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Famine threatens millions Pope Benedict calls for compassion, sharing with hungry of East Africa Catholic News Service Christians cannot be indifferent to the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people starving in the Horn of Africa, Pope Benedict XVI said. “It is inadmissible to be indifferent in the face of the tragedy of the hungry and thirsty,” the pope said, speaking in Polish after reciting the Angelus July 31 with pilgrims gathered in the courtyard of the papal villa at Castel Gandolfo. When Jesus fed the multitudes by miraculously multiplying loaves and fishes, he gave his disciples an example to follow, the pope said. “He encourages us to give them something to eat and to share bread with the needy. Following Christ, we must be sensitive to people’s poverty,” he said. Commenting on the day’s Gospel passage, the pope said it was natural to read the story of Jesus’ miracle and think of “our many brothers and sisters who, in these days, in the Horn of Africa, suffer from famine aggravated by war and the lack of solid institutions.”
Opening hearts He told the 3,000 people gathered in the courtyard that Jesus set an example of meeting material needs while also addressing the deeper hungers of the human heart. “The love of God is present in the bread of Christ; encountering him, we feed on the living God, so to speak, and we truly eat the bread come down from heaven,” the pope said. “In the Eucharist, Jesus makes us witnesses to God’s compassion for every brother and sister,” the pope said. He prayed that people would open
How to help Archbishop John Nienstedt has asked parishes in the archdiocese to consider taking up a second collection to help lessen the suffering in East Africa. Money collected will be forwarded to Catholic Relief Services. CNS photo / Thomas Mukoya, Reuters
An internally displaced Somali refugee girl waits for her turn to collect water from a tank at a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, near the border with Somalia July 31. More than 3 million Somalis were at risk of starvation in the country, where a deadly mix of drought and conflict has caused mass movements of people seeking help.
their hearts with compassion for their neighbors and would share with those in need. Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, reported July 30 that Catholic charities are deeply involved in meeting the needs of people suffering from the famine in Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and
Kenya. Hunger and the threat of malnutrition are becoming the daily reality for millions of people in East Africa. A lack of rainfall and rising food prices are increasingly straining their food supply, Catholic Relief Services staff members in the region are reporting. Suzanna Tkalec, who works for CRS, is
assisting Bishop Giorgio Djibouti and Somalia.
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She told Fides that they are working in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya about 50 miles from the border with Somalia. “On average, 2,500 people arrive at this camp every day; 80 percent are mothers with young children,” she said.
Pope Benedict’s WYD: Space for silence, solemnity By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
Pope Benedict XVI has put his own stamp on the church’s celebration of World Youth Day, and it’s especially clear in the gathering’s moments of prayer. In Cologne, Germany, six years ago — Pope Benedict’s first WYD as pope — he surprised the youth at the Saturday night vigil by urging them to quiet down. The Cologne event was where he started a major new WYD tradition: Instead of ending the vigil with a boisterous musical finale, he ended it with eucharistic adoration — with tens of thousands of young people kneeling silently in a field. The scene was repeated in Australia in 2008. During World Youth Day 2011, scheduled for Aug. 16-21 in Madrid, eucharistic adoration again will cap the pope’s participation at the vigil. Adoration and prayer also will PLEASE TURN TO EUCHARISTIC ON PAGE 9A
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Follow along with MN pilgrims via WYD blog Three youth from Divine Mercy in Faribault and a priest will be blogging from World Youth Day in Madrid, Aug. 16 to 21. Visit HTTP://WORLDYOUTHDAY2011.TUMBLR.COM for reflections and photos from Alex Paukert, Jake Kohl, Molly Davies and Father Erik Lundgren, Divine Mercy’s associate pastor. You can add your own comments and questions as well.
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Strengthening our Catholic schools
That They May All Be One Archbishop John C. Nienstedt
My staff likes to make sure that I have plenty to do while away for vacation, so this year they presented me with the report and recommendations of the Catholic Schools Commission, which I convened last December as part of our Archdiocesan Strategic Plan. The document was the size of a small phone directory, full of important data and research. I am grateful to the 17 members who made up the commission for the thoroughness and professionalism of their work as well as their wide ranging consultative process.
Call to holiness A Catholic Schools Advisory Council will continue strategic planning in five key areas and offer other assistance
The church’s mission is to communicate the love of God to all men and women, drawing them into a relationship with God and with their fellow believers. The “Dogmatic Constitution of the Church,” from the Second Vatican Council, calls the church a “sacrament — a sign and instrument of communion with God and of unity among all men” (par. 1). The same council states in its “Constitution on the Liturgy” that all the church’s activities are directed toward the sanctification of human beings and the glorification of God. This is our call to holiness, given to us in baptism and developed throughout the rest of our lives. Holiness means living in, with
The Catholic Spirit The Catholic Spirit’s mission is to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. It seeks to inform, educate, evangelize and foster a spirit of community within the Catholic Church by disseminating news in a professional manner and serving as a forum for discussion of contemporary issues.
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Archbishop Nienstedt’s schedule ■ Sunday, Aug. 7: 2 p.m., Lakeville, All Saints Catholic Church: “Send-off” Mass for World Youth Day pilgrims. ■ Monday, Aug. 8: 11:10 a.m., St. Paul, Chancery: Meeting with vicar general of the Diocese of Vijayapuram in Kerala, India. 3 p.m., St. Paul, Chancery: Subcommittee of Archdiocesan Finance Committee. ■ Tuesday, Aug. 9: 8:30 a.m., St. Paul, Archbishop’s Residence: Scheduling meeting with staff. 1:30 p.m., St. Paul, Chancery: Archbishop’s Council meeting. ■ Wednesday, Aug. 10 : 9 a.m., St. Paul, Chancery: Meeting of the Caleb Group. ■ Thursday, Aug. 11: 8:15 a.m., Mendota, Church of St. Peter: Pastors, principals and business administrators meeting on the future of Catholic schools. ■ Sunday, Aug. 14: 9 a.m., Harriet Island, St. Paul: Mass for Ancient Order of Hibernians at the Minnesota Irish Fair. ■ Monday-Sunday, Aug. 15-21: Attendance at World Youth Day in Madrid, Spain.
and through Christ. It is a dynamic relationship that is nurtured and strengthened by the church’s teaching, her sacramental celebration, her apostolic outreach and her ecclesial communion. One of the means that the church uses to accomplish her mission is her Catholic schools. These have been an effective instrument for doing so in this archdiocese for the past 160 years.
Changing times Today, more than 30,000 students attend our 95 Catholic elementary and high schools. This is
quite a contrast to the situation here in 1965 when we had nearly 90,000 students in 180 Catholic schools within the archdiocese. Much has changed in those intervening years: Society has moved from close-knit, urban neighborhoods to spread-out suburban communities, leaving urban areas in a state of decay. Our classrooms, once filled with students of Irish, German, Italian or Polish immigrants, now reflect more mainstream middle- or upper-class backgrounds as well as minorities
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(At Planned Parenthood’s construction site, at the corner of Vandalia and Charles in St. Paul)
Please join us in song, and in praying the rosary in honor of Mary on her glorious feast day. Let us plead for her powerful intercession that future families will not be destroyed inside what will be Planned Parenthoods’s third largest abortion center in the country.
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To hell and back Priest describes life as an Army combat chaplain By Julie Carroll The Catholic Spirit
A line of young men and women clad in Army fatigues poured out of the plane into the sweltering, black night. Still groggy after crossing several time zones, the soldiers boarded windowless buses waiting to transport them to their camp. “In the bus I sensed a very eerie silence,” said Father Jerome Fehn, a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis who was one of the passengers that night in 2006. “I felt it was more than the fact that all of us were dog-tired, almost like, oh, gosh, we’re really here now. . . . The fact that anything could happen was already starting to hit us.” After six months of training at Mississippi’s Camp Shelby, the “Red Bulls” of the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry Division finally had touched down in Kuwait, where they would remain for a short time before proceeding to their permanent base in southern Iraq. As the caravan of buses rolled through the desert that first night, Father Fehn remembers praying for the soldiers’ safety. “That was my constant prayer,” he said.
Providing spiritual support Father Fehn joined the Army National Guard in 1998. Now a major, he served six months in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 17 months in Iraq, and, in June, two weeks in Croatia for a training exercise. As an Army chaplain, Father Fehn’s mission is to provide spiritual and emotional support to the soldiers. Although he is a Catholic priest, in the Army he serves soldiers of all faiths, ensuring that their religious and spiritual needs are met.
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Father Jerome Fehn, a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and a chaplain for the Army National Guard, has served in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq and Croatia.
“A chaplain’s motto is: ‘Nurture the living, care for the wounded, honor the dead,’” he said. “That’s our mantra.” In 2006, Father Fehn’s battalion received notice that it would soon be deployed to Iraq. At 54, Father Fehn was three decades older than many of his fellow soldiers. Nevertheless, he completed the Army’s grueling training regimen — climbing over and under obstacles, running, learning how to march and salute properly. In Iraq, Father Fehn wore everything the other soldiers wore: 40-pound body armor, a helmet, glasses, gloves — every-
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thing except a weapon. An armed soldier protected him during dangerous missions. At times the mercury would soar to 120 degrees. “But it’s a dry heat,” the priest added in all seriousness. Days were long. At 5 a.m. he would rise for prayer. Sometimes his work wouldn’t be finished until after midnight. In addition to celebrating Mass and the sacraments, Father Fehn attended meetings, conducted suicide awareness workshops, and counseled the soldiers wherever they were stationed — in the motor pool, the supply room, the
garbage dump. “You can’t sit in the office in a rocking chair waiting for them to come,” Father Fehn said. “As a chaplain at the battalion level, you’ve got to go to them and present yourself.” That often meant putting himself in harm’s way. “It’s always a scary thing to be out there because you never know what can happen,” Father Fehn said. “Even when I was in the base, we would get occasional rocket fire and mortar attacks. You’d hear ‘Ba-boom!’ and you’d immediately put on your equipment.” During Father Fehn’s time in Iraq, three members of his battalion died. One soldier was killed when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle, another died in a vehicle accident, and the third suffered a medical condition. Father Fehn presided at memorial ceremonies for all three. After a loss, he would make himself present to any soldier who wanted to talk. “They ask questions like all of us do,” he said. “‘Where is God in all of this? How does this fit with my faith? Why this person? Why now?’” Father Fehn also wrestles with tough questions. “You’ve got war, but we are a church of peace. You’ve got evil, but we are a church of forgiveness. How does one rectify and help the soldiers who do battle and who may have to kill and who have killed with [spiritual laws like]: ‘Do not kill. Turn the other cheek. If your enemy makes you walk one mile, walk two. If he wants your coat, hand him your shirt as well.’” “You can understand defense,” he added, “but how do you make that jump to doing battle with another country, another people? That’s probably the hardest thing.”
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Charity care still priority, despite cuts to hospitals Historical group to
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A bruised but brave Thao Nguyen, 14, met with The Catholic Spirit less than 24 hours after Dr. Joseph Skow performed plastic surgery on her face at St. Joseph’s Hospital in St. Paul. This was not the first or last surgery for Nguyen, who arrived in the United States from northern Vietnam five years ago to receive medical care for severe burns to her hands and face, said her Minnesota mom, Patty DeVet. She has been living in Prior Lake almost three years with Patty and Chuck DeVet, who established a nonprofit organization with their daughter Annetta in 2001 in Hanoi called Humanitarian Services for Children of Vietnam (WWW.HSCV.ORG). The DeVets and HSCV arranged for Nguyen to get a medical visa and care at Shriner’s Hospital in California and then Minnesota. Without the donated services and funding from Dr. Skow, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Shriner’s, HSCV and the DeVets, Nguyen would not be getting the care she desperately needs. She was nearly 5 years old when a boy in her village knocked her unconscious, threw her in a hay pile and set it on fire, Patty DeVet said. Nguyen’s mother took her by bus to the hospital in Hanoi, which had done all it could for her. Thanks to the generosity of many, Nguyen is further along in her recovery and looking forward to the August wedding of one of her Minnesota sisters. “She is now No. 6 in our family of children,” DeVet said. Nguyen attends St. Michael School in Prior Lake thanks to a family that sponsors her tuition there. She also helped with the cost by winning a $50 scholarship in a poster contest discouraging drug use that was sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, last year. “Thao won first place,” DeVet said. “This child does not have fingers; they were burned off. She is a wonderful artist and she makes due. Any limitation she has you would never know it unless you met her.”
Helping when it can Sara Criger, vice president and CEO of St. Joseph’s Hospital, said the hospital tries to work with patients of physicians like Skow, who practices there. “It’s at the spirit of our mission and it’s at the spirit of what the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet [who founded the hospital] were about,” Criger said. “Unfortunately, the need is greater than the ability to do it.”
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Thao Nguyen is comforted by her Minnesota mother, Patty DeVet, after surgery on her face.
The majority of charity care goes toward providing routine services for local community members, Criger said. Providing care to people in need, however, is becoming more challenging with cuts to Medicaid. “We were relieved that some of the Medicaid was preserved [in the state budget] for people in our community who are uninsured,” Criger said.
Bad economic model When people don’t have insurance they don’t get the basics that keep them healthy and they end up in the emergency rooms of hospitals, which is a bad economic model, Criger added. “The flip side is there were more dramatic cuts made [by the state Legislature] to what the providers will be reimbursed,” Criger said. “We believe we are getting paid at a rate by Medicaid that’s almost 26 percent below 2002 costs.” The hospital expects charity care costs to increase in 2011 by 5.8 percent, from last year’s total of $2.78 million. Medicaid and Medicare are two items that continue to be put on the state and federal chopping block, said Toby Pearson, executive director of the Catholic Hospital Association of Minnesota. One priority for the association during the recent state budget discussions was that Medicaid, a federal-state program, would continue to be available to people who need the coverage, he said. “We’re glad that at the end of the session it remained in there,” he said. “The challenge we’ve had in Catholic hospitals and clinics is we’re facing an increasing
number of people who are having to rely on these state programs — partially because of economic situations and the number of job losses. But, we also see declining reimbursements.” An additional challenge to Catholic hospitals in the final state budget is a large reduction to medical education funding. “In the short term it hurts because it’s a direct hit to your bottom line, because you are still going to be providing a certain amount of medical education,” Pearson said. “In the long term, it makes it harder to recruit and retain talent because you are decreasing your pool of doctors.” Criger said that St. Joseph’s family medicine residency program will be hit hard by the cuts. “We believe that family medicine physicians are key to the future when you look at health care reform,” she said. “[Cuts] could put our future access to physicians at risk.” Despite the funding cuts, Catholic hospitals continue to do a lot of charitable work, Pearson said. “We’re consistently among the top providers in the state when it comes to the charitable component,” he said of Catholic facilities. Thao Nguyen and many patients who have little or no insurance could tell you more about the level of care at Catholic hospitals. “The fact is, we pride ourselves on being a Catholic hospital that’s available to everybody, that is based in providing care for the needy,” Criger said.
Obituaries Father Gannon, 96, was ordained at 60 Father Joseph Gannon, 96, died July 19. He was born Oct. 1, 1914. He studied for the priesthood after raising six children with his wife, Arlene, who died in 1970. He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis on June 29, 1975. Father Gannon served at St. Leo the Great in St. Paul, Maternity of the Blessed Virgin in St. Paul and St. Peter in Forest Lake. He also served as a chaplain on cruise ships, served Mass at local parishes
and spent time with his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. He retired from full-time ministry in 1985 and moved to the Leo C. Byrne residence in St. Paul. A funeral Mass was celebrated July 27 at St. Helena in Minneapolis, with interment at St. Michael Cemetery in Farmington.
Father Moorman, 89, served Holy Family Father Raymond Moorman, 89, retired pastor of Holy Family in St. Louis Park,
died July 17 at St. Therese Residence in New Hope. He was born Aug. 27, 1921, and ordained for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis June 8, 1946. During his ministry, he served at St. Anthony of Padua in Minneapolis, Sacred Heart in Faribault, St. Stanislaus in St. Paul, Immaculate Conception in Watertown, Corpus Christi in Roseville and Immaculate Conception in St. Paul. His last assignment was at Holy Family, where a funeral Mass was celebrated July 25, with interment at Gethsemane Cemetery, New Hope.
The building that served St. Joseph parish in Lexington for more than 100 years was sold for $1 to Le Sueur County Pioneer Power Association on July 25, said Father Kevin Clinton, pastor of St. Wenceslaus in New Prague and the five rural Catholic communities that St. Wenceslaus received as part of the strategic planning process. (The St. Joseph and St. Benedict in New Prague churches were closed, and St. Thomas in St. Thomas was received into St. Anne in Le Sueur. The churches of St. Scholastica in Heidelberg and St. John the Evangelist in Union Hill remain open as part of the greater St. Wenceslaus Community.) “St. Joseph Church is an icon of the many rural churches of all different denominations that were founded in the formative days of Le Sueur County,” Father Clinton said in a telephone interview, shortly after signing the paperwork to seal the transaction. “Pioneer Power has as its mission objective ‘to preserve the things of the past for the sake of future generations.’ . . . This is a very good use of this church building that has deep roots in the history of Le Sueur County.” The nonprofit association will use the building as a museum that represents the religious communities in the county, he said. Pioneer Power plans to move the building some time in August to its campus, about seven miles northwest of its current site. “They were quickly able to generate support in the commuty to rescue this church building,” Father Clinton said. “People throughout Le Sueur County have donated money to Pioneer Power to assist — at considerable cost — to move the building and establish a concrete block foundation for it at the Pioneer Campus.” All of the dedications and blessings on the building were removed a few months ago, so it is no longer a sacred space nor a fitting location for any religious ceremony or ritual, Father Clinton said. All of its sacred items, such as the tabernacle, altar, relics, etc., also were removed and taken to churches in the St. Wenceslaus community or other Catholic churches. “There are some covenants placed on this transaction that protect fundamental things that we Catholics believe in,” he said. There have been situations in the Midwest where church buildings were sold and used for inappropriate activities, he explained. However, many of the Pioneer Power board members are Catholics and would not allow the building to be misused, he added. In addition, the cemetery will continue to be maintained by the greater St. Wenceslaus community and the church hall was given to the person who donated the money to have it built in 2002. “The historical sensitivity and heartstrings that are attached to this building and its history are going to be preserved. That’s what makes this a good transaction — that the church building doesn’t disappear,” Father Clinton said. “It’s a win-win situation all the way around.”
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Helen Hausmann lost her best friend — her husband Peter — in the I-35W bridge collapse. On the fourth anniversary of the tragedy, Aug. 1, she helped unveil a memorial to victims and survivors. “Now we have a place where everyone that lost a loved one can come,” she said before the public unveiling of the memorial. “We all come together and remember our loved ones. It’s a point where we can all meet and share our souls.” The Remembrance Garden is a memorial honoring the 13 victims and 145 survivors of the bridge collapse. Located on the east bank of the Mississippi River across from the Guthrie Theater and Gold Medal Park in Minneapolis, the memorial includes 13 lighted pillars — each with the name of one of the victims and a reflection written by a family member — as well as a stone wall with water flowing over the names of the survivors.
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The Remembrance Garden, a memorial to survivors and those killed in the I-35W bridge collapse four years ago, was dedicated Aug. 1. Helen Hausmann paused at the pillar dedicated to her husband, Peter Hausmann, who was killed in the disaster.
Peter Hausmann, a former lay missionary and founding member of the board of directors of the archdiocesan Center for Mission, was a member of St. Joseph in Rosemount. The parish has continued to surround the family with care, love and attention, said Father Paul Jarvis, pastor. Helen Hausmann said, “Many families in the parish have become part of my family and they have stayed that way. They were there before Peter died and our bonds have gotten stronger. That’s one blessing that God has given me since Peter died.” Peter’s body was found nine days after the bridge collapsed. A police chaplain told Helen he was found leaning in the window of another car, with his hands
on the seatbelt of a toddler, trying to free her. Father Jarvis recalled Peter’s heroic actions the day the bridge collapsed. “By following Jesus’ teachings and example of total gift of self, even at one’s own expense, Peter dove down [in the river] to save someone he didn’t personally know,” Father Jarvis said. “He demonstrates, he witnesses to what a disciple of Christ, a citizen of heaven, just does.” Despite torrential rains, survivors and the families of those that were killed in the disaster came for a first look at the finished memorial in a private unveiling in the afternoon. A public dedication was held later that day and was attended by Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and Gov. Mark Dayton. During a short break in the rain, Helen Hausmann and her family — daughters Justina and Theresa and sons Andrew and David, as well as Peter’s brothers Jim and Father Leo Hausmann — talked with family members of other victims.
God is everywhere Helen stood on the platform overlooking the river and told stories about Peter’s life here and in Kenya, where he ministered as a missionary. It was there that they met and then married in 1990. Helen sees part of Peter alive in their children and is thankful to have them around her. “I remind my children to remember their father’s teaching to grow up to be holy people, to be decent, and most of all to know who God is, always,” she said. “He’s not just in church where you go sit down and make the sign of the cross, God is everywhere. He’s a witness to everything you do, when you do something nice, it counts.” Before heading to the Guthrie Theater for a reception, Hausmann looked at the pillar, etched with Peter’s name and the personal reflection written by their daughter Justina, and said, “You are gone, but you are never far from me, you are always in our hearts.”
Early Catholic learning program gets top grades from parents, kids Julie Pfitzinger For The Catholic Spirit
As the mother of a young son named Jared, now almost 3 years old, Laura Templin-Howk welcomed the chance to join the Early Catholic Family Life program at St. Joseph in Waconia last fall. Since the program took place on Monday evenings from 6:30 to 8 p.m., it was a perfect fit for Templin-Howk and husband Jason because it allowed them to participate in a parenting class with Jared after work hours. It wasn’t just parenting tips that Templin-Howk was looking for when her family joined ECFL. The sessions combine family time (when parents and children interact at various “stations” featuring hands-on activities) with an opportunity for parents to gather with a parent facilitator to discuss a variety of faith and family topics while the children are supervised by group leaders. “I wanted to learn more about my faith and learn how to pass along the Catholic traditions to Jared,” she said. “It’s important for me to have my son grow up in that kind of atmosphere.”
“Faith affects your parenting, and I knew from working with young families that faith is something they wanted to talk about.
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JOANNE FOLEY Developer of the Early Catholic Family Life program with her husband, Alan
Filling a need Joanne Foley and her husband Alan, parents of four children and grandparents to nine, developed the ECFL program in 2000 for exactly that reason: to give young Catholic parents the opportunity to not only acquire stronger parenting skills but to encourage them to build and enhance the Catholic life of their own families. “The idea for this program really grew for me at a time when I was paying more and more attention to my own faith,” said Joanne Foley, who worked for many years with several Minnesota Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) programs, including those in the Minne-
apolis public school district. “Faith affects your parenting, and I knew from working with young families that faith is something they wanted to talk about.” As the idea simmered, Foley thought increasingly about the programming gap that existed for Catholic parents and their children between baptism and preparation for first Communion, which further convinced her that a Catholic curriculum designed for children ages birth to 5 and their parents would definitely meet a need. In 1999, the Foleys met with Kathy Laird, director of the archdiocesan Office of Marriage, Family and Life, and she was very supportive, said Joanne Foley, who
went on to create a seven-week curriculum for ECFL. Pilot programs were established at St. Bernard in St. Paul and St. Michael in Prior Lake the following year. Feedback for the program, which has been offered in numerous parishes since its inception, has been extremely positive. Typical class sizes range from four to 10 families. In order to make it easier for both parents to attend, many parishes schedule classes in the evening or on Saturday mornings. “We’ve really learned from both those who have taken the classes and those who teach them that this is a program that really works,” Foley said. “Parents connect with one another and can share about their faith in an intimate environment. Children benefit and are exposed to the Catholic faith in ways they can understand.”
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12 Catholic business leaders to receive annual award ■ Richard R. Engler, president /principal of Cretin-Derham Hall High School, and a member of St. John Neumann, Eagan.
The Catholic Spirit A marketer, a high school principal and a cable television executive are among the dozen Catholics chosen to receive the 2011 Leading With Faith Awards from The Catholic Spirit. Nominated by co-workers and others for bringing their faith to the workplace and sharing their gifts with the community, the honorees will be recognized at noon on Thursday, Sept. 15, during a lunch at the Rauenhorst Ballroom on the St. Catherine University campus. Archbishop John Nienstedt will present each with the Leading With Faith Award.
This year’s honorees To be honored as recipients of The Catholic Spirit’s Leading With Faith Award this year are: In the small business category: ■ Bob Balk, owner of St. George Catholic Books & Gifts, and a parishioner of St. Paul, Ham Lake. ■ William S. Bojan Jr., founder and CEO of Integrated Governance Solutions, and a member of St. Hubert, Chanhassen. ■ Jackie Jacobs Gibney, president and co-owner of Jacobs Marketing, and a member of St. Therese, Deephaven. ■ Jim Reinhardt, owner of Qualified Rehabilitation Consultants, and a member of Holy Family, St. Louis Park. ■ Robert J. Strachota, president of
■ Gay L. Jacobson, operations director of Metro Cable Network, and a member of Immaculate Conception, Columbia Heights. ■ John LeBlanc, director of development, marketing and communications at St. Therese of New Hope and Oxbow Lake, and a member of Christ the King, Minneapolis.
Affirming Catholic values Shenehon Company, and a parishioner of Our Lady of Grace, Edina. ■ Martin D. Schutz, attorney and partner, Flower and Schutz, who attends St. John the Baptist, New Brighton. In the large business category: ■ Paul Leighton, partner, North Star Financial, and a member of St. John Neumann, Eagan. ■ Larry LeJeune, chairman and CEO of LeJeune Investment, and a member of St. Bartholomew, Wayzata. In the nonprofit category: ■ Mark Dienhart, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the University of St. Thomas, and a parishioner of Nativity of Our Lord, St. Paul.
Judging this years nominees were Jim Mulrooney, a former member of The Catholic Spirit board of directors, and two past-winners of the Leading With Faith Award: Tom Tierney, president and CEO of Tierney Brothers, and John Kingrey, executive director of the Minnesota County Attorneys Association. The Catholic Spirit initiated the Leading With Faith Awards in 2002 to affirm Catholics whose business practices and work habits are guided by their Catholic values and reflect the teachings of Jesus Christ and his church. Sponsoring the 2011 awards is patron sponsor Nuveen Asset Management of U.S. Bank, and sponsors Catholic United Financial and the Catholic Community Foundation. To make reservations to attend the 2011 awards luncheon, contact Mary Gibbs at (651) 251-7709 or GIBBSM@ARCH SPM.ORG.
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Savage youth count blessings in midst of bus tragedy and called her husband. The bus driver, Marc YaDeau of Maplewood, passed away soon after first responders arrived. Although some of the children suffered trauma from the incident, there were no physical injuries. The bus received only minor damage, Roeske said.
By Susan Klemond For The Catholic Spirit
What could have been a terrible tragedy involving a bus full of youth from St. John the Baptist in Savage instead had the marks of divine intervention thanks to a quick-thinking youth leader who’d never driven a bus before and an amazing set of circumstances. “The odds of something like this are like one in five million,” said Father Michael Tix, pastor of St. John the Baptist, speaking of the July 20 incident in which a bus driver lost control on the freeway. “If you never believed in guardian angels, think twice about this because God was watching over this; the ending could have been so different.” On that morning, the driver of a bus carrying 62 kids and five leaders to a Chanhassen service project suffered a heart attack while heading toward an Interstate 494 exit ramp. As the bus swerved into a guard rail, youth leader Tim Taormina grabbed the wheel, found the brake and successfully steered the bus to a grassy spot of the road beyond the exit ramp. The bus containing sixth- through eighth-graders participating in the parish’s Summer Stretch program, older teen leaders and adults was traveling to Feed My Starving Children. They had waited earlier in the near100-degree heat for a second bus after the first one overheated. “The real blessing was where we were,” said Taormina, a parishioner at Mary, Mother of the Church in Burnsville who is studying law enforcement and criminal justice at Inver Hills Community College. “We couldn’t have been in a better spot for this to happen — if there is a good spot for it to happen — because we were right on the exit, so I just kind of jumped up and grabbed the wheel to straighten off the bus so we weren’t going down the ramp. I was just able to reach in
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From left, Nicole Jeziorski, Corie Shea and Tim Taormina believe that God intervened through the actions of many people to save them and other youth of St. John the Baptist in Savage.
and hit the brakes.” He added, “If this happened five minutes later down that ramp it would have been an absolute disaster or if we were in traffic. It happened literally at the perfect moment.”
Averting bigger tragedy The rescue was very unusual, said Lt. Eric Roeske, Minnesota State Patrol public affairs officer “The first thought that comes to mind is that he’s a hero — he took control of a situation that could have been horrible, Roeske said, adding that besides Taormina’s efforts, a series of small factors came together to avert tragedy. Eden Prairie police and fire officials reached the bus very quickly because the wife of an Eden Prairie officer had noticed a problem with the bus while driving by
After evacuating the bus, the youth immediately started praying, said Nicole Jeziorski, a leader who will be a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse this fall. “As soon as we got off the bus we made sure that we said a prayer for all the people that were coming to help us, for the bus driver and thanking God for having our guardian angel watch over us,” she said. “We were incredibly fortunate that no one got hurt.” Jeziorski felt proud of how she handled the emergency but she said, “I knew it was nothing I did but it was completely God that led me through that.” Corie Shea, a program participant who will be a freshman at the Academy of Holy Angels this fall, also felt God’s presence. “I think he was definitely watching over us, she said. “I also think it was maybe a wake-up call for all of us to maybe appreciate him more or something like that.” Said Father Tix, “Not everybody’s going to have the opportunity to be able to do what Tim did because it’s so unusual, but in the ordinary parts of everyday life how do we use the opportunities that are presented to us to make a difference for good?” Taormina, who is taking a first responder class this fall, said he regrets he couldn’t do more for YaDeau but he doesn’t doubt God’s providence. “I can’t look back and say the situation we were in, with where it happened, was not God looking out for us,” he said. “It’s just in how bad it could have been.”
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Dolan: U.S. church had ‘highest respect’ for nuncio Briefly Catholic News Service
Vatican recalls nuncio to Ireland
Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the apostolic nuncio to the United States since early 2006, “enjoyed the highest respect and deepest affection” of the U.S. bishops and the nation’s Catholics, said New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Archbishop Sambi, 73, died July 27 at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore apparently from complications of lung surgery performed approximately three weeks earlier. A memorial Mass will be celebrated Sept. 14 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. Archbishop Sambi’s body arrived at the airport in Rimini, Italy, the morning of July 31 and was taken to the parish church in his hometown, Sogliano al Rubicone, where a funeral Mass was set for Aug. 2.
Veteran diplomat “Archbishop Sambi understood and loved our nation,” Archbishop Dolan said in a statement July 28. “He traveled throughout the country, often to attend the ordination of bishops, always eager to meet the faithful, and to share with them the affection that the Holy Father has for them and their country.” A veteran Vatican diplomat, Archbishop Sambi was named as papal nuncio to the U.S. by Pope Benedict XVI in December 2005. At the time of his appointment he was the Vatican’s representative to Israel and Palestine, where he helped arrange Pope John Paul II’s historic pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 2000. After he arrived in the U.S. Feb. 24,
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Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the papal nuncio to the U.S., greets Rev. Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals and Rev. Clark Lobenstine, a Presbyterian minister, outside the Vatican embassy in Washington in this Sept. 11, 2006, file photo.
Statement by Archbishop John Nienstedt We are deeply saddened by the passing of this good and committed delegate of our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, who was sent to our Church and our country six years ago. Archbishop Sambi cared deeply about the U.S., its Catholic citizens and all Americans. His caring extended to those in other countries and to his fellow priests and religious, especially to those who serve the poor whom Christ loved so much. His deep faith and personal sanctity were accompanied by his warm personality and sense of humor; he has been a good and faithful servant. May God grant him eternal rest.
2006, he said in an interview with Catholic News Service that that he was impressed by the vitality of U.S.
Catholicism, the level of weekly Mass attendance among U.S. Catholics and their generosity toward others.
Cardinal criticizes contraceptives mandate By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service
The Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed “religious exemption” to the requirement that new or significantly altered health insurance plans cover contraceptives and sterilization for women is “so narrow as to exclude most Catholic social service agencies and health care providers,” according to the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of GalvestonHouston criticized the Aug. 1 announcement by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that she had accepted the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine on eight “preventive services” that must be included in any health plan under the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. One of the mandated services is cover-
age of “all Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling for all women with reproductive capacity.”
Narrow definition In announcing her decision, Sebelius also released an “interim final rule” that HHS said would “give religious organizations the choice of buying or sponsoring group health insurance that does not cover contraception if that is inconsistent with their tenets.” But in a footnote to the list of mandated services, HHS defined a religious employer as “one that: (1) has the inculcation of religious values as its purpose; (2) primarily employs persons who share its religious tenets; (3) primarily serves persons who share its religious tenets; and (4) is a nonprofit organization”
under specific sections of the Internal Revenue Code. Those sections “refer to churches, their integrated auxiliaries, and conventions or associations of churches, as well as to the exclusively religious activities of any religious orders,” the interim final rule says. Cardinal DiNardo said that under that rule, “our institutions would be free to act in accord with Catholic teaching on life and procreation only if they were to stop hiring and serving nonCatholics.” “Could the federal government possibly intend to pressure Catholic institutions to cease providing health care, education and charitable services to the general public?” he asked. “Health care reform should expand access to basic health care for all, not undermine that goal.”
In an exceptional move, the Vatican recalled its nuncio to Ireland so that he could participate in meetings aimed at drafting the Vatican’s formal response to an Irish government report on clerical sex abuse. Following the publication July 13 of the so-called Cloyne Report “and, particularly, after the reactions that followed, the secretary of state has recalled the apostolic nuncio in Ireland, Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, for consultations,” the Vatican said in a statement July 25. The Cloyne Report, which examined how the Diocese of Cloyne handled accusations of clerical sexual abuse, was critical of the diocese’s bishop and also accused the Vatican of being “entirely unhelpful” to Irish bishops who wanted to implement stronger norms for dealing with accusations and protecting children.
Judge dismisses stem-cell lawsuit Attorneys for two scientists who use only adult stem cells in their work said they were “weighing all of their options for appeal” after a Washington judge ruled July 27 that federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research may continue. Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit that had briefly ended all federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research in August 2010. The ban lasted only until late September and was permanently overturned in April.
Governor supports same-sex marriage Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley said he will take a leadership role in passing so-called same-sex marriage legislation in the state next year, promising in a July 22 news conference that he will sponsor legislation that would legalize gay marriage while also protecting the free exercise of religion. O’Malley, who is Catholic, noted that Maryland has passed recent legislation that protects hospital visitation rights and end-of-life decision-making for same-sex couples. Mary Ellen Russell, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference, said she was disappointed in the governor’s decision. She noted that a similar effort to pass same-sex marriage was defeated in the Maryland General Assembly this year. — Catholic News Service
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Miss Teen USA to promote self-esteem Eucharistic adoration to cap Catholic News Service World Youth Day vigil with pope
Making most of a blessing Doty was baptized, received her first Communion and was confirmed at St. Anthony Church. She said that she feels a responsibility to make the most of this blessing that the Lord has bestowed upon her. She feels called to help others, especially girls. “His putting this in front of me is giving me an open door to take full action,” Doty said. “It’s not for me by any means.” “I’ve always said she is as pretty inside and she is outside,” said Father Tom Pincelli, who was pastor at St. Anthony Church for 14 years and remains a family friend of the Dotys. “Beauty pageants
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A continue throughout the night on the edges of the military airport where many of the young people are expected to camp overnight. In fact, organizers are planning to have 17 tents set up as chapels for all-night adoration.
Focus on Jesus The visual focal point when the pope leads the adoration and Benediction will be a monstrance set into a towering 16thcentury gothic structure of silver and gold usually housed in the Toledo cathedral. The traditional, solemn sense communicated by the Toledo monstrance will be echoed in the papal liturgies throughout the trip, organizers said. CNS photo / Darren Decker, courtesy Miss Teen USA
Danielle Doty, a parishioner at St. Anthony Church in Harlingen, Texas, is crowned Miss Teen USA 2011 by her predecessor, Kamie Crawford, at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas.
can be beauty pageants, but Danielle deserved to win on so many different levels simply because of the fact that she has her act together.” As Miss Teen USA, Doty will promote several charitable alliances, including Best Buddies, which assists people with intellectual disabilities; Sparrow Clubs USA, which assists children in a medical crisis; Girl Talk, a student-to-student mentoring program for middle-and-highschool age girls; Project Sunshine, which provides free educational and recreational programs for children facing medical challenges and their families; and DARE, or Drug Abuse Resistance Education, which teaches school children how to live drug and violence-free lives. Doty also plans to expand the charitable organization that she started called Modest is Hottest, which teaches girls about self-respect and self-esteem. “I want girls to know that people will like you and you will have friends when you are comfortable in your own skin,” she said.
“The point is to highlight that the central person of World Youth Day is Jesus Christ, and the pope is coming to proclaim him,” said Father Javier Cremades, Madrid coordinator of the liturgies. However, not all of Father Cremades’ plans emphasize the formal. “We’ll wake the young people with mariachi music” the morning of Aug. 21, hours before the pope arrives to celebrate the final Mass at the Cuatro Vientos military airport, he said. “Young people will come to World Youth Day to celebrate with the Holy Father,” he said.
and Minneapolis. (Read the story from the July 21 issue at THECATHOLIC SPIRIT.COM.) Blessed John Paul was the pope with the reputation for rallying and energizing thousands of young Catholics and particularly for drawing energy from them. But in a passage that sounds like he was surprised about the impact that the celebration had on him, Pope Benedict told an interviewer, “these youth days have actually turned out to be a genuine gift for me.” In the book “Light of the World,” he told Peter Seewald that he was struck by the “intense joy” and “the spirit of recollection that, amazingly, pervades the actual World Youth Days themselves.” Talking about the experience in Sydney at WYD 2008, he said, “It was quite simply the common joy of faith that carried us through and that made it possible for hundreds of thousands of people to remain in silence before the sacrament and so to become one.” Pope Benedict has insisted that real, even prolonged moments of silence be added to every liturgy he celebrates. Visiting Sulmona, Italy, in 2010, he said, “We live today in a society in which every space, every moment must be ‘filled’ with initiatives, activities and sound,” so that there is no time for listening and dialogue.
“If they did not want to attend a liturgy in the pope’s style, they wouldn’t be coming.”
“Dear brothers and sisters, don’t be afraid of silence outside and inside ourselves, if we want to hear not only the voice of God but also of those who are close to us, the voices of others,” he said.
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Young women and men will proclaim the Scripture readings at the Mass and read the prayers of the faithful; seminarians will fulfill the role of altar servers. Up to 6,000 singers 25 years old and younger — members of choirs from around the world — will sing the hymns at the Mass.
Yago de la Cierva, executive director of World Youth Day Madrid, said that while organizers, priests and even the pope cannot control what the Holy Spirit does in the lives of the young pilgrims, they must be serious about preparing an atmosphere where the Spirit’s action can be recognized.
Archbishop John Nienstedt will meet with a group of World Youth Day pilgrims from the Archdiocese of St. Paul
“One important thing is to take great care with the liturgy, so the young will say, ‘Wow, the Mass is beautiful,’” he said.
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When Danielle Doty, Miss Texas Teen USA, arrived in the Bahamas to compete in the Miss Teen USA pageant, she surrendered to God’s plan for her life, she said. “I let go and let God,” Doty told The Valley Catholic, newspaper of the Brownsville, Texas, diocese, in a telephone interview from New York City. “I was there, I had prepared, I had worked out, gotten in shape and from that point on, it was really in God’s hands. I knew he would do what was best.” Doty, a parishioner at St. Anthony Church in Harlingen, Texas, was crowned Miss Teen USA 2011 July 16 in the Bahamas. “As soon as they called my name, I think you just go on pause,” Doty said a couple of weeks after her win. “You don’t hear anything, you’re not thinking of anything. You’re just taking in the moment.” After winning the Miss Teen USA title, Doty was whisked away for interviews and appearances. During her reign as Miss Teen USA, she will attend the New York Film Academy and study broadcast journalism. “It’s absolutely fantastic,” she said. “I am loving New York right now and having a blast. I still can’t believe it.” Doty graduated from Harlingen High School South in May, finishing in the top 10 of her class. She is the daughter of Kevin and Liz Doty and has an older brother, Dylan, 22.
“[The Catholic identity of a school] demands . . . namely that each and every aspect of your learning communities reverberates within the ecclesial life of faith.” Pope Benedict XVI, speaking to U.S. Catholic educators in 2008
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Why we need Catholic teachers en years ago, the U.S. Catholic bishops published the documents implementing “Ex Corde Ecclesiae,” Pope John Paul II’s apostolic constitution on Catholic higher education. At that time, most of the controversy focused on the requirement that Catholic teachers of theology receive a permit or commission of sorts — known as the “mandatum” — from their local bishops. Less prominent, but in some ways more important, was the directive that “the university should strive to recruit and appoint Catholics as professors so that, to the extent possible, those committed to the witness of the faith John Garvey will constitute a majority of the faculty.” Many people in academia have questioned the value of such a requirement. It is an important question, given Americans’ aversion to hiring quotas and the apparent irrelevance of religion in certain areas of study. And in answering it we must keep in mind the unstated half of that sentence. Our faculties will (and should) welcome teachers who are not Catholic, both because at a university committed to academic freedom we need to hear different points of view and because people of other faiths have unique and important contributions to make to the formation of our students.
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Forming students It stands to reason, though, that Catholic universities would want Catholic professors to put a uniquely Catholic stamp on many subjects, such as art, music, literature, philosophy, history and politics. When we hire people for other departments — chemistry, physics, accounting, finance and mechanical engineering — the benefits of hiring Catholics are less obvious. (We don’t offer courses in Catholic organic chemistry or Catholic acoustic imaging.) But this observation ignores the role that faculty should play in the formation of students at Catholic schools. Most of the Catholic colleges and universities in the United States were founded by religious orders that brought their special charisms to the cause of learning. For decades, the priests and sisters of these orders lived among the students in residence halls and interacted with them in constructive ways both inside and outside the classroom. As a result, many of us look back at our days in Catholic universities and remember fondly the priests and religious broth-
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Students walk to class at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul in this Catholic Spirit file photo.
“If we fail to reach students as human beings, and to help them see that all knowledge serves the glory of God, then we fail in our mission.
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ers or sisters who deeply affected our lives. I owe my own vocation as a teacher in part to Holy Cross Father Claude Pomerleau, who is now a professor of political science at the University of Portland. He was studying for his Ph.D. while serving as our RA in Keenan Hall during my freshman year at Notre Dame. Today, there are far fewer religious in academia, and at many Catholic universities their influence has waned or vanished. This is precisely the reason that
Did you have a memorable professor? Was there a Catholic instructor or professor at the college or university you attended who had a profound impact on your life or faith? If so, The Catholic Spirit would like to hear from you. Send your reminiscence, 200 words or less, to CATHOLICSPIRIT@ARCHSPM.ORG. (Put “College” in the subject line.) We’ll publish a selection of responses in an upcoming edition.
Catholic laypeople are needed in our faculties, to pick up the slack.
Serving as role models At my university, The Catholic University of America, which was founded not by a religious order but by this nation’s Catholic bishops, we have an even greater obligation to see that laypeople fulfill this formative role. In this light it is much easier to see why at Catholic University we stress the Catholicism of mechanical engineers no
less than we do that of philosophers. As college students strive to find their roles in life — their professional callings as well as their marital and religious vocations — the upright lives and piety of their learned professors can have a profound and positive effect on them. When I think of my own calling to teach, I think not only of Father Claude, but also of “Mr. Chips,” that long-lost cultural icon of novel and screen. This fictional and socially awkward protagonist doubted the value of his own teaching career when he realized that, at best, he was merely producing young Latin experts. Later in life, he found deeper meaning by befriending his students, reaching into their lives and offering them something far more profound. Likewise, at Catholic universities, we are not just in the business of filling students’ brains with facts or even with useful concepts that will serve them in their careers and in life. If we fail to reach students as human beings, and to help them see that all knowledge serves the glory of God, then we fail in our mission. John Garvey is president of The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. His column is distributed by Catholic News Service.
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Going ‘viral’: Use social media to spread the Good News ne of our Catholic Spirit bloggers received news Monday that was music to our web department’s ears: His post went “viral” over the weekend — in this case garnering more than 800 hits, or readers, in a short span of time. The post by associate publisher Bob Zyskowski offered a bit of goodnatured Catholic humor. People like to laugh — Catholics included — so it isn’t a big surprise that a lot of people chose to share the post on our new CATHOLICHOTDISH.COM site with friends and other contacts via social media like Facebook, Twitter and Google+, creating the snowball effect that led to the spike in traffic. That’s the beauty of social media: One person’s views and ideas can spread quickly and pervasively throughout his or her community — throughout the world, really — in the blink of an eye. While it’s hard to know what items on a blog or website may go viral, I can think of a few that I wish would get read more widely and shared — items that, because of their importance or urgency, deserve more attention.
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Here are a few stories and topics that should be getting more attention
Getting the word out Here are a few topics you’ll find at THECATHOLICSPIRIT.COM and CATHOLIC HOTDISH.COM that Catholics should know more about.
RSS feed, following it on Twitter (@CATHOLICHOTDISH) or “liking” it on Facebook.
“Share the best of what you read with others. Maybe they’ll share it, too, and the Good News we all are called to spread will go viral.
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■ Famine in East Africa, where hundreds of thousands of people are starving. We need to get the word out about this unfolding disaster and the need for donations to help organizations like Catholic Relief Services that are providing life-saving aid. ■ Health care policy: As part of the ongoing federal reform of health care, the Obama administration recently announced a requirement that all health insurance plans cover contraceptives — a mandate the U.S. bishops say would fail to exempt most Catholic social service and health care providers. Catholics need to know about this threat to the rights of conscience and voice their objections to the president and lawmakers. ■ Federal budget: While Congress has finally come to an agreement on a debt ceiling bill, budget battles over taxes and revenue are guaran-
teed to resurface this fall. We need to learn more about the human and moral dimensions of the debate and insist that our lawmakers not make disproportionate cuts in services to the poor and the institutions that serve them. ■ World Youth Day blog: Several youth and a priest from Divine Mercy in Faribault will be traveling to World Youth Day in Madrid later this month and writing about their adventures and experiences at HTTP://WORLDYOUTHDAY2011.TUMBLR. COM. Read their reflections about the pilgrimage and share them with friends and family. ■ CATHOLICHOTDISH.COM: Most of the faith-inspired reflections and inspirational posts — often with links to other resources — on this Catholic Spirit-sponsored blog site don’t appear in the printed newspaper or on THECATHOLICSPIRIT.COM. Stay updated by subscribing to its
■ College Connection for Catholics: Read and then share the story about this important program that helps first-year college students around the country stay connected with their faith by connecting them with Catholic organizations on campus. You can find it on page 14A and at THECATHOLICSPIRIT.COM. ■ Vocations: We need more of them, of course, to the priesthood, diaconate and religious life. Share Archbishop John Nienstedt’s recent column on the importance of nurturing vocational seeds in families and parishes and his invitation to join him in a weekly Friday fast for the intention of more religious vocations. You can find the column at THECATHOLICSPIRIT.COM. If you’re not familiar with these and all the other web offerings The Catholic Spirit provides, make a point of visiting THECATHOLICSPIRIT .COM and CATHOLICHOTDISH.COM regularly to be informed, inspired and occasionally entertained. Share the best of what you read with others. Maybe they’ll share it, too, and the Good News we all are called to spread will go viral.
School choice legislation enacted across U.S., but sputters locally The following column is provided by the Minnesota Catholic Conference, which advocates on behalf of the state’s bishops for public policies and programs that support the life and dignity of every human person. ll parents, no matter the size of their pocketbook or where they live, should have the opportunity to send their children to a quality school that best serves their needs. Fortunately, this has been a banner legislative year across the nation for expanding parental choice in education. Unfortunately, Minnesota families will not be among those celebrating expanded school choice options. No fewer than 13 Peter Noll states have enacted school choice legislation for disadvantaged kids in 2011, and as of this writing, more than two dozen states still had legislation pending. In June alone, Louisiana, Ohio and North Carolina enacted innovative new choice programs while Indiana and Wisconsin dramatically expanded existing programs. Earlier this year, Florida, Georgia, Colorado and Oklahoma created or expanded tuition tax credit programs. Tennessee, Maine and Utah were states that instituted other school choice reforms. Even in the nation’s capital, Congress revived the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, a voucher program for poor families that faced stiff opposition from the teachers’ union in the District of Columbia.
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Opponents prevail So where was our state during this
bumper harvest of school choice? Hope was dashed for thousands of poverty families in chronically underperforming public schools in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth and across Minnesota during the abbreviated special session when an enrollment options scholarship and tuition tax credit were removed from finance bills. After a promising 2011 regular session, purveyors of the status quo prevailed when two parental choice bills enacted by the Legislature were vetoed by Gov. Mark Dayton. School choice opponents often use scare tactics to perpetuate the false assertion that parental choice initiatives drain funding from public schools and represent an abandonment of public education. Yet, empirical data from 10 research studies indicate the contrary. According the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice report by Greg Forster, Ph.D., entitled “A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Vouchers” (March 2011): “[E]mpirical evidence consistently shows that vouchers improve outcomes for both participants and public schools. In addition to helping the participants by giving them more options, there are a variety of explanations for why vouchers might improve public schools as well. The most important is that competition from vouchers introduces healthy incentives for public schools to improve.” This year’s nationwide school choice gains are a major step forward, due in large part to growing bipartisan support. But there is much work still to be done. The ultimate objective is to let resources follow the children to whatever school their parents want them to attend.
“Hope was dashed for thousands of poverty families in chronically under-performing public schools in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth and across Minnesota during the abbreviated special session when an enrollment options scholarship and tuition tax credit were removed from finance bills.
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PETER NOLL Minnesota Catholic Conference education director
Catholic tradition has long recognized the important role of parents as the primary educators of their children. The Catechism of the Catholic Church expressly states: “As those first responsible for the education of their children, parents have the right to choose a school for them which corresponds to their own convictions. This right is fundamental. As far as possible parents have the duty of choosing schools that will best help them in their task as Christian educators. Public authorities have the duty of guaranteeing this parental right and of ensuring the concrete conditions for its exercise” (#2229, italics in original).
children’s education by giving them meaningful choices in where and how their children are educated. Catholic social teaching on the preferential option for the poor also requires that families of modest means not be denied this choice because of their economic status. Educational opportunities should be a reality for all children, not just for those whose families can afford to pay for them. Our hope for the future is that Minnesota will soon rejoin the ranks of school choice states and reclaim its once prestigious ranking as an innovator in K12 education and a leader in parental school choice.
The Minnesota Catholic Conference has advocated for public policies that affirm the vital role parents play in their
Peter Noll is the Minnesota Catholic Conference’s education director.
Parents are main educators
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Why we need to take the pro-life battle to the streets y interest in fighting abortion was sparked by an event on the streets of America: the March for Life in Washington, D.C., held every January to mark the day in 1973 when Roe vs. Wade made abortion on demand available through all nine months of pregnancy. I went to that march in 1976, when I was a senior in high school. The presence of so many people from so many diverse places, taking a public stand against abortion and marching on a bitter cold day, made me realize the issue was a crucial one. Since 1993, fighting abortion has been my full-time work. This work Father has taken me to every one of the 50 Frank Pavone states multiple times. In each of those states, I have met dedicated people who sacrifice their time, their money and sometimes their friendships and other relationships, to bring freedom to our unborn brothers and sisters. Many of these people endure ridicule and insults as they stand on public sidewalks, peacefully praying, protesting child-killing and lovingly reaching out to women who think the abortionist is the only help they have. Sometimes, these pro-lifers have the joy of knowing they have saved a life. Most of the time, they need to simply offer their humble efforts to God and hope that in heaven they will meet the ones they have saved. Often enough, these pro-life people are dismissed, even by some in the pro-life movement, as extreme, unreasonable, insensitive and even violent. Those who characterize them this way often don’t pause to examine whether there might be some rational, or even virtuous, basis for what they are doing. I know these people. They love life, they love peace, and many of them are heroic. The last thing they are looking for is praise. All they want is an objective ear and a measure of respect. They most certainly have mine.
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It’s about saving lives No major social movement has succeeded in bringing about change in our country, for better or worse, without taking to the streets. Even if other means of reaching the public were more open to us, the street would still have an irreplaceable value and effectiveness. Those who support abortion will sometimes say they defend our right to “have different beliefs” and “express our views publicly.” Aside from the fact that the actions of most pro-abortion groups contradict that assertion, the point is that our presence on public streets and sidewalks is about more than expressing beliefs and viewpoints. It’s about saving lives. We can briefly summarize the benefits that result when pro-life people take their cause to the streets. 1. The street enables us to take our message directly to the public, bypassing those who seek to silence us. People driving or walking are not there because they want to hear us, but because they are going about their
In this 2008 file photo, Kathy Freed of St. Vincent de Paul in Brooklyn Park takes her place on the sidewalk in front of the Robbinsdale Clinic as she prepares to try to persuade women coming to the clinic not to have abortions. Dave Hrbacek / The Catholic Spirit
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daily duties. The entire cross-section of the public is reached. We meet people where they are and make it impossible for them to ignore us. 2. There is a double tragedy to abortion. The first tragedy is that it occurs. The second tragedy is that, while it occurs, life for so many goes on as “business as usual.” Abortion becomes part of the landscape; it recedes into the scenery and is considered a normal part of the orderly functioning of society. From the look of things, “everything’s OK.” By coming out onto the streets, we declare that everything’s not OK, that life cannot go on as “business as usual” while nearly 4,000 babies are killed daily. 3. By going into the streets, we always win. Whether people agree with us or not, whether they are persuaded by our presence or not, we have forced them to confront the reality of abortion. We have brought abortion to their attention whether they like it or not. That means we win. 4. We need to go out on the streets because abortion is a local phenomenon. Efforts to petition the govern-
ment must continue, but abortions do not occur in the halls of Congress; they occur down the street from where we live and work and relax. The killing is taking place in the local community, and the local community must take responsibility to stop the killing. 5. Street activity is valuable not only for what it does to the public, but what it does for the pro-lifers themselves. When someone expresses his convictions publicly, those convictions are strengthened inwardly. When someone brings the truth to the public streets or stands in prayer where killing is actually taking place, that person receives a deeper sense of the urgency of the battle and the reality of the problem. Street activities also help to recruit other pro-life activists. 6. A key aspect of the message we publicly proclaim is that the mothers of aborted babies are also harmed and sometimes killed by the same procedure that kills their children. The abortion industry is responsible for untold numbers of malpractice incidents, resulting in maternal injuries and deaths. When we stand outside an abortion clinic, we want the mother to know we care about her as well as her child. We love them both. I will never forget the words of Bob Landvogt, a Staten Island man I met early in my priesthood whose devotion to life was absolute. As we picketed outside the office of an abortionist, he told me, “Father, our media is in the streets.” May all pro-life people be recommitted in the public witness they bear. Father Frank Pavone is national director of Priests for Life.
HHS makes in-your-face effort to undermine religious freedom he U.S. Department of Health and Human Services must think Catholics and other religious groups are fools. That’s all you can think when you read HHS’s recent announcement that it may exempt the church from having to pay for contraceptive services, counseling to use them and sterilizations under the new health reform in certain circumSister stances. Mary Ann As planned now, Walsh HHS would limit the right of the church not to pay for such services in limited instances, such as when the employees involved are teaching religion and in cases where the people served are primarily Catholic. HHS’s regulation conveniently ignores the underlying principle of Catholic
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charitable actions: We help people because we are Catholic, not because our clients are. There’s no need to show your baptismal certificate in the hospital emergency room, the parish food pantry or the diocesan drug rehab program. Or any place else the church offers help, either. With its new regulation, HHS seeks to force church institutions to buy contraceptives, including drugs that can disrupt an existing pregnancy, through insurance they offer their own employees. This is part of HHS’s anticipated list of preventive services for women that private insurance programs must provide under the new health reform law.
Many problems The exemption is limited, to say the least. The pastor in the Catholic parish doesn’t have to buy the Pill for his employees, but the religious order that
runs a Catholic hospital has to foot the bill for surgical sterilizations. And diocesan Catholic Charities agencies have to use money that would be better spent on feeding the poor to underwrite services that violate church teachings. Whatever you think of artificial birth control, HHS’s command that everyone, including churches, must pay for it exalts ideology over conscience and common sense. Perhaps HHS is unduly influenced by lobbyists. No surprise there. Certainly a major lobbyist is Planned Parenthood, the nation’s chief proponent of contraceptive services. Contraceptive services make a lot of money for Planned Parenthood clinics, which (again no surprise) provide the “services” HHS has mandated. HHS and Planned Parenthood are narrow in focus. Respect for religious rights
isn’t likely a key concern for them. However, it ought to be a key concern for President Barack Obama, who last year promised to respect religious rights as he garnered support from the church community to pass the health care reform act. To assuage concerns, President Obama went so far as to issue an executive order promising that the health care reform act would not fund abortion or force people and institutions to violate their consciences. HHS is on its way to violating that promise. For the sake of basic integrity — the president’s keeping his word and for the protection of the right to religious freedom — President Obama needs to speak up now. Mercy Sister Mary Ann Walsh is director of media relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Materials available for all parishes to start ECFL program of their own CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5A at each Station of the Cross, which the children simply counted out loud. “Ever since that night, Jared always looks for the holy water when we go into church and dips his finger into the bowl,” she said. Kathy Holley has served as an ECFL parent facilitator at St. Peter in Richfield, where the Foleys are also parishioners. “One of the topics that really resonated with our group was the idea of making Sunday Sunday: how parents can make Mass a big part of the day and how dressing up for church is important for kids,” said Holley, who has eight children ranging in age from 31 to 11. “Several of the parents admitted they had been spending too much time doing work on Sundays and wanted to change that.” Some parishes charge a fee for families to participate in ECFL (many offer scholarships) and others have only suggested a free will offering. For each lesson, there is a large container filled with everything needed for the class. If a parish doesn’t want to purchase the items outright, the Office of Marriage, Family and Life has all the materials available for parishes to use for a fee. According to Holley, this was the option used by St. Peter and she said it was “extremely convenient and very user-friendly.” Nancy Schulte, facilitator of natural family planning, and family and laity outreach for the Office of Marriage, Family and Life, would like to encourage more parishes to participate in ECFL. To that end, the office is offering a training
ECFL training session is set for Aug. 13 An ECFL training session is set for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 13 at the Hayden Building, 328 W. Kellogg Boulevard in St. Paul. Pre-registration is required; at least two people from a parish must attend — one parent leader and one childhood leader — although up to four per parish are welcome. (There is a charge for the training session.) For more information, contact Nancy Schulte at (651) 291-4489 or visit WWW.ARCHSPM.ORG/FAMILY and click on “Family and Laity Outreach.” — Julie Pfitzinger
session Aug. 13 (see box) for those interested in learning how to implement and lead a program in their parishes. In 2008, the ECFL program was translated into Spanish; Schulte is “hoping to really get that version off the ground” and added there will be training for the Spanish language program sometime in the fall. ECFL means so much to Laura Templin-Howk that she is planning to serve as a parent facilitator at St. Joseph this year. “This class is my only opportunity to participate in an early childhood program with Jared,” she said. “The fact that it is a Catholic program makes it so much better.”
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and new immigrants who are a gift to our church, our schools and our community. Teaching staffs were then made up of religious sisters in habits, who have now been by and large replaced by lay men and women. Technology has advanced, replacing blackboards with smart boards and computers. And, of course, the price of Catholic education has also changed. Today the approximate average cost for Catholic elementary school education is $5,237, while the average tuition charged per pupil is $3,377. Thus, parishes and school administrations are faced collectively with bridging the elementary education gap of more than $30 million through parish subsidies, grants, gifts, endowments, local fundraising and archdiocesan support through the Catholic Services Appeal.
Making recommendations Faced with the challenges offered by this changed reality, the Strategic Plan asked all schools to review their sustainability. The Catholic Schools Commission complemented this work and has recommended criteria for long-term viability with the goal of making a high quality Catholic school education available to every family that desires it. They did so by focusing on the areas of Catholic identity, governance, educational excellence,
advancement and funding models/financial management. The first recommendation was to establish an Archdiocesan Catholic Schools Advisory Council, made up of visible and supportive leaders for our Catholic schools. This council’s focus will be primarily to continue the strategic planning in the five areas mentioned above, assisting me and my staff to implement the recommendations made by the Catholic Schools Commission. I look forward to the work of the Archdiocesan Catholic Schools Advisory Council beginning in September. In time, we also hope to have an advisory council with clear roles and responsibilities in each of our parish schools, engaging lay leadership in the mission of those schools. It is clear to me that these steps have the potential of giving our Catholic schools the direction and resources that they need and deserve. It is also clear to me that these schools benefit all of us, whether our home parish has a school or not. Educating the next generation in our Catholic faith, forming them to live holy lives in Christ, and preparing them to be virtuous leaders in the church and society as a whole are fundamental to what we do as church. We simply must succeed at fulfilling that mission. God bless you!
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Freshmen students clicking into valuable faith connection By Dave Hrbacek The Catholic Spirit
Mara Morley, soon to be a sophomore at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, is glad she discovered a program called College Connection for Catholics. More accurately, the program found her. Launched at the start of last school year, it helps first-year college students connect with Catholic organizations on campus, and it gives them important information like names of nearby parishes and Mass times. Catholic parishes and schools supply names of graduating seniors, who then receive emails and/or printed materials. For Morley, who attends St. Joseph in her hometown of Owatonna, the helpful materials she received became a springboard into a significant deepening of her faith over the course of her first year at St. Thomas. “It gave me this little push to just try [different activities],” she said. “That’s all the push you need sometimes because once you experience something, especially in your faith, you kind of get addicted to it because you get so much out of it, and then you just keep going.”
Getting to students early That’s exactly what Judy Cozzens of Holy Family in St. Louis Park had in
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mind when she became chair of the program two years ago. She is disturbed by the trend of college students abandoning their faith, and she wants to help them stay connected. “I know that in today’s world, 85 percent of college graduates are not practicing any faith when they graduate,” said Cozzens, mother of Father Andrew Cozzens, who currently serves at the St. Paul Seminary. “We want to try to change that. And, we have found that if kids connect to their faith, if they get connected at the very beginning of their freshman
year, they’re likely to stay connected.” Jack Murphy, who recently graduated from Providence Academy in Plymouth, has received the packet of information for the college he will be attending this fall, Washington and Lee University in Virginia. He already has the name of someone in campus ministry, plus where the local Catholic churches are and Mass times. He even knows when he can go to confession, thanks to the work of Cozzens and the Serra clubs who support the program along with NET Ministries.
“I’m planning on definitely taking advantage of [the information] before I head out there, just so I don’t show up a complete stranger,” Murphy said. “It’s definitely a priority for me to get involved in whatever sort of Catholic group of young people they have there.” For Murphy, it was easy to participate. His school takes part in the program and ensures that all seniors get the materials they need for their colleges. According to Cozzens, most of the Catholic high schools in the archdiocese participate. She is hoping that all of them will someday, along with every parish. After reaching about 9,000 college freshmen nationwide last year, she said the number has gone up to 12,000-plus this year. Anyone interested in learning more can visit WWW.COLLEGECONNECTIONFOR CATHOLICS.COM. “Our website is a lot more user-friendly at this point, and we have a service on the website that high school seniors should be using,” said Cozzens, who is planning to conduct a survey of 125 students this year to get their feedback on the program and the materials they received. “On our website there is something called “college search” and you can go in and look at the campus ministry or the PLEASE TURN TO SERRA ON PAGE 17A
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Former model says young adults want more than what pop culture offers Catholic News Service Young people have been “beaten down” by a message from media and pop culture that anything goes in their personal and public life, but what they really want is to “make a difference in the world,” a former fashion model told a New York audience. “Contrary to popular belief . . . all youth want a challenge, they seek purpose and meaning in life; not an easy way to success or opting out of personal and public responsibility,” said Leah Darrow. “They desire to make a difference, to put their mark on this great world.” Darrow made the remarks July 25 at the Church of the Holy Family during an event sponsored by the Holy See’s permanent observer mission to the United Nations. It coincided with the U.N. General Assembly’s meeting on youth July 25-26. Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, the Vatican’s U.N. nuncio, hosted the event, which drew about 90 people, and introduced the five speakers. Besides Darrow, now on the staff of Catholic Answers, the panelists were Megan Knighton, of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association; Kristan Hawkins, executive director of Students for Life of America; and Jeffrey Azize and Michael Campo of Grassroots Films.
Youth should be heard The archbishop said that last August when U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-
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Leah Darrow said that when her photo was hoisted up on a billboard in Times Square, she realized her deepest desires were unmet.
moon launched the U.N. International Year of Youth, he said “youth should be given a chance to take an active part in the decision-making of local, national and global levels.” “I could not agree more. We are here today so that your voice can be heard,” Archbishop Chullikatt said. “Youth have a significant part to play in the transformation of our society,” he said. “Today’s culture is eager to sideline God to the margins of our society.” He said they have a duty to transform culture following Gospel values. Darrow said after she appeared on “America’s Next Top Model” TV show,
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she made fashion modeling her career. But she ended up creating an image of herself “that lacked authenticity and inner freedom.” “It was clear that I was being employed for my body parts rather than my person,” she said. “I wanted to become one of the models on the billboards in Times Square — this had been reiterated to me by the culture that it would bring fulfillment, purpose and happiness,” Darrow said. But when her picture was finally “hoisted up on that billboard,” she realized “the deepest desires of my heart — to be known, to be loved and to fulfill my purpose in life — were not met.”
Fulfilling greater purpose Her family and community have helped her make better decisions, she said, and now she is fulfilling her “greater purpose in life — to love my neighbor and help humanity.” “Young people desire to be seen as good, as persons with dignity and worthy of our love and support,” she said. Hawkins and Knighton discussed the work of their organizations and showed videos highlighting their mission. Hawkins said Students for Life of America’s goal is to abolish abortion and “equip the pro-life generation” on U.S. college campuses. The abortion industry wanted the mothers of today’s college students to have an abortion, she said, and now expects students to support legal abortion.
In the last four years, she said, more than 330 new student pro-life organizations have been formed and more than 5,000 students trained as activists. Knighton discussed how — through the efforts of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association — women and girls are being empowered in Ethiopia and their community life is improving with access to clean water and other resources. The association serves the churches and peoples of the Middle East, Northeast Africa, India and Eastern Europe. Its programs focus on formation of clergy, religious and lay leaders, building religious and social service institutions, caring for children in need and humanitarian aid and development. “We are standing between what has been and what could be and we have a moral responsibility to create a just society, which includes a just distribution of services,” she said. She told the audience that “every good deed, no matter how seemingly small, makes a difference.” Azize and Campo described the work of Grassroots Films. The independent film company aims “to make a change in society, to plant the seed and [promote] the idea that things can be different from what the world says,” Campo told Catholic News Service later. “We all know that culture is affected by film, and our desire is to make great films that not only entertain but enlighten.”
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Serra clubs, NET Ministries support campus ministry information site CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14A Catholic presence for 1,470 colleges across the nation,” she said. “This is a wonderful thing at this time of year as seniors are starting to get ready to prepare for college.”
Impact beyond student Cozzens noted that the program is also beneficial for parents, a point not lost on Jane Morley, who is COZZENS thrilled her daughter followed up on the information she received from College Connection for Catholics. In fact, her daughter’s decision to stay active in her faith not only was good for her, but paid dividends for the
“You can go in and look at the campus ministry or the Catholic presence for 1,470 colleges across the nation.
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whole family. Mara “was always very religious, but I can see a huge growth spiritually since she went to St. Thomas,” said Jane, whose oldest daughter is out of college and whose youngest daughter is going to be a high school sophomore. “She’s been singing at Mass at St. Thomas and we’ll go up on Sundays. It’s just great, and I think the whole family connects when they get into something like that. I think we all got stronger just by watching her.” And, Mara hopes other college students will reap the same spiritual benefits as she did by stepping out to stay connected in their faith, though she realizes they may have to overcome some social obstacles to do so. “It’s so much easier to say no sometimes and to say you’re too busy to attend a talk or to go and talk to someone in your campus ministry,” she said. “I think, sometimes, you just have to take a chance with everything, and especially with your faith. Take a chance and go try some of these things out because they could really change you. “I think, a lot of times, people in the beginning of their freshman year feel kind of lonely or kind of afraid, and they want to stay by themselves for a while. I think the best thing you can do is reach out to other people and reach out through your faith and try and grow as much as you can.”
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St. Catherine University will present its first summer Chautauqua, which is an adult education program rooted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and presented in rural areas, where access to arts and culture was limited. The event was to open with a concert Aug. 3, and continues through Friday, Aug. 12, with various classes on the St. Paul campus and podcasts. Classes are $20. Podcasts and poetry readings are free. Class topics include: the future church, youth bullying, women of the Bible, SCU artwork, book publishing, dance, eating healthy, Asian wisdom for aging and more. For a complete list of all the Chautauqua offerings, visit the web site: HTTP://STKATE.EDU/CHAUTAUQUA.
“Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees.” Corrie ten Boom, Dutch Christian Holocaust survivor
The Lesson Plan 18A The Catholic Spirit Reflections on faith and spirituality A 4, 2011 Take more than a moment to hear what God is whispering to you UGUST
ften, God does not speak to us in loud or obvious ways, but rather in a “tiny whispering sound,” as he does with Elijah in today’s first reading. Jesus, in the Gospel, goes away by himself to have a time of quiet prayer with the Father. The culture we live in makes it hard to find silence. Our lives have become so full of technology, which may be good and useful, but it constantly bombards us with noise and data. Jesus and Elijah give us examples of how sometimes we need to get away from Deacon noise and distraction Nick in order to focus on VanDenBroeke God. Sometimes, it is easy to make time and pray to God in silence, but other times it can be hard to do so. Speaking from personal experience, sometimes I wonder what I will do as I sit there in silence, and I immediately want to plan out and fill up this time. But Jesus wants us to trust him and put
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We need this quiet, not only in the liturgy, but also in our daily prayer life in order to listen to the voice of the Lord speaking to us in the silence of our hearts.
Readings Sunday, Aug. 7 19th Sunday in ordinary time ■ 1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a ■ Romans 9:1-5 ■ Matthew 14:22-33
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For reflection Where do you find silence to listen to what God is telling you? This week, set a specific time and place each day for quiet prayer.
things into his hands, as he does with the disciples in the Gospel. As Jesus approaches the boat, the disciples are full of fear and Jesus says to them: “Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid.”
Jesus calms our fears As we begin a time of quiet prayer, it may seem intimidating, but Jesus encourages us to not be afraid. He encourages us to get out of the boat and come to him, just as he encourages Peter in the Gospel. At times, our prayer of quiet may seem dull, it may seem like we are sinking in the water. But Jesus is always right there next to us — whether or not we feel like he is — pulling us up out of the water.
The importance of silence is also emphasized in Mass. The General Instruction of the Roman Missal No. 45 explains the purpose of this silence: “within the Act of Penitence and again after the invitation to pray, all recollect themselves . . . at the conclusion of a reading or the homily, all meditate briefly on what they have heard . . . after Communion, they praise and pray to God in their hearts.” It goes on to say that silence before the liturgy is also commendable “in the church, in the sacristy, in the vesting room, and in adjacent areas, so that all may dispose themselves to carry out the sacred action in a devout and fitting manner.”
We can quiet our hearts by going to an adoration chapel for time alone with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, or by setting aside a specific time, perhaps when getting up or going to bed. Praying in silence gives Jesus an opportunity to speak to us and gives us an opportunity to reflect on our life and what Jesus is asking of us. When we speak to Jesus in this silence, he often will tug on our heart and our conscience to help us know his will for our life. Let us resolve today, like Jesus and Elijah, to make a time each day for quiet prayer when God can speak to us. Deacon Nick VanDenBroeke is in formation for the priesthood at The St. Paul Seminary for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. His home parish is Guardian Angels in Chaska and his teaching parish is St. Charles Borromeo in St. Anthony.
Daily Scriptures Sunday, Aug. 7 19th Sunday in ordinary time 1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a Romans 9:1-5 Matthew 14:22-33 “Then he made the disciples get into the boat and precede him to the other side.” — Matthew 14:22 My friend’s physically challenged son recently moved out into his own apartment. Naturally, she worries that he will attempt things beyond his capabilities; however, she tries to temper her concern for his safety with support as he ventures out into the world. Jesus seems to be doing something like that when he sends the disciples out alone. Yet, he is there when the storm threatens to overwhelm them. Appropriate risk is a necessary part of our life of faith. Remaining safely on shore is not an option, if we are going to follow Jesus. Monday, Aug. 8 Dominic, priest Deuteronomy 10:12-22 Matthew 17:22-27 How has suffering changed your understanding of God? Tuesday, Aug. 9 Teresa Benedicta of the Cross [Edith Stein], virgin and martyr Deuteronomy 31:1-8 Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14 Without trust, we lose heart and make choices out of fear. Wednesday, Aug. 10 Lawrence, deacon and martyr 2 Corinthians 9:6-10
John 12:24-26 The fruit of our surrender is not always immediately evident. Thursday, Aug. 11 Clare, virgin Joshua 3:7-10a, 11, 13-17 Matthew 18:21 — 19:1 We pay the price when we close the door to the possibility of forgiveness. Friday, Aug. 12 Jane Frances de Chantal, religious Joshua 24:1-13 Matthew 19:3-12 When we inevitably fail to live up to the highest ideals, our deepest hope lies in God’s generosity. Saturday, Aug. 13 Pontian and Hippolytus, popes and martyrs Joshua 24:14-29 Matthew 19:13-15 Notice what opens your heart to be more spontaneous and appreciative, even in the midst of difficult situations. Sunday, Aug. 14 20th Sunday in ordinary time Isaiah 56:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab 1 Corinthians 15:20-27 Luke 1:39-56 “For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.” — Isaiah 56:7 We were standing around the altar in the small chapel, hands outstretched waiting to receive Eucharist. As I looked around, I saw not only people of every social class but every possible category used to describe or sometimes demonize one another. We stood silently
for a few minutes; the only sound was that of people shedding tears. Our solidarity wasn’t based on an agreement over issues but on the kind of unity that only the Spirit can bring. Monday, Aug. 15 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Because this holy day falls on a Monday, the obligation to attend Mass is lifted.) Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab 1 Corinthians 15:20-27 Luke 1:39-56 Hope and triumph, as well as suffering, are part of the process of giving birth to Christ within us. Tuesday, Aug. 16 Stephen of Hungary Judges 6:11-24a Matthew 19:23-30 Pray for the wisdom to know what is influencing any unhealthy choices you might be making. Wednesday, Aug. 17 Judges 9:6-15 Matthew 20:1-16 Someday, we will be grateful that God’s generosity means that we won’t get what we deserve. Thursday, Aug. 18 Judges 11:29-39a Matthew 22:1-14 We never know whose heart is opening and whose is closing. Friday, Aug. 19 John Eudes, priest Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22
Matthew 22:34-40 It isn’t a matter of following the rules but being willing to change our hearts and minds. Saturday, Aug. 20 Bernard, abbot and doctor of the church Ruth 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17 Matthew 23:1-12 Correct theology doesn’t prevent our hearts from being driven by fear, power or success. Sunday, Aug. 21 21st Sunday in ordinary time Isaiah 22:19-23 Romans 11:33-36 Matthew 16:13-20 “For who has known the mind of the Lord or who has been his counselor?” — Romans 11:34 One given of life is that people will surprise us. The person we didn’t expect to attend our wedding travels across the ocean to do so, while the neighbor down the street doesn’t show. The child who barely maintained a B average in high school ends up graduating from college with the highest honors. The person you thought was cold and distant becomes your best friend. If people refuse to follow the script we have written for them, how much more is that true of God. The daily reflections are written by Terri Mifek, a member of St. Edward in Bloomington and a certified spiritual director at the Franciscan Retreat House in Prior Lake.
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The Creed: New words expressing ancient truths The following is the next in a series of articles regarding the new Roman missal, which will be used in the United States beginning Nov. 27, the first Sunday of Advent. n most Sundays and solemnities, the church asks the faithful to recite the Creed during Holy Mass. The Creed, or “Credo” in Latin, is a succinct list of what it is that we as Catholic Christians believe and profess to be revealed by God. The Nicene Creed, which is what we most often recite at Mass, was composed very early in the church’s history and serves as a kind of measuring stick for right belief. We can all become tempted to create an image of God and Christianity that matches our own interests, biases and tastes. The Creed functions as a check against such tendencies. Infinitely more than a collection of mere human traditions or the legends of the past, Father the Creed represents the startling John Paul and saving claims of faith for which Erickson thousands of martyrs have shed their blood. For the Christian, there is most certainly such a thing as objective truths, and such truths are explicitly found in the Creed recited during the Sacred Liturgy. Like much of the Mass, the Creed has been retranslated and will be noticeably different when it is recited or sung on Nov. 27. Hearing these new words expressing ancient truths should cause us all to pause and reflect upon just what it is that we as Christians believe. If we are to worship well, we must know who it is we worship. The Creed reveals this — the true and living God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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From ‘We’ to ‘I’ The first edit that will be noticed in the new translation is the change from “We believe” to “I believe.” “Credo,” the first words of this ancient text in Latin, is in fact the first person singular of the verb “to believe.” Understandably, when the text was translated into English for liturgical use shortly after the Second Vatican Council, the translators tried to convey the fact that the claims found within the Creed are binding for the whole church and do not just express the individual beliefs of Christians. Hence, we currently proclaim what we believe. What is more, the use of the first person plural is in fact found in the original Greek text. But the change to the singular “I believe,” in accordance with the Latin, brings with it an invaluable opportunity to once again make the words of the Creed our own, words that are not only meant to guide and shape our understanding of the faith, but also to guide our individual lives and relationships. To recite the Creed is to accept a certain kind of life — one that is sacrificial. Indeed, to recite the Creed is to make a choice to live as a Christian, and such a choice must be made by the individual. . On Easter Sunday, prior to the sprinkling rite, the assembled faithful are asked to reject Satan and to renew their baptismal promises: “Do you believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth?” “Do you believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son. . . ?” Do you believe
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We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered, died, and was buried. On the third day he rose again in fulfillment of the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible. I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.
Coming up next ■ Aug. 18: “The Creed — Part 2” ■ Read past articles in the new missal series online at THECATHOLICSPIRIT. COM.
in the Holy Spirit. . . ?” The appropriate response to these questions is not “we do,” but rather “I do.” While we must always fight against the tendency to make our faith a mere private matter, we must also personally accept the demands and consequences that our faith makes upon our singular, individual life. The retranslation of the opening word of the Creed reminds us of this.
More than can be measured Another change that will be noticed on Nov. 27 is a re-formulation of the phrase “. . . maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen.” On Nov. 27 we will hear instead “. . . maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.”
As Christians, we believe that there is much more to the world than that which can be measured, weighed, or placed under a microscope. A whole reality is around us that we cannot perceive nor control. Angelic beings are part of such a reality. Angelic beings are not simply “unseen.” They are in fact invisible, unable to be seen barring an extraordinary phenomenon willed by God. The retranslation of the Latin phrase “visibilium omnium et invisibilium” into the more literal “all things visible and invisible” is an important reminder of the complexity of the created order, an order willed by a God who is genius in his creativity. In the next issue of The Catholic Spirit we will continue to examine the substantial changes that have been made to the English translation of the Nicene Creed. But let us always remember that the basic tenets of the faith, as found in the Creed, are not changing, nor will they ever change. God has revealed himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, once and for all. Let us proclaim with full voice to this saving truth — “I believe!” Father John Paul Erickson is director of the archdiocesan Office of Worship.
Sacrament of the Sick: It’s not just for emergencies The following was written by Mercy Sister Mary Ann Walsh, director of media relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The Sacrament of the Sick, also known as Anointing of the Sick, may be the most misunderstood of the seven sacraments, probably because of its informal name from years past, “Last Rites.” When you hear “Last Rites” you see a movie scene of a somber priest who made it just in time standing beside someone gasping his last breath. It’s scary. However, the Sacrament of the Sick is not just the emergency sacrament, though the dying should not hesitate to call a priest. Contemporary theology suggests more emphasis on sick than dying. It also stresses spiri-
for surgery, for example. It is for serious illness, but not just when a person is in the throes of one. It can be administered at the onset of illness or when the elderly indicate failing health.
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tual, psychological and emotional consolation as well as health in mind and body. It’s appropriate before someone goes into the hospital
Here are some suggestions for understanding the sacrament: ■ Concentrate on what it is, a sacrament to offer comfort not to foreshadow the grim reaper. Pope Benedict XVI spoke most humanly when he said that this sacrament that emphasizes “God’s unlimited goodness, must first of all bring healing to broken hearts.” PLEASE TURN TO SACRAMENT ON PAGE 23A
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” Blessed Mother Teresa
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Conversion story is ‘cinematic retreat’ for Catholics ere the Catholic Church to begin giving cinematic imprimaturs, few films would be better qualified to receive one than “Vito Bonafacci” (Cavu), writer-director John Martoccia’s meditative — and theologically impeccable — exploration of Scripture-based doctrine and spirituality. Paul Borghese plays the title character in this John Mulderig suburban-set Everyman story. Though happily married to loving wife Laura (Tisha Tinsman) and financially successful, Vito’s relationship to the Catholic faith in which he was raised has become tenuous. Indeed, by his own admission, except for the occasional Christmas or Easter liturgy, or family funeral, he hasn’t set foot in church for 25 years. But a nightmare during which Vito foresees his death and condemnation to hell compels the outwardly content businessman to re-examine his life.
shaky. The dialogue, too, sounds forced at times because it’s being made subordinate to the (undeniably worthy) points Martoccia’s script is designed to drive home. Such tendentiousness leaves this restful cinematic retreat ill-equipped to convert the deeply cynical or hard of heart. Evangelical Christians willing to withstand the unabashed Romanism on display, by contrast, will at least find the biblical basis for several core Catholic beliefs laid out in onscreen quotations as Vito’s journey toward conversion reaches its climax.
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Thoughtful reflections While not for the impatient, since it unfolds at a leisurely pace, the drama thus set in motion features some eloquent poetic reflections from Vito’s deceased mother (Emelise Aleandri) — who visits him during that transformative dream — as well as beautiful cinematography of the lush landscape surrounding Vito’s home.
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Paul Borghese stars in a scene from the movie “Vito Bonafacci.”
‘Vito Bonafacci’ coming to Maple Grove The Catholic Spirit is sponsoring a special local-run of “Vito Bonafacci.” ■ When: Friday, Aug. 26-Thursday, Sept. 1 ■ Where: AMC Arbor Lakes 16, 12575
The spiritual significance underlying everyday tasks is also highlighted in scenes portraying the work of Vito’s cook Marie (Carin Mei), his barber (Ralph Squillace) and his gardener (Louis Vanaria), all of whom the
Elm Creek Blvd., Maple Grove. ■ Showtimes: Call 1-888-AMC-4FUN. Or visit WWW.AMCTHEATRES.COM/ARBORLAKES. ■ For more information about the film, visit WWW.VITOBONAFACCI.COM.
protagonist quizzes about their religious views. If that latter turn of events seems somewhat unlikely, that’s because the dramatic elements of this story are on occasion — it must be admitted — a bit
Whatever its artistic limitations, “Vito Bonafacci” will certainly reinforce faith in the devout and in those with yearnings for the sacred which may, as yet, be rudimentary. Religious educators will also welcome the movie as an apt and pleasant instrument in the catechetical instruction of teenagers or adults. The film contains a single mildly crass term as well as mature themes and references. The Catholic News Service classification is A-II — adults and adolescents. Not rated by the Motion Picture Association of America. John Mulderig is on the staff of Catholic News Service. More reviews are available online at WWW.USCCB. ORG/MOVIES.
Account of shrine’s beginnings also tells of U.S. church’s rise “America’s Church: The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and Catholic Presence in the Nation’s Capital” by Thomas A. Tweed. Oxford University Press (New York, 2011). 365 pp., $35. In “America’s Church,” Thomas Tweed, a professor of religious studies at the University of Texas in Austin, gives us a long overdue historical overview of the crucial components of Hugh American McNichol Catholicism that led to the establishment of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.
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Over the years, the basilica has come to represent many things to various groups within the American Catholic Church and a historical overview of the political and social intrigues that were part of its
construction and completion are part of that rich tapestry. Taking a historical chronology that illuminates the multiple groups, clergy and laity alike, that advocated the initiation of a national Catholic cathedral, the author provides a clear portrait of the intense dynamics at play between the concept of the separation of church and state, the internal intrigues between members of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy and the devotional needs of multiple segments of various Catholic ethnic groups that desired a symbol of their Catholic identity in the nation’s capital. In a detailed and remarkable manner, the author narrates the individuals, groups and events that successfully overcame obstacles of internal Catholic Church politics,
governmental and bureaucratic red tape, the shortages of the Second World War and many other unforeseen problems to finally provide a home for American Catholicism that incorporated the multicultural notions and ideals of a growing American Catholic Church. Most interesting are the various unrelated groups such as Catholic schoolchildren, Catholic women, various influential American prelates and multiple groups representing Catholic immigrants that joined forces to finance, plan and finally achieve the magnificent edifice we today call the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Often when we Catholics visit the national shrine in Washington, we
neglect to remember the great struggles on many levels that allowed American Catholics to achieve a presence in the United States on equal par with other religious denominations. The narrative history presented by Tweed shows not only the struggle endured by American Catholics in achieving social and political harmony, it also illustrates the great advances toward Catholic theological understanding that were made in the 20th century and continue in the present day. “America’s Church” is a significant work of scholarship that exposes the monumental tasks that accompanied not only the building of a Catholic place of worship, but also the skills employed by American Catholics to become a civil and religious presence in the nation’s capital and all aspects of American society. Hugh McNichol is a Catholic theologian and historian. He lives in Wilmington, Del., and writes for multiple Catholic media outlets.
Calendar Dining out Fish fry at Knights of Columbus Hall, Bloomington — Every Friday: 5 to 9 p.m. at 1114 American Blvd. Cost is $10.95. Call (952) 888-1492 for reservations. Chicken and rib dinner at Knights of Columbus Hall, Bloomington — Every Wednesday: 5 to 9 p.m. at 1114 American Blvd. Cost is $10.95. Call (952) 888-1492 for reservations. Corn and brat feed at St. Joseph, New Hope — August 18: 4:30 to 7 p.m. at 8701 36th Ave. N. Cost is $7. Benefit breakfast at Knights of Columbus Hall, Stillwater — August 21: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 1910 S. Greeley St. Cost is $7 for adults and $4 for children 12 and under. Sponsored in partnership with St. Michael Church, Stillwater.
Parish events Festival at St. Raphael, Crystal — August 5 to 7: 6:30 to 11 p.m. Friday with music by River City Express at 7301 Bass Lake Road. Continues Saturday noon to 11 p.m. and Sunday noon to 7 p.m. with food, music, softball tournament and more. Festival at St. John the Baptist, Dayton — August 6 and 7: Street dance 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday at 18380 Columbus St. Continues Sunday 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with a chicken dinner until 2:30 p.m., wine tasting, flea market, pony rides and more. Feast of St. John Vianney and pig roast at St. John Vianney, South St. Paul — August 7: Begins with outdoor Mass at 10:30 a.m. with Bishop Lee Piché at 789 17th Ave. N. Potluck at 11:30 a.m. followed by a baseball game, St. John Vianney vs. Holy Trinity. Old fashioned community picnic at St. John the Baptist, Hugo — August 7: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 14383 Forest Blvd. Features brats, hot dogs and fresh sweet corn, music, craft fair, baking contest and more. Summerfest at St. Anthony of Padua,
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lowed by a gathering outdoors for a special Basilica ice cream by Sebastian Joe’s, visits to the Mary Garden, walking the labyrinth and more. VISIT WWW.MARY.ORG.
Don’t miss Notre Dame business dean to speak at St. Thomas Carolyn Woo, dean of the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, will discuss “Grace in the Competitive World” in a free lecture from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Aug. 17. The public lecture will be in Room 201-202 of Opus Hall on the downtown Minneapolis campus of the University of St. Thomas. Woo, who will become president and chief executive officer of Catholic Relief Services in January, will examine the role of grace in our work and behavior, and discuss ways to cultivate grace in contexts dominated by winning and competition. The 2011 Hesburgh Lecture is co-sponsored by the Notre Dame Club of Minnesota and the SAIP Institute of St. Thomas’ Opus College of Business. To make a reservation, call (651) 962-4293. Minneapolis — August 7: Begins with a polka Mass at 11:30 a.m., followed by festival from noon to 5 p.m. at 813 Main St. N.E. Live music, food, bake booth, crafts and more. Festival at Immaculate Conception, Lonsdale — August 7: Polka Mass at 10 a.m. followed by a roast beef dinner served until 2 p.m. at 116 Alabama St. S.E. Also features a bakery booth, music, games and bingo. Spiritfest at Divine Mercy, Faribault — August 7: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 139 Mercy Drive. Features food, raffles, live music and more. For more information, visit HTTP:// DIVINEMERCY.CC. Outdoor concert with GB Leighton at St. Mary of the Lake, White Bear Lake — August 13: Gates open at 5:30 p.m. with the Space Heater Band at 6:30 p.m. and GB Leighton at 8 p.m. at 4690 Bald Eagle Ave. Admission is $10 for adults and kids 14 and under are free. Visit WWW.STMARYSWBL.ORG. Parish festival at St. Joseph, Lino Lakes — August 13 and 14: Outdoor Mass at 5 p.m. Saturday with a pig roast and dance to follow. Fireworks at 10 p.m. Sunday begins with a chicken dinner and games and events follow at 171 Elm St.
Festival at St. Vincent de Paul, Brooklyn Park — August 13 and 14: Begins Saturday at 8:30 a.m. with “Faster than the Pastor” 5K race and a talent show from 1 to 4 p.m. Continues on Sunday with food, games and more. Visit WWW.SAINTVDP.ORG. Corn Days at St. George, Long Lake — August 13 and 14: 1 to 11 p.m. Saturday featuring fresh roasted corn, authentic Mexican food, live music, games, raffle and more. Sunday Mass at 9:15 a.m. followed by a pancake breakfast and parade at noon. Festival from noon to 4:30 p.m. at 133 N. Brown Road. Visit WWW.CORNDAYS.COM. Festival at St. Wenceslaus, New Prague — August 13 and 14: Polka Mass at 5 p.m. Saturday followed by a euchre tournament, bean bag tournament and video game competition at 215 Main St. E. Also features booths, food and beer tent. Polka Masses Sunday at 8:30 and 10 a.m. followed by a grilled chicken dinner, children’s carnival and more. VisitWWW.SAINTWENCESLAUS.ORG/PARISH/FESTIVAL.HTML. Basilica Day at the Basilica of St. Mary, Minneapolis — August 14: Masses at 7:30, 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. to celebrate the Assumption of Mary and the 96th anniversary of the dedication of the Basilica fol-
Garage sale at All Saints, Lakeville — August 18 to 21: Preview sale Thursday 4 to 8 p.m. with $2 admission. Continues Friday 1 to 8 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sunday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 19795 Holyoke Ave. Corn Fest at St. Gerard, Brooklyn Park — August 19 to 21: 6 to 11 p.m. Friday, 4 to 11 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at 9600 Regent Ave. S. Features live entertainment, games and food, including fresh sweet corn. Friday night music by Zebra Mussels, Saturday is Boogie Wonderland. Visit WWW.ST-GERARD.ORG. Pig roast and dance at St. Peter, Richfield — August 20: Social hour at 5:30 p.m. with dinner catered by Divine Swine from 6:30 to 7:30 at 6730 Nicollet Ave. S. Dancing from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children ages 4 to 10. Call (612) 866-5089 for information. FunFest at St. Thomas the Apostle, St. Paul — August 20 to 21: Saturday car show from 2 to 6 p.m. , dance lessons from 5 to 6 p.m. and Robby Vee and his Rock-n-Roll Caravan from 6 to 10 p.m. Sunday features a hog roast, games, cake walk and more beginning at 11 a.m. at 2119 Stillwater Ave. Festival at St. Mary of the Purification, Marystown, Shakopee — August 21: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 15850 Marystown Road. Features a country-style smorgasbord from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. with more food available under the tents at 1 p.m. Includes games, quilt auction, wall of wine, and music by Czech Area Concertina Club from 4 to 6 p.m. Festival at St. Bernard, St. Paul — August 21: 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 187 Geranium Ave. W. Outdoor Mass at 10:30 a.m. followed by entertainment, booya, country store and more. Food, including fried bananas, will be available. Fun Fest at St. Mathias, Hampton — August 21: Begins with a polka Mass at 11 a.m. at 23315 Northfield Blvd. followed by food from noon to 3:30 p.m., country store, PLEASE TURN TO CALENDAR ON PAGE 22A
Make plans to see a Catholic film:
‘Vito Bonafacci’ Showing Friday, August 26 through Thursday, September 1
AMC Arbor Lakes 16 12575 Elm Creek Blvd., Maple Grove, MN North of the I-94/I-494/-694 junction In the Arbor Lakes Mall area
Movie Times: 1-888-AMC 4FUN www.amctheatres.com/ArborLakes
View the trailer at: www.vitobonafacci.com/Trailer.html
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Fehn serves as a hospital chaplain at Fairview-Southdale Hospital in Edina and Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park. Nearly 30 years of hospital chaplaincy work prepared him well for the Army, he said. He has learned to accept people wherever they are in their faith journeys without judgment. “All those years of hospital ministry converted like hand in glove because when I see soldiers I don’t know if they have faith or don’t have faith,” Father Fehn said. “But they are a child of God, and I try to do my best to respect that, to honor that, to give witness to my faith if the opportunity should present itself, but always making sure that the person knows that they are important.” As a hospital chaplain, Father Fehn has dealt with death and dying countless times. While that work helped to prepare him for the battlefield, still he hasn’t grown accustomed to it. “The day that I get used to it, the day that I can’t cry with a family or shed tears with a soldier because of a tragedy is the day that I have to quit doing hospital work, quit being an Army chaplain,” Father Fehn said. “If it doesn’t make you pause and think and feel sad inside, then something is wrong, something has happened to you. Somehow you encased yourself. “You have to have some type of [emotional] cushion,” he added, “but it should never be a hard, steel cushion. You’ve still got to feel for what you’re doing.” Father Fehn said he realized long ago the importance of having someone in his life to talk with, to provide spiritual and emotional support when his work begins to weigh on him. “You can’t keep getting all this dumped on you and expect to carry it yourself,” he said. Prayer and a close relationship with Jesus Christ are vital, he said. “But even Christ himself ran up to the mountain a couple of times and got away from his apostles, got away from the crowds. He knew the importance of regrouping in his own heart and mind with his relationship to God. He also had Lazarus, Martha and Mary, a close relationship with the three of them.”
games and live country music. Festival at St. Cyril and Methodius, Minneapolis — August 21: Polka Mass at 10:30 a.m. followed by festival from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 1315 Second St. N.E. Food includes Polish sausage, hot dogs, cabbage rolls (Holubky) and Hispanic foods. The Don Pafko and Lipa Slovak Dancers will perform at about 1 p.m. Annual Ho-down Most Holy Trinity, Veseli — August 21: Begins with a polka Mass at 11 a.m. at 4939 N. Washington St. Features a chicken cook-out, home baked Kolacky, tea rings and mocha cakes, games and music until 6:15 p.m. Backyard BBQ at St. Bridget, Minneapolis — August 21: 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 3811 Emerson Ave. N. Includes a pig roast, spaghetti dinner, silent auction, children’s games and more. Assumption Grade School reunion at Assumption, St. Paul — August 21: 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at 51 W. Seventh St. Refreshments will be served. To RSVP, call (651) 777-2115. Archdiocesan Choir Camp at the Cathedral of St. Paul, St. Paul — August 22 to 26: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at 239 Selby Ave. A choral experience for current members of the St. Cecilia Choir and new choristers ages 10 to 17. Cost is $75 and includes lunch. For information, email LLAWYER@ CATHEDRALSAINTPAUL.ORG.
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Military chaplain Father Jerome Fehn celebrates Christmas Mass in 2006 in ancient Ur, the birthplace of Abraham.
Army to priests: We want you Gen. George Washington established the Chaplain Corps in 1775 — a year before the United States officially became a nation — making it the second oldest branch of the U.S. Army. Today about 230 active duty Catholic priests serve 1.5 million Catholics in all branches of the armed services, according to Deacon Michael Yakir, chancellor for the Archdiocese for the Military Services in Washington, D.C. The dwindling number of priests in recent years has led to a severe shortage of Catholic military chaplains, Deacon Yakir said. He has heard stories of priest chaplains serving as many as 20 bases, meaning some Catholic soldiers have access to Mass only about once every six weeks. Another 400 priests are needed to meet the demand, the deacon said. Four Minnesota Catholic priests currently serve as military chaplains: Father Jerome Fehn, Army National Guard; Father John Echert and Father Thomas Foster, Air National Guard; and Father Lawrence Blake, Air Force Reserve. — Julie Carroll
Challenges and rewards Despite its many challenges, chaplaincy work also has its rewards. In Iraq, Father Fehn welcomed several new Catholics into the church, validated the wedding of two soldiers, and celebrated Christmas Eve Mass at the traditional birthplace of Abraham, the father of our faith. At 58, Father Fehn is approaching the
Army’s retirement age of 60; however, he hopes the Army will allow him to serve for several more years. “In the Apostles’ Creed, I like the phrase that the church uses — Jesus descended into hell,” he said, slapping the table for emphasis. “And on the third day, he rose again. “If not me, then who would bring the word of God to people who are seemingly living in hell?”
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Sacrament of the Sick offers inner strength to recipients to people after they are anointed.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19A ■ Make it a community experience. Even if the sacrament is administered somewhere other than at a service at church, others, such as family and friends, can be present. Allow those present to be part of the ceremony, offering some way to connect those present in their prayer for the sick person. Common prayer comforts everyone. Knowing people are praying with you and for you is a source of strength. ■ Include a symbolic gift in the service, such as a prayer shawl, a candle or card, to stand as a reminder of the sacrament and God’s grace afterwards. Some parish groups make shawls for their sick, have the pastor bless them and give them
■ Prepare a liturgical aid for those in attendance, even just a typed out prayer or words to a favorite hymn to facilitate everyone’s participation. ■ Facilitate the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Since confession is confidential, provide a way for the recipient of the sacrament to be alone with the priest for confession. ■ Prepare for reception of Holy Communion. When given to a person who is dying, it is called “viaticum.” “Viaticum” means food for the journey and is a vivid reminder that the sacrament gives inner strength. All Catholics present can join in receiving the Eucharist.
■ Receive the sacrament anywhere, at church, at home in the living room, in a sickroom, in the hospital. While the sacrament is not an everyday event, it is not a once in a lifetime one either. It is available at any time of serious illness. In the case of long-term or chronic illness, it is appropriate to celebrate the Sacrament of the Sick regularly, particularly at significant moments, such as before a major medical procedure or at times of particular struggle. ■ Understand that the rituals are about inner strength. Confession is for the forgiveness of sin and the grace to resist sin in the future; anointing with blessed oil by a priest is a rite of strengthening, a rite so sacred the church reserves administering it to the priest. Not even a
deacon can anoint with blessed oil. The viaticum is nourishment, spiritual food to help us be strong. ■ The sacrament also includes the minister’s touching the recipient, reminiscent of the healing touch of Jesus. Others can offer healing touch, too, for example, by extending their hands in blessing or tracing a cross on the person’s forehead. ■ Include comforting music, perhaps of the Psalms. The church recommends several psalms for the Sacrament of the Sick. Among the more popular ones are Psalm 91, which emphasizes security under God’s protection; Psalm 116, which offers thanksgiving to God who saves from death; and Psalm 121, which emphasizes the Lord as my guardian.
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Norway sets out sea of memorials
AUGUST 4, 2011 “Contrary to popular belief . . . all youth want a challenge, they seek purpose and meaning in life; not an easy way to success or opting out of personal and public responsibility.” — Leah Darrow, a former fashion model speaking July 25 in New York at an event sponsored by the Holy See’s permanent observer mission to the United Nations
“A just framework for future budgets cannot rely on disproportionate cuts in essential services to poor persons.” — Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton, Calif., and Bishop Howard Hubbard of Albany, N.Y., chairs respectively of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development and Committee on International Justice and Peace, in a July 26 letter to U.S. House members regarding the nation’s debt ceiling and proposed budget cuts
“[God] putting this in front of me is giving me an open door to take full action.” — Danielle Doty, recently crowned Miss Teen USA, during an interview with The Valley Catholic in Brownsville, Texas CNS photo / Fabrizio Bensch, Reuters
People light candles at the sea of memorials left in front of the cathedral in Oslo, Norway, July 25. The attacks carried out by Anders Behring Breivik July 22 traumatized normally peaceful Norway, which was struggling to come to terms with its worst peace-time massacre of modern times.
Regina joins Catholic Senior Services Regina Senior Living of Hastings has joined the network of Catholic Senior Services in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. CSS is a consortium of Catholic senior care providers in the archdiocese. Regina joins Benedictine Health System, Franciscan Health Community, St. Therese of New The Hope, Catholic Catholic Spirit Eldercare and St. Therese Southwest.
News Notes
“The mission of CSS is to coordinate and connect seniors to Catholic senior care, housing and services related to the care of body and soul throughout the archdiocese,” said Bishop Lee Piché, who chairs the CSS board. “[Regina’s] witness to quality care of both body and soul has continued since the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady, Mother of Mercy opened their doors 76 years ago.” For more information on CSS and its
affiliates, visit WWW.CATHOLICSENIOR SERVICES.ORG.
Mass at the Irish Fair Archbishop John Nienstedt will celebrate Sunday Mass during the annual Irish Fair, which takes places Friday through Sunday, Aug. 12, 13 and 14, at St. Paul’s Harriet Island Regional Park. Mass will begin at 9 a.m. Aug. 14 at the Cara Irish Pubs Stage, which sports broad views of the river and the Cathedral of St. Paul.
50 years in Forest Lake St. Peter Catholic School in Forest Lake will celebrate its 50th anniversary Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 6-7. Bishop Lee Piché will open the festivities with Mass at 5 p.m. Saturday, followed by a reception and dinner. The celebration continues Sunday with breakfast after the 8 and 9:30 a.m. Masses. A dedication of the alumni garden will be at 9:15 a.m.
Dishin’ it out at CATHOLICHOTDISH.COM Kathy Schneeman doesn’t think you should pay for her chocolates or her Nike’s — and as a Catholic she doesn’t want to pay for anybody else’s contraceptives. She elaborates in her blog, “Embracing Life,” on CATHOLICHOTDISH.COM. Evan is finding out that to be a missionary you have to be a jackof-all-trades and that life in another country is different — and yet the same as parish life in the U.S. You can read Deacon Koop’s blog — more like “letters home” — on the “Mission Venezuela” blog at the same web address. And did you know the way to reach Catholics may be through their digital funny bone? Check out CATHOLICHOTDISH.COM’s “Spirit Blog” to see if your “humorous” — humerus, get it? — is working. That’s just a spoonful of the blogs and the sometimes meaty, sometimes juicy items being served up on
CATHOLICHOTDISH.COM. There were 11 blogs on the site as this went to press, but don’t hold us to that — more could be up there by the time the letter carrier puts this issue into your mailbox. CATHOLICHOTDISH.COM features posts on books and stuff on bass that you may care about depending on your interests, and stuff Catholics like you should know and should care about, like, “Help human trafficking victims,” (Julie Carroll’s plea in the “Spirit Blog” for all of us to push Congress to combat modern-day slavery.), “Is what we say in confession really private?” (That’s in the “Faith and Reasons” blog.), and “What’s causing the drought in East Africa?” (“Eye on Faith and Science” blog). Browse around CATHOLIC HOTDISH.COM. And share a taste or two with your friends via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, etc. — Bob Zyskowski
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St. Paul’s Outreach Celebrating 25 years of Catholic faith alive on campus
Clockwise from lower left, Megan Gooley (University of St. Thomas), Kevin Bailey (Benedictine College, Kansas), Packer Stevenson (Texas A&M), Marga Malarky (Raritan Valley, New Jersey) and Jaclyn Treviño (Texas State) are living in St. Paul’s Outreach households in the Twin Cities as part of SPO’s summer program. Dave Hrbacek / The Catholic Spirit
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Find out why St. Paul’s Outreach is successful. Take a history tour of the local campus ministry program. What’s happening with SPO today and in the future?
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Outreach-based community still evolving after 25 years Gordy DeMarais, SPO executive director, Christina Smith and Father Kevin Finnegan, SPO board vice president, recently talked with Pat Norby, The Catholic Spirit news editor, about St. Paul’s Outreach, a Catholic ministry on college campuses across the United States that they began in St. Paul 25 years ago in response to the church’s call for a “new evangelization.” SPO reaches out to university students with the life-changing power of the Gospel through building relationships and faithfilled environments. Each year, thousands of students on campuses around the country are impacted by SPO’s work. Following is an edited version of the conversation.
people became outreach staff.
FATHER KEVIN FINNEGAN: In the early 1980s, NET Ministries at Catholic Youth Center was doing retreats and the staff for the retreats was college students. The desire was to help college students not just do something good, but be holy and live good lives. St. Paul’s Outreach began to help by getting them in small groups and giving them good teaching. Gordy and Christina were on staff and I was just coming off a year of NET Ministries. The three of us were just a part of it and we said, “Let’s start meeting to figure out how to do this.”
Founders reminisce about birth of St. Paul’s Outreach GORDY DEMARAIS: In the 1970s, there was a work of renewal that was taking place in the context of the St. Paul Catholic Youth Center (which closed in 1989), and there were a number of expressions of that renewal that were connected and evolved into four distinct organizations: ■ The Community of Christ the Redeemer, a lay community that provides a living witness of Christ. ■ The Companions of Christ, which is [a] priests’ group. ■ St. Paul’s Outreach, the college campus group. ■ NET Ministries, an outreach to high school students. The first group to separate out from
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From left, Gordy DeMarais, Christina Smith and Father Kevin Finnegan, pastor of Divine Mercy in Faribault, talk about St. Paul’s Outreach, which the three of them founded 25 years ago.
the Catholic Youth Center structure was the Community of Christ the Redeemer. As young people got involved our youth work, our university work, not only were they experiencing a profound reawakening of their faith, they were experiencing a call to live that faith in a very practical daily way, and that’s how it emerged. The Community of Christ the Redeemer has been this expression of communion, which extends the formative and evangelistic work into marriage and family life. The community, which provided financial support in SPO’s early days, is
trans-generational, people from birth to seniors, now. It was a witness of Christian, Catholic, marriage and family life for the university students as these students were sorting out their vocational choices.
Why were you three chosen to start SPO? CHRISTINA SMITH: I was at the St. Paul Catholic Youth Center and worked as the volunteer coordinator. I knew all the people on the different campuses. I knew all their names, how they related. A lot of those
GORDY DEMARAIS: As we thought about these volunteers who would be doing the high-schoolyouth work, we realized they needed more catechesis and formation and faith development. We divided them up according to their campuses. Then each of the CYC staff persons were assigned to campuses. You begin to do some formation with them, you begin to pull them together, you have a relationship with them. The more you start to dig into the university world, you see that not only do these people need more faith formation, but there’s a tremendous evangelistic opportunity on college campuses. There were a lot of kids going off to college campuses, even back then, and losing PLEASE TURN TO SPO ON PAGE 6B
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SNAPSHOTS FROM THE PAST 25 YEARS 1985 The first St. Paul’s Outreach summer households are established with 25 men at the Catholic Youth Center and 25 women in two other houses.
12 members, draw participants from across the United States and Canada, who pay $200 per month rent. Fifty people attend the annual end-of-the-year pig roast.
Vocations Several vocations were nurtured during the early years. Among them are: SPO staff member Lori Lavern became Carmelite Sister Gloria Therese. Father Kevin Finnegan was ordained in 1996. Father Andrew Cozzens was ordained in 1997. Father Peter Richards was ordained in 1998. Father Thomas Margevicius was ordained in 1999.
1990 Eight summer households, each with six to
SPO begins working with students and potential staff members in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Kansas and Arizona.
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SPO moves to new offices at 110 Crusader Ave. in West St. Paul.
1989 Construction on I-35E forces the St. Paul Catholic Youth Center to close and the office of St. Paul’s Outreach to move to Brady High School in West St. Paul.
2007
SPO begins a collaboration with the St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul to offer its missionaries an opportunity to earn a master of arts degree in pastoral ministry or religious education while serving SPO.
1997 SPO launches the Summer Internship Program, now called the School of the New
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Evangelization.
2000 Father Francis Fried, then pastor at St. Dominic in Northfield, commissions SPO to be
responsible for the parish ministry efforts to students at St. Olaf and Carleton colleges, also in Northfield.
2003 Gordy DeMarais and SPO are named Catholic of the Year by the Catholic Defense League.
2004-2008 SPO grows from 20 participants in 2004 to 150 in 2008, with houses on 30 university campuses in 11 states and two countries.
2006 The SPO-Ohio chapter hosts its first benefit banquet for nearly 200 guests.
SPO celebrates 25 years of evangelizing students on college campuses through personal invitation.
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ANDREW AND CARMEN
The experi change
Met through SPO and have been married about six months. Andrew is on staff with SPO and Carmen is a part-time volunteer.
I was at Ohio State and got connected to SPO through the summer program, the School of the New Evangelization. In Minnesota, I saw young people who were sharing all parts of their lives with each other and their faith was integrated with that. In comparison, a lot of people I was hanging out with — their faith was not as integrated with their life, and they were not focusing on the community aspect like SPO.
CARMEN I was a student in Minnesota at the University of St. Thomas. I came from a small town and faith was important to my family, but it wasn’t as vibrant as the faith I experienced in SPO. I ended up with a roommate my freshman year who was a devout Christian, and she thought it would be a good thing for us to begin looking around at the different groups on campus. When we got to St. Paul’s Outreach and we went to one of their events, there was something about it that I was drawn to.
Why does SPO appeal to college students? CARMEN The relationships. Most groups you can join in
Former, current and ex Paul’s Outreach share th CARMEN
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college are temporary places for people to show up when they want to or be committed as they choose. There is depth to the relationships in SPO.
ANDREW Relationships are huge — it’s where the bond has been formed in praying together, being on mission together, sharing meals and life and service and sports. There is a ton of joy and richness, and vibrancy in life that others can see when they come in contact with us, whether it’s at an event or having them over to the household for dinner. A lot of us are getting married now from the Columbus chapter . . . . People are coming to these weddings and seeing how much we enjoy life and how we have joy around each other. It’s a witness. They see Christ in how we love one another.
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How did you connect with St. Paul’s Outreach? ANDREW
Is vicar general for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and president of St. Paul’s Outreach board.
Why did you get involved with SPO?
You want to focus on the things that really ma a difference. St. Paul’s Outreach is at the cutting edge of assisting college students living their fait College can be a very difficult time . . . and SPO directs them to Christ.
Where would like to see SPO in 2016?
I’d like to see St. Paul’s Outreach faithful to its mission, but more expansive in its outreach. We have a simple, very core message: “How do I brin the Paschal Mystery into the life of college students?” I think we do that very well, and
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Is a senior, this fall, who is studying accounting at the University of Minnesota and lives in an SPO community.
How did you get involved in SPO?
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I started going to oncampus Mass at the University of Minnesota and I loved that one extra Mass a week. One day when I was there, I met this girl named Annette, and she was so warm and friendly. She started telling me about St. Paul’s Outreach and about the house of Catholic women that she
lived in. About a week later, she invited me over to the house for dinner. I remember walking in the first time, and it was so warm and cozy. I kept coming to events after that dinner and I knew that I wanted to be a part of the household.
What is a day like in the Women’s House? We start in the morning, bright and early, 6:30 a.m. We gather in the dining room for breakfast. Then we head downstairs to our prayer room. Our morning prayer consists of Liturgy of the Hours, and then we sing a couple of praise and worship songs. After morning prayer together as a house, we all do personal prayer time for about 30 minutes or so. After prayer, we go off to our separate mission fields and try to bring Christ to our peers. At night, we come back together and have dinner together and share what happened throughout our day and how we were
able to bring Christ to our friends and classmates. After dinner, we usually do homework.
Describe the mission in household. Within our house, we have Women’s Nights. Women come over every couple of weeks to hear a speaker and share their lives together. Then we have this outreach part of mission where we get to know people in our classes and try to bring Christ to them.
What are the fruits of the household? The most important fruit of my household experience is my prayer life — making prayer a habit. Another fruit is the community life. One semester was really intense for me. The women I lived with were so loving, and they were always ready with listening ears and warm, sympathetic hearts. Those days, it was just like coming home to Christ.
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My first introduction to SPO was attending one of the banquets. Archbishop Harry Flynn was there and gave strong accolades about SPO. Students got up and gave their testimonies. One young man talked about how he was not making such great decisions, getting horrible grades, getting drunk. He stumbled upon SPO and his life made a 180-degree change. . . . His relationship with Jesus Christ grew. A gal took the podium and gave a similar story about how her relationship with Jesus was strengthened and encouraged and deepened by living in a household with six other women.
Why support SPO?
First, prayer. That God will continue to do this good work.
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Third, it needs people who will support that work financially.
As donors, [my wife] Cheryl and I want our money to make a difference. If we donate money to an organization, we want it to impact people’s lives. All you have to do is show up once a year to the banquet, hear the testimony and you get excited. The other thing is, the future church is being formed right now by SPO on college campuses.
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Any favorite memories? I gave my testimony to a University of Minnesota student group about how I attempt to live out my Christian faith every day in the investment world. I mentioned SPO in my talk, and after the talk, a student came running up to me and she lit up like a light bulb and said: “I’m involved in SPO, and it’s been the greatest thing in my life.” She was absolutely bubbling with enthusiasm. I left feeling grateful that I have the opportunity to be a donor to SPO and the privilege of being on the board.
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How and why did you get involved in SPO?
Every year, there are seniors who are graduating all across the country and those that have been involved with SPO are much better equipped to live out their faith. I think the fruits of that are that the graduates of SPO are more likely to be bringing their kids to church on Sundays, and hopefully tithing their income back to the church to keep the church alive.
teaches sacramental theology at the St. Paul Seminary. During the summers of 1989 and 1990, he lived in an SPO household in St. Paul, while attending Benedictine College in Hatchinson, Kan. After graduation, he served a year with NET Ministries and a year as an SPO staff member and campus evangelist, before entering the seminary. He was ordained in 1997.
How did you connect with SPO? I found out about SPO through my sister who was on a NET Ministries team. I had grown up in a pretty normal Catholic family and so I knew that it wasn’t right that [to] go out and get drunk on Saturday night and then get up and go to Mass on Sunday morning, that there was an inconsistency. When I met people from SPO who were really on fire with their faith and they were living a consistent Catholic life, I thought, “Oh, so that’s how I’m supposed to be living.” I realized that I
couldn’t do it on my own. I wanted help, and I found household life.
What are your favorite SPO memories? The beautiful thing about my first summer household experience was the first week sitting in the chapel during prayer time. We were sitting in the chapel and praying and spending maybe 45 minutes of silence. I remember reading my Bible for five minutes and then I’d look at Jesus on the cross and try to pray and then I would look at my watch and it would be like 10 minutes had gone by. I looked around the room and everyone else was praying and I was thinking to myself, “Oh my, I’ve got 30 more minutes of this.” But, as I began to learn how to pray, that time became very treasured time for me. My experience in my first summer household was
just so much fun. We just laughed a lot. We would laugh when we would do our own dishes and we’d do dishes for hours because our relationships were in Christ and that was a new thing for me. I didn’t realize how much joy there could be, compared to the things that I thought made joy, such as alcohol and parties and things. FATHER COZZENS Through my experience with the Lord and my relationship with SPO, I realized that life with Jesus was the thing that I most wanted. It made it easier to respond to my vocation.
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How did SPO evolve? CHRISTINA SMITH:
“What is at the heart of our Catholic faith is that God is real, God is present, he has a purpose and a plan in my life.
I saw the gift of Newman Center on campus, but I also saw its inadequacies — that it was an institutional format. I saw the need for that individual person moving out into the university campus like the yeast in the dough as opposed to the other model that was typical for many Catholic campuses, which set up a lot of programs, but didn’t get into classrooms and into the lunchroom and into the clubs.
of their being with this relationship with God. Our approach is to witness to that by our love for God and one another.
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The saying “Location, location, location” is true. The location isn’t here, it’s wherever the student is. On a deeper level, location is wherever that person is personally. Every person is different. You have to bring and be with each person as she or he is and help that person grow in faith.
Students are just searching for something that will make them happy and give them aim in their lives. We are helping them see what they are going after as a source of fulfillment. If it’s not Christ, it’s a dead-end road. I was struck by how hungry young people are for something more solid then what they’re finding on college campuses today.
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Dormitory life is not conducive to a strong Catholic Christian formation. In fact it pulls you in a different direction. I had two experiences of somebody reaching out to me and my faith coming alive, then realizing that if I’m going to live that faith well, I need a strong supportive environment and I need someone to teach me how to live that faith well. I think those were the seed experiences that formed the vision for SPO and the method that developed.
People are coming from the wealthiest generation in the history of the world [but many families, today, are fractured and broken]. I think young people today are more open and generous and desiring something more then money. When they have an opportunity to serve and give to people in need, there is something wonderful happening. You have to tap into that. Then you see that fruit in the rest of their lives.
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We really took a relational approach to ministry with the accent being on that one-to-one relationship of sharing faith and believing that faith is catchy.
One of the great joys is seeing the way our alumni are living their vocation in priesthood, religious life, marriage and family life. This wasn’t just a college experience. This is an experience that has formed the rest of their lives to the point where there are SPO alumni children involved in this work. We are doing the same thing today as when we began — creating strong, relational environments of faith on college campuses; training young people to embrace their faith, know their faith, live their faith, share that faith with others; sending them out to relationally evangelize their peers; and bringing them into a community of faith and a program that helps that faith become alive and be awakened; and training and forming that faith to maturity in strong, loving communities.
FATHER KEVIN FINNEGAN: A third aspect is the catechesis of formation that goes with it. You are drawn to someone. You are drawn to God. Your faith is awakened. It’s in a community and you see others living their faith, and there is a strong emphasis on how to live, how to relate well, how to say I’m sorry, please forgive me, how to share your faith.
Why is SPO needed today? FATHER KEVIN FINNEGAN: If you go fishing and you want to catch a fish, there are a thousand different lures. Every person is attracted or drawn, distinctly. In SPO, all these people are fishing lures. I may not be the person to reach out to Christina, but to Gordy. But then there is the whole mystery of the faith. It is a gift from God. It is the Holy Spirit working.
GORDY DEMARAIS: What is at the heart of our Catholic faith is that God is real, God is present, he has a purpose and a plan in my life. He talks to me, he speaks to me. I can have a relationship with him and that relationship can give purpose and meaning and direction and hope to my life. Every person is built in the structure
FATHER KEVIN FINNEGAN: It’s a whole sense of helping someone realize, “I am loved by God and God has a mission for me,” which is different then, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” That’s the great question: “What is God’s mission for my life?” You begin asking the question in the context that: God knows me, God loves me, God cares for me, God tends to me, God delights in me. That’s why parents are so important. A parent says you are loved: “Even if you flunk math, I will still love you.” It gives them freedom to keep getting up and falling down.
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Evangelization school equips students to be light on campuses By Susan Klemond For The Catholic Spirit
At the start of his freshman year at the University of St. Thomas, Ryan O’Shaughnessy saw Catholic campus groups as a way to network. But the sense of community among members of the campus ministry St. Paul’s Outreach started to grow on the atheist/agnostic, especially when he attended an SPO retreat. “When things in my life started coming to a head around my sophomore year when I converted to Christianity, SPO was definitely there to catch me,” O’Shaughnessy said. “Since then I’ve just been getting gradually more involved meeting people and taking more of a role in SPO as an organization rather than just somebody who attends meetings.” Before O’Shaughnessy starts his senior year this fall, he’ll participate for the first time in the School of the New Evangelization, a two-week SPO program co-sponsored by the St. Paul Seminary which will equip him to live the Catholic faith and share it effectively as part of a student community. From Aug. 4 to 13, O’Shaughnessy and about 200 other students, full-time mission leaders, priests and leaders of other mission groups from 20 states and Mexico will meet in prayer and fellowship at the eighth annual School of the New Evangelization at the University of St. Thomas. SPO is a West St. Paul-based Catholic ministry that seeks to evangelize students, bring them to maturity and train them to be leaders. This year, it is celebrating its 25th anniversary of training and sending missionaries to serve on campuses across the country, including eight in Minnesota.
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Ryan O’Shaughnessy is being trained by St. Paul’s Outreach on the University of St. Thomas campus to live out and share his Catholic faith.
expand more broadly those students we’re engaging on the front end of our program on the initial evangelization.”
Student excited to serve Shelley Pavlas will attend the evangelization school part time this year. The soon-to-be University of Minnesota senior looks forward to the experience. “There are people coming from all over
the country and we all leave there so excited to go back to school and use what we’ve learned and bring people closer to God,” said Pavlas, who became involved in SPO during her sophomore year. This year, she’ll serve as a missionary and colead a SPO women’s household near the U of M. O’Shaughnessy, who will serve with SPO and live in an SPO household this
fall, said he’s excited to learn more about evangelization and take a more active role in his faith. “[It is] something that I can share with the world and really take an active role in the body of Christ,” he said. As SPO expands, interest in the School of the New Evangelization also continues to grow, DeMarais said, adding that the ministry may offer conferences in other states in the future. DeMarais said he hopes the school will facilitate life-changing conversion for participants and their call to share their faith on campus. In addition, he said, “I’d hope more than anything that those who participate in SNE would walk away from SNE realizing that it’s God’s grace and God’s power ultimately at work that transforms and changes people’s lives. And the best thing we can do for our peers on the college campus is to be strong witnesses ourselves in our relationship with the Lord and our love for others, be men and women of prayer who build together strong communities of faith on college campuses.” The evangelization school equips participants and gets them fired up to be light on campuses, Pavlas said. “It helps us to be bringers of truth to all the students who are bombarded with lies all day every day,” she said. “Knowing evangelization is part of the church’s deepest identity and that’s why the church exists to evangelize, it’s cool to be part of that. It’s really exciting.” If you are able to help School of the New Evangelization participants cover program expenses, call (651) 451-6114.
Great need to evangelize The need for evangelization on campuses is great, said Gordy DeMarais, SPO executive director. “I think more and more people might be realizing that a lot of kids go off to college and lose their faith,” he said. “This is the future of the church.” Depending on their experience, school participants will focus on deepening their relationship with Christ, training as student missionaries or for full-time mission work. They’ll learn about prayer, community living, Christian maturity, the New Evangelization and how to bring it to campus, Catholic faith and apologetics, and identity and sexual morality for Christian men and women. This year, SNE participants can serve at several local non-profits. In addition, student missionaries will receive additional practical training in evangelization methods, including how to lead small group Bible studies, said Ryan O’Hara, Minnesota Mission Center director. “I think we’ve always had a very strong spiritual environment and we want to keep that up, but we also want to make sure that, practically, we’re giving people tangible practical skills to play their role well, whatever that role might be,” he said. SPO seeks to train more student missionaries to reach out to their fellow students, DeMarais said. “We think historically that we’ve done a really good job at bringing people to a conversion and forming them to maturity,” he said. “We want to be able to
Congratulations on Serving Catholic Students for A Quarter Century Saint Paul’s Outreach can be justifiably proud of its Christian work in reaching the hearts and minds of young Catholics for the past 25 years of its ministry. The Archdiocese takes great pride and joy in SPO’s growth and its success in impacting the lives of thousands of young men and women during their college years – a critical time in their own faith formation and practice. SPO has achieved a remarkable record of providing direction and spiritual nourishment to thousands of Catholic students. It has also influenced more than 150 young men and women to accept the call to religious life. Know that the priests, religious and faithful of this, your founding Archdiocese, will continue to support you and your members and will pray for your continued growth and success. The Most Reverend John C. Nienstedt Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
The Most Reverend Harry J. Flynn
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Colleen D’Andrea, a student at Texas State University, is one example of how St. Paul’s Outreach has expanded over the years, said Gordy DeMarais, founder and executive director of SPO. Three years ago, D’Andrea heard about and attended SPO’s School of the New Evangelization. SPO took its training program for local missionaries and created the school in 2004 to train people for other areas. Twenty people from five universities attended that year. Last August, 200 people from 33 schools attended. D’Andrea went back to Texas and began to practice what she learned. The next summer, she came with six of her peers and they returned to Texas and began to build an SPO program, setting up six households with four people in each one, who were praying, evangelizing and sharing life together. “We are now formally opening an SPO chapter at Texas State this September,” DeMarais said. In the past five years, SPO has expanded to schools in Ohio, New
Jersey, Kansas, Arizona and Florida. SPO is on Facebook and Twitter, which it uses to promote programs. The web page — WWW.SPOWEB.ORG — was recently revised to be interactive, and groups are using YouTube videos and blogs to reach young adults, he said. “If we are going to respond to this need, we need people who are going to financially stand with us. We need missionaries. We also need resource development,” DeMarais said. “It’s part of our plan going forward to develop those resources.” SPO recently sponsored a concert and speaker as part of a more broad-based evangelization. It is initiating a program for juniors and seniors in college to take on leadership roles. Another initiative is to keep working on the high school-to-college link by partnering with groups such as NET Ministries and Serra Clubs, which started College Connection for Catholics to link college students with campus ministry, SPO, parishes, etc.
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