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The state of Catholic radio in the Valley is stable, effective and on the verge of a potential growth spurt. That’s the soundbite heard during the first anniversary celebration of Phoenix’s Immaculate Heart Radio, 1310 AM. The invitation-only Mass and dinner Jan. 25 at Mount Claret Retreat Center marked 404 days of continuous Catholic programming. That was the same spot where Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted flipped — See CATHOLIC RADIO page 11 ▶
Catholics across the diocese mark ‘Roe’ anniversary By Andrew Junker The Catholic Sun
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For many Catholics and prolifers marking the Jan. 22 anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion, the day is filled with sadness and anger at the fact that an estimated 50 million unborn children have been aborted since 1973. It is also a day marked by mobilization. Some 400,000 men and women — many of them young students — marched this year in Washington, D.C.; 50,000 marched in San Francisco. Locally, pro-lifers gathered the weekend of Jan. 21-23 for Masses, marches and rallies at Arizona — See UNBORN page 13 ▶
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Save the Queen MESA — Queen of Peace School will close its doors at the end of the school year if it does not raise $150,000 in cash by March 15. The school, which would turn 70 in 2012, also needs another $260,000 in pledges by March 15, 2012. Queen of Peace sits in the heart of historic downtown Mesa and has been plagued by the economy and low enrollment. For more information, visit catholicsun.org/savethequeen.
Double tuition tax credit An anonymous corporate donor has agreed to match dollar-for-dollar up to $200,000, any contribution made by a new donor to the Catholic Tuition Organization of the Diocese of Phoenix. The deadline is April 15. Donations made before then can still be credited toward 2010’s state taxes. To make a donation or for questions, go to www.catholictuition.org.
Social justice teaching Jeff Korgen, author of “Solidarity Will Transform the World,” will address how to best share Christ’s love in the world during a March 5 talk. His presentation is in partnership with the diocesan Catholic Campaign for Human Development and Catholic Charities Community Services.
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After some 1,000 people showed up for last year’s Nun Run and another 200 shadow runners supported it worldwide, the Poor Clare Sisters of Perpetual Adoration are organizing the run again. Funds from the 10k run, 5k run/walk and 1-mile walk to be held March 12 at Kiwanis Park in Tempe will continue to build a 28-cell cloistered monastery and communal place of retreat in Tonopah. The sisters moved there in October and are pray-
The national Catholic Youth Choir wants to add fresh high school voices for it repertoire. The 11-year-old choir, sponsored by St. John’s School of Theology Seminary, is accepting applications until March 7. Those selected will participate in a two-week summer camp, generally in late June, at St. John’s Abbey and University in Minnesota. The camp includes a multi-state concert tour. For more information visit www.catholicyouthchoir.org.
Taize prayer in Lent The Crosier Fathers and Brothers invite the community to join them for Taize Prayer at a different parish throughout the Valley Fridays during Lent. Taize Prayer begins with meditative song followed by a Scripture reading. The Crosiers will pray in English 7 p.m. March 11 at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Scottsdale, 6:30 p.m. March 18 at St. Thomas More Parish in Glendale and a bilingual service 7 p.m. March 25 at Sacred Heart Parish near downtown Phoenix. A Spanish Taize Prayer and two more English services are scheduled for April. For more information go to www.crosier. org or call (602) 443-7100.
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Teacher accused of misconduct arrested School officials at St. Gregory Parish were notified Feb. 5 that Carl Mosher, a physical education teacher at the school, was arrested early that morning for alleged sexual misconduct with a minor, according to a statement from the Diocese of Phoenix. The minor’s parents reported the matter to civil authorities on Feb. 4, and the school was placed on notice. The identity of the victim is being withheld as part of the police investigation. The diocesan Office of Child and Youth Protection is working with the victim’s family, and the school and parish community to provide counseling and other assistance. ▶ For the full story: bit.ly/st-gregory-021711
Scottsdale Catholic school announces upcoming closure SCOTTSDALE — Amid a nationwide celebration of Catholic education came news that one parish school is closing. Fr. Thaddeus McGuire, pastor of St. Daniel the Prophet School since 2004, sent a letter home to parents Feb. 2. Its remaining 60 students will finish out the school year on the south Scottsdale campus May 27. “The growing school subsidy has reached a level which compromises the financial and pastoral well-being of our wider parish community,” Fr. McGuire wrote. The letter cited the nation’s struggling economy as “the most pressing factor” affecting enrollment. Scholarship subsidies have helped, but they’re not enough, especially when lower income families now reside within parish boundaries, he wrote. ▶ For the full story: bit.ly/st-daniel-021711
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Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo A. Nevares blessed matachiness Jan. 15 at St. Louis the King in Glendale.
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A hush fell over the crowd as husband-andwife actors Jeremy and Sarah Stanbary, both with degrees in theater, proceeded to take turns portraying various men and women who have known heartache and horror since ending the lives of their unborn children. More than 300 supporters of the John Paul II Resource Center gathered at Xavier College Preparatory Jan. 29 for “The Vitae Monologues,” a drama based on the real-life stories of men and women who have experienced abortion. ▶ For the full story: bit.ly/vitae-021711
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LENDALE — They’re everywhere: Rosary Sunday, Honor Your Mother, praying in front of abortion clinics, celebrating parish festivals. When Catholics gather to ask for the intercession of the Blessed Mother, or to thank her for prayers answered, you’ll often find the matachines. These traditional dancers — common in many states in Mexico — are devoted to Our Lady of Guadalupe. ▶ For the full story: bit.ly/matchines021711
On the horizon @ ▶ Feb b. 18, “A Pledge d off Futture Glory” golf tournament at Arizona Biltmore. Benefits Dominican Sisters of Mary, y, Mother of the Eucharist ▶ Feb. 21, Diocesan Pastoral Center closed for Presidents Day
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This ain’t no ‘retreat’ Conference targets masculine spirituality By Andrew Junker The Catholic Sun
Into In to the Des eser ertt fo er forr Ch Chri rist ri st Learn Lear n mo more re abo boutt thi hiss ye year ar’’s Cath Ca thol th olic ol ic Men en’s ’ss Fel ello lows lo wshi ws hip hi p on the heir ir web ebsi site te:: www.cmfp.org
On Feb. 26, hundreds of men will gather for a day of challenging pre-Lenten talks about what it means to be Catholic man today. They’ll have lunch together and attend Mass celebrated by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted. There will also be time throughout the day to make confession. Just don’t call it a retreat. “This is an advance,” said Mike Phelan, who directs the diocesan Marriage and Respect Life Office, which helps plan the yearly Men’s Conference. “We’re moving forward. We’re taking up our responsibility. We’ll need the retreat later if we do this right.” The conference is always tied to the Lenten season, “a great time to be challenged,” Phelan said. It has also grown in number of attendees each of its four years in existence. Last year, the conference was held at St. Paul’s Parish. The room was packed to the gills with more than 800 men, so this year, they will meet in the more spacious Xavier College Preparatory’s performing arts center. It remains popular because the conference presents speakers who challenge the men to live a life of sacrifice and consequence, and to eschew the popular notions of what a modern man should be. “What the culture tells men is that the meaning of your life is to move in comfort from Gameboy to Playboy to Lazy Boy, and then you die and nobody cares,” Phelan said. “People want a more meaningful life. And this is what the conference is about. A Catholic man’s life is one of profound meaning and sacrifice.” This year’s conference will feature Franciscan Father Benedict J. Groeschel, who co-founded the
Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. That community ministers to the destitute in New York City and elsewhere. He has also published a number of books and is known for his Sunday Night Live program on EWTN. Attendees will also hear talks by Philip Rivers, a quarterback for the San Diego Chargers who has broken several National Football League records, Ray Guarendi, clinical psychologist, radio talk-show host, author and father of 10, and Damon Owens, a noted marriage and Theology of the Body speaker. Rene Robles, who has attended every conference, said one of the event’s greatest boons is the feeling of camaraderie it encourages. “Catholic men need fellowship because the worldly world would just love for us to take ‘another bite’ out of it so to speak,” Robles said. “We need each other to understand and support one another. But I think mostly to hold us accountable for our actions.” Robles and fellow attendee V.J. Byrne belong to Catholic men’s fellowship groups at their parishes. “We need to be in contact with other people who are trying to live a Christ-centered life — have Christcentered conversations,” said Byrne, a parishioner at St. Thomas the Apostle. “Sometimes God speaks to us through other people.” The response from attendees has been nearly unanimously positive, Phelan said, but there’s another group whose response has been equally encouraging: the conference-goers’ wives. ✴
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Local musician donates kidney in quadruple swap By Joyce Coronel The Catholic Sun
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ime was running out for Deanna Elliot. Chronic, lifethreatening kidney disease was threatening the St. Theresa parishioner’s life. Elliot, 40, had already endured two kidney transplants and was undergoing dialysis three times a week during the last year. But the site doctors used to withdraw, cleanse and re-circulate Elliot’s blood was becoming difficult to use. Another kidney transplant was her only hope. That’s where local musician and mother of five, Julie Smith, stepped in. Elliot is her husband’s niece. “She’s also had so many blood clots and complications they don’t have any more places to put in her catheter [for dialysis],” Smith said. “They were talking heroic measures a couple months ago.” The dialysis is a rather unpleasant affair that for Elliot is often accompanied by cramping, vomiting and exhaustion. Her illness causes pain so severe that she recently suffered a seizure. “She’s had a life of chronic illness,” Smith said. “It’s affected her in everything — schools, jobs — it’s just hard to comprehend.” More than 85,000 people in the
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Julie Smith receives the sacrament of the anointing of the sick at St. Mary Parish’s rectory Jan. 16 in Chandler.
United States are awaiting a kidney transplant. Every day, 12 die waiting for an organ donation that never comes. What many people don’t realize is that donated organs — if the recipient’s body does not reject them — only last a finite amount of time. Organs from living donors generally last about twice as long as those obtained from cadavers. Kidneys are one of the body’s paired organs and most people need only one functioning kidney. That’s where living donors can make a difference.
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After seeing all that Elliot had to endure, Smith decided to take the plunge last summer and get tested to see if she was a match so she could donate her kidney. “I cried for two days — I was so sad that I was not a match,” Smith said. At that point, Elliot had been in the hospital for 30 days. Thanks to something called paired donations, Smith was still able to donate a kidney — just not to Elliot. The way the program works, prospective donors undergo both physical and psychological testing to find out if they are suitable can-
didates for donating a kidney. If they are cleared for donation, they enter their name on a national registry to be paired with a recipient with whom they match. A computer program puts the matches together. On Jan. 16, family and friends of Smith and Elliot gathered at St. Mary Parish in Chandler where Fr. Dan McBride, V.F., Smith’s pastor, gave the anointing of the sick to both patients. Afterwards, Elliot talked about waking up after her second transplant 12 years ago when she received her mother’s kidney. “After my last transplant, I woke up and I looked at my mom and I said, ‘Does everybody feel this good? Is this how everybody feels? It was just an amazing experience to feel a true sense of restored health,” Elliot said. Smith said she was not anxious about the surgery that would require a few days in the hospital as well as six weeks off from her work at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic School in Tempe where she helps out with school liturgies. “I prayed about whether this should be my priority, should I do it,” Smith said. “We started talking about it as a family and the kids were all on board about it. It became this learning process for us.” Smith said she had placed the
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Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted has been appointed to Vox Clara, a committee established in 2001 that advises the Vatican on English translations. The bishop spent nine years working in the Secretariat of State of the Holy See and was one of the English translators for John Paul II’s Theology of the Body series of talks. Four other new members also joined the Vox Clara committee, which met Feb. 2-3 at the Vatican. Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli of Paterson, N.J., former chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Divine Worship; Irish Archbishop Michael Neary of Tuam; Auxiliary Bishop David McGough of Birmingham, England; and Bishop John Tong Hon of Hong Kong comprise the other new members. “Our goal is sharply focused,” Bishop Olmsted said, “namely to provide advice on English translations of liturgical books of the Church, such as the Roman Missal, the Rite of Baptism, the Rite of Marriage and so forth.” The committee, he said, includes 11 bishops from around the world where English is frequently used in the Sacred Liturgy. “All of us have firsthand experience of the People of God,” the bishop said. “This is important for the Congregation in Rome because they want to get input from those who are familiar with the experiences of people in the pews so as to complement the work done by scholars and expert assistants.” Vox Clara will be meeting again in July of this year, and then probably twice each year thereafter, always in Rome, Bishop Olmsted
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Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted was appointed to Vox Clara this month.
said. A press release about the meeting was posted on the blog of Vox Clara member Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Ottawa, Ontario. According to the press release, Cardinal George Pell of Sydney, chairman of Vox Clara, said that “with the work of the translation of the Roman Missal substantially complete, initiatives should continue around the English-speaking world for its effective reception.” The Roman Missal is the book of prayers used in worship in the Latin-rite Church; the third edition of the missal was published in Latin in 2002. National bishops’ conferences have different timetables for readying their priests and people to use the new translation and have set different dates for beginning to use the text. The U.S. bishops have announced that use of the new Missal will begin the first Sunday of Advent, which is Nov. 27. The Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales said parishes will begin using the basic Mass prayers in September but would not switch totally to the new translation until the texts for local feasts have been finalized. ✴ Catholic News Services contributed to this story.
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How Catholic Charities helps girls get out and stay out of ‘the life’ By J.D. Long-García The Catholic Sun
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here are a few things you should know about prostitution. First off, most prostituted women entered “the life” when they were 13. Simply put, girls that young don’t know what they’re getting into. It’s child abuse, not a choice. Another thing is that 85 percent of prostituted women were sexually abused as children. They wind up finding the attention they didn’t get from their parents from a “friend.” The “friend” — either a pimp or an older peer that recruits for pimps — gets a girl’s trust, and then it’s too late. Catholic Charities’ Developing Individual Growth and New Independence Through Yourself, or DIGNITY, recognizes prostituted women as victims of trafficking. DIGNITY offers girls a place to live, emotional support, counseling and life-skills education. Some 93 percent of women who complete the residential program leave the life for good. Last year, DIGNITY started up an immersion experience — “A Walk through ‘the Life’” — a graphic depiction of what prostituted girls and woman face. Through an interactive performance, videos and images, participants begin to
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understand what it’s like. Catholic Charities will be hosting the immersion again this year, 5:30 p.m.- 9 p.m., Feb. 24-26 at their offices, 4747 N. 7th Ave. The immersion won the Greater Phoenix Child Abuse Prevention Council’s 2010 Cherish the Children Award. Targeting girls The immersion is a pretty good depiction, according to Danielle Fleming, who slipped into the life when she was a teenager. “Everything in it is real,” she said. “People can’t really grasp it. They don’t know people in that life.”
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pimps will recruit using “the rule of three.” He’ll approach a group of three girls and start giving one of them his attention. It can’t be the prettiest one, she’s used to it. And it can’t be the least pretty, either, because she won’t believe it. It’s the middle one, Irby explained. “All these guys ‘loved me,’” Fleming said she’d tell herself. “I was just wanting any kind of attention, just wanting to be loved.” At one point she worked at a theatre where, in between movies, she’d dance, stop and have sex with customers. Fleming said very young girls worked there.
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She worked on the streets in different states, from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. She started doing cocaine, in part to keep her awake and in part to escape. She didn’t have friends, not really. When your boyfriend is a pimp, you’re not allowed to talk to anyone else, she said. “If we were walking in the mall, I’d have to keep my head down,” Fleming said of one relationship. “For years, this man was my whole world. Like I’d finally found my dad, but then he left me.” In her 20s, she didn’t know how to be herself. She started dancing to make money. She tried to be a certified nurse assistant, but it didn’t take. She kept herself drunk all the time. Eventually, she moved to Arizona and, after a time, started looking for help. She found DIGNITY. Once girls are in DIGNITY, things can change pretty quickly. The woman who founded DIGNITY had been prostituted herself, and most of the staff members are survivors of prostitution. “I have a whole lot of numbers on my phone,” Fleming said. She goes back once a week to talk to girls in the program. “I wasn’t made to be a prostitute,” she said. She believes that now. “You have to stay willing. You have to keep doing the next right thing.” ✴
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Ak-Chin Indian Community breaks ground on new church By J.D. Long-García The Catholic Sun
AK-CHIN — It doesn’t matter how close you sit to each other, 220 people won’t fit into a church built for 100. That’s what St. Francis of Assisi parishioners discovered on Ash Wednesday last year. It’ll probably happen again this year. But, after the Jan. 20 groundbreaking, Catholics in this Native American community just south of Maricopa started making more space to worship the Lord. A new church will be built by the end of the year. “A church is a sacred site. Those people who are Christian especially recognize it,” said Franciscan
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Members of St. Francis of Assisi join Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo A. Nevares and Franciscan Father Dale Jamison during the Jan. 20 groundbreaking.
Father Dale Jamison, pastor of St. Francis. “We come to the church to be reborn in baptism and to grow in the Spirit through the other sacraments and when we die, to be reborn into resurrected life.” The community has been talking about building a new church for more than 30 years. After some
major gifts and donations from friends of the community and a whole lot of bake sales, other fundraisers and extra money pitched into the collection basket, the parish is ready to build. The new 8,000-square-foot church will cost around $1.2 million. The church will seat more than 200, and a community area can be used for additional seating. The site was blessed twice during the groundbreaking ceremony — by Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo A. Nevares and by Joseph Enos, a traditional spiritualist from the Tohono O’odham Nation. “We’re not just celebrating this present moment,” he said, “but the faith of the Ak-Chin community for the last 100 years.” ✴
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Scottsdale parish enters next phase in construction By J.D. Long-García The Catholic Sun
SCOTTSDALE — With their new gymnasium complete and dedicated, St. Bernadette Parish leaders are eyeing the next step in their multi-phase construction project. This month, the parish is petitioning the city for permission to exceed the height limits for its new church, which will “be Catholic inside and out,” according to Fr. Peter Rossa, the pastor. “What’s more important is to capture the expression of faith that
is a church building,” he said, adding that a church is a “gate of heaven,” expresses triumph, the promise of paradise and is a house of God. “Churches should be something that represent the timeless nature of God,” Fr. Rossa said, explaining the theology behind the planned cruciform church. He said the church design will express the immanence and transcendence of God. The construction will have the people facing east, toward the rising sun as they sit in the pews. Church architecture is a form of worship, Fr. Rossa said. While some might mistake the design as missionary, it’s actually French. The church will resemble the churches of St. Bernadette’s time. Artwork will help parishioners enter into the life of their patron saint. That includes a depiction of the Immaculate Conception, the title Our Lady revealed to St. Bernadette when she appeared to her. The new plan also takes into account more practical considerations, like traffic flow. The parish and surrounding community support it. ✴
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Still growing after 25 years St. Andrew Parish marks quarter century of ministry By Janice Semmel The Catholic Sun
CHANDLER — For St. Andrew the Apostle Parish’s first Mass, Fr. Joe Hennessey bought a bottle of wine with a screw-off top. When the time for Mass arrived, he discovered a cork under the top. Mass was delayed 50 minutes, Fr. Hennessey said, and “we’ve been running late ever since.” Fr. Hennessey, the parish’s founding pastor, spoke during the community’s 25th anniversary celebration Jan. 26. The Irish-born priest celebrated the first Mass with 130 fami-
Catholic convert now leads class on Catholic Church teaching By Monique Zatcoff The Catholic Sun
GILBERT — After only being in the Catholic Church for three years, a St. Mary Magdalene parishioner has recognized the importance of knowing Church teachings. Chris Zajdzinski, who was raised non-denominational Christian, converted to Catholicism on Divine Mercy Sunday in 2008 after realizing his assumptions about the Church were really misunderstandings. Now Zajdzinski is starting Catholicism 101, a catechism class that he hopes will educate others on Catholic beliefs. “I want to help Catholics better understand their faith so that they can own it and live it and also so
lies at Kyrene Middle School. Eight months later, the community moved to Seton Catholic Preparatory High School before a social hall was built three years later. “We didn’t build a church,” Fr. Hennessey said, “we built a home for a church.” In 1996, they celebrated their first Mass in their Fr. Joe Hennessey current church building. From the beginning, St. Andrew was a place for sinners to call home, as Fr. John Coleman explained. Twenty-five years ago, Fr. Hennessey visited some of the churches in the area, and explained that they were “starting something new.” “I’d like all of you who are good sinners to come join me,” Fr. Hennessey had said, according to Fr. Coleman. “My guess is that some of those good sinners are here right now in
our midst. We want to thank you, A, for being good sinners and B, for leaving your nets behind and coming to start a new parish,” he said, referring to the way in which St. Andrew answered Christ’s call. From the 130 families, the parish has burgeoned to more than 4,000. It continues to grow, Fr. Coleman said, both in numbers and in outreach to others — including support of an orphanage in Haiti. Leigh Emrick, coordinator of stewardship and communications for the parish, said children have always been a focus of parish ministry. Thanks to the support of the priests, youth programs have flourished, she said. “Listen to the kids; you always get the truth,” Fr. Hennessey told those gathered. “I always listened to the kids and they always told me where you were at.” The parish also hosted an anniversary picnic Jan. 30 and is planning a Hawaiian luau in June. ✴
they can defend it,” Zajdzinski said. “I also want it to be a place where non-Catholics can come.” The five-week course began Feb. 3 at St. Mary Magdalene in Gilbert and will continue at 6:30 p.m. Thursdays until Lent. Zajdzinski said the class will be interactive giving attendees a bird’s eye view of the material while covering everything from salvation and the Virgin Mary to purgatory and the saints. For its first series, Catholicism 101 will be held exclusively at St. Mary Magdalene Parish, but in the future Zajdzinski hopes to bring it to other parishes. “We would like to see every parish with a strong adult catechism formation,” said Ryan Hanning, director of parish leadership support. “There is certainly a need to increase that throughout the diocese. Parishes play a pivotal role and it’s really important that they offer these services.”
Kino Institute, a diocesan faith formation program, is fulfilling that need by offering catechism and leadership classes designed for adults. Parish and school catechists along with any adult Catholics seeking to learn about the faith can participate in catechist formation, a certification program that covers the teachings of Church doctrine, or a two-year extensive formation program called Prepare the Way. Both programs focus on helping adults achieve a deeper understanding of the foundations of the Catholic Church. “I think there’s always a need to know Christ more deeply,” said Eric Westby, director of parish leadership credentialing and certification. “Good formation will help these adults to live in holiness and will clarify and define the mission that God has called them to.” ✴ For more on Catholicism 101, visit www.smarymag.org.
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Sr. Ruth Karnitz, SSND to retire By Joyce Coronel The Catholic Sun
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Sr. Ruth Karnitz, SSND, appellate administrator for the Phoenix Diocese tribunal, will retire at the end of February after decades of service.
teaching religious education in Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan. And though she’s been in Arizona for almost 30 years, Sr. Ruth remains in contact with people in Gladstone, Mich. In 1982, her father fell ill with
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lymphoma and Sr. Ruth came to Arizona to be with her parents. She worked at Our Lady of the Valley and St. James parishes in the Phoenix Diocese before coming to the tribunal. Sr. Ruth currently serves as the appellate administrator, where she coordinates all of the appellate formal cases. “I started out being an auditor,” Sr. Ruth said. Getting testimony was her favorite part of the job. “It was kind of a challenge,” she said, “You kind of had to be a detective to help people find witnesses and there were times something almost miraculous happened.” After so many years working with people seeking annulments, she’s learned a thing or two about what makes relationships work — and what doesn’t. “A lot of them went through some awful things in their lives,” she said, “To see how they turned out and what they did with that — it was so humbling.” Many times, she said, she saw cases of abuse, addiction or incest. The annulment process, she said, can bring healing into people’s lives. “People wait so long [for an annulment] and you’re able to help them and see them be able to get married in the Church and be reconciled to the Church,” she said. So what’s her advice for those seeking marriage in the Church? “I would say for engaged couples, do a lot of praying. Ask God to help you,” Sr. Ruth said. “Attend the marriage prep, especially the theology of the body, so you really understand what’s meant by a sacramental tmarriage.” Sr. Ruth will retire at the end of this month and join her community in Elm Grove, Wis., where she will live with 90 sisters. She doesn’t plan on resting too much, though. She’d like to volunteer at a pregnancy resource clinic where her zeal for the pro-life cause will be put to good use. ✴
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Michael Dixon, host of
the “on air” switch Dec. 17, 2009 the locally produced “The following six years of legwork. Bishop’s Hour” on 1310 AM. “It has been a joy personally to be The program airs every able to listen to Catholic radio here Monday at 10 a.m., with in our diocese,” the bishop said. an encore presentation He listens in his car and at home. Thursday at 9 p.m. The bishop tunes in for the classics of Mother Angelica and Raymond Arroyo’s “The World Over,” a For more on “The weekly news magazine program, Bishop’s Hour,” visit” among other shows. thebishopshour.org But he’s by far not the station’s Ambria Hammel/CATHOLIC SUN only faithful listener. The bishop, husband was speaking highly of the Catholic viewpoint, but in- mer bulletin that he grows from who launched his own program, Fr. Corapi’s show and the station studio guests and musicians drive its programming as well and told “The Bishop’s Hour” in September, overall and was willing to return to the conversation. So far that’s been parishioners that they’ll be “a bethears enthusiastic comments from the Church. Bishop Olmsted and other dioc- ter soldier for Christ” by tuning local Catholics. esan leaders specializing in mar- into Immaculate Heart Radio. Julie Blackstock, a St. Thomas Local Catholics may know Fr. riage, catechesis, Catholic educathe Apostle parishioner, first lisLankeit’s voice. Immaculate Heart tion and more. tened to Immaculate Heart Radio Priests, including one who Radio carries the 9 a.m. Sunday in 1997 near Reno. That was its reflected on the struggles of local liturgy live from the cathedral. original market. Immaculate Heart Radio has Chaldean Catholics, have also been She now listens on 1310 AM. guests on the live-to-tape program. benefited the laity too. Doug Blackstock especially enjoys Fr. “The Bishop’s Hour” could one day Sherman, president and founder Corapi and other EWTN programhave fresh content five days a week. of Immaculate Heart Radio, highming — since she no longer gets “I find it spiritually and intel- lighted some of Phoenix’s converit through cable — as well as the lectually engaging,” Dixon said. “I sion stories during the anniversary musical rosary. always have my own dinner. “It keeps me focused One woman found comfort in enthusiasm and a real on what really matRead about Teresa Immaculate Heart Radio’s nonstop curiosity.” ters in the world. It Tomeo,of “Catholic So have countless programming following the death gives me hope for the Connection”: others, not just for of her son and another woman future. Other [secular] bit.ly/tomeo021711 “The Bishop’s Hour,” helped bring her husband back to programming doesn’t but all Immaculate the Church. focus on the hope. It It all happened because she saw Heart Radio programming. Some gets critical,” Blackstock said. 95 percent of listeners in a net- an Immaculate Heart Radio bumShe was one of a dozen of work-wide survey last year said per sticker recently, which says, Immaculate Heart Radio’s local station programming has helped in part, “Sharing the Heart of the volunteers who attended the annithem grow spiritually. Eighty per- Christian Faith,” and began to listen. versary dinner as servers. She quickly — and secretly — cent have learned more about their Listeners around the diocese tuned her husband’s car radio to faith. are hooked on the station. Debbie Georgianni, community relaThat includes Fr. John Lankeit, 1310AM, too. He had fallen away tions representative for Phoenix’s rector at Ss. Simon and Jude from the faith. Immaculate Heart Radio, said the Two weeks later, the woman’s Cathedral. He wrote in a sumquality of local listener testimonies she hears keeps up her energy. 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That’s just one of many testimonies stories from the 24-station network. It has saved marriages, saved lives from abortion or suicide and fostered surges within the spiritual lives of its listeners. “Immaculate Heart Radio is a 24-hour-a-day tool of evangelization and catechesis — helping Catholics to understand and live their faith more deeply,” said Sherman, its founder. Bishop Olmsted agreed. “I have high hopes that we can have even more locally-produced programs in the years to come,” he said. ✴
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CDA makes helps make Catholic education affordable By Joyce Coronel The Catholic Sun
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ichael Brennan, principal of Most Holy Trinity Catholic School in Phoenix, knows firsthand the critical importance of the funding his students receive from the Charity and Development Appeal. A majority of his 150 students receive tuition assistance through the CDA. The annual appeal helps students at 14 schools in the Phoenix Diocese obtain a Catholic education. “CDA has been tremendously helpful to Most Holy Trinity Catholic School,” Brennan said. “We would not be able to do the things that we do without their assistance the last few years.” That’s because, even with help from the Catholic Tuition Organization of the Diocese of Phoenix, the cost to educate a child
is often much higher than what a school charges. A school might charge $4,000 Brennan said, but when everything is figured in — all the operational expenses of the school, divided by the number of students — the cost to educate can be $2,000 to $5,000 more. Grants from the CDA help to fill that void, Brennan said. He also said that, despite many hardships, the students’ parents are devoted to Catholic education. “Many of the families at MHT have certainly felt the pressures of the economic situation, but they don’t quit, as hard as it may be,” Brennan said. “They believe so strongly in a Catholic education — what it provides, what it means — and in establishing that solid faith and spiritual foundation for their children, realizing that there’s no separation between time for
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formation and time for learning and academic growth. They’re one and the same.” At St. Louis the King School in Glendale, 95 percent of the 230 students enrolled receive tuition assistance. According to Julie Schaffer, development director at the school, CDA funds are the second-largest source of tuition aid after help from the Catholic Tuition Organization of the Diocese of Phoenix. “It’s critical,” Schaffer said. “Without the tuition assistance, a number of families — our students — aren’t able to return. They would have to go back into the public school system or go to the public school system for the first time.” MaryBeth Mueller, superintendent of Catholic schools in the diocese, is a big proponent of the Charity and Development Appeal. She said some parents are working two or three jobs or asking relatives to help pay in order to keep their children in Catholic schools.
“The need that was demonstrated by our applications for scholarship help through the CTODP was $26 million,” Mueller said. The CTODP handed out a little more than $10 million total for the 20102011 school year. “Look at the gap,” Mueller said. “It doesn’t take long for people to understand how important it is that we get money from the CDA to help these families close the gap.” And while Mueller said the diocese wants parents to invest in their children’s education, the burden on families can sometimes be overwhelming. “It’s a lot on the backs of parents in trying to keep their children in Catholic schools,” Mueller said. She spoke of one father who had lost his job and has tried everything to improve his family’s circumstances. He goes to school each day with his children and works wherever he is needed. “Maintenance, the walkathon, you name it, he’ll do it,” Mueller said.
She received calls after Christmas from parents whose children were not allowed to take their final exams due to inability to pay tuition. “They said, ‘Can I work out a plan for you? I’ll do thus and such,’” Mueller said. “So that’s tough. We’ve always said, you have to be paid up, but given the economy we don’t want any more children walking out the door. What are we called to as Christians but to reach out to our brothers and sisters?” At St. Catherine of Siena School, many of the 265 students receive help from the CDA for their Catholic education. Catherine Lucero, the principal, said that the students — like their peers throughout the diocese — appreciate the tuition help and actively support the CDA even though many of their parents have lost their jobs. The student council at St. Catherine’s sponsors a fun activity day each year to raise money for the CDA. This year’s event will be a Hawaiian luau in March featuring games and food with proceeds going to support the appeal. At Most Holy Trinity, students will raise money for the CDA by taking part in the “buck-a-jeans” day or dropping coins in the miniature chapel that’s stationed outside the school office. They also have a much-anticipated, annual “Penny War.” Classes compete against one another for whoever nets the most amount of money over the course of the week. “They love it,” Brennan said. “It empties out the change coffers of every household at MHT school.” The idea is to get the kids involved in the giving back and teachers explain why. “It’s being done to support the CDA because they’ve helped us out and given us this gift of being able to facilitate a Catholic education for you guys,” Brennan said he tells students. “They understand why they’re doing it.” Fr. Greg Schlarb, vicar of stewardship for the Diocese of Phoenix, lauds the assistance the CDA provides to Catholic schools. He said he believes every child should have the right and the privilege to attend Catholic schools and that the diocesan community should support its children. “If the CDA can ease that burden off the parents, then more and more people can be formed in the faith through Catholic education, and the more we will be able to transform society and bring the word of God to others,” Fr. Schlarb said. Schaffer of St. Louis the King agreed. “These kids are our future, the future of our Church,” she said. “They’re our future employees and employers. The education they receive now is very important to us, no matter who we are.” ✴
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State University in Tempe and at Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix. They were events marked by prayer and love. “Our crisis in this culture of death and a call to return to the culture of life requires returning to ‘agape,’ or love,” said Damon Owens, founder of New Jerseybased Joy Filled Marriage. He spoke at the Jan. 21 Youth and Young Adult Rally at ASU’s All Saints Catholic Newman Center. His call for an example of sacrificial love was more than met by another presenter: Edel Carrick. She detailed before a crowd — teens, young adults, at least two deacon candidates and a few priests and women religious — how a simple encounter at a party led to a sexual assault and pregnancy. Couple that with Carrick’s diabetes and that left the then 19-year-old fighting for both her life and the life of her unborn son. It started with Carrick’s first ultrasound. Afterward, the doctor told Carrick that she would resent the baby, and because of the coming complications due to Carrick’s diabetes, it’d be best for her to have an abortion. “I looked at him and said, ‘You’re a doctor. You’re supposed to help save lives, not kill them, so if you’d like to help the next person, feel free, but I’m done here,’” Carrick recalled. Further complications sent paramedics to Carrick’s home weekly during her pregnancy and landed her in the hospital when she was seven-and-a-half months along and facing congestive heart failure. Carrick’s son was born shortly after by Cesarean section at 7 pounds, 15 ounces. The baby spent the next month in intensive care. “I remember saying, ‘I fought for you. You need to fight for me,’” Carrick told an almost spellbound crowd. Shortly after that, she introduced her 6-year-old son and happily reported that he’s learning to read and excels at sports. “That little boy is the one who people were telling me, ‘throw him away,’” Carrick said. Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted then had a brief pro-life message for those at the rally, but began by telling Carrick’s son that he is the “best message without words that we could have here this evening.”
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He recounted the mystery of Christ’s birth and how Jesus’ government refused to protect Him because it wasn’t convenient to have a child there — much like Roe v. Wade does for the unborn in the United States. The bishop also affirmed that there would be a day when abortion is no longer legal. “It will happen through prayer and penance and when we do our part to stand up for life,” he said. The crowd filed out of the chapel and began their annual eucharistic march up “A” Mountain. A passing car honked in support. The procession spanned some 100 yards, following the bishop up the butte to recite the pope’s new “Prayer for Life” over the Valley. For high school freshman Angelica Castillo, her passion for the pro-life cause proved greater than her fear of heights. Castillo, who joined in the eucharistic procession, was among two busloads of teens from St. John Vianney Parish in Goodyear. “I like to hope that my presence would show my support for life,” said James Fernando, a parishioner at Our Lady of the Lake in Lake Havasu City. He added that, if nothing else, the sheer visual presence of people during the eucharistic procession made a statement. The rally continued with allnight adoration for the unborn, those considering an abortion and those in the abortion industry. Pro-life efforts also got a boost from a group of youth at Xavier College Preparatory. They erect an unborn memorial in the school’s bell tower courtyard each year. Roughly 40 students from the school’s Right to Life Club spent part of their Martin Luther King Jr. holiday painting and planting 1,800 white crosses within the courtyard. Each cross stands for one unborn baby who was denied the ultimate
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civil right: the right to life. The actual number of lives lost daily is double that. The school only had room to show the number of abortions performed by noon each day somewhere in the United States. “It puts a visual number in their head,” senior Christian Andreen said. She serves as the club’s president and recalls the memorial sparking conversation about abortion last year. The girls hope the memorial makes the reality of abortion more tangible, especially since not every student at the all-girls Catholic school is Catholic or even pro-life. Some students were reportedly outraged over the memorial last year. High school religious education students at St. Anthony Parish gathered to pray the rosary for life Jan. 22. They gathered around the Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the unborn, to pray. “As Catholics, we must be prolife in every aspect,” said Gilbert Navaira, who works with the parish’s high schoolers and organized the event. Miracle recovery-During a Jan. 23 Mass for the Unborn at St. Francis Xavier Parish, Bishop Olmsted said the only way to combat the culture of death and dictatorship of relativism is to be “light in the world.”
He said that just as Jesus called out to Peter and Andrew to enter into friendship with Him, He desires the same of every created person. “He desires our friendship, this communion with Him in love,” Bishop Olmsted said. “There’s not a single one of us ever created from the moment he or she was conceived in the womb that He doesn’t want to have this bond with.” But in order to have this bond, and to become men and women of light in a darkened world, repentance is a necessity. “Repentance is a real changing of the mind and the heart. This repentance makes possible a free and faithful ‘yes’ to the calling of Christ,” the bishop said. John Garcia, president of Arizona Right to Life, which organized the march and rally that followed the Mass, encouraged the congregation to make their “yes” heard throughout society. “We stand up for life today,” he said. “It will bring us together as one voice for life.” Matachines stomped and twirled about the stage at Steele Indian School Park to a steady drumbeat beneath a banner of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The crowd cheered for 9-year-old Veronica Skikos, who took to the stage and led the assembly in a surprisingly powerful rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner. Nationally known pro-life and chastity advocate Melanie Pritchard drew sustained applause when she related the dramatic account of her resuscitation following two cardiac arrests and an emergency caesarean-section delivery last summer. “It’s great to be here and it’s great to be alive,” Pritchard said. “On July 28, 2010, I was pronounced clinically dead for 10 minutes.” Having suffered an amniotic embolism, a lethal condition wherein fetal hair or other matter passes into the mother’s bloodstream — and eventually her heart
— Pritchard underwent four shocks to her heart in an attempt to revive her. She also lost a massive amount of blood when an artery was mistakenly cut during the C-section. Pritchard said she chose a Catholic community hospital for her delivery because, “I knew if my life was ever in danger or my child’s life was in danger, we would both be looked at as equally valuable and equally human.” “I thank Bishop Olmsted for his courage with Catholic Healthcare West to say Catholic health care will be pro-life health care,” Pritchard said. “Women like me, we need that — we need to be assured when we go into a hospital that the lives of our unborn children will be looked at as equally valuable and not just an afterthought.” Pritchard was referring the bishop’s recent decree that revoked St. Joseph’s Hospital’s affiliation with the Catholic Church following the admission that an abortion had been performed there. Support for the bishop’s actions also came from St. Joseph Parish the weekend of Jan. 22-23 when parishioners signed a card of encouragement after Masses. “We support his stand,” said Joani Judkins of the parish’s sanctity of life group. She said most of the parishioners responded well, though there was a bit of an argument after the Saturday vigil Mass. In his homily, Fr. John Greb talked about helping mothers who have had abortions deal with their remorse. “I want those women to feel loved,” the parish’s pastor said, adding that he has friends who are post-abortive. “We want healing to take place and we don’t want alienation to take place, but we need to talk about this.” ✴ Joyce Coronel, Ambria Hammel and J.D. Long-Garcia contributed to this report.
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February 17, 2011
Local teenagers stand up for life on East, West Coast By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun
Three groups of pro-life students at two local Catholic high schools helped make history recently when they brought their views to the national stage. So many people converged on Washington D.C. to mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade Jan. 24 that the Washington Archdiocese’s Department of Life organized two pre-march youth rallies and Masses. Twenty students from St. Mary’s High School counted themselves among the nearly 28,000 there. Meanwhile, 10 students from Brophy College Preparatory attended youth-focused pro-life conferences, rallies and liturgies organized by nearby Jesuit schools.
The crowds swelled together with the general public for the March for Life at the nation’s Capitol. Across the country in San Francisco, another 30 St. Mary’s students took part in the first youth rally held in conjunction with the seventh annual West Coast Walk for Life Jan. 22. Ike Ndolo, a Tempe Catholic musician who has played at diocesan pro-life events, rallied the young crowd at gatherings on both coasts. The West Coast St. Mary’s group were of different faiths, but stood united in their defense of life. They walked two-and-a-half miles with some 50,000 people to say that not only is abortion wrong, but it hurts the men, women and families involved too. “There was a positive feeling with so many people chanting and
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joined the pro-life movement after seeing an ultrasound image showing life in the womb. Fellow classmates across the nation in Washington D.C. — who all completed an application process for the pilgrimage — also spoke out for the life of the unborn. They found it affirming being with like-minded teens. “They stood up for their belief and tried to change this unfairness of abortion,” junior Chantal Nyabatutsi said. “Abortion is wrong and it should be stopped, no question about that.” Fr. Patrick Riffle, parochial vicar at a Maryland parish and homilist at the D.C. Armory Mass and youth rally, said the cure for abortion is not a law or executive order, but a person, namely Jesus. “If you want to be pro-life, you must get in touch with the very source of life itself,” Fr. Riffle said. Young people, some wearing sweatshirts that said, “Thanks Mom,” “I Survived Roe v. Wade,” and “Everyone Deserves a Birthday,” showed up for the liturgy, according to Catholic News Service. Brophy students, all freshmen, sophomores and juniors, recapped their own pro-life activities and those at nearby Xavier College Preparatory during a Jesuit school rally. Later, the surge of the March for Life crowd brought them to the House of Representatives. The young men spoke with legislators on both sides of the life issue. Senior Gabe Martinez, president of Brophy’s Right to Life club, found a quote from the nearby Holocaust Museum applicable to today’s culture of death: “We don’t have to convince the people to support the killing of millions. Rather, all we have to do is foster a climate of indifference.” “Our generation is the prolife generation. We won’t allow the unjustified slaughter of our brothers and sisters any longer,” Martinez wrote in post-trip reflection. “How do we know we haven’t aborted our next Martin Luther King, Gandhi or great world leader?” Back at home, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted addressed Xavier’s 1,200 students during a pro-life Mass Jan. 21. He called them to be witnesses to the Gospel of Life and accept the “privilege and delicate duty of bringing kindness and truth to other young women who have been wounded by abortion.” The bishop shared the challenge of a nineteenth century French priest to “discover the most urgent need of their epoch and to consecrate themselves to it” and questioned whether there is a more urgent need than to be a witness for the Gospel of Life. ✴ Catholic News Service contributed to this article.
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Clarification The Catholic Sun inadvertently left out a student’s school affiliation in the article “Avondale student recognized for essay” (page 18, Jan. 20, 2011 issue). Jordan Myer is a sixth-grader at St. Thomas Aquinas in Goodyear. Her essay on patriotism brought her top honors at the post level and third at the district level. The Catholic Sun regrets the error.
Notre Dame cyclists kick into high gear By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun
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y sophomore year, 16-yearolds are more apt to hop into their cars than on their bikes. That’s not the case for a handful of members in what is perhaps Notre Dame Preparatory’s most time-intensive club: cycling. It’s also the only club in the nation to offer a varsity letter in the sport. Now that racing season has kicked into gear, it’s not uncommon to see student riders on their bikes for two-hour practices during the week and up to six hours at once on the weekend. Passersby will have to look carefully to spot them though. Notre Dame’s cyclists — three boys and two girls — tend to blend in. They wear their own uniform, but they also train as part of the Valley’s all-age Strada cycling club. Either way, it’s reportedly Arizona’s largest club for junior riders, those 18 and under. “We’re real big on molding peo-
ple, not just good bike riders,” said based on their body type. Riders in Mike Kolin, Strada Racing’s presi- similar ranges then train together. dent and coach. The strategy works. Notre Dame’s That means taking turns who members have earned several worline thy titles in their leads practice, not first two seasons just the fastest and both coaches are proud of each or oldest on a team whose rider’s character. riders are ages Sophomore 7-72. Personal Cocuzza Madi development earned six state means also championship steering clear titles last year, her varsity letter of long distance races as a and set records on team to avoid the track in every Ambria Hammel/CATHOLIC SUN event. labels such as Outside “strong link” of team training, Cocuzza ensures proper rest and and “weak link.” That gives everyone a chance to nutrition, runs weekly, rides a bit develop leadership potential, said on her own and stays mindful of Lisa Kolin, Strada’s vice president her competition. “Their times for certain races and coach. Additionally, Mike Kolin ensures are my bibles and I just try to keep his riders have the best fitting bike beating them,” she said. Junior Michael LaNue was a 2009 and tests new riders to determine their optimum training range state champion on the velodrome
in San Diego although he also gets a great thrill out of mountain biking. “You feel a strong sense of achievement when you get to the top of a mountain and look down to see the road that you just came up,” said LaNue, who is also president of the school’s Medical Club. “You forget about how hard it was coming up and start looking forward to the ride down.” Mike Kolin said it’s important to develop his riders as good “allrounders” first. Junior Nick Thorpe, president of the Cycling Club, has proven himself all-around. He has won six state championships, and several events on the road, the track and in mountain bike races. He placed third in his first mountain bike race and won his first senior level event, racing against those 18 and older. Life isn’t all about pedaling places for these teenagers. The car is still pretty important. A couple of them said the Cycling Club has helped them become better drivers. ✴
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The Nation’s Report Card SCOTTSDALE — Eighth-graders at Blessed Pope John XXIII School represented parochial schools in the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Students took the assessment in math, reading or science Feb. 16 with results to be published in The Nation’s Report Card.
Argentinan students Eight students from Argentina spent Jan. 25-Feb. 16 immersed in campus life at Brophy College Preparatory and family life within a local student’s home. The boys attend a 400-year-old Jesuit high school in their native land. Follow the blog: www.brophy broncos.org/sites/argentina/
Sporting new uniforms Senior athletes at local schools are starting to wear different uniforms as they signed letters of intent to play for various college teams next year. Brophy soccer player Kevin Grigsby signed on with the University of Michigan Feb. 2. The team made it to the final four at the College Cup this year. Teammate Andre LeBlanc will play for Long Island University. St. Mary’s volleyball players were recruited Feb. 2 too. Samantha Lopez signed with St. Gregory University, Keanna Lomeli signed with Phoenix College and Ryan Irving signed with Jackson State University. Sacred Heart University recruited Ariel Armendariz to play softball. Tori Tiano plans to do the same for Glendale Community College. The Bourgade outfielder has played varsity for four years and was an all-region selection to the 2A Metro Region West Conference last year. ✴
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Students celebrate top-rated Catholic education across diocese By Ambria Hammel and Andrew Junker The Catholic Sun
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t was fitting that this year’s National Appreciation Day for Catholic Schools coincided with the Feb. 2 Feast of the Presentation of the Lord or Candlemas. Students from Catholic schools across the state filled Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral for a liturgy commemorating Christ’s entrance into the temple. They watched as some of their peers processed from the back of a darkened cathedral with lit candles. Some were dressed as Joseph and Mary who presented
Jesus to Simeon and Anna, who awaited the newborn king. MaryBeth Mueller, superintendent of Catholic schools in the Phoenix Diocese, linked the little tableau to the role of Catholic schools in America. “We serve as beacons of both light and promise,” she said before the annual Catholic Schools Week Mass began. “Together we bring enlightenment, peace and justice to one another and those around us.” That includes the greater community. This year’s theme, “Catholic Schools: A+ for America,” celebrated the value that Catholic schools add to the local Church, the state
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Bourgade Catholic High School cheerleaders weather the cold before leading a cheer during the Feb. 2 Catholic Schools Week Rally at the Capitol.
and the nation. “It’s where you learn the basics of — what are they teaching now?” Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo A. Nevares asked students during his homily. “It used to be the three R’s: reading, writing and arithmetic. Now it’s computer science.” The curriculum certainly adjusts to the time, the bishop said, but an encounter with Jesus transcends that. Catholic education grounds students in eternal truths, he said. A good Catholic education necessitates good Catholic educa-
tors, a role filled by many in the children’s lives, the bishop said. He, alongside Mueller, recognized 17 teachers marking 25 years in local Catholic education. The pair bestowed each of them with a certificate. There were three each from Brophy College Preparatory and Seton Catholic Preparatory High School in Chandler plus a trio of Franciscan sisters at St. Peter Mission School in Bapchule. Carl Hodus, principal at St. Jerome, has served the diocese for
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25 years, as have six staff members at Xavier College Preparatory. They brought Christ’s light to thousands of students over the years and Bishop Nevares reminded the students to do the same. “May we take [Christ’s light] in our lives and then allow Him to shine through us to all we meet,” the bishop said. The students met a string of Arizona’s top legislators during a lunchtime rally on the Capitol’s House lawn. All of them repeatedly told more than 1,000 students and teachers statewide about the personal benefits of a Catholic education for both the students and the community. “It was an opportunity for [the students] to give thanks to our legislature for all of the many school choice laws that have been passed that enable so many kids to go to our schools,” Ron Johnson, executive director of the Arizona Catholic Conference, told The Catholic Sun. The conference is the public policy arm of the local Church and successfully introduced or supported 11 pieces of legislation regarding school choice in the last nine years. Those laws have helped struggling families afford a private education. Johnson plans to propose new legislation this year that would expand the donor base for the corporate tax credit and possibly increase the amount that individuals can give to tuition organizations. Donors have contributed $7 million so far this fiscal year to the Catholic Tuition Organization of the Diocese of Phoenix. Governor Jan Brewer pointed out that 62 percent of scholarships from these types of organizations go to minorities. That allows students from ethnically and economically diverse areas afford a quality education. “This credit provides really and truly a win, win opportunity,” Brewer said. Theresa Maloney, a senior at Xavier College Preparatory, thinks so too. She found value in the Catholic school environment, one that CTODP supported her in after her father lost his job in new home sales three years ago. “We learn how to be a strong person of faith… to build friendships that have a strong moral foundation,” Maloney told the crowd. She was one of two students who reflected on their Catholic school experience. Three of Arizona’s bishops also briefly addressed the students, including Bishop Nevares. He surveyed the crowd, asking where future astronauts, engineers, scientists, priests, sisters and deacons stood. Students raised their hand and cheered for each. “We need all of you to do God’s holy will,” Bishop Nevares said, nudging students to pray for discernment. ✴
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Son of Polish immigrants wins spelling bee
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St. John Bosco eighth-grader Mateusz Bendisz has been spelling tough words all his life. Take his name, for instance. The son of Polish immigrants spelled-out some doozies to best 25 other spellers representing Catholic schools at the annual diocesan spelling bee. To get to the diocesan spelling bee, spellers had to win their local school contest. After the first round, words got dramatically more difficult. With many missteps, nearly half of the students misspelled their way out of the bee. Perhaps a reflection of modern church architecture, a student misspelled gargoyle. Other words — like chrism, stewardship and tabernacle — were no match for the Catholic spellers. Before long, the contest narrowed to four top-notch contestants: Susan Peters from St. Theresa, Kaitlin Coltin from Ss. Simon and Jude, Jemy MaĂąalac from St. Thomas Aquinas in Avondale, and Bendisz. Parents, teachers and fellow students hung on every letter as the four battled it out, going several rounds before dropping a contestant. At one point, St. Thomas the Apostle’s champion speller, John “Jackâ€? Bannon, sneezed. Several of his peers, who also didn’t make the final four,
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Xavier community breaks ground for badly needed space By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun
Fifteen years ago, campus expansion was almost a pipe dream — one that recently became quite real. A three-year, $18 million capital campaign took a big step Jan. 21 when Full story: students, alumni, bit.ly/xcp-11 staff and diocesan and community leaders broke ground for a multiuse building and athletic space at Xavier College Preparatory. It was among the biggest groundbreakings, in terms of number of golden shovels, that the Phoenix Diocese has seen in recent years. The 60-some people — almost one-third of them students — who turned
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Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted blesses Xavier students and the future site of an athletic field and Founders Hall following a Jan. 21 groundbreaking for the project.
over the ceremonial dirt formed a large rectangle between a seated crowd of parents and other notable donors on one side, and a circle of the school’s 1,200 students with signs and pompoms on the other. The grassy area immediately south
of campus near Seventh Street and Camelback became an active construction site a few hours later. Within the next 12 to 14 months, it will be the site of Founders Hall, featuring two stories of classrooms, meeting space and a 360-seat chapel. ✴
St. Francis Xavier dedicates new activity center By Andrew Junker The Catholic Sun
“Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam,” which translates “To the Greater Glory of God,” is the motto of the Jesuits, Full story: and, as such, is bit.ly/sfx-11 stamped, embroidered, painted or scribbled across most open surfaces in any Jesuit institution of learning. It’s a reminder of where the student’s focus should lie, the reason for his or her actions. It shows that each act — no matter how small or trivial — can be oriented
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Don’t balance budgets on backs of poor, bishops tell state legislators By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON— Catholic bishops around the country are reminding state legislatures and their fellow citizens that the nation’s budgetary problems are not over and must not be resolved on the backs of the poor. “In the devastation of shrinking city and state budgets across the country, all face excruciating choices,” said the Massachusetts bishops in one of the most recent statements, issued Feb. 9. “But we caution that while the temptation to turn away from the growing social needs confronting our cities and towns may seem attractive ... our capacity to move beyond the many complex problems we face today depends on our willingness to overcome that temptation.” The heads of Massachusetts’ four Catholic dioceses said their statement, titled “Standing in Solidarity With All,” involved a pledge and a plea. “Our pledge is that we will do all we can as bishops to enable institutions -- parishes, Catholic Charities, health care facilities and schools -- to continue to do their best in extending help to our neighbors in need,” they said. “Our plea is that in the decisions facing our elected officials, and in the discussions and actions of all citizens, there be preserved, for the sake of human dignity, a special place and regard for the vulnerable.” That pledge and plea were being made across the country by bishops or their representatives in statements and testimony about states’ efforts to balance their budgets. Many echoed the message delivered by Jennifer Allmon, associate director of the Texas Catholic Conference, in Feb. 2 testimony before the Senate Finance Committee on behalf of the state’s 15 active Catholic bishops: “The charitable community in Texas does not have the capacity to absorb the needs created” by state budget cuts. She said the conference, which represents the state’s bishops on public policy matters, “supports a balanced approach to solving the revenue shortfall, including seeking new revenue to adequately fund needed public services and to prepare Texas for the future.” Before reducing public services, Allmon said, Texas officials should use all of the state’s Rainy Day Fund; “maximize use of available federal funding without extending funding for immoral medical procedures or research”; and create new revenue sources “that are equitable and can grow along with the growth in need for public services.” In Michigan, Paul A. Long, pres-
ident and CEO of the Michigan Catholic Conference, spoke out Feb. 9 against proposed legislation that would eliminate the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit, which he called “a pro-family, pro-work policy that reduces poverty, increases workforce participation among low-income families, and makes the state tax system fairer by offsetting disproportionate payroll taxes.” “While not unexpected, it is terribly unfortunate and alarming that the first target of this year’s budget deficit may be low-income working families living paycheck to paycheck,” Long said. “Michigan’s low-income workers should not bear the burden of setting straight the state’s fiscal house.” In California, Catholic Charities agencies across the state joined in
marking Feb. 3 as the start of a month of poverty awareness and education activities under the umbrella of Step Up California, a campaign challenging Californians to help those in need through volunteerism and charitable giving to service organizations such as food banks, homeless shelters and job development organizations. In its legislative agenda for 2011, the Minnesota Catholic Conference expressed fears “for how the next round of budget cutting may impact health and human services” after the state “already used up one-time solutions” and reduced services in past legislatures. The policy positions outlined by the Maryland Catholic Conference for the 2011 legislative session offered a similar perspective. ✴
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The majesty and mercy of God: Why a new Missal?
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n part one of this series on the new English translation of the Roman Missal, we looked at the way that beauty reveals God and how it lifts our hearts to offer Him fitting worship and praise. Now, in part two, we shall turn to the purpose of the liturgy: namely, true worship of God. In part three (i.e. next time), we shall consider the fruits or benefits of the Liturgy: how the Liturgy sanctifies men and women. The essence of religion “The Lord, your God, shall you worship and Him alone shall you serve” (Mt 4:10). With these words, the Lord Jesus reminds us that the essence of religion is the worship of God. God created the universe for this very purpose. In addition, He set men and women, created in the divine image, over all other created things; He entrusted them with dominion over the world and wrote on their hearts the command to worship God who created all things. God gave this command out of love, not because He has any need of our worship, but because it is a blessing for us to worship Him. Worshipping God allows us to grow to full maturity in His sight, and to satisfy the deepest longings of the heart. God is indeed worthy to be praised. This is the reason for the First of the Ten Commandments: “I am the Lord your God… you shall have no other gods besides me” (Ex 20:2). As the Catechism of the Catholic Church explains (#2084), “God’s first call and just demand is that man accept Him and worship Him.” To worship God means acknowledging, in all humility and honesty, that all we have and all that we are comes from Him. It consists in submitting to His holy will, not grudgingly but gladly. The Blessed Virgin Mary offers us the perfect example of how to do this. We see this especially in her Magnificat, where she says (Lk 1:46ff), “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior…The Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is His name. His mercy is from age to age to those who fear Him.” Through Him, with Him and in Him On our own, however, relying only on our own resources, we human beings could never truly or adequately worship God. “To accomplish so great a work,” Vatican II told us in its Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (#7), “Christ is always present in His Church, especially in her liturgical celebrations… Christ indeed always associates the Church with Himself in this great work in which God is perfectly glorified and men are sanctified. The Church is His beloved Bride who calls to her Lord, and through Him offers worship to the eternal Father.” In the Sacred Liturgy, Christ exercises His Eternal
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Part two: Liturgy as the worship of God The New Roman Missal Frequently Asked Questions www.nccbuscc.org/romanmissal/faqs2.shtml Priesthood, not independent of the Church but in full and fruitful communion with her. He alone is worthy to offer fitting worship to the Father. What He offers is His own Paschal Mystery, that is His Passion, death and Resurrection, by which the whole world is redeemed and through which the Father is glorified. The Catechism explains it in this way (#1085), “In the Liturgy of the Church, it is principally His own Pascal mystery that Christ signifies and makes present. During His earthly life Jesus announced His Paschal mystery by His teaching and anticipated it by His actions. When His Hour comes, He lives out the unique event of history which does not pass away: Jesus dies, is buried, rises from the dead, and is seated at the right hand of the Father ‘once for all.’ His Paschal mystery is a real event that occurred in our history, but it is unique: all other historical events happen once, and then they pass away, swallowed up in the past. The Paschal mystery of Christ, by contrast, cannot remain only in the past, because by His death He destroyed death, and all that Christ is — all that He did and suffered for all men — participates in the divine eternity, and so transcends all times while being made present in them all. The event of the Cross and Resurrection abides and draws everything toward life.” When we participate in the Sacred Liturgy, therefore, we participate in this “divine eternity” through the priesthood of Christ and thereby offer truly pleasing worship to God. This is why the Church proclaims a great “Amen” when the ministerial priest, acting in persona Christi, lifts up the Sacred Species and says, “Through Him, with Him and in Him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is yours, Almighty Father, for ever and ever.”
Human language for divine purposes The Lord Jesus is the one and only Eternal High Priest, the unique Mediator between God and man. He also is the Word of God, the Word that became flesh and dwelt among us (Cf. Jn 1:1-18). In the Incarnation, we see a humble, created reality of this world (namely the human nature of Christ) transfigured in such a way that it becomes capable of true worship of God in heaven. It is not surprising, then, that human words and the human voice play vital roles in the Sacred Liturgy. The words used by the priest and the congregation are in fact essential because they manifest the sacred conversation between Christ, the divine Bridegroom, and His Bride, the Church. The words used in the Liturgy, and the silence filled with meaningful and yet wordless content, assist us in our encounter with the Blessed Trinity. The Eucharistic sacrifice — itself brought about through a few humble words — is entirely Christ’s, though He offers it to the Father in union with us. For this reason, it is inappropriate for the priests or laity to substitute other words for those given us by the Church in the sacred orations. What matters, within the Liturgy, is not human creativity but an encounter with the living God, that He does what is necessary. In regard to the words given us by the Church for the Liturgy, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Benedict XVI), wrote in The Spirit of the Liturgy (p. 165f), “Unspontaneity is of their essence. In these rites, I discover that something is approaching me here that I did not produce myself, that I am entering into something greater than myself, which ultimately derives from divine revelation. That is why the Christian East calls the liturgy the “Divine Liturgy”, expressing thereby the liturgy’s independence from human control.” The Holy Father goes on to use rather strong words to underscore the importance of not substituting our words for those of the Church’s liturgy (Ibid., P. 169), “The more priests and faithful humbly surrender themselves to this descent of God, the more ‘new’ the liturgy will constantly be, and the more true and personal it becomes. Yes, the liturgy becomes personal, true, and new, not through tomfoolery and banal experiments with words, but through a courageous entry into the great reality that through the rite is always ahead of us and can never quite be overtaken.” The Word has become flesh to help us worship God well. In the Sacred Liturgy, that same Word humbly comes to us through the liturgy’s beautiful words, inviting us to worship God with the same Holy Spirit who filled the Blessed Virgin Mary as she said, “Be it done unto me according to your word” (Lk 1:38). ✴
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Pope calls on Christians to live Gospel truth online
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ver the course of the last decade, digital communication has provided limitless opportunities for sharing and learning. Born out of this relatively new way of communication is the phenomenon of social networks. The ever popular Facebook and Twitter, just two examples of social networks, have become almost integral to the way much of America and the world connect with one another. Old high school friends use it to stay in touch and far away family members share pictures of the kids. Churches use it to stay connected to their parish communities. People and news media alike share information and opinions with a tap of a button, allowing the instantaneous transmission of human knowledge from one side of the globe to the other. In a recent message released in advance of the June 5
World Communications Day, Pope Benedict XVI encouraged Christians to embrace online social networks as a way of expanding one’s horizons and spreading the Gospel message. “This means of spreading information and knowledge is giving birth to a new way of learning and thinking, with unprecedented opportunities for establishing relationships and building fellowship,” he said Jan. 24. The pope lauded the new technologies in providing for relationships “beyond the confines of space and of their own culture.” He also acknowledged social networks’ inherent dangers, stating they could become an instrument that “depersonalizes people, attempts to manipulate them emotionally or allows those who are powerful to monopolize the opinions of others.” Followers of Christ who take part in this communica-
tion revolution, the pope said, need to live out the Gospel message in their online interactions as they would in their live, in-person relationships. If you’ve ever visited a comments section on any particular website, it’s hard not to be discouraged by some of the reactions posted by readers. While many leave thoughtful feedback, encouragement or critique, others can be distasteful and discouraging. Perhaps it’s the perceived anonymity of the Internet, or the courage one finds behind a computer screen, but inflammatory and hateful remarks do nothing to promote the Gospel message or the sharing of truth, let alone friendship. As a matter of fact, “trolling” accomplishes little except to advance the dehumanizing of our culture and devaluing of life. We encourage Catholics to be responsible when using social networks in a way that is, as the pope put it, “honest and open, responsible and respectful of others.” ✴
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‘Wake-up call’
Disposable culture
Re: “‘Church of martyrs’ in our midst: Chaldeans cry out for help” (J.C.’s Stride, The Catholic Sun, Jan. 20): Thank you, Joyce Coronel, for the “wake-up call” about our fellow Catholics in Iraq. When I read your question, “Is your home crowded with furniture you’re not using?” I immediately knew what to do with the dining room table, chairs and corner hutch in our garage that failed to generate a Craigslist sale. Fr. Felix and Fr. Raymond helped us unload and we easily filled the remaining space in their garage. We will keep them and their parish in our prayers. Mark Giroux Queen Creek
We are living in a precarious age. Some 160 babies are killed every hour, every day, in the United States, because of abortion. Three states have made “mercy killing” legal: Oregon, Washington and Montana. The United States is one of five “civilized” countries that still enforces the death penalty; the other countries are Iran, Saudi Arabia, China and Pakistan. Do these facts surprise or frighten you? As Catholics living in the Diocese of Phoenix, we need to stand up and be counted. We are living in a society of disposable diapers and disposable water bottles: now we are disposing our babies, our elderly and our prisoners. Next October, volunteer to team up with your pastor and truly make Respect Life Sunday a day to be recognized throughout the Phoenix Diocese. Everyone recognizes October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month; let us strive to make October a month for Respect Life as well. Kathy Gabrielson Phoenix
‘What is truth?’ Re: “Media obligated to provide community with truth, justice in reporting,” it hit the mark (Editorial, The Catholic Sun, Jan. 20). As a former journalism student, I have anecdotal evidence of this: One of our assignments was to go out to the public to assess their opinions. Some of the students snickered, “Hey, let’s just make up our own numbers!” It filled me with disgust to hear that. Pilate said: “What is truth?” Today, it’s most difficult to determine what is truth and justice, and what is not. Jeanne F. Kochan Prescott Valley
Arizona improving Arizona has been recognized by the nation’s leading pro-life organization, Americans United for Life, as the country’s “most improved” for passing life-affirming legislation: “Arizona benefited from a highly-successful legislative session in which it became one of the first states to opt-out of the federal abortion-mandate
(contained in the new health care law) as well as prohibiting human cloning, destructive embryo research, and the creation of human-animal hybrids.” In 2010, the Arizona Legislature passed four pro-life bills into law that demonstrate the priority for protecting life of state policymakers, including: ▶ A bill that made it the first state in the nation to opt out of the taxpayerfunded abortion mandate created under the new national health care law; ▶ A bill that protects women considering an abortion by banning the practice of abortion-via-webcam and requiring that an ultrasound is performed before an abortion; ▶ A bill that prohibits taxpayer dollars from directly or indirectly funding organizations that promote, provide referrals for, or train individuals to perform abortion; and ▶ A bill that acknowledges the profound and positive impact of Arizona’s pregnancy care centers that provide help and resources for women and young girls with crisis pregnancies. Americans United for Life released the list on the 38th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s erroneous decision to legalize abortion in Roe v. Wade. Deacon Dick Petersen, M.D. Mesa
Hippocratic Oath Upon graduating from New York University College of Medicine in 1948,
my class swore the Oath of Hippocrates: “I swear… Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause abortion … Now if I carry out this Oath and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art, but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.” Sadly today more than half of medical graduates omit the Oath or swear with multiple exceptions. Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, in his pro-life defense of the Judeo-Christian commandment “Thou shall not kill,” has revoked the Catholic status of St. Joseph’s Hospital, affirming his faith and medicine’s own 2,500-year professional code. A hopeful alternative: on Dec. 25, 2010, the British journal Lancet published a 2,033-patient study on the successful treatment of eclampsia, a severe pregnancy-associated disease, via early diagnosis and medication. Similar medical scientific research must be accomplished to eliminate abortion for critical pregnancy hypertension. Either we address both the Decalogue’s fifth commandment and Oath of Hippocrates, or to the medical profession “may the opposite befall me.” Earl J. Baker, M.D. Phoenix Dr. Baker is a past president of the Arizona Medical Association.
Catholic marriage: Love of God blazes in ‘domestic Church’
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will never forget a certain marriage preparation weekend, clearly labeled the “Love for Life Weekend” for attendees wanting clarity from the outset. On that weekend, a certain couple approaching middle-age and marriage for the first time were in attendance. As an example of the practical impact of Catholic marriage vows, we had just explained the impermissibility of signing a prenuptial agreement “in case of divorce.” This would invalidate immediately the commitment the couple makes at the altar. The couple had seemed to be having a good time up until this point in the course. Upon the “no-pre-nup” news, however, I could clearly see the potential groom’s face go red. A whispered and demonstrative conversation ensued as we went to a break, whereupon he stormed out of the room. In the hallway, his alarmed fiancée approached me in tears: “I am so relieved you said that and the Church says that. I have never been comfortable with this, but he insists on a pre-nup. Would you talk to him?” As she finished this sentence, he approached with an even finer redness to his face, and I admit thinking that perhaps there should be some sort of special life insurance rider for marriage preparation work. After accepting his scowl bravely, she thanked me and left. “She doesn’t want this thing, obviously,” he stammered. “Well yes, don’t you see how it doesn’t fit what you say in your vows?” I responded. “Yeah, but, dude, look I’m a lawyer. I’m 40. I’ve seen most of my friends go through divorce, and I’m not gonna watch her walk off with some guy…”. “Whoa, how long before your wedding?” I asked. “A month.” So here they were, a month before taking vows they were just coming to understand. We huddled later, and I urged them to postpone the wedding date, to work on this problem of mistrust, to call later if they needed to. Why was the indissolubility of marriage news to them? There is a power shortage in the culture of the family today,
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Diocese of Phoenix marriage initiative ▶ Diocesan and parish events: www.OurCovenantofLovephx.org ▶ Marriage Encounter in Phoenix: www.wwme-phx.org ▶ Holy Catholic marriage counseling: www.holycatholicmarriage.com the culture of marriage. They had been deeply impacted with a short-circuited, phony image of marriage. What is the solution to this perceived blackout, so to speak, of authentic married love? We need Catholic marriages on fire The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines the family as a domestic church. That is that every sacramentally married couple is by definition a little outpost of the Church militant, the Church on earth, fighting to take back territory from the evil one. We do this by growing in love. Marriages on fire, marriages with clarity of mission as the loving foundation of the couple’s domestic church spread the burning, inexhaustible love of the Trinitarian God into the world. The precise moment a Christian couple exchanges vows
validly at the altar, God Himself creates a spiritual sacramental bond indissoluble until death. The fire of love naturally burning between the engaged couple now in marriage begins invisibly to pulsate with a divine guarantee of supernatural power, supplied by the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the clear mission of the husband and wife is this: become what you are, married couple — a fire of love protected by your vows and grace, which generously grows and gives off warmth and light, each child accepted generously into the fire a burning coal which increases the warmth, increases the reach of the light and is called over time to start a fire of his own called a vocation. This is what it means to be a little church, a domestic church. When any cold and lonely person wonders if God exists, he should be able to approach the fire of our marriages and receive the emphatic warmth of the love of God. Stoking the fire: Year two of new marriage initiative We are beginning the second year of our diocesan threeyear marriage initiative, devoted to strengthening existing marriages. The question posed to each married couple in our diocese is this: how’s the fire? Life circumstances can rise up which seem to throw waves of dousing coldness on marriage — yet all that is an opening. The coals are guaranteed to re-light when they encounter the source of energy called Jesus Christ and His sacramental Church. Consider taking this year to build the fire of your love. Commit again to couple and family prayer and the sacramental life of confession, regular Mass attendance and reception of the Holy Eucharist. If you are not married according to the law of the Church and therefore are lacking the grace of the sacrament, explore the convalidation process without fear at your parish. Consider attending an upcoming diocesan or parish event, perhaps beginning with the men’s or women’s conferences, and risk encountering the fire of Christ. The world needs this fire to spread and God will use our marriages to do it! ✴ Mike Phelan is the diocesan director of the Marriage and Respect Life Office.
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Father forgives daughter’s killer, reaches out to help others
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ark Legault has every reason to be angry. A man of less character would surely have succumbed to bitterness by now. Five years to the day his 19-year-old daughter Dolores was murdered, Legault sat at a coffee shop in Phoenix and spoke of how her death changed his life forever. Dolores, he said, was a gentle soul with a radiant smile, the kind of girl who lit up a room. She was planning a career in cosmetology when the unthinkable happened: her exboyfriend, Michael Alcozer, strangled her, then left her body in the trunk of his car for four days. After he killed Dolores, Alcozer took her cell phone and began sending text messages to her family telling them, “Don’t worry, I’ve gone to Mexico for a few days to clear my head.” The family often traveled to Rocky Point, so Legault was not alarmed. When Dolores failed to return by Sunday, the family called authorities. Alcozer was later arrested when police found Dolores’ body in the trunk of his car. Charged with concealing a corpse, Alcozer smirked his way through court proceedings. Dolores’ body was so badly decomposed, the medical examiner could not determine a cause of death. Throughout the 14 months following his daughter’s death, Legault kept asking police about the video camera that was in the trunk of Alcozer’s car. The detective kept declaring there was nothing noteworthy on the camera. Legault finally insisted it be returned to him. The next thing Legault knew, there was a letter from the coroner’s office stating Dolores’ death had been ruled a homi-
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cide. That’s because the video camera police finally examined had footage of Alcozer confessing he had killed the young woman. When Alcozer’s trial for the slaying concluded, the judge asked him if he had anything to say to the family. Unfazed, Alcozer offered not a single word of remorse. He pled guilty to manslaughter — not murder, since he was under the influence of methamphetamines when the crime occurred — and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. With good behavior, he could be out by 2020. The power of forgiveness Rather than dwell on Alcozer’s crime, a bungled investigation and an unfairly light sentence, Legault has taken the high road. He decided the murder of his daughter would not succeed in destroying him. The Phoenix Catholic founded the Dolores Ann Legault Foundation to help families of children 19 and younger who have been killed or have lost their lives in accidents. He spoke of having to hold two carwashes to bury Dolores
and realizing there were other families in similar circumstances who needed help paying for funerals. So far, the foundation has paid for caskets for 13 victims. Legault often speaks at prisons, telling inmates of the devastating impact their crimes have on families. He’s thankful that unlike some victims’ families, Dolores’ murderer is in prison, at least for now. He says he has forgiven Alocozer, because that is what Jesus would want him to do. He’s thankful to have Dolores’ son, 5-year-old Samuel, to dote on. With his curly brown hair and angelic face, Samuel reminds him of what his daughter looked like in kindergarten. Like most boys his age, Samuel loves to go to the park, loves to play with action figures. He calls Legault and his wife Mom and Dad, but he knows “Mama Dolores” is in heaven. When asked what he would say to Alcozer if he could, Legault offered a gentle response. “I would let him know that I have forgiven him, but I would want to find out if he’s found any peace or if he’s found God at all,” Legault said. “I think that might have been part of the reason why he did what he did.” And we who hold grudges over the most inconsequential misdeeds of others ought to take notice: forgiveness brings peace. Anger kills. The foundation will hold a fundraiser dinner featuring Italian food and a silent auction April 2 at Christ the King Parish in Mesa. For information, visit www.thedoloresannlegaultfoundation.org or call (480) 242-0038. ✴ Joyce Coronel is a regular contributor to The Catholic Sun. Please send comments to letters@catholicsun.org.
Valentine’s Day: Love of Christ reveals the real message
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very year around this time we are overrun by Cupid and his pals: chocolate makers and florists. Not a problem; I am a chocoholic myself. But the most important thing to realize on Valentine’s Day is how amazing it is that love is so important to us. It’s the greatest evidence that there is something out of this world going on in this one. There must be a God, because how on earth would a concept as impractical and intangible as love actually come to be so powerful that it could eventually rule the world. Just two months ago we celebrated the birth of Christ. He came here to bring the New Covenant, and to assure that God so loved man He gave His only Son to be sacrificed for our salvation. He preached on this earth for 33 years a simple message: to love God and each other as ourselves. In those 33 years that He walked the earth, scores of the world’s most powerful men tried to stop Him from spreading His message of love. From the ruler who tried to prevent His birth and end His life at infancy, to the Pharisees who tried to belittle and disqualify His message, He continually thwarted all their efforts. He succeeded at spreading God’s word and was able to amass a following. He did it all without money, without an army, without any station or backing, and without offering those who followed
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any of the typical worldly rewards that most ambitious leaders today offer. To the contrary, Christ offered hardship, struggle and the realization that life on this earth would never be what we wanted it to be. Nor should we even ask or expect it to be. In a world that was at that time centered entirely on power and how to use it, He offered a completely new idea of a life based not on domination of others or the satiation of our desires. But for the first time in history here was a Man who suggested a new vision of existence, teaching that the entire point of our lives was to love others and revel in the love of God and our brothers and sisters. The call to love The amazing success He had with that uncommon message
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was echoed exponentially after His death and resurrection. From an initial following of the 12 Apostles, His message of love has now been accepted by more than two billion Christians. And how many others accept His call to love even though they might say they don’t believe in Christ? How many major movies, books and works of art cite “love” as their goal? Even the band at halftime during the recent Super Bowl spelled out “love” in lights during its performance. How many world leaders routinely claim that they are committed to love of mankind? In Christ’s era, nobody could even dream that the world’s most powerful men would talk of “love.” Now it’s true that many of these love devotees may not really appreciate the deep commitment to and respect for the dignity of human life. But still the realization that so many of the world are devoted to the goal that Christ set 2,000 years ago is beyond comprehension. It is nothing short of a miracle. It’s a mighty wonderful realization to reflect on this Valentine’s Day as we reach out to love all those around us. ✴ 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. Visit www. OneMoreDayAlive.com. Follow him on Twitter: @cbenguhe.
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saw projected on the screen my time of 16 hours, 59 minutes, and 3 seconds. I was the last official finisher, the oldest woman on the course, and I had beat the cut-off time of 17 hours by a mere 57 seconds.” Sr. Madonna was 76-years old as she crossed that finish line in Hawaii. Seventy-six-years old. “The Grace to Race,” written by Sr. Madonna with Karin Evans recounts her extraordinary life which has seen her complete 340 triathlons as well as serve faithfully as a religious. Born in 1930, Sr. Madonna felt her calling early in life, and began
fourth vow,” Sister Madonna writes. “Besides the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, they also prac“The Grace to Race,” ticed a fourth vow of zeal — zeal for the salvation of souls.” by Sr. Madonna Part of the order’s charism was Bruder, R.G.S. (Simon and Schuster, 2010). working with troubled young girls, many of whom had suffered grave $25. Available at abuse. www.amazon.com. “These girls needed individual attention, and some of them acted inappropriately in order to get it,” Sister Madonna writes of her first pursuing religious orders. He seekfew weeks with the order. “I soon ing led her to the Sisters of the realized I needed to treat them with Good Shepherd. firmness, patience, caring, and con“What had helped to convince sistency, to provide the stability they me about this order was their so badly needed.” She bounced around the country, even spending some time in the Valley to study at Arizona State University. Relatively late in her life, she took up running at the suggestion of a priest during a religious retreat. It was a short time later that she wanted to try a race. She decided to run in honor of those suffering from multiple sclerosis. She attempted a qualifying race for the Boston Marathon in 1982. She qualified. “At the age of 52, I was probably one of the oldest women ever to do so. More than likely I was also the first Catholic nun,” she writes. She worried, though, that competing in marathons was not exactly appropriate for women religious. She sought out the advice of her bishop before making her decision. “I confessed the obedience can be the hardest [of her vows] when it means stifling a God-given talent. I told him about qualifying to run the Boston Marathon and said that I wanted to do it for the cause of multiple sclerosis,” she writes. “The session ended with his blessing. ‘Sister,’ he said, ‘I wish some of my priests would do what you are doing.’” And so began her worldspanning career of competing in marathons and triathlons, where she would often bring her prayer requests with her. Running, biking and swimming, Sister Madonna seems to keep up a running conversation with God, Who, she says, provides her with the strength to finish a particularly grueling race. “It’s a deep knowing inside that God is not going to let me down,” she writes. “The more one practices faith, the more it grows.” ✴ Media critic Andrew Junker is a regular contributor to The Catholic Sun. Send e-mail to letters@catholicsun.org.
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elationships are always a central to any film, but they were particularly important for 2010 films nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. This year’s characters found redemption through loving relationships with friends and family. But how would these films fare if judges used morality as a deciding factor?
The King’s Speech Uniquely, this year the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences and morality would likely choose the same winner. “The King’s Speech” (The Weinstein Company) traces the development of Prince Albert of England from a stuttering younger brother into the King of England through the support of his wife and his friendship with Lionel Logue, his speech therapist. The relationships highlighted in “The King’s Speech” show the way in which loving relationships encourage people, enabling them to find confidence in their God-given gifts. Toy Story 3 Friendship is again the key to the story and success of “Toy Story 3” (Disney). A funny, sweet and well-written action escape film, the friendships of the characters help them survive their accidental donation to a daycare center — unjustly ruled by a corrupt teddy bear. The bear makes the toys live in the toddler room, where many toys before them have been abused to the point of destruction. Though they had turned against him, Woody returns to save his friends. Viewers will recognize themes of forgiveness and more complicated issues like the right to work in a positive environment, human rights and solidarity. 127 Hours The morality of both the main character and the film develop over time in “127 Hours” (20th Century Fox). It takes more than five days for Aaron to reexamine his independent and disconnected existence, which leads to the film’s central predicament. As a rock falls and traps Aaron in a canyon, his confident personality begins to falter. His biggest problem is not the rock, but the fact that he did not tell anyone where he was going on his hike. His independence from relationship nearly leads to his death. Still, it is a vision of his future son that drives him to the desperate act that made the real life story of Aaron famous. His independence and his rejection of personal relationships is clearly portrayed as his downfall. It is a vision of a future filled with meaningful and repaired relationships that ignites his courage to commit the most desperate act in a film this year. The Fighter Family relationships and selfishness are equally central in the inspir-
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ing film “The Fighter” (Paramount). Redemption is at the heart of it — not just of Micky Ward’s career as a boxer, which moves from failure to success — but also through the character of Dicky, Micky’s older, drug-addicted brother. The brothers and their family illustrate the ways in which relationships can benefit and injure. Dicky’s addiction is supported by his family’s decision to ignore it; the selfish family members who are living off Micky’s success and failures hinder his career. When Dicky is in jail and away from his family, he decides to turn his life around, inspired, like Aaron, by the thoughts of his son. Ultimately it is Micky who offers Dicky love and forgiveness that allow him to stay on his path to redemption. Both the negative and positive relationships are explored in what is a morally complicated, but ultimately redeeming film. True Grit The final runner-up on the winning morality list is the remake of
the well-known western film “True Grit” (Paramount). While not morally perfect, “True Grit” ultimately has a positive moral message. The film centers on 14-yearold Mattie Ross’ pursuit of her father’s murderer. She enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, played by Jeff Bridges, who is known for his work as a violent U.S. Marshall, prone to drinking and shooting. With the assistance of a Texas Ranger, the unlikely team of Mattie and the two men pursue the murderer into the wilderness. This film makes the morality cut, but is the final contender due to the positive way it portrays revenge. Still, there is again a positive emphasis on the importance of relationship and the way in which loving relationships can transform even the harshest among men. Rooster is softened by his relationship with Mattie, whose care creates selflessness in a selfish man. If morality were the judge, 2010 offers some compelling candidates. Human relationships were not diminished in cinema this year. In fact, the importance of loving relationships was not only a focus in these films, but also the remaining five Best Picture nominees. ✴ 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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¿CIUDADANOS? Proyecto de ley examinando el derecho a la ciudadanía por nacimiento, es momentáneamente detenido Fotos por J.D. Long-García/CATHOLIC SUN
Escuchando el llamado Más de 140 jóvenes participaron en la tarde de reflexión “Escucha el llamado” que tomó lugar el 22 de enero en el Centro Pastoral Diocesano. Tomaron parte en una discusión de un panel compuesto de sacerdotes, religiosos y religiosas. También disfrutaron de una cena, música y la Santa Misa en la Basílica de Santa María con el Obispo Auxiliar Eduardo A. Nevares.
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rizona forma parte del puñado de estados que examina si la enmienda No. 14 debe de otorgar el derecho a la ciudadanía por nacimiento. Luego de la audiencia de un Comité Judicial del Senado el 7 de feb., la enmienda muestra ser una subida cuesta arriba. El Senador Ron Gould, quien patrocina la enmienda, optó por cancelar el voto del lunes porque temía perder. Algunos expertos anticipan un voto la semana entrante. Los patrocinadores de la enmienda del Senado — SB 1308 y 1309 — esperan que la aprobación de dicha legislación obligue el mandato de la Suprema Corte sobre la enmienda No. 14. Examinan la cláusula de la
Prelado dice que palabras de Escrituras deben guiar trato de inmigrantes LOS ÁNGELES (CNS) -- En discursos el mismo día, el cardenal y el arzobispo coadjutor de Los Ángeles hablaron acerca de la inmigración en Estados Unidos, con uno llamando “no digna del Evangelio” alguna de la retórica sobre el asunto y el otro diciendo que el sistema actual “es un sistema inmoral que prospera sobre la debilidad y el sufrimiento de aquellos que no tienen voz.” ✴
enmienda que lee: “sujeto a la jurisdicción de lo mismo.” Legisladores quieren atacar los llamados “anchor babies” o “bebés de ancla,” niños nacidos en los Estados Unidos a inmigrantes indocumentados. Al nacer en el país, a estos niños se les otorga la nacionalidad y los beneficios correspondientes. Las propuestas enmiendas — una en el Senado y la misma en la Cámara de Representantes
— requeriría que al menos uno de los padres sea ciudadano o residente legal, antes de otorgar la ciudadanía al hijo. Las otras enmiendas crearían certificados de nacimientos separados para niños que son ciudadanos según la nueva ley y para aquellos que no lo son. “La Conferencia Católica de Arizona está muy feliz de que la enmienda no siguió adelante [el lunes],” dijo Ron Johnson, director ejecutivo de la conferencia, la cual
La majestad y misericordia de Dios
Respeto a la vida Unas 130 personas entrenaron para ser voluntarios en el primer Congreso Binacional Hispano de Respeto a la Vida y evangelización el 22 de enero en el Centro Pastoral Diocesano. La Diócesis de Phoenix será el sitio para un el congreso que se enfocará en el desarrollo de la comunidad pro-vida Hispana el 10-12 de junio en el Centro de Convenciones de Phoenix. Se espera unos 700-1,000 participantes al congreso. Carmen Portela, directora de apoyo de liderazgo hispano parroquial, espera que los voluntarios del congreso continúen siendo lideres del movimiento provida de ahora en adelante.
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Un niño se une a la manifestación el 7 de febrero en el Capitolio.
¿Por qué un nuevo Misal?
17 de febrero del 2011 representa a los obispos Católicos de Arizona. “Obviamente, los abogados en el comité, tanto Republicanos como Demócratas, se sienten preocupados con relación a algunos de los asuntos políticos contenidos en esta enmienda,” dijo. Aún así, dijo, es temprano en la sesión legislativa. “Cuento con el retorno de esta enmienda, sino en éste, en otro comité,” dijo. Johnson dijo que los obispos de Arizona se oponen a enmiendas que examinan el derecho a la ciudadanía por nacimiento. “Creemos que son una distracción a un problema legítimo,” dijo. “Tenemos un enorme problema con la inmigración en este país que necesita ser solucionado a nivel federal.” Varias docenas de personas — incluyendo niños — se reunieron en protesta en frente del Capitolio el lunes durante la audiencia. “Tienen la intención de dividir el país, el estado y las familias,” dijo Salvador Reza de Puente, un grupo de derechos civiles. “Si esto pasa, Arizona sufrirá aún más.”✴
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Segunda parte: Liturgia como adoración de Dios
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n la primera parte de esta serie sobre la nueva traducción al inglés del Misal Romano, examinamos la manera en que la belleza revela a Dios y cómo ella levanta nuestros corazones para ofrecerle a Dios la adoración y elogio apropiado. Ahora, en la segunda parte, consideraremos el objetivo de la Liturgia: es decir, la adoración verdadera de Dios. En la tercera parte consideraremos los frutos y los beneficios de la Liturgia: cómo esta santifica a hombres y mujeres. La esencia de la religión “Adorarás al Señor tu Dios, a Él solo servirás” (Mateo 4:10). Con estas palabras, el Señor Jesús nos recuerda que la esencia de la religión es la adoración de Dios. Dios creó el universo para éste mismo propósito. Además, El colocó a los hombres y las mujeres, creados en Su imagen divina, por encima de todas las demás cosas creadas; Les confió el dominio sobre el mundo y escribió en sus corazones el mandamiento para venerar a Dios quien creó todas las cosas. Dios otorgó este mandamiento debido a Su amor, no porque tiene ninguna necesidad de nuestra adoración, sino porque el adorarle, es una bendición para nosotros. Venerar a Dios nos permite crecer en madurez completa ante sus ojos, y satisfacer los anhelos más profundos del corazón. Dios es verdaderamente digno de ser alabado. Esta es la razón del primero de los Diez
Mandamientos: “Yo soy el Señor tu Dios…no tendrás otros dioses aparte de mí” (Exodo 20:2). Como el Catecismo de la Iglesia Católica explica (#2084), “La primera llamada y la justa exigencia de Dios consiste en que el hombre lo acoja y lo adore.” Venerar a Dios significa reconocer, en toda humildad y sinceridad, que todo lo que tenemos y todo lo que somos viene de El. Consiste en someterse a Su santa voluntad, no a regañadientes pero alegremente. La Santa Virgen María nos ofrece el ejemplo perfecto de cómo hacer esto. Vemos esto especialmente en su Magníficat, donde ella dice (Lucas 1:36ff), “Mi alma engrandece al Señor; y mi espíritu se regocija en Dios mi Salvador…porque grandes cosas me ha hecho el Poderoso; y santo es su nombre. De generación en generación es su misericordia para los que le temen.” ‘Por Él, con Él y en Él’ Sin embargo, confiando únicamente en nuestros propios recursos nosotros, siendo seres humanos, nunca podemos venerar adecuadamente ni sinceramente a Dios. “Para realizar una obra tan grande,” el Vaticano II nos dijo en su Constitución sobre la Sagrada Liturgia (#7), “Cristo está siempre presente en su Iglesia, sobre todo en la acción litúrgica… Cristo asocia siempre consigo a su amadísima Esposa la Iglesia, que invoca a su Señor y por El tributa culto al Padre Eterno.”
En la sagrada liturgia, Cristo ejercita su sacerdocio eterno, no independiente de la Iglesia, pero en una comunión llena y fructífera con ella. El sólo es digno de ofrecer adoración adecuada al Padre. Lo que ofrece es su propio misterio pascual, es decir, su Pasión, muerte y resurrección, por lo que el mundo entero es redimido y por lo que el Padre es glorificado. El Catecismo lo explica de esta manera: En la Liturgia de la Iglesia, Cristo significa y realiza principalmente su misterio pascual. Durante su vida terrestre Jesús anunciaba con su enseñanza y anticipaba con sus actos el misterio pascual. Cuando llegó su Hora, vivió el único acontecimiento de la historia que no pasa: Jesús muere, es sepultado, resucita de entre los muertos y se sienta a la derecha del Padre “una vez por todas.” Es un acontecimiento real, sucedido en nuestra historia, pero absolutamente singular: todos los demás acontecimientos suceden una vez, y luego pasan y son absorbidos por el pasado. El misterio pascual de Cristo, por el contrario, no puede permanecer solamente en el pasado, pues por su muerte destruyó a la muerte, y todo lo que Cristo es y todo lo que hizo y padeció por los hombres participa de la eternidad divina y domina así todos los tiempos y en ellos se mantiene permanentemente presente. El acontecimiento de la Cruz y de la Resurrección permanece y atrae todo hacia la Vida.” Cuando tomamos parte en la sagrada liturgia, por lo tanto, tomamos parte en esta “eternidad
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Honrando a la bella danza Guadalupana Por J.D. Long-García The Catholic Sun
GLENDALE —Están en todos lados: Domingo del Rosario, Honra a Tu Madre, rezando al frente de clínicas de aborto, celebrando los festivales parroquiales. Cuando los Católicos se reúnen a pedir la intercesión de la Santa madre, o para darle las gracias por respuestas a oraciones, con frecuencia se encontrarán los Matachines. Estos bailarines tradicionales — conocidos en muchos estados en México — son devotos a Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. “Bailan para la Santa Madre,” dijo Steve López, un bailarín matachín de San Luís Rey. “Es una oración en Su honor.” López y su familia organizaron una celebración diocesana de matachines, una forma de darles las gracias por todo lo que hacen. El evento del 15 de enero reunió a cientos de bailarines de varios grupos parroquiales. También trajo un nuevo amigo. El Obispo Auxiliar Eduardo A. Nevares, cuya familia inmigró a los Estados Unidos proveniente de México, celebró una Misa al aire divina” por el sacerdocio de Cristo y así ofrecemos adoración verdaderamente agradable a Dios. Esta es la razón por la que la Iglesia proclama un gran “Amén” cuando el sacerdote ministerial, actuando in persona Christi, levanta la Sagrada Hostia y dice, “Por Cristo, con Él y en Él, en la unidad del Espíritu Santo, todo honor y toda gloria por los siglos de los siglos.” El lenguaje humano para propósitos divinos El Señor Jesús es el único Sumo Sacerdote Eterno, el Mediador extraordinario entre Dios y el hombre. El también es la Palabra de Dios, la Palabra que llegó a ser carne y a habitar entre nosotros (Cf. Juan 1:1-18). En la Encarnación, vemos una realidad humilde y creada de este mundo (es decir la naturaleza humana de Cristo) transfigurada de tal manera que llega a ser capaz de adoración verdadera de Dios en el cielo. No ha de sorprender, entonces, que las palabras humanas y la voz humana juegan papeles esenciales en la sagrada liturgia. Las palabras utilizadas por el sacerdote y la congregación son verdaderamente esenciales porque manifiestan la conversación sagrada entre Cristo, el desposado divino, y su novia, la Iglesia. Las palabras utilizadas en la liturgia, y el silencio lleno de contenido significativo y todavía mudo, nos ayudan en nuestro encuentro con la Santísima Trinidad. El sacrificio eucarístico—el mismo
libre con los bailarines. “Algunos días tendremos tristeza,” dijo el obispo en su homilía en castellano. “Pero el ancla de nuestra vida debe de ser la palabra de Dios y nuestra fe en Cristo Jesús y Su santa Iglesia.” La palabra de Dios, dijo, penetra en nuestros corazones hasta la más intima parte de nuestras almas. El obispo, señalando a María como Madre de Dios, dijo que ella es “nuestra mamita” también. Y Dios, “nuestro papi,” es fiel y “nos ama tanto.” “Debemos escuchar la palabra de Dios y respetarla,” dijo el obispo. “Y la santa Virgen María es el regalo que Cristo nos dio cuando estaba muriendo en la cruz.” Al principio de la Misa, el Obispo Nevares caminó a través de la gente bendiciendo a cada bailarín con agua bendita — no le faltó nadie. Cuando terminó, caminó a través de la gente una segunda vez, bendiciendo cada persona con incienso. López quiere organizar un evento en honor de los matachines cada año. La celebración también será una oportunidad para educar la comunidad, dijo. realizado por unas pocas palabras humildes—es enteramente de Cristo, aunque lo ofrece al Padre en unión con nosotros. Por esta razón, es inapropiado que los sacerdotes o los laicos sustituyan otras palabras por las que fueron dadas a nosotros por la Iglesia en las sagradas oraciones. Lo que importa, dentro de la liturgia, no es la creatividad humana sino el encuentro con el Dios vivo, quien hace lo necesario. Con respecto a las palabras dadas a nosotros por la Iglesia para la liturgia, el anterior Cardenal Joseph Ratzinger (ahora Benedicto XVI), escribió en El Espíritu de la Liturgia (p. 165f), “No ser espontáneo es de su esencia. En estos ritos, yo descubro que algo que yo no produje se me acerca, que entro en algo más que yo mismo, que últimamente deriva de la revelación divina. Por eso los Cristianos orientales llaman la liturgia la “Divina Liturgia,” expresando así la independencia de la liturgia del control humano.” El Santo Padre pasa a utilizar
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Es una tradición familiar, donde los niños aprenden el baile de sus padres, manteniendo las tradiciones y las devociones de México vivas. “Algunas personas tenían lágrimas en sus ojos,” dijo López refiriéndose a los bailarines. “Va a ser bueno tomar el tiempo y reconocer que estamos en esto por la misma razón.” ✴ palabras bastante fuertes para subrayar la importancia de no sustituir nuestras palabras por las de la liturgia de la Iglesia (Ib., P. 169), “Por más que los sacerdotes y los fieles se rindan a sí mismos humildemente a esta bajada de Dios, lo más “nueva” será la liturgia constantemente, y lo más verdadera y personal llegará a ser. Sí, la liturgia llega a ser personal, verdadera, y nueva, no por tonterías y experimentos banales con palabras, pero a través de una entrada valiente en la gran realidad que por el rito siempre está delante de nosotros y nunca puede ser alcanzada”. La Palabra ha llegado a ser carne para ayudarnos a adorar bien a Dios. En la sagrada liturgia, esa misma Palabra viene humildemente a nosotros por las palabras hermosas de la liturgia, invitándonos a venerar a Dios con el mismo Espíritu Santo que llenó a la Santa Virgen María cuando ella dijo, “Hágase en mí lo que has dicho” (Lucas 1:38). ✴
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S A C R E D THE LATEST
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An ongoing look at parishes in the Phoenix Diocese.
St. Bridget
The parish Knights of Columbus held the annual food and wine-tasting event at the Windemere Hotel Jan. 30. The event featured dinner from more than 10 restaurants, wine and beer from around the world, entertainment, dancing and a silent auction.
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WHAT’S UNIQUE? The parish has a sign language ministry and the 9:15 a.m. Mass every Sunday is sign-language interpreted for the hearing impaired. There’s also a ministry for children to understand the liturgy of the word. Children’s Liturgy of the Word, better known as CLOW, is held during the 9:15 a.m. and 11 a.m. Mass each Sunday. — Joyce Coronel
QUOTABLE UPCOMING The parish will hold its annual Irish saints festival and fundraiser March 25 from 5:30-9 p.m.. The festival features a raffle, food, entertainment and games for all ages. A monthly collection called P.O.P.E., short for Projects Our Parish Envisions, begins this month to help with roof repair and renovation of the baptismal font, adding tile to the worship area and replacing 500 chairs.
Founded: June 19, 1985 Founding pastor: Fr. John F. Cunningham Address: 2213 N. Lindsay Rd. Mesa Phone: (480) 924-9111 Pastor: Fr. Scott Brubaker Number of families: 1,400
St. Bridget parish strives to engage fully in the sacred liturgy in a manner called for by the Second Vatican Council. By doing so we hope to enter more deeply into engagement with our world and its needs as Christ’s body. St. Bridget herself is an excellent model of an ancient holiness that can inform contemporary spirituality. — Fr. Scott Brubaker, pastor of St. Bridget
Diocese of Pho oenix CATHOLIC CEMETERIES and mortuaries (602)267-1329 In n re emem mbra anc ce of those individuals interred in our Catholic Cemeter ies for the month of January
St. Francis Cemetery and Mausoleum 2033 N. 48th St., Phoenix Olga M. Adame Alicia Mendez Alvare l z Robert Romero Arvizu Dionicio G. Ayal y a Mercedes Gomez Ayal y a Joseph Brendan Berkeb k ile Nick Brncic Joyc o e Carolyn Butt u s a e E. Campanella Katharin Theresa Doroth o hy Caruso n ony Chavez Michael Anth Doreen Eleano Clancy Veronica Lave a rne Clark r Rhonda Sue Coco Alice P. Cordova v Sherril Eckstein Lupe L. Estrada Sophie J. Fitz i gerald Dorothy h M. Frost Eleanor Gallagher Leon M. Gaskill Debra K. Giroux Evelyn l n Mary Gomez Carolina Grado Robertt Preston Green Arthur A. Hart Arturo Amparan Hernandez Philamena Ieva e Rudy Jaime Beatrice Koch Stephen Kolesar Virginia L. Laman Alfred Manuel Lopez Vivi i an Rose McCullough Maria Encarnacion Mendez Jessie P. Miranda Frances Ann Pantano Nancy c R. Pedraza Albert Leonard Quihuis Sophia M. Quihuis Peggy Jean Raney e
John E. Riva i s Betty t H. Robertson Maria Vergara Rosell Walter Joseph Sakal Mary J. Selby b Maryy Regina Shockl c ee Charles Edward Smith Margaret Ann Sothan Danielle S. Thumma Rita i a H. Trejo Angela Vetter Lucina A. Villa Harold Dixon Vogel
Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum 10045 W. Thomas Rd., A Avondale Ofel f iaa Carrillo Arba r llo Delmarr Baker Miguel Torres Basua Annie Jo Belfor f d Phylli h s Alice Carlson Socorro M. de Armendariz Juan n Manuell de La Fuente n Robert J. de Young Gloria A. Delgado Jose A. Dominguez Gale Eugene Dutt u on Joan n H. Ferrato Christopher Eli Gibson Juan S. Guillen Jose Angel Guzman Louis Joseph Guzzetta James Galen Hei Fati a ma Kargbo Nolan Raym a ond Koressel Kelly l Christopher Lewis Manuell Burrell Lopez Casimir Lysi y ak Maria Luz Marquez-Santa Maria Andre Melton Vanessa Ann Ramos Cristobal Reyes
Jova o nny n Adan Rivasi Rive i ra Francisco G. Ronquillo, Sr. Joan n Mary Rose Marjorie Schonberger James Winifield Snyder Elizabeth Jane Soots Ignacio Demarbiex Soto o Mary M. Unger Jose Angel Valencia-Maldonado Helen Valichnac Jorge Silva v Vasquez Ishmael J. Villa Bernadette S. Wath a ey Alta l Helen Wilhelm Roberta Williams Nelson Yera
Queen of Heaven Cemetery and Mortuaries 1500 E. Baseline Rd., Mesa Socorro G. Albarado Joshua R. Argenbright h Enrique Q. Arrieta Bennie F. Bishop Faith Black Lucero Bracamonte-S n aravia Esther H. Brown Mary D. Bynum Anto n nio Dominguez Caballero Rene Joseph Champagne Gerald L. Culver v son Angela V. Cyr Peter Anth n ony Faggella Richard Gary Farr Carolyn Ann Gallagher Thomas H. Ginley Allen Jay a Greb Leopoldo B. Herrera Richard Inglis Hopper River i Rae Johnson Thelma M. Loeltz l Ramiro Aramburu Lopez Harry Marderosian Deloris Joan n Mayo
Timothy h George Mayo Carl Seym e our Miller, Sr. Paula J. Mirabal Joseph A. Murray Carol Lee O’Driscoll Emill Pierini Felipe Ramirez-Castellanos Johnny n Reams Guadalupe M. Rive i ra Genevi e eve v Cordeliaa Ruhlman Fearn M. Savi a o Therese Smith Marcella R. Stout u Rosenda Bernal Talamante Benito i Corral Trevizo Maria Emelina Vargas Paul Louis Walsh
Holy Redeemer Cemetery 23015 N. Cave Creek Rd., Phoenix Mario Felice Vasyl y Gaavrylyu l k Thomas Robert Hughes Thomas Joseph La Rue Thomas P. Leen
Calvary Cemetery 201 W. University y, Flagstaff g Peter Frigano Jean M. Kent Kailey Ryan Newsom-Flood Lydia y R. Sandoval v
All Souls Cemetery 700 N. Bill Gray Rd., Cottonwood Richard A. Bregant n Norman W. Shelman
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Cancer Ministry with Melissa Veselovsky, sponsored by Ironwood Cancer and Research Centers, 7-8:30 p.m., March 9, Blessed Sacrament Parish, 11300 N. 64th St., Scottsdale. Info: (602) 549-1188 or Reneegero1@aol.com. First Diocesan Women’s Conference, April 2, St. Paul Parish. Cost: $40 or save $5 each when five friends register together. Includes continental breakfast and lunch. Info: Janet Starke at (602) 626-8271 or janetstarke@cox.net.
Retreats Meetings and Classes
Eight-week Adult Confirmation preparation program, 7-9 p.m., Feb. 21, one-day retreat May 1, All Saints Catholic Newman Center at Arizona State University. Attendance is required for all sessions and the retreat. The class is open to any adult who is out of high school, is baptized and has made his or her First Communion and you will need to obtain permission from your pastor. Register: www.asucatholic.org or (480) 967-7823. “Preparing for Our Lenten Journey” with Bishop Nevares, 9 a.m., Feb. 24, St. Patrick Parish, Fenlon Center, 10815 N. 84th St., Scottsdale; offering support to seniors by The Caring Place partnership. RSVP to Cheryl at (480) 998-3843 ext. 177. DIGNITY Immersion Experience — A Walk Thru “The Life” of prostitution, Feb. 24-26, 5:30-9 p.m., Catholic Charities Community Services 4747 N. 7th Ave., Phoenix. Free; donations gratefully accepted. Worldwide Marriage Encounter, Feb. 25-27 and March 25-27 in Phoenix, reflect, renew and re-energize your marriage. Registrations are due one month in advance. Info: (602) 242-6141 or Cwessel@csc.com. Beginning Experience, Feb. 25-27, a weekend program to help singleagain persons begin to deal with the grieving process offering an opportunity, through God, for turning the pain of loss into an experience of positive growth. Partial scholarships are available for those who cannot afford the full cost. Info: (602) 914-5148, www.AZBE.org or e-mail: info@azbe.org. Bible Study: 6:30-8 p.m., Thursdays beginning March 3, Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery, 8502 W. Pinchot Ave, Phoenix; for a Great Adventure, “A Quick Journey Through the Bible.” Info: Dee Gray at (623) 544-1628 or deegray@cox.net.
Schoenstatt Retreat, Feb. 18-19, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m., Guadalupe Monastery, 8502 W. Pinchot, Phoenix with Fr. Gerold Langsch, keynote speaker. “Family: Schoenstatt’s offer to live a healthy and fruitful family life,” Mass, talks, confessions, and Benediction. Info: call Jeanne at (623) 979-1909. Walk with Thomas Merton on His Journey Home, with Sr. Sarah O’Malley, OSB, 8:45 a.m.noon, March 12, St. Theresa Parish Convent, 5045 E. Thomas Road, Phoenix. Freewill offering accepted. Info: Sr. Sarah at (602) 944-3375 ext. 104 or Duncan Macaulay at (602) 826-1982. Morning of Discernment, March 19, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Diocesan Pastoral Center, 400 E. Monroe St., Phoenix, for single women and men who are interested in learning more about vowed religious life. Info: call Sr. Jean Steffes at (602) 354-2006, jsteffes@diocesephoenix.org; or Margo at (602) 354-2005 mgonzal@diocesephoenix.org.
Singles
Dinner and Movie Night, 5:30-10 p.m., Feb. 19, Yupha’s Thai Kitchen and Tempe Discount Cinemas. RSVP to Patrick Carpenter at (480) 898-7424. Single? Catholic? Age 21-40? Join CRYS #42 Catholic Retreat for Young Singles for weekend of reflection, devotion, and fellowship April 1-3 at Mount Claret Retreat Center. Cost: $75 before March 7, $90 after. Info, Alfonso at (602) 930-0530 or www.crysretreats.com. Multi-Parish Singles extended family invites you (including single parents) to Kiwanis Park Sundays, for a strictly-fun-and-exercise evening (including all-skill-levels volleyball) followed by dining at a nearby place. Info: www.multiparishsingles. org or Kathy at (480) 777-8772.
Entertainment
This and That
“Night on Broadway” a musical, 7 p.m., Feb. 18, St. Paul Parish O’Carroll Hall, 330 W. Coral Gables Dr., Phoenix. Cost: $15 per person. Info: (602) 942-0876 or (602) 942-2608.
“Red Wagon Fare Luncheon” sponsored by Christ Child Society of Phoenix, 11 a.m., March 12, social hour at Chaparral Suites in Scottsdale. Proceeds benefit valley children in need. Cost: $45. Info: (602) 667-3355.
Seton musical, “Beauty and the Beast,” produced with special arrangement with Music Theatre International, New York. 7 p.m. Feb. 1819 in school gym, 1150 N. Dobson Rd. in Chandler. Tickets: $10 adults and $5 students. Details: e-mail Matthew, mfrable@setonchs.org. Denim and Diamonds, Casino Night and Silent Auction, 5:30 p.m.-11 p.m., Feb. 26, Windemere Hotel and Conference Center. Proceeds benefit Christ the King Catholic School. Info: www.ctk-catholicschool.org or call Mendy at (480) 844-4462. Winter Ball featuring Erv Reutzel Band, 7-10 p.m., Feb. 26, Resurrection Parish, 3201 S. Evergreen Road, Tempe. Cost: $8 per person; reserve a table with your friends. Info: (480) 345-7220. Spring Stampede Annual Carnival, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., March 5, St. Thomas the Apostle, 4510 N. 24th St. Enjoy great food and entertainment, inflatables, games, Bingo, Country Market shopping and community friendship. Info: (602) 954-9088. Eighth Annual Polish Festival, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., March 5 and 10 a.m.-6 p.m., March 6, Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish, 2828 Country Gables Dr., Phoenix; for families and singles, with fun activities for kids, live entertainment and authentic Polish cuisine. Info: (480)44AZPOL or www.polishfestivalaz.org. St. Patrick’s Day Party, March 12, Knights of Columbus Council 3855, 8066 N. 49th Ave. Glendale. Traditional Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner, with live entertainment by Mr. Pat McCrossan. Cost: $12 person; RSVP before March 7; $15 at door. Info: (623) 937-3794 or (623) 910-8414. Feeny/Winthrop concert benefiting St. Joseph the Worker. 7 p.m. March 12 at Xavier College Preparatory, 4710 N. 5th St. Lots of special guests. All proceeds help employment services for the homeless. $15 suggested donation. Order at www.sjwjobs.org or call Molly at (602) 417-9854 x3465. Brophy Theatre Production of “Hairspray,” 7 p.m., March 17-19, Xavier Prep’s Virginia G. Piper Fine Arts Center, 4710 N. 5th St. Watch Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair, transform prejudice and herself through her passion, dancing. (602) 264-5291 ext. 6285
Saint Joseph Table Event, 5-9 p.m., March 19, St. Daniel the Prophet Parish, 1030 N. Hayden Rd, Scottsdale. Reception, dinner and live entertainment. Tickets: $30 per person, $8 child; under 10 years old. Info: (480) 945-8437. Annual Book Sale, 7 a.m.-1 p.m., March 20, St. Elizabeth Seton Parish, Seton Hall, 9728 W. Palmeras Dr., Sun City sponsored by the K of C Ladies Auxiliary. Info: call Joan at (623) 694-0429. Military rosary makers needed. Will train. Info: (480) 201-0409. Nun Run benefiting Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration. 8 a.m. March 12 at Kiwanis Park in Tempe. 10k run, 5k run/walk and 1-mile walk. Registration is $25 through Feb. 26, $30 through March 11 and $35 on-site. Shadow runners welcome. Details and registration: www.desertnuns.com. Hike for the Homeless benefiting St. Joseph the Worker, March 5 at Estrella Mountain Regional Park in Goodyear. Half-mile, 2-mile, 6-mile trails. Registration $25 adults, $15 students through Feb. 25. Details or to register: www.hikeforthehomeless.org or call Laura at (602) 417-9854 ext. 3467. Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Free up space in your garage and donate your vehicle. We accept cars,
boats, motor homes, trailers and motorcycles. To process a car donation, please call 1-800-805-8011 or (480) 784-9800. Ozzie’s Home Furnishings, St. Vincent de Paul’s chic, boutique re-sale store, 3927 E. Indian School Rd. has quality items for your home; it’s packed full of antique furniture and one-of-a-kind home decor. All retail profits go toward helping the homeless and working poor. Cleaning out your closet and getting organized? We pick up your gently used clothing, furniture and household items. To schedule a pickup, call (602) 266-4673. Volunteer opportunities available to fit your abilities and interests. Help us help others by giving us a few hours of your time. Info: visit www.stvincentdepaul.net or call Volunteer Services at (602) 261-6870 or (602) 261-6886 (Spanish). The Casa
All events held at the Franciscan Renewal Center, 5802 E. Lincoln Dr., Scottsdale. Information, (480) 948-7460. “Introduction to Centering Prayer” with Carole Whittaker, Ph.D. and Sharon Taszarek, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Feb. 26. Fee per person: $45. “Labyrinth Walk, A Mini Workshop” with Taffy Lanser, builder of the Casa labyrinth, 9 a.m.-noon, Feb. 26. Fee per person: $45. “The Art of Stained Glass” with Tony and Chris Powers, 9 a.m.noon, Feb. 26. Fee per person $75 includes materials. “Compassionate Communication” with Christine Dove, LCSW, Wednesday evenings 6:30-8:30 p.m., March 2, 9, 23 and 30. Fee per person: $55.
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WHO SAYS YOU CAN’T BUY HAPPINESS?
When you shop at our thrift stores, everyone benefits. Shopping at a St. Vincent de Paul thrift store is always an adventure. From hidden treasures to the most practical items, you’re bound to find something that will make you smile. And while you enjoy the savings, you’re also giving back. Because every purchase you make helps fund our programs for the less fortunate. So get shopping!
St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store Locations Apache Junction 2540 W. Apache Trail, (480) 380-4515
Flagstaff 2113 N. East St. (928) 779-4353
Mayer 10376 S. Highway 69 (928) 632-9521
Prescott 935 Fair St. (928) 771-9696
Bullhead City 780 Marina Blvd. (928) 758-3108
Glendale 7018 N. 57th Ave. (623) 931-9901
Mesa 2352 W. Main St. (480) 644-0887
Boutique location:
Chandler 2051 N. Arizona Ave. (480) 812-1156
Kingman 218 E. Beale St. (928) 753-4399
Dolan Springs 7141 W. 11th St. (928) 767-4727
Lake Havasu City 761 N. Lake Havasu Ave. (928) 453-1399 1850 Commander Dr. (928) 453-5414 1851 Commander Dr. (928) 453-3125
Phoenix 8231 N. 7th St. (602) 861-2634 2945 E. Bell Rd. (602) 493-8126 420 W. Watkins Rd. (602) 261-6824
Ozzie’s Furnishings 3931 E. Indian School Rd. Phoenix (602) 955-1460
SAVINGS FOR YOU. HELP FOR OTHERS.