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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 &&& & &&&&&& & & &&

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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. Eliza - age women to join a reli - sisters. We were more visible. Sisters of St. Agnes in Kansas, beth Ann Seton Parish in gious community.” Now we’re in different areas, Sister Rose looks back fondly Salina, will team with Sister and we really don’t have that on her life as an Agnesian. Edie Crews, originally from AS A YOUNG GIRL IN visibility. We have some still “I love my vocation,” she Hays, in the office of vocation Catharine, she said women teaching and in nursing, but said. “I was called to all dif - promotion in Fond du Lac. religious were a visible part not the numbers that we used ferent kinds of ministries in Sister Donna, a 60-year of the community. to have,” she said. and outside of the Church.” jubilarian, will be retiring to “We had a number of vo - She taught in Indiana, the community’s Mother - cations from Catharine. IN THE SALINA DIOCESE , Ohio and Wisconsin, then house. Many joined the Sisters of sisters served in parishes, worked in parish ministry “It will be a different fo - St. Agnes, and there were schools and hospitals in in Michigan and Kansas. All cus,” Sister Rose said of many men who became Victoria, Hays, Munjor, along, she was part of a working in vocations. “The priests for the Capuchins.” Catharine, Walker, Ellis, community working for the last two years I have been One of her sisters also Colby, Salina and Grinnell. betterment of others. volunteering in Salina, so it joined the community; Sis - Their longest service was “That’s the thing: It’s will be nice to serve the ter Ann Walters, a librarian, 132 years in Hays, from faith-building. The commu - community in a different teacher and counselor, is 1881 until December, and a nity … everything is cen - St. Joseph Parish in Hays way. I’m looking forward to now retired in Fond du Lac. 110-year span in Victoria. tered around that,” she said. erected a sculpture of St. Agnes it. I like new adventures.” Sister Rose said religious With the decline in num - “I’m leaving here with good in 2007 to honor the sisters. It will be particularly in - vocations were encouraged bers came a decline in com - memories.” Charities fundraiser is July 20 From page 1 event are important because Bishop Edward Weisenburger. they cover a significant part • Mexican fiesta for eight It will be Martin’s first of Catholic Charities’ annual in a new two-story condo - Catholic Charities fundraiser, expenses, Martin said. minium in the historic both as executive director and “We have two big events: Marymount building with a parishioner in the diocese. this and our annual collec - hosts Phil Hemmer and She took over as head of the tion in August, and we do re - Tom and Katie Platten. agency last December, but as ceive some grants to supple - • A framed original paint - the mother of active 4-H’ers, ment those,” she said. “The ing of the University of Kan - county fair events always had annual fundraiser supports sas Jayhawk by Vicki Wilson. prevented her from attending all three of our offices and • Catered meal from Tuc - the fundraiser in the past. staff in our 31-county area.” son’s Steakhouse Saloon AssistedAssisted aandnd IIndependentndependent LLivingiving CCareare “I never could come, so Those attending the and Grill for 20 people. I’m excited to be able to at - fundraiser can support • Catered meal from When you or a loveedd one are ready to make the tend,” she said “It sounds Catholic Charities by donat - Jim’s Chicken for 50 people. move to a life without day-to-day maintenance like a great event.” ing directly to the cause or To attend the fundraiser, or worry, choose Viaia Christi Villages. Martin will be speaking buying items at the auction. contact Jeanie Warner at about the agency’s work (785) 825-0208 or jwarner For more information, ccallall oorr sstoptop bbyy ttoday.oday. during the fundraiser. AMONG THE AUCTION @ccnks.org. 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The Register, Catholic Diocese of Salina, salinadiocese.org July 11, 2014 3 Hobby Lobby, the Supreme Court and how to cook a frog RECENTLY ONE OF OUR better- “Religious freedom is not simply fight they never desired. They stood read priests recommended a novel freedom of thought or private up and said “no,” that they would that he enjoyed, “All the Light We Bishop Edward worship. It is the freedom to live not have their conscience or their Cannot See,” by Anthony Doerr. The Weisenburger according to ethical principles, religious practice compromised by novel is about various characters both privately and publicly, conse - the federal government. And at and what they go through in occu - Bishop of Salina quent to the truth one has found.” least for now, despite the furor of pied France during World War II. One of the most painful and many, they are free to run their In the midst of the novel, a turn false conclusions of the Supreme business (where they pay notably of phrase caught my eye and cap - er to address you on the topic of Court decision is articulated as higher salaries than most employers tured my imagination. An ordi - Hobby Lobby’s recent Supreme follows: People can now instantly and provide excellent benefits to nary, elderly French woman con - Court victory, I initially thought invoke “religious practice” in or - their employees) without having to cludes that she must do her part my words would be entirely en - der to avoid paying taxes, provid - leave their faith at the door. for the sake of her community and couraging. Of course, there is ing employee healthcare or bene - her country, and so she decides to much in the Supreme Court’s deci - fits, or following any law they IRONICALLY , OUR CULTURE ac - join the French underground resis - sion that is indeed encouraging. don’t like. All they have to do is tually applauds those business tance. She urges her dearest friend The justices have concluded that say “it’s against my religious be - persons who influence the world to join her, but he is very hesitant religious employers, in certain and liefs.” But a careful reading of the around them according to their to risk being caught and punished, rather narrow circumstances, are Supreme Court’s decision reveals beliefs but only as long as those possibly killed. He would rather not required to violate their reli - that such an opinion is absolutely beliefs are not religious. For in - remain silent and endure the gious beliefs and pay for the untrue and unfounded. stance, many businesses create a degradations of the Nazis. lifestyle choices of their employ - loyal clientele when they purchase At that point our elderly hero - ees. This was a wonderful victory WHILE I PRESUME NO GREAT or sell only fair-trade products, ine looks at her friend with great for the free exercise of religion. expertise in legal matters, it is my use their corporate dollars to de - frustration and reminds him that However, I am greatly sobered by understanding that when federal crease pollution or aid the envi - if you drop a frog in boiling water, the fact that four of the nine justices law and the free exercise of reli - ronment, or distribute a portion of it will hop out, but if you drop a concluded that employers could be gion are in conflict, federal law is their revenue to charities. But if a frog in a pan of cold water and forced to violate their conscience the victor only when the issue is business owner invokes values then set it on a fire, the frog will and their religious teachings. My critical and the issue cannot be based upon religion, it seems that slowly cook. joy is further moderated by the in - handled in any way other than the he or she is quickly suspect. The image is clear. Sometimes credibly hostile manner in which law. When this litmus test is ap - From that perspective I wonder we are all too willing to tolerate the issues have been misrepresent - plied to the U.S. Department of if perhaps this is less a “Catholic” small amounts of the very thing ed in much of the media, as well as Health and Human Services man - issue and more an “American” is - that will ultimately kill us. Do we the resulting backlash of hostility date, it becomes undeniably clear sue. As faithful Americans we not see this phenomenon repeated toward the free exercise of religion that the government can indeed need to be reminded that life’s all around us? Consider the epi - on the part of high-profile politi - provide artificial birth-control and greatest meaning is found in the demic of illegal drugs in Western cians and other public persons. even abortion-inducing drugs in a aspirations of those who freely culture. Did not most of those multitude of ways to the American choose to seek God and then freely whose lives were destroyed not IT SEEMS CLEAR THAT THERE are public without forcing employers choose to live by the values and start out tolerating well, in small many who are determined to re - to pay for it or provide it for their tenets of their faith and con - amounts, the very thing that even - strict the free exercise of religion employees. Indeed, quietly whis - science. Without that freedom I’m tually killed them? in the daily lives of believers, leav - pered in the midst of all the media not at all certain we can accurately ing us only with freedom to wor - attention is the little voice that ac - call ourselves American. Indeed, if DO WE NOT SEE THIS EQUALLY ship quietly — if not hidden — in curately states that very, very few we quietly sit by and allow our re - in the life of sin and grace? The our churches, synagogues and holy women in our nation will experi - ligious freedoms to be eroded small, perhaps venial sins that we places. Such, in my opinion, is not ence any substantial change at all away until they become a carica - give ourselves over to so easily can America! At the very least, this is in their easy and inexpensive ac - ture of living faith, are we not a actually cascade until they control not what our nation’s founding fa - cess to artificial birth-control be - little like frogs in a pot of water, us. And do we not see this as well thers and mothers envisioned or cause of the court’s decision. growing warmer by the day? in the weakening of our nation’s risked their lives to achieve. What is of great substance, how - values and ethics? Perhaps Pope Francis said it ever, is that a few people were will - The story about the Supreme Court When I sat down to my comput - best when, on June 20, he stated, ing to stand up and enter into a ruling is on page 5. Help support Catholic Charities’ annual fundraiser July 20 th e Reg ister Official newspaper of the Catholic Diocese of Salina Dear Friends, edge. Catholic Charities ex - 15. You also have the option Vol. 77, No. 13 tends hands of hope to to donate online at www. Publisher: Most Rev. Edward J. 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In these challenging fundraiser is Tuesday, July Bishop of Salina economic times, more peo - ple teeter on the edge of Name poverty. Unexpected CORRECTION events in life like a car re - Address pair, a sick child or a job Two details were incor - Lay Missioners. Dave Dreil - City State ZIP loss can have devastating rect in a June 27 story ing joined the board in impacts on these families about Sam Stanton, execu - 2007. Stanton is pictured at Parish (if in the Salina Diocese) and send them over that tive director of Maryknoll an orphanage in Haiti. 4 July 11, 2014 The Register, Catholic Diocese of Salina, salinadiocese.org John Paul and Francis at Yad Vashem AS THAT FAMILIAR PARODY was wisdom, humaneness press obsessed with Mideast god? Not only did you torture of bad fiction has it, “it was George and integrity personified. politics, Francis dared to take and kill your brothers and a dark and stormy night” — Nothing was missing. Noth - on the voice of God in the sisters, but you sacrificed March 21, 2000, to be pre - Weigel ing more needed to be said.” third chapter of Genesis, ask - them to yourself, because you cise — when I made my way Ethics and Public John Paul’s visit to Yad ing, “Adam, where are you? made yourself a god.” from the Jerusalem Hilton Policy Center Vashem had a singular im - Where are you, O man? What Pope Francis’s profound to the Notre Dame Center to pact for any number of rea - have you come to? ... Adam, sense of the mystery of evil meet a senior Vatican offi - sons: the fact that he was the who are you? I no longer rec - continues to elude those who cial who had promised me a soul feel an extreme need for first bishop of Rome to visit ognize you. Who are you, O imagine him a papal powder diskette with the addresses silence. Silence in which to the Holocaust Memorial; the man? What have you be - puff. Yet the Holy Father’s Pope John Paul II would remember. Silence in which fact that he had lost friends come? Of what horror have constant preaching of the di - deliver during his epic visit to try to make sense of the in the Shoah; the fact that so you been capable? What vine mercy is linked to his to the Holy Land. memories which come flood - many of the deaths took made you fall to such depths? persistent reminders that the The diskette was duly ing back. Silence because place in his native Poland; “Certainly it is not the dust Evil One is at work in the handed over, and back in my there are no words strong the unique moral authority of the earth from which you world and that his effects are hotel room I browsed through enough to deplore the terri - he had earned by his own were made. The dust of the all around us. Only when we the upcoming speeches, pay - ble tragedy of the Shoah…” witness to religious freedom earth is something good, the recognize that can we say, as ing particular attention to Later, I got a phone call and other fundamental hu - work of my hands. Certainly Francis did at Yad Vashem, what the Polish pope would from an Israeli friend, a dis - man rights, for which he, it is not the breath of life “Remember us in your mer - say when he came to the tinguished soldier-scholar too, had suffered grievously. [that] I breathed into you. cy. Grant us the grace to be Holocaust Memorial at Yad who knew the world of pow - That breath comes from me, ashamed of what we men Vashem — a meeting about er well and who had worked WHILE JOHN PAUL ’S Yad and it is something good. have done, to be ashamed of which there had been consid - to find a realistic path to Vashem pilgrimage was “No, this abyss is not this massive idolatry, of hav - erable controversy. peace in situations where unique, Pope Francis’s visit in merely the work of your own ing despised and destroyed The text, which could only too many people were only late May to the eternal flame hands, your own heart… Who our own flesh … to which have come from John Paul’s interested in more murder. in that same Hall of Remem - corrupted you? Who disfig - you gave life with your own own pen, ended in four per - “I just had to tell you,” he brance was not without its ured you? Who led you to be - breath of life.” fectly-crafted sentences: said, “that my wife and I own extraordinary resonance. lieve that you are the master George Weigel is Distinguished Senior “In this place of memo - cried throughout the pope’s For in a remarkable address, of good and evil? Who con - Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy ries, the mind and heart and visit to Yad Vashem. This too little reported in a world vinced you that you were Center in Washington My kind of God, the Father THE BEST T- SHIRT I ever we were rich because I gregation at St. Andrew taught me the basics. gave anyone is one that says Patricia lacked for nothing and was Church during Mass by try - My personal brand of “Catholics know how to have therefore intrinsically happy. ing to be entertaining. Catholic faith isn’t about try - fun.” I sent it to Melanie Lorenz I only remember one time The thing is, I never mis - ing to figure out, find, agree when she was officially Author that I was spanked by my fa - behaved in church ever again. with or listen to God but brought back into the Church and humorist ther. I think this incident Even then, I knew the reason rather figuring out, finding, after her 35-year hiatus. happened when I was in first I didn’t act out anymore was respecting, loving, listening I like the fact that as grade, certainly old enough not so much about hurting to, enjoying and growing Catholics we aren’t pushy, and will probably make more. to know better. Dad warned God’s feelings but more about with all the people who are in-your-face kind of people, But I’ve made plenty of mis - me to turn around and stop not disappointing my dad. here in the flesh. Real peo - and we certainly do know takes in my past, and I still entertaining the folks behind Too many people nowa - ple. Real energy. Real solu - how to have fun. like who I am. Besides, the us during Mass. He warned days create a gold throne out tions. I think that’s about as I like to think that living Church itself is not the end- me again. Then when I stood of the whole God idea, then God-like as you can get. my life in a kind, gentle, fol - all, be-all. The Church is men up on the pew and actually spend their lives worshipping I like being Catholic. We lowing-the-rules way is a bet - and women who are not per - started waving to the throngs that golden throne. They live are, after all, the first church ter example of showing my fect. But our Catholic faith is behind me, he pulled me their lives as if God is stand - established by Jesus Christ faith than if I pounded on my perfect. It’s good, whole and down and said I was going to ing right next to them in the himself. All the Protestant neighbors’ doors every Satur - theologically sound and run get it when we got home. flesh with all the answers. churches came hundreds and day morning begging to let by God, not man. Well, he does have all the some thousands of years later. me tell them why they should Because I was blessed AND HE MEANT IT . When answers. But we can’t actual - But we were there first with abandon their own faith life with a happy childhood and we got home, he quietly told ly see or hear God. We can Jesus and the Apostles as the and let me convince them to terrific, loving, interesting, me to go into the den, fol - think that we can hear God heads of our church. It still become Catholic. I’d slam the hard-working parents, great lowed me in, told me to bend talking to us, but God isn’t stands. It isn’t perfect, but door on me, too. friends and a fabulous home over, took off his belt and standing right next to us. For then neither is any other reli - As a lifelong Catholic, I that my dad built, I’ve been swatted me a couple times. me, God is very real, but the gion. But that’s because im - have to admit that I haven’t able to take the source of all It hurt, but not that much, channels by which he in - perfect people run them. Isn’t really had that much angst or that goodness for granted. and I sure wouldn’t call it spires me are the people he it nice then, that we’re headed deep introspective thoughts As a postal worker with a child abuse. I was, after all, has seen fit to put in my life. by a truly perfect God? about my faith. It’s just there. 50-mile rural route, my fa - old enough to know better For me, God has always been Patricia Lorenz of Largo, Fla., will be the I believe it. All of it: hook, ther earned around $6,000 than to disrespect Jesus and there in the form of real peo - keynote speaker at the Salina Diocesan Council of Catholic Women’s convention line, sinker. I know that the in the 1950s when I was in Mary and all the saints and ple like my Dad who loved Aug. 23 at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish Church has made mistakes grade school. But I thought the pope and the entire con - me unconditionally and in Salina. www.patricialorenz.com Comments can be painful for those dealing with infertility I’ VE PREVIOUSLY dis - range from hormonal imbal - adopted, then we would get The truth doesn’t have an ex - cussed rude or thoughtless Lori ances to uterine tumors. pregnant, I would be a very piration date, nor does it comments that parents of rich woman. wither under suffering. I large families might hear. Harlan “W HY DON ’T YOU JUST “Just try in vitro fertiliza - know what it means to long Another unfortunately com - Register adopt?” Adoption is an tion. The Catholic Church’s for a child. I know what it mon occurrence is when cou - columnist amazing, wonderful and rules are outdated. Those means to feel like the entire ples who do not have chil - laudable way to build a fami - celibate priests don’t know world is pregnant except for dren or have few children ly. I wouldn’t have any sib - what it means to be infertile.” you. That heartache is not hear cruel comments about “If you just relax and stop lings if it wasn’t for the First of all, IVF is contrary to enough to disregard the wis - their family size. This is espe - trying, you will get pregnant.” blessing of adoption — my the teachings of the Church dom and truth of what the cially excruciating when There is positively no truth to brother and sister are adopt - because it separates the cre - Church teaches. these couples have no or few this. While controlling stress ed. But adoption isn’t a cure- ation of a child from a cou - Many or most people who children despite praying and levels is good for overall all for infertility. Some infer - ple’s sexual union. It turns say these things do not mean hoping for a large family. health, many people with in - tile couples don’t qualify; it children into commodities in - to cause pain. But these My husband and I have fertility have conditions that can cost absurd amounts of stead of the natural gift of comments, especially after one beautiful daughter, de - cannot be cured by simply money (although some marriage that they are in - hearing them for years and spite many years of praying not thinking about it. Would forms of adoption don’t); tended to be. Second, the ef - years, can be agonizing. We for more children. We are a person dream of saying, and some couples may not fectiveness rate of IVF is less can all use a greater dose of thankful for her life and the “Just don’t think about it,” to feel called to build their fam - than 40 percent. Catholic charity in our words with joys that she brings, but it is someone with cancer? With a ilies in that way. And there is Church-approved methods, others. Perhaps John Wat - still difficult to hear rude broken arm? With diabetes? absolutely no correlation be - such as NaProTechnology, son summed it up best: “Be comments from people who The same is true of infertility. tween adopting and being are 80 percent successful at kind, for everyone you meet do not know our situation. Infertility is not a mental con - able to become pregnant. If I overcoming infertility. Third, is fighting a hard battle.” Here are a few examples dition’ it is a medical one. had a nickel for every time there is nothing outdated Lori Harlan is a Creighton Model and why they hurt: The cause of infertility can someone said if we just about the Church’s teachings. FertilityCare practitioner in Manhattan. The Register, Catholic Diocese of Salina, salinadiocese.org July 11, 2014 5 U.S. bishops laud court’s Hobby Lobby ruling By Carol Zimmermann RFRA when applied to our for Religious Liberty, the re - Catholic News Service charities, hospitals and ligious liberty law firm that schools, so many of which represented Hobby Lobby WASHINGTON — The have challenged it as a bur - before the Supreme Court, Supreme Court’s June 30 den on their religious exer - told reporters after the rul - ruling that certain business - cise. We continue to hope ing that he thinks the es, based on their religious that these great ministries of court’s decision bodes well objections, can be exempted service, like the Little Sisters for similar pending cases of from a government require - of the Poor and so many oth - nonprofit organizations. ment to include contracep - ers, will prevail in their cases He noted that the opinion tives in their employee as well,” the statement said. written by Justice Samuel health insurance coverage Alito includes a footnote means “justice has pre - GREGORY ERLANDSON , reference to the Little Sis - vailed,” said two U.S. arch - president of Our Sunday Vis - ters of the Poor’s lawsuit, bishops. itor Publishing in Hunting - which he said indicates that “We welcome the ton, Ind., also welcomed the the “government accommo - Supreme Court’s decision to ruling, adding: “Our hope is dation is not here for long.” Jonathan Ernst / CNS recognize that Americans Pro-life demonstrators celebrate June 30 outside the U.S. that this decision bodes well The Little Sisters of the can continue to follow their Supreme Court in Washington as its decision in the Hobby Lobby for those nonprofit religious Poor religious order has faith when they run a family case is announced. The high court ruled that owners of closely organizations, including Our asked the 10th U.S. Circuit business,” said Archbishop held corporations can object on religious grounds to being forced Sunday Visitor, which are Court of Appeals to extend Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, by the government to provide coverage of contraceptives for seeking relief from the oner - an injunction blocking en - Ky., president of the U.S. their employees. ous requirements of the forcement of the federal Conference of Catholic HHS regulations.” contraceptive mandate. Bishops, and Archbishop can cause abortions. nonprofit organizations such In 2012, Our Sunday Vis - The Supreme Court’s de - William Lori of Baltimore, Activists on both sides of as Catholic charities, hospi - itor, one of the largest cision points out how the chairman of the U.S. bish - the issue gathered outside tals and schools to provide Catholic publishing houses government has “effectively ops’ Ad Hoc Committee for the U.S. Supreme Court on contraceptive coverage. in the country, joined law - exempted” some religious Religious Liberty. a hot Washington morning The USCCB statement of suits to block the mandate. nonprofit groups from the awaiting the decision, and Archbishops Kurtz and Lori The court’s ruling noted contraceptive mandate and THE COURT IN ITS 5-4 rul - when it was announced, noted that the court left the that if Hobby Lobby had lost that to qualify for the ac - ing said that Hobby Lobby supporters hailed it as a re - door open about the cases its case, the company would commodation, such an em - and Conestoga Woods are ligious liberty issue and op - currently winding their way have been subjected to fines ployer must self-certify as protected from the require - ponents called it a setback through the courts object - of up to $475 million, or nonprofit religious group ment of the Affordable Care to women’s health care. ing to the government’s ac - $36,500 per year per affect - with religious objections to Act under the Religious Free - Although Catholic leaders commodation that they di - ed employee. If the company contraceptive coverage. The dom Restoration Act. The and other religious groups rect a third party to provide had dropped all employee self-certification form trig - two family-run companies hailed the decision as a vic - the required contraceptive health care coverage, it gers the insurance company objected to the government tory for religious freedom, coverage. would have been fined $26 that administers their mandate that employees be they also said the issue is “The court clearly did not million a year. health plan to provide the covered for a range of contra - not resolved since the gov - decide whether the so-called Mark Rienzi, senior objectionable coverage to ceptives, including drugs that ernment mandate requires ‘accommodation’ violates counsel for the Becket Fund their employees. Court moves six cases after latest ruling By Catholic News Service ily, who own Grote Indus - A federal appeals court al - tries, an Indiana company so issued a temporary in - WASHINGTON — A day af - that makes vehicle safety junction protecting the Eter - ter the Supreme Court said systems. nal Word Television Net - closely held for-profit com - The three cases that were work from having to comply panies could be exempted remanded for further con - with the Affordable Care from some requirements of sideration by appeals courts Act’s contraceptive mandate. the Affordable Care Act be - in light of the Hobby Lobby EWTN had appealed a 425 Poyntz Avenue (785) 776-7821 cause of the owners’ reli - ruling included: federal judge’s order dismiss - Manhattan, Kansas gious beliefs, it kicked back • Autocam Corp. v. Bur - ing its lawsuit challenging to lower courts six related well, a Michigan auto and the government’s require - cases involving companies medical supply manufactur - ment that most employers whose Catholic owners have ing company owned by the cover contraceptives in em - similar objections. Kennedy family. ployee health care plans. In three of the cases, the • Gilardi v. Department On June 30, a three- court simply declined to re - of Health and Human Ser - judge panel of the 11th U.S. view them, meaning the rul - vices, a separate case by the Circuit Court of Appeals in ings by lower courts prevail. same Ohio family. Atlanta issued an order bar - In the other three, the cases • Eden Foods v. Burwell, ring enforcement of the were sent back to the ap - a Michigan organic food mandate pending the out - peals courts with instruc - company owned by Michael come of the television net - Find Your Home at tions to reconsider them in Potter. work’s appeal. light of Burwell v. Hobby MarymountProperties.com Lobby. Call 785-201-9199 for a Tour The three cases that were St. John the Baptist Catholic Church of Beloit simply denied had all been decided in favor of the Catholic employers. The repetition of the name Bur - Ha rvest well in the cases comes be - Donnie D. Marrs, AIA cause they all involve law - suits against the U.S. De - www.dmapa.com partment of Health and Hu - Festival 785-823-6002 man Services, headed by Secretary Sylvia Mathews Saturday, July 26 — 6 p.m. to midnight Burwell. Mass at 5 p.m. The cases included the Gilardi brothers, Catholics Food • Kids’ Rides • Games for the Whole Family who own food service com - Bingo • General Store with Fresh Produce and Baked Goods panies in Ohio; the New - land family, owners of Her - Grand Prize Drawings at 10:30 p.m. Proudly Serving the Salina Diocese Over 30 Years cules Industries, a Col - orado-based heating and $5 donation. 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So much piscence,” the pope said. of the darkness which took place in the Domus time hidden, camouflaged He begged for forgiveness touched you may be healed.” VATICAN CITY — Asking Sanctae Marthae — the with a complicity that can - “for the sins of omission on In an effort to help the for forgiveness, Pope Francis pope’s residence and a Vati - not be explained.” the part of the Church lead - abuse survivors heal, the told abuse survivors that “de - can guesthouse where the He called sex abuse a ers who did not respond ad - pope met individually with spicable actions” caused by survivors also stayed. “crime and grave sin,” that equately to reports of each one, accompanied by a clergy have been hidden for was made even worse when abuse,” adding that the ne - loved one or family member too long and had been “cam - INALENGTHY HOMILY in carried out by clergy. glect not only caused the and a translator, said Jesuit ouflaged with a complicity Spanish on July 7, the pope “This is what causes me victims more suffering, “it Father Federico Lombardi, that cannot be explained.” thanked the three men and distress and pain at the fact endangered other minors the Vatican spokesman. “There is no place in the three women — two each that some priests and bish - who were at risk.” The pope spent a total of Church’s ministry for those from Ireland, the United ops, by sexually abusing mi - three hours and twenty who commit these abuses, Kingdom and Germany — nors” violated the innocence THE POPE ASKED GOD minutes in closed-door talks and I commit myself not to for coming to the Vatican to of children and their own “for the grace to weep, the with each person, Father tolerate harm done to a mi - meet with him. vocation to God, he said. grace for the Church to weep Lombardi said. nor by any individual, The pope praised their “It is something more and make reparations for The Jesuit priest said the whether a cleric or not,” and courage for speaking out than despicable actions. It her sons and daughters who men and women were visi - to hold all bishops account - about their abuse, saying that is like a sacrilegious cult, betrayed their mission, who bly moved by the Mass and able for protecting young telling the truth “was a service because these boys and girls abused innocent persons” meetings and had “felt lis - people, the pope said during of love, since for us it shed had been entrusted to the and left life-long scars. tened to,” and that the en - a special early morning light on a terrible darkness in priestly charism in order to He told the men and counter was “something Mass for six survivors of the life of the Church.” be brought to God. And women sitting in the pews positive on their journey” of abuse by clergy. The Mass The pope said the scandal those people sacrificed that God loved them and he healing. BRIEFLY

Hundreds gather for Catholic Charities USA Vatican laicizes archbishop has been “dis - suit Father Federico Lom - Fortnight closing Mass head to step down former nuncio missed from the clerical bardi, Vatican spokesman. state,” the Vatican said, “all The Vatican removed the WASHINGTON — A deep ALEXANDRIA , V A. — Fa - VATICAN CITY — A Vati - measures appropriate to the archbishop from his posi - appreciation for religious ther Larry Snyder, the pres - can investigation has led to gravity of the case” would tion as apostolic nuncio to liberty brought Anh Thu Vu ident of Catholic Charities the expulsion of a former be taken while he is await - the Dominican Republic in of the Binh Thuan province USA since 2005, will leave Vatican ambassador from ing his criminal trial. August 2013 after he was of Vietnam to the Basilica of the post in February for a the priesthood in response The specifics of those accused of paying for sex the National Shrine of the position at the University of to allegations of sexually measures were to be decid - with boys in the Caribbean Immaculate Conception for St. Thomas in Minnesota. abusing minors. ed by the former nuncio’s country. the Fortnight for Freedom In a letter from Father Polish Archbishop Jozef superiors within the Vatican closing Mass on July 4. Snyder posted on the orga - Wesolowski, the former Secretariat of State, said Je - Catholic News Service In her small town, “they nization’s website July 1, he nuncio to the Dominican would teach us that there is said it was with mixed feel - Republic, was sentenced Largest no God, and they would ings that he was announc - with laicization after a Selection of Catholic Gifts & Books make it hard for us to go to ing the transition, after 23 canonical process conduct - in the Midwest church because exams years working in the ed by the Vatican Congrega - RELIGIOUS GIFTS FOR ALL OCCASIONS: would be on Christmas Catholic Charities network. tion for the Doctrine for the Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation, RCIA & WWeddingedding Day,” she said. Starting Feb. 1, he will be Faith, the Vatican said. “So after experiencing vice president for mission at The 65-year-old arch - those things, I think religious the University of St. bishop has two months to liberty is important. I think it Thomas, located in his appeal the decision. should be a right inherent to home Archdiocese of St. The Vatican City criminal 66601601 TROOST AVE. • KANSAS CITY, MO 64131 all humans,” said the 23- Paul and Minneapolis. He court’s own trial of the M-F 8:30am-5pm, Sat 9am-3pm (816) 363-2828 year-old Vu. “I have been noted that he started his ca - archbishop will begin once here (in the U.S.) for almost reer in education as a the canonical process con - Visit our online catalog at: six years as an international teacher in Catholic high cludes, the statement said. wwwwww.idonnelly.com student, and I appreciate (re - schools and would be com - Given the fact that the ligious freedom).” ing full circle with a return Hundreds gathered at the to education in the universi - national shrine as the two ty setting. He was ordained weeks dedicated by the U.S. for the archdiocese in 1988. bishops to prayer, celebration Before entering the semi - and awareness of religious nary, he taught high school ))U0LWFK3DFZDU0LWFK3DFZD freedom drew to a close. there for eight years. LQ+D\V²6HSW Is God calling you to be ((DUO\%LUG7LFNHWVDUO\%LUG7LFNHWV a Catholic priest? $IWHUQRRQ6HVVLRQV Diocese of Salina, Office of Priestly Vocations %DQTXHW P.O. Box 980, Salina, KS 67402-0980 785-827-8746 [email protected] 6HVVLRQ %DQTXHW

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Totus Tuus in Norton Courtesy photo Youth from St. Mary Parish in Downs received their First St. Francis of Assisi Parish Communion on April 26. With Father Damian Richards (from in Norton hosted a Totus left) are Kaden Goheen, Bryce Beisner and Ian Kresin. Tuus summer catechism team the week of June 8. Sessions were offered for grade-school students and Totus Tuus in Oberlin teens. Courtesy photos

Group tours historic Ellis County churches

Courtesy photo Sacred Heart Parish in Oberlin hosted a Totus Tuus summer catechism team. First row (from left) are Michaela Wasson, Makadyn Ketterl, Sophia Davis and Brycen Ketterl; second row, Marah Davis, Jenna Juenemann and Josh Juenemann; and third row, team members Caroline Trausch, Alex Courtesy photo Becker, Sarah Zey and Christina Bixenman. Parishioners from the Diocese of Salina are pictured during a June 12 tour of historic Catholic Churches in Ellis County. Arrangements can be made for group tours of 10 or more for guided tours to the historic Catholic Churches of Ellis County by calling the Hays Convention and Visitors Bureau at (800) 569-4505. The tours are held in conjunction with the Ellis County Phillipsburg grotto blessed Historical Society.

Hays, Victoria parishes host Totus Tuus

Courtesy photo Carmelite Father George Chalbhagam blesses the new grotto in memory of Patt Felts in front of SS. Philip and James Church in Phillipsburg. Looking on are Tad Felts, Bruce Williams and Monte Abell.

St. Joseph, Hays, ministers

Courtesy photo Courtesy photo At weekend Masses on June 21 and 22, Father Fred St. Joseph Parish, Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish and St. Nicholas of Myra Parish, all of Gatschet recommissioned extraordinary ministers of holy Hays, and St. Fidelis Basilica Parish of Victoria hosted the Totus Tuus summer catechism Communion at St. Joseph Church in Hays. program the week of June 8. 8 July 11, 2014 The Register, Catholic Diocese of Salina, salinadiocese.org AROUND THE DIOCESE Minneapolis, Lincoln Totus Tuus at Lincoln Confirmation

Courtesy photo Youth from Immaculate Conception Parish in Minneapolis Courtesy photo and St. Patrick in Lincoln were confirmed June 8. First row Participants in the Totus Tuus summer catechism program at St. Patrick Parish in Lincoln (from left) are Andie Lott, Kiley Lott, Camryn Nace and Jade ended the week with water games. Price and, second row, Father Charles Awotwi, Thomas Rojas, Jake Fleming and Bishop Edward Weisenburger. Hays junior high awards Esbon parish Eighth-graders centennial Beardsley First Communion Anna Speno (left), Hope is Aug. 10 Aufdemberg ESBON — Sacred Heart and Tabitha Parish will mark the centen - Brandel were nial of its present church among junior on Sunday, Aug. 10, with a 4 high school p.m. Mass celebrated by students Bishop Edward Weisenburg - honored May er and concelebrating priests. 12 at Thomas The Mass will be followed More Prep- by a meal and program at Marian Junior- the Community Center, 214 Senior High N. High St., in Mankato. School in Hays. Reservations are request - Aufdemberge Courtesy photo ed by July 20 and may be received the emailed to ggflavin@yahoo. Bishop’s Award of Excellence, the highest award, based on com or mailed to Gayla excellence in Christian leadership, academics, personal Flavin, 2641 50 Road, Es - Courtesy photo conduct and concern for others. Speno received the bon, KS 66941. Youth from St. John Nepomucene Parish at Beardsley Principal’s Award for Scholarship for the highest two-year Sacred Heart Parish was received their First Communion on May 10. From left are grade average. Brandel received the Service Citation for the founded in 1877, although it Deacon Mark Vrbas, Katelyn Pinero, Gus Hanson, Abby student with the most service hours. Eighth-graders Tate initially was known as St. Micek and Father Nicholas Parker. Garcia and Savannah Yost received the Kansas State High Elizabeth. The first church School Activities Association Citizenship Award and Karl Rack was completed that year and Trae Megaffin received the American Legion Citizenship about two miles south of the Award. Seventh-graders receiving awards were Leann Rack, existing town of Esbon. A Christian Leadership Award, the highest seventh-grade award larger church was built at the Plainville students promoted based on excellence in Christian leadership, academics, site in 1893. A larger, third personal conduct and concern for others; Bryce Hickman, the church was built in Esbon Scholarship Award for the highest grade average; and and dedicated in 1914, and Sheldon Weber, the Service Award for the most service hours. the rectory was moved from the original site into town. Vacation Bible School at Beardsley

Courtesy photo Sacred Heart Grade School in Plainville promoted three students from the sixth grade class on May 16. From left are Melinda Ruder, Principal Carol Parker, Father Joshua Werth, Jared Casey and Heidi Jones. A reception followed the Mass.

Brookville First Communion Twin sisters Avery Richards (left) and Ally Richards received their First Communion on May 18 at St. Joseph Church in Brookville. Courtesy photo St. John Nepomucene Parish at Beardsley sponsored Vacation Bible School June 2-6 for Courtesy photo children from preschool to sixth grade. The Register, Catholic Diocese of Salina, salinadiocese.org July 11, 2014 9 AROUND THE DIOCESE Cathedral parish festival in Salina Sacred Heart Cathedral Parish in Salina hosted its annual Feast Day Festival on June 20. Parishioners Nellie Goetz (below left) and Charlotte Roets were among those who wore bright clothing for the Hawaiian luau theme. There was a meal, games, music and dances.

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Courtesy photos Discover Camp participants in lime green T-shirts fill Sacred Heart Chapel at the Nazareth Motherhouse in Concordia for Mass on June 20. At left is Father Damian Richards of Tipton, who was visiting to celebrate the 80th birthday of his aunt, Sister Janice Koelzer. Girls come to Motherhouse for annual Discover Camp Hays school elevator completed CONCORDIA — Nearly out on the Motherhouse three dozen junior high-age grounds provided by the local girls came to Nazareth Moth - Knights of Columbus Council. erhouse for the annual slum - Most of the counselors ber party and spiritual retreat previously had been known as Discover Camp. campers, and both of this With the help of 10 high year’s camp directors had school- and college-age previous Discover Camp ex - counselors, two camp direc - perience. Ciara Malone of tors, eight staff members Shawnee was in her second and countless other volun - year as a camp director, teers, the 35 girls spent while Justine Dlabal of Wil - three days with the Sisters son was a camper several of St. Joseph of Concordia. years ago. The campers spread their Campers’ families were sleeping bags throughout invited to a Mass in Sacred the open space on the fifth Heart Chapel at the Mother - floor of the historic Mother - house, followed by an ice house but shared meals and cream social. other activities with the sis - The sisters have hosted ters who live there. the Discover Camp for near - Activities included a cook - ly 20 years.

Courtesy photo A ribbon cutting and blessing of a new elevator at Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior-Senior High School in Hays took place June 11. Funds were raised through the 2013 Auction for Christian Education and from a $100,000 matching gift from the Leo J. and Albina Dreiling Charitable Trust. Nearly 250 people, organizations and businesses supported the project. Installation of the elevator will allow renovation of the top floor of the school to proceed. Cutting the ribbon are Raegan Billinger and Advancement Director Jeff Brull. Billinger broke her ankle in a soccer match earlier this spring and was among the first to use the elevator as a necessity.

Oakley Totus Tuus

Counselor Kasey DeDonder demonstrates the finesse needed for croquet during the camp. Manhattan group tour

St. Joseph Parish in Oakley hosted the Totus Tuus summer catechism program the week of June 8. Above is the group of first- through sixth- graders, and at right is the middle school Courtesy photo and high Members of the Third Age Group at St. Thomas More Parish school group. in Manhattan visited the Rocky Ford School House north of

Courtesy photos Manhattan, with historian Doug Tippen as their guide. 10 July 11, 2014 The Register, Catholic Diocese of Salina, salinadiocese.org AROUND THE DIOCESE Catholic Totus Tuus, Vacation Bible School at St. Mary, Salina St. Mary, Queen of Daughters the Universe Parish in Salina hosted scholarship the Totus Tuus summer catechism program for 130 youth and also a Vacation Bible School for 26 youth.

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God’sGod’s miraclesmiracles Courtesy photo Audrey Kinkelaar was delivereddelivered awarded a scholarship by the Catholic Daughters of the Americas Court in throughthrough you.you. Salina. The daughter of Eddie and Fran Kinkelaar, she is a member of St. Mary, Queen of the Universe Parish in Salina and will attend Hutchinson Community College.

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The Register, Catholic Diocese of Salina, salinadiocese.org July 11, 2014 11 WEDDINGS DEATHS Jonathan Baier and Elizabeth Zey were married June 6, 2014, Regina Magdalene Allison, Neb. Burial was in St. Boniface Heitmann and husband Darcy at St. Andrew Church in Abilene. Father Henry Baxa witnessed their 82, of Linn Creek, Mo., died Cemetery in Tipton. and Jane Graves and husband vows. Parents of the bridegroom are Dave and Lois (Hinson) June 16, 2014. Funeral Masss Survivors include his wife, Paul; and 11 grandchildren. Baier. Parents of the bride are David and Mary (Connell) Zey. was celebrated June 20 by Patty; brother Michael Morris Witnesses were Jeff Baier and Sarah Zey. Father Randall Weber at St. and wife Brenda; and sisters Gloria A. Willoughby, 84, of Anthony Church in Miltonvale. Brenda Putman and husband Concordia died May 29, 2014. Matt Lyon and Adrian Webb were married June 14, 2014, at St. Burial was in Miltonvale Allen and Elizabeth Casey. Funeral Mass was celebrated Aloysius Gonzaga Church in Osborne. Father Gale Hammerschmidt Cemetery. June 4 by Father Brian Lager at witnessed their vows. Parents of the bridegroom are Cody and Survivors include sons Steve Francis B. Roesner, 80, of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Paula Lyon. Parents of the bride are Bruce and Deb Webb. of Cortez, Colo., and Larry and Salina died June 16, 2014. Church in Concordia. Burial was Witnesses were Aaron Peterson and Jonna Byerly. wife Karen of Costa Mesa, Calif.; Funeral Mass was celebrated in Mount Calvary Cemetery in Aaron Tabares and Tamera Carroll were married June 28, 2014, at daughter Debra Richardson of June 21 by Father Frank Coady, Clyde. Seven Dolors Church in Manhattan. Father James Kinn, uncle of the Linn Creek; brother Gene with Father John Wolesky Survivors include sons Randy bride, witnessed their vows. Parents of the bridegroom are Edward and Teasley of Manhattan; sister concelebrating, at Sacred Heart and wife Linda of Minneapolis Ginger (Davis) Tabares. Parents of the bride are James and Diane Rosemary Luthi and husband Cathedral in Salina. Burial was and Troy of Concordia; (Kinn) Carroll. Witnesses were Ryan Henry and Haley Kohake. Elvin of Minneapolis; 10 in Mount Calvary Cemetery in daughters Kim Bieker and grandchildren; 24 great- Salina. husband Dale of Benton, Ark., Logan Zimmerman and Caroline Zimmerman were married grandchildren; and one great- June 21, 2014, at Seven Dolors Church in Manhattan. Father Survivors include his wife, and Vicki Hill and husband Kelly great-grandchild. Joseph Popelka witnessed their vows. Parents of the bridegroom Charlene; sons Joe and wife of Eagle River, Ark.; 13 She was preceded in death are Calvin and Vicki (Herpich) Zimmerman. Parents of the bride are Tracy, Chris and wife Carrie, grandchildren; and 10 great- by her husband, Paul, and son David and Maria (Struckhoff) Zimmerman. Witnesses were Chase Matt and wife Katy, Stephen and grandchildren. James. Brown and Amanda Griggs. wife Mary Ann and Timothy and She was preceded in death wife Kaori; daughters Anne by her husband, Archie. Marjorie Jean Bulleigh, 86, of Miltonvale died June 10, BAPTISMS 2014. Funeral Mass was Connor William Bridges, son of Jason and Alison Bridges, was celebrated June 14 by Father baptized June 21, 2014, by Deacon Walter Slingsby at SS. Peter Merlin Kieffer at St. Anthony and Paul Church in Clay Center. Godparent is Natalie Leiszler. C hurch in Miltonvale. Burial was CHRISTENING, 1ST COMMUNION, ETC. — SAMPLES AT ETC BOUTIQUE IN SALINA in Miltonvale Cemetery. 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Godparents are Wade ǁǁǁ͘ŝƐƚĞŶ >ŝǀĞ͟ 12 July 11, 2014 The Register, Catholic Diocese of Salina, salinadiocese.org 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT Work still to be done 50 years after historic action By Carol Zimmermann He always sensed the “law means to be Christian.” Catholic News Service enforcement was there to And today, he said the maintain segregation, and if “Church in many ways is WASHINGTON — Fifty you crossed the line, you’d still a leader” in these ef - years ago, when the Civil be in big trouble.” forts, but its involvement is Rights Act was signed into When he came to Wash - less direct. law July 2 by President Lyn - ington, it was very different The challenge, he said, is don Johnson, two because the city was “in that “racism is still a part of Louisiana-born men did not transition, on the move — the fabric of our environ - feel the earth move, but and like the rest of the ment — of the air we they knew it was the begin - country — in great change.” breathe. It’s still part of the ning of a time of change. After the Civil Rights Act DNA of most Americans.” Norman Francis, presi - passed, he remembers how He also said the issue dent for student affairs at different it was for him and can’t be addressed without Xavier Uni - the other African-American recognizing that “whites, by versity in seminarians to make the and large, deny racism ex - New Orleans drive from Washington to ists” and “black Americans, Yoichi Okamoto, LBJ Library / CNS at the time, The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. talks with President Lyndon the South where “you could by and large, see it every - described the Johnson, who signed the Civil Rights Act into law July 2, 1964. go to hotels and restau - where.” law’s passage rants” for the first time. He also noted that racism as part of a importance of education United States and now min - is so embedded in American “watershed and faith, he said, and it isters in African-American THE BISHOP NOTED that society that “no one group Norman year.” seems the Francis children communities. The bishop many Church leaders were is going to solve it. ... We Francis After living took this message to heart. said the order’s new semi - at the forefront in integrat - have to be in this together.” for more than “We never lost our faith; narians are primarily from ing schools and fighting And cooperation alone three decades under racial our faith brought us African countries. against racial discrimina - won’t be enough. segregation and “separate through all of it,” he said. Bishop tion before the civil rights As he put it: “It’s going to but equal” facilities, Francis His brother Joseph, a Ricard, who legislation passed because take a lot of courage, fore - said it was hard to imagine priest with the Society of grew up in they viewed segregation as thought, imagination to ad - that he had graduated from the Divine Word, became Baton Rouge, “incongruous to what it dress this well.” law school but still “couldn’t one of the nation’s first La., was a walk into the front door of a black Catholic bishops and seminarian in restaurant until 1964” when was active in the civil rights Washington the civil rights law prohibit - movement. when the Civ - ed racial segregation in Auxiliary Bishop Joseph il Rights Act Tractors Combines Farm Equipment Bishop schools, workplaces and Francis of Newark, N.J., passed during Your Case IH Dealers for Northwest Kansas Emeritus public facilities. who died in 1997, chaired John Ricard what he de - But even graduating from the committee that wrote scribed as “a Colby Ag Center, LC Oakley Ag Center, LLC law school was no small the 1979 U.S. bishops’ pas - very tumultuous, but very 785-462-6132 785-462-6132 www.colbyag.com www.oakleyag.com matter. Francis was the first toral letter on racism, productive time.” African-American to be ad - “Brothers and Sisters to “I grew up in the segre - Hoxie Implement Co., Inc. mitted to law school at Loy - Us,” which called racism a gated South where every - 785-675-3201 ola University New Orleans sin. thing was defined by race www.hoxieimplement.com in 1952 and he is just read - The bishop gave talks and segregation,” he said. ing now about the efforts by around the country years af - local priests that went into ter the pastoral letter was getting him admitted. issued challenging Catholics not to just talk about eradi - NOW , HIS NAME IS al - cating racism but to do most synonymous with more about it. Xavier University, the coun - Norman Francis said that Meet Your New Field Agent try’s only historically black if his brother were alive to - Catholic university founded day he would likely say that The Schafer Agency is pleased to welcome by St. Katharine Drexel and the “Church has made great her Sisters of the Blessed progress” but he also , Sacrament. He attended wouldn’t give the Church a Dan Culbertson Xavier as an undergraduate pass. a Knight for more than 25 years, and held various positions “It’s hard to excuse that until being named president we haven’t gone as far as we as its newest field agent, serving councils in 1968, a role he was asked should have” he said, to assume on the day of the adding that his brother 1661, 8316, 1999, 1086, 601, 8196, Rev. Martin Luther King would particularly be con - Jr.’s assassination. cerned about the lack of 85118511and 10778. The longtime president, young African-American 83, shows no interest in re - seminarians. tiring. He born in Lafayette, La., along with his four sib - BISHOP EMERITUS John lings, and said the separate- Ricard of Pensacola-Talla - Daniel “Dan” Culbertson, Field Agent but-equal segregation “was hassee, Fla., who is presi - a monster of many propor - dent of the National Black 208 N. Kiowa Court tions on the human spirit.” Catholic Congress, knows Junction City, KS 66441 66441 He also said his parents, all about that. The 74-year- OOffice: (785) 238-0055 who never graduated from old bishop, who retired in Cell: (785) 375-6804 high school, “had to be the 2011, is rector of St. [email protected] greatest psychologists in the Joseph’s Seminary, the world to have us keep our Washington seminary of his bearings while going order, the Josephites. The through this.” order was founded to serve They always stressed the newly freed slaves in the y

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Bishops, ing African-Americans’ Rouge, La., urged the Sec - individually and collective - rights at their expense. ond Vatican Council to take ly, issued statements calling After race riots rocked a tough line against racism. for racial justice. Desegre - Washington in 1967, Cardi - Speaking for the Ameri - gation of Catholic schools nal O’Boyle issued a pas - can bishops, he said doing and other institutions toral letter that said in that would “greatly help the spread. As the civil rights part, “Our efforts to elimi - bishops to teach their peo - movement gained traction nate segregated slum hous - ple.” under the leadership of the ing have been feeble. Our The bishops of the U.S. CNS file photo Rev. Martin Luther King support of desperately really did need all the help Then-Archbishop Patrick O’Boyle of Washington walks with Jr., a substantial body of needed programs and job they could get back home. President Lyndon Johnson following a 1968 Mass in Washington. American Catholics were training and job opportuni - While the hierarchy in re - The archbishop, who was later named a cardinal, integrated prepared to join the effort. ties for unemployed Ne - cent years had become in - Catholic schools in the Washington Archdiocese 16 years before Large numbers of Catholics groes in our ghettos has creasingly outspoken on the the Civil Rights Act. took part in the Rev. King’s been far less than ade - subject of race, many Amer - famous March on Washing - quate. ... Our welfare pro - ican Catholics remained un - named Charles whom he well into the 20th century, ton in 1963. Two years later, grams have too often been persuaded. specified should be freed — Catholic leaders were preoc - nearly 400 priests and scores paternalistic, demeaning, Only in 1960, after all, but only after the archbish - cupied with the pastoral of religious sisters and broth - and inadequate and have had the election of John op’s death. The Jesuits in care of the huge number of ers, as well as laypeople from weakened family life.” Kennedy as president sym - southern Maryland kept new Catholic immigrants all over the country, took part Less than a year later, bolically marked the end of slaves to work on their plan - pouring into the country, in historic civil rights demon - the Rev. King was assassi - American Catholics’ own ex - tations. So did Catholic plan - leaving little time, energy strations in Selma and Mont - nated, and violence erupt - perience of being targets of tation owners in Louisiana. and resources for evangeliz - gomery, Ala. The big civil ed in Washington and oth - bigotry. Long victimized in Prejudice against blacks ing African-Americans. rights bills of the 1960s re - er cities. Now the awful this way, the Catholic com - flourished among Catholics The bishops’ post-World ceived the Church’s backing. truth was clear: Generous munity could point to rela - at less elevated social levels. War I “Program of Social And, as Louisiana’s Bishop words, peaceful demon - tively few positive actions in Church historian Msgr. Reconstruction,” published Tracy had asked, Vatican II in strations, and even laws its record on justice toward John Tracy Ellis says that in 1919, contained progres - 1965 delivered a strong con - and court decisions others up to then. even as their numbers grew sive proposals on matters demnation of racism which it weren’t enough to undo in the United States, the like Social Security and la - called “incompatible with the legacy of slavery quick - ONE BRIGHT SPOT WAS in Irish tended to accept slav - bor-management relations. God’s design.” ly. The nation had a long, 1948, when Archbishop — ery where they found it, see - Many of these eventually hard slog ahead to accom - later Cardinal — Patrick ing no reason to disturb “a came to fruition in America. NEVERTHELESS Catholic plish that. And so, it ap - O’Boyle ordered the deseg - system which for the first But the document had noth - opinion on the race issue peared, did American regation of Catholic schools time in their lives had ing to say about racial jus - was divided. Pro-civil rights Catholicism. in Washington, six years be - placed others at the bottom tice and civil rights. fore the Supreme Court did of the social ladder.” that for public schools. Cul - As a group, the American IN TIME ALL THIS BEGAN turally speaking, Washing - bishops said nothing about to change. While issues like ton was still a Southern slavery and took neither side workers’ rights and pacifism town, and it took courage in the Civil War. Catholics were the priority issues for for Archbishop O’Boyle to fought in both the Union Dorothy Day, she and her A family serving families do what he did. and Confederate armies. 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GREENWOOD , M ISS . — A pane of cracked blue glass above the front doors of St. Francis of Assisi Church helps ensure that nobody forgets how their parish, its founding pastor and the re - ligious who staffed it stood up for them during a polar - ABOVE: Bishop Oliver Gerow, head of the izing, often brutal time. Diocese of Jackson, Miss., from 1924 to 1967, is As this summer marks the pictured in 1960 with members of Pax Christi in 50th anniversary of the pas - Greenwood, Miss. LEFT: A Pax Christi member sage of the Civil Rights Act works with youth in 1952 at the St. Francis of 1964, parishioners at St. Information Center in Greenwood. Francis have a vivid re - Diocese of Jackson Archives / CNS minder of the related events in their town. They can look fire being set at the offices they called Pax Christi. By the and the dominant white busi - the Ku Klux Klan to kill the up and see where a bullet of the Student Nonviolent mid-1960s, the group of ness community, where he priest came to the rectory one went through the window, Coordinating Committee about 20 women, including had friends and supporters. day. The two talked at length, one of many acts of violence and the gunshot wounding two African-Americans, oper - That support was and eventually the hired killer and serious threats to a faith of a community organizer. ated the St. Francis Informa - strained when Father said he decided the priest was community that was active tion Center to offer instruc - Nathaniel, the sisters who too good a man to kill and in promoting civil rights. THROUGH ALL THIS , what tion in Catholicism and recre - staffed the school and oth - gave back the money. For people who lived in was then known as St. Fran - ational activities for children. ers affiliated with the As for the boycott, Mal - Greenwood at that time, cis Mission, its elementary It eventually hosted a Church joined the boycott. ouf said the negotiations he however, the broken window school and community cen - clinic, a grocery store, scout and Father Nathaniel pane doesn’t seem necessary ter in the heart of a poor, troops, music lessons, a THE CONFLICT WAS set - helped arrange bore fruit, to remind them what their black neighborhood, were skating rink, tutoring and tled, Malouf said, when he surprisingly quickly. town has been through. essential pieces of efforts by adult education and pub - worked with the merchants The merchants agreed to the Catholic Church in Mis - lished a weekly newspaper and Father Nathaniel hire a few African-American THEY LIVED WITH THE sissippi to help the poorest for African-Americans. worked with the African- employees and to work on blatantly racist way of life residents, regardless of Father Nathaniel also cre - American community to ne - getting the city to hire blacks epitomized by the White Cit - their religious affiliation. ated a credit union and sev - gotiate a settlement. for the police and fire de - izens’ Council, a Greenwood- Mississippi’s Catholic eral small businesses for the “You could get killed over partments. And they agreed founded segregationist population never has been community. He was active in that,” Malouf said, adding to start referring to African- group that actively champi - large — it’s currently about the interracial ministerial as - that in those days in Green - Americans with courtesy ti - oned the Jim Crow system. 9 percent — and the per - sociation and successfully wood, such conversations tles — Mr. and Mrs. — as Greenwood, now with a pop - centage of black Catholics is worked with both blacks and across color lines just didn’t they did white customers, in - ulation of 15,000 and then even smaller. When St. whites in building the parish. take place. “I was threat - stead of by their first names. around 20,000, found itself Francis Mission was found - His involvement in the ened. The Klan threw stuff In return, the boycott divided even more in the ed in 1950, there were just boycott of Greenwood mer - at my house.” ended, and Greenwood’s mid-1960s by a months-long two black Catholics in chants that followed the 1968 Father Nathaniel also had majority black population merchant boycott in protest Greenwood, according to murder of Dr. Martin Luther been threatened — a man began patronizing their lo - of how blacks were treated. Siena College professor Paul King changed that somewhat. who said he’d been hired by cal businesses again. A few years earlier and 10 Murray. One of the priest’s friends miles up the road, Emmett Franciscan Father and a lifelong Immaculate Till, the black Chicago 14- Nathaniel Machesky, a De - Heart parishioner, Alex Mal - Bachelor-Faulkner-Dart-Surber year-old who was visiting troit native, was initially as - ouf, said that Father Funeral Homes relatives in Money, Miss., signed to Immaculate Heart Nathaniel had carefully strad - was found — tortured and of Mary Parish in Green - dled the cultural chasm be - Belleville and Scandia, Kansas (785) 527-2222 killed — reportedly for flirt - wood. But as Murray put it, tween his black parishioners ~ Directors Steven Surber, John Surber and Don Waddington ~ ing with a white girl. “ministering to a re - Greenwood’s residents spectable all-white congre - lived through two criminal gation was not Father trials of local white su - Nathaniel’s idea of true mis - premacist Byron De La sionary work.” When the Beckwith for murdering civ - friars received permission il rights activist Medgar to open a mission for Evers in 1963. Though those African Americans, the 1960s trials failed to reach priest found a 12-acre par - Caattholic Retreaatt & Conffeerence Center in Wichita, Kansas verdicts, De La Beckwith cel of land on the outskirts was convicted in 1994. of town and quickly opened And Greenwood wit - a chapel and school. nessed further upheaval when organizers from out - ANOTHER PIECE of the side Mississippi zeroed in Church’s role in Greenwood on their town to promote began with Kate Foote Jor - voter education and voter dan, who founded a secular registration, leading to a institute of religious women

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Featured here are The Seminarians and relationship with God seminary, Sulanka owned Jeffrey Albers and James of the Diocese of Salina that they each have.” a house and his own busi - Sulanka, who are attending • • • ness, but he said he has Conception Seminary Col - First of Three Parts Sulanka, 28, began his never asked himself if sell - lege in Conception, Mo., studies at Conception Semi - ing it was the right thing and Omar Davila Garcia, nary in the to do. Andrew Hammeke and fall of 2006, “When God calls, you lis - Ryan McCandless, who are but after ten. I’m just glad he was pa - studying at St. Meinrad three semes - tient with me and called School of Theology in St. ters, he was back,” he said. Meinrad, Ind. uncertain if • • • • • • this was what Davila, 24, of Salina com - Albers, 20, is one of two God was call - pleted his first year of theol - new seminarians for the ing him to do. James ogy school at diocese. He He returned Sulanka St. Meinrad was born in to his home after graduat - Colby but in rural Aurora to farm and ing from Con - grew up in operate a business. ception Semi - rural Oakley Fast forward to fall 2013, nary College. and is a and Sulanka was back at “It was a member of Conception. year of tran - St. Joseph On his return, Sulanka sition for me Omar Davila Jeffrey Albers Parish in said it was good to be back because I Garcia Oakley. to a routine, pray the Litur - was the only “We moved into the gy of the Hours and concen - student from Conception country when I was 2, so I trate on his prayer life. Seminary to be sent there,” spent my boyhood playing “The opportunity to at - he said. “It was nice to outside in the dirt and mud tend Mass daily” is some - know that I would be join - and other various things we thing he appreciates now ing another seminarian got into,” he explained. more than ever, he said. from the Salina Diocese, He has an older sister, Sulanka said he also ap - Ryan McCandless, who who lives in Lincoln, Neb., preciates the spiritual for - would also be in his first with her husband, and a mation he is receiving and year there.” younger brother who will be being able to talk with fel - St. Meinrad is operated a sophomore at Kansas low seminarians as they al - by Benedictine monks, State University this fall. so go through the discern - which was somewhat com - His mother, Jennifer, is a ment process. forting, he said, since Con - social worker for St. Francis This summer, Sulanka ception Seminary also is Community Services, work - has been on a Totus Tuus part of the same religious ing with foster children. His team, providing summer order. father, Fred, works part- catechism programs for “The most difficult part time at a truck shop after parishes in the diocese. of going to a new semi - retiring from 27 years with This is the first time he nary was leaving behind the Kansas Department of Jeffrey Albers, who is one of two new seminarians for the has participated in the pro - all of the men that I had Social and Rehabilitation Diocese of Salina, inspects a corn plant during his summer gram or, for that matter, built friendships with,” Services. internship with Crop Production Services. He was an agronomy been around children so Davila said. “I realized af - “In May I finished my major before applying to attend the seminary. much. ter a few weeks that I was third year at K-State major - “It has been a true bless - enjoying meeting new ing in agronomy. I am one led to my decision to enter I should enter the semi - ing to be able to teach people from different of the few people that loved the seminary, I was not dis - nary.” younger kids about their countries. The classes exactly what I started col - cerning the call to semi - Albers said he is most in - faith and to know that al - went well and the atmos - lege studying. I have been nary,” he continued. “I was trigued about the formative though they are young, one phere was good. The dis - working as an intern this trying to understand where aspect of seminary. day, they could be my tance from Salina did summer for Crop Produc - God was calling me within “That is because the sem - parishioners,” he said. make it more challenging tion Services and I have re - the agronomy field, where I inarians I have talked to During a weeklong break to come home as easily as ally enjoyed it thus far,” he should work and what I have talked about how from Totus Tuus, he when I was at Concep - said. should do. Within that dis - much they learn about helped his family harvest tion.” “When I began my dis - cernment the Lord made it themselves and how much wheat. Davila also is in his first cernment process, which abundantly clear to me that they grow from that. God Sulanka said he was hap - year teaching in the Totus knows I need to grow and py to meet so many people Tuus program. learn, so I am quite excited from across the diocese at about that aspect of semi - this year’s Seminarian Please see FUTURE / Page 16 nary. I am not yet nervous; I am sure that I will be ner - vous when I am on the way and once I get there, but I know many guys there and I know they will be welcom - ing and help me any way they can.” He said his family and friends were surprised but supportive of his decision. “The most reassuring thing that has come from my decision was, first and foremost, the peace I expe - rienced when I made the decision, but also the sup - port and excitement that has been the reaction of most everyone I have told.” Albers met with the dio - cese’s other seminarians at a gathering in late May and said they, too, were sup - portive and welcoming. “I very much enjoyed the Seminarian Omar Davila Garcia (upper right) poses with Totus seminarian gathering. I Tuus team members. First row (from left) are Christina Bixenman, can’t be around those men Elizabeth Lockhart and Courtney Farmer and, second row, Alex and not have a good time. I Seminarian James Sulanka is a member of a Totus Tuus team, Becker, Carolyn Trausch, Zack Favorite and Cecilia Lane. am getting excited to go to teaching summer catechism at parishes across the diocese. 16 July 11, 2014 The Register, Catholic Diocese of Salina, salinadiocese.org Future priests take summer break from studies for me, and sometimes they can be emotionally drain - ing. I encounter people at a The Seminarians very vulnerable time in the of the Diocese of Salina hospital. Some days people are open to talk; other First of Three Parts days, they dismiss you nicely.” The program includes From page 15 my love for the Lord has class time where he and grown much stronger than four other students discuss “I have a great team and ever before. their experiences. am really enjoying being “I had a great two years “We share how the visit around the kids and teach - at Conception, and I will al - went and what could have ing them about their faith. ways be thankful for all I been done differently. The “The pot luck dinners on learned from the Bene - group is honest and works Wednesday night have been dictines there and for the together to better our pas - a great way not only to meet friendships I made with toral skills. Other class peri - adults in other communities seminarians from other dio - ods are spent reviewing dif - but to visit with the parents ceses,” he said. ferent articles or stories re - of the kids attending Totus This summer, Hammeke garding pastoral and spiri - Tuus. They are very much is part of the staff of tual care. Though this pro - alive in their faith and want Prayer and Action, the dio - gram is an all-faiths pro - to pass it on to their kids, cese’s summer mission gram, the students in my too,” he added. “The team program that was in Ellis group include three Catholic that I work with who began in June and is in Belleville seminarians, a religious as strangers have now in July. brother and a priest,” he grown to be my friends. It “There are so many said. has been a good way to see things about this program He will return to theology the diocese and visit parish - that are fantastic, but for studies at St. Meinrad and es that I have not been to me as a future priest of this “brush up on my Spanish- before.” diocese, I get to look at speaking skills.” Totus Tuus hasn’t given things in a little different “What will be really excit - him much free-time this light,” he said. ing is getting all moved in summer, “but like many “Just last Thursday I and showing around fellow people I have been watching was sitting in a room with seminarian Andy Ham - the World Cup. Soccer is all the high school partici - meke. It will be nice to have one of my favorite sports, pants for that particular some more Kansans out in and I enjoy playing it when week thinking about how Indiana,” he noted. I have time.” cool it will be to know so May’s seminarian dinner He, too, enjoyed the fact many young Catholics was an opportunity to share that he was able to meet from around the diocese with those who attended “a people from throughout the when I am ordained. The little taste of what we semi - diocese at the seminarian youth in this diocese are narians do as community dinner in May. on fire, and I think that with evening prayer before “As a seminarian, I know fire is getting more and we eat. We are a praying how much your prayers and more intense every year,” Seminarian Andrew Hammeke scrapes a window at the historic Church, and it set the ener - support mean to me. I am he added. depot at the Ellis Railroad Museum during the Prayer and Action gy for the evening,” McCan - looking forward to next It has been an experience summer mission program. dless said. year’s dinner,” he said. similar to Totus Tuus, be - “The Salina Diocese is • • • cause he has been able to cate with me, and I am • • • blessed to have such faith- Hammeke, 25, of Hays meet a number of priests thankful to him for the McCandless, 32, of Wi - filled people who are look - graduated from Conception and spend time in commu - peace I have had through - chita is spending his sum - ing out for the future of the and will start nities, he said. out this entire process,” he mer working Catholic Church. I really en - theology “I also have a great deal said. at St. Mary’s joyed getting to meet and studies at St. of respect for the other “Whenever there is a Medical Cen - talk with fellow seminari - Meinrad this members of the Prayer and temporary absence of that ter, a Catholic ans’ families and parish - fall. Action staff. I was assigned peace, I am very thankful hospital in ioners from across the dio - “In my to the program, but the oth - for the prayers and support Huntington, cese. The evening really was second year er five freely gave up their of so many people in our W.Va. He a testament to how much of seminary I whole summer to serve our great diocese,” he added. said the clini - love and support we semi - learned a Andrew diocese,” he said. “Speaking for all the semi - cal pastoral Ryan narians get. great deal Hammeke Hammeke said he’s excit - narians I would like to education McCandless “Also, I think it showed from my ed to get to St. Meinrad. thank you all for helping us program how much we seminarians spiritual director,” he said. “Up to this point God find that peace when we gives hands-on experience are eager to serve the “We were required to meet has continued to give me a need it most. I want to es - in a hospital environment to Church in the Salina Dio - with our spiritual director great deal of peace whenev - pecially thank Vocatio and help a student interact with cese. A huge thank you goes every other week, and this er I ask him if I’m sup - the Knights of Columbus patients, staff and peers. out to those who attended year I really benefited from posed to continue on this for all they do. Please con - “Essentially, it is a min - and those who contributed that. My knowledge and journey toward priesthood. tinue praying for us and for istry of presence and lis - to the evening with dona - love for Mary really grew, So far, peace is one of the more vocations to the tening,” McCandless said. tions and prayer. We are especially in the second se - few ways that I have been priesthood and religious “The visits with patients successful because of you,” mester, and thanks to her able to hear God communi - life in our diocese.” each day can be rewarding he added.

Seminarian Ryan McCandless (center) is taking part in a clinical pastoral education program this summer at a West Virginia hospital.