salinadioceste.org h e Reg ister July 11 , 2014 CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF SALINA Charities fundraiser is July 20 By The Register SALINA — The main fundraising event for Catholic Charities of North - ern Kansas is critical because it primarily supports the agency’s annual operations. “It’s so important to keep us working to keep our 14 programs go - Photos courtesy of St. Joseph Parish, Hays ing,” explained Sisters of St. Agnes pose with Capuchin Franciscan and diocesan priests and Bishop Daniel Kucera in 1981 in front of St. Joseph Michelle Church in Hays to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the sisters serving the Hays parish. The Sisters of St. Agnes first came to Martin, exec - Ellis County in 1878; the last two sisters serving in the Diocese of Salina are leaving later this summer. utive director. The annual fundraiser is from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Michelle Sunday, July Martin A legacy of service 20 at the Am - bassador Hotel and Confer - Last of Sisters of St. Agnes to leave Diocese of Salina ence Center (formerly the Ramada) at 1616 W. Craw - By Doug Weller Hays area, Bishop Louis Capuchin Franciscans to 1879 in Victoria, and as ford in Salina. The Register Fink of the Diocese of Leav - help. The Sisters of St. their community grew, they It begins with a social enworth — which covered Agnes followed. expanded to the parishes time and cash bar, then din - SALINA — When Sister the entire state of Kansas — The women religious served by the Capuchins — ner at 5:30 p.m. Rose Walters and Sister asked the German-speaking opened their first school in which at that time extend - There is no cost to attend, Donna Marie Kleinsorge ed into western and north - but reservations are required move to Wisconsin this west Kansas. by Tuesday, July 15. Donors summer, they will bring to In addition to teaching, have underwritten the cost an end a 135-year legacy. the sisters also opened hos - of the venue and the meal. They are the last Sisters pitals in Hays and Colby. of St. Agnes in the Diocese SEVERAL SUPPORTERS of Salina. Their community FROM THE TIME the first have come together to offer was the first to begin serv - Kansas woman joined the a $60,000 match for indi - ing here, eight years before Sister Rose community in 1884 until vidual donations given from the diocese was founded. Walters the last one professed vows now through the event itself “We followed the Capu - in the 1980s, 166 women and for any new corporate chins, to New York, Penn - from Kansas became Sis - sponsorships. sylvania and Ellis County,” ters of St. Agnes. “This is really tremen - said Sister Rose. “Our his - Sister Alice Ann Pfeifer, dous, and we want to thank tory is phenomenal.” an Ellis County native now them big time for helping living at the Agnesian us,” said Eric Frank, devel - THE COMMUNITY WAS Motherhouse in Fond du opment director for founded in 1858 in Wis - Lac, Wis., compiled that Catholic Charities. “Every - consin, but it nearly didn’t figure after researching the one can supercharge their survive. The arrival of 16- Sister Donna community’s Kansas con - donation this year and turn year-old Mary Hazotte in Marie nection for the sisters’ $5 into $10 and $50 into 1863 gave the order new Kleinsorge 150th anniversary in 2008. $100. It’s an exciting oppor - life and leadership; she “I put together a timeline tunity to make your gift go was elected general superi - in 2004, and then, one- twice as far and help our or just a year later. sixth of the sisters were liv - neighbors in need.” As Mother Mary Agnes, ing in Kansas,” she said. Last year’s fundraiser she asked Capuchin Father “There were 800 sisters netted a record $204,205. Francis Haas to become when I entered” in 1955, “Each year it’s raised spiritual director of the Sister Frances Rose Dinkel (left), Sister said Sister Rose, originally more money. It’s done very community in 1870. Eight Matilda Meis, Sister Mary Alice Walters and from Catharine, northeast well,” Martin said of the Sister Mary Ann Schippers were the only years later, when German- &&&& of Hays. event. speaking immigrants from Mother Mary Sisters of St. Agnes still teaching at St. ! Russia began arriving in the Agnes Hazotte Joseph Grade School in Hays in 1987. Please see SISTERS / Page 2 Please see CHARITIES / Page 2 &&&& &&&&&&& & && ! & ! ' '''' !!!!!!! Court’s ruling Man up Despite the recent Past participants urge men Supreme Court ruling, we The Seminarians to attend the upcoming can’t sit by and allow our of the Diocese of Salina Catholic Men’s Conference, religious freedom to be First of Three Parts “Shepherd Me O God.” ! eroded away, writes Bishop Edward Weisenburger. Page !2 ! Pages 15 and 16 ! Page 3 ! ! ! ' ' ! ! !! ' ' ' . ! ! ! ! !!!! ' ' ' ' ! ! ! ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 2 July 11, 2014 The Register, Catholic Diocese of Salina, salinadiocese.org Past participants urge attendance at Catholic Men’s Conference By The Register ministry in Australia, Ire - before leaving to form New seminar. I still remember land, Canada and Texas. He Evangelization Ministries with great pride the times RUSSELL — Participants now speaks to about (newevangelization my father brought me to at previous men’s confer - 100,000 people every year ministries.org ), based in these types of educational ences hosted by the Diocese and has been a guest on nu - Steubenville, Ohio. He opportunities. It told me so of Salina speak of the im - merous television programs. works to equip parish pas - much about him and his portance of fathers and sons Fradd is founder of the toral teams with the vision faith as an example for me.” learning more about their Porn Effect ( www.theporn and tools they need to help The conference begins faith. Matt Fradd Deacon Ralph effect.com ), a site dedicated parishioners experience an with registration at 7:30 The third annual Catholic Poyo to exposing the reality be - active relationship with a.m. Bishop Edward Men’s Conference, “Shep - hind the fantasy of porn and Christ and speaks across the Weisenburger will open it herd Me O God,” is Satur - “This conference is a offering help to those who country. with prayer and a welcome day, Aug. 9 at St. Mary, good way of gaining more seek sexual freedom. He al - Father Gale Hammer - at 8:30 a.m. He will cele - Queen of Angels Parish in knowledge, while increasing so works for Covenant Eyes, schmidt, parochial vicar at brate Mass at 11:30 a.m. Russell. Registration is now our faith, values and moral - an apostolate dedicated to Sacred Heart Cathedral, will Lunch is provided in the being accepted online at ity as Christian men in our helping to protect families emcee the conference. parish hall, and participants salinadiocese.org/family society,” he added. from the dangers of Inter - will be dismissed at 4 p.m. -life , or registration forms net pornography. ATTENDING THE MEN ’S The cost is $35 for adult are available at each parish. THIS YEAR ’S SPEAKERS Deacon Poyo will speak conference provides “the men and $15 for college and “As a father and coach, I are Matt Fradd and Deacon on “Waging the War of Ho - chance to examine our - high school students. Fa - understand the importance Ralph Poyo. liness to Men: Predators to selves as men in the home, thers bringing their sons of helping parents instill Fradd will speak on “The Protectors” and “Authentic Church and community,” will receive a $5 discount on character within their sons Man Talk” and “Porn: Seven Disciples of Jesus Christ.” said Tom Murphy, a parish - their registration fee. while teaching them the Myths Exposed.” Deacon Poyo served in the ioner at St. Joseph in Dor - For more information, Catholic faith,” said Pat Mar - Fradd served as a mis - Archdiocese of Miami and rance. “This is a great time call (785) 827-8746 or tin, a parishioner at Sacred sionary in Canada and Ire - the Diocese of Raleigh, N.C., to bring your sons or other email familylife@salina Heart Cathedral in Salina. land and in full-time lay primarily in youth ministry, relation to a meaningful diocese.org . Sisters leave 135-year legacy of serving diocese From page 1 teresting for her to work in more frequently when she munal living. The few sis - promoting vocations to reli - was growing up. ters remaining in Kansas of - But as in many religious gious life because she finds “I think family life was ten lived alone. communities, membership the decline in the numbers of different too. We were more That makes the move to began dwindling in the women religious so puzzling. church-centered, but maybe Wisconsin exciting, Sister 1960s. According to the Re - “It’s a mystery to me, and smaller communities have Rose said, because the com - tirement Fund for Reli - it’s difficult to understand, that. I wasn’t pressured, I munity has a large residen - gious, the Sisters of St. but I feel there’s hope,” she wasn’t forced, but I was en - tial area where she will Agnes had 241 members at said. “We have a vocation couraged” to consider be - share an apartment with the end of 2012. problem in religious life to - coming a sister, she added. four or five sisters. Sister Rose, who retired day. We’re trying to figure it “The schools were staffed While it is bittersweet that two years ago as the parish out — how we can encour - by sisters, the hospitals had her move brings an end to the life coordinator at St.