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Southwest Kansas “you �a� s�ea� �ut a word to a �hild, a�d i� that �hild there �a� �e slu��eri�� a �o�le heart whi�h shall stir the Christia� Chur�h i� �ears to �o�e.” atholic — CHARLES SPURGEON Cnewspaper of the Catholic Diocese of Dodge City www.dcdiocese.org/swkscatholic Vol. LIII, no. 10 Sunday, September 2, 2018 What can I say to my kids President of U.S. Bishops’ when they ask Conference announces eff ort Forgive why we keep that will involve laity, experts, Please the Most faith in this and the Vatican as U.S. Bishops Rev. John B. resolve to address a ... Brungardt, church? Bishop By KERRY WEBER of the America Jesuit Review Catholic dragged my kids to 8 a.m. Diocese of Mass this morning for the Dodge City IFeast of the Assumpti on. It es, troubling news regarding was one of those days where the “obligati on” part of the the abuse scandal in the Holy Day felt parti cularly YChurch. We discussed it at heavy. There is a small parish length at our diocesan directors’ within a short walking distance meeti ng and our presbyteral of our home, but we are sti ll council meeti ng. Some of the adjusti ng to the logisti cs of words expressed: betrayal, sadness, leaving the house with two “punched in the gut,” shame, anger, kids, so my husband, our 3- horror, pain, ... month-old, our 2-year-old and I refl ect in my mind and heart and I managed to roll our stroller spirit: quietly to the back pew of the • We all seek Jesus Christ, our church around the ti me the Lord and Savior, the Wounded One. fi rst reading started. I pointed Jesus Forsaken on the cross. We out the pictures in the stained ask for healing for the victi ms and glass of Jesus and Mary and their families. Christ is the Divine Joseph to my son who snacked Physician of our body and soul. He on Cheerios while my husband moral will heal all. “And one of them, juggled my daughter on his realizing he had been healed, shoulder, slowly becoming drenched in drool. We make the eff ort, however catastrophe We seek justice. imperfectly, because I want PAGE 5 my son and daughter to know We seek that our faith is important, because I want them to choose our solidarity and commitment to a culture of forgiveness. to live it themselves one day, care that says ‘never again’ to every form of because I believe it is good. f one abuse,” he said. “Every one of the baptized We seek Jesus. And my belief in the good at should feel involved in the ecclesial and social the heart of our faith is why I change that we so greatly need.” returned, glorifying God” (Luke have tried hard to contribute member In the lett er, Francis acknowledged the recent 17:15). to the insti tuti on, too: to fi nd publicati on of a report detailing abuse in six • We are sinners. We bishops community in our parish, to Pennsylvania dioceses, which included more are sinners. We priests are sinners. spend hours researching local suffers...’ than 300 priests and 1,000 victi ms, over a period All are sinners. The Gospel from a Catholic schools, saving to pay of some 70 years. recent Holy Mass was the questi on for them, budgeti ng to make Pope Francis calls for action Recognizing the deep pain and suff ering endured to Jesus: “how oft en must I forgive donati ons to the church, to Iati can City, Aug 20, 2018 (CNA/EWTN by many minors who have experienced sexual … ?” Jesus responds: “seventy- Catholic Chariti es. News) - Pope Francis called for every abuse, or the abuse of power or conscience, at the seven ti mes,” meaning we are And then I came home Vmember of the Catholic Church to pray hands of clerics, he said no eff ort to seek pardon called to keep forgiving our brothers from Mass, and while the kids and fast in penance for the evil of clerical sex or to repair the harm will ever be enough. and sisters, over and over (Matt hew napped beside me, I started abuse, and to be involved in needed change “Looking ahead to the future, no eff ort must 18:21-22). I am sorry. Please reading the grand jury report within the Church. be spared to create a culture able to prevent forgive us bishops and priests. of sexual abuse in several “The only way that we have to respond to such situations from happening, but also to • We seek justi ce. Justi ce for the dioceses of Pennsylvania. I this evil that has darkened so many lives is to prevent the possibility of their being covered perpetrators and enablers. We could only get through a few experience it as a task regarding all of us as the up and perpetuated,” he stated. ask for deeper involvement by civil pages before feeling physically People of God,” Francis wrote Aug. 20. He said the words of St. Paul, that “‘If one authoriti es and the laity, in order ill and being fi lled with a sense In a lett er to the enti re Church following member suff ers, all suff er together with it’… to seek justi ce. “It is [the Lord] of disgust and anger and widespread revelati ons of clerical sex abuse forcefully echo” in his heart. who judges the world with justi ce” betrayal that I know is only in the Church in the United States, the pope The pope also emphasized that he thinks a (Psalm 9:9). a fracti on of what the abuse invited “the enti re holy faithful People of God conversion of the Church is “impossible” if it Bring all to prayer – our Loving victi ms and their families must to a penitenti al exercise of prayer and fasti ng, does not include the “acti ve parti cipati on” of all Lord is with you; He loves you so have felt for so long. following the Lord’s command.” the members of the Church, and he criti cized the much. 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Page 2 September 2, 2018 The Southwest Kansas Catholic Sister Mary Grace that Reigns Bitter waters Immaculate Renewing your nd so again, it comes. is wrong with us, sense of wonder This howling injustice, this and not strong Healy, CSJ, dies Atowering sin of sexual abuse, enough to fix it if ishop Ronald M. Gilmore, spiritual this Church-shaking storm, this uncut we did know. director of Grace that Reigns USA, served Evil: it comes again, and yet again. We need Bas Bishop of Dodge City, Kansas from July We thought we had fixed it, and were something … 1998 to February 2011. on the way to recovery. But here it Someone … Jacqueline Loh is from Vancouver, Canada and is, this ugly thing, and it is even worse beyond us. We founder of Grace that Reigns. Together, they form than we could have imagined. need a Savior the Grace that Reigns Society. It goes so deep. Its roots are so to help us tangled. It resists the sharpest axe through this AVAILABLE FOR + Most Rev. Ronald 2018/19 RETREATS swung by clumsy hands. These are the new Way of the chief shepherds this time. Who then Cross. This new M. Gilmore Through retreat experiences, they help can we trust? Where then can we look? purification. This Bishop Emeritus of Catholics to renew a Sense of Wonder, encourage Will we ever really fix it? new conversion. Dodge City Catholics to establish their own personal Not by relying on our own powers: Only his power relationship with God, help them to share their that should be clear by now. Not by our can help us see our sins, for what they stories of faith with one another and pray for consultant-driven management finesse, really are, and free us from them. ister Mary Immaculate (Mary God’s healing grace to help people to overcome not by our cultivated “best practices,” I am with you always, he promised, Teresa) Healy, 90, died Aug. 4, barriers in their understanding of God’s love for not by our careful lawyer-talk. These even to the end of the world. Hold on S2018 in Kansas City, Kan. She them. Everything that Grace that Reigns does do nothing to stop the flow of blood, to to that. Hold tight, as the waves of served in Dodge City in the business is about helping people to see how unique and bind up and heal the wounds this deep. revulsion sweep over you, and threaten office at Saint Mary of the Plains loved they are through God’s eyes. Grace that We Bishops, Archbishops, and to drown you. College from 1961 to 1965, and Reigns begins with wonder. Cardinals need to fix ourselves first. Let him teach you, Peter, how to walk 1988 to 1989, and as administrator For more information about Grace that But left to ourselves, we cannot do that. on such bitter waters. of Saint Anthony Hospital from 1966 Reigns, including upcoming retreats, visit www. We are not smart enough to know what to 1971. Mass of Christian Burial was gracethatreigns.com. celebrated in Resurrection Chapel in Wichita, followed by interment in the convent cemetery. Sister Mary Immaculate was born Oct. 13, 1927 in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Peter and Mary (Flanagan) Healy. She was the youngest of three children and the only girl Hey, guys! in the family. Upon graduating from Commercial High School in Brooklyn, she worked as secretary Bishop: Are you kidding me? Obedience? to the Registrar of the Pratt Institute, an Engineering and Art Institute in What’s this about a priest root “audire” meaning “to listen.” My diocesan Church.” This takes a leap Brooklyn. promising to obey his bishop? I’m seminary professor described it: to of faith in God, a trust in His plan of a On Sept. 8, 1949 at the age of 21, a grown man, I don’t obey anyone! obey is to raptly, carefully listen. A hierarchical Church, and a love for Jesus she entered the Sisters of St. Joseph Well, I guess I follow the directions youth carefully listens to his parents, for Christ, the High Priest who is the priest’s example, to hear “I love you, and I want model. Jesus obeyed the Heavenly Father of Wichita and was received into the of a police officer if he asks me to do Congregation March 20, 1950 and you to be safe” when a curfew is set. A unreservedly, without counting the cost. made final profession July 26, 1955. something, and I do comply with the husband and dad raptly listens to his wife We priests are called to do the same. Her education included a B.A. degree IRS and pay my taxes. But just what and hears “I love you, and I want you near Jesus “became the source of eternal from Saint Mary of the Plains College is this obedience stuff? to me and the children” when she says salvation for all who obey him”(Hebrews in Dodge City and her Master’s “Honey, you are spending too much time 5:9). Father Mark and Father Jacob degree in business and hospital Father Jacob Schneider and Father at the office.” embraced this amazing call from God at administration from Xavier University Mark Brantley, at their ordination to A priest carefully, raptly listens to their ordination Mass. in Cincinnati, Ohio. At that time she the priesthood in June 2017, answered his bishop. For example, when a priest Guys, let us carefully listen to, let us was one of the few women other “Yes” to my question “Do you promise receives a new assignment, he hears obey, our Gentle Jesus. Listen to his call than Mother Mary Anne McNamara obedience to me and my successors?” “after discussion with you, consultation to be a priest or a husband and dad, and to become a member, then a Fellow What would motivate these two men to with others, and prayerful guidance by follow. Jesus will tell you in your prayer, in the American College of Health make this radical promise? the Holy Spirit, I am appointing you to since He loves you more than you can ask Care Executives. The verb “to obey” is from the Latin another ministry, for the good of the or imagine! The ministries in which she worked included business offices at hospitals in Ulysses, Pittsburg and Halstead, in addition to being Protecting God’s Children the Business Manager at St. Joseph he Diocese of Dodge City requires all employees and volunteers Great Bend – English Hospital in Wichita. She was Twho work with children to participate in a Protecting God’s Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018; 5–8 p.m. Administrator of Congregation Children awareness session. Through the Diocesan Awareness Holy Family Catholic School hospitals in Dodge City and Ponca Sessions and other educational efforts of the diocese, all people 4200 Broadway, Great Bend, KS City, Okla., and Vice-President, of of the diocese can learn how to discuss different aspects of abuse Contact Person: Karen Moeder 620-793-3265 Administrative Services, Mercy — including sexual abuse — with children and how to teach them PGC Facilitator: Donna Staab 620-786-5785 Hospital, Watertown, N.Y. to protect themselves. Service to her congregation Protecting God’s Children Awareness Session included six years as a member of Abuse Hotline If you or someone you know may have been a victim of sexual abuse the General Council of the Sisters Larned – English by clergy, an employee or volunteer of the Diocese of Dodge City, of St. Joseph of Wichita. Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018; 6– 9 p.m. you are asked to contact Dave Snapp, Fitness Review Administrator: Sister Mary Immaculate was Sacred Heart of Jesus Church (620) 225-5051 work; (620) 225-2412 home; dsnapp3@starrtech. preceded in death by her parents 1111 State St., Larned 67550 net. You always have the right to directly contact the Department and brothers, Rev. Augustine, OCD, Contact Person: Stacy Sanger (620) 285-2035 and John. In addition to members for Children and Families/Kansas Protection Report Center: Hotline PGC Facilitator: Donna Staab (620) 786-5785 of her religious congregation, she number is 1-800-922-5330. is survived by her nieces, Veronica Gittrich and Barbara Mies, many PLEASE NOTE: Due to our monthly summer schedule, you may notice that some stories are running weeks after they occurred. With friends and colleagues. this issue, we once again begin our regular twice-monthly schedule. Thank you for your understanding and patience. DO ADS LIST

The Southwest Kansas Catholic September 2, 2018 Page 3 At Annual Catholic Teachers Conference, educators told: Opioid addictions rising like floodwaters The brain’s love 50,000 die from affair with drugs opioids in one year By Charlene Scott Myers By DAVE MYERS Special to the Catholic Southwest Kansas Catholic man who lived for years with low self esteem f you think the opioid epidemic is bad now, — and suffered because of it — urged teachers it’s nothing compared to what is lurking A of Catholic schools to “learn what kids are Iaround the corner. encountering in their lives.” “We have a flood coming our way,” substance The teachers from Catholic schools throughout the abuse counselor Larry Black told teachers and Diocese of Dodge City gathered at the Cathedral of principals gathered for the annual Diocesan Our Lady of Guadalupe Aug. 16 to discuss “the opioid Teachers Conference Aug. 16. “It’s not quite crisis in Kansas” and to try to figure out why students here yet, but it’s coming.” take drugs that sometimes lead them to suicide. Today, an estimated two million Americans Three youths of varying ages have committed are addicted to opioid painkillers, with an suicide in recent months in the Dodge City area. estimated 50,000 dying from opioids in one Raymond Colligan was one of the two speakers at year alone. the cathedral gathering. “We see people on 60 to 80 pills a day,” Black “When I was a freshman at a Catholic high school, said. “They build up a tolerance. Most start my mother learned to dislike one of my teachers very innocently—normal people who maybe because of what he taught,” Colligan recalled. had a knee replacement. Most doctors really “It wasn’t such a thing as a bad word, just words have the best interest of their patient at heart, used badly,” he explained. but they’re busy. This doctor doesn’t want the “We students were not allowed to use the ‘N’ word patient to have to drive 60 or 70 miles to get or ‘bullocks,’ (a derogatory and vulgar British slang their prescription filled, so they give them a word that means spineless and lacking in courage.)” month’s worth of pills.” But apparently, his teacher used the words, and The problem is, the pills don’t only give some of his classmates taunted him by yelling that relief to pain, but also to stress—stress from Colligan’s name was “bullocks.” the workplace, the government, the typical So following his graduation, he set out to prove his WHAT IS AN OPIOID? anxieties of life. And when that month of pills is rude classmates were wrong. An opioid is a doctor prescribed drug to treat severe pain. They gone in a week, that’s when you see problems He devoted himself to Native Americans, and include names like OxyContin, Percodan, Demerol and Percocet, as begin to arise. You see people turning to the worked for the Jesuits on the Rosebud Indian well as Robitussin A-C, Tylenol with Codeine, and many others. Abuse black market. You see the criminal element Reservation in South Dakota for 18 years. or continued use of these drugs can lead to addiction and withdrawal giving supply to the demand. “And without my consent, I was formed to do the symptoms. Abuse of these drugs is not only supported by the criminal “My son was the most grateful kid,” Black work I do now,” he said. element who sells them on the street, but by pharmaceutical companies said. “There was a joy about him.” Colligan received a Masters Degree in Counseling cashing in on their popularity. Then, at 15, his behavior and attitude Studies and is a Licensed Clinical Addictions underwent a marked change. Counselor. He was employed by Valley Hope, “His grades went down. We would an alcohol and drug addiction treatment center, stay up with him to do his homework, where he worked for 18 years. but he wouldn’t turn it in. We took him He currently is in his fourth year of private to school to make sure he went in, and practice, in addition to counseling on an outpatient he’d go right out the back door. basis. “I think we were good parents,” Black “My job is to help people seek wisdom,” he told explained. “We didn’t drink or smoke. the teachers. We went to church.” “When a student is ready, God will send the The teenager who had been so joyful teacher,” added the speaker who said he was brought people over “who were just plain “raised by Dominican Sisters.” mean. One boy later killed his father.” “The desire of my heart today is to inspire,” Amid the trauma of everyday life, he told his audience of teachers. “The word miracles do abound. Their son agreed to ‘insparata’ means ‘divinely touched.’” enter a treatment facility. Colligan noted that drug addiction “now is “The hardest thing to do is to get described as a brain disease,” and explained Addiction counselors Larry Black and Raymond Colligan recently spoke at the annual help,” Black said. “We were almost out why drug addicts are “captured” by drug Diocesan Teachers Conference at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe. of hope. Not only did our son learn how dependency. to live life without drugs, I learned to be “The brain changes,” he explained. “It is profound. a better dad. A counselor told us that you can’t You have a love affair with the drugs. The brain has focus your life on being right. I had to give up us seeking pleasurable behavior, and the seeking The seeds of suicide being right and focus on my relationship with continues despite the consequences. By DAVE MYERS my son.” “There is not a person in this room who has not Southwest Kansas Catholic In other words, when his son got kicked experienced behavior repeating itself over and t. Veronica wiped the face of Jesus, bloodied by the out of his first facility for having been caught over. We are seekers of pleasure, and despite the Romans. with a girl in his room, Black didn’t get angry. consequences, we keep at the behavior. We seek SLarry Black of Salina as a boy wiped the face of his mother, Empowered by his newfound advice, he relief from stress and wish to feel better and improve bloodied by his father’s fists. instead joked with his son as they drove home our performance.” It was one incident of many in a troubled childhood that would at 3 a.m.: “She was good looking! I would have Human beings also like fun, and experience cultural ultimately lead to thoughts of suicide. gotten kicked out for her, too!” pressure to experiment “with this or that,” he added. Black, a substance abuse counselor, was one of two speakers at The most important result? “He smiled,” “The human brain loves what it loves. It took a long the annual Teachers Conference Aug. 16 at the Cathedral of Our Black said of his troubled son. time in the midst of my growing up to learn that I lived Lady of Guadalupe. It didn’t happen overnight. In fact, it took in a culture that addicts us. The annual gathering offers a time for teachers and principals two stints in the treatment center before “My father was an Irishman, and I developed my from Catholic schools across the diocese to get together to discuss Black’s son came to terms with his drug use. self esteem based on my performance and work. My important issues just prior to the start of the school year. “A lot of what happens in recovery is that Continued on Page 18 Continued on Page 18 Continued on Page 18 Step back with me, if you will, to a time when a young whipper snapper named George W. Bush was in office, Pope John Paul II was still our pontiff, I had a Labrador named Sarah, and my brain was still fully functioning.

Page 4 September 2, 2018 The Southwest Kansas Catholic Commentary Difficult answers; impossible questions What can I say to my kids when they t was a night like any other night. I lay the Bundt cake, but out on my roof staring into the vastness she may want to ask why we keep faith in this church? of space. (Well, in that respect it wasn’t rethink the bacon bit I Continued from Page 1 like any other night. I only do that on tuna- sprinkles next time. I have found myself for the first time truly The letter, adapted slightly here, reads loaf night.) afraid of what it means to ask and to allow as follows: I recall vividly how very vast the sky was. Having interjected my children to be part of the church. We hope that your faith inspires you to be Sooooo vast. It was vaster than anything I’d t h e b a d n e w s I was confirmed by and was handed my just, loving, humble and merciful. We hope ever seen, including the Grand Canyon and ( p r e s u m a b l y o f high school diploma by the first U.S. bishop that your faith inspires you to encourage my Uncle Phil’s sock drawer. Pennsylvania) into By Dave Myers indicted on child sex abuse charges, so the church to be more just, more loving, On nights such as these, I ask myself the the mix, there may Editor there was never any doubt in my mind that more humble and more merciful. hard questions, like if while coming home now be a little brown the abuse and its cover up reached high We hope you find community here, from work, I see a train traveling at 60 miles cloud over my remaining column. Speaking into the church hierarchy. But I, perhaps people who will support you, love you, per hour heading east, and a bus traveling of tough questions! I know that our priests naively, had allowed myself to think that challenge you. We hope that your faith at 45 miles per hour heading west, why do and Bishop John and Bishop Gilmore are as the majority of the cases of abuse had been community inspires you to reach out to I need to replace my radiator? I could just flummoxed, disturbed, outraged, saddened found out, that the policies and procedures the larger community—to love others, to take the train or bus to work. and ashamed as the rest of us. Here’s what put in place would help prevent new ones challenge them and support them. We Do you ever do that? Pose questions— I think, I said as the room grew quiet… and that we knew about most of the men hope that your faith inspires you to care for tough questions—to yourself? Questions We are all born perfect in the eyes of God, who had covered it up, though few of them those in need, to be like the shepherd who that keep you up at night? Questions the master artist—each of us a magnificent have faced consequences. smells like sheep, to perform the corporal that make you want to tear your hair out? sculpture beyond any Michelangelo could The revelations of the grand jury report and spiritual works of mercy, to be mercy Questions that make you want to tear create. (And he was really, really, really, indicate otherwise, and I have found myself for others. someone else’s hair out? Questions that really good!) for the first time truly afraid of what it We hope that when the world makes it have nothing to do with hair at all? Then evil chips away at us. At first, we means to ask and to allow my children to difficult to live out your faith that you find Upon my upcoming birthday, I will be feel it. We see and sense our giving-in to be part of the church. Can I trust that they the strength to persevere. We hope that able to see the foggy shroud barely hiding our lesser angels, and it makes us feel lousy. will be safe as altar servers or students or you find strength in the Eucharist, in the my future 60th year. If that’s the case, Guilty and remorseful. just going to Mass? And what would I say if real presence at Mass and in the people which it is—the case, I mean—then why do But we give in again … and maybe my children were to one day ask me, why? of God. I have a zit the size of a Buick on the side of again. And soon we don’t even notice the Why in the face of such systemic horrors We hope that you are inspired by the my nose? Didn’t we learn as teenagers that chipping-away. We are becoming a new committed by the people supposedly lives of the holy men and women in heaven one of the few perks of adulthood was no creature, our God-given humanity slowly leading the church did we stumble down and the holy men and women around you longer having zits? What a jip! chipped away until we are no longer the the street to Mass each week? now. We hope that you read and learn And it’s not just any ol’ zit, it’s the biggest us that God made. Father Robert Collins, S.J., the priest who about your faith, drawing on the wisdom of zit in recorded history. Larger even than The greatest joys for the devil are: 1) baptized my son two years ago (and who those who have helped to shape our church. the “Prodigious Pimple of 1929” which was when “holy” men or women in high places also happens to be a long-time editor at But even more, we hope that you use this responsible for the Great Depression. are taken down, and 2) when the innocent this publication) had asked my husband knowledge to live your faith—that your life In fact, I think it may not be a zit at all, but are harmed. The devil is having his day. and I to do an exercise prior to the baptism gives witness to the joy of the Gospel. a conjoined twin. When I went to pop it, I We’ve heard these are crimes of the of our son that got me thinking about the We hope that you love God with all your heard an angry little voice say, “Keep your past. But the victim never stops being answer to this question before I had asked heart, but that you also know that it is okay mitts to yourself, Bub.” a victim, even long after the statute of it. Write a letter to your son, Father Collins to be angry at God sometimes, that it may I need to stop here for a moment. When limitations runs out. The court should be said, and tell him what you hope for him in seem God is silent at times but that you I first considered telling you this story, I a part of these latest accusations. It’s how the faith. We did, and we read the letter at are never alone, and that God loves you wondered if it wasn’t too off-putting for we battle any crime. We provide a strong his baptism, and recently did the same for right through it all. That we love you right a Catholic newspaper. Zits? Conjoined example. Consequences. my daughter. I have found myself going through it all. twins? Tuna-loaf? I decided I had better My heroes are many, but they now back to it over these last few days, hoping to We hope that your faith inspires you to be seek guidance, so I sent out a quick email, include the men and woman victims who find some sustenance for my own faith life forgiving, to let go of grudges and malice. And and two days later I received this letter in have returned to their faith. This is the as well. In reading it, I saw that so much of we hope that your faith inspires you to ask for return: saddest of facts: If they were assaulted by my hope for my children and myself and our forgiveness when you are in need of it. From the Desk of His Holiness, a cleric, it’s impossible to imagine them place in the church rested on the belief that, We hope that your faith brings you Pope Francis wanting closeness with anything relating in the process of becoming holy, they might great joy, and that you share that joy with To: Dave to their assailant. Yet, come back they did help to make the church holier, too. others. Hi Dave, to the Church that will strive to give them We hope that you see Thanks for your note. I convened a renewed hope, love and guidance amid Inherit the Mirth By Cuyler Black this journey of faith as special meeting of the College of Cardinals the agony. Please pray, and pray hard, an adventure, that you to review your email, and after several for these troubled souls whose world was know that none of us live hours of discussion (interrupted only turned inside out. it perfectly but that we when we took a quick break to walk to a As the master artist, the great joy is that simply try to do it sincerely gelato stand), they all agreed that while God can make us all whole again. He can and with great hope. We acne is nothing to laugh at, the comment piece us back together no matter how hope that you take time concerning your zit and the possibility of broken. to be grateful for this life it being your twin was hilarious. Cardinal I’m so fortunate to work for the Diocese with the knowledge that Lucian Mureşan [of Romania] nearly choked of Dodge City, where (and I say this as this world, as beautiful and on his café caliente. Granted, some of our an avowed cynic) any such troubling glorious and heartbreaking amusement may be a product of so much situations would result in lawful action and as it is, is not all that there recent terrible news, which causes us to the acts made public. I’m also very proud is. find exaggerated joy at something that’s of the priests of our diocese. Before all of In a broken and hurting otherwise just plain silly. It’s like medicine, this trouble was revealed, I began writing a church, it is good to I suppose. book about our priests and the priesthood remember that the church Later, Francis out of pure admiration. as an institution is not P.S. Say hi to Charlene. Tell her I enjoyed It’s a book I plan to joyfully complete. why we are here or what we are here for. Yet we Official Newspaper Bishop John B. Brungardt...... Publisher are responsible for it, Published Semi-Monthly by the David Myers...... Editor Catholic Diocese of Dodge City. All Tim Wenzl...... Advertising Manager and that means holding it material in this newspaper is accountable and working copyrighted 2017. Daniel Stremel, CPA....Business Manager Mrs. Margaret Klenke...... Editor Emerita to make it more truly The Southwest Kansas Catholic reflect the kingdom of Service of Editors P.O. Box 137, Dodge City, KS 67801 God. The grand jury report Phone: (620) 227-1519 Msgr. A.J. Felling 1966-1971 Facsimile: (620) 227-1545 Byron Hull 1971-1974 is one painful step toward e.mail: [email protected] Margaret Klenke 1974-1990 doing just that. website: dcdiocese.org/swkscatholic Tim Wenzl 1990-2000 The Southwest Kansas Catholic Commentary September 2, 2018 Page 5 President of U.S. Bishops’ Conference announces effort that will involve laity, moral experts, and the Vatican as U.S. Bishops resolve to address catastrophe

WASHINGTON— Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), issued the following statement after a series of meetings with members of the USCCB’s Executive Committee and other bishops. The following statement includes three goals and three principles, along with initial steps of a plan that will involve laity, experts, and the Vatican. A more developed plan will be presented to the full body of bishops at their general assembly meeting in Baltimore in November.

“Brothers and Sisters in Christ, in our November meeting. In addition, I will Such tools already exist in many dioceses disciplines, and their presence reinforces Two weeks ago, I shared with you my travel to Rome to present these goals and and in the public sector, and we are already our commitment to the first criterion of sadness, anger, and shame over the recent criteria to the Holy See, and to urge further examining specific options. independence. revelations concerning Archbishop Theodore concrete steps based on them. The third goal is to advocate for better Finally, I apologize and humbly ask your McCarrick [the former archbishop of The over-arching goal in all of this is procedures to resolve complaints against forgiveness for what my brother bishops Washington, who stepped down from the stronger protections against predators in bishops. For example, the canonical and I have done and failed to do. Whatever College of Cardinals due to sexual abuse the Church and anyone who would conceal procedures that follow a complaint will the details may turn out to be regarding allegations]. Those sentiments continue and them, protections that will hold bishops to be studied with an eye toward concrete Archbishop McCarrick or the many abuses are deepened in light of the Pennsylvania the highest standards of transparency and proposals to make them more prompt, in Pennsylvania (or anywhere else), we Grand Jury report. We are faced with a accountability. fair, and transparent and to specify what already know that one root cause is the spiritual crisis that requires not only spiritual Allow me to briefly elaborate on the goals constraints may be imposed on bishops at failure of episcopal leadership. The result conversion, but practical changes to avoid and criteria that we have identified. each stage of that process. was that scores of beloved children of repeating the sins and failures of the past The first goal is a full investigation We will pursue these goals according to God were abandoned to face an abuse of that are so evident in the recent report. of questions surrounding Archbishop three criteria. power alone. This is a moral catastrophe. It Earlier this week, the USCCB Executive McCarrick. These answers are necessary to The first criterion is genuine is also part of this catastrophe that so many Committee met again and established an prevent a recurrence, and so help to protect independence. Any mechanism for faithful priests who are pursuing holiness outline of these necessary changes. minors, seminarians, and others who are addressing any complaint against a bishop and serving with integrity are tainted by The Executive Committee has established vulnerable in the future. We will therefore must be free from bias or undue influence this failure. three goals: (1) an investigation into invite the Vatican to conduct an Apostolic by a bishop. Our structures must preclude We firmly resolve, with the help of God’s the questions surrounding Archbishop Visitation to address these questions, in bishops from deterring complaints against grace, never to repeat it. I have no illusions McCarrick; (2) an opening of new and concert with a group of predominantly them, from hampering their investigation, about the degree to which trust in the confidential channels for reporting lay people identified for their expertise by or from skewing their resolution. bishops has been damaged by these past complaints against bishops; and (3) members of the National Review Board and The second criterion relates to authority sins and failures. It will take work to rebuild advocacy for more effective resolution empowered to act. in the Church. Because only the Pope has that trust. What I have outlined here is only of future complaints. These goals will be The second goal is to make reporting of authority to discipline or remove bishops, the beginning; other steps will follow. I will pursued according to three criteria: proper abuse and misconduct by bishops easier. Our we will assure that our measures will keep you informed of our progress toward independence, sufficient authority, and 2002 “Statement of Episcopal Commitment” both respect that authority and protect these goals. substantial leadership by laity. does not make clear what avenue victims the vulnerable from the abuse of ecclesial Let me ask you to hold us to all of these We have already begun to develop a themselves should follow in reporting abuse power. resolutions. Let me also ask you to pray for concrete plan for accomplishing these goals, or other sexual misconduct by bishops. Our third criterion is substantial us, that we will take this time to reflect, relying upon consultation with experts, laity, We need to update this document. We involvement of the laity. Lay people bring repent, and recommit ourselves to holiness and clergy, as well as the Vatican. We will also need to develop and widely promote expertise in areas of investigation, law of life and to conform our lives even more present this plan to the full body of bishops reliable third-party reporting mechanisms. enforcement, psychology, and other relevant to Christ, the Good Shepherd.” Why do some Catholics stay? By FATHER TERRANCE KLEIN “The words I have spoken to you are Spirit and life. indignation, even though the vile acts never personally America Jesuit Review But there are some of you who do not believe.” touched their lives? Well, how is it that some indignantly ive weeks after we began Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not depart over something as simple as a change in Mass time listening to the sixth believe and the one who would betray him. or a mistake in scheduling ministers? There are examples Fchapter of St. John’s And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one of vastly different gravity, but the indignation is the same. Gospel, the Lord’s Bread of Life can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father” And the problem with indignation is that it draws the line Discourse came to its conclusion (6:63-64). of righteousness and unrighteousness between the one in a recent Sunday readings. Of course, the question for each of us, one that can only who is indignant and all the rest. And like the church itself, in this be asked and answered within the confines of our own Why do some stay, even in sorrow, while others leave? summer of scandal, it closes with consciences, is whether we ourselves have really accepted I think it comes down to this: If you have been fed by a heavy sadness. The teaching of Jesus, not only in name but also in truth. Christ within the church, you know that come what may, Jesus—that he is himself God’s Drawing lines of division anywhere outside the self is you have no other home. To leave the church would be bread, offered to us—is rejected not only by his Jewish of no use. Some of those whom we now know as abusers to leave behind the Christ you have come to know here, interlocutors but also by some of his own. “Many of Jesus’ of children may have never accepted the Lord, not within the Christ who continues to feed you here. disciples who were listening said, ‘This saying is hard; who their hearts. Many of them no doubt did, yet they still fell If you have been fed by Christ within the church, you can accept it?’” (6:60). into terrible sin and committed heinous crimes. We can know that come what may, you have no other home. Then our Lord tells us that heaven has always known only respond publicly, with appropriate punishment, for Many years ago, when he was still a Jesuit superior in that a line of division runs through the very heart of all what is public. We cannot look into the hearts of others. Argentina, Pope Francis taught Jesuit novices to learn men and women. Each of us must decide for ourselves The question for each of us is whether we have really from the people whom they serve, most particularly whether or not to believe the words of Jesus, whether or accepted Jesus, not only in name but also in truth. to pay attention to their expressions of faith. In his not to receive him, as the Word, as the very sustenance papal biography, The Great Reformer, Austen Ivereigh of our life. But what of each of us? Why do some of us gasp in records: This line of division does not conform to the boundaries horror at vile revelations yet respond with the words of During the week, in pastoral theology classes and of the church. As the church has always taught, Christ and Simon Peter and from within the church of Simon Peter: meditations, Bergoglio asked the students to reflect on the Holy Spirit move beyond her borders, drawing men Master, to whom shall we go? their experiences. He insisted that they were not going and women to the Father. And within the church, there are You have the words of eternal life. to teach, but to be taught by, the pueblo fiel; the Jesuits’ those who never come to truly accept either the teaching We have come to believe capacity for inserting themselves into the culture they of Christ or the nourishment he offers. and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God were sent to evangelize was “the decisive test” of their Within the church, there are those who never come to (6:68-69). faith. “How difficult it is, and how lonely it can feel, when truly accept the teaching of Christ. How is it that others leave, some with righteous Continued on Page 14 Page 6 September 2, 2018 The Southwest Kansas Catholic Farm, faith and family await ONE LUCKY CHILD By DAVE MYERS graduati on.” Southwest Kansas Catholic Their daughter Aleaha, now seven, hey are the kind of parents who entered the couple’s lives a few years make you wish you were a kid aft er Brennan, a litt le more than six Tagain. months aft er they submitt ed their paper- They are the kind of parents who, work. when a child one day joins their family “Her birth-mother was very, very through the Catholic Chariti es of young,” Robbie explained. Southwest Kansas Adopti on Program, will Unless you’ve lived it, it’s impossible to surround him or her with farm-bred faith imagine the heart of a woman, especially and aff ecti on and all that goes with it. a young girl, in such a situati on. And “This summer we rebuilt a go-cart,” for this young girl, meeti ng the Kansas Scott Leighton said, referring to their couple proved to be too much for her. adopted children, Brennan, 12, and “We didn’t get to see her,” Robbie Aleaha, 7. “We were able to get the said, sadly. But 14 months aft er Aleaha engine running. We do quite a bit of was born, her father and his parents those kinds of things together.” contacted them. The young father Brennan “has been super athleti c wanted to meet his litt le birth-daughter. since day one,” said his father, who is an “So, she knows her birth-father’s assistant coach when not dealing with family,” Robbie said, joyfully. “They’ve the day-to-day routi ne of raising children. seen Aleaha a number of ti mes in the last And the children enjoy fi shing … and few years.” boati ng … and raising livestock for 4-H. The children att end Catholic school … And tending to a large garden on the in Ost, Kansas and enjoy a farm-life the farmland outside of Bentley, northeast of couple were born into that never left Wichita, where Scott , his wife, Robbie—a them even when they moved deep into physician—and their two children (and the heart of Texas. Their faith has held assorted animals) reside. fi rm all these years, even through the Brennan and Aleaha were adopted by roughest rough-patch of all, when Scott the Leightons through Catholic Chariti es was parti ally paralyzed in a car accident, Dallas, and the couple are currently leaving him a reluctant hero to all those seeking to adopt their third child through who mistakenly consider him disabled, Catholic Chariti es of Southwest Kansas. and certainly to his children. The couple began the adopti on process Scott and Robbie Leighton with their children, Brennan and Aleaha. The Bentley, Robbie, who is a nati ve of St. Francis for their third child aft er having moved Kansas couple are working with Catholic Chariti es of Southwest Kansas to adopt and has family in Scott City, and Scott , back to Kansas from Texas where Robbie their third child. Photo courtesy of Scott and Robbie Leighon originally from Quinter, concluded their was in residency. profi le on the Catholic Chariti es website all that. We had to hurry and get all the at that moment it is possible for the They have thus far waited two years with this fi nal note to any soon-to-be purchases.” human heart to break and rejoice at the since signing on with the southwest parent seeking a family for her child: “It was a prett y exciti ng life change,” same ti me. Our gain was her loss, and we Kansas offi ce. “We look forward to a new additi on Robbie added. “Our birth-mom let us be felt it very much.” Brennan, much to the shock and to our family. Our children can’t wait to in the room when he was born. It was There is sadness, yet the burden for surprise of the Leightons, came just meet their new baby brother or sister amazing.” the birth-parent(s) is far lighter than days aft er having turned in their and share in the adopti on experience. As other couples have att ested, the joy in decades past thanks to the open documentati on. We hope you will get to know us bett er. of fi nding an adopti ve child is countered adopti on system, which allows birth “We just barely got the paper work “May God bless you and hold you in his by the sadness in the eyes of the birth- parents the choice of remaining a part done and was approved,” Scott said with arms as you determine what is best for mother when it comes ti me to say of the adopted child’s life. Like many a chuckle. “Two weeks later we found you and your baby.” goodbye. parents, the Leightons were concerned at out about Brennan. [The birth-mother] “One of our strongest memories is fi rst about the system, but now wouldn’t was basically at her due date when we For more informati on, go to htt ps:// of our son’s birth-mother’s tears as have it any other way. found out about her. It all came super- catholicchariti esswks.org/, or contact she decided to leave the hospital,” the “Brennan’s birth-mom called us every fast. I think we set a new record at the Catholic Chariti es Adopti on Social couple wrote on their profi le, which can day for two weeks aft er the adopti on,” agency. We didn’t even have any baby Worker Lori Titsworth, lti tsworth@ be seen at htt ps://spark.adobe.com/ Robbie said. “She visited the house things purchased. We called my sister catholicchariti esswks.org, (620) 792- page/RCUUWDKkC2w1S/. and saw his room. When she got her who has a baby and ask what are the 1393. “Her tears were our tears. We learned GED that December, we went to her things we need now, like a car seat and

reater love has no one than to give up one’s life for a friend. G This could be said, too, for those who save the life within them by giving that life to another. In the United States: In a country where an esti mated 3,500 babies are aborted every day, there are an esti mated two million couples currently waiti ng to adopt a child. 3,500 babies are Enter Catholic Chariti es of Southwest Kansas. What’s Catholic Chariti es opens its hearts and its hands to: anyone who is pregnant and struggling to learn aborted each day to understand, accept and support her child; a birthparent who has chosen the adopti on process; and wrong parents seeking to adopt a child. 2 million couples Gone are the days when a newborn was taken from the birthmother never to be seen again, their lives with this a mystery to one another. Today, through the Catholic Chariti es Open Adopti on Program, birthparents are currently remain a part of the child’s life. In an atmosphere of mutual love, the adopti ve parents raise the child in the loving embrace of family, while the birthparent(s) remains to off er loving support. picture? waiti ng to adopt For more informati on about adopti on services at Catholic Chariti es, contact Lori Titsworth at lti tsworth@CatholicChariti esSWKS.org, or by phone at 620-792-1393. It should have been expected when discussing centuries-old attitudes toward women, yet the Oct. 26 Scripture Day, presented by Father Raymond Collins,

The Southwest Kansas Catholic September 2, 2018 Page 7 Celebrating St. Anne In honoring Mother of Mary, Olmitz parish celebrates community

t. Ann Parish in Olmitz traditionally celebrates the Sfeast day of Mary’s mother, St. Anne. Though the actual feast day was on July 26, the celebration took place July 29 with parishioners’ families and St. John the Evangelist Parish in Hoisington invited to join. After Mass in the afternoon with four priests concelebrating, the festivities began at the 2100 Club with polkas and waltzes playing overhead. Kids’ games outside were soon underway, including a cupcake walk, penny toss, duck pond, pop bottle ring toss, fishing booth, and face painting. Older kids and adults Above, Connor Griffith and Dale Kuhlman play were able to play “ladder golf”, “washers.” At right, Jenna Hlavaty paints Zoe “washers” and “cornhole” before Fitzsimmons’s hand. Below, Katie Kuhlman and Bingo began inside. Middle and high Kendal Dalton play Bingo. schoolers all received a door prize during the evening, and several were awarded to the adults as well. Two joyful clowns even made an appearance for the fun. Though the parish provided fried chicken and pork fingers for supper, the real treat was the smorgasbord of goodies that parishioners so generously brought to share. While everyone ate, a friendly competition of Catholic Family Feud ensued as four contestants who are known to sit on the East side of church battled against four who are keen on sitting on the West side. It was a hard fought battle, but the West side won the bragging rights. The evening concluded with more than 20 “macho men” vying for the prestigious title and traveling trophy. For this first year’s competition, the name of the game was to knock over vintage metal milk bottles by hurling softballs at them. Most of the competitors would vouch it is harder than it looks. Article and photos by Stephanie Schneider Playing in the duck pond are Isaac Pechanec and Andrew Schneider. Above, Trent Bitter, Clayton Schneider, John Schneider, and Landon Hoopingarner compete in a game of “cornhole.” At left are Hannah Connell, Linda Bahr, Karl Frieb, and Sharon Wissman. Below, Travis Starr proudly carries a trophy he won at the day’s events. Dave:

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Page 8 September 2, 2018 The Southwest Kansas Catholic “I didn’t start to think about [the priesthood],” Carson MOST REV. said, “other people started to think about it for me. When I applied to enter seminary, the ladies at the Gerald ‘Jerry’ L. Vincke church said, ‘We’ve been praying for you since you entered the Church!’ I told them, ‘Wow, you didn’t becomes 12 Bishop of even give me a chance!” he said with a laugh. the Catholic Diocese of Salina, Kansas Introducing newest seminarians Carson Haupt and Jonathan Lemus JONATHAN LEMUS CARSON HAUPT e was born arson Haupt of and reared in Scott City seems HSanta Ana, the Cimpossibly young third largest city in El at 19 to be entering Salvador. seminary [even though, As a boy – not all that decades ago, they many years ago – in entered as young as 14 the Central American and 15]. nati on, Jonathan Lemus Yet, when you hear could have never the young man’s story, imagined that one day it’s easy to understand newly ordained Bishop Gerald L. Vincke sits in the he would be studying why perhaps 19 isn’t so cathedra aft er his ordinati on as Bishop of the Catholic to serve his distant neighbors in the southwest young. At least for this parti cular young man. Diocese of Salina, Aug. 22. corner of Kansas. “I’m a convert,” he said when he sat down for an He was 15 when he felt that fi rst whisper from interview during the Seminarian Renewal Days in God. Garden City, a prayerful send-off before heading ‘...My goal is to bring “I was very acti ve in my Catholic community,” to seminary. the 20-year-old said through interpreter and Was he following the lead of family or friends? people to Jesus.’ fellow seminarian Esteban Hernandez. “I was Taking the road less travelled to the Catholic Church ur neighbors to the north in the Catholic Diocese of moti vated to enter seminary by a priest in my amid the security of others? Salina have a new shepherd. community.” “No,” he replied. “Just me. I was 15 or 16, a junior OOn Aug. 22 in Sacred Heart Cathedral in Salina, Gerald He said that he watched the priest bring in high school. I did a lot of reading about what “Jerry” L. Vincke was ordained the 12th bishop of Salina. peace and hope to his community through the diff erent churches believe.” He follows in the footsteps of Bishop Edward Weisenburger, sacraments. It helped Lemus to “live bett er my Based on what he read—and what he analyzed of who was named Bishop of Tucson in November, 2017. faith,” which in turn helped him to live bett er his own beliefs, “I ended up here,” he said. “He’s intelligent. He’s kind. He’s thoughtful,” Bishop his life. His father, Brent, is a farmer, and his mother, Weisenburger told an NBC affi liate. “I think he’ll prove to And it’s this example that he wants to bring to Deidra works at the First Bapti st Church in Scott a prudent, loving leader for north central and northwest others as a priest. City. Kansas.” As he heads off to Concepti on Seminary, he “My parents weren’t angry,” he said. “They didn’t The Catholic Diocese of Salina boasts 86 parishes in 31 will be accompanied by Hernandez, the two of hinder my decision, for which I’m really thankful.” counties, serving some 44,000 Catholics throughout the whom are taking part in Language, Culture and Carson has one sister, Lanae, a junior in high northwest quarter of the state. (The Catholic Diocese of Dodge Church program for priests who speak English as school. City serves approximately 45,000 Catholics throughout 28 a second language. Carson’s decision to enter the seminary came only counti es.) It must be impossibly inti midati ng for the young aft er a few friends, including one very close friend, Jerry Vincke was born in Saginaw, Mich. in 1964. He studied Jonathan, sti ll somewhat a stranger in a strange let him know that seminary may just be his path. philosophy at St. Thomas More College in Crestview, Ky., and land with limited English skills, to be entering a A few years ago, when most young men were theology at the Athenaeum Seminary in Cincinnati and Sacred seminary in the United States. But it’s nothing thinking about girls, he was thinking about where Heart Seminary in Detroit. that hasn’t been done before, again and again God was leading him. Well, that and girls. On June 12, 1999, at age 34, he was ordained to the and again. Today, you would never guess that “I didn’t start to think about [the priesthood],” he priesthood in Lansing where he began his 20-year service as a when Father Juan Salas fi rst entered seminary, said. “Other people started to think about it for me. priest; he later lived for fi ve years in Rome where he served at his English skills were, well, limited. And Esteban’s When I applied to enter seminary, the ladies at the the North American College as a Spiritual Director. weren’t much bett er. But aft er a few years of church said, ‘We’ve been praying for you since you According to the Diocese of Lansing website, “While in Rome immersion and study, their English skills improved entered the Church!’ I told them, ‘Wow, you didn’t he completed the requirements for the S.T.L. (Licenti ate in exponenti ally. even give me a chance!” he said with a laugh. Sacred Theology), with a focus on Spiritual Theology, in 2015. Jonathan came to the United States with his It wasn’t just the ladies at the church who saw that “In 2015, upon his return to the Diocese of Lansing, he was mother and father and eight of his 12 brothers Carson was being called to something special. assigned as the Pastor of Holy Family Parish in Grand Blanc, and sisters two-and-a-half years ago. He is the “My girlfriend was the first person to say Michigan. In additi on he [served] on the Presbyteral Council second youngest child. anything about it to me,” he said. It wasn’t an easy and the College of Consultors of the Diocese of Lansing.” As he begins his journey, Jonathan hopes that conversati on for the young girl. He received word from the Holy Father about his new one day—should it be the Lord’s design that he “She was worried because she was afraid I’d break appointment on June 13, while serving as pastor of Holy Family make his priestly promises—that he will be able up with her,” he said. Parish. to minister to youth. And that’s exactly what happened. But should the “Archbishop (Christoph) Pierre called me and asked if I was And he wants to bring music ministry into the young man go on to become a priest, it will have sitti ng down,” Bishop Vincke told Gary Demuth of the Salina lives of the youth, he added. When asked if he been parti ally due to the bravery of one young girl Journal. “He told me the Holy Father had chosen me as bishop. played an instrument, the young man replied who shared a hard truth with her boyfriend. I was caught by surprise. One phone call, and you know life humbly and with a smile, “The guitar. A litt le.” “I’m really excited [about entering Concepti on will never be the same again. I had never even been to Kansas With God at his side, mountains will be made into Seminary],” he said. “I just really look forward before. mole-hills, whether that mountain be the English to bringing Church to the people through the “In Michigan I was in charge of a parish, and now I’m in language or getti ng that chording just right. Sacraments. I think about it, and it just blows my charge of a whole diocese,” Vincke said. “There will be a lot Pray for Jonathan as he begins the next chapter mind that God gave me this!” of travel, but I will love to go out and meet the people. I see of his faith journey. Pray for Carson as he takes his fi rst steps in his myself as shepherd of the whole diocese, where my goal is to journey. bring people to Jesus.” Arti cles by Dave Myers

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The Southwest Kansas Catholic September 2, 2018 Page 9 Introducing the 2018 Seminarians for the Catholic Diocese of Dodge City Seven young men receive send-off as they head to seminary

John Stang is in O Lord, my Theology I at St. John God, You Vianney Theological renew the Seminary in Denver. He is a vocation from Church in Prince of Peace Parish every age by in Great Bend. Introducing newest seminarians raising up good priests, John Stang Austin Habash is Carson Haupt and Jonathan Lemus outstanding in in Pre-Theology II holiness, living at St. John Vianney witnesses Theological Seminary of Your in Denver. He is a unchanging vocation from Prince of Peace Parish in Love. In Your Great Bend. Plan for our Austin Habash salvation Tyler Saucedo is in You provide Pre-Theology I at shepherds for St. John Vianney Your people. Theological Seminary Fill the hearts in Denver. He is a vocation from the of young men Prince of Peace Parish with the spirit in Great Bend. of courage and Tyler Saucedo With Father Wesley Schawe, Director of Priestly Ordinations (standing, far left) and Bishop John B. love that they Brungardt, are (standing, left to right) seminarians Tyler Saucedo, John Stang, and Austin Habash. Eric Frieb is in College may answer III at Conception At front are (left to right) Eric Frieb, Carson Haupt, Esteban Hernandez and Jonathan Lemus. Haupt Your call and Lemus are the newest seminarians for the Catholic Diocese of Dodge City. Seminary College in generously. Conception, Mo. He Give parents is a vocation from St. the grace to Ann Parish in Olmitz. encourage Father Wesley Eric Frieb Schawe, vocations in center, Director their family Carson Haupt is of Priestly by prayer and in his College II Vocations, and good example. at Conception seminarians John Seminary College in Raise up Conception, Mo. He Stang, left, and worthy priests is a vocation from St. Austin Habash, for Your Altars Joseph Parish in pray during a Scott City. Holy Hour for and ardent, but gentle Carson Haupt Vocations during Esteban Hernandez Seminarian servants of is in the Language, Renewal Days the Gospel. Culture and Church Aug. 3-5 at St. Give the Program at Conception Dominic Church Church more Seminary College in in Garden City. priests and Conception, Mo. He keep them is a vocation from the Cathedral of Our Lady Photos by Dave Myers faithful in of Guadalupe Parish in Esteban their love and Dodge City. Hernandez By Dave Myers John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, and service. May Jonathan Lemus is in Southwest Kansas Catholic Conception Seminary in Conception, Mo. many young the Language, Culture he seven seminarians for the Catholic Diocese At a lunch reception on Aug. 4, Bishop Brungardt men choose and Church Program at of Dodge City received an official send-off paid special homage to retired priest Msgr. Brian to serve You Conception Seminary during the annual Seminarian Renewal Days Moore, who sat smiling as the bishop recalled that T College, Conception, at St. Dominic Church in Garden City. Msgr. Moore was his spiritual advisor at Pontifical by devoting Mo. He is a vocation Taking part in the three-day event were returning College Josephinum in Ohio. themselves to from the Cathedral of seminarians Tyler Saucedo, John Stang, Austin At the bishop’s table, as the groups sat eating the service of Our Lady of Guadalupe Habash, Esteban Hernandez, and Eric Frieb, as lunch provided by the St. Dominic Social Committee, Your people. Jonathan Parish in Dodge City. well as two new seminarians, Jonathan Lemus and conversation turned from humorous what-would- Lemus Carson Haupt. you-do-if scenarios, to physics, to the glory of God’s Father Welsey Schawe, Director of Priestly creating. Take the time to drop a note to your seminarians, Vocations, and Bishop John B. Brungardt, also took Later, after a talk and prayer, the bishop and letting them know you are praying for them! part. Father Schawe graciously greeted those seminary John STANG, Eric FRIEB, The Aug. 3-5 event included a Health Fair at St. family members of seminarians who were able to be Tyler SAUCEDO, Esteban HERNANDEZ, Catherine Hospital, a Holy Hour for Vocations, a in attendance. The three-day event concluded with Austin HABASH Jonathan LEMUS, seminarian family reception, Mass, much prayer, an English and Spanish Mass at St. Mary Church, St. John Vianney Carson HAUPT and a bit of leisure time as well. Garden City, where parishioners were able to meet Theological Seminary Conception Seminary College The event is held each year just prior to the and greet the young men. 1300 S. Steele St. P.O. Box 502 seminarians returning to school, in this case, St. Denver, CO 80210 Conception, MO 64433 Low self esteem may lead to drug abuse

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“It was during that retreat that I finally was able to come to Welcome Sister Phuong Vu terms with my harsh childhood back in Communist Vietnam.” Vietnamese immigrant welcomed as Dominican Sister novice Sisters Ana Gonzalez and Margaret Uche make vows

By Dee Holleran Dominican Sisters of Peace “One of (my relatives at home) told olumbus, OH – The -- Sister Dominican Sisters of Peace me she had spoken to a wise man who Margaret welcomed three sisters to said I should consider praying about my C Uche, OP, new stages on their journey to Final vocation. I followed that advice, and Profession at the Congregation’s a Nigeria July Assembly. my mind and heart began to open. As native who Phuong Thuy Vu has been I met the Dominican Sisters of Peace, serves in accepted into the Congregation Garden City as a Novice after two years of I became touched by their love and discernment and preparation as a compassion and felt, ‘This is it.’ ” Candidate. A native of Vietnam, Phuong and her family immigrated to the She had her first experience with “One of (my relatives at home) United States in 1989 and Phuong the Dominican Sisters at Loyola told me she had spoken to a wise became a naturalized citizen. University New Orleans, from man who said I should consider “It wasn’t until my first retreat which she graduated in 2002. After praying about my vocation,” she (with the Dominican Sisters) that receiving her Master’s Degree in continues. “I followed that advice, I strongly encountered a God,” Communication from the University and my mind and heart began to Sister Phuong says. “It was during of Texas at El Paso, Sister Ana open. As I met the Dominican that retreat that I finally was able reviewed her life. Sisters of Peace, I became touched Sister Phuong Thuy Vu receives a copy of the Dominican to come to terms with my harsh “I had my master’s degree, was by their love and compassion and Sisters of Peace Constitution from Sister Pat Dual, OP, childhood back in Communist turning 30 and had been working felt, ‘This is it.’ ” Formation Coordinator, as she is accepted into the Vietnam. I realized that even for 10 years in a job I liked, but The two newly-professed Dominican Novitiate as Prioress Sister Patricia Twohill though my family and I had been still felt empty inside,” Sister Dominican Sisters of Peace looks on. through so much, God so blessed Ana said. “I felt defined by what will return to their ministries us with the opportunity of a I was doing, not who I was. As I to continue working for the lifetime.” searched, the question of entering Congregation and for God’s people. Sister Phuong holds a Bachelor’s the religious life began to surface. Sister Ana serves as Coordinator Degree in chemical I hadn’t seriously considered it of International Admissions at engineering from Albertus Magnus the Illinois Institute College, a founded of Technology ministry of the and worked in Congregation. Sister customer service Margaret ministers as and information a home health nurse in technology for AT&T Western Kansas. in Dallas, TX before Sister Ana and Sister entering the convent. Margaret will continue “I can confidently to discern their call to place my life into Dominican life. Our the hands of God, prayer is that they will and trust that he will one day make a lifetime lead me to the light,” commitment by taking Sister Phuong says. Perpetual Vows. Sister Phuong will Sister Margaret Uche, OP, left, receives the Congregation’s spend two years in About the shield from Sister Pat Dual, OP, right. Sister Margaret serves the Novitiate, after Dominican Sisters as a home health nurse in Garden City. which time she may of Peace: request to make Dominican Sisters Temporary Vows as of Peace, members of the Order of Preachers, a Dominican Sister of Sisters Bea Tiboldi, Carole Hermann, and Maria Beesing lead Peace. As a Novice, are vowed Catholic the procession into the Dominican Sisters of Peace Profession women who strive to Phuong Vu is officially Mass. called “Sister,” albeit spread the Gospel of in training. Christ and advance Newly-welcomed Sisters Ana before, but recalled my interaction the Kingdom of God through lives Gonzalez and Margaret Uche both with talented, educated, dynamic of service and peace-making. made their Temporary Vows, a Dominican Sisters of Peace. I could The Dominican Sisters of Peace significant step in the journey to feel something in me being stirred are present in 22 states, Nigeria becoming a perpetually-vowed that was blossoming and life- and Peru. The Sisters serve God’s religious Sister. Temporary Vows giving.” people in many ways, including last at least three years. Temporary Sister Margaret, a native of education, health care, spirituality, Vows also mark the point at which Nigeria, studied nursing at the pastoral care, prison ministry, the a Sister is identified as a member University of Houston. In 2011, arts, and care of creation. There Sister Ana Gonzalez, OP, left, signs her Vows as she makes of their Order; both Sister Ana and she attended a retreat at the are 457 sisters and more than 600 Temporary Profession as a Dominican Sister of Peace. Sister Margaret are now officially Dominican motherhouse in Great lay associates affiliated with the Congregational Prioress Sister Patricia Twohill, OP, (right) Dominican Sisters of Peace. Bend, where she met many sisters congregation. signs as a witness. Sister Ana is a native of Mexico, who had worked in her home having come to the United States country. “My heart knew this was when she was just 10 years old. the right choice for me,” she said. The Southwest Kansas Catholic September 2, 2018 Page 11 Sr. Gemma Doll, OP, Sisters celebrate 380 years celebrates golden jubilee of combined service Dominican Sister helped found At rear (LtoR): Sister Dominic Haug, Sister Charlotte Unrein, Congregation in Nigeria Sister Gemma Doll. Front row: Sister Geraldine Eakes, Sister Kevin Clavin and Sister Mary Ellen Dater

Articles provided by the Dominican Sisters Sisters Mary Ellen Dater, Geraldine Eakes and of Peace. Charlotte Unrein are three 70-year jubilarians. riends, family members, and religious Sister Mary Ellen began a long ministerial life community members gathered in as a teacher in Kansas and Colorado elementary Fthe Dominican Chapel of the Plains schools. She says she really believes that when God in Great Bend to celebrate the service and closes one door, He opens another one. She became religious vocation of six Dominican Sisters: a member of the Heartland Farm community near Sister Gemma Doll, OP, (left) Dominican Sister of Peace Sister Gemma Doll, Sister Kevin Clavin, Sister Pawnee Rock, where she promotes care for Earth and Golden Jubilarian, with Sisters from the Dominican Sisters of Dominic Haug, Sister Mary Ellen Dater, Sister its inhabitants. She has been at Heartland Farm for St. Catherine of Gusau in Nigeria, Africa. Geraldine Eakes, and Sister Charlotte Unrein. 22 years. She says, “Consecrated life for me means Together these Sisters have given 380 years of a life of commitment to prayer, study, community, Article provided by the Dominican Sisters of Peace. dedicated service to the people of God. and service in response to God’s call. My jubilee is a ome people are a product of their upbringing. Some are a See Sister Gemma Doll’s story at left. celebration of gratitude for God’s lavish graces and product of their times. Sister Gemma Doll, OP, is a product blessings throughout these many years.” Sof both, and both shaped her decision to dedicate her Sister Kevin Clavin and Sister Dominic life to service as a Dominican Sister. This year, Sister Gemma Haug are celebrating 60 years of religious Sister Geraldine has had a varied ministerial celebrates 50 years since her profession in 1968. profession. life of more than 60 years. She has been a teacher Sister Gemma came of age during the Second Vatican Council, Sister Kevin began a 52-year ministry in elementary parochial schools, director of the the Civil Rights movement, the women’s rights movement and of teaching in four elementary schools in temporary professed sisters, and several ministries the Vietnam War. Her early life on the Kansas prairie, growing Kansas, and then in Pueblo and Durango, at the Motherhouse including Rosary Shrine Director, up in a family of both intense discussions and hilarity, showed Colorado. For the past eight years she has receptionist and secretary for Heartland Center. This her that her life would have endless possibilities, and set her ministered within the motherhouse in Great 70-year jubilee reminded Sister Geraldine of how ablaze with a desire for justice, for preaching and for healing. Bend. Reflecting on her jubilee, Sister Kevin “truly blessed I feel with the many happy memories That fire came to life when she joined the Dominican Sisters of said, “This jubilee has given me time to of all the gifts I have received over the years from Great Bend, now the Dominican Sisters of Peace. reflect on religious life and to thank God for God and from my religious community.” Sister Gemma studied at the Barton County Community my Dominican vocation.” College and Marymount College in Kansas. She served in rural Sister Charlotte has served in many varied health and nursing in Kansas and Colorado until 1975, when her Sister Dominic’s ministries have all ministries over the years – from domestic work and congregation founded a new congregation in Sokoto, Nigeria, been in the tradition of good education for nursing to very different forms of service in foreign and she traveled there to serve as an instructor and as a regional future nurses. She taught at the Dominican countries. She was guest provider for pilgrims in coordinator for what would become the Dominican Sisters of Sisters School of Nursing and was director of Prouilhe, France, and one of the first missionaries St. Catherine, Gusau. Golden Belt Home Health Service. Later she founding our daughter congregation in Gusau, “Serving in Nigeria, I learned that the world is my herself served as a nursing pastoral minister Nigeria. Reflecting on her jubilee, she says, “This is neighborhood,” Sister Gemma said. “I belonged to the Earth’s in a Via Christi Village in Manhattan. Now a day of thanksgiving filled with joy and gratitude community as a preacher of good news, a peace-maker and a at the Motherhouse, Sister Dominic says, for life in mission and for being surrounded by my justice worker.” “My jubilee means a special time to thank community. I praise God!” After returning to the United States in 1979, she continued God for the call to Dominican life and for the her nursing studies in Colorado and New Mexico, and served blessings during my years of ministry and as an instructor at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. community life.” In 1986 Sister Gemma was elected Assistant Prioress of the Dominican Sisters of Great Bend in Kansas. She later served “Consecrated life for me means a life of commitment to prayer, as a clinical director at Finney County Public Health and in the Mexican American Ministries/Nurse Practitioner Program at a study, community, and service in response to God’s call. My community health center in Garden City. Sister Gemma then served as Prioress of the Dominican jubilee is a celebration of gratitude for God’s lavish graces and Sisters of Great Bend from 1998 to 2006. After a brief sabbatical, blessings throughout these many years.” she returned as Coordinator of Cultural Formation for the -- Sister Mary Ellen Dater Catholic Dodge City Diocese in Kansas through 2009. Sister Gemma currently serves on the Leadership Team for the Dominican Sisters of Peace in Columbus, Ohio, where she continues to be passionate about justice, preaching and healing, Farm to Table dinner at Heartland Farm, Sept. 15 especially for immigrants and refugees. eartland Farm, a ministry of the Dominican provided by Alex Cartwright. The evening will also “No single family, country, nor race should be favored as HSisters of Peace located just west of Great include demonstrations by farm residents. best,” she says. Bend, invite you to an evening of live music, fun The cost is $45 per person or $80 per couple. Sister Gemma cannot envision a more exciting and blessed life and fellowship, Saturday, Sept. 15. The evening Tickets are available at https://heartlandfarm- than the one she has lived as a Dominican Sister of Peace. will feature a catered meal created by January ks.org. “Any women feeling a longing for ‘more,’” Sister Gemma Pecora with ingredients sourced from Heartland Heartland Farm is at 1049 CR 390, Pawnee Rock. says, “should check into Dominican life – mysteriously filled Farm other area small farms. A silent auction will For more information, visit the website listed with love for God, whom your heart desires.” be included, featuring farm-made items. Music is above, or call (620) 923-4585. Page 12 September 2, 2018 The Southwest Kansas Catholic

The gift of the Eucharist The Real Presence The Eucharist as sacrifice Can We Believe It? was born a human and as a entrance into the Heavenly Kingdom. human I will die. It does not This sacrifice that changes and matter how hard I try to change elevates my very existence is I By Father this reality, I will never be able to celebrated at each single Eucharist. Juan Salas By Father come up with a simpler and more real The Eucharist is the living sacrifice way to express my human existence. I that Christ offers for the living and the Wesley Schawe Assistant cannot, in a certain way, do anything dead, for the sanctification of sin and Director, to change this reality… but Jesus as a thanksgiving offering for the good Director, Priestly Christ does. and merciful Divine Providence. Priestly Vocations In fact, our Lord Jesus Christ has The “Eucharist demonstrates how Vocations done it already. He has made me one Jesus’ death, for all its violence and with Him through the sacrifice of the absurdity, became in him a supreme cross. Through His sacrificial offering act of love and mankind’s definitive my body” (Mark 14:22-25). om, when is supper? I’m dying of Sacramentum my existence and meaning of life is deliverance from evil” ( I cannot help thinking that when hunger! Caritatis transformed. No 10). our Lord was breaking the bread He MMy backpack weighs a ton! Jesus prayed for all those who The same Jesus Christ who offered did that in front of them to show When we hear these statements, we don’t really believe in Him “that they may all be Himself on the cross offers Himself think of them as being literally true. But what them that he was about to break His one; even as you, Father, are in me, now at every Eucharist celebration. own body, not in a metaphorical way about when Jesus says, “Whoever eats my flesh and I in you, that they also may be The true and living sacrifice of Jesus but in reality, giving Himself up for and drinks my blood will live forever.”? Did he in us” (John 16:21). That prayer was Christ is remembered and lived out them, for you, for me. And, when He mean it literally, or just symbolically? Wouldn’t lifted up, in its fullness, to God the in the liturgical act of the Mass. Our gave it to them they freely received it. it be more likely for a backpack to weigh a ton Father like incense from a burning Lord Jesus Christ told His disciples In the same manner, in the Eucharistic than for Jesus to command us to eat His flesh and offering when His body was lifted up as He now tells us, “Do this in sacrifice our Lord gives me His body drink His blood? on the cross as the perfect sacrifice remembrance of me” (Lk 22:19; 1 and blood and I am free to choose How it was said for us. Cor 11:25). I am drawn to remember to take it or not. I choose to accept The further Jesus progresses in John 6, the more The sacrifice of Jesus Christ opens that the Eucharist is not an act where it, to make myself one with Him. All graphic the Greek text becomes, changing from the eyes of my heart and allows me I am the spectator of something that that I have to present to Jesus Christ to see that my human reality receives happened many centuries ago. a word that basically means “to eat” to a word is my humanity, my shortness of life, a deeper meaning: a meaning that To “do this in remembrance of me” that could be better interpreted as “to chew” or my limitations, all that I am and all transcends or goes beyond my stay in is to allow myself to be part of that that I have. To present myself to him even “to gnaw.” Hardly symbolic language. Even this world. merciful love that God pours down on the sheer repetition speaks volumes. In a mere as bread and wine to be transformed It is this sacrifice that makes me me. It is to allow myself to be drawn into a pleasing oblation to God. four verses (John 6: 53-56) Jesus makes eight realize that even though I would to Jesus Christ, who in the Eucharistic references to His flesh as food or His blood as My humanity is elevated to God never be able to change this humanity sacrifice reveals total self-giving and and immerse in a “radical change… drink. A symbolic statement would not be made that makes me who I am, I can say triumph over death. so graphically or emphatically. which penetrates to the heart of all that my humanity is now united with “Do you believe this? […] Yes, Lord; being, a change meant to set off a How it was heard the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. United I believe that you are the Christ, the process which transforms reality, You can judge a great deal about what someone in such a way that I see myself not Son of God, he who is coming into the a process leading ultimately to the means by the way their words are received. If just a mere human being, but as a world” (Jn 11:27) to give meaning to transfiguration of the entire world, to Mom really believed her child was dying of hunger, loved child of God who aspires to be my mortal humanity and to bring me the point where God will be all in all” she would call an ambulance. The reaction of the with Him and all my loved ones in the to eternal life. (Sacramentum Caritatis No 11). disciples in John 6 is the first-century version kingdom of heaven, not by my own The invitation of our Lord to be one I was born a human and as a human of calling for an ambulance. At first they say, merits but by virtue of His self-giving. with him in the Eucharistic sacrifice I will die. However, I will always “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Jesus Christ gave his life for me, must not be something that I merely remember that through the sacrifice Then it becomes, “This saying is hard. Who can for each one of us, and makes me contemplate. Saint Mark tells to us of Christ celebrated in the Eucharist, one with Him by giving his life on the that “as they were eating, he took accept it?” If Jesus’ saying was merely symbolic, my humanity is united to Christ in cross for the redemption of my sins bread and blessed, and broke it, and it wouldn’t have been hard to accept at all. The hope for the eternal life. and through His resurrection for my gave it to them, and said: Take; this is reason the disciples were so dumbfounded and perplexed is precisely because the words were not symbolic. They were challenging! They were ‘...all suffer together with it’ Pope Francis unprecedented! Jesus meant what he said. How it was fulfilled Continued from Page 1 “coming to grips… in a comprehensive “hunger and thirst for justice,” and In fact, the words were so challenging that silencing or ignoring of some Catholics and communal way,” and while impel the Church “to walk in the truth, one perhaps could have thought them symbolic through the creation of elitist groups conversion requires acknowledgment supporting all the judicial measures that or projects. simply because they seemed impossible to fulfill… of the truth, it is “not enough.” may be necessary.” In particular, all forms of clericalism impossible, that is, until the Last Supper. When “This change calls for a personal “It is essential that we, as a Church, should be rejected, he said, because and communal conversion that makes be able to acknowledge and condemn, Jesus took bread and said “This is my body,” and clericalism undervalues baptismal us see things as the Lord does… to with sorrow and shame, the atrocities then took a cup of wine and said, “This is the grace and can lead to abuses by Church be where the Lord wants us to be, to perpetrated by consecrated persons, chalice of my blood,” it suddenly became possible authority. Clericalism causes “an excision experience a conversion of heart in his clerics, and all those entrusted with the to do what He had commanded. The words that in the ecclesial body that supports and presence. To do so, prayer and penance mission of watching over and caring for they had heard before took on added meaning helps to perpetuate many of the evils will help,” he stated. those most vulnerable,” he continued. when their fulfillment became apparent. that we are condemning today.” The penitential aspect of fasting will “Let us beg forgiveness for our Will you really die of hunger? Probably not. Voicing strong support for all the help Catholics to come before the Lord own sins and the sins of others,” he Does your backpack really weigh a ton? I hope victims of clerical sex abuse and for their “as sinners imploring forgiveness and said. “An awareness of sin helps us to not. But did Jesus really mean that we should eat families, he said though most of the the grace of shame and conversion,” so acknowledge the errors, the crimes His flesh and drink His blood? Based on how it was cases recently come to light, “belong to that actions “attuned to the Gospel” can and the wounds caused in the past and said, how it was heard, and how it was fulfilled, the past,” as time goes on the pain of the follow, he explained. allows us, in the present, to be more the answer is “yes.” In fact, that same reality victims has come to be more known. He prayed that fasting and prayer open and committed along a journey is said, heard, and fulfilled when the Body and He said the gravity and extent to will open people’s ears to the pain of renewed conversion.” Blood of Jesus become really present at Mass. which clerical sexual abuse of minors of children, young people, and the See the Holy Father’s letter in its and other abuse has happened takes disabled, that it will make Catholics entirety at dcdiocese.org. Good Evening Dave Myers,

I do apologize, I received word from Father Mike that you had not received the Wedding Pictures. I was sure that I e- mailed them to a while back. I was unable to retrieve the old e-mailed. Here I am sending you the pictures. Again, I apologize for the delay and mess of the e-mail. Here I am sending a few. I hope they are what you are looking for. If not please let me know.

Thank You, Mrs. Lydia A. Callahan

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í, noticias preocupantes sobre Monseñor, ¿está bromeando?, el escándalo de abuso en la Por Reverendísimo ¿la obediencia? SIglesia. Hemos conversado John B. extensamente en nuestra reunión Brungardt, ¿Qué es esto, un sacerdote que promete obedecer a su obispo? Soy un hombre de directores diocesanos y nuestra adulto, ¡no obedezco a nadie! Bueno, supongo que sigo las instrucciones de reunión del consejo presbiteral. Obispo de la Diócesis Católica un oficial de policía si me pide que haga algo, y obedezco al Departamento de Algunas de las palabras expresadas: Impuestos y pago mis impuestos. Pero, ¿qué es esto de la obediencia? traición, tristeza, “puñetazo en el de Dodge City estómago”, vergüenza, ira, horror, El Padre Jacob Schneider y el Padre Mark Brantley, en su ordenación sacerdotal en dolor... junio de 2017, respondieron “sí” a mi pregunta: “¿Prometes obediencia a mí y a mis Buscamos la justicia. sucesores?”. ¿Qué pudo motivar a estos dos hombres a hacer esta promesa radical? Reflexiono en mi mente, corazón El verbo “obedecer” proviene de la raíz latina “audire”, que significa “escuchar”. Mi y espíritu: Justicia para los autores profesor de seminario la describía diciendo: obedecer es escuchar atentamente. Por • Todos buscamos a Jesucristo, ejemplo, un joven escucha atentamente a sus padres, y entiende “te quiero y quiero nuestro Señor y Salvador, el Herido. de delitos y los que que estés a salvo”, cuando los padres fijan horarios para volver a casa de una fiesta. Jesús abandonado en la cruz. permitieron que los Un esposo y padre escucha a su esposa y entiende “te amo, y te quiero cerca de mí y Pedimos curación para las víctimas de los niños” cuando ella le dice: “Cariño, pasas demasiado tiempo en la oficina”. y sus familias. Cristo es el Médico delitos ocurriesen. Un sacerdote escucha con atención a su obispo. Por ejemplo, cuando un sacerdote Divino de nuestro cuerpo y alma. recibe una nueva misión, entiende “después de la conversación contigo, de haber llamados a seguir perdonando a nuestros Él sanará a todos. “Y uno de ellos, consultado a otras personas y con la guía del Espíritu Santo en la oración, te estoy hermanos y hermanas, una y otra vez dándose cuenta de que había sido designando para otro ministerio, para el bien de la Iglesia diocesana”. Esto requiere (Mateo 18, 21-22). Pido perdón. Por favor sanado, regresó glorificando a Dios” un salto de fe en Dios, una confianza en su plan de una iglesia jerárquica y un amor perdónanos, a los obispos y sacerdotes. (Lucas 17, 15). por Jesucristo, el Sumo Sacerdote que es el modelo del sacerdote. Jesús obedeció al • Buscamos la justicia. Justicia para los • Somos pecadores. Nosotros los Padre Celestial sin reservas, sin contar el costo. Nosotros sacerdotes somos llamados autores de delitos y los que permitieron obispos somos pecadores. Nosotros a hacer lo mismo. Jesús “llegó a ser para cuantos le obedecen causa de salvación que los delitos ocurriesen. Solicitamos los sacerdotes somos pecadores. eterna” (Hebreos 5, 9). El Padre Mark y el Padre Jacob abrazaron este asombroso una mayor participación de las autoridades Todos son pecadores. El Evangelio llamado de Dios en su Misa de ordenación. civiles y los laicos, para buscar justicia. “Él de una Santa Misa reciente fue Hombres solteros y niños varones, escuchemos cuidadosamente, obedezcamos, a [el Señor] juzga el mundo con justicia” la pregunta a Jesús: “¿Cuántas nuestro dulce Jesús. Escuchen su llamado para ser un sacerdote o un esposo y padre, (Salmo 9, 9). veces tengo que perdonar?”. Jesús y síganlo. Jesús te hablará en tu oración, ¡ya que Él te ama más de lo que puedes Llévelo todo a la oración, nuestro Señor de responde: “hasta setenta veces pedir o imaginar! Mons. John, obispo. siete”, lo que significa que estamos amor está con usted; Él lo ama mucho. + Mons. John Aguas tan amargas lega de nuevo. vez lo arreglaremos realmente? nosotros, ni lo suficientemente fuertes como para Esta aullante injusticia, este gran pecado de No confiando en nuestros propios poderes: solucionarlo si lo supiéramos. Labuso sexual, esta tormenta que sacudió la eso el algo que debería estar claro ahora. No Necesitamos algo... Alguien... más allá de Iglesia, este Mal profundo: llega de nuevo, una por nuestra delicadeza de gestión impulsada por nosotros. Necesitamos un Salvador que nos vez más. consultores, no por nuestras “mejores prácticas” ayude a través de este nuevo Vía Crucis. Esta Pensábamos que lo habíamos solucionado y cultivadas, no por nuestra cuidadosa charla con nueva purificación. Esta nueva conversión. Solo que íbamos camino a la recuperación. Pero aquí los abogados. Estos no hacen nada para detener su poder puede ayudarnos a ver nuestros pecados, está, esta cosa fea, y es incluso peor de lo que el flujo de sangre, para curar y sanar las heridas por lo que realmente son, y liberarnos de ellos. podríamos haber imaginado. en esta profundidad. Estoy con ustedes siempre, prometió, hasta el Llega tan profundo. Sus raíces están tan Nosotros los obispos, arzobispos y cardenales fin del mundo. Agárrate a eso. Agárrate fuerte, + Obispo enredadas. Resiste al hacha más aguda necesitamos arreglarnos primero a nosotros mientras las oleadas de repulsión te arrasan y Ronald M. Gilmore balanceada por manos torpes. Esta vez, son los mismos. Pero dejados a nosotros mismos, no amenazan con ahogarte. pastores en jefe. ¿En quién podemos confiar podemos lograrlo. No somos lo suficientemente Deja que Pedro te enseñe cómo caminar en entonces? ¿Dónde podemos mirar? ¿Alguna inteligentes como para saber lo que está mal en aguas tan amargas. Sacerdote no quería usar alzacuellos tras escándalo de abusos y esto fue lo que pasó n un emotivo mensaje en Facebook, confiando en el Señor. Sin embargo, “cuando me volví y dije ‘sí’, conciencia más profunda de la gran un sacerdote admitió que ante los “Mi oración continua ha sido por las (la mujer) me preguntó, con lágrimas en responsabilidad y magnitud de lo que Eescándalos de abusos sexuales del víctimas. A medida que siguen las noticias, mi los ojos, si podía ungir a su hermano que representa” esta prenda que forma parte clero llegó a sentir vergüenza de portar corazón se desgarra más. Ahora, el alzacuellos se estaba muriendo de cáncer”. de la indumentaria de un sacerdote. el característico alzacuellos, pero una representa algo totalmente opuesto a lo que Entonces, el P. Slavinskas reflexionó y se También pidió disculpas al pueblo de increíble experiencia le devolvió la paz. debería. Mientras andaba me preguntaba dijo a sí mismo que no importaba lo que había Dios “por cualquier dolor que haya causado Se trata del P. Jonathan Slavinskas, cuántas personas que vieran mi alzacuellos se pensado sobre el alzacuellos en los últimos mientras usaba el alzacuellos” y las veces en nacido el 25 de junio de 1984 en Worcester, preguntarán: ‘¿Este también es (un abusador días, pues esta mujer “lo vio como un signo las que podría haber ignorado su “deber de ser en el estado de Massachusetts (Estados sexual)?”, escribió. de esperanza y de la presencia de Cristo”. un sacerdote bueno, santo y lleno de fe”. Unidos), y ordenado sacerdote el 2 de junio Luego, dijo que en los últimos días, “Si decidía no usarlo, su hermano “Pido oraciones de perdón y fortaleza”, de 2012. Actualmente es párroco de St. tras mudarse de la rectoría a la parroquia no habría recibido la Santa Cena que expresó. Bernard’s Catholic Church of Our Lady of y mientras repartía útiles escolares a necesitaba y toda su familia podría no haber Finalmente, pidió disculpas a quienes Providence Parish. numerosos jóvenes del vecindario, se dijo: experimentado consuelo”, reconoció. fueron “profundamente heridos de la manera En su mensaje compartido en redes “Quítate el alzacuellos”. Sin embargo, una También, el P. Slavinskas recordó que más horrible por miembros de la Iglesia”. sociales el 19 de agosto, el presbítero relató experiencia que tuvo al visitar un hospital le el alzacuellos no trata sobre lo que él “No sé lo que vendrá mañana, pero sé que durante la semana estuvo “caminando devolvió la esperanza y su deseo de volver podía sentir o no, sino que se “trataba de que tengo que ponerme ese alzacuellos”, con un corazón pesado” y “completamente a portarlo con alegría. Jesucristo”, de “que recordemos que no dijo que el P. Slavinskas, quien recordó que enojado y frustrado como resultado de “Esta mañana, no quería ponerme el estamos viajando solos en este mundo”. su ministerio continúa porque “todavía los informes de abusos en Pensilvania y la alzacuellos. Yo estaba avergonzado. Estaba “Ciertamente no soy digno de usarlo, hay almas que Cristo quiere atraer a su situación de McCarrick (ex cardenal)”. cansado. Estaba enojado, pero lo hice. pero me doy cuenta de que estoy llamado presencia y su paz”. Recordó que cuando era estudiante de Luego, cuando visité a feligreses enfermos a usarlo, no para mí, sino por el bien de “Por favor, haga una oración por mí”, secundaria y luego en la universidad, los en el hospital, pasé junto a una mujer que los demás. Cuando me lo coloque, debo concluyó el P. Slavinskas. escándalos habían estallado por primera estaba afuera de una habitación. Mientras pedirle a Dios que me convierta en un santo vez en el noreste del país, por lo que era continuaba hacia el ascensor, ella se sacerdote, un puente y no un obstáculo”, Sesiones de conscientización; consciente de la “sombra” que se arrojaría acercó por detrás y me preguntó si era un escribió el presbítero. sobre él si decidía convertirse en sacerdote. sacerdote católico. Estaba listo para recibir Luego de esta experiencia el P. Slavinskas Línea especial para víctimas No obstante, continuó con su ministerio el golpe…”, relató el P. Slavinskas. empezó a rezar cada mañana por “una de abuso sexual -- Pagina 23

n 28 July, we marked the death of an early Jesuit missionary, Father John Schoenmakers. He died in 1883, late on a OSaturday afternoon, in Osage Mission, now known as St. Paul, Kansas. He was in the 76th year of age, the 50th year of his priesthood, the 49th year as a Jesuit, and the 36th year of his service in Kansas. His place gave birth to my place, the home parish where I grew up. My work brought me to live, for some months in his place, on the very spot where he founded his Mission. I was drawn again and again to his grave in that tiny parish cemetery. He fills that whole place still. “There was nothing dynamic about the man, nor was he unusually gifted,” an historian said. I am not an individual, he said in a letter to his Superiors, I am an institution. The first was submerged in the last. Superior of the local community, manager of the Mission, spiritual Father to the Sisters of Loretto, doctor, postmaster, steward, lawyer, judge, catechist, preacher to the Native Americans, he submerged himself … effaced himself … in his work, rarely spending time in his own rooms, and rarely leaving the Mission compound. His Jesuit Superiors were not always pleased with him. They were forever reprimanding him about his spending, forever reminding him to stay within his budget, forever shaking their heads at his seeming inability to understand and to follow instructions. Some members of the Mission community found him too driven, too exacting, and too apt to interfere in their own work, which perplexed and discouraged them. But the members of the Osage Tribe, they came to love him with a fierce loyalty. They had only a living oral language, passed down from person to person, no written language. And when they came to make their own word for “priest,” the sound they chose was Schouminka. His name, his presence, his energy, his work … he was priest to them. We should all be so lucky. Page 14 September 2, 2018 The Southwest Kansas Catholic Why do some Catholics stay? Stewardship Conference: From Page 5 send their child to the parochial school, By STAFF key to survival. I realize I must learn from the people only opting for a quality education, or is Southwest Kansas Catholic “...The best option,” he said, pointing to their language, their terms of reference, this their way of staying near the flock, Editor’s Note: Rather than condense the the large glass doors to the outside of the their values, not as a way of polishing so they can eventually catch up? Stewardship Conference’s five 20-minute church, “is out those doors, escaping. Next my theology but as a new way of being All of these people know that “here,” presentations into one- or two-paragraph is lockdown. If you are locked in a room that transforms me,” he told them. A the church, is far from perfect. It not only snippets, the SKC is instead going to with a good door, the shooter will not major part of that learning was to respect suffers the assaults of hell, sadly, it often present in-depth articles in upcoming waste time trying to open the door.” and understand popular forms of piety: enough colludes with the powers of hell. issues covering important topics discussed The next is to hide. Turn off the lights. asking the saints to intercede, praying the They are not complacent. These people throughout the day-long event. Topics to Make no sound. Another option, he said, Rosary, going on pilgrimages to shrines, know that hearts cannot be judged but be covered in upcoming issues: What to is to run, and to run in a zig-zag fashion. reverently touching statues. Bergoglio that procedures and punishment do not do if you are deported; Discipleship when It’s very difficult for even seasoned encouraged his students to do the same. need to read hearts to be effective. coaching, when working with youth, while shooters to hit a running target. His idea, recalls [Angel] Rossi, [one of the They may be angry. They may be parenting; and how to get along with The last option is to fight. novices] was that “here we have poor confused. But they walk into their parish those with whom you disagree. “What are you willing to do to survive?” people, and because they are poor they each weekend, look up at the altar they he asked. “If [I were the shooter], you rely on faith, and because they have faith, call their own and say, neither with It’s not about the money people far outnumber me. Could you not they are our center. Their faith, their complacency nor callousness: tewardship has long been associated act together? culture, their way of expressing their Master, to whom shall we go? with the offering plate; being “Everyone of you are sitting on a faith—that is what we must value.” You have the words of eternal life Sstewards of God’s gifts, after all, weapon that is very effective against my Those who gather before Mass to pray (6:68). means sharing with others that with head,” he said, referring to the metal, the rosary, those who slip into church to This is not a license for their shepherds which you’ve been gifted. folding chairs. “If you work together, you light a votive candle, those who touch to take the faith of these men and women Then, how do mass shootings enter into can defeat me. Fight aggressively. their favorite saint’s statue (because for granted. They are Christ’s own, whom the stewardship picture? “If you don’t become mentally that is how we humans communicate he holds close to himself. Indeed, we the The Stewardship Conference looks far prepared how to react, you won’t react with close companions), those who shepherds must look into our own hearts: beyond the offering plate, presenting effectively.” seem relentless in their devotion to the If we cannot see Christ here, in the flock, ways for us to be better equipped to serve Chaplet of Divine Mercy, those who are if we ignore this Christ, if we allow this our Lord and each other. EQUIPPING YOUTH TO SERVE YOUTH angry enough to stay away from Mass Christ to be grievously wounded, where And therein lies a sad reality. Nowadays, Denise Flax, a Ransom High School teacher but cannot skip helping in the soup are our hearts? For wherever they are, being better equipped to serve others and religious education instructor at kitchen—all of these are men and women however calloused they have become, means being prepared for violence. St. Aloysius Parish in Ransom, brought who have been fed here by Christ. they no longer belong to Christ. At the Stewardship Conference Aug. two of her students to the gathering, And what of the unknown young couple, 25, Deputy Steve Billinger of the Barton her sons Daren and Jamie, who, with asking to have their baby baptized? This column was reprinted with County Sheriff’s Office, shared a sad reality the rest of their PSR class, create social Maybe they are caving to pressure from permission from America, the Jesuit that hopefully will never hit home for media videos designed to evangelize grandparents, or maybe this is their way Review magazine. Father Klein is pastor those dozens of people in attendance. other young people. of recognizing that soon their life must at Immaculate Conception Parish, Claflin, His topic, “What to do if someone Perfectly fitting the subject of their change, must find deeper roots. Is the St. Joseph Parish, Ellinwood, and Holy shows up with a gun,” was one of presentation, the three performed their couple, married outside the church, who Family Parish, Odin. several presentations given at this year’s talk from a prepared script, which was conference at the Cathedral of Our Lady carefully injected with how-tos, valuable of Guadalupe. advice, and a good dose of humor. The annual conference is organized by “We must share our faith with kindness, Director of Stewardship, Eric Haselhorst. not drill it into them like a jackhammer,” Sessions always manage to reflect the they said, referring to the lessons taught reality of the times, whether it is the in their videos. tragedy of mass shootings, the how-tos The presentation included a video the of making social media videos for faith class made with a cell-phone camera, formation, or even how to get along “What is Apologetics?” with those you disagree—especially While they await a grant from the Vibrant considering the political landscape. Ministries — Uniting Our Church Appeal to help upgrade their video equipment, the ACTIVE SHOOTER RESPONSE cell-phone video shows that even on a Tragically, the morning after Deputy shoestring budget, it’s possible to produce Billinger discussed what to do in an a creative, fun, and faith-filled message to “active shooter” situation, 15 people the young masses. were shot while attending a video game tournament in Jacksonville, Fla. At press Being a Disciple as a time, three people had died, including Parent with Teens the assailant. Eric Haselhorst’s presentation was “This topic is so critical for all of us,” entitled “How to be a Disciple as a Parent Deputy Billinger said prior to the most with Teens.” He provided examples of recent shooting. “The world has changed. how language matters when talking to You can even walk into an active shooter teenagers. environment in a movie theater. “Don’t assume negative intent when “...On Nov. 5, 2017, Devin Patrick Kelley you ask your kids questions. You can went into a small Baptist Church [near San get the same information you need by Antonio] armed with an assault rifle…. A assuming positive intent.” few minutes later, 28 parishioners had Haselhorst spoke about the use of been killed. That tiny church in a town coaching questions when teens face of 400—they never thought this would problems. happen in their community. It always He concluded with things kids ought happens somewhere else.” to hear from their parents. Among these Looking around the large cathedral were: “I’m proud of you,” “I know you can social hall, Deputy Billinger said that if do this,” and “I believe in you.” a shooter came into the room, the first impulse would be to seek shelter under Complete lists of these communication your chair. In this case, he said, you would tools and other hand-outs from simply be waiting to be executed. Stewardship Day can be found at “The key thing to think about is our dcdiocese.org/stewardship/stewardship- own mind-set. Our own mind-set is our day. The Southwest Kansas Catholic September 2, 2018 Page 15 Lessons for discipleship in troubled ti mes

Sister Angela Erevia, MCDP, visits with Alma Lozano and her baby daughter.

Photos by Dave Myers

Georgina Paz, Adam Urban, and Bishop John Brungardt Denise Flax and her sons Daren and Jamie of Ransom discuss how to make conduct a prayer session to start the day. evangelizati on videos for youth.

Photo above by Gentry Heimerman Above, several priests of the diocese attend the Stewardship Conference. At left is presenter Shelley Hansel. Gabriela Trejo, a Confirmation teacher at St. Alphonsus:

Page 16 September 2, 2018 Vibrant Ministries — Uniting our Church The Southwest Kansas Catholic PSR programs benefitting from home-grown generosity By DAVE MYERS “The kids are so excited about it, but by is the education of catechists. All of the grants — available Southwest Kansas Catholic the end of class I’m exhausted,” she said “I think it is a much needed and great through the generosity of hanks to the generosity of Catholics with a laugh. Making even a five-minute thing that these funds are being made across the diocese and beyond, video can take a great deal of effort, available,” said Dan Diepenbrock, St. Catholics across the diocese Tthousands of dollars from the including hours and hours of editing. Anthony Parish Manager. “We have in our and beyond — are designed Vibrant Ministries – Uniting Our Church “It’s a huge project. I’m sort of like a parish almost 50 dedicated catechists who ultimately to, as Pope Francis Appeal have already been dispersed to referee. We have a curriculum that we volunteer their time at least once every local parishes for use in their Parish School use; we read and learn concepts. Some week, sometimes twice a week. And we has suggested, “find new ways of Religion (PSR), youth programs, and kids have an idea and get up and act it out. feel obligated to equip them the best we to spread the Gospel to every other faith formation programs. I say if it sounds good, whether it needs can so that they can do the best job they corner of the world.” This includes funding for such items as tweaking, or ‘we aren’t going to go down can passing on the faith to our youth.” computers, projectors and televisions, that road,’” Flax said with another laugh. After discerning the need for a “sustained important for our youth to go the year after computer equipment for video production, “They’re fun to make,” she added. effort at forming our catechists,” the parish confirmation to experience their faith and wireless interface, computer programs and “There’s a lot of humor.” applied for a grant that would “compensate learn more about their faith outside of a videos, scholarships and Bibles. Flax didn’t receive the amount of funding outside speakers, so that we can have them classroom or within our community. I think At the heart of the Appeal grants is that was requested in her grant application make presentations on classroom strategies this will help them to confirm and enhance the desire of the diocese to educate and – a decision left to the money crunchers techniques and tactics. We planned them their faith in many different ways.” empower the educators. -- but it was “a good chunk” that will go three consecutive Wednesday evening The $7,500 grant that the parish received VIDEOS FOR TEENS, RANSOM toward the purchase of a new computer, sessions, where the catechists would hear for the trip was a “huge help for the youth Denise Flax spoke to the Catholic from the video camera, software, a boom mic for presentations on those topics.” and their families. Most of the families playground where she is a kindergarten better sound, and lighting. She admitted The grant will pay these outside speakers, can’t afford to pay for the trip.... The and first grade teacher. The junior and that the class will be doing a bit of fund- and will fund special materials for each funding we received is giving us the chance senior high PSR teacher will be using the raising in order to get all the equipment cathechist. to make this dream happen.” Appeal funding to spread the word of God they need, but she stressed that she “We were happy with the number Thanks to the motivation of the St. to young people through videos made by appreciates every bit of funding from the of grants that were approved for us,” Alphonsus parents and other parishioners, young people. Appeal that she received. Diepenbrock said. “We submitted six grant they began holding fundraising activities, “We’re really excited,” Flax said amid the At the annual Stewardship Conference requests and they were all approved, and “selling enchiladas, tamales, burritos, sounds of children at recess. “We are making Aug. 25, Flax and members of her class we are very appreciative.” menudo, an IPAD raffle, and having garage apologetic videos for teens. [Apologetics is provided a workshop on video production WORLD YOUTH DAY, SATANTA sales. We are blessed with generous the “science of explaining the Catholic Faith for PSR classes. (See pages 14-15.) St. Alphonsus Parish in Satanta submitted people from our parish and the Knights of in a rational and reasonable manner with FAITH FORMATION, LIBERAL a grant request for help offsetting the cost Columbus with their donations. love and patience.”] St. Anthony Parish in Liberal benefited of sending its youth to World Youth Day in “You will not believe how proud I feel of “What we’re wanting to do is to reach from the generosity of the people of Panama in January 2019. the youth and their families,” Gaby said. as many teens as possible. We’re making the diocese via grants to several of their Request granted. “Every activity we have, everyone helps and posting on Youtube and social media faith formation programs. St. Anthony, While the good people of Satanta will — youth, parents, siblings, grandparents. to reach kids, making them stronger and one of the larger parishes in the diocese still have to raise a great deal of funding, We are like a little family trying to help each more knowledgeable about their faith, so with nearly 2,000 registered families (and the diocese took a sizable chip out of the other. We’ve had long nights cooking the they will be able to answer questions or many unregistered), received financial gifts sizable chunk of funding required to send day before a food sale. The youth, coming respond to attacks about their faith.” for programs including adult formation their youth to the Central American country and helping until late at night on weekdays Up until now, Flax and her class have (DVDs and materials), adult evangelization in a mere four months. World Youth Day is ... were tired, but still worked hard to make been using an iPhone for video production, (Christlife program), PSR Catechist Coaching set to occur Jan. 22-27 in Panama City. this trip possible. which resulted in one video called, “What (outside speakers and manuals), youth and “So far we have 15 youth going to “All I can say is that our community is is Apologetics?” The ability to utilize young adult (summer daycare program), Panama WYD in January 2019,” said blessed to have youth like them,” Gaby said. better equipment will enhance the video RCIA (educational videos), and three Gaby Trejo, a Confirmation teacher at St. “We will keep working hard fundraising; it production and the final result, Flax said, Pastoral Ministry Formation scholarships Aphonsus Parish. will not be easy, but God knows this group which will ultimately attract more young at approximately $500 each. “Most of the youth going this WYD were deserves going to WYD to experience this people to the videos. One of the great blessings of the funding just confirmed in April, so I believe its unique opportunity.” Around the Diocese Happy Birthday, Grandpa’s Father little Francis helper A surprise birthday Very eager meal and party was to help presented after Knights of Spanish Mass as St. Columbus Joan of Arc Parish, member Elkhart, for Father Dennis Francis Khoi Nguyen. McCallion At right is Spanish clean up after music director, Jose a BINGO game Luis Garcia. Father in Elkhart Francis is the pastor is a little at St. Helen, Hugoton, boy named and St. Joan of Arc, “Tatum”, who Elkhart. has another (This birthday wish name for is belated due to the McCallion: SKC’s monthly summer “Grandpa.” schedule.) Gabriela Trejo, a Confirmation teacher at St. Alphonsus:

The Southwest Kansas Catholic September 2, 2018 Page 17 Catholic priest instrumental in piecing together story of the Dead Sea Scrolls By Charlene Scott Myers About 1,000 yards In the language of Jesus Special to the Catholic southeast of the cave, n expedition to search the first cave where Dead Sea [Father Roland De By Charlene Scott Myers epic jigsaw puzzle that is the Dead Scrolls were discovered in Israel by a shepherd boy Special to the Catholic Sea Scrolls,” Perrin explained. Vaux, OP, and Lancaster Ain the summer of 1947 began a fortnight after the ost of the Dead Sea But it was not until 2009 that rediscovery of the cave. Harding of the Scrolls discovered in 12 the last of the Aramaic texts Joining in the exciting venture to explore the biggest caves at Wadi Qumran received full, critical publication, he archaeological discovery ever found in Palestine was a Jordanian Department M reported. of Antiquities] near the Dead Sea in Israel 72 Catholic priest, Father Roland De Vaux, O.P. of the French years ago between 1946 and 1956 Aramaic texts of up to 30 literary School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. discovered the ruins of were written in Hebrew, but a few works were found in the caves at Part of the discovered cache came immediately into the Qumran, the monastery were found inscribed in Aramaic, Qumran, where the monks who hands of a museum, and Father De Vaux was one of the wrote the scrolls resided near the of the monks who a popular language during the trustees. lifetime of Jesus. Dead Sea. The community of holy “The trustees, only one of whom, Father Roland De Vaux, wrote the Dead Sea Hebrew was the language of men seemed to have preferred to O.P., can claim any competence in reading or appreciating Scrolls. Israeli scripture and culture, but write the majority of their scrolls the significance of these most important and controversial Aramaic was the official language in their ancestral language of documents–apparently began offering the publication and of the ancient Near East, as Hebrew, however. This concludes exhibition rights to the highest bidders,” wrote John Allegro Editor’s Note: Andrew B. Perrin described it in “These Aramaic fragments Charlene’s series on the Dead Sea in his book “The Dead Sea Scrolls, a Reappraisal.” the September/October issue include previously known works Scrolls, the first known writings of The priest joined Lancaster Harding of the Jordanian of Biblical Archaeology Review (e.g., Daniel 2-7 and Tobit), texts Biblical texts. The entire series can Department of Antiquities in official excavations of the scrolls magazine. that served as sources for other be found in 8.5x11 format for ease on Feb. 15, 1949. The excavations continued until March5. According to Perrin, Aramaic Jewish or Christian compositions of printing at www.dcdiocese. The two men’s work yielded shards and linen scroll wrappings “took hold in much of the ancient in antiquity (e.g., the Aramaic Levi org/swkscatholic. “and a few pieces of inscribed leather.” (Scrolls were written New East as both the official and Document and the Book of Giants), on parchment, papyrus, leather and one was even scratched common tongue, starting in eighth and completely new materials onto copper.) century B.C.E.” (e.g. Visions of Amram and Prayer Father De Vaux and Harding also Aramaic eventually took the of Nabonidus (king of Babylon),” found the first fragment recovered place of the Akkadian language in Perrin wrote. from Qumran (where the scroll caves the region, but much of ancient Like Perrin, I wonder “Why would were located by the Dead Sea), written Judaism’s Aramaic scribal heritage faithful Jewish scribes reflecting on in the old proto-Hebraic or “Phoenician” was lost or forgotten. Exceptions their ancestral past and expecting characters. This fragment represented were imperial messages in Ezra the dramatic arrival of divine rule part of the text of Leviticus. (4:8-6:18; 7:12-26) and also the pen their works in Aramaic, their The Essenne monks who wrote the apocalyptic dreams, visions, and adoptive language, rather than Dead Sea Scrolls hid them in large court stories from the first half of Hebrew, the traditional language of jars in the nearby caves because they Daniel (2:4b-6:18; 7:12-26). their sacred scriptures?” feared an invasion of Romans who Hebrew was the official language Perrin thinks he has the answer. would destroy the scrolls, as they had of the Jews, but Aramaic words and “Since Aramaic was the lingua destroyed Jerusalem. The practice of phrases were to be found scattered franca of the age, perhaps the storing scrolls in jars for safekeeping within the Hebrew Bible. Aramaic choice was pragmatic: writing was common in antiquity. could be read, for example, in in Aramaic meant that the texts “In his report on the archaeology of Father Roland De Vaux, OP, studies samples from the were accessible to communities ruins of Qumran. Genesis 31:47 and in Jeremiah the First Cave, Father De Vaux recalls 10:11. beyond Judea, including Jewish instances from the time of Rameses III down to an Arab letter Half of the Babylonian Talmud communities in the Diaspora.” of the eighth or ninth century of our era where the practice and most of the Jerusalem Talmud Until the accidental discovery of is referred to,” explained Allegro. were written in some dialect of the scrolls by a Bedouin shepherd While excavating the first cave in the spring of 1949, Father Aramaic, as was the collection boy in 1946, only a few of the De Vaux and Harding searched for any evidence that humans of translations in Targumim, 300 or so texts they contain were had lived nearby when the scrolls were written. About 1,000 which were spoken paraphrases preserved through Christian yards southeast of the cave, they discovered the ruins of and explanations of the Jewish traditions, including the Book of Qumran, the monastery of the monks who wrote the Dead scriptures that a rabbi would give Enoch, which was preserved not Sea Scrolls. in the language of his listeners, in the Hebrew Bible, but by the The ruins remained untouched until Father De Vaux and usually the Aramaic language. Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Harding made a trial sounding in 1949, digging up two of the The Aramaic Genesis Apocryphon Ge’ez. tombs in an adjacent cemetery of a thousand graves, which from Qumran Cave 1 was among Until 200 BCE, the Dead Sea were presumed to date from pre-Islamic days. the first discoveries in the Judean Scrolls were written in Aramaic and The monastery area included a complex water system, Desert near the Dead Sea. This text Greek, which predate the Ethiopian which author Allegro said “has probably accounted for was published in 1955, but the version. a reduction of at least a centimeter in Father De Vaux’s greater number of Aramaic texts Perrin stated it best: “In sum, patriarchal beard, which he is apt to chew in moments of “had long remained among the the scribes of the Aramaic texts mental stress.” most understudied materials in the exhibit an exceptional command Allegro praised both Father De Vaux and Harding. collection [of Dead Sea Scrolls],” of ancestral traditions, as well as “Now, thanks to the skillful work of Harding and De Vaux According to scholars, Jesus spoke creativity in re-imagining them.” a local dialect referred to as Perrin pointed out. and their teams, the visitor can walk again through rooms Fragments of 972 separate Most people have never read and passages of the monastery.” Palestinian Jewish Aramaic. The the Book of Giants or heard of scroll above, written in Aramaic, documents, named the Dead Sea Father De Vaux joined Harding again in January 1952 on Nabonidus or read any text in reads, in part, “ …But you have Scrolls, were found some 40 years an official excavation of the Murabba’at caves of the Wady ago near the Dead Sea in cliff caves Aramaic. I am among those Murabba’at, a great gorge of water east of Bethlehem until changed your works, [and ... tran]sgressed against him; (and of the ancient settlement of monks people, but we just keep on it enters the Dead Sea. have spoken) haughty and harsh at Qumran. learning more about Biblical A priest by the name of Father J. T. Milik discovered what words, with your impure mouths, Aramaic texts represent between history, and for me, that’s one of has been called “the most amazing documentary find from the [against his majesty, for your 10 and 13 percent of the Qumran the greatest excitements of this pre-Roman period,” a papyrus which Father Milik identified as heart is hard]. You will have no finds, “depending on how you life! sixth century. On it are written Jewish names like Josephus, peace.” collect, count, and configure the Jesus, Saulus, and Simon.

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I was a suffer?’ I didn’t want my son to suffer one more day. looks like’?” junior and 18, and I carried a pack of cigarettes, “Today, my son and I text each other every day to And then there were those nights when he had to wipe the blood and they couldn’t do anything about it! say I love you.” from his mother’s face brought by his father’s fists. “I learned that white people and white So, who is the bad guy in all this? They are challenges mostly invisible to those on the outside, but cultures have an addiction to superiority. For “The biggest bad guys? The pharmaceutical yet they infect the heart of the young like a virus. It’s a virus that the 18 years I lived with Native Americans, industries,” Black explained. According to addictions. keeps children from having friends—they certainly can’t bring friends I learned that some cultures have awful, com, “An estimated 254 million opioid prescriptions in the house, after all. There’s no consistency, Black said; there’s no awful problems, and that rich people can were filled in 2010 alone, enough to medicate every structure. There’s no safe place—all so needed by children. be dangerous with their huge sense of adult in the U.S. for a month on a round-the-clock “One thing that would have been so great is to have a teacher who entitlement.” basis. In that same year, pharmaceutical companies would have just listened to me,” Black said. “It is most important Jesus said that it was as difficult for a rich generated revenues of $11 billion from opioid sales to learn what kids are encountering in their lives.” man to enter heaven as for a camel to pass alone.” Superintendent of Catholic Schools, Trina Delgado echoed these through the eye of a needle, Colligan noted. 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By GREG SCHLEPPENBACH three months and in the second three about aborti on will be made by the citi zens through all nine months of pregnancy and he retirement of Supreme Court months may be regulated only for the of each state through the democratic for virtually any reason. Justice Anthony Kennedy has mother’s health. Aft er fetal “viability,” Roe process, rather than by courts. Some states The vast majority of Americans oppose DoTpropelled you Roe know v. Wade more Roe?allows aborti on to be prohibited, but sti ll will place limits on aborti on, and others will the policy of nearly unlimited abortion prominently into public discourse. As the mandates an excepti on for the woman’s likely have few limits. dictated by Roe, and most believe aborti on confi rmati on process for his replacement life or health. • Roe’s extreme aborti on license is not should not be legal for the reasons it is most moves forward, pro-aborti on groups are But in Roe’s companion case, Doe v. widely supported. oft en performed. A May 2018 Gallup poll spreading misinformati on about Roe as they Bolton, the Court defined “health” to Abortion advocates claim that Roe shows that 65% of Americans said aborti on raise alarms about its purported demise. include “all factors-physical, emoti onal, enjoys broad public support, and some should be illegal in the second trimester The Novena for the Legal Protecti on psychological, familial, and the woman’s recent polls seem to provide evidence for and 81% said aborti on should be illegal in of Human Life, which began on August age-relevant to the well-being” of the this claim. But most polls don’t explain the last trimester. A 2018 Marist poll shows 3, urges our prayer and fasti ng for the mother. In most states, this is broad Roe’s extreme abortion license, and that a majority of women said either that intenti on that this change in the Supreme enough to permit virtually any aborti on some misrepresent it. For example, a aborti on should never be permitt ed (9% Court will bring our nati on closer to the in the seventh, eighth, or ninth months 2016 Pew Research Center poll claims of respondents) or permitt ed only in cases day when every human being is protected of pregnancy if any of these reasons is 69% of Americans favor Roe v. Wade of rape, incest, and to save the woman’s in law and welcomed in life. It also seeks invoked. and 28% oppose it. But the poll wrongly life (42%). to dispel the misinformati on spread by • If Roe is overturned, the democrati c describes Roe as establishing “a woman’s Readers can easily share these and pro-aborti on groups by sharing accurate process—not the courts—will determine consti tuti onal right to an aborti on, at least other facts about Roe with their elected facts about Roe. aborti on policy. in the fi rst three months of pregnancy.” representati ves and others by signing up Here are a few of those facts: Before Roe, all states permitted The fact is, Roe made abortion legal for the Novena at www.usccb.org/pray. • Roe and Doe legalized abortion aborti ons necessary to save the mother’s through all nine months of pregnancy. life, and some permitted abortion in Many people don’t realize that Roe v. additional circumstances. But Roe Wade legalized aborti on through all nine deemed any prohibiti on on aborti on as months of pregnancy. Roe says aborti ons unconsti tuti onal. may not be restricted at all during the fi rst If Roe is overturned, policy decisions Documentary to be shown ‘Sexual Revoluti on - 50 Years Since Humanae Vitae’ ou’re invited to a rare screening a dramati c conversion. of the new documentary enti tled, To watch the trailer or learn more, visit: Y“Sexual Revoluti on - 50 Years Since www.sexualrevoluti onmovie.com Humanae Vitae”, to be shown around the This free event is provided by the offi ces diocese from Oct. 13-15. of Matrimony, Family Life, and Natural Seven years in the making, “Sexual Family Planning and Respect Life for the Revolution - 50 Years Since Humanae Catholic Diocese of Dodge City. Vitae” seeks to examine the eff ects of the free-love experiment of the hippie generati on and the propheti c encyclical, Humanae Vitae. 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Jerry Winston Keene, Jr., 75, of grandchildren. Father Michael Klag great-grandchildren; and many nieces and Katy met the love of her life, Sloan. He Sacred Heart Parish, Pratt, died Aug. 8, presided. nephews. survives along with their three children, 2018, at Via Christi St. Francis in Wichita. Delores Frances Frenzl, 91, of Holy Asuncion ‘Chon’ Jimenez, 66, of St. Marilyn (4), May Jo (2), and Marcus (1). He was born December 6, 1942, in Family Parish, Odin, died August 2, 2018. Helen Parish, Hugoton, died August 19, Katy recently received a degree in medical Atchison to Jerry Winston, Sr. And Pearlie Frenzl was a 1945 graduate of Great 2018. (No further information was available billing. Also surviving is her father, Blaine Dimple (Pearson) Keene. On June 10, Bend High School. She was a member of at press time.) (Connie) Gaudard; mother, Etta Gaudard; 1967, he married Sharon DeAnn (Pillot) St. Ann’s Altar Society of Odin. On Oct. 5, Dolores “Dodo” N. Giles, 95, of in-laws, Gary (Lea Ann) Seiler; two sisters, Keene at St. Anne Catholic Church in 1949, she married Leo Frederick Frenzl. St. John the Baptist Parish, Spearville, Jessie and Story Gaudard; as well as aunts, Wichita. Delores worked alongside Leo on the farm died Sunday, August 20, 2018. She was uncles and other family members. Father He started his career as a teacher and in Odin, where they resided for 65 years. a graduate of Spearville High School and John Forkuoh presided. basketball coach at St. Patrick’s Catholic Survivors include her husband, Leo; and attended Salt City Business College in Asuncion “Chon” Jimenez, 66, of Jr. High School in Chanute. many nieces and nephews. Father Don Hutchinson. She owned and operated St. Helen Parish, Hugoton, died Aug. 19, His political career began in Missouri Bedore presided. a multigenerational ranch. She was a 2018. He had worked at Sunbelt feedlot in December 1967. Jerry worked at the Leah Babette Burhenn, 84, of St. member of the Daughters of Isabella. On for 20 years, retiring in January. He was Department of Community Affairs as a John the Evangelist parish, Hoisington, Feb. 22, 1943 she married Norman Lee a member of the Point Rock Riders of Graphic Artist, Cartographer and later died August 10, 2018. On June 11, 1952, Giles. He preceded her death on Dec. 20, Elkhart. He loved to ride his horses in Director of Communications. He also she married Vernon D. Burhenn. He 2010. Survivors include daughters, Trudy the Stevens County parades and Pioneer did land use planning. He was Missouri preceded her in death on July 2, 2001. She Giard, Audry Gates, Jody Peintnern, Lorie Days Parade. Survivors include his wife Secretary of State as Assistant State was a member of the Altar Society. She Horacek, and Julie Cox; and sons, Roger and Maria; five sons, Gabriel Jimenez, Shawn Archivist and director of planning and is survived by her five children; Pamela Kelly. Fathers John Forkuoh, John Strasser, Jimenez, Marcus Bucher, Daniel Bucher, building commission for the city of Dietz, Sandra Rebel, David Burhenn, and Prakash Kola presided. and Luis Jimenez; six daughters, Sandra Jefferson City, Mo. He was an assistant Russell Burhenn, and Kelli Smith; 15 Mary Alexandria Alvarez, 75, of the Fenelon, Hannah Buck Grunwald, Erica De Missouri State Archivist. grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, Leon, Angela Bucher, Adriana Bucher, and Keene was the associate editor for the Father Anselm Eke presided. Dodge City, died August 18, 2018. Alvarez Briana Bucher; brother, Manuel Jimenez; Scott City News Chronicle, and also served Margaret Elizabeth Redetzke, graduated from Fort Hays State University two sisters, Socorro Jimenez and Talila as the managing editor for Russell Daily 68, of St. Stanislaus Parish, Ingalls, died with a Bachelors Degree in Nursing. She Gonzales. Nineteen grandchildren and one News and Russell County News, Anthony August 10, 2018. Maggie graduated from worked as a registered nurse at Trinity great-granddaughter. Republican, Woodward News, Smith Syracuse High School in 1967. Maggie Hospital, Western Plains Medical Complex, Michael “Mike” Lopez, 61, of the Center News and Barber County Index. continued her education starting at Dialysis Center as well as several years for Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe He was the government reporter for the Cottey College in the nursing program the Ford County Health Department before Parish, Dodge City, died Aug. 22, 2018. Pratt Tribuneand the managing editor for from 1967-1968. She then went on to retiring. She was a member of the Altar He graduated from Richland Valley School Kiowa County Signal. complete her nursing degree at Fort Society. She is survived by her husband, near Dodge City and was associated with He is survived by his wife, Sharon; Hays State University where she earned a Joe Alvarez; two sons, John and David; one Arrowhead West. In his younger years son, Shawn; daughters, Deidre Hurley, Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing in 1971. sister, Josephine Ries; four brothers, Antonio he was also involved in special Olympics. Heather Herren and Crystal Marzolf; and Maggie worked as a nursing instructor Falcon, Frank Falcon, Richard Falcon, and Survivors include: his mother, Viola Lopez; six grandchildren. for one year at Fort Hays and then as Lonnie Falcon; three grandchildren; and sisters, Marilyn Treto, Rosemary Lopez Father Michael Klag presided. an instructor at Garden City Community two great-grandchildren. Father Wesley and JoAnn Steinert; a brother, Jeff Lopez; Margaret G. Reichuber, 96, of College. She later worked for St. Catherine Schawe presided. numerous nephews, nieces, cousins, great Holy Family Parish, Odin, died August Hospital in Garden City in the NICU and Kathryn Elizabeth Seiler, of St. nephews and nieces. Father Wesley Schawe 6, 2018. A homemaker and a farmwife, obstetrics unit. Later, she went to work Anthony Parish, Hanston, died Aug. 10, presided. Reichuber was a lifelong area resident. part time at the Cimarron Clinic. Maggie 2018. In 2010 she enrolled in the Marine She attended Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic married Marlyn Anthony Redetzke on July Corps, where she was an active member Please pray for all those suffering School in Barton County. On August 12, 24, 1971. He preceded her in death on for four years. It was while serving that the loss of a loved one. 1941, she married Edwin H. Reichuber August 21, 2017. Maggie is survived by at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church three sons, Justin, Brandon, and Bryan; in rural Ellinwood, Kansas. He preceded and five grandchildren. Father Warren Scripture Readings her in death on Jan. 28, 1978. She was a Stecklein presided. Please note: The next issue of the SKC will be published Sept. 16. member of St. Ann’s Altar Society in Odin. Marilee T. (Feist) Huslig, 92, of St. Reichuber worked for 29 years for Central Joseph Parish, Ellinwood, died August Sunday, Sept. 2 Monday, Sept. 10 Kansas Medical Center in housekeeping. 17, 2018. She grew up on the family farm Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8 / James 1:17-18, First Corinthians 5:1-8 / Luke 6:6-11 Survivors include; four sons, Edwin, near Sts. Peter and Paul Church north of 21-22, 27 / Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Tuesday, Sept. 11 Kenneth, Richar and Gary; sister-in- Ellinwood, where she attended Sts. Peter Monday, Sept. 3; Saint Gregory the First Corinthians 6:1-11 / Luke 6:12-19 law, Leona Birzer; 13 grandchildren, 20 and Paul Catholic School. She married Great, pope and doctor Wednesday, Sept. 12 great-grandchildren and four great-great Leverne Huslig on Oct. 9, 1948. She was First Corinthians 2:1-5 / Luke 4:16-30 First Corinthians 7:25-31 / Luke 6:20-26 grandchildren. Father Terrence Klein a homemaker and a farm wife, making Tuesday, Sept. 4 Thursday, Sept. 13; Saint John presided. countless trips out to Scott City, Kansas First Corinthians 2:10-16 / Luke 4:31-37 Chrysostom, bishop and doctor John Douglas “Doug” Melcher, where Leverne farmed to make meals for Wednesday, Sept. 5 First Corinthians 8:1-7, 11-13 / Luke 76, of Sacred Heart Parish, Pratt, died the crews during wheat harvest and fall First Corinthians 3:1-9 / Luke 4:38-44 6:27-38 August 5, 2018. After high school, Melcher harvest. Marilee was a devout Catholic Thursday, Sept. 6 Friday, Sept. 14, 2018; Triumph of the joined the United States Navy where he who prayed the rosary, Novenas and First Corinthians 3:18-23 / Luke 5:1-11 Holy Cross worked as a welder. He owned Doug’s attended Mass on a regular basis. She Friday, Sept. 7 Numbers 21:4-9 / Philippians 2:6-11 / Pumping Service and did work as a was a member of St. Joseph Altar Society First Corinthians 4:1-5 / Luke 5:33-39 John 3:13-17 contract pumper in the oilfield. He was a and Daughters of Isabella and dedicated Saturday, Sept. 8; Birth of the Virgin Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018; Our Lady of member of the Knights of Columbus. He many years of her life to leading the Mary Sorrows is survived by his wife, Karen; sons, Bob rosary before Saturday night Masses and Micah 5:1-4, or Romans 8:28-30 / Hebrews 5:7-9 / John 19:25-27, or Luke and Curtis; daughters Tracie Brady; and at many funeral vigils. Marilee is survived Matthew 1:1-16, 18-23 or 1:18-23 2:33-35 Sherryl Malone; sisters, Jalayn Rowden by her husband, Leverne, and children: Sunday, Sept. 9 Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018 and Jeannie Penner; brother, Larry John, Elva Fellers, Jeff, Bennett, Daniel, Isaiah 35:4-7 / James 2:1-5 / Mark 7:31- Isaiah 50:4-9 / James 2:14-18 / Mark Melcher; 19 grandchildren and 14 great- and Laura Jones; 18 grandchildren; 22 37 8:27-35 Don’t forget Mark’s litt le appeal fl ag

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Aug. 29, 1892 - Sept. 3, 1947 Msgr. Leo Klasinski sgr. Klasinski was born Aug. 29, 1892 in Leavenworth. He was ordained March 23, 1918, by Bishop John J. Hennessy in St. MMary’s Cathedral, Wichita. He served as an assistant at the cathedral unti l shortly aft er Father Dominic Wojciedchowski died of Spanish infl uenza. He succeeded this pastor at St. Barbara, Chicopee, with missions that included St. Philip Neri, Franklin; St. Cronin’s, Fleming; Sacred Heart, Edson, with St. Anastasia’s, Cherokee. He built churches at Franklin (1920) and Chicopee (1922). In 1936 he was named pastor at St. Patrick, Florence. During this pastorate he had the church frescoed, built a new school and provided a residence for the teaching Sisters (1940). He also cared for the sacramental needs of German prisoners of war who were held in a compound outside of Peabody during World War II. He was named Papal Chamberlain and elevated to the rank of monsignor by Pope Pius XII in 1943. He also cared for He was appointed pastor of St. John the Bapti st, Spearville, following the sacramental the death of Father Frank Dombrowsky in 1946. Msgr. Klasinski died just over a year later on Sept. 3, 1947, at the age of 55. needs of German During his priestly ministry he was Diocesan Director of the prisoners of war Hoefer Propagati on of the Faith and dean of the Dodge City Deanery. He also who were held in a served as State Chaplain of the Knights of Columbus (1942 and 1943). Stained Glass Bishop Mark K. Carroll celebrated the funeral Mass at St. John the compound outside • Restoration of Antique Stained Bapti st Church in Spearville. Among those assisti ng was a brother, of Peabody during and Painted Glass Father George Klasinksi, O.Carm. Burial was in Mount Calvary Cemetery World War II. • Custom Designed of New in Lansing, Kan. Stained Glass Windows Customer Care and Quality Craftsmanship www.dcdiocese.org/archivist-diocesan/necrology 1-800-663-8020 910 S. Main • South Hutchinson Visit our website; View our job sites www.hoeferstainedglass.com

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 7, BENEFITTING THE MARIAH HILLS RETIRED PRIESTS GOLF COURSE, OF THE DIOCESE DODGE CITY 2018 OF DODGE CITY Organize your team for the 2018 Dechant Foundation Annual Golf Classic, Sept. 7, at Mariah Hills Golf Course.

The day will begin with a Mass celebrated at 9 a.m., at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Dodge City Shotgun start will be at 10:30 a.m. Lunch will be provided.

For more informati on and to register a team, contact Mark Roth at 620-227-1535 or email: [email protected]. Proceeds benefi t the Reti red Priest’s Fund of the Diocese of Dodge City.

Bishop John Brungardt prays over the golfers as they prepare to parti cipate in the 2017 Dechant Foundati on Golf Classic at Mariah Hills Golf Course in Dodge City.