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Respecting creation ’ new encyclical will address the moral consequences of an unequal distribution of resources, waste, and the exploitation of nature

By Barbara J. Fraser Catholic News Service

LIMA, Peru — Pope Francis’ encyclical on ecology and climate, released this week, will send a strong moral message — one that could make some readers uncom- fortable, some observers say. “The encyclical will address the issue of inequality in the distribution of resources and topics such as the wasting of food and the irresponsible exploitation of na- ture and the consequences for people’s life and health,” Jimeno of Huancayo, Peru, told Catholic News Service. “Pope Francis has repeatedly stated that the environ- ment is not only an economic or political issue, but is an anthropological and ethical matter,” he said. “How can you have wealth if it comes at the expense of the suffer- ing and death of other people and the deterioration of the environment?” The encyclical, published June 18, is titled “Laudato Si’: On the Care of Our Common Home,” which trans- lates “praised be,” the first words of St. Francis’ “Canticle of the Creatures.” Although Archbishop Barreto was not involved in the drafting of the encyclical, he worked closely with then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio in 2007 on a document by the Latin American bishops’ council that included an Continued on page 12

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Bishop Street, Honolulu, HI 96813 or to Kristi Dinell, director of Parish Social Ministry and coordinator of [email protected]. MEMBER the diocesan relief effort, said this past Tuesday she hoped some of the Catholic Press Association money would be wired to Western Samoa soon. One Oahu parish, St. Elizabeth in Aiea, collected and sent $5,000 on its own to the island nation. ADDRESS CORRECTIONS The Office for Social Ministry sponsored a state-wide parish appeal To make corrections to your for Samoa on June 2 and 3. ... subscription name or ad- Hurricane Ofa swept over Western Samoa Feb. 1-3. Whole villages, dress, cut out the address entire coconut plantations, forests, transportation and communication label from the front page (reverse side). systems were destroyed by violent winds which gusted up to 130 knots. ‰‰Please correct my name. ‰‰Please correct my ad- 10 years ago — June 17, 2005 dress. St. Francis to sell its two hospitals, dialysis program ‰‰We are receiving two copies. Please cancel this Hawaii’s two Catholic hospitals will be sold to a group of local one. doctors and a Kansas-based hospital group later this year, pending the ‰‰Please cancel this sub- 50 years ago — June 18, 1965 necessary approvals. scription. Bro. James Wipfield, S.M., Director of the Hawaii Marianist St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii announced June 7 that it MAIL TO Community, today announced plans for construction of a chapel for has agreed to sell St. Francis Medical Center and St. Francis Medical Donna Aquino the priests and brothers of the Society of Mary to be built on the St. Center-West to Cardiovascular Hospitals of America (CHA) and a Hawaii Catholic Herald Louis High School-Chaminade College campus on Waialae Avenue. group of about 100 physicians led by Dr. Danelo Canete. 1184 Bishop Street The new structure has been designed by Guy N. Rothwell, Sr., In a separate deal, St. Francis is planning to sell its outpatient Honolulu, HI 96813 QUESTIONS? architect, and Bro. James Roberts, S.M., artist. It will be located at kidney dialysis program, Renal Institute of the Pacific. Call Donna, 585-3321 the Palolo end of the campus, just below Kieffer Hall, the Marianist The sales mark St. Francis’ change in focus away from acute care Scholasticate. and toward services to the elderly and dying, areas in which it has long been a pioneer and is now expanding. JUNE 19, 2015 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD HAWAII 3 Bishop expects a priest at Kalaupapa for the ‘foreseeable future’ By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Shortly after St. Damien made his historic first step onto the shore of Kalaupapa on May 10, 1873, and assessed the situation, he informed his superior, Bishop Louis Maigret, that the banished community of Hawaii’s Hansen’s disease patients to which he had been temporarily assigned need- ed a permanent resident priest. There has been one ever since. Today, as the settlement antic- ipates a future without patients, Bishop Larry Silva fully expects a Catholic priest will remain there “into the foreseeable future.” He expressed that thought and others in a June 3 letter to the National Park Service which is drafting a management plan for the future of Kalaupapa Na- tional Historical Park. The park encompasses the isolated com- munity created for and by the patients with Hansen’s disease, or leprosy, at a time when the once dreaded illness meant com- pulsory quarantine for life. HCH file photo Still home for fewer than 20 A view of the Kalaupapa peninsula from the top of the switchback trail that patients, most in their 80s, it is leads down the cliff to the settlement. also an historic place, a spiritual pilgrimage destination, an arche- ological site, a nature preserve restrictions on visitor numbers more “stewardship activities and and a graveyard for 8,000 previ- and overnight stays, and more hands-on learning opportunities” ous residents. It is also where St. educational opportunities and that contribute to the preserva- Damien and St. Marianne Cope, freedom to explore parts of the tion, rehabilitation and selective a Sister of St. Francis from Syra- peninsula. restoration of park resources. cuse, N.Y., labored and died. The bishop’s letter was a re- The bishop also suggested Anticipating a time when sponse to the park service’s re- that the management plan “spe- there will be no more patients, quest for public comment on the cifically provide that the existing the National Park Service, which plan. rectories for the Catholic, Prot- has managed the Kalaupapa “It is a massive document, and estant and Mormon Churches peninsula since 1980, started a I appreciate all the work that has continue to be made available to planning process in 2009, asking gone into it, all the information it the respective churches so that for suggestions and ideas from provides, and all the analyses of ministers of religion, whether special interest groups and the the issues,” Bishop Silva wrote. full or part-time, will have hous- public at large through meetings, “I especially appreciate the ing from which to serve residents HCH file photo workshops and other means. frequent and forthright referenc- and visitors alike.” St. Elizabeth Chapel stands on the grounds of Bishop Home, the former According to the park service, es to the sacredness of the place, “We fully expect to have a resi- residence of Kalaupapa female residents and St. Marianne Cope. The chapel the purpose of the project “is to its mana, its spirit and, as the law dent priest there into the foresee- is used by the Sisters of St. Francis who reside there today. articulate a vision and overall provides, the need to preserve able future,” the bishop added. management philosophy” as a and interpret it for the education Even after the patients have guide for park managers for the and inspiration of present and fu- gone, the park service would have and operation” of the church, ern sea cliffs, the peninsula is next 15-20 years. ture generations,” he said. 40-60 resident workers. St. Fran- mission and chapel. also a place of stunning natural The result is a 444-page Gen- The bishop preferred “Alterna- cis Parish would continue to serve Kalaupapa National Historical beauty. eral Management Plan/Environ- tive C,” which is also the Nation- Catholic federal and state work- Park encompasses 8,725 acres The National Park Service mental Impact Statement which al Park Service’s favored option. ers and the flow of pilgrims who of land and 2,000 acres of wa- owns only 23 acres of the park’s offers strategies for “resource Alternative C relaxes some visitor come to see where St. Damien ter. It has been designated as a land, a tiny fraction, an unusual protection and preservation, edu- restrictions, including the follow- and St. Marianne served. It would National Historic Landmark and arrangement compared to most cation and interpretation, visitor ing recommendations: remain the smallest, most isolat- National Natural Landmark con- other national parks. Most of the use and facilities, land protection „„ Allowing visitors under the ed, most distinctive and most fa- taining about 250 historic build- land is owned by the State of Ha- and boundaries, and long-term age of 16, with the approval of mous parish in the diocese. ings and structures. It is also a waii and Hawaiian Home Lands. operations and management.” resident patients and the Depart- The Catholic Church owns Ka- State of Hawaii natural area re- The park also maintains 20-year The park service hopes to ap- ment of Health. laupapa’s St. Francis Church, its serve, forest reserve and seabird cooperative agreements with the prove and implement the plan „„ Establishing an entry pass sys- parish hall and its mission, St. sanctuary. Catholic Church and the United next year. tem and visitor orientation. in Kalawao, and St. In 1866, until 1969, it served Church of Christ. The document offers a choice „„ Allowing visitors to go une- Elizabeth Chapel used by the Sis- as a place of segregation for those Kalaupapa is not a part of of four alternatives for the future scorted to Kalawao and other ters of St. Francis. But it does not with Hansen’s disease, giving it Maui County like the rest of management of the historical places. own the land under these struc- its primary identity today. Before , but is its own Kalawao park. „„ Raising the 100-per-day visi- tures. The rectory is owned by that, Hawaiians lived there for County, a jurisdiction designed The alternatives range from tor limit. the State Department of Health. more than 900 years, leaving a specifically for the management keeping the place operating as it „„ Allowing overnight use by vis- The church does have a coop- rich archeological legacy. of the place as a residential medi- is now, with limited access and iting groups, specifically those on erative agreement with the Na- Created by the outflow of lava cal facility. It is governed by the resources for outsiders and visi- retreat. tional Park Service which “agrees from a now-dead volcano at the director of the State Department tors, to arrangements with looser Alternative C would also offer to assist with the maintenance base of Molokai’s rugged north- of Health. Bishop’s Circle fundraising campaign up 20 percent from last year Hawaii Catholic Herald St. Damien/St. Marianne Society $5,000- Bishop Larry Silva mailed his first round cese launched the more expansive With As of last month, The Bishop’s Circle $9,999; Joseph Dutton Society $2,500- of Bishop’s Circle appeal letters last Novem- Grateful Hearts capital campaign. fundraising campaign collected nearly $4,999; Witness to Jesus Society $1,000- ber to the more than 300 who contributed The bishop reintroduced the appeal in $240,000 from 400 donors, a 20 percent in- $2,499; and the Catholic Ohana Society to the previous year’s appeal. More letters November 2013 with an invitation letter to crease over what was received in last year’s $500-$999. followed to a broader audience. This year’s about 3,000 Catholics. appeal, according to the diocesan director of Although The Bishop’s Circle is mainly effort ends on June 30. Donations are accepted online at catholi- stewardship and development Mark Clark. an appeal for large donations, “all gifts are Last year’s contributions met the Circle’s chawaii.org or by checks mailed to The More than 150 of the donors are “do- important and help support our diocesan $200,000 goal. This year’s goal is $300,000. Bishop’s Circle, 1184 Bishop St., Honolulu, nor society members,” making donations mission in service to others, especially so- Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario started the HI 96813. in one of five gift categories: Our Lady of cial services, faith formation and vocations,” Bishop’s Circle about 25 years ago. Bishop For more information on gift options, call Peace Society for gifts of $10,000 or more; said Clark. Silva put it on hold in 2009 when the dio- Mark Clark at 203-6723. 4 HAWAII HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD • JUNE 19, 2015

Knights and scholars Talk story The Knights of Colum- OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY bus on May 29 gave scholarships to five students of St. An- God be praised thony School, Kailua. School superinten- dent and knight Mi- through Sister Earth chael Rockers made “Be praised, my Lord, through our sister Mother Earth, who the presentations. feeds us and rules us, and produces various fruits with colored Pictured from left are knight Chuck Furr, flowers and herbs.” Rockers, students These telling words of St. are from his famous Ana Cabrol, Milikaa “Canticle of the Creatures.” Composed in 1224, eight centuries Wells, Samson Sunio, before talk of climate change and saving the environment, this Maximus Sunio, Kiana prayer by the patron saint of ecology recognized the importance Paiaina and grand of the aina — praising God for all his creatures. In it, he coined knight Jim Miltier. the names “Brother Sun, Sister Moon” to illuminate his theology Photo courtesy of Chuck Furr of treating all of God’s creations like our own family. As the world is introduced this week to Pope Francis’s encycli- cal on the environment, we want the next few columns reflecting on this topic. and The encyclical will be titled “Praised Be,” the first words of St. DAVELyn Francis’s song. The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace headed by African Cardinal was integrally involved in the formulation of the encyclical. Jesuit Father Czerny, who Specializing in Customer Satisfaction #1 works with Cardinal Turkson, shared his thoughts about the en- “Best of the Best” People’s Choice Award cyclical with the Office for Social Ministry. Pope Francis is ex- Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year pected to echo the beliefs of his namesake and his predecessors. 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Pope Benedict’s environmental teaching consistently keeps the human within nature (not opposed to it) and acknowledges HAVING A GRADUATION? nature as the work and gift of the Creator. In his first Easter message, Pope Francis wished harmony to a world torn apart by “the iniquitous exploitation of natural re- sources! Peace to this our earth! May the risen Jesus … make us invite responsible guardians of creation.” hawaii’s #1 Pope Francis has spoken or written on this topic at least 25 comedian times as pope. GRADUATE to your His new encyclical will help us deepen the bonds of fraternity WITH and solidarity with our fellow inhabitants and future genera- LAUGHS! party! tions; bring a wisdom to our partial and fragmented knowledge of ecology; and motivate us to act with commitment in our cit- ies and towns, in our families and personal lives, with political, social and economic responsibility, both nationally and interna- tionally. 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For even more possibilities, go to: www.hawaiicatholicherald.com JUNE 19, 2015 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD HAWAII 5 BILAC’s 40th anniversary promises a parade of past musical luminaries By Brother Dennis Schmitz, SM Ching, Makana Special to the Herald Paris, Maelia Loebenstein- Marianist BILAC (Big Island Carter, Joe Far- Liturgy and Arts Conference) be- ias III and more. gan on the Big Island nearly 40 The confer- years ago. ence continues With its roots in the Hawaiian Friday, Nov. 6, culture and the Catholic Marian- with a keynote ist tradition, BILAC is an event BILAC keynote speaker Father talk on biblical committed to providing com- Michael Joncas, justice by Hurd munitarian-based experiences of composer of and his wife Pia prayer, spiritual growth and for- “On Eagle’s Moriarty. Work- mation in the liturgical arts. Wings” shops will be Its early home was Malia Puka held that day as O Kalani Parish in Keaukaha near well as on Satur- Hilo. In 2008, it moved to the Ka- day. Topics will range from prac- laepohaku campus of Chaminade tical liturgical training in music Photo courtesy of Jim Doyle University and Saint Louis School and ritual to spirituality sessions under the auspices of the Society relating to Mary, sacred gesture as New Franciscan fraternity of Mary, the Marianists. Both lo- prayer, ministry to youth, women The Korean-speaking St. Clare Fraternity of the was established June 6 in the Ca- cations celebrate a strong link to as leaders, Hawaiian spirituality thedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace. The group was sponsored by Oahu’s Marianne Cope Fraternity. Hawaii’s Jesus’ mother, Mary, the Gate of and male discipleship. secular Franciscans also have fraternities in Kona, Hilo, and on Maui, and an emerging Fraternity on Kauai. Heaven, the one who gave Jesus In addition, Father Joncas will The secular Franciscans dedicate themselves to following the Lord in the example of St. Francis. All are wel- to the world. deliver the Marianist-sponsored come. For more information, contact the regional minister Jim Doyle at 646-221-8585. In honor of this special con- Mackey Lecture on Saturday. nection to Mary, the theme for His topic is “The Spirit of Malia this year’s event is “The Spirit of Fifty Years after Vatican II: Where Malia.” We’ve Been and Where We’re This year’s conference begins Going.” If that weren’t enough, CARS TO HELP FAMILIES at 7 p.m. on Nov. 5 with a free- Haugen, Haas and Father Joncas Donate your vehicle in safe, driveable condition will offering concert in Mystical will then give a special concert. and help people in need regardless of their faith. S FO Rose Oratory on the Chaminade/ AR R The weekend closes Saturday To donate your vehicle, please call C

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Saint Louis campus. In honor of S night, Nov. 7, with Eucharist and (2277) A or visit us online at E 546-CARS T I H O IT the anniversary, luminaries from L R a fundraising luau. www.CatholicCharitiesHawaii.org. IC CHA past conferences will return to BILAC brochures will be sing the compositions they cre- mailed in August. However, con- ated specifically for BILAC. ference information and registra- These well-known figures in- Catholic Charities Hawai‘i tion via credit card are already Agency # 96130 clude Bob Hurd, Lori True, Marty available online at www.marian- Haugen, Kate Cuddy, Father Mi- istbilac.wordpress.com. chael Joncas, Bobby Fisher, Da- vid Haas and Tony Alonso. Ad- Questions? Contact Brother Dennis ditional presenters and artists Schmitz at [email protected] or include Joe Camacho, Paulette 808-232-6691.

Photo courtesy of Marianist BILAC Maryknoll Sister Yoo Soo Kim dances at an earlier BILAC event.

Correction: A photo caption releasing a dove, gave the wrong in the June 5 Hawaii Catholic parish name. The correct church Herald showing Gabrielle Bega, where the event took place was queen of the Holy Ghost feast, Holy Ghost Mission in Kula. 6 HAWAII HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD • JUNE 19, 2015 THIS PAGE SPONSORED BY THE DIOCESAN OFFICE FOR VOCATIONS Mahalo, Maui and Lanai For celebrating the Year of Consecrated Life | February and March

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Ӱ Lanai’s first Mass was celebrated by Sacred Hearts Father Ӱ OLQA choir member Dorothy Purdy is a Sisters of St. Jo- Ӱ Chaplain Father Wilson Buitrago continues to grow the With grateful remembrance ... Favens in 1846 for 13 Catholics. Today there are 253 registered seph of Carondelet Ohana Associate. Her husband Wayne is faith of the Hispanic Community at St. Theresa! Ӱ After an arsonist burned down Sacred Hearts School, Catholics. the choir’s guitarist. Ӱ Holy Ghost parishioners Kalei and Alana Hurdle and fam- Franciscan Sister Antoinette Almeida helped rebuild it by sell- Ӱ Some parishioners remember when nuns assisted at Sacred Ӱ Deacon Damien Pires (wife, Lorraine) is a cousin of Father ing sweetbread, fudge and pickled mango. ily eagerly await a visit from their son, fourth-year seminarian Hearts Church: the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and the Patrick Freitas. Last year his aunt, Sacred Hearts Sister Mary Keone who is at Redemptoris Mater Seminary in Guam. Ӱ Former St. Theresa volunteer carpenter Enrique Salvador Benedictine Sisters of the Eucharistic King. Dolorine Pires, celebrated 70 years of religious profession! remembers installing tapa in the church with Father Jack Sta- Ӱ Franciscan Sister Miriam Dionise Cabacungan is from Ӱ Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet Marcelina Felipe is a La- Ӱ Diocesan Father Gary Colton may be retired, but he’s all wasz holding the ladder. He and wife Veronica ran the church Wailuku. At St. Ann’s, she asked parents and grandparents not nai vocation. over Maui, from Hana to Wailuku, helping out with Masses, gift shop. spreading the joy of the Gospel! to discourage in their children the idea of being a brother, sis- Ӱ In 1845, during the Great Mahele under Kamehameha III, ter, priest or deacon. The altar servers under the guidance of Ӱ Our Lady Queen of Angels (1940), the second church built the first wooden Catholic church on Maui was named St. Paul Ӱ Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet Sara Sanders invited the in Kula, followed Holy Ghost (1899) and St. James the Less pastor Father Dionisio de Lota showed a desire to serve well. and built on the ahupuaa land division of Kipahulu on the Year of Consecrated Life religious to the Valley Island Liturgy Parishioner Van’s young boys are signs of hope for future ser- (1950). and Arts Conference supper at St. Anthony’s. Marianist Fa- Kanikauila heiau. Parishioners still maintain the landscape vice and vocations. Ӱ OLQA parishioner Maile Morreira (grandfather: Joseph within the original rectangular rock walls. ther Roland Bunda, pastor, hosted with St. Anthony School Shim) descends from the upcountry Shim family who helped principal Winona Martinez. Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet Ӱ Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet Eva Mesina’s religious Ӱ In one of Hana’s historical ledgers, nine churches are re- build the Kula water pipeline. Roselani Enomoto’s classmate Genny and friend Catherine education class at St. Anthony’s told Missionary Sisters of corded. From north to south; St. Anne, Nahiku; St. Michael, kept everyone in raucous laughter. Mary Help of Christians Marykutty Kottuppallil that they Ӱ When early Holy Ghost feast day attendees arrived from Kaeleku; St. Boniface; Honokalani/Waianapanapa; St. Ber- were interested in religious life. May their families cultivate Lahaina and beyond on horseback, the church began the tra- nard, Kauiki; St. Catherine/St. Mary, Hana; St. Peter, Puuiki; Ӱ Sister of Divine Providence Benedicta Ha ran into Sophia these seeds of vocation! dition of feeding them laulau. Willie Jacinta and family still St. , Pukuilua; St. Paul, Kipahulu; and St. Joseph, Park at the Kahului Airport. She and husband Raphael are ac- donate a couple of cows for this purpose. Granddaughter Kaupo. tive in the Maui Korean Catholic Community started several Ӱ Through generous donations of popcorn, pancit, plants, Katie Jacinta, who plays ukulele in church, is Father Michael years ago by Father Kwang Seong Han. Father Jong Ki Kim of baked goods and a raffle, St. Rita’s raised funds for its new Ӱ Sacred Hearts Brother Richard Kupo’s family is from Christ Honolulu met the community at St. Anthony Church, Wai- Owens’ niece. Thrift Shop blessed March 15. the King, Kahului. luku, where they gather for weekly Mass and Bible sharing. Ӱ Msgr. Terrence Watanabe’s father Alan, who died March Ӱ St. Rita’s registered with Aloha Recycling where recyclables 13, was a long-time parishioner of St. Anthony. Ӱ Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet Patty Chang started Ӱ While St. Rita pastor Father Lleonard Ssempijja helped pa- Christ the King’s youth ministry in 1982. She met her former rishioner Jim Webb inflate two flat front tires on the van from help pay off the church land debt. Ӱ St. Ann, Waihee, is a small parish north of Wailuku. Sacred student Lisa Visitation and CHOICE team leaders Alvin and St. Joseph Convent, Makawao, Jim said: “Father Lleonard is Ӱ From 1950 to 1970, Sacred Hearts Father Evarist Gielen, Hearts Sister Anne-Marie Tamanaha is from the parish’s no- Stephanie Cortez. doing a very good job and relates well with the people. We are pastor of Sacred Hearts Church, ran an amusement center for table Tamanaha family. grateful for him!” kids on church grounds. Fast-forward: On June 27, the annual Ӱ St. Ann parishioner Catherine Riley remembers Maui- Living the present with passion ... Ӱ St. Gabriel parishioner Daniel Carmichael is a stone mason parish Feast of Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of born Sacred Hearts Sister Mary Dolorine Pires as an excellent using his talent and time to restore the graves in the Catholic Mary will be celebrated with Mass by Bishop Larry Silva fol- Ӱ In her 16th year as principal of the 43-year-old Sacred catechism teacher. cemetery, keeping history and grateful remembrance alive. Hearts School, Susan Hendricks joyfully worked the ring toss lowed by lunch, lucky number prizes, games and more. Ӱ Retired diocesan Father Louis H. Yim is from Nahiku, booth at the school bazaar. Ӱ Father Jose, growing up, wanted to be an agricultural engi- Ӱ St. Mary pastor Father Ronillo Villa is known to have a Hana. Until 1912, Nahiku was the only rubber plantation in neer. He is doing a fine job as both priest and gardener with a gentle spirit and listening ears. The community wishes him the U.S. Ӱ Timeshare realtor Wally Akuna has watched Sacred Hearts rectory vegetable garden, replete with taro and bananas. Mission families grow up. One family from New Jersey and the best on his return to the Philippines after completing his Ӱ Sacred Hearts Father Leonor Fouesnel celebrated Mass Kansas is related to the late Jesuit Father Tom Gleason of Ӱ St. Peter parishioner Lana Ducosin is the niece of Sacred mission in Hawaii. in Keanae at Kapuuwai Hemolele O Iesu e Maila Church, Hearts Father Matthew Alencastre who witnessed her and Philadelphia. Ӱ Former Sister of the Sacred Hearts Cece Kupau shares her later known as Our Lady of Fatima Shrine, where one can husband Glen’s marriage. The Alencastres have a rich history gaze both at the sea and majestic Waikani Falls. It’s called the Ӱ Parents bought children’s Bibles, CDs and more at the book from Madeira, Portugal, to Hana where family members are gratitude to Akua through her music at St. Peter’s. miracle church, built of coral that inexplicably washed up on exhibit Daughter of St. Paul Sister Diane Kraus coordinated buried. Keanae’s shore. When the Protestants went to collect coral for at Maria Lanakila. Veronica Salvador assisted. Pastor Father their church, waves had washed it away. This happened twice. Joseph Purathiyil, MF, invited the travelling bookstore back. Ӱ Christ the King bid farewell to Mrs. Arellano, mother of pastor La Salette Father Adondee Arellano, who came from Sixty-six parishes, Ӱ The Henry Kaauamo family helped build St. Gabriel Church Ӱ Our Lady Queen of Angels guitarist Keith Pocca looks for- the Philippines to help him after his bypass surgery. Organ- many schools, one in 1936. Children Awapuhi (Carmichael), Kiele (Frame) and ward to Palm Sunday with St. John’s Episcopal Church and ist Irene Cambra adapted the song “Dahil Sa Iyo” song into transformative, Blaise remember helping. The women fed everyone. Blaise re- Holy Ghost Church at Keokea Park. They share Scripture and a farewell. calls cousin Herman Costa falling off the roof. Told that God reenact the entry into Jerusalem of Jesus on a donkey before educational year takes care of his people, he climbed right back up. going to their own churches. Year of Consecrated Embracing the future with hope ... Life Travelling Exhibit With gratitude to the members of the Year of Consecrated Life presentation teams Ӱ St. Theresa’s Hale Kau Kau program, directed by Msgr. Terrence Watanabe, is committed to serving the hungry with Sponsored by the Ӱ Sister Catherine Acain, CSJ Ӱ Sister Davilyn Ah Chick, OSF compassion and aloha, serving and delivering over 170 hot Diocese of Honolulu dinners daily. Vocations Office, With Ӱ Sister Patricia Chang, CSJ Ӱ Sister Caryn Crook, OSF Grateful Hearts capital Ӱ Sister Miriam Dionise Cabacungan, OSF Ӱ Sister Angela Laurenzo, CSJ Ӱ Sacred Hearts Mission parishioner Virginia Keen, deeply campaign, Leadership Ӱ Sister Cecilia Fabular, OP Ӱ Sister Merle Lebaquin, OP touched at the 2012 canonization of St. Marianne Cope, pon- Association of Religious Ӱ Sister Oliva Fuentes, OP Ӱ Sister Dina Danos, OP dered what more she could do for the Lord. On June 14, she Congregations, Serra makes her profession as a Secular Franciscan. Ӱ Sister Diane Kraus, FSP Ӱ Sister Marcelia Maglinte, BVM Club of Honolulu, Ӱ Sister Patricia Schofield, OSF Ӱ Sister Priscilla Enarsao, OP Ӱ Maria Lanakila secretary Mary Rosenthal and Shelley Hee Knights of Columbus point at each other when asked if they would consider the re- Ӱ Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Ӱ Sister Grace Michael Souza, OSF ligious life. We continue to pray for vocations! www.catholichawaii.org, Ӱ Sister Eva Mesina, CSJ Ӱ Sister Georgina Delgado, OP [email protected] Ӱ Dominican Sister Oliva Fuentes spoke to St. Theresa’s di- Ӱ Father David Lupo, SS.CC. Ӱ Sister Benedicta Ha, CDP rector of religious education Candie Pinaula’s fifth grade class Mahalo to the many Ӱ Sister Cheryl Wint, OSF Ӱ Sister Marykutty Kottuppallil, MSMHC on vocations. Dominican Sister Cecilia Fabular spoke with the faithful for your Ӱ Sister Roselani Enomoto, CSJ Ӱ Sister Sara Sanders, CSJ fourth grade reinforcing seeds of vocation. support! JUNE 19, 2015 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD HAWAII 7

FOURTH IN A SERIES Comprehensive youth ministry: empowering young people By Lisa Gomes and values to live in this world gifts with the larger community” Special to the Herald as disciples of Christ. To do this, (Renewing the Vision, page 26). young people need to be taught These components correspond to Over the years, the church the faith, but they also need to the mission of the entire church: has worked to meet the chang- have modeled for them what dis- „„ Catechesis: Deepening the ing needs of young people. In cipleship looks like through ser- faith of young people through 1905, mandated vice, prayer and parish life, and teaching and reflection, utilizing that the Confraternity of Chris- by exploring vocations. a variety of learning methods, tian Doctrine (CCD) be estab- The second goal is to draw working toward transformation lished in all parishes to teach the young people to responsible par- in Christ. faith to children not enrolled in ticipation in the life, mission and „„ Community life: Building Catholic schools. In the 1930s, work of the Catholic faith com- community, not just between the Catholic Youth Organization munity. Youth are not the church young people, but with their (CYO) was born out of a need to of tomorrow; they are the church families and in the broader par- keep young people off the streets of today. Young people have gifts ish community. while parents were at work. In that can be shared in parish litur- „„ Evangelization: Proclaiming many places, CYO developed gical, pastoral and catechetical the Gospel and inviting young OFFER, STRENGTHEN, SUSTAIN into a weekly program of reli- ministries. Through their recep- people into relationship with gious, cultural, social and athlet- tion of Baptism, Confirmation Christ through ongoing witness. Celebrating the sacraments of initiation in their proper ic activities. In the 1960s, retreat and Eucharist, young people are „„ Advocacy: Interpreting the order (Baptism, Confirmation, First Communion) and movements such as Search were called to participation today, not needs of young people, standing implementing comprehensive youth ministry popular. tomorrow or in 10 years. Young up for them both as individu- Yet initiatives that were suc- people experience the Catholic als and a peer community, chal- cessful in the past may need to faith at home, in the parish, in lenging the parish to examine SCHEDULE OF ARTICLES change because of generational Catholic schools, and in youth- its practices to better integrate April 24: Bishop’s message and societal shifts. Change can serving organizations. Each of young people into the life and be good when it draws on the these communities can help mission of the community. May 8: 1. Proper theological order of the sacraments of initiation best of what has come before, young people grow in faith. „„ Justice and service: Engag- May 22: 2. History and evolution of the sacraments of initiation yet moves in innovative ways to The third goal is to foster ing young people in helping and June 5: 3. Religious education and Catholic schools: Sharing meet current needs. Today, the the total personal and spiritual serving others, and educating responsibilities; family, church, school call is to develop in all parishes growth of each young person. them on the themes of Catholic comprehensive youth ministry to Good youth ministry helps young social teaching. June 19: 4. Comprehensive youth ministry: Empowering young meet the present needs of young people develop as complete per- „„ Leadership development: In- people people. sons. It is concerned about the viting, training and supporting July 3: 5. Listening sessions: An invitation to give witness to Jesus Youth ministry is about more whole of the young person, not adults and young people into than just programs and events. just their spiritual development. leadership for youth ministry as It’s about building relationships It does this by addressing their well as in parish liturgical, cat- with young people and inviting spiritual needs in the context echetical, pastoral and social grams and may naturally shift the beginning of this new mil- them to share their gifts with of life. Consequently parents ministries. to a youth ministry focus once lennium, he is asking you to the parish community. In 1997 and families are meant to be „„ Pastoral care: Providing pre- Confirmation is celebrated at a take the Gospel on the paths of the U.S. bishops identified three involved in youth ministry. The vention programs for youth and younger age. the world” (World Youth Day in goals and eight components of third goal also includes reaching families, caring for those in cri- It should also be noted that Rome, 2000). Catholic youth ministry in a doc- out to young people in the parish sis, and providing guidance dur- youth ministry, as defined by the This holds true today. Young ument called “Renewing the Vi- who don’t come regularly — or ing times of major decisions and U.S. bishops, includes middle people have gifts that can trans- sion: A Framework for Catholic don’t come at all — so that every moral choices. school youth (grades 6-8) and form the faith community. There Youth Ministry,” available on the young person in the parish be- „„ Prayer and worship: Helping high school youth (grades 9-12). is the African proverb: “It takes a USCCB website. These goals and longs to youth ministry. youth to develop an individual These age groups should be min- village to raise a child.” Likewise components deepen the vision In addition to the three goals, prayer life and experience a va- istered to within different pro- it takes an entire church to know, and expand the scope of what “Renewing the Vision” defines riety of communal prayer styles, grams and events because of age value, welcome and include youth ministry can be. eight components of comprehen- and involving youth in the sacra- and developmental differences. young people. The church needs The first goal is to empower sive youth ministry. “These com- mental life of the church. Pope John Paul II challenged young people to be the church young people to live as disciples ponents provide a framework Many of these components young people: “Do not be afraid today. of Jesus Christ in the world today. for the Catholic community to are already present in the par- to accept your responsibilities: Young people need to have a per- respond to the needs of young ishes of the Diocese of Honolulu. the church needs you, she needs Lisa Gomes is the director of the Of- sonal relationship with Jesus and people and to involve young Some may have been connected your commitment and generos- fice of Youth and Young Adult Minis- to acquire the knowledge, skills people in sharing their unique to high school Confirmation pro- ity; the pope needs you, and at try of the Diocese of Honolulu.

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JUNE 19, 2015 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD WORLD 9 Priest helping refugees in Jordan says he’s living with By Dale Gavlak Recognizing the priest’s work, sight. Catholic News Service Pope Francis commissioned him to Working with the refugees has travel in the spring to Colombia, opened up opportunities for God’s MARKA, Jordan — Hearing a be- Mexico and San Diego to share miracles to happen, in Father loved voice, a little boy hurriedly stories of the plight of Christians Jaar’s view. hobbled down the pale stone steps caught in the crosshairs of Mideast “A Jordanian man came yes- of the church hall to greet the conflicts and Islamist extremists terday and said, ‘Father, I sold my priest with a tender hug. with a call to stand beside them house. We are going to live in Lon- Father Khalil Jaar chuckled and provide help in their hour of don. Could you accept this gift for when he saw the sandy-haired need. the refugees?’ the priest said. child, Misho, playing dress-up by “Pope Francis is very concerned “It was $1,400. The exact wearing one of his mother’s brown about our situation,” the priest amount we need to pay the refu- high-heeled boots on his right foot said. “As Christians, this is our gees’ rent,” Father Jaar said with a while sporting his father’s black moment to be witnesses for love, plastic sandal on the other. smile. respect and to accept each other,” “When I am in a difficult situa- Misho and his parents are the priest said. tion, I say, ‘Lord, please take care among the 600 Iraqi and Syr- “It’s a privilege to be here and of your children. They are your ian refugee families Father Jaar assist these people. We are living has been serving with the love of children, not mine. I am the ad- CNS photo/Father Khalil Jaar in a very crucial moment in his- Father Khalil Jaar talks with Christian refugees who fled Islamic State attacks. Christ and practical help such as tory. ... Either you go for the good ministrator for you.’” food, housing and educational or for the bad. The key is to resist assistance in this eastern suburb the bad and not to respond in the of Amman, the Jordanian capi- same way. But to be witnesses of tal, where those fleeing conflict love and reconciliation,” Father in neighboring lands have found Jaar explained. shelter. Father Jaar was able to regis- For Father Jaar, the daily ex- ter 60 Iraqi refugee children in perience of his church hosting the Jordanian school system last a dozen Iraqi Christian families year, but felt that he needed to — about 60 people — who fled establish an informal school to Islamic State attacks last August, teach 320 Iraqi refugee children has deeply affected his own spiri- on the church grounds. The Jor- tual journey. danian government said their late This Arab priest finds his own arrival last September after escap- life has been forever changed by ing Islamic State oppression meant aiding the refugees. missing the academic year and Fa- “They have become my family,” ther Jaar did not want them to lose he said. “I am living with saints. out on another year of schooling. They left everything for the Lord,” He is now working to have the he said of the Iraqi Christians who school program certified by both were forced out of their ancestral the Jordanian and Iraqi ministries homelands of the past 16 centu- of education for the coming aca- ries by Islamic State brutality and demic year. now shelter in his parish, Our Lady Father Jaar also has encour- Mother of the Church. aged refugees to take up income- “I am so happy. We are like a generation projects. He shops for real family,” said the soft-spoken, colorful beads and string in Am- energetic diocesan priest, who man’s bazaar; the refugees trans- himself experienced early life as a form them into delicate bracelets, Palestinian refugee. some adorned with silver plastic Father Jaar recounted a recent crosses for women, and friend- visit by his bishop from Jerusalem ship bracelets sporting the colors to illustrate his point. of Jordan’s national flag of red, “The bishop looked at my of- white, black and green. A popu- fice and told me, ‘This is strange. lar summertime flea market in the There are no pictures of saints on capital has given them a free table the walls,’” he told Catholic News to sell their goods. Service. Meanwhile, a 12-year-old Father Jaar told him, “I have Iraqi Christian boy named Fadi a picture of my mother who died has shown a talent far beyond his last year.” years for painting religious icons. “Yes, but you need ...,” the bish- Father Jaar said the boy’s family is op started to say, until the priest now living from what he sells. interjected. But the biggest concern facing “No, I don’t need pictures be- Father Jaar is providing food for cause I am living with saints,” he the refugees and having funds to responded. pay apartment rents. “These people left everything “The challenge now is to pro- in the world — houses, cars, fac- vide food for them daily because tories, money — just to remain the money they had when they Christian. What do you call these came from Iraq is almost finished,” kinds of people? Saints. So I don’t he said. need images as long as I am liv- Father Jaar has organized a ing with such people,” Father Jaar coupon system so families can pur- said. chase food, rather than organize a “I tell them: Thank you for food distribution program. what you have given to me.” “It’s better for the children to Sharing meals together, start- see their father pay using the cou- ing an informal school for the pons rather than having the priest refugees and seeing them take up deliver food. This preserves the income-generating projects has dignity of the father,” the priest transformed the priest’s life and said. challenged his own spiritual walk. The church is giving coupons “As a priest, I live like an aristo- worth $70 per month to 100 refu- crat. My food is ready, my house is gee families as well as providing clean. If I need something, I go to dinners four times a week for 150 my bishop or church. These people refugees. almost have nothing and they are Funds for the program have always happy,” he said. come from local parishioners “They gave me a very basic and $56,000 from the pontifical lesson to feel and to live with the foundation Aid to the Church in other. And to always say, ‘Thank Need. Caritas Internationalis pro- you, God!’ They are better than so vides medical aid. But more help many people that have so much is needed as the crisis deepens in more.” Iraq and Syria with no end is in 10 WORLD HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD • JUNE 19, 2015

The environment is God’s gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility toward the poor, toward future generations and toward humanity as a whole. —Pope Benedict XVI

Church teaching on ecology

CNS photo/NASA handout via Reuters The Sheldon Glacier with Mount Barre in the background is seen from Ryder Bay near Rothera Research Station, Adelaide Island, Antarctica, in this undated handout photo.

Quotes compiled by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops from documents of previous and bishops on the care and stewardship of the environment

market to the common good, so ‘greenhouse effect’ has now benefit of all. ... It is manifestly political. It must not be based on Pope Paul VI too there is a similar need for reached crisis proportions as unjust that a privileged few a rejection of the modern world Octogesima Adveniens adequate interventions on the a consequence of industrial should continue to accumulate or a vague desire to return to international level … This may growth, massive urban concen- excess goods, squandering avail- some ‘paradise lost.’” (No. 13) àà “Man is suddenly becoming mean making important changes trations and vastly increased able resources, while masses of aware that by an ill-considered in established life-styles, in order energy needs” (No. 6). people are living in conditions of exploitation of nature he risks misery at the very lowest level of Pope Benedict XVI to limit the waste of environ- àà “The most profound and destroying it and becoming in mental and human resources, subsistence. Today, the dramatic his turn the victim of this degra- serious indication of the moral Caritas in Veritate thus enabling every individual implications underlying the threat of ecological breakdown dation. Not only is the material and all the peoples of the earth is teaching us the extent to àà “Our duties toward the en- environment becoming a perma- ecological problem is the lack of vironment are linked to our to have a sufficient share of respect for life evident in many which greed and selfishness — nent menace — pollution and those resources” (No. 52). both individual and collective duties toward the human per- refuse, new illness and absolute of the patterns of environmental son, considered in himself and pollution. Often, the interests of — are contrary to the order of destructive capacity — but the World Day of Peace, creation, an order which is char- in relation to others. It would human framework is no longer production prevail over concern be wrong to uphold one set Jan. 1, 1990 for the dignity of workers, while acterized by mutual interdepen- under man’s control, thus creat- dence.” (No. 8) of duties while trampling on ing an environment for tomor- àà economic interests take priority the other. Herein lies a grave “When man turns his back on over the good of individuals and row which may well be intoler- àà “Modern society will find contradiction in our mentality the Creator’s plan, he provokes even entire peoples. In these able. This is a wide-ranging so- no solution to the ecological and practice today: one which a disorder which has inevitable cases, pollution or environmen- cial problem which concerns the problem unless it takes a seri- demeans the person, disrupts repercussions on the rest of the tal destruction is the result of entire human family” (No. 21). ous look at its lifestyle. In many the environment and damages created order. If man is not at an unnatural and reductionist peace with God, then earth itself parts of the world society is society.” (No. 51) vision which at times leads to given to instant gratification and cannot be at peace: ‘Therefore a genuine contempt for man.” àà “The environment is God’s Pope John Paul II the land mourns and all who consumerism while remaining (No.7) indifferent to the damage which gift to everyone, and in our use Centesimus Annus dwell in it languish, and also of it we have a responsibility àà “Theology, philosophy and these cause. ... Simplicity, mod- the beasts of the field and the toward the poor, toward future àà “Not only has God given the science all speak of a harmoni- eration and discipline, as well as birds of the air and even the fish generations and toward human- earth to man, who must use ous universe, of a ‘cosmos’ en- a spirit of sacrifice, must become of the sea are taken away’ (Hos ity as a whole. When nature, it with respect for the original dowed with its own integrity, its a part of everyday life, lest all 4:3).” (No. 5) including the human being, is good purpose for which it was own internal, dynamic balance. suffer the negative consequences viewed as the result of mere given to him, but man too is àà “We cannot interfere in one This order must be respected. of the careless habits of a few.” chance or evolutionary deter- God’s gift to man. He must area of the ecosystem without The human race is called to ex- (No. 13) minism, our sense of responsibil- therefore respect the natural and paying due attention both to the plore this order, to examine it àà “An education in ecological ity wanes. In nature, the believer moral structure with which he consequences of such interfer- with due care and to make use responsibility is urgent: respon- has been endowed” (No. 38). ence in other areas and to the of it while safeguarding its in- recognizes the wonderful result sibility for oneself, for others, well-being of future generations” tegrity.” (No. 8) of God’s creative activity, which àà “Just as within individual so- (No. 6). and for the earth. This educa- we may use responsibly to satis- cieties it is possible and right to àà “On the other hand, the earth tion cannot be rooted in mere fy our legitimate needs, material organize a solid economy which àà “The gradual depletion of is ultimately a common heritage, sentiment or empty wishes. Its or otherwise, while respecting will direct the functioning of the the ozone layer and the related the fruits of which are for the purpose cannot be ideological or the intrinsic balance of creation. JUNE 19, 2015 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD WORLD 11

The environment is God’s gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility toward the poor, toward future generations and toward humanity as a whole. —Pope Benedict XVI

Church teaching on ecology

CNS photo/NASA handout via Reuters The Sheldon Glacier with Mount Barre in the background is seen from Ryder Bay near Rothera Research Station, Adelaide Island, Antarctica, in this undated handout photo.

Quotes compiled by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops from documents of previous popes and bishops on the care and stewardship of the environment

If this vision is lost, we end up demeans the person, disrupts sertification, the deterioration be human. Our tradition calls either considering nature an un- the environment and damages and loss of productivity in vast Pontifical Council for us to protect the life and dignity touchable taboo or, on the con- society.” (No. 51) agricultural areas, the pollution Justice and Peace of the human person, and it is trary, abusing it. Neither attitude of rivers and aquifers, the loss increasingly clear that this task is consonant with the Christian World Day of Peace, of biodiversity, the increase of The Compendium of the Social cannot be separated from the vision of nature as the fruit of Jan. 1, 2010 natural catastrophes and the Doctrine of the Church care and defense of all of cre- God’s creation.” (No. 48) deforestation of equatorial and ation.” àà “The ecological question must àà “The church has a responsi- tropical regions? Can we disre- àà “If there is a lack of respect not be faced solely because of àà “Created things belong not to bility toward creation, and she gard the growing phenomenon for the right to life and to a nat- the frightening prospects that the few, but to the entire human considers it her duty to exercise of ‘environmental refugees’…? ural death, if human conception, environmental destruction rep- family.” that responsibility in public life, Can we remain impassive in the gestation and birth are made in order to protect earth, water resents; rather it must above all face of actual and potential con- artificial, if human embryos are and air as gifts of God the Cre- become a strong motivation for Global Climate Change: A Plea flicts involving access to natural sacrificed to research, the con- ator meant for everyone, and an authentic solidarity of world- resources?” (No. 4). for Dialogue Prudence and the science of society ends up losing above all to save mankind from wide dimensions” (No. 486). the concept of human ecology the danger of self-destruction” àà “Everything that exists be- Common Good, 2001 and, along with it, that of envi- àà “Care for the environment (No. 12). longs to God, who has entrusted represents a challenge for all àà “At its core, global climate ronmental ecology.” (No. 51) àà “Without entering into the it to man, albeit not for his arbi- of humanity. It is a matter of a change is not about economic àà “It is contradictory to insist merit of specific technical solu- trary use. Once man, instead of common and universal duty, that theory or political platforms, that future generations respect tions, the church is nonethe- acting as God’s co-worker, sets of respecting a common good, nor about partisan advantage the natural environment when less concerned, as an ‘expert in himself up in place of God, he destined for all” (No. 466). or interest group pressures. It our educational systems and humanity,’ to call attention to ends up provoking a rebellion is about the future of God’s cre- laws do not help them to respect the relationship between the on the part of nature, ‘which is ation and the one human family. themselves. The book of nature Creator, human beings and the more tyrannized than governed U.S. Bishops It is about protecting both ‘the is one and indivisible: it takes created order.” (No. 4) by him’. Man thus has a duty to Renewing the Earth: An human environment’ and the in not only the environment but exercise responsible stewardship Invitation to Reflection and natural environment. It is about also life, sexuality, marriage, àà “In 1990 John Paul II had over creation, to care for it and our human stewardship of God’s the family, social relations: in a spoken of an ‘ecological crisis’ to cultivate it.” (No. 6) Action on Environment creation and our responsibility word, integral human develop- and, in highlighting its primar- in Light of Catholic Social to those who come after us.” ment. Our duties toward the ily ethical character, pointed àà “The ecological problem must environment are linked to our to the ‘urgent moral need for a be dealt with not only because Teaching, 1991 àà“In that spirit of praise and duties toward the human per- new solidarity’. His appeal is all of the chilling prospects of en- àà “Our mistreatment of the thanksgiving to God for the son, considered in himself and the more pressing today, in the vironmental degradation on the natural world diminishes our wonders of creation, we Catholic in relation to others. It would face of signs of a growing crisis horizon; the real motivation own dignity and sacredness, not bishops call for a civil dialogue be wrong to uphold one set which it would be irresponsible must be the quest for authentic only because we are destroying and prudent and constructive ac- of duties while trampling on not to take seriously. Can we world-wide solidarity inspired resources that future genera- tion to protect God’s precious gift the other. Herein lies a grave remain indifferent before the by the values of charity, justice tions of humans need, but be- of the earth’s atmosphere with a contradiction in our mentality problems associated with such and the common good.” (No. cause we are engaging in actions sense of genuine solidarity and and practice today: one which realities as climate change, de- 10) that contradict what it means to justice for all God’s children.” 12 WORLD HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD • JUNE 19, 2015 New encyclical will address the moral duty to protect God’s creation Continued from page 1 The pope has spoken out in unprecedented section on the en- the past on the “throwaway cul- vironment. ture, both of material goods that The encyclical is not expected we buy and use for a few months to be a theological treatise or a and then throw out, and also technical document about envi- throwaway people,” he said. ronmental issues, but a pastoral Kane hopes the encyclical call to change the way people will help people understand that use the planet’s resources so they overusing resources, from forests are sufficient not only for current to fish to water, results in scarcity needs, but for future generations, that can both increase and be ex- observers said. acerbated by climate change. He The document “will empha- expects Pope Francis will remind size that the option for steward- people of the responsibility of ship of the environment goes caring for God’s creation. hand in hand with the option for “Whether you think climate the poor,” said Carmelite Father change is a problem or not, you Eduardo Agosta Scarel, a climate cannot deny that running out scientist who teaches at the Pon- of fish, oil, water and other re- tifical Catholic University of Ar- sources is a really big problem. gentina and the National Univer- The solution is a radical change sity of La Plata in Buenos Aires. in our concept of what makes a “I think the pope wants us to person happy. We need to move become aware of this,” said Fa- away from the idea that the more ther Agosta, who was involved in things we have, the happier we’ll CNS photo/Lunae Parracho, Reuters preparatory consultations about A 2012 photo of the remains of Amazon rainforest after it was cleared for its wood near a town in Moju, Brazil. be,” Kane said. the encyclical. “He is aiming at a Archbishop Barreto expects change of heart. What will save some controversy once people us is not technology or science. April at the Vatican, it will not all across the world.” And in December, negotiators read the document, because re- What will save us is the ethical be limited to that issue and will Annett called the timing of and world leaders will converge sisting the “throwaway culture” transformation of our society.” probably focus on the relation- the encyclical “extremely signifi- on Paris to finish hammering out by being satisfied with less means ship between people and their cant.” a treaty aimed at reducing the “putting money at the service of The document foreshadowed environment, Archbishop Bar- A month after it is published, emission of greenhouse gases that people, instead of people serving The pontiff probably fore- reto said. global representatives will meet contribute to global warming. money.” shadowed the encyclical during “What the pope brings to this at a conference on financing for Some politicians have already “(The encyclical) will have his first public Mass as pope on debate is the moral dimension,” development in Addis Ababa, questioned the pope’s credentials many critics, because they want March 19, 2013, Father Agosta said Anthony Annett, climate Ethiopia. for wading into the issue of cli- to continue setting rules of the said. In his homily, he said, “Let change and sustainable devel- In September, the pope will mate change, but that is only one game in which money takes first us be ‘protectors’ of creation, pro- opment adviser to the Earth In- address the United Nations at a of several environmental prob- place,” he said. “We have to be tectors of God’s plan inscribed in stitute at Columbia University session that is likely to see the lems the pope is likely to address, prepared for those kinds of at- nature, protectors of one another and to the nonprofit Religions approval of a new set of global said David Kane, a Maryknoll lay tacks.” and of the environment.” for Peace. “His unique way of development objectives, the Sus- missioner in Joao Pessoa, Bra- Although the document will looking at the problem, which is tainable Development Goals, zil, who works with Maryknoll’s A video to accompany this story be published in the wake of a deeply rooted in Catholic social which include environmental cri- Faith-Economics-Ecology Pro- can be found at https://youtu. seminar on climate change in teaching, resonates with people teria. gram. be/4LrIww-06_4. No haven here: Vatican, U.S. sign agreement to prevent tax evasion By Cindy Wooden the signing, Hackett said the Catholic News Service agreement is “a type of stamp of approval” of the multiple steps VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis the Vatican has taken since 2010 once said that a person who “puts to update its financial laws, re- his hand in his pocket to show form the so-called Vatican bank that he helps the church while and institute steps to ensure no with the other hand steals from one can use its offices for money the state, from the poor” is not laundering or the financing of ter- simply a sinner, but is corrupt. rorism. While someone may think it Marji Christian, political and is clever to find a way to avoid economic officer at the U.S. Em- paying taxes, the Vatican insists bassy to the , declined to it will not be a tax haven. In fact, say if the U.S. government knew on June 10, it signed a formal how many of its citizens or per- agreement with the manent residents have Vatican government promising to send a bank accounts or other financial report each year to the U.S. Inter- interests at the Vatican. nal Revenue Service listing U.S. In 2013, the Vatican bank — citizens and permanent residents formally called the Institute for who have bank accounts or other Religious Works — tightened its financial interests at the Vatican. rules for account holders and be- Under the U.S. Foreign Ac- gan closing the accounts of those count Tax Compliance Act, the CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano, handout who no longer qualified. Indi- U.S. tax collector compares the Ken Hackett, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, and Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, Vatican undersecretary for rela- viduals holding accounts must be names on those foreign reports to tions with states, participate in a ceremony to sign a tax compliance agreement at the Vatican June 10. Vatican employees or retirees or the lists of people filing their in- diplomats accredited to the Holy come tax reports. Those who fail See. Bishops’ conferences, dio- to file are in trouble. “As Pope Francis frequently ered for the ceremony, “Of all the “Ensuring the payment of taxes ceses, religious orders and other U.S. officials described the for- reminds us, evading just taxes is measures that could be taken to and preventing tax evasion are of official Catholic works also may mal agreement with the Vatican stealing both from the state and eliminate world poverty, stop- crucial economic importance for have accounts. as a further sign of the Vatican’s from the poor,” Archbishop Galla- ping tax evasion may be one of every community since adequate Max Hohenberg, institute commitment to financial trans- gher said at the signing ceremony. the most effective options. Every tax revenues and public spend- spokesman, told Catholic News parency and the establishment “Every person has, in fact, the year, tax evasion deprives govern- ing are indispensable for govern- Service June 10, “less than 1 per- of more ethical financial activity duty to contribute, in charity and ments of all sizes of much-needed ments to become instruments of cent or fewer than 150 clients” around the globe. justice, to the common good, ac- resources to fund public services development and solidarity, to were U.S. citizens or U.S.-based Ambassador Ken Hackett, U.S. cording to his own abilities and and investments.” encourage employment growth, Catholic entities. envoy to the Holy See, signed the the needs of others, by promoting In a joint statement issued af- to sustain business and charitable The bank had been working to- agreement on behalf of the Unit- and assisting the public institu- ter the signing ceremony, the U.S. activities, and to provide systems ward the U.S. agreement for two ed States. Archbishop Paul R. Gal- tions dedicated to bettering the and Vatican said the agreement of social insurance and assistance years, he said, and “all the proto- lagher, undersecretary for rela- conditions of human life.” “underscores the commitment of designed to protect the weakest cols are already in place and have tions with states, signed on behalf Hackett, retired former presi- both parties to promote and en- members of society,” the state- been since late last year. This is of the Holy See. And it went into dent of the U.S. bishops’ Catholic sure ethical behavior in the finan- ment said. just a formalization” of what was effect the day it was signed. Relief Services, told those gath- cial and economic fields.” Speaking to reporters before being done already. JUNE 19, 2015 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD WORLD 13 Pope Francis in Sarajevo Fight conflict and cruelty with tenderness, sacrifice By Carol Glatz Lastly, Daughter of Divine Catholic News Service Charity Sister Ljubica Sekerija, who ministered to the elderly SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovi- and sick in the Muslim-majority na — Conflict and cruelty must region of Travnik, said foreign be fought with tenderness, for- fighters swept in from Arab giveness and bearing Christ’s countries and took her prisoner. cross, Pope Francis said. She said some residents cheered Bosnia-Herzegovina has expe- on the militants and jeered at her rienced “a history of cruelty” and as she was taken away. one that is seen in many conflicts After a priest held captive in around the world today, the pope the same room refused orders to told a gathering of priests, reli- crush the sister’s rosary, the mili- gious and seminarians in Sara- tants smashed it themselves, she jevo’s cathedral June 6. said. They took the ring given to The best response “is always her at her final vow ceremony, do the opposite of cruelty,” he ordered her to convert, humili- said; show “tenderness, brother- ated and beat her along with the hood, forgiveness and carry the others they kidnapped, she said. cross of Jesus Christ.” One militant bragged his ma- Making a one-day visit to the chine gun was his family: “It is capital of a nation still scarred my mother, father, wife and chil- by ethnic and religious divisions, dren,” she said, but there was Pope Francis had said he came as also another who asked her if she a “pilgrim of peace.” was hungry and secretly gave her He called on government offi- cials and civilians to be “artisans a pear. of peace;” religious leaders to be Sister Sekerija said despite the CNS photo/Max Rossi, Reuters dedicated to dialogue; consecrat- evil and cruelty she experienced, Pope Francis carries his crosier held together with a splint and tape as he arrives in procession to celebrate Mass at she still felt an abundance of ed men and women to be sowers Kosevo stadium in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, June 6. The pope made a one-day visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina to of hope; and young people to be God’s grace throughout the or- encourage the minority Catholic community in the faith and to foster dialogue and peace in a nation still largely deal. seeds of peace willing to renew divided along ethnic lines. the land that gave them life. The pope, who had set aside “You are the first generation his prepared speech, said conse- after the war. You are flowers of a senting the Muslim, Jewish, Or- and unsteadily with crutches, Fa- all hope at one point and begged crated men and women have the spring ... that wants to go forward thodox and Catholic faiths they ther Zvonimir Matijevic of Banja one of the guards to kill him blood of martyrs in their veins, and does not want to return to had the duty to dialogue with Luka said his Serb captors beat and put him out of his misery. and are obliged to forgive. Those destruction and things that make one another and to see diversity him so hard, their military com- The priest’s voice wavered with who don’t know how to forgive us enemies of one another,” he as a resource, not a threat. mander sent him to the hospital emotion as he told his story and are “useless.” told hundreds of young people of Remembering the past is im- where doctors and six pints of paused as he sought to hold back Being close to those who suf- different faiths who volunteer to- portant in order to learn the les- blood helped him survive. His his tears and continue. fered also helps religious keep gether with the archdiocese’s St. sons of history, he told the faith wrists still bear scars from hand- He said when he found out he things in perspective and remem- John Paul II Center. leaders. He repeated the point cuffs squeezed too tight. was worth more alive in a pos- ber their spiritual calling, he said. “You want to walk together” later in the day with priests, reli- However, the priest, who has sible prisoner exchange, he re- “Worldly nuns, priests, bish- in joy and a way that includes ev- gious men and women and semi- since developed multiple sclero- gained the will to live, and said ops and seminarians are a carica- eryone; not as “me” and “them,” narians gathered in Sarajevo’s sis, said he forgives those who God “sent me his help through a ture, they’re useless,” having lost but as a “’we’ in order to not de- Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. hurt him and prays that God help Muslim woman” who gave him the memory of the martyrs and stroy the country,” he said. People have a right to remem- them choose a life dedicated to food while he endured inhu- the crucified Christ, he said. More than 100,000 people ber and share their past, not in the good. mane conditions of torture, filth The next time someone wants died and millions more were order to feed hatred and re- After the priest finished his and starvation in a concentration to complain about having a bad displaced during the 1992-1995 venge, but as part of the process testimony, the pope bowed deep- camp. meal, a toothache or not hav- war, which saw a Serb campaign of building peace, he said. ly before him, kissed his wrist He said forgiving one’s en- ing a TV in their room, “think of of ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Two priests and a nun shared and then held him in a long em- emies “makes room for the com- how much these people suffered. Muslims after the mostly Muslim personal stories of being cap- brace. ing of God’s kingdom in man’s Think of those six pints of blood nation declared independence tured, threatened and tortured Franciscan Father Jozo Pus- heart and only in this way can we the priest needed to survive. And from Yugoslavia in 1992. by militants during the conflict. karic, however, “confessed” to recognize a brother and a sister live a life worthy of the cross of The pope told leaders repre- Walking to the lectern slowly the pope that he had given up in others.” Jesus Christ,” he said.

Faith met recently to discuss the issue and “we’ve ‘Stone Age’ pope offers youth reached the point of making a decision and then they will say,” he told journalists on the flight back to Rome June 6. tips for living in a digital world The expected announcement will include “just By Carol Glatz ed to know what led him to mak- some guidelines (the congregation) will give to the Catholic News Service ing that choice. bishops,” he said in response to a reporter’s ques- The pope said he decided back tion. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina in the middle of 1990 to stop be- An international commission of cardinals, bish- — Whether you still stick to books cause “one night I felt that this was ops, theologians and other experts, working under or magazines or get everything on- not doing me good, it was alienat- the auspices of the doctrinal congregation, was set line, Pope Francis said all media ing me” and he decided to give it up in 2010 to investigate the claims of six young should encourage and edify — not up. people who said Mary had appeared to them daily enslave. He did not give up on movies, CNS photo/Paul Haring beginning in 1981. The apparitions purportedly “Back in my day — the Stone however. Pope Francis places his hands on his face while speak- continue and thousands travel to the small town Age — when a book was good, When he was archbishop of ing to journalists aboard his flight from Sarajevo, each month to meet the alleged seers and to pray. you read it; when the book was Buenos Aires, he would go to the Bosnia-Herzegovina, to Rome June 6. After a few years, the commission completed its bad for you, you chucked it,” he archdiocesan television station study in which the members “did a beautiful job, a told hundreds of youth in Sarajevo to watch a recorded film he had beautiful job,” Pope Francis said at the end of his June 6. picked out, which didn’t have the Vatican set to announce one-day visit to Sarajevo. The pope ended his one-day same isolating effect on him, he For years the local bishop, Bishop Ratko Peric of visit to the capital of this Balkan said. decision on Medjugorje Mostar-Duvno, has said he believes nothing super- nation meeting with young people “Obviously, I am from the Stone natural is happening in Medjugorje. of different religions and ethnici- Age, I’m ancient!” By Carol Glatz While the Vatican has said dioceses should not ties who volunteer together with Times have changed, he said, Catholic News Service organize official pilgrimages to Medjugorje, it has the archdiocesan St. John Paul II and “image” has become all im- said Catholics are free to visit the town and pray Center. He set aside his prepared portant. ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM SARAJEVO, there, and that the Diocese of Mostar-Duvno and text and told the young people he But even in this “age of the Bosnia-Herzegovina — Pope Francis said the Vati- the Franciscans should organize pastoral care for would rather take some questions. image,” people should follow the can was ready to make an announcement concern- them. One young man said he read same standards that ruled back “in ing the alleged Marian apparitions in Medjugorje, Pope Benedict XVI had reaffirmed that the that the pope had stopped watch- the age of books: choose the things Bosnia-Herzegovina. church never requires the faithful to believe in ap- ing TV a long time ago, and want- that are good for me,” he said. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the paritions, not even those recognized by the church. 14 WORLD HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD • JUNE 19, 2015 Pope OKs plan to investigate, judge bishops who fail to act on abuse By Carol Glatz which met at the Vatican June porting, evaluating and judging ligence is suspected, the source The pope mandated the doc- Catholic News Service 8-10. claims that a bishop had failed to told Catholic News Service. trinal congregation be in charge U.S. Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley fulfill his responsibilities linked to Cardinal O’Malley gave the of judicial procedures regarding VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis of Boston, a member of the so- handling suspected and known council and Pope Francis a full charges of “abuse of office” and has approved new procedures called C9 group of cardinal ad- cases of sex abuse, said a source report about the proposed pro- that it establish a special section for the Vatican to investigate and visers and president of the Pon- familiar with the discussion. cedures, but the Vatican released with the proper staff and re- judge claims of “abuse of office” tifical Commission for the Protec- Previously, the Congregation only a list of the “five specific pro- sources to carry out its work. by bishops who allegedly failed tion of Minors, presented to the for Bishops would send out a dif- posals made to the Holy Father,” The pope was to appoint a sec- to protect minors and vulnerable council and the pope a number ferent ad hoc group to investi- which subsequently received his retary of the new judicial section adults from sex abuse. of proposals for greater account- gate each case, the source added. full approval and can be consid- and to authorize the appoint- The procedures will include a ability of bishops in dealing with Now a specific “procedure ered to have gone into effect. ment of the personnel needed for new “judicial section” within the cases of clerical sexual abuse. is defined for how to deal with The Vatican statement said “penal processes regarding the Congregation for the Doctrine of Originally prepared by the these cases,” which also will al- the three Curia offices that have abuse of minors and vulnerable the Faith that has a papal man- protection commission, the pro- low for an investigation and ju- oversight of the world’s bishops adults by clergy.” date to “judge bishops with re- posals were later expanded and dicial process to be carried out in — the congregations for Bishops, The pope still would have to gard to crimes of the abuse of of- given unanimous approval by a more timely manner, Jesuit Fa- for the Evangelization of Peoples approve the removal of a bishop fice when connected to the abuse the Council of Cardinals and the ther Federico Lombardi, Vatican and for Eastern Churches — from office if he was found by the of minors,” the Vatican said in a pope June 8, the Vatican said. spokesman, told reporters. were now authorized “to receive tribunal to have been negligent written statement June 10. While the Code of Canon Law The new process also means and investigate complaints of the in his duties, Father Lombardi The announcement came at already stipulates that bishops people who want to make a episcopal abuse of office.” said. the end of a series of consulta- hold certain responsibilities, there claim — and anyone can do so “There is the duty to report The new procedures will be tions the pope had with his in- had been no permanent system — will know more clearly whom all complaints to the appropriate reviewed in five years and may ternational Council of Cardinals, or trained staff to deal with re- to go to if a serious crime of neg- congregation,” it said. be amended, the statement said. Charged with abuse, child porn, St. Paul archbishop, auxiliary resign former nuncio faces Vatican trial By Maria Wiering Catholic News Service By Carol Glatz number of sessions of interrogat- Catholic News Service ing the former archbishop. ST. PAUL, Minn. — Pope Francis The criminal charges against accepted the resignations June VATICAN CITY — A former Vati- the Polish national were pos- 15 of Archbishop John C. Nien- can nuncio will stand trial in a sible after Pope Francis approved stedt and Auxiliary Bishop Lee A. Vatican court on charges of the new and expanded criminal laws, Piche of St. Paul and Minneapolis sexual abuse of minors and pos- which became applicable to all and named coadjutor Archbishop session of child pornography. Vatican employees around the Bernard A. Hebda of Newark, Jozef Wesolowski, the laicized world. Any direct employee of the New Jersey, a canon lawyer, to former nuncio to the Dominican Holy See, which includes those be apostolic administrator of the Republic, is accused of “a number working in a Vatican office or nun- Minnesota archdiocese. of offenses” committed between ciature, can face a criminal trial at In a statement, Archbishop Ni- 2008 and the the Vatican as well as face criminal enstedt said he submitted his res- date of his arrest prosecution in the country where ignation to Pope Francis “to give in September the crimes occurred. the archdiocese a new beginning 2014. The new amendments, which Giuseppe amidst the many challenges we went into effect in September face.” Dalla Torre, 2013, also brought Vatican law president of the “The Catholic Church is not into detailed compliance with sev- our church, but Christ’s church, CNS photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit tribunal of Vati- eral international treaties the Vati- Archbishop John C. Nienstedt, right, addresses the media alongside Auxil- can City State, and we are merely stewards for can has signed. In complying with iary Bishop Lee A. Piche at a news conference Jan. 16 announcing that the ordered the trial, a time,” he said. “My leader- Jozef the U.N. Convention on the Rights Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis had filed for Chapter 11 Reorgani- the Vatican an- ship has unfortunately drawn Wesolowski, of the Child, the Vatican’s new zation. Ten days after the archdiocese was criminally charged with failing nounced June away from the good works of his laicized former laws defined and set out penalties to protect children, Pope Francis accepted the resignations of Archbishop nuncio to the 15. The first church and those who perform for specific crimes against minors, Nienstedt and Bishop Piche. Dominican hearing will be them. Thus, my decision to step including child prostitution, sexual Republic held July 11. down.” rated with me in the oversight of “The serious violence against children and pro- On June 5 the Ramsey County initiatives to which the archdio- allegations will be scrutinized” by ducing or possessing child pornog- Attorney’s Office filed criminal this local church.” cese is already committed.” the Vatican City State’s judicial raphy. and civil charges against the He added: “I leave with a clear Still, he said, he hoped to meet system, “which will be assisted by Previously, those specific crimes archdiocese alleging it failed conscience knowing that my team as many people as possible in the both technical appraisals of the would have been dealt with under to protect three boys who were and I have put in place solid pro- archdiocese while still fulfilling IT systems used by the defendant more generic laws against the mis- sexually abused in 2008-2010 by tocols to ensure protection of mi- his responsibilities in Newark. and, if necessary, international treatment of minors; the old laws Curtis Wehmeyer, a former priest nors and vulnerable adults.” “As the universal church pre- legal cooperation for the evalua- did not contemplate, for example, of the archdiocese. Archbishop Nienstedt request- pares to embark on a Year of tion of testimonial evidence from the crime of child pornography. Wehmeyer was convicted of ed prayers for “the well-being of Mercy, I look forward to getting the competent authorities in Santo The sex abuse accusations the abuse and is serving a five- this archdiocese and its future to know this local church and Domingo,” the Vatican’s written against Wesolowski, which were year prison sentence. He was leaders.” experiencing in a new context statement said. alleged to have occurred prior to dismissed from the priesthood in “I also ask for your continued the marvelous ways in which the The former archbishop is ac- 2013, will be tried according to the March. prayers for me,” he said. Lord works through his people to cused of sexually abusing minors old laws, the Vatican said. Archbishop Nienstedt, 68, was Bishop Piche, 57, was or- make his grace and healing pres- during the years he spent as nun- Vatican City civil laws are appointed coadjutor archbishop dained as an auxiliary for St. Paul ence known and felt, even in the cio to the Dominican Republic and separate from the universally ap- of St. Paul and Minneapolis in and Minneapolis in 2009. most challenging of times,” Arch- apostolic delegate to Puerto Rico plicable canon law, norms and 2007, and installed as its arch- “The people of the Archdio- bishop Hebda said. from the date of his appointment sanctions, which require bishops bishop in June 2008, succeeding cese of St. Paul and Minneapolis The Archdiocese of St. Paul in 2008 until his resignation Aug. around the world to turn over to Archbishop Harry J. Flynn, who needed healing and hope. I was and Minneapolis filed in January 21, 2013. the Congregation for the Doctrine retired. getting in the way of that, so I for reorganization under Chapter The charge of possession of of the Faith cases of priests accused Prior to taking the helm of the had to resign,” he said in a state- 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code child pornography is an allegation of child sexual abuse or possession archdiocese, Archbishop Nienst- ment. “It has been a privilege to amid mounting claims of clergy based on the archbishop’s activity of child pornography. The canoni- edt was bishop of New Ulm, Min- serve this local church, and I will sexual abuse. In 2013, the Min- once he was back in Rome, the cal penalties include the possibility nesota, from 2001 to 2007, and continue to hold everyone in the nesota Legislature lifted the civil Vatican said. The evidence was of the priest being expelled from auxiliary bishop of Detroit from archdiocese in my prayers.” statute of limitations on claims collected from the period spanning the priesthood. 1996 to 2001. Archbishopd Hebda plans to of child sexual abuse for a three- the time he was ordered by Pope The order for the former nun- “It has been my privilege the serve both the Minnesota and year period. Francis back to the Vatican in 2013 cio’s Vatican trial comes just a few last seven years to serve this local Newark archdioceses until Pope In May, the archdiocese an- until the day of his arrest Sept. 22, months after the sentencing of the church,” Archbishop Nienstedt Francis names Archbishop Nien- nounced that it would sell arch- 2014. related case of the former Polish said in a statement. “I have come stedt’s successor. diocesan offices, including the Wesolowski was dismissed from priest, Wojciech Gil. to appreciate deeply the vitality In his statement, he noted that archbishop’s residence, as part of the clerical state in June 2014 af- Gil was sentenced March 25 by of the 187 parishes that make up the position of an apostolic ad- the reorganization. ter a separate investigation by the a court in Poland to seven years in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and ministrator is temporary and his Congregation for the Doctrine of jail after being convicted of sexual- Minneapolis. I am grateful for role “is not to introduce change, Wiering is editor of The Catholic the Faith. ly abusing children in Poland and the support I have received from but rather to facilitate the smooth Spirit, newspaper of the Archdio- Vatican City State authorities the Dominican Republic. Gil had priests, deacons, religious men continuation of the ordinary and cese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. carried out their own criminal been arrested in February 2014 and women and lay leaders, es- essential activities of the church, Contributing to this story was Cindy investigation, which included a during a home-visit to Krakow. pecially those who have collabo- while advancing those positive Wooden in Rome. JUNE 19, 2015 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD FEATURES 15 Msgr. Owen F. Campion 21ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Catechesis Fear on the Father Kenneth Doyle Sea of Galilee QUESTION CORNER Job 38:1, 8-11; 2 Corinthians 5:14-17; Mark 4:35-41 his weekend the Sunday liturgies return to Rosary while driving: bad idea? Ordinary Time after the long period of Lent, the Easter season, and a series of important Recently, at a parish discussion group, several faith in the church (or even in God) feasts. and find that faith difficult to regain. TThe first reading from the Bible for this weekend people suggested that a good time to pray the But there are other victims such is from the Book of Job. Job, who has been popu- rosary is while you are driving your car. I, though, as yourself who are able to make distinctions, to separate in their larly mislabeled over the centuries as heroically have two questions: a) Is that a good prayer prac- patient, in fact underwent many hardships in his life Q minds the offender from the church. and challenged God. tice? And, b) Is it prudent and safe? (Albany, New York) They realize how far that offending Job resented the hardships he faced in life. He priest strayed from what he was questioned God’s mercy. The Book of Job chronicles Different people will give you I’ll get credit for the “overage”!) ordained to do: to image the com- this long exchange between Job and the Almighty. A different answers — and logi- passion of Jesus, especially to the The final verdict is that God is powerful and good. cally, because of the spiritual value Abused, I still love the church vulnerable. Trapped by his own concerns and fears, unable of the practice and the safety of the These victims still love the I have read countless stories church; they want simply to be to see all possibilities, wanting instant solutions, Job driver. It depends a lot on the par- Q of those abused sexually by heard, to be healed and to be made simply lost sight of God’s perfection. ticular individual: How much am I priests. I was abused by a priest whole — and they desire deeply For the second reading, the church offers a pas- able to concentrate on prayer, while who also drugged me. I took my to continue to be nourished by the sage from Paul’s Second Epistle to the Corinthians. staying attentive to safety? faith seriously then, and I still do. The ideal, of course, is to pray church’s services and its sacraments. As is so often the case in Pauline writings, this selec- I think there should be a way to Fortunately, there are some dio- when you are free to focus fully on connect with victims who love the tion is a great testament to the reality of Jesus, the ceses where retreats are offered spe- the Lord, but I don’t believe God is church despite what happened. But Son of God and a man, and to the unbreakable bond cifically for those who were sexually offended if you break the boredom most victims’ groups I have read between Jesus and true Christians. abused by representatives of the of an isolated highway by speak- about seem to heal by hating the It is a bond confirmed and wonderfully extended church. There you would find, I’m ing with him. Here’s the way I’ve church. Do you have any advice? to all generations in all places by the Lord’s willing sure, others who feel the way you worked it out in practice. If I’m (City of origin withheld) sacrifice on Calvary. In and through this sacrifice, all driving in the city — surrounded by do and are able to support you by is made right between God and humanity. traffic and watching for turns — I As you indicate, many victims sharing both their stories and their True disciples share in the gift achieved by this don’t complicate that by adding a Ado bear deep anger toward the faith. sacrifice, eternal life itself and life with God. rosary to the mix. aggressor, extend that resentment to Perhaps you might inquire from St. Mark’s Gospel supplies the last reading. But on a country road — or even the church as a whole and carry it for your diocese (specifically, from the The story is set on the Sea of Galilee, as the mod- a superhighway that is virtually the rest of their lives. I understand victims assistance coordinator) ern Lake of Tiberias was known in ancient times. empty — I sometimes do put a “ring that. I can’t even begin to imagine whether such opportunities might Several of the Apostles were fishermen. All the rosary” on my index finger and how it must feel to have trusted be available nearby. Apostles, however, would have been familiar with pray it as I drive. (But even with someone you considered a visible fishing as a livelihood, since all came from the re- that simple 10-beaded help, I tend representative of God in your life Questions may be sent to Father Ken- gion of the lake. to lose count and wind up saying a — and to have had that trust so vio- neth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail. Terrible storms in the mold of today’s hurricanes couple of extra Hail Marys just to be lated. It doesn’t surprise me that, in com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, N.Y. and tornadoes do not occur in this northern part safe. Perhaps when I reach heaven, the wake of this, a person could lose 12208. of present-day Israel. They did not happen in this region at the time of Jesus. Yet thunderstorms and winds did come upon the lake. This story’s recollection of such a storm, there- fore, is not farfetched. Not difficult either to imagine is the fright created by being in a small boat, at some distance from the safety of the shore, when a Beatitudes storm arose. Sailing would not have been easy. An Blessed are they who mourn: for they shall be comforted. open boat could have taken on water. Jesus was asleep on a cushion in the boat when the storm came. He was not afraid. He took no no- tice of the storm. The Apostles were very frightened. They awak- ened Jesus, sure that they were about to drown, and they pleaded for the Lord’s help. Jesus controlled the elements by ordering the water to be calm. The contrast between the Apostles and Jesus is clear. Jesus had power over the elements. As Mark’s Gospel presents Jesus elsewhere, the Lord is the Son of God, but the Apostles are mere mortals. They cannot control the elements. They cannot foresee their own future. They cannot even find a quick way to assure their safety. They only know that they are vulnerable to death. Fear runs away with them. They imagine the worst. Reflection On this weekend in the United States, we cel- ebrate Father’s Day. Good fathers are God’s gifts to families, so we honor them. God is the loving Father of all. We are not or- phans. God gave us Jesus, our brother. Jesus ascend- ed into heaven. He lives with us in the life of the Spirit, given in and through the church. The church is with us. The church invites us to respond to God’s love. Basic to this response is our admission of our own inadequacies. In so many respects, despite ac-

complishments or talents, we humans always are CNS photo/Dai Kurokawa, EPA children. We need God, just as the Apostles needed Mourners for slain protesters attend the May 30 funeral Mass at St. Joseph Church in Bujumbura, Burundi. Violent demon- Jesus on the tossing waters. strations in Burundi have gone on for nearly a month since President Pierre Nkurunziza announced his bid for re-election. God, our Father, lovingly fills our need. 16 FEATURES HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD • JUNE 19, 2015 Father John Catoir On celebrating 55 years as a priest n late May, I celebrated my 55th anniversary as a priest. Looking back on it, the day of my ordi- nation was the happiest day of Imy life. Growing up as a boy, I was pretty normal, showing no special signs of piety. We were normal churchgoing Catholics. I attended Catholic schools, was interested in sports and girls, in that order. The order shifted when I was about 12. I was an altar boy in grammar school and

Spiritualifefreeimages loved it. But I think I did it mainly because the altar boys got out of class whenever there was a funeral. In high school, I never thought much about the priesthood. However, on Father Ron my senior retreat, I had serious stirrings that Rolheiser stayed with me. I tried to shake them off, but they persisted. I wanted no part of the seminary or celi- bacy. Yes, I wanted to make God the center of my life, but I also wanted to marry and have Inordinate attachments a family. Clearly, the life of a priest was not for the likes of me. Whenever the yearning to Are they moral flaws or struggles with divine energy? be a priest came up, I diligently squashed it. And yet, it got stronger in the Army. Finally, I he renowned spiritual writer Henri Nouwen made Moreover, today archetypal psy- couldn’t take it any longer. I faced the fact that chologists speak of something they the priesthood was what I really wanted. no secret about the fact that he was emotionally call “daimons.” They believe that In a way, it broke my heart to give up a part over-sensitive and that he suffered, sometimes to what explains our actions are not of life that was so important to me, and yet just nature and nurture, but also the very decision to say yes made me extreme- the point of clinical depression, from emotional powerful “angels” and “demons” ly happy. The tension was at last over, and I Tobsessions. At times, he, a vowed celibate, was simply inside us that relentlessly haunt never looked back. our bodies and minds and leave us I learned years after my ordination that overpowered by the feeling of being in love with someone chronically obsessed and driven. But my maternal grandmother, who died when I who was hopelessly unavailable that he became psycho- these “daimons” are also very often was 3, had a spiritual role in the mysterious logically paralyzed and needed professional help. at the root of our creativity and that process of my vocation. It happened one day is why we often see (in the phrase- when I phoned my Aunt Letitia to wish her a Yet, given Nouwen’s moral hon- There is a lot to be said posi- ology of Michael Higgins) “tortured happy birthday. esty and the transparency of his life, tively for this view. Normally, lack genius” in many high-achievers, ro- In the process of chatting she said, “My one would hardly ascribe this to of detachment is a moral flaw. But mantics, people with artistic temper- mother, your grandmother, always prayed that him as a moral flaw, however emo- perhaps there is an exception. An in- aments, and people like Van Gogh one of her boys (she had four boys and five tionally-crippling it was at times. ordinate attachment can also be an and Nouwen, who, under the pres- girls) would become a priest, and that one of He simply could not help himself emotional obsession with another sure of an obsession, cut off an ear her children would be born on Sept. 8,” which sometimes, such was his emotional person and this muddies the moral or check themselves into a clinic. is the feast day of the Virgin Mary. sensitivity. issue. Obsessions, generally, are not What is the point of highlight- These words hit me like an electric shock. Almost all sensitive people suffer freely-chosen, nor are they often ing this? A deeper understanding Not only had I become a priest, but I was something similar, though perhaps within the power of the will to con- of ourselves and others is the point. born on Sept. 8, 1931. My mother never told not as acute as what afflicted Henri trol, at least inside the emotions. As We should not be so mystified by me anything about it. For the first time I real- Nouwen. Moreover these kinds of our old catechisms and moral theol- what happens sometimes in our ized that all the inner turmoil that I thought emotional obsessions affect our ogy books used to correctly teach: world and inside us. We are wild, was taking place privately in my soul was not whole lives, including our moral We are responsible for our actions obsessed, complex creatures, and about me struggling with my vocation. It was and religious lives. What we do in but we are not responsible for how that complexity does not take its Grandmother Anna putting her two cents in the pain and paralysis of obsession we feel. Our emotions are like wild root, first of all, in what is evil in- from heaven. rarely does us proud and is often horses; they roam where they will side us. Rather it is rooted in what is Many years have passed since then and, far from a free act. In the grip of and are not easily domesticated and deepest inside us, namely, the image looking back, I am filled with awe and grati- an emotional obsession we can- harnessed. and likeness of God. tude knowing that her prayers were answered. not think freely, pray freely, decide Hence, I believe the notion of “in- We are infinite spirits journeying I’m sure she was praying for me through all things freely, and we are prone to ordinate attachments,” as expressed in a finite world. Obsessions come those doubts and fears. act out compulsively in ways that in classical spirituality, needs to be with the territory. In ancient myths, The priesthood turned out to be the great- are not moral. What is the morality nuanced by a series of other con- gods and goddesses often fell help- est blessing of my life. I have never regretted of our actions then? cepts which, while still carrying the lessly in love with human beings, the decision that Anna and I arrived at — not Classical spiritual writers speak same warning labels, carry some- but the ancients believed that this for a minute. of something they term “inordi- thing more. For example, today we was a place where the divine and nate attachments,” and for them, speak of “obsessions,” and we all human met. And that still happens: these “inordinate attachments” are know how powerful and crippling The divine in us sometimes too falls a moral fault, something we need these can be. You cannot simply hopelessly in love with another hu- to control by willpower. However, wish or will your way free of an ob- man being. This, of course, does not what they mean by “inordinate at- session. But is that a moral flaw? give us an excuse to act out as we tachments” covers a wide range Sometimes too we speak of “be- would like on those feelings, but it of things. In their view, we can be ing possessed by demons” and that does tell us that this is more an en- inordinately attached to our pride, also has a variety of meanings. We counter between the divine and the to our appearance, to money, to can be possessed by a power beyond human than it is a moral flaw. power, to pleasure, to comfort, to us that overpowers our will, be that possessions, to sex, and to an end- the devil himself or some overpow- Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, less list of other things. They saw ering addiction such as alcohol or teacher and award-winning author, is this as the opposite of the virtue of drugs. Most of us are not overpow- president of the Oblate School of Theol- detachment. And since its opposite ered, but each of us battles with his ogy in San Antonio, Texas. He can be is a virtue, “inordinate attachment” or her own demons and the line contacted through his website www. is, for classical spirituality, a vice, a between obsession and possession is ronrolheiser.com. Now on Facebook moral and spiritual flaw. sometimes thin. www.facebook.com/ronrolheiser. JUNE 19, 2015 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD FEATURES 17 Kathleen T. Choi Myfaith IN LITTLE WAYS Father Paul Dong Hard praying y daily prayers include peti- Min Li, diocesan tions that I’ve been making priest for years. These aren’t enor- VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING mous requests like world Mpeace or a cure for cancer. I’m interced- ing for certain persons beset by illness or The joy situations that never seem to improve. Sometimes praying for them gets really based on hard, and I’m sorely tempted to quit. There seems to be no point. God knows how bad things are for these folks. I’ve reminded him over love and over. I’ve fiddled with my phrasing and flattered him with praise. I’ve quoted Biblical promises. I’ve Interviewed by pointed out that these good people don’t deserve Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP their suffering. I’ve fasted, offered up my own pains Hawaii Catholic Herald and begged multiple times a day. Worried that my faith isn’t strong enough, I’ve quoted Mark 9:24: “I ince childhood, I had a great appreciation of ing their faith encouraged me to ask, “How can I help believe Lord; help my unbelief.” Nothing seems to God’s grace. That is the reason why I followed others?” I really feel God has poured his special grace work. So why bother? the call to enter the priesthood. We did not have on us and I am grateful. Frustrated, I turn to Scripture. One of my favorite regular priests around when I was growing up In the different parishes I have served, especially verses is 20:27: “You duped me, Lord, and Sdue to the persecutions in the country. Once or twice a here in Kahuku, I have felt more served by the parishio- I let myself be duped.” If even a prophet can get year, a priest might pass by to celebrate the Mass; other- ners — by their love, encouragement and involvement mad at God, I guess I can too. I know several psalms wise, we had communion services. However, every year in the parish. They have taught me more than I taught that ask God, “Why is this happening? Aren’t you my family would make the long journey by train, which them. What I want to give them is the joy of the priest- listening to me? Don’t you care?” The Bible seems took about 24 hours, to Xian to celebrate Epiphany. One hood. There is too much suffering in the world. When to say that our relationship with God is so intimate year, the priest said to me, “Paul, you will make a good we come to church we should at least enjoy the mo- that we can fight with him just like we fight with priest.” I was only 12 then. I said, “A priest? No way.” ment. I want people to come to church as a place where our spouses, siblings or parents. Sometimes I just Even though I denied it, it was an awakening call from they can find hope, peace, joy, unity, family. Don’t spend stand in front of my crucifix and scold God for dis- the Lord. When I talked to my parents, my father also too much time crying, life is too short. There are only so appointing me. said, “No, you are too young.” many hours in the sunlight and in the darkness to enjoy But this seed kept growing in my heart. Deep within, the beauty of life. I find some comfort in history. Growing up in the I kept thinking of my life. Compared to others who were My mom used to joke with me that the neighbors Fifties, I remember my Catholic friends praying for struggling under the stress and hardships of the political would tell her that they knew when I or my sister were the defeat of communism. I recall numerous adults environment, I still had faith. As my family kept gather- home because they could hear my mom’s laughter from rolling their eyes at the idea that saying the rosary ing together, we could really feel how the power of uni- miles away. That is the joy in the heart that speaks be- could defeat the second most powerful nation in the ty strengthened us and helped us to grow in our faith. yond language. That is the joy that unites families and world. Yet just 39 years passed between the conse- Whenever a priest did visit, I was usually asked to faith-based communities, the church. It is the joy based cration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary accompany him, as I was the local. As we went out to on love. and the fall of the Soviet Union. Imagine what life the different villages I could see the people’s hunger for there might be like today if those skeptics had joined the Lord. They followed us. Every day we had about five Father Paul Dong Min Li is from Shandung in northern the church in her prayers. to six Masses. For some of the faithful, it may have been China. He was ordained in the Diocese of Honolulu eight years I look at saints like Monica. She was the mother 30-40 years since they last saw a priest. Their faith was ago. He has been the pastor of St. Roch Church in Kahuku of St. , a giant in Christian theol- kept alive because of the faith of others. Even my grand- and St. Joachim Mission in Punaluu. His new assignment is ogy and a masterful writer. Monica was a Christian, parents and parents were baptized by a lay person. See- St. Theresa Parish, Mountain View, on the Big Island. her husband a pagan. She tried to raise her children as Christians. Her son Augustine, however, preferred wine, women and heresy. She prayed for him con- stantly. When she spoke to one bishop of her con- Bill cern, the bishop assured her that “the child of those tears shall never perish.” She Dodds There seems to persisted in prayer for 17 years. YOUR FAMILY Her reward was a son who be- be no point. came not only a Christian but a bishop and a Doctor of the God knows Church. I ask her to add her Living in the present faith to my petitions. how bad I also look for evidence that hat time is it really?” That’s what our doing it as long as I can and have a God is doing something — any- good life. But it is not a perfect life. things are for thing — for the people who son, Thomas, wanted to know on There are good days but not perfect are my special concern. I’m a road trip across the United States days. But I have now. Right now. I these folks. I’ve awed by the pure faith I see in back in 1989. have here. Right here. I have life on one mother of a chronically ill earth. reminded him son. Her prayer is just for daily “WWe crossed an invisible line, and dren are grown. The house is quiet. In modern language, I’m called to bread, just the grace to handle over and over. suddenly we were in a different My schedule is casual. My expenses be present, to be mindful. I can’t let today’s challenges. She’s grate- time zone, asking “but what time is minimal. My darling Monica is myself become so obsessed thinking ful for blessings that I take for granted, like a good it really?” gone, taken by cancer. about a future without Monica that night’s sleep or lunch with a friend. I can’t deny that I remember when the kids were I don’t kid myself that those days I fail to appreciate and use the bless- God is strongly present in that house, even if he’s even younger and a snippet from were perfect. There are no perfect ings I have right here, right now. Carly Simon’s song “Anticipation” times on earth, although, thanks be not performing the specific healing that I’m request- And I can’t allow myself to become popped into my head one day, and to God, there can be near-perfect ing. lost in, obsessed with the past. I realized it applied to me, to us: moments. Seen in the rearview mir- I also consider my own life. I see how often God “These are the good old days.” ror of life, they sparkle and shine. The truth is that at every age and has brought me through crises and eased my bur- I had my doubts. They bring comfort and joy even every stage of a person’s life, there dens. If God is so gracious to me, surely he is equally The children were running us as they stand in stark contrast to are blessings and challenges. And generous with the people I love. I can’t always know ragged. We worried about the tight change and loss. with the passing of time and the how he is blessing them, but I can trust that bless- household budget, worried about I see the children often. The grace of God, sometimes it’s pos- ings are indeed flowing. Recalling all this, I’m able work, an infinite to-do list and on grandkids are a hoot. My parents sible to see the deepest blessings to get back down on my knees and ask yet again, and on. Even so, I thought, at some have passed away, but all my sib- have their roots in the harshest chal- “Father, please ...” point down the road will I consider lings are alive and well, and we lenges. that moment “the good old days”? laugh a lot when we get together. Sometimes it’s possible to notice Kathleen welcomes comments. Send them to Kathleen But now I do, because they were. I have good friends. Good health. one constant through it all: Em- Choi, 1706 Waianuenue Ave., Hilo 96720, or email: In the blink of an eye, the chil- I have work and want to continue manuel, God with us. [email protected]. 18 FEATURES HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD • JUNE 19, 2015 Saints Diversions 376-444 June 27 5) Art/history Cyril was born in Alex- Hawaii Catholic True or false: Italian artist Michelangelo, andria, Egypt, and was the who famously painted the ceiling of the nephew of its , Theophi- Sistine Chapel, is buried under the Vatican lus. Classically educated, he was ordained by his Harold’s Quiz City landmark. uncle, whom he succeeded as patriarch in 412. He a) True had helped Theophilus discredit and depose St. Summer is here, Heraldians! Whether c) 8 b) False from Constantinople, in what may you’re packing your bags for the beach or d) 4 have been a rivalry between the two ancient sees. As a pilgrimage destination abroad, don’t 6) Church in Hawaii patriarch, he exercised his authority hastily and vio- forget to take with you the following quiz. 3) Devotions lently, drawing severe criticism, and was embroiled There’s nothing like Catholic trivia to The Catholic Church dedicates the month Which of the following is NOT a mission in heretical controversies, chiefly against Nestorius enlighten your vacation days. of June in devotion to the Sacred Heart of church of St. Michael Parish in Kailua-Kona on the Big Island? of Constantinople, who taught that Mary was not 1) Saints Jesus. The Feast of the Sacred Heart tradi- the mother of God. Cyril’s orthodoxy eventually was tionally is celebrated how many days after a) , Holualoa upheld by pope and emperor. This most brilliant The feast of the Nativity of St. John the Pentecost? b) Holy Rosary, Kalaoa theologian of the Alexandrian tradition was declared Baptist is celebrated June 24. What was the a) 40 name of St. ’s mother? c) St. Paul, Honalo a in 1882; he is the patron of b) 27 a) Martha d) St. John the Baptist, Kealakekua Alexandria. © CNS c) 19 b) Elizabeth d) 10 c) Abigail 7) Current events d) Joanna 4) Prayers Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environ- ment is titled “Laudato Sii,” a line from a 2) Scripture What is the title of the following Marian prayer by St. Francis. What does “Laudato prayer: “We fly to your patronage, O Holy The Gospel reading for Sunday, June 28, Sii” translate to in English? Joe Heller Mother of God, Despise not our petitions in comes from the Gospel of Mark. The Scrip- a) “Praised Be” ture passage tells of Jesus bringing back our necessities, but deliver us from all dan- from death the daughter of Jairus. How old ger, O ever glorious and blessed Virgin”? b) “Lord of Light” does the reading say Jairus’ daughter was a) Sub Tuum Praesidium c) “Let it Be” at the time of this event? b) Memorare d) “Earth and Sky” a) 16 c) Alma Redemptoris b) 12 d) Ave Maris Stella Answers: 1) b, 2) b, 3) c, 4) a, 5) b, 6) d, 7) a

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D E K U B E R C C T H M days and nights perfectly I 33 Islamic chieftain (Gen 3:7) of this performed!” 34 Mtg. 50 Hydrocarbon E O D E S A E C R O S S 8 Wife of St. 23 First Christian 36 Inter ___ suffixes W E R E W I T H H I M M Joachim Roman Emperor 39 Les Etats ___ 51 Red vegetable 9 “Inside Man” 24 Coquet 40 Former Russian 53 Letter letters © 2015 Tri-C-A Publications www.tri-c-a-publications.com director Spike 25 Where the rulers 54 Half a laugh? 10 Build again Vatican is 42 More 18D 55 Lid Hope • Confidence • Expectation NEWS Hawaii Catholic Herald Soccer donations for the suspended young adult FRI VATICAN CITY — A charity 6/19/2015 19 for youth established by Pope Catholic Francis has suspended a dona- Mana'olana tions agreement with a South American soccer federation, Movie review | Jurassic World following the corruption scandal that erupted last month with the worldwide soccer federation, FIFA. Prepare to be stomped The South American federa- By John Mulderig ambitious, if not quite mad, tion CONMEBOL had pledged to Catholic News Service scientist Dr. Wu. And it can’t donate $10,000 to the Vatican hurt to have a violence-loving charity Scholas Occurrentes for NEW YORK — Prepare to be warmonger added to the mix, every goal scored during the stomped on by “Jurassic so cue Vincent D’Onofrio as a America Cup, which began in World” (Universal). straw-man militarist named Chile June 11. The federation Like the $2 billion-grossing Hoskins. had signed the agreement in the dinosaur-themed franchise of But, really, such feints in presence of Pope Francis at the which it represents the latest the direction of seriousness Vatican April 21. installment, director Colin are beside the point. Anyone Trevorrow’s 3-D optional sci-fi Scholas Occurrentes, which looking for interaction more adventure is big, gigantic, promotes social integration of meaningful than that which huge! And you, a mere homo youth through sport, is headed transpires between the DNA sapiens, are puny. So know by Argentine Bishop Marcelo disaster of an uber-dino to your place, and hand over Sanchez Sorondo. whose rampage Trevorrow your credit card. The charity issued a press devotes most of his attention If the thought springs release June 11, signed by and the anonymous extras to mind that, proportion- Archbishop Sanchez, saying it on whom the ill-designed ally speaking at least, dinos “will refrain from receiving any creature contentedly munches did not necessarily possess have come to the wrong funds until the ongoing judicial nature’s largest brains, the fictional island. investigation is clarified.” (Catho- reflection is not misplaced. lic News Service) The elements listed below Like the creatures that CNS photo/Universal decidedly rule out the “Flint- inhabit it, “Jurassic World” is Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard star in a scene from the movie “Jurassic World.” stones” crowd. But parents of Quebec closes all about brawn, sheer visual insistent teens who find their renowned church and commercial heft. Sharp- Dallas Howard). A driven to-be-divorcing parents. So some unspecified offscreen patience in danger of extinc- wittedness and emotional QUEBEC CITY — With the career woman whose precise Claire, in her turn, hands off history with Claire, the tion need not feel too guilty subtlety are not on offer, deep decision to close one of its largest role in the management of the boys to an assistant. upshot of which is a romantic if resistance ultimately proves characterizations even less so. and most important churches, the titular resort — where Such adult neglect, of attraction thinly disguised as Instead, this continuation futile. the Archdiocese of Quebec is patently imprudent tourists course, gives Zach and Gray mutual dislike. Well, after all, of the series that began with The film contains some sending a clear message: The come to gawk, for a price, at the perfect opportunity to a story like this needs its In- gory interludes, a bit of comic future of even the most majestic 1993’s “Jurassic Park,” Steven Spielberg’s wildly popular ad- genetically re-created pre- wander off on their own. diana Jones stand-in, the lads innuendo, at least one use churches cannot be guaranteed historic predators — is never Extricating them from the need someone to look up to, of profanity and a few crude anymore. aptation of Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel, uses its human made clear, Claire is far too inevitably resulting danger and Claire needs a previously and crass terms. The Catholic On May 24, one last Mass was worried about getting ahead will require all the acumen untamed he-man with whom News Service classification is celebrated in renowned St. John participants as anachronisti- cally placed Darwinian bait, to have a family of her own. of ex-military animal trainer to settle down — once the A-III — adults. The Motion the Baptist Church. Dedicated mere fodder for their outsized Nor does she have time to Owen (Chris Pratt). dinosaurs do. Picture Association of Ameri- to the patron saint of French adversaries. So it hardly mat- spare for the duo of visit- Who’s this Owen and There’s some perfunctory ca rating is PG-13 — parents Canadians, the 2,400-capac- ters that they amount to noth- ing nephews, 16-year-old what’s he doing here? As discussion, amid all the may- strongly cautioned. Some ity building stands among the ing more than an ensemble of Zach (Nick Robinson) and with Claire’s job description, hem, about the proper limits material may be inappropri- high-profile churches of both the stick figures. his preteen brother Gray (Ty information is sketchy. of science: BD Wong reprises ate for children under 13. archdiocese and Quebec province. Take, for example, busi- Simpkins), who have been He’s a consultant of some his role in the long-ago first Mulderig is on the staff of Catho- Built in the 1880s, it is recognized ness-obsessed Claire (Bryce foisted on her by their soon- sort, it seems, and shares picture by playing overly lic News Service. as a major heritage church. It needed $10 million in reno- vations, a gargantuan amount for a parish that has been accumu- lating debt for years. The Catholic Karen Church of Quebec simply doesn’t Osborne have that kind of money. (CNS) COMING OF AGE New church opens in Abu Dhabi Enjoying the magic of turning 18 VATICAN CITY — The eighth Catholic church has opened in the It’s the age when you’re the month before, and now more time with her mom and love, because when she really imagine the adventures that United Arab Emirates. Cardinal Pi- legally independent, the age that I was 18, I felt like I dad. I would tell her that in finds it later, it is going to be await her. etro Parolin, Vatican secretary of when you can vote or join the could do anything. As we the future, she was going to a doozy. I would tell her that Once you pass that mile- state, traveled to the capital, Abu military. In the United States, cruised around town in my be Facebook friends with a all of the other boyfriends are stone, you’re never going to Dhabi, to celebrate the inaugural 18 is more than an age. It is mom’s car, an unknown girl she disliked in high school going to seem like a waste of pass that way again. Make Mass at St. Paul’s Catholic Church a set of experiences. It is a singer named Britney Spears and that she would be “liking” time. the most of every minute June 12. The church was built on magic wand that spins out a debuted her first single. all of her pictures. I would tell I would tell her to eat well, you have. Work hard to get land granted by the municipality. Cinderella-like transition from I wish I could go back and her to respond to the letters to exercise, to care for her good grades, but don’t forget According to Fides, the news teenager to adult. It is the talk to that 18-year-old now. I her friend sent her from col- health instead of waiting for to enjoy yourself. Be kind to agency of the Congregation for thing you look forward to all would tell her a lot of things. lege because in a few years a later. I would tell her to not friends and classmates. Be the Evangelization of Peoples, your life, and after it passes, it I would tell her to stop, take car accident will take those worry so much. true to yourself, your beliefs about 900,000 Catholics live in is a thing you look back on for a breath, and enjoy the cool letters away for good. I would tell her to do and your morals. Enjoy the the Middle Eastern nation; most the rest of that life — hope- parts about being a teenager. I I would tell her that more service projects with parties. Don’t worry about are domestic workers from India fully, fondly. would tell her not to grow up people change, and that she’d her church. I would tell her looking uncool in your mom’s and the Philippines. I turned 18 in the late too fast. I would tell her that find it was for the better and that although high school car. Don’t grow up too fast. In his homily, Cardinal Parolin 1990s, in a hot mid-July it’s OK not to have her own for the worse. I would tell graduation felt like the end Make good decisions. They said the permission granted when gasoline was only car right away. I would tell her that it’s OK not to have of something, it was really make good memories. for new churches is “a concrete 98 cents per gallon. I’d just her not to work too hard. a boyfriend. I would tell her only the beginning. I would Being 18 is magic, but use sign of hospitality that the graduated from high school I would tell her to spend that it was OK to wait for tell her that she can’t possibly it wisely. Emirates has now shown toward Christians” and a commitment to “a society based on coexistence and mutual respect.” The challenge of connecting with the Catholic young adult St. Paul’s is the second Catholic church in Abu Dhabi Continued from page 20 Aiona proposed one for Social Ministry, the Office Aiona is grateful for the in- young adults to Jesus, to the and the eighth in the country. A solution: groups of young of Religious Education and sights gained at the National church, to its mission, and ceses have bigger young adult adult ministry coordinators Respect Life Office. He hopes Young Adult Ministry Sum- then to a peer community,” chapel dedicated to St. Teresa was ministry staffs and parishes opened in the capital last year. from each island. Commit- these ties will bring forth mit. With three years under he explained. “We’re going accessible by car. Hawaii has tees could organize activities more diverse learning and his belt as the diocese’s young to have to try and take a Daily Mass at St. Paul’s will be in limited resources and parishes such as Theology on Tap and community-building activities. adult ministry coordinator, it different approach than just English, weekly Masses in Arabic, separated by water. sports tournaments. “If we want to see the has been helpful to reassess plugging holes.” Malayalam and Tagalog. The “Nobody else has the real- To connect young adult community and the collabo- how well he has met the goals “We don’t want to become parish territory numbers about ity of having to island hop Catholics with broader rating happen in the parishes, set by the U.S. Conference of too systematic,” Aiona added. 60,000 Catholics. (CNS) to get across your diocese,” diocesan initiatives, Aiona we need to make sure it hap- Catholic Bishops. “We want to remain a minis- Aiona said. has reached out to the Office pens in the chancery,” he said. “The goals are to connect try guided by the Spirit.” Hope • Confidence • Expectation Hawaii Catholic Herald

for the young adult FRI Mana'olana Catholic 6/19/2015 20 Quote “Now, we must entrust the soul of Baby Francis to the abundant mercy of God so that this beloved child may Photo Courtesy of Makana Aiona find finally a home The National Young Adult Ministry Summit meets in Washing- in his kingdom.” ton, D.C., last month. Hawaii’s representative, Makana Aiona, is | Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of fifth from the left. Providence presiding June 10 over a Christian burial service for the unborn child he named “Francis,” fulfilling a commitment he made to create the summit as a way the immensity of the young The for ministry leaders like Aiona adult ocean.” to officials five months ago after a challenge to voice concerns and better It is nearly impossible to fetus was found floating amid the sewage at a nearby wastewater understand their mission. reach the older group when it treatment facility. (Catholic News “They wanted to know is linked with the younger set, Service) what we needed, what we Aiona said. The church often were doing, what we were treats its young adults more In the news having trouble with and what like “big youth” than “adults,” Composer pre- of we would like to see on the he said. connecting national level,” Aiona said. “We need to ‘slash the mieres first Mass Before heading to Wash- slash,’” he said, and separate ROME — Six decades and ington, participants filled out the two ministries. hundreds of film and television a survey to set an agenda for Young adult ministry, he the summit’s three large group scores later, award-winning learned, is better focused discussions and breakout Italian composer Ennio Morricone when it serves beyond the talks. premiered his first-ever Mass in parish walls. with the Each session was about an the Church of the Gesu, the Jesu- “A successful young adult Catholic hour long. Topics ranged from ministry is going to be the its’ main church in Rome, where social media evangelization, St. Ignatius of Loyola, the Jesuit most successful ‘collaborator’ to reaching non-practicing or in the parish community,” order’s founder, is buried. disengaged young adults, to A parishioner at the historic Aiona said. catechesis for different stages Cardinal church in the city center, Mor- of “young adult life.” ricone composed the Mass to highlighted the concept of Sessions and daily liturgies community collaboration at mark the 200th anniversary of were held in the St. John Paul young adult the summit. The archbishop the universal reconstitution of II National Shrine. of Washington, D.C., worked the . “The pace of the three days with young adults on an The 86-year-old took up his A Hawaii representative at a national ministry was pretty fast,” Aiona said. conductor’s stick for the June 10 initiative called “Christ in the performance by Rome’s “Sinfo- Successes and struggles City.” They regularly took to the streets and started conver- nietta”. A chorus of 100 singers summit returns with insights, ideas, inspiration Young adult ministry in sations with passersby about from the National Academy of St. Hawaii, as in other U.S. dio- By Darlene J.M. Dela Cruz three days of sharing stories, A volunteer board of Mass, confession, adoration Cecilia and the Rome Opera, was Hawaii Catholic Herald strategies and resources. directors — all young adult ceses, has had successes and directed by Stefano Cucci. (CNS) and prayer. Representing the Aloha ministry professionals — runs struggles, Aiona said. Creating collaborations be- “They’ll go out on a Sat- State was Makana Aiona, NCYAMA, which has been One challenge discussed Saints under 40 tween Catholic young adults urday or a time when they diocesan young adult ministry around since 1982. The orga- was the practice of pairing and their communities was young adult (ages 18-39) know a lot of young adults The young and coordinator. Back in the nization provides consulting, a hot topic at the National ministry with youth (high will be out,” Aiona explained. Islands refreshed with new training and advocacy for determined Jesuit Young Adult Ministry Summit school) ministry. They dubbed He hopes a project like that Stanislaus Kostka was born in in Washington, D.C., May 5-7. insights, he reported to the dioceses, parishes, schools and this the “slasher” role in refer- can happen here. 1550 to Polish nobility. His father The first-ever such meet- Hawaii Catholic Herald what groups. It also gives advice to ence to the diagonal line in Another challenge talked was a local governor and his ing, organized in part by he gained. the U.S. Conference of Catho- the title “youth/young adult about at the summit was mother was the sister of Polish the National Catholic Young Aiona was one of 40 at- lic Bishops, and works with minister” which joins two the difficulty of doing young dukes. Adult Ministry Association tendees. Organizers kept the youth ministry and vocations very disparate jobs. adult ministry on a diocesan At 14, he (NCYAMA), brought together inaugural event small. organizations. “‘Slashers’ feel really tied,” level. and his brother dozens of ministry leaders “It was very kind of NCYAMA partnered with Aiona said, “because we’re Larger Mainland dio- Paul enrolled from across the country for grassroots-ish,” Aiona said. Catholic University of America finally coming to grips with Continued on page 19 in a new Jesuit college in Vi- enna favored by the upper class. Stanislaus LISA’S CATECHISM CORNER MAKANA’S HELPFUL HINTS was serious and quiet while his Church teaching explained to you Exciting ways to enhance young adult ministry brother enjoyed the good life. Paul mocked his younger sibling who responded by becoming ‘You shall not have strange gods before me’ The paradox of worry and weakness more virtuous. YOUCAT*: This commandment forbids us: I didn’t close up the windows! Falling seriously ill at age 15, Stanislaus had an apparition of „„to adore other gods and pagan deities or to worship an earthly idol or to devote I worry that one day someone is going to rob us because I was careless St. Barbara and two angels who oneself entirely to some earthly good (money, influence, success, beauty, youth in protecting my family. I also worry about my sons JP and Lance growing brought his first Holy Commu- and so on) up Catholic only to aimlessly wander through young adulthood. I even nion. The Blessed Mother and „„to be superstitious, which means to adhere to esoteric, magic or occult or New worry about all 66 parishes in our state that I’m charged with serving baby Jesus then appeared and Age practices or to get involved with fortune-telling or spiritualism, instead of through Young Adult Ministry. Throw in the “is my wife happy and grow- told him he was to enter the believing in God’s power, providence and blessings ing in Christ” question and, man ... “I feel you St. Paul!” Society of Jesus. „„to provoke God by word or deed However, in today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us to store up only things of Regaining his health, Stan- „„to commit a sacrilege heaven and focus on the light. We all worry and are weak to our human islaus joined the Jesuits in Rome, „„to acquire spiritual power through corruption and to desecrate what is holy emotions. But if we focus “soul-ly” on Christ and the good that can be far from his family who opposed through trafficking (simony) [2110-2128, 2138-2140] taken beyond death (love shared and sacrifices made for others), then the his decision. Less than a year into Heard of the “Charlie, Charlie Challenge”? It was trending on social media a worries and weaknesses “disappear.” his novitiate, after receiving a couple weeks ago, popular mostly with middle and high school teens. Using a Deepen your relationship with Jesus every day. If you stay faithful to premonition of his death, he died piece of paper and a pair of pencils, the idea is to summon a demon who moves him in the face of all worry and weakness, then you will certainly have at age 17 on Aug. 15, 1568, while the pencils to answer your questions about the future. In my high school days, it heavenly rest when you die from this world. having a vision of Mary. was the Ouija board. “Therefore, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecu- He was canonized on Dec. 31, Charlie will not tell us our future. God knows it. (Jeremiah 29:11) Trust in him. tions, and constraints, for the sake of Christ; for when I am weak, then I 1726. His feast day is Nov. 13. *Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church am strong.” (2 Cor 12:10) (Thinkjesuit.org) Lisa Gomes is the director of the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry Makana Aiona is the diocesan coordinator for Young Adult Ministry.