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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 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. accepted its pastoral plan, and • Msgr. Thomas J. that implementation would fol - Culhane, 86, died on Feb. low. 23 at Villa St. Francis in • Nobel Peace Prize winner Olathe. Wangari Muta Maathai, from • More than 500 junior Kenya, made a celebratory visit high youths attended the and attended a reunion of her iGod youth rally on Feb. Mount St. Scholastica class at 25 at Bishop Miege High Benedictine College in Atchison School in Roeland Park. IN REVIEW on Jan. 30. Maathai

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• Father George V. Coyne, SJ, director emeritus of the Vatican Observatory, visited Bishop Ward High School in Kansas City, Kan., on March 6 to bless a new telescope and review plans for the school’s new science labs. • The Scholar Bowl Team of Immaculata High School in Leavenworth won the 2A Scholar Bowl state championship. • Matthew Tsakanikas was appointed director of the Benedictine Institute for Religious Studies. • At the Easter Vigil, 252 catechumens and 500 candidates entered the within the archdiocese. • The Catholic bishops of Kansas published a pastoral letter on embry - onic stem-cell research and human cloning. • Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Seneca launched a capital campaign to raise funds to build a new school. • Archbishop Naumann held a news briefing on March 21 at the state Capitol to educate representatives and the public about stem-cell re - search. Later that day he held another briefing in Kansas City, Kan. • Marian Hall, which served the elderly of urban Kansas City, Kan., for 27 years, closed at the end of the month. Rite of Election 4 LOCAL NEWS THE LEAVEN • DECEMBER 28, 2007 DECEMBER 28, 2007 • THE LEAVEN LOCAL NEWS 5 A 2 R C

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I Hispanic O 0 • Archdiocesan Catholics responded gener - First Global Living Rosary C YEAR • Sam Meier was hired as archdiocesan consultant of the archdiocese’s E ously in the wake of the May 4 Greensburg tor - S anti-pornography program, As For Me and My House. lay leaders 7 A nado, which destroyed St. Joseph Church N IN REVIEW • Catholic Charities of the archdiocese moved its administrative of - there and the homes of nearly all parishioners. fices from 2220 Central in Kansas City, Kan., to 9750 W. 87th St. in graduate • The first Global Living Rosary and Overland Park, along with The Family Support Center, counseling of - April Eucharistic Adoration was held on May 12 at fices, and Catholic Community Employment Services. Curé of Ars Parish in Leawood. • Moving into the 2220 Central building were the Keeler Women’s • The National Coalition for the Protection Center, the Refugee and Migrant Services, Marriage for Keeps program, • Michael Morrisey was named of Children and Families, with participation by and Emergency Assistance personnel. executive director of the Catholic the archdiocese, delivered petitions on May 17 • Good Shepherd Parish in Shawnee broke ground on Aug. 18 to Education Foundation on April 16. to Kansas City metropolitan area prosecutors build a $2 million community center. • The monks of St. Benedict’s urging grand jury investigations of businesses • The campus of Bishop Miege High School in Roeland Park doubled Abbey in Atchison began their year - promoting obscenity. in size with the donation of the former Mission Junior High, made possi - long 150th anniversary celebration • The Leaven won one first-place, three ble by financial help from Bob Bibb, Larry Gates, Paul Bastasch, Bob of the abbey’s founding with a n third-place, three honorable mention, and Mogren and Don Kincaid. April 29 Mass and dedication of the three pro-life awards from the Catholic Press • Benedictine College in Atchison was named one of America’s best abbey church. Association at the Catholic Media Convention colleges by U.S. News and World Report magazine. • Jim and Barbara Gray, mem - May 23-25 in New York. • The first class of Hispanic lay leaders graduated from the three-year bers of Holy Trinity Parish in Paola, • Father Gregory Hammes, Father Chris course of studies from The School of Evangelization, Our Lady of were named the Knights Family of Rossman, and Father Richard Warznak were Guadalupe, on Aug. 24 at Blessed Sacrament Church in Kansas City, the Year in the archdiocese at the ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Kan. Kansas Knights of Columbus con - Joseph F. Naumann at the Church of the vention on April 28 in Wichita. Ascension in Overland Park on May 26. September October Bishop Ward June • The second Global • Archbishop Naumann presided at Living Rosary and marks milestone a Mass on Oct. 7 closing the yearlong • Bishop Marion F. Guadalupe Fiesta Eucharistic Adoration was celebration of the 100th anniversary of Forst, 96, retired bishop held on Sept. 15 at St. St. Peter Cathedral Parish in Kansas of the Diocese of Dodge Patrick Parish in Kansas City, Kan. City, of City, Kan. • The third archdiocesan Global Leavenworth, and auxil - • Bishop Ward High Living Rosary and Eucharistic iary bishop of the arch - School celebrated its cen - Adoration event was held on Oct. 24 at diocese, died on June 2 tennial. Christ the King Parish in Topeka. at Villa St. Francis in • Archbishop Naumann Olathe. presided at the 100th an - •Archbishop niversary Mass of Holy Naumann presided at the Cross Parish in Emmett on June 9 blessing and Sept. 16. groundbreaking ceremo - • Archbishop Naumann ny for the new St. presided at the 125th an - Michael the Archangel niversary Mass of St. Ann church building in Parish in Hiawatha on Leawood. Sept. 30. •Archbishop Cathedral’s 100th Emeritus James P. Keleher presided at the July 150th anniversary Mass at Corpus Christi Parish • Laura Miller was hired as the first archdiocesan November December in Mooney Creek. internal auditor. •Archbishop • Father Harold Wickey, 77, pastor and former • Charles J. Berkel, William St. Patrick’s 150th • Archbishop Naumann attended the annu - Naumann and Bishop editor of The Leaven, died on July 14 at Villa St. H. Dunn Sr., and Leonard B. al Soup-er Bowl luncheon to raise hunger Robert Finn of the Francis in Olathe. McKinzie were honored as “an - awareness on Dec. 4. Holy Name Parish in Diocese of Kansas City- • Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Topeka host - gles among us” at the annual Kansas City, Kan., was named a “most valuable St. Joseph led eucharis - ed its 74th annual fiesta, July 17-21. Catholic Education player” for its work at a community hot food tic adoration and sacra - • The Super-Sonic Youth Rally was held July 28- Foundation’s Gaudeamus din - program. mental reconciliation on 29 in St. Marys. ner on Nov. 2. • Archbishop Naumann presided at the ded - June 10 during a Corpus • Father Mitchell Zimmerman was appointed • Archbishop Joseph F. ication and blessing of the new church on Dec. Christi celebration at St. archdiocesan vocations director. Naumann presided at the 22 at Mother Teresa Parish in Topeka. Thomas More Parish in 150th anniversary Mass of St. Kansas City, Mo. Patrick Church in rural • Decrees of alter - Atchison County on Nov. 3. ation were published on • Michael Paul Farmer, 59, June 22 for Sacred executive director of the Heart, St. John the Kansas Catholic Conference, Evangelist, Sts. Cyril and died on Nov. 7 at the Methodius, and St. University of Texas M.D. Joseph-St. Benedict Anderson Cancer Center, parishes in Kansas City, Houston. Kan.; Immaculate • Shawn Tunink, from St. Conception, St. Joseph, Francis de Sales Parish in Sacred Heart and St. Lansing, was ordained to the Casimir parishes in transitional diaconate by Leavenworth; Holy Archbishop Naumann on Nov. Cross Parish in Emmett; 17 at the St. Lawrence Catholic and Immaculate Campus Center in Lawrence. Conception Parish in St. • Betty Booker, a first-grade Marys. teacher at St. Agnes School in • Members of St. Roeland Park, received the St. Philip Neri Parish in Philippine Duchesne Award on Osawatomie rallied after Nov. 17 at Sacred Heart Parish a flood inundated parts in Mound City. of the town June 30-July Super-Sonic • The Sisters of Charity of 1.Catholics across the Leavenworth celebrated their archdiocese also re - Youth Rally 150th anniversary with a Mass Bishop Marion Forst sponded to the disaster celebrated by Father John there and in other parts Rossiter on Nov. 18 at Mater of eastern Kansas. Dei Parish in Topeka. Soup-er Bowl 6 LOCAL NEWS THE LEAVEN • DECEMBER 28, 2007 DECEMBER 28, 2007 • THE LEAVEN LOCAL NEWS 7

ARCHBISHOP World-class chorale to perform at Leavenworth parish JOSEPH F. NAUMANN’S LEAVENWORTH — The world- JANUARY CALENDAR renowned Kansas City Chorale, un - 3-4 Fellowship of Catholic University Students leadership conference — der the direction of Charles Bruffy, Grapevine, Texas will perform on Jan. 6 at St. Joseph 7-11 Region IX bishops’ retreat Parish here in celebration of the 12 Catholic Charities — Snowball parish’s 150th anniversary. 13 Mass — St. Mary-St. Anthony Parish, Kansas City, Kan. The five-time Grammy-nominat - Open house at residence for priests ed chorale, with a 17-piece orches - 15 Administrative Team meeting tra, will perform traditional Priests Personnel meeting Christmas hymns in English, Latin 17 Mass and dinner — St. Matthew, Topeka Serra Club and German. The chorale will also 19 Mass — St. Lawrence Catholic Center and send-off for those going to the sing the parish’s 150th jubilee March for Life in Washington, D.C. hymn, “150 Years a Family of 19-20 Pastoral visit — St. Paul Parish, Olathe Faith,” with lyrics by Father David 21 Vigil Mass for March for Life — Shrine of Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C. McEvoy, O.Carm., pastor. 22 Mass for Kansas participants in the March for Life — St. Matthew Cathedral, 701 N ORTH 94 TH STREET * K ANSAS CITY , K ANSAS 66112 * (913) 334-3366 A special feature of the concert will Washington, D.C. FUNERAL HOME * C EMETERY * C REMATION SERVICES be selections from George Frederick Rally and March for Life Handel’s “Carmelite Vespers.” 23 U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Marriage and Family Handel, who also wrote “The meeting Messiah,” wrote this music 300 years 24 Presbyteral Council meeting ago this year for the feast of Our Lady Catholic Education Foundation auction dinner at residence of Mount Carmel on July 16, 1707. 25 Vocation meeting St. Joseph Parish opened the cel - Support Our Seminarians dinner ebration of its jubilee year in 26 Mass and dinner — Saint Mary University, celebrating 150 years of Catholic September, after a four-month re - education in Leavenworth furbishing of the church. The parish 27 Mass — Christ the King Parish, Kansas City, Kan. is notable for having been founded 28 Mass — St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Overland Park in 1858 by the first Catholic bishop Listening session for Evangelization Pastoral Plan, Sts. Peter and Paul, Seneca of Kansas, Bishop John B. Miege, SJ, 29 Mass — Resurrection School at the Cathedral e have tthe newesstt and niiccesstt ffunerrall home iin Wyandotttte Countty,, rriightt accrrossss tthe ssttrreett and serving generations of German Mass — Leavenworth Catholic schools at Immaculate Conception W ffrrom Stt.. Pattrriicck’’ss Churrcch.. Perrssonalliizze a FFunerrall,, Cemetterry orr Memorriiall Serrviicce allll ffrrom one off -- immigrants. It is also the first Listening session for Evangelization Pastoral Plan— St. Rose Philippine Carmelite parish in America, having Duchesne, Garnett ficce,, iinssttead off drriiviing allll overr ttown makiing pllanss.. We even acccceptt many prre--arrrranged pllanss been served by the Carmelite order 30 Mass with Topeka Catholic schools — Hayden High School ffrrom ottherr ffunerrall homess.. To rrecceiive a ffrree Perrssonall Pllanniing Guiide,, ccallll orr ssttop iin ttoday.. since 1864. Finance Council meeting The Kansas City Chorale’s perfor - 31 Mass — Sacred Heart School, Shawnee; 50th anniversary of school mance will begin at 3 p.m. on Jan. 6 Johnson County Planning meeting at the parish, 306 N. Broadway. Listening session for Evangelization Pastoral Plan — Most Pure Heart of Remember For persons recently buried or entombed There will be a German streudel Mary, Topeka at one of our Catholic Cemeteries dessert social in Kinzler Hall follow - your recently in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties ing the concert. deceased Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS MT CALVARY - KCK JANSEN, JAMES J. for students. Tickets can be pur - loved one ANZEK, FRANK E. KASSEN, MATTHEW chased by calling (913) 682-3953, BURGER, DALENE M. BENJAMIN at the parish office at 747 Osage, or The five-time Grammy-nominated Kansas City Chorale, under the direction of Charles Bruffy, will perform on Jan. 6 at St. Joseph Parish in JAMES P. KELEHER’S by attending COMSTOCK, JERRY R. KELLY, GEORGIANA M. KEMPF, JOHN F. at the door. Leavenworth. DOUDNA, DONALD JANUARY CALENDAR a Memorial FAVROW, BERNICE A. KENNEDY, DENNIS M. 22 Catholic Radio taping FRANKO, FRANK J. KING, PATSY J. 25 Support Our Seminarians dinner Mass FUQUA, STELLA V. KINGMAN, JULIE K. 27 Confirmation — U.S. Military Prison GRAY, JAMES A. KNOEBBER, ROBERT J. 29 Reception of Quigley Award — Chicago LUNDY, ANNE T. KOBE, HELEN M. Concrete Work Saturday MALNAR, MARY M. KOWALSKI, MICHAEL A. MuehLloecbalalyc ohw nFedu &n oeperraatle d Home Any type of repair and new work Jan. 5 MCANANY, HELEN B. LEWIS, NORMAN H. South of the Plaza Driveways, Walks, Patios 9 a.m. NEATH, D. W. MADDEN, LESLIE Across from Forests Hill and Calvary Cemeteries Member of Queen of the Holy Rosary Parish OBERLE, JOHN J. MCKECHNIE, JOSEPH P. Dominic Gomez Vince O’Halloran 6800 Troost, Kansas City, Mo. • (816) 444-2060 James S. Harrington Harvey M. Kascht (913) 262-1555 OWENS, MARQUERITTE MERRIFIELD, JOHN M. 518 W. 103rd St. Vince O’Halloran Agency Inc. MOIDL, WILLIAM J. Kansas City, Mo. 64114 12740 S. Pflumm Rd., Olathe Member International Order of the Golden Rule Robert and Eunice Atkins, members Mt. Calvary Cemetery, OZBOLT, MARY A. of Immaculate Conception - St. Joseph PADILLA LUIZ O’BRIEN, HARRY J. JR (816) 941-3568 office (913) 782-3035 office ANNIVERSARIES Parish, St. Joseph Chapel, POE, HAROLD R. PAVELCIK, MARY J. [email protected] [email protected] George Bernard and Cleta Leaven- RODRIGUEZ, JANET L. PISCHKE, FRANK J. Parishioner, Queen of the Holy Rosary (Buessing) at the mausoleum, RONNAU, LOUIS L. PRITCHETT, LOGAN Parishioner, Christ the King, Mo. worth, will Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Monday - Friday Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Monday - Friday; Renyer, mem - th SAINICH, BERNICE CHRISTOPHER KEATING celebrate 38 and State, Evenings and Saturdays by appointment. Evenings and Saturdays by appointment. bers of Sts. Peter SCHRANZ, HELEN J. ROSBERG, GUSTAVE their 60th SEITTER, JACOB A. ©2005 American Family Mutual Insurance Company and its Subsidiaries Home Office-Madison, WI 53783 07497 2/05 and Paul Parish, Kansas City, Kan. STOWAY, THOMAS D. Mud Jacking wedding an - SWARTS, JOSEPH A. SHORT, MARY J. Seneca, will cele - niversary on TARAFA, CATHERINE S. SINOVIC, MARY M. brate their 50th Serving NE Kansas Since 1976 Dec. 29. The TLUSCIK, MICHAEL J. SR SNYDER, WILLIAM wedding anniver - STALCUP, KEN E. couple was married on Dec. 29, 1947, at VARGAS, VICENTE sary on Dec. 29 YORK, MILDRED A. SUTTER, MILDRED E. FOUNDATION REPAIR the military chapel at Camp Campbell, with a reception ZUGER, ANNE G. TURNER, MARY C. Ky. They have eight children, 20 grand - Cracked • Bowed • Settled Wall Repair from 2 to 4 p.m. WALDORF, CLARENCE A. children, five stepgrandchildren and two WALDORF, ROSE A. ¬ Wall Bracing at the Knights of Columbus Hall in CATHOLIC RESURRECTION ¬ Waterproofing great-grandchildren. ARGUBRIGHT, THOMAS P. WILLIAMS, MARZAY Seneca. A Mass of thanksgiving will be ¬ Steel Underpinning CEMETERIES BERKEY, WILLARD L. DARON FREE ESTIMATES held on Dec. 30 at 7 a.m. at the church. Patrick and Barbara (Heinitz) BOREN, ELLIOTT WILLIAM WILLE, PAUL H. The couple was married on Jan. 18, Higgins, members of Holy Angels 913-371-4040 CLARK, MICHAEL A. JR MUD JACKING 1958, at St. Bridget Church, Axtell, by COSTABILE, GRACE R. Parish, ST JOSEPH Raise & Level Father John Stitz. Their children and CUNNINGHAM, JAMES L. Basehor, www.catholiccemeterieskc.org MCCLURE, CAROLINE A. M-F 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sat. 10 a.m. to 3 ¬ Patios their spouses are: Greg and Carol DALY, CONSTANCE M. GRAY, STEPHANIE A. will cele - DAVIS, SUZANNE A. ¬ Drives Renyer, Sabetha; Doug and Cathy GREGORY, CYNTHIA M. brate their DECAENY, WILLIAM ¬ Garage Floors Enneking, Seneca; Jamall and Liz Wyandotte County 50th wed - DEMUYNCK, JIMMIE Alkhateb, Horton; Steve and Cindy Mt. Calvary, Kansas City, Kan. ST JOHN – LENEXA ¬ Slab Houses ding an - DEVANEY, ADRIANA T. ROLES, JANET M. Renyer, Topeka; Kenny and Diane St. John, Kansas City, Kan. DICE, DANIEL J. niversary on GAIGNAT, VERONICA M. Schmitz, Baileyville; Tony and Marcie Gate of Heaven, Kansas City, DORAN, DAVID A. Dec. 28. The couple was married on Kan. SOETAERT, CHRISTOPHER L. Renyer, Goddard; Doug and Brenda EISENHAUER, JOHN F. Locally Owned Dec. 28, 1957, at Blessed Sacrament STUMPFF, JOHN E. Renyer, Wetmore; Jim and Mary FACKRELL, STANLEY E. Piers Driven to Load-Bearing Church, Kansas City, Kan., by Msgr. Johnson County FARLEY, BERNADINE Renyer, Sabetha; Amy Renyer, Seneca; MT CALVARY OLATHE & Operated Strata or Bedrock Kenneth Spurlock. Their children and Resurrection, Lenexa, Kan. GOODE, WILLIAM Bobby and Bridget Slater, Waukeegan, BARTLETT, DORIS C. their spouses are: Kerry and Lynda St. Joseph, Shawnee, Kan. GUBERA, ESTHER B. Kansas City Lawrence Topeka Ill.; Becky Renyer, Spring Hill, Fla.; LARGE, JAMES G. Higgins, Lenexa; and Heidi and Tim St. John, Lenexa, Kan. HATCH, VIRGINIA L. (913) 262-9352 (785) 865-0006 (785) 246-0128 Andy and Sarah Renyer, Sabetha; and HAYOB, J. HAROLD Hill, Tonganoxie. They also have five Mt. Calvary, Olathe, Kan. GATE OF HEAVEN Jake and Mary Tavo, Spring Hill, Fla. HERMANN, JEAN O. grandchildren. They will celebrate with DILLMAN, JOHN J. They also have 36 grandchildren. IMM, RUDOLPH F. a Mass and a brunch at Falcon Lake. HARVEY, MARGARET A. 2007: Beginning of the end for the stem-cell wars? By NANCY FRAZIER O’BRIEN relates to stem-cell research directly to the faith - STRONG STATEMENTS, Catholic News Service ful.” The New York Catholic Conference criticized WASHINGTON (CNS) — In the years ahead, the Legislature and governor for deciding to VIOLENCE, DISPLACEMENT MARK IRAQ 2007 may come to be remembered as the begin - spend $600 million on life sciences research ning of the end for the debate over embryonic aimed chiefly at human embryonic stem-cell re - By REGINA LINSKEY kidnapped in Iraq. They later were released. ropoli - versus adult stem cells. search. In Iowa, Archbishop Jerome G. Hanus of Catholic News Service The violence has forced many Christians to leave. tan In November, separate studies from teams in Dubuque reacted with “deep sadness” after the More than 1.2 million Christians lived in Iraq before Detroit Japan and the United States showed that human Legislature there approved a measure to allow WASHINGTON (CNS) — For Iraq’s Christians, the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Compared to the prewar with the help skin cells can be reprogrammed to work as effec - the cloning of human embryos for research. 2007 was marked by increased violence and displace - percentage of Christians in Iraq, a disproportionate of the Archdiocese tively as embryonic stem cells, thus negating the Challenges also came at the federal level. In ment. number of all Iraqi refugees are Christian. of Detroit. The refugees, many of them need to destroy embryos in the name of science. June President George W. Bush vetoed a bill to A report released in June by the founder of the Bishop Antoine Audo of Aleppo, Syria, said Iraqi Chaldean Catholics, started arriving in the “I do not know if those who have invested expand federal funding for medical research on Assyrian International News Agency recorded in depth refugees in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan suffer great metro area this summer. money and passed laws precisely to allow this human embryonic stem cells and issued an execu - the deaths of Christian children — including babies — hardships; many have lost family members, jobs and And although late in the year, the [embryonic stem-cell research] tive order calling on federal agen - laypeople, priests and nuns who were burned, beaten homes. Iraqi government said that refugees will be able to recognize their er - cies to strengthen the nation’s or blown up in car bombs throughout the past few “They have no legal protection by law and they are slowly were beginning to return home, ror and turn back, but at least the commitment to research on adult years. not recognized as refugees,” said the bishop, who min - Bishop Audo told Catholic News Service scientists who want to achieve re - stem cells. The report said al-Qaida terrorists had moved into isters to approximately 60,000 Iraqi Christian refugees that unless security improved in Iraq, the sults will go looking where they Cardinal Justin Rigali of Dora, a predominantly Christian neighborhood in in Syria. “They feel that they can’t go home because of Chaldean diaspora may become permanent. He said have been proven to be found,” Philadelphia, chairman of the U.S. Baghdad, and had begun enforcing “strict Islamic law” the war, and at the same time they can’t get a [work] the country’s Chaldean Catholics were too scared to said Bishop Elio Sgreccia, presi - bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life and forcing residents to pay a “jizya,” a poll tax once visa.” go home. dent of the Pontifical Academy Activities, praised the veto and ex - levied on Christians and Jews living in Muslim coun - In July, a delegation of church leaders toured During the U.S. bishops’ meeting in for Life, in a Vatican Radio interview. ecutive order, saying that “adult stem cells contin - tries. Middle Eastern countries that host Iraqi refugees. November, they released a statement saying Embryos have long been touted by some scien - ue to produce new clinical advances on a regular On June 3 in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a Describing the state of the refugees as “a real man- that some U.S. policymakers “seem to fail to tists as the only source of stem cells capable of be - basis, most recently showing benefits for patients Chaldean Catholic priest and his three subdea - made disaster” and “emergency situation,” Cardinal recognize sufficiently the reality and failures coming any of the 220 types of cells in the human with juvenile diabetes.” cons were killed. Father Ragheed Aziz Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of in Iraq and the imperative for new directions.” body, but church leaders have said no possible Researchers working with umbilical-cord Ganni, the three men, and the wife of one Washington and a consultant to the U.S. bishops’ It said the bishops “are convinced that the scientific advance could justify the destruction of blood, placenta blood and amniotic fluid also of the men were driving away from a Committee on Migration, expressed concern for the current situation in Iraq remains unacceptable human embryos. were making progress in deriving stem cells from church when their car was blocked by a safety of two groups of Iraqi refugees: Christians and and unsustainable.” But that has not kept supporters of embryonic those byproducts of live birth. group of armed militants, who forced those who have worked with the U.S. military or gov - “Our country needs a new direction to reduce the stem-cell research from seeking vast sums of “With 4 million live births every year in our the woman out of the car. The militants ernment. war’s deadly toll and to bring our people together to money at the federal and state levels to continue country alone, an ample supply of these cells lies opened fire on Father Ganni and the The church leaders returned from their trip urging deal with the conflict’s moral and human dimen - their research. readily at hand,” said Richard M. Doerflinger, three subdeacons, then placed explosives the United States to cut through bureaucratic tape and sions,” it said. Even before the results of the new studies were deputy director of the bishops’ pro-life secretariat. around the car to prevent anyone from retriev - open its doors to Iraqis. Throughout the year, Pope Benedict reassured announced, voters in New Jersey rejected a ballot In a study reported early in 2007 by the journal ing the four bodies. In September, a senior U.S. State Department offi - Iraqi Christians of the church’s solidarity, and he proposal that would have authorized $450 mil - Nature, scientists at Wake Forest University in The deaths evoked strong cial told the U.S. Commission on International urged material as well as spiritual support. lion in state bonds for stem-cell research projects Winston-Salem, N.C., and Harvard University in messages of sympathy from Religious Freedom that the United States has been While meeting with U.S. President George W. over the next 10 years. Cambridge, Mass., said they had used stem cells Pope Benedict XVI, who slow to admit the thousands of Iraqis referred by the Bush in June, the pope expressed concern for the Catholic leaders in other states were gearing derived from amniotic fluid to create muscle, said Iraq’s Christians are U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Iraqi Christian minority. Bush said after the up to fight similar battles. In Michigan, for exam - bone, fat, blood, nerve and liver cells in the labo - experiencing an “authentic The United States has “a moral obligation” to pro - meeting that the pope “was concerned that the ple, every registered Catholic home received a ratory. martyrdom,” and Bishop tect Iraqi refugees, “particularly those who belong to society that was evolving would not tolerate the DVD and other information in October as part of a Doerflinger also expressed the bishops’ sup - Thomas G. Wenski of persecuted religious minorities, as well as those who Christian religion.” statewide educational program to explain the port for full funding to collect and store cord U.S. soldiers form a prayer circle Orlando, Fla., chairman of the have worked closely with the United States govern - “I assured [the pope] we were working hard to church’s support for adult stem-cell research and blood for the National Cord Blood Inventory, before leaving Camp Victory for a U.S. bishops’ Committee on ment,” said Ellen Sauerbrey, assistant secretary of the make sure” Iraqis would respect “that modern con - its opposition to embryonic stem-cell research. which would enable doctors to match patients mosque-monitoring mission in International Policy. Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. stitution voted on by the people “It is the belief of the state’s bishops that the with compatible donors through a centralized Baghdad, Iraq, July 13. At the end In October, the pope called for the The following month, Sauerbrey said that the that would honor people secular news media has greatly distorted the issue computer data bank. of the year, the U.S. bishops called release of United States would resettle 12,000 Iraqi refugees by from different walks of life of stem-cell research and, in doing so, improperly At their November meeting in Baltimore, the the current situation in Iraq “unac - two the end of 2007. and different attitudes,” conveyed the church’s position,” said Dave U.S. bishops authorized their Committee on Pro- ceptable” and said the United priests Many Iraqi refugees are finding a new home in met - Bush said. Maluchnik, public policy associate at the Life Activities to prepare a brief policy statement States needed a “new direction to Michigan Catholic Conference. “Therefore, the explaining why the church opposes embryonic reduce the war’s deadly toll.” bishops decided it was imperative to bring the stem-cell research. The document will be voted CNS photo/Nikola Solic, Reuters truth of the church’s teaching on human life as it on by the bishops in June.

Archdiocese’s internationally recognized hu - 89, former head of the Pontifical Council for • Bishop Joseph Meng Ziwen of during the country’s military regime, March • Retired Bishop who was instrumental in establishing the • Religion reporter and editor Gerald man rights agency Tutela Legal, died March the Family and former president of the Nanning, China, 103, clandestinely or - 5 in Santa Maria. Michael J. Dudick Catholic Campaign for Human Development Renner, 75, who in 1997 broke the original NOTABLE 30 in El Salvador. Hernandez had worked Pontifical Committee for International dained in 1984, Jan. 7 in China. • Actress-singer Betty Hutton, 86, who 91, of the Byzantine and the Catholic Communication story of abuse allegations against Legionaries alongside Archbishop Oscar A. Romero, Eucharistic Congresses, died Aug. 25 in • Abbe Pierre, 94, born Henri-Antoine starred in many top film comedies and musi - Diocese of Passaic, Campaign, Aug. 14 in Caldwell, N.J. of Christ founder Father Marcial Maciel CATHOLICS WHO who was killed in 1980, just one of many Montreal. Groues and founder of the Emmaus cals in the 1940s and ‘50s, March 11 in N.J., May 30 in • Retired Bishop Gerard L. Frey, former Degollado, Oct. 24 in Norwalk, Conn. flash points for human rights advocates in a Cardinal Adam Community in which shelters the Palm Springs, Calif. Schuylkill Haven, Pa. leader of the dioceses of Savannah, Ga., • Actor-singer Robert Goulet, 73, known DIED IN 2007 decade-long civil war between the military Kozlowiecki , 96, a homeless in more than three dozen coun - • Bowie Kuhn, 80, who became deeply • Retired Bishop and Lafayette, La., Aug. 16 at his home for his baritone voice and his role in the government and civilian rebels. Polish-born Jesuit who tries, Jan. 22 in Paris. involved in Catholic causes following his Marion F. Forst of near Lafayette. original Broadway production of “Camelot,” WASHINGTON (CNS) — Former Upon taking over as head of Tutela Legal worked more than 50 • Hanley Denning , 36, known in 1969-84 tenure as baseball commissioner Dodge City, 96, the • Jane Wyman, whose age was various - Oct. 30 in Los Angeles. Austrian President Kurt Waldheim and in 1982, Hernandez established a long years as a missionary Guatemala as “the an - and was elected in December to baseball’s oldest U.S. bishop and ly placed at between 90 and 93, an Oscar- • Retired Bishop James D. Niedergeses Tutela Legal director Maria Julia Hernandez, record of objective investigations of abuses in Zambia and the re - gel of the garbage Hall of Fame, March 15 in Jacksonville, Fla. one of the world’s 12 oldest bishops at the winning actress once married to future of Nashville, Tenn., 90, who also was a each of whom took center stage during two committed by the Salvadoran military and tired archbishop of dump” because she • Dr. John Billings, 89, who co-founded time of his death, June 2 in Olathe. President Ronald Reagan and who joined pastor and teacher, a prison and hospital of the thorniest international debates of the the rebels. Despite repeated death threats, Lusaka, Zambia, died helped poor children the ovulation-based natural family planning • Father Peter Dally, one of the first mar - the Catholic Church as an adult, Sept. 10 in chaplain, Nov. 16 in Nashville. 1980s, were among the prominent Hernandez continued to challenge official Sept. 28 in Lusaka. escape garbage pick - method that bears his name, April 1 in ried Episcopal priests to be ordained a Rancho Mirage, Calif. • Martin McLaughlin, 89, whose long - Catholics who died in 2007. reports of what was happening in her coun - Venezuelan ing as a livelihood, Richmond, Australia. Catholic priest under a special Vatican pro - • Benedictine Abbot time advocacy for the poor and hungry in - Waldheim, 88, who had been U.N. try. Cardinal Rosalio Castillo Lara, 85, president Jan. 18 outside • Retired Bishop vision, July 6 in Olympia, Wash. Claude Ehringer, 98, cluded work as a consultant to the U.S. secretary-general from 1972 to 1981, died The Catholic Church lost eight of the of the Pontifical Commission for the Revision Guatemala City. Michael J. Murphy • Carl J. Pfeifer, 78, a photographer, au - founder of Prince of Conference of Catholic Bishops, Nov. 27 in June 14 in Vienna, Austria. Controversy world’s cardinals during 2007. of Canon Law, died Oct. 16 in Caracas, • Jesuit Father of Erie, Pa., who was thor and former Jesuit priest known for his Peace Abbey in Arlington, Va. raged during his 1986 campaign for the Spanish Cardinal Antonio Javierre Ortas, Venezuela. Robert F. Drinan, 86, one of Pope John Paul work in catechetical writing and publishing, Oceanside, Calif., • Henry Hyde , 83, the former Austrian presidency, a largely ceremonial 85, former prefect of the Congregation for Japanese Cardinal Stephen Fumio the first Catholic priest II’s first appointments, July 12 in Dubuque, Iowa. where he lived for nearly Republican congress - post, because he had not been fully truthful Divine Worship and the Sacraments who in Hamao, 77, retired president of the to vote in the U.S. Congress, Jan. 28 in April 3 in Erie. • Precious Blood Sister Andree Fries, 65, five decades, Sept. 17 man from Illinois whose about his activities as a German army offi - 1994 issued the rules officially stating that Pontifical Council for Migrants and Washington. He represented Massachusetts’ • Jack Valenti, 85, director of the National Religious Retirement in Oceanside. name became synony - cer during World War II. local bishops could allow women and girls Travelers, died Nov. 8 in Tokyo. 3rd District in Congress for five terms, from a former White House Office, which is responsible for the annual • Jesuit Father James mous with efforts to lim - During Waldheim’s term as Austrian to be altar servers, died Feb. 1 in . Austrian Cardinal Alfons Stickler, 97, 1971 to 1981, but did not run again on or - assistant who ran the Retirement Fund for Religious collection, July A. Martin, believed to it federal funding of president, Pope John Paul II was the only Italian Cardinal Angelo Felici, 87, former who was the world’s oldest living cardinal, ders from his Jesuit superiors. Motion Picture 14 in Baltimore. be the world’s oldest abortion, Nov. 29 in Western leader to officially meet him as a head of the Vatican’s Congregation for died Dec. 12 in Rome. • Jesuit Father Joseph R. Hacala, 61, for - Association of • French-born Assumptionist Father Jesuit at age 105, Oct. 1 in Washington. Chicago. head of state. The 1987 meeting at the Saints’ Causes, died June 17 in . Also, retired Bishop Ignacy Jez of mer head of the (Catholic) Campaign for America for almost four decades, April 26 George H. Tavard, 86, a noted ecumenist, • Holy Ghost Father Lucien Deiss, 86, a • Gordon Zahn, Vatican was the Austrian’s first foreign state Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, 80, the Koszalin-Kolobrzeg, Poland, 93, a survivor Human Development and of Wheeling in Washington. Aug. 13 in Paris. liturgical music composer and a liturgical con - 89, veteran peace ac - visit after being elected president, and it Jewish-born former archbishop of Paris who of a Nazi concentration camp, died Oct. 16 (W.Va.) Jesuit University, Feb. 19 in • Walter Hubbard Jr., 82, a national • Phil Rizzuto, 89, a Hall of Fame short - sultant at the Second Vatican Council, Oct. 9 tivist who was a co- sparked an outpouring of criticism from defended the right of believers to have a say in Rome — one day before he would have Rochester, Minn. African-American Catholic leader who had stop and later broadcaster for the New York in his native France. founder of Pax Christi Israel and Jewish organizations. in public debates, passed away Aug. 5 in been named a cardinal. • Bishop Jose Ivo Lorscheiter, 79, the re - headed the Seattle-based National Office Yankees, Aug. 14 in West Orange, N.J. • U.S.-born Archbishop Ambrose De Paoli, USA, the U.S. branch of the international Hernandez, 68, who for more than two Paris. Other notable Catholic figures who died tired bishop of Santa Maria, , and one for Black Catholics since 1970, May 5 in • Robert B. Beusse, 77, a former secre - 73, the Vatican to Australia, Oct. 10 in Catholic peace movement, Dec. 9 in decades led the San Salvador Canadian Cardinal Edouard Gagnon, in 2007 included: of the most outspoken bishops in Brazil Seattle. tary of communications for the U.S. bishops Miami Beach, Fla. Wauwatosa, Wis. 10 YEAR IN REVIEW THE LEAVEN • DECEMBER 28, 2007 DECEMBER 28, 2007 • THE LEAVEN YEAR IN REVIEW 11 Elections cast shadow over immigration law For China-Vatican relations, 2007 brought signs of hope By PATRICIA ZAPOR outlining a diocesan response to a new By JOHN THAVIS Catholic News Service state statute on illegal immigration de - Catholic News Service scribed as one of the harshest in the na - WASHINGTON (CNS) — Even tion. (CNS) — In many though the next election was a year or The plan calls, in part, for people to ways, 2007 was a watershed year for more away, the prospect of winding up have equal access to all Catholic pro - relations between the Vatican and on the wrong side of the wishes of vot - grams regardless of their immigration China, with signs of hope springing up ers or vocal interest groups led politi - status and pledges to provide legal aid amid chronic ten - cians in Washington to shy away from to those who want to establish or sions. immigration re - maintain legal U.S. residency. Pope Benedict form for yet an - The new state law makes it a felony XVI wrote a long other year. to knowingly harbor or transport an ille - letter to Chinese Meanwhile, in gal alien and creates new barriers to hir - Catholics, new the absence of ac - ing illegal immigrants. It requires proof bishops were appointed with Chinese tion at the federal level in 2007, the of citizenship to obtain certain govern - and papal approval, Vatican officials volume was turned up on calls to crack ment benefits and requires all state made fresh diplomatic overtures and down on illegal immigration. agencies and contractors to check the the church joined others in looking Immigrants throughout the country immigration status of their workers. ahead to next year’s Olympics in started to feel caught in the cross hairs Bishop Slattery said the local church Beijing. of enforcement raids, new local laws will provide a standardized power of The pope set the stage for new de - and vitriolic rhetoric. attorney form that parents at risk of velopments in January when he con - As it became apparent that the sta - deportation can use to provide for the vened a two-day meeting to discuss the tus quo would not be changing because care of their children in case they are problems of the church in China. The of any action taken by Congress, advo - arrested. free-wheeling discussion included cates for comprehensive immigration Late in 2007 and expected to contin - Vatican officials and diplomats as well reform turned their energies to bat - ue into 2008, immigration raids at as representatives from the Chinese tling attempts at new local restrictions meat packing plants and factories in Catholic community, including and to helping undocumented immi - Colorado, Nebraska, Indiana, Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun of Hong grants prepare for possible raids and Massachusetts, North Carolina and Kong. deportation. elsewhere brought the faces of the The meeting ended with a state - Others cranked up programs to help families affected by illegal immigration ment that praised the witness shown immigrants become citizens and regis - into focus. Catholic social service agen - by suffering Catholics in China and tered voters, inundating the federal of - cies were among the first to respond to noted optimistically that almost all CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec fices that process naturalization appli - calls for assistance for families separat - bishops and priests today were in com - Those preparing to become Catholics are recognized by the congregation during a Sunday Mass at St. Ignatius Cathedral in Shanghai, China, in March. cations. ed by arrests and deportation. munion with the pope. Amid chronic tensions between the Vatican and China, there were new signs of hope this year for Catholic believers in the country, especially for In June the Senate took up a com - Elsewhere, Catholic parishes, dioce - There was a sense among many par - those who have been loyal to the Vatican. prehensive immigration reform pack - ses and organizations such as the ticipants that after decades of harsh age that had been drafted by the White National Pastoral Life Center offered persecution of Catholics loyal to the and pastoral directives for the church in Archbishop Celestino Migliore, empha - implement the pope’s letter, especially House, working in conjunction with guidebooks for immigrants, held fo - Vatican, China’s communist govern - China, including a 1988 Vatican advisory sized the Vatican’s desire to normalize the thorny issue of whether to register senators from both parties, and repre - rums and offered materials on how to ment was relaxing its stance. that had rejected the government- relations with China, saying it would with the government. sentatives of business, agriculture, im - hold an immigration discussion in a To make the most of that opportuni - sanctioned Chinese Catholic Patriotic help advance religious freedom and In November, China’s Communist migrant, civil rights and religious com - CNS photo/Bob Roller faith context. ty, the Vatican announced the pope Association and regarded some of its foster unity among Chinese Catholics. Party revised its constitution to include munities. Demonstrators rally outside the White House to call for comprehensive immigration reform June Throughout the year, bishops, state was preparing a personal letter to the members as non-Catholics. “We are ready to go back to Beijing a positive reference to religion. The Opponents argued, for one thing, 19. Despite multiple efforts to bring immigration legislation to a vote in 2007, the U.S. Congress Catholic conferences, religious orders Chinese Catholic community. After • Said, however, that the patriotic without abandoning Taiwan,” the new constitution says: “The party that its provisions for a path to legal - failed to act. and other Catholic entities issued nu - much internal discussion and revision, association’s idea of an autonomous archbishop said. He did not specify strives to fully implement its basic ization for illegal immigrants should merous statements, pastoral letters, the 55-page letter was published June Chinese church that self-manages itself what diplomatic formula would be principle for its work related to reli - not come in the same package as provi - tuition rates and legalize their own sta - without the proper paperwork and testimony and letters to Congress fo - 30, and it was immediately clear that democratically is “incompatible with used to accomplish this. gious affairs and rallies religious be - sions for tougher enforcement at the tus; or the Agricultural Jobs, called for a wall on the Mexican border cusing on the moral obligation to treat this was a landmark document. Catholic doctrine.” During the second half of 2007, re - lievers in making contributions to eco - border and by employers. Opportunity, Benefits and Security Act, and other tough enforcement efforts. immigrants well. Many, like Los The pope’s letter: • Encouraged lay Catholics in China action by the Chinese government to nomic and social development.” But though the bill’s backers could known as AgJOBS, which would open Even in a debate Dec. 9 before a Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, • Established new guidelines to fa - to seek out ordained ministers who are the pope’s letter was muted, but there During 2007, Chinese authorities have pulled together a simple majority up more visas for agricultural workers. Spanish-speaking audience that avoid - decried the hostile tone taken by those vor cooperation between clandestine in communion with the pope, but said was an encouraging concrete sign: released at least one bishop from to pass the bill, they twice failed to AgJOBS has huge support in the ed the candidates’ usual swiping at opposed to legislation considered fa - Catholic communities and those offi - circumstances may sometimes require Several more bishops were ordained house arrest and freed a diocesan offi - round up the 60 votes necessary under agricultural industry, which has had each other over, for instance, former vorable to people who are in the coun - cially registered with the government, them to receive the sacraments from with the approval of both the cial after 11 months in prison. But Senate procedures to end debate and increasing trouble finding enough New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s previ - try illegally. in an effort to promote church unity. those not in communion with the pope. and the government-sanctioned there were also reports of new deten - bring it to a final vote. workers to handle their usual planting ous support of tolerance toward un - “This is not the American way,” he • Opened the door to registration • Asked government-registered Bishops’ Conference of the Catholic tions of church personnel, including In the House, no bill even came and harvest cycles, leaving crops to rot documented immigrants in the city as said at the Notre Dame Forum on the with the government by bishops and bishops who have secretly reconciled Church in China. the arrest of three priests in Mongolia close to reaching the floor, despite the in the fields in some cases. an unacceptable “sanctuary” policy, university campus in October. “It’s de - Catholic communities, as long as this with the Vatican to make that fact clear They included Bishop Joseph Li in August. strong support of immigration subcom - By early December it seemed unlike - two candidates bemoaned “chain mi - structive and divisive and it’s going to did not compromise principles of the to their faithful. Shan of Beijing, a diocese considered At least 10 elderly Chinese bishops mittee chairwoman Rep. Zoe Lofgren, ly that any meaningful immigration gration,” which allows one legal immi - diminish the sense of unity we have as faith and church communion. The The pope’s letter, published in particularly delicate. After his ordina - died in 2007, including the country’s D-Calif., who held numerous hearings legislation would pass in 2007. And grant to bring in other family mem - a nation.” “clandestine condition” is not normal Chinese and several other languages, tion in September, a Vatican official oldest prelate, Bishop Joseph Meng covering a full range of immigration is - there was little chance that congres - bers. The annual Labor Day statement or desirable for the church, it said. was accompanied by a Vatican Press voiced optimism. Ziwen of Nanning, who was 103. A sues. sional leaders would risk election-year Given the lack of progress on the na - from the U.S. Conference of Catholic • Strongly criticized the limits Office commentary that reiterated the “We hope it is the first page of a long clandestine bishop unaffiliated with Efforts also failed to pass bills with stakes by trying to push it in 2008. tional political front, organizations Bishops said that during the congres - placed by the Chinese government on Vatican’s willingness to move its nun - chapter, of a new reality” in church- the government-recognized church, he broad bipartisan support, such as the Indeed, as the presidential pri - that comprise a coalition backing com - sional debate, “anger trumped wis - the church’s activities and invited civil ciature from Taiwan to Beijing, as soon state relations in China, said spent several years in a labor camp and Development, Relief and Education for maries drew close, Republican candi - prehensive legislation began to work dom, myths overwhelmed facts and authorities to a fresh and serious dia - as diplomatic relations are established Archbishop Fernando Filoni, an assis - a government prison but continued his Alien Minors (or DREAM) Act, which dates, especially, took increasingly more intently on other pieces of the sit - slogans replaced solutions.” It called logue on issues like the appointment of with China. tant secretary of state at the Vatican. pastoral ministry even after he turned would have allowed students who ar - strong positions against any kind of im - uation. for “reality, civility, morality and con - bishops. 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President MOST REVEREND JOSEPH F. NAUMANN

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Published weekly September through May, excepting the Friday the week after Thanksgiving, and the Friday after Christmas; biweekly June through August. Address communications to: The Leaven, 12615 Parallel Pkwy., Kansas City, KS 66109. Phone: (913) 721-1570; fax: (913) 721-5276; or e-mail at: [email protected].

POSTMASTER : Send address changes to The Leaven, 12615 Parallel Pkwy., Kansas City, KS 66109. For change of address, provide old and new address and parish. Subscriptions $18/ year. Periodicals postage paid at Kansas City, KS 66109. SCRIPTURE READINGS CHRISTMAS SEASON Dec. 30 THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH Sir 3: 2-7, 12-14; Ps 128: 1-5; Col 3: 12-21; Mt 2: 13-15, 19-23

Dec. 31 THE SEVENTH DAY IN THE OCTAVE OF CHRISTMAS 1 Jn 2: 18-21; Ps 96: 1-2, 11-13; Jn 1: 1-18

Jan. 1 THE OCTAVE DAY OF CHRISTMAS: THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, MOTHER OF GOD Nm 6: 22-27; Ps 67: 2-3, 5-6, 8; Gal 4: 4-7; Lk 2: 16-21

Jan. 2 Basil the Great; Gregory Nazianzen, THE GOSPEL TRUTH bishops, doctors of the church 1 Jn 2: 22-28; Ps 98: 1-4; Jn 1: 19-28 Jan. 3 Dreams link Josephs of the two testaments The Most Holy Name of Jesus 1 Jn 2: 29 - 3: 6; Ps 98: 1, 3-6; Jn 1: 29-34 THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY terpreting dreams; he also himself re - Testament Joseph from the terrors of AND JOSEPH ceives dreams which contain messages King Herod. Jan. 4 Mt 2: 13-15, 19-23 from God. Matthew’s Gospel clearly draws a Elizabeth Ann Seton, religious The Joseph of the New Testament, parallel between the Josephs of the 1 Jn 3: 7-10; Ps 98: 1, 7-9; Jn 1: 35-42 psychoanalyst might interpret at least as described in Matthew’s Old and New Testaments. But what a dream to help a patient arrive Gospel, also receives messages from point does Matthew wish to make? Jan. 5 at a better self- God by way of Matthew is primarily interested in John Neumann, bishop A understanding. The dreams. We see a making a statement about Jesus. His 1 Jn 3: 11-21; Ps 100: 1-5; Jn 1: 43-51 dream might reveal good example of that discussion of Joseph serves as a means deep-seated desires or FATHER in Sunday’s Gospel to that end. Matthew draws a parallel CHRISTMAS SEASON fears. MIKE reading, Mt 2:13-15, between Jesus, the child in the New Jan. 6 On the other hand, we STUBBS 19-23. A dream Testament Joseph’s family, and the THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD ordinarily do not examine warns Joseph about family of the Old Testament Joseph, Is 60: 1-6; Ps 72: 1-2, 7-8, 10-13; Eph 3: 2-3a, 5-6; our dreams to learn some - Herod’s murderous which is the nascent people of Israel. Mt 2: 1-12 thing about the outside intentions toward Joseph and his 11 brothers, sons of Jan. 7 world. For example, we would not use a Jesus and advises him to flee with his Israel, which make up that family, are Raymond of Peñafort, priest dream to trade on the stock market. family to Egypt. When the danger has the forefathers of the 12 tribes. 1 Jn 3: 22 - 4: 6; Ps 2: 7-8, 10-12a; Mt 4: 12-17, 23-25 Several thousand years ago, passed, another dream instructs Just as Israel was saved from famine though, it was a different story. People Joseph to return home. A third dream by taking refuge in Egypt in the Old Jan. 8 believed that dreams often bore a mes - specifies that they should settle in Testament, so now Jesus is saved from Tuesday sage from the gods. The ancient Galilee. When we remember that the Herod by taking refuge in Egypt. Jesus 1 Jn 4: 7-10; Ps 72: 1-4, 7-8; Mk 6: 34-44 Egyptians employed specially trained Gospel reading for the Fourth Sunday is the new Israel, the people of Israel professionals to interpret their dreams. of Advent mentioned an earlier dream personified. Just as God related to Jan. 9 The pharaoh kept several on his staff. explaining the circumstances of Mary’s Israel in the Old Testament, so now Wednesday This Egyptian interest in dreams ex - pregnancy, that brings it to a total of God relates to Jesus, as a loving and 1 Jn 4: 11-18; Ps 72: 1-2, 10, 12-13; Mk 6: 45-52 plains the important role dreams play four dreams for Joseph in Matthew’s compassionate father. Jan. 10 in the Old Testament story of Joseph Gospel. In the Old Testament, God calls the Thursday and his brothers (Gn 37-47). Joseph Dreams link the Joseph of the New people of Israel his children: “Thus 1 Jn 4: 19 - 5:4; Ps 72: 1-2, 14, 15bc, 17; Lk 4: 14-22a succeeds in interpreting the dreams of Testament to the Joseph of the Old says the Lord; Israel is my son, my the royal cupbearer and baker, as well Testament. That connection is further first-born” (Ex 4:22). Jan. 11 as the pharaoh himself. Joseph’s skills strengthened by the flight into Egypt of Now, in the New Testament, God Friday as a reader of dreams enables him to Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Just as Egypt once again claims Jesus as his son. 1 Jn 5: 5-13; Ps 147: 12-15, 19-20; Lk 5: 12-16 rise in political power and to save his served as a place of refuge from famine brothers and his father from starva - for the family of the Old Testament Father Stubbs is the pastor of Jan. 12 tion. Joseph, so also Egypt serves as a place St. Francis de Sales Parish, Lansing. Saturday But Joseph does not only excel in in - of refuge for the family of the New 1 Jn 5: 14-21; Ps 149: 1-6a, 9b; Jn 3: 22-30 16 LOCAL NEWS THE LEAVEN • DECEMBER 28, 2007

HONORING A ‘NUN BUSTER’

Leaven photo by Joe Bollig Lee Satterthwaite, a Marine veteran, shows his Purple Heart to Sister Mary Carlo Colibraro, SCL, during a noon meal in his honor held Nov. 9 at the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth motherhouse. Satterthwaite, a resident of the neighboring Veterans Affairs nursing home, was awarded the medal for wounds he received 56 years ago during the Korean War.

By JOE BOLLIG — 56 years later. veterans’ lives — one who was choking Sisters at the board game that gave Lee Leaven staff “I’m very happy for him,” said his and another who accidentally set himself and his fellow veterans the nickname niece, Rosemary Burton, from Olathe. “I on fire. “The Nun Busters.” LEAVENWORTH — It was enough to don’t see a lot of emotion in him, but I saw The Sisters wanted to honor him near “They really knew their stuff,” said make an old Marine cry — and it very that today.” Veterans Day, but not only because he’s a Sister Mary Carlo. “The rivalry was really nearly did. Although being awarded neighbor from the Dwight D. great. The trivia was for the ’30s and ’40s, Lee Satterthwaite, 77, a veteran of the this decoration from America’s Eisenhower Veterans Affairs when all these veterans were young men. Korean War, sat quietly in his wheelchair “forgotten war” was appreciat - Medical Center, across South They knew all the answers.” as the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth ed, it left Satterthwaite with Fourth Street in Leavenworth. The Sisters — many of them retired honored him for being awarded the mixed feelings. “Lee is very special to us because teachers — could come close, but could Purple Heart at noon on Nov. 9 in the “It’s a strange feeling,” he said he’s a ‘Nun Buster,’” explained never quite beat the veterans. motherhouse dining room. softly. “I don’t know why. All I Sister Mary Carlo with a smile. Satterthwaite is the first veteran and “Lee, we’re proud of you, we admire can say about it is that it was It all started in 1998, when Nun Buster to be honored by the Sisters, you, and we thank you for all that you a long time coming.” several Sisters of Charity de - but perhaps not the last. The Sisters con - have done,” said Sister Mary Carlo Satterthwaite was cided to cross South Fourth tinue to cross the street to visit the veter - Colibraro, SCL, director of the SCL Caring raised in a three-room Street and visit with the vet - ans, but the veterans haven’t been to the Ministry. shack in Mustang, Okla. As erans as part of their SCL motherhouse since last November. Many And with that, the whole dining room a boy he picked cotton for Caring Ministry. This ministry of the healthier Nun Busters were trans - of Sisters began to sing, “Congratulations 50 cents a day. He was too serves the elderly, shut-ins and ferred to other facilities. to you.” young for World War II, but he nursing home residents. It wasn’t But the Sisters better start boning up Satterthwaite, a Marine during the joined the Marines for their one-year until six years later, however, that the on their trivia. According to Adrian Korean War, had been standing outside program in 1948. veterans finally asked, “Hey, when do we Bankowski, the VA recreation therapist his tank on Sept. 25, 1951, when a North He reentered the Corps when the get to visit your place?” who accompanied Satterthwaite, it’s like - Korean or Chinese mortar exploded near - Korean War broke out in 1950. He was Soon, the vets were heading to the ly the veterans will again make visits to by and sent shrapnel cutting into his leg. discharged in 1953 and raised a family in motherhouse every couple of months for the motherhouse to match wits with the He should have received a Purple Kansas City, Kan. He worked for a mov - a good, home- meal and games of Sisters. Heart for his wounds, but was somehow ing company and as a nursing aide for Trivial Pursuit. overlooked until September of this year Veterans Affairs. As an aide, he saved two It was their success at defeating the

Catholic Charities installs board of directors KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Catholic Anthony Ouellette, Rev. Jimmie Banks, Charities of northeast Kansas installed its James Crawford II, Mary Jo O’Brien, board of directors and foundation board Sylvia Robinson, Bob O’Connor, Felicia Faith of trustees for 2007-2008 on Dec. 4 at Sexton, Carolyn Clement, Mari Lynn dult faith is clearly and explicitly rooted in a personal relationships with Savior Pastoral Center here. The 18- Garcia, Jack Newman, Ken Hager, Jesus lived in the Christian community. “The Christian faith is, above all, member board of directors and 11- Rebecca Phillips and Jeannine A conversion to Jesus Christ, full and sincere adherence to his person and member board of trustees are comprised Strandjord. the decision to walk in his footsteps.” Our understanding of the person and the of area leaders from the Kansas City The 2007-2008 board of trustees for way of Jesus continues to grow by our meditation on the word of God, by metro area, as well as from Topeka, the Catholic Charities Foundation of prayer and sacrament, by our efforts to follow Jesus’ example, and by the sure Emporia and Lawrence. Northeast Kansas includes: Al Kaine, guidance of the church’s teaching. Members of the 2007-2008 board of John Oberzan, Nelson Newcomer, directors for Catholic Charities are: Paul Miguel Jaramillo, Peggy Dunn, Jon Bastasch, Walt Brownsberger, Father Boren, Jan Knopke, Thomas Weiford, Darren Henson, Greg Reintjes, Father Matt Anthony and Mel Lavery.