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Plans are underway in the Diocese of Phoenix to implement new local norms for the distribution of Holy Communion that will bring the local Church in line with universal Church guidelines. As a result, the Precious Blood will not be offered at every Sunday Mass, but instead be reserved for special occasions, left to the determination of each parish pastor. “What we’re trying to do is be faithful to the General Instruction of the Roman Missal,” Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted said. “What’s in there is what we want to follow. It’s a question of being obedient and in communion with the larger Church.”
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Fr. John Parks, parochial vicar at St. Timothy Parish in Mesa, plays the role of an exorcist in a dramatization scene in “The Rite of Exorcism: Myth, Mystery and Hope,” which opens Oct. 21 at Harkins Shea 14.
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Archbishop calls on Catholic health care workers to defend human dignity By J.D. Long-Garcia and Joyce Coronel The Catholic Sun
LITCHFIELD PARK — The greatest challenge faced by Catholic health care workers is a “growing secularism,” said Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez. “This growing secularism endangers our religious freedom,” he said Oct. 8, giving the keynote address that concluded the Oct. 6-8 Catholic Medical Association’s annual conference.
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ollywood has long been obsessed with exorcisms. From the “The Exorcist” trilogies that kicked off in 1973, to “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” in 2005 to Anthony Hopkins’ “The Rite” this year, the film industry has been tempted to portray this sacred ritual of the Church. Unfortunately, they’ve gotten it wrong every time. “While Hollywood has been fascinated with exorcism, it can’t bring
itself to deal with the source of the problem,” said Fr. Charlie Goraieb, a priest who has some practical knowledge of demonology. “Sin is the medium that Satan uses to bind us. Hollywood is unable to clearly describe objective sin,” he explained. “It doesn’t have a clear understanding of the nature of objective sin — it won’t even acknowledge it.” Fr. Goraieb, pastor of St. Timothy Parish in Mesa, is one of two priests
speaking after local screenings of “The Rite of Exorcism: Myths, Mystery and Hope” later this month. The screenings start on Oct. 21 at Harkins Shea 14, 7354 E. Shea Blvd. in Scottsdale. Fr. Gary Thomas, an exorcist and the inspiration behind “The Rite,” will speak after the 7:30 p.m. screening Oct. 25; Fr. Goraieb will speak after the 7:30 p.m. screening Oct. 27. — See EXORCISM page 4 ▶
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Friends of the Orphans SCOTTSDALE — Eighteen Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos orphans from El Salvador danced and prayed with some of their diocesan student sponsors Oct. 6. The partnership is through Friends of the Orphans, which supports nine homes in Latin American countries and the Caribbean. The visit included Mass, a dance and lunch at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School. Ten area Catholic schools sponsored orphans this year. The organization also held three fiesta fundraisers at local parishes. Car fundraisers Whether new or vintage, cars are proving to be successful fundraisers. St. Thomas More’s outreach ministry in Glendale is selling 1,000 chances to win a
new car or cash. Remaining proceeds are split among St. Joseph the Worker, André House, Maggie’s Place, Refugee Ministry, Friends of the Orphans and Habitat for Humanity. Last year’s raffle raised $44,000 for charity. The drawing is Nov. 20. Tickets are $100 each and can be split among five people. Details: (623) 566-8222 or stmglendale.org. Our Lady of Joy Parish in Carefree and its Knights of Columbus council held a “Cars for Charity” classic car show and raffle Oct. 8. Car owners received awards for best in class and a Pastor’s Choice award. The event raised more than $10,000 for the parish and Knights charities. Blessing Project A six-week exhibit, “A
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Marriage tribunal hosts annulment seminar The marriage tribunal for the Diocese of Phoenix will hold an annulment seminar in English and Spanish Nov. 12. The free, twohour seminar will walk divorced Catholics and non-Catholics who plan to marry a Catholic through the annulment process and answer individual questions. The idea is to ease any hesitations individuals might have for starting the process. Annulments declare by an ecclesiastical tribunal that a marriage was not valid according to the Church, allowing Catholics to freely enter into the sacrament of marriage.
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The Catholic approach to the new evangelization was fundamentally changed thanks to Steve Jobs, said Eric Westby of the Kino Institute. “What he has given us is a set of tools to approach the new evangelization in a way that we didn’t even know existed,” Westby told The Catholic Sun. “As Catholics, we don’t see technology as intrinsic evil; we look at it as a created good. It’s up to us to use it according to the Gospel.” Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died Oct. 5 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Westby compared his innovations to those of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. Apple products have become part of their customers’ everyday life. ▶ For the full story: bit.ly/steve-jobs-102011
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Corpus Christi parishioners celebrated 10 years of perpetual adoration Sept. 14-15. The solemn celebration fittingly concluded on the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. Parishioners asked for Mary’s intercession from the beginning. ▶ For the full story: bit.ly/adore-102011
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Oakland Bishop Salvatore Cordilione led Vespers and gave a homily Oct. 3 at the Diocesan Pastoral Center chapel. “One might say, ‘as goes the liturgy, so goes the Church,” the bishop said. “We must keep the ultimate goal of liturgy in mind.” The liturgy, he said, is not “about our own self-expression” but about “worshipping the Lord.”
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Kay Allen, executive director of 1st Way Crisis Pregnancy Center, was honored as an Angels in Adoption award recipient by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) for her work to promote adoption at a ceremony in the nation’s capital Oct. 5. Allen was selected for the award because of her work with 1st Way in advocating adoption and supporting women in crisis pregnancies. The Angels in Adoption program provides an opportunity for members of the U.S. Congress to honor the work of their constituents who have enriched the lives of foster children and orphans in the United States and abroad. ▶ For the full story: bit.ly/allen-102011
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Veritas Pictures, the Phoenixbased production company known for its work on the “Catholics Come Home” campaign, produced the docudrama. All dramatizations were filmed in Arizona and feature local talent. “It has fictional scenes that represent real situations and good explanations from people who have a good background and knowledge of how it works,” said Fr. Goraieb, who served as a theological advisor on the film. “Every Catholic should be informed. There are so many distortions of reality.” To begin with, exorcism films tend to only portray possession — the most infrequent form of demonic influence. Fr. Goraieb listed four: temptation, oppression, obsession and possession. “Obsession would be when our psychological or physical tendencies are bound to certain behaviors. You no longer have free will to do or not do,” Fr. Goraieb said. “Oppression would have to do with having irrational fears, being harassed by spirits, finding yourself tormented.” It’s important to discern whether a person is being attacked by evil spirits or suffering from a mental illness. It could be both. “These are ways in which Satan attacks and harms us,” Fr. Goraieb said. “His whole goal is to destroy us. He uses whatever he has at his disposal for that.” Possession requires a person to freely allow Satan to take possession of their body. “There’s not always full knowledge,” he explained, and Satan can never take possession of a person’s soul.
Once Satan possesses the body, he will speak through it, torment and torture the person, sometimes even throw them to the ground. “There will be all kinds of physical aberrations,” Fr. Goraieb said, “the rolling of eyes, the fury, the superhuman strength.” While few are possessed, many are obsessed and oppressed. Certain kinds of addictive behavior — like pornography or gambling or drugs — as well as occult practices make people vulnerable to demonic influences. “Satan works in a variety of ways to draw and separate us away from God,” Fr. Goraieb said. “He tempts us, he oppresses us, he obsesses us, and he can possess us as well.” Only possession requires an exorcist. Any priest can pray over someone who needs deliverance from the other forms of demonic influence. “When he absolves a person of their sins in confession, there’s a way in which that sacrament serves as a prayer of deliverance,” Fr. Goraieb said. “Ninety-five percent of the time, that’s sufficient. But there are cases where there needs to be an additional, explicit binding up and casting out of spirits that have bound a person and keep drawing the person back to sin.” This doesn’t mean that absolution hasn’t taken place; rather that Satan’s hold needs to be broken beyond the sacrament, he said. ‘The Rite of Exorcism’ Frank Di Bugnara of Veritas Pictures directed and produced “The Rite of Exorcism.” He said the recreations are based on true stories and actual events.
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“We went to great length to make sure everything that’s in there is completely realistic,” he said. Di Bugnara met with exorcists and with others who have been present for exorcisms. An East Coast communications company, affiliated with the Brooklyn Diocese, commissioned Di Bugnara to make the docudrama to “set the record straight,” he said. Fr. Thomas helped do that, as did Fr. Gabriel Amorth, the chief exorcist in Rome. “The Catholic Church doesn’t allow cameras into exorcisms,” Di Bugnara said, explaining the need to be sensitive when people are vulnerable. Exorcists have seen the film and judged it to be an accurate recreation of “voices and intensity of emotion,” he said. Fr. John Parks, parochial vicar at St. Timothy Parish in Mesa, played the role of the exorcist in some dramatizations. Fr. Parks, who studied theater at Arizona State University, quipped that he was typecast as a priest.
“I hope a lot of people go and see it,” he said. “It does a great job showing how evil creeps into our lives.” Two months before he died, John Paul II issued a mandate through then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger that every diocese have a trained exorcist. “It’s a big symptom of a root problem, which is letting evil into our lives,” Fr. Parks said. We’re called to be bonded to Christ, he said, not be in bondage to sin. Occasionally, while hearing a confession, Fr. Parks might sense a person is bonded by a spirit of compulsion. He may offer to pray a prayer of deliverance over the person after absolution. “Priests have the authority in the name of Jesus Christ to break bonds of compulsion through prayers of deliverance,” he said. “We have victory in Christ, so we have nothing to be afraid of if we’re in a state of grace.” In his acting, Fr. Parks said he received a lot of coaching from Di Bugnara, who interviewed many exorcists about the rite. The priest
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had taken a class from Di Bugnara when the director worked at Life Studios. In addition to work on the Virtue Media’s “Catholics Come Home” campaign, Veritas Pictures has produced commercials for the Discovery Channel and Fulton Homes. They’ve also produced videos for Matt Maher and Michael W. Smith. Working on “The Rite of Exorcism,” Di Bugnara learned that the sacred rite isn’t a “onetime thing.” “It’s more of a process,” he said. “Generally exorcism requires several visits, multiple visits, sometimes for years.” Demons hate the Eucharist and the Blessed Mother, he discovered through the project. “It’s interesting to me that I had to get into my 30s to learn about these things that are basic aspects of our faith,” said Di Bugnara, a cradle Catholic. “That seems to me to indicate that we need more information out there.” Msgr. Marvin Mottet, the official exorcist of the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, said people have lost the concept of spiritual warfare. “The power is in the name of Jesus, not your voice; you don’t have to yell,” he said during an international conference on exorcism in Rome earlier this year. The 80-year-old retired priest said he sees a serious case of possession once a month, and cases of demonic influence daily. Prevention: Holiness How do you prevent demonic influences? Avoid evil and do good, basically. Fr. Goraieb recommends regular confession as well. That way Catholics can receive the Eucharist in the state of grace. “Don’t play with the occult — don’t dabble with it, it’s not an innocuous form of entertainment,” he said. Same goes for astrology, horoscopes, ouija boards, tarot cards, séances, and New Age practices. “They are vehicles of the enemy,” he said. For some, the reality of demonic influences may be hard to believe. “The saving work of Jesus becomes an abstract fiction if He doesn’t in fact save us from our enemy, the devil, and his designs to bring us into eternal damnation and separate us from God,” Fr. Goraieb said. Jesus came to defeat Satan — “the author of sin, the accuser of the brethren, the tempter of every man.” The power of Christ Jesus is manifested through the Rite of Exorcism. “It’s the Church’s authoritative prayer to cast out Satan when someone is possessed,” Fr. Goraieb said. “He who is with us is greater than he who is against us.” ✴ Catholic News Service contributed to this story.
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BULLHEAD CITY — The beauty of St. Margaret Mary Parish’s new church will draw the faithful like a strong magnet, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted said. “God made us with a longing to see His face,” the bishop said in his homily during the Sept. 29 Mass of Dedication. “That longing we feel is the longing for closeness to the Lord, a thirst that nothing but God can quench.” That is why, he explained, we are drawn to things that are good and beautiful. Goodness and beauty point us to their source. “Our desire for God, which He gave us as a gift, is nothing when compared to God’s desire for us,” the bishop said. “It’s not just us looking at Him, but He is looking at us with love and mercy.” The church building, the tallest structure in Bullhead City, required special permission from the city because it exceeds height restrictions. The community has been working toward erecting the $7.2 million church for more than 19 years. “It’s just amazing,” said Joyce Tembarge, who had been a parishioner from 1991-2008. “It’s so big.” Having been a part of the parish when plans for the building began, Tembarge made sure to be present for the dedication. She ran into many familiar faces, like Olivia McCormick. “I’m the cheerleader,” McCormick said. She serves the community as chair of the Stewardship Committee. “The simple beauty of it all is moving,” she said of the church. “You sit there quietly by yourself — its just moves you.” Beauty is a theme Bishop Olmsted kept returning to in his homily. “The beauty that most convinces us of the love of Christ is a man or woman completely in love with Christ,” he said. “It’s even more beautiful than this building.” Though often overlooked, beauty has power. What is beautiful and good can overcome anything, the bishop said. “Size alone does not inspire the heart. Only true beauty does that,” he said, “a beauty that is incarnated in the love of Christ that we find in the Eucharist.” Daily efforts to love spouses, children, enemies and thieves — these efforts are beautiful, the bishop said. For Fr. Peter Dobrowski, pastor of St. Margaret Mary, the building efforts led to his own personal growth. “It’s very much transformed my life,” he said. The parish motto of building a parish that’s “Catholic inside and out,” Fr. Dobrowski said, “doesn’t just apply to the building
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Fr. Peter Dobrowski and Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted (far left) chat after the Sept. 29 Mass of Dedication at St. Margaret Mary Parish in Bullhead City. Bishop Olmsted (above) blessed the congregation at the conclusion of Mass. Fr. Dobrowski (left) embraces a parishioner after Mass. The church, which is now the tallest building in the city, is the culmination of a 19-year project.
— it applies to me. We’re moving in that direction as a community.” How the whole project came together is still overwhelming to Fr. Dobrowski. He said he spent much of the dedication Mass with tears
in his eyes. The Stations of the Cross, which are almost 100 years old and are in Slovac, were acquired thanks to a priest on the East Coast, who has connections to the parish through
the Knights of Columbus. “I’m very happy we have our church now,” said Elsa Flores, who’s been at the parish for the last six years. She’s part of the growing Spanish-speaking membership
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Launch party re-brands needbased scholarship group as Catholic Education Arizona By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun
Following his appointment as auxiliary, Bishop Eduardo A. Nevares loved nearly everything about Arizona, the Phoenix Diocese and the key groups that make it thrive. He especially regarded a rare organization — nationally speaking — with a treasured mission of using tax credits to help finance local Catholic education. The only problem: a long, technical name and the acronym that came with it. “C-T-O-D-P. You can’t sell that,” he told Paul Mulligan, executive director of the tuition organization. Mulligan agreed. In his four years at the helm, he constantly noticed prospective corporate and individual donors tripping over “Catholic Tuition Organization of the Diocese of Phoenix” or even CTODP. Bishop Nevares, who now serves on the board of directors, counted himself among those in a re-branding workshop for the organization in May. From that and a naming contest this summer among scholarship students, CTODP became Catholic Education Arizona. The bishop hosted a launch party Oct. 13 at National Bank of Arizona celebrating the new name, notable milestones and a clearer vision. More than 100 people including donors, school leaders, priests and women religious joined the celebration. Most, like the bishop, were Catholic school graduates themselves. “It’s a wonderful help to the state,” Bishop Nevares said. Catholic Education Arizona is saving Arizona $45-$50 million in public education costs this year alone. Not only that, but a Catholic education teaches ethics, values and awareness in the context of the Divine Revelation, the bishop said. The launch party also honored Isabela Metzger, a sophomore at Xavier College Preparatory. Catholic Education Arizona’s new name was her suggestion. Students who receive help from the organization submitted more than 650 name suggestions. Metzger won a pizza party for her
class and a $500 scholarship. “It helps so many kids. I know a lot of my friends wouldn’t be going to Xavier without it,” Metzger told The Catholic Sun. This is only her second year of Catholic education. Metzger said the family environment and level of respect are among key differences in Catholic schools. Those are qualities many corporations are latching on to, said Peter Hill, executive vice president of National Bank of Arizona, who has long been involved with local Catholic schools. He said the corporate giving, which is up for Catholic Education Arizona, is the future of Arizona. They realize those graduates — 97 percent of whom continue on to post-secondary education — will make for ethical employees, he said. Mulligan agreed. “They really appreciate Catholic schools graduating kids with confidence and character, respect for others and willing to serve others,” he said. Local Catholic leaders hope Catholic giving will quickly follow. Only one out of every five Catholic taxpayers support Catholic Education Arizona even though donors get the amount back in the form of a tax credit. Still, Catholic Education Arizona has doled out $100 million in scholarships — 72,000 awards — since its inception in 1997. Mulligan hopes Catholics across the diocese realize that Catholic school graduates are also a recipe for active parishioners. They’re more likely to carry on the faith in their families and local ministries and ultimately transform culture, he said. Although enrollment is up slightly this year, some 2,700 empty seats remain throughout diocesan classrooms. Filling them, especially in a tough economy, is a win-win, Catholic education advocates say. “We have the solution,” MaryBeth Mueller, superintendent of the diocese, said. “If we can convince every taxpayer who had the tax liability to redirect their money, there would be no question as to how to keep our Catholic schools open.” ✴
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The Casa marks 6oth jubilee with Franciscan charism, spiritual renewal By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun
SCOTTSDALE — Sometimes, one day just isn’t enough time to celebrate a milestone. That’s the case for the Franciscan Renewal Center, better known as The Casa. Its rich Catholic services and programming span decades and reach some 150,000 people a year. So to mark its 60th year, the peaceful grounds near Paradise Valley will be the site of 60 days of prayer and gratitude for its past. Each day will focus on a significant development in The Casa’s life story. Things kick off Nov. 1, the date Franciscan Father Owen da Silva bought The Kachina Lodge property in 1951. “He envisioned The Casa to be a place with spiritual appeal, where people would seek as their ‘desert place,’” said Charles Brown, general manager. Whether people come for an hour, a day or a weekend, Fr. da Silva’s vision lives on. Everything from worship and liturgy, to spiritual direction, counseling, education, conferences, retreats and community outreach, trickles down to renewing lives in the Catholic tradition, Brown said. “The Casa has a reputation for strong traditional ritual and progressive programs that enrich the
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“It builds a culture that God is involved in all creation,” Brown said. Catholics eager to embrace Franciscan spirituality and dialogue in their daily life can enroll in one of two certificate programs. A program focused on nonviolent(?) leadership in the way of St. Francis gets underway Oct. 21. A separate program studying the life and writings of St. Clare of Assisi, begins Nov. 19 and meets monthly through May. The Franciscan mentors program is a partnership with St. Francis University. Some 80 community members completed the pilot program last year.
“It helped identify the creative tension we live in. We live in a society that fancies itself ‘Christian’ while viewing Gospel values as impractical,” read one anonymous comment about last year’s program. Another said it’s a model for other communities, especially as a forum for creating change. Classes and spiritual programming at The Casa are gaining in popularity. Seven people registered for a “Saints and Sinners,” a sevenweek lecture series on Church history that began last month. Some 70 people showed up. Additionally, more than 50 children came to the first meeting for reconciliation preparation in September, more
than double the number registered. “Since we became a church, we’re busting at the seams,” Brown said. Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted established Our Lady of the Angels conventual church at The Casa in 2006. It now offers a nightly rosary with a divine mercy chaplet on Fridays and monthly benedictions, in addition to regular liturgy. At every weekend Mass this month, community members have found increased reminders and testimonies about how to create peace either in their own lives or the greater community. It’s part of the month-long 25th anniversary commemoration of the World Day of Prayer for Peace, which Pope John Paul II led in St. Francis’s hometown of Assisi. Franciscan provinces worldwide are honoring the historic gathering when 160 religious leaders spent three days in prayer and interreligious dialogue. Anyone who visits The Casa in October can take home one of 35 peace cards featuring stories of peace and a call to action. Visitors can also create a peace prayer flag after weekend Masses. There’s already a growing display of them in the hospitality area. “In my mind as the peace flags flutter, the Holy Spirit takes them to heaven,” said Patti Sills-Trausch, director of The Casa’s faith in action ministry. ✴
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Lupe’s Thrift supports monastery outreach By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun
The first month’s sales figures for Lupe’s Thrift Shop testify to the store’s need and a wholly embraced Catholic mission. Shoppers, largely from the West Valley, bought $2,388 worth of gently used clothing and household items since Lupe’s Thrift Shop opened Sept. 9. That’s nearly $600 more than shoppers raised during the most successful rummage sale held quarterly over the last three years. “Things really are marked low to help the neighborhood,” said Sr. Linda Campbell, prioress of Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery. Proceeds in turn support out-
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Irene Martinez, co-manager of Lupe’s Thrift Shop, patiently waits for customers finish shopping during the store’s second day of business last month. The volunteer-run store gives proceeds to the Benedictine monastery on site.
property west of Thomas Road and 83rd Avenue, but enjoy separate spaces. The 700-square-foot store sits along Thomas Road west of 83rd Avenue. Sr. Linda credited Mickie Vaquera and Irene Martinez, comanagers of Lupe’s Thrift Shop, for its success so far. She said they’re very conscientious about things like pricing and customer service. Regular prices for typical thrift store items — clothing for all including plus sizes, linens, kitchenware, women’s accessories and
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MESA — Students at A.T. Still University are preparing for careers in medicine, dentistry and other health-care-related occupations. Thanks to a new club on campus, they’re also preparing themselves and others to defend the dignity of human life. Charles Armstrong and Jocelyn Stark, both in their second year of medical school at the private university, formed the club last December and say they’ve been encouraged by the positive reaction of fellow students at ATSU. “We wanted to form a student organization that could be a voice for the most helpless in our society ... and promote a culture of life from conception to natural death,” Armstrong said. As an undergrad at Arizona State University, Armstrong was active with ASU’s Students for Life. When he found out ATSU did not have a pro-life club on campus, he decided to begin one. “We found that there was a strong voice for the pro-choice cause, or so-called ‘reproductive health care rights,’ as well as euthanasia already present at the medical school, which was shocking,” Armstrong said. He expected a battle in establishing a pro-life club. Instead, Stark and Armstrong found dozens of other students who share their convictions about safeguarding human life. Stark, who is considering specializing in obstetrics and gynecology, said she attended a meeting organized by one of the pro-choice groups on campus last year. “I happened to listen in on one of their lectures — they made it open to everybody in the class,” Stark said. “I was really bothered by it and I just thought, why isn’t there something on campus that can educate people about the other
Charles Armstrong and Jocelyn Stark discuss upcoming events. Joyce Coronel/CATHOLIC SUN
side of the coin?” The ATSU Students for Life club is doing just that with some help from the Catholic Medical Association. Armstrong, who attends CMA meetings, said the Catholic physicians he’s met through the organization have been very supportive of his efforts. Dr. Marci Moffit, presidentelect of the CMA, addressed the ATSU Students for Life club last year about the challenges of being a pro-life health care professional. “She gave a talk about all the events that occurred in her career where she stood up for life and it was definitely not popular or convenient for her to do so,” Armstrong said. “That was really good — a lot of people joined after her talk.” About 90 ATSU students came to a meeting last year when members of Silent No More, an organization that educates the public about the negative effects of abortion, addressed the club. Armstrong said he plans to have the group return this November. “Many students afterwards said that they had no idea how abortions could affect their future patients not only physically, but psychologically and emotionally as
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The archbishop pointed to the federal Department of Health and Human Services’ mandate that health insurance plans cover contraception and sterilization. “When we stop acknowledging our Creator, we stop acknowledging who we are,” Archbishop Gomez said. “Without God we lose our ethics and the reason for human rights.” More than 350 Catholic health care professionals from across the United States attended the conference. Numbers are growing, according to the association’s leadership, and medical students are joining its ranks. The archbishop said Catholic health care workers’ greatest responsibility is the sanctity of the human person. “We’re not just biological,” he said, “our life is also theological.” During the conference, speakers addressed Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted’s controversial decision late last year to revoke St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center’s Catholic affiliation. The bishop’s decision involved many factors, including an abortion performed at the hospital in late 2009. The hospital has stated that the abortion saved the life of the mother, who was suffering from pulmonary hypertension. John Haas, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, said aborting the child violated the Ethical and Religious Directives issued by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. When the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine took on the case — commonly referred to as “the Phoenix case” — many scholars asked the committee to change the directives, Haas said. The committee’s statement, issued June 23, 2010, appeared to confirm Bishop Olmsted’s evaluation that the procedure was a “direct abortion.” Santa Rosa Bishop Robert F. Vasa, the episcopal advisor of the Catholic Medical Association, said he was disappointed that the U.S. bishops haven’t made a more public stand in support of Bishop Olmsted. Bishop Olmsted said the Catholic Medical Association came out in strong support of his position from the beginning. “As did individual members,” he added. “They’ve been a great support, especially in helping others around the country to understand the decision as well.” A panel answered questions following an ethical, medical and canonical assessment of the Phoenix case. Panelists emphasized that they only commented generally, not specifically on the abortion and its aftermath. “Ultimately, a Catholic hospital should let God play God, and not play God themselves,” said Fr. John Ehrich, the association’s chaplain
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Leaders of the Catholic Medical Association gather for the annual White Mass Oct. 8 at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Avondale. Catholic physicians from across the country gathered for the annual educational conference held this year in the Phoenix Diocese.
and director of medical ethics for the Phoenix Diocese. “God is the only one who should determine life or death.” Dominican Sister Mary Diana Dreger, an internal medicine physician, spoke Oct. 7 on virtue in the practice of medicine. “You could be a very good hair dresser or car mechanic or accountant without being a good person — you can do the art and science of your field,” Sr. Diana said. “But in the field of medicine, you can’t really be a good doctor without being a good person — you are not just taking care of a person’s parts but you are taking care of a person.” Dr. John Brehany, executive director and ethicist for the
association, spoke to participants about the basics of the Ethical and Religious Directives, better known as the ERDs. The purpose of the ERDs, Brehany said, is to “reaffirm the ethical standards of behavior in heath care that flow from the Church’s teaching about the dignity of the human person.” “A lot of people don’t understand that in order for your action to be good, it’s not enough that your motive is good, it’s not enough that you’re sincere,” he said. “Yes, your intention must be right, but so must the moral object and so must the circumstances.” Bioethics Defense Fund president Nikolas T. Nikas focused on policies that support the authentic
ends of medicine, namely restoring health, not mindlessly granting people every social desire. Nikas emphasized that health care professionals who coerce or intimidate medical students of conscience do so at the risk of limiting the accessibility of patients to quality health care by physicians dedicated to caring for every human life. He cited the example of a medical student who was mocked by his professor for excusing himself during a sterilization procedure. Alan Sears, CEO of the Alliance Defense Fund, lauded legislation recently passed in Arizona that limits and restricts the right to abortion. He claimed more than 2,000 lives had been saved since the
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Rock star’s former girlfriend sets record straight about abortion By Joyce Coronel The Catholic Sun
SCOTTSDALE — After more than 30 years of silence, Julia Holcomb, former girlfriend to rock star and American Idol judge Steven Tyler, has come forward to speak about the late-term abortion the couple obtained. Holcomb spoke in public for the first time about her relationship with Tyler and her subsequent abortion when she addressed the Arizona Right to Life annual conference Sept. 24, repeating her story later that evening at a fundraiser for the Aid to Women Center. “My story begins with the breakdown of the family,” Holcomb said. Her father had abandoned the family early on and Holcomb was 16 years old when she met Tyler backstage after a concert. Not long after, her mother signed
papers to give Tyler legal guardianship of Holcomb so the two could cross state lines while the band toured. Tyler told her he wanted to begin a family and the couple tossed her birth control pills over the balcony of their hotel room. After Holcomb became pregnant, Tyler asked her to marry him. When Tyler’s family voiced grave concerns about the couple’s future, the marriage did not take place. Holcomb, crushed that Tyler caved into his family’s wishes, nevertheless decided to stay in the relationship. She didn’t know Tyler was already seeing other women, since he convinced her to stay in Boston while the band toured. Tyler never mentioned abortion and Holcomb assumed the two would raise the baby together. “I had no money of my own, no high school diploma and I couldn’t
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Julia Holcomb and her husband, Joseph, speak with John Jakubczyk, past president of Arizona Right to Life, following Holcomb’s pro-life testimony.
drive. After a few weeks, the food in the apartment began to run out,” Holcomb said. While she waited for a band member to take her grocery shopping, the couple’s apartment became engulfed in flames and Holcomb was taken to the hospital in serious condition. While she was hospitalized recovering from her injuries, Tyler told Holcomb she had to have an abortion. She was 20 weeks pregnant. “I told him it was unfair for him to even suggest something like that. He said I had to have it right then before I left the hospital or the doctor wouldn’t do it,” Holcomb said. “I remember quietly looking down and saying ‘no.’ That’s when
Steven said I had to choose between him or my baby. He was going to send me home to my mother,” Holcomb said. “I was afraid my mother would want me to have an abortion too. I felt I had no one to go to… I had no friends or family besides him. I felt like everyone had abandoned me in my life.” After the doctor injected a saline solution into Holcomb’s belly, she went into labor. Tyler told Holcomb their baby boy had been born alive. Holcomb never saw the child. Shattered by the experience, Holcomb somehow managed to put her life back together. She married and today is the mother of seven children. Twenty years ago, she and
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her husband became Catholic. Though Joseph — a pseudonym Holcomb’s husband uses in an effort to retain a measure of privacy for the family — knew all about Julia’s relationship with Tyler and her traumatic abortion, the couple kept the story to themselves. And when Tyler wrote a book about his band’s early years, he used a pseudonym for Holcomb. Other, more obscure books were written, however, that did not protect Holcomb’s privacy. Then last February, Star Magazine revealed her identity. When Joseph and Julia’s eldest son put all the pieces together, he realized his mother was the teenage girl with whom Tyler had fathered and aborted a child. “We had to come out because it was already out there and people were only going to see his version of events,” Joseph said. “There were so many distortions and exaggerations and lies in what he has published.” In Tyler’s first book, he alleged that Holcomb was 14 instead of 16 and that there had been multiple abortions. “It’s more scandalous, more salacious, sells more books,” Joseph said. “He has a lot of distortions and misrepresentations in there.” Julia and Joseph went on a Rachel’s Vineyard retreat and decided to come forward with the story in an effort to set the record straight. “We both got so much out of that retreat,” Julia said. “The most moving moment was the memorial service at the end.” That’s when she named her son Michael and her husband spiritually adopted him. “With all my heart I regret my abortion,” Julia told the crowd. Lauding the work of the 20 pro-life pregnancy centers represented at the conference, she said, “It would have helped me so much if I could have seen my baby. I might have had the courage to resist abortion. ✴
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Woman who survived her mother’s attempted abortion shares story of survival By Joyce Coronel The Catholic Sun
By all accounts, Melissa Ohden shouldn’t be alive. Her mother was 19 years old and scared when she found out she was pregnant and underwent a late-term abortion. Then came the unexpected complication: the baby survived the procedure. “After I survived that failed abortion, I struggled to live,” Ohden said in an interview with The Catholic Sun. “I had severe respiratory and liver problems, I suffered from seizures, and I required multiple blood transfusions.” Today Ohden travels the country speaking of the extraordinary circumstances under which she was born, something she never knew until she was 14 and her 18-yearold sister became pregnant out of wedlock. A pro-life couple had adopted both Ohden and her sister. When Ohden’s sister told her parents she was considering abortion, the couple told her Melissa’s story of survival. “Our parents made it clear that we were loved, that we were special and that our biological parents made a beautiful decision for us when they felt like they couldn’t care for us,” Ohden said, “and when I was 14 all of that changed because that’s when I found out the truth.” Thus began a lengthy quest to
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find her biological parents. After finding her medical records, Ohden tracked down an address for her birth father and wrote him a letter explaining that she loved him, forgave him and was hoping he might want to have a relationship with her.
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October 20, 2011
Sodality groups celebrate 60 years of service to parish By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun
Two local lay groups of women devoted to the Blessed Mother and to parish life are marking 60 years of service this fall. While one was a celebration of its recent successes, including assistance with seven parish ministries and 14 new members, the other could very well be more reminiscent of how things used to be. Our Lady of the Assumption Sodality held an anniversary Mass and luncheon Oct. 1 at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish. The group has more than 200 active members with another 100 on the roster. “Our sodality is a pillar of the St. Thomas the Apostle community. The women do so much for our community out of love for Our Lady and her Son and with tremendous loving hearts,” said Beverly Krumm, vice prefect. The sodalists, as its members are called, support parish ministries with monetary donations and put personal care bags in food boxes for the local St. Vincent de Paul conference. The women also clean the altar, iron altar linens, provide catered receptions after funeral Masses and offer a pair of two-year high school scholarships each year. Members meet monthly for prayer, fellowship and announce-
Sodality anniversary luncheon Nov. 5 at private home, for past and present members of Our Lady of the Wayside Sodality at Most Holy Trinity Parish. Details: Call Patricia, (602) 943-7773 “Mary’s role in the Church is inseparable from her union with Christ and flows directly from it.” — Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 964 ments. The youngest member is 24 — but it’s open to women ages 18 and up — with older members approaching the triple digits. For sodalists at Most Holy Trinity, it appears to be the group’s wide age range qualifications and demographics that could be stifling growth. Younger women who want to join Our Lady of the Wayside Sodality often work or are busy with their families during monthly meetings, said Patricia DeBusk, prefect.
Nighttime meetings would prevent many of the group’s elder members from attending, she said. The youngest members are in their 50s. “We’re concerned that we’re just going to die out, literally,” DeBusk said. The sodality almost did once by choice. Members met to discuss disbanding more than 10 years ago. “We said a few Hail Marys and before we knew it, we had a few officers,” DeBusk said. She said members are doing their best to keep it going. Annual membership remains at $5 and the annual bake sale is coming up in support of parish efforts, the diocese and Life Choices Women’s Clinic. DeBusk hopes the 60th anniversary reunion Nov. 5 will renew interest in the ministry. Sodalists past and present are welcome. She’ll have archived articles and photos on display. “The things we used to do were wonderful,” DeBusk said. Activities included regular book and bake sales, a living rosary, the parish gift shop plus a dinner, dance and fashion show. “Now we just sit around and talk about how things used to be,” DeBusk said. ✴
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Mary is shown being taken up to heaven in a painting inside a dome of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore. The feast of her assumption is celebrated Aug. 15.
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Meet Michael Dixon, host of the Phoenix Diocese’s very own Catholic radio program
M
ichael Dixon, veteran local broadcaster, movie critic and host of Immaculate Heart Radio’s “The Bishop’s Hour,” sat down with Joyce Coronel of The Catholic Sun to reflect on the significance and role of the locally produced program. Listen to the program on 1310 AM each Monday at 10 a.m., or the encore presentation each Thursday at 9 p.m. Miss a show? Find it on the web at www.thebishopshour.org or search for it on iTunes.
It’s been a year since the launching of “The Bishop’s Hour.” Is the program everything you hoped it would be? It’s more than I thought it would be. It’s turned into something dynamic and fresh and relevant. We have an interesting mixture. They asked me in the job interview my ideas for the program and I said I don’t want it to be predictable. We need to have a format and I want to be able to break it and go off a little bit if we want to, but I think that we should be talking about contemporary theological issues so that people can learn but not be talked down to, that we can all share the faith, and learn about the faith in ways that are meaningful... I think we’ve been able to do that. Can you tell us about some of the more memorable moments and guests on the program? There were really important ones. I think when we discussed the situation at St. Joseph’s [Hospital and Medical Center in late 2010] with the bishop … that was a very important program, that went over the Immaculate Heart network because that was very sensitive and the question was, how do you balance a juridical approach to a human problem? …That was a very interesting and I think a tough discussion. We have never shied away and I think through that people got to know the bishop better. “The Bishop’s Hour” has given the bishop an opportunity to let people in the diocese get a sense of his humor, his compassion, the things that are dear to him, all of those things that make up a human being which I think are important for us know about our bishop. …This is a man who doesn’t make decisions lightly or quickly; he deliberates, he prays, he has a very deep spiritual life and often I think, especially if there’s a controversy, the entire man is not always known and I think it’s really important to appreciate the workings of the Holy Spirit in this bishop as the Holy Spirit works in all bishops. So I think this program does that in my opinion.
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What kinds of guests are you looking to interview for the broadcast? Just because something is worthy, doesn’t mean people will listen. People listen because they want to, not because they should. So our job is to sift through Catholic topics and decide which ones lend themselves uniquely to radio. What is it that excites the imagination? That will create images. And then what trumps everything is, can we get a guest that’s interesting to listen to? Because I don’t care what the topic is, if you don’t have a guest who’s good to listen to, it’s not going to work. What kind of feedback have you had about the program? I’m always surprised that I never know how many people listen to the show, but I’ll be at a Starbucks and someone will recognize me and come over and they won’t mention Channel 8, they won’t mention Channel 10, they won’t mention KTAR, they’ll mention “The Bishop’s Hour.” I’m always surprised and it really makes me feel good. They always say something nice. And they usually mention the specific interview. So I know they’re not just saying it but there’s something that caught their ear and they stick around listening. What’s the best part about hosting the program? It’s an opportunity — it’s not a job for me. It’s an opportunity to explore my faith and various aspects of it. It’s like having
a wonderful anthology of things I’m interested in that I can curl up and read, but in this case I sit with guests who are experts. I’m asking questions that I’m interested in and I’m hoping that those questions are the same questions listeners might want to ask. I want the excitement of having all those questions floating around in my head and getting a chance to hear the answers to them, so I look upon it as my own exploration of the faith from doctrine to practice. I like the format that we have. We don’t always do same thing every program, but the ideal format is to do something doctrinal, something that has to do with the practice of the faith in the diocese, something intellectual, something practical and then in the third segment, we try to find the interesting stuff in the diocese, that’s where we might get a musician coming in with a guitar or a CD. What is the main purpose of the broadcast? To bring people up to date on the practice of their faith. There are so many folks whose formation came before Vatican II. And then there are the folks after Vatican II who have a sense of the Church but don’t quite know where it stands on certain things or maybe they never had a program of spirituality. I think it puts people at the forefront of Catholic thought in the diocese. That’s my goal for the program. So that people who listen to the program say, “OK, I get this. That’s what that means.” ✴
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On Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted accepted the findings of the Diocesan Review Board that three new allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor against Fr. John Spaulding are credible. Fr. S p a u l d i n g ’s faculties had been suspended and he had been placed on adminisFr. Spaulding trative leave on June 24, 2011, following Bishop Olmsted’s acceptance of the Diocesan Review Board’s findings that a prior allegation against Fr. Spaulding of sexual misconduct with a minor was credible. He remains on administrative leave. The three new claims were made by persons who all allege that Fr. Spaulding engaged in sexual misconduct with them when they were minors. In accordance with its normal practice, and in compliance with the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, and the Essential Norms for Diocesan/ Eparchial Policies Dealing with Allegations of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Priests, Deacons, or Other Church Personnel,” the Diocese conducted an independent investigation into each allegation. In connection with those investigations, retired law enforcement agents interviewed several witnesses, including Fr. Spaulding. The first new claim was received shortly after the Diocese notified the community in June of Bishop Olmsted’s suspension of Fr. Spaulding’s faculties. An adult male called the Office of Child and Youth Protection at the Diocese of Phoenix and alleged that he had been molested by Fr. Spaulding
approximately 37 years ago, when he was 13 years old, and when Fr. Spaulding was serving as a priest at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Glendale. The Diocese advised the person who made the allegation to contact the Glendale police, which he did. It appears from the police report that the Glendale Police Department does not intend to investigate the allegation, and that it has closed its file on the matter. The Diocese subsequently contacted the person who made the allegation and his attorney to request an interview by an independent investigator, but that request was refused and additional calls have not been returned. The second and third new claims were received by the Diocese in July of 2011. Two adult males allege that Fr. Spaulding had inappropriate sexual contact with them over 30 years ago, when they were approximately 11 and 13 years old, respectively. The men state that they met Fr. Spaulding at St. Helen Parish in Glendale, and that the misconduct occurred at a private residence. The Diocese advised the men to contact the Glendale police, but they indicated that they have no interest in doing so. The Diocese presented all of the information collected by the independent investigators to the Diocesan Review Board, and the Diocesan Review Board determined earlier this week that the allegations are credible. Bishop Olmsted accepted the Diocesan Review Board’s findings on these three new claims, and he will refer all three cases to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome for further proceedings, along with the initial case. It is important to remember that a preliminary finding of credibility by a Diocesan Review Board – or the suspension of a cleric’s faculties by Bishop
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Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted encourages anyone who has been a victim of child sexual abuse by any employee of the Roman Catholic Church to please come forward by contacting local law enforcement or Paul Pfaffenberger, MA, LAC, director, Office of Child and Youth Protection, (602) 354-2396 or ocyp@diocesephoenix.org.
Olmsted — does not mean that the cleric is guilty or innocent of an allegation. It simply means that the allegation has a semblance of truth to it, and that further canonical proceedings are required to determine if the cleric has committed the alleged ecclesiastical crime. The Diocesan Review Board is comprised of a canon lawyer, civil lawyer/judge, doctor, law enforcement officer, licensed child psychologist, retired teacher and early childhood specialist, two members of the clergy, and the Director of the Office of Child and Youth Protection at the Diocese. The Diocesan Review Board’s task, upon receiving an allegation of sexual misconduct and after reviewing any evidence that is collected in connection with that allegation, is to determine if the allegation is credible. Further information regarding the Diocesan Review Board and the procedures that the Diocese follows when an allegation of sexual misconduct is received can be found in the Diocese’s “Policy and Procedures for the Protection of Minors,” Articles 14, 16, 17 and 18: www.bit.ly/protectminors2011. Fr. Spaulding was incardinated in the Diocese of Phoenix in 1971, and has served in a number of parishes since then, including Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Glendale, Christ the King Parish in Mesa, Santa Teresita Parish in El Mirage, St. Louis the King Parish in Glendale, St. Raphael Parish in Glendale, St. Helen Parish in Glendale, St. Maria Goretti Parish in Scottsdale, St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Phoenix, St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish in Cave Creek, and St. Timothy Parish in Mesa. The Diocese obviously takes these matters very seriously and urges anyone who may know of any other such misconduct, or who may have any relevant information regarding Fr. Spaulding, to contact local law enforcement and/or Paul Pfaffenberger at the Diocesan Office of Child and Youth Protection at (602) 354-2396. As always, Bishop Olmsted and the Diocese of Phoenix encourage anyone who has experienced sexual misconduct or abuse by a member of the clergy or by any employee or volunteer of the Church to make a report to local law enforcement and to contact the Diocesan Office of Child and Youth Protection. Please keep all who were involved in these cases in your prayers for healing. ✴
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Communion norms update will unite local, universal Church practice ▶ Continued from page 1
The change will bring local Catholic celebration of the Eucharist into union with the practice of the faithful around the world. Receiving Communion under both kinds is uncommon in most countries. Madison Bishop Robert Morlino will be making similar changes in his Wisconsin diocese. In a letter to the priests of his diocese, the bishop said the lay faithful had been profaning the Sacrament. “So many of our people do not understand the kinds of reverence due at all times to the Sacrament, whether within the eucharistic liturgy or outside the celebration,” Bishop Morlino wrote. After the Second Vatican Council, the lay faithful in the United States began receiving the Eucharist under both kinds. “What many people don’t realize is that we’ve had experimental privileges,” said Fr. Kieran Kleczewski, executive director of the Office of Worship. “We’re now under the same norms as the Church in the rest of the world.” For Catholics in the United States it will seem like a restriction, he said, but it’s an expansion for the rest of the world. The new norms come from the revised General Instruction of the Roman Missal, third edition, as well as the final edition of The Norms for the Distribution and Reception of Holy Communion Under Both Kinds for the Dioceses of the United States of America. Communion under both kinds should be offered on the occasions in which both kinds further the sign of unity or are clearly a fuller expression of Christ’s presence, Fr. Kleczewski said. The Church teaches that Christ — body, blood, soul and divinity — is present fully in the bread form. He is also fully present in the wine form. “It’s offered to a bride and groom at their wedding. Why? Because it’s a beautiful sign of Christian unity in the sacrament of marriage,” he said. “That’s why you would offer them the chalice as well as the host.” The same goes for offering both kinds on retreat, where offering both kinds recognizes a great unity among participants. “If the majority of people receiving Communion do not receive from the chalice, then you shouldn’t be offering the chalice,” Fr. Kleczewski said. In his church, St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Avondale, the first four or five pews receive from the chalice. But few others do. “That’s destroying the sign of unity that this is supposed to be,” Fr. Kleczewski said. The Church gave the United States, the United Kingdom and Oceania experimental permission to offer the cup to the faithful. The Second Vatican Council called for this to find occasions when the
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Parishioners at St. Margaret Mary Parish in Bullhead City receive Precious Blood during a Sept. 20 Mass of Dedication for their new church.
cup could be offered to the laity — it had not been offered to the lay faithful for hundreds of years. The 1975 missal — the one currently used — allows for 14 times when the cup can be offered to the laity. In poor countries, Fr. Kleczewski said, churches don’t have the resources to offer the chalice to the laity every time they celebrate Mass. “The universal Church is what is considered in making universal norms,” he said. So the experiment didn’t work? “Yes, it did,” Fr. Kleczewski said. The experiment will lead to broader use of both kinds of Communion throughout the world with the new Roman Missal. John Paul II promulgated the new Roman Missal in 2000, and — now translated — it’s set to be promulgated in the United States this November. “If you read those early documents from the council, it was never envisioned that every time we have Mass the chalice would be offered to the lay faithful,” Fr. Kleczewski said. The new norms give the local bishop latitude in application. In the Diocese of Phoenix, the norms provide for the distribution of Holy
Communion under both kinds for special feast days and other important occasions — like the Chrism Mass, Holy Thursday, the Feast of Corpus Christi, retreats, spiritual gatherings and weddings. The universal norms for the Church say that the extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist shall not overshadow the ordinary ministers of the Eucharist — priests and deacons. They are extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist, Bishop Olmsted said, so they shouldn’t be ordinarily used. The 2011 norms, which Fr. Kleczewski said he received in June, incorporated: ▶ The new English translation of the Roman Missal; ▶ The new norms for the Church in the United States; ▶ Church teachings on Communion under both kinds published since 2002; and ▶ Responses from the Holy See to inquiries from the U.S. bishops. As far as the implementation of the new norms, Bishop Olmsted said different parishes will implement at different times. But all parishes will implement by the end of 2012. Fr. Kleczewski discontinued the
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use of the cup at daily Mass earlier this year. Some priests, like Fr. John Ehrich at St. Thomas the Apostle, implemented the new norms years ago. Fr. Ehrich, after spending two years studying in Rome, realized that the practice of offering the Precious Blood to the faithful at every Mass was atypical throughout most of the world. “For about two to three weeks, a handful of parishioners said that they missed receiving under both kinds,” Fr. Ehrich said. “That was about all.” Catholics upset about changes throughout the diocese will likely be reacting emotionally, he said. “I believe that distributing Holy Communion only under one form has actually increased [parishioners] understanding of the Eucharist,” Fr. Ehrich said. “I suspect that many people will come to
find out that their understanding of the Eucharist was incomplete.” Some Catholics believe they must receive under both kinds to receive the full presence of Christ, he said. “This is simply not true,” he said. “No one is being deprived of anything.” “As hard as it is to understand, the role of the priest at Mass is significantly different than the laity, and even the deacon,” Fr. Ehrich said. “Only the priest stands in the person of Christ and offers sacrifice on behalf of the Church. Without priests, there is no Eucharist and without the Eucharist, there is no Church.” It’s not a question of fairness, he said, but a question of identity. “The Church, in her wisdom, does what it must to regulate the Sacred Liturgy,” Fr. Ehrich said. “There is great freedom and joy in obedience.” ✴
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‘Pull’ remains steady; ‘push’ increases Church border efforts confront violence By J.D. Long-García The Catholic Sun
NOGALES, Mexico — Preaching about the Prince of Peace is tough in areas ravaged by drug violence. Church aid workers from the Phoenix, Tucson and Hermosillo dioceses, who together with Catholic Relief Services form the Diocese Without Borders initiative, discussed violence and peacemaking efforts Sept. 19-21 at a crossborder conference. “You don’t build peace in a vacuum,” said Lynnette Asselin, who heads CRS efforts in Mexico City. The relief agency has been analyzing research on tensions along the border, with particular attention to workers. CRS has also followed the Mexican bishops’ lead in peace
building efforts. The bishops’ 2010 pastoral letter, “So that in Christ, Our Peace, Mexico May Have a Decent Life,” offered a Catholic response to violence in the country. “The bishops see the reality not as experts, but as pastors,” said Hermosillo Archbishop José Ulises Macias Salcedo, who joined the group at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. “Justice and charity have peace as their fruit.” In the letter, the Mexican bishops suggested the promotion of integral human development, working with local governments to address poverty, defense of human rights and facilitating peace between warring parties. Spiritan Father William R. Headley, dean of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at University of San Diego, said the
Church has a lot to offer in the peace-building effort. “When people are in a dire situation, they don’t know how to express their feelings,” he explained. “Rituals give them a way.” The Church, Fr. Headley said, offers the sacraments. And with priests throughout Mexico, the Church can help those involved see through a sacramental mentality. Catholics from the United States can also help. “We want to stand in solidarity with those who face violence,” said Joanne Welter, director of the Office of Human Life and Dignity for the Tucson Diocese. “People need to know we’re one Church and one America.” Welter said she sees fewer groups traveling to Mexico on mission trips and for relief efforts. “Violence impacts how we do outreach and who we send,” said Lisa Laliberte, director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development for the Phoenix Diocese. She’s also seeing fewer groups travel south. The cartels are making it harder to serve those most in need. “Before, there was a clear distinction between migrants and those involved with drugs,” said Ignacio Rodriguez, associate director of Ethnic Ministries for the Phoenix Diocese. That’s changed. Migrants, crossing illegally in search of work, often serve as “mules,” collaborating in drug smuggling in exchange for safe passage. Still, the “American dream” dangles like a carrot before immigrants seeking a better life here. Rodriguez said some cross believing New York is two hours from Nogales. “Even though the economy is bad, where they live is far worse,”
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Tucson Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas, chairman of Catholic Relief Services, greets parishioners at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Nogales, Mexico. The bishop joined representatives from the Phoenix, Tucson and Hermosillo dioceses for a cross-border conference on violence in Mexico.
he said. Missionary Sister of the Eucharist Maria Engracia Robles, who runs a hostel for deported women and children in Nogales, isn’t fazed by the violence. She said the violence usually involves someone connected to crime. You just want to be away from it, so don’t go out at night and avoid certain restaurants on Sundays. She’s been seeing fewer deported migrants over the summer months. Rather than a weak U.S. economy, she attributes the lower numbers to the U.S. program that flies immigrants caught on the border to Mexico City. The program ended Sept. 28.
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Sr. Engracia said she’s been seeing more deportees that have been living in the United States for more than 20 years. “They’ve already been inculturated,” she said. “They don’t know what it means to be Mexican anymore.” Working with mothers and children, Sr. Engracia is particularly concerned with separation of families. Other Church workers who gathered for the conference were as well. “There are more forces that divide than unite us,” said Tucson Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas, chairman of CRS’ board of directors. “But as people of faith, we believe this can change.” He exhorted the group to continue to “find ways to reach across walls and find unity.” Talk of immigration reform took a back seat at the conference, but Bishop Kicanas said the effort “can’t let up.” Business leaders, he said, can be the agents of change. “The bishops are united on this issue,” he said. “Regretfully, our people in the United States are not understanding of the Church teaching on the dignity of the migrant.” Bishop Kicanas, joined by a dozen priests and more than 40 conference participants, celebrated the Sept. 20 Mass at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. He told parishioners they were there to pray for immigrants. “We remember that our Lord is always responding to the needs of the community,” Bishop Kicanas said. “We too have the duty to respond.” ✴
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Balloon rosary Most Holy Trinity students created a large visual aid for afternoon prayer Oct. 6. The school-wide rosary featured yellow and green heliumfilled balloons as the “beads.” Students offered petitions and special intentions before launching the balloons “to the heavens.” Jesuit jubilee The Brophy community, past and present, honored and “roasted” the college preparatory president Oct. 1 in honor of his 50th anniversary as a priest. Proceeds benefited a financial aid fund in his name. Sports scoop Sr. Nancy Perlick, assistant athletic director at Xavier, earned the State Award of Merit from the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association. Sophomore Coutrney Ekmark, from St. Mary’s, was one of 38 players in this year’s Elite Basketball Academy AllAmerican Camp, which brought the country’s top prospects together. Ekmark made the “Underclass Fantastic Four” list. Ryan Bresnahan, a football player at Seton Catholic in Chandler, was voted the Marine Corps Elite Warrior of the Week for Arizona Oct. 6. Molly Elkins broke her own school record in the 200meter freestyle during a swim meet Oct. 1. Denim Day Casual attire didn’t yield a uniform violation during Lee National Denim Day. Some $367 in donations at Most Holy Trinity Oct. 5 benefited the Women’s Cancer Programs of the Entertainment Industry Foundation. More than $500 in donations at St. Jerome Oct. 6 stayed locally with the Wellness Community, which provides support, education and hope to cancer patients and their families. ✴
St. Mary’s Squires serve fellow Knights as another kind of ‘Knight’ By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun
Some St. Mary’s High School students are dually “Knighted.” Their enrollment makes them “Once a Knight, Always a Knight,” yet that’s not enough for 40 young men at St. Mary’s. The teenagers are also “knighted” into an international Catholic fraternity. The Columbian Squires, the official youth program of the Knights of Columbus, marked its sixth anniversary at St. Mary’s Oct. 7. It’s the only Squires Circle chartered at a Catholic high school in Arizona and the 5,000th one chartered worldwide since 1925. “I definitely liked the idea of joining a club that represents our faith in the entire diocese,” said Devin Morales, a senior and chief Squire. He joined freshman year after hearing about it at both Eighth Grade Day and Open House. Like their adult counterparts, the Columbian Squires — open to ages 10 to 18 — focus on spiritual formation alongside leadership in cultural, civic and social activities. On campus, they rotate as altar servers during school-wide liturgies. They also set up chairs for the junior and senior class and sacrifice their break time to clean up. Many also serve as extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist. “It’s made me a better student. It’s definitely set me to a higher standard,” said Ian Walker, a senior and deputy chief Squire. “It’s the example you want to set for every-
Called to serve The Knights of Columbus Squires at St. Mary’s High School serve during an allschool Mass Sept. 21. The Squires dedicate themselves to serving the campus and local community.
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one else.” Students take notice. The Squires typically hold three investitures a year. The Columbian Squires are most visible in the Phoenix Diocese on Rosary Sunday. They led the silver rose procession Oct. 16 and presented the pro-life symbol to the missionary image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. That rose started in Canada and will reach Mexico in December. The Squires also tied ribbons around the blessed miraculous medals some 300 altar servers earned for serving Rosary Sunday. “They’re visible Catholic leaders,” said Patrick Schuller, who serves as the Squire’s moderator. “These are kids I can give any project and they thrive with it.”
Their first big project: clearing debris and the landscape from the temporary home for the Poor Clare sisters in Black Canyon City. In two weekends, they filled four trailers and three pickup trucks with debris following the Cave Creek Complex fire in 2005. A few years ago, the Squires opened what they called “St. Mary’s Bottling Company” to prepare for Rosary Sunday. The Squires efficiently filled 6,000 bottles with water from Lourdes to pass out to those gathered. Four years ago, the Squires researched and delivered a 45-minute presentation to their peers about relics of Catholic educators. It was part of Catholic Schools Week festivities. Devin Morales said being a
Squire has deepened his ability to live his faith. The same has gone for past members. Three enrolled in the seminary, several joined the Knights of Columbus and the Chief Squire two years ago — now 20 years old — serves as Grand Knight at St. Thomas the Apostle. One former Squire started a Knights of Columbus council at his college in Indiana and another is trying to do the same at the University of Arizona. “Just to hear any of the boys and their plans of what they want to do, it’s just inspiring,” said Schuller, their moderator and Arizona’s State Deputy. As for the Lady Knights, as St. Mary’s calls its young women, a similar group formed this year for them: Knights of the Immaculata. ✴
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Catholic campuses expand to meet increased enrollment Bishop dedicates buildings at Seton, St. Thomas Aquinas By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun
Catholic school enrollment increased by about 100 students this year with some campuses poised to continue the upward trend. Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted blessed and dedicated three new buildings at two local schools last month. The expansion projects provided long-awaited space at St. Thomas Aquinas School in Avondale and Seton Catholic Preparatory High School in Chandler. They also enhanced a commitment to continued excellence in overall student formation. Seton’s latest construction project added a 60,000-square-foot building to the long-standing campus. It includes dedicated space for its growing fine arts program — dance, ceramic and film production studios, plus a music lab and band room — a 400-seat theatre, 14 classrooms and teacher workspace. The Seton campus roughly doubled in size when the three-story academic and fine arts building opened last month. The opening also gave every teacher an independent classroom and increased student capacity by 150. “The new building and a wideranging fine arts curriculum for our students are a testament to our commitment to an excelling academic and well-rounded Catholic secondary education in the East Valley,” said Patricia Collins, principal.
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A. Nevares, alongside the parish priests and deacons, were on hand for a Sept. 16 dedication at St. Thomas Aquinas School. “We ask that students find in their teachers the image of Christ so that they will be ready to enlighten and assist others,” Bishop Olmsted prayed during the dedication. He cautioned students to not let deeper, more important things — like faith — drift off into the horizon. The bishop also called the crowd of students, parents and
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Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted dedicates Seton’s 400-seat theater and surrounding classrooms Sept. 27 (left) and enters a new courtyard area to bless two new buildings at St. Thomas Aquinas Sept. 16 (above).
parish leaders to be a people of prayer, asking the Holy Spirit daily to enlighten them and for courage to speak the Truth. That’s what area Catholics have
wanted for their children since the school opened in 2003. St. Thomas Aquinas draws students from seven surrounding communities and started last year with full enrollment. It’s up to nearly 315 now because of the two new buildings, which feature dual classrooms in preschool through second grade. The lower grades have had long waiting lists in recent years. “We probably could have used these buildings three or four years ago,” Fr. Kieran Kleczweski, pastor, told The Catholic Sun. At the same time, he’s thrilled they were finished ahead of schedule. The two-story buildings feature Spanish mission architecture, large wooden gates and a heritage mission bell. The buildings also allowed school administration, the media center and the parish’s youth group to have their own space. The top floors remain under construction. They will ultimately support additional classrooms, a music room and science lab. ✴
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Study finds divide exists in how Catholics read Church news By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — A Catholic Press Association-commissioned study showed that 26 percent of adult Catholics had read a print copy of their diocesan newspaper or magazine in the past three months, but only 4 percent had gone to their computer to view the online version of the publication. The study also revealed that readership of Catholic newspapers has held steady over the past six years, a far cry from the daily newspaper business, which has recorded continuous declines in revenue, readership, advertising and employment. One area that showed a drop was Catholic readers’ awareness of nationally distributed Catholic newspapers and magazines. But, counterbalancing the low numbers of Catholics going to the Web to read their diocesan newspaper, there was a marked increase in the percentage of Catholics visiting their parish’s website, up from 9 percent in a similar study in 2005 to 14 percent in the 2011 study. Both the 2011 and 2005 studies were conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. The 2011 study was funded with a grant from the Catholic Communication Campaign. “The differences between some of the religious market and the secular market was something we were curious about, and readership patterns showed up very strongly in the print publications,” said Tim Walter, CPA executive director. “I was hoping that it would be verified, so I was pleased with the results.” The study gives solid evidence that Catholic newspaper readers are loyal to the print format. CPA leaders have wrestled with how to approach the hypothetical diocesan chief financial officer who would argue that “you can put this newspaper online and we can save a lot of money and it can be just as effective,” Walter told Catholic News Service. “What it verified is that if you take away this print product, you don’t have another communications tool to reach them.” He said one surprising aspect of the study was a finding about “millennials,” those born in 1982 and later. “We were more likely to reach them by pushing a print product in their home than by inviting them to come to our website,” he said. — See CATHOLICS READ page 23 ▶
Back to ‘the game’ At 83, Honduran priest returns to help his country face its past Story and photos by Paul Jeffrey Catholic News Service
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ANTA ROSA DE COPAN, Honduras — An 83-year-old Honduran priest has returned from exile to help the Central American nation face its past. A member of an alternative truth commission established by human rights groups, Fr. Fausto Milla fled Honduras July 8 after a series of threats and other acts of intimidation against him and his assistant. For the more than two months he lived in neighboring Nicaragua, Fr. Milla said, he missed his homeland. The priest suffers from — See PRIEST page 22 ▶
US bishops’ agency denied federal grant to help trafficking victims By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service
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would be “tragic if abortion politics harmed the men, women and children already at risk because of the crime and scandal of human trafficking.” MRS officials had no immediate comment. Jesse Moore, spokesman for Health and Human Services, simply told CNS in an Oct. 12 email that — See HUMAN TRAFFICKING page 23 ▶
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chronic back problems and started using a cane while in Nicaragua. He returned home Sept. 18 and said that, within four days, he quit using the cane and began walking normally. He had wanted to keep his return quiet, hoping to continue his work without attracting attention, but it’s hard to keep his presence a secret. “Even the dogs on the street recognize me and greet me,” said Fr. Milla, who lives in Santa Rosa de Copan, a regional capital in the northwest. He helps celebrate Mass at a local parish and runs a store that sells natural herbs for healing. Fr. Milla is no stranger to controversy. In 1980, scores of Salvadoran refugees were massacred at the Sumpul River along the Salvadoran-Honduran border in a combined operation of the two countries’ militaries. Fr. Milla’s parish was nearby, and he widely condemned the massacre and participated in an international tribunal to investigate the crime. In response, he was threatened repeatedly and finally kidnapped in 1981. Following an international outcry, he was released after five days. Later that year, he was forced into exile for four years, allowed to return to his parish only after lengthy negotiations between the Honduran military and his bishop. Now, Fr. Milla wants to know the truth about what happened before and after the 2009 military coup that overthrew Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. In May 2010, international pressure led the Honduran government to create a Truth and Reconciliation Commission that
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Fr. Fausto Milla (left), a priest in Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras, is pictured in an Oct. 3 photo. Family and friends dress the body of Carlos Martinez (right), a 23-year old farmworker who was shot to death Oct. 2 on the La Lempira Cooperative outside Tocoa, Honduras. Martinez and other members of the La Lempira Cooperative are among thousands of Honduran activists who have seized plantations they claim were stolen from them by wealthy Honduran businessmen.
ation was part of the clown act in the circus, something to distract the attention of the people from the growing violence around them. It’s entertainment, like football,” he said. The alternative commission’s creation put pressure on the official commission to produce a more balanced report, Fr. Milla said, admitting he was pleasantly surprised at the Truth Commission’s final report, released recently. “We were surprised, first of all, because they recognized that what happened was indeed a coup d’etat. The coup plotters had worked hard to convince the world that it was a legitimate change of presidents. And now even (current Honduran President Porfirio) Lobo has recognized that it was a coup,” Fr. Milla said. “They pointed out that the (postcoup) government of Roberto Micheletti was illegal, which is a serious charge. And they pointed
includes Honduran and foreign members. Yet many Hondurans doubted that such an official commission would produce anything critical of the coup plotters and, with violence increasing across the country, human rights groups created an alternative commission that June. They called it the “True Commission.” Fr. Milla is one of two Hondurans on the alternative commission, which is chaired by Maryknoll Sister Elsie Monge, an Ecuadorean who serves as president of that country’s Ecumenical Commission on Human Rights. “The official commission was created by the delinquents who carried out the coup. If I kill you but also function as judge in my trial, my verdict isn’t going to be legitimate,” Fr. Milla told Catholic News Service. “The official commission’s cre-
out a variety of crimes that need to be processed, but that won’t happen because there’s complete impunity here,” he said. Since the 2009 coup, the security situation in Honduras has deteriorated dramatically. Demonstrators protesting what they consider to be an illegitimate government have been beaten and killed. Journalists asking hard questions about government corruption or involvement in drug trafficking have been frequently threatened; according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, 12 Honduran journalists have been murdered since March 2010. And landless peasants seeking rich farmland they claim is rightfully theirs under the country’s agrarian reform laws have been assassinated and had several of their settlements burned in the fertile Aguan Valley. Thelma Mejia, an independent
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“If you don’t put a print product in the hands of a younger Catholic adult, you have no way of reaching them, because you can’t force them to come to your browser.” “Younger folks are really not looking to the Web for religious content,” said Karen Franz, a past CPA president and editor/general manager of The Catholic Courier, diocesan newspaper of Rochester, N.Y. The CARA study also showed, Walter said, that Catholics will spend nearly five times as much time perusing a print product than a website — 17 minutes with print vs. three-and-a-half minutes on a website. Franz said the study needs close review by diocesan officials who say, “We’ll look to the Web and abandon print and this will solve all
information.” He noted that one question, asking respondents their reaction if they were told that the diocesan newspaper would stop publishing and all information being relegated to the diocesan website, more than twice as many answers were negative than positive (39 percent to 18 percent) to such a scenario. Eighteen percent had neutral responses. “I think I was surprised” by the response, he said. Gray said questions were asked in the study about the use of social media. One key finding is that Catholics rarely included their religious beliefs. “It’s an interesting thing,” he noted, since Facebook, the most popular social networking site, offers its users the chance to list political party, workplace information, marital status and others, but
our problems.” Instead, she added, “it will make some new problems.” “It’s certainly good news for those of us who are in the niche of Catholic print journalism,” said immediate past CPA president Penny Wiegert, editor of The Catholic Observer, newspaper of the diocese of Rockford, Ill., and director of communication for the diocese. Mark M. Gray, principal author of the CARA study, said the jump in the use of parish websites “could be related to more parishes going online. You’ve got more Catholics who aren’t attending Mass regularly, or attending the parish as much as in the past, finding out about Mass times or what they need to do to get married in the church. Parishes are providing (on their websites) an enormous amount of
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the “grantees were awarded funding through a competitive grant process to provide comprehensive case management services for human trafficking victims through the National Human Trafficking Victim Assistance Program.” He added that the “competitive grant process is used across the government and allows federal agencies to consider a broad range of potential applicants and select those that can deliver services most effectively and efficiently.” In 2009, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for not making the U.S. Catholic bishops’ agency include referrals for abortion, sterilization and artificial contraception in its anti-trafficking program. That case is still pending. Sr. Mary Ann said in an email to CNS that MRS officials are concerned about their clients and hope they will “not suffer from a clumsy transition to new agencies or from limited or lack of services.” MRS worked with numerous agencies in its anti-trafficking program across the United States. About one-third of these subcontractors were Catholic agencies; others included Lutheran Family Services, Jewish Family Services and anti-domestic violence groups. Three groups were awarded federal grants for anti-trafficking programs. The groups are Tapestri, based in Atlanta, Heartland Human Care Services in Chicago and the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants based in Washington. The groups were awarded a $5 million grant for the first year with the possibility of adding two additional years. The U.S. bishops spoke of the relationship between MRS and HHS when they formed an Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty in late September to specifically
address actions at various levels of government that pose dangers to the free exercise of religion. In announcing the new committee, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the USCCB, called into question the HHS requirement that MRS provide the “full range of reproductive service” — including abortion and contraception — to trafficking victims in its cooperative agreements and government contracts. Archbishop Dolan also reiterated the U.S. bishops’ concern about HHS regulations that would mandate the coverage of contraception and sterilization in all private health insurance plans while failing to adequately exempt insurers and individuals that have religious or moral objections to the mandate. Meanwhile, Catholic Charities
agencies are listed as recipients of grants announced in early October for organizations that help support poor and vulnerable families and especially focus on responsible Fr.hood. The grants are distributed by HHS’ Administration for Children and Families. The Church’s role in ending human trafficking cannot be overlooked, according to Miguel H. Diaz, the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. In a conference in May at the Vatican on building public-private partnerships in the battle against modern-day slavery, he said the only way to end this global human rights violation is for governments to enlist the help of religious leaders, businesses, consumers and other private entities. ✴
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Catholics don’t include their religion, “given that the option is there for everyone.” Matt Warner, who writes the “Fallible Blogma” blog and is CEO of Flocknet.com, which helps Catholic parishes and organizations enter the digital age, had a different interpretation of the CARA study results. “One of the things I would hate for people to take from the study is that Catholics aren’t taking advantage of Catholic new media as much as they would like to,” he told CNS. “They’re not really using Catholic old media either,” he said, adding there was only “a slight preference” by respondents for Catholic “offline material.” Walter said the study provides a snapshot. “This may not hold up as true 10 years from now,” he said,
“but I was looking for information that would be true for 3-5 years.” Even so, many Catholic newspapers have established a Web presence and are making initial forays into social media. “We have a pretty heavy investment in Facebook and Twitter and what comes next,” said Franz. “Justifying all that is tough with staff time and energy is something you have a gut feeling is not paying any dividends. We don’t know at what point people are going to start looking to the Web or social media for religious content. And we have to be there when that time comes.” “We want to constantly be a welcome visitor to someone’s home with our books and our newspapers and our magazines,” Wiegert said, “even with our apps and whatever else it is we decide to do.” ✴
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sk any parent to identify the instant that they first experienced the rush of love and the awesome responsibility of caring for a baby, and many will point to the moment they first looked upon the grainy images of their unborn child produced via ultrasound. Parents know it is an awe-inspiring moment the first time they see and hear their baby’s heartbeat. As humans, we crave tangible evidence; though mothers can take pregnancy tests or experience certain physiological changes to confirm there is life growing within, we’ve still got to see it to believe it. Once we witness that tiny heart beating, once we see those 10 little fingers and toes developing, once we first gaze upon the face staring back at us from the ultrasound monitor, our lives are forever changed. Parents-to-be know at that moment everything leading up to this point is merely prologue; God is at work and He has plans for all of us. Some prepare, hope and pray for the opportunity to give birth, recognizing children as a gift from God. Others, whose pregnancies are unexpected or unwanted, feel they are not ready for the responsibility. Some mothers-to-be, tragically, may feel internal or external forces pressuring them to extinguish the life growing within. These mothers may never have had the opportunity to see such an ultrasound image or experience that surge of maternal love for their unborn babies, which may have changed their hearts and minds. Thankfully, a new Arizona law went into effect last month requiring women seeking an abortion to first be offered a chance to see an ultrasound and hear the heartbeat of their unborn baby. New statistics reveal that the law is working. According to the Associated Press, abortions in September are down nearly 31 percent from the previous year, and down 32 percent from August. Though this decline is joyous news, 729 innocent lives were still taken last month in Arizona. This law was one of a handful of important pro-life bills to emerge recently from the Arizona State Legislature with the backing of the Arizona Catholic Conference, the public policy agency for the Catholic dioceses of Arizona. Other legislation having an impact on the abortion business includes a prohibition on nurses and physician assistants from performing abortions, as well as what is known as the Abortion Consent Act — which requires doctors to provide, in person, all the information and options available to women seeking an abortion at least 24 hours prior. Though there is much work to be done in saving lives from abortion, these laws are sensible, thoughtful methods in battling an abortion-ondemand culture. The legislation provides for education, knowledge and serves as a very real wake-up call to women who have not yet appreciated the awesome gift and responsibility bestowed upon them. Abortion is big business in the United States. Its titan of industry, Planned Parenthood, was responsible for 332,278 abortions in 2009, according to an October 2011 fact sheet available on its website. At an average of $500 per abortion, the nation’s abortion leader pulls in more than $166 million annually. It comes as no surprise, then, that the president of Planned Parenthood of Arizona, Bryan Howard, is unhappy. Due to new legislation, along with the unending prayers of many among the pro-life crowd, Planned Parenthood no longer offers abortions at seven of its 10 facilities. Howard is reported as saying that the closures are due to staffing issues — that new laws prohibiting nurse practitioners and physician assistants from performing abortions have reduced the organization’s ability to meet its needs — revealing, in essence, a trend that a number of qualified doctors are turning their backs on the abortion industry. It is no coincidence that this news comes to us during October, widely recognized in Catholic circles as the month where we give particular devotion to sanctity of life efforts and the Holy Rosary. It is through good works and prayer that Catholics ask for the special intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, so that hearts may be converted and the lives of the innocent be allowed to flourish. Though these new state laws are encouraging and do much good in terms of education and in protecting women’s health, there is much work still to do. We encourage all Catholics to join us in prayer and in making their voices heard in the effort to build a culture of life. ✴
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s we draw near to the day when we will begin to use the new English translation of the Roman Missal, Nov. 27, the first Sunday of Advent, it is good to recall why so much effort has been made to prepare for these new texts of the Mass. Nothing is more important We do this, first of all, because the Eucharist is our richest source of grace and mercy, and the highest praise we can offer to Almighty God. So, as we are about to begin to worship with the new translation, it is only right that we use this time to prepare well to understand with our minds and to pray with our hearts these beautiful new texts of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Blessed John Paul II, in his encyclical on the Eucharist, wrote (#1), “The Church draws her life from the Eucharist… In a variety of ways she joyfully experiences the constant fulfillment of the promise: ‘Lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age’ (Mt 28:20), but in the Holy Eucharist, through the changing of bread and wine into the body and blood of the Lord, she rejoices in this presence with unique intensity… The Second Vatican Council rightly proclaimed that the Eucharistic sacrifice is ‘the source and summit of the Christian life’.” The Eucharist is “the Church’s greatest treasure, the heart of the world, the pledge of the fulfillment for which each man and woman, even unconsciously, yearns” (Ibid, #59). Whenever there is a change in the way that the Eucharist is celebrated, such as a new translation, our minds and hearts must be well prepared so that we can look forward to it with enthusiasm and hope. With gratitude to God It is also a time to recall with gratitude the abundant fruits that the Holy Spirit has brought forth during the past 40-plus years since we began to celebrate Mass in the vernacular. To be sure, as in all things that we humans do, there were some mistakes and shortcomings that accompanied the Church’s initial efforts to implement the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council. That is why so much study and effort has gone into the preparation of the new translation. Far greater than any shortcomings in the texts, however, have been the blessings that the Lord has worked through the Sacred Liturgy celebrated since Vatican II. This is a time, then, to give thanks to God and to give thanks as well to all the priests and deacons who have led us in prayer with the first English texts of the Latin Rite, and to all our brothers and sisters in the Church who prayed it with full, conscious and active participation. On a personal note, I am deeply grateful to our pastors, and all our priests and deacons, who are presently offering catechesis on the new revised texts of the Mass. For more than a year, they have been updating themselves, acquiring New Roman Missals and other materials, and preparing homilies and talks to promote a full understanding and lively appreciation of the new texts.
More than changing the texts In an address of Pope Benedict XVI, earlier this year, on the 50th anniversary of the Pontifical Liturgical Institute, he said, “the active presence of Christ
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subsists in the liturgical action of the Church: what He did as he went about among human beings, He continues to make active through His personal sacramental action whose center is the Eucharist. Then, he added that the aim of Vatican II “was not primarily to change the rites and the texts, but rather to renew mentalities and to put at the center of Christian life and ministry the celebration of the Paschal Mystery of Christ.” In addition to the special efforts being made to prepare for the new liturgical texts, we shall also be implementing the new norms for distributing Holy Communion (See the USCCB Norms for the Distribution and Reception of Holy Communion under Both Kinds in Dioceses of the United States of America, and GIRM #283). However, at the request of some of our pastors, who consider it helpful to have additional time for a more thorough catechesis on the new norms for receiving the Lord Jesus under both forms, I am allowing more time for this to occur. This will also allow for a more extended catechesis in the next issues of The Catholic Sun. A number of parishes have already implemented these norms, others are doing so now, while still others will be doing so over the next several months. The final date for implementation on norms for Holy Communion will be later in AD 2012. In all of these pastoral efforts, let us not forget that the most important changes that can take place are those that the Holy Spirit brings about in us when we participate at Holy Mass with humble and sincere hearts. A heightened sense of the sacred What you will notice with the new translation is a more sublime quality of the Sacred Liturgy, a heightened sense of the sacred. This will help us to enter more readily into a personal encounter with God in the Sacred Mysteries, despite all the obstacles we meet in the secularistic culture of our times. Wolfgang Pannenberg has written in this regard: “The absolutely worst way to respond to the challenge of secularism is to adapt to secular standards in language, thought, and way of life. If members of a secularist society turn to religion at all, they do so because they are looking for something other than what that culture already provides. It is counterproductive to offer them religion in a secular mode that is carefully trimmed in order not to offend their secular sensibilities.” The new translations, then, with a greater attention to beauty and transcendence, and with greater fidelity to the original Latin texts of the 1970 Roman Missal of Paul VI (which is based on ancient texts composed over a thousand years ago), will fortify us to remain faithful to the Lord Jesus in our present age and gladly to fulfill our mission in the New Evangelization. ✴
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No consensus on death penalty Two letters in your Sept. 15 issue deal with objections to the death penalty, citing statistics that imply that many death penalty sentences are overturned and further suggesting that many innocent people have been executed. While these objections have merit, it is important to remember that the sources for this data are anti-capital punishment, and may not be presenting both sides of the cases involved. Unintentionally, this data can also be used to demonstrate that our country indeed does value life, since our courts obviously are carefully examining each death sentence case thoroughly at several levels and are often willing to re-sentence convicted murderers or even release them, if there is any reasonable doubt as to their guilt. While I welcome any data that supports protecting life, I am concerned that one of the writers expressed disappointment with The Catholic Sun for printing letters supporting the death penalty. We must remember that our Church’s most famous theologians supported capital punishment (St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas) and the current edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church also states that under certain conditions the death penalty may be morally acceptable. Since capital punishment is not considered intrinsically evil by the Church, dialogue regarding its use is not only permissible,
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As Catholics we know that Christ is truly present Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in both species (“Phoenix Diocese to adopt new norms for Holy Communion,” catholicsun.org). We do take and eat/drink Christ’s Body and Blood when we receive the host. So many people fall into line to receive Communion week after week without really stopping to think about it. These changes, as well as the ones we will see in the liturgy come Advent, are going to be a real gift to our parishes to reconnect with the deeper meaning and joy in our faith. Cassy Excerpted from a comment posted to catholicsun.org.
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but necessary. Personally, I am not prepared to promote the complete elimination of capital punishment, however I do believe its use should be very restricted, limited to unusual but real situations occurring in our country, i.e. cases have occurred where felons already serving life sentences have murdered again, either in the prison system or outside (if they have escaped). In such situations, merely returning them to prison after their latest murder endangers the lives of others both in and out of the prison system. Tom Takash Phoenix
New Roman Missal translation I am glad to return to those phrases I learned as a child (“Missal changes amount to dozens of short, new phrases for congregation,” catholicsun.org). They are also a much better translation of the Latin Mass on which all translations must be based. For those who find the changes difficult, please remember how difficult some of the earlier changes were for people when they first were implemented. Catherine Cook Excerpted from a comment posted to catholicsun.org.
Mixed signals One of our major food chains is facilitating a major player in the breast cancer fight around the country, which in itself is noble. Strangely, though, they are also funding Planned Parenthood, saying that they do mammogram screening for needy women in this country. Planned Parenthood also distributes contraceptives that, like abortions, can cause cancer. Because of the liberal media, deceptions by Planned Parenthood and the major player in the breast cancer fight, little is known by the public on these issues. Richard Peterson Mesa
The great ‘yes’ of marriage is worth fighting for Fourth and final part: Questions of bigotry, applied compassion
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ince the last installment in this series, Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, sent and subsequently published a strong and substantive letter to President Barack Obama on the topic of marriage. Clearly objecting to the president’s refusal to defend, and now (beginning in July) his administration’s proactive attack on the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act, Archbishop Dolan’s wording could not have been more clear: “The Administration’s failure to change course on this matter … will precipitate a national conflict between Church and State of enormous proportions and to the detriment of both institutions.” Strong words. Are they an exaggeration? Not at all, if we are following the consequences of “same-sex marriage” legalization in other nations and states. The national debate promises to rage on and the Church will continue to battle. But what about making the case in our own minds and conversations? In this final article, I hope to help the lay Catholic deal with two key questions. “Some states in this union prohibited marriage between people of differing skin color, and eventually we saw the injustice of that. Isn’t this issue of same-sex marriage just another form of bigotry?” On the surface, this question seems to have merit. No one chooses the color of their skin, and if we follow the data, the 3.5 percent of the population (number based on April 2011 UCLA study) which call themselves “gay” do not in general experience this attraction as a choice. Fair enough. Or is it? First, the question depends upon the assumption that sexual attraction is as genetically determined and unchangeable as skin color. But this is by no means proven. In 2009, the
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American Psychological Association itself, following the data, stated, “There is no consensus among scientists about the exact reasons that an individual develops a heterosexual, bisexual, gay or lesbian orientation. Although much research has examined the possible genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences on sexual orientation, no findings have emerged that permit scientists to conclude that sexual orientation is determined by any particular factor or factors.” Secondly, it is a credit to our country to have overcome its institutional racism and recognized, in law, that skin color has no social significance worthy of discrimination. Common sense, also known as wisdom, overcame common prejudice in this case. But are we really prepared to change the legal definition of marriage for everyone, saying in effect that male and female do not matter in the same way that black, white, brown and red do not matter? Well, only if we are prepared to say that motherhood and Fr.hood do not matter. Only if, flying in the face of common experience and a mountain of sociological data, we are prepared to say that human children do not have an internal need for both a mother and Fr. which society must highly promote and do all it can to protect. And
if we are prepared to do that, it seems to me that we have become a nation prepared to remove the category of wisdom itself from our considerations about public policy. “How can I hold this standard and still treat others with compassion?” We Catholics are a people on the Rock, but not a people who generally throw rocks. This is why it is so challenging to stand firm in this particular debate, where our opposition has effectively wrapped its arguments in the emotional language of love, compassion, tolerance and justice. Moreover, many of us, myself included, have family members and/or friends who have same-sex attraction and whom we know at a deeper level than caricatures. We know them. We know their goodness and their desires for happiness. Both in my experience as a theater teacher and in everyday life I know and love people who have this disordered attraction. I have found this to be a challenge to grow in charity and in Christian maturity. Therefore, a gift! When it comes to family, friends and co-workers, we must reach out within our own circle — a host of forces are encouraging a rift between the Church and her children who face same-sex attraction. The Church is our mother, and her teaching will not change, and yet she is a mother who is fully a mother, who never despairs. This is the maternal love behind the Church’s Courage ministry to those with same-sex attraction who want to live close to Jesus Christ in a life of virtue. Our local chapter of Courage welcomes new members. I’d like to finish these articles with a prayer: Lord, please give us the courage to live and fight for marriage using only the weapons of the Gospel: truth, joy, mercy and abundant charity. St. Gianna Molla, patroness of courageous wives and mothers, pray for us! Ss. John the Baptist and Thomas More, martyrs beheaded for defending marriage, pray for us! ✴ Mike Phelan is the diocesan director of the Marriage and Respect Life Office.
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Standing in solidarity with the Church of Martyrs in our midst
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ow many of us can say we’ve been persecuted for our Catholic faith? My guess is that the answer is probably very few. The worst I ever endured consisted of smirking remarks dished out over having a large family. “Haven’t you figured out what causes it yet?� or the ever-droll, “Why don’t you buy your husband a TV?� And so forth. In hindsight, it was nothing really. Last October I began a series of articles for The Catholic Sun dealing with the ongoing persecution of Catholics in Iraq. The story of the continued brutality visited upon our brothers and sisters in Christ is largely ignored by most media outlets. Believe it or not, there’s a local angle. Yes, we have Catholics from Iraq in the Phoenix Diocese— hundreds of families in fact, known as Chaldeans, who belong to one of the Eastern rites of the Church. Who are the Chaldeans? They’ve often been called the Church of Martyrs, because for centuries, they’ve endured persecution for their fidelity to Christ. We here in the West have not known such state-sponsored oppression since the fourth century when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. For the Church in Iraq, however, no such protection was forthcoming. Christianity there grew in the shadow of the Persian Empire, the Ottoman Empire and more recently, under the withering gaze of radical Islam. The Christian population of Iraq has dropped sharply during the last 20 years. Once estimated at 1.4 million, today it stands at fewer than 400,000. Why? Kidnappings, rapes, beheadings, murders, threats of violence — these are the everyday companions of Iraqi
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Christians. The elderly, babies, priests, nuns, innocent men, women and children — no matter, they are targeted, simply because they are Christian. The payment of the jizra, a tax levied against “infidels,� is often imposed. The tax can amount to a staggering tens of thousands of dollars. If that won’t convince you to convert to Islam, you have two choices: pay up or face kidnapping or death. Entire families have been forced to flee. Fire of faith During the past year, I’ve met some of the Catholics who have left Iraq. The stories they tell are deeply disturbing — the kind of thing that keeps you awake at night and makes you wonder, “What can we do to help?� Here’s what I’ve learned: Yes, we need to reach out to these brothers and sisters in Christ, but not simply to offer assistance. In fact, it is we who need their help. We need the fire of their faith — the faith of martyrs. Ours is a comfortable existence here in America. We face no threat of violence in the practice of our faith. No suicide
bombers force their way into our churches. Our priests and bishops have not been kidnapped or tortured. The same cannot be said of the Chaldeans. Last January, I was blessed to meet an elderly Chaldean priest who once courageously defied the orders of the regime’s soldiers. After seven men in his village were unjustly arrested and then hanged, the soldiers declared that the bodies were to remain on display. “To serve as food for the birds,� they told the villagers. This priest gave the men Christian burial, a “crime� for which he was later detained, beaten and tortured. So what are we to do when we hear of such injustice? First, we can pray for conversion of heart, for peace and for the protection of innocent human life. Second, we can attend the Oct. 28 Michael John Poirier concert at Xavier College Preparatory to benefit the local Chaldean Catholic Church. This is our opportunity to stand in solidarity with the Church of Martyrs alongside Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of the Diocese of Phoenix, Chaldean Bishop Sarhad Y. Jammo and Byzantine Bishop Gerald N. Dino. Tickets are only $10, or buy four, get one free. I hope many here in the Diocese of Phoenix will find it in their hearts to attend the concert and show their support for those who have paid the ultimate price for their faith. We have much to learn from the Chaldeans’ fidelity to Christ in the face of grave danger. To purchase tickets, visit www.catholic-events.org or call (480) 239-6768. ✴ Joyce Coronel is a regular contributor to The Catholic Sun. Please send comments to letters@catholicsun.org.
Needs versus wants: taking care of our children a top priority
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here’s been a lot of talk lately about how our mounting debt crisis is going to saddle our children and our grandchildren with great difficulty. Well, thank God we are finally talking about our children. Now maybe we can start talking about all the ways we need to help them right now as well as in the future. Twenty years ago the first article I ever wrote professionally was an opinion article in the local daily newspaper that was inspired by an interview I did with the director of St. Mary’s Food Bank. He informed me the hunger rate in children was a whopping 25 percent. It was unfathomable to me that a quarter of our children could be going to bed hungry every night. Unlike adults, children are helpless to help themselves out of such a situation. So why would we possibly allow such a situation to continue? In 2011, the state of our children is still in jeopardy. There is still a 20 percent hunger rate in children. The good news is that’s down 5 percent; the bad news is that it’s still too high. And when you add to that the deficits children face in the availability of health care and education, it begs the question why. I dare to be optimistic and suggest it’s not because we can’t change it, but maybe it’s because we are way too accustomed to feeling good in our society — at the expense of our children. But a little attitude shift could change everything. Just look at the number of children who have been sacri-
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n their new book, “Living the Call: An Introduction to the Lay Vocation,” authors Michael Novak and William E. Simon Jr. give a statistic in the introduction that, while not exactly surprising to anyone paying attention, still manages to shock a bit. They write that since 1965 the number of priests in the United States has fallen by 30,000. In the same period the number of Catholics has increased by about 20 million, and that the number of laypeople employed by parishes and other Catholic institutions has
risen by the same amount that the number of priests has declined, about 30,000. The point is obvious: Lay engagement in the life of the Church in the United States has never been more prominent or necessary as now. While the decline in the number of priests and religious has in many ways necessitated greater lay involvement, the authors are quick to point out that Church documents specifically call for the laity’s engagement both with the Church and the broader world. In fact, the authors point to the Vatican II document Apostolicam Actuositatem, Pope John Paul II’s exhortation Christifideles Laici,
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and the 2005 “Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord,” published by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops all calling the laity to fruitful apostolic work. Of course, lay involvement in the Church and community is nothing new. There are countless examples of lay apostolates, fraternities and Third Order-type groups going back centuries. But the increased involvement of the laity in roles traditionally assigned to the clergy or religious — education, catechism, parish management, visiting the homebound, etc. — is something, perhaps, new. “Lay Catholics are looking for a new sort of spiritual guidance, a new way of learning how to live the interior life and how to draw upon the spiritual riches developed over 20 centuries of spiritual adventure and exploration,” Novak writes in an introduction. “They are inspired by the example of countless saints and in the brilliant writings of many who have been named ‘Doctors of the Church.’ St. Therese of Lisieux, for example, may now be the most loved teacher of the new laity,” he writes. “Living the Call” presents other contemporary examples of service and spiritual wisdom in a series of profiles of lay men and women. The first part of the book is dedicated to stories of people serving in a number of Church fields where lay involvement is increasing, including Catholic education, youth ministry, parish financial advisement and others. The second part of the book concerns itself with the spiritual lives of the laity. They are lives that desire nourishment and growth.
Dominican Father Nathan Castle served the All Saints Catholic Newman Center in Tempe for 12 years. Look for a review of his book, “And Toto Too: The Wizard of Oz as a Spiritual Adventure,” in the next issue. (Good Dog Outreach, 2011) $19.95. Available at www.amazon.com “Living the Call: An Introduction to the Lay Vocation,” by Michael Novak and William E. Simon, Jr. (Encounter Books, 2011) $21.95. Available on the Web at www.amazon.com.
“They want to love their neighbors better, the poor much better. They see around them so much pain, enervation, weariness, dryness of heart, sheer boredom, and emptiness,” the authors write. “They confront a spiritual desert all around them, under the merry-go-round of the luxuriant shopping malls — and they feel that desert advancing in their own souls. They long for deeper, truer inner life. Somehow, they long for the infinite. They long for boundless love. Ours is the time of the restless heart, the very restless heart,” they write. That’s as good a diagnosis of modern spiritual disease as I’ve seen, and the authors offer a number of treatments, including frequent recourse to the sacraments and good spiritual reading. They
also point out some of the pitfalls that can come with this increased desire and need for lay involvement in so many areas of the Church. Enthusiasm can sometimes outrun qualification, and increased lay involvement requires an even greater attention to good formation and education. Also, it’s good for the laity to remember that they are called to be “co-workers” in the vineyard of the Lord, not replacements for the clergy or religious. But in my experience, at least, those lay Catholics most selflessly involved in the life of their parish and wider community are the same who most consistently and devotedly pray for increased vocations and for the spiritual health of current priests and religious — surely, an important part of being a true “co-worker.” ✴ Media critic Andrew Junker is a regular contributor to The Catholic Sun. Send e-mail to letters@catholicsun.org.
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‘The Way’
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art “Fellowship of the Ring,” part “On the Road,” but mostly “Wizard of Oz” — Emilio Estevez’s “The Way” is a journey story about conversions. It starts tragically. Martin Sheen plays Tom Avery, a father who doesn’t agree with the direction of his son’s life. Emilio Estevez, who produced and directed the film, plays a minor role as Tom’s son, Daniel. Daniel dies on el Camino de Santiago de Compostela — the Way of St. James — a network of pilgrimage routes in Western Europe. The routes lead to relics believed to be those of one of Jesus’ Apostles. Tom travels to Spain to collect his son’s remains. Once there, he decides to make el camino, carrying his son’s ashes with him on a journey to Santiago de Compostela. Along the way, Tom — or “my Dorothy,” as Estevez called him during an early screening Aug. 31 in Tempe — meets up with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Lion. He first meets up with Joost, played by Yorick van Wageningen, a Dutchman making the journey to lose weight for his wife. They find Sarah, played by Deborah Kara Unger, a Canadian trying to quit smoking. And finally, in Quixotic scene, they discover Jack, played by James Nesbitt, an Irishman making el camino to get over writer’s block. Despite their differences, the crew makes the journey together. Those they meet along the way never tire of wishing them a buen camino, a good journey. The Way of St. James was once a strictly religious pilgrimage. It’s not that way anymore. Thousands of pilgrims make the journey, but they aren’t all Catholic or even Christian. The common, binding thread seems to be that everyone has something to improve upon. We’re all sinners, after all. I had a lengthy conversation with L. Burke Files, a parishioner at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, who made the journey with three other parishioners this past summer. Files, Erick McCune, Rudy Bellavia and Bryan Marscovetra formed “St. James and the Gang,” sharing their journey to deepen the faith of others while raising money for Catholic education. Files, who saw an early screening, said it helped him relive the trip. Anyone who’s made their camino, he said, would be sure to enjoy “The Way.” Sheen, who answered questions with Estevez after the screening, said the film was “spiritual, not religious.” I was a bit let down that Sheen’s character spread his son’s ashes. The Catholic Church does not allow the scattering of cremated remains. The Church permits cremation so long as it does not “demon-
J.D.
Long-García Editor
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In theaters
he following film has been evaluated by Catholic News Service according to artistic merit and moral suitability. The Way (ARC) The CNS classification is A-III — adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 — parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Catholic Sun rating Message: Pretty good Artistic merit: Pretty good, too.
strate a denial of faith in the resurrection of the body.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, §2301). The Code of Canon Law teaches that the Church still recommends burial (§1176). I don’t mean to overemphasize this, but the resurrection of the body is a fundamental facet of our faith. And though Tom is a fictional character, I can’t help but think he would have found much comfort in a deeper understanding of what we profess as Catholics: “We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.” That said, and as Files pointed out to me, Sheen’s character is a lapsed Catholic. It makes sense within the story that he wouldn’t
The local ‘Way’ Learn more about St. James and the Gang, a group of four Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parishioners who made a piligrmage to Santiago de Compostela, deeping the faith of theiir community and supporting Catholic Education. www.stjamesandthegang.com
Martin Sheen in “The Way.” Producers Distribution Agency/ARC/CNS
be familiar with this teaching. And “The Way” is not a Catholic movie. It’s more like Catholicflavored spirituality, with an innocuous portrayal of the Church. For example, Tom runs into a priest, who’s battling cancer. Tom asks the priest if he believes in miracles. “I’m a priest. It’s kind of my job.” And then he gives Tom a rosary. Religion appears and disappears quickly from the screen. But there is certainly conversion. Tom, who starts off angry, softens. Other characters drop their pretense. Joost, the Dutchman, is a recreational drug user. And in the end, his conversion is profound. Of all the characters, he seems to have the greatest appreciation of what’s sacred. What’s refreshing about it is that nothing is sexualized. There’s a complementarity there, having the woman present with the men, but it isn’t sexual. Estevez didn’t chuck in some romance just to make it interesting. Perhaps the most moving part of
the film is when the audience learns of Canadian Sarah’s real cross — it isn’t smoking. Without giving too much away, I will say that she seems to recover her nature — something we seem to have lost, at least as an idea, over the last several decades. It’s not natural for a father to lose his son. The father is meant to die first. But the beauty in this film is that through the son’s death, Tom found life. He becomes a true pilgrim. The film itself is a call to lead a
more authentic life. The Church helps us live that life. Like the film’s foursome, the Church is a family made up of conflicting personalities. We become more authentic through the sacraments and through each other. Buen camino. ✴ Guest reviewer J.D. Long-García is editor of The Catholic Sun. Comments are welcome. Send e-mail to letters@catholicsun.org.
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Diócesis de Phoenix establecerá nuevas normas para cáliz Por J.D. Long-García Catholic News Service
Hay planes en curso en la Diócesis de Phoenix para implementar nuevas normas locales para la distribución de la Sagrada Comunión. Como resultado, el vino que se convierte en la sangre de Jesús durante la consagración no será ofrecido durante todas las Misas dominicales, sino que en vez será reservado para ocasiones especiales, dejando la determinación a cada pastor parroquial. El cambio unirá la celebración
local católica de la Eucaristía con la práctica de los fieles en todo el mundo, según funcionarios diocesanos que dijeron que recibir la Comunión bajo ambos tipos no es común en la mayoría de los países. “De lo que mucha gente no se da cuenta es que hemos tenido privilegios experimentales”, dijo padre Kieran Kleczewski, director ejecutivo de la Oficina de Culto de la Diócesis de Phoenix. “Ahora estamos bajo las mismas normas que la iglesia en el resto del mundo”. Para los católicos de Estados Unidos esto podría parecer una
restricción, él dijo, pero es una expansión para el resto del mundo. La Comunión bajo ambos tipos debe ser ofrecida en ocasiones en que ambos tipos enfatizan la señal de unidad o que son claramente una expresión más amplia de la presencia de Cristo, dijo padre Kleczewski. La iglesia enseña que Cristo — cuerpo, sangre, alma y divinidad — está presente completamente en la forma del pan. Él está completamente presente también en la forma del vino. Después que el Segundo Concilio — Ver NORMAS página 33 ▶
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Feligreses de Santa Margarita María reciben Comunión el 31 de agosto.
Dar la bienvenida el nuevo Misal
La Tradición viva: cosas viejas y nuevas
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ientras nos acercamos al 27 de noviembre, el primer el domingo del Adviento, el día en que empezaremos a utilizar la nueva traducción al inglés del Misal Romano, es bueno recordar la razón por la cual se ha hecho tanto esfuerzo para preparar para estos nuevos textos de la Misa. Nada es más importante Hacemos esto, ante todo, porque la Eucaristía es nuestra fuente más rica de gracia y misericordia, y también es el elogio más alto que podemos ofrecer a Dios Todopoderoso. Así, como estamos a punto de empezar a adorar con la nueva traducción, es justo que utilicemos este tiempo preparativo para comprender bien con nuestras mentes y orar con nuestros corazones estos nuevos hermosos textos del Sacrificio Santo de la Misa. El Beato Juan Pablo II, en su encíclica sobre la Eucaristía, escribió: La Iglesia vive de la Eucaristía… Ésta experimenta con alegría cómo se realiza continuamente, en múltiples formas, la promesa del Señor: ‘He aquí que yo estoy con vosotros todos los días hasta el fin del mundo’ (Mt 28, 20); en la sagrada Eucaristía, por la transformación del pan y el vino en el cuerpo y en la sangre del Señor, se alegra de esta presencia con una intensidad única… Con razón ha proclamado el Concilio Vaticano II que el Sacrificio eucarístico es ‘fuente y cima de toda la vida cristiana.’ La Eucaristía es “el tesoro más grande de la Iglesia, el corazón del mundo, la prenda del fin al que todo hombre, aunque sea inconscientemente, aspira” (Ibid, #59) Siempre cuando se cambia la manera en que la Eucaristía es celebrada, como una nueva traducción, nuestras mentes y los corazones deben ser preparados bien para poder esperar con entusiasmo y esperanza. Con gratitud a Dios Es también un tiempo de recordar con gratitud las frutas abundantes que el Espíritu Santo ha concedido durante los últimos más de 40 años durante los cuales empezamos a celebrar la Misa en la lengua vernácula. Es cierto, como en todas las cosas que los humanos hacen, habían algunos errores y defectos que acompañaron los esfuerzos iniciales de la Iglesia para aplicar la reforma litúrgica del Segundo Concilio Vaticano. Por eso se hizo
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tanto estudio y esfuerzo durante la preparación de la nueva traducción. Mucho más grande que cualquier defecto en los textos, sin embargo, son las bendiciones que el Señor ha derramado por medio de la Liturgia Sagrada celebrada desde el Segundo Concilio Vaticano. Ahora es tiempo, entonces, de dar gracias a Dios y dar gracias también a todos los sacerdotes y diáconos que nos han dirigido en oración con los primeros textos en inglés del Rito Latino, y a todos nuestros hermanos y hermanas en la Iglesia que oraron con participación llena, consciente y activa. Noto personalmente que yo estoy profundamente agradecido a nuestros párrocos, y a todos nuestros sacerdotes y diáconos, que están ofreciendo catequesis sobre los nuevos textos de la Misa. Por más de un año, ellos han estado actualizando a sí mismo, adquiriendo Nuevos Misales Romanos y otros materiales, y preparando homilías y presentaciones para promover una comprensión llena y apreciación viva de los nuevos textos. Más que un cambio textual El Papa Benedicto XVI, anteriormente en este año, en el aniversario quincuagésimo del Instituto Litúrgico Pontificio, dijo que, “la presencia activa de Cristo subsiste en la acción litúrgica de la Iglesia: lo qué él hizo mientras caminaba entre los seres humanos, él continúa hacer activo por su acción sacramental personal cuyo centro es la Eucaristía. Luego, el añadió que el propósito del Segundo Concilio Vaticano “no fue principalmente cambiar los ritos y los textos, sino renovar las mentalidades y poner en el centro de la vida y el ministerio cristiano la celebración del Misterio de Pascual de Cristo.” Además de los esfuerzos especiales que fueron realizados en preparación de los nuevos textos litúrgicos, también estaremos llevando a cabo nuevas normas para la distribución de la Santa Comunión (Vea las Normas de la USCCB para la Distribución y la Recepción de la Santa Comunión bajo Ambas Clases en los Diócesis de los Estados Unidos de América, y de GIRM #283). Sin embargo, a petición de algunos de nuestros párrocos, que piensan que es útil tener tiempo adicional para una catequesis más completa sobre las nuevas normas para recibir el Señor a Jesús bajo ambas formas, estoy — Ver LA TRADICION página 33 ▶
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Para algunos hispanos la pobreza crece más rápido con poco alivio a la vista Por Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — Cobijados para defenderse de un viento fuerte y frío de otoño, Natalie García y su novio, Geraldo de Jesús, atraviesan el estacionamiento en donde está un carro lleno de abastos que pertenece a Sister Regis Food Cupboard (Alacena de alimentos de la hermana Regis). Botes de ejotes, pasta, salsa de espagueti, pan, cereal, jugo y fórmula de bebé para el hijo de García, de 6 semanas de nacido, José, son los productos que se pueden escoger, entre otros. García, de 24 años, espera que la comida le dure una semana, o quizá algo más si Jesús, de 30 años, consigue trabajo por algunos días en labores. Tanto García como de Jesús son originarios de Puerto Rico, que acaban de llegar recientemente a la comunidad hispana que rodea la
parroquia de San Francisco Javier Cabrini en Rochester, N,Y. García llegó de Chicago en noviembre, en busca de un nuevo comienzo en una ciudad más pequeña, menos congestionada y menos cara. De Jesús llegó a la ciudad junto con un amigo en el año 2009 en busca de trabajo, esperando que las condiciones económicas fueran un poco mejores y con abundancia de oportunidad de trabajo. Hasta ahora, él se ha encontrado que para alguien que no terminó la escuela preparatoria hay pocos trabajos. En un mes regular, gana aproximadamente unos $500. García y de Jesús podrían representar un creciente número de hispanos que viven en la pobreza. En las estadísticas del Censo de los EE.UU. del 2010 se muestra que un 26.6 por ciento de hispanos; o sea unos 13,2 millones de personas, son pobres. La cifra representa un 1.3 por ciento de aumento desde el año 2009. ✴
AUMENTA PORCENTAJE DE ESTADOUNIDENSES que viven en la pobreza.
-2.3% -1.3% -3.6% -2.3% -2.8%
Normas ▶ Continuado de la página 32
Vaticano requirió más ocasiones cuando el cáliz pudiera ser ofrecido al laicado, lo cual no había sido la práctica durante siglos, Estados Unidos, el Reino Unido y Oceanía recibieron permiso experimental para ofrecer el cáliz a los fieles. El misal de 1975, el que es usado actualmente, permite 14 veces cuando el cáliz puede ser ofrecido al laicado. En países pobres, dijo padre Kleczewski, las iglesias no tienen los recursos para ofrecer el cáliz al laicado siempre que se celebre Misa. Las nuevas normas le dan al obispo local latitud para la aplicación. En la Diócesis de Phoenix las normas permiten la distribución de la Comunión bajo ambos tipos durante días de fiesta especiales y otras ocasiones importantes, como la Misa Crismal del Jueves Santo, la fiesta de Corpus Christi, retiros, reuniones espirituales y bodas. ✴
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permitiendo más tiempo para que esto tome lugar. Esto también permite una catequesis más prolongada en los próximas ediciones del The Catholic Sun. Varias parroquias ya han llevado a cabo estas normas, otras lo están haciendo así ahora, mientras todavía otras harán así durante los varios meses siguientes. La fecha final para la aplicación de estas normas para la Santa Comunión será durante el año del 2012. En todos estos esfuerzos pastorales, no debemos olvidar que los cambios más importantes que pueden suceder son ésos que el Espíritu Santo produce en nosotros cuando participamos en la Santa Misa con corazones humildes y sinceros. Un sentido elevado del sagrado Lo que van a notar con la nueva traducción es una calidad más elevada de la Sagrada Liturgia, un sentido exaltado del sagrado. Esto nos ayudará a entrar más fácilmente a un encuentro personal con Dios en los Misterios Sagrados, a pesar de todos los obstáculos que encontramos en la cultura del secularismo de nuestro tiempo. Wolfgang Pannenberg ha escrito referente a esta consideración: “La manera absolutamente peor de responder al desafío del secularismo es de adaptar a las normas seglares en el idioma, el pensamiento, y en la manera de vivir. Si los miembros de una sociedad seglarista consultan a la religión, ellos lo hacen así porque buscan algo más que lo que esa cultura ya proporciona. Es contraproducente ofrecerles religión en un modo seglar que es recortado con cuidado para no ofender su sensibilidad sellar.” Las nuevas traducciones, enton-
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ces, con una atención más grande a la belleza y la trascendencia, y con fidelidad más grande a los originales textos latinos del 1970 Misal Romano del Pablo VI (que es basado en antiguos textos com-
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An ongoing look at parishes in the Phoenix Diocese.
Fr. Doug Lorig, pastor of the parish, began a new series in August called “Going Deeper.” This month the session focused on spirituality in parenting and the “Fruits of the Spirit.” There’s a men’s spirituality group that meets the second Monday of each month.
St. Maria Goretti S C OT T S D A L E
WHAT’S UNIQUE? There’s a quilting group that meets twice a month and provides handmade quilts to Maggie’s Place and the newly baptized babies of the parish. They also make lap quilts for nursing homes and the Veteran’s Hospital and collect men’s neck ties to make purses and rugs for the holiday bazaar. The quilters meet on the first and third Saturdays of the month. — Joyce Coronel
QUOTABLE UPCOMING The Oktoberfest Dinner Dance, sponsored by the parish’s Men’s Club, will be held this weekend and begins following the 5 p.m. Mass. Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for children. The parish has an ongoing Bible study that meets on Wednesday mornings and a family prayer group that meets on Friday evenings at 6 p.m. in the chapel.
The name of the parish angel for St. Maria’s must surely be ‘Angel of Sweetness,’ and that is something I keep discovering here every day.” Founded: June 1, 1967 Founding pastor: Fr. Thomas J. Lambert Address: 6261 N. Granite Reef Road Phone: (623) 979-3418 Pastor: Fr. Doug Lorig Number of families: 1,000
— Fr. Doug Lorig, pastor
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Cemetery and Mausoleum 2033 N. 48th St., Phoenix Edwardo Antunez-Guevara Michael Anthony Arvallo Esther C. Blanco Rosemary Lillian Braun Edwin H. Brunotte Primmie Helen Bustamante George L. Buterbaugh Rose Caparella Maria O. Carrillo Francisco Martinez Crisostomo Mary Dolan Adolfo Mendoza Esparza Joseph Charles Grzywa William Anthony Imparato Dorothea Mae Jenkins Leonilla Johnston Denise Daphne Koenig Ernestine C. Limon Juan Garcia Lopez Margie Encinas Lopez Flora Medina Janet Coronado Moreno Alex Orosco Betty P. Orsini Robert A. Otter Agnes Cecelia Paasch Miguel Estrada Padilla Jean H. Perry Eileen Riordan Pauline Andrea Robles Stella M. Samora Jessie Sandoval Regina Shorethose
Mary Lou Snyder Angel Sosa George W. Stahl Lucia A. Stahl Robert E. Stevens Geraldine A. Szczepanski Frances Van Houten Maria Yontz Charlotte York
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Cemetery and Mausoleum 10045 W. Thomas Rd., Avondale Danny Arismendez Melbourne Hinton Butler Leonor Lugo de Sarmiento Francis Leo Determan Betty J. Eberl Robert G. Eberl Alberto F. Flores Dominga Cadena Fresquez Juan R. Garcia Jose Maria Gomez Martha Vallejo Gonzales Helen Victoria Granillo Emilia Guida Eduardo Jimenez Lucy Galo Loera Enrique L. Mandurraga James L. McCarthy Simone Merwin Emma Moreno Frank Moreno Anna Pacione Eduardo Saiz III Maria de los Angeles Tafolla-Valdez
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Meetings and Classes
40 Days for Life campaign, Prayer to End Abortion, noon-6 p.m., Sept.28Nov. 6, Planned Parenthood, 5771 W. Eugie Ave., Glendale. Info: register www.40daysforlife.com/glendale or Ginny Finan at (602) 576-3439 ginnyfinan@yahoo.com. Life in the Spirit Seminar, 7-9 p.m., Oct. 17, 24 and 31; and Nov. 7, 21 and 28, St. Jerome Parish Hall A, 10815 N. 35th Ave. Make or renew a deep personal commitment to Jesus Christ through teaching, worship and community. Free. Info: call Kathy at (623) 907-5426. Christians in Commerce Annual Conference, Oct. 28-29, Fiesta Resort and Conference Center. Join us in the mission to bring Christ to the workplace through the power of the Holy Spirit. Info: www.christiansincommerce.org. In-depth Theology of the Body workshop by Katrina J. Zeno, 7-9 p.m., Oct. 28, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Oct. 29, Diocesan Pastoral Center, 400 E. Monroe St. Cost: $60 before Oct. 24 includes a workbook, breakfast, and lunch; education beneficial for anyone serving in ministry or education and for parents, singles, and counselors. Register, www.divineimageworkshop.eventbrite.com. Info: (602) 354-2179. Diocese of Phoenix Valley-wide Charismatic Praise and Worship, Nov. 11, 6:30 p.m., 7 p.m., Mass, St. Steven Parish, 24827 S. Dobson Road, Sun Lakes, sponsored by Catholic Renewal Ministries. Info: call Marge at (480) 201-6691 or Jo Ann at (480) 945-2990. “A Walk with Thomas Merton on his Journey Home,” presented by Sr. Sarah O’Malley, OSB, MA Theology, 8:45 a.m.-noon, Nov. 12, St. Francis Xavier Parish, 4715 N. Central Ave., Phoenix. Freewill offering. Info: (602) 667-9262. The Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites meets on the third Saturday of each month with participation in prayer and formation following charism according Teresian Carmel. Focus of study is Rule of St. Albert and Carmelite saints. Info: call Candida Kirkpatrick at (602) 481-6028.
Worship
World Day of Prayer for Peace: The Spirit of Assisi, 7 p.m., Oct. 27, St. Mary Basilica, 231 N. 3rd St. Phoenix. Twenty-five years ago, Pope John Paul II invited leaders of the world religions to Assisi to pray for peace and reconciliation; beautiful interfaith service featuring the participation of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus. Reception following. Info: (602) 354-2072. Healing Mass, sponsored by the Fellowship in Jesus Ministry, 6 p.m., Oct. 28, St. Joseph Parish, 900 W. Grant Ave., Williams; experience God’s love and healing mercy. All welcome. Info: (928) 635-4387. Founders Mass with Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, 11 a.m., Nov. 6, Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral, 6351 N. 27th Ave., for the cause of canonization of founders Blessed Frederic Ozaman, Venerable Rev. Michael McGivney, Servants God, Rev. Joseph Kentenich and Frank Duff. Reception to follow in Smith Hall. Info: call Sally LeRoy at (480) 945-6190. The Christ Child Society of Phoenix Mass, 9:30 a.m., Nov. 14, Mount Claret, 4633 N. 54th St. Guest speaker Richard Johnson from CPS at general meeting following Mass. All are welcome. Retreats
Silent Ignatian Retreats preached by the Priests of Miles Christi, Nov. 11-13 for men and March 23-25 for women with spiritual talks, eucharistic adoration, with daily Mass and Rosary. Info: contact Kathleen Lubin at (480) 7891143 or arizona@spiritualexercises.net. Women’s Advent retreat led by Kevin Saunders, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Nov. 18, St. Clement Parish Hall, 15800 Del Webb Blvd., Sun City. Bring brown-bag lunch; drinks and dessert provided. Info: call Jerri at (623) 872-0188 or Vee at (623) 972-9699. Spiritual Exercises for Women based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola; Feb. 24-26, 2012, Living Water Retreat Center in Cornville; silent retreat comprised of guided meditations, personal reflection and daily Mass, with opportunities for confession and spiritual direction. Info: call Terri at (480) 247-6961. This and That
St. Francis Festival, Blessing of the Animals and Pet Adopt-A-Thon, 10 a.m.3 p.m., Oct. 22-23, Franciscan Renewal Center, 5802 E. Lincoln Dr., Paradise Valley. Adoption fees vary by group. Food and refreshments available at nominal cost. Free admission and parking. Info: call Tia Sylvis (602) 228-1832. Western Hoe Down-Steak Cookout– Saloon, sponsored by Knights of Columbus, St. Elizabeth Seton Council 12144, 5 p.m., Oct. 29, 9728 W. Palmeras Dr., Sun City. Grilled ribeye steaks and all the fixin’s for a great cookout. Dancing follows in Seton Hall. Tickets: $20 per person.
Beer, wine and soft drinks available for purchase. Info: call John or Sharon Urzi at (623) 322-4884. Art and Crafts Vendors Needed, for Candy Cane Lane Arts and Craft Boutique, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Nov. 12, St. Daniel Parish, 1030 N. Hayden Road, Scottsdale. Tables and spaces are reserved only at time of payment. No refunds on reservations. Info: (480) 945-8437. 8th Grade Student Activity Day, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Oct. 28, Xavier College Prep, 4710 N. 5th St., welcome assembly, student-led tours, classroom visits, all-school pep rally, and concludes with lunch. Free: registration and dress code required. Info: (602) 277-3772 or www.xcp.org. Annual Night of Hope fundraising event to benefit our students: 6 p.m., Oct. 29, Sheraton Phoenix Downtown, 340 N. 3rd St., Phoenix. Tickets: $125 person; $1,250 per table of 10. Info: call Margaret at (602) 354-2344, mhardy@diocesephoenix.org or www.catholicschoolsphx.com/noh.php. Open House, noon-2:30 p.m., Oct. 30, Virginia G. Piper Performing Arts Center, Xavier school parents and daughters encouraged to attend; tours and an opportunity to meet the teachers. No registration is necessary. 10th Annual Lebanese Festival, 5-10 p.m., Nov. 4; 10 a.m.-10 p.m., English Liturgy 5 p.m., Nov. 5; 11 a.m.7 p.m., 10 a.m. Liturgy, Nov. 6, St. Joseph Maronite Parish, 5406 E. Virginia Ave. Info: (602) 667-3280. 60th Anniversary Luncheon for Our Lady of the Wayside Sodality of Most Holy Trinity, Nov. 5. All Sodalists past and present are invited. Info: call Patricia at (602) 943-7773. Annual Children’s Consignment Sale, 7 a.m.-noon, Nov. 5, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 2121 S. Rural Road, Tempe. Do you have any gently used children’s items you want to consign with us? Info: consignmentsale@olmctempe.com Shadow Program registration begins Sept. 1 and program begins Nov. 7, for Xavier students who would like to spend a school day with a Student Ambassador. Info: (www.xcp.org) “Shadow Program” link. Arizona East Valley Pro-Life Alliance fundraiser, “Treasures for Life,” boutique garage sale, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Nov. 19, Alliance Classroom, 567 W 10th St., Mesa. All sales final. Blood Drive sponsored by the St. Anne Knights of Columbus, 7 a.m.noon, Nov. 27, St. Anne Parish Hall, 440 E. Elliot Gilbert. To schedule an appointment, visit www.UnitedBloodServicesAZ.org click on Donate Blood and then use sponsor code: stanne or call (480) 575-4332. “Mark Your Calendars” 2nd Annual Phoenix Catholic Women’s Conference sponsored by Phoenix Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, March 24, St. Bernadette Parish in Scottsdale.
Fish and Pierogi Dinner, first Friday of the month, 5-7 p.m., St. Stephen Byzantine Church, 8141 N. 16th St., Phoenix. Info: (602) 943-5379 or www.ststephenbyzantine.org.
Candy Cane Lane Arts and Craft Fair, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Nov. 12, St. Daniel Parish, 1030 N. Hayden Road, Scottsdale. Vendors, raffle, bake sale, entertainment and food. Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Entertainment
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Saint Genesius Theatre presents “Beauty and the Beast,” 7 p.m., Nov. 17-18; 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., Nov. 1920, Parish Life Center 7655 E. Main St., Scottsdale. Tickets: $50 VIP, $20 reserved, $10 general seating. Info: Teresa Sobczyk at tsobczykolph@ gmail.com or Gina Martino Plumb at 3sugarplumbs@gmail.com. Fall Festivals
St. John Vianney Fall Gala, 5:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m., Oct. 22, U.S. Airways Arena. Tickets: email sjvgala@gmail.com Info: (623) 476-0855. St. Raphael Craft, Art and Bake Sale, 8 a.m.-7 p.m., Oct. 22; 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Oct. 23, Hibner Hall, 5525 W. Acoma Dr., Glendale; handmade crafts, yummy baked goods, watercolor paintings by our own group. 2nd Annual Fall Festival, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Oct. 23, St. Mary Basilica, 231 N. 3rd St., food, fun, raffles, silent auction, beer and wine garden, live entertainment, games and prizes for the kids. St. Agnes Fall Fiesta, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Oct. 23, 1954 N. 24th St. A variety of foods, children’s games, auction and entertainment. Info: (602) 244-0349. 59th Annual Fall Festival, noon-7 p.m., Oct. 30, Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral, 6351 N. 27th Ave. Food, fun, raffle, entertainment, raffle baskets, kid games and prizes. 4TH Annual Halloween Bash, 5 p.m., Oct. 30, St. Agnes School, 2311 E. Palm Lane, Phoenix. Haunted hotels, night of Hollywood and movies, food, spirits, jumpee, raffles and Trick or Treating. Costume contest for all ages. Info: (602) 244-1451. 35th Annual Church Mouse Boutique, 7-9 p.m., Nov. 4; 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Nov. 5; 8 a.m. -1 p.m., Nov. 6, Blessed Sacrament Parish, 11300 N. 64th St., Scottsdale. Café for lunch, sweet shoppe, silent auction, raffle, unique handmade items and more! Info: (480) 948-8370. 34th Annual Holiday Craft Sale, noon-8 p.m., Nov. 4; 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Nov. 5; 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Nov. 6, Holy Spirit Church, 1800 E. Libra Dr, Tempe. St Agnes School Community Rummage Sale, 1-7 p.m., Nov. 11; 7 a.m.-3 p.m., Nov. 12-13. To rent a space, donate items, or more information call: Debbie Lespron at (602) 8190722 or proudmama39@yahoo.com. St. Andrew the Apostle Parish is in need of consignors for their Unique Boutique Nov. 11-13. We ask that your craft be handmade by the crafter. Entry fee is $25. Info: call Jill at (480) 839-6950.
Annual fundraising event, Restoring Hope Breakfast, Nov. 17, Arizona Biltmore. See and hear what St. Vincent de Paul is doing to serve the poor and homeless in central and northern Arizona. Free. Info: contact Leslie Zschokke at (602) 261-6837 or www.stvincentdepaul.net. St. Vincent de Paul has eight valley thrift stores. Each store carries a great selection of household items, clothing, furniture and appliances at bargain prices. Every dollar you spend helps us to help others. For store hours, locations, and a coupon visit www.stvincentdepaul.net. Leave a legacy by including St. Vincent de Paul in your will or estate plan. There are many options and plans available. Info: contact Shannon Clancy at (602) 261-6814 or www.stvincentdepaul.net. Cleaning out your closet and getting organized? We pick up your gently used clothing, furniture and household items. Info: (602)266-4673. The Casa
All events held at the Franciscan Renewal Center, 5802 E. Lincoln Dr., Scottsdale. Information, (480) 948-7460. “Healing from Grief and Loss” with Sheila Marchetta, MA, and Mauro Pando, MC, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m., Oct. 22. Fee per person: $75 includes lunch. “In Presenza Di,” 7-8:30 p.m., Oct. 26, a time of prayer, praise, teaching, and adoration followed by the Eucharist. “The Miracle of the Rosary” with local artist Arasely Rios, 9 a.m.4 p.m., Nov. 5. Fee per person: $65, includes lunch. Materials: fee $30. “The Art of Stained Glass” with Tony and Chris Powers, 9 a.m.4 p.m., Nov. 12. Fee: $100 per person includes materials and lunch.
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Supporting St. Vincent de Paul not just for a lifetime, but forever. A gift through the Vincentian Annuity will give you the security of a fixed income over your lifetime and provide support for St. Vincent de Paul that will last forever. As an example, Helen, an 80-year-old widow and St. Vincent de Paul volunteer, recently established a $50,000 Vincentian gift annuity. For her age, the annuity rate is 7.5%, meaning she’ll receive $3,750 annually for the rest of her life. And, she may take an income tax deduction of about 50% of her gift this year. Best of all, her gift will support St. Vincent de Paul’s work for generations to come. Annuity gifts start at $10,000.
SAMPLE ANNUITY RATES
AGE 60 AGE 70 AGE 80 AGE 90
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For more information or to discuss various giving options, please contact Shannon Clancy at (602) 261-6814 or email plannedgiving@svdp-phx-az.org
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