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Caught in the middle Christians in the Holy Land By Joyce Coronel The Catholic Sun
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America’s Catholic cardinalarchbishops will visit the Phoenix Diocese next month to take part in the Cardinals Dinner, a scholarship fundraiser for The Catholic University of America. The May 6 event begins with a 4 p.m. Mass at St. Bernard of Clairvaux Parish, followed by a reception, dinner and program at the Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort and Spa at Gainey Ranch. Fr. Fred Adamson, vicar general for the Diocese of Phoenix, said — See CARDINALS page 11 ▶
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Cena de Colores The annual benefit dinner for the diocesan Cursillo Movement will be 5:30-9:30 p.m. April 30 at Mount Claret Retreat Center. Tickets are $60 each. The event also features a silent auction, strolling mariachis, a cash raffle and prizes. Details, call RosaMaria at (602) 840-5066 or visit www.phoenixcursillo.com. Bridge to Mercy LAKE HAVASU CITY — The local faith community will cross the world-famous London Bridge for the first-ever “Bridge to Mercy Ministries” at London Bridge Beach. The event will feature an opportunity to get involved in local ministries that strive for mercy and to celebrate a successful spring “40 Days for Life” campaign. The fair is 3-6 p.m. May 1. Religious jubilee The Serra Club of Phoenix celebrated its annual night for men and women religious March 19 at Bourgade Catholic High School. Roughly 90 sisters and brothers from various congregations attended including 28 jubilarians who celebrated 25 to 75 years of religious life. Serrans presented them with corsages and a monetary gift.
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Lovable priest turns 100 MESA — The year Fr. Clemens Hut was born, a postage stamp cost two cents, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize for science, and William Taft was president of the United States. And though he’s in a wheelchair and lives in a nursing home, Fr. Hut’s still going strong. Fifty of his longtime friends and supporters gathered April 9 to celebrate the priest’s 100th birthday with a Mass at Christ the King Parish and a luncheon at Friendship Village.
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Pro-life legislation mandates ultrasounds, prohibits ‘telemedicine’ abortions The Arizona Legislature has passed legislation that will require abortion providers to allow women the opportunity for an ultrasound exam at least one hour prior to obtaining an abortion. Gov. Jan Brewer signed HB 2416 April 2. ▶ For the full story: bit.ly/life-laws-042111
Chosen: Hundreds prepare to enter into Church at Easter Hundreds of men, women and children filed into a packed Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral March 13, and left transformed. ▶ For the full story: bit.ly/rite-042111
▶ Noon-3 p.m. April 22, Good Friday Rosary wit ith h Bishop h Thomas J. Olmsted, in front of Glendale Planned Parenthood, 5771 W. Eugie Ave.
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Diocese prepares special exhibit to honor JPII’s life, beatification By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun
Catholics across the diocese should start making travel arrangements to celebrate the beatification of Pope John Paul II. They can spare the expense of airfare to Rome, though. All they need to do is drive to Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral or the Diocesan Pastoral Center instead. The diocesan Office of Archives, on behalf of the bishop, is hosting a celebration in both places honoring the May 1 beatification of Pope John Paul II. It kicks off May 1, Divine Mercy Sunday — a feast day the longreigning pontiff established in 2000 — and the day the Polish pope will be beatified in Rome. Locally, Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo A. Nevares will celebrate a thanksgiving Mass for JPII’s beatification 11 a.m. May 1 at Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral. Normally, such Masses are limited to the places where the person lived or worked. But since Venerable John Paul II was widely recognized by the entire Church, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments gave general permission for the Mass, according to Catholic News Service. During the local liturgy, the red vestment and white miter, which
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John Paul II wore while visiting the Phoenix Diocese in 1987, will be on display along with a portrait. The display will be near the altar 11 a.m.-3 p.m. The times allow Catholics attending the 1 p.m. Spanish liturgy with Bishop Nevares and those traveling from other parishes to also venerate the third-class relics. Maria Beteran, archivist for the Phoenix Diocese, said it was important to bring the vestment and miter to the cathedral during the weekend to make them more accessible to the laity. Pope John
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CDA funding helps victims of domestic violence By Joyce Coronel The Catholic Sun J.D. Long-García/CATHOLIC SUN ARCHIVE
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Without funding from the Charity and Development Appeal, Yvonne Taylor wouldn’t be able to help the many victims of domestic violence who turn to Catholic Charities for help. And Phil Galante, an 86-yearold World War II veteran who suffers from Alzheimer’s, would be stuck at home, unable to seek services from a local senior center. Nine weeks into the Charity and Development Appeal, participation among parishes is at 26 percent and growing. About half of the Phoenix Diocese’s parishes and misFull story: sions are at 75 bitt.lly bi ly/C / DA-D -DV DV percent of their goal. The hope is that those who have not yet contributed to the CDA will do so soon. Money raised by the annual appeal helps fund 65 ministries in the diocese, including Catholic Charities and the Foundation for Senior Living. The domestic violence program at Catholic Charities, for example, relies on CDA funds to help run My Sister’s Place, a licensed residential domestic violence shelter for women and their children who are homeless as a result of family violence. CDA money also helps fund the work of Pathways, a transitional housing and life skills educational program for single mothers and their children who have fled violence in their homes. The issue affects more people than many realize. In Arizona, 12,000 children witnessed domestic violence last year. And in 2007, there were 96 domestic-violence-related deaths in the state. According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, one in four women will experience domestic violence in their lifetime and 1.3 million women in the United States are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner every year. Yvonne Taylor, executive director of the domestic violence program at Catholic Charities, said victims can seek help from My Sister’s Place, a shelter for women and their children fleeing abuse, as well as Pathways. Last year, My Sister’s Place served 109 women and 132 children. It’s not cheap to run the shelter and CDA money helps keep the doors open. The cost of food, cleaning supplies, laundry detergent and utilities all add up to sky-high bills.
Yvonne Taylor, director of domestic violence programs for Catholic Charities, speaks with a domestic violence victim Oct. 15, 2009.
“We’re serving 250 people three meals a day and that gets incredibly expensive,” Taylor said. “The utilities are rising. My utility bill is about $10,000 dollars a year and it’s hard.” Taylor dispelled some of the common misperceptions about domestic violence and its victims. “There is no economic thing tied to domestic violence,” Taylor said. “It happens regardless of people’s education level, it happens regardless of their profession.” Then there’s the secrecy that veils the horror of domestic violence. “Absolutely any person can find themselves in that position,” Taylor said. “Shame keeps people from coming forward and that’s the difficult part. People experience this in isolation.” People with higher incomes have more resources, Taylor said, and are often able to leave their home, rent an apartment and pay for an attorney. She spoke of a 29-year-old woman who recently sought help from the shelter. The woman, a college graduate, was three months pregnant and had escaped from her abuser. My Sister’s Place helped her with safety planning as well as securing housing and employment. The woman, who stayed at the shelter for two months, received group support so she could understand domestic violence and met with a case manager on an ongoing basis. The services she received at the shelter helped her re-establish her life in the community. CDA funding, Taylor said, is of crucial importance to the programs she runs. The economic crunch has been hard on nonprofits in general, because while contributions are down, the need for services is growing. The budget crisis at the state and local levels means that much government funding has been cut. “There’s got to be a place beyond government funding that people look to in order to get money,” Taylor said. Some of the contributors to the domestic violence programs require non-government matching funds. CDA funding helps Taylor obtain matching funds, helping to stretch scarce dollars further to assist victims. ✴
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When 24 local Boy and Girl Scouts faced a board of review earlier this month, they weren’t answering questions about knot tying, starting a campfire or other typical outdoor skills often associated with the scouting program. Instead, the largely middle schoolaged boys — plus three girls — openly spoke to their two-member board about their favorite sacrament: marriage, for many of them. These boys, who may have never even thought about dating, much less experienced it, already know that marriage takes a lot of work. Another mentioned communication. One found great role models in a deacon and his wife. All of them have the Catholic scouting program to thank, in particular the Ad Altare Dei religious emblem, for their in-depth study of the sacraments. The religious emblems and the faith-based nature of the troops themselves have proven to be another source of youth ministry for the Church. Next week, roughly 200 leaders will meet at the Radisson Fort McDowell Resort in Scottsdale for a four-day national Catholic committee meeting on scouting. It’s designed to ensure that such highquality programs continue to form scouts in physical and mental fit-
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ness, character and faith. For members across the state, the Catholic scouting experience already does. “It’s helped us learn more about our faith so we can better understand it,” said Abrahm Coury, a First Class Scout who turns 13 next month. He’s a senior patrol leader for Troop 262 at St. Helen Parish in Glendale. His cousin, James Davia, 13, and is his assistant, also a First Class Scout. Both spent eight months preparing for their Ad Altare Dei emblem board of review held April 6 at the Diocesan Pastoral Center. They enjoyed the process, especially the board of review. “When I was walking in there,
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Jr., parochial vicar at St. Elizabeth Seton Parish in Sun City, wrote the program in 2009. “It focuses on bridging two very different things — scouting and the Church — and shows how together, it fosters discipleship and service,” said Fr. Nave Jr., who got involved in scouting as a seminarian. More than a dozen scouts from both the dioceses of Phoenix and Tucson spent the weekend playing leadership games and executing group tasks. It was all centered on knowledge of the faith and servant leadership skills. Fr. Matt Lowry, associate director of vocations for the Phoenix Diocese and an Eagle Scout, led the retreat. He reminded the 14-19-year-olds that the world desires and respects leadership. “A Christian leader recognizes ‘I’m weak. I’m broken. Yet God has been so merciful with me, with these gifts.’ Your response is to say, ‘Well, I don’t think I can do it, but I can do it with Christ,” said Fr. Lowry, who also serves as chaplain at the Holy Trinity Newman Center in Flagstaff. He reminded them during a midday liturgy April 2 of Jesus’ servant leadership example when He washed His disciples’ feet. Jesus said true leadership is to serve oth-
ers, Fr. Lowry said. “Our whole hierarchy in the Church is to serve others,” he continued. “A priest is there to serve the people to get them to heaven.” Thanks to the Catholic youth leadership training, the senior patrol leaders are there more and more to help young scouts on their faith walk. Michael Jenkins, a 14-year-old from Tucson who was due to become a Life Scout earlier this month, said he’s not afraid to pray in front of others anymore. Many Scouts from Phoenix on the retreat loved the leadership opportunity that scouting provides and hoped that younger scouts will step up. “The process of forming the youth puts them in a position where they want to turn around and do the same thing,” said David Miller, a 17-year-old Eagle Scout from Troop 818 at St. Bernadette in Scottsdale. The leadership isn’t all internal though. Eagle Scout projects often have scouts supervising younger scouts and adults on a self-initiated project for a parish or group. A scout at St. James Parish in Glendale built the fire pit area used for last year’s Easter Vigil as his project. Another scout will complete a statue garden at Mount Claret Retreat Center later this month. ✴
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Panel to take on morality of capital punishment April 28 By Joyce Coronel The Catholic Sun
A panel of four prominent legal authorities, including Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne and Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, will discuss the morality of capital punishment in an April 28 forum at Xavier College Preparatory. Former Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Rudolph Gerber and Alan Tavassoli, an attorney who handles only death penalty cases with the Maricopa County Public Defender’s Office, will comprise the other members of the panel. The series, sponsored by the St.
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Thomas More Society, an organization of local Catholic attorneys, was put together by by Chris Pattock, a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice. Denise Blommel, co-chair of the event, is a local employment and labor lawyer. Pattock said the civil discourse series was planned last fall as a way to engage the public regarding current issues that have both legal and moral implications. “One of our main goals is to foster changes in the status quo which are consistent with Catholic theology and principles,” Pattock said. “As we all know, those principles are generally in the minority and
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Building commission to set church norms By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun
Church architecture involves far more than a discussion pitting old against new or traditional against contemporary style. It’s theology. Understanding theology and architecture is the heart of the newly established Liturgical Building Commission. Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted appointed the sevenmember group to assist his office in ensuring liturgical and diocesan norms go into each project. The commission will work with parishes plus diocesan schools and groups, should they build or renovate a chapel. “With the many complex questions that must be addressed in construction today, especially when constructing places of worship, the commission will greatly assist us in building edifices that give glory to God and that assist the faithful in the praise and worship of the Most High,” the bishop said. As a quick introduction to the principles of Church architecture, priests, parish leaders plus a few deacons and women religious attended one of two related lectures April 4-5 at the Diocesan Pastoral Center.
For example, a church’s stained glass window should help parishioners more actively participate in the heavenly realities at Mass, not just make them go, “Oooh, aahh,” McNamara said. He hopes as local parishes build, their members will move beyond that “awe” stage to thoughtfully select the images and designs that point to Ambria Hammel/CATHOLIC SUN heavenly realities. Everything from Dr. Denis McNamara speaks with the doors to the style of columns to leaders after his April 4 presentation the saints and buildings depicted in at the Diocesan Pastoral Center. statues and murals should participate In a whirlwind yet light-hearted in the Church’s revelatory mission, 90-minute presentation, Dr. Denis he said. McNamara, author of three books “Architectural theology is about on Catholic Church salvation, fundamentally, architecture, gave and about enjoying your Full story: an overview of how own process of salvation,” to merge beauMcNamara said. bitt.lly bi ly/bui uild ild-0 042 4211 111 11 1 ty, the Bible and Parishioners involved Catholic Church with a church building architecture. project can appreciate “We are beings who understand moving from the chaos of piles of through the senses,” McNamara rocks to complete order, a reflection reminded more than two dozen of being in the right relationship people during the April 4 presentawith God. tion, hosted by the diocesan Office “It’s not about the style you pick; of Worship. it’s about the theology you choose It’s not just the Eucharist and to embody,” he said. the music that can help lead the The commission will learn the faithful to heavenly realities, he principals of architecture and how said. Art and architecture also play they “speak” the language of Christ and then establish norms. ✴ a part.
First Catholic church in Sun City turns 50 By J.D. Long-García The Catholic Sun
SUN CITY — Even after 50 years, a healthy portion of St. Joachim and St. Anne parishioners are older than the building. What might come as a surprise is the number of parishioners who are younger. “What’s unique is the combination of the older people and their acceptance of the younger Catholics,” said Fr. John Ebbesmier, pastor of the first Catholic church in Sun City. “Working with the seniors you see a profound element of faith on a deeper level,” he said. “That’s nice to be a part of.” Fr. Ebbesmier, who’s been at the parish for the past four years, implemented a religious education program for children. A few years back, families with children began moving into Youngtown, just across the street from the church. In fact, the first Masses were celebrated in the Youngtown Clubhouse just over 50 years ago. But the religious education doesn’t stop with the children. Deacon Charles Hever, noting that the adults would drop off and then pick up their children from catechism classes, began a simultaneous adult-faith-formation program. Fr. Ebbesmier also led a four-day Lenten mission to bring all parishioners deeper into the faith. And, according to Clarida Caswell, he kept everyone’s attention. “It was like you could have heard a pin drop,” the pastoral associate
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Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted receives the gifts of bread and wine during the March 20 anniversary Mass.
said. “He’s a leader, but he doesn’t want to be put on a pedestal. He’s just brought the parish family together — he’s the father of us all.” Caswell noted the parish’s emphasis on hospitality and prayer in particular. The choir is also exceptional. “Fr. John brought us together spiritually and as a community,” she said. “That helped us come to know one another, to love each other.” Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted joined the parish community for its March 20 anniversary Mass. He concelebrated the Mass with Fr. Ebbesmier and several other priests, including former pastors. “We stand apart from the darkness because we stand against the things that diminish human dignity,” the bishop said in his homily. He also said St. Joachim and St. Anne — Jesus’ grandparents — were fitting patrons for the parish. “Look at the fruit of their marriage,” the bishop said after noting little is known of the saints from
Scripture. “Fruit like [the Virgin Mother] must say something about the mother and the father.” Contrary to society, which sees children as a burden, the bishop called the parish to continue seeing children as fruits of a loving marriage. “We praise God for the many blessings poured out on the many parishioners,” he said, “and through them, to others.” Fr. Frank Simlik, pastor for 12 years, oversaw a renovation of St. Anne hall and the restoration of the Shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes in the 1990s. During that time, he said, the parish mostly served retired Catholics. The priest, a former Dominican incardinated into the Phoenix Diocese in the 1980s, spent much of his ministry anointing the sick and burying the dead. He said 7-8 percent of parishioners would die each year, compared to 2-3 percent average at other parishes. “The people here are very good in their practice of the faith,” Fr. Simlik said. “You know, they’re basically preparing for the final exam.” The faith of the senior Catholics built the foundation for the influx of younger parishioners — from a variety of cultures, Fr. Ebbesmier said. He estimated half of the parishioners are “snow birds,” arriving in October and leaving around Easter. “This is just the beginning of the next 50 years,” Fr. Ebbesmier said. “We will continue to bring the light of the world to our community for years to come.” ✴
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Bhutanese refugees love American free enterprise J.D. Long-García The Catholic Sun
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Buddhist majority. Migration continued over the years and, in the 1980s, the Nepalispeaking Lhotshampas came to rival the population of the natives. The government instituted harsh policies to enforce a “one nation, one people” policy, wanting to safeguard the native rituals and encouraging intermarriage. This didn’t go well for the Lhotshampas. Being Hindu, their beliefs about the sacredness of cows, for example, conflicted with the northerners, Buddhists who eat beef. Lhotshampas could go to school and learn in Nepali for nearly 100 years, but that ended with the new policy. The government changed the citizenship requirement, stripping many Lhotshampas of citizenship and certain civil rights. Dhiren Cheuhan, a resettlement case manager for Catholic Charities
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who also left Bhutan as a child, said a government soldier once struck him on the head, piercing his skull. “Small children were beaten to death,” Cheuhan said. The southerners organized a large peace march in 1990, but were subsequently brutalized. Children whose fathers participated in the march were also punished. In December of 1990, government authorities announced that Lhotshampas who couldn’t prove they lived in Bhutan in 1958 — when a nationality law had been passed — had to leave the country.
The Routh family fled to India. From India, they — along with more than 100,000 others — wound up in refugee camps in Nepal. In Nepal, Yam said he was treated as if he were from another world. The group agreed that medical care in the camps — where some refugees have spent 20 years — is abysmal. Still, after the Jesuit Relief Service and Cartias Internationalis got involved, Cheuhan said things got a lot better. The children, now in their late 20s and early 30s, can speak English thanks to the schooling they received at the camps. Yam has a
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just minutes away from the U.S. a $3,000 scholarship that is renewCardinals Dinner organizers hope Capitol, national monuments and able for up to four years. If a family to raise much needed-scholarship museums. demonstrates financial need, grants funds as well as increase local “Washington, D.C., is a great are also available as part of the Catholics’ knowledge of CUA. place to be not only because it’s a assistance package. “The university is hoping to political and cultural center but, According to Fr. Chris Fraser, build a greater awareness in the with all the embassies, it’s also an judicial vicar for the Phoenix Southwest of the international city,” Diocese and a graduate of the excellent Catholic acaGarvey said, “so canon law program at CUA, about Full story: demics and formation a student on our 400 alumni from the university live bit.ly/cardinals-042111 they offer to young campus gets expo- in Arizona. people,” Fr. Adamson sure to a diversity “Catholic University is unique said. “The proceeds of cultures.” amongst its companion universifrom the Cardinals Dinner will proCUA’s smaller class sizes mean ties, in that it is the official Catholic vide new opportunities for students students also have more opportu- university of the United States and from the southwestern United nities to interact with their profes- overseen to a significant degree by States to attend the university.” sors. Garvey said that in spite of the the U.S. Conference of Catholic CUA sits on a 193-acre campus current economic difficulties, eight Bishops,” Fr. Fraser said. in Washington, D.C. and is home out of 10 fulltime students receive Fr. Fraser noted that the CUA has to 12 schools and 21 research facilsome sort of financial aid. served to educate the educators in ities. The school offers more than That assistance is based on both decades past — specifically those 70 bachelor’s programs, includneed and academic potential, but religious sisters, brothers, and clering theology, nursing, engineerGarvey also pointed to CUA’s par- gy who would attend the university ing, canon law and music, along ish scholarship program. Pastors over the summer and then return with graduate and master’s degree are able to nominate students for to their assignments as teachers and programs. Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of the Diocese of Phoenix is a member of the board of trustees for WILDWOODS IN STOCK CUA. He said the event will proASK ABOUT 5 YEAR EXTENDED WARRANTY vide scholarships to deserving students to attend CUA, which he 23 FOOT - SLIDE OUT 2011 T21FBS described as a school Catholics can Front Queen Bed, Electric be proud of. Awning, Sofa Bed, Full “Catholic universities are born Kitchen, Sleeps 5! from the heart of the Church and, when they remain faithful to their identity and mission, they prepare their students, laity and clergy, to live the gift of faith with joy and 22 FOOT 2011 T22RKS conviction and to bear witness to Front Bed Walk Around, Sofa, Christ in their daily lives,” Bishop Dinette, Awning, BBQ, Olmsted said. “The Church canHalf Ton Towable, Sleeps 6! not complete her mission without this witness of well-educated and deeply committed laity.” John Garvey, president of CUA, said the school has a strong Catholic identity and that students come from all 50 states and 90 foreign countries. He cited the CUA’s location in Washington, D.C. as a big plus. Students, he said, are
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to go out and give back what you’ve been given.” He said the school offers six Masses per day on campus and that confessions are available at the nearby Shrine of the Immaculate Conception two or three times a day. He also pointed to the more than 200 Catholic groups in the vicinity that add to the faith-based atmosphere. “A lot of people in the neighborhood that went to CUA or go to CUA are working for these places that will hire you and bring you in and kind of keep the faith going,” Theodoro said. The U.S. bishops founded CUA in 1887 for Catholic higher education in America. The pontifical university has about 7,000 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled. Tuition for full-time, undergraduate students is $17,630 per semester. ✴
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a 91 percent Muslim majority, it’s also home to a large, though quickly diminishing, PalestinianChristian community. For the 150,000 Christians who remain in the Holy Land, there are no simple answers. Life is an uneasy existence, lived in the shadow of centuries of religious and political conflict, of bloodshed that defies reason. Christians, caught between the camps of mortal enemies, stand in the eye of the storm. ‘Hemorrhaging Christians’ Israel’s government is concerned
about the dwindling number of Christians in the Middle East, according to Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren, who visited Phoenix last month. “We are the cradle of faith,” he said during a March 17 press conference in Phoenix, “so faith plays a role in our diplomacy as well.” When questioned about the future of Christianity in the region, Oren pointed to his work as church advisor for Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister who was assassinated in 1995. “I have a very personal attachment to the issue,” he said. “The Middle
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eral have an interest in protecting these communities.” As far as Christians in his country, the ambassador drew a sharp distinction between what he termed the “hyper-democracy” of Israel and the rest of the Middle East. “Israel is the only country in the Middle East which has a grow-
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ing population [of Christians]. The only one,” Oren said. “The Christian population in Israel is an affluent community…it’s a very successful community and we cherish that community.” A two-edged sword Franscican Father Peter Vasko, who’s spent nearly three decades living among Christians in the region and is president of the Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land, offered a different take. “I certainly agree with [Ambassador Oren] that [the Israelis] cherish the Christian community, but at the same time, there have been some policies that have affected the Christians in negative ways,” the priest said. “We have to work together for close negotiations always. We have to have talks with the three groups, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian.” One of the policies Fr. Vasko questions has to do with the concrete wall Israel built along and within the West Bank. The wall, he said, has created hardships. Palestinian armed resistance, reignited in 2000 prior to the construction of the barrier, targeted Israel with more than 70 suicide bombings that originated in the West Bank. Nearly 300 Israelis were killed and 1,900 were injured. The wall was seen as a way to prevent terrorist attacks. The imposing structure stretches more than 200 miles and stands more than 26 feet high. Built according to the 1967 border between Israel and Palestine, Israel effectively absorbed some Palestinian land, fueling further resentment. “The separation barrier has indeed prevented the number of suicide bombers in Israel,” Fr. Vasko admitted. “It is a positive step in curtailing terrorists from entering Israel and we commend that, but unfortunately, the barrier is like a two-edged sword.” The wall, Fr. Vasko said, has blocked some 320,000 Palestinians — both Christian and non-militant Muslims — from jobs in — See page 13 ▶
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principal Israeli cities. The wall spawned vast unemployment in the West Bank. “A lot of Christians were employed in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and because of the barrier have lost their jobs,” Fr. Vasko said. “People have no money to pay for school tuition, let alone purchasing food. It has caused a lot of difficulties for them.” Fr. Mike Straley, pastor of St. Paul Parish in Phoenix and a member of the Equestrian Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, has seen the wall for himself and shares a similar view. “I used to do prison work as a chaplain,” Fr. Straley said. “You feel like you are going into an Arizona state prison when you’re going into Bethlehem. It’s walled with razor wire around the edges. It’s very, very difficult.” Fr. Straley visited Bethlehem University in 2009 and asked one of the students, a Palestinian who lives just outside Bethlehem, how long it takes her to get to school. “She said it used to take 20 minutes, but now it could take anywhere from an hour to half a day, depending on how much hassle they put her through.” The wall and the settlements the Israelis have built, Fr. Straley said, are in violation of international law. The difficulty for Palestinian Christians is that they are caught in the middle of the ongoing conflict. Israelis see them as Arabs — and therefore trouble — and militant Muslims view them as traitors — pro-Israeli and pro-West. Many, in fact, are not. ‘We are watched’ Isam, a businessman who lives in Phoenix and gave only his first name, was born in Nazareth and grew up as a Christian there, attending and later teaching in Catholic schools. He emigrated to the United States just prior to the 1967 war, but returns to his homeland every two years. Most of his family still lives there.
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On Good Friday, the Church draws its eyes to Christ’s death on Calvary. Catholics also remember Christians in the Holy Land, who face Holy Land death every day. collection Churchgoers around April 22 during the Phoenix Diocese Good Friday can stand in solidarity services across with their brothers in the the diocese Middle East by supporting the Holy Land collection during Good Friday services April 22. It’s a joint effort between the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and the Order of St. Francis. The Equestrian Order supports the Catholic faith and education in the Holy Land where Melkite, Marionite, Assyrian, Armanean and Chaldean churches try to survive. Relatives or descendants of these communities reside The Mossad — the Israeli equivalent of the CIA — is powerful, and he said and he didn’t want to disclose his last name. “If you say things that go on the record, it could really hurt you or they could use it against you,” Isam said. “They are not going to shoot them or kill them, but they make life miserable anyway by taxes or confiscating property — this is the Israeli way.” Isam sells the carved, olive-wood statues of Jesus and Mary that Bethlehem is famous for, but said many have left Bethlehem to sell their wares in the United States. The Christian population of the city once stood at 80 percent, but is now down to just nine percent. “The wall is not necessarily for the Christians, but it doesn’t make it easy for them. Christians are part of the Arab community,” Isam said. “The only thing different between the Christians and Muslims in the eyes of the Israelis is that the
within diocesan boundaries. “If you’ve never traveled to the Holy Land, you don’t see the persecution over there. Palestinians and Israelis are taking over,” said Cheryl Edgar, lady commander for the Western Lieutenancy of the Equestrian Order. The parishioner of San Francisco de Asís in Flagstaff traveled to the Holy Land in 2005. Pope Benedict XVI went there in 2009 and local Catholics, who traveled with Phoenix’s Friends of the Cathedral, returned from a 10-day pilgrimage Monday. Pilgrims help, but increased violence and real martyrdom remain, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches told Catholic News Service. “They’re absolutely beautiful people, but they really are persecuted right now,” Edgar said. Despite the Church of the Holy Sepulchre being the holiest Christian site in the world — encompassing Calvary and the tomb — Edgar said Christians could only visit during certain hours. The church must be protected.
Christians are not going to cause human damage, they’re not going to be suicide bombers,” he said. “I am a citizen,” Isam said, “but I am watched, and every other Christian, we are watched; they keep an eye on us. We don’t have that total freedom.” Fr. Straley recalled a statement he heard on his 2009 trek to the Holy Land: “If you want to take our side, we don’t need that.” He heard it from a Melkite bishop, who addressed the pilgrims, offering the heartfelt plea. “We don’t need people taking sides,” the bishop said. “We need people working for peace.” Such a peace has been hard to come by. “Both Israel and the Palestinians have a natural right to self-determination,” Fr. Vasko said. “Military victories by themselves do not bring about security. Only peace built on justice and human rights brings about security.” ✴
Annual contributions from the diocese over the last five years have averaged more than $135,000. “This generosity indicates that the good people in the Diocese of Phoenix see the importance of supporting this annual collection with respect and gratefulness to that sacred land where our Lord was born and where He died for our salvation,” said Margo Gonzalez, who coordinates special collections for the Phoenix Diocese. Projects funded in 2009-2010 combined archaeological studies and restoration of Christian shrines. Funds also support scholarships for students, businesses and ministries and a family housing project. Collection envelopes are available in the regular envelope packet sent by mail or at church. Cardinal Sandri told Rome Reports, an international TV news agency, that supporting the collection allows Catholics to be “always anchored to the land of Jesus.” ✴
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THE EUCHARIST: Source and summit of the Catholic faith ▶ Continued from page 1
under the appearance of bread and wine. His body, blood, soul and divinity. The greatest gift He left for His Church. But like many religious truths, the Eucharist is a gift that can only be appreciated through the eyes of faith. It can be difficult for Catholics, even faithful Catholics, to always keep their active belief in the Eucharist. “Many people struggle to understand the mystery of the Eucharist. Even the Apostles found it difficult to comprehend. This can lead to doubts or even to a loss of faith, as we see in the Gospel according to John,” said Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted. “However, St. Peter gives us a good example of how to deal with these difficulties, namely by keeping our eyes fixed on the Lord Jesus,” he said. “Since Christ gave
us the Eucharist, He will give us the grace we need, if we persevere, to accept this mystery in faith.” Persevering is paramount, said Fr. McGuire, because the Eucharist and Mass are where Catholics find their identity and reason for being. “It’s in the Mass where we have that identity strengthened and it’s in that perfect prayer of the Mass that Christ’s entire life is summarized, made present, made real,” he said. “He comes to us in the in intimacy of His true, real, substantial presence.” During Holy Week, it is easier to see this re-presentation of the life, death and resurrection of Christ in the Mass. Holy Thursday celebrates the institution of the priesthood and Eucharist during the Last Supper. Good Friday commemorates the passion and death of Christ, Who is raised from the dead three days later, Easter Sunday. Each Mass makes real the mystery
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of these days and fulfills Christ’s promise to be with His Church until the end of the world. Of course, it’s only human nature that, many times, the faithful are not so attentive to this mystery and miracle. “A sad and puzzling phenomenon of human life is the temptation to take for granted the persons that are closest to us. This is especially true in our modern world, where the breakdown of marriage is so widespread and where faith in God has grown lukewarm among many,” Bishop Olmsted said. “How do we keep love and faith alive and flourishing? We must, first of all, never take for granted these precious gifts. On the contrary, we need to work at loving anew each day those whom the Lord has given us to love; we must ask too for the grace of stronger faith; and then we can confidently rely upon His grace,” he said. Fr. McGuire said that the relative ease with which Catholics in America can attend Mass can lead to a temptation to view it as mundane. “You read stories about countries where it’s illegal to be Catholic or Christian, and the Mass is celebrated underground at great risk to the priest and those present. There’s a high cost being paid by those to celebrate the Mass,” he said. “One thing that can help us is remembering in every Mass the price that our Lord Jesus paid in order that we can have this gift. Of course that gift was the price of His
very life,” he said. “If we really recall that, recollect that and center ourselves on that reality, that goes a long way in helping us to be present and open to that miracle of miracles,” he said. “But it takes a conscious effort.” Part of this conscious effort can be reflected in the decor of the church, the selection of sacred music during Mass, the way the altar is decorated, and what the sight-lines from the pews emphasize. Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral itself has under gone some sanctuary renovation to help the faithful remain prayerful and present during Mass. “Recent changes in the sanctuary of the cathedral and other churches in our diocese have been done to cultivate a greater sense of the sacred, to draw our attention, with the help of beautiful art, to the Paschal Mystery of Christ, that is to His cross and resurrection, and thus to help us all to enter more readily into the sacred liturgy, which is the summit and source of the Church’s life,” the bishop said. Fr. McGuire said these changes take into better account our nature as sensory beings. “There’s a recognition that all of our being, the body and soul, is being called to enter into this sacred liturgy fully. In order to engage the senses fully, it’s good and appropriate to utilize this sacred art and sacred music,” he said. “It says so much to the faithful present that this is important, this
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is valuable, this is a treasure worth giving our best to.” Another way Catholics show their love for the Eucharist is through adoration. All across the Valley, men and women sign up to sit with the Lord in an adoration chapel for an hour. “I think that in addition to receiving the Eucharist first and foremost, adoration has inspired me as well as helped me see that the only way to walk your faith and really understand your faith is to be with the Lord as often as you can,” said Loretta Wynn. She coordinates the perpetual adoration schedule for St. Joseph Parish in Phoenix. “It is truly something you have to experience,” she said of eucharistic adoration. “This is a gift, and if you truly believe in gifts and blessings, this will draw you to have a closer relationship with Jesus.” Wynn recalled a story about an adorer who had a non-Catholic husband. She’d always ask him to go to adoration with her. He always politely refused, but her persistence wore him down. He agreed to go for five minutes. “In five minutes, what the Lord can do with a soul,” Wynn laughed. “Now he comes every day.” Mary Ann Gray, who coordinates adoration at St. Theresa Parish, has been doing eucharistic adoration since the early ’90s. Now, she can’t imagine missing her hour. “Peaceful is a key word. It slows you down,” she said. “It’s a peaceful feeling that lasts after you leave the chapel. It affects your whole day.” Bishop Olmsted said that he has seen an increased interest in eucharistic adoration throughout the diocese over the past few years. “This is taking place with people of all ages and from many varied cultures and backgrounds,” he said. Anything that draws Catholics deeper into the mystery of the Eucharist is a good thing, which transforms all of the faithful’s experiences into a beautiful gift, Fr. McGuire said. “In the offering, we do offer everything: our joys, our sorrows, our hopes, our disappointments, our successes, our failures,” he said. “Everything we offer willingly to God the Father in this perfect sacrifice, and we allow God then to transform in that Paschal mystery everything in the light of our risen and glorified Lord.” It’s a beautiful, but difficult reality, something that Fr. McGuire has learned to appreciate as he ages. “Words fail in the face of this profound mystery that’s taking place in the Mass,” he said. “As I get older, I appreciate that more and more. This gift is so incomprehensible at the human level, but through God’s grace we can plumb deeper and deeper into the mystery.” ✴
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Dates to remember April 22: Deadline, Comeback Athlete of Year April 29: Feast day, St. Catherine of Siena May 4-5: Seussical Jr., St. Theresa May 6: 7th/8th-grade Spring Dance, Bourgade May 13-14: American GoatA-Phone, original musical, Sacred Heart Suggestions? Dates? E-mail: schoolnews@catholicsun.org
Correction A fact about St. Vincent de Paul’s enrollment in the March 17 issue of The Catholic Sun (“Deadline looms, donations for CTODP….” page 16) was wrong. The school has increased by 40 students, not decreased as previously reported. The Catholic Sun regrets the error.
Student art on display MESA — Middle school art projects from Christ the King are on display at the Phoenix Art Museum’s Administration Building through April 28. The projects illustrate this year’s school theme, “Year of the Family.” Attend the free reception 5-7 p.m. April 27 or view pieces during regular building hours weekdays until 5 p.m.
Easter Basket drive CHANDLER — Students at Seton are holding friendly class competitions to see who creates the most Easter baskets for students at St. Matthew and St. Agnes schools in Phoenix. The annual project features baskets with five servings of candy and a toy, game or book. The student council bought travel-size toothbrushes and toothpaste to add to baskets.
Key Club Some 350 Key Club members across the Southwest met in Albuquerque recently and elected Brophy’s Shane D’sa as lt. governor of the North Mountain Division. He’ll represent six schools including St. Mary’s and Xavier. D’sa also won second place during a speech contest at the convention.
Recycling for nuns, more Students and families at St. Theresa recently raised nearly $103 in a two-month period by recycling aluminum cans. Those funds help the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur support their orphanages worldwide. The students also redeem lids from water bottles and tabs from aluminum cans to benefit the Ronald McDonald House Charities. ✴
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If we recycle it, it can go to a better cause. We respect any animals that are outdoors. We respect rules when we go camping and make sure the fire is completely out.
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Fifth-graders pay taxes, manage personal finances By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun
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LENDALE — Weekly paydays and routine performance bonuses are some of the perks of being a fifth-grader at St. Louis the King. Some might say paying $150 rent for their desk and annual taxes are among the drawbacks. Like it or not, that’s what happens when a former banker becomes a full-time teacher. Now, all 27 fifth-graders in Dee Dee Rotz’s class keep a personal checkbook register at their fingertips. They never know when Rotz will slap a penalty fee for a uniform violation or poor behavior. They’re also dinged for taking too long with the bathroom pass. Fees can apply individually or as a class. The students are sure to keep their checkbook register handy on Fridays. That’s when Rotz has each student deposit $4 for every “A” grade earned that week, $3 for each “B,” and so on. They’re on the honor system to track the math. Rotz can’t remember exactly how long she’s been blending lessons in personal finance with standard academics, but that’s not as important as the motive. “I’ve always wanted to give them that [financial] background — not that people really use registers anymore,” Rotz said. Outdated? Maybe. But the strategy has helped with behavioral issues. “This class right now seems to have a lot of money,” Rotz said. While it’s all numbers and not real money, it’s still important to track. Rotz sets up a mini shop in the classroom on Fridays. It’s filled with school supplies and gadgets. Some students say it’s hard to save their money for the bigger items like a fancy ruler or a slinky. Others are at a crossroads: should they buy those items now or save up for the end-of-year auction, which promises more elaborate toys? Nicholas Armas can relate. “She puts really cool things in the shop and you really want it and it’s really, really expensive, but you want to save money for the auction,” Armas said. “It tempts me so much I
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Liliana Gonzales, a fifth-grader at St. Louis the King School in Glendale, deducts money from her “checking account.”
just walk away.” A professional auctioneer from the parish will oversee the bidding process sometime next month. Five students have been in the red at some point this school year,
but all of them said tracking their expenses and income in the classroom has helped them be more financially savvy at home. “I hope they learn about personal finances — budgeting their money
and not spending every penny as soon as they get it,” Rotz said. The fifth-graders also learn business skills with regular BizTown lessons through the Junior Achievement learning experience in Tempe. ✴
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April 21, 2011 Catholic school students, like 2010 Notre Dame senior Kayli Rosenberger, continually score well on the ACT. The diocesan schools office was recently recognized for Catholic schools’ Advanced Placement scores.
Schools office makes national achievement list By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun
The diocesan Catholic Schools Office, thanks in part to its highachieving advanced placement students, earned a prestigious spot on the College Board’s AP Achievement List. Phoenix is one of about a dozen dioceses or archdioceses nationwide to make the list. Nearly 390 private and public school districts across the country made the cut overall — six of them in Arizona. The College Board studied AP data from 2008 to 2010 and released the list March 16. Every finalist opened AP classroom doors to a significantly broader pool of students while maintaining or improv-
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ing the percentage of students earning scores of 3 or higher. High school students who earn such scores can also earn college credit, advanced placement or both at more than 90 percent of four-year institutions across the country. Some 1,240 high school students across the diocese took at least one AP test last year with 73 percent of them eligible for college credit. That marked a five percent increase from 2008.
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At the same time, the College Board saw another 145 students throughout the Diocese of Phoenix taking the three-and-a-half-hour AP exam compared to 2008. That included more students excelling in traditional AP classes such as English Literature and biology plus tackling newer AP offerings like Chinese Language. “We continue to add AP classes to assist students in getting into the best colleges,” said MaryBeth Mueller, superintendent for the Phoenix Diocese. The College Board offers more than 30 AP courses and exams. Students at Xavier College Preparatory can choose from at least 20 of them. Student in AP courses use college-level textbooks and have extra homework. Some assignments start during summer break. “We’re very proud of the work they do in those AP classes,” Joanne Arcangelo, director of student personnel services, told The Catholic Sun last year for a related article. The College Board is equally proud of leaders in the highachieving school districts. “The AP Achievement List districts are defying expectations by expanding access while enabling their students to maintain or improve their AP Exam scores,” College Board President Gaston Caperton said in a press release. Preston Coalo, assistant principal at Notre Dame Preparatory in Scottsdale, said it helps to stay in tune with the trends in College Board changes and amendments to classes, tests and materials. It also helps to regularly send teachers to AP conferences, Coalo said. Commitment to the AP program largely comes from teachers and students. Most of Notre Dame’s 16 AP classes meet for one-and-a-half periods each year allowing for more face time and direct instruction, Coalo said. Plus, the students understand prior to enrollment the differences between honors level and AP-level courses. College credit or not, the end result is often positive. “It becomes a true confidence builder for college where many of our alumni have returned to tell us just how well those courses prepared them for the rigor of their typical college class,” Coalo said. Secondary schools within the Diocese of Phoenix boast a 99 percent graduation rate with 97 percent going on to college. ✴
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Jim and Guy Labelle have set up a fund through the Catholic Community Foundation to help immigrant students pay out-ofstate tuition at Arizona universities. The Dream Scholarship Fund is for all immigrants brought to the United States before their 16th birthday who attended an accredited high school and don’t qualify for in-state tuition. “We have to support our brothers and sisters,” said Jim Labelle, a parishioner of San Francisco de Asís in Flagstaff. Labelle, whose
company has been insuring vehicles driving to Mexico for the past 10 years, learned from clients just how much family life can be altered by curJim Labelle rent immigration law. “It’s our intention to get thousands of donors — large and small — and to grant as many scholarships as possible,” Labelle said.
A committee, designated by the foundation, will choose scholarship recipients. Applicants must prepare a presentation describing their personal situation and greatest challenge and why they should receive help pursuing higher education. “We’ve spent all this money on public education for these children to attend public school, why would we not invest in helping these students attend a college or university and complete the final stage?” said José Luis Peñalosa, an attorney serving on the committee. The scholarship fund is designed to be spent down — it’s not an endowment. Out-of-state tuition at Arizona State University is more than $20,000. “These kids are Americanized,” Labelle said. “Let’s realize the gifts we have here and take the time to educate them.” ✴
Spelling bees tough to predict St. Thomas, OLPH Scottsdale take first place trophies at Spanish-language contest By J.D. Long-García The Catholic Sun
MESA — Home field advantage can play a big roll in soccer matches and baseball games, but not so much in spelling bees. Going into this year’s March 24 Spanish-language spelling bee at St. Timothy Catholic School, experts would have rightly expected students from the Mesa school to fair well. Last year, Gabriel de la Rocha of St. John Bosco narrowly edged out St. Tim’s Kat Margaret in a close race for second place in the grades 1-4 contest. Kassie Haro, then a St. Tim’s eighth grader, took first in the grades 5-8 contest. This year, both Stephanie Hamrick and Ruby Do of St. Tim’s School did well, but in the end were edged out by students from other schools. Perhaps a better indicator of likely winners is previous appearance in a spelling bee. The top two finalists in this year’s grade 5-8 class participated in last year’s spelling bee as well. Susan Peters of St. Theresa and Natalia Navarro of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Scottsdale both made it to the later rounds in last year’s Spanish bee. Furthermore, Peters finished third a few months ago in the Diocesan Spelling Bee. And sure enough, after several rounds, it was these two students who battled it out for first and second place trophies. But to get there, it wasn’t easy. After 10 rounds, four students remained in the contest. At that stage, the contest turned another page when Halle Lecker of St. Mary-Basha misspelled “página.” It was hard work to narrow it down to two, but in the 15th round, Ss.
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Simon and Jude’s Ksenia Balderrama made a mistake on “trabajábamos.” Two rounds later, Peters made a mistake on “asistieron.” It was a long fought round, but the audience didn’t have to wait 40 days — Navarro correctly spelled “Cuaresma,” or Lent, for the win. After the match, Navarro confessed being unsure of an accent mark on “Cuaresma.” The eighthgrader, daughter of Latin American immigrants, speaks Spanish at home. The night was a practically perfect birthday present for Peters, who turned 12. The sixth-grader, who studied with younger brother Martin “Tino” Peters, spelled “cumpleaños” correctly during the contest. “I always do my best,” she said, adding that her Spanish teacher, Karen Sotelo, is “the best.” Sotelo must be good considering St. Theresa student Javi Davis made it to the final three in the grades 1-4 class. Then both Davis and Christ the King’s Catherine Miller misspelled “mecánico.” But it was Miller whose chances were resurrected, correctly spelling “Pascua” to remain in the contest
Katie Holmes of St. Thomas the Apostle and Natalia Navarro of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Scottsdale took home first place trophies.
against St. Thomas the Apostle’s Katie Holmes. In the seventh round, there was nothing boring about “aburrido,” where Miller slipped up. Holmes then walked down the red carpet of victory, correctly spelling “alfombra.” Holmes, for example, said after the match that she’d initially thought to spell “aburrido” exactly as Miller did. Knowing it was the incorrect spelling, she thought fast and spelled it differently. For the most part, the spelling bee winners study pretty hard. Holmes studied Spanish words at lunch and Miller studied with her sister. But it may be impossible to predict spelling bee winners. Each one of the 27 contestants bested all the other students in their school. And as organizers and contestants have observed, winning or losing can be simply a matter of getting a word you know — or don’t. Before the contestants arrived at the diocesan level contest, they’d already accomplished a great deal. While only four received trophies, each student took home a certificate. And that’s pretty good. ✴
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High court tosses out challenge to Arizona tuition tax-credit program By Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court April 4 tossed out a challenge to Arizona’s tuition tax -credit program — which directs money to scholarships for students at mostly Catholic nonpublic schools — saying that because no direct state expenditures are involved, taxpayers have no legal basis for suing. The 5-4 ruling written by Justice Anthony Kennedy held that because the arrangement is for taxpayers to receive tax credits for their donations to tuition-scholarship organizations, no actual state spending is involved and that therefore taxpayers in general lack jurisdiction for challenging the program. “In an era of frequent litigation, class actions, sweeping injunctions with prospective effect, and continuing jurisdiction to
enforce judicial remedies, courts must be more careful to insist on the formal rules of standing, not less so,” wrote Kennedy. He was joined in the decision by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Scalia also wrote a brief concurring opinion. In a strong dissent, Justice Elena Kagan said that because of the program the state has lost an estimated $350 million in revenue that never got into government coffers since the 1997 law took effect. The program allows tax credits of up to $500 for individuals and $1,000 for couples who donate money to a scholarshiptuition organization, which in turn uses the money to fund scholarships for students who attend private schools, including religious schools. The vast majority of such scholarships have gone to students who
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U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington is pictured in a 2008 file photo. The court tossed out a challenge to Arizona’s tuition tax-credit program April 4.
attend religious schools. “The court’s arbitrary distinction threatens to eliminate all occasions for a taxpayer to contest the government’s monetary support of religion. Precisely because appropriations and tax breaks can achieve identical objectives,” wrote Kagan, “the government can easily substitute one for the other. “Today’s opinion thus enables the government to end-run (a previous ruling that guaranteed) access to the judiciary. From now on, the government need follow just one simple rule — subsidize through the tax system to preclude
taxpayer challenges to state funding of religion.” The case is a joint hearing of two related lawsuits, Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn and the Arizona Department of Revenue v. Winn. Kathleen M. Winn and other taxpayers brought the suit. Paul Bender, the attorney for the people who sued to stop the program, told reporters that because the court did not address whether the law itself is constitutional, the door remains open for another lawsuit, assuming a plaintiff can be found whom the court would accept as having been harmed by
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the program. Ron Johnson, executive director of the Arizona Catholic Conference, told Catholic News Service that Kagan’s conclusion that the program costs the state money overlooks how much Arizona saves by not having to pay for educating the thousands of children who get scholarships to nonpublic schools. Johnson said the average credit — or the amount that doesn’t go into state coffers — is $2,000, while the average cost to the state to educate a child is $9,000 to $10,000 a year. The difference of $7,000 to $8,000 per child is an expenditure the state doesn’t have to make for that student. Johnson said private schools typically have lower per-student costs, and the balance of the expense is covered by the parents and by the parishes or other private organizations that sponsor the schools. The 2010 annual report of the Catholic Tuition Support Organization of the Diocese of Tucson says it provided scholarships for 3,378 students in 26 schools in seven counties of southern Arizona, including 11 schools in economically depressed areas. Forty-seven percent of the students enrolled in those schools benefited. And 34 percent of the individual scholarships went to families headed by a single mother, it said, and the average income of recipient families is less than $35,000. There are more than 50 such tuition support organizations in the state, representing religious and nonreligious schools, Johnson said. The vast majority of the scholarship beneficiaries are students who go to Catholic schools. The Catholic Tuition Organization of the Diocese of Phoenix awarded 6,019 scholarships for the 2008-2009 school year, and more than $9 million worth of scholarships during the 2008 tax year, according to the most recent information on its website. Johnson said the program has made it possible for Arizona’s private schools to keep up steady enrollment at a time when the state’s economy was among the worst in the nation and parochial schools nationwide have been closing because of shrinking enrollment. “The tuition tax credit is helping keep schools open, primarily those in inner-city areas,” he said. If those schools closed and the students were pushed into neighborhood public schools, “it would cost the government even more money than they’re not getting because of these tax credits.” “I think the ruling was outstanding,” Johnson added. “because they said this isn’t government money.” ✴
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Holy confusion? Beatification, canonization are different By Cindy Wooden
the candidate was holy and is now in heaven with God; the decree allows public remembrance of the saint at liturgies throughout the Church. It also means that churches can be dedicated to the person without special Vatican permission. Beatifications only became common in the early 1600s after the Vatican centralized the sainthood process. The centralized process meant dioceses could wait many years or decades to celebrate one of their own as a saint, so to acknowledge the local devotion to the candidate, the popes would give the candidate the title blessed and allow limited devotion. Procedurally, a second miracle — literally — is needed for a blessed to be declared a saint. ✴
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U.S. bishops establish network with Native American leaders By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun
The diversity of the American Church is both a blessing and a challenge for U.S. bishops. That’s especially true for those with a large Native American population in their diocese. For the first time, bishops and leaders within various Native American communities made room in their busy schedules for a Native Ministry Orientation Workshop March 29-30 in Phoenix. The workshop served as a time for both groups to network while learning more about the Native culture, urban ministry, spirituality and education. Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop James S. Wall of Gallup, N.M. and Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver — chair of the U.S. Bishops’ Subcommittee on Native American Affairs — counted themselves among the intimate group at Phoenix’s Hilton Garden Inn north of the airport. “The challenges that the Church faces in its ministry with Native people are similar to those we face in evangelizing all other cultures,â€? Bishop Olmsted told The Catholic Sun. “Namely, how to identify and strengthen those ethnic and traditional traits that are good and how to purify the traits that are not.â€? He noted the need to rely on the Holy Spirit for guidance. Joe Enos, a medicine man with the Tohono O’odham Nation, the Desert People of southern Arizona, presented a workshop on Native and Catholic spirituality and traditions. He talked about the need for young people to have a connection to their ancestry. “Their love comes back to empower us,â€? Enos said. Many bishops at the workshop enjoyed the cultural connection between the communion of saints, All Souls Day when the native people hold banquets for the spiritual world and DĂa de los Muertos in the Hispanic culture. Traditions aside, a heavy workload on the reservation remains, Enos said. He gave several examples of spiritual warfare among largely young community members. ✴
VATICAN CITY — The slight differences between a beatification and a canonization are easy to miss, especially when one pope beatifies another pope. Just three weeks before Pope Benedict XVI was to beatify Pope John Paul II, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments issued a decree designed, in part, to maintain the distinction. The decree dealt with one of the three main differences: the number and location of dioceses that can hold annual public liturgical celebrations in the holy person’s honor. The other two differences are less noticeable and they deal with who ceremonially requests the pope to act and the level of papal authority involved in the proclamation. During a beatification ceremony, the bishop of the diocese where the person dies asks that the candidate be declared blessed; at a canonization, the prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes speaks in the name of the whole Church and asks that the candidate be declared a saint.
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The majesty and mercy of God: Why a new Missal?
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hen Prince Vladimir of Kiev converted to Christ in AD 988, he wished to bring the gift of the Catholic faith to all his country (what we know today as the Ukraine). So, he sent trusted representatives to request missionaries and to witness the Divine Liturgy celebrated in the beautiful Church of Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) in Constantinople (Istanbul today). They were overwhelmed by the beauty of the Eucharistic Sacrifice and wrote to the prince the following message: “We did not know whether we were in heaven or on earth. Never have we seen such beauty… We cannot describe it, but this much we can say: there God dwells among mankind.” What these Ukrainian envoys experienced was a taste of heaven — indeed more than a taste, a true sacramental sharing in eternal realities. Today, we shall take a closer look at this wondrous aspect of the Eucharistic mystery.
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‘With the angels and saints we sing’ Not a few people complain that their experience of going to Mass is anything but heavenly. But that says much more about them than about the Mass. In fact, heaven invades earth at every Eucharistic celebration. St. Athanasius wrote of Holy Mass, more than 1,600 years ago, “My beloved brethren, it is no temporal feast that we come to, but an eternal, heavenly feast. We do not display it in shadows; we approach it in reality.” The First Eucharistic Prayer expresses this great truth, when the priest says, “Almighty God, we pray that your angel may take this sacrifice to your altar in heaven. Then, as we receive from this altar the sacred body and blood of your Son, let us be filled with every grace and blessing.” It is also evident in the Preface of the Mass; even though there are many Prefaces to choose from, each one culminates in words like these: “And so we join the angels and the saints in proclaiming your glory as we sing: Holy, Holy, Holy…”. This is not just a metaphorical illusion; it is a sacred reality. As Vatican II stated in the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (#8), “In the earthly liturgy, by way of foretaste, we share in that heavenly liturgy which is celebrated in the holy city of Jerusalem toward which we journey as pilgrims, and in which Christ is sitting at the right hand of God, a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle.” All of us struggle with distractions at Mass. Poor homilies or unprepared ministers or off-key music may add to the distractions; but the fact remains, and we must strive always to keep in mind, that a wondrous communion with heaven takes place in the Eucharistic Sacrifice.
One with heavenly warriors Communion with the saints and angels, while genuine and miraculous, does not remove us from solidarity with others on Earth. It provides no excuse to avoid the responsibilities of Christian life in this world. The army of saints and angels in heaven are not disinterested in our spiritual combat on Earth. Quite the contrary. They are with us in the Sacred Liturgy, and they are with us in daily life in the family and the public square. More importantly, Christ Himself remains with us, precisely through the Eucharist. At Mass, we unite with Christ in offering to the Father all that we have and all that we are. He, then, takes what is temporal and makes it eternal. He raises what is human into the realm of, and in communion with, what is divine. But the sanctifying power of Christ, our High Priest, does not end there. For, while we are truly citizens of heaven through the Sacred Liturgy, we remain citizens of Earth with a mission in Christ’s name to bear witness to the Kingdom of God. Not only does our heavenly Redeemer break into the temporal realm at Mass but He also remains with us as we fulfill our earthly vocation day by day. Worship prepares us for battle; it prepare our hands and hearts for war, a war not fought with guns and bombs but one fought with the fruit of the Spirit (Cf. Gal 5:22), “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, self-control.” We can be confident that the Lord will give us victory over evil in the world if we remain one with Him. He will answer our prayer, “Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Amen.”
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Part four: Liturgy anticipates heaven
Eschatological wonder What we have been considering here is the eschatological dimension of the Sacred Liturgy. Eschatology has to do with the “last things,” God’s ultimate plan for all He has created. It has to do with those things which will not end with the conclusion of time but will endure throughout eternity. The Lord Jesus was speaking of an eschatological reality when He said (Mt 24:35): “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.” God created us human beings to live forever with Him in heaven. The Sacred Liturgy helps us keep our eyes fixed on this eternal goal by introducing us into it sacramentally. Christ uses sacred signs and symbols — water, oil, bread, wine, the human body and so forth — to share His life with us and to fill our minds with His light. For this reason, sacred art and architecture, sacred music and the rites themselves are the means by which we encounter and share communion with the Eternal Triune God. We celebrate the Paschal Mystery of Jesus, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. This mystery of unconquerable love took place in limited confines of time, at a certain moment in human history, nearly 2,000 years ago, but it is not bound by the limitations of time. This is true because the protagonist, the One who died and rose again to redeem us, is the Eternal Word of God, the Beloved Son of the Father. At Mass, we see a priest celebrating the sacred mysteries, wearing sacred vestments, doing sacred signs, speaking sacred texts; but the Priest who brings about the Eucharistic Mystery and makes Himself present for Holy Communion with us is the Lord Jesus Himself. The priest we can see is acting, during the Sacred Liturgy, in persona Christi. This is why the Church taught at Vatican II (Ibid, #7), “Christ is always present in His Church, especially in her liturgical celebrations. He is present in the sacrifice of the Mass, not only in the person of His minister… but especially under the Eucharistic species… Christ indeed always associates the Church with Himself in the truly great work of giving perfect praise to God and making men holy.” This explains why the Church, at great sacrifice, constructs basilicas, cathedrals, chapels and parish churches of such exquisite beauty. It reflects heaven in stone and glass, eternity in music and built form, because the greatest actions that take place in those sacred edifices are eschatological. Heaven is made present on earth; and we are caught up into eternal realities that will last forever. ✴
editorial The power of Catholic media: Spreading the Good News to the masses
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hould the government be in the business of funding abortion clinics? That was the big debate last week as Congress navigated a tense budget showdown fraught with difficult choices and deep budget cuts. With so much at stake for our country’s social and economic future, lawmakers are hacking away at federal programs that for years have provided a safety net, or at least a cushion, for the jobless, the poor, the hungry, the sick and the elderly — those most vulnerable among us. Which is why it seems unimaginable (but not unpredictable) that the U.S. Senate wouldn’t follow the U.S. House of Representatives’ lead in voting to cut off the reported $350 million in federal funding each year that goes to Planned Parenthood. So for now, $350 million of our taxes will continue to go toward supporting the nation’s largest abortion provider. Challenging issues such as these, with consequences for the well-being of our heart and soul of as a nation, are brought to the forefront with a Catholic, moral perspective thanks in large part to the annual Catholic Communications Campaign, taking place this year May 14-15 during weekend Masses. This second collection provides local dioceses such as ours the ability to produce and air the 9 a.m. Sunday televised Mass on KAZT-TV Channel 7 / Cable 13 and “The Bishop’s Hour” on Immaculate Heart Radio 1310 AM. Your generous donations also allow us to evangelize by providing local,
Support Catholic media efforts in television, print, radio and the web: www.usccb.org/ccc compelling programming like “Catholics Matter,” which airs after the Sunday Mass, as well as reach new audiences via the diocese’s website and other “new media” efforts. At the national level (proceeds are split equally between the diocese and the USCCB), the Catholic Communications Campaign supports a number of initiatives, including the invaluable Catholic News Service, the USCCB website (www. usccb.org), and other audio and visual projects which provide for limitless education and information. Of particular note, the U.S. bishops’ For Your Marriage website (www.foryourmarriage.org) provides an outstanding source of information to help couples build healthy, strong and faithful marriages. For many dioceses, the Catholic Communications Campaign is a primary source of funding for diocesan newspapers and magazines that seek to bring to the faithful the Good News of Christ, while shedding light and providing a moral perspective on today’s most pressing issues, such as last week’s budget showdown over funding Planned Parenthood. Critics of the efforts to de-fund Planned Parenthood are quick to cite a misleading statistic showing that abortion as
only makes up 3 percent of its annual business. (One would assume they arrive at this figure by taking the total number of abortions and dividing it by the number of other services it offered, such as distributing free contraception.) Another, more meaningful, way to look at this picture is to tally the number of abortions in a year (more than 332,000 in fiscal year 20082009) and multiply it by the cost (about $470). That’s more than $156 million, more than a third of Planned Parenthood’s annual income, according to the American Life League. Still, others maintain that government-funded abortion clinics provide a valuable community service for legitimate and preventative health care services. This argument presupposes that there are no other places to turn to for free or affordable health and maternity services. Which brings us back to our original question: In light of the painful budget cuts that require each and every one of us to undertake great sacrifice, why must our mothers, sisters and daughters receive good and legitimate health care from the local abortion provider? Before we can truly respond to this and other challenging questions of our time, we must approach it with an informed conscience and heart, based in the teachings and traditions of the Catholic Church. For patrons of Catholic media, the answer is clear. ✴
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Student shines ▶ It’s not often that I wish to publicly acknowledge one of my students, but on this occasion please allow me the pleasure. I assigned a simple homework project on the interpretation of the Parables of Jesus. The assignment: “Use these words to write your own parable about the Kingdom of God: banquet, parable, Eucharist, table, invitation.” My sixth-grade student Emily Fink wrote this and I would like to share it with our entire diocesan family: “One day a man was lying in bed about to die when he got a letter from the Kingdom of God. It was an invitation for the man to come to the banquet God was going to have when the man came to heaven. The letter told of how they would receive the Eucharist at the table of God, and God Himself would tell parables to all the people in heaven. The man who was lying in bed finished reading the invitation and died.” In all my years of teaching theology, I have never come across a written expression of such deep faith, especially by an 11-year-old. For Emily to understand the concept of death as life and state it so succinctly in such few words reminds me of how blessed I am to be a teacher and reveals how much I learn from my students. Thank you, Emily. Pat Anglim Sixth-grade teacher, Most Holy Trinity Catholic School
No nukes? ▶ Re: “As Japan disaster unfolds, world’s Catholics offer prayers, help” (catholicun. org, March 14), why do you have to slam nuclear energy in this article? The earth-
quake and tsunami are a terrible tragedy, but the lives of people all over the world have been improved by nuclear power. Remember that this is a 40-year-old plant. New designs have even better safety precautions in place. Most of us have more exposure to radiation by eating bananas every day than anyone will have from the catastrophe in Japan. Concerned in Indiana Excerpted from a comment posted to catholicsun.org.
Living green ▶ Re: “Lenten sacrifice: Time to give up plastic bags or incandescent bulbs?” (catholicsun.org, Feb. 25), I have reusable bags in my car, but every time I go into the store, I forget to bring them in. However, I do save the plastic bags and return them to the store for recycling. As for the rest of the suggestions, I am pretty much up on all of them. I have found a few places that need caulking but it is not feasible to do so in this cold. Will attempt to more seriously adhere to these suggestions. cefontana34 Excerpted from a comment posted to catholicsun.org. ▶ This is absolutely ridiculous. I hope no one shows up at my parish to tell us to switch to cloth bags and expensive, harmful light bulbs. I can only hope that if one does, the right people are there to speak their minds on the craziness that this is condoning. Corinne Excerpted from a comment posted to catholicsun.org.
“There’s a message from God in my spam. I’m afraid to open it and afraid not to.” CNS/Martha Campbell
▶ Some of the suggestions have validity but the concept of global warming is questionable. Cloth bags can carry germs and can be very unhealthy. Paper bags are best because they are made from trees and trees are a renewable product. The lumber companies replant the trees and it is a natural means of production. Joe Corey Excerpted from a comment posted to catholicsun.org.
Extraordinary chance ▶ Re: “New Roman Missal preparation continues” (catholicsun.org, March 11), wouldn’t it be wonderful if, while becom-
ing familiar with the new translation, the laity would take the time to become familiar with the Extraordinary Form of the Mass as well? This would certainly settle any lingering concerns of “going back to pre-Vatican II days,” as well as provide many gifts that would come with a deeper understanding of the faith and our Catholic identity. Moreover, this would certainly help bring about the “mutual enrichment” that the Holy Father spoke of regarding the two forms of the Mass. Luis Fernandez Excerpted from a comment posted to catholicsun.org.
Alzheimer’s may steal memories, but love endures to the end
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ake me with you,” he cried, “you can strap me to the roof!” This was the gut-wrenching farewell spoken by my longtime friend and neighbor, 86-year-old Phil Galante, as I left the nursing home that night. After two hospitalizations in three weeks, Phil’s condition had deteriorated markedly. Advanced Alzheimer’s, kidney trouble, you name it: he was fading fast. His devoted wife, Jeanie, was exhausted physically and mentally from the round-the-clock care Phil required. There was simply no way he could return home. Jeanie and I had both hurt our backs trying to help Phil get up from his chair. He could no longer walk or turn over in bed without assistance. He was up half the night with frightening episodes of extreme agitation, one so severe that paramedics had to be called. Phil is just one of the 85,000 souls in Arizona who suffer from Alzheimer’s, a cruel disease that attacks the brain, destroying memory and cognition. The Arizona chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association estimates that by 2020, at least 145,000 people in our state will be victims of the disease. Phil still has moments of clarity, but they’re becoming less and less frequent. On a previous visit to the nursing home, I asked him if he knew who I was. “Sure! You’re Dean,” he answered eagerly. He didn’t know where he was but perked up at the mention of the two years he spent in General Patton’s army. Knowing that his World War II service was the defining
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era of his life, I like to bring up the topic — it seems to calm him. And so we flashed back in time to January 1943, when 18-year-old Phil joined the U.S. Army. After the requisite training, he was shipped overseas, landing at Normandy just 30 days after the Allied invasion. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge, earning a Bronze Star. Faithful son Sitting in his wheelchair at the nursing home 68 years later, he doesn’t remember the Bronze Star. He doesn’t remember that he was a draftsman for 40 years upon his return to the States. He doesn’t remember if his beloved mother is alive or dead. He’s not quite sure who the president is. Reagan? Yet every now and then, there’s a glimmer of the old Phil. He knows Jeanie is his wife and he misses her. He knows his prayers and says the Hail Mary and Act of Contrition with me on one visit. And while he doesn’t remember much of his life, I do.
Phil didn’t marry Jeanie, a widow with two teenagers, until he was 53 years old. After returning home from WWII, this faithful son took care of his parents until they died. He and Jeanie built their home in 1992, right across the street from where we built ours. He often spoke of his mother, Alma, and the fact that he was her sole support after his father died. And so it is fitting that decades later, in the twilight of his life, another mother, one 40 years his junior, should stand at his side and await the moment his guardian angel escorts him home. We’re not sure how much longer Phil has, but we cherish every day, every glimmer of recognition, every moment of clarity. In my mind’s eye, I still see him, holding one of our newborn sons or presenting us with a tray of homemade cookies from Jeanie’s kitchen. The words of Sirach come back to me then, in all their tenderness. “My son, take care of your father when he is old… even if his mind fails, be considerate with him…” The day is coming when Phil will no longer remember us, but one thing is for certain: we will always remember him. Here in the sunset of Phil’s life, I call to mind his faithfulness, his sacrifice and his selfless courage. I know deep down that when heaven calls him home, the world will have lost an everyday hero. ✴ Joyce Coronel is a regular contributor to The Catholic Sun. Please send comments to letters@catholicsun.org.
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Refusing to cooperate with evil requires moral courage
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n electrician by trade, Tim Roach is married with two children and lives about an hour outside Minneapolis. He was laid off from his job in July 2009. After looking for work for more than a year and a half, he got a call from his local union in February 2011 with the news anyone who is unemployed longs for: not just a job offer, but one with responsibility and a good salary of almost $70,000 a year. He ultimately turned the offer down, however, because he discovered that he was being asked to oversee the electrical work at a new Planned Parenthood facility under construction in St. Paul on University Avenue. Aware that abortions would be performed there, he knew his work would involve him in â&#x20AC;&#x153;cooperation with evil,â&#x20AC;? and he courageously declined the offer. Significant moral issues can arise if we knowingly cooperate in anotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evil actions, even though we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t perform those evil actions ourselves. Some helpful â&#x20AC;&#x153;principles of cooperationâ&#x20AC;? have been developed over the centuries in the Catholic moral tradition as a way of discerning how properly to avoid, limit or distance ourselves from evil, especially intrinsically evil actions. These principles enable us to recognize certain real-life situations when we must refuse to cooperate. Morally unacceptable A simple example can be helpful to illustrate some of these principles: suppose a nurse were to hand the instruments to a physician performing a direct abortion, or turn on the suction machine used to dismember the unborn baby. If the nurse intended the abortion, she would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil. Yet even if she personally opposed the abortion and did not share the intention of the physician performing the procedure, there would still be grave moral objections to her cooperation. Because she would be participating in circumstances essential to the performance of that particular act of
Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk Making Sense Out of Bioethics
abortion, her cooperation would be morally unacceptable, and would be known as immediate material cooperation. The key point, then, is that both types of cooperation (formal and immediate material) are morally unacceptable. Whenever we are faced with the temptation to cooperate in intrinsically evil actions like abortion, destruction of embryos for stem cell research, euthanasia, assisted suicide or direct sterilization, morally we must refuse. This is different, for example, from what theologians call â&#x20AC;&#x153;remote cooperationâ&#x20AC;? in anotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evil, as, for example, is done by the postal carrier who delivers letters to an abortion facility; although what occurs there might sicken the carrierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stomach, delivering the mail would not constitute an essential ingredient to the wrongful destruction of human life that occurs there. On the other hand, driving someone to an abortion clinic so she can undergo an abortion, assisting as a nurse in the operating room during a tubal ligation, or thawing out human embryos from the deep freeze so that a researcher might vivisect them for their stem cells â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even if we opposed the practices â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all would constitute unacceptable forms of immediate material cooperation with evil. Choosing the right path Real world decisions about cooperation can be daunting
and complex. Pharmacists, for example, cannot in good conscience provide the morning-after pill for use by a woman who has had consensual sex and wishes to avoid a pregnancy. The morning-after pill has a contraceptive effect, and may sometimes also work by altering the uterine environment and preventing implantation of an embryo (causing a pregnancy loss/abortion). Even if the pharmacist personally opposed both contraception and abortion, by providing the pill and knowing the purposes to which it would be put, he would cooperate in wrongdoing in an immediate and material way. In fact, a pharmacist in these circumstances would not even be able to refer the woman to a co-worker, because if he were to do so, he would still be cooperating in an essential way in the causal chain leading to the prevention or ending of a pregnancy. He would rather have to decline to assist her, forcing the woman herself to initiate a new sequence of choices and actions that would not involve him â&#x20AC;&#x201D; approaching a different pharmacist, for example, who might then provide the drug. For a pharmacist to choose the morally correct course of action in this situation not only requires fortitude, but also could cause significant tension with his supervisor, the pharmacy owner and with others who work there. Modern health care is replete with situations that tempt us to cooperate immorally in evil. Clearly, certain activities like abortion are not authentic medicine at all, but rather, acts of immorality veiled behind the professionalism of white coats and institutional protocols. Great care, discretion, and courage are required as we seek to avoid cooperation in medical situations where immoral practices may not only be tolerated, but even at times almost imposed on us. â&#x153;´ Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D., serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.
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perfect stranger found my sunglasses the other day in the middle of a parking lot and turned them into the office of my condo complex. What are the odds of that today when we are more apt to expect someone to steal our stuff than return it? Not to mention who even has the time to do the right thing in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hustle and bustle world? It made my week. You see, the week before I lost a tooth, had my hand blow up after being bitten by a wild animal, and lost a lucrative book contract. Losing my sunglasses was just one of those punctuations to a dreadful batch of events â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the kind that often leads to dramatic breakdowns in bad Hollywood movies. Having them returned brought me back from the brink. Now I know sunglasses are not the end all, be all (unless you live in Arizona) but the point is that sometimes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the simple things that remind us of how wonderful the world is â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and how easy it is to make it even better. Maybe we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to personally stop global warming, or end all of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost countless wars. Maybe we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to have the greatest job in the world, or make a worldchanging discovery. Maybe we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to single-handedly
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Boas said. “Her mother could have chosen not to have her, because 90 percent of Down syndrome pregnancies are terminated.” Boas, who has also written a rosary meditation book, said the writing of the novels was rooted in her passion for the pro-life cause and her primary role as a mom. “All of our children have been By Joyce Coronel The Catholic Sun saved from abortion,” she said. Her son, John, came to her after GILBERT — As a newspaper she fasted and prayed for a new reporter, Sherry Boas made her living child to join their family “Three telling other people’s stories. Today, days later, we got the call,” Boas said, the home-schooling mother of four crediting the intercession of Blessed adopted children is Mother Teresa. telling her own. The revered, late Full story: Boas has writnun of Calcutta, ten a trilogy of bit.ly/life-novel-042111 who spent her life novels highlighting caring for the poorthe innate value of est of the poor, was every human person — a value well-known for her plea to those others may not see at first. considering abortion. Like her 8-year-old daughter “Mother Teresa has been instruMaria, the main character in the mental in all of our adoptions,” Boas novels, Lily, has Down syndrome. said. “She said, ‘If anybody does not Boas said the novels, which have want their baby, bring your baby been endorsed by Bishop Thomas to me. I will take him…there is no J. Olmsted as well as Virtue Media need for abortion, none.’ She was founder Tom Peterson, send a picking sick people off the street.” strong pro-life message. Boas said her trilogy illustrates the “Lily has Down syndrome and point that each person is born with she ends up changing the lives of all a purpose. “Even if they’ll never talk, the people who come to take care never smile,” Boas said, “they have a of her through the three books,” purpose. Life is a miracle.” ✴
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ear type of storytelling. It’s more impressionistic. Healing for H introduces all of Jesus’ healing miracles; Lazarus for L describes the resurrection of His good friend; Prodigal Son for P tells one of the most famous parables. Graham briefly recounts the parable and writes that the boy’s father “was glad his Prodigal Son came home.” By telling this story — of a father forgiving his son’s mistakes — Jesus showed that God’s forgiveness is for everyone.” Of course, in many ways, a picture book is only as good as its, well, pictures. This is where “Jesus from A to Z” really shines. Jennifer Yoswa, a real talent, manages to create beautiful, textured scenes for each entry. The color palette from letter to letter is always interesting and varied, and her figures are always evocative. It’s the kind of artwork that draws readers in and invites them to linger on each page. It’s also interesting
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here are notably fewer films in which a person’s love of God and His people explicitly inspire incredible courage. This equally moving and surprising theme is central to the French film “Of Gods and Men (Des homes et des dieux)” (Sony Pictures Classics), which tells the story of a small group of French monks living in a village in Algeria during the 1995 war there. The monks serve a predominately Muslim population in their small village and are forced to take a stand against the violence being waged by both sides. A great deal of time is spent on the daily tasks of the monks, including long sequences of prayerful chanting and Mass. Their lives are portrayed as simple, yet their minds are richly developed and therefore continually challenged by their situation. Fear of death is pitted against a call to stand up against injustice. At first, the monks question whether they should remain in Algeria. In the end, their commitment to God and to the people they are serving — who are mostly Muslim — keeps them put. One of the monks even declares that his life was given away years ago when he committed it to God. As a film set in a Muslim country and meant to portray recent history, “Of Gods and Men” stays surprisingly apolitical and remains almost entirely focused on the faith of the monks. They talk often of Jesus as the Prince of Peace and truly seek to live His example of love for all. Whether relating to the corrupt government of Algeria or the ter-
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rorists who are fighting against the government, the monks remain steadfast in their commitment to God, peace and love for all peoples.
Olivier Perrier and Philippe Laudenbach, foreground, Lambert Wilson, Olivier Rabourdin, Jean-Pierre, Jacques Herlin and Jean-Marie Frin in a scene from “Of Gods and Men,” now playing at Harkins Camelview 5.
The performance of Lambert Wilson, who plays Brother Christian, the leader of the monastery, is particularly inspired, though all show a depth of character. The elderly male French actors who play the remaining monks perform their roles with a beautiful nuance and commitment to the rich spirituality they are meant to portray. The monks are wonderful illustrations of what the Catechism of the Catholic Church says a priest should be. It is through the sacrament of Holy Orders that priests are said to be “prepared in spirit to preach the Gospel everywhere” (1565). The depth of the monks’ faith is obvious, but also clearly challenged
by the difficult circumstances in which they find themselves. There are few films that have so carefully and credibly dealt with the importance of faith and shown a commitment to God in such a pure and thoughtful manner. “Of Gods and Men” is a beautiful
film about men in love with God and His beautiful creation — it is not to be missed. ✴ 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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Congreso Binacional Hispano de Respeto a la Vida y Evangelización La Diócesis de Phoenix está organizando el primer Congreso Binacional Hispano de Respeto a la Vida y Evangelización a celebrarse en el Centro de Convenciones en Phoenix el 10, 11 y 12 del 2011. La invitación está abierta a todas las parroquias y los líderes de las comunidades de Arizona, Nuevo México, Texas, California, y los estados de México en Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León y Baja California. La meta es crear y formar líderes que participen en el ministerio de Respeto a la Vida. Organizadores planifican traer conferencistas reconocidos a nivel nacional e internacional y tener en la conferencia servicios de traducción al inglés y español, comentó Carmen Portela, Director del Departamento de Catequesis Familiar. Visite la página de web para más detalles, incluyendo el programa: www.congresoprovidaphx.org El papa dice que la piedad popular con la liturgia es clave para la iglesia de América Latina CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) — Las procesiones, los santuarios y otras formas de piedad popular características de los países de Latinoamérica deben ser alentadas, pero deben estar apoyadas por una fe sólida y actos de culto, dijo el papa Benedicto XVI. La expresión popular de la fe católica “está enraizada en los meros principios de la evangelización de esas tierras”, y así tiene que ser respetada, pero también guiada, dijo el papa, el 8 de abril, durante una reunión con miembros de la Comisión Pontificia de Latino América. El Papa Benedicto dijo que muchas manifestaciones de piedad popular están tan encarnadas en la cultura de América Latina que son parte esencial de la nueva evangelización emprendida por los obispos de Centro y Sudamérica y del Caribe. “Debidamente acompañadas”, dijo el papa, estas expresiones sencillas de fe pueden “crear un fructífero encuentro con Dios” como también una devoción aumentada hacia la Virgen María, el papa y la Iglesia misma. ✴
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uando el Príncipe Vladimir de Kiev se convirtió a Cristo en el año 988 AD, deseó traer el regalo de la fe católica a todo su país (el cual conocemos hoy como Ucrania). Por eso, envió representantes leales para solicitar misioneros y observar la Divina Liturgia celebrada en la hermosa Iglesia de Hagia Sophia (Santa Sabiduría) en Constantinopla (conocida hoy día como Estambul). Los representantes quedaron impresionados por la belleza del Sacrificio Eucarístico y escribieron al príncipe el siguiente mensaje: “No sabíamos si estábamos en el cielo o en la tierra. Nunca hemos visto tal belleza… Nosotros no lo podemos describir, pero podemos decir esto: Dios habita allí entre la humanidad”. Lo que estos enviados ucranios experimentaron fue un sabor del cielo — verdaderamente más que un sabor, un compartir sacramental verdadero en las realidades eternas. Hoy, consideraremos con más detalle el aspecto maravilloso del misterio eucarístico. “Cantamos con los ángeles y los santos”
No son pocas las personas que se quejan de que su experiencia de ir a Misa es algo menos de celestial. Pero esto dice mucho más acerca de esas personas que de la Misa. De hecho, el cielo invade la tierra durante cada celebración eucarística. Hace mas de 1,600 años, San Atanasio escribió esto sobre la Santa Misa, “Hermanos amados, no es un banquete temporal al que venimos,, sino un banquete eterno y celestial. Nosotros no lo demostramos en sombras; lo acercamos enla realidad.” La Primera Oración Eucarística expresa esta gran verdad, cuando el sacerdote dice, “Dios Todopoderoso, oramos que tu ángel tome este sacrificio a tu altar en el cielo. Entonces, al recibir de este altar el cuerpo y la sangre sagrada de tu Hijo, que seamos llenados con cada gracia y bendición.” Es también evidente en el Prefacio de la Misa; aunque hay muchos Prefacios de los que se puede escoger, cada uno culmina en palabras como éstas: “Y así pues nos unimos a los ángeles y santos al proclamar en Gloria cantando: Santo, Santo, Santo…” Esto no es simplemente una ilusión metafórica; es una realidad sagrada. Como el Segundo Vaticano indicó en la Constitución en la Liturgia Sagrada (#8), En la liturgia terrena preguntamos y tomamos parte en aquella Liturgia celestial, que se celebra en la santa ciudad de Jerusalén, hacia la cual nos dirigimos como peregrinos, y donde Cristo está sentado a la diestra de Dios como ministro del santuario y del tabernáculo verdadero.” Todos nosotros luchamos con distracciones en la Misa. Las homilías débiles o ministros pocos preparados o la música desafinada pueden añadir a las distracciones; pero el hecho queda, y debemos esforzarnos siempre a mantener en mente, que una comunión maravillosa con el cielo toma lugar en el Sacrificio eucarístico. Uno con guerreros celestiales
La comunión con los santos y ángeles, aunque es verdadera y milagrosa, no nos aleja de la solidaridad con otros en la tierra. No proporciona alguna excusa para evitar las responsabilidades de la vida cristiana en este mundo. El ejército de santos y ángeles en el cielo no TM está desinteresado en nuestro combate “Un Lugar Sagrado…Una Obra de Misericordia” espiritual en la tierra. Al contrario, están con nosotros en la Liturgia Sagrada, y ellos están con nosotros en la vida cotidiana familiar y en la plaza pública. Lo más importante es que Cristo se queda con nosotros a través de la Eucaristía. En la Misa, nos unimos con Cristo
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ofreciendo al Padre todo lo que tenemos y todo lo que somos. El, entonces, toma lo temporal y lo hace eterno. Levanta lo que es humano dentro de la esfera y comunión de lo que es divino. Pero el poder santificador de Cristo, nuestro Sumo Sacerdote, no termina allí. Debido a que somos verdaderamente ciudadanos del cielo a través de la sagrada liturgia, permanecemos ciudadanos de la tierra con una misión en el nombre de Cristo de ser testigos del Reino de Dios. Nuestro Redentor celestial no solamente entra a esa esfera temporal durante la Misa, sino que también se queda con nosotros mientras cumplimos nuestra vocación terrenal día a día. La adoración nos prepara para la batalla; prepara las manos y los corazones para la guerra, una guerra no luchada con armas de fuego ni bombas, sino luchada con el fruto del Espíritu (Cf. El Gal 5:22), “el amor, la alegría, la paz, la paciencia, la bondad, la generosidad, la fidelidad y el autocontrol.” Podemos estar seguros que el Señor nos dará la victoria sobre mal en el mundo si permanecemos uno con El. Responderá nuestra oración, “no nos dejes caer en la tentación pero líbranos del mal. Amén.” Maravilla escatológica
Lo que hemos estado considerando aquí es la dimensión escatológica de la sagrada liturgia. La escatología tiene que ver con las “últimas cosas,” el último plan de Dios para todo lo que El ha creado. Tiene que ver con esas cosas que no terminarán con la conclusión del tiempo pero que permanecerán por toda la eternidad. El Señor Jesús hablaba de una realidad escatológica cuando dijo (Mateo 24:35) : “Pasarán el cielo y la tierra , pero mis palabras no pasarán.” Dios creó a nosotros los seres humanos para vivir siempre con El en el cielo. La sagrada liturgia nos ayuda a mantener los ojos fijados en este objetivo eterno, por medio de los sacramentos. Cristo utiliza signos y símbolos sagrados — el agua, el aceite, el pan, el vino, y el cuerpo humano, etcétera — para compartir su vida con nosotros y para llenar nuestras mentes con su luz. Por esta razón, el arte y la arquitectura sagrada, la música sagrada y los ritos mismos son los medios por los que encontramos y compartimos la comunión con el Dios Triuno Eterno . Celebramos el Misterio Pascual de Jesús, el Cordero de Dios que quita los pecados del mundo. Este misterio del amor inconquistable sucedió dentro de los límites del tiempo, en un cierto momento en la historia humana, hace casi 2000 años, pero no está atado por las limitaciones del tiempo. Esto es verdad porque el protagonista, el que murió y resucitó otra vez para redimirnos, es la Palabra Eterna de Dios, el Amado Hijo del Padre. En la Misa, nosotros vemos a un sacerdote que celebra los misterios sagrados, llevando vestiduras sagradas, haciendo signos sagrados, hablando textos sagrados; pero el Sacerdote que produce el Misterio eucarístico y hace presente la santa Comunión con nosotros es el mismo Señor Jesús. El sacerdote que podemos ver está actuando, durante la sagrada liturgia, in persona Christi. Esta es la razón por la que la Iglesia enseñó en el Segundo Vaticano (Ib, #7), “Cristo está siempre presente en su Iglesia, sobre todo en la acción litúrgica. Está presente en el sacrificio de la Misa, sea en la persona del ministro…sea sobre todo bajo las especies eucarísticas…Cristo asocia siempre consigo a su amadísima esposa la Iglesia, que invoca a su Señor y por El tributa culto a Padre Eterno.” Esto explica la razón por la que la Iglesia, con gran sacrificio, construye basílicas, catedrales, capillas e iglesias parroquiales de belleza tan exquisita. Refleja al cielo en la piedra y en el vidrio, la eternidad en la música y forma construida, porque las acciones más grandes que toman lugar en esos edificios sagrados son escatológicas. El cielo es hecho presente en la tierra; y nosotros tomamos parte en las realidades eternas que durarán para siempre. ✴
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Jim y Guy Labelle han depositado fondos a través de Catholic Community Foundation para ayudar a estudiantes inmigrantes a cubrir la matrícula de estudiantes no Jim Labelle residentes en Arizona, en universidades del estado. El fondo para el dream fund
Dream Scholarship Fund La fecha límite para enviar una aplicación es el 10 de mayo. Más información: dreamscholarshipfund.com
es para todo inmigrante que ha sido traído a los Estados Unidos antes de cumplir 16 años, asistido a una escuela secundaria acreditada, y quien no tiene derecho a pagar matrícula como estudiante residente en el estado. “Tenemos que sostener a nuestros hermanos y hermanas,” dijo Jim Labelle, un parroquiano de San Francisco de Asís en Flagstaff. Labelle, cuya compañía ha estado asegurando vehículos que viajan a México durante los últimos 10 años, aprendió por mediación de sus clientes, exactamente como puede ser afectada la vida de una familia debido a las actuales leyes de inmigración.
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trofeos de primer y segundo lugar. Pero no fue fácil llegar. Después de 10 rondas, cuatro estudiantes seguían concursando. El concurso cambió de dirección cuando Halle Lecker de Santa María en Chandler deletreó mal la palabra “página.” Fue difícil reducirlo a dos concursantes pero en la décima-quita ronda, Ksenia Balderrama de San Simón y San Judas cometió un error con la palabra “trabajábamos.” Dos rondas más tarde, Peters se equivocó deletreando “asistieron.” Fue una ronda bien reñida pero la audiencia no tuvo que esperar 40 días — Navarro deletreó correctamente la palabra “Cuaresma,” y obtuvo el triunfo. Después del concurso, la estudiante de octavo grado confesó haber estado insegura acerca de si “Cuaresma” tenía acento. Navarro es hija de inmigrantes Latinoamericanos y habla español en la casa. La noche fue el regalo de cumpleaños perfecto para Peters, quien ese día cumplía 12 años. La estudiante de sexto grado, quien estudió con su hermano menor Martín “Tino” Peters, deletreó “cumpleaños” correctamente durante el concurso. “Siempre hago lo mejor que puedo,” expresó, agregando que su maestra de español, Karen Sotelo, “es lo mejor que existe.” Sotelo debe de ser buena considerando que el estudiante de Santa Teresa, Javi Davis, llegó a las tres rondas finales en la clase de 1ro.
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“Nuestra intención es la de conseguir miles de donantes — grandes y pequeños — y de otorgar tantas becas como sea posible,” expresó Labelle. Un comité designado por la fundación seleccionará a los recipientes de las becas. Los candidatos deben de preparar una presentación describiendo su situación personal, su mayor reto y la razón por la cual deben de recibir ayuda para continuar con su educación universitaria. “Hemos gastado montones de dinero en educación pública para que estos niños asistan a la escuelas públicas. ¿Cómo es posible que no invirtamos para que estos estudiantes asistan a un colegio o universidad y completen la etapa final?” dijo José Luís Peñalosa, un abogado sirviendo en el comité. El fondo becario no es una fundación. La matrícula para estudiantes que no residen en Arizona, asciende a más de $20,000. ✴
Concurso de deletrear MESA — La ventaja que tienen los deportistas cuando juegan en su propia morada puede tener resultados positivos en partidos de fútbol y pelota, pero no tanto en concursos de deletrear. Al comienzo del concurso de deletrear en español el 24 de marzo último en la Escuela de San Timoteo, los expertos hubiesen sospechado que los estudiantes de la escuela en Mesa serían triunfadores. El año pasado, Gabriel de la Rocha de San Juan Bosco, le ganó a Kat Margaret, de San Timoteo con un pequeño margen, en una cerrada carrera al segundo lugar en el concurso de los grados 1ro. al 4to. Kassie Haro, entonces estudiante de octavo grado, obtuvo el primer lugar en el concurso de los grados 5to. al 8vo. Este año, tanto a Stephanie Hamrick como a Ruby Do de la Escuela de San Timoteo les fue bien, pero al final fueron vencidos por estudiantes de otras escuelas. Posiblemente el haber tomado parte anteriormente en los “spelling bees,” colabore con el triunfo de un participante. Los dos finalistas de este año en la clase de 5to. – 8vo. grados, habían también participado en el concurso de deletrear el año pasado. Susan Peters de Santa Teresa y Natalia Navarro de la Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de Perpetuo Socorro alcanzaron los más altos niveles en el concurso en Español el año pasado. Además, hace unos meses Peters ganó el tercer lugar en el Concurso de Deletrear Diocesano en ingles. Y por supuesto, luego de varias rondas, fueron estas dos estudiantes que se pelearon los
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Katie Holmes de Santo Tomás el Apostól y Natalia Navarro of de Nuestra Señora de Perpetuo Socorro ganaro el concurso de deletrear.
al 4to. grados cuando tanto Davis como la estudiante de Cristo Rey, Catherine Miller, se equivocaron al deletrear “mecánico.” Pero lo que resucitó fue la suerte de Miller al deletrear “Pascua” correctamente, permaneciendo así en el concurso compitiendo con Katie Holmes, de Santo Tomás el Apóstol. La séptima ronda no estuvo nada tediosa cuando Miller tropezó con la palabra “aburrido.” Holmes entonces desfiló sobre el tapete rojo al deletrear correctamente la palabra “alfombra.” Después del concurso Miller dijo que estaba pensando deletrear “aburrido” en la misma manera como hizo Miller. Al darse cuenta que era incorrecto, pensó rápidamente y la deletreó bien. En general, los ganadores del concurso de deletrear estudiaron duro. Holmes se pasaba el almuerzo estudiando vocabulario español y Miller lo hacía con su hermana. Pero puede ser imposible predecir los ganadores de un concurso de deletrear. Cada uno de los 27 concursantes superó todos los otros estudiantes en sus escuelas. Y como han observado los organizadores y concursantes, ganar o perder puede depender de obtener una palabra que uno conoce — o no. Antes de que los concursantes llegaran al nivel del concurso diocesano, ya habían logrado muchísimo. Aunque solamente cuatro de ellos recibieron trofeos, cada estudiante llevó a su casa un certificado. Y esto merece aplausos. ✴
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S A C R E D THE LATEST The parish’s Knights of Columbus council is accepting scholarship applications until May 31 for students who are related to active Knights from Council 10062 or Assembly 14. The $500 scholarships are based on merit and not financial need. The parish has a women’s Scripture study that meets on Wednesday mornings during the school year and will break soon for the summer.
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WHAT’S UNIQUE? The St. Gerard Circle is a mothers’ ministry that helps develop friendships and encourages spiritual growth and involvement in the community through adoration, a prayer circle, Bunco, moms’ night out, playgroups, family and couple activities. The parish also has a Divine Mercy prayer group that prays the chaplet after the 8:15 a.m. daily Mass and 8:30 a.m. Sunday Mass. The Familia ministry works to strengthen the parish’s families. — Joyce Coronel
QUOTABLE I love that we have perpetual adoration, three candidates in for the priesthood, and many members in our parish community who very generously donate their time, talent and treasure.
UPCOMING Nathaniel Glenn, a lector and altar server captain for the parish, will enter the seminary this fall. The parish will celebrate a healing Mass May 3. Parishioners may bring small amounts of salt, olive oil and water to be blessed and the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick will be available. SonSurf Beach Bash Vacation Bible School will be held June 13-17.
Founded: June 19,1985 Founding pastor: Fr. Louis A. Sigman Address: 3550 E. Knox Rd. Phone: (480) 893-8770 Pastor: Fr. Albert Francis Hoorman Number of families: 4,100
— Fr. Albert Hoorman, pastor of Corpus Christi Parish
Diocese of Pho oenix CATHOLIC CEMETERIES and mortuaries (602)267-1329 In remembrance of those individuals interred in our Catholic Cemeter ies for the month of March
St. Francis Cemetery and Mausoleum 2033 N. 48th St., Phoenix Phylli h s Anderson Rosemaryy Beevilacqua Anth n ony Bruzon Minnie Camacho Neal Thomas Carder William P. Chavez Sally l G. Clark r Anto n inette Contadino John P. Convey Rosalie M. Drew Benny n V. Garcia Eulogio Garza Dorothy h S. Gillette Dolores Godinez Gloria Herro Suzanne Virginiaa Kelly l Richard Charles Killeen Anne C. Kovalik Teodoro Luevano Armando Luque Jesse Wayn a e Martinez Salome Tobin Mendez Frank A. Milligan, Jr. Eugene C. Morave a c Geraldine R. Morea-Schneider Lydia y Cota Newell Leonarda Palermo Raym a ond Ybarra Ramirez Prudencio Renteria Hortencia Rive i ra Anselma R. Robles R Elizabeth Schrader Daunte n s I. Stein Beatrice R. Tallabas Dominga Villasaez Lucia M. Vrizuela Gloria Zazueta
Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum 10045 W. Thomas Rd., A Avondale Eileen Abberton
Andrea Bravo Aguilar Lupe Obregon Arevalo Esther Arvizu Joseph Joseph Asselin Maxine A. Barnes Perfecto f Joe Bejarano Cath a erine H. Brandick Juan Rogel Brito Janie Unique Buelna Phylli h s Anne Lucyy Butler Nancy c Cammarata Jazmine Campos Alvi l n P. Castro Steven v F. Chacon Rita i Ann Clark r Thelma Louise Coker Loreto G. Cons John Cropley e Roger B. Dekarske Jimmy m Ray a Detterline Marian n H. Duffy f Ramona A. Esparza Maria de Jesus Espinoza-Tor T res Cata a lina Maria Falcon Celina Angelica Felix-Uriarte Maryy Caye Franzese Manuel F. Garcia Rosemaryy Benavi a dez Gonzales Ruben C. Gonzalez Florence E. Haner Carlos C. Hermosillo Emerson Bowers Laibe Joshuaa Gregor y Lambertson Edwi d dge E. Laux Mercedes Cervan v ntes Lopez Jose Luera Luis Luja u n Lucio G. Macias Nadia Guadalupe Madrid-Tem T ix Davi a d Celestino Mekondo Patr a icia Anne O’Boyl o e Bette C. Oliver v George E. Oliver v Jennie V. Orosco Edgar Pierce Violet Ramos Francisco Rodriguez Margarita Rodriguez George Edward Rose
Armando Sierras Ruelas Jose Joaquin Salas Pete A. Sano Wanda Ellem Schreiner Nicholas Joseph Simonetta Angela Marie Sniegows o ki Enrique Torres Lupe Perez Torres Davi a d E. Velarde Benny n Earl Washington Robert Alan Weinheimer Douglas B. Welikala Anne G. Wexler Norman John Zimmerman, Sr.
Evan v gelina Sesma Rios Jenny n F. Ritt i er Sophiaa Madeleine Rodocker Leona Verdean Ronlier Robert P. Scheuler Michelle Ann Smith Paula J. Soltis Jaimeese Spirit Renato a (Reg R gie) Troggio Cristian A. Urrea Arturo Salomon A. Valdez-Sandoval Keria Yaren Verdeja-Gonzales Clair Vincent Walsh Randall Merle Wilson
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Cemetery and Mortuary 1500 E. Baseline Rd., Mesa Jayden Jahir Avila Melvin Eugene Benedict Sarah S. Biebel Bernadette Bramer John n Charles Deborah Ann Cortez Patr a icia Ann Curcuro Patr a ick Lawr a ence Curtis Theodore C. Czajka Tammy m Louise Esposite i Elmaa Nydia Felix Caleb Garcia Ann H. Griffi ffith Sharon Higginbotham John Janowi o cz Marie T. Johnson Leonard A. Kelly l Kath a leen Maureen Konig Frances May Luecke Noel Robertt Lundberg Cornelius Michael Lyne Anto n nio Madaffari Florence Mae Martino Nicole Mary McDonough Carolyn G. Michelena Harold J. Moll Gemma Cath a erine Moore Georgianna Mae Perrault Virginia M. Pfleger Beverl e ly Anne Pickett
23015 N. Cave Creek Rd., Phoenix Gary James Callaghan Rose Devi e ito Mariano Disalvo v Thomas Desmond Kelly l Kwok w Wing Ma Maria L. Perez Dolores Jean Rich Dorothy h Mae Stein Paull B. White
Calvary Cemetery 201 W. University y, Flagstaff g Ricardo J. Sanchez Diana Lee Shattuck-L k arson Buck Litt i le Singer Howard o Wright Pearl Wright
All Souls Cemetery 700 N. Bill Gray Rd., Cottonwood Loretta Cano Valerie C. Hurley Caroline B. Keeby Clare Theresa Lee Tom A. Lee
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Meetings and Classes
“The Cancer Project Food for Life” nutrition and cooking classes sponsored by Cancer Ministry, 6-8 p.m., April 26, May 3, 10 and 17, Blessed Sacrament Parish, 11300 N. 64th St, Scottsdale. Class size limited, series $40. Registration required. www.cancerproject.org or call Madelyn at (480) 276-7279. “The Death Penalty — Is it Moral? Is it Antiquated?” sponsored by The St. Thomas More Society, as part of its Civil Discourse Series, 6-8 p.m., April 28, Xavier College Preparatory Auditorium, 4710 N. 5th St., Phoenix; with Hon. Thomas Horne and Hon. William Montgomery vs. Dr. Rudolph Gerber and Alan Tavassoli. Moderated by Ernest Calderón. Info: Christopher Pattock at cpattock@cox.net or Denise Blommel at denise@azlaborlaw.com. Grief and Group Bereavement support group to help with the healing process, May 3-June 7, St. Timothy Parish. Info: call Debbie at (480) 775-5233 or email at dparmiter@sttimothymesa.org. Cancer Ministry Meeting, 7-8:30 p.m., May 11, Blessed Sacrament Parish, 11300 N. 64th St., Scottsdale, hear cancer survivor journey and ask questions. Info: (602) 549-1188 or ReneeGero1@aol.com.
natal and neonatal causes. Info: call Fran Sanders at (480) 963-3207 ext.308.
the airway, is in need of a $40,000 surgery that her insurance won’t pay for. Info: (480) 963-3358 .
Good Friday Special Stations of the Cross; Praying for abolishment of capital punishment, 9 a.m., April 22, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, 7655 E. Main St., Scottsdale. Meditate on sufferings of Christ during Stations of the Cross dedicated to prisoners, victims, and families connected in any way to capital punishment. Info: (480) 945-6190.
Diocese of Phoenix – Golf for Vocations, May 13, www.golfforvocations.org. Info: call Dave Maza at (602) 369-5766.
St. Peregrine Mass of Anointing sponsored by Cancer Ministry, 4:30 p.m., May 14, Blessed Sacrament Parish, 11300 N. 64th St. Scottsdale; cancer and other serious disease survivors, caregivers, friends, family and anyone interested in making a difference, arrive early. Singles
“Heal My Soul,” retreat sponsored by Catholic Singles Ministry, May 14 for singles 35+, with Fr. Doug Lorig, Fr. Billy Kosco and laity, Mount Claret, 4633 N. 54th St., Phoenix. Cost: $30 includes continental breakfast, lunch and dinner. Info: www.Catholicsinglesministry.org, call Karina at (480) 961-5311 or Vic at (480) 892-2076 or email C_S_M_2003@yahoo.com. Entertainment
Royal Casino Night sponsored by St. Louis the King Catholic School, 6 p.m., May 7, Knights of Columbus Hall, 49th and Northern Avenues, Tickets: $25 each or 2/$40; will include dinner, silent and live auctions, and a variety of the most popular casino games. Info: www.slkschool.com/casino. “Late Nite Catechism” performed Fridays at 8 p.m., “Late Nite Catechism III: ’Til Death Do Us Part,” performed Saturdays at 8 p.m. Fresh Lessons Weekly through April 30, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Stage 2, 7380 E. Second St., Scottsdale. Info: (480) 994-2787, ext. 2. This and That
Retreats
Silent Ignatian Retreats, preached by the Priests of Miles Christi in Scottsdale; women, May 20-22; men, Nov., 11-13. Spiritual talks, Eucharistic adoration, daily Mass and Rosary. Info: call Kathleen Lubin at arizona@spiritualexercises.net or at (480) 789-1143. Worship
Mass of Remembrance and Healing, 8:15 a.m., May 7, St. Mary Parish, 230 W. Galveston Rd., Chandler; for any child of any age who has died including babies lost to pre-
8th Annual St. Jerome Golf Tournament, 6:30 a.m., May 1, registration; 7:30 a.m., shotgun start, Bellaire Golf Club, 17233 N 45th Ave., Glendale, four-person scramble. Benefits school and Knights of Columbus Scholarship Fund. Submit registration to St. Jerome School, 10815 N. 35th Ave., Phoenix, AZ, 85029 by April 22. Info: (602) 942-5644 or Richard Rodriguez (602) 618-5746. Benefit Golf Tournament, May 7, San Marcos Golf Resort. Four-person scramble: $100 per player. All proceeds will go to Aitana Curtin, a 15-year-old young lady who, due to severe pressure and narrowing of
St. Peregrine Shrine 4th Annual Charity Golf Tournament with Aux. Bishop Eduardo Nevares, 12:30 p.m., May 14, shotgun start, four-person scramble, dinner 6 p.m., Arizona Golf Resort, 425 S. Power Road, Mesa. Register Online, early bird special save $20 before April 28. Annual Golf Tournament sponsored by St. Catherine of Siena, 7 a.m., May 21, shotgun, Bougainvillea Golf Club, 5740 W. Baseline Rd., Laveen. Auction items: authentic Phil Mickelson memorabilia. All proceeds benefit the school sports programs. Info: (602) 276-2241. St. Joseph’s Youth Camp, located in the tall pines surrounding Mormon Lake near Flagstaff; cost: $498, offering an early-bird discount when you register by May 1 for $450. Info: (480) 449-0848. Blood Drive sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, 7 a.m.-noon, June 5, St. Anne Parish Hall 440 E. Elliot Road, Gilbert. Info: www. UnitedBloodServicesAZ.org sponsor code: stanne or call (480) 575-4332. Blood Drive sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, 7:30 a.m.12:30 p.m., June 12, St. Mary Magdalene, 2645 E. Williams Field Road, Gilbert. Info: www.UnitedBloodServicesAZ.org sponsor code: stmarym or call (480) 280-0601. PDCCW asks women of the diocese to “Save the Date” June 18, for annual meeting and election of officers. Also, send your Woman of the Year nominations to rhapsody. canepa@gmail.com by April 25. St. Mary-Basha Catholic School in Chandler is open for 2011-2012 registration K-5. Info: www.stmarybashacatholic.org or call (480) 963-4951 for a campus tour. Mount Claret Retreat Center
Mount Claret is located at 4633 N. 54th St. in Phoenix. Info: (602) 840-5066 or www.mtclaret.org. Eucharistic Adoration, Wednesdays, 9 a.m-4 p.m., Chapel. Need meeting space or private rooms for day of prayer, reflection for your staff or self-directed retreats? Info: (602) 840-5066 ext. 20. Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Ozzie’s Furnishings to celebrate its four-year anniversary at new location, April 20-23, 3927 E. Indian School Rd, our unique resale bou-
tique with refreshments and giveaway mystery prizes. All retail profits go toward helping the homeless and working poor. Cleaning out your closet and getting organized? Call St. Vincent de Paul to pick up your gently used clothing, furniture and household items at (602) 266-4673. Volunteers needed, help us help others by giving a few hours of your time. We have many opportunities to fit your abilities and interests. Info: (602) 261-6870 or (602) 261-6886 (Spanish) or visit www.stvincentdepaul.net. Free up space in your garage and donate your vehicle! St. Vincent de Paul accepts cars, boats, motor homes, trailers and motorcycles. To process a car donation, call 1-800-805-8011 or 480-784-9800. The Casa
All events held at the Franciscan Renewal Center, 5802 E. Lincoln Dr., Scottsdale. Information, (480) 948-7460. “Walking in Her Shoes, A Women’s Conference: Christian, Jewish and Muslim Women Working to Prevent Domestic Violence,” 5-9 p.m., May 6 and 8 a.m.-4 p.m., May 7. Fee per person: Friday and Saturday, $65, dinner, lunch, program. Friday night only, $20, dinner, program. Saturday all day, $50, lunch and program. “The Art of Stained Glass” with Tony and Chris Powers, 9 a.m.-noon, May 14. Fee per person includes materials: $75. “Contemplative Prayer Day — Praying with Mystics, Monks, Saints and Everyday Contemplatives” with Pat Julian and Kathleen Flanagan, 9 a.m.4 p.m. May 14, Fee per person: $75 includes lunch and a private room. “Intercommunity Sisters Retreat — Present Challenges and Future Hope of Evolving Religious Life” with Sr. Lora Dambroski, OSF, June 5-June 12. Fee per person: single, $300; double, $235. Divine Mercy Sunday
Divine Mercy Novena, 3:30-4:30 p.m., April 22, 28, May 1, 6-7 p.m., April 29, noon-1 p.m., April 30, St. Jerome Parish, 10815 N. 35th Ave. Info: call Marietta (602) 751-5703. Divine Mercy Mass with Chaplet, devotions, 3 p.m., May 1 Christ The King Parish, 1551 E. Dana Ave., Mesa. Info: (480) 899-1990.Mass, Chaplet and devotions, 12:30 p.m., May 1 Corpus Christi Parish, 3550 E. Knox Rd., Phoenix. Info: (480) 893-8770. “Special Bilingual Divine Mercy Mass” with devotions, 5 p.m., May 1 Holy Family Parish, 6802 S. 24th St.,
Phoenix, followed by presentation in Spanish given by Missionaries of the Divine Mercy. Info: (602) 268-2632. Divine Mercy Celebration and devotions lead by Michael Poirier, 2-4 p.m., May 1 Our Lady of Joy, 36611 N. Pima Road, Carefree. Info: (480) 488-2229. Mass followed by Holy Hour with Chaplet, devotions, 11:30 a.m., May 1 Our Lady of Lourdes, 19002 N. 128th Ave., Sun City West. Info: (623) 546-2767. Holy Hour with rosary, Chaplet and devotions, 2:30-4 p.m., May 1 Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Miller and Osborn, Scottsdale. Info: (480) 947-4331. Divine Mercy celebrations at all weekend Masses, May 1 Queen of Peace, 141 N. Macdonald St., Mesa. Info: (480) 969-9166. Mass with devotions, 11 a.m., May 1 St. Andrew the Apostle, 3450 W. Ray Road, Chandler. Info: (480) 899-1990, Chaplet and devotions closing with Benediction, 3-3:30 p.m., May 1 St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 10755 N. 124th St., Scottsdale. Divine Mercy Chaplet and devotions, 2:30 p.m., May 1 St. Gabriel Parish, 32648 N. Cave Creek Road, Cave Creek. Info: (480) 595-0883. Mass with Holy Hour, Chaplet and devotions, 2 p.m., May 1 St. George Parish, 300 E. 16th Ave., Apache Junction. Info: (480) 982-2929. Mass with Holy Hour, Chaplet and devotions with Benediction, 2 p.m., May 1 St. James Parish, 19640 N. 35th Ave., Glendale. Info: (623) 561-6756. Divine Mercy Mass with devotions, 3:30 p.m., May 1 St. Jerome Parish, 10815 N. 35th Ave., Phoenix. Info: (602) 943-5555. Mass with Chaplet and devotions, 3 p.m., May 1 St. Maria Goretti Parish, 6261 N. Granite Reef Road, Scottsdale. Info: (480) 948-8380. Chaplet, devotions and Beatification celebration for Pope John Paul II, 3 p.m., St. Mary Parish, 230 W. ton Road, Chandler. (480) 963-3207.
special Blessed May 1 GalvesInfo:
Divine Mercy Holy Hour with Chaplet and devotions, 2 p.m., May 1 St. Mary Magdalene, 2654 E. Williams Field Road, Gilbert. Info: (480) 279-6737. Holy Hour with Chaplet and devotions, 3 p.m., May 1 St. Timothy Parish, 1730 W. Guadalupe Road, Mesa. Info: (480) 775-5200.
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