The New Vision - April 2010 issue

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of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson

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Alleluia!

Christ is risen! This joyful news grounds our hope and fills us with joy. Christ is risen! The power of death reigns no more. Christ is risen! Those suffering find strength. Those in prison see a ray of light. Those discouraged have their spirits lifted. Christ is risen!

The empty tomb gave the disheartened apostles renewed confidence. They became energized to tell others about the Christ who conquered death.

My prayer this Easter for all of us is that the news of Christ’s resurrection will inspire us to share our faith, to call family, neighbors and friends to return to the Lord, Who alone brings hope and meaning to our lives.

- BISHOP GERALD F. KICANAS

Photo collage by Omar Rodríguez

Appeal reaches 70 percent of 2010 goal More than 11,600 donors have contributed $2,607,383 to the 2010 Annual Catholic Appeal to support the work of the Diocese of Tucson’s 26 charities and ministries for the coming fiscal year.

The figure represents 70 percent of the goal of $3.7 million as the appeal heads into the final stretch, capped on April 18 by “Amen Sunday.”

Even though so many have pledged, the number of donors is still only a fraction of the potential donor families in the diocese, noted Margie Puerta Edson, executive director of the Charity & Ministry Fund.

“Sometimes people think that their donation doesn’t matter,” said Bishop

Gerald F. Kicanas, “but I assure you each gift is so important to the overall success of the campaign. Every gift, large or small, makes a difference.

“We understand that the economy hasn’t turned around for everyone yet,” the Bishop added. “But if each person will give what they can, that will be a tremendous help.”

Among the parishes that have performed in superior fashion are St. Thomas the Apostle in Tucson, with pledges of $431,283, or 160 percent of its goal; Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Florence, with pledges of $30,852, or 126 percent of its goal; and St. Helen in Eloy, with pledges of

$21,863, or 118 percent of its goal.

Among the offices that depend on the appeal are the uniquely Catholic ministries of Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona, evangelization and religious education, formation of new deacons and lay ecclesial ministers, outreach to youth and encouragement and support of vocations to the priesthood.

A special collection will be taken at parishes on “Amen Sunday,” April 18.

To see all of the parish pledge totals so far, go to www.diocesetucson.org, where pledges and payments can be made online.

Donations will be credited to the parish the donor designates.

Maricopa site blessed; schools get grants The benefits being derived from donations to the Diocese of Tucson’s special five-year renewal campaign continue to flow.

More than 800 people turned out under beautiful blue skies on March 14 to witness Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas’s blessing of a 34-acre tract near Maricopa that will be the site of a large new church for Our Lady of Grace Parish.

“We pray that the dreams of our Lady of Grace will be realized soon,” Bishop Kicanas said after celebrating an outdoor Mass with Father Marcos Velasquez, pastor, and Father Melchisedek Akpan, parochial vicar The purchase of the acreage – for $775,000 – was made possible through the diocesan renewal campaign, “Our Faith, Our Hope, Our Future.” The parish will pay back the cost of the property when it is able, thus providing a continuing source for the purchase of land for future parish sites.

During the blessing, Bishop Kicanas invited the children to gather in front, telling them that they will remember the day and tell their children about when they stood in the open space that was their place of worship.

The entire gathering sang while the Bishop sprinkled the ground with holy water.

“As we proclaimed the Creed for the first time,” the Bishop said, “I could only think of how our faith continues to spread to new places. The Gospel is alive and well.”

Meanwhile, more than a half million dollars raised by the renewal campaign has been distributed to 15 diocesan Catholic schools for a variety of improvements aimed at enhancing the education of their students.

Grants of $40,000 were given to Immaculate Conception in Yuma, Loretto in Douglas, Our Mother of Sorrows in Tucson, Sacred Heart in Nogales, Santa

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Our Faith, Our Hope, Our Future Your campaign dollars at work Cruz in Tucson, St. Ambrose in Tucson, St. Cyril in Tucson and Sts. Peter and Paul in Tucson.

Immaculate Heart Elementary in Tucson was given $39,886, San Xavier in Tucson received $29,789, St.Anthony of Padua in Casa Grande was given $30,000, St. Francis of Assisi in Yuma received $10,272, St. John the Evangelist in Tucson received $36,247, St. Joseph in Tucson was given $20,000 and St. Thomas the Apostle received $28,000.

Yuma’s Immaculate Conception will use the funds to upgrade facilities, including purchase of a new air-conditioning system for two science buildings.

Loretto, in Douglas, will complete renovation of its electrical system and upgrade the technology department.

OMOS will buy playground equipment, while Sacred Heart in Nogales will use the money to help develop a playground for the upper grades housed in a separate building, to allow a sports program for

Father Velasquez and hundreds of parishioners watch Bishop Kicanas bless the church site.

grades 6, 7 and 8.

Santa Cruz’s grant will be used to restructure the school entrance so that it will face E. 23rd St. and create a safe and secure and more attractive entrance.

St. Ambrose will upgrade technology through the purchase of science equipment, supplies and support.

St. Cyril will use its money to make the school more energy-efficient by replacing the windows with better glass and reducing the size for both security and a better learning environment.

Sts. Peter and Paul will relocate and upgrade its electric service panel and wiring to the school’s multi-purpose room as well as enhance instructional opportunities.

Immaculate Heart Elementary will purchase eight Interactive Smart Boards for elementary and middle school classrooms.

San Xavier will use its grant to update its computer lab with 25 new computers, a new server and other items.

St. Anthony of Padua will also add Smart Boards to incorporate advanced technology in the classroom.

St. Francis of Assisi in Yuma will enhance its computer system to better communicate with parents, parishioners and community as well as improving instructional capabilities.

St. John the Evangelist will refurbish the school to provide a more safe, secure and attractive learning environment, with updated wiring and renovation of bathrooms and plumbing.

St. Joseph will purchase a document camera, an interactive learning system to amplify teaching and interactive white tablets and classroom ceiling projectors, as well as expand the SuperKids Reading program in Grades 1 and 2.

St. Thomas the Apostle will support the expenses involved in the National Association for the Education of Young Children’s Accreditation for the good of St. Thomas and its pre-school students.

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FROM THE BISHOP

A continuing priority

Una prioridad continua

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.

If that sounds like an echo, it is.

It’s exactly how Dr. Paul Duckro, director of our diocesan Office of Child, Adolescent and Adult Protection, begins his column on page 21.

I want to echo and add my emphasis here to what Paul writes at the end of his column about taking time this month to think about and pray about keeping our children safe from abuse.

And, I want to acknowledge here the good people in our parishes and schools who perform the important work and ministry of the compliance representative.

The compliance representatives support our pastors and principals in the essential responsibilities of maintaining a safe environment for our children by monitoring how our parishes and schools comply with our diocesan Safe Environment Program.

I meet with our compliance representatives each year, and one thing that I hear from them is how important it is for them that you – our parishioners and our school families – know that they are there.

You may not know who they are and you may not see them, but they are there.

(If you want to know who they are, go to www.diocesetucson.org and click on “Diocesan Directory.” Then click on “Parishes and Missions.”

The compliance representative for each parish is listed there.)

Each of our parishes and schools is accountable under our Safe Environment Program and under the Charter for the Protection of Children and Youth of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for reporting each year on exactly how they have worked to keep children safe from harm.

This accounting is accomplished through an annual audit, and the compliance representatives play a key role in preparing the audit report for their parishes and schools.

Each year for the last eight years, we have engaged in some type of educational program to learn more about the elements of the Safe Environment Program, the Code of Conduct and the mandated reporting law.

Each year, we have gone through the steps for screening new personnel and supervising employees and volunteers effectively.

In the audit report for last year, we were able to report that more than 9,000 priests and deacons, employees and volunteers and persons in training had gone through screening and had received child abuse awareness and prevention education.

Almost 3,000 more volunteers who did not have direct contact with minors or vulnerable adults went through similar education. They did so because they knew that as part of the volunteer corps in our Diocese that they too need to know what to look for and what to do.

Also in last year’s audit, we reported that more than 14,000 parents and grandparents accepted education to help them look out for their own children and all children in the community.

What we do in our Diocese to keep children safe from abuse is going on in dioceses all over the country. The annual report from our Bishops’ Conference indicates that more than 1.8 million persons have gone through criminal history checks and more than two million have gone

Abril es el Mes para la Prevención del Abuso Infantil.

Si esto suena como un eco, es porque lo es.

Son exactamente las mismas palabras con las que el Dr. Paul Duckro, director de la Oficina para la Protección de Niños, Adolescentes y Adultos de nuestra diócesis, comienza su columna en la página 18.

Quiero aprovechar esta oportunidad para hacer eco y enfatizar lo que Paul escribe al final de su columna con respecto a dedicar este mes a reflexionar y a rezar por la protección de nuestros niños contra el abuso.

Y también deseo expresar mi reconocimiento a la buena gente de nuestras parroquias y escuelas que realizan la importante labor, y se desempeñan en el ministerio, de representantes de cumplimiento con los reglamentos.

Estos representantes apoyan a nuestros párrocos y directores de escuela en las responsabilidades esenciales del mantenimiento de un ambiente seguro para nuestros niños mediante la vigilancia del cumplimiento de las pautas del Programa para un Ambiente Seguro de nuestra diócesis en todas las parroquias y escuelas.

Yo me reúno con los representantes todos los años y una de las cosas que siempre me dicen es que es muy importante para ellos que ustedes, nuestros feligreses y las familias de los niños que asisten a nuestras escuelas, sepan que ellos cumplen con su trabajo.

Aunque ustedes no sepan quiénes son y no los vean, ellos están presentes.

(Si desean saber quiénes son, visiten el sitio www.diocesetucson.org y hagan clic en “Diocesan Directory”. Luego, seleccionen “Parishes and Missions”. Allí encontrarán una lista de los representantes de las parroquias.)

Cada una de nuestras parroquias y escuelas debe rendir cuentas del cumplimiento de las pautas establecidas por nuestro Programa para un Ambiente Seguro y por los Estatutos para la Protección de Niños y Jóvenes promulgados por la Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de EE.UU. y presentar un informe anual que describa exactamente el trabajo realizado para asegurar la seguridad de los niños.

Esta rendición de cuentas se logra mediante un examen anual y nuestros representantes cumplen una función clave en la preparación del informe de sus parroquias y escuelas.

Cada año, desde hace ocho años, hemos participado en algún tipo de programa educativo u otro para aprender más sobre los elementos del Programa para un Ambiente Seguro, el Código de Conducta y las leyes de denuncia obligatoria.

Todos los años cumplimos eficazmente con el requisito de la investigación de antecedentes de personal nuevo, empleados en puestos de supervisión y voluntarios.

En el informe del año pasado, comunicamos que más de 9,000 sacerdotes y diáconos, empleados y voluntarios, así como otras personas en clases de capacitación, habían pasado por el proceso de investigación de antecedentes y habían recibido educación sobre el abuso infantil y su prevención.

Casi 3,000 voluntarios más, que no tenían contacto directo con menores o adultos vulnerables, también recibieron educación similar. Lo hicieron porque sabían que, como parte del cuerpo de voluntarios de nuestra

You may not know who they are and you may not see them, but they are there.

Aunque ustedes no sepan quiénes son y no los vean, ellos están presentes.

See BISHOP page 4

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through education on how to prevent abuse.

We go through these procedures of the Safe Environment Program not because we think that there are many abusers among us. In fact, we know from current studies of child maltreatment that most abuse, in about 85 percent of reported cases, is infl icted by family or friends in the home.

We go through the procedures because we know that when good people voluntarily comply with a system of prevention it is much harder, very hard in fact, for abusers to enter or operate undetected in our parish and school communities.

When I became Bishop of Tucson seven years ago, I made restoring trust a priority for our Diocese.

All of you – our priests, our sisters, our deacons, our employees, our volunteers, our parents and our children – have been helping me to do that.

Supporting all of us in our efforts to keep our children safe from harm have been our compliance representatives.

So, in this month that we nationally recognize the importance of child abuse prevention, I would like for us here in the Diocese of Tucson also to recognize our compliance representatives and thank them for their dedicated and vigilant service on behalf of our children.

This special month for thinking about and praying about keeping our children safe is a good month for me each year to share with you my reflection about what we are doing in our Safe Environment Program.

This is my first annual reflection – a reminder of what we have done, what we are doing, and my encouragement for all us to keep on doing it every day of every month year round.

May I take this occasion in writing about our efforts to restore trust, to express my personal thanks and that of all of us in the diocese to Dr. Paul Duckro, Director of the Office of Child, Adolescent, and Adult Protection, and Julieta González, his executive assistant, for all that they have done to establish policies and procedures to provide safe environments for our children. I am also grateful to Mr. Richard Serrano and his staff in Human Relations for their work in seeing that all those working in the diocese have been properly screened. Finally, I am deeply grateful to our Review Board, whose counsel and advice on these difficult matters have been immensely helpful.

We will continue to do what we can to keep our children safe.

diócesis, también debían saber a qué señales deben estar atentos y cómo proceder.

Además, en el informe del año pasado comunicamos que más de 14,000 padres de familia y abuelos aceptaron recibir educación para poder vigilar mejor a sus propios niños y a todos los niños de la comunidad.

Lo que hacemos en nuestra diócesis para proteger a nuestros niños del abuso es lo mismo que sucede en las diócesis de todo el país. El informe anual de la Conferencia de Obispos indica que más de 1.8 millones de personas han sido sometidas a investigación de antecedentes policiales y más de dos millones han recibido educación para aprender a prevenir el abuso.

Cumplimos con estos procedimientos del Programa para un Ambiente Seguro no porque pensemos que entre nosotros hay muchas personas que pueden cometer abusos.

Es más, se sabe por estudios recientes sobre el maltrato de menores que en aproximadamente el 85 por ciento de los casos que se denuncian, el abuso es cometido por familiares o amigos en el ambiente del hogar.

Respetamos estos procedimientos porque sabemos que cuando las personas de bien cumplen voluntariamente con un sistema de prevención, es mucho más difícil, muy difícil en verdad, que aquellos que comenten abusos puedan ingresar o funcionar en alguna capacidad en nuestra comunidad de parroquias y escuelas sin ser detectados.

Cuando comencé a desempeñarme como Obispo de Tucson hace siete años, fijé la prioridad de restaurar la confianza en nuestra Diócesis.

Todos ustedes, nuestros sacerdotes, las hermanas, los diáconos, los empleados, los voluntarios, los padres de familia y los niños, me han ayudado a hacerlo.

Y apoyándonos a todos en nuestra misión de proteger a los niños han estado nuestros representantes de cumplimiento con los reglamentos.

Por eso, en este mes en que en todo el país reconocemos la importancia de la prevención del abuso infantil, quisiera que nosotros, aquí en la Diócesis de Tucson, también reconozcamos la labor de nuestros representantes y les agradezcamos su dedicado y vigilante servicio para el bien de nuestros niños.

Este mes especial para la reflexión y la oración por la protección de los niños es un buen mes para compartir con ustedes mis reflexiones sobre la labor del Programa para un Ambiente Seguro.

Esta es mi primera reflexión anual y recordatorio de lo que hemos hecho, de lo que estamos haciendo, y también mi estímulo para que todos continuemos haciendo este trabajo todos los días de cada mes durante todo el año.

Siguiendo en el tema de nuestros esfuerzos para restaurar la confianza, aprovecho esta oportunidad para expresar mi agradecimiento, y el de toda la Diócesis, al Dr. Paul Duckro, Director de la Oficina para la Protección de Niños, Adolescentes y Adultos, y a Julieta González, su asistente ejecutiva, por todo lo que han hecho para establecer normas y procedimientos a fin de ofrecer ambientes seguros para nuestros niños. También deseo agradecer al Sr. Richard Serrano y a su personal en el departamento de Relaciones Humanas por su labor para garantizar la verificación de los antecedentes de todos los que trabajan en la Diócesis. Por último, estoy sumamente agradecido por la gestión de la Junta Examinadora y por sus oportunos y útiles consejos y guía en estos asuntos tan difíciles.

Knights contribute to retired priests Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas accepts a check for $38,785 from Tom Metzger, Faithful Navigator of the Knights of Columbus Msgr. Don H. Hughes Assembly 2392, to support the retired priests of the diocese. The funds were raised at the K of C’s annual “Meet the Bishop” dinner held in Tucson in January. The K of C also gave $10,000 to Tucson’s Benedictine Monastery.

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Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas Calendar

April 2010

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Yuma judge joins Church A former Jehovah’s Witness, Maria Elena Cruz, a Superior Court Judge in Yuma, is shown with Msgr. Richard W. O’Keeffe after participating in the Rite of Election that was celebrated at Immaculate Conception Parish in Yuma last month by Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas. Msgr.

O’Keeffe said she converted to Catholicism after discussions with him.

St. George to celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday St. George Parish in Apache Junction will celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday on April 11 with a sale of Divine Mercy items at 1 p.m., Mass at 2 p.m. and, at 3 p.m., the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, blessing of the image and religious articles and adoration and benediction.

The church is at 300 E. 16th Ave. For more information, call 480-982-2929.

1 10 A.M., St. Thomas Pre School visit 7 P.M., Holy Thursday Mass, St. Augustine Cathedral 2 12 noon, Good Friday Celebration of the Lord’s Passion, Cathedral 3 P.M., The Way of the Cross, San Cosme to Cathedral 3 7 P.M., Easter Vigil Mass, St. Augustine Cathedral 4-8 Jesus Caritas Bishops’ Group, San Diego 8 6 P.M., Dinner, Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) 9 1 P.M., Priests’ Assurance Corporation Meeting 6:30 P.M., Confirmation, St. Pius X 10 9:30 A.M., Hispanic Pastoral Ministry Day, San Miguel High School 2 P.M., Confirmation, Holy Cross, Sacred Heart, at Morenci 11 5 P.M., Confirmation, St. Andrew, Our Lady of the Mountains, Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Patrick, St. Michael at St. Andrew, Sierra Vista 12 9 A.M.-3 P.M., Religious Leaders Meeting, Redemptorist Renewal Center 4 P.M., Dinner for Retired Priests, Bishop’s Residence 13 2 P.M., ACE Academies’ Board Meeting 7 P.M., Confirmation, St. Helen of the Cross, Eloy 14 8 A.M., Administrative Directors’ Meeting 9 A.M., Pastoral Directors’ Meeting 5 P.M., Confirmation, State Prison, SACRC 15-16 CARA Board Meeting, Washington, DC

17 9:30 A.M., First Communion Mass, St. Anne, Lansing, IL 1 P.M., First Communion Mass, St. Mary, Riverside, IL 19 7 P.M., Confirmation, St. James, Coolidge 20-22 Diocese of Tucson Priests’ Convocation, Chandler, AZ 10:30 A.M., Presbyteral Council Meeting, at Convocation 23 7:30 A.M., Call To Action – Housing Meeting 11:30 A.M., Mass, St. Joseph Chapel, Pastoral Center 12 noon, Staff Birthday Luncheon 24 9 A.M., Mariachi Conference Mass, St. Augustine Cathedral 2 P.M., Confirmation, Most Holy Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ 25 12 noon, Confirmation, Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha 5 P.M., Confirmation, St. Thomas the Apostle 26 7:30 A.M., St. Augustine High School Board 27 7:30 A.M., Diocesan Finance Board Meeting 7 P.M., Confirmation, St. Ambrose, Most Holy Trinity at St. Ambrose 28 10 A.M., Women’s Group, St. Cyril 6 P.M., Dinner, gathering, Recently Ordained, Redemptorist Renewal Center 29 10:30 A.M., Mass, Pastor Leadership, Redemptorist Renewal Center 7 P.M., Confirmation, Sacred Heart, Nogales 30 9:45 A.M., Mass, San Miguel High School

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AROUND THE DIOCESE

OMOS wins state Science Olympiad - again!

The Science Olympiad team of Our Mother of Sorrows School in Tucson has won the state championship for the third year in a row.

The team won the Division B Arizona Science Olympiad Tournament held on March 13 at Southwestern College in Phoenix and will represent Arizona at the National Science Olympiad Tournament at University of Illinois in Urbana, Ill., on May 21-22. This will be the 26th year of the national tournament, and will be attended by state and international champion teams.

This is the eighth year the OMOS team has captured the Arizona State Championship in the last 10 years.

The Science Olympiad tournaments are rigorous academic interscholastic competitions that consist of a series of more than two dozen events that require knowledge in biology, earth science,

chemistry, physics, and technical writing. Preparation of the competition began in September, which included regular practices studying Anatomy, Ecology, and Fossils and time spent on constructing devices, including airplanes, catapults, and bridges.

The Our Mother of Sorrows Science Olympiad is a program that draws upon the expertise of parents and community science leaders to help teach and inspire the children.

The cost for the students, coaches and chaperones to attend the national tournament will probably exceed $20,000. Funds must be raised in the community in order for the students to realize their achievement of representing Arizona in Illinois this May. Our Mother of Sorrows is a Pre-K to 8 Catholic school located at 1800 South Kolb Rd. It has approximately 475 students, and is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

10,650 served

Golf outing

Knights of Columbus Council # 9378 in Yuma started free spaghetti dinners when the idea was suggested by new Knight Matt Young, after he heard a Homily by Msgr. Richard W. O’Keeffe at Immaculate Conception Parish.

The plan was simple: Feed as many people as possible for free.

The final tally on people fed: 10,650.

With an original budget of $1,000 allocated by The Knights Of Columbus, the American Legion Post # 56 donated the use of their hall. Crossroads Mission donated food items and sent volunteers. There were walk-in volunteers that just wanted to help.

Elementary School students from Valley Horizon led by Melanie and Genesis Young volunteered and got many younger people from all the other elementary schools to attend.

Students from all the area high schools were not to be outdone; they came over to volunteer. All of the area schools where represented by someone.

“This could not have been done without weekly donations from attendees and those who just wanted to donate,” Young said. “The spaghetti dinner went on for 23 weeks, some of which saw us serving 500 to 650 people. There were also donations of clothes sent over to Crossroads Mission.”

Sign up to play in a two-person scramble golf outing to be held on Sunday, April 11, at del Lago golf course in Vail at noon. This event is open to all golfers in the Diocese of Tucson, who can sign up as a team or as a single player to be paired up with another player the day of the event. There will be a men’s division, a women’s division and a mixed division.

To register, call Tom Smith at 520-8862383.

Haiti relief More than 5,000 pounds of clothing has been collected in the Yuma region by the Knights of Columbus to be sent to Haiti, and more clothes are being donated daily.

Yuma Clothes for Haiti is set up at The American Legion Hall Post # 56, 1490 West 3rd St., where donations of clothes can be dropped off. Packages will be sent as soon as earthquake-stricken Haiti has a working infrastructure.

Awaken faith A six-week series of sessions entitled, “Awakening Faith,” will begin at St. Cyril of Alexandria Parish at Pima and Swan in Tucson, on Thursday, April 8, beginning at 7 p.m. It is for Catholics who have been

inactive in the practice of their Faith and who seek a deeper understanding of it, meeting informally with several parishioners and a priest.

For further information, call 520-7951633.

Scout leader Virginia Robillard has been appointed chairperson of the diocese’s Catholic Committee on Scounting, succeeding Jeff Hill, who held the post for nearly five years.

Father Robert Rodriguez, parochial vicar at St. Joseph Parish in Tucson, has been named Chaplain of Catholic Scouting, succeeding Father Miguel Mariano, pastor of St. Joseph Parish.

Chip Travers will continue as vice chair, working with Robillard and others to bring more parishes into Scouting activities.

Border grant A $5,000 grant from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for work on issues of immigration and migrant treatment has been won by the partnership of the Jesuit-run Kino Border Initiative and Lourdes Catholic School in Nogales on a project called “Young Advocates for Young Migrants.”

The school’s students go across the border to the Comedor operated by KBI and help with feeding the migrants who come there twice a day.

The students will be involved in various other projects aimed at helping other young people understand the plight of those who are uprooted from their families and suddenly thrust across the border with no means of survival or communication, without basic human necessities.

The Social Justice Outreach Ministry at Lourdes welcomes opportunities to share with other catholic schools about this work and what they learn as they work with KBI.

Detention Mass Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas celebrated the annual diocesan Dentention Ministry Mass on March 13 at Santa Cruz Parish in Tucson to pray for the youth and adults who are incarcerated in the many detention facilities in the diocese and to thank lay, religious and clergy volunteers who minister to them.

Certificates of recognition were presented to: Stan Lasota of Santa Catalina Parish, who has served for 13 years at the Catalina Mountain School; Aurora Yañez of Santa Cruz Parish, for her weekly ministry for 12 years at the Pima County Adult Dentention Complex; Carlos Muñoz of St. John the Evangelist Parish for his 11 years of service at the Pima County Adult Detention Complex; Father Don Huntimer, C.V.S., who retired from detention ministry in 2008 because of health reasons, for more than 15 years of ministry at the Arizona State Prison Complex and the Southern Arizona Correctional Release Center in Tucson.

A number of priests and deacons, as well as public officials and prison officials, attended the Mass, along with families of those in prison and former inmates.

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Father Manuel and his mother, Maria del Socorro, with Bishop Kicanas.

Pastor installed in Parker

In a moving ceremony that brought tears to his eyes, Father Manuel Fragoso-Carranza was installed last month as pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Parker, where he had served as administrator for the last year.

Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas, who along with several priests from surrounding parishes attended an evening Mass celebrated by Father Manuel, presided over the installation ceremony. The moment was witnessed by applauding parishioners and

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family members, including Father Manuel’s mother and brother.

A reception followed in the church hall, where Father Manuel received congratulations from his many admirers.

Father Manuel and Deacon Leonel Bejarano will minister to a wide area of the diocese’s far northwestern region, including – in addition to Sacred Heart Parish – the missions of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha in Poston, St. John the Baptist in Wenden and Queen of the Peace in Quartzite.

Nieves G. Riedel, a businesswoman in San Luis, is shown with Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas and Father Raul Valencia, pastor, at St. Jude Thaddeus Parish, as she gives the parish 7.2 acres on which to build a new church some day. A Mass in celebration of the occasion last month was moved hurriedly to the church when heavy rain hit at the site, where, at left, Father Raul holds a large protective umbrella.

Obituary

Sister Mary Verona Cleary, OSM Sister Mary Verona Cleary, who served in Tucson as pastoral minister at St. Francis de Sales Parish and as chaplain at St. Mary’s Hospital before she retired in 2008, passed away on March 10 in Omaha, Neb. She was 89.

Born on July 31, 1921, in Salix, Iowa, she professed her vows in 1941 and was a school teacher in Detroit, Iowa City and Massena, N.Y., until 1975, when she transferred to Tucson. She served at St. Francis de Sales Parish from 1975 until 1983 and then as chaplain at St. Mary’s until 1996.

During her retirement years she performed volunteer service.

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Vatican: Pope leading effort to root out abuse VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Amid new disclosures of priestly sex abuse cases in Europe, including one in the German archdiocese formerly headed by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican strongly defended the Church’s response to the crisis and said the Pope has led the effort to root out “filth” in the church.

The Vatican statements came in the wake of hundreds of new sex abuse allegations against priests and other church personnel that have surfaced in recent weeks in Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland.

The Pope met with top German bishops on March 12 and encouraged them to move ahead “with decision and courage” in investigating the widening scandal of sexual abuse of minors in Catholic schools, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg, the head of the German bishops’ conference, told reporters.

Later the same day, the Vatican responded to a report that a German priest accused of sexually abusing a child had been allowed to return to pastoral work in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising in the early 1980s, at the time Pope Benedict XVI was archbishop there.

The Vatican press office noted that the archdiocesan official who had returned the priest to ministry had taken “full responsibility” for his “serious error,” and said the future pope, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was not involved in that decision.

In 1985, three years after Cardinal Ratzinger had been called to serve as the Vatican’s chief doctrinal official, the same German priest faced new accusations of sexual abuse, and was eventually suspended from the priesthood and convicted in a civil court.

The revelations about the German case made headlines around the world, and some commentators questioned how Cardinal Ratzinger could not have been aware of details of the situation at the time.

On March 13, the Vatican countered by strongly defended the Pope against what it said was an aggressive campaign to drag him personally into the widening sex abuse scandal.

The same day, the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, that said Pope Benedict was being mischaracterized as an aloof administrator with little interest in the scandal, when in fact the German pontiff had led the way in addressing past cases and preventing new ones.

“It is thanks to the greater severity of the Pope that various bishops’ conferences are turning a light on cases of sexual abuse, and also cooperating with civil authorities so that justice is rendered to the victims,” it said.

In an unusual interview on March 13, a key Vatican official

Don’t blame celibacy, expert says VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As the Year for Priests moves into its final phase, a chorus of Vatican officials and experts has defended priestly celibacy and rejected the idea that celibacy has anything to do with sexual abuse by priests.

The latest to take on critics of celibacy was Manfred Lutz, chief of psychiatry at a German hospital and a consultant to the Congregation for Clergy, who said at a theological convention on the priesthood in Rome on March 12 that people who view celibacy as “unnatural” fail to understand the positive value of self-control in human sexuality.

“Science now tells us that there is no correlation between celibacy and pedophilia,” Lutz told an audience of about 700 priests at the Pontifical Lateran University.

The assumption that celibacy represents a warning signal for psychosexual imbalance is also wrong, said Lutz, who helped organize a Vatican conference on sex abuse in 2004. On the contrary, he said, it’s the wider society that misunderstands sexuality and that promotes an “idolatry of the body” that has left millions of people unhappy.

Lutz said there was no question that celibacy “is certainly not something

described in detail the steps taken by the Vatican to confront priestly sex abuse since 2001, the year the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under then-Cardinal Ratzinger, laid out strict new norms for processing such cases.

The official, Msgr. Charles Scicluna, a doctrinal congregation official from Malta who deals directly with cases of priests accused of abuse of minors, told the Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire that the allegation that Pope Benedict had covered up sex abuse crimes was “false and calumnious.”

As head of the doctrinal congregation, he handled such cases

for weak characters.” TLutz said it was not true that married priests would be better able to pastorally guide married couples. For one thing, he said, there is a risk that a married priest will unconsciously and inevitably apply his own personal marriage experiences to the problems faced by others, whereas a celibate priest has a wider viewpoint.

Lutz, who is married and the father of two children, said the more fundamental reason some people have aggressively attacked the Church’s rule on priestly celibacy is that celibacy is a concrete -- and unwelcome -- reminder of the power of faith and the value of self-sacrifice.

with wisdom and courage, clerical state, Msgr. Scicluna said.

Msgr. Scicluna also emphasized that the Vatican’s insistence on secrecy in the investigation of these cases by church authorities does not mean bishops or others are exempt from reporting these crimes to civil authorities.

Most cases of priestly sex abuse against minors have been handled without a church trial because of the advanced age of the accused, and the penalties in such cases has usually been the imposition of strict limitations on the priest’s ministry, he said.

Reported cases in U.S. decline WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Reported cases of child sexual abuse in U.S. dioceses and religious institutes declined between the 2008 and 2009 audits to evaluate how church institutions are complying with the U.S. bishops’ 2002 “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.”

The 2009 annual report showed that costs to dioceses and religious orders for lawsuits and other allegation-related expenses also decreased. In addition, it reported on how dioceses and religious orders are complying with provisions calling for education about sexual abuse for children and all who work with them, and for handling all allegations of sexual abuse, among other obligations included in the charter.

The report, released by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on March 23, said 513 victims came forward with 513 credible allegations against 346 people who were under the authority of dioceses or religious orders. That represents a decline from 2008 in all three figures of between 33 and 36 percent. The vast majority of those allegations related to incidents dating back decades, the report said.

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Bishop Richard Seminack, Mitred Protopresbyter Andriy Chirovsky and visiting clergy build the altar at St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church, 715 W. Vanover Rd., Tucson

Ukrainian church has new home

After more than 30 years in a tiny house chapel on Brown Avenue, in the far east end of Tucson, St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church now has a permanent new home that is conveniently accessible, has the proper liturgical furnishings, comfortable meeting office, social hall, and houses the Russell Dworian Memorial Library and educational facilities near the Grant Road exit of Interstate 10.

The church was concecrated by Bishop Richard Seminack of the St. Nicholas Epach of Chicago, assisted by the pastor, Rt. Rev. Dr. Andriy Chirovsky, and others.

Guests came from various locales in Arizona, California, Illinois, Maryland, Colorado, Pennsylvania,as well as Canada and Poland to attend this rarely seen spectacle.

The church building was acquired from Holy Resurrection Antiochian Orthodox Church and was remodeled and updated by volunteers headed by Bohdan Gojnycz of Green Valley. Alexandra and Yurij Terleckyj helped to restore the 100-yearold iconostasis as well as antique banners.

The iconostasis (ornate wall of icons separating the altar from the nave) had

been received through the efforts of longtime pastor Father Basil Bucsek, as a gift from St. George Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Minneapolis after that parish had merged with another.

Many made the effort to come and support the small but dynamic parish.

Others sent best wishes and donations.

Those wishing to make tax-deductible contributions may send them to St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church, 715 W. Vanover Road, Tucson,AZ 85705.

Catholics of the Roman Rite should be aware that they may always fulfill their Sunday and Holy Day Obligation by attending an Eastern Catholic Parish such as St. Michael or the other Eastern Catholic Parish in Tucson, St. Melany Byzantine Ruthenian Church. These churches preserve the ancient Orthodox Tradition of the East, but are in full and visible communion with the Pope of Rome.

Divine Liturgies at St. Michael’s are at 10 a.m. on Sundays. The first Sunday of the month, the Divine Liturgy (Mass) is in English. Other Sundays there is a mix of Ukrainian and English. The parish website can be accessed at www.stmichaeltucson. org

Special day at St. Anne’s Convent The Sisters of the Immaculate Heart at St. Anne’s Convent will celebrate a special day at their chapel on April 11 commemorating the Mercy of God. There will be the Rosary at 2 p.m. followed by the Chaplet of Divine Mercy and then Holy Mass at 3 p.m., with Father Bill Dougherty, C.S.P., officiating.

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By TIMOTHY J. PEARSON I grew up in a very loving family, and extended family. I come from a family that it doesn’t matter if you’re the aunt, uncle, cousin, grandparent or whatever, you are family no matter what. When it comes to my immediate family, it is just my mom Yvonne, my dad Ron, my brother Cody, my sister-in-law Tiffany, and my niece Allizza.

I grew up originally in New Mexico, but came to Arizona when I was about six years old. I can remember always g e t t i n g together with my family in New Mexico all the time.

I always, and even now, look forward to seeing my family. To me T J. PEARSON that is what a good time is all about. We get together most of the time, and have a big cookout and sit around talking. Even if we just saw each other two weeks ago, we talk as if we hadn’t seen each other in years. We sit around talking and eating good food that my tías make, and listen to my grandfather play music. This is the kind of home that I grew up in, a very Hispanic family, but also a very loving family.

-When did you first think about becoming a priest?

I first thought about becoming a priest at a very young age, I think I was eight years old. But growing up I never really took it seriously. I was an altar boy and loved helping out in the church, but I also loved the social life, being with my family and friends. It wasn’t until I was a junior or

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‘I see it as giving of myself to others’ senior in high school that I really started to think seriously about being a priest.

If you were to ask me what I wanted to do after I graduated from high school, when I was in high school, you would probably get an answer like, go to the military, or become a cop, or go to the U of A and get my music major, or something like that. If you were to ask me if I have ever thought about becoming a priest, I would answer and say “yeah, but I don’t know if it is for me.”

-Did you have a priest you looked up to in your youth?

One priest that I looked up to when I was younger was Father Rudy Rosales, who is now the pastor at Holy Angels Parish in Globe. I admired him or looked up to him, because he always seemed to know exactly what he wanted, and he was not afraid to ask for help achieving his goals either.

To me he was a very holy man, someone who could speak of Our Lady of Guadalupe with such eloquence that it gave you chills on your spine. In my mind, I wanted to be a priest like him, one, because to me he was a real priest, involved in the community and cared for his parish very much, and two, because he, like me, had a very big devotion to Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe.

-What do you envision your priesthood to be?

I envision my priesthood to be a happy and joyous time, but also one of self-sacrifice to God and to others. I see it as being

Tucson Salvatorian attends conference A retired Salvatorian priest joined 40,000 others – the largest gathering of its kind in the world – to collaborate on how to teach the Catholic faith.

Father Keith Brennan of the Salvatorian Priests and Brothers attended the Religious Education Congress, begun in 1959. The conference, titled “Incredible Abundance,” was held March 19-21 in Anaheim, Calif. The Congress’ focus is to teach more about the Catholic faith as well as to advance personal growth.

Among the keynote speakers was Mitch Albom, author of several books including “Five People You Meet in Heaven” and “Tuesdays with Morrie.”

The Salvatorian Family is a religious community of priests, brothers, sisters and lay people who serve in parishes, schools, hospitals and in various ministries in 43 countries.

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This is the sixth in a series of articles in which seminarians will relate, personally, how and why they’ve found themselves on the path to priesthood in the Diocese of Tucson.

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a lifelong Lenten journey, with an emphasis on the self-sacrificing aspect of it, and not in the strictest manner either. I see it as a giving of myself to others, and to the Church.

-What is your greatest joy as you contemplate the priesthood?

Well there are many joys for me as I contemplate priesthood, but one of them is just being able to make the Lord present at the Mass, for me, that is the biggest joy. Also, second to that, just knowing that I would be able to help people in ways that doctors, or physicians can, helping people reach their full potential in their spiritual lives, as well as they helping me!

-What do you tell someone who is considering the priesthood?

I would tell them that it is not an easy journey, that it is very hard. But just because it is hard, does not mean that it is not enjoyable. I thank God each and every day for my vocation, for letting me be here in the seminary, studying. It is hard to leave your home and your family behind, and there are times when it does bring you down, but when you look at the brighter side of it, God is calling you to something so much more.

-Do you have a favorite devotion?

I am very Guadalupano, or I have a

great devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe.

I have a devotion to her, because she asked a humble Indian, Juan Diego, to carry her message to the Bishop, but at all stages of Juan Diego’s journey she always reminded him that she is always with him. I take that same message to my heart and count on Blessed Mother to be there with me always, as I make my journey to the priesthood.

-How do you relax? Do you have a favorite vacation and/or retreat spot?

For me, I love being outside, and walking around. I like going to new places and seeing new things, I am not one to sit around inside all day, even if it is raining.

One of my most favorite places to go is to San Diego. My family and I always try to go there every few years or so. But when I am stuck in my room, like at the end of the day, I like to relax by drinking hot coffee and reading, or talking with some close friends about whatever there is to talk about.

-Describe a good day at the seminary.

A good day in the seminary would be getting in some time to exercise and work out. A really good day would be completing all the readings that I have for the next day. It’s a busy life, I enjoy it.

-Finish this sentence: “It would surprise people to know …that I am Hispanic, from both sides of my family, and also that I play the trumpet, guitar and the accordion, and that I am in a music group here at the seminary that plays Spanish music for different functions.”

— T.J. Pearson is a third-year college seminarian at Mount Angel Seminary in St. Benedict, Ore.

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The Foundation builds, provides and endures Dear friends and families,

Easter season, along with spring, brings upon us all a season of renewal, and it is with this in mind that I want to remind you of the mission of the Catholic Foundation, as well as efforts we’ve undertaken to continue our work as stewards of faith and the many programs provided to parishioners.

The Foundation oversees and provides funding within the Diocese of Tucson through a number of endowments that support parish, educational, religious and charitable efforts. It is through this building and growing of funds that people and families in parishes throughout southern Arizona are served.

Some of you may have noticed in the spirit of renewal that we have adopted a new logo on our communications. The new look aside, we remain committed to conducting our business based upon our four core values, which I would like to share with you.

We begin with Faith, which forms the basis for all we do. Enduring Commitment translates to creating long-term benefits to those we serve. Integrity establishes the moral and ethical principles that guide our work. Catholic Stewardship helps us maintain the professional management of God’s gifts bestowed upon us.

Jesus said to them, “Children, have you caught anything to eat?” They answered him, “No.” So he said to them, “Cast the net over the right side of the boat and you will find something.” So they cast it, and were not able to pull it in because of the number of fish. – John 21:5-6

The four core values support our mission statement: “The purpose of the Catholic Foundation is to build endowments that provide enduring resources to support the mission of the Church in the Diocese of Tucson.”

The values and mission are reflected in the programs we’ve supported this past year, from providing food to hungry parishioners to paying for day care for children.

During the 2009 fiscal year, the Board gave a grant to help St. Elizabeth Health Center purchase the equipment and supplies needed to open a new dental clinic, to the St. Vincent de Paul “Give A Lift” bus voucher program that provided up to 300 bus vouchers for individuals and families, and to the Office of Pastoral Services to fund a pilot program of the Diocese Marriage Initiative Program. Additionally, funds were given to school board training and development for all primary and secondary schools in the Diocese and to support a second language program at Santa Cruz School. The Foundation also distributed

more than $94,000 from endowments and donorrestricted gifts to schools, parishes and agencies in the Diocese. All totaled, nearly $168,000 was distributed during the year.

We remain committed to the needs of the Diocese and to maintain the trust you have put in us. We look forward to continuing to serve churches and people in our area. Together we build an enduring legacy of faith.

For more information about the Foundation or other ways you can help, please call me at 520-838-2508 or visit our Web site, www.cathfnd.org.

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Our mission is to build endowments to provide perpetual resources to further the religious, educational and charitable ministries in the Diocese of Tucson.

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77 youths cited for their work in 24 parishes Seventy-seven young people from 24 parishes and four Catholic schools in the Diocese of Tucson were honored at the sixth annual John Paul II Awards ceremony last month at St. Francis de Sales Parish in Tucson.

Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas presented the awards to the teens who were nominated by their pastors and youth ministers in recognition of their participation in the life of their parishes in three categories: Catechesis and Evangelization, Community Service and Social Justice, and Prayer and Worship.

“I always enjoy seeing the pride that parents, grandparents, youth ministers and pastors feel when one of theirs receives this recognition,” the Bishop said. “We can all be Father Bart Hutcherson with plaque proud of these young presented by Bishop Kicanas. people among us who are already using their time and talent to be of service to others.”

“These are a very special group of young people,” he said. “They publicly proclaim God’s Word, teach others about Christ, work for the poor, spend time with the elderly, sing in choir. They accomplish much good.”

Also honored at the ceremony was Father Bart Hutcherson, O.P., pastor of St. Thomas More Newman Center Parish at the University of Arizona, who received the second annual John Paul II Distinguished Service Award.

The award recognizes an adult who demonstrates outstanding commitment in ministry to youth and young adults.

“He is tireless in his outreach to youth,” the Bishop said.

“He inspires the young adults at the University of Arizona to do something of importance for others. He challenges them to live their lives doing for others.”

These are the recipients of the John Paul II Youth Awards. Parishes and schools are in Tucson except as otherwise noted.

The students honored in the John Paul II Award category of Prayer and Worship.

The students honored in the John Paul II Award category of Community Service and Social Justice.

The students honored in the John Paul II Award category of Catechesis and Evangelization.

sa Rhoades, St. Odilia; Christen Sheffer, St. Thomas the Apostle; Nichole Tanberg, Our Mother of Sorrows; Ashley Tapia, Santa Catalina; Lisa Timpani, Our Mother of Sorrows; Bianca Valadez, St. Francis of Assisi, Yuma; Brandi Viche, St. Francis de Sales; Tommy Zacharias, Ss. Peter & Paul.

tha Juvera, Infant Jesus of Prague, Kearny; Camille Lampert, Yuma Catholic High School; Dominique Lefaive, St. Mark the Evangelist; Stephanie Plaster, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton; Charlie Ronan, St. Odilia; Ayko Santiago, San Miguel Catholic High School; Brittany Thompson, St. Augustine Catholic High School; Matthew Wisely, Ss. Peter & Paul.

as Helms, St. Mark the Evangelist; Journey Hickman, Immaculate Conception, Ajo; George Holmes, St. Francis of Assisi, Yuma; Aleya Islas, St. Francis de Sales; Melina Islas, St. Francis de Sales; Isele Jaramillo, Lourdes Catholic High School, Nogales; Maria Koestel, St. Monica; Aaron Kram, St. Helen Mission, Oracle; Cristian Lopez, St. Joseph; Lauren Luick, St. Andrew the Apostle, Sierra Vista; Gabrielle Martinez, St. Augustine Cathedral; Stephania Martinez, St. Francis of Assisi, Yuma; Francisco Mesina, Infant Jesus of Prague, Kearny; Rey Navarro, St. Helen Mission, Oracle; Don Nguyen, Our Lady of La Vang; Jesus Fernando Parra, St. Bartholomew, San Manuel; Jennie Piccaretta, Ss. Peter & Paul; Karina Sanchez, Most Holy Trinity; Samantha Sanchez, Most Holy Trinity; Sara Schlor, Corpus Christi; Jordan Valenzuela, San Xavier Mission; Darien Villegas, San Miguel Catholic High School.

CATECHESIS & EVANGELIZATION Alex Bachik, St. Augustine Catholic High School; Bedelia Castro Bejarano, St. Bartholomew, San Manuel; Ayana Cordova, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton; Isaac Ruiz De COMMUNITY SERVICE & La Torre, St. Cyril of Alexandria; Paige SOCIAL JUSTICE Dowler, St. Mark the Evangelist; AnthoManuel Alejandro Borboa, St. Bartho- PRAYER & WORSHIP ny Enriquez, Corpus Christi; Jose EscalanJulia Anderson, St. Thomas the Aposlomew, San Manuel; Sloane Burns, St. te, Sacred Heart; Alexis Gomez, St. Joseph, Thomas the Apostle; Crystal Cordova, tle; Kathryn Black, St. Cyril of AlexanHayden; Monica Gutierrez, St. Francis Our Mother of Sorrows; Hector Corella, dria; Sean Crockette, St. Augustine Cathof Assisi, Yuma; Roman Heredia, Santa Lourdes Catholic High School, Nogales; olic High School; Ashley DeDecker, Yuma Catalina; Nicole Justiniano, St. Andrew Molly Eisele, St. Joseph; Amy Ford, Catholic High School; Charmayne Enis, the Apostle, Sierra Vista; Paris Le, Our Yuma Catholic High School; Matthew San Xavier Mission; Gerald Enis, San XaviLady of La Vang; Dustin Longacre, Sacred Gautreau, Corpus Christi; Marcos Gonza- er Mission; Katie Frazier, St. Odilia; Jillian Heart; Maria Lopez, St. Joseph, Hayden; les, St. Monica; Quinten Gunn, St. Andrew Gabrhel, Most Holy Trinity; Christopher Gabrielle Martinez, St. Augustine Cathethe Apostle, Sierra Vista; Luis Herrera, Garcia, Sacred Heart; Natalie Harnick, San dral; Philip Pallanes, Santa Catalina; Paula Lourdes Catholic High School, Nogales; Miguel Catholic High School; Maureen Real, Infant Jesus of Prague, Kearny; GabriTim Hubbard, St. Francis de Sales; Saman- Hayden, St. Thomas the Apostle; Thomelle Reid, St. Augustine Cathedral; Maris12 THE NEW VISION - LA NUEVA VISIÓN OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF TUCSON | WWW.NEWVISIONONLINE.ORG | APRIL 2010

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Arcoiris Congress draws 520 in Yuma More than 520 young men and women of the Arcoiris movement represented nine parishes of the Diocese of Tucson at the group’s annual Congress, held last month in Yuma.

The youths, who wore brightly colored Tshirts to differentiate them at their weekendlong activities, were from Sacred Heart in Nogales, San Felipe de Jesus in Nogales, St. Monica in Tucson, St. Anthony of Padua in Casa Grande, St. John Neumann in Yuma, St. Francis of Assisi in Yuma, Immaculate Conception in Yuma, Immaculate Heart of Mary in Somerton and St. Jude Thaddeus in San Luis.

They are teens who have gone through their “encuentro,” which is similar to Cursillo.

Here are some snapshots of the event, which included a Mass by Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas and nine priests and several deacons in the gym at Yuma Catholic High School.

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AROUND THE DIOCESE

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At left, Bishop Kicanas dons a Dr. Seuss hat as he reads “The Little Engine that Could” to kindergartners at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary School. After talking with scores of students in various classrooms, the Bishop, below, tries his hand at hula-hoop in the playground. All of the children, including a boy on crutches, greeted the Bishop with enthusiasm.

Yuma kids enjoy visit

by Bishop Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas was warmly welcomed by Yuma-area students when he visited classrooms at Immaculate Conception, Saint Francis of Assisi and Yuma Catholic schools last month.

During a week-long trip to the Yuma region, the Bishop also confirmed hundreds of young people at the parishes of Immaculate Conception, St. Francis of Assisi and Immaculate Heart of Mary in Somerton.

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REFLEXIONES Padre Roberto Kose, OFM Cap.

Feliz Pascua E

l tiempo de la Pascua nos trae una señal de esperanza y anticipación; es un tiempo de reflexión y oración. Los servicios bonitos y dramáticos de la Semana Santa nos ponen en contacto con los acontecimientos vivos en la vida de Jesús, el Salvador. Las escrituras profundas describen la falta de comprensión que Jesús aguantó en su vida, sus dificultades, sufrimientos y triunfo sobre la muerte.

La fiesta de la Pascua es una oportunidad para escuchar abiertamente al mensaje del amor de Dios para su gente. El nos amó tanto que mandó a su único hijo para salvarnos y darnos vida eterna. El amor de Dios es un don especial en mi vida y me ayuda a reconocer a Dios en la gente que encuentro cada día: personas llegando a la iglesia para el ensayo de coro, grupo de oración, juntas, a la oficina de la rectoría pidiendo ayuda, o los enfermos en casa o el hospital.

Cuando reconozco a Jesús en mí mismo y en verdad tengo fe en su amor incondicional, aprendo a amar a los demás en la misma manera. El amor de Dios me ayuda a entender la necesidad de respetar la presencia de Dios en cada persona que veo, porque Dios está en cada uno de ellos también.

Ya es primavera y vemos señales de nueva vida.

Los árboles están listos para sus ojos, la hierba para volverse verde y para hacer calor otra vez. El invierno está acabando y hay señales de esperanza alrededor de nosotros. Jesús nos ofrece esperanza también: esperanza para nuestra vida personal y la vida de la Iglesia. La Pascua es un tiempo para una renovación personal y parroquial. La Pascua es un tiempo en la cual podemos renovar nuestra esperanza en la posibilidad de una vida nueva porque sabemos, sin duda, que Dios nos ama de verdad.

Que esta Pascua sea un tiempo de crecimiento personal y con gran amor hacia Dios. Como las flores y los árboles van a renovarse, nosotros, como una iglesia debemos renovarnos en la nueva vida de la Resurrección del Señor Jesús.

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Habla a Favor de la Reforma Sobre Inmigración el Cardenal Mahony El Arzobispo de Los Angeles Afirma que el Futuro del País Está en Juego WASHINGTON, D. C. (ZENIT.org).- El clima político en Washington estuvo predominantemente marcado por la batalla de la reforma sanitaria. Pero miles de partidarios de luchar por otra causa también marcharon sobre la capital: quienes piden una reforma sobre inmigración.

El cardenal Roger Mahony, arzobispo de Los Ángeles, dijo al Washington Post que la reforma sobre inmigración es “correcta y justa”. Explicó que debería ser una de las reformas reclamadas en Washington.

“Cuestiones públicas de cómo los inmigrantes impactan nuestra economía y cultura son apropiadas y deberían ser consideradas por nuestros funcionarios elegidos --escribe el cardenal Mahony--. Hasta la fecha, estas preocupaciones han dominado nuestro debate nacional sobre inmigración, pero deberíamos ya conocer la respuesta. Nuestra historia ha mostrado que los inmigrantes han ayudado a construir esta nación diver-

Texas.

(ZENIT.org).La exposición fotográfica sacerdotal, única en su tipo a nivel mundial y que muestra de manera artística la vida diaria y la labor pastoral de los sacerdo-

tes, ha traspasado las fronteras de México para llegar a Estados Unidos.

Los miembros del patronato de la Basílica de San Juan del Valle en McAllen, Texas, Estados Unidos, solicitaron las fotografías de la exposición

sa y convertirla en la mayor democracia y superpoder del mundo”.

“La definitiva y determinante cuestión para nuestro país, mucho menos discutida, es si deberíamos acoger o rechazar la herencia inmigrante que nos ha servido tan bien”.

El cardenal de 74 años sugiere que la “tendencia es molesta” para el actual sistema de inmigración.

Señala que las “políticas represivas sólo”, aplicadas durante dos décadas, no han detenido la entrada ilegal en Estados Unidos. En cambio, en los últimos diez años, el país gastó más de 100.000 millones de dólares en la represión y en el mismo periodo, el número de gente indocumentada en Estados Unidos subió de 7 a 11 millones.

Afirma que el sistema de inmigración legal es “anticuado e inadecuado para nuestras necesidades de trabajo futuro, especialmente cuando se recupere la economía”.

Y “el sistema de inmigración basado en la familia, que ha ayudado a las familias inmigrantes a permanecer unidas y fuertes por décadas, es imposible y ahora mantiene a las familias separadas”, observo el cardenal.

Benedicto XVI Visitará Gran Bretaña LONDRES, Inglaterra. (ZENIT.org).– Benedicto XVI

ha aceptado la invitación a visitar Gran Bretaña, anunció en días pasados el Palacio de Buckingham. Al mismo tiempo, Gran Bretaña ha anunciado la beatificación del cardenal Newman.

El Vaticano todavía no ha publicado ningún comunicado al respecto, pero el Papa evocó su visita el pasado Enero.

La web oficial de la monarquía británica anunció que “por invitación de Su Majestad la reina, Su Santidad el Papa Benedicto XVI realizará una visita pontifical al Reino Unido del 16 al 19 de septiembre de 2010”.

El mismo comunicado precisa que Benedicto XVI

Exposición Fotográfica del Año Sacerdotal se Presenta en E.U. MCALLEN,

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para montar la muestra elaborada por el padre Mario González LC, de la Parroquia de la Virgen de San Juan, en la ciudad de Cancún, México, y por el estudio Arte y Color, informa a ZENIT Omar Mauricio Cortés, de la Prelatura

de Cancún-Chetumal.

Miles de personas que visitan diariamente el Santuario podrán observar las diversas fotografías que detallan los momentos más relevantes en el ministerio pastoral de los sacerdotes.

llegará a Escocia, a Edimburgo, el jueves 16 de septiembre, y que será recibido por la reina y su esposo, el duque de Edimburgo, en el Palacio de Holyroodhouse.

Durante esta visita de cuatro días, el Papa visitará también Glasgow, Londres y Coventry, indicó la misma fuente.

La embajada de Gran Bretaña ante la Santa Sede precisó que el Papa pronunciará un “importante discurso” ante los representantes de la sociedad civil en el Palacio de Westminster.

También indicó que visitará las West Midlands para beatificar al “teólogo y educador del siglo XIX, el cardenal John Henry Newman, durante una misa pública en Coventry”.

Entre otros elementos de esta visita, la misma fuente señala una misa pública en Glasgow, una vigilia de oración en Londres y un evento “centrado en la educación”.

Otro de los temas de la visita será “la relación entre las Iglesias cristianas y las relaciones entre las principales confesiones”.

En este sentido, el Papa visitará al arzobispo de Canterbury, en el Palacio de Lambeth, y rezará con “otros responsables” de la Iglesia en la abadía de Westminster.

El ministro para Escocia, encargado por el Gobierno británico de preparar la visita, M. Jim Murphy declaró: “Ésta es una visita histórica y un momento importante”.

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El Carácter no es Sólo Herencia Genética y Precisa de un Esfuerzo Continuo para Mejorarse Cada Día

Orientación Familiar

El Estuche del Alma Por Lucero de Dávalos

Por el Padre Llucia Pou Sabate

En la película “El puente

sobre el río Kwai”, dirigida por David Lean y que ganó 7 Oscars en 1957, se narra la historia de un puente para el ferrocarril construido por los prisioneros británicos en la Birmania ocupada, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ahí se libra una batalla, distinta a

la del frente: ser esclavos de un tirano jefe del campo de concentración o mantener la libertad aún a costa de la muerte. Hasta entonces, los que no morían sometidos a fuertes trabajos y poca ración de comida, lo hacían al intentar escapar.

Hay una lección magistral que dan los presos de la película y es la de no perder su condición de soldados,

no dejar que les conviertan en esclavos, pues al perder la dignidad podría sucederles –como a los grupos de prisioneros que pasaron antes-- que cayeran en una espiral por falta de motivaciones o perdieran la vida al no luchar por sobrevivir con dignidad.

En el fondo, lo importante es no perder nunca la dignidad de ser “persona”,

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El temor es lo más habitual en nuestro mundo. Tras una careta lenguaraz y comediante se oculta un estremecimiento que muy pocos reconocen. Se prefiere no pensar con exceso, acelerar el paso de nuestras entrampadas vidas, agarrarse bien al propio bolsillo y dejar el alma en hibernación. Llegamos a creernos inexpugnables. Pero nada más lejos de la realidad.

Porque la verdad es que las circunstancias --su trasfondo-- nos infunden un extraordinario pavor. En tantas cosas seguimos siendo los mismos niños que se embozaban entre las sábanas y se creían de esta forma a salvo de extrañas criaturas nocturnas. Ahora nuestros miedos han cambiado, pero siguen existiendo.

El imprevisible futuro, la oscuridad del menosprecio, poner coto a los caprichos, la enfermedad de los más cercanos, la soledad rotunda o el dolor en exclusiva.

Aunque en la jerarquía del miedo universal quizá lo que más se tema sea el envite de la muerte --contra la que no cabe preservativo alguno-- y la radicalidad del mal. De la primera somos más o menos conscientes todos; del segundo quizá no tanto, embutidos como estamos en el cinemascope del escaparate consumista. Además ya saben que todo es relativo.

El caso es que el mal existe. Hay señales ciertas de su presencia. Desde la violencia hasta la mentira como entidad crónica, pasando por el aborto, el racismo, el terrorismo, la compraventa de mujeres o el tráfico de órganos, de droga o de armas. Sin olvidarnos de los espurios espiritismos o de las sectas vice satánicas, ya lo creo que el mal existe y 16

se procrea en el pecado, en el olvido o desprecio de Dios y de nuestros semejantes.

Es por eso por lo que no pocos padres andamos muy preocupados por lo que nuestros hijos se pueden encontrar ahora mismo en la calle y en esa gran avenida que es su porvenir. Escucho comentarios pesimistas de familias que temen por la salud espiritual de niños que están dejando de ser niños. ¿Qué hacer? Apostar por la mejor educación que podamos darles. No sólo académica, se entiende, pues los idiomas y la informática son punta de lanza en nuestra sociedad, pero no suplen la solidez de virtudes como la sinceridad, la fortaleza, la lealtad, la templanza o la laboriosidad, fundamentales para edificar desde los cimientos ese estado del alma que hemos dado en llamar felicidad.

Debemos confiar en que germine el amor que damos a nuestros hijos. Sin desfallecimientos y sin miedos. En él está el meollo de toda verdadera educación.

Y su madurez.

no venderse “al sistema”, no ir a lo fácil y dejarse llevar por la corriente. El hombre se define como quien se posee a sí mismo, actúa libremente, es causa de sí mismo, es decir se edifica con sus actos, cuando tiene un “por qué” actuar. Entonces, cuando hay un “por qué” luchar (es el campo llamado de las “motivaciones”), siempre se encuentra un “cómo” hacer las cosas (sería lo que se viene a llamar “procedimientos”, en nuestro caso virtudes).

El carácter, me decía un día el psiquiatra Manuel Álvarez, está compuesto de cuatro aspectos que marcan la persona: los “genes” (el nacimiento, la constitución), la “familia” (el ambiente primero en el que se recibe la educación), el “ambiente” en el que nos movemos (amigos, cultura de nuestro tiempo) y el cuarto elemento, más personal, es el de la “libertad” que ejercita uno con sus actos, y es ahí donde se forja con las virtudes. Todo ello configura el carácter.

Por eso es muy importante formar el carácter, y en las tareas de educación, importa mucho llegar a tiempo. El carácter no es sólo cuestión de herencia genética, sino que precisa un esfuerzo continuado para mejorarse.

Hoy platicaremos de la importancia de la presencia física. No podemos olvidar que el cuerpo es el estuche del alma. Cuando una persona se quiere desarrollar íntegramente, no puede ni debe olvidar esto.

Entendamos primero que lo bien presentado no es por vanidad sino por la virtud de la justicia, pues si una persona nos puede ver mejor, ¿por qué nos va a ver peor?

Tú sabes que no es lo mismo blanco y negro que multicolor y, para convencernos, basta con ver una película en las dos formas, o ver a una mujer prudentemente pintada o sin pintar.

Pero ello no solamente atañe a la mujer, pues es muy agradable observar a un varón con su ropa planchada cuidadosamente, sus zapatos boleados, el pelo peinado y oliendo a limpio. Debemos pensar en el prójimo que nos ve y convive con nosotros.

Con mucha gracia, el fundador del Opus Dei hacía estas recomendaciones. Nos hacía creer que “la mujer compuesta saca a su marido de otra puerta” y que las mujeres, como las fachadas de las casa, “entre más años, más pintura”.

Pero también arremetía contra los varones y les hacía recomendaciones más concretas para que no se descuidaran en ese aspecto tan importante.

A veces, tu lo sabes bien, comemos solo por el gusto y descuidamos el aspecto nutritivo; nos olvidamos que la gula es pecado y difícilmente lo reconocemos y, en confesión, decir que “nos sobran tantos kilos de gula”.

El ejercicio físico lo tenemos archivado y con el pretexto de que “trabajamos mucho”, dejamos que los músculos se nos estropeen. Es curioso pero, sin embargo, hay personas que tienen mas cuidado con la maquinaria de su automóvil que con su propio cuerpo; al primero le dan servicio cuando lo necesita, mientras al segundo hasta que resista.

En la higiene, los climas cómo el nuestro ¡cómo nos ayudan! El baño es una delicia pero, hasta en esto, es necesaria la educación y la rectitud, lo que nos debe mover pensando siempre en el bien de los otros.

Hace poco que oía a unas muchachitas encantadoras comentar: “Mal planchado y está fuera de mi gusto”, dirigiéndose a un muchacho.

El gusto personal es una maravilla digna de respetarse.

Debemos pensar en que nuestro aspecto personal debe ser cuidadosamente observado y, redundando, no olvidar que “el cuerpo es el estuche del alma”.

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VISIóN CATólICA Cierto día, un guerrero

se encontró con un monje tibetano. El guerrero con reverencia le preguntó al místico: “Hola buen hombre. Siempre he querido saber cuál es la diferencia entre el cielo y el infierno. Aprovecho el haberme encontrado con tu sabiduría. ¿Me podrías iluminar con una sabia respuesta?”

El monje quedó callado y luego musitó: “Tú no mereces ninguna explicación. Eres peor que una serpiente venenosa.

Eres un guerrero cobarde y miedoso, indigno de portar tu uniforme con esa insignia”.

El guerrero no podía creer lo que sus oídos escuchaban. Lleno de cólera, y sintiendo una tormenta interior en su pecho, levantó tu espada y profirió. “Maldito monje.

En este momento puedo ponerle fin a tu miserable vida con mi afilada espada”. En ese momento el monje dijo. “Ese es el infierno”. El soldado se llenó de vergüenza y comprendió la sabiduría del monje.

Se hincó ante él y dijo: “Discúlpame hermano, me dejé dominar por la ira.

Entiendo ahora tu mensaje, perdóname”. El monje entonces profirió: “Ese es el cielo”.

Todos hemos experimentado, en algún momento, un infierno dentro de nosotros, cuando hemos sido provocados por algún agresor. El enojo es una especie de energía o emoción fuerte que,

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La Tormenta Interior algunas veces, no sabemos focalizar y nos puede conducir a pensar o actuar compulsivamente al grado de perder el control. Se le llama también ira, cólera, rabia, coraje, etc. No está en los genes. Nadie nace bravo, ni enojado, ni con ira. Esta conducta se va aprendiendo con los años.

El psicólogo vienés Victor Frankl afirmó que nuestra sociedad está deprimida, aburrida y enojada. Vivimos en una sociedad poco tolerante, apresurada e impaciente.

Nuestra sociedad es adicta a la cólera. Eso implica un gasto millonario para el mundo. La cólera genera violencia intrafamiliar; altos niveles de crimen; accidentes de todo tipo; muertes en los centros de diversión y escuelas; la más elevada tasa de suicidios de la historia; guerras entre los pueblos; odio entre las razas, etc.

Pero muchos se preguntan: ¿Cuál es la causa real detrás de una actitud de enojo o una explosión de ira? Hay muchos enfoques para analizar el problema. El primero establece que los enojones se aferran a sus creencias erróneas llamadas distorsiones mentales. Ejemplos: “Esa es mi personalidad

y así seré siempre”. “No puedo controlarme, que voy a hacer”. “El mundo es un lugar malo”. “Ya no se puede confiar en nadie”.

“Nada bueno sucede en la vida”, etc.

También los perfeccionistas tienden que presentar altos niveles de frustración y enojo. No toleran ni el más mínimo error. Hay también ciertos individuos que tienen un temperamento dominante y agresivo. Eso quizá lo aprendieron en casa. De un papá exigente e intolerante, lo más seguro es que surja un hijo del mismo talante. “Hijo de tigre, pintito”, expresa un popular refrán.

Hay algunos trastornos de la personalidad que presentan rasgos de agresividad: los narcisistas, los perfeccionistas, y los antisociales tienen fuertes ataques de ira. Hay otros trastornos mentales, como el bipolarismo, que también puede conducir al enojo descontrolado.

Pudiera ser que el enojo, en muchos casos, tenga su origen en algún trauma de la niñez no resuelto como, por ejemplo, el abuso sexual o psicológico, o la negligencia o abandono. Hay quienes dicen estar enojados porque sus padres se

separaron. Otros individuos reportan que su enojo reside en que sus padres vivieron siempre en pleitos constantes.

El enojo, en otros casos, puede ser el indicio de una vida llena de estrés, sin descansos adecuados. Generalmente, las personas adictas al trabajo muestran altos niveles de frustración y coraje. El no descansar adecuadamente, ni cultivar las recreaciones sanas, los hobbies o el deporte, puede resultar en una deficiente actitud ante las ambigüedades, o los conflictos. Y en otras ocasiones, el enojo es directamente producido por el consumo de substancias toxicas (alcohol o drogas). Una persona drogada o ebria puede representar una amenaza, en una situación de conflicto.

Hay muchas maneras de tratar de controlar el enojo. Una de ellas es la psicoterapia o ayuda psicológica profesional. A los enojones consuetudinarios, por ejemplo, se les enseña a leer los signos biológicos de su enojo y, a través de técnicas conductuales, aprenden a controlarlo eficazmente. Los métodos cognitivos van a la raíz del problema porque enseñan a los individuos a hacer una relectura de su vida y de la vida. Después de todo, la salud mental se mide en términos de tolerancia, adaptación y flexibilidad.

Ciertos estudios han demostrado que las perso-

nas que se enojan con facilidad corren el riesgo de padecer una enfermedad coronaria o tener un accidente vascular cerebral más elevado. Los monjes del Tíbet, que practican la aceptación y la virtud de la paciencia, poseen una envidiable longevidad.

Desde una perspectiva religiosa, la ira es uno de los siete pecados capitales (su virtud opuesta es la paciencia). Dante Alighieri la definió como “un atentado al amor por la justicia, pervertido a venganza y resentimiento”. La Biblia enseña que las personas que practican el perdón, se libran de la esclavitud de la ira. Aun los psicólogos modernos recomiendan practicar el perdón como estrategia para disminuir el resentimiento y el odio.

Perdonar ayuda a disminuir la ansiedad y la depresión, libera de las garras del pasado, disminuye el odio y deseo de venganza y, al mismo tiempo, forma una integridad moral superior. A Voltaire, el reformador francés, alguien le preguntó en una ocasión: “¿Crees en la teoría de que venimos del mono?” Y el replicó: “No lo sé; pero si puedo asegurarte que vamos hacia el lobo”.

El gran reto de nuestro mundo es este: pasar con la ayuda de Dios de una sociedad adicta a la cólera, a una sociedad paciente, tolerante, benevolente y solidaria. Debemos crear más “cielos” y menos “infiernos”.

Dialogando

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Desde que hace años me sumergí en tus redes, nuestra historia en común me ha resultado fascinante.

Sé que puedes ser una fantástica herramienta para la educación y el entretenimiento de nuestros pequeños, e incluso no tan pequeños, aunque deberás andarte con cuidado con los intrusos malévolos que te quieren perjudicar.

Sin embargo, no te debe molestar que muchos padres se informen sobre ti para encauzar a sus hijos en una correcta y prudente utilización de la red.

Recuerda: No eres ni buena ni mala. Todo depende del uso que se haga de ti.

Permiteme contarte una historia que seguramente te gustará.

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NIÑEZ y FUTURO Abril es el Mes Nacional de Prevención de Abuso de

Niños.

La historia de esta observancia especial empezó hace 30 años cuando sonó la alarma por el gran incremento en el número de niños siendo abusados.

Los miembros del Congreso y el Presidente hicieron la prevención de abuso de niños una prioridad nacional en 1983 designando el mes de abril como el mes especial para estar más conscientes acerca de los terribles impactos en el abuso de niños.

Como una institución en nuestra sociedad que está muy de cerca relacionada al bienestar de las familias y niños, nuestra Iglesia se junta a esta observancia cada año. Yo quiero hacer mi parte este año compartiendo una reflexión en la historia de un componente crítico de nuestro programa diocesano Programa de Ambiente Seguro – educación personal en seguridad para niños.

Hace ocho años, en este junio, los obispos de los Estados Unidos incluyeron en la Carta para la protección de niños y personas jóvenes el compromiso de enseñar a los niños cómo contribuir en su propia seguridad.

Inicialmente, nadie sabía exactamente cómo se aceptaría ese compromiso, pero en nuestra Diócesis teníamos dos ayudas importantes para poder empezar.

Primero, nosotros teníamos tres principios muy firmes acerca de educación en seguridad personal para niños: Niños pueden desempeñar un papel efectivo en su propia seguridad; educación personal en seguridad es una amplificación práctica en lo que enseña nuestra fe con respecto al respeto a sí mismo y a otros; y, en esta edad de media saturación, no hay un mundo perfecto de inocencia para niños de edad escolar.

Segundo, nosotros tuvimos la fortuna de tener los recursos del Centro de Defensa de Niños del Sur de

PROTEGIENDO A NUESTRO NIÑOS PAUL DUCKRO, Ph.D Arizona (Southern Arizona Children’s Advocacy Center).

El Centro de Defensa ofreció educación en seguridad personal para niños en todas partes de nuestra Diócesis; sus programas siguen siendo aprobados y se usan en muchas de nuestras parroquias y escuelas.

No obstante la carencia de recursos, este programa inicial para la educación de niños salió muy bien. Sin embargo, fue evidente que se necesitaban alternativas para permitir un contenido diferente cada año para integrar la enseñanza en seguridad personal con el currículo de educación religiosa, ambos en términos de planeación y contenido.

Para 2006, nuestra Diócesis estaba lista para desarrollar y publicar su propio currículo en seguridad personal para niños y jóvenes. Un grupo de educadores y administradores de parroquias y escuelas trabajaron arduamente por un periodo de seis meses para completar el proyecto en tiempo para el principio del año escolar académico 2006-2007.

El currículo nuevo le permitió a los maestros, con la ayuda de hablantes de afuera o videos, presentar la educación en seguridad personal de una manera nueva cada año y así durante tiempos de clase regular, integrando el contenido apropiado para la edad de los alumnos con la enseñanza de nuestra fe.

Desde que se introdujo el Currículo de Seguridad

Personal para Niños y Jóvenes, muchas personas han trabajado muy duro para ayudar a los maestros sentirse cómodos en impartir las lecciones. Ha habido obstáculos, pero por medio de la explicación paciente de nuestros párrocos y administradores que dan gran apoyo, ha habido un progreso tremendo.

El último año académico, por ejemplo, más de 20,000 niños y jóvenes recibieron educación en seguridad personal. Solamente un dos por ciento de padres de familia rehusaron dar permiso, y la mayor parte de esas fueron limitadas a pocas áreas, indicando la necesidad de explicación más clara de lo que se ha enseñado. Solamente una parroquia eligió confiar completamente en el currículo del sistema público escolar local en lugar de enseñar seguridad personal con nuestra propia perspectiva Católica.

Siempre habrá algunos que creen que educación en seguridad personal es “exagerada” o algunos que piensan que seguridad personal y educación Religiosa no se mezclan.

Yo espero que esta historia y las buenas noticias del progreso que hemos hecho, los motive en apoyar la educación en seguridad personal para niños en sus parroquias y escuelas.

Espero que sientan un sentido renovado del importante papel que desempeñan en reenfozar los mensajes de educación en seguridad personal con sus hijos y nietos, y que los escuchen cuando ellos hablan de los desafíos con que se confrontan en su mundo Y, pensando más allá de sus propios hijos, espero que tomen tiempo en este mes nacional, tan especial, dedicado a la prevención del abuso de niños, para que piensen y recen acerca de apoyar la iglesia y las instituciones cívicas que trabajan en resguardar de abuso a todos los niños.

Radiólogo Japonés, Sobreviviente a la Bomba Atómica, Convertido al Catolicismo Por el Padre Ángel Peña Fuente: Ateos y Judíos Convertidos

Takashi Nagai (1908-1951), médico radiólogo japonés, escribió su vida en el famoso libro “Las Campanas de Nagasaki”. Se había dejado seducir por el materialismo ateo durante sus años de estudiante, buscando la verdad solamente en la ciencia. Tuvo la suerte de alojarse, siendo estudiante, en casa de la familia Moriyama, fervorosos católicos, y se casó con una de sus hijas. En junio de 1933 recibió el bautismo. Sobrevivió a la bomba atómica que cayó sobre su ciudad de Nagasaki el 9 de agosto de 1945. Él cuenta lo ocurrido: Repentinamente el cielo se iluminó por un instante y el resplandor de una luz hizo palidecer el sol de verano. Una columna de humo blanco empezó a subir de la tierra, tomando la forma de una gigantesca seta u hongo. Una luz terrible. No hubo ruido. Pero lo que aterrorizó y heló la sangre fue el soplo inmenso que se

escapó de debajo de la nube blanca. A una velocidad aterradora pasó sobre las colinas y los campos arrasándolo todo. Las casas de las cimas cedieron ante su fuerza, y cada árbol del campo fue arrancado de cuajo y sus hojas desaparecieron como por encanto. Se diría que un invisible, pero gigantesco cilindro compresor, trituraba cuanto hallaba a su paso.

Un horrible ruido hirió de súbito los oídos de los que presenciamos de lejos tan terrible espectáculo. Nos sentimos levantados, tirados contra una pared de piedra a cinco metros de allí.

Herido en la región de los ojos, creí que había perdido la vista. No era así, pero estaba ensangrentado. Y el edificio entero se había derrumbado. Enterrado entre los escombros, luché denodadamente hasta que terminé por salir por mi propio esfuerzo. El espectáculo que tenía ante mis ojos era apocalíptico. Entre escalofriantes masas de carne, se destacaban lentamente, a rastras, aquellos en los que había una chispa de vida .Empezamos los Ver CONVERTIDO en página 19

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en una familia muy cariñosa. Vengo de una familia que no importa quien seas ya sea tíos, abuelos, primos, o lo que sea, tú eres familia. Pero mi familia inmediata es mi mamá Yvonne, mi papá Ron, mi hermano Cody, mi cuñada Tiffany y mi sobrina Alliza.

-¿En qué clase de hogar (vida en familia) creciste?

Originalmente crecí en Nuevo México, pero me vine a Arizona cuando tenía seis años. Recuerdo muy bien que nos juntábamos muy seguido con nuestra familia de Nuevo México. Yo siempre, hasta ahora, con gusto anticipo ver a mi familia. Para mí, eso es lo que es tener un T J. PEARSON buen pasatiempo. Nos juntamos casi todo el tiempo y cocinamos afuera y nos sentamos a platicar. Aunque nos hubiéramos visto dos semanas antes, platicamos como si no nos hubiéramos visto en años. También nos sentamos a escuchar a mi abuelo tocar música mientras saboreamos la comida sabrosa que hacen mis tías. Esta es la clase de hogar en el que yo crecí; una familia hispana muy cariñosa.

-¿Cuándo fue la primera vez que pensaste en ser sacerdote?

Yo pensé en ser sacerdote desde que era muy chico, desde que tenía como ocho años. Pero cuando crecí más ya no lo tomé en serio. Era monaguillo y me encantaba ayudar en la iglesia, pero también me gustaba la vida social, estando con mi

En

el Camino al

Sacerdocio

Este es el sexto en una serie de artículos en donde seminaristas relatarán personalmente cómo y por qué encontraron sus caminos al sacerdocio en la Diócesis de Tucson.

Para aprender más en como convertirse en seminarista, contacta la Oficina de Vocaciones al 520-838-2531 o envía un email: vocations@diocesetucson.org.

‘Lo veo como dando de mí mismo a otros’

familia y amigos. Si me hubieras preguntado qué quisiera hacer cuando terminara la preparatoria, cuando estudiaba preparatoria, mi contestación pudiera haber sido, ir a la escuela militar, ser policía, ir a la Universidad de Arizona y adquirir mi título en música, o algo así por el estilo. Si me hubieras preguntado que si alguna vez había pensado en ser sacerdote, te hubiera respondido diciéndote sí, pero creo que no es para mí. No fue hasta que estaba en el tercer o cuarto año de preparatoria que empecé realmente a pensar seriamente en ser sacerdote.

- ¿Tuviste un sacerdote a quien quisiste emular en tu juventud?

Un sacerdote a quién siempre quise emular en mi juventud fue al Padre Rudy Rosales, que ahorita es el párroco de la parroquia Holy Angels en Globe. Yo lo admiraba porque él siempre sabía exactamente lo que quería y no tenía miedo de pedir ayuda para lograr la meta que quería.

Para mí el era un hombre muy santo, alguien que podía hablar de la Virgen de Guadalupe con tal elocuencia que te hacía sentir escalofrío en la espina. En mi mente, yo quería ser un sacerdote como él; uno, porque para mí, el era un sacerdote real, envuelto en la comunidad y cuidaba mucho a su parroquia, y dos, porque él, como yo, tenía una gran devoción a Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe.

-¿Cómo consideras que será tu sacerdocio?

Preveo mi sacerdocio ser un tiempo lleno de gozo, pero también uno de sacrificio propio para Dios y los demás. Lo veo siendo una jornada cuaresmal por toda la vida, con hincapié en el aspecto de sacrificio propio, pero tampoco en la manera estricta de la palabra. Lo veo dándome a mí mismo a los demás, y a la Iglesia.

-¿Cuál es tu gozo más grande al contemplar el sacerdocio?

Hay muchos gozos para mí al contemplar mi sacerdocio, pero, uno de ellos es simplemente el poder tener la oportunidad de poder hacer presente la presencia de Dios en la Misa; para mí, ese es mi gozo más grande. También, en segundo lugar, es saber que podré ayudar a la gente en maneras que los doctores lo pueden hacer; ayudar a las personas alcanzar lo más alto en sus vidas espirituales, y en retorno ellas ayudándome a mí.

-¿Qué le dices a alguien que está considerando el sacerdocio?

Les diría que no es una jornada fácil, que es muy pesada. Pero, no por que es dura, quiera decir que no es también llena de alegrías. Yo, cada día, le doy gracias a Dios por mi vocación, por permitirme estar aquí, estudiando, en el seminario. Es duro dejar tu casa y tus amigos, y hay tiempos cuando te hace sentir triste, pero cuando miras al lado positivo de ello, te alientas porque dentro de ti sabes que Dios te está llamando a algo mucho más grande.

-¿Cuál es tu devoción favorita?

Soy muy Guadalupano, en otras palabras, tengo una gran devoción a Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. Le tengo devoción porque ella le pidió a un indio muy humilde, Juan Diego, que le llevara un mensaje al Obispo, pero en todas las etapas de su jornada, ella siempre le recordaba que ella siempre estaba con él. Yo tomo ese mismo mensaje a mi corazón, y cuento con que la Madre Bendita esté siempre conmigo, mientras hago mi jornada al sacerdocio.

-¿Cómo te relajas? ¿Tienes un lugar de vacaciones favorito y/o un lugar de retiro?

Para mí, me encanta estar afuera y caminar los alrededores. Me gusta conocer lugares nuevos y a ver cosas nuevas. Yo no soy de aquellos que se queda sentado recluido todo el día, aunque esté lloviendo. Uno de los lugares favoritos que me gusta visitar es San Diego. Mi familia y yo tratamos de ir allí, más o menos cada dos o tres años.

Pero cuando me quedo atorado en mi cuarto, como al fin del día, me gusta relajarme leyendo tomando café calientito o hablando de cualquier cosa con algunos de mis mejores amigos.

- Describe un buen día en el seminario.

Un buen día en el seminario es aquel en el que puedo hacer una rutina de ejercicios y cardio-vascular. Pero, un muy, muy buen día es cuando puedo completar todas las lecturas que tenga para el día siguiente. El seminario es una vida muy ocupada, pero me gusta.

- “Le sorprendiera a la gente saber... que soy Hispano, por ambos lados de mi familia, que toco trompeta, guitarra y acordión, que estoy en un grupo de música aquí en el seminario que toca música hispana para diferentes funciones.”

T.J. Pearson es un seminarista en tercer año en el Mount Angel Seminary en St. Benedict, Ore. Su parroquia es el Sacred Heart en Clifton, Ariz.

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primeros cuidados, pero nunca me había sentido tan impotente, tan inútil para poder ayudar a aquellos seres humanos destrozados y desgarrados por el dolor.

No podíamos atender a todos los que se agolpaban en torno a los escasos médicos supervivientes. Apenas habíamos mal vendado a uno, cuando se presentaba otro con la misma súplica: ¡Doctor, sálveme! Jamás me había sentido tan impotente como al mirar el terrible panorama de miedo, de agonía, de muerte y destrucción. No podía hacer nada, absolutamente nada. La sangre me corría por el rostro, desde las sienes hasta la barbilla. Los ojos parecía que me iban a estallar. A veces, queriendo incorporar un cuerpo, para ver si retenía aún señales de vida, se deshacía en mis manos como fango pegajoso. Miré al cielo y oré.

Al día siguiente, siguió curando a los heridos sin darse tregua. El día 11 pudo ir a su casa, pero su casa no existía más y hasta le resultó difícil encontrarla. Buscó entre los restos a su esposa. Estaba calcinada.

Recogió sus huesos y vio que, en su mano derecha, tenía un rosario. Había muerto con el rosario en la mano.

Más tarde, al remover los restos de su casa, encontró el crucifijo, que la familia de Midori había conservado durante 250 años en medio de las persecuciones. Pudo decir: He sido despojado de todo y sólo he encontrado este crucifijo. El 20 de noviembre, en una misa por todos los difuntos de la ciudad, en la catedral de Urakami, el barrio católico de Nagasaki, dijo en su intervención: El holocausto de Jesucristo en el Calvario, ilumina y confiere significado a nuestras vidas.

Takashi Nagaï fue un gran médico católico, que ofreció sus sufrimientos por la salvación del mundo.

Murió a los 43 años, debido a los efectos de las miles de radiografías tomadas sin la debida protección. En 1949 recibió en su casa la visita del Emperador del Japón, reconociéndole sus méritos a favor de la patria.

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By RUTH LILJENQUIST

New low-income complex nearing completion

In late summer, Casitas on East Broadway, a new low-income senior housing complex in Central Tucson will be completed, giving 57 low-income individuals or couples a safe, decent, and affordable home.

And that means a lot.

Throughout Arizona, as well as the entire nation, many seniors worry about providing for their basic needs—food, shelter, and clothing. In addition, as they grow older and more frail, other concerns arise—maintaining their independence, keeping up their homes, living in a safe environment, getting help in an emergency, and living life healthily and happily in a supportive community.

While independent and assisted living facilities are available to address these concerns, such facilities are often out of reach financially for many seniors, especially those on low fixed incomes.

“There is a great need for affordable housing units for low-income seniors,” said Jesus Mora, housing director for CCS’ Pio Decimo Center. “And while Casitas’ 57 units are only a fraction of the 10,000 + affordable

A rendering of Casitas, a senior housing complex, on East Broadway in Tucson

housing units we are short of in the state of Arizona, these units will make a difference for the people that live in them.”

The new independent living complex will feature 57 one-bedroom apartments of roughly 520 square feet. All are being built with seniors in mind, with roll-in showers, wide hallways and doors, and safety features.

In addition to the housing units, Casitas will also have a large meeting room with a kitchenette, a computer room, and covered outdoor walkways and spaces for residents to enjoy. Further, Casitas is being built with “green” technology and high energy-efficiency standards, which will create a health-

ier environment for residents and reduce operational costs.

Casitas on East Broadway is funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and was developed cooperatively by Catholic Community Services and the Tucson Housing Foundation. It will be owned and operated, however, by an independent, single-purpose non-profit entity.

CCS staff at Pio Decimo Center will operate and manage Casitas in much the same way as they do the Lalo Guerrero Barrio Viejo Elderly Housing complex in Downtown Tucson, coordinating social activities, transportation, and community involve-

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Pio Decimo Center will soon be taking tenant applications for the new complex.

Tenants, who must be at least 62 years old and meet income eligibility requirements, will pay 30 percent of their adjusted income for the rent, which includes utilities. Mora encourages people to apply. “We take into account several factors when determining eligibility and expect that 95 percent of the applicants will be eligible.”

Having a decent, safe, and affordable place to live gives seniors peace of mind, said Mora, who has worked closely with CCS’ current low-income senior housing residents. “When residents get their key, they often cry,” said Mora. “They are so relieved because they know they will be okay. They feel part of something and have a place to belong to. And for many of them, this is the best place they’ve ever had to live.” Mora expects Casitas on East Broadway to provide that same peace of mind to its future residents.

For more information about CCS’ Casitas on East Broadway, call (520) 624-0551.

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April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.

The history of this special observance began nearly 30 years ago when the alarm was sounded over the rapid increase in the number of children being abused.

Congress and the President made child abuse prevention a national priority in 1983 by designating April as a special month to raise our national consciousness about the terrible impacts of child abuse.

As an institution in our society that is closely linked to the well-being of families and children, our Church joins in this observance each year. I want to do my part this year by sharing a reflection on the history of a critical component of our diocesan Safe Environment Program – personal safety education for children.

Eight years ago this June, the bishops of the U.S. included in the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People the commitment to teach children how to contribute to their own safety.

Initially, no one knew exactly how that commitment would be honored, but in our Diocese we had two important helps in getting started.

First, we had these three firm principles about personal safety education for children: children can play an effective role in their own safety; personal safety education is a practical amplification of what our faith teaches about respect for self and others; and, in this age of media saturation, there is no perfect world of innocence for children of school age.

Second, we were fortunate to have the resource of the Southern Arizona Children’s Advocacy Center.

The Advocacy Center offered personal safety education for children all over our Diocese, and its programs are still approved and used by many of our parishes and There’ no time like the present, Alleluia! Alleluia!

“We remember how you loved us to your death. And still we celebrate for You are with us here. And we believe that we will see you when you come in your glory, Lord.

We remember, we celebrate, we believe!”

This song composed by Marty Haugen is profoundly suitable for our Easter season.

All it needs are several “Alleluias!” at the end. He is able to capture in those four lines what it is we celebrate not only during this Easter Season, but at every Eucharist.

We Catholics have an unusual way with words. We say that we “celebrate” Holy Week. We walk with Jesus through his

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I hope that you will feel a renewed sense of the important role you play to reinforce messages of personal safety education with your children and grandchildren, and to listen to them when they speak of the challenges they face in their world. schools.

Despite the lack of resources, this initial program for the education of children went very well. Nevertheless, it became clear that alternatives were needed to allow different content each year and to integrate the teaching of personal safety with the religious education curriculum, both in terms of schedule and content.

By 2006, our Diocese was ready to develop and publish its own personal safety curriculum for children and youth. A group of parish and school educators and administrators worked intensively over a period of six months to complete the project in time for the 20062007 academic year.

The new curriculum allowed teachers, with the help of outside speakers or videos, to present personal safety education in a fresh way each year and do so during

regular class times, integrating the age-appropriate content with the teaching of our faith.

Since the introduction of the Personal Safety Curriculum for Children and Youth, many persons have worked hard to help teachers feel comfortable in delivering the lessons. There have obstacles, but through patient explanation by our supportive pastors and principals, tremendous progress has been made.

Last academic year, for example, more than 20,000 children and youth received personal safety education. Parent refusals were only about two percent, and most of those were limited to a few areas, indicating the need for clearer explanation of what is being taught.

Only one parish elected to rely completely on the local public school system’s curriculum rather than teaching personal safety from our own Catholic perspective.

There will always be some who believe that personal safety education is “overdone” or who think that personal safety and religious education don’t mix.

But I hope that this history and the good news of the progress we have made will motivate you to support personal safety education for children in your parish and school.

I hope that you will feel a renewed sense of the important role you play to reinforce messages of personal safety education with your children and grandchildren, and to listen to them when they speak of the challenges they face in their world.

And, thinking beyond your own children, I hope that you will take time in this special national month dedicated to child abuse prevention to think about and pray about supporting the church and civic institutions that work to keep all children safe from abuse.

That All May Know the Savior A reflection on the challenges and joys of ministry from the Jordan Ministry Team

Peggy Guerrero

triumphant entry into Jerusalem. We remember and do as he told us to by sharing the bread of life and the cup of salvation. We watch with him in the garden, we walk with him along the road to Calvary.

We stand by the cross with Mary. We lay him tenderly and sorrowfully in the tomb.

And we wait.

The remembering is so much more than recalling to mind. Our community

remembering allows God to break into the present moment, to be fully present to us in the sacramental bread and wine, which becomes Jesus’ own body and blood. The faith of God’s people, cooperating with God’s Holy Spirit, brings the past to us in the present. Bread is more than bread.

Wine is more than wine. We are more than individuals gathered in a building. We are the Body of Christ.

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And there is more! Just as our remembering is more than simply recalling the events of the past, we look to the future with more than faint hope. Even as we celebrate Jesus’ resurrection, we live and move and place our whole being in the conviction that we too are called into eternal life.

Celebrating the Eucharist brings together our past, our present, and our future.

So, just as our remembering is more than simple recall, our waiting is more than biding our time. We don’t just wait; we wait in hope for the coming of the Kingdom of God, building even as we wait. No wonder this is the season of Alleluia!

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She’s seen ‘monumental change’ Sister Barbara Sullivan, C.S.J, a member issues of the poor, and the environment, of the religious staff at St. Frances Cabrini around the world,” she said.

The full change for the C.S.J. communiparish in Tucson, will be honored by the Cabrini congregation April 10-11 in cele- ty took 20 years. “It took lots of prayer and bration of the Golden Jubilee of her reli- discussion,” she said, “but it meant more of expanding our possibilities. We began gious service.

Parishioners and friends are invited to to do other ministries. We began to live in a reception recognizing her 50 years of neighborhoods to be more connected.”

Sister Barbara has an infectious enthuservice on April 11 from 1-3 p.m. in the siasm for the work she has done. “It’s been parish hall. She will also be acknowledged an exciting time to live at the 5 p.m. Mass on through, and there Saturday, April 10th have been monumenand Sunday morntal changes.” ing Masses at 8:30 and Father Robert Full10:30 on April 11. er, pastor at St. FranBorn May 30, 1936, ces Cabrini, commentSister Barbara grew up ed: “She’s more like in Salt Lake City, gradan associate pastor, uated from Mount St. except we don’t have Mary’s College in Los Angeles in 1959, and SISTER BARBARA...then and now those in the Church, became a postulant for the C.S.J order so I’ll call her a pastoral associate.”

Sixteen years ago, Father Fuller was later that year, taking her final vows in 1967. After teaching in the Los Angeles looking for someone to fill a part-time area, she was reassigned to the Tucson position. “I was more interviewed than diocese in 1973, and taught at Salpointe she was interviewed.” It was clear Sister High School and was active at St. Cyril’s Barbara wanted a position where her parish until finally joining the staff at St. skills fit the work. “She knows where her gifts are and she wants to use them in the Frances Cabrini in 1994.

At Cabrini she became the director right situation. She wanted the right job.”

Said Father Fuller: “Sister Barbara of adult spiritual information, R.C.I.A., and coordinates many parish programs, brings an exceptional excellence to RCIA. including liturgies. She has played a She is warm and welcoming, accepting of key role in helping the parish grow and people where they are on their journey to the Church. She inflames them in their expand.

Vatican II had a huge impact on Sister love of God and of the Church.”

Father Fuller said Sister Barbara “has Barbara’s life as a religious. “Vatican II opened up my vision of what was possi- brought a great deal of creativity to St. ble,” she said. “We were asked to go back Frances Cabrini. The way we celebrate to our Founders, who wanted us to do Lent with the one-hour Lenten retreats everything that woman is able to do, and comes from her creativity. We have a very in the 60’s, everything that woman could deep spiritual experience in just an hour.

“Our celebration of Pentecost is her do expanded.”

Physically, the biggest change for the idea,” he added, “wanting everyone to feel C.S.J. order was out of the habit. “Our gifted by the Holy Spirit, so we distribFounders did not want us to stand out. We ute gifts of the Holy Spirit to everyone in church.” were to dress as widows of the era.

“She does all of this in a very quiet “All the religious orders have been on the forefront of justice, women’s issues, way.”

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Rally for immigration reform People rally at a demonstration for comprehensive immigration reform on March 21 on the National Mall in Washington. The event, which drew immigrants and immigrant advocates from around the nation, was led by a mix of faith groups. Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, archbishop of Los Angeles, addressed the crowd for the Catholic Church.

Bishops applaud, voice concern about health care reform law The cardinal said it remained to be WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The presiseen whether the executive order signed dent of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops praised new health reform legis- by Obama would be adequate to keep the lation for expanding health care to more status quo on federal funding of abortion.

On the question of conscience, he said: Americans but said the bishops and the Catholic community will be watching “I suspect that there will be court challengclosely to ensure that the new law does not es to Catholic medical practice.”

The USCCB released a statement on expand federal funding of abortion.

“We are apprehensive as we look to the health reform that was endorsed by the bishops’ 32-member Adminisfuture, even as we applaud trative Committee. much of the increased care “As Catholic bishops, we that will be available,” Cardihave expressed our support for nal Francis E. George of Chicaefforts to address this national go told Catholic News Service and societal shortcoming,” the shortly after President Obama statement said. signed into law the Patient “Nevertheless, for whatevProtection and Affordable er good this law achieves or Care Act. intends, we as Catholic bish“So we will watch basically and try to continue to enter CARDINAL GEORGE ops have opposed its passage because there is compelling into conversations as a moral voice – never as a political voice; we’ve evidence that it would expand the role of been very careful to insist upon the moral the federal government in funding and principles that everybody should be cared facilitating abortion and plans to cover for and no one should be deliberately abortion,” it said.

The statement also said the new law killed,” he said.

Cardinal George acknowledged that “failed to include necessary language to “the unity of the church has been wound- provide essential conscience protections” ed” in various political actions and conver- and could leave many immigrant workers sations surrounding the health reform and families “worse off since they will not be allowed to purchase health coverage in debate.

“The bishops know that they don’t the new exchanges to be created, even if speak for every one of the 61 million Cath- they use their own money.”

The statement expressed the belief that olics in the country, but what we do is we speak for the Catholic faith itself,” he said. “new legislation to address its deficiencies “And those who share the faith will gath- will almost certainly be required.” er around.”

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Bishops’ statement The following statement on legislation impacting vulnerable people was released by Bishops Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix, James S. Wall of Gallup, N.M., and Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson.

As Bishops of the Arizona Catholic Conference, our thoughts and prayers are with all of our elected state representatives as they face very difficult decisions on a number of important issues.

Among these issues is our state’s budget deficit. Unfortunately, Arizona continues to have one of the worst deficits in the country when compared to the size of its base budget. We realize that there are no easy solutions to fixing either our economy or the budget, but we continue to ask that our representatives always keep in mind the most vulnerable among us - the unborn, children, the elderly, and all who are struggling just to make ends meet.

We are grateful for legislative support of measures to protect unborn children, to promote the protection of marriage as a foundational institution in our society, and to expand educational opportunities for all children through school choice. At the same time, however, we are concerned with high profile measures relating to immigration that we believe could be detrimental to public safety and that could divide families.

In particular, it is our understanding that SB 1070 and HB 2632 are identical bills aimed at requiring greater enforcement of immigration laws by local police. In addition to the concerns expressed by local police agencies throughout Arizona, we are concerned that the present language of these bills does not clearly state that undocumented persons who become victims of crime can come forward without fear of deportation.

After all, it is in all of our best interests that all people in our state - regardless of their citizenship status - should not be afraid to report crimes. Anything that may deter crimes from being reported or prosecuted will only keep dangerous criminals on the streets, making our communities less safe.

Another aspect of these bills that concerns us is that Arizona would become the first state in the nation to codify its own “illegal immigration” law by requiring persons who are here unlawfully in terms of federal law to be charged with trespassing under Arizona law. The charge for the first offense would be a high misdemeanor; for the second offense a felony.

We understand that supporters of these bills claim that the intent of this “trespassing” law is to allow local police to hold undocumented immigrants who are suspects in crimes. However, the bill itself does not limit enforcement to persons suspected of criminal activity, thus leaving the possibility of criminalizing the presence of even children and young persons brought into our country by their parents. If enacted, these bills could lead to separation of family members that would not take place under current federal law.

We believe it would be far better to withdraw these bills than to risk costly and unfairly punitive enforcement.

The problems with our immigration system are complex, and it is our prayer and hope that Congress will ultimately address this broken system with comprehensive immigration reform. In the meantime, we are concerned that local legislation not create new problems for families or have a negative impact on public safety.

We are grateful for the public service that all of our elected officials give to better our state, and we pray that their decisions are guided by wisdom and a concern for the most vulnerable among us.

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Photos for The New Vision by Kim Eldon

Tohono O’odham representatives carry statue of St. Francis Xavier and Mark O’Hare of Kino Heritage Society bears fruit baskets at St. Augustine Cathedral during the annual memorial Mass in honor of Padre Kino.

600 attend ‘Padre Kino’ Mass in Tucson

By JULIETA GONZÁLEZ As a lone bag-piper sounded “Amazing Grace,” several community and diocesan organizations processed down the aisle at St. Augustine Cathedral to begin the annual memorial Mass in honor of Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino on Saturday, March 13. Period music from the late 1600s to early 1700s was played to accompany individuals carrying representations of Padre Kino’s gifts to the Pimería Alta, as this region was known then.

Some 600 people attended the Mass.

Baskets of fruit, wheat and corn and an olive branch were brought into the Cathedral along with a saddle and blanket, a Bible, a map and blue shells.

Those very gifts from the Jesuit missionary, who ministered among Native people from 1687 until his death in 1711, were the topic of the homily delivered by Rev. Christopher Corbally, S.J. who concelebrated the Mass with Rev. Patrick Crino, Rector of St. Augustine Cathedral, and Rev. Ermeregildo Saldaña-Taneco, S.T., pastor of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Parish.

Of course, as Fr. Corbally, concluded, the true gift was that of Padre Kino

himself and his Faith. Also to honor Padre Kino and his time, the liturgy of the Mass was chanted in Latin.

About 50 people attended a pre-Mass presentation

by Father Sean Carroll, S.J., director of the Kino Border Initiative, titled “Protect-

ing Dignity and Life on the Border.” Padre Kino was remembered as a servant of God who brought together diverse groups of people in the spirit of care and harmony.

The Mass and presentation were organized by

the Kino Heritage Society which established as its mission to promote the legacy of Padre Kino and to support his cause for Canonization. For more information, contact Society chairman Rosie Garcia: RosieGar@msn.com.

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