used. The dresses the continued threat to initiative even states directly that human dignity resulting from false eople who actions of the proposal “shall not notions of freedom and of compasconstitute suicide, assisted suicide, sion for the sick and dying. request death are mercy killing or homicide under “People who request death are vulany criminal law of the commonnerable.

They need care and protecvulnerable. They need wealth.” tion. To offer them lethal drugs is a care and protection.

Opponents to the measure have victory not for freedom, but for the found plenty to take issue with. worst form of neglect. Such abanTo offer them lethal In a videotaped homily distribdonment is especially irresponsible uted to parishes in the Archdiocese when society is increasingly aware of drugs is a victory not of Boston, Cardinal Seán O’Malley elder abuse and other forms of misfor freedom, but for the said, “The bill also requires two treatment and exploitation of vulwitnesses to attest to the patient’s nerable persons,” the statement worst form of neglect. competence. But one of the witargues. “The idea that assisting a suinesses can be a total stranger, and cide shows compassion and elimianother can be the sick person’s nates suffering is equally misguided. heir. Alfred Hitchcock would make It eliminates the person and results movies about this stuff.” in suffering for those left behind — The ballot initiative was spearheaded by a group of 15 Mas- grieving families and friends, and other vulnerable people who sachusetts citizens that includes current or previous members may be influenced by this event to see death as an escape.” of the Harvard Medical School faculty, the American Civil But the bishops’ statement does not stop at listing a litany Liberties Union of Massachusetts and the organization Com- of problems with physician-assisted suicide as it is practiced, passion and Choices. In 2003, Compassion and Choices be- such as neglect in evaluating mental illness and a lack of came the new name of two merged groups, including one scrutiny in the circumstances surrounding one’s choice to die previously known as the Hemlock Society USA, which was legally. Rather, the bishops go on to provide a message of pracfounded in 1980. tical hope and illustrate that respect for life does not require The idea that the current ballot initiative in Massachusetts extending life with treatments that do not work or are “unduly is a grassroots effort does not sit well with M.C. Sullivan, a burdensome.” nurse, bioethicist and attorney who works for Covenant Health The statement notes that suffering patients should not be reSystems, a Catholic health provider based in Tewksbury, Mass. fused pain medications even if there is fear that possible side “It is an initiative that was brought to bear by a group of effects could shorten life. “In fact, severe pain can shorten life, people who have had this agenda for quite some time,” said while effective palliative care can enhance the length as well as

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the quality of a person’s life,” the statement says. “Effective palliative care also allows patients to devote their attention to the unfinished business of their lives, to arrive at a sense of peace with God, with loved ones and with themselves. No one should dismiss this time as useless or meaningless.”

Father Roger Landry, pastor of St. Bernadette Parish and chaplain of Msgr. Jean A. Prevost Council 12380 in Fall River, Mass., said Catholics can help by starting with prayer and attending to those who suffer at the end of their lives. Palliative care and “typical human accompaniment for which everyone longs” is a much better course than trying “to kill a suffering patient in order to end the suffering,” he said.

Father Landry said that Catholics, and especially Knights, need “to be at those bedsides, so that people who are in pain are not suffering alone.” He also stressed that the suffering should not believe that their dying is the best way to release their loved ones of caring for them.

“We need to be there with them and say, ‘We’re here with you until God comes,’” said Father Landry.

NATIONAL IMPLICATIONS Many believe that Massachusetts has been targeted as a pivotal state for the spread of physician-assisted suicide. With its renowned medical facilities and professionals, along with its academic institutions, Massachusetts wields influence over the Northeast and beyond. If the state goes the way of legalized assisted suicide, it could be much easier for other states to follow.

John M. Haas, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, remembered when physician-assisted suicide legislation passed in Oregon and one of the campaign leaders declared Massachusetts as a goal for the suicide practice.

Haas explained that if the initiative passes in Massachusetts, it will be harder to dismiss earlier legislative actions in Oregon as a fringe movement. “That’s the most unchurched part of the United States (Oregon), and now here’s Massachusetts with a huge Catholic population finally becoming ‘enlightened’ about these matters,” said Haas, a member of Mater Dei 22 ♦ C O L U M B I A ♦

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JUSTIN BELL, a member of Denver (Colo.) Council 539, has reported for the Boston archdiocese’s newspaper The Pilot and is a correspondent for the National Catholic Register. He currently lives and writes from the Boston area.

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Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley delivers a homily at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston. Cardinal O’Malley has strongly condemned a proposal to make assisted suicide legal in the commonwealth.

Council 4129 in Newtown Square, Pa. “So when they think about these things strategically, they take all these considerations into account.”

Cardinal O’Malley first addressed the issue publicly at a Red Mass for the legal community in September 2011. “We hope that the citizens of the commonwealth will not be seduced by the language, ‘dignity, mercy, compassion,’ which are used to disguise the sheer brutality of helping someone to kill themselves,” the cardinal said.

Since then, the archdiocese of Boston has launched a website devoted to the issue, including the video homily from the archbishop that was played in nearly 300 parishes in mid-February.

More outreach is planned leading up to the vote.

Janet Benestad, who directs the Boston archdiocese’s educational campaign against the initiative, is quick to point out that the situation should not be looked at as only a Catholic issue. Many others in the community, including citizens’ groups and advocates for persons with disabilities, are opposed to physician-assisted suicide, as are medical organizations such as the American Medical Association and the Massachusetts Medical Society.

“It’s also important to consider that 25 states have rejected this in the course of the last several years, and there are good reasons for that,” said Benestad. “They didn’t want it in their states, and it’s important for people to Massachusetts to ask why.”

Three separate coalition groups have been working against the push for legalized suicide in Massachusetts. In one group, which is supported by the Supreme Council, is the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, the public-policy arm of the state’s bishops, representing the state’s four dioceses. A fundamental goal of the MCC is to clear up the language of the petition.

“It’s just getting the terms down to what this actually means — that ‘Death with Dignity’ is a prescription for a legal dose of medication to end one’s life,” explained Peter McNulty, associate director of policy and research for the MCC and a member of Dedham Council 234.

Father Landry suggested a three-point plan for how the local Knights of Columbus can help: prayer, being informed in the issues and mobilization. He added that Knights across the country can pray for Massachusetts and do proactive work in their states to build a culture “that supports life at its most vulnerable extremes.”

“The Knights of Columbus have already distinguished themselves as champions of life and the protection of our unborn brothers and sisters,” said Father Landry. “But now they’re called to become defenders of our older brothers and sisters whose lives are being devalued and threatened by the push for doctor-prescribed death.”

For educational resources from the Archdiocese of Boston and the USCCB, visit suicideisalwaysatragedy.org and usccb.org/toliveeachday.♦

FAT H E R S F O R G O O D

Faith on the Field The defending Super Bowl champion coach credits Catholic roots with teaching him how to be a good leader

by Wally Carew

AP Photo/Paul Jasienski

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rowing up, the toughest person in Tom Coughlin’s greater court, judge and jury. I am far from perfect, so it has life was not the playground bully, the school bus wise always been vital for me to know that there is no hiding guy or any of his rough-and-tumble friends. Not even from God. You can’t be a phony.” close. The person Coughlin most respected and feared was Coughlin first established his football prowess in high a slightly built Sister of St. Joseph, a disciplinarian par ex- school when he set a single-season record for touchdowns cellence with clear, penetrating eyes with 19 — a record that still stands. and a huge heart. Her name was SisHe went on to compete for Syracuse ter Rose Alice.

University as a wingback, and set the “She was tougher, faster, she could university’s single-season receiving hit harder and she could outtalk anyrecord in 1967. At Syracuse, he one,” said Coughlin. played for Hall of Fame coach Ben Coughlin, 66, knows something Schwartzwalder, whose character and about toughness. As the head coach toughness rubbed off. of the New York Giants, he is a deCoughlin later posted a 21-13-1 tailed taskmaster who is known for record as head coach of Boston Colhis competitive fire, and he has led lege from 1991-93, including a drahis team to two Super Bowl victories matic last-second victory over in the past five years. top-ranked Notre Dame. One player Thomas Richard Coughlin was he will never forget was Jay McGillis, the eldest of seven children growing who died of leukemia and inspired up in Waterloo, a town of 5,000 in Coughlin to launch a fund that has the idyllic Finger Lakes region of raised more than $2 million to assist New York. His father, Lou, worked the families of cancer patients. for an Army Supply Depot. His Moving to the NFL, Coughlin bemother, Betty, was a non-Catholic came the inaugural head coach of the New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin holds who went out of her way to make Jacksonville Jaguars expansion team the Vince Lombardi trophy following the NFL sure her children fulfilled their relifor eight years before accepting the Super Bowl Feb. 5, 2012, in Indianapolis. gious obligations. top spot with the Giants in 2004.

“My mother was really more Catholic than anyone,” said Through it all, the faith and values that Coughlin learned Coughlin. “Every Sunday she made sure we were dressed during his youth have been brought to bear on the gridiron. and ready for Mass.”

“Look inside the locker room. He has inspired every sinAs a student at St. Mary’s School in Waterloo and an altar gle player to play for each other and not just for themselves,” boy at St. Mary’s Church, Coughlin received a solid noted Giants Chairman Steve Tisch.

Catholic formation from the Sisters of St. Joseph.

When looking back on his life and career, Coughlin said “They were totally dedicated to Jesus Christ, the Catholic that he would like to be remembered as “fair, firm, honest faith and to the welfare of each and every one of their stu- and demanding.” dents,” Coughlin recalled. “Who I am today can be traced to Revealing a warm heart beneath his tough exterior, he added the values I learned from the faith-filled Sisters of St. Joseph.” that he is particularly pleased when former players return to Indeed, these values have formed the foundation of his see him. “They thank me for helping them become the best solid faith and strong marriage. He and his wife, Judy, who they can be, on and off the field,” said Coughlin. “Those mowere high school classmates, have been married for 46 years. ments are special. Man to man. You can’t top that.”♦ They have four grown children and 10 grandchildren.

Coughlin’s education taught him to value the sacraments WALLY CAREW, a member of Vera Cruz Council 129 in Ranand the tenets of the faith. “We learned that there are con- dolph, Mass., is the author of Men of Spirit, Men of Sports and A sequences for our actions,” he said. “Ultimately, there is a Farewell to Glory.

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St. Joseph’s Youth Camp gives kids a place to disconnect from technology and reconnect to each other

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o television. No cell phones. No video games … Awesome.

LOWER LEFT: Photo by J.D. Long-García — OTHER: Photos by Amy Vogelsang

Surprisingly, that’s how the children who attend St. Joseph’s Youth Camp describe their weeklong experience tucked among the pines about 30 miles south of Flagstaff, Ariz.

Knights of Columbus took over the camp in 1950 and, in simple terms, they want kids to have “the traditional camp experience.” That’s according to Rick Large II, president of the board of directors and a member of Father Marcel Salinas Council 11536 in Mesa. For the first time in years, the nonprofit camp was at capacity every week of July — that’s around 80 campers a week, plus accompanying counselors and staff.

“It’s a traditional camp, with a camp fire, horses and plenty of fresh air,” said Large, who fell in love with St. Joseph’s the first time he visited. He said the camp isn’t just for Catholics, and it certainly isn’t just for the rich. As the president of the board, he helps ensure that children of any background can attend — including homeless children.

This year, one of the campers showed up with his toes hanging out of a beat-up pair of sneakers. A couple of foster kids attended another week. Whatever their home life is like, all the campers are treated equally.

CATCHING CAMP FEVER In the third week of July, parents lined up to check in their kids at Our Lady of Mount Caramel Church in Tempe, a Phoenix suburb, on the first day of the third session of St. Joseph’s Youth Camp this year. The temperature was close to 100 degrees, and some of the kids — ages 8 to 12 — were frowning. Most kept to themselves.

The counselors, teenage volunteers who accompany campers for the week, were all smiles though. They knew how much the

Opposite page: On any given week in July, around 80 campers and 10 counselors met at St. Joseph’s Youth Camp in northern Arizona. The camp, supported by the Knights of Columbus, is a place where kids can make new, lasting friendships. • Above: Campers are pictured jumping in delight.

children would change during their weeklong camp experience and practically relished the initial negative attitudes. The children remained suspicious. A week? In the woods? Really?

Once on board the bus, high-fives abounded. The celebratory spirit continued when the campers disembarked the bus twoand-a-half hours later. The weather was 25 degrees cooler at the camp, which is 7,100 feet above sea level.

After a series of icebreakers, staff members put on a skit to go over the rules. They stressed the destructiveness of negative language as much as the danger of forest fires. There’s no littering either, and candy isn’t allowed in the cabins.

“Do you think it’s good for chipmunks to eat Skittles?” asked Alyssa Fresh, a college-aged staff member.

“NO!” all 82 campers shouted back.

“And that’s why we can’t have candy in the cabins,” Fresh said playfully.

Fresh comes from a large family in Lake Havasu, Ariz., and started coming to the camp in 2006 thanks to sponsors. She was one of 12 staffers led by Camp Director Brian Byrnes, a member of St. Anthony of Padua Council 9838 in Wickenburg, Ariz. The staff works alongside 30 or so teenage counselors to ensure campers get all the attention they need.

The camp’s 12 cabins are organized by gender — two counselors for every eight campers.

Camp leaders are strict about keeping the boys out of the girls’ cabins, and vice versa. “Boys are blue, girls are pink. Don’t make purple,” explained Large, the board president. “That makes it pretty clear. No one breaks the rules because no one wants to be sent home.”

Cell phones are also forbidden. During one week, staff members confiscated 12 phones.

On the second day of camp, staff members led the kids on a tour of the grounds. Once at the boundary, staff members Wren Lapansky and Emily Wilson recounted scary stories, taking advantage of summer camp poetic license.

The stories make sure the kids remember where they can and can’t go.

Lumberjacks are buried over here, so it’s haunted, of course. And you wouldn’t want to spend time with ghosts, so you shouldn’t be here. … Now this used to be a troll bridge. That is, until the troll destroyed it. And you wouldn’t want to cross this area, unless you’re looking to be eaten by the troll. … That’s not to mention the redeyed killer teddy bears — avoid them as well. They’re bad news.

As the group made its way around the 19-acre camp, the kids asked each other if they believed the troll story. “I don’t know,” one camper said. “It’s only my first time here.” It was day two, and the kids were already talking about coming back next year.

Back at the mess hall, one of the boys was getting riled up at the foosball table. “Take it down a notch,” said Zach Crimmins, program specialist. The camper listened and settled down immediately. You wouldn’t know it was Crimmins’ first time at St. Joseph’s.

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IMPROVING LIVES Three weeks in, Crimmins said the toughest week so far had been

“teen week” — the seven days that St. Joseph’s hosts teenage campers. The kids come from across Arizona and even from California, and they don’t always get along, at least not in the beginning.

One of the counselors, Timothy Ruane, said being so close in age to teen campers was tough. While being teenagers themselves presents a challenge for some counselors, it also enables them to have a more immediate connection with the teens.

“I’m up here now, and I’m happy,” said Ruane, who first came to the camp three years ago thanks to a scholarship from the Knights of Columbus. In the past, he said, he hadn’t wanted to leave the camp when the summer was over.

When problems do arise, the counselors work through them, supporting each other and consulting staff members.

Byrnes, the director, said one of the teen campers this summer wanted to go home at the beginning of the week. After spending some time with the teen, staff members ascertained that another person from his cabin was picking on him — someone he knew from home. The team adjusted, switching the kids to separate cabins. It worked, and the boy happily stayed the whole week.

Counselors and staff members undergo safe environment training — sessions in abuse prevention. It’s a requirement the Knights of Columbus don’t take lightly.

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“It’s morally important that these kids get up here,” he said.

“This may be the one thing in life that keeps them on the straight and narrow.”

Simply being respected and being listened to by their peers transforms campers. The kids will also do things they’ve likely never done before, and may never do again.

Down at the horse stable, about 20 campers gave riding a try.

They strapped on helmets and waited to be called to their horse.

“Now, lift your leg over and stick your foot in the other stirrup,” a riding instructor said to one of the boys.

“I can’t,” the boy said.

“We don’t believe in ‘can’t’ here,” the instructor barked back. Sure enough, the boy could mount the horse and loved his ride.

“At first, it’s hard to get some of the shy kids to open up,” said Will Giannola, assistant director. A member of Blessed John Cardinal Newman Council 7513 in Flagstaff, Giannola started coming to St. Joseph’s 15 years ago as a camper. “By the time the week is over, [the shy kids] won’t be quiet,” he said.

Parents notice a change, too, according to Large, the board president. Some parents tell him their kids come back converted — they now eat vegetables.

“Whenever kids leave here, I swear they leave in a better place than when they got here,” Byrnes said. “Even kids who come from good families need this kind of attention.”

Alexandria Saquella, who just graduated high school, was on staff as head counselor. Every morning, she gathered campers together for the raising of the flag, the Pledge of Allegiance and a prayer. She also asked for a volunteer to lead grace before each meal. Campers and counselors from various faith traditions led prayer throughout summer.

“I got hooked and fell in love with the camp and the people,” said Saquella, who’s been coming for years. “It’s a big family here.”

She said serving as a counselor in years past gave her the confidence to serve on her high school student council; she was student body president her senior year.

“Working here made me aware of leadership skills I have,” Saquella said.

The same is true of many other children who pass through the camp. By taking away technological distractions, kids are forced to pay attention to each other. What they find is that their peers are a lot more fun than their iPods.

“We don’t have cell phones or technology,” Saquella said. “We get away and focus on relationships.”

And the friendships they form will never be obsolete.♦ J.D. LONG-GARCÍA is the editor of the Catholic Sun, the newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix.

Photo by JD. Long-García

“When I first got here, I caught the ‘virus.’ I can see why other staff members have been coming here for years and why they call it their second home,” he said.

Crimmins, who is part of the U.S. Air Force ROTC at Northern Arizona University, shared some wilderness basics with the young campers. His tutorial included a scavenger hunt of sorts using a compass. While that was fun, the boys soon moved on to a more important question: Who’s taller? They measured each other, as boys do, wholly inaccurately.

BOTTOM LEFT: Photo by J.D. Long-García — OTHER: Photos by Amy Vogelsang

Rick Large II (opposite page), president of the board of directors for St. Joseph’s Youth Camp, speaks with a camper’s parent at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Tempe July 15. • The camp offers activities some of the children have never experienced before, like archery, kayaking, and horseback riding.

Campers also create crafts throughout the week, including engraving their “nature names” on leather nametags.

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S TA R C O U N C I L W I N N E R S

Star Councils Awarded

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total of 1,079 councils earned the Star Council Award, the highest distinction available to a local K of C council, for the 2011-12 fraternal year.

These councils, led by the grand knights listed here, conducted the required charitable and fraternal programs in the “Surge … with Service” areas and also achieved their membership and insurance quotas.

Each council will receive an appropriately engraved plaque from the Supreme Council in recognition of its accomplishment.

Of these councils, 362 earned the Double Star Council Award for meeting 100 percent of their insurance quota and 200 percent of their membership quota. Numbers in red indicate councils that achieved the Double Star Council Award.

Additionally, 3,097 councils earned the Columbian Award for excellence in programming; 2,783 attained the Father McGivney Award for meeting their membership quota; and 2,082 earned the Founders’ Award for meeting their insurance quota.

764 893 5597 9676 10903 11480 12618 13085 13152 13163 13174 13367 15247

Gregory D. Olsen Wallace M. Sadler Jr. Terry C. Taylor Ronald E. Holmes Isaac N. Williams George C. Miller John M. Hahn Sr. William A. Giattina John A. Bares Edward G. Ferniany Thomas M. Hayward George T. Kruse Edward S. Zanaty Jr.

ALABAMA

1760 Robert B. Tonkin

ALASKA

6994 8470 10986 12353 12658 14497

Kelly D. O’Hare Rick O. Finzel Ronald M. Starko Grant M. Mann Julien J. Bilodeau Aleksander A. Gurgul

ALBERTA

6848 Douglas K. Doonan 7114 Lawrence G. Costanzo 7306 Alfred S. Wims 7465 Joseph M. Danko 8305 Larry J. Lickfelt 8813 Jeffrey J. Wild 10062 Thomas Y. Kato 10799 Robert H. Bridges Jr. 11738 Anthony A. Balestrieri 11855 William Barrett III 12164 Larry F. Bleichroth 12345 Mervyn R. Stuckey 12449 Nicola F. Gaudio 12696 Terry R. Lingrel 14121 Richard J. Sauerbrey 14230 Robert McLaughlin 14357 Christopher J. Hopkins 15001 Jim P. Doorley 15376 Peter B. Herra ARIZONA

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5209 6419 6609 7258 9777 10208 12082 12875 14609 14619

Johnny R. Wiedower Dennis L. Bosch Joseph D. Beffa Ronald L. Anderle Donald J. Chaffin David E. Johnston A. Lewis Germany Jr. Philip A. Savage Raul Castilla Charles J. Digiacomo

ARKANSAS

5282 6767 6855 8394 9125 10681 14652

Ely G. Abecia Zoltan Louis Vertes Edgar C. Ursua Harold T. Francis Priscilo Tetangco Peter R. Sobrinho Denis F. Faucher

BRITISH COLUMBIA

1658 1740 1920 2956 3148 3254 3523 3583 3629 3667 3773 4017 4060 4229 4588 4728 4901 4981 5385 6043 6922 6965 7164 7268 7663 7683 7987

Efren C. Ramos Kennith M. Hall Gregory L. Granja Edward D. Franger Richard B. Marciniak James L. Tiedeman Gilbert J. Rodriguez William E. Irwin Robert A. McNerney Jose A. Villaman Jeffrey S. Patino Eric M. Rosas Terry A. Gotowka Kenneth R. Arguelles Terry R. Lucchesi Ruperto P. Ubaldo James Diego Reed Robert H. Rolufs Abraham James Timothy B. Tuttle Norv B. Latreille Robert S. Rebollar Patrick D. Embody Timothy J. Wade Richard J. Trevors Robert O. Brown Michael J. Queenan

CALIFORNIA

SEPTEMBER 2012

8879 9206 9530 9667

9679 9710 9740 10512 10667 10802 10948 11829 12587 12853 13111 13124 13179 13195 13311 13899 14007 14158 14292 14541 14550 14554 14581

14818 14927

15034 15076 15242

Andrew J. Ganse Richard R. Esposito Tony H. Lomas Thomas C. Leeman Jr. James M. Figueredo Mark A. Rahall John K. Springer John C. Clark Sr. Troy A. Asher Frank X. Tooker Theodore J. Cordano John J. Corcoran Armando R. Vasquez Toby E. Laufer Anthony Gonzalez Kevin B. Casey Howard W. Tank Jose V. Alas Gregory A. Hastings Kenneth J. Landoline Raymond J. Forgette Richard M. Stuart Rudy A. Bravo Robert M. Tierney Rodolfo Torres Sr. Steve A. Aquilino William F. Lichtenstein Eduardo I. Palomar Edgar Antonin M. Sipin Carlito P. Dimla Frank T. Morrall Peter J. Nelson

3434 Anthony A. Cisneros II 4732 Franklin C. Zadel 5757 Jeffrey C. Cole 7880 Leonard M. Bertagnolli 8909 Alex R. Onda 10205 Leonard V. Micek 10937 Paul Sciera 10961 Philip T. Georgen 11730 Kerry W. White 12020 Clyde R. Labriola 12228 Robert J. Knapp 12335 Oscar T. Valdez Jr. 12392 Joseph G. Leyba 12720 Arthur Padilla 12979 Eric Scott Ditch 13131 William H. Remy 13221 Randolph J. Stimac 14398 Martin J. Mohr 14688 Brian J. Wallace 14898 Richard J. Chopyak COLORADO

6 Anthony C. Gumkowski 7 John R. Mcnickle 11 Jaime Morales 48 Robert L. Nelson Jr. 1090 James C. Lajewski 1253 Stephen D. Haywood 2336 Carl T. Holte 3037 Dennis S. Costello 6376 Peter J. Dlubac 7738 Neil S. Miller 10705 William J. Long 11010 Eufemio Vasquez 11913 Craig A. Worster 13424 Mark J. Greene 14216 Richard L. Youmans 14546 Joseph A. Settanni 14664 Michael A. De Gregorio CONNECTICUT

7297 Dennis A. Huss

DELAWARE

433 Brandon J. Brown 9386 Byron A. Wilson 11302 Otto E. Heck

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

1726 Cesar A. Armstrong 1895 Roy D. Gorski

FLORIDA

1951 2075 5150 6265 7091 7109

7380 8838 9720 10055

10157 10201 10626 10850 11036 11046 11079 11177 11226 11497 11673 11830 12155 12178 12196 12306 12664 12873 13018 13118 13153 13240 13277 13307 13657 13676 13907 13996 14132 14202 14203 14222 14456 14485 14573 14697 14717 14848 14998 15007 15132 15154 15224 15225 15332 15357 1939 4410 5484 6517 6532 7923 8376 8731 9792 9923

Harold E. Kelly Michael P. Gizewski Kenneth A. Polster William A. Gamble Steven D. Siesel Kenneth E. Seguin Sr. Glen A. Borges Mitchell S. Kraft Edward C. Barthle Sebastian P. Almazan Thomas V. Doyle Jean Pierre Chacon Robert A. Petrelli Stephen D. Kerlin Ramon Balderas Charles P. Vincent Joseph A. Irene William P. Collins Robert E. Smith Dan K. Mc Kinnon Richard T. Brown Michael J. Kujawa Thomas C. Mullally Neil B. Frost George A. Wahl Kenneth W. Turcotte Francis W. Durnin Sr. Robert E. McKeen Stephen G. Florio Peter Siano Thomas J. Burger Peter P. Capece Ronald F. Wright Ronald F. Kosey William R. Teska Richard L. Mills Roger D. Lynn Thomas J. Stewart Richard C. Mendoza Walter R. Howell Jr. Gerald H. Tegler Francis J. Burke III Wayne D. Clegg Dana H. Rossignol Gerald F. Grillo Ernest M. Mitchell John A. Harrison Matthew A. Kuschel Humberto Duarte Phillip M. Keane Ben Parker Donald F. Kosling Rafael Acosta John T. Conroy David E. Altwies Richard M. Gerst Anthony M. Albenze William P. Adams Karl L. Stevens David Labbe Thomas A. Albers Hubert J. Gardiner Gary E. Sherman Richard A. Parcels Jr. Richard A. Kennel Christopher M. Werner Robert L. Hudson Daniel B. Carfang William D. Leach Richard J. Ooten Stanley Wasowski Paul A. Sherman David C. Pierman James R. Tegl David C. Swint Curtis Weeks Richard M. Kobylski Robert M. Muniz James C. Collins Michael T. Basak William L. Bapst Jr. Richard L. Allman Kenneth J. Rovneyko Michael R. Williams

GEORGIA

10355 10362 10632 10633 11402 11676 12126 12287 12905 12942 13204 13217 13808 14122 14348 14425 15238 15305

1389 Tsg Gregory V. Nau

IDAHO

1397 2014 8283 12172

Jeffrey M. Finken Donald J. Behrendt John S. Williams James Arnold Van Dinter 15304 Stacy D. Carhart 658 716 1077 1555 3738 3800 4024 4849 5572 5918 6964 6985 7527 7694 8021 8365 9266 9689 9893 10276 11100 11112 11223 11666 11874 12801 12863 13103 13123 13197 13448

Glenn A. Wells Stephen P. Bein James S. Hauert David C. Harms Richard L. Vath James L. Schreiner Matthew F. Piescinski Ty Simmons Jacob E. Nice Darren J. Di Maria Laurence F. Bretz Monty R. Murphy James R. Glennon James E. Kasarda Steven F. Schutz Robert J. Tretina Joseph A. Willis Mark G. Brinkman Ronald L. Metty Justin M. Weiler Richard L. Mette Kenneth M. King James A. Mack William J. Byrne Jr. M. Tod Melton Corey C. Schoenherr Rodney B. Lechwar Scott M. Wiesbrook Clark E. Farrell James R. Zinck Thaddeus Z. Nowokunski Clarence J. Gburek Thomas J. Casey Robert E. Skidmore Sr. David M. Prete Timothy J. Higgs Edgar A. Gonzalez Dennis J. Regan John C. Fruin Joseph M. Vaikutis David A. Jenkins

ILLINOIS

13476 14171 14463

14562 14795 14825 15168 15175 15296 15422 1014 1166 4620 5929 7555 7839 8052

Jeffry W. Young James T. Parsch II Roger A. Zellers Peter D. Gage James Cole Michael C. Tackett Joseph T. Hennekes Sr. James W. Premeske John L. Becker Jr. Edward L. De Witt Mark E. Michuda William R. McCullough Robert J. Evanich Thomas A. Quick Nicholas S. Jose Sr.

INDIANA

10811 11353 12510 13142 13968

14449 14673 14895

644 1305 2021 2326 3900 4208 5389 5660 7459 7896 8114 8592 8702 10761 10864 12334 12422 12432 12438 12674 IOWA

Hugh F. O’Hagan James A. Weigand Dan Duitsman Steven C. Becker Donald D. Kenkel Brett S. Robinson Larry C. Henriksen Roger D. Cramer Roger E. Griffith John P. Roisen John T. Greubel Dick W. Danielson Nicholas J. Gannon Jacob L. Wetter Kevin M. Nulle Arthur G. Halstead Carson P. Luger Eric J. Schurr Thomas J. Danner Ted E. Cramer

S TA R C O U N C I L W I N N E R S 12855 13084 13109 13160 14029 14267 14385 14393 14987 15060 15254

Patrick L. Vogt Jimmie L. Puck Martin J. De Decker Jeffrey D. Klucinec Terrence J. Smith Pedro A. Ceballos Paul G. Kaefring Phillip M. Grothus Eric L. Moellers Jeffrey A. Wellik James D. Carter

534 657 727 900 1370 1832 2408 2608 2609 3146 4254 4708 5328 6817 6984 7426 8196 10407 10834 10932 11661 11777 12546 12577 12932 13012 13087 13354 14218 15134

Jack W. Figgs James L. Mees Timothy L. Helmer David A. Campbell Marcos Martinez Jr. Stuart J. Bachamp James C. Maurer Jose P. Hernandez Robert A. Popelka Thomas M. Phalen Timothy R. Bauer Robert J. Seghers Joshua D. Ebenkamp Lewis J. Scully Rocky Feltis Ernie E. Raugewitz Douglas E. Mergen Adam M. Lang Thomas E. Smith Scott T. Buescher Kelly G. Mages Lino S. Munoz Steven W. Kerr Joseph E. James John W. Schulz Galen D. Greenwood Matthew M. Deters Bradley G. Predmore Daniel L. Culbertson Sean M. Robinson

KANSAS

5453 Michael P. Madden 5634 Charles R. Costello 7831 Charles R. Buchanan Sr. 11132 George V. Hayden 12774 Joseph S. O’Bryan Sr. 13053 Richard D. Scherrer 13917 Gary C. Weil KENTUCKY

1286 1437 2732 3012 3411 3743 8342 9240 10645 12529 12906 12989 13425 13632 14542 14614 15133

Joseph P. Hebert Eric J. Snyder Joseph A. Rotolo Sr. Robert D. Kenvyn Douglas B. Kariker Samuel Mistretta Corey J. Orgeron Larry S. Fertitta Tyrone M. Stewart William R. Rossignol Charles B. Foy David J. Guttierrez Larry L. Jones Faustino S. Dalmau Tyrone L. Bufkin Stephen R. Peterson Leslie T. Bascle

LOUISIANA

1000 Diosdado A. Sapo 3696 Candelario F. Suase 3710 Mario E. Mangulabnan 3887 Reynaldo B. Gonzales 3939 Rolando A. Bago 4278 Benedicto T. Tiotuico 4317 Wilfredo M. Robles 4610 James L. Layaoen 4640 Jesus T. Antonio 5234 Francis B. Duque 5377 Benito U. Romena 5507 Julio V. Romabiles 5576 Francisco P. Ganzon 5622 Arfelcris A. Tapalla 5681 Ricardo G. Pena

LUZON

5773 Manuel M. Salazar 5922 Raymundo C. Soliman Jr. 5996 Mariano T. Machacon 6060 Edgardo P. Ibay 6116 Romeo A. Cuesta 6122 Leandro Reyes Marquez Sr. 6185 Paquito A. Santos 6238 Gabriel Picasso M. Siapno 6259 Tagumpay P. Ramirez 6303 Ramel S. Villamil 6387 Ignacio M. Solitario 6502 Antonio D. Gener 6613 Manuel C. Santos 6681 Ponciano T. Ubaldo 6843 Jerome B. De Asis 7178 Nicanor M. Garcia Jr. 7286 Lope T. Trajeco Jr. 7400 Ronaldo L. Mendoza 7618 Reynaldo T. Santos 7631 Paul B. Dayao 7686 Jose B. Oyco 7844 Bernardino B. Cruz 7957 Teoeilo A. Samson 8210 Crispin C. Coronado 8219 Alvin C. Novicio 8447 Wilfredo A. Lavarias 8449 Quirino C. Macapallag 8693 Flavio Apilado Pacheco 8724 Reynaldo R. Santiago 8751 Jorge Gateria Telles Jr. 8754 Eduardo D. Torne 8996 Carlos C. Teodoro 9353 Ramon M. Cruz 9366 Sergio C. Dela Cruz 9414 Jose B. Corpuz 9440 Alfredo A. Balcora 9468 Lino R. Garcia 9591 Cesar D. Tongco 9934 Edgar H. Raquinel 10103 Harry S. Brill 10227 Alex Tomagan Balmadrid 10399 Ernesto Briz Taduran 10438 Amado V. Alcantara 10550 Marcial R. Garcia Jr. 10582 Rufino C. Dela Cruz 10639 Ricardo B. Jose 10734 Rolando M. Sebastian 10735 Roberto M. Santos 10737 Edgardo S. Felipe 10738 Manuel P. Soriano 10971 Jerry N. Lucena 11183 Leon B. Apostol 11289 Antonio C. Paragas 11519 Nelson B. De Castro 11765 Ruperto Q. Meneses 11791 Isagani M. Cortes 11847 Frichard D. Policarpio 11931 Fernando S. Timbang 11953 Pablo L. Gabrinao 11971 John N. Nadua 11996 Atanacio I. Gutierrez 12051 Manolito S. Reyes 12125 Ernesto D. Lunaria 12308 Gregorio S. Tumbagahon 12370 Bienvendo B. Nilo 12513 Mauro C. Engracial 12549 Tomas A. Moreno Sr. 12625 Julito B. Eleazar 12762 Alvin Dino Firme 12770 Marvin Pimentel 12810 Lowel F. Fiestada 12890 Reynaldo A. Sulit 12908 Narciso I. Dela Cruz 13213 Francisco Carlos Jr. 13548 Norberto C. Crisostomo 13668 Ignacio S. Garing 13722 Julian R. Prima 13725 Jose M. Concha 13774 Restituto P. Yalung 13776 Rodrigo B. Miclat

13919 13949 13985 14020 14137 14160 14381 14405 14467 14592 14708 14876

14904 15079 15139 15370

15387

Ruben R. Cuevas Expedito G. Machado Eduardo M. De Leon Virgilio Cesar T. Felicitas Rodelio P. Santos Alejandro R. Alcantara Rudy R. Tejada Prudel C. Paredes Jose Berlin P. Manaloto Edilberto A. Lina Carlito Sales Deguzman Benjamin L. Sampedro Wilfrido A. Monzon Mario U. Arevalo Oscar Cabrera Delez Charlie Pangilinan Maghanoy Efren C. Clamor

11376 Robert Pelletier 12941 Denis J. Litalien 13861 Dennis J. Guay

MAINE

8221 Robert L. Toutant 10569 Gerald M. Pronyk MANITOBA

1393 2002 2203 2577 2797 3489 5058 5381 7559 7870 8736 9258 9302 10885 11106 11341 11552 11618 11975 12524 12796 13294 14455 14612 14775 15297

Patrick R. Hogan Anthony Vitelli Gerard M. Gager Joseph N. Massimini Terence P. Ryan Terrance F. Tinker Jr. William P. Snyder Sr. Christopher N. Agboli Nicholas J. Clemens Scott H. Holden Joe L. Wenderoth Thomas A. Reumont Garry J. Selles John F. Winfrey Martin J. Foye Col Roy A. Harris Larry E. South Francis J. Stanitski Jesse F. Stansbury Mark F. Metzler Michael R. Townsend Ernest O. Tucker James H. Murry John P. Maranto James C. McGrory John M. Kroschinsky Sr.

MARYLAND

63 365 1116 1721 3535 3669 5406 9275 10698 11020 11080 11178 13140

Randy R. Bianchi John L. Brouillard Robert W. Graham Gerard A. Leclair Robert P. White William C. Bouchard James J. J. Jones Robert J. Chevalier Alfred E. Leblanc Alain S. Carpentier Robert P. Conlon Alberto Matos Benjamin W. Krywucki Richard E. Burton Steven A. Garney Edward M. Kremzier Miguel O. Ferreira Theodore J. Tudryn

MASSACHUSETTS

13637 14940 14947 15125 15197

15218 Manuel Cuevas-Soto MEXICO NORTHEAST

3830 4141 4401 4556 6667

Joseph Panozzo James R. Highfield Gary T. Mallia Louis J. Parsch Gary T. Chouinard

MICHIGAN

6694 7487 7582 7591 8500 8556 8695 10170 10724 11658

11689 11811 12295 12479 12985 13318 13360 13453 13475 13579 13799 13980 14642 14729 14883 15213 15337

Carl F. Pfeiffer Kevin L. Wilterink William D. Cymbal Brian R. Sutherland Joseph M. Salvia Randy P. Sucharski Donald R. Champine Robert C. Myers II James J. Mattina Richard W. Abernathy Karl F. Sziisz James R. Escott Donald E. Powell Thomas J. Lopiccolo Robert B. Hyatt Michael Filliccia Thomas A. Genyk Timothy J. Dunning Arthur F. Koester Wayne J. Lapointe Tommy D. Gray Mark J. Lauer Robert C. Grove Jr. John L. Davis Michael G. Zubalik Brian J. Egeling Henry R. Perri

8792 Jay Hallam 10292 Reynaldo S. Ginete 14853 George C. Piette MILITARY OVERSEAS

3418 Teofredo U. Delgado 3504 Rey C. Del Rosario Sr. 4019 David B. Capacio 4639 Arnulfo R. Aparente 5831 Julito N. Pepito 5907 Winston V. Luna 6511 Pedro Pabillaran Sr. 6512 Edwin Israel Mayormita 6603 Teotimo D. Minerales 6610 Ramon E. Principe 6876 Wilfredo L. Adorador 6960 Alberto J. Pajarito 6974 Herbert H. Mana Ay 7004 Alexander B. Bulahan 7658 Ernesto A. Ortiz 7824 Baltazar N. Rara 8167 Reynaldo M. Maceda 8202 Paciencio S. Bagotsay 8212 Ranulfo D. Lopez 8764 Gregorio J. Boyose 8945 Gualberto I. Jauculan Jr. 9063 Richard L. Murillo 9157 Ernesto T. Cubero 9566 Raul R. Nierra 9573 Roberto M. Sevilleno 9688 Jessie L. Ducusin 10481 Roberto S. Monleon 11031 Policarpio C. Maramba 11863 Leonardo Q. Cahanap 12723 Brinance V. Gabriza 13258 Dionesio B. Cutanda 13546 Norberto L. Veringa 13648 Feliciano F. Ababon Jr. 13768 Felix R. Encarnado 13815 Rogelio S. Cabanlit 13858 Samson F. Zate 13873 Roel C. Luna 13906 Blasito B. Baguio 14180 Adrian L. Nagac 14672 Edmundo L. Saavedra 14740 Nestor D. Fruto 14812 Julius C. Palomar 14971 Jonathan B. Balambao 15004 Antonio Ganados 15127 Reynaldo Sedayao Blanco 15409 Buaulio B. Rojonan Jr. MINDANAO

15469 Eduardo D. Mesias

945 Randy Balausky 1540 Leslie R. Hendrickson 4174 Stephen D. House 4184 Karl F. F. Hendrickson 5569 Jeffrey R. Bunke 8253 Patrick K. Schommer 9905 Theodore S. Brausen 10031 John G. Newman 10138 Arthur E. Roskowiak 13529 Kenneth J. Heinen 14420 Edward O. Laleman 14574 Tommy M. Carey 14616 Kenneth C. Sinclair MINNESOTA

848 4472 6765 7087 7120 7915 8912 10216 11934 11995 15131 15155 15382

Hollis L. Felts Rodney M. Malburg Gerald J. Michel Jimmie R. Hoda Fred W. Middleton Luis A. Ybarra Mark A. Grieser Dennis J. Antici Duane E. Stevens Charles J. Heim Sr. Guy J. Heying Jarrod M. Fetters James F. Ghents

MISSISSIPPI

527 979 1061 1698 1893 1896 2265 2333 3511 6470 6550 7119 7198 8588 9522 9981 10154 10746 11139 11556 12022 12323 12332 13604 13682 13901 13908 13988 14163 14270 14402 14745

Jerome S. Maschler Paul D. O’Brien Larry E. Grissum Robert D. Steinert Denis C. Boland Kevin J. Goth Gregory L. Elsey Robert J. Hermann Terry M. Sater Michael A. Donati Larry H. Priddy Kenneth G. Kohlberg Daniel W. Seal Eugene S. Blanc David L. Gockley David K. Goetz John L. Bauer John J. Formella Joseph A. Burleski Jr. Kevin T. Madras Dale A. Abernathie Walter J. Morrow John W. Thurman John R. Landgraf John D. Kubicek Michael W. Johnson Stephen P. Claxton Michael A. Lisac Terry M. Madden James M. Easley David P. Govero Kenneth E. Yunker Jr. 15126 Gordon A. Carmichael 15287 Isaac Jimenez 15294 Allen A. Kirchner MISSOURI

13050 David A. Bofto MONTANA

1833 5143 6192 7699 7825 8579 8625 10047 10909 11001 11312 11879 12086 13584 14077

Robert J. Bartek Richard J. Gubbels Jon L. Stevens Larry D. Beckman Gerard C. Micek Thomas J. Jacobsen Kenneth E. Sabata James M. Barnes Mark A. Pelan Clement A. Pella Gerald F. Kane Mauro D. Songcuan Mark A. Micek Troy J. Kleffner Joseph S. Wishard

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S TA R C O U N C I L W I N N E R S 14470 Michael D. Lagreca

2511 Daniel W. Mahlberg 2666 Jerald W. Marcuerquiaga 13392 Robert McNamara 15061 Rhoel G. Ternate NEVADA

8381 Frank J. McCarthy

NEW BRUNSWICK

NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR

7702 Frank P. Follett 11776 Dermot F. Whelan

10943 Mark W. Messier NEW HAMPSHIRE

355 Paul M. Donini 816 Charles A. Piancone Sr. 1778 Dale E. Wettstein 1910 Fred Arno 2842 John J. Abbattista 3240 David J. Farrell 3294 Anthony E. Cozzi 3665 John D. Lange 3835 Mark A. Kimble 3962 Ronald G. Damato 3969 Peter J. Kueken Jr. 5730 Joseph E. Sumanski 6226 James P. Winter 6380 Philip P. Oddo 6530 Eduardo F. Fuentecilla 6551 James A. Brennan 6552 Robert J. Drach 6621 Carmine J. Amico 6903 Felix J. Piccolo 6930 Joseph G. Galioto 7103 George A. Vurgason 7333 Richard Cardillo 7429 Samuel M. Green 7784 Geoffrey J. Crann 8603 Ronald J. Pikor 8718 William J. Murphy Jr. 8733 Frederick P. Hinz Jr. 9021 Denis P. McPartland 9193 Daniel J. Tumolo 9852 John J. Nowicki 11349 Richard J. Dinan 11378 Scott R. Minnihan 11529 Paul M. Schell 13677 Nicholas J. Cutrone 14615 John H. Hulme Sr. 15217 Charles J. Specht NEW JERSEY

804 1707 10560 10835 13479 13596 14410 14920 15062 15199 15381

Benito F. Garcia Michael W. Specht Anthony H. Sanchez James E. Waters Scott T. Howerter Michael R. Jaramillo John C. Rincon Steven E. Pink Guerrero H. Macias Mark A. Thuli Daniel S. Vigil

NEW MEXICO

154 Jorge C. Chan 207 Patrick T. Crawford 306 Jeremiah J. O’Connell 316 Peter C. Bruno 327 Marlon L. Hosang 337 Ramnaraise Das 423 Edward J. Hawkins 441 Robert J. May 2122 Pierenzo A. Calosso 2204 Joseph Tumminello 2247 Daniel Solicito 3536 Craig A. Skolnick 4565 Patrick C. Healy 4566 Gerald C. O’Brien 4629 Ricardo Reyes 4884 James C. Lasalle Sr. 4952 Al F. Sanza

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5001 5314 5723 6062 6194 6556 6844 7220 7278 7423 7551 7980 8637 9254 11175 11449 11728 11950 12006

13410 13807 14666 14687 14991

15192

Joseph J. Lannon Paul D. Annunziato Owen Traynor Steven J. Paduano Joseph J. Papaccio Charlie Cicio Odel L. Panton Daniel P. Gerrity Richard J. Gallagher J. Brian Dwyer Anthony F. Sileno Peter L. Hecht Joseph E. Furey Jr. Timothy J. Beers Martin J. Zafonte Guillermo A. Morera Bernard G. Hoerbelt Richard C. Distefano Walter Wm Denzler Jr. Richard Soto Benito Merino Joseph G. Timpa James F. Jager Bernard P. Zipprich Jr. John D. Fitzgerald

1074 Kenneth R. O’Leary Sr. 3303 Leo Minervini Jr. 4600 Jay W. Van Hoose 4660 Wayne J. Kleven 5487 Alan J. Wesenberg 6451 Richard E. Angell 7232 William E. Lenz 9709 Kent D. Siefkes 10504 Joseph A. Michalski 10505 Paul B. Sparrow 10852 Charles R. Elgin 11101 Walter A. Kulla Jr. 11102 Jeff B. Mathews 11234 Vincent J. Govan 13812 Ray C. Anderson 15085 Stanley F. Finn 15250 Robert J. Hambly Jr. NORTH CAROLINA

6465 Brian D. Heger

NORTH DAKOTA

2024 John Higgins

NOVA SCOTIA

1056 1195 1569 3304 3382 3766 4168 4731 5534 5776 6373 10941 11207 11224 11275 11445 12772 12912 13608 14282 14344 14406 14502 14504 14551 15043 15056 OHIO

Todd R. Ames Jonathan L. Pearson Brian C. Beck John D. Otto Chalmers F. Rea Rick L. Custer Kevin D. Blinkhorn William K. Cornelius Jose C. Banaag Bruce A. Jackson Mark D. Lause Matthew J. Tyack Robert M. McGonigle Mark T. Taylor Jeffrey M. Sylvester Brett A. Gissel Jeffrey R. Fisher Steven R. Duckro Joseph J. Muron Joseph P. Yonadi Richard A. Mitchell Dennis M. Fodor Rodger A. Siebeneck Calvin D. Frank John N. Santin Denver J. Mossing J. Thomas Atkins Jr.

767 Edward J. Krittenbrink 4026 Brother John F. McCarthy 6477 Matthew E. Guarnieri 8523 Samuel E. Snow 9901 Charles L. Blackburn 11959 Anthony E. Lechtenberg

OKLAHOMA

SEPTEMBER 2012

12108 Wesley C. Deaver 13313 Joseph M. Paul

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ONTARIO

12706 12782 12865 12898 13164 13433 13701 13896 14327 14446 14676 15098

2171 Paul J. Wostel 14802 Terrance W. Frank 15295 Greg A. Wilhelm OREGON

1381 4397 4518 7141 9832 10921 11935 12250 12355 12703 13141 13451 13564 14035 14081 14161 14397 14722

Stephen A. Kuniak Thomas G. Ryder Michael C. Yuknek Larry V. Decker William K. Brennan James P. Mueller George J. Vagelakos Melvin L. Losovsky Joseph M. Polk Tom W. Lofiego Frederick C. Clark Joseph F. Poli Dennis C. Garrett Bernard E. Cabana Chester S. Hickey Victor T. Lisiewski George I. Snyder Andrew P. Rodgers Jr. 14807 Brian J. Golias PENNSYLVANIA

14004 Krzysztof E. Orzechowski 15249 Slawomir Korczynski 15267 Ryszard Sobczuk 15299 Jan Komon POLAND

5014 Carlos A. Agosto-Serrano

PUERTO RICO

6096 Darren C. Scott 13585 Raymundo G. Foz 14693 John-Victor Carriere QUEBEC

113 Raymond J. Riel 5273 Neil J. Fidler 7110 Michael F. Parziale

RHODE ISLAND

1886 3920 5694 8215 10401 10797 12415 13214

Fred J. Staniec George A. Deibert Maurille J. Corbeil John B. Benesh Glen M. Piotrofsky Michael J. Bzdell Jeremias P. Ravasco Gerald T. Clancy

SASKATCHEWAN

1668 Richard A. Cortese

SOUTH CAROLINA

3067 5026 5086 6756 7062 7122 8123 8295 8790 8900

9184 9672 10819 11991 13112 14475 14892 15223

Colin S. Peterson Terry P. Buquet Albert J. Cieslak Jr. Billy P. Rife Jr. Sherrill E. Wilcox Leonard A. Recchia James E. Gunter Richard A. Heithaus Gary E. Marshall Alphonso McCutchen Sr. William H. Larkin Leonard M. Williams John M. Macioce Russ E. Whited Gary L. Bays Frederick J. Kellisch Joseph A. Kinney John J. O’Neil

5029 Patrick J. Powers

SOUTH DAKOTA

1101 Jeremy S. Blankenship Carlos R. Olivarez James E. Daily Paul J. Keller Sr. David E. Guntert

TENNESSEE

7764 10641 14902 15196

2687 Valeriano E. Cadena Jr. 2971 Zachary R. Venghaus 3098 Joe E. Ybarra 3262 Richard A. Zahn 3558 Stephen C. McCarthy 3910 Ben F. Warner III 4497 Tomas Gonzalez 4771 David W. Petty 5052 Cliff Starnes 5232 Ruben L. Salinas 6065 Ronald W. Schoof 6833 Frederick P. Garcia 6878 William T. Andrews 7736 William B. Tillotson 8157 John A. Goza 8306 Donato Rios Jr. 8417 Ronald L. Naizer 8769 Robert Benavides 8771 John D. Keating Jr. 8807 Juan M. Martinez Sr. 9600 Brother Ronald H. Snyder Jr. 9868 David J. Pels 9902 Eulalio A. Gamboa Jr. 9997 Kevin A. Brinkman 10131 Roy Eric Staveley 10333 Philip A. Fulton 10420 John R. Plote 10574 James L. Holden 10790 Nicholas J. Loera 10939 Luis A. Murillo 10940 Christopher S. Scheidt 10959 Joseph E. Maloy 11169 Thomas J. Stehling 11293 Sean N. Arrossa 11716 Daniel G. James 11866 James E. Eyeington 11980 Jose Luis Martinez 12040 Joe A. Martinez 12208 Jeffery B. Berger 12320 Ronald B. Farmer 12327 Joe V. Lopez 12385 Harry M. Hageney 12480 Sean T. McCarthy 12484 Edward N. Goodreau 12927 Bruce D. Layfield 13044 Craig M. Harlan 13255 Matthew Wolfe Figun 13825 Frank Thomassee Jr. 14426 Peter McDonough 14473 James C. Derrick 14512 Victor J. Olivo 14617 Gennaro F. Tomasello 14679 Terry J. Le Boeuf 14789 Patrick R. Russell 14844 Robert Prats TEXAS

14943 Chester J. Dombrowski 15262 Mario A. Garza 15343 Jimmie Charles Irwin 15365 Joseph G. Wilkens

602 5214 7401 9731 10304 12181 14399 UTAH

6328 6828 7566 9285 9655 10766 11136 11170 11533 11984 12117 12791 13467 14129 14516 15244

Tom P. Johnson Kevin B. Miller Warren D. Feldt Donavan J. Hecker Oscar J. Punzo Sean P. Wink Joseph A. Hudak Jr.

Benjamin J. Perez Robert J. Hinger Richard R. Slucher John R. Brady Hung H. Cao Maurice L. Dionne James S. Marsan Daniel R. Clark Brennan D. Hartley Richie M. Smith Thomas A. Sawyer II Andrew M. Altman James J. Henry Iv Thomas R. Duck Joseph W. Mazel Myong Hwan K. Eiselstein 15256 Stephen A. Rogers VIRGINIA

5028 5395 6048 6840

Cesar G. Capellan John Paul R. Arceno Isidoro M. Espinosa Eniego S. Superticioso Desiderio Paulin Rallon Jr. Glenn P. Pergamino Edgardo P. Gerada Elpidio E. Pama Jr. Lorejo N. Sorongon Ardo De La Cruz Cyreneo S. Dofitas Jr.

VISAYAS

6990

8362 9466 10101 12198 13092 15029

1643 Kim L. Washburn 3645 Dang H. Nguyen 6686 Michael D. Mccloskey 7907 Gregory S. Mahoney 7908 Eugene W. Victor 8179 Lawrence E. Devlin 8872 Dwane J. Berens 9434 John D. Wilson 9617 Larry A. Sinn 11134 Dean E. Dunn 11948 Phillip D. Clingan 12591 Daniel P. Walsh 13794 Stephen G. Schweyen 14046 Ronald G. Braun II 14689 Paul J. Herbord 15136 John B. Mergens Sr. WASHINGTON

603 Robert B. Hammer 4694 Paul B. Niedbalski

WEST VIRGINIA

1547 2963 3492 4869 5382 5438 5456 5488 6599 6689 6718

John M. Brennan Jr. Dennis E. Ashbeck Brian D. Jelinek George E. Grabert Jack V. Wrbanich Mark A. Rebholz Michael P. Hines Robert V. Obermeier Anthony C. Baier Carl A. Porior Richard A. Janiszewski James J. Zablocki Earl J. Brueggeman Robert J. Dombroski David J. De Gidio

WISCONSIN

6764 7096 10552 15229

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Fraternity GRAND KNIGHT Zbyszek Ścisłowicz (second from left) of Holy Trinity Council 15281 in Skarżysko-Kościelne, Poland, and his guides unfurl a Knights of Columbus banner at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. Ścisłowicz undertook a six-day expedition to climb the mountain — the highest in Africa — and says that he was armed with his Knights of Columbus rosary the whole time.

• Del Rosa Council 4488 in San Bernardino, Calif., established a bereavement prayer group to attend the wakes and funerals of deceased Knights and family members. Often, the prayer group leads a special prayer for the departed.

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STUART PALMER (center) of Father Charles A. Bartek Council 9431 in Jackson Hole, Wyo., stands of the back of a restored 1946 Jeep pickup to congratulate Katsie Long on holding the winning raffle ticket for the truck. When Knights received the Jeep as a donation, they decide to raffle it and donate the proceeds to the Turning Point pregnancy resource center. The raffle netted $20,000 for the organization.

• Holy Apostle Council 12543 in Las Vegas volunteers to feed the homeless on the third Saturday of each month at the St. Vincent Lied Dining Facility, which is operated by Catholic Charities.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Insurance agents from the Jim McCabe Agency in Albuquerque, N.M., pray the rosary outside of a local Planned Parenthood surgical center. Once each quarter, the men break from their agency meeting to pray for human life at the facility, which offers abortions.

• Don Bosco Council 548 in Manhasset, N.Y., sold raffle tickets at the Church of St. Mary to raise $5,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

The initiative was spearheaded by Chief Squire Conor Lundy, who was diagnosed with cancer at age 3 and went on to beat the disease.

MEMBERS OF St. Gianna Molla Assembly in Alpharetta, Ga., present a check for $200 to USO of Georgia CEO Mary Lou Austin at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Knights work with the USO to assist troops who are coming from and going to Afghanistan by serving snacks and beverages, visiting with them while they await their flights, and aiding in the boarding process.

• St. Vincent de Paul Council 9560 in Charlotte, N.C., donated two refrigerators to the USO facility at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The refrigerators will store food and nonalcoholic beverages for troops passing through the airport.

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Members of St. Padre Pio Council 15015 in Starachowice, Poland, clad in yellow safety vests, watch over a group of young bicycle riders during a youth ride organized by Father Grzegorz Roszczyk, council chaplain. Knights served as marshals during the ride, which wound through the Ilzecki Forest and ended at a pavilion where lunch and snacks were served.

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PLEASE, DO ALL YOU CAN TO ENCOURAGE PRIESTLY AND RELIGIOUS VOCATIONS. YOUR PRAYERS AND SUPPORT MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

KEEP T H E F A I T H A L I V E

Incredibiliter saburre deciperet Mother Teresa’sperspicax life and teachings have had semper on aegre concubine aMedusa, great influence my parsimonia vocation. She said that adquireret etiam duty, pessimus holiness “isperspicax for all ofumbraculi, us. It is a simple beadfabilis agricolae neglegenter iocaritoquinquencause if we learn to love, we learn be holy.” nalis apparatus bellis, quamquam This simple statement has shownPompeii me that formy titer deciperet plane adfabilis quod purpose and fulfillment in lifeconcubine, comes in the act quinquennalis catelli celeriter senesceret satis of loving my brothers and sisters. saetosus ossifragi.

Adlaudabilis I’m learning that in order to givematrimonii love, I first libere to agnascor syrtes, etiam rures praehave receivefragilis it. And I’m learning that muniet concubine.

Christ’s abiding friendship is what will bring Saburre deciperet Octavius.With Jesus, whatabout my greatest happiness.

Syrtes Medusa, Augustus ever God isfermentet asking of me becomesetdoable and, adquireret Octavius, etiam saburre fermentet in time, joy-filled. zothecas.

Bellus catelli optimus Christ has shown me praemuniet that my vocation is fragilis fiducias, semper utilitas concubinetoamperfectly suited to me. He has promised alputat parsimonia agricolae ways be with mesuis. (cf.Lascivius Mt 28:20), and pesthis simus spinosus senesceret parsimonia promise makes it possible to fulfill his saburre, greatest utcunque suis imputat commandment to loveperspicax — to bematrimonii. holy. With Incredibiliter saetosus iocari Jesus, I can love as he ossifragi loves me, and fragilis in the oract atori.

Suisisfrugaliter vocificat pretosius oratori. of loving found my greatest happiness, my Rures amputat adfabilis chirographi, purpose and my fulfillment in life. quod concubine insec FATHER REESE WEBER Diocese Fargo,IMMACULATE N.D. SISTER TofERESA Community of St. John Princeville, Ill.

Photo by Brian’s Photography, Grand Forks, N.D.

Photo by Marvin Burk Photography

ORATORI ‘WITHFORTITER JESUS, IOCARI I CANCONCUBINE LOVE AS , IAM BELLUSME CA’ HE LOVES