Building Faith, Friendships What Is the Lateran Treaty?
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SYMPOSIUM TO DISCUSS FAITH IN THE FAMILY | PAGE 6 CHURCH TEACHING ON THE DEATH PENALTY | PAGE 15 JULY 21-27, 2019 ONE YEAR LATER The Church continues to heal after the Pennsylvania grand jury report revealed decades of widespread abuse by Catholic clergy. > NEWS ANALYSIS | PAGES 4-5 > EDITORIAL | PAGE 19 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Building faith, What is the friendships Lateran Treaty? Young adult groups across 90 years ago, the Vatican the country are forming City State was founded communities for evangeli- after years of conflict zation, socialization. with Italy. > IN FOCUS | PAGES 9-12 > FAITH | PAGES 14-15 VOLUME 108, NO. 13 • $3.00 WWW.OSVNEWS.COM CNS, COURTESY, SHUTTERSTOCK 2 JULY 21-27, 2019 IN THIS ISSUE OUR SUNDAY VISITOR OPENERS | AVA LALOR The big young-adult question: How do I find friends? was anything but second nature. and community, was organized Mass, adoration and confession for them, though these do exist I was used to the structures of by two gals who were also trans- on Wednesday evenings, com- and can be very successful. family and school ushering me plants to the area. Their desire plete with fellowship afterward Maybe I landed in a gold into communities. But this time to find like-minded peers had (and often a bonfire). On Mon- mine of driven individuals of I had to be intentional about encouraged them to build the days, I meet with a small group faith. Or maybe this is a broad- searching for these people. community they had hoped to of women to discuss anything er representation of the young I hoped to find a group of find, and the timing couldn’t from types of prayer, to favorite faithful taking the lead. I think hen I moved to Fort peers centered on their faith, have been any better for me. saints, to how to live as a young it’s the latter. Young adult com- Wayne, Indiana, to start similar to the deep friendships I Soon, I noticed other groups Catholic woman in the 21st cen- munities like these are popping myW job at Our Sunday Visi- developed through my college’s popping up all around me. One tury, to the big question of voca- up all around the country (see tor, I was truly taking a leap of campus ministry, where every- started up after a few friends tion — all over a glass of wine this week’s In Focus on Page 9). faith. It wasn’t the job that made thing was at my fingertips. Mov- and I hosted a priest for din- or something chocolate. Each of And while not all young profes- me nervous; it was the big un- ing to a new town, I thought, ner after a weeknight Mass. these groups have filled a need I sionals are as lucky as I was to known: How would I find a would not be that simple. Soon we were having dinner at could not have anticipated. be placed in such a vibrant com- community? Maybe God spoils me, but it the rectory and inviting other And the beautiful part of munity, my experience gives My new town and job was didn’t take long to find friends young adults, resulting in a these groups is how they came me hope for the future of the four hours away from my fam- in the area. gathering twice a month on about. Individuals or a small Church. ily, and I knew no one in the area Within a day of moving, Tuesdays. Another group saw group of friends saw a need and [email protected] before moving. And, as a natu- I was already meeting young the need for more availabil- took the initiative to meet it. ral introvert, going outside of adults at a cookout. The group ity to the sacraments for young They didn’t wait for a parish or Ava Lalor is assistant editor for my comfort zone to meet people itself, centered around Scripture adults, and now we offer weekly the diocese to start something OSV Newsweekly. SAINT OF THE WEEK ST. 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Periodicals postage paid at Huntington, IN 46750, and additional entry points. Postmaster: Send address changes to Our Sunday Visitor, PO Box 403, Congers, NY 10920-0403. OSV Newsweekly is available in audio by contacting the Xavier Society for the Blind, 248 West 35th Street, Suite 1502, New York, NY 10001. Phone: (212) 473-7800 OUR SUNDAY VISITOR THIS WEEK JULY 21-27, 2019 3 IN PHOTOS IN BRIEF IN QUOTES Ven. Fulton Sheen miracle approved “It is true, there are At a July 5 audience with Cardinal Angelo Becciu, hard times, times of prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Pope Francis formally approved a miracle attributed to the cross, but nothing the intercession of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, mov- can destroy the su- ing him one step closer to beatification. On Sept. 15, pernatural joy, which 2010, Bonnie Engstrom of Washington, Illinois, went adapts, transforms into labor with her son, James Fulton. James was con- and always remains.” sidered stillborn, so Bonnie prayed for the interces- — Pope Francis in a letter to sion of Fulton Sheen, to whom she had entrusted her “the pilgrim people of God in pregnancy. After 61 minutes, just as emergency room Germany,” published by the personnel were about to pronounce him dead, James Vatican on June 29. began to breathe, and his heart rate shot up to a nor- mal level for a newborn. “It is truly amazing how God continues to work miracles,” said Peoria Bishop Daniel VATICAN: Pope Francis poses for a photo with Russian Presi- R. Jenky, who praised the Vatican’s swiftness to resume dent Vladimir Putin and his delegation during a private audi- Sheen’s cause for canonization after his remains had ence at the Vatican on July 4. The pope and president discussed been moved from New York to Peoria on June 27. the ongoing wars in Eastern Ukraine and in Syria. Russia plays a major role in both conflicts. Confession bill withdrawn MILESTONES In a last-minute twist, a Cali- “A society where fornia bill that would have Bishop R. Pierre required priests to break the DuMaine, the founding children are no longer sacramental seal of confession bishop of the Diocese being born is a soci- was shelved by its sponsor amid of San Jose, Calif., died a remarkable grassroots cam- June 13 after sev- ety where people no paign mounted by the state’s eral years of declining longer understand Catholics, members of other health. He was 87. faith groups, and religious lib- what makes life worth erty advocates from across the a young woman who disap- living.” country. S.B. Bill 360 was with- peared in 1983. Emanuela Or- drawn the day before a sched- landi, a Vatican City resident — Archbishop José H. uled July 9 hearing in the Cali- and the daughter of a Vati- Gomez of Los Angeles on fornia Assembly Public Safety can employee, disappeared in the state of the family at the Committee, effectively remov- Rome on June 22, 1983, when annual summer liturgy confer- ing it from any further consid- she was 15. The decision was ence hosted by the University eration this year. made in response to the re- of Notre Dame’s McGrath quest of Emanuela Orlandi’s Institute for Church Life. ST. PETER’S RELICS: Nine shards of bone believed to belong family due to “the possible to St. Peter lie inside a reliquary June 30. Pope Francis gave the Women in the Church Pope Francis named six supe- concealment of her cadaver reliquary to the Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew of Constanti- in the small cemetery located nople. The bone fragments were discovered during excavations riors of women’s religious or- ders, a consecrated laywoman within Vatican City State.” “I was cured through of the necropolis under St.