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MAY 18 E COVERS 4_13 FINAL.qxp_Layout 1 4/13/18 5:35 PM Page 1 MAY 2018 KNIGHTSOFCOLUMBUS May Columbia Ad.qxp_Layout 1 4/13/18 3:24 PM Page 1 Discover the Catholic Difference Rely on the Knights of Columbus to protect your family’s future. 3 A name you know. 3 A company you trust. 3 An organization you can believe in. Find an agent at kofc.org or 1-800-345-5632 LIFE INSURANCE DISABILITY INCOME INSURANCE LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE RETIREMENT ANNUITIES MAY 18 E 4_13 FINAL.qxp_Mar E 12 4/14/18 9:12 AM Page 1 KNIGHTSOFCOLUMBUS M A y 2 0 1 8 ♦ V o l u M e 9 8 ♦ N u M b e r 5 COLUMBIA FEATURES 8 Medal of Honor Medic An interview with Capt. Gary M. Rose about his service in the Vietnam War. BY COLUMBIA STAFF 14 Knights of the ‘Greatest Generation’ Knights who served in World War II tell their stories. BY COLUMBIA STAFF 20 Mission Accomplished A young Knight accompanies a relic of St. Francis Xavier on a historic pilgrimage across Canada. BY DEBORAH GYAPONG 24 A Celebration of Mary, Mother of the Church The Church’s Marian identity will be honored in a new feast day, on the Monday after Pentecost. BY SEAN INNERST Five Canadian soldiers sit on the steps of a K of C Army Hut club- house in Prince George, British Columbia, circa 1940. DEPARTMENTS 36Building a better world Knights of Columbus News 7 Christians at Risk Native American Catholic commu- Order Provides Aid to Persecuted Nebraska Knights intensify effort nities demonstrate diversity of cul- Christians During Holy Week • to help persecuted Iraqi Christians ture and the unity of faith. Knights in the Philippines Walk return to their ancient homeland. BY SUPREME KNIGHT CARL A. ANDERSON for Life • Polish President Thanks BY MIKE MAY Knights for Support of Hurricane 4 Learning the faith, Victims 28 Knights in Action living the faith The mission of evangelization remains essential to the Church’s identity today. BY SUPREME CHAPLAIN ARCHBISHOP WILLIAM E. LORI PLUS: Catholic Man of the Month Knights of Columbus Multimedia Archives M A Y 2 0 1 8 ♦ COLUMBIA ♦ 1 MAY 18 E 4_13 FINAL.qxp_Mar E 12 4/14/18 9:12 AM Page 2 EDITORIAL COLUMBIA PUBLISHER Knights of Columbus The Way to Happiness ________ OF ALL THE TEACHINGS of Jesus Nonetheless, the wisdom of Scripture SUPREME OFFICERS Carl A. Anderson recorded in Scripture, do you know and of older generations endures. It can SUPREME KNIGHT what’s the most common? One saying be seen, for example, in the charitable Most Rev. William E. Lori, S.T.D. in particular appears in all four Gospels, work of the Knights of Columbus and SUPREME CHAPLAIN Patrick E. Kelly twice in Matthew and Luke: “Whoever in the lives of many Catholic young DEPUTY SUPREME KNIGHT seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but people who live counter-culturally. This Michael J. O’Connor whoever loses it will save it” (Lk 17:33, issue of Columbia features an interview SUPREME SECRETARY Ronald F. Schwarz cf. Mt 10:39, 16:25; Mk 8:35; Lk 9:24; with Capt. Gary M. Rose, a Knight SUPREME TREASURER Jn 12:25). This theme of self-sacrifice, who received the Medal of Honor for John A. Marrella SUPREME ADVOCATE especially for the sake of Christ and the his extraordinary bravery as a medic ________ kingdom of God, is repeated several during a classified mission in the Viet- EDITORIAL other ways, such as in the parable of the nam War (see page 8); profiles of World Alton J. Pelowski grain of wheat (cf. Jn 12:24). It speaks War II veterans who reflect on their ex- EDITOR Andrew J. Matt not only to the preeminence of the perience as servicemen and as Knights MANAGING EDITOR Gospel above all worldly pursuits, but (see page 14); and the story of how a 20- Anna M. Bninski also to something fundamental about year-old Knight helped extend the mis- ASSOCIATE EDITOR human nature. The Second Vatican sionary presence of St. Francis Xavier to Council put it this way: Our creation in present-day Canada (see page 20). the likeness with God “reveals that man, Consider, finally, a reflection on the who is the only creature on earth which new feast day celebrating the Blessed God willed for itself, cannot fully find Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church himself except through a sincere gift of (see page 24). This memorial, which himself” (Gaudium et Spes, 24). links the humility and maternity of Venerable Michael McGivney (1852-90) Apostle to the Young, With this in mind, it is perhaps un- Mary to the birth of the Church at Pen- Protector of Christian Family Life and surprising that religious observance is on tecost, further reminds us of the call to Founder of the Knights of Columbus, Intercede for Us. the decline today. Our era is often char- self-sacrificial love, the call to become ________ acterized by “selfies” and entitlement, in missionary disciples and the call to ho- HOW TO REACH US contrast to the selflessness and heroism liness. The Christian life, after all, is MAIL that defined the “Greatest Generation,” made possible by the indwelling of the COLUMBIA 1 Columbus Plaza for instance. Nor is it surprising that, ac- Holy Spirit, whom St. John Paul II New Haven, CT 06510-3326 cording to many studies, young people called the “personal expression” of eter- ADDRESS CHANGES 203-752-4210, option #3 report greater feelings of unhappiness. nal, self-giving love (Dominum et Vivi- [email protected] In his new apostolic exhortation on the ficantem, 10). And true blessedness — PRAYER CARDS & SUPPLIES call to holiness, Pope Francis reflects on on earth as in heaven — consists of 203-752-4214 COLUMBIA INQUIRIES the Beatitudes and notes that the word sharing in this love of the Most Holy 203-752-4398 “happy” or “blessed” “becomes a syn- Trinity, in whose image and likeness we FAX onym for ‘holy.’ It expresses the fact that are created.♦ 203-752-4109 K OF C CUSTOMER SERVICE those faithful to God and his word, by 1-800-380-9995 their self-giving, gain true happiness” ALTON J. PELOWSKI E-MAIL (Gaudete et Exsultate, 64). EDITOR [email protected] INTERNET kofc.org/columbia ________ CIS Resource: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Membership in the Knights of Columbus is open to men 18 years of age or older who are practical (that is, practicing) The Gifts of the Holy Spirit According to Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholics in union with the Holy See. This means that an applicant or member accepts the teaching authority of the (#360) by Dominican Father Peter John Cameron explains how Catholic Church on matters of faith and morals, aspires to the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit — wisdom, understanding, live in accord with the precepts of the Catholic Church, and is in good standing in the Catholic Church. counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, fear of the Lord — draw ________ us closer to Christ. Part of the Veritas Booklet Series published Copyright © 2018 All rights reserved by the Order’s Catholic Information Service, this booklet is in- ________ fused with the teaching of Aquinas and rich Marian insights. To ON THE COVER download or order this resource, visit kofc.org/cis. Retired Capt. Gary M. Rose, a U.S. Army medic and member of the Knights who served in the Vietnam ON THE COVER: Photo by Spirit Juice Studios War, is pictured wearing the Medal of Honor. ♦ COLUMBIA ♦ M A Y 2 0 1 8 2 MAY 18 E 4_13 FINAL.qxp_Mar E 12 4/14/18 9:12 AM Page 3 BUILDINGABETTERWORLD ‘Hold On to What Is Good’ Native American Catholic communities demonstrate diversity of culture and the unity of faith by Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson THIS YEAR, I spent much of Holy the Indian peoples, but Christ, in the Week in the Diocese of Gallup, N.M., members of his Body, is himself Indian.” encountering the presence of our Often, in Columbia and elsewhere, I Catholic faith among Native Americans. have written about Pope Francis’ chal- I met Mercy Corps volunteers at the St. lenge to bring the Gospel to the periph- and despair. Michaels Association for Special Educa- eries. But Holy Week made clear to me Instead, after his baptism, he lived a tion on the Navajo Reservation; greeted that there is a “periphery” in the heart life of hope and reconciliation — for 50 Navajos at the Villa Guadalupe residence of our own continent — one largely years evangelizing his fellow Native of the Little Sisters of the Poor; visited San overlooked by many Catholics but American people. Estevan del Rey mission church in “Sky where the Gospel has already been lived There is a Pueblo Indian prayer famil- City” on the Acoma Pueblo — the scene for centuries. iar to the Laguna tribe that reads like a of a dramatic episode in Willa Cather’s “Today, people are realizing more and poem: “Hold on to what is good, even Death Comes for the Archbishop; and spoke more clearly that we all belong to the if it’s a handful of earth. Hold on to with a missionary priest about what you believe, even if it’s a his pastoral work on the Zuni tree that stands by itself. Hold reservation. There is a “periphery” in the on to what you must do, even But the high point was the if it’s a long way from here.