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’ Life support ODAYODAY’SS ATHOLICATHOLIC Communities take action to TT CC show support for life issues Abortion transcends politics, speaker Pages 3, 11-19 Reject immigration says at Knights’ respect life program bill U.S. cardinal BY MICHELLE DONAGHEY provides Catholic voice SOUTH BEND — “We can’t let this thing of abor- Page 3 tion become a political issue. We need to let people understand it transcends politics,” said Father Glenn Kohrman from the St. Mary of the Lake Catholic Church in Culver to over 150 people gathered together at the Knights of Columbus Hall Santa Religious education Maria Council #533 Sunday. The annual Respect Life Program began with a fair at St. Pius X march from the council, proceeding to St. Joseph ‘Barbie’ and ‘Ken’ find Church where Deacon Nate Wills, CSC, gave the homily during a short prayer service, and then back a place for baptism to the hall. Several churches were represented including St. Matthew Cathedral, St. Stanislaus Page 8 (New Carlisle), St. John the Baptist, Christ the King, St. Augustine, St. John (Goshen) and Holy Family. The march has been held every year since the mid 1970s. The event, which includes a hot soup, bread State addresses and fellowship at the Knights’ hall, has been can- celed only once in its history due to a snowstorm. driving privileges During his homily, Wills noted that those who came to march and reflect did not do so because “of Indiana Catholic Conference the numbers,” which add up to around 87 abortions worldwide a minute, but to “pray for the children, marks legislation as priority for their mothers, for their fathers, for the many who Page 9 are currently pregnant and facing difficult decisions, for the many who create an unjust environment where women feel forced into abortion, for the peo- ple who are not giving out truthful information, and for those who have hardened their heart to the com- New mosaics coming passion called for.” Touching upon the reading from St. Paul, Wills to shrine said that there is nothing that can separate us from MICHELLE DONAGHEY Italian art to be installed the love of Christ — whether it is sickness or old Heather and Danniel Cline, parishioners from St. Matthew Cathedral, march with their fam- at national shrine ily, which includes Joseph, 7, Paul, 5, Colette, 3, and Justin, 21 months, at the annual MARCH, PAGE 13 Respect Life Program in South Bend. Page 28 Women’s Care Center expands MEHMET ALI AGCA SHOWS in northeast Fort Wayne TIME MAGAZINE COVER as parenting classes. BY KAY COZAD Anne Koehl, resident nurse and director of the center says her staff social worker, FORT WAYNE —Two years ago, nearly to bilingual counselor, advocate, coordinator the day, the 10th Women’s Care Center in of volunteers and volunteers have served northern Indiana opened its doors. This close to 1,300 women since beginning non-profit service agency took up residence operations in January of 2004. Of those in a 100-year-old house donated by a local served, 263 have “come in the wrong door.” businessman located in downtown Fort Koehl reports that many women seeking Wayne. The pro-life facility was extensive- abortions mistakenly enter the Women’s ly renovated as a labor of love by several Care Center and stay to receive services. community benefactors. “When a young woman is seeking an abor- The center’s mission is to help young tion, it is a panicky time. We help them take women choose life for their unborn babies, a breath and look at all their options.” have healthier pregnancies and become bet- The clean home-like setting of the center ter parents. Its location at 823 Webster St., offers an inviting atmosphere with women many feel, is an ideal spot for the services on staff who are available to talk with each the center provides as it is adjacent to the prospective client. Koehl says details from CNS PHOTO/REUTERS local abortion clinic. the furniture to lamp lighting to the bath- Women who enter the home-like envi- rooms provide a more comfortable environ- Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot Pope ronment of the Women’s Care Center are ment for the clients. Once inside, the clients John Paul II in 1981, displays an issue of given the opportunity to receive services are invited to talk about their specific situa- that include free pregnancy testing, on-site tion and offered an ultrasound test. Of those Time magazine as he is led by police offi- ultrasound tests, medical care and crisis who receive ultrasounds, 94 percent have cers to a military recruitment center in pregnancy counseling. The center also offers prenatal and well-baby care, as well WCC, PAGE 14 Istanbul, Turkey, Jan. 12. 2 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC JANUARY 22, 2006 TODAY’S CATHOLIC

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ISSN 0891-1533 the new pope, is titled “Deus revision of the conclusion, he The complete text of the USPS 403630 Caritas Est” (“God is Love”), said. encyclical was expected to be words taken from the first letter According to the Italian news published as a supplement to JANUARY 22, 2006 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 3 Ethical approaches make unity STATEMENT FROM BISHOP JOHN M. D’ARCY Respect life message appear distant, says Vatican official Jan. 22, 2006 This week we observe the anniversary of an event which has divided our beloved country, tarnished our political dialogue, BY CINDY WOODEN diminished respect for human life and separated woman from man and the mother from her child. DURHAM, England (CNS) — While many of the Although it was a decision of extraordinary import in our doctrinal differences that divided Christians for cen- national life, it was not discussed in legislative assemblies or turies are close to being resolved, different through the normal channels of representative democracy, as is our approaches to modern ethical questions are making national tradition and as our Constitution calls for. Christian unity appear as distant as ever, said It was a decision of seven men, which one of the two dissenting Cardinal Walter Kasper. judges called “Broad Judicial Power.” It was opposed to the leg- “I am very sad we are not able to speak with one islative history of 50 states, which had approved statutes opposing, voice on these issues to a world that needs to hear,” or at least limiting, the taking of unborn life. the cardinal said Jan. 13 at an international ecu- menical conference at Ushaw College, a Catholic It made the taking of unborn life on demand a constitutional seminary in Durham. right. It made abortion possible through all three trimesters. It The cardinal, president of the Pontifical Council made possible and legally acceptable partial birth abortion, which for Promoting Christian Unity, received an honorary one United States senator called infanticide. In fact, the decision doctorate Jan. 12 from the University of Durham made it impossible for our elected representatives to outlaw this and delivered the keynote address Jan. 13 at the terrible procedure, at least up to this point. opening of an ecumenical conference organized by The decision is an affront to all who live by a moral code and also the university to discuss steps the Catholic Church to those who respect sound judicial reasoning. Above everything and its dialogue partners should take at a time when else, it has diminished respect for God’s great gift of human life. full church unity seems distant. Is it any wonder that our country is so divided on this issue 33 Cardinal Kasper told conference participants that years later? Thousands of people, including many young people believing Christians cannot give up hope for from our diocese, will march in our nation’s capitol this week to Christian unity because church division is “a sin oppose the decision that made the taking of unborn life a constitu- before God and a scandal before the world.” tional right. However, he acknowledged a sense that, after 40 years of what appeared to be major progress toward unity, ecumenical dialogue has come up against Where shall we turn serious, unforeseen obstacles. Let us turn to the young who prize authenticity and instruct Differences among Catholics, Orthodox, them on the beauty of one human life and on the medical facts, Anglicans and Protestants over issues such as CARDINAL WALTER KASPER which show ever more and more that this is, indeed, a human per- homosexual activity, abortion, euthanasia and other son. moral questions “are not on the top of the hierarchy While the differences hinder ecumenical dia- Let us show them the beauty of the human body, the majesty of of truths” — like the belief in Jesus as savior is — logue, he said, the situation is further complicated the child and beauty of married love. Let us help them to see the “but they are very emotional and, therefore, very by the internal divisions the issues create, such as beauty of a chaste life before and during marriage. Let us see that divisive,” the cardinal said. the tensions currently felt within the Anglican our young people hear again the command given to Moses on Just five or six years ago, he said, Catholic bish- Communion over the ordination of openly gay men Mount Sinai, “Thou shalt not kill.” ops and leaders of some other churches seemed and the blessing of homosexual unions. Let us support the extraordinary work being done with young ready to explore concrete steps their communities In his speech to the conference, Cardinal Kasper women in crisis pregnancy centers, especially the Women’s Care could take toward organizational unity. said that at a moment of some confusion and disillu- Center with locations throughout our diocese, which saves hun- Since then, however, it has become clear that sionment over the prospect of Christian unity dreds of children every year. “both the ecumenical mood and the ecumenical situ- Christians must ask themselves what the purpose of Let us stand up everywhere for human life, as Pope John Paul II ation worldwide have changed so radically as to vir- ecumenism is. tually run counter to the ecumenical movement asked of us in one of his visits to our country. Finally let us pray “Ecumenical unity is not to be thought of along for our country, and pray for young men and women and for all toward unity,” he said. the lines of the fusion of worldwide megacorpora- In Europe and North America, he said, “the those drawn to the quick, but damaging, decision of taking a tions,” he said. Rather, Christians are called by God human life. changed situation is evident in a new polarization to be united in their faith in Jesus, in the sacraments, and fragmentation exemplified by divergent and in the proclamation of the Gospel and in striving for even conflicting verdicts on ethical problems.” holiness, he said. He told a press conference at Ushaw that the dif- By committing themselves to holiness and to ferences in how Christian communities are dealing unity in the fundamental truths of Christianity, he with ethical matters were not automatically church- Collection assists dividing; “we have to see if they are differences in pastoral approaches or doctrinal differences, “ he UNITY, PAGE 4 said. Catholics in Latin America My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Supporting the work of the church in the poorer areas of the world is Cardinal Rigali asks Senate a concrete sign of our solidarity with those who share our faith. Next weekend, Jan. 28-29, we will have an opportunity to participate in pro- viding assistance for the pastoral work of the church through the annual Collection for the Church in Latin America. When we consider the fact to reject House immigration bill that half of the world’s Catholics live in Latin America and that they are PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — illegal immigrants in the U.S. to more,” he said. extremely poor, how can we not be moved to do what we can for our Cardinal Justin Rigali of legalize their status. Adopting such proposals brothers and sisters who share our faith south of the border? Philadelphia has asked the Senate This would be an “earned would offer stronger security The money raised in this collection goes directly to support pastoral to reject a House-passed immi- legalization” program that would measures because they provide projects in Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean. gration bill that stresses law require immigrants “to work for “an incentive for undocumented Through grants and partnerships, this collection makes possible cate- enforcement to prevent illegal up to six years before applying immigrants and their families to chetical and lay leadership programs, youth ministry, evangelization immigration. for legal permanent residence,” ‘come out of the shadows’ and programs and formation programs for seminarians, religious, priests “A more comprehensive and he said. identify themselves to govern- and deacons. In Latin America, where there is an average of only one humane approach to immigration “Earned legalization is not ment authorities,” said Cardinal priest for every 7,000 Catholics, even modest grants can provide reform” is needed, he said in a amnesty,” he said. Rigali. things that we might take for granted, such as paper, books or even a Jan. 9 statement. Cardinal Rigali also favored The House bill passed Dec. 16 meeting place. The Senate should support establishing a temporary worker stressed tightening the border by Please know of my gratitude for your generosity in this effort as we legislation “that reforms all program and reducing the backlog building a huge fence along about in this hemisphere strive to live out the demands of solidarity which aspects of our nation’s immigra- of visas for family members wish- one-third of the U.S.-Mexican our late, great Holy Father, John Paul II, once expressed so eloquently: tion system, not simply law ing to join relatives in the U.S. border, increasing the number of “The greatest gift which America has received from the Lord is the enforcement,” he said. A temporary worker program Border Patrol agents and increas- faith which has forged its Christian identity.” The statement was issued to “would provide legal channels for ing penalties against employers Sincerely yours in our Lord, coincide with National Migration migrant workers to migrate in a who hire illegal immigrants. It Week, celebrated Jan. 8-14 this safe, legal and orderly manner,” also would make illegal entry year by the U.S. Catholic Church. he said. into the United States a crime, as The cardinal urged the Senate Current backlogs in family opposed to the civil offense it is to consider legislation that would visas are causing family separa- now, and would penalize people Most Reverend John M. D’Arcy allow the estimated 11 million tions “for up to 10 years or who aid illegal immigrants. 4 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC JANUARY 22, 2006 Bishop Gumbleton says priest abused him when he was a teen

dismissed because of the current credibility in church leaders as BY JERRY FILTEAU statute of limitations. moral teachers and guides.” He In testimony on behalf of the quoted a statement from the 1971 WASHINGTON (CNS) — At a Ohio Catholic Conference last world Synod of Bishops on jus- legislative hearing and a press December, Bishop Frederick F. tice: “Anyone who ventures to conference Jan. 11 in Columbus, Campbell of Columbus said the speak to people about justice Ohio, Auxiliary Bishop Thomas bishops supported an earlier ver- must first be just in their eyes.” J. Gumbleton of Detroit said he sion of the bill that did not have He acknowledged that bring- was sexually abused by a priest the one-year “look-back” win- ing old cases to court “may cause when he was a teenage seminari- dow, but they oppose the window pain, embarrassment and sacrifice an. provision. for our church” but suggested He called for passage of pend- “It undermines the fundamen- that settling all such cases is “the ing legislation in Ohio that would tal right to a fair and just defense, only way to protect children and open a one-year window for civil it is bad public policy that under- to heal the brokenness within the lawsuits against the church for mines the stability of law and it church.” clergy sexual abuse of minors does not protect children,” he In a statement responding to that occurred many years ago. said. The conference represents Bishop Gumbleton’s testimony, The bishops of Ohio oppose all the state’s bishops. the Catholic Conference of Ohio the one-year window although In his Jan. 11 testimony, a said, “Ohio’s bishops continue to they support other parts of the copy of which he provided to staunchly support all provisions bill, including a longer statute of Catholic News Service, Bishop of Senate Bill 17 with the excep- limitations for lawsuits based on Gumbleton told the committee he tion of the look-back provision, claims of childhood sexual abuse. spoke not in any official capacity which they believe is retroactive Bishop Gumbleton, 75, did not but only as a man with 50 years legislation specifically prohibited name the now-deceased priest of pastoral and administrative by the Ohio Constitution.” who molested him some 60 years CNS PHOTO/MEGAN NADOLSKI experience as a priest, including “Healing is not achieved by ago, when he was a freshman or Detroit Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton reveals he was sexually 38 years as a bishop. lawsuits but by working with sophomore at Detroit’s Sacred abused by a priest when he was a teenager and speaks in favor of “I also speak from my experi- those who have suffered abuse, Heart Seminary High School. He reforms to state child molestation laws during a Jan. 11 press conference ence of listening and attempting ministering to them pastorally called the abuse “very inappropri- in Columbus, Ohio. to be responsive to the tragic sto- and helping to meet their individ- ate” behavior by the priest but ries of victims of sexual abuse,” ual needs,” the statement added. said it was “minor” compared what was happening. I was very It would include clerics as he said. “Finally, I speak out of “This is what Ohio’s dioceses and with the kind of abuse many naive at the time,” he told the mandatory reporters of known or my own experience of being its bishops are doing and will other victims have suffered. Free Press. reasonably suspected abuse of a exploited as a teenager through continue to do.” He said that on two or three The bishop, who is noted for minor. It would extend the statute inappropriate touching by a In Detroit, Cardinal Adam J. occasions the priest, a faculty his peace activism and extensive of limitations for suing over dam- priest.” Maida said he was especially sad- member at the seminary, took involvement in social justice ages caused by childhood sexual He told the committee that he dened to learn that Bishop him and another seminarian to a issues, is believed to be the first abuse, currently two years past believes that “some perpetrators Gumbleton was apparently an cabin and would start wrestling bishop to state publicly that he the age of 18, to 20 years past the have not yet been brought to abuse victim many years ago. matches with them. When he and had been abused as a minor by a age of 18. account. That is why I support “The Detroit Archdiocese was the priest wrestled, “he would put priest. In addition, for one year from the one-year civil window. I do never made aware of this,” he his hand in my pants,” he told the In his prepared testimony its effective date, the new legisla- believe that the abusers need to said. Detroit Free Press shortly before before the House Judiciary tion would open a window for be exposed. I also believe that Msgr. Ricardo Bass, Cardinal he flew to Columbus to testify in Committee of the Ohio General lawsuits over past abuse going this can only be assured if the Maida’s delegate for clergy mat- favor of the Ohio legislation. Assembly, he urged passage of a back as far as 35 years. Claimants possibility exists to bring these ters, took the occasion to urge Bishop Gumbleton said he did bill, previously approved by the would be able to introduce new matters into a civil court of law.” any victim of clergy abuse in the not feel traumatized or psycho- Senate, that would amend Ohio suits for which no claim was pre- He also argued that “by bring- Detroit Archdiocese to contact logically damaged by the priest’s law on abuse and neglect of viously made or reintroduce suits ing these cases to full exposure the archdiocesan victim assis- actions. “Mainly, I didn’t realize minors in several ways. previously filed that had been and full accountability, we have a tance coordinator. better possibility of restoring

belief that they are exercising a prophetic role in society and UNITY demonstrating God’s love, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 acceptance and call to all people. However, he said, Christian Michael Scheer is one of more said, Christians will come closer communities must act in continu- to full unity than they ever could ity with the faith of the Gospel hope to do by planning corporate and the earliest Christian commu- than 30 Barnes & Thornburg mergers. nities. “The fact that the unity of the “We should not imagine that church is grounded in its partici- we possess more of the Holy attorneys providing legal pation in the holy does indeed Spirit today than the church of have real consequences for the the early church fathers and the concrete form of the church,” he great theologians of the Middle services to their fellow said. Ages,” he said. Called to be holy, Cardinal Cardinal Kasper also told con- Kasper said, the church also is ference participants — some 140 parishioners in the Diocese called to be prophetic, to listen to scholars and bishops from 10 the world, to understand its hopes countries invited because of their and struggles and to offer guid- expertise — that he knows the of Fort Wayne - South Bend. ance and hope based on the Roman Catholic Church has Gospel. many things to learn from other “The dividing lines which Christian communities. have unfortunately become evi- The Catholic commitment to dent on ethical issues since the ecumenism, he said, is not based latter half of the last century are on wanting to draw all Christians therefore not secondary or irrele- into the Catholic fold, nor does it vant for an understanding of the seek to create a new church, nature of the church,” he said. drawing on the best of each of “In touching on holiness, they the ecumenical partners. touch on the essential nature of The goal, he said, is “a spiritu- the church itself,” the cardinal ally renewed church, in which the said. church in its concrete form Michael Scheer becomes to the fullest degree that Labor and Employment Department Cardinal Kasper acknowl- edged that Christian communities which in its undeveloped nature it (260) 425-4628 that, for example, have ordained always has been and always [email protected] women to the priesthood or have remains: the one, holy church we decided to bless homosexual profess together in the Apostles’ unions have done so out of a Creed.” JANUARY 22, 2006 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC 5 Fordham announces decision to Nation’s bishops, Catholic college close Marymount College in 2007 heads to have local dialogues TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (CNS) — Heart of Mary, who founded the Marymount College in Tarrytown college in 1907, said they were will close in June 2007, nearly “deeply saddened” at the decision and University Presidents, said will assure that that person five years after consolidating with to close the school. BY JERRY FILTEAU the five-year progress review was “agrees with and says he or she Fordham University in New York. “At the time of the consolida- called for by the U.S. implemen- will be supportive of the mission “Despite the very best efforts tion with Fordham University, WASHINGTON (CNS) — At a tation norms, not the Vatican doc- of the Catholic university or col- of the faculty, administration and July 1, 2002, we had great hope Jan. 10 meeting in Washington, ument. lege.” staff, it is no longer academically and trust that Marymount’s mis- the U.S. bishops’ Committee on He said the review process The relationship of faculty to or financially feasible to continue sion of undergraduate education Education approved a set of does not address some specific Catholic identity and mission is to operate Marymount College as for women would be strengthened questions to guide local dialogues questions that could arise in some the major theme to be discussed a separate school within the uni- by the alliance with Fordham,” the nationwide between diocesan of the local dialogues, such as at the Feb. 4-6 annual meeting of versity,” said John N. Tognino, order said in a statement. “We had bishops and the presidents of possible revision of some institu- the Association of Catholic chairman of the Fordham board of hoped for a longer commitment to Catholic colleges and universities tions’ statutes in light of the new Colleges and Universities. The trustees, in a statement. the consolidation efforts.” in their diocese. Vatican and U.S. norms. “That ACCU, whose members are the “This was a very difficult deci- Most of Marymount’s 798 stu- The dialogues are to be con- question would depend on indi- presidents of the country’s sion because we know how deeply dents were expected to finish their ducted by May 3, the date on vidual bishops and presidents,” Catholic higher education institu- our students valued the supportive education at the 25-acre Tarrytown which “The Application of ‘Ex he said. tions, collaborated with the edu- environment of an all-women’s campus, which is to be permanent- Corde Ecclesiae’ for the United Bishop McManus said the cation committee in drafting the college and how many alumnae ly known as the Marymount States” took effect five years ago. guiding question on incorporation guiding questions that will set the have flourished and excelled Campus of Fordham University. “Ex Corde Ecclesiae,” Latin of the spirit and norms of the framework for the upcoming because of the strengths they Fordham programs in liberal stud- for “from the heart of the Vatican and U.S. documents five-year review dialogues. developed at Marymount,” he ies, business administration, social church,” is Pope John Paul II’s includes a reference to dialogue Richard Yanikoski, ACCU added. service and education are to even- 1990 apostolic constitution on on the implementation of the president, said that from the feed- The Religious of the Sacred tually be based at the campus. Catholic higher education, which ecclesiastical “mandatum,” or back he receives from bishops set norms to assure the Catholic authorization to teach, that the and presidents, “in almost all mission and identity of Catholic norms say a Catholic theologian cases the dialogue ... has been colleges and universities world- must have to teach in a Catholic positive, helpful, and I think Holy Cross College promotes wide and called on national bish- institution of higher learning. bodes well both for the institu- ops’ conferences to establish For many years the “manda- tions and the dioceses in foster- Patricia Falvey to vice president implementing norms applying the tum” requirement and how it ing a constructive and more full- general norms within the context would be implemented were featured relationship than has NOTRE DAME — Patricia of their own countries. among the most debated issues in been typical in the last several Falvey has been at Holy Cross Bishop Robert J. McManus of the norms. decades.” College for less than two years, Worcester, Mass., chairman of Another difficult issue for “The campuses are doing a but her hard work and successful the education committee, said in many U.S. Catholic institutions great deal more to enrich the fundraising have not gone unno- an interview after the meeting has been a Vatican norm that says faith community and the social ticed. that the guiding questions were the majority of a Catholic institu- service and social justice mis- The college president has pro- themselves the result of a dia- tion’s teachers should be sions of the church than most of moted Falvey to the vice president logue process between bishops Catholic. the American Catholic public is for advancement position. and Catholic college and univer- Bishop McManus said he aware,” he said. “I am honored, humbled, excit- sity presidents. recently read that some Catholic Both he and the two bishops ed, and ready for the challenge,” “The first question has to do colleges have said that currently cited “Promising Practices,” a says Falvey. with Catholic identity and char- “the majority of the faculty is not recently published book in which Holy Cross College President acter (of the colleges and univer- Roman Catholic, which is a fact 40 bishops and presidents talk Brother Richard Gilman, CSC, sities),” he said. “The second has of life. about their recent experiences in says, “The first six months of Pat to do with communion with the “But I also read very recently mutual dialogue and collabora- Falvey’s leadership of the office local church. The third has to do that, as a result of the discussions tion and the assistance the educa- has produced significant increases Patricia Falvey with incorporation of the spirit between diocesan bishops and tional institutions give to the life in annual giving to the college and and norms of ‘Ex Corde’ and the presidents of Catholic colleges of the local church, as representa- her reorganization of the office ing her work as the college’s chief application. and universities, what has come tive of the kind of positive expe- has contributed greatly to market- fundraiser, liaison to the board of “The fourth question — I to the surface is a realization that riences emerging out of bishop- ing the college and building its trustees and leader of the advance- think a very important question one significant way to maintain a president dialogues around the image in the local community. It ment team. — has to do with the continued Catholic identity is what is being country. was time to have all of these Falvey says working with peo- dialogue,” he said. “What are the called ‘mission-oriented hiring.’” efforts represented at the level of ple who cherish Holy Cross and plans and method for continuing He said this means that in fill- vice-presidential leadership.” have benefited from the college, is this dialogue that really was ing a faculty position the institu- Falvey came to Holy Cross in the best part of her job. engendered by ‘Ex Corde tion may hope to hire a qualified July of 2004 to take on the associ- She says, “People recognize Ecclesiae’ and the specific Catholic applicant, but if the per- ate director of development posi- the greatness of the institution, American application?” son being hired is not Catholic, it tion. She was later promoted to and they believe in it. And it’s Auxiliary Bishop Walter J. director of advancement and is easy to contribute something that Edyvean of Boston, who chairs now the vice president for could make it even more success- the committee’s Subcommittee advancement. 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permanent based on first year out- Exhibit of rare comes. Please send resume to West Region Director, Catholic Charities, 1817 Miami St., South icons and texts Bend, IN 46613. opens at USF AROUND THE DIOCESE FORT WAYNE — A major exhibit Families’ faith of rare sacred icons and historic texts will take place at the enriched at A University of Saint Francis from ST. MICHAEL YOUTH GROUP SHOPS FOR TOTS Jan. 28 through March 5. The exhibit will give area resi- Home For Christ dents the opportunity to see the pri- vate collection of Mr. and Mrs. program William McNagny. This collection of Byzantine icons from Russia and Eastern Europe consists of nearly BY LISA KOCHANOWSKI 100 pieces from the 17th through 19th centuries. They will be on dis- play in the Weatherhead Gallery in SOUTH BEND — Nothing starts the Rolland Center off Leesburg the new year off better then some Road on the east side of campus. education and introspection into Also on exhibit will be 50 his- your faith, and Susan Carozza of torically significant books, texts St. Joseph Parish in South Bend and manuscripts on loan from the found that a great way to start the Remnant Trust Collection includ- learning is through some quality ing original examples by Thomas family time. Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Since 1998, the parish has Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, hosted A Home for Christ: St. Augustine, and many others. Families and Faith program, open Most works will be on display at to members of the parish and the the Bass Mansion Library from Jan. community at large. The idea of 30 through April 28, while religious the program is to bring people texts and manuscripts will be on together spiritually in time for the view at the Rolland Center until feast of the Holy Family, (usually March 5. the first Sunday after Christmas) This exhibit offers students and and extends through the week of the community an opportunity to PROVIDED BY ST. MICHAEL YOUTH GROUP the Presentation of the Lord (Feb. hold, view and read the original and 2). early edition books. The opening The St. Michael the Archangel Youth Group in Waterloo purchased $1,000 of toys in “The format varies from year reception for the exhibition is December for the Marine Corps Toys for Tots program. Chris Ellert, a student at Ball to year,” said Susan Carozza, Saturday, Jan. 28, from 6 to 9 p.m. organizer of the event. “It gives in the Rolland Center and Bass State University, organized a Christmas Charity Variety Show with proceeds being used the family a time to bond and have Mansion Library. for the purchase of the toys. Ellert worked with youth minister Jenny Buchs and spent a spiritual discussion.” A series of lectures highlights According to Carozza, a vari- the exhibition: five months planning the show, building the set, recruiting talent and designing the pro- ety of activities are planned for the • “The Federalist Papers: A gram. Youth members also designed and sold a Christmas coloring and activity book. The family throughout the month. Unique and American Great Things like preschool story Book,” Lecture by University of variety show was held Dec. 21 and with all the projects, $841 was collected. The youth hour where children can come and Notre Dame professor of political group added the extra $159 from another fundraiser to collect $1,000. Youth group mem- listen to religious stories with their science, Walter J. Nicgorski, caregivers and family, a movie Thursday, Feb. 2 from 7 to 8:15 bers, Dan Iddins, Chet Blomeke, Chris Ellert and Amber Harrington, shown above, pur- night for people of all ages, a p.m., Rolland Center. chased the toys and games on Dec. 22 and delivered the toys to West Edge Mall. parish potluck and rosary where • “Plato’s Republic: Virtue as the the schoolchildren will be able to Foundation of the State,” Lecture directly participate in saying the with discussion by Dr. David rosary with the entire congrega- Fleischacker, assistant professor, cussion by Dr. Dominic A. Aquila, David Bruneel of St. Joseph Capital RSVP seeks coordinator tion and a woman’s evening of Department of Theology and dean, School of Liberal Arts at the Bank, Monique Deguara of the prayer are all planned free of Philosophy at the University of University of Saint Francis, Sisters of St. Francis, Father Paul for mentoring program charge. Saint Francis, Wednesday, Feb. 22, Wednesday, April 19, from noon to Doyle of the University of Notre SOUTH BEND — RSVP of St. “We are also working on a cou- from noon to 12:45 p.m., Bass 12:45 p.m., Bass Mansion dining Dame, Nancy Garman of Garman ple’s evening of reflection,” said Mansion dining room. room. Electric, Maria Harding of Saint Joseph County, the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, recently Carozza. It will include a Mass • “St. Augustine’s City of God: For further information, phone Joseph Regional Medical Center, with a renewal of vows and a talk Christian Friendship and the (260) 434-7455. Pam Jentz of Granger, Bill Killilea of awarded a federal grant to begin the “RSVP Mentoring Program,” from other lay couples. The small Security of the Commonwealth,” Horizon Bank, Beth McLaughlin of fee is asked for this evening. Lecture with discussion by Dr. John Bethel College, Annetta Place of is in the process of searching for a Hannah’s House appoints new coordinator. Carozza finds that this is the Bequette, chair of the Department Place Builders, Mary Roos of Health perfect time of year to do some- of Theology and Philosophy at the new board members for Management Association, Dr. David RSVP is seeking to hire a part- time individual passionate about thing that focuses on the family University of Saint Francis, 2006 Spalding of Mishawaka, Rev. because it is right between fall and Wednesday, March 8, from noon to Rickardo Taylor and Patrick Urda of making a change in the lives of at- risk youth in the St. Joseph spring sports and generally a time 12:45 p.m., Bass Mansion dining MISHAWAKA — Two new board Judge Daniel Manion’s office. when family activities are a little room. members have joined the current For more information on County community. This individ- ual will work specifically to match more relaxed. • “Reflections on Martin board of directors for Hannah’s Hannah’s House, how to donate or “The goal is to spark communi- Luther’s Liberty of a Christian House. Hannah’s House is a mater- volunteer opportunities, please con- senior volunteers in a mentoring relationship with children of cations in families or households Man,” Lecture with discussion by nity home located in Mishawaka tact Brandy at (574) 254-5309. that help us become better domes- Dr. Steve Crain, assistant professor, that provides 24-hour, seven-day-a- incarcerated parents and children in foster care who are re-entering tic churches and better house- Department of Theology and week comprehensive care for USF invites public to holds,” said Carozza. Philosophy at the University of young, unwed pregnant girls and society upon their release from, or in lieu of, juvenile correctional Carozza hopes that everyone Saint Francis, Wednesday, March women who have nowhere else to attend trip to Art who attends the event finds it 22, from noon to 12:45 p.m., Bass turn for assistance. The Hannah’s facilities. Institute of Chicago RSVP seeks someone specifi- uplifting and enjoyable. Mansion dining room. House board welcomes Matthew “For someone — say 12 or • “Revision and Revolution: Marien of Career Transitions and FORT WAYNE — The School of cally with interest and knowledge working with at-risk youth and under — I hope they leave saying Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication Brian Gordon of Gordon Insurance Creative Arts at the University of wow that’s fun and I love doing of the Rights of Women,” Lecture Association. They join the 2006 Saint Francis is planning a bus trip senior volunteers. This individual will work 18 hours per week, days things with my church and com- with discussion by Dr. Matthew board officers Patti Thielking of to the Art Institute of Chicago on munity,” said Carozza. “For fami- Smith, chair, Department of Sagamore Health Network, presi- Tuesday, Jan. 31. The bus will leave and evenings, and will work closely with Aftercare for Indiana lies, I hope they find it’s a great English and Foreign Languages at dent; Kevin Anthony of Youth for from the Rolland Center off way to raise my kids in the the University of Saint Francis, Christ, vice-president; Renee Leesburg Road at 7:30 a.m. and through Mentoring, and the Youth Justice Project to develop the Catholic, Christian religion.” Wednesday, April 5, from noon to Hayes of Kruggel, Lawton & return at approximately 9:30 p.m. Anyone wanting more infor- 12:45 p.m., Bass Mansion dining Company, treasurer; and Sheila The cost is $35 to the general pub- mentoring program and build the capacity of these community part- mation about the event can call room. Felinski of Gurley Leep lic. Tickets may be purchased at the Carozza at (574) 287-7888. • “Contending for Ancient Automotive Group, secretary. Rolland Center, by calling (260) ners. Applications are currently Liberties: John Dickinson, Letters Other board members include: 434-7716 or by e-mailing ecama- being accepted for the position from a Farmer,” Lecture with dis- Bill Beven of CB Richard Ellis, [email protected]. that has the potential to become JANUARY 22, 2006 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC 7 Young adult groups begin ‘Living the Faith’ series

BY JENNY MURRAY The schedule for January- March follows: • Sunday, Jan. 29 at 6:15 p.m., FORT WAYNE — A new series, Cathedral Center on the topic: “Living the Faith,” will be spon- When is Enough, Enough?; Four Generations sored by the young adult groups speaker Sally Edington. of three Fort Wayne parishes: Sally Edington, a licensed Cathedral of the Immaculate social worker and a frequent pre- Conception, St. John the Baptist senter at St. John’s annual Spirit of family ownership on Fairfield Ave., and St. Joseph Fest will discuss the stuggles of on Brooklyn. Each month, one of activity overload. She will dis- these parishes will host a guest cuss the physcial, emotional, speaker who will talk about prac- financial and spiritual conse- Now in our fourth MCCOMB tical matters of faith. The organ- quences and offer solutions to generation of service, izers will strive to find topics of & SONS this very common problem. Funeral Homes interest for a wide variety of peo- Begin the year with a resolve to D.O. McComb & Sons has CELEBRATE THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE ple of all ages. make it less stressful by learning worked hard to provide the The young adult groups at how to live at a pace God these parishes feel that people are designed for you. families in this community with (260) 426-9494 searching for ways to deepen For those wishing to attend the the very best service their relationship with God and 5 p.m. Mass at the Cathedral, a Maplewood Park • 4017 Maplecrest put their faith into practice. Often light supper will be provided possible. As a family-owned Lakeside Park • 1140 Lake Avenue they don’t know how. The before the presentation begins. Foster Park • 6301 Fairfield “Living the Faith” series will funeral home, we take • Monday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m., Auburn Chapel • 502 North Main offer practical advice to believers St. Joseph on Brooklyn in the personal pride in every so they can love and serve the church basement on the topic: Covington Knolls • 8325 Covington Road Lord seven days a week. “Joining Our Suffering to the service we arrange. Pine Valley Park • 1320 E. Dupont Road Each topic will be completed Cross.” The speaker is Mary in one session lasting one to two Glowaski. ©2002 MKJ Marketing hours. They will be offered most- Mary Glowaski, a pastoral ly during the evenings with some associate at St. John’s, will dis- weekend sessions. By offering a cuss how to find value in the suf- variety of topics at different times fering we cannot avoid. She will and days, the sponsors hope to discuss practical ways to offer reach a wider audience. Also, our suffering as a prayer to God. because the topics only last one This topic comes right before session, the sponsors hope to Lent allowing participants to fol- appeal to people who cannot low the Cross with Jesus in a make the time commitment need- more deeply personal way. ed for other faith enrichment pro- • Wednesday, March 15, at 7 grams. p.m., St. John the Baptist on Living the Faith will address Fairfield in the church basement; the need of Catholics to deepen on the topic: “Indwelling of the their own faith while learning Trinity: A Way to Pray.” The how to reach out to others as fol- speaker is Sister Gloria Ann lowers of Christ. Every Catholic Fiedler, CDP. has a responsibility to live out his Sister Gloria Ann, who works or her faith in the world, but fig- with the Young Adult Ministry, uring out how to do this can be will help us become more aware confusing. Every Christian is of God present within us. Deepen commanded to follow Christ so your Lenten experience by learn- closely as to become Christ-like, ing how to pray more deeply to but we often feel stuck in our God who is always present to own weaknesses. The sponsors you. will strive to provide topics that St. John the Baptist will have will illuminate how to do what Mass at 5:30 p.m. followed by a we are called to do in the nev- soup dinner. All are welcome. erending tasks of our daily living All sessions for Living the from work and family relations to Faith are free and open to any- prayer life, from cleaning up our one. No registration is necessary. own lives to finding the right If you have any questions way to evangelize. The mission about the series, contact Mike of this series is to offer practical Gibson at Campus Young Adult ways to love and serve the Lord, Ministry. For more information allowing us to extend the power call (260) 483-3661 ext. 3385 or of the Mass into our daily lives. e-mail: [email protected].

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were invited to view the projects dents around the end of BY LISA KOCHANOWSKI along with all the children September and beginning of involved in the religious educa- October and gave them a dead- GRANGER — It’s not every day tion program. line. Throughout the weeks, chil- that you see Barbie, Ken and “The church I went to before dren could research their projects their friends gathered around a did it, and my children learned a and put together their projects baptismal fountain baptizing their lot from the projects,” said Eva with the help of family and baby, but from the creative minds Howard, organizer of the event friends. Some classes decided to of the religious education group about how the idea came into do group projects and some fami- at St. Pius X Church in Granger, focus. “I told them about it here a lies decided to make them a fami- it was one of 47 projects turned couple of years ago, and it took ly-wide project. in by students grades 1-8 in a us time to find room and get it When the child dropped off recent religion fair. organized.” the project, they did an interview Students in the religious edu- Religious education director that required them to answer cation program at St. Pius X in Michele Artusi and Eva Howard where they got the idea, what Granger were invited to put thought it would be great if they they were hoping to learn by together a project that would be could get at least 30 projects for doing this project, what materials entered into the religion fair. The the first time and were amazed at were used to do the project, how projects were judged and award- the 47 projects they received for long it took to finish and who ed first, second or third place. their first stab at the program. helped them finish the project. Throughout the week last week, “I see this as an extension of They also had to state what they parents, families and parishioners what the kids are learning at learned from creating this project school and at home,” said Artusi on their entrance sheet that PHOTOS BY LISA KOCHANOWSKI of this event. “We had such a accompanied the project while it It’s not often one sees Barbie and great response. It shows the par- was on display. Ken at a baptism, but they were ents are really getting behind the There was a wide selection of one of the 47 projects seen at the kids. Those that participated were projects at the event. Some chil- first annual religion fair at St. just so genuinely excited.” dren chose to highlight the life of Pius X Church in Granger. According to Howard, they their favorite saints like St. introduced the projects to the stu- Theresa, St. Cecelia, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Jerome, St. Patrick, St. Sarah or St. Bridgette. Others got very creative with ideas like a replica of the proposed addition to St. Pius X, recreation of the Last Supper, a Catholic Faith Puzzle Book, the Ten Commandments made out of paper mache, a quilt designed like the grotto and a special Old Testament standing book that was a game where a person had to match the individual on one page with a description of famous peo- ple on the other page (a light would go off when a match was made on the pages of the book). Twelve judges awarded points for clarity of the project, how the project was created and the gen- eral creativity of the project, how the project educated others and how much help the student received. This Old Testament standing book was a game where a person had to Howard was very happy with match the individual on one page with a brief description of a person the turnout and hopes this is the Pictured is a handmade quilt of the grotto at the first annual religion on the other page and a light would go off when a match was made on beginning of a long history of fair at St. Pius X Church in Granger. the pages of the book. this special program. “I hope they would learn more about their religion or faith; learn about something to focus on,” said Howard of her goal of the project. “I hope that it inspired them to learn more about their faith and religion.”

The winners of St. Pius X’s first annual religion fair include the following: • First through third grades — first place, Addison Schena; sec- ond place, Caroline Peterson; and third place, Jacob Turner • Fourth through sixth grades — first place, Alexandra Redden; second place, Chris Wagner’s sixth grade CCD class; and third place, Olivia Carlton • Seventh through eighth grades — first place, Jenae LaCosse; second place, John Akre; and third place, Steve Plaia’s seventh grade CCD class. JANUARY 22, 2006 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC 9 Driving privileges legislation for immigrants addressed this year

BY BRIGID CURTIS AYER Regarding opposition to the of policing roads and highways, and to our new population. Every sense for our community needs.” driving privileges concept, Rep. negatively impacting all.” wave of immigrants to our coun- The Hispanic/Latino popula- Murphy said, “You’re always The subcommittee concluded try has provided an important tion in Indiana is currently esti- INDIANAPOLIS — As immi- going to have opposition to a in their report that access to driv- work force,” he said. “We need mated at 245,500. The 2000 U.S. grants pour into Indiana to fill the group of people (who) look dif- ing privileges “... will make workers in Indiana. We also need census counted over 214,000, and labor shortfall, the Indiana ferent or speak a different lan- Indiana a safer, more attractive people to drive safely. This legis- that year the Immigration and General Assembly will consider guage. This is a classic example state for growth of business, lation has nothing to do with Naturalization Service (INS), legislation granting the undocu- of the ‘Know Nothing’ thinking tourism and families.” granting or furthering immigra- now called the Bureau of mented immigrants driving privi- of the 1850s,” he said. “There Manual Gonzales, of the tion status,” said Gonzales. Citizenship and Immigration leges — legislation the Indiana will always be a remnant of this Indiana State Hispanic Chamber “We’re not even attempting to Services (BCIS) estimated 45,000 Catholic Conference has marked ‘Know Nothing’ mentality. Even of Commerce, said, “This legisla- do that,” he said. “We’re just undocumented immigrant as a priority issue this year. though we are a country of immi- tion is very important to Indiana doing what makes reasonable Hoosiers. Rep. John Aguilera (D-East grants, there will always be a Chicago) author of one of the group of people who will do any- driving privileges proposals said, thing to make the immigrants not Bishop Luers High School “The purpose of House Bill 1357 welcome.” Rep. Murphy attends is to create a new category of St. Jude Parish in Indianapolis. OPEN HOUSE driving privileges in our state House Bills 1310 and 1357 called a driver’s certificate. It is have been assigned to the House For Prospective Students and Their Families primarily for those who are Committee on Public Safety and undocumented, without a social Homeland Security. Rep. Bill Sunday, January 29, 2006 2 - 4 PM security number, but who live and Ruppel (R-North Manchester) work in our state,” he said. “It chairs the committee. Murphy 333 East Paulding Road, Fort Wayne 46816 does not allow them to board a said he is hopeful the bill will be v plane. It does successful this not further year. •Tour our school and visit with current students their immigra- Benedictine tion status,” “We’re really Sister Karen •Visit our classrooms •Meet our dedicated teachers said Rep. Durliat, of the •Learn about our clubs and athletics •Watch our show choir perform Aguilera. Guadalupe “The reality trying to Center in of this issue is Huntingburg, a we have an take care of ministry of the immigrant Evansville community Diocese serving living, working a public the Hispanic and paying community, said, taxes in our safety issue.” “I know there are state. This bill a lot of people simply gives who can’t get a them a valid REP. JOHN AGUILERA driver’s license way to move because they are around the not legal. state. We’re Because Indiana really trying to has no public take care of a transportation public safety system, the dri- issue,” said Rep. Aguilera. ver’s certificate program would House Bill 1357 is modeled be a great help to those who need after Utah’s driving privileges to drive to work, to English-as-a- FRESHMEN REGISTRATION law and, if granted, the driving second-language class, or to take privilege would only be valid in their children to school.” February 7 and 9, 2006 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. the state of Indiana. “It became A February 2005 report to the clear when the federal govern- Indiana Commission on For more information, please call Bishop Luers High School (260) 456-1261 ment enacted the Real ID Act that Hispanic/Latino Affairs (ICHLA) immigrants would not be able to submitted by The Subcommittee get a driver’s license without a on the Driver’s License Issue social security number.” The Real noted, “Problems resulting from ID Act set guidelines for undocu- not licensing drivers include 2004 2005 mented immigrants regarding increased insurance rates, greater driving privileges. risk of accidents and higher costs When asked about opposition to this legislation, Rep. Aguilera said, “Those who are anti-immi- gration see this as a step further- Class of 2010 ing immigration status, but that’s a federal issue, not a state issue. Freshman Registration While I support tightening of immigration controls, Indiana’s St. Vincent & Precious Blood not a border state,” he said. “We’re just dealing with reality Monday, January 23, 2006 - 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. and trying to tackle a state issue by giving those already living St. Charles & Queen of Angels here a valid way to drive.” Rep. Aguilera attends St. Stanislaus Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Parish in East Chicago. Rep. Mike Murphy (R- St. Jude, St John NH, St. Mary of Avilla, all others Indianapolis) who has authored a similar driving privileges propos- Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. al, House Bill 1310 said, “The bill attempts to do two things. OPEN SCHEDULING (Library) First, to recognize the reality of the many immigrants we have Saturday, February 4, 2006 - 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. here working in our community, but who do not have the legal (Please enter through Door #1) documentation to obtain driver’s license to drive to work. Secondly, it is to solve a problem by providing an opportunity to 1300 East Washington Center Road qualify for a driving certificate as Fort Wayne 46825 • (260) 496-4700 long as they first take a written www.bishopdwenger.com and driving test and have valid insurance,” said Rep. Murphy. 10 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC JANUARY 22, 2006

the Central American nation in Midwest Catholics, 1998. Each January, the U.S. arch- Muslims talk about diocese takes up an annual collec- tion in January to benefit its shared values Honduran counterpart. The multi- purpose Centro San Antonio there WASHINGTON (CNS) — EWS RIEFS N B includes a day care and nutrition Twenty Catholic and Muslim center, runs a variety of programs leaders discussed shared religious and offers courses in job skills for and moral values and issues facing adults and children. But a new people of faith in a multicultural PEOPLE WAIT TO RECEIVE FOOD IN PAKISTAN chapter in the San Antonians’ out- secular nation during a meeting of reach was started this past fall the Midwest Regional Dialogue of when 26 of them, including Catholics and Muslims, held Dec. Auxiliary Bishop Patrick J. Zurek, 13-14 at the headquarters of the led a special retreat for 45 Islamic Society of North America Honduran men. Called an ACTS in Plainfield, Ind. Among papers retreat — an acronym for adora- discussed was one by Louay Safi, tion, community, theology and the society’s leadership training service — it is directed primarily director, on different models for to those within a parish to help reconciling secular and religious them enter into a new or deeper perspectives in public life. He said relationship with God and fellow a political system of rule of law in parishioners. Founded in San a democratic society requires Antonio in 1987, the retreat some of the same virtues and val- sprang from the Cursillo move- ues espoused by revealed reli- ment, which seeks to promote gions: morality, honesty, justice, individual and organized apostolic human dignity. The dialogue, one action. of three regional Catholic-Muslim dialogues in the country, is co- sponsored by the Islamic Society Bishop McAuliffe, retired of North America and the Catholic bishops’ Committee on bishop of Jefferson City, Ecumenical and Interreligious dies at 85 Affairs. The bishops’ Department of Communications issued a news KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CNS) — release on the proceedings in Retired Bishop Michael F. January. McAuliffe of Jefferson City died in his sleep Jan. 9 in the Jeanne CNS/STEFANO RELLANDINI, REUTERS Jugan Home of the Little Sisters ‘Celibate gay priest’ of the Poor in Kansas City. He was resigns as chaplain at People wait to receive food in a refugee camp in the earthquake-devastated city of 85. His successor, Bishop John R. Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, Jan. 12. More than 2 million people have been living in tents or Gaydos, described Bishop Catholic university McAuliffe as “a gentle man of crude shelters patched together from ruined homes since the Oct. 8 earthquake that God” and said “it was in keeping COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. (CNS) that he gently slipped the traces of — In response to a recent Vatican killed more than 80,000 people. this earthly existence.” His funer- instruction on homosexuality and al Mass was scheduled for Jan. 14 priesthood, a Benedictine priest church-based medical and social Act, fails to empower Department dignity,” said Archbishop at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in who describes himself as a “celi- service agencies, the appellate of Health and Human Services Ebacher, who chairs the social Jefferson City, followed by burial bate gay priest” resigned as chap- division of the state Supreme officials to make decisions about affairs commission. in Resurrection Cemetery, also in lain and director of campus min- Court ruled 3-2 that the 2002 law the eligibility of children (to Jefferson City. A priest of the istry at St. John’s University, is constitutional. The church receive refugee benefits) “without Diocese of Kansas City, later effective Jan. 15. In a Dec. 14 e- groups had argued that the having to wait an unreasonable Pope appoints new renamed the Kansas City-St. mail to administrators and stu- requirement to provide contracep- amount of time.” She also wanted Joseph Diocese, Bishop dents explaining his decision, archbishop for Winnipeg tives for employees violates the to see more steps taken to make McAuliffe headed the Jefferson Benedictine Father Robert Pierson tenets of their faith. “This case is sure that immediate guardians are Ukrainian Catholic City Diocese from 1969 until his told them about his sexual orienta- not about the right to contracep- appointed to children who have retirement in 1997. Although he tion and said he does not accept Church tion,” said a statement from the been trafficking victims. headed a relatively small diocese, several of the Vatican document’s New York State Catholic OTTAWA (CNS) — Pope with about 90,000 Catholics, assertions. The Vatican’s Conference. “We have never chal- Benedict XVI has appointed a Bishop McAuliffe became nation- Congregation for Catholic lenged employees’ right to use Canadian bishops call for new archbishop for the Ukrainian ally known when he chaired the Education, which oversees semi- contraception. We have simply Catholic Archdiocese of U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee naries around the world, issued a end of refugee maintained that our religious Winnipeg, Manitoba. Ukrainian on Women in Church and Society nine-page instruction Nov. 29 that beliefs prevent us from paying for agreement with U.S. Bishop Lawrence Huculak of from 1974 to 1982. said candidates should not be something we teach is sinful.” Edmonton, Alberta, has been accepted for priesthood if they OTTAWA (CNS) — Canadian appointed the Ukrainian archbish- have “deep-seated homosexual Catholic bishops called for the op of Winnipeg. “I’m quite hon- Bishop Wuerl elected tendencies,” live a gay lifestyle or repeal of the Safe Third Country USCCB official calls bill ored to have been chosen for this,” have been sexually active. “I do Agreement between Canada and chairman of NCEA board Archbishop Huculak said in a tele- not believe my own sexuality is against human the United States and the end of phone interview from Edmonton of directors ‘objectively disordered,’ or that it racial profiling of Arab and trafficking good, but Jan. 9. His installation will take puts me ‘in a situation that seri- Muslim communities. The recom- place Feb. 11 at Sts. Volodymyr WASHINGTON (CNS) — ously obstructs (me) from proper- lacking mendations were contained in a and Olga Cathedral in Winnipeg. Bishop Donald W. Wuerl of ly relating to men and women,’” pastoral letter, “We Are Aliens and WASHINGTON (CNS) — A bill The worldwide head of the Pittsburgh has been elected to a Father Pierson said, quoting lan- Transients Before the Lord Our signed by President George W. Ukrainian Catholic Church, three-year term as chairman of the guage used in the instruction. “I God,” published by the bishops’ Bush Jan. 10 to combat human Cardinal Lubomyr Husar of Kiev- board of directors of the National cannot remain silent about my dis- social affairs commission. trafficking was a step in the right Halych, Ukraine, will officiate. Catholic Educational Association. agreement in conscience with this Refugees must not be scapegoats direction, but not enough to help Archbishop Huculak will replace When he begins his term in April, document, or the church’s teach- because of heightened security children, according to a representa- Ukrainian Archbishop Michael he will succeed Bishop Gregory ing on homosexuality,” he wrote. concerns following the Sept. 11, tive of the U.S. Conference of Bzdel, who formally requested M. Aymond of Austin, Texas, who 2001, terrorist attacks, said had held the post since 2002. In a Catholic Bishops. “In general, I Archbishop Roger Ebacher of retirement following his 75th think the revisions are solid and birthday July 21. statement, Bishop Wuerl said New York law making Gatineau, Quebec, at a Jan. 10 Catholic education “has played a necessary and the allocation of news conference on Parliament religious employers cover money is good,” said Sister Mary significant role in the United Hill to release the letter. He said San Antonio Catholics States, exercising an extraordinary contraceptives upheld Ellen Dougherty of the bishops’ most terrorists would probably not Migration and Refugee Services. impact on the life of individuals, go to the trouble of trying to enter lead retreat for peers in the church and our society.” He ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) — A New Sister Dougherty, a member of the the country as refugees. He urged said it would be “a privilege and York appeals court Jan. 12 upheld School Sisters of Notre Dame and Honduran archdiocese Canadians not to become preju- joy to serve as NCEA’s board a state law requiring religious manager for outreach, education diced toward refugees and SAN ANTONIO (CNS) — The chairman and work with all to employers to cover contraceptives and technical assistance in MRS’ migrants, who face poverty, sepa- San Antonio Archdiocese has continue the important contribu- in prescription insurance plans. A human trafficking program, said ration from families and persecu- been providing spiritual, social tions that the NCEA makes to so spokesman for the church-owned the final version of the bill “didn’t tion in their home countries. “It is and material help to the people of many.” organizations that sued to block go far enough for us as far as chil- a fundamental inversion of values its sister Archdiocese of the law said they would appeal. In dren are concerned.” She said the when laws and politics place Tegucigalpa, Honduras, since a lawsuit filed by Catholic legislation, called the Trafficking national interests before human Hurricane Mitch dealt a blow to Charities of Albany and other Victims Protection Reauthorization JANUARY 22, 2006 PRO-LIFE 11 Dr. Alveda C. King, pastoral associate at Priests for Life, to speak at Fort Wayne rally

FORT WAYNE — The featured speaker at the Fort Wayne pro-life rally will be Dr. Alveda King, director of African American Outreach and a pastoral associate at PRO-LIFE ACTIVITIES HELD THROUGHOUT THE DIOCESE Priests for Life. The annual rally and march to be held on Jan. 28 will begin at noon in the Scottish Rite Life chain event planned in Goshen Auditorium, located at 431 W. Berry St., Fort Wayne. King founded King for America, Inc. “to assist peo- GOSHEN — A life chain sponsored by Holy Innocents Pro-Life Action Group will be held ple in enriching their lives spiritually, personally, men- around the public sidewalks of the Goshen Court House on Saturday, Jan. 21, from 11 a.m. tally and economically.” She is the daughter of the late slain civil rights activist Rev. A. D. King and his wife to noon. Placards will be provided. Family participation is encouraged. Contact Karen Banta Naomi Barber King. King is the mother of six children and a grandmother. at (574) 295-8551 for information. During the more than half century of her life, King has worked towards her purpose of glorifying God on earth by accomplishing many goals. Currently, King is a Masses for life scheduled in Fort Wayne and South Bend minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, serving as direc- tor of African American Outreach for Gospel of Life, Masses for Life are scheduled Sunday, Jan. 22, at the cathedrals in both Fort Wayne and headed up by Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life. She also consults with the Africa Humanitarian South Bend. The Masses take place on the actual anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Christian Fellowship, founded by her mentor, Pastor Bishop John M. D’Arcy will be celebrating the 5:30 p.m. Mass at St. Matthew Cathedral in Allen McNair of Believers’ Bible Christian Church in Atlanta, Ga. South Bend. Father Robert Schulte will celebrate the 5 p.m. Mass at the Cathedral of the She is a former college professor, holding a masters Immaculate Conception in Fort Wayne. An hour of adoration follows the Mass with benedic- degree in business management from Central Michigan University. Her undergraduate studies in journalism and tion at 7 p.m. in Fort Wayne and 7:30 p.m. in South Bend. sociology helped her to become a published author, the most popular works being her best-selling books “Sons Of Thunder: The King Family Legacy,” and “I Don’t Bells toll in Huntington Want Your Man, I Want My Own.” This inspirational collection of Christian testimonies is used at confer- HUNTINGTON — The Huntington County Right to Life asks all churches to toll their ences and workshops around the world. bells for five minutes at noon on Jan. 22. They ask for a silent prayer from all people who King’s doctorate of law was conferred by St. Anslem College. She has served as a senior fellow of the Alexis hear them. The committee also sponsors a two-page newspaper advertisement with names de Tocqueville Institute. She has also served on the of donors and an educational message. boards and committees of numerous organizations, including the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, Coalition Of African American Pastors, and the Judeo- Pro-life march and rally held in Fort Wayne on Jan. 28 Christian Coalition For Constitutional Restoration. She also served in the Georgia State House of FORT WAYNE — In commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, Representatives, and is an accomplished actress and songwriter. the March for Life Committee of the Allen County Right to Life is planning their annual During the years of the Civil Rights Movement, led rally and march to be held on Jan. 28. by her uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., King’s family home was bombed in Birmingham, Ala. in the heat of The rally will begin at noon in the Scottish Rite Auditorium, located at 431 W. Berry St., the struggle. “Daddy’s house was bombed, then in Fort Wayne. The featured speaker at the rally will be Dr. Alveda King, director of African Louisville, Ky., his church office was bombed. I was also jailed during the open housing movement,” she American Outreach and a pastoral associate at Priests for Life. recalls. The march will begin promptly at 1 p.m. The procession is peaceful and prayerful with a King has continued her long-term work as a civil rights activist, speaking out on issues that face society police escort from the Scottish Rite to the Federal Building on Harrison St. Call (260) 471- today. “I believe that school choice is a pressing civil rights issue. Perhaps the most compelling issue of all is 1849 for more information. the life of the unborn,” King says. “Faith in God, and Immediately following the march for life, there will be a “Silent No More” gathering. the commitment to fulfill his will for our lives — not faith in government bureaucracy — is the key to posi- Testamonies of those who have been affected by the abortion decision will be presented. tive action. Have faith in God!” This is the message that Also, a clergy breakfast will be held Jan. 28 at 8:30 a.m. All pastors are invited. Call (260) King carries to the world. 471-1849 to make a reservation.

KNIGHTS PRESENT CHECK TO WOMEN’S CARE CENTER

Pro-life chairman John Becker and Grand Knight Jim Brassell of the Knights of Columbus Council 451 present a check for $1,478, the proceeds of the annual pro-life fund drive, to Anne Koehl, director of the Fort Wayne Women’s Care Center. The Knights sent a duplicate amount to the state council of the Knight of Columbus for their pro-life activities.

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Our parish is dedicated to Little Flower Parish The Mother of Our Saviour South Bend The Star of Hope The Comfort of the Afflicted

And the one chosen to guide us through the sorrows of life, including the agony brought about by abortion. Queen of Peace, be with us. Saint Mary Parish - Huntington “America you are beautiful ... and blessed ... The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. the Catholic community of If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and saints patrick & hedwig in south bend lasting peace, then America, defend life.” Pope John Paul 11 state our belief in the sanctity and infinite value of all human life from conception to death. without

Life is... a precious gift from God. LIFE other Treasure and respect it! human rights are meaningless. St. Anthony de Padua SOUTH BEND St. Monica Church MISHAWAKA

Why can’t we love them all? We can travel and visit all the wonders of St. Joseph - St. Catherine Parishes the world. Yet, when we return home and Roanoke • Nix Settlement look into the eyes of a child, we know that here, in the human person, we find the greatest manifestation of God’s grandeur and glory.

protect, respect, love... Every Human Life Sacred Heart Church • Warsaw

Sts. Peter & Paul Parish Support the Dignity of Human Life HUNTINGTON Life is Blessed are you, Lord, Creator God who inspires all my deeds and thoughts. I praise you for the gift of a Miracle my life. Hear my prayers for your beloved children untimely deprived of existence through abortion. v Open the eyes of those who are blind to the vision of St. Charles your love. I ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. Borromeo Church Queen of Angels Parish • Fort Wayne FORT WAYNE JANUARY 22, 2006 PRO-LIFE 13

Human life is not a political football; it is the very image of our God. Let us work together to cherish and protect that gift. v St. Michael Parish PLYMOUTH

All things bright and beautiful all things great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all.

MICHELLE DONAGHEY The Fourth Degree Color Corps of the Knights of Columbus Father J.A. Nieuwland Assembly 242 of South Bend St. Adalbert Parish carried the colors during the annual Respect Life Program March in South Bend, which took place Sunday St. Casimir Parish starting at the Santa Maria Council 553. Those who marched traveled from the post to St. Joseph Church for a prayer service led by Deacon Nate Wills, CSC, after which they marched back to the council for a program with South Bend guest speaker, Father Glenn Kohrman and a light lunch of soup and bread.

we do what we can to help others our future. They will be the ones foster and deepen the love of the who will bring about change.” MARCH human soul.” Zielinski urged those who Bob Zielinski, master of cere- came to the event to keep their CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 monies, said that understanding of enthusiasm alive when they left any issue “comes out of dialogue, the hall. age, conviction of a crime or which is only effective if all par- “Take it beyond this room, being unwanted. “No, nothing ties are listening to each other.” beyond this march and live it in can separate us from the love of He added that young people “are your lives,” he suggested. “...from the moment of Christ! And by your presence here today, you stand witness to its conception, life must be that fact. By our stance on abor- tion, (embryonic) stem-cell guarded with the greatest care, research, euthanasia, capital pun- ishment and abortion, we pro- claim a seamless garment of while abortion and infanticide respect for life in all its stages, in all of its moments,” Deacon Wills are unspeakable crimes.” said. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, 51 “Let’s keep working and pray- ing for an end to abortion and a St. Dominic Parish deeper conviction that nothing can Bremen separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord,” said Wills in closing the homily. “There is no magnitude of the evil,” said Father Kohrman in his talk at the hall. He noted that if “It is a very great poverty abortion numbers were marked on a map of the United States “you to decide that a child must die could block out populations of 17 states.” that you might live as you wish.” “People don’t understand the Mother Teresa of Calcutta magnitude of this darkness,” he said. The Catechism of the Divine Mercy Gifts Catholic Church defines sin as something against reason, truth South Bend 277-1400 and right judgment. “The only ¦ reason God made it sinful is that it is bad for us; it destroys us.” Life, whatever age, unborn, young, middle aged or elderly, is precious. “Our future lies in the youth and young people and older peo- If one heartbeat ple who are not making a call to Jack Kevorkian,” said Father MICHELLE DONAGHEY means life, Kohrman, whose own mother Around 150 people came to take part in the Knights of Columbus went through suffering for months Annual Respect Life Program which included a March from Council 553 what do two before she passed away. to St. Joseph Church for a prayer service and back to the council for a “Suffering brings out nobility in program. The event has been held annually since the 1970s. Hot soup heartbeats mean? the human person,” he said, and and bread were served at the council building where everyone listened “we are the mystical body of to guest speaker, Father Glenn Kohrman from St. Mary of the Lake, Christ who can hopefully help the Culver. Proceeds from collection baskets at the event will be donated to world recognize this dignity. May St. Louis Besancon New Haven the Women’s Care Center and Hannah’s House. 14 PRO-LIFE JANUARY 22, 2006 earn “coupons” by attending class- Wayne and has undergone renova- es and participating in prenatal and tion since May of 2005. Koehl, well-baby care to be used to pur- who is overseeing the second loca- WCC chase baby items at the on-site tion as well, says the renovations CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 store. The store, aptly named the producing the same home-like “Crib Club Room” is sponsored atmosphere with comfortable chosen birth. and supplied by the Christ Child couches, lamp lighting and decora- Koehl, who performs the tests, Society’s Fort Wayne chapter. tive accents will be a welcoming says, “It’s not natural for a mother Items found there include maturity sight for those who seek their serv- to harm her child. Once they see and baby clothes, furniture, car ices. The new location will also the image of their baby and hear seats, diapers and a host of other have an ultrasound machine and its heartbeat, they choose life.” baby items and supplies. offer the same counseling, prenatal Parenting classes held four In addition to parenting skills, and well-baby services found at times a week are on site and taught guidance is provided for those the Webster Street center as well by four volunteer teachers. Fathers wishing to graduate from high as a fully stocked “Crib Club are encouraged to attend. Most school or earn a GED. The center Room” of its own. Evening parent- classes, hosting 11,475 visits to also provides referrals to various ing classes will eventually be held date, are offered in the evening community services as needed. at the new facility, which offers with an additional English class As the number of women more parking opportunities. held on Thursday morning and a served by the center continued to Signs directing the public to the Spanish class on Friday morning. increase over the last two years it new facility went up the last week Issues surrounding discipline, toy recently became evident that a sec- of 2005. The new center opened its safety, financial management and ond site was needed in the area. doors on Jan. 8. more are discussed. Childcare is After some time a section of a “We served 15 clients at provided. multi-tenant office building was Webster St. and two at the new Mothers and fathers-to-be can acquired on the east side of Fort center that first day,” said Koehl enthusiastically. “In time, this site will prove to be as crucial as Webster.” The new Women’s Care Center DON CLEMMER odel of mothers is located at 2112 Inwood Dr. in The new Women’s Care Center at 2112 Inwood Dr. opened its doors Jan. northeast Fort Wayne and can be 8. Like its counterpart on Webster St., this location also has an ultra- reached by calling (260) 471-1282. Comforter sound machine and offers counseling, prenatal and well-baby services. of the afflicted Black Catholic pro-life deliver your gentle guidance to apostolate announces anyone considering participation ‘Rosary Across America’ in an abortion. NEW YORK (CNS) — The St. Mary Parish • St. Peter Parish New York-based National Black Human Life is Sacred Catholic Apostolate for Life will FORT WAYNE hold its second annual “Black Catholic Rosary Across America for Life” Jan. 23 to mark the “God created man in his image, 33rd year since the Supreme Court legalized abortion virtual- in the divine image he created him; ly on demand. Black Catholics and people male and female he created them.” of life are invited to pray the Acknowledge God’s Sovereignty Genesis 1:27 rosary for life on that day to end abortion and all acts of violence Over All Life-- against human life, said Franciscan Father James Goode, the apostolate’s founder and Respect and Defend Life! president. Holy Cross and “By praying the ‘Black Catholic Rosary Across America St. Stanislaus Parish for Life,’ we as black Catholics are committed through the inter- SOUTH BEND cession of Mary, the mother of life to impact our community with the message of life and change lives and attitudes,” the priest said in a news release. The apostolate’s team coordi- nators for the rosary will be Supreme Knight Arthur C. McFarland of the Knights of St Martin de Porres Church Today’s Holy Innocents Peter Claver and Supreme Lady Mary L. Briers of the Knights’ Syracuse, Indiana Ladies Auxiliary. They’ll never feel the summer rain “This is not the time to give Nor hear the river’s roar. up on life. This is the time for Their birthday cakes will go unbaked us as black Catholics to defend and hold up life in our commu- And their snowmen will be unbuilt. nity and throughout this nation,” “THE COMMANDMENT They will never sit on a grandparent’s lap Father Goode said. Or on a pony’s back. He said that last year more ‘You shall not kill!’ They will never hear, or sing, or write a song. than 19,000 people participated always requires respecting and Nor will their hands ever heal a wound. in the “Rosary Across America” Although they’ll never taste a lover’s kiss, and that the apostolate hopes to promoting human life, They will know what it is to be missed. double that number this year. The apostolate is a ministry For them, the last has come first... from its beginning to its natural end.” “committed to witness the gift John Paul II For they have been denied the gift of life. of life in the black community” Mark Weber and “committed unconditionally to defending human life from Saint Francis Xavier • Pierceton the moment of conception to St. Vincent de Paul Church natural death,” according to its mission statement. Fort Wayne JANUARY 22, 2006 PRO-LIFE 15

Abortion ‘not the American way,’ America: “All of the great March for Life organizer says causes that are yours today will BY NANCY FRAZIER O’BRIEN and The Catholic University of city’s waterfront, the marchers at America — also includes a rosary times were met with jeers and have meaning only for life, night prayer, Holy Hours, crude signs from many of the WASHINGTON (CNS) — As a morning prayer and the opportuni- 3,000 abortion supporters who to the extent that World War II veteran, Nellie Gray ty for confession. It ends at 7:30 staged a counterdemonstration. thinks abortion is “just not the a.m. Jan. 23 with a Mass of In a statement on the Web site you guarantee the right to life.” American way.” penance and prayer. for this year’s march, organizers In the war against Nazi Special events for young pro- told pro-life participants to expect Pope John Paul II Germany, “my beloved America lifers include the American the same reaction but to remember St. Mary of the Assumption & St. Jude Parish went over there and stopped the Collegians for Life student leader- their own event is to remain SOUTH BEND same kind of killing, and then we ship conference Jan. 21 on the peaceful. sat in judgment of them for that at Catholic University campus and a “The 2005 Walk for Life West Nuremberg,” she told Catholic rally for life and youth Mass on Coast saw many vociferous pro- News Service Jan. 10, referring to the morning of Jan. 23 at abortion demonstrators. We expect the 1946-47 war crimes trials at Washington’s MCI Sports Arena. a similar or increased counter- which German physicians were The March for Life Education demonstration for the 2006 Walk accused of euthanizing people & Defense Fund also is sponsor- for Life. Please come prepared to considered “unworthy of life.” ing an educational convention Jan. be 100 percent peaceful. Our wit- “And now my country is doing 21-22 at the Hyatt Regency ness to peace in the face of such hen people want to build a world the same thing,” said Gray, presi- Washington Hotel on Capitol Hill. vile hostility is our greatest contri- ignoring God and his law, they are dent of the March for Life Scheduled events include talks by bution to the pro-life movement,” in fact giving rise to a situation of Education & Defense Fund. Archbishop Raymond L. Burke of the statement said. “Millions of children continue to St. Louis and Bobby Schindler, the In Los Angeles, the archdioce- more and more suffering and injustice. be killed. It just continues on and brother of Terri Schiavo; screen- san Commission for Catholic Life -Pope John Paul II on and on.” ings of films on ultrasound images Issues and Hispanics for Life are Jubilee for children That’s why the theme for the and partial-birth abortion; and sponsoring a March for Life/Life 33rd annual March for Life Jan. individual testimonies by men and Chain Jan. 22. 23 in Washington is “Roe v. Wade women who have suffered varied Participants, also expected to St. Mary of the Lake Parish - Culver Violates the American Way.” abortion experiences. be in the thousands, will meet at The 2006 march will take place Raymond L. Flynn, national Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral the day after the anniversary of the chairman of Catholic Citizenship and then process with pro-life U.S. Supreme Court decision that and former U.S. ambassador to the signs through the streets of down- lifted most state restrictions on Vatican, will be honored at the town Los Angeles. abortion, since Jan. 22 falls on a fund’s 24th annual Rose Dinner The event “will be a reflection Sunday this year. The march scheduled for the evening of Jan. of the cultural diversity of the Respect life for what it is, always takes place on a weekday 23 at the Hyatt Regency. Catholic Church, which is uniting a gift from The Creator. to permit marchers to visit the In addition to the anti-Roe in prayer to end the 33-year offices of their representatives in events traditionally staged in the slaughter of our unborn brothers Congress afterward. nation’s capital, two major march- and sisters. Hispanics in particular “Marchers for life educate es are also planned for the West are overwhelmingly pro-life,” said Washington officialdom at all Coast. Astrid Bennett Gutierrez, board three branches of our government In San Francisco, thousands are member of Hispanics for Life. that a preborn human person, with expected to take part in the second In endorsing the event, an unalienable right to life, exists annual Walk for Life West Coast Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los at fertilization, and that abortion Jan. 21. Angeles said the “Life Chain is a kills a preborn human, traumatizes The 2005 event was the first way to make the proclamation mothers and fathers, and assaults large-scale Roe v. Wade anniver- (that) to be human is to be called all members of our society, includ- sary demonstration to be held in to protect life and to promote ing feminists/abortionists,” accord- the Bay Area. It drew 7,000 pro- human dignity.” ing to materials distributed by the lifers. As they walked along the March for Life. Saint Pius X Parish • Granger, Indiana Because of construction, this year’s march has a different start- ing point — Seventh Street and the National Mall, the long park west of the Capitol. The March for Life usually begins at the Ellipse, located between the White House and the Washington Monument. But the 2006 march, which begins at noon Jan. 23, will be sur- rounded by the usual complement Supporting a culture of life of pro-life events and activities. The National Prayer Vigil for Life opens Jan. 22 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Sacred Heart Parish Immaculate Conception in Washington with an 8 p.m. Mass Notre Dame celebrated by Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore. CNS PHOTO/GREGORY A. SHEMITZ, LONG ISLAND CATHOLIC The vigil — sponsored by the Young people lead pro-life activists as they make their way toward the basilica, the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities Supreme Court building during the annual March for Life in Washington Jan. 24, 2005.

he sacred rights of mankind are not to Along with our Holy Father be rummaged for among old parchments Pope Benedict XVI or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human the people of nature by the hand of divinity itself and can never Queen of Peace Parish in Mishawaka be erased or obscured by a mortal power. -Alexander Hamilton Saint Rose of Lima - Monroeville pray that all will respect life. 16 PRO-LIFE JANUARY 22, 2006

Judges 16:17 We are not some casual “...for I have been or meaningless product of evolution. consecrated to God Each of us is the result of a thought of God. from my mother’s womb.”

Each of is willed. St. Therese Catholic Church - Fort Wayne

Each of us is loved. Our Name... Each of us is necessary. Holy Family Parish Pope Benedict XVI v v Respect Life Rosary expresses a reverence for life which speaks of our prayers, Mondays, 7:30 PM activities and intentions dedicated to North Chapel the support of all Pro-Life endeavors. Christ The King Parish 56405 Mayflower Road • South Bend 52473 State Road • South Bend RESPECT LIFE “The gospel of life is at the heart of Jesus’ message...it is to be preached with dauntless fidelity; as ‘good news’ to the people of every age and culture.” s believers, -Pope John Paul II how can we fail to see St. Patrick Church that abortion, ARCOLA euthanasia, and assisted suicide are a Mother surely speaks for all terrible rejection of God’s People with this plea:

God’s gift of life and “Please don’t kill the child. I want the child. love? And as believers, how can we fail Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted, and to feel the duty to surround the sick and to give that child to a married couple who those in distress with the warmth of our will love the child, and be loved by the child.” -Mother Teresa, affection and the support that will help The National Prayer Breakfast them always to embrace life. Washington, D.C., February 5, 1994 --Pope John Paul II, St. Patrick Church and School Homily at Trans-World Dome, 801 Tyler Street, Walkerton, Indiana St. Louis, January 27, 1999 St. John the Evangelist Parish - Goshen Rev. John H. Delaney, Pastor “The choice in favor of life St. Mary of the Annunciation Parish - Bristol is not a private option Rev. Robert Van Kempen, Pastor but a basic demand of a just and moral society.” St. Thomas the Apostle Parish - Elkhart -Message from Pope John Paul II to Cardinal William Keeler Rev. William Sullivan, Pastor Father King and the Parishioners of St. Vincent de Paul Parish - Elkhart SACRED HEART of JESUS CHURCH Rev. Philip DeVolder, Pastor 63538 U. S. 31 South • South Bend JANUARY 22, 2006 PRO-LIFE 17 Choose Life! The Parishioners of Saint Matthew Cathedral Pray for support the clear and consistent teaching of the a True Respect Judaeo-Christian Tradition regarding the sanctity for All Life of human life and the obligation of believers to defend the most vulnerable members of society.

ST. MICHAEL “Cease to do evil, learn to do good: THE ARCHANGEL seek justice, rescue the oppressed, “Let it be PARISH defend the orphan, done to me Waterloo speak out on behalf of the widow.” Isaiah 1.17 as you say.” “You shall not practice abortion nor harm Luke 1:38 the infant...nor plot to deceive your neighbor. You shall hate no one. You will correct some, The community and clergy pray for others, and some you will love more of St. Joseph Church, South Bend, than your own life.” support life in all its stages, from conception through natural death. Fr. Michael Heintz Fr. John A. Cramer St. Henry Parish Rev. Mr. Emilio Gizzi Sacred Heart Parish Sr. Agnes Marie Regan, OSF Miss Mary Ann Retseck, Principal FORT WAYNE Mrs.Teddi Murray, CCD Director Mrs. Lisa Marino, RCIA Director St. Joseph Church 226 North Hill Street South Bend

“...God, the Lord of life has conferred on men and women the God’s Greatest surpassing ministry of safeguarding life - a ministry Gift of All which must be fulfilled in a manner which is worthy of them.” Pastoral Constitution on the Church in Modern World, 51. St. Bavo Parish St. Joseph Parish Mishawaka 225 South Mill Street - Mishawaka

Life is too precious, On this anniversary of the Supreme Court As a people of do not decision, Roe vs. Wade (1973), God, may we pray destroy it. we are reminded that “As God for an end to Life is life... recognized each of us before we were born, abortion. and called us by name, so too may we fight for it! Mother Teresa recognize the value of each human life and “Before I formed pledge ourselves to continue to defend and nurture God’s greatest gift to us” you in the womb, (1992 Respect Life Manual,NCCB) I knew you.” BASILICA OF THE SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME

OUR LADY OF GOOD HOPE PARISH Fort Wayne St. John Joins with the Church throughout the world in the Baptist praying for the good and life of the unborn. New Haven 18 PRO-LIFE JANUARY 22, 2006 HOLY CROSS PRIEST SPEAKS ABOUT DEATH PENALTY he nearer a soul is truly united to God, the more its sensibilities are increased to every being of His Creation; much more PROVIDED BY THE INDIANA CATHOLIC CONFERENCE to those whom it is bound to Father Tom McNally, CSC, was one of three presenters on the Catholic position on the death penalty at a Jan. 12 love by the tenderest and most luncheon sponsored in Indianapolis by the Indiana Catholic Conference. Father McNally, a Holy Cross priest, endearing ties. is volunteer chaplain at the State Penitentiary in Michigan St. Elizabeth Ann Seton City. He has extensive personal and pastoral experience with inmates on Indiana’s death row. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church Fort Wayne ithout life, other civil rights are meaningless. 32nd Annual Most Precious Blood Parish MARCH Fort Wayne FOR LIFE “...the greatest destroyer January 28, 2006 of love and peace is abortion.” Noon at Scottish Rite Mother Teresa (DOWNTOWN FORT WAYNE) St. Patrick Parish • Fort Wayne No Admission Charge “...El gran destructor del Keynote Speaker amor y de la paz es el aborto.” Madre Teresa Dr. Alveda King Parroquia de San Patricio Director of African American Outreach Fort Wayne Priests for Life v O Immaculate Mary, A Silent No More event will immediately who was so open follow the March at the Federal Building. to the birth of Jesus v and doing God’s will, The National Silent No More Awareness campaign is an effort to make the public aware of the devastation abortion brings to women, men, and pray for us and their families. The emotional and physical pain of abortion will no longer for all people, be shrouded in secrecy and silence, but rather exposed and healed. This may we be open to effort is a key to make abortion unthinkable and persuade society that women deserve better than abortion. For more information about God’s generous gift Silent No More visit their website at www.silentnomoreawareness.org. of human life.

ForFor more more information, information, call call the the Allen Allen County County Right Rite toto LifeLife Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception office at (260) 471-1849 or visit www.iChooselife.org FORT WAYNE JANUARY 22, 2006 PRO-LIFE 19 Learning from Our Lady of Guadalupe

BY LISA EVERETT to the Aztec gods, one of whom poignantly on this mass conver- and all that happens to them. Like was represented by a serpent. An sion of the Aztecs: “Perhaps the Mary at the wedding at Cana, the early Mexican historian esti- simplest miracle, that which church loves like a mother when n 1999, on his third pastoral mated that one out of every five impressed the native Indians she reaches out to people in diffi- visit to Mexico, Pope John children in Mexico was sacri- and converted them whole- cult circumstances and seeks to IPaul II declared Our Lady of ficed until Hernan Cortes and heartedly to Christianity, was bring their human needs within the Guadalupe patroness of the conti- the Spanish missionaries who the idea of a God whose scope of Christ’s saving power. nent of America and entrusted the followed him put a stop to it, mother showed such gra- Isn’t it precisely this kind of cause of life to her protection. only 10 years before the cious courtesy in coming to motherly love, this closeness and What can we learn from Our Blessed Mother appeared. them and speaking to compassion that Our Lady of Lady’s visits to a poor, humble The fact that the image them as one of their Guadalupe manifested to the Indian in 1531, and how can her of a serpent figured so own. How could they not Aztec people, which makes pro- example help us to win hearts for largely in the Aztec reli- believe in a God with life ministries like Catholic the Gospel of Life today? gion helps to explain such a caring mother?” Charities and the Women’s Care She appeared as a beautiful, the likely origin of In a culture like ours, Center so effective in our own young Indian woman, wearing a the title in which one out of time and place? sash that signified pregnancy in “Guadalupe.” It is every four pregnancies We need to change the laws of the Aztec culture, and spoke ten- believed that during one ends in abortion, we our country, to overturn Roe v. derly to Juan Diego in his native of her apparitions, Our practice our own form of Wade, to put an end, as did the Nahuatl tongue. Lady used an Aztec human sacrifice — more Spaniards, to the killing. But we On a hill named Tepeyac out- phrase, which is pro- sanitized, perhaps, than also need to change the hearts of side of Mexico City, which had nounced “quatlasupe” and that of the ancient Aztecs, the people of our country by being once been a shrine to the Aztec sounds remarkably like the but no less ruthless. And there for those who experience mother goddess, Our Lady Spanish village our annual death toll in the crisis pregnancies, offering con- revealed herself as the merciful “Guadalupe.” This Aztec United States alone far crete help and emotional support. mother of the true God, assuring phrase means “who crushes exceeds that of their entire More than ever we need to Juan Diego of her love, compas- the serpent,” so it is likely empire. Our false gods are invoke Our Lady of Guadalupe as sion, help and protection for him, that Our Lady called herself not figures of serpents, per- patroness of the pro-life move- for all the inhabitants of his land the one “who crushes the ser- haps, but they are made in the ment, imploring her intercession and for all the rest of humanity pent.” image of that ancient serpent to convert hearts to the cause of who loved her, invoked her and Crush the serpent she did, who seduced our first parents into life. And more than ever we in the confided in her. because what is even more miracu- distrusting God, who had only pro-life movement need to imitate This tenderness and compas- lous than the incredible, indelible their good at heart. To restore trust her motherly love, whose tender- sion shown by the Mother of God image of herself that Our Lady left in God and his goodness to hearts ness and compassion is capable of to Juan Diego and his people are on Juan Diego’s tilma, is the fact hardened, perhaps, by suffering putting an end, once and for all, to particularly striking when we that nine million Indians converted and sin, and tempted to take the the slaughter of the innocents in recall that, for centuries, the to Christianity during the 10 years not thirsty for their blood; on the lives of the innocent, we once America. Aztecs had practiced a ruthless that followed her apparitions, for- contrary, he had shed his blood for again need the tender touch of a religion in which human sacrifice ever putting an end to human sac- them. mother. played a central part. Tens of rifice in Mexico. Our Lady’s ten- In her book, “One-of-a-Kind Pope John Paul II believed that thousands of men, women and derness and compassion convinced Friends: Saints and Heroes for the motherly love of the church Lisa Everett is the codirector of the children were sacrificed annually the Aztecs that the true God was Kids,” Ethel Pochocki comments consists in being close to people Office of Family Life. Pope condemns efforts to offer abortion pill, urges family protection

support — for example, in paying center-right coalition in the April BY JOHN THAVIS for housing, nursery schools and elections, said the issue was not kindergartens. gay marriage as such, but the more VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In a Such assistance for the tradi- than 500,000 Italian couples who talk that touched on controversial tional family should not be seen as have lived together for years with- election-year issues in Italy, Pope a concession to Catholic morality, out social benefits. Benedict XVI condemned efforts but as respect for “elementary In his address to the political to introduce the abortion pill and truths regarding our common leaders, the pope called for protec- urged steps to protect the tradition- humanity,” he said. tion of the unborn. He said it was al family based on marriage. “It is a grave error to obscure especially important for the state to The pope made the remarks the value and functions of the provide concrete forms of assis- Jan. 12 in a legitimate fami- tance to pregnant women who face speech to civil ly founded on financial and other difficulties. officials of the marriage, Furthermore, he said, the state Rome region. “It is a grave error to attributing to should avoid introducing “drugs His comments other forms of that hide in some way the serious prompted an union an nature of abortion” as a “choice immediate flurry obscure the value and improper legal against life.” The pope was refer- of reactions recognition for ring to attempts in Italy to intro- across the politi- functions of the which, in reality, duce the RU-486 abortion pill in cal spectrum in there is no real some regions on an experimental Italy, where gen- social need,” he basis, which has also surfaced as eral elections legitimate family said. an election issue. will take place in Romano The pope’s comments brought April. Prodi, head of praise from Italian Health Minister The pope founded Italy’s center-left Francesco Storace, who last year began by thank- coalition, recent- blocked some regions from experi- ing the officials on marriage ...” ly came out in menting with the RU-486 drug and and the popula- support of legal who wants pro-life groups to be tion of Rome for rights for long- allowed to counsel women seeking the strong reli- POPE BENEDICT XVI term unwed abortions. gious sentiments couples, provok- Leaders of Italy’s Communist they showed ing a storm of Refoundation Party said the pope during the death objections by was interfering in political ques- and funeral of the Vatican and tions. Pope John Paul Italian church “No one wants to question the II last year. That kind of spiritual leaders. Italy has resisted legal value of the family. Instead, the intensity, he said, should bear fruit recognition of homosexual mar- legal recognition of civil unions CNS PHOTO/TONY GENTILE, REUTERS in the civil arena, especially on riage, which has been adopted in aims to respect the family in all its Pope Benedict XVI looks on during a meeting with political leaders of family issues. some European countries. forms,” said Ivano Peduzzi, a lead- the Rome region at the Vatican Jan. 12. The pope spoke out against In particular, he said, young Prodi, who will oppose Prime ing official of the party in Rome. abortion and urged steps to protect the traditional family based on couples and their families need Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s ruling marriage. 20 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC JANUARY 22, 2006

EDITORIAL The shifting grounds of the pro-life movement COMMENTARY

s another anniversary of Roe v. Wade rolls around and all TODAY’S CATHOLIC welcomes letters from readers. All letters must be signed and include a phone number and address for verification. Athings pro-life come to the fore, the ground is clearly moving Today’s Catholic reserves the right to edit for clarity and length. Address letters to: Today’s Catholic • P.O. Box 11169 • Fort Wayne, and changing beneath two major pro-life issues in the U.S. IN • 46856-1169 or e-mail to: [email protected] First comes abortion. The likely confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court has received much attention, values. please, please help me make this mostly because Alito, by most accounts, won’t view the precedent Maintain democratic Consequently, any attempt to day pleasing in your sight!” This is of Roe v. Wade as absolutely binding. This means that, for the suggest that those who participate in the only way we can pray without first time ever, the court could conceivably overturn Roe. principles while peaceful protests against such enti- ceasing — the whole day then However, while overturning of Roe v. Wade has long been the ties as the Western Institute of becomes a prayer through Jesus. glorified, ultimate goal of the pro-life movement, it should be living in accordance Security Cooperation are disloyal to If we need to know Jesus ... ask. mentioned that such an occurrence will not be the end of the the troops fighting in Iraq is ludi- If we need to forgive someone ... issue. If abortion is illegalized, the pro-life movement should real- to Christian values crous. This is the type of tactic that ask. ly be gearing up to fight it on a much more difficult and elusive It is unfortunate that Anita has as its objective to divide, the If we need our sins forgiven ... level — underground. Chances are, trying to prevent illicit abor- McMahon, in her letter of Jan. 8, hallmark of a “divide and conquer” ask. tions will make fighting legal abortions look easy. This will did not direct her readers to the philosophy, which too many of our If we need to stop smoking ... ask. Victory Noll Sisters’ Web site country’s leaders have adopted. If we need to know God better ... require unprecedented efforts of social outreach, spelling out If we encourage this philosophy, ask. sharply that there is a big difference between abortion’s illegality (www.olvm.org) where they would have learned the sisters’ mission “to we are guilty of encouraging and If this letter is to be effective ... and its end. break the images of poverty and maintaining the fog of corruption ask. The other life issue that has really been in motion lately, thanks oppression by promoting justice and which has settled over our govern- The list goes on and on ... ask. largely to efforts by U.S. bishops and various Catholic political empowering women.” In this con- ment institutions in Washington, Some of these things we may not action groups, is capital punishment. Catholic opposition to capi- text, they would have understood D.C. want, but we need to ... ask. tal punishment has never been the juggernaut that accompanies Sister Angeline’s presence at the Lawrence H. Rehill Our lifetime is the first moment the abortion issue, which is almost strange given the fact that rid- protest against the Western Decatur of eternity, use it wisely for Jesus ... ding our society of capital punishment could be a relatively sim- Hemisphere Institute for Security ask. ple task if enough people supported it. Basically, once capital Cooperation, in Benning, Ga., You don’t create Dick Miller punishment is illegalized — either via legislation or a high court which was held Nov. 18-20, 2005. Fort Wayne decision — we have the guarantee that it will stop completely, a Those who do not have knowl- peace by ignoring guarantee that, as mentioned earlier, does not accompany an issue edge of the Western Hemisphere Second chances Institute for Security Cooperation the wayward like abortion. but who are familiar with the U.S. I want to remind Anita abound in wake of While the movement against capital punishment gains momen- Army School of the Americas may tum, Catholics should take the opportunity to make one huge uni- McMahon (Today’s Catholic, Jan. 8) be surprised to learn that they are and others who follow her line of disasters fied push to have its practice ended in the U.S., freeing us up to one and the same. The School of the thinking that you don’t create peace Looking back over the past year, pursue other life issues, which promise to get more complicated. Americas, which had its genesis in by ignoring the wayward. we feel like we have been through Panama in 1946, with the purported Jesus challenged the Scribes and perhaps one of the most difficult peri- mission “to provide education and Pharisees and called them to task ods in our history. Starting with the training (while) promoting demo- when they protected their own secu- tsunami that struck the people of Sri Attitude matters with Christian unity cratic values, respect for human Also at the end of January is a week dedicated to prayer for rity and laid heavier burdens on the Lanka and India, we were stunned by rights and knowledge and under- poor and needy. the loss of lives of hundreds of thou- Christian unity. Sometimes it feels like praying is the most the standing of United States customs Does the excessive spending for sands of people. average Christian can do to further this cause. It’s a fuzzy issue, and traditions” closed its doors on the war in Iraq make us more Then, soon afterwards, the world one in which no one knows for certain how the end product will Dec. 15, 2000, and under its new secure? Is it fair to put the lives of experienced one catastrophe after look. Therefore, we must pray and have faith that God will guide name the Western Hemisphere our young soldiers at risk by fight- another — hurricanes with their us to the best conclusion. Institute for Security Cooperation ing a questionable war, one that floodings, tornadoes and earthquakes But outside of prayer, in the practical, hands-on level of the opened shop at Fort Benning in Pope John Paul II opposed? — it was beyond our comprehension. 2001. McMahon labels as “sinners” What was happening to us? When real world, how much good we can do for Christian unity is large- It should be no surprise to learn ly a question of attitude. some of those who participated in would it come to an end and return to that the School of the Americas the protest against the “School of normal again? First, we must learn to treat non-Catholic Christians with true became known as the “School of and deep respect. For some reason, this can be a challenge. the Americas.” Jesus, too, associat- So many of the casualties seemed Assassins” considering the partici- ed with people whom others labeled to be humble people with few or little Catholic author Flannery O’Connor once said that the greatest pation of its graduates in the follow- as “sinners.” I am de facto put into possessions, but even these had been Catholic sin was smugness, and she was probably right. Forty ing: the March 1980 assassination that category. Thank you, Anita, for taken from them. Where was the jus- years after Vatican II, we still tend to cloister ourselves and regard of Archbishop Romero, in El this compliment. tice in this? Perhaps these people in other Christians more like the “heretics and schismatics” of yes- Salvador; the December 1980 rape, I invite Anita to join me in the their simple lifestyles were more pre- terday than the “separated brethren” Pope John XXIII hoped to torture and murder of four U.S. call of Pope John Paul II and of pared to give an accounting of their reach out to with the council. This attitude can be toxic when try- Maryknoll women missionaries in Jesus. lives as they went to meet their El Salvador; the 1989 murder of six Sister Angeline Walczyk, OLVM Creator than you or I would have ing to make strides toward Christian unity. Salvadorian Jesuit priests, their To overcome this arrogance toward other Christians, Catholics Huntington been. How would you or I have mea- housekeeper and her teenage daugh- sured up if we were one of them? can look to St. Paul’s writing about how Christ’s body is one, ter; and the systematic theft of though it has many parts. Once we see each other as different Asking is all the But God in his mercy has given us babies from Argentina’s “disap- another chance to get our lives in parts of the same body, several attitude adjustments are likely to peared” prisoners — all at the difference order. How will we respond? occur. For one, we try to behave as one body, cooperating with expense of U.S. taxpayers. Rita Sweeney This letter has, in my opinion, each other and working toward common goals. And since we are Unfortunately, this is only the tip of Wabash all different parts, we seek to understand each other more com- the iceberg regarding the activities one of the most necessary ingredi- pletely. This is where dialogue comes in. of graduates of this school of assas- ents of Christian understanding. I Dialogue is talking with someone who is different, not with a sins. have heard hundreds of Should American taxpayers — priests, pastors and teachers goal of convincing him that he is wrong, but with an attitude of especially those who call them- of religion preach very ele- openness and honesty, of wanting to learn more about the other selves Christians — ignore the gant sermons on many top- out of a sense of love. This attitude carries with it no hidden traps activities of this organization or oth- ics, but the “how to carry or agendas, only the desire to draw different Christians — and all ers who ignore our democratic prin- out” is often not explained. people — closer together. ciples and Christian values? Jesus said, “Without me It is then, in dialogue, that we learn the deeper truths about Are protesters against such inhu- you can do nothing.” What each other and discover new ways to work out differences, ways manity cavorting with “sinners” if part of “nothing” don’t we that were not apparent with an attitude of mistrust and superiority. they participate in these protests understand? “Ask” is the When we overcome differences with this new attitude, we are with individuals or organizations main ingredient. “Ask and much closer to bringing about Christian unity, something prayed who have a philosophy different you shall receive, seek and from theirs? you shall find, knock and it for by Christ himself at the Last Supper. One would think that, As American citizens, we should shall be opened to you.” since Christ himself prayed for it and we have the power to do be appalled at our government’s “Ask the Father anything in something about it, Christian unity would be a much higher prior- part in advocating and supporting my name, and it shall be ity for a good many people. the torture of fellow human beings given you.” In this lifetime, and the destruction of their home- we are given the privilege of lands under the pretense that it ben- asking. In heaven, we will efits “our national interests.” Our have no need to ask. We will primary “national interest” should have everything. Today’s Catholic editorial board consists of Bishop John M. D’Arcy, be to maintain our democratic prin- Asking is actually anoth- Ann Carey, Don Clemmer, Father Mark Gurtner, Father Michael Heintz, ciples and our civil liberties while er form of prayer. Pray Tim Johnson, Vince LaBarbera and Msgr. J. William Lester. living according to our Christian every morning, “Lord Jesus, JANUARY 22, 2006 COMMENTARY 21 Trends are adaptations, not the CATEQUIZ’EM By Dominic Camplisson decline and fall of the church In January we remember Sts.Timothy and Titus.We learn quite a bit about the early church from these two men. n recent years, a number of writers have lamented the 1.Who was Timothy? Idecline and fall of the a.a Jew b.a gentile Catholic Church in the last 40 to c.son of a Jewish mother and a pagan father 50 years. One such writer is RESEARCH FOR THE CHURCH Joseph Varacalli, author of JAMES D. DAVIDSON “Bright Promise, Failed 2.Titus was Community.” Another is David a.a Jew b.a gentile Carlin, who has written “The c.son of a Jewish mother and a pagan father Decline and Fall of the Catholic communities and gave rise to a tion.” — Page 283. Church in America.” entire class of Catholic leaders. There is no doubt that many 3.Which apostle considered both Titus and Timothy as companion and assistants? To document the vitality of the In Varacalli’s words, this Catholic trends in the institutional life of a.Peter b.Paul c.Thomas church of the 1950s, Varacalli subculture functioned very well the church point downward since quotes sociologist Will Herberg: through the 1950s, but was the high-water marks established 4.He sent these two on a variety of missions;where was Timothy sent? “the Catholic Church in America “severely weakened ... in the in the 1950s and early 1960s. a.Yorba Linda and Chico operate(d) a vast network of insti- post-Vatican II period.” — page There have been marked declines tutions of almost every type and 56. in the number of priests and sis- b.Corinth and Thessalonica variety. ... This immense system Carlin presents essentially the ters, the number of seminaries c.Rome and Cairo constitute(d) at one and the same same image of a vigorous church and seminarians, the number of time a self-contained Catholic in the 1950s. Like Varacalli, he Catholic schools and students 5.Titus,on the other hand,accompanied Paul to this important council: world with its own complex inte- also regrets its decline. According enrolled in them, and the percent- a.Constantinople rior economy and American to Carlin, “What happened to age of Catholics participating in b. Lateran Catholicism’s resources for par- American Catholicism in the the sacraments. c.Jerusalem ticipation in the larger American 1960s was nothing less than a But the high-water marks of community.” Varacalli also cites tragedy in the history of the 1950s and early ‘60s were 6.Timothy and Titus are both believed to have risen to this office: Msgr. George Kelly, who con- American culture. ... Just at the achieved under very specific con- tends that this immense network moment when American ditions. One “external” condition a.Bishop of Catholic institutions produced Catholicism was nearing intellec- was intense anti-Catholicism, b.Senator high levels of religious practice, tual maturity, when it was on the which contributed to Catholics’ c.Presbyter fostered Americanization and verge of being able to appropriate need for a safe harbor — a place upward social mobility, promoted its own cultural treasures and where they go and not be 7.Where did they exercise this office? extraordinary amounts of loyalty pass them on to other Americans despised or discriminated against a.Timothy of Ephesus and Titus of Crete among the laity, made parishes — at precisely this moment, it b.Timothy of Rome and Titus of Antioch the cornerstone of local Catholic began a process of disintegra- DAVIDSON, PAGE 22 c.Timothy of Capri and Titus of Malta

8.Timothy was thought to have been martyred for: a.Opposing Peter and Paul’s authority Conversion: the best choice b.Objecting to pagan festivals c.Supporting the Persians against Rome weekend, the church offers us a passage from the First Epistle to Reflection 9.The three letters to Timothy and Titus are generally referred to as “pastoral letters.” the Corinthians. Paul had a chal- The church called us to cele- THE lenge in leading the Corinthian brate the birth of Christ. Two What give them this characteristic? Christians to a fully devout weeks later it led us to the celebra- a.They are addressed only to shepherds. SUNDAY Christian life. The city was in real- tion of the feast of the Epiphany of b.They are addressed to bakers (from Latin “pasta-oralists”). ity what Nineveh was symbolically the Lord. A day later, it offered us c.They are addressed to pastors, those who care for the Christian GOSPEL to the ancient Jews. Corinth was the feast of the Lord’s baptism by community, rather than all the faithful. known around the Roman imperial John in the Jordan River. MSGR. OWEN F. CAMPION world as a center of vice and licen- All these celebrations, among tiousness. It was a noteworthy dis- 10.The first letter to Timothy warns against: the greatest of the church’s year of a.False teachers tinction, since vice and lewdity worship, taught critical lessons b.The Jews prevailed throughout the empire. about Jesus. He is human, the son Third Sunday in The apostle calls upon the of Mary. He is the Son of God. He c.The Romans Christians of Corinth to remember is the Savior, assuming our sins Ordinary Time that time passes quickly and that even though Jesus was without sin. 11.It also included this information,which demonstrates that the church did not at Mk 1:14-20 life is short. They have before Now the church moves into the that time have a celibate episcopacy: them two options. The first is life process of asking us to respond. It he first reading for this a.Bishops must be married. in Jesus, a life that is everlasting, tells us that Jesus called certain per- b.Bishops must be married only once and keep their children weekend is from the Book but it requires fidelity to the sons for particular roles. He calls under control. Tof Jonah, an Old Testament Gospel and the Gospel’s values. us. Whatever the role, the keystone c.The office of the bishop must be given to a bishop’s son. writing seldom presented in the The other option is eternal death, must be faithfulness to the Gospel. liturgy. Jonah is the central figure awaiting those who spurn the No one is too sinful to be in this book. He was not the Gospel. beyond redemption, if merely they 12.Similarly in relation to another rank of clergy,the members must be “dignified,not author. The author is unknown. St. Paul obviously urges the sincerely choose to be redeemed. deceitful,not addicted to drink,not greedy”...Which rank? Scholars believe that the Book of Corinthians to be holy. To an extent, we all live in a.Deacons Jonah was written sometime after The Gospel of Mark provides Nineveh. Yet the Lord reaches to b.Priests the Babylonian exile of the Jews. the last reading. It is the story of us in mercy and love. c.Monks The reading speaks of Jonah’s the Lord’s calling of Andrew, It is to our advantage to visit to Nineveh, the capital of the Simon Peter, James and John to be respond affirmatively. Death is Assyrian empire, located roughly apostles. This story has a parallel 13.In the second,more prosaic,letter to Timothy,Paul has this to say about a garment: the other option. The choice a.He (Paul) wants Timothy to bring his cloak to him. in the region of modern Syria. He in Matthew. belongs to us. went there, at God’s command, to All the early Christians found b.The robe (of Jesus) is to be set up as a relic. preach conversion. stories of the Twelve especially c.The shroud (of Jesus) is to be housed in Turin. Preaching conversion in important. It was from the apostles Nineveh was a tall order, and the that the Gospel of Jesus came, READINGS 14.In the letter to Titus,Paul notes that the people Titus ministered to were accused of Jews who first heard this reading going far and wide. The apostles Third week of Ordinary Time being liars,beasts and gluttons.What does Paul say about that? knew exactly how difficult the were the links with Jesus. Monday: 2 Sm 5:1-7, 10 Ps 89:20- a.It is unchristian to say such negative things about people. assignment was. No city on earth Therefore, it was vital to assure, 22, 25-26 Mk 3:22-30 b.It is all true, so Titus better take them in hand. had the image of evil and vice that and present, their credentials. The Tuesday: 2 Sm 6:12b-15,17-19 Ps surrounded Nineveh. credentials, of course, were that c.Calumny is a greater sin than laziness. Nineveh, after all, was the capi- 24:7-10 Mk 3:31-35 they had been called by Christ, had Wednesday: Acts 22:3-16 Ps 117:1-2 tal of Assyria. Over the centuries, heard the message of Christ and 15.In a piece of practical advice,how does Paul suggest dealing with a heretic? many neighboring powers invaded, had remained loyal to Christ. Mk 16:15-18 a.Have them burned, or at least toasted, at the stake. and overwhelmed, the Holy Land. The condition of the call is Thursday: 2 Tm 1:1-8 Ps 96:1-3, 7 b.Give in to them, as heresy will always be with us. However, none of the invaders interesting. The apostles men- 8a, 10 Mk 4:21-25 c.After warning them twice, break off contact with a heretic. matched the Assyrians for blood- tioned in this rereading were Friday: 2 Sm 11:1-4a, 5-10a, 13-17 thirstiness and brutality. Yet, the Ps 51:3-7, 10-11 Mk 4:26-34 unprepared. The call was sudden. ANSWERS: climax of the story is the conver- Yet it touched them so deeply that Saturday: 2 Sm 12:1-7a, 10-17 Ps 1.c, 2.b, 3.b, 4.b, 5.c, 6.a, 7.a, 8.b, 9.c, 10.a, 11.b, 12.a, 13.a, 14.b, 15.c sion of the city. they instantly, and fervently, 51:12-17 Mk 4:35-41 For its second reading this responded in the affirmative. 22 COMMENTARY JANUARY 22, 2006 Offertory has roots in Jewish custom, earliest Masses

What is the purpose of the offertory in During the fourth to the sixth wine signifies the union of the church adds a spiritual meaning to the Catholic Mass?,M.0.,South Bend centuries of the church, in the divine and human natures in this action, for it symbolizes the offertory procession, not only were Christ. The priest prays: “May we need for holy ministers. The priest he offertory or the prepara- the bread and wine brought up to THAT’S come to share in the divinity of quotes Psalm 51: “Lord, wash tion of the gifts and the altar the altar, but other gifts and food Christ, who humbled himself to away my iniquity; cleanse me of Thas been part of the Catholic were presented to help support the A GOOD share in our humanity.” my sin.” The priest and the people Mass since its beginning. The first clergy and the poor. The chalice is slightly elevated. then pray the “Orate Fratres,” that Mass was the Last Supper, and the At the offertory, the gifts of QUESTION The priest thanks God for the “fruit asks God to accept the sacrifice, apostles had to prepare for this bread and wine are presented to of the vine,” which will become our and the offertory rite concludes meal by getting the necessary the priest. They are not changed “spiritual drink.” The priest bows with the prayer over the gifts. things ready. Since the Mass into the body and blood of Christ and says the prayer by Azariah dur- involves the elements of bread and until the Eucharistic Prayer or the reminds us of the fact that the ing the Babylonian captivity who wine, these need to be brought to consecration of the Mass. So dur- Christian supper was grafted on the was unable to worship in the Today’s Catholic welcomes ques- the altar so that they can eventual- ing the offertory rite the elements Jewish liturgy of repasts, which destroyed temple at Jerusalem: “We tions from readers to pose to ly be changed into the body and are merely normal bread and wine. Jesus celebrated with his disciples ask you to receive us and be Father Richard Hire, Father blood of Christ and then be con- In the offertory ceremony on Holy Thursday evening. It is a pleased with the sacrifice we offer Michael Heintz, Father Mark sumed by the priest and the people today, the priest slightly elevates or “berakah” or benediction or bless- you with humble and contrite Gurtner and the Liturgical during the Communion rite. lifts up the bread and prays: ing. In biblical language, the bless- hearts.” This prayer comes from the Commission of the Office of St. Justin Martyr (c. A.D. 158 ) “Blessed are you, Lord God of all ing does not descend, but it Old Testament book of Daniel. Worship. Please e-mail your describes the early Christian Mass creation. Through your goodness ascends. It is addressed to God to The priest may then incense the questions to [email protected] at Rome and speaks of the offerto- we have received this bread to thank him for his holiness, his gifts of bread and wine. This des- fwsb.org or mail them to ry. He says “bread, wine and water offer, which earth has given and greatness and his gifts. ignates the spiritual aspect of the Today’s Catholic, That’s A Good are brought up” to the altar. After human hands have made. It will Wine is also poured into the sacrifice. The smoke of the incense Question, PO Box 11169, Fort this offertory rite, the priest prays become for us the Bread of Life.” chalice and a few drops of water rising upward shows the accept- Wayne, IN 46856. Please and gives thanks while consecrat- Father Roguet mentions that are added. This is the “krasis.” ance of the offering by God. include your name and city and ing the bread and wine, and then this prayer originated from the This is an ancient custom, since The priest then washes his an e-mail address or telephone the holy Eucharist is distributed to Jewish liturgy of repasts, especially wine used to be very heavy and hands at the Lavabo ceremony. number that we can contact you all, and the deacons take the of solemn banquets of confraterni- heady and required some diluting. Practically, his hands could be dirty if necessary. Anonymity will be Eucharist to those who are absent. ties, and of the paschal supper. This The mingling of the water and from handling the incense. But the preserved upon request. Bullets “And they shall turn their swords ket that had been set before the SCRIPTURE SEARCH into plowshares” altar. It surprised me that just about everyone came up do drop THE By Patricia Kasten un shy people need not something in the basket. I didn’t Gospel for January 22, 2006 apply. That was my recur- think people in that remote area GLOBAL Gring thought as I traveled could have that much money. Mark 1:14-20 through a remote portion of Well, the mystery was solved South Sudan with Bishop Paride at the offertory procession. When CHRISTIAN Following is a word search based on the Gospel reading Taban of Torit. the basket was placed on the FATHER JOE BRAGOTTI, MCCJ for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B: the The war was still going on at altar, we realized that it was not meeting of Jesus with his first disciples. The words can the time, and we could visit the full of money, but of bullets of be found in all directions in the puzzle. bishop’s beleaguered flock only every imaginable caliber. The to hold, aim and shoot an AK47. with the help of the Sudan People bishop, who had just finished As I look at the world today, ARRESTED JESUS GALILEE Liberation Army (SPLA). That preaching on peace and reconcili- especially during this month of KINGDOM REPENT PASSED meant traveling with them, shar- ation, was not very happy with January, which starts with a THE SEA SIMON HIS BROTHER ing food and lodging with them, the collection, but bravely carried World Day for Peace and ends ANDREW FISHERMEN THEIR NETS being with fully armed men 24/7. on with the Mass. Later he com- with eight days dedicated to FOLLOWED A LITTLE HE SAW One memorable evening in an plained loudly to the catechists Christian unity, I ask myself: JAMES ZEBEDEE BOAT SPLA base, a local woman pre- about the idea of offering to the have we learned anything yet? MENDING LEFT HIRED MEN pared a delicious supper (actually God of Love such instruments of Will we ever stop “playing with the day’s only meal) of goat death. It was then that we found bullets?” meat, millet mush, beans and out that people hadn’t had access Why do half of the nations of HIS NET peanut sauce for the two of us to currency in years and bullets the world manufacture, advertise and the top officers. She even were the only “currency” they and sell weapons? Why does the produced an embroidered table had in common. other half buy, and use these KWL E DGA L I L E E cloth. The “table” was a crate of When evening came, it was weapons? Why can’t we shoot DEWOLLOFTFEL RPGs; the “chairs” were smaller time for singing, dancing and ... the entire lot into the air and give crates of hand grenades and fireworks. Fireworks? Well, close peace a chance? GTHESEA I BOAT AK47 bullets. Nobody smoked to it. The faithful, catechists If you are still struggling with TKE I PASSEDRT during that meal. included, brought out their guns your New Year resolutions, let The next day, we went to a and began to shoot in the air with me make a suggestion. Forget H I SBROTHERR I liberated area where we were mindless abandon. “Aren’t you about dieting. You know it won’t ENAJBEEEEVEL received by an enthusiastic crowd wasting precious currency?” work. Look around your parish, of Christians who hadn’t seen a asked the bishop. “Not really — a your town and find some group I GWOANDREWSA visitor, let alone their bishop, in catechist volunteered — we are that works for peace. Join it or at RDJAMESMJ I TN some years. The local catechists shooting your offertory collection least support it. had done the ground work. There to ensure that what we gave to NOJHBFEEEOEO were babies and catechumens to God won’t kill anyone.” EMREPOBN I NDM be baptized, adults to be con- On the way back to the base Father Joe Bragotti,MCCJ, is mission firmed, marriages to be blessed. the next day, we saw three little director of the North American TYZMENDINGHI Mass was said under the old kito- shepherds watching over their Province of the Comboni SREPENTJESUS ba tree. goats and sheep. They were Missionaries, a worldwide reli- At the offertory, we sat down, standing in the sun, naked as God gious institute founded by St. © 2006 Tri-C-A Publications and people, according to local made them. The older two, not Daniel Comboni to carry the custom, filed up individually to much over 10 or 11 years old, Gospel to “the poorest and most place their offering in a large bas- were teaching the youngest how abandoned” people on earth.

levels of participation in sacra- bor has diminished. And, as God regular basis. fer today’s loving God to yester- ments, as laypeople did whatever the punitive judge has been When I have asked Catholics day’s judgmental God. DAVIDSON they could to increase their replaced by a God of uncondi- if they would like to see a resur- Therefore, rather than seeing chances of going to heaven. tional love, fear no longer moti- gence of anti-Catholicism and recent trends as the decline and CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21 These conditions have vates participation in the sacra- fear so we could restore the fall of the church, it makes more declined in the last several ments. Thus, it is not surprising Catholic subculture of 1950s, sense to see them as very reason- simply because of their religion. decades. As anti-Catholicism has that fewer Catholics are seeking most people say “no.” They pre- able and quite predictable adapta- An “internal” condition was fear: waned and Catholics’ opportuni- religious life, sending their chil- fer today’s society, in which their tions to a more open society and fear of God and fear of going to ties to participate in society have dren to Catholic schools and par- Catholicism no longer is the lia- a more merciful image of God. hell, both of which fostered high expanded, the need for a safe har- ticipating in the sacraments on a bility it once was. And, they pre- 23 JANUARY 22, 2006 COMMENTARY A spectacular stem-cell scandal remarkable story of scientific fraud, scandal and place, a backdrop of ongoing hype about the medical poten- deceit has recently attracted international headlines. tial of cloning, provides an important clue to answering that AThe scandal has its origins in South Korea, in the question. Dr. Hwang, and indeed nearly all advocates of laboratory of Dr. Woo-suk Hwang of Seoul National cloning human embryos, have a long history of fibbing MAKING SENSE OF BIOETHICS University. Many promoters of human embryonic stem-cell about miracle cures from their research. BY FATHER TAD PACHOLCZYK research have been watching the saga unfold with a kind of Ailments ranging from paralysis to Alzheimer’s could be “collective mesmerized despair,” as one commentator put it. cured, they assure us, if the government would only give us Back in March of 2004, Dr. Hwang published a paper more funds and loosen a few ethical restraints. Given the claiming to be the first person to produce cloned human enormous pot of glory perceived by scientists at the end of to little more than smoke and mirrors when the researchers embryos. About a year later, he published a second paper that rainbow, researchers in their frantic rush have hardly themselves take custody of the hen house. where he claimed to have produced stem-cell lines, which paused to catch their breath and consider the deeper ques- The spectacle of the South Korean stem-cell scandal were tailor-matched to patients with specific diseases, again tions raised by this technology. strengthens the view that some stem-cell scientists are not by using cloned embryos. The work was widely hailed as a Dr. Hwang himself appears to have fallen prey to a griev- averse to playing fast and loose with the truth. The revolu- groundbreaking achievement, perhaps even of such caliber ous, but fairly common, ethical mistake: somewhere along the tionary medical advances they try to read in the tea leaves as to draw the attention of the Nobel Prize Committee in line, he concluded that good ends can justify evil means. He end up requiring serious ethical violations, both in the Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Hwang was on the fast-track to realized that a little data cooking could have good effects; it exploitation of vulnerable women, and especially in the sac- superstar-status in his native South Korea. would be good for Korea; it would be good for the university; rifice of innocent human life. The first bump in the road came in November when alle- it would be good for funding his work, and it would be good It is not just Dr. Hwang’s dishonesty and sleight of hand gations resurfaced that some of the eggs that he had used for for promoting belief in embryonic stem cells as a way to help that gives a black eye to the field of human embryonic stem- his cloning experiments came from women who worked in sick people. He reasoned that as long as the ends were good, cell science. It is also the many other promoters of this rene- his laboratory, including a female graduate student. Dr. any ethical issues that might come up in the course of his gade research, who have long been skirting or ignoring the Hwang had always denied these persistent rumors, but even- research could be conveniently minimized and ignored. moral concerns raised by their work. tually acknowledged not only that two junior researchers on That approach to ethical thinking, of course, happens to As Americans ponder this scandal, hopefully we will his team had donated ova, but also that other women had be precisely the same approach taken by most human become more measured and less starry-eyed in our future received payments for ova used in his research. embryonic stem-cell researchers when they try to justify the assessments of human embryonic stem-cell research. This was followed by another stunning disclosure by one troubling research they do. They stress how their research Especially when we come to be asked in state legislatures of Dr. Hwang’s collaborators. He opened the floodgates may one day have good effects — possible cures for suffer- around the country to pour millions of dollars into an when he announced that the celebrated patient-specific stem ing patients — so any ethical issues that might come up unproven and unethical science, one hopes that better judg- cells were fraudulent. Dr. Hwang had massaged the data — regarding the destruction of embryonic human life can be ment and stronger ethics will prevail. nine of the cell lines referenced in the paper were apparently minimized and ignored. Perhaps we will finally have the courage to draw some faked, and the authenticity of the remaining two was also Stem-cell researchers today routinely violate the most long overdue ethical lines and choose to safeguard the doubtful. Soon other serious problems came to light regard- basic ethical norms regarding the protection of human sub- youngest and most vulnerable members of our own human ing his publications. Seoul National University quickly jects every time they make cell lines out of human embryos. family by promoting the moral and scientific high ground. launched an investigative probe because of the snowballing Is it really such a surprise that some of these same That high ground offers us a uniquely appealing path into concerns over Dr. Hwang’s work. Virtually all of his ground- researchers turn out to be involved in the greatest ethical the future, paved with new and exciting breakthroughs that breaking successes are now suspect, including his claim to scandal to befall science in decades? If Dr. Hwang and other are occurring, almost on a weekly basis, from morally be the first person to ever clone a dog, an afghan hound researchers like him are willing to do something as ethically praiseworthy forms of medicine such as adult and umbili- named Snuppy. The full extent of the fraud committed by troubling as creating human life merely to extinguish it for cal cord stem cell research. Dr. Hwang may take months, or even years, to sort out. its stem cells, why would they be particularly disturbed How could such serious ethical violations occur, and on about cutting other ethical corners, like turning to vulnerable such a massive scale? There were dozens of people in Dr. graduate students for their eggs, or fabricating data? Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. earned his doctorate in neuro- Hwang’s laboratory, and his most recent published paper had Many researchers speak fondly of “codes of self-regula- science from Yale and did post-doctoral work at Harvard. 25 contributing authors listed. How could they all have tion” and “mechanisms of ethical oversight by scientists He is a priest of the diocese of Fall River, Mass. and missed so much fraud and deceit? What really happened? themselves.” The serious transgressions of this scandal serves as the director of education at The National The backdrop against which this scientific work took remind us how these vaunted codes and mechanisms amount Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. Praying or making lists? Multi-tasking is one of the words fully present, fully active, fully Because we are welcome here, in Hosanna in the highest. that define our age. conscious. this church, at this altar. Many of The acclamation after the con- It is a valued skill. The person It is one thing to speak of the us can lift our hearts for gifts secration is another call to atten- THE who can take a phone call while Eucharistic Prayer as the canon, beyond number: Health and tiveness. We are bidden to offer checking e-mail and signing letters the “standard” or “rule” of our friends, husbands and wives, chil- our gifts to God. What gifts? Only is top management material. prayer and faith. It is quite another dren, good work, peace, homes those God has first given us, and EUCHARISTIC The woman who can dice veg- to live with the Eucharistic Prayer and gardens. But we can also con- they can only be given, lifted up, etables while holding an infant and as the canon of our lives. But it is sciously lift up every loss, every to God, in union with this memori- PRAYER doing a series of stomach tighten- precisely that eucharistic way of longing, every burden, every pain. al of Christ’s death, and through ing exercises is considered a super- life to which we are called. Such a Why? Because God is. Mountains Christ, who sits now at God’s right A GUIDE TO PARTICIPATION mom. We admire the jogger who life takes practice, and that is, in crumble, seas dry, we wither and hand. We are to become “an ever- times his walk so that he can listen part, what we do every time we die, but God, the faithful shepherd, lasting gift to you (God),” but only to NPR as he burns up calories. gather for Mass: we practice living is. We are never abandoned. And it God can make it so. hand out bulletins until after Mass. The old notion of “killing two birds the life of a baptized Christian. is right, always and everywhere, to Multi-tasking is the work of Why? Because it’s hard for with one stone” now seems quaint. Part of the practice involves being give God thanks and praise. breaking every act down into man- Americans to be still, to be present We’re after the whole flock. present: turning off the cell phone, So we respond, often through ageable bits: I’ll check on my e- to one moment and one moment There are a few activities that leaving the morning paper behind, tears, “We lift them up to the mail while I take this call; stir this only. We are like parents hurrying resist multi-tasking. Shoving a putting away the list of to-do’s, Lord.” pot with one hand while I scrub a two-year old along on a walk. meal down one’s throat kills table entering one of the few spaces as This act of attending in thank- the burner with the other. But the For the adult who will stop, and conversation and brings on heart- yet untouched by television, radio fulness at the beginning of the Eucharistic Prayer so bids us to see every shiny rock on the path burn and indigestion. Listening to or the computer and turning one’s Eucharistic Prayer is essential to presence that we can begin to see and every flower pushing its way a child’s tearful tale of humiliation whole self to the work at hand. our attention throughout. what many cannot: the cloud of up through the asphalt, treasures on the playground while surfing We sing together; we pray The priest’s words are an invita- witnesses who surround us. We do await. Indeed, treasures abound. the Internet lessens the chance he together; together we confess our tion to follow, and in following, in not make this prayer alone. We do We just have to be there when it will ever tell you anything of con- sins. We sit quietly and listen to saying, “Here is my heart, Lord,” not make this prayer only with happens. sequence again. And babies being the long, long story of our faith. we enter a doorway that leads us those we can touch. We make this fed stare into the mother’s or We bring our gifts to the altar. It all ever deeper into the rest of the prayer with the whole church, both father’s eyes with such intensity prepares the assembly for this prayer. It leads us into the holy living and dead, God’s “pilgrim and curiosity as to demand a long, momentous exchange. work of remembering: Who God church,” all God’s children “wher- During the Year of the Eucharist, the care-filled look in return. The priest exhorts us, “Lift up is, what God does. This, in turn, ever they may be.” We make this Office of Worship is sponsoring a Consider our gathering for your hearts.” leads us into the holy work of prayer with the dead whose faith is five-part series of articles distrib- Mass. We come to hear the stories It is not a suggestion, nor is it a praise. Like a symphony or a play, known to us and “those whose uted by the Federation of of God’s faithfulness told again request. We are told, commanded, one movement, one act leads to the faith is known to God alone.” We Diocesan Liturgical Commissions and again. We come to share a to lift up our hearts. And this is no next. So the hymn to God calls for make this prayer with (FDLC). Comments or questions feast laid before us by God. We easy or light command. In a world us to sing a hymn in reply. Like “Mary, the virgin Mother of can be e-mailed to come to eat and drink of the very in which children die and spouses the angels who gathered above God; with the apostles, the mar- [email protected] flesh — the body and the blood — leave and cells turn malignant, we Bethlehem on the night Jesus was tyrs, and all your saints, on whose FDLC #44680, Part 4 of 5. of Christ. These are moments that are told to lift up our hearts. If born, we sing: constant intercession we rely for Authors: Andrew Cifemi and require attention. To do it right, to nothing else, such a call should Holy, holy, holy Lord, help.” Melissa Musick Nussbaum Art: do it well, we have to be there. Not command our complete attention. God of power and might. Some parishes have taken the Jane Pitz @ FDLC. 415 there and somewhere else, as Lift up our hearts. Why? Because Heaven and earth are full of clocks from the walls, banned Michigan Ave. N.E., Washington multi-tasking requires, but there, our eyes opened on this day. your glory, missalettes and even declined to DC 20017. www.fdlc.org 24 TODAY’S CATHOLIC JANUARY 22, 2006

DONLEY NAMED NAIA SCHUTT SPORTS COACH OF THE YEAR University of Saint Francis head football coach Kevin Donley has been selected 2005 NAIA Coach of the Year by Schutt Sports and announced in American Football Monthly, the No. 1 resource for football coaches. Donley received the award in ceremonies while attending the American Football Coaches Association convention. Donley, who established the USF football program in 1997 and recently completed his eighth season as coach of the Cougars, guided his team to its fourth consecutive undefeated regular season and second con- Sports secutive NAIA Football Championship Series national title game before falling to Carroll College. ST. LOUIS BESANCON STUDENT HEADS Corpus Christi, St. Jude TO STATE COMPETITION lead ICCL basketball with winning streaks

Family swamped St. Matthew, 54- Thomas Maroon. BY ELMER J. DANCH 28. Jordan Carillo had 12 points Standings as of Jan. 15 for Holy Family, while Blake Talos John Bosco Division (East) SOUTH BEND — Corpus had 10 points for St. Matthew. St. TEAM DIVISION OVERALL Christi Cougars of the John Thomas of Elkhart trounced Holy St. Thomas 4-0 5-1 Bosco West and the St. Jude Cross, 45-10. Zach Favs led St. St. Joseph (SB) 2-1 2-3 Falcons of the Martin de Porres Thomas with 14 points. St. Anthony 1-2 1-4 West continue to top the basket- St. John the Baptist rushed St. Matthew 0-4 1-5 ball teams in the Inter-City past St. Pius of Granger 42-12, to Catholic League (ICCL) as the hold on to second place in the St. John Bosco (West) undefeated leaders after five Martin de Porres West. St. Corpus Christi 3-0 5-0 weeks of action. Michael of Plymouth downed St. Christ the King 2-1 4-1 The Cougars defeated St. Monica of Mishawaka, 44-13, Holy Family 1-2 3-2 Joseph, South Bend, in stellar and St. Joseph of Mishawaka Holy Cross 0-3 0-5 fashion, 50-26, as Andy Klimek defeated St. Adalbert, 41-23. pumped in 11 points for the vic- In the Colors Division, Christ St. Martin de Porres (East) tors. St. Jude had to go overtime the King White beat St. Anthony St. Bavo 3-0 4-1 to beat St. Bavo of Mishawaka, Maroon, 38-26, behind the com- St. Joseph, (Mish) 2-1 3-2 40-35, behind the duo scoring of bined 21-point barrage of Jacob St. Pius 1-2 1-4 Justin Prister and Trace Dowling Speybroeck with 10 points and St. Monica 0-3 0-5 who combined their efforts for 23 A.J. Fitzpatrick with 11 points. points. Anthony Strom tossed in 11 St. Martin de Porres (West) Nick Moskolis, however, was points for St. Anthony. St. Jude 3-0 5-0 the top individual scorer with 16 Other results were Holy St. John the Baptist 2-1 4-1 points for the Mishawakans. Family Blue defeated Corpus St. Michael 1-2 3-2 Christ the King held on to a Christi Red 23-18, St. Matthew St. Adalbert 0-3 0-5 second place seat in John Bosco Black nipped St. Thomas White, West by beating St. Anthony 43- 29-22, Christ the King Blue 16, with Tim Bishop collecting edged St. Joseph Blue, South PROVIDED BY MICHELLE CASTLEMAN 14 points for the winners. Bend, 27-21, and St. Jude Green St. Louis Academy third grader Jake Castleman will com- In other division games, Holy eked out a 30-28 win over St. pete at the state level of the Elks Hoop-Shoot free throw contest on Saturday, Feb. 25, in Lebanon. Castleman rep- resented the Fort Wayne lodge in the district competition held at Spiece Fieldhouse on Jan. 7. Other participants CYO at mid point of season represented the lodges of Columbia City, Angola, Auburn, Huntington, Kendallville, Bluffton and Decatur. Of the Secrest added. prepare them for that.” eight finalists, Castleman ranked on top after sinking 20 BY JOAN BOBAY Two players are tall, Katie She also said Ave Stout, grade of 25 free throws for the boys of the 8-9-year-old group. Secrest, center, and Molly Chalk, six, “keeps up and plays well” FORT WAYNE — This week, power forward, “is our rebound and Alena Richardson has week five, was the mid point of guru,” the coach said. The three “stepped up and improved her the nine-week CYO (Catholic forwards are Emma Derheimer, overall game.” She added that the Youth Organization) junior high Alex Salas and Karisma Patel. team “has a strong forward lineup basketball regular season. Two The guards are Cassie Kreiger, and plays a 1-2-2 zone well.” coaches must find out what speed “They have been competitive in games were “barnburners” with a Cierra Vasquez and Laura Merz, They are learning the harder 3-2 and quickness drills are used at some games and that is what the one point margin. “our defensive ball hawk,” zone defense this year and are nearby schools and what is the goal is.” Girls — Grade 8: Blue league Secrest said, adding that, “maybe working hard on it. preferred style of play. He likes He also gets everyone in the The Queen of Angels Royals half want to play in high school.” Assistants are Valentine his team to use a man-to-man games, and urges them to set lost by one point to the St. Assistant coaches are Jim Velasquez and Kelly Flotow. defense and lets the players try to goals to progress. “CYO is about Therese Crusaders, in a 25-24 Mickilini, Maggie Kimes and Boys — Grade 8: Blue League shoot three pointers. having good practices and a good contest. Marty Secrest, the Scott Kreiger. The boys eighth grade Royals “It’s a good group of kids and time and developing a work Royals coach, said the eight girls Girls — Grade 7: White league team defeated the St. Therese 8 the team is fun to coach. They ethic. The game really is about on the team are “tenacious, don’t This score, too, was close with Crusaders by about 20 points in won a tournament when they the kids, teaching them life les- ever quit, and like to win.” They the Royals losing to Sts. Joseph- their game Saturday. Coach Joe were on a grade 5-6 team and sons and how to be responsible are 2-2 in CYO and 10-9 overall. Elizabeth’s Panthers 20-19. Ryan said his squad of 12 players they’re doing okay this year so citizens,” he said. He added that “They listen well, are always Coach Kim Yarman said there are can be described as “a hard- far,” Ryan said. the team is a “kind hearted, close ready to practice and want to 11 on the team with one a sixth nosed, physical group with a 3-1 The assistant coach is his group that is eager to learn basic learn.” Three of the players are grader. They are 2-4 in tourna- record in CYO.” They also play brother, Bill Ryan. concepts which are important in new to the game and one other is ment play and have won one practice games and the school Boys — Grade 7: White league life. Since they haven’t experi- a seventh grader. “I’m really well CYO game to date. “They are hosts a holiday tournament annu- There are 11 players on this enced playing organized ball, pleased with them, especially learning that CYO games are ally. team who are working hard to they are learning teamwork, too.” their effort to improve free more competitive than grades 5-6 Since some players will want win a game. They lost 33-12 to Assistant coaches are Matthew throws, going from 20 percent ones and, since several want to to try playing in high school, and Sts. Joseph-Elizabeth’s Panthers, Wright, Mary Waikel and Jerry early on to 60 percent now,” play in high school, we try to perhaps in college, Ryan said but coach George Wright said, Nix. JANUARY 22, 2006 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 25

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Director of Liturgical Music PART-TIME POSITION Sacred Heart Parish St. Charles Borromeo Catholic School University of Notre Dame Provide Music for Sunday Masses/Other Liturgies PLEASE SEND INFORMATION TO REV. JOHN PATRICK RILEY, CSC Open House 104 The Presbytery, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5658 574-631-7511 or 631-6861 January 28, 2006 - 5:00-6:30 pm January 29, 2006 - 8:30 am-12:30 pm Call for additional registration times & tours, by appointment (260) 484-3392. SAINT JUDE CATHOLIC SCHOOL Providing Faith and a Firm Foundation for the Future We invite you to visit our beautiful Spanish- style school building, housing 28 class- • Christ-Centered Catholic Education, Grades K-8 rooms, state-of-the-art computer lab, • North Central & State of Indiana Accreditation library, auditorium and • Teachers Fully Degreed & State Certified gymnasium. • Fine Arts & Athletic Programs • Enrichment & Resource Teachers on Staff ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE • Environment Conducive to Personal & Spiritual Growth • Active Home & School Association Sunday, January 29 • Noon to 2:00 p.m. 2110 Pemberton Drive • Fort Wayne Across from Parkview Hospital Pre-School and Kindergarten Registration Thursday, February 9 at 7:00 p.m. (School Auditorium) OPEN REGISTRATION BEGINS IN MARCH FOR GRADES 1 THROUGH 8 •Serving Students Pre-School to Eighth Grade •Full-Day and Half-Day Kindergarten Classes 4910 Trier Road • Fort Wayne • (260) 484-3392 •Small Class Sizes •Family Atmosphere •Creative Arts •Foreign Language •On-Site After-School Care www.stcfw.org For more information call Saint Jude Catholic School (260) 484-4611 26 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC JANUARY 22, 2006

efficiency expert at the office businessman (Timothy Hutton) (Linda Cardellini), and his inter- and less-than-altruistic politi- ‘Bernardo’ is testament action with a coterie of goofy cians. Wayne Wang’s remake of a MOVIE friends (including Nick 1950 Alec Guinness movie which Swardson). Nonstop gross-out had a script by august English CAPSULES humor and rough and crude lan- writer J.B. Priestley is marred by that God works in guage, sexual situations and some silly slapstick, but mostly, NEW YORK (CNS) – Following are innuendo, upper female and rear though predictable and contrived, male nudity, heavy drug use, it’s a feel-good film with the mysterious ways recent capsule reviews of hedonistic worldview. The marvelously empathetic Latifah movies issued by the U.S. USCCB Office for Film & and a positive message about rec- Conference of Catholic Broadcasting classification is O ognizing life’s possibilities and — morally offensive. The Motion having the courage to follow REVIEWED BY YORK YOUNG Christlike lives in the First Bishops’ Office for Film and World lap of luxury. As Picture Association of America through on them. A few instances Nicaragua deteriorates into civil Broadcasting. rating is R — restricted. Under of crude language, some frank he cold calculation that war and the conflict between 17 requires accompanying parent sexual talk and innuendo, and an publishers employ when Sandanistas and their opponents or adult guardian. adulterous situation in an other- Tevaluating books nowa- create havoc all around them — “Grandma’s Boy” (20th Century wise admirably wholesome film. days is way too much about and friends and acquaintances Fox) “Last Holiday” (Paramount) The USCCB Office for Film & money and often only negligibly of Bernardo become involved in Unspeakably bad comedy Touching if improbable tale of Broadcasting classification is A- considers the quality of the chaos in a variety of ways — about a video-game tester (Allen dowdy spinster (Queen Latifah), III — adults. The Motion Picture writing. That may be even truer the saintly tailor keeps the focus Covert) who moves in with his who upon learning she has only a Association of America rating is when it comes to fiction. And on exactly what the Virgin has grandmother (Doris Roberts) and few weeks to live takes her life PG-13 — parents strongly cau- the way in which the book relayed to him: love others, pray her geriatric roommates (Shirley savings and goes to Europe tioned. Some material may be industry handles new writers for the conversion of souls, fol- Jones and Shirley Knight) after where she gets a makeover and inappropriate for children under without that guaranteed best- low her Son. he’s evicted for nonpayment of learns to live life more fully, 13. seller marginalizes both writers Yes, the happenings at Cuapa rent, his growing attraction to the changing the lives of a corrupt and readers. Therefore, anytime seem, at times, questionable — a minimally marketed book Bernardo seeks answers from turns out to be a gem, or per- the Blessed Mother on particu- haps a book from a small pub- lar seemingly trivial requests MAY WE lishing house (which has its that some of his friends and oth- own limitations), it’s basically ers have prompted him to ask, left to the readers to spread the and she answers — but the RECOMMEND . . . word. reported miracles and conver- Northwestern University sions may be evidence of verac- Press — outside the mainstream ity. The Nicaraguan Catholic of fiction publishing — has Church has named the cow pas- launched a new series, Latino ture where the apparitions took Voices, featuring fiction as well place a holy site. (Caveat: as some literary nonfiction, all Catholics are not required to written in English. Its most believe, as a matter of faith, in recent release is the novel apparitions, even those official- “Bernardo and the Virgin” ly approved by the church.) ($26.95), by Silvio Sirias, which This novel is enjoyable for is a fictional account of goings- its unsensational presentation of on around the real life Bernardo the faith, an enlightening look at Martinez, who was visited by how Latinos revere the Virgin the Virgin Mary in 1980 on sev- and the Catholic faith, and its eral occasions. welcome lack of bad language Sirias is straightforward and and sex scenes that are too often honest with the readers on his overplayed in contemporary fic- intentions by putting this story tion. in fictional form: “In striving to God works in mysterious accurately describe the sublime ways. Bernardo, in real life or nature of Bernardo’s experience fiction, is testament to that. (in biographical form), I would NOON & DINNER have inevitably overreached and toppled into the absurd.” SPECIALS Expires 01/31/06 Expires 01/31/06 Despite embracing the novel as Steaks • Chicken his medium, many of the inci- Bar-B-Que Ribs dents described occurred, albeit colored with Sirias’ deft touch Lobster • Fish M A U R Y’ S of emotion and importance. Prime Rib The beauty of (Tuesday thru Saturday) “Bernardo HOURS: and the Virgin” is Mon. - Thurs. 7AM - 10PM Sirias’ Friday-Saturday 7AM-11PM seriousness Banquet rooms for up to 90 people RESTAURANT & LOUNGE in his Featuring hand-cut steaks - signature pork chops approach to 897-2114 and a variety of seafood. Serving lunch and dinner. the subject Voted best seafood in Michiana two years in a row! matter. He 204 East Albion Street - Avilla RESERVATIONS: 259-8282 • 901 West 4th Street • Mishawaka takes the apparitions and surround- ing tales — including mira- cles reported — at face value. And he imbues these tales with the faith and love one would expect from a visionary without degenerat- ing into pietistic platitudes. How Bernardo lives his faith and affects the faith of those around him is awe-inspiring and unsettling at the same time for those of us trying to live JANUARY 22, 2006 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC 27 REST IN PEACE Bluffton Irene E.Kimmel, 88, Ruth A.Andert, 74, WHAT’S HAPPENING? Blanche L.Blaising, 86, St.Matthew Cathedral St.Matthew Cathedral St.Joseph Robert F.Waldvogel, Bernard Lichnerowicz, WHAT’S HAPPENING carries announcements about upcoming events in the diocese. Send in your Decatur 85, Our Lady of 69, St.Casimir Anne Mendez Tyler, 69, Hungary Chester F.Kazmierczak, announcement at least two weeks prior to the event. Mail to: Today’s Catholic, P.O. Box 11169, St.Mary of the Eleanor E.Langel, 81, 90, St.Matthew Fort Wayne 46856; or e-mail: [email protected]. Events that require an admission charge Assumption Christ the King Cathedral or payment to participate will receive one free listing. For additional listings of that event, please Fort Wayne Bernard F.Hacker, 77, John J.Nosko, 83, call our advertising sales staff to purchase space. Helen Hartman, 96, St.Anthony de Padua Christ the King St.Jude Julia A.Nyerges, 99, Julienne L.Straka, 87, Richard E.Lanie, 82, MISC. HAPPENINGS adults and $5 for children 6-11. Registration dates for incoming St.Anthony de Padua St.Anthony de Padua Life Chain event planned All proceeds benefit the seventh freshman are Jan. 23-25 from St.Charles Borromeo and eighth grade class trip. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and on Clara H.Podemski, 81, John J.Magera, 96, Goshen — A Life Chain spon- Donald W.Minich, 75, Saturday, Feb. 4, from 9 to 11 St.Adalbert Holy Cross sered by Holy Innocents Pro-Life St. Peter Action Group will be held St. Joseph School hosts pancake and a.m. For information on any of these events, call (260) 496- Irene Michalski, 80, Yoder around the public sidewalks of sausage breakfast Mary Jane Lauer 4700. St.Casimir Ralph B.Follis, 88, the Goshen Court House on Decatur — The annual pancake Biggins Berghoff, 81, and sausage breakfast at St. St.Aloysius Saturday, Jan. 21, from 11 a.m. Queen of Angels Mildred E.Bielejewski, to noon. Placards provided. Joseph School, Decatur, will be Trivia night supports Corpus Christi 95, Holy Cross Family participation encouraged. held on Sunday, Jan. 29, from School Ruth J.Walsh, 81, Contact Karen at (574) 295-8551 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the school South Bend — Corpus Christi St.Therese Jane E.Syburg, 78, Sister Rose Angele auditorium. Eighth grade stu- HASA is sponsoring a trivia for information. Little Flower Spalding, 92, Church dents, with the help of their par- night on Saturday, Jan. 21. Maxine Singleton, 87 of the Immaculate DCCW to meet ents, will serve the breakfast. Tailgating begins at 6 p.m. and St.Charles Borromeo Catherine A.McIntyre, Conception, St.Mary- Fort Wayne — The Fort Wayne Proceeds will help pay for their gameplay begins at 7 p.m. 95, St.Joseph Diocesan Council of Catholic class trip to Washington, D.C. Tables of up to 10 players — Lawrence D.Walsh, 89, of-the-Woods, Ind. Women will meet on Tuesday, Tickets are available from any St. $10 per person. Silent auction, St.Jude Kenneth J.Roberts, 96, Sister served at St. Jan. 24, at 10 a.m. in the lower Joseph eighth grade student, or door prizes, prizes for winning St.Adalbert John the Baptist, Fort level of St. Joseph Hospital. This by calling the school at (260) table and cash bar. For informa- Granger Wayne. month’s speaker will be Bruce 724-2765. tion call Christine Zmyslo at Mary A.Kertes, 87, James D.Swanson, 57, Summerfield, a local artist from (574) 273-2931. St.Pius X St.Casimir Sister Mary Hickey, Hoagland. All Catholic women Knights plan drive-through fish dinner 96, Church of the of the diocese are members and Fort Wayne — The St. Joseph St. John the Baptist School plans open Mishawaka Joseph S.Sobczyk, 84, Immaculate welcome. Men and other guests Hessen Cassel Knights of house Geraldine E.Hennion, St.Adalbert Conception, St.Mary- Columbus will have a drive- 88, St.Joseph are also welcome to attend. New Haven – St. John the Mary D. Lucas, 87, of-the-Woods, Ind. through fish dinner by Country Baptist School will have an open Sister served at St. Chef on Friday, Feb. 10, from 4 Bruce M.Dwyer, 68, St.Patrick Beginning Experience announces house on Sunday, Jan. 29, from John the Baptist, Fort to 7 p.m. at the church hall. Cost 10:30 a.m. to noon. Tour the St.Joseph retreat for widowed, divorced Marilyn A.Woods, 65, Wayne. Donaldson — A Beginning is $6.50. school and meet faculty and South Bend Christ the King Experience weekend will be held staff. Pre-kindergarten and Edward A.Plamowski, Scouts plan breakfast kindergarten orientation will be Feb. 17-19 at Lindenwood 82, St.Stanislaus Retreat Center. The weekend fee Fort Wayne — St. John the held at 11:30 a.m. in the library. is $175. Call (574) 233-2132 for Baptist’s Boy Scout Troup is For information, call (260) 749- information. hosting a pancake and sausage 9903. breakfast on Sunday, Feb. 19, 234-4145 for information. Seven Card Stud, Five Card Stud FUNDRAISERS from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. St. Joseph Athletic Association plans and Black Jack. For tickets or Fish fry planned at St. Jude questions, contact Dave and Joni Sausage and pancake breakfast John’s PAC. The funds raised athletic smoker Fort Wayne — An all-you-can- Kuhn at (260) 456-2670, Dan Fort Wayne — Most Precious will be used to buy a new Scout Mishawaka — An athletic smok- eat Ed Fox fish fry will be held and Anita Correll at (260) 747- Blood School, 1529 Barthold St., trailer for Troup 19. er will be held Friday, Feb. 10, Friday, March 3, from 5 to 8 7572 or Bishop Luers High will host a sausage and pancake from 7 p.m. to midnight in the St. Patrick School plans benefit dinner school gymnasium, Third and p.m. at St. Jude, across from School at (260) 456-1261. breakfast on Sunday, Jan. 29, Parkview Hospital. Adults $6, from 9 a.m. to noon. Tickets are Walkerton — A dinner to benefit Spring Street. First prize - $100, the St. Patrick tuition assistance second prize — $50, third prize children (6-8) $5, children 5 and Center for Hospice Offers Grief Services $5 adults, $2.50 kids under 10 under free. and $15 per family. Contact fund will be Saturday, Jan. 28, — $25. Tickets $1 in advance or Elkhart — The Center for Kelly Shanks at (260) 466-5941 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the American 6 for $5. $2 at the door. Reverse Hospice and Palliative Care, Inc. Bishop Luers basketball sponsors casi- for information. Legion. Tickets are $10 and draw tickets are $20 each. Only (CHAPC) will begin a Living include dinner, one drink and 300 tickets available. Reverse no ‘knight’ With Loss group on Monday, Fort Wayne — The Bishop Luers Jan. 23, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Knights plan spaghetti dinner dessert and drawing for cash draw ticket includes admission, Boys’ Basketball Program is at the Elkhart General Health Fort Wayne — The Knights of prizes. Music will be by Jerry refreshments and food. sponsoring Casino Knight, an Education Center – Goshen Columbus Council 5521, 61533 Houston. A silent auction, tip- evening of great adult entertain- Campus, 2222 Rieth Blvd. This S. Ironwood Dr., will have an all- boards and raffles will also be Marian baseball trivia night ment in the Bishop Luers Cafe small group, which will meet for you-can-eat spaghetti dinner on available. Mishawaka — Marian baseball on Friday, Feb. 10, from 8 p.m.- eight weeks, provides grief edu- Friday, Jan. 20, from 5-7 p.m. will have a baseball trivia night midnight. Tickets are $20 a per- cation and caring support to Adults $6, children (5-12) $3. Notre Dame fundraiser planned by the on Saturday, Feb. 18. First prize son, which includes two-drink adults dealing with the death of a Dinner includes spaghetti, salad, St. Vincent de Paul Men’s Club is $200. Call Tere at (574) 360- tickets, hors d’oeuvres and loved one. Bereavement services, garlic toast and coffee. Carry-out Fort Wayne — The St. Vincent 3786 or Linda at (574) 255-5512 admission to the event. The serv- provided by licensed counselors, available. Notre Dame athletics fundraiser to book a table. $100 per table of and casino night will be held 10 or $10 per person. Arrival ices of “Aces Up,” a Las Vegas are open to the general public Saturday, Jan. 28, from 6 to 11 time is 6:30 p.m., start time is 7 style gaming company have been and are free of charge. For regis- Holy Name hosts Polish dinner buffet secured for the event. Some tration or to learn more, call South Bend — The St. Hedwig p.m. at the St. Vincent de Paul p.m. Bring any tailgate foods for Parish hall. Admission includes your table to share but purchase games include Texas Hold’em, CHAPC at (574) 264-3321 or Holy Name Society will have a (866) 264-3321. Polish style dinner buffet on food by Casa. Tickets are $20 drinks from the volunteers. Pop, Sunday, Jan. 22, from noon to 2 single, $30 couple at the door or water and Gatorade will be avail- p.m. with music by Soundsations $15 single, $25 couple in able. from 1 to 5 p.m. in the Hedwig advance. Refreshments available. Memorial Center. Tickets are $10 Must be 21. Contact Kid and kin sock hop supports Camp per person. Children 12 and [email protected] for information Fire Girls under are free. Reservations are or tickets. Mishawaka — Queen of Peace McElhaney-Hart needed by Jan. 16 to (574) 232- School gym will host a Camp 6546 or (574) 287-4821. Bishop Dwenger High School Fire USA sock hop on Sunday, FUNERAL HOME announces winter events Feb. 19, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Fish and tenderloin dinner supports Fort Wayne — The music boost- Tickets are $3 in advance from 715 North Jefferson St. Joseph School ers will host “Winter Fantasy” on the Camp Fire office or $3.50 at Monroeville — A fish and ten- Saturday, Jan. 28, from 10 a.m. the door. Tickets include a drink, Huntington derloin dinner prepared by Ed to 5 p.m. in the gymnasium. The snack and dancing to Paul Fox will be Friday, Jan. 27, from winter guard show will feature Chamberlin of the Music (260) 356-3320 4 to 7 p.m at the Monroeville schools from throughout Indiana. Machine. Best dressed in cos- Park Pavillion. Tickets are $7 for Tickets are $5 at the door. tume wins a prize. Call (574) 28 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC JANUARY 22, 2006 New mosaics, made in Italy, to be installed at national shrine

shrine’s construction in the BY CAROL ZIMMERMANN 1950s. When the project is complet- WASHINGTON (CNS) — The ed, three ceiling domes will be Basilica of the National Shrine of filled with mosaic artwork. The the Immaculate Conception is theme of the first dome is always busy during the weeks redemption, featuring Christ’s leading up to Christmas in prepa- temptation in the desert, crucifix- ration for liturgies and decorating ion, descent into hell and resur- for the season. But this year, the rection. The other two domes, to church was even busier than be completed at a later date, will usual as workers readied the depict the Incarnation and the church for installation of a new Trinity. ceiling mosaic in one of the The mosaic for the first dome domes above the congregation was designed by Leandro Miguel seating area. Velasco of the Rambusch Although the actual installa- Decorating Company in Italy tion is not to begin for several based on the original 1958 design months, the first step in the proj- of John de Rosen. The mosaic ect and the reason for the missing work, with 12-foot figures, is pews and roped-off area in the being constructed at the middle of the church was the con- Rambusch studio north of Venice struction of a work area for the and will be shipped to the United dome, just under 100 feet above States when all the panels are the floor at its highest point. complete. So far, two of the dome In order for the mosaic work panels — depicting the to proceed while not obstructing Resurrection and the descent into Massgoers’ views of the altar for hell — are done. several months, workers have Installation is set to begin in been installing an initial suspend- early April and will take a few ed scaffolding 57 feet above the months to complete. ground and will add another scaf- Msgr. Rossi said the prepara- folding above that which will tion for the project, funded with reach 82 feet. money that had been put aside for He also sees the dome artwork CNS PHOTO COURTESY THE BASILICA OF THE NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION The scaffolding is an “engi- it, began more than two years ago as more than just filling in empty The resurrected Christ is depicted in this unfinished detail of a new neering marvel itself,” according as artwork was approved and spaces in the largest Catholic large mosaic to be installed in a dome of the Basilica of the National to Peter Sonski, communications members of the shrine’s board church in the United States. Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. The mosaic was director for the shrine. met with artists and contractors. “Art in churches is meant to fabricated in northern Italy and is to be placed in the shrine beginning Msgr. Walter Rossi, the The shrine’s rector, who has move people to reflection and in April. shrine’s rector since April 2005, been getting plenty of on-the-job prayer,” he said. “And in years told Catholic News Service Dec. training in contracting and art his- gone by, it was also meant to 15 that the mosaic domes were tory, has been to the Rambusch educate people by providing a not new ideas but instead part of studio in Italy and returned with a concrete visual” of biblical “a completion project” that is renewed appreciation for the images. “faithful to the original intent and patience and attention to detail He expects nothing less of the design” outlined during the these workers possess. soon-to-be-installed mosaic.

CNS PHOTO COURTESY THE BASILICA OF THE NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION A detail of the Redemption Dome mosaic is shown as a work-in- progress at the workshop of Travisanutto Mosaics in northern Italy. The finished piece is to be installed in a dome of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. It fea- tures representations of Christ’s salvific actions.