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From left, 12-year-olds Emily Wilder and Aubrey Beske of Divine Mercy in Faribault ride down a giant waterslide at Extreme Faith Camp on Big Sandy Lake near McGregor in June. Dave Hrbacek/The Catholic Spirit

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his summer, middle-schoolers from parishes across the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis headed to Extreme Faith Camp. In between s’mores and songs, they met Jesus in eucharistic adoration.

Read about their experiences in the Rediscover: section.

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Totus Tuus

Life coaching

Dinner on the Hill

Young adults lead weeklong camps for kids at local parishes.

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Local pregnancy resource centers offer hope with new service.

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Lakeville parish’s regular event provides more than a meal.

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OVERHEARD “Such a humanitarian emergency demands as its first measure the urgent protection and properly taking in of these children.”

— Pope Francis about the plight of child migrants in a message sent in advance of Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat on July 14

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St. Paul man wins second place in national Catholic video contest WORLD CUP HOPES People holding German and Argentine national flags pose for photographers while waiting for Pope Francis’ Sunday Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican July 13. Germany defeated Argentina July 13 in the World Cup final soccer match. CNS/Tony Gentile, Reuters

PAGEANT CELEBRATION Men lift a replica of a boat known as a “Moorish Galleon” during celebrations ahead of the feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Williamsburg, in the Brooklyn borough of New York July 13. Every year the Italian-American community in Williamsburg re-enacts a fourth-century pageant at the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel to commemorate the return of San Paolino, bishop of Nola, Italy, who was held captive for two years by North African conquerors. The “Moorish Galleon” replica represents the boat on which San Paolino returned to Nola. CNS / Darren Ornitz, Reuters

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Want to keep up with news at The Vatican? A new version of “The Pope App” is available on iTunes and GooglePlay. Watch a short YouTube video about the features of the upgraded app here: http://youtu.be/_CUJS-VpCTw. Busloads Of Turned-Back Immigrants, An Image Of Shame, this blog post by Sister Mary Ann Walsh first appeared on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ media blog and then was republished by Huffington Post. Read it on CatholicHotdish.com.

The Catholic Spirit is published bi-weekly for The Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis Vol. 19 — No. 15 MOST REVEREND JOHN C. NIENSTEDT, Publisher ANNE STEFFENS, Associate Publisher JESSICA TRYGSTAD, Editor

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Cameron O’Hearn of St. Paul took second place in the Imagine+Nation national video contest, sponsored by Dynamic Catholic and the Fellowship of Catholic University Students.

The contest was launched to promote the next generation of Christian storytellers who desire to redeem the arts, specifically through video. The top three winners received cash prizes totaling $10,000, and can be viewed at focus.org.

“The Imagine+Nation videos connect directly to the Church’s call for a New Evangelization with themes relevant to the younger generation,” said Curtis Martin, FOCUS President and Founder.

Martin is one of several speakers scheduled to present at the second Rediscover: Catholic Celebration set for Oct. 3 and 4 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

“We thought about the situation college students are in, making career decisions and putting themselves in a certain box for the rest of their lives,” said O’Hearn, producer of the second-place video, “Who Do You Want to Become.” “We wanted to communicate that our childhood dreams have timeless truths and bring the viewer face-to-face with God, who wants them to be a saint.”

First place went to Rob Kaczmark of Chicago, with third-place going to Steven Tralongo of Venice, Calif.

Catholic schools get anonymous grant Two archdiocesan Catholic schools, St. Pascal Baylon in St. Paul and Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Maplewood, have received an anonymous grant for $215,000 to be used the next three school years.

This two-fold grant will address demographic changes through culturally responsive education while also providing increased access for families to attend Catholic school. It will also provide increased busing for families of both schools.

In the past year, officials at the two schools have joined together in extensive conversations about their changing demographics. The goal of the grant is to better serve families in these diverse communities.

Leadership summit offered for high school sports captains A sports captains leadership summit for high school males will be offered from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Aug. 8 at the University of St. Thomas.

The event — which includes talks by former Minnesota Viking Matt Birk, St. Thomas football coach Glenn Caruso and former professional hockey player Brian Bonin — will introduce, teach, encourage and reinforce positive leadership skills.

The day features presentations addressing identity, purpose, power, character and goals, discussion, Mass and lunch. For information, contact Michael Daly at (651) 324-6220 or email daly9539@stthomas. edu.

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3 Every summer, the Archdiocese, through its Office of Parish Services, sponsors a celebration entitled “Rural Life Sunday.” The celebration generally takes place on a farm in one of our many rural parishes spread throughout the 12 counties that comprise our local Church. This year’s event was hosted by the parish of Immaculate Conception in Watertown on Sunday, June 22.

What made this year’s celebration special is the fact that the United Nations has declared 2014 to be the “International Year of Family Farming,” in response to the dedicated efforts of an international coalition of 360 groups led by the World Rural Forum (www.family farmingcampaign. net). This coalition is committed to use this time frame to hold public events and increase media THAT THEY MAY coverage in an ALL BE ONE attempt to raise greater awareness for Archbishop the need for better John Nienstedt public policies in support of family farmers. Their ultimate goal is to reposition family farming at the center of agricultural, environmental and social policies in both the Global South, as well as the Industrialized North.

The important organization Catholic Rural

Life began as the “National Rural Life Conference” and was founded by Archbishop Edwin O’Hara in 1924. The archbishop, who himself grew up on a farm in Lanesboro, Minn., wanted to see the Church show equal concern for the life of the farmer as it did for people who lived in the city. So, as bishop of the Diocese of Great Falls, Mont., and the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kan., he pushed for Catholic programs like credit unions, health clinics and family assistance. Such help, he believed, was vital for the well-being of the Church, both in the city as well as the countryside, since their destinies were so intricately connected. And so for 90 years, CRL has promoted models of sustainable agriculture and local food production, as well as engaging in the apostolates of education and advocacy so as to help alleviate hunger and poverty in rural communities.

The group has been joined in this endeavor by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development in offering generous grants and subsidies. For example, in Willmar, Minn., a CCHD grant helped to establish the Willmar Area Multicultural Business Center, a center that seeks to establish and promote new and culturally diverse businesses in the Willmar area through training and other support. In Duluth, Cloquet and Two Harbors, a CCHD grant began 1 Roof Community Housing that provides local residents with home-buyer education classes, repair loans for homeowners and landlords, financial counseling, credit counseling, and assistance with community organizing so as to overcome neighborhood crime.

More recently, CRL has also partnered with Catholic Relief Services to promote a program that will allow American farmers to share their expertise with their counterparts in East Africa (specifically Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya).

Vatican to support help for ‘humanitarian emergency’ of child migrants

By David Agren Catholic News Service The Vatican’s secretary of state pledged full support for addressing the issue of child migrants streaming out of Central America in search of safety and family reunification in the United States.

Pope Francis, meanwhile, described the situation as a “humanitarian emergency” and called for the international community to act.

Speaking at Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat July 14, Cardinal Pietro Parolin repeated a recent call of bishops in five countries for Catholics and society at large to help the thousands of young migrants traveling through Mexico and often arriving alone in the United States.

“Given these migratory facts, we urgently need to overcome primitive misgivings and again propose common strategies at the

subregional, regional and world levels that include all sectors of society,” Cardinal Parolin said in a speech attended by clergy and the foreign ministers of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

“Their numbers grow daily exponentially,” he said of the Central Americans abandoning their countries. “Whether they travel for reasons of poverty, violence or the hope of uniting with families on the other side of the border, it is urgent to protect and assist them, because their frailty is greater, and they’re defenseless — they’re at the mercy of any abuse or misfortune.”

The cardinal traveled to Mexico as countries in the region came to grips with an increase in the number of Central American migrants not seen in decades — and an influx so unexpected and massive that U.S. officials have had difficulties properly processing those arriving at their border. It also came as

I must admit that my first interest in farming peaked when I was named the Bishop of New Ulm, considered by some to be the most rural diocese in the country. I soon came to appreciate the solid values that marked the lives of these good people: their diligent work ethic, their resiliency in the face of disappointments, their neighborliness and their reliance upon God. In regard to the last point, I recall meeting a young farmer after Mass in Benson. When I inquired about how the crops were doing that season, he smiled and said, “You know, Bishop, God always has a few surprises in store for us. Every year is different. But I get up every morning and expect to see a new miracle.”

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Church’s support of farmers vital to well-being

“Really,” I responded, “Well, I guess it would be difficult to farm and not believe in God.” “I don’t think it’s possible,” he concluded.

The heavy rains these past weeks have been devastating for the crops in the fields. This condition poses a difficult challenge for farmers this year. While farmers are close to the ground, and therefore close to God, they deserve the support of the Church! Let’s not forget them in our daily prayers.

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OFFICIAL His Excellency, the Most Rev. John C. Nienstedt, has announced the following appointments in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

Effective August 1, 2014 • Reverend Herbert Hayek, O.P., granted faculties of the Archdiocese and appointed parochial vicar of the Church of Pax Christi in Eden Prairie.

Father Hayek is a member of the Dominican Friars of the Central Province, USA.

countries such as Mexico confront longstanding issues such as crimes committed against migrants with impunity and an indifference toward providing protection to Central Americans traveling through the country — even as Mexico complains of the treatment experienced by Mexicans living in the United States illegally.

The plight of the child migrants has the attention of Pope Francis, who sent a message in advance of the forum, jointly sponsored by Mexico and the Vatican.

“I wish to also call attention to the tens of thousands of children that emigrate alone, unaccompanied to escape violence and poverty,” Pope Francis said in the message, dated July 11 and read July 14 by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, papal nuncio to Mexico.

“This is the category of migrants from Central America and Mexico itself that cross the United States’ border under extreme conditions and pursuing a hope that, for the majority, will be in vain.

“This humanitarian emergency requires, as a first urgent measure, these children be welcomed and protected,” Pope Francis continued.

“Many people forced to emigrate suffer, and often, die tragically; many of their rights are violated,

“Whether they travel for reasons of poverty, violence or the hope of uniting with families on the other side of the border, it is urgent to protect and assist them.”

Cardinal Pietro Parolin

they are obliged to separate from their families and, unfortunately, continue to be the subject of racist and xenophobic attitudes,” the pope said.

The pope also called for information campaigns on the risks of migrating and a commitment to developing the poor countries of Central America.

“The Church will always support at the national and international level any initiative directed at the adoption of correct policies. No institution, not even the state, possesses the necessary economic, political or informative resources or social capital or legitimacy to resolve the root problems with emigration,” Cardinal Parolin said.

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Archdiocese seeks leader for advocacy, child protection

By Jessica Trygstad The Catholic Spirit The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis is seeking a director to lead its enhanced victim advocacy and child protection in the new Office of Safe Environment and Ministerial Standards.

Primary among responsibilities are making certain that abuse victims can confide in the archdiocese for support, and preventing clergy misconduct from occurring in the first place.

Leading the search is Kinsale Management Consulting, the firm hired by the archdiocese in November 2013 to review all of its clergy files, an extensive task completed in April. Kathleen McChesney, the former No. 3 official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and former head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Office of Child and Youth Protection, leads the firm.

Kinsale Management Consulting will help select and screen qualified candidates for what archdiocesan officials consider a very important position.

“The purpose of the role is to serve — to make the programs and processes work so that the archdiocese can serve the faithful, particularly those who have been

“The purpose of the role is to serve — to make the programs and processes work so that the archdiocese can serve the faithful, particularly those who have been abused.”

Kathleen McChesney, head of Kinsale Management Consulting, the firm leading the search for the archdiocese’s new director of safe environment and ministerial standards

abused,” McChesney said. “And, also, it’s about the health and wellness, to a certain degree, of the clergy.”

McChesney stressed that the most important characteristic of the role is understanding the trauma people suffer when they’ve been abused — regardless of who it’s by — and the full scope of everyone affected — including the victim’s family members and friends, and the community.

The ideal candidate, McChesney continued, is a proven leader who understands how organizations — particularly the Catholic Church — function, who understands standards and ethics within an organization, and who has those qualities him- or herself. A bonus,

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she said, is a candidate’s understanding of Minnesota’s legal system — both criminal and civil.

The director doesn’t have to be a lawyer, but a lay person is preferred.

“This person is someone who can deal with major issues, who’s a problem-solver and has good vision and creativity to develop this role,” McChesney said.

The position is posted at archspm.org. The archdiocese hopes to name a director in August.

Streamlining The new office was established as a result of an independent task force’s recommendations to designate a point person to

manage the various aspects of the archdiocese’s safe environment program, which includes the protection of vulnerable adults.

A report released in April from the Safe Environment and Ministerial Standards Task Force identified problems with the archdiocese’s safe environment organizational structure, communication, record keeping regarding the performance and conduct of clergy, compliance auditing and complaint-reporting system.

“The creation of the [new office] and establishing the director’s position reinforces our commitment to provide care and support to survivors of clergy abuse, to prevent abuse and to make fuller use of the insights and experiences of lay professionals as we rebuild trust within our faith community,” said Dominican Father Reginald Whitt, whom Archbishop John Nienstedt appointed vicar in October 2013.

The new office will combine the existing Office for the Protection of Children and Youth, the Promoter of Ministerial Standards program, and the Advocacy and Victim Assistance program. The director Please turn to IMPLEMENTING on page 20

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Totus Tuus camp makes a splash with kids

Hundreds of students entering first-throughsixth grades, including 84 at St. Charles Borromeo in St. Anthony, are learning more about their faith this summer by participating in Totus Tuus camps. The program, whose name means “totally yours” in Latin, brings four-member teams of college students or seminarians to parishes for a week-long camp.

The team spends time with the students on catechetical instruction, songs, games and daily Mass. The camp at St. Charles started July 7 and ended on July 11 with a water celebration.

Above, Matthew Narog, center, runs through the spray as a truck from the St. Anthony Village Fire Department sends a stream of water over the parking lot at St. Charles Borromeo in St. Anthony July 11.

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Above, camp participants Patrick Fink, left, and Tim Loutchko helped Deacon Bruno Nwachukwu and Father Brian Park as altar servers during the daily Mass.

Above, Carter Pitt prays during Mass July 11.

At right, boys in the first- and second-grade class show frustration as they compete in a game of hangman to learn the word, “transubstantiation.”

At left, Sam Magee laughs with a friend during the lunch break.

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‘I came for diapers, and left with hope’ Women seeing success with life coaching at pregnancy resource centers

By Sharon Wilson For The Catholic Spirit Difficult living situations, an unplanned pregnancy, unstable finances. These issues are what lead women and families to pregnancy resource centers, which provide everything from ultrasounds to diapers. But at a few local centers, women are finding more — they are finding hope.

Pregnancy Choices in Apple Valley has added life coaching to its services. The unique approach assists pregnant women in difficult situations.

Aleesha Warner is a single mom of an 11-year-old and a newborn. She has found the life coaching sessions to be life-changing.

“You can need help for all kinds of material things,” Warner said.

“And you can go to the county and ask for things. They encourage you to live independently, but no one is helping you or helping you try to change that. So, five years later, you are back in the same boat.”

Life coaching is different. By working with Kristin Wermus, a master-certified life coach and client services director at Pregnancy Choices, Warner and others like her have learned to recognize their own values that help them achieve their goals — one day at a time.

“They are creating hope for themselves, and we are there listening while they are pulling out all of these great things about themselves that they didn’t even know were there,” Wermus said.

“We just provide the feedback.

People are very quick to tell you what to do. Here, it is nonjudgmental; we are not pointing fingers or even pointing out the direction.”

Wermus explained that clients set goals based on what they value, not what the coach values.

For instance, Warner seeks a career that she enjoys to set an example for her children. She wants to be financially stable and own her own home, all while being the best parent she can be.

The life coaching experience benefits more than the child these

Kristin Wermus, right, a master-certified life coach and client services director, visits with Aleesha Warner and her 2-week-old son Jayden at Pregnancy Choices in Apple Valley July 9. Dianne Towalski / The Catholic Spirit. women carry as they improve their situations and look to a future for themselves and their family.

Deanna (who requests that her last name not be used) is one such client.

Deanna was in an unsafe relationship, but was financially dependent. When she found out she was pregnant, she didn’t know what to do. A neighbor suggested she visit Pregnancy Choices, which has provided services to pregnant women since 2008.

“At the time, I wasn’t in need of material things,” Deanna said.

What she needed was a plan.

“Through the life coaching, I was able to uncover in my life something that I was trying to keep to myself; I broke down,” she said.

As Deanna continued with Pregnancy Choices, she began to find solutions. She moved into a shelter and started on a new path.

“It was up to Deanna to come to this on her own,” Wermus said.

“She realized that her relationship was not honoring her values, and that realization propelled her to take action and leave. Life coaching is about holding our clients accountable to what they say they want. Therein lies the power.”

Learn more about life coaching Pregnancy Choices, Apple Valley Contact Kristin Wermus, client services director, at (952) 997-2229 or info@mypregnancychoices.com Pregnancy Options, Faribault Contact Anna Blessing, executive director, at (507) 332-7644 Website: www.polifecare.com “I came for diapers, and left with hope,” Deanna added.

Although her child, Kyro, was born last year, Deanna continues to visit Pregnancy Choices for different resources.

“I feel like I get to know myself,” Deanna said. “I thought I knew how to guide myself through life, but the life coaching skills have given me the keys.”

The life coaching sessions help clients like Deanna and Warner learn to take one step at a time in order to achieve bigger goals.

“I used to run into an obstacle in my life and see it as a problem, and I would just get stuck,” Warner said.

“I am having car problems right now, and that is a big problem.

Through the life coaching, I am able to see this more as just an inconvenience, and I am able to find my way through it. It can become an opportunity for me instead of a problem.”

Pregnancy Options in Faribault also provides life coaching.

Executive Director Anna Blessing said more clients are using the center and are seeing results similar to Apple Valley’s Pregnancy Choices.

An added bonus to clients’ success is the change Blessing has seen with her staff. Since receiving special training, staff members don’t feel as burned out after a session with a client.

“The whole atmosphere at the center is different,” Blessing said.

Life coaching techniques are integrated into everything staff members do, and the results are evident.

The nonjudgmental approach through life coaching is proving to be a game changer for pregnancy centers.

“There is something way bigger going on here than just what’s being done in this building,” Warner said.

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By Dianne Towalski The Catholic Spirit Four friends from the retirement apartments, a woman who just lost her mom, a dad with two young children and a group of young people who study apologetics together. This is an unlikely group to come together to share a meal, company and conversation.

But they did gather, along with many others, at All Saints in Lakeville July 10 for Dinner on the Hill, a community meal offered by the parish’s justice and service commission. Many parishes offer a meal for the hungry of their communities, but this one has a twist. Anyone is welcome. Anyone.

“A lot of them are hungry for food, hungry for entertainment, hungry for fellowship, hungry for conversation, and that’s our whole group,” said Julie Munch, a member of the justice and service commission and coordinator of Dinner on the Hill. “Really, that’s who we serve and who we want to be serving.”

The program, which happens every second Thursday, started last September as a meal for the needy.

The commission already has a partnership with an overseas parish and a parish in Minneapolis, but members started to see a need for something in their own backyard.

But, their vision of a community meal for the hungry and homeless didn’t materialize as planned.

“We were really discouraged at first, because we didn’t get a lot of people,” Munch said. “We prayed over it and asked for guidance and we came to the recognition that there are different kinds of hunger and that we had to invite people for a variety of reasons.”

They invited anyone in need of company, conversation and a good

Julie Munch, coordinator of Dinner on the Hill community meal at All Saints in Lakeville, serves a plate to Florence Larson during the July 10 event.

Dianne Towalski / The Catholic Spirit we’re back again.” meal, for any reason, from any The food is good, getting lots of faith and any place. “oohs” and “ahhs,” Munch said.

People come to the church on They even get suggestions of what the big hill and are served by guests would like for future volunteers in a smaller dining room off of the main cafeteria. The dinners.

“One guest suggested hotdish tables are set when they arrive, and on this particular evening, live jazz because it’s something that one person isn’t going to make a whole was the soundtrack for the event. quantity of for themselves,” Harris “Oftentimes, it is people who said. may not be able to cook for In the kitchen, Mike Harris and themselves. They may not have transportation to get good food for Gary Heald dished up plate after plate of pulled pork sandwiches, a nice, warm meal,” said Jane corn-on-the-cob and potato salad.

Harris, a member of the commission and volunteer at the “If you don’t feed the body, how event. can you feed the soul?” Mike said.

“It’s a community meal; some Rose Young, a long-time people need the community need parishioner of All Saints, got three filled and some people need the of her friends together from the meal. That’s why we do it.” retirement complex where she lives.

A group of young people who “I saw it in the bulletin and meet at All Saints to study thoughtCathSpMermaid-July17-2014_Layout we should come,” she apologetics took 1 6/27/14 11:52 A up two tables. said. “We came last month and They normally meet for dinner

before their studies and decided to see what the event was all about.

“I’ve been hoping that they would get something like this going for years,” said Bill Rysavy, co-leader of the group. “I love the idea of quiet evangelization. . . . It’s to try to build the sense of community up with people who otherwise may not have felt drawn in.”

Right now, the commission is providing foodshelf-type items for people to take with them when they leave.

But, the intent is to offer broader services in the future. The group is thinking of starting with transportation to the dinner for people who need it, and expanding later.

“It is kind of intended that we develop this program. We grow it and we keep building on it. That’s our intention here. This is small in terms of what we want and what we really see for the future,” Munch said.

“We investigated a lot of other programs before we did this, and we find that a lot of our neighbors in Protestant churches are way ahead of us in terms of Christian outreach, and so we feel that’s where we need to be moving and [be] more ecumenical,” Jane Harris said.

The commission has been working with Hosanna Lutheran Church in Lakeville because it has a similar program that’s been successful.

The August dinner, which will be on the 14th, will be held along with the annual parish garage sale, a summer celebration under a tent outside with a grill theme, Munch said.

“I’m so thankful for All Saints to offer something like this,” she said.

“So thankful and proud.”

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Local group continues legacy of Vincentian priest

By Kristi Anderson For The Catholic Spirit

Since 2004, more than 10,000 people from across the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis have experienced hope and healing through an annual six-day silent retreat created by Vincentian Father Joseph K. Bill.

Father Bill, who was born in Kerala, India, experienced his own healing in 1976, claiming Jesus touched him and healed his heart not only physically, but also spiritually. According to his legacy, he realized he needed to “cast off his old life, and that preaching the Word of God was his new and only mission.”

Rita Hanson, a Father Joseph K. parishioner at Transfiguration in BILL Oakdale, met Father Bill in 2004 as an attendee of one of his retreats at Camp Friendship near Annandale.

“I heard the ad for the retreat on the radio,” Hanson said. “It was just after my husband was in a

very serious accident and was left with a lot of problems. I wanted to go for him. To my surprise, it ended up being my life that was healed.”

Hanson now coordinates the Father Joseph K. Bill Ministry in the archdiocese. Father Bill traveled to Minnesota four years in a row until his death in 2008. Now, other members of the Vincentian Congregation based in India continue hosting annual retreats in the archdiocese, as well as all over the world.

“The outreach of this ministry is to bring the healing touch of Jesus to everyone,” Hanson explained.

“The faith and preaching of the Vincentian priests is amazing.

There is a richness of faith that is very different in India from America. They bring that gift with them and use it to transform lives.”

A healing experience Cheryl Connolly, also a member of Transfiguration, believes hers was one of many lives transformed at the most recent retreat in June.

The retreat covered a variety of topics starting with the love of God, repentance, forgiveness, the body/soul connection, sacraments and the life of the Church.

Connolly said a turning point was toward the end of the retreat.

“One of the brothers got up and announced that someone had just been healed from a chronic headache, but not just any kind of headache, one that included some swelling on the left side of the brain,” Connolly said.

“I sat there in amazement,” she said. “I realized he was talking about me.”

Connolly had fallen two years ago and suffered from head pain and swelling on the left side of her brain.

“All I could do was cry,” she said.

“No one there knew me or knew what I had been through. I couldn’t believe this was happening.”

attendees and others who want to stay connected with the ministry.

“Once you’ve had a lifechanging event like this retreat, the question is always, ‘Now what?’” Hanson said. “So we decided to come together like the early Christians did: to meet in homes, share a meal, pray together, spend time in praise and worship and also continue our learning. It is a time to be with like-minded people, a time to grow in holiness.”

Hanson has traveled to the Divine Retreat Centre in Muringoor, India, the largest Catholic retreat center in the world, where Father Bill began his work.

“I really want people to know that hope and healing are still possible,” Hanson expressed, “that the same Jesus that walked the earth 2,000 years ago is here now and wants to heal us.”

Staying connected

For more information, visit frbillusa.net or the Divine Retreat Centre, Muringoor, drcm.org.

Or, contact Rita Hanson at (651) 303-0532.

Connolly belongs to a group that Hanson coordinates — a monthly prayer group of past

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Natural family planners cautious about new fertility monitoring apps

By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service As new fertility monitoring applications such as Clue and Glow make news, specialists in natural family planning caution that any technological application is only as good as the expertise behind it and the comfort level of its users.

“The caveat with any app is: Who designed it? Is it a real NFP educator?” said Theresa Notare, assistant director of natural family planning in the Secretariat of Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “Is there concrete, clear information folded into the app?”

Notare acknowledged that she does not have personal experience with new smartphone apps such as Glow, marketed by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin and aimed primarily at those trying to achieve pregnancy, and Clue, which helps women monitor various physical symptoms to avoid pregnancy or become pregnant.

John Kippley, president of Natural Family Planning International, based in Cincinnati, said apps can be “a waste of money” unless they educate couples about the science behind the measurements.

“But if they can get people oriented toward natural family planning, then they can be worthwhile,” he added.

Natural family planning involves the monitoring of certain physical signs and symptoms to help a woman track the fertile and infertile phases of her menstrual cycle.

It is the only method of avoiding pregnancy supported by the Catholic Church.

But Ida Tin, the developer of Clue, said her ultimate goal is “to replace the birth control pill, or at least give an alternative” to the use of hormonal birth control, which the Church opposes.

Clue adds self-measurements of such categories as sex drive, mood, pain levels and skin problems to its algorithm that determines fertile days.

Although they may not be getting the national media coverage given to Glow and Clue, several fertility apps with ties to

Catholic universities or to the Couple to Couple League, a natural family planning organization with Catholic roots, are on the market now or will be soon. These include: • MUFertility, developed by the Marquette University College of Nursing Institute for Natural Family Planning and used in connection with the Clearblue Easy fertility monitor, which measures hormonal levels in the urine to determine fertility.

• iCycleBeads, which uses the “standard days method” of family planning and originated at the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University in Washington.

• CycleProGo, offered by the Couple to Couple League in Cincinnati, “allows couples to chart electronically, record symptoms, confirm their fertility status, and share charts with their teacher or friends,” the organization’s website says. Charts and data can be accessed from multiple devices, so husband and wife can both be involved in charting. CycleProGo can also be used to determine peak fertility as an aid to achieving pregnancy.

Among the other apps currently offered for sale or for free are Woman Calendar, iChartMe, myNFP, MeFertil, NFP Manager:Sympto, FemiCycle, iOvulation, Nurtur, FemCal: Period and Ovulation Calendar, My Cycles and iFertility Log. Prices range up to about $9.99, although some many offer additional services or notifications for an additional fee.

Some work only with a specific form of natural family planning — Creighton, Billings or Marquette — while others, like myFertilityMD, work with all three methods.

Notare said that as a couple first begins to use natural family planning, it is especially important that an NFP educator be available to answer their questions so such access should be built in to every app.

“It’s the way of the current generation of young adults” to want information available on their smartphones and laptops, she said, adding that a distance learning course in natural family planning is in the works.

July 20-26 is National Natural Family Planning Awareness Week The Catholic Spirit The dates of National Natural Family Planning Awareness Week highlight the anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical “Humanae Vitae” (July 25), which articulates Catholic beliefs about human sexuality, conjugal love and responsible parenthood. The dates also mark the feast of Sts. Joachim and Anne (July 26), the parents of the Blessed Mother.

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Online resources Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis Current NFP schedules and information about the various NFP methods are available at: archspm.org/family/ under Natural Family Planning. Or, call (651) 291-4489 Billings Ovulation Method boma-usa.org Couple to Couple League (sympto-thermal) twincities.ccli.org (Class registration online) Family of the Americas (ovulation) familyplanning.net Twin Cities FertilityCare Center (Creighton ovulation method) tcnfp.org/

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Additional class options Fertility care classes at AALFA Family Clinic in White Bear Lake by appointment (651) 653-0062

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Why sit and wait when you can educate?

At doctor’s office, local woman sees opportunity to introduce Natural Family Planning

By Annmarie Kirsch For The Catholic Spirit “Oh my goodness. I have been praying that if the sterilization I have scheduled for Monday morning is contrary to God’s will, He would put a block in my path.”

“I am your block. Sterilization is not in God’s plan for anyone. He has a much better plan for you and your marriage. It’s called natural family planning.”

“Let me get your number and call you back. I have five minutes before my doctor’s office closes to cancel the tubal ligation surgery scheduled for 8 a.m.

Monday.”

This telephone conversation took place a month or two after the young woman on the phone and I met, seemingly randomly, in the waiting room of our doctor’s office.

We were the only two patients in the large room.

This enabled the Annmarie conversation that followed.

KIRSCH I was there for a glucose tolerance test in my third pregnancy. The pretty, strawberry-blonde was there for a Depo-Provera shot [contraceptive injection], because she thought she would go crazy if she were to conceive another child. She was the mother of three “very high energy” young boys who kept her constantly on her toes.

“Are you happy with this contraceptive?” I asked.

“No, it has side effects I do not like, but all the others I have tried have also had side effects,” she replied.

Since either of us could be called in to the doctor at any moment, we exchanged numbers before losing our chance. Immediately after doing so, she was called away.

We each went on with our busy lives as young mothers and forgot about the notes in our respective purses for a month or two. Then one day, the Holy Spirit prompted me to call the number, and I obeyed. We talked on the phone and met as couples on Sunday afternoon. They had never once been told by a doctor about the abortifacient nature of some of these contraceptives, and resolved to sign up for NFP classes. They were not Catholics, but Christians seeking truth. The young woman shared that she needed to hear about NFP from someone who was “in the trenches” with her, not an eloquent preacher.

Jesus established his Church. His Holy Spirit is still leading her into all truth. Life in Christ is an adventure when we become God’s hands as servants in his vineyard. He needs all of us to evangelize in the ways he has planned.

Kirsch, a community volunteer, and her husband, Andrew, have five children and are parishioners at the Cathedral of St. Paul.

11 Churches’ official says only essential medical staff are working

By Judith Sudilovsky Catholic News Service The situation in hospitals in the Gaza Strip is dire, and Palestinians are saying that medical supplies will soon run out, said a cardiologist who serves with the Near East Council of Churches in Gaza.

Dr. Issa Tarazi, executive director of Near East Council of Churches Department of Services to Palestinian Refugees in Gaza, told Catholic News Service by telephone that Gaza’s streets have very little traffic, and only emergency and hospital staff workers are working.

“Everyone in Gaza considers themselves a target,” he told CNS July 14. “People are scared about what is going on.”

“There are many displaced people,” Tarazi added. During the interview, the sound of planes could be heard over the phone as Israel’s Operation Protective Shield headed into its second week.

Thousands of people have fled and are seeking refuge largely in U.N. schools and facilities. Israel has said it is keeping humanitarian corridors into Gaza open.

Tarazi said he expected outpatient clinics such as the Caritas clinic and private hospitals to have a greater influx of patients than usual once the hostilities are over because governmental hospitals will have little or no medical supplies left.

The Israeli Defense Forces launched an offensive into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in early July in response to Hamas militants lobbing missiles into Israel.

Tarazi told CNS that the previous day, a missile landed on a fourstory structure not far from where he lives. He said although Israel gives warning “knocks” to residents to leave, they have only seconds to evacuate their homes before the missiles come.

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‘Everyone in Gaza considers themselves a target’

Israel maintains that its warnings give adequate time to civilians to leave the targeted areas, from where they believe missiles have been fired or where weapons are being hidden. Israel says it is also targeting militants’ homes.

“We are against the killing of all civilians,” Tarazi said. “It is a vicious circle, one starts shooting and the other replies and the losers are the civilians.”

An Israeli soldier adjusts the barrel of a tank at a military staging area outside the northern Gaza Strip July 14. Israel said it shot down a drone from Gaza a week into its offensive, the first reported deployment of an unmanned aircraft by Palestinian militants whose rocket attacks have been regularly intercepted. CNS/Nir Elias, Reuters

By July 14, more than 170 people — about half civilians — had been killed in Gaza, and hundreds more were injured. In Israel, where the Iron Dome defense system had warded off dozens of Hamas missiles, there was some property damage and a handful of injuries.

The situation has continued to deteriorate following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli youths in the West Bank and the apparent revenge killing of a Palestinian teen.

Tarazi said he had been unable to reach his work since the offensive began, and his wife and

17-year-old son left for Jordan to be with relatives so his son could continue with his studies. His three older children already live abroad, he said. He remained because of job responsibilities as well as to look after several elderly relatives, whom he could not reach because of the bombing.

“The situation is difficult; there is no future in Gaza, no work, no economy. They have to start their life (somewhere else),” he said about his children living abroad.

“One day, if the situation changes and there is work, maybe they can come back.”

“I hope things calm down and they begin to negotiate peace. We are fed up with this,” he added.

Father David Neuhaus, patriarchal vicar for the Hebrew-speaking Catholics in the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, told CNS; “What we are seeing is a cycle of ,iolence signaling that especially the Israeli and Palestinian leadership are not willing to live together, despite the fact that when you ask most people here, they are willing to do so.

“Instead of the leadership leading the people to a better place, they are keeping them in a deadlock.”

Despite the current situation, he said, people must have faith in God’s plan, believing that God will “make emerge a leadership who will speak a different language and not constantly refer to the ‘enemy’ on the other side but to ‘brothers and sisters’ on the other side.”

Vatican questions accuracy of latest papal interview

By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service The Vatican said the latest published interview with Pope Francis, in which he says fighting sex abuse and the mafia will be priorities of his pontificate, should not be considered a record of his exact words.

According to the article, published July 13 in the Rome daily La Repubblica, the pope also spoke about failings of the modern family, the nature of divine forgiveness and possible changes to the discipline of priestly celibacy.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, promptly released a statement confirming that the article “captures the spirit of the conversation” between Pope Francis and journalist Eugenio Scalfari, but cautioning that the “individual expressions that were used and the manner in which they have been reported cannot be attributed to the pope.”

Suggesting that the “naive reader is being manipulated” by certain portions of the article, Father Lombardi expressed particular skepticism about two statements attributed to Pope Francis: a claim that some cardinals have been guilty of sexually abusing children, and a vow to “find solutions” to the “problem” of priestly celibacy.

According to Scalfari, the article was based on his third private conversation with the pope, an hour long meeting at the pope’s Vatican residence July 10.

Scalfari’s first meeting with the pope, last September, was the basis for an Oct. 1 article that quoted Pope Francis as saying he had considered turning down the papacy in the moments after his March 2013 election.

That article was republished in the Vatican newspaper but was later removed from the paper’s website after doubts were raised over its accuracy. Father Lombardi explained it “should be considered

[The] “individual expressions that were used and the manner in which they have been reported cannot be attributed to the pope.”

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman

faithful on the whole to the mind of the pope, but not necessarily in its particular words and the accuracy of its details.”

Scalfari himself later told reporters that his quotations of the pope were based on memory, not notes or a tape recording.

The men’s dialogue began when

Scalfari, an avowed atheist, publicly addressed the pope in a pair of articles on religious and philosophical topics over the summer of 2013, and the pope replied in a letter that La Repubblica published last September.

In their latest meeting, Scalfari writes, Pope Francis said “reliable data” indicate 2 percent of Catholic priests are guilty of sexually abusing children.

“This statistic ought to reassure me, but I must say it doesn’t reassure me at all,” the pope reportedly said, three days after his first meeting with a group of sex abuse survivors. “The 2 percent who are pedophiles are priests and even bishops and cardinals. And others, even more numerous, know but keep quiet, punish but do not say why. I find this state of affairs unsustainable, and it is my intention to address it with the severity it deserves.”

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12 BRIEFS BATON ROUGE, La.

Court may compel priest to break confessional seal in abuse case Louisiana’s Supreme Court has ruled that a priest may be compelled to testify as to what he heard in the confessional in 2008 concerning an abuse case.

The priest, Father Jeff Bayhi, faces automatic excommunication if he breaks the seal of the confessional. But he also could face jailing if found to be in contempt of the court should he refuse to testify.

In the case, a girl who was 14 in 2008 said she told her parish priest — Father Bayhi, pastor of St. John the Baptist Parish in Zachary — in the confessional that she was abused by a now-dead lay member of the parish.

The girl’s parents sued Father Bayhi and the Diocese of Baton Rouge for failing to report the abuse. The parents won at the district court level about compelling the priest to testify, but lost in Louisiana’s First Circuit Court of Appeals, before the state’s highest court reversed and vacated the appellate court’s decision.

“As you know, one of the great sacraments of healing in the Church is the sacrament of reconciliation/confession. It has given hope and comfort to all Catholics throughout the centuries and continues to do so today,” Father Bayhi said in a July 7 statement.

“The seal of confession is one that can never be broken. Through its use the faithful must always be protected, so much so, that as a priest I cannot even say someone has come to confession, let alone divulge the contents of what was revealed.”

The Baton Rouge Diocese, in its own statement July 7, said the state Supreme Court violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in its decision.

VATICAN CITY

Vatican appoints first woman rector of pontifical university The Congregation for Catholic Education has named Angeline Franciscan Sister Mary Melone, 49, to a three-year term as rector of Rome’s Pontifical Antonianum University, making her the first woman to head a pontifical university in Rome.

The Antonianum is run by the Order of Friars Minor — the Franciscan fathers and brothers — and offers degrees in canon law, theology, philosophy, biblical studies and archaeology, Franciscan spirituality and medieval studies.

In 2011, Sister Melone’s all-male colleagues elected her the first woman dean of a theology department at a pontifical university in Rome. She earned her doctorate in theology at the Antonianum in 2000 and served as president of its religious studies department in both the 2001-02 and 2007-08 academic years.

She also is president of the Italian Society for Theological Research.

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Vatican formally recognizes international association of exorcists The Vatican formally recognized an international association of exorcists founded

by Pauline Father Gabriele Amorth, an Italian priest renowned for his work in dispelling demons.

The Congregation for Clergy signed the formal decree June 13 approving the group’s statutes and granting it “private juridical personality,” which recognizes the group’s autonomy as an organization of Catholics not operating in the name of the Catholic Church, but as having some accountability to the Vatican.

The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, published the news July 3.

The International Association of Exorcists is headquartered in Rome and was co-founded

by Father Amorth and the French exorcist, Father Rene Chenessau.

Father Amorth, who works as an exorcist in the Diocese of Rome, started bringing Italian exorcists together in the 1980s in response to an upsurge in interest in Satanism and occult practices. The aim was to have exorcists gather regularly to exchange their experiences and best practices, the Vatican newspaper said.

The first international conference was held in 1994, and since then, an international gathering has been held every other year. The association claims 250 exorcist-members from 30 different countries, the newspaper said.

The Catholic Church has explicit rules and rituals for exorcism, and any attempt at exorcism must follow those rules precisely.

The exorcist — always a priest — also must be explicitly assigned by the local bishop to perform the rite, and he must be certain the person is experiencing real demonic possession, and not some kind of emotional or psychiatric disturbance.

Popes John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis frequently warned the devil is a concrete reality who still exerts his influence in modern times.

LOS ANGELES

Knights of Columbus pledges $1.4 million to Special Olympics The Knights of Columbus has pledged $1.4 million to help cover costs for next year’s Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles.

The donation, announced July 14 in Los Angeles, will help cover on-the-ground costs for the 7,000 participants expected to compete in the games.

The contribution covers more than 8 percent of the Special Olympics’ projected $17 million budget for the 2015 games. Supreme Knight Carl Anderson, the head of the fraternal organization, told Catholic News Service that the donation would cover the costs of all Americans and Canadians expected to participate.

The Knights’ affiliation with a sponsorship of Special Olympics dates back to the first games in 1968.

Abuse victim who met with pope calls it ‘huge vindication’

By Michael Kelly Catholic News Service

One of the Irish survivors of clerical sexual abuse who met Pope Francis July 7 described the encounter as a “huge vindication” for her.

The victim, Marie Kane, also asked the pope to remove Cardinal Sean Brady as archbishop of Armagh, Northern Ireland.

Cardinal Brady was the subject of sharp criticism after a 2012 documentary revealed that he had been involved in a 1975 canonical inquiry into a notorious abuser-priest, Norbertine Father Brendan Smyth. Despite the canonical process, Father Smyth evaded the civil authorities for decades and went on to abuse in Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic and the United States before finally being arrested in 1994.

Kane, 43, told Ireland’s state-run radio RTE that she asked Pope Francis to remove Cardinal Brady due to his handling of a clerical child abuse inquiry in 1975.

“It’s a big thing with me that there are still members of the hierarchy there who were involved in the cover-up. I feel personally they (the Church) cannot contemplate any change happening, there will be no success,” as long as such people remained in place, she said.

Kane said she told the pontiff that “cover-up is still happening, and you have the power to make these changes.” There were others besides Cardinal Brady, she said, but “I didn’t want to go into a litany.” She said Pope Francis responded that “it was difficult to make these changes,” she added, “but it’s a big thing with me that Sean Brady is gone.”

On Aug. 16, Cardinal Brady turns 75 and, under canon law, will be obliged to submit his resignation as archbishop of Armagh. Canon law does not require the pope to accept a resignation.

Kane, one of six survivors who met the pope at the Vatican, said she met with him privately for about 20 minutes. She was accompanied by Marie Collins, also an abuse survivor and a member of the new Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, which met July 6 at the Vatican.

Apart from seeking the removal of Cardinal Brady, the rest of Kane’s discussion with Pope Francis was “more personal” she said. She discussed the effect of her abuse and its subsequent handling by the Church on her two children, ages 18 and 14.

“They have no belief in the Church in any shape or form,” she told RTE. She said she found Pope Francis “very, very humble. There was no standing on ceremony.

No pomp. I felt very comfortable, relaxed. He seemed genuinely frustrated at what he was hearing. He listened and seemed genuine. There was a lot of empathy. There was no looking at watches. I was the one who ended it as I had said all I wanted to say.”

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Deacon Thomas McKenzie

Growing God’s kingdom: What we can learn about patience from parables For three straight Sundays, we hear a total of seven parables from Jesus Christ.

Last Sunday, we heard the Parable of the Sower, and in this discourse we learn that Jesus speaks in parables to those who have not been granted “knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven . . . because they look but do not see and hear but do not listen or understand” (Matthew 13:11-13).

This week, we gain a new insight as to why Jesus speaks in parables

— he is proclaiming what was hidden to all people from the beginning of the world (Matthew 13:35). On earth, there is no better way to talk about heaven than through the use of parables.

The three parables we hear in this Sunday’s Gospel point to the kingdom of heaven growing here on earth. However, there is tension because the world is not ready to accept the kingdom growing in its midst. It is not difficult for us to see that there are many people throughout the world, and even in

our own cities, who are not open to listening to the word of God and allowing the kingdom to grow.

The first parable gives us the image of the seed of God growing among the weeds that were sown by the “enemy” of God (Matthew 13:25). God allows the weeds to grow alongside the wheat because if the weeds are pulled too early, it may cause harm to the wheat that is growing. This parable can really test our patience because we so often want to get rid of the bad in our society or in our own lives.

So many of us are experiencing a reawakening to evangelize and make more disciples of Jesus Christ. But often, those we want to bring back to the Church do not agree with all of her dogmas and moral teachings. We should not let those initial obstacles get in the way. Of course, we want everyone to be in full conformity to the teachings of the Church, but it will take time and patience.

These various scenarios involving tension in someone’s life with the Church may be seen as the weeds in the parable. A small seed has been sown in a person’s

life where they are beginning to fall in love with Jesus Christ and the Church. We shouldn’t stifle this growing wheat seed just because we cannot stand the weeds surrounding it.

If we are patient, we know the weeds and wheat will eventually be separated, and the weeds will be collected, tied into bundles, and eventually burned (Matthew 13:30). The wheat can then be brought to the granary where it will be a pure offering to God. He allows the weeds to grow with the wheat because he governs with much leniency, as we hear in the book of Wisdom, and it allows for a “good ground for hope” that there will be “repentance for their sins” (Wisdom 12:19).

Deacon McKenzie is in formation for the priesthood at the St. Paul Seminary for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. His teaching parish is St. Bridget of Sweden in Lindstrom. His home parish is St. Vincent de Paul in Brooklyn Park.

Focus on Faith • Scripture Readings

SUNDAY SCRIPTURES

Sunday, July 20 Sixteenth Sunday in ordinary time Wisdom 12:13, 16-19 Romans 8:26-27 Matthew 13:24-43 Reflection: How can you welcome someone into the Church?

DAILY Scriptures Sunday, July 20 Sixteenth Sunday in ordinary time Wisdom 12:13, 16-19 Romans 8:26-27 Matthew 13:24-43

Jeremiah 1:1, 4-10 Matthew 13:1-9 Thursday, July 24 St. Sharbel Makhlaf, priest Jeremiah 2:1-3, 7-8, 12-13 Matthew 13:10-17

1 Kings 3:5, 7-12 Romans 8:28-30 Matthew 13:44-52 Monday, July 28 Jeremiah 13:1-11 Matthew 13:31-35

Friday, July 25 St. James, apostle 2 Corinthians 4:7-15 Matthew 20:20-28

Tuesday, July 29 St. Martha Jeremiah 14:17-22 John 11:19-276

Tuesday, July 22 St. Mary Magdalene Micah 7:14-15, 18-20 John 20:1-2, 11-18

Saturday, July 26 Sts. Joachim and Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary Jeremiah 7:1-11 Matthew 13:24-30

Wednesday, July 30 St. Peter Chrysologus, bishop, doctor of the Church Jeremiah 15:10, 16-21 Matthew 13:44-46

Wednesday, July 23 St. Bridget of Sweden, religious

Sunday, July 27 Seventeenth Sunday in ordinary time

Thursday, July 31 St. Ignatius of Loyola, priest

Monday, July 21 St. Lawrence of Brindisi, priest, doctor of the Church Micah 6:1-4, 6-8 Matthew 12:38-42

Jeremiah 18:1-6 Matthew 13:47-53 Friday, Aug. 1 St. Alphonsus Liguori, bishop, doctor of the Church Jeremiah 26:1-9 Matthew 13:54-58 Saturday, Aug. 2 St. Eusebius of Vercelli, bishop; St. Peter Julian Eymard, priest Jeremiah 26:11-16, 24 Matthew 14:1-12 Sunday, Aug. 3 Eighteenth Sunday in ordinary time Isaiah 55:1-3 Romans 8:35, 37-39 Matthew 14:13-21

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Focus on Faith • Seeking Answers

14 SEEKING ANSWERS Father Kenneth Doyle

Holy Father as a Jesuit Q. Is Pope Francis still bound by the religious vows he professed as a Jesuit? I would imagine that Ignatian spirituality still plays a large role in his daily life, but is he still technically a member of the religious order? As pope, would he no longer be subject in obedience to the Jesuit Superior General?

A. The question you raise — whether Pope Francis is still a Jesuit — is an interesting one and is, in fact, disputed by canonists. Some say that years ago, when he became a bishop, he was dispensed from his vows of poverty and obedience and therefore exited the Jesuits. I think that’s being over-technical.

He was dispensed from poverty because, canonically, a bishop owns diocesan property, and from obedience, because from episcopal ordination on, a bishop is subject to the pope rather than to his religious superior. I consider Francis to be still a Jesuit, and I think that

he does, too.

Just a few days after his election to the papacy, Francis wrote a letter to the Jesuit Superior General in which the pope referred to the Jesuits as “our beloved order”, and his papal coat of arms contains the official seal of the Jesuit order.

I would hold that Francis remains a Jesuit and is still bound by his Jesuit vows, but with an asterisk — and I would quote Code of Canon Law No. 705 in defense of that position. Nothing is said directly in the Church’s code about a religious who has been be elected pope, but Canon No. 705 does state that, “A religious raised to the episcopate remains a member of his institute but is subject only to the Roman Pontiff by virtue of the vow of obedience....”

So, Francis, I would conclude, continues to be bound by the vows of chastity and poverty (simplicity of lifestyle) but not by obedience.

Father Ladislas M. Orsy, a Jesuit

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Ignatian spirituality (St. Ignatius of Loyola founded the Jesuits in 1534) clearly threads its way through much of what Pope Francis says and writes.

Father Kenneth Doyle

canon lawyer who teaches at Georgetown University Law Center, said recently of the pope, “His vow of obedience . . . loses its meaning because he has no Superior to obey.”

Jesuit Father James Martin pointed out recently that Pope Francis has more than once invited his hearers to picture themselves present at a Gospel scene and to

consider how they would have responded to Jesus — a meditation technique favored by Ignatius in his spiritual exercises.

Father Doyle writes for Catholic News Service. A priest of the Diocese of Albany, N.Y., he previously served as director of media relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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Ginny Kubitz Moyer

Smartphones and daydreams I have very few stare-off-intospace moments these days. Nearly every minute is filled with something claiming my attention. I can’t blame this entirely on my two young kids, nor can I blame it on the teaching job that claims vast amounts of attention 10 months out of the year. These are factors in my busy-ness, yes, but there’s another, more insidious force that always seems to fill the empty spaces in my life.

That force is the Internet.

Earlier this year, my high school students and I were reading William Wordsworth’s famous poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud.” In the poem, the narrator recalls walking alone through the countryside and coming upon a lakeshore covered with thousands of daffodils. In the

last stanza, he says that when he finds himself “in vacant or in pensive mood,” the memory of those daffodils comes back to him, filling his heart with pleasure.

I’ve read and taught this poem countless times, but this year, the words “in vacant and in pensive mood” struck me anew. Is there a better way to describe daydreaming?

Wordsworth perfectly captures that state of not actively thinking of anything else, not actively doing anything else . . . just being open to wherever our thoughts lead us.

And it hit me: I am rarely in a vacant or pensive mood anymore, because there is always something to fill those empty moments. It’s a small rectangular something that I carry in my purse. With a few swipes and taps I’m able to access email,

FAITH IN THE PUBLIC ARENA Jason Adkins

Environmental debates need prudence, principles Americans are more conscious than ever of their responsibility to be good stewards of the environment. Years of successful public relations campaigns and the work of tireless activists have ensured that protecting Creation is at the forefront of public discourse.

Yet, the debates over some of the biggest environmental challenges — climate change, hydraulic fracking, soil and water contamination, air quality, sustainable agriculture, the global competition for scarce natural resources — seem to be dominated by false choices, as though being stewards of the created order and fostering a proper “human ecology” is a zero-sum game.

What is worse are the debates themselves, either dominated by nakedly ideological sound bites that operate as rhetorical tools of special interests, or scientific jargon that is inaccessible to laypersons and leaves people wondering whom and what data to trust.

How should a person of faith approach these important questions as they relate to public policy?

For decades, the Church both in the United States and around the

world has been deeply considering the challenges facing the created order, and the relevant principles needed to address them.

One resource from the American bishops, though specifically addressing climate change, is particularly valuable as a framework from which to consider many questions of environmental policy.

In “Global Climate Change: A Plea for Dialogue, Prudence, and the Common Good” (2001), the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops did not seek to urge a particular policy solution for the problems of climate change, but to instead “call for a different kind of national discussion,” to move past the ineffective environmental debates previously mentioned.

They note that global climate change, like many environmental questions, is not about political platforms or special-interest group pressures. Rather, “it is about the future of God’s creation and the one human family. It is about protecting both the ‘human environment’ and the ‘natural environment.’ It is about our human stewardship of God’s creation and our responsibility to those who come after us.”

Facebook, my favorite clothing website.

This means I no longer have random moments of daydreaming when I’m waiting in line for coffee or at the bank. I fill those moments with a quick check of tomorrow’s weather, or a quick read of a blogpost. It’s lovely, this ability to be so connected . . . but it comes at a cost. I fear that I’m losing the habit of simply waiting, simply being, without needing to distract myself.

This feels like a spiritual issue, primarily. Yes, online resources do feed my faith; I have my favorite prayer sites, and as a blogger myself, I love the community that can be created through the Internet. But dreaming time without an agenda is crucial to knowing myself and God more deeply.

As a parent, I’ve noticed that when my kids have blocks of unscheduled free time, they get wondrously imaginative, writing stories and tapping into creative depths that always surprise me.

Likewise, if I give myself time to daydream, those moments that initially seem empty end up being filled with new ideas, with vivid

memories or images that I’m processing from the day.

When I’m busy chasing information on my phone, those ideas and memories and images don’t have a chance to find me. And so often God comes to me in precisely that way, in the feelings that swirl up and take me by surprise, in the still small moments when I’m not scrolling down a screen.

So I’m resolving to remember this the next time I’m stuck in a line somewhere. Instead of filling the time with my phone, I’ll let myself slip into a vacant and pensive mood, open to whatever comes.

It may be a lovely memory of the gentle beauty of nature. It may be a snippet of an idea that later fires my creativity. It may be God nudging me in a certain direction. It may be all of the above.

Whatever it is, I don’t want to miss it.

The bishops state that any response to climate change must be rooted in prudence, which requires us to continue to research and monitor the phenomenon, as well as take steps not to mitigate possible negative effects in the future.

bishops propose? Experience tells us the answer is “yes.”

Further, in a debate often dominated by special interests, special attention must be given to the impact of environmental problems — and the solutions designed to address them — on the “poor and vulnerable.”

According to the bishops: “Inaction and inadequate or misguided responses to climate change will likely place even greater burdens on already desperately poor peoples. Action to mitigate global warming must be built upon a foundation of social and economic justice that does not put the poor at greater risk or place disproportionate or unfair burdens on developing nations.”

Among the different considerations when examining potential policies to address environmental problems, the bishops identify “stewardship and the right to economic initiative and private property”; the needs of “future generations”; “population and authentic development”; and “caring for the poor and issues of equity.”

The common good will be built up or diminished, the bishops contend, by the quality of the public debate.

The debate over climate change, and many other related issues, continues. Is there a possibility that today’s challenges can be addressed in the rational manner that the

Kubitz Moyer is the author of Random MOMents of Grace: Experiencing God in the Adventures of Motherhood. She blogs at RandomActsofMomness.com.

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Wilderness and wonder This year marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Wilderness Act, which created the National Wilderness Preservation System. It will not receive as much attention as the anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, passed the same year, but it is also an extraordinary piece of legislation. Using almost poetic language, this piece of legislation recognized wilderness as “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”

Since its creation, Congress has designated more than 106 million acres of federal public lands as wilderness: 44 million of these acres are in 47 parks and total 53 percent of National Park System lands. Wilderness area, protected from unnecessary development and exploitation, now accounts for 5 percent of the entire landmass of the United States.

The creation of the Wilderness Act represents an inspiring moment in history when the political community acted with foresight and with the recognition that the natural environment is good for its own sake.

If Catholics can add some leaven to the environmental debate with the principles of Catholic social teaching, it is possible that we will again be able to tackle the toughest environmental questions with legislation that truly serves the common good.

Adkins is executive director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference.

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New healthcare resource links Catholic patients, providers

By Adelaide Mena Catholic News Agency A new healthcare website hopes to link together Catholic patients and healthcare providers in order to address the cultural challenges facing Catholics around the country.

“There’s more to being Catholic . . . than simply, ‘we don’t use birth control,’” Dr. Greg Bottaro said of how the faith affects participation in the healthcare industry.

“There’s an integration between our faith and our professional life as a healthcare provider where we treat the person differently from the start.”

Bottaro is the founder of WellCatholic.com, a website he hopes will link Catholic patients with doctors who uphold Catholic values in their health practices across all medical disciplines.

“We’re created to be a resource for Catholics to find Catholic providers,” Bottaro said. “And at the same time, it’s a resource for Catholic providers to be recognized and supported for practicing according to Catholic values.”

He said that while working as a Catholic psychologist in New York, he was struck by how many people would ask for recommendations

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when you’re in your most vulnerable state. It hurts that much deeper when your faith is called into question and you’re belittled or degraded because of it” in these situations.

While there are already some services that list Catholic doctors and other health providers, Bottaro said, they are typically not userfriendly and are intended for a small number of people rather than marketed to the public.

“Story after story came in saying that there were so many ways that not having that faith in common really hurt the care they were receiving.”

Dr. Greg Bottaro, founder of WellCatholic.com

for Catholic doctors elsewhere in the country.

These conversations led him to realize “there’s definitely a huge demand for healthcare” that respects a patient’s beliefs, as well as those of their health provider.

“Story after story came in saying that there were so many ways that not having that faith in common really hurt the care they were receiving,” Bottaro said.

This shared faith, he continued, is an important factor “especially

By focusing on linking the public and healthcare professionals in an online community, Bottaro said he hoped WellCatholic could “become a Catholic household name” that Catholics go to when they need a doctor.

However, for the venture to be most successful, communities on the ground need to help build WellCatholic as an online community — specifically in spreading the word among doctors and patients.

“If people really love the vision and feel like they would benefit from this, we really need grassroots support,” Bottaro said.

“Right now, we’re just getting started, so there’s definitely a need for community support behind this.”

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By Bill Dodds Catholic News Service Recently, I was teaching my 9-year-old grandson how to play cribbage. I was dusting off a lot of mental cobwebs about the game.

We were quite pleased with ourselves.

He moved one of his pegs on the board. His smile widened, as he had three points more than I did.

I don’t know if he realized that this wasn’t about cribbage. I had told him my dad taught me to play when I was in grade school. I told him that I hoped when he is an old man, maybe he’ll teach his grandchild.

He nodded the way young people do when an old person says something and they know they’re supposed to agree.

I had told him that his grandma and I had bought the cribbage board on our honeymoon, 40 years ago. He’s still young enough not to lift his eyebrows at the thought of a just-married couple spending time playing cards. I told him that

didn’t listen much, or don’t remember listening, when my grandparents told me about old stuff. I suppose that’s a common regret.

My paternal grandfather was a homesteader in South Dakota. My maternal grandmother lost her parents in the flu epidemic in 1918 when she was 22.

What I do remember about them is their faith. They went to weekday Mass, said daily prayers.

Their home was filled with sacramentals, crucifixes, statues, pictures. love — marriage — is a multifaceted blessing.

As I dealt the next hand, I told him that we had bought the board with $5 my grandfather had given us for our wedding. In other words, he and I were keeping score on an item that came from his greatgreat-grandfather.

That brought a little nod from a youngster who has been told stories about “the old days.” I

And now, a large part of what I want to do with the rest of my life is be the same kind of example. I want my grandchildren to see the joy that living one’s Catholicism can bring.

That, too, is a multifaceted blessing. Part of that blessing is knowing what life on earth is really about. Not understanding it, but believing it, being able to believe it because of the God-given gift of faith.

From Age to Age

Cribbage and the kingdom of heaven I see that in the widowhood support groups I’ve been going to for the past year. Some members talk of their dear spouses in heaven. Others think death is simply the end of life, the end of existence.

It isn’t that those who believe in a heaven are better than the others. It isn’t that believing eliminates the deep and overwhelming pain that widowhood brings. But that Godgiven gift helps make it possible to realize, and maybe even grudgingly accept, that we’re all just passing through.

In death, we’re heading home.

We each leave at different times on a divine schedule that makes no sense to us. It’s one that hurts us in so many ways.

God made me to know, love and serve him in this world and be happy with him forever in the next.

Happiness is forever there. But, we have some temporary happiness here, too, amid sorrow, worry, stories and cribbage.

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Nun shares faith, creativity through custom murals

By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service Looking over her latest work, Sister Jane Mary Sorosiak picked up a piece of hardened clay depicting the face of St. Joseph and began touching up pinkish tones of glaze that will transform into a glossy flesh-colored finish once fired and cooled.

Satisfied with the final coat, the 84-year-old Sister of St. Francis of Sylvania carefully placed the face among the other pieces that will comprise the saint’s image, including hair and beard. When a piece is removed, she takes care to return it exactly to the appropriate numbered spot on the 4-foot diameter mural, alongside images of Mary and Jesus of the Holy Family.

“Joseph is easier to do than Mary,” explained Sister Jane Mary, wearing a pink flowered housecoat over her religious habit. “She has one whole face and you can’t divide her face very well.

“With Joseph I can cut off at the beard, I can cut off part of his hair.

But with Mary there’s no place you can really divide it. Mary has to be all one piece. Sometimes it’s dangerous to do a whole piece because it can crack in the kiln,” she said, drawing from nearly four decades of mural-making experience.

The mural of the Holy Family for Sandusky Central Catholic Elementary School is one of four that Sister Jane Mary has most recently been commissioned to create.

Others on her 150-square-foot worktable in the Alverno Studio on the campus of Lourdes University in suburban Toledo in July depicted Jesus the good shepherd surrounded by children, Christ with arms spread wide in a welcoming gesture, and St. Katharine Drexel of Philadelphia, who dedicated her life to ministering to African-Americans and American Indians.

Sister Jane Mary specializes in creating murals with religious and spiritual themes. She has been

crafting murals for 38 years, working with clients across the United States. In all, she estimates she has completed nearly 100 murals since she arrived at Lourdes to teach art in 1976.

Her first mural — a massive 40foot tall image of Christ installed on the Franciscan Center on campus — took more than two years to complete. Others, not quite so large, on campus buildings watch over students on their way to classes. While she may still tackle large projects, most of her commissions range up to 50 square feet in size.

Much of Sister Jane Mary’s work can be seen within a couple of hours of her studio, throughout northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. Her murals also can be found as far away as Vermont, Minnesota, Texas and California.

Over the years, Sister Jane Mary never has solicited work. It’s not her nature, she said.

“Almost every time I’m almost

Franciscan Sister Jane Mary Sorosiak mixes the glaze to paint clay murals she creates in a studio on the campus of Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio.

Sister Jane Mary has been crafting murals with religious and spiritual themes for the past 38 years.

CNS / Chaz Muth Franciscan Sister Jane Mary Sorosiak’s ceramic murals adorn the exteriors of buildings throughout the campus of Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio, close to the studio where she creates her artwork from clay. CNS / Chaz Muth finished doing something, then another commission comes in.

That’s why I think God wants me to do this. I don’t look for jobs. They keep coming to me. So I think I’m supposed to be doing this,” she said.

Each piece costs about $100 to $135 per square foot to create. That is in addition to delivery and installation expenses.

To this day, Sister Jane Mary

credits her religious community for supporting her work.

“They really let me go,” she said.

“Whatever I want to do they trust that I’m going to do the right thing, I guess. One of my cousins once said to me ‘If you weren’t a nun you’d probably be a millionaire.’ I said, ‘On the contrary, if I weren’t a nun I probably would have never done any of this.’”

Father, son and values tested in WWI novel

By Bob Zyskowski The Catholic Spiri The moral life takes center stage in Minnesotan P.S. Duffy’s “The Cartographer of No Man’s Land,” a World War I novel that centers on a family and village in Nova Scotia and the impact of the first “war to end all wars.”

To go to war or not, to fight or to give up, to love or go through the motions, to admire or be repulsed by, to change or carry on — the story lines come at the reader like the torrent of artillery shells pounding at the trenches one chapter and like the waves of the North Atlantic sweeping fishermen overboard the next.

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Caught in the middle are a father and son, and the novel jumps back and forth between their thoughts and dreams, their expectations and the experiences life throws their way.

Along the way Duffy sneaks in the dirty bit of history of bigotry that put ethnic-German Canadian citizens in detainment camps along with prisoners of war and “suspicious” aliens.

Those familiar with the writing

of ancient Greece will appreciate references to the classics scattered throughout.

Phrases from Scripture pop up, too, as wartime puts longaccepted values to the test both in France and back on the home front.

World War I garners a small percentage of battle literature in comparison to WWII, it seems to me, and the stories of Canadian soldiers even a smaller spot on the shelves compared to books about U.S. and

British forces.

“The Cartographer of No Man’s Land” puts a dent into those imbalances with a handful of captivating parallel plots, meaty characters, splashes of intense action and superb writing.

This Liveright Publishing Corporation release last fall is a marvelous example of the writer’s craft, and it offers great possibilities for a sequel. Introduced to these intriguing people, readers will surely want to know what happens next in their lives, and Duffy has set the stage well with plenty of ambiguity.

Zyskowski writes the bobzbookre views blog at CatholicHotdish.com.

19 Parish festival at St. Patrick, Cedar Lake Township — July 20: Mass at 10 a.m. followed by a grilled chicken dinner from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at 24425 Old Hwy. 13 Blvd., Jordan. Cost for dinner is $12 for adults, $6 for children and under 3 are free. Also features quilt and woodcraft raffles, games, country store, live music, pull tabs and an antique tractor display.

Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary at St. Pius X, White Bear Lake — Aug. 1 and 2: 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. at 3878 Highland Ave. The evening includes rosary, confessions, Mass of reparation to the Sacred Heart at 7:30 p.m., exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, silent and public prayers, Benediction, Mass of reparation to the Immaculate Heart at midnight and closing prayers. Call (651) 426-9401 for more information, or visit fatimaonline.org.

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32nd Annual Festival at St. Mary of Czestochowa, Delano — July 20: Serving pork chops, roast beef, corn on the cob and more from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at 1867 95th St. Also features games, music and raffles.

School events Summer Community Play ‘Pippin’ at Cretin-Derham Hall, St. Paul — July 24 to 27 and July 31 to Aug. 3: Show times are at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday with a matinee at 2 p.m. on Sunday at 550 Albert St. S.. Tickets are $10 for students/seniors and $15 for adults.

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Theology @ the Pub at Stanley’s in NE Minneapolis — Tuesdays July 22 to Aug. 26: 6:30 p.m. social time, speaker at 7 p.m. at University Avenue and Lowry. Speaker line-up begins with Auxiliary Bishop Lee Piché for Grill the Bishop. For more information, call (612) 789-7238. Sponsored by Catholic United Financial.

75th anniversary celebration at St. Rose of Lima, Roseville — July 26: Celebration Liturgy at 4:30 p.m. followed by dinner and entertainment by The Barbary Coast Dixieland Band at 2048 Hamline Ave. N. Dinner tickets are $10 and must be purchased in advance of the event no later than July 18.

For information, call (651) 645-9389.

Landmark facade lighting at the Basilica of St. Mary, Minneapolis — Aug. 7: 8:30 to 10 p.m. at 88 N. 17th St. Celebrate the New Façade Lighting with fun glow-inthe-dark activities, complimentary refreshments, lighting program and live entertainment.

Prayer/ liturgy Healing Mass at St. Gabriel the Archangel – St. Joseph campus, Hopkins — July 22: Rosary at 7 p.m. followed by Mass at 1310 Mainstreet. Father Jim Livingston will be the celebrant.

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Cathedral Young Adults Theology on Tap at O’Gara’s, St. Paul — July 23: Social time at 6:30 p.m., speaker at 7:30 p.m. at 164 N. Snelling Ave. Topics focus on faith and contemporary issues that directly affect the lives of young adults. All evenings are free of charge. For more information, visit cathedralsaintpaul.org/cya. Topic is “Real Prayer” by Deacon Joseph Michalak.

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Cathedral Young Adults summer Sports Nights at Rahn Athletic Fields, Eagan — All Fridays in July and August: 6 p.m. at 4440 Nicols Road. We will play Ultimate Frisbee and sand volleyball until sundown.

For information, contact the Cathedral Young Adults at CYA@CathedralSaintPaul.org.

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De La Salle alum has a price on her head Maddie Hodapp donates hair at Cuts for a Cause event

By Josie Bungert For The Catholic Spirit Maddie Hodapp has always wanted to help people. Fresh out of college, she is doing just that — in both a recent fundraiser she hosted and her upcoming postgraduate plans.

While a student at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Hodapp saw students who were shaving their heads for cancer awareness, and it struck a cord with her, as her grandmother died from breast cancer before she was born.

“I’ve always connected with her spiritually,” Hodapp said. “My mom has always said I had parts of her . . . I guess who I am and what I believe in all came in this event.”

That event was Cuts for a Cause, which took place July 12 at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis.

Even though she wanted to raise money for breast cancer, Hodapp, a De La Salle alum, wanted to do more than donate. So, she chose a local charity, Hope Chest for Breast Cancer, to receive all the proceeds from the event.

Hope Chest for Breast Cancer takes the money it receives and gives it annually to hospitals and treatment centers for cancer. It also has two consignment stores — one in St. Paul and one in Orono — full of donated clothing and furniture.

Each store provides affordable, high-end items to the community, and proceeds from each are added to the donations that Hope Chest makes.

“I liked their story and how they’re actually giving to the

Sedrick McBounds, a barber in Minneapolis, cuts the hair of Maddie Hodapp during Cuts for a Cause at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis. Jim Bovin / For The Catholic Spirit women directly,” Hodapp said.

Cuts for a Cause began with speakers and a variety of performers, followed by a meal that was donated and, the main event, hair donation.

While proceeds from Cuts for a Cause are going to Hope Chest for Breast Cancer, the donated hair will be made into wigs through Pantene Beautiful Lengths, a partnership between the hair care products brand and the American Cancer Society. Minnesota barber Sedrick McBounds cut the hair of Hodapp and others, like Ana Santos, who donated 10 inches of hair, saying it felt “excellent” because she knows it’s going to heal people.

This event was also made possible by Hodapp’s mom, Peg, who works in campus ministry at De La Salle. With her experience in planning events, assemblies and liturgies, Peg helped find

performers, and made suggestions.

But ultimately, it was Maddie who did the legwork.

“I’ve put it in her hands because she’s really capable of it,” Peg said.

In her opening remarks at the event, Maddie said she hopes she is making her grandmother proud.

Peg described her as always calm, and a lot like Maddie.

“She never got mad. She was just an amazing person, and we could always learn so much from her,” Peg said. “But she was always very reserved. Maddie pulls a lot of those characteristics. This whole idea is very beautiful, and I’m really proud of her.”

Maddie’s urge to serve others will not stop with the fundraiser. In a few weeks, she will leave for Portland, Ore., to do a year of service for the Salesian Volunteers.

“The Salesian mission is to give a quality education to those less fortunate,” she said. “I am going to

Portland to work at a high school, and I will be a coordinator for a mission program.”

Maddie hopes this will give her the chance to reconnect with her faith, which she thinks went by the wayside while in college.

“Being college student[s], a lot of times, we disconnect from our faith because we are somewhere else, busy,” she said.

But it’s not just about reconnecting with her faith; it’s learning how to do it on her own.

Her mother couldn’t hope for anything more for her daughter as she leaves for her next adventure of service.

“She hasn’t been as connected to her faith in college; she’s always had spirituality,” Peg said. “The fact that she joined this Catholic organization is a sign for me that it still has a lot of meaning in her life, and I know that she’s excited that it’s coming back to her.”

Implementing task force recommendations under way Continued from page 4 will report to the archbishop and guide and direct the people who manage the programs.

Implementing recommendations Since the task force released its report, the archdiocese has been working to ramp up its abuse prevention measures as recommended. Among its efforts: planning to institute periodic background checks rather than the “one

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and done” practice, McChesney said.

According to Father Whitt, the archdiocese also has begun improving record-keeping procedures and how it educates the public about allegations of clergy misconduct. McChesney said new allegations of recent abuse across the nation are few.

“The numbers have gone down considerably,” she said. “But that does not mean that there aren’t a large number of victims from past years who continue to need help and support in different ways. The archdiocese is very committed through its victim advocacy program to making sure that those

people are aware that that is in place.”

“We anticipate that the new director . . . will be able to guide us in fully implementing all of the recommendations the task force made,” Father Whitt said.

As those recommendations are implemented, the information will be posted at archspm.org and shared through news releases.

“This is a position that was recommended by the task force after much review of the processes that had been in place here,” McChesney added.

“The task force was very diligent about doing research and interviews in

trying to figure out what would work best to make certain that all these pieces of the program were working efficiently and effectively. But also, they felt that having an individual in this position who has the perspective of a lay person would be greatly added value to what the archdiocese has already committed itself to — both in its policies and in its adherence to the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People [issued by the USCCB in 2002]. There is a lot of good work going on for the protection of children, and that is the focus.”

eucharistic adoration Learning more about our faith Starting in the July 31 edition, look for Rediscover: coverage in the regular section of The Catholic Spirit.

The wonder of the adoration chapel

HEART OF THE MATTER Alyssa BORMES

Sometimes I can hear my grandmother in the back of my head.

For example, when I finally came home to the Church, I could hear her voice telling me to volunteer at the parish. The only problem was I didn’t want to — I might be expected to talk, or someone might talk to me.

But one Sunday, everything changed with a homily about our perpetual adoration chapel.

This was it! Having always been a night owl, I volunteered for anything after midnight. It was wonderful. I arrived a few minutes before 12 a.m., signed a book, knelt down, and the person in the chapel before me left. Then a few minutes before 1 a.m., someone else came, and I left. This was the best sort of volunteering — I didn’t have to talk to anyone!

What is this eucharistic adoration? Let me put it in my terms: It’s a game changer!

Most noticeably, there is a peace that is unlike any other. I came to understand the true presence just by lingering in the silence;

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there was the beautiful sense of being surrounded in love.

What to do Now, the first problem was what to do during adoration. Fortunately, my grandma came to mind again. When I was a child, while we played cards, she would teach me about the faith. I just liked playing cards and only gave partial attention to what she was saying. Years have passed, and the rules of the game are lost in my memory. But what she taught me about the Eucharist remains. “It is really Jesus. We should love him.” She taught me that prayer was to be a part of adoration.

What to pray Now, what to pray? There was a tattered booklet in the chapel with a one-hour meditation; it became a favorite. It was

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“Most noticeably, there is a peace that is unlike any other. I came to understand the true presence just by lingering in the silence.”

Alyssa Bormes

With Jesus at the center, camp takes faith to the

extreme

By Dave Hrbacek The Catholic Spirit

The sights and sounds of summer camp usually include things like splashing, singing, shouting and running.

But, this camp is different. The most powerful noise is the sound of silence. The most powerful sight is the looks on the faces of teenagers gazing upon the central object of the five-day camp — the Eucharist.

On a summer evening on Big Sandy Lake near McGregor, when they could have been enjoying a bonfire at the end of a long day filled with typical camp activities, teens and young adults instead spent the last two hours of daylight in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament.

Against a background of praise and worship music, they fixed their eyes on Jesus, both figuratively and literally. A newlyordained priest who once was a camper himself, Father Paul Shovelain, weaved his way through the crowd of campers, teen volunteers, young adults and staff members as he held the monstrance for several seconds in front of each person gathered for this, the pinnacle moment of camp.

Some cried, some touched the humoral veil below the monstrance, some locked their eyes on the host, and some simply bowed and prayed as Father Shovelain blessed them with the Eucharist and whispered prayers for every person while doing so.

It took nearly two hours for him to make more than 200 stops, but the crowd packed inside the chapel at Big Sandy Camp was slow to leave when he finally blessed the last camper. Kleenex tissues scattered across the floor told the story of how deeply the time of adoration touched the kids.

This is Extreme Faith Camp, which started in 2001 and now is held four times a summer in Minnesota and two times in Wisconsin. During this particular five-day camp session in late June, there were 11 parishes Elizabeth Glenna of St. Bridget of Sweden in Lindstrom (red represented, including sweatshirt) prays with other teens during adoration at camp.

Father Shovelain’s new Dave Hrbacek/The Catholic Spirit parish, St. Peter in Forest Lake. The youth minister there, Jason Becker, was the youth minister when Father Shovelain went to camp as a member of St. Michael in St. Michael.

Though he has ministered to thousands of kids over the span

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of his youth ministry career, Becker had no trouble remembering one very enthusiastic young boy he met just days after starting his new assignment at St. Michael 13 years ago.

“This little seventh-grader ran up to me saying, ‘Jason, Jason, we gotta have a reunion.’ And, I didn’t know what this little kid was talking about,” Becker said. “He had just went on this Extreme Faith Camp and was just so pumped and wanted to have a camp reunion.”

That “little kid” was none other than Father Shovelain, who went to camp that very first year, and continued going after that, first as a camper, then as a teen volunteer and later as a young adult.

And now, he is continuing to help pay it forward as a priest.

Just weeks after his ordination, he was there at camp, both leading kids in prayer and taking part in the many outdoor activities. He even went down a giant waterslide with fellow priest, Father Nick VanDenBroeke.

Others are starting down that same path. Zach Sandquist once had Father Shovelain as his counselor at camp. Now, he is back helping out as an adult volunteer on the Extreme Team. These teens and young adults serve as counselors who spend the entire week with the kids and lead small groups and other activities.

Sandquist will be entering his junior year at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul and is a seminarian at St. John Vianney College Seminary on campus. He was quick to answer when asked what the highlight of camp was for him when he attended as a camper.

“It would definitely be the Thursday night adoration,” he said.

“If I had to pick a turnin point when I [first] took faith seriously, it would b night.”

This kind of response exactly what was envisio by the camp’s founders — youth ministers John O’Sullivan (St. Raphael, Crystal), Jennifer Schaefe (Holy Name of Jesus,Wa Jessica Goebel (St. Mary, Waverly) and Gina Barth Michael, St. Michael).

Their parishes sent a t Sandy the first year. This from more than 29 paris Minneapolis have gotten eucharistic encounter of “Almost all of the you was adoration,” said O’S minister at St. Michael in wouldn’t do camp witho camp.

“People have told me adoration for more than doing adoration at camp in adoration for over thr

Two teens’ testimonies about adoration at camp Kendra O’Brien, teen volunteer St. Boniface, St. Bonifacius

Left, Father Paul Shovelain blesses Zach Borer of St. Boniface in St. Bonifacius during an evening of eucharistic adoration June 25 at Extreme Faith Camp on Big Sandy Lake near McGregor. At far left is Sydnee Rensch of Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Maplewood. Both were volunteer leaders at camp.

Below, Maddy Devich of Divine Mercy in Faribault joins other campers as they prepare for dinner. Dave Hrbacek/The Catholic Spirit

Gabriel Leahy, camper

Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Maplewood “I have wanted to be in the military since third grade, and I’ve wanted to be a priest since before I can remember. During adoration, God revealed to me that I am supposed to be an Army chaplain and bring Communion to the soldiers, and bless and hear confessions of the wounded men and women.”

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middle school teens could not sit in n 10 minutes, and we were crazy for p. [But] I have seen middle school teens ree hours in prayer. They love it. Why?

“Throughout my life, I haven’t had many life changing experiences with God, and I had accepted the silence.

Then, this year I was in prayer team.

Wednesday night, the prayer team and I were praying over all of the campers in adoration. I experienced a vision of Jesus. He was so pure and beautiful that I can’t even attempt to describe him. He was reaching out to me!

I saw Jesus on the cross, all torn up in his human form, and above him I could see something that was reaching down to him in pain, and Jesus was looking over to a group of people with joy on his face. It was the most beautiful, painful, and love-filled vision I have ever and probably will ever see.

I believe I then saw an image of heaven, where everyone appeared to be young and joyful. He told me that he loved me and that he had amazing plans for me.

I felt a beautiful peace and joy inside of me.

I feel called to share this experience with as many people as I can, so everyone can realize how much he loves us and that he really wants to see us have an amazing future. So, I challenge everyone to talk to him every day, and show him that you are committed to loving him forever, as he is committed to us.”

Because it is Jesus.”

One of this year’s campers, Eliza Walters of St. Peter in Forest Lake, gushed about camp, and about adoration specifically.

“It was awesome. It was very powerful,” said Walters, 13. “It was incredible. It was Jesus.

“It [camp] was the best week of my life. . . . I think everyone should go.”

It surely is tempting for adults to look at the campers of today and see the future of the Church. Four seminarians volunteering at camp this year indicate that Father Shovelain’s story of his time at camp and his eventual priestly vocation won’t be the last of its type.

More than likely, at least one of the boys he blessed during his two visits to camp this summer could end up wearing the

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Roman collar someday.

“I certainly tried to plant seeds and encourage the boys to consider a vocation to the priesthood and the girls to consider a vocation to the religious life,” Father Shovelain said. “I told the kids the [camp] was amazing as a seventh-grader, but it is even better as a priest.”

Of course, another great outcome is for campers to become faith-filled parents later in their lives. And, one need look no further than the ranks of this year’s volunteers to see evidence of that.

“The youth minister from St. Albert’s in Albertville, Cassandra Olson, came to the first Extreme Faith Camp as a high school leader,” O’Sullivan said. “Since then, she has been to EFC every year as a leader and then as a youth minister for the past nine years. Currently, she is married and has three wonderful children. Her and I are the only ones who have been to EFC every year since it started.”

And, what about the future of camp?

“The future of EFC looks very bright,” O’Sullivan said. “I honestly can’t wait to see what God has in store for Extreme Faith Camp.”

One thing is for sure about next year’s camp — Jesus will be there.

Rise and shine: October Rediscover: celebration has new start time The Catholic Spirit To give 2014 Rediscover: Catholic Celebration attendees more time for fellowship and to visit exhibit booths, the event will start at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 4.

The second annual celebration featuring internationally-known speakers and musicians begins Friday, Oct. 3, with an evening geared toward adults in their 20s and 30s.

The following day’s program includes breakout sessions for men, women, and children, as well as Spanish language sessions.

New to Saturday’s sessions is a special program for grandparents, featuring Judy Cozzens, mother of Auxiliary Bishop Andrew Cozzens.

“Our goal is not just to provide speakers, it’s to provide an experience that is inspirational and informative,” said Jeff Cavins, director of evangelization for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. “We’re mobilizing men, women and young adults.”

The celebration is for all Catholics who want to find new ways to live out their faith more fully.

The theme for the 2014 Rediscover: Catholic Celebration is “Horizon of Hope,” inspired by Pope Francis’ Angelus on the First Sunday of Advent in 2013.

Cavins said attendees should expect “spontaneous announcements” before presenters take the stage on Saturday.

“We want the conference to become a hub to connect people and parishes for the rest of the year,” he said.

Mass at 4 p.m. Saturday will conclude the celebration.

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Adoration: a time for Christ to put it all together providential to have found it, as it encompassed wounds — and my soul was littered with them. The line, “From the depth of my nothingness, I adore Thee,” was everything I felt. Having hit bottom, my soul lay in pieces around me. My hours in adoration were a time of allowing Christ to slowly put it all back together.

Another favorite line of the prayer was, “I thank Thee . . . for the privilege of visiting Thee in this church.”

Sometimes, it is said that 20 percent of the parishioners pay for 80 percent of the expenses of the parish. At that time when I started eucharistic adoration, I wasn’t even contributing a little; I didn’t put anything into the collection plate. But the rest of you, the 20 percent

“Please volunteer for an adoration hour, especially the middle-of-the-night hours.

This allows the chapel to remain open, because sometimes, a broken soul feels safer in the cover of night.” in particular, were so good to me. You allowed for the parish, and the adoration chapel to be open.

Your generosity allowed me to come in the middle of the night to find my soul. This is my thank-you.

There are so many more like me out there. Please continue your generosity.

And, please volunteer for an adoration hour, especially the middle-of-the-night hours. This allows the chapel to remain open, because sometimes, a broken soul feels safer in the cover of night.

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Friday Evening, Oct. 3 & Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014 Minneapolis Convention Center Catholics from across the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis are invited to come celebrate our faith journey to the Horizon of Hope!

Friday Evening, Oct. 3 Young Adult Night 6:30 PM – 11 PM (Doors open at 5:30 PM) Friday features: Father Stan Fortuna, Father Dave Dwyer, Marie Miller, Father Mike Schmitz, Leah Darrow and more!

Saturday, Oct. 4 NEW EARLIER START TIME! 8 AM – 5:15 PM (Doors open at 7 AM) Saturday features: Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, Scott Hahn, Father Dave Dwyer, Curtis Martin, Leah Darrow, Kelly Wahlquist, Sonar, Jeff Cavins and more!

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Horizon of HOPE Find out more and register at Rediscover-faith.org Friday (Adult 18+): $15 Saturday (Includes break-out sessions for adults, Latinos, youth and children) Adult: $20 Youth (Grades 7-10): $10 Child (Grades K-6): $7 Space is limited Questions? Please contact Rediscover@archspm.org or call the Rediscover: Program Support Helpline at 651-291-4411.