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LOCAL NEWS FEATURE STORY ASK FATHER MIKE Sacred Heart installs It begins and ends at Can we have a sense of original church bell Notre Dame humor about God? FROM THE BISHOP

on an additional mystery or on praying for a particular intention. Since my arrival in Spokane, I have encour- aged the faithful to pray a sixth decade of the rosary for vocations to the diocesan priesthood and religious life. The Church in the United States also marks October as a month dedicated to the protection of human life. The first Sunday of the month is observed in parishes as Respect Life Sunday. This celebration always falls close to the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary — Oct. 7. All of these themes tie together intimately: the rosary, the protection of human life, and vocations. Our Lady is mother to all and, as she told the visionaries at Fatima, SIXTH in the end, her Immaculate Heart will triumph. DECADE So this October, let us renew our devotion to the OF THE rosary and to praying for the unborn, the infirm and all those threatened by the culture of death. I also ask that when you pray the rosary, please pray a sixth decade for vocations. If we seek renewal in the life in the Church, we must pray for vocations to the priest- hood, consecrated life, and holy marriage. In Mary our mother — whom we were entrusted to by Jesus while he hung on the cross — we find our truest advocate for life, for faith, and for the mission of the Church. If we turn to Mary, we can be sure that her Immaculate Heart

GETTY IMAGES/SPUKKATO will triumph here in Eastern Washington and through- out the world. N THE MONTH OF OCTOBER, we traditionally honor Mary, and no devotion is as popular as the rosary. Historically, this has been one Mary, protectress of the unborn, pray for us. IRosaryof the most loved practices in Catholic devotion, taking different Mary, Queen of the Clergy, pray for us. forms throughout the centuries. The rosary that most of us are familiar with praying is known as the Dominican Rosary. As originally developed, it consists of three sets of five mysteries, with each mystery containing a decade (or set of 10) of Hail Mary prayers, totaling 150.

The rosary allowed many of the faithful in Western Europe who could not pray the 150 Psalms contained in the Liturgy of the Hours — the community prayer of priests and nuns — to align their prayer with the daily prayer of the Church. According to pious tradition, the Blessed Virgin Mary gave the rosary to St. Dominic. In BISHOP THOMAS 2002, St. John Paul II advocated adding a fourth set of A. DALY mysteries to the Rosary, known as the luminous myster- is the seventh ies, to further contemplate the life of Jesus. bishop of the In different spiritual traditions within the Catho- Diocese of lic Church, variations of the rosary developed. Some Spokane. rosaries differed in the number of decades; containing six or seven decades. Some rosaries focused on different mysteries or had differing numbers of prayers within each decade. Careful observers will note that our Blessed Mother is seen holding a rosary in images of her appari- tion at Lourdes. Her rosary is usually depicted with six decades. At different times, a sixth decade has focused

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ART DIRECTOR/ Dachau and Amazonia separados? 20. ASK FATHER MIKE GRAPHIC DESIGNER Can We Have a Sense Patrick Dally 5. LOCAL NEWS 12. COVER STORY of Humor about God? PRINT MANAGEMENT InnerWorkings Grandparents for Life 8. FAMILY MATTERS 21. GUATEMALA UPDATE To submit story ideas, news or events, contact Mitchell What Can You do to 14. FEATURE STORY Colegio Nahuala Palmquist, editor, at 509.358.7344 Build a Culture of Life? Namesake of Catholic or 425.522.3134. You can also email us at inlandcatholic@ University Centers, John 22. RETREAT CENTER dioceseofspokane.org. 9. STEWARDSHIP Henry Newman, to be EVENTS To subscribe to the Inland Catholic, please Generosity Needs a Plan THINGS TO DO make checks payable to Inland Catholic Canonized this Month and mail to: Inland Catholic, Diocese of Spokane, P.O. Box 1453, Spokane, WA 99210. A $20 donation is suggested. If 10. DEL OBISPO 23. THE LAST WORD you donate to the Annual Catholic Appeal, 16. FEATURE STORY you will automatically receive the Inland Sexta Decena Remembering the Other Catholic. It Begins and Ends del Rosario at Notre Dame Father Pautler Inland Catholic (ISSN 2475-7578) (USPS 18680) is a membership publication of the Diocese of Spokane, 525 E Mission Ave. Spokane, WA 99202. Published monthly • Memorial St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, virgin and doctor of the Church • Memorial of except during February and August. Donor LITURGICAL CALENDAR October 1 members receive the publication 10 times Holy Guardian Angels October 2 • Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi October 4 • Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, priest October a year. In addition, all registered members • Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary • St. Denis, bishop and companions, martyrs; St. John Leonardi, priest receive the publication two times a year. 5 October 7 Send address changes to: Inland Catholic, October 9 • St. Callistus I, pope and martyr October 14 • Memorial St. Teresa of Jesus, virgin and doctor of the Church October 1023 W. Riverside Ave., Spokane, WA 99201. • St. Hedwig, religious; St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin • Memorial of St. Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and Periodical postage paid in Spokane, WA and 15 October 16 at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: martyr October 17 • Feast of St. Luke, evangelist October 18 • Memorial of Ss. John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, priests, and Send address changes to: Inland Catholic, companions, martyrs • St. John Paul II, pope • St. John of Capistrano, priest • St. Anthony PO Box 1453, Spokane, WA 99210. ©2017 October 19 October 22 October 23 Inland Catholic, Diocese of Spokane. Mary Claret, bishop October 24 • Feast of Ss. Simon and Jude, apostles October 28

3 YOUR FAITH THE CATHOLIC That these men clandestinely fabricated DIFFERENCE managed to maintain everything else needed for the ordination, including the forms of sacramental life full (and complex) episcopal – celebrating clandestine regalia of the time. The Masses, distributing holy HEROISM AND pectoral cross was made at Communion surreptitiously the nearby Messerschmitt PRIESTHOOD, plant where Dachau prisoners and hearing confessions – worked as slave labor, and while nursing and otherwise Dachau and Amazonia a beautiful wooden crozier comforting prisoners being was carved in the camp by a worked and starved to death IN LATE JUNE, I visited the concentration camp at Dachau, Trappist monk-prisoner. Shortly before Christmas is a story that should be located in a wooded suburb a few miles from downtown 1944, the priestly ordination told time and again in every Munich. The campsite struck me as rather too neat: of Karl Leisner was secretly seminary in the world. virtually all of the huts in which hundreds of thousands conducted by Bishop Piguet, of prisoners lived, starved, and died are gone, and the with a Jewish violinist in the camp providing music atmosphere, despite a blistering hot afternoon, was outside the hut “chapel” to divert the attention of the camp guards. antiseptic. There was little of the miasma of raw evil that Father Leisner was too ill to celebrate a first Mass immediately after remains at Auschwitz and Birkenau, even though Dachau his ordination, but managed to do so on the feast of St. Stephen was the prototype for those extermination factories. The the Protomartyr, Dec. 26. A fellow priest who would later become auxiliary bishop of Munich, Johannes Neuhausler, later described Dachau campsite’s Chapel of the Agony of Christ, built the scene: “On this, the greatest day of his life, [Karl Leisner] stood after the war, is touching. But, to my mind at least, its stark at the altar [in the prison barracks], far from his mother and father, modernism somehow fails to register the suffering it is his brothers and sisters and his friends. He wept and we wept with intended to commemorate — and transfigure. him. Silently, behind closed doors, we took some photographs of this first Mass so that the parents could see at least the picture of their son celebrating his first Mass in the concentration camp at Dachau.” Dachau was, for years, the “world’s largest rectory” or “the Mortally ill when the Dachau camp was liberated by the U.S. world’s largest monastery,” for it was there that the Thousand-Year Army on April 29, 1945, Karl Leisner died in a sanatorium Reich consigned more than 2,500 Catholic priests: almost 1,800 outside Munich three months later. He was beatified by Pope St. Poles, more than 400 Germans, more than 150 Frenchmen, as well John Paul II in 1996, along with another priest-martyr, Bernhard as Czechs, Slovaks, Dutchmen, Belgians, Italians, Luxemburgers, Lichtenberg, the heroic, anti-Nazi provost of the Berlin cathedral. Yugoslavs, and clergymen from 10 other countries. That these Might that grainy picture of Father Hans Leisner, properly vested men managed to maintain forms of sacramental life – celebrating for Mass in a hellish death-factory on the outskirts of Munich, be clandestine Masses, distributing holy Communion surreptitiously displayed during October’s Special Synod for Amazonia, which will and hearing confessions – while nursing and otherwise comforting consider (among other things) the nature of the priesthood in the prisoners being worked and starved to death is a story that should Catholic Church? Might the example of Blessed Karl Leisner inspire be told time and again in every seminary in the world. white, European-descended Latin American priests, historically As should the story of Blessed Karl Leisner. reluctant to work with the indigenous peoples of the Amazon A candidate for holy orders in the Diocese of Muenster who basin, to transcend their racial and ethnic prejudices in order to worked with young people in defiance of the Nazis, Leisner had been evangelize, catechize and bring the sacraments to native peoples? ordained a transitional deacon before being arrested and consigned The heroes of Dachau’s priest barracks found a way to keep to Dachau in 1940. There, the tuberculosis he had contracted shortly sacramental life alive, in full fidelity to the Church’s tradition. after his diaconal ordination went active. Over the next four years, he Is that impossible in Amazonia? Or elsewhere? wasted away. Then, in late 1944, a new prisoner arrived at Dachau’s “priest barracks,” the French bishop of Clermont-Ferrand, Gabriel Piguet. A secret exchange of correspondence ensued between the Frenchman, Cardinal Michael Faulhaber of Munich, and Bishop Clemens von Galen of Muenster, with an eye to finding a way to GEORGE WEIGEL ordain Karl Leisner a priest before he died. is distinguished senior fellow of the The paperwork was completed and smuggled into the camp (along Ethics and Public Policy Center in with the necessary holy oils) by Josefa Mack, the “Angel of Dachau,” Washington, D.C. His column is who would later become Sister Maria Imma, SSND. The prisoners distributed by the Denver Catholic.

4 Inland Catholic • October 2019 • www.dioceseofspokane.org LOCAL NEWS

LENTEN ALMSGIVING RAISES FUNDS FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER

BY POLLY AND This JOE SCHINDLER past Lent, parishioners of St. Francis Xavier and St. Patrick Catholic Parishes, under the guidance of Father David Gaines, wished to donate FALL ASSEMBLY ENCOURAGES CATECHISTS their parishes Lenten almsgiving AND TEACHERS TO BE ROOTED IN CHRIST collections to a local nonprof- it charity, the Anna Schindler

STAFF The annual diocesan Fall Assembly Foundation (ASF). The founders REPORTS helps the Catholic school teachers and and their family are parishioners Anna and Abbie Schindler in a hospital bed. catechists of the diocese be invigorated in the faith as of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church. they set out to light the same fire of faith in the children In 2011, the Anna Schindler Foundation was created in memory of the found- of our diocese. ers’ 7-year-old daughter, Anna Schindler, who battled with and passed away On Oct. 4, the assembly attendees will participate in from Stage IV liver cancer. Since then, ASF has helped more than 400 families keynote sessions offered by Bill and Angela Schnieders. in the Inland Northwest fighting childhood cancer. Using their firsthand expe- Bill and Angela both worked fast-paced careers. Angela rience of having a child with cancer, ASF founders and staff provide support has been a successful mission advancement professional to families. They can be a listening ear and give financial support to assist with working to grow Catholic institutions and is a founding bills, including mortgage or rent, medical bills, groceries, lodging, travel, and partner of Mission Advancement Partners, a nonprofit even burial costs. Often one parent must take a leave of absence or quit work- fundraising consultancy group. Bill worked in Silicon Val- ing while their child receives treatment, resulting in financial strain. ley for tech giants such as Cisco Systems. Both Angela The ASF also recently opened its first set of Anna’s Homes. These two and Bill left their busy careers to pursue a life closer to townhomes are specifically designed for immune-compromised patients the earth. They settled near Flathead Lake in Montana, undergoing cancer treatment. Sitting on Spokane’s South Hill just minutes building a permaculture ranch and seeking to live a sus- from Providence Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital, Anna’s Homes provide tainable life rooted in faith. a "home away from home" for families required to travel long distances to Other assembly speakers include Samantha Kelly, a Sacred Heart and who must stay close to the hospital for their child’s treat- former NCAA Division I soccer player for the University ment. These homes allow the entire family to stay together regardless of of Connecticut. She has worked with college athletes as a size, length of treatment, or income. missionary for FOCUS and Varsity Catholic. Her close work Each week during Lent it was suggested to provide alms to ASF in differ- with college students will allow her to bring unique insights ent ways, including saying prayers and lighting vigil candles, providing gift about the Catholic Church’s Theology of the Body teach- cards, buying dry or canned food items for Anna’s Homes, or giving mone- ings to attendees. Dr. John Bergsma, a theology professor tary donations. St. Francis Xavier and St. Patrick’s parishioners’ generosity from Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, will equip exceeded $3,100 in gift cards and donations, including stocking the pan- the teachers and catechists with a more profound working tries of Anna’s Homes. ASF was also able to give groceries to several needy knowledge of the course of Scriptures and the work of God diagnosed families. ASF is so blessed with this support to help our childhood among his people. From the Old Testament to the Gospels cancer families. and founding of the Church, he will help attendees see the deep connections throughout salvation history.

Brian Kraut, director of evangelization, desires that ALWAYS BE PREPARED TO MAKE A DEFENSE … (1 PT 3:15) every individual serving the Church would embrace St. Paul’s words to the Church of Colossae, “So, as you BY FATHER A contingent received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, rooted in JEFF LEWIS of high school him and built upon him and established in the faith as youths from the diocese attended you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.” Kraut said, Apologhetti, a Catholic apologet- “The theme, ‘Rooted,’ is taken from the Letter to the ics youth camp held annually in Colossians and invites attendees to be rooted in Christ; southern Idaho. St. Peter parishioner because when a tree puts down roots, it produces fruit Eric Olson joined Father Jeff Lewis abundantly.” Kraut invites all to pray with him for all in leading the high school youths to The group from Spokane pictured with those attending the Assembly that “the Holy Spirit would McCall, Idaho. The students learned Patrick Coffin. bring this truth to reality so that we all might witness and from several prominent popular Catholic apologists, including this year’s key- give thanks for what God is doing in our midst.” note speaker, Patrick Coffin. Coffin is a radio show host, author, and apologist.

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VOCATIONS UPDATE current assignment. The various programs of the Bishop Thomas Daly has appoint- Office of Vocations are all in good ed Father Kyle Ratuiste, parochial hands: Quo Vadis Days for young vicar of Our Lady of Lourdes Cathe- men, Vocare for young women, and dral, as the next director of voca- the Melchizedek Project. CARING FOR KIDS tions for the Diocese of Spokane. In Please pray for and support addition, he has appointed Father Father Ratuiste and Father Nicks CATHOLIC This month, Catholic Charities Eastern Matthew Nicks as director of theo- as they work to cultivate and form CHARITIES Washington and Morning Star Boys’ logians (i.e., director for the men in shepherds after the Heart of Christ. EASTERN Ranch will host their annual Caring for their final preparation for priestly WASHINGTON Kids event at the historic Davenport ordination). Additional priest assignments Hotel. Now in its 23rd year, Caring for Kids offers an op- Father Ratuiste is a graduate of • Father David Kuttner is returning portunity for the organizations to celebrate their shared Tri-Cities Prep High School in Pasco. to the Diocese of Spokane from call to serve vulnerable children. While a seminarian at Bishop White the Diocese of Las Vegas. He will This year’s theme, “Collaborating to Care for Kids in Seminary, he graduated with honors serve as parochial vicar at St. our Community,” emphasizes the organizations’ shared from Gonzaga University and received Mary Parish, Spokane Valley, with work to create loving home environments for children priestly formation at Theological sacramental assistance offered at by employing trauma-informed care, wraparound College and The Catholic University of St. Augustine, St. John Vianney services and holistic family support. The fundraiser ben- America in Washington, D.C. and the Cathedral of Our Lady of efits Catholic Charities and Morning Star Boys’ Ranch In addition to several other Lourdes. programs that support children in our community. duties, he has served as parochial • Father Curtis Seidel is assigned to Guest speaker Ryan Oelrich’s keynote address will vicar in Walla Walla and at the Ca- serve as president of Walla Walla explore the theme of nonprofit collaboration. Oelrich is thedral of Our Lady of Lourdes, his Catholic Schools. executive director of Priority Spokane, which serves as a catalyst and convener in Spokane County for data-driv- en and focused improvements in economic vitality, edu- SACRED HEART INSTALLS ORIGINAL CHURCH BELL cation, the environment, health, and community safety. BY KELLIE The original Sacred Heart In his popular TEDx talk on nonprofit collaboration, TRUDEAU Catholic Church in Spring- Oelrich explains that “coordination and collaboration in dale was a wood-frame building, painted a community response is key.” white, similar to St. Mary of the Rosary At the Caring for Kids event, Oelrich will share more Parish in Chewelah and St. Joseph’s at of his insights on the value of serving children in our Jump Off Joe. It was built in 1911 by Father region through nonprofit collaborations like that of Balthasar Feusi, SJ, from Chewelah at a cost Morning Star Boys’ Ranch and Catholic Charities. of only $500. Collaborating to care for kids in our community is That church served the Springdale area more important than ever. Children in Spokane experi- until the mid-1960s, when it was replaced ence homelessness and poverty and high rates of entry by a humble cinderblock church and parish into the foster care system. hall built through a gift from the Catholic To give children a brighter future, Morning Star builds Extension Society of the U.S. The original child and family resiliency through its ranch programs, church’s bell was stored in the utility room of foster care services, and community services. Catholic the new church, awaiting an opportunity to Sacred Heart parish with new Charities helps families create loving homes by respond- again welcome worshipers to Sacred Heart. coupla. ing to families in crisis, providing them with stabilizing For many years, the bell was forgotten. services and advocating hope for families and children. But recently the Sacred Heart Parish Council decided to return it to a place The Caring for Kids event will begin with a social hour of prominence. Sacred Heart parishioner Carl Schauppner researched the featuring heavy hors d’oeuvres. KHQ’s Stephanie Vigil bell’s history and assisted the Parish Council in choosing a worthy cupola to will emcee the program, which will include lively enter- house the bell. A building fund was established and donations came in from tainment, remarks from Ryan Oelrich and representa- parishioners of Sacred Heart Church and the other two parishes of Southern tives from Catholic Charities Eastern Washington and Stevens County: St. Mary of the Rosary, Chewelah, and Holy Ghost in Valley. Morning Star Boys’ Ranch, plus a time to try the event’s On July 20, Schauppner and his crew installed the bell atop Sacred Heart. traditional signature dessert. Janet Buche, who had listened to the bell rung by her grandfather in the old It’s not too late to register for Caring for Kids! You church as a child, had the honor of ringing the bell before the Saturday evening can purchase tickets at www.cceasternwa.org/events. Mass that day — she declared the peal as beautiful now as it was then. Tickets are $100 or $60 for young adults age 21-30.

6 Inland Catholic • October 2019 • www.dioceseofspokane.org 7 YOUR LIFE FAMILY MATTERS

“perfect,” or who are suffering and near the end of life, or who are so tiny they are only visible under a microscope. As Dr. Seuss eloquently put it, “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” St. John Paul II urgently called all people to “respect, protect, love and serve life, every human life!”

FAMILIES HAVE A PART TO PLAY IN THIS EFFORT: A huge part, actually. “The role of the family in building a culture of life is decisive and irreplaceable,” St. John Paul II wrote (he really liked italics). Formed by the fertile, sexual love of man and woman, husband and wife, the family has a life-giving mission to “guard, reveal and communicate love.” Husbands and wives transmit the gift of human life by becoming dads and moms, having children and raising them to know life as a gift. Parents model and teach their children how to live in true freedom, which is found in giving WHAT CAN YOU DO TO yourself in love to others — as Jesus does. BUILD A CULTURE OF LIFE? Help bring St. John Paul II’s vision to EVERYDAY WAYS TO PLAY YOUR PART: This happens in ordinary, everyday life. As ordinary as: making peanut butter sandwiches — fruition through everyday acts of service with a smile; patiently potty training; patiently teaching your teenag-

CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY/L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO AGENCY/L’OSSERVATORE NEWS CATHOLIC er to drive; putting the kids to bed — when it’s not your night — so your spouse can rest; and teaching your children to share, to treat ONE EVENING AROUND THIS TIME LAST YEAR, our door- others with respect, to write thank you notes, to be thankful people. Families can also build the culture of life outside themselves. bell rang. With my newborn daughter tucked in one arm, I Like the Seahawks family, they can support families in the parish opened our front door to discover an entire family — mom, who have new babies with meals. (Thanks, guys!) They can shop dad and two school-aged children, a boy and a girl — together for layette items to contribute to a parish “baby shower” dressed in matching Seahawks jerseys standing on our front that gathers supplies for moms in need. They can visit a nursing home and volunteer at Special Olympics. stoop. Seahawks Mom held a giant, lidded Tupperware bowl I’ve seen families peacefully praying in front of abortion clinics full of chili; Seahawks Dad was carrying a grocery bag with during 40 Days for Life prayer vigils. Our girls are really good at tortilla chips peeking out the top. Seahawks Son carried a reminding us to say the little “spiritual adoption” prayer written plate of cookies. They were from the parish meal-train min- by Archbishop Fulton Sheen as part of our family night prayers. Parents can join associations which engage the political process istry, and they had signed up to bring us dinner that night to to advocate for the sacredness of human life, as St. John Paul II help us out after the birth of our new baby. Their much ap- encouraged us to do. preciated act of service is one great example of how families “The family is summoned to proclaim, celebrate and serve the can help build the “culture of life.” Gospel of life,” he wrote. The family, the “sanctuary of life,” nur- tures human life, born of love. One diaper at a time. One meal at a time. Day by day, through the seasons of the year and the seasons If you were in Denver for World Youth Day in 1993, you might of family growth strung together with all our little acts of prayer, have heard St. John Paul II use this phrase. In an encyclical letter care and service, both within our own families and beyond. published two years later, The Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae), Oh, and Seahawks family? That chili was delicious. And … I still he wrote about how our Christian faith makes us a people “of life have your Tupperware bowl. and for life.” In the face of the growing forces of the “culture of – Originally printed in Northwest Catholic November 2014 death,” which legitimize and promote contraception, sterilization, abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, we Christians bear the good news that all human life is precious, infinitely valuable, beloved of DR. SARAH BARTEL AND HER HUSBAND NATHAN God and possessing great dignity. are the founders of www.canafeast.com, supporting online Catholic marriage enrichment. She is a moral EVERY HUMAN LIFE BEARS GOD’S IMAGE: We believe that God theologian, co-host of Enduring Love Radio on created us for an eternal destiny with him, and that he died for us Sacred Heart Radio and co-editor of A Catechism to make that possible. for Family Life. Her website is www.drsarahbartel. We believe that every human life, at every age, stage and level com. Sarah met Nathan at Gonzaga; they raise of ability, bears God’s image — even those who are less than their four daughters and new baby boy in Sumner, Wash.

8 Inland Catholic • October 2019 • www.dioceseofspokane.org YOUR LIFE STEWARDSHIP GENEROSITY NEEDS A PLAN

Stewardship is when you recognize that God has given you everything you have, and you have a responsibility to take care of it and to give back to God.

Father Richard Semple, one of our priests in the Diocese of Spokane, suggests the following steps if you are struggling with increasing how much you give.

1. Make an assessment of all that you have, both material and financial. 2. Realize that it is all in your care. You decide what happens with your money. 3. Realize it is all a gift from God. 4. Give thanks to God for each of your blessings. 5. Make a promise to God that you will be generous with the GETTY IMAGES/COFFEEKAI gifts you have been given. F YOU HAVE BEEN AROUND the Catholic Church 6. Make a plan and schedule your generosity. long enough, you probably have had the opportunity As the Annual Catholic Appeal begins, it is a good time to re- Ito be at Mass when the topic of stewardship comes flect on how you are giving back to God in the areas of your time, up. If you’ve spent any time reading the Gospels, you also talent, and treasure. The graphics on this page can help you begin know that Jesus often speaks about stewardship of time, the process of evaluating how you give back to God. property, and money. To see the full PDFs of the graphics on this page What is stewardship? Stewardship is when you recognize that God and other stewardship materials, visit has given you everything you have, and you have a responsibility to WWW.DIOCESEOFSPOKANE.ORG/STEWARDSHIP take care of it and to give back to God. This includes the time He gives you, the talents He gives you, and the treasure He gives you. One example is the time you have each week. Each week, you are given 168 hours. We all receive the same amount. No one receives more and no one receives less. God asks that you give back to Him just one hour at the beginning of the week by attending Mass on Sunday. After that one hour, the remaining 167 hours are for your- self. If you sleep eight hours each night, 56 of those hours will end up as sleeping hours. That still leaves you with 111 hours in a week for everything else. Why not give more of those back to God? The same idea can be applied to our treasure (money). The Bible encourages us to tithe (or give) 10 percent of our income to the Church. This may seem like a lot to give back to God; but, if we reflect on the reality that all that we have is from God to begin with, then we realize 90 percent is for you to use yourself; God is only asking for 10 percent back. The reality is that we cannot outdo God in generosity. At times, it is easy to ignore the spiritual realities of stewardship as we struggle against selfishness and greed. How you spend your time, use your talents, and budget your money reveals your true priorities. Only through prayer and true reflection can you know if you are giving back to God in the right proportions.

BY CHRIS KRESLINS 9 SU VIDA DEL OBISPO

enfocaron en diferentes misterios o tuvieron diferentes números de oraciones dentro de cada decena. Observadores cuidadosos no- tarán que nuestra Santísima Madre es vista sosteniendo un rosario en imágenes de su Aparición en Lourdes. Su rosario generalmente se representa con seis decenas. En diferentes momentos, una sexta de- cena se ha centrado en un misterio adicional o en orar por una in- tención particular. Desde mi llegada a Spokane, he alentado a los fieles a rezar una sexta decena del rosario por las vocaciones al sacerdocio diocesano y la vida religiosa. La Iglesia en los Estados Unidos GETTY IMAGES/GRAZVYDAS también marca octubre como un mes dedicado a la protección de Sexta Decena la vida humana. El primer domingo del mes se observa en las parroquias como el Domingo de Respeto a la Vida. Esta celebración siempre está acerca a la fiesta de Nuestra Señora del Rosario – 7 de octubre. Todos estos temas se unen íntimamente: el rosario, la protección de la vida humana, y las vocaciones. Nuestra Señora es madre de todos; y, como le dijo a los visionar- ios de Fátima, al final, su Inmaculado Corazón triunfará. Entonces, este mes de octubre, renovamos nuestra N EL MES DE OCTUBRE, tradicionalmente honramos a María, y devoción al rosario, rezando por los no nacidos, los delninguna devoción Rosario es tan popular como el rosario. Históricamente, enfermos y todos los amenazados por la cultura de esta ha sido una de las prácticas más queridas en la devoción muerte. También pido que cuando reces el rosario, E reces una sexta decena por las vocaciones. Si buscamos católica, tomando diferentes formas a lo largo de los siglos. El rosario que renovación en la vida en la Iglesia, debemos orar por las la mayoría de nosotros estamos familiarizados con la oración se conoce vocaciones al sacerdocio, la vida consagrada, y el ma- como el rosario dominico. Cuando se desarrolló originalmente, constaba trimonio santo. En María, nuestra madre, a quien Jesús de tres conjuntos de cinco misterios, cada uno de los cuales contiene una nos encomendó mientras colgaba de la cruz, encontra- mos a nuestra verdadera defensora de la vida, la fe y decena (o un conjunto de 10) de Avemarías, un total de 150. la misión de la Iglesia. Si recurrimos a María, podemos El rosario permitió que muchos de los fieles de estar seguros de que su Corazón Inmaculado triunfará Europa occidental que no podían rezar los 150 salmos aquí en el este de Washington y en todo el mundo. contenidos en la Liturgia de las Horas —la oración co- munitaria de sacerdotes y monjas— alinearan su oración María, protectora de los no nacidos, ruega por nosotros. con la oración diaria de la Iglesia. Según una tradición María, Reina del Clero, ruega por nosotros. piadosa, la Santísima Virgen María le dio el rosario a Santo Domingo. En 2002, San Juan Pablo II abogó por agregar un cuarto conjunto de misterios al Rosario, con- ocidos como los misterios luminosos, para contemplar aún más la vida de Jesús. En diferentes tradiciones espirituales dentro de la Iglesia Católica, se desarrollaron variaciones del rosario. OBISPO THOMAS A. DALY Algunos rosarios diferían en el número de decenas; es el séptimo obispo de la Diócesis que contiene seis o siete decenas. Algunos rosarios se de Spokane.

10 Inland Catholic • October 2019 • www.dioceseofspokane.org SU VIDA ESPAÑOL ¿CÓMO PODEMOS DIALOGAR CON LOS HERMANOS SEPARADOS?

“Pues no me avergüenzo del Evangelio, que es GETTY IMAGES/ALDOMURILLO fuerza de Dios para la salvación de todo el que cree.” (Romanos 1, 16) !YA NO ES TIEMPO PARA VI- VIR AVERGONZADOS DEL EVANGELIO!

Hoy ya no funciona el truco de poner un letrero fundó una sola Iglesia (Mateo 16, 18); en la puerta diciendo: "Este es un hogar católico que sí podemos llamar "padre" a los Recuerda que Dios es el único no se acepta propaganda protestante", porque los hombres (1 Corintios 4, 15), etc. ellos no que puede tocar nuestros protestantes, los evangélicos y las sectas (como los lo aceptan. ¿Por qué? Porque ellos mormones) ya están adentro del hogar a través de la no creen en la Biblia, sino en lo que corazones. Ponte en manos de televisión, de la radio y de la propaganda persona a les dice su “pastor”. Es decir, creen Dios y recuerda también que, si persona en las fábricas o en el campo. sólo en sí mismos solamente y a su tú no estás un convencido y no Recordemos que Jesús aconseja prepararnos para la conveniencia. practicas tu fe, nunca podrás batalla con los hermanos separados al hacer oración, Para dialogar con los hermanos al leer más la Biblia, al estudiar más nuestra fe y separados, primero exígeles que no convencer a nadie. al consultar a sus párrocos. Pero tampoco te dejes hablen mal de nuestra Iglesia ni de intimidar. Los hermanos separados sueltan muchas citas los sacerdotes. El hablar mal y el de memoria. Esto apantalla a muchos. Sin embargo, es criticar no es cristiano. La primera necesario estudiar más sobre nuestra fe católica. Para dar enseñanza de la Biblia es el amor y el respeto a los demás. razón de tu fe es necesario conocer y haber entendido. Después, pídele que te platique un poco de su Iglesia, de Júntate con tus amigos, en tu casa o en tu parroquia a su fundador, de cuales son sus creencias y de que fue lo reflexionar sobre la fe con una Biblia con comentarios, que le motivo a entrar a dicha iglesia. Luego, habla tú de el Catecismo de la Iglesia Católica y videos de YouTube. lo que a ti te convence y atrae de la Iglesia Católica. Los Ellos siempre tienen las mismas preguntas: ¿María protestantes son muy buenos para debatir sobre el tema tuvo más hijos?, ¿Es idolatría venerar las imágenes?, que ya se saben de memoria, pero si lo sacas de ahí, no PADRE ¿Debemos bautizar a los niños?, ¿Tienen poder los pueden seguir dialogando. Ten preparadas tus preguntas: GUSTAVO RUIZ hombres para perdonar los pecados?, ¿La Eucaristía es un ¿Quién es tu fundador?, ¿La Iglesia que Cristo fundó no Párroco de símbolo o una realidad?, ¿Fundó Cristo muchas Iglesia funciona y la de tu fundador sí?, ¿Acaso el hombre puede Connell, Eltopia o una sola?, ¿Es el Papa el Anticristo?, etc. Conoce la ser más sabio que el mismo Cristo?, ¿Cuándo se fundó tu y Basin City. doctrina de los protestantes. Ellos afirman que basta la iglesia?, ¿Cómo puede ser la Iglesia de Cristo una Iglesia sola Biblia para conocer la verdad, pero la Biblia dice que fundada 1500 años después de Cristo? debemos creer no sólo en lo escrito sino también en lo Recuerda que Dios es el único que puede tocar nuestros enseñado de viva voz. (Lea 2 Tesalonicenses 2, 15) corazones. Ponte en manos de Dios y recuerda también Dicen que no debemos obedecer a los sacerdotes, ni a que, si tú no estás un convencido y no practicas tu fe, los Obispos, ni al Papa. ¿Por qué entonces ellos le hacen nunca podrás convencer a nadie. Si no sabes, di "No sé," caso a su pastor? Ellos exigen que tú les pruebes todo y añade, "La próxima ocasión que nos veamos te tendré con la Biblia, pero si tú les pides que te prueben que su la respuesta". Si señala errores de la Iglesia, reconócelos, interpretación es la única verdadera, no lo pueden hacer. pero aclara que no por eso deja de ser la Iglesia de Cristo. Y cuando le pruebas, con la Biblia en la mano, lo que la Preséntale la otra cara de la verdad: el heroísmo de sus Iglesia enseña: que debemos alabar a María (Lucas 1, 48); mártires, el celo de sus misioneros, la caridad de tantas que los hombres reciben el poder de perdonar los pecados mujeres consagradas al servicio de los pobres, la grandeza (Juan 20, 23); que debemos de comer la carne y la sangre de sus santos, etc. Recuerda invitarlo a la Iglesia Católica de Cristo para tener vida eterna (Juan 6, 54); que Cristo y a que conozca al sacerdote. ¡Dios los bendiga!

11 Chris and Liz Smith outside of Tekoa, Washington.

Just as your letter arrived unexpectedly, the idea for the program came to Chris and Liz seemingly out of the GRANDPARENTS blue. The idea for the ministry, Chris said, “came by the prompting of the Holy Spirit.” Chris felt prodded to do something with grandparents and the pro-life movement. “It kept coming to my mind,” Chris said. “I would keep telling Liz about it, Grandparents and over time she became more have so much FOR interested in the potential project. We knew that the Catholic Church to offer in teaches that God values every single terms of their human life from creation to death. faith and That teaching has never wavered.” sharing it The inspiration of the Holy Spirit in their lives fostered a desire to with others. LIFELIFE move into the pro-life arena. “One We need to thing we want to get across is that remember we are just average people who had that. enough prompting to finally move forward,” Chris said. DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS, most of you — parishioners in our Chris and Liz want this to be a diocese — found a letter from Chris and Liz Smith in the mail asking Catholic effort, and so they brought the idea straight to Bishop Thomas Daly. Now, Chris was no stranger to the you to support a new ministry: Catholic Grandparents for Life. The diocese and its inner workings. Many will remember invitation letter outlined a simple plan to help encourage grandpar- Chris for his work as development director at the diocese under Bishop William Skylstad. Chris was one ents to share the faith and the message of life with their families and of many who helped the diocese navigate the choppy communities. waters of fundraising during the bankruptcy process.

12 Inland Catholic • OCTOBER 2019 • www.dioceseofspokane.org BY MITCHELL PALMQUIST The Smiths near the roadside sign near Latah, Wash. Even with his relationship with the Chancery, the decision to reach out to Bishop Daly for this project was born out of a trust in God that is clear in both Chris and Liz. The couple discussed their idea with the bishop, trusting he would have advice on whether to move forward. When Chris left his position at the Chancery in 2011, it was not for a quiet retirement or a new job, but for the battle of his life. Chris was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia in 2011. Those who know Chris and Liz speak about their resilience and reliance on God throughout this period. Chris said when he was diagnosed, he and Liz began to use the Caring Bridge website (a blogging and communication tool for those with difficult medical situations to communicate with their families and friends about their treatment). Not Excerpted from the letter sent to long after his diagnosis, he wrote a post called “Why all diocesan households: me?” Chris explained, “I was 58 when I got sick. I just realized — when you get a diagnosis so serious, and with a very poor prognosis — that I already had a HELLO CATHOLIC GRANDPARENTS, beautiful life, and I was thankful for it. Nobody wants Often when we speak with other Catholic to get that news, nobody wants to die, but I had a To support this grandparents throughout the Diocese of Spo- grateful heart for my 58 years. And I thanked God for new ministry kane, they express their concern about the in sharing the “culture of death” we are facing today. We often the time I’d already been given. Chris’ doctor did not faith, please send have the best news for him when he asked if he would your donation hear, “I wish I could do more to help change make it through one year. But Chris said, “It just struck to Catholic today’s culture, but I feel powerless.” me, I guess, of the miracle of life, God’s gift.” After a Grandparents for Now there is a way that we can be proud of life-giving stem cell transplant from his brother Steve, Life c/o Catholic our Catholic faith and show our support for the Diocese of “dignity of life from creation to death.” Prayer has Chris remains in remission and his health has continued Spokane, PO Box to improve. He often reminds people, “Every day is a 1453, Spokane, WA prompted us to begin a grass-roots ministry to good day!” Since 2011, Chris and Liz have welcomed 99210-1453 promote LIFE! We began by approaching Bishop six grandchildren, with another expected in January Thomas Daly with this idea. He was open to the – each a beautiful gift from God. They want to share Not a idea and said, “If it is truly of the Holy Spirit, it grandparent? will succeed.” He gave us permission to proceed their Catholic faith with each of them as well as the Please let us know. importance of the pro-life message. If you feel strongly in collaboration with the Diocese of Spokane. Trust in God is clear in Chris and Liz today. When about the ministry, The idea is simple! We have designed and printed asked how their experience of Chris’ illness and and would like bumper stickers (see below) that will be made recovery has impacted this project, Chris said, “For to donate or available to all Catholic grandparents in our volunteer, please diocese. We have also created a billboard design: whatever reason, it wasn’t my time. We both believe that reach out. Thank everyone has a gift and an opportunity to serve others. you! one is located on North Division near Northtown Chances are it won’t ever be huge, but if it does a little Mall, one is located in Walla Walla and another bit of good in a few lives — that is great.” If you are unable in Latah on Highway 27. We have plans for more! Both Chris and Liz want grandparents (and non- to contribute at The effects of our evangelization, through prayer, this time, simply advertisement media and speaking to others, are grandparents) to understand that this is not just their email cgfl2019@ own personal project. They want to see grandparents gmail.com and placed under the mantle of OUR HOLY MOTHER joining them, making a difference in their church and they will send you MARY. Please pray about this opportunity! in the community. “Grandparents have so much to offer a free bumper in terms of setting an example of a strong Catholic faith sticker. May God bless you and your family. and sharing it with others,” Chris said. “We need to remember that.” Chris & Liz Smith Liz and Chris hope that grandparents and non- Catholic Grandparents grandparents will take up the call and join them in Sacred Heart, Tekoa promoting a culture of life in their parish and to share Diocese of Spokane their faith with those they love.

13 YOUR STORIES FEATURE STORY

BY FATHER PAUL HERIC, DIRECTOR AND CHAPLAIN OF THE CATHOLIC NEWMAN CENTER AT EWU

brainwork and studies but synonymous with encounter Namesake of and personal commitment. These were just the begin- Catholic university centers, nings of Newman’s reflections and insights into faith. In 1817, Newman traveled to the University of Oxford to study. In 1825, he became an Anglican priest. He spent JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, the next 27 years at Oxford as a student, academic, theologian, and pastor. to be canonized this month A crucial experience for Newman was an illness he contracted in Sicily. During his recovery, he wrote his N INFLUENTIAL TEACHER and distinguished most famous poem, “Lead Kindly Light,” which speaks about the Light of Christ. According to Newman, let- theologian, Blessed John Henry Newman ting the Light of Christ be the lead of our life is a result A remains as insightful and relevant today as of conscience. The decisions we make will inevitably influence the way we think. The judgments we make he was during his own lifetime. Newman is alive in the will shape our whole view of the world. For Newman, works that he has left behind; and thanks to his many following conscience was always, in a sense, directed outwards toward the other. It is a call to responsibil- writings and coming sainthood, we can consider him a ity and love for another. With this understanding of wise friend and guide on our own life journey. faith and education, he became critical of both the evangelical emphasis on dramatic personal conversion and the merely academic or intellectual Christianity In theology, philosophy, education and literature, common at Oxford. He quarreled with the headmaster Newman has bestowed an abundance of riches on the who wanted students to be treated as purely academ- Church and the world. It is because of these works and ics. Newman maintained they must be taught and academic zeal in his faith that Newman has become the cared for as “whole persons.” His belief in the need for namesake of Catholic centers on college campuses. In critical thinking and prayerful devotion led Newman the Diocese of Spokane there are two Newman Centers to promote the idea of “via media,” or a middle way – one at Eastern Washington University, Cheney, and between Protestantism and Catholicism. In an attempt another at Washington State University in Pullman. to bridge the gap between the two faiths, he argued On Oct. 13, Newman will be canonized by Pope Fran- that 39 of the articles of the Anglican Church were, in cis in Rome. fact, Catholic teaching. But when he offered this new John Henry Newman was born in 1801 and, at age interpretation, as well as the belief that insights grow 15, was sent to boarding school, where an Anglican slowly and not in sudden epiphanies, he faced intense priest was put in charge of him. There, Newman had a opposition from the Anglican denomination and had to conversion of heart and realized God is not the result of resign from Oxford.

14 Inland Catholic • October 2019 • www.dioceseofspokane.org Newman’s academic experiences led him to believe sities’ Catholic communities. We are inspired by and that universities are a place to prepare people for the agree with Newman’s beliefs on education and strive to world, not hide them away from it. “It is a place to fit make young men and women holy sons and daughters men of the world for the world. We cannot possibly of God, alive in the Spirit and passionate and knowl- keep them from plunging into the world with all its edgeable about their faith. ways and principles and maxims when the time comes. Newman Centers are a place to prepare people for But we can prepare them against what is inevitable.” the world so they can be of the world, but not live for (The Idea of a University, John Henry Newman) it. We help college students to think about and learn This is the about how to live legacy of Cardi- a life beyond self, nal Newman: the a life for God, a desire to empower life committed the laity through to love. This is knowledge. We the life, works Newman’s cannot shield peo- and legacy of academic ple from every- soon-to-be St. experiences thing in the world. John Newman. led him to We must prepare It is the wisdom people for what and holy exam- believe that they will encoun- ple of this man universities ter so they can that has touched are a place correctly discern the hearts and to prepare right from wrong. minds of many With Newman’s vast insights into academics, edu- young men and women and led to many experiences of people for the cation, and teaching the “whole person,” it is easy to conversion. Newman Centers today carry on the vision world, not see why he is the namesake of Catholic outreach and of Cardinal Newman and help teach and prepare a laity hide them faith centers on public campuses. Newman Centers are that is of the world, but not for the world, wanting away from it. residences and Catholic ministry centers at non-Cath- nothing more than to respond to the call of love, evan- olic universities throughout the world. These centers gelize on campuses, and discern and boldly live out provide pastoral services and ministries to the univer- their God-given vocations.

NEWMAN CENTERS IN THE DIOCESE OF SPOKANE WSU Newman Center 1913 Newman Club at Sacred Heart Parish is founded by Father Carl Phillipp. 1962 Father James Kuhns refounds the club as an independent ministry with support of the diocese. The Greystone Church is purchased for use as the student parish. 1980 The current St. Thomas More Catholic Student Center and Parish is dedicated.

Father Jeffrey Core is the pastor of St. Thomas More Student Center To learn more: WWW.CATHOLICCOUGS.ORG

EWU Newman Center 1930s Newman Club is founded at St. Rose of Lima Parish in Cheney by Father John Blake. 1975 The center moves to its current location at 837 Elm St. in Cheney, Washington.

Father Paul Heric is the director of the Catholic Newman Center at EWU To learn more: WWW.EWUCATHOLICS.ORG

15 IT BEGINS AND ENDS AT NOTRE DAME HEADMASTER SHARES HIS JOURNEY TO SPOKANE’S NEW CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL

Dr. Matthew Powell, new headmaster of Chesterton Academy of Notre Dame

Dr. Matthew Powell, the first headmaster for a soon-to-open classical classical styles of education seek a return to original texts to rediscover Catholic high school in Spokane, is a Notre Dame man from start to the foundations of our culture and finish. A University of Notre Dame alumnus, he will now head the new engage directly with the thought of our forebears. high school named for Notre Dame – Our Lady. After graduating from Notre Dame, Powell went on to teach at a Catholic Hired as the first headmaster of “I heard them describe the pro- high school in Ohio while earning FEATURE the Chesterton Academy of Notre gram: read the original works in their his teaching certificate. Following a STORY Dame, to be established initially on original form and discuss [them] to desire to work with Native American the campus of the Cathedral of Our understand the framework of our cul- teens from a reservation, he moved Lady of Lourdes, Powell’s career has ture by reading and learning from the to Flagstaff, Arizona. There, he taken him through many different thinkers who created that culture,” taught drama, literature, and history educational and nonprofit positions Powell said. In many ways, this differ- at a public high school. While at that make him uniquely suited to ent method of education was what he the school, he also worked with a lead this foray into a different edu- had expected from college. “I figured program called Upward Bound. “It cational market for the diocese. you go away to college and you would was a very specific program for kids read Plato, Aristotle, Chaucer; it was off the reservation to help get them NOTRE DAME, SOUTH BEND, IND. just engaging with the original texts.” into college,” Powell said. He worked “Seduced by this idea,” he said, with students during the school year; As a freshman at the University of “I joined up and was transformed while in the summer, the Native Notre Dame, Powell dreamed of be- by the Program of Liberal Studies at American students preparing for col- coming a lawyer, but, after attending a Notre Dame.” lege would take a course on the cam- “meet your major” event, his life went Liberal Studies and similar pro- pus of Northern Arizona University in a radically different direction. Speak- grams — whether one calls them through Upward Bound to acclimate ing with representatives from Notre great book programs or classical edu- themselves to life on campus. Dame’s Program of Liberal Studies, he cation — exist as a ressourcement type became “fascinated by the idea.” The of education. Like the ressourcement RETURN TO SCHOOL program started as a "Great Books" movement in Catholic theology lead- program, in imitation of a similar pro- ing up to the Second Vatican Council, Feeling his own educational gram at the University of Chicago. or even the Renaissance before it, journey was not complete, Powell

16 Inland Catholic • October 2019 • www.dioceseofspokane.org BY MITCHELL PALMQUIST began a doctorate in interdisciplin- At the time of its opening, Notre FAQs about ary studies at Marquette University. Dame will be one of more than 20 the Chesterton His research focused on the inter- schools in the Chesterton Network. section of theology and literature, Powell said he was drawn to the Academy of specifically, the presentation of Chesterton Academy Model for spiritual ideas in the works of liter- reasons beyond its focus on classical Notre Dame ature. He taught as an adjunct pro- education. fessor in Ohio, spending five years “There is no technology in the teaching at Walsh University as a classroom, and the arts are very What is classical education? theology professor and working in heavily focused,” Powell said. “I Classical education returns to the the honors program. couldn’t resist the opportunity.” roots of liberal arts education. In 2012, while he was teaching In his past position as a school Grounded in rhetoric, grammar, at St. Joseph University in Phila- president, Powell was not able to and logic, the curriculum and delphia, Powell’s wife passed away. teach. An aspect of the new Ches- To learn teaching method focus on forming After his wife’s passing, he decid- terton Academy of Notre Dame is to think well-rounded, integrated, and joyful ed to move with his young son to the involvement of the headmaster students. While engaging critically Washington, D.C., to be near family. in teaching. Prioritization of daily critically in the great works of the Western Powell started a job in nonprofit contact with the students makes it means tradition, students learn to partici- support and management. Reflect- essential for the headmaster to be in pate effectively in the ever-chang- ing on that time of tragic loss and the classroom. The combined role of not just to ing modern world. More specifics change, Powell remarked, “God puts administration and teaching is not critique the can be found at chestertonacade- you on the path constantly to where uncommon in many of our Catholic myofnotredame.org/about you need to be.” schools, and this change was ap- past, but to During his time in Washington, pealing to Powell. The new position engage with Is this school meant to compete D.C., Powell’s work allowed him to in Spokane “was an opportunity to with Gonzaga Prep? grow in development, support, and be back in the classroom,” he said. influential No. Gonzaga Preparatory is a Cath- management skills that are essential The importance of a classical ideas olic and Jesuit high school built to to running a nonprofit or a school. education, Powell emphasized, is prepare children for college and But after several years, he realized the desire to engage with primary throughout has been an exemplary educational that work in an educational environ- texts and learn to think critically. He history so institution in Spokane since 1877. ment was still calling to him. stressed that to learn to think criti- Notre Dame uses different curric- “I’ve known for a very long time cally means not just to critique the as to be ular and pedagogical models than God put me on this earth to be past, but to engage with influential equipped a preparatory school. The school involved with education,” he said. ideas throughout history so as to be is being formed in response to In 2017, he began a new role as equipped for engagement with the for passionate interest among families president of Bishop McDevitt High modern world. engagement looking for a classical high school School in Philadelphia. “We live in a society that loves to education in the Catholic tradition. jump to criticism,” Powell said, “but with the Notre Dame will be entering a local NOTRE DAME, SPOKANE the whole model of the great books modern educational market that currently and the model that the Chesterton lacks a classical Catholic option. Powell’s journey to Spokane in Network is putting out there is to world. 2019 seemed to come as something think first before they critique; to Why is the diocese supporting of a surprise and a providential learn ideas before they offer opin- this endeavor? opportunity. ions about those ideas.” The Diocese of Spokane is re- “I heard about the position The Chesterton Academy of sponding to the interest of many opening up in Spokane, and this Notre Dame aims to open its doors families who have been hoping for a was the job I had always wanted,” in the fall of 2020. Throughout the classical high school in the Spokane he said. “Not only running the 2019–20 academic year, Powell will area. Bishop Thomas Daly and the school but also the kind of school, a be working with partners at the di- diocesan Office of Education are classical education.” At the time of ocese, the Cathedral of Our Lady of excited to pursue a new and unique this writing, Powell and his son are Lourdes and the Catholic schools in option that will augment the educa- embarking on a cross-country trip Eastern Washington to prepare for tional opportunities provided by the to Spokane. the opening of the new school. Catholic Church in this market.

17 RACHEL’SRACHEL’S VINEYARDVINEYARD A PRO-LIFE MESSAGE OF HEALING MAKES AN IMPACT AT THE WOMEN’S MARCH AND BEYOND

18 Inland Catholic • October 2019 • www.dioceseofspokane.org THE WOMEN’S MARCH may seem like an odd starting place for an ar- tive and anyone else who is grieving an aborted child, ticle about a pro-life ministry. However, this is where the story begins. sibling, or grandchild. Rachel’s Vineyard grew out of support groups for other Julie Olson, Rachel’s Vineyard coordinator for the Spokane area, said, issues when a support group leader, Theresa Burke, “I ended up at the Women’s March in Spokane because of the Spokes- realized that an issue for many women in the group was man-Review’s pairing of Catholic Charities and Planned Parenthood in unprocessed grief from an abortion. This led Burke to the newspaper [article] on the upcoming march. I had my phone blow explore the idea of helping women who had experienced an abortion. In the 1980s, Burke traveled to Medjugorje* up with strong Catholics saying they shouldn’t be doing this — Catholic (a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina where there have al- Charities pairing with Planned Parenthood.” legedly been visions of the Virgin Mary) and asked those there what she should do for the Church. The visionaries Many local pro-lifers were shocked that Catholic Char- told her the Blessed Mother wanted her to “help those FEATURE ities would be at the Women’s March; to be sure, Catholic who have aborted their children.” STORY Charities also had a booth at the Walk for Life NW that According to the Rachel’s Vineyard website, the year. So, when Julie called Scott Cooper at Catholic Char- program of post-abortion healing was adapted into a ities to ask about the story in the Spokesman-Review, he weekend retreat in 1995. “Without a budget, office or was, according to Julie, understandably apprehensive. advertising, Rachel’s Vineyard became a grassroots, Julie said she has a good relationship with Cooper and he national outreach. By word of mouth only, the retreats volunteered that Catholic Charities was invited because began to spread across the country because of the of the services they offer to women. Julie took a risk and retreats' dramatic effectiveness, from 18 retreats in 1999 asked if Rachel’s Vineyard could have a seat at Catholic and growing to 35 retreats in 2000.” Charities’ table. Scott said he would call back with an an- Rachel’s Vineyard now hosts more than 1,000 retreats swer. Later that day, Julie received the call: per year. In Spokane, the retreat is offered “You can have half the table.” in October as a specifically Catholic “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh … awesome,’ retreat; a non-denominational version is until the morning of the march,” Julie said. offered in April. During the retreat week- “When I arrived at the table, the Catholic We establish end, the attendees, mostly women but Charities gal gave me half of the table, and some men, process their grief and work that no one is I was right on the end so everyone who to transition towards hope. A licensed came into the building saw me first,” she condemning therapist attends each weekend, as do explained. “I was nervous.” anyone here. members of the clergy, to offer support for As the doors opened, marchers came into the retreatants. the Spokane Convention Center. A woman One message that many women learn in her 70s with brightly colored hair poking who attend the retreat is how much they out from under her beanie hat approached have been affected by their abortion, start- the table. According to Julie, the older woman asked what ing with triggers that will call up the memory of the time Julie was doing at the march. Julie said, “We are a non-po- of year or even the anniversary, which can impact their litical, post-abortion healing ministry in Spokane.” The life. Julie pointed out that the anniversaries of abortions woman immediately shared, “I had an abortion.” affect many women who have had them. “Oh wow, how long ago?” Julie replied. After hearing The retreat itself, in the end, is about compassion the year the woman had the abortion, Julie said: “So you and healing. “We establish that no one is condemning have a 29-year-old. She looked at me and said, ‘Oh gosh, anyone here,” Julie said. The retreatants carry a symbol I have a 29-year-old!’ as tears started streaming down of their grief, anger, resentment or whatever may have a her face. So, I asked if I could give her a hug. She said, hold on them throughout the weekend. When they are ‘I would like that very much’; and as I hugged her, she ready to set that symbol down, they lay it at the foot of a said, ‘I was told it was tissue … I was told it was tissue crucifix. The weekend offers the retreatants a non-judg- until I aborted and then they told me it was a boy. And I mental, non-political environment to process the choice just had to pick up and move on.’” for abortion and its effect on their life and to turn to Julie encouraged the woman to attend the retreat. Christ for healing and hope. The choice to have an abortion is never a choice the Catholic Church approves of, but the choice to have an abortion never leaves a person beyond God’s loving *Međugorje, the site of alleged apparitions of the Blessed Virgin BY MITCHELL desire to heal their wounds. From this starting place, Ra- Mary, has not been officially sanctioned by the local Church PALMQUIST chel’s Vineyard seeks to serve women who are post-abor- in Bosnia and Herzegovina or the Vatican.

19 ASK FR. MIKE of what I think you are asking regarding jokes and being able to laugh with God, the crux would seem to come down to the definition of “respect.” You and your friends can joke around and make fun of Can we each other because there is implicit and explicit respect in your relationship. If there weren’t, the words you say have a to each other would be considered spiteful, rude, or even sense of cruel. But the context of the conversation is between peo- ple who have a good relationship and who respect each humor other. It is only because you respect each other that the ribbing and teasing is actually funny. Expand this to parents. Parents have a natural and spiritual authority over their children. Therefore, children are to respect and obey their parents. Is it possible to love, ABOUT respect, and obey someone in authority over you and still be able to joke around with them? It seems to be entirely possible. And it often happens. There can come a time when sons and daughters joke around with their parents, even to the point of poking fun GOD? at their quirks or something silly their parents once did. (“Remember that time Mom fell into the lake trying to get into the boat? And how Dad couldn’t pull her into the boat, so he just called out instructions to her while she

GETTY IMAGES/STOCKFOUR swam to shore?”) This is only funny if there is a healthy and loving relationship between The catechism defines blasphemy as “directly opposed to the second commandment. It parents and children. consists in uttering against God — inwardly or outwardly — words of hatred, reproach, More than this, humor/joking/ Q teasing can even be something that or defiance; in speaking ill of God; in failing in respect toward him in one’s speech; in grows and enhances the relation- misusing God’s name.” My issue is that humor about God would seem to be blasphemy by this ship; just think of the good that can definition, even if it is not done out of hatred or anger towards God. This is particularly hard for come from sharing mutual laughter me, because humor is an important part of all my close relationships, and it is very hard to have a about our mutual family. But, once again, it is only an actual “joke” to meaningful relationship with the Lord if I have to exclude many kinds of humor from it. the extent that genuine love and respect are present. Thank you very much for your email and Now, when it comes to the Divine Being Who Is Lord A question. I am moved by your depth of of All, is it possible to have a sense of respect and a thought and eloquence in expressing your sense of humor? The issue is question. It is clear you have put a lot of thought into Note that while we can make the analogy between the whether love, not only this question, but in your investigating and relationship we have with our earthly parents and our interiorizing the faith. relationship with our Heavenly Father, God is still, well, obedience, I see a couple of questions rising to the surface in your God. Because of that, it would be wise to venture ahead and respect question. with care. are present I initially wanted to examine the nature of humor. C.S. Too many people dismiss the seriousness of this point in our speech Lewis has a section in his book The Screwtape Letters by merely jumping to the “God can handle jokes about where he discusses the various kinds of humor and how him” posture. Yes, God can “take it.” But that is not the and actions most levels of humor are less harmful than many serious issue. The issue is whether love, obedience, and respect regarding people think they are. I would look at the way that most are present in our speech and actions regarding God and God and all humor turns on incongruity or apparent paradox, and all that belongs to him. that belongs how we are more often laughing at the incongruity than God is owed all awe and respect possible. There is no we are at the content of the joke. But that still doesn’t get way that we could ever truly understand the depth of re- to him. us very far in this discussion. spect and reverence we owe to God. When I stop to think The expression “failing in respect toward him in one’s of the times when God revealed himself in the Old Tes- speech” is the key phrase here. Taking a look at it in light tament, any temptation to reduce God to “buddy status”

20 Inland Catholic • October 2019 • www.dioceseofspokane.org seems like absolute foolishness. The children of Israel So, is there room for laughing with God? begged Moses to be the one who spoke with God on Yes. There is room for this because a healthy relation- their behalf because they were so struck with fear, awe, ship with God must be a real relationship. And a real God made and reverence when God’s presence descended on Mount relationship often (if not always) involves sharing what humor. Satan Sinai. Any half-hearted reverence on our part reveals that a person actually thinks, including what one finds odd did not. Satan we have no real idea who God really is and who we are in or silly or incongruous. Of course, there is a limit. Not relation to him. everything that one finds funny has a place in every can only dis- Yet “relationship” is the key word. This same God of relationship. The determining factor is knowing the rev- tort the good the Universe is also the Word Made Flesh who dwelt erence we owe to God and striving to make sure that our of humor. Like among us, so that we can be in real and personal relation- language always reflects the respect we owe him. any other ship with him. He desires to make all people on earth his children, and he desires that his children come to him good thing in loving trust as their Abba (“Dad”) in heaven. And real FATHER MICHAEL SCHMITZ that God has relationships involve all of the elements of, well, real rela- is director of youth and young made, learn- tionships. This would seem to necessarily involve humor. adult ministry for the Diocese ing to proper- God made humor. Satan did not. Satan can only distort of Duluth and chaplain of the the good of humor. Like any other good thing that God Newman Center at the University ly use this gift has made, learning to properly use this gift is essential to of Minnesota Duluth. Reach him is essential to its flourishing. Therefore it seems to me that there can at [email protected]. its flourishing. be, even with God himself, a good and joyful balance Reprinted with the permission of the Diocese of Duluth's between a sense of respect and a sense of humor. Northern Cross Newspaper.

GUATEMALA UPDATE Colegio Nahuala

BY DONNA Unannounced, and without an CONNELL appointment, we (five travelers to the mission) knocked at the door of Colegio Santa Catarina Catholic School, situated next to Santa Catarina Church in Nahuala, Guatemala, adjoining an area used for open markets in Nahuala. the morning, while students in grades 7-9 attend in the Pictured are afternoon, with many classrooms used for both sessions. third-grade students with We were greeted warmly by a “doorkeeper,” who im- Curriculum at the school follows the national curriculum their teacher and mediately led us, along with the large group of children guidelines, with the addition of religion and religious cel- Director Tambriz. quickly surrounding us, to the director, Juan Fernando ebrations, including processions and prayers. The school Tambriz. The students were wearing new uniforms, year runs from January through October. which included athletic pants and a zipper jacket, for Colegio Nahuala was founded by the School Sisters physical education day. We passed a class running an of Notre Dame (including Sister Janet Druffel of Colton) obstacle course in their central play area as we entered in 1962. The school was destroyed by an earthquake in classrooms and spoke with students and teachers. 1976, then rebuilt the following year by the sisters. Very Colegio Nahuala serves students in pre-K through little remodeling has been done since then. ninth grade. They thank God that their enrollment has Director Tambriz expressed gratitude for the support increased by 65 students this year, resulting in 175 stu- sent from Spokane, which helps with teacher salaries dents in pre-K through sixth grade (having just added and student tuition. We thank the following for their the pre-K) and 172 students in grades 7-9. Classes in ongoing support: parishioners from St. Augustine the latter three grades are large, with 35-60 students Church, Spokane (which has supported the school per class. We saw a math class of 58 students! since 1969); St. Joseph Church, Colbert; Assumption Students in pre-K through sixth grade attend school in Catholic School, Walla Walla; and individual donors.

21 YOUR COMMUNITY RETREAT CENTER EVENTS As we celebrate our 60 years of retreat “Spiritual Courage through Retreat Minis- Immaculate Heart Retreat Center will be ministry, we are honored to bring such a try … Find the Inner Strength in Challeng- offering a weekend retreat on Simplicity and notable retreat leader as Wicks to Immac- ing Times.” There is no cost to attend this Peace, “The Simple Care of a Hopeful Heart,” ulate Heart for this weekend retreat. event. A light brunch will be served, and on Nov. 8-10, 2019. The retreat begins at 6 “People often ask, ‘What part does those attending will be asked to make a fi- p.m. Friday and ends at 1 p.m. Sunday. The friendship plays in resilience?’ My response nancial gift or pledge to support Immacu- retreat director is Dr. Robert Wicks. is that it’s at the core of resilience and it’s late Heart’s retreat apostolate. Please reg- Dr. Wicks is a renowned psychologist, at the core of the spiritual life,” Wicks said. ister in advance by calling 509.448.1224. author, and speaker. His major area of “In my presentation, I am going to address expertise is the prevention of secondary friendship, but go a little more deeply in BIOGRAPHY FOR stress, which encompasses the pressures covering the four types of friends that I DR. ROBERT WICKS encountered in reaching out to others. He feel are necessary in life if we are to remain brings a powerful spiritual and Christian supported, inspired, challenged, and en- Robert Wicks has perspective to his message. Wicks has pre- couraged.” helped people take sented workshops and retreats to health Please make every attempt to attend measure of their lives care providers, counselors, professionals this retreat and invite a friend to join you. for more than 30 in government, and the general public. At It will be a life-changing experience for years. Together, he and this retreat, he will present the dangers you and for all those who attend. For an his clients have taken of secondary stress and how to put a individual to attend the weekend retreat, the perspective that “difficult times can self-care regimen in place to understand which includes lodging, five meals, and offer graced moments in a more striking the principles of resilience, maintaining conference fees, the cost is $204. If you way than the good times can.” As a faculty a healthy perspective, and how to reach would prefer to commute, the fee is $118 member at Loyola University, Maryland, out to others, while still recognizing the (no lodging). as well as a speaker and teacher at other dangers of doing so. This retreat will be Wicks will also be the keynote speaker universities and professional schools of especially beneficial to caregivers, hospice on Saturday, Nov. 9, at Immaculate Heart’s psychology, medicine, nursing, theology, workers, chaplains, spiritual directors, Hope, Peace, and Healing Fundraiser, and social work throughout the world, he medical professionals, and anyone else in- which will be held at the Hemmingson has guided students and professionals in terested in the topic. To learn more about Center on the Gonzaga University campus. discovering how to value their strengths, Wicks and his work, visit www.robert- The program begins at 10:30 a.m. and develop a practice of mindfulness, and jwicks.com. concludes at noon. The title of this event is take charge of their self-care. He re- ceived his doctorate in psychology from Hahnemann Medical College and Hospi- UPCOMING RETREATS tal. He has received numerous awards, including the Papal Medal, Pro Ecclesia et Retreat on the Spirit of Fun • Surprising Gifts: Living the Life of the Spirit in Joy, Beauty, and Fun • Pontifice, from Pope St. John Paul II. Fr. David Robinson, SJ • Nov. 1, 2019

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22 Inland Catholic • October 2019 • www.dioceseofspokane.org (Left to Right) Msgr. William Coleman, YOUR LIFE Richard Cardinal LAST WORD Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, and Msgr. ment is modeled after Father Callanan’s, “but Hugo Pautler in Choir Vestments on Gonzaga not as high.” University’s Campus Our family belonged to St. Francis, the in 1958 Italian parish of our mother. I never served Mass at St. Patrick. My personal relationship with Hugo was minimal, but was cultivated by his occasional meals at our home. We dined on roast beef. Dad was a meat cutter, and I would hear: “You must get really good cuts of meat.” No, we did not. Dad would never take advantage of his position to bring home meat we couldn’t afford. Hugo was served chuck roast, not prime rib. Hugo was back in Clarkston during my early years in ministry. Upon retirement, he lived there with his sister, Frances. We developed a Thanksgiving Day tradition: I drove down from Spokane and my folks came up from Walla Walla for dinner in Clarkston. Frances’ turkey was better than our roast. I never ministered with Hugo. But some of my peers and the gen- eration of priests ahead of me did. Most of them are gone now. I have the impression that they did not remember the good times. A copy of Remembering Hugo’s “House Rules” has come into my possession. Were his rules tyrannical? Hardly, but for young priests who had been subjected to the seminary rule for up to 12 years, these rectory rules were an the other insult. “Don’t you think I have the sense to figure this out myself?” a young priest might think. I guess Hugo didn’t agree, maybe with good Father Pautler reason. Here are a few excerpts:

• By comparison with other professions and occupations, the av- In this third installment of reflections on priests who have erage priest has more time off than is necessary for relaxation or influenced my life, I cannot overlook Msgr. Hugo Pautler, good for his priesthood. I have yet to find an “Apostle of Time Off” who flourished from 1932 to 1988. I will take the liberty who observes the “Apostolate of Time On” with equal soul. of referring to him as “Hugo.” Were he living, I would be • Ordinarily during that part of the day when professional men are at work, we should not have the radio or television turned on. This admonished: “We are a monsignor, and that is how we are is not conducive to priestly work, and is a source of admiratio to a to be addressed.” But 30 years after someone’s death, let parishioner or caller. us remember the good times. • Regarding stipends: Follow canon law and the synod. Let what is due to the pastor be given to him directly or put on his desk with Earlier in my priesthood, people occasionally notation. mentioned: “I knew a Father (or Msgr.) Pautler • Let each assistant make his bed each morning and keep his room in Walla Walla (or Clarkston).” Hugo was my reasonably clean. dad’s first cousin, making me a second cousin. • Let sermons be well-prepared and not be less than 12 minutes — Or, as was correctly explained by Msgr. John better 15 to 20 minutes. Our work is to call people to Church — Fahy of happy memory, “a first cousin once not to help hasten them out of it. removed.” Hugo and my father shared a farming FATHER MARK • Experience has proven repeatedly that it is unwise and imprudent background in Colorado before both moved PAUTLER to invite high school boys and girls or any lay persons to your west. I don’t know whether Hugo encouraged is the chancellor rooms or the dining room. Dad to come to Washington, but that’s where he and judical landed and met Mom. vicar of the No one would take exception to that last one. Hugo was pastor at St. Francis Parish in Walla Diocese of So, Hugo was no favorite of his assistants. It was another story with Walla, where they married in 1941. Hugo was ap- Spokane. parishioners. At Hugo’s request and at his expense, there was a recep- pointed pastor of Holy Family, Clarkston, in 1942, tion following the vigil of his funeral. I recall chatting with people, then returned to Walla Walla as pastor of St. Patrick following the death many of whom expressed their gratitude for his ministry, oftentimes of the legendary John Callanan in 1953. Hugo remained deferential to illustrated by accounts of his personal solicitude. To them, he had the memory of Father Callanan. They are buried in the “priests’ circle” been a pastor, not a penny-pincher or dictator. There were some good at Mountain View Cemetery where, per his instructions, Hugo’s monu- times, and they were remembered.

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