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Bringing the Good News to the Diocese of Fort Worth Vol. 27 No. 5 June 2011 Blessed John Paul II May 1, 2011 Divine Mercy Sunday

Polish Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz prays at the new tomb of late Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican May 3. Cardinal Dziwisz, archbishop of Krakow served as Pope John Paul's priest secretary for more than three decades, beginning when the pope was himself the archbishop of Krakow. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters) Pope Benedict beatifies Pope John Paul 'because of his faith'

By Cindy Wooden Doctrine of the Faith from 1982 until his for the church's canonical norms, I wanted his Catholic News Service elect ion in 20 05, Pope Bened ict sa id he worked cause of beatifi cation to move forward with Vatican City at the pope's side "and came to revere him." reasonable haste." lessed are you, Pope "His example of prayer continually After the Mass, Pope Benedict went into ohn Paul II is blessed because of impressed and edifi ed me: he remained deeply St. Peter's Basilica and knelt in prayer for four John Paul II, because his faith — a strong, generous united to God even amid the many demands minutes before Blessed John Paul's casket, “B and apostolic faith," Pope of his ministry," the pope said. which was set in front of the main altar. After Benedict XVI said May 1 just "Today his name is added to the host of the pope left, the concelebrating cardinals fi led you believed. Continue, we minutes after formally those whom he proclaimed saints and blesseds up to the wooden casket, touching it lightly "J beatifying his predecessor. during the almost 27 years of his pontifi cate," and kissing it. Italian police said that for the Mass more the pope said in his homily. Eventually, the Vatican opened the basilica implore you, to sustain from than 1 million people were gathered in and Pope John Paul during his pontifi cate to the general public and planned to keep it around the Vatican and in front of large video beatifi ed 1,338 people and canonized 482 — open either until the faithful stopped coming heaven the faith of God's people. screens in several parts of the city. more than all of his predecessors combined. Th e to pay their respects or until preparations had Many in the crowd had personal stories beatifi cation of Pope John Paul just six years to be made for the offi cia l Ma ss of t ha n k sgiv ing about seeing Pope John Paul or even meeting and a month after his death in 2005 was the for the beatifi cation May 2. — Pope Benedict XVI at the end him, and Pope Benedict ended his homily at fastest beatifi cation in some 500 years. Th ousands of people spent a chilly, damp the Mass sharing his own personal story. Pope Benedict said that even at the night camped out near the Vatican in an attempt of his homily at the Mass of "I would like to thank God for the gift moment of his death people "perceived the to fi nd a place in St. Peter's Square when the gates Th anksgiving for the Beatifi cation of of having worked for many years with Blessed fragrance of his sanctity, and in any number were scheduled to open at 5:30 a.m. for the 10 John Paul II, May 2 Pope John Paul II," he said. of ways God's people showed their veneration a.m. Mass. Th e crowds were so large that police As prefect of the Congregation for the for him. For this reason, with all due respect SEE JOHN PAUL II, P. 7 PAGE 2 NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 ShepherdOur Speaks Th e Holy Spirit unites all in one holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church Dear Brothers and for thanks to it another "Counselor" will XVI, in his homily for Pentecost last year come. At the price of the Cross which preached on this exact point: Sisters in Christ, brings about the Redemption, in the power of the whole Paschal mystery of Jesus Th e account of Pentecost in the Book of ay the joy of the Easter Season be Christ, the Holy Spirit comes in order to the Acts of the Apostles we listened to it in with you! As we continue in these remain from the day of Pentecost onwards the First Reading (cf. Acts 2:1-11) presents Mdays to celebrate the Resurrection with the Apostles, to remain with the the "new course" of the work that God of Christ, it is a time in which we ponder Church and in the Church, and through began with Christ's Resurrection, a work and refl ect upon the great gift and mystery of her in the world. that involves mankind, history and the the Resurrection. We must cherish this time — Th e Role of Holy Spirit in the cosmos. Th e Son of God, dead and Risen in the liturgy when the resurrected Lord is Church and the World, Dominum et and returned to the Father, now breathes with us, as we hear proclaimed in the various Vivifi cantem, 14 with untold energy the divine breath upon Gospels the account of Jesus appearing to humanity, the Holy Spirit. And what does the apostles and disciples, strengthening Th is coming of the Holy Spirit after this new and powerful self-communication their faith, and giving powerful witness to the Ascension of Jesus leads us to the of God produce? Where there are divisions the reality of his Resurrection. Th is is truly a Pentecost event. After nine days of waiting and estrangement the Paraclete creates blessed time in the Church year, and a time and praying, the Holy Spirit comes in the unity and understanding. Th e Spirit to truly rejoice in the hope and joy of the fullness of his presence and power upon the triggers a process of reunifi cation of Resurrection Bishop Kevin Vann apostles and the disciples who then burst out the divided and dispersed parts of the Soon, however, we will celebrate the of the upper room and begin to proclaim the human family. People, often reduced to feast of the Ascension, when the mission of cleansed, how much more will the blood Gospel of Jesus Christ. Th is coming of the individuals in competition or in confl ict Jesus on earth is complete and He ascends of Christ, who through the eternal spirit Holy Spirit constitutes the beginning of the with each other, when touched by the into heaven to sit at the right hand of the off ered himself unblemished to God, Church and her mission on earth. In fact, Spirit of Christ open themselves to the Father. Th e Ascension, in many ways, is a cleanse our consciences from dead works the Pentecost event itself manifests all four experience of communion, which can feast that presents us with mixed emotions. to worship the living God. For this reason marks of the Church. Th e Church is seen as involve them to such an extent as to make On the one hand, there is a certain kind of he is mediator of a new covenant: since a one as all the nations that are present there of them a new body, a new subject: the sadness in the departure of Jesus, but then death has taken place for deliverance from are made one in the Holy Spirit. Th e Church Church. Th is is the eff ect of God's work: there are the reassuring words of Christ transgressions under the fi rst covenant, is certainly seen as holy as she is literally unity; thus unity is the sign of recognition, who promises us that “I will be with you those who are called may receive the impregnated with the power and presence of the "business card" of the Church until the end of the age” (Matthew 28:20). promised eternal inheritance. the Holy Spirit. Th e Church is also clearly throughout her universal history. From the Th is promise of his presence is not just a — Hebrews 9:11-15 presented as apostolic as it is the apostles very beginning, from the Day of Pentecost, comforting platitude as He departs, but as themselves who begin to teach and minister she speaks all languages. Th e universal we have already seen in the appearance of Th ere is also another dimension to the with the authority of Christ Himself. Th e Church precedes the particular Churches, Christ on the Road to Emmaus, Christ is Ascension and the departure of Jesus. Along Church is also seen as Catholic, or universal and the latter must always conform to really and truly present to us in the breaking with his departure also comes the promise of in that she encompasses in her mission all of the former according to a criterion of of the bread, in the Eucharist through which the sending of the Holy Spirit: “But you will humanity and becomes incarnate in every unity and universality. Th e Church never Christ is really present to his Church until receive power when the Holy Spirit comes race and culture throughout the world. Th is remains a prisoner within political, racial, the end of time. upon you and you will be my witnesses to is especially seen in that each person present and cultural confi nes; she cannot be Th e feast of the Ascension is also a great Jerusalem, throughout Judea, and to the ends in Jerusalem from all the corners of the confused with States nor with Federations time of joy and hope for us, as it is through of the earth” (Acts 1:8). In fact, earlier during ancient world heard the Gospel preached in of States, because her unity is of a diff erent his Ascension into heaven that Christ the Last Supper in the Gospel of John, Jesus his own language. type and aspires to transcend every human becomes the eternal and heavenly High even tells the apostles that it is good that It is this mark of the Church as Catholic frontier. Priest who enters into the heavenly sanctuary He goes, so that He can then send the Holy that I would like to highlight because one on behalf of us and opens again the gates Spirit: “But I tell you the truth, it is better of the great gifts of our diocese here in Fort May we always strive for a deeper unity of paradise. Jesus, through the sacrifi ce of for you that I go. For if I do not go, the Worth is that our local Church is comprised within our diocese, and a deeper awareness his own blood, now becomes the mediator Advocate will not come to you. But if I go, of so many diff erent cultures and ethnic of the spirituality of communion not only of a New Covenant, and becomes the one I will send him to you" (John 16:7). Blessed backgrounds. One of the great gifts I have in our local Church, but also with the wider mediator and way to the Father. We see this Pope John Paul II eloquently teaches us the as bishop is when I travel all around the universal Church, to which we are called most convincingly described in the Book of meaning of this passage: diocese and interact with the many diff erent within the one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic Hebrews: cultures and see how the Catholic faith is Church. Th e Holy Spirit comes at the price truly universal and has become incarnate in I am also very happy to announce that But when Christ came as high priest of the of Christ's “departure”. While this every culture. Unfortunately, there is always we will be having two diff erent ordinations good things that have come to be, passing “departure" caused the Apostles to be the temptation in the Church to see cultural in the coming days. On May 31, Manuel through the greater and more perfect sorrowful, and this sorrow was to reach its diversity as a divisive force, or to see diff ering Holguin will be ordained to the Transitional tabernacle not made by hands, that is, not culmination in the Passion and Death on cultural expression in the Church as a threat Diaconate at Immaculate Conception Parish belonging to this creation, he entered once Good Friday, "this sorrow will turn into to unity. Nothing could be farther from the in Denton. On June 4, Deacons Richard for all into the sanctuary, not with the joy," for Christ will add to this redemptive truth! Th e Church is all the richer because of Kirkham, Khiem Van Nguyen, and Philip blood of goats and calves but with his own "departure" the glory of his Resurrection her catholicity, and it is in and through the Petta will be ordained to the priesthood at blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. and Ascension to the Father. Th us the power of the Holy Spirit that we are all made St. Patrick Cathedral. Please pray for all these For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sorrow with its underlying joy is, for the one — in fact the catholicity of the Church men as they are ordained that they may be sprinkling of a heifer's ashes can sanctify Apostles in the context of their Master's is at the service of her unity, of the Church’s extraordinary servants in the vineyard of the those who are defi led so that their fl esh is "departure," an "advantageous" departure, spirituality of communion. Pope Benedict Lord. In addition, two of our seminarians CONTENTS North June 2011 Texas Features Departments catholic Bishop Vann challenges UD grads 4-5 Briefl y PUBLISHER: Bishop Kevin W. Vann 6 to 'repair and perfect' the world DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS: Pat Svacina By Michele Baker EDITOR: Jeff Hensley 8-9 Voices ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Tony Gutiérrez Father Kyle Walterscheid suggests ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: Judy Russeau 10 that modesty begets dignity 10 Vocations WEB DESIGNER: Chris Kastner By Father Kyle Walterscheid CIRCULATION: Rita Garber 11 Catechesis Holy Week to Easter to Divine REGULAR COLUMNISTS: Denise Bossert 14 Mercy, 5 parishes, 23 pictures Jean Denton 12 Features Kathy Cribari Hamer By Juan Guajardo & Joan Gillen Jeff Hedglen Jeff Hensley U.S. Bishops respond to John Jay 22-23 Word to Life David Mills Mary Regina Morrell 17 Report on abuse of minors by priests Sharon K. Perkins Lucas Pollice By Carole Zimmerman 24-26 Spanish Father John Rausch Father Kyle Walterscheid

Contributors: Michele Baker Jenara Kocks Burgess The Season of Easter: it's 50 days! John English Juan Guajardo K, even if Easter is now several weeks in the past, we're still in the seem the outrageous (but true) claims of the Gospel. Bodily Resurrection; life Kathy Cribari Hamer middle of the 50 days of the Easter Season. We have pictures of Holy beyond the grave; bread and wine become Body and Blood. These are indeed Joan Kurkowski-Gillen Week and Easter Vigil, of the Good Friday Rosary Vigil downtown and mysteries. Jeff 's column is on Page 12. Donna Ryckaert the Bishop walking the Stations of the Cross with a good-sized group Kristin Zschiesche O Catholic Charities Fort Worth hosted a regional parish social ministry conference of the faithful also on Good Friday. Divine Mercy Sunday, a tremendous celebration recently in conjunction with the national staff of Catholic Charities, featuring Editorial Offi ce: 800 West Loop 820 South, Fort Worth, Texas of the mercy of our loving God, is there too. Five parishes are represented, ranging 76108, (817) 560-3300; FAX (817) 244-8839. social justice educator Jack Jezreel, creator of the JustFaith approach to social Circulation Offi ce: Rita Garber, 800 West Loop 820 South, Fort from Lindsay to Aledo to Fort Worth, Arlington, and Denton. That's on Pages 14 Worth, Texas 76108, (817) 560-3300. justice ministry. Joan Kurkowski-Gillen off ers a report on the conference and and 15. Joan Gillen shot the pictures of the downtown events, and our former NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC (USPS 751-370) (ISSN 0899-7020) is Jezreel's message on Page 16. published monthly, by the Most Rev. Kevin W. Vann, Bishop of part-time staff member Juan Guajardo was our Holy Week and Easter Season the Diocese of Fort Worth, 800 West Loop 820 South, Fort Worth, Texas. For those who are not registered parishioners in the pilgrim, trekking from Aledo to Denton and points between. And right now, as we go to press, there are postings on the Bishop's Blog at Diocese of Fort Worth, subscription rates are $20 for one year, $40 for two years, $60 for three years. Periodical postage paid at Fort Lucas Pollice, in his catechetical column touches on our real cause for Easter joy: www.fwdioc.org in which he speaks about celebrating his 60th birthday Worth, Texas. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to North Texas Catholic, 800 West Loop 820 South, Fort Worth, Texas 76108. the continuing presence of Jesus with us still, in the Eucharist. Lucas emphasizes at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in North Fort Worth; remembering the pastoral Deadline for information for the North Texas Catholic is noon of all the good things that come to us as the Church, continuing the mission of an- example of John Paul II; and the coming of the Holy Spirit in the sacrament of the Wednesday two weeks before the paper is published. The NTC is published the third Friday of each month with the date of the nouncing — and living — the Good News in our own times. That's on Page 9. Confi rmation. Get more news from the NTC at www.fwdioc.org/ntc. following month as the date of issue. Jeff Hensley To access current news and information, fi nd us at www.fwdioc. org/ntc Editor Jeff Hedglen addresses our insecurity over our doubts about what can sometimes The appearance of advertising in these pages does not imply endorsement of businesses, services, or products. Readers must exercise prudence in responding to advertising in all media. who are preparing to begin their studies those who are receiving their First Holy at the North American College in Rome, Communion, and the many young people Matthew Tatyrek and Joe Keating, will who I have had the privilege of confi rming + Bishop Kevin W. Vann. JCD, DD make the public declarations of being a over the past several weeks. I am also looking Diocese of Fort Worth candidate for Holy Orders on Saturday, forward the Confi rmation of Adults from May 21 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. I am all across our diocese on Pentecost Sunday continuously encouraged by the increasing at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. I also want to number of seminarians that are being called thank all of you who work very hard and give by the Lord to serve in our diocese, and generously of yourselves in the catechetical this is another great sign of the Holy Spirit and sacramental preparation of all of those active and moving in our diocese as we move who are receiving these sacraments. forward in this graced time in the Church. May the joy of this Easter Season I would also like to express my heartfelt remain with all of you as we prepare to congratulations to all of those who were celebrate the great gift of the Holy Spirit at received into the Church at Easter, all Pentecost. PAGE 4 NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 Briefly Church, National,

Richard M. Doerfl inger The Evangelium Vitae Medal Young people gather for a Mass and concert May 8 at an arena in Madrid, marking 100 days International, until World Youth Day 2011. Preparations for the international event are heating up and USCCB pro-life official organizers are promising a "fi esta," adding a Spanish fl avor to traditional opportunities for Doerflinger says he has prayer, friendship, music and religious education. (CNS photo/courtesy of World Youth Day 2011) sometimes faced ‘ultimate evil’ Fiesta in Madrid: Preparations NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS) — respect each and every human life.” Looking back at 30 years of pro-life He said that those involved in heating up for World Youth Day work for the Catholic Church, Richard pro-life work “tend to be religious VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With fewer a special YouTube channel. M. Doerflinger said he sometimes people,” because they have “come than 100 days to go, preparations Organizers announced May 10 felt he had come into “contact with to realize that only the grace of God for World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid that the Madrid event will be the first something very close to ultimate evil.” could possibly be powerful enough to are heating up and organizers are World Youth Day with its own radio “I have to remind myself not to overcome the ways in which we insist promising a “fiesta,” adding a Spanish station and with a web-TV site. think of myself as fighting against evil on harming ourselves and others by flavor to the traditional opportunities Erika Rivera Palma, a spokeswoman people,” said the associate director acting out some very bad ideas.” for prayer, friendship, music and for WYD ‘11, said the organization of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Those “bad ideas” include: religious education. looked for 20,000 volunteers to help Bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life promoting abortion supposedly to As of May 7, organizers reported during the event. More than 30,000 Activities as he received the inaugural obtain freedom and equality for 347,965 youths had registered for the people applied and the staff is still Evangelium Vitae Medal and its women; authorizing doctors to assist Aug. 16-21 event, which Pope Benedict sifting through the applications to accompanying $10,000 prize at an suicide allegedly to promote personal XVI will attend. The figure included settle on 22,400 volunteers. April 28 banquet at the University of autonomy of suffering patients; and 22,488 young people from the United As of May 12, she said, the World Notre Dame. deciding that human embryos are States and 5,439 from Canada. The Youth Day staff was 500 strong, and The medal honored Doerflinger for expendable because they have few of Italians — always a big contingent at 80 percent of those workers were his “remarkable contributions” to the the qualities we respect in a person, World Youth Day — were leading the volunteers. Some were already in pro-life cause. he said. pack with 65,196 registrants, outpacing Madrid, but many were working from “In an age when the sanctity of Universities, the government and even the Spaniards by more than 10,000. home on the website and Facebook life from its earliest to its final days the world need people who will see While registering has benefits — pages. is assaulted, you have courageously, through “these facades of glittering Jeff Grabosky, who is running across the United States praying the rosary, is seen April 24 including priority seating at papal That WYD Madrid has a strong tirelessly and quietly worked to build and words and superficially cultured breaking down his gear at the end of the day along a segment of the Great Allegheny Passage events — young people seem to presence in cyberspace — a very sustain the ‘unconditional respect for the thinking to see the sheer madness they in southwest Pennsylvania. Grabosky, 28, carries a rosary ring and prays for people he knows know they won’t be turned away, and interactive universe where comments right to life of every innocent person,’ have let loose into people’s minds and and people he never met. (CNS photo/Maryann G. Eidemiller, CATHOLIC ACCENT) so an earlier estimate of 1.5 million are posted with ease — may have ‘one of the pillars on which every civil hearts,” Doerflinger said. participants seems to be right on track. something to do with the amount society stands,’” the citation read. The Catholic Church, “with its Catholic runs across US to Father Eric Jacquinet, the official of criticism that has surrounded the Quotations in the citation were respect for clear thinking and common in charge of the youth section at the official hymn for the Madrid gathering. taken from Pope John Paul II’s 1995 sense” and “long tradition of careful pray, encourage others to Pontifical Council for the Laity, the The anthem, with words by encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The moral reasoning and its patience with put their trust in God official sponsor of World Youth Day, Auxiliary Bishop Cesar Franco of Gospel of Life), for which the medal human frailty and our capacity for said, “We can’t predict how many will Madrid, was released in November. But was named. self-deception,” is the likeliest place to SMITHTON, Pa. (CNS) — Jeff for prayer, I wouldn’t be here,” he said register at the last minute.” At WYD when WYD organizers started feeling In his remarks after the medal nurture people for this task, he added. Grabosky dipped his hands in the in an interview as he passed through Paris in 1997, he said, 300,000 young the burn of the online commentators, was bestowed on him, Doerflinger Helping people turn away from Pacific Ocean Jan. 20 then started Smithton. “I am running to encourage people pre-registered, and there were they opened a worldwide contest, quoted Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who bad ideas is part of the task of a running toward the East Coast where people to pray and to put their trust in 1.2 million people at the closing vigil soliciting songs — not to replace the said, “The line dividing good and evil great Catholic university, Doerflinger in late May, he plans to jump into the God. It’s amazing what we can do with and closing Mass with Pope John bishop’s hymn, but to play alongside it. cuts through the heart of every human continued, saying that because Notre Atlantic Ocean. His route took him our lives if we do.” He was managing Paul II. Some 270 songs were submitted being.” Dame relies on so many scholars and through the Southwest, Midwest a runners’ sports store in Virginia The staff of WYD Madrid has rallied and just more than 130 were deemed “The (life) issues put us in touch thinkers who embrace that task, “It and the Northeast through Ohio and last year when he began planning a interest and is helping prepare all those eligible, said Rivera. The public was with one aspect of humanity: They is an especially great honor for me to Pennsylvania. Then in early May, his cross-country journey that started in young people with a major presence on being asked to go to a website ‘— show what we are capable of when receive this award.” 3,700-mile solo journey was stalled in Oceanside, Calif., and will end in Smith the Internet, especially through social www.madridmeencanta.org — and we lose our moorings, when we are The Evangelium Vitae Medal given Virginia while he waited for his injured Point, N.Y., tentatively May 25. As of media such as Facebook and Twitter. vote for their favorites by May 31. A not guided by clear thinking on right by the Notre Dame Fund to Protect legs to heal. The whole time, he midday May 16, he was in Englishtown, Photos of the preparation phase are WYD panel was to take the top 25 and wrong,” he said, calling the Human Life will be presented annually prayed. Grabosky, 28, carries a rosary N.J., in the eastern central part of the posted on Flickr and videos produced vote-getters and choose five of them Catholic tradition “the only game in to an individual who has made an ring and prays for people he knows state. His website, jeffrunsamerica. by or about WYD 2011 are collected on to feature in Madrid. town if you wanted solidly grounded outstanding effort to affirm and and people he never met. “If it weren’t com, posts his progress and location. and consistent defense of the need to defend the sanctity of all human life. Small miracles happen at beatifi cation At Caritas assembly, Vatican to address ‘Catholic identity’ issue celebrations, pilgrims say VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Blessed attend the ceremonies “because John VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The the crucial topics of Catholic identity have not come without tension, but Internationalis, the church’s worldwide Pope John Paul II worked a number Paul II loved young people and we had general assembly of Caritas and the juridical status of Caritas Vatican sources said that in recent aid and development organization, is of miracles at his beatification, some to be here,” Rosa Giordano said. Each Internationalis in late May is shaping Internationalis in the universal church. talks with top officials of Caritas motivated in part by the organization’s pilgrims said. Weather forecasts of a of the more than one million people of up as a defining moment for the Then new statutes for the organization, Internationalis the atmosphere has high public profile. “Caritas weekend of heavy rains turned into every age, background, and nationality confederation of 165 national Catholic prepared by a working team of the vastly improved, and that there’s Internationalis, as a public entity of innocuous grey clouds April 30 and attending the April 30 vigil in Circus charities, at a time when the Vatican Holy See and Caritas Internationalis, been “a great level of cooperation.” the church, is authorized to speak and then sunny skies May 1. “We prayed Maximus and May 1 beatification in St. is insisting on greater control over will be reviewed — statutes that, They emphasized that the Vatican act for the church in the international to John Paul that it wouldn’t rain,” Peter’s Square had his or her own story Caritas operations. The agenda of according to Caritas officials, would remains very supportive of Caritas and forum. Because of that right and duty, said Josephine Faehrmann from of pilgrimage. Danila Fabrizio, another the May 22-27 meeting reflects require them to consult with the Holy appreciates the key role it plays in it needs to speak the church’s language Sydney, Australia, who was planning member of the group that left Naples the Vatican’s moves toward closer See before making certain decisions promoting the church’s social teaching and make sure that its activities and to sleep outside with her friends. Also, at 1 a.m. May 1 on the benefactor’s collaboration and supervision: On and would acknowledge the Holy and helping those in need. The its agreements with non-Catholic mysterious benefactors with a special bus, said, “This is a sign of God’s the assembly’s first full working day, See’s authority over Caritas’ financial Vatican’s move toward participation agencies reflect what the church devotion to the Polish pope paid for a providence that we’re here." four Vatican officials will speak on and personnel issues. The changes in the governance structures of Caritas teaches,” said one Vatican official. bus full of young people from Naples to NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 PAGE 5

Catholic entrepreneur and Legatus founder Statement of the Catholic Diocese Tom Monaghan speaks to Fort Worth chapter of Fort Worth regarding settlement of claims against the diocese involving James Reilly Editor's Note: This press release committed to being in compliance Briefly was sent to local news media on with the requirements of the May 9. Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People Diocesan, State The Catholic Diocese of adopted by the Bishops of the Fullness of Truth conference in guides Fort Worth Monday reached a United States in 2002. Photo by Jeff Hensley / NTC settlement agreement through The Diocese, in accordance participants through Gospel of Matthew Legatus founder Tom Monaghan (SECOND FROM LEFT) poses with Fort Worth Chapter President Bill mediation of claims brought with its policies, has actively Quinn, (SECOND FROM RIGHT), and past presidents Chuck Milliken (LEFT), and Bill Petrelli (RIGHT). against the Diocese by a person sought victims of abuse in the who was allegedly abused by Arlington parish where Reilly was When the former owner of both draws 400 to 500 people from across James Reilly. assigned. Reilly was assigned to St. Domino’s Pizza and the Detroit Tigers, the U.S., he said, usually in Naples, Terms of the settlement were Maria Goretti Catholic Church in Tom Monaghan, spoke to the monthly Florida. Past presenters have included not disclosed. Arlington from 1969 through 1987. meeting of the Fort Worth chapter President George W. Bush, Supreme Bishop Kevin Vann, in a He retired in 1987 and moved to of Legatus May 12 at the Fort Worth Court Justice Clarence Thomas, former statement shared with the victim, Philadelphia. He died in 1999. Club it was a source of great joy for the football coach Lou Holtz, and author stated that he is deeply sorry The Catholic Diocese of Fort 50 or so members and their guests. David McCullough. for any sexual abuse the victim Worth asks that anyone who has Monaghan founded Legatus, a Catholic “I’m convinced the idea for Legatus may have endured and suffered either witnessed or has suffered business executives’ fellowship almost came from the Holy Spirit,” Monaghan by Reilly. He further stated that sexual abuse by anyone who 25 years ago. He spoke of his goal in said. “That’s pretty clear to me.” The such actions are a sin and a crime. serves the Church to come forward founding Legatus in an interview with idea for the organization came within a The Bishop informed the victim so that the individual and the the North Texas Catholic before joining few hours of his having met Pope John that he prays that healing and Church can continue the healing Photo by Thanh Nguyen / NTC the Fort Worth chapter for Mass and Paul II for the first time. reconciliation can be achieved in process. To report abuse to the Dr. Scott Hahn, world-renowned Catholic theologian, author, and apologist, addresses those the opportunity for confession, at St. Ten percent of the dues from all the individual’s life. civil authorities, call the Texas attending the Fullness of Truth conference, Thy Kingdom Come, at the Arlington Convention Patrick Cathedral. Legatus chapters is donated to the Bishop Vann stresses that the Department of Family Protective Center Saturday, April 30. He wanted, he said, to “help these charities of the Holy See, Monaghan Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth Services (Child Protective Services) influential and very visible people said, amounting to about $550,000 will address any charge of abuse at 1 (800) 252-5400. To report ARLINGTON — One only had to enter approach created the feel of a lecture, become better Catholics.” With 75 annually. as quickly and as pastorally as abuse to the Diocese of Fort the cozy exhibition space at the the second morning session took or 76 chapters functioning in the “Legatus nourishes a lot of possible Worth call Judy Locke, the Victim Arlington Convention Center April 30- on the atmosphere of an intimate U.S. and internationally and six to marriages,” he said in his interview. “As the pastor of the Catholic Assistance Coordinator, at (817) May 1 to sense that something special class, despite the large crowd. Dr. 10 in formation, it looks like an idea “After all, you’re gathering to talk Diocese of Fort Worth, I am 560-2452, ext. 201, or e-mail her was happening. Tables with banners John Bergsma, associate professor of whose time had come. The idea he across the table to other committed committed to ensuring that the at [email protected]. Persons for a number of Catholic universities theology at the Franciscan University said, was to meet monthly, attend Catholics in stable marriages, who are Diocese’s policies are adhered to also can call the sexual abuse were covered with media materials. In of Steubenville showed himself the Mass together, have the opportunity there because they want to become so we can prevent future tragedy hotline, (817) 560-2452, ext. 900. one corner, a monitor showing a movie consummate educator using fill-in- to go to confession before Mass, then better Catholics.” such as that which has befallen the Or call The Catholic Center (817) trailer stood guard over a pamphlet- the-blank handouts to further engage meet over dinner, while listening to In his speech to the Fort Worth victims of abuse,” he said. 560-2452, ext. 102, and ask for the strewn table. Just beyond, in the his students. speakers, “usually pretty prominent Legatus chapter over dinner, following The Diocese has been and is Vicar General, Father Stephen Berg. cavernous grand hall, a makeshift “The three inclinations to sin speakers,” Monaghan said, “because their shared Mass, Monaghan spoke bookstore brimmed with Scripture are traditionally known as the most are happy to address a group of extensively of the greatest project of study tools, Bibles, devotional books, ‘threefold concupiscence,’” he said, prominent Catholic leaders.” his life, Ave Maria University and Law San Antonio seminary rector, two others, and CDs. But as nearly 600 people — as participants scribbled attentively. There were to be no projects to be School in Ave Maria, Florida. ordained auxiliary bishops of Detroit some of whom had traveled from as far Using Christ’s teachings on denial, accomplished by the members, who if away as Washington state — gathered Bergsma moved from the theoretical married had to be in marriages in good To read more about Tom Monaghan’s DETROIT (CNS) — In a filled-to- to attend the Fullness of Truth Catholic to the practical in his coverage of standing with the Church. speech at the Fort Worth chapter, visit capacity Cathedral of the Most Blessed Evangelization Ministries’ conference chapters three and four of Matthew’s A Legatus summit held annually www.fwdioc.org/NTC. Sacrament, with priests from around Thy Kingdom Come: Unlocking the Gospel. the archdiocese and bishops from Gospel of St. Matthew, the focal point Following the Angelus and a Passage of HB 12 'sanctuary city' bill affronts around the country attending, Father of the room would become and remain simple lunch, Dr. Michael Barber, Arturo Cepeda, rector of Assumption the altar. professor of theology, Scripture, dignity of Texans, say Texas Catholic Bishops Seminary in San Antonio, was ordained Bishop Kevin Vann celebrated and Catholic thought at John Paul AUSTIN (TCC) — The Texas Catholic on the advocacy day. “Requiring law an auxiliary bishop for Detroit, along the opening Mass Saturday morning. the Great University in San Diego, Bishops expressed their disappointment enforcement to investigate immigration with Monsignor Donald F. Hanchon and “This week within the octave of Easter began the afternoon sessions with at the passage of House Bill 12 May status every time they make an arrest Father Michael J. Byrnes. is a special time to pray, learn, and a teaching on the Sermon on the 10, issuing a statement which called is burdensome and a threat to public Detroit Archbishop Allen H. proclaim,” he said in his homily, as he Mount. Barber’s easy, accessible the passage of the bill an affront to safety. It will divert scarce resources Vigneron, speaking to the three prior pointed out the readings for the week style and humor belies a cultivated the dignity of Texans that ignores away from investigating and pursuing to their episcopal ordination rite, said repeated themes of faith, peace, and depth and his stunning insight on “our state’s rich heritage and cultural serious criminals. The use of police they would be “numbered among the the call to evangelize. the Beatitudes made it clear why his diversity” and oversteps the appropriate officers to enforce immigration laws band of Jesus’ companions.” Mass ended with a solemn radio show, Reasons for Faith Live, is authority of state government. will likely undermine the relationship “Today, we say with Peter, ‘Yes, procession of the Blessed Sacrament nationally syndicated. “We pray that when this bill between the local police and the Lord, we love you more than these,’” which was brought to a temporary Composer and virtuoso pianist continues on to the Senate, that our communities they serve.” he told the bishop-designates “chapel” for Adoration throughout Eric Genius, who served as music Texas senators will affirm the dignity of The Texas Bishops support during his homily. “Of all the many rings. the day. director and cantor for the conference, all human life in our state and protect comprehensive immigration reform qualifications we must fill and Bishop Cepeda, who turned 42 May The provisional worship space then performed a concert of sacred music the safety of our communities,” said the that includes a pathway to permanent competencies we must attain ... the 15, became the youngest U.S. bishop became a lecture hall as renowned — including several of his own Bishops in their statement. “We urge residency, emphasizes family unity, and most basic is not mostly functional. and the 10th youngest Catholic bishop Catholic author, theologian, and compositions — with acclaimed Texas’ senators to champion respect addresses the root causes of migration The most basic qualification is love for in the world. apologist, Dr. Scott Hahn, took the violinist Liesl Schoenberger. The first for all people, a respect not earned but in sending countries. The Texas Bishops’ Jesus. Loving him as he loved us — A native of Mexico and priest podium. day closed with Benediction and a imbued by God our Creator, and oppose immigration-related legislative until the end.” of the San Antonio Archdiocese, “The Catholic religion is not a dinner with the guest speakers. HB 12.” priorities also include opposing the During the ceremony, which took he had been serving as rector of religion of the book,” he began. “It is The complementary styles of Hahn, Several bishops and hundreds of enforcement of federal law by local place within the context of Mass, the Assumption Seminary at the time of a religion of the Word: the Incarnate Bergsma, and Barber combined with Catholics advocated against HB 12 and state law enforcement, as well as Vatican decrees naming the three his appointment. He becomes the 26th Word.” After a brief overview of Church the format of worship, teaching, and during the Catholic Faith in Action opposition to a Texas-Mexico border men bishops were read. Archbishop active Hispanic bishop in the U.S. history, Hahn went on to explain how traditional Catholic devotions gave advocacy day on April 6. fence and any efforts to reduce access to Vigneron laid his hands on them, and Bishop Hanchon was a pastor and the Eucharist is the basis of the New the conference a collegial spirit. By “We oppose legislation that allow education or health care for immigrants. anointed each man with oil. Each of episcopal vicar for the central region of Testament and laid the foundation for its close Sunday evening, the intense or require local or state entities to the three was prayed over using the the archdiocese. Bishop Byrnes was a the weekend’s study of the Gospel of journey through the Gospel of St. evaluate an individual’s immigration For more information on the Texas book of Scripture. And they were pastor and vice rector of Sacred Heart Matthew. Matthew proved exhilarating rather status,” said Bishop Daniel Flores of Catholic Conference, visit www. presented their miters, crosiers, and Seminary. If Hahn’s authoritative, scholarly than exhausting. Brownsville, at a press conference TXCatholic.org. PAGE 6 NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 Bishop Vann challenges UD graduates to 'repair and perfect' the world at May 15 commencement address

By Michele Baker do we want?” began Bishop Vann. and Blessed John Paul II. Each LEFT: Fort Worth Bishop Correspondent Referring back to reference, whether an example Kevin Vann gave the Christianity’s Jewish roots, Bishop from the Epic of Gilgamesh, one commencement address Good Shepherd Sunday, Vann introduced the concept of of the oldest written stories on before hundreds of people, May 15, dawned crisp and clear tikkun olam, a Hebrew expression earth, or a quote from Lincoln’s and approximately 300 in North Texas this year. Nestled that means repair or perfection of First Inaugural Address, illustrated graduates, at the University between buildings and trees, an the world. the tension between the human of Dallas' 2011 annual expanse of seating sprawled in the Bishop Vann explained, “It is tendency toward self gratifi cation commencement ceremony shadow of the Braniff Memorial the idea that human beings have a and the call to tikkun olam. May 15. Tower on the Mall at the University role to play — and an important “Th is brief survey of your BELOW: The graduation of Dallas. Th e class of 2011 boasted one — in helping to establish an own education in the Western ceremony was held at UD's some 400 graduates. Th eir families ethical society in the world.” intellectual tradition shows that outdoor mall area in Irving. and friends crowded the area “Th ere is much in the world this is the plight of human beings accompanying the brass ensemble today that would seem to suggest throughout history who have that played in the background that human beings are not in the only lived for themselves,” said with smiles, hugs, and joyful business of tikkun olam, the repair Bishop Vann. “Who have regarded anticipation. Th is commencement, of the world,” he continued. “But themselves as more important, more though lacking nothing in when has it not been the case that deserving than others. Yet it doesn’t austerity and grace, had no trace there has always been the struggle have to be that way. We can get in with humility and with trust, let of stuffi ness. On the contrary, this between the noblest eff orts of touch with the reality that each of Christ speak to man. He alone has unseasonably cool, sunny morning human beings to choose the good us is willed into existence — loved words of life, yes, of life eternal.’” overfl owed with festive spirit. It and do the right — the common into being — by a God who wants Th en Bishop Vann added his was in the midst of this genial good — and our basest desires of to share his friendship with us.” own adaptation of John Paul’s oft- gathering that Bishop Kevin Vann, choosing and doing that which is Bishop Vann concluded quoted exhortation: “Open wide chief shepherd of the Diocese of less and so damaging ourselves and his remarks quoting a familiar the doors of your minds, of your Fort Worth, took the podium to the world at large?” exhortation from Pope John Paul intellects, of your hearts — as you give the Commencement Address. Using the classic literature that II’s homily from the Mass at the have done the last four years — to “As we prepare to send the forms the core of the University of beginning of his pontifi cate in repair and perfect the world.” graduating class of 2011 out into Dallas curriculum as a foundation, 1978: “’Open wide the doors for For the complete text the world precisely to engage the Bishop Vann cited great writers and Christ…. Do not be afraid. Christ of Bishop Kevin Vann’s Class of 2011 visit: http:// world, the perennial question thinkers from Dante and St. Teresa knows ‘that which is in man….. Commencement Address resource.udallas.edu/132/ presents itself: What kind of world of Avila to Flannery O’Connor We ask you, therefore we beg you to the University of Dallas CommencementAddress(1).pdf. Discernment. "
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*SWJOH http://gettag.mobi NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 PAGE 7 Diocese John Paul II beatifi ed FROM PAGE 1 began letting people in at 2 a.m., according to news reports. Th ibaut Cappe, a 23-year-old from Paris, got up at 3 a.m. and managed to fi nd a spot half way up the boulevard leading to St. Peter's Square. He said Pope John Paul "is an example of simplicity in the way of being a Catholic. It's not always easy to be a Catholic in our world. He was doing it in a way that was understandable for everyone." Alongside the altar in front of St. Peter's Basilica, priority seating was given to offi cial delegations from more than 80 countries, the European Union, and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Th e United States was represented by Miguel Diaz, the ambassador to the Vatican, and by his predecessors, Francis Rooney and Jim Nicholson. King Albert and Queen Paola of Belgium led the list of royalty present and 16 heads of state attended, including Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. Valeria Buonpastore, who is from Charlotte, North Carolina, said Pope John Paul "transcended nationalities. He was universal; that's what made him so great. Overwhelming optimism, based on his trust in divine providence, drove him Pilgrims wave the fl ags of Poland and the United States during to constantly look to the horizons of hope." the beatifi cation Mass of Pope John Paul II celebrated by Pope In his homily, Pope Benedict also spoke of Pope John Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican May 1. (CNS photo/ Paul's suff ering and his battle with Parkinson's disease, which Paul Haring) eventually crippled him. "Th ere was his witness in suff ering: the Lord gradually stripped him of everything, yet he remained ever a 'rock,' as complete faith. Christ desired. His profound humility, grounded in close union "Blessed are you, beloved Pope John Paul II, because you with Christ, enabled him to continue to lead the Church and to believed," the pope prayed at the end of his homily. "Continue, People packed St. Peter's Square and the Via della Conciliazione give the world a message which became all the more eloquent we implore you, to sustain from heaven the faith of God's people." was filled with the faithful all the way to the Tiber River, May 1, as his physical strength declined," the pope said. as more than a million attended the beatification of Pope John Pope Benedict also reminded the crowd of how devoted Contributing to this story were John Th avis and Carol Glatz at Paul II. (CNS Photo/Massimo Sestini, Italian National Police via Pope John Paul was to Mary and to following her example of the Vatican. Reuters) Local Catholics excited by beatifi cation of John Paul II — including Bishop Vann who was inspired by the pope's holiness

By Tony Gutiérrez Paul II’s infl uence on the universal Church, dioceses throughout on the infl uence of women.... It’s up to women to bring back Associate Editor the world are permitted to formally observe his feast day, Oct. compassion to society.” 22, according to a decree from the Vatican’s Congregation for Lucas Pollice, diocesan director of Catechesis, was also Divine Worship and the Sacraments. excited about the beatifi cation, having grown up and been atholics throughout the world were excited over the Th e pope also had a special impact on Kendall Cherry, a formed in his faith during John Paul II’s pontifi cate. beatifi cation of the late Pope John Paul II, on Divine University of North Texas freshman and active member of the “I was not surprised, but absolutely thrilled at his Mercy Sunday, May 1, and the Diocese of Fort Worth school’s Catholic Campus Ministry in Denton. Cherry, who took beatifi cation, because it speaks so much of his legacy and what C , was no exception. Th e Polish pontiff s impact on the Church was adult confi rmation classes this year, chose Blessed John Paul he’s done for the Church,” Pollice said. tremendous, as he served for more than a quarter of a century II as her confi rmation patron, choosing to get confi rmed with “He’s a great hero of mine: the way he taught, the way he from 1978 to 2005. the high school confi rmation class at Immaculate Conception courageously defended the faith, and the way he lived the faith, “I believe his beatifi cation is a refl ection of his holiness and Church in Denton and share her confi rmation day with her even toward the end of his life as he faced illness and death,” Pollice dedication to his ministry, and I think it’s a great gift to the patron’s beatifi cation. added, referencing the pope’s debilitating Parkinson’s disease. “He whole Church,” said Bishop Kevin Vann. “He was an inspiration “I liked the symbolism of him becoming Blessed in the embodied what it means to be holy, and he embodied what it to a lot of us who were studying there at the time.” Church on the same day I was coming into full communion means to be a catechist — not only what he taught, but how he Bishop Vann, who as a young priest studied canon law at the with the Church,” Cherry said. lived. For catechists, we teach most profoundly in how we live.” Angelicum in Rome at the beginning of John Paul’s pontifi cate, Cherry, who was not active in her faith before coming Pollice said that John Paul’s beatifi cation also points to all said he remembered the pope celebrating Mass at local parishes. to college, said she fi rst encountered John Paul II when her his writings on almost every aspect of the Catholic faith, but Bishop Va n n added t hat he wa s persona l ly inspired by t he pope’s campus ministry off ered a course on his Th eology of the Body with “an eye to engaging the modern culture and answering holiness and the time he spent in prayer, and said he tries to this semester. the most pressing questions of our times.” follow John Paul’s example as a pastor. “Seeing what he said about the sexual revolution from the “Th rough this he has given the universal Church the tools “He met all kinds of people, preached in all kinds of ,60s and how he countered it spoke out to me a lot,” Cherry said. to carry on the New Evangelization,” he said. situations, and off ered the sacraments, so his being a pastor Cherry said she plans to read and study more of his writings Pollice also said he has personally been seeking Blessed John is an inspiration to me,” the bishop said. “He’s a pastor of the over the summer. One particular document, John Paul’s “Letter Paul II’s intercession since his beatifi cation was announced Jan. 14. universal Church. I know people have been very excited and to Women” resonated with her as she was reading it in the pew “I also think of the fact that he’s now Blessed — we think grateful. His beatifi cation is a real boost to everybody, because just before her confi rmation. of how much he did for the universal Church on Earth; I can’t it reminds us that we’re in communion with the greater Church “I guess that was my seal of approval that I had chosen the even begin to think of how much he’s doing now for the universal and the Church of Rome.” right saint. I felt like he was talking specifi cally to me,” Cherry Church from heaven,” Pollice said. “He’s my go-to person now. While typically the feast days of blesseds can only be said. “He was thanking us for being women. It was about how I have found even greater comfort in praying to him and asking celebrated in their home dioceses or nations, because of John women’s gentleness, and the gentleness of society, is solely based his intercession since he’s beatifi ed.” PAGE 8 NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 VOICES of the CHURCH opinions, stories, wisdom, and personal voice Budget refl ects our values We've been Catholic 10 years Listen to our better angels... I love the Church, and I'm still learning

By Father John Rausch By David Mills vibrant democracy ver 10 years, as I’ve ast February when the U.S. here were six people standing learned more, I’ve Catholic bishops wanted to requires healthy up front at our parish's recent O underscore the morality involved A Easter Vigil Mass, standing only found more things to where the six of us — me, my in budget priorities, they asked educated citizens who can LStockton Bishop Stephen Blaire to write Twife, and our four children — had stood 10 love ... One of them is how years before. Judging from the looks on their members of Congress. wide and welcoming is the “On behalf of the United States participate in the political faces, at least a couple of them felt the way we Conference of Catholic Bishops,” he wrote as had felt: “Th is is a great day, but couldn’t we Church, how many diff erent chairman of their Committee on Domestic process. A tax system do it without all those people staring at us?” Justice and Human Development, “we Ten years ago, at the Easter Vigil in people she holds, how based on the ability to pay 2001, my wife and I and our four children call on Congress to place the needs of the generous she is with her poor, the unemployed, the hungry, and entered the Catholic Church. We had both other vulnerable people fi rst in setting — favored by popes and been Episcopalians for twenty-some years attention. Sitting at Mass priorities in the Fiscal Year 2011 Continuing and had thought about becoming Catholics among some people like Appropriations Resolution.” bishops for over a century for most of those. Maybe because we’d His comments drew strident criticism thought about it so long, and spent so much me and some people very from numerous Catholics admonishing him — will raise the revenue so time standing outside the door looking and other bishops to steer clear of political in, we both felt completely at home about diff erent from me always .000024 seconds after we were received. involvement and to see their job as saving everyone can have a place gives me pleasure. souls, promoting subsidiarity, and avoiding But we felt excited as well, and still socialism. Eventually, the budget axe did chop at the table. do. It seemed too good to be true. Th ose fi ngers and toes, sometimes arms and legs, off of you who grew up Catholic may think Th e blessings of being within the Church the programs championed by the bishops. that joining the Church is the obvious were great, indeed infi nite, in the sense of Church-going people easily get wrapped interest tax breaks. Lower tax rates on capital thing to do if we wanted to do it. You want eternal. I loved receiving the Lord in the in discussions about defi cits and debt, framed gains, largely benefi tting the super-rich, strawberry ice cream, you order strawberry. Mass. I loved the feeling that Jesus was around individualism and entitlements. shift the tax burden to other sectors of the You want to be a Catholic, you join the always just around the corner, that I could Many ask: hasn’t individual freedom created economy, or beg for budget cuts. Th ese cuts, Catholic Church. It’s not rocket science. fi nd him just by going inside a church and the wealth in America? Don’t billionaires and together with free trade agreements sucking You would be right, but still, becoming looking at the Tabernacle. I loved knowing mega-millionaires need tax cuts to create new manufacturing jobs overseas, force “the a Catholic is a big deal for those of us who that I could go to a priest to tell him how I’d jobs? Won’t entitlements bankrupt the U.S. poor, the unemployed, the hungry, and other do it. Every convert has been committed sinned and hear from him the declaration in the future? Admitting no simple answers, vulnerable people” whom the bishops want to to something else, usually but not always that God has forgiven me. these types of questions distract from the protect, to face their own fi nancial tsunami. another version of Christianity. We all had to Th at was the kind of thing I noticed deeper questions and fuel the wrangle that is Th e mantra “Smaller Government, leave something behind, publicly change our at fi rst. Th ey’re the obvious things to enjoy, polarizing the country. Less Taxes” fi ts easily on a bumper sticker, minds, and join a new family that we didn’t like going to Italy and enjoying the food. For people of faith the bishops are right but the average total U.S. income tax rate know nearly as well as we knew our old one. Over 10 years, as I’ve learned more, I’ve to fl ag the morality of budget priorities. A (combining federal, state and local) ranks No one does this without thinking only found more things to love. Th ese are budget actually refl ects society’s values. It lower than 24 other industrialized nations. carefully. Which explains why converts can harder to explain. One of them is how wide quantifi es the importance of what to cut Bank of America paid no U.S. income taxes act like a beagle who’s watching the table and welcoming is the Church, how many and what to cultivate. But, the bishops’ in 2009 and 2010. Boeing, recording profi ts scraps being dropped into his dish. Minus diff erent people she holds, how generous she perspective rests on the common good of $9.7 billion over the years 2008-2010, wetting the fl oor, of course. is with her attention. Sitting at Mass among and the enhancement of community, not actually received a tax rebate of $75 million As I say, it’s something my wife and I some people like me and some people very simply the enrichment of the individual. In during those years. had wanted to do, sort of, for a long time. diff erent from me always gives me pleasure. essence, the budget process asks what kind of A vibrant democracy requires healthy Some Protestants call that feeling of wanting I’m still learning (I’m only 10, after all). community we want to promote. educated citizens who can participate in the to become Catholic “Roman Fever.” It’s Of course I’ve also developed a keener sense For three decades the U.S. has political process. A tax system based on the kind of like malaria. It comes and goes of the failings and sins of Catholics, but that experienced a redistribution of wealth — ability to pay — favored by popes and bishops unexpectedly. When I had it, I thought only increases my love for a Church that upward. Between 1979 and 2008 the top for over a century — will raise the revenue so it was going to take me away, but when I includes such people — partly because they 1 percent saw their income increase by everyone can have a place at the table. recovered I forgot about it entirely. include me and every Catholic I love — and 224 percent, while the bottom 20 percent Should Congress cut funding for Head When it hits you, it feels like that survives what her people do to her. experienced a 7 percent loss in theirs. Start; the Women, Infants, and Children homesickness. I actually felt a kind of hollow We didn’t expect to fi nd so many Currently, the top 1 percent get nearly a nutrition program; the Global Health and feeling in the center of my chest, the way I blessings when we stood up front 10 years quarter of the nation’s income and control 40 Child Survival Account; Hunger Free did when I visited my hometown and then ago. But once in a while something that percent of the wealth. Just 25 years ago that Communities Grants; or the Peace Corps? had to drive away to go home. I often got it seems too good to be true turns out really to top group held 33 percent of the wealth and People of faith ask: Do these programs refl ect when reading a Catholic writer, sometimes be true. took 12 percent of the nation’s income. Th e profl igate spending, or our better angels? when I was reading theology, but more result: society today mirrors the inequality often when I was reading stories or letters or David Mills is the executive editor of just prior to the Great Depression. Father John Rausch is a Glenmary priest and biographies. I saw a richness and depth and FIRST THINGS (www.fi rstthings.com). He Observe: with wealth comes power. a social justice educator and writer who has breadth there. I got brief glimpses of a world and his family attend St. Joseph’s Church Translated into politics, the super-rich can devoted himself to working with the working that I should be living in but wasn’t. in Coraopolis. He can be reached at inordinately infl uence legislation and special people of Appalachia for well over three decades. Once inside, I saw that I had been right. [email protected]. NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 PAGE 9 VOICES of the CHURCH opinions, stories, wisdom, and personal voice Graduates are celebrating with joy Th e kindness Heritages are being passed forward to new generations of strangers By Jeff Hensley By Kathy Cribari Hamer Editor, North Texas Catholic

’d like to earn a nursing degree at Someone who has contributed to the 've had a few interviews in my life Texas Christian University just to sparkle of hundreds — maybe thousands — that have engendered small cases of experience their graduation. Having of children’s lives, died this month. Robert Ithe "willies." attended and photographed the event Connelly, who in March had celebrated his One came when I worked for Ifor many years, I have seen nursing classes vents like these, 93rd birthday, passed away after a landmark the Cursillo Movement editing the process into Daniel Meyer Coliseum wearing life raising his own children and shaping the movement's magazine, Ultreya, and scrubs over their gowns, or carrying IV’s of populated by people lives of Boy Scouts. writing its press releases. “purple blood.” Th eir mortarboard tops are E Mr. Connelly was active in Scouting for At a meeting in Buff alo, New York, I decorated with everything from boa feathers 75 years, and said Scouting and Catholicism needed to interview the Apostolic Nuncio to glittered names of the hospitals where they who matter to each other, are a natural pair. “I’m glad I was born into to the United States for a release. will someday work. them,” he said. “Like most people, I don’t I sought out one of the bright, But the nursing school’s unique are landmarks in our mind obtaining something great.” knowledgable people I'd met there commencement celebration shows clearly in Last October Connelly did something and asked him what he would ask the the graduates’ response when their school is lives; they are red-ribbon he was determined to do: He attended his apostolic nuncio if he had the chance. Th e announced. 50th Catholic Scouting Retreat, which he interview went well. Th e words “Harris College of Nursing had inaugurated in Fort Worth drawing on A couple of weeks ago, I was invited and Health Sciences” trigger an explosion of occasions, without which earlier experience when he lived in Illinois. to attend a Legatus meeting in downtown cheers, confetti, glitter, and silly string. Th e Seven of the eight Connelly children Fort Worth. Th ey wanted some publicity celebration goes on for what seems forever, life would still go on, but attended the retreat with him, including his for the club and gave me the opportunity but maybe is about 15 seconds, the audience son Mike, who was a Scout at Fort Worth’s to interview Legatus' founder, Tom watching with amusement, and vicariously would sparkle less. fi rst Catholic retreat in 1960. Monaghan. enjoying the jubilant chaos. Mr. Connelly’s loyalty to the scouting One would have to have been under Now, the university always gives one tradition was returned to him at his vigil, a rather large rock the past 30 years admonition to its graduation audiences: when a young scout came forward, stood to not know Monaghan as the former “Please do not use bullhorns, because, ‘we by the coffi n, and poignantly played “Taps” owner of Domino's Pizza, who had sold want to hear every name that is called.’” on his bugle. At the following day’s Mass of the business to manage his charitable However, TCU knows the nurses’ private Christian Burial, Scouts from St. Ignatius contributions to Catholic causes. More celebration, which does not contain horns, she already has the costume!” And the teacher College Preparatory School stood shoulder to recently, he had founded Ave Maria is unavoidable. And yes, it is happily announced, “Do you know Laura Collard can shoulder in the rain, lining the sidewalk, so University, in southwest Florida. anticipated. Perhaps that is why the ride a bike without training wheels?” the coffi n would be rolled out of the church Legatus is a fellowship of Catholic university, in a real display of intellectual Each child was commended; each parent from within their ranks. CEOs who, joined by their wives, support prowess, opts to place the nursing school as smiled and clicked the shutter on the family’s Mr. Connelly was, as the Scouts said, each other in their Christian lives, meet the last college named, in the last graduation digital camera. “one of them.” once a month to attend Mass together, ceremony of the day. Th e achievements Mrs. Townsend Everybody at TCU celebrated graduation have the opportunity to go to confession, When it is over, the view of the fl oor and spotlighted were not as important, perhaps, this month, a scenario that will be repeated and then share a meal, while listening to chairs — the incredible unmasked mess of as the skills TCU’s nurses learned and would all over our state and country well into interesting Catholic speakers. discarded paper and glittery signs, displayed soon deliver. But I think her announcement June. Small children will receive kid-sized I found some of the requirements briefl y by the happy people who sat there — is about their little talents will follow those documents of commencement. Bigger for membership a little off -putting, but. the imprint of glee itself, the littered reminder small children too; maybe her joyful children, in hallowed halls and echoing after all, everybody in whatever line of that a goal has been reached, happiness commendation will create one of the fi rst auditoriums, will receive academic hoods. work likes to gather with people who are experienced, and a joyful journey begun. indentations on the clay that will be their Nursing classes at TCU will repeat their familiar with their circumstances. It's Each year I take a picture of that grown-up self image. time-honored tradition of crazy merriment. understandable. symbol. It’s a mess that means something. My daughter Abby graduated from TCU But the important part really isn’t about But anticipating the combination TCU’s graduation was not the only one this year, and she fulfi lled a prediction her the décor — or the decorum. Th e important of interviewing a former billionaire, who I attended this month. A smaller but nearly high school teacher, Mr. Richard McNally, part is the sense of possibility that comes from created and manages the best known new as momentous event was my granddaughter might have made when he taught her the announcement of each name, each person Catholic university in the country and Emma’s pre-school commencement photography at Nolan Catholic High School. who does, in fact, have a place in the world. sitting down to dinner with businesspeople ceremony at St. Andrew School. “Pomp Receiving a degree in fi lm, television, and Whether they grow up to be ballerinas, of wealth was a bit intimidating. and Circumstance” was playing on a piano, digital media, Abby decorated her cap with a superheroes, or fi xers, their start will have I needn't have worried. Tom while the teacher, Sandy Townsend, stood photograph she had taken with the medium come from two sources: God’s grace, and the Monaghan turns out to be a man of at the microphone announcing graduates’ format camera Mr. McNally once used, a people who, long ago, gave them a diploma, great vision, somewhat plainspoken, but names. She also attached a simple descriptive camera she had inherited when he died. a camera, or a scouting badge and said, “You friendly, warm, and humble. sentence to each. On her shoulder she carried a large can do anything.” When I walked into the meeting “Emma Ater,” the teacher said, digital video-cam, covering the event from room where dinner and a speaker would announcing my granddaughter with the perspective of a graduate. She even fi lmed take place, I was greeted by a stream of decorum, “wants to be a ballerina,” and the chancellor as he presented her degree. Kathy Cribari Hamer is a member of St. warm, friendly, welcoming Catholics, the proud little girl walked to the assistant Mr. McNally would have smiled, as I Andrew Parish in Southwest Fort Worth. most of whom I'd never laid eyes on. principal and solemnly took her “diploma.” did, clicking my family’s digital camera. Last May, her column received the second It was one of the nicest, most sociable Going through the class list, Mrs. Events like these, populated by people place award for best family life column by groups of people I've encountered. Townsend proclaimed, “Jeff Hutchins likes who matter to each other, are landmarks the Catholic Press Association of the U.S. Preconceived notions melt quickly to fi x things and will defi nitely grow up to be in our lives; they are red-ribbon occasions, and Canada. In 2005, Kathy’s column was in the warmth of a fi rm handshake, a fi xer of some kind”; “Kylie South wants to without which life would still go on, but recognized with the fi rst place award in the a meeting of the eyes, and pleasant be Bat Girl, and that will work out because would sparkle less. same category. conversation in the heart of the Cshurch. PAGE 10 NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011

Father Kyle Walterscheid, director of the Offi ce of Vocations, following Vocations his ordination in May 2002 at Sacred Heart Church in Muenster. Responding to God’s call Even then he appeared to be inviting people to ask if they were called to a vocation.

By Father Kyle Walterscheid, Director of the Offi ce of Vocations Modesty befi tting the dignity and purity God has bestowed on all odesty — Could passions. Public modesty, dignity, and self- appropriately for Sunday Mass. On the sorrow, suff ering, and pain as men attracted esteem often go hand in hand. We say a lot men’s side, it causes a distraction to the in this way cause women to have inferior something as about ourselves, our self-esteem, and what we worshipping of God by arriving at Mass relationships which strip away their dignity are looking for, or what we are not looking ungroomed, looking like they just woke up, and self-esteem. On the other hand, modesty simple as modesty for, by how we dress in public. Do we seek like an unmade bed, wearing what resembles builds women up in many other virtues, M glory from others by what we wear so as to an undershirt rather than a nice collared self-esteem, and dignity, which gives women help us fi nd and grow in our invoke awe, jealousy, or even lust? shirt, wearing pants or shirts that are too a true sense of equality with the opposite true vocation? How should we Our modesty at church should set the tight for the purpose of attraction, or over- sex, as they are to be valued and treasured example and govern our modesty in every grooming with the intent to attract others. for who they are rather than as toys to be present ourselves publicly? What other public occasion. While clothing and Cologne should be at a minimum (like a used, played with, dropped, broken, and then kinds of clothes are appropriate appropriate attire seem small, relative to our deodorant, enough to hide an odor rather disposed of. faith, they do indicate the state of our mind than attract others who come close by), and When we play the game of living for Mass? On one extreme, is it in regard to God, self-esteem, prudence, jewelry should be the exception and not the through attractions, we are actually living modesty, chastity, purity, and worldly norm. We don’t go to Mass to make a macho in the fl esh rather than the Spirit, which is a okay to wear a T-shirt, shorts, infl uence. statement, nor a statement of rebellion either, choice made to live in the world, abandoning and fl ip-fl ops to church? When we come to church we are there but to worship our Lord in community. the gift of living in the Spirit as children of to worship the Lord in community, as one On the side of women, I’ve already seen God, saved and redeemed in Jesus Christ. In On the other extreme, is it okay family in Christ. So, we should be asking this year single women dressed in church in this case we are not building up the kingdom ourselves, especially as we approach the what resembles a towel more than a dress. of God; we are tearing it down and falling to be overdressed for church summer months, what should I wear that In fact, a towel would have covered more into one of the many traps of the devil. glorifi es God and sustains me in dignity of their bodies. I’ve seen married women Th us, growing in modesty for both men such that it attracts others’ and chastity of heart in the community? wearing what looks more like a nightgown and women can and will help us to grow in attention? In determining When we seek the approval of God rather for one’s husband rather than a dress to be our true vocation as our hearts are set right than others, we will fi nd that we will win worn in public that displays honor to their before God. In this way all of us will fi nd the appropriate apparel for the approval of others because we have fi rst body and to their husband. What is proper life less burdensome because God calls us to obtained the approval of God. In this way dress? How much of one’s legs and arms are cooperation, not competition, the building up Sunday Mass, and for all other we are truly evangelizing through our faith, to be exposed? Is a see-through silhouette, of the individual and family in the Spirit of occasions, the virtue of modesty drawing others to salvation in Christ, as or a tight outfi t that accentuates curves, Christ. I believe this is a major reason I enjoy they recognize the chastity of our mind, the attracting attention to one’s self appropriate? the religious life and fi nd it attractive, because will help. Let’s take a look. purity of our heart, and our good deeds as Still, the most notorious and notable among sisters and brothers, priests and bishops enjoy they join us to glorify God as well. women is the wearing of spaghetti straps, living and being spiritually connected with To begin with, modesty is the virtue Th us, our overall dress at church should and the exposure of back and cleavage. people through Christ, as opposed to being governing the outward expressions of inward not be an attraction nor a distraction for St. Peter lets single women know that embattled in the attractions and desires of the humility and purity, an important virtue others, but a sign of dignity and appreciation their adornment too “should not be an body. In conclusion, please dress appropriately which falls under the virtue of temperance, a as we worship. exterior one,” lest they attract men for the and modestly for Mass as befi ts the dignity moderation in the indulgence of appetites or Both men and women should dress wrong reason which will be a cause of deep and purity God has given you. African bishops say they need help forming fl ourishing vocations By Barb Fraze Africa and Madagascar, said he would like be required of them, particularly formation Islamic fundamentalism ... can be ironed out Catholic News Service to see U.S. seminary professors spend time in ... Catholic social teachings," he told CNS. through these universities." WASHINGTON (CNS) — Although teaching in Africa. He said he would like Th e archbishop said forming lay leaders Th e church must know "how to form African vocations are fl ourishing, the to send seminarians to the United States, was especially important given the growing people to be able to ride what I may call continent needs people to form those where some could remain for a while after democracy movement in Africa. the crest, the wave of huge exponential vocations, and African bishops visited graduation while others would return to Th e Catholic Church needs "people who evangelization ... but at the same time how to Washington looking for such help. Africa to teach. are well-qualifi ed in politics, in economics, help forestall whatever could be the pitfalls" Tanzanian Cardinal Polycarp Pengo Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle in fi nances, and other professions, people of what the pope called "the toxic waste said the major regional seminary in his city, of Accra, Ghana, added that the need for who are qualifi ed ... as teachers to be able from the West and at the same time the Dar es Salaam, has 192 students and only 10 formation extended beyond priests and to deliver what we call ... Catholic social fundamentalist extreme." formators. religious. teaching, the Catholic perspective." He said the church must move into "Of course, the formation cannot be "When we talk about agents of Cardinal Pengo also emphasized the "ongoing formation, what we call post- that good," the cardinal told Catholic News evangelization, we should look at the importance of Africa's Catholic universities confi rmation catechesis for various laypeople, Service in an early May interview. "For me, formation of the lay leadership of the church in forming future leaders. Because they then formation that goes into vocation, into this (formation) is the greatest need we have." in Africa, namely catechists, Catholic accept more than Catholic students, religious life, and into the vocation of family Cardinal Pengo, president of the teachers, Catholic politicians, Catholic "diff erences which are at the moment life, marriage and everything." Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of parents ... so that they also know what will pretty threatening," such as the "presence of NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 PAGE 11 Catechesis R ejoice, heavenly powers! S ing, choirs of angels! By Lucas Pollice he opening words of the Exultet Rejoice, heavenly powers! Sing, choirs of angels! sung at the great liturgy of the T Easter Vigil announce with great joy Exult, all creation around God’s throne! the resurrection of Christ. Jesus Christ has been truly raised from the dead, and sin and Jesus Christ, our King, is risen! death have been destroyed forever! Christ’s victory over death reveals in a real and Sound the trumpet of salvation! powerful way the merciful love of God that is greater than sin and death, a transforming love that brings even out of the death of the Son of God the salvation of the world. As we continue to celebrate the now glorifi ed by the Father. Jesus appears Th e Institution of the Sacrament of Resurrection of Christ throughout these 40 precisely to strengthen their faith and to Penance days of the Easter season, we will be hearing show in a defi nitive and convincing way that Secondly, in his fi rst appearance to the in the Gospel readings about the various He is truly risen from the dead. As Pope apostles in John’s Gospel (John 20:19-23), appearances of Jesus to the disciples and the Benedict XVI teaches in his recent book Jesus Jesus says to the apostles, “As the Father apostles. Jesus spends his last days on earth of Nazareth: Holy Week: has sent me, so now I send you.” He is following the Resurrection appearing to commissioning the apostles to share in and the disciples for two primary reasons: 1) To On the one hand, Jesus has not returned be instruments in the same mission that the Peter and forgiving him for his three-fold strengthen and encourage the faith of the to the empirical existence that is subject Father gave Him. Th is mission was to come denial during Jesus’ Passion. But even more apostles and disciples in a true understanding to the law of death, but lives anew in into the world to bring about the forgiveness importantly, Jesus is commissioning Peter and experience of the Resurrection, and fellowship with God, permanently beyond of sin which was ultimately accomplished by as the head and shepherd of the Church, for 2) to fi rmly and authoritatively establish the reach of death. On the other hand, his death on the cross and Resurrection from in the Scriptures, three always means divine the Church as the one pillar of truth and it is important that the encounters with the dead. Now that his mission is complete, and complete. Just before Jesus’ departure instrument of grace to all the world until the the risen Lord are not just interior events Jesus gives the apostles the authority to carry when He ascends into heaven, we see the end of time. or mystical experiences — they are real it on. Jesus then breathes upon them the divine commissioning of Peter as the head of encounters with the living one who is power of the Holy Spirit and says “Whose the Church, responsible for feeding (teaching Jesus Is Truly Risen! now embodied in a new way and remains sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose and ministering) and tending (governing) One of the characteristics that are embodied. Luke emphasizes this strongly: sins you retain are retained.” Jesus gives to the Church. common to almost all of the accounts of the Jesus is not, as the disciples initially feared, the apostles the power of the Holy Spirit, appearances of the resurrected Christ is that a ‘ghost’ or a ‘spirit’: he has ‘fl esh and because it is only through this power given Jesus’ Real and Perpetual Presence in the the disciples and apostles do not recognize bones’ (Luke 24:36-43). (p. 268). from the Father through the Son that sins Church Jesus. We see this when Jesus encounters can be forgiven. By the action of Jesus, the Finally, at the conclusion of the Gospel Mary in the garden (John 20:14), and also Th e Road to Emmaus and the Eucharist apostles are now to be the instrument of that of Matthew, we see Jesus giving the Great when Jesus appears to the two disciples We also see that Jesus appears to the power. Th us, in sharing the same mission of Commission to the apostles to baptize all on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:16), and apostles and the disciples to fi rmly and Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit, the nations and to teach all that He has again, fi nally, when Jesus is standing on the authoritatively establish his Church on earth they and their successors have the power and commanded them (Matthew 28:16-20). beach of the Sea of Tiberias, and the apostles as the instrument through which He will authority to forgive and retain sin. For Matthew, this is the great climax of themselves did not recognize Him (John be present and working through until the Th erefore, in this powerful Scripture the resurrected Jesus fully establishing the 21:5). Why is this so? Th is speaks directly to end of time. First, we have the Eucharistic passage, Jesus gives his authority to forgive Church upon the apostles and the handing the reality of the Resurrection — Jesus is not encounter of Christ with the two disciples sins to his apostles. Only God can forgive on of all authority to them to teach, just simply resuscitated from the dead — but on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35). sins, but Jesus has given the power of the minister, and govern in the name of Christ. his Resurrection constitutes an entirely new When Jesus approaches them and begins to Holy Spirit to the apostles to be his unique Jesus’ promise that He will “be with you reality and way of being. Jesus has not only journey with them, they do not recognize instrument of mercy and forgiveness always, until the end of the age” is not just come back from the dead, but He possesses a Him. It is only when Jesus sits at table with through the sacrament of Penance. Th is sentimental words of the departing Christ, glorifi ed humanity, one that is fully alive and them and breaks bread with them in the same authority has been handed down in but is Jesus revealing not only his presence transformed by the grace and glory of God. Eucharist that they fi nally recognize the the Church through apostolic succession in the Church, particularly in the authority Jesus Himself is a new creation — the New risen Christ, who then immediately vanishes through the bishops and priests who share in of the apostles and their successors, but also Adam Who brings about a new horizon and from their sight. Th is is very signifi cant in the same apostolic ministry of the forgiveness and most profoundly his real and substantial way of being for the entire human family. that it is only in the giving of the Eucharist of sins. Th us, through the sacrament of Holy presence in the Eucharist, which is at the At the same time, Jesus goes out of his that they fi nally recognize Christ, only in the Orders, our bishops and priests today have very heart of the Church. Jesus does not leave way to show that He is not some sort of gift of the Real Presence that they come to the same authority to forgive and retain sins his Church but is Himself in the Eucharist apparition or ghost, but that He is indeed a really know and recognize Christ. Why does as the fi rst apostles did. the beating heart of the Mystical Body of real person, with a real, yet glorifi ed body. Jesus then suddenly vanish from their sight? Christ. Th is indeed is the revelation of a love Th is is why Jesus eats before the disciples, It is because the resurrected Christ is not Th e Institution of the Papacy that never ends, a love that is more powerful and invites Th omas to put his fi ngers into the only really and truly present to them in the Later in John’s Gospel, we see the than sin and death, and a love that that wounds of his hands and the wound in his Eucharist, but it also emphasizes the truth appearance to the seven apostles, and the endures all things. It is precisely because of side. We also see that Mary is able to touch and reality that it is in the Eucharist that has amazing dialogue between Jesus and Peter his Real Presence in the Eucharist that Jesus and hold onto Jesus in the garden. Th is is not been entrusted by Christ to the Church that on the shore of the Sea of Tiberias (John was able to say to Peter and the apostles that just simply a spiritual experience of Jesus, has become the normal and perpetual way in 21:15-19). In this powerful passage, Jesus the gates of hell will never triumph over the although a powerful one it is, but it is the which the resurrected Christ appears and is three times exhorts Peter to “feed and tend Church. experience of the truly resurrected person made really and substantially present to the my sheep.” Th is is a very deliberate and Lucas Pollice is director of Catechesis and Adult of Jesus, fully human and fully divine, Church until the end of time. meaningful action by Christ. He is restoring Faith Formation and RCIA for the diocese. PAGE 12 NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 Features

are to believe, I fi nd it even harder to believe that someone Let belief replace would willingly die for something, or someone, that was not real, that had not deeply impacted their lives. Take for example Saints Perpetua and Felicity. Perpetua doubt, because was young, beautiful, well-educated, a noblewoman of Carthage. Felicity was a slave woman. Both were young mothers and both had the chance to live and raise their (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) children, if they would only renounce their faith in Jesus. Participants sing during a prayer service in honor of Mary on Mother's Day eve in New Jesus really is risen York's Times Square May 7. The service, along with a Mass and procession to and from Th ey were both beheaded in the Amphitheater around the Holy Innocents Church in New York, were sponsored by the parish and the Legionaries of By Jeff Hedglen year 200 A.D. Christ. Archbishop Francis A. Chullikatt, papal nuncio to the United Nations, presided at the Th ese are but two examples of heroic faith. As strong a liturgy and participated in the procession and prayer service. esus Christ is risen today, Alleluia! Have you ever really witness as those are who have died for Jesus, it is those who stopped to think about that statement? It is a pretty crazy live for Jesus that compel me even more. It is people like Jand out-there thing to proclaim. A man was raised from Blessed Mother Teresa and Blessed John Paul II, as well as the dead? Really? But that’s not all: Th is man was not only a saints like Augustine and Th érèse of Lisieux, and even people man, but He was also God. So basically we Christians believe from my life like my former pastor Father Beaumont and my that God became a man, died, and was raised to new life. It’s mother. None of these people have been perfect, yet they all no wonder Th omas had some doubts. ran after Christ with reckless St. Th omas kind of takes the hit for all of us. I don’t know Bishop Vann said, abandon. about you, but when the rational, intellectual, just-the-facts Every Mass we stand part of my brain kicks in, I can sometimes wonder if all that when we profess and profess our belief in we believe about Jesus is true. Th ankfully these moments don’t our faith, the some fairly outlandish usually last long because my faith comes to the rescue, but the realities. Even though doubt fact remains that our beliefs are not something that are easily words are not just may sometimes creep in, provable by scientifi c methods; they demand the assent of our what we say, they these truths say more than (CNS photo/courtesy of Maryknoll Mission Archives) intellect and will, in short a personal choice to believe. we might think. Bishop Fathers Thomas F. Price, seated at left, and James A. Walsh, seated at center, co-founders say who we are. of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, pose for a photo with fellow Maryknoll Fathers at When times of doubt come to me, I am comforted Vann spoke to this at Easter Maryknoll, N.Y., in 1918. Maryknoll is celebrating 100 years of missionary service around by the doubters who have gone before me. As mentioned, Sunday Mass this year. He the world this year. Th omas gets all the “credit” for being a doubter, but in truth said when we profess our faith, the words are not just what the Gospels tell us that initially all of the apostles doubted in we say, they say who we are. the Resurrection. Th is brought to mind the song “Creed” written by the I do not think doubt is altogether a bad thing. Doubt late Rich Mullins: “I believe what I believe, is what makes keeps us honest. Resurrection from the dead is not a typical me what I am. I did not make it, no it is making me. It is the run-of-the-mill daily occurrence, so it is understandable very truth of God and not the invention of any man.” that from time to time we might wonder about it. Yet St. So, if you or someone you know has times of doubt in Paul says that if Jesus is not raised from the dead than our the resurrection or any other truth of our faith, be reassured faith is empty (1 Corinthians 15:14). For if Jesus simply died, that you are not alone; Th omas and many of the Apostles and then our sins are not forgiven and heaven’s gates are still saints doubted before you. But also take heart in the reality locked tight, thus every one of our beliefs hinges on Jesus’ that this faith we have is still making us. A doubt we have Resurrection. today could be a rock we stand on tomorrow. Th e lives of the saints have also brought me great Jeff Hedglen, youth minister at St. Bartholomew Parish in (CNS photo/Paul Haring) reassurance in times of doubt. Century after century, A Swiss Guard recruit takes his oath during a swearing-in ceremony for 34 new recruits in Southwest Fort Worth, is the principal organizer of Camp Fort the San Damaso Courtyard at the Vatican May 6. New recruits are sworn in every May 6, Christians have willingly died for Jesus. Th eir example of Worth each summer. Readers with questions can contact Jeff at commemorating the date in 1527 when 147 Swiss soldiers died defending the pope during faith snaps me back to reality. As hard as some of our beliefs jeff @stbartsfw.org. an attack on Rome. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) Cross-Words By Mark Simeroth Across & Down: www.sheepdotcom.com

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5 NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 PAGE 13 Diocese of Fort Worth Rachel Ministries cross es denominational lines to off er women healing after abortion

By Tony Gutiérr ez / Ass ociate Editor

verve the last 10 years Rachel Ministries O hasha off ered healing for countless numbersb of women suff ering from pain and remorse following an abortion, through counseling, referrals, and a Rachel’s Vineyard retreat that is held six times a year and has helped more than 500 women. Th e next retreat for the Diocese of Fort Worth will be held June 3-5. However, post-abortive healing is not a ministry that is limited to Catholics, says Betsy Kopor, the diocese’s Rachel Ministries coordinator. Th at’s why she’s helping the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, a part of the Anglican Communion, to plan its own The candles fl oating in the bowl are a part of a baby naming ceremony that occurs during the retreat. During this meditation, each retreat in August. person goes to the bowl, lights a candle for every child she or he has lost to abortion, and while placing the candle in the bowl, says, “Lord, I pour out my heart to you. I give you (name of baby).” (PHOTO COURTESY OF BETSY KOPOR) “Our whole mission is to help those hurting after abortion, not just those Catholics or those Episcopalians, but appointed Gail Kleinschmidt, a deacon at St. John Episcopal retreat, but with specifi c Episcopalian devotions used we want to help everybody,” Kopor said. Church in Fort Worth, to serve as volunteer director of instead. Kleinschmidt added that an Episcopalian retreat is Th is isn’t the first eff ort to reach out to non-Catholics, the diocese’s Pro-Life Ministry. Kleinschmidt said she’s needed because Episcopalians cannot receive sacraments at a either, Kopor said. Rachel’s Vineyard has held inter- developed a passion for the pro-life movement in recent years, Catholic retreat, but can receive sacraments in the Anglican denominational retreats for several years. being trained by Chuck Pelletier of Mother and Unborn tradition at their retreat. Th e retreats also have priests or “Our retreats are open to everyone, but after a few Baby Care to serve as a sidewalk counselor, and attending ministers, and licensed counselors with special training in years, we began to notice there were some people who didn’t the Catholics Respect Life Offi ce’s quarterly leadership post-abortion healing present. feel comfortable coming to a Catholic retreat because they meetings. Kleinschmidt was also given permission by her “Th e Catholic retreat is very sacramental — Mass, weren’t Catholic,” Kopor said. “And because we believe bishop to pursue ecumenical pro-life ministry, not only with Confession, Adoration, and we like to have a priest there when you’re comfortable, you’re better able to heal, that the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth, but with the Orthodox as much as possible,” Kopor said. “Th e priest is important is when we started to think about having retreats in other Diocese of the South, based in Dallas, and with Protestant because he represents the Church. Perhaps for those far away denominations.” pro-life ministries. She is also currently working to encourage from the Church, they may feel the Church doesn’t want Bishop Kevin Vann asked Kopor to approach priests in the Episcopal diocese to form Anglicans for Life them back, but the presence of the priest makes them feel Episcopalian Bishop Jack Iker about helping spread the chapters in their parishes. welcome.” program into his diocese. Bishop Vann said he has enjoyed a Before serving on a team for a Rachel’s Vineyard retreat, Kopor, who serves as facilitator for the retreats, will friendship with the Episcopalian bishop, having invited him team members should attend a retreat as a participant. also serve as a facilitator for the Episcopalian retreat, until it as a guest to attend the diocese’s annual pro-life banquets, Kopor says the retreats aren’t just for the women who’ve had grows enough to be able to assign an Episcopalian to serve and noting that several Episcopalian priests have joined abortions, but for anybody who needs healing, whether it be as facilitator, the way the inter-denominational retreat has in praying outside the Planned Parenthood facility in Fort a father of an aborted child, or family members or friends grown. Worth. who pressured, encouraged, or otherwise helped a woman Kleinschmidt, for her part, is trying to promote the “I think it’s something we can do in common to enhance procure an abortion. retreat within her own diocese, making the Pro-Life Ministry the Gospel of Life,” Bishop Vann said. “It’s a very important “Abortion has many forms and has impacted our known through the diocese’s website. Th e women of her way that our diocese can be of service to them in their pro- marriages and families, alienating loved ones,” said parish have already made prayer shawls to give to participants life eff orts.” Kleinschmidt, who attended a retreat in February. “In at the retreat. But mostly, she is excited about the partnership Bishop Iker then invited Kopor to speak at several of addition women unknowingly have taken ‘birth control’ with the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth to spread the pro- the Episcopal diocese’s conferences to promote the program. measures, as I did, that disrupt the womb so a baby is starved life ministry. Bishop Iker said abortion is an issue that resonates across and expelled. I did not know the physical risks or of new “We need the Catholic Church — we need those truths denominational lines, and even to those who are not life formed within. I attended a retreat in February where I that they have been guarding all this time, and we need to religious, as everybody should have an appreciation for could identify with women who repent of lost lives through be linked arm in arm,” she said. “God has been so good to human life. abortion.” watch over the Catholic Church, so this message of life could “Th e value of Rachel Ministries is it reconciles a great Kopor says that all Rachel’s Vineyard retreats are be delivered to us.” amount of guilt and shame when a woman has an abortion. structured the same way, with the only diff erences between For more information about the Rachel’s Vineyard It can be a crippling event emotionally and spiritually — a the Catholic retreats and other retreats being the forms of retreat or to register to attend the upcoming retreat for the sense of alienation from God, perhaps,” Bishop Iker said. worship. Catholic retreats off er opportunities for confession Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth June 3-5, visit the ministry’s “Th e great thing about the Gospel is it off ers forgiveness. Th e and adoration, while the inter-denominational retreats website at www.racheltx.org, or contact Betsy Kopor, Rachel important part is getting women to attend, to promote it, and allow for spiritual direction and counseling, and reserve a Ministries coordinator, at (817) 923-4757, or at bkopor@ to get clergy to preach about it.” quiet space for participants to visit and refl ect. She said the fwdioc.org. Th ough specifi cally Catholic, the retreat is open A major step forward happened last year, when he Episcopalian retreat will be more similar to the Catholic to people of all denominations. PAGE 14 NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011

Palm Sunday — Holy Redeemer Parish, Aledo / Photos by Juan Guajardo Holy Week an of Easter in Easter Vigil — St. Joseph Parish, Ar

Fr. Publius Xuereb hands out palm leaves before the Palm Sunday Mass at Holy Redeemer Church April 17.

Fr. Publius Xuereb sprinkles holy water on palm bearers.

RIGHT: A view Choir member Bruce Pohl puts a palm leaf on his guitar. of the matzo, or unleavened bread, after a participant broke it in two Seder Supper — School of Lay Ministry, during the "Motzi- Diocesan Catholic Center, Fort Worth / Matza," or blessing Photos by Juan Guajardo of the matza. Fr. Dan Kelley leads parishioners of St. Joseph Parish in Arlington in the Service of the Light during the Easter Vig

Concha Jones, of St. Ann in Burleson, lights a candle during the lighting and Fr. Carmen Mele, OP, leads the participants in the "Kiddush," the blessing of the wine. The Seder blessing of the candles at the start of Supper was hosted by the Pope John Paul II Institute and the Diocese of Fort Worth at the Fr. Dan Kelley lays hands on Greg Krunme during his confirmation at the Easter Vigil Mass. the supper. Catholic Center on April 18, the first day of the Jewish Passover. LEFT: Simon Sanchez, of Holy Thursday — St. Peter, Lindsay / Photos by Juan Guajardo San Mateo Mission, RIGHT: Fr. McDaniel reads along processes out of the during the parish hall of St. Peter supper. Church in Lindsay at the end of Mass to repose the Blessed Sacrament in a temporary chapel for Eucharistic adoration. The main church is currently under construction.

RIGHT: Fr. Raymond McDaniel washes the feet of Larry Garrett (right) during Holy Thursday Mass on April 21 at St. Peter Church in Lindsay.

Fr. Raymond McDaniel adores the Blessed Sacrament after reposing Participants of various ages have their feet washed by pastor Fr. Ray McDaniel. it in the church's temporary chapel. NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 PAGE 15 nd the Octave Divine Mercy Sunday — St. Mark Parish, Denton / Photos by Juan Guajardo in Pictures rlington / Photos by Juan Guajardo

Parishioners look on at the Divine Mercy image revealed to St. Faustina. St. Mark Parish in Denton celebrated Divine Mercy Sunday with a presentation on the life of St. Faustina, followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, and praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet. St. Mark parishioner Carrie Hartless sings the Divine Mercy Chaplet.

LEFT: Dennis Pettit of Knights of Columbus Assembly 2043 stands watch over the Divine Mercy image May 1.

gil Mass April 23. Fr. Dan Kelley baptizes Josh Coward during the Easter Vigil Mass.

Good Friday Rosary Vigil for Life — Outside Planned Parenthood abortion facility, Fort Worth / Photos by Joan Kurkowski-Gillen

Hundreds of candles fill the St. Joseph Parish sanctuary with light during the Service of the Light. Brother Matthew, CFR, holds a processional cross during the Rosary. Behind him are seminarian Khoi Tran (left), and Fr. Isaac Orozco. Good Friday diocesan Stations of the Cross — Downtown Fort Worth / Photos by Joan Kurkowski-Gillen BELOW: Bishop Kevin Vann (right) leads the Catholics from throughout the diocese joined together in a record crowd of 800 outside of participants in the Glorious Mysteries of the Planned Parenthood on Henderson Street in Fort Worth for the 26th annual Good Friday Rosary. To the far left is Chuck Pelletier, director Rosary Vigil for Life. Public sidewalks on both sides of the street were full. of Mother and Unborn Baby Care.

BELOW: Participants in the annual diocesan Stations of the Cross procession in Downtown Fort Worth kneel during the Twelth Station: "Jesus dies on the cross." This year, the meditations were taken from Blessed Pope John Paul II's WAY OF THE CROSS.

Bishop Kevin Vann leads a procession of about 150 people in the Stations of the Cross through Downtown Fort Worth to serve as a public witness of faith. Immediately behind him is Deacon Len Sanchez, diocesan chancellor and director of the Office of Community and Pastoral Services, which organizes the annual event. PAGE 16 NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 Catholic Charities Parish Social Ministry Gathering teaches participants to not only serve, but to Connect with the Poor

ABOVE: Fr. Carmen Mele, OP, director of the diocese's John Paul II Institute School of Lay Ministry, shares in a table discussion during the gathering's Spanish track. Fr. Mele had encouraged his students to attend the conference. LEFT: Keynote speaker Jack Jezreel, founder of JustFaith, challenges particpants to build relationships with the poor they minister to. Story and Photos by Joan Kurkowski-Gillen / Correspondent endeavors. “But they’re not at by Catholic Charities. Organizers Laura Sotelo, director of parish the heart of charity,” the speaker hoped the event would heighten relations for Catholic Charities Fort he single most effective way for people to be drawn emphasized. “You don’t know the sensitivity toward the issue of hunger Worth. to a living and vibrant faith — and a vibrant God stories of the poor until you have a and food insecurity. “You could feel the relationship [with them.] It provides “Hunger insecurity is a term I uncomfortable disparity between the “T— is not the words we say. It’s the lives we lead.” an opportunity to reflect on the root hadn’t heard before,” Price admits, simulated rich and poor guests,” she cause of the problem.” referring to a term that means people added. “Sometimes forcing ourselves That’s the message JustFaith founder Jack Jezreel Educating parishioners beyond who have food today, may not have into the other person’s shoes is delivered during a Saturday morning talk given at Catholic the spiritual component of charity, any tomorrow. exactly what it takes to understand so they have a worldview of poverty The heart of the Hunger and empathize with others in our Charities Fort Worth’s new campus in South Fort Worth, and hunger is important but difficult Banquet involved people community.” just south of Seminary Drive. to achieve. We live in a culture that experiencing the disparities between The Parish Social Ministry is easily distracted, he continued. the rich and the poor in a visceral gathering accomplished what it set Known for his enthusiastic of successful social ministry, Jezreel “As parishes, we have to figure way. Though some at the banquet out to do, according to Heather advocacy for social outreach and said to the assembly of volunteers, out how we intervene in a distracted received full meals, Price said most Reynolds, the president of Catholic change, Jezreel was one of the agency workers, and administrators. culture to call people back to the of the people at her table received Charities Fort Worth. presenters invited to participate Typically, five to 10 percent of things that really, matter,” the social just toast with a cheese spread. The conference, she said, had in the May 14-15 regional Parish a parish’s membership work at justice educator added. “It made us think about food “promoted healthy dialogue among Social Ministry Gathering hosted the church’s food pantry or are Social ministry is considered an insecurity and why it exists in our lay people and leadership alike, by the local agency and Catholic involved in some other form of social external activity. country.” encouraged idea generation for social Charities USA. A program of ministry. “But nothing happens out there The Hunger Banquet was an ministry, and provided a network of workshops, small group discussions, But social mission is the unless something happens in here,” eye-opening experience for many support for attendees when they go and a symbolic hunger banquet responsibility of all baptized Jezreel said, pointing to his heart. conference participants, explained back to their own parishes.” were designed to create an awareness Catholics, the speaker said, “The task of social ministry is not of the challenges facing poor and reinforcing his statement with the just organizing people. It’s how do vulnerable people and provide 1993 “Communities of Salt and we form people so they want to be strategies parish ministries can use to Light” document issued by the U.S. organized.” alleviate poverty and suffering in the Conference of Catholic Bishops. A Effective outreach to the poor local community. parish’s integrity and fidelity to the requires a prayer life. Spirituality is The conference attracted 106 Gospel message should be measured a resource that sustains a person’s participants from North Texas by its commitment to the vulnerable compassionate commitment to the as well as Austin, Louisiana, and and poor and not by how many world. Oklahoma. Students from the Pope people are coming to Mass, he said. “If you engage people in social John Paul II School of Lay Ministry “If your parish suddenly mission and start connecting them also attended. disappeared, would the poor in your with very difficult issues without Catholic Charities hosts four or community care?” Jezreel asked, providing prayer sustenance, they get five conferences a year in different posing a profound question. “Was it crabby,” Jezreel said, causing a ripple parts of the country, according to such a communicator of compassion, of giggles from the audience. Tina Baldera, national manager of hope, and possibility that people “We have to give people the training program. would despair in its absence?” resources so they can engage in “It’s a way of reaching out to Jezreel provided a list of suffering, go through Good Friday, those interested in parish social touchstones to help parishioners and still end up at Easter,” Jezreel ministry. It provides them with create an environment where they said. “You want them to move an opportunity to come together could grow in love of God and through difficult experiences and to network, have fellowship, and neighbor. Attention to relationships, still come out with a capacity for learn strategies they can bring back direct service, education, prayer, humor, love, and joy.” to their faith communities,” she and spirituality are some of the tools Linda Price, director of explained. that make a parish’s social outreach religious education at Sacred Heart Conference presentations flourish. Church in Wichita Falls, attended were offered in both English and Social ministry should also the conference with her husband, Spanish. involve human contact. Collections Bill, and said she was particularly Getting different people of eyeglasses, clothing, food, and impressed with the Saturday talking to one another is the crux money for disaster relief are worthy evening “hunger banquet” planned NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 PAGE 17 National & World Vatican orders bishops to draft guidelines to handle sex abuse cases

By Cindy Wooden law and special provisions enacted in abbreviated administrative procedure or the Church’s commitment to religious life and to provide “a healthy Catholic News Service 2001 by Blessed Pope John Paul II for removing guilty clerics from ending abuse. Rather, he said, it is a human and spiritual formation” and a and in 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI. the priesthood; and included child recognition that in many countries clear understanding of the value and VATICAN CITY — Every bishops’ Je su it Fat her Fe der ic o L omba rd i, pornography in the list of serious all the bishops have agreed to follow meaning of chastity. conference in the world must have Vatican spokesman, said the fact crimes which could bring expulsion the same procedures and, culturally, Special emphasis was given in guidelines for handling accusations that conferences were given a precise from the priesthood. did not feel a need to have a Vatican the letter to the obligation of bishops of clerical sex abuse in place within dead line a nd on ly 12 mont hs to d ra f t Barbara Dorris, a spokeswoman stamp on them in order for them to and religious superiors to exchange a year, said the Congregation for the their guidelines demonstrates how for the Survivors Network of those be binding. information about candidates who Doctrine of the Faith. seriously the Vatican takes the matter. Abused by Priests, known as SNAP, “The responsibility for dealing transfer from one diocese, seminary, In a letter dated May 3 and “The aim is to give bishops a said in a statement May 16 that “the with the delicts of sexual abuse of or religious order to another. released by the Vatican May 16, strong common denominator for Vatican abuse guidelines will change minors by clerics belongs in the The doctrinal congregation U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, drafting guidelines appropriate to little,” particularly because they do first place to the diocesan bishop,” said bishops must act as fathers and congregation prefect, said that in their own national situation, with not insist that the national guidelines the letter said. But the adoption of brothers to their priests, ensuring every nation and region, bishops its unique culture and legislation,” be binding. national guidelines is meant to “lead their ability to live out celibacy, should have “clear and coordinated he told reporters May 16. “Bishops ignore and conceal to a common orientation within each to understand how clerical sexual procedures” for protecting children, The guidelines of several child sex crimes because they can,” episcopal conference, helping to better abuse damages victims, and “to assisting victims of abuse, dealing countries, including the United the SNAP statement said, adding that harmonize the resources of single recognize the potential signs of abuse with accused priests, training clergy, States, have been adopted as “any ‘reform’ that doesn’t diminish bishops in safeguarding minors.” perpetrated by anyone in relation to and cooperating with civil authorities. mandatory norms in those countries bishops’ power and discretion is Cit i n g Pop e B ene d ic t’s me e t i n g s minors.” Describing sexual abuse of and approved by the Vatican. virtually meaningless.” with representative victims of child The Vatican letter offered minors as “a crime prosecuted by The guidelines the doctrinal The doctrinal congregation said sexual abuse during his trips outside bishops’ conferences guidance in civil law,” the doctrinal congregation congregation now is seeking new guidelines should reflect the Italy, the doctrinal congregation’s dealing both with those making said bishops should follow local laws throughout the world do not have to be fact that diocesan or national review circular letter encouraged bishops accusations as well as with accused that require reporting cases of sexual binding, the letter said, although they boards “cannot substitute for the or their representatives to meet with clerics. abuse to police. must reflect the binding provisions of discernment” and decision-making victims and their families. People making accusations Since the early 1990s about canon law and the special provisions authority of individual bishops. Bishops’ conferences should against a priest should be treated two dozen bishops’ conferences, enacted in 2001 and last year. Fr. Lombardi said the point of consider introducing child protection with respect, it said, and “spiritual starting mainly with English-speaking The special provisions issued in the letter was to make clear that an programs aimed at creating “safe and psychological assistance” should countries, have drawn up guidelines the past 10 years expanded or extended individual bishop “cannot abdicate environments” for children and be offered to victims. for dealing with accusations of sexual several points of Church law: they his responsibility” for ensuring child educating Church workers and parents The Vatican said when an abuse of minors filed against clergy defined a minor as a person under safety and handling abuse cases, even about the signs of abuse and how to accusation is made, a priest must be and other Church employees. Other age 18 rather than 16; set a statute of though he may avail himself of the handle suspected cases, the letter said. presumed to be innocent until it is conferences — for example, the Italian limitations of 20 years, instead of 10 advice of outside experts. The letter reiterated the need for proven he is not. However, it said, a bishops’ conference — have said they years, after the victim’s 18th birthday He said the fact that the guidelines bishops and religious communities to bishop can limit an accused priest’s did not draw up guidelines because for bringing a Church case against an do not have to be binding does not exercise special care when accepting ministry until an investigation can bishops were obliged to follow canon alleged perpetrator; established an lessen a bishops’ responsibility candidates for the priesthood or be conducted.

US bishops say new John Jay report on abuse key to understanding issue

By Carol Zimmermann commissioned by the National release. Participants from Survivors the late 1970s, then declined in out that the sexual abuse of minors Catholic News Service Review Board, a lay consultative Network of those Abused by Priests, the 1980s and continues to remain affects every family, religion, school, body created in 2002 under the known as SNAP, Voice of the low. Most abuse incidents occurred organization, institution, and WASHINGTON — U.S. Catholic bishops’ “Charter for the Protection Faithful, and bishopsaccountability. decades ago.” profession in society and credited bishops called the newly released of Children and Young People.” org, described the study as flawed, Baltimore Archbishop Edwin the U.S. Catholic Church for being report on the causes and context of An earlier study on the nature biased, and not addressing the scope F. O’Brien said that the report’s “the first group anywhere to contract clergy sexual abuse an important and scope of abuse appeared in of the abuse crisis. link of increase number of abuse a professional agency” to examine the tool to gain insight into the scope February 2004. The causes and A handful of protesters carried cases during a socially turbulent “c au s e s a nd c onte x t s of t h i s s c ou r g e .” of the problem and prevent it from context study commenced in 2006. signs reading: “Not True: Crisis Is time period should not provide He also said the study closely mirrors occurring in the future. New York Archbishop Timothy Not Foreseeable” and “Not True: consolation. what has taken place in the New York “It is important for us to M. Dolan, president of the U.S. Crisis Was Long Ago.” “ W h i le it m ay b e c om for t i n g for Archdiocese, specifically that the vast understand, as completely and C on ferenc e of C at hol ic Bi s hop s , s a id Becky Ianni, director of SNAP some to learn that there is nothing majority of sexual abuse occurred accurately as we are able, the causes the report pointed out “that there was in Washington and Virginia, told intrinsic in our Church or its makeup decades ago and has declined sharply and context of this problem in order no single cause that led to the sexual Catholic News Service she would that contributes to the presence of in the Catholic Church since 1985. to respond appropriately for the abuse crisis. Neither celibacy, as some like to see a study of bishops who sexual abuse, it does not mitigate the The archbishops praised local safety and protection of our children h ave su g g e s te d , nor homo s e x u a l it y, a s moved abusive priests to other damaging effects of sexual abuse that efforts of archdiocesan programs in and young people,” wrote St. Louis others have claimed, has been found locations more than a study of abusive did occur in our Church,” he said in place to implement the charter and Archbishop Robert J. Carlson in an to be a reason why a person would priests. Ianni, who was abused by a column for The Catholic Review, the provide safe environments for young editorial for the St. Louis Review, engage in sexual abuse of a minor.” a priest when she was a child, also archdiocesan newspaper. people today, emphasizing such steps archdiocesan newspaper. He also said in a statement that said it minimizes her suffering to He also noted that although the are key to preventing further abuse. The report: “The Causes and the study “is a report to the bishops hear that the abuse she experienced abuse crisis is “a historical problem,” “After the painful revelations Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors of the United States, not from them,” was a “product of the time period,” it h a s “not b e en c omple te ly er a d ic ate d of the sexual abuse crisis, the only by Catholic Priests in the United noting that initial reaction to it was re fer r i n g to t he rep or t’s l i n k of c ler ic a l from our Church or from our society. greater sin our Church could commit States, 1950-2010,” was released critical of U.S. bishops. abuse to the social upheaval of the We have the responsibility to protect would be a failure to follow the very May 18. It was conducted by a Members of Catholic groups 1960s and 1970s. children entrusted to our care and we policies and procedures we have in team of researchers at the John Jay unhappy with the study protested The report showed that sexual mu st be e ver vigila nt in our ef for t s to place to protect children and root out College of Criminal Justice of the outside USCCB headquarters abuse of minors by priests “increased prevent any incident of sexual abuse.” abusers. And that can never happen,” City University of New York and immediately before the document’s steadily from the mid-1960s through Archbishop Dolan pointed said Archbishop O’Brien. PAGE 18 NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011

Special Collection In Memory Church in Central and Long-time Boy Scout supporter and Eastern Europe Serran Bob Connelly dies at 93 By Jenara Kocks Burgess Correspondent

Robert E. “Bob” Connelly Sr., 93, known for his years of volunteer service throughout the Fort Worth Diocese in Catholic Scouting; Serra Club; Knights of Columbus; his parish, St. Andrew Church in Fort Worth; Catholic education; and the Diocese of Fort Worth’s Tribunal, died April 28. “He was the quintessential Catholic scouting gentleman,” said John Ryan, historian for the Catholic Committee on Scouting for the Diocese of Fort Worth. “It speaks to his involvement in the Church, Scouting, and how close he was to all that. It was said during the Rosary that he was very active in the Knights of Columbus, Scouting, and the Church, and he felt they were intertwined in their goals and their purposes,” said Ryan. “It was representative that in his request that he be buried in his Scout uniform. His heart was in Scouting and helping to develop the Scouts and their faith.” Visitation and a Rosary were at Th ompson’s Harveson and Cole Funeral Home May 1. Th e Rite of Christian Burial was celebrated for Connelly at St. Andrew Church on May 2, and internment was in Laurel Land Memorial Park. Bob Connelly saluting while the U.S. fl ag is being lowered during The Connelly was born March 8, 1918, in Bellefontaine, Catholic Cub Scout Retreat at Worth Ranch in October 2007. Bob walked Ohio, son of the late George and Loretta Connelly. His up to the Cub Scout and said, "Here, let's salute," and they saluted family later moved to Danville, Illinois, where he fi rst together. (PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN RYAN) joined the Boy Scouts of America at age 12, eventually earning the highest rank in scouting as an Eagle Scout. “As a Serran, we really foster vocations individually He attended the University of Notre Dame, but later by the way we live our lives,” said Tom Mahony, transferred to Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he president-elect of the Fort Worth Serra Club. “And if you became a 1937 graduate. knew Bob, that’s the way he fostered vocations, whether He entered the Army Air Corps in 1941 and retired it was Scouts, or the Knights of Columbus, or the Fort from the Air Force Reserve after 20 years of service. He Worth Serrans. He just lived a great life and just the way married Elizabeth “Lib” Anne Abram on June 17, 1942, he interacted with youth and his family and all the others. in Columbus, Ohio. His job with Sylvania moved the He just encouraged you to do what is right,” Mahony Connellys to Fort Worth in February 1960. said. After moving to the area, he helped with Pack 97, Linda McKinney, Ecclesiastical Notary for the Boy Scout Troop 97, and Troop 497. Connelly also Diocese of Fort Worth Tribunal, said she met Connelly helped organize a Catholic Committee on Scouting when she began working in the Tribunal offi ce in 2000, for what was then the Diocese of Dallas. Th rough the but he had volunteered there for many years before that. committee, he became a retreat master for Catholic “He volunteered as an auditor and a proofreader. He Scouting retreats held at Worth Ranch in Palo Pinto always came in; he was ready to work, and he did what County, and was involved with Catholic Scouting and he was here to do. He was always very friendly and very religious awards for the remainder of his life, a total of 75 conscientious,” McKinney said. years of service to Scouting. As co-founder of the Diocese Connelly, known to all as Bob, was also a longtime of Fort Worth Catholic Scouting Retreat, he was honored member of St. Andrew Catholic Church, where he sang at the 50th Annual Scouting Retreat in October. in the choir and served as a lector and extraordinary Ryan, who is on the Troop 32 Troop Committee, minister of the Eucharist. A fourth-degree Knight of has known Connelly for 30 years — fi rst as a boy in Columbus, he was a member of Bishop Dunne Council Scouting and later as they worked together in Catholic 2813. He served on the board of directors for Tarrant Scouting. He remembers Connelly’s complete dedication Area Food Bank, Cassata High School, and Nolan to his volunteer work and how he continued to attend Catholic High School. He and Lib were the second Scouting meetings in his 80s and 90s — even at times recipients of the Esto Dux Award given by Nolan Catholic when he had recently recovered from an illness or an High School for those who have been leaders in Catholic injury, like a broken arm. education. “I called him the ‘Energizer Bunny.’ Nothing would Connelly was preceded in death by his wife, Lib, stop him,” Ryan said. “He was really committed to and is survived by his eight children, Robert, Pat, Anne, making other people’s lives better. He was someone to Mike, Kathleen, Dennis, Maureen, and Kevin, and [emulate] because of the good infl uence he’s had over a their families, including 23 grandchildren, 18 great- number of diff erent diocesan organizations. He has done a grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. lot of good. It would be a much better world, if everybody Memorials may be sent to the Sisters of St. Mary aspired to Bob Connelly’s way of living,” Ryan said. of Namur, 909 W. Shaw St., Fort Worth, 76110; Nolan Two other diocesan organizations that Connelly was Catholic High School, 4501 Bridge St., Fort Worth, involved with were the Serra Club and the Fort Worth 76103; or Th e Catholic Committee on Scouting, 3801 Diocese Tribunal. Oak Park Dr., Flower Mound, 75028. NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 PAGE 19 Fr. Walter McCauley, SJ, former associate director of Montserrat, dies at 84 Jenara Kocks Burgess priesthood. Following in his uncle’s with very concrete examples because McCauley retired to that large Correspondent footsteps, Fr. McCauley joined the he had such a great memory,” Fr. Jesuit Community of 70 to 75 in St. Society of Jesus, [the Jesuits] Sept. Rodriguez said. He was able to use Louis. He said many of those Jesuits Father Walter C. McCauley, 7, 1943, entering the novitiate in things he had read about or heard were teaching at the university in SJ, former associate director of Grand Coteau, Louisiana, and was about to illustrate his points. St. Louis or had ministries such as Montserrat Retreat House in Lake ordained to the priesthood on June Fr. McCauley also taught at doing legal aid for the poor, but also Dallas, just southeast of Denton, 13, 1956 at Spring Hill College in Princeton Th eological Seminary (as many of them were in the infi rmary. died April 28 in St. Louis, Missouri. Mobile, Alabama. a visiting fellow), and at Spring Hill “When he died, I was there He was 84. He then served as assistant College. to preach at the funeral. Any “He was a man always available principal at Jesuit High School in “He spent a year of sabbatical at number of men mentioned that and willing to listen and give New Orleans and principal at Jesuit Princeton. He was invited to spend Walter was such a good member counsel. He was a very wise and High School in Dallas from 1959- time there,” Fr. Tetlow said. of the community. He was always patient man. His counsel came 63. Fr. McCauley continued his In 1975 Fr. McCauley became interested, he attended everything, from a very deep learning and a very studies at the Gregorian University associate director at Montserrat Fr. Walter McCauley, SJ he was always active and very, very wide experience,” said Father Joseph in Rome from 1963-65. Retreat House in Lake Dallas. In interesting to be with,” Tetlow said. Tetlow, SJ, director of Montserrat “He excelled in all his studies 1976, he left to teach at Loyola direction. “He had a great sense of Retreat House. and did a doctorate at the Gregorian College, Baltimore and then serve “He had a steady number of humor, that’s another thing. And Wake services for Fr. McCauley in Rome in systematic theology,” as associate director of Ignatius people coming to him (for spiritual he was very optimistic. One thing were held Monday, May 2, at St. said Fr. Tetlow. “He kept reading House retreat center in Atlanta from direction). He was very wise and about him as a man, he never, Francis Xavier College Church in theology books and serious writing. 1980-82. He went on to serve as very understanding, so he had many ever complained about anything. I St. Louis followed by a Funeral He read a great deal.” pastor of Holy Name of Jesus Parish spiritual directees who came to him always found him very, very good Mass at 7:30 p.m. Burial was at 9 After his studies in Rome, in New Orleans from 1982 to 1985. for years and years because they company,” Fr. Tetlow said. a.m., Tuesday, May 3, at Calvary Fr. McCauley taught theology at In 1985, he returned to retreat house found him so helpful,” Fr. Tetlow Fr. McCauley was preceded in Cemetery in St. Louis. St. Mary’s College and St. Louis ministry as associate director in said. death by his parents, and a brother, Fr. McCauley was born May University. Convent, Louisiana. Fr. Rodriguez also remembered John McCauley. He is survived by 30, 1926 to Walter and Mary Ellen Father Edmundo Rodriguez, In 1990, he returned to Fr. McCauley as wise and gentle and his brothers, Gerard B. McCauley, O’Connor McCauley in Toledo, SJ who works at Montserrat Retreat Montserrat Retreat House, where as being gifted at counseling. and Martin J. McCauley, and many Ohio. He attended Central Catholic House in Lake Dallas, said he met he served as associate director until “Many, many people came nieces and nephews. High School in Toledo, graduating Fr. McCauley at St. Mary’s College 2009. for counseling to him. Apparently, In lieu of fl owers, and to honor in 1943. in Kansas while Fr. Rodriguez was Fr. Tetlow said Fr. McCauley’s they felt very good about what they his life of ministry, donations are Fr. McCauley was very inspired studying theology there. Although duties at Montserrat included giving were able to receive from him,” Fr. requested to “Th e Jesuits,” 710 by the example of his uncle, John Fr. Rodriguez was not in any of Fr. a number of preached retreats, Rodriguez said. Baronne St., Ste. B, New Orleans, O’Connor, SJ, one of the fi rst McCauley’s classes, he said he had a hearing innumerable confessions In 2009, Fr. McCauley Louisiana, 70113. Th e funds will be U.S. Jesuits sent to work in what great teaching style. both at the retreat house and at returned to St. Louis as a member of used to provide for the education of is now Sri Lanka, who died in “He was known for being able surrounding parishes during Lent the Fusz Pavilion Community. young Jesuits and the care of elder India while still studying for the to make his points in his teachings and Advent and providing spiritual Fr. Tetlow said that Fr. Jesuits.

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listen to God.’ To me, that was God speaking really had one of my self-talks. What is it that Worth, and that year he entered Assumption through the community.” I really want to do the rest of my life, and how Seminary in San Antonio. Th is June 4th Dcn. Kirkham… Dcn. Kirkham was 39 at the time, and do I want to live out the rest of my life? And at St. Patrick Cathedral, he and Deacons two priests at Blessed Sacrament, Father John bottom line, the answer was I want to serve Philip Petta and Khiem Van Nguyen will be FROM PAGE 28 Jirack and Father Dan Lorimer, also saw God and Church,” and, he said, in church, he ordained priests. And he’s looking forward to with God and say, “Okay next year, I’ll do it. something in him and encouraged him to found the most peace and fulfi llment. Th at serving the people of the diocese. Next year I’ll do it.” enter the seminary. fulfi llment came, he said, “when I was in the “My hope is to be a good priest, a good, Th en after a daily morning Mass in his “It was their encouragement that really parish and within the parish settings, and faithful priest, and to continue to grow in my parish, he received an unexpected push to made me take the step,” Dcn. Kirkham said. with the people.” relationship with God,” Dcn. Kirkham, now consider joining the seminary, one of many “But when I turned 40 was the turning point, In 2006, the Dallas-born, Southlake- 45, said. “And to serve the Church as best as encouragements that he says he received on his because when I was turning 40 years old I raised Kirkham called the Diocese of Fort I can.” journey. Father Kyle Walterscheid, diocesan “Th ere was an older woman who was a vocations director, believes he’ll do just that. parishioner there. She stopped me one day “He’s very dynamic,” Fr. Walterscheid and she asked, ‘What is God telling you to said. “He’s going to be outstanding in the area do?’ Th at was her question, just ‘What is God of youth ministry, young adult ministry, and, telling you to do?’” Dcn. Kirkham said. “I I think, in business dealings. He has a very [replied], ‘You know, God and I have been good business perspective that he’ll be able having a discussion for quite some time.’ Her to off er starting out as associate pastor, but words were, ‘It’s time for you to shut up and eventually being a pastor someday.”

loves being with people, and he loves to be one-on-one with families in the parish,” Fr. Dcn. Petta… Walterscheid said. “He’s really a remarkable guy. He’s going to be a wonderful priest for FROM PAGE 28 the diocese.” Walterscheid, diocesan Vocations director said. After fi ve and a half years of study, Dcn. Born in Harlingen, but raised in Fort Petta said time has fl own by, but that he is Worth by his aunt and uncle, Dcn. Petta, looking forward to being ordained a priest now 56, felt he was called to be a priest in June 4. what he considers his home. And when he “As far as what I’m looking forward to PHOTO BY MIGUEL RAMOS told his family and friends, they were “totally Deacon Richard Kirkham (left) and Deacon Philip Petta (right) pose with Auxiliary Bishop Arturo Cepeda of Detroit, upon the most, that’s something I can’t answer supportive,” he said. their graduation from the Oblate School of Theology. Prior to his recent appointment, Bishop Cepeda had served as rector of really because there are so many diff erent Asked how unorthodox his journey to the Assumption Seminary in San Antonio, where Dcns. Kirkham and Petta, and Khiem Van Nguyen, studied. facets to it — just the supreme, unbelievable priesthood has been, Dcn. Petta replies with a privilege of being able to bring the sacraments laugh, “I still don’t believe it.” the ordination Mass, adding that Fr. Bristow he had several wonderful experiences with to the people is enough,” he said. “I mean He has enjoyed serving the people of encouraged and helped him since he fi rst parishioners, talking with Fr. Bristow, and when I think about how unworthy I am, his diocese. Last year, he served throughout converted. praying in the chapel. “I had a lot of little, I but yet I’m going to be able to listen to the summer as deacon at St. Mary of the “Working with Fr. David and working call them ‘mini-epiphanies’ that what I had confessions; I’m going to be able to anoint, Assumption, where he worked alongside Fr. with the staff there and working with Dcn. done is correct.” and most of all, I’ll be able to say the Mass Bristow and Deacon Hector Salva. He chose Hector reinforced my decision,” Dcn. Petta “He’s grown a lot, and he really enjoys and be able to consecrate — it’s beyond my Fr. Bristow to help him with his vestments at said of his time at St. Mary’s, adding that the faith. And one thing I’ve seen is he just wildest dreams. It’ll be a big day.”

children. Five of his siblings live in fi t for the diocese because of his what the community had off ered, as the U.S. experiences. well as what he brings to the table But it wasn’t just family that “He’s going to be a great blessing as someone who’s in his 40s,” Fr. supported him during his years in to the diocese because of his many Walterscheid said. “He’s a great asset, the seminary, he said, mentioning years in the religious community and he’ll be a great diocesan priest.” the encouragement of Bishop Kevin Vann, various diocesan priests, parishioners, and the Knights of Columbus. “People have been nice to me, really supported me,” he said. Last summer he served as deacon at Sacred Heart Parish in Wichita Falls, and during his fi nal Photo by Juan Guajardo / NTC Deacon Khiem Van Nguyen poses for a portrait at his home parish of Christ the King in Fort Worth. year at Assumption Seminary he served at Vietnamese Martyrs Parish and Dcns. Petta and Kirkham will in San Antonio. With his ordination be ordained priests for the Diocese date fast approaching, Dcn. Nguyen Dcn. Nguyen… of Fort Worth. Dcn. Nguyen will said he is both excited and nervous celebrate his fi rst Mass on June 5 about becoming a priest. FROM PAGE 28 at Christ the King Parish in Fort “It’s kind of a mixed feeling again entered his mind. Worth. because I really am happy that I “In my mind, I wanted to When his family heard the have almost become a priest, and become a priest, but I waited so long news that he was going to become a also I’m scared because I’m thinking that I felt that now I’d just do it,” priest, they rejoiced, Dcn. Nguyen, about the responsibility of the priest. he said. now 46, said. I’m thinking about [being] a leader So he asked to be transferred “My family loved it,” he said, and also a servant… I just pray.” to the Diocese of Fort Worth in chuckling. “Th ey really support me. “I just hope I can serve the 2005, and in fall 2006 he entered Especially my older brother, [Luan people, I don’t care where I am,” Assumption Seminary in San Van Nguyen], who is living in Fort Dcn. Nguyen continued. Antonio, where he studied alongside Worth. He really takes care of me.” Father Kyle Walterscheid, transitional Deacons Philip Petta Raised in a devout Catholic diocesan Vocations director, said and Richard Kirkham. June 4, he family, Dcn. Nguyen is one of nine Dcn. Nguyen will be a perfect NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 PAGE 21 PAGE 22 NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011

Word to Life Readings Refl ections

“Make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.” – Matthew 28:19-20 “He breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’” June 5, Ascension – John 20:22 of the Lord. Cycle A. Readings: June 12, Pentecost Sunday. 1) Acts 1:1-11 Cycle A. Readings: Psalm 47:2-3, 6-9 1) Acts 2:1-11 2) Ephesians 1:17-23 Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34 Gospel) Matthew 28:16-20 2) 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13 Gospel) John 20:19-23 By Jean Denton

hile visiting with student leaders of Catholic campus ministry By Jeff Hedglen Wat Virginia Tech University a couple of months ago, I saw how gratifi ed they were by the wide participation of hundreds of young adults y faith journey is fi lled with one blessing after another. I was born in their faith community. Minto a practicing Catholic family, baptized as an infant, was an altar Here, they told me earnestly, there is something for everyone in sharing server from age 8, got all my sacraments on time, was a part of a youth the work of Christ. Th e diverse interests and gifts of every person have group, a young adult group, and began working fulltime as a parish youth a place in the ministry of their Newman community, explained student minister when I was 21. Twenty-fi ve years later, my faith is still strong, and campus minister Elise Rokisky. I still work at the same church ministering to youth and young adults. Indeed, after each Mass, ministry leaders hung around outside the I often look back and wonder how it all happened. It seems fairly campus chapel sharing their personal enthusiasm for some program or seamless. From childhood to adolescence and into adulthood, my faith life project and inviting other students, one on one, to join them in the eff ort. has only grown steadily. Th at is not to say there have not been hard times. Th e college ministers were particularly excited about their alternative I moved to a new state at age 16 leaving all my childhood friends and spring break off erings, not only because the number of trips and my fi rst girlfriend behind. I lost my mother at age 26, and my wife and participants seemed to be growing exponentially, but because they I suff ered six miscarriages in two and a half years early in our marriage. were drawing students from outside their Catholic community. More Th rough it all, though it was unsteady at times, my faith remains the importantly, these faith-infused service trips unfailingly resulted in deep major force in my life. spiritual transformation among the young adults involved. Th is week’s Pentecost readings shed some light on the blessings and Elise said other campus groups planning similar trips come to Newman sustainability of my faith through the years. St. Paul says, “No one can leaders for advice “because they want what we have.” She pointed out that say, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ except by the Holy Spirit.” Th e power upholding me this “what we have” is a desire to live and share Jesus’ Gospel, and the through the ups and downs in my life came to me at my Baptism, was Newman community continues to grow and thrive as students experience strengthened in Confi rmation, continually feeds me in the Eucharist, conversion through their mission work. forgives me in Reconciliation, and bonds me ever closer to God through “We are not task driven,” Elise explained. “Before beginning anything, the grace of Matrimony. we ask what are the needs; what are the gifts we have; and what do we It is through these sacraments that I encounter the powerful words of off er, so we make sure we are serving one another. We encourage servant Jesus: “Receive the Holy Spirit.” leadership, and in this way we are portraying the body of Christ.” A song by Albert Goodson that we sing in our parish says, “We’ve come In celebrating Jesus’ ascension, this weekend’s readings bear the this far by faith, leaning on the Lord; trusting in his holy word. He’s never message that his mission to the world must be carried on by his disciples. failed us yet. Oh! We can’t turn around, we’ve come this far by faith.” Young adults in campus ministry understand well the call to “go and Th e Holy Spirit pours out to us the gift of faith that has brought us this make disciples” because the membership of their faith community turns far and will carry us all the way to the fi nish line. All we have to do is not over about every four years. Th ey have a strong sense of the need for turn around. As long as we are leaning on the Lord, we will always be close constant regeneration and nurture of the Body of Christ for the sake of his enough to feel the breath of Jesus. continuing ministry. QUESTIONS: QUESTIONS: In your experience, where have you witnessed the need for What are some of the ups and downs of your faith journey? Have continuously calling and encouraging new disciples? How do you, there been times you felt far from God? Have you seen the power of personally, go and make disciples? the Holy Spirit in any of these times? NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 PAGE 23

Word to Life Readings Refl ections

“Whoever eats my fl esh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.” – John 6:54

June 19 , Th e Most June 26, Feast Holy Trinity. f I fi nd favor “I of the Most Holy Body Cycle A. Readings: with you, O Lord, 1) Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9 do come along in and Blood of Christ. Psalm) Daniel 3:52-56 our company.” Cycle A. Readings: 2) 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 – Exodus 34:9 1) Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a Gospel) John 3:16-18 Psalm 147:12-15, 19-20 2) 1 Corinthians 10:16-17 By Jean Denton Gospel) John 6:51-58

herry and Jim were gratifi ed last spring when Kyle, their fi rst-born, Sgraduated from college and traveled halfway across the country to By Jeff Hensley begin training in his fi rst professional job. I’ve known Kyle since he was in middle school and watched him grow lessed Teresa of Kolkata began every day, before dawn, before the up to be a handsome, talented, and thoughtful young man who is sure to BBlessed Sacrament, drawing from the presence of Jesus the strength succeed in every way. No doubt this is largely due to his being a product of she needed to serve the poor. An hour of contemplation to fuel her works a loving family who nurtured and formed him well with strong values of of charity. An hour of contemplation concentrating on Jesus’ thirst for the faith and responsibility. souls and the companionship of those he came to redeem. Now, a year later, Kyle’s been assigned to a new location, in yet another It seems that everyone who saw her – enfl eshing the Christ she adored city but closer to home. Naturally, Sherry was happy to know she could see and received as body and blood ‒ was aff ected by her. him more often. Malcolm Muggeridge, in his book Something Beautiful for God, On the other hand, as mothers do, she felt his anxiety as he moved to a recalled fi lming the television special (bearing the same title) on her life new place feeling alone and pressured by expectations of his employer and and ministry among the destitute and dying in Kolkata. As they walked coworkers at his new job. a darkened stairway with inadequate light, he continued his interview, “It just pulls at my heart,” she admitted. “I don’t want him to have to despite the fact that he believed it would never be usable. To his great go through this hard time. But I also know he has to. It’s the only way for surprise, when he saw the fi lm after it was processed, not only was there him to grow and learn. And of course, then he’ll be fi ne.” adequate light to use that particular piece of the interview, but also there When he occasionally feels down and calls home, his parents encourage appeared a special glow around Mother Teresa. him and let him know he can trust his own judgment and goodness. When I was a freshman in college, just after the Second Vatican “I’m really proud of him that he’s decided to step out and take on this Council, I would occasionally see young women on campus who were adventure,” Sherry said. “It’s a good thing because he has a lot to off er.” dressed simply, whose faces seemed to almost shine. Somehow, I knew When I read this weekend’s Gospel, I realize that one way we’re made they were nuns taking classes at the University of Texas at Arlington. in the image of God is that the tight, self-giving relationship in a healthy I hope we’ve all known such people: people for whom Jesus’ nuclear family is a likeness of the Holy Trinity. pronouncement in today’s Gospel was not a stumbling block but a Th e family, much like the Father and Holy Spirit, gives our sons and stepping stone, people who took him at his word, even as they realized the daughters – bearing our values in their own strength and goodness – to the mystery of his words, “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; larger community. We do it because the community needs them. And oh, whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is how we love it when the community recognizes them for who they are and my fl esh for the life of the world.” accepts them. More deeply, the Father and Spirit are present when we accept the gift of Jesus, who “proceeds from” them, as the Nicene Creed so succinctly explains. In knowing and loving him we receive our whole triune God. QUESTIONS: Have you known people whose holiness was so evident it inspired QUESTIONS: you to seek a deeper relationship with Jesus? Can you fi nd ways to How has your acceptance of the person of Jesus aff ected your work more time with Jesus and his people into your life? Where understanding and relationship with the Father and Holy Spirit? might you carry the light of Christ to others, especially those in What about the Holy Trinity is a “mystery” for you? need? PAGE 24 NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 Nuestro Pastor Habla El Espíritu Santo une a todos en una Iglesia santa, católica y apostólica

Queridos Hermanos y Iglesia y, por medio de ella, en el mundo. — presenta el «nuevo curso» que la obra Hermanas en Cristo, De este modo se realiza defi nitivamente de Dios inició con la resurrección de Cristo, aquel nuevo inicio de la comunicación de obra que implica al hombre, a la historia y ue la alegría de la Pascua esté Dios uno y trino en el Espíritu Santo por al cosmos. Del Hijo de Dios muerto, resuci- con ustedes! Al seguir en obra de Jesucristo, Redentor del Hombre tado y vuelto al Padre brota ahora sobre la estos días la celebración de la y del mundo. humanidad, con inédita energía, el soplo ¡ — Sobre el Espíritu Santo en la vida divino, el Espíritu Santo. Y ¿qué produce Resurrección de Cristo, es un momentoQ para meditar y refl exionar sobre el de la Iglesia y del mundo esta nueva y potente auto-comunicación de gran don y misterio de la Resurrección. Debe- Dominum et Vivifi cantem, 14 Dios? Donde hay laceraciones y divisiones, mos apreciar esta época de la liturgia cuando crea unidad y comprensión. Se pone en el Señor resucitado está con nosotros, como Esta llegada del Espíritu Santo, después marcha un proceso de reunifi cación entre hemos oído en la proclamación de los diversos de la Ascensión de Jesús, nos lleva al evento de las partes de la familia humana, divididas relatos evangélicos de Jesús apareciéndose a Pentecostés. Después de nueve días de espera y y dispersas; las personas, a menudo reduci- los apóstoles y discípulos, fortaleciendo su fe y en oración, el Espíritu Santo viene en la plenitud das a individuos que compiten o entran en dando testimonio poderoso a la realidad de su de su presencia y poder ante los apóstoles y dis- confl icto entre sí, alcanzadas por el Espíritu re su r re c c ión. E s to e s verd a der a mente u n t iemp o cípulos, quienes luego abandonan el Aposento de Cristo, se abren a la experiencia de la bendito en el año de la Iglesia y un tiempo para Alto y comienzan a proclamar el evangelio de comunión, que puede tocarlas hasta el punto verdaderamente regocijarse en la esperanza y la Monseñor Kevin Vann Jesucristo. Esta bienvenida del Espíritu Santo de convertirlas en un nuevo organismo, un constituye el comienzo de la Iglesia y su mi- nuevo sujeto: la Iglesia . Este es el efecto de la alegría de la resurrección. se ofreció a Dios por el Espíritu eterno como sión en la tierra. De hecho, el propio evento obra de Dios: la unidad; por eso, la unidad Pronto, sin embargo, celebraremos la fi esta víctima sin mancha, purifi cará nuestra de Pentecostés manifi esta los cuatro atributos es el signo de reconocimiento, la «tarjeta de de la Ascensión, cuando la misión de Jesús en conciencia de las obras de muerte, para que de la Iglesia. La Iglesia es vista como una—y visita» de la Iglesia a lo largo de su historia la tierra se completa y asciende al cielo para sirvamos al Dios vivo. Por eso Cristo es el como todas las naciones—que está presente universal. Desde el principio, desde el día s ent a r s e a l a dere c h a de l Pa d re . L a A s c en sión, en mediador de un nuevo testamento o alianza. allí en Pentecostés, y se hace una realidad en de Pentecostés, habla todas las lenguas. muchos sentidos, es una fi esta que nos presenta Por su muerte fueron redimidas las faltas el Espíritu Santo. La Iglesia, sin duda, es vista La Iglesia universal precede a las Iglesias con sentimientos contrarios. Por un lado, hay un cometidas bajo el régimen de la primera como santa, es literalmente impregnada con particulares, y estas deben conformarse c ier to t ip o de t r i s te z a c on l a p a r t id a de Je sú s , p ero alianza, y así la promesa se cumple en los el poder y la presencia del Espíritu Santo. La siempre a ella, según un criterio de unidad entonces hay que tener en cuenta las palabras que Dios llama para la herencia eterna. Iglesia también es claramente presentada como y de universalidad. La Iglesia nunca llega a tranquilizadoras de Cristo que nos promete: — Hebreos 9: 11-15 “Yo estoy con ustedes todos los días hasta el fi n apostólica, como los apóstoles mismos que ser prisionera de fronteras políticas, raciales comienzan a enseñar y servir con la autoridad y culturales; no se puede confundir con los de la historia” (Mateo 28,20). Esta promesa de Igualmente hay otra dimensión en la del mismo Cristo. Del mismo modo, la Iglesia Estados ni tampoco con las Federaciones de su presencia no es sólo palabras reconfortantes Ascensión y la partida de Jesús. Junto con su es vista como católica, o universal, en que ella Estados, porque su unidad es de otro tipo y antes de su despedida, si no—como ya hemos salida, también se incluye la promesa del envío abarca en su misión a toda la humanidad, y aspira a cruzar todas las fronteras humanas. visto en la aparición de Cristo en el camino del Espíritu Santo: “ Pero recibirán la fuerza del se encarna en cada raza y cultura de la tierra. de Emaús—Cristo está real y verdaderamente Espíritu Santo cuando venga sobre ustedes, y Esto se ve especialmente cuando cada persona Que siempre busquemos una unidad más existente entre nosotros en el partir del pan. En serán mis testigos en Jerusalén, en toda Judea, presente en Jerusalén—desde todos los rincones profunda dentro de nuestra diócesis y un cono- la Eucaristía, Cristo está físicamente presente en Samaría y hasta los extremos de la tierra” del mundo antiguo—escucha el Evangelio cimiento más profundo de la espiritualidad de para su Iglesia hasta el fi n del tiempo. (Hechos 1: 8). De hecho, durante la última cena proclamado en su propio idioma. comunión, no sólo en nuestra iglesia local, sino La fi e s t a de l a A s c en sión e s t a mbién u n g r a n en el Evangelio, Jesús les dice a los apóstoles que Es esta marca de la Iglesia Católica que también en una unidad más amplia con la iglesia momento de alegría y esperanza para nosotros, será provechoso que se vaya, ya que así podrá me gustaría destacar porque uno de los grandes universal, a la que estamos llamados dentro de la ya que es a través de su Ascensión al cielo que enviar al Espíritu Santo: “Pero es verdad lo que dones de nuestra diócesis aquí en Fort Worth una, santa, católica y apostólica Iglesia. Cristo se convierte en el sacerdote eterno y les digo: les conviene que yo me vaya, porque es que nuestra iglesia local se compone de Por lo tanto, estoy muy feliz de anunciar celestial, el quien entra en el santuario celestial mientras yo no me vaya el Protector no vendrá muchas culturas y orígenes étnicos. Uno de que tendremos dos ordenaciones diferentes en nuestro nombre y nuevamente nos abre las a ustedes. Yo me voy, y es pa ra enviá rselo” (Juan los grandes regalos que tengo como obispo es en los próximos días. El 31 de mayo, Manuel puertas del paraíso. Jesús, por el sacrifi cio de su 16: 7). El Beato Papa Juan Pablo II nos enseña viajar alrededor de la diócesis e interactuar con Holguín será ordenado al diaconado transitorio propia sangre, se convierte en el árbitro de una con elocuencia el signifi cado de este pasaje: nueva alianza, y más, se convierte en el único las diferentes culturas; así puedo ver cómo la en la Parroquia de la Inmaculada Concepción en fe católica es verdaderamente universal y se ha Denton. El 4 de junio, los diáconos Richard mediador, en el camino al Padre. Podemos ver El Espíritu viene a costa de la «partida» de encarnado en cada cultura. Lamentablemente, Kirkham, Nguyen Van de Khiem y Philip Petta esto de manera más convincente en la Carta a Cristo. Si esta «partida» causó la tristeza de siempre existe la tentación en la Iglesia de ver la serán ordenados sacerdotes en la Catedral de San los Hebreos: los apóstoles, y ésta debía llegar a su culmen d iver sid a d c u lt u r a l c omo u n a f uer z a de d iv i sión, Patricio. Por favor oren por todos estos hom- en la pasión y muerte del Viernes Santo, a o para ver distintas expresiones culturales en la bres, que serán ordenados para que puedan ser Cristo, en cambio, vino como el sumo sa- su vez esta «tristeza se convertirá en gozo». Iglesia como una amenaza a la unidad. ¡Nada extraordinarios servidores en la viña del Señor. cerdote que nos consigue los nuevos dones En efecto, Cristo insertará en su «partida» podría estar más lejos de la verdad! La Iglesia Igualmente, dos de nuestros seminaristas que se de Dios, y entró en un santuario más noble redentora la gloria de la resurrección y de la es más rica debido a su catolicidad, y es en — preparan para iniciar sus estudios en el Colegio y más perfecto, no hecho por hombres, es ascensión al Padre. Por tanto la tristeza, a y a través del poder del Espíritu Santo—que Norteamericano en R om a — M at t he w Tat y re k y decir, que no es algo creado. Y no fue la través de la cual aparece el gozo, es la parte todos somos hecho uno. Incluso, la catolicidad Joe Keating—harán sus declaraciones públicas sangre de chivos o de novillos la que le abrió que toca a los apóstoles en el marco de la de la Iglesia está al servicio de su unidad, de su de ser candidatos para las órdenes sagradas el el santuario, sino su propia sangre, cuando «partida» de su Maestro, una partida «con- espiritualidad de comunión. El Papa Benedicto sábado, 21 de mayo, en la Catedral de San Pa- consiguió de una vez por todas la liberación veniente», porque gracias a ella vendría otro XVI, en su homilía de Pentecostés el año pasado tricio. Me siento constantemente alentado por defi nitiva. Pues si la sangre de chivos y de «Paráclito». A costa de la Cruz redentora predicó sobre este mismo punto: el creciente número de seminaristas que son toros y la ceniza de ternera, con la que se y por la fuerza de todo el misterio pascual llamados por el Señor para servir en nuestra rocía a los que tienen alguna culpa, les dan de Jesucristo, el Espíritu Santo viene para El relato de Pentecostés en el libro de los diócesis; este es otro gran signo del Espíritu tal vez una santidad y pureza externa, con quedarse desde el día de Pentecostés con los Hechos de los Apóstoles —lo hemos escucha- mucha mayor razón la sangre de Cristo, que Apóstoles, para estar con la Iglesia y en la do en la primera lectura (cf. Hch 2, 1-11) CONTINUADA A LA DERECHA NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 PAGE 25 Noticias de la Iglesia El Vaticano ordena obispos redactar directrices para manejo de casos de abuso sexual

Por Cindy Wooden bardi, portavoz del Vaticano, dijo by Priests, conocida como SNAP, signifi ca nada”. aunque él podría conseguir asesoría Catholic News Service que el hecho que a las conferencias dijo en una declaración el 16 de La congregación doctrinal dijo de expertos externos. CIUDAD DEL VATICANO – se les diera una fecha límite precisa mayo que “las directrices de abuso que las nuevas directrices deben re- Dijo que el hecho que las di- Toda conferencia episcopal del y sólo 12 meses para redactar sus del Vaticano cambiarán poco”, fl ejar el hecho que las juntas de re- rectrices no tengan que ser vincu- mundo debe tener listas, dentro directrices demuestra cuán seria- particularmente porque éstas no visión diocesanas o nacionales “no lantes no reduce la responsabilidad de un plazo de un año, directrices mente el Vaticano toma el asunto. insisten que las directrices naciona- pueden sustituir el discernimiento” de un obispo ni el compromiso de para manejar acusaciones de abuso “El objetivo es darle a los obis- les sean vinculantes. ni la autoridad de tomar decisiones la iglesia con terminar el abuso. En sexual por clérigos, dijo la Congre- pos un fuerte denominador común “Los obispos ignoran y ocultan de los obispos individuales. vez, dijo, es un reconocimiento que gación para la doctrina de la fe. para redactar directrices apropiadas los crímenes sexuales infantiles Padre Lombardi dijo que la en muchos países todos los obispos En una carta fechada el 3 de para sus propias situaciones nacio- porque pueden hacerlo”, dice la razón de la carta es hacer claro que han acordado seguir los mismos mayo y emitida por el Vaticano el nales, con sus culturas y legislacio- declaración de SNAP, añadiendo un obispo individual “no puede procedimientos y, culturalmente, 16 de mayo, el cardenal estadouni- nes únicas”, dijo a reporteros el 16 que “cualquier ‘reforma’ que no abdicar su responsabilidad” de no tenían la necesidad de tener un dense William J. Levada, prefecto de mayo. reduzca el poder ni la discreción cerciorarse de la seguridad infantil sello del Vaticano sobre ellos para de la congregación, dijo que en Las directrices de varios países, de los obispos prácticamente no y del manejo de los casos de abuso, que estos pudieran ser vinculantes. toda nación y región los obispos incluyendo los Estados Unidos, han deben tener “procedimientos claros sido adoptadas como normas obli- y coordinados” para proteger gatorias en esos países y aprobadas niños, ayudar víctimas del abuso, por el Vaticano. tratar con los sacerdotes acusados, Las directrices que la congre- entrenar clérigos y cooperar con las gación doctrinal está buscando autoridades civiles. ahora en todo el mundo no tienen Describiendo el abuso sexual que ser vinculantes, dice la carta, de menores como “un crimen aunque éstas deben refl ejar las cláu- procesable por la ley civil”, la sulas vinculantes de la ley canónica congregación doctrinal dijo que y las cláusulas especiales promulga- los obispos deben seguir las leyes das en el 2001 y el año pasado. locales que requieren reportar a la Las cláusulas especiales emi- policía los casos de abuso sexual. tidas durante los últimos 10 años Desde mediados de la década ampliaron o extendieron varios de 1990 dos docenas de confe- puntos de ley eclesiástica: defi nie- rencias episcopales, comenzando ron un menor como una persona principalmente con países de habla menor de la edad de 18 años en inglesa, han redactado directrices vez de 16; establecieron la ley de para atender las acusaciones de abu- prescripción en 20 años, en vez de so sexual de menores presentadas 10 años, desde el 18vo cumplea- contra clérigos y otros empleados ños de la víctima, para presentar eclesiásticos. Otras conferencias, casos eclesiásticos contra alegados por ejemplo la conferencia episco- perpetradores; establecieron un pal italiana, han dicho que no han procedimiento administrativo abre- redactado directrices porque los viado para remover del sacerdocio obispos están obligados a seguir la clérigos culpables; e incluyeron la ley canónica y las cláusulas espe- pornografía infantil en la lista de ciales promulgadas en el 2001 por crímenes serios que podrían traer la el beato Papa Juan Pablo II y en el expulsión del sacerdocio. 2010 por el Papa Benedicto XVI. Barbara Dorris, portavoz de El padre jesuita Federico Lom- Survivors Network of those Abused

Santo activo y en movimiento en Que la alegría de esta Pascua per- nuestra diócesis, mientras avanzamos manezca con todos ustedes mientras en este tiempo de gracia en la Iglesia. nos preparamos para celebrar el gran Por último, quisiera expresar mis don del Espíritu Santo en Pentecostés. sinceras felicitaciones a todos aquellos que entraron en la iglesia durante la Pascua, los que reciben su Primera Comunión y los muchos jóvenes que + Obispo Kevin W. Vann. JCD, DD he tenido el privilegio de confi rmar Diocesis de Fort Worth en las últimas semanas. También espero con interés la confi rmación de adultos de toda nuestra diócesis el Domingo de Pentecostés en la Catedral de San Patricio. Y fi nalmente, quiero dar las gracias a todos ustedes que trabajan muy duro y generosamente en la preparación catequética y sacra- mental de todos aquellos que reciben los sacramentos. PAGE 26 NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 Noticias de la Iglesia El Papa Benedicto beatifi ca al Papa Juan Pablo ‘por su fe’

Por Cindy Wooden formaron una fi la hacia el ataúd A LA IZQUIERDA: El Papa Benedicto XVI ora en el ataúd del Papa Catholic News Service de madera, tocándolo levemente y Juan Pablo II frente al altar mayor de la Basílica de San Pedro, en el CIUDAD DEL VATICANO – besándolo. Vaticano, el 1 de mayo, día en que el Papa Benedicto declaró beato “Juan Pablo II es beato por su fe, una Eventualmente el Vaticano abrió a su predecesor. (Foto CNS/Paul Haring) fe fuerte, generosa y apostólica”, dijo la basílica al público en general y pla- el Papa Benedicto XVI el 1 de mayo nifi caba mantenerla abierta hasta que apenas minutos después de formal- los fi eles dejaran de venir a expresar mente beatifi car a su predecesor. su admiración o hasta que las prepa- La policía italiana dijo que para raciones tuvieran que hacerse para la la Misa más de 1 millón de personas Misa ofi cial de agradecimiento por la se reunieron en y alrededor del Vati- beatifi cación el 2 de mayo. cano y delante de grandes pantallas Millares de personas pasaron de video en varias partes de la ciudad. una noche fría y húmeda acampando Muchos en el público tenían cerca del Vaticano intentando en- A LA DERECHA: People packed St. Peter's historias personales de haber visto contrar un lugar en la Plaza de San Square and the Via della Conciliazione was al Papa Juan Pablo o hasta haberlo Pedro desde la 5:30 a.m., cuando los fi lled with the faithful all the way to the conocido, y el Papa Benedicto terminó portones estaban programados para Tiber River, May 1, as more than a million abrirse para la Misa de las 10 a.m. La attended the beatifi cation of Pope John su homilía de la Misa compartiendo Paul II. (CNS Photo/Massimo Sestini, Italian su propia historia personal. muchedumbre era tan grande que la National Police via Reuters) “Quisiera agradecer a Dios por policía comenzó a dejar que la gente el regalo de haber trabajado durante entrara a las 2 a.m. muchos años con el beato Papa Juan Valeria Buonpastore, quien es de inscribir al venerable servidor de Dios Pablo II”, dijo. Charlotte, Carolina del Norte, dijo Juan Pablo II, Papa, entre el número Como prefecto de la Congrega- que el Papa Juan Pablo “trascendió de los beatos”. ción para la doctrina de la fe desde nacionalidades. Él era universal, eso El Papa respondió diciendo 1982 hasta su elección en el 2005, el es lo que lo hizo tan grande. Él era que después de consultar a muchos Papa Benedicto dijo que trabajó al amado por la gente de otras naciones obispos y miembros de los fi eles, y lado del Papa “y llegó a reverenciarlo”. y religiones. Muchos de mis amigos después de hacer que la Congregación “Su ejemplo de oración conti- protestantes lo amaban también”, para las causas de los santos estudiara el nuamente me impresionó y edifi có: dijo. asunto, “el venerable servidor de Dios, se mantenía unido profundamente a También en la plaza estaba la Juan Pablo II, Papa, en adelante será Dios hasta en medio de las muchas hermana Marie Clarice, – miembro llamado beato” y su fi esta será el 22 exigencias de su ministerio”, dijo el de 30 años de edad – de las Pequeñas de octubre, el aniversario de la inau- Papa. servidoras del sagrado corazón, prove- guración de su pontifi cado en 1978. “Hoy su nombre se añade a la niente de Madagascar. El público reventó en aplauso legión de aquellos que proclamó él Dijo que re c uerd a c u a ndo e l Pap a sostenido, mucha gente lloró, y santos y beatos durante los casi 27 Juan Pablo fue a Madagascar en 1989; músicos de instrumentos de metal años de su pontifi cado”, dijo el Papa ella tenía solamente 7 u 8 años de entonaron una fanfarria mientras el en su homilía. edad, y la imagen que ha quedado es Papa terminaba de leer la proclama. El Papa Juan Pablo durante su de una persona a quien le importaba La hermana polaca Tobiana So- pontifi cado beatifi có 1,338 personas el débil e impotente. “Recuerdo la bodka, quien dirigía el hogar del Papa y canonizó 482, más que todos sus manera en que acogía a los pobres. Juan Pablo, y la hermana francesa predecesores combinados. La beatifi - Los abrazaba, así”, dijo abriendo sus Marie Simon-Pierre, cuya curación cación del Papa Juan Pablo,apenas seis brazos en un ancho abrazo. de la enfermedad de Parkinson fue temente a mirar hacia los horizontes mente de todo; no obstante, él se años y un mes después de su muerte Hablando brevemente en polaco aceptada como el milagro que pavi- de la esperanza”. mantuvo siempre como una ‘roca’, en el 2005, fue la beatifi cación más du r a nte su hom i l í a , e l Pap a B ene d ic to mentó e l c a m i no p a r a su b e at i fi cación, El Papa Benedicto también habló como Cristo deseaba. Su profunda rápida en unos 500 años. dijo de su predecesor: “Por su testimo- l le v a ron u n a re l iqu i a a l Pap a B ene d ic - en su homilía acerca del sufrimiento humildad, cimentada en la unión El Papa Benedicto dijo que aun nio de la fe, del amor y de la valentía to y entonces a un estante cerca del del Papa Juan Pablo y de su batalla estrecha con Cristo, le permitió con- al momento de su muerte la gente apostólica, acompañados por gran altar. La reliquia era una ampolla de con la enfermedad de Parkinson, que tinuar liderando la iglesia y dándole “percibía la fragancia de su santidad carisma humano, este hijo ejemplar de cristal claro con la sangre del Papa eventualmente lo incapacitó. al mundo un mensaje que se hizo aun y en cualquier número de maneras el Polonia ayudó a los creyentes de todo Juan Pablo, mantenida en un relicario “Allí estuvo su testimonio al más elocuente mientras su fortaleza pueblo de Dios demostró su venera- el mundo a no temerle a ser llamado de ramas de olivo de plata. sufrir: el Señor lo despojó gradual- física declinaba”, dijo el Papa. ción por él. Por esta razón, con todo el cristiano, a pertenecer a la iglesia, a Leyendo una breve biografía del respeto debido a las normas canónicas hablar del Evangelio. fenecido Papa, el cardenal Vallini dijo Mecanismos para reportar la conducta sexual inapropiada de la iglesia, yo quería que su causa “En una palabra: él nos ayudó que él “había vivido pasando la trágica Si usted o alguien que conozca es abuso sexual: (817) 560-2452, de beatifi cación se moviera adelante a no temerle a la verdad, porque la experiencia de dos dictaduras”, el víctima de conducta sexual inapropiada Ext. 900 por parte de cualquier persona que verdad es la garantía de la libertad”, nazismo y el comunismo, “sobrevivió ■ o llamar al Centro Católico al número: con rapidez razonable”. trabaje para la iglesia, sea voluntario, (817) 560-2452, ext. 102 y preguntar por Después de la Misa el Papa dijo el Papa. un intento de asesinato el 13 de mayo empleado, o miembro del clero, puede el canciller/moderador de la curia, el Benedicto entró en la Basílica de San El Papa Benedicto leyó la fór- de 1981 y, durante sus últimos años reportarlo de las siguientes maneras: padre Stephen Berg. mula de beatifi cación al principio de sufrió grave difi cultad física debido a Mecanismo para reportar abuso Pedro y se arrodilló en oración durante ■ llamar a Judy Locke, Coordinadora de cuatro minutos ante el ataúd del beato la liturgia, después que el cardenal la progresión de su enfermedad. Sin asistencia para víctimas, al número (817) Llamar al Ministerio de familias de Texas Juan Pablo, que estaba puesto frente Agostino Vallini, vicario papal para embargo, su abrumador optimismo, 560-2452, Ext. 201, o, mandarle correo Servicios de protección (Servicios de al altar mayor. Después que el Papa Roma, solicitó al Papa diciendo: basado en su confi anza en la divina electrónico a [email protected] protección de niños) al número:(800) ■ llamar al número de emergencia para el 252-5400. se fue, los cardenales concelebrantes “Pido humildemente a Su Santidad providencia, lo impulsaba constan- NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 PAGE 27 Events Calendar Around the Diocese and region June Dates 2 Classifieds NOLAN CATHOLIC USED UNIFORM SALE 5 - 8 p.m. - Nolan Catholic High School Commons, 4501 Bridge St., Fort Worth. For information, contact Barbara Sullivan at Barbara@lockgroup. com. Principal Part-Time Clerical Support 3-4 St. George School, Fort Worth (PreK-8th parish school Good Shepherd Catholic Community is seeking part- ST. JUDE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COOK-OFF with 208 students) is seeking a strong academic and time clerical support to manage various support services 6 p.m. Friday; noon Saturday - Knights of Columbus Council Hall, 2625 spiritual principal to lead the school. Applicants must be within children’s faith formation and 6-12 grade youth South Cooper, Arlington. For information, contact David Lara (817) 233- a practicing Catholic with a master’s degree, 18 hours in ministry. In addition, this position will manage student 4533 or [email protected]; or Rocky Cantu at (817) 360-2809 or lobsta22@ administration and three years experience in Catholic registration data in the GSCC database, and perform sbcglobal.net. school education. Previous administrative experience other general clerical duties as needed. Th is individual preferred. Position is available for 2011-12 school-year. will act as an extension from the Family Faith Formation 3-5 Submit letter of interest, references, and request for RACHEL’S VINEYARD WEEKEND RETREAT and youth ministry programs to parishioners by making For information, contact Rachel Ministries at (817) 923-4757. application form by May 31, to: Catholic Schools Offi ce, phone calls, sending e-mails and letters to families within St. George Principal Search, 800 West Loop 820 South, the ministry. For a full job description and application, 4 Fort Worth, TX 76108-2919. visit www.gscc.net. Send the completed application and CALIX SUPPORT GROUP résumé to Good Shepherd Parish, 1000 Tinker Rd., Business Manager 10 a.m. Colleyville, TX 76034, Attn: Johna Kacir, or e-mail to A monthly support meeting for Catholics who are alcoholic and others Our Lady of Victory Catholic School is seeking a full-time, [email protected]. Applications must be received by who are struggling with addiction and seeking recovery. Holy Family salaried, business manager handling all business functions of Friday, May 27. Church, 6150 Pershing Ave., Fort Worth. For information, contact Deacon the school, including accounts receivable and payable, payroll, Joe Milligan at (817) 431-5369. cash receipts and disbursements, budgeting, statements, and Catholic Book Business For Sale reporting. Candidates should have a sound knowledge of LANERI, MOUNT CARMEL, OLV HIGH SCHOOL REUNION 2011 Catholic Book Business with established client base in accounting and experience working with CYMA. Candidates Social Hour, 3 p.m.- Dinner, 6:30 p.m. Nolan Catholic High School, 4501 Dallas area for sale; established relationships with every Bridge St., Fort Worth. Registration deadline is May 15. For information or should also have a commitment to the culture, traditions, major Catholic book publisher. Gross sales for 2010 to make a reservation, contact Sylvia (Cowdin) Fisher at (817) 292-1029 or and philosophy of the educational mission of a Catholic were $97,825.00; potential for growth. Business can be [email protected]. school. In addition, candidates will exhibit strong supervisory relocated as most sales are via e-mail or phone. skills, as well as excellent organizational, written/verbal Cash fl ow/profi t breakdown per year : $2,500 - 20 communication and interpersonal skills, in order to eff ectively KITTY CLEAVELAND TESTIMONY AND CONCERT membership fees; $3,000 commission on regular sales; interact with all employees, students, and constituents of 7 p.m. - Good Shepherd Catholic Community, 1000 Tinker Rd., Colleyville. $3,500 book fair commissions. the school. Send résumé and cover letter including salary For information, contact the parish offi ce at (817) 421-1387 Equipment/Inventory (included in asking price): requirements to [email protected]. Degree preferred. 10 mobile book shelving racks for book fairs - $2,000; 22-26 Part-Time Parish Secretary BENEDICTINE MONKS LEAD MONASTIC EXPERIENCE IN DALLAS POS system with scanner, printer, lap top, cash drawer - The Catholic Conference and Formation Center, 901 South Madison St. Mary’s is seeking a part time secretary to work 25 $2,000; current book inventory includes Catholic books Avenue, Dallas. For information, e-mail [email protected] or hours per week. Th e ideal candidate is reliable, profi cient for all ages - $7,000; rosaries/bracelets - $500; sheets and call (214) 339-8483. and conscientious; able to communicate effi ciently misc. equipment for book fairs - $500. with the church community in a professional and Great opportunity for someone who loves the Catholic 24-26 compassionate manner whether by phone or written faith and loves working with Catholic parishes. MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER WEEKEND correspondence. Candidate must be skilled in Microsoft Asking price - $20,000 or best off er. No extended Catholic Renewal Center, 4503 Bridge St., Fort Worth. For information, contact Kathy or Terry Telger at (817) 294-2749 or visit the website at www. Word 7 and Microsoft Publisher, parish data system payments will be accepted. If interested, send e-mail to northtexasmarriageencounter.org or e-mail to meregistration@sbcglobal. (not required), self motivated, punctual, well organized, [email protected]. net. and detail oriented. Offi ce hours are Monday – Friday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. plus fi ve additional hours per week of Administrative Coordinator fl ex time. Experienced with church offi ce procedures, Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish is currently accepting July Dates preferred but not required. Application Process: Qualifi ed résumés for administrative coordinator. Th e ideal candidates are encouraged to apply by sending a copy of candidate will be a practicing Catholic with the ability to 1-3 their résumé along with salary requirements to résumés@ share their Catholic Faith. Th e position requires computer PRO-LIFE BOOT CAMP SESSION 1 stmarythevirgin.org or by mailing their résumé to St. skills, good communication skills, a desire to learn and 6 p.m. - University of Dallas, 1845 Northgate Dr., Irving. For information, Mary the Virgin, Attn: Parish Council President, P O encourage others in their faith, the ability to work fl exible contact Sue Laux at (817) 939-8595. Box 121422, Arlington, TX 76012. Please do not call the hours, and the ability to implement and coordinate parish 8-10 church offi ce. programs and priorities with direction from the pastor KOINONIA RETREAT WEEKEND Associate Director Positions and pastoral assistant. Résumés must be received by June Catholic Renewal Center, 4503 Bridge St., Fort Worth. For information, Th e Diocese of Austin has two positions available 10 to be considered for this position. Qualifi ed applicants contact Hank Martin at (972) 420-1400 or [email protected] or Sandy in Austin; an Associate Director of Catholic School will be contacted for an interview. For more information Urick at (817) 595-5899. Development and Marketing, as well as an Associate about the position, contact Deacon Jim at the church 9-10 Director for Hispanic Education and Formation. Visit the offi ce at (940) 696-1253 or via e-mail at jbindelolqp@ EMERGING ADULTS CONFERENCE FOR YOUNG ADULTS 18-25 website http://www.austindiocese.org/employment.php wf.net. Hyatt Regency Hotel, DFW Airport. For information, contact Kevin Prevou for details. at (817) 560-2452, ext. 261. Director for Hispanic Ministry General Construction Services Th e Diocese of Austin is seeking a Director for Hispanic General construction work/repairs inside and out including 17 Ministry. Th is position is located in Austin, TX. Visit the topsoil, sand, gravel, washed materials, driveways, concrete, ‘JAMMING’ FOR JESUS website http://www.austindiocese.org/employment.php backhoe, and tractor services. Custom mowing lots and 5 - 8 p.m. - Our Mother of Mercy Church, 1001 East Terrell Ave., Fort Worth. acres. Call (817) 732-4083. For information, contact Joi Bernard at (817) 382-7148 or joibernard@yahoo. for details. com. NORTH TEXAS CATHOLIC, JUNE, 2011 PAGE 28 Good Newsmaker Three journeys, one destination Deacons Richard Kirkham, Khiem Van Nguyen, and Philip Petta took diff ernt paths on their discernments, but will be ordained to the priesthood together for the Diocese of Fort Worth at St. Patrick Cathedral June 4 BACKGROUND: Sanctuary of Immaculate Stories by Juan Guajardo / Correspondent Conception Chapel at Oblate School of Theology. Photo by Miguel Ramos

f the three men who will be ordained Th e thought of becoming a priest became more subdued Th at promising career by the time he entered high school, however. After graduating sent him to Wichita, Kansas, priests this June, DEACON from the University of North Texas with a degree in business shortly afterward. Dcn. RICHARD WARD KIRKHAM administration, Dcn. Kirkham entered the corporate world Kirkham continued getting O and moved to Chicago after landing a job. It was there, as a more and more involved in probably had the longest discernment period. young adult, that he really started learning more about his his parish, Blessed Sacrament faith, and he began reading Catholic authors and going to in Wichita, and started going “I think I was discerning for 35 years,” Mass more frequently. He said it was that investigation of his to daily Mass. He became Dcn. Kirkham said with a laugh. “Ever faith that started his journey to a deeper discernment of the the youth minister at his priesthood. church, and the thought since I was in fi rst grade when I got the “I was really kind of asking myself why do Catholics do of becoming a diocesan fi rst thought or idea or [it entered] my what we do? Why am I Catholic?” Dcn. Kirkham said. “I’d priest entered his mind been raised Catholic. It was there that I really started reading more frequently. But with his career on the front burner, he imagination — the wonder of becoming a more about the Catholic Church and the Church’s teachings continued putting aside the thought of entering the seminary. … It was from there that my journey and my desire kind of From the time he was 28, until he was 40, he would negotiate priest and thinking about it.” grew, though my career was growing at the same time.” SEE DCN. KIRKHAM, P. 20

t was in Phoenix, in 1998, that PHILIP It was such a wild God, I’ll do what you say,’ Dcn. Petta said. “And that’s notion though, that he when I started making inquiries into being received into the DAVIS PETTA, a successful health ignored the idea at the time. Church….” insurance salesman, and at the time, a Soon, however, he started His job in the insurance business brought him home to I doing serious research on Fort Worth again, and in 2003, Petta was confi rmed into the convert to the Episcopal church, fi rst felt a the Catholic Church history. Catholic Church. Th ough he wanted to enter the seminary He started to learn about immediately, he had to wait two years because he was new calling to something that seemed crazy at the Eucharist, and came to the faith. So he became more involved at St. Mary of the the time. to believe the Church’s Assumption Church in Fort Worth. He became close with teachings on it. St. Mary pastor Father David Bristow and joined the hospital “I was watching TV one evening, and I “All of those centuries ministry. Although he was still busy with his insurance even forget what I was watching, but I came the Church has consistently business, things worked out providentially, and he was able taught that the Eucharist is the Body and Blood of our Lord to leave his job. In August 2005 he entered the seminary to to a realization that I was intended to be a Jesus Christ and if that was not the case, if that was incorrect, study to become a priest for the Diocese of Fort Worth. In then I saw no sense in Christianity at all,” he said. May 2010, he was ordained to the transitional diaconate at St. priest, not just a priest, but a Catholic priest,” Meanwhile, the call to the diocesan priesthood he felt in Mary. Deacon Petta said. “It was an overwhelming 1998 was still with him. “He kept saying I want to do more for the Church; ‘I want “I felt that for quite a while and circumstances turned to do more,’ and that led him into the seminary,” Father Kyle feeling.” me around to where I surrendered and said, ‘I believe you SEE DCN. PETTA, P. 20

uring a long, dangerous boat trip across the Pacifi c during his escape from the Vietnam, after hearing a priest say that priests try to live their Communist unrest in Vietnam in 1982, KHIEM VAN NGUYEN said a simple entire lives according to the prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the boat, Nguyen, then 17, told her, “If I go to will of God. D Dcn. Nguyen, who was America, I will become a priest.” ordained to the transitional diaconate May 2010 at St. But it would be several years before that Mary of the Assumption Please enclose label with address change or inquiries concerning mail delivery of your North Texas Catholic. Thank you. happened. After spending a year at refugee camps in Church in Fort Worth, said Malaysia and then the Philippines, Nguyen and his his hospital stay was not all sister and nephew arrived in Fort Worth, where two bad because it helped remind older brothers were living. He took a job, enrolled in him of that idea. Tarrant County College (then TCJC) at the urging “If I don’t have the car accident, maybe I get married right of his older brother, and went on to live life, make now,” he said with a laugh. friends, and have fun as any young man would. Two years after his accident, Dcn. Nguyen joined the “So I forgot [the promise] for a long time,” now Congregation of the Mother Co-Redemptrix in Missouri, Deacon Nguyen explained. a Vietnamese religious order. And for the next 15 years But during a month-long stay in the hospital Dcn. Nguyen lived at the religious order, where he earned a after a car accident in 1997, he spent a lot of time bachelor’s degree in philosophy. But thoughts of the priesthood seriously thinking about the priesthood, a call that he had felt as early as when he was 9 while still living in SEE DCN. NGUYEN, P. 20