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St. John the Baptist, Wit and wisdom of Lou Holtz New Haven celebrates 150 years pages 10-12 assists Women’s Care Center Support from community Assignments was overwhelming Bishop John D’Arcy announces BY BONNIE ELBERSON pastoral appointments FORT WAYNE — Former University of Notre Page 3 Dame head football coach Lou Holtz was the fea- tured speaker at a dinner held recently at the Grand Wayne Center in downtown Fort Wayne. The fundraising event was held to benefit the local Women’s Care Center on the fifth anniversary of its School Choice founding. Tax Credit Holtz addressed the audience with his customary rapid-fire delivery, striding back and forth across the Catholic schools could benefit stage while mixing self-deprecating humor and an inspirational message that had his audience Page 9 enthralled for the better part of an hour. He began by praising the work of the Women’s Care Center. “It is great for me to be here for such a good cause. I came here out of tremendous respect for this community.” Jubilarians He continued by saying that everyone should Brothers and sisters have a dream that inspires them and he shared with the audience his personal life rules for achieving that highlighted dream. First, “do right,” he said. Second, “do every- thing to the best of your ability,” and third, “show Pages 9, 13, 18 people you care.” In addition, Holtz said, everyone needs something to do that he is passionate about, someone to love who returns that love, something to hope for along life’s path and someone to believe in, namely God. That is Sharing faith KAY COZAD the simple formula for success, he pointed out. St. Francis de Sales Bishop John M. D’Arcy presents former Notre Dame football coach and longtime friend Lou Holtz with a statue of Our Lady at the close of a special fund-raising dinner for the and the devout life Women’s Care Center. HOLTZ, PAGE 3 Page 18 Year for Priests Web site ENVELOPE COMING NEXT WEEK highlights celebration In the June 21,2009 issue WASHINGTON — The U.S. Bishops’ Elements of the site include Pope of Today’s Secretariat for Clergy, Consecrated Life Benedict’s message for the occasion and and Vocations has set up a Web site to mark the announcement of the plenary indul- Catholic, an the Year for Priests, to be celebrated June gence in both English and Spanish in con- 19, 2009-June 19, 2010, throughout the junction with the celebration. Additional offering enve- world. elements include prayers that have been lope will be Pope Benedict XVI has designated the commissioned for both priests and laity. year-long celebration to begin on the feast PDF documents of these prayers inserted into the newspaper requesting of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a day of prayer (English/Spanish) can be downloaded and readers to help us pay for a portion of the for the sanctification of all priests. The printed for diocesan and parochial use. pope also has designated St. John Vianney During the year, the secretariat will pro- production and delivery costs of this news- as the universal patron of all priests on the vide monthly articles by prominent paper to all registered Catholic homes in occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Catholic women who will write about their saint’s death. The saint, who also is known faith and trust in the priesthood. the diocese. Your offering gives you a share as the Cure of Ars, is the patron of parish Other activities for the Year for Priests in the works of evangelization throughout priests. will include a gathering of priests in Rome The Year for Priests Web site can be the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. found at www.usccb.org/yearforpriests. PRIEST, PAGE 3 We ask that you be as generous as possible. 2 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC JUNE 14, 2009 TODAY’S CATHOLIC Official newspaper of the Fundraiser strengthens the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend P.O. Box 11169 Fort Wayne, IN 46856

PUBLISHER: Bishop John M. D’Arcy work of protecting little babies

EDITOR: Tim Johnson Humbarger of Allen County Right to Life It reminded me about the early days NEWS EDITOR and STAFF WRITER: Kay Cozad — who made it all possible through months when a pioneer priest would come and stay of planning. awhile, and regularize marriages, and see Lou’s talk — inspirational and joyful as that people’s spiritual needs are taken care Editorial Department always. Everyone crowding around the of. PAGE DESIGNER: Francie Hogan NEWS coach afterwards to speak with him and get Father Philip is studying theology at FREELANCE WRITERS: Lauren Caggiano, an autograph. Saint Joseph’s Seminary in New York with Michelle Castleman, Karen Clifford, &NOTES The joy of having Mass and breakfast two other priests. Elmer J. Danch, Michelle Donaghey, with Lou and his friend, Skip Strzelecki, at With all that pastoral and sacramental my home the next morning before taking work, he was still able to play some tennis. Bonnie Elberson, Denise Fedorow, BISHOP JOHN M. D’ARCY them to the airport. The chance again to He called it “ground tennis” to distinguish Diane Freeby, May Lee Johnson, Sister greet Dick Rosenthal, a longtime friend and it, he said, from table tennis. Margie Lavonis, CSC, Joe Kozinski and former athletic director at Notre Dame and Also, many Hispanic Catholics from St. Deb Wagner A night to remember a great friend of the coach. Patrick Parish. A few years ago, a note from Ann Above all, a joyful evening, and yet the Business Department Murphy Mannion, president of Women’s opportunity to strengthen so deeply the Speaking of universality BUSINESS MANAGER: Kathy Denice Care Center, indicated to me that the work of protecting little babies and their With Father Philip Aung Nge at the AD GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: Mark Weber Women’s Care Center in Fort Wayne was mothers before and after birth. Of course, cathedral, we now have a priest from Lou played golf earlier in the day. The BOOKKEEPING/CIRCULATION: Kathy Voirol growing so fast, and so many young Uganda, Nigeria, India and Burma. All are [email protected] women and their babies were being helped, ever-present Bobby Williams, development exemplary. In addition, we have Father Jim that there was need of a major fundraiser. director for the Women’s Care Center Stoyle and Father Bob Schulte — the rec- Advertising Sales What to do? I thought of my dear friend, Foundation, making so much of it possible. tor. But as you probably notice in reading Lou Holtz. Many years ago, he helped us the newspaper this week, this will all soon Tess Steffen (Fort Wayne area) with a fundraiser for Catholic Charities and And the presence of the foundress change. (260) 456-2824 also for Vincent House. I wrote to him and You have to pause and reflect about Jeanette Simon (South Bend area) asked him if he could come sometime Janet Smith, Ph.D. She was a professor at North to Kalamazoo (574) 234-0687 between the next 12-18 months; and Notre Dame, of the department of liberal With the help of the excellent navigator, Web site: www.diocesefwsb.org/TODAY through his office, we settled on June 2, studies, where she influenced, very pro- Deacon Jake Runyon, who was my driver, I 2009. foundly, hundreds of young Catholics and went to the installation of a new bishop at Published weekly except the fourth others. Seeing so many students at Notre St. Augustine’s Cathedral in Kalamazoo. Sunday in June, second and fourth So many highlights Dame and Saint Mary’s and other colleges, This diocese, started in 1971, is much weeks in July and August, the first week The crowd was about 400, at $250 a as well as non-students, becoming pregnant younger than ours; but it was a joy to be of September and last week in plate. with no one to turn to; she found the small with some other bishops at this local church December by the Diocese of Fort Surely, a highlight was to see Lou with blue house near the campus, and thus began just north of South Bend, and greet the new Wayne-South Bend, 1103 S. Calhoun St., the Women’s Care Center. P.O. Box 390, Fort Wayne, IN 46801. several of his old players all at a table made diocesan pastor Bishop Paul Bradley — a Periodicals postage paid at Fort Wayne, possible by Ruth Beier, herself a Notre Janet has been a warrior for the church’s native of Pittsburgh. IN, and additional mailing office. Dame graduate. It included the great Jeff teaching on life, and chastity and marital Burris, who played so many years in the love. The feast of Corpus Christi POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: NFL, and played both ways at Notre Dame; Her tape on contraception, so reasonable This splendid feast, like Trinity Sunday, Today’s Catholic, P.O. Box 11169, Fort Reggie Brooks, who became a Catholic and beautiful, has been given to millions of developed later in the church, but it points Wayne, IN 46856-1169 or e-mail: during his time at Notre Dame or perhaps young people preparing for marriage and out something supremely Catholic; namely, [email protected]. shortly after, and is now a member of Holy those already married — a clear presenta- the presence of Jesus Christ, body and Cross Parish, South Bend, with his family; tion in support of always being open to life. blood, soul and divinity, as the Council of MAIN OFFICE: 915 S. Clinton St., Fort much talk about his game-winning catch She speaks at colleges, universities, Trent proclaimed in the holy Eucharist, Wayne, IN 46802.Telephone (260) against Penn State — our own Brian Baker everywhere; and in more recent years at 456-2824. Fax: (260) 744-1473. reserved in the tabernacle for a dual pur- — a walk-on, and now both a CPA and an state colleges. pose; namely, Communion to the sick, and BUREAU OFFICE: 114 W.Wayne St., South Almost alone, she and Lisa Everett and a Bend, IN 46601.Telephone (574) 234- attorney in Indianapolis, and a legendary the prayer and adoration of the faithful. 0687. Fax: (574) 232-8483. running back on two championship teams few others picketed the famous speech This does not mean that faith in the real at Bishop Dwenger. It is said that he scored years ago of Gov. Mario Cuomo at Notre presence is new. St. Augustine said, News deadline is the Monday morning 30 touchdowns as a senior at Dwenger; Dame. She was present at the pro-life rally “Before you receive the Host, you should before publication date. Advertising another lineman, named Josh Hamilton. on the day of graduation at Notre Dame adore it; and if you do not adore it, you deadline is nine days before publica- Seeing Lou greet them was special. and again at this event with Lou Holtz. Not have sinned.” The presence of Christ tion date. We did an auction similar to what we do surprisingly, there was a young woman reserved in the tabernacle is important; it is in the high schools, and realized $66,000 with her who has founded a pro-life preg- what has made our Catholic churches LETTERS POLICY: Today’s Catholic wel- for Women’s Care Center. When the full nancy center in Michigan. unique and holy over the years. This week, comes original, signed letters about amount raised is in, I will share it with you. Dr. Janet is now a professor at the among many other things, I am preparing a issues affecting church life. Although There was a superb presentation by Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit, where letter to be dated on Corpus Christi and we cannot publish every letter we Anne Koehl, director of the Fort Wayne young men are prepared for the priesthood. receive, we strive to provide a balanced sent out soon to our priests, and also print- program, and the presence of a woman You made it all possible, Janet, because you ed in this newspaper. It will accompany a representation of expressed opinions decided not to just let things happen — but and a variety of reflections on life in the soon to be married with her little baby and document concerning the proper placement church.We will choose letters for publi- her husband-to-be, the father of the baby, to do something. of the tabernacle in our churches. It has cation based on reader interest, timeli- and the story of how she had driven around been prepared after wide consultation with ness and fairness. Readers may agree or Fort Wayne and nearly given up before Feast of the Holy Trinity our priests and our Environment and Art disagree with the letter writers’ opin- parking the car and walking and finding the A beautiful Mass at the Cathedral of the Committee. ions. Letters must not exceed 250 Women’s Care Center where she also found Immaculate Conception on Trinity Sunday Let this feast of Corpus Christi be a words. All letters must be signed and the hope, love, understanding and consola- with confirmation for 48 adults. moment of grace for us all; and let it include a phone number and address tion that she needed to help her baby. She A special joy that there were five strengthen our belief in the presence of for verification.We reserve the right to had given permission for the reading of a Burmese confirmed. I am grateful to Father Jesus Christ in the holy Eucharist when we edit letters for legal and other concerns. letter explaining how the Women’s Care Philip Aung Nge, who is living at our receive him in holy Communion; and when Mail letters to: Today’s Catholic, Center had helped her tell her mother about cathedral for several weeks to give spiritual we adore him and pray to him in church. I P.O. Box 11169, Fort Wayne, IN her pregnancy, and the beautiful baby was care to the Burmese. At the end of the will be in St. Patrick, Walkerton, for this 46856-1169; or e-mail: with her at the dinner. month, he will join in marriage nine cou- feast. [email protected] John Tippmann, Don McArdle and Don ples at the cathedral in one ceremony. See you all next week. Dimberio — the real mainstays; along with He prepared these five for confirmation, ISSN 0891-1533 Dee Dee Dahm, Maureen Schott, Ruth and has been hearing confessions and giv- USPS 403630 Beier, Don Schenkel; and also Cathie ing instructions. JUNE 14, 2009 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 3 Priest assignments announced Bishop D’Arcy has announced the following assignments of priests:

• Deacon Auburn, to chap- Conception, Fort Wayne, to pas- Fernando Jimenez, lain to the sisters tor of St. Patrick Parish, Arcola. having complet- and the residents Effective Aug. 4, 2009. ed his studies for at Sacred Heart • Rev. James the priesthood at Home, Avilla, Stoyle has been the Pontifical effective July 21, reassigned from College 2009. associate pastor Josephinum DEACON • Rev. Derrick REV. BABASINO at the Cathedral Seminary has FERNANDO Sneyd is reas- FERNANDES of the been assigned to JIMENEZ signed from pas- Immaculate the Cathedral of tor of St. Conception, Fort the Immaculate Conception, Fort Anthony Parish, Wayne, to pastor REV. JAMES Wayne. He has also been South Bend, to of Immaculate STOYLE assigned for weekend ministry at pastor of Conception Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish Immaculate Parish, Kendallville. Effective and Shrine, Warsaw. The effec- Conception Oct. 7, 2009. tive date is June 16, 2009. Parish, Auburn. • Rev. Lourdino Fernandes has • Effective July been reassigned from pastor of KAY COZAD Deacon Jacob REV. DERRICK Runyon having 21, 2009. SNEYD Immaculate Conception Parish, Former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz receives a portrait created completed his • Rev. Philip Kendallville, to pastor of Blessed by a local artist from Ruth Beier at a fund-raising dinner held for the studies at the DeVolder is reas- Sacrament Parish, Albion. Women’s Care Center. Pontifical signed from pas- Effective Oct. 6, 2009. Father College tor of St. Vincent Lourdino will reside temporarily at Josephinum de Paul Parish, St. Patrick Parish, Ligonier. ence by saying, “Fort Wayne has Seminary has Elkhart, to pastor • Rev. Francis Chukwuma, J.C.L., has historically been a pro-life city.” been assigned to DEACON JACOB of Our Lady of been appointed from residence at HOLTZ Besides a silent auction featur- St. Matthew RUNYON Guadalupe Parish the Cathedral of the Immaculate ing more than 100 items, a verbal Cathedral Parish, and Shrine, REV. PHILIP Conception, Fort Wayne, to pastor CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 auction familiar to those attend- South Bend. He will also assist Warsaw. DEVOLDER of St. Joseph Parish, Bluffton. ing diocesan high school high school ministry in the South Effective Aug. 4, Effective Aug. 4, 2009. Father fundraising events such as the Bend-Mishawaka area. Effective 2009. Father DeVolder will reside Francis will continue as a judge at He spoke at length about life’s bishop’s auction, also produced date June 15, 2009. at Sacred Heart rectory, Warsaw. the Diocesan Marriage Tribunal. core values, which include trust- an enthusiastic response. A num- • Deacon • Rev. Glenn • Msgr. Thadeus Balinda has been worthiness, commitment to excel- ber of anonymous donors made Andrew Budzinski Kohrman is reas- reassigned from associate pastor of lence and concern for others. Not substantial contributions as well has one more signed from St. the Cathedral of the Immaculate only do they hold a family to make the evening an unquali- year of seminary Mary of the Lake Conception to pastor of St. Mary together, they unite a nation as fied success. Early estimates indi- preparation. He Parish, Culver, of the Lake Parish, Culver, and well. He concluded by encourag- cate that approximately $400,000 will serve as a and chaplain at chaplain at Culver Academy. ing his listeners to believe in was raised for the care center. deacon this sum- Culver Academy, Effective date is Aug. 4, 2009. themselves in order to succeed. General chairmen of the event mer at St. Mary to pastor at St. • Bishop D’Arcy has accepted, In addition, Holtz sprinkled were Don McArdle and John Parish, Decatur. DEACON Vincent de Paul REV. GLENN for reasons of canonical age, the Notre Dame football references Tippmann. They said, “The The effective ANDREW Parish, Elkhart. KOHRMAN retirement of Rev. Camillo Tirabassi. throughout his remarks and Women’s Care Center mission is date of his BUDZINSKI Effective Aug. 4, The effective date of this retire- included comments designed to so important that we eagerly assignment is 2009. ment will be Aug. 4, 2009. Father delight his audience when he pre- undertook this task.” June 15, 2009. • Rev. Dale Tirabassi will reside at Holy dicted an 11-1 season for the McArdle commented further, • Rev. Bruce Bauman has been Family Parish, South Bend. Irish. “We appreciate the people who Piechocki, J.C.L., reassigned from • Bishop D’Arcy has accepted, Nearly 400 guests enjoyed the worked on this event — they did has been reas- pastor of St. for reasons of canonical age, the evening hosted by Bishop John an outstanding job.” signed from Joseph Parish, retirement of Rev. Walter Bly. Father M. D’Arcy, an ardent supporter Anne Koehl, director of the administrator at Bluffton, to pas- Bly taught many years at Saint of the Women’s Care Center. In local care centers, summed up the St. Francis tor of St. Francis Joseph’s High School, where he introducing him, emcee Bobby experience. “The support of the Xavier Parish, Xavier Parish, REV. DALE also coached football and served as Williams commended his respect community was overwhelming. It Pierceton, to REV. BRUCE Pierceton, and BAUMAN assistant pastor at Corpus Christi for life as a “good shepherd of was a wonderful evening,” she pastor of Our PIECHOCKI, JCL associate pastor Parish, South Bend. The effective our diocese.” In turn, Bishop said. Lady of Good of Cathedral of the Immaculate date of this retirement will be Aug. D’Arcy complimented his audi- Hope Parish, Fort Wayne. Father Conception, Fort Wayne. Both 4, 2009. Piechocki will continue as judi- assignments are effective Aug. 4, • Bishop D’Arcy has accepted, cial vicar. The effective date of 2009. for reasons of canonical age, the • Rev. Daryl retirement of Rev. Daniel Leeuw. Parishes across the Diocese of the change of parishes is July 21, 2009. Rybicki has been Effective date July 21, 2009. PRIEST Fort Wayne-South Bend are reassigned from Father Leeuw served many years announcing celebration plans. • Rev. Mark Gurtner, J.C.L., is St. John the as chaplain at Sacred Heart Home, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 At Queen of Peace Church in Baptist Parish, Avilla, and the Byron Health Mishawaka, they will launch the reassigned from pastor of Our Fort Wayne, to Center. Father Leeuw will continue year June 19 with daily Mass, pastor of Corpus to serve the Veteran’s Hospital in for the culmination of the Year Lady of Good followed by eucharistic adoration Christi Parish, Fort Wayne and to assist the St. for Priests, as well as retreat on Hope Parish, REV. DARYL and Benediction at 3 p.m., fol- South Bend. Mother Theodore Guérin the national level. Information on Fort Wayne, to RYBICKI lowed by the singing of the Effective Aug. 4, Community, Fort Wayne. the retreat will be provided pastor of St. REV. MARK Divine Mercy chaplet. 2009. Bishop D’Arcy has accepted through the Web site. Anthony Parish, GURTNER, JCL On the Queen of Peace Web • the recommendation of Rev. David Dioceses and organizations South Bend. The Rev. Cyril site, www.queenofpeace.cc, the has Tyson, CSC, provincial of the may link the Year for Priests Web effective date of this assignment Fernandes faithful could pledge various been reassigned Congregation of Holy Cross, and site. Instructions under the tab for will be July 21, 2009. components of a spiritual bou- from St. Patrick has made the following assign- “Promotional Materials” Father Gurtner, J.C.L., has quet — a Mass, rosary, day of Parish, Arcola, to ments: www.usccb.org/yearforpriests/pro also been assigned as adjutant fasting, etc. — for the priest list- pastor of St. John • as associ- mote.shtml indicate how to link judicial vicar. Father Gurtner will Rev. John P. Riley, CSC, ed that day or for all priests. the Baptist ate pastor of St. Joseph Parish, to the site. coordinate the South Bend Their plan is to list every priest Parish, Fort South Bend. This assignment will Today’s Catholic will be fear- Marriage Tribunal Office. The REV. CYRIL in the Diocese of Fort Wayne- Wayne. Effective be effective July 1, 2009. turing a look into the lives of the effective date of this appointment FERNANDES South Bend, both active and Aug. 4, 2009. • as dea- priests through the year under the is also July 21, 2009. Rev. Mr. Kevin Grove, CSC, retired, as well as priests from • has been reas- con at St. Joseph Parish, South heading of “The Years of Our • Rev. Babasino Fernandes has Rev. Alex Dodrai the Congregation of Holy Cross signed from associate pastor at Bend. This assignment will be Priests.” The series begins June been reassigned from pastor of or other religious orders serving the Cathedral of the Immaculate effective Aug. 30, 2009. 21. in the diocese. Immaculate Conception Parish, 4 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC JUNE 14, 2009 Hudson River survivor tells faith story Vatican paper highlights at ND Medjugorje conference agreement with U.S. bishops thing came over him while he moments that followed as a mix BY DIANE FREEBY was at his office, and he made his of calm and fear. As he thought on life issues way to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in about his family, he realized the “Obviously the Holy See and NOTRE DAME — “My faith Charlotte. It marked his first time pilot was going to land in the BY JOHN THAVIS helped me survive that flight, and inside a church in years. Hudson River. L’Osservatore Romano have been, that flight has impacted my faith “I knelt down and started to “At that point, I looked are and will be fully at the side of forever.” weep silently,” recalled Berretta. around. I could tell people were VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The the U.S. bishops in their commit- Fred Berretta, a survivor of “I had a conversion experience. I praying, and I started to pray,” Vatican newspaper has again ment in favor of the inviolability the US Airways Flight 1549 that had a clarity about my transgres- recalled Berretta. “And then it emphasized that when it comes to of human life in whatever stage of landed on the Hudson River, sions before God. And I walked occurred to me it was the 3 the Obama administration and pro- its existence,” it said. shared his story of conversion, out a changed person, no ques- o’clock hour. I remembered the life issues, the Vatican and the The commentary said it would faith and survival at the recent tion.” Divine Mercy prayer. I didn’t U.S. bishops are in full agreement be wrong to interpret the newspa- National Medjugorje Conference Berretta went on to marry, have time to say the chaplet ... I and that no compromise is possi- per’s articles as a sign that it held at the University of Notre have children and enjoy a suc- really just had seconds, maybe a ble on the right to life. viewed the U.S. bishops’ anti- Dame. cessful job. While struggling to minute, and I thought of the The newspaper, L’Osservatore abortion campaign as an exercise Berretta revealed how Our maintain his prayer life, he even- image on the pamphlet, and the Romano, said it was a mistake to in partisan politics. Nor was the Lady gently called him back to tually recommitted himself to the promise ... and I thought, ‘God is view its press coverage of Obama Vatican following a “different the Catholic Church after he rosary and the Divine Mercy in control. If he can create a uni- — which has been positive on many strategy” than that used by U.S. struggled with his parents’ Chaplet. verse, he can certainly help this issues — as evidence that the bishops when it came to the inher- divorce and drifted from all On Jan. 14, 2009, Berretta airplane.’ And with everything I Vatican is following a “different ent evil of abortion, it said. forms of religion. came across a Divine Mercy had, I prayed that God would be strategy” than the U.S. bishops in The newspaper said Obama has At a new job in North booklet while cleaning his brief- merciful to us.” dealing with the new administration. shown himself to be open to dia- Carolina in 1992, things started case for a business trip to New Berretta recalled the calm, The comments came in the logue and that U.S. bishops have to change. Discovering an old York. The last words he read quick evacuation, with ferry newspaper’s June 5 edition, in an welcomed this possibility in a pos- family Bible, Berretta felt a before boarding the return flight boats arriving to rescue everyone. article criticizing the Obama itive manner. But in doing so, it desire to kneel and pray. After the next day were from Jesus to “I felt a tremendous gratitude administration’s restoration of fed- said, “they have reaffirmed, and struggling though the Our Father St. Faustina. that’s impossible to describe,” eral funding for embryonic stem- quite rightly, that in dialogue no and Hail Mary, he began praying “At 3 o’clock, implore my said Berretta. “Everything in the cell research. compromise is ever possible on more frequently throughout his mercy especially for sinners,” he world seemed good. People were The newspaper appeared to be the fundamental question of the day, occasionally reading Bible read, “ and if only for a brief coming up to me that I didn’t defending itself against accusa- right to life.” passages. Then he saw a docu- moment, immerse yourself in my know, congratulating me. They tions by some U.S. Catholic com- In May, a similar statement mentary on Fatima. passion, particularly in my aban- were joyous we were alive. That mentators that its editorial line was came from L’Osservatore editor “I had heard of apparitions of donment in my moment of fueled my gratitude.” too soft on Obama. Giovanni Maria Vian, who said: the Virgin Mary before, but I had agony. This is the hour of great Berretta said he learned so In one of the latest critiques, “It should be understood that dismissed them as overzealous mercy for the whole world. In much from what became known Michael Novak, director of social L’Osservatore shares the same piety,” said Berretta. “I started to this hour I will refuse nothing to as “The Miracle on the Hudson.” and political studies at the position as the American bishops research the events of Fatima. I the soul that makes a request of It made clear to him that God is American Enterprise Institute, who consider abortion a disaster. It then learned about Medjugorje, me by virtue of my passion.” always in control. wrote in National Review Online is always a necessary and decisive and started to research what was These words came back to “I had been carrying my faith May 26 that L’Osservatore had task, in fact, to promote a culture happening there. I felt very him with intensity when, shortly around, quite literally, in my “published glowing, star-struck, of life at every level.” drawn to the Catholic faith. I felt after takeoff from LaGuardia, briefcase, and forgot it was teenage praise of President Barack At the same time, Vian has said a maternal influence of Mary, and there was an explosion. there,” explained Berretta. “How Obama” and “seems not to grasp that, despite obvious differences began to read any books I could “My initial thought was the easy is it for us to do this? The the fundamental realities of abor- with the new administration on find on Marian apparitions, to try left engine had fallen off the world will pull us in so many cir- tion politics in America.” pro-life issues, he does not consid- to reason my way through plane,” said Berretta. That was cumstances where we forget, but The Vatican newspaper said it er Obama a “pro-abortion presi- whether they were real or not. I the only thing I could deduce ... God is very merciful. ... If we wanted to underline that “in report- dent,” and his newspaper has was impressed, both in Fatima as I looked out at the wing, I place our trust in God, his mercy ing on recent statements and initia- emphasized Obama’s declared and Medjugorje ... primarily noticed it was still there. That and his help, great things can tives of the president of the United commitment to reducing the num- because in Medjugorje ... with was good. But it was on fire, and happen. Even miracles.” States, L’Osservatore Romano has ber of abortions. the fruits that were occurring.” that was not good.” certainly not intended to express Pope Benedict XVI and the One day, Berretta said some- Berretta described the appreciation for his positions on president are expected to meet in questions of ethical importance.” July. Immigration advocates to use summer to push legislation

BY PATRICIA ZAPOR Benefits and Security Act, or The goals for comprehensive mit with congressional leaders — nized by some states and in some AgJOBS, and the Development, reform have long included: scheduled for June 9, but since countries, or unmarried domestic Relief and Education for Alien • A legalization plan for undoc- postponed to June 16 because of partnerships are not recognized WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Minors Act, or the DREAM Act, umented immigrants to pay fines, President Barack Obama’s interna- under federal law as conferring coalition of advocates for compre- both bills may advance through learn English and become legal tional travel schedule — is intend- rights to immigrate. hensive immigration reform is Congress before a comprehensive residents after a backlog of appli- ed to begin the serious push “The benefits this legislation gearing up for a summer-long push bill does. cations through existing channels toward creating and passing a seeks to provide are not contingent to get moving on legislation this But another type of new legisla- are addressed. comprehensive reform bill. upon the definition of marriage, year, with kickoff events around tion that would make it possible • Reform of the legal immigra- Some House and Senate com- which I believe is an issue best left the country the first week of June for same-sex couples to sponsor tion system, making it easier for mittees have begun holding hear- to the states,” said Leahy. and a summit meeting at the White each others’ applications to immi- families to be reunited, than the ings on some aspects of immigra- The bishop who heads the House scheduled for June 16. grate could alienate some of the current system of sometimes tion issues. migration committee of the U.S. While it apparently will be usual advocates for eased immi- decades-long waiting lines allows. One of those hearings, held by Conference of Catholic Bishops some time before the latest version gration restrictions, notably the • Enforcement targeted at the Senate Judiciary Committee said in June 2 letters to members of a comprehensive reform bill is Catholic Church. employers. June 3, focused on legislation of Congress that the conference ready to advance in Congress, sev- At a June 3 Washington press • Restoration of due process sponsored by committee chairman would oppose such legislation. eral individual bills already have conference sponsored by the new rights for immigrants. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on fam- Leahy’s bill, and a companion been introduced to address other coalition called Reform One new component for discus- ily-based immigration version introduced in the House by immigration issues. Immigration for America, a roster sion among those who hope to At that hearing, Leahy said his Rep. Mike Honda, D-Calif., Oft-shelved efforts have been of regular and some new support- influence how legislation is written Uniting American Families Act “would erode the institution of revived to pass broadly supported ers of comprehensive reform laid is the possible creation of an immi- intends to enable U.S. citizens to marriage and family,” Bishop John bills dealing with agricultural out the agenda for the coming gration commission to study why apply for immigration status for C. Wester of Salt Lake City wrote workers and students without legal months. Most of the goals are the and how people come to the their nonmarital domestic partners. in a letter to Honda. He said status who came to the country same as they have been for the last United States, said Medina. Currently only heterosexual Honda’s bill promotes a position with their parents. several legislative attempts at com- Ali Noorani, executive director married couples may apply for that is contrary to the very nature Known respectively as the prehensive reform, but with a few of the National Immigration such visas for their spouses. Same- of marriage which predates the Agricultural Jobs, Opportunity, new points of focus. Forum, said a White House sum- sex marriages, which are recog- church and the state.” JUNE 14, 2009 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC 5 Vatican media welcome Obama’s speech in Cairo as step toward peace

Obama recognized Muslims as a image of the United States will ben- BY JOHN THAVIS part of American society and efit from it,” Bishop Sarraf said. called Islam a religion of peace, Archbishop Paul Dahdah, apos- VATICAN CITY (CNS) — U.S. citing verses from the Quran. tolic vicar of Beirut, Lebanon, said President Barack Obama’s speech “It seems to me that Obama has he hoped the speech would spur in Cairo, Egypt, was welcomed by touched the right chords in the real initiatives aimed at resolving Vatican media as a step toward hearts of Muslims and the entire the “root of all problems in the peace and a new beginning in world and that he has opened an region,” the Israeli-Palestinian American relations with Muslims. era of more receptive and more conflict. “If that does not happen, The Vatican spokesman, Jesuit frank dialogue between the United the extended hand will not lead to Father Federico Lombardi, said the States and the Islamic world,” any result,” he said. June 4 speech was important not Scialoja said. Franciscan Father Pierbattista only for relations between the Several Christian leaders in the Pizzaballa, head of the Franciscan United States and Muslim coun- Middle East said they were gener- Custody of the Holy Land, said tries but also for international ally impressed with Obama’s Obama was sincere, determined peace. It brought “an element of speech but wanted action to follow and very balanced in his speech, hope” to the world horizon, he said the president’s words. confirming the U.S. relationship in a commentary June 6. “It’s a speech that has been with Israel but signaling a change “The undeniable political needed for a long time, and the in strategy with the Arab world. weight of the United States is U.S. president had the courage to “This should give an impetus to being employed with clarity make it,” Chaldean Bishop the search for a solution to the toward objectives that are certainly Youssef Sarraf of Cairo told the main problem, the Israeli- crucial for peace in the world,” the Italian Catholic agency SIR. He Palestinian conflict,” he said. spokesman said. expressed the hope that “Islam and He said it was important that He cited several concerns the Arab world will know how to Obama had recognized the poten- touched upon in the speech by the CNS PHOTO/LARRY DOWNING, REUTERS receive this extended hand.” tial role of the militant group U.S. president, including an U.S. President Barack Obama speaks in the Grand Hall of Cairo “It’s the beginning of a new Hamas in a future peace settle- Israeli-Palestinian agreement, University in Egypt June 4. Obama told the world’s Muslims that violent process, a new era. Obama really ment, asking at the same time that nuclear disarmament, religious extremists had exploited tensions between Muslims and the West. wants to change things, and the Hamas recognize Israel. freedom, democratic values, devel- opment and women’s rights. It said the president “went tries. “These are openings toward beyond political formulas, evoking “The words pronounced at the directions in which very many concrete common interests in the University of Cairo are much more people of good will want to coop- name of a common humanity,” than an extended hand, but the erate in order to find the right way including peace, security, educa- foundation of a real common plat- for humanity, and which we hope tion, work, family life and reli- form for launching what (Obama) can be a meeting ground for gious values. defines as a new beginning in rela- believers in God, creator and lover On the question of Iraq, the tions between the United States Our experienced and professional staff is dedicated of peace,” Father Lombardi said. newspaper said, Obama “marked a and the Middle East,” it said. to providing the highest quality of nursing care. 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Archbishop Pro-life leaders Curtiss has been appointed to concerned Tiller’s murder serve as apostolic administrator until the installation. “It is hum- may hurt their efforts bling to be given such responsibil- ity by the vicar of Christ, and I WASHINGTON (CNS) — There EWS RIEFS thank the Holy Father for this is growing concern that the May N B privilege,” the new archbishop 31 murder of a Kansas abortion said during a press conference in doctor in his church may tarnish Omaha. “I look forward to learn- the image of the pro-life move- MASS FOR PLANE CRASH VICTIMS AT CHURCH IN BRAZIL ing about all of the ways in which ment, at a time when it appears a the Gospel is preached and lived slight majority of Americans have in the Archdiocese of Omaha.” embraced the cause. Leaders in several pro-life organizations also said public proclamations that the Diocese warns doctor who performed late-term abortions “got what he deserved” excommunication looms and “reaped what he sowed” by for Lefebvrist priests people who “claim to be pro-life” advocates don’t help the move- OXFORD, England (CNS) — ment. “Statements like that hurt Officials in the Diocese of the cause,” said Shaun Kenney, Regensburg, Germany, have said executive director of the American plans by the traditionalist Society Life League. “When we cheapen of St. Pius X to ordain new priests our own principles, we do our- without Vatican consent at a local selves a tremendous disservice.” seminary will lead to their excom- Dr. George Tiller, 67, of Wichita, munication. “This will be Kan., was fatally shot while serv- uncanonical, since they have no ing as an usher at the city’s entitlement to conduct their own Reformation Lutheran Church ordinations,” said diocese during Sunday morning services, spokesman Jakub Schotz. “Our according to The Associated bishop is waiting for Rome to Press. Pro-life groups and the U.S. advise on how to respond. But it Catholic bishops quickly will almost certainly result in the denounced the murder, saying that excommunication of the priests such violence is contrary to their and the bishop who ordains them,” respect for all life, from concep- Schotz said. The spokesman was tion to natural death. reacting to an announcement by CNS PHOTO/SERGIO MORAES, REUTERS the society that it would ordain Relatives and friends attend a Mass for the passengers of Air France Flight 447 at the three priests and three deacons in Fight secular trends, base its seminary at Zaitzkofen in ministry on love, health Nossa Senhora do Carmo Church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 5. People prayed during Bavaria June 27, along with the Mass for the 228 Air France Flight 447 passengers who lost their lives in the Atlantic another 18 at its headquarters in care leaders urged Econe, Switzerland, and at Ocean after the plane disappeared en route from Brazil to Paris June 1. Winona, Minn. In a statement, the NEW ORLEANS (CNS) — A Zaitzkofen seminary rector, Father Franciscan physician and ethicist Stefan Frey, said the society now warned Catholic health care lead- Congregation granted Detroit pastors share God’s presence evident in had “provisional legal status” in ers June 7 not to let their ministry the Catholic Church pending a become an entirely secular opera- power to more easily message of faith, hope all creation, pope says “definitive canonical ruling” on its tion that sees patients as customers laicize some priests in light of auto crisis VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope future, and had not been told to and leaves out the vital component Benedict XVI said God’s presence “put a stop to ordinations.” of love. Brother Daniel P. Sulmasy VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope DETROIT (CNS) — General as an orientation toward love is evi- recounted his experiences with an Benedict XVI has granted the Motors Corp.’s bankruptcy filing dent in all things, from the farthest unfeeling bureaucracy one evening Congregation for Clergy new June 1 is one more dramatic and galaxies to the human identity or Pope names Philadelphia at his own hospital, St. Vincent’s in powers to dismiss from the priest- harsh reality to Detroit-area resi- “genome.” The pope spoke about New York. He contrasted it with hood and release from the obliga- dents still reeling from plant clos- the relationship between God and vicar for clergy as an the approach of a nurse at a local tion of celibacy priests who are ings, downsizing, job losses and man at his noon blessing June 7, the auxiliary bishop secular hospital whose care of living with women, who have house foreclosures. With the head- feast of the Most Holy Trinity. patients mirrors more closely the abandoned their ministry for more quarters for the “Big 3” — “God is totally and only love, love WASHINGTON (CNS) — Pope love that saints, heroes and than five years or who have General Motors, Chrysler LLC that is pure, infinite and eternal. He Benedict XVI has named Msgr. founders of Catholic health care engaged in seriously scandalous and Ford Motor Co. — all within does not live in splendid solitude, Timothy C. Senior, vicar for clergy brought to their work. “Perhaps we behavior. The new powers do not the Archdiocese of Detroit, the but instead is an inexhaustible in the Philadelphia Archdiocese can ask ourselves why Mother apply to cases involving the sexu- impact of the auto crisis has been source of life that unceasingly gives since 2004, to be an auxiliary bish- Teresa went to Calcutta,” he said. al abuse of minors by a priest; personal on a number of levels. itself and communicates itself,” he op there. The appointment was “I think we all know that it wasn’t those cases continue to be subject “Just what GM represents, not just said. The pope said God’s identity announced June 8 in Washington by for the outcomes.” Brother to special rules and procedures to us, but to the country,” said can be grasped when looking at the Msgr. Alexander Cifuentes Sulmasy spoke on the opening day overseen by the Congregation for Father Thomas Slowinski, pastor “macro-universe” of planets, stars Castano, charge d’affaires at the of the annual assembly of the the Doctrine of the Faith. The new at St. Andrew Parish in the suburb and galaxies, and also at the apostolic nunciature. Bishop-desig- Catholic Health Association, which faculties were announced by of Rochester. “This giant has fall- “micro-universe” of cells, atoms nate Senior’s installation Mass will brought almost 800 leaders in Cardinal Claudio Hummes, pre- en and when it gets up it will be a and particles. be July 31 at the Cathedral Basilica Catholic health care to New fect of the clergy congregation, in lot smaller.” Father Slowinski’s of SS. Peter and Paul in Orleans June 7-9. A medical doctor an April 18 letter to the world’s parish is just miles from the Philadelphia. “My heart is filled who also holds a doctorate in phi- bishops. Catholic News Service Chrysler headquarters and a num- Archbishop Curtiss of with gratitude first to almighty God losophy, he is to become a profes- obtained a copy of the letter in ber of auto plants. He and other for the gift of life and for the gift of sor of medicine and medical ethics early June. Cardinal Hummes told parish priests across the archdio- Omaha retires; Illinois my Roman Catholic faith. I treasure in the divinity and medical schools CNS June 3 that the new, quicker cese planned to address the cur- bishop named successor the gift of faith and the priceless gift of the University of Chicago July administrative procedure for dis- rent situation during the June 6-7 of friendship with Jesus Christ who 1. “We are frequently guilty, I missing priests was prompted by weekend as they gathered for the WASHINGTON (CNS) — Pope has called me to share in his sacred think, of turning the Catholicity of “many situations where canon law celebration of the feast of the Holy Benedict XVI has accepted the priesthood,” Bishop-designate our hospitals into a series of moral did not seem adequate for meeting Trinity. Father Christopher Maus, resignation of Archbishop Elden Senor said at a June 8 press confer- codes,” Brother Sulmasy said. “But new problems.” As an example, pastor of St. Daniel Parish in sub- F. Curtiss of Omaha, Neb., 76, and ence in Philadelphia. Bishop-desig- none of these codes can serve as the cardinal said the 1983 Code of urban Clarkston, said: “We’ve has named as his successor Bishop nate Senior was born in replacements for the ever-new and Canon Law made no provision for been struggling with this for a George J. Lucas, 59, of Philadelphia May 22, 1960. He ever-renewing encounter with the a bishop to initiate a process to lai- year, even through the bankruptcy Springfield, Ill. The changes were attended St. Charles Borromeo person who is love,” he added. cize a priest who had abandoned just happened. We’ve been deal- announced June 3 in Washington Seminary in Overbrook, Pa., and “That encounter must be the foun- his ministry. ing with foreclosures, trying to by Archbishop Pietro Sambi, earned a bachelor’s degree in 1981. dation of our health care systems balance budgets, trying to balance apostolic nuncio to the United He was ordained a priest for the and our institutions.” the church budget and people try- States. Archbishop Lucas will be Philadelphia Archdiocese in 1985. ing to balance their own budgets.” installed July 22 at St. Cecilia’s JUNE 14, 2009 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC 7

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Harcourt Religion “This is truly a wonderful oppor- Publishers’ customers will continue tunity for the community and for KAREN CLIFFORD to work through their established Ancilla College graduates to con- St. Pius X School in Granger completed its inaugural year with a school assembly on June local sales representatives and gain tinue their higher education immediate access to a wider array through Calumet College of Saint 5 that included a time capsule of items from each grade level and other school memora- of products and programs. Over the next several months, customers can Joseph, while remaining in the bilia. 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Lindenwood at (574) 935-1763 Henry and Holocaust survivor CCSJ Vice President Dr. Dan During the retreat, key insights that weekdays 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Doris Fogel. St. Aloysius to host Lowery will be on hand to answer Paul has into Jesus will be investi- The contest challenged both sesquicentennial events questions, along with representa- gated and the opportunity to appre- Area Catholic students public and parochial middle and tives from both the business and ciate the great depths of his spiritu- high school students to write essays YODER — St. Aloysius Church criminal justice departments at ality and commitment to Jesus and win Holocaust essay and or poetry on the subject and was will celebrate its 150th anniversary CCSJ. his church will be presented. poetry contest judged by a panel from the commu- on June 20-21 with several events. Desila Rosetti, business profes- The retreat facilitator Michael nity. On Saturday, a polka and square sor, will be available to talk with Fonseca holds degrees in counsel- FORT WAYNE — An annual Poetry winners from St. Mary of dance, featuring the music of Die students about the business pro- ing psychology, theology, English memorial observance, sponsored the Assumption in Avilla were Freudemacher German band, will gram. literature and philosophy and is cur- by the Fort Wayne Jewish Nichole Rorick, who won first be held from 7-10 p.m. in the activ- The faculty for these programs rently director of spiritual forma- Federation, for the 6 million Jews place and Bret Sible who won third. ity center. Families are invited. A will have their offices at Ancilla tion and facilitator for diaconate who were killed in the Holocaust freewill donation will be accepted. College, but will also be consid- formation programs in Michigan during World War II, titled Yom Our Sunday Visitor Snacks and beverages will be avail- ered part of the faculty at CCSJ. and Texas. For over 20 years Hashoah, was held on April 21 at able for purchase. After the dance, “It is not often that two col- Fonseca has had a spiritual direc- Congregation Achduth Vesholom. acquires Harcourt the parish will sponsor a bonfire leges agree to a joint faculty tion practice and has conducted Three students from St. John the Religion Publishers and burn the mortgage to the build- appointment,” said Blount. “This many retreats for parishes, religious Baptist were recognized for win- ing addition. is a sign of our commitment to communities and diocesan clergy. ning the annual essay contest this HUNTINGTON — Our Sunday On Sunday, the 11 a.m. Mass bringing higher education home to He has also written “Living in year, each receiving a certificate Visitor announced June 3 its acqui- will be celebrated by Bishop John our community.” God’s Embrace and Loving in the and a savings bond from Star sition of Harcourt Religion M. D’Arcy. After Mass, children’s The open house will be held Master’s Footsteps.” Financial Bank. Eighth-grader Sam Publishers (a division of Houghton games and beef barbecue will be from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. and atten- The liturgy and Mass celebrant Stronczek won first place, seventh- Mifflin Harcourt) from Houghton available from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. dance is by RSVP by calling (574) Father John Scott currently serves grader Jibri Bramley took second Mifflin Harcourt Publishing A Marian music concert, pre- 936-8898 ext. 322. St. Thomas Aquinas in Knox, and and seventh-grader Nick Steffen Company. This brings together two sented by parishioners and friends has been a personal friend of won third place. of the nation’s leading Catholic of the parish, will be held in the Lindenwood holds retreat Fonseca’s for most of his life. The students studied the publishing groups. Terms of the church at 3 p.m. The choir, soloists on the letters of St. Paul The retreat fee of $350 includes Holocaust in Michele Voigt’s lan- transaction were undisclosed. and musicians will sing traditional meals and a private room. The pro- guage arts class at St. John’s, who The strategic combination of the and contemporary hymns of the DONALDSON — Registrations gram begins Sunday evening, July said, “They are amazing students ... two companies’ product lines, serv- Blessed Mother. The concert are now being accepted for the con- 12, at 5 p.m., with a light supper motivated ... diligent. They have a ices and innovations represents an includes congregational singing. ference retreat “The Letters of and ends Friday, July 17, at 1 p.m. good understanding of the unprecedented, one-source solution The event is free and open to all. St. Paul.” In the year of St. Paul the Registration deadline is Holocaust.” Their essays were for lifelong faith development with- Aloysius is located on State Road 1, Apostle, this retreat will focus on Monday, July 6. For information on printed for those in attendance, in Catholic parishes and schools. just south of Interstate 469, exit 6. 8 TODAY’S CATHOLIC JUNE 14, 2009 St. Vincent de Paul Store offers hand crafted bunkbeds

workshop area. With a work table App said the volunteers on BY LAUREN CAGGIANO and a core group of volunteers average produce about 25 pieces a from various parishes, the work- month. That translates to at least FORT WAYNE — There was a shop was well underway. two beds and two dressers a week. need and they had a solution. Put Last year, with a successful A bed takes about four hours to simply, this is the model for the model on their belts, the volunteers make and a dresser, about three furniture building program at the undertook the production of bunk hours, App said. St. Vincent de Paul Society’s store beds. Today, seven volunteers, Ray Although the core group of vol- at 1660 S. Calhoun St. Mata, John Becker, Pat Doyle, Ed unteers has remained the same The story starts in 2004 when Wene, Cletus Rumschlag, Bill over the years, a few other things General Manager Steve App Machocker and Jim Zehner, come have changed. noticed customers would routinely every Monday, Wednesday and “We’ve changed the design come in requesting bedroom Friday for about four hours. from time to time,” Becker said. dressers. Donations did not meet Retired teacher John Becker is Still, the beds are designed for a the high demand, so they had to among the loyal group of retirees child, with safety features in mind. turn people away. One thing was who pledges his time to this cause. The furniture is affordable, clear — something had to be done to help the needy. App said the idea of making the furniture was proposed, but not very well received. “Over a period of six months PHOTOS BY LAUREN CAGGIANO we would ask many individuals if Volunteer John Becker shows an example of one of the bunkbeds made they could do this project and the for needy families at the St. Vincent de Paul Society’s store on Calhoun usual answer was it would cost too Street. much and some people didn’t have enough room,” App recalled. which helps cater to their low- who needs a dresser or bed.” But as the group would find income clientele. Dressers retail App said the challenge is creat- out, God works in mysterious for $75 and beds sell for $95, or ing awareness, especially in this ways sometimes. The store devel- $230 with a mattress. Needy fami- weak economy. oped a relationship with Amish lies are referred to St. Vincent by “We have to get the word out,” craftsmen in LaGrange and soon participating parishes. In turn, St. he said. they were producing enough Vincent’s is reimbursed by the He also reminds community dressers to meet the need. parish for a majority of the cost of members that the store is always The process was simplified the bed. accepting donations of clothes, fur- when volunteer Ray Mata pro- Ultimately, the program under- niture, appliances and other house- posed they set up shop and build lines the store’s mission. hold items. For more information, the dressers themselves. A part of “The work of the St. Vincent de contact App at (260) 456-3561. the clothing warehouse was pre- St. Vincent de Paul store manager Steve App and John Becker stand next Paul Society is to help the poor,” pared to be transformed into a to a hand-crafted dresser. he said. “No one is turned down Construction projects enhance USF campus MEDJUGORJE CONFERENCE ATTRACTS MANY TO NOTRE DAME BY LAUREN CAGGIANO attraction. Adkinson said the uni- versity hopes to “take Bass Mansion and ensure it doesn’t FORT WAYNE — The fall into disarray.” She noted, University of Saint Francis (USF) while the building will have a has come along way from a few “new face” it will maintain the acres of land to the impressive heritage alumni cherish. campus it is today. Five construc- Fundraising has been under- tion projects are now underway way for several years, and the and university officials are look- university reported it has raised ing forward with an ambitious more than $5.3 million to accom- master plan. plish this goal. The majority of The university is catering to the funds will go to maintain the the growing residential popula- infrastructure, including updated tion. At a total cost of $6.2 mil- heating, cooling, electricity and lion, a facility, Clare Hall, will the installation of an elevator. provide suite-style accommoda- The building will serve both tions for 146 students in 42,000 an aesthetic and functional pur- square feet and will be open for pose. The interior will get a face- resident students in August. lift with restored murals, chande- Bonzel Hall is being renovated to LAUREN CAGGIANO liers and other décor. Long-term provide additional lobby space as President Sister M. Elise Kriss plans call for the transfer of the well as handicap accessibility. speaks at a news conference advancement, development and Demolition has begun on Bosco about the developments that lie president’s offices to Bass Hall to make way for access DIANE FREEBY ahead for the University of Saint Mansion. Adkinson said a major drives and parking for Clare Hall. challenge is maintaining the his- Several hundred gathered at the University of Notre Stacy Adkinson, USF’s execu- Francis. torical integrity of a 100-year-old Dame Grotto last Friday to pray the rosary. Father Daryl tive vice president, said the building. That’s why they are investment in residential life is an ect calls for the addition of a allowing 18 months to complete Rybicki, pastor of St. John the Baptist Parish in Fort attempt to make campus life foyer, with space for a lounge for the project. “more full-bodied,” as an integra- USF students, as well as space Wayne, led the candlelight procession across campus as tion of personal, professional and for the many students who come the people prayed the sorrowful and glorious mysteries. spiritual aspects of the Catholic from local schools for college experience. Currently all Schouweiler Planetarium shows. The rosary procession kicked off the 2009 National halls are filled, which was an The last project is the restora- Medjugorje Conference, held at the University of Notre impetus to start this project, she tion and renovation of the cam- noted. pus’s jewel: Bass Mansion. The Dame May 29-31. Father Rybicki also led the eucharistic Work has begun on the first building on campus, it has For further information, contact the adoration and Benediction Saturday night, and celebrated $245,000-renovation of the long been a symbol of the univer- president’s office at (260) 399- Achatz Hall of Science. The proj- sity and a popular community 7700 ext. 6910. the closing Mass Sunday afternoon in the Joyce Center. JUNE 14, 2009 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 9 School Choice Tax Credit part of governor’s budget package INDIANAPOLIS— Nine-year-old children in Central Indiana — and qualified scholarship programs. Indianapolis said, “CHOICE Mia Poindexter, a fourth grader at there are many more Hoosier fami- Lower income children in grades Charitable Trust provided about Holy Angels Catholic School in lies in need of this opportunity. K-12 could qualify for scholar- $55,600 this year in tuition assis- Indianapolis, got a chance of a life- Children statewide are going to INDIANA ships to help attend the public or tance. Our need was over time — the opportunity to receive have that same opportunity of the private school of their choice. The $75,000,” said Sharpe. “This a Catholic education. Lack of Poindexter family if Gov. Mitch CATHOLIC contributions could be made by upcoming year will be even financial resources, the typical Daniels has his way. Daniels individuals or corporations. tougher as many families who do roadblock for most parents in included an expansion of school CONFERENCE Msgr. Joseph Schaedel, vicar not qualify for CHOICE, have lost choosing their children’s educa- choice options for lower income general of the Archdiocese of jobs and found themselves strug- tion, was removed. The financial families through a scholarship tax BY BRIGID CURTIS AYER Indianapolis, who testified in sup- gling financially. Therefore, there void was filled by a private schol- credit as part of his budget pack- port of the scholarship tax credit is another group of families need- arship granting organization (SGO) age. Now it’s up to lawmakers to earlier this year and who has seen ing assistance.” called the Educational CHOICE approve it when they return to the when the House and Senate could the benefits to families and com- Glenn Tebbe, ICC executive Charitable Trust in Indianapolis. statehouse June 11, for a special not agree on other controversial munities, said, “The CHOICE director said, “The ICC and the Mia’s story of opportunity fea- session, to pass a new state budget. aspects of the state’s budget bill. Charitable Trust Scholarships have Indiana Catholic Action Network tured in the organization’s publica- The Indiana Catholic When the special session been ‘heaven sent’ for so many (I-CAN) have played and will play tion Families with a Choice, Conference and Catholics across begins, lawmakers will be working families who wanted the best edu- a vital role in getting this scholar- Children with a Future: School the state during the past several from the governor’s budget plan, cation for their children. Without ship tax credit passed. So I encour- Choice in Indiana is only one of months urged lawmakers to adopt which contains the scholarship tax these scholarships, it is simply not age everyone to keep contacting countless others. The success sto- the scholarship tax credit. The credit, and if passed, would pro- possible,” said Msgr. Schaedel. your state legislator and ask them ries are inspirational, yet the scholarship tax credit passed the vide a 50 percent state tax credit Mary Pat Sharpe, principal at to support the scholarship tax cred- CHOICE program only serves Senate twice this spring, but died for charitable contributions to St. Joan of Arc School in it.” Victory Noll Sisters celebrate jubilees HUNTINGTON — Fourteen Iowa, Colorado and New Jersey. California and New Mexico. She members of Our Lady of Victory Four Sisters celebrated 70 years currently is parish life coordinator Missionary Sisters (OLVM) cele- with Victory Noll, entering in in Villanueva, N.M. brated jubilees May 24 at Victory 1939. Three other sisters are also cel- Noll on the anniversaries of their Sister Millicent Peaslee, born in ebrating 60 years. entrances into the congregation. Gary, was missioned in Indiana, Sister Irene DeMeulenaere, born in Sister Carlota Michigan, New Mexico, Arizona, Victor, Iowa, was missioned to Baca, who turned Texas and California. She current- Nevada, California, New Mexico, 100 years old in ly is involved in volunteer ministry Wyoming, Arizona and Indiana. January, celebrat- in Alpine, Calif. She is now a personal needs assis- ed 80 years with Sister Helena Smith is a native of tant at Victory Noll. OLVM. She New Oxford, Pa. Her mission Sister Gertrude Sullivan, a native entered on Oct. work took her to Utah, Indiana, of Kendall, Wis., was missioned to 28, 1928. A Florida and California. Michigan, California, Florida, native of Peña SISTER Sister Pauline Wapiennik was born Nevada, Indiana and Arizona. She Blanca, N.M., CARLOTTA BACA in Gary, and was missioned in served as president of the congre- Sister Carlota California, Michigan, Indiana, gation at OLVM from 1971-77. 60 YEAR JUBILARIANS was missioned in Vermont and Wyoming. Sister Dolores Tringl, from St. New Mexico, California, Texas Sister Martha Wilke, a native of Louis, has spent her mission work and Arizona throughout her career. St. Rose, Ill., was missioned to in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Three Victory Noll Sisters cele- Indiana, Colorado, California, Missouri, Indiana and Arizona. brated their 75th jubilee, all enter- New Mexico, Oklahoma, She serves as a chaplain for the ing OLVM in 1934. Michigan and Texas. She is cur- University Medical Center in Sister Margaret Gutierrez is a rently involved with prison min- Tucson, Ariz. native of Duarte, Calif., and was istry at Victory Noll through letter- One OLVM missioned in California, Texas and writing. sister celebrated Bolivia before returning to Victory Among the five sisters celebrat- her 50th jubilee. Noll. ing their 60th jubilees are actual Sister Sharon Rose Sister Rose Elizabeth Hohner, born sisters Alodia and Helen Carney, Eshleman, from in Wheatfield, was missioned in natives of Detroit who grew up in Piper City, Ill., Gary, Indiana Harbor and Fort Iowa and joined OLVM on the has been mis- Wayne in Indiana, and also spent same day on Oct. 27, 1949. Sister sioned in SISTER time in Texas and New Mexico. Alodia has been missioned to Virginia, SHARON ROSE Sister Dorothy Anne Lengerich is a Texas, Iowa, Indiana, California, Pennsylvania, ESHLEMAN native of Decatur. Her mission work Colorado and Michigan. She now Indiana, Utah and took her to California, Texas, works at St. Patrick Parish in Fort New Mexico. She currently serves Wyoming, Michigan, Indiana, Wayne. Sister Helen’s mission as librarian at Victory Noll. Nevada, Massachusetts, Utah, Ohio, work has taken her to Texas, Ohio, 70 YEAR JUBILARIANS

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ed New Haven, Besancon, Hess BY DEB WAGNER Decatur, Lagro, Huntington, Co Lagrange County and Avilla wit he Catholic history of the New Haven care for the sick as far away as Tarea can be traced back to the early Although New Haven was no 1600s. It was at that time that French priests ed until July 7, 1866, the area C of the Franciscan and Jesuit orders worked were cared for by priests from F among the Miami Indians. Kekionga was the Father Alexius Botti held servic first name given to what is now known as in the home of Nicholas Schuck Fort Wayne and was first visited by priests dry goods store owned by Beute as early as 1669. Schnelker. He came once a mon On Dec. 17, 1823, Allen County was ter to a congregation of 10 fami named after Colonel John Allen of A brick church was soon ere Kentucky. Allen County and Wayne of $4,000 and used until 1876. B Township were synonymous in 1824. Adams Henry Luers laid the cornerston Township in the city of New Haven was cre- 1860. The parish had grown to ated in 1826 to honor President John Q. The first recorded baptism in Adams. called the “old church” was that Msgr. Julian Benoit arrived in Fort Wayne Adelaide Schnelker, the daughte in 1840 to found mission churches as well as and Louise Trentman Schnelker care for the sick at the time when the build- age 16 on Oct. 27, 1877 and by ing of the Erie Canal took place. His mis- hers was the last funeral from th sionary work Other surnames of those format includ- include Schlink, Golekee, Sarra and Klassen. The second church was built $16,000 and seated 450 membe dedicated on Nov. 11, 1877. Th ture measured 56 x 136 feet and at the corner of Powers and Ann where the current gymnasium n 1907, this parish had 114 famili with a total of 508 souls. The building was struck by a fire on Palm Sunday in 1954 an tually rebuilt as the church paris ship in today. In the first 100 years, there w pastors at St. John the Baptist in Haven. Father Wolfgang Giedel resident pastor. His appointmen tive in 1861 and he died May 2 contracting pneumonia while on His remains rest beneath the Cr group in St. John’s Cemetery. His successor in 1873 was F

These photos are views of the second church. It was torn down and a new and larger church was built in 1975. JUNE 14, 2009 ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST 11 AND FIFTY YEARS Haven celebrates rich history sen Cassel, Bernard Wiedau, who fed the parish spiritu- olumbia City, ally for almost 50 years. He built the second th calls to church and the old school, which provided a Muncie. quality Catholic education for almost 75 ot incorporat- years. When Father Wiedau retired to St. Catholics Vincent Villas for retired priests in 1921, St. Fort Wayne. John’s Parish was free of debt. He died in ces alternately 1932 at the age of 91. kmann and a The parish today owes much to the reli- er and gious who served years ago influencing the nth to minis- young people who then answered the call to ilies. become a religious sister, brother or priest. cted at a cost Over 40 women who were baptized or were Bishop John registered at St. John’s have committed to ne in late the consecrated life. Many answered the call 23 families. to join the Sisters of St. Agnes who taught n what now is them for so many years. Others entered t of Anna neighboring religious communities such as er of Herman the Sisters of Charity, Sisters of Providence, r. She died at Sisters of St. Francis and the School Sisters coincidence of Notre Dame. his church. Several priests have their roots at St. tive years John, New Haven, including Fathers Donald azen, Begue Isenbarger and David Voors. Current parish- ioner Jeremy Egri is a seminarian in t at a cost of Thornwood, N.Y. ers. It was St. John the Baptist in New Haven has e brick struc- grown in many ways since its early begin- d was located nings. A third church and parish community ne streets center was built to serve the over 1,200 fam- now stands. In ilies currently registered. These families ies registered come from New Haven, Fort Wayne, Leo, Woodburn, Monroeville, Harlan, Hoagland a disastrous and Payne, Ohio. nd was even- While some of the older traditions such as shioners wor- ringing of the bells at the consecration, the use of only male altar servers and the were only five encouragement of head coverings for the n New women exist, organizations such as the l was the first Home and School Association, Holy Name nt was effec- Society, Altar and Rosary Society, SCRIP, 3, 1873 after Knights of Columbus and Harvest House for n a sick call. those over 55 years of age, have also been rucifixion formed to meet the diverse needs of the entire parish community. Father

St. John offers variety of ministries for all ages The men’s Holy Name Society host serves about 1,000 families, many of BY LAUREN CAGGIANO World Apostolate of Fatima fish fries throughout the year. Kelly said whom have young children. The 11:30 Also known as the “Blue Army,” the it is not unusual to have a standing line a.m. Mass is known for its family-orient- FORT WAYNE — St. John the Baptist group has been active at the parish for waiting to get into the Friday night fish ed atmosphere. in New Haven has a variety of ministries more than 45 years. As part of a world- fries. The proceeds from the events fund “The little ones have their own choir,” beyond the traditional prayer group. wide organization, the group works to parish improvement projects. The society Kelly noted. The 150-year-old parish caters to the live the message of the Virgin Mary at also donates many man hours of labor to And the impressive number of bap- young and the young at heart — and Fatima, to bring it to others and to pray projects around the parish, Kelly noted. tisms each year is an indication of the everyone in between — with its broad for peace in the world. Kelly noted the Likewise, the Knights of Columbus bright future of the parish. “It is a joy to base of ministerial programs. ladies are “quite active in the parish and host regular breakfasts and help wherev- see the young people,” he said. “My Jim Kelly, director of religious educa- the area.” er possible. Kelly said the Altar and hope is that (the parish) will continue to tion and RCIA at St. John’s highlighted a Rosary Society is also an asset to the grow and become more vibrant.” few of the established programs: parish. Many parish functions have the And in a time of parish mergers and Other Groups Altar and Rosary Society helping out. closures, St. John’s has stood the test of Senior Life From noon to 8 p.m. on Thursdays, One of their most public functions is to time. According to Kelly, the parish’s the faithful are invited to exposition of provide funeral dinners. The youth group welcoming and prayerful atmosphere is Senior citizens meet the second the Blessed Sacrament, with holy hour is known for its devotion to prayer, and the impetus for sustenance. Monday of the month to attend Mass then from 7 to 8 p.m. parish and community service projects. “What makes us unique is communi- enjoy lunch, fellowship, cards, a talk or “It is through prayer that the parish Kelly, who has been the director of ty,” he said. “A lot of our people know program. A group of retirees also meet will continue to flourish,” Kelly said. religious education since 2001, said the one another.” regularly for Bible studies. face of the parish is changing. St. John’s 12 ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST JUNE 14, 2009 St. John’s School celebrates nearly a century and a half of education

BY BONNIE ELBERSON According to early records, “these two buildings, adjoining, give four rooms, three of which are in use. NEW HAVEN — One of the old- They are … well ventilated, cheer- est Catholic elementary schools in ful and furnished with all school the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South necessaries.” They provided addi- Bend, St. John the Baptist School tional space for the expanding stu- in New Haven, is alive and well dent population and a dwelling for with 339 students in pre-kinder- the three Sisters of St. Agnes, who garten through eighth grade. It is had traveled from their mother also the largest Catholic elemen- house in Fond du Lac, Wis., to tary school in East Allen County. “take over from seculars” and Shortly after St. John’s Parish begin a teaching mission here in was established 150 years ago, a 1871. school was started as well. That It is noted that the annual early school was a one-story, 22 x expenditure for the school, includ- 34 square foot frame building con- ing teachers’ salaries, was $750. structed on Powers Street in the Of that amount, half was paid by village, at a cost of $500. It the congregation and half by opened in 1864 with one male school fees and monthly tuition teacher and served the communi- ranging from 25 to 75 cents per ty’s needs for almost a decade. It pupil according to need. The aver- KAY COZAD was later converted into a resi- age annual per-pupil expense was dence. $5.50. That school served the Ehinger, then a 98-year-old, who family atmosphere at St. John’s by School Association (HASA) spon- Then a brick school, a 40 x 50 parish for approximately 75 years. described his elementary school noting that if there were a ribbon sors social events, provides outside square foot structure costing A story in The Harmonizer on education at St. John’s by saying, connecting students, faculty and speakers and handles fundraising $8,000, was constructed. Sept. 23, 1984, quoted Sebastian “We didn’t pass from grade to parents, it would be called a “fami- activities. grade, but from reader to reader.” ly tie.” Though the current school That was the primary measure of Janice Comito, who is currently building is now 60 years old, it has one’s level of achievement in those heading up the school in her eighth been supplemented by the more SERVICE MECHANICAL, Inc. very early days, he recalled. year as principal, is especially recently constructed community Student enrollment continued to proud of the unique “Catholic center, cafeteria and gym, which •Plumbing •Heating •Cooling •Refrigeration increase and ground was broken identity” of the school. When provide updated facilities for St. for the present school on May 19, asked to step back and assess its John’s students. In addition, a two- 24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE 1949, which opened for classes in virtues, that quality comes to year-old fully equipped play- Residential - Commercial September of 1950. That one-story mind, she says. Catholicism per- ground completes the school cam- 1411 Lincoln Hwy. East - New Haven structure costing $165,000 was meates the entire educational pus. L. Alan Spieth, Owner/Parishioner expanded to two stories just seven process at St. John’s as it has for This year 40 eighth graders will Sending Best Wishes to All at St. John’s! years and an additional $140,000 more than a century. graduate from St. John’s with a later. The Sisters of St. Agnes were With 25 faculty members and “good, well-rounded education” a mainstay of the school for 120 two classrooms serving most and go on to area high schools, www.servmech.com • 260-493-6511 years, until 1990, and many stu- grades the future is rosy, says says Principal Comito. She feels dents recall Sister Joellen Flynn, Comito. She happily boasts of an confident that they will leave St. who served as principal for many “excellent computer program” and John’s loving, caring atmosphere years. notes that fully 90 percent of stu- with a “good feeling of communi- In 1997, then-principal Rob dents pass the ISTEP test by ty.” Sordelet remarked on the warm eighth grade. An active Home and

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Brother and during his 43 years in Ghana Brother’s entire ministry has been jubilee of religious vows on June Brother William Dudek took his Brother Vincent spent part of 1989 in the field of theology and spiri- 20. The group includes two past Geenen will be first vows on at the Holy Cross Brothers Center, tuality. In September 1986 he provincials, a new provincial and remembered as Aug. 16, 1949, Notre Dame, on sick leave. joined the staff of the Solitude of past and present district superior a past provin- at St. Joseph Holy Cross St. Joseph, Notre Dame, for eight of Ghana. Brothers being hon- cial of the Novitiate in Brother Paul months. Brother was the founder ored include a farmer, archivist, Brothers of Rolling Prairie. Kelly was a and is still spiritual director for founder of Senior Friendship Holy Cross He received an dairy farmer in the Midwest Province Associates Centers and founder of Holy and for found- undergraduate Brother Joseph McCordsville, of Holy Cross. Cross Village at Notre Dame, ing both the degree in phys- Dudek for four years maintenance men, artist, teachers, Senior ical science before entering 40-year jubilarians novice master, treasurer, academy Friendship Brother William from the the community. headmaster, director of spiritual Centers in Geenen University of Notre Dame in He made his Holy Cross life ministries, seminary staff Florida and 1953 and a master’s in teaching first vows on Brother Clement member and missionary. Holy Cross Village at Notre physical science there in 1961. In Jan. 26, 1959, Burger entered Joining the 17 jubilarians will Dame. A native of Appleton, 2006 Brother Dudek moved to at St. Joseph Brother Paul Kelly the community be Holy Cross Brothers from Wis., William Geenen took his Notre Dame, where he is now a Novitiate in at Basil Hall, around the province and world first vows as a Brother of Holy resident of Dujarie House at Rolling Prairie. Notre Dame, in along with relatives and friends Cross on Feb. 2, 1949. Holy Cross Village. In 1991 Brother Kelly moved to September of the brothers being honored. In 1994 Brother Geenen was Holy Cross Notre Dame, where he served as 1967 and took The Mass of thanksgiving will called back to South Bend, to Brother John assistant to the provincial stew- his first vows be held in Sacred Heart Basilica serve as provincial of the Kuhn earned his ard, superior of Columba Hall, on June 16, on the campus of the University Midwest until 2000. There was master’s from Notre Dame, for five years, and 1968. Brother Brother Clement of Notre Dame at 2 p.m. an urgent need to be able to pro- the University as assistant provincial and com- Burger earned Burger Following the Mass there will be vide an aging group of brothers of Notre Dame munity director of the provincial both his under- a dinner for invited guests at the medical care and retirement in 1962 in edu- house from 1985-1991. From graduate and North Dining Hall. opportunities — thus was born cational admin- 1991-1996 Brother Kelly became master’s degrees from the Holy Cross Father Andre Holy Cross Village at Notre istration. a member of the Midwest University of Notre Dame in Leveille, chaplain of Andre Place Dame. After his six-year term as Between Provincial Council. From 2004- government and international at Holy Cross Village at Notre provincial was finished, Brother 1985-1995 he 2007 he was the brothers’ direc- studies. Dame will be the celebrant and Geenen returned to Sarasota, Fla., was director at Brother John Kuhn tor of Schubert Villa and Dujarie His first assignment was Saint homilist at the Mass of thanks- in 2000, where he lives and sees the Solitude of House at Holy Cross Village at Joseph’s High School. Brother giving. Holy Cross Brother John the Senior Friendship Centers St. Joseph, Notre Dame. He is presently Burger has been living in the Paige, vicar and first assistant continue to grow. Notre Dame. Brother Kuhn also treasurer for Sangre de Christo Chicago area general of the Congregation of Holy Cross served as assistant and then renewal programs in Santa Fe, for the past 34 Holy Cross, will accept the broth- Brother Richard archivist of the Brother of Holy N.M. years. ers’ renewal of vows. Huber joined Cross from 1992-2005. Holy Cross Holy Cross Celebrating 70 years of reli- Holy Cross for Brother enjoyed teaching art Brother Robert Brother Chester gious vows is Brother Maurus the opportuni- and English in Brothers’ high Fillmore com- Freel will be O’Malley, a member of the ty to both schools and art and music tradi- pleted his term installed as the Eastern Brothers’ Province and a work and pray. tions at Holy Cross College, as provincial of new provincial 10-year retired resident of He took his Notre Dame. Brother is currently the Brothers of superior of the Columba Hall, Notre Dame; first vows on retired and active in the activities the Midwest Midwest Celebrating 60 years will be Feb. 2, 1949. of Holy Cross Village, including Province on Province of the Brothers William Geenen, Joseph Brother the Holy Cross History June 19. Brothers of Brother Chester Dudek, Stephen Carter, Richard Huber spent Brother Richard Association, at Notre Dame. During his Holy Cross on Freel Huber, John Kuhn and Robert the majority of Huber Holy Cross term the com- June 19. Brother Mosher; 50 years: Brothers Brother Stephen pletion of Holy Brother Robert attended St. Monica’s Grade his religious Fillmore Vincent Gross, Paul Kelly, Robert life as a farmer at Silver Lake Carter has per- Cross Village School in Mishawaka, and gradu- Fillmore, Carl Sternberg, Robert Farm, Rolling Prairie, from 1949- formed general at Notre Dame ated from Saint Joseph High Lavelle and Kenneth Kane; 40 1951, and again from 1960-78. maintenance was his accomplishment. Holy School, South Bend, in 1967. years: Brothers Clement Burger He served at St. Joseph Farm, work in the Cross not only provides the Since 2007 Brother Freel has been and Chester Freel; 25 years: Granger, from 1951-1960, 1978- community. brothers with a new ministry to the vocations promoter for the Brothers Michael Amakyi and 1992, and from 1993-1995. He worked the elderly but facilities needed province and teaches at Holy Daniel Dardoe. He also served at Dujarie at St. Joseph for aging and infirm brothers. Cross College, Notre Dame. He The following 11 brothers House and Holy Cross Brothers’ Farm in There are close to 300 persons also directs the Bessette House have or are now ministering in Center, Notre Dame. In August of Granger from living in the Village, 60 of them Intentional Community at the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South 1953-1962. It Brother Stephen brothers. Columba Hall, Notre Dame. 1993 he returned to St. Joseph Carter Bend. Farm and then to Columba Hall, was in his Over the past 50 years, Notre Dame, in 1995 where he retirement Brother Fillmore taught at six has lived and worked for the past years that he learned to paint with Holy Cross schools. He directed 14 years. oils and pastels. Brother Carter the Andre Residential Holy Cross Brother Joseph Dudek loves to go camping and paint. Community at Holy Cross was born in Harvey, Ill., on Nov. For his 50th jubilee he traveled to Village at Notre Dame and has 30, 1922. While serving in the Alaska where he painted and took served as province director of Navy Joseph had the idea of join- photos to paint in the future. vocations, provincial counselor, ing religious life and did so in He is presently retired in assistant provincial and vicar, 1948, when he entered Holy Austin, Texas. province director of formation, community superior, province 50-year jubilarians coordinator of justice and peace and provincial Thank you, St. John’s, for 150 years of For the past superior. 43 years Holy Holy Cross leading the faithful in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. Cross Brother Brother Carl MICHAEL A. SETLAK, Vincent Gross has Sternberg was Attorney At Law • Parishioner been a mission- born in ary to Liberia Louisville, Ky., Van Gilder & Trzynka, P.C. and Ghana. He on June 27, Attorneys At Law made his first 435 Ann St. New Haven 1940. Brother 260-493-6055 vows at St. Sternberg took Joseph his first vows 436 E. 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The of the recent article by Father it’s Catholic identity revoked “that scholarship tax credit plan could help thousands of families send Church cornerstone Robert Barron, “Obama and Notre would be a terrible loss to Notre their children to our Catholic schools, or other private and public Dame,” the statement was made Dame.” It’s the Catholic Church school of their choice. of Notre Dame that if Notre Dame becomes a secu- that is the cornerstone of Notre With the current financial difficulties many families are facing, After reading the plethora of lar university “that would be a terri- Dame, not Notre Dame the corner- some are opting to pull their children from Catholic schools. articles and commentaries on the ble loss to the church.” I would like stone of the Catholic Church. “We must not let that happen,” Bishop John M. D’Arcy said at Notre Dame/Obama debacle, a to suggest a rewording of that state- L. Fairchild this year’s Light of Learning recognition luncheon hosted by Quality thought comes to mind. At the end ment. If Notre Dame were to have New Haven Dining, Inc., in January. He said for high school students, “we’re going to try to make more funds available for scholarships, from grants.” And he encour- aged parishes with schools to do the same: “We must not lose chil- dren because of this (economic) downturn.” What should we do with frozen embryos? It’s always been the position of the Catholic Church to care for those in need. Pope Benedict XVI said in his encyclical, “Deus hen I give talks on tion. A recent Vatican document Caritas Est” (“God Is Love”), that the church can no more forget the stem-cell research or in called “Dignitas Personae” MAKING ministry of charity, than it can forget the ministry of the word and Wvitro fertilization, peo- expressed serious moral reserva- the sacraments. ple invariably ask, “What should tions about the approach, with- This may be a form of assistance that could help keep the desks be done with all the frozen out, however, explicitly con- SENSE OF filled at our Catholic schools. embryos?” It is usually asked demning it as immoral. But we with a sense of urgency, even can easily see reasons why the BIOETHICS And this scholarship tax credit may be another device to help promotion of embryo adoption lower-income families afford a Catholic education for their children. desperation, as they reflect on the BY FATHER TAD PACHOLCZYK fate of the hundreds of thousands would be imprudent. If embryo A press release from the Indiana Catholic Conference (ICC), of human embryos cryopreserved adoption were to become stan- which supports the tax credit, noted that the Indiana School in liquid nitrogen at fertility clin- dard practice in the current, children in this way until some Scholarship Tax Credit plan would create a 50 percent state tax ics. The simple answer is that largely unregulated climate of the other option becomes available in credit for charitable contributions to qualified scholarship programs ethically there is very little we fertility industry, this could actu- the future (maybe a sophisticated serving lower-income families. Children in grades kindergarten can do with the frozen embryos ally stimulate the production of “embryo incubator” or “artificial through 12 could qualify for scholarships to help attend the public or except to keep them frozen for yet more embryos; IVF clinic womb” of some kind), or until private school of their choice. the foreseeable future. No other operators would be able to pla- there is a reasonable certainty As noted on the Web site, www.inscholarshiptaxcredit.com, this morally acceptable options seem cate themselves by saying, “We that they have died on their own privately-funded school choice model would provide scholarships to to exist. really don’t need to worry about from decay or “freezer burn,” 3,000 or more families. The question of what to do producing extra embryos, which may occur whenever “In a time of fiscal crisis, the program could provide the state with the frozen embryos, I some- because there will always be frozen embryos are stored for with much needed savings and struggling families with much need- times remind my audiences, is somebody willing to adopt any extended periods. Perhaps after a ed choices,” explained Jeff Brantley, executive director of the not in fact the most pressing that are left over.” It could offer few hundred years, all the stored School Choice Indiana Network. “It’s a win-win proposal for kids, question we face. A much more the clinics an excuse to continue embryos would have died on taxpayers and budget policymakers.” urgent issue is how to stop the and even expand their current their own, and they could finally The ICC release added, scholarship tax credit programs are fund- relentless manufacturing and immoral practices. be thawed and given a decent ed through private donations, with a tax incentive to encourage char- freezing of new embryos, which Some have suggested that a burial. This approach would not is occurring each day, with clock- morally acceptable solution to the involve us in the direct moral itable giving. They should not to be confused with “vouchers,” agency of ending their lives by which provide public funding for private school choices by parents. work-like regularity, in every frozen embryo problem might major city in the United States. come through applying the prin- withdrawing their life-sustaining The program passed the Indiana Senate earlier this spring on two ciple that “extraordinary” means liquid nitrogen. separate occasions. The infertility industry has become an embryo mass-produc- do not have to be undertaken to Frozen embryos, clearly, can tion line with virtually no legal prolong human life. They argue never be donated to science. Such oversight or national regulation. that to sustain an embryo’s life in a decision would amount to How it works Catering to strong parental a cryogenic state is to use handing over not cadavers, but In summary, individuals and corporations who contribute to a desires, it is a multibillion dollar extraordinary means and this is living human beings, for dismem- qualified scholarship program would be able to deduct 50 percent of business aptly described as the not required. berment at the hands of stem-cell the amount of that donation from their state tax liability. “wild west of infertility.” To start In fact, however, the decision researchers. This would always If a business or individual donates $1,000 to the fund, $500 could to bring this into check, strong to continue cryopreserving an be a radical failure in the parents’ be claimed against what they owed in state income tax liability. laws and regulations like those embryo in liquid nitrogen is duty to protect and care for their According to information from the ICC, Scholarship Granting found in Germany and Italy are probably not an instance of using offspring. urgently needed. In those coun- extraordinary means, since the These considerations indicate Organizations (SGOs) would establish their own eligibility rules, the difficulty of answering the application procedures and scholarship amounts within the income tries, no more than three embryos burden and costs involved in tak- may be produced for each infer- ing care of embryonic children in question about the disposition of limits and other administrative rules within the legislation. The state this way are actually minimal. frozen human embryos. We are department of revenue would establish procedures for reporting and tility treatment, and all three must be implanted into their mother. When we have children, we have reminded how sinful choices monitoring participation in the program, as well tax credit applica- Extra embryos may not be pro- a duty to clothe, feed, care for, have consequences, and how the tion processes for private donors to the SGOs. duced or frozen; as a result, there and educate them, all of which original decision to violate the are essentially no frozen embryos costs plenty of money. When our moral law by doing IVF invari- stored in German and Italian fer- children are frozen, we don’t ably has grievous repercussions, We ask for your generosity tility clinics. need to clothe, feed, or educate including the kinds of quandaries Since February, Today’s Catholic has been delivered to all regis- For those embryos that do end them; our care for them can only considered here, for which no tered Catholic households in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South up abandoned in liquid nitrogen, be expressed by paying the bill moral resolution is apparent. Bend. In the June 21 issue of this paper, an offering envelope will be the question often arises: would it each month to replenish the liq- inside the paper. We are asking for help from readers twice a year — be morally permissible to give uid nitrogen in their storage now and later in the fall — to contribute towards the cost of printing them up for “embryo adoption,” tanks. This way of caring for our and distributing this publication, a tool of evangelization, throughout whereby other couples could children is obviously unusual, but it does not seem morally extraor- the diocese. We thank you for your continued generosity. implant, gestate and raise them as Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. is a if they were their own children? dinary in terms of achieving the priest of the diocese of Fall There is ongoing debate desired end of safeguarding their River, Mass., and serves as the among reputable Catholic theolo- physical integrity. director of education at The Today’s Catholic editorial board is Kay Cozad, Fred and Lisa Everett, Father gians about this matter, and tech- In my opinion, parents have National Catholic Bioethics Mark Gurtner, Father Michael Heintz, Tim Johnson and Vince LaBarbera. nically it remains an open ques- an obligation to care for their Center in Philadelphia. JUNE 14, 2009 COMMENTARY 15 God-dreams at my time of life CATEQUIZEM By Dominic Camplisson “The Medicine Man says: ‘Hear us and about us just right for this your own drumbeat. Put your ear dream to be realized: our personal- Every June the Catequiz’em commemorates D Day, to your heart and listen.’” ity, talents, life’s circumstances, SPIRITUALITY so this quiz looks at D’s in Scripture. — Blackwolf experiences, family, parish, etc. Does God have a dream for me God knew what we needed long 1.Dagon was one of these now? Absolutely! Forever! Sounds before we did in order to help this OF MATURING a.Kings Of Israel after Solomon strange that I say “forever,” but St. dream become a reality. All we b.Gods of the Philistines Therese said that she would spend have to do is to find and live it. ADULTS c.Hellenizing leader of the Damascus nobility her heaven doing good on earth. Only about 5 or 10 percent of peo- SISTER ANGELITA FENKER That’s a dynamic God-dream. ple even try to discover the God- 2.Damascus was/is capital of this region “Without the mountain, you dream, placed within our soul at a.Syria b.Egypt c.Babylon cannot climb. Without the climb, conception. We can’t be one of want to be when you grow up?” there is no transcendence. those statistics. The world will be 3.Dance figures prominently in the story of John the Baptist;who was involved? “Without the transcendence, more poor and sad because we did We’d give various responses, but there is no point in life,” says not discover our dream. God gave usually there was one we’d come a.The Nephilim b.Simon Magus c.Salome Blackwolf. He knew God-dreams. it to no one else. back to, in spite of what others What is a God-dream? It’s a Remember the parable of the told us we “ought to do.” That’s 4.Daniel was deported to here after a failed revolt vision of what we want our life to talents? We may not bury a God- the beginning of how to recognize a.Assyria b.Babylon c.Egypt be so that the world is a better dream. When we stand before God’s dream for us. He puts a place for our having lived. It takes God, I doubt that he’ll accept: “I desire in our spirit. Our youthful 5.Darius was the name given to the ruler of this empire in the fifth century B.C. many forms, but exerts a strong was too afraid. I wasn’t smart, tal- heart anticipated “growing up” in a.Judean b.Persian c.Nubian pull within us to search for and ented enough to do it.” That’s order to follow that dream. But, follow the Divine energy within what the prophet Jeremiah said to somewhere along the line, it got 6.Yom Kippur is also known as us, and to express it in some way God. God’s reply was: “I know the covered up by put-downs, fear, for good. Like magnetic energy, plans I have for you ... plans for enticement of “more money if a.Day of Atonement Divine energy is only visible by good ... to give you a future full of you’d do something else,” lack of b.Days of Our lives the power it radiates. hope.” encouragement, which is really c.Daily Bread (Manna) God created a dream for each How do we know what God’s lack of affirmation for our vision; of us. All we have to do is to dis- dream is? When we were small, 7.The Dead Sea Scrolls were found cover it. God made everything in people would ask: “What do you FENKER, PAGE 16 a.in a cave b.floating on the dead sea c.in the Ark of the Covenant, currently in Ethiopia

Jesus’ life is part of us 8.The Decapolis were cities founded by (as their name might suggest) a.the wandering Hebrews own life. By sprinkling this blood b.the Romans on the people, they in turn were Reflection c.Greek speakers touched by God in a special way. Biblical scholars long have THE Beyond these circumstances, looked at the words, “This is my 9.These entities seem to spend a lot of time in scripture getting cast out the lesson is that from the earliest body,” “This is my blood.” They SUNDAY stages of revelation, God provided often view it from a denomina- a.deacons b.demons c.duelists for the people to touch eternal life tional perspective. In other GOSPEL and strength through processes and words, many Protestant scholars 10.The Diaspora refers mainly to the Jews,but there was also a 19th century Catholic materials they could understand see them as symbolic. Catholic Irish Diaspora caused mostly by MSGR. OWEN F. CAMPION and access. scholars see them as literal. a.the oppression of the Irish by the French The Epistle to the Hebrews is However, strictly from the b.the potato famine one of the New Testament’s most standpoint of the language, the c.an overabundance of wanderlust eloquent sources for knowledge words are brief, direct and clear. Corpus Christi about the person, and the mission, Look at them without any predis- 11.“Dives”is the name ascribed to the counterpart of Lazarus in a parable.Why did of the Lord. This feast’s selection positions. Read them as they Mk 14:12-16, 22-26 is no exception. appear. The message is straight- people give this name to the unnamed rich man? he Book of Exodus is the As does this epistle so often, forward and unambiguous. The a.because “dives”are low class places of entertainment, this shows source of this feast day’s this particular reading stresses that bread and wine become the body the rich are corrupt Tfirst reading, the story of an Jesus is the perfect victim of sacri- and blood of Jesus. b.Dives has in Latin the numerical equivalent of 13 which spells event that occurred as the Hebrews fice as well as the great high This holy body and blood doom priest. The sacrifice of bulls is no were making their way across the actually become part of the per- c.dives is the Latin word for rich. Sinai Peninsula, in flight from longer necessary. In its place is the son who consumes them. It is a sublime offering of the innocent Egypt and slavery. staggering thought. Jesus, the son 12.David was a great biblical king (with flaws).His name is also attached to this most To modern ears, the story may Lamb of God, Jesus the Lord. of God, becomes part of us, indi- sound gruesome, giving the details The three synoptic Gospels vidually. He is with us. His life, Jewish symbol as it does of the ritual sacrifice of a report the Last Supper and the eternal now in the Resurrection, a.Star of David young bull. It is necessary to recall institution of the Eucharist by giv- is part of us. b.Branch davidian that these instructions were given ing the actual words used by Jesus, This was the cherished belief c.The Davidic menorah long ago, and long ago they passed “This is my body,” “This is my of the first Christians, and of the out of Jewish religious cere- blood.” saints. 13.Deborah was a rare leader for the Jews because In this feast day’s case, the monies. a.she was a she reading is from Mark’s Gospel. However, the meaning of these b.her mane means bee ancient sacrifices still has a mes- Before the mention of the meal c.she went by the Egyptian nickname little Debbie sage. For example, the ceremony itself, the Gospel says that Jesus in this case required that the blood sent two disciples into the city. He READINGS would be sprinkled on the people. told them that they would see a Sunday: Ex 24:3-8 Ps 116:12-13,15- 14.Nothing could be finer than to know the name of Jacob’s and Leah’daughter The idea was that life in a spe- man carrying a water jar. They 18 Heb 9:11-15 Mk 14:12-16,22-26 a.Daisy cial way resided in the blood of a should follow this man. The man Monday: 2 Cor 6:1-10 Ps 98:1-4 Mt b. Deborah creature. It is not impossible to will go to a house, whose owner 5:38-42 c.Dinah understand how this notion origi- the disciples should encounter and Tuesday: 2 Cor 8:1-9 Ps 146:2,5-9a ask for a room in which the Lord nally arose. The ancients had a Mt 5:43-48 15.Joseph got out of jail in Egypt because of his skill in interpreting these and the disciples could gather to very limited knowledge of physiol- Wednesday: 2 Cor 9:6-11 Ps 112:1- a.debit and credit accounts written in hieroglyphs ogy, but they knew if the blood eat the Passover meal. It is an interesting passage. It 4,9 Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 b.dreams stopped flowing, the creature died; Thursday: 2 Cor 11:1-11 Ps 111:1- if enough blood escaped from the reveals that the Last Supper, and c.diatribes 4,7-8 Mt 6:7-15 body due to injury, then death fol- all that happened at the Last lowed. Supper, were utterly within the Friday: Hos 11:1,3-4.8c-9 (Ps) Is ANSWERS Offering the bull to God made providence of God. It was no ordi- 12:2-6 Eph 3:8-12,14-19 Jn 19:31-37 1.b, 2.a, 3.c, 4.b, 5.b, 6.a, 7.a, 8.c, 9.b, 10.b, 11.c, 12.a, 13.a, 14.c, 15.b the bull holy. Its blood therefore nary meal. God planned that it Saturday: 2 Cor 12:1-10 Ps 34:8-13 was holy, and that meant the blood would provide the means for sal- Lk 2:41-51 somehow was touched by God’s vation, for uniting with Jesus. 16 COMMENTARY JUNE 14, 2009 Brothers and cousins have different meaning in Old Testament A recent newspaper article said the character of the paternity imposed Jesus’ own brother. “Brother” is Joseph) are sons neither of St. Blessed Virgin Mary had four boys and on him by the divine will. also a form of polite address, espe- Joseph nor of Mary. A different two girls after the birth of Jesus whom Moreover the New Testament THAT’S cially between one monarch and Mary is the mother of them both; St.Matthew calls Mary’s firstborn son. makes no mention anywhere of another. Thus in the First Book of she was among the group at the How do I respond to this?,A.N.,Goshen children of Joseph and Mary. Kings, King Ben-hadad of foot of the cross. The early Elsewhere in the Gospel, St. A GOOD Damascus in Syria calls King church’s insistence on the virginity St. Matthew’s Gospel says that Matthew does mention brothers Ahab of Israel his “brother.” This of Mary would be hard to explain, St. Joseph had no relations with and sisters of Jesus. “Where did QUESTION same practice is seen in the ancient if the contemporaries of Jesus the Blessed Virgin Mary at any Jesus get such wisdom and mirac- Amarna Letters of Egypt stem- actually considered the “brothers” time before she bore a son, whom ulous powers? Isn’t this the car- ming from 1377 B.C. Jesus even of Jesus to be blood brothers, he named Jesus. Some translations penter’s son? Isn’t Mary known to uses the word “brother” to signify rather than relatives. call Jesus the “firstborn” son, but be his mother and James, Joseph, son of the same parents, either a fellow human being. this does not mean that Mary nec- Simon and Judas his brothers? father and mother, or of the same Father McKenzie continues essarily had other sons. In the Aren’t his sisters our neighbors?” father and a different mother, that, of the four “brothers” men- Father Richard Hire, pastor of St. ancient culture of the Middle East The New American Bible says namely a half-brother. In a wider tioned by name in the Gospels, it Martin de Porres Parish, Syracuse where the Gospel was written, the that the question about possible sense, the term “brother” signifies is clear that James and Joses (or answered this question. term “firstborn son” simply means brothers and sisters of Jesus men- a person of common ancestry and that Jesus was the first son that tioned in the Gospels of Matthew relationship, in particular a mem- Mary had. This term is used for all and Mark cannot easily be decided ber of the same clan or tribe, SCRIPTURE SEARCH firstborn sons, even if this firstborn here on linguistic grounds. The namely a kinsman. Remember that son was the only son of a particu- Greek-speaking Semitic people of the people of the Bible were very Gospel for June 14, 2009 lar mother. the ancient Middle East used the conscious of their tribal roots, thus Mark 14:12-16, 22-26 The New American Bible says terms “brother” (“adelphos” in we speak of the Twelve Tribes of that when St. Matthew says St. Greek) and “sister” (“adelphe” in Israel. The term “brother” is even Following is a word search based on the Gospel Joseph had no relations with Mary Greek), not only in the ordinary extended to members of the same reading for the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, at any time, he is emphasizing the sense of blood brother and sister, race or nation. Thus the Book of Cycle B. The words can be found in all directions in virginity of the mother of Jesus but also for nephew, niece, half- Deuteronomy calls any Hebrew the puzzle. from the moment of his conception brother, half-sister and cousin. man or woman your “brother.” UNLEAVENED PASSOVER A JAR to his birth. St. Matthew does not Father McKenzie also points Father McKenzie mentions that FOLLOW HIM ENTERS HOUSE concern himself with the period out the varied use of the term in the New Testament Christians GUEST ROOM LARGE FURNISHED that followed the birth of Jesus, “brother” in both the Old and New are called “brothers” about 160 EATING BREAD BLESSING GAVE IT DRANK MY BLOOD but merely wishes to show that Testaments. Of course, the primary times. Jesus himself says that one FRUIT VINE DRINK IT NEW Joseph fully respected the legal sense of the term “brother” is the who does the will of his Father is KINGDOM MOUNT OLIVES Let us now praise the Little Professor MEAL BLESSING EEBREADRANKX n another summer of base- Most outfielders would be happy NWE LWK I NGDOM ball’s steroid-driven discon- with one season in which they TEETERSFELD I tent — A-Rod scandals, had double-digits in assists. Dom I THE ESNNASRH I AGH Manny’s suspension, Clemens’s DiMaggio had nine such cam- denials, etc. — it’s worth remem- paigns, and in both 1942 and RU I I TUSVPRMW bering a different era in the pas- 1947 he threw out an amazing 19 CATHOLIC SOVA I I E I AGYO time, the virtues of which were runners. DIFFERENCE BHNTNSKJNEBL embodied by the other His reputation was such that it TATRGHANBGLL DiMaggio: Dom, the Little changed the course of baseball GEORGE WEIGEL NDUDGAVE I TOO Professor, kid brother of Joltin’ history. It was 1946 and the Sawx Joe, the Yankee Clipper. might have broken the Curse of UFPASSOVEROF Dominic Paul DiMaggio died the Bambino, had they not been OUNLEAVENEDP on May 8 at age 92. He’s not in forced to take Dom out of the children and several grandchil- MOOR T S EUGL L A dren; Joe married Marilyn Cooperstown, but the man who seventh game of the World Series © 2009 Tri-C-A Publications www.tri-c-a-publications.com patrolled left field in Fenway when he turned an ankle after Monroe. In a culture becoming while Dom DiMaggio was in driving in the tying runs in the increasingly celebrity-infatuated, center — Ted Williams, whom top of the eighth. Every serious Dom DiMaggio was far more something” that gives real mean- Leon Kass once aptly called “our baseball fan knows what hap- steak than sizzle. That may have FENKER ing to our life, can’t be killed, but Achilles” — was so convinced pened next: The Cardinal’s Enos something to do with his lament- can be suffocated through lack of that his teammate belonged with Slaughter raced from first to ed absence from the Hall of CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 attention. When we don’t strive to the immortals that he had book- home on Harry “the Hat” Fame. discover a newly sprouting God- lets entitled, “Why Dom Walker’s single to center, win- Yet he embodied the best of self-doubts and obstacles took dream, we’ll loose heart; when we DiMaggio Belongs in the Hall of ning the game and the Series for baseball in one of baseball’s over. Sometimes, a unique God- take the first step, we come alive. Fame,” available at the Ted St. Louis. But as Slaughter said greatest epochs. As for fame, per- dream gets covered up for a life- At our first step, increase will hap- Williams Museum in Florida. afterwards, “If they hadn’t taken haps Dom DiMaggio never read time from lack of courage, and the pen. Discovering a newly-develop- Dom DiMaggio made The DiMaggio out of the game, I or saw “A Man for All Seasons,” world suffers. ing application of our God-dream Show in 1940. Like Joltin’ Joe wouldn’t have tried it.” but in pondering his death and Many people think that one’s rests with Christ’s example. He and the Splendid Splinter, Williams insisted that the his life (and the contrast with his vocation or job is the only God- went out to pray. He talked to his Williams, he lost years off his Little Professor — so-called for brother Joe, to whom fame often dream. This is only part of it. Our Father about obstacles and possi- career in service to America dur- his studious appearance and meant misery), I remembered Sir vocation is one way to live our bilities. He did what Chief ing World War II. Thus his entire glasses — was the best center Thomas More’s counsel to ambi- God-dream, but there’s more. God Blackhawk advised, he put his ear major league life spanned but 10 fielder he’d ever seen. Yet he did- tious Richard Rich, desperate to has a dream for each time of life to his heart and listened. full seasons. He was a career 298 n’t look like a ballplayer (even in join the world of high affairs at that builds on the previous one. Too old for a fresh God-dream? hitter with a lifetime .383 on-base that less-muscle-bound era, Dom court. More thought Rich would One dream does not negate the Think again: Caleb was 80; percentage who, as Sports was on the small side, at 5 foot 9 make a fine teacher, “perhaps next; the new one builds on and Abraham, in his 90s; Sarah, 100; Illustrated pointed out in a inches and 168 pounds), and he even a great one.” “And if I was, expands the first. Some people tell Moses, 120. When we rely on the memorial essay, was a serious didn’t have the DiMaggio glitz. who would know it?” Rich com- themselves that a dream is too big Father, at the touch of the Spirit, bat: “No one — not Joe, not Ted Dom had the longest hitting plained. To which More for them. That’s true. Most of the Christ’s arm is always around our Williams — had more hits than streak in the American League answered, “You, your pupils, prophets thought this. Even Christ shoulder. He will help us break out Dom’s 1,679 from 1940 through between 1949 and 1987, at 34 God. Not a bad public, that.” asked his Father to remove the of our comfort zone. Then, and 1952,” (the missing service years consecutive games; but Joe had Substitute “fans” for “pupils” cup, but was quick to add that he only then, will our God-dream for being 1943-45). had his epic 56-game run in the and you’ve got Dom DiMaggio. wanted what his Father wanted — this time of life become magnetic. Yet it was his fielding that summer of ‘41. Dom played Several hundred like him might fulfillment of the dream his Father truly set Dom DiMaggio apart. In amidst the crazies of Red Sox save baseball in the early 21st had given him. He could have said those 10 American League sea- Nation in one of America’s two century. no, but kept discovering it at each Sister Angelita Fenker has been sons, he had 147 assists from the most beloved ballparks; but Joe new time of life. That’s why he involved in education for over 60 outfield — meaning that 147 played on center stage in the George Weigel is a senior fellow of spent so many times alone in years. Her doctorate is in spiritual- times, someone was dumb House That Ruth Built. Dom the Ethics and Public Policy prayer. ity with a focus on holistic family enough to test his rifle-like arm. married Emily, and had three Center in Washington, D.C. Our God-dream: that “certain spirituality. JUNE 14, 2009 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 17

BAVIS INVITED TO JOIN NOTRE DAME’S TRACK TEAM Bishop Dwenger High School senior Alex Bavis has accepted an invitation issued in February from the University of Notre Dame to join their track team as a decathlete. He will be involved in multiple events including the high jump. Bavis will study Sports finance. New York Catholic college signs Bishop Dwenger, Marian one-handed basketball player students selected for Intercollegiate Athletics, “but I BY MARK PATTISON don’t think my coach at Fork all-state rugby team Union really wanted me to see those places,” he said. Laue spent WASHINGTON (CNS) — Kevin The following students from Tippmann and Peter Waikel. the last year at Fork Union Laue, a 6-foot-11, 18-year-old bas- Bishop Dwenger and Marian Dwenger students on the first Military Academy in Virginia. ketball player from California, high schools have been selected team Division II were Chris Ashe “When I read the story in the became what is believed to be the for the all-state rugby Division I and Jim Fox. On the second team Times, he just seemed like a fine first one-handed basketball player and II teams. Division II were Dylan McCann young man,” Brother Scanlan said to sign a letter of intent to play From Bishop Dwenger High and Conner McCann. Receiving of Laue. “It just seemed to me the with a NCAA Division I basket- School in Fort Wayne, those honorable mention on Division II kind of thing we do to make a ball team. selected for first team Division I were Tom Leffers and Matt statement. Because we’re de la To the folks at La Sallian-run were Isaac Hall, Matt Weber, Goheen. Salle Christian Brothers, it’s very Manhattan College — including Brian Porter and Tyler Gallaway. Students selected for the all- La Sallian. He’s proved himself up the Christian Brother who is the On the second team Division I state Division I rugby team from to this point, and there’s no reason school’s president — it was a slam were J. Patrick Porter, Tom Marian High School, Mishawaka, not to believe he won’t contribute dunk. Morken, Mike Udoh and Jon were Collin Rahrig, Killian at the next level.” “Kevin is getting a scholarship Mitchel-Adams. Receiving hon- Probst, Brett Hennesey and “When you have this support for all the right reasons,” said head orable mention Division I were David Halter. from your president and your ath- coach Barry Rohrssen during a Mike Fisher, Steven Brown, Max June 4 telephone interview with letic director, and he backs your Catholic News Service from president up on that, you give him Yankee Stadium, where he and the opportunity he deserves,” Brother Thomas Scanlan, Rohrssen said of Laue. Manhattan’s president, were taking The scholarship isn’t being St. John, New Haven in a game between the New York given out of pity. “Kevin has a lot Yankees and the Texas Rangers. of athletic ability,” Rohrssen said. “When you look at any roster “At 6-foot-11, he is long, he can scholar athletes honored CNS PHOTO/DAN THOMPSON, COURTESY OF FORK in any sport, there are players on UNION MILITARY ACADEMY run the floor well, he can jump. He that roster who have been given Kevin Laue, a member of the does possess some athletic ability. NEW HAVEN — St. John, New requiring a commendable bal- (With) our team, like most basket- chances. Those players have had 2008-09 Fort Union Military Haven School held its annual ance between classroom time and ball teams, it helps to have some poor academic histories, they Academy basketball team in Fort Athletic Sports Banquet on extracurricular activities. The haven’t been easy to coach on the type of presence in the middle. He Union, Va., jumps for the ball dur- Sunday, May 17, to honor all stu- graduates were expected to main- court, they’ve had off-the-court is a large body. And he has shown dent athletes and especially their tain an A- or higher GPA during problems, whereas Kevin has done ing a game in early February at an ability to block shots, which is eighth-grade scholar athletes. their careers truly demonstrating everything right,” he added. the school. Kevin will be attend- important.” Scholar athletes were chosen the term “student athlete.” Kelly Laue’s left arm was amputated ing Manhattan College in New Laue told CNS he grew up based on both their academic and Mouch, St. John athletic director at the elbow shortly after birth. York in the fall and is believed to playing baseball, football and soc- athletic performance during their summarized, “We were very While in his mother’s womb, the be the first one-handed player to cer. A friend invited him to try out sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade proud of each of our students umbilical cord was wrapped twice receive a Division I college basket- for the middle-school basketball years. Several of the students who were able to reach this high around his neck, with his left arm ball scholarship at the school. team. And as he grew in size, he participated in multiple sports standard.” wedged in between. Circulation to “grew to love the sport,” he said, the arm was cut off, severely stunt- adding that opponents don’t make ing its growth, but doctors said its “Watching that game in 1993 ... fun of his missing hand but engage position had allowed blood to and witnessing Jim Abbott pitch a in more typical “trash talk” during reach his brain. no-hitter, the thought crossed my games. “For the first time in three mind (at the time): Who was the Laue’s skills aren’t limited to years, he told me who to recruit,” person who gave him a chance? the court. He finished first in his Rohrssen said, referring to Brother Who was the person who gave class at Fork Union. “He had a 3.5 Scanlan, who had read a profile of him the opportunity?” he recalled. grade point average at his high Laue in The New York Times. “I Having witnessed Abbot’s no- school,” Rohrssen told CNS. “His only read the (New York) Post and hitter “was one of the motivating coach said he was a pleasure to the (New York Daily) News,” the factors” in recruiting Laue, he coach. He should make the most coach said, laughing. said. out of this opportunity.” Rohrssen compared Laue to Laue told CNS in a June 5 tele- Laue went to Fork Union after Jim Abbott, a pitcher born without phone interview from his family’s an injury early in 2007-08 at his a right hand who went straight home in California that he plans to California high school scuttled his from college baseball to the majors major in business — “Wall Street’s chances of drawing scholarship without playing in the minor right there in Manhattan,” he said attention. leagues and who pitched 10 sea- — and minor in philosophy. Laue told CNS the one play he sons in the majors, including a no- He added Manhattan was “real- hasn’t solved yet is the alley-oop hitter for the Yankees in 1993 — a ly the only one (college) to offer a dunk. “It’s very difficult. I’m sure game seen live by Rohrssen. full ride” among the four Division I’ll get it,” he said. “I would try to catch every fifth I schools that had expressed an “I just look forward to the day day when Jim Abbott pitched, interest. Manhattan had a scholar- when he has his first rejection because he was someone who I ship to spare after one player (blocked shot) and his first dunk, admired and he inspired me decided against returning for and the whole gym going wild MICHELLE CASTLEMAN watching him perform at the level another year. with enthusiasm, and that will be a St. John the Baptist School, New Haven, scholar athletes pictured are, in he did,” Rohrssen said. “Someone Laue had heard from Division great thing to witness,” Brother front, from left, Michael Yagodinski and Graham Renbarger. In back, gave him a chance, someone pro- II and III schools and schools in Scanlan said. from left, are Dillon Carey, Zachary Miller, Kathryn Yagodinski, Colin Zink vided him with the opportunity. the National Association of and David Wuest. 18 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC JUNE 14, 2009 Living a devout life in an un-devout world

BY JENNIFER KOHRMAN 1602 in the midst of the Protestant Reformation. Even though he endured persecutions, his tremen- More Shared Faith literature dous zeal for the Catholic faith Who is St. Francis de brought many back to the Catholic can be found at Sales? Church. He wrote numerous letters Sharing Faith www.diocesefwsb.org/OSD to those who lived in the region. Most people are familiar with At a friend’s urging, St. Francis St. Francis of Assisi. However, published “Introduction to the there is another St. Francis who Devout Life,” which focused on God and how necessary it is to go such as the Our Father, Hail Mary midst of daily activities. Learning made important contributions to living as a Christian within the to the sacrament of reconciliation and the Glory Be. He also encour- to see God in all things, helps our faith. St. Francis de Sales, a secular world. and make an honest confession. It ages people to use imagination maintain a focus on God. doctor of the church, was a French is through reconciliation that one during prayer. For example, as one bishop during the early 17th centu- True devotion experiences God’s mercy and recites the Hail Mary, perhaps one Relevance for current ry, as well as a revolutionary, receives graces to refrain from imagines the scene of the because he believed that God calls St. Francis believes that true future sin. Receiving the sacra- Annunciation. St. Francis advises times everyone to holiness — not just devotion is living out one’s voca- ments of reconciliation and that, as long as the focus remains St. Francis de Sales’ clergy and religious. tion with knowledge of God’s love Eucharist frequently encourages a on God, it is permissible to reflect St. Francis de Sales served as a and realizing that all people are “Introduction to the Devout Life” person to become more devout. on a word within a prayer rather provides a helpful guide for spiritual advisor. His book, called to holiness — not just those It is equally important to make than reciting the entire prayer. “Introduction to the Devout Life,” who are in the clergy or religious Christians who face the challenges a regular examination of con- During prayer time, a person may and temptations of a secular socie- originated as a series of letters advis- life. It is God’s infinite, uncondi- science. This helps one reflect on experience sincere affections with- ing “a truly devout soul,” whom he tional love that motivates an indi- ty that tries to divert our focus which virtues are utilized, as well in the soul and appreciation for away from God. As we enter ordi- called Philothea, on ways of enrich- vidual to desire holiness. The as to consider areas where he or God and his love. These “move- ing her prayer experience. He pro- process of the devout life includes nary time, this Sharing Faith series she might have failed. An exami- ments” during prayer inspire us to will focus on the spirituality of St. vided her — and us — with a prayer five steps: confronting temptation nation of conscience facilitates practice little virtues — another method that focuses on God in the and sin, praying daily, frequently Francis de Sales. Our desire is to growing in holiness and having a step in the process of becoming create an awareness of how a midst of daily tasks. Even though receiving the sacraments — espe- deeper devotion for God. more devout. “Introduction to the Devout Life” cially reconciliation and Eucharist, devout life can be integrated with- In addition to receiving the St. Francis defines “little in our “every-days” and draw us was written 400 years ago, his mes- practicing virtue through charitable sacraments, it is also necessary to virtues” as making resolutions or sage is still relevant for us today. acts, and constantly renewing one’s closer to Christ. have a specific time and place little acts of kindness. “Each person In the words of St. Francis de commitment for true devotion. devoted to personal prayer each must practice in a special manner The first step towards holiness Sales: “Live Jesus! to whom, with A brief biography day. St. Francis believes that pray- the virtues needed by the kind of the Father, and the Holy Spirit, be is purging oneself of sin. It is ing daily is a key step towards life he is called to” These virtues St. Francis de Sales studied law all honor and glory, now and important to realize how much sin holiness. He suggests that one help to form a gentle attitude and and theology. He was appointed throughout the endless ages of impedes one’s relationship with begin prayer time with prayers unite the individual with God in the bishop of the diocese of Geneva in eternity. Amen.” Poor Handmaid jubilarians celebrate religious life

BY RUTH HATFIELD Having recently retired to the Illinois and Indiana. She has also Catherine Kasper Home, Sister 60-year jubilarians been involved in healthcare 50-year jubilarians Lucille still volunteers her time Sister Agnes administration and was the direc- Sister Helen DONALDSON — This year, 12 as a “Thank You Sister,” person- Muehlenfeld tor of development for the Poor Watkins has minis- Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ ally writing thank you notes for served as a Handmaids of Jesus Christ. Now tered in health- celebrate special anniversaries as the PHJC Development Office. homemaker in retired, Sister Wilma is a resident care, administra- women religious at a community Sister Mary Gary, and in of the Catherine Kasper Home. tion, education celebration planned for June 27, Dolores Greifer has dietary services Sister Agatha and as a volun- at the PHJC Ministry Center. been a teacher in Milwaukee, Niebrugge has teer. She current- and organist at Wis., before ministered in ly serves as a SISTER SISTER 75-year jubilarians various schools returning home educational set- wellness nurse at AGNES HELEN WATKINS in Illinois, to Convent tings in the PHJC Sister Maris Indiana, MUEHLENFELD Belleville, Breese Krimmel has min- Ancilla Domini Ministry Center in Donaldson. Minnesota and and the Catherine Kasper Home and Chicago, and Sister Damian istered in the Mississippi. She SISTER Donaldson and fields of educa- to continue her ministry in com- McNamara has was a professor DOLORES munity service. Sister Agnes Mishawaka. She SISTER ministered in tion and health- at Ancilla GREIFER currently serves AGATHA care in Illinois remains an active resident at child care, physi- College and Convent Ancilla Domini in as the sacristan NIEBRUGGE cal therapy and and Indiana as served as the director of alumni at Ancilla well as a nuclear Donaldson. transportation, as SISTER and volunteer coordinator of Sister Bertram Domini Chapel, and is a resident well as providing medical techni- MARIS KRIMMEL alumni affairs. She retired to the of Convent Ancilla Domini in cian at St. Anne Boeving has min- volunteer service Catherine Kasper Home in 2004. istered in health- Donaldson. for her communi- SISTER Hospital in Sister Maxine Sister Kathleen Chicago and as a medical librari- care, hospital ty. She currently DAMIAN Peppenhorst has administration, Quinn has served serves as a volun- MCNAMARA an at St. Joseph Hospital in Fort been an educator in healthcare and Wayne. After serving several pastoral care and teer driver with and sacristan in community serv- administration, the Transportation Department at years as a volunteer at Ancilla schools in and as provincial College, Sister Maris retired to ice in settings the PHJC Ministry Center. Illinois and across Illinois SISTER and associate Sister Pauline the Catherine Kasper Home, in Indiana, and provincial of the 2007. and Indiana, and BERTRAM Bridegroom pro- retired to the served the Poor BOEVING Poor Handmaid SISTER vides pastoral Catherine Kasper SISTER Handmaid com- congregation. KATHLEEN care and Sister 70-year jubilarians Home in 2000. MAXINE munity as local leader. She lives She has minis- QUINN Services for the She continues to PEPPENHORST tered at hospitals Sister Lucille at the Catherine Sisters of Mercy volunteer her Kasper Home in Illinois and Indiana, as well as in Plymouth, Ardelean minis- time as a “Thank You Sister” for at Ancilla Systems Incorporated, tered in Illinois, where she retired Mich. She has the Development Office whenev- in 2002. formerly the PHJC healthcare ministered in SISTER Indiana and er possible. system, and is currently the med- Minnesota in the Sister Wilma Illinois and PAULINE Boeving has ical coordinator at Sojourner Indiana in the BRIDEGROOM areas of educa- Truth House in Gary. tion, social serv- served in child areas of educa- ices, pastoral SISTER care, dietary tion, transportation, librarian, care and volun- LUCILLE services and pas- SISTER clerical, pastoral care, chaplain teer work. ARDELEAN toral care in WILMA BOEVING and mission integration. JUNE 14, 2009 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC 19 REST IN PEACE Auburn Philip L.Kienlen, 60, Notre Dame James L.Galligher, 61, St.Jude Herman J.Krizmanich, HAT S APPENING Immaculate 87, Basilica of the W ’ H ? Robert J.Korn, 86, Conception Sacred Heart St.Jude WHAT’S HAPPENING carries announcements about upcoming events in the diocese. Send in your Bremen Otto A.Bird, Basilica of Huntington Marianne Wentland, the Sacred Heart announcement at least two weeks prior to the event. Mail to: Today’s Catholic, P.O. Box 11169, Sister Pauline 65, St.Dominic Fort Wayne 46856; or e-mail: [email protected]. Events that require an admission charge Wapiennik, OLVM,88, Sister Marian Joseph or payment to participate will receive one free listing. For additional listings of that event, please Donaldson Victory Noll Cain, CSC, 103, Our Sister Lorine Lady of Loretto call our advertising sales staff at (260) 456-2824 to purchase space. Kendallville Huelskamp, PHJC, 86, Dorothy Olive Mary Emily Papandria, Ancilla Domini Chapel Maxwell, 97, 83, Our Lady of Loretto FUNDRAISERS Knights plan spaghetti dinner address, phone, e-mail and class Elkhart Immaculate year, along with $15 registration St. Hedwig Polish Festival South Bend — The Knights of Conception South Bend fee to: OLH Alumni Assoc., 331 Barbara Ann Cataldo, South Bend — St. Hedwig will Columbus Council 5521, 61533 Andrea M.Pilger, 41, Parkovash Ave., South Bend, IN 81, St.Vincent de Paul have a Polish festival Sunday, S. Ironwood Dr., will have a Mishawaka St.Joseph 46617. You may also register July 5, from noon to 5 p.m. in spaghetti dinner on Friday, June Fort Wayne Thomas A.VandeWalle, and pay online at: www.ourlady- Sylvester E.Niedbalski, the Hedwig Memorial Center, 19, from 5 to 7 p.m. Adults $7, Arlene J. 65, St.Bavo children (5-12) $3. Dinner ofhungary.com/alumni.htm. St.Adalbert 331 S. Scott St. The Polish festi- Higginbotham-White, includes spaghetti, salad, garlic Craig Anthony Norkus, val begins with a Polka Mass at 62, St.John the Baptist Pamela A.Held, 55, 1 a.m. Polish fare includes: toast and coffee. Carry-out avail- Vacation Bible School announced 44, Queen of Peace Holy Family chicken, sausage, noodles, cab- able. Roanoke — Rome: Paul and the Thomas Edward Underground Church Vacation New Carlisle bage, pierogi, golabki and vari- Kerwin, 74., Eloise E.Glentzer, 89, Port-a-pit chicken help CRHP Bible School Program will be Mary A.Rozwarski, 84, ous desserts. Music will be pro- St.Charles Borremeo St.Jude vided by Soundsations. South Bend — The St. Adalbert hosted by St. Joseph Parish this St.Stanislaus Kostka CRHP continuation committee summer, June 22-25 from 9:30- Rosann M.Cuny, 69, Clara J.Bilinski, 79, 11:30 a.m. All are welcome and New Haven Boppin’ at Besancon will have a Nelson’s port-a-pit St.Vincent de Paul there is no cost to participate. Mary K.Fanders, 99, Holy Family New Haven — St. Louis fundraiser Saturday, July 11, Contact Sarah Maloy at (260) Academy will have a ’50s week- from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Dorothy Adams, 92, St.John the Baptist 437-7761 for information. end fundraiser June 26-27 to Safety-Kleen, 2217 Western Ave. St.Charles Borremeo benefit the school. Friday night Tickets are $5 in advance avail- will feature a drive-in dinner for able at the parish office or $6 Corpus Christi procession day of event. Call (574) 288- Elkhart — A Corpus Christi pro- 10-12 in the Hilton Garden Inn one. Bricks can be reserved for a $5 with hot dog or cheeseburger, Conference Center on the edge $100 donation. For information fries and a rootbeer float from 5- 5708 for information. cession will be Sunday, June 14, at 3:30 p.m. starting at the St. of the Saint Mary’s College cam- call (260) 424-1485. 7 p.m. Saturday night will fea- pus. Join over 400 spouses and ture a sock hop from 8-11 p.m. MISC. HAPPENINGS Thomas parking lot. The proces- priests for the nine-state 2009 Volunteers needed with music by Biff and the Natural family planning classes sion will walk to St. Vincent de Worldwide Marriage Encounter Fort Wayne — The Franciscan Cruisers. Tickets in advance are Warsaw — The Couple to Paul Parish via Main Street. Convention. Register at Center Clothes Closet is in need $20 couple, $10 single, include Couple League will offer a Benediction will follow at St. www.wwme-ni.org/2009conven- of volunteers. Call Doris Bermes drink ticket and snacks. Beer and course in natural family planning Vincent. tion or call Ron and Leanne Lee at (260) 744-3977 for informa- wine will be available. Call (260) beginning Sunday, June 14, at 6 (260) 637-5124. tion. 623-3561 or the school. Tickets p.m. at St. Bernard’s in Zahn Central Catholic alumni celebration will be $5 more at the door. All Hall. The PowerPoint-based Fort Wayne — Central Catholic Support MacDougal Chapel events will be in the parish hall. course is composed of three High School Alumni Association Centering prayer monthly classes that teach a sim- will have a celebration Saturday, Fort Wayne — Support the reno- South Bend — Centering prayer plified version of the “symp- June 27. Mass by Bishop Felipe vation of MacDougal Chapel by is held every Tuesday from 4 to 5 Rummage sale purchasing a brick engraved with p.m. at Little Flower Chapel, Garrett — St. Joseph School, 301 tothermal” method of NFP. For Estevez, ’64, will be at 5 p.m. in the name of your family or loved 54191 N. Ironwood. W. Houston St., will have a information or to register, phone the Cathedral of the Immaculate “best ever” rummage sale June Pat or Monica Klein at (765) Conception. Dinner, music and 18-19 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 668-8034, or e-mail wisdoms- fellowship follow at the Grand Saturday, June 20, from 7 a.m. to [email protected] Wayne Center. Reservations are noon. Breakfast and lunch avail- $40 per person and should be able. Old flags to be destroyed sent to Carol Venderley, 8224 Fort Wayne — The Knights of Becketts Ridge, Fort Wayne, IN 46825. For information call Father’s Day brunch planned Columbus Assembly 239 will be Leanne at (260) 485-0290. Fort Wayne — The Knights of sponsoring a Flag Destruction Columbus Council 601 will have ceremony on Flag Day, June 14, a Father’s Day brunch Sunday, at 4 p.m. The ceremony will be Marriage Encounter plans refreshment June 21, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 held at K of C Council 451, 601 South Bend — A refreshment p.m. in the hall, 601 Reed Rd. Reed Rd. This is a very moving opportunity for all who have Adults $7 and children under 12 ceremony for the entire family. experienced a Marriage $3. Encounter Weekend will be July Little Flower Holy Hour Victory Noll Center to host 5K run, 1K Fort Wayne — Father Glenn fun walk June 20 Kohrman will celebrate the Little “Freedom of speech and expression... Flower Holy Hour at the Huntington —Victory Noll, freedom of every person to located at 1900 W. Park Dr., will Cathedral of the Immaculate host a 5K run and a 1K fun walk Conception on Tuesday, June 16, worship God in his own way... at 7:15 p.m. to pray for voca- on Saturday, June 20. The run freedom from want...freedom from fear.” will begin at 10 a.m., with the tions. Father Glenn is the pastor -Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941 fun walk starting at 10:15 a.m. of St. Mary of the Lake in There is no registration fee for Culver. 444 the race or the walk, but free-will Catholic Radio AM 1450 donations will be accepted. All-class reunion planned Runners and walkers may pre- South Bend — Our Lady of Celebrating our freedoms in register for the event by calling Hungary School is planning an honor of Flag Day, June 14 all-class reunion on Saturday, (260) 356-0628, ext. 128. There (260) 436-1450 will also be registration the day Aug. 1, from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. If of the race beginning at 9 a.m. you attended Our Lady of www.redeemerradio.com The event is sponsored by the Hungary School and would like 4705 Illinois Road, Fort Wayne 46804 Victory Noll Center Women’s to attend this reunion (21 and Auxiliary. Refreshments will be over only), please mail your available. name (and/or maiden name), Visit www.diocesefwsb.org for a complete calendar of events in the diocese. 20 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC JUNE 14, 2009 The Miranda Gardens offered in thanksgiving for blessings

woods there are BY KAREN CLIFFORD wild flowers and ferns. When Carol GRANGER — “Consider the lilies or Tom sees an of the field, how they grow; they area where grass toil not, neither do they spin: And I cannot grow they say unto you, that even Solomon ask “What would in all his glory was not arrayed God do?” and like one of these.” — Mt 6: 28 -29. prayerfully pick When Jesus compares the beau- foliage to grow in ty of flowers to Solomon’s gar- that spot. ments, he could have been stand- Carol notes ing in the vast gardens of St. Pius that the garden is X parishioners Tom and Carol a work in progress Miranda in Granger. But this bibli- because God is cal reference has additional mean- always in ing for Carol, who in 1999 chose progress. to trust in God’s love, rather than Currently Tom dwell in anxiety following her and Carol are diagnosis of spinal cancer. working on put- Carol’s passion for gardening ting the Stations began while attending a Catholic Carol and Tom Miranda of Granger care for the daylily gardens at their home that offer over 500 different varieties. of the Cross on a high school in Belmont, Calif. On path in the woods Saturday mornings, Carol would On May 29, 1959, the Mirandas the eighth vertebrae. Despite these they saw her, she remembers. surrounding their home. Despite take a Greyhound bus from her officially moved into their current challenges Carol was determined Carol and Tom’s gardening all of her health obstacles, Carol home to within a mile of the home in Granger. Located on four not to give up hope of walking efforts are in thanksgiving for all mows all of her own grass and school. After walking the rest of acres, Tom and Carol began the again. Through prayer and work- the blessings the Lord has given with Tom strives to keep the gar- the way to the school, she would process of changing the surround- ing with her therapist, she was able them. Carol stresses that they are dens as perfect as possible for meet Sister Anna, who was a gar- ing outside landscape into gardens. to regain mobility with the use of a God’s gardens and she and Tom God. dener there. Carol remembers a But in January of 1999, Carol’s walker. are just working for him. Formal Carol remembers an evening long oblong piece of land where a gardening efforts were put on hold A turning point in her recovery gardens and wild foliage in the when she and Tom were sitting statue of the Blessed Virgin stood. when she was diagnosed with was July 11, 1999 when Carol woods surround the Mirandas four outside on their wine patio, over- The area was damp from a small spinal cancer. heard a homily at church about a acres. In addition to a perennial looking their garden. She remarked stream of water close by and it was The cancer wrapped around man in Belgium who had his legs garden along the front of their to Tom why she thought it was there that Carol and Sister Anna Carol’s spinal cord and immobi- crushed in an accident. He went to property, the Mirandas have plant- important to keep the yard weed planted some flowers. “We planted lized her from the waist down. the village priest and told him that ed over 500 varieties of daylilies in free and beautiful. “What if we blue lobelia because it is Our Carol recalls her doctor’s dire pre- he wanted to go to Lourdes to be the back. Each variety of daylily saw the Holy Family walking Lady’s color,” Carol recalls. dictions. “(They) told me that I healed. The village priest told the has its own name on a metal mark- through their garden? It’s an awe- After Tom and Carol were mar- was going to be in a wheelchair man that he didn’t have to go to er placed near the plant. In the some thought,” she says smiling. ried, Tom decided to use the G.I. the rest of my life. I had different Lourdes, since the Lord is every- Bill from his service in the Army ideas, because I prayed to Jesus where. After the Mass was con- to attend graduate school at the very fervently.” cluded, Carol thought about the University of Notre Dame. In During the first six months of homily and decided to give Tom September of 1955, Tom, Carol, 1999 Carol had three surgeries. her walker and walk to the car by and their two children moved to The first was to remove a tumor on holding his hand. When they got South Bend with the family her eighth vertebrae, the second home she walked to the neighbor’s extending to seven in the ensuing was a thyroidectomy and the final door in the same fashion and her years. surgery resulted in the removal of neighbors almost fainted when

The Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend which is composed of Four High Schools - Forty Elementary Schools and over 13,000 students seeks applicants for the position of SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Fort Wayne, Indiana Position to begin Fall, 2009 Necessary qualifications include: Practicing Catholic PHOTOS BY KAREN CLIFFORD Carol and Tom Miranda next to the metal placard on their front porch Five Years Catholic School Administrative Experience that reads “House of Miranda, Established May 29, 1959.” For Information and Application Contact: Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend Elementary Principal Position Father Robert C. Schulte - Vicar for Education P.O. Box 390 Fort Wayne, Indiana 46801 Sacred Heart School - Warsaw, Indiana 260-399-1419 Pre-K through Grade 6: Enrollment 200+ E-Mail: [email protected] •Candidate must be a practicing Catholic Deadline for inquiries: June 30, 2009 •Administrative and Public Relation skills essential •Administration Licensed Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend For application, please contact: Catholic Schools Office P.O. Box 390 - Fort Wayne, IN 46801 Phone: (260) 422-4611 Deadline for Application June 19, 2009 EOE EOE