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Vol. 65, No. 6
Sharing faith and knowledge VATICAN
Synod on Family Members of the Synod of Bishops concluded their three-week meeting on Oct. 25, delivering their recommendations to Pope Francis.
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World Youth Day More than 2,000 young Catholics representing parishes from across the dioceses of Dallas and Fort Worth gathered at Levitt Pavilion in Arlington for World Youth Day on Oct. 25.
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FAITH
All Souls’ Day Father Timothy Gollob of Holy Cross Catholic Church reflects on the importance of remembering and praying for those who have died.
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SCHOOLS
New softball complex A partnership between the City of Dallas and Bishop Lynch High School results in improvements at Ferguson Park.
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Bishop Kevin J. Farrell celebrates Mass at the beginning of the day Oct. 23 at the University of Dallas Ministry Conference at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. For more photos and coverage of the 2015 UDMC three-day event, see Pages 8-10.
ST. PATRICK CATHOLIC CHURCH IN DENISON
Renovation caps parish’s centennial celebration By Cathy Harasta The Texas Catholic
DENISON — On an overcast October morning, some of the parishioners paused to view the new Memorial Brick Plaza that signified the history and endurance of the 101-year-old St. Patrick Catholic Church. Some stopped to look up at the Gothic church’s stunning bell tower — a beacon not only for the Catholic community but for everyone in town. Others scrutinized the bricks and mortar that had been restored with such precision and love that the landmark church seemed not to look a single day older than when it opened in 1914. But on this special Oct. 25, when Bishop Kevin J. Farrell celebrated a Mass Commemorating the Completion of the 2nd Century Restoration at St. Patrick, a full church of more than 450 paid tribute to God’s grace as the bishop blessed the restoration. “It really gives you chills,” said Frank Ventura, chairman of St.
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Bishop Kevin J. Farrell greets parishioners outside of St. Patrick Catholic Church, following a Mass celebrating completion of the parish’s 2nd Century Restoration project on Oct. 25 in Denison.
Patrick’s 2nd Century Restoration Committee. “The feeling is so exciting, just as it must have been for the parishioners in 1914.” In delivering his homily and
dedicating the restoration, Bishop Farrell drew smiles when he spoke of how his Irish heritage made him feel a deep connection to the St. Patrick Catholic community.
He remarked on the church’s beautiful stained glass with its deep green shades. “It is a great joy to come and bless the renovations,” Bishop Farrell told the congregation as he spoke of continuity and the church’s next 100 years. “We cannot help but think of the history of so many years that Catholic people have come, have sat in these pews and listened to the Word of God,” the bishop said. Bishop Farrell thanked God for the “great gift” of St. Patrick Church and parish. He told the gathering that the celebration reminded Catholics of Pope Francis’ great grace in bringing the faith alive in and beyond the Catholic community. A Dallas-area Imam phoned him, Bishop Farrell said, to request copies of the Holy Father’s speeches so that the Muslim leader might absorb their message. “Pope Francis tells us nothing more than what the Scriptures tell See DENISON, Page 6
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Report urges ‘pastoral accompaniment’ By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY—While not specifically mentioning the controversial proposal of a path toward full reconciliation and Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried, members of the Synod of Bishops on the family handed Pope Francis a report emphasizing an obligation to recognize that not all Catholics in such a situation bear the same amount of blame. The 94-paragraph report approved Oct. 24, the last working day of the three-week synod, highlighted the role of pastors in helping couples understand church teaching, grow in faith and take responsibility for sharing the Gospel. It also emphasized how “pastoral accompaniment” involves discerning, on a case-by-case basis, the moral culpability of people not fully living up to the Catholic ideal. Bishops and other full members of the synod voted separately on each paragraph and the Vatican published those votes. The paragraph dealing specifically with leading divorced and remarried Catholics on a path of discernment passed with only one vote beyond the necessary two-thirds.
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Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna told reporters Oct. 24 that the key word in the document’s discussion of ministry to divorced and civilly remarried people is “’discernment.’ I invite you all to remember there is no black or white, no simple yes or no.” The situation of each couple “must be discerned,” which is what was called for by St. John Paul II in his 1981 exhortation on the family, he said. The cardinal told Vatican Insider, a news site, that although St. John Paul called for discernment in those cases, “he didn’t mention all that comes after discernment.” The synod’s final report, he said, proposes priests help divorced and remarried couples undergoing conversion and repentance so that they recognize whether or not they are worthy to receive the Eucharist. Such an examination of conscience, he said, is required of every Catholic each time they prepare to approach the altar. As Pope Francis said at the beginning of the synod, church doctrine on the meaning of marriage as a lifelong bond between one man and one woman open to having children was not up for debate. The final report strongly affirmed that teaching as God’s plan for humanity, as a blessing for the church and a benefit to society. While insisting on God’s love for homosexual persons and the obligation to respect their dignity, the report also insisted same-sex unions could not be recognized as marriages and denounced as “totally unacceptable” governments or international organizations making
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Pope Francis presides at a session of the Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 24.
recognition of “’marriage’ between persons of the same sex” a condition for financial assistance. The report also spoke specifically of: the changing role of women in families, the church and society; single people and their contributions to the family and the church; the heroic witness of parents who love and care for children with disabilities; the family as a sanctuary protecting the sacredness of human life from conception to natural death; and the particular strain on family life caused by poverty and by migration.
Value of marriage
The Catholic Church recognizes a “natural” value in marriage corresponding to the good of the husband and wife, their unity, fidelity and desire for children. But the sacrament of marriage adds another dimension, the report said. “The irrevocable fidelity of God to his covenant is the foundation of the indissolubility of marriage. The complete and profound love of the spouses is not based only on their human capabilities: God sustains this covenant with the strength of his Spirit.” But human beings are subject to sin and failure, which is why synod members recommend the need for “accompaniment” by family members, pastors and other couples. “Being close to the family as a traveling companion means, for the church, assuming wisely differentiated attitudes: sometimes it is necessary to stay by their side and listen in silence; other times it must indicate the path to follow; and at still other times, it is opportune to follow, support and encourage.” A draft of the report was presented to synod members Oct. 22, and 51
bishops spoke the next morning about changes they would like to see in the final draft. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, told reporters that several bishops mentioned specifically a need to improve the text’s references to “the relationship between conscience and the moral law.” The text refers to conscience in sections dealing with procreation and with marital situations the church considers irregular, particularly the situation of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics. First, though, synod members promised greater efforts to be with couples in crisis and praised divorced Catholics who, “even in difficult situations, do not undertake a new union, remaining faithful to the sacramental bond.” Such Catholics, they noted, can and should “find in the Eucharist the nourishment that sustains them.” Those who have remarried without an annulment of their sacramental marriage must be welcomed and included in the parish community in every way possible, the report said. “They are baptized, they are brothers and sisters, the Holy Spirit gives them gifts and charisms for the good of all.”
Careful discernment
Quoting from St. John Paul’s exhortation on the family, the report insists that pastors, “for the sake of truth,” are called to careful discernment when assisting and counseling people who divorced and remarried. They must distinguish, for instance, between those who “have been unjustly abandoned, and those who through their own grave fault have destroyed a canonically valid marriage,” in the words of St. John Paul. Priests must “accompany inter-
ested people on the path of discernment in accordance with the teaching of the church and the guidance of the bishop,” the report said. While the report makes no explicit mention of absolution and the return to Communion, it seems to leave some possibility for such a solution by quoting the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s affirmation that “imputability and responsibility for an action can be diminished or even nullified” because of different conditions. Just as the degree of guilt will differ, the report said, “also the consequences of the acts are not necessarily the same in all cases.” In several places the text praises the teaching of “Humanae Vitae,” the document of Blessed Paul VI on married love and the transmission of life. “Conjugal love between a man and a woman and the transmission of life are ordered one to the other,” the report said. “Responsible parenthood presupposes the formation of the conscience, which is ‘the most secret core and sanctuary of a man. There he is alone with God, whose voice echoes in his depths,’ ” said the report, quoting from the Second Vatican Council’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. “The more spouses try to listen to God and his commandments in their consciences, the freer their decision will be” from external pressures, the report said.
Related story Vatican analyst John Allen, speaking at the 2015 University of Dallas Ministry Conference, discusses the impact of the Synod of Bishops on the Catholic faithful. See Page 8.
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Synod had difficult moments as it tried to proclaim truth By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY—The first task of the Catholic Church “is not to hand down condemnations or anathemas, but to proclaim the mercy of God,” Pope Francis told members of the Synod of Bishops on the family. At the end of the synod’s final working session Oct. 24, Pope Francis was honest about the differences of opinion present among synod participants and about the tone of their discussions sometimes exceeding the bounds of charity. But he framed all those differences as an opportunity for learning. “In the course of this synod, the different opinions that were expressed freely — and, unfortunately, sometimes with methods that were not completely charitable — certainly led to a rich and lively dialogue,” the pope said. The synod, he said, was a time of trying “to broaden horizons in order to overcome every hermeneutic of conspiracy or closed-mindedness so as to defend and spread the freedom of the children of God (and) to transmit the beauty of Christian newness,
which sometimes is covered by the rust of a language that is archaic or simply incomprehensible.” “For the church,” he said, “concluding the synod means to go back to really ‘walking together’ to bring to every part of the world —- every diocese, every community and every situation — the light of the Gospel, the embrace of the church and the support of the mercy of God.” The synod sessions, the pope said, were designed to have people speak openly about the needs of families and to face them “without fear and without hiding our heads in the sand.” The gathering, he said, was a time “to witness to all that the Gospel remains for the church the living source of eternal newness against those who want to ‘indoctrinate’ it into dead stones to hurl at each other.” Without mentioning specific differences, such as deeply varied cultural approaches to homosexuality, Pope Francis said synod members learned that “what seems normal for a bishop on one continent can seem strange — almost a scandal — to a bishop from another.”
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Report highlights pastoral care of society’s marginalized By Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY—While they did not grab headlines, the elderly and people with disabilities, openness to life and the plight of migrants and refugees were also on the agenda of the Synod of Bishops on the family. The synod’s final report, which was approved Oct. 24, addressed the pastoral needs of those who are often cast aside to the margins of society, those who are often neglected and abandoned in a world that places profit over value. Affirming the church’s teaching on the “sacred and inviolable character of human life,” the synod members not only denounced the tragedy of abortion, they also expressed their closeness to young mothers, abandoned children and those suffering the consequences of abortion. The report also denounced euthanasia, saying that society is called to “care for the elderly, protect people with disabilities, assist the terminally ill, comfort the dying, and firmly reject the death penalty.” One of the most important tasks of Christian families, the report said, is to “safeguard the bond between generations for the transmission of the faith.” While birth rates are dwindling
in Western countries, the report noted, the number of elderly people continue to rise and they are often “perceived as a burden” in increasingly industrialized societies. The synod fathers also praised the role of grandparents, whose presence within the family deserved “special attention” and are crucial in passing on the faith to future generations. In the eyes of synod members, the situation of men, women and children scattered and divided due to war, persecution and poverty was another of the most heartbreaking situations affecting families. Forced migration, which “traumatizes people and destabilizes the family,” requires a two-fold pastoral ministry not only for migrants, but also for the families they have left behind, the report said. “Humanity’s history is a history of migrants: this truth is inscribed in the lives of people and of families,” the report said. “Our faith also stresses this: We are all pilgrims.” The value of families who endure the difficulties of lovingly caring for members who have disabilities or special needs also was emphasized. Those families, the report said, “give the church and society a precious witness of faithfulness to the gift of life.”
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Pope Francis celebrates the closing Mass of the Synod of Bishops on the family in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 25.
The synod tried to find better ways to convince the world of the importance of the family based on the lifelong marriage of one man and one woman, he said, knowing
that it should not be afraid to shake “anesthetized consciences or to dirty its hands animatedly and frankly discussing the family.” “The experience of the synod,”
the pope said, “has made us understand better that the true defenders of doctrine are not those who defend its letter, but its spirit; not ideas, but people; not formulas, but the free gift of God’s love and forgiveness. This is in no way to detract from the importance of formulas, laws and divine commandments, but rather to exalt the greatness of the true God, who does not treat us according to our merits or even according to our works, but solely according to the boundless generosity of his mercy.” Clearly, he said, the three-week synod did not resolve every problem facing families or even every question of how the church can best minister to them. But it did try “to enlighten them with the light of the Gospel and the 2,000-year tradition and history of the church” formulated in ways people today can understand. Without acting as if every form of modern family life was equally valid, but also without “demonizing others,” he said, the synod wanted “to embrace fully and courageously the goodness and mercy of God who surpasses our human calculations and wants nothing other than that ‘all would be saved.’”
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November 1, 2015 Solemnity of All Saints Reading 1 Rv 7:2-4, 9-14 I, John, saw another angel come up from the East, holding the seal of the living God. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were given power to damage the land and the sea, “Do not damage the land or the sea or the trees until we put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” I heard the number of those who had been marked with the seal, one hundred and forty-four thousand marked from every tribe of the children of Israel. After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands. They cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation comes from our God, who is seated on the throne, and from the Lamb.” All the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They prostrated themselves before the throne, worshiped God, and exclaimed: “Amen. Blessing and glory, wisdom and thanksgiving, honor, power, and might be to our God forever and ever. Amen.” Then one of the elders spoke up and said to me, “Who are these wearing white robes, and where did they come from?” I said to him, “My lord, you are the one who knows.” He said to me, “These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress; they have washed their
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robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb.” Reading 2 1 Jn 3:1-3 Beloved: See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure. Gospel Mt 5:1-12a When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat
down, his disciples came to him.He began to teach them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit,for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you falsely
because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven.”
one, but heaven itself, that he might now appear before God on our behalf.
November 8, 2015 Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Not that he might offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters each year into the sanctuary with blood that is not his own; if that were so, he would have had to suffer repeatedly from the foundation of the world.
Reading 1 1 Kgs 17:10-16 In those days, Elijah the prophet went to Zarephath. As he arrived at the entrance of the city, a widow was gathering sticks there; he called out to her, “Please bring me a small cupful of water to drink.” She left to get it, and he called out after her, “Please bring along a bit of bread.” She answered, “As the LORD, your God, lives, I have nothing baked; there is only a handful of flour in my jar and a little oil in my jug. Just now I was collecting a couple of sticks, to go in and prepare something for myself and my son; when we have eaten it, we shall die.” Elijah said to her, “Do not be afraid. Go and do as you propose. But first make me a little cake and bring it to me. Then you can prepare something for yourself and your son. For the LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘The jar of flour shall not go empty, nor the jug of oil run dry, until the day when the LORD sends rain upon the earth.’” She left and did as Elijah had said. She was able to eat for a year, and he and her son as well; the jar of flour did not go empty, nor the jug of oil run dry, as the LORD had foretold through Elijah. Reading 2 Heb 9:24-28 Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a copy of the true
But now once for all he has appeared at the end of the ages to take away sin by his sacrifice. Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment, so also Christ, offered once to take away the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to take away sin but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him. Gospel Mk 12:38-44 In the course of his teaching Jesus said to the crowds, “Beware of the scribes, who like to go around in long robes and accept greetings in the marketplaces, seats of honor in synagogues, and places of honor at banquets. They devour the houses of widows and, as a pretext recite lengthy prayers. They will receive a very severe condemnation.” He sat down opposite the treasury and observed how the crowd put money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums. A poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents. Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them, “Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury. For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood.”
A WORD TO ENKINDLE
The relationship between grace and freedom By Father John Bayer Special to The Texas Catholic
One of the most difficult dogmas for some is the relationship between grace and freedom: if it is only when I am moved by the grace of God that I choose to do something good, then what role do I play in choosing to do good? We seem to be locked in a dilemma: if God acts, then I do not. If I act, then he does not. The relationship between grace and freedom was not really a problem for most of Christian history. At one level or another, the best lights of the tradition, attentive to Scripture, understood that it is simply impossible for God, the creator, and the human being, his creature, ever to be in competition, for the simple reason that we can only exist and act at all by his creative gift. There can therefore be no dilemma: for if God does not act, then I
never will. And if I do act, it is only because he acted first. Divine and human action are not in competition, but they are ordered. We truly act, but we do so in a secondary way, that is, in a way “secondary” to the creative and redeeming initiative of God. His action is always “primary” to our own; but we should pause here lest we think we know exactly what this means. God is primary, but not in a chronological, physical or otherwise created sense. After all, what would it mean to say that God, who does not exist in time, acted “before” his creation chronologically? The idea of creation (which seems like such an obvious concept to some people) is really quite a mystery: to say that God acts “before” his creature is to speak of a relationship for which we have no direct comparison at all. We have direct experience only of creatures, not of the Creator. We know that
creatures, which exist on the same playing field, can compete with each other. But this cannot shape the way we understand the relationship between the creator and his creature. Almost all of the confusion I have heard on the relationship between grace and freedom comes from a failure to appreciate the absolutely unique relationship between the creator and his creature. One of my favorite images for thinking about the priority of the divine action in the relationship between grace and freedom is dancing. Dancing is a movement that is ordered, free and self-expressive. Good dancing is the fruit of obedience — that is, it is the fruit of mastering an order that precedes oneself (the curves of a posture, the sequence of a special turn, the rhythm set by a song, the direction of a partner, and so on). It is also the fruit of freedom — that is, it is the fruit of becoming one with this
order so deeply that one personally embodies and extends it while at the same time preserving and manifesting it to others. In this sense, dancing illustrates the harmony that exists between obedience (grace) and self-expression (freedom). Good dancing proves to us that obedience to a preexisting order, far from stifling freedom, can actually become the key to beautiful and fulfilling forms of self-expression; it proves to us that a respect for law opens up new vistas for our freedom; and it proves to us that discipline, sweat and exertion — the labor of obedience — can leave us feeling as though we have done nothing but play all day. Living the life of grace is like dancing in rhythm with God, whose wisdom is “playing” in creation and finding his “delight in the sons of men” (Proverbs 8:30-31). This wisdom, which stretches from one end of creation to the other ordering all
things powerfully and sweetly (cf. Wisdom 8:1), establishes an order — a beat. This order does not act as a creature would to impose his or her will on another. Rather, it is active like a piece of music inviting us to find our joy in harmonious and beautiful self-expression. Choosing freely in grace is like a dancer moving joyfully to a beat. Anyone who dances knows that moving to a beat is delightful, physically and emotionally integrating and liberating. The paradox of dance, as an analogy for the relationship between grace and freedom, shows us that obedience to our creator is at heart the most liberating and joyful experience we could ever know. Father John Bayer, O.Cist., is a theologian and monk at the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Dallas in Irving. His column appears occasionally in The Texas Catholic.
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Growth of Hispanic community in diocese By Steve Landregan Special to The Texas Catholic
An earlier article on Little Mexico outlined the beginning of ministry to refugees from the Mexican Revolution of 1910, when they began reaching Dallas around 1913, but there were many Hispanics outside of the See city in the early days of the Diocese of Dallas. We should recall that Texas was the northeastern outpost of New Spain and was a part of the Spanish Empire, and later Mexico, long before the first Anglo immigrants arrived. At the time of the Texas War of Independence from Mexico, many Texas-born Mexicans (called Texians) fought beside the Anglo immigrants from the United States and other countries. Two Texians signed the Texas Declaration of Independence, José Antonio Navarro and his uncle Francisco Ruíz. The first vice president of the republic was Lorenzo de Zavala. Afrer independence, few Mexicans emigrated to Texas because of anger and hostility over loss of their country’s northern territories. With the political unrest in Mexico in the early 20th century, many began to flee to the United States to escape the violence. The refugees were largely Catholic and principally Mestizo, or of mixed Spanish and Indian lineage. Even earlier than that, Bishop Thomas Brennan brought in Father Francis Grau y Cruz, from Aliante, Spain, to minister to Hispanics, mostly in West Texas, which was part of the Diocese of Dallas at that time. There is a record in an early edition of The Texas Catholic of Father Grau y Cruz giving a mission in 1891 for Mexicans in Tascosa in the Panhandle.
Among the first religious to minister to the Mexicans were the Oblates of Mary Immaculate who, in 1911, committed themselves to ministries to the Spanish-speaking in northern Texas. They opened 24 Hispanic ministry centers in the widespread Diocese of Dallas, ranging from 30 to 400 miles from the city of Dallas. Oblate Father Ernest LeGuyader, assistant at St. Joseph Parish in Dallas in 1907, regularly tended six missions for Mexicans in Dallas, Fort Worth, Bridgeport, Rock Creek, Brownwood and Abilene. Spanish-born Vincentian Father Manuel de Francisco, driven from Mexico during the persecution of 1913, began celebrating Mass in 1914 for Mexican people in a storefront at Griffin and McKinney streets. This was the beginning of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. In West Dallas, many Mexican immigrants had come to work for Lone Star Cement Company around 1911, and lived in Cement, Texas, or El Cemento Chica, as it was known. They walked the tracks into Dallas and Our Lady of Guadalupe until a small frame church was built on Bedford Street that became Santa Teresita, or St. Theresa, which was opened as a mission of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1929. Outside of Dallas, the Carmelites opened churches in Malakoff in Henderson County in 1926 and Gossett in Kaufman County in 1948. The Malakoff church closed in 1943 when the plant where most Mexican laborers worked was shut down. A new parish has since been opened there by the Diocese of Tyler. The church at Gossett was closed in 1966 when Cedar Creek Lake was impounded and the city was largely submerged.
St. Rose of Lima opened in 1928 by the Carmelites in the “El Poso” barrio in East Dallas. It was torn down in 1963 to build the Interstate 30 and Interstate 45 interchange. In 1940 Carmelite Father Sebestian Vallés established Santa María del Carmen or St. Mary of Carmel Church, on what was then Eagle Ford Road, later Singleton Boulevard. That same year the parochial school was established and is still operating. In just over a century, the Diocese of Dallas has grown from a handful of Hispanic Catholics and a single storefront church to 16 parishes primarily serving Spanish-speaking parishioners and more than 50 Hispanic diocesan and religious priests ministering within the diocese.
ABOUT THIS SERIES Steve Landregan, historian for the Diocese of Dallas and former editor of The Texas Catholic, will be researching and writing occasional articles in observance of the 125th anniversary of the Diocese of Dallas.
Diocesan Time Capsule 50 Years Ago Msgr. James I. Tucek, editor of The Texas Catholic, was the speaker at the annual Christ the King Procession, when it culminated at the Dallas Memorial Auditorium on Oct 30. Msgr. Tucek was named editor of the newspaper upon the death of F. Gordon O’Neill, founding editor. He had previously served as Rome Bureau Chief for the NCWC (Catholic News). 25 Years Ago Sister Emmanuel Shea, considered an Ursuline “institution,” left Dallas for the Ursuline Sisters Infirmary in San Antonio. Sister Emmanuel taught at Dallas Ursuline Academy before entering the order in 1915. For all but two years of her life as an Ursuline, she had been at the academy in Dallas, teaching kindergarten and elementary grades, serving as a principal and director and moderator of the alumni association. 10 Years Ago In an interview with The Texas Catholic, Margaret Steinfels, Landregan lecturer and former editor of Commonweal, suggested the terms for polarized Catholics shoud be “resisters” and “engagers” rather than liberal and conservative. Resisters place great value on tradition and question the need for change. Engagers call for dialogue and engagement with the modern world.
Excerpts taken from The Texas Catholic and compiled by Steve Landregan, diocesan historian and former editor of The Texas Catholic. Landregan can be reached by email at slandregan@ cathdal.org.
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Above: Bishop Kevin J. Farrell, with Deacons Hector Rodriguez, at left, and Charlie Stump, stand with members of the healthcare community at the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe following the annual White Mass on Oct. 17. At right: Bishop Kevin J. Farrell visits with medical students following the annual White Mass, which is celebrated annually to honor members of the medical community.
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Denison parish revitalized by renovation (Continued from Page 1) us in today’s Mass,” Bishop Farrell said as he went on to illuminate Mark 10: 46-52 and Bartimaeus’ outcry to call attention to his blindness as Jesus was leaving Jericho. “We too many times in our lives are blind to what our faith is all about,” the bishop said. “We are blind too many times to what the Gospels are all about. “The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not just a book that is meant to be read—It is a book that is meant to be lived.” Charity, mercy and forgiveness form the keys to recognizing the church as not merely a structure that predated parishioners and will outlast their earthly lives, but as a symbol that “God has surrounded us with such great love,” Bishop Farrell said in blessing the restoration. Ventura said that the restoration, which was launched in late 2013 with a pledge-raising campaign, sought to match as closely as possible the original building materials. “We raised the necessary $1.4 million through God’s grace and a lot of sacrifice,” Ventura said. “We’re not a rich parish. We started on faith that we would raise the money.” Of the final price-tag of about $1.7 million, about $1.2 million went for exterior repairs, which began in July 2014, Ventura said. Time was of the essence, said parishioner Kit Broussard, a committee member and veteran of the restoration and construction business.
ARLINGTON — Despite cool temperatures and the threat of rain, more than 2,000 young Catholics from parishes across Dallas and Fort Worth gathered at Levitt Pavilion in Arlington for World Youth Day on Oct. 25. It was the first time the event was held at a venue other than Six Flags Over Texas. Organizers said the change was precipitated by the desire to give young people a better opportunity to encounter the sacraments, as well as each other. The event began with an outdoor Mass celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel. Concelebrating were Father Edwin Leonard and Father Rudy Garcia from the Diocese of Dallas, and Father James Wilcox and Father Jonathan McElhone from the Diocese of Fort Worth. “Each and every one of us has to look into ourselves and at some time ask ourselves, ‘What are we
blind to in our lives? What don’t we see that we should be seeing,’” said Bishop Deshotel during his homily. “Let us be courageous like Bartimaeus and throw off whatever cloak, whatever things in our lives that keep us from Him and plead like Bartimaeus, ‘Master, I want to see.’” After Mass, participants were treated to an afternoon full of games, obstacle courses, inflatable slides, food trucks and concerts. Popular Christian singer/songwriter Matt Maher headlined the evening of concerts as part of his 31-city tour promoting his new album “Saints and Sinners”. He said he hopes events like World Youth Day inspire young people to surrender themselves to Jesus through the sacraments. “The whole point of the sacraments is to remind us how utterly dependent we are upon God,” Maher said. “When you learn to walk in that, you are empowered. That’s how grace builds upon nature.”
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Bishop Kevin J. Farrell enters St. Patrick Catholic Church in Denison prior to the start of a special Mass on Oct. 25 celebrating the completion of a parish renovation project.
“There was deterioration in the bricks and in the mortar between the bricks,” he said. “If you don’t stop it, it will be slow but steady deterioration. “We can’t tell you how blessed we were.” Broussard praised the inspiration of contractors and waterproofing experts who specialized in restoration, including the Conley Group of Irving, for taking to heart the history of a parish that began when Denison Catholics first gathered for worship in a private home in 1872. Architect Nicholas J. Clayton, who also designed the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe in
Dallas, designed St. Patrick. The paving bricks at the church entrance, which feature parish family names, served as one of the renovation’s fund-raisers. Father Stephen Mocio, pastor of St. Patrick, said that the celebration Mass provided a great sense of community. “I’m thrilled because of the turnout and having the bishop here,” Father Mocio said. “I think the finished product is really beautiful, remarkable and restores the church to its original pristine beauty.” charasta@cathdal.org
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World Youth Day participants braved damp, cool weather to attend Mass at Levitt Pavilion in Arlington on Oct. 25.
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All Souls’ Day: Remember and pray for those holy souls By Father Timothy Gollob Special to The Texas Catholic
As we celebrate the Eucharist each Sunday, we proclaim in The Apostles Creed that we believe in the “communion of Saints.” This great multitude is not reserved for canonized folks, but it embraces all the baptized, both living and dead. We have a special time to remember these important heroes of the Catholic Church in the twin feasts of All Souls and All Saints. It is a good and holy custom to honor them. My connection with them stems from the great devotion of my great aunt, Annie Pruitt. She was a school teacher who demanded effort and results from her students. She also was devoted to her family and spent much money and many hours of physical labor in the cemetery at Laneville, Texas. To this day, flowers are springing from the bulbs that she planted 70 years ago. I also was impressed by the Campo Verano in Rome, where thousands of Romans flocked each All Souls’ Day to decorate the graves of their loved ones. Walls of flowers festooned the roads leading up to that holy place. It has been a custom of mine to look for signs from nature after the passing from this world of one of my
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Nuns pray in the Verano cemetery in Rome on All Souls Day. The day commemorates the faithful who have died.
friends or relatives. It seems that birds have been the messenger in some of these incidents.
Just after my father died, a ringed dove appeared in a tree in my yard only for a short visit and then was
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gone. When my great fishing partner Father Frank Becker died, the next day a Wilson’s Warbler hit one of the windows in the church. I hastened out to pick it up (thinking it to be dead) and it flew away! But there are feasts of the church
on which some died and those dates are worthy of remembering. Father Robert Peter McGill died on the Feast of the Holy Cross. Msgr. James Burnes left this world on the feast of St. Matthew. Each Nov. 22, I am reminded that Father John Titus of Oklahoma City died on the day John F. Kennedy was assasinated. Knock Out roses remind me of the Holly Springs Cemetery in Martin’s Mill, where Joanne rests in peace. Signs on the Gollob, Morgan, Petty building in Tyler has my former Holy Cross students attending the college there asking me about my brother, Michael David. On each visit to St. Charles, Mo., an obligatory visit has to be made to the memorial of James Hugh Seamon, my brother-in-law, who loved to ride the DART trains while visiting Dallas because he was a pioneer supporter of MetroLink in St. Louis. I am not certain, but I do believe that as we remember and pray for these holy souls, they support us with tons of love.
Father Timothy Gollob is the pastor of Holy Cross Catholic Church in Oak Cliff.
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Butch Moses, left, and Linda Moses, both parishioners of Christ the King Catholic Church, browse the convention floor of the the University of Dallas Ministry Conference on Oct. 24 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.
Vatican analyst discusses impact of Synod on Family By Michael Gresham The Texas Catholic
Describing the Synod of Bishops on the Family as a riveting piece of ecclesiastical theater unfolding in Rome, a leading Vatican analyst said he believes the outcome of that drama will be decided by the 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide. “In a sense, the ball is no longer in the court of the synod…the ball is now in our court,” said John Allen, an associate editor at the Boston Globe and CNN’s senior Vatican analyst, during a discussion about the synod at the ninth annual University of Dallas Ministry Conference, held Oct. 22-24
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John Allen, an associate editor for the Boston Globe and CNN’s senior Vatican analyst, gave the keynote speech on Oct. 23.
at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas. “I do believe that something mammothly important for the life of the church has been going on through this process,” said Allen, who called the issue of families the signature priority of Pope Francis. “It is the cornerstone of his agenda. It shows the heart of what he is trying to accomplish in the church and in the world in our time.” Allen, who served 16 years as the senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter, gave the Englishspeaking keynote address, “Synod of Family: What Happened, Why It Matters,” on Oct. 23, sharing his thoughts on the synod, a three-week meeting of bishops that concluded Oct. 25. “The pope said at the beginning of this process that he wanted this to be genuinely open. He wanted a robust debate about the issues,” he said. “Because of that, this has been a very combustible and extremely intense process, but it has also been marked by an incredibly open and honest discussion of the challenges the church and the wider world face in terms of the family.” In his speech, Allen touched briefly on the major issues that he saw as facing the synod, including discussions on divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, same-sex marriages and homosexuality, and decentralization of the Catholic Church. Allen said that beneath the merits of each of the issues there is a core question everyday Catholics must ask themselves. “The bishops have done us a great
Bishop Kevin J. Farrell and Auxiliary Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel distribute Communion during a Mass celebrated Oct. 23 at the ninth ann at Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in downtown Dallas.
service by honestly and openly surfacing and lifting up the divisions that we all know run through this church of ours concerning these questions. Now, what are we going to do with those questions,” Allen asked. “Are we going to allow ourselves to become paralyzed and polarized by those divisions? Or, are we going to stand back and say that none of us in the church has a final answer. “If we are going to summon a creative, Catholic response to these questions, we need to do that together. That is the core challenge we are going to face,” he said. “This is no longer something that the synod of bishops can decide for us. We have to make that decision ourselves.” Allen’s message followed a call by Bishop Kevin J. Farrell during his homily at a Mass opening activities at UDMC on Oct. 23 that challenged Catholics to adhere to Pope Francis’ “theology of accompaniment.” “It’s not enough to just impart knowledge. We are imparting something much more profound. We have to convey the message in everything, not just by the words we say, but how
we say them,” Bishop Farrell said. “We have to have that special character, that special charisma, where the Word of God is seen and not heard. That’s what it means when we say let us walk together in faith.” For Jeanette Grau, a parishioner of Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Rockwall, taking a day off work to attend the 2015 ministry conference was time well spent. “This was a wonderful way to give me a big broad view of our Catholic faith and where our church is going,” she said. “I think sometimes we get stuck in our own communities and our own families and don’t always see the big vision as to where our church is going and what we need to do to do our part to help the church.” In addition to Allen’s session, Msgr. Eduardo Chávez, co-founder/ rector of the Institute for Guadalupan Studies and a canon of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, delivered a keynote address to Spanish-speaking audiences on Oct. 23. Organizers said an estimated 4,500 people registered to attend, including staff, volunteers and exhibitors.
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Strategies aid with every day evangelization By Jacqueline Burkepile Special to The Texas Catholic
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Romans 15:7 states, “Welcome one another, then, as Christ welcomed you…” Lisa Salas, children’s faith formation coordinator at St. William Catholic Church in Round Rock, applied this Bible verse during her workshop at the University of Dallas Ministry Conference on Oct. 24 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. Her session entitled, “Listening Evangelization: How to Have a ‘Cup of Tea’ with a Stranger” provided simple strategies for everyday evangelization. Salas said the faithful are all called to be witnesses of Christ in our day-to-day lives. Salas’ methods particularly targeted those working in ministry, suggesting that they should “have a cup of tea” with the people they meet. She meant this not only in a literal sense, but also metaphorically. She stressed the importance of taking time to listen to the indi-
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Joanna Nicole Jodziewicz, a first-grader at Mary Immaculate Catholic School, poses for a snapshot with a Pope Francis cut-out during the ninth annual University of Dallas Ministry Conference on Oct. 23.
vidual, starting with a smile. “Jesus welcomes us and gives us lots of forgiveness, mercy and love that we don’t have to earn, so
why should the person coming into our office have to earn our trust, forgiveness and love?” Salas said. “We should be extensions of Jesus’
hands and feet and be welcoming to them.” Salas said that those in ministry should ask open-ended questions, use good posture, and prayerfully invoke the Holy Spirit’s assistance during conversations. She said using compassion, empathy, and encouragement are also important while interacting. “If you’re open (with them) and not rushed, you’re earning their trust and they will share their story. That means so much more, because now you know how the Church can help them,” Salas said . Volunteer catechist Patricia Sanford of All Saints Catholic Church found Salas’ advice very helpful. Sanford said the intimate aspect of the workshop “reminds us that Jesus took time with people.” She hopes she can make her students feel special after taking this information back to them. “I want to let my students know that I’m there for them,” Sanford said. “We’re all on a journey together.”
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do and Nora Gonzalez take a selfie after exiting ity of Dallas Ministry Conference on Oct. 24.
Renee Bader, left, meets with Pilar Pardo, of USA Madrid Books, as Bader shopped for Catholic books during the University of Dallas Ministry Conference on Oct. 24.
Cecilia Nguyen, left, of Pray 4 Holy Spirit, meets with Victoria Ruiz, a parishioner of San Juan Diego Catholic Church, during the conference on Oct. 24.
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Christopher Wesley, author of Rebuilding Youth Ministry: Ten Practical Strategies for Catholic Parishes (A Rebuilt Parish Book), shared his insight during his workshop entitled “Next Generation of Small Groups” at the University of Dallas Ministry Conference on Oct. 24 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. Also the director of Student Ministry at the Church of the Nativity in Timonium, Md., Wesley presented ways to improve and nourish youth ministry in parishes through the implementation of small group gatherings. Wesley first emphasized the role both youth and adults play in the formation of a strong youth ministry. “Effective youth ministry is the coming together of the present and the future of the church,” Wesley said. “Without a vibrant and effective youth ministry that helps grow adult disciples, churches will perish.” Wesley then explained how the application of small groups with adult leaders is an effective way to grow and nurture youth ministry.
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Jason Trujillo, left, and Matthew Woyak, listen to the breakout session “Next Generation Small Groups,” conducted by Christopher Wesley, during the University of Dallas Ministry Conference on Oct. 24 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.
After gathering in a large group setting, he suggested breaking up youth into groups of six or eight, separated by gender and age. With their adult leader, each group discusses a weekly topic. However, if something else comes up in a student’s life, such as a breakup, death, or divorce, he encourages them to discuss that topic. “I personally believe that every teen in your church and community needs to be connected to a small group at their local parish,” Wesley said. “It’s through small groups that teens learn how to build Christcentered relationships with their
peers and receive wisdom from God-honoring adults.” Wesley added that this method challenges and encourages teens to be who God created them to be, and gives them a sense of belonging. Director of Youth Ministry Lori Miller of St. Gabriel Catholic Church in McKinney said she’s already implemented many of Wesley’s strategies at her parish. “We’ve seen that when they’re part of these intimate groups, they are more connected to the church,” Miller said. “They become leaders and they serve. It’s like a gateway into the life of the church.”
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‘Nature was kind,’ official says of damage in Mexico By Catholic News Service MEXICO CITY — Mexico is mopping up after Hurricane Patricia hit its Pacific Coast with Category 5 strength, but left surprising little damage and few deaths, given the severity of the storm. An official with Caritas Mexico, the church’s charitable arm, says the storm left a mess in parts of the dioceses serving the western states of Colima, Jalisco and Nayarit with flooding and property damage, but mostly impacted small settlements and rural areas — which were being provided with assistance from parishes’ diocesan collections. “The evaluation that they’re doing at this time says that there is not a crisis situation,” said Jose Luis Lopez, director of emergency responses for Caritas Mexico, relaying information provided by local Caritas chapters. The aftermath came as a relief for Mexico, which was bracing for the worst. Hurricane Patricia was predicted to bring unprecedented destruction. It also showed the country’s capability in responding to strong storms — which crash both coasts frequently — especially as experts say climate change is likely to cause more intense hurricanes with increased frequency. “What has surprised us was the rapid increase (in the storm) to the point it reached Category 5 strength,” Lopez said. Hurricane Patricia escalated into a Category 5 hurricane as it moved over warm waters in the Pacific, packing winds of more than 200 miles per hour and making landfall Oct. 23 in the evening hours. It was expected to dump up to 12 inches of rain on coastal communities and more as it moved inland. Lopez credited a quick response by the government and civil protection officials, who issued warnings, opened shelters for those seeking safety and prepared clean-up plans. He also credited
citizens, who haven’t always acted with urgency in times of crisis and sometimes stay put due to fears of losing their few possessions to either floods or looters. “In general, we see a population paying attention to warnings,” Lopez said. “As Catholics, as people of faith, we see a population that was praying,” he added. The storm struck Mexico as one of the strongest hurricanes ever registered in the Western Hemisphere, but it avoided populated areas by arriving in a region between Manzanillo and Puerto Vallarta known as the Costa Alegre. It also quickly lost strength as it hit the Sierra Madre. “Nature was kind,” said Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, communications and transportation minister. “It made the hurricane go straight into the mountain.” The newspaper La Jornada reported the storm’s strongest winds were concentrated in a band about 30 miles wide — much narrower than previous monster storms. More people also paid attention to the government warnings than in past problematic storms, said Father Rafael Rico, director of Caritas in the Diocese of Autlan, which includes the coastal communities where Hurricane Patricia made landfall. Diocesan priests said the storm hit hardest in poor communities sustained by fishing, coconut groves and banana groves, and that those with the least lost the most as their homes were unable to withstand the strong winds. “There are poor families that have lost everything,” said Father Rico, adding that relief supplies gathered from an Oct. 25 collection would be delivered within two days. Pope Francis published an encyclical earlier this year urging care for the environment and action and climate change.
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Partnership hits home run for community, softball program Texas Catholic Staff School and community leaders came together Oct. 23 to celebrate the partnership and dedication of a new softball complex located at Ferguson Park, across from Bishop Lynch High School. The softball complex is the result of a partnership between the city of Dallas and Bishop Lynch, aided by a $100,000 grant from The Catholic Foundation. The renovated field and complex will be the home of Bishop Lynch’s softball team starting with the 2016 season. It also takes the Bishop Lynch program full circle. “When we started our softball program, over 30 years ago, that’s where we played,” said Andy Zihlman, Bishop Lynch athletic director. “God had a plan for us and it has worked out well. I am really happy for our softball program and the players that come in the future,
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Father Michael Guadagnoli of St. Pius X Catholic Church blesses the new Ferguson Park field on Oct. 23 as Bishop Lynch High School softball coach Amy Wheeler, from left, Deacon Bill Fobes, President Chris Rebuck and coach Gary Wainwright look on.
Members of the Bishop Lynch High School softball team join The Catholic Foundation representative Win Bell, Tiffini Young of City Council District 7 and City of Dallas Parks and Recreation Center Director Willis Winters at the Oct. 23 ribbon-cutting ceremony.
and our neighborhood, to be able to share that with.” Chris Rebuck, president of
place where athletic competition can set a foundation of healthiness for our young people,” Rebuck said. “Through athletic competition — the lessons that are learned of hard work, team work and dedication — they really are founding values that help to create leadership in our
Bishop Lynch, said the Ferguson Park initiative exhibits Bishop Lynch’s “commitment to the East Dallas neighborhood,” allowing the school to demonstrate its mission of service to the greater community. “This plants a seed here in East Dallas and in Ferguson Park for a
world today, but also of our future leaders. “Our dignitaries that are here today, they aren’t going to be there forever,” Rebuck said. “Our youth of today are going to need to be encouraged to continue building these types of healthy partnerships.”
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Celebrating St. John Paul II Above: Auxiliary Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel, with the assistance of Deacon Jack Hopkins, celebrates Mass at John Paul II High School in Plano to commemorate the feast day of St. John Paul II on Oct 22. At right: Students receive communion during an all-school Mass at John Paul II High School in Plano Oct. 22 on St. John Paul II’s feast day.
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Mary Bellman, OCDS, far left, and Wanda Anderson, OCDS, present the gifts of the Eucharist to Bishop Kevin J. Farrell during a Mass celebrating the 500th anniversary of St. Teresa of Avila on Oct. 15 at the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Father Francis Gia-Dien Tran, CSsR, celebrates Mass at the Discalced 3Carmelite Monastery of the Infant Jesus of Prague and St. Joseph in Dallas on Oct. 15, marking the 500th anniversary of the birth of St. Theresa of Avila.
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Above: The Catholic Foundation Trustee Marc Lyons, from left, Board Chair Vicky Lattner, winning artist Stuart Hausmann and President and CEO Matthew Kramer stand in front of Hausmann’s artwork in The Catholic Foundation’s Plaza in downtown Dallas on Oct. 14. At right: Father Rudy Garcia blesses the winning artwork at The Catholic Foundation Plaza’s outdoor Art Wall on Oct. 14. JENNA TETER/The Texas Catholic
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Bishops from around world plead for climate change action By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY — The presidents of the U.S. and Canadian bishops’ conferences joined leaders of the regional bishops’ conferences of Asia, Africa, Latin America, Oceania and Europe in signing an
appeal for government leaders to reach a “fair, legally binding and truly transformational climate agreement” at a summit in Paris. Indian Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, president of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences, signed the appeal Oct. 26 at the Vatican.
The appeal, Cardinal Gracias said, was a response to Pope Francis’ letter on the environment and an expression of “the anxiety of all the people, all the churches all over the world” regarding how, “unless we are careful and prudent, we are heading for disaster.” The appeal is addressed to
negotiators preparing for the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris Nov. 30-Dec. 11. The bishops called for “courageous and imaginative political leadership” and for legal frameworks that “clearly establish boundaries and ensure the protection of the ecosystem.” The bishops also asked governments to recognize the “ethical and moral dimensions of climate change,” to recognize that the climate and the atmosphere are common goods belonging to all, to set a strong limit on global temperature increase and to promote new models of development and lifestyles that are “climate compatible.” The appeal calls for decisions that place people above profits, that involve the poor in decision making, that protect people’s access to water and to land, are particularly mindful of vulnerable communities and are specific in commitments to finance mitigation efforts. Colombian Cardinal Ruben Salazar Gomez of Bogota, president of the Latin American bishops’ council, spoke of the “suffering”
Amazon basin and the key role it plays in the survival of South America and the world. The Latin American bishops, he said, want an end to pollution, to the destruction of the forests and the disappearance of biodiversity, but they also want justice for their people, the majority of whom do not benefit from the exploitation of resources taken from their countries. Archbishop John Ribat of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, president of the Federation of the Catholic Bishops’Conference of Oceania, told reporters, “We come from islands, and our life is very much at risk.” “We belong to those most vulnerable groups impacted by rising sea levels,” he said. Many communities — particularly on Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Carteret Islands — already are experiencing the disappearance of land used for subsistence farming or seeing their agricultural land rendered unusable by the infiltration of salt water. Climate change, the archbishop said, already is leading to the phenomenon of climate refugees.
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Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India, signs a document at an Oct. 26 Vatican news conference in which leaders of the world’s regional bishops conferences appealed for action on climate change.
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BOISE, Idaho—Maureen O’Hara, a lifelong Catholic and native of Ireland and one of the last icons of the golden age of movies, died Oct. 24. She was 95. She had moved to Boise in 2012 to be close to her grandson. Among her notable film credits were “How Green Was My Valley,” “Miracle on 34th Street” and “The Quiet Man.” She was once known as the “Queen of Technicolor” because when that film process was introduced, it highlighted her fair complexion, green eyes and red hair. She starred and worked with some of the biggest actors in Hollywood, including John Wayne, Edmund Gwenn, Tyrone Power, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Fonda, James Stewart and Errol Flynn; she also was known for her work with legendary director John Ford. Born Maureen FitzSimons outside of Dublin in 1920, one of six children, her first major role was opposite Charles Laughton in 1937’s “Jamaica Inn” by director Alfred Hitchcock. She began working in
Hollywood in 1939 as the Gypsy Esmeralda in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” She spent the next three decades in film, with O’Hara 1952’s “The Quiet Man” with John Wayne ranking on many critics’ top 10 list of best American romances of the 20th century. In 1968, she married test pilot Charlie Blair and retired from moviemaking. In a 1998 interview with Catholic News Service, she said her decision was “the most intelligent, smartest and most wonderful thing anybody could have ever done. It was a wonderful life, and I would do it all over again.’’ When Blair died in 1978, she considered a comeback, only to find few leading roles for women of her age. In the interview with CNS about her Catholic upbringing, O’Hara said she rejected the idea of becoming a nun as a youth because “I was too strong, too hard-headed.’’ But one of her sisters, Peg, joined the Irish Sisters of Charity, turning down a scholarship to study opera at La Scala in Milan to follow her vocation.
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Pope Francis urges people to serve others with joy By Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis called on people to replace their thirst for power with the joy of quiet and humble service, as he proclaimed four new saints, including the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux. All of Christ’s disciples, especially its pastors, are called to model themselves after Jesus and “suppress our instinctive desire to exercise power over others, and instead exercise the virtue of humility.” The pope said the new saints — a Spanish religious woman, an Italian priest and the first married couple with children to be canonized together — “unfailingly served their brothers and sisters with outstanding humility and charity in imitation of the divine master.” On World Mission Sunday Oct. 18 in St. Peter’s Square, during the Synod of Bishops on the family, the pope created the following new saints: n Louis Martin (1823-1894) and Marie Zelie Guerin Martin (18311877), the French parents of St. Therese of Lisieux. They had nine children; four died in infancy and five entered religious life. During their 19-year marriage, the couple was known to attend Mass daily,
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Spectators attend an Oct. 18 canonization Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican holding toys that represent Pope Francis and Spanish Sister Maria of the Immaculate Conception. Pope Francis canonized the Spanish nun and Italian Father Vincenzo Grossi, founder of the Institute of the Daughters of the Oratory, and Louis and Marie Zelie Guerin Martin, the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux.
pray and fast, respect the Sabbath, visit the elderly and the sick, and welcome the poor into their home. n Italian Father Vincenzo Grossi (1845-1917), founder of the Institute of the Daughters of the Oratory.
n Spanish Sister Maria of the Immaculate Conception (19261998), a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Company of the Cross. Some 65,000 people attended
the Mass, including the more than 300 cardinals, bishops and others taking part in the Oct. 4-25 synod on the family. While the pope’s homily pointed to the new saints as inspiring examples of joyful servants who completely trusted in God, he dedicated the bulk of his reflection on the day’s readings and the Christian meaning of authority and hierarchy. He said the prophet Isaiah said the servant of the Lord “is not someone of illustrious lineage; he is despised, shunned by all, a man of sorrows. He does not do great things or make memorable speeches; instead he fulfills God’s plan through his humble, quiet presence and his suffering.” It was Jesus’ life and attitude of profound service that “were the cause of our salvation and the reconciliation of mankind with God,” the pope said. Jesus invites everyone to follow him on this same path of love and service, he said, and to “reject the worldly temptation of seeking first place and commanding others.” “Faced with people who seek power and success, the disciples are called to do the opposite,” the pope said. Those who exercise “genuine authority” in the church and the
Christian community are those who serve others and “lack real prestige.” Jesus calls people “to pass from the thirst for power to the joy of quiet service,” the pope said. Jesus’ teaching and example clearly show there is “no compatibility between a worldly understanding of power and the humble service, which must characterize authority.” “Ambition and careerism are incompatible with Christian discipleship; honor, success, fame and worldly triumphs are incompatible with the logic of Christ crucified.” Because Jesus fully shares in the human condition, with the exception of sin, he can empathize with human weaknesses, the pope said. “The fact that he is without sin does not prevent him from understanding sinners.” “Jesus exercises a true priesthood of mercy and compassion” by loving and accepting God’s children; by sharing in their weakness; by offering them “the grace which heals and restores”; and by accompanying them “with infinite tenderness amid their tribulations,” he said. Through baptism, all Christians must share in this ministry by opening one’s heart to God in order to receive his love and charity, which is to be received not only “for ourselves, but also for others.”
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