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Prayer Our intimate link to God A multi-faceted look at prayer by Redemptorist Father Paul Coury

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November 1-3, 2019 Photos by Steff Koeneman, Catholic Outlook “Dia de los Muertos” weekend, led by Dr. Newly-vested Msgr. Domenico Pinti addresses the congregation at St. George Parish Dale Brenneman (ethnohistorian), Marcellus in Apache Junction following his investiture with the title of “monsignor” on July 15. Rusk (architect), and Wendy Lotze The ceremony was attended to by hundreds of St. George parishioners and 36 of his (landscape architect) brother priests.

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Sacerdotes nigerianos Compasión y acción: de Tucson afligidos El papamigración Francisco y la por violantos ataques MAY 2018 VOL. XI NO. X diocesetucson.org and 100 parishioners attended the — ver pagina 17 y asesinatos JUNE 2018 VOL. XI NO. XI diocesetucson.org — ver pagina 18

Rector de la Catedral de San Agustín: el reto de la evening prayer ceremony, led by iglesia del obispo Msgr. Pinti stands with Bishop Edward J. AUGUST 2018 VOL. XII NO. I diocesetucson.org DEATH in Nigeria — ver pagina 20 Bishop Edward J. Weisenburger Weisenburger and Poenix auxiliary Bishop

Faith Local priests shaken Eduardo Nevares at the vesper and investiture in by attacks in homeland and Phoenix auxiliary Bishop ceremony. action — Begins page 6 Eduardo A. Nevares.

CNS photo by Afolabi Sotunde, Reuters In January, Fulani herdsmen in the Diocese of A discussion of Catholic teaching Makurdi, Nigeria, killed 80 in an attack on a remote village. The picture here shows a woman weeping on how we work with migrants, Jan. 11 as a truck carries the coffins of some of the His elevation is the first since Msgrs. Al Schifano and Raul Trevizo refugees and other displaced people killed then. On April 24, two priests and more — pages 8-13 than a dozen parishioners were killed in a similar peoples attack. Those deaths shook members of the Nigerian community here. For stories on this and other signs of growing unrest in Africa, see stories beginning on page 3. New safe environment program places students in ‘Circle of Grace’ received the titles in 2012.

— See page 8 Spring Bridal: ASU professor addresses God’s vision for marriage Besides Msgrs. Schifano, Trevizo and Pinti, the other monsignors in the — See page 12

Compassion and advocacy: Pope Francis on migration —See page 3 Diocese are Thomas Cahalane, John Cusack, Jeremiah McCarthy, Thomas Millane, Ambrose Nwohu, Todd O’Leary, Robert Pearson and Carlos Romero Moreno. AUGUST 2019 CATHOLIC OUTLOOK 3 County to permit use of juvenile facility for asylum-seekers By MICHAEL BROWN acknowledged that “we did a poor Managing Editor job in rolling this out.” However, he urged members of all The Pima County Board of the community advocacy groups to Supervisors voted 3-2 on July 22 to find a way to work together moving approve an agreement with Catholic forward. Community Services and the Supervisors Ally Miller and Steve Diocese of Tucson for use of vacant Christy voted against it. sections of the county’s Juvenile Most of the public opposition Detention Center on the city’s South came from local Methodist leaders, side. including a statement from Bishop The vote followed more than Robert Hoshibata, who favored 90 minutes of contentious public decentralization of centers where comment, with opponents asylum-seekers may feel more outnumbering supporters nearly welcome, when transported to three-to-one. Tucson by federal law enforcement. Chairman Richard Elias, who Other opponents decried the Pima County photo voted with supervisors Ramon use of a detention center as likely A view of the inside of a vacant section of the Pima County Juvenile Detention Center that will be used to temporarily house asylum-seekers as they await trips to other Valadez and Sharon Bronson to cause severe trauma to those locations in this country. The facility was made available to Catholic Community to approve the agreement, passing through. Four spoke against Services just as its lease at the former Benedictine Monastery was ending. SSee COUNTY on page 9 Investing. It’s about more than money. It’s about your future. The Redemptorist Renewal Center www.desertrenewal.org Stocks | Bonds | Mutual Funds | Annuities | CDs | IRAs | IRA Rollovers UITs | Retirement Plans | Cash Management | Financial Planning Ben Palazzo Senior Vice President/Investments Branch Manager For over fifty years, RRC has

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Jeremiah McCarthy ‘general excellence’ the right to reject any advertising copy or art. Tel: (520) 838-2562 4 CATHOLIC OUTLOOK In your area D the theme “Connecting Families with Sacramental Santa Cruz sponsors golf tournament DIOCESAN EVENTS Ministries,” the convocation runs 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, 6:30 a.m. check in, 7:30 a.m. Topics include “Knowing and Welcoming Today’s shotgun start, El Rio Golf Course, Charismatic renewal set for Sacred Heart Families,” “Engaging Families in Sacramental Min- 1400 W. Speedway Blvd., Tucson Thursday, Aug. 8, 6:30 p.m., Sacred Heart istries,” “Empowering Family Faith Sharing, Service The 14th Annual Father Bach-Brother Angel de Santa Church, 601 E. 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The event will feature food, live music, dancing, chil- The Cistercian Sisters will hold its last Monastic cfm?community=Tucson_Arizona&program_ dren’s games and raffle prizes of $1,000, $500 and Weekend Experiences at Santa Rita Abbey. It is an date=5735. $250. For more information, call the parish, (520) opportunity for women ages 21-40 to learn about 622-0168 the contemplative monastic life. There is no cost for Religious educators, youth ministers to meet the weekend. For more information, visit santari- Parish directors of Religious Education and direc- taabbey.org, email [email protected] or call tors of Youth Ministry are meeting at the Pastoral, (520) 455-5595. Education and Conference Center at Cathedral Square Aug. 17 for their annual convocation. With Bisbee parish seeks help with 100-year-old stained glass window restoration BISBEE — St. Patrick Church has announced the parish website, stpatsbisbee.com. For a $500,000 Window Restoration Project to further information, email the parish at preserve and protect their historic stained-glass [email protected] or call Pastoral Bishop’s Calendar windows. Administrator Deacon Tony Underwood The Gothic-Revival style church building, at (928) 228-0258 or email aunderwood@ AUGUST 2019 constructed 1915-17, includes 2,377 square feet diocesetucson.org. of stained-glass windows with a current value of over $4 million. Made by Bavarian born artist Emil Frei, the AUGUST windows were crafted in the “Munich Pictorial” style, the most labor-intensive style of stained- 3 11 a.m. - Mass for Permanent Deacons at glass windows. The windows in St. Patrick Most Holy Trinity Parish Church are among the best examples of this 6 - 8 Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention, style to be found in the world. Menneapolis The restoration work will be completed by 17 8:30 a.m. – DRE/DYM Convocation fourth and fifth generation members of the Frei 2019, Cathedral Square family, who currently operate the company in St. Louis. The restoration work, to be completed 6 p.m. – Los Descendientes del Presidio over the next three years, will include removal de Tucson Annual Gala, JW Tucson Marriott of the old Lexan covering, complete interior and Starr Pass Resort exterior cleaning and repair of the stained glass and wood frames, and new clear tempered glass 21 4 p.m. – Interfaith Religious Leaders protective covering. social gathering, Cathedral Square Father Joseph E. Saba, who recently retired as chaplain at St. Mary Hospital in Tucson, is 22 4 p.m. – Catholic Cemeteries Board a Bisbee native serving as campaign chairman. meeting, Cathedral Square “The restoration and preservation of our stained-glass windows is critically important. 24 10 a.m. – Mass, Catholic Committee on We have been entrusted with the care and Scouting, St. Augustine Cathedral, Tucson preservation of our wonderful church. Our 5:30 p.m. – Mass, St. Augustine feast day, St. commitment to the Window Restoration Augustine Cathedral Project is a large part of the legacy we will leave to future generations,” he said. Photo courtesy of St. Patrick Church 31 7:30 p.m. – Italian Catholic Federation Information about the project and about A view of the beautiful statined glass windows from Banquet, Hilton El Conquistador, Tucson inside St. Patrick’s Church in Bisbee. the windows were the windows themselves may be found on created by artist Emil Frei more than 100 years ago. AUGUST 2019 CATHOLIC OUTLOOK 5 Catholic Outlook wins eight Catholic Press awards The Catholic Outlook won eight national The anecdote provided about Obispo Henry awards from the Catholic Press Association at the Granjon and his dedication to the protection of annual Catholic Media Conference June 21 in St. the Native population was unique and interesting Petersburg, Florida. and helped to provide an example of how these The awards included five in Spanish-language values have been applied by Catholic figures. The for last year’s social justice series. The others connection to the history of the Catholic press were for best front page, best coverage of the In 2018, the Catholic Outlook was particularly fitting for the Catholic Press immigration issue and best writing on a national published 11 issues. On June 21, Awards!” or international event. Best Reporting on Social Justice Issues – the newspaper received Solidarity, Honorable Mention. For some of the awards, judges offered national awards from the The other awards were as follows: comments on the elements that impressed them. 8 Catholic Press Association. -Best Front Page – Tabloid, Honorable Spanish-language awards included: Mention. -Best Reporting on Social Justice Issues - Call -Best Coverage – Immigration, Second Place.

Sacerdotes nigerianos Compasión y acción: de Tucson afligidos El papamigración Francisco y la por violantos ataques MAY — ver pagina 17 y asesinatos 2018 VOL. XI NO. X diocesetucson.org JUNE 2018 VOL. XI NO. XI diocesetucson.org — ver pagina 18 “The Catholic Outlook had a cover story that g to Family, Community and Participation, Third cson.or Rector de la Catedral de San Agustín: el reto de la

iglesia del obispo AUGUST 2018 VOL. XII NO. I diocesetu Place. “It talks about different dimensions of DEATH in Nigeria — ver pagina 20 covered the pope and policies on refugees Faith Local priests shaken by attacks in homeland that were superb. The story had historical living the faith in the present time, like voting or in action — Begins page 6

CNS photo by Afolabi Sotunde, Reuters underpinnings that provided context to current In January, Fulani herdsmen in the Diocese of A discussion of Catholic teaching Makurdi, Nigeria, killed 80 in an attack on a remote village. The picture here shows a woman weeping on how we work with migrants, Jan. 11 as a truck carries the coffins of some of the refugees and other displaced people killed then. On April 24, two priests and more — pages 8-13 than a dozen parishioners were killed in a similar protecting the life of children.” peoples attack. Those deaths shook members of the Nigerian community here. For stories on this and other signs of growing unrest in Africa, see stories beginning on page 3. New safe environment program places students in ‘Circle of Grace’ church policies. It also had powerful photography

— See page 8

-Best Reporting on Social Justice Issues – Care Spring Bridal: ASU professor addresses God’s vision for marriage — See page 12 and graphics. The coverage was comprehensive

Compassion and advocacy: Pope Francis on migration for God’s Creation, Third Place. —See page 3 with strong writing and reporting.” -Best Reporting on Social Justice Issues – Life -Best News Writing on A National or and Dignity of the Human Person, Honorable International Event – International Event, Mention. beliefs of Catholicism can get lost in translation, Diocesan Newspaper, “Death in Nigeria,” Third Place. A dramatic story. Good writing. “The -Best Reporting on Social Justice Issues – misunderstood or forgotten, and it is important Bisbee parish seeks help with 100-year-old front-page photo of the Nigerian woman will grab Rights and Responsibilities, First Place. “This to remind people of the fundamental Catholic anyone who sees it and lead them to the article.” stained glass window restoration was a really great article. So often the core social teachings and how they relate to social justice. Two priests in the Diocese For one priest, ministry started; for another active ministry closed. At left, Father Justin Agbir receives a chalice and paten as part of his ordination June 8 from Bishop Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe in Makurdi, Nigeria, as a member of the Via Christi society. Father Agbir has since returned to the Diocese of Tucson to begin his ministry here. At right, Msgr. Thomas Cahalane, retiring pastor of Our Mother of Sorrows in Tucson, prays with Photo courtesy of Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star parishioners June 7 during a Catholic Outlook photo courtesy of Hwande Terkula farewell Mass at the parish.

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Catholic Outlook photo courtesy of Vocations Office Double crypt plot for sale in About 70 young people attended the Youth Pentecost Retreat June 8-9 at St. Joseph Parish, Tucson. beautifully developed St. Peter Garden in Holy Hope Cemetery Scores attend Youth Pentecost Retreat in Tucson About 70 young people attended a Youth ministers speaking with the young people. Word 3555 N Oracle Rd, Tucson, AZ. Pentecost Retreat June 8-9 at St. Joseph Parish, of the event was spread through social media, Section 10x, Row 11, Grave 11. Tucson. posters and parish announcements. Bishop Edward J. Weisenburger celebrated Father Farias said the event was a success Asking 7500.00 or better offer. Mass at the event June 8. according to participants. “All the youth really Contact Aida Chavez 602-397-0335 “The goal was to gather young people from enjoyed it and they were asking for more events different parishes to talk to them about their like this,” he said. faith and to them about vocations,” said Father The next event coming for the Vocations Jorge Farias Saucedo, Vocations director for office is the annual pilgrimage to San Xavier Recruitment. Mission on Sept. 21. Parishes interested in Youths from seven area parishes attended. participating are asked to call the Vocations The event featured seminarians and youth office at (520) 838-2531. Announcement from the Tribunal Office for the Diocese of Tucson For the latest

Case Name: SERRANO-ROMERO; Case Number: 2018-0161M (Diocese of Tucson, news of the Arizona) notice of Annulment Proceeding. Roxanne Romero is hereby notified that George T. Serrano has filed a petition for Diocese of a declaration of nullity of the marriage contracted by both of you. Please contact the Office of the Tribunal within one Tucson, visit month of the date of publication. Anyone who knows the whereabouts of Roxanne Romero is asked to inform the Office of the diocesetucson.org Tribunal of the Diocese of Tucson as soon as possible at 520-838-2514. AUGUST 2019 CATHOLIC OUTLOOK 7 Armand Martin ‘Marty’ Ronstadt, longtime diocesan supporter, passes

Armand Martin “Marty” 1947 and the two had five children. 1990. He loved airplanes and was an Ronstadt, 93, died July 18 in He was active in homeowners’ accomplished pilot. Tucson. and pharmacy groups, the Arizona He is predeceased by his parents, Born in Tucson Aug. 15, 1925, to Historical Society, the Tucson his brother Richard and a son, Armand V. and Charlotte (Watts) Boys Chorus, the Tucson Corral of Patrick. He is survived by his wife, Ronstadt, he attended Immaculate Westerners, the local Red Cross and Barbara and their sons Michael, Heart Academy, followed by several the Tucson chapter of The Flying Tony and Jeffery and daughter Judy; public schools. He was a fourth- Samaritans. He had a particular seven grandchildren; and 10 great- generation pharmacist in his family. passion for the Knights of Columbus grandchildren. He started working in the family and was a longtime member of the A vigil service and rosary were pharmacy at age 13. Deacon Raphael “Ray” Longtre’ held July 26 at St. Thomas the He served two years in the US Council 10441 and the Monsignor Apostle Church, 5150 N. Valley Army during World War II as an Don H. Hughes Assembly. He was View Road, Tucson, followed the Army Air Corp Aviation Cadet especially dedicated to the Catholic next day with a Mass of Christian (1944-45). He earned a bachelor’s Priest’s Retirement Fund and Burial. Burial will be at a later date degree as a member of the first class worked tirelessly with the Knights in Holy Hope Cemetery. from the University of Arizona’s at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Armand Martin “Marty” Ronstadt In lieu of flowers, please consider College of Pharmacy in 1950, before 2004 as originator and organizer of donating to the “Patrick David Southwest Medical Aid, a group serving as a first lieutenant in the the annual “Mass and Dinner with Ronstadt ’75 and A. Martin and which helps provide medical Medical Corp of the 25th Infantry the Bishop.” He was grand Knight Barbara Ronstadt Family Fund” supplies to those in need. Division in the Korean War. for the Knights of Columbus. at Salpointe High School, 1545 E. He married Barbara Sperling in He also served on the board for He retired from the pharmacy in Copper St., Tucson 85719.

Pro-life, school choice bills pass; immigration bill fails in Legislature By RON JOHNSON abortions. bills that became law were SB 1485, which Executive Director, Arizona Catholic Conference Several bills were introduced to legalize allows the corporate tuition tax credit program The Arizona Legislature adjourned May 28 assisted suicide. Legislative leaders ensured that to continue to grow, and SB 1349, which lets after spending 134 days in session, considering none of these bills received a hearing. Arizona parents using 529 educational savings more than 1,300 bills or resolutions and passing Perhaps the most extreme bill was HB 2696, accounts to use those earnings to pay for K-12 more than 300 of them to become law. which attempted to remove Arizona’s protections tuition, as well as college. The Arizona Catholic Conference (ACC) for babies born alive after failed abortions. ACC HB 2757 also passed, which now provides a supported a number of those that were passed leaders were among those who testified against partial income tax deduction for people who use into law, while the most problematic bills failed. it, leading to its defeat in the House Judiciary the standardized deduction on their state income Following the 2018 elections, there have been Committee, by an 8-0 vote. taxes and make contributions to charities and numerous attempts to repeal virtually every Pro-life victories came with the passage of HB churches. pro-life and conscience laws already in statute: 2122, which requires parental notification before A significant setback was the defeat of SB bills proposed to eliminate parental and informed a do-not-resuscitate order is placed on a minor 1217, which would have provided Arizona high consent for abortions; removing protections for child, and of SB 1314, which reduced the scope school graduates, including undocumented religious employers who do not want to be forced of the death penalty in Arizona. immigrants, with a break on college tuition. to pay for abortions and contraceptives; and This year, there were also several bills defeated Readers can receive free e-mail updates at curtailing freedoms for pharmacies and health that would have weakened the state’s school www.azcatholicconference.org. care providers not wanting to participate in choice laws. Two ACC-supported school choice 8 CATHOLIC OUTLOOK Yuma native: 50 years as Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration LA CROSSE, Wisconsin – Sister in nursing from Holy Family Colorado, she earned a doctorate Donna Stevens, a Yuma native, Hospital School of Nursing in in psychology from Illinois School marked 50 years of profession as Manitowoc and a bachelor’s degree of Professional Psychology, Argosy a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual in nursing from Alverno College in University Chicago, and served as Adoration. Milwaukee. a psychotherapist in Lewisville, A jubilee celebration was held In 1989, she transferred to the Texas. Sister Donna then moved to at St. Rose Convent, La Crosse, on Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Whiteriver, Arizona, in the Diocese June 15. Adoration, and entered a new of Las Cruces, New Mexico, to serve She initially entered the ministry after earning a master’s the White Mountain Apache Tribe. Franciscan Sisters of Christian degree in education and community She served as a domestic violence Charity in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, counseling from Loyola University and adult clinician (1997-2006) and where she earned a bachelor’s in Chicago. at the Rainbow Treatment Center degree in natural science from Silver After completing an internship as a professional counselor (2006- Lake College. She moved into the in clinical psychology at Colorado 14). She currently is supervisor of field of health care with a diploma State University in Fort Collins, Rainbow’s Butterfly Drop-In Center. Sister Donna Stevens, FSPA

LITTLE FALLS, Minnesota in religious education and 91, she ministered in empowerment courses. — Sister Angeline Mayers parish ministry in that state. San Felix, Venezuela, in In 2014, she moved to will celebrate the 50th Her ministry in Arizona catechesis, forming base Mexico to live with other Sister jubilee as a member of includes as an assistant Head Christian communities Franciscan Sisters. Presently, the Franciscan Sisters of Start volunteer in Yaqui and coordinating self- at Casa Franciscana in San Mayers Little Falls Aug. 4 with a Village, Tucson, (1970); at Rafael de Galeana, Mexico, Mass of Thanksgiving in St. St. Nicholas Indian Center, she lives with sisters, high Francis Convent, Little Falls, Tucson, as a pastoral minister school students and staff, marks 50 followed by a dinner and in religious education (1975- while ministering in the reception. 80, 1981-85) and as director parish. She trains lectors, years of She entered the novitiate (1980-81); and as a pastoral assists with faith formation, at St. Francis Convent on minister for the San Solano teaches English to all age April 5, 1969, and made her missions, Topowa, (1994- groups. ministry final profession of vows on 2010). During the summer June 2, 1974. She also facilitated months, she is Born in New Munich, addiction prevention Sister Angeline Mayers, OSF in Minnesota directing Minnesota, she was involved programs. From 1988- Girls Camp. Sister Jeanne Marie O’Laughlin, OP, worked in education for 21 years ADRIAN, Michigan — Sister Jeanne education administration, all from the Apostolate in Holy Cross Province. Florida, (1981-2004). She retired to Marie O’Laughlin, formerly known in University of Arizona. Her other assignments the Dominican Life Center in 2019. ministry as Sister John Anthony, died She spent 21 years in included director of She was preceded in death by her June 18 at the Dominican Life Center. elementary education the Adrian Dominican parents, two sisters, Patricia McGlowe She was 90 and in the 73rd year of her in Catholic schools in Independent School and Mary Grybowski, and a brother, religious profession. Michigan and Illinois; and System (ADISS) Board Bernard O’Laughlin. She is survived by Born in Detroit to Thomas and in St. Anthony’s, Casa (1973-74); as a member nieces and nephews. Margaret (Croak) O’Laughlin, she Grande (1961-62), and of the General Council The vigil service was held June graduated from St. Joseph Academy Sacred Heart, Tucson of the Adrian Dominican 24 in St. Catherine Chapel at the in Adrian and earned a bachelor’s (1962-63). She was also an Sisters (1974-78); as Dominican Life Center, followed the in mathematics from Siena Heights educational consultant for President’s Assistant at next day with the Mass of Christian University in Adrian. Subsequently, the Diocese (1963-69). Sister J. O’Laughlin, OP St. Louis University in Burial. Committal followed in the she earned masters’ in biology and She spent four years in California St. Louis (1978-81); and president Congregation cemetery. in education, and a doctorate in (1969-73), as director of the of Barry University in Miami Shores, Sister Dorothy Jeanne Burns, OP, taught in Arizona ADRIAN, Michigan — Adrian and a master’s in education, both from Dominican Life Center in 2005. Dominican Sister Dorothy Jeanne Burns, Siena Heights University in Adrian. She is survived by nieces and nephews. known in ministry as Sister James Marie She spent 50 years ministering in Her body was received June 10 at St. Burns, died June 6 at the Dominican Life education in schools in Michigan, Illinois, Catherine Chapel in the Dominican Life Center. She was 98 and in the 80th year Ohio and at St. Anne School in Gilbert, Center, followed the next day with a of religious profession. Arizona (1946-47). She was principal Mass of Christian Burial. Committal was Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to for 12 years at schools in Michigan and in the congregation cemetery. Memorial James and Josephine (Rano) Burns, she Ohio, and served as Christian service gifts may be made to Adrian Dominican graduated from St. Joseph Academy in coordinator for 15 years at a Michigan Sisters, 1257 E. Siena Heights Dr., Adrian, Adrian, and earned a bachelor’s in history parish. She became a resident of the Michigan 49221. Sister Dorothy Burns, OP AUGUST 2019 CATHOLIC OUTLOOK 9 COUNTY continued from page 3 the agreement because of the 300-500 asylum-seekers sponsors in host cities where to incarcerate juvenile between the pods, she added. anticipated costs to the there. Meanwhile, US their cases will be heard. criminals would cause Concern over costs were county taxpayers, especially Immigration and Customs On July 8, Pima County distress to the migrants, also addressed. Aside from for issues involving health Enforcement, and later officials announced that a many of whom were fleeing the federal grant money care. Border Patrol, shuttled tentative agreement had violence and human rights designated by the county for Prior to the vote, Pima asylum-seekers from border been reached to lease three abuses in their own country. humanitarian aid, Cavendish County Executive Director towns such as Nogales and El vacant “pods” or sections Two school buildings said that reports suggesting Chuck Huckelberry noted Paso, Texas, to Tucson. of the county’s juvenile owned by the Tucson that it will cost the county that because costs associated Since October 2018, CCS detention facility, located Unified School District were $530,000 over five months with the individual units – through its Casa Alitas at 2225 E. Ajo Way, with a offered. However, those to feed the asylum-seekers could not be separated program – had processed capacity of about 300. facilities – along with other may be an overestimation. from the costs for the entire more than 16,000 asylum- Almost immediately, possible sites - failed to That would be the cost, facility, the document could seekers. The average stay there was a reaction from provide the same benefits as including labor, to feed 250 not technically be a lease, was one to three days. Staff the Tucson community. the county facility, said CCS’ asylum-seekers three meals but rather a “Cooperative assistance included food, Some believed that county Chief Executive Officer Peg a day, seven days a week, at Agreement for the provision medical care, a safe place resources – almost entirely Harmon at a July 17 press the facility kitchen which of Humanitarian Services,” to sleep, fresh clothing and in previously procured conference. also prepares meals for the provided at no cost to CCS. laundry and transportation federal grants – should not Harmon acknowledged incarcerated youths and The vote came at a to the local bus station be spent on housing the that “there was not universal staff. special board meeting where they travel – many for asylum-seekers. Others agreement” among all the However, CCS is planning July 22, following two days – to meet families and believed that a facility built groups serving the asylum- to provide one meal and weeks of public drama. On seekers about using a former snacks daily using offsite July 8, the Pima County detention center as a shelter. sources, and the lease board announced that an “We believe we do not have agreement notes that there arrangement had been the additional time or the may be days where only two reached for use of the site by luxury to be uncertain as to meals are provided. CCS. where we will be when our While the monastery That decision was last day at the monastery had a functioning kitchen, criticized by some advocates, passes.” CCS staff has been feeding concerned about the use Harmon said that since its guests solely through of a former jail, and about April 21, CCS leaders had volunteer time and food the costs to the county. On reviewed 25 different sites donations, Cavendish said. July 17, Bishop Edward J. Photo illustration before deciding to accept the She was asked if the center Weisenburger met with Migrant’s loss of hair reveals county location. A starting might still be needed in a community and county specification was that the year, when the proposed leaders, and representatives effects of ardous journey facility had to be 45,000 lease expired. Cavendish of the Salvadoran, Mexican square feet. noted that recently the flow and Guatemalan consulates, Teresa Cavendish, CCS director of Operations, They looked at vacant of asylum-seekers has hit a to share information and said that the collapse of the plumbing system at the hotels, schools and hospitals lull, but that isn’t expected clear the air. former monastery was the result of the dire physical and warehouses. Costs of to last long. Similarly, there CCS has operated its consequences suffered by asylum-seekers passing renovation, repair and rent, was no way to predict what temporary migrant shelter through the area: and standards governing the need would be in a year, Casa Alitas at the former We had almost a total failure of the plumbing shelters, such as the number although there is no end in Benedictine Monastery in system about six weeks ago. One of the things of bathrooms required, ruled sight to the current flow of Tucson since the beginning we discovered was that when that building was out the alternatives. asylum-seekers. of the year. The 83-year-old originally built 80 years ago. At its peak, it had about “We believe that (the “We really have to be monastery, formerly home 100 folks in it county facility) is our only able to think on our feet of the Benedictine Sisters Our guests and their families as they have come to option today,” she said. and make adaptations of Perpetual Adoration, was us, have been experiencing hardship for a significant Teresa Cavendish, CCS’ along the way,” said Bishop purchased in September period of time … the hardship of very difficult director of Operations, said Weisenburger. “That’s 2017 by developer Russ travel in adverse conditions. When families come to that she hoped, by meeting what it means to be a really Rulney, who leased it to CCS us, they often are showering for the first time in a with community leaders vibrant and energetic social for its relief efforts while couple of weeks. Because of the nutritional deficits earlier that day, it would service agency.” he applied for permits and they have been experiencing, some of the women are allay concerns and share Staff noted the negotiated with contractors losing their hair. Not having showered for a while, information that would build difficulties encountered at to start work on several they have large clumps of hair that are falling out. … community support for the the monastery, including new housing units. CCS The system is not designed to accommodate county facility. plumbing deficiencies, which welcomed its first “guests” something like that happening with up to 200 people The county had already resulted in the facility having Jan. 26. at a time when they take a shower in a single day. made some physical changes to be closed at least one day It was scheduled to vacate These are things that we hadn’t wrapped our to the facility, removing in early June. the monastery on July 31 – a heads around deal with the reality of what we were some door locks and made “The monastery deadline later extended to trying to do. It’s tragic, but that’s what some people sure the plumbing all works. didn’t have the right Aug. 6 - but no alternative are experiencing, that their travel has led to health There are plans to remove infrastructure,” said Bishop conditions that are continuing to affect them. had been found to house walls impeding movement SSee COUNTY on page 19 10 CATHOLIC OUTLOOK Just Pray Pope Francis has been quoted as saying “To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.” Catholic Outlook Editor Michael Brown interviewed Redemptorist Father Paul Coury to talk about prayer. For some Catholics, prayer is a regimented listing of words to say. For others, prayer is experiential; people find their faith in time through meditation, through the quietness of a setting or in moments when God is near and their hearts of ready to listen. Father Coury explains that prayer is unique and holy in all its forms. August’s stories are part of an ongoing series.

People experience prayer differently as they age By MICHAEL BROWN Managing Editor How and why people pray depends in a large part on your stage in live, said Redemptorist Father Paul Coury, director of the Redemptorist Renewal Center. “For little kids, I would say it is lifting your mind and your heart to God. You pray to God. You have rote prayers and you pray,” Father Coury said. He recalled his own childhood, a product of a mixed marriage with a Melkite father and a devout Irish Catholic mother, where praying was an integral part of every day. “I did that for most of my life,” he said. “Then when I entered seminary, I still did them. We went from shrine to shrine at night. We prayed to Mary. We prayed to (Redemptorist founder) St. Alphonsus Liguori. We prayed to Jesus. We prayed to God.” In their lifetimes, most people go through six stages of their prayer lives. The first stage starts at birth through the time people go to college. “They (children) are into the program of their parents. They are going to church, they may not like it, but they go because the family goes,” he said. The second stage begins when they go to college. It marks the first time they are living on their own. ”Some kids then become very involved in Newman Center. They become very spiritual and are much into social justice,” Father Coury said. “We had a group of Jesuit volunteers, kids who were in college, and they came here for retreat and went across the (US-Mexican) border and back.” A larger number stop going to church altogether, he said. “Some kids drop off completely because they say, ‘I don’t like doing it.’” The third prayer stage comes after college, when young people start to date and think about settling down. Father Coury called this stage “Love and Marriage.” He described the process – along with the typical conversation – this way: In their lifetimes, most people go through six stages of “That’s the big phase. ‘I fall in love with a girl. She’s really prayer: Childhood into teenager, college, dating/marriage, Catholic. She wants to get married in the church. We have to raising children, empty nesters, and then, old age. go for instructions. Can we get married in a park?’ SSee STAGES on next page AUGUST 2019 CATHOLIC OUTLOOK 11 SSTAGES from previous page

‘No. We are getting married in a It’s magnificent,” he added. church.’ With the empty nest comes the ‘Well, OK,’” Father Coury said. fifth stage, Father Coury said. It is Stage four occurs when children when “empty nesters” move to take are born into the family. the leadership role in the church. “How are you going to raise “They are super-churchgoers,” he the baby? Are you going to have a said. Just Pray baptism?” he asked. “Good schools, “The kids are getting married. You good churches – it’s important what are going to church more,” Father you do with the kids.” Coury said. “The kids come home “One parent told me how they and you say ‘We are going to church. would go into the room at night of Do you want to join us?’” their children and as they tuck them Then, the children are gone. in,” Father Coury said. The children “They are raising their families and are sleeping quietly as the parents you can visit them once in a while. stand there. “They say ‘I just felt See them in their busy lives,”Father this overwhelming connection to all Coury said. children throughout the world. I love Couples in their 50s and 60s begin all of them and they are all part of me evaluating their own relationships and I am all part of them.’ and many who had been distant start “That’s a sense of God’s presence. SSee STAGES on page 12 Praying your way ‘home’ By MICHAEL BROWN Managing Editor “When you get to be my age (73), there’s a spirituality of getting older, said Redemptorist Father Paul Coury, director of the Redemptorist Renewal Center. “It’s something I talk to a lot of people about. The natural tendency when you get older for people is that people want to look at the past with regret. They think ‘Oh my God, it was terrible that I did that, and I didn’t do well there.’ “Then they look at the future with anxiety because they don’t have much of it left,” he added. “‘Well, I have 10 years left and what’s going to happen. Am I going to have money?’” “‘How many years do I have left?’ ‘What if I get sick?’ ‘What if I get cancer?’ People, when they get older, they start worrying a lot.” A genius faces death “Spirituality is just the opposite,” said Father Coury. People have to Following is the account of a meeting between Father Coury and a “look at the past with gratitude and say ‘Lord, thank you for getting me person seeking “spiritual consolation.” through that time in my life. That was a horrible time in my life, but I I had a call from a guy, I don’t know if he was Catholic or not. got through it. You got me through it. Thank you, Lord.’” He asked, “Do you give spiritual consolation?” I hadn’t heard those As a person nears the end of life, and their spirituality deepens, words in years. I said, “Well, I guess I can do it.” “You look at the past with gratitude and get rid of that regret junk. “I want some spiritual consolation.” So I go over to see him. Throw it in the cemetery,” Father Coury said. “Look at the future with He’s got cancer. He’s an older guy. He’s got his Ph.D. in absolute trust. “ mathematics and worked for some of the great mathematicians Father Coury, born and raised in Detroit, has gone through the same in the world. He’s telling me all this great history of what he did thought process. in mathematics and these top mathematicians. Now he’s in his “I go home, I seem my aunts and uncles and they are in their 80s and 80s and he’s dying of cancer. He went through two marriages that they are getting along. None of them are doing well, the ones that are didn’t work and he has a girlfriend two doors down and he’s very left,” he said. “I am thinking ‘I am 73. I’ve got 10 more years, maybe. sick. He wants to talk about all his theories of the afterlife: how What am I going to do for those 10 years?’” atoms work and how mathematics works in the afterlife. He thinks “There’s a spirituality there of trying not to worry,” he added.” Just about reincarnation because of how atoms are and they never go trust that God has a future and the Lord is in charge of the future.” away. He goes on and on and on. Having regrets in natural, Father Coury said. “When memories I was trying to encourage him and talk about faith and people come up in the past that you regret, change those into memories of who have faith and belief. After an hour, he said, “Well, thank you, gratitude. Say ‘Lord, thank you for getting me through that really Father, for spiritual consolation.” terrible time in my life. You blessed me by helping me through it.’ I asked him “Do you want to receive Communion? Do you want That’s a spirituality of aging.” me to anoint you? Do you want to pray?” If you manage to have good health late into life, be grateful, he said. He said, “No, no, this is good. Thank you. Thank you.” “In the morning, I say ‘Well, I’m alive…. So, God bless me. I can see. I I just listened and talked and he just wanted to share with can hear. I can smell.’ somebody who believed in an afterlife. He wanted to share his SSee HOME on page 19 belief in an afterlife, which is OK. 12 CATHOLIC OUTLOOK STAGES continued from page 10 begin to face the onset of sickness get back to my life.” Then she came last month and she passed away “Ninety-five percent of our and death. to a place where she got this great quickly, but it was amazing.” church is older people. They are “So many of them, you walk with spiritual energy. She was great the here retired,” he said. “They want to them through that period of life get spiritual. They want to feel God where they get sick and then get in them.” sicker and then they go into hospice After a lifetime of working and and they pass,” he said. raising children, “what else do they Many “come to a deeper have to do? Become a bagger over at spirituality. It’s amazing. They come Fry’s?” he said. “They have golf and to a real restful place,” he said. stuff, but they like church.” “One who died recently, she used Fraternal organizations and to tell me in her last month. ‘Well, I church social clubs are also am living for Jesus right now, that’s meaningful for them, said Father all. I am just living for Jesus. That’s Coury. what I’m doing.’ “Knights of Columbus are big,” he “Before that, she was a very active said. “It’s meaningful, it’s something woman,” he continued. “At first, in church. That’s a transition.” when she got cancer, she just said, The final stage comes as people “I just want to get better; I want to Father Coury on growing up to become one priest, two traditions By MICHAEL BROWN Managing Editor My grandmother used to pray Paul Coury was born and raised in Detroit, one of seven children of a devout Irish Catholic the rosary every day. Over the mother and Lebanese Melkite father. “years, we would go over there He was raised Roman Catholic at Our Mother of Perpetual Help Parish in Oak Park, Michigan, and she used to like to watch all- but attended services, and served as an altar star wrestling. … She would love boy, in both faith traditions.

“At home, my mother ruled the roost,” he this one guy. … When he started said. “We prayed the rosary every night, we losing, she would go over and hit went to Benediction on Sunday afternoons. We the TV and say ‘God, help Golden prayed to Our Mother of Perpetual Help.” “Our tradition was the big beautiful church, George win!’ She would hit the “ and it was in that church where it seemed TV set with her rosary. We would like God lived because it was so massive and beautiful, and Mary lived on one side of it and sit there as kids and say ‘Oh, my Joseph lived on the other,” he said, recalling the God . . . Grandma’s going cuckoo.’ dedicated parish shrines. Father Paul Coury, CSsR Faith had its funny moments too, he recalled. Masses in both.” the priests to be a bridge to the divine on their “My grandmother used to pray the rosary He entered the minor seminary in 1960, behalf. every day. Over the years, we would go over a time of roiling turmoil in society and “There was the heavenly sanctuary and we there and she used to like to watch all-star the Church. The Roman clergy were still were outside of it. The priest would go into the wrestling. … She would love this one guy. … celebrating the Mass in Latin with their backs heavenly sanctuary and he would offer prayers When he started losing, she would go over and facing the people; however, in the next decade, for you,” Father Coury said. “In the Roman hit the TV and say ‘God, help Golden George the liturgical reforms reflected a seismic tradition, you were praying directly to God and win!’ She would hit the TV set with her rosary. change for some people. The Mass was in the the priest was up there praying too. The Melkite We would sit there as kids and say ‘Oh, my vernacular, or local language, the main altar tradition was more like the priest would God. Oh, my God. Grandma’s going cuckoo.’” was moved forward and the priests faced the disappear into the heavenly sanctuary. He’s in He attended Redemptorist seminaries in people. there doing stuff … praying to God and you are Oconomowoc and Edgerton, Wisconsin, with “In 1967, it was the first time we could say outside watching it, hoping that he would lift some classes at St. Basil Melkite Seminary in the Mass in English. I remember it because we you up in his prayer. Methuen, Massachusetts. were trying to let us get to play a guitar Mass,” For those unable to embrace the changes “At that time, the Catholic church was very said Father Coury. There were “only two songs in the Roman rite, the Eastern rites became a much involved with keeping the Oriental we could play – ‘Sons of God’ and ‘All you place of refuge. (Eastern) rites from the Middle Eastern People Clap Your Hands.’ We had these 10 “A lot of discontent Catholic priests joined countries pure, to keep those rites alive,” Father guitars playing these two songs and we thought the Oriental rites, because it felt more like the Coury said. His studies required getting special we were so relevant.” old church, facing the wall and they would permission from the Vatican to study for those The Eastern rites, including the Melkites, enter the sanctuary and there were no lay rites and allow him to celebrate those rites maintained the physical separation of the priest people,” Father Coury said. “It was just them.” after ordination. “I was bi-ritual so I could do and the congregation; the people still required SSee COURY on 19 AUGUST 2019 CATHOLIC OUTLOOK 13 God provides direction through current events The problem in the world and in the churches, events happen under their own steam as random Sojourners magazine editor Jim Wallis suggests, as rain, which means that God is present in them is that, perennially, conservatives get it wrong ABOUT THE FAITH not as their cause but as the one who even in the and liberals (over-reacting to conservatives) then Father Ron Rolheiser hardest and most hair-raising of them offers us don’t get it at all. Nowhere is this truer than in the possibility of that new life and healing which how we discern the finger of God in the events of I believe is what salvation is.” our lives. God is always speaking to us in every event in Jesus tells us to discern the finger of God the outbreak of AIDS. When AIDS first broke our lives. For a Christian, there’s no such a thing in our lives by reading the signs of the times. out, a number of strong conservative religious as a purely secular experience. The event may be What’s meant by that? The idea isn’t so much voices spoke out saying that AIDS was God’s the result of purely secular and contingent forces that we look to every kind of social, political and punishment on us for our sexual promiscuity, but it contains a religious message for us, always. religious analysis to try to understand what’s particularly for homosexuality. Liberal religious Our task is to read that message. going on in the world. Rather, we look at every voices, for their part, were so turned off by this Mostly, it seems that we hear God’s voice event in our lives, personal or global, and ask that their response was that God has nothing to only in experiences that are deeply painful for ourselves: What’s God saying to me this event? do with this. us rather than in events that bring us joy and What’s God saying to us in this event? Both need a lesson on the workings of divine pleasure. However, we shouldn’t misread this. An older generation understood this as It’s not that God speaks only through pain and is trying to attune itself to the workings of “divine silent when things go right. Rather, in the words providence.” That practice goes back to biblical God is always speaking; of novelist C.S. Lewis, pain is God’s microphone times. When we read the Bible, we see that mostly we aren’t to a deaf world. God is always speaking; mostly for God’s people nothing happened that was “ listening. It’s only we aren’t listening. It’s only when our hearts start understood as being purely secular or religiously breaking that we begin to attune ourselves to the neutral. In every event, be it ever so accidental when our hearts start “ voice of God. and secular, they saw the finger of God. For Divine providence is a conspiracy of accidents example, they believed that if they lost a war, breaking that we begin through which God speaks and we must be it wasn’t because the other side had superior to attune ourselves to careful to get both parts of the equation right. soldiers, but rather that God had somehow God doesn’t cause AIDS, global warming, the engineered this to teach them a lesson. Or if the voice of God. refugee situation in the world, a cancer diagnosis, they were hit by drought it was because God world hunger, hurricanes, tornadoes or any had actively stopped the heavens from raining, providence. Religious conservatives are wrong other such thing in order to teach us a lesson. again to teach them a lesson. in their interpretation: God does not cause AIDS However, something in all of these invites us to Now it’s easy to misunderstand this because, to punish us for sexual promiscuity. Conversely, try to discern what God is saying through them. frequently, in writing this up, the sacred authors religious liberals are also wrong in saying that Likewise, God doesn’t cause your favorite sports give the impression that God actively caused the this has nothing to do with God. God doesn’t team to win a championship; that too is the result event. That’s their wording, though not their cause AIDS, or any other disease. However, God of a conspiracy of accidents. intent or meaning. The Bible does not intend speaks through AIDS and every other disease. However, God speaks through all of these to teach us that God causes wars or stops the Our religious task is to discern the message. things – even your favorite team’s championship heavens from raining; it accepts that these are the What’s God saying to us through this? win. result of natural contingency. The lesson is only Someone once said that divine providence is that God speaks through them. a conspiracy of accidents through which God Oblate Father Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and It’s here where conservatives tend to get it speaks. Essayist Frederick Buechner teases this award-winning author, is president of the Oblate wrong and liberals tend to miss the point. A out a little further by saying: “This does not mean School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. Contact recent example of this is the reaction in certain that God makes events happen to us which move him through his website ronrolheiser.com or on religious circles, conservative and liberal, to us in certain directions like chessmen. Instead, Facebook at facebook.com/ronrolheiser. Thank you George Kalil: Tucsonan left a long legacy of generosity By GRACIE QUOROZ MARUM it involved a collapsed roof or a long-range plan Kalil was a keen supporter of education and Executive Director, Catholic Tuition Support for renovation. Among parishes that benefitted especially of Catholic education. His gifts of more Organization from his commitment to his Catholic community than $1.5 million to Arizona’s Catholic Tuition The well-known and often- in Tucson are Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Support Organization (CTSO) impacted more used adage of “a true friend is but Odelia and Sacred Heart. At times than 500 deserving students throughout Catholic a telephone call away” is an apt his gifts were made secretly but the schools in the Diocese of Tucson. These students description of George Kalil. He impact has been felt and seen by and their families had limited financial resources passed away at age 81 and left a those he helped. and otherwise might not have been able to access legacy of kindness and generosity Salpointe Catholic High School the quality education they have received. throughout the Diocese of Tucson. recognized the Kalil family by Many in the Diocese of Tucson have benefitted Kalil’s integrity and compassion naming the gymnasium in their from George Kalil’s generosity of spirit. He will broadened his philanthropic activity honor. The family’s gift of more be missed greatly as one who shared graciously to include a wide range of causes than $1 million to Salpointe was from his success and business acumen. George including many projects within the used throughout the campus to Kalil will be missed also as a caring individual Diocese of Tucson. upgrade their basketball facility, the who loved his community and touched many Several parishes within the George Kalil baseball and softball fields and the lives. The Diocese of Tucson is grateful for your Diocese were touched by his willingness to come track. Additional gifts to the Salpointe Foundation kindness and saddened by your passing. to their assistance during an emergency whether throughout the years continue to generate funds. 14 CATHOLIC OUTLOOK Systemic racism still limits to equal employment opportunities Third in a series limited entry-level employment. In the November 2018 pastoral Unemployment, under-employment letter against racism, “Open Wide and discrimination in the workplace Our Hearts,” the US bishops urge were the norm. all Catholics to acknowledge “the scourge of racism” that still exists Part of the Civil Rights agenda in our hearts, words, actions and in the 1960s was focused on jobs institutions. Racism can be individual, with dignity and job training when persons fail to recognize certain opportunities. The US Federal groups as created in the image of Equal Employment Opportunity God and equal in dignity; or, it can Commission (EEOC) was created be systemic, where practices or in 1964 to protect against illegal policies treat certain groups of people discrimination in the workplace, unjustly. One area of systemic racism which unfortunately has continued. is lack of access to equal employment In 2016 and 2017, for example, the opportunities for many persons of EEOC investigated tens of thousands color. of racial discrimination cases. Employment disparities among St. John Paul II reminded us that college graduates of different races due to every person being created persist. in the image and likeness of God, everyone who is willing and able In 2017, the Harvard University should have access to opportunities Business School Review documented for fair employment. Unfortunately, that hiring discrimination against this was not the case for Native African Americans was still a reality Americans, African Americans, - and did not decline in the past 25 Hispanics/Latinos, and many years. The authors note that despite immigrants throughout the nation’s a growing concern with diversity, history. Fair access to employment were detrimental to the impacted laborers north to work in factories. “subtle forms of racial stereotypes” remains a challenge today. groups and led to restricted access in the workplace and “unconscious to employment opportunities and However, they faced many bias” have shown little change: For Native Americans, colonial other means of advancement. challenges. Many white residents Support for more affirmative action and later US policies led to the in northern cities resented the policies and stronger enforcement loss of land, restrictions in self- After the end of slavery until new black residents, and tensions of antidiscrimination legislation governance, and economic the First World War, 90% of could spill over into violence and is critical because this pattern devastation that left a legacy African Americans lived in the riots. Despite higher available “will not diminish on its own.” of low educational attainment South, the great majority toiling as salaries than those in the South, The unemployment rate among and unemployment rates which sharecroppers. This entailed back- black migrants to the North were African American workers and remain among the highest in the breaking labor in white landowners’ typically relegated to lower paying Hispanic workers is still higher country. Throughout its history, fields for a small share of the crop jobs. The Great Depression further than for whites, and in 14 states the United States has, especially and often substandard housing. eroded job possibilities. Even and the District of Columbia, black during times of economic stress, In addition, the imposition of Jim with post-Depression economic unemployment is at least twice discriminated against and placed Crow, which guaranteed segregation recovery, many labor unions that as high as white unemployment. legal restrictions on newly-arrived and disenfranchisement, was ample secured just wages were closed to Native American communities often groups of immigrants and blamed impetus to leave the South for good. African Americans, as were many have vastly higher unemployment them for social ills. The blame, With the start of WWI in 1916, professions. Even college-educated than the national average. Unequal discrimination and legal restrictions the Great Migration brought black African Americans often found opportunity still remains a concern.

For more information Pray with St. John Paul II discrimination on the basis of racial and ethnic “Responsibility, Rehabilitation, and “Lord God, our Father, you created the difference. Forgive us and grant us the grace to Restoration: A Catholic Perspective on Crime human being, man and woman, in your image heal the wounds still present in your community and Criminal Justice” and likeness, and you willed the diversity of on account of sin, so that we will all feel http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/ peoples within the unity of the human family. ourselves to be your sons and daughters.” human-life-and-dignity/criminal-justice- At times, however, the equality of your sons restorative-justice/crime-and-criminal-justice.cfm and daughters has not been acknowledged, (Universal Prayer on the Day of Pardon) and Christians have been guilty of attitudes of rejection and exclusion, consenting to acts of

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Este es el tercero artículo de una eran la norma. serie de ocho Parte de la agenda de los En la Carta pastoral contra el Derechos Civiles en la década de racismo de noviembre de 2018, 1960 se centró en empleos dignos Abramos nuestros corazones, los y oportunidades de capacitación obispos católicos de los Estados laboral. En 1964 se creó la Unidos instan a todos los católicos Comisión Federal para la Igualdad a reconocer “el flagelo del racismo” de Oportunidades en el Empleo que todavía existe en nuestros (EEOC) para proteger contra la corazones, palabras, acciones e discriminación ilegal en el lugar de instituciones. El racismo puede ser trabajo, que desafortunadamente individual, cuando las personas no ha continuado. En 2016 y 2017, por reconocen a ciertos grupos como ejemplo, la EEOC investigó decenas creados a imagen de Dios e iguales de miles de casos de discriminación en dignidad, o puede ser sistémico, racial. Persisten las disparidades cuando las prácticas o políticas de empleo entre los graduados tratan a ciertos grupos de personas universitarios de diferentes razas. injustamente. Un área del racismo En 2017, la Harvard University sistémico es la falta de acceso a la Business School Review documentó igualdad de oportunidades de empleo que la discriminación contra los para muchas personas de color. afroamericanos en la contratación San Juan Pablo II nos recordó que seguía siendo una realidad, y que debido a que cada persona es creada no había disminuido en los últimos a imagen y semejanza de Dios, toda 25 años. Los autores señalan que, persona que quiera y pueda debe los males sociales. La culpa, la trabajadores negros al Norte para a pesar de un creciente interés por tener acceso a oportunidades de discriminación y las restricciones trabajar en las fábricas. Sin embargo, la diversidad, las “formas sutiles de empleo justo. Desafortunadamente, legales fueron perjudiciales para los enfrentaron muchos desafíos. estereotipos raciales” en el lugar de no fue así con los nativos americanos, grupos afectados y ocasionaron un Muchos habitantes blancos de las trabajo y el “sesgo inconsciente” han los afroamericanos, los hispanos/ acceso restringido a oportunidades ciudades norteñas se irritaban con mostrado pocos cambios: el apoyo latinos y muchos inmigrantes a lo de empleo y otros medios de los nuevos habitantes negros, y las a más políticas de acción afirmativa largo de la historia de la nación, y el progreso. tensiones podían desbordarse en y a una aplicación más estricta de la acceso justo al empleo sigue siendo Después del fin de la esclavitud y violencia y disturbios. A pesar de legislación contra la discriminación un desafío en la actualidad. hasta la Primera Guerra Mundial, el los sueldos más altos que en el Sur, es fundamental, porque este patrón Para los nativos americanos, las 90 por ciento de los afroamericanos los migrantes negros en el Norte “no disminuirá por sí solo”. La tasa políticas coloniales y posteriores vivían en el Sur, la gran mayoría solían ser relegados a empleos menos de desempleo entre los trabajadores de los Estados Unidos ocasionaron trabajando como medieros. Esto remunerados. La Gran Depresión afroamericanos e hispanos sigue pérdida de tierras, restricciones implicaba un trabajo agotador en los erosionó aún más las posibilidades de siendo mayor que entre los blancos, en el autogobierno y devastación campos de los propietarios blancos empleo. Incluso con la recuperación y en 14 estados y el Distrito de económica que dejaron un legado a cambio de una pequeña parte de económica posterior a la Depresión, Columbia, el desempleo de los de bajo nivel educativo y tasas de la cosecha y, a menudo, viviendas muchos sindicatos que conseguían negros es al menos el doble que desempleo que se mantienen entre de calidad inferior. Además, la salarios justos estaban cerrados el desempleo de los blancos. Las las más altas del país. A lo largo de imposición de las leyes de Jim Crow, a los afroamericanos, al igual que comunidades nativas americanas su historia, y especialmente durante que aseguraban la segregación y muchas profesiones. Incluso los a menudo tienen un desempleo tiempos de tensiones económicas, la privación de derechos, fue un afroamericanos con educación muchísimo más alto que el promedio los Estados Unidos han discriminado gran impulso para dejar el Sur universitaria encontraban a menudo nacional. La desigualdad de e impuesto restricciones legales para siempre. Con el inicio de la sólo empleos de baja calificación. oportunidades sigue siendo motivo a grupos de inmigrantes recién Primera Guerra Mundial en 1914, El desempleo, el subempleo y la de preocupación. llegados y los han culpado de la Gran Migración llevó a los discriminación en el lugar de trabajo

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El papa Francisco ha dicho que «ser amigo de Dios significa orar con sencillez, como un niño les habla a sus padres». El director editorial de Panorama Católico, Michael Brown, entrevistó al padre redentorista Paul Coury para hablar sobre la oración. Para algunos católicos, la oración es un conjunto de palabras fijas que deben recitar. Para otros, es una experiencia, y con el tiempo, la persona encuentra su fe en la meditación, en la quietud de un entorno, o en momentos cuando Dios está cerca y el corazón está listo para escuchar. El padre Coury explica que la oración es única y sagrada en todas sus formas. Las historias de agosto son parte de una serie que continúa. La experiencia de la oración va cambiando con los años, dice un sacerdote

Por MICHAEL BROWN Director Editorial Cómo la gente reza, y por qué lo hace, depende en gran medida de la etapa de la vida en que se encuentre, dijo el padre redentorista Paul Coury, director del Centro de Renovación Redentorista. “En el caso de los niños pequeños, diría que se trata de elevar la mente y el corazón hacia Dios. Le rezan a Dios las oraciones que han aprendido de memoria”, dijo el padre Coury. Él habló de su propia infancia, donde la oración era parte integral de cada día en un hogar con dos tradiciones de fe. Su padre era melquita y su madre era irlandesa católica, muy devota. “Fue lo que hice durante la mayor parte de mi vida”, dijo. “Cuando ingresé en el Padre Paul Coury, CSsR seminario lo seguía haciendo. Por la noche, íbamos de altar en altar. Le rezábamos a María. Le rezábamos a San Alfonso Liguori (fundador redentorista). Le rezábamos a Jesús. Le rezábamos a Dios”. Al transitar la vida, la mayoría de las personas pasan por seis etapas de oración. La primera etapa comienza en el nacimiento y se extiende hasta el día en que la persona se va a la universidad. ¿Cómo se puede dividir el proceso de la oración según las etapas de la vida? “Los niños siguen los pasos de sus padres. Un gran número de jóvenes deja de ir a la qué hacer. ¿Podemos casarnos en el parque?’” Van a la iglesia, aunque quizás no les guste, iglesia. “Algunos abandonan por completo porque “‘No. Nos vamos a casar en una iglesia’". porque la familia va”, dijo. "no me gusta ir". "Bueno, está bien"». Para los jóvenes que se mudan a una La tercera fase viene después de la universidad, La etapa cuatro ocurre cuando llegan los hijos. universidad, esa es la primera vez que cuando los jóvenes se ennovian y empiezan a “‘¿Cómo vamos a criar al bebé? ¿Va a haber viven solos. “Algunos van seguido al Centro pensar en echar raíces. El padre Coury denomina bautismo?’” planteó. “‘Buenas escuelas, buenas Newman; desarrollan su espiritualidad y se esta fase “amor y matrimonio”. iglesias, lo que uno hace para los hijos es interesan mucho por la justicia social”, dijo el Él describió el proceso —y la conversación importante’”. padre Coury. típica— diciendo lo siguiente. “Un padre de familia me dijo que por las “Tuvimos un grupo de voluntarios jesuitas, “Es la etapa mayor: ‘Me enamoro de una chica. noches entraban en el dormitorio de los niños jóvenes universitarios, vinieron a un retiro y Ella es realmente católica. Quiere casarse por la para arroparlos”, dijo el padre Coury. “Los niño cruzaron la frontera de EE. UU. y México”. Iglesia. Tenemos que ir a la iglesia a que nos digan SVer ETAPA en pagina 20 AUGUST 2019 CATHOLIC OUTLOOK 17 La recta final Por MICHAEL BROWN futuro”. Director Editorial Sentir arrepentimiento es “Cuando una persona llega a natural, dijo el padre Coury, pero la edad que tengo yo, 73, tiene “cuando recuerde algo que le causa la espiritualidad propia de esa remordimiento, conviértalo en un Ora siempre etapa de la vida”, dijo el padre recuerdo para la gratitud. Diga: redentorista Paul Coury, director "Señor, gracias por haberme sacado del Centro de Renovación adelante en ese momento terrible redentorista. de mi vida. Tú me bendijiste “Es algo de lo que hablo con ayudándome a superarlo", esa es mucha gente. La tendencia la espiritualidad que llega con la natural de las personas al edad”. envejecer es mirar al pasado con Si tiene buena salud en su arrepentimiento. Piensan: ‘Dios tercera edad, sea agradecido, dijo. mío, qué horrible que yo haya “Por la mañana, yo digo: "Bueno, hecho eso, no fue de mis mejores estoy vivo... Así que, bendíceme, momentos’”. Dios. Puedo ver. Puedo oír, Puedo “Luego miran hacia el futuro oler"“. con ansiedad porque no les El padre Coury llama a la queda mucho tiempo”, añadió. enfermedad "la última transición". “‘Me quedan 10 años y, ¿qué va a “Eso lo veo mucho acá”, en suceder? ¿Voy a tener dinero?’”. Our Lady of the Desert, la iglesia “‘¿Cuántos años me quedan? del complejo del Centro de ¿Qué pasa si me enfermo? ¿Y si me Renovación Redentorista. viene cáncer?’ Al envejecer, las Mencionó el cáncer, la apoplejía, personas empiezan a preocuparse ataques cardiacos y "problemas mucho”. terribles de circulación" como “La espiritualidad es todo lo las enfermedades que más contrario”, dijo el padre Coury. comúnmente afligen a las personas La gente tiene que “volver la vista mayores de su comunidad. hacia el pasado “Cuando están con gratitud y enfermos y cerca decir ‘Señor, de morir quieren gracias por hacerlo de forma Un genio de cara a la muerte ayudarme a que les permita estar salir de aquella profundamente Este es el relato de un hablar de todas sus teorías circunstancia conectados con Dios”, encuentro del padre Coury de lo que sucede después de de mi vida. dijo. “Quieren estar y una persona en busca de esta vida: cómo funcionan los Fue un tiempo arraigados en Dios: "consuelo espiritual". átomos y cómo funcionan las horrible, pero lo superé. Tú me ‘Dios y yo estamos juntos en esto’, Recibí una llamada de un matemáticas en el más allá. Él guiaste. Gracias, Señor’”. dicen”. hombre, que no sé si era piensa en la reencarnación por Al acercarse al final de la vida, Las oraciones tradicionales, católico o no. Me preguntó: las características de los átomos y con una espiritualidad más como el rosario, ayudan, "¿Ud. da consuelo espiritual?" y por su permanencia. Y sigue profunda, “la persona mira al pero desarrollar una relación Hacía años que yo no oía esas y sigue hablando de todo eso. pasado con gratitud y se desprende estrecha con Dios es mucho más palabras. Le respondí: "Bueno, Yo trataba de infundirle del lastre del arrepentimiento. importante. “Así, cuando fallecen, creo que podría hacerlo". ánimo y de hablarle sobre la Abandónelo en el cementerio”, no es solo un final, una oscuridad”, “Quiero consuelo espiritual", fe y las personas que tienen dijo el padre Coury. “Mire hacia el dijo el padre Coury. “En cambio, dijo. Así que fui a verlo. fe y una creencia. Después futuro con confianza absoluta”. será compenetrarse con Dios; Tiene cáncer. Es un de una hora, me dijo: "Bueno, El padre Coury ha pasado por el unirse con Dios, juntos los dos, una hombre mayor; doctorado gracias, padre, por el consuelo mismo proceso de reflexión. compenetración de amor”. en matemáticas y ha espiritual". “Voy de visita a mi ciudad, ¿Qué sucede con los trabajado para algunos de los Le pregunté: "¿Quiere recibir Detroit, y veo a mis tías y tíos que remordimientos y fracasos de toda matemáticos más eminentes del la Comunión? ¿Quiere que le dé ya pasaron los 80 y todavía siguen una vida? mundo. Me cuenta su historia la santa unción? ¿Quiere rezar?" adelante. De los que quedan, “En el purgatorio, lo que extraordinaria de lo que hizo en Me respondió: "No, no, así ninguno está bien.”, dijo. “Yo sucederá es que todo ese lastre se esa materia y de los excelentes está bien. Gracias. Gracias". pienso: ‘Tengo 73 años. Me quedan va a eliminar en un instante y la matemáticos. Ahora tiene más Yo escuché y hablé, y él solo otros 10 años, tal vez. ¿Qué voy a persona va a llegar directamente a de 80 años y está muriendo de deseaba conversar con alguien hacer con esos 10 años?’”. Dios”, dijo. “Todo lo demás no va a cáncer. Tuvo dos matrimonios que creyera en el más allá. “Parte de la espiritualidad es durar más que un instante. que fracasaron, tiene una novia Quería compartir su creencia tratar de no preocuparse”, añadió. Al entrar por la puerta, toda carga que vive a dos casas de la suya, en el más allá; y me parece “Solo queda confiar en Dios para el que lleve va a quedar atrás al y está muy enfermo. Quiere bien. futuro, porque Él está a cargo del unirse a Dios”. 18 CATHOLIC OUTLOOK Abp. John Wester addresses reporting abuse by bishops In 2002, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) enacted the Charter for reporting system, the universal law is already the Protection of Children andYoung People, in effect regarding the reporting and handling commonly referred to as the Dallas Charter. The of complaints against bishops. Therefore, in bishops also received authority from the Vatican the Province of Santa Fe (which includes the to make the Charter canon law for the Church in Archdiocese of Santa Fe and the dioceses of Las the United States.This comprehensive plan for the Cruces and Gallup in New Mexico, and Phoenix protection of children and young people includes and Tucson in Arizona), if you wish to report a a zero tolerance policy that requires priests and bishop for the sexual abuse of a minor, sexual deacons who have committed child sexual abuse acts involving adults regarded as vulnerable and/ to be removed from ministry. or for mishandling such cases, please call the One criticism of the Charter has been that it following number during regular business hours: does not apply to bishops or those equivalent 505-219-8743. in the law (abbots, for example). Pope Francis If you call outside of business hours please Catholic News Service photo has remedied this deficiency with his recent Archbishop John Wester is the Metropolitan over leave a message, including your phone number, Apostolic Letter entitled, “You Are the Light dioceses in New Mexico and Arizona: Santa Fe, Gallup, and your call will be returned as soon as possible. of the World” (Vos Estis Vox Mundi). This Las Cruces, Tucson and Phoenix. The layperson who handles these calls will immediately inform the Archbishop of Santa Fe means that the pope has enacted universal law misconduct and harassment. Moreover, they as well as the apostolic nuncio in Washington, DC that pertains to the reporting and handling of renewed their pledge to be subject to the Charter, (the apostolic nuncio is the pope’s representative complaints against bishops. Pope Francis has to promote the ongoing formation for bishops in the United States). This will begin the process mandated that, starting June 1, 2019, a process and to include the expertise of lay professionals of investigation, which will result in appropriate be established for Church investigations of throughout the reporting process. complaints against bishops for the sexual abuse of measures being taken based on that investigation. Please note that Pope Francis’s apostolic letter a minor. This process also addresses complaints It is important to remember that even though the and the measures passed by the United States against bishops for sexual acts involving adults pope has directed that metropolitan archbishops bishops in Baltimore in June of 2019 refer to regarded as vulnerable and for the negligent (archbishops of an archdiocese that includes Catholic Church laws, policies and procedures. If or intentional mishandling of such abuse or other dioceses in what is called a “province”), harassment cases. The process also mandates are responsible for effecting this new mandate, the internal reporting of such cases, offers If you wish to report a qualified lay persons are involved in the entire whistleblower protection for those reporting process. These reports will be sent to Rome and action will be taken fairly and conclusively, and prohibits any imposition of silence on those bishop for the sexual abuse

“ and in a timely manner. If a report comes in reporting. of a minor, sexual acts about the metropolitan archbishop, then it will

At the USCCB meeting held in Baltimore, involving adults regarded be directed to the senior suffragan bishop of the Maryland, from June 11-14, the bishops of the province who will direct the process. At present, United States voted on several action items as vulnerable and/or for “ the senior bishop in the Province of Santa Fe pertaining to the pope’s apostolic letter, all of mishandling such cases, is Bishop Thomas Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix. which received overwhelming approval. The please call Once the national third party reporting system is first of these items was the “Implementation in place, then the public will be notified and the Directives.” These directives outline the use . . . 505-219-8743 Santa Fe Province number shown above will be of lay experts in the entire reporting and discontinued. investigative process. They also call for a third you wish to report a bishop or his equivalent in If you have any questions or concerns party national reporting system (this will be law for a crime, then you must first call your local regarding Pope Francis’s apostolic letter or the up and running as soon as possible but no later civic authorities, i.e., the police and the child decisions of the US Catholic Bishops, please than May 31, 2020.) The bishops also approved protection agency in your area. Secondly, please contact the pastoral center in your diocese. the “Protocols” for dealing with bishops who call the third party national reporting system Please continue to pray for all victims of clergy are removed or who resign for reasons related telephone number. sexual abuse and for the Church’s efforts to to sexual abuse or abuse of power. Finally, provide a safe environment for all children and the bishops committed themselves to codes of It is important to remember that even though it young people. May the Lord Jesus, who blessed conduct that include prohibitions against sexual will take time to establish the national third party the little children, bless our efforts as well. Protocol approved on restrictions on bishops facing claim of abuse By MARK PATTISON meeting in Baltimore. The measure required Restrictions on Bishops” was scheduled to be Catholic News Service 180 bishops, or two-thirds of all US bishops, for voted on when the bishops met last November. BALTIMORE — The US bishops passage. However, the Vatican requested they delay a vote overwhelmingly approved a measure that would If a credible accusation of sexual misconduct until after the Vatican held a February meeting enable bishops to apply restrictions in the life has been reported against a retired bishop, his for presidents of bishops’ conferences worldwide and ministry of retired bishops accused of sexual successor may act to limit the retired bishop’s to discuss the abuse crisis. abuse or who failed to take necessary measures scope of ministry, including the celebration of The US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ to prevent abuse. the sacraments and the right to be buried in the Administrative Committee had decided last The 212-4 vote, with one abstention, was taken diocesan cathedral. September that the development of a such a June 13, the last day of the bishops’ June 11-13 The “Protocol Regarding Available Non-Penal SSee BISHOPS on page 20 AUGUST 2019 CATHOLIC OUTLOOK 19 C COUNTY from page 9 Signage for the county operation “extraordinarily generous to us,” he Weisenburger during a series of and CCS will be clearly marked, CCS said. press interviews following the initial officials said. Bishop Weisenburger praised announcement July 8. Cavendish added that the care the county for making the site The cost of leasing the detention and welcome provided by the scores available, noting that with access to center initially was only $100 a year, of volunteers are what make the the local airport and bus facilities, so “the price is right,” the bishop monastery a successful stop for the ample parking for volunteers and its said with a smile. “It feels like it is a asylum-seekers, most of whom are tremendous blessing.” women and families with children. turnkey status, “it checks all of our “They will continue to be respectful boxes.” The staff had already begun and warm to our guests.” planning to address the stark inside The bishop also thanked members Harmon noted that “the of the new facility, CCS leaders Catholic Outlook file photo of the ecumenical community, which Children sitting on cots in the former monastery was an empty building had rallied with volunteers to the said. The bishop added that the Benedictine Monastery turned shelter. when we first moved in,” and staff monastery site and are expected volunteers who staff it exude warmth and volunteers turned it into a to detention program and and welcome. “We think we can livable space. to continue to support the mission implemented by the Juvenile Court,” match the warmth (of the former Cavendish added that she believed at the detention facility. “The Huckelberry wrote. “The county monastery) and increase it.” once accommodations are made, community really rallied beautifully will pay for building, operating and people will forget that they are The county board was initially around this project,” the bishop said. maintenance cost which will include entering a former detention facility. scheduled to vote on the lease Aug. Noting the extensive search utilities, food service through the “It’s what it was. It’s not what it conducted by county leaders before 6. Pima County Administrator Chuck juvenile kitchen and laundry service will be.” choosing the detention center, the Huckelberry said in a July 8 memo through the juvenile laundry.” The bishop said that Rulney has that he was recommending approval Part of the detention center is still agreed to temporarily extend access bishop said, “I don’t know that there of the lease. in use, and the CCS facilities will be to the monastery past July 31 until was any other facility that will meet “These facilities are available accessed through a different free- the lease at the detention facility our needs as well as this one.” and are presently vacant due to the standing entrance that will look less has been approved and operations “We actually feel in some respects, aggressive and successful alternatives foreboding than a lockdown facility. can be transferred. Rulney has been it’s an upgrade.”

HOME from page 11 circulation issues” as the and God in this together.’” merging with God – them an instant and you’ll go right Father Coury called most common illnesses Traditional prayers, such merging with God, them through to God,” he said. sickness “the last transition.” that strike his community’s as the rosary, are helpful, merging together, just a “That stuff is not going to “I see that so much here,” senior population. but developing a closer merging of love.” last for more than an instant. at Our Lady of the Desert, “When they get sick relationship with God is What happens to the You are going to walk the church that resides and are approaching their much more important. regrets and failings of a through the door and any within the Redemptorist passing, they want to do it in “So when they pass, it’s lifetime? backpack you carry is going Renewal Center complex. a way that deeply connected not just going to be an end, “In purgatory, what will to be knocked right off and He cited cancer, stroke, to God,” he said. “They want a darkness,” said Father happen is all that junk you into God you go.” heart attacks and “terrible to be rooted in God: ‘It’s me Coury. “It’s going to be just feel will be knocked off in

C COURY from page 12 dark and the smoke’s going up about? I know how to pray. I pray car plant. He was very kind, very and you could smell it and they every day. I pray the rosary. I go to generous with what he had. My He noted that St. John Paul II were singing and they bring out Mass.’” mother was too. institutedpolicies that reintroduced the monstrance. It’s all this real Kindness – the fruit of “I look back on that and say some of the sacrificial elements of mystery and you are sitting there contemplative prayer – was a ‘How did he do that?’” the priest the liturgy before Vatican II back and God’s there,” he said. benchmark of his family’s life and said. His father never had much, into Masses, including requiring “Then she takes you over to the faith going back 80 years. but what he had, he used it to help that all altars be permanent and little Mary altar and all the little “My dad was in World War II,” other people. that Resurrection crosses in candles glowing and all the Mary Father Coury recalled. “My dad People today have a lot of money the sanctuary be replaced with pictures are there,” he added. “It’s came back to Detroit. One of my and stuff and they horde it. They sacrificial crosses. a very contemplative experience. brothers was born during the war. can’t give anything. They resist For Catholics living their faith As a little kid, you feel like Mary’s It was on one of those furloughs, generosity. before the changes of Vatican II, here, God’s here, Joseph’s here.” my mother conceived. He went Retreat centers like this are contemplative prayer arose from Father Coury knows that back and forth for six years in the places where people come to, liturgical prayer. contemplative prayer isn’t for Navy. Then I was conceived.” not because they want you to People from that generation everyone, especially when it comes After the war, “he just had to talk to them about baptism. They found a contemplative state to family members. get a job and work. He had a wife are coming here to be quiet, for through their ordinary devotions, “My mom and dad, they knew and a kid and another on the way. spiritual direction. How can you he said. the sacraments. That was their life. Where does kindness come in in find Jesus in your life or where is “My mother and people of They loved that. that? Jesus speaking in your life, how her generation, people did it at “Like my mom,” he continued. “He was a very kind man, a very do you experience Jesus in your church. For her, it was really “If I were to say to her ‘Come on, generous man all his life,” Father life, how do you keep that going? contemplative. mom, we will teach you how to Coury recalled. “The little money How do you do that? That’s the “You would go to benedictions pray.’ She’d whap me. he made, he gave at church. He stuff they want to hear about. They in big monster churches, it was “She’d say, ‘What are you talking raised seven kids. He worked at the know the sacraments. 20 CATHOLIC OUTLOOK C ETAPA de pagina 16 Iglesia es gente de la tercera edad”, dijo. “Quieren luego se internan en un hospicio y, por último, profundizar en su espiritualidad. Quieren sentir a fallecen”, dijo. duermen tranquilos y los padres los miran. Dios en su interior”. Muchos logran una espiritualidad profunda. Dicen: ‘siento una conexión impresionante con Después de una vida de trabajar y criar hijos, Es increíble. Encuentran un punto de verdadero todos los niños del mundo. Los quiero a todos; “qué otra cosa van a hacer? ¿empacar comestibles sosiego, dijo. todos son parte de mí y yo soy parte de todos en Fry's?”, dijo. “Tienen el golf y otras cosas, pero “Una mujer que falleció hace poco me decía en ellos’”. les gusta ir a la iglesia”. su último mes de vida: ‘Bueno, ahora vivo para “Eso es sentir la presencia de Dios. Es Las organizaciones y clubes sociales de la Jesús, nada más. Solo vivo para Jesús. Es lo que maravilloso”, añadió. parroquia significan mucho para ellos, dijo el hago’. Cuando los hijos se van, llega la quinta etapa, padre Coury. “Antes era una mujer muy activa”, continuó dijo el padre Coury. Es entonces que las personas “Los Caballeros de Colón tienen mucha el padre Coury. “Al principio, cuando enfermó asumen puestos de liderazgo en la Iglesia. “No aceptación”, dijo. “Es algo significativo, algo que de cáncer, decía: ‘solo quiero mejorarme; quiero pierden oportunidad de ir a la iglesia”, dijo. es parte de su iglesia. Esa es una transición”. volver a mi vida’. Después, llegó a un punto en “Los hijos se van a casar. Los padres van más a Le etapa final llega cuando la persona enfrenta que sentía una gran energía espiritual. El último la iglesia”, dijo el padre Coury. “Cuando los hijos la enfermedad y la muerte. mes se sintió bien, falleció en poco tiempo, pero van de visita les dicen ‘Vamos a ir a la iglesia. “Acompañamos a muchos de ellos en ese fue asombroso”. ¿quieren venir con nosotros?’ tramo de la vida en que se enferman, empeoran, “Los hijos se han ido, están sacando adelante a su familia y los padres los visitan cada tanto; los ven en medio del ajetreo constante de su vida”, dijo el padre Coury. Entre los 50 y 70 años, las personas comienzan a evaluar sus relaciones de pareja, y muchos que se habían distanciado de la Iglesia empiezan a reconciliarse con ella. “Algunas parejas asisten a la iglesia juntos. Personas que se han casado dos o tres veces quieren bendecir su matrimonio. Quieren estar en la iglesia. Quieren ser voluntarios en la iglesia. Les encanta ser ministros de Eucaristía. Realmente quieren participar”. Después de la jubilación, participan aún más, dijo, señalando que Arizona, por su clima cálido, atrae a muchas personas jubiladas de estados del Norte y el Medio Oeste. “El noventa y cinco por ciento de nuestra

BISHOPS continued from page 18 of his communications with the bishop emeritus, for the Pastoral Ministry of Bishops,” state that and will confer with the apostolic nuncio on the retired bishops have the right to sustenance and protocol would be helpful, said Bishop Robert measures to be imposed.” retirement benefits, “the diocesan bishop may P. Deeley of Portland, Maine, chairman of the Those restrictions can include “a statement adjust the benefits given to a bishop emeritus bishops’ Committee on Canonical Affairs and to the effect that the bishop emeritus does not who falls under this protocol,” the document Church Governance. With the delay of any represent the Diocese in any fashion or act on its said. “For instance, the diocesan bishop may possible vote on the document last fall, bishops behalf, and he is not to make public statements decide that no funding for travel or secretarial had more time to offer suggestions on the about alleged offenses, since these could result in assistance needs to be provided.” document. further harm to victims or be detrimental to the As for the possibility of burial in the diocesan “The authority to impose penalties on faithful.” cathedral, “the diocesan bishop will prudently bishops who have committed offensive acts by A diocesan bishop may forbid a retired bishop decide based on local circumstances whether the commission or omission rests solely with the to preach, which is any clergyman’s canonical bishop emeritus will be buried in the cathedral supreme pontiff,” Bishop Deeley reminded his right. “The diocesan bishop concerned may church of if other arrangements should be made.” fellow bishops. However, there are “existing also request that the Apostolic See extend this Much in the protocol is dependent on the instruments in canon law that are available to a prohibition more broadly or deny the exercise of retired bishop agreeing to the requests and diocesan bishop for imposing limitations.” the right entirely,” the document says. directives of his successor. Should he refuse, The document uses “bishop emeritus” to refer Diocesan bishops also may strip a retired though, it adds, “the diocesan bishop can take for any bishop who has retired for age or for a bishop of the right to confer the sacrament of measures within his competence, and strongly “grave cause,” or who was removed from office confirmation or to hear confessions. “The request further and swift intervention from the by the pope. bishop emeritus can be denied the delegation Apostolic See regarding matters outside “The diocesan bishop will inform the bishop necessary to witness marriages,” it adds. “The his competence.” emeritus that public notice will be given of the diocesan bishop may request of the bishop In addition to penalties imposed by a local situation and of any measures accepted by or emeritus, in writing, that he refrain from the bishop, the president of the US Conference of applied to the bishop emeritus,” the document public celebration of other sacraments or rites Catholic Bishops may, after consultation, ban says. “Prior to issuing such public notice, the of the church.” such a bishop emeritus from attending USCCB diocesan bishops will inform the apostolic nuncio While the US bishops, in their “Directory meetings or serving on any USCCB body.