50¢ May 28, 2006 Volume 81, No. 22 www.diocesefwsb.org/TODAY Serving the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend TTODAYODAY’’SS CCATHOLICATHOLIC Father Steve Kempinger named Fifty year commitment superintendent of Catholic schools to Christ St. John the Baptist celebrates anniversary BY ANN CAREY Pages 11-13 NOTRE DAME — When Holy Cross Father Steve Kempinger was a sophomore geology major at the University of Notre Dame, he volunteered to tutor children through a neighborhood study program at Priesthood is a gift Saint Mary’s College. That experience hooked him on a career in education that now has taken him to Msgr. William Faber, 97, the top education job in the diocese-superintendent of schools. celebrates 70 years of ministry Bishop John M. D’Arcy has appointed Father Page 8 Kempinger to the position, effective July 1. He will be the first Holy Cross priest to serve the diocese as superintendent of schools, although diocesan priests have served in that role previously. He will replace outgoing superintendent Michelle Hitte, who is Faith and Fertility retiring after 25 years with the diocese — first as a teacher, then principal, and then superintendent. Moral principles involved Father Kempinger has been her associate super- intendent for the past two years and credits Hitte in treating infertility with handing over a school system that is in excel- Page 10 lent condition. “We always look for improvement,” Father Kempinger said, “but I think we have a very sound school system, and I really appreciate the good shape it’s in.” No publication Father Kempinger has followed a similar career path in education as Hitte. While studying geology ANN CAREY next week at Notre Dame, he also took education courses at Holy Cross Father Steve Kempinger will split his time as superintendent of schools between Saint Mary’s College, and when he graduated from the South Bend and Fort Wayne schools offices. He is pictured here on the grounds of Moreau Seminary at Notre Dame, which will remain his primary residence, although he Next issue June 11 SUPER, PAGE 3 plans to spend a couple of nights a week in quarters in Fort Wayne. BISHOP LUERS CELEBRATES St. Martin de Porres CLASS OF 2006 Diocesan offices will renovation continues be closed Monday, May 29 moving both to the expanded church. BY DENISE FEDOROW “Everything was to be in one building — one central location — which would have SYRACUSE — The unique “overturned been much better,” List said. boat” architecture of St. Martin de Porres The modified plans do not include any Church in Syracuse was built in 1966 and, improvements to the rectory and four of the according to the administrative associate religious education classes will remain in and director of religious education, Liz List, the current building outside the church. “nothing has been done since.” Parish members were hoping to remove that That is until last September, when con- building to gain parking. struction on a renovation project began. The List said there were two driving factors renovation, by Kaiser-Spraker in South that spurred the renovation project. “Over Bend, is basically doubling the square the years the parish was concerned about footage on two levels as the expansion the elderly not being able to go downstairs wraps around the existing church. to enjoy festivities — such as our Ash “The architect said it was challenging in Wednesday soup and salad luncheon, so all aspects,” according to List. “They didn’t we’ve been trying to get an elevator,” she want to take away the uniqueness of the said. “The parish council has also decided church with the capsized boat design for the the way we handle our religious education lake area.” is not feasible anymore. Four classes are TIM JOHNSON List said the price tag for the original held in the (church) basement and they’re project was 2.2 million. The project was just storage rooms, so we decided it’s time Bishop John M. D’Arcy leads graduates of dovetailed on the Annual Bishop’s Appeal to do something about it.” the Bishop Luers High School class of and the goal for the parish was to raise $1 With the building project a religious edu- million, but she said they were only able to cation wing will be added in the addition 2006 from the Cathedral of the raise $800,000, causing them to modify the towards the lake. Only the top floor will be Immaculate Conception after the bac- original plans. Initially plans called for a finished with classrooms at this time. new rectory and tearing down the existing calaureate Mass on May 19. religious education-parish office building DE PORRES, PAGE 5 2 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC MAY 28, 2006 TODAY’S CATHOLIC

Official newspaper of the Graduation, anniversary events Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend P.O. Box 11169 Fort Wayne, IN 46856 fill calendar in last weeks of May PUBLISHER: Bishop John M. D’Arcy The coming of graduations Old Testament, who previously taught at Harvard. He is a convert to the Catholic EDITOR: Tim Johnson It began as it always does, with morning faith, and a great deal of his focus is on the ASSISTANT EDITOR: Don Clemmer Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Book of Genesis. He had been an ordained STAFF WRITER: Kay Cozad Conception for Bishop Luers’ class of 2006. pastor in the Methodist community before NEWS What a joy to realize that we now have two becoming a Catholic. He is a real treasure, Editorial Department deacons who are at the last step of their and it was a joy to be at his home with priestly formation, both of whom are gradu- Gary and his wife, Lisa, and their two sons PAGE DESIGNER: Francie Hogan &NOTES ates of Bishop Luers High School. Anthony FREELANCE WRITERS: Ann Carey, and so many devoted to the pursuit of Steinacker (Luers Class of 1991). Tony will “Faith seeking Understanding.” Especially Michelle Castleman, Elmer J. Danch, BISHOP JOHN M. D’ARCY soon be receiving an assignment as deacon, moving, was to see these exemplary young Michelle Donaghey, Bonnie Elberson, which will probably continue into the early men and women who have become drawn Denise Fedorow, Sr. Margie Lavonis, years of his priesthood. He has completed to the study of theology, and I was so CSC, Jennifer Ochstein,Theresa his academic work at the Pontifical pleased to be in the presence of many mem- The history of our diocese Josephinum Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. Thomas, Kristi Ward Among the interesting meetings last bers of the theology faculty, and to experi- The second Bishop Luers’ graduate is ence first hand their good work. week, was one with Joseph White, Ph.D., Jason Freiburger (Luers Class of 1996), a Business Department who is currently writing the history of our member of St. Therese Parish. Although a BUSINESS MANAGER: Kathy Denice diocese. Joe has a doctorate in history from deacon, he has one more year of studies at A golden jubilarian AD GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: Mark Weber the University of Notre Dame, and he is the Josephinum before being assigned to a After the visit with the graduating theol- BOOKKEEPING/CIRCULATION: Kathy Voirol nearing completion of this work, which will parish in preparation for his ordination to be several hundred pages. I have read some the priesthood. ogy majors, I was able to make a stop at St. of it and find it altogether fascinating. The Shortly after this baccalaureate Mass, I Joseph Church, Mishawaka, and the golden committee members who recommended headed north. I celebrated, I believe for the jubilee Mass of Father Robert Yast. Father Advertising Sales him were present. A problem has arisen, 22nd time, the baccalaureate Mass of Saint Bob is an exemplary priest — beloved Carol Eifert (Fort Wayne area) and maybe you, dear reader, can help us. Mary’s College. In my homily I focused on wherever he has been stationed; such as, St. (260) 456-2824 This, after all, is the history of the past 150 the encyclical, “Deus Caritas Est,” of Pope Anthony, South Bend; St. Patrick, Judy Kearns (South Bend area) years commissioned for our jubilee, so we Benedict XVI and was pleased to hear the Walkerton; St. Joseph, Mishawaka; and St. (574) 234-0687 need to bring it up to the present. The only positive reaction. Saturday afternoon I Peter, Fort Wayne. He came a little late to the priesthood, having served in the United Web site: www.diocesefwsb.org/TODAY problem is that the bishop of the last 21 attended the always beautiful baccalaureate years is still quite active, and as far as we Mass at Sacred Heart Basilica, Notre Dame, States Army. He is known for his self-dep- Published weekly except the last can tell, pretty much alive. Historians are and said my usual words at the end of recating wit, but also his devotion to the Sunday in June, second and fourth always reluctant, understandably so, to Mass. On Sunday, I attended the graduation sick and the dying in hospitals all through- weeks in July, second week in August write a history of a contemporary time. Joe at the University of Notre Dame; and while out the diocese, especially in the South and last week in December by the White told me that he found the last 20 it is always beautiful, it was marked by Bend area. Father Bob, realizing the serious Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, years quite interesting, with so many new something special this year — the singing situation we have in our diocese, stayed on 1103 S. Calhoun St., P.O. Box 390, Fort initiatives. Having lived it, I find it interest- of the Irish National Anthem in the Irish several years beyond his 75th birthday, the Wayne, IN 46801. Second-class ing as well; fascinating may be an even bet- normal time for retirement according to postage paid at Fort Wayne, IN, and ter word. canon law. And I was pleased to additional mailing office. So much of what has gone on have him remain active. Finally in the diocese involved signifi- having reached his golden POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: cant challenges. Joe has written a On Sunday, I attended the graduation at the University jubilee, this great priest is Today’s Catholic, P.O. Box 11169, Fort fine account, taken mostly from preparing for his retirement. 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BUREAU OFFICE: 114 W.Wayne St., South be objective. The other way is to Bend, IN 46601.Telephone (574) 234- accept Dr. White’s reflections. He 0687. Fax: (574) 232-8483. is open to both approaches. What do you language. I do not know all the words, but I Our coming retreat News deadline is the Monday morn- think? Although as I ponder this, I do not know some of them in English. A special Next week, our priests will come togeth- ing before publication date. know where I would find the time, but I do joy for me was to meet briefly with the er for their annual retreat, and I intend to be Advertising deadline is nine days not think it would be all that difficult once I President of Ireland Mary McAleese. We with them for most of the retreat; and, if before publication date. got at it. What do you think, dear reader? had a brief discussion about the “Men of possible, for all of it. The retreat master this Please let us know. I have asked our history 1916,” who were the great heroes of my year will be Father John Coughlin, OFM. LETTERS POLICY: Today’s Catholic wel- committee, who recommended Dr. White, dear dad, himself an Irish patriot — and Father John is a Franciscan friar, who is comes original, signed letters about and I have some varied suggestions from also of my mother. I hope to be able to also a professor of canon law and ethics at issues affecting church life. Although them. I hope to ask some professional histo- share some of our conversation with you at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a we cannot publish every letter we rians as well, including some at the a later time. doctorate in canon law from the Gregorian receive, we strive to provide a bal- University of Notre Dame; but I would like University in Rome and a civil law degree anced representation of expressed the readers of this column to give me their from Harvard. He is a much sought-out opinions and a variety of reflections advice also. confessor and spiritual director for many of on life in the church.We will choose The day not over letters for publication based on read- As for the rest of the history, I think it Earlier in the day, I was at an event that I the young people at Notre Dame, and I am er interest, timeliness and fairness. will be absolutely fascinating. It will have attended the last several years. My sure he will present an excellent retreat for Readers may agree or disagree with include many photos. This has been a his- good friend, Professor Lawrence our priests. I look forward to being there. the letter writers’ opinions. Letters toric diocese, with national implications, Cunningham, traditionally invites to his In addition to prayer, I hope to get a little must not exceed 500 words. All let- because of Our Sunday Visitor, Archbishop home the School of Theology majors; that rest. It has been an intense time, but beauti- ters must be signed and include a Noll, University of Notre Dame, is, those undergraduates who are majoring ful as well. I give thanks every day that I phone number and address for verifi- Congregation of Holy Cross — priests, in the study of theology. This year the gath- am a priest and that I have been able to cation.We reserve the right to edit brothers and sisters, the presence of Mother ering was held at the home of a new friend, carry on through this very intense and busy letters for legal and other concerns. Theodore Guerin, soon to be canonized, who is a brilliant and devoted professor at spring, and to do it with thanksgiving and and so much more. Notre Dame. I refer to Gary Anderson, pro- joy in my heart. Mail letters to: Today’s Catholic, Dr. White has put his heart and soul into Still in first place; and, at this writing, P.O. Box 11169, Fort Wayne, IN fessor of Old Testament. Gary and his wife, this book; and while it is slower in finishing Lisa, in a home near Notre Dame, hosted a still looking down on the Yankees who we 46856-1169; or e-mail: up than we had wished, we still hope to have beaten four out of five. May it ever be [email protected] large number of these young men and have it ready within the first three to four women who have majored in theology and so. See you all next week. ISSN 0891-1533 months of the Jubilee Year 2007. who were accompanied by their families. USPS 403630 Professor Anderson is a teacher of the MAY 28, 2006 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 3

After his ordination, Father important question, Father Kempinger was assigned as asso- Kempinger also will focus on STATEMENT BY BISHOP JOHN M. D’ARCY SUPER ciate pastor at Christ the King some other goals, like continuing CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Parish in South Bend. When the to provide outstanding profession- parish school lost its principal dur- al development opportunities for On the appointment of ing his second year there, Father teachers and working to identify Notre Dame, he had earned certi- Kempinger was pressed into serv- teachers who have the spiritual, fication as a high school science ice, and what was to have been a educational and managerial quali- the new superintendent teacher. temporary position as principal ties and skills to be future princi- He taught science for one year turned into four years in the job. pals, and then to prepare those in a public high school in his “I just loved it,” Father people as future school leaders. of Catholic Schools hometown of Indianapolis, where Kempinger told Today’s Catholic. “We have outstanding leader- he had grown up in St. Barnabas “For me it was the best of both ship right now, but as the years go May 28, 2006 Parish, and then he answered a call worlds because I was in education, along we need to keep that up,” to the priesthood. and I was doing parish duties, Father Kempinger said. I am very pleased to appoint Father Stephen Kempinger, CSC, as the Holy Cross Father Andre too.” In fact, the priest credits the new superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Diocese of Fort Wayne- Léveillé had noticed the young Two years ago, Father current diocesan school principals South Bend. I am most grateful to his provincial, Rev. David Tyson, man’s dedication during his senior Kempinger became associate with providing the support and CSC, for granting permission to Father Kempinger to serve in this year of college and had asked him superintendent of schools for the encouragement he needed to capacity. It is another step in a long and devoted service by the if he had ever considered becom- diocese, with his office in accept the job. Congregation of Holy Cross of priests, brothers and sisters in this dio- ing a priest. Mishawaka. In that position, “If I didn’t have that (support), cese. That question planted a seed Father Kempinger visited the I don’t know if I could do this,” he Father Kempinger comes with an excellent background. He has that flourished, Father Kempinger South Bend and Mishawaka area said. “It means so much to me, and served as principal in one of our schools, and has also served these past told Today’s Catholic, and after Catholic schools frequently, and I look forward to working with few years as associate superintendent of the South Bend area, with considering the diocesan priest- enjoyed being back in a school set- them. They are my family when it responsibilities extending throughout the whole diocese. hood, he chose the Congregation ting and being present to the stu- comes to the schools.” During this time, I have worked closely with Father Kempinger on a of Holy Cross. dents and staff. Father Kempinger sees his new number of occasions. He comes with an excellent background in educa- “I fell in love with the philoso- One of his personal goals in the role primarily as being a good lis- tion, and has worked very well with our principals and with our pastors. phy and strength of the Holy Cross new job is to visit as many dioce- tener and a good communication I have no doubt that he will bring strength and energy to his new office. founder, Father Moreau, and the san schools as he can and spend link between Bishop D’Arcy and I thank our excellent search committee, which presented three exem- emphasis on education, especially time with the staff and students in the principals, council of teachers plary candidates, all from within our own system. ‘educating the mind and the heart’ those other schools, too. He will and diocesan school board. I also wish to take this opportunity to thank Michelle Hittie, our out- that he preached, and it just maintain his primary residence at “I have to listen and learn in going superintendent of schools. Mrs. Hittie has brought a genuine pro- seemed a good match,” he Moreau Seminary on the Notre order to get the information to fessionalism to our office, has strengthened the central office of our dio- explained. Dame campus, but will have make good decisions,” Father cese and worked well with our Diocesan School Board, the Council of After his novitiate year, Father sleeping quarters at a rectory in Kempinger said. Teachers and with all our principals on the elementary school level, and Kempinger asked to be assigned to Fort Wayne so that he can split his “One of the things my mom with our teachers. She has been a joy to work with, and has brought a high school to get a sense of time each week between both ends and dad (Gilbert and Kathleen great strength to our educational program. what it would be like to live and of the diocese. Kempinger) always taught me was I look forward to working with Father Kempinger in the years ahead. work in community. At Notre “I’m looking at this as hopeful- that whatever I did in life, I need- Dame High School in Niles, Ill., a ly a real benefit of joining the two ed to make a difference,” he con- suburb of Chicago, he taught reli- ends of the diocese,” he said. tinued. “That’s how I got involved gion and was director of student Something else high on his pri- in education here at Notre Dame activities for the 780 male stu- ority list is what he calls a “vision” — I wanted to make a difference dents. During his two years there, rather than a goal: “I wish that we in some kid’s life who was strug- Vatican says Legionaries’ he earned a master’s degree in could provide a Catholic education gling with academics. educational administration from to all those parents who want their “Everything since then has kind Loyola University in Chicago. He child to go to Catholic school,” he of revolved around that, and I hope founder cannot exercise presently is pursing a doctorate in said. “That’s the vision. The goals I can made a difference in this education through part-time class are: How do we do that?” position.” work at Indiana University. While wrestling with that ministry publicly

BY CINDY WOODEN priest to a life reserved to prayer and penance, renouncing any pub- Opus Dei and Catholic Worker lic ministry,” the statement said. VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In a Navarro-Valls added, “The decision approved by Pope Holy Father approved these deci- petition zoning board for variances Benedict XVI, the Vatican has said sions.” the founder of the Legionaries of The spokesman also said, BY ANN CAREY Christ, accused of sexually abus- “independently of the person of ing minors, should not exercise his the founder, the well-deserving priestly ministry publicly. apostolate of the Legionaries of SOUTH BEND — The Board of The Vatican also said May 19 it Christ and of the association Zoning Appeals meeting May 18 would not begin a canonical Regnum Christi is recognized with took on a distinctly Catholic fla- process against the founder, 86- gratitude.” vor, for both Catholic Worker of year-old Father Marcial Maciel In a statement posted May 19 Michiana, Inc., and the local Opus Degollado, because of his on its Web site, the Legionaries of Dei group petitioned the city for advanced age and poor health. Christ said Father Maciel, “our zoning variances for their South The Vatican statement did not beloved father founder,” has Bend facilities. get into details about the allega- declared his innocence “and, fol- Catholic Worker came away tions against Father Maciel, but lowing the example of Jesus with a favorable recommendation Vatican sources said the wording Christ, decided not to defend him- for a zoning exception for a house of the statement and its call to self in any way.” Catholic Worker recently pur- penance signaled it had found As to the Vatican’s decision, it chased at 515 S. St. Joseph St. The there was substance to the accusa- said, “with the spirit of obedience exception would allow Catholic tions. to the church that has always char- Worker to operate a group home In the statement, Vatican acterized him, he has accepted this that will house up to eight people, spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls communique with faith, complete including staff and homeless men. ANN CAREY said the Vatican had investigated serenity and tranquility of con- Catholic Worker had failed to Windmoor, the current Opus Dei center, faces onto Notre Dame Ave. the claims made by former science.” obtain such an exception late last Opus Dei wanted to raze Windmoor and build two new buildings on its Legionary seminarians against The congregation said its year for a house on West double lot, one that would face Notre Dame Ave., and one behind it that Father Maciel, who founded the founder knows that the restriction Washington Street, after some would face St. Peter Street. A third building was planned for an adjacent Legionaries in his native Mexico on his ministry is “a new cross neighbors and the Near West Side in 1941. that God, the father of mercy, has Neighborhood Organization lot on St. Peter, with a new garage to be built on a lot next to the third “After having submitted the allowed him to suffer and that will objected to having a group home building. Variances needed for the plan were denied by the South Bend results of the investigation to obtain many graces for the Legion in the neighborhood zoned single Board of Zoning Appeals. attentive study, the Congregation of Christ and the Regnum Christi family. Catholic Worker then for the Doctrine of the Faith, movement.” sought to find another house in a at the May 18 meeting to object to 515 St. Joseph St. home that will under the guidance of the new pre- Regain, a U.S.-based organiza- neighborhood that would be more the home operating on St. Joseph house women, but zoning as a fect, His Eminence Cardinal tion of ex-Legionaries critical of suitable for a group home. Street, which is in more of a group home for that house is William Levada, has decided — Father Maciel, praised the Vatican Unlike the sometimes con- mixed-use neighborhood than the already grandfathered, according taking into account both the action “as a true and just vindica- tentious public hearings last year West Washington Street house. to petitioner Michael Baxter. The advanced age of Rev. Maciel and about the West Washington Street Catholic Worker also has pur- his delicate health — to forgo a house, no remonstrators appeared chased a house across from the OPUS DEI, PAGE 4 canonical process and to call the MACIEL, PAGE 5 4 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC MAY 28, 2006 Bishop Lennon calls for unity among Catholics, fidelity to teachings

BY DENNIS SADOWSKI curia under Cardinal O’Malley. cases lead to divisions. This is not “The role of the bishop as the what the Lord desired, and thus he spiritual leader of the flock is to prophetically prayed that there be CLEVELAND (CNS) — Calling promote and strengthen the unity unity among his followers,” he for unity among Catholics and urg- of God’s family,” Archbishop said. ing adherence to the teachings of Sambi said. “While in some areas there is the church, Bishop Richard G. In his homily Bishop Lennon, a room for diversity, in other areas Lennon became the 10th bishop in native of suburban Arlington, of our Catholic life there needs to the Cleveland Diocese’s 159-year Mass., said he was pleased to be unity. Only when we respect history May 15. begin his work in Cleveland. He one another and listen to one In a two-hour-45-minute liturgy asked for the diocese’s prayers and another and have an openness to filled with centuries-old tradition, support and pledged to work with hearing as a community may we Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk of all the faithful throughout the dio- become a community,” he said. Cincinnati presented the new bish- cese. The bishop discussed the op with his crosier, symbolizing Demonstrating the pastoral importance of communion with his leadership of the country’s 16th leadership that has endeared him the wider society, including others largest diocese. among clergy and laity alike in of different faith traditions as well Bishop Anthony M. Pilla, the Boston, Bishop Lennon issued a as public officials, to “build up our man whom Bishop Lennon suc- call for unity among all the faithful way of life.” ceeds, sat near his side throughout through the building of the com- Continuing on the topic of com- the afternoon ceremony in the munity — both within the church munion, Bishop Lennon said that Cathedral of St. John the and society at large. celebrating Mass and receiving Evangelist. Twice during the litur- Drawing from the liturgy’s first holy Communion is the most gy he was recognized for his 25 reading from the Acts of the important activity of his priestly years as head of the Cleveland Apostles, he noted how “the broth- life. He invited the congregation to Diocese, each time receiving thun- ers and sisters devoted them- join him in that, citing Second derous and sustained applause. selves” to building community. To Vatican Council documents that CNS PHOTO/WILLIAM RIETER, CATHOLIC UNIVERSE BULLETIN Also present were Archbishop do that, he called upon the church called the celebration of Mass and Bishop Richard G. Lennon of Cleveland listens to the words of welcome Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to in Cleveland to uphold the “teach- Communion both the summit and from representatives of the various secretariats of the diocese serving the United States; Cardinal Sean P. ings of the apostles” as expressed the source for Catholics. the 798,000 Catholics of northeast Ohio during his May 15 installation O’Malley of Boston, a Lakewood, by the church today. “It is my hope that Mass and at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Cleveland. Bishop Lennon Ohio, native; Cardinal William H. “As (the) church founded by receiving holy Communion as a was appointed the 10th bishop of Cleveland April 4. He is the former Keeler of Baltimore; and two our great priest, Jesus Christ, it is member of Christ’s body will rector of St. John Seminary, Boston. dozen archbishops and bishops imperative that his teachings be indeed be the center of our lives as from across the country, including embraced and lived,” he said. “Let Catholics,” he said. Bishop prelates of the Byzantine rite. us, as a diocese, commit ourselves Lennon also expressed hope that the number of residents or its Archbishop Pilarczyk was to a genuine fidelity to the ‘teach- Catholics who do not attend activities and had no intention of joined by Archbishop Sambi in ings of the apostles,’ thereby Sunday Mass regularly will return OPUS DEI doing anything differently than it installing the Boston native. enriching our personal lives and to worship God “and be fed with CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 had done for the past 46 years it It was Archbishop Pilarczyk offering to the wider community a his word and sacrament, thereby has been at that location. who greeted Bishop Lennon at the contribution for the well-being of strengthening us by their presence One neighbor spoke in favor of main entrance — the holy door — all.” as we do for them.” Catholic Worker petition now will the petition at the zoning board of the cathedral and introduced Bishop Lennon also stressed Bishop Lennon ended the cele- go before the South Bend meeting, saying Opus Dei was a him to the standing-room-only the importance of communion, bration by walking through the Common Council for final positive influence in the neighbor- congregation of more than 1,200 both in responding to the needs of cathedral blessing the congrega- approval, which is expected. hood, but several other neighbors people. Archbishop Sambi read others, especially the poor and vul- tion. The audience applauded his Opus Dei, however, did not fare voiced their objections to the pro- Pope Benedict XVI’s April 4 letter nerable, and the unity of Catholic gesture. as well. The Board of Zoning posed plan. Most of the remonstra- appointing Bishop Lennon, previ- life. Appeals voted to deny variances tors noted that the Opus Dei resi- ously a Boston auxiliary who was “Today we see in the church the group sought for demolition dents were friendly, responsible vicar general and moderator of the disagreements which in some and new construction at its South neighbors. However, the neighbors Bend center on Notre Dame raised concerns about the impact Avenue. The Opus Dei group of an institutional setting — what wanted setback, buffer and height one neighbor called a “compound” variances that would have allowed — being built in a single-family it to raze its present 6,000 square district. Some neighbors cited foot building and build three new safety concerns about increased buildings and a garage on the four traffic, and some said they feared lots it owns at the site. The current that property values in the neigh- building, called “Windmoor,” con- borhood would be adversely sists of two older homes which affected by the proposed plan. had been joined together on a dou- The stretch of Notre Dame ble lot and which houses 14 men Avenue where Windmoor is locat- — eight male students and six pro- ed has undergone a recent revital- fessional men. ization since the University of The Opus Dei facility also has Notre Dame started selling lots it a chapel and study room and hosts owns for faculty members to build monthly meetings as well as occa- new houses. Greg Hakanen, direc- sional other events. Windmoor is tor of Asset Management and Real in a single-family neighborhood Estate Development for the uni- just three blocks south of the Notre versity, told the zoning board that Dame campus, but its use as a the university has had trouble try- group home is grandfathered. The ing to interest people in the lots grandfathering exception would adjacent to Windmoor because cease if the current building is people are worried about future razed; hence the group was asking Opus Dei expansion. Hakanen was for a new exception. among those who asked the zoning In place of and adjacent to board to deny the petition. Windmoor, Opus Dei wanted to The Board of Zoning Appeals construct three new, more up-to- voted unanimously to deny the date buildings for their housing requested variances for the and activities that would be joined planned new buildings and to rec- by breezeways. The square footage ommend that the common council of those three buildings was pro- not grant a zoning exception for a posed to be 4,500, 3,500 and 2,500 new group home at the site. square feet, with architecture simi- Jeff Langan, director of lar to existing houses on the block Windmoor Center, told Today’s Opus Dei attorney Mark Boveri Catholic that the Opus Dei group assured the board that the Opus would like to keep its site near Dei center would not negatively Notre Dame to accommodate stu- impact the neighborhood, and in dents who can easily walk to or fact the $3 million project would from campus. He said the Opus enhance the neighborhood. He said Dei group is discussing possible the group did not plan to expand alternative plans for their facility. MAY 28, 2006 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC 5

retired from the office of superior One of the accusers is Juan J. general of the Congregation of the Vaca, a psychology professor at MACIEL Legionaries of Christ,” the Vatican Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, said. N.Y., and a former priest of the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 It said that in consideration of Legionaries of Christ. “all of these elements,” then- In a January 2005 interview tion of so many of Maciel’s vic- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect with Catholic News Service, Vaca tims.” of the doctrinal congregation, said that when he was being Glenn Favreau, Regain board “authorized an investigation into abused in his seminary days he member, told Catholic News the accusations” in accordance once told Father Maciel that he Service the Vatican “was trying to with new norms issued by Pope needed to go to confession about satisfy everybody” with its deci- John Paul II in 2001 with regard to those incidents. Vaca said Father sion. It disciplined Father Maciel clerical sex abuse and serious Maciel tried to dissuade him, but without applying the maximum abuses of the sacraments. when he was insistent the priest penalty while it praised the work Msgr. Charles J. Scicluna, an said, “Here, I will give you absolu- of the Legion and Regnum Christi, official of the Vatican Congregation tion,” and made a sign of the cross he said. for the Doctrine of the Faith, trav- over him. Favreau added that one of the eled to Mexico and the United Vaca said several other semi- accusations against Father Maciel States early in 2005 to interview narians reported similar incidents. was that he absolved in confession adults who said they were abused After earlier complaints to the DENISE FEDOROW people who were his accomplices by Father Maciel when they were Vatican brought no response, in A new entrance to St. Martin de Porres Church in Syracuse is being in sexual sins and that this is pun- teenage seminarians. 1998 the eight living accusers added on. The statue of St. Martin de Porres is being protected during ishable by automatic excommuni- A May 2005 statement by the drew up another case against construction under the wooden box. cation. Legionaries repeated Father Father Maciel, accusing him of Such a penalty is contained in Maciel’s denial: “I can categorical- giving absolution to an accom- Canon 1378 of the church’s Code ly state that the accusations brought plice in a sexual sin. The parish was hoping to gain of Canon Law. against me are false. I never Vaca said they were informed DE PORRES 80 parking spaces with this project Favreau, who is not among the engaged in the sort of repulsive early in 2005 that the Vatican was but instead will actually gain about accusers of Father Maciel, was a behavior these men accuse me of.” looking into the case. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 35-40 spaces. A narthex is being Legionary member from 1984 to added to the church to alleviate 1997. He had been ordained a dea- crowding during busy times and con before leaving. “Hopefully in the future we can will allow room for parish mem- The U.S.-based Survivors raise more funds to finish the addi- bers to congregate and visit after Network of those Abused by tional classrooms and have all the Mass. The plans do not call for Priests said it welcomed the religious education classes in one additional pew seating, which Vatican’s disciplinary measures central location,” List said. caused a few concerns among but added that Father Maciel There are 115 students current- parishioners, according to List. should have been removed from ly enrolled in the parish’s religious However, she said statistics taken the priesthood. education program, K-12. over 40 years showed it was not According to the Vatican’s “Our main concern was getting feasible to do so when the extra 2006 yearbook, the Legionaries the kids out of the storage rooms seating was only really needed have 1,917 members, of whom and adding an elevator, with as four times a year. 642 are priests. Regnum Christi is many elderly as we have, it’s a The majority of parishioners a lay movement associated with must.” believe the renovation is a great the Legionaries. List said improving the parking idea. “They believe it’s a real posi- The Vatican statement said situation was also a high priority tive step for our church,” Liz said. accusations against Father Maciel for the project. In the summertime, Father Place and his parish- were brought to the doctrinal con- Mass attendance increases when ioners may not have too much gregation in 1998. CNS PHOTO/ALESSIA GIULIANI, CATHOLIC PRESS PHOTO vacationers arrive at their lake longer to wait. The completion In 2002 Father Maciel issued a Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, left, founder of the Legionaries of homes. There are 302 registered date for the project is Aug. 28 and public denial of the allegations of Christ, is pictured meeting students at Regina Apostolorum university in parishioners year-round at St. List said she was told at a recent sexual abuse, it said. Rome in 1999. In a decision approved by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican “In 2005, because of his Martin and in the summer that construction meeting that they’re said May 19 that Father Maciel, who has been accused of sexually abus- advanced age, Father Maciel number doubles. On long holiday still “looking good for that date.” ing minors, should not exercise his priestly ministry publicly. weekends that number increases even more.

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Dupont Road ©2002 MKJ Marketing 6 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC MAY 28, 2006 Pope sends Cardinal Court rejects Spokane Sepe to Naples; Cardinal Diocese’s $45.7 million Dias goes to Vatican sex abuse settlement VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope NEWS BRIEFS SPOKANE, Wash. (CNS) — U.S. Benedict XVI named Italian Bankruptcy Judge Patricia Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe to be the Williams has thrown out the new archbishop of Naples and Spokane Diocese’s proposed $45.7 named Indian Cardinal Ivan Dias of POPE ADDRESSES ITALIAN BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE million settlement with 75 people Mumbai to succeed him as prefect who have sued the diocese for cler- of the Congregation for the gy sexual abuse. She said the pro- Evangelization of Peoples. The posal violated a rule of fair treat- appointments were announced May ment because it did not include 20 at the Vatican. Cardinal Dias, 70, some 100 other claims still under is a former Vatican diplomat who review or provide for possible has been archbishop of his home- future claims. Williams made her town since 2001. Cardinal Sepe, ruling during a telephone confer- who will turn 63 June 2, was named ence hearing May 18. Earlier in the prefect of the congregation the week lawyers for claimants who same year. He was born in a rural were not covered by the proposed village not far from Naples and told settlement submitted a proposal the Italian Catholic newspaper that would assess parishes nearly Avvenire May 21, “I feel like a son two-thirds of the market value of who, having left home many years their church and school properties ago, is returning with his heart in return for not forcing them to filled with many experiences prov- close and be put up for sale. idence allowed me to have.” Williams ruled last year that the Cardinal Sepe succeeds Cardinal parishes and schools in the diocese Michele Giordano, 75, who retired belong to the diocese and must be for reasons of age. counted among its assets in the bankruptcy proceedings. The dio- Bishops urge Congress CNS PHOTO/L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO cese has appealed that ruling to the Pope Benedict XVI addresses members of the Italian bishops’ conference in the synod Federal District Court for the to assist more hurricane Eastern District of Washington. The hall at the Vatican May 18. He told them that part of the church’s duty is to help people diocese had filed for Chapter 11 victims, Haitians see what public policies are helpful or harmful to the dignity of individuals and to the bankruptcy protection in December 2004. WASHINGTON (CNS) — The common good. chairmen of two key bishops’ com- mittees urged special attention to Catholic radio making the poor in Haiti and to U.S. hurri- quoted church sources as saying a Pope says media can be the chaste, poor and obedient Christ cane victims in need of housing as government official had called so that the world would believe and imprint in Kansas City a House-Senate conference com- Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of used to draw attention be saved,” the pope told the superi- Buenos Aires, head of the ors. Consecrated men and women, EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo. mittee began work on a supplemen- (CNS) — When Jesus and his tal appropriations bill. In a May 19 Argentine bishops’ conference, to to people in need he said, are called to be a “credible assure him that the government was and shining sign of the Gospel and Apostles preached to their follow- letter to the conference committee, VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The not planning any change to current its paradoxes,” which encourage ers, they would travel from town to Bishops Nicholas DiMarzio and Catholic Church is attentive to the abortion laws. The Justice Ministry humility, self-giving and the renun- town, covering several miles every Thomas G. Wenski urged support media not only because they can be has invited the public to submit ciation of earthly goods for the sake day. Thanks to today’s technology, for those “two essential areas of used to help spread the Gospel, but comments on the penal code pro- of spiritual goods. “The Lord wants Catholic radio can spread the Word funding” in the Emergency also because they can promote sol- posals on its Web site. men and women who are free, not of God in a nearly 100-mile radius Supplemental Appropriations Act idarity and draw people’s attention bound, able to abandon everything of Excelsior Springs, using the AM for Defense, the Global War on to situations of serious need, said to follow him and who find every- dial. KEXS (1090 AM) is the only Terror and Hurricane Recovery Pope Benedict XVI. Addressing Orthodox official sees thing only in him,” the pope said. Catholic radio station in Kansas 2006. Bishop DiMarzio, of pilgrims gathered at the Vatican City. KEXS has long been known Brooklyn, N.Y., heads the U.S. quicker resolution of May 21 for the midday recitation of as a religious radio station, but bishops’ Committee on Domestic tensions under this the “Regina Coeli” prayer, the pope Author, spiritual became a Catholic radio station Policy, and Bishop Wenski, of looked specifically at the media’s nearly two years ago, on May 19, Orlando, Fla., chairs the Committee pope ability to inform people about “the director Father Edward 2004, the late Pope John Paul II’s on International Policy. The bish- plague of hunger that still afflicts ROME (CNS) — The head of ecu- Farrell dies in Detroit birthday. Jim O’Laughlin, president ops said the reconciled appropria- humanity.” He praised participants of KEXS’ owner, Kansas City tions bill should include at least menical relations for the Russian in the May 21 Walk the World DETROIT (CNS) — Cardinal Orthodox Church said he expects Catholic Network, remembers the $100 million for rental housing marathon sponsored by the World Adam J. Maida celebrated a funeral day well. He also said the coinci- assistance for low-income house- the resolution of Catholic- Food Program and, in connection Mass May 13 in the chapel of Orthodox tensions to speed up dence of starting on the pope’s holds in the Gulf Coast region and with the event, spoke about the Detroit’s Sacred Heart Major birthday was not lost on him, since $40 million “for the urgent needs of under Pope Benedict XVI. May 28 celebration of World Seminary for Father Edward J. Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk Pope John Paul called for a “new Haiti,” the poorest country in the Communications Day. The Farrell, a well-known author and evangelization.” Western Hemisphere. and Kaliningrad met May 18 with marathon, he said, is designed to spiritual director. Father Farrell, 75, Pope Benedict, then presided over raise awareness about the need for died during an early afternoon nap Church officials critical the May 19 blessing of the new quick, concrete action “to guaran- May 9 at the Holy Trinity Oratory Jesuit granted France’s Russian Orthodox church in Rome, tee everyone, particularly children, in Detroit. The author of 12 books highest honor for of plans to legalize St. Catherine the Martyr. He told freedom from hunger.” on spirituality, Father Farrell was in reporters later that he had “a deep demand as a retreat director, having human rights work in abortion in Argentina and important conversation” with conducted retreats in more than 70 Pope Benedict “about possibilities Pope says some India BUENOS AIRES, Argentina countries. But many also sought for our churches working together,” him out for personal counseling. (CNS) — Catholic Church officials particularly in Europe. “The religious order reforms NEW DELHI (CNS) — The are critical of an Argentine propos- “There were just thousands who French government has awarded its Catholic Church and the Russian threatened by modern sought him out for guidance, or for al to legalize abortion under certain Orthodox Church must work highest honor to Jesuit Father circumstances as part of a wide- a word of comfort, or for forgive- Cedric Prakash, an outspoken together to bring to light again the culture ness or healing,” said Sister ranging legal reform. The proposal Christian roots of Europe,” advocate for human rights in west- VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Marcella Clancy, co-director with was drawn up by a team of legal Metropolitan Kirill said. While the ern India’s Gujarat state. Father Reforms undertaken by religious Father Farrell of the Holy Trinity experts working on draft outlines centuries-old theological differ- Prakash was awarded the Legion of orders aimed at ensuring deeper Oratory. Father Farrell was active for a revised penal code. Abortion ences separating Catholics and Honor for his “commitment to the fidelity to the Gospel, to the church in work for evangelization, ecu- is illegal in Argentina except in the Orthodox must be overcome, he defense and promotion of human and to the poor are threatened by menism, social justice and peace, case of the rape of a mentally dis- said, “people today want answers to rights in India,” the French govern- too many adaptations to a modern, and had a deep devotion to the abled woman or when the mother’s the questions that are closest to ment said in a May 15 statement to materialistic culture, Pope Benedict Eucharist, Sister Clancy said. “The life is in danger, but human rights them, and they want one answer. the priest. “I feel humbled. This is XVI said. The pope met May 22 core of Father Ed’s person and groups believe at least 500,000 ille- They want the churches to speak not an honor for me but for all those with some 1,500 superiors of priesthood was Eucharist,” she gal abortions are performed annual- with one voice.” He said the pope who have work(ed) for human women’s and men’s religious said. “He would no more consider ly. The issue of legalizing abortion agreed that promoting moral values rights in the difficult situation orders representing hundreds of not celebrating Eucharist each day under specific circumstances in Europe — especially the value of here,” the Jesuit told Catholic News thousands of priests, nuns, brothers than he would consider not breath- remains highly divisive in human life and the importance of Service May 17. Father Prakash has and consecrated virgins around the ing, not having his heart beat for a Argentina, and government offi- the traditional family — should be been fighting for human rights in world. “To belong to the Lord: This day. Eucharist was the breath and cials were quick to make it clear a priority for the two churches. Gujarat state as the head of they were not officially endorsing is the mission of the men and heart of his life.” Prashant, a Jesuit social action these proposals. Media reports women who have chosen to follow group. MAY 28, 2006 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC 7

ter of Cindy and Ron Ruich and Eagle Scout Stephanie is the daughter of Karen and Steven Woodrum. Burrell to be ‘Lower Your Nets’ for honored AROUND THE DIOCESE Catholic Youth Camp FORT WAYNE — Zachary The Office of Youth Ministry of Burrell, 18, of Boy Scout Troop 19 the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South will be honored at a special Eagle Bend is sponsoring a Catholic Scout ceremony Wednesday, May SCOUTS RECEIVE RELIGIOUS EMBLEMS Youth Camp for boys and girls 31, at 7 p.m. at the St. John the entering grades 4-6 from June 14- Baptist Pursley Activity Center. 18, at Bair Lake in Jones, Mich. To earn Scouting’s highest (about an hour and a half from award, Zachary had to earn 21 both Fort Wayne and South Bend). merit badges, serve as a leader in The camp will provide an out- his troop and complete a major standing opportunity for young community service project. Catholics to have fun, pray and Zachary’s service project was enjoy the summer camp experi- organizing the renovation of the ence. It will include swimming, Girl Scout meeting room at St. John canoeing, frisbee golf, a climbing the Baptist Church. Renovation wall, crafts, fishing, camp fires, included taking up the old carpet, hiking, daily Mass, prayer, soccer, painting the walls and laying new basketball, putt-putt golf and more. carpet. Registration is $175 per child Zachary has been a member of with a sibling rate of $150 per Troop 19, chartered to St. John the child. Space is limited to 100 Baptist Church, for seven years. He campers. For more information, has served the troop as Scribe and contact Chris Culver, associate Troop Guide. He was elected to the director of the Office of Youth Order of the Arrow in 2001. Ministry at [email protected] Zachary participated in a troop trip fwsb.org or Dave and Jan Torma, to Charles L. Sommers National camp directors, at (574) 291-3381. High Adventure Base, Ely, Minn., in the summer of 2000 with a trip to Philmont Boy Scout Camp, N.M., Queen of Peace Ministries the following summer. to host Marian Zachary is a senior at Bishop Luers High School. He will gradu- conference at Notre Dame ate in the top ten of his class and has PROVIDED BY LAURA RAY NOTRE DAME — Queen of been active in Key Club, National The 52nd annual St. George Day Mass and award ceremony was celebrated recently by Peace Ministries in South Bend Honor Society, Future Business will host the 2006 National Leaders of America, World Culture the Scout chaplain, Father Chris Young, at St. Anthony Church in South Bend. Laura Ray, Medjugorje Conference at the Club and is captain of the cross the Catholic Committee on Scouting (CCOS) vice chair, presented Scouts their medal University of Notre Dame, May country and track teams in his sen- 26-28. This year’s conference will ior year. He plans to attend Indiana for earning their age appropriate religious emblems: Joseph Larson, Troop 563, Ad Altare feature Msgr. Ben Franzinelli, University Kelley School of Dei; Liam Wilcox, Pack 750, Parvuli Dei; Miguel Canda, Pack 750, Parvuli Dei; Jonathan Tony Melendez, Eduardo Business, Bloomington, this fall. Verastegui, Dr. Thersa Karminski Mauck, Troop 750, Ad Altare Dei. Also honored were scout leaders James Knopick and Burke and other inspiring speak- Eagle Scout honored in James Liponoga of Troop 750 who received the Bronze Pelican, a diocesan award to rec- ers and performers. There will be a candlelight May 21 ceremony ognize dedication to providing a quality Catholic Scouting program to youth. Dr. James rosary procession to the Lourdes SOUTH BEND — Ben Domonkos Mauck was presented the St. George Medal, a National CCOS award given to lay persons Grotto, opportunities for prayer from St. Matthew Scout Troop 111 and Mass attendance, music min- was honored as an Eagle Scout on or clergy who foster the total personal and spiritual growth of Scouts and encourage them istry and more. Housing is avail- Sunday, May 21, at Our Lady of to actively live out their Catholic faith. able both on-campus and at many Hungary. Domonkos, a senior at area locations. This year the Marian High School, plans to International Pilgrim Statue of attend Indiana University of South ed a 2006 Presidential Scholar. point of the week will be the pres- lence in teaching and the excellence Our Lady of Fatima will also be Bend or Holy Cross College. The letter sent to Principal Susan entation of the Presidential that continues to be a tradition at on display. Ben’s Eagle project involved Richter reads, “I am pleased to Scholars medallion to each Scholar, Saint Joseph’s High School. The Speakers at the 2006 National tearing out old plaster and re-plas- announce that, after wrestling with to commemorate their being chosen letter to Richter concluded with, Medjugorje Conference include tering at Our Lady of Hungary many difficult choices, the for this prestigious award. “We appreciate your school’s com- internationally known singer and Church. He thanks the Holy Name Commission on Presidential The scholars are chosen from a mitment to cultivate excellence in guitarist Tony Melendez; Society of Our Lady of Hungary for Scholars has selected the 2006 pool of approximately 2,600 candi- all of your students.” cofounder of the Medjugorje their effort in the project. Presidential Scholars. dates identified for the academic Information Center in Las Vegas, In 1994, Ben began his Scouting “Neehar N. Garg is one of these component of the program, based USF awards high school Nev., Msgr. Ben Franzinelli; pop- career in first grade as a Tiger Cub. outstanding students. One young on having scored exceptionally ular Mexican singer and actor He was a charter member of Pack man and one young woman have well on the College Board SAT or essay winners Eduardo Verástegui; Brother Jason Lewis, MIC, a convert to 433 sponsored by Immanuel United been chosen from each state, the the ACT Assessment. FORT WAYNE — The School of Catholicism and seminarian with Methodist Church. He earned his District of Columbia, and Puerto Approximately 20 females and 20 Health Sciences at the University of the Congregation of the Marians Arrow of Light — the highest Rico. Two students have been males are selected as candidates Saint Francis recently sponsored an of the Immaculate Conception; honor earned in Cub Scouts — and selected at large, and 20 students from each state, the District of essay contest for high school stu- Dr. Theresa Karminski Burke, also earned the Order of the Arrow have been chosen from the visual Columbia, the commonwealth of dents interested in health careers. who was instrumental in produc- Brotherhood. He worked three and performing arts. The scholars Puerto Rico, and from families of The contest was open to all high ing the first video presentation of years as a camp counselor at Camp have all demonstrated leadership, U.S. citizens living abroad. school juniors enrolled at Bishop the events in Medjugorje; David Tamarack. scholarship, contribution to school Application is by invitation only; Dwenger High School, Bishop Leatherby, who had a conversion Scouting is a family tradition in and community, and outstanding students do not apply individually Luers High School and Anthis experience in Medjugorje; and the Domonkos family. Ben’s father, accomplishment in the arts, sci- to the program, nor do their schools Health career students of Fort Father Anthony Bus, CR, author Steve, is the Scout master. Ben’s ences, and other fields of interest,” nominate them. Wayne, Saint Joseph’s High School of “A Mother’s Plea.” older brother, Sam, earned his the letter said. Of the 550 semifinalists, only 11 in South Bend and Marian High For information, visit Eagle Award. Younger brother Jake “Recognition of your scholar were from Indiana. Neehar is the School, Mishawaka. Two students, www.queenofpeaceministries.com is also a Scout. will emphasize the importance of 11th student in South Bend to Stephanie Woodruf of Bishop or telephone (574) 288-8777, fax: Ben’s parents are Steve and achievement in secondary educa- receive this recognition since the Dwenger High School and Chrissy (574) 288-879 or e-mail: Denise M. Domonkos. tion. On behalf of the President’s program’s inception in 1964, and Ruich of Bishop Luers High [email protected] Commision and the U.S. he is the only student from Saint School, were chosen as award Saint Joseph’s senior Department of Education, thank Joseph’s High School to be award- recipients of $500 and a USF hood- you for broadening the exposure of ed this distinction. ed sweatshirt. The topic of the Correction recognized as the Presidential Scholars Program Each Presidential Scholar is essay was to describe how the The names of the Bishop Dwenger and celebrating the accomplish- asked to identify the one teacher Franciscan Value, Reverence the Presidential Scholar ments of these outstanding young who has most influenced him or High School valedictorian and unique dignity of each person, salutatorian were reversed in the SOUTH BEND — Neehar Garg, a people,” the letter adds. her. The “distinguished profession- applies to your interest in a health graduating senior from Saint Scholars will be recognized in al” chosen and honored by Neehar May 21 issue of Today’s Catholic. care profession. Both Chrissy and Claire Ensley is the Bishop Joseph’s High School, was recent- Washington D.C. during National for her efforts is Julie Chismar. Stephanie aspire to become regis- ly notified that he had been select- Recognition Week in June. A high Chismar exemplifies the excel- Dwenger valedictorian. Hailey tered nurses. Chrissy is the daugh- Gardner is the salutorian. 8 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC MAY 28, 2006 More than 2,800 Notre IRISH PRESIDENT PRESENTS ADDRESS Msgr Faber celebrates Dame students received AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME degrees May 21 70 years as priest NOTRE DAME — More than 2,800 students received degrees May 21 at the University of Notre BY KAY COZAD During Dame’s 161st commencement that time, exercises, which were held at the Msgr. Faber Joyce Center on campus. FORT WAYNE — June 6 will was asked by Mary McAleese, president of mark the 70th jubilee anniversary then Bishop Ireland, was the principal speaker of ordination into the priesthood John F. Noll and the recipient of an honorary for Msgr. William Faber, who cel- to start a new doctor of laws degree. Jazz pianist ebrated his 97th birthday in church in Fort and composer Dave Brubeck March. In his years he has wit- Wayne and received the 2006 Laetare Medal, nessed many changes, both cultur- after working Notre Dame’s highest honor and ally and within his beloved church. MSGR. with contrac- the most prestigious award given Born in Evanston, Ill. on March WILLIAM FABER tors, the plans to American Catholics. 26, 1909, to Susan and Michael for Queen of Catherine Distler, a double Faber, sixth of eight children, Angels Parish were drawn up. major in anthropology and prepro- Msgr. Faber and his siblings were Msgr. Faber’s vision was to fessional studies from Leawood, very close, one brother being “like build the church that July of 1947 Kan., delivered the valedictory a twin.” The children helped out for later use as a gymnasium, with address. during the Depression years by a new church building to come Degrees were conferred on 1,935 selling vegetables at a roadside later. undergraduates, 318 master’s and stand. “But the school became so pop- doctoral students in the Notre Dame Msgr. Faber and his “twin” ular that we kept building new Graduate School, 380 master’s spent their time together caddying classrooms instead,” says Msgr. degree students in the Mendoza at the local golf course where he Faber, who reports there were College of Business, and 191 Notre learned to love golf, a sport he eventually 17 classrooms. Msgr. Dame Law School students. BRYCE RICHTER played well throughout his life. Faber’s 25-year pastorate at Queen Other honorary degree recipi- Mary McAleese, president of Ireland, presented the com- His family, he says, have all lived of Angels occurred during the time ents are: Landrum R. Bolling, good long lives, including one sis- of Vatican II and he recalls, “I was higher education leader and inter- mencement address at the University of Notre Dame on ter who is a retired nun. deeply moved by the efforts of national peace maker; Kevin May 20. “Longevity is in our genes,” Vatican II and had all the neces- Cahill, internationally known says Msgr. Faber brightly. “Six of sary changes made immediately.” expert on tropical medicine; the eight lived 90-plus years and He was named monsignor by then Anthony F. Earley Jr., chairman of BISHOP CELEBRATES BACCALAUREATE the other two made it to 87.” Bishop Leo Pursley in 1966. the board, chief executive officer, Msgr. Faber attended Catholic Following his pastorate at and president of DTE Energy MASS AT SAINT MARY’S COLLEGE grammar and high schools in Queen of Angels, Msgr. Faber Company; Norman C. Francis, Evanston where he remembers moved to Kendallville where he president of Xavier University; being taught by tremendous nuns spent eight years shepherding the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and priests. He felt an influence flock at Immaculate Conception Harper Lee; Gil Loescher, emeri- from these religious, yet had “no Parish before his retirement at age tus professor at Notre Dame and inclination” for a vocation until 71. His sister Betsey was his international expert on refugee and after graduation when he prayed to housekeeper there. humanitarian issues; Francis C. the Blessed Mother for guidance. He soon began to winter in Oakley, president emeritus of He began his studies in Florida, along with his sister, Williams College; philanthropist Rensselaer at St. Joseph College, where he ministered to the people Karen Rauenhorst; John F. “Jack” where he came to know the priest- there for 13 years. Sandner, retired chair of the hood was where he belonged. In 2001, Betsey’s failing health Chicago Mercantile Exchange; Following two years of study had them both returning to Fort Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan of there, he attended St. Gregory in Wayne, when they moved into St. the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Cincinnati, Ohio, where he earned Anne Home and Retirement N.M.; Matthew V. Storin, noted a baccalaureate in philosophy. And Community. “I’m happy here,” journalist and retired associate after four years of study in theolo- says Msgr. Faber. vice president at Notre Dame; and gy at St. Meinrad Seminary, the Msgr. Faber believes the Thomas P. Sullivan, trial lawyer young Faber was ordained into the priesthood is a great gift, and has and former U.S. attorney for the priesthood in 1936 by then Bishop pledged his life “to try and make Northern District of Illinois. John F. Noll at the Cathedral of the Christ realistically present in the Immaculate Conception in Fort lives of the people.” PROVIDED BY SAINT MARY’S COLLEGE Wayne. He humbly adds, “It means The young priest’s first assign- everything to me. I was always Bishop John M. D’Arcy was ment was at Holy Angels Parish in involved in the sacraments, espe- the celebrant of the bac- Gary. After six years as associate cially the Eucharist. I believe pastor there he was assigned to the priests are ordained for the pref- calaureate Mass at Saint marriage tribunal in Chicago. erence of the people.” Mary’s College, Notre Another move took the priest back A special recognition dinner to Fort Wayne where he spent was held by the Knights of Dame, on May 19. seven years as chaplain at St. Columbus for Msgr. Faber’s Vincent Village Orphanage. There jubilee on April 27, where he was he ministered to over 300 children, presented with a certificate of some of whom he is still in contact appreciation for 70 years in the with today. priesthood. 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BY KAY COZAD loves to chase squirrels. “It’s her to retreats for children as well. hobby,” she jokes. “She’s so fast, Annika and her owner are she catches them with her paws, housed in a small office located in FORT WAYNE — The school but then lets them go. She’s a the lower level of St. Joseph counselor must be exceptionally princess.” Whippets are also School. Her bed, a large stuffed creative when working with the known to “kiss” with their noses, pillow, is located near the window issues that plague today’s students. that is, touch nose to nose, rather by the hall where the students can Use of puppets, talk and play ther- than the traditional canine licking. stop by or wave to the counseling apy are all viable ways to guide Another interesting fact about this duo. On work days Annika accom- students to problem resolution. But breed is they normally sleep up to panies Keen in the hallways at the occasionally, it takes a little more. 22 hours each day. end of the school day, where the Beth Keen, school counselor for Keen, who holds an art degree departing throngs will stop to give St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth Ann Seton from Notre her one last School in Fort Wayne, knows that Dame and a pet. “Though all too well and has found a unique master’s she’s very and somewhat furry solution. degree in calm, she Keen’s dog, Annika, accompanies school coun- prefers one her to school each day. She is a seling from or two kids certified therapy dog. the at a time,” Annika was a year old when University says Keen. she came to the Keen family as a of Saint “Sometimes pet six years ago. “She had been KAY COZAD Francis, uses in the bred as a show dog, but her shoul- Beth Keen, left, school counselor for St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth School in the dog in crowds she ders were too narrow,” says Keen. Fort Wayne shares her dog, Annika, with first grade students Karsyn individual shakes and But that doesn’t seem to matter to Kleinrichart, center, and Joseph Spangler, right. Annika, a six-year-old and group puts her this school counselor who is quick Whippet, has been trained as a therapy dog and accompanies Keen to counseling head down. I to point out how much she and her work each day for participation in counseling sessions with the students at school, as tease the family love the dog. Following a there. Research shows that petting and interacting with animals has a a relaxation kids she’ll lengthy interview process and two beneficial effect on health, including lowering blood pressure and tool. “If a get an acade- meetings with the breeder, Annika relieving stress. student is my award was soon home with Keen, hus- not ready to for her act- band Bob and 16-year-old son talk, it’s a ing. They Brendan, who welcomed Annika says Rowland of the dogs he rec- a-week school counseling position nice way to love it.” wholeheartedly to their existing ommends for therapy training. The at St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth School calm them- Of the animal menagerie, which includes dogs can then be used in a variety and she immediately approached selves. They job as school a cat and a of settings including nursing home then-principal Mary Schreiber just sit by the dog and relax,” says counselor Keen says, “It’s a great horse. visits, hospitals about the use of her dog. Schreiber Keen, who notes that research job. No day is ever the same. I just Though and schools. welcomed the dog and the rest is indicates the benefit on blood pres- love the kids and there’s a great Annika was well The eight- history. sure rates during interaction with school atmosphere. I feel like trained as a “The dog gives them an week training Annika is a Whippet, consid- animals. She also uses the dog as Annika and I are making a differ- show dog, Keen Annika received ered the middle-sized canine of the an ice breaker to establish rapport ence. And the great perk is, I get to felt an obedi- excuse to come down to at the center Greyhound family. She weighs in with new students and parents who bring my buddy to work!” ence class involved desen- at 23 pounds, which her owner visit with concerns. Keen has would be fun to sitization to anxi- says is a good weight for her build. become known as the “dog per- participate in. see me if they ety, learning to Her sleek coat is “orange brindle,” son” among the students and feels For more information on therapy The Whippet be leashed on which is the most common color Annika has made her more acces- dog training contact Mike did so well that really need to talk.” either side of the of the breed. Bred for speed, these sible. “The dog gives them an Rowland at Animal Training and she moved up to owner and using agile dogs have been clocked run- excuse to come down to see me if Development Center at (260) a paw or nose as ning, or “coursing,” up to 35 miles the advanced BETH KEEN they really need to talk,” says 432-3999 or visit his Web site at class and earned directed. “We per hour. Annika, reports Keen, Keen. The dog accompanies Keen www.animaltrainingdev.com her good canine also help people citizenship see and appreci- award from ate the gift in the Mike Rowland, owner and trainer dog and how to use it,” reports of Animal Training and Rowland. Development Center. Rowland Upon earning certification, liked what he saw in Annika and Keen and her therapy dog began encouraged Keen to enroll Annika making nursing home visits where in therapy dog training. “We look Annika became a comforting pres- for stability of temperament, a ence. The following year, in 2001, curiosity by nature and calmness,” Keen was hired for the three-day-

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o far in this series we have Notice that this paragraph on the gift. Somehow, passing on a spouses to achieve conception are focused on the Christian begins by affirming that a child is priceless family heirloom in the acceptable, while technologies Svision of marriage, sexuality not a right and ends by affirming parking lot of a convenience store which substitute for sexual union FAITH AND and procreation, the meaning of the rights of the child. The first of just wouldn’t seem to fit. Well, in are not. “Donum Vitae” describes responsible parenthood and the these rights is the right to be con- a similar way, the church is saying the difference in these words: “If morality of the various means ceived through an act of sexual that the setting in which the gift of the technical means facilitates the FERTILITY which can be used to avoid preg- love between his or her parents. a child is given matters greatly, conjugal act or helps it to reach its WHAT THE CHURCH TEACHES AND WHY nancy. As we turn now to the topic This brings us to the second prin- and the only place worthy of the natural objective, it can be morally of infertility, we will see how ciple, which the church teaches, passing on of that priceless gift is acceptable. If, on the other hand, many of the moral principles we regarding the treatment of infertili- the mutual love of husband and the procedure were to replace the BY LISA EVERETT have already considered also apply ty: the sexual union of spouses is wife expressed in the act of sexual conjugal act, it is morally illicit.” to issues in this area. the only setting worthy of the union. This goes way beyond what (#6.) The first principle, which puts “coming to be” of a new human is simply ideal to what is morally Next time we will apply this this whole question into perspec- person. required: a child must never be principle to the various reproduc- tive, is the affirmation that a child This principle is crucially simply the product of a technical tive technologies available today. is always a gift, never a right. important because what is at stake procedure. While marriage gives spouses the is the sacredness of the gift of sex Notice also, however, that the right to express their love for each as God designed it and the dignity setting in which the gift is passed other through the language of the of the child. We have seen that the on does not change or diminish the body that sex is supposed to be, love-giving and life-giving mean- value of the gift. A family heir- ST. JOSEPH SCHOOL PRESENTS we do not have a “right” to a child. ings of sex are intimately linked loom passed on in the parking lot A child is, rather, a gift from God because they image the inner life of a convenience store is no less SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS that flows from and is the fruit of of God, in which the love between precious than if it were formally the mutual gift of self that mar- the Father and the Son is literally presented in a fancy restaurant. In riage is called to be. This point personified in the Holy Spirit. God the same way, a child conceived was eloquently expressed in the designed sex so that the moment outside the setting of the sexual 1987 document “Donum Vitae,” in which the two become one flesh union of spouses is still a priceless which was issued by the is the means by which the two gift from God. This brings us to Congregation for the Doctrine of become one flesh in the person of the second right of the child the Faith under Cardinal Joseph their child. In other words, the affirmed in the paragraph from Ratzinger after being approved by church is saying that the act that “Donum Vitae” previously quoted: Pope John Paul II: expresses most intimately the regardless of the way in which a “A true and proper right to a mutual gift of self between hus- pregnancy is achieved, a child has child would be contrary to the band and wife is the way in which the right to be respected as a per- child’s dignity and nature. The God wants to give spouses the gift son from the moment of his or her child is not an object to which of a child. conception. one has a right, nor can he be If we reflect on our own experi- As we have seen before, these considered as an object of own- ence, we can easily see that some principles reflect a profound rever- ership: rather, a child is a gift, settings are not suitable for the ence for the holy ground that we ‘the supreme gift’ and the most giving of priceless gifts. Suppose are standing on when it comes to gratuitous gift of marriage, and that your parents have a precious marriage, sexuality and procre- KRISSY POGUE is a living testimony of the family heirloom that they would ation. This reverence also deter- St. Joseph School in Decatur recently announced scholarship winners for mutual giving of his parents. For like to pass on to you. Imagine mines the essential moral differ- the 2006-2007 academic year. They include, front row, from left, Scott them making reservations at a nice ence between scientific technolo- this reason, the child has the Alberding, Katlyn Cook, Vincent Faurote, Zach Fitzgerald; second row, right ... to be the fruit of the spe- restaurant, or perhaps inviting you gies which are acceptable in treat- cific act of the conjugal love of into their home to present the gift. ing infertility and those which are Brock Weber, Emily Pierce, Abby Stimpson and Gabby Weaver; and third his parents, and he also has the Whatever setting they choose, you not. The principle, which the row, Principal Karla Hormann, guidance counselor Frank Whitacre and right to be respected as a person can be sure that it will be com- church teaches in this regard, can pastor Father David Voors. from the moment of his concep- mensurate to the specialness of the be stated like this: technologies tion.” ( # 8.) occasion and the value they place which assist sexual union between DECATUR — St. Joseph School who demonstrate outstanding presented scholarships and Christian attitude for the past awards to several returning stu- three years. The $1,000 scholar- dents based on their Christian ships cover part of the students’ attitude on May 12. tuition and the staff of St. Joseph St. Joseph students received School nominated the candidates from the St. Vincent de Paul for this award. This year’s win- Society three $200 awards in ners are Abby Stimpson, Zach memory of past member Dick Fitzgerald and Katlyn Cook. Callow. Because of their In addition, this was the first Christian attitude, third grader year for the All American Award. Vincent Faurote, seventh grader This award is in memory of Al Emily Pierce and sixth grader Lindahl who was very active Brock Weber were chosen as the both at the church and the school. recipients. All American Award winners Three additional students were based on not only academic received a $1,000 Dan Klepper excellence but also Christian atti- Memorial Scholarship. The tude and an interest in athletics. Klepper’s established this fund in The first time winners were memory of their son Dan Klepper Gabby Weaver and Scott who was killed in a car-train Alberding. Each of these students accident over 30 years ago. This will also receive $200 towards scholarship has been awarded to next year’s tuition. three St. Joseph School students Bognar-Young Landscape Nursery, Corp. 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ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST SOUTH BEND 1956-2006 12 ST. JOHN ANNIVERSARY MAY 28, 2006 ST. JOHN PARISH CELEBRATES 50 YEARS

BY JENNIFER OCHSTEIN five priests serving at the parish. Father Jacobs served from 1956 until 1972, when he was trans- A brief history ferred to Fort Wayne, Gullifor said. SOUTH BEND — Fifty years He was replaced by Father have seen St. John the Baptist Christopher Hinckley in 1972 for a Parish in South Bend remain year, when Father Jacobs returned, steady. and Hinckley was transferred to And this year, the parish is cel- Fort Wayne, she said. Father ebrating its jubilee. Jacobs retired in 1991 and was Like most churches, there have replaced by Father Terry Place, been downs — like when a fire who was replaced by Father gutted the church in 1969. But Lourdino Fernandez in 2002, who there are always ups — like when was replaced by Father Seculoff in the St. John School opened in August 2004, Gullifor said. 1957. Three priests were also St. John became official June 8, ordained at St. John, Gullifor said. 1956, according to Rose Gullifor, Father Joseph Rulli was ordained who is helping to work on the in 1992, Father Donald Woznicki memory book for the 50th jubilee in 2002 and Father Bradley Metz, celebration. CSC, in 2002, she said. And while Gullifor is no longer But the parish has also lost one a parishioner since her family of their most beloved figures. moved out of the parish, she was Father Jacobs died July 4, 2003. parish secretary for over 17 years According to Gullifor, Father for the parish’s first priest, Father Jacobs still found time to help Joseph A. Jacobs, and her family around St. John the Baptist — was part of the parish for about 30 named for Father Jacobs’ father’s years. She’s seen those good times patron saint — even though he and bad, and even though she’s was at St. Joseph Parish in now a part of another parish, she Mishawaka. said Father James Seculoff, who is He was at St. John so often now pastor at St. John, calls her helping out that “we took for his “honorary member.” granted” all he did, Gullifor said. When the church opened, there “We were use to seeing him were about 437 parishioners, after he retired,” Gullifor said. “It Gullifor said, and another count was very traumatic for people. We was taken sometime around Oct. were use to seeing him.” 1957. At that time, St. John had Services for Father Jacobs, she PHOTOS FROM TODAY’S CATHOLIC ARCHIVES about 508 parishioners, but it said, were held at St. John and A sunken baptistry highlights the entrance to St. John the Baptist Church in South Bend. seems that the church was a grow- many of his colleagues — about ing and thriving one, with 626 just 20 priests — came to pay their a year later in 1958. respects along with parishioners. Today, St. John sits at just over In 2005, the St. John social 500 parishioners. room was renovated with new “People would come all over to That didn’t stop parishioners. now since the church could use Though he wasn’t a parishioner light, a drop ceiling and air condi- hear Father Jacobs 20 to 25 minute first Communion was held outside more room for a social hall. Right at the time, Bill Sorukas said he tioning, and it was renamed Father Mass,” Sorukas joked. “He was in May 1969 because the church now two classrooms, he said, are remembers when St. John was Jacobs Hall in memory of the known for his quick Mass — espe- was not useable. used for the social hall and only being built. He knew some guys founder of St. John, according to cially if was a warm summer But they weren’t outside for about 100 people can fit into it. his age, who had vandalized and Gullifor. morning.” long. Despite having to rebuild the burglarized the newly built church, Parishioners remember Father The church didn’t have air con- They rebuilt, and the church church, it has gone through rela- and the police came to talk to him Jacobs with fondness, including ditioning at the time. was dedicated as a new church on tively little renovation over the about the suspects, who were later Joseph Radecki, who said Father Because of the growth of the Jan. 25, 1970, Gullifor said. years. arrested. Sorukas said he found out Jacobs was always about his duties church early on, a three clocks — pretty expensive and that he holds good memories school with four ones — were stolen because the of the parish members working grades — with a guys had shown them to him. Who together. double first grade — knew just a few years later, “It was a happy group,” was built in 1957, Sorukas would convert to Radecki remembered. with an enrollment Catholicism and be a parishioner And he likens Father Seculoff of about 185. Sister at St. John? to Father Jacobs. Clarice, OSF, was But indeed he did. His first “Father Seculoff is just fantas- the first principal, Communion was at St. John and tic,” Radecki said. “He’s another Gullifor said. it’s also the place he was married. Father Jacobs.” Because of increased Sorukas, like many other parish- And Sorukas remembers of enrollment over the ioners, have stuck with St. John Father Jacobs that he was quick years, grades were through thick and thin, including with a Mass. continually added until a kindergarten was added in 1978. Now the school boasts kindergarten through eighth grades, with a full- day of kindergarten INTERIOR OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST instituted during the 1992-93 school year. And everyone in the parish Gullifor said some updates Gullifor said the first lay princi- worked together to rebuild the were added under Father Place, pal, Janet Wroblewski, was hired church. That fact alone attracted including new pews, altar and car- in the fall of 2003. the attention of the local communi- pet. A center isle was eventually Despite the growth of the ty, and the South Bend Tribune added and, in 1992, air condition- church and school, one moment in wrote an article about the volun- ing was added. the church’s history seems to stand teer effort to rebuild the church. All in all, Gullifor said, she and out. Gillifor said the original church others are pleased to see the On April 23, 1969, a flash fire was built as a gymnasium with the jubilee of St. John the Baptist gutted the church after school let hopes that one day the parish Parish. out. It was caused by a faulty would build a new church. But “It’s been a very big part of my motor in a fan at the church, which when the fire tore through, the life,” Gullifor said. “And it prob- sustained $288,000 worth of dam- original church was simply rebuilt. ably always will be.” EXTERIOR OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST age. Radecki sees that as a mistake MAY 28, 2006 ST. JOHN ANNIVERSARY 13 OF A THRIVING CATHOLIC COMMUNITY

Jubilee events are planned for St. John

SOUTH BEND — St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, in South Bend, is celebrating its 50th jubilee with the following events:

• June 8: Opening festivities with adoration and benediction at 7 p.m. followed by social hour. A flash fire caused by a faulty motor in a fan gutted St. John the Baptist Church in April of 1969. First Communion was held outside that year; the rebuilt church was dedicated in 1970. • June 10: School open house-ice cream social for all alumni and teachers from 2 to 4:30 p.m. All parishioners are welcome.

• June 11: Mass with Bishop John M. D’Arcy at 11 a.m. followed by a banquet at Holy Family Hall What’s in store at 2 p.m. Cost for the dinner is $12 for adults and St. John parishioners look to the future with steady confidence $6 for children 12 and under, with a cash bar. For reservation, call Pat at (574) 291-7077, Carol at welcoming parish,” said Sorukas. Younger people (574) 232-3186, John at (574) 232-5913 or Joe at BY JENNIFER OCHSTEIN St. John was founded by Father now, he said, are Joseph A. Jacobs, and officially opened far busier. (574) 234-5820. Tickets will be sold after all SOUTH BEND — As much as things it’s doors June 8, 1956. And the neigh- Masses on the weekends of May 27-28 and June change, they certainly stay the same. Of the 50th anniversary, Gullifor borhood around “We’ve not really changed much,” said, “It’s absolutely wonderful. We St. John, Radecki 3-4. said Bill Sorukas, who has been with the knew it was coming, but it took us by said, is getting St. John the Baptist Parish nearly has surprise. We’re anxious to celebrate.” older and older, long as it’s been around and who has And Sorukas said, “It doesn’t seem though Father Also, after Mass on June 11, coffee and doughnuts served in nearly every leadership posi- like it’s been that long. I’m surprised it’s Seculoff is work- will be available in Father Jacob’s Hall. tion of the church including parish coun- been 50 years.” ing to attract cil and the finance committee. Father James Seculoff, pastor at St. younger families. It seems that over the years, St. John John, has been likened to the church’s “He has so by Father Seculoff, and he makes sure the Baptist, which is celebrating it’s 50th founder, who died in 2003 and is much charisma,” Radecki said of Father they’re in church everyday, Radecki jubilee this year, has remained a church remembered with fondness by parish- Seculoff. said. that parishioners have come to think of ioners with room in the church recently Despite some downturn, Radecki said “There’s nothing he doesn’t go to,” as home — even for those who have dedicated in his name — Father Jacobs he doesn’t think this is all happening he said of Father Seculoff. “He’s on the moved away. Hall. only at St. John. go all the time. Everybody just loves Rose Gullifor, who is helping to put “(Father Seculoff is) just a great “I think a lot of parishes have that him.” together the jubilee memory book for priest,” said Joseph Radecki, an usher problem,” Radecki said, though he did Sorukas said the future for St. John the festivities, was at St. John for about who has been a parishioner for over 40 admit that there seems to be a small, the Baptist Parish is one in which they 30 years, but recently moved away. But years and has also served in nearly every younger group of parishioners who are will be looking for ways to increase she’s still involved in many ministries leadership position at St. John. really working hard at the church. enrollment at the school. there, including the rosary makers, But the things that have changed in But it seems the one thing that is “Father Seculoff is determined to which repairs and gives away rosaries Radecki’s eyes — not necessarily for the making the parish stand up and take keep it open,” Sorukas said. for free — for those who are less fortu- good — haven’t had anything to do with notice is what their priest is doing at the And the parish is going to continue to nate — or for the cost of materials . Father Seculoff. Rather, it’s more due to church. work on getting new blood into the “It’s been a very big part of my life,” changing times. One of the things that Radecki likes church. Gullifor said of the church. “And it In Radecki’s day, parishioners that Father Seculoff has instituted is a “We’re going to continue to try to probably always will be.” worked together to put on fish fries, Latin Mass early Sunday mornings. attract more and more young families,” And, for those who are still parish- dances and festivals, but it seems as if “It’s the only one in the area” to his he said. ioners at St. John, they’re committed. much of that has gone by the way side, knowledge, Radecki said. “I think it’s always been a friendly, he said. St. John students are taught theology 14 TODAY’S CATHOLIC MAY 28, 2006

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BY KAY COZAD

HUNTINGTON — The bright sun warmed the morning of Friday, May 19, in Huntington after several dark and rainy days. But even if it hadn’t, those who gathered at Ss. Peter and Paul Church for 8 a.m. Mass wouldn’t have noticed. They had joyfully come to worship together and to honor one of their own. Margaret Schnepp was hon- ored for 27 years of service as secretary in the primary building of Huntington Catholic Schools. She and her husband David, along with their six children and families were among the congre- gation there to hear Father Ron Rieder, OFM Cap., celebrate the Mass. Father Rieder opened with congratulatory words and remarked at the appropriateness of the Gospel in honoring Schnepp’s “27 years of love giv- ing to the school community.” He went on to describe her as a “source of unity and security across the years.” “She has made many sacri- fices and made Huntington Catholic much better because of her service. Her legacy will live CATHERINE KNABENSHUE for a long time,” he said of Schnepp after working along side KAY COZAD Students at St. Matthew School in South Bend participat- her for 22 years at Ss. Peter and Margaret Schnepp stands with Huntington Catholic School Principal ed in the annual May Procession on May 19. Students Paul. Following the Mass celebra- Jason Woolard at an all-school celebration reception honoring her dedi- processed from the church to the cathedral. The eighth tion this devoted secretary was cated service to the school. Schnepp has been secretary, nursemaid, grade boys stood in the center aisle as the eighth grade brought to the front of the sanctu- bookkeeper and more to the school for 27 years and is retiring at the ary to receive gifts and messages end of June. girls walked down carrying a flower to place on Mary’s of love and thanks from each altar. They were followed by Angela Watkins, the May grade and the staff of her beloved ing forms, tours and textbook Mari, were proud to usher in this school. Among the gifts were a ordering.” She has also been the new era of retirement with Queen, who crowned Mary with a crown of flowers. After memory book, gift cards and a voice of reason for teachers in Schnepp who was surprised by the crowning, the eighth grade lead the Memorare, fol- beautiful handmade quilt depict- need of advice and nursemaid to all the festivities. She was ing all that Schnepp meant to her two generations of students. delighted that all six children and lowed by benediction. community. The final gift, pre- Those students have much families, including son Dick, who sented by Principal Jason love for their jack-of-all-trades arrived from Florida to escort her Woolard, was a special clock secretary. Sixth-graders Kaitlyn up the aisle for Mass, were pres- bearing the inscription, “To Winters, Kayleigh Hutson and ent to join the celebration. The happy endings and new begin- Katlyn Stebing agree that family agreed with daughter RSVP names quilt winner nings.” Schnepp was always available Donna when she said, “It’s just An all-school reception was with a kind word where “just her awesome.” SOUTH BEND — Mary Wayne-South Bend, Inc. held in the auditorium replete voice makes you feel better.” The Schnepp family also Lightner of South Bend is the Proceeds from the quilt raffle with black and gold balloons, First-grader Justin Schoeff includes 17 grandchildren and winner of Retired Senior support the volunteers and pro- punch and cake. The guest of adds, “She’s nice. She helps me.” three great grandchildren. One Volunteer Program (RSVP) of St. grams of RSVP of St. Joseph honor welcomed throngs of well- Andy Zay, parent, remarks that grandson who shared in the fes- Joseph County’s Quilt Raffle County, the RSVP, including wishers who showered her with Schnepp is a steady influence in tivities, Brian Herber, is a Marine 2006. She purchased her quilt Busy Hands, the Miracle Mailers hugs and words of gratitude. The this ever changing school. “She preparing to join the troops in raffle ticket from an RSVP vol- and the RSVP Mentoring students, staff and visitors were brings dignity, respect and all the Iraq soon. Of his grandmother he unteer while at Beacon Bowl. Program. In 2005, 413 RSVP in high spirits as they celebrated spiritual composure you’d ever says, “I went to Huntington As it turns out, Mary is also volunteers contributed 84,799 their beloved secretary. want for a school. I’m proud to Catholic and it was cool to have the sister of a RSVP volunteer, hours of volunteer service to the Margaret Schnepp’s Catholic know her.” my grandma there at school.” and she is thrilled to win the St. Joseph County community. roots are well planted in On a personal note, first-grade This humble, yet spirited quilt. “I never win anything,” RSVP would also like to Huntington. “My mother attended teacher Rita Disler feels, “She is woman says there were very few said Mary, “but this quilt is beau- thank all the volunteers who Ss. Peter and Paul School, my very professional, but like our days when she didn’t like her job. tiful and I just love it.” helped sell raffle tickets, and all siblings and I went there and I mom, too. She’s a diehard, very “I like my job and the interaction This year’s quilt, a full-size those who purchased a raffle sent my six children there, too,” special. It’s going to be hard to with the kids,” she says. But most flower pot design, was handmade ticket that made Quilt Raffle she reports. She and husband replace her.” poignant for her is the respect she by members of the Wisler 2006 such a success. Over David were married in 1955 and Principal Woolard appreciates has gained for the teachers who Mennonite Church in Goshen for $2,400 was raised to support the after the children began to arrive, the help and dedication he “don’t just teach, but do so much the Michiana Mennonite Relief programs of RSVP and Busy Schnepp became a stay-at-home- received from Schnepp. “She has more.” Sale held this past fall, where it Hands. mom. And though her career as a quiet strength about her,” he She sees promise for the was purchased for RSVP’s quilt RSVP of St. Joseph County school secretary officially began says. Martha Bickle, secretary of future as her husband recovers. “I raffle. offers free volunteer placement in 1978, she was a fixture there the middle school building has like to read and do puzzles. But I Pam Claeys, RSVP project to people 55 and older to meet 10 years before as office volun- worked with Schnepp these 27 hope we can travel soon.” Then director notes, “This is one chari- community needs and enrich the teer, room mother and play- years and knows her as a wonder- in an instant she smiles and adds, ty helping another, and we are life of the volunteer. For more ground monitor. ful friend. “You can depend on “I’ll miss this job. I hope they proud to have raffled this beauti- information contact Pam Claeys The job was very different in her. She’s very strong and has call me to sub when the new sec- ful quilt.” at (574) 234-3111, ext. 24. RSVP the early days, recalls Schnepp. helped hold the school together. retary needs a day off.” Margaret The quilt has been traveling is funded in part by a grant from “Then I did lunch count, I’ll miss her terribly.” Schnepp’s final day as school throughout St. Joseph County the Corporation for National & answered the phone and smiled at Husband David, who is recov- secretary will be June 30. So since February and the drawing Community Service (CNCS) and visitors. Now I do all the book- ering from recent bypass surgery, here’s to happy endings and new took place May 11 in Fort Wayne is sponsored locally by Catholic keeping for the schools, along along with their children Mike, beginnings. at the main office of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fort with lunch count, phones, ready- Cathy, Dick, Bob, Donna and Charities of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Inc. 16 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC MAY 28, 2006

EDITORIAL In vitro fertilization is a Catholic no-no COMMENTARY erhaps you have read or heard about a Wisconsin Catholic Pschool teacher, Kelly Romeneskos, who had been fired from her TODAY’S CATHOLIC welcomes letters from readers. All letters must be signed and include a phone number and address for verification. job at a Catholic school after she announced that her child was Today’s Catholic reserves the right to edit for clarity and length. Address letters to: Today’s Catholic • P.O. Box 11169 • Fort Wayne, conceived through in vitro fertilization. IN • 46856-1169 or e-mail to: [email protected] The in vitro fertilization procedure violates Catholic teaching and violated Romenesko’s teaching contract at the Catholic What really impressed me was ghost, so Peter steps out of the school. Ice patch theory that Jesus was able to negotiate boat to try it. But I guess he has- We won’t debate whether Romeneskos should have been fired. doesn’t hold up in these ice floes in “heavy seas” on n’t practiced walking on ice floes What is a concern is a comment she made on ABC’s “Good the Sea of Galilee that night (Mt in heavy seas. He slips off, I Morning America” on May 12: “I did not know what the Catholic water 15:24-25). Pretty miraculous, if guess, falls into the water, and doctrine stated against in vitro fertilization. Yes, I signed a con- you ask me. Jesus has to save him from tract, but the contract was vague in my opinion. I didn’t know Regarding “Research team As usual, Peter and company drowning. what I was doing as far as in vitro goes that went against doctrine. says Jesus’ walk on water might are clueless. They see Jesus walk- Hats off to scientists who base have been on ice patch” (April ing toward them and are terrified, their research on nonsense. My understanding was it was the Ten Commandments,” 23), I was awed by the resource- thinking he’s a ghost. How come Annemarie S. Muth Romenesko said. fulness of our Savior to make use these professional fishermen Bluffton The church has not been outspoken about its teaching on in of a natural phenomenon to fool don’t know about these ice floes? vitro fertilization. You may also recall bioethicist Father Tad his apostles. Jesus assures them that he’s not a Pacholczyk’s column, Making Sense of Bioethics. In the Feb 26 issue, Father Tad begins, “When I give talks about in vitro fertil- ization (IVF), I usually ask my audience the following question: ‘How many of you know a baby born by IVF, or know a couple who has tried to get pregnant this way?’ Usually about half the When ‘me’ + ‘me’ does not equal ‘we’ hands in the room go up. Then I ask them to raise their hands if the couple was Catholic. Virtually all the same hands go up a sec- Sex: How to Find Life Long standing is born. A symphony of ond time. BY THERESA NOTARE Love in a Hook-Up World.” But give and take, mystery and “I have the sense that Catholics are making use of IVF at about it also seems like narcissism, recognition forms a deep sense of the same rate as non-Catholics, and that most of them are only Just when you thought you’d taken to another level. mutuality. One need not fear los- vaguely aware of the church’s position on making test tube heard the last re-definition of A popular dictionary defines ing one’s “individuality.” Living babies. marriage, a new mutation is born. love as “unselfish, loyal and a life of love is restorative. It is “When asked why IVF might be immoral, people will usually Apparently, while many were benevolent concern for the good nothing short of a return to par- mention the extra embryos that are frozen or discarded. Such hawking the importance of no- of another.” Love points to a per- adise — how God wants us to embryos are certainly a serious concern, but they are not the pri- fault divorce, blended families, son’s deep connection to another. love! mary reason the church insists the procedure is immoral.” cohabitation, same-sex marriage It requires things like saying “I Our goal is to make the issue less vague, to also explain the and polygamy, a new creature am yours.” moral or immoral implications. Please note the Making Sense of was forming and quietly grow- When a man and a woman Bioethics and the Faith and Fertility columns as fine guideposts to ing: LATs — Living-Apart- love each other as spouses, it help readers understand the church teaching on bioethical and fer- Together. goes even further: “and the two tility issues. LATs are relationships where shall be one flesh.” — Gen. 2:24. As a general rule, as focused in this week’s Faith and Fertility two people claim to love each “Me” becomes “we.” John Paul column, written by Lisa Everett from the diocesan Office of other, may have an exclusive sex- II said of this love that it “involves a totality, in which all Family Life, Catholics can use this distinction: “Technologies ual relationship, may share some financial expenses, but deliber- the elements of the person” are Theresa Notare MA is the assistant which assist sexual union between spouses to achieve conception ately do not live together. present. “It aims,” he said, “at a director of the Diocesan are acceptable, while technologies which substitute for sexual The bottom line is that LAT deeply personal unity.” — Development Program for union are not.” “couples” want independence, “Familiaris Consortio,” no. 13. Natural Family Planning, Pro- More importantly, if a couple is unsure of the church’s teach- and don’t want to share them- When a man and a woman recog- Life Secretariat, United States ing about fertility treatments, they need to contact their parish selves or their possessions uncon- nize each other as “my other Conference of Catholic Bishops. priest. ditionally with each other. half,” a whole new self under- Because of the delicacy of the issue, most Catholics probably The number of people in LAT will not hear about fertility treatments from the pulpit, but that relationships is on the rise in still does not neglect every Catholic’s duty to learn and live out Europe and the United States. the teaching of the church. One can always refer to the Catechism Sociologists are at a loss to of the Catholic Church as a source. This topic is also another explain what is causing this plank to the value of a Catholic newspaper in your home — these trend. Some say it is a reaction to are issues that have been discussed through bioethicists and the divorce, both from an emotional Office of Family Life commentaries. and economic perspective — “My kids would never get along with him” or “Why bother join- ing households and lose a great Housekeeping city apartment?” Some point to The valedictorian and salutatorian from Bishop Dwenger High advantages older LAT couples School were interchanged last week in the special graduation might have in avoiding the com- issue. Claire Ensley is the Bishop Dwenger valedictorian for the plicated inheritance issues that class of 2006. Her honorable distinction is part of the genetic pool would arise if they were to in her family. Her mother and grandmother were also both vale- marry. Others say it is just a dictorians of their high school classes. harmless lifestyle alternative for Hailey Gardner is the Bishop Dwenger salutatorian for the class both young and old. Still, insight- of 2006. To all the high school and college graduates, named and ful people are worried that it may unmentioned, be assured of our prayers to wish you a life of bless- be simply autonomy run amok. ings and God’s grace in the future and, ultimately, eternal joy. This last point was starkly highlighted in a New York Times article (May 4, 2006) which fea- tured interviews with couples in No newspaper next week LAT relationships. Most spoke Part of the Today’s Catholic staff will be attending the Catholic about their need for “alone time” Press Association gathering at the end this week. As a conse- or “personal space,” or said they quence and because of the Memorial Day holiday, there will be didn’t want to “wait on” the other no publication on June 4. Our next issue will be June 11. person. In each case, the couples had a fiercely narrow view of personal freedom as freedom from the inconvenience of others. It is a warped understanding of freedom where the individual has absolutely no legitimate ties to Today’s Catholic editorial board consists of Bishop John M. D’Arcy, anyone, according to Jennifer Ann Carey, Don Clemmer, Father Mark Gurtner, Father Michael Heintz, Roback Morse, author of “Smart Tim Johnson, Vince LaBarbera and Msgr. J. William Lester. MAY 28, 2006 COMMENTARY 17 Catholics who oppose abortion also CATEQUIZ’EM By Dominic Camplisson oppose death penalty On May 27 the church commemorates St.Augustine of Canterbury, bishop.This quiz looks at the famous archdiocese of Canterbury. here is a rather widespread myth that Catholics are not 1.Where is Canterbury? Tconsistent in their thinking a.Scotland about life issues. It is often said b.England that those who are pro-life in their RESEARCH FOR THE CHURCH c.Ireland opposition to abortion are quite JAMES D. DAVIDSON willing to endorse the death penal- ty, and that those who are pro-life 2.Its continuous association with Christianity goes back to this century: in opposing the death penalty tend a.the 6th to be pro-choice when it comes to cates that Catholics who agreed 1982), and millennial Catholics b.the 9th abortion. with one of these statements also (born 1983 to the present). The c.the 11th My latest national survey chal- tended to agree with the other. generational differences are quite lenges this myth. With support More often than not, the response small. Sixty-six percent of pre- 3.This continuous association started with Augustine;who was he? from the Institute for Church Life to one statement predicted the Vatican II Catholics oppose abor- a.Bishop of Hippo at the University of Notre Dame, I response to the other. The correla- tion, but there are very few differ- asked a cross-section of American tion was not perfect, but the ences between Vatican II Catholics b.A Roman missionary Catholics to respond to the follow- answers to the two items clearly (54 percent), post-Vatican II c.First king of Mercia after Alfred the Great ing statement: “Terminating a overlapped. Catholics (53 percent), and millen- pregnancy by having an abortion What factors contribute most to nial Catholics (58 percent). With 4.According to some sources,Augustine built a church but it was not completely new. is always wrong,” Fifty-six percent Catholics’ views on these two regard to the death penalty, the Why not? of Catholics agreed, 39 percent issues? How much effect do range of answers is even smaller. a.He had to use the existing building and so evicted the tenants. disagreed, and 5 percent did not demographics factors such as gen- At the high end, 60 percent of b.He built on an ancient Roman church that had been left there. answer. I asked the same 1,100 eration and gender have, compared post-Vatican II Catholics say the c.The superstitious natives would never enter a completely new people to respond to another state- to religious factors such as church is right in opposing the structure. ment: “The church is right in whether one is a registered parish- death penalty. At the low end, 55 opposing the death penalty.” Fifty- ioner or a weekly churchgoer? percent of post-Vatican II eight percent agreed, 34 percent Demographic factors do not Catholics agree with that state- 5.Ironically Canterbury was not even supposed to be an archbishopric;the original disagreed, and 8 percent did not have much impact. I examined the ment. plan was for which city to be the See? answer. The distributions on the differences between four genera- Women are somewhat more a.Dublin two items were remarkably similar tions: pre-Vatican II Catholics pro-life on the abortion item (68 b.Edinburgh But, was there a correlation (born in or before 1940), Vatican II percent vs 55 percent of men). c.London between the two? The answer is Catholics (born 1941-1960), post- “yes.” A correlation of .33 indi- Vatican II Catholics (born 1961- DAVIDSON, PAGE 18 6.The second most important archdiocese in that country is and has always been a.York b.Glasgow Jesus sends Eleven as final commission c. Cork

Jesus eases their confusion. He 7.There was a monastery built near the cathedral.What happened to it? affirms that they are limited. But, Reflection a.It was converted into a zoo, becoming known as the monk Jesus also affirms that all is in Celebrating the Ascension of house. THE God’s plan. They have been com- the Lord in the form of a special b.It was destroyed in WWII by stray bombs. missioned. To enable them to ful- liturgical feast day is very revered c.It was dissolved when King Henry VIII looted and closed all SUNDAY fill their commissions, Jesus prom- in the church. However, seeming- monasteries. ises that the Holy Spirit will be ly, in its origins, it was celebrated GOSPEL with them. The Spirit will guide together with Pentecost. 8.Due to political anomalies,this French city was at one time part of the Archdiocese them to proclaim the Gospel even For 17 centuries, however, it MSGR. OWEN F. CAMPION “to the ends of the earth”. of Canterbury: has been a feast of its own. Such is a.Calais The Epistle to the Ephesians proper. The Ascension revealed provides the next reading. The much about Jesus, as does the b.Avignon reading is a prayer. It begs the response of the apostles. Fittingly, c. Paris Ascension of the Lord blessings, and guidance, of God the Eastern Church sees in the upon the faithful Christians of Ascension a particularly meaning- 9.From the 13th century,the Archbishops of Canterbury held the title “legatus natus” Mk 16:15-20 Ephesus. They need God, as all ful revelation for Christians. which meant they were considered permanent The Acts of the Apostles supplies humans need God. God’s strength Many lessons come from this a.papal legates or officials the first reading for this important will be mighty. After all, divine feast. An important message for us b.bishops feast day in the church, the cele- strength raised Jesus from the today is to realize that we are not c.patriarchs bration of the Lord’s wondrous dead. It is a strength reflecting the alone. Christ did not leave us. He ascension into heaven. power of God, a power over lives with us, and teaches us still, This reading begins as if it were everyone and everything. through the apostles and the struc- 10.This archbishop was murdered inside the cathedral: a letter. It is addressed to St. Mark’s Gospel furnishes the tures and sacraments of the church a.Cardinal Wolsey Theophilus, as was the Gospel of last reading. It is the very last sec- they formed in the Lord’s name b.Thomas A.Becket Luke itself. Who was Theophilus? tion of Mark. As such, it is the first and at the Lord’s command. c.Ramey McDonald Was he a person with this as his Gospel’s conclusion. It is a Whatever comes against us, name? Or, instead, was he a Resurrection narrative. the power of God will prevent us 11.His tomb there became one of these: The Lord, having risen on devout Christian? The second is from facing everlasting death. a.a pub, named the unlucky prelate. possible because Theophilus actu- Easter, appears to the Eleven, the ally may have been a title. In surviving apostles reduced by one b.a place of pilgrimage. Greek, it means “friend of God”. in number because of the suicide c.a castle,as Henry II had the cathedral leveled to erase his memory. Regardless, both Acts and Luke of the despondent, traitorous were sent, as it were, to the same Judas. 12.What famous literary work is centered on that (q.11) fact? person, arguing for a common Jesus sends the Eleven as a a.Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales authorship of these two revealed final commission into the world, b.The Doomsday book works of the Christian Scriptures. far and wide. They are to proclaim c.The Chronicles of Narnia In this reading, Acts states that the Gospel to all creation. Anyone READINGS who accepts this proclamation will Sixth Week of Easter it continues the story of salvation 13.Despite being the most powerful churchman under Henry VIII,this man was never in Jesus begun in the Gospel of be saved. Anyone who believes in Monday: Acts 19:1-8 Ps 68:2-5ac, Luke. It describes the Ascension of the Gospel will be capable of mar- 6-7ab Jn 16:29-33 Archbishop of Canterbury: the Lord into heaven an event velous deeds. The Lord will pro- Tuesday: Acts 20:17-27 Ps 68:10-11, a.Thomas A.Becket occurring after Jesus had risen tect them. 20-21 Jn 17:1-11a b.Cardinal Wolsey from the dead and had been The graphic examples must not Wednesday: Zep 3:14-18a (Ps) Is c.Michael Ramey among the apostles and others be taken literally, but they 12:2-3,4bcd,5-6 Lk 1:39-56 faithful to God. nonetheless are profound in their Thursday: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11 Ps 15.The Archbishop of Canterbury’s residence is As the moment of the meaning. No true believer will 16:1-2a, 5, 7-11 Jn 17:20-26 a.Lambeth Palace ever die an eternal death. Ascension approaches, the apostles Friday: Acts 25:13b-21 Ps 103:1-2, b.The Tower of London still were confused. This confusion Then, the story says that Jesus c. Arthur’s Seat simply reveals that they were ascended into heaven. Faithful to 11-12, 19-20ab Jn 21:15-19 human. Their ability to grasp the the Lord, the apostles went for- Saturday: Acts 28:16-20, 30-31 Ps things of God, and the mind of ward and proclaimed the Gospel as 11:4-5, 7 Jn 21:20-25 ANSWERS: God, was limited to say the least. they had been commissioned. 1.b, 2.a, 3.b, 4.b, 5.c, 6.a, 7.c, 8.a, 9.a, 10.b, 11.b, 12.a, 13.b, , 15.a 18 COMMENTARY MAY 28, 2006 If Jesus is truly the Son of God, then he can rise from the dead

A new book claims it is impossible for broke bread with them. spread of the early Christian Christ, many miracles have been Jesus to have risen from the dead.How In the upper room in Jerusalem church, even amid the great perse- worked throughout the history of do we respond to this statement?,A.L., Jesus appeared to his apostles, and THAT’S cutions by the Roman empire, the church and even today. South Bend St. Thomas put his finger into the where many saints were martyred If Jesus is truly the Son of nailmarks on Jesus’ hands and his A GOOD for their faith in Christ. When the God made man, then he can rise The Catholic Church offers a hand into the gash in Jesus’ side persecutions stopped, the church from the dead. In Jesus we have a number of reasons why we believe from where blood and water held the Council of Nicea in A.D. true inbreak of the divine into that Jesus rose from the dead. The flowed out from the piercing of the QUESTION 325 where they discussed whether human history. first reason is the fact of the empty soldier’s lance. St. Thomas then or not Jesus was truly God. It is tomb. After Jesus was taken down believed in the resurrection and said that they brought in some of from the cross, he was buried in a proclaimed: “My Lord and My the would-be martyrs who narrow- new tomb hewn out of the rock God.” and may have wondered if they ly escaped death, because of the with the help of Joseph of Jesus also appeared to some of had wasted three years of their life cessation of the persecutions, and Arimathea, Nicodemus and the the apostles at the Sea of Galilee following Jesus. But when they they said they were willing to die holy women. When the women where he ate fish with them. On saw Jesus alive, they completely for Christ because they believed he went back to the tomb to anoint one occasion, Jesus appeared to changed and became brave and was God, thus showing their faith the body of Jesus, they expected to 500 of his followers at once. These courageous. in his resurrection. Today’s Catholic welcomes ques- find the body there, but it was many appearances lasted for 40 They gave up their whole life A fourth reason for belief in the tions from readers to pose to gone. They told the apostles, and days until Jesus finally ascended going to the ends of the earth resurrection of Christ is that Jesus Father Richard Hire, Father Peter and John ran to the tomb to into heaven. preaching the Gospel and even is not just a figure of history from Michael Heintz, Father Mark see for themselves, and they also A third reason for believing in shed their blood suffering a mar- 2,000 years ago, but rather the Gurtner and the Office of saw that the body was not there. the resurrection of Jesus is the very tyr’s death. Similarly, St. Paul who power of the risen Christ has been Worship. Please e-mail your A second reason for believing existence and spread of the church. was persecuting the Christians, living and active throughout the questions to [email protected] that Jesus rose from the dead is the The apostles were scared to death saw a vision of the risen Christ on history of the church and still is fwsb.org or mail them to Today’s fact that Jesus appeared to people at the crucifixion of Jesus. They the road to Damascus in Syria. He with us today through the grace of Catholic, That’s A Good in his risen state. Mary Magdalene fled the scene, except for the was blinded and fell off his horse. the seven sacraments that Jesus Question, P.O. Box 11169, Fort did not recognize Jesus at first and youngest Apostle John. The apos- He suddenly turned around 180 himself instituted. Because of the Wayne, IN 46856. Include your thought he was the gardener. Jesus tles hid themselves in the upper degrees, became a Christian, and power of the risen Christ, many name, city and an e-mail address appeared to some disciples on the room, for they did not want to end went on many missionary journeys men and women have become or phone number so we can con- road to Emmaus, and they did not up on the cross like Jesus. The proclaiming the Gospel of Christ. great saints and lived lives of holi- tact you if necessary. Anonymity at first recognize him until he apostles may have felt all was lost We also see the remarkable ness. Because of the power of will be preserved upon request. Church’s prominent face in campaign a reflection of 40 years ago

BY PATRICIA ZAPOR Later activities Chavez led for losophy of the rights of immi- the United Farm Workers promi- grants. Its materials are now in use nently featured his strong Catholic in dioceses and parishes across the WASHINGTON (CNS) — faith, as noted in the biography country. Headline-grabbing civil rights “The Fight in the Fields: Cesar With its programs of legal aid, marches are adorned with banners Chavez and the Farmworkers refugee resettlement and other of Our Lady of Guadalupe and Movement,” by Susan Ferriss and services for immigrants, the accented in Spanish. Ricardo Sandoval. Catholic Church has long been Catholic bishops top lists of A volatile May 1967 strike at a involved in trying to shape immi- speakers at rallies. Priests take up Delano ranch was turned into gration policy. But that role has the campaign’s themes of moral more of a peaceful prayer vigil, largely gone unnoticed among the responsibility and human rights, when Chavez asked his brother to majority of American Catholics, preaching on the topic to some- quickly construct a portable shrine not to mention the general public. times unsupportive parishioners in the back of a pickup, at which That began to change with Los who see things differently and both strikers and strikebreakers Angeles Cardinal Roger M. don’t hesitate to challenge the prayed. When Chavez stopped eat- Mahony’s widely reported declara- church’s voice. ing for 25 days in 1968, again in tion in February that he would ask Work boycotts, hunger strikes pursuit of calming violence, he priests of his archdiocese to break and cries of “Si, se puede,” or didn’t call it a hunger strike but a the law rather than comply with “Yes, you can,” become hallmarks fast, the term associated with a provisions of a House-passed bill of the movement. form of prayer, and broke it only that would criminalize the act of Is the year 2006 or 1966? with a few beverages and the offering aid to illegal immigrants. Many images and voices of this Eucharist. The provision is not expected to year’s immigrant rights campaign Gaston Espinosa, a professor of survive ongoing Senate debate could have come straight out of philosophy and religious studies at over immigration legislation. the farmworker rights efforts led a Claremont McKenna College in Several other cardinals as well generation earlier by labor organ- Claremont, Calif., told journalists as dozens of bishops and priests izer Cesar Chavez. in a May 9 teleconference that as have echoed the cardinal’s pledge Chavez, a Catholic well-versed in the civil rights campaigns of the of civil disobedience as well as in the church’s social justice teach- 1960s, many leaders of today’s headlined rallies and hosted prayer Seventy-two percent of weekly ings, drew on Scripture, papal immigration campaign have been vigils. Mass attenders are opposed to encyclicals and the teachings of St. shaped by their religious faith. Bishop Solis and several Los DAVIDSON abortion versus only 29 percent of Francis of Assisi as well as the Catholics who seldom or never go Whether by design or coinci- Angeles priests as well as CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 pacifist philosophies of Mahatma dence, much of the rhetoric of the Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, the Mass. Likewise, 69 percent of Gandhi and the Rev. Martin campaign for comprehensive Muslim and Jewish delegates from Catholics who attend every week Luther King Jr. in seeking justice immigration legislation “could Southern California delivered hun- But, the gender difference on the support the church’s opposition to for farmworkers. almost overlay with the rhetoric of dreds of thousands of postcards to death penalty item is small, with the death penalty, compared to One of Chavez’s first success- the 1960s,” Espinosa said. Senate Minority Leader Harry 60 percent of women and 56 per- only 42 percent of those who ful large-scale events was what he With the current battle to pass Reid, D-Nev., asking for compre- cent of men agreeing with the never or almost never go to Mass. called a pilgrimage, a 300-mile comprehensive immigration legis- hensive immigration reform. church’s efforts. In short, contrary to what one walk from the farms of Delano, lation, the Catholic Church has “We just want our elected offi- Religious factors have much might hear on the streets or read in Calif., to the state capitol in been a conspicuous voice amid the cials to see the compassion side of more impact. For example, 62 per- some publications, Catholics tend to Sacramento in 1966. It began on hundreds of grass-roots, communi- the issue,” Bishop Solis said in cent of registered parishioners are be consistent in their views on these St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, and ty, business and religious organiza- one meeting. “These are our broth- opposed to abortion, compared to life issues, and the church deserves concluded on Easter, April 10. tions in one of the most diverse ers and sisters.” only half of non-parishioners. a lot of credit for bringing about that That procession was dotted with coalitions ever united behind one A few days later, at the annual Sixty-four percent of parishioners situation. The more Catholics are images of Our Lady of Guadalupe, cause. Keepers of the American Dream support the church opposition to involved in the church, the more flags representing unions, the A year ago the U.S. Conference awards dinner hosted by the the death penalty, compared to pro-life they tend to be. United States and Mexico, and of Catholic Bishops launched its National Immigration Forum, only 53 percent of non-parish- large crosses carried by some “pil- Justice for Immigrants campaign, speaker after speaker singled out ioners. grims,” some of whom were seeking to educate everyday the role of the Catholic Church in The largest differences are James D. Davidson is professor of housed overnight at churches Catholics and politicians about the speaking for immigrants. between regular churchgoers and sociology at Purdue University in along the way. church’s social justice-based phi- infrequent Mass attenders. West Lafayette. MAY 28, 2006 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 19 Fetal farming and the new slavery

“Slippery slope” arguments in bioethics are fairly popular, slippery and well-greased slopes of modern biotechnolo- reminding us how initial ethical violations have a way of gy. Although perhaps ominous sounding today, the leading to further violations and misdeeds, and ultimately, prospect of fetal farming looms large, and may likewise to undesirable places. Once you “give away the principle” become routine in our future if we continue to acquiesce MAKING SENSE OF BIOETHICS and start sliding, it becomes difficult to return to the point to the coarsening of our moral sensitivities around these from which you started. important bioethical questions. BY FATHER TAD PACHOLCZYK What is genuinely striking is how far down the Fetal farming is a method to obtain whole organs or biotechnology slopes we have already come. In the 1960s, other complex tissues. Currently, researchers speak about contraception, or sex without babies, became widely stem cells as the ideal, flexible cells that will let us make five-day-old cloned embryo to fetal farming — manufac- accepted. By 1978, the flip side, babies without sex, tissues, organs and body parts in the future. The difficulty turing fetal humans to harvest their body parts? Not very arrived on the scene with in vitro fertilization. Human is that we really don’t have a clue how to make whole far, when one recognizes how well the slippery slopes embryos were created in the laboratory and implanted into organs out of stem cells. have already been greased. This is why we must safeguard women. Soon this snowballed into the storage of “spare” Whole organs, like a kidney or a heart, are exceedingly human life from its earliest beginnings, if we wish to embryos in the deep freeze, to the point of nearly a half- complex structures with many different interacting cell avoid its destruction at any later stage. million humans “trapped” just in the United States (and types. There are numerous unknown steps along the path- As Charles Krauthammer, M.D., a syndicated colum- still more being produced and frozen each hour, like an way of making, say, a kidney from a stem cell. Years, or nist and member of the President’s Council on Bioethics assembly line, at fertility clinics around the country). even decades, of research must first be carried out before has put it: “We will, slowly and by increments, have gone The destruction of innocent human life in the womb whole organs ready for human transplant will become from stem cells to embryo farms to factories with fetuses also became commonplace after the 1973 Roe v. Wade widely available. hanging (metaphorically) on meat hooks waiting to be cut decision. In the late 1980s researchers began using tissues But a convenient shortcut may be possible. Instead of open and used by the already born.” Or, as Richard derived from abortions to try to treat Parkinson’s patients, destroying a cloned, five-day-old human embryo to get his Doerflinger has perceptively noted, this is all about a new with minimal public outcry or reaction, so that today abor- or her stem cells, why not simply implant that embryo, slavery, with biotech companies as the plantation owners. tion clinics have few qualms about providing freshly allow him or her to grow into a fetus, and schedule an Unless we take legal steps to assure that the rich, the obtained “research material” to scientists at large universi- abortion a little while before the baby’s due date? Then powerful and the self-interested are not allowed to run ties or biotech companies. mother nature will already have done all the hard work of roughshod over embryonic and fetal humans, we will In 1998, the next step was to sacrifice some of the pre- making two kidneys, ready to be harvested from the abort- never be worthy of the claim that ours is a civilized socie- viously frozen human embryos to procure their embryonic ed child, thereby saving a good deal of time and trouble in ty. Only if we are bold enough to challenge and alert our stem cells. Right on the heels of this development came terms of scientific research. fellow Americans to the dangers of biotechnology without an even more troubling proposal: making human embryos These kinds of “fetal farming” experiments have ethics can we avoid transitioning from the slippery slopes by cloning, matching them to sick patients, then destroy- already been done in mice and in cattle, and they provide to outright downhill skiing. Before ending up in an ing those embryos to get their stem cells. Because those usable tissues and organs. Scientists at a biotechnology irreparable heap at the bottom of the hill, we would do embryos would be clones, or identical twins of the patient, company called Advanced Cell Technologies in Worcester, well to respond decisively to those threats that arise when- the stem cells could be implanted into the patient with Mass., have published papers where, in one instance, stem ever science becomes detached from a strong and robust minimal danger of rejection, since identical twins can cells were obtained by implanting the cloned mouse moral vision. exchange organs between each other without immune embryo and gestating it until the human equivalent of the problems. fifth or sixth month. Then the fetal mouse was destroyed Thus, in the short space of a few years, we have to procure its stem cells, which were used to treat the ail- Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. earned his doctorate in neuro- arrived at the point of creating human life merely to ing hearts of other mice. science from Yale and did postdoctoral work at Harvard. destroy it, harvesting it as little more than raw material, a So today we sanction the production of a five-day old He is a priest of the diocese of Fall River, Mass., and commodity, for exploitation. The confluence of these vari- human life to destroy it. Tomorrow it’s a three-month-old, serves as the director of education at The National Catholic ous ethical violations points to the next twist down the then an eight-month-old fetus. How far is it, really, from a Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. See www.ncbcenter.org

The Philistines became Palestine force Meet The Priest Who were the ancient Philistines that suggests the armor of Homer’s Father Ron Rieder, battled the Israelites? heroes. Their pottery is similar to that of the Greek areas of OFM Cap. Philistia was an ancient country in Mycenae, Cyprus and Rhodes and southwest Palestine, now Israel, on is painted with geometric designs Ordained to the priesthood: the Mediterranean seacoast about and birds. A. O’Neill feels the HIRE April 20, 1963 50 miles in length and 16 miles at Philistines came from the island of Pastor, Ss. Peter and Paul, Huntington its widest. Its five chief towns or Crete with similar pottery. Their city-kingdoms were Gaza, HISTORY movement from home may have FATHER RICHARD HIRE Ashkelon and Ashdod on the coast been spurred on by the barbarian What was the primary influence on and Ekron and Gath inland. invasion of Europe c. B.C. 1200 your decision to become a priest? Father John McKenzie says the that pushed these peoples to the coastal plain of Philistia is rolling eastern Mediterranean. I really don’t know. I knew I rather than flat. It is swampy and R. Brownrigg says the Jerome Murphy-O’Connor says would be a priest from the time I has extensive sand dunes that Philistines became powerful in Ashkelon has no spring, but is rich was in second grade. sometimes cover arable land. The Palestine because they controlled in wells. It was on the great trade torical novels. Lately I read coast has no natural harbors. the manufacture of iron tools and route linking Egypt and Why do you like being a priest? everything Matthew Kelly writes. The Philistines are part of the weapons and thus showed arms Mesopotamia. Ashkelon appears I love being a priest. Being I love the works of David Peoples of the Sea that, in the 13th superiority over the Israelites. The on the stele of Merneptah (B.C. McCullough. I also read every- century B.C., invaded Asia Minor able to make a real difference in Philistines exhibited good military 1230), the only Egyptian text men- the world and in individual lives thing written by Ken Follett. or Turkey, Syria and Palestine, and organization with chieftains possi- tioning Israel during the Exodus. were finally halted at the borders is an opportunity a priest has, bly modeled on Greek rulers. The H. Vos says at Ashkelon some stat- more than other professions. What do you think is the best part of of Egypt by Pharaoh Rameses III giant Goliath suggests a physical ues survive, a council house with a (B.C. 1196-1165) in two great bat- being Catholic? advantage. hall and courtyard, a Christian Do you have a special interest or tles fought on land and sea. M. basilica with a mosaic pavement, a Without doubt, holy The domination of the hobby? Healy mentions that the wall relief Philistines in Palestine endured synagogue and the city wall. Communion and confession, all at Medinet Habu shows a warship from B.C. 1150-1000 when the Ashdod or Azotus is 21 miles I have been wood-carving for the sacraments, and belonging to of Rameses III attacking the Sea Israelite monarchy was finally uni- south of Tel Aviv with a deep- 55 years. I also love to dabble in a united, universal church going Peoples whose slain bodies lie in fied under King David. The water harbor. G. Freeman says little magic tricks. And I would back to the apostles. the water. On board ship are pris- Philistines reasserted themselves here the god Dagon, half man and rather golf than eat. oners with the feathered head- when the Israelite kingdom was half fish, was venerated. Ashdod What is your favorite prayer or dresses of the Philistines. Rameses divided at the death of King was a merchant city where textiles Do you have a pet? Scriptural passage? III let the Philistines establish a Solomon. But when Sennacherib were made. K. Prag says excava- permanent settlement in Palestine. tions have uncovered a mudbrick No, although I do love dogs. “Don’t break the bruised (c. B.C. 704) and the Assyrians reed.” “Don’t quench the flicker- Another Sea People, the Tjekker, from northern Iraq invaded fortress, houses, shrines and cult settled in the plain north of the figures of this Philistine town. What do you do for relaxation? ing wick.” The passage of Jesus Palestine, the Philistines vanish. walking through the standing Philistines and captured Dor (c. The Philistines left no documents The city of Gath means “wine I love to wood carve, read and B.C. 1100). press.” Gath was where the giants grain with his apostles and eating nor trace of their language. travel. I swim about every day the wheat on the Sabbath because Scholars debate where these The Philistine city of Ashkelon originated, like Goliath, slain by and of course, when possible, I Sea Peoples came from. Father the boy David. The city of Ekron they were hungry. And Jesus is 32 miles south of Tel Aviv. G. play golf. weeping at Lazarus’ tomb. McKenzie says they may have Freeman says the ancient town lay on a wadi and was the seat of come from the Balkan peninsula to worship of the god Baal-zebub, was situated above an under- What is your favorite reading material? How do you prefer to be addressed by the Aegean basin, because ground river, the remains of a pre- consulted by King Azariah of Who are your favorite authors? Egyptian art portrays the Sea historic salt lake and it covers 160 Israel (B.C. 853-852). the laity? I love novels, especially his- Peoples as Greek warriors and the acres. This rich agriculture was an Father Ron armor of the Philistine Goliath attraction to the Israelites. Father 20 TODAY’S CATHOLIC MAY 28, 2006

ST. JOSEPH STUDENT SETS ICCL TRACK RECORD The Inter-City Catholic League (ICCL) held the 2006 ICCL girls city track meet on May 20. Eleven-year-old Maria Tomlinson from St. Joseph School, Mishawaka, proved that hard work and dedication pays off. Last year going undefeated in the shot put, but losing in the city by a half inch put her on a mission. This year Maria broke the ICCL class-C all-conference Sports record of 25-feet-8-inches by putting her name into the record books with a 28-feet-5 3/4-inch throw. CYO City Meet results

BY MICHELLE CASTLEMAN Courtney Heddens St. John NH 15.01 Girls 4x200 relay Teresa Hilger Queen of Angels 15.31 Bradley/Sheperd/ St. John NH 2:04.75 Boys 100 meter dash Thorpe/Kayser FORT WAYNE — In a steady Courtney Mitchell St. John-Benoit 13.12 Boys 4x200 relay rain, schools from all over the city Chris Lee St. Charles 13.21 Ng/Welkin/ 1:52.9 competed in the 2006 Catholic Deangelo Fincher St. John-Benoit 13.48 Farrell/Momper St. Jude Youth Organization (CYO) track Matt Weber St. Jude 13.55 Girls discus throw meet at Bishop Luers on Saturday, Nick McCarthy St. John NH 13.58 Chris Widner St. Vincent 72-05 May 13. At the city meet, teams Billy Khorshid St. Vincent 13.59 Kayla Zink St. John NH 60-07 are allowed to enter their top two Girls 800 meter run Sam Eckrich St. Charles 59-09 individuals in each event. The top AnneMarie Shank St. John-Benoit 2:39 Madelyn Irmiter Queen of Angels 59-07 six finishers earn points for their Katie Kayser St. John-St. Louis2:47 Katie Leeuw St. Jude 58-01 PROVIDED BY CYO team (10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1). Michelle MarquellingSt. John NH 56-01 Kate Kinley St. Jude 2:49 PROVIDED BY RICK PALMER St. Jude’s Andrew Eckrich is fol- Of the nine boys’ teams repre- Lisa Weilbaker St. Vincent 2:51 Boys discus throw sented in the CYO this year, St. Eighth grader, Lauren Palmer lowed closely by Luke Momper (St. Morgan Carroll St. John-Benoit 2:53 James Brames St. John NH 84-09 Jude came out on top scoring 116 Katie Leeuw St. Jude 2:58 prepares to make her jump as she Jude) and Andy Brennan (St. Joe- points. St. John New Haven (NH) Kevin Kohrman St. John NH 78-01 Boys 800 meter run Pete Waikel Queen of Angels 73-02 flies down the runway blasting St. Elizabeth) as they battle four came in second place with 73 her seeded best with a jump of 12 laps around for the 1600 meter points, while St. John-Benoit fin- Luke Momper St. Jude 2:21.0 Brendan Berghoff St. Jude 72-06 Josh Voelker St. John NH 2:21.7 Joe Chambers St. John-Benoit 72-01 feet 7 inches to win the long ribbon. Momper took the blue ished with 66 points for third jump for St. Jude. with a winning time of 5:23.34. place. Andy Brennan St. Joe-St. Eliz. 2:25 Tony Bobay St. Jude 71-11 St. Jude took top honors (10 Andrew Eckrich St. Jude 2:28 Girls long jump points) in six different events out Leighton Painter St. John NH 2:34 Lauren Palmer St. Jude 12-07 of 12. They even grabbed two Hughie Baldus St. John-Benoit 2:40 Paige Sordelet St. Charles 12-06 CORPUS CHRISTI RED BASEBALL WINS spots in seven events and scored Xavier Serrani St. John-Benoit 2:40 Courtney Heddens St. John NH 12-05 individuals in every event but one. Girls 4x100 relay Jennifer Downey St. Joe-St. Eliz. 11-11 MARTIN DE PORRES DIVISION 8-0 Luke Momper was a triple winner Heddens/Tippmann/St. John NH 58.2 Sarah Bartels St. Therese 11-09 taking first place in the mile, half Watts/Lahrman Teresa Hilger Queen of Angels 11-09 mile and running a leg of the Boys 4x100 relay Boys long jump 4x200 relay along with Dylan Ng, Mitchell/Mitchell/ St. John-Benoit 52.7 Deangelo Fincher St. John-Benoit 16-10 Michael Farrell and Zach Welklin. Fincher/Cooper Courtney Mitchell St. John-Benoit 16-07 His times in all three events were Girls 400 meter run Nick McCarthy St. John NH 15-06 lower than his best seeded time Anna McNamera St. Joe-St. Eliz. 1:07.83 Billy Korshid St. Vincent 15-00 going into the meet. Rachel Sheperd St. John NH 1:09.63 Brian Gabet St. Charles 15-03 In the girls’ showdown, St. Aubrey Schrader St. Jude 1:11.20 Matt Deininger St. John NH 15-04 John NH outscored the rest of the Elizabeth Swygart St. John-St. Rose 1:12.83 Girls high jump field with 115 points. St. Jude fin- Brittany Niese St. Charles 1:12.84 Emily Lahrman St. John NH 4-06 ished with 83 for second place and Katie Leeuw St. Jude 1:13.67 Julia Lee St. Joe-St. Eliz. 4-05 St. Joe-St. Elizabeth took home Boys 400 meter run McKenzie Wyss St. Therese 4-05 third place honors with 53. The Nicky McCarthy St. John NH 1:00.42 Erika Moss St. Jude 4-02 Raiders won both relays and the Dylan Ng St. Jude 1:03.22 Rachel Sheperd St. John NH 4-00 high jump and dominated by scor- Alex Yaney St. Joe-St. Eliz. 1:03.53 AnneMarie Shank St. John-Benoit 3-10 ing a red or white ribbon in every Matt Weber St. Jude 1:03.83 Boys high jump PROVIDED BY BRIAN MCMAHON other event. Emily Lahrman of St. Leighton Painter St. John NH 1:06.46 Matt Weber St. Jude 4-11 The Corpus Christi (Red) team finished with the Inter- John NH, St. Vincent’s Chris Tony Schafer St. Charles 1:06.93 Brian Gabet St. Charles 4-10 Widner and St. John-Benoit’s Girls 200 meter dash Mike Gabet St. Charles 4-08 City Catholic League’s best record, 8-0, and won the AnneMarie Shank brought home Lauren Palmer St. Jude 29.46 Leighton Painter St. John NH 4-06 Martin De Porres Division championship. The team two blue ribbons each. Emily Lahrman St. John NH 30.33 Alex Yaney St. Joe/St. Eliz. 4-06 Eighth grader, Lauren Palmer Courtney Heddens St. John NH 30.43 Nick Pritchard St. Joe/St. Eliz. 4-04 includes the following: front row, from left, Jimmy Reagan, was a triple winner for St. Jude Christina Yeager St. John-Benoit 30.80 Girls shot put Billy Kinney, Dan Hill, Mario Aversa, David Borntrager, taking first place in all of her indi- Holley Taylor St. Joe-St. Eliz. 31.43 Chris Widner St. Vincent 30-09 vidual events (100, 200 and long Jennifer Downey St. Joe-St. Eliz. 31.47 Erika Moss St. Jude 28-01 Clayton Bruntz; back row, from left, head coach Brian jump). She also anchored the Boys 200 meter dash Kayla Zink St. John/NH 28-00 McMahon, assistant coach Todd Lukens, Tyler Lukens, 4x100 relay which came in second Courtney Mitchell St. John-Benoit 26.25 Schrae Hammock St. John-Benoit 27-04 to the foursome from St. John NH Billy Khorshid St. Vincent 26.82 Leah Ehinger St. Jude 27-02 Dylan McMahon, Tyler Rogers, Andy Klimek, Joe Ryal, (Madison Bradley, Rachel Chris Lee St. Charles 26.86 Michelle MarquellingSt. John/NH 26-02 Cody Weber, Scott Coppa and assistant coach Kip Klute. Sheperd, Aubrey Thorpe and Katie Dylan Ng St. Jude 27.86 Boys shot put Kayser). Jamarius Mitchell St. John-Benoit 28.02 Brendan Berghoff St. Jude 35-09 Girls 100 meter Hurdles Michael Farrell St. Jude 28.22 Tony Bobay St. Jude 33-03 Christ the King, Corpus Anthony, 11-0, and end the regular Maria Peppler St. Therese 18.04 Girls 1600 meter run Noah Hartman St. Joe HC 32-04 season with a 8-0 mark. Aubrey Thorpe St. John NH 18.21 AnneMarie Shank St. John-Benoit 5:49 Zack Richardville St. Vincent 32-03 Christi Red snare divisions The two division champions Julia Lee St. Joe-St. Eliz. 19.58 Kate Kinley St. Jude 6:12 Timmy Kawiecki St. Joe/St. Eliz. 32-00 will have a chance to play each Anna McNamara St. Joe-St. Eliz. 19.68 James Brames St. John NH 31-04 SOUTH BEND — The weather- other in the post season tourna- Katie Kayser St. John-St. Louis6:22.02 man raised havoc with makeup Mallory Tippmann St. John NH 20.21 Jill Stetzel St. Charles 6:27 ment since both are in opposite Aubrey Schrader St. Jude 20.51 CYO notes a great job to all the games in the final weeks of the brackets. Katie DelBello St. Jude 6:30.30 Inter-City Catholic League Boys 100 meter hurdles Britney Fox St. John NH 6:30.50 schools and all the athletes, and a The ICCL, for the first time, Bobby Widner St. Jude 16.65 big thank you to Theresa Dirig (ICCL), but it did not deter launched a second chance post Annemarie Shank of St. John- unbeaten Christ the King from Mike Gabet St. Charles 17.75 Benoit broke her old record of who has been coordinating the season tournament for each of the Stephen Wuest St. John NH 18.35 CYO track meets for the past six winning the John Bosco Division four teams that finished in the 5:57. and Corpus Christi Red from snar- Greg German St. Vincent 18.51 Boys 1600 meter run years. She has coached track at St. lower half of each division. ing the Martin De Porres Division. In first-round games, St. Tony Svarczkopf St. Jude 18.61 Luke Momper St. Jude 5:23.34 Joe-St. Elizabeth for the past 12 Unbeaten Christ the King snared Anthony defeated Mishawaka Devin Wyss St. John-Benoit 19.25 Andrew Eckrich St. Jude 5:24.30 years while her children, Nick and two victories in as many days, beat- Catholic, 22-0; St. Thomas of Girls 100 meter dash Andy Brennan St. Joe-St. Eliz. 5:41.08 Kristen attended school there. Her ing St. Anthony, 7-1, and then pol- Elkhart blanked St. Adalbert, 7-0; Lauren Palmer St. Jude 14.04 Josh Voelker St. John NH 5:44.66 hard work and dedication to the ished off St. Jude 11-7, thus finish- St. Anthony downed St. Matthew, Emily Lahrman St. John NH 14.41 Josh Whisler St. Charles 5:49.42 sport have helped to make the CYO track program what it is ing up with a perfect 6-0. 15-3; St. Joseph-St. John the Holley Taylor St. Joe/St. Eliz. 14.51 Colin Stuerzenberger St. John-St. Louis 5:53.08 Corpus Christi Red unleashed a Christina Yeager St. John-Benoit 14.77 today. Baptist-Our Lady of Hungary beat 15-hit attack to overpower St. Corpus Christi, 11-0. MAY 28, 2006 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 21 Coach Kevin Downey finds teamwork on MARIAN SOFTBALL HOSTS BISHOP’S CUP field and classrooms of Saint Joseph’s

BY JOE KOZINSKI

SOUTH BEND — Teaching and coaching revolve around certain fundamental principles that are entwined, commingled and are the cornerstones of learning and per- formance in the classroom as well as on the field. Saint Joseph’s High School head football coach Kevin Downey and IEP/504 coordinator uses his teaching skills in the JOE KOZINSKI classroom and funnels them into life lessons to pass on to another The Second Annual Bishop’s Cup was played at Marian generation of Indian football play- High School in Mishawaka on May 20. The participants ers. “My job as special needs coor- featured teams from Bishop Dwenger High School in Fort dinator is to teach as well as act as Wayne, Bishop Noll Institute in Hammond, Andrean High an administrator and guidance counselor and work with a wide JOE KOZINSKI School in Merrillville and host Marian High School. The variety of students,” explained The Saint Joseph’s High School football players gather with their coach. ceremony celebrated Marian’s 30 years of softball. Andrean Downey. “I have interactions with From left are Ray Winkler, Joey McClintock, Coach Kevin Downey, Troy won in the championship game against Marian 4-0. Father parents and teachers while being Swift and Mark Arsenault an advocate for our students. Mike Heintz is shown blessing the new field. “Our special needs program honest, this is my dream job.” sented in our camp, my long time started in the late ‘70s and has To keep the traditions alive at connection with Saint Joe helps grown based on the requirements Saint Joe isn’t easy, and has many me to describe to the kids and the for our every changing student behind the scenes activities to parents how great our school is.” Director of Communications body,” continued Downey. “We make a team successful in the fall. While the Indians have put in a are a college prep school so we “We have had the most produc- solid off-season, the program is The Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana seeks a Director of must structure our program into tive off-season since I have been continuing to get better under the Communications who will serve as editor-in-chief of its 27,500 changing curriculum and help here,” explained Downey. “This is tutelage of Coach Downey. circulation weekly diocesan newspaper, The Catholic teach our students to help them- the first time we’ve shown gains “He and his staff have Moment, will coordinate diocesan communication projects, selves. and have been unified in doing improved every game,” stated Eric and serve as public relations officer. This person will be a “I work with two very dedicat- things that are important.” Gohlke, Saint Joseph’s athletic member of the Curia and be responsible directly to the ed teachers in my department in “We’ve opened up our condi- director. “He will continue to get Nancy Pascucci and Josh tioning with crossover athletes and stronger as a coach and mentor as Bishop. Comeau,” remarked Downey. “We have started the Indian Iron Club he defines and redefines his This person will have overall responsibility for the content are a team that works together that takes into account three parts; game.” and quality of the weekly newspaper, and will manage the everyday to give our student the attendance, intensity (how hard “Coach Downey does a great business affairs of the publication. The Bishop of the diocese opportunity to succeed.” they work) and leadership (how job relating to the players,” contin- has published this newspaper for 60 years. Selected content Coach Downey credits his aca- they help others to be better)” ued Gohlke. “He has the best inter- may be reviewed at www.thecatholicmoment.org. The demic accomplishments to special explained Downey. ests of the students as well as the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana is located in 24 counties of mentors that have deep roots in “We’ve worked to redo our school when he’s coaching.” Saint Joseph’s High School lore. weight room so the kids are proud “With everything that you’re Northcentral Indiana and has 63 parishes with 100,000 “I have three coaches that I to work out in a great setting,” passionate about, there is sacri- Catholics. have admired and strived to give continued Downey. “The staff has fice,” explained Downey. “Both At least 5 years publication management desired. Website back to the kids by looking at their put the time in and the kids are fol- my wife, Kathy (Kloska) who is a development and maintenance experience a plus. Salary example,” described Downey. “I lowing.” Marian graduate, and I are com- negotiable, commensurate with experience and expertise. played and became passionate Another important part of the mitted to Catholic education. Benefit package included. Practicing Catholic. about football under coach Phil off-season work is tied up into the “Sometimes I put pressure on Please send resume, samples of published writing, edited Teegarden and then got my coach- students that are attending the myself because it’s my alma ing start under coach Frank Amato feeder schools of Saint Joseph’s. mater.” Downey added “I will get publications and references by June 30, 2006 to: here and then was an assistant “Great things are happening calls from guys I played with after Human Resources Department under coach Andy Strati. with all the diocesan schools,” a game or I’ll see them around Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana “All of the coaches had a posi- commented Downey. “I respect town and they will ask me how P.O. Box 260 • Lafayette IN 47902 tive influence on my life that I try what the Inter-City Catholic ‘their’ program is doing.” to pass on to our players and the League coaches do with the kids While the ship that is Saint Joe www.dioceseoflafayette.org future Indian football players,” and appreciate how they spread the football is on a steady and reliable EOE added Downey. “Though a part of love of the game. course, the coach that has worn each of those coaches is in me, “Coach Reggie Glon of and lives and dies Columbia Blue Father Bly has been the constant Mishawaka Marian and I have and White still has more to give to steadying force in our program for worked well together in promoting the students, parents and alum. Associate Director of Music more than 40 years. football,” said Downey. “The bet- “Consistency over time is the “Father Bly has been instru- ter we work together the stronger one way you and your program mental in our football program, both schools will become. can be judged,” remarked Downey. Vibrant suburban parish of 2600 families, known for more than anyone else at any “We have seen a constant “Passing on Saint Joe traditions excellence in liturgy and music, seeks a full-time asso- school in the state,” Downey said. growth in the Saint Joe summer and life knowledge to the young ciate Director of Music. ADM must work collabora- “Having played and graduated football camp numbers,” Downey men and women of this school is from Saint Joe and being sur- added. “Last year we had players another way to access your contri- tively with Director and Assistant Director of Liturgy rounded by my mentors, to be from 19 different schools repre- butions.” and Music. Responsibilities include assisting Director with 7 Sunday Liturgies, Holy Days, funerals, and weddings; directing children’s choir, assisting Director the Indiana High School Athletic The winning team points came with bell and adult choirs. Requirements include key- Saint Joseph’s Association for the first time in half an hour after all but one board, pipe organ, and choral skills, ability to work the 53-year history of the school. event was completed. Then track wins The Indians won only two Dustin Lauer finished sixth in the with other instrumentalists, and a degree in music or events, the 400 meter dash by 300 meter intermediate hurdles, equivalent. Salary is commensurate with experience Kanteh Kamanda, and the 1600 and teammate Wes Chamblee fin- sectional meet relay wih the foursome of Kyle ished eighth to account for the and degree. Please send resume with references to: SOUTH BEND — Thursday, Magyar, Connor Kruggel, Taylor most valuable points that made Director of Liturgy and Music May 18, was a historical day in Summerlin and Kanteh Kamanda history for the Indians. Saint Pius X Roman Catholic Church track and field at Saint Joseph’s nipping Mishawaka, 96-94, and Winning coach Mike High School. also ending 19 consecutive years McCarthy of the Indians said, 52553 Fir Road • Granger, IN 46530 Its track athletes clad in black of victories by Penn, which fin- “This was one of those track Phone: 574 272 8462 ext 28 Email:[email protected] as a motivational play, the track ished third. Mishawaka Marian meets where every point meant a team won the sectional meet of was fourth. lot.” — EJD 22 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC MAY 28, 2006 The church calls us to live more fully as Christ invites writes as one of the called, but also 1960s and as a result of the between fasting and a Catholic REVIEWED BY YORK YOUNG explains how the truths of the overzealousness of those foment- sense of being dislocated in ordi- church call us all to more fully live ing change after the Second nary space and time. Fasting If you’re looking for Catholic writ- as Christ invites us. Vatican Council. The problem reminds Christians that they are ing with clear understanding and a Although many may read polit- here, though, is that those pushing people of the cross, and is, how- conversational tone, yet filled with ical motives into much of what for change did undertake their ever inadequately, an acted-out theological depth that will knock Father Neuhaus is expositing on efforts for political, or pseudo- statement of solidarity with the your socks off, pick up anything — a New Republic magazine dia- political, reasons, when the focus poor and hungry of the world.” by Father Richard John Neuhaus. tribe attributes everything about should have been on what could By using that example, some Even pick up his journal First Father Neuhaus to politics — it’s be done to better impart the faith will charge this reviewer with a Things, which does focus on some the faith components that hold during those turbulent times. myopic view of what is impor- highbrow theological issues, and readers captive. The background Father Neuhaus does spend a tant about the faith. But that thumb past the pages until you get of Neuhaus’ upbringing, in the few chapters referring to this decision may have been the to “The Public Square,” his opening chapter, is most edifying. unfortunate chain of events, but beginning of a downward thoughts for the month on any- In fact, it sets the tone for the book never in a fashion that praises con- slide that minimizes the faith thing and what may seem like and gives hints of how the young servatives (there’s a political word as merely one of many char- everything related to religion and man from Pembroke, Ontario, again). For example, when he talks acteristics that we each pos- civic discourse. Canada — raised a Lutheran and about what many would consider sess. Being a follower of His most recently bound volume later a minister of that denomina- the regrettable decision by the U.S. Christ, who found the one of reflections is “Catholic Matters” tion — found his way into bishops in the 1960s to do away church, should be the core (Basic Books, $25), which takes a Catholicism and a year later ordi- with the abstinence measures relat- of who we are, not merely look at much of what is current nation. ed to meat on Fridays and fasting an affectation. about the one, holy, catholic and Those who want to look at during Lent, he doesn’t cast it in Father Neuhaus focus- apostolic church, as well as why it Father Neuhaus’ prose through the political tones of a battle between es on that core, which is the ‘Church’ (yes, with an upper- political lens will focus on his liberals and conservatives in the has contributed to making him case C) that all Christians are ulti- description of how the church church. He explains, in faith terms: one of the best writers on church mately called to. As a convert, he changed during the tumultuous “There was also a powerful link matters today.

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St.Monica Monday, June 5, at 6 p.m. with a concert on Sunday, June 4, at Ironwood Dr. Lawrence J.Moulin, 70, Matthew Cathedral Cathedral of the Rose E.Friday, 87, spaghetti dinner at the Knights of 7:30 p.m. Cantus Cathedralis Ethel M.Poulin, 92, Columbus on Linden Ave. On Immaculate St.Joseph concentrates on works from the Port-a-Pit chicken and ribs on menu St.Anthony de Padua Sunday, June 11, a Corporate 16th century. The group aspires South Bend — A Port-a-Pit Conception Communion will be celebrated at to bring the Catholic Church in chicken and rib sale sponsored the 10:30 a.m. Mass at St. Michiana historic liturgical art by the Our Lady of Hungary Patrick Church followed by music, sung at the highest possi- Holy Name Society will be held Family rosary held brunch at LePeep’s on Michigan ble level. Admission is free. at Ritter’s Frozen Custard, 4540 DEVOTIONS St. A tour of the Hope Rescue Secular Franciscans plan open house Fort Wayne — First Sunday Miami Rd., on Saturday, June 3, Rosary for families will be held Mission Family Life Center, 432 Quilt raffle benefits Hannah’s House at 10 a.m. Tickets guaranteed Mishawaka — The Secular S. Lafayette Blvd. is set for June Franciscan Order local fraternity on Sunday, June 4, from 3:30 to Mishawaka — Hannah’s House until 1 p.m. Chicken — $5 day 4:30 p.m. at MacDougal Chapel. 14. will have a quilt raffle on of sale or $4.50 presale; ribs — is hosting a “come and see” open house on Sunday, June 4, from 2 Father Daryl Rybicki of St. John Wednesday, July 12. Tickets are $6.50 day of sale or $6 presale. and Sister Jolene Heiden from Germanfest kicks off with Mass $10 for seven tickets. The king Presale tickets may be purchased to 4 p.m. at St. Francis Convent, across from Marian High School the Diocesan Office of Spiritual Fort Wayne — St. Peter Church size “Mariner’s Compass” quilt before or after Sunday Masses or Development will be attending. will celebrate Germanfest with a was crafted by a Mennonite quil- at the Our Lady of Hungary rec- on Dragoon Trail. Learn about German Mass on Sunday, June 4, tory (574) 287-1700. this order for laypeople pursuing ter in Middlebury. Call (574) Little Flower Holy Hour at 11 a.m. Father Charles 254-5309 for information or to the Gospel path in the footsteps Herman will be the celebrant of St. Francis. Relaxed setting, Fort Wayne — Deacon Jason buy tickets. Annulments: Get the facts Freiberger will celebrate the with music by the Fort Wayne Notre Dame — Rev. John P. video, conversation, prayer. RSVP to Bill Schmitt at (574) Holy Hour at MacDougal Chapel Mannerchor and Damenchor Memory care unit to open at St. Paul’s Riley, CSC, pastor of Sacred directed by Jeffery Manns with 232-6777. on Tuesday, June 6, at 7:15 p.m. Retirement Heart Parish will discuss the Following the Holy Hour, Greg Vey as organist. A German South Bend — An open house legal aspects of the marriage tri- lunch will follow in the Pavilion Day of reflection at convent Seminarian, Terry Coonan will will be held on Wednesday, May bunal and Father Paul Doyle, give a brief talk. after Mass. CSC, associate rector of the Mishawaka — A day of reflec- Basilica of the Sacred Heart will tion will be at St. Francis discuss the pastoral aspects of Convent, (across from Marian GARAGE SALES the annulment process on High School) on Wednesday, Garage Sale benefits St. Patrick Closet DRIVE TO WORK Tuesday, June 6, at 7 p.m. in the May 31, from 9:30 a.m. until Fort Wayne — A garage sale will Sacred Heart Parish Center. 2:30 p.m. The cost of the day is be held on Friday, June 2, from 8 Enter from 933 and go east on $15 and includes lunch. Register a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, June WITH Douglas Road due to construc- by Friday, May 26, to Sister 3, from 8 a.m. to noon, at 6214 tion. Call (574) 631-4139 for Barbara Anne Hallman at (574) Catbird Ave. on the northwest information. 259-5427. side of town. All proceeds bene- “FATHER CORAPI” fit St. Patrick’s Closet.

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ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS 1857 2007 SESQUICENTENNIAL BY MARK WEBER THE DIOCESE OF FORT WAYNE-SOUTH BEND Corpus Christi, South Bend, Est. 1961 In a stirring procession with four men carrying a canopy over the Divine Presence in a monstrance borne by their pastor, parishioners of Corpus Christi Church in South Bend celebrate that patronal feast day with a walk through the neighborhood, which includes a street called Corpus Christi Drive. The procession stops in front of four selected homes and prays one decade of the rosary. They then move on to the parish grounds and recite the final decade at a statue of the Blessed Mother encir- cled by a rosary. This statue was designed by a parishioner Madelyn Dowinski, who also designed all but one of the stained glass windows in the church. Corpus Christi Parish came to be in 1960, when due to the migration of families from South Bend’s inner city, Bishop Leo Pursley suggested that Sacred Heart Church, established in 1898, on Thomas Street, be closed and reestablished as ities centered around its school, which has eight Corpus Christi grades and preschool for 3- and 4-year olds and all- Parish on the day kindergarten. northwest side At this stage in its history, the parish may aver- of the city. age one funeral per month. Msgr. Elmer Corpus Christi Chapel, seen through a wall of Peterson found glass from the main body of the church, and has a the location and separate outside entrance, becomes a cry room on the diocese Sunday mornings. On weekdays it is open from 5 bought a 29 acre a.m. to 10 p.m. and on Sundays from 1 p.m. to 10 farm. p.m. for adoration of the Blessed Sacrament At a present exposed. Responsibility for opening the chapel each MARK WEBER level of 800 morning and lockup at night is assigned to various families, Corpus parishioners. The diligence with which this task is Symbolizing the name of the parish, this window appears Christi is con- performed is testimony to the fact that Corpus left of the main altar in Corpus Christi Church. It was sidered young, Christi church has been called The House That with most activ- Prayer Built. designed by parishioner Madelyn Dowinski.

St. Joseph, Mishawaka, Est. 1848 In 1845, Mass was said in Mishawaka once a month streets. by priests of the Holy Cross in private homes. In It was at this time that the December 1848, a house not yet completed, became parish dropped the name of the first Catholic church in Mishawaka under the Holy Angels and placed itself name of Holy Guardian Angels, later, Holy Angels. under the patronage of St. The first name listed on the baptismal register was Joseph. The cornerstone for a convert, 36-year-old Samuel Black. By August, he the first St. Joseph Church was dead and became the first name on the death reg- was blessed by Bishop Luers ister of the new parish. in June, 1861, the first year of Just how the Mishawaka parish was transferred the Civil War. from the Holy Cross priests to the secular clergy is Plans for the present unclear; the principle reason seems to be that a church were first discussed in German-speaking priest was needed, and Father Sorin June of 1885. By 1892, it was had none to send. well enough along to hold a Strangely enough, the priest who filled this fair inside the nearly complet- requirement, German-born Henry Koenig, had his ed church. Big prizes were seminary training in Ireland. Things went well for the offered: a $600 piano, two horses, two plows, a cow, a first 14 months of his pastorate until his church was saddle and a suite of bedroom furniture. The fair destroyed by fire with arson suspected. brought in $3,124.28. Before a new church could be built, there was dis- Although there was never an official connection, agreement about its location. Farmers who had to one of the most significant steps in the development cross a marsh and of the city of Mishawaka, the founding of St. Joseph a hill on bad Hospital, came about through the efforts of Father roads, insisted on Louis A. Moench, who as pastor of St. Joseph Parish, a more favorable was a matchmaker between the nursing order of the spot. A compro- Poor Handmaids and the Physicians Club of mise was Mishawaka and who, by his endorsement of the hos- reached, with two pital project, brought about a successful public fund MARK WEBER lots purchased at drive from individuals, business and industry. Third and Spring St. Joseph’s also became the mother church for The Last Supper in a stained glass window was displayed streets. other Mishawaka parishes — St. Bavo, St. Monica at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 before it was installed Meanwhile, Mass and Queen of Peace. Thus, thousands of the faithful was celebrated in who have passed, first through the doorway of the in the new church of St. Joseph in Mishawaka. At right is an old corn crib tiny frame house known as Holy Angels and its at the northwest descendent churches finally reached the mansion of pictured the original church of St. Joseph in Mishawaka corner of Main many rooms. built at Third and Spring streets, 1861. and Fourth