February 2019
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Seek the Lord
Busca al Señor
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or many Catholics, 2018 will be remembered with pain and anger because of the new revelations that emerged about the sexual abuse of minors. There is reason to hope, however, that 2019 will be a watershed year in dealing with this evil around the world. My brother bishops and I have expressed our sincere sorrow for the suffering of sexual abuse survivors and for the resulting shame that all Catholics feel; however, words are not enough. Leaders of the Church need to take concrete actions. That is the goal of a meeting Feb. 21-24 in Rome with Pope Francis and representatives of the world’s bishops. While we cannot know for certain what will result from this exceptional gathering, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, will present several recommendations from American bishops. The recommended steps are designed to increase the accountability of bishops and, therefore, the safety of minors involved with our schools, parishes, and other ministries. They include: • A process for investigating complaints against bishops by a single national commission of lay people; • Standards of accountability for bishops; • Protocol for removed bishops; • Completion of the various investigations into the situation surrounding Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick and publication of their results; • National guidelines for publishing the names of clerics facing substantiated claims of abuse. (The names and status of all Archdiocese of Cincinnati priests credibly accused of abusing minors have been listed on our website for more than a decade.) Most of these recommendations involve dealing with bishops who either themselves offended against children or failed to appropriately deal with priests who did. It would seem that accountability standards for bishops should not be necessary, but unfortunately we know from hard experience that they are. Indeed, the current crisis is largely a bishop accountability crisis. One of the gravest responsibilities a bishop has today is to protect children. The Archdiocese of Cincinnati has had policies and procedures, called the Decree on Child Protection, in place to do so since 1993. The decree stipulates that all employees and volunteers who work with children – including bishops, priests, and deacons – are
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subject to: • Fingerprinting and complete background checks; • Ongoing training on recognizing the signs of abuse of children and vulnerable adults; • Immediate reporting of abuse to the appropriate civil authorities; • A lay-dominated Child Protection Review Board, currently including an abuse survivor, which reviews and advises the Archbishop on all child abuse allegations; • An active Ministry to the Survivors of Abuse, working to bring hope and healing to those who have been hurt. There are no active cases of clerical abuse of minors anywhere in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati as of this writing. I pledge to remain vigilant in protecting children, young people, and vulnerable adults. I also ask for your help. Please report suspected abuse on the part of any agent of the Archdiocese to the appropriate civil authorities. Also, contact the Coordinator of Ministry to Survivors of Abuse in the Archdiocese at 513-263-6623 or 1-800686-2724 ext. 6623. If you are a survivor and have never come forward, please do so. We have resources available to help you heal. To learn more about our efforts to protect children, I urge you to click on the “Protecting Our Children” link at the upper right of http://www.catholiccincinnati.org. Please join me in praying for the survivors of child abuse, for the good and holy priests whose reputations have been tarnished by the evil deeds of others, and for the success of this month’s meeting in Rome under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
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ara muchos católicos, 2018 será recordado con dolor y enojo debido a las nuevas revelaciones que surgieron sobre el abuso sexual de menores. Hay razón para esperar, sin embargo, 2019 será un año decisivo para hacer frente a este mal en todo el mundo. Mis hermanos obispos y yo hemos expresado nuestra sincera tristeza por el sufrimiento de los sobrevivientes de abuso sexual y por la vergüenza resultante que todos los católicos sienten; sin embargo, las palabras no son suficientes. Los líderes de la Iglesia necesitan tomar acciones concretas. Ese es el objetivo de la reunión del 21 al 24 de febrero en Roma con el Papa Francisco y los obispos representantes del mundo. Mientras que no sabemos con certeza qué resultará de esta reunión excepcional, el Cardenal Daniel N. DiNardo, presidente de la Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de los Estados Unidos, presentará varias recomendaciones de los obispos Estadounidenses. Los pasos recomendados están diseñados para aumentar la responsabilidad de los obispos y, por lo tanto, la seguridad de los menores involucrados con nuestras escuelas, parroquias y otros ministerios. Los pasos incluyen: • Un proceso para investigar las quejas contra obispos por una comisión nacional solo de laicos; • Los estándares de responsabilidad para los obispos; • El protocolo para los obispos removidos; • La finalización de las diversas investigaciones sobre la situación que rodea al Arzobispo Theodore E. McCarrick y la publicación de sus resultados; • Las reglas nacionales para publicar los nombres de los clérigos que enfrentan demandas de abuso comprobadas. (Los nombres y el estado de todos los sacerdotes de la Arquidiócesis de Cincinnati acusados creíblemente de abusar menores han sido incluidos en nuestro sitio web durante más de una década). La mayoría de estas referencias involucran tratar con obispos que ellos ofendieron a niños o no trataron adecuadamente con los sacerdotes que lo hicieron. Parecería que los estándares de responsabilidad para los obispos no deberían
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ser necesarios, pero desafortunadamente sabemos por mala experiencia que sí lo son. De hecho, la crisis actual es en gran medida una crisis de responsabilidad del obispo. Una de las responsabilidades más serias que un obispo tiene hoy es proteger a los niños. La Arquidiócesis de Cincinnati ha implementado políticas y procedimientos, llamado Decreto sobre la Protección de Menores, desde 1993. El decreto estipula que todos los empleados y voluntarios que trabajan con niños – incluidos obispos, sacerdotes y diáconos – están sujetos a: • La verificación de huellas digitales y de antecedentes penales completos; • Capacitación continua sobre el reconocimiento de signos de abuso de niños y adultos vulnerables; • Reporte inmediato de abuso a las autoridades civiles apropiadas; • Un Comité de Revisión de Protección de Menores dirigida por laicos, que actualmente incluye un sobreviviente de abuso, que revisa y asesora al Arzobispo sobre todas las acusaciones de abuso infantil; • Un Ministerio activo para los Sobrevivientes de Abuso, que trabaja para brindar esperanza y sanación a quienes han sido heridos. No hay casos activos de abuso clerical de menores en ningún lugar en la Arquidiócesis de Cincinnati en el momento de este escrito. Me comprometo a permanecer vigilante en la protección de niños, jóvenes y adultos vulnerables. También pido su ayuda. Por favor, informe las sospechas de abuso por parte de cualquier agente de la Arquidiócesis a las autoridades civiles correspondientes. También, comuníquese con el Coordinador del Ministerio para Sobrevivientes de Abuso en la Arquidiócesis al 513-263-6623 o al 1-800-686-2724 ext. 6623. Si usted es un sobreviviente y nunca se ha presentado, por favor hágalo. Tenemos recursos disponibles para ayudarlo a sanar. Para obtener más información sobre nuestros esfuerzos para proteger a los niños, le insto a que haga clic en el enlace “Protecting Our Children” en la esquina superior derecha de http://www. catholiccincinnati.org. Por favor únanse a mí para orar por los sobrevivientes del maltrato infantil, por los sacerdotes buenos y santos cuya reputación se ha visto empañada por las malas acciones de otros, y por el éxito de la reunión de este mes en Roma bajo la guía del Espíritu Santo.
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63-to-one: Out-numbered, out-smarted and out-maneuvered There were 63 of us in that eighth grade classroom and in charge was Mother Angela, OSU, who was also the school’s principal. Sixty-three adolescents, all about to become teen-agers and all full of energy and rebellion, versus a single nun in her sixties. It was hardly fair. She had us outnumbered, out-smarted and out-maneuvered at every turn. We’re in the midst of celebrating Catholic Schools Week 2019. When I think of Catholic schools, I do not think of the ones my children attended. I think of Mother Angela. She was the school, unchallenged master of all she surveyed from her second-floor office above the playground and from her intercom system in our classroom. If the building seemed noisy after recess or lunch, she would turn on the intercom with all the rooms in listen mode and then turn off each switch, one at a time, until she isolated the noisy room.
Then she would glide out the door, holding onto the rosary on her belt, and head to confront the offending class. While she was gone, we passed notes, (this was before social media,) talked in hush tones with our friends, but remained vigilant, we had learned to detect the muffled rattle of the rosary beads. Mother Angela had a large metal ruler on her desk with the Golden Rule on one side and the phrase, “A good rule for good rulers” on the other. I saw her slam it on the desk on one particularly trying day – most of the class grew up with the city’s blue collar, factory-centered roots. But I never saw her use it, although we
often gave her reason. Certain words remain in my vocabulary because of Mother Angela: slovenly, oafish, lackadaisical, slap-dash, and behooves, as in, “It behooves me not to approach my work in an oafish, slovenly, lackadaisical, slap-dash fashion.” By the way, it takes 25 after-school minutes to write that on the blackboard 150 times. Mother Anne-Therese lectured; Mother Loyola shamed; six-foot-tall Mother Eulalia intimidated. Mother Angela was our surrogate mother, wanting nothing but the best for us and from us. She was not our friend but she was our leader. Every class was an opportunity to work in a lesson about the Catholic faith. And she taught us to use our language – “Every teacher should be an English teacher first and foremost,” she said. So we diagrammed sentences, learned our parts of speech and recited grammar rules at the drop of a hat – or a golden ruler. In our hearts we knew she loved her work (she wouldn’t call it a ministry until after Vatican II) and we also knew she
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loved us as well. She knew every child in the building. She knew all of their parents and in many cases, even the grandparents. When I came down with mumps in first grade, just days before First Communion, my mom went to the school to tell Mother Angela I would miss the Mass and ceremony, which for my mom was a major tragedy. “She cried with me,” my mother recounted, and I knew Mother Angela had an unshakable ally for life. We had lay teachers, even in those days, and they were excellent, much like the excellent teachers who work in our Catholic schools today. What we learned in class from them was that it was OK for a lay person who talk about his or her devotion to Jesus and to overtly live the faith. That was a lesson for all of our adult lives. Living the Gospel was not just the realm of the religious sisters and the priests. Well, life is not fair, they say, and Mother Angela versus the class of 1963 was not a fair fight. And thank goodness for that.
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Seizing the moment of temptation to resist It’s February. That means we’re all a month into our New Year’s resolutions. How’s it going so far? Don’t worry, I get it. It’s tough to quit a bad habit and start a good one. What’s helpful for me is to be more aware of the steps from temptation to giving in. If we know what these steps are, then we can seize any one of them and pursue the good, before it’s too late. After all, we don’t want to just seize the moment to share our faith or to proclaim the gospel. We also want to seize the moment to be holy, to be, as Matthew Kelly says, the bestversion-of-ourselves. I’ll be speaking specifically about the steps from temptation to sin, but this exercise is useful for avoiding any bad habit we want to overcome. Also, I’ll be referring to the devil because he’s a ready foil in the back and forth dialogue between ourselves and what tempts us. But, temptation doesn’t just come from the devil. It also comes from “the flesh” – our own bodily passions and desires – and the world, which is always competing for our time and attention. Step 1: Recognizing - First, we become aware of a temptation. A voice pipes up: “You could steal that, ya know?” We are tempted to commit certain sins because they speak to a desire we have. But, the fact that we have particular desires or are tempted to
heed them in unjust ways does not mean that we have sinned. We sin only when we act on the temptation. The key is to banish the temptation as soon as we recognize it, to turn around and run in the other direction. If we debate with the devil, then he will almost always win. The best thing to do is to not let him have his say. Step 2: Approaching - But, let’s say we don’t flee. Instead we say, “Really? Tell me more?” Then we are approaching. In this case, we don’t remove ourselves from the near occasion of sin. Instead, we draw nearer to it. We meet the devil in his chambers. We invite him to make his case. If the bad habit is over-eating, this would be opening the cupboard where the cookies are. If the addiction is alcoholism, this would be stepping into the bar. Step 3: Listening - Listening means nourishing an interest in that which is
sinful. In this step, not only have we invited the devil to make his case, but we are now listening intently and receptively. We may even be delighting in what he has to say. Of course, once the cupboard is open, then come all the reasons for eating: “No one will know.” “Just this once.” “I deserve this.” “This is the only way I’ll feel better.” “I can’t help it.” “I can just go to confession later.” Step 3: Yielding - And with that, we yield. We give in. The reasons are too many and too convincing, even though they are contrary to reason. We accept the lies as the truth and we do what we were tempted to do. But, just because we’ve yielded, that doesn’t mean the devil is through with us. Once the pleasure fades and we begin to feel disheartened, the tempter likes to fill us with self-loathing and despair in the hopes that we’ll abandon ever trying to resist him. “You’re such a wreck.” “You fall every time.” “Why do you even bother?” Not so fast. This is why the moment of yielding must also be the moment in which we pick ourselves up and try again. With a little bit of knowledge and a whole lot of grace, this step does not have to be the end. Instead, we can seize even this moment of failure. We can rededicate ourselves to making the next moment a truer and better one.
CMA leadership mulls possibilities if each family gave a dollar a day As the annual Catholic Ministries Appeal began across the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Chief Development Officer David Kissell found himself playing with the numbers and being astounded by the possibilities. While the current goal of $5 million will fund six major ministries, including the New Evangelization, the seminary and vocations, St. Rita School for the Deaf, Catholic Charities, support for the archdiocese’s retired priests, and for
hospital, campus and prison ministries, Kissell said the full potential of the campaign is not being realized. If each family in the 160,000 households in the 19-county archdiocese gave just $1 each day for a year — roughly $300 per year per family — the amount collected could be $50 million. “I admit that’s a dream, but it’s true,” Kissell said, adding that the number of additional people who could be helped through the archdiocese’s
various ministries could then easily reach one million. The more than 200 parishes in the archdiocese that participate in this campaign each year and the funds collected make up an important part of the operating budgets of the participating ministries. Each parish has a goal and each will see 50 percent of funds raised over goal returned to the parish for its particular use.
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What did Jesus mean when He called himself ‘Son of Man’? In the Gospels, the term “Son of Man” is used numerous times. What does “Son of Man” mean? When Jesus spoke of himself and His mission, He often referred to himself as “Son of Man.” In the Gospels, He uses the term more than 80 times, especially as recorded in the Gospel of Matthew where 30 instances are found. It is also a term found in the Old Testament. At first glance, “Son of Man” may seem to highlight Jesus’ human nature, just as “Son of God” emphasizes His divinity. However, the meaning of “Son of Man” is more complicated. “Son of Man” brings together His identity as Messiah and as one who was to suffer for others, drawing from the Jewish tradition’s use of the term. “Son of Man” would have been known to many of Jesus’ Jewish listeners since it is found dozens of times in the Old Testament, especially the Books of Ezekiel and Daniel. Its use in Scripture is not always consistent but indicates a role in redemption. “Son
of Man” has had various uses and meanings. In Daniel 7, for instance, the phrase seems to refer to an individual person: “one like a son of man” who is given everlasting dominion over the nations (verses 13-14). Elsewhere, it is a more generic reference to the triumph of the people of Israel over their enemies. In the context of Jesus, “Son of Man” seems to relate to Jesus’ self-designation and understanding of being the Messiah (though sometimes in a hidden or “secret” way). In the Gospel of John, a bystander asks Jesus this very question: “Who is this Son of Man?” (12:34). Jesus, however, does not give a clear answer. He instead refers to himself differently: as the light. In Matthew 16, however, He is more explicit. When He asks His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” (16:13), Jesus affirms the response of Peter: “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living
God” (16:16). Surprisingly, the term that might appear to highlight Jesus’ humanity emphasizes His identity as Son of God and Messiah. But it does so in a veiled way by both revealing and concealing who He is – as He often did as recorded in the Scriptures. It allows Him to suggest, but avoid, using the terms others applied to him – Messiah, the Christ, or Son of God – and which we believe are correct names for Jesus. Yet He does not avoid using the term “Son of Man.” He says of himself, “You will see the Son of Man seated at the
right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven” (Mark 14:62), and “No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man” (John 3:13). These lofty notions of “Son of Man,” however, do not preclude other meanings. The Gospels depict Jesus as humble and reserved. The use of the more subtle term, “Son of Man” (as compared to Son of God), is not surprising. The phrase helps indicate Jesus’ self-understanding of His relationship to humanity: as suffering servant as found in the Book of the Prophet Isaiah and in the Gospels, for instance, when Jesus predicts: “The Son of Man must suffer greatly” (Mark 8:31; Luke 9: 22) “Son of Man” helps highlight the identity of Jesus as one who has come to give up His own life and in doing so give life to others. For as Jesus said in the Gospel of Mark: “The Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many” (10:45).
Sister finds God, belonging through vocation she resisted By Kathleen M. Carroll When Congregation of Divine Providence Sister Leslie Keener answered the call to religious life, it wasn’t a surprise to anyone, except, perhaps, herself. A graduate of McAuley High School, Sister Leslie majored in education and English literature at the University of Cincinnati. She thought teaching would be a good fit, even though a career aptitude test had suggested she become a minister. “I was Catholic, so I didn’t see any way that could work,” she said. Sister Leslie’s family background was, indeed, very Catholic. She shared a birthday with a great aunt, Sister Clara Ruschman, who was a Sister of Divine Providence. Three of Clara’s sisters were Benedictine nuns. Still, religious life didn’t seem like something that people did any more. “My faith journey was not unusual,” Sister Leslie admitted. “I went from cradle Catholic to questioner to agnostic as a young adult.” Still, when another student invited her to a Bible study, Sister Leslie readily agreed. But she found herself amid an evangelical group that didn’t consider Catholics to be Christians. Even though she didn’t feel qualified to defend the faith, that view of Catholicism felt very wrong.
“It turned out to be a good experience, though, because it made me curious,” she said. “I started to question the faith I was raised in and to ask questions of God in my own prayer.” The more she learned about the faith, the more she loved it. “I had been ‘Catholic’ by default before,” Sister Leslie explained. “But now I had a relationship with God that was becoming very important to me.” She became involved with the Newman Center on UC’s campus, where she met Congregation of Divine Providence Sister Lucy Zientek. “Sister Lucy was then about the age I am now,” Sister Leslie said. “I was intrigued by someone who was not 90, like my great aunt, and who made the commitment to this life after having a life outside the convent.” “I would hear myself asking her about religious life, and then later wonder why I had asked. She responded with, ‘Don’t you have a boyfriend?’ And I did! I’m not sure what I was thinking, but I was always moving in the same direction.” After joining a women’s spirituality group at her parish, Sister Leslie attended a retreat at St. Anne Convent, home of the Congregation of Divine Providence. “I looked at my room and thought, “Oh no. I’m going to stay here,” she recalled.
She tried to shake the feeling, but it kept returning. All the while, Sister Leslie was progressing professionally. While second-guessing her career choice (“I was terrified of student teaching,” she confessed), she graduated and began teaching at Notre Dame Academy in Covington. While Sister Leslie worked through her feelings, she began to see the signs — and the sisters — everywhere. “I started noticing there were nuns everywhere: on the RCIA team at church, at the school where I taught. One time at lunch I looked up and realized, ‘It’s only me and all nuns.’” “My Benedictine aunts started calling me with encouragement,” Sister Leslie said. Soon after, she went on a diocesan discernment retreat. The other discerners started dropping off one by one, but she became more certain of her calling. “It was a very moving experience,” she said. Sister Theresa Falkenstein was there, representing the CDPs and, Sister Leslie said, “I felt a resonance with them. I told her, ‘I’m going to do it. I’m in! I had butterflies. It was like falling in love. I was really happy.” Sister Leslie started spending more time with her great aunt, and got the blessing of her Benedictine aunts as well. She gathered up the courage to tell her friends, who
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responded, “Yes. That makes sense.” “Everyone I talked to seemed to see this coming,” she said. “But I thought it was a surprise.” Sister Leslie now lives and works in the College Hill neighborhood, where she is the director at God Space, a place where people search for — and find — God. The motto of God Space expresses what she felt when she first visited the Sisters of Divine Providence: “The door is open. Come as you are. You belong here.”
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Being Pro Life: The pervasive problem of human trafficking When cops busted up a drug/prostitution ring, they found a 17-year-old girl being sex-trafficked, carrying a stuffed animal and keeping a private journal of “bad things.” She had been given drugs to make her addicted and dependent on the pimps, and had been severely sexually traumatized. At her hearing, due to poor understanding by her local law-enforcement, she was sent to jail in shackles for the crime of being a runaway and doing drugs. This is just one story told by Tonya Folks, human trafficking liaison at the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office. Because this girl wasn’t locked in a box and forced by gunpoint to be trafficked, she was viewed as someone who was a problem girl that chose a life of crime. But she was coerced as a minor, given drugs to keep her compliant, and had no real control over her circumstances. And for those who aren’t rescued before the age of 18, becoming an adult doesn’t change their history, either. It is a story repeated time and time again right here in Ohio, but Tonya wants to change that. Victims of human trafficking are anyone in the labor or sex industries, involved
through an element of force, fraud or coercion. Everyone has sympathy for victims of forced trafficking, but few understand the realty of fraud and coercion, which is the majority of cases. By Vulnerable children or young Bob adults can be groomed over time to be willing to do more and Wurzelbacher more things, often complicated by coerced drug addiction. These parents to know about, and then blackmails children grow up to become them to comply to other demands lest they adults who then appear to be nothing more have their secrets revealed. Regardless of than people making poor choices, but have the details, the basic method is this: find been trapped into the sex trafficking world someone already vulnerable, befriend them, through fraud and coercion. establish trust, and exploit their vulnerabilThere are many ways to trap a young perity. son into trafficking, and it is rarely through Tonya emphasizes three ways we can help stranger abduction. One common strategy eliminate human trafficking: the Before, the would be through peers at school. A young During and the After. The Before would be person who has already been coerced into to invite someone to come to your school, the industry befriends another vulnerable parish or community and educate everyone child at school, does favors for them, gives on how to recognize and avoid trafficking. them a phone so they can communicate To schedule someone to speak, contact without parental involvement, encourages Tonya directly at folkst@mcohiosheriff.org. drug use or otherwise tricks them into doShe also founded the CORY Project (Coming something that they wouldn’t want their
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munity Outreach for Runaway Youth), which asks volunteers to simply put flyers up around their community once every few months to have people look out for missing youth, before they get involved in trafficking. For the During, www.endslaverynow. org is one example of an organization that has a local outreach directly to people on the streets. For After, Tonya highly recommends supporting www.safeharborhouse. org, a live-in place for women to escape their trafficking situation, be rehabilitated, and re-enter society. You can donate time as a driver, material needs, or money to help them keep the house open. This is not the whole story. Please watch the interview online or subscribe to the podcast at www.catholiccincinnati.org/ Being-Pro-Life. Together we can help raise awareness, and reduce the threat of human trafficking which is, all too prevalent in our communities. This is the fifth topic of a 12-month series, focusing on a different aspect of Respect Life work each month.
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Pregnancy center director takes on ‘fight for life’ By Walt Schaefer Pregnancy Center West, a stone’s throw from St. Teresa of Avila Church in Price Hill, is dedicated to welcoming life and assisting those faced with the daunting task of bringing a newcomer into our world. Executive Director Laura Caporaletti has been on the job for about six months. “Most of the women who walk in our doors are 16 to 20, and because of that, they feel a certain ability to share, a certain freedom to be vulnerable when they are talking to someone closer to their age,” she said. Caporaletti is 27. Youthful knowledge of technology and social media play a role, too “We have tons of generous volunteers — mostly older — and they share openly about how shocked they are with what these people are dealing with. Don’t get me wrong, there are number of cases that shocked me as well, but a lot of (older) people don’t know what’s going on out there,” something that the younger generation does understand, Caporaletti said. She described a recent client who shared her boyfriend’s use of a popular dating app, which was a “foreign concept to the volunteer,” Caporaletti said. “She was talking to this young girl and shared the information with me and I was very aware of the app. I am in the secular world and I know people in the secular world who use it. Folks I know and interact with on a daily basis use it. It breaks my heart when they explain these things to me and I give them my little spiel about it.” Prior to becoming executive director, Caporaletti served two years as outreach coordinator/chastity educator for her agency. “I was one of a two-person team who went out to Catholic schools across the west side of town to talk to students about chastity,” she said. “As executive director, I wear a lot of hats. Our team consists of our staff, the board and the volunteers. I lead the team. My day is split into two main roles. One is serving as the crisis pregnancy center director. The other is with the larger, more involved cases. They fall on my desk because the volunteers are only in once a month. They’ll meet with a client, but if they need special or frequent attention it is passed on to me. Most of the time I’m balancing four to five involved client
cases — generally unmarried women who have become pregnant and are in need of a lot of help, such as housing.” “We try to get involved with the man as well. We have a men’s ministry program here. We encourage the ladies to bring in the men and we have male mentors who are here evenings — Monday, Wednesday Thursday. It’s amazing (that) no case is the same, and often times it means taking look at our big resource book and finding out the next step for them and pointing them in the right direction,” Caporaletti said. Most often, people come to the center through word of mouth or because of a small budget marketing effort the agency uses. “Most of the time, the ladies we deal with are pretty determined to parent. That’s a big blessing. When they walk in our doors, they know who we are, and they are coming to us because they need help with prenatal care or guidance or material assistance, such as diapers and wipes,” said Caporaletti, who came to Cincinnati about five years ago to work for Dynamic Catholic, an institute committed to re-energizing the Catholic Church through books and parish resources. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and philosophy and a master’s in business from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Caporaletti is staunchly pro-life. “The pro-life fight is one of the biggest fights of our time, and it’s a relatively new fight with Roe v. Wade in the early 1970s. It took time to really see the effects abortion was having on our nation as a whole and the women of our nation. Myself, I’m not going tell anybody else what to do, but I think (many) young people are pro-life and want believe in absolute truth. We’re really being called. Pope Francis is explicitly inviting and asking us to stand up and get out there and help out in an area waning in our culture,” Caporaletti said. “I was raised Catholic in a different time. My parents are both God-fearing people who go to Mass every Sunday and their faith was a part of their daily life. Because of that, a lot of us in my generation, when we got in our 20s, looked at the world and we looked at our parents. We saw a world that has no faith, and we looked at our parents with some faith, but it wasn’t vibrant enough for us to want more of it. When I went away to college, I got to the point where I was
able to make my own stand, make it my own faith.” “I wanted to affect the world more — whatever Christ wanted of me. A lot of my thought and desire was to really liv a (faith) life that wasn’t just Sunday. After making a decision like that and looking around, you see the problems in the real world. Where you’re needed, where Christ’s love is needed, and, for me, one of the things was this fight for life,” she said. The sexual revolution of the 1960s has promoted a change in attitudes about sex in today’s society that pregnancy centers and other agencies are addressing, Caporaletti said. “The fallout of the sexual revolution dictates how we’re dealing with a lot of consequences today. It has caused a greater need for pregnancy centers because of the overwhelming acceptance of permissive lifestyles. Unfortunately, Planned Parenthood is driving it as well. There is this insane need for STD testing and treatment, birth control pills and abortion for a lot of folks who don’t think there are any issues with it. “It’s a self-perpetuating issue,” Caporaletti said. “The more Planned Parenthood provides things like birth control and abortion, the more this problem about promiscuity continues the vicious cycle. They’re making sure their doors are going to stay open by providing what they provide every single day. That means as Christians who believe we are made for so much more. And that is authentic love. Marriage is a beautiful, big thing and sex falls within the confines of marriage. We are seeing a lot more Christian pregnancy centers open their doors in hopes we can combat these issues.” Caporaletti views passing the baton to younger generations as a natural progression is some areas of today’s fast-charging culture. “Back in the day,” she said, “you had to climb the ranks. I don’t think it would’ve been common to see young people taking leadership roles in the church. But, even our older volunteers here, our older board members, my parents and older family members, are starting to understand about how everything has changed with technology and with the current problems young people are facing. Older Catholics are becoming open to input from youth and handing things over and stepping away.”
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Following a recent synod of bishops in Rome focusing on youth in the church, Bridgeport, Conn. Bishop Frank J. Caggiano, a delegate, called the event “a moment of great grace” and said the challenge today is to further develop the accomplishments in Rome. Priests and other leaders have been charged with finding mentors for young people, bring youths into Church leadership roles and assist in helping youth embrace their vocations. Catholic youth today are at a crossroads – a time where they choose whether to remain Catholic in an ever-changing world where some Church teachings are vigorously challenged, or take another path as some are inclined to do. Through the months ahead, “The Catholic Telegraph” will publish occasional features about these younger leaders. The Archdiocese of Cincinnati and other area Catholic institutions are committed to instilling youth leadership within the ranks. This first in the series by CT ccontributer Walt Schaefer looks at today’s Catholic youth leaders — ages 22 to 35 — in southwestern Ohio. They are diverse. They are committed. They are making a difference.
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The Amazing Parish brings life to faith communities By Eileen Connelly, OSU What’s so amazing about The Amazing Parish conference? Past participants emphasize that it’s not just “another program,” but an experience that can revitalize pastors, parish teams and their faith communities. Cincinnati is the site for this year’s conference, scheduled for May 13-15 at the Duke Energy Center. The workshop-style format features Mass and prayer, team sessions, presentations and question and answer periods. Throughout the conference, pastors and their three to five-member parish leadership teams will be led in interactive exercises to help them identify a vision and plan for creating an amazing parish. The Amazing Parish originated in 2013 with the vision of co-founders Pat Lencioni and John Martin, who shared a desire to serve and build up the Catholic Church. Discussions with Catholic leaders, prayer and discernment led the men to recognize that the Holy Spirit was directing them take action “to uplift, improve and help parishes turn from maintenance to missionary communities.” Lencioni brought expertise in organizational health and leadership to the table, and combined with Martin’s business savvy, they held the first Amazing Parish
conference in Denver in 2014. The co-founders of The Amazing Parish acknowledge that every faith community is unique, but say they have found there are three common “building blocks” that
form the foundation of an amazing parish: a reliance on prayer and the sacraments; a commitment to a healthy organization; and a passion for evangelization and discipleship. Their model provides resources to
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especially those of an intentionally-chosen parish leadership team.” Father Drew, now pastor of St. Ignatius of Loyola Parish, plans to attend this year’s gathering with his current parish team and encourages his fellow priests to do the same. Father Alex McCullough, pastor of the Winton Wyoming Pastoral Region, comprised of St. James, Our Lady of the Rosary and St. Matthias parishes, emphasized that The Amazing Parish is “not just another program. It gives pastors and their teams the tools they need to help their parish catch the fire and live the Gospel.” Father McCullough is quick to acknowledge the challenge of shepherding three parishes, including the travel involved and three times as many meetings, but said the tools and support offered through The Amazing Parish have helped him to make better use of his time, invest in and build his parish team and increase their effectiveness. “I know that virtually every priest is working just about at capacity,” Father McCullough said. “We’re at a time in the church where a lot of guys have multiple parishes and small staffs. This isn’t a question of being less invested in the life of the parish. The Amazing Parish works if the pastor is on board and committed to success. It helps pastors get to the real work of the preaching the Gospel, seeing to the future of the church, saving souls right now,
and moving our parishioners closer to what God is calling us to.” Both he and Father Drew attested to the ongoing support provided by The Amazing Parish staff. “The conference isn’t the end all be all,” said DuPre. “We’re on a journey with the pastors to ramp up the health of their parishes and create a great culture of leadership. We want this to be a continuous movement, not just a moment in the pastor’s life and vocation.” For local pastors who may be on the fence about attending the upcoming conference, DuPre said: “We have seen the
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INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) — Priests who serve as college chaplains or campus ministers do not have an easy load to tote. These days, that role is likely just one of their many duties. But the event left many, including representatives from Cincinnati, with the feeling that something very positive was happening. “With the priest shortage, it’s difficult to have priests to be there on campus,” said Father Rick Nagel, pastor of St. John the Evangelist Parish and chaplain at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, best known as IUPUI. The campuses are both in the heart of the capital city. This reality is true for Father John Hollowell. In addition to serving as chaplain for DePauw University in Greencastle, he also is pastor of St. Paul the Apostle Parish there and Annunciation Parish in Brazil, as well as chaplain of Putnamville Correctional Facility. Dominican Father Patrick Hyde also can relate. He is associate pastor of St. Paul Catholic Center in Bloomington and head of the parish’s campus ministry serving the students of Indiana University. But the three priests share one powerful source of help: Fellowship of Catholic University Students, or FOCUS. Luke Carey, director of the Office for Young Adult Evangelization and Discipleship, attended SEEK, the group’s biennial conference, representing the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in early January. “Jesus is moving. There’s no better evidence of this than SEEK. The power of SEEK isn’t found in the speakers, or even FOCUS, the organization that puts on SEEK,” Carey said. “The power of SEEK is in encountering the living God. God is everywhere at SEEK. Obviously, He’s there in the sacraments and in adoration, but what makes SEEK so great, is the community. Seventeen hundred college students and young adults coming together because of Jesus Christ and His Church,” Carey said. “It’s incredible. The Christian joy is palpable.” “It has a profound impact,” Father Nagel said of the five-day experience. “I’ve never heard anyone say it didn’t make a difference in their life.” With the support of the late Indianapolis Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein, FOCUS and its lay ministers came to the IUPUI campus in 2009. The organization and its “multiplication of discipleship” concept now also serves at DePauw, and
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Archdiocese of Cincinnati representatives Luke Carey and Sarah Rogers, center, at the SEEK 2019 conference for college students and young adults in a picture with speaker Matt Fradd, left, and young adult minister at St. Cecilia Parish, Sarah Rose Bort.
just started serving at IU two years ago. With its thousands of participants — more than 17,000 at SEEK2019 in Indianapolis Jan. 3-7 -- students get “a sense of the universal church not just with the other students but also the hundreds of priests, religious and bishops,” Father Nagel told “The Criterion,” newspaper of the Indianapolis Archdiocese. This year, the bishops in attendance were primarily from other countries, as the U.S. bishops took a week for prayer at Mundelein Seminary in Chicago. Witnessing the myriad men and women religious, many in traditional habits, is not the only impressive sight at a SEEK conference. “When you’re in a room with 17,000 college students that are all in adoration or all in Mass, and are really into it, I think that’s something that blows people’s minds in a good way,” said Father Hollowell. “Certainly a lot of (college students) are falling away in frightening numbers, but it almost makes the faith of those who stay and those who are coming back seem even more powerful.” Father Nagel has attended four SEEK conferences before and witnessed their impact. “Sometimes there can be a ‘mountain
top’ experience with a retreat, but then they re-enter the world, and the effects wane over time,” he said. “But SEEK ‘disciples’ students so they have real, tangible takeaways, like ways to pray or a particular way to live your life. It enhances our ministry and allows us to build on that when they go back on campus.” SEEK — which FOCUS “describes as an experience rather than a conference,” Father Hollowell said — also serves as a way for chaplains and campus ministers to connect with their students. “One of the best things for me to be here is that we have about 97 people here from Bloomington,” said Father Hyde. “It’s really beautiful to see students I recognize but don’t know, because that’s a sign that something good is happening, that maybe people who were on the fringe are going a step deeper. And that’s just cool to see.” Father Hollowell was at SEEK with the DePauw students he serves. “I try be with the students as much as I can here,” he said. “We’ve had lunch and dinner. I’ve gone to several talks with them. There are a lot of great questions and discussions. It’s a great opportunity for me to be with them and have conversa-
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tions, to interact with them outside of my formal role.” While Father Nagel noted that the majority of SEEK participants are university students, he said it reaches a broader audience as well. “A year ago, they began a lifelong mission track (of sessions and speakers) for non-students,” he said. “Last year there were about 1,000 who participated in that, and it’s grown this year (to 1,700). We have about 50 non-students from the parish going.” FOCUS also welcomes non-Catholics to the conference. Father Hollowell’s group included “a few non-Catholics and one person going through RCIA,” which is the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults. SEEK offers a special track for the chaplains and campus ministers as well. Father Hyde said he looks forward to witnessing SEEK’s effects on the students he ministers to. “I’ve heard people have been blown away by the talks and the atmosphere,” he said. “It’s going to be really interesting to see a diverse response to what God does this week in their lives.” This story originated with the Catholic News Service.
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Bishops react favorably to week-long retreat WASHINGTON (CNS) — Although the weeklong retreat for U.S. Catholic bishops emphasized quiet reflection, several bishops spoke out on social media during the retreat and after it wrapped up Jan. 8 with positive reaction about it and to give shootouts to the retreat leader, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, who has preached to popes and top officials of the Roman Curia for nearly 40 years. One bishop said listening to Father Cantalamessa was akin to being in the presence of the early Christian theologians. “Clear, intensely filled with the Holy Spirit, and all for the Kingdom of God,” Auxiliary Bishop Michael J. Boulette of San Antonio said in a tweet. “Let us continue to pray for one another, our church and our world. A blessing to be here!” Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Anchorage, Alaska, tweeted that the retreat leader was a “true instrument of the Lord” and that the Holy Spirit was at work during the retreat. Bishop Lawrence T. Persico of Erie, Pennsylvania, described Father Cantalamessa’s talks and homilies as “powerful and engaging.” He tweeted that he was glad they had time to reflect and pray about their role as shepherds, stressing: “We must start there to be able to offer healing. I am taking this very seriously but feeling positive.” Boston Auxiliary Bishop Mark W. O’Connell said it was a “truly blessed experience” to be on retreat with Father Cantalamessa and fellow U.S. bishops. “The Holy Spirit was powerfully present, and I was quite moved,” he tweeted. He also thanked the pope for giving the bishops this gift. Pope Francis suggested the bishops hold the retreat and offered the services of the 84-year-old Father Cantalamessa, who has served as preacher of the papal household since 1980. The time of prayer Jan. 2-8 at Mundelein Seminary at the University of St. Mary of the Lake near Chicago was planned largely in response to last summer’s revelations of allegations of sex abuse that reached the highest levels of the U.S. church. In a Jan. 8 column for “Angelus News,” the archdiocesan news outlet of Los Angeles, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles said the bishops’ retreat leader focused “our attention on the vocation and responsibility of bishops in this moment in the church.” “We are praying together as a visible
sign of our unity as bishops and our communion with the Holy Father. There is a collegial spirit here and a firm commitment to address the causes of the abuse crisis we face and continue the work of renewing the church,” he added. The archbishop said Father Cantalamessa asked them to “trust more in the Holy Spirit. We need to have confidence that we are always living in God’s loving presence.” Bishop Frank J. Caggiano of Bridgeport, Connecticut, wrote a few blog posts about the retreat with some reflection about the retreat leader’s message. He said they heard about the need to emphasize in their preaching the fundamental belief in Jesus before delving into his message and teachings. He also said Father Cantalamessa emphasized the need to root out “love of money” and all that it implies, including material possessions, honor or power. “If this pursuit for ‘money’ needs to be rooted out from our Christian lives, then we need to embrace a true spirit of detachment,” the bishop wrote, adding that he would add more to that topic in the days ahead. The theme of the U.S. bishops’ retreat was “the mission of the apostles and of their successors” drawing from Mark 3:14, which says Jesus “appointed 12 -- whom he also named apostles -- that they might be with him and he might send them forth to preach.” Reflections from the retreat do not seem to be about the crisis in particular, maybe for a reason. In an email to Catholic News Service
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Lent calls us to deal with our own sinfulness Catholic Thoughts
Aaaargh! Here comes Lent again. There is no denying it. We must face the music once again. There is something deep within us that resists dealing with our own sinfulness. The Spirit calls us to come By back again with all our hearts. This requires painful candor and Jeanne courage to face the truth of our Hunt own weakness. What can we do to get to the root of our failure and overcome pride, envy, greed, lust, gluttony, anger and our weaknesses? Like a yo-yo dieter, each sloth. Lent we try, once again, to stop losing our First, there is the mighty threesome of temper, gossiping, over-eating etc. What we pride, envy and greed. They seem to come are missing is the need to get to the root of from the same family. Pride is the root of so our choices. It is like pulling dandelions; much other evil. Pride causes us to ridicule you never get rid of them until you dig up others, to think the rules do not apply to us the root. These roots are called the seven and whatever we do we will never fail. This deadly sins and we have some digging to do poison turns into narcissism at its worst. this Lent. Envy tempts us to want what others have This Lent is a good time to get down and and to see ourselves as deserving everything. dirty concerning what the church teaches Envy whispers in our ear, “ You deserve us about these seven, classic weaknesses it, get it for yourself.” A close cousin of and which one seems to have rooted in our pride, envy causes us to compare and keep heart. Once we understand why we can’t score, making our neighbors into competstop gossiping, cheating, yelling in anger, itors, and our own blessings a prize to be we can allow redemptive grace to soak into boasted, rather than a gift to be shared. our souls. So readers, here is a review of
Envy causes us to want what we cannot afford, belittle others who do well and undermine other’s success. It is nasty germ! Greed rounds out these three by driving us to want more than we need and confusing the difference. Is a functional computer a need or a want? What about shoes for different types of occasions? We are driven to succeed so that we can have more. Rather than wishing and working for more, we should strive to cultivate gratitude for what we already have. A confessor once told me that greed is the root of most of our sins. The inclusion of lust among the seven reminds us of the impact of our sin on others. Sex as an act of consumption, of personal gratification, rather than for the benefit of the relationship is a matter of pride, greed, and perhaps envy, pouring fuel on the fire of our selfishness. We think of lust as a private sin, but God who wants every part of us, who is concerned for our thoughts and feelings, knows that these sins of the heart and mind that bear fruit in our actions. The nature of the seven deadly sins is being about our heart than our actions. So sloth is not so much about laziness or the lack of productive work, but rather as apathy toward doing what is good, right
and perfect, those deed that lead us to a relationship with God. Sloth is not caring enough about God to live in His ways. We just do nothing because it is easier. Then, there is anger. A just anger can quickly turn into a deadly sin. Anger is a response to knowing the world is not as we think it ought to be. Psalm 137 is a sincere cry from people in pain, asking God for justice. But misdirected, anger can lead us to bitterness, violence and resentment. Rather than holding on to or anger, Jesus challenges us to forgive. Forgiveness enables us to move beyond the immediate wrong to proactively work for justice and rightness in the world. Finally, gluttony is an odd sin to number among the seven, seeming to be harmful only to the sinner and hardly so damaging as anger and greed. Gluttony signified overall preoccupation too much of everything. We spend too much, eat too much, talk too much. In fact, we push God aside in favor of our pleasures. We have finished this most deadly list. But our Lent is just beginning. Will it be different this year? Can we face the root of our problem?
olic elementary schools in New Mexico, Michigan and Ohio. In the archdiocese, Sister Miriam Clare served at St. Dominic, St. Jude, St. Saviour, Holy Cross and St. Vincent de Paul in the Cincinnati area, and St. Albert in Kettering. Following her retirement in 2000, Sister Miriam Clare continued to volunteer where needed. She moved to Mother Margaret Hall in 2013. Sister Miriam Clare is survived by her brother, Bill. Interment was in the Sisters of Charity Cemetery.
A native of Troy, Sister Helen entered the congregation in September 1955. She earned a bachelor’s degree in education from the College of Mount St. Joseph and a master’s degree in education as a reading specialist from Xavier University. Sister Helen’s ministries were centered in the intermediate and primary Catholic school classroom, spanning a total of 56 years. In the archdiocese, she served at St. Teresa in Springfield, and Cure of Ars, St. Lawrence and St. William in the Cincinnati area. She spent 37 years of her classroom ministry at St. William and was the last Sister of Charity to serve the families there. Interment was in the Sisters of Charity Cemetery.
Obituaries Sister Joan Clare Stewart A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Joan Clare Stewart was celebrated Dec. 28 in the motherhouse chapel. Sister Joan Clare, 78, died Dec. 20. She was a Sister of Charity for 59 years. A native of Detroit, Sister Joan Clare earned a bachelor’s degree in education from the College of Mount St. Joseph and a master’s degree with a specialty in reading from Xavier University. Her ministries included 39 years as an educator in Catholic elementary schools and 14 as a pastoral associate. In the archdiocese, she served at St. Dominic, St. Saviour and St. Boniface in the Cincinnati area; St. Mary in Greenville; St. Brigid in Xenia; St. Patrick in Troy; and Piqua Catholic. She went on to minister at
St. Mary Parish in Piqua. Sister Joan Clare is survived by her brothers, Greg and Doug. Interment was in the Sisters of Charity cemetery. Sister Miriam Clare Glandorf A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Miriam Clare Glandorf was celebrated Dec. 27 in the motherhouse chapel. Sister Miriam Clare, 98, died Dec. 16. She was a Sister of Charity for 76 years. A native of Norwood, Sister Miriam Clare earned a bachelor’s degree in education from the College of Mount St. Joseph and a master’s degree in administration from Xavier University. Her ministries included 56 years as an educator in Cath-
Sister Helen Attenweiler A Mass of Christian Burial for Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Helen Attenweiler was celebrated Dec. 20 in the motherhouse chapel. Sister Helen, 81, died Dec. 11.
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Xavier University hosts Dementia Care Summit March 20 Sponsored by TriHealth and in partnership with ERS Refresh Your Soul, Xavier University’s Dementia Care Summit will take place on March 20. This year’s theme, “Families, Clients, & Professionals Unite – Coming Together for Dementia Care,” will engage health care professionals, caregivers, and family members in the discussion and application of strategies for life satisfaction, social connections, and independence. The focus will be on creating connectivity, advocating for clients, enhancing clear and effective communication, and building relationships. Teepa Snow, one of the world’s leading specialist in dementia education with over 30 years of clinical practice in geriatrics, will give the keynote address, “Dementia 360: Seeing it from Many Perspectives,” followed by Mary Ann Jacobs, a senior member of Ritter & Randolph, LLC, Attorneys at Law and an expert in Elder Law, who will present “Then the Alarms Start Sounding: Advocating and Caring for Seniors in Crisis.” She will describe what happens and the resources needed when dementia creates a series of crisis points for vulnerable elderly. Breakout sessions include local experts offering ways
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