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JANUARY 24, 1990 VOL. LXVI NO. Colorado’s Largest Weekly 36 PAGES 25 CENTS Bloodshed and sorrow New Christian marriage norms help unite three faiths New Christian marriage norms developed to enrich understanding of the sacramentality of marriage wilt become effective in all par By Charlene Scott Only a few feet from the podium, listening intently ishes of the Archdiocese of Denver on March If ever the Denver bishops of three denominations to Father Barnett, were the three bishops. Each has sought in his own way to change the deteriorating 19. 1 have Been united, it is now. But it is war, bloodshed situation in El Salvador. The new norms, entitled “Walking Together and sorrow that have cemented their mutual respect Catholic Archbishop J. Francis Stafford met re With God: Particular,Norms for Christian into a strong and lasting bond. cently with congressional leaders from Colorado try It is the country of El Salvador — bloodied and Marriage in the Archdiocese of Denver,” in battle weary — that has brought together as never ing to convince them of the need for a negotiated clude the following features: solution to the conflict in El Salvador. • Commentary on. the sacrament of matri before the bishops of the Roman Catholic, Episcopal Episcopal Bishop William C. Frey visited jailed and Lutheran churches. mony. Episcopal church workers in El Salvador in early • Development of parish-centered marriage The three gathered together Jan. 18 with clergy December. Seven of the eight were released follow from their own faiths for a study session of the 1990 preparation. ing his visit. Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The main ad Also journeying to El Salvador was Bishop Wayne • Procedures for marriage preparation. dress was given by Dominican Father James Barnett, Weissenbuehler of the Rocky Mountain Synod of the • Pastoral care after marriage. who has worked in El Salvador for the past five Evangelical Lutheran Church. The norms also change the four-month-long years. He was one of 11 people invited by the exiled marriage preparation program to a six-month- “ There is nothing more ecumenical than blood and Lutheran bishop of El Salvador, Bishop Medardo long period. The norms have been distributed love,” Father Barnett quoted from Jesuit Father Gomez, to accompany him for his own safety from to all parishes. John Sobrino of the Jesuit community in El Salvador. Guatemala to San Salvador the weekend of the Six of that community were slaughtered Nov. 16. See page 13 for a story on the new mar Epiphany. riage norms. (Father Sobrino escaped death because he was out of Bishop Gomez, a native Salvadoran, had fled the the country at the time of the military attack upon country because of death threats — and even as he the Jesuits’ university in San Salvador.) Continued on page 3 His words were like hot Salvadoran Jesuit was murdered for his convictions
The announcement of El Salvador’s President Alfredo By Charlene Scott Cristianl that a high-ranking Salvadoran military officer He was a gentle, happy soul, but his words wore and eight others may be tried for the recent murder of six hot steel and his convictions strong as iron. Jesuit priests is an irony. One of the murdered priests. Father Ignacio Martin-Baro — a man who had Father Ignacio Martin-Baro, for years decried the fact that studied in the United States, but felt this country was no military officers had ever have been brought to trial in destroying El Salvador — died for those convictions, El Salvador for any of the murders of more than 70,000 one of six priests and two women murdered by people. The following feature-interview on Father Martin- Salvadoran military forces Nov. 16. Baro is by a writer who knew him personally. The killers saved one priest for last, and it was Father Martin-Baro, the priest I interviewed in the capital city of San Salvador three years ago who also came to my hometown of Tulsa a year ago. He alone remained alive in the midst of brother priests who had been butchered. A witness reported that his last words were: “This is unjust! This is carnage!” Mutilated Then the soldiers slashed his face again and again with a machete. That laughing, happy face that grinned when he plucked his guitar was mutilated beyond recognition. Next they shot him in the head — and scattered his brains about the yard. A naturalized citizen of El Salvador, but a Span iard by birth. Father Martin-Baro had just celebrated his 47th birthday only one week before his death. When I met him in 1986, he was vice rector of the Jesuits’ Central American University, a post he still held at the time of his death. About a year ago, in February 1989, he came to my home state of Oklahoma to speak at the University of Photo by Tod Sloan Tulsa and to baptize the infant son of our rnhtual Father Ignacio Martin-Baro and his guitar. friend. Dr. Tod Sloan, associate professor of psy chology at TU. the Salvadoran university parking lot the September Stalked by death day in 1986 that I and 13 other North Americans on a study tour met Father Martin-Baro, who had re Father Martin-Baro was in high spirits both times, ceived his doctorate in psychology and a master's but death stalked him as it did the 71,000 other degree from the University of Chicago in the late victims of violence in El Salvador. 1970s. A psychologist who was working with torture vic tims, the priest had started a network to fund Security forces projects for the mental health of such victims. The university rector. Father Ignacio Ellacuria, He was known worldwide as an editor of “ Revista could not be present for the interview because he de Psicologia de El Salvador,” a quarterly social had been detained that day for questioning by secu O etting M arried psychology journal distinguished in Latin America. rity forces. He had been denounced by the country’s He also was the author of eight books, and had just vice president on nationwide radio “ for speaking published a textbook for Salvadorans in which he with the guerrillas.” Pages 11-27.. . ,taJHqd abput th^ dapger o f doing ,spciql p^jChoJqgy in The years of harrassment had begun long before a violent country like El Salvador. that time, however. The Jesuit priests long had been Purple-red bougainvillea were blossoming beside Continued on page 3 The power of unity — Part II Last week in my column I wrote of the 1990’s as key to accomplishing the mission Christ has en an unique opportunity of evangelization for our trusted to us. Your prayers and your leadership archdiocesan Church, St. John the Baptist at the are decisive in meeting our expanded goal o! beginning of his ministry cried out, “ Prepare the ARCHBISHOP’S S $3,000,000 for this first Archbishop’s Annual way of the Lord.” ------COLUMN Campaign for Progress of the decade “ of the How do we hear the other in Christ.” Through your generous and [voice crying out in the willing assistance, our January/February, 1989 wild fastness of our time? vent of the 1990s present to us. campaign finished with $2.8 million in pledges, a The archdiocese needs to After the ancient people had heard the voice $250,000 increase over the previous year. Indeed, be open to four ways to crying out in the desert fastness and had ac over the past five years, pledges to the campaign . I set about the mission of cepted John’s message, they asked: “ What must have increased over one million dollars. the Lord. we do?” So John taught them what was necessary. Basically he said that evangelization is lifeless I ask you to enlist the prayers and active sup First, we should further port of many others in your parishes, in your I develop and establish without knowledge of Christ. He said: “ I am not worthy to carry Christ’s sandals.” Such was working places and in your families to help meet opportunities for adult this expanded goal. The more people who be catechesis, education and John’s knowledge of himself and of Christ. Con sequently as a third priority, we emphasize the come involved in the ministry of the Church spiritual formation. Con through this campaign, the more successful we sequently, it is important importance of Catholic schools. Research has pointed out time after time that the Church has will be at fulfilling our mission to proclaim the to move ahead with the Gospel in Northern Colorado. Our one ambition ! founding o f an arch- no better instrument for the Catholic formation of in everything is to be Christian, to be called diocesan-wide ministry and formation institute our young people into Christ than our Catholic for the laity. Such an institute would provide schools. I have said it before. May I say it again? Christians. holistic and integrated catechesis and formation 1 am profoundly grateful for the dedication and The amount of one’s gift to the campaign is for parish catechists, liturgical ministers, youth self-sacrifice of the parents, priests, religious and secondary to the opportunity to participate in the ministry leaders, extraordinary ministers of the other people in the archdiocese in supporting mission of Christ through the activities of the Eucharist, lectors, members of parish councils, Catholic education. We continue to make Church. I cannot stress enough that no one etc. And it would provide continuing efforts at progress in raising the very low salaries of the should feel excluded for any reason from the deepening the call of the laity for evangelization teachers in our schools. We have begun also to opportunity to contribute to the mission of Christ among families, in the marketplace, etc. The provide tuition assistance to needy families. The through this campaign. As I said earlier, Christ archdiocesan Secretariat for Catholic Education increasing support which the AACP offers to does not want what is “ spare” in our lives; He has begun to develop concrete plans for such an Catholic schools is invaluable. desires a rebirth of our betters instincts. Finally, as the Church of the universal Savior institute with intensive and widespread consul “The Power of Unity,” the theme of our cam tation and study. we must continually reach out to those who are paign, requires all o f us to work together in Second, everywhere I turn I hear about the new among us, alienated from us, or who for behalf of Christ’s mission in Northern Colorado. necessity for the Church to engage in a more whatever reason turn away from us. The power of comprehensive approach to youth ministry. Con our Church’s unity is not in the first place an Could we hope for any better task than to work sultation with the leaders of the Church, both at accomplishment of our own. It is a gift of the for Christ? The AACP is one of the best witnesses the archdiocesan and the parish levels, including Holy Spirit. So each of us in the archdiocese, to our unity in Christ as one archdiocesan the survey conducted of the people of the arch with our vast diversity, must be subject to one Church. I am grateful for your generous willing diocese last October, all converge on this very another out of reverence for Christ. I view the ness to participate in the campaign. May I assure strong message: youth are a top priority for our continued incorporation of our Hispanic brothers you and your families of my prayers and blessing Church. Once youth were viewed simply as “ our and sisters and of other ethnic and racial groups throughout the new year and the decade of the future.” Now, rightfully so, the signs of the times into the mainstream of the Catholic Church as 1990s. Maranatha! Come Lord Jesus! tell us they are “ our present” In a particular central to what it means to be faithful to the will way, they too must be invited to participate fully of Christ “ that all may be one” (Jn. 17:21). J. Francis Stafford in the restoration and the renewal that this ad- You, my sisters and brothers in our Church, are Archbishop of Denver Archbishop is on catechism committee By Jerry Filteau general secretary, has been named staff coordinator Church since the Roman Catechism, which was is WASHINGTON (CNS) - To deal with the massive of the project sued by Pope Pius V in 1566, three years after the job of reviewing the Vatican draft of a planned Accompanying the memo was a copy of a letter Council of Trent. Catechism for the Universal Church, Archbishop from Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Vati The draft of the new catechism was sent to indi Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati as president of the can’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and vidual bishops throughout the world in December. U.S. bishops’ twin conferences has formed a top-level head of the Vatican commission in charge of the Other committee members are: Archbishop John F. committee that includes Archbishop J. Francis catechism project In the letter, addressed to the Whealon of Hartford, Conn., chairman of the NCCB Stafford of Denver. NCCB president. Cardinal Ratzinger requested “that Committee on Pastoral Research and Practices; The committee will be made up of six chairmen of your episcopal conference, through the agencies and Archbishop Francis B. Schulte of New Orleans, National Conference of Catholic Bishops-U.S. Catho organs proper to it, undertake a study and express chairman of the USCC Committee on Education; lic Conference committees, including Archbishop an evalution o f ’ the draft catechism. Bishop Joseph P.^ Delaney o f Fort Worth, Texas, Stafford, chairman of the Committee on Ecumenical -The proposed Catechism for the Universal Church chairman of the NCCB Committee on the Liturgy, and Interreligious Affairs. is to be the first such document in the Catholic and Bishop John R. Keating of Arlington, Va., Heading the ad hoc committee on the catechism is chairman of the NCCB Committee on Canonical Af Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb of Mobile, Ala., fairs. chairman of the NCCB Committee on Doctrine. Other Pro-life activities members are the heads of committees on liturgy, ecumenism, pastoral concerns, canon law and edu The Respect Life Mass that was canceled by heavy ‘El Pueblo Catolico’ cation. snowfall Jan. 20 has been rescheduled for Jan. 27 at The committee is to consult with theologians and 12:10 p.m. at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Con new Register section other scholars in preparing its report. Staffing is to ception in Denver. be provided by the committees’ offices at NCCB- The pro-life rally that was to follow the Mass Jan. The Denver Catholic USCC headquarters in Washington. 20 also has been rescheduled to Jan. 27 and will Register, the weekly Mercy Sister Sharon Euart, NCCB-USCC associate begin at 1 p.m. at the state capitol, according to Mimi newspaper of the Arch Eckstein, director of the archdiocesan Respect Life diocese of Denver, will Office. inaugurate a new regular The Denver Catholic Register Archbishop J. Francis Stafford will celebrate the section entitled El Pueblo Catdlico, “ The {USPS 557-020) Respect Life Mass, which will commemorate the an Catholic People.” The The Most Reverend J. Francis Stafford, D.P., publisher niversary of the UJS. Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling Father C.B. VToedrich, associate publisher removing most restrictions against abortion. new section about the Robert H. Feeney, executive editor Hispanic Community in James E. 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The priest admitted he had experienced “ many times thoughts about martyrdom in El Salvador,” and said that as he was going to the archdiocese of San Salvador to report a threat on his own life Nov. 16, he met a Lutheran pastor who informed him of the murder of the six Jesuits that day. “ The last 10 years in Central America have pro duced more martyrs than the first two centuries of Christendom,” Father Barnett said. “ In El Salvador, 70,000 are dead, the vast majority civilians and non-combatants, precisely because of their profession of faith.” He told of one parish in San Salvador that has lost 600 members to death during the past 10 years. James Baca/DCR Photo Soldiers have sprayed with bullets the walls, taber United In their faith and determination to heip the William Frey, Lutheran Bishop Wayne Weissenbuehler, nacle and “ even the sacred host.” church of Ei Saivador are these three bishops and one Dominican Father James Barnett and Archbishop J. Five members of his own parish were arrested priest who spoke during the 1990 Week of Prayer for Francis Stafford. recently, the priest reported. One man was forced to Christian Unity. They are, from left. Episcopal Bishop stand for 15 days, and was beaten whenever he fell. The director of day care three times was forced to cused of being a communist,’ Father Martin-Baro had served’as bishop for six years. wear a rubber mask that cut off her breathing until said.” Bishop Weissenbuehler said he had walked she was near death. through the university gardens where the six Jesuits Feared figure were murdered. Parishioners arrested The most important figure politically in El Sa “ Every parish has been hit by death squads,” Fa lvador is the feared Roberto D'Aubuisson, founder of Saw the blood stains ther Barnett said. “Every single slum parish has had the Republican Nationalist Alliance Party (ARENA), “ I saw the blood stains of the priests on the ground raids on the churches and their clinics. Eighteen of Father Barnett said. and the blood from the young girl on the wall, and I 20 Lutheran workers have been deported. Episcopal “ He spoke at a rally before the election last March, thought of that biblical passage about those people workers have been freed from prison, all but one, but saying, ‘We will take care of the Jesuits, the foreign whose blood Pilate mingled at the altar,” he said. “ I they are not able to function and still are under religious workers, and even the archbishop, who thought of the blood of those scholars mingled with ground. continue to pollute the minds of our young people.’ the blood of the woman (their cook) and her daugh “ It is the same for the Baptists,” he continued. “ Salvadoran President (Alfredo) Cristiani is por ter and with all of the poor. What I thought of next “ Five Mennonites have been forced to leave.” trayed by President Bush as a moderate person,” was that Jesus mingled His blood for us.” This “ systematic persecution” by the military “ is Father Barnett added. “But his party (^ E N A ) is not trying to decapitate the body of the church in El a moderate party, it is right wing. Cristiani was on In his response to F'ather Barnett. Archbishop Salvador,” Father Barnett charged. the platform when D'Aubuisson made his statements, Stafford said: He quoted from Father Ignacio Martin-Baro, one of and Cristiani has been at their planning meetings.” “We have a moral responsibility to stop the mili the six murdered Jesuits, who two weeks before his In response to Father Barnett, Bishop Frey said tary aid to El Salvador until those responsible (for death complained that because they helped the poor, that D'Aubuisson “ was a pupil” of the Guatemalan the priests’ deaths) are brought to justice. And no the Jesuits were branded “ communists.” head of death squads who in 1973 forced Bishop military aid should go to death squads; I feel very “ T f Jesus Christ returned today, he would be ac- Frey’s exit at gunpoint from Guatemala, where he deeply about that.” Jesuit was murdered for his convictions Continued from page 1 States, you would have revolution.” Jesuits at the university later would be described by marked men. Father Martin-Baro denounced the United States the U.S. State Department as “ troublemakers" “I really appreciate the concern of Religious and for “ creating a monster that does not submit to the “ The real issues were not part of the electoral solidarity and academic groups in the United law, and is over and above the law,” that is, the processes,” Father Martin-Baro said. “ The real is States,” Father Martin-Baro said during that inter government of El Salvador, which has received $3.5 sues are those of the war: the problems of structural view in 1986. billion in U.S. aid this decade. organization of the country, the distribution of basic “These movements have saved quite a few lives in “The real powers of the country are the U.S. Ad goods, the satisfaction of basic needs. this country.” ministration, the economic community and the mili “ Reforms have not worked at all; for example, the His thoughts were not of his own life, however. He tary,” the priest protested. nationalization of the banking system. Banks contin ued to present credit to the same people with the was eager to tell of the suffering of the Salvadoran Death squads and elections people. same rules. And agrarian reform has been quite “ Here, we have the military and the death squads, limited. Unemployment but the United States advises us about elections. I’m Agrarian reform “ Seventy percent of the children of this country not saying electoral processes do not work, but de “The most significant part of agrarian reform was are undernourished,” he said. “And while you have mocracy cannot be redueed to elections.” forbidden by the constitutional assembly, which was 10 percent unemployment in the United States, here The priest bristled when he talked about elections in the hands of rightists who represent the most they have 60 to 65 percent real unemployment. in El Salvador. wealthy of the people,” he explained. “ Sixty percent of the population do not have what “ Those who controlled the elections could not have Finally, the priest who would be murdered talked you would call a house, not even a roof,” he added. the man they wanted, Roberto D’Aubuisson (founder about the military murderers in his country who had “And here the rate of illiteracy probably by now is of the rightist Republican Nationalist Alliance), who taken the lives of thousands upon thousands of in more than 40 percent of the adult population. was implicated in the death of Archbishop (Oscar) nocent people, civilians for the most part. “ If to fight these conditions is to be a communist, Romero,” he pointed out. “ I do not know of one military officer who has then I am a communist or a ‘subversive,’ as they “ But you are very much concerned with the for been brought to trial for violating human rights,” say,” he noted grimly. mality of the electoral process,” he said. “ So a rep said the Jesuit whose death might someday bring He and his fellow Jesuits were not communists, resentative was sent to Central America from Wash about such a trial. however, although they often were branded “ subver ington with a list of three men. What is the freedom “ Since Nuremberg, the responsibility of those in sives,” he said. to choose between the Ku Klux Klan and the John command has been accepted. But in El Salvador, the “ The rich in EI Salvador call Jimmy Carter a Birch Society? An electoral process in El Salvador minister of defense is said to be the head of death communist; I’m not kidding,” Father Martin-Baro takes place according to the rules set up by the squads. announced with a laugh. United States.” Same problems Fight for human rights Votes and power “ You can kill cvci-y single person in the FMLN, The Jesuits saw El Salvador’s (then seven-year-old) “Votes in this country do not mean real power,” he the priest speculated with sadness, "and you will civil war as “the last recourse of the population to continued. have the same problems; injustice and terrible hu fight for their basic human rights.” “The military has much more power than the man conditions. You could not live under these “ We are not concerned with East-West relations president has. The power of the president is less conditions; people going to the streets because they here,” Father Martin-Baro told us. “ We are con certain than that of the American embassy, the mili arc staiwing, because they cannot raise their chil cerned with poverty, repression, very basic things tary, the FMLN (Farabundo Marti National Libera dren. lilc0 tion Front guerrilla movement) and the business “ We do not need your helicopters or your weap “Even if Cuba and Nicaragua were not on the map community. The presidency actually is the fifth real ons,” he said in farewell. “ You have been very gen any more, there would be enough reason for the civil power. erous with them. Religious people are those most .’war to take place,’’ he declared, ‘,‘I. arp absolutely ' “ Your' administration' is' hbt' Cortcterhcd' with 'our I invoilved in,looking for, peaceful., solutions to the /sure that if you.had.tHese/QondiUopsitn the„Unitpd people,”./charged the priest, who-'with / his--feHow , war.” I j ' ' - ...... 1 I •. 1 • . . ■ ' mi i J ^ If ’ V ^ -1 .7. ; t / y t- ’r xj t u ri r -..r • >r t f y ■ r , • f j r f ,f . t Page ^4 — wsasaMMaJanuary'24, ^ 1990 ■ w w — a^viBwsDenver Catholic waessvBiw Register ^ h Unique nature of Vatican dipiomacy rainian nationalism,” Shakespeare said. "The i k WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Catholic Church in people” and are vital because they are ‘ what ^^lake raine is vital to the state structure of the Soviet Rome “ knew more about life of people in the west people content with their society or discontent with Union. And the people are looking for symbols of ern Ukraine than anybody did, probably even than it.” Ukrainian nationalism.” The Vatican had similar contacts in other Catholic Moscow did” in the last half century, said a former He said Stalin “ crushed the Ukrainian, in ciiecl Soviet-bloc regions and knew “ more about Polaim, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. Catholic Church,” and the Ukrainian Orthodox Slovakia and Lithuania than anyone else in the Frank Shakespeare, U.S. ambassador from 1987 to Church as well so there would be no place with the 1989, said people outside the Soviet Union’s western world.” name “Ukrainian” in front of it. Stalin feared -peo Ukraine got most of their information about the Shakespeare said the Vatican diplomatic corps is “ a blockbuster,” with high-powered diplomats be ple would use that as a symbolic rallying place for region through the underground church. their nationalistic aspirations perhaps.” cause of the Vatican’s importance in diplomatic cir He made his remarks in an early January tele About whether the pope would have made .some phone interview from La Jolla, Calif, where he lives. cles. arrangement with Gorbechev to dampen Ukrainian Shakespeare stressed the unique nature of the nationalism in return for restoration of some land to Vatican in diplomatic circles because of its grass Family life the church, Shakespeare said the pope would desire roots contacts and its concentration on the day-to-day “There are judgments and feelings you can get that the Ukrainians “ keep separate their political life of a country’s people. only through the Vatican,” said Shakespeare. “ You can get a feel of a situation which tends to be much goals from their spiritual needs and places ot wor Communist rule closer to the people” of a country than you can get ship.” “ When Poland was under intense communist rule, from its capital. “ No other government in the world, “ It’s Just logic,” Shakespeare said, “ that the Vati what was important was what was going on in the is focused on the daily life of the people to the can would make every effort that the churches not he parishes,” he said. “There was far more accurate degree Rome is,” he said. The Vatican looks at used as political nationalistic rallying places.” information coming from villages and towns than “ what’s the situation in the church, in the schools, in “This is'not to say, however, that some of that from the capital,” where diplomats live, he said. family life.” might not occur. To what degree in Poland, vhen In the Ukraine, where there were no diplomats, “Other nations focus on trade, economics, treaties, people went to church, were they also infused .vdli “ everything we had came in from the underground. military matters, who’s going to be the next prime the fact that we’re Poles that want to be free ’ he That was the church,” he said. minister, what’s going on in Parliament,” he said. asked. “In my view, to a very great degree.” Church reports were more accurate than the Soviet Shakespeare noted the significance of the United government reports, said Shakespeare. Moscow was States having diplomatic relations with the Vatican reporting that the Ukrainian Catholic Church had in a recent interview with political columnist Morton New York auxiliary bishop merged with the Orthodox Church and that there Kondracke for the PBS program “American Inter wqre few Ukrainian Catholics left. ests.” The program aired Dec. 23 in Washington. is sentenced to jail “That was nonsense,” Shakespeare said. “What ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) - New York Auxilieiv Rome knew was that there were some millions of Vatican officials “ are circumspect, of course,” in Bishop Austin B. Vaughan was one of six pcopf people practicing religion underground. There were sharing information, said Shakespeare during the convicted Jan. 17 and sentenced to 15 days -n confessions and Masses in the woods. There were program, “but they’re remarkably candid about Jail for their part in a Good Friday “ Operation things like the life of the people, what’s actually Masses in apartments.” Rescue” abortion protest last year at an Alban\ happening, what is the daily condition of life, the Solid ground abortion clinic. daily condition of the school, the daily condition of Also sentenced was Father Francis McCloskc> Sheakespeare said Pope John Paul II was on solid the family, the dail condition of what we would call of the Albany diocese and four laypeople. ground when he met with Soviet President Mikhail human rights.” Gorbachev in December, because the church had The six had been charged with trespassiii!.; been getting reports from the Ukraine since the mid- Soviet Union last March 24 at the Upper Hudson Planner 1940s, when Josef Stalin tried to suppress the Shakespreare described the sensitive situation in Parenthood facility. They chose Jail over a $250 church. the Ukraine, which the pope has said he must be fine. “The Vatican’s diplomats are totally focused on the allowed to visit if he travels to the Soviet Union. “To pay the fine would be to sanction a legal life of the people and human rights,” he said, which “There has been immense concern in the Politburo system that has approved murder,” said Francis “ are tied tightly to the morale and esprit of the and the communist apparatus in Moscow with Uk Murray of Troy, N.Y., one of the defendants. RB iS lESUIT HIGH6 SCHOOL
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PHONE HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING (303) 458-1833 424-1622 i C l J . j / X^/i // j ) 1 ii-i't fbJ to bex^ned^ 19^ ^ ■. Denver Catholic Register — January 24, 1990 — Page 5 Churches and historic preservation By Liz Schevtchuk churches as historic landmarks or edifices. In addition, he said, as part of its Christian mis sion St. Bartholomew’s provides 400 meals a week to WASHINGTON (CNS) — As history inarches on, so Historic status the hungry, offers shelter to the homeless, assists does the historic preservation movement, sometimes “ What (historic status) does is prevent the church sweeping up churches unwillingly in its wake. those suffering from AIDS, and houses programs for or religious group from doing what it wants with the those addicted to alcohol or cocaine — all in addi Approaching the 21st century, Americans increas property — which would include tearing it down, or tion to its eucharistic liturgies or Masses and its ingly are trying to save what remains of their heri selling it...or making certain types of alterations” or tage from previous centuries. Christian education and young adult programs. even closing a parish, said Bernard Shire, commu “ Without a mission, the church is nothing,” Glaze- In some areas, historians, architects, local citizens nications director of the Pennsylvania Catholic Con brook said. If the skyscraper battle is lost, “ it may and church officials all have cooperated in efforts to ference. save old churches, such as the early adobe missions even come to feeding fewer homeless people,” he “ It’s posed problems for the religious organizations said. “ If they (opponents) go far enough they’ll be scattered throughout the Southwest. who want to do things with these buildings. This has For example, in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, N.M., able to close our doors.” happened in numerous places,” Shire added. In Detroit, “ we have a great many churches that “ we have historians, architects, museum conserva The Pennsylvania Catholic Conference and Pen tors, people involved in historic preservation” and have (historic) landmark status. Catholic Churches nsylvania Council of Churches are backing proposed are the majority,” said William M. Worden, the di members of the local Catholic and civic communities state legislation prohibiting designation of churches all involved in trying to save the See’s 300 historic rector of the Historic Designation Advisory Board for and religious property as historic without the reli the city. For the most part, he said, the request for churches, said Marina Ochoa, curator and archivist gious owner’s consent. for the archdiocese. historic status has come from parishes themselves However, Shire said, discussions also are under and “the archdiocese has never opposed us. It’s Preservation of churches way with historic preservation groups to devise always been a very friendly and very cooperative sort compromises. “Archbishop (Robert F.) Sanchez has been ex of thing.” tremely interested in preservation of historic Planning court appeal But now the city has been asked by some parish churches,” she said. The archdiocese has set up the ioners to give historic status to St. Boniface Church, Commission for Preservation of Historic New Mexico St. Bartholomew Episcopal Church in New York which the archdiocese has closed, Worden said. The Churches, said Mrs. Ochoa, a commission member. City, which has been designated a historic landmark, issue is pending before the city council. The commission is now being cited nationally as an is planning a court appeal after losing a fight with example of ways churches, communities and historic the city over building a skyscraper. preservation organizations can unite in saving old On Dec. 13, the U.S. district court in Manhattan Opposed to designation churches, she said. rejected the church’s claim that the city’s historic Jay Berman, director of communications for the Saving old churches is important “ because they’re preservation law violated the -church’s First Archdiocese of Detroit, said the archdiocese is op the cultural heritage of the Hispanic people” and the Amendment rights to free exercise of religion. posed to historical designation of St. Boniface. Indians of the Southwest, Mrs. Ochoa said. Fur Surrounded by huge, tall, buildings, 71-year-old St. thermore, she said, “they’re considered architectural Bartholomew Church wants to tear down its adjacent “ It’s not that we’re anti-historical or anything like wonders.” 60-year-old community building to accommodate the that” or oppose historic designation per se, Berman Not all church preservation efforts have been so financially lucrative skyscraper, said James G. said. “ But when it’s used as a tactic to restrict the amicable. Glazebrook, an attorney and parish official. The sky freedom of the archdiocese to do what it deems best Disputes sometimes arise when religious denomi scraper would include space for church programs, in disposition of property then we do oppose it.” nations seeking to alter or tear down buildings con such as its pre-school child center, he said. Worden, a Catholic, said that when the archdiocese front history-minded groups — which sometimes in Glazebrook emphasized that the church does not owns a building that it does not want designated as clude their own parishioners — anxious to preserve want to tear down the church itself “That’s a very historic, but the parishioners want the designation, the old structures. central point” often overlooked, he said. “ We have a “ our office and the city council are faced with a Across the country, religious denominations are very beautiful church, and a tremendous organ. balancing act.” waging battles in courts, city councils and state leg These things are tremendously expensive to main “ In this case I don’t think it’s all that clear where islatures to stave off unwanted designation of tain.” right and wrong rests.” Vatican shakes hands with ‘reaipoiitik’
By Agostino Bono “But, even those who have this faith and this this also produces problems, as Europeans seek to confidence know that divine providence normally rediscover their identity while trying to reorganize VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Vatican foreign policy is works through the actions of men or through situa their political and economic lives. often the place where divine providence shakes tions which men, perhaps unconsciously or involun The fear is that ethnic and national rivalries that hands with “ realpolitik.” tarily, provoke,” he said. have caused Europe centuries of wars will re-emerge The positions formulated by Pope John Paul II and from the current upheaval. his Secretariat of State mix strong belief in God at “All this is to say that specialists have the right, and men of state the obligation, to seek, in some “ Conflicts between ethnic minorities may become the helm of history with the need for hard work to inflamed anew, and nationalism may become exac determine the most expedient way of hastening along form, the ‘natural’ causes of the turnabout we have mentioned,” he added. erbated,” the pope said in his Jan. 13 speech to the divine will in the real world. diplomatic corps. It means uniting theology with the ability to read To do this, diplomats “would do well to put to use the lessons of history, the signs of the times and the the means which science, wisdom and political pru When ethnic conflicts first erupted in the Soviet hearts of people. dence put at their disposition; but at the same time Union of reform leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the The Vatican uses this approach to deal with issues they must well know that humanity will always need Vatican was quick to tell the Soviet government to ranging from the appearance of Panamanian dictator ‘aid from on high,” ’ he said. respect its minorities if it wants domestic peace. at its embassy doorstep to the Soviet bloc’s fast- The Vatican has honed this approach in dealing “ Efforts to overcome ‘Stalinism’ inevitably cause paced changes, which promise greater religious lib with the swift changes in the Soviet bloc. the re-emergence of the question of different na erty. It continues to push hard for religious liberty, tional identities which are obliged, in some form, to The approach was outlined by Cardinal Agostino citing the very principles of Soviet reform policies live together,” said a Feb. 28, 1988, editorial in Casaroli, papal secretary of state, in a speech Jan. 13 called “perestroika.” But it has steered clear of L ’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper. The to diplomats accredited to the Vatican. supporting separatist movements in the Soviet Union editorial appeared at a time of massive street dem Regarding Soviet-bloc changes, the cardinal said and has warned of long-range problems that might onstrations by Armenian nationalists. that “ someone having faith in a superior providence occur if the rising nationalism in East European “ It is evident in any case that peaceful coexistence sees its intervention in these events; and more than countries continues unbridled. of different populations is tied to the recognition of one time, one has heard pronounced here or there The Vatican feels that the monolithic communist the identity, history and values that each one has the word ‘miracle.’ grip on East Europe is dying of its own weight, but received,” the editorial said. Pope cautions Jesuit magazine on poiicy By Agostino Bono being published. All the articles are written by Jes ciations, undertaken in the spirit of the special vow VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Jesuit-run magazine uits. of obedience to the pope that is part of the Society of La Civilta Cattolica must continue to express Vatican Journalists and others interested in knowing Vati Jesus, will not be lacking in the production of spiri policies and opinions, even if its writers must sacri can policy routinely read the magazine’s articles and tual fruits for the good of the church and of your fice their personal views and Judgments, said Pope editorials to find out Vatican thinking on issues in religious life,” he added. John Paul II. which no official position has been taken by the pope The pope asked the magazine staff to continue “ This function, which Civilta Cattolica undertakes or Vatican agencies. writing articles on social issues and other contem in strict harmony with the thought and directives of Magazine officials describe La Civilta Cattolica as porary themes such as ecumenism, religious indif the Holy See, must be maintained,” the pope told 30 a non-Vatican publication at the service of the Vati ference, secularism and atheism. writers and editors on the biweekly publication. can. The magazine was started by Pope Pius IX at a The pope spoke to the magazine’s staff Jan. 19 to The obligation to express Vatican positions “ im time when Italian life “ was strongly marked by secu commemorate the 140th anniversary of its founding. poses on all of you a constant effort of fidelity to the larism and an anti-clericalism, which not only was The magazine has no official standing as a Vatican Holy See and to its directives, even if this is some hostile to the church and the Roman pontiff, but publication, but as a normal practice, the editorials times at the cost of sacrificing and renouncing per even threatened the very foundations of Christian and major articles of La Civilta Cattolica are re- sonal Judgments and points o f view,” the pope said. civilization, violently attacking the faith and Catholic viewed by the Vatican Secretariat.of State before “ Re assured that thqse saqrifice's and these refiiih- ' rhorality,” thd pope said. 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by Father Augusta Colombo, PIM E
M eantim e, Bondayya's sickness had been diagnosed by the doctors in Warangal as leprosy, but no private or public hospital would adm it him for treatment. He was forced out of his village, having already been called "the dead man." He begged from the steps of the very temple where people had come to him to offer their sacrifices to the divinity. Eventually, his hands became one big open wound and his legs infested with maggots which ate his nerves raw. He prayed for merciful relief in death, but it did not come.
The Sisters at Viswa Koruna heard of him and sought him out; they brought him, too, to "the door to heaven." So Bondayya and llaiah found themselves in the same hospital in nearby beds. They were both treated for the disease and eventually it was arrested and they were able to be released from in-hospital care. At this point, they both wondered where they could go.
As fate would have it, the first of four small houses we had planned to build for cured but elderly and disabled patients were finished and the two men were assigned to one of them. Now they were able to take short walks, visit with other patients who had been released and just sit and talk. Their meals were served at the hospital and their clothing was provided by us.
The Sisters visit them often and look after their needs, showering them with their special kind of love. Bondayya sings his mantras w hile llaiah plays the drums with his artificial limbs. Children come to play v/itfi them and help v/hen they can.
It is our hope that we can build many more such homes in the near future because we see many such "falling stars" as Bondayya and llaiah almost daily. We would dearly love to welcome them all to our "door to heaven."
The stories of Bondayya and llaiah are simlar to many which could be told of countless leprosy sufferers in the many colonies and rehabilitation centers operated by the Bondayya and llaiah— two stars born in the universe 50 years PIME Missionaries in India, Bangladesh, Myanmar ago and now almost burned out. They were the first two patients I (formerly Burma), Brazil and Africa. Through the Auspices received last year in the small village where I had started to care of the LEPROSY RELIEF SOCIETY, a PIME-sponsored for lonely, abandoned and disabled leprosy patients. Bondayya was agency, a program of several kinds of sponsorship is the son of a Brahman, a high^caste priest in the Hindu hierarchy of available to those who would like to help relieve the India, llaiah was the third child born to a low-caste pariah fam ily. plight of suffering victims of leprosy. You can help by providing medical care and food for one leprosy sufferer Both men had happy, normal, active childhoods, though Bondayya at only $6 per month, food alone for one leprosy patient became educated and was able to read and write at the age of ten at only $5 per month, or medicine alone for one leprosy while llaiah worked in the fields as a laborer for a local farmer. patient at only $10 per year. All contributions receive Bondayya was promised in marriage at the age of twelve and went periodic newsletters telling of the operations of the to the temple regularly, where he learned to sing the mantras— sa Society and the results of the support contributed to the leprosy colonies. Please...won’t you help us..through the cred, secret rituals which every Brahman priest is required to know. LEPROSY RELIEF SOCIETY...to save the life of a least one Meanwhile, llaiah remained content to work as a field hand. leprosy victim? At 18, Bondayya had developed into a handsome young man— tall, fair-skinned and with an athletic build. Proudly, he would put Sunday, January 28th is on his Brahman attire and head to the village pond to bathe, a part of Hindu worship. At first, he did not notice the whitish stain on his "World Leprosy Day" right arm, thinking it would soon go away. To mark the day, won't you help At the same time, and many miles away, llaiah, whose skin was much darker, had noticed whitish patches on his torso and legs; but us save a life? he also dismissed them as something which would soon disappear. Yet, within a year, he was unable to use his hands effectively; he had little strength in them and his fingers had grown distorted. LEPROSY RELIEF SOCIETY c/o P.I.M.E. Missionaries In his ritual of breaking coconuts on the steps of the temple for 35750 Moravian Drive those who had come to present special offerings, Bondayya faund Fraser, Michigan 48026 he was no longer able to hold onto the fruit or break them against Dear "LRS" Committee, the steps. The people became suspicious and commented that his I would like to help a victim of leprosy by providirtg: facial features were changing. He, too, had noticed that his ears, I I Food and medicine for one year at $6 per month ($72 per yeor), nose and lips had started to look somewhat deformed. The parents of his intended bride no longer considered him a suitable candidate I I Food only at $5 per month ($60 per yeor), as their daughter's husband ond began to heed what others had I I Medicine only at $10 per year per patient begun to cal I him : LEPER. Soon after, he was cast out of his village. (NOTE: If you wish to provide food and medicine or just food fo r a patient, plea.se indicate how you would like to make paymeni.s.) IldldTi also suffered the same fate; he was uprooted from his I I annually □ semi-annually Q quarterly Q monthly village and made to live like an anim al under the bridge of a nearby railway crossing. He thought briefly of committing suicide but in the NAME (Please Print) end decided that life as a leper was better than not knowing what lie in store for him after death. His face and legs became deformed ADDRESS and pprts of his fingers had begun to fall away. He began begging C I T Y ...... for his food, but in time even begging became too much for him. Leprosy attacked his optical nerves and he found himself blind and S T A T E ...... Z IP ...... at the mercy of his fellow leprosy sufferers for help and support. I I / cannot be a regular sponsor, hut enclose S ...... to help the plight of a leprosy victim It was at this point that the Sisters from our leprosy center at Viswa DR Koruna found him and had him carried gently to us, his "door to ALL CONTRIBUTIONS ARE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE. heaven." His hands and feet eaten away and now blind, the gentle PLEASE DO NOT SEND CASH OR STAMPS. voiceeof the nuns offered the-first kind words he hod heard inyears. Make checks or money orders payable to: LEPROSY RELIEF SOCIETY Page 8 — January 24, 1990 — Denver Catholic Register VIEWPOINTS Weddings unveiled The buzzers A wedding should never be confused with a marriage. EDITORIAL The mere existence of such things as in our lives bridal exhibitions and wedding consultants can demonstrate a misdirected emphasis. By Dolores Curran to match the bridesmaids’ gowns, imported Talk about the “perfect” gown, the “per I’m not given to screaming much but in an fect” tuxedo, the “perfect” registry and the orchid bouquets, a horsedrawn carriage and otherwise placid morning recently, I succumbed. “perfect” reception is rarely balanced with a dinner-dance at a swanky hotel, the di The phone rang and just as I answered, the cat mention of loving, honoring and cherishing vorce rate is as high as the price of dia meowed to get out. By stretching the cord and m> until death do they part. monds and one-third of all divorces occur body, I was able to get the back door open. One According to Modern Bride magazine, the within the first three years of marriages. doesn’t fool around with pets who want out. As I recoiled, the doorbell rang. Frustrated. 1 average cost of a formal wedding is $13,310. Obviously a “perfect” wedding does not a That includes everything from the engage put my caller on hold to discover a pair of mis “ perfect” marriage make. The Beatles said it sionaries at the front door. “ Can’t talk now. I'm ment ring to the priest’s stipend to a sit- succinctly when they sang. “ Money can’t buy down dinner for 200, of course. But footing on long distance,” I explained. me love.” such a bill is enough to give anyone the wedding bell blues. Engaged couples, and indeed parents of TALKS WITH _ Moreover, paying the price for all that engaged couples, would do well to direct wedding bliss is no guarantee of the couple their attention to lasting concerns that will “ P A R E N T S living happily ever after. Despite shoes dyed still matter when the honeymoon is over. They disbelieved me and persisted. Just then the buzzer on my dryer sounded. I threw up my hands and screamed, “AAARGH. Even the ma chines are calling me.” They fled. Natural family planning Our lives are interruptible. We have buzzers and beepers, alarms and children, all designed to remind and rush us. I could have ignored the By Father John Dietzen missionaries and the dryer, but, like Pavlov’s O. VJe are friends with severai coupies and were dogs, we’re trained to respond. It starts with the recentiy discussing Natural Family Planning as the infant’s cry and progresses to a child’s persistent. Catholic form of birth control. One older couple in the “Mom.” We can’t let a phone go unanswered, group told us they remember when the church con even when we’re working in a muddy garden demned any kind of rhythm method for family plan T'l I III IWM We’re on call to the world. ning. We young couples said we didn't believe that, As technology heats up, we speed up our pace. but they insisted. We agreed to ask you. Is what this Not long ago, I found myself in a long line of ever, when the “Pouchet method” proved mostly couple said true? If so, how do you explain it? (Pen traffic, slowed by the lead car, a sleek expensive unreliable anyway. nsylvania) model. A. Before going further, I need to say that In the 1920s, scientists in Austria and Japan One by one, we crept up and passed the slow- Catholic tradition and teaching, including Popes (Knaus and Ogino) discovered radically new data moving driver. As I passed her, I looked over. She Paul VI and John Paul II, would have big prob on the fertile periods, data generally confirmed had a computer printout spread across her steer lems with your first sentence, at least as it stands. by today’s science and used as the basis for most ing wheel and was talking animately on her car Your question is not about that, however. Basi current “ rhythm” programs. This data inspired phone. cally your older friends are correct, but that is to further questions and development of Catholic We now have shower clocks and beepers for oversimplify. The subject is a long and compli teaching on the subject, though some major moral kids. Remembering those long lazy days of cated one in Christian tradition. I can only re theologians continued to hold that rhythm could childhood when we escaped parents, I wonder view some highlights here. First, let’s make our only be allowed as the lesser of two evils. about kids who are beeped. Will they ever be free subject clear. We’re speaking of any method of Certain Catholics today attempt to interpret to wander, explore and daydream or are we which a couple attempt to arrange their sexual starting them on their conditioning so early they relationships in order to avoid pregnancy by lim those past positions as not unfavorable to the general use of the woman’s sterile period for won’t even have memories of peace and solitude? iting intercourse to the infertile times in the birth control. There is no question, however, that Every year my husband and I spend four weeks “ rhythms” of a woman’s menstrual cycle. living in a simple cottage in Ireland. We have no The first people we know of, in our Western they were understood commonly by leading Catholic clergy and lay people, theologians and phone, burn a turf fire and amble down to the civilization at least, to see the contraceptive pos village to talk. We welcome the visits of the kids sibilities in this method were fifth century B.C. otherwise, as forbidding the practice. Some of my own friends and later co-workers in family life on the hill who interrupt their endless summer Greek physicians. While their timing of fertile play to find out what “the Yanks” are doing. periods was seriously mistaken, it was as good as offices around the country were shocked and scandalized when in 1951 Pope Pius XII com I write. Jim fishes, hikes, photographs, and any would be until only about 150 years ago. The learns history from relatives and friends who most important early Christian theologian to deal pletely opened the door to the rhythm method. “ Observing the non-fertile periods alone,” he work hard but find time to waste with others. with the subject was St. Augustine, who severely This year I faced a dilemma. I am working on a condemned the use of infertile periods to avoid said, is entirely moral if there are serious medi conception. He berated the Manichaeans for tell cal, eugenic, economic or moral indications, novel, my first, and the quiet Donegal life is ideal ing people to watch “ the time after purification “which often occur” (Address to Italian Catholic for the concentration I can’t achieve in my mod ern buzzer-filled home. With some misgivings, I of the menses when a woman is likely to conceive Union o f Midwives, Nov. 26, 1951, N. 36). and at that time refrain from intercourse,” lest a One physician, nationally acknowledged for his invested in a laptop computer so my words could child be conceived. This proves, he said to them, expertise on the subject, spoke for many others race as fast as my mind. “that you consider marriage is not to procreate in the 1950s when he said that any rhythm My misgivings sprang from escaping technology' children but to satiate lust.” It makes “ the woman method is against the natural law, since it inten to introducing it into our haven. There’s some no more a wife but a harlot” (“ De Moribus Ecc- tionally arranges that specific acts of sexual in thing inconsistent about tapping away at a screen lesiae Catholicae et Manichaeorum,” c. 18). The tercourse be rendered infertile, thus separating with a turf fire behind me and lazy sheep wan whole question did not become so relevant mor the husband-wife love aspect of sexual inter dering the hills outside my window. ally until the 1840s, when French physician Felix course from its potential to beget children, the But, the families in Ireland are being affected Pouchet was thought to have pinpointed the fer same argument St. Augustine used against rhythm by the invasion of technology as well. Always a tile period more exactly. Soon this raised serious 16 centuries earlier. This controversy over the communal, conversational, story-sharing people, questions for theologians and priests in confes morality of rh>^hm only abated, in fact, in face of they are beginning to isolate themselves inside sion and after much controversy the matter was the mushrooming contraceptive movement of the their homes, thanks to television and VCR’s. presented in 1880 to the Sacred Penitentiary (a 1960s and 1970s. Since then, of course, that door There are more VCR’s per population in Ireland Vatican agency) for answers. has swung wide open to complete approval and than anywhere else in Europe. Even in villages The reply, which one way or another governed encouragement by the church of this form of where there is no bank, there’s a video rental most official Catholic thinking on the subject for family planning. shop. But who am I to criticize, I who toted a com decades, concluded: “ Spouses using the (rhythm) Today the church’s teaching is quite explicit. way of marriage are not to be disturbed and a puter into this pastoral setting. Still, I want to tell Utilizing the rhythm of the woman’s menstrual them, “ Don’t let it happen to you. Don’t fill your confessor may cautiously insinuate the opinion in cycle, by NFP for example, couples may, with question to those spouses whom he has in vain lives with beepers and screens that steal you sufficient reason, intentionally and morally at from one another. Go back to your evening strolls, tried to lead from the detestable crime of onan tempt to arrange their sexual lives so their ac ism.” In other words, to suggest limiting inter pub conversations, and songfests.” tions of intercourse will be infertile and not re But it isn’t going to happen any more than it course to the infertile periods was apparently sult in pregnancy. But “each and every marriage allowable if that was the only way to stop people happened here. Grandparents wring their hands act (intercourse) must remain open to the trans- over their losses but they watch the soaps, sports, •BHfistqtofJfilife” (Pope Piul \ ^ ’‘ ‘kHHlSnke'^TOe’’ and movies, n'wig need ovpd od >’ 'trovei'sle^ i^^toe ^ted. how^- - -I9e87No;-m:------Denver Catholic Register — January 24, 1990 — Page 9 VIEWPOINTS Searching for the elusive core of truth
By Father Leonard Urban unconscious, is that they must “ overcome” their Do we really believe that alcoholism and drug disease, be cured, before we can help them. addiction are diseases? I mean like cancer or ONE MAN S , How does that happen? There are treatment multiple sclerosis or AIDS? Or do we just say that centers, rehabilitation programs. But those are with our fingers crossed, winking one eye, for the VIEWS available to only a few, and at staggering cost. My sake of formality and accommodation? immediate conviction is that we will never find My reaction to alcoholics and drug addicts has frustration and rancor with him. Walter in one of those places that are commer always been one of some anger and accusation, My lecture was longer this time, more articu cialized with such charm on television: “ If you or wanting them to “ shape up,” get on with the late, laced with phrases that are used to inflate someone in your family needs help, call us.” The business of overcoming their compulsions, be guilt and compunction. I told him he couldn’t voice is dulcet, beckoning. But Walter could come a productive member of society, whatever stay, that he’d just have to make it on his own. never just show up at their door. that means. But in the end, after I’d ventilated some more, Americans like to think of themselves as people I have never been able to treat them with the let my anger crowd in on him, used the occasion of rescue and mission. We invade and plunder same sensivity as someone with a more “ accept for carping about life in general, I let him stay. countries to “save” the innocent victims of sub able” disease or sickness. That is undoubtedly But not without admonition and assurance that versive ideologies, perserve them from a fate that because I have not fully understood that their he’d have to get on with his life, none of this free is inimical to democracy and human rights. We sickness is just that, a biological phenomenon lunch stuff and he ought to start “ producing.” could not countenance the thought that anyone that deserves treatment and curing. I might find Where is Walter now? Is he any better than he might be victimized by dictatorship, totalitarian myself encouraging a cancer patient, asking him was before I met him? I seriously doubt it. I will ism or terrorists. or her to be positive, not to give up. But I’d never probably never see him again. He is “ surviving,” I Often there is at least some justification for be angry about it, rant and .scream. hope, “out there,” fighting his disease alone, reacting to the deprivation of personal freedom, Yet, I have been inclined to do just that with driven by the obsession that there is relief and pragmatism and selfish interest notwithstanding. the victims of those less socially acceptable dis some form of comfort in the sickness itself It would be a blessing if Walter and the mil eases involving alcohol or drugs. There is a paradox here that defies simple lions of his companions could merit some of that Walter came to our doors the first time on New solutions. Shelters and missions can’t tolerate concern, a genuine interest in his disease, his Year’s eve. He had been drinking and presented drinking and inebriated or toxified visitors in loss of dignity and hapless plight. that litany of pathetic woe that is characteristic those places of refuge. They cause too much dis of his condition. I welcomed him in the spirit of It is disconcerting that there is a continuing turbance and obvious danger. It is all too clear diminution of funds to help Walter, and with that the gospel and let him stay the night. He was that drugs and alcohol often wreak havoc, vio back the next night, brought by the police, this a waning interest in his welfare on the part of the lence and even death. “ healthy” public. time obviously more inebriated than the night The startling reality is that there is no possi before. bility of alternative referral. People with those Sometimes, against my wishes, a voice rings At that point I gave my lecture about not letting less acceptable diseases are simply turned back somewhere around me, with tones and nuance anyone stay here who has been drinking, the into the street, told they cannot stay, to come not quite dulcet; “ I was sick and you came to visit rules and my intention to keep them. And I let back when they are sober. me. My name is Walter.’ him stay, just this last time. He came back three The distance between the “ healthy” members nights later, having been drinking again. The fact of society and those who are addicted becomes Father Urban is pastor of John X X III Parish, that he rang the bell after midnight added to my ever greater. Our — my — anticipation, perhaps Fort Collins. Who’s at fault for disintegrating families?
Editor; Cathedral convent Back in the “ old days” all con The other evening I was settled in Editor: vents had parlors with semi-stuffy front of my television, searching For the second time in as many decorations. The Sisters rarely were through a 'TV guide looking for editions I read of the elaborate in the room except for quiet visits something to distract my attention decorations which adorned the Ca with family or friends unless it was and escape for a little while. I thedral convent when the Sisters of to dust and vacuum. The Cathedral more wonderous than we deserve? Charity lived there. I quote the Jan. convent was no different. The place promise you, this was not a night of Ok, I am sensitive to criticism escape but one that has given me 10 edition, “ In the old days when was simple; austere actually. I saw about children — then I express my Seton House was a convent for nuns no trace of elegance unless it was restless hours. concern to a friend and she calls to I tuned into Roseanne hoping for who taught at the adjoining Cathe the quality of the Sisters themselves. ask me to turn to Donahue. The dral High School, the parlor was They clearly observed the vow of a laugh, but one-half hour has made discussion: Why have children? me wonder if America is raising their adorned with an elaborate crystal poverty while educating several chandlier and silk drapes.” I was in generations of Catholics. children in such a manner? Is We have a world with many is Roseanne imitating life or is the the convent more than a few times John O. Rae, sues, but the ME generation is in the “ old days” ... Boulder power of the tube sending a message spending its time debating God’s to families saying this is how to deal greatest mystery — a child. with children? The particular episode showed a If families react to their children “ Vitello’s View situation where the daughter gets as Roseanne, I am sure after the into the liquor cabinet. The dialogue “ 20-year experiment” we would ,(-€fiecT' 1 between parent and child was ap never choose this vocation. )) -uke palling — blaming, criticizing, one JMW.IST1C I Where are family values? Who is ^€HlVVioR. .N'l sided, with no attempt to recognize at fault for disintegrating families? or discuss the incident with the On Valentines Day we will cele child. LCK/e The crowning blow was the last brate “ lovers,” but according to the COW\ media represenation of a loving scene — dad installs a lock on the PfVasDN, shared life, it will be love of myself cabinet. I am thinking what about EPAuTV.. and how I am feeling rather than dialogue, what about trust, what how love is shared. God blessed me about the self esteem of the child? with three beautiful children. And, i r l v i w What about talking honestly with the child? Just a TV program, no con yes, 1 would do it again without sequence? question or pause; they are reflec In my attempt to escape, I picked tions of love revealed. I have a up a Denver paper. I was perusing thought: in our life, beautiful role the pages when a short blurb hit me models for family life were and are between the eyes. “ Would you have still present, parenting classes were kids again?” What? Would I have made available to us and encour children, would I do it over again if aged through our parish. What are (iScw given a choice? we doing in our community to sup Seriously, is this how society is port young families? Can we change wishing away God’s gift to those of attitudes from me to us? I us who have been given something Mary M. McGinnis, b . ' ______Denver Page 10 — January 24, 1990 — Denver Catholic Register National day of prayer for ‘Backward drift’ African American community in the struggle Father James Goode, pastor of St. Paul of the realities of life and be present to the community Shipwreck in San Francisco and a national Black as agents of change and hope in a weary land. for civil rights Catholic leader, and James McConduit, president Church for us must not just be Sunday morning, By Kristen Hannum of the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), but Church is every day that God gives us. African have called for a National Day of Prayer for the Americans are crying out for us to be a witness to PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) — Los Angeles Auxiliary African American Community on Feb. 4. Febru their struggle of oppression and racism,” added Bishop Carl A. Fisher, at an annual Mass in Portland ary is Black History Month. Father Goode, who is also a San Francisco Hous honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., warned McConduit and Father Goode, are co-chairs of ing Authority commissioner. against a “backward drift” in the civil rights struggle. Father Goode and James McConduit, president the National Day of Prayer for the African Amer The dream of the slain civil rights leader “has ican Community. of the NOBC board of directors, have asked each bishop to designate Feb. 4 as a National Day of been deferred and its vision lost on so many,” Bishop “ It is a sad state of affairs when we note that 33 Fisher said at the Jan. 13 Mass.______percent live in poverty: the median 1987 income Prayer for African Americans in each parish in of black families was $18,098; black un the United States. ‘Racism in attitude and in practice is employment was 11.7 percent in 1988 vs. an McConduit said, “As we enter into the 1990s we overall 5.5 percent. Women head 43 percent of need to live more deeply in the spirit of the 1987 destructive to the entire American soci black families; 54.8 percent of the families live in Synod on the Laity’s concept of co-discipleship, ety.’ poverty and the list goes on. We as a people must not only within our church but also in our larger come together and unite to build our communi community. Catholics and other denominations “Today, in America, landmark civil rights decisions ties and save our black families,” said Father are asked to join in the National Day of Prayer are under attack. Federal programs, like affirmative Goode. for the African American community.” action, jobs, welfare, health assistance — key vehi Father Goode said also: “As African American The National Office for Black Catholics is at cles for progress among the poor — are being wiped Catholics we must not run away from the prob 3025 Fourth St. NE, Washington, D.C. 20017; away with no realistic and meaningful alternatives.” lems of our community, but we must face the phone (202) 635-1778. ______said Bishop Fisher, one of 13 U.S. black Catholic bishops. One of Dr. King’s most telling comments. Bishop Fisher said, was, “ What good does it do to be able to eat at a lunch counter if you can’t buy a hamburger?” Catholics look forward to “Racism in attitude and in practice is destructive the weekly Catholic to the entire American society,” the bishop said. irsBig! “Racism is a sin. All racism is a sin, whether it is Register ... an audience directed by whites against blacks, or blacks against of over 81,000 families whites; whether the victims or perpetrators are Ori entals, Native Americans, Hispanics or whatever. delivered by mail. Try us! Racism is always wrong.” You’ll be glad you did. imRead! Bishop Fisher said, “Though his physical remains lie cold in the tomb for more than 20 years, the life and works of Martin Luther King, Jr. is no longer susceptible to bullets, to stripes, to desecration, nor to the denial by the Congress of the United States to ItWerks! declare his birthday a national holiday.” “ It is indeed a national holiday, but it is so much more — for us, it is a holy day,” the bishop said. “What he was all about will persist and grow despite the resistance of .human opposition. The bullets cannot harm him now, and his tomb cannot hold his AND spirit down.” Dr. King, in the service of his dream, “ mustered SOMETHING NEW the eloquence of a prophet whose creed was Christ and freedom,” Bishop Fisher said. “ No man spoke harder against violence, and yet few suffered more HAS BEEN ADDED! from it than Martin Luther King. ^ “His worship of a higher law got him jailed, stoned and murdered. In his life, he filled us with a sense of hope — a hope that seemed at his death shattered. But, as has been said, ‘You can kill the dreamer but EL PUEBLO CATOLICO^ not the dream.’” *THE CATHOLIC PEOPLE School placement
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couple or on a one-to-one couple basis,” Carol said. 200 weddings a year,” Carol said. Continued from page 15 Some meetings of engaged and married couples say if you disagree on them, they could cause real Sponsor couple are held with the priest in the parish hall. This is problems in the relationship later,” Carol said. Carol and her husband, Steve, often work as a more practical in a parish where large numbers of “ We are not supposed to predict the future,” she sponsor couple, inviting engaged couples into their couples are planning to be married. conceded, “ but the inventory tells us if this couple home for evening sessions. Carol and Steve will be Why meet with already married couples? disagrees on major issues. We hope that if the scores married 15 years in February, so when they speak to “Our stories are different — and the ways our are extremely low, the wedding would be post couples, they speak from their own experience of relationships work are different,” Carol answered. poned.” marriage. The inventories are taken separately, but reviewed “ Some people prefer the one-to-one meeting of two No perfect marriages by the couple together. couples because they don’t feel comfortable with “ There are no perfect marriages or relationships; I “ Tf you have this much disagreement,’ we ask,‘do group sharing,” Carol said. “ Others are intimidated don’t know of any,” she added. “We are part of the you want to reconsider?’” Carol said. “ We suggest by the intimacy of working one to one.” process of debunking the social myth of ‘living hap the inventory be done early on.” With 60 to '70 weddings each year in her parish. pily ever after.’ If the couple is satisfied with the scores, the next Holy Trinity, Carol and her husband and other host “ It takes a lot of reality, honesty, vulnerability and step in the preparation process probably will be couples are kept busy with as many as eight couples work to make a marriage,” Carol said. parish-based. appearing at an evening home session. “What makes a sacramental marriage and a good “This can be done as a group with a sponsor “ I know of Denver parishes that have more than marriage is the grace o f God and the unity of two people in their belief in God’s presence in *^^heir marriage.” Matrimony is always a Some parishes also may require that engaged vice, all that can be done couples attend a weekend sponsored by Carol’s of NO One Has A selection In is to excuse it and to fice. Last year, between 500 and 600 couples partici sanctify it; therefore it pated in such weekends. The cost is $150 per couple was made a religious and sessions are held either at St. Male’s near Estes sacrament. China, Crystal. Silver, Gifts & Park or at Camp Santa Maria or the Farmers’ Union — St. Jerome Camp near Bailey. Flatware For Brides & Grooms Continued on page 18 Like International villa
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Take The Register Interfaith marriages for Good News Continued from page 16 “ By the year 2000, they say that half of all children Weekends this year also may be held at the Bet will have lived with people other than their real hlehem Center in Broomfield. parents,” Carol reported. Usually 18 to 20 couples, average age 25 to 28, “ Yes, we have couples we will lose,” Carol admit participate in these weekends. ted. “And a lot of times, the non-Catholic feels like FLOWERS MAKE he or she is being forced to jump through a hoop to FRIENDS Lose some couples meet the expectations of the Catholic partner.” Carol admits that “ We do lose some couples” from No longer must non-Catholics sign a paper promis the church’s strict marriage preparation require ing to raise their children as Catholics, but the ments. Catholic partner now is required to sign a certificate MICHAEL JULTAK, INC. “ They are not a punishment,” she said of church stating that he or she will strive to rear the children rules. “ We get calls from angry parents and from Catholics. FLORISTS couples, always asking why? ‘Why do we have to do Again, this is not a punishment, but a precaution, this? Why does it take so long?’ she said. “ These couples are coming to us, asking us to witness their sacramental marriage. If they cannot Background of faith IN DENVER take six months of their time to talk about their “ Mixed marriages do not have the traditional relationship, what does that say about their com background of faith to share with each other,” said 388-6411 mitment to stay together the rest of their lives?” Carol, who entered her own marriage as a non- Catholic marrying a Catholic. (She later converted to Offering support Catholicism.) The church truly is concerned about couples con “ I had lots of questions for my husband that he templating marriage, and is trying to offer m ore, couldn’t answer,” she recalled. support to newly married couples as well. One-third “ Many times Catholics don’t know about their own of all divorces occur within the first five years of a faith, much less that of others. This marriage prepa marriage. ration gives an increased knowledge of the faith that can be beneficial to both.”
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• Wedding Dresses • Bridemaids • Mothers • Proms • Tuxedo Rentals Isolation of married couples Open - Mon.'Fri. 10-6 p.m. Thurs. • til 8 p.m. Sat. 10-4 p.m. Continued from Page 19 increase the number of successful marriages in our 3777 N. Federal Blvd. • 458-0057 number is to discourage all couples who seem not to communities. If we miss the opportunity, we are have what it takes to stay together for a lifetime. failing to use the best chance we have to get mar Indeed, some marriage preparation programs have riages off to a really good start. ENJOY SUNDAY BRUNCH been justified by quoting the percentage of couples I can see three possible ways: and obviously others 10-2 who, as a result decided not to get married after all. could be developed. With the support of a number of I offer no criticism of this. It is much better to turn city pastors, who undertook to encourage couples back than to plunge recklessly into a really doubtful they married to sign up for the Growth in Marriage venture. But it is only fair to recognize that marriage Newlyweds program. This entitled them to take part preparation is in part an attempt to weed out the in a series of extended marriage enrichment expe unmarriageables. riences specially designed for newlyweds. This has The other point at which we can intervene in a been approved by the ACME Training and Certifica T h e o n l y t h in g marriage is when the couple (or one of the partners) tion Committee, and a manual for leaders is avail W E D O N 'T PROVIDE break out of the lonely little box and cry for help. I able from the ACME office. remember a social worker saying to me, “You see, Another type of program done in churches that has IS THE GUEST LIST we can’t help a couple with their marriage until they been tried is to find mature, wise, friendly couples have gotten themselves made into a case.” What she who are willing to serve as sponsors to newly mar meant, of course, was that it would amount to an ried couples for their first year together. Come for an informal dinner insult to offer them help: which is exactly what some Yet another approach is for pastors, following whatever premarital procedure they adopt, to ar with friends. Or enjoy a Special of us have been made to feel when we have invited couples to participate in a marriage-enrichment re range for later sessions with the couples following celebration planned by our treat. This is a curious game: pretending that we all the wedding. Six months later would be a good time: ' expert banquet staff. Whatever have great marriages, although we know quite well the point at which the postwedding couples were the occasion, you'll discover that this is far from the truth. really ready for help. Pastors who do this say that it the comfortable elegance of die The time has come to give up this stupid posturing has seemed to be effective. During my ten years as a professor in a medical school, I used this procedure Wellshire Inn. / f ' and' to offer help to newlywed couples when they are having the experience of marriage. We have tested with my medical students. I got to know.the couples our marriage enrichment enough to be satisifed that in a friendly way in the permarital interviews, but it Opien seven days a week it is effective, that this is precisely the best place to was after they had been married six months that we put it to use, and that the time has come to get on really got down to business. At that time, some issues Serving breakfast, lunch, dat-, with the job. in the relationship, for which there had been no ner and Sunday Brunr^j. - There is plenty of evidence that the first year of evidence earlier, had surfaced. Though the§e are marriage is a critical time. Studies find strong sup illustrations of programs for newlyweds, the plan I port in an investigation of divorce carried out in think will really get this moving has yet to be initi Britain by Barbara Thornes and Jean Collard who ated. pj V found that of all the divorced persons they inter viewed, one-third admitted that their marriages were Counseling teams ■J' already in serious trouble by the time they reached I hope one day to see husband-wife counseling T "T \ \ their first wedding anniversary. teams, working together and specializing in this field. 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French abortifacient pill “RU 486,” the following edito Let it be quite clear, to avoid all misunderstanding, rial was published in the Italian edition of “L'Osserva- that whatever the method of abortion, the reality tore Romano” on 12 November 1989. remains unchanged; it is murder in the true and proper sense of the word and cannot be justified by The ultimate homage which error is accustomed to any human authority. Moreover, there is something pay to truth, hypocrisy, has been paid. The mask can dreadfully repugnant in this procedure. It humiliates now be cast aside. When Italy approved the law science to the depths; it produces a drug whose one permitting abortion, it was said that abortion was not and only purpose is to kill the innocent. There is put to be regarded as a means of contraception, that the on the market a true and real chemical bomb, avail woman’s free decision had to be in agreement with able to whoever wants it, for the extermination of the public institutions, the guarantor of the right of millions of innocents. third parties. Now the desire to introduce the RU The motive alleged to Justify and recommend re 486 pill into Italy also reveals completely what lay course to the new lethal poison is the following; the behind those statements. It is desired to have re risk of death or collateral complication for the course to abortion to an ever greater extent as a mother who aborts becomes negligible. Error is accustomed to don the mask of human pity Natural Family Planning to gain acceptance. From where does that risk come? The Couple to Couple League, which teaches the From a supremely unjust and freely taken decision sympto-thermal method of Natural Family Planning, to kill the innocent. 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Anthony Messenger ijL- Denver Catholic Register - January 24, 1990 — Page 27 G r e t t i n g m x )K S In Cherry Creek The many llfesigns al o f ‘little ehurches’ What is so “special” about husbands and wives spirit union of marriage, is the sign of the body-spirit that one of the seven great signs of Christ’s visible union between God and humanity in Christ, and the acting today should be devoted to them? Are they, in sign of the body-spirit union between Christ and his some sense, more fully Christian than the unmarried members. because of this special sacramental aspect of their The heart of life is relationship: love, friendship, lives? society, marriage, family. We become ourselves by Let’s go back, for a moment. The full initiation of a being with other persons. And at the center of all life Christian is accomplished by the three sacramental is the special relationship which is the first one acts of Christ giving new life (Baptism) and the described in Scripture: “ It is not good for the man to power of mature witness (Confirmation) and uniting be alone. I shall make a suitable partner for him” Christians in the sacrifice-meal of unity and love (Genesis 2:18). (Eucharist). There is nothing “greater” that can Obviously this is the cornerstone of the society God happen to anyone — pope, priest, nun, husband or intended to build. It was through the mutual person- wife — than to be thus fully en-membered into the creating love of man and woman that God wanted the redemptive and worshiping acts of Christ in the world to grow into his image and likeness. Husband, world today. wife, child: what they are to each other is what they What, then, is the point of the sacrament of mar are. riage? It must be understood in relation to the two It is everything about the married couple that “Great Sacraments” — Christ and the Church. Christ makes a visible sign-sacrament of his creative- Christ is the Sacrament of God. He makes God’s healing love: their freedom, intelligence, feelings, love visible, touchable, en-fleshed, human-spirited. bodies, work, play and prayer. He enters these to He is the sign of the absolute perfection of God’s transform their lives with his own vitality. He is not love for the human family. just hovering near husband and wife, putting divine The Church is the Sacrament of Christ. As the “ labels” on things that are really not all that good. Body which Christ joined to himself, it is the sacra Because their life touches everything in the world, ment or sign of his healing presence in the world. God is constantly creating, re-creating, and healing The unity and love of the members are his light the world through them. shining in the darkness or fallen humanity. But, in order to have the “big” Church, there must Excerpted with permission from Catholic Update, be a multitude of “ little churches,” — sacramental St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1615 Republic St., lifesigns o f the presence and love of Christ in the Cincinnati, OH 45210. For a reprint of the complete .J-}, world. The total love of husband and wife, the body- article write the St. Anthony Messanger Press. 2. They can identify the problem(s) and agree on what they want to work on without the need of 5? ■ Ways to Improve professional assistance to do it '■ i 3. They are motivated to work on their marriage; ^ey '}S they believe they have enough positives going for them to make their marriage worth working on. a marriage 4. Couples benefit from marriage enrichment when By Antoinette and Leon Smith they can identify the problem areas and can talk We often hear that marriage enrichments is for coupies about them enough to begin the process of growth. who have a satisfying marriage that they want to improve. They are open to learning new skills to deal with We say that the purpose of marriage enrichment is to issues. make marriages better, but that marriage enrichment is 5. When they identify and face a problem, they ' ' not a substitute for therapy. How can a couple know have an optimistic attitude about working on their which is appropriate for them? Here are some guides: relationship. Attention to their relationship helps rather than hinders growth and development. Marriage Enrichment 6. In marriage enrichment couples may have some 231 Milwaukee 1. Couples are ready for marriage enrichment anger, but they are not so consumed by it that they 377-2606 when they want to face whatever is unsettling in try to destroy each other; rather, instead of attacking their relationship. They believe they have potential one another, they can face issues and deal with them for growth. constructively. Marriage Counseling 11-5:30 weekdays 1. Couples need therapy when they have a sense or by appointment that something is wrong with their marriage, but they want to avoid facing it. One or both may deny they have a problem. Custom 2. They recognize they have a problem but don’t Gowns know what it is. They have a lot of difficulty identi I^Sasus Travel Inc. fying the problem(s) or agreeing about what the problem is. 3. They feel overwhelmed by the negatives in their Exclusive, relationship and one or both feel like giving up. They feel that it’s not worth the effort. I f Personalized, 4. Couples need therapy when they feel they just Service cannot talk about their problems even when they are able to identify them and agree on what they are. For Perhaps they are too painful to bring up or to look at Individuals fully. And 5. When trying to bring up a problem to work on it, talking about it only makes matters worse. Giving Businesses attention to their relationship makes them spiral downward. “Experts In Planning Your HONEYMOON’ 6. Couples need therapy when they are so angry with each other that they want to hurt one another more than they want to focus on the problem; or Pe^asua Travel Inc. when trying to face the problem, they-find them selves trying to destroy each other. Cheny Creek Reprinted with permission from the Association For the 2327 East 3rd Ave. • Danvar. Colorado 80206 for Couples in Marriage Enrichment, P.O. Box 10596, Contemporary (303) yiO-lQpfo . ^ . . * . Winston-Saletm^ NC 27ift8i5 j>boaei>6918> 1Z4rlSi9..» j »• *•#.». ,♦%■ n > ! t fc. r n it • ______1 ^ / ' * ------~ «« « * *■*■»♦ r i f t Page 28 — January 24, 1990 — Denver Catholic Register DCR HAPPENINGS Night With the Nuggets’ Englewood, and Ave Maria Parish, Parker. The test study will follow the Franciscan Crown and a brief fee is $5. For further information, call 458-1833. business meeting. The Notre Dame Athletic Association will hold “Night With the Nuggets” Feb. 4. The Denver Nug Mass of repentance Sister Tobin to speak gets will play the Atlanta Hawks. The game will start Sister Mary Luke Tobin, director of the Thomas at 2 p.m. at McNichols Arena. Tickets are $12 each (a On Jan. 25 and the 25th of each month, there will Merton Center for Creative Exchange in Denver and $3 savings). The deadline for ordering tickets is Jan. be a Mass offered as reparation for the sins of internationally recognized peace activist, will speak 29. For more information or to order tickets, call abortion, at St. Louis’ Church, 3310 S. Sherman St., Feb. 9 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. and Feb. 10 from 9 a.m. Kathy or Larry Nuss, 979-1142. Englewood, at 7:30 p.m. The Mass is sponsored by to noon, at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church, 2201 Dex the Corpus Christi Institute. ter St., Denver. “Clearing Our Vision at the Dawn of Dinner auction a New Decade” is Friday evening’s topic, and on St. Therese’s School Saturday morning her topic will be “Moving the Our Lady of Fatima Parish will hold a dinner Vision to Action.” There is no set admission charge, auction Feb. 9 at 7;30 p.m. in the school cafeteria. St. Therese’s School, 1200 Kenton St, Aurora, will but a $10 donation is .‘■uggested. For more informa Those who would like to donate a dinner, or want celebrate the beginning of Catholic School Week with tion call St. Thomas’ Cnurch, 388-4395. more information should call the religious education/ a special Mass at the church, 13th and Kenton, Jan. '-outh office, 233-1283. Proceeds will benefit the par- 28 at 10 a.m. Pupils will be involved in the Mass in "''ish youth program. various ways. There will be an open house at the Marriage and canon law school from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday. Parents and Father J. Anthony McDaid, judicial vicar o f the Marriage Retorno weekend visitors are invited to visit the classrooms Jan. 30 archdiocese, will visit the Western Slope in Febru and 31 and Feb. 1, from 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 2 p.m. ary. He will be available at St. Michael’s, Craig, the A Marriage Retorno Weekend for couples who For more information, call the school, 364-7494. weekends o f Feb. 10 and 17 for anyone in the West want to learn to pray together with scripture as a ern Slope area who may have a previous marriage basis, will be held March 2-4 at the Abbey of St. St. Mary’s Caiix meeting and now wishes to explore the possibility of a valid Walburga, Boulder. The weekend is for couples who marriage in the Catholic Church. Father McDaid is have experienced a Marriage Encounter weekend or “Calix and the Second Step of Alcoholics Anony head of the Metropolitan Tribunal, which deals with who want to pray using scripture. For more informa mous” will be the topic for the Calix meeting at St. marriage cases. Individual appointments are neces tion and registration contact Dick and Maureen Mary’s, Littleton, 6853 S. Prince, Jan. 25. An associa sary and may be made by contacting St. Michael’s, Nirschl, 530-7074 (after Jan. 28). tion for Catholic recovering alcoholics and their 678 School St., Craig, CO 81625; phone, 824-5330. families, Calix meetings are open to all persons in St. Anne’s spaghetti dinner terested in the disease o f alcoholism. Sunday liturgy Broomfield school is celebrated in the chapel at St Mary’s at 4:30 p.m., St. Anne’s spaghetti dinner will be held Feb. 11 followed by a potluck supper and meeting. Call Nativity School, 900 W. Midway, Broomfield, will from noon to 6 p.m. in the school cafeteria, 5757 Gerri, 794-4703, or Kay, 363-8842, for more informa hold an open house from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 1 Upham St. There will be a complimentary glass of tion. and 2. Registration for the 1990-91 school year will wine for the adults. The cost is $5 for adults and be in February. Contact Mrs. Paula Beach, 466-4177, $2.50 for children 10 and under. Legal issues for further information. Openings are limited. Stress and spirituality Presentation of Our Lady Parish, 665 Irving, New interfaith forum Denver, will hold a meeting for the Institute for The Institute for Interfaith Studies has launched , All Souls’ Church, 4950 S. Logan St., Englewood, Creative Aging on legal issues such as wills, powers a new forum for the community at the University of " w ill present “ Stress and Spirituality: A Wholistic of attorney, executor and joint checking accounts Deaver. Each program will feature discussion be Approach to Christian Self-care” with Gail Feeney- Jan. 31 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the school. Milt Hanson tween Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish community Coyle, M.Ed., Jan. 31 and Feb. 7, from 7:30 to 9 pm., will show a video entitled “In Your Hands.” Attorney leaders and participants. “Jerusalem: The Sacred in the school cafeteria. Ms. Feeney-Coyle is a mental James Evans will lead the discussion and answer City” will introduce the first of foifr monthly break health practitioner and stress management consult questions. A free-will offering will be given to the fasts. Sister Macrina Scott, director of the Denver ant. She is currently employed at Bethesda Hospital, presenters. archdiocesan Catholic Biblical School, and Dr. Greg Denver. Registration will be at the door, with a Robbins, assistant professor of religious studies at suggested donation of $5. For more information, call Secular Franciscans the University of Denver, will join Dr. Eskenazi in a 789-1620. discussion of the distinctive role of Jerusalem. Pan Secular Franciscans in St. Elizabeth’s fraternity elists will respond to a 30-minute film on the history Regis entrance exam will begin a study of Matthew’s Gospel under the and archaeology o f Jerusalem, commenting on Jer direction of Capuchin Father Paulinus Karlin Jan. 28 usalem’s significance for Judaism and Christianity Regis High School will hold its make-up entrance at 1:30 p.m. in the Annunciation School cafeteria. Continued on Page 29 examination for eighth grade boys Jan. 27 at 8:30 Candidates will meet there for class at 10 a.m. After a.m. The test will be given at three locations: Regis the 11 a.m. Mass candidates and members will join High, 52nd and Lowell; St. Thomas More’s Parish, for brown bag lunches in the cafeteria. The Gospel Catholic Register Special! Proposal ^300 jShrint of jSaint JuiJt Xhaddeus would ban Move-in allowance for abortion as leasing a newly decorated 'o m l n i c o M birth control 1 bedroom apartment. WE ARE OPEN AGAIN! ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) Your new apartment — The Minnesota Catho will feature: Solemn Novena in honor of lic Conference Jan. 12 40 oz. wall-to-wall carpet OUR LADY OF LOURDES AND ST. JUDE THADDEUS joined other pro-lifers in Step saver kitchen To be held February 3-11 supporting proposed at ST. DOMINIC’S CHURCH legislation to prevent use Carport Bush & Steiner Streets of abortion as a means of individually controlled San Francisco birth control. heat/alr conditioning Services Daily: 8:15 a.m.& 5:30 p.m. Heated pool/sauna (719) 633-2121 ROSARY RECITED According to a sum mary, the proposed leg Sun room TEN MINUTES BEFORE Exercise room EACH SERVICE islation declares that “ it is unlawful to perform or Electronic entry door attempt to perform an with a private abortion when it is being Intercommunication used or sought as a method o f birth control.” system If you cannot attend, please Social activities mail your petitions today K e ^ i > c y The proposal, expected Spectacular views jH ^ lir in t of j^aint lu d r Thaddrus to be introduced shortly On a bus line ^ ^ l o w e r after the state Legisla c/o Fr. Thomas J. Hayes, O.P. ture convenes Feb. 12, Apartments 3 floorplans ^ 921 Green Star Drive 2390 Bush Street Room 21 would also demand Father Thomas J. Colorado Springs, CO San Francisco, CA 94115 “infomed consent” in to choose from 80906 Hayes, Preacher libortion cases. ^ I ' l : at 'i Urn ■ ■ I i s r j l iiiTiillTri.ru i n I I t iiiiiaairi ? rr in iiti I Denver Catholic Register — January 24, 1990 — Page 29 ■ I DCR HAPPENINGS rief Continued from Page 24 Alumnae of the Sacred Heart experience in Haiti, where she helped set up homes today. The breakfast program will be held Jan. 30 for orphaned children with AIDS. Sister was recently from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the DuPont Room of the Mary The monthly meeting of the Colorado Alumnae of honored by the city of San Diego as a Most Valuable Reed Building. Upcoming programs in the Finding the Sacred Heart will be held Feb. 2 at the home of Citizen. Msgr. Lawrence St. Peter will celebrate Mass nas Mrs. William St. John. Featured speaker will be and Common Ground interfaith forum series include: following Sister’s talk. Reservations may be made by “Abortion: Common Concerns and Religious Differ Sister 'Virginia McMonagle, RSCJ, assistant to the calling Betty Managan, 722-7463, or Helene Gust eak president of San Diego University. She will tell her j.m . ences,” Feb. 27; “ Religion and Money: Interfaith afson, 757-2273. )ex- Perspectives on Having and Giving,” March 27, and a of “Judaism, Christianity, and the Holocaust.” April 24. on For reservations, costs and more information call Camouflaging the 871-3020 by Jan. 25. the reality rge, ma- a id s Education Day of abortions By Jerry Fiiteau “THANK YOU The archdiocesan AIDS Task Force will present ff an AIDS Education Day for prie.sts and people of the WASHINGTON (CNS) the Northwest Denver parishes Jan. 27 at St. Dominic's — ..\bortion is "killing,'' FOR CARING! bru- Church, 3005 W. 29th Ave., from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The and calling it a question the topics will include information about AIDS, living of choice is “camouflag ^est- with AIDS, resources, and discussion of parish out ing reality,’' Cardinal iage reach to persons with AIDS. There will be no lunch, John J, O’Connor of Now alid but drinks and snacks will be provided for breaks. A York said in a national d is $5 donation is requested but not obligatoiy. Those message Jan. 16. with planning to attend should call St. Dominic’s for reg :ces- istration, 455-3613. The cardinal, chair el’s, man of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the Cursillos to be held National Conference of Catholic Bishops, called The Cursillo Movement of the Denver archdiocese on Catholics and others will be holding two weekends: “to work tirelessly on A men’s Cursillo weekend in English will be held behalf of unborn chil Feb. 16-19 at St. Joseph’s Church, Sixth and Gala- dren who cannot speak pago. on their own behalf,” A women’s Cursillo weekend in English will be held March 8-11 at St. Joseph’s Church, Sixth and His message was re Galapago. leased through NCCB For information and applications call Arlene Jar- offices in Washington. :hed amillo, 433-1592 or 781-8700, ty of The killing of “ more be- than 20 million innocent inity Alcoholism unborn children” in cred abortions since 1973 is a •eak- Queen of Peace Oratory, 5360 Columbine Rd,, “ moral illness” affecting nver Denver, will offer a program Feb. 3, from 9 a.m. to 5 the nation. Cardinal Greg p.m., by Sheila Trujillo for persons in the alcoholic O’Connor said. ;s at recovery process. The cost is $25, which includes in a lunch. In addition, “ countless Pan numbers of women con story tinue to suffer the phys Jer- Mass and Rosary ical, emotional and spir anity itual ravages of an abor A Mass and Rosary with the theme of Medjugorje je 29 tion decision,” he said. will be held at St. James’ Church, 13th and Oneida St, at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 26. For more information call “ I don’t use the word 1! Madeleine or Charlie, 377-3072. ‘killing’ to inflame, but simply to explain what is real,” he said. “The lan Arvada school tour guage of ‘choice,’ ap As part of Catholic Schools Week, there will be an pealing to many Am informational meeting and tour of St. Anne’s School ericans, hides the reality Jan. 30 at 9:30 a.m. The meeting will consist of a talk of what that choice is all by the principal on the school philosophy, curricu about.” lum, discipline code, tuition and registration. St. PEOPLE YOU C M RELY ON... TODAY AND TOMORROW. Anne’s School contains grades kindergarten through eighth. The school is at 7320 Grant PI., Arvada. SLATTERY G. COMPANY H oran & McCoNATv^t Procession on El Salvador toULeVARt) MORTUARIES FAMILY Wlschanical Contractors A demonstration to show solidarity with church 3020 Federal Boulevard 1091 South Colorado Boulevard workers and all the oppressed peoples of El Sa Denver, CO 80211 Ph. 477-1625 Denver, CO 80222 Ph. 757-1238 lvador, a prayer service and candlelight procession will be held Jan. 31 at 7:30 p.m. The procession will PLUMBING Since isn o nn/ ji in lili/ has icorkcd hart I i<> earn the n iiiIk tciu <■ begin at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (ind irusi of Dcnccr-arcii fainilics. ,\.s one of ihc lew rcinainiiui lonilli/ (Colfax and Logan) and continue on to St. Paul’s HEATING ow ned nnd Iniiiilij opemied morn nines, w e heliei '<■ ihai our i urn uj Episcopal Cathedral. Everyone is invited to join in personal sireiee. uiiraeiiee lu( ililies and tuU^ continue n> he the entire service or to gather in one of the churches AIR CONDITIONING the cornerstone of our tuliire. to join in prayer. Participants are asked to bring a despei ifullij.y candle to carry. For more information, call the Drain and Sewer archdiocesan Justice and Peace Office, 388-4411, Ext, Cleaning 155, or the Colorado Council of Churches, 861-1884. I------24-HOUR I Yes! Robert F. Connor, Sr. Name Sacred Heart Retreat house President I / would like Robert F. Connor, Jr. I more information Address Days of Prayer that includes talks, sharing, and Vice President prayer, will be held at the retreat house in Sedalia I on funeral Feb. 6 and Feb. 7, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The 744-6311 I options and City Code topic of each day will be “ What Song Do I Sing?” 181 VpUejp,^ I your services. ^ fcl.-rj: given by Sister Eleanor Sheehan, C.S.J. The cost pcluding lunch, is $12. Call 688-4198 for reserva-i 2, Telephone f - . r;f I- ’ J- -- ■ li,- .P ' Page 30 - January 24, 1990 - Denver Catholic Register Mexican church may be legalized INVESTMENT . By Mike Tangeman Expectations were church-state relations, Committee on Govern MEXICO CITY (CNS) accelerated with the expressly stating that ment and Constitutional ADVISOR — Expectations are on publication of a Dec. 28 Mexican law “does not Issues as well as mem the rise that a dramatic article in the Mexican recognize any legal bers of the Senate change in Mexican daily newspaper capacity whatsoever of committee on Govern ‘0’ Treasuries church-state relations — Unomasuno quoting the the religious groupings ment and National De By Joseph Sturniolo, CFP legalizing the church — Vatican’s delegate to known as churches.” fense were instructed, I received a letter and question the other day that might take place prior to Mexico, Archbishop Archbishop Prigione Proceso said, to “reach intrigued me. “ What is likely to happen, in view of the visit of Pope John Girolamo Prigione, as of the Mexican Congress their own conclusions continued deficit spending by the government, when Paul II in May. saying that as early as a 282-page document ti about the role of the it defaults on its interest payments?” The government of February the tled “ Constitutional Ar church in Mexican his How many of you worry Mexican President government could reveal ticle 130” which con tory and thus form an about that? Carlos Salinas de Gortari its intention to amend tained analyses of opinion on church-state First, the deficit as a per was reportedly readying constitutional Article church-state relations by separation and the pos cent of Gross National Prod legislation that would 130. distinguished legal ex sibility of modifying the uct (GNP) has gone down ev change the nature of That article is seen as perts. constitutional ruling in ery year since 1981. In fact, church-state relations, the major stumbling Members of the matters of religion.” the national debt has merely granting legal block to improve Chamber of Deputies’ returned to its former level recognition to the under President Kennedy. In Catholic Church for the .1 the 1940s, the national debt first time since the Film exposure was twice as large as it is adoption of anti-clerical Depressed today. measures in the Mexican for Ski Train What about interest pay Constitution of 1917. The Colorado Rio ments on that debt? True, the Grande Budweiser “Ski _____ interest burden did virtually Train” will join the & double after 1979, reaching a high of 3.3% of Gross C z e c h Denver Broncos during National Product in 1985, before leveling off to 3.1% the national telecast of in 1987. the Super Bowl Jan. 28. A new record, yes, but hardly a “gusher” — more c h u rc h The ski train will be fea W orried like a persistent trickle. Service on that debt is still tured in the premiere of small when compared to government receipts, most a Diet Sprite commerical Health Insurance Problems!!! recently 19.4% of GNP. Today’s interest burden ac fre e d filmed at Union Station tually represents about the same share of federal in the Rockies and Paying High Premiums! VATICAN CITY (CNS) aboard the train. The receipts as in the immediate pre-World War II years. — Czechoslovakia’s new Have You Been Turned Down! The general government interest burden has also commerical — a send-up coalition government has of mystery thrillers — Have You Been Denied!! increased in most Group Seven countries. Japan’s formally agreed to rein went from .8% of GNP to 1.8% between 1979 and includes e la b o r a te I CAN HELP state full religious free stunts. The Ski Train is 1984. Why? Because of the worldwide interest rate. dom and halt “ any type Even though U.S. interest burden in the ’40s was also featured in “ Flash of surveillance” over back,” an action comedy lower than today, the national debt, relative to GNP, priests and bishops. was vastly higher. The U.S. prime rate was 1.5% to filmed in Colorado star C a l l The step opens the ring Dennis Hopper, 2% and today our prime is 10%. This lower rate was prospects of state fi LARRY 428-0260 owing to manipulation between the Federal Reserve K iefer Sutherland and nancing of church activ Carol Kane. “ Flashback” Chronically III Coverage Available and the Treasury, which created most of our reces- ities, religious education .ions and inflation surges. Savers are not naive any will be released nation in public schools and ally Feb. 2. more. They want to be compensated for inflation and reopening of seminaries, market volatility. Governments cannot borrow as said Karel Hais, a gov cheaply as they once could. ernment official who will With interest rates dropping, this interest burden deal with church affairs. should return to normalcy. That downturn in interest His statement was re rates reinforces my contention that investors should ported Jan. 12 by Vatican be buying 10- to 15-year bonds. Radio. One exceptional opportunity for growth and safety That same day, the H erbert is a Zero Coupon Treasury Bond. Zeros are notes Vatican’s special envoy issued by corporations, governments and municipal to Eastern Europe, ities. Unlike conventional bonds which sell at or Archbishop Francesco near their face (maturity value). Zeros sell for a Colasuonno, traveled to fraction of their face value — perhaps as little as Czechoslovakia for talks 10%. In other words, a $1,000 Zero Coupon due to Benson, M.D. with officials of the new mature in 20 years might be purchased for only $100! non-communist govern Instead of paying you interest periodically, the ment. QUALIFE Wellness Community proudly presents interest is automatically reinvested at a guaranteed Archbishop Colas rate and compounded over the life of the Zero Cou uonno was believed to be Herbert Benson, M.D., author of the best selling book, pon Bond. When it matures, you receive the full face trying to accelerate ne The Relaxation Response value, $1,000, in the example previously mentioned. gotiations for the naming Of course, you may sell the bond at any time prior to of bishops for five Herbert Benson— Harvard professor. Cardiologist, and Chief of the Behavioral maturity at its then current market value. Czechslovakian dioceses. Medicine Section of New England Deaconess Hospital's Mind/Body Clinic. One of the signiQcant reasons to buy Zeros now is He was also expected to Dr. Benson has done breakthrough research on the correlation between blood that interest rates have increased slightly due to the discuss a possible visit pressure and emotions and has incorporated this extensive research into his tgS‘'>ld snap this month and the scare of energy by Pope John Paul II to stress-reducing “relaxation response” technique. He defines the relaxation prices rising. I-’^ n ’t believe that will last. As a the East Europe nation. response as a “physiologic state of profound rest” in which changes occur in body result, interest t^les will continue their gradual de Last month, the gov metabolism, breathing, heart rate, muscle tension, blood pressure and brainwave crease and bon^.<^lues will continue to rise. Zeros ernment formally abol have historical] een the greatest beneficiary in activity. This response enables individuals— from cardiovascular and cancer ished the obligatory patients to athletes, professionals, and housewives— to decrease their levels of that rise. teaching of Marxism- What that m^ the investor is that a Treasury Leninism in state anxiety or stress and increase the sense of control in their lives. “0” that has compounded rate of return schools. It had been a may increase itional 10-20% in the next two staple of C z e c h Friday, February 2nd • Corkin Auditorium, years with a rate drop of 1 to 2%. That is a oslovakian education very safe way above average returns. since the end o f World Houston Fine Arts Center I f you are ;-adverse, then leverage those War II. 7111 East Montview Blvd., Denver. purchases and double that return. Your only The government will risk will be _;in interest expense. In any also be studying how to 6:30 p.m. Reception • 7:30 p.m. Lecture & Demonstration event, stop wi about the debt and start taking restore to the church Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 at the door. advantage of unities in bonds, some of the properties Address yo> ents and questions to The In- Call QuaLife at 393-WELL or write us at 1714 Poplar, confiscated by the com Denver, CO 80220 for tickets or information. vestment Advii leph Sturniolo, c/o The Denver munist government in Catholic Regii Josephine St, Denver, CO 1949. 80206. Meanwhile, the church Tickets are available at the door and at 6 Bank Western locations: Cherry publication Catholic Creek, Downtown, Southglenn, Aurora Mall, University Hills and Westland. Weekly has began pub lishing again in January for the first time since Sponsored by: the 1940s, church offi QIALIFE cials said. Proceeds to benefit.QuaLife, aweJIness community developedto enrich the-quaiity oUitetof people .dealing with, cancer .and othe* KfechaUengmg,tUne8se& - .. Denver Catholic Register — January 24, 1990 — Page 31 Priest resigns as ~r ^ head of media LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Capuchin Father An thony Scannell has resigned as head of Franciscan Communications, a Los Angeles print and electronic media operation he headed for 18 years. r i I The resignation was accepted by Fraticiscan Fa ther Joseph Chinnici, president of the board of Franciscan Communications, according to a Jan. 12 announcement from the organization. Father Scannell resigned mainly because of "burnout in administratio," but agreed to remain as head of the organization until a new president takes over in mid-1990, the announcement said. It added that Father Scannell "intends to remain at Franciscan Communications in some other capac ity” after a sabbatical. Franciscan Father Kaymond Bucher, vice provin cial of the Franciscan province of St. Barbara, Calif, was to name a search committee for the new presi dent. , . Franciscan Communications describes itself as the nation’s largest Catholic producer and distributor of ]jrint and audiovisual materials. “THE CATHOLIC HOUR” A tall check James Baca/DCR Photo WEEK OF JANUARY 28 A tall check to fill a tall need was presented by Frank pastor of Holy Ghost Parish downtown. The poor and Lorenzo, left, chairman of Continental Airlines, to Father homeless will benefit from the $138,100. C. B, Woodrich, co-founder of the Samaritan House and Hotted by John Connor* l>roduced by: B is h o p s DepL of Communicetlon* re s ig n * Archbishop J. Francis Stafford Weekly Reflection WASHINGTON (CNS) — Pope John Paul II has * H eart o f the N ation accepted the resigna tions of two auxiliary “Restlessness** bishops, both of whom turned 75 in recent * Choices We Face months. “Detours Along the Way’* The bishops are Auxil iary Bishop Dennis W. NIGHTLY Hickey of Rochester, * The Way Home M onday Wednesday N.Y., and Auxiliary **A C all To D iscip lesh ip ’’ Bishop Lawrence J. Alaskan King Crab Steak and Lobster Riley of Boston. SUNDAYS Chanel 12 4:00-5:00 p.m. Garlic Bread 1 lb. Baked Potato The resignations were Channel 11 in Boulder, 4:00-5:00 p.m. Cole Slaw Salad announced Jan. 16 by Channel 42, United Cable, 4:00-5:00 p.m. 1 Msgr. Rino Passigato, Channel 36, Mile HI Cable, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. $ 1 3 .9 5 $12.75 charge d’affaires at the MONDAYS apostolic nunciature in Channel 10, American Cablevislon of Littleton, Tuesday Thursday Washington. Monday, 12:30 p.m. Prime Rib Live Maine Lobster Thornton and Wheat Ridge 8:00 p.m. 1 lb. Baked Potato Cole Slaw TUESDAYS Garlic Bread Channel 10, American Cable of Thornton, 1 p.m. Salad Jesuit Channel 36, Mile High Cable 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. $11.75 $13.45 WEDNESDAYS Saturday speaks Channel 10, American Cable of Littleton, 12:30 p.m. A Jesuit theologian. THURSDAYS 14 oz. NY Strip Steak Alaskan King Crab Father Kevin Burke, will Channel 12, 4:00-5:00 p.m. Garlic Bread give a free presentation Cablevislon of 1 lb. Baked Potato o*" Channel 4, Colorado Springs, 7:00 p.m. Cole Slaw on “ Speaking the Word Salad — Communication and $12.75 $13.95 Community in Contem porary America” at Re ★ Now Available ★ gis College, W. 50th Avc. Fr. Ken Roberts Featuring Certified and Lowell Blvd., Jan. 25 BLACK ANGUS BEEF at 7:30 p.m. in the Sci Mission at Christ ence Amphitheater. The King Parish •With the purchase of your favorite Beer, Wine or Cocktail Father Burke is cam VIDEO AODIO pus minsitcr and a $25 each $5 each COCKTAIL HOUR member of the Religious * “Christian Marriage” ______Studies Department at * Christian Home Life” ______1 ib. Peel & $ 0 0 0 4 to 11 Regis College. He en Monday thru Friday tered the Jesuits in 1976 * “Youth: Facing Eat Shrimp and studied at Weston Today’s Challenges” ______School of Theology in * “Return to God” ______Join us for Lunch, Dinner & Cocktails Cambridge, Mass. He was Enclosed is my check or money order for $ ______ordained in 1986 and has Name------at Rodney’s, a casual friendly been with Regis since neighborhood bar with excellent food. 1988. Downstairs at 2819 E. 2nd Avenue • 394-3939 For more information State- -Zip_ I On 2nd Avenue Between Detroit and Fillmore on a speaker or the lec MAIL TO: "TH E CATHOLIC HOUR" CHERRY CREEK NORTH ture series, call 458-3514. 200 Josephine Street, Denver, CO 80206 I »i t, 1. id a il i.liiUdJ Page 32 — January 24, 1990 — Denver Catholic Register Turning cookies into cash 3i<^^cr c ^ c — ^ c y '~ ‘ Third graders help Mother Teresa’s Sisters -ho f 1 f Anne Conry’s third graders at Annunciation “It was a clever marketing choice,” Conry said, School in Denver have been turning cookies into “because Annuciation is known for its healthy L^e- n o / r\oT cash to help Mother Teresa’s Sisters. lunches — we never, ever serve dessert.” OL t o r w o r i\ < P d Conry said the students have been interested in Annunciation, Conry said, has attempted other fund raisers but none has been so successful as h ‘= < .r j ^ ut/C Wafl ‘f y o u k o Mother Teresa since a school Mass was offered a/ij for her the past October. The Mass was part of a the cookies sales to benefit Seton House Fund. 1 ■/ o y' Th spiritual bouquet presented to Mother Teresa In three days, $72.56 was raised for Seton ■f o. when she visited Denver in May 1989. House Fund. On Jan. 17, Conry and several stu dents delivered a check for that amount to Fa “We have been praying daily for Mother Teresa ther Marcian O’Meara, vicar for religious. Along and her mission here,” Conry said. “Whenever I L 0 ^ ^ - , saw an article about Mother Teresa or her new with the check, the third graders also sent letters mission, I clipped it out and put it up on the to Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity who now reside at Seton House. bulletin board.” Paul Torres wrote, “When we heard that you Conry said that when the children learned that were coming and we heard the bad new (about Seton House Fund had been established to fi the costly repairs required at Seton House) we nance the cost of extensive repair and renovation started to sell cookies. Then we collected $72.56.” of a 69-year-old convent as Mother Teresa’s mis Frances Rodriquez wrote, “We know it’s not a sion, they wanted to help. lot but we worked hard.” “It was spontaneous,” Conry said. “They > / . DiAnna Wilson wrote, “We did it for you and ' BUSINESS _ —^ DIGEST Y or )rag- but The First Golden p.m. at West Pines Hos pray Bancorporation an pital, 3400 Lutheran else nounced the following Parkway, Wheat Ridge. appointments: Mark F. Larsen as president and The sessions are aimed oion, at helping participants: chief operating officer of ns of Develop a systematic First Interstate Bank of inity. program of personal Centennial, N.A.; Dennis own humor enhancement; A. Kinsey to president identify laughter, humor and chief operating of here and play techniques to ficer of First Interstate the improve one’s ability to clear Bank of Westminster, N.A; and Van T. 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Main 1703 Cedar Ave. Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Brighton, CO 80601 Greeley, CO 80631 422-3425 659-4446 353-8234 Page 34 — January 24, 1990 — Denver Catholic Register them — are not a proclamation of conditions nces- grasp when we accept love because we affirm God’s sary for entry into the kingdom. They are an affir image in ourselves. SUNDAY’S — mation in prophetic style language that the afflicted The beatitudes speak of the poor in spirit — they are no longer without hope. who let go of things in order to value persons. They “ “ GOSPEL There is no single absolute interpretation of the speak of those who mourn in order that God’s com beatitudes. Luke only has four beatitudes in his fort may give them peace. They speak of the meek gospel and four corresponding “woes” to stress the who inherit because they patiently await God’s time contrasts in values. It would be useful to the reader and place for recompense. They speak of those who 4th Sunday of the Year — to compare the style of Matthew and Luke on this hunger and thirst for justice receiving a satisfaction particular teaching of Jesus. The beatitudes present that goes far beyond the moment of gratification with Mt. 5:1-12 us with hope in the fulfillment of Jesus’ promises goods and pleasure. They speak of the merciful, who, By Father John Krenzke since His kingdom seemed to be slow in arriving. being like Abba, find mercy a gift unearned. They Matthew sees Jesus as a new Moses. Moses was The kingdom will never arrive without our effort and speak of the pure of heart as those who are so single- leader, prophet and savior of his people. Just as response. minded and honest that they see God in the midst of Moses received the law and the covenant on the These sayings of Jesus are not intended to lay a tragedy and chaos. They speak of those who suffer mountain so Jesus gives a new law “ on the moun burden on the believer, for Jesus did not say, “You for the sake of righteousness so that rejoicing is the tain.” must do all of this and that in order that you may be fruit of truth lived in honor. They speak of those who Jesus speaks as a prophet. He proclaims the ar blessed (happy).” The gifts of God in and through discover their dignity as sons and daughters. The rival of the kingdom according to God’s gracious will Jesus always precede His invitation to search out the meaning is open to further insight and prayerful to save. All of us are “ happy” or “blessed” because demands of the full life. Jesus always invites. He reflection. “Blessed are those who hear the word of God wills it. We have not earned this gracious gift of never treatens with damnation in order to bring God and keep it.” salvation and merciful love. Isaiah in the sixth cen humanity to God. tury before Christ had foretold that the poor, the Jesus does not offer us impossible ideals. Happi « .Sungry, and the afflicted would be privileged to ness is within our grasp when we accept the gift of Take The Register enjoy the reign of God. Here is a new law of justice being forgiven and the responsibilities of reconcilia that clearly transcends the justice of our world. tion. Happiness is within our grasp when we accept for Good News Jesus often speaks of the conditions necessary for God as Abba (beloved father) and ourselves as be receiving the kingdom. The beatitudes — as we call loved sons and daughters. Happiness is within our BRIDAL BRIDAL EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT WEDDING MUSIC Organist - Pipe or Electric IsXCIsL^ . Any type of service. m - America’s Beef Company Have Keyboard - Will Travel Any Place; any time. 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Mississippi ____ t !433^3222 • 477-9462 Page 36 - January 24, 1990 — Denver Catholic Register j H m v R o m CHEVROLET«GEO CHEVROLET • D/XIMATSU • G e O • ISUZU • PEUGEOT #- Mm PAUL SATRIANO Sales Representative* Parishioner-Sts. Peter & Paul Church & Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church. 1990 S-10 EL PICKUP 1989 ASTRO PASSENGER VAN| J1990 S-10 BLAZER # 3143 ^ ^ # 1 2 3 7 8 4 Wheel drive, #30901 MSRP $8395, MSRP $14,529, MSRP $16,191,I Discount $456, Discount $1874, I Discount $1693, Rebate $1000, Rebate $1000, I Rebate $1250, Total Total Selling Price Total Selling Price $11,655 1st Time Buyer Discount6339 $600 11,655 I Selling Price $13,248 13,248 1990 BERETTA 2 DOOR 1990 LUMINA 4 DR SEDAN #21018 ST TIME L#11564 MSRP $10,905 BUYERS MSRP $12,338 Discount $1,106 Discount $1,639 Rebate $1,000 W e lco m e Rebate $1,000 1st Time Buyer Discount $600 See Us For Details Total Selling Price $9699 Total Selling Price $8199 1990 G e ® PRIZM 1990 TRACKER 1990 STORM L.#3095 #21127 #11449 MSRP $10,552, Discount $1061, MSRP $11,565 I 1 St Time Buyer Discount $600, , MSRP $11,131, Discount Discount $750 , Import Owner Discount $600, $1770,1st Time Buyer Rebate $500 Rebate $800, Discount $600, 1st Time Buyer Discount $600 Total Selling Price $7491 Total Selling Price $8761 Total Selling Price *9415 QUALITY USED CARS AND TRUCKS ’79 MONTE CARLO ’84 PONTIAC FIERO ’87 CHV V2TON SILVERADO Good tranportation! #3006A *1588 Summer fun now #141938 *4988 Loaded #3155P SAVE ’87 CHEV NOVA ’86 VW JETTA GL ’83 CHEV. S-10 X-CAB 4X4 One owneMow miles. #9036A SAVE! German engineering. Very nice! #15162A *4988 Tahoe #15172A SAVE ’84 FORD ESCORT ’87 CHEV CELEBRIY ’86 CHEV S-10 4X4 Nice car! #9020A 4 dr. Family car #21090A *5988 Bed liner. #12509P *2788 ’86 CRY LeBARON CLEAN! ’84 CHEV CELEBRITY Nice car #114266 *6788 ’83 CMC S-15 X-Cab 4X4 4dr. A T and more #210718 *3488 ’86 FORD 1 TON CREW CAB #117078 *6988 Dually XL Big Block #15160A ’88 CHEV CELEBRITY ’83 BUICK SKYHAWK Rare 4-dr., Eurosport #21066A Sunroof, low miles, #11775P SAVE! ’88 TOYOTA PU $1 *7988 ’82 CMC VAN CONV. Clean #11282P ’89 CHEV CORSICA Loads of funi #3073A *3988 ’85 FORD BRONCO II XLT Low miles #11463P *8388 #18011A ’88 FORD BRONCO II XLT ’84 FORD T-BIRD 6988 Loaded #12499P SAVE Loaded #21015A *4588 Home of the ’89 CHEV CORSICA ’86 OLDS CIERA "^# 1 1 4 3 3 P *8988 Ft/wheel drive #1501OA *4588 ’86 TOYOTA COROLLA ’64 PONT CATALINA Low miles. #11776P SAVE #117778 *988 Prices Include all charges except taxes. All vehicles subject to prior sale. Prices good thru 1-27-90 CHEVROLET f D A IM A T 8 U . PEUGEOT 8303 West Colfax/6 blocks west of Wadswortli In Lakewb<^/237-1311 ? 1