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WWW.THELEAVEN.COM NEWSPAPER OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF KANSAS CITY IN KANSAS • VOL. 29, NO. 20 DECEMBER 28, 2007 2 A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER R C 0 H WANGARI D I 0 O C MUTA E 7 S MAATHAI A Y RETURNS TO BENEDICTINE N B I S DEAD H O SEA P E SCROLLS M AT UNION STATION I P P R M A A E P L G R S L E A T I I M O O A O E N N N R N A T A E S F L L D O R S EMBRYONIC R T D STEM- I CELL E S BATTLE CONTINUES FLOOD DEVASTATES IN REVIEW OSAWATOMIE R G O STORY BY L O S A BISHOP B A R L I E L S JOE I V WARD H I E CELEBRATES N BOLLIG L G D STORY STARTS ON PAGE 3 CENTENNIAL NOTICE: THERE WILL BE NO LEAVEN ON JAN. 4. REGULAR SCHEDULE WILL RESUME JAN. 11 2 LOCAL NEWS THE LEAVEN • DECEMBER 28, 2007 DECEMBER 28, 2007 • THE LEAVEN SECOND FRONT PAGE 3 2 A LIFE WILL BE VICTORIOUS ANSAS CITY, Kan. — It was something your mother (or maybe your grand - R mother) used to say all the time: C 0 When God closes a door, he opens a window. Christian marriage is a call to heroic love H And so it was for the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas in 2007. D ucked in the octave celebration of picture of family life. He asked his broth - into your wedding dress or tuxedo. I will “What have you done for your marriage K A door was closed to the past and a window opened on the future when the great solemnity of Christmas is er and sisters the rhetorical question: love you for two years or five years and today?” I 0 pastoral planning processes brought consolidations of some parishes and schools in the T the feast of the Holy Family. Each “Was there ever a time when we doubted then we will renegotiate our contract.” These PSAs are an interesting and en - O year, on the Sunday between Christmas the love of our Mother and Father for There is no beauty in such vows. tertaining way to encourage married Leavenworth, Wyandotte, and St. Marys pastoral regions. and New Year’s, we us?” Loving someone as long as it is easy, as couples to think about how they need to C The presbyterate opened its ranks to welcome three new priests and one transitional commemorate the While the depiction long as it feels good, is not about love at invest in their marriage every day — to E 7 deacon. An additional 23 aspirants became permanent deacon candidates. Sadly, the silent, hidden years of Ward and June all. This is merely selfishness masquerad - consider what they can do to strengthen S that Jesus spent in ARCHBISHOP Cleaver in “Leave It to ing as love. their marriage. If you would like to see A presbyterate also lost three members to death. Nazareth. Beaver” perhaps failed What is so breathtaking about the these PSAs and receive other helpful in - Y JOSEPH F. This past year might be remembered as the high-water mark of the battles over human While we know NAUMANN to depict all of the vows that a couple makes on their wed - formation on ways to strengthen your N nothing of the details struggles that many ding day is their boldness. In effect, a marriage, your can go to the Web site: cloning and embryonic stem-cell research. The archdiocese vigorously responded to the of these years, it was married couples expe - couple pledges to each other no matter www.foryourmarriage.org. in Nazareth where rience, it is almost im - what changes, challenges, or adversities Christian married love is not about ongoing controversy surrounding the science in 2007. By the end of the year, scientific Jesus spent the vast possible today to find a the future holds, their love will remain mediocrity. It is a call to heroic love that advances seemed to vindicate the church, although most informed observers didn’t think majority of his time on earth. It was the positive depiction of marriage on televi - constant. recognizes in the ordinary events of life of the Holy Family that provided the sion or in movies. As much as our media Our emotions and feelings are good. everyday family life the opportunity to the developments entirely closed the door on the controversy. school of human formation for Jesus. represents our culture and influences our God gives us the emotions that we asso - love in a remarkable way. The family was then, and remains, the culture, this is not a healthy indicator. ciate with love to inspire a couple to I am impressed as I visit the parishes Finally, the archdiocese began a new program to promote the rosary in the family. most important of human institutions. The love that Jesus asks of married make the unconditional commitment by the beauty and the goodness of the Three parishes hosted Global Living Rosary and Eucharistic Adoration events, which laid The foundation of family life is marriage. couples is very different from the popu - that is the bedrock of marriage. More families in our Archdiocese. These won - Healthy and vibrant marriages create lar notion of love in our culture. Our mu - than an emotion, love is an act of the derful families are the fruit of the faith - the groundwork for a large stadium Global Living Rosary event in 2008. the ideal setting for the rearing of chil - sic, literature and films depict love as an will. It is a decision that must be renewed ful, sacrificial and joyful love of married E So, before closing the door on the old year and opening the window on the new, let’s take a dren. There are mounds of social science emotion in which one “falls into” and every day to place the good of one’s couples. data that reinforce what we know intu - “falls out of,” as if it was the result of spouse before one’s own desires. It is a As we commemorate the feast of the look back at the people and events that comprised the life of the archdiocese in 2007. itively — that children have the best some magical chemistry between two commitment to make any sacrifice for Holy Family, I pray that every married chance for healthy development when people over which they have absolutely the happiness and well-being of one’s couple in the Archdiocese appreciates they receive the love of a father and a no control. wife or husband. the importance of the vocation to which mother and they grow up witnessing the What our society mistakes for love is The U. S. Conference of Catholic you have devoted your life. Thank you January February faithful love of their father for their really not love at all. In many ways, the Bishops has launched a pastoral initia - for the countless hidden sacrifices you mother and their mother for their father. “love” portrayed in the popular culture is tive to strengthen and support marriages make every day for your marriage and • The Archdiocesan Catholic • Catholics joined the Recently, I was attending the funeral not about giving, but all about getting. If within the church and society. The your family! May you taste the joy of giv - Committee on Scouting an - throngs of people who saw Mass for a mother of one of our priests. you rewrote the marriage vows to articu - church has produced some public service ing your life for something as beautiful, nounced a contest for the design a display of the famous In the homily, the priest-son said that he late what our culture believes about love, announcements (PSAs) that have aired noble and important as creating for your of a vocations patch. Dead Sea Scrolls between A and his siblings had grown up in a they would sound something like this: “I on some of our local radio and television spouse and children a community of love • The archdiocese unveiled a February and May at “Leave It to Beaver” home, referencing will love you in the good times, but when stations. These PSAs consist of the re - and faith where virtue is nurtured and 10-minute video that was pro - Union Station in Kansas the sitcom that was popular in the early it gets hard, I am out of here. I will love sponses made by people on the street fostered in the ordinary events of family duced to help parishioners under - City, Mo. 1960s that presented a somewhat idyllic you as long as you stay healthy and can fit when they were asked the question: life! stand the moral issues surround - • The Wyandotte ing embryonic stem-cell research Region announced that and human cloning. Archbishop Naumann had • Archbishop Joseph F. accepted its pastoral plan, Naumann presided at a ceremony and that implementation during which 23 aspirants be - would follow. came candidates for the perma - • The St. Marys Region nent diaconate on Jan. 20 at announced that the arch - Savior Pastoral Center in Kansas bishop had accepted its City, Kan. pastoral plan, and that im - • Archbishop Naumann joined R plementation would fol - a large contingent of Kansans low. who attended the annual March • Mary Lou Jaramillo for Life on Jan. 22 in Washington, was appointed on Feb. 7 D.C. president and CEO of El • The Leavenworth Region an - Centro, Inc., of Kansas nounced that the archbishop had City, Kan.