The Catholic Spirit - July 31, 2014

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Archbishop: Tough lessons lead to significant changes

By Archbishop John Nienstedt

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o say that this has been a difficult year is quite an understatement.

Here in the archdiocese, Catholics have witnessed many troubling media reports, and many of us have had difficult conversations with friends and family about what it means to be Catholic and why we still profess the faith. I, myself, have been the subject of two investigations, which have brought with them more public scrutiny. I have received messages calling me a hypocrite, a domineering boss and a liar. Others have written that I am a courageous moral leader and a true shepherd. I have read them all. I am grateful for everyone who has taken the time to write, regardless of how they feel, as most believe they are acting in the best interests of the Church.

In the end, it comes down to this: 18 years ago, Pope John Paul II chose me to serve the Church as a bishop, an authentic successor of the apostles.

A bishop’s role is more like that of a father of a family than that of a CEO. I am bound to continue in my office as long as the Holy Father has appointed me here. I have acknowledged my responsibility in the current crisis we face, and I also take responsibility for leading our archdiocese to a new and better day.

In Second Chronicles 20:15, the spirit of the Lord tells King Jehoshaphat and the troops, as his enemies are approaching across the Palestinian wilderness in battle, “This is what the Lord says to you: ‘stop being afraid, and stop being discouraged because of this vast invasion force, because the battle doesn’t belong to you, but to God.’ ” I have heard calls for my resignation since I arrived in this wonderful

“I have acknowledged my responsibility in the current crisis we face, and I also take responsibility for leading our archdiocese to a new and better day.”

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archdiocese seven years ago. I will continue to listen to those who express concerns about my leadership, but I will also continue serving as I have been called to do. I am devoted to serving this local Church, and I will continue to do so and to apply these hard lessons that I have learned over the past months. While it may be difficult to believe, the suffering we have endured is bearing much fruit in reform of practices and correction of decisions that were made in the past, either by me or my predecessors.

I have read all the media articles, and heard advice from lawyers and communicators who have offered their thoughts. I have consulted with priests who, day in and day out,

continue to do the work of the Church by offering the sacraments, pastoral care and spiritual guidance to the faithful. I have met with parish, Catholic school and archdiocesan leaders and staff to make sure that the good work of educating our youth, helping the poor and oppressed, and sharing the Good News continues. I have heard about the pain of being ignored by the Church from victims of sexual abuse and their families. I heard from the parishioners and families of priests I have removed from ministry.

And I have prayed. Oh, how I have prayed.

I can only speak for myself and my actions, not the words or actions of others. Over the last year, I have re-

examined the words I have spoken and the actions I have, or have not taken, and I want to share this with you: 1. I have created a new leadership team that operates under the philosophy of “Victims First.” I have empowered a new team of bishops, parish and religious order priests, archdiocesan employees, lay Catholics and non-Catholics to assist me and provide consultation. They continually operate from the perspective of how we can best help victims of sexual abuse and their families. To make sure we retain this focus, I am hiring a new victim’s liaison, a lay professional who will serve as a continuous voice for victims on my consultation team. We have reached out to survivors of sexual abuse and have asked them to share their advice and insight as we continue addressing the recommendations made by the Safe Environment and Ministerial Standards Task Force. Several victims have graciously agreed to share their thoughts. “Victims First” has become more than a philosophy; it has become standard operating procedure.

2. I have never knowingly covered up clergy sexual abuse. I have, however, been too trusting of our internal process and not as hands-on as I could have been in matters of priest misconduct. Since the completion of the independent internal review of all our clergy files, I have removed several clergy from active ministry and publicly named them while we await review of their files by the police and the archdiocese’s Clergy Review Board.

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Bridge collapse anniversary

All abuzz for God’s creation

‘It Only Takes One’

Young woman recalls dad’s heroism and sacrifice on Aug. 1, 2007.

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Rosemount parish brings bees to community garden.

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Basilica parishioner’s musical part of Minnesota Fringe Festival.

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OVERHEARD “In the face of this emergency, our first duty must be to protect these children. My brothers and sisters, what we are doing for these children as a church? It’s not about politics. We all know that. It’s about who we are as Catholics.”

— Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, during a July 20 homily in which he talked about the humanitarian crisis of tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children surging across the U.S.-Mexico border

PASSING THE CHALICE Msgr. Stanley Srnec, center, poses for a photo with Father Michael Izen, left, pastor of St. Raphael in Crystal, and newly-ordained Father Marcus Milless, parochial vicar of All Saints in Lakeville, at the Leo C. Byrne Residence in St. Paul July 3. The chalice he holds, which features an inscription from his parents and his mother’s wedding diamond, was given to him for his ordination in 1942. It was handed down to Father Milless, but the two had never met. After reading a story in The Catholic Spirit (“New priests share the stories of their chalices;” June 5, 2014, pages 10 and 11) Father Izen introduced the two.

Photo courtesy of Father Michael Izen

Pope Francis reveals top 10 secrets to happiness Catholic News Service In an interview published in part in the Argentine weekly “Viva” July 27, the pope listed his Top 10 tips for bringing greater joy to one’s life:

1. “Live and let live.” Everyone should be guided by this principle, he said, which has a similar expression in Rome with the saying, “Move forward and let others do the same.”

2. “Be giving of yourself to others.” People need to be open and generous

toward others, he said, because “if you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.”

3. “Proceed calmly” in life. The pope, who used to teach high school

literature, used an image from an Argentine novel by Ricardo Guiraldes, in which the protagonist — gaucho Don Segundo Sombra — looks back on how he lived his life.

4. “A healthy sense of leisure.” The pleasures of art, literature and playing

together with children have been lost, he said. Even though many parents work long hours, they must set aside time to play with their children; work schedules make it “complicated, but you must do it,” he said.

5. Sundays should be holidays. Workers should have Sundays off because “Sunday is for family,” he said.

CELEBRATING A FEAST Fireworks explode over an ancient cathedral July 24 during celebrations for the feast of St. James the Apostle in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. CNS / Miguel Vidal, Reuters

to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities, they will get into drugs” and be more vulnerable to suicide, he said. “It’s not enough to give them food,” he said. “Dignity is given to you when you can bring food home” from your own labor.

7. Respect and take care of nature. Environmental degradation “is one of the

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6. Find innovative ways to create dignified jobs for young people. “We need

biggest challenges we have,” he said. “I think a question that we’re not asking ourselves is: ‘Isn’t humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?’”

8. Stop being negative. “Needing to talk badly about others indicates low

self-esteem. That means, ‘I feel so low that instead of picking myself up, I have to cut others down,’” the pope said. “Letting go of negative things quickly is healthy.”

9. Don’t proselytize; respect others’ beliefs. “We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. But the worst thing of all is religious proselytism, which paralyzes: ‘I am talking with you in order to persuade you,’ No. Each person dialogues, starting with his and her own identity. The church grows by attraction, not proselytizing,” the pope said.

10. Work for peace. “We are living in a time of many wars,” he said, and “the call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace is always proactive” and dynamic.

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3 Continued from page 1 should have in the past, we are now doing all we can to make sure that we are living up to our commitment to be accountable, transparent, and are, in fact, providing safe environments for our children. I receive regular updates on any misconduct cases and the work of the Clergy Review Board.

3. I have always been honest with the Catholics of this local Church. I have addressed the accusations against me head on, following all the protocols we have in place for all of our priests. I have asked for the recent investigation because I had nothing to hide and wanted to be vindicated from false allegations, as anyone would. I have been a priest for more than 40 years. I have served as a pastor, a

teacher, and a seminary rector. I have no doubt that my administrative and personal style, with its strong point of view, may have offended some. I apologize to those I have hurt. The last year has helped me realize I need to change my administrative style, soften my words, and get out from behind the desk to spend more time with the faithful.

I am sorry for the distractions I have inadvertently caused that have taken the focus away from the challenging and rewarding work we do as the Catholic Church in our local community. We must continue to address headon the terrible scandal of clerical sexual abuse.

It is apparent that this is the work of the Church we are called to address at this time.

The learning curve of the past 10 months has prepared my staff and me to lead this local

Church through the present crisis to a much better place. The challenges are there, to be sure, but we are more ready to tackle them now than at any time in our past history. I know that we are making progress and there is a momentum to that. Still, there is more to be done. I regret that some have lost their confidence in me. I hope ultimately to win back that trust. As your shepherd, I promise to make changes in what we do so that we can see more clearly the work of God in our lives and grow closer to His Beloved Son and Our Savior, Jesus Christ.

As author Matthew Kelly reminds us, we as Catholics have a great story to tell, but we have let others tell the story for us. We need to get back to telling the story ourselves.

From the Archbishop

Church must address scandal, tell our story

God bless you!

Lecciones difíciles conducen a cambios significativos Decir que este ha sido un año difícil es minimizarlo.

Aquí en la arquidiócesis, Los Católicos han sido testigos de muchos informes preocupantes por los medios de comunicación, y muchos de nosotros hemos tenido conversaciones difíciles con amigos y familiares sobre lo que significa ser Católico y por qué seguimos profesando nuestra fe.

Yo mismo he sido objeto de dos investigaciones, que han traído consigo más escrutinio público.

He recibido mensajes donde me llamaban hipócrita, jefe dominante y mentiroso. Otros han escrito que yo soy un líder moral valiente y un verdadero pastor.

He leído todos estos mensajes. Estoy agradecido a todos los que se han tomado el tiempo para escribir, PARA QUE independientemente TODOS SEAN UNO de cómo se sienten; la mayoría creen que Arzobispo están actuando para John Nienstedt apoyar los mejores intereses de la Iglesia.

Al final, todo se resume en esto: Hace 18 años, el Papa Juan Pablo II me eligió para servir a la Iglesia como un obispo, un auténtico sucesor de los apóstoles. El papel de un obispo es más parecido al de un padre de familia que al de un Director Ejecutivo.

Tengo la obligación de continuar en mi oficina mientras el Santo Padre me mantenga en esta posición. He reconocido mi responsabilidad en la actual crisis que enfrentamos, y también asumo la responsabilidad para conducir a nuestra arquidiócesis a un día nuevo y mejor.

En Segundo Libro de Crónicas 20:15, ‘el espíritu del Señor le dice a rey Josafat y a sus tropas, cuando los enemigos se acercan a través del desierto palestino para librar batalla, “Esto es lo que les dice el Señor: No teman ni se acobarden ante esa gran muchedumbre, porque esta guerra no es de ustedes, sino de Dios.’ ”

He oído reclamos para que renuncie desde que llegué a esta maravillosa arquidiócesis hace siete años. Voy a seguir escuchando a aquellos que expresan preocupaciones sobre mi liderazgo, pero también continuaré sirviendo como he sido llamado a hacerlo.

Estoy dedicado a servir a esta Iglesia local, voy a seguir haciéndolo y voy a aplicar estas duras lecciones que he aprendido en los últimos meses. Aunque sea difícil de creer, el sufrimiento que hemos vivido está dando muchos frutos en la reforma de las prácticas y corrección de las decisiones que se han hecho en el pasado, por mí o por mis predecesores.

He leído todos los artículos de los medios de comunicación, y he escuchado el consejo de abogados y especialistas en comunicaciones que han ofrecido sus puntos de vista. He consultado con los sacerdotes que, día y noche, continúan haciendo el trabajo de la Iglesia, ofreciendo los sacramentos, cuidado pastoral y guía espiritual a los fieles. Me he reunido con las parroquias, Escuelas Católicas, líderes y personal arquidiocesano para asegurarme de que continúe el buen trabajo de educar a nuestra juventud, ayudar a los pobres y los oprimidos y compartir la Buena Nueva. He oído, por parte de las víctimas de abuso sexual y sus familias, acerca del dolor de ser ignorados por la Iglesia. He escuchado a los feligreses y a los familiares de los sacerdotes que he retirado del Ministerio. Y he orado. ¡Oh, cómo he orado!

Sólo puedo hablar por mí mismo y por mis acciones, no por las palabras o acciones de otros. Durante el último año he examinado nuevamente las palabras que he dicho y las acciones que he o no tomado, y quiero compartir esto con ustedes: 1. He creado un nuevo equipo directivo que opera bajo la filosofía de “las víctimas primero.” Yo he habilitado un nuevo equipo de obispos, sacerdotes parroquiales y religiosos, personal arquidiocesano, laicos Católicos y no-Católicos, para ayudarme y proporcionarme consejería. Operan continuamente desde la perspectiva de cómo podemos ayudar a las víctimas de abuso sexual y sus familias. Para asegurarme de que retengamos este enfoque, voy a contratar a una nueva persona de Enlace con las Víctimas, un profesional laico que servirá como la voz continua por las víctimas en mi equipo de consulta. Hemos contactado a sobrevivientes de abuso sexual y les hemos

pedido que compartan sus consejos e intuición mientras continuamos abordando las recomendaciones formuladas por el Equipo de Trabajo para El Ambiente Seguro y Estándares Ministeriales. Muchas de las víctimas han acordado amablemente a compartir sus pensamientos. “Las víctimas primero” se ha convertido en más que una filosofía; se ha convertido en un procedimiento estándar de operación.

2. Nunca, de manera conciente, he encubierto abusos sexuales del clero. Sin embargo, he sido demasiado confiado en nuestro proceso interno y no me he involucrado, como lo podría haber hecho, en materia de mala conducta del sacerdote.

Desde la culminación de la revisión interna independiente de todos los archivos de nuestro clero, he removido a varios clérigos del ministerio activo y los he nombrado públicamente, mientras aguardamos la revisión de sus archivos por la policía y la Mesa Arquidiocesana de Análisis del Clero.

Mientras que resulta evidente que no hemos manejado todas las quejas de la manera en la que deberíamos haberlo hecho, ahora estamos haciendo todo lo posible para asegurarnos de cumplir con nuestro compromiso de ser responsables, transparentes y, de que ofrecemos ambientes seguros para nuestros niños. Yo recibo periódicamente informes sobre los casos de mala conducta y del trabajo que realiza la Mesa Arquidiocesana de Análisis del Clero.

Editor’s note: In an effort to reach more Latino Catholics in the archdiocese, The Catholic Spirit also will publish Archbishop John Nienstedt’s column in Spanish in each edition.

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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 Nathan LaLiberte, appointed chaplain to Ave Maria Academy in Maple Grove. This is in addition to his appointment as parochial vicar at the Church of Saint Michael in Saint Michael.

• Reverend Luke Marquard, appointed chaplain to Totino-Grace High School in Fridley. This is in addition to his appointment as parochial vicar at the Church of the Epiphany in Coon Rapids.

• Reverend James Peterson, appointed chaplain to Totino-Grace High School in Fridley. This is in addition to his appointment as parochial vicar at the Church of Saint Odilia in Shoreview.

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Anniversary of 35W bridge collapse • Aug. 1, 2007

Dad’s heroism on the bridge through the eyes of his daughter

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St. Thomas grad hopes to carry family faith legacy in role as campus minister at U of M

By Dave Hrbacek The Catholic Spirit Justina Hausmann had this thing she did with her dad almost every night during the summer after her sophomore year in high school.

In the back yard. By the fire pit.

Until the street lights shut off at about 1:30 or 2 a.m. in their Rosemount neighborhood.

She called it a “fireside chat.”

Little did she know that on an evening in late July of 2007, she would experience the last of these

precious one-on-ones with her father, Peter.

During that final meeting, filled with her probing questions about faith and God, she would hear one simple, life-changing axiom from her father that stays with her to this day. It addressed her frustration about not being able to dispel the severe poverty she had witnessed for two weeks during a mission trip she had taken at the beginning of the month to Houma, La. She was there with a group from her parish, St. Joseph in Rosemount, to help residents there deal with the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina two years earlier.

Peter said this to her: “You may

not have saved the world, but you saved someone’s world.”

It was the last message she remembers getting from him. Just days later, on Aug. 1, he was driving over the Interstate 35W bridge when it collapsed.

He escaped harm after he and his car went down, but died trying to save someone else. A police chaplain told the family seven days later when his body finally was recovered that he was found underwater in the back seat of a car trying to save a toddler and her pregnant mother.

Approaching the seventh anniversary of the tragedy that killed 13 people and injured 145 more, Justina recalled the days before her father’s death, not so much with sadness, but with an exuberant smile and spirit that she believes come from her father.

That’s not to say the pain has gone away.

“Whenever I drive over that [new] bridge, it is always Aug. 1, 2007,” said Justina, who was 16 when her father died, and now is 23 and a recent graduate of the University of St. Thomas with a degree in Catholic studies. “I cannot drive over that bridge without thinking about what happened there.”

“God was with dad when he went down to that car to help them. He was in that car with them. He was with us at home.

He was with the first responders [at the bridge]. He was with all of us, and he hasn’t left our side in all of this. I prefer not to think of it in terms of: Why did God let this happen? But, to think of it more as God suffers right alongside us, and God’s heart breaks when our heart breaks. God’s sad when we’re sad. God A time to heal The wounds are deep, but the doesn’t like to see us suffer, but he’s going to take a hard thing, healing is deeper, fueled by an intense love for Christ that comes and he’s going to try to make something good out of it.”

Justina Hausmann, daughter of Peter Hausmann, who died after the 35W bridge collapse while trying to save a mother and child trapped in their car underwater

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from both her father, and from her mother, Helen.

In that last fireside chat, Justina got a second pearl of wisdom from Peter, one that came shooting back into her mind after she got the

official news that his body had been found.

Earlier that summer, floods had ravaged southern Minnesota, with the city of Winona partially underwater, along with other communities nearby. She heard of a man who had drowned and left behind a young daughter.

“I remember saying to my dad, ‘Well, why doesn’t God show up?

Why didn’t God swoop in and help that man, because now that girl doesn’t have her dad? That’s not fair,’” Justina said. “I was going on and on about how unfair it is that this girl has to grow up without her dad. And, he said, ‘But, she’s going to be fine. God’s not going to give her something she can’t handle.’

“How ominous and weird that [statement by Peter] felt after [the bridge collapse] happened. That was the first thing I thought of: ‘OK, so I’m actually able to do this.’”

The soil in which her healing could sprout and grow was carefully prepared by a strong Catholic upbringing for Justina and her three younger siblings — Andrew, 21, David, 16, and Theresa, 14. She got a double dose of spiritual growth during two years of preparation for confirmation, which took place just less than three months after the bridge collapsed.

Peter was her confirmation teacher.

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Local Biblical Institute graduate Lorena Martínez López of Our Lady of Guadalupe in St. Paul receives her diploma after being greeted by Bishop Andrew Cozzens July 26 at the Cathedral of St. Paul.

Latino formation institutes celebrate graduation The Catholic Spirit Bishop Andrew Cozzens celebrated the graduation Mass July 26 at the Cathedral of St. Paul for those completing the three Latino ministry formation institutes offered in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

The Catechetical Institute (modeled after the Archbishop Harry J. Flynn Catechetical Institute), Biblical Institute and Pastoral Leadership Institute are programs of the archdiocese’s Latino ministry outreach that help parishioners grow in their faith and emerge as leaders to work and volunteer in parishes.

“This leadership program helped me to give to the service of my parish, to prepare me to be a better leader in the image of Jesus Christ,” said a graduate of the Biblical Institute.

The programs have grown since they were first offered. The Pastoral Leadership Institute has been offered since 2002; this is the sixth graduation, said Estela Villagrán Manancero, who serves in the archdiocesan Office of Parish Services with Latino ministry.

“All of our graduates are working as staff or leading a ministerial group at our parishes,” she said.

The two-year Catechetical Institute and the Biblical Insitute were added as a result of the archdiocese’s 2010 strategic plan.

“These classes have helped our leadership to do a better job in evangelizing, and deepened their faith and understanding of the Catholic Church,” Manancero said.

Alma Valle Miranda of St. Stephen in Anoka greets Bishop Cozzens as she comes forward to receive her diploma from the Leadership Institute.

Carlos Rojas, right, and Gloria Sánchez of Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Minneapolis pray during the graduation Mass. Rojas graduated from the Catechetical Institute.

Photos by Dianne Towalski / The Catholic Spirit

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Creating a buzz for God’s creation Rosemount parish brings bees to community garden

By Dianne Towalski The Catholic Spirit On any given day, volunteers work like busy bees in the Matthew 25 community garden at St. Joseph in Rosemount.

But since July 6, actual honeybees have taken over some of the work, helping the garden to grow more and better vegetables St. Ambrose is the patron saint of and flowers. bees, beekeepers and candle This is the second summer for the garden, makers. According to legend, while named for verses 21 to 40 of Matthew 25, an infant, a swarm of bees settled where taking care of God’s creation, feeding on his face while he lay in his the hungry and visiting the sick are cradle, leaving behind a drop of specifically mentioned. The passage gives the garden its purpose. honey. His father considered this a “It has two specific missions,” said Father sign of his future eloquence and Paul Jarvis, pastor of St. Joseph. “First is to honeyed tongue. For this reason, provide food for the homeless through the bees and beehives often appear in Loaves and Fishes Program and Ministry or the saint’s symbology. through the local food shelf. The other thing is there are a lot of people that can’t garden, Source: Catholic Online — www.catholic.org. can’t get flowers, can’t get out of their house.

We bring flowers to them.”

The idea for bringing the honeybees to the garden came to Father Jarvis after he read a newspaper article about Colony Collapse Disorder, the reason for the decrease in bee poulations worldwide.

“The name is simple, but the problem is so complex,” said entomologist Becky Masterman, associate program director of the Bee Squad at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus.

Bees play an important role in Marla Spivak, director of the Bee Lab in the agricultural University of Minnesota’s Department of production and Entomology, gave a TED Talk recently called, the beauty of the “Why Bees are Disappearing.” View it at: world through the www.ted.com/talks/marla_spivak_why_bees_ pollination of are_disappearing#t-469064. fruits, vegetables, nuts and flowers.

The decrease in the number of winter, Masterson said. bees is starting to have a visible impact.

“The beekeepers won’t have enough bees to “With all the research that scientists have pollinate, so that means that we’ll have lower done, our understanding is that it’s a health crop yields that will translate into fewer crisis that’s caused by multiple factors,” choices at the supermarket and more Masterman said. processed food. That’s how it will really impact us,” Masterman said.

Pathogens, poor nutrition and pesticides are among those factors. Since 2006, one out As suburban communities spread out, bees of three honeybee colonies has been lost each suffer because there are fewer flowering plants to provide them with nutrition. The chemicals used to eliminate weeds from yards are bad for the bees. And, some of those weeds are actually flowering plants that are Plant bee flowers: Bees get carbohydrates from floral nectar, and good food for bees. protein from floral pollen. There are many flowers in Minnesota that “It shows that what we’re doing so that our bees like. Visit the University of Minnesota’s Bee Lab at beelab.umn. landscaping looks really pristine is getting edu, and click Plants for Minnesota Bees in the right column. into the food of the bees,” Masterman said.

Planting bee-friendly flowers is one thing Provide a nesting habitiat: Most bees like dry, sandy, bare soil, so people can do to help. Bees get carbohydrates leaving spots of exposed soil in your yard can attract bees. Some bees from floral nectar, and protein from floral like to nest in hollow plant stems or holes in wood. You can attract pollen. There are many flowers in Minnesota cavity-nesting bees by providing tunnels in a hand-made structure that bees like, sunflowers for example. called a bee house — like a bird house for bees.

“Seriously, our farmers, our economy here in Minnesota depend on it. Our gardens Reduce or eliminate pesticide use depend on it. Our beautiful flowering plants and trees depend on it,” Father Jarvis said. “If

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Beekeeper Craig Francois, left, shows Father Paul Jarvis the bees working in the new hive situated near the community garden at his parish, St. Joseph in Rosemount. Dianne Towalski/The Catholic Spirit everybody steps up to the plate, then we can start making a dent in a really critical situation.”

Parishioner Craig Francois, general contractor and part-time beekeeper, is doing his part. He donated and takes care of the hive, which is situated a few yards away from the parish’s garden.

He, too, became interested in saving bees after reading about Colony Collapse Disorder.

“I thought, that’s something I can do,” he said. “I decided to look into this honeybee business and hives, and I took the class at the University of Minnesota in March, four years ago. It was so interesting, I went home and ordered three hives just like that.”

Francois now has seven hives he keeps on a family farm in Iowa. He travels there often to tend to them.

“They are very efficient. Have you ever watched a bee work? I mean, it’s going from flower, to flower, to flower, to flower. It’s fun to watch them,” he said.

His daughter Rebecca, a recent graduate of St. Joseph School, also will help take care of them and will help teach second-graders at the school about the bees as part of an insect unit in science class. He hopes she will be an example for them.

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The archdiocese’s Office of Advocacy and Victim Assistance is also here to offer you help and healing if you have been abused by a Catholic priest or another person in Church ministry. You may make a confidential call to 651.291.4497.

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Dad answers one of life’s greatest questions teacher,” Justina said. “He taught for years at St. Joe’s and he loved it. He had students who absolutely loved him, and people would request to be in my dad’s [confirmation] class.”

In the classes, Peter explained — and later showed on the bridge — what true love is.

“Christ says that the greatest love is to lay down your life for a friend,” Justina said. “These [people he tried to rescue] weren’t even friends of my dad’s. He didn’t even know them. And, in an ordinary life, he never would have encountered them. But, he still sacrificed his life for them. I know from having my dad in confirmation class that that love, that Christ-like love was something that he really emphasized.”

Next step: campus ministry Today, Justina feels called to carry on that faith legacy her father paid for with his life. Her passion shows when she talks about her work in campus ministry at the University of Minnesota. She works with the director, Brother Ken Apuzzo.

“I know that the University of Minnesota has so much potential,” she said. “There’s so many students there, and I know what we are doing there is good, but it could be so much bigger. I want to see that campus so alive with this intense love for Christ. I want to see it burning with love for Christ.”

Yet, in order for college students to be converted to Christ, they will need to go through the same period of questioning that she did. For her, it started when she was preparing for confirmation, and reached a crescendo when she got back from her mission trip to Louisiana. A brain that she says “never shuts up” kept churning out one question after another that she just couldn’t answer. Thus, the torrent of inquiries directed at her father at the backyard fire pit.

“I had completely fallen in love with the children that I had helped, and with a woman who was nicknamed ‘Blackie,’” she said.

“We painted her house for her because she had a lot of paint damage post-Katrina. So, we helped her with that. I came home feeling like my work wasn’t done, and I didn’t know what to do about it. I was just so confused, and I didn’t like that a chunk of my heart had been left in Louisiana. And, I’m like, ‘Dad, what am I doing here? What am I doing in Minnesota when there’s this awful poverty. . . just 1,000 miles south of us?’ ”

Grownup talk It was then that there occurred a dramatic shift in the tone of their conversations. Though she had always been, as she called it, a “daddy’s girl,” Peter did not address her as such when they sat down by the fire pit.

Instead, he told her of the harsh realities he saw in his two years of missionary work in Kenya, which is where he met Helen (they married in 1990). He saw poverty, he saw government corruption.

He met a priest there who later died of a gunshot wound. The government called it a suicide, but Peter and many others believe the priest was murdered by a government that was opposed — and even hostile — toward his views.

So, this South Dakota farm boy who left his roots behind to move to the Twin Cities, and later serve as a missionary in Kenya, knew exactly what his daughter was feeling.

And, through his patient love and eventual self-sacrifice, he ended up giving her the answer to one of life’s greatest questions: Where is God in the midst of suffering and death?

Justina has wrestled with this question, which pops up every summer as she lives through the anniversary of her father’s death.

But when asked where God was when her father died in a car under water, she is ready with an answer that seems beyond her 23 years.

And she delivers it with a confident smile that indicates she has gained a measure of closure that many others never attain.

“God was with dad when he went down to that car to help them,” she said. “He was in that car with them. He was with us at home. He was with the first responders [at the bridge]. He was with all of us, and he hasn’t left our side in all of this. I prefer not to think of it in terms of: Why did God let this happen? But, to think of it more as God suffers right alongside us, and God’s heart breaks when our heart breaks. God’s sad when we’re sad. God doesn’t like to see us suffer, but he’s going to take a hard thing, and he’s going to try to make something good out of it. One of my favorite things that St. Paul says is that suffering produces perseverance, and perseverance produces character, and character produces hope.

And, there is great hope in suffering.”

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8 La Iglesia debe ocuparse del escándalo, contar nuestra historia Viene de la página 3 3. Siempre he sido honesto con Los Católicos de esta Iglesia local. He dirigido las acusaciones hacia mí persona directamente, siguiendo todos los protocolos que tenemos establecido para todos nuestros sacerdotes. He pedido la reciente investigación porque no tengo nada que ocultar y quiero ser reivindicado de falsas acusaciones, como cualquiera lo desearía. He sido sacerdote por más de 40 años. He servido como pastor, maestro y rector de seminario. No tengo ninguna duda de que mi estilo administrativo y personal, con un fuerte punto de vista, puede haber ofendido a algunos.

Pido disculpas a quienes he lastimado. Los sucesos del año pasado me ha ayudado a darme cuenta de que necesito cambiar mi estilo administrativo, suavizar mis palabras y salir de detrás del escritorio para pasar más tiempo con los fieles.

Me disculpo por las distracciones que he causado inadvertidamente y que han llevado el enfoque lejos del trabajo desafiante y gratificante que hacemos como Iglesia Católica en nuestra comunidad local. Debemos continuar trabajando en la solución del terrible escándalo del abuso sexual clerical. Es evidente que este es el trabajo de la Iglesia que estamos llamados a resolver en este momento.

La curva de aprendizaje de los últimos diez meses nos han preparado, a mi personal y a mí, para llevar esta Iglesia local a través de la crisis actual a un lugar mucho mejor. Por seguro los desafíos están aquí, pero estamos más preparados para hacer frente a ellos ahora, que en cualquier momento en nuestra historia. Sé que estamos haciendo progresos y que tenemos el impulso para eso.

Aun así, falta más por hacer.

Lamento que algunos hayan perdido su confianza en mí.

Espero recuperar esa confianza.

Como su pastor, prometo hacer cambios en lo que hacemos para que podamos ver más claramente la obra de Dios en nuestras vidas y crecer más cerca de Su Amado Hijo y Nuestro Salvador, Jesucristo.

Como nos recuerda el autor Matthew Kelly, como católicos tenemos una gran historia que contar, pero hemos dejado que otros la cuenten por nosotros.

Tenemos que volver a contar la historia nosotros mismos. ¡Qué Dios los bendiga!

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Dave and Kathy LaPlante stand at the spot where they first made a love connection — the St. Vincent de Paul parish cemetery in Brooklyn Park, where their respective deceased spouses are buried just two plots apart. Dave Hrbacek/The Catholic Spirit

For Maple Grove couple, love proves to be a grave matter

By Dave Hrbacek The Catholic Spirit There are all kinds of places where eligible men and women meet — bars, concerts, even churches.

But cemeteries?

It’s probably the last place most would think of to meet someone of the opposite sex. Yet, it was here, among rows of tombstones at the St. Vincent de Paul parish cemetery in Brooklyn Park, where Dave and Kathy LaPlante had their first conversation in early July 2005.

Both were there to visit the graves of their spouses. Dave’s wife, Shirley, had died in 2003; Kathy’s husband, Neil, in 2001.

Turns out, their spouses’ graves were almost next to each other. Just one plot separated the two, which is how Dave and Kathy ended up standing next to each other on a hot July evening.

They had exchanged simple greetings a couple of times at their parish, St. Vincent de Paul in Brooklyn Park, and in passing at the cemetery as they came and went. But, this was the first time they had an actual conversation.

“It was a Saturday evening, and I was there with my daughter, who at the time was 23,” said Kathy, 63, who had been married to Neil just nine days shy of 25 years when he died of a heart attack. “We stopped to water the flowers at the cemetery, and Dave happened to be there.

“My daughter is not a patient girl. She still isn’t to this day. And, Dave and I must have talked for probably over an hour. . . . We just chatted about general things. And, when I got in the car with my daughter, she said to me, ‘Mom, he’s really a nice man. I think you should ask him to go to coffee with you.’ She had never, ever in the four years since her dad had passed, suggested that it would be OK for me to move on [and start dating].

So, that was very, very interesting

that she said that.”

Kathy agreed with her daughter, but “wasn’t forward enough to do anything” about it.

No worries. Dave’s wheels were spinning almost immediately after they started talking. Though he had been told it was too early in the grieving process to think about dating, he decided otherwise and took note when Kathy said she often came to the cemetery after 11 a.m.

Mass on Sunday.

“So, I stopped by [a few weeks later] and there she was,” said Dave, 68 and a retired mail carrier, of his subsequent visit to see his wife’s grave — and Kathy. The date was Aug. 28, and he cut right to the chase after spotting Kathy.

“He comes up to me and says, ‘Have you dated at all?’” Kathy said.

“And, I said, ‘No, I haven’t.’ And, he said, ‘Are you interested?’ I said, ‘Well, I think so.’”

That was it. Their first date was five days later on Friday night at Houlihan’s in Maple Grove. Both ordered the same entrée, chicken alfredo, and that seemed to seal their destiny. They got married at St. Vincent de Paul on Feb. 2, 2007.

But, it was the date of Dave’s proposal that stands out in their minds.

“We got engaged on my birthday, Aug. 8,” Kathy said of the night Dave popped the question following dinner at the St. James Hotel in Red Wing. “He got down on his knee and pulled the ring out of his pocket [and said] ‘Will you marry me?’ And, I said yes without hesitation.”

They had talked about marriage months earlier, so Dave’s proposal was no surprise to Kathy. In fact, they would have gotten married earlier if it weren’t for the marriages of two of their children during 2006, one in May and the other in August.

“We realize how lucky we are that we did find each other,” said Dave, noting that both he and Kathy’s

first husband were postal employees and Vietnam veterans, with Dave serving in the Army on a helicopter crew and earning a Purple Heart for being wounded in action.

“We love each other very much and we’re very happy to have found each other,” Kathy said. “I will not be afraid to say that I miss Neil and I still love him, and I believe that Dave feels the same way about Shirley. But, we also know that we have found a new love, and someday, we hope to be reunited with our spouses in heaven.”

For now, Dave and Kathy are enjoying a life of travel, bowling and spending lots of time with their grandchildren. They also go to eucharistic adoration at St. Vincent de Paul every Monday at 5 p.m. Kathy has been going for 12 years, and Dave joined her right after they started dating.

And when the clock strikes 6, they head to a local restaurant for dinner with a grief support group that Kathy started going to after Neil died and took Dave to after they started dating.

“It’s a bonding thing,” Dave said.

“I’m friends with all of those people now.”

Added Kathy: “We’ve seen a lot of changes in our grief group that have occurred over time. But, these are the people that were there for me for those first years up until I met Dave. And, they were the ones that understood.”

The two still make trips to the cemetery and the graves of their respective spouses. But today, those visits feature more smiles than tears.

They like to believe that Neil and Shirley somehow had a hand in their romantic tale.

“They were up in heaven playing cards is what Dave says,” Kathy said. “And, they said, ‘You know, we’ve got to get these two together to meet.’ We certainly know that they approve. There’s no doubt.”

9 Psychologist offers insights from late pope’s Theology of the Body

By Susan Klemond For The Catholic Spirit Couples struggling with love and conflict can trace the origins of their problems to the marriage of the first couple, Adam and Eve. The solutions, offered through psychology and theology, are rooted in Christ, according to Peter DamgaardHansen, a licensed psychologist and Catholic Peter convert who DAMGAARDspoke recently at Mary HANSEN Mother of the Church in Burnsville on marital issues seen through the lens of St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body.

“Often, when I sit with a couple in trouble, I can feel like I’m sitting right outside the Garden of Eden with a man and woman who were just booted out of there a week or two ago,” Damgaard-Hansen said.

“There’s nothing new under the sun. We’re still struggling with the same stuff.”

Theology of the Body, a series of 129 lectures on the human person that Pope John Paul II gave between 1979-1984, examines the meaning of the human body, authentic love, sexuality and marriage in light of biblical revelation. Marital life is specifically looked at through the book of Genesis, bridging faith and psychology.

Damgaard-Hansen first gave the talk, titled “It is Not Good for Man to be Alone – But it is Not Easy for Man to Be with Someone Either,” in early July at the International Theology of the Body Congress in Philadelphia. There, more than 700 people — many of them young people — from 40 states and 12 countries gathered to discuss the meaning and relevance of St. John Paul II’s work, how to implement it

“Often, when I sit with a couple in trouble, I can feel like I’m sitting right outside the Garden of Eden with a man and woman who were just booted out of there a week or two ago.”

Peter Damgaard-Hansen, licensed psychologist in daily life, and how to incorporate it into a new evangelization.

The biggest problem in marriages is not when love disappears, but how couples deal with the loss, said Damgaard-Hansen, who has offered counseling to couples for the past 30 of his 40 years in practice in Denmark and Minnesota. Blame, and the division and loneliness that result from it, have been issues since the world’s first couple tried to get over the “excruciating pain” of their mistake, he said. It starts when each person holds the other responsible for his or her own negativity and faults.

Rather than blame, Christ teaches in Matthew 7:3-5 that we should attend to the log in our own eye before seeking to remove the splinter in our partner’s eye.

Another problem stems from one spouse believing the other causes their anger, Damgaard-Hansen said.

“As the human selfish persons we are, it’s almost impossible not to fill up with anger or shut down with anger when we have been wronged.”

Couples who respond with anger and blame break marital unity and isolate themselves, he said.

Instead of responding with anger when a spouse believes they’ve been wronged, it’s better to stay in the pain with Christ and react without anger and resentment, he said, adding that we need Christ to do this.

Because our ability to love doesn’t match our human need for love, couples might find at the same time that they have no love to give each other — the “Zero Point,” Damgaard-Hansen said.

“It’s OK not to love when you don’t have anything to give. But it’s not OK to be unloving,” he said.

If they recognize the other’s deprived and vulnerable position, they can find compassion and God’s mercy, and love will flow in their brokenness.

Although Adam and Eve lost the ability to love as God loves after the Fall, people still have the same need for unconditional love, which is at the core of marital problems, he said. Since we can only love if we

Parish’s bees help raise awareness Continued from page 6 “With Rebecca not afraid of the bees, hopefully the young students will respect and help protect the bees and all insects,” he said.

“The biggest work is if you’re harvesting honey,” he said. He plans to have students help with that. “It’s a fun day.”

Bees will travel two to three miles to get food, pollinating plants in other gardens and local farms.

“The bee hive we’ve introduced will not only harbor critically needed pollinators for our Matthew 25 Garden,” Father Jarvis said, “[but it also] will provide pollinators for miles around. Research reveals that, actually, other farms and gardens will benefit more than our very own garden.”

Having the bees near the parish’s Matthew 25 Garden is helping raise awareness of the bee problem by spreading the word to parishioners.

Volunteer Shirley Bengtson weeds in the Mathew 25 Garden at St. Joseph in Rosemount July 16. Dianne Towalski / The Catholic Spirit “They’re inviting them to be invested in their health and survival,” Masterman said.

“I think one of the things to keep in mind, at least, is that ultimately, we are stewards of God’s creation,” Father Jarvis said. “What we have, we are given for a period of time. We were to take care of it for God and for his people, and so this is a significant step in that direction.”

are loved first, we need Christ’s passion in our marriages.

Reconciliation, which sometimes can be “heart wrenching psychological heart surgery,” is possible with the Lord, DamgaardHansen said.

Unmarried persons benefit from this teaching as well, he said, as many non-marital relationships are also about love and conflict resolution.

Among the roughly 200 who attended the talk, Annie Kopacek and Adam Hermanson, members of All Saints in Minneapolis, said they found much to apply to their engaged relationship.

“It’s OK to be human and acknowledge that we don’t have infinite love to give the other person,” Kopacek said. Hermanson said when we’re in the Zero Point, it’s even more important to turn to Christ.

With the stresses of raising six kids, Steve and Kathy Mann said they’ve found themselves at the Zero Point. In those cases, “we need to go to God instead of just suffering and instead of being angry,” said Steve, who with Kathy, belongs to South Suburban Evangelical-Free Church in Apple Valley.

Said Kathy: “Even if no one else is there to love you, God is always with you.”

Adam and Eve might have passed on their marital dysfunction, but modern couples don’t need to do the same if they seek help from the Lord and a supportive third party such as a Christian therapist, Damgaard-Hansen said.

“Before marriage, we do what we can to pick the right [spouse],” he said. “After marriage, we don’t even worry about that. Now, it’s about becoming the right one, because what you put into the marriage is what you get back. You are cocreator of your marriage.”

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Judge says part of lawsuit should proceed The Catholic Spirit A Ramsey County judge has allowed a clergy sexual abuse case to move to a jury trial on negligence claims against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

At the July 21 hearing in Ramsey County District Court, Judge John Van de North said the alleged victim, “John Doe 1,” needs to see his day in court, but reserved judgment on the archdiocese’s motion to dismiss a nuisance claim and will review it at a later date.

The plaintiff alleges that a former priest of the Diocese of Winona, Thomas Adamson, who had assignments in the archdiocese, sexually abused him in the 1970s when he was a minor.

The case is scheduled to go to trial Sept. 22.

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Catholic tour groups thrive despite economy

By Zoey Di Mauro Catholic News Service Although the shifting economy sometimes forces people to forgo usual vacations, Catholic tour companies do not seem to feel the impact.

“There’s been an uptick in business even during the height of the recession,” said Steve Gureghian of George’s International Tours, based in San Diego, Calif. “Business has been increasing, and we’re not doing anything different, not promoting more, not more advertising.”

Catholic tour agencies not only make all the travel arrangements for pilgrims, but they also often facilitate daily Mass and opportunities for other spiritual activities along the journey.

Gureghian noted that in tough economic times, “people aren’t booking trips to Hawaii or cruises to Alaska,” but they make pilgrimages a priority.

“People are still going on pilgrimage, that’s for sure,” agreed Lucille Farrara of Regina Tours, a New York-based company. These groups have regularly scheduled trips to holy sites such as Rome, Fatima, Lourdes and the Holy Land, but often arrange special trips based on a group’s wishes.

Emily Borman, who lives in Sterling, Va., has been on two recent pilgrimages to Italy. When

“[A] vast increase of numbers must be responding to some need that people feel, and it’s that modern explosion in interest in pilgrimage in western Europeans and Americans that is really distinctive.”

George Greenia, professor and coordinator of the Institute for Pilgrim Studies at the College of William and Mary in Virginia

she was looking to visit shrines to St. Rita, she found out that St. Rita’s Parish in Alexandria was hosting a pilgrimage to visit the town in Italy where the saint was from.

“It was kind of like a God moment,” she described. “I asked my husband, and he made it happen so I was able to go.”

“Pilgrimages are increasing in part because they’ve become a better-known and accepted option,” said George Greenia, a professor at the College of William and Mary and coordinator of its Institute for Pilgrim Studies.

Greenia has been on pilgrimage along the Way of St. James in Compostela, Spain, nine times; the trail leads the way to the town where the body of St. James the Apostle is believed to be buried.

This pilgrimage route has been popular since the Middle Ages

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because trips to places like the Holy Land were more costly, timeconsuming and dangerous.

Greenia has seen a resurgence of popularity in the Compostela pilgrimage. In a video for the Institute for Pilgrim Studies, he said a “vast increase of numbers must be responding to some need that people feel, and it’s that modern explosion in interest in pilgrimage in western Europeans and Americans that is really distinctive.”

Other pilgrimages have become more popular for other reasons: “Italy is popular, it has taken a bump now that we have a new pope, it always does,” said Scott Scherer of Catholic Travel Centre in Burbank, Calif.

Other tour groups hope to benefit from interest in the new pope on a different continent. 206 Tours in New York has an itinerary

for Argentina that follows the life of Pope Francis with stops at unrelated holy places as well.

Even secular companies are jumping on the religious travel bandwagon. They offer trips to many of the same destinations as Catholic tour companies and even have broadened their scope to host trips to locations of significance to Protestants.

However, many of the Catholic companies are skeptical of the authenticity of religious experience that secular companies can provide. In contrast to those companies, “we think Catholic, we are Catholic, and we act Catholic,” Farrara said.

Some Catholic tour group officials said they can offer the connections, experience and commitment to an authentic Catholic experience that the others do not.

Everyone knows someone who tells us all about their hometown and the things that happened to them there, said Scherer.

When people go on pilgrimage, they connect all the stories with the physical places. People say, “Now I know Jesus in a way I never knew before.”

Farrarra similarly emphasized the importance of pilgrimages, quoting St. Augustine, who said, “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”

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By Simon Caldwell Catholic News Service Iraqi Christian refugees braved temperatures as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit to demand that the United Nations intervene to protect them from persecution by Islamist militants.

Sahar Mansour, a Chaldean Catholic who fled Mosul, Iraq, in June, told Catholic News Service by email that she saw some of the demonstrators faint in the heat as they marched from their refugee camp in Ankawa to the U.N. base in Irbil.

“We were holding banners in Arabic, English, Chaldean and French against the violence that happened in Mosul and (questioning) why the world was in silence against our problems,” she said.

“There were (a) few Muslim leaders with us sharing our concerns,” said Mansour, a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Mosul.

Many wore T-shirts or held up banners emblazoned with the Arabic symbol for “N”, which was painted on the houses of Christians in Mosul to designate them as “Nasara,” or Nazarenes, a derogatory Arabic term for Christians, before they were

Christian refugees march against persecution by Islamic State fighters outside the U.N. compound near the airport in Irbil, Iraq, July 24. Christians braved temperatures as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit to make their voices heard. CNS/Sahar Mansour ordered to leave the city, convert to Islam, or face death.

About 500 people joined the July 24 protest. Most were refugees who had fled Mosul, the biblical city of Ninevah, before it fell to Islamic State fighters who invaded in June and July.

They were joined by other Christian refugees who had fled the militants from neighboring Syria, and by a small number of Muslims.

Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil and Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Nicodemus Daoud Matti Sharaf of Mosul led the demonstration. At the U.N. base, they asked that the Iraqi federal government accept the legal responsibility for the humanitarian relief and compensation for all innocent civilians harmed by the fall of Mosul.

The bishops also requested that

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the international community, as well as Iraqi armed forces, take action to protect the Christians of Iraq, Mansour said.

She said protesters were not only angry about being driven from their homes by advancing Islamic State fighters, who want to establish a Sunni Muslim caliphate across the Middle East, but also by the world’s “silence” at the injustices they have been suffering.

Mansour said that at the demonstration, some Christians had expressed anxiety about reports that Islamic State fighters had ordered all girls and women to undergo female genital mutilation and that Muslims were also “very worried about it.”

She said she had also heard horrific accounts of violent forced conversions of Christians who were unable to flee Mosul.

“I hope one day I wake up and see myself and my family outside Iraq,” said Mansour. “It is impossible to live under control of ISIS,” the Islamic State.

Mansour and her family are among 3,500 Christian families encamped around Ankawa, where classrooms have been turned into dormitories, some sleeping 20 refugees every night.

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No summer break for debate on Common Core

By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Even in the dog days of summer, the realization that the school year is just around the corner keeps creeping up like pockets of sprouting weeds in a garden.

But there was no summer break for the love-them-or-hate-them Common Core State Standards.

The standards — a state-led initiative of expectations for students to master in each grade level — have been embraced or rebuked; no one seems to have a lukewarm reaction to them nor have they stopped talking about them even while schools aren’t in session.

They emphasize critical thinking and problem solving and have been touted, since they were launched in 2009, as a way to better prepare students for college and the job market. Politicians and parents alike have not been sold.

The standards were initially adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia. Five states never adopted them; three backed out of using them; and a handful of governors are now talking about dropping them, citing constituents’ concerns about the federal government’s overreach into classrooms.

Backlash against the standards includes fears that they will “dumb-down” schools and that they are simply tools for the government to access students’ personal data.

From the onset, many Catholic parents have been leery about Common Core. . . . Mainly, they’ve been concerned that the standards will require Catholic schools or homeschoolers to use materials that go against Catholic teaching.

The standards, simply called Common Core, were developed by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. States decide if their public schools will use them, but federal officials give them financial incentives to do so, since implementing the standards enables them to apply for competitive federal education grants.

Amid the controversy over the standards, one of their cofounders, the National Governors Association, clearly backed away from them during its July 10-13 meeting in Nashville, Tenn. The fact that Common Core was not

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Archbishop Chaput says pope will visit Philadelphia in 2015

By Nancy Wiechec Catholic News Service

A fourth-grade student raises her hand to answer a question at Christ the King School in Irondequoit, N.Y., in this 2011 photo. Even with school out for the summer, the debate is ongoing about the love-them-or-hate-them Common Core State Standards, developed by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. CNS/Mike Crupi, Catholic Courier on the group’s official agenda was an omission The Wall Street Journal described as “a sign of how the bipartisan idea has become a political minefield.”

But Common Core was a hot topic at the July 11-14 national convention of the American Federation of Teachers in Los Angeles. After intense debate, the teachers union passed a resolution calling for more teacher input in implementing the standards. The critical discussion about this put the standards — which previously had the teachers union support — on notice.

And they aren’t the only ones with questions. From the onset, many Catholic parents have been leery about Common Core for other reasons. Mainly, they’ve been concerned that the standards will require Catholic schools or homeschoolers to use materials that go against Catholic teaching.

They have made their objection clear in petitions and email campaigns to principals, diocesan school superintendents and bishops.

At the U.S. bishops’ annual spring general assembly in New Orleans June 11-13, the National Advisory Council, a 48-member group that advises the bishops on various issues, asked the Catholic leaders to continue to review the Common Core State Standards.

In April, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Catholic Education published a nine-page resource of questions and answers about the use of the Common Core State Standards in Catholic schools. The document, on the USCCB education website, has been used by school superintendents and state Catholic conference directors as part of professional development.

It points out that educational standards are hardly new to

Catholic schools and also that Catholic schools have “great latitude at the local level related to standards, curriculum, textbooks, teaching methods and implementation in the classroom.”

It also says Catholic schools are not required to use the Common Core State Standards, but could implement them in whole or in part if local schools “judged them to be of assistance to the academic quality of the Catholic school without detriment to its mission and purpose.

“If, by contrast, a Catholic school at the local level has chosen not to implement those standards, it is because it has judged them, for a variety of reasons, not to be of such assistance.”

The document stresses that Common Core should “be neither adopted nor rejected without review, study, consultation, discussion and caution. . . .

Catholic schools must take into consideration the horizon of the local, state and national education landscape and the influence and application” of the standards, it says, and to ignore that “would place our students at a significant disadvantage for their postsecondary education, which is not an acceptable option for our families.”

Dominican Sister John Mary Fleming, executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Catholic Education, said diocesan Catholic school leaders are continuing to “sift through” Common Core to determine what standards they will implement and what they won’t.

“It is an ongoing process,” she told Catholic News Service July 17.

Ultimately, she said, Catholic schools must integrate faith and knowledge, and how the standards are used in Catholic schools “has to reflect that integration.”

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput said Pope Francis has accepted his invitation to attend the World Meeting of Families in the U.S. next year, even though the Philadelphia Archdiocese still has not received official confirmation from the Vatican.

Archbishop Chaput made the announcement July 24 before giving his homily during the opening Mass of the Tekakwitha Conference in Fargo, N.D. “Pope Francis has told me that he is coming,” said the archbishop as he invited his fellow Native Archbishop Americans CHARLES to the 2015 celebration CHAPUT being held in Philadelphia Sept. 22-27.

“The pope will be with us the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of that week,” he said.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said July 25 Pope Francis has expressed “his willingness to participate in the World Meeting of Families” in Philadelphia, and has received invitations to visit other cities as well, which he is considering. Those invitations include New York, the United Nations and Washington.

“There has been no official confirmation by the Vatican or the Holy See of Pope Francis’ attendance at the 2015 World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia,” the archdiocese said in a statement. “We still expect that any official confirmation will come approximately six months prior to the event.”

It said Archbishop Chaput “has frequently shared his confidence in Pope Francis’ attendance at the World Meeting, and his personal conversations with the Holy Father are the foundation for that confidence.”

“We are further heartened and excited” by Father Lombardi’s comments, it added. “While Archbishop Chaput’s comments do not serve as official confirmation, they do serve to bolster our sincere hope that Philadelphia will welcome Pope Francis next September.”

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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Just as Jesus commanded pastors to leave their flock to find the lost sheep, the Church must set out in search of all those who have been abused by clergy and offer them help, said one abuse survivor.

Victims of abuse should be the focus of a new pastoral ministry since they are isolated, hurting, vulnerable to self-harm and suicide, and in need of Christ’s true healing, said Mark Vincent Healy, one of the six abuse survivors who met Pope Francis at the Vatican July 7.

In his private meeting with the pope, Healy said, “I needed to tell His Holiness just how awful it is when there is no justice, no one listening on a humanitarian level,” and how all that isolation and guilt push people to suicide or self-harm and addictions.

He also told the pope how much spiritual help both survivors and the Church need.

Healy spoke with Catholic News Service by telephone from Ireland July 25.

The Church needs a new evangelization “and a new mission based on Matthew 18, verse 12,” — the Parable of the Lost Sheep, in which Jesus tells his disciples to seek those who are lost, he said.

The Church is “to be a light and is supposed to shine this light” where there is darkness, not passively expect those in need to “come into the light” and seek help, Healy said.

It is even more imperative for the Church to apply the “lost sheep” ministry to abuse

He said he presented the pope with research showing that those who are abused are six times more likely than the general population to commit suicide.

Pope Francis’ underlining of the vast, severe and lasting effects of abuse runs counter to decades of defensive Church legal arguments that sought to “deny and diminish” the real suffering abuse caused, Healy said.

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The need to help survivors didn’t get much attention when the crisis erupted, Healy said, because the Church “went into survival mode,” responding to the allegations and lawsuits “like an international corporation or business” instead of like “the body of Christ.”

Mark Vincent Healy shakes hands with Pope Francis at the Vatican July 7. Healy was one of six abuse survivors who met the pope during a private meeting. CNS/ L’Osservatore Romano via Mark Vincent Healy victims, he said, since that passage of St. Matthew’s Gospel follows Jesus saying children are the greatest in the kingdom of heaven and his strongest condemnation is held for those who harm them.

“That’s what the Church’s response should be to this scandal,” he said.

Healy said he told the pope about the scale of the problem of clerical sex abuse and why people won’t come forward.

“The judicial process is hazardous,” he said, often with “poor outcomes.” Criticism of the victim or a lack of support also represents “a grave danger to a very fragile person.”

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Perhaps because lawyers took the driver’s seat when it came to navigating the crisis, the Church’s initial responses centered on litigation insurance and juridical and legal processes, he said.

The message of Christ being on the side of the marginalized and the Holy Spirit being present to help people in this world was “utterly corrupted. The first response should have been: Who has been abused? What are their needs? What should we do to help them?”

Healy said.

While the Church’s approach has improved in some places, abuse victims still need direct outreach, he said, because it’s often not easy for them to recognize, communicate or come forward because of the trauma and its fallout.

He said healing comes with becoming visible again, by being listened to.

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German bishops mark World War I anniversary

By Catholic News Service As the world marks the 100th anniversary of World War I, Germany’s Catholic bishops urged efforts to overcome “destructive self-interest” and acknowledged the shared guilt of churches for the conflict, which left 16 million dead.

“This war began in Europe 100 years ago during these summer months, and its dimensions are still shocking,” the Berlin-based bishops’ conference said.

“As a Church, present throughout the world with a redemptive message for all humanity, we must be determined in opposing all inflated nationalism and every attempt to devalue peoples Online and cultures. Our Watch a related times demand an video here: effective response in asserting the http://bit. common interests ly/1INsAwX of the human family against destructive selfinterest,” said the bishops’ statement, published July 25.

The bishops said that, before the war began in 1914, national rivalries trumped the close economic ties between countries, unleashing a conflict of “previously unimaginable proportions,” in which poison gas and other weapons of mass destruction were used.

However, it added that Europe’s Christian churches had also played their part in “war-mongering” at

soldiers and 7 million civilians died and 21 million people were wounded or maimed — are being staged in many European countries. They will include acts of remembrance, exhibitions, educational programs and the refurbishing of war cemeteries and museums.

In their declaration, the German bishops paid tribute to Catholic priests and military chaplains who worked for peace and reconciliation, as well as to Pope Benedict XV, who “repeatedly urged” the warring parties to negotiate.

A British biplane replica flies during a World War I re-enactment in Pardubice, Czech Republic, June 1. Germany’s Catholic bishops have urged efforts to overcome “destructive self-interest” on the 100th anniversary of World War I, while recognizing the shared guilt of churches for the conflict, which left 16 million dead. CNS/Filip Singer, EPA the outbreak of fighting.

“Although the Catholic Church had distanced itself from 19thcentury nationalism by virtue of its universal character, many bishops, priests and faithful took the side of those welcoming the war as a chance for spiritual and moral renewal,” the German bishops said.

“We know today that many people, including those high up in the Church, brought guilt upon themselves, failing in the national blindness to perceive the suffering of the war’s victims, and realizing too late the consequences of

absolute loyalty to their respective nations.”

The bishops’ conference also published a set of prayers for use at remembrance Masses for World War I, which they described as “a memorial to overpowering guilt and failure, blindness and idolatry.”

World War I lasted from July 28, 1914, when the first shots were fired during an Austro-Hungarian invasion of Serbia, to the signing of an armistice by the defeated Germany Nov. 11, 1918.

Centenary commemorations for the conflict — in which 9 million

They added that the wartime pontiff had been proved right in realizing only “true reconciliation and forgiveness” would secure “a real and lasting peace,” but said it had taken World War II to overcome finally the “system of confrontation.”

“Only with the process of European integration, shaped today by the European Union, which began in a small part of the continent and then grew ever larger, has peace created by law taken precedence over the power of the strong,” the bishops’ conference said.

“Not only can capital and goods now move freely across frontiers, but so also can citizens.

Negotiations and the search for compromises have replaced violent confrontation, and a look back at the horrors of this war should be an incentive for us all to continue these efforts.”

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Family, nuncio in Syria plead for news about kidnapped Jesuit On the eve of the first anniversary of the presumed kidnapping of an Italian Jesuit in Syria, his family posted a video on YouTube pleading for news about his whereabouts.

“We would like to once again hold him in our arms; however, we also are prepared to mourn for him,” said the message released by the family of Jesuit Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, who was last heard from July 29, 2013, in northern Syria.

Archbishop Mario Zenari, the Vatican nuncio to Syria, told Vatican Radio July 28 that, “Unfortunately, there is still no concrete, certain and trustworthy element” to help the Church, the Italian government, the Jesuits or his family, know whether he is still being held or was killed. “I, too, would like to make a heartfelt appeal to those responsible for his kidnapping,” the archbishop said. “Have pity for the deep pain of his family and all those who knew and held him in esteem; give us news about his fate.”

Archbishop Zenari said his appeal also goes to those who kidnapped two Orthodox bishops, an Orthodox priest and a Catholic priest — all of whom are still missing.

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EWTN building studio in California A new West Coast studio currently under construction for the Eternal Word Television Network will be “of great benefit to EWTN’s programming

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efforts around the globe,” said Michael Warsaw, CEO of the broadcast organization.

The studio is being built on the campus of Christ Cathedral of the Diocese of Orange, Calif. The almost all-glass cathedral in Garden Grove is the former Crystal Cathedral made famous by the Rev. Robert Schuller, a popular televangelist. The cathedral complex was purchased by the diocese in November 2011.

“The location of the facility gives EWTN a presence in an area of the country where the network will be able to execute programs that would be difficult to produce elsewhere, particularly for our Spanishlanguage channels,” Warsaw said in a July 24 news release announcing the new studio.

He said EWTN, which has its headquarters in Irondale, hopes to be broadcasting news, televised Masses and stories of faith from the studio by the end of the year.

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Obama’s order bans discrimination based on workers’ sexual orientation President Barack Obama’s executive order of July 21 has installed workplace rules forbidding the firing of employees based on sexual orientation and gender identity by the federal government and federal contractors — a key provision in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act languishing in Congress.

The U.S. bishops have opposed the bill, known as ENDA, which was passed by the Senate last November but was never scheduled for a vote in the House. The bill, aimed at protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and

transgender workers, has been introduced in almost every Congress since 1994.

“Today’s executive order is unprecedented and extreme, and should be opposed,” said Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, and Bishop Richard Malone of Buffalo, N.Y., chairman of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth.

“In the name of forbidding discrimination, this order implements discrimination,” they said in a joint statement. “With the stroke of a pen, it lends the economic power of the federal government to a deeply flawed understanding of human sexuality, to which faithful Catholics and many other people of faith will not assent. As a result, the order will exclude federal contractors precisely on the basis of their religious beliefs.”

Archbishop Lori and Bishop Malone and two bishops in an earlier posting July 21 on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ blog, addressed their opposition to the changes put in place by the executive order because it does not include an adequate religious exemption and could keep Catholic agencies from getting federal contracts.

Fourteen other religious leaders July 1 had asked Obama to include a religious exemption in his executive order, including Father Larry Snyder, president of Catholic Charities USA. “We are asking that an extension of protection for one group not come at the expense of faith communities whose religious identity and beliefs motivate them to serve those in need,” said the letter.

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Deacon Bruno Nwachukwu

“Jesus is the broken bread, broken for the broken people.”

Deacon Bruno Nwachukwu

The compassionate Jesus in the holy Eucharist As a transitional deacon in a parish for the summer, I have found that bringing holy Communion to the sick and the homebound at the nursing home has increased my love and appreciation for the miraculous gift of Jesus in the Eucharist.

Every week, my Communion visits have been filled with amazing experiences. The people I visit are always ready to receive Christ with a smile or with tears of joy. Both gestures are powerful signs of their hunger for our eucharistic Lord. They believe that he is their source of healing and spiritual nourishment.

These experiences draw our attention to this Sunday’s readings.

In the first reading, the prophet Isaiah invites the people to come

to God, who provides for their needs. He does this by using the metaphors of grain and bread, water, wine and milk and rich fare — all free gifts from God. The only action that God expects from the people is to come to him with strong faith and trust instead of returning to their former life of sin and exile. He also hopes that we would open the door of our hearts and let him dwell in us.

In the Gospel reading, Jesus performs the miracle of the loaves and fishes. Out of compassion and love, he fed the crowds like a shepherd feeds his sheep. In feeding the crowds, Jesus showed them that he is the Bread of Life.

This anticipated what he did at the Last Supper with his 12 disciples, and with the two disciples going to

Emmaus. These events call to mind the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.

Jesus is the true bread of life needed by humanity. He gave us his body and blood so that we may have life in abundance. The crowds recognized him to be their only source of life, and they gathered around him. Out of compassion, Jesus transformed them into a community of life and love by teaching them and healing their infirmities. He also fed them with the true food of life, which cured their spiritual blindness. He offered them something more than what they expected — eternal life.

As Catholics, do we recognize the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, which we receive at Mass? How much time do we spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament? As we reflect on these two questions, let us bear in mind

that Jesus is the broken bread, broken for the broken people. Our Lord feeds us with his body and blood to help us in our journey of conversion toward healing. Along the way, there are challenges. But as Jesus fed and healed the crowd, he will do the same for us through our reception of the Eucharist.

With the presence of Christ in the Eucharist, we are led to have the right perspective of life. With this right perspective, we are empowered to persevere in our Christian faith. May we believe in Christ’s eucharistic presence and experience true healing.

Deacon Nwachukwu is in formation for the priesthood at the St. Paul Seminary for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. His teaching parish is St. Joseph in West St. Paul. His home parish is St. Mark in St. Paul.

Focus on Faith • Scripture Readings

SUNDAY SCRIPTURES

Sunday, Aug. 3

Eighteenth Sunday in ordinary time

Readings

• Isaiah 55:1-3 • Romans 8:35, 37-39 • Matthew 14:13-21

Reflection

How can you invite others to come to God?

DAILY Scriptures Sunday, Aug. 3 Eighteenth Sunday in ordinary time Isaiah 55:1-3 Romans 8:35, 37-39 Matthew 14:13-21 Monday, Aug. 4 St. John Vianney, priest Jeremiah 28:1-17 Matthew 24:22-36 Tuesday, Aug. 5 The Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major Jeremiah 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22 Matthew 14:22-36 Wednesday, Aug. 6 The Transfiguration of the Lord

Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 2 Peter 1:16-19 Matthew 17:1-9 Thursday, Aug. 7 St. Sixtus II, pope, and his companions, martyrs; St. Cajetan, priest Jeremiah 31:31-34 Matthew 16:13-23

Sunday, Aug. 10 Nineteenth Sunday in ordinary time 1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a Romans 9:1-5 Matthew 14:22-33

Thursday, Aug. 14 St. Maximilian Kolbe, priest, martyr Ezekiel 12:1-12 Matthew 18:21—19:1

Monday, Aug. 11 St. Claire, virgin Ezekiel 1:2-5, 24-28c Matthew 17:22-27

Friday, Aug. 15 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab 1 Corinthians 15:20-27 Luke 1:39-56

Friday, Aug. 8 St. Dominic, priest Nahum 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7 Matthew 16:24-28

Tuesday, Aug. 12 St. Jane Frances de Chantal, religious Ezekiel 2:8—3:4 Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14

Saturday, Aug. 16 St. Stephen of Hungary Ezekiel 18:1-10, 13b, 30-32 Matthew 19:13-15

Saturday, Aug. 9 St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, virgin, martyr Hebrews 1:12—2:4 Matthew 17:14-20

Wednesday, Aug. 13 Sts. Pontian, pope, and Hippolytus, priest, martyrs Ezekiel 9:1-7; 10:18-22 Matthew 18:15-20

Sunday, Aug. 17 Twentieth Sunday in ordinary time Isaiah 56:1, 6-7 Romans 11:13-15, 29-32 Matthew 15:21-28

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Focus on Faith • Seeking Answers

16 SEEKING ANSWERS Father Michael Schmitz

Who is in heaven? Answer is — ‘We just don’t know’ Q. My dad died, but I think he was agnostic. He never clearly claimed Jesus. He tolerated faith in my mom and in us, but he never gave any indication that it reached him. Is he in heaven?

A. Please accept my sincere condolences and know that I will pray for you and for the repose of your dad’s soul.

That might be the only answer that I can provide. The Church instructs us to pray for all of the dead. In doing this, she is telling us that we must always have hope.

It is interesting: The Church has never ever said that any specific person is in hell. The Church has many canonized saints, but when it comes to those who may never have said “yes” to God with their life, the Church refuses to make any declaration about their salvation.

The Church wisely does this because the truth of the matter is that we just don’t know.

A family member once asked me about her deceased husband, who had left the Catholic Church and gone to another Christian community. She asked me, “Is he in heaven?”

“We can judge a person’s actions. We can do this because the data is there; we know what a person has chosen to do. But we may never judge a person’s heart.”

Father Michael Schmitz

I had to answer honestly: “I don’t know.”

This upset her greatly, but I can’t make a judgment in a case where I don’t have enough information.

Take care in judging We can judge a person’s actions.

We can do this because the data is there; we know what a person has chosen to do. But we may never judge a person’s heart. This is a distinction that Jesus himself makes in the Sermon on the

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Mount. One moment, he commands us not to condemn another person (Matthew 7:1-5), and the next, he points out that we know trees “by their fruits” (Matthew 7:15-20).

What Jesus is pointing out is that we must be wise during this life, and we must discern good actions from bad actions, but there is also quite a bit going on in every choice that we do not know. We can see actions (and can therefore judge the goodness or evil of the action), but we do not know the core of the person, and therefore may not judge what we do not know.

We don’t know all of the situations in your dad’s life that may have prohibited him from making a clear and public “yes” to Jesus. We don’t know the degree to which he may have been secretly cooperating with God’s grace.

Because of this, the Church tells us to have hope and to pray for those who have died.

My relative was well-loved by his friends and family. By many accounts, he brought a great deal of joy to this world and to the people around him. I am sure that your dad had many good qualities and did a lot of good in his life.

But of course, these things are not what get us to heaven. Heaven is open to us solely by the free gift of God made possible by the cross and resurrection of Christ. We have the choice to cooperate with God’s grace (in our words and actions) or to ignore or reject them.

And I think that this is a very important point: I don’t have to expressly reject God’s grace. I may simply ignore it. I can live my life on my terms and not give God the position that belongs to him by right.

It’s our choice We choose either heaven or hell with our actions. Doing God’s will is how we cooperate with God. (It is, in fact, how we love him. See John 14:15.) Not doing God’s will (to the extent that we know it and, of course, by the power of his grace) is making a choice for life without him.

If we choose to live this life excluding God, he will not force us to spend eternal life with him.

Essentially, we get what we’ve chosen.

As C.S. Lewis put it, at the end of our lives, we either say to God, “Thy will be done,” or God says to us, “thy will be done.”

CNS photo My relative was very troubled by what I told her about “not knowing.” She thought that I was trying to say that her husband was in hell. But I was not saying this at all. In fact, I regularly pray for him and offer up the holy sacrifice of the Mass for him at least once a month.

I think that too often, people imagine that funerals are a celebration of the person’s life.

While there may be a lot to celebrate in a person’s life, that is not the role of the Catholic funeral Mass.

We call it “the holy sacrifice of the Mass.” We offer it for the repose of the soul of the deceased person.

We do this because we believe

that it actually does something.

The sacrifice of Jesus on Calvary (made present on the altar) is the thing that redeems and sanctifies us. The Mass is for the purification of the soul of the departed.

I recommend praying for your father. I recommend joining your prayers to the Church’s at every Mass. It is also a beneficial practice to specifically have a Mass said for the repose of your father’s soul.

There is literally nothing better we can do for anyone who has died.

Father Schmitz is director of youth and young adult ministry for the Diocese of Duluth and chaplain of the Newman Center at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Reach him at fathermikeschmitz@gmail.com.

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Christina Capecchi

Looking back on ‘mystery priest’ at car crash Katie Lentz had plucked the perfect dress for her Sunday surprise, and the yellow J. Crew frock was dangling in the back of her 1989 Mercedes, bouncing along the highway as the sun streamed in and oldies played on the radio.

The 19-year-old blonde from Quincy, Ill., had just completed her summer internship in Jefferson City, Mo., and she had hatched a plan to surprise her friends there by making a final visit. She set off around 8 a.m. on that Sunday, Aug. 4, and began the two-hour drive so she could go to church one more time with the gang she had worshiped with every week that summer.

As she drove south on Highway 19, Katie saw a truck swerve into her lane. She tried to steer away but couldn’t react quickly enough. A

drunk driver hit her head on, and suddenly Katie felt herself moving – the car rolled in one complete rotation and landed on the driver side, Katie’s body trapped in the mangled Mercedes, inches from the ground. She felt a shooting pain, looked up and saw blood, the steering wheel mashed into her stomach and blocking the view of her broken legs. She knew something was wrong because the car wasn’t upright.

“Is this real life?” she asked repeatedly.

Katie couldn’t see the witnesses and emergency responders, but the Pentecostal Christian remembers asking them to pray for her, to pray out loud.

Then came the man in black, a priest carrying anointing oil and

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Finding the middle ground in the marriage debate In the words of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, “There are not 100 people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”

While some people wage a war on the truth, I think most people who hate the Church today are waging a war against their misperceptions of what the Church is. Perhaps this is truer now than ever before. It’s especially true when it comes to the marriage debate.

After Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich was forced to resign because he had donated money to support Proposition 8 three years ago (it’s worth noting that 52 percent of Californians supported Prop 8, which would have retained a ban on same-sex marriage), the dating website, OKCupid, which spearheaded the attack on Eich, issued a statement that clarified their motives: “Those who seek to deny love . . . are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure.”

Since love is willing the good of another, desiring “nothing but failure” for another is hate, by

definition. And so, Eich was targeted because he was hated for his ideas.

The same was true for Elaine Huguenin from New Mexico, who was fined $7,000 for refusing to photograph a gay wedding. A baker in Lakewood, Colo., Jack Phillips, has no problem serving gay customers, but he refused to make a same-sex “wedding” cake for a couple because it violated his belief about marriage. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission has labeled this “illegal,” despite the fact that gay marriage is not even legal in Colorado, and ordered him to submit quarterly reports showing that he’s changed, and to train his employees to avoid discrimination (a.k.a. to support gay marriage), or he risks losing his business. A priest friend of mine in Vermont was recently asked to perform a marriage ceremony for a lesbian couple. They threatened to sue after he refused.

There’s no longer any doubt that “gay marriage” is an effective tool to dig up and bludgeon into submission all who disagree with the gay lifestyle, or to force them out of society.

Of course, the difference between

offering to bless the person in the car. Once he received permission from a sheriff, he walked up to Katie quietly, anointed her, absolved her and stepped away. Someone asked him to return, saying Katie had requested more prayers, so the priest returned and prayed at her side.

To the crowd gathered around Katie, the priest seemed to vanish out of thin air, just as he had appeared. Katie was finally extricated from the car and flown to Blessing Hospital in Quincy. As news of the near-fatal accident spread, word got out about a “mystery priest” on the scene. ABC News dubbed him a “guardian angel,” and a composite sketch of the unknown man emerged. The story went viral.

It wasn’t until Friday that a fellow priest told Father Patrick Dowling the story had made national news.

The longtime priest, a 69-year-old native of Kilkenny, Ireland, reluctantly identified himself.

Father Dowling had subbed for a sick priest that Sunday morning and was driving home in his white Toyota Camry when he spotted ambulance lights and pulled over. It was a frightening scene, and Father Dowling didn’t want to get in the way of the emergency responders, but he felt compelled to approach the car. After 15 years in prison

ministry, he’d learned the power of showing up, breathing in and reaching out. He’d even witnessed moments of grace among inmates on suicide watch.

“It’s totally a matter of faith,” he said. “When the Lord sends you, he gives you his spirit. You trust, you have faith in the Holy Spirit.”

One year later, Katie, who is walking unassisted and hoping to make a full recovery, still thanks God for Father Dowling’s presence that morning. “I believe Father was sent from God,” she said. “He was my earth angel that day. And he was there for everyone on the scene, because it was really chaotic and they didn’t know what they were going to do. He provided a lot of comfort.”

Katie’s priorities have come into sharp focus, and she changed her career plans to follow her passion – sports, not dentistry. She sees the car crash as an opportunity to evangelize in a way that isn’t “pushy,” as she put it. “All I’m doing is telling my story. I can share what God did for me.”

these ever-mounting acts of hatred against those who support “traditional” marriage and true “hate crimes” is both clear and tragic: The latter are generally motivated by mindless aggression.

The former, by misperceptions.

If the perceptions of the gayrights movement about people like me were correct, I couldn’t blame them for calling me “enemy,” not that these perceptions are unique to the gay community. Most people seem to think that there’s no such thing as objective moral truth and that disagreeing on a moral issue is an arbitrary attempt to assert control over others. The central dogma of the sexual revolution is that we are primarily sexual beings and that restraint amounts to a denial of who we are. Many have come to see marriage as no more than the expression of affection between two people, making things like lifelong commitment optional and procreation an afterthought. Given those misperceptions, it’s only natural to presume that people like me are bigots, bent on depriving my fellow human beings of happiness for no apparent reason. If all that were true, I’d consider me an “enemy” too. Of course, none of it is true.

Regardless, it’s becoming ever more dangerous to stand in defense of a definition of marriage that is rooted in natural law, divine law, and the good of children rather than a definition that is based solely on the affection of two consenting adults.

So what do we do when we’re the target of hate? There are two “safe” options, and I see countless

Catholics retreating to each of them.

One is the far “left”: to simply “come down from that cross” and stop addressing the issue. Stop offering cogent defenses for our sexual ethics and teachings about marriage — and not because the world has stopped asking questions, but rather because we think it’s more loving to avoid conflict, or we are afraid. The second option is the far “right”: to see the Church as a fortress designed to keep the “sinners” out (as if we aren’t all sinners!), and to become angry and entrenched.

This Catholic Life • Commentary

TWENTY SOMETHING

Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights and editor of SisterStory.org, the official website of National Catholic Sisters Week.

Actually, we’re called to a different place: A middle ground where we teach the truth in love, remaining uncompromising and clear on moral issues and in defense of marriage, while at the same time offering a supportive community to people with same-sex attraction.

It’s that middle ground of uncompromising truth and undying love that got our Lord crucified. It’s that middle ground that cost St. Thomas More his head when defending marriage before King Henry VIII almost 500 years ago.

More didn’t stop teaching the truth, nor did he flee his homeland or stop loving his King. That middle ground, where the cross is planted and where martyrs are made, is where we’re called to dig our heels in today.

Stefanick, a speaker and author, writes at RealLifeCatholic.com.

Stefanick’s column is distributed by the Denver Catholic Register, the official newspaper of the Denver Archdiocese.

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18 • Parish Festivals Fun Fest-Summer Jam Parish Festival at Immaculate Conception Church and School, Columbia Heights – August 1 to 3: Friday 5 to 10 p.m., Saturday 4:30 to 10:30 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Elvis impersonator show and Beatles tribute band Friday, High & Mighty dance band Saturday, polka band Craig Ebel & DyVersaCo on Sunday. All weekend: food, beverages, bingo, car shows, kids’ games and inflatables.

Located at 4030 Jackson St. N.E. Visit ICCSonline.org or call (763) 788-9062.

Men’s chicken dinner and parish festival at Church of the Nativity, Cleveland — August 3: Dinner from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Also features an antique car show, silent auction, beer garden, games, coffee bar and more.

Cost for dinner is $10 for adults, $5 children 6 to 12 and 5 and under are free. Directions: take Hwy. 169 south to St. Peter, turn east on MN Hwy 99 and go 6 miles to Cleveland.

Parish festival at Immaculate Conception, Lonsdale — August 3: Polka Mass at 10 a.m. featuring the IC Church Choir. Baked chicken and hot ham dinner served buffet style

from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cost is Adults $12, Children 10 and under are $6. Take outs available. Air-conditioned Civic Center open for eating takeout dinners. Also features live entertainment, refreshments, homemade bakery booth in the Civic Center, ice cream stand, Split-The-Pot, chance booth and children’s games at 116 Alabama St. SE. Parish Festival at St. John the Baptist, Dayton — August 3: 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. featuring a chicken dinner served until 2:30 p.m. $10 Adults, $5 children 3-10, and under 3 free. Also silent auction, Wall of Wine, pony and carriage rides and huge raffle. St. John the Baptist is located at 18380 Columbus St. Harvest festival at St. Vincent de Paul, Brooklyn Park — August 9 and 10: Features Faster Than The Pastor 5K, kids fun run, bean bag tournament, inflatables, bingo, chicken dinner and live music with Martin Zellar. Located at 9100 93rd Ave. N. For information, visit www.saintvdp.org.

Summer festival at St. Joseph of the Lakes, Lino Lakes — August 9 and 10: Outdoor Mass at 5 p.m. Saturday followed by

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by Carol Diethelm of St. Mary of the Purification, Marystown, part of the parish of Sts. Joachim and Anne, Shakopee. a dance featuring Metro Jam from 6 to 10 p.m. There will also be a pig roast, beer tent and fireworks. Continues Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. with a chicken dinner, live music, carnival games, line dancing, food and more.

Cornfest at St. Gerard, Brooklyn Park — August 15 and 16: Friday 6 to 11 p.m. and Saturday 4 to 11 p.m. at 9600 Regent Ave. N. Features live entertainment, beer garden, games, sports alley, basket auction and bingo, and food, including fresh sweet corn dripping in butter. Go to www.st-gerard.org for information.

NativityFest at Nativity of Mary, Bloomington — August 16: 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. at 9900 Lyndale Ave. Annual festival featuring car show, swing band, talent show and a chicken dinner served from 4:30 to 8 p.m. Children’s games and entertainment all afternoon. For a complete list of activities and entertainment please visit www. nativitybloomington.org.

Parish festival and chicken dinner at St. Genevieve, Centerville — August 17: 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at 6995 Centerville Road.

Features crafts, silent auction, amusements, bingo, cake walk, children’s games and more.

Cost for dinner is $10 for adults and $5 for children 10 and under.

Harvest festival at St. Hubert, Chanhassen — August 17: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 8201 Main St. Features a chicken dinner, entertainment,

games and more. For information, visit www.sthubert. org.

Festival at Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Minneapolis — August 17: Polka Mass at 10:30 a.m. at 1315 Second St. N.E. Festival from noon to 4 p.m. features Hispanic food, Polish sausage, cabbage rolls, games, folk dancers, a raffle and more.

Annual Ho-Down at Most Holy Trinity, Veseli — August 17: Polka Mass at 11 a.m. followed by a chicken cook-out, home baked kolacky, games, raffles and continuous music from noon to 6:15 p.m. Located at 4939 N. Washington St. Marystown Festival at Saints Joachim and Anne, Shakopee — August 17: Begins with a turkey dinner served from 11 a.m.to 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults, children 4-12 are $5 and children 3 and under are free.

Features live and silent auctions, bingo, a country store, hamburger stand, kids games, petting zoo and more. Runs until 7 p.m. The church is located in Shakopee off Highway 169 and south on Marystown Road (15) to the church.

Heart of the Northside festival at St. Bridget, Minneapolis — August 17: 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Northwest corner of Emerson and Dowling Avenues North.

Attractions include a raffle, silent auction, brunch, treats, games and more. For information, visit www.stbridgetnorthside.org.

Parish festival at St. Thomas the Apostle, Corcoran — August 17: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 20000 County Road 10.

Parish Festival at St. Ignatius, Annandale — August 17: Polka Mass at 10:30 a.m. followed by family fun. Features a chicken dinner with homemade pie, or eat at the food stand. Games for all ages, bingo, silent auction, various raffles, cake walk, beer garden and more.

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Church of the Immaculate Conception Lonsdale, Minnesot

Touch of Lebanon Festival St. Maron Catholic Church 602 University Avenue, NE – Minneapolis

Saturday, September 2 , 201 1:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Sunday, September 2 , 201 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Authentic Lebanese Cuisine, Games, Raffle, Silent Auction, Gift Shop, And Live Music.

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ANNUAL PARISH FESTIVAL Sunday, August 3, 2014

BAKED CHICKEN AND HOT HAM DINNER Including homemade rolls, kolacky and pie Buffet Style — Takeout available Serving from 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

Adults: $12 — Children (ages 0-8): $6 Air conditioned Ciivic Center open for eating takeout dinners

SNACK BAR opens at 12:30 p.m. serving hamburgers and hotdogs • Refreshments • Homemade Bakery Booth in Civic Center • Bingo • Games for Kids • Ice Cream Stand • Chance Booth • Country Market & Crafts • Raffle Wheel • Used-A-Bit • Split the Pot

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

Including the Czech Area Concertina Club

DRAWING AT 5 P.M. MASSES: Saturday 5 p.m. • Sunday 8 a.m., 10 a.m. POLKA MASS featuring The Immaculate Conception Church Choir

Parish Festivals • 19 fun, raffles and music from The High and Mighty dance band at 7 p.m. Visit www. stjudeofthelake.org for event details.

CountryFest at St. Patrick, Oak Grove – September 6 and 7: Features quilt auction, silent action, rib fest, 10K raffle, crafts, games, Saturday night dance and fireworks and more at 19921 Nightingale St. N.W. Visit stpats@st-patricks.org.

Festival and street dance at St. Anne, Hamel — August 23 and 24: Dance Saturday from 6 to 10 p.m. features Diamondback at 200 Hamel Road. Continues Sunday with a chicken dinner from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Outside food and drink will also be available.

Also features games for youths and adults, bingo, pull tabs, a silent auction, a country store and a white elephant sale.

Festival at St. Luke, Clearwater — August 24: Begins with Mass at 10 a.m. followed by a pork chop dinner and outdoor activities at 11 a.m. at 17545 Huber Ave. N.W. Features square dancing, food booths, craft booths, games, country store with fresh produce and a bean bag tournament. Visit www.churchof stlukes.com.

Fun Fest at St. Mathias, Hampton — August 24: Begins with a polka Mass at 10 a.m. featuring Big Ben and the Brians. Among activities starting on the grounds after Mass are food stands, a silent auction, pot of gold, bingo, kids games and a beer stand. There will also be a country store with home-baked goods and garden products. Located at the corner of Highway 50 and County Road 47 in Hampton.

Fall carnival at St. Timothy, Blaine — September 5 to 7: Features carnival rides, children’s games, clowns, silent auction, bingo, chicken dinner, music and dancing, country store and more. Located at 707 89th Ave. N.E . Visit: www.churchofsttimothy.com for information.

Fall festival at St. Bonaventure, Bloomington — September 5 and 6: Begins Friday with a chicken dinner at 4:30 p.m. at 901 E. 90th St. Continues Saturday with a parade at 10 a.m., classic cars, rides, games, food and entertainment all day. For information, visit www.saintbonaventure.org.

Fall festival at Transfiguration, Oakdale — September 5 to 7: Begins at 6 p.m. Friday with The Taste of Transfiguration, a ticketed event with wine, beer and food tasting, along with a silent auction, games and raffles.

Continues Sunday at 8 a.m. with a 5K run/ walk followed by carnival rides, live entertainment, beer garden and more. Sunday Mass at 10:30 a.m. followed by more carnival rides and games. Located at 6133 15th St. N. CornFest at St. Jude of the Lake, Mahtomedi — September 6: 3 to 10 p.m. at 700 Mahtomedi Ave. Features food, family

Fall festival at St. Mary of the Lake, White Bear Lake — September 6 and 7: Spaghetti dinner from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Saturday followed by live music and concessions. Sunday features a turkey dinner from noon to 2:30 p.m. at 4690 Bald Eagle Ave. Highlights include a general store, raffles, auctions and kids’ games and inflatable activities.

Fall festival at St. Odilia, Shoreview — September 6 and 7: Saturday Noon to 11 p.m. and Sunday Noon to 5 p.m. at 3495 N. Victoria. Features live music of all genres all weekend, live auction, Farmer’s marketplace, games, inflatables, silent auction and food.

Visit www.stodilia.org.

serving from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 8801 Wildwood Ave. Also features a large silent auction, music, raffles, country store and more. Visit www.stboniface-stmary.org.

Fall festival at St. Patrick, Inver Grove Heights — September 11 to 14: Begins Thursday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. with a rummage sale at 3535 72nd St. (sale continues Friday and Saturday). Festival activities continue Saturday with a golf tournament and Mass at 4 p.m. followed by a taco dinner, live auction and games. Activities continue Sunday at 11:30 a.m. and include a food court featuring a roast pork dinner, pasta bar and more, a country store, games and a cash raffle. Classic car show Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.

Autumn Daze Festival at the Church of St. Helena, Minneapolis — September 12 to 14: Friday 6 to10 p.m., Saturday 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Fall Festival at St. Stanislaus, St. Paul — September 7: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Featuring turkey dinner, live music, bingo, bakery, kolackys, jar bar, raffle, garage sale, wheel of fortune, mini golf, beer tent with Viking game showing, kid games, pull tabs and more.

Fall festival at Sacred Heart / Sagrado Corazon, St. Paul — September 7: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 840 Sixth St. E. Features authentic Mexican and American foods, music, dancers, children and adult games, pull tabs, raffles, jewelry booth, media booth and more. Garage sale begins Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and runs Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

20th Annual CountryFest hog roast and social at St. Boniface, St. Bonifacius — September 7: Roast pork or pork chop dinner

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Chicken Dinner 4:30-7 p.m.

Adults: $10; Children 5-12: $5 4 and Under: Free

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St. Bonaventure

901 East 90th St., Bloomington (Between 10th and Chicago) Phone: 952-854-4733 Fax 952-851-9690 office@saintbonaventure.org www.saintbonaventure.org

First weekend after Labor Day SAT., SEPT. 6 10 a.m.: Parade 11 a.m.: Percolators Band til 3 p.m.

7:00 p.m. Mass

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Dakota Ramblers Band 6:30 p.m. Raffle

Free Entertainment all day 200+ Classic Cars • Rides • Games • Quality Foods Galore

Irish Fair of Minnesota Hibernians Sunday Mass On Sunday August 10 at 9 a.m., the Irish Fair of Minnesota will once again be celebrating an outdoor Catholic Mass on the fairgrounds on Harriet Island. An Irish Piper opens the procession and begins this truly exceptional Mass. The Mass is sponsored by the Hibernians Society including Deacon Erv Barrett and Anna May Hogan. The celebrant is Father Tom Fitzgerald. It is on the Cara Irish Pubs Main Stage, so join us for a worship including special features true to Irish culture. Mass will include Irish hymns and songs such as “Our Lady of Knock,” as well as the American and Irish National Anthems. Along with cantor Beth Combs, pianist Steve Anderson, and violinist Connor O’Brien, Harpist Chad McAnally has written a few special pieces for the Mass, from early Christian lyrics. Local Irish dignitaries and the Knights of Columbus also will be present. Cretin-Derham Hall Cadets provide the honor guard and colors ceremony. Ultan Duggan has always read the first reading in Irish, with the laity responding in Irish. Daniel Kubinski reads the second reading in English. Attendance ranges from 800-1,000.

We invite everyone to join us for a Catholic Mass and stay for the FREE Irish Fair of Minnesota!

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20 • Parish Festivals Fall Festival at St. John the Baptist, Jordan — Sept. 20 and 21: Opens with 5 p.m. Mass Saturday, followed by food, live music, and a Euchre and Sheepshead card tournament at 210 Broadway. Continues Sunday with a country store, jewelry booth, raffles, silent auction, and kids’ fun land open at 9 a.m.; Polka Mass at 10 a.m. with the Wendinger Band; home cooked chicken and bone-in ham dinner from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; adults $12; children 12 and under $6; live music on the grounds; spectacular quilt auction at 3:30 p.m. Visit stjohnthebaptistjordan.org for information.

games of skill, food (including a fish fry on Friday night), and more. Located at 3204 East 43rd St. For information, call (612) 729-7344 or visit www.sainthelena.us/autumndaze.

County Fair at Nativity of Our Lord, St. Paul — September 12 to 14: 5 to 10 p.m.

Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at 1900 Stanford Ave. Activities include rides, kids games, food, beverages, Art Market, creative activities,live and silent auctions, Fun Run, raffle, bingo and ongoing entertainment.

Fall festival at St. Michael, St. Michael — September 13 and 14: Polka Mass at 4:30 p.m. Saturday in the historic church at 19 Main St. N. Followed by a German Bierstube dinner from 5 to 6:30 p.m. with polka band and beer garden until 8 p.m. at 11300 Frankfort Parkway N.E. Sunday begins at 11 a.m. and ends with the main raffle drawing at 5 p.m. Features a chicken dinner, raffle with $10,000 grand prize, bingo, silent auction, kids’ games with inflatables and petting zoo, refreshments and more.

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Fall festival at St. Michael, Farmington — September 20 and 21: Saturday 5:30 to 9 p.m. and Sunday 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at 22120 Denmark Ave. Saturday’s activities include supper (must buy ticket), bingo and hayrides. Sunday’s activities include food trailers, children’s games, bingo, bake sale and silent auction.

Fall festival at Sacred Heart, Rush City — September 21: Mass at 9 a.m. followed by a chicken dinner served from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., games, live music and more.

Fall festival at St. Peter, North St. Paul — September 27 and 28: Begins with Mass at 4 p.m. Saturday at 2600 N. Margaret St. Entertainment and a broasted chicken dinner follow Mass. Continues Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with a silent auction, craft boutique, games and food. For information, visit www.churchofstpeternsp.org.

Fall festival at St. Pascal, Baylon, St. Paul — September 28: Noon to 5 p.m. at 1757 Conway St. Event includes a spaghetti dinner, bingo, cake walk, beer, tacos and more.

Hilltop AutumnFest at All Saints, Lakeville – September 21: 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at 19795 Holyoke Ave. Activities include games for all ages, music, bingo, cakewalk, country store and concessions, including the legendary Taco Tom. Call (952) 469-4481 for information.

Fall festival at Most Holy Redeemer, Montgomery — September 28: Chicken dinner served from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at 206 Vine Ave. W. Also features live music, bingo, raffle, farmer’s market, craft sale, quilt raffle, kid’s games, silent auction, candy sale, beer garden and food stands.

Fall festival at St. Canice, Kilkenny — September 21: 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at 183 Maple St. W. Features a chicken and ham dinner, country store, children’s games, live music and bingo.

Annual Booya and Fall Fiesta at St. Francis de Sales, St. Paul — October 5: Bilingual Mass at 10:30 a.m. at Highland Park Pavilion. Booya and variety of American and Latino food served starting at 11:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. (or until sold out). Other activities include games for adults and children and performance by the St. Paul Police Band at 1 p.m.

Annual community festival at St. Peter, Forest Lake — September 20 and 21: Saturday features games, concessions, a country store, craft booth, beer garden wine toss and more. Family dance with the White Sidewalls followed by fireworks in the evening. Grilled pork and turkey dinner Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. along with activities continued from Saturday.

Fall Festival at Holy Name, Minneapolis — October 12: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 3637 11th Ave. S. Features a pancake breakfast from 9 a.m. to noon, Eat Street and beer garden from noon to 4 p.m., kids games, silent auction, raffle and more.

Parish festival at St. Rita’s, Cottage Grove — September 20 and 21: Begins Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with a garage sale, followed by a catered chicken dinner from Mike Ptacek of Prescott, Wis. Take-out is Fall festival at Immaculate Conception of available. Polka Mass at 5 p.m. with country Marysburg, Madison Lake — September store, bingo, silent auction following.

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NovemberFest at St. Richard, Richfield — November 8 and 9: Begins Saturday with a craft sale with dozens of vendors from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 7540 Penn Ave. S. Mass at 5 p.m. followed by a spaghetti dinner and bingo in the social hall, with beer available for purchase. Pancake breakfast Sunday morning with the silent auction and other activities until 2 p.m.

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21 Basilica parishioner shows ‘It Only Takes One’ at Minnesota Fringe Howells has struggled with creating it. The process hasn’t been as natural as she would have hoped, just like her conversion to Catholicism from nondenominational Christian.

Editor’s note: K.D. Howells first shared her story with The Catholic Spirit in the April 10, 2014, edition.

Read it at TheCatholicSpirit.com.

By Josie Bungert For The Catholic Spirit After an eye-opening conversion to Catholicism last spring, theater historian K.D. Howells is putting her newfound faith into practice in a musical she wrote and directed.

“It Only Takes One” combines her commitment to prayer and theater, and will be featured at the Minnesota Fringe Festival Aug. 1-9.

“It specifically was the meetings and praying with people that I really just discovered who I am again . . . the whole conversion process is really intense, and you kind of take a stab with what God wants you to do with your life,” said Howells, a parishioner at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis.

“It’s inspired me to actually submit [the play] for the fringe festival.”

Minnesota Fringe is one of many nationwide fringe festivals. Fringe performances are selected randomly, in a lottery. Though this is Howells’ first play, she had a feeling that her work would get chosen.

This feeling led to being picked, and Howells saying, “OK, God, this is the story I’m going to tell now.”

The storyline is about a woman who cares for marginalized people on the street, the people Howells believes Jesus focused on. A businessman, stuck in his routine, meets the woman and sees something in her that he wants for himself.

Curtis Roth, who is part of music ministry at Valley Christian Church in Apple Valley, plays the role of the businessman.

“He is really mirroring the world, the parts of the world that [we] have forgotten about,” Roth said.

“His character is kind of who we’re accusing, and we are asking the hard questions of. . . From the audience’s perspective, I am kind of them.”

Roth said he relates to the

“With my background and my conversion, I thought this would be easy,” Howells said. “But I still find myself praying and asking God to help me figure this puzzle out. I have to work on my faith just as regularly as I have to work on this play, if not more, just to keep me afloat in life.

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Woman’s inspiration plays out on stage at local festival

“I was kind of expecting this ‘aha!’ moment,” Howells continued. “I find myself in Mass sometimes, realizing 10 more things I can change to be a better person. It’s a never-ending conversion.”

Like Howells, Roth found a way to be involved with the play while incorporating his faith.

“The one reason I got out of musical theater was because I was tired of the noise, I guess,” he said.

“When I saw this show and read the script, it has a good message that has a potential to be a platform for the Gospel of Christ.”

“It Only Takes One”

An original musical by K.D. Howells Playwright K.D. Howells (seated) listens to the cast of her play, “It Only Takes One,” during rehearsal July 27 at the Rarig Center Xperimental Black Box Theater on the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus. Performances will be Aug. 1-9 as part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival. Jim Bovin / For The Catholic Spirit character because he lost touch with his faith when he made the move from Minnesota to New York to study musical theater.

“What I enjoy most is how much it does mirror the world that I see and the world that I’ve gotten involved and swallowed up in,” he said. “When I got to New York, I quickly forgot my faith, and got into the ‘go to work, do your thing, don’t let anybody hold you down or take you apart from that.’”

The narrator’s message to the audience is to live a life opposite of this — one fueled by the idea that “it only takes one” to make a difference.

“A big part of it is we sabotage ourselves so much,” Howells said.

“We say, ‘We can never do that, I’ll do it tomorrow, it’s not important right now.’ We always think about these things, but we sabotage ourselves by not taking action.”

Though she has known what to convey through the musical,

Where University of Minnesota Rarig Center, Xperimental Black Box Theater, Lower Level 330 21st Ave. S., Minneapolis Show times 10 p.m. Aug. 1 7 p.m. Aug. 2 8:30 p.m. Aug. 4 5:30 p.m. Aug. 6 7 p.m. Aug. 9 Each performance will have a post-show meet-and-greet at a local restaurant.

Purchase tickets Visit fringefestival.org and type “It Only Takes One” in the search box under Menu.

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Papal puzzler: Leo XIII anonymously published riddles Catholic News Service

Pope Leo XIII is depicted seated in an official Vatican portrait circa 1878. The pope, credited with being the founder of Catholic social teaching, anonymously crafted Latin riddles for a Roman magazine. CNS/Library of Congress

Going by the pseudonym “X,” Pope Leo XIII anonymously crafted poetic puzzles in Latin for a Roman periodical at the turn of the 19th century.

The pope created lengthy riddles, known as “charades,” in Latin in which readers had to guess a rebus-like answer from two or more words that together formed the syllables of a new word.

Eight of his puzzles were published anonymously in “Vox Urbis,” a Rome newspaper that was printed entirely in Latin between 1898-1913, according to an article in the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.

A reader who submitted the correct answer to the riddle would receive a book of Latin poetry written by either Pope Leo or another noted Catholic figure.

The identity of the mysterious riddlemaker, however, was soon revealed by a French reporter covering the Vatican for the daily newspaper Le Figaro.

Felix Ziegler published his scoop Jan. 9, 1899, a year after the puzzles started appearing, revealing that “Mr. X” was, in fact, the reigning pope, the Vatican newspaper said July 20.

In the pope’s hometown, Carpineto Romano, students at the middle school now named for him have published 26 of the pope’s Latin puzzles in a new book

titled, “Aenigmata. The Charades of Pope Leo XIII.” One example of the pope’s Latin riddles talked of a “little boat nimbly dancing,” that sprung a leak as it “welcomed the shore so near advancing.”

“The whole your eyes have known, your pallid cheeks have shown; for oh! the swelling tide no bravest heart could hide, when your dear mother died,” continues the translation of part of the riddle-poem.

The answer, “lacrima,” (“teardrop”) merges clues elsewhere in the poem for “lac” (“milk”) and “rima” (“leak” or “fissure”).

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22 Young adults CYA for summer Sports Nights at Rahn Athletic Fields, Eagan — All Fridays in July and August: 6 p.m. at 4440 Nichols Road. We will play Ultimate Frisbee and sand volleyball until sundown. For information, contact the Cathedral Young Adults at CYA@CathedralSaintPaul.org.

Ages 18-39, all are welcome.

Don’t miss More events online Additional parish and school events in the archdiocese can be found at TheCatholicSpirit.com/calendar.

Other events Festa Italiana Minnesota 2014 at Island Lake County Park, Shoreview — Aug. 1 to 3: Friday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m.to 6 p.m. at I-694 and Victoria Street. Mass and procession Saturday at 4:30 p.m.

Also features italian dancers, children’s area, heritage displays, family histories, Italian food and more. Visit FiestaItalianaMN.org.

Special screening of ‘Breeders: a subclass of

women?’ at Lagoon Theater, Minneapolis — Aug. 6: 7 p.m. at 1320 Lagoon Ave. A film by The Center for Bioethics and Culture that explores the

risks of surrogate mothers and egg donations, and the commoditization of fertility, pregnancy and assisted reproductive technology in regard to the dignity of women and human life and human rights violations. Tickets available for purchase at the theater or online at: brownpapertickets.com/ event/759259.

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Franciscan Brothers of Peace old-fashioned barbecue at Queen of Peace Friary, St. Paul — Aug. 23: 3:30 to 8 p.m. at 1289 Lafond Ave. Features food, live music and games. For information, call (651) 646-8586.

OLP all-school reunion at William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul — Aug. 9: Registration begins at 3 p.m. with a program at 4 p.m. at 875 Summit Ave. Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. For information, email sbrown@bvmcong.org or call (563) 588-2351, ext.

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25: Social hour and silent auction begins at 6 p.m. followed by dinner at 7 p.m. at 220 Poplar Lane.

Pro-life speaker and co-founder of 40 Days for Life, Shawn Carney, will give the keynote address.

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The Last Word

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Lawrence Martin of the Gichitwaa Kateri Circle of Minneapolis plays a flute July 24 as he leads the Tekakwitha Conference in a song in the Ojibwe language at the organization’s annual meeting in Fargo, N.D. There are 191 native languages in the U.S. and 87 in Canada that are endangered or already extinct, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. CNS/Nancy Wiechec

Speakers: Using native languages in prayer, song helps preserve culture

By Nancy Wiechec Catholic News Service Native American Catholics are being urged to become language “warriors” and to help preserve their culture in liturgy and song.

Native language was a key topic at the Tekakwitha Conference held in Fargo July 2326, and its diversity was evident in 750 attendees representing some 135 different tribes.

Beating a native drum, Sister Mary Shiose, a Sister of the Blessed Sacrament, treated a workshop to a Mass song in Keresan, a language of her people, the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico.

Lawrence Martin of the Gichitwaa Kateri

Tekakwitha Conference attendees celebrate on the last night of the conference in Fargo, N.D. The conference held its 75th anniversary conference in the same city and diocese where it was founded. CNS/ Nancy Wiechec

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Circle of Minneapolis and the former director urban Minneapolis parish founded by Ojibwe of American Indian Studies at the University of and Dakota Catholics.

Wisconsin in Eau Claire, led a prayer service They have written original music in Ojibwe that included a responsorial psalm in the and also have translated traditional liturgical Ojibwe language. The response was sung: music.

“Manidoo Aki” — pronounced “ma knee do ah Translating songs offers a unique set of key” — or “The Earth Is the Lord’s.” challenges.

At the conference’s closing Mass, the Our “In Ojibwe, if you say ‘love,’ it takes six Father was sung in a Yupik language by syllables,” Martin said. In English it’s one. And members of the Aurora Lights Kateri Circle of the same is true for the words faith and hope.

Anchorage, Alaska.

“So, if you translate ‘faith, hope and love,’ that’s a whole verse,” he added.

Native Americans have good reason to be He said setting translations to familiar music concerned about losing their languages. also has its difficulties, but noted that music There are 191 native languages in notation the U.S. and 87 in Canada that are applications can endangered or already extinct, help. Since most according to the United Nations people in their “We have to get the Educational, Scientific and Cultural parish are not fluent Organization. in Ojibwe, they language in front of During a Tekakwitha Conference have had to workshop titled “Native Language and people’s faces” if it is experiment with Liturgy,” facilitators Martin and Rick ways to produce Gresczyk, also from Gichitwaa Kateri to survive. song sheets that Circle, asked a room full of people to include both the raise their hands if they spoke their Rick Gresczyk, Gichitwaa Ojibwe and English native tongue. About a third Kateri Circle of Minneapolis words. responded that they did.

Sources for Then they asked how many people Catholic prayers and in the room had translated music in native contemporary liturgical music into languages also exist in the special collections their language. Five people indicated they had. and archives at Jesuit-run Marquette University Rick encouraged those in the room to become in Milwaukee. “warriors for the language.”

Archivist Mark Thiel oversees the university’s “We have to get the language in front of Native American Catholic archive, which is people’s faces” if it is to survive, he said. likely the largest of its kind.

A professor of language studies, Rick also told “There’s quite a volume of material that we the Tekakwitha gathering that cultural identity can provide electronically,” Thiel said. is closely aligned with language. If language dies, so may identity.

The collection includes hymnals, Bibles, prayer books, pictorials and choir recordings in He said language preservation requires more than 30 languages. immersion education, the involvement of firstlanguage speakers and commitment.

The archive, located in the university’s J.P. Raynor, S.J., Library, is open to visitors and Both men of Ojibwe heritage gave examples of how the Ojibwe language is used in song and researchers. Information also is available online at www.marquette.edu. prayer each Sunday at Gichitwaa Kateri, an