The Catholic Spirit - March 9, 2017

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Polish-style homecoming for native son

Archbishop Roger Schwietz processes in at the start of Mass March 5 at St. Casimir in St. Paul, passing through a Knights of Columbus honor guard. He concelebrated Mass with Archbishop Bernard Hebda and Father Michael Powell, the pastor of the parish. Archbishop Schwietz grew up in the parish and currently lives in Anchorage, Alaska, where he served until his retirement in November 2016.

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Anchorage archbishop calls childhood parish his ‘spiritual home’

By Dave Hrbacek The Catholic Spirit

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ore than 100 people joined their voices March 5 to pay tribute to an archbishop who returned to his home parish to celebrate its feast day.

With a rousing rendition of the Polish song, “Sto lat,” which translates to “100 years,” parishioners at St. Casimir in St. Paul rose to their feet and showered affection upon Archbishop Roger Schwietz, the retired archbishop of Anchorage, Alaska, who returned to the parish of his upbringing to concelebrate Mass with pastor Father Michael Powell and Archbishop Bernard Hebda.

Archbishop Schwietz came to the Twin Cities to celebrate the March 4 feast of St. Casimir, plus the 100-year anniversary of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate serving the parish.

The Mass featured a four-member polka band that

began with the Polish National Anthem. It likely struck a chord with Archbishop Schwietz, who owns an accordion and has demonstrated over the years his love for polka dancing.

After an upbringing immersed in Polish culture, Archbishop Schwietz became an Oblate in 1958 and was ordained a priest in Rome in 1967. The Oblates first came to the parish in 1916, when Father Andrew Stojar arrived from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to serve as pastor. The parish will celebrate its 125th anniversary in December.

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St. Paul artist and architect Peter Kramer puts Stations of the Cross in contemporary context for March gallery show.

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March 9, 2017 OVERHEARD

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“What would happen if we turned back when we forget it, if we opened it more times a day, if we read the messages of God contained in the Bible the way we read messages on our cellphones?”

Pope Francis speaking March 5 about the importance of the Bible to the crowd gathered at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City for the noon Angelus.

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More than 600 to enter Church locally at Easter On March 5, 201 catechumens and 422 candidates presented themselves at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul and the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis for the annual Rite of Election, a milestone for those in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults aiming to become Catholic.

Catechumens have yet to be baptized, while candidates have been baptized in another Christian denomination.

Theologian to speak on God, religious diversity

SHE SAID YES Michael Janicki and Kathy Stauble celebrate minutes after they got engaged in the historic church at St. Peter in Mendota Feb. 26. The two prayed the rosary at 10:20 a.m., then stayed until the church cleared out, at which time Janicki popped the question. He pulled the ring out of a pine box he made for the occasion. They are planning to get married at St. Peter Aug. 18. Stauble is a member of the parish, Janicki is in the process of joining. Dave Hrbacek/The Catholic Spirit

Jeannine Hill Fletcher, a theology professor from Fordham University in New York City, will present “The Oneness of God and the Diversity of Religions: A Christian Perspective” 7 p.m. March 15 in McNeely Hall, Room 100, at the University of St. Thomas, 2115 Summit Ave., St. Paul. The Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning is sponsoring the presentation. For more information, visit www.stthomas.edu/jpc.

24 Hours for the Lord returns to Cathedral For the second year, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis will host 24 Hours for the Lord at the Cathedral of St. Paul. Confessions and eucharistic adoration will be offered from noon March 24 to noon March 25. For more information, visit www.archspm.org/24hours.

UST Catholic institute to host Father Radcliffe Dominican Father Timothy Radcliffe is lecturing on “Truth at the Service of Love: Understanding Thomas Aquinas” 7 p.m. April 3 in Woulfe Alumni Hall at the University of St. Thomas. Father Radcliffe served as Master of the Order of Preachers from 1992-2001 and is the director of Las Casas Institute of Blackfriars at Oxford University, England, that promotes social justice and human rights. The lecture is sponsored by St. Thomas’ Institute for Catholicism and Citizenship. For more information, visit www.stthomas.edu/icc.

Seminary formation explored at UST St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity professor and Franciscan Sister Katarina Schuth will present on the recent history and development of seminary formation for the seminary’s semiannual Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library Lecture 7:30 p.m. April 3. The lecture will be at the University of St. Thomas’ 3M Auditorium in the Owens Science Hall. For more information, visit www.stthomas.edu/spssod.

Education group begins for abuse survivors, friends LENT BEGINS Justin Ollerich of St. Mark in St. Paul receives ashes from Father Ronald DesRosiers at St. Louis, King of France in downtown St. Paul at Ash Wednesday noon Mass March 1. Ollerich was there with his wife, Sarah, and son, William. Dave Hrbacek/The Catholic Spirit

WHAT’S NEW on social media Catholics called in to talk all things Lent March 3 on the Rediscover:Hour. The March 10 show will focus on Catholics’ identity in Christ with Laraine Bennett, author of “The Temperament God Gave You”; local therapist and Catholic Angie Neumann; and John Hartnett, faith formation director at Holy Family in St. Louis Park. The show airs 9-10 a.m. Fridays on Relevant Radio 1330 AM. Past shows are available at www.rediscover.archspm.org.

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Victims, relatives and friends of people affected by clergy sexual abuse are invited to attend an independent, educational group that will look at the various effects of clergy sexual abuse and ways to cope. This group is not sponsored by the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. It is facilitated by a licensed psychotherapist, a survivor and a secondary survivor. The group will meet 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesdays from April 19 to May 24. For more information, call 612-388-5752.

MN Opera to perform ‘Dead Man Walking’ The Minnesota Opera announced in February that its 2017-2018 season will include “Dead Man Walking,” the story of St. Joseph Sister Helen Prejean’s relationship with a man facing the death penalty. The show will run in late January and early February 2018. Tickets begin at $25 at www.mnopera.org.

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Lent a reminder to welcome others, see Christ in them

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n his Lenten message this year, Pope Francis reminds us that Lent is “a favorable season for opening the doors to all those in need and recognizing in them the face of Christ.” He encourages us to recognize that “each life that we encounter is a gift deserving acceptance, respect and love.”

As I approach the first anniversary of my appointment to this archdiocese, I continue to be amazed by the commitment of this local Church to reach out to those in need — and not just during Lent. The recent opening of the first phase of Catholic Charities’ Higher Ground St. Paul is just one example of that extraordinary commitment. It is already having an impact on the lives of some of our most vulnerable brothers and sisters in a way that eloquently illustrates our Catholic social teaching and its emphasis on the dignity of each human life. The scope and careful design of the project reflect Pope Francis’ conviction that each life is a gift.

I am convinced that it is our Catholic conviction that each life truly matters that underlies the educational success of the Catholic schools in this archdiocese and throughout the country. We’re blessed with educators, parents and benefactors who see our children and teens as unique “gifts” and who sacrifice to help them reach their God-given potential. Educators seeking to understand how it is that our African-American and Latino students are so successful in closing the so-called performance gap would do well to take into consideration the Catholic social teaching that undergirds our schools.

It is likewise that same understanding of the value and dignity of each human life that leads our Catholic community to be both so strong in its defense of unborn life and so committed to helping young moms and dads who are in need of guidance and support at the time of an unexpected pregnancy or in welcoming children into their lives.

This past Ash Wednesday, while I was celebrating Mass at the Cathedral of St. Paul, a group of self-described activists attached a banner to the facade of the Cathedral that read: “Speaking up for unborn lives more than black and brown lives is white supremacy.” In the press release that they issued, ONLY JESUS Catholics were accused of being white supremacists, giving primacy in their voting to a single issue — presumably the Archbishop defense of unborn life — “at the expense of increased Bernard Hebda

deportations, Islamaphobic travel bans and a rise in racist rhetoric in our country.” The press release went on, moreover, to accuse the Church of being silent in the face of xenophobia.

I very much appreciated the reminder that we need to be consistent in our defense of life. I cannot imagine, however, that the criticism would have resonated very much with the faithful who had assembled that evening to begin Lent. As is most often the case at the Cathedral, the congregation was multi-racial and reflected a level of diversity that only the General Assembly at the United Nations could rival.

To even a casual observer, the makeup of the congregation would have suggested that our local Church has a long tradition of taking to heart the biblical imperative to “welcome the stranger.” I am delighted that so many of our immigrant brothers and sisters have found a home in the archdiocese, and I am equally delighted that so many of our congregations have come to recognize the presence of those new to our nation as a great gift that reminds us of the “catholicity” of our Church.

Our patron, the apostle Paul, understood so clearly that as the body of Christ, we all suffer whenever one of our members suffers. It has been enlightening for me and for many of our parishes and schools to hear of the experiences and anxieties of those who are seated next to us in the pew at church, whom we have long known as our friends and who have generously served our parishes, whether as catechists, lectors, volunteers or parish council members.

I am encouraged that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops continues to be a voice of reason in the national debate on immigration policy and reform. On the local level, I am grateful that Bishop Andrew Cozzens and our vicar and Office for Latino Ministry recently brought together immigration law experts and parish leaders from around the archdiocese to explore ways in which we can most appropriately assist our immigrant families. The resources they have developed have already been helpful.

On Ash Wednesday, we were challenged to be “ambassadors for Christ.” To do that successfully requires that we know him and imitate him, the one who came to serve rather than to be served, the one who assured us that whatever we do for the least of our brothers we do unto him. Having taken to heart the words of Pope Francis, may we journey with Christ through this season of grace, “opening the doors to all those in need and recognizing in them the face of Christ.” It is in this way that we will be able to demonstrate that we are grateful for the gift that is each human life. May the Lord bless our efforts.

La Cuaresma es un recordatorio para que recibamos a nuestros prójimos a través de las puertas de nuestro corazón

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n su mensaje de la Cuaresma de este año, el Papa Francisco nos recuerda que la Cuaresma “es la una buena época para abrirle las puerta a todos aquellos que están en necesidad y para reconocer en ellos el rostro de Cristo.” El nos alienta a reconocer que “cada vida que encontramos es un regalo que se merece aceptación, respeto y amor.”

A la vez que estoy cerca del primer aniversario de mi nombramiento en esta Arquidiócesis, continúo asombrado al ver el compromiso de esta Iglesia local de llegar a aquellos que se encuentran en necesidad —y de hacerlo no solo durante la Cuaresma. La apertura reciente de la primera fase de las instalaciones de Caridades Católicas Higher Ground (en las Alturas) en Saint Paul, es apenas uno de los ejemplos de ése compromiso extraordinario; que ya está causando impacto en las vidas de algunos de nuestros hermanos y hermanas más vulnerables, y de una forma que ilustra elocuentemente nuestras enseñanzas sociales católicas y su énfasis en la dignidad de cada vida humana. El alcance y diseño cuidadoso del proyecto refleja la convicción del Papa Francisco de que cada vida es un regalo.

Estoy convencido de que en nuestra convicción Católica en verdad cada vida importa, y es la base del éxito educacional de las escuelas Católicas en ésta Arquidiócesis y en todo el país. Tenemos la bendición de contar con educadores, padres de familia y con benefactores que ven a nuestros niños y adolecentes como “regalos” únicos y quienes se sacrifican para ayudarlos a alcanzar el potencial que Dios les ha dado. A los educadores que buscan entender cómo nuestros estudiantes afroamericanos y latinos tienen tanto éxito cerrando la tan llamada brecha en el aprendizaje, les iría bien si consideraran las enseñanzas Católicas sociales en la que se basan nuestras escuelas.

Igualmente el mismo conocimiento del valor y de la dignidad de cada vida humana que dirige a nuestra

comunidad Católica a ser ambos, muy fuertes en la defensa de la vida que no ha nacido; así como estar comprometidos a ayudar a las madres y padres jóvenes que tienen la necesidad de guía y apoyo en el momento de un embarazo inesperado o acogiendo a los niños en sus vidas.

Este Miércoles de Ceniza pasado, mientras yo estaba celebrando la Misa en la Catedral de Saint Paul, un grupo que se auto describe como activista puso una pancarta en la fachada de la Catedral que decía: “Alzar más la voz por las vida de los no nacidos, que por las vidas de los de raza negra y café es supremacía blanca.”

En el comunicado que ellos hicieron, acusaron a los Católicos de ser de la supremacía blanca, dándole primacía en su voto por un asunto [presumiblemente la defensa de la vida que no ha nacido] “a costas del aumento de deportaciones, de la prohibición de viaje islamofóbica y el surgimiento de la retórica racista en nuestro país.” El comunicado además continúa acusando a la Iglesia de guardar silencio ante la xenofobia.

Yo de verdad aprecio el recordatorio de que tenemos que ser consistentes en nuestra defensa por la vida. Sin embargo, no puedo imaginar que esta crítica tuviera mucho significado dentro del grupo de fieles que estaban reunidos esa noche para comenzar la Cuaresma.

Como es en la mayoría de los casos en la Catedral, la congregación era multi-racial y reflejaba un nivel de diversidad que solo compite con la diversidad en la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas.

Aún para un observador casual, la composición de la congregación hubiera sugerido que nuestra Iglesia local tiene una larga tradición de tomar en serio el imperativo bíblico que dice “dale la bienvenida al extranjero.” Estoy contento que muchos de nuestros hermanos y hermanas inmigrantes han encontrado un hogar en nuestra Arquidiócesis y estoy igualmente contento de que muchas de nuestras congragaciones han llegado a

reconocer que la presencia de aquellos que son nuevos en nuestra nación es un gran regalo que nos hace recordar la “catolicidad” de nuestra Iglesia.

Nuestro Santo patrón el apóstol San Pablo entendió tan claramente que como Cuerpo de Cristo, todos sufrimos cuando uno de nuestros miembros sufre. Ha sido revelador para mí y para muchas de nuestras parroquias y escuelas escuchar sobre las vivencias y ansiedades de aquellos que están sentados a la par de nosotros en las bancas de la Iglesia, a quienes hemos reconocido como nuestros amigos desde hace mucho y quienes generosamente han servido en nuestras parroquias, ya sea como catequistas, lectores, voluntarios o como miembros del consejo consultivo de las parroquias.

Me anima que el Sínodo de Obispos Católicos de Estados Unidos continúa siendo una voz con raciocinio dentro del debate nacional sobre las normas y la reforma migratoria. Estoy agradecido con el Obispo Andrew Cozzens, con nuestro vicario y la Oficina del Ministerio Latino quienes recientemente organizaron una reunión con los conocedores de las leyes migratorias y los líderes de las parroquias del área de la Arquidiócesis para explorar las maneras en las que podemos auxiliar de una manera más apropiada a nivel local a nuestras familias de inmigrantes.

El Miércoles de Ceniza, fuimos retados a ser los “embajadores de Cristo.” Para hacer esto con éxito implica que Lo conocemos y que Lo imitamos, a Él que vino a servir en vez de ser servido, que vino a asegurarnos que lo que hagamos por nuestros hermanos aún por los más pequeños lo hacemos por Él. Habiendo tomado en serio las palabras del Papa Francisco, podemos caminar con Jesucristo durante esta época de gracia, “abriéndole las puertas a todos aquellos que están en necesidad y reconociendo en ellos el rostro de Cristo.”

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‘Angel’ among us

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St. Joseph of Carondelet Sister Avis Allmaras, center, talks with Rose Carter, left, and Irene Eiden at Peace House in south Minneapolis Feb. 27. Sister Avis goes to the center weekly and visits frequent guests like Carter. Eiden, of St. William in Fridley, is a lay consociate of the Carondelet Sisters. Peace House is a day shelter for the poor and homeless.

“It’s a real privilege to know these people and hear their stories,” Sister Avis said. “I could not survive on the streets like they do. There are so many gifted people here.” Said Carter of Sister Avis: “She’s an angel. She hides her wings under that sweatshirt. She truly is an angel.”

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Celebrating sisters National Catholic Sisters Week is March 8-14. An official component of Women’s History Month and headquartered at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, the week celebrates women religious and their contributions to the Church and society. View local events, including two art exhibitions, at www.nationalcatholicsistersweek.org.

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Women listen to keynote speaker Lisa Hendey, an author and founder of CatholicMom. com, at the WINE: Catholic Women’s Conference Feb. 25 at Mary, Mother of the Church in Burnsville.

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WINE speakers highlight ‘saints in the making,’ spiritual motherhood

By Sarah Moon For The Catholic Spirit Nearly 1,000 women from across the country gathered at Mary, Mother of the Church in Burnsville Feb. 25 for the third annual WINE: Catholic Women’s Conference.

With the theme, “Small Things, Great Love: It’s What We Do,” the conference included speakers, confession, prayer teams, shopping at Catholic vendors and Mass with Bishop Andrew Cozzens.

Keynote speaker Lisa Hendey, an author and founder of CatholicMom.com from Los Angeles, spoke about how women who feel wounded can look to the saints for support.

“I hope the words of the saints will be the warm hug that feeds your spirit,” Hendey said.

Hendey spoke about the lives of various female saints including St. Gianna Berta Molla, St. Josephine Bakhita and St. Edith Stein. Hendey said all Catholic women are working to become saints, and encouraged attendees to think about the women in their lives who are “saints in the making,” who she said help people to become storytellers.

“To me, the ultimate superheroes are Catholic saints,” Hendey said.

Erin Westbrook, 32, who attends Sts. Joachim and Anne in Shakopee, said hearing about the female saints made her want to learn more.

“It’s kind of like she opened a door that I had never seen before,” Westbrook said.

Prayer life is critical to the new evangelization, Hendey told the crowd, and God calls everyone in different ways with the gifts he has given them.

Keynote speaker Sister Clare Matthiass, a Franciscan Sister of the Renewal in New York, talked about all women’s call to spiritual motherhood.

“Spiritual motherhood is the key to a woman’s identity,” she said, adding that it’s accomplished through prayer.

Before becoming a religious sister, Sister Clare wanted a spouse and children, but she said she realized being a sister was also a spousal life. Spiritual motherhood is “light dwelling in God, father and Holy Spirit, she said.

“Your heart is a spiritual womb Lisa to bring souls to Jesus … you HENDEY have to lay down your life and put others first, which is what mothers do,” Sister Clare said.

The three characteristics of spiritual motherhood that women can learn from Mary are receptivity, listening and joy, Sister Clare said. She also showed a short film she was featured in called “For Love Alone,” in which sisters speak about their decisions to live a religious vocation and what religious life is like.

Sister Clare’s message resonated with Alison Thiesfeld, 44.

“Any woman is a mother, not necessarily a biological mother to a child, but it’s all in the nurturing spirit of being a woman that makes [a woman] a mother,” said Thiesfeld, who attends St. John the Baptist in Savage.

Referring to “For Love Alone,” Sue Johnston, 58, from the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin, said it was interesting to hear how regular women become religious sisters. She enjoyed seeing what their lives were like as teenagers and young adults.

“How beautiful the calling was for them, and the charity and the love that they show other people was really touching,” Johnston said.

Leah Koch, 23, who attends Nativity of Our Lord in St. Paul, said hearing Hendey share quotes from various female saints made her talk relatable. Koch said she also enjoyed hearing about the women in Hendey’s life who are “saints in the making.”

“That really called me out to see the people around me that I’m blessed enough to know, and I’m blessed enough to be in contact with, and they’re bringing me to heaven,” Koch said.

WINE, or, Women in the New Evangelization, is a national ministry that aims to inspire women to follow Mary’s example to do God’s will and minister to other women. WINE works with the Office of Evangelization and Catechesis of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

For more information about WINE, visit www.womeninthenewevangelization.com.

Archbishop: Corned beef OK on Lenten St. Patrick’s Day Catholics who eat meat on March 17 should make another sacrifice

By Maria Wiering The Catholic Spirit Catholics abstain from eating meat on Fridays during Lent, but Archbishop Bernard Hebda granted a dispensation from the practice for St. Patrick’s Day, which falls on a Friday this year.

Susan Mulheron, chancellor of canonical affairs for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, wrote in a Feb. 22 letter addressed to clergy, consecrated women and men, and lay faithful of the archdiocese that the dispensation has been “granted to the faithful of the Archdiocese of St. Paul

and Minneapolis, as well as any visitors or travelers who may be physically present within the territory of this archdiocese, a dispensation from the obligation of abstinence from meat on March 17, 2017.”

Archbishop Hebda made the decision in consultation with the archdiocesan Presbyteral Council and took into consideration “both past practice and present circumstances” and “judged that [the dispensation] would serve the common spiritual good,” Mulheron wrote.

“As a general rule, a request for a dispensation from the obligation of abstinence on Fridays of Lent will not be considered unless some serious reason is present,” she wrote. “It has been noted, however, that Friday of the second week of Lent this year corresponds with St. Patrick’s Day

(March 17), which has traditionally been an occasion for joy-filled celebrations in this archdiocese.”

If Catholics choose to eat corned beef — or any other meat — on St. Patrick’s Day, they must also “undertake a work of charity, an exercise of piety, or an act of comparable penance on some other occasion during the Second Week of Lent,” Mulheron wrote.

She noted that Lent is “a penitential season that calls us to spiritual exercises, penitential acts, charitable works, fasting and almsgiving,” and she quoted Pope Francis’ message for Lent this year: “Lent is the favorable season for renewing our encounter with Christ, living in his word, in the sacraments and in our neighbor.”

Catholics ages 18-59 who do not have a medical condition are obliged to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good

Friday, April 14, by eating no more than one full meal and two lighter meals, that combined are less than a full meal.

Catholics ages 14 and older are also to abstain from meat on all Fridays in Lent.

American Catholics traditionally fasted from meat every Friday of the year until 1966, when the U.S. bishops released new guidelines on fasting and abstinence. They lifted the obligation of abstinence for every Friday, writing that dietary, economic and social norms made refraining from eating meat no longer an effective form of penance for everyone.

However, the bishops did not remove the Catholic obligation to engage in penance on Fridays. “Friday should be in each week, something of what Lent is in the entire year,” they wrote.

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For Catholic Charities-served refugee, family trumps fear

By Matthew Davis The Catholic Spirit Suad Gele didn’t know about the incoming U.S. president — or his proposed policies’ potential impact on immigrants and refugees — when she came to the United States as a refugee in December 2016.

“I have no idea about anything that’s going on in the world,” she said through a translator, because she is busy helping her nine children acclimate to life in the U.S. Gele, 34, and her children are living in a two-story house in Minneapolis as they begin new lives in safety, far away from their war-torn homeland of Somalia.

Gele has found an advocate in Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis as she adjusts to a new country. The Catholic non-profit organization has provided refugee resettlement services for people fleeing persecution and war since World War II. More than 20,700 refugees have resettled in Minnesota since 2007, according to the state’s Department of Human Services. One of five organizations that works with DHS in resettlement, Catholic Charities assists refugees for their first 90 days in the U.S. Gele said she received help with groceries, transportation and finding schools for her children, who range in age from 11 months to 17 years.

“Refugees come with very little,” said Laurie Ohmann, Catholic Charities’ senior vice president of client services and community partnerships. “They receive some financial support, and that is enough to get them on their feet. ... We spend a lot of time looking for suitable housing that is as affordable as possible, [in order to] try and stretch their resources as far as possible while they’re getting established here.”

Catholic Charities also helps refugees obtain work authorization cards in order to find jobs. Finding work in a new country poses a challenge even for the most educated refugees.

“We know of people who’ve come who had been doctors in their homeland, and until they are able to meet the standards of American practice, they do other things, whether it’s a home health aide or a community health worker or something else,” Ohmann said.

The Gospel mandate to welcome the stranger — and Pope Francis’ emphasis on that teaching — plays a role in motivating Catholic Charities’ work with refugees.

“I think of the pope as our best cheerleader,” Ohmann said. “He is continually asking us to reflect on the need to embrace the stranger, to welcome our human brothers wherever they come from. I appreciate how much he invites us to open our hearts to the

strangers among us and to understand their condition and their situations as part of our willingness to really receive the stranger.”

Catholic Charities works with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services in bringing refugees to Minnesota. The USCCB works with the federal government, which handles the screening of refugee applicants.

Bill Canny, executive director of the USCCB’s Migration and Refugee Services, said the applicants go through three to four interviews with government agencies along with biometric screening and medical exams.

“They’re matched with a sponsoring agency, [and] that’s where we would come in,” Canny said. “Then we would distribute those refugees out to various Catholic Charities [offices] in the country depending on a number of criteria. The most important being … have they requested to join family in that area.”

Different beliefs, same God Minnesota is home to 40,000 Somali immigrants, the nation’s largest Somali population, with most living in Minneapolis. More than 7,500 have arrived as refugees since 2007, according to DHS. Concerns about the Somali-American community’s acclimation and stability have arisen in light of the St. Cloud mall stabbing by a Somali man in September 2016 and the November 2016 conviction of nine Minnesota Somali men for terrorism-related charges. In St. Cloud, Catholic leaders have been at the helm of efforts to increase understanding between Christians and Muslims, including the Somali community. The Catholic Church affirmed in the 1965 document “Nostra Aetate” that Christians and Muslims worship the same God, but that Islam holds an imperfect understanding of God, in part because it denies Jesus’ divinity.

“I’m a little concerned that some of the tension is driven to blame these people because of their difference in religion without us understanding all that’s going on,” Ohmann said. “From a Catholic Charities point of view, we’d be looking to invite our community, and particularly our parishes, to understand the differences between and among people, whether it’s their cultural differences or their religious practices.”

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive orders tightening the country’s enforcement of immigration laws and restricting the admission of refugees, agencies that work with them have voiced concerns about polices that prevent or delay refugees’ admission to the U.S.

“Refugees and immigrants are us, our neighbors, friends, colleagues and loved ones, and are an inextricable part of the fabric of our great state,” said Emily Johnson Piper, DHS commissioner and a Catholic, in a Feb. 28 statement to The Catholic Spirit.

“The state of Minnesota’s refugee program continues to work with its community partners, like Catholic Charities, to assure that refugees in Minnesota receive services that best support their resettlement.”

Archbishop Bernard Hebda and Bishop Andrew Cozzens have also spoken in support of immigrants and refugees since the election.

Some people have shown their disagreement with the administration’s direction by bolstering their support of Catholic Charities’ refugee work. Gele’s rental arrangement is through a Catholic Charities benefactor, who offered use of the home to the organization for a family refugee, after the Trump administration announced its first executive orders on immigration in January.

Gele, a Muslim, fled Somalia because of civil war in which some of her family members were killed. Gele spent time in Nairobi, Kenya, which borders Somalia to the east.

Her husband has not been able to leave Kenya, however, and she fears the executive orders could curtail his arrival. The first order, issued in January, suspended the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days (with indefinite suspension for Syrians) and temporarily prohibited travel from seven Muslimmajority nations, including Somalia. Courts blocked the order. The Trump administration issued a revised ban March 6 that dropped Iraq from countries affected by the temporary travel ban, but kept the 120-day suspension on refugee admittance. It also cut the total number of refugees allowed into the U.S. annually by more than half, to 50,000.

“The biggest challenge is the uncertainty of [the executive order’s] implementation,” Ohmann said Feb. 28, prior to the new order’s release. She added that it hasn’t changed the daily processes of Catholic Charities work with refugees, but it has altered the number of people Catholic Charities expects to resettle this year.

“We expected to resettle more refugees this year, and we are getting indications that we will probably settle about two-thirds or maybe slightly less than two-thirds of what we thought,” Ohmann said.

It leaves a lot of unknowns for many such as Gele’s husband in Kenya, who might not make it to the U.S. because of his Somali ethnicity. Gele hopes her husband can make it to Minnesota but takes comfort in the fact that she and her children are safe.

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ARCHBISHOP SCHWIETZ continued from page 1 “It is still my spiritual home,” said Archbishop Schwietz, 76, who retired Nov. 9, 2016, but continues to serve the Archdiocese of Anchorage as the pastor of St. Andrew in Eagle River on the outskirts of Anchorage. “We lived down Jessamine Street, just a couple blocks away from church. So, I used to walk down there early in the morning and serve the 6 o’clock Mass.”

He recalled how the seeds of his priestly vocation were sown in the St. Paul East Side neighborhood, with encouragement from Father Stojar, who got to know his parishioners the way beat cops in those days got to know the residents of the neighborhoods they patrolled — by pounding the pavement.

“I got to know him really well,” Archbishop Schwietz said. “He was well known on the whole East Side. He used to go out for walks in the neighborhood, and he would talk to people. He was a real oldfashioned pastor.”

After graduating from St. Casimir grade school, Archbishop Schwietz remembers going to Cretin High School in St. Paul and taking a streetcar down Forest Street and into downtown St. Paul, where he transferred to a bus that took him the rest of the way to Cretin, where he graduated in 1958.

“I remember running into him [Father Stojar] when I’d come back from school and get off the streetcar,” Archbishop Schwietz said. “He’d be walking around the neighborhood. One of the times, I remember him asking me, ‘What are you going to do after high school?’ I said, ‘I don’t know. I’ve been thinking about different things.’ He said, ‘You go to the seminary. You should be a priest.’ I still remember that. So, he was very instrumental in my vocation.”

Archbishop Schwietz eventually took his pastor’s advice, first entering college seminary the fall after his graduation, then joining the Oblates that same year and, finally, being ordained a priest in Rome in December 1967. He served as archbishop of Anchorage from 2000 to 2016. Before that, he was bishop of Duluth from 1990 to 2000. He now is just months away from his 50th jubilee.

More than 50 years removed from his childhood days at St. Casimir, he still tries to follow the example set by the childhood pastor whom he feels set the bar high.

“Father Stojar had kind of a gruff exterior, but a heart of gold,” Archbishop Schwietz said. “And you could just see through his exterior easily. He was there to help people. I think there’s a lot of that that I have tried to emulate in my life of caring for people and wanting to serve as a spiritual father to the people I serve. That’s why I love being a pastor again now. It’s really going back to what I really felt called to.”

Archbishop Roger Schwietz greets Karen Zimlich after Mass March 5. She and her husband, Joe, grew up attending St. Casimir. Joe was a classmate of Archbishop Schwietz at St. Casimir School and Cretin High School. Dave Hrbacek/ The Catholic Spirit Archbishop Schwietz reveled in the memories of his old neighborhood as he sat in the basement of the former St. Casimir School building adjacent to the church for a brunch following the 9 a.m. celebration Mass. When it came time for him to speak, he offered both thoughts on his vocation, plus a lighter look at life in the East Side parish.

He described how Father Stojar would come to his house to play cards with his father, Archie, who owned Schwietz’s Bar just a few blocks away on Payne Avenue (the building still remains). Father Stojar would always put a raw egg in his beer before he drank it.

Then, there was the annual Easter ritual involving the Felician Sisters who taught at the school.

“My dad would give the sisters a case of beer for Easter every year,” Archbishop Schwietz said. “So, my brother and I would take our wagon, go over to the tavern, and he’d put the case of beer in the wagon and then we’d take it down Arcade Street and down Jessamine to the convent. We’d ring the doorbell and the sisters would come out, and we’d give them a case of beer. It was all smiles all the way around. We were always well received with that case of beer.”

Some of the longtime parishioners at St. Casimir had their own favorite memories of Archbishop Schwietz.

“When he was at the parish in Duluth, my cousin [Father Anthony Wroblewski] was a pastor up there, and they would have Polish Days of May with a Polish

The Catholic Spirit • 7 dinner and a polka dance,” said parishioner Cathy Rajtar, 56, who attended St. Casimir School along with her six siblings. “He loved celebrating the Polish heritage, and he loved dancing. It was fun to try to get on his dance card and do a polka with him. His eyes would just light up. He loved it.”

Joe Zimlich, 77, described his boyhood friend and classmate as “one of the good guys.” He also noted that Archbishop Schwietz confided in him his desire to become a priest while the two were attending Cretin High School.

“That was his goal,” Zimlich said. “Sure enough, when he graduated from Cretin, he went to Carthage, Missouri, and became an Oblate priest. I was all for the idea. I always thought, ‘Yeah, he would make a darn good priest.’ He was always an OK guy.

Everybody liked him.”

Archbishop Schwietz is one of nine Oblate priests to come out of the parish. While the Polish heritage continues at St. Casimir, it now serves several other ethnic communities, including Southeast Asian immigrants.

Those attending the event not only heard anecdotes about life on the East Side, but also got a historical look at the parish. Old photos and memorabilia were on display at a table in the basement of the school.

One sordid detail that Zimlich said most longtime parishioners only whisper about has to do with why the Oblates came in the first place. In 1916, the pastor of the parish, Father Henry Jazdzewski, was hearing confessions on the feast day of St. Casimir. A 15-yearold boy, William Hourish, had just finished and was leaving the church when a 38-year-old woman, Aniela Dudek, walked in with a gun. She allegedly had a long standing grudge against the priest and decided to settle the score.

After Father Jazdzewski stepped out of the confessional, Dudek walked up to him and shot him five times at point-blank range.

The parish closed for several months before Father Stojar arrived to begin 100 years of Oblate service. He served as pastor for 39 years until his death June 7, 1955.

By the time Archbishop Schwietz was born to Archie and his wife, Sophie, the parish was back to normal and life was good for their family on the East Side. One of the archbishop’s sisters, Judy Albers, came to the reunion and shared her memories of Roger.

“My mother dressed us like twins,” she said. “We’re 13 months apart, and I’m not going to say who’s the older one. We used to take accordion lessons together.”

Archbishop Schwietz still owns the accordian, but hasn’t played it in years.

But, on the day of this celebration, parishioners of St. Casimir didn’t seem to mind.

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Longtime St. Canice pastor remembered for faith ‘like a rock’

By Dave Hrbacek The Catholic Spirit Father Ronald Dahlheimer, a beekeeper and lover of classical music, died Feb. 26. He was 83.

A retired priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, he died at Northfield Hospital Long Term Care Center, where he spent the last two years.

He was born and raised on a family farm in Dayton and was a member of St. John the Baptist in Dayton. He was the middle child of Leonard and Aurelia Dahlheimer’s five children, and is survived by his only sister, Notre Dame Sister Corrine Dahlheimer.

He attended the St. Paul Seminary and was ordained a priest Feb. 22, Father 1959, one year after Sister Corrine made her first vows.

Ronald “My brother always said to me DAHLHEIMER that when he was growing up, the priesthood was ever before him,” said Sister Corrine, 78.

“And, the professors at the seminary told my parents his faith was like a rock.”

He also was resourceful, which led to one of his hobbies.

“He was a beekeeper on the family farm,” Sister Corrine said. “Growing up, he financed the cost of his books at the seminary by extracting honey, bottling and labeling it. He was always after the beehives, and he was good at that.”

Father Dahlheimer also had a love for classical music, which he expressed throughout his life. Sister Corrine said he bought kits to make both a harpsichord and a clavichord, instruments similar to the piano. He also played stringed instruments, including the violin and guitar.

Father Dahlheimer, who retired from active ministry in 2004, served as pastor of St. Canice in Kilkenny from 1975 to 2004, then continued as sacramental minister until 2008. He also ministered at Maternity of Mary in St. Paul, St. Timothy in Blaine, St. Joseph in Rosemount, St. Charles Borromeo in St. Anthony, St. Joseph in Lino Lakes and St. Henry in St. Henry.

A funeral Mass was March 4 at St. John the Baptist in Dayton. Interment is in St. John the Baptist Cemetery.

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Potential security threat closes DeLaSalle March 1 After investigating a potential security threat at DeLaSalle High School March 1, the Minneapolis Police Department determined it to be not credible.

DeLaSalle decided to close the building to students March 1 after the school received a potential security threat from a student after school hours Feb. 28. Classes resumed March 2. The Lasallian school, which enrolls about 750 students in grades nine through 12, said the situation is unprecedented and closed the building to ensure the safety of students and staff. The investigation was ongoing while students had a “remote learning day.” A March 1 statement said the school’s internal investigation concluded that “one or more students, though no longer a potential security threat, are in violation” of the school’s student-parent handbook policies and “will face disciplinary procedures.”

Cristo Rey honored as nonprofit The Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce has named Cristo Rey Jesuit High School its 2017 Nonprofit of the Year. The award is one of the chamber’s four annual Best in Business Awards.

Opened in 2007, Cristo Rey-Twin Cities is part of a network of 32 Jesuit high schools founded to provide a Catholic preparatory education for urban students. Students help fund their tuition by working for a local business five days per month.

It has boasted 100 percent college or military acceptance rate since 2011. School representatives will receive the award during a luncheon at the Loews Hotel March 23.

St. Bridget parishioner, priest honored for peace efforts Lutheran Social Service will honor members of the Come Together peace-prayer movement, including Bonnie Steele, a St. Bridget parishioner and its senior associate pastor, Father Paul Jarvis. St. Paulbased LSS will present the Movement of Hope recognition to the Come Together leaders, including those from non-Catholic parishes, at a March 16 dinner at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Steele

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New Ulm diocese files for bankruptcy after sex abuse claims The Diocese of New Ulm filed for Reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code March 3 in response to 101 lawsuits related to clergy sexual abuse claims made against it. The lawsuits were filed during the Minnesota Child Victims Act’s three-year lifting of the statute of limitations that ended May 25, 2016. In a statement, Bishop John LeVoir said, “Reorganization is the fairest way to resolve sexual abuse claims while allowing the Church to continue its essential work of serving people in our local communities” and reiterated his “deepest apologies on behalf of the Diocese of New Ulm to victims and survivors of clergy sexual abuse as minors.” Bishop LeVoir was a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis prior to his episcopal appointment. New Ulm is the third diocese in Minnesota to enter bankruptcy due to sexual abuse claims, following the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and the Diocese of Duluth in 2015. The Diocese of New Ulm serves 55,000 Catholics in 15 counties in southwest Minnesota.

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Initial reaction to refugee ban ranges from concern to opposition

By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Within hours of President Donald Trump’s new executive order March 6 banning arrivals from six majority-Muslim nations, Catholic and other religious groups joined secular leaders in questioning the wisdom of such a move, with others vowing to oppose it outright.

Bill O’Keefe, vice president for advocacy and government relations at Catholic Relief Services, said in a statement, “As the world’s most blessed nation, we should be doing more to provide assistance overseas and resettle the most vulnerable, not less. It is wrong, during this time of great need, to cut humanitarian assistance and reduce resettlement.”

O’Keefe added, “Refugees are fleeing the same terrorism that we seek to protect ourselves from. By welcoming them, we show the world that we are an open, tolerant nation, which seeks to protect the vulnerable. That has always been America’s greatest strength.”

“At the heart of the work of Catholic Charities is the Gospel mandate to welcome the stranger and care for the most vulnerable among us,” said Dominican Sister Donna Markham, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, in a statement.

“Today’s executive order not only hinders that work, but also effectively abandons, for four months, the thousands of endangered refugees fleeing violence, starvation and persecution,” she added. “It is deeply disturbing to know that the thousands of women, children and other persecuted individuals around the world will face a closed door rather than a helping hand from the United States.”

The revised order replaces Trump’s Jan. 27 order, which has been blocked in the courts. The new order imposes a 90-day ban on issuing visas to people from six predominantly Muslim nations: Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Yemen. Iraq is no longer on the list.

It suspends the U.S. refugee program for all countries for 120 days. It also excludes lawful permanent residents — green card holders — from any travel ban. The new order will not take effect until March 16.

Bishop Joe Vasquez of Austin, Texas, chairman of the

President Donald Trump signs a revised executive order for a U.S. travel ban March 6 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.

CNS/Carlos Barria, Reuters U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration, said Trump’s new order still puts vulnerable populations at risk.

“We remain deeply troubled by the human consequences” of the order, he said in a statement.

“While we note the administration’s efforts to modify the executive order in light of various legal concerns, the revised order still leaves many innocent lives at risk.”

He said the Catholic bishops welcomed Iraq being removed from the list of countries, but remain disappointed the order still temporarily shuts down the refugee admissions program, reduces by more than 60 percent the number of refugees who can enter the country and still bars nationals from six countries.

The bishops “have long recognized the importance of ensuring public safety and would welcome reasonable and necessary steps to accomplish that goal,” Bishop Vasquez said. “However, based on the knowledge that refugees are already subjected to the most vigorous vetting process of anyone who enters the United States, there is no merit to pausing the refugee resettlement program while considering further improvement to that vetting process.”

“A ban regarding human beings, because they are from a certain country or practice a particular religion is

clearly xenophobic, nationalistic and racist,” said a statement by Sister Patricia Chappell, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur, who is executive director of Pax Christi USA. Eli McCarthy, director of justice and peace for the Congregation of Major Superiors of Men, called it “completely unjust to punish an entire country due to the suspicion of a potential crime by an individual.”

“Women religious have been blessed to be able to accompany and serve immigrant and refugee communities across this country for a very long time,” said a statement by Holy Cross Sister Joan Marie Steadman, executive director of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. “Catholic sisters remain committed to welcoming those who come to this country after passing through the U.S. government’s already rigorous screening processes.”

Larry Couch, director of the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, aimed his statement directly at Trump.

“Mr. President, why close our borders to those fleeing real atrocities, fleeing the ravages of war and the search for food, clean water and safety?” Couch asked. “This is not what America stands for and not who we are called to be.”

“The ban goes against everything that we stand for as Franciscan Catholic Christians, and against what Jesus and Francis of Assisi taught and lived,” said a statement from Patrick Carolan, executive director of the Franciscan Action Network. “St. Bonaventure tells us that how we choose and what we choose makes a difference — first in what we become by our choices and second what the world becomes by our choices.”

Without commenting on the executive order itself, Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, said: “There’s a dire need for President Trump to issue a separate executive order — one specifically aimed to help ISIS [Islamic State] genocide survivors in Iraq and Syria. ... Even if ISIS is routed from Mosul [Iraq], the Christian community is now so shattered and vulnerable, without President Trump’s prompt leadership, the entire Iraqi Christian presence could soon be wiped out.”

Cardinal: Alleged Vatican resistance to child protection a ‘cliche’

By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service The Vatican’s doctrinal chief dismissed accusations that some Vatican officials are resisting recommendations on best practices for protecting children and vulnerable adults from clergy sex abuse.

“I think this cliche must be put to an end: the idea that the pope, who wants the reform, is on one side and, on the other, a group of resisters who want to block it,” said Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The congregation is charged with carrying out canonical trials and seeking justice for victims of clerical abuse, while local bishops and heads of religious orders must care for their pastoral needs, he said in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere

della Sera, published March 5.

Cardinal Muller responded to complaints made by Marie Collins, who resigned her post on the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors March 1, citing what she described as resistance coming from Vatican offices against implementing Cardinal recommendations.

Gerhard In an editorial MULLER published online March 1 by National Catholic Reporter, Collins said an unnamed dicastery not only refused to cooperate on the commission’s safeguarding guidelines, but also refused

to respond to letters from victims.

Collins said the refusal “to implement one of the simplest recommendations the commission has put forward to date” was the last straw that led to her resignation.

While acknowledging that personal care of victims is important, Cardinal Muller said Collins’ accusations “are based on a misunderstanding” and that bishops and religious superiors “who are closer” to victims of clergy sex abuse are charged with their pastoral care.

“When a letter arrives, we always ask the bishop that he take pastoral care of the victim, clarifying that the congregation will do everything possible to do justice. It is a misunderstanding that this dicastery, in Rome,” can be aware of everything happening in all the dioceses and religious orders in the world, the cardinal said.

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“All of our collaborators humanly suffer with the victims of abuse. Our task is to do everything possible to do justice and avoid further crimes,” he said.

Through the work of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, the cardinal said, Pope Francis “wished to offer an exemplary service” as a help for the Church and the world in dealing with the scourge of child sex abuse.

“Pedophilia is a monstrous crime as well as a grave sin. We must remember Jesus’ words to the children and his condemnation against those who harm them,” Cardinal Muller said.

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ICE apprehends ‘dreamer’ after gathering

By Maureen Smith Catholic News Service

Asian restaurants in Jackson, Flowood, Pearl and Meridian, and officials said they were the result of a yearlong investigation and not part of any new Pastors, attorneys, immigrants and immigrants’ effort to round up unauthorized immigrants. advocates gathered at City Hall in Jackson, Elmore said the current atmosphere in the Mississippi, March 1 to express their concerns about immigrant community is one of fear, especially recent immigration raids. among families with children.

They also invited the community at large to Amelia McGowan, attorney for the Catholic attend a forum to discuss the contributions Charities Migrant Resource Center, echoed that immigrants make to Mississippi and seek dialogue sentiment. with law enforcement representatives.

“Often, a topic that goes undiscussed [is that] Immediately after the news conference, one of the many immigrants who come to the United States immigrants who spoke was detained by U.S. — documented or undocumented — do have U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. citizen children, or perhaps who are not citizens, but Daniela Vargas is a 22-year-old Argentine native, who have lived their entire but America is the only home lives here in the United she has ever known. She was States,” she said. covered under the Deferred “Forced immigration raids Action for Childhood Arrivals not only put the children in “Of course, immigration law program, known as DACA, but immediate danger of those applications have to be states that citizen children potentially removing their renewed every two years. She parents, removing their reapplied late because she had can remain in this country, caregivers from the United trouble getting together the States, but it also places them money for the application, so but the rights of children in a constant state of fear, her coverage had lapsed. The which can re-traumatize them car in which she was riding must protect more than just if they have suffered a was pulled over by federal traumatic past from their agents as she left the news the children’s right to be home countries,” McGowan conference. added.

This was not her first run-in here.”

Redemptorist Father with ICE. Agents arrested her Michael McAndrew agreed. He father and brother at her Redemptorist Father Michael McAndrew has been advocating for home earlier this year while immigrant families across the she hid in a closet. ICE agents U.S. for almost three decades. eventually raided the house Today, he is part of a and detained her for a short Redemptorist community in Greenwood, serving the time, but released her when she indicated that she Hispanic community throughout the Mississippi had applied for DACA. Her father and brother are Delta. He pointed out that deportation is more awaiting deportation hearings. complicated than it might seem when children are Nathan Elmore, a partner in the firm representing involved. her, said Vargas’ case is complicated, but he knows “Children belong with their parents,” he said at ICE has discretion in its cases, and he hopes agents the news conference. “Children who grow up under will exercise it. the protection and guidance of their parents are Vargas, he pointed out, does not fall under the blessed. Life is more difficult when one or both “priority deportations” outlined by the Trump parents is removed from the lives the children. administration. She has no criminal record, she is eligible for a DACA renewal — aka “dreamer” — and “Of course, immigration law states that citizen she was not committing a crime when she was children can remain in this country, but the rights of picked up. He planned to request that the agency children must protect more than just the children’s reconsider the case while her renewal is processed. right to be here,” he continued. “A more important ICE executed a series of raids in Mississippi right of the child is to be raised by his or her parents Feb. 22, detaining 55 people, according to The when their parents are not abusive or doing harm to Clarion-Ledger daily newspaper. The raids targeted them.”

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Egyptian priest praises Muslim support of threatened Christians Catholic News Service A spokesman for Egypt’s Catholic Church praised local Muslims for helping embattled Christians after a series of Islamic State attacks in Sinai.

Father Rafic Greiche, spokesman for the Coptic Catholic Church, said Christians must differentiate between ordinary Muslims and extremists.

“Ordinary Muslims are kind and try to help however they can — they’re often first on the scene, rescuing the injured and taking them to hospitals,” he told Catholic News Service March 3, as Christians continued to flee Egypt’s North Sinai region.

Father Greiche said the attacks had affected only Coptic Orthodox Christians, but added that Catholic churches and schools in Ismailia had offered shelter to Orthodox families with help from Caritas.

In Britain, Coptic Orthodox Bishop Anba Angaelos said from December through February, 40 Coptic Christians had been murdered in Egypt.

Father Greiche said Islamic State militants were now “strongly entrenched” in North Sinai, having been allowed by the Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood organizations to use tunnels from the Gaza Strip.

He added that civilians were better off not staying in the surrounding military zone, which was now “under attack all the time,” but he believed the Egyptian authorities were committed to protecting Christians against the Islamist insurgency.

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Irish commission finds human remains at former Church-run home The commission set up to investigate the treatment of unmarried mothers and their babies in Irish care homes during the 20th century says it has found “significant” human remains at the site of a former home in western Ireland. A spokesman for the commission said March 3 that it was shocked by the discovery made in Tuam, County Galway, at the site formerly managed by the Bon Secours religious order. The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation is probing how unmarried mothers and their babies were treated between 1922 and 1998 at 18 state-regulated institutions, many of them run by religious orders. Tuam Archbishop Michael Neary said during Mass March 5 he was “horrified and saddened to hear” the commission’s revelation. “This points to a time of great suffering and pain for the little ones and their mothers,” the archbishop said. The commission reported the “remains involved a number of individuals with age-at-death ranges from approximately 35 fetal weeks to 2-3 years.” Radiocarbon dating of the samples recovered suggests that the remains date from the time frame relevant to the operation of the Mother and Baby Home.

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Trump visits Catholic school to show school choice support On March 3, President Donald Trump and other dignitaries toured St. Andrew School, a predominantly black school in which 70 percent of students benefit from the school choice scholarship program.

Trump was joined by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos; U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida; and Florida Gov. Rick Scott in a tour of the school that started with a visit to a fourth-grade class. The private visit was dubbed as a listening session. During a roundtable discussion about the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program, the president heard from parents, teachers and students.

VATICAN CITY

Local bishop says again Mary not appearing in Medjugorje “The Virgin Mary has not appeared in Medjugorje,” said Bishop Ratko Peric of Mostar-Duvno, the diocese in BosniaHerzegovina, which includes Medjugorje.

Two weeks after the Vatican announced Pope Francis was sending a Polish archbishop to study the pastoral needs of the townspeople and the thousands of pilgrims who flock to Medjugorje each year, Bishop Peric posted his statement Feb. 26 on the diocesan website. Three of the six young people who originally claimed to have seen Mary in Medjugorje in June 1981 say she continues to appear to them each day; the other three say Mary appears to them once a year now.

Bishop Peric noted that a diocesan commission studied the alleged apparitions in 1982-1984 and again in 1984-1986 with more members; and the

then-Yugoslavian bishops’ conference studied them from 1987 to 1990. All three commissions concluded that it could not be affirmed that a supernatural event was occurring in the town. The six young people continued to claim to see Mary and receive messages from her, and tens of thousands of pilgrims visited the town — and the alleged visionaries — each year. Pope Benedict XVI established a commission that worked from 2010 to 2014; and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith began looking at that commission’s report in 2014.

Discovery of Earth-sized planets boosts hope of finding alien life The quest to find life on other planets got a boost when astronomers confirmed the existence of at least seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a red dwarf star just 40 light years away. Three of the planets are located in the so-called “habitable” zone, a kind of “Goldilocks” sweet spot in that their distance from the sun makes them not too hot, not too cold, but just right for having liquid water — an essential ingredient for life. The pope’s own astronomers applauded the new discovery around the dwarf star, TRAPPIST-1, named after one of the many telescopes that detected the planets. The study’s results were published in Nature magazine Feb. 22. “The discovery is important because, to date, it has revealed the highest number of Earth-sized planets revolving around a single parent star,” said U.S. Jesuit Father David Brown, an astrophysicist who studies stellar evolution at the Vatican Observatory.

“Depending on different factors, all of the planets could potentially harbor conditions for the possible existence of life on them. ... It is also significant because it shows the existence of such exoplanets — planets outside of our solar system — around low-mass — smaller than the Sun — cool, red, dim stars, which are the most common types of stars in galaxies and which have long lifetimes.”

ROME

U.S. senators discuss trafficking, immigration with Vatican officials U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, met Feb. 23 with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, to discuss U.S.-Vatican cooperation in fighting human trafficking and ending modern slavery. Corker told reporters Feb. 24 that while modern slavery was the focus of his visit, with so much international attention on President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration, “certainly it came up.” The senator said the United States and the Vatican have a “mutual interest in dealing with modern slavery,” a phenomenon involving some 27 million people; 24 percent of them, he said, are involved in forced prostitution, while the remaining 76 percent are subjected to “hard labor.”

Pope Francis repeatedly has highlighted the connection between restrictive immigration policies and the growth of human trafficking.

— Catholic News Service

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Entering a new era on Archdiocese looks forward to new site’s opportunities, but won’t forget pain that motivated move

By Matthew Davis The Catholic Spirit

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efore leaving his office at the old chancery for the last time, Father Charles Lachowitzer took down a portrait of Archbishop John Ireland and turned off the lights. For the vicar general and moderator of the curia, removing that picture of the legendary archbishop was a solemn moment of finality and a symbol of transition.

In February, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis moved its longtime headquarters from three Cathedral Hill buildings to Dayton’s Bluff, a neighborhood on St. Paul’s East Side. The archdiocese sold its former offices in 2016 in order to increase the amount available to victims of clergy sexual abuse. Now the three office buildings — the former chancery and archbishop’s residence, the Msgr. Ambrose Hayden Center and the Dayton Building — await the vision of their new owners.

The move marked the end of an era for the archdiocese, but despite the significance, it drew little fanfare. Father Lachowitzer said no neighbors stopped at the chancery to say goodbye, and no media showed up to document the archdiocese’s transition. While some employees simply packed up, others acknowledged the move with a blessing, a toast and reminiscing. Archbishop Bernard Hebda celebrated a final Mass in Hayden Feb. 9.

“It was sad,” said Linda Botkin, a longtime employee who works in the metropolitan tribunal. “When I left the [Hayden] building for the last time, I thought, ‘... after 32 years being there, it was kind of a sad feeling.’”

Many of the archdiocese’s 120 employees have found the transition to be both an uprooting and a replanting, as they look forward to new opportunities now that they will — for the first time in decades — be working together under one roof. For years, the majority of employees, including those in the tribunal and offices of Marriage, Family and Life; Latino Ministry; Catholic education; financial services; and Parish and Clergy Services — and their predecessors — worked in the Hayden Center on Kellogg Boulevard. The bishops’ offices, along with those of the vicar general and canonical and civil chancellors, were housed up the hill in the chancery at 226 Summit Ave. Employees in the Office of Evangelization and Catechesis, and the Communications Office, including the staff of The Catholic Spirit, were tucked behind the Cathedral of St. Paul in the Dayton Building on Dayton Avenue.

Now the archdiocese’s 25 offices are unpacking 4 miles northeast at 777 Forest St., the former headquarters of 3M.

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Impressive history Then known as Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company — which the brass lettering still visible over the main doors attests — 3M constructed the two-story, Modernestyle building for its central administration offices in 1939.

Clad in limestone and called “Building 21,” it served as the company’s headquarters until 1962, when the company moved its main campus 3 miles east to Maplewood. Building 21 sat vacant, but 3M kept its East Side campus until 2009, when it sold it to the St. Paul Port Authority, the city’s development arm, which razed the campus’ manufacturing buildings and is developing the former campus into the Beacon Bluff Business Center.

Designed by prominent industrial architect Albert Kahn, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. Its renovation for the archdiocese was obligated to preserve the 1940s decor, including a central brass and glass revolving door and a mahogany-paneled lobby. Offices and conference rooms ring the perimeter, and workspaces occupy the interior spaces. The office that once belonged to longtime 3M President and Chairman William McKnight is being used for meetings with the archbishop.

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Father Lachowitzer said it’s important for local C recognize that the archdiocese is the tenant, not th the space, and that the once stately building symbo history, not the archdiocese’s.

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Neighborhood anchor With the arrival of the archdiocese’s central offices, Dayton’s Bluff gained one of its largest employers with the potential to add to the area’s redevelopment.

Monte Hilleman, the St. Paul Port Authority’s senior vice president of real estate development, sees the addition of the archdiocese as a significant gain for the development. He anticipates an economic boost, improving the social quality of the surrounding neighborhoods.

Deanna Abbott-Foster, executive director of the Dayton’s Bluff Community Council, sees that opportunity for an area that has grown in the past five years. She said an employer arriving with 120 workers is “a very significant thing for us.”

“Hopefully, the archdiocesan folks will come out and spend time in some of the restaurants and really get to know the neighborhood,” said Abbott-Foster, a Catholic and alumna of the University of St. Thomas and St. Catherine University in St. Paul. “We’re really hoping to engage with ... the archdiocese, as being a really strong anchor organization in the community.”

Before St. Paul was a city, the Dayton’s Bluff area was a sacred site for Dakota American Indians and is home to extant burial grounds. By the 1860s, its geography overlooking the Mississippi River and a growing downtown St. Paul inspired the wealthy to build houses there. Modest homes — many belonging to railroad workers — joined the Victorian mansions, and the neighborhood offered numerous jobs through Hamm’s Brewery, 3M and Whirlpool. With the departure of all three employers, other businesses closed, families moved away and crime increased.

The past decade has seen the green shoots of a neighborhood resurgence, attributed in part to the city’s investment in rehabilitating some of its vacant houses.

Joe Kueppers, chancellor for civil affairs at the archdiocese, first saw the building when he and Tom Mertens, the archdiocese’s chief financial officer, were exploring places for the archdiocese to lease. Kueppers said it looked “raw.” The lobby hinted at its historic glory, but the rest of the building was gutted. Water leak stains spotted the floor. Walls and pillars were stark and tattered.

Despite its dilapidated state, Kueppers, whose prior practice included real estate law, saw the potential.

Several characteristics stood out to archdiocesan leaders about the former 3M facility from more than a dozen other buildings they considered leasing. It fit the archdiocese’s desire to move to an area where it could have a positive impact.

The nearby parishes of Sacred Heart, St. Casimir and St. Patrick minister to the neighborhood’s immigrants and refugees, including Catholics from Africa, Central and South America, and Southeast Asia.

Mertens said it was also a priority to find a building where the archdiocese could be the sole tenant, and where all offices could be in the same building.

The idea of coming together under one roof became a touchstone for staff in the year between the lease announcement in February 2016 and the move.

Deacon Steve Maier, director of the Office of Parish and Clergy Services, oversaw the relocation, drawing on his experience of working at Target corporate for 32 years before joining the archdiocesan staff in 2016. “It’s a new day,” he said of the move, noting that he admired how many people’s gifts came together in the process.

With the employees mostly unpacked, they have transitioned back to their daily ministry in a new chapter of the local Church’s history. Archbishop Hebda said there’s great synergy now with everyone working together in the same place.

“I like it. I really do. It’s growing on me,” said Lorna Anderson, executive assistant for the Office of Ministerial Standards and Safe Environment who has worked for the archdiocese since 2009. She said she hopes to get more religious art on the walls to help the space feel less “3M-ish” and more like an archdiocesan pastoral center.

Father Lachowitzer, who said he is still unpacking, plans to find a place for Archbishop Ireland’s picture, too.

— Maria Wiering contributed to this story

March 9, 2017 • 13

Archdiocese parts with pieces of longtime Cathedral Hill history When the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis moved its offices across St. Paul to Dayton’s Bluff in February, it left behind three buildings on Cathedral Hill that housed its central corporation for decades. The following is a short history of the buildings and their use.

• The Dayton Building, 244 Dayton Ave. It was built in 1922 by Maginnis and Walsh, Boston-based architects known for building Catholic churches and campuses, including the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., and Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The Dayton Building first served as a chancery, or an archdiocese’s legal and administrative headquarters, but became home to The Catholic Bulletin and the Catholic Cemeteries offices after the chancery moved to 226 Summit Ave. in 1963. It also housed the former Center for Ministry, Worship Center, vicar for religious and the religious retirement office, and it was the launching point for the Protection of Children and Youth Initiative, a predecessor of the Office of Ministerial Standards and Safe Environment.

Catholic Cemeteries’ offices moved to another St. Paul location in 1995 and are now in Mendota Heights. Other ministry offices evolved and relocated to other buildings, but Dayton continued to house the offices of The Catholic Spirit, which succeeded The Catholic Bulletin; other arms of the archdiocese’s Office of Communications; and the Office of Evangelization and Catechesis.

Designed in the Renaissance Revival style, also known as Beaux Arts, the building is on the National Register of Historic Places and part of the Historic Hill District. It was purchased by the Cathedral Heritage Foundation and a related limited liability company for $900,000 in July 2016.

The St. Paul-based Cathedral Heritage Foundation is dedicated to the building’s preservation as a civic monument.

• Msgr. Ambrose Hayden Center, 328 W. Kellogg Blvd.

Named for Msgr. Ambrose Hayden — a priest and librarian From top, the Dayton Building, who served as the Cathedral’s rector and the archdiocese’s Hayden Center and Chancery. vicar general, and who died in 1997 — the Hayden Center Dave Hrbacek/ was home to most archdiocesan offices. Its parking lot is The Catholic Spirit familiar to Minnesota Wild fans because of its proximity to the Xcel Energy Center, but older St. Paul residents remember the building as the Cathedral School.

Built in 1914, it served as the parish school for the Cathedral of St. Paul until 1979. The school’s claim to fame was its pioneering role in the development of school safety patrols, which help students cross streets safely as they arrive at or leave school. The Minnesota Historical Society, its neighbor across Kellogg Boulevard in the Minnesota History Center, purchased the building in January 2016 for $4.5 million.

• The Archbishop’s Residence and Chancery, 226 Summit Ave. Built in 1963 by Minneapolis-based Cerny Associates, the chancery is modern in design, a stark stylistic contrast to the Beaux Arts Cathedral of St. Paul across the street. According to a written history provided by the archdiocesan archives, its architects “wanted the building to exemplify the strength of the Church using a modern flair. The granite on the outside walls matches the stone of the Cathedral, pointing to a strong connection between the two structures. Borrowing from Marcel Breuer’s design of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, exposed, unpainted concrete and brick [were] used throughout the design.” Its final construction costs were $1.5 million.

Because of its modern design, the chancery was featured in Northwest Architect magazine, but Archbishop Leo Binz, its first resident archbishop, did not want the building further publicized. He distanced himself from the project, calling it “Archbishop Brady’s project” for his predecessor, Archbishop William Brady, who died in Rome in 1961 during the chancery’s construction. The building initially included five distinct parts: the chapel, which, like the cathedral, is made of granite quarried near Cold Spring; the archbishop’s residence; a residence for assisting priests; a residence for assisting religious sisters; and archdiocesan offices. In its years of use, archdiocesan offices took over some of the residential space.

The house has been part of the Minnesota Modernism Tour, sponsored by the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota. Like the Dayton Building, the Chancery is located in a historic district.

The mid-century modern building replaced the 15-room Wilder Mansion, which Amherst Wilder, one of St. Paul’s wealthiest businessmen and philanthropists, built in 1887. The property — which boasted a large turret circled with porches overlooking downtown St. Paul — was donated to the archdiocese in 1918 for an archbishop’s residence. According to archdiocesan records, Archbishop John Murray, archbishop from 1931-1956, disliked the Victorian house; he called it “too ostentatious” and moved out during the Great Depression.

In his 2011 book “Once There Were Castles,” Larry Millett wrote, “Maintenance costs proved to be a burden ... and the house slowly sank into decrepitude.” It was razed in 1959.

According to archdiocesan archives, archbishops have lived in about five other locations prior to the current residence, including a house on Lake Josephine in Roseville.

An LLC owned by Donald Regan, founder and chairman of Maplewood-based Premier Banks, purchased the building in April 2016 for $3.2 million.

— Maria Wiering A version of this story originally appeared at www.thecatholicspirit.com in May 2015, when the buildings were listed for sale.

14 • The Catholic Spirit

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March 9, 2017

Catholics find opportunities to invest, contribute for good

By Susan Klemond For The Catholic Spirit For Larry and Suzanne Vanden Plas, investing for charitable giving is about the corporal works of mercy.

They perform the works they can, and they support local organizations to do what they can’t with gifts from their donor-advised fund managed by Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota.

“When you look at the corporal works of mercy, how would you do that?” said Larry, who along with Suzanne belongs to St. John the Baptist in New Brighton. “If you limit yourself to only those situations that you personally could do, one-to-one, you’re going to miss out on most of it. … What we can do is support these different activities and actually be personally involved in some of them.”

To receive insights and updates to help them in what is often more long-term stewardship, the Vanden Plases and more than 200 other individual donors, financial advisors, and representatives of parishes and other Catholic organizations attended the St. Paul-based foundation’s 22nd annual investment conference Feb. 8 at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.

At the conference, CCF provided organizational updates and a market forecast. The Vanden Plases learned that along with choosing the educational, social and spiritual organizations they contribute to through their fund, they soon may be able to grow the fund with investment vehicles that also advance their values and beliefs.

While Catholic charitable investors have been able to exclude from their portfolios companies or funds whose practices are inconsistent with their values and beliefs, they will have more options for actively choosing companies or funds that have practices consistent with Church teaching and tradition, said Oblate Father Séamus Finn, chief of faith-consistent investment at the Washington, D.C.-based Investment Trust, a professionally managed diversified investment fund

that manages the financial resources of more than 200 Catholic organizations.

Such faith-consistent investing that applies social and environmental principles consistent with one’s faith can yield as good a return or better, he said.

Popes and U.S. bishops have Father Séamus long encouraged social FINN responsibility in the economic sphere. For example, Pope Francis has emphasized issues concerning migrants and refugees, the environment and climate change, human trafficking, inequality and greater access to goods, Father Finn said.

The Vatican has encouraged developing new, more universal guidelines for socially responsible investing that build on previous guidelines and reflect Church teaching, he said.

CCF has 1,049 managed funds, of which 80 percent are invested for long-term goals. They are in the form of donor-advised funds that allow donors flexibility for when and where they will donate; endowments set up by individuals, parishes and other organizations; a legacy fund allowing the foundation to respond to more immediate needs; and trusts and annuities.

Catholic charitable investors may gain greater confidence as the country’s slow, eight-year economic recovery continues as a result of improved U.S. and global growth and other factors, said James Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management in Minneapolis and a parishioner of Holy Name of Jesus in Medina. The election of President Donald Trump, viewed as pro-business, will play a small role, he said.

Anne Cullen Miller, CCF president and a parishioner of St. Joseph in West St. Paul, said CCF hosts the conference to bring together “Catholics interested in giving and investing with a Catholic heart.”

“We think one of [our] brand differentiators is that we are aligned with our Catholic values in everything we do, so when we invest, we have that front of mind,” she said.

The Catholic Community Foundation was founded in 1992 to financially support the spiritual, educational and social needs of the Minnesota Catholic community.

As the largest Catholic foundation of its kind in the United States, it serves thousands of clients and recipient organizations, and counts more than $285 million in charitable dollars.

Matthew Dudley attended the event representing his parish, St. Thomas More in St. Paul, and said it was timely because he and other parish leaders are evaluating ways to keep and grow their CCF-managed endowment.

Dudley said he found Father Finn’s comments about tying Catholic-based investments into a modern portfolio helpful.

“If you’re a person of faith trying to live your life a certain way, [you ask] how can you align your portfolio in a similar way, and I think he gave some really good feedback,” he said.

Tizoc Rosales, associate director of advancement for the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity and St. John Vianney College Seminary, attended the conference because the seminaries and CCF are partners in mission and said he found the talks informative.

Rosales, a parishioner of St. Joseph in West St. Paul, said Catholics should know that investing can be complex.

“I think it’s best to find trusted individuals that can help you just like in other matters to guide us and help us along the way,” he said.

CCF connects investors to causes they care about by investing dollars according to Church teaching, Miller said. “This is how we strengthen community,” she added. “This is how we build the kingdom together right here in our own backyard.”

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Financial adviser: Don’t wait to put a plan in place

By Jessica Trygstad The Catholic Spirit John Tetzloff has served many people in his 20 years at St. Paul-based Catholic United Financial. As an advanced case specialist and trainer, he meets with about 100 families every year about estate planning and charitable giving. But one particular couple stands out in his mind.

“I met with a married couple in their 70s at their place. They had a rundown farm and house,” said Tetzloff, 52, who works out of Nicollet. “I got to know them well and found out they were worth a couple million dollars. Never assume.”

After working with the couple on an estate plan, he connected them with an attorney and attended meetings with them.

“After we left the attorney’s office, the wife gave me a big hug and said, ‘We could never have done this without you,’” Tetzloff recalled. “It’s so fun to work with so many different kinds of people.”

Tetzloff said he helps everyone from farm families in succession planning to people wanting to leave a gift to their church to seniors entering a nursing home

wanting to protect their assets.

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John Tetzloff’s best advice to people TETZLOFF wanting to increase their wealth and philanthropy is to know what they have — the assets and what they’re worth — how they feel and what they want to see happen. He asks clients how their objectives and feelings fit into the big picture and then brings in other specialists such as attorneys and certified public accountants.

“It’s like we’re the captain of the football team, and we have all these assistant coaches,” Tetzloff said.

When he meets with clients, he asks them questions to get an overall view of their goals, helps them understand their options based on their goals and then

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Tetzloff said that although the process takes courage and time, it’s important to meet with a financial adviser at some point. Otherwise, people lose options.

“In life, we have to rely on people who know things we don’t,” he said. “Once they sit down with us and get over that initial fear, it’s usually an easy process. I stress, too, doing nothing is a plan as well, but do we want to leave things up to chance?”

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Foundations seen as way for dioceses to fund local needs

By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service

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More U.S. dioceses are turning to foundations to help meet their financial and fundraising priorities. And foundation executives in the diocesan realm believe they’ve only begun to tap into the potential for these gifts.

Dan McKune, executive director of Catholic Community Foundation of Mid-Michigan, which covers the Diocese of Saginaw, said Catholic donors are used to giving to an annual diocesan appeal or a school fund. “But we still are not where we want to be,” he said. “Our donor base is about 1,000 people, and they’ve been very, very good givers.” However, he thinks the foundation could attract and retain 2,500 donors — ­ and possibly twice that.

The way the Saginaw foundation is set up, it “deals more in perpetual-type funds,” McKune said. “Once the money goes [to the foundation], you don’t ask for it back.”

Anne Cullen Miller, executive director of the St. Paulbased Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota, said a Catholic community foundation provides a way to diversify fundraising strategies, moving beyond an annual appeal and weekly giving.

“CCF is integral to the fabric of our Catholic community,” Miller said. “We know the needs of this community, and we know its resources. The real magic — the impact — happens when we connect the two.”

The Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota is the nation’s largest Catholic community foundation, Miller said. Because of the generosity of its donors, CCF has grown to nearly $290 million in charitable assets, granting almost $10 million per year to Catholic and nonprofit causes.

“This grant-making activity perpetuates the faith, continually making Minnesota’s Catholic community stronger and more robust,” Miller said.

“With respect to our archdiocese, the Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota, on behalf of our donors, made over 2,000 grants last year,” Miller continued. “These grants supported many different ministries in our community.”

Those included $4 million toward Catholic education; $2.3 million toward faith-based social service organizations such as Sharing and Caring Hands, Catholic Charities and Little Sisters of the Poor; and $3.7 million toward seminary support; and ministerial enrichment for parishes, religious

orders and missions.

In Maine, a previous bishop authorized the establishment of the Catholic Foundation of Maine, covering the statewide Diocese of Portland, according to Elizabeth Badger, its executive director. The reasons to establish the foundation, she said, were “to give people the opportunity to make planned gifts, to support Catholic ministries in Maine, primarily through endowments.”

“We maintain 113 endowments and have $24 million in assets under management,” Badger added — just a bit under the $25 million being managed in Saginaw. Both foundations are about one decade old. Minnesota’s Catholic Community Foundation is 25 years old.

Walter Dillingham, managing director for endowments and foundations for the New York City-based Wilmington Trust, and himself a Catholic, had always Anne wondered about the extent of diocesan foundations in the CULLEN MILLER United States, but could not easily find the information he sought. So, he made the subject the topic of his master’s thesis.

His paper, titled “The Advancement of ReligiousBased Fundraising Foundations in the United States,” found that 122 of the 181 Latin-rite U.S. dioceses used a separate foundation, but that there were 143 Catholic foundations in all, including those dioceses that have more than one foundation. “There was a lot of growth in the area, but very little information,” Dillingham told Catholic News Service. Now, Catholic foundation executives have their own professional conference.

His paper also showed that religion-based giving still accounts for the largest share of all charitable giving in the country, although the 32 percent recorded in 2014 is down from 36 percent in 2000 — perhaps an aftereffect of the clerical sexual abuse scandal.

Dillingham cited a 2012 Gallup poll showing that one in five Catholics stopped donating to their local parish as a result of the scandal, and those who continued to give feared their donations were being used to pay for legal fees and settlement costs. The poll also showed 79 percent wanted greater transparency in how their donations were being used.

Foundations, as separate federally chartered nonprofit corporations, can provide that clarity, which

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is important for a donor who wants to make a perpetual gift restricted to a particular use, be it schools, liturgical music or another.

Badger said the Catholic Foundation of Maine handles 113 separate gifts that support a range of efforts, from schools to seminarian education to sacred art and other ministries.

Rick Suchan, who heads the Catholic Foundation of Buffalo, New York, had been a banker for 30 years in wealth management before he came to the diocese six years ago. “Now I raise money for Jesus instead,” he said jokingly.

“I use those 30 years of experience every single day because I spend a good chunk of the day with people talking about estate planning ... remembering how influential the Church was for them and their families,” Suchan said.

The foundation is responsible for the diocese’s $100 million capital campaign, which began in November 2015. “To help secure a lot of those large leadership gifts, I use my financial background,” he said. The foundation had “projected a 36-month duration,” Suchan added, but by mid-February the amount pledged was already at $85 million, and “by August of this year we should be done. We’re on target and we should exceed our goal by 5 to 10 percent.”

Not every foundation operates, or is governed, in exactly the same way. Most U.S. dioceses are organized as “corporation sole,” meaning its assets are held by the bishop appointed to head the diocese. But on foundation boards of directors, theirs is just one vote among many — and not all foundation charters give their bishop voting privileges.

Tom Kissane, principal and managing director of CCS Fundraising, a New York-based independent consulting service that counts 125 dioceses among its clients, said that for Catholics like himself, “most giving is often rooted in stewardship principles ... so it’s often a combination of one’s own way of life. They embrace stewardship, and there are major needs that a parish or diocese have: the need to expand ministry, sustain and advance Catholic schools, various ways to engage our youth, and capital projects are a part of it. Roman Catholic dioceses are extraordinarily responsive.”

Parishes have one distinct advantage. “The key difference is that parishes welcome worshippers every week,” Kissane said, with “an active Catholic offertory that is approached weekly. Colleges, they’re lucky if they [alumni] go back annually.”

— The Catholic Spirit contributed to this story

FOCUS ON FAITH

March 9, 2017

SUNDAY SCRIPTURES

Deacon Brian Eckrich

Consolation and desolation

The Gospel reading for this second Sunday of Lent presents us with St. Matthew’s account of the Transfiguration. Jesus takes Peter, James and John to the top of Mount Tabor, where “he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light” (Mt 17:2). Shortly before this event, Jesus announced to the apostles “that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised” (Mt 16:21). The apostles were surely weighed down by the sorrow of this announcement.

As St. Bede comments, during the Transfiguration of the Lord, Jesus “in a loving concession, allowed Peter, James and John to enjoy for a very short time the

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contemplation of happiness that lasts forever, so as to enable them to bear adversity with greater fortitude.” In that moment of consolation, Christ helped those apostles prepare for the trial of his passion and death.

St. Ignatius of Loyola is well known for his 14 Rules of Discernment, in which he notes two movements: consolation and desolation. Here, he speaks to the realities experienced by anyone striving for holiness in the spiritual life. Each one of us experiences times when prayer is easy and joyful, and it is at these times we recognize the consolation of God’s love. But at other times, we don’t feel like praying. Prayer becomes difficult and dry; we become sad, as if separated from the Lord. This continual fluctuation between consolation and desolation is normal to the spiritual life.

St. Ignatius gives us the direction that when we find ourselves in desolation, we must realize that consolation will again return to us. God allows us to be tested through desolation so as to bring about growth, but he never truly abandons us. He may withdraw the feeling of his presence for a time, but he will always make himself present to us once more. And when that time of consolation comes, we must use that moment to prepare for the times of desolation that will come in the future. We “store up” those joyful times in our life so that we may recall them in the times of sorrow to give

Sunday, March 12 Second Sunday of Lent Readings • Gn 12:1-4a • 2 Tm 1:8b-10 • Mt 17:1-9 us hope and comfort.

In the words of St. Leo the Great, “The principal aim of the Transfiguration was to banish from the disciples’ souls the scandal of the Cross.” The disciples would not forget this “drop of honey” that Jesus gave them in the midst of their grief. In this way, Jesus always provides for those he loves. In the midst of the greatest suffering, he gives us the consolation we need to keep going forward.

Deacon Eckrich is in formation for the priesthood at the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity for the Diocese of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. His teaching parish is St. Boniface in St. Bonifacius/St. Mary in Delano, and his home parish is Sacred Heart in Aberdeen, South Dakota.

DAILY Scriptures Sunday, March 12 Second Sunday of Lent Gn 12:1-4a 2 Tm 1:8b-10 Mt 17:1-9 Monday, March 13 Dn 9:4b-10 Lk 6:36-38 Tuesday, March 14 Is 1:10, 16-20 Mt 23:1-12

Wednesday, March 15 Jer 18:18-20 Mt 20:17-28 Thursday, March 16 Jer 17:5-10 Lk 16:19-31 Friday, March 17 Gn 37:3-4, 12-13a, 17b-28a Mt 21:33-43, 45-46 Saturday, March 18 Mi 7:14-15, 18-20 Lk 15:1-3, 11-32

SEEKING ANSWERS

Father Michael Schmitz

Letting God love us, no matter what

Q. I sometimes get so down on myself. Even though I want to do good, I keep messing up. The problem is, I know that it is my own fault, so I feel bad about asking God for help.

A. I am really glad you asked about this. The primary reason is that we can often be worse accusers of ourselves than anyone else.

It’s funny. It would be one thing if beating ourselves up actually worked. In that case, it might be a viable option to use sometimes. But when was the last time you grew after a self-inflicted beating? More often than not, our self-inflicted pain comes to nothing more than making us feel weaker and more inclined to mess up again than it does to give us strength and confidence to do it right the next time.

So why do we do it? In a strange way, I believe that we think we are beating someone else to the punch. If I can punish myself, then no one else will. We think that we are sparing ourselves more pain if we actively punish ourselves. And the demon of perfectionism reigns when the God of the Bible is forgotten.

There is a scene in the Gospel of Mark that highlights this whole situation. The disciples are in a boat, they are

Sunday, March 19 Third Sunday of Lent Ex 17:3-7 Rom 5:1-2, 5-8 Jn 4:5-42 Monday, March 20 St. Joseph, spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary 2 Sm 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16 Rom 4:13, 16-18, 22 Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a

Tuesday, March 21 Dn 3:25, 34-43 Mt 18:21-35 Wednesday, March 22 Dt 4:1, 5-9 Mt 5:17-19 Thursday, March 23 Jer 7:23-28 Lk 11:14-23

Saturday, March 25 Annunciation of the Lord Is 7:10-14; 8:10 Heb 10:4-10 Lk 1:26-38 Sunday, March 26 Fourth Sunday of Lent 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a Eph 5:8-14 Jn 9:1-41

Friday, March 24 Hos 14:2-10 Mk 12:28-34

hungry, and they forgot to bring bread. At first, Jesus tells them to guard against the “leaven of the Pharisees.”

The disciples think that this is because they forgot to bring bread; they think that Jesus is scolding them.

Let’s press pause on this. Have you ever been in a bad situation of your own making, when it was pretty much entirely your wrongdoing? Like the apostles, you are stuck, you don’t have what you need, and it is your own fault? Looking at the text, it says that “they forgot to bring bread.” This doesn’t mean they hadn’t thought to bring bread, or that they could have brought bread but didn’t; it means that they were supposed to have brought bread, but they didn’t. They had done something wrong.

They are in a bad situation, and it is their own fault. It is possible that Jesus had even told them, “Hey, we are going to be out on the water for a while. Make sure you remember to bring the bread.” And now here they are in a situation of their own making. It is their own fault. We would say they screwed up.

How does Jesus treat them? We will get to that, but first we can ask: How are they treating themselves? We have less certainty, but we might have some idea. Jesus warns them against the leaven of the Pharisees. What could that mean? There are a number of possible meanings here. But Jesus might have been pointing to how the Pharisees saw the law and perfection — how they viewed mistakes and sins.

The Pharisees believed that the long-awaited Messiah would come when the whole Jewish people followed the law to the letter. Now, clearly, Jesus is not “anti-law.”

In other texts, Jesus makes the point of saying that he had not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it. Could it be that Jesus noted this severity planting seeds among the apostles? As they were possibly accusing themselves (or each other) of screwing up, Jesus steps in with this cautionary phrase: Do not allow those seeds of perfectionism to find root in your hearts. Jesus goes on

to remind the apostles of two times before when he fed thousands of people with very little to start with (and an abundance left over). What is he up to?

Could it be that Jesus knows our hearts far better than we know our hearts? (Yes.) And could it be that Jesus loves us far better than we love ourselves? (Yes.) And could it be that Jesus wants us to look to him rather than to ourselves when we find ourselves messing up? (I think so, yes!)

Essentially, I believe that Jesus is saying (in response to the apostles’ self-accusation and self-condemnation), “Do not allow perfectionism regarding yourself to obscure the fact that you can trust me.” Jesus points out that, when they had no food, he gave them food. When they had so little, he gave them more than enough. He is reminding them that they can trust him.

I’m going to drop a little knowledge on you right now: God is the one who makes us holy. We do not make ourselves holy. Our prayer doesn’t make us holy.

Our good works do not make us holy. God is the one who makes us holy. All of those things (prayer, work, striving) open us up to God’s grace, and all of those things are our way of cooperating with God’s work, but he is the one who makes us holy.

God cannot make us holy when we are too busy condemning ourselves and staring at ourselves to look at him and receive his love. The next time you find yourself getting down on yourself because you have messed up again, turn to the face of the father and trust that he knows how to deal with it.

God loves you. Let him love you even when you realize that you don’t deserve it.

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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THIS CATHOLIC LIFE • COMMENTARY

TWENTY SOMETHING

Christina Capecchi

Tending to each other and our common home The old farmers used to say you should leave a field better than you found it. Sometimes that called for heavy lifting. Other times it just meant picking up a rock as you crossed and placing it at the field’s edge.

That counsel stuck with Amy Hereford, who grew up on a 10-acre Missouri farm where sheep roamed and blackberries grew wild. She planted whatever vegetable seemed to be lacking.

For Amy and her three younger sisters, singing lightened their footsteps. “This Land Is Your Land,” “Turn, Turn, Turn,” “Edelweiss.” The music never ceased. At night, she carried the earth inside — under her fingernails, on her cheeks, scenting her hair.

Studying biology in college added an intellectual appreciation for the things she already knew. Then life carried her from the farm: teaching, entering religious life, attending law school, traveling and working in canon law.

She arrived at each new stop with gratitude, as Catholic sisters seem to model so well, thinking, “Who would’ve thought I’d be here now, doing this?”

At 58, Sister Amy describes being a Sister of St. Joseph as a life of “adventure,” with some tough challenges and many amazing opportunities.

About a decade ago, she found herself coming full circle, getting her hands back in the dirt. Her work coalesced with her continued study of sustainability.

She moved into the Dogtown Ecovillage on the edge of St. Louis and tried to cultivate new life with her neighbors.

“There’s something so wholesome about the soil, about growing things,” Sister Amy told me. “When I’m out working on the garden, I feel like I’m tending the garden, and the garden is tending me. God is

LENT

Liz Kelly

Foodies, families and fasting in America I have two close friends who have spent considerable time serving the impoverished in India and Africa. Both returned to the United States with radical new relationships to food.

After coming home from several months in the Sudan, my friend Sarah could barely go out to a restaurant. “Americans are obsessed with food,” she would say and then order the simplest item on the menu, usually soup.

One evening, not long after he had returned from India, my friend Ray and I were sitting in his kitchen when his son, then a college student, sauntered in, opened the refrigerator and, standing in the bright light of its interior bulb, began to scan its considerable contents. Then he turned to his dad and simply asked, “What do you want for dinner?”

Ray burst out laughing. And then he organized a

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“There’s something so wholesome about the soil, about growing things. ... When I’m out working on the garden, I feel like I’m tending the garden, and the garden is tending me.

God is tending me.”

Sister Amy Hereford

istock Wavebreak Media tending me.”

In the summer, it’s how she starts her day, heading out in the quiet of early morning. Then, before she sets to her business, she prays. “That flow from garden to prayer is a natural one,” she said.

When Pope Francis released “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” Sister Amy devoured it. “I think the linking of ecology, technology, economy and sociology was spot on,” she said.

Just as we can no longer think in terms of individual species, but rather an ecosystem, she said, we must also be mindful of our social ecosystem.

“Half of our native bird species is in decline, if not endangered. A lot of that is because we’re not planting the right plants that bring the right insects that these birds want to eat. It’s all interconnected. As a society, we’re also interconnected. What I do affects you, what you do affects me. We are all in this together. It really is our common home.”

This month, as winter begins to melt into spring, she’s joining in the fourth annual celebration of fundraiser for the local food shelf.

It’s true that this is a question only those living in abundance may ask. It would be absurd in most of the rest of the world. Most of the rest of the world lives, day after day, on a plate of rice or beans, with maybe an occasional slab of meat. Most of the rest of the world routinely lives with some hunger and certainly a very narrow list of choices when it comes to food.

There is no “food pyramid” on the streets of Kolkata.

There are, of course, the hungry on our streets, too, though they might be fewer in number and a bit better hidden in this country than in others. In this Lenten season of regular fasting, we are provided with the opportunity to remember them and to reframe our relationship to food.

If you cannot fast from food, certainly you may fast from something else. But most of us can fast from food. And we probably should, because the Lord did, and rigorously so, to prepare for all the Father was about to ask of him.

Eating down the house There’s still some flexibility in how we accomplish that, particularly as a family.

A Quaker friend of mine told me that once a year, his family would try to clear out the shelves of their kitchen and pantry, eating whatever was there until the shelves were nearly bare. Of course, he and his wife did not jeopardize the health of their children — no one was seriously denied nutrition — but it became a creative and instructive family project to see how many different ways they could prepare a dented can of tomato soup and a forgotten bag of rice. He

National Catholic Sisters Week March 8-14, an official component of Women’s History Month, by hosting an event in her ecovillage called “Sisters and Sustainability.” She’ll be teaming up with other women religious and lay people to install a bat-house and a bee-house and plant Missouri-native plants to help support pollinator populations and increase soil fertility.

To me, it embodies what women religious do best, and why we salute them this month: They tend to their neighbors and our common home. They practice the simple living Pope Francis called for in “Laudato Si’,” resisting the “constant flood of new consumer goods” in order to “be serenely present to each reality” and open to “greater horizons of understanding.”

“It is not a lesser life,” he wrote. “On the contrary, it is a way of living life to the full.”

Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights and the editor of www.sisterstory.org.

Fasting is good for us. Let’s not be too quick to find reasons to bypass it.

reports that his children began to look forward to “eating down the house.” Routine trips to the grocery store at the end of their little family project were met with positive glee and a renewed sense of thanksgiving. The prayers of their children on behalf of the hungry at mealtime took on a whole new level of earnest intercession.

We fast — in multiple ways — as a penance for our sins, to grow in detachment from material comforts and to create more interior space for prayer. We fast from meat on Fridays because we will not render flesh in honor of the Lord’s passion. We fast to purify and prepare ourselves for the work that the Father is asking of us.

Fasting is good for us. Let’s not be too quick to find reasons to bypass it.

May your stomach growl — and your heart expand.

Kelly is the author of six books, including “Jesus Approaches: What Today’s Woman Can Learn about Healing, Freedom and Joy from the Women of the New Testament” (Loyola Press, 2017).

THIS CATHOLIC LIFE • COMMENTARY

March 9, 2017

FAITH IN THE PUBLIC ARENA

Ryan Wilson

Taking the ‘porn problem’ public The Catholic faith has long drawn attention to the serious and sinister consequences of pornography on the human soul. In 2016, for instance, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops released “Create in Me a Clean Heart,” a pastoral letter describing pornography’s ability to distort one’s understanding of human sexuality and stunt his or her capacity for self-giving love. The bishops condemned pornography as part of the “throwaway culture” Pope Francis has described and warned that its harms “include physiological, financial, emotional, mental and spiritual effects.”

But for too long, the Church’s warnings about the dangers of pornography were written off as unnecessary and even prudish moralizing from an institution that had long-ago grown out of touch with the realities of human life.

In the last decade, though, science has begun to recognize what faith and morals have held true for years — that pornography has significant harmful effects to both the individual and the broader community, not just on the soul but on the human psyche. To address this reality, a bipartisan group of state legislators is proposing a resolution to declare pornography a public health crisis in Minnesota.

Harm to self The “porn problem” has reached epidemic proportions. More than 77 percent of households contain pornographic material or have accessed it online in the last month. Nearly half of families report that pornography is a problem in their home.

The average age of first exposure to pornography is only 11 to 12 years old, and 93 percent of male teens have viewed pornography at least once. This is not surprising when a simple Google search on an iPad

THE LOCAL CHURCH

Deacon Mickey Friesen

Being Christian in the Holy Land Lent is an annual pilgrimage to renew our faith in Christ as we retrace his footsteps and walk with his disciples on the way to Jerusalem — the way to the cross.

Along the way, as Jesus passed through Galilee, Samaria and Judea, he stopped to teach, to heal, to forgive, to feed and to raise up those in need. Today, pilgrims who want to retrace this way of Jesus pass through the lands of Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria — the region of the Holy Land. Today if you stop along the way that Jesus made holy, you will see many people carrying a heavy cross for their faith.

Today, living in the Holy Land as a Christian is difficult. Except for in Lebanon, Christians in the Middle East make up only a small minority of faiths represented. They get caught in the middle of regional conflicts, religious factions and civil war. They have little or no voice to speak out and have to walk a thin line to practice their faith. Sometimes they are easy targets or scapegoats for violent extremists wanting to

Urge your lawmakers to declare pornography a public health crisis Science now confirms what the Church has long maintained: Pornography is bad for the human person and society at large. Efforts to raise awareness about the ill effects of pornography can no longer be considered privately-held religious beliefs, but instead must be recognized as a compelling public interest.

Urge your lawmakers to join the push to declare pornography a public health crisis in Minnesota. Ask your state representative to support HF 1788, and your state senator to support SF 1605.

Let’s protect our youth and families from the corrosive effects of pornography.

For contact information of your state senator and state representative, call 651-296-8338 or visit www.gis.leg.mn/imaps/districts. brings any child to an unending, unrestricted, free supply of vile sexual images and videos.

Early exposure is leading to lifelong consequences.

Multiple medical studies using imaging testing have found that viewing pornography causes neurobiological changes in children’s and teens’ brains. These brain images show the same pattern researchers observe in those suffering from serious drug addiction.

As a result, physicians and psychologists are seeing an increase in patients seeking treatment for pornography addiction and its effects. These harms are not isolated to the individual viewing pornography, but become a problem for families. In her testimony before the U.S. Senate, Dr. Jill Manning, a licensed family therapist and board member of the internet safety organization Enough is Enough, shared her research findings that 56 percent of divorce cases involve one party having an obsessive interest in pornography.

Harm to others In addition to harming individuals and families,

vent their rage and extreme ideologies. Life can become unbearable for this small flock of Jesus’ followers who live along the way to Jerusalem.

In Syria, for example, less than 10 percent of the people are Christian. Since the civil war began in 2011, as many as 386,000 Syrians have died, and 4.8 million have fled the country. An additional 6.5 million internally displaced people are in Syria.

Half of these are children. Those remaining have few places to live freely. In the capital city of Damascus, Christians struggle together to live their faith and are paying a high price for their discipleship.

Like the early Christians who fled persecution, today’s Christians and those of other faiths are finding a special bond in their suffering. Archbishop Samir Nassar of Damascus recalled a meeting of the bishops of the Middle East. He said their shared pain “evoked an ecumenical suffering that is uniting, in the same Calvary, all the Christians of the East … [on a] difficult, painful and providential path of unity.” He went on to wonder, “Could this suffering lead to reconciliation between the religions and people of the Middle East? Could we see life and peace streaming out of the cross?”

Along this painful way, Middle East Christians feel isolated and separated from the rest of the Church outside of their immediate communities. Many Christians in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories say, “We simply want Western Christians to know that we exist.”

Last fall, the U.S. bishops took up the question of how we in the United States can turn our attention to our brothers and sisters in the Middle East. They

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this crisis has led to a normalization and tolerance of violent sexual activities in society. An analysis of the most-viewed pornographic videos found that 88 percent of scenes include physical violence toward women, 95 percent of which portrayed the women accepting or enjoying the abuse.

The violent tendencies associated with pornography don’t end when the browser window is closed; they spill over into the lives of those who absorb these images.

After examining 40 different studies on the connection between porn and violence against women, a team of researchers concluded that there is a “clear and consistent” connection between viewing pornography and higher probabilities of committing a sexual offense. This was seen more clearly in a recent study of collegiate males that found overwhelmingly that viewing pornography increased the likelihood of having attitudes that support violence against women.

This normalization of violent sexual acts toward women is both the kindling and the fuel for a growing culture of rape and exploitation that has infected our college campuses and society at large.

Stemming the epidemic Several states have passed resolutions declaring pornography a public health crisis, calling for renewed efforts to weed it out of our homes and schools, and for further study into porn’s debilitating effects. And now, Minnesota might be the next state to join this growing national consensus.

The impact of such a resolution should not be overlooked. When scientists discovered the negative impact of cigarettes, policy makers declared a public health crisis and took action. They substantially reduced the number of people harmed by smoking through initiatives such as public education campaigns and increased restrictions on children’s access to cigarettes.

Cigarettes were once thought to be benign and in some cases were marketed by physicians as beneficial.

Science told us otherwise. Although by faith and reason we have always known of pornography’s harms, our legislators should follow the research and do the responsible thing by declaring porn a public health crisis.

Wilson is a law clerk at the Minnesota Catholic Conference.

highlighted three areas of activity: advocacy, humanitarian aid and ecumenical support. They said, “Although the vast majority of today’s refugees are non-Christian, the vast majority of those who serve them are Christians, who continue to be salt and light in the world. …Today, Christians are more united than ever, through a common suffering, a common martyrdom and a common assistance to those in need.”

Ever since the bishops’ call to solidarity with Christians in the Middle East, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis’ Center for Mission has been discerning ways that local Catholics can respond. One way is for us to consider twinning our archdiocese with a particular church in the Middle East. We have been in contact with local communities tied to the Middle East and are making connections through Catholic Relief Services. Both efforts have led us to consider twinning with Catholics in the Maronite Archdiocese of Damascus.

Because we claim St. Paul as the patron saint of the archdiocese, it seems providential we are being invited to Damascus. Like St. Paul, who encountered Christ along the way to Damascus, so, too, we might go down this road to Damascus and hear the Lord say, “I am Jesus, the one who is being persecuted.” We have an opportunity to discern the path we might take in following along the way of Jesus — the way of the cross, the way of compassion and solidarity — the way to the Holy Land.

Deacon Friesen is director of the archdiocesan Center for Mission.

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FAITH & CULTURE

March 9, 2017

St. Paul artist draws Stations of the Cross with modern spin

By Maria Wiering The Catholic Spirit

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uch of Peter Kramer’s art, while smart, has a playful veneer. Among his drawing compilations is a book dedicated to the “care and feeding of single-celled animals” that treats amoebas and bacteria as pets; another is called “Diet for a Round Palate: A Cookbook of Round Food Recipes,” an ode of sorts to globular foods including eggs, pumpkins and blueberries. A Minneapolis-based architect, Kramer, 79, also has a line of foldable furniture, cheekily called “OUCH!,” should it actually fold while in use.

When friends heard, then, that he had taken on the Stations of the Cross for a recent drawing series, they were surprised.

“Mostly, they were like, ‘Boy, that is really different for you. What’s that about?’” Kramer said.

The series of 16 prints feature his signature inky, sketchy cartoon-like drawings with handwritten captions. Unlike traditional Stations in a church where the viewer “is in the front row,” Kramer said he drew each scene from the perspective of someone in the back of the crowd, with onlookers’ heads obscuring some of the action, the way he imagines it would have been for most people who witnessed Jesus’ passion and crucifixion. He also used a contemporary landscape, with high-rise skylines and soldiers with bulbous helmets and machine guns. Caution tape separates the crowd from Jesus’ path.

Kramer called the Stations “a contemporary story.”

“It’s a story we tell now that happens every day when innocent people are the subject of intolerance and injustice,” he said.

At the same time, he described it as a “love story” and hopes people see love triumphing over tragedy.

“I don’t want [viewers] to feel bad about this,” he said. “How much greater love is there, that you give up your life for other people? This is enormous love, plus his [Jesus’] father loved him. It’s a journey, and it’s a love story.”

The prints will be on display at Grand Hand Gallery in St. Paul March 11-26, with an opening reception 5-7 p.m. March 11.

As with many of his other works, Kramer spiralbound the prints in a book, “Eye Witness to the Events at the Place of Skulls.” The cover is subtitled “an ending,” but the book ends with “a beginning” — Christ’s ascension into heaven. In the book, each Station is printed on the right-hand page. On the facing

Peter Kramer works in his Minneapolis studio March 6.

Dave Hrbacek/ The Catholic Spirit pages, he copied newsprint of 20th- and 21st-century claims to have “inadvertently started the current news stories that relate to the Stations. A story about coloring book craze.”

John F. Kennedy’s assassination headlined “Why Kramer admits to drawing at church, concerts and America Weeps” is next to the “Jesus Meets the Weeping “while driving.” He attends the Cathedral of St. Paul, Women.” Other stories include the Sandy Hook but also worships with his wife, whom he calls “Miss Elementary School mass-shooting in 2012, the Bonnie,” at a Presbyterian church in St. Paul.

Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995 and Mahatma When approaching the Stations, Kramer Gandhi’s assassination in 1948. inadvertently encountered a conundrum: the Way of Drawing the Stations required reflection on their the Cross, as introduced by Pope John Paul II in 1991, meaning and context, and Kramer’s illustrations include differs slightly in number and subject than the text with his take. With the first Station when Jesus is traditional Stations he learned as a child attending condemned to death, Kramer writes: “Pontius Pilate, the St. Mary of the Lake in White Bear Lake.

Roman governor, claims that he wanted to acquit Jesus He stuck with what he remembered, he said; he of any crimes and let him go free. I don’t buy it. I think didn’t want to leave out Veronica washing the face of he gave Jesus over to the angry crowd to get himself off Jesus, a Station without scriptural basis that is not the hook. Then Pilate washed his hands of the whole included in the Way of the Cross, along with Jesus affair in a cynical act of political stagecraft.” encountering his mother and his three falls.

Kramer included what some consider the “15th Wearing his trademark bow-tie, round-framed glasses and red office clip on his shirt placket, Kramer described Station,” the resurrection. His final illustration includes what he does as an architect as “part psychiatry and part a verse from Iris DeMent’s 1992 hit “Let the Mystery Be” adjacent to the periodic table. inorganic chemistry.” In 1976, he opened an architectural firm to specialize in work for non-profit Although he timed the gallery show with Lent, his organizations. His first design was for Project for Pride in focus is now on another project: a take on the periodic Living in Minneapolis, which led to oodles of table. In his artist statement, he calls what he does community clinics and child care centers. He is “birdwatching, observing and recording along the way.” influenced by a variety of architects and artists, he said, He adds that his purpose is best described in an naming German modernist architect Adolf Loos, the exchange between a father and daughter in Henning Austrian painter Egon Schiele and Japanese woodblock Mankell’s 2010 novel “Italian Shoes.” printmaker Hokusai, famous for “The Great Wave off “What do you hope to accomplish?” the dad asks.

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Author explores meaning of Irish heritage in new book

By Jessica Trygstad The Catholic Spirit There are the “Irish” who emerge once a year to embrace St. Patrick’s Day festivities, and then there are the Irish who can trace their lineage to the Emerald Isle. James Rogers is one of the latter. Regrettably, though, he’s one generation shy of claiming Irish citizenship.

“You need one Irish-born grandparent; I have one Irish-born great-grandparent — not good James enough,” said ROGERS Rogers, director of the Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul and editor of its quarterly journal, “New Hibernia Review.”

Rogers grew up in South St. Paul attending St. Augustine church and school, now merged with Holy Trinity.

He graduated from the former Brady High School in West St. Paul, named for Archbishop William Brady, who served from 1956-1961. He married his Irish stepdancing instructor, and their three children attended St. Mark and CretinDerham Hall High School, both in St. Paul.

His recent book “Irish-American Autobiography: The Divided Hearts of

Athletes, Priests, Pilgrims, and More” (The Catholic University of America Press, 2016) explores several autobiographies of Irish-American Catholics and how their stories differ in the cultural landscape while their ethnic heritage remains intact. The title’s athletes are boxers John L. Sullivan and James J. Corbett, and baseball player, manager and team owner Connie Mack.

Rogers characterized the priests’ autobiographies as regimented, reflecting Catholic life in the 1950s; their piety overshadowing anything quintessentially Irish. Another chapter is dedicated to Frank McCourt’s 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir “Angela’s Ashes,” describing the “miserable Irish childhood,” Rogers said. And, he added, everyone loves “The Honeymooners” chapter detailing actor Jackie Gleason’s memoir of Brooklyn in the 1955-1956 television series.

“The Catholic Imagination,” a term Rogers attributes to sociologist, journalist and novelist Father Andrew Greeley, is prevalent in the book’s last chapters as it relates to ways IrishAmericans perceived the world.

“There’s something about familiarity with ideas, concepts, images, symbols [and] understanding life in sacramental terms,” Rogers said. “I believe strongly that autobiography and memoir is fundamentally a religious impulse — it’s a meaning-making exercise. For IrishAmericans, they don’t necessarily know what it means, but they know it means

something.”

Rogers, 64, who attends St. Albert the Great in Minneapolis, describes his book as the first to have taken Irish-American memoir and autobiography as a specific body of literature. It sets out to disprove any notion that Irish identity has disappeared in the U.S. In this “age of memoir,” Rogers said, Irish-American memoirs and autobiographies have become attenuated, but people are still “fascinated with Ireland” and not just with the “green kitsch.” There is some kind of tug, he said, and people don’t dismiss it.

“This isn’t just ornamental; people give their kids unpronounceable, unspellable Gaelic names; they spend their hard-earned money on trips to Ireland; [and] some of them inflict pain on themselves getting tattoos of Celtic designs,” he said, laughing. “People are attached to this; it means something.

And it’s meant something for a very long time.

“My sense of Irish identity in the United States is that the core is always going to be outsiderhood,” he continued. “It’s not necessarily being Catholic, and it’s certainly no longer being immigrant, but there’s always a sense of outsiderhood, and I think being Catholic had a lot to do with that.

We’ve had exactly one Catholic president — and that was 57 years ago, [and] we haven’t had one since.”

One takeaway Rogers hopes for his readers is some sense of continuity and

tradition. Heritage, he said, isn’t a “fixed commodity.” People are born into traditions.

“I think it’s important that we don’t see ourselves as having come out of nowhere, that we are an end product of a process that we didn’t set into motion and that we didn’t have a say about,” he said. “It’s real easy these days to look back and think about the bad old days ... but there’s also a point at which rejecting that becomes rejecting yourself.”

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As evangelization tool, Alpha lays foundation for discipleship

By Matthew Davis The Catholic Spirit Speaking with lay staff and priests in St. Paul, national Alpha for Catholics director Deacon Steve Mitchell described five-time Super Bowl winning quarterback Tom Brady as one who expressed the question the Alpha course seeks to answer.

“Why do I have three Super Bowl rings and still think there’s something greater out there for me?” Brady asked on “60 Minutes” in 2009. He later said, “There’s got to be more than this. ...

I wish I knew.”

Deacon Mitchell, who ministers in the Archdiocese of Detroit, conjectured that five Super Bowls still haven’t filled that desire for something “more than this.” A Michigan native who works to promote the Alpha course in a Catholic context, Deacon Mitchell said it breaks his heart to hear Brady’s existential plight.

Deacon Mitchell described Alpha as a course “to explore life’s biggest questions through the lens of the Christian faith in a friendly, open and informal atmosphere through 10 interactive questions. No pressure, no follow-up, no charge.”

More than 40 priests, parish faith formation staff members and volunteers in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis came to the new archdiocesan offices Feb. 23 to learn about Alpha.

Alpha started at an Anglican church in London. Anglican priest Nicky Gumbel spread it to other churches in 1990. The course runs at churches across the world and has been adapted for use in the Catholic Church.

“Everything there is in the [Apostles’] Creed, which we believe,” Deacon Mitchell said.

Alpha can work in Catholic parishes because of its focus on the “kerygma,” the basic components of the Gospel message. In the Catholic context, Alpha includes bishops’ recorded talks about presenting the basics of the Gospel.

While the course is the same one offered in other Christian churches, the environment is different.

“You’re inviting them to the Catholic Church,” Deacon Mitchell said. “If you

“Discipleship and evangelization all happen at the speed of relationship.”

Deacon Steve Mitchell

Deacon Steve Mitchell works to adapt for Catholics a worldwide Christian course called Alpha.

Dave Hrbacek/The Catholic Spirit don’t invite them, someone else [from another church] will.”

While Alpha has been designed to reach people of all ages, its design has been tailored to connect with a man in his mid-20s, who is typically going through a number of life transitions, and whom Deacon Mitchell considers part of the toughest demographic to reach. It also gets back to an essential component of a Catholic’s life.

Starting with the Great Commission, the call by Jesus to “make disciples of all nations,” the call of the Church has always been the salvation of souls, which begins with evangelization.

Deacon Mitchell said evangelization starts with relationships, an experience he had in coming back to Jesus while wandering from the Church as a young adult. Some friends encouraged him to take another look, leading him to a

deeper prayer life and journey back to the Church.

“For me, it was the first step,” he said.

Alpha sets the table for spiritual nourishment with what Deacon Mitchell calls “radical hospitality.” It means putting a quality experience above and beyond coffee and doughnuts. It also means that volunteers provide a welcoming atmosphere even when visitors share things that don’t fit in at a parish.

“Heresy has to have a place at the table, in order for the seeker to feel welcomed and eventually come back,” he said.

Alpha covers 11 topics in 11 weeks, the first night starting with the question, “Is there more?” The course guides people through Jesus’ life and death, the virtue of faith, prayer, reading Scripture and God’s providence.

Alpha provides the resources free to use online and download, thanks to donors who in 2016 made it possible for parishes to access the program.

“One of the cool things about Alpha is [that] it’s not up to me,” Deacon Mitchell said, adding that it’s the Holy Spirit’s work that reaches its crescendo in the course’s retreat.

Bringing Alpha to a parish takes prayer, recruiting and training of a volunteer team. It’s also necessary to pilot the program on a small scale once in the parish before rolling it out on a larger scale. It takes volunteers to work in the kitchen and be welcoming hosts.

Deacon Mitchell emphasized keeping a good ratio of hosts to guests. He encourages volunteers to “be creative.”

Alpha has a training event April 22 at Mary, Mother of the Church in Burnsville, run by Alpha regional director Steve Gartland. The training includes experiencing the Alpha program firsthand.

“It’s a very experiential day,” Deacon Mitchell said. “It’s not sitting in a lecture all day.”

He recommends starting the course following Christmas and Easter because of the higher Mass attendance at those times of the year.

“As they come, and they see it done with excellence, they say, ‘I can invite my friend to this,’” he told the group.

Follow-up programs such as Formed and Disciple exist for parishes to deepen discipleship after evangelization, he said.

“Discipleship and evangelization all happen at the speed of relationship,” Deacon Mitchell said.

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March 9, 2017

Fish fry corrections The following entries are corrected from the Feb. 23 issue, which either omitted information or included incorrect information. The Catholic Spirit’s full Fish Fry and Lenten Meal Guide is at www.thecatholicspirit.com/nomeat.

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Retreats

“Hat Lady” salad luncheon — March 11: 10 a.m. at Immaculate Conception, 116 Alabama St. SE, Lonsdale. www.churchoftheimmaculateconception.net.

Little Sisters of the Poor Lenten retreat for health care professionals — March 11: 8 a.m.–1 p.m. at 330 Exchange St. S., St. Paul. Cost: $40, meals included.

Pre-register by March 9 or call Teresa: 651-373-5369. www.curatioapostolate.com.

Farmington Knights of Columbus chili cook-off and bingo — March 11: 5:30–9 p.m. at St. Michael, 22120 Denmark Ave., Farmington.

Italian dinner — March 18: 5:30–8 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul, 9100 93rd Ave. N., Brooklyn Park.

Guardian Angels, Oakdale — Fish fry, 4:30– 7 p.m. March 10, 24 and April 7 at 8260 Fourth St. N. $13 adults, $11 seniors, $7 ages 6-12, free 5 and under. Take-out available. Includes fish, red potatoes, coleslaw, macaroni and cheese, green beans, dessert and beverage. www.guardian-angels.org.

St. Bernard all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner — March 25: 4–7 p.m. at 147 W. Geranium Ave., St. Paul. www.stbernardstpaul.org.

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Immaculate Conception, Columbia Heights — Fish fry, 4:30–7:30 p.m. March 10, 17, 24 and April 7 in the fellowship hall at 4030 Jackson St. $10 adults, $5 children’s menu. Includes pan-fried tilapia, a different side dish each week, coleslaw, roll, dessert and beverage. Kid’s menu will change each week. Also showing movies “Life of Jesus, Part I” from “The Bible” miniseries, 3:30 and 7 p.m. March 10 and “Life of Jesus, Part II,” 3:30 and 7 p.m. March 24. www.iccsonline.org.

Nativity of Mary, Bloomington — Lenten fish fry festival, 4–9 p.m. March 31 at 9900 Lyndale Ave. S. $10 at the door ($9 in advance). Free ages 4 and under. Includes a movie for the kids, games and prizes, new karaoke party lounge and a meat raffle. Beer, wine and cocktails available. www.nativityblooomington.org.

St. Francis de Sales, St. Paul — Fish fry, 4–6:30 p.m. March 3, 31 and April 7 in the social hall at 426 Osceola Ave. S. $10 mojarra fish and $5 fish fillet. Includes rice and salad.

Potato taco an additional $5, and pop $1.

Stations of the Cross in English and Spanish at 7 p.m. www.sf-sj.org.

Lenten concert: “All is Holy” with Tony Alonso and Jeanne Cotter — March 24: 7–9 p.m. at St. John the Baptist, 4625 W. 125th St., Savage. www.stjohns-savage.org.

Parish events Alpha at Guardian Angels — Tuesdays through April 4: 6:30–8:45 p.m. at 218 W. Second St., Chaska. www.gachaska.org.

St. Agnes Lenten Lectures — Fridays in Lent: 7:45–9 p.m. at 538 Thomas Ave., St. Paul. www.churchofsaintagnes.org/events/2017-lenten-lectureseries.

Holy Childhood rummage sale — March 9-11: 9 a.m.–7 p.m. Thursday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.–1 p.m., Saturday at 1435 Midway Parkway, St. Paul.

Bingo and ham raffle — March 19: 12:30–3:30 p.m. at Immaculate Conception, 4030 Jackson St. NE, Columbia Heights. 763-788-9062 or www.iccsonline.org.

Guardian Angels ham bingo — March 19: 1–2:30 p.m. at 8260 Fourth St. N., Oakdale. Cost: $8. www.guardian-angels.org.

St. Odilia, Shoreview — Fish fry, 5–7 p.m.

March 10 and 24 at 3495 Victoria St. N. $10 adults and kids over 12, $7 kids 5-12, free under 5. Includes all-you-can-eat cod and tilapia (baked or broiled), macaroni and cheese, cheesy potatoes, corn, coleslaw, rolls, dessert and beverages. Stations of the Cross at 5:30 p.m.

March 10 and 7 p.m. March 24. www.stodilia.org.

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Prayer/worship Lenten Day of Reflection — March 15: 9 a.m.–3 p.m. at The Benedictine Center at St. Paul’s Monastery, 2675 Benet Road, Maplewood. www.stpaulsmonastery.org.

Living Stations of the Cross — March 22-24: 7–8 p.m. at Church of St. Paul, 1740 Bunker Lake Blvd, NE, Ham Lake. www.churchofsaintpaul.com.

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Lenten Retreat hosted by the Lay Dominicans — March 11: 9:30 a.m.–4 p.m. at Holy Rosary, 2424 18th Ave. S., Minneapolis. bit.ly/3OPRetreat.

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Be the Voice of Hope — March 18: 8–11:30 a.m. at St. Genevieve, 14383 Forest Blvd. N., Hugo. $20.

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Living During Times of Change and Transition — March 18: 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. at St. Edward, 9401 Nesbitt Ave. S., Bloomington. Pre-register 952-835-7101. www.stedwardschurch.org.

Monastic Habits for Ordinary People — March 24-26: at The Benedictine Center at St. Paul’s Monastery, 2675 Benet Road, Maplewood.

651-777-7251 or www.stpaulsmonastery.org.

Chastity and pro-life retreat for girls grades 9-12 — March 25: 9:30–11:30 a.m. at St. Michael, 11300 Frankfort Parkway NE, St. Michael. Free. RSVP required: taketimeforhim@tds.net.

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Schools Holy Cross open house — March 16: 3:30–5 p.m. at 6100 37th St. W., Webster. www.holycrossschool.net.

St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity graduate studies information night — March 28: 5–9:15 p.m. at 2260 Summit Ave., St. Paul. Ana Theisen at 651-962-5069 or gradtheology@stthomas.edu. www.stthomas.edu/spssod.

Speakers Conversion of the Heart: A Poet’s Spiritual Journey — March 12: 11:30 a.m. at St. Edward, 9401 Nesbitt Ave. S., Bloomington. www.stedwardschurch.org.

Speaker: “ADHD in Youth” — March 14, April 11, May 9 and June 13: 7–8:30 p.m. at St. Richard, 7540 Penn Ave. S., Richfield. RSVP one week prior for child care. www.depressionsupportcoalition.org.

“Breaking Bread with Jesus” — March 13, 20 and 27: 7–9 p.m. at Guardian Angels, 8260 Fourth St. N., Oakdale. Art Zannoni presents. www.guardian-angels.org.

More online Devoted Life–Women’s Speaker Series — March 14 and May 9: 7–9 p.m. at St. Bartholomew, 630 E. Wayzata Blvd., Wayzata. www.st-barts.org.

Other events Knights of Columbus Wednesday night bingo — 6–9 p.m. at the Solanus Casey council hall, 1920 S. Greeley St., Stillwater.

Benilde-St. Margaret’s Spring Plant Sale — Through April 4: 9 a.m.–noon at 2501 Hwy. 100 S., St. Louis Park. www.bsmschool.org/plants.

Sisters Appreciation Day — March 26: Noon–4 p.m. at Immaculate Conception, 4030 Jackson St. NE, Columbia Heights. RSVP by March 22 to 651-636-2382.

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Granddaughter gives fresh perspective on Dorothy Day In new biography, Kate Hennessy details Catholic convert and activist as mother, grandmother

“As my mother would say, we all have to live our disasters, and one of those disasters is love.”

By Bridget Ryder For The Catholic Spirit

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or Kate Hennessy, the story of Dorothy Day is not the story of a social activist, an influential Catholic American or even a potential saint. It is, rather, the deeply personal story of her grandmother, whom she knew and loved.

Hennessy brought that story to the Twin Cities Feb. 27-28 as part of her book tour for her January release of “Dorothy Day: The World Will be Saved

by Beauty” (Scribner, 384 pages).

During two-plus days of book readings at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Hennessy met with students, faculty, the public and members of the movement her grandmother cofounded in 1933, The Catholic Worker.

Although Day has already been widely written about, the biography sheds new light on the Catholic convert’s life and person.

“She is known for changing the American Catholic Church and for her canonization [cause], but these are not the most important things to me. The most important thing to me besides that she is my grandmother is her great work, the Catholic Worker,” Hennessy said at a breakfast with St. Thomas students Feb. 27. “I believed that my mother’s story needed to be told and that my grandmother’s story as a mother needed to be told, and if I didn’t write it, it would be lost.”

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Hennessy’s book, however, grew out of years of conversations with her own

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Kate Hennessy, the granddaughter of Dorothy Day, talks about the book she wrote about Day at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul Feb. 27. Dave Hrbacek/The Catholic Spirit mother, the 27 years between the death of Day and Tamar’s death in 2008.

“I’d say, ‘You’ve got to write this,’” Hennessy explained during a public reading Feb. 28. “‘I can’t,’ my mother would say. Then I’d say, ‘I’ll write it,’ and my mother would tell me, ‘No, you can’t.’”

The back and forth went on intermittently for years. But a year after her mother’s death, Hennessy became convinced she needed to write her mother’s and grandmother’s stories.

“This is actually an intimate portrait of my grandmother and mother as it concerns my mother,” Hennessy said.

It also incorporates Catholic Worker history, since Tamar grew up within and loved the movement her mother co-founded with Peter Maurin.

Hennessy said the original draft was twice as thick as the published book, fattened by stories of the Catholic Worker as the extended family of both her mother and grandmother. She is considering publishing those sections as a blog. Still, Hennessy’s book uncovers some new history of the Catholic Worker. It also tells more of the story of Tamar’s father, Forster Batterham, a figure Hennessy said had been lost in the abundance of Day’s own writing.

Hennessy hopes the biography will make Day human in a new way.

“Just don’t put Dorothy Day on a pedestal and then walk away,” she said at the Feb. 28 evening reading.

For Hennessy, it is what Day achieved as the mother of a natural family and in her perseverance, despite a deep sense of failure, that proves her heroism. The book also recounts Tamar’s own heroism as both the daughter of a

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Archdiocesan Men’s Conference

woman everyone considered a mother and the mother of a large family in a difficult marriage. In a closeness that persevered despite misjudgments, misunderstandings and hurts, Hennessy considers the relationship between her mother and grandmother “one of the most powerful relationships I have ever witnessed.”

“They had some difficult times, some fierce times, but they never gave up.

That wasn’t an option,” she said Feb. 28. “The extrapolation of that is the Catholic Worker. It never gives up on people. They knew when they were taking many people in it was for life.

Love is not easy — what it asks of us.

This is something we have to live. As my mother would say, we all have to live our disasters, and one of those disasters is love.”

Local ties The University of St. Thomas has a long history with both Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement.

During her life, Day spoke at the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, said Anne Klejment, a history professor at St. Thomas. In one of her 1960 columns for The Catholic Worker newspaper, Day mentions Jim Shannon, former auxiliary bishop and president of the university, lending her his car.

Klejment, who has dedicated her academic work largely to Day, won the 1997 Pax Christi Award for her book “American Catholic Pacifism: The Influence of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement.” She also organized Hennessy’s visit and is a member of the Dorothy Day

2017 Archdiocesan Men’s Conference Saturday, March 18 8 a.m. — 1:00 p.m.

Anderson Fieldhouse, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul

Canonization Support Network.

St. Thomas’ Center for Catholic Studies, too, has a strong association with Day and the Catholic Worker Movement. Michael Naughton, director of the Center for Catholic Studies, began the collection process for Day’s canonization for the Claretian Fathers while in graduate school. In 1999, Naughton, along with two other St. Thomas professors, started a Catholic Worker House on St. Paul’s west side that became the catalyst for the Center for Catholic Studies’ Latino Leadership Program.

Today, around 240 Catholic Worker communities worldwide commit themselves to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry and forsaken, its website states. There are seven Catholic Worker communities in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

Karen Loome, a student in the Catholic Studies master’s program, is the co-founder of one of Stillwater’s two Catholic Worker communities with her husband, Tom. She is doing an independent study on Dorothy Day with Klejment. Loome attended the Feb. 28 reading.

“It flushes out the story of Dorothy Day in a new way,” she said of Hennessy’s book. “With Kate’s book, there’s more color.”

Loome, 58, said Day has influenced how she has lived most of her adult life.

“I don’t think I’d even know how to be Catholic without the Catholic Worker Movement. At least not the kind of Catholic I’d want to be,” she said.

Klejment hopes that through Hennessy’s visit, Day will inspire a new generation.

“I think it’s important for students to see Catholicism as not only a way we worship, but also the way we can live, and Dorothy Day put them together,” Klejment said.

Hennessy’s book is available at the University of St. Thomas book store and other major book sellers.

Archbishop Bernard Hebda will speak on Lessons from Saint Joseph, the Ultimate Watchman

Register by March 16 at Rediscover-faith.org or at the door. $25 per adult or $100 for group of 5 adults.

Students (up to high school senior) are always only $10 .

Questions? Contact Enzo Randazzo at randazzov@archspm.org or 651-291-4483.