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The Steubenville EGISTER www.diosteub.org R VOL. 73, NO. 23 SERVING 13 COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST OHIO JULY 13, 2018 News Briefs Bishop Monforton ordains McCalister a deacon Pope Francis appoints new leader VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis ap- pointed Bishop Nunzio Galantino, 69, as presi- dent of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See, which handles the Vatican’s investment portfolio and real estate holdings and serves as the Vatican employment office and procurement agency. The bishop, who had been serving as secre- tary-general of the Italian bishops’ conference, replaces Cardinal Domenico Calcagno, who submitted his resignation when he turned 75, as required by canon law. Pope Francis said that he was going to make significant changes with the administrative office, known by its Italian acronym, APSA, starting with appointing a new president who had “an attitude of renewal.” Cardinal “Calcagno knows the functioning well, but perhaps the mentality has to be re- newed,” the pope told Reuters. While reforms initiated by Pope Benedict XVI and stepped up by Pope Francis have sought to bring more accountability and transparency to the Vatican bank and Vatican offices, Pope Francis told the news agency he was still concerned “there is no transparency” in the Vatican’s real estate Diocese of Steubenville Bishop Jeffrey M. Monforton, pictured right, elevates the paten as newly ordained holdings. Transitional Deacon Drake A. McCalister elevates the chalice at the end of the eucharistic prayer, during “We have to move ahead with transparency, the celebration of Mass June 29 at Holy Family Church, Steubenville. Transitional Deacon McCalister was and that depends on APSA,” he said. ordained to the diaconate during the Mass. (Photo by DiCenzo) • Additional photos/Page 12 Vatican communication head named Permanent Deacon Hickey dies at the age of 83 VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has named a lay Italian journalist with decades of STEUBENVILLE — Permanent Deacon Gerald J. “Jerry” experience in print, radio and television broad- Hickey, died June 27, at his Steubenville home. Born May 11, casting to head the Vatican’s Secretariat for Com- 1935, in Endicott, New York, the son of the late Jerome and munication. Beatrice Hickey, he was married to Virginia, had seven chil- Paolo Ruffini, 61, who headed the Italian dren and 26 grandchildren. Deacon Hickey spent more than conference of Catholic bishops’ TV and radio half of his 40-year ministry in the Diocese of Steubenville. network, was named prefect of the dicastery July He became a member of the first class of permanent dea- 5, making him the first layperson to head such a cons ordained in the Diocese of Syracuse, New York, in 1978. high-level Vatican dicastery. He was a graduate from Niagara University, Niagara, New He succeeds Italian Msgr. Dario Vigano, who York, with a degree in business. He served for eight years resigned as prefect in March after a controversy in the active reserves of the U.S. Army. He was employed involving the use and photographing of a letter in human resources for IBM for 30 years in his hometown, from retired Pope Benedict XVI. Endicott. Born in Palermo, Ruffini received a degree As their children began graduating high school and some became Franciscan University of Steubenville students, in law at Rome’s La Sapienza University. He (File photo) worked for a number of major Italian newspapers Deacon Hickey and his wife moved to the city to be a part Permanent Deacon Gerald J. Hickey beginning in 1979, then began working for radio of the charismatic community, Servants of Christ the King. benville. Deacon Hickey was involved with ministering to news programs in 1996. He took a position with Franciscan University, where he the poor, visiting the hospitalized and serving his parish, He started working in television news in served for more than 20 years in admissions, student life Triumph of the Cross, Steubenville. 2002. and human resources. As a permanent deacon, he presided at the marriages of He served as the head of the Italian Conference In 1995, he was incardinated into the Diocese of Steu- his children and baptized many of his grandchildren. of Catholic Bishops’ television and radio stations from 2014-18. Pope Francis created the Secretariat for Com- Deacon Hickey remembered munication in 2015, to streamline and coordinate (reactions from the Diocese of Steubenville Facebook and Twitter pages) the Vatican’s many news and communications outlets and make them more effective. The Vati- “He was a gift to our church and community.” – Cindy Gan can has since changed its name to Dicastery for Communication. “A wonderful, holy father, husband and brother to deacons. Rest in his light, joy and peace.” The development of digital media, with its – Permanent Deacon Stephen F. Miletic converging technologies and interactive capa- bilities, required “a rethinking of the information “Deacon Jerry was such a good man and will be missed dearly.” – Jean Fonseca system of the Holy See” and a reorganization that proceeded “decisively toward integration and a “He was such a wonderful man and deacon.” – Frank Judy Trepanoski unified management,” the pope said. 2 THE STEUBENVILLE REGISTER JULY 13, 2018 ‘Ask the Bishop’ STEUBENVILLE — Students in kinder- reaction in the Gospel passages, for people garten through 12th grade in the Diocese found it difficult to comprehend Jesus’ of Steubenville “Ask the Bishop” Jeffrey identity and so through Jesus’ mission here M. Monforton. on earth through the healings, the teachings and the raisings of the dead, Jesus’ iden- Q: Why is Jesus referred to as God’s tity came forth. The centurion himself, as Son? Jesus’ body hung on the cross, stated that, “truly this man was the Son of God.” Arabella Bloomer How grateful we are for the Son of Toronto God, Jesus Christ, to come among us as both human and divine: two natures, one A: It would be interesting to see the re- person, through Jesus’ suffering, death and sults of a survey questioning all Christians resurrection, has the Son of God redeemed to determine how many really understand the world. The very reason you and I are Jesus through his identity as the Son of in communion with God is because Jesus God. We all are familiar with the infancy has led us to the Father through the Holy narratives of Jesus in the Gospels, where Spirit. both Mary (Jesus’ mother) and Joseph (Jesus’ foster father), are visited by an Q: Why was Peter chosen out of the Apostle to confess that Jesus is the Christ, Bishop Monforton angel and are informed of Jesus’ identity Twelve Apostles to be the first pope? the Son of the living God. Jesus pointed out as the Son of God. to Peter that he came to this conclusion not circumstances come opportunities in which Furthermore, in St. Paul’s Letter to the Karinna Caldwell through any human reasoning, but by God one could receive the anointing of the sick Galatians, the Apostle to the Gentiles in- Waterford the Father himself. more than once. structs that God the Father sent forth his Jesus called Peter “rock” upon which he The very effects of this sacrament in- Son, born of Mary, to redeem us and to A: We read in the Gospel according would build his church. In doing so, Jesus clude a special grace of healing and com- make us God’s children. Jesus’ identity as to Matthew (see, Matthew, Chapter 16, gave us the first pope, who is also called fort to the Christian and that healing may God’s Son, of course, is met with mixed Verses16-19), that Peter was the very first the vicar of Christ. occur in body, mind and spirit. Through all We realize that there was no competi- of this within the sacrament is the forgive- tion held by Jesus, similar to what we ness of the person’s sins. The ritual itself do today in our culture, in which people offers various ways in which this may Pope advances sainthood causes compete with their own talents (no Holy occur depending on the circumstances. Land’s Got Talent was held 2,000 years How blessed we are to have received VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope heroic virtues of Carlo Acutis, a young ago). Jesus chose Peter as the leader of through the church this sacrament of Francis issued decrees advancing the teen who used his computer skills to the Christian church, who is succeeded healing. May more people recognize the sainthood causes of four candidates, catalogue eucharistic miracles around by the popes through the centuries, for the efficacious or effective nature of this gift including two young teenagers who the world before his death at the age of successor of Peter is Jesus Christ’s vicar distributed in God’s mercy. heroically lived the Christian virtues. 15 due to leukemia. here on earth. At a meeting with Cardinal Angelo According to the website of his can- As we celebrate the 50th anniversary Amato, prefect of the Congregation for onization process, Acutis placed the Eu- Q: How can the sacrament of the anoint- of “Humanae Vitae” (“of human life”), Saints’ Causes, the pope signed a decree charist “at the center of his life and called ing of the sick be given to the same person may we all recognize the gifts of body and recognizing the heroic virtues of Alexia it ‘my highway to heaven.’” Before his multiple times? soul God has given to each of us and that Gonzalez Barros, who offered her suf- death in 2006, Acutis offered his sufferings we may be responsible individuals with ferings from a malignant tumor for the for Pope Benedict XVI and for the church.