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Abortion agenda aimed at Hispanics, pro-lifers say

By Joyce Coronel The Catholic Sun

The fight for racial equality and the right to life have never been more intertwined, according to pro-life advocates throughout the Phoenix Diocese.

Hundreds saw Mark Crutcher’s “Maafa 21,” a documentary that reveals what he says are the racist roots of the abortion-rights movement, at nine Valley parishes earlier this year.

Last month, Crutcher spoke at the Arizona Right to Life’s annual conference, which educates attendees about the threats to human life and how to better defend the unborn, elderly and infirm.

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‘They just don’t have enough’ Vincentians support struggling families

Matachines from various parishes throughout the Phoenix Diocese file into St. Mary’s Basilica for a special youth Mass with Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo A. Nevares Oct. 10. This year marked the first concentrated effort to draw youth into the annual Rosary Sunday celebration that followed.

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Sometimes the freezer inside the St. Vincent de Paul pantry at SVdP St. Matthew Breakfast Parish gets so empty that the 7:30 a.m., Vincentians, Nov. 19 at who draw the Arizona Biltmore from it to fill food boxes, turn it off.

On Oct. 2, they ran out of milk, an item reserved for families with

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n a kaleidoscope of colors, sound and movement, more than 6,000 faithful in the Phoenix Diocese gathered to honor Mary in the most anticipated Catholic event of the year, Rosary Sunday.

Under her title Mary, Help of Christians, the 35th annual celebration continued its traditional offerings of confession, adoration, benediction and recitation of the rosary.

The downtown Phoenix Convention Center opened its doors Oct. 10 to ethnically diverse members of the

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body of Christ whose public prayers in different tongues paid homage to Mary, especially for her protection of the unborn.

Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted was greeted with a standing ovation from an enthusiastic crowd that filled the seats, as others searched for open spots.

“Today, we see how Mary is the mother of all of us,” Bishop Olmsted said in his bilingual address.

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The Ministry of the Reader Eighteen men from 17 parishes — including Rudy Navarro pictured above — took one step closer to joining the deaconate Oct. 7. Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted installed them to the ministry of the reader. The men, alongside their wives and families, will continue formation working toward ordination in 2012. Eight other men are nearing the end of their formation. They will be ordained deacons Nov. 6 at Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral.

Young adult apostolates foster catechesis, fellowship Three local apostolates aimed at reaching young adult Catholics are continuing their outreach this month.

Our God Spot, a diocesan-wide ministry focused on empowering Catholics ages 18-35, is starting two new weekly gatherings this week. Join fellow Catholics Wednesdays at Lo Cascio’s Italian Restaurant, 2210 N. Scottsdale Road in Tempe, begins Oct. 20 or downtown on Fridays starting Oct. 22 at the Rose and Crown, 628 E. Adams St. for fellowship and faith building.

They join established weekly gatherings Mondays in the northwest Valley, Tuesdays in the northeast Valley and Thursdays in the southeast Valley. Each gathering starts at 7 p.m. For more information, visit www.ourgodspot.com or find it on Facebook.

Acts:29, a young adult outreach based out of St. Andrew the Apostle Parish in Chandler, continues its weekly collegiate Bible study at Chick-fil-A, 2550 W. Chandler Blvd. They’re in the Book of Ephesians now. Studies continue 7:30-9 p.m. Mondays through Dec. 6. For more information, call (480) 899-1990 or search for “Acts29” on Facebook.

Young adults, ages 25-40, meet at the same time and place every Thursday for Bible studies and faith sharing.

In Presenza Di, which means “In God’s presence,” meets the last Wednesday of each month for eucharistic adoration and benediction. Each gathering, aimed at young adults and older, also features a guest speaker and praise and worship. Tom Booth will speak Oct. 27. In Presenza Di meets 7-8:30 p.m. at the Franciscan Renewal Center, 802 E. Lincoln Dr. in Scottsdale. For more information, visit www.inpresenzadi.com.

Local Catholics join in support of Holy Land The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, an association responsible for aiding the Church in the Holy Land, welcomed 96 new members, including 12 from the Phoenix Diocese, during its annual meeting this month.

Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted was on hand during the Oct. 3 Investiture Mass in Los Angeles. It was the largest class in 10 years.

New members include Fr. Fred Adamson, vicar general for the Phoenix Diocese; Fr. David Sanfilippo, vicar for priests; and Fr. Chuck Kieffer, VF, pastor of St. Theresa Parish in east Phoenix. New lay members include Tom and Rosemary Castellanos, Lawrence and Sandra Costanzo, Cindy Nuttall, Alvero and Teresa Ornelas and Renato and Gloria Santos.

Members of the 900-year-old organization aid the charitable, cultural and social works of the Holy Land as well as Christian communities. The Order helps maintain the biblical character of Jerusalem and free access to its shrines as well as the rights of the Catholic Church there.

Filipino community presents bilingual concert The Filipino Catholic Community at Our Lady of the Valley is holding a “Why We Sing” concert Oct. 22.

The benefit performance from the 30-voice choir will support the Missionaries of Jesus priests and seminarians, a religious congregation approved by the Vatican in June of 2002 and the Filipino community. The choral group is reputed to be the only choir west of the Mississippi that sings in Tagalog, the Philipino language.

The concert, in both English and Tagalog, begins at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students.

For more information call the parish, (602) 993-1213. Our Lady of the Valley is located at 3220 W. Greenway Road in Phoenix.

Diverse Catholics celebrate Mexican heritage BULLHEAD CITY — More than 300 people of various ethnic backgrounds gathered for a celebration of Mexico’s independence and Our Lady of Guadalupe’s role in it last month.

The crowd gathered Sept. 8 at St. Margaret Mary Parish where the Mexican bicentennial fiesta started with a holy hour of adoration. Catholics offered a special Rosary of Guadalupan Love, the same prayer offered earlier that day at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Marian heart of America.

The Knights of Columbus at St. Margaret Mary helped coordinate the local bicentennial celebration after the international organization vowed to pray in honor of the “Universal Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe.”

The parish’s Mexican community provided an ethnic feast following the rosary and folkloric dancers from Mohave High School entertained the crowd. Following a bilingual video recapping the road to Mexico’s independence, Francisco Moreno, a parish missionary, reflected on Our Lady of Guadalupe’s role in Mexico’s independence. ✴

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Notre Dame calculates value of priestly service SCOTTSDALE — Spiritan Father Phil Evanstock constantly keeps numbers among his top concerns, whether they pertain to algebra or baseball stats.

But there’s one number the Notre Dame math teacher thought no one would fuss over too much: 50. That’s the number of years Fr. Evanstock has invested in the priesthood as of Sept. 21.

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Helping kids get an earful of music Nate Anderson can’t play an instrument, isn’t a teacher and has no children, but it doesn’t stop him from being an advocate of music education for Arizona’s youth.

Anderson, founder of the Phoenix-based nonprofit Ear Candy, provides children access to music education by supporting in-school music programs, creating after school music programs and offering music camps and workshops.

What began three years ago with no particular direction has exploded into a project of global proportions — exposing children around the world to music. ▶ For the full story: bit.ly/earcandy

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Xavier’s crew team rows around the small lake in Mesa’s Dobson Ranch neighborhood Oct. 1. They’ve endured land practices and weekly jaunts in the water for three months.

Xavier’s crew team awaits re-launch in Tempe Practice regimen altered after dam burst in July

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ESA — Perhaps no one was more surprised when news broke in July of the burst dam at Tempe Town Lake than the crew team at Xavier College Preparatory.

The girls were rowing in the lake only hours earlier as part of the 9-year-old team’s first summer camp. Now they’re eager to be among the first back on the lake when it re-opens Oct. 25, if everything stays on schedule.

The team’s 26 varsity and 10 novice rowers, who have endured increased land practices since the closure, rejoiced when water began flowing back into the lake Oct. 8 over all new bladders. They checked on the progress every week as they loaded up their boats, also called a “shell,” at the boathouse by Tempe Town Lake. ▶ For the full story: bit.ly/xaviertempe

Effectively reaching out to members of a faith community facing cancer involves far more than offering compassionate support.

That’s one of the main messages nearly 100 people walked away with from the Facing Cancer with the Faith Community Conference held Sept. 15 at Central United Methodist Church. Largely Christian leaders as well as some from the Muslim and Buddhist communities attended the third annual event.

They serve as pastors, parish nurses, volunteers, Stephen Ministries workers and support group coordinators in their respective faith communities. Conference-goers learned about the impact of cancer and psychosocial and spiritual support as a panel of cancer survivors also shared their success stories.

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Former Anglican clergyman ordained to Catholic priesthood

By Andrew Junker The Catholic Sun

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hile any ordination Mass carries with it complexities of scheduling and planning, the liturgy to ordain Oliver Vietor to the priesthood on Sept. 11 at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish had its own unique potential problems.

His wife was due to give birth to their sixth child on that day; Fr. Vietor is a former Episcopalian priest who, with his family, entered into full communion with the Catholic Church in late 2007.

Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted ordained him under a pastoral pro-

vision allowing former Anglican Communion clergymen to serve a priestly role in the Church. “Only Christ’s love explains the vocation of every priest, and indeed every person,� Bishop Olmsted said during the ordination Mass. “Priestly ordination is far beyond beginning a new career, rather Oliver will now share in the priesthood of Jesus Christ.�

Fr. Vietor sat in the front pew next to his children and Ashley, his wife, who was holding Peter, the couple’s two-day-old son. “You may wonder how you will be able to love all those God has called you to love,� the bishop said. “Please

Anglicanorum Coetibus Read Pope Benedict XVI’s 2009 apostolic constitution, which provided “for personal ordinariates for Anglicans entering into full communion with the Catholic Church.� bit.ly/anglicanorum

keep in mind, too, that it is not the quantity of loving deeds that God cares about, it is your daily fidelity.�

Fr. Vietor described the Mass as “overwhelming.� “It’s something my family and I have been working on and praying about for so long, that to have the day finally come was just great,� he said.

The process by which a married Episcopalian priest becomes a Roman Catholic priest is indeed long and arduous, and hardly a sure thing, said Fr. Michael Diskin, assistant chancellor for the Diocese of Phoenix.

Fr. Diskin — who also heads up the diocese’s Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs office — was the first step in Fr. Vietor’s journey to the priesthood. “I think my first reaction is that he was a person who felt called by God to serve the Church in ordained ministry, and had responded to that by becoming an Episcopal priest. But at this stage in his life in 2006, he was beginning to ask questions about whether he was called to become a Catholic,�

Fr. Diskin said. “And if he was called to be a Catholic, was there an opportunity for him to serve in ordained ministry.�

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Fr. Oliver Vietor, a former Anglican clergyman, entered the Roman Catholic priesthood Sept. 11 at St. Thomas Apostle Parish.

First, Bishop Olmsted had to discern if it would be a good thing for the Diocese of Phoenix, and if Fr. Vietor was the right candidate.

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procedures set up by the Vatican for examining the vocation of each former Anglican clergyman who wished to be a Catholic priest.

In the United States, this process is spearheaded by Archbishop John J. Meyers of Newark, N.J., and it included compiling a dossier of Fr. Vietor to be sent to the Vatican.

Fr. Vietor also had to travel to New Jersey for an interview to determine if he could continue exploring his path to priesthood; he studied under the direction of priests selected by Bishop Olmsted in Phoenix; and he took a series of oral examinations at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. “This is an act of the Church being gracious to someone who had been ordained in ministry in the Anglican tradition and has then come on their spiritual journey to conclude they need to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church to use their education and talents at the service of God’s people,� Fr. Diskin said.

Now that Fr. Vietor is ordained, he will serve as parochial vicar at St. Thomas the Apostle. “I served as an Episcopal clergyman for six years, so there is already so much that is similar, but also different and real in a way now,� Fr. Vietor said. “I celebrated my first Mass on Sunday and I can just say that I had no doubt at the consecration that the Lord was truly present.� ✴

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Bioethics group to bestow awards on EWTN’s Mother Angelica, Arroyo

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A labyrinth is one of many ways visitors at The Casa unwind. Other programs help re-energize Catholics and embrace Franciscan values.

The Casa presents Franciscan spirituality throughout the fall

By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun

SCOTTSDALE — For a place rooted in Franciscan simplicity in both design and mission, its event calendar quickly gets quite complex.

But that just means that Catholics who visit the Franciscan Renewal Center, also known as The Casa, will find plenty of Learn more program www.thecasa.org and special event options to fit their style. That’s especially true in October.

The return of “I Conoscenti,” 7 p.m. Oct. 22-23, marks its ninth straight run. Norbert Zwickl, director of music and liturgy for The Casa’s conventual church, wrote and directed the 90-minute production as a concert of stories and songs about St. Francis. It’s told from the perspective of his mother and friends.

“If you can’t get to Assisi and you don’t feel like reading a book, in an hour-and-a-half, you will feel like you know him,” Charlie Brown, general manager, said of the production.

He should know. Brown is one of 17 staff and 15 community members who have journeyed to Assisi over the years to bring true Franciscan spirituality to their daily lives as well as life at The Casa’s 25-acre property.

The production has gone global performing for a Franciscan Chapter gathering last year, an international Franciscan conference and at the old mission in Santa Barbara.

That same weekend, a local artist who has been making heirloom rosaries since 2001 will present a workshop on the rosary and the Franciscan Crown. The chaplet features the Seven Joys of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Oct. 23 workshop will include the history of the rosary and a chance to design a rosary to take home.

For Catholics wanting to journey deeper into the theology behind Franciscan spirituality, they can attend a medieval kickoff

dinner for the Franciscan Mentors Program Oct. 29.

“It means more than to be nice to people,” Brown said of the Franciscan way of life.

Students will learn the depths of Franciscan spirituality through several months of courses, retreats, prayer days, films and pilgrimages focused on Franciscan values.

They’ll learn about the Franciscan value of relationship over efficiency as well as intuition and teachings on poverty and humility.

“At the end you have this new sense of social justice,” Brown said, as well as a certificate. “It reinvigorates their faith.”

Other events commemorating the life of St. Francis include a St. Francis Festival Oct. 30-31. The annual event includes four “blessing of the animals” services and a pet adoption fair. Vaccinations and microchipping are also available to the public. ✴

The Bioethics Defense Fund, a public-interest law firm that advocates on behalf of pro-life issues, will bestow its Witness for Life Award on Mother Angelica and Raymond Arroyo of EWTN. Nikolas Nikas, president and general counsel of BDF, said the award recognizes individuals whose efforts help promote a culture of life.

“They have spoken a lot on the shows over the years about prolife issues,” Nikas said of Mother Angelica and Arroyo. “Through their work in television, they have broadcast the Gospel of Life to millions of people around the country and around the world.”

Arroyo will give the keynote address and accept the award on behalf of Mother Angelica at the BDF’s Passion for Life annual fundraiser Nov. 12.

The fundraiser supports the work of Nikas as well as Dorinda Bordlee, senior counsel and executive director of the BDF, who operate the firm on a tight budget, yet manage to travel the country and the globe promoting the cause of life.

Earlier this year, Nikas testified as a legal expert at the Arizona State Legislature regarding bills that banned human cloning, the use of human embryonic stem cells and the creation of animalhuman hybrid embryos. All three bills became law.

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Image of EWTN’s Mother Angelica taken from the book “Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles.”

Both Mother Angelica and Arroyo will be honored by the Bioethics Defense Fund Nov. 12 at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort.

Passion for Life fundraiser Where: Scottsdale Plaza Resort, 7200 N. Scottsdale Road When: 6:30-9:30 p.m., Nov. 12 To learn more, visit their website: www.BDFund

“We testified as legal experts on what these bills would do,” Nikas said of his collaboration with Ron Johnson of the Arizona Catholic Conference and others. “When it comes to the emerging brave new world in biotech, we have some of the most pro-life laws in the country,” Nikas said of the Arizona measures.

BDF has also been involved in defending the Arizona laws restricting abortion that were challenged in court.

In addition to the legal maneuvers, Nikas and Bordlee seek to educate the general public as well as law and medical students about threats to human life. Upcoming speaking engagements for Nikas

include Creighton Medical School, Creighton Law School, the University of Nebraska, Belmont Abbey College and Harvard.

He will also be speaking in Phoenix at the St. Thomas More Law Society Oct. 26, following a 7 a.m.

Mass at the Diocesan Pastoral Center.

But for now, Nikas and Bordlee are focused on getting people to attend the Nov. 12 fundraiser that makes all their work possible.

“I would like to make a special appeal to all my brother Knights of Columbus to attend the Passion for Life event,” Nikas said. “The Knights have always lifted up the sanctity of life as one of their core values.”

Ron Johnson, executive director of the Arizona Catholic Conference, lauded the work of BDF and said the annual fundraiser is one of the highlights of the year.

“The work that BDF does is greatly appreciated and the ACC has worked with them on numerous occasions,” Johnson said. “This year, seeing Raymond Arroyo is a can’t-miss event.” ✴

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The Benedictine sisters who run Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery in the West Valley have lined up several ways for area Catholics to honor the diocese’s patron saint, win prizes and support the monastery all at the same time.

It starts Nov. 6 with a daylong fiesta in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe. It’ll be held throughout the monastery’s seven-acre grounds off of Thomas Road near Loop 101.

Events continue every weekend leading up to the Dec. 12 feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

“With the economic times, it’s

October 21, 2010 really tough raising any money to help run the monastery,” explained Sr. Linda Campbell, prioress of the community.

Yet upkeep is a must. Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery, tucked into a quiet West Valley neighborhood, bustles with activity.

The sisters also maintain a productive garden which is open to the public. The summer fruits and vegetables did very well and the sisters recently planted flowers to sell.

But guests don’t just come for the food. Catholic and community groups throughout the Valley use the monastery for meetings — including the fairly new West Valley Serra Club — days of reflection and retreats.

Three college groups from the East Coast live there while offering a week of service at places like André House, St. Vincent de Paul and St. Mary’s Food Bank. The usage fees help, but they’re not enough.

The monastery’s 10 bedrooms can hold up to 28 people. Guests

Support Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery ▶ Nov. 6: Fiesta ▶ Nov. 14: Presentation on symbolism of Our Lady of Guadalupe ▶ Nov. 21: Coloring contest for children ▶ Nov. 28: Menudo breakfast ▶ Dec. 5: Child-friendly reenactment of the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe ▶ Dec. 12: Feast day celebration The Nov. 6 fiesta is from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Other events begin after the 10:15 a.m. Mass.

The monastery is located at 8502 W. Pinchot Ave. in Phoenix. For more information, call (623) 848-9608.

have open access to a large backyard with meditative areas and a full kitchen or they can opt to have the sisters serve them.

“Hospitality is always a piece that they comment on,” said Sr. Linda, who also opened her doors to Super Bowl fans in 2008.

Grace Galaviz, one of 18 laypeople in the Benedictine Oblate program, agreed that the hospitality sets the West Valley’s only retreat facility apart in the diocese.

“The welcoming spirit that is felt upon entering this holy ground is the draw for many,” said Galaviz, who is the co-chair of this year’s fiesta. “We have a very vibrant, faith-filled community.”

That community often joins the sisters for the Sunday liturgy in the monastery’s chapel. Others come for private retreat time, “an invitation to stop and listen to God’s love,” Galaviz calls it. They can also stop by on their own for meditation or to walk the labyrinth.

Days of discernment for men and women thinking about religious life are held at Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery, too. Private retreat rooms for priests and women religious are also available.

“Almost everyone talks about the peacefulness of the grounds,” Sr. Linda said.

The sisters hope that peacefulness forms the foundation for fellowship during the community’s fiesta. Expect homemade Mexican food plus hamburgers, hot dogs and Indian Fry bread as well as a rummage sale, local entertainment including matachines, bingo, karaoke and a live broadcast from a local radio station.

The sisters will raffle off prizes including a flat-screen TV, a game table and telescope. They’ve also added a silent auction to this year’s festivities. One featured item is two train tickets to the Grand Canyon from Williams.

Jumping castles and a fishpond will be available for the kids.

Remaining festivities leading up to Our Lady of Guadalupe’s feast day are every Sunday after the 10:15 a.m. Mass.

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Crosiers to celebrate Jubilee Year at St. Mary’s Basilica

By Joyce Coronel The Catholic Sun

The Crosier Fathers and Brothers, whose headquarters are in Phoenix, will be celebrating the 800th anniversary of the founding of the order with a Nov. 7 Mass at St. Mary’s Basilica.

The Mass at the downtown basilica is the culmination of a yearlong series of celebrations that began last September with a Mass at St. Mary Cathedral in St. Cloud, Minn. Masses and celebrations were also held in Papua, Indonesia, in January, in Rome during May and in the Netherlands last month.

Members of the order from around the world — including 17 members from the U.S. province — traveled to St. Agatha Priory in Cuijk, the Netherlands, where the Crosiers have continuously lived and prayed since 1371, to take part in the international jubilee celebration.

The Phoenix celebration next month, the last in the line-up of jubilee events, begins with a 3 p.m. Solemn Jubilee Mass. Master General of the Crosiers, Fr. Glen Lewandowski, OSC, will preside at the liturgy. Phoenix Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted and Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo A. Nevares will also be in attendance.

Following the Mass, attendees will walk across the street to the-

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Phoenix Convention Center for a reception and program.

Those who attend the hors d’oeuvres reception will have a chance to mingle with others and speak with the Crosiers. There will also be a schola, or choir, made up of five Crosiers who will entertain the crowd with two or three songs.

The schola produced a CD last year.

During the formal part of the program, a 20-minute video that tells the story of the Crosiers will be shown.

Fr. Lewandowski, the first American master general in the history of the Crosiers, will address the crowd. When asked about the future direction of the Crosiers, he said the order’s common aim during its 800-year history has been to

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Crosier Father Glen Lewandowski, Master General of the order, concelebrates Mass Sept. 14 with fellow Crosiers during the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross at St. Agatha Priory in Cuijk, the Netherlands.

“go to God together.”

“The Crosier Order — like all the old orders in the Church — is dedicated to religious living.” Fr. Lewandowski said. “Thus the central goals of religious life for our immediate future include focusing on spiritual goals… We do not intend to change that hope.”

While he thinks the vocations crisis is one of the central challenges

facing the Church, Fr. Lewandowski said there are still men who wish to pursue the religious life.

“My hope for the Crosiers in the United States is that there will be a strengthened and renewed priority on accompanying young men who are discerning God’s call and impulse in their lives,” Fr. Lewandowski said.

Fr. Tom Carkuff, OSC, prior provincial and head of the U.S. province,

will also speak at the event. He’s pleased that the Crosiers are marking their Jubilee celebration in Phoenix.

“For over a quarter century, Crosiers have been living and serving in this Phoenix area in a variety of ways. Along with our community in Onamia, Minn., this Phoenix community is an anchor of Crosier Religious Life in this country,” Fr. Carkuff said. ✴

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Fr. Eric Schimmel, CSC, flew to Rome to attend the Oct. 17 canonization ceremony for Bro. André Bessette, the man for whom André House in downtown Phoenix is named.

Now in his third year at the helm of the organization which provides food, clothing and transitional housing to the poor of Phoenix, Fr. Schimmel was excited to be joining in the celebration of the life of a man of extraordinary holiness.

Holy Cross Brother Richard Armstrong accompanied Fr. Schimmel and the two met up with 15 busloads of pilgrims, mostly from Blessed André’s native Quebec, for the canonization event.

Working with the downtrodden and homeless of the inner city, the Congregation of Holy Cross priest has a unique take on the importance of lifting up Brother André as an example worthy of imitation by the faithful.

“We live in an age that is getting to be very stratified,” Fr. Schimmel said.

“You must have this kind of education to get this job or those kind of qualifications to get that job.”

St. André’s example, he said, defied the modern preoccupation with such matters.

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St. Andre Bessette, a member of the Holy Cross Brothers and founder of St. Joseph’s Oratory of Mount Royal in Montreal.

“Working with people who are very poor and very stereotyped, the canonization of someone like André who was very sick, very poor and could barely read, reaffirms our faith that God can work through everybody and that we must respect the dignity of every single person,” Fr. Schimmel said.

“We cannot discount anyone.”

Born Alfred Bessette in 1845, the saint-to-be was not expected to live and faced health struggles all his life. His parents both died, leaving him an orphan at age 12. With practically no formal education, he held menial jobs.

St. André’s abiding faith in God’s providence was unshakeable and at age 25, a village priest recommended him to the Congregation of Holy Cross at Notre Dame College in Montreal. “I am sending you a saint,” the local priest wrote prophetically to the order’s hierarchy.

Fr. Schimmel said he admires St. André’s simplicity, childlike trust and persistence. “He was originally rejected by the [Holy Cross] community,” Fr. Schimmel said. “He was sickly and illiterate.”

Despite many obstacles, St. André persevered in his faith and was eventually given the job of being the doorkeeper at the college. He also labored as a janitor, cloakroom attendant, barber and a nurse for the sick.

Eventually, his reputation of tremendous faith and piety spread.

Many attributed healings and miracles to his prayers, though St. André was quick to give the credit to the intercession of St. Joseph.

One of the miracles considered for St. André’s canonization was the 1999 healing of a 9-year-old boy in an irreversible coma who had suffered a serious head injury following a car accident. The boy recovered after people asked for St. André’s intercession.

Holy Cross Brother Ron Whelan has worked at André House for years. He will also be attending the

canonization ceremony and said the faithful have an inspiring new model of piety in St. André.

“André is a saint of my time,” said Bro. Ron, “I was born in 1932 and he died in 1937.” Both men were born in Canada.

St. Francis of Assisi, he added, has always been his favorite saint,

but after the Oct. 17 canonization — which also happens to fall on Brother Ron’s birthday — St. Francis “will have to move over,” Bro. Ron joked. ✴ On Jan. 9 of next year, André House will hold a special 10 a.m.

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Brother André’s approach to prayer was marked by simplicity and directness.

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School Sister of Notre Dame remembered for her ‘gentle and quiet demeanor’

By Gina Keating The Catholic Sun

School Sister of Notre Dame Anne Fischer, a gentle spirit whose missionary work spanned more than 30 years among Arizona Native American tribes, died Sept.

3. She was 80.

“Sr. Anne was not just a religious

that did mission work, but she shared life with each person,” said longtime friend Deacon Sid Martin.

“She drew people to her with her gentle and quiet demeanor.”

Sr. Anne was the second daughter born to William

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In addition to severe malnutrition, the five-year-old’s back bulged grotesquely due to Potts Disease-tuberculosis of the spine.

“What was happening to this boy happens all too often in rural Haiti,” explained Bette Gebrian, the Director of Public Health with the Haitian Health Foundation (HHF), a Catholic medical outreach with a long history of serving the country’s rural poor. “His mother came home to the mountains to deliver her baby. She breast-fed for awhile, then she went back to Port-au-Prince because she had to find a job.”

The boy’s grandmother, whose own energy had waned with age, was not capable of caring for him properly. Although she loved the boy she nick-named “Raisin,” the grandmother was unable to recognize the danger he was in, and her poverty kept her from having an adequate supply of nutritious food on hand. As a result, the boy was slowly starving to death.

And, as Bette Gabrian rightly says, situations like this are common in Haiti, where the population is destitute, medical care is inadequate and food is scarce.

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Fortunately for Raisin, Bette happened to visit his rural village with her mobile vaccine clinic. She recognized his classic symptoms before it was too late.

Responding to the boy’s urgent needs, Bette took little Raisin to a nearby HHF facility where caring nuns treated his Potts Disease and anemia, de-wormed him, and lovingly fed him back to health. It took a whole year for the weakened boy to reach the level of health and vitality appropriate for a five-year-old. At that point, he could return home.

“But the important thing about this situation is that the boy wasn’t simply brought home and left to fall back into his previous condition. We knew that was a risk, so we assigned a health agent to return to his village and do follow-ups,” Bette explained. “That’s the point of having resident village health workers, who are local people trained by HHF to provide health care to their own people. They do more than put a Band-Aid on the problem — they become part of a long-term process that improves the quality of life for the people in a meaningful way.”

Cross International Catholic Outreach fully supports HHF’s strategy, recognizing that the constant presence of a trained health worker greatly augments the care given by doctors who come to the village only for emergencies or for occasional wellness visits. Cross has supported these efforts and would like to find ways to expand and strengthen the outreach.

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HHF has shown the creativity and commitment that marks most Catholic ministries for the poor. This isn’t just a job for them. It’s a mission and ministry. It’s an expression of their love for God and love for others,” explained Jim Cavnar, president of Cross International Catholic Outreach. “This is precisely the type of ministry we American Catholics should be supporting overseas.”

Cavnar added that HHF’s method of training local people to better their own circumstances is also right in line with how Cross works. It’s a method that is both empowering and extremely cost effective in the long run. And this too makes it a wonderful project for U.S. Catholics to support.

“Ultimately, it doesn’t take a huge grant of aid to save lives in rural Haiti,” said Cavnar. “Pennies can literally mean the difference between a child receiving a lifesaving antibiotic or losing a limb from a staff infection; an expectant mother getting access to medical care or dying in childbirth; or an infant getting vaccinated or succumbing

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elicit their prayerful and financial support for the service you provide to the less fortunate around the world.”

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His meticulously researched, two-hour-plus “Maafa 21” gives an in-depth account of the eugenics movement in America and its undeniably strong ties to Margaret Sanger, the founder of the American Birth Control League, eventually renamed Planned Parenthood.

The film makes that case that the abortion industry has a long-standing history of going after minority populations in order to rid society of what its early advocates termed “undesirable” elements.

In “Pivot of Civilization,” a book written by Sanger, for example, the abortion-rights pioneer referred to blacks, immigrants and indigents as “...human weeds,” “reckless breeders,” “spawning... human beings who never should have been born.”

In the United States, where 15 percent of the population is Hispanic, the Guttmacher Institute — an organization with historic

ties to Planned Parenthood — reports that about 25 percent of the abortions performed annually are done on Hispanic women.

Planned Parenthood opened its largest center in the country last March in a Houston, Texas, neighborhood that is predominantly Hispanic and black. The six-story building houses administrative offices as well as a clinic where women can have abortions up to the 24th week of pregnancy.

And in Arizona, where about 30 percent of the population is of Hispanic origin, pro-lifers contend the organization has long set its sights on the minority community.

A few months ago, Planned Parenthood, which describes itself on its website as “the nation’s leading sexual and reproductive health care provider,” set up shop in what was once a preschool near Thunderbird and 59th Avenue. It’s just one of more than 800 Planned

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Parenthood clinics nationwide.

Fr. Carlos Gomez-Rivera, pastor of St. Augustine Parish on Phoenix’s west side, sees the abortion business as anathema to Hispanic culture.

“Planned Parenthood goes against human rights and goes against the dignity of human life and the respect of children in the womb,” he said.

“Eventually, whoever is behind the clinics knows that the Hispanic community is more pro-life oriented and more family oriented. The connection to family and large families is very important to Hispanics,” Fr. Gomez said. “We receive the support of family members and relatives, even extended family members.”

Still, Hispanics in the United States seem more vulnerable to abortion, Fr. Gomez said. Planned Parenthood insists that its clinics are in neighborhoods where lowerincome women more often need its services. Fr. Gomez disagrees.

“A lot of the Hispanics in the U.S. are more susceptible to abortion, not because of poverty, but because of the U.S. culture where abortion is legal and accepted,” Fr. Gomez said.

Carmen Portela, director of Parish Leadership Support in Spanish at the Office of Family Catechesis for the Diocese of Phoenix, agrees. She said that

Hispanics who come to the United States generally bring their love for family life and acceptance of large families with them, but are then confronted with the harsh realities of trying to make a living.

“The stress of finding a home, finding a job, finding food to eat — they have to survive — they are in survival mode,” Portela said.

“Planned Parenthood presents themselves as, ‘We are going to help you be successful in the U.S. and to be good parents in the U.S.,” Portela said. “They put on these big events every year — it’s like a big fiesta, and the first message they give is that in order to be successful you have to have less children.”

Last year Portela and members of a pro-life group called Voces por la Vida — Spanish for ‘Voices for Life — prayed the rosary in front of the Phoenix Convention Center when one such event aimed at Hispanics took place.

“We wanted the people to know what Planned Parenthood is all about,” Portela said. “One of the couples that went there, when they came out they said, ‘You were right.

This is propaganda — this is not a way of helping us and our families.

This is an agenda for abortion.’”

Portela said that it is lack of for-

mation that lulls many Hispanics into trusting what sounds like a family friendly organization.

“The antidote for that is education and formation,” Portela said. “This is one of the biggest issues we have.”

Planned Parenthood, she said, tells Hispanics they are not being very good parents if they have a lot of children. “That’s why we need to educate them — we know that children are a gift from God.” Margaret Simental, who is of Mexican descent, couldn’t agree more. The St. Thomas Aquinas parishioner and mother of three regularly prays and distributes prolife literature in front of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Goodyear.

“My son — he’s 7 — he goes, ‘Mom, can we go to church and pray at Planned Parenthood?’ He knows what goes on there,” Simental said.

“Planned Parenthood is the opposite of Hispanic values and it’s just deceitful,” Simental said. “They’re not telling you of the consequences of the services they provide.”

Simental, who is bilingual, worries about the women who go inside the Goodyear clinic. The pamphlets she passes out provide contact information for Life Choices Women’s Clinic in Phoenix, a pro-life pregnancy center that helps women find alternatives to abortion.

She also talks with them about the unseen consequences of abortion — things she says Planned Parenthood doesn’t mention, like a link between abortion and breast cancer, and the mental anguish that follows the taking of the life of one’s unborn baby.

“I don’t want those women to feel that pain,” Simental said. “They don’t tell them about the mental pain — just imagine how they will feel — they don’t tell them that.”

Simental said the fight for life is a spiritual battle.

“It’s saving lives,” she said, “but it’s also about saving souls.” ✴

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By Joyce Coronel

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CHANDLER — A Planned Parenthood clinic tucked away in a strip mall sits just five blocks from St. Mary Parish in Chandler.

Unless you’re looking for it, you might miss the place all together.

But that’s about to change.

Organizers of the 40 Days for Life prayer campaign have been keeping vigil at the location since Sept. 21. Although the clinic doesn’t perform surgical abortions — it offers the abortive RU-486 drug to women who are less than nine weeks pregnant — it does refer patients to other locations where women can obtain an abortion through the 24th week of pregnancy.

Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics, who addressed attendees at the Arizona Right to Life annual conference Sept. 17-18 in Scottsdale, said the number of abortion clinics in the United States continues to decline. In 1992, he said, there were 2,126 freestanding abortion clinics, whereas today there are fewer than 800.

In contrast, the last two decades have seen the number of prolife pregnancy centers — where women are given free support, education and resources in order to give birth to their children —

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continue to grow. A brand-new resource center, Life Connections, opened in Prescott last month.

Kay Allen, director of 1st Way Pregnancy Resource Center and the Aid to Women Center, said that there are 2,500 such pro-life pregnancy centers nationwide. These centers, she said, rely on the financial support of those who believe in the pro-life cause.

Neither 1st Way nor AWC receive federal, state or local tax dollars, Allen

said, and as awareness of the clinics’ presence rises, so does the need for more financial contributions.

“Monthly pledges are the only way we’ve maintained a full-time presence for these women at risk,” Allen said of 1st Way. A few years ago, the clinic was open just 22 hours a week offering mostly counseling and practical support. Today, it’s a medical clinic operating under the license of an OB-GYN with a professionally trained nurse manager.

Allen would like to see AWC increase its hours as well — it’s open about 30 hours per week now.

But she said it’s going to take more financial backing.

“Our being open full time is the only way we’re going to take women away from Planned Parenthood,” Allen said. “A part-time presence is not enough.”

The AWC, a stone’s thrown from Arizona State University’s Tempe

campus, marked 25 years of serving women in crisis pregnancies Sept.

18. Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, along with representatives and staff from 1st Way Pregnancy and Life Choices Women’s Clinics, were in attendance.

“I think that the work that’s done by the Aid to Women Center and these other agencies is vital in order for the Gospel of Life’s proclamation to have within it a sense of integrity,” Bishop Olmsted said, “because we need to be offering this assistance in addition to helping people understand the dignity of every human life.”

If the National Abortion Rights Action League has its way, these pro-life pregnancy clinics will become an endangered species.

Two members of Congress — Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) — are sponsoring a bill that would direct the Federal Trade Commission to develop advertising rules aimed at the pro-life clinics.

Dubbed the “Stop Deceptive Advertising in Women’s Services Act” (HR 5652) the bill will prevent “any person from advertising with the intent to deceptively create the impression that such person is a provider of abortion services if such person does not provide abortion services.”

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Baltimore Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien wrote an op-ed piece in the Sept. 8 edition of The Baltimore Sun Newspaper roundly criticizing the new ordinance and the restriction that it places on prolife speech. Attorneys working on behalf of the archdiocese are challenging the constitutionality of the measure.

John Jakubczyk, an attorney and longtime pro-life activist in the Phoenix area, doesn’t think similar legislation will be enacted in Arizona.

“We have a good legislature in Arizona and plenty of people who will defend us and support us,” Jakubczyk said. He believes city ordinances restricting the outreach of pro-life clinics would be “thrown out because they violate the First Amendment.”

These types of regulations, Jakubczyk said, are “all about intimidation. It’s all about scaring people and trying to stop the pregnancy centers because we’re saving lives.”

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operation in their local communities, although delivery days and demand may vary. Together, they provided some $8 million in direct aid last year, all through local donations. That included food, utility assistance, health care and more.

The St. Matthew Vincentian conference helps 400-500 different families each year, 16-20 or more per delivery day. Some once. Others need help once a month. More and more new families are calling due to layoffs.

“Sometimes they’re too embarrassed to let us in,” Garcia said.

The families are often living in minimal conditions — no phone, couch, car or bed. Getting through that door can be key, though.

kids. The pantry — two fridges, a few freezers and a room full of shelves — usually doesn’t empty until month’s end. By then, area families have exhausted their food-stamp allotment or are between paychecks and — factoring in rent, bills and food — can’t make ends meet.

“Some of them have food. They just don’t have enough,” said Louis Garcia, president of the St. Matthew Conference of Phoenix’s Society of St. Vincent de Paul. He also heads up his local district, which has him helping families around Immaculate Heart and other nearby parishes.

Volunteers deliver food boxes to struggling homes every Wednesday and Saturday in the St. Matthew neighborhood, an area stretching west of 7th Avenue to 59th Avenue and south of McDowell Road to just south of Buckeye Road. Once a month, parishioners from Blessed Sacrament and St. Bernadette, both in Scottsdale, help with deliveries.

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That includes medical and dental care, charity dining rooms and

The St. Matthew Parish conference of St. Vincent de Paul supported the Hernandez family with food boxes and utility assistance this month.

item-specific vouchers at one of 16 thrift stores statewide. St. Vincent de Paul also aids stranded travelers, the homeless and those in prison and their families.

“People come to us discouraged and scared. Not only do we provide our clients with the material items, we restore their dignity and hope,” said Janie Perdue, a case manager at St. Vincent de Paul said. “They just need to receive the encouragement from us to fulfill their dreams.”

And St. Vincent de Paul could use a little boost itself, a financial one, to further its operations. Its annual fundraising breakfast, Restoring Hope Through Faith and Love Nov. 19 at the Arizona Biltmore, is designed to create such a boost.

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“Our main thing is to help them with their immediate needs,” Garcia said of organization’s work.

Family outreach Michelle Hernandez and her six kids — who range in age from 11 months to 17 years old — received a food box this month at their onebedroom apartment off of Grand Avenue near downtown Phoenix.

No one had a bed — but Garcia is helping the family get some — and the youngest child could only sit in a car seat or someone’s lap.

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the St. Matthew Conference of St. Vincent de Paul helped Hernandez pay the minimum on a power bill to avoid being cut off altogether.

“People need help with food, clothing, furniture, everything. It’s not only us. It’s all the families,” Hernandez said, adding that others have it worse.

St. Vincent de Paul goes beyond helping those in extreme poverty, as a St. Gabriel Parish family in Cave Creek recently learned. The family thought St. Vincent de Paul donations went to “the ‘poor and homeless’ in downtown Phoenix,” according to a note in the latest Vincentian newsletter.

When the family found itself struggling financially, the Vincentians came knocking.

They comforted the family, “but most importantly, they took necessary action to help me shift my family out of crisis,” the letter read.

“We now have some time to figure out our next course of action — time we so desperately need.”

Garcia hopes the help his conference provides empowers families to support themselves within six months. That’s tough when some people have trouble asking for help in the first place.

“It took me several times to call you because of my pride,” a single Glendale mom recently wrote to St. Vincent de Paul volunteers at St. Helen Parish. “I dialed your number then hung up and then I thought of my children and who I really need to do it for.”

The volunteers brought them food, helped with utilities and school supplies. The woman wrote that she could “feel the hand of Jesus” when they prayed together and vowed to pay it forward.

That day, she gave blankets to a family she met hours earlier that was sleeping on pool rafts.

The chance to help families keeps Garcia involved with Vincentian work, especially since he was laid off earlier this year.

“It’s mainly ‘Give them hope,’” he said. “There’s always something good waiting for them.’” ✴

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Pope Benedict, which was received with a round of applause.

Christy O’Gara said she attended the event for the second year with her six children so they could “see all those that love Jesus.”

“Now, more than ever, we desire to be together as witnesses to the world,” O’Gara said.

Sometimes as witnesses, there’s a call to fight evil. The keynote address by Jesuit Father James Kubicki addressed the need of the “chain of love,” and how the rosary was used to defeat evil throughout the ages.

Part history lesson, part inspiration, Fr. Kubicki, who is the national director of the Apostleship of Prayer, spoke of God’s love for each person and how He and His mother, Mary, provide in desperate times of need.

Elodia Herrera, a youth leader from St. Margaret Mary Parish in Tempe, rode the light rail with more than 50 people from her community to attend the event.

Herrera said it was important for the children to experience Rosary Sunday and to learn about having a relationship with Mary.

“This event is one of the best ways to teach our children about Mary. She is our mother, too, and it is wonderful that we are all together to show her our love in prayer.”

Rejuvenating the crowd with his passionate speech was Dominican Father Juan Diego Brunetta, the director of Catholic Information Service of the supreme council of the Knights of Columbus.

“This large gathering of Christian faithful is empowering to me,” he boomed into the microphone. “It is clear that there is great love and devotion to Mary here and beyond.”

He referred to the event as a “rosary pilgrimage,” that isn’t just for one day, but every day.

“The rosary is a constant and steady guide to Christ,” Fr. Brunetta said. “It’s Jesus at the very center of the rosary and it’s Jesus we need each day.”

He warned the crowd not to be superficial or mechanical in prayer, but to seek the healing power of Jesus through authentic prayer, and sustain themselves in His words and sacraments. “¡Viva Cristo Rey!” he shouted to a round of applause.

The Catholic Church uses the five senses to experience God’s love in a tangible way, and Rosary Sunday is no exception.

Flowers, candles, bells, drums, costumes and incense all take center stage for an afternoon every year in a public display of prayer, but are awe-inspiring during benediction.

Reverence is given to the Blessed

Thousands of Catholics from parishes, fellowship groups, schools and apostolates throughout the diocese knelt in adoration of the Holy Eucharist with Bishops Eduardo A. Nevares and Thomas J. Olmsted Oct. 10 during Rosary Sunday. Jesuit Father James Kubicki and Dominican Father Juan Diego Brunetta also inspired the crowd.

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Sacrament as 6,000 pairs of knees bend to the concrete floor and squirming babies hush for precious minutes in prayer before God. In one of several firsts for Rosary Sunday, committee members reached out to the young through the popular social networking site, Facebook.

John Garcia, public relations committee member, said the goal was to establish a presence on Facebook that would appeal to the youth.

Dorothy Westfall, whose name is synonymous with Rosary Sunday and who is a founding committee

member, said the tactic worked.

Students from St. Mary’s High School, “were out in force.” In addition, there were 150 altar servers and the Brophy Men’s Honor Choir led the faithful in songs.

“We had unbelievable youth participation, in all nationalities, that took such great pride in being here,” Westfall said. “The spirit of the people is so beautiful, it generates hope in mankind.”

It was memories from Westfall’s childhood that was the impetus behind Rosary Sunday 35 years ago.

She remembered attending a recitation of the rosary in the now-

defunct Montgomery Stadium downtown that was hosted by the Knights of Columbus and attended by thousands of people.

“I remembered how beautiful it was,” Westfall said. “I can still see the candles burning in a formation.”

Another first for committee members will be assisting the Tucson Diocese with plans of their own “Rosary Sunday” next year.

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For the first time in its eight-year history, St. Mary Magdalene Parish in Gilbert has a place to call its own. The community celebrated Mass at its new multipurpose facility Sept. 12.

‘The house of our Father’ East Valley parish celebrates Mass in new facility

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GILBERT — Hundreds of men and women — many with young children — streamed into the new multipurpose building Sept. 12 on Williams Field Road just off the Loop 202.

For the first time in its eight-year history, St. Mary Magdalene Parish has a place to call its own. The new facility will house the parish’s Masses, religious education classes and more.

For a community that has been gathering in public school gymnasiums, it was a special moment.

“It was the most goose-bump weekend I’ve ever had,” said Kathy Cosper, who worked on the parish’s building committee. “It was just awesome. I’ve never seen so many people on such a high who could hardly wait to get into that building to see it.”

The multipurpose building is just the first step in a years’ long plan to eventually build a permanent church and grade school in the East Valley, but for now, Fr. Greg Menegay, pastor of St. Mary Magdalene, is just enjoying the moment.

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During the parish’s first Masses in the new building Sept. 11-12, Fr. Menegay described what the new facility signified.

“This church we have built, it is the house of our Father in heaven, and, as His children, it is our house as well,” he said during a homily.

“It is a place where you can grow together as a community and better understand what God is calling us to do in our own lives.”

When the parish first began its capital campaign, fundraising consultants were doubtful of the project’s viability. Many campaigns rely on a few, very large donations to kick-start the giving — something that wasn’t an option for the new parish.

“We simply don’t have a community where we have a handful of people who could give 70 to 80 percent of the money, so we had to do a broad campaign for the whole community to pitch in and give what they could,” Fr. Menegay said.

The community also got creative with its fundraising efforts, including a yearly golf tournament and working at the concession stands at Tempe Diablo Stadium, where they received a percentage of the sales.

“When the economy took a turn we all held our breath and thought we would see a hit, but we haven’t seen that,” said Shari Stenborg, the parish’s business manager. “We’ve only seen an increase in our building fund.”

And as the parish settles into its new building, Fr. Menegay is certain more good things are in store.

“We built this for His glory and His honor,” he said. “Amazing things are going to happen here as we strive to be faithful to His call.” ✴

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‘Jericho’s Site’ begins solid week of adoration at Glendale parish

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Jericho’s Site When: Opening Mass, 6 p.m., Nov. 13; closing procession and Mass, Nov. 20 at 7 p.m.

Where: St. Augustine Parish, 3630 N. 71st Ave., Phoenix

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Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Queen Creek received this Italian-made statue of its patroness last month.

From Italy to Queen Creek Our Lady of Guadalupe statue arrives in Valley

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QUEEN CREEK — It took years, but last month Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish finally welcomed a suitable statue of its patroness to the community’s Stations of the Cross prayer garden.

It took a crane and five men four hours to maneuver the 1.25-ton statue from the Budget Rent-a-Truck through the garden and place it on its base Sept. 21.

Parishioners stood in awe.

“Her eyes appear to be looking right at you,” said Robert Varela, garden planner. “It’s amazing to see her here. Now the garden is finished.”

Jim and Mary Fullerton made a donation for the statue back in the fall of 2008, as the garden was being transformed. They hoped to honor the Blessed Mother as well as Jim’s mother.

After having bad luck with other sculptors, Varela came across the Ziegler Company in Oklahoma.

The Ziegler brothers traveled to Queen Creek and met with Varela and John Simon, the parish administrator. Varela told the story and explained they wanted a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

“We want her to look as much like the tilma image as possible,” Varela said.

The Zieglers assured them they were able to find a sculptor in Italy.

The sculptor had never created this image before yet agreed to the task.

Throughout the process, digital photos were sent for stage-by-stage approval. Fr. Thomas Moylan, LC, pastor, marveled at the detail with each photo received. ✴

Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo A. Nevares will join St. Augustine Parish in Glendale Nov. 20 for the closing Mass of the community’s fifth Jericho’s Site since 2008.

The bishop will preside over a 7 p.m. healing Mass, which will include a eucharistic procession, and ends the seven days and seven nights of perpetual adoration.

The Jericho’s Site is set to begin Nov. 13 following the 6 p.m. Mass.

After that, the church will remain open day and night, closing the following Saturday with a 7 p.m. Mass.

Fr. Carlos Gomez-Rivera, pastor of St. Augustine, extended an invitation to all to participate in Jericho’s Site, which aims to build participants’ faith and unity and tear down walls of darkness. Fr. Gomez said the benefits of Jericho’s Site include an “increase faith, trust and love in God. The entire diocese receives the spiritual benefit.”

He invited priests to help during confessions from 5 to 7 p.m.

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Some of those include “reparation for the offenses made against the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary; for Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church; for an increase of vocations to the priesthood and religious life; for the respect of life from conception to natural end, specifically an end to abortion; for the immigrant community and respect of their dignity as God’s children,” Fr. Gomez said.

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Loreto sisters inaugurate new center at cathedral school

By Janice L. Semmel The Catholic Sun

An atmosphere of excitement enveloped the new Our Lady of Loreto Center at Ss. Simon and Jude Catholic School Sept. 18 as organizers prepared for the ceremony marking the center’s debut.

Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted joined by some 1,000 Catholics, celebrated Mass in the cathedral, thanking those who made the completion of the Our Lady of Loreto Center possible. He led a procession from the cathedral to the new building for the blessing and ribbon cutting.

The Gaelic saying céad míle fáilete, which means “one hundred thousand welcomes,” greets visitors at the building’s entrance. Jim Wahl, then the cathedral’s music

director, wrote a song by the same name to mark the occasion.

After eighth-grade student Hannah Novak cut the green ribbon, the crowd dashed for the combinination gymnasium-auditorium artfully dubbed the “gymatorium.” To protect the maple floor, visitors removed their shoes before sitting in the bleachers, on folding chairs or the floor.

“After much work and many prayers, we bless and dedicate this Lady of Loreto Center,” Bishop Olmsted said. “Our Lady of Loreto.

Why that name? Because of all of these wonderful sisters who have taught here for so many years.”

As the children’s choir began to sing, the bishop blessed each room in the building. Afterward, Samantha Hill, a commissioner

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of religious affairs on the student council, recited a special prayer she wrote for the center before the crowd of parents, students, faculty and guests.

“Every gift matters,” Sr. Raphael Quinn, IBVM, the school’s principal, said of the pledges fulfilled by more than 500 families. “This is a beautiful day. This building is

magnificent.”

The school hired Kevin Markham, a school parent and president of KGM Builders, Inc., as the school’s owner representative.

Sr. Raphael said, “Kevin kept this project on track since day one, and he’s our guardian angel.”

The school held a party outside to celebrate. Tours of the 22,000-square-foot center continued throughout the evening.

Students study science in a 1,528-square-foot science lab complete with epoxy tables, laptop computers, state-of-the-art microscopes, robotics software and Smartboards. Sixth-graders take classes downstairs while seventh- and eighth-graders occupy classrooms on the second floor.

Student ambassador Lauren Kelly explained the purpose of the breakout rooms located between classrooms for sixth, seventh and eighth grades. She said these areas provide a place for students to take makeup tests or to rest when they feel ill. If one of the teachers needs to run an errand, the other teacher is able to watch both classrooms from the area. ✴

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The move from its temporary “home field� advantage at Mesa Community College five miles away came far earlier than expected, making the Oct. 1 match-up against Gilbert’s Williams Field High School the first true “home� game since the 2006 season.

Seton originally planned for the new football field — this time butting up closer to Ray Road than Dobson — to be part of a later phase of campus improvements. Parents of athletes and the local community didn’t want the Sentinels, who had since advanced to 4A Division II play, to wait that long and enacted a phased master plan for the stadium complex.

The result: a completed football field and press box along with new home-side bleachers and scoreboard which Seton unveiled Oct. 1 as a fitting kickoff for alumni reunion weekend. Retired Bishop Thomas J. O’Brien blessed and dedicated the field, praying that the ball never cross the 50-yard line — at least when the opponents have possession. He also led the team in an impromptu pre-game prayer. “Tradition starts today,� he said, praying that the players remain strong in mind and body.

The visiting team proved to play stronger that night, however, delaying the start of Seton’s “winning tradition.� The Sentinels lost 45-14. Still, that didn’t stop 150 alumni from rooting for their alma mater.

That included Tom Camptell, who graduated in 1970. The allaround athlete — now a paralegal — played varsity football for three years, completing 1,664 passing yards and 18 touchdowns as quarterback his senior year. And some of those games were played on a converted practice field in the afternoon because it wasn’t equipped with lights.

Camptell became Seton’s first athlete to receive a full athletic scholarship to a Division I university. He ultimately helped the University of Arizona become cochampions of the Western Athletic Conference in 1973.

Athletic excellence has continued to grow at Seton. Camptell noticed all of the records he set during his career at Seton for yards and touchdown passes shattered in one season during a campus visit last year. “You can tell how this school has come a long way,� Camptell said, later noting Seton’s potential to become a big powerhouse.

It has also come a long way in terms of physical size. Seton is in the middle of a growth spurt,

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sine from 21 local culinary chefs.

That included food chairman Michael DeMaria, who served up Heirloom’s signature tomato soup with basil and pasta at his booth.

He’s served as food chairman since the fundraiser started in 2005.

By Janice L. Semmel “As a good Catholic, it goes The Catholic Sun toward the school and raises money for the kids,” he said.

SCOTTSDALE — Notre Dame “The committee prepares all year, Preparatory High School’s annual but I take over when the food is culinary event, Green is the New ready to go the last two months.”

Black, brought Valley Chef Eddie Matney chefs, parents, facof Eddie’s House also Xavier fundraising ulty and supporters steps in to help Notre breakfast to campus Sept. 25 to Dame even though Read about raise money for the he doesn’t usually do Xavier College school’s Scholarship outside events.

Preparatory’s for Now Fund.

“I always do this breakfast to beneTo promote the event,” Matney said. “I fit building projects event’s environmendo this one because I on our website: tal theme, organizers, love the people here catholicsun.org including freshmen and the kids, and parents, collected and I give back to north used approximately 700 Scottsdale like I like recyclable water bottles in the décor. to do.”

Donna Haugen, event chairGuests also supported the event woman, said they cut, ironed and which a raffle. Proceeds also boostused blowtorches to assemble flow- ed the scholarship fund. er and aloe vera centerpieces for Lori Donelson, a freshman parthe tables. They also made chande- ent, sold some of the tickets because liers for the entryway and over the she knew it was for a good cause. dance floor.

Even though she’s not Catholic, Rob Gwinn, one of the school’s she still affirmed that “God has original history teachers, and mas- provided so many miracles for us.” ter of ceremonies at the gala, said “I prayed hard, and it’s amazing,” the event was a great opportunity Donelson said. “Chaz is growing to give back to Notre Dame and its spiritually. He’s been in both public 925 students. Roughly 700 others and private schools, and this is by agreed, spending the evening meet- far the best school, and he feels he ing fellow donors and tasting cui- belongs.” ✴

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‘Green is the New Black’ backs Notre Dame Prep

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Senior Peter Igras, tight end for Notre Name, shared the Bishop’s Bowl trophy with his teammates Sept. 24 after beating its archrival Seton Catholic Preparatory High School in the annual face off. Final score: 38-19.

Notre Dame posts another victory in Bishop’s Bowl

By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun

SCOTTSDALE — A recent Friday night football victory made the Saints at Notre Dame undefeated champs on two playing fields.

The 38-19 game against Seton Catholic Preparatory High School Sept. 24 at Scottsdale Community College marked not only the fourth straight victory this season — the Saints continued with a 5-1 record at press time — but the fourth time since its inception that Notre Dame has taken possession of the Bishop’s Bowl trophy.

The Catholic school rivalry began when Seton moved up to 4A Division II competition in 2007, pitting the then five-year-old Notre Dame against its freshman counterpart.

The Sentinels have put up a fight each year since, but twice faced a state championship team in the Saints. Last month’s game, however, marked the highest-scoring Bishop’s Bowl for the Sentinels.

“We played very, very hard. Our kids gave it everything they had,”

Seton’s varsity coach Rex Bowser said.

It showed in the first half. Wide receiver Ethan Springston caught one of the first complete passes of the game with just under three minutes left in the first quarter. He later scored Seton’s first touchdown ending the quarter 6-0.

The game remained close until just before halftime when the Sentinels lost a fumble. Both coaches called this one of the key plays in this year’s Bishop’s Bowl.

Notre Dame recovered the fumble and quickly took the ball down the field, ultimately scoring its second touchdown of the night.

The Saints led 14-13 at the half and didn’t let Seton score another touchdown until early in the fourth quarter. Notre Dame coach Scot Bemis credited this to “a very spirited halftime talk.”

“We had to step up on an emotional intensity,” Bemis said, noting that Seton initially took the field that night “very fired up.”

Seniors Korey and Kody Jones continued to step up their game scoring all five touchdowns for the Saints between the two of

them. Senior Brian Poupore also impressed his coach coming up with three interceptions that night.

Bowser, Seton’s coach, agreed that Notre Dame played well and knew the Sentinels could’ve done better in pass coverage, but was impressed by his own quarterback.

Senior Anthony Wallace threw the ball for 301 yards during the Bishop’s Bowl, his second 300-yard game of the then four-game season. Wallace had been averaging 260 yards.

The teams prayed together at the 50-yard line after the game where Bowser presented the Bishop’s Bowl trophy to Notre Dame.

The “other” Catholic school rivalry in the Valley, the St. Mary’s/Brophy match up, doesn’t come with a trophy, only something to crow about.

When the football teams faced each other Sept. 10 at Phoenix College, Brophy loosened its long-held grip on bragging rights.

St. Mary’s won 16-13 when Brophy’s last pass fell incomplete in the end zone, according to the Brophy Roundup, the school newspaper. This marks St. Mary’s first victory over Brophy in eight years. ✴

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Students enliven new center at Scottsdale school

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SCOTTSDALE — A late afternoon fire drill earlier this month at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School ended with an unexpected detour.

Instead of returning to class Sept. 17, administrators re-routed all 471 students through the darkly tinted doors of the school’s first indoor gym for an exclusive look.

The gym is part of the new twostory parish life center for Our Lady of Perpetual Help that will soon become the new home for parish administration, religious education, a social hall and a teen center.

Students were the first to enjoy the fruits of the parish’s five-year quest to build the 36,000-squarefoot facility.

“It was so neat to see their faces — just that look of awe. It made it so real,” said Donna Lauro, principal at Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

Lauro had been inside the gym before, but the students livened it up, she said. They brought even more energy to the playing floor as Lauro sank the first basket — a layup.

Meanwhile, Fr. Chad King, parochial vicar at the parish, stood at the free throw line at the other end of the court trying to sink his ball.

The students had their chance to play too. Everyone took a turn shooting at one of the gym’s six basketball hoops. Administrators lowered the rims for the younger students.

“It’s great to see the kids get use out of [the gym], especially during hot days,” said Msgr. Tom Hever, pastor, before the eighth-grade volleyball game Sept. 29 when the Valley high was projected at 106 degrees.

The gym will not only provide a cooler home court for volleyball and ultimately basketball, but can host recess and physical education classes inside during severe weather.

As its name implies, the parish life center isn’t just for the students. The gym floor will double as a parish social hall.

The offices above it, where construction workers are in the final stages of wiring, flooring and ceiling installation, will belong to parish staff. Msgr. Hever expects them to move from their current space in the rectory by the end of the month or in early November.

Parish staff has been working out of the rectory since the early 1960s, with only a door separating the rectory from the office. The timing could be crucial as the parish will welcome a newly retired monsignor from Kentucky next month.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help broke ground on the parish life center in March 2009. The shell of the mission-style building on the northeast side of the property was completed a year later.

The parish life center with its

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Our Lady of Perpetual Help’s eighth-grade volleyball team prays with its opponents before a Sept. 29 game inside the new Parish Life Center.

continuous shaded walkways and various entry points, will also provide larger meeting space for several ministries and religious education classes, including three atrium rooms. Plans also call for a teen center and a new Rhoady Lee Center for smaller parish functions.

The original Rhoady Lee Center — named after a longtime parishioner — was bulldozed for construction of the parish life center, but will be replicated in the new space.

Locker rooms for the students and a coach’s office will be added as funds permit.

For now, the students are excited to break in the new gym. The school, which struggled to fill the girls’ eighth-grade basketball team last year, suddenly found several prospective players eager to try out for the team this winter.

A formal blessing and dedication for the parish life center will be scheduled once the building is complete. ✴

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Victoria Solano prays the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary with fellow kindergarteners Oct. 6 at Blessed Pope John XXIII.

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SCOTTSDALE — Some kindergarteners are learning not only how to devote themselves to academics, but to the rosary as well.

Diane Sylvia’s kindergarten class at Blessed Pope John XXIII School has been praying the rosary — learning a decade or two at a time — almost daily since the school year began. The tradition started last year when Sylvia came to the school.

“I’ve been in the public school system forever. I could only pray for my students, not with them, so this is a real treat,” Sylvia said.

The students started out slow in August, reciting each Hail Mary while folding their hands and later by counting on their fingers.

They only started holding the prayerful beads this month, the month of the holy rosary.

They’re still learning how to use the beads to follow along, but they have the mysteries down pat. Their favorite: the Joyful Mysteries.

“It makes you feel very happy because that’s how God knows you love Him,” Ellia Isaac said.

Other students agreed and said they’ve been praying the rosary at home more since devoting themselves to it daily at school. One

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Some people don’t believe that men have a say in abortion, but we are as much obligated to protect the unborn as women are. God has called each individual to stand up and fight against injustice. As young men, we can protect the unborn by respecting women and considering the consequences of our actions.

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student even tries to offer a rosary with her younger sister before bedtime.

“It helps us make good choices,” Isabella Medina said of the rosary.

Some alluded to as much when designing their Rosary Sunday poster contest entries.

Several depicted their class praying the rosary together.

The students know of the special graces available to those who regularly pray the rosary. They also know it helps them transition from lunch to afternoon work in the classroom.

“It’s a quiet, peaceful, settling time,” Sylvia said.

Her 26 students gather around the colortiled carpet after lunch to say the rosary in the dimly lit classroom. The boys and girls take turns leading each decade, a move that Sylvia said will also prepare them for larger rosary gatherings like Rosary Sunday.

The rest of the Blessed Pope John XXIII community makes time for the rosary at least weekly.

Developing a life of prayer extends beyond the rosary though. The entire school community commits itself to reciting the Angelus daily at noon followed by the St. Michael prayer. They also end each day with an examination of conscience. ✴

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Dates to remember Oct. 21: Shadow Day, Seton Oct. 23: Night of Hope, 6 p.m., Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Oct. 23: Homecoming Week festivities, St. Mary’s and Seton Oct. 26: Shadow Day, Seton Oct. 29: Eighth Grade Day at St. Mary’s, Xavier Oct. 31: Open house, noon2:30 p.m., Xavier Nov. 1-2: Shadow Days at Brophy Nov. 2: Blood Drive, 6 a.m.-2:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Nov. 7: Open House, noon-3 p.m., Bourgade; noon-3 p.m., Brophy Nov. 10: Shadow Day, Seton Nov. 12: CYAA cross country meet, grades 5-8 Nov. 13: St. John Vianney School gala, U.S. Airways Center Nov. 13: Holiday Auction, Xavier Nov. 14: Open House, noon-3 p.m., St. Mary’s; 1-4 p.m., Notre Dame Suggestions? Dates? E-mail: schoolnews@catholicsun.org

Seton named to national Catholic High School Honor Roll Seton Catholic Preparatory High School made the national Catholic High School Honor Roll’s Top 50 list for the 2010-2011 school year. It’s the only local school to earn such a distinction since the award’s inception in 2004.

The award, presented every other year, acknowledges schools that maintain high academic standards, uphold their Catholic identities and prepare students to actively engage the world.

It was announced Oct. 15 when MaryBeth Mueller, superintendent of the diocese, presented the award to Pat Collins, Seton principal, during a schoolwide assembly.

Student-sponsored orphans visit MHT The Southwest Pequeño Tour, an annual goodwill trip by 17 children from Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos, a series of orphanages throughout Central and South America, stopped in the Phoenix Diocese Oct. 7 to thank their local Catholic friends at 10 local schools. See video coverage at www.catholicsun.org. ✴

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This mother of five is a registered nurse who has seen her share of medical emergencies.

Marcotte grew up across town in Most Holy Trinity Parish then earned her degree in nursing at Arizona State University.

After staying home 10 years caring for her children, she returned to work at Phoenix Children’s Hospital in 2005. Marcotte is part of a team that trains parents of infants who have been discharged and are going home on an apnea monitor.

The monitor detects the baby’s heart rate and breathing. For most parents, it’s a frightening prospect.

Marcotte helps teach the parents infant CPR, but she also offers great insight into what they are experiencing.

That’s because 18 years ago her own son Joseph came home on an apnea monitor. Joseph has multiple birth defects and has had 24 surgeries, Marcotte said.

“I tell them, ‘We will get you as familiar as possible with this because it’s already a high-stress situation.

I’ve been there — I’m a mom who has had a baby on a monitor for a year and we’re going to work on this together.’ You can see the tension fall off them, it’s like, ‘Wow. She gets it.’”

When families come through that have a child with the same diagnosis as Joseph, she offers to speak with them after class, pointing them in the direction of community resources.

Faith in a nutshell: In retrospect, nursing school seems to have been part of God’s providential care. “It was the Lord preparing me for what He was going to be asking of me.”

What she loves about being Catholic: “There’s a comfort in being part of the Catholic Church. There are the traditions and just the wealth.

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Tunes: Country TV pick: “CSI,” “Law and Order Criminal Intent”

Favorite author: Numerous; Patricia Cornwell, J.D. Robb, Mary Higgins Clark

Quotable: “If there’s one person I’d like to talk with, it’s [my son] Joseph.

He can say ‘yeah’ or no; but he can’t carry on a conversation. I don’t know what he really cares about or what’s important to him.

I want to hear, ‘I love you, Mom,’ come out of his mouth… he’s the sweetest boy on the planet.”

Take away: When someone once questioned her desire to have more children after Joseph was born and the fact that she would never have an abortion, Marcotte remembers her heartfelt reply: “How could I tell my son I had an abortion because I was going to have another child who was just like him?”

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The wondrous mystery of the Lord Jesus Jesus Part One: A Church without Christ?

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n Flannery O’Connor’s unconventional novel “Wise Blood,” the leading character Hazel Motes preaches “a Church without Christ.” He does this with great personal intensity, convinced that this belief was the only thing that could give meaning to his life. Standing on top of his car, he tells about a place where “the blind don’t see and the lame don’t walk and what’s dead stays that way.” Then, he adds, “Ask me about the church and I’ll tell you it’s the church that the blood of Jesus don’t foul with redemption.”

As with much of her fiction, O’Connor has proved to be highly prophetic in this novel, written over half a century ago. Being a fervent Catholic, she was not advocating a “Church without Christ;” on the contrary she was warning us of what was coming about in America if we continued our slide away from our Judaeo-Christian roots, and especially from Christ and the mystery of His Cross.

Moving beyond Christianity?

Ten years ago, in a document of a totally different literary genre, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith addressed this issue head-on with the Declaration Dominus Iesus (The Lord Jesus). In the Introduction, we find these words (#4), “The Church’s constant missionary proclamation is endangered today by relativistic theories which seek to justify religious pluralism… As a consequence, it is held that certain truths have been superseded; for example, the definitive and complete character of the revelation of Jesus Christ, the nature of Christian faith as compared with that of belief in other religions, the inspired nature of the books of Sacred Scripture, the personal unity between the Eternal Word and Jesus of Nazareth…”.

Some falsehoods are so blatantly absurd that it startles us that they could catch hold in some pockets of society.

But, in our day, such lies are leading the unsuspecting into error while sowing seeds of doubt among others. Sadly, this has been happening even among those baptized into Christ Jesus. A few years ago, for example, a speaker at the annual convention of the largest association of Women Religious in the USA told the sisters that religious life is moving beyond Christianity, and that this is a sign of progress!

Taking aim at distortions such as this, Dominus Iesus

states (#5), “As a remedy for this relativistic mentality, which is becoming ever more common, it is necessary above all to reassert the definitive and complete character of the revelation of Jesus Christ.” Only in the Lord Jesus do we find (Jn 14:6) “the way, the truth and the life.” There is no other way to come to know the mystery of God except through Him. He says (Mt 11:27): “No one knows the Son but the Father, and no one knows the Father but the Son — and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal Him.” And John’s Gospel account asserts (Jn 1:18), “No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, ever at the Father’s side, who has revealed Him.” The distinctiveness of Catholicism, among all of the other religions of the world, is precisely Christ, who became man, died for our sins, rose from the dead and has ascended to the Father.

There can be no moving beyond Him because He is the Alpha and the Omega. There is only a movement toward the Truth or a movement away from it.

Fullness of truth in Christ alone

This societal move away from Christ has happened gradually and ever so subtly. First, there was a watering down of our understanding of the Lord Jesus. Catechists began to avoid those truths about Him which seemed unpopular, or that called for conversion of mind and the reform of one’s life. Then, there developed a fascination with trendy “spiritualities” and New Age practices, which require no sacrifice and promise no feelings of guilt.

At the same time, the sexual revolution of the 1960s led to the breakdown of marriage and disrespect for human life. In the wake of these disastrous trends, some Protestant denominations began to change their teachings to conform more to popular culture. For those Catholics engaged in ecumenical and inter-faith efforts, despite their praiseworthy nature, this brought accompanying temptations to question the teachings of Christ that condemn sexual acts outside of marriage and that uphold the dignity of every human life from the moment of conception until natural death. But any move away from Christ is a move away from the truth; it is a slide into relativistic thinking that inevitably darkens the mind and contorts the heart.

To correct erroneous thinking in this regard, Dominus

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Iesus rejected the assertion (#6), “that the truth about God cannot be grasped and manifested in its globality and completeness by any historical religions, neither by Christianity nor by Jesus Christ.” It countered this error with the statement that “the full and complete revelation of the salvific mystery of God is given in Jesus Christ.”

Sign of contradiction

Several years ago, Cardinal Jean Danielou wrote a book entitled “The Scandal of Truth.” In the introductory section, he stated, “It was by no means only yesterday that truth became embarrassing… Witnesses to truth have always galled the skeptical and the cunning… In fact, there is no greater stumbling block to the powerful in their schemes for domination, and to the clever in their desire for self-sufficiency. Thus we need not be astonished that truth has ever been hated by the powerful, and disdained among the clever.”

From the time that Jesus entered our world as a tiny child, He has confounded the proud and lifted up the lowly. As Simeon took the Child Jesus in his arms in the Temple in Jerusalem, he told Mary (Lk 2:34), “This child is destined to be the downfall and the rise of many in Israel, a sign that will be opposed.” We should not be surprised, then, that controversy surrounds the Lord Jesus and His Body the Church in our time. It is not the first time this has happened. It has happened many times before. But we should be full of praise and overflowing with gratitude for the great gift of our Catholic faith, for the awesome privilege of knowing, believing and loving Jesus Christ, who is the Word and Wisdom of God. Perhaps, it is sentiments such as these that prompted Benedict XVI, in addition to all his duties as pope, to take it upon himself to write a two-volume work entitled: “Jesus of Nazareth.” Volume one was published a few years ago. The second volume will be coming out in a few months. Don’t miss it!

In the next issue of The Catholic Sun, we shall continue these reflections, looking especially at how they relate to the mystery of the Church. ✴

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October: It’s not just for Catholics anymore Chilean miner drama reveals worldwide respect for life, need for prayer

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he world stopped for a day last week and focused all of its attention on Chile, where a tragedy had been playing out for 70 days as rescuers worked tirelessly to save 33 men trapped underground in a collapsed mine.

The miners, confined more than 2,300 feet underground, were stayed by the hopes of reuniting with their families who set up a makeshift village topside, aptly named Camp Hope.

After what seemed like an eternity, rescue efforts to drill a 26-inch-wide tunnel reached the trapped miners. One by one, the miners would be carefully delivered.

As the sunlight greeted the first miner’s face and he took his first breath of fresh air, those watching from around the globe gasped in joy at the life which emerged. Family and friends were jubilant, as was the rest of the world peering in on this wonderful drama called life — strangers, but brothers and sisters in humanity nonetheless.

The miners’ struggle for survival was aided by knowing

that their spouses, children, mothers, fathers and friends held constant vigil while the world prayed — their spirits buoyed by a newfound clarity and purpose that perhaps can only be found in moments such as these.

So too was this profound effect experienced by the world’s onlookers and cheerleaders, as evidenced by the ample television and newspaper coverage, as well as social media websites like Twitter and Facebook, which were simply dominated by the Chilean miners drama.

The prayers, waiting and hope experienced by all in this thrilling rescue story are analogous to that of what is experienced by expectant mothers and their newborn babies, day in and day out around the world. The joyful anticipation of this new life reverberates among family and friends with hopes that when the timing is right, life will emerge from the darkness into light and the baby will take that first breath, marking the beginning of a lifetime journey with purpose

and happiness.

Each year, October is recognized in Catholic circles as being dedicated to respect-life efforts and the holy rosary. The outpouring of prayers and support for the trapped Chilean miners demonstrates that non-Catholics are embracing the Catholic spirit of October, too, whether they realize it or not.

While the world watched, waited and prayed for 70 days, hoping for life to emerge, an estimated 180,000 innocent lives were lost to abortion during that time frame. No big media fanfare surrounded it, though, because our culture has become desensitized to the legalized murder.

But thanks to the good people like those of Children of the Rosary and 40 Days for Life, who tirelessly pray for an end to abortion, the lives lost will not be forgotten.

With their help and yours too, and by the grace of God, one day the world will once again stop as it did for the Chilean miners and rejoice in life’s goodness. ✴

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Bush inconsistent Re: “Phoenix chapter of Legatus to honor former President Bush” (The Catholic Sun, Sept. 16), I will admit that as a life-long Republican, I voted for candidate Bush in the 2000 election. In fact, I have voted for every Republican presidential candidate since I first registered in 1972. I also affirm the importance of the then-President Bush signing of the partial-birth abortion bill on Nov. 4, 2003.

The sanctity of life before birth is a major part of being pro-life.

Having said that, I still do not consider President Bush a consistent prolife president. I say this with conviction when I look at President Bush’s action to declare war against Iraq in 2003, an act that Pope John Paul II declared a “defeat for humanity” and one that violates the other tenet of a pro-life ethic: the respect of life at all other stages of life. John Paul II further stated that “this war could not be morally or legally justified.”

In the weeks leading up to the invasion of Iraq, the Holy Father, the cardinals and the archbishops around the world denounced the concept of a “preemptive” war. They declared that the Just War Theory could not justify such a war. The pope spoke out almost every day against this war and in support of diplomatic efforts for peace. John Paul II sent his personal representative, Cardinal Pio Laghi, a friend of the Bush family, to remonstrate with the president before the war began. Pio Laghi said such a war would be illegal and unjust.

As talk escalated in the weeks leading up to the attack, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then the Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, stated unequivocally that “the concept of a ‘preventive war’ does not appear in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.”

President Bush did not heed these pleas for sanity in the face of naked aggression and on March 20, 2003, the United States of America engaged in its first war of aggression in our history.

The basis of the so-called preemptive attack — harboring weapons of mass destruction — proved baseless. No such weapons were ever found and the United States has been engaged in the longest

war in our history that has destroyed our leadership status in the world community. This war has caused the deaths of 3,486 U.S. service men and women and over 100,000 Iraqi civilians.

In light of this discrepancy between pro-life morals and our former president’s acts, I appeal to the Legatus organization in our diocese honor a leader with a more consistent life ethic.

Deacon Paul V. Hursh Mesa

Politics misplaced It was disappointing, at least to me, to find the “Voters’ Guide” in our Sept. 16 issue of The Catholic Sun. In my humble opinion, this was the joining of politics and religion in a forum not intended to do so.

The resultant data of this “guide” is not very useful upon a cursory glance.

Thirty-six percent plus of the political candidates refused to respond; a significant portion of the total candidates. Some of the questions may have been a little more “loaded” than they would have liked. To read the results of those who did respond requires the laying down of a ruler of some such to properly read the results of those who did respond.

At any rate, I believe the inclusion of this political data is misplaced in The Catholic Sun. Ronnie R. Rowe Chandler

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Kudos Re: the Arizona Catholic Conference Voters’ Guide (The Catholic Sun, Sept.

16), thanks a million for the candidates’ names and responses for what they stand. Those who didn’t respond at all will get no vote from me.

I also enjoyed seeing my old neighbor, Fr. Pat Mowrer, with Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted celebrating Mass at the new site of the new church in Flagstaff.

And another old neighbor of ours, Fr. Tony Sigman, was featured in Joyce Coronel’s column about the lack of respect for God’s house. The lack of respect is as true today in church as it was 40 years ago in our home: kids

going down the hallway leaving holes in the closet doors from their fists, feet and elbows-whatever. But the kids did have respect for us, their parents, and it took us 35 years to get new doors — after paying tuition for their Catholic education.

But we all won out in the end because we had a priest at St. Theresa, who was of the old school, named Fr. Tony Sigman.

He taught us and our children respect for God as well as God’s house. And, he always had time to listen to me. He was my spiritual advisor. Thank you, Fr. Sigman, for the wonderful homilies you preached to all of us at St. Theresa.

Flossie Sieczkowski Scottsdale

Pro-life clinics save babies, cut into abortion-industry profits

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here’s a popular adage that says if you repeat a big enough lie often enough, people will begin to believe it.

Outrageous accusations and blatant lies have been used for centuries to discredit and impugn the integrity of one’s enemies.

Take for example the way pro-lifers are generally portrayed in the media: hypocritical, fanatical, heartless zealots, intent on harassing women seeking abortions.

In my more than 30 years of praying in front of abortion clinics, I have never, ever met anyone matching that description, nor have I ever witnessed someone shouting “Murderer!” at women entering abortion clinics.

You don’t have to take my word for it — attend a prayer vigil outside a local Planned Parenthood. You’ll see young parents pushing strollers, praying alongside senior citizens, teenagers and middle-aged folks. Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of the Diocese of Phoenix regularly takes part in these events.

The people who pray outside abortion clinics are there because they care about the women who are facing crisis pregnancies and because of the grave injustice involved in the taking of innocent human life. That’s a story that never gets told by the secular media.

The other untold story is the way in which pro-life clinics help women bring their babies to birth. These clinics are often located in close proximity to abortion providers. For years, those who work on the front lines of the pro-life move-

ment have insisted that when women are given the assistance they need Joyce during pregnancy, they choose life rather than Coronel abortion.

J.C.’s Stride Today in the United States there are fewer than 800 freestanding abortion clinics.

Meanwhile, there are about 2,500 pro-life clinics that offer everything from counseling, pregnancy tests and ultrasounds to baby clothes, diapers, education and more. In the Phoenix Diocese we are blessed to have a number of these caring places women can turn to for help.

As you might imagine, all that support by the pregnancy centers is cutting into the profit margin of the abortion industry. And make no mistake about it: abortion is big business. Planned Parenthood, the country’s largest abortion provider, reported $85 million in profits in 2008. More than a third of its income is courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.

Who’s lying?

The industry and its supporters are fighting back. A couple of lawmakers have introduced a bill in Congress that seeks to muzzle the pro-life clinics and various cities have begun

enacting ordinances to try to do the same. For more details on this unsurprising trend, see the article on page 13.

Joyce Tang, a columnist for The Daily Beast, complains that those who staff the pro-life pregnancy clinics tell “flat-out lies” and “prey on desperate young women looking for help.”

In reality, when it comes to lies and predatory behavior, no one does it as well as those who profit by concealing the humanity of the unborn child from his or her mother.

How about the ultrasound image abortionists use to guide their instrument of destruction? Why do they not allow their patients to see the picture of the unborn child about to die?

My explanation: when women who are considering abortion are shown an ultrasound image of their unborn child, about 90 percent choose life. That’s bad for business.

Now let’s consider the people who work at the pro-life clinics. Most of them are unpaid volunteers who are devoted to helping women and children. The clinics are kept afloat by donations, not by government grants.

Politicians, abortion-advocating media outlets and those who benefit from women’s desperation will undoubtedly continue to lie about pro-lifers and try to shut them up.

Anyone who cares to examine the abortion issue objectively will see that those lies ring a little more hollow with each passing day. ✴ Joyce Coronel is a regular contributor to The Catholic Sun. Please send comments to letters@catholicsun.org.

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ast month when talking heads from coast to coast reported that theoretical physicist and famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking “proved that God did not exist,” I remembered the old joke about Friedrich Nietzsche, the existentialist philosopher who wrote that “God was dead.” A few years later after Nietzsche died, a British comedian wrote “Nietzsche was dead,” signed God. And so God had the last say after all.

All kidding aside, Hawking’s latest claim that “It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going” makes for provocative headlines, but after all is said and done, Hawking or anyone else’s scientific investigations will not suddenly make God stand up and decide not to exist. In fact, they actually might make us realize a greater faith, if we look at them in the right light.

First of all, despite all the wonders and worthwhile science out there, we simply do not understand, nor will we ever have the ability to understand and prove, or disprove, the nature of God because we are trying to prove something that exists outside of the dimension of our ability.

In fact, Hawking actually agrees with that, or at least he doesn’t disagree. Hawking never says God does not exist, but only that we do not need God to explain how the universe was created.

That means for Hawking, God may exist

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in a reality which we cannot even fathom — outside of this dimension — from which a finely tuned self-running machine was created which He does not need to actively maintain, one that runs itself.

We may not agree with his view of God, but nonetheless he’s not necessarily ruling out God’s existence even from his narrow scientific view.

Search for truth People once thought that if evolution were at all possible, then somehow it disproved God. But in later years the Catholic Church accepted, in the words of Pope John Paul Paul II, that “new scientific knowledge has led us to the conclusion that the theory of evolution is no longer a mere hypothesis.”

Roman Catholic Cardinal John Henry Newman intuitively realized way back in 1868, “the theory of Darwin, true or not, is not necessarily atheistic; on the contrary, it may simply be suggesting a larger idea of

divine providence and skill.”

Though theologians including Pope Benedict continue to debate the complexities of how much of Darwin’s theory was right and where he might have erred, such as in the alleged “randomness” of it, the important thing to realize is that proving how scientific processes are working in the world doesn’t rule out or discount God’s grand design of those processes in a dimension that we cannot understand.

So too may Hawking even be pointing to the irrefutable proof of God, if you look at the body of his work. In an earlier book he wrote, “The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.”

Yet, though science is a search for truth and therefore will always be valuable and important, we should never think of it as a replacement to our search for truth on other fronts,

such as spiritual ones. Though science cannot disprove our spiritual beliefs, we should not be looking strictly to science to defend or justify those beliefs either.

We should not need science to prove God exists in order for us to believe in and value His presence. Regardless of how the universe works and how it began, God loves all within it.

The irrefutable magnificence of Christ’s sacrifice and majesty of His message — that God loves us and to love Him and our neighbor as ourselves — endures beyond all else to give a meaning and purpose to our lives that transcends all that we can empirically realize.

Or as Shakespeare once wrote, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” ✴ Chris Benguhe is a columnist for The Catholic Sun. His latest book, “Overcoming Life’s 7 Common Tragedies: Opportunities for Discovering God,” is available on Amazon.com.

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Defending the lives, dignity of those struggling with dementia

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once heard a remarkable story from a woman named Cecilia sitting next to me on a long flight. She told me how her mother had suffered from dementia for many years, eventually reaching the point that she could no longer recognize any of her children when they would visit at the nursing home. She then changed the tone of the conversation immediately when she added, “But there’s always someone in there.” When I asked what she meant, she continued: “I love singing, and as an African-American, I’ve got a strong voice. I sometimes visit nursing homes near my house just to sing for the patients, to do something different and break up their routine a little. I still remember 12 years ago, I decided I would sing for my Mom. She didn’t have a clue who I was, and didn’t respond to much of anything, because the dementia was so advanced. She seemed almost catatonic. By chance I had come across one of her old hymnals with the Baptist songs we used to sing in church as kids. She used to know most of them by heart. Well, those old hymns stirred up something inside her, and after I started singing, she suddenly picked up and began to sing along with me! Yup, there’s always someone in there.”

Fr. Tadeusz

Pacholczyk Making Sense Out of Bioethics

Cecilia’s story about her mother runs against a cultural tendency today, which is to dismiss those struggling with dementia as if they were no longer persons. These patients, however, clearly deserve much more from us than the kind of benign neglect (or worse) that they occasionally receive.

Many of us fear a diagnosis of dementia.

We worry about “surrendering our core” or “losing our true self ” to the disease. Many of us wonder how our loved ones would treat us under such circumstances.

Steven Sabat, writing in The Journal of Clinical Ethics, challenges the reduced expectations for quality care for those with dementia: “Is his or her personhood recognized and supported, or neglected in favor of the assumption that it barely, if at all, exists…

do we assume that the afflicted rarely if ever recognizes the need for company, for stimulation, for the same sort of treatment he or she would seek and be given as a matter of course in earlier, healthier, days?”

Sometimes we may view the situation more from our own vantage point, rather than the patient’s. In a report on care for the elderly, physicians Bernard Lo and Laurie Dornbrand put it this way: “Family members and health professionals sometimes project their own feelings onto the patient. Life situations that would be intolerable to young healthy people may be [made] acceptable to older debilitated patients.”

Inalienable dignity The medical profession in particular faces a unique responsibility towards each individual with dementia, a duty to approach each life, especially in its most fragile (and uncooperative) moments, with compassion, patience and attention. When our ability to think rationally or choose freely becomes clouded or even eliminated by dementia, we still remain at root the kind of creature who is rational and free, and the bearer of inalienable human dignity. We never change from

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Pope John Paul II in a beautiful passage from Evangelium Vitae (On the Gospel of Life) speaks of “the God of life, who has created every individual as a ‘wonder.’” We are called to foster an outlook that “does not give in to discouragement when confronted by those who are sick, suffering, outcast or at death’s door.” Those suffering from dementia challenge us in a particular way toward the beautiful, and at times heroic, response of love, “perceiving in the face of every person a call to encounter, dialogue and solidarity.” ✴

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Building bridges: Muslims, Jews, Christians join forces for peace

By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY — The enthusiastic exchange of calling cards and making sure caterers provided kosher and halal food are small yet critical signs of a successful interfaith conference.

Jewish, Muslim, and Christian leaders came together in Rome to share success stories and break bread together at a daylong meeting as bishops from the Middle East gathered across the river at the Vatican for a special synod on the pastoral challenges in the region.

While synod bishops focused on the role the Catholic Church can play in giving witness to the faith in the Middle East, other leaders from all three monotheistic religions were reaching outward toward one another in an urgent call for increased interfaith cooperation to bring peace and hope to the world.

The interfaith meeting, “Building Bridges of Hope: Success Stories and Strategies for Interfaith Action,” was organized by the U.S. Embassy to the Vatican and held at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University Oct. 12.

“We believe that interfaith strategies can help solve many of the world’s biggest problems,” Miguel H. Diaz, U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, told participants.

The keynote speaker, Joshua Dubois, head of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, said the current administration believes interfaith action is “the future of grassroots engagement.”

Every day, brick by brick, men and women of faith “continuously lay the moral and intellectual foundation of our public life and dialogue, and you are the ‘first responders’ when, for various reasons, that foundation is shaken,” he told the religious leaders.

Speakers from Catholic, Muslim and Jewish traditions focused on concrete ways people of faith have already and must continue to work together in promoting equitable and ethical development, protecting the environment, and preventing conflict.

Trusted religious leaders not only have tremendous influence in their communities, they have the power to persuade people to choose the more difficult and sometimes unpopular path in combating major crises, one speaker said.

For example, when facing the problem of environmental degradation and resource depletion, a politician who tells people “to tighten their belts” and show restraint in consumption will never get elected again, said Fazlun

Melkite Archbishop Elias Chacour of Haifa, Israel, speaks at an interfaith meeting in Rome Oct. 12. The meeting was organized by the U.S. Embassy to the Vatican as bishops from across the Middle East gathered for a special synod.

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Khalid, founder and director of the Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Science. Yet religious leaders can persuade people to change, he said.

Businesses that are infused with a philosophy of social responsibility founded upon religious principles also can make an enormous impact, said another speaker.

Adnan Durrani is the CEO of American Halal Co., a food company based in Stamford, Conn., that is based on Islamic values of justice, equity and responsibility

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Values-based businesses can be like “Weapons of Mass Enlightenment, the real smart bomb,” he said.

Businesses are “the most powerful force on earth” because they have the financial resources for carrying out their ideas and they can act on them quickly, said Durrani.

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Hillel Levine, founding president of the International Center for Conciliation in Boston, works with Arabs and Jews in Israel and said he emphasized the need for both sides to talk about their “pained memory.”

Bygones should not be bygones, he said, and the past should be dealt with in order to “siphon off the hatred” and transform shared suffering into a shared bond that leads to understanding and empa-

thy, he said.

Melkite Archbishop Elias Chacour of Haifa, Israel, shared his memory of pain with conference participants.

As Palestinians, he and his family were forced from their homes after the creation of Israel and wandered along the Jordan River for months because even bordering Arab countries didn’t want to take in refugees, he said.

“But thank God I was not born a Christian, I was born a baby. And I don’t know about you, if you were born a Jew or a Muslim, but I look at your hand, I see it is like mine, and I see you were born a baby, too,” he said, looking at Levine. ✴

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Take Fiveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: A heart-to-heart with Cardinal Newman

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ne of the highlights of Pope Benedict XVIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent trip to the United Kingdom was his beatification Mass for John Henry Newman in Birmingham, England.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Newman chose as a motto a phrase from St. Francis de Sales: Cor ad cor loquitur (â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Heart speaks to heartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;). It is no surprise that the motto he chose was about friendship. Newman believed that true friends communicate, heart to heart, what is important in life,â&#x20AC;? they write.

This is a quality that shines through in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Take Five.â&#x20AC;? Drawing from Newmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s letters and writings, the authors present little daily quotes of his for reflection.

They are easy to read, yet often dense in their thought.

After a selection of Newmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s writing, the authors present three or four reflection questions based on the passage; then, there is a passage from Scripture that pertains to the thought of the day followed by a resolution to carry out during the day.

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Film Review

‘Secretariat’ Predictable film about legendary racehorse makes for fine family fare

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ilms that are based on true stories can’t help but be predictable, as the audience knows when to expect success.

Films that chronicle athletic greatness? No surprise endings there, either.

So “Secretariat” (Disney) — which chronicles the career of the legendary thoroughbred racehorse — is exactly what you’d expect.

That’s not meant as a critique. It turns out to be a great family film — good, simple and direct.

Secretariat broke several records in 1973 on his way to winning the Triple Crown by record margins. Many of those records remain unbroken. But the film focuses on the horse’s owner, Penny Chenery Tweedy, the daughter of a wellknown horse breeder, and her quest to save her family’s horseraising farm following the death of her parents.

They need millions to keep the farm going and Penny, played by Diane Lane, believes that a pregnant mare on the farm will give light to a horseracing champion.

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She enlists Lucien Laurin, played with entertaining flair by John Malkovich, as the horse trainer for “Big Red,” as Secretariat is fondly called. The two make history and save the farm.

Following Penny, the film shows how she worked as a stay-at-home mom for years before returning to her parents’ farm. The commute and time commitment of the racing world takes a toll on her marriage and her family life, but her commitment to the talented horse is unwavering and becomes her passion.

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her role, but Penny’s passion teaches them the value of not giving up.

She follows her heart, her passion and her faith in something bigger than herself — Secretariat.

There are not many explicit faith references in the film, although you see aspects of a Christian home.

Although Penny’s beliefs are about a horse, the importance of standing for one’s beliefs is not a difficult connection to forge.

As St. Augustine taught, “Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” “Secretariat” is a film about a woman who believes in the talent of a horse that others doubt. She sees

those beliefs made manifest.

Lane and Malkovich do a wonderful job in their roles and carry a lovely film that gallops the world of 1970s horseracing. Their performances are not outstanding, but they are fitting for this mediocre film.

Secretariat was a great horse that won many awards. “Secretariat” will win very few, if any. It is a film that will not exceed your expectations — unlike Big Red. ✴ Media critic Rebecca Bostic is a regular contributor to The Catholic Sun. Comments are welcome. Send e-mail to letters@catholicsun.org.

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Secretariat (Disney) The CNS classification is A-II — adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG — parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.

Catholic Sun rating Message: Very strong Artistic merit: Mediocre

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¡Bienvenido obispo!

Líderes Hispanos acogen al obispo auxiliar Por J.D. Long-Garía The Catholic Sun

Esperando fortificar la nueva relación, líderes comerciantes Hispanos le dieron la bienvenida al Obispo Auxiliar Eduardo A. Nevares el 25 de septiembre en el University Club de Phoenix.

Los líderes Hispanos, miembros de la comunidad Católica, asimismo reconocieron el liderazgo de los obispos Thomas J. O’Brien y Thomas J. Olmsted, quienes también estaban presente.

“Le queremos dar la bienvenida a nuestro nuevo obispo, y a la vez darle las gracias al pasado, quien trabajó penosamente en los campos por tantos años,” dijo Ernesto Calderon, refiriéndose a los obispos Nevares y O’Brien. También señaló el apoyo que la comunidad inmigrante ha sentido de parte del Obispo Olmsted.

“Todos somos nietos o hijos de inmigrantes,” le dijo el Obispo Nevares al grupo. Explicó que su papá mudó a la familia a los Estados Unidos porque quería ganar más dinero para sostener a sus hijos

en sus estudios universitarios.

“El ser inmigrante demanda mucha valentía, y requiere mucho amor por sus hijos,” dijo. “Nosotros somos los que ya hemos llegado. Somos puentes de las dos culturas.”

Con esos antecedentes, los líderes Hispanos pueden trabajar hacia la unificación de la comunidad, dijo el obispo. Dijo que se continuará reuniendo con los líderes Hispanos para estudiar como pueden trabajar juntos para el mejoramiento de la sociedad.

El obispo auxiliar dijo que, en su ministerio en Texas, había conocido muchos inmigrantes sin papeles. Estos inmigrantes le ofrecen a los Católicos una gran oportunidad de vivir el mensaje de Evangelio, “me viste hambriento y me diste de comer.”

“Nunca podemos olvidar la ley de Dios, la cual es amar y servir al otro,” dijo el Obispo Nevares. “Ni tampoco a Jesús, quien nos dice, ‘siempre que no lo hicieron por alguno de estos más pequeños, ustedes dejaron de hacerlo por mí.’” ✴

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El Obispo Auxiliary Eduardo A. Nevares, hablando ante un grupo de líderes comerciantesHispanos, demuestra un ejemplar del Catholic Sun, la cual destacó fotos del obispo cuando joven. La comunidad Hispana, especialmente Ernesto Calderon (izquierda), le dio la bienvenida al obispo durante un desayuno el 25 de septiembre en el University Club de Phoenix.

El misterio maravilloso del Señor Jesús Primera parte: ¿Una Iglesia sin Cristo?

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n la novela poco convencional “Sangre Sabia” o “Wise Blood” de Flannery O’Connor, el personaje principal Hazel Motes predica “una Iglesia sin Cristo.” El hace esto con gran intensidad personal, convencido de que esta creencia era la única cosa que podría dar significado a su vida. El se paró en la parte superior de su coche, y habló acerca de un lugar donde “los ciegos no ven y los cojos no andan y lo que está muerto queda así.” Entonces, agrega, “Pregúntame acerca de la iglesia y yo le diré que es la iglesia que la sangre de Jesús no contamina con redención.”

Al igual que en mucha de su ficción, O’Connor ha resultado sumamente profética en esta novela, escrita hace más de medio siglo. Siendo una Católica ferviente, ella no recomendaba “una Iglesia sin Cristo”; al contrario ella nos advertía de lo que pasaría en América si continuábamos nuestro resbaladizo alejamiento de nuestras raíces judeocristianas, y especialmente de Cristo y el misterio de su cruz. ¿Moverse más allá de la cristiandad?

Hace diez años, en un documento de un género literario totalmente diferente, la Congregación Vaticana para la Doctrina de la Fe dirigió este asunto directamente con la Declaración Dominus Iesus (El Señor Jesús). En la Introducción, nosotros encontramos estas palabras (#4), “El perenne anuncio misionero de la Iglesia es puesto hoy en peligro por teorías de tipo relativista, que tratan de justificar el pluralismo religioso... En consecuencia, se retienen superadas, por ejemplo, verdades tales como el carácter definitivo y completo de la revelación de Jesucristo, la naturaleza de la fe cristiana con respecto a la creencia en las otra religiones, el

Jesus Caritas

intimidad del Padre. Este nos lo dio a conocer.” La cualidad distintiva del Catolicismo, entre todas las otras religiones del mundo, es precisamente Cristo, que llegó a ser hombre, murió por nuestros pecados, resucitó de entre los muertos y ha subido al Padre. No puede haber mover más allá de Él porque El es la Alfa y la Omega. Hay sólo un movimiento hacia la Verdad o un movimiento lejos de ella.

La plenitud de la verdad solo en Cristo

Obispo Thomas J. Olmsted

carácter inspirado de los libros de la Sagrada Escritura, la unidad personal entre el Verbo eterno y Jesús de Nazaret.”

Algunas mentiras son tan patentemente absurdas que nos asusta que podrían agarrar aprobación en algunos sectores de la sociedad. Pero, hoy día, tales mentiras dirigen el confiado al error al sembrar semillas de duda entre otros.

Lamentablemente, esto ha estado sucediendo aún entre los bautizados en Jesucristo. Hace unos años, por ejemplo, un orador en la convención anual de la asociación más grande de monjas en los Estados Unidos dijo a las hermanas que la vida religiosa mueve más allá de cristiandad, ¡y que esto es un signo de progreso!

Apuntando en deformaciones tales como esto, Dominus Iesus declara (#5), “Para poner remedio a esta mentalidad relativista, cada vez más difundida, es necesario reiterar, ante todo, el carácter definitivo y completo de la revelación de Jesucristo.” Tan solo en el Señor Jesús encontramos (Juan 14:6), “el camino, la verdad y la vida.” No hay ninguna otra manera de venir a saber el misterio de Dios sino por Él. Él dice (Mateo 11:27) “Nadie conoce al Hijo sino el Padre, ni nadie conoce al Padre sino el Hijo y aquellos a los que el Hijo quiere dárselo a conocer.” Y el informe en el evangelio de Juan afirma (Juan 1:18) “A Dios, nadie lo ha visto jamás, pero Dios, Hijo único, comparte la

Este movimiento social lejos de Cristo ha sucedido gradualmente y jamás tan sutilmente. Primero, había un diluir de nuestra comprensión del Señor Jesús. Los catequistas comenzaron a evitar esas verdades acerca de Él que parecían impopular, o las que llamaron para la conversión de la mente y la reforma de vida. Entonces, allí desarrolló una fascinación con “espiritualidades” a la moda y prácticas de la Nueva Edad, que no requieren sacrificio y no prometen sentimientos de culpa.

Al mismo tiempo, la revolución sexual de los 60s llevó a la descomposición del matrimonio y la falta de respeto para la vida humana. Tras estas tendencias desastrosas, algunas denominaciones protestantes comenzaron a cambiar sus enseñanzas para conformarse más a la cultura popular.

Para esos Católicos involucrados en esfuerzos ecuménicos, a pesar de su naturaleza admirable, esto fue acompañado con tentaciones de preguntar las enseñanzas de Cristo que condenan actos sexuales fuera del matrimonio y que apoyan la dignidad de cada vida humana del momento de concepción hasta la muerte natural. Pero cualquier movimiento lejos de Cristo es un movimiento lejos de la verdad; es un resbaladero en pensamiento relativista que oscurece inevitablemente la mente y retuerce el corazón.

Para corregir pensamiento erróneo en esta consideración, — Ver ¿QUÉ ES EL ESCANDALO? página 33 ▶

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Sínodo abre con llamado a libertad religiosa para todos en Oriente Medio Por Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO — Ante la tensión y la violencia, los cristianos del Oriente Medio deben trabajar para defender la libertad, democracia, la paz y los derechos humanos de todos y cada uno, dijeron los líderes del Sínodo de Obispos del Oriente Medio.

Debemos emerger de una lógica en defensa de los derechos de los cristianos solamente y entrar en la defensa de los derechos de todos, decía la introducción al sínodo preparada y leída por el patriarca copto Antonios Naguib de Alejandría, Egipto, secretario de minutas del sínodo, y por el Arzobispo Maronita Joseph Soueif de Chipre, secretario especial del sínodo.

El informe introductorio presentó los tópicos a discutirse el 11 de octubre durante la primera sesión de trabajo del sínodo.

La meta del sínodo, éste decía, era promover la comunión y el testimonio, comunal y personal, que fluye de una vida cimentada en Cristo y animada por el Espíritu Santo.

El sínodo no está diseñado para solucionar problemas políticos ni sociales, decía el informe. Pero el informe también reconocía que la vida cotidiana de los católicos de la región es obviamente impactada por las realidades políticas y

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Prelados miran libro de oración antes de la sesión de apertura del sínodo de obispos del Oriente Medio en el Vaticano el 11 de octubre.

sociales que pueden hacer sus vidas difíciles y que han inspirado sus obras de caridad, educación y servicios médicos durante siglos.

Aunque la historia, la presencia, los desafíos y la composición de las comunidades Católicas del Oriente Medio varían desde Egipto hasta Irak y desde Turquía hasta Yemen, el informe decía que éstas comparten una adhesión a la tradición y la experiencia de identificarse y ser identificadas por otros de una manera que se enfoca fuertemente en su afiliación religiosa.

El informe hacía un llamado a los Católicos y a otras personas de buena

voluntad a trabajar juntos para promover comunidades civiles y naciones que tengan una secularidad positiva que respete la identidad religiosa de sus miembros pero que no defina ciudadanía ni derechos basándose en afiliación religiosa.

La libertad religiosa es un componente esencial de los derechos humanos, éste decía.

Todas las constituciones de los países representados en el sínodo reconocen el derecho a libertad religiosa, pero algunos de estos ponen límites a la libertad de culto y algunos, en efecto, violan la libertad de conciencia con

presiones legales o sociales contra la conversión, decía.

Aunque la Iglesia Católica condena firmemente todo proselitismo — presión, coerción o inducir a alguien a cambiar credos — los cristianos pueden contribuir a la libertad y a la democracia de sus naciones promoviendo mayor justicia e igualdad bajo la ley para todo creyente, decía el informe.

El Patriarca Naguib, hablando durante una conferencia de prensa después de la primera sesión de trabajo, dijo que para muchos musulmanes en toda la región cuando uno habla de secularismo en muchos casos es visto como un llamado a eliminar la religión o por lo menos limitar su influencia en las vidas privadas de las personas.

El Obispo Maronita Bechara Rai de Jbeil, El Líbano, dijo a reporteros más tarde que la iglesia apoya una forma de separación iglesia-estado que asegure que las religiones

tengan voz en la sociedad y que las leyes reflejen los valores morales, incluyendo leyes contra la eutanasia y el matrimonio homosexual.

Pero cuando la religión se convierte en la fuente primaria de las leyes de un país y las autoridades religiosas tienen poder civil los miembros de las comunidades minoritarias terminan siendo vistos y tratados como ciudadanos de segunda clase, él dijo.

El informe introductorio del sínodo pidió a los miembros mantener en mente las dificultades particulares que los católicos enfrentan en algunos países.

En los territorios palestinos la vida es muy difícil y en muchos casos insostenible, éste decía.

La Iglesia Católica condena toda violencia, cualquiera que sea su origen, y hace un llamado a una solución justa y duradera al conflicto israelita-palestino, decía el informe. ✴

¿Una Iglesia sin Cristo? ▶ Continuado de la página 32

Dominus Iesus rechazó la afirmación (#6) “que la verdad acerca de Dios no podría ser acogida y manifestada en su globalidad y plenitud por ninguna religión histórica, por lo tanto, tampoco por el cristianismo ni por Jesucristo.” Contrarrestó este error con la declaración que “en Jesucristo se da la plena y completa revelación del misterio salvífico de Dios.”

El Signo de Contradicción

Hace varios años, Jean Danielou Cardinales escribió un libro titulado The Scandal of the Truth (El Escándalo de la Verdad).

En la sección introductoria, él indicó, “fue de ninguna manera ayer mismo que verdad llegó a ser vergonzante… Testigos a la verdad siempre han irritado al escéptico y al mañoso … de hecho, no hay tropiezo más grande al poderoso en sus esquemas para la dominación, y al listo en su deseo para la autosuficiencia. Así nosotros no debemos estar asombrados que la verdad jamás ha sido odiada por el poderoso, y desdeñado entre el listo.”

Desde el tiempo en que Jesús

entró a nuestro mundo como un niño chiquito, El ha confundido el orgulloso y levantado el humilde. Cuando Simeón tomó el Niño Jesús en sus brazos en el Templo en Jerusalén, él dijo a María (Lucas 2:34), “Este niño es destinado a ser la caída y la subida de muchos en Israel, un signo que será opuesto.”

Nosotros no deberíamos estar sorprendidos, entonces, que la controversia rodee al Señor Jesús y su cuerpo la Iglesia en nuestro tiempo. No es la primera vez que esto ha sucedido. Ha sucedido muchas veces antes.

Pero debemos estar llenos de elogio y rebosantes con gratitud para el gran regalo de nuestra

fe Católica, para el privilegio impresionante de conocer, creer y amar a Jesucristo, quien es la Palabra y la Sabiduría de Dios.

Quizás, estos son las clase de sentimientos que impulsaron a Benedicto XVI, además de todo sus deberes como Papa, para tomarlo sobre él mismo escribir una obra de dos volúmenes titulado: Jesús de Nazaret. El primer volumen fue publicado hace unos años. El segundo volumen publicará en unos meses. ¡No lo pierda!

En la próxima edición del The Catholic Sun, continuaremos estas reflexiones, examinando en particular como están relacionadas con el misterio de la Iglesia. ✴

UN DOMINGO PARA EL MUNDO ENTERO Cada año, un evento especial se lleva a cabo el penúltimo domingo de octubre—el mundo se une. En el Domingo Mundial de las Misiones, los católicos del mundo se unen durante la Misa, para comprometernos de nuevo a nuestra vocación misionera adquirida a través del Bautismo. Al rezar y responder durante el Domingo Mundial de las Misiones en nuestras parroquias, estamos haciendo lo mismo que también está ocurriendo en cada parroquia y capilla alrededor del mundo al mismo tiempo. ¡Nuestros mismos hermanos y hermanas en las misiones se encuentran ofreciendo sus oraciones y sacrificios para que otros puedan llegar a conocer a Jesús! El Domingo Mundial de las Misiones fue establecido por el Papa Pio XI en 1926. El Papa designo ese día para “promover el reconocimiento de la importancia de la labor misionera, para animar el celo misionero entre el clero y los fieles, y para ofrecer una oportunidad de dar a conocer la Sociedad de la Propagación de la Fe aun mas y animar el apoyo financiero a las misiones. ”En un mundo donde existen tantas divisiones, ¡el Domingo Mundial de las Misiones invita a regocijarnos en nuestra unidad como misioneros! Y esto proporciona una oportunidad para apoyar la presencia vivificante de la Iglesia en medio del sufrimiento y la pobreza en más de 1,150 diócesis misioneras existentes en los países en vías de desarrollo.

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S A C R E D WHAT’S UNIQUE?

S P A C E

An ongoing look at parishes in the Phoenix Diocese.

The parish is known for its community spirit and family-friendly atmosphere. Healing Masses, held three times a year, attract a wide following. Jericho’s Site, which consists of seven days of prayer and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament during which the church is open around the clock, attracted 3,000 people to its closing Mass last year.

St. Augustine PHOENIX

UPCOMING Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted will celebrate a 4:30 p.m. Mass at the parish Oct. 30 in honor of the community’s 40th anniversary. A parish carnival featuring food, music and rides will take place Oct. 9-31. Jericho’s Site begins Nov. 13 and concludes Nov. 20.

— Joyce Coronel

QUOTABLE THE LATEST The parish is undergoing a sprucing-up in recognition of its 40th anniversary. Crews have just finished building a new altar and installing drywall in the church. They’ve also been busy painting the interior of the church and refurbishing the ceiling beams.

Next up: a new tile floor.

Founded: July 16, 1970 Founding pastor: Fr. William J. Reid Address: 3630 N. 71st Avenue Phone: (623) 849-3131 Pastor: Fr. Carlos A. Gomez-Rivera Number of families: 1,900

“St. Augustine Catholic Church is a strong faith community, becoming an authentic leader in the West Valley, embracing and reaching out to those seeking Christ. We are a community of strong believers in the Eucharist and sacramental life. We encourage others to be an authentic witness to the Gospel.”

Fr. Carlos A. Gomez-Rivera, pastor of St. Augustine Parish

Diocese of Phoenix CATHOLIC CEMETERIES and mortuaries (602)267-1329 In remembrance of those individuals interred in our Catholic Cemeteries for the month of September

St. Francis Cemetery and Mausoleum 2033 N.48th St., Phoenix Lena T. Aja Ethel C. Allison Raymond Alexander Aubrey-Luevano

Bernadine Ausman Thomas R. Bender, Jr. Carmen L. Canez Ida Irene Centanni Anamarie Josephine Dembowski

James Duffey Maurice H. Esperseth Consuelo C. Flores Susan G. Genovese Georgia W. Guthrie John Barrett Guthrie Annarita Heckel William Andrew Holohan Julia Ann Hurtado Dorothy R. Karas Annette Clare Keeler Mary Langston Peter Eugene Lasota Frank Edward Longfield Donald L. Maloney Jeanne Martin John M. Murillo Lupe Pedraza Mary Perez Christian Alexander Reyes Edward C. Rossie Richard Paul Ryan James Saucido Adelina Sazueta Albert Sheff Brainard Eli Smith Margaret Emma Smith

Stella Rose Somers Katherine N. Thomas Yvonne Thompson Noah Guy Marie Washburn Matthew Michael-Raymond West

Patricia Angelica White

Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum 10045 W. Thomas Rd., Avondale Frances Ybarra Amabisca Joyce Barbour Osvaldo Giovanni Barcelo-Fuentes

Rita L. Broberg Serenity Unique Byrnes Nyssa Ani Cartagena-Aguilar Aurora Castaneda Silvestre Chacon Charles A. Covino Helen Santa Maria Fimbres Richard Francis Fisher Genevieve Mary Flemming Oscar Armando Fuentes Antonio Garcia Pauline Pacuilli Greco Joseph A. Guglielmo, Jr. Clarissa Virginia Hock Louise Bula Jones Betty Amy Lachcik Raul Leal Rosemary Loc Dorothy May Lofstrom Jose Carmen-Rogel Martinez Mary H. Mejia Romona R. Morales Kaylee Marie Murillo Jeanne Marie O’Brien

Consuelo Romero Nacho Martin Sanchez Louis Rivadeneyra Sarmiento Eugenia Serafin Jacinto Sanchez Serna Stephen Jay Stenger Edward Victor Vaillancourt Jesus Valadez-Mata Juan Eduardo Vergara Helen C. Warweck

Queen of Heaven Cemetery and Mortuaries 1500 E. Baseline Rd., Mesa Herminia W. Bielinski Vincent Cannone Christine Marie Chionchio Shirley M. Clayton Madison Deroche McKinzie Deroche Baby Garrison Trenda Jean Gomez Herbert B. Hazelwood Iliana Lorrain Hernandez Abigail Cecilia Kaufax Jung Soon Kim Dimitrii J. Korionoff Edmond Ladenburger Mary M. Ladenburger Isaiah Laguna Armonia Landeira Ricardo L. Landeira Maria Aida Lara de Falconi Tarays El-Wer Lazar Mary L. Lopez Charles Mannino Mary C. Matthews Andrew Joel Meins

Eva Moser Leovardo Jose Ortiz Francisca Palomino-de Arguello Rogelia Cerecedo Peral Rebekah S. Reynolds Clemencio T. Tabugan Joseph Frank Troggio Teresa Valliere Doris Jean Wells James Joseph Wilhelm

Holy Redeemer Cemetery 23015 N. Cave Creek Rd., Phoenix Camille Berardi Philip D. Bingman Michael James Crowley Mahal Nizhoni Dela Cruz Kay Marie Doyle Neil Christian Kern Jeffery Raymond Sanders

Calvary Cemetery 201 W. University, Flagstaff James Joseph Cullen Rosemary Link Mary M. Sedillo Diane Herberta Wildey

All Souls Cemetery 700 N. Bill Gray Rd., Cottonwood Anthony J. Lombardi

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To Our Readers Sunbeams are free public service announcements.

Catholic parishes, groups or organizations are guaranteed one-time publication for each listing. Announcements from nonCatholic agencies and groups will be considered for publication, space permitting. Submissions must be received in writing by November 3 for publication November 18.

Please keep submissions to 40 words or less.

Pilgrimage listings not accepted.

Meetings and Classes

“The Catholic Church’s Non-Negotiable Issues in the Coming Election,” with Fr. Chad King, 7 p.m., Oct. 19, Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Scottsdale.

Info: call Sally at (480) 945-6190.

World-Wide Marriage Encounter, Oct. 22-24, Tucson; Nov. 12-14, Phoenix. Does your marriage sacrament witness the sign of God’s love? Info: (602) 242-6141 or Cwessel@csc.com.

“A Catholic Woman’s Morning of Reflection,” sponsored by Phoenix Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Oct. 30, St. Paul Parish. Cost: $15 by Oct. 27 or $20 at door; includes continental breakfast. Info: call Janet Haning at (602) 249-3565 or jhaning@cox.net.

Annulments; Marriage Tribunal Information Seminar, 10 a.m.-noon, Nov. 6, Diocesan Pastoral Center, 400 E. Monroe St., Tribunal will walk through the process and answer any questions you may have about petitioning for an annulment. Free. Info: (602) 354-2275.

Valley-Wide Charismatic Monthly Praise and Worship meeting, 7-9 p.m., Nov. 12, St. Steven Parish, 24827 S. Dobson Road, Sun Lakes, sponsored

by Catholic Renewal Ministries. Everyone welcome. Info: (480) 945-2990 or (480) 201-6691.

Mornings of Discernment, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Nov. 13, Jan. 29, March 19, Diocesan Pastoral Center, 400 E. Monroe St., Phoenix, for single women and men who are interested in learning more about Consecrated Religious Life. Info: call Sr. Jean Steffes, CSA at (480) 354-2006, jsteffes@diocesephoenix.org or Margo at (602) 354-2005, or mgonzal@diocesephoenix.org.

Contemplative Outreach of Phoenix sponsors Fr. Martin Laird, OSA, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Nov. 20, presentation will be based on his highly acclaimed book Into the Silent Land. Donation: $30 includes lunch. Seating is limited

and registration will close Nov. 1, Register at www.contemplativeourtreachphoenix.org., or call Sr. Rachel Torrez at (602) 771-7818.

The Serra Club of Phoenix meetings, 12:10-1:15 p.m., on the first and third Tuesday of each month, Mount Claret Retreat Center, 4633 N. 54th St., Phoenix; West Valley: 12:10-1:15 p.m., on the first and third Tuesday of each month, Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery, 8502 W. Pinchot Ave., Phoenix; and East Valley: 12:10-1:15 p.m., on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month, 1837 W. Guadalupe Road, Mesa.

St. Gerard Circle is a very active ministry for mothers with children of all ages; Corpus Christi Parish, 3550 E. Knox Rd., Phoenix, join our group and grow in faith and fellowship. Info: www.saintgerardcircle.org.

Worship

St. Peregrine Mass of Anointing, with Fr. Thomas J. Hallsten, KHS, and Friends of St. Peregrine, 7 p.m., Oct. 26, Church of the Holy Spirit, 1800 E. Libra Drive, Tempe. All those afflicted with cancer or other life-threatening illnesses are invited to receive the Sacrament of the Sick. Info: (480)838-7474.

TAIZE PRAYER: 7 p.m., Nov. 16, St. Theresa Parish, 5045 E. Thomas Rd, is an ecumenical prayer centered on Scripture, chant and silence. Info: call Jim at (602) 840-0850 ext.121.

Singles

Catholic Singles Ministry sponsors a day of reflection with Fr. Lorig and Fr. Muir, “Divine Mercy,” 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Oct. 30, Mount Claret, 4633 N. 54th St. Phoenix. Cost: free-will offering, lunch provided. Info: call Mike at (480) 832-5424 or mheidenblut@aol.com or www.Catholicsinglesministry.org.

Arizona Catholic Singles, 10:30 a.m., Oct. 31, Mass at St. Patrick’s Parish followed by brunch at Mimi’s Cafe in Scottsdale. Also, dinner and socializing, Olive Garden near Metrocenter, 6 p.m., Nov. 12. New or prospective members are welcome. Info: call Patrick Carpenter at (480) 898-7424.

Catholic Singles Picnic, noon-4 p.m., lunch 12:30-1 p.m., Nov. 13, Indian School Park, 4289 N. Hayden Road, Ramada #6, Scottsdale. Cost $7.

Info: call Abby Duarte@Mduarte8@ cox.net or (480) 838-0771.

Entertainment

“Murder in the Knife Room,” a murder-mystery parody by Jonathan Rand, 7 p.m., Oct. 22-23, Notre Dame Preparatory High School, 9701 E. Bell Road, Scottsdale. Tickets: $5 at the door.

“Why We Sing” Concert, sponsored by the Filipino Catholic Community of Arizona Choir, 7 p.m., Oct. 22, Our Lady of the Valley Parish, 3220 W. Greenway Road. A commitment to support the goals of a young congregation called the Missionaries of Jesus.

“The Laughing Irish,” Catholic Clean Comedians, 7-8:30 p.m., Nov. 12, Corpus Christi Parish, Social Hall, 3550 E. Knox Rd., Phoenix, proceeds benefit Maggie’s Place. Tickets: $15 advance $20 at door; available at www.LUV2U.com.

This and That

11th Annual Holiday Wine Dinner benefiting “Kids to Camp,” by Knights of Columbus #12164. 6:30 p.m., Oct. 29, St. Bernadette Parish Hall, 16245 N. 60th St., Scottsdale. Four Course Meal by Fleming’s – Black-tie optional. Info: call Ken McDonald (480) 213-2440.

K of C Council #3855 Annual High School Scholarship Pig Roast, 6 p.m., Oct. 30, Hall, 8066 N. 49th Ave. Glendale (corner of 49th Ave. and Northern). Cost is $10 per person for adults; $5 for children under 12 years before Oct 26, thereafter will cost $15 & $8.

Entertainment and horse rides for the children. Proceeds will support Council’s High School Scholarship Program. Info: (623) 937-3794 or Danny Haywood at (602)469-0758.

1st Way Pregnancy Resources Center, “Can I Live?” Banquet, 6-9 p.m., Nov. 6, Paradise Valley Doubletree Resort, Scottsdale with special honored guests, Rev. Clenard Childress Jr., Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted and Bishop James Wall, Gallup, New Mexico, also featured is a festive cocktail hour with jazz band and dinner.

RSVP by Oct. 25. Info: call Kristen at (602) 261-7522.

Christ Child Society of Phoenix, 25th Anniversary of serving children, Mass and lunch, 10 a.m., Nov. 8, St. Theresa Parish, 5045 E. Thomas Road. All past members and those interested in joining are invited. Info: patsyhallaz@gmail.com.

Bioethics Defense Fund’s “Passion for Life,” honors EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo Nov. 12, hear his inspiring address and learn more about our work.

Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Info: www.bdfund.org.

Gerard Class of 1980, 30th Year Class Reunion, 7 p.m., Nov. 13, Dave Bresnahan’s House 7301 S. Hazelton Lane, Tempe. Cost: $15 per person will be collected night of event, includes hors d’oeuvres and cocktails. RSVP to: redcoats1980@yahoo.com by Nov 1.

Fall Festivals

St. Joan of Arc Preschool Holiday Boutique, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Oct. 23, 3801 E. Greenway Road with lots of great Christmas gifts available.

St. Raphael Annual Craft, Art and Bake Sale, 8 a.m.-7 p.m., Oct. 23; 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Oct. 24; Hibner Hall, 5525 W. Acoma Dr, Glendale, hand-made crafts, yummy baked goods, plus watercolor paintings by our own group.

Do your holiday shopping here.

St. Maria Goretti Oktoberfest Dinner Dance, 6-10 p.m., Oct. 23, 6261 N. Granite Reef Road, Scottsdale, music by Dave Arnold and the Arizona Bop Cats; dinner: roast pork, bratwurst, chicken, sauerkraut, German potato salad, dessert, coffee. BYOB. Cost: $15 adults, $5 children 5-12; under 5 free. Info: (480) 998-7401.

Big Bake, Book and Gift Sale, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Oct. 24, St. Timothy Mary Garden, 1730 W. Guadalupe Road, Mesa. Small prices on stocking stuffers. Info: (480) 775-5200 or email: lalexander@sttimothymesa.org.

St. Joseph Parish Fall Festival, Oct. 23-24, St. Joseph Parish, 11001 N. 40th St., Phoenix. Info: (602) 996-5120 or st_joseph@diocesephoenix.org www.stjoephx.org.

Corpus Christi Parish Fall Carnival & Bazaar, 3-10 p.m., Nov. 5, noon-10 p.m., Nov. 6, 1-8 p.m., Nov. 7, rides, entertainment, food, theme baskets, craft fair and family fun.

33rd Annual Holiday Craft Sale, noon-8 p.m., Nov. 5, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Nov. 6, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Nov. 7, Holy Spirit Church, 1800 E. Libra Dr., Tempe.

FIESTA, 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Nov. 6, Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery, 8500 W. Thomas Road, Phoenix, for family fun, food, music and amusements!

Bingo, rummage sale, raffles, karaoke, Jumping Balloons, games, Matachines, and more. Info: (623) 848-9608.

St. Elizabeth Seton Society Christmas Craft Fair, 8 a.m.- 2 p.m., Nov. 6, 8 a.m.-noon, Nov. 7, 9728 W. Palmeras Ln., Sun City; handmade treasures, jewelry, religious gifts, needlework, floral note cards, and more.

Refreshment available.

34th Annual Church Mouse Boutique, 7-9 p.m., Nov. 5; 9 a.m.4:30 p.m., Nov. 6; 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Nov. 7, Blessed Sacrament Church, 11300 N. 64th St., Scottsdale. Café for lunch, sweet shoppe, silent auction, raffle, unique handmade items, and more.

Info. (480) 948-8370.

Annual Fiesta, 4-10 p.m., Nov. 6, 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Nov. 7, St. Charles Borromeo Parish, 8615 W. Peoria Ave.,

Peoria, carnival rides available. Food, volunteers and door prizes are still needed.

Notre Dame Preparatory Fifth Annual Christmas Boutique, 11 a.m.6 p.m., Nov. 10, Windgate Ranch, 10095 E. Windgate Ranch Road, (off Thompson Peak and north of Bell Rd).

Food Cafe, more than 50 vendors and raffle. Info: call Jane Seamans at (602) 549-3391 or Seamans5@cox.net.

Annual Christmas Bazaar, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Nov. 12, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Nov. 13, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Nov. 14, St. Germaine Parish, 7997 E. Dana Dr., Prescott Valley. Arts, crafts, jewelry table, bake sale, silent auction, cedar chest raffle (filled) and raffle tickets prize money winners.

St. Benedict Fall Festival, “Where All Are Welcome,” 5-10 p.m., Nov. 12, 4-10 p.m., Nov. 13, noon-7 p.m., Nov. 14, 16223 S 48th Street, entertainment, carnival rides, Bingo, silent auction, fun and more games. Info: (480) 961-1610.

Fourth Annual Holiday Bazaar, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Nov. 13, 8:30 a.m.1 p.m., Nov. 14, Our Lady of Joy Parish, 36811 N. Pima Road, Carefree, handcrafted quilts, pottery, jewelry, artwork and Christmas decorations, Sweets and Treats, Book Nook, and Corner Cafe. Info: (480) 488-7125.

St. Jerome Life Teen Holiday Extravaganza, Nov. 13-14, St. Jerome Parish, 35th and Peoria Avenues. We need vendors. E-mail Keslie Halonen to sign up. keslie@kkhsquad.com.

Society of St. Vincent de Paul

Save the Date! Our annual fundraising event, the Restoring Hope Breakfast, is Nov. 19 at the Arizona Biltmore.

See and hear what St. Vincent de Paul is doing to serve the poor and homeless in central and northern Arizona.

Visit www.stvincentdepaul.net or call Leslie Zschokke at (602) 261-6837 to register for this free event.

The Casa

All events held at the Franciscan Renewal Center, 5802 E. Lincoln Dr., Scottsdale.

Information, (480) 948-7460.

“The Miracle of the Rosary: The Franciscan Crown,” Arasely Chelsea Tallman, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Oct. 23. Fee: $85, includes lunch. Additional $30 materials fee for beads, medals, etc., to create your own rosary.

“Introduction to Centering Prayer” with Carole Whittaker, Ph.D. and Sharon Taszarek, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Oct. 23; Fee: $45.

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