August Issue 2009

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Sts. Peter and Paul student vies for ‘top young scientist’ 8th grader represents Arizona in national contest

By BERN ZOVISTOSKI The New Vision

EMILY CHRISTENSEN

Emily Christensen, an eighth-grader at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School in Tucson who’ll be a freshman at Salpointe High School this fall, is in the running to be named “America’s Top Young Scientist.”

Emily, 14, has been chosen to represent Arizona as one of 50 semifinalists from middle schools around the nation in the 11th annu-

al Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge.

“These students represent the future of science in America, and we are extremely pleased with the quality of entries…,” said Bill Goodwyn, president of Discovery Education.

The semifinalists were selected for their science communication skills exhibited in a short video about a specific scientific concept that relates to innovative solutions for everyday life, such as how to reduce TV glare or how

to lower heating/cooling bills.

A panel of judges assessed the videos on creativity, persuasiveness, classroom suitability and overall presentation.

Emily’s winning effort was called “Evaporative Cooling in the Desert,” for which she built a simple evaporative cooler and explained how it worked.

Emily, who participated in the regional See SCIENTIST, page 6

Pope’s encyclical: ‘Charity is not an option...’

By CINDY WOODEN Catholic News Service

YEAR for PRIESTS Pope Benedict XVI has declared this the Year for Priests, calling for the Church’s leaders to serve “humbly… with authority.”

-Page 6 Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas talks about the Year for Priests in his monthly commentary.

-Page 3 How the Diocese of Tucson plans to observe the Year for Priests.

-Page 2 What makes “a really great priest?”

The New Vision urges its readers to tell us what they think.

-Page 5 The Year for Priests resonates with Bishop Kicanas as he tells about the life’s work of a Franciscan priest.

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VATICAN CITY -- Ethical values are needed to overcome the current global economic crisis as well as to eradicate hunger and promote the real development of all the world’s peoples, Pope Benedict XVI said in his new encyclical.

The document, “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”), was dated June 29 and released at the Vatican on July 7.

The truth that God is the creator of human life, that every life is sacred, The encyclical breaks that the earth was new ground, scholars given to humanity say. to use and protect — Page 12 and that God has a plan for each person must be respected in development programs and in economic recovery efforts if they are to have real and lasting benefits, the Pope said.

Charity, or love, is not an option for Christians, he said, and “practicing charity in truth helps people understand that adhering to the values of Christianity is not merely useful, but essential for building a CNS photo/Jason Reed, Reuters good society and for true integral development,” he wrote.

President meets Pope In addressing the global economic crisis President Barack Obama is greeted by Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican in their first meet- and the enduring poverty of the world’s ing. Among the gifts the Pope gave the President was an autographed copy of his encyclical poorest countries, he said, “the prima“Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”). See story on page 24.

See ENCYCLICAL, page 12

YEAR FOR PRIESTS

Monsignors with their diplomas Holding their diplomas from the Vatican Secretariat of State certifying their new rank are, from left, Msgrs.

Van A. Wagner, Thomas Millane, Edward C. Carscallen and Todd O’Leary, shown with Bishop Kicanas in his office. Their investiture Mass will be celebrated at St. Augustine Cathedral in Tucson on Aug. 9 at 3 p.m.

Pope names four monsignors

Diocesan priests now ‘Chaplains to His Holiness’ Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas announced during their combined 208 years of service June 15 that “four of the finest priests in in the Diocese was the word “exemplary.”

Noting that the honor came just as the our Diocese” have received from Pope Benedict XVI the papal honor of “Chap- Year for Priests was beginning, the Bishlains to His Holiness” in recognition of op said, “I pray that the Holy Father’s recognition will be a reminder to all of our their service to the Church.

With the honor, Fathers Edward priests and to the people of our Diocese of Carscallen, Todd O’Leary, Thomas Millane how much priesthood matters and how the and Van A. Wagner now have the title of pastoral ministry of our priests influences “Reverend Monsignor.” (See box at right.) and touches the lives of so many people.”

Also in the memo, They are the first Bishop Kicanas said the Diocese of Tucson four had been suggestpriests to be named ed to him by their monsignor in the episInvestiture Ceremony brother priests as excelcopacy of Bishop KicaThe public is invited to lent candidates for the nas and the first to be so celebrate the investiture of the honor. honored in the Diocese monsignors at St. Augustine Msgr.

Carscallen, since the late Msgr.

Cathedral on Aug. 9 at 3 p.m. who will be 86 on Aug. Edward Ryle received 18, is the oldest diocthe recognition from esan priest. Ordained Pope John Paul II in in 1947, he has served as pastor at seven 1988.

Bishop Kicanas presented the new parishes. He is pastor emeritus of Sts. Peter monsignors with their “diplomas” (the and Paul Parish in Tucson.

Msgr. O’Leary, 74, is the founding pastor official document issued by the Vatican Secretariat of State that designates the of St. Francis de Sales Parish in Tucson and title) in an informal ceremony at the dioc- St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Tucson, where he presently serves. He also served esan Pastoral Center on June 12.

They will receive their diplomas again as pastor of St. Monica Parish in Tucson.

Msgr. Millane, 73, is the founding at the formal “Ceremony of Investiture” during a special Mass at 3 p.m. at St. Augus- pastor of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in Tucson, where he is pastor emeritus. tine Cathedral on Sunday, Aug. 9.

During the ceremony, Bishop Kica- Ordained in 1963, he also has served as nas also will present them with the purple pastor of St. Andrew the Apostle Parish in sash that signifies the ecclesiastical rank of Sierra Vista.

Msgr. Wagner, 73, has served as pastor monsignor.

In his Monday Memo of June 15 in which of St. Monica Parish and Sts. Peter and he announced the honors, Bishop Kica- Paul Parish in Tucson. Ordained in 1961, nas said that the best way to characterize he served as vicar general of the Diocese and describe how the four have ministered from 1999 until his retirement in 2006.

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All about ‘monsignor’ The title “monsignor” is a papal honor bestowed by the Pope in recognition of a priest’s service to the Church.

The diocesan bishop nominates candidates for the honor by submitting to the Holy See their names and the particulars of their service to the Church.

With the Pope’s decision to confer the honor, the Vatican Secretariat of State issues a diploma designating the new title and rank.

The use of the title “monsignor” dates to the 14th century and the papal court in Avignon, France. At that time, bishops were referred to as “monseigneur,” French for “my lord.” Priests who worked in the papal curia (the administrative and judicial offices of the Pope) also were referred to as “monsignor” and were allowed to wear some of the regalia of a bishop.

There are three ranks of “monsignor,” and priests of one rank may be elevated to a

higher rank at the will of the Pope.

Protonotary Apostolic, the first rank, is conferred predominantly on priests who serve on seven specific positions in the Roman Curia. The honor of Protonotary Apostolic Supernumerary can be conferred on priests outside of the Roman Curia.

Prelate of Honor to His Holiness, the second rank, is associated with service in the papal court and can be conferred to other priests.

Chaplain to His Holiness, the third rank, is the most often conferred papal honor for priests.

All monsignors are considered to be members of the papal household and thus are listed in the Annuario Pontificio, the papal directory that is issued annually.

A monsignor can wear a black Roman cassock with purple buttons, trim and hem and a purple fascia (sash) worn at the waist.

Prayer is focus of Year for Priests

Prayer will be the focus of the Diocese of Tucson’s observance of the Year for Priests – prayer by priests, prayer for priests and prayer for vocations to the priesthood.

Activities and events centered on prayer will begin next month, including: • a specially written “Diocesan Prayer for Priests” for parishes and Catholic schools; • praying for priests in the Diocese by name in the

Prayer of the Faithful at weekend Masses; • two prayer calendars, one for parishes and one for schools, that will have the names of priests to be prayed for; • and praying the Diocesan Prayer for Vocations (www.diocesetucson.org/ vocationsoffice.html).

In his column on page 3 in this issue of The New Vision, Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas emphasizes his hope that parishioners will join their priests in prayer

for Pope Benedict’s intentions for this special year that priests will “refresh and renew their efforts to be holy and to be in greater intimacy with the Lord.”

The Bishop is encouraging priests to set time aside for prayer, spiritual reading, spiritual direction and Scripture study He also is asking parishioners to call or write a priest who has made a difference in their lives to say thanks and to give them affirmation in their vocation.

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Seek intimacy with God

En busca de la intimidad con Dios

Priesthood matters.

Pastoral ministry makes a difference.

These two convictions underlie Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to institute the Year for Priests that began on June 19.

In his letter to priests about this special year, Pope Benedict makes clear that his intention for this worldwide observance by the Church is not to put priests on a pedestal.

To the contrary, his primary intention for this special year is to invite and encourage priests to spend more time on their knees in prayer, especially before the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.

The Holy Father emphasizes for priests their need for intimacy with God as the bedrock on which their priesthood rests.

He wants priests to be men of faith seeking an ever-deepening relationship with the Lord.

This year, then, is an opportunity for priests (bishops, too) to refresh and renew their efforts to be holy and to be in greater intimacy with the Lord.

For our observance of this Year for Priests, I have invited our priests to set time aside for prayer, spiritual reading, spiritual direction and delving into the Holy Scripture. I have encouraged them to join me for our monthly days of prayer.

Pope Benedict holds up for priests the example of St. John Vianney, the CurÈ of Ars, whose personal holiness drew people like a magnet. They saw in him what they most wanted for themselves – an abiding love of God. They sought his counsel because they saw his faith, admired his zeal for Christ. He walked the way they wanted to travel.

Priests can learn from St. John Vianney that authenticity inspires and convinces, that people are drawn to the “real thing.”

The Holy Father reminds priests of their primary responsibilities to pastor God’s people and to lead them into a closer relationship with God. Priests, while they administer, are not administrators. Priests, while they deal with finances are not financiers. Priests, while they set organizational policies and procedures, are not human resource directors.

Priests primarily are spiritual guides, bringing people into closer contact with God. In order to have the time to pastor, they will need to draw upon the laity who have the knowledge, competence and experience to advise and assist them with temporal matters.

Recently, as part of an ecclesial conference for the Diocese of Rome on “Church Membership and Pastoral Co-Responsibility,” Pope Benedict suggested that the Church – lay and clergy together – needs a maturing of the way lay people are regarded. Lay people, he said, are not simply “collaborators of the clergy,” but must be recognized and recognize themselves as “co-responsible” for the being and action of the Church.

When clergy and laity recognize and practice this “co-responsibility,” priests can be freed to nourish their people spiritually through their preaching, their celebration of the sacraments, their service as spiritual directors and their teaching of spirituality.

This Year for Priests, the Holy Father says, is also an opportunity for

El sacerdocio es importante.

El ministerio pastoral produce cambios positivos.

Estas dos convicciones son el fundamento de la decisión del Papa Benedicto XVI de instituir el Año de los Sacerdotes que comenzó el 18 de junio.

En la carta que envió a los sacerdotes acerca de este año especial, el Papa Benedicto deja en claro que su intención para esta observancia de la Iglesia en todo el mundo no es la de poner a los sacerdotes en un pedestal.

Al contrario, su intención principal para este singular año es invitar y motivar a los sacerdotes a pasar más tiempo de rodillas en oración, particularmente ante el Señor en el Sagrado Sacramento.

El Santo Padre señala a los sacerdotes que la necesidad de intimidad con Dios es el cimiento del sacerdocio. Él quiere que los sacerdotes sean hombres de fe en busca de una relación con el Señor en constante proceso de profundización.

Por lo tanto, este año presenta a los sacerdotes, y a los obispos, la oportunidad de reanimar y renovar sus esfuerzos para ser santos y para lograr una mayor intimidad con el Señor.

Para nuestra observancia de este año del sacerdote, he invitado a nuestros sacerdotes a dedicar tiempo a la oración, a la lectura espiritual, a la guía espiritual y al análisis de las Sagradas Escrituras. Les he pedido que se unan a mí en nuestros días de oración todos los meses.

El Papa Benedicto presenta a los sacerdotes el ejemplo de San Juan Vianney, Cura de Ars, cuya santidad personal atraía a la gente como un imán. Veían en él lo que más deseaban para sí mismos: un amor sumiso hacia Dios. Buscaban su consejo porque veían su fe, admiraban su celo por Cristo. Él andaba el camino que ellos querían recorrer.

Los sacerdotes pueden aprender de San Juan Vianney que la autenticidad inspira y convence, que la gente se siente atraída a lo real.

El Santo Padre recuerda a los sacerdotes sus principales responsabilidades de atender al pueblo de Dios y de guiarlos hacia una relación más estrecha con Dios.

Si bien los sacerdotes administran, no son administradores; a pesar de que conducen tareas financieras, no son financistas. Aunque los sacerdotes establecen políticas y procedimientos organizativos, no son directores de recursos humanos.

Los sacerdotes son, primeramente, guías espirituales que acercan a las personas a Dios. A fin de contar con tiempo para dirigir a su rebaño, necesitan de la ayuda de los laicos que poseen conocimientos, pericia y experiencia para aconsejarlos y asistirlos en los asuntos cotidianos.

Recientemente, como parte de una conferencia eclesiástica para la Diócesis de Roma sobre la membrecía en la Iglesia y la corresponsabilidad pastoral, el Papa Benedicto sugirió que la Iglesia –los laicos y el clero juntos– necesita madurar en cuanto a la manera en que contempla a los laicos. Los laicos, dijo, no son solamente “colaboradores del clero” sino que deben ser reconocidos, y reconocerse a sí mismos, como “corresponsables” del estado y de la acción de la Iglesia.

Cuando el clero y el laicado reconocen y practican esta corresponsabil-

Priests can learn from St. John Vianney that authenticity inspires and convinces, that people are drawn to the “real thing.”

Los sacerdotes pueden aprender de San Juan Vianney que la autenticidad inspira y convence, que la gente se siente atraída a lo real.

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the People of God to promote vocations to the priesthood.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if in the next 10 months of this Year for Priests, 10 or more men from our Diocese were to begin studies for the priesthood?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if those men knew how important it was to us that they are entering a seminary to discern God’s call to serve?

Another important aspect of this Year for Priests that the Holy Father emphasizes is up to you.

He hopes that you will pray for, encourage and acknowledge the priests who minister to you.

In our Diocese, I have asked our parishes, schools, religious education programs and spiritual and fraternal organizations to pray for priests by name and to learn more about what priests are doing in service for our Diocese.

The ministry of our priests inspires and impresses me. I know you will feel the same as you get to know them better, and you can do that in this issue of The New Vision by reading about Father Tom Frost, O.F.M., on page 14.

I hope this Year for Priests will encourage you to remember the positive impact a priest has had on your life.

I remember a priest I admired greatly saying to me as he was dying that he wondered whether his whole life had been a waste.

I could not believe what he was saying. He had meant so much to me and to countless other people. I blurted out, “Dan, you matter to me. You have made a difference to me.”

This year, find an opportunity to give that kind of affirmation that to a priest who has inspired you.

Call or write a priest who has made a difference in your life to say thanks.

And, if that priest is deceased, you can express your thanks in your prayer for the repose of his soul.

Pope breaks his wrist VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI, vacationing in the northern Italian Alps, underwent a procedure under local anesthesia to repair his right wrist after he fractured it in a fall during the night of July 16-17, his personal physician said.

The Pope was in good condition and a cast was placed around his broken wrist.

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idad, los sacerdotes tienen mayor libertad para dedicarse a la espiritualidad de su pueblo mediante sus sermones, la celebración de los sacramentos, su servicio como guías espirituales y sus enseñanzas sobre la espiritualidad.

Este Año de los Sacerdotes, nos dice el Santo Padre, es también una oportunidad para que el Pueblo de Dios promueva las vocaciones al sacerdocio. ¿No sería maravilloso si en los próximos 10 meses del Año de los Sacerdotes, 10 o más hombres de nuestra Diócesis comenzaran sus estudios para el sacerdocio? ¿No sería maravilloso si esos hombres supieran cuán importante para nosotros es que ellos ingresen al seminario para discernir el llamado de Dios al servicio?

Otro de los importantes aspectos de este Año de los Sacerdotes que el Santo Padre resalta depende de usted. Él espera que usted rece, anime y reconozca a los sacerdotes que se desempeñan en el ministerio a su servicio.

En nuestra Diócesis, he pedido de nuestras parroquias, escuelas, programas de educación religiosa y organizaciones espirituales y fraternas que recen por los sacerdotes por su nombre y que aprendan más acerca de lo que los sacerdotes hacen al servicio de Dios.

El ministerio de nuestros sacerdotes me inspira y me impresiona. Sé que usted se sentirá igual a medida que los conozca mejor y puede comenzar a hacerlo en este ejemplar de La Nueva Visión donde podrá leer acerca del Padre Tom Frost, O.F.M., en la página 14.

Espero que en este Año de los Sacerdotes se sienta motivado a recordar el impacto positivo que un sacerdote haya tenido en su vida.

Recuerdo a un sacerdote, a quien yo admiraba mucho, que me dijo poco antes de morir que se preguntaba si su vida habría sido un desperdicio.

Yo no podía creer lo que él estaba diciendo ya que había significado tanto para mí y para tantas otras personas. Yo respondí: “Dan, tú eres importante para mí. Tú influiste en mi vida de manera positiva”.

Este año, busque una oportunidad para brindar ese tipo de afirmación a un sacerdote que lo haya inspirado.

Llame o escriba una nota a un sacerdote que haya producido un cambio positivo en su vida y agradézcaselo.

Y si ese sacerdote ya ha fallecido, puede expresar su agradecimiento en una oración por el reposo de su alma.

The New Vision is the award-winning newspaper that serves the people of the Diocese of Tucson.

Cited for “general excellence” by the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada, the newspaper is delivered to all diocesan parishes and schools for distribution on the first Sunday of each month (except July).

“This paper has many spiritually uplifting features,” declared the judges as they awarded The New Vision second place in the 2009 competition among newspapers in the U.S. and Canada with a circulation of 17,001 to 40,000.

Publishing The New Vision is just one of the many ways that Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas and his staff strive to offer parishioners a free flow of news and information about diocesan activities and events.

The New Vision can be a useful educational tool at school, and it is also available on the Web at www.newvisiononline.org.

If you don’t see The New Vision at your parish every month, ask for it!

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What makes ‘a really great priest’?

With thanks to Tricia Hempel, editor and general manager of Catholic Telegraph in Cincinnati, The New Vision is offering readers a special forum during this Year for Priests.

During a recent Sunday Mass, she said, when the pastor told a warm and humorous story during his homily, she overheard a fellow parishioner say: “He’s such a good guy, a really great priest.”

Sadly, she said, “I just don’t hear such

sentiments expressed as much as I once did.”

We agree with that.

So we’re asking our readers to tell us what they feel makes “a really great priest.”

Very briefly, in 100 words or less, give us your view on that question: What makes a really great priest?

Send responses by email to bernz@ diocesetucson.org, or mail to The New Vision, P.O. Box 31, Tucson, AZ 85702.

New Vision cited for ‘general excellence’ The New Vision has been cited for “general excellence” among Catholic newspapers of its size throughout the U.S. and Canada.

The newspaper that serves the Diocese of Tucson won second place in the Catholic Press Association’s annual contest, it was announced at the Catholic Media Convention on May 29 in Anaheim, Calif.

“This paper has many spiritually uplifting features,” the judges said. “We particularly liked the story about the 10 inmates confirmed by Bishop (Gerald F.) Kicanas.

You serve your multicultural community well with stories in Spanish… Bravo!”

Said Bishop Kicanas: “Congratulations to Bern Zovistoski,

managing editor, and Omar Rodriguez, graphic designer, for this recognition.”

The Compass in Green Bay, Wisc., won first place in the competition, which was among newspapers with a circulation of 17,001 to 40,000.

Third place went to Catholic Universe Bulletin in Cleveland. Honorable mentions were awarded to the Tennessee Register in Nashville and Western Catholic Reporter in Edmonton, Alberta.

The New Vision is made available to all parishes throughout southern Arizona. If you can’t find the newspaper at your church, ask your pastor.

For an electronic version, go to www. newvisiononline.org.

Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas Calendar

August 2009

1-2 Vocations Discernment Retreat, Yuma 3-6 Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention, Phoenix 7 St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School, Staff Retreat 8 9 A.M., Diocesan Pastoral Council Meeting 10:30 A.M., Young Adult group from Chicago 1 P.M., Carlos Valencia’s 5th Anniversary Mass, Cathedral 5:30 P.M., Mass, St. Augustine Cathedral, Hispanic Pastoral Music Conference 9 9 A.M., Mass, 200th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Seton Sisters of Charity, SS Peter & Paul; 75 years in Arizona 3 P.M., Mass, Investiture of new Diocesan Monsignors 11 6:30 P.M., Theology on Tap, The Loop restaurant 13 7:30 A.M., Catholic Cemeteries’ Board 10 A.M., Priests Day of Prayer, Redemptorist Renewal Center 14-15 100th Anniversary of the Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City 16 6 P.M., Mass, SS Peter & Paul; Reception for Msgr. Van Wagner 17 9 A.M., Presentation – Arizona Refu-

gee Resettlement Program Conference, La Paloma 18 9 A.M., CARA Conference Call 19 10:30 A.M., Capital Campaign Meeting 11:30 A.M., Mass, Luncheon for Staff Birthdays 19-21 Installation of Archbishop Gregory Aymond, New Orleans 21 6:30 P.M., Diaconate Convocation, Our Mother of Sorrows 22 10 A.M., Cursillo Secretariat, Bishop Moreno Pastoral Center 1 P.M., Religious Education Directors, Our Mother of Sorrows 4 P.M., Mass, Blessing of new Building, Most Holy Trinity 23 10 A.M., Mass, St. Augustine Cathedral 24 10:A.M., Mass, Catalina Mountain School 2 P.M., Mass, Feast of St. Augustine, St. Augustine Catholic High School 29 Parish Visitation, Douglas 5:30 P.M., Mass, Fiesta de San Augustin, St. Augustine Cathedral 30 2 P.M., Mass, Florecitas, St. Augustine Cathedral 31 9 A.M., Hispanic Pastoral Planning Meeting, Redemptorist Renewal Center

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Year for Priests: ‘Serve humbly…with authority,’ Pope says VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Formally opening the Year for Priests, Pope Benedict urged all priests to strive for holiness and said the ordained ministry was indispensable for the Church and the world.

“The Church needs priests who are holy, ministers who help the faithful experience the merciful love of the Lord and who are convinced witnesses of that love,” the Pope said at a prayer service in St. Peter’s Basilica on June 19.

At the same time, in an apparent reference to cases of priestly sex abuse, he warned of the “terrible risk of damaging those we are obliged to save.”

“Nothing makes the Church and the body of Christ suffer so much as the sins of its pastors, especially those who transform themselves into ‘robbers of sheep,’ either because they lead them astray with their private doctrines, or because they bind them in the snares of sin and death,” he said.

Thousands of priests packed the basilica for the evening prayer service, which was preceded by a procession of the relic of the heart of St. John Vianney, the patron saint of parish priests. The Pope proclaimed the yearlong focus on priestly ministry to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the

Sing God’s praise Registration is under way for the sixth bi-annual Hispanic Pastoral Music Conference, to be hosted by the Southwest Liturgical Conference and the Diocese of Tucson on Aug. 6-8.

Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas and many others will attend the event at Tucson’s Hotel Arizona.

The conference presents music workshops and jam sessions and is an opportunity for Catholic musicians who provide music for Spanish-language Masses and liturgical celebrations to learn from and interact with composers, artists and other professionals in the field. Conference organizer Sister Lois Paha, Director of Pastoral Services for the Diocese of Tucson, says the conference “will help participants to assist their pastors in promoting the full implementation of the liturgical reforms given to us in the Second Vatican Council, such

as using local languages and popular music styles in celebration of the Mass.”

Workshops include those that will focus on developing the voice; how to form a choir with limited resources and creative ways of using simple instruments. Publishing companies and other vendors will also be represented at the conference.

The event will include a performance of “Misa Criolla,” a stirring Mass for tenor, chorus and orchestra, based upon folk genres with Andean influences and instruments. It is one of the first Masses to be in a modern language coinciding with the invitation of the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church to celebrate the liturgy in the vernacular language.

Written in 1964, the piece was not publicly performed until 1967 in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Women invited “A Weekend of Worship for Women” will be offered by Vine of Grace Retreat Ministry on Sept. 18-20 at the Arizona Grand Resort in Phoenix.

Vine of Grace Retreat Ministry team members will join women from throughout the state and Father Liam Leahy, pastor of St. Mark Parish in Tucson, for a weekend of anointed teaching, healing, worship, fellowship, laughter and more.

On Friday evening there will be a concert with Chris Muglia.

For more information, call 520-631-1408 or go to www.vineofgrace.org and check the events link.

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saint’s death.

Pope Benedict stopped to pray before the saint’s heart, exposed in a glass and gold reliquary. In his homily, he said the French curate’s heart was “burning with divine love,” a love that priests today need to imitate if they are to be effective pastors.

The Pope said the “essential nucleus of Christianity” is found in the heart of Jesus: The saving love of God that “invites us to step outside of ourselves” and “make ourselves a gift of love without reserve.”

“God’s heart throbs with compassion,” he said.

He said priests should never forget that

that are consecrated to “serve, humbly and with authority, the common priesthood of the faithful.”

“Ours is an indispensable mission for the church and for the world, which demands full fidelity to Christ and unceasing union with him. It demands, therefore, that we tend constantly to sanctity, as St. John Vianney did,” he said.

The Pope said pastoral formation of priests was certainly important for modern priests. But even more necessary, he said, was the “’science of love’ that one learns only in a ‘heart-to-heart’ encounter with Christ.”

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science fair every year since kindergarten, was asked her reaction to making the elite list of semifinalists.

It’s amazing...there are no words...I’m just so thankful to so many people who helped me,” Emily told The New Vision.

“It’s a great experience.”

She earned the right to represent the state in the national competition by winning the Southern Arizona Regional Science and Engineering Fair, where she and her friend, Lexi Wilson, collaborated on a project called “A Better Chocolate Chip Cookie.”

In that project, Emily and Lexi varied the recipe and baked cookies that tastetesters found more delicious than those baked according to the regular recipe.

“We took different amounts of butter and sugar and made different batches and had people taste them,” Emily said. “They liked the ones that were made a bit healthier, with less fat but the same sugar.”

She’s interested in becoming a meteorologist, said her mother, Ann Christensen, who is a biologist. Her dad, Tom, is a neuroscientist.

Emily and the other semifinalists will receive $250 and a prize package including a plaque honoring their science teacher or mentor.

Emily’s science teacher the last two

years has been Cindy Montgomery.

Right now, Emily said, she’s waiting for a call to let her know if she is selected as one of the 10 finalists.

The top 10 finalists will be announced this month, and each will be awarded an all-expenses-paid trip to New York City.

There, on Oct. 6, they’ll compete in the Young Scientist Challenge finals.

The winner will receive $50,000 in U.S. Savings Bonds ($25,000 cash value) and the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist.”

The Challenge targets students in the years when research indicates their interest in science begins to fade and encourages them to explore scientific concepts and creatively communicate their findings.

The program is considered the nation’s premier science competition for middle school students.

Sponsors of the Challenge are Discovery Communications, which developed the Discovery Channel for TV and is transforming classrooms through Discovery Education, and 3M, a research and development company that produces thousands of innovative products for dozens of diverse markets and employs 76,000 people worldwide.

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‘OUR FAITH, OUR HOPE, OUR FUTURE’

Land bought for churches in Maricopa, ‘Magic Ranch’ More rebates flow back to parishes

By BERN ZOVISTOSKI The New Vision As pledged funds continue to be received in the special diocesan renewal campaign, “Our Faith, Our Hope, Our Future,” rebates to parishes totaling $328,000 have been made for the second quarter of this year and the Diocese of Tucson has agreed to pay $1.2 million for two sites for future churches.

The purchase price of the sites – in the town of Maricopa and in Copper Basin – is well below the $1.9 million collected in the campaign to date for the purchase of future parish land.

The search for other sites for future parishes is ongoing.

The Maricopa site, 34 acres at a cost of $775,000, will be the new home of Our Lady of Grace Parish.

The Copper Basin site, known as Magic Ranch in the new area called San Tan, is18 acres at a cost of $513,150. It is in a grow-

Church symbols on map indicate the locations of the land purchased by the Diocese for future churches. The Maricopa site is 34 acres. The site at Copper Basin, known as Magic Ranch, consists of 18 acres. Additional sites are being sought for the future.

ing area now serviced in a school cafeteria

by Father Charles Cloud of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish in Florence.

Contracts have been signed for the land at both sites and the escrow process

PARISH

Goal

Assumption - Florence

198,400

4,514

Blessed Kateri - Tucson

70,400

374

Blessed Sacrament - Mammoth

83,200

849

Corpus Christi - Tucson

332,800

19,635

Holy Angels- Globe

249,600

Holy Cross - Morenci

83,200

Holy Family - Tucson

has begun with closings expected in six to eight weeks.

The new rebate checks to parishes are in addition to the first-quarter rebates that totaled almost $2 million.

“We appreciate donors paying their

Parish

Goal

San Martin de Porres - Sahuarita

224,000

San Solano - Topawa

25,600

San Xavier Mission - Tucson

192,000

Santa Catalina - Tucson

3,197 1,089

160,000

Immac. Heart of Mary - Somerton Immaculate Conception - Ajo

Rebate

Rebate 6,191

pledge payments on time as this enables us to provide these rebates back to their parishes,” said Margie Puerta Edson, executive director of stewardship and development for the doicese’s Charity and Ministry Fund.

“Twenty cents of every dollar donors pay on their pledges goes back to their home parishes,” she noted.

The rebate money has been deposited into the Parish Pooled Trust in a restricted account, to be used by the parishes as described in their individual case statements.

Under the terms of the renewal campaign, each parish will receive 20 percent on the amount it collects as part of a program to support growth in the diocese’s parishes and schools, to support retired priests and to fund various projects.

The parishes will receive 50 percent of any monies collected above and beyond their stated goal amounts.

Pledges to “Our Faith, Our Hope, Our Future” total $45 million, well above the stated goal of $28 million, and so far $13.6 million has been collected.

Many pledges are due on an installment basis, for example monthly or annually, over five years.

Shown below are the rebates paid for the second quarter ending June 30.

Parish

Goal

Rebate

St. Jude - Pearce-Sunsites

48,300

1,195

St. Jude - San Luis

192,000

3,270

1,143

St. Luke - Douglas

179,200

2,234

627,200

9,659

St. Margaret - Tucson

217,600

2,281

Santa Cruz - Tucson

326,400

2,030

St. Mark the Evangelist - Tucson

569,600

N/A *

Ss. Peter & Paul - Tucson

710,400

6,756

St. Mary of the Desert - Tucson

10,000

1,248

St. Ambrose - Tucson

294,400

1,993

St. Monica - Tucson

403,200

2,935

134,400

1,139

St. Andrew the Apostle – Sierra V.

591,360

11,808

St. Odilia - Tucson

768,000

7,210

89,600

1,421

St. Ann - Tubac

134,400

3,210

St. Patrick - Bisbee

140,800

1,499

Immaculate Conception - Douglas

140,800

1,444

St. Anthony - Casa Grande

835,500

4,021

St. Philip - Payson

358,400

Immaculate Conception - Yuma

870,400

8,892

St. Augustine - Tucson

595,200

4,171

St. Pius X - Tucson

1,139,200

Infant Jesus - Kearny

64,000

1,189

St. Bartholomew - San Manuel

70,400

1,267

St. Rita - Vail

192,000

1,136

Most Holy Nativity - Rio Rico

147,200

1,626

St. Bernard - Pirtleville

76,800

843

St. Rose of Lima - Safford

294,400

5,800

Most Holy Trinity - Tucson

563,200

3,241

St. Christopher - Marana

179,200

830

St. Theresa - Patagonia

79,000

857

Our Lady of Blessed Sacrament

198,400

1,701

St. Cyril - Tucson

819,200

5,449

St. Thomas More Newman

364,800

4,244

Our Lady of Fatima - Tucson

339,200

2,362

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton - Tucson

1,000,000

N/A *

St. Thomas the Apostle - Tucson

1,356,800

Our Lady of Guadalupe - Solomon

44,800

143

St. Frances Cabrini - Tucson

499,200

10,960

Tucson Korean Catholic Com. -

10,000

Our Lady of La Vang - Tucson

44,800

510

St. Francis - Elfrida

28,500

133

Our Lady of Grace - Maricopa

230,000

Our Lady of Lourdes - Benson

211,200

3,589

St. Francis - Superior

96,000

699

Our Lady of the Mountains –S.V.

435,200

4,359

St. Francis - Yuma

985,000

10,575

Our Lady of the Valley – Green V.

1,030,400

9,358

St. Francis de Sales - Tucson

1,100,800

21,745

Our Lady, Queen of all Saints

198,400

752

St. George - Apache Junction

1,280,000

11,065

Our Mother of Sorrows - Tucson

1,171,200

14,585

St. Gianna Oratory - Tucson

64,000

561

Sacred Heart - Clifton

102,400

1,568

St. Helen - Eloy

128,000

1,576

Sacred Heart - Nogales

422,400

2,192

St. Helen - Oracle

76,800

524

Sacred Heart - Parker

172,800

617

St. James - Coolidge

153,600

948

Sacred Heart - Tombstone

32,000

373

St. John Neumann - Yuma

175,000

2,367

Sacred Heart - Tucson

339,200

2,094

St. John the Evangelist - Tucson

710,400

3,544

Sacred Heart - Willcox

102,400

349

St. Joseph - Hayden

57,600

1,278

San Carlos Mission - San Carlos

25,600

115

St. Joseph - Tucson

838,400

6,789

San Felipe de Jesus - Nogales

147,200

1,866

St. Joseph - Wellton

70,400

278

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TOTALS

60

2,627 15,675

48,172 N/A* -

27,723,860

327,997

* Parish that did not conduct the campaign because of their own capital campaign, but that pledged their goal.

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Celebrate marriage

Ignatian retreat on Sept. 25 -27 at Picture Rocks

The Diocese of Tucson’s third annual Marriage Celebration will take place on Sept. 20 at 2 p.m. at St. Augustine Cathedral, and couples celebrating milestones – such as a 25th or a 50th anniversary – are welcome to attend.

Register by Aug. 28 by calling Sonya Guttierez at the Bishop’s Office at 520-792-3410, ext. 1023.

Questions? Call Grace Lohr in the Office of Worship at 520-792-3410, ext. 1012.

School to resume English course Immaculate Heart High School in Tucson is reinstituting its English as a Second Language (ESL) program for students of high school age needing intense English language instruction.

Foreign students are interested in enrolling, and host families are needed in the Tucson area.

For most of its existence Immaculate Heart was “very strong in English as a second language,” said Dan Ethridge, principal.

“The school used to be an all-girls school and there were students that were housed in a dorm on campus,” he said.

The school became coed in the early 1970s but the ESL program was still in effect until the 1990s, Ethridge said.

“At that point the dorm building became part of the elementary school and the need for ESL drifted away from priority,” he added.

Now, at the urging of supporters, the school has decided to reinstitute the program.

“Since many of the students that were enrolled in the program live in Mexico and have a desire for their children or grandchildren to learn the English language, the alumni felt that this would be a suitable market to explore.”

Two “highly qualified” teachers are available, Ethridge said, so they school decided “that this would be a suitable market to explore.” He said “only time will tell” if the program will be sustained.

If anyone is interested in sharing their home with an exceptional young person from a foreign country, additional information is available by contacting Tiffany Ragels at Tiffany.asse@yahoo.com, 520-896-2141 or 520-975-6157, or Janet Williams Janwills17@yaho.com, 520-2972851.

Help for workers The American Friends Service Committee and its program Voces de Inmigrantes en Arizona VIA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promote social and economic justice through nonviolent action, is about to begin an educational campaign on how to protect your labor rights in the actual economic crisis.

Sebastian Quinas said the campaign is a result of constant phone calls from workers reporting labor abuses, particularly migrant workers – abuses such as unpaid wages, unjustified fired because the employers sanctions law known as E-Verify, workers are victims of retaliation – and the majority of the workers don’t know

their labor, human and civil rights.

The campaign on labor rights and the actual economic crisis will be complemented by several workshops at different sites: Churches, schools, organizations and house meetings. The workshops will cover the study of The State of Arizona’s Labor Law, the new Employer Sanction/E-verify law, and what can be done about unpaid wages of migrant workers.

“We ask you to help us by organizing a workshop at your church, school, organization or your house,” Quinac said.

For more information, call Quinas at 520-623-9141.

Radio to promote San Miguel Clear Channel Radio/Tucson has announced its seven-station cluster will support Tucson’s youth through a special in-kind media agreement with San Miguel High School.

The seven stations – 93.7 KRQ (KRQQ), Hot 98.3 (KOHT), 92.9 The Mountain

(KWMT), NewsTalk 790 KNST (KNST), Cool 1450 (KWFM), 97.1 La Preciosa (KTZR) and Tejano 1600 (KXEW) – will support the school with a focus on increasing awareness and participation in its Corporate Internship Program.

Church to reopen Santa Cruz Parish has nearly completed its extensive renovation, which includes a new roof and air-conditioning, and will reopen on Saturday, Aug. 15, with a Mass at 5:30 p.m.

The Tucson church, at the corner of Sixth Avenue and 22nd Street, has been closed for three months.

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Sister counts 60 years of ‘amazing blessings’ “When I was 11 years old, I knew I would be a sister…some day, somehow, somewhere.”

Benedictine Sister of Perpetual Adoration Mary Elizabeth Krone’s early calling never failed her, and she was honored for her 60th jubilee during Mass recently at her community in Tucson.

“All who attended were invited to join our community to celebrate and thank God with all of us,” she said.

Sister Mary Elizabeth, born in Kansas and raised in Illinois, said that during her sophomore year in college she realized her religious calling was in contemplative life.

“I didn’t want to join a teaching or nursing order,” she said. “I knew of the Benedictine Sisters through their magazine and because my cousin had joined a few years earlier. They had perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament day and night. I knew they were the ones for me.”

She entered in 1947 and made her first monastic profession on May 29, 1949.

With an ear for music, she began formal organ lessons and still plays the piano and organ for Mass and other services every few weeks.

In addition to Tucson, she has lived in the Benedictine Sisters’ communities in Clyde, Mo., Kansas City, Mo., Mundelein, Ill., San Diego and St. Louis.

“It doesn’t matter the place at all where I live,” she said. “Wherever our Sisters are, the amazing blessings that the life we live as Benedictine adorers is so life-giving, so wonderful, there aren’t any words to describe it adequately.”

She has spent time in the correspondence department, making altar breads and enjoys taking gourmet cooking lessons from the monastery’s cook.

While Sister Mary Elizabeth recalls the days before Vatican II, which altered a variety of rules for religious life, she said, “Our dedication to the Most Blessed Sacrament is still paramount in our daily living. “

St. Ignatius of Loyola, a Spaniard who founded the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits, developed his famous “Spiritual Exercises” in the early 16th century as a means to deeper and more meaningful prayer.

Next month in Tucson, an Ignatian Retreat employing those exercises will be offered at the Redemptorist Renewal Center on West Picture Rocks Road.

“Ignatian Contemplation” is a way of praying with the Bible that not only involves rational reflection but the use of our own feelings and imagination, allowing the Gospel stories to come alive for us.

The Sept. 25-27 weekend retreat will feature Father Felix Just, S.J., and include a combination of short presentations, time for individual prayer, optional small-group sharing and Eucharistic liturgies in the quiet setting near the Tucson Mountains.

Father Just, a Tucson High School graduate with several advanced degrees, is director of Biblical education at the Loyola Institute for Spirituality in Orange, Calif., through which he directs a variety of adult biblical education programs.

No prior experience with Ignatian Contemplation is necessary to benefit from this retreat. Just bring your Bible and a desire to encounter the Lord in profound new ways.

The retreat begins on Friday evening and ends early Sunday afternoon. To register, or for more information, contact Ann Dickson at anndickson@theriver.com or 520-378-2486, or Dr. Paul Duckro at pauld@diocesetucson.org or 520-8382513.

Reachout Center has new director Angela Schneider has been named director of the Reachout Pregnancy Center in Tucson, succeeding Jean Aggerbeck, who resigned because of her husband’s job relocation.

Reachout, at 2648 N. Campbell Ave., provides support and education for pre and post-natal women to choose life for their babies.

Schneider has wide administrative job experience in human resources, accounting and personnel management. She moved to Arizona from Chicago, where she had been treasurer of the Cursillo movement of the Archdiocese of Chicago.

She has been active in pro-life activities at St. Mark Parish and served Reachout first as a clothing bank volunteer and subsequently as a client advocate.

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Minim Sisters celebrate 75 years serving Nogales area A celebratory Mass, a community fun day and a class reunion dinner will highlight the 75th anniversary of the presence of the Minim Sisters in Catholic schools serving children in and around the border town of Nogales.

Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas will lead the Mass on Friday, Sept. 4, in the school gymnasium on East Patagonia Highway, and a luncheon will follow. On Saturday a 5K “nun run/walk” will be held at the school, where people will gather all day to enjoy community activities and food booths.

In the evening, at the Kino Springs Country Club, a dinner will be held for school alumni and guests. Alumni who attended Sacred Heart School from 1934 to 1997; Lourdes Academy from 1940 to 1997; Our Lady of Lourdes High School from 1986 to 1998; and Lourdes Catholic School from 1998 to present are encouraged to participate or attend the weekend festivities.

The City of Nogales, Mariposa Communi-

ty Health Center, Holy Cross Hospital, the Nogales International and other organizations are assisting in the events.

Lourdes Catholic School is a bilingual/ bicultural, private, international institution offering kindergarten through 12th grade. With a school population of more than 325 student, Lourdes Catholic reflects the diverse and unique flavor of its bicultural surroundings.

Lourdes Catholic School traces its roots to Sacred Heart School, a parochial school.

In 1934 the Minim Daughters of Mary Immaculate were asked to administer Sacred Heart School and from the beginning the school exemplified a definite missionary spirit, with the Sisters organizing several catechetical centers in the city, as well as in the outlying communities of Patagonia, Tubac, Carmen and elsewhere.

The Minims also established Our Lady of Lourdes Academy in 1940, where grades 4, 5, and 6 of Sacred Heart School were

Salpointe leader named to Washington position Father Fredrick J. Tillotson, O.Carm., will step down as president and Head of School at Salpointe Catholic High School in Tucson this month to become president of the Washington Theological Union in Washington, DC. One of the finest graduate schools of ministry in the United States, the Union carries out its mission to educate and train priests and lay ministers answering the call for service, witness, mission and leadership in the Church.

The Provincial Council of the Order of the Carmelites, which owns the school, and the Salpointe Board of Directors have begun a search for the new Head of School.

“The past nine years at Salpointe Catholic High School have been deeply satisfying,” Father Tillotson said. “It will be difficult to leave the Salpointe community and the friends and relationships that I’ve made over the years. I accept this challenge humbly and with gratitude for the opportunity to serve the Church in this new position.”

Jeff Nordensson, president of Salpointe’s Board of Directors, said: “Father Tillotson will be leaving an extraordinary legacy. His leadership has extended Salpointe’s tradition of academic excellence and spiritual strength. He has developed a strong leadership team, an exceptional faculty and staff and has positioned Salpointe, both financially and orga-

Father Fredrick J. Tillotson

nizationally, to meet the challenges of the next 20 years. He leaves excellent relationships with the Tucson community, Lancer alumni and current school families.

“We’re going to miss him very much, but we believe that the Washington Theological Union found the best person in the country for their job.”

Salpointe Catholic is a private, co-educational, college preparatory high school that mirrors Southern Arizona in its ethnic diversity.

Since opening in 1950, Salpointe Catholic has earned a reputation for its strong curriculum, competitive athletics, acclaimed fine arts, faith-strengthening religious program and spirited co-curricular activities.

The school offers a holistic model of education that emphasizes an integration of the spiritual, intellectual, moral, physical, psychological and social development of its students.

transferred, to better meet the needs of the local communities. This marked the beginning of an intertwined history of the two sister schools. Grades were moved between both campus as the needs dictated with the first 8th grade class graduating from Sacred Heart School in 1983.

Our Lady of Lourdes High School was founded in August 1986 as an answer to concerned parents who wanted their children to continue their education in a Catholic school in their own community.

A grade was added during the following three years and the first Senior Class graduated in May 1990.

The financial responsibilities of Sacred Heart School were given over to the school administration in 1992. This began the long process of privatization of the school.

During the summer of 1997 grades 6, 7 and 8 were returned to the Patagonia Road campus (Our Lady of Lourdes Academy and High School). The Bilingual Commercial program was phased out; the former

Academy became Lourdes Catholic Middle and High School.

As a result of the 1998 negotiations with the Diocese of Tucson to privatize Sacred Heart School, the two sister schools merged into Lourdes Catholic School. In 2001, with the completion of the Elementary school building, grades PK through 5 left its Sacred Heart campus and moved to its present site.

The new challenge being faced by Lourdes Catholic School is the current economic situation: How to keep Catholic education affordable, while meeting budgetary needs.

Lourdes Catholic School continues in the Minim tradition of dedicated service.

It is the first regional, international school in the Diocese of Tucson and the state of Arizona. It is in compliance with requirements set by WCEA and NCA for full accreditation of the school.

For more information, call (520) 287-5659, Ext. 2222.

More than victory at stake for Salpointe football team

The Salpointe community knows that there is more to life than football, so when the this year’s football squad was placed on probation for an AIA recruiting violation and prohibited from postseason playoffs, coach Dennis Bene took a stand.

At his annual preseason parents’ meeting, Coach Bene spoke of Salpointe’s perennial strength among the football powerhouses in Arizona despite its much smaller size. Somewhere between the heated rivalries and high-pressure wins, Coach Bene admitted that players, parents and coaches alike often place too much emphasis on the game of football and may forget the more important life lessons that athletics often teach.

Winning the AIA 5A Division I state championship might be exciting, exhilarating and unforgettable, but it’s certainly not the greatest accomplishment a player might experience.

In an effort to relieve the frustration his players were feeling when news of probation broke, Coach Bene derived the idea of “Games for the Greater Good” because he felt that volunteer work and playing for a good cause could far outweigh any victory.

Said Bene: “The sole purpose of creating Games for the Greater Good was to show my players that life has so much to offer and we (the Salpointe Catholic football team) are truly blessed. In light of our relative adversity, I wanted the true character of my players to be revealed. At the end of the day, we are

grateful for our good fortune and we look to share it with others.”

“Games for the Greater Good” is a nonprofit community service project designed to raise awareness for local and national causes, and the campaign will take place during the 2009 season, with each home game honoring a special cause: Davis Monthan Air Force Base and all active and retired American servicemen and women (Sept. 11), Special Olympics (Sept.

17), Arizona Cancer Center and Breast Cancer Awareness (Oct. 2), Steele Memorial Research Center for Juvenile Diabetes (Oct. 30) and the Southern Arizona Community Food Bank (Nov. 6).

Throughout the summer, members of the Salpointe football team will do volunteer work to experience firsthand how each cause affects those involved with it.

Their charity work will include attending a deployment at the Davis Monthan Air Force base, collecting magazines to bring to women receiving treatment at the cancer center, coaching and umpiring for a Special Olympics softball league and working at the local community food bank.

Various Salpointe clubs and sports teams have also volunteered to get involved in the festivities, planning food drives, awareness days for students to experience life with juvenile diabetes and collecting packages to be mailed to troops.

For more information, including ways to get involved, email Merri Siler at msiler@ salpointe.org or call 520-547-4341.

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Mission: Music

Instruments still sought There’s still time for you to dust off that unused musical instrument and donate it to students at Catholic-run schools near Amman, Jordan.

“We’re tickled to death with the response,” said Jim Ronstadt, a spokesman for the Tucson unit of the Knights and ladies of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, which is conducting the drive for donations.

The organization will take part in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in November, and will take along the instruments for the schools, which don’t have any, he said.

“We’re going to purchase sheet music and the training music so the kids can learn how to play,” he said.

Donations of instruments can be made at Beaver’s Band Box in Tucson: At 7918 N. Oracle Rd., or at 4570 East Broadway. Owner Dan Beaver will provide donors with receipts for tax purposes.

Seminar scheduled Father John Hampsch, CMF, internationally known teacher and preacher, is coming to Tucson in September to direct a seminar titled “Winning the Battle with Christ’s Healing Power.”

The seminar will be held on Sept 25 from 6:30 – 10 p.m. and Sept. 26 from 9:30 a.m. till 10 p.m.

Sponsored by Hands of Christ Ministry, the seminar will be at St. Francis de Sales Parish, 1375 Camino Seco. Registration is required. For more information, call 520-2985830 or go to vineofgrace.org.

‘40 Days for Life’ coming

Jesuit celebrates 50 years Father Donald G. Bahlinger, S.J., chaplain for Jesuit Relief Service’s Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, observed his 50th year in the priesthood during a special milestone Mass on July 26 in his native New Orleans.

Jesuits of the New Orleans Province and guests gathered for a decadeslong tradition of honoring priests and brothers reaching certain milestones of service. A special reception followed in landmark hotel, The Roosevelt New Orleans.

This year’s honorees have gifted a combined total of 1,500 years of service to the Church and community.

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Father Bahlinger entered the Society of Jesus in 1946 and served as a school principal and guidance director in Houston before spending 20 years as a missionary in Guatemala, El Salvador and Paraguay. He later returned to Texas to serve as associate pastor of St. Joseph Church in Houston. He also served as associate pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in San Antonio.

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The Tucson chapter of the Arizona Right to Life Committee is sponsoring a fall campaign of “40 Days for Life” from Sept. 23 through Nov. 1 with special events at Reid Park and a vigil outside Old Pueblo Family Planning Clinic on Beverly Street.

The chapter is part of the National Right to Life Committee, whose stated goal is “to restore legal protection to innocent human life” by outlawing abortion. It is also concerned with related matters of medical ethics which relate to the right-to-life issues of euthanasia and infanticide.

The kickoff of the campaign will be held on Sunday, Sept. 20, from 3 to 5 p.m. at Reid Park’s Ramada 10 at Country Club Road near 22nd Street. A half-way celebration will occur on Sunday, Oct. 11, and a final rally on Sunday, Nov. 1.

For more information, call Sunny Turner at 520-9089765 or go to http://40daysforlifetucson.org.

Refugee program Keynote speakers, thematic sessions and workshops will be featured at the annual Arizona Refugee Resettlement Program conference on Aug. 17-18 at the Westin La Paloma in Tucson.

Refugees, refugee service organizations and members of the public will have an opportunity to learn about the changing dynamics of refugee settlements and the best practices that are helping refugees to transition successfully to life in Arizona.

For more information or to register, call 480-893-7775 or email alex@kc-a.com.

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ANNUAL CATHOLIC APPEAL

Pledges closing in on goal of $3.4 million

By BERN ZOVISTOSKI The New Vision It’s close – and getting closer.

The pledge tally in this year’s $3.4 million Annual Catholic Appeal has reached $3.2 million, or 94 percent.

Despite economic hard times, parishioners throughout the Diocese of Tucson have responded generously to help finance the work of 26 charities and ministries throughout southern Arizona, providing for some 200,000 people who depend on – and benefit from – the services.

Parish

And by the time the books are closed on the appeal, it is hoped that the $117,729 needed to achieve the goal will be donated.

“Thanks to the efforts of the more than 14,000 people who have made gifts or pledges to ACA 2009, this has been truly a united effort to help those in need in our Diocese, and we all deeply appreciate their generous response,” said Margie Puerta Edson, executive director of the Diocese’s Charity and Ministry Fund.

A final report on the appeal will be published in the September issue of The New Vision.

At last word, 29 of the diocese’s 75 parishes had received pledges exceeding their goals,

ACA 2009 Goal

No. of Donors

Pledge

Percent of Goal

and a number of others were approaching 100 percent.

The 26 spiritual, educational and human needs programs supported by the appeal include services to families and children, victims of domestic violence, elderly and poor and disabled; people in nursing homes, hospices and assisted-living centers, and people in prison or jail, children, teens and adults in parish religious education and religious formation programs, and teachers and others in the diocese’s 22 Catholic elementary and six Catholic high schools.

Parish

ACA 2009 Goal

No. of Donors

Pledge

Percent of Goal

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Florence

$22,000

199

$26,141

119%

St. Augustine - Tucson

$66,500

186

$48,410

73%

Blessed Kateri - Tucson

$8,200

19

$4,397

54%

St. Bartholomew - San Manuel

$11,000

65

$9,775

89%

Blessed Sacrament - Mammoth

$8,500

28

$2,715

32%

St. Bernard - Pirtleville

$6,600

26

$4,942

75%

Corpus Christi - Tucson

$43,000

176

$46,610

108%

St. Christopher - Marana

$10,000

23

$4,722

47%

Holy Angels - Globe

$25,000

192

$36,625

147%

St. Cyril - Tucson

$104,000

208

$84,065

81%

Holy Cross - Morenci

$13,800

25

$5,745

42%

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton - Tucson

$150,000

934

$210,936

141%

Holy Family - Tucson

$17,000

29

$3,915

23%

St. Frances Cabrini - Tucson

$73,000

221

$90,055

123%

Immaculate Conception - Ajo

$11,600

87

$12,653

109%

St. Francis - Elfrida

$4,200

21

$6,085

145%

Immaculate Conception - Douglas

$18,000

99

$21,991

122%

St. Francis - Superior

$9,000

43

$5,250

58%

Immaculate Conception - Yuma

$92,000

422

$79,510

86%

St. Francis - Yuma

$126,000

214

$60,026

48%

Immaculate Heart of Mary - Somerton

$16,500

40

$6,405

39%

St. Francis de Sales - Tucson

$123,000

751

$127,301

103%

Infant Jesus - Kearny

$9,000

64

$10,465

116%

St. George - Apache Junction

$107,000

685

$96,712

90%

Korean Catholic Community - Tucson

$2,000

0

$0

0%

St. Gianna - Tucson

$2,500

7

$885

35%

Most Holy Nativity - Rio Rico

$18,000

92

$19,149

106%

St. Helen - Eloy

$17,000

80

$14,470

85%

Most Holy Trinity - Tucson

$72,000

249

$55,880

78%

St. Helen - Oracle

$10,000

52

$11,920

119%

Our Lady of Blessed Sacrament - Miami

$24,000

92

$14,985

62%

St. James - Coolidge

$19,000

63

$10,912

57%

Our Lady of Fatima - Tucson

$42,500

164

$38,921

92%

St. John - Tucson

$87,500

723

$57,723

66%

Our Lady of Grace - Maricopa

$12,000

79

$16,187

135%

St. John Neumann - Yuma

$38,000

425

$40,055

105%

Our Lady of Guadalupe - Solomon

$3,900

19

$3,373

86%

St. Joseph - Hayden

$7,500

40

$4,900

65%

Our Lady of La Vang - Tucson

$8,400

57

$9,027

107%

St. Joseph - Tucson

$90,000

203

$64,333

71%

Our Lady of Lourdes - Benson

$34,500

162

$37,873

110%

St. Joseph - Wellton

$6,900

14

$2,904

42%

Our Lady of the Mountains - Sierra Vista

$56,000

217

$45,880

82%

St. Jude - Pearce/Sunsites

$7,700

33

$11,491

149%

Our Lady of the Valley - Green Valley

$150,000

718

$138,782

93%

St. Jude - San Luis

$24,800

185

$29,840

120%

Our Lady Queen of All Saints - Tucson

$17,600

79

$12,924

73%

St. Luke - Douglas

$33,000

134

$23,898

72%

Our Mother of Sorrows - Tucson

$133,000

713

$128,192

96%

St. Margaret - Tucson

$28,000

110

$19,871

71%

Sacred Heart - Clifton

$13,000

73

$10,060

77%

St. Mark - Tucson

$66,000

204

$48,566

74%

Sacred Heart - Nogales

$41,000

67

$14,061

34%

St. Mary - Duncan

$13,000

1

$10

0%

Sacred Heart - Parker

$12,500

98

$7,247

58%

St. Mary of the Desert - Three Points

$2,500

1

$200

8%

Sacred Heart - Tombstone

$6,000

44

$5,219

87%

St. Monica - Tucson

$49,000

91

$14,963

31%

Sacred Heart - Tucson

$37,000

68

$11,450

31%

St. Odilia - Tucson

$98,000

340

$92,156

94%

Sacred Heart - Willcox

$12,500

55

$7,736

62%

St. Patrick - Bisbee

$18,000

97

$20,523

114%

San Carlos Mission - San Carlos

$3,900

27

$5,245

134%

St. Philip - Payson

$45,000

174

$27,697

62%

San Felipe de Jesus - Nogales

$25,000

284

$33,626

135%

St. Pius X - Tucson

$139,000

381

$108,758

78%

San Martin - Sahuarita

$25,000

173

$49,247

197%

St. Rita - Vail

$19,500

38

$8,880

46%

San Solano Missions - Sells

$3,000

4

$1,737

58%

St. Rose of Lima - Safford

$38,000

228

$41,826

110%

San Xavier - Tucson

$17,000

35

$15,544

91%

St. Theresa - Patagonia

$13,500

35

$7,858

58%

Santa Catalina - Tucson

$74,000

436

$75,432

102%

St. Thomas More - Tucson

$35,000

135

$36,280

104%

Santa Cruz - Tucson

$34,700

133

$23,505

68%

St. Thomas the Apostle - Tucson

$242,000

636

$392,992

162%

St. Ambrose - Tucson

$38,000

160

$39,545

104%

Sts. Peter and Paul - Tucson

$91,000

257

$78,172

86%

St. Andrew - Sierra Vista

$108,000

467

$121,977

113%

Anonymous Gifts

$0

316

$39,983

0%

St. Ann - Tubac

$17,000

83

$20,009

118%

St. Anthony - Casa Grande

$77,000

232

$36,747

48%

Totals

$3,434,800

14,840

$3,217,071

94%

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‘CARITAS IN VERITATE’

Encyclical a ‘theological reflection on social justice’

By NANCY FRAZIER O’BRIEN Catholic News Service WASHINGTON -- Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical, “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”), breaks new ground on such topics as micro-financing, intellectual property rights, globalization and the concept of putting one’s wealth at the service of the poor, according to Catholic scholars and church leaders.

In interviews and in statements about the encyclical released July 7 at the Vatican, commentators said the more than 30,000-word document takes on a variety of issues not previously addressed in such a comprehensive way.

“I was surprised ... at how wide-ranging it is,” said Kirk Hanson, a business ethics professor at Santa Clara University in California and executive director of the Jesuit-run university’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. “It’s not just an updating of ‘Populorum Progressio’” (“The Progress of Peoples”), the 1967 social encyclical by Pope Paul VI, he added.

Hanson said he also was struck by Pope Benedict’s concept of “gratuitousness” or “giftedness,” which reminds people “not to consider wealth ours alone” and asks the

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ry capital to be safeguarded and valued is man, the human person in his or her integrity.”

The global dimension of the financial crisis is an expression of the moral failure of greedy financiers and investors, of the lack of oversight by national governments and of a lack of understanding that the global economy required internationally recognized global control, Pope Benedict said.

“In the face of the unrelenting growth of global interdependence, there is a strongly felt need, even in the midst of a global recession, for a reform of the United Nations organization, and likewise of economic institutions and international finance, so that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth,” the Pope wrote.

“To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority,” he said.

Pope Benedict insisted that the idea of the world’s richest nations scaling back development aid while focusing on their own economic recovery overlooked the

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wealthy to “be ready to put (their money) in service for the good of others.”

The encyclical is “a plea for the wealthiest on the planet to put their wealth toward the development of peoples,” he said. “In many ways, (Microsoft founder and philanthropist) Bill Gates would be the poster child for this document.”

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated billions of dollars for health and development programs worldwide, as well as for education and housing programs in the United States.

Terrence W. Tilley, who chairs the theology department at Jesuit-run Fordham University in New York and is immediate past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, said one unique aspect of the encyclical is Pope Benedict’s “vision that all flows from the love of God.” “It’s unusual as a theological reflection on social justice,” he said. “But that’s what holds it all together.”

Tilley said the encyclical makes a “pedagogical attempt to get people out of the mindset that charity is just giving money to those poor people over there.” The pope rejects such a “dismissive attitude,” he said.

The current president of the Catholic

Theological Society of America, Father Bryan N. Massingale, called the encyclical “a welcome contribution to the discussion of how Christians should think and act in a global economy.”

An associate professor of theological ethics at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Father Massingale said the encyclical’s “most challenging insight ... is its repeated criticism of the short-term thinking and profit-making that has dominated our financial markets and political discussions on the economy.”

John Sweeney, a Catholic who is president of the AFL-CIO, said “Caritas in Veritate” “reaffirms the need for exploited and marginalized workers to have the freedom to come together and form unions to bargain and negotiate for a better life.”

Bishop Michael P. Driscoll of Boise, Idaho, said the encyclical will be particularly helpful in these “difficult times for the poor in Idaho or anywhere around the world.”

“The Holy Father, who has seen the terrible toll these times have taken, has given us a new vision on which to build a just economy, where all can thrive, not merely the rich and powerful,” he said. “We cannot achieve true prosperity unless it is built

upon a foundation of justice and care for all, including the poor.”

Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the encyclical provides helpful guidance for finding answers to the social, economic and moral questions of the contemporary world in a search for truth.

The document offers sound reflections on the vocation of human development as well as on the moral principles on which a global economy must be based, he added.

“This encyclical offers a powerful warning to the modern world -- especially the West,” said Steve Schneck, director of the Life Cycle Institute at The Catholic University of America in Washington. “It speaks to the dangers of commerce, popular culture and technology unhinged from a vision for the common good informed by charity.”

Vincent Miller, associate professor of theology at Georgetown University in Washington, said Pope Benedict “rejects the dominant vision of economics as abstract, technological efficiency” and “calls for a revisioning of economics as an essentially moral undertaking.”

long-term economic benefits of solidarity and not simply the human and Christian moral obligation to help the poor.

“In the search for solutions to the current economic crisis, development aid for poor countries must be considered a valid means of creating wealth for all,” the Pope said.

The economic growth of poorer countries and their citizens’ demands for consumer goods actually benefit producers in the world’s wealthier nations, he said.

The Pope said that “more economically developed nations should do all they can to allocate larger portions of their gross domestic product to development aid,” respecting the obligations they made to the U.N. Millennium Development Goals aimed at significantly reducing poverty by 2015.

Pope Benedict said food and water are the “universal rights of all human beings without distinction or discrimination” and are part of the basic right to life.

He also said that being pro-life means being pro-development, especially given the connection between poverty and infant mortality, and that the only way to promote the true development of people is to promote a culture in which every human life is welcomed and valued.

“The acceptance of life strengthens moral fiber and makes people capable of mutual help,” he said.

He said the environment, life, sexuality,

marriage and social relations are inextricably united.

If society does not respect human life from its conception to its natural end, “if human conception, gestation and birth are made artificial, if human embryos are sacrificed to research, the conscience of society ends up losing the concept of human ecology and, along with it, that of environmental ecology,” he said.

Development programs and offers of aid that encourage coercive populationcontrol methods and the promotion of abortion do not have the good of people at heart and limit the recipients’ motivation to become actors in their own development and progress, the Pope said.

In addition, he said, an anti-life mentality in the world’s richest countries is related to the lack of concern for the poor.

“How can we be surprised by the indifference shown toward situations of human degradation when such indifference extends even to our attitude toward what is and is not human?” the Pope asked.

“While the poor of the world continue knocking on the doors of the rich, the world of affluence runs the risk of no longer hearing those knocks on account of a conscience that can no longer distinguish what is human,” he said.

Pope Benedict also emphasized Church teaching that making money and being wealthy are not sins, but that the way the money is made and the way it is used can

be.

The encyclical condemned corruption, the exploitation of workers, the destruction of the environment, the continuing practice of wealthy nations imposing such high tariffs on imports that they shut poor countries out of the international marketplace and, especially, an “excessive zeal” for enforcing patents, especially on medications that could save the lives of thousands of poor people if they were available at a reasonable cost.

Pope Benedict called for “a profoundly new way of understanding business,” which recognizes that investors are not a company’s only stakeholders, no matter how the business is structured and financed.

Employees, those who produce the raw materials, people who live in the communities where the company is based, where its products originate and where its products are sold all have a stake in the business, the Pope said.

He also said that investing always has a moral as well as an economic significance.

“What should be avoided is a speculative use of financial resources that yields to the temptation of seeking only short-term profit without regard for the long-term sustainability of the enterprise, its benefit to the real economy and attention to the advancement -- in suitable and appropriate ways -- of further economic initiatives in countries in need of development,” he said.

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Standing tall and serene since 1897, the St. Augustine Cathedral is the source for many things that sustain and inspire us. It is an earthly beacon and haven, wordlessly gazing on us as we walk with Christ. It calls us to give thanks whether we are weary, broken or jubilant.

The Cathedral is also a testament to the sacrifices of faithful individuals, who through their love of God more than self, and their regard for the needs of others before their own, built it one brick at a time. They, and others like them, embody the message from Revelation.

This sense of legacy, history and service to others is the crucible for our work at the Catholic Foundation for the Diocese of Tucson.

While our central mandate is the furtherance of the mission of Christ, and the provision of resources to ensure support for the mission of Christ’s Church in Tucson, giving and the stewardship of gifts and resources provide our dayto-day work.

We ask: How can the Foundation help you to extend your future generosity so that it touches and benefits the lives of those who follow after you? That is one of our key questions and a main

“Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow after them.”

– Revelation 14:13 reason for our existence.

The Catholic Foundation is the source for donors and other Catholic organizations to establish, increase and manage endowments, and the more we are seen as a trusted ally and advisor for the equitable funding of the Catholic needs of the Diocese of Tucson, the more effective we will be.

If you have not already done so, please consider the many options we offer for charitable gift planning, or legacy gifts, as outlined on our Web site at www.cathfnd.org, or call 520-838-2508 to speak with Executive Director Martin Camacho.

The Web site also offers a list of charitable

endowments and Web links, financial reports and similar resources.

It is well to remember that giving in tough times, such as those we are now experiencing, can reduce your tax liability and actually provide more for your heirs.

God the Father chooses the beginning and the end of our time on earth, but we define our own legacy by deciding how and when to commit our earthly treasure in His name, to serve others.

The builders of our beloved Cathedral now rest from their labors, but their works follow after them; that is their legacy to us. What will be your legacy?

Every life leaves a mark. What will be your legacy?

Discover the ways you can continue to make a difference in the lives of others with a lasting gift through the Catholic Foundation.

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Year for Priests

A Franciscan farewell for Father Tom Frost

By BISHOP GERALD F. KICANAS In his letter to the world’s priests about this Year for Priests, Pope Benedict XVI reflects, “I think of all those priests who quietly present Christ’s words and actions each day to the faithful and to the whole world, striving to be one with the Lord in their thoughts and their will, their sentiments and their style of life.”

The Holy Father’s words resonated for me when I visited Sacred Heart Mission in the small village of Covered Wells on the Tohono O’odham Reservation on May 26, the day after the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart which marked the beginning of the Year for Priests.

The occasion for my visit was the farewell Mass and celebration for Father Tom Frost, O.F.M., who was completing 26 years of ministry on the reservation.

Father Tom, who is 78 years old, embodies the gentleness and humility that are the characteristics of the Franciscan Friar.

And, characteristically, Father Tom would just smile, shake his head and say, “Oh, boy!” if you were to tell him that.

Father Tom greeted me at the small rectory that is adjacent to the stone church of the Sacred Heart and invited me in.

The living room, the tiny bathroom, the closet size walk-in shower and the bedroom of his rectory speak volumes of the life of simplicity that Father Tom has led these past 26 years.

His bedroom doubles as an office. On a filing cabinet in the bedroom/office is an

Father Tom beside his trusty truck.

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old TV set. Father Tom had to get a digital signal converter so he could watch his favorite shows.

The living room (and kitchen) is a wellorganized conglomeration of books, boxes and belongings. Every surface has something on it. On the corner of the small refrigerator is a stack of five straw hats that Father Tom has worn over the years for sun protection. He gave a sixth hat to a visitor who didn’t have one.

The rectory is cooled by two small wall air conditioners and is heated by an ancient wood stove that is by the front door. A PC tower in front of the stove makes quite a contrast of technologies.

The community of Sacred Heart Mission was celebrating its feast day on this Saturday, a day after the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart. Traditionally, the people celebrate the feast day with a Mass, procession and a big fiesta. This feast day, the people had the joy of their traditional gathering and also the sadness of saying farewell to Father Tom. For this special occasion, the people erected a big tent, brought all the way from Tucson, and they prepared huge pots of chili, menudo and beans on grills fueled by mesquite. The sweet pungency of the burning mesquite and the wafts of smells arising from the bubbling pots of food were an olfactory treat!

Father Tom did a few last-minute ministries before Mass: the “ministry” of moving chairs and the ministry of preparing the parents of little Kayla, who was to be baptized during the Mass.

To prepare the makeshift altar, Father Tom opened what he calls his “suitcase sacristy” and propped it open with a smooth stick that has served this purpose many, many times. He removed the implements and cloths for the Mass, including the beautifully woven baskets that are so culturally important to the Tohono O’odham. Father Tom is not sure how many suitcases he has gone through over the years; maybe this suitcase is the third or fourth to serve as his sacristy.

The suitcase is an essential tool of his ministry. Each week, Father Tom has driven hundreds of miles throughout this region of the Sonoran Desert to isolated villages to say Mass, to administer sacraments and, for what he says has been the hardest part of his 26 years of ministry on the Nation, to comfort grieving families and to bury their dead. The number of funerals he has presided at reflects the toll in the Nation from health problems such as obesity, diabetes and substance abuse.

Hundreds of miles each week for 26

Father Tom strolls with Bishop Kicanas during the procession.

years across to reach villages separated by vast tracts of desert and mountain ranges: more than 200,000 miles in his first pickup; more than 200,000 miles in his second pickup; and, in his third and current white pickup, more than 400,000 thousand miles. That’s more than 36 times around the world! When your parish (San Solano Missions Parish) is a big as the state of Connecticut, that’s how much you would drive in 26 years as a parish priest.

Father Tom told me that he had changed the oil for the last time the week before on his trusty white pickup. The pickup will be retired, but not Father Tom. He will be the assistant novice master of the Franciscan formation house in San Miguel, California.

One other thing about all those miles: Father Tom said he had driven for 25 years without a collision with an animal – not a single coyote or jackrabbit or deer or cow – until just a few weeks ago. He was on the road and spotted some cattle on his left, and while he was keeping his eye on them and slowing down, a cow suddenly moved in front of him from the right, hitting the pickup’s right headlight and bumper.

Father Tom looked in the rear view mirror

and saw the cow was lying down. “Darn it,” he thought, “now I am going to have to butcher it.” But by the time he turned around and returned to the spot of the collision, the cow had disappeared. Father Tom said he hoped St. Francis had intervened and that the cow would be OK. Deacon Alfred Gonzales, Father Tom and I vested for Mass in the church. It is truly is a beautiful church. Your eyes are drawn to the ceiling made of hundreds of segments of saguaro cactus ribs.

People from many villages on the reservation were present for Mass, including the choir from St. Seraphin Mission in the village of Ak Chin.

Father Tom’s homily was a message about God’s all encompassing love for us and how our respect for ourselves and respect for our brothers and sisters witness to His love. He concluded his homily by telling the people that he hoped he had not caused hurt to anyone, and that if he had caused hurt, he asked their forgiveness.

The baptism of little Kayla (I think she is 18-months-old) was beautiful to witness. Father Tom was patient and good

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humored as she squirmed, and after Kayla wailed when he dripped water on her face from a shell, he told the people that from his time in the Philippines he learned that when a child cries during Baptism it means the evil one is no longer present, so it was a good sign for Kayla when she cried.

After Communion, Father Tom invited me to speak, and it was my joy to share these feelings and thoughts: “This is the year for priests that Pope Benedict has asked us to celebrate. How fitting on this feast of the Sacred Heart, when we begin the Year for Priests, that we give thanks to God for a good priest who has been a wise teacher, a gentle shepherd and a loving father to his people for 26 years!

“The saint that Pope Benedict has asked us to remember in this Year for Priests is St. John Vianney, who is the CurÈ of Ars, and while the CurÈ of Ars, St. John Vianney spent about 17 hours a day in the confessional. Father Tom has spent about 17 hours every weekend traveling from mission to mission, from church to church, to celebrate the Eucharist and make the Lord present to us.

“Father Tom, you mentioned in your beautiful homily on this feast of the Sacred Heart, that the heart of Jesus reminds us of His great love for each one of us. That love has been communicated to us for these 26 years by a priest named Father Tom Frost, who came to our community here a much younger man, but has worked day after day after day after day bringing God’s love and God’s forgiveness to God’s people.

“Father Tom, in the name of all of your people and my own name, we want to express to you our thanks and our love for you.

A priest, St. John Vianney said, is not a priest for himself. A priest doesn’t absolve himself; he doesn’t say Mass for himself; he doesn’t baptize himself. He does his service for others. And that’s what Father Tom has been: a priest for us. For that we are deeply grateful.

“Father Tom, if you might come forward in front of the altar so that all of us might extend to you our blessings and best wishes, as you have blessed us for these 26 years.

“So, we raise our hands, Father Tom, over you now and ask God’s blessings: Loving and gracious God, we ask your choicest blessings for Father Tom Frost, who has served so generously and faithfully our communities here on the Reservation for 26 years. We thank you for his service. We thank you for his words and his comfort. We thank you for the forgiveness you have shown us through him. We thank you for the love you have given us through him. We ask you now, Lord, to bless him and to fill him with joy and gratitude for 26 years served so faithfully, so generously and so well.

Propping open his “suitcase sacristy.”

“And may the blessings of Almighty God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, come upon you, Tom, and remain with you forever and ever.”

And all the people said, “Amen!”

Following the closing prayer, Isidro Lopez, vice chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, expressed to Father Tom the thanks of the nation for his ministry.

Father Tom’s a man of many hats.

Father Tom related that when he first arrived in the Nation he had met a little boy who was just about to go to school off the Reservation and that the little boy was Isidro.

On behalf of the Nation, Isidro presented Father Tom with a beautiful blanket of the Tohono “Man in the Maze” symbol.

Then, it was time for the procession

with the statue of the Sacred Heart.

Carrying the statue were members of the community who are Samoan. What a beautiful joining of cultures!

It was a joy for me to walk in the procession with Father Tom. Truly, what a wonderful way to begin this Year for Priests!

Isidro Lopez, who was a little boy when Father Tom arrived, presents gift blanket with Tohono “Man in the Maze” symbol.

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The challenge: Blending ‘old’ and ‘new’ Catholics

By NANCY FRAZIER O’BRIEN Catholic News Service WASHINGTON -- A leading scholar on the sociology of religion and Catholics of four different generations held a lively discussion on June 26 about how to bring together those who see the church as an institution and those who see it as a collection of people who choose to join.

Both groups “value Catholic identity, affirm core Catholic beliefs and stress the importance of the sacraments,” said James D. Davidson, professor emeritus of sociology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., in a talk on “How American Catholics Think About the Church.”

But the two groups -- described by Eugene Kennedy in his 1988 book, “Tomorrow’s Catholics, Yesterday’s Church” as Culture I and Culture II Catholics -- can differ dramatically on other aspects of Catholic beliefs and practices, Davidson said.

Culture I Catholics see the clergy as the church’s authority figures, place a high value on obedience and agree with the church even on peripheral beliefs, he said, while Culture II Catholics see the laity as leaders, value thinking for themselves and often disagree with church teaching on peripheral matters.

Davidson’s comments came in the Msgr.

Philip J. Murnion Lecture sponsored by the Catholic Common Ground Initiative and held at The Catholic University of America in Washington.

He said sociological data shows “a steady movement away from Culture I toward Culture II” among younger generations of U.S. Catholics.

“These younger generations continue to identify with the faith, but they are not as attached to the church as pre-Vatican II Catholics,” Davidson said. “They want to be Catholic, but they want to do it on their own terms. They look to the church for support at key times (such as weddings and baptisms), and if the church is there for them, they will support it. If not, they won’t.”

He divided American Catholics into four generations in relation to the Second Vatican Council (1962-65): pre-Vatican II, those born in or before 1940; Vatican II, born between 1941 and 1960; post-Vatican II, born between 1961 and 1982; and millennial, born since 1983.

“Contrary to some recent claims that today’s young adults are more ‘orthodox’ than their parents, there is no indication ... that the millennial generation is more Culture I-oriented than the post-Vatican II generation,” Davidson said. “About onefifth of millennials are Culture Is, but -overall -- millennials are the most Culture

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II-oriented of all.”

He suggested three possible responses to the shift from Culture I to Culture II Catholicism.

“The first is to define Culture I as normative and view the shift as a movement away from authentic Catholicism and toward a deviant expression of the faith,” he said.

“The second is to see Culture II as normative and the shift as a movement away from a distorted understanding of the church toward a more legitimate one.

“The third -- which makes the most sense to me -- is to view both culture as legitimate expressions of the faith, with one being a more appropriate emphasis than the other at certain times, in certain places and for some groups more than others,” Davidson said.

To respond to Davidson’s talk, the Catholic Common Ground Initiative convened a panel whose members represented each of the four generations.

Mercy Sister Amy Hoey, a lay ecclesial ministry consultant, represented the preVatican II generation. Jesuit Father Allan Figueroa Deck, executive director of the Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, spoke for the Vatican II group.

Michael Hayes, co-founder of BustedHalo.com, which describes itself as an online magazine for spiritual seekers, represented the post-Vatican II generation, and Melissa Cidade, a research associate for the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University in Washington, presented the millennial viewpoint.

Sister Amy said then when she was younger, “I thought the church had always been the way it was and it would always be that way all over the world until the end of time.”

She said Catholics “should be grateful for the shift” from Culture I to Culture II, because it is “a sign that the church is alive, that it has not fossilized.”

But Sister Amy cautioned against thinking about the church “in extremes,” adding that “most of us, most of the time, find ourselves in the middle.”

Father Deck, calling himself the “contrarian curmudgeon” on the panel, said the generational differences outlined

by Davidson do not resonate in the Latino community. He urged sociologists to dig deeper into how Hispanics view the church.

“We need to establish a balance between the inductive and deductive approaches,” he said. “If we’re going to have useful analyses, we really have to look at it very specifically from the Hispanic viewpoint, and I don’t think we do this nearly enough.”

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Volumen IV - Número IX

REFLEXIONES Padre Roberto Kose, OFM Cap.

Aceptar la Responsabilidad

“¿Por qué ELLOS no…”? En esa frase la palabra

“ellos” se refiere a los líderes de la Iglesia como los obispos, sacerdotes, diáconos y religiosos. La gente hace la pregunta muchas veces cuando ellos están discutiendo las necesidades de la Iglesia. “¿Por qué ELLOS no obtienen fondos para sostener nuestras escuelas católicas que están luchando fiscalmente? “¿Por qué ELLOS no hacen nada contra la literatura indecente en las tiendas y esquinas de las calles?” “¿Por qué ELLOS no están envueltos con grupos locales en la comunidad para mejorar las casas en nuestra vecindad?” “¿Por que ELLOS no hacen algo tocante a la limpieza del salón parroquial y los servicios?” “¿Por qué ELLOS no visitan a los enfermos y ancianos con más frecuencia?” “¿Por qué ELLOS no cuidan mejor la iglesia y propiedad”?

Los feligreses que constantemente miran a los sacerdotes y líderes religiosos para que asuman la responsabilidad de resolver estos problemas en una parroquia NO ESTÁN ACEPTANDO LA REALIDAD DE HOY EN DÍA. Están pensando de un tiempo en la historia de la Iglesia en lo cual los sacerdotes y líderes religiosos fueron las únicas personas con una educación. En aquel tiempo era natural que la gente mirara a la Iglesia para el liderazgo en todos aspectos de la vida.

Desde el Segundo Concilio Vaticano en 1963, la Iglesia y la sociedad ha cambiado mucho. La participación de los laicos en la Iglesia y la sociedad es la prioridad número uno. Todos tienen responsabilidad para hacer del reino de Dios, presente hoy, en el día en que juntos formemos el Cuerpo de Cristo.

Más y más los laicos tienen la responsabilidad de llevar a Cristo a la fábrica y aceptar la responsabilidad en los asuntos parroquiales. El concilio parroquial, los comités de administración, el ministerio social, la formación cristiana y alabanza son mandados por cada parroquia. Cada persona debe usar sus talentos para la formación del Reino de Dios en esta Tierra. ¿Qué estamos haciendo nosotros para construir el reino de Dios en nuestra iglesia?

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Celebrarán la Sexta Conferencia para Músicos Pastorales, en Tucson Extraordinario Programa Musical se Desarrollará Durante el Evento

Patrocinada

por The Southwest Liturgical Conference y la Diócesis Católica de Tucson, del 6 al 8 del presente mes de Agosto se desarrollará la Sexta Conferencia Hispana para Músicos Pastorales.

A ese respecto, el obispo Gerald F. Kicanas, ha expresado que “La música en el culto divino rememora esta vasta y rica tradición musical, al mismo tiempo que representa lineamientos básicos para comprender el rol y ministerio de la música en la liturgia”.

El trascendental evento tendrá como escenario el Hotel Arizona, en esta ciudad de Tucson.

El obispo Ricardo Ramírez, de Las Cruces, Nuevo México, tendrá a su cargo las palabras de apertura en la conferencia.

Otros presentadores incluyen conocidos compositores y escritores de música litúrgica como Jaime Cortez, Pedro Rubalcava, Dolores Martínez, Mary Frances Reza, Peter Kolar y Santiago Fernández.

Las inscripciones están disponibles en la oficina de la parroquia o en www. swlc.org. También a través del teléfono 520 838-2512 – email: worship@ diocetucson.org. Se sugiere que los asistentes otorguen donaciones.

De acuerdo al programa, la conferencia se iniciará el Jueves 6 a las 7:00 pm., con oración y las palabras de bienvenida dirigida por el Obispo Ramírez.

El Viernes 7 se abre el día a las 8:30 am. con la Oración de la Mañana. Se

Presentarán “Música Criolla” del Argentino Ariel Ramírez Durante la celebración de la Sexta Conferencia Hispana para Músicos Pastorales, se llevará a cabo una presentación de Música Criolla, creada para Misa Católica por el compositor argentino Ariel Ramírez, quien la estrenó privadamente en Buenos Aires, Argentina, en 1963.

La pieza musical fue presentada publicamente hasta 1964, en Dusseldorf, Alemania, sin embargo fue adoptada por la Iglesia Católica y dio pie a la música que se interpreta durante la liturgia religiosa.

Es una misa para tenor de coro y orquesta y está inspirada en géneros folklóricos como la chacarrera y carnavalito, entre otros, todos ellos con influencias e instrumentos indoamericanos.

La Misa Criolla de Ariel Ramírez, que se presentará en esta ocasión en Tucson, es una de las primeras misas celebradas en lenguaje moderno y coincidió con la invitación del Segundo Concilio Vaticano y que se celebra en la liturgia católica en el lenguaje vernáculo” . proseguirá con una sesión general, talleres, exhibición de música, nueva sesión

Ayuda para Trabajadores Inmigrantes a Través del Comité Amigos Americanos El Comité de Amigos Americanos y su

programa Voces de Inmigrantes en Arizona, VIA, es una organización sin fines de lucro que se dedica a promover justicia social a través de acciones sin violencia.

VIA está por comenzar una campaña educacional sobre cómo proteger tus derechos laborales y la actual crisis económica.

Sebastián Quinas, Coordinador de Programas de Inmigración del Comité de los Amigos Americanos, señaló que la campaña es la respuesta a los constantes reclamos de parte de trabajadores, quienes mediante la vía telefónica abusos laborales por partes patronales.

Esas llamadas son particularmente de trabajadores inmigrantes que denuncian abusos como salarios no pagados, despidos

injustificados por la nueva ley de Sanción al Empleador —conocido como E-Verify—, mediante la cual los trabajadores son victimas de represalia. La mayoría de los trabajadores no conocen sus derechos laborales, humanos y civiles.

La campaña de cómo proteger los derechos laborales de los trabajadores se implementará a través de pequeños grupos de estudio que se reunirán en diferentes lugares —iglesias, escuelas, organizaciones, casas—.

Esos grupos estudiarán la Ley del Trabajo de Arizona, el mal uso que se la da en algunos casos a la ley Sanción al Empleador y, además, buscarán fórmulas legales para recuperar sueldos no pagados a trabajadores inmigrantes.

general, talleres y cena.

Habrá intermedios para almuerzo, descanso y cena.

A las 7:30 pm. se realizará un concierto de Música Criolla interpretada por Taizé Prayer-Bob Gurd y Santiago Fernández.

Igualmente, el Sábado 8 el día se iniciará con la Oración de la Mañana para después desarrollar una sesión general, talleres y una audición de música. Habrá tiempos para descansos y almuerzo.

A las 5:30 pm. se celebrará una misa en la Catedral de San Agustín, oficiada por el obispo Gerald F. Kicanas.

Finalizará el evento –9:30 pm.—con una audición de música interpretada por Pedro Rubalcava. Previamente –7:00 pm.—se servirá un banquete.

VIDA ECLESIAL Orientación Familiar

El Gusto por Vivir Por Lucero de Dávalos

Querido hijo:

Sé que junto con tu padre y el Creador, se me concedió el privilegio de darte la vida, pero ahora voy a algo que a tí es al que te corresponde realizar para dar sentido a tu vida.

Ello es pedirte ir contra la corriente avasalladora que por falta de ideales claros, de metas concretas y trascendentes, hace que las personas se pregunten: ¿Yo para que nací? ¿Para que estoy en este mundo tan lleno de contrariedades?

A esa corriente se le ha llamado vacío existencial. Un gran psiquiatra, el Dr. Vikor Frankl, ha dedicado parte de su vida a tratarlo y ha formado una escuela llamada logoterapia.

Como sé que leer esos tratados no a toda la gente se le da, vamos a procurar, en nuestra medida, hacer un recuento práctico de lo que nos puede ayudar a vivir con alegría y gusto.

En primer término nos ayuda la sonrisa, la alegría y la música; luego vendrá el compartir, sin excepción de personas, lo que se es, se sabe y se tiene.

Tenemos que aprender a no perdernos en quejas inútiles y tontas y, en lugar de ello, debemos hacer lo posible por resolver nuestras situaciones o problemas, ello sin dramatizar, pues parte de la vida está en ello.

Pero observa que hablo de realidades y no de fantasías que hacen que el hombre luche con fantasmas, gastando tiempo y energía en algo inexistente.

Vendrán luego las imágenes positivas que no nos permitirán pensar mal de nada ni de nadie.

Sin perder nuestra identidad, debemos adaptarnos a las personas y a los acontecimientos, señal inequívoca de madurez. Perdonemos y olvidemos siempre que sea necesario, confiando en que los otros harán lo mismo que nosotros.

No juzgaremos dado que el interior del hombre tan sólo Dios lo conoce y es a nosotros a quienes corresponde ver lo bueno, sin tomar en cuenta lo malo, lo negativo, porque quizá, aunque a veces en forma equivocada, cada hombre va en busca de amor, el gozo y la paz.

Debemos tener confianza y respeto por cada ser humano, y aunque en muchas ocasiones no compartamos opiniones similares, tomaremos de ellas lo mejor.

Todo esto lo haremos bajo la mirada misericordiosa y serena de Dios que, con paciencia infinita, espera nuestra respuesta a la libertad de amarle.

Eso, hijo, es lo que da peso y relieve a lo anterior y es lo que nos hace decir: “Tengo gusto por vivir”.

Con cariño, te bendice tu madre.

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Se Debe Mirar a los Emigrantes con Respeto y Admiración: A. M. Veglió CIUDAD DEL VATICANO. (ZENIT.org).- El nuevo

representante del Papa para la atención de los emigrantes, el arzobispo Antonio Maria Veglió, en su primera intervención pública manifestó el respeto, admiración y la gratitud de la Iglesia a estas personas y, a la vez, pidió “ver con nuevos ojos a los emigrantes y a quienes les acogen”.

Vegliò, presidente del Consejo Pontificio para la Pastoral de los Emigrantes e Itinerantes, expresó lo anterior durante la homilía de una misa que presidió recientemente en la basílica de San Juan de Letrán de Roma, con motivo de la XVIII Fiesta de los Pueblos, una fiesta de los emigrantes que se ha hecho típica en Roma.

El prelado pidió “acoger en lo íntimo de nuestro corazón el mensaje de Jesús: “Amaos los unos a los otros como yo os he amado”. Cristo no tiene preferencias de nación, explicó monseñor Vegliò, porque todos están llamados a constituir un único pueblo de Dios e hizo mención de la frase de Juan Pablo II: “En la Iglesia de Dios nadie es extranjero”.

Monseñor Vegliò se comprometió ante los emigrantes

a hacer todo lo posible para que la comunidad eclesial les vea “con nuevos ojos, ojos diferentes” y de este modo otros también sigan su ejemplo.

Al mismo tiempo, el prelado pidió a los mismos emigrantes asumir “nuevos ojos, para daros cuenta de toda la gente que os quiere, de todas las oportunidades que se os ofrecen a tantos de vosotros para lograr una promoción, en la escala social y cívica, hasta sentiros ciudadanos entre ciudadanos pero, sobre todo, hermanos entre hermanos”.

Ahora bien, concluyó, “hay Uno que nos mira con los ojos de siempre, Cristo el Señor, que nos dirige su mirada de benevolencia, de aliento y amistad”.

Antes de ser nombrado presidente del Consejo Pontificio para la Pastoral de los Emigrantes e Itinerantes, monseñor Veglió, italiano, fue secretario de la Congregación para las Iglesias Orientales. Durante años ha servido a los papas como diplomático, mayormente en África (Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Mali y Cabo Verde) y Oriente Medio (ha sido nuncio en el Líbano y en Kuwait).

Deben y Pueden Actuar con Verdadero Sentido Humanista los Empresarios SANTIAGO DE CHILE.

(ZENIT.org).Rolando Medeiros, presidente de la Unión Social de Empresarios Cristianos (USEC) dirigió un escrito una carta a los miembros de su asociación.

Bajo el título “La Caridad en Verdad y el Rol del Empresario”, destaca tres ideas sobre la encíclica Caritas in Veritatis de Benedicto XVI. En su carta, Medeiros señala que la encíclica “contiene una reflexión profunda sobre las temáticas sociales actuales con sus luces y sombras, y las condiciones para un desarrollo humano integral y un progreso sostenible”.

Destaca tres ideas de la encíclica que se refieren

específicamente al rol de las empresas y los empresarios hoy.

Afirma que “En primer lugar nos plantea que el primer capital a salvaguardar y valorar es la persona humana en su integridad, ya que el hombre es el autor, centro y fin de toda vida económica y empresarial. En este sentido, el Papa propone hacer una nueva síntesis humanista, es decir, colocar el necesario desarrollo económico y material como un medio para alcanzar la meta del pleno desarrollo humano y social”.

Explica que “Lo segundo tiene relación con la ética y el modelo económi-

co, a propósito de la crisis.

El Papa señala que el actual modelo es un instrumento eficaz para operar en el mundo de los negocios, pero que si las personas que operan en éste carecen de valores, pueden provocar abusos que, a la vez, tendrán consecuencias negativas.

“Por eso, el Papa llama a reconstruir la confianza y la solidaridad, factores que permitan una mayor justicia social. En este sentido, la caridad social es un concepto más amplio que el de justicia social, pues va más allá de los mínimos éticos; nos mueve no sólo querer el bien para el prójimo, sino también a trabajar por éste”, añadió.

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Subrayó que “Por último, en el actual mundo globalizado, el Papa nos pide a los dirigentes de empresa procurar no perder de vista que nuestra empresa la conforman una comunidad de personas por la que tenemos que velar y proteger por más dispersas que estén nuestras operaciones, filiales, accionistas, proveedores, clientes y públicos de interés”.

Añade que “Es fácil desvincularse cuando no tenemos contacto diario con los equipos colaboradores y olvidamos de que nuestro capital humano lo conforman personas con nombre y apellido, con aspiraciones, potencialidades, familias y sueños y cuya contribución con su trabajo diario es único y valioso. Para que una empresa sea altamente productiva, tiene que ser también plenamente humana y socialmente responsable”.

Por todo ello, Rolando Medeiros invitó “a empresarios, ejecutivos y profesionales a leer y reflexionar respecto de esta nueva carta encíclica y sumarse a esta misión de impregnar de valores las políticas, decisiones, cultura y comportamiento de sus organizaciones. A construir en definitiva, una nueva cultura empresarial’”.

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CAMINO DE LA FE

Confesiones del Cardenal Tarcisio Bertone

Doy Gracias Plenas al Señor por Otorgarme el Don del Sacerdocio C

IUDAD DEL VATICANO. (ZENIT.org).- ¿Cómo decidió ser sacerdote? ¿Cuáles han sido su mayores dificultades y satisfacciones? A las anteriores preguntas ha respondido el cardenal Tarcisio Bertone, secretario de Estado de Benedicto XVI, en esta entrevista concedida a ZENIT con motivo del inicio del Año Sacerdotal.

Como San Agustín en sus “Confesiones”, durante esta conversación, que tuvo lugar en el Palacio Apostólico, el primer colaborador del Papa ha abierto su corazón para revelar momentos y experiencias que no había contado en público hasta ahora.

Su testimonio es el primero de una serie de otros cardenales, obispos y sacerdotes que durante el presente compartirán sus “confesiones” sacerdotales.

ZENIT:¿Cuándo descubrió su vocación?

Cardenal Bertone: La descubrí exactamente cuando estudiaba el Quinto año de Gimnasio [lo que en España sería hoy el 1º de Bachillerato, 2º de Preparatoria o High School en México o los Estados Unidos, ndr.] en el Instituto Salesiano de Turín, el de Valdocco, el primer instituto fundado por don Bosco. Allí estudié la secundaria y el bachiller (liceo) y sinceramente hasta ese momento no había sentido el deseo de ser sacerdote, a pesar de que vivía en medio de sacerdotes ejemplares, que habían sido mis profesores, mis educadores. Deseaba más bien estudiar idiomas y dedicarme al conocimiento del mundo y, por tanto, a una actividad muy diferente, una actividad de relaciones internacionales, en cierto sentido.

Luego, un sacerdote salesiano que era mi profesor de griego, me hizo esta propuesta: “Organizamos un encuentro de tres días de discernimiento sacerdotal, puedes venir y pensar en tu futuro...”. Acepté, y después de estos tres días vocacionales decidí, en la medida en que dependía de mí, llegar a ser sacerdote, entrar en la congregación salesiana. Comuniqué esta noticia el 24 de mayo de 1949 a mis padres, que iban tradicionalmente en peregrinación a la Basílica de María Auxiliadora de Turín, y se quedaron algo sorprendidos, pues nunca me habían escuchado hablar del proyecto de ser sacerdote. Me dijeron: “Si el Señor quiere, no ponemos ninguna objeción, es más, estamos contentos, pero acuérdate de que dependerá de ti ser fiel y, por tanto, eres tú quien lo ha decidido”. De este modo comenzó el camino de la vocación, con el noviciado y, después, con todo el ciclo de estudios, etcétera.

ZENIT: ¿Quién o quienes le ayudaron a seguir este camino?

Cardenal Bertone: De manera especial, los educadores salesianos, y al inicio en particular el maestro de noviciado. Prolongué el noviciado cuatro meses, pues era muy joven. De por sí, el noviciado debía comenzarse entonces a la edad de quince años y terminar a la edad de dieciséis años, con la primera profesión religiosa. Yo todavía no tenía quince años cuando entré al noviciado, el 16 de agosto de 1949, por tanto, lo prolongué hasta cumplir dieciséis años, en diciembre de 1950. Entonces hice la profesión religiosa. Luego me acompañaron los salesianos y óptimos confesores.

Tengo que reconocer que al inicio le pedí consejo para tomar esta decisión a un confesor, un sacerdote de 84 años, que confesaba detrás del altar mayor de la Basílica de María Auxiliadora, con quien me confesaba regularmente. Me dio sus consejos. Me dijo: “Mira, es una tarea muy grande, tendrás que prepararte bien. Pero recuerda que yo soy sacerdote desde hace 60 años y no me he arrepentido nunca”. Entonces, alentado también por este testimonio, seguí el camino, aunque de regreso a casa tuve algún problema, algo de nostalgia. Pero mis padres me dijeron: “Ahora termina todo el ciclo de prueba y los estudios, pues fuiste tú quien decidiste. Al final tomarás una decisión más madura”. Y al final tomé la decisión de seguir hasta la ordenación sacerdotal, que tuvo lugar el 1 de julio de 1960.

ZENIT: En este camino, ¿cuál ha sido el papel de don Bosco?

Cardenal Bertone: Ciertamente don Bosco fue un modelo extraordinario de sacerdocio y sus seguidores, sus hijos, que eran mis profesores, mis educadores, le representaban bien. Me ofrecieron hermosos testimonios que encendían en mí el deseo y me animaban a seguir ese camino. En mi vida, don Bosco siempre ha estado presente. Me guió en el crecimiento hasta el sacerdocio y después del sacerdocio, en los encargos que he tenido como salesiano, hasta ser rector magnífico de la Universidad Pontificia Salesiana, aquí en Roma, y formador de muchos candidatos al sacerdocio, de muchísimos... Luego me ha guiado en mi vida de obispo: primero como arzobispo de Vercelli y luego de Génova y, ahora, como secretario de Estado, como primer colaborador del Papa. Don Bosco me ha enseñado a ser fiel al Papa, a dar la vida por el Papa y por la Iglesia, algo que trato de hacer con mis límites, pero con todas mis fuerzas.

ZENIT: ¿Cuáles han sido las dificultades y las satisfacciones más hermosas?

Cardenal Bertone: Como decía, tuve ciertas dificultades en el camino de formación, pues experimenté cierta nostalgia del pasado, de la vida con mis compañeros, con mis amigos, pero me mantuve firme en el seguimiento de la vocación. Los que tenían mi edad, que no pensaban que yo seguiría este camino, sobre todo mis compañeros de liceo, pues estudié liceo como salesiano, pero con unos treinta compañeros que ahora tienen una profesión y un hermoso papel en la sociedad italiana y me han apoyado, me decían: “Si eres sacerdote, debes serlo como don Francesco Amerio”. Era nuestro gran profesor de liceo, de Historia y de Filosofía, y también de Religión. Para mí era un modelo, que me ha apoyado y he guardado hasta ahora

los apuntes de sus clases de Religión. Es una muestra de la influencia que tenía este sacerdote, este profesor, a quien mis compañeros me presentaban como modelo.

Después tuve dificultades, especialmente durante el período que va desde 1968 a 1972, pues estaba aquí, en Roma, era profesor de la Universidad Salesiana, también era formador de los candidatos al sacerdocio, entonces teníamos un gran número de estudiantes de Teología, en el entonces Ateneo Pontificio Salesiano: 140 estudiantes de Teología, que sentían la presión y la influencia de los cambios del 68, del debate y el torbellino de opiniones. Nos encontrábamos después del Concilio. Pero habíamos tenido momentos de mucha fricción y de choque de opiniones y personas, y como superior tenía que dar juicios para la admisión a las Órdenes Sagradas de estos estudiantes. Manteníamos un diálogo muy intenso con los estudiantes. Eran tiempos de grandes reuniones estudiantiles, con discusiones que duraban horas, incluso hasta muy entrada la noche. Por tanto, momentos de tensión, pero también de superación de estas tensiones.

Después, como obispo, y como arzobispo de las dos diócesis que he guiado, las dos por encargo del Santo Padre Juan Pablo II, tuve también algún momento de confrontación, a veces duro en algún caso, con algún problema que se planteaba a nivel de Iglesia local. Pero en este papel también he tenido satisfacciones muy hermosas: el hecho de haber guiado y de haber tenido una comunidad fraterna, diría una relación de comunión fraterna, de fuerte amistad, que continúa todavía hoy, cuando me encuentro con antiguos alumnos o obispos de todo el mundo. He tenido momentos de auténtica comunión, de amistad fraterna en la alegría de la fidelidad al Papa, en la alegría del cumplimiento de nuestro ministerio sacerdotal y episcopal, o por el hecho de haber llevado muchos jóvenes al sacerdocio. Luego está la paternidad episcopal en las ordenaciones sacerdotales y en las ordenaciones episcopales, que ahora se multiplican todavía más, en mi encargo de secretario de Estado, con la ordenación de muchos colaboradores del Papa y también de muchos obispos locales. Es una gran satisfacción: el gran pueblo de Dios se compone también de los pastores de la Iglesia, con sus diferentes responsabilidades, con sus papeles diversos, según la vocación y carismas que distribuye el Espíritu Santo. Este pueblo que camina en profunda unidad es verdaderamente un signo hermoso de la benevolencia de Dios por la Iglesia y toda la humanidad. Lo experimento en los encuentros que tengo con las iglesias locales, con los representantes pontificios en todo el mundo, con los jefes de Estado que vienen de visita al Vaticano y manifiestan su aprecio, su reconocimiento por el trabajo de la Iglesia, por el testimonio de la Iglesia, ya sea en el campo de la formación, sobre todo en el campo educativo, ya sea en el campo de la promoción humana, de promoción social, de asistencia en especial a las franjas más débiles de la sociedad.

Por tanto, debo dar gracias al Señor por el don del sacerdocio, también por el don del episcopado. ¡A todos deseo un buen Año Sacerdotal!

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VISIÓN CATÓLICA Un hombre estaba cavando una zanja. Un transeúnte le preguntó que estaba haciendo. El hombre contestó: “Estoy cavando una zanja para obtener dinero para mi sustento de cada día, lo cual me dará mas energía para seguir cavando esta zanja”.

Ese hombre iba a morir cavando una zanja. Su vida no tiene ningún propósito definido. Y cuando la vida no tiene un propósito claro se puede convertir en un circulo de eventos sin sentido. Cuando eso sucede la persona se hace más vulnerable de caer en el abismo mortal de los apegos y adicciones.

El “sin sentido” es la raíz de muchas conductas de dependencia destructiva. Se puede ser adicto a muchas cosas. A sustancias como el alcohol, la drogas, el azúcar, la cafeína, la nicotina, etcétera. En la literatura se habla también de adicción al trabajo, al peligro, a los ambientes nocivos, a los juegos de azar, al internet, a las compras, al sexo, a la pornografía, a las relaciones autodestructivas, a los ambientes nocivos, etcétera.

El Manual de Enfermedades Mentales (DSM-IV, por sus siglas en inglés) centra su atención en las adicciones a

las sustancias toxicas como el alcohol y las drogas (marihuana, cocaína, inhalantes, tranquilizantes, alucinógenos, etcétera).

Y es precisamente la adicción a los dos primeros estimulantes mencionados uno de los problemas mas desafiantes a los que se enfrentan las familias de hoy. La adicción al alcohol o a las drogas de un miembro de la familia puede causar altos niveles de estrés, ansiedad, frustración, coraje y depresión. Siempre será recomendada la ayuda psicológica para los miembros de la familia, y no sólo para el adicto.

Por ejemplo, muchos padres de familia se preguntan: “¿Que voy a hacer con mi hijo?”. Con una ayuda psicológica conveniente terminarán preguntando: “¿Qué voy a hacer conmigo?”, una pregunta mucho mas personalizante. Y en estos momentos la aceptación es clave, para no caer en la desesperación. Se dice que un adicto afecta la vida emocional de cinco personas más en su entorno familiar y social.

Y la gran mayoría de los adictos a las drogas, incluso con la ayuda de programas de rehabilitación se enfrentan al

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Adicciones: Grandes Desafíos fantasma de las recaidas. Las recaidas para muchos son la parte inevitable de su lento y doloroso proceso de recuperación y reintegración social.

Constantemente se insiste en que la rehabilitación es un proceso que toma tiempo, al igual que la adicción.

Hay que ser paciente. La rehabilitación es clave porque abre una ventana a la esperanza. La rehabilitación tiene básicamente tres objetivos: desintoxicar al cuerpo, prevenir la recaídas y enseñar al adicto a bregar con las crisis de una manera saludable. El adicto posee una autoestima muy pobre, no le interesa autodestruirse, esta ciegamente apegado a los malos ambientes (no puede alejarse de los “amigos”) y tiene un coeficiente relacional muy deficiente (renuncia a las relaciones humanas saludables) centrándose solamente en su objeto: la droga, la cual es fácilmente manipulable.

La condena, el insulto y el reclamo no son las armas mas eficaces. El amor, la comprensión, el apoyo emocional si lo son. Hay quienes ven la adicción no como un problema sino como un síntoma.

El adicto recurre a su “medicina” porque la ve como la única forma viable de bregar con el estrés de un conflicto en su vida: luto no resuelto, divorcio, depresión, soledad, etcétera.

Otros psicólogos, de tendencias médicas, definen la adicción como un problema primario, progresivo y mortal.

Deepak Chopra, famoso experto hindú en medicina ayurvédica, sostiene que los adictos son seres profundamente espirituales porque buscaron en la droga una sustancia como el maná bíblico que les ayudara a atenuar el dolor de la jornada, en el peligroso desierto de la vida. Quisieron crear paraísos pero terminaron atrapa-

dos en un infierno, del que no es fácil escapar. Pero una vez rehabilitados, son capaces de desarrollar una extraordinaria sensibilidad espiritual.

Cuando un drogadicto para el consumo de la droga, experimenta el llamado síndrome de la abstinencia —dolor de cabeza, cambios de conducta, psicósis, neurosis, depresión, ansiedad, etcétera—, por lo que se hace necesaria la intervención de un experto en la conducta que le ayude a controlar y disminuir dichos síntomas, incluso con la ayuda de medicina psicotrópica.

En la mayoría de los casos, sin una intervención profesional, el adicto no puede por si solo y tiende a caer en un círculo vicioso: dolor-necesidad de consumo para aliviar el dolor-consumo-alivio del dolor-dolor por haber consumido, etcétera. El movimiento de Alcohólicos Anónimos ha sido una fascinante medicina para millones de adictos que han logrado librarse de la esclavitud del alcohol y las drogas. Dicho movimiento tiene un cimiento profundamente espiritual, basado en Dios. Y he ahí la razón de su éxito.

Entre los doce pasos de esta tradición terapéutica están

(1) el reconocimiento personal de vivir una vida ingobernable, (2) el reconocimiento de que sólo Dios le puede ayudar y (3) la elaboración de un “inventario moral” para hacer un recuento de los daños cometidos a los demás.

Existen muchas modalidades terapéuticas basadas en esta “filosofía de los doce pasos”, para tratar problemas como la adicción a la comida, al sexo, a las drogas, etcétera. Los programas de Alatin y Alanon brindan apoyo emocional a los hijos o cónyuges de los adictos al alcohol y a las drogas. A pesar de la complejidad del problema, se abren muchas ventanas de esperanza. La ayuda psicológica esta en todas partes. No dudes en buscarla si la necesitas.

Una última anécdota: A varios albañiles que construían el edificio que albergaría una iglesia se les hizo la pregunta siguiente: ¿Qué estás haciendo? Uno dijo: “Estoy ganando dinero”. Otro señaló: “Estoy poniendo ladrillos”.

Y un tercero expresó: “Estoy construyendo un templo para la gloria de Dios”.

Y asi son nuestras vidas.

Somos parte de un GRANDISIMO proyecto de trascendencia y magnitudes eternas.

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Sisters of Charity celebrating Bicentennial The Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill, an international apostolic community of women religious, will celebrate its Bicentennial in Tucson with a special liturgy on Aug. 9 at Sts. Peter and Paul Church.

Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas will preside at the 9 a.m. Mass, which will be followed by an open house in the parish convent.

The event is being sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill at St. Peter and Paul Convent, a Sister of Charity of St. Elizabeth who is currently serving in Tucson, and members of the Seton Family.

The community observed its 75th anniversary in the Tucson region last year.

Founded by Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton on July 31, 1809, the Sisters of Charity continue to support the mission of the Church through ministries of health care, education, and service to the poor.

The Congregation has 238 Sisters living and working in the United States Province. Rooted in faith, animated by prayer, and supported by the common life, Sisters of Char-

ST. ELIZABETH ANN SETON as depicted in a chapel window in Emmitsburg, Md.

ity perform their work in a spirit of humility, simplicity and charity.

The Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill trace their origin to the first American congregation of women religious, founded at Emmitsburg, Md., by Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton.

Under the wise and saintly care of Mother Seton, the new community prospered and began to spread to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Saint Louis and Cincinnati.

By spring of 1889, the sisters had undertaken the staffing of 20 parochial schools, in addition to establishing Saint Mary School for Boys and St. Joseph Academy for Girls on “the Hill.”

Two years later, Roselia Foundling and Maternity Asylum was established and, before the end of that decade, the Charity Hospital of Pittsburgh (later renamed Pittsburgh Hospital) was founded.

In 1921, Sisters of Charity traveled to New Orleans to teach Sisters of the Holy Family, who were denied access to higher education because of their race.

In 1933, the call to serve took sisters to Arizona to staff Sts. Peter and Paul School in Tucson.

Sisters continue to serve in education and other ministries in the Dioceses of Tucson and Phoenix.

Notice The Diocese of Tucson has been informed by the Diocese of Santa Rosa that Rev. Ted Oswald, a priest of that diocese, has been placed on administrative leave after allegations of sexual abuse of minors were determined by the Diocese of Santa Rosa to be credible.

In 1976 and 1977, prior to his ordination, Rev. Oswald, known then as Brother John, was a member of a lay association, “Brothers of Our Lady of the Poor,” that provided services in the Yuma community.

The Diocese of Tucson is not aware of any allegations regarding Rev. Oswald related to his time in the Yuma community.

This announcement is made in accord with the policy of the Diocese to encourage any person who may have experienced abuse by a priest, deacon or other worker for the Church to make a report to law enforcement and to contact Dr. Paul Duckro of the Diocese of Tucson Office of Child, Adolescent and Adult Protection at 520-838-2513.

Also in accord with diocesan policy, Rev. Oswald’s name has been added to the list of clergy and other Church personnel who served within the Diocese against whom the Diocese is aware of credible allegations of sexual misconduct involving a minor.

The list is available at www.diocesetucson.org under “Child Protection.”

Dear friends, It is with great pleasure and excitement that we invite you to join us on our 12 days Splendors of Italy and Switzerland

SPLENDORS OF ITALY & SWITZERLAND visiting Rome Assisi Florence Venice Munich Lucerne

The PASSION PLAY of OBERAMMERGAU

12 Days: July 9 - 20, 2010

We look forward to having you join us on this trip of a lifetime!

Deacon Joe Delgado 520-432-9047

Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites What are you seeking?

• Closer relationship with Jesus and a deeper prayer life?

• Do you have a devotion to Our Blessed Mother Mary and an interest in the teachings of the Carmelite saints?

If so, God may be calling you to Carmel.

The Santa Cruz Community of Secular Discalced Carmelites welcomes visitors to attend our meetings and find out more about our way of life.

For more information contact: Joe Thibodeaux , OCDS

520 991-7779

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Use technology to spread the Good News, Bishop says PHILADELPHIA (CNS) -- The Church’s great communications challenge today is to “keep the interest of people who have so many places to turn,” Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas told the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management.

Bishop Kicanas, vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, addressed the organization’s annual meeting on June 25 in Philadelphia.

Meanwhile, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair also spoke at the Roundtable about the complex demands of communicating effectively in today’s “transformed world” -- a world that in communications terms has become “a different planet almost.”

“Clarity of direction” and strong, but not arrogant, belief serve leaders well in communicating a message, Blair said.

Teaching is important, but it is a spirit of love, compassion and service that draws others, he added.

Bishop Kicanas said the Church should not hesitate “to engage the modern digital technologies,” which “can be vehicles for communicating,” he said. Given recent advances in communications technology, he noted that people today Twitter and blog, they e-mail, use Skype, Blackberries and iPhones, and choose Facebook partners.

Still, “communication, while enhanced by technology, rests on the power of the message and the authenticity of the communicator,” Bishop Kicanas said.

“Technology facilitates the fundamental desire” people have to communicate and engage one another.

With “effective communications” as its theme, the June 24-26 meeting of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management examined the

BISHOP KICANAS potential of a new universe of communications for the church. Participants included Catholic bishops, educators, leaders in business, finance and philanthropy, and priests, sisters and lay leaders.

Bishop Kicanas told the meeting how much he enjoys theater and commented on its relevance for communicators.

“Great actors and actresses communicate,” he said. “The language of theater needs to be crisp, punctuated with images and to resonate with feeling.”

Similar qualities are needed in effective church communications, Bishop Kicanas said. “Abstract, theoretical, disembodied language has little place on the stage or for that matter from the pulpit or in most communication by the church,” he added.

He cautioned, though, that “the greatest blow to the integrity of the church’s message and its effectiveness occurs when those who deliver that message are simply play-acting.”

Bishop Kicanas described himself as

a blogger of sorts. The online “Monday Memo” he writes weekly to the Tucson Diocese is “presented as a kind of blog on our Web site and sent out to an e-mail readership,” he said.

The “Monday Memo” helps him “teach, inform and bring people’s attention to the good things happening in the diocese,” he said, adding that it amazes him “how many people respond.”

But “people today want to be in the know,” he said. “We live in an information society, a mass media culture.”

Bishop Kicanas accented the importance of trust for effective communications. The Church’s sexual abuse crisis “harmed far too many, but also damaged the Church’s ability to communicate,” he said. Some judged the Church hypocritical, “more concerned about its reputation than about children who were harmed.

Some stopped listening.”

Thus, restoring trust became his goal in Tucson, “as it has for so many bishops in their dioceses,” he said.

And as the diocese emerged in 2005 from the bankruptcy protection it sought in 2004, Bishop Kicanas said he was “deeply moved ... to hear (abuse) victims say to the media that they had been treated fairly and respectfully.” The Church “embodied her message. They sensed the Church cared,” he said.

At the time of the bankruptcy, Bishop Kicanas said the step was taken in the belief that it represented “the best opportunity for healing and for the just and fair compensation of those who suffered sexual abuse by workers for the Church in our diocese.”

Another lesson learned from the bankruptcy was that “openness and transparency” are critical, Bishop Kicanas said in Philadelphia. He recalled struggling

“mightily whether to put out information that was embarrassing, disturbing and potentially harmful for the Church.”

But “there are no secrets in our cellphone, Internet world,” Bishop Kicanas said. “It was best and right to get out the story as it was. That alone could heal. Tell the truth.”

People today live “in a concrete world” where they “hope to find some deeper meaning,” he said, adding that he believes the Church “holds that meaning, but it must be communicated.”

However, “we need to grow more comfortable and skilled” at communicating with a world that has little patience for “the abstract theoretical language which we are accustomed to speak,” he said.

Bishop Kicanas urged the leadership organization to “help the Church at every level to acquire and become proficient in communications and information technology” and to help it “develop interactive forms of communication that engage others, especially the young.”

Blair, who became a Catholic in late 2007, spoke of his “very personal journey” into the church, saying that becoming Catholic brought him a sense of pride and “of homecoming.”

Blair discussed the challenge of communications that involve acknowledging a problem. There will be problems in a transparent, open world “because people are human,” but there is “no point in thinking we can hide away,” he said.

Yet, leaders should seek a balance when problems arise, Blair said. This means acknowledging what went wrong, but pointing out where things “go right.”

For church leaders, he added, it means constantly being “out there” talking about the Church’s “central purpose.”

Bishops’ agenda features immigration, marriage SAN ANTONIO (CNS) -- Immigration reform and same-sex marriage were among the topics discussed by the U.S. bishops in public sessions at their June 17-19 spring meeting in San Antonio.

The bishops met behind closed doors in executive session to discuss the University of Notre Dame’s decision to award an honorary degree to U.S. President Barack Obama, emerging with a two-sentence affirmation of Bishop John M. D’Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., for his “pastoral concern” for the university.

Two liturgical texts approved by the bishops were a Spanish-language Lectionary and a Mass in Thanksgiving for the Gift of Human Life.

On immigration reform, Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago wrote on behalf of the full U.S. Conference of Catholic

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Bishops to urge President Obama and Congress to enact comprehensive reform before the end of 2009.

“It has been clear for years that the United States immigration system requires repair and that reform legislation should not be delayed,” said the USCCB president in a prepared statement. “I would ask President Barack Obama and congressional leaders of both parties to work together to fashion and enact comprehensive immigration reform legislation before the end of the year.”

He also urged “respect and observance of all just laws” and said the bishops “do not approve or encourage the illegal entry of anyone into our country.”

Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, of Louisville, Ky., chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Defense of Marriage,

reported to his fellow bishops about the challenges in meeting their priority focus on marriage, especially the quick rate at which states and courts have been taking up legislation that legalizes same-sex marriage or prohibits it.

He said the key points that the ad hoc committee is focusing on to support marriage are: -- That marriage is inherently related to sexual differences and the complementarity of men and women.

-- That marriage is for the good of children, who are themselves “a great good of marriage.”

-- That marriage is a unique bond reserved to men and women by nature.

-- That same-sex marriage has negative effects on religious rights.

The Mass for life, first proposed nearly

20 years ago by Cardinal John J. O’Connor of New York, passed by a 183-2 vote, with three abstentions. The Spanish-language Lectionary was approved on a 181-2 vote, also with three abstentions. Both now go to the Vatican for confirmation.

But five sections of the Roman Missal being prepared for use in English-speaking countries failed to get the necessary two-thirds votes of the Latin-rite U.S. bishops during the meeting.

The items that failed to pass contain the Order of the Mass II; prefaces for various occasions; votive Masses and Masses for the dead; solemn blessings for the end of Mass; prayers over the people; and Eucharistic prayers for particular occasions, such as for evangelization or ordinations.

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Tax credits give minority community school choices

By GRACIE QUIROZ Special to The New Vision As we ponder what a business leader looks for in a good candidate for employment, the answer usually begins with a good education.

Community activists will tell you that the key to changing neighborhoods from depressed conditions and crime is the provision of a good educational system that supports families in keeping their children in school and achieving graduation from high school.

Because our children are tomorrow’s leaders, they must be prepare to take up that leadership challenge. We as a community can invest in our children by expanding their educational choices.

Underperforming schools are most

often found in areas that serve minority children. Because of a lack of both financial means and education choice, families must send their children to these underperforming schools.

While the large Hispanic population in our state demonstrates the need for Hispanic leaders and skilled workers, in reality many Hispanic and minority families are unable to afford tuition costs at the school of their choice. Last year 74 percent of CTSO’s scholarships were awarded to minority students.

Tax credits give families choices in the education of their children. It is up to us to support and promote every effort to ensure that children stay in school.

It is a common belief that tax credits take away from public education. In real-

ity, the tax credit is funds that taxpayers divert from the state’s general coffers. This gives the taxpayers the opportunity to have a say in how they want their tax dollars spent. The state also saves money when families, who pay taxes, choose not to send their child to a public school. It costs the State about $8,000 a year to educate a child in a public school.

One of the reasons more families are not taking advantage of private education seems to be awareness. Surveys regarding school choice issues show that eligible Arizona citizens and businesses don’t know that this solution is available.

So while parents complain about prohibitive tuition costs at private schools that might offer the benefits they seek, such as significantly lower dropout rates and

higher graduations rates, they nevertheless neglect to take advantage of tax credits. Tax credits can make the dream of a private school education an affordable reality for every family.

Promoting diversity in the educational system is a win-win for everyone, especially the minority community. Taxpayers can participate in this winning process if they so choose.

Why support tax credits? There are many compelling reasons but one is the value of the dollar and the cost-effectiveness of private schools.

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Gracie Quiroz is executive director of the Diocese of Tucson’s Catholic Tuition Support Organization and president of the state Tuition Support Organization Association.

Pro-life, school-choice laws signed by Governor

By RON JOHNSON Arizona Catholic Conference

After one of the most unusual and bitter legislative sessions in memory, the Arizona Legislature adjourned on July 1, making it the latest ending date in Arizona history.

The best thing about the 2009 legislative session is that it can be called the most prolife session ever!

The Arizona Catholic Conference (ACC) is especially grateful that Governor Brewer has now signed into law the Abortion Consent Act (HB 2564). This will help parents, women, children, and health care providers by requiring informed consent and a 24-hour waiting period before abortions; by tightening parental consent requirements by mandating notarized signatures; by specifying that non-physicians cannot perform surgical abortions; and by protecting the rights of conscience of all health care workers, including pharmacists, with respect to their participation in abortions and the distribution of morning-after pills.

The provision about non-physicians performing surgical abortions was added late in the session to another bill (SB 1175) because of new information about nurse practitioners performing many more abortions than was previously known. In the event that the Abortion Consent Act language is tied up in litigation, having a separate law in this regard could become very important to the safety of women.

Governor Brewer also signed into law a state ban on partial birth abortions (HB 2400) that will give local prosecutors the ability to make sure this horrific procedure never happens in Arizona as well as an important end-of-life measure (HB 2616) that preserves food and fluids for certain patients with guardians.

The best thing about the 2009 legislative session is that it can be called the most pro-life session ever!

— The scholarship credit saves the state money and enables parents to send their children to the school that best fits their needs.

Pertaining to school choice, the primary goal was to remove the sunset provision on the scholarship (corporate) tuition tax credit. As a reminder, this tax credit is targeted to low and moderate income students who either are entering kindergarten or want to switch from public to private schools.

The scholarship credit saves the state money and enables parents to send their children to the school that best fits their needs.

This year, the ACC supported legislation that would make this credit permanent and allow insurance companies the ability to donate like other corporations (HB 2288). Additionally, HB 2287 would allow users of both the individual tuition tax credit and the charitable organization tax credit to donate through payroll deductions in a manner so that they would not see a drop in their paychecks.

In addition to these bills, the ACC was able to work collaboratively with others to fend off the usual attacks on these tax credits and will continue to pursue school choice as a top priority.

Finally, it would be remiss to not mention the special session that was called earlier this year to help the foster and disabled students who were set to lose their school vouchers at the end of the school year under a recent Arizona Supreme Court decision. Governor Brewer called the

special session and signed into law a new corporate tuition tax credit capped at $5 million to rescue these children.

In an effort to help faith-based charities and crisis pregnancy centers struggling to meet increasing demands for services during a time of shrinking resources, the ACC initiated a bill (HB 2286) to streamline the charitable organization tax credit for nonprofit organizations that primarily serve low-income and disadvantaged people.

HB 2286 was designed to make the existing charitable tax credit like any other tax credit by eliminating the complicated baseline year requirement for those itemizing their taxes. Additionally, the bill had provisions to ensure that only legitimate nonprofit organizations are the recipients.

This measure which will significantly benefit nonprofit organizations, and urges that vulnerable populations are similarly not forgotten in the ongoing special session on the budget.

A large number of bills targeting those not legally in the country were also introduced this year. Among these measures were bills such as SB 1177 that would make it a crime for these immigrants to seek employment or even to solicit work on their own for matters such as cutting palm trees or yard work.

The bill that garnered the most attention, however, ended up being a proposal

(HB 2280) that would compel local police to enforce federal immigration laws above others and create a felony crime of trespass for all those not legally in the country. HB 2280 was opposed by the ACC and various chiefs of police because it would take away resources from more serious criminal violations and create a chilling effect on crime victims and witnesses stepping forward.

Fortunately, all of these measures failed to pass during this session, but they are expected to return next year.

The ACC is grateful to all of the people and groups it has worked with over the course of this session that have made our efforts successful. In particular, there are certain legislators that deserve special praise such as Representative Nancy Barto and Senator Linda Gray who have championed the pro-life and conscience measures through their respective chambers.

Representative Steve Yarbrough and Senator John Huppenthal likewise were outstanding leaders on both school choice and the charitable tax credit. A special acknowledgment is also due to Senator Amanda Aguirre who moved to reconsider the charitable tax credit bill when it was in trouble and provided the deciding vote on the Senate floor.

Finally, the ACC is grateful to all of the people who supported our efforts through prayers and e-mails this session. We look forward to working with you again on the public policy issues of greatest importance to the Catholic Church.

As always, your assistance in encouraging anybody you know to sign up for free e-mail updates at www.azcatholicconference.org will help us to continue to grow the influence of the Catholic Church on these matters.

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Obama, Pope meet cordially, talk privately Bioethics among topics in ‘extremely satisfying’ discussion

By CAROL GLATZ and CINDY WOODEN Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY -- The Church’s position on bioethical issues got marked attention during Pope Benedict XVI’s meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama on July 10.

In addition to giving Obama a copy of his latest encyclical, the Pope presented a copy of the Vatican document on biomedical ethics, “Dignitas Personae” (“The Dignity of a Person”).

After their 35-minute closed-door meeting, the Pope gave Obama a signed, white leather-bound copy of the encyclical, “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”), then indicated the light-green soft-cover instruction on bioethics issued last December by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

“Oh, what we discussed earlier,” said Obama, referring to their closed-door discussions. “I will have some reading to do on the plane.”

Obama was given the instruction to help him better understand the church’s position on bioethics, Msgr.

Georg Ganswein, papal secretary, told journalists covering the visit.

Obama arrived at the Vatican shortly before 4 p.m., and a squad of Swiss Guards saluted him in the St. Damasus Courtyard of the Apostolic Palace.

U.S. Archbishop James Harvey, prefect of the papal household, was the first to greet the president, and he

accompanied Obama to a meeting with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state.

Pope Benedict and Obama sat at a desk in the papal library and discussed the Group of Eight summit -- the meeting of the world’s wealthy industrialized countries, which concluded that morning in L’Aquila, Italy. The summit focused on the economic crisis, climate change and global tensions.

After the Pope welcomed Obama, the president said: “Thank you so much. It’s a great honor for me. Thank you so much.”

Pope Benedict told the president, “You must be tired after all these discussions.”

Obama responded that the meetings were “very productive” and marked “great progress” and “something concrete,” although the precise topic they were discussing at that point was unclear.

The Pope and Obama discussed issues that represent “a great challenge for the future of every nation and for the true progress of peoples, such as the defense and promotion of life and the right to abide by one’s conscience,” said a Vatican statement released after the audience.

The two men also discussed world issues addressed at the G-8 summit, as well as immigration and the issue of reuniting families, the Vatican statement said.

The meeting with the Pope and a separate 20-minute meeting with Cardinal Bertone also touched on international politics, such as the peace process in the Middle

East, “on which there was general agreement.”

“Dialogue between cultures and religions, the global economic crisis and its ethical implications, food security, development aid -- especially for Africa and Latin America -- and the problem of drug trafficking” were discussed, the Vatican statement said.

“Finally, the importance of educating young people everywhere in the value of tolerance was highlighted,” it said.

At the end of the meeting, Pope Benedict told the president, “A blessing on all your work and also for you.”

The president responded: “Thank you very much. We look forward to building a strong relationship between our countries.”

The Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, told reporters after the audience that “great serenity and great cordiality” characterized the meeting.

Father Lombardi said he spoke with the Pope after the meeting and he “seemed extremely satisfied with how the meeting went.”

He said the Pope found Obama to be “attentive and ready to listen.”

“The president explicitly expressed his commitment to reducing the numbers of abortions and to listen to the church’s concerns on moral issues,” he said.

After their closed-door meeting, Obama introduced the Pope to his wife, Michelle, their daughters, Malia and Sasha, and Michelle Obama’s mother, Marian Robinson.

Father Peter M. McGloin, 79, dies Father Peter M. McGloin, a retired priest McGlolin was editor.

“The quality of the Arizona Catholic of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson and pastor emeritus of Our Lady of Fatima Lifetime during Father McGloin’s tenure Parish in Tucson, died Monday, June 15, at reflected his intelligence and sensitivity to people and their issues. If he had been in age 79 in Tucson after a long illness.

A native of Providence, R.I., Father charge, he would have changed the world.

McGloin was ordained on May 26, 1956, Father McGloin was not reluctant to share his opinions and to speak his mind. for service in the Diocese of Tucson.

Through it all, he retained During his 53 years of his wonderful sense of ministry in the Diocese, humor,” she said.

Father McGloin served “As Catholics worldas a parish priest, as an wide begin a special educator and as a journalYear for Priests, Father ist.

McGloin’s ministry in He was associate our Diocese is an inspirpastor at St. Matthew ing reminder to us of Parish in Phoenix (1956) how much priesthood and St. Mary Parish in matters,” said Bishop Chandler (1956); teachGerald F. Kicanas. “His er, assistant principal service demonstrates how (1956-1966) and princithe pastoral ministry of a pal (1966-1968) at Seton Father McGloin good priest has a positive High School in Chanand powerful impact on dler; associate pastor at St. Frances Cabrini Parish in Tucson the lives of many people.”

The Funeral Mass was celebrated on (1968-1970); diocesan Superintendent of Catholic Schools (1968-1972); editor of Monday, June 22, at Our Lady of Fatima the diocesan newspaper (Arizona Regis- Church. Burial was a Holy Hope Cemetery ter, 1970-1975, and Arizona Catholic Life- in Tucson.

Father McGloin is survived by his brothtime, 1975-1977); and founding pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Parish from 1972 until er Robert of Cranston, R.I. Memorial donations may be made to the his retirement in 2004.

Tucsonan Edith Auslander was a report- St. Vincent de Paul Society at Our Lady of er for the diocesan newspaper when Father Fatima Parish.

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Tragedy reveals desperate need for refugee jobs Catholic Social Service and community work to aid struggling families

By RuTH LILJENQuIST Special to The New Vision They were looking for jobs. They just wanted a chance to work.

On June 3, a group of 17 recently resettled refugees from Africa were traveling back to Tucson from Willcox, where some of them had had job interviews at EuroFresh Farms. Near Benson, the driver lost control of their van, which then rolled down an embankment before landing in the eastbound lanes of I-10. Five of the refugees, a man and four women, died at the scene. A sixth died the next day. Several others were seriously injured.

The sadness throughout the refugee community—the refugees themselves and those that work to help them rebuild new lives here—is deep.

“These people came here full of hope for a new and better life. They were trying to find work,” said Ferdinand Lossou, Catholic Social Service’s director of refugee resettlement.

Three families involved in the accident were resettled by Catholic Social Service. The Kitubure family—a father and mother and eight children— came to Tucson in December 2008. The mother and an adult son were seriously injured in the accident, and the family’s 19-year-old daughter was killed. The Albino family, who came to the United States in the summer of 2008, lost their father in the accident, leaving behind a wife, an adult daughter, and a granddaughter. Rebecca Niyintunze, a single mother who came with her seven children to the United States in February 2008, sustained minor injuries.

The community has responded to this tragedy with compassion and generosity. Adair Funeral Home and the Diocese of Tucson Catholic Cemeteries have contributed to help reduce funeral expenses. In addition, Catholic Social Service has set up a fund to receive donations to help families who lost loved ones or sustained serious injury. So far, over $20,000 has been donated by individuals and parishes, most notably Our Mother of Sorrows and St. Cyril parishes.

“We’re very thankful to the community for responding with such kindness,” said Liz McMahon, director of development for Catholic Community Services. “This money will be a tremendous help to the families, paying rent and

The Kitubure family came to Tucson in December 2008. The mother and the family’s 19-year-old daughter were killed and an adult son, shown at right, was seriously injured in the accident.

utility bills, while they strive to get back on their feet.

Additional donations are still needed, but ultimately what is needed most are jobs.“ Without employment, these families will not be able to sustain themselves over the long term. Already struggling because of their difficulty in finding jobs, these families are suffering even more now, not just from grief, but because those that died were family members that could work. And those with serious injuries will need to recover before they can even look for jobs.

Lossou says that the toughest challenge facing refugees right now is the inability to find jobs. “There aren’t many jobs, and our refugees can’t compete. They don’t have work experience and they don’t speak English,” said Lossou. “We really need employers who will be partners with us in giving these people a chance to work. That’s the

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Keeping children safe from harm is a concern that goes beyond our Diocese and the Catholic Church.

Nationally, efforts to protect our children from harm receive considerable attention and resources.

Are these efforts having an impact on the societal problem of child abuse?

Updated statistics on child abuse are released each spring, tabulating the data from two years earlier.

Here is a quick scan of the most recent data as presented in “Child Maltreatment 2007,” issued by the Children’s Bureau of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, that compiled information from more than three million reports made to child protective service agencies, reports that touched on the lives of nearly six million children.

In 2007, initial screening eliminated more than 38 percent of the reports. Of the investigations that were opened, more than 25 percent resulted in confirmed cases of abuse or neglect. These cases involved approximately 794,000 children.

Clearly, the reports of suspected child abuse exceed the confirmed findings of abuse by a large factor.

This is not a failure of the system. It is the way the mandated reporter law is designed to work. It is better to have reports that do not lead to findings of abuse than to have calls that were not made, with potentially catastrophic results.

Who is making the reports?

In 2007, nearly 58 percent of the reports were made by professionals. A professional is simply defined as someone who had contact with the child as part of his or her job.

In the Diocese of Tucson, this definition includes anyone who is ministering or serving in any capacity on There is something so basic about the Incarnation, so mystifying about our transcendent God’s choosing to be with us. And this God isn’t just with us in thought, or in spirit. This God is with us in flesh. God, who created us, became one of us. Francis of Assisi understood this. He recognized the hand of God in creation. Now, I know that this kind of article is usually written during the Christmas season. But I would invite us to think about the miracle of God’s in a new way. It isn’t just at Christmas that God became human. Through this mystery of the Incarnation the Second Person of the Trinity, the Word of God took on human form. He becomes one of us, takes on human nature, a created nature. How this happens might be the topic of another article. It is already the topic of countless books. This article won’t attempt that. What we will look at is how this mystery of the Incarnation invites us to look at the created world.

PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN PAUL DUCKRO, Ph.D

Most abuse comes from within family behalf of the parish, school or agency.

In our experience, most reports are made by those who come into regular contact with children in their ministry or service. But, any person who is educated as to what to look for and motivated to act with courage can be the source of a report that might save a child from harm.

Although each state has its own definitions of child abuse and neglect, Federal law sets this minimum standard: any act or failure to act that results in or presents an imminent risk of serious harm will be classified as maltreatment, which is defined as neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse and psychological maltreatment.

The most common form of maltreatment was neglect.

In 2007, almost 60 percent of documented cases fell into this category.

Neglect may be associated with many causative factors and can be very serious in its consequences. More than 30 percent of child fatalities (the great majority in children under four years of age) were associated with neglect alone.

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

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Physical abuse was the second most common form of maltreatment (more than 10 percent) and was also a major contributor to the death of the children.

Sexual abuse again ranked third (7.6 percent) among the four major categories of maltreatment.

Who is abusing these children?

Unhappily, nearly 80 percent of maltreatment was perpetrated by parents, almost all of them biological parents. Another 6.6 percent of abusers were other relatives.

For all of us in ministry in our Diocese, the lesson of these statistics is clear: your eyes and ears, your courageous willingness to act, may lead to the call that saves a child’s life.

What are we looking and listening for?

There is an old saying in health care, “common diseases are common,” meaning that health care personnel should be on the lookout not only for the more unusual diseases that might be misdiagnosed, but also for the common diseases that are most often the cause of symptoms and that might be overlooked in the fear of missing the more unusual diseases.

As you see from the statistics, the most common source of danger for a child comes within the family and will be recognized in signs of physical neglect, physical damage or remarkable changes in usual behavior. These statistics are supported by the experience of our parishes and schools.

If you would like more information, check out the related publication, “The Role of Professional Child Care Providers in Preventing and Responding to Child Abuse and Neglect,” available online at www.childwelfare.gov/ pubs/usermanuals/childcare.

in whom all things are and through we exist.”

We honor God who is the creator when we honor his creation. When we dishonor God’s creation, we act foolishly. When we honor creation we honor Jesus, through whom everything comes into being. Jesus Christ shares our created nature.

Wherever we stand on climate change is not the issue. How we live in relationship with God, with one another, and with God’s creation is the issue. The United States Bishops provide us with many ideas on this issue. They give us a clear direction and some very practical steps that we can take to demonstrate our respect for God’s creation. At Jordan Ministry we are developing a workshop that will help in understanding what the Bishops are saying. It will also provide some practical ways to teach and implement practical ways to live the message.

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Santa Catalina’s Memorial Garden a work of art Approximately half way between Nogales and Globe there is a little-known prayerful treasure named the Santa Catalina Memorial Garden that is surely worth making the trek into Catalina.

Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas made a special visit recently to the modern Santa Catalina Catholic Parish located off Highway 77 just north of Tangerine Road, to bless the recently completed Santa Catalina Memorial Garden.

The Memorial Garden offers a contemplative journey through the life of Jesus as told through the Way of the Cross. The 15 Stations of the Cross and the Garden of Gethsemane scene feature bronze sculptures designed and produced by artist Timothy P. Schmalz of Ontario, Canada.

With nearly 1,200 registered families, the parishioners saw fulfillment of the inherited dream of Sister Carole Ruhland to create an outdoor place to pray, now under guidance of Father Peter Connolly, C.Ss.R., the first pastor of Santa Catalina Parish who arrived last fall.

The idea for a Memorial Garden was sparked in 1999 by a need for an outdoor place to pray, as well as a place where parishioners of Santa Catalina who had died could be honored. In 2004 the creative plans and work took shape and the garden was completed in the spring of 2008, but it was not until this spring that the Memorial Wall was

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Amid olive trees, reclining apostles occupy the “Garden of Gethsemane” at the Santa Catalina Memorial Garden, the site where Jesus and his disciples prayed the night before the crucifixion.

erected on the south end of the garden, holding the names of parishioners who had died.

Many contributed funds and talents to the job. The garden concept and design was done by architects Paul R. Olson & John C. Shaheen; landscape architect and Way of the Cross station design by Jim Miller of Miller Associates LLC; Memorial Wall design by Shaheen; landscape, stations, garden and wall contractor was Pete Rascon of Rascon Landscaping and Design; structural engineer was Turner Structural Engineering and the ongoing garden

groundskeeper is parishioner Jim Eaton.

The garden with the Catalina Mountains as the backdrop is located just behind the Santa Catalina Church, through a large archway. It offers visitors a serene place to meditate and pray in nature.

Visitors are welcome to use the Stations of the Cross guide books, available at the entrance of the Memorial Garden, which offer different perspectives for praying the Stations of the Cross, as they make their way down the path.

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