February 9, 2020 • FIFTH SUNDAY of ORDINARY TIME • Volume 69:18`
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CatholicThe TIMES The Diocese of Columbus’ News Source February 9, 2020 • FIFTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME • Volume 69:18` Inside this issue Men’s conference: Bishop Robert Brennan will celebrate Mass at the annual Catholic Men’s Conference on Saturday, Feb. 22, Page 2 Retreat centers to close: The diocese announced that St. Therese Retreat Center in Columbus and Ss. Peter and Paul Retreat Center in Heath will close this summer, Page 3 Milestone season: Longtime Bishop Watterson girls basketball coach Tom Woodford won his 400th career game earlier this season, with his daughter on the team, Page 13 WORLD MARRIAGE WEEK CELEBRATES living god’s Plan for fAMILY LIFE Pages 10-12 Catholic Times 2 February 9, 2020 Catholic Men’s Conference will focus on building virtue “Building Virtue” provided by the Co- will be the theme lumbus St. Joseph of the 2020 dioce- Cathedral men’s san Catholic Men’s choir, directed by Conference on Sat- Dr. Richard Fitz- urday, Feb. 22 in gerald. The day will Kasich Hall at the end around 3 p.m. state fairgrounds. More than 30 priests The venue offers will be on hand space and ameni- to administer the ties suitable for the Sacrament of Rec- 3,500 men expected onciliation during to attend the 23rd the lunch break, annual event. and many Catholic Bishop Robert vendors and orga- Brennan of Colum- nizations will have bus will celebrate representatives at the closing Mass display tables. and will be one Tickets are $45 of three featured Bishop Robert Brennan Jason Evert Luke Fickell for adults and $25 speakers, along with for students, with no Catholic author and charge for priests, speaker Jason Evert dents on six continents in two decades and 2001. He and his wife, Amy, have deacons and sem- and University of Cincinnati football as a public speaker. six children. inarians. Scholarships and financial coach Luke Fickell. He is the author of more than two The conference day will begin at assistance are available for those with Bishop Brennan will be at the con- dozen books, including How to Find 6 a.m. with Adoration of the Blessed limited financial means. To register or ference for the first time. At the time Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Sacrament. Registration and breakfast for more information, call (614) 505- of the conference last year, he was Soul and the curriculum YOU: Life, will start at 7 with talks beginning at 8. 6605 or go to www.catholicmensmin- wrapping up his duties as auxiliary Love, and the Theology of the Body. Music for the closing Mass will be istry.com. bishop of the diocese of Rockville He has a master’s degree in theology Centre, New York, in anticipation of and an undergraduate degree in theol- his installation as the 12th bishop of ogy and counseling, with a minor in Columbus on March 30, succeeding philosophy, from Franciscan Univer- Bishop Emeritus Frederick Campbell. sity of Steubenville. He lives with his SUBSCRIBE His appointment to the position by wife, Crystalina, and their children in Pope Francis had been announced on Arizona. The Catholic Times is the only Jan. 31. Fickell graduated from Columbus newspaper that brings you a In less than a year since his instal- St. Francis DeSales High School, weekly look at Catholic life in lation, Bishop Brennan has visited where he was a three-time undefeated nearly every parish in the 23-county state wrestling champion, in 1992 and the Diocese of Columbus. Don’t diocese. Besides celebrating Masses from Ohio State University in 1997. Miss Out and administering the Sacrament of He played for the Buckeyes from By dropping your Catholic Times Confirmation, he has attended doz- 1993 to 1996, starting a school-record envelope into the collection ens of parish and school activities in 50 consecutive games at nose guard. an effort to establish contact with as He has been head coach at Cincin- plate in February, you guarantee The Catholic many of the diocese’s approximately nati since 2017 and was an assistant getting The Catholic Times for 280,000 Catholics as he can. coach at Ohio State from 2002 to the special parish rate of only Times Collection Evert has spoken about the virtue of 2016, including a year as interim head chastity to more than one million stu- coach in 2011, and at Akron in 2000 $17. February 2020 Front Page photo: Bishop Robert J. Brennan: President & Publisher WORLD Doug Bean: Editor ([email protected]) MARRIAGE WEEK Tim Puet: Reporter ([email protected]) The U.S. Conference of Cath- K. 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February 9, 2020 Catholic Times 3 Two diocesan retreat centers to close By Tim Puet it was necessary to take this action.” viewed results of a survey sent in July through engagement at our centers.” Catholic Times Reporter Davis said the contributing factors 2019 to the diocese’s pastors, school St. Therese’s Retreat Center is located to the decision included ongoing op- principals and assistant principals, at 5277 E. Broad St. on Columbus’ far erating deficits at both centers, future and parish religious education direc- east side. It is part of a 75-acre tract of The Diocese of Columbus has an- necessary facility repairs that would tors and youth ministers. The survey land acquired by the Diocese of Colum- nounced plans to close the St. Therese be required at both sites, and the use results returned were compiled and bus from the estate of Martha Deshler in Retreat Center in Columbus, effective of parish centers and other venues reviewed in October, with a final de- 1926. Bishop James Hartley dedicated Tuesday, June 30, and the Sts. Peter around the diocese for many events cision made in late January. the center in 1931 to St. Therese of Li- and Paul Retreat Center in Heath, ef- that previously took place at the re- “We remain deeply thankful for the sieux, who was canonized in 1925. At fective Friday, July 31. treat centers. many lives that have been touched and that time, its location on the eastern edge “It is with great regret we have de- The announcement of closing dates inspired by participating in the work of of Franklin County was considered to be cided to move forward with the clos- for the centers will allow groups that our centers,” said Dominic Prunte, dioc- far out in the country. ing of these centers,” said diocesan may have scheduled events at the sites esan episcopal moderator for administra- The Sts. Peter and Paul center was built finance director William Davis. “Af- after those dates to make alternate ar- tion and personnel. “Those who attended by the PIME missionary order of priests ter an extensive review of the centers’ rangements. The final disposition of the events and retreats, the many supporters on 500 wooded acres in rural Licking financial viability, discussion with properties has not been determined. Op- who have assisted and served in these County as a seminary, which opened in diocesan staff and prayerful consid- tions for future use are being studied. ministries – we have been truly bless- 1957. PIME closed it in 1990 and it was eration, we have concluded that to be The decision to close the centers ed for the opportunity to support all in acquired by the diocese, which reopened good stewards of diocesan resources, was made after diocesan officials re- their spiritual journeys through the years it as a retreat center in 2003. Diocese honors priests, sisters from religious orders at Mass on World Day for Consecrated Life Representatives of several religious Sister Wenancja Disterheft, OP, orders attended a Mass celebrated by serves at the Holy Family Soup Kitch- Robert Brennan at Columbus St. Jo- en in Columbus and is one of three seph Cathedral in honor of the World Dominican Sisters of the Immaculate Day for Consecrated Life. Conception Province in the diocese. About 50 priests or sisters from the The order’s motherhouse is in Justice, Dominican Sisters of the Immaculate Illinois, and it is based in Cracow, Po- Conception Province; Dominican Sis- land, Sister Wenancja’s hometown. ters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist; “I feel my vocation is a simple, yet the Franciscan Sisters of the Immac- very profound thing,” she said. “What ulate Heart of Mary; the Dominican drew me to become a sister was devo- Sisters of Peace; the Carmelite Sisters tion to the compassion I recognized in for the Aged and Infirm; the Bridget- St. Dominic and my familiarity with tine Sisters; the Children of Mary; the the Dominicans while growing up in Apostles of Jesus, and 10 other orders Cracow.” She made her final vows as were at the Mass on Sunday, Feb.