Surfing for a Patron Saint of the Internet Larly Interested in Overseas Evangelization

Missions Benefit From Foundation Funding ew avenues of funding for early years. Nthe Carmelite missions The Raskob Foundation throughout the world continue to provided some emergency be developed by the Carmelite funding for East Timor after the Mission Office in Darien, IL. war this past year. Several of the The office has received just over Carmelite institutions, especially $133,000 in grants from some of the clinics of the foundations for this fiscal year, Hermanas de La Virgen Maria according to John Malley, O. del Monte Carmelo of Oriheula Carm., the director of the (Spain) Carmelites were badly Mission Office. damaged. The Koch Foundation, located Among the grants awarded by in Gainesville, FL, is helping the Koch Foundation was fund nine projects, five specifi- $30,000 to support the forma- Construction of a new building in Flores, Indonesia, partially funded by cally requested by the provincial tion and training of younger the generosity of donors to the Provincial Mission Office. Among the growing number of donors are U.S. foundations. (Staff photo) Mission Office and four sisters in East Timor and Carmelite projects applied for Indonesia, $25,000 to support by other Carmelite entities. the evangelization program of Late last summer, John Malley the Carmelite Sisters of Our travelled to Indonesia and Lady in the Phillipines, $15,000 Vietnam to see firsthand the use to support an evangelization of two of the previous year’s center in Brazil, $8,000 to provide grants. Some $60,000 was a water well for the school and received that year from the convent at the Carmelite Commu- Koch Foundation. nity of Gorongosa in Beira, To honor the centenary of the Mozambique, $10,000 to death of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, support the construction of a the Koch Foundation produced a new monastery of the Stella brochure in 1998 centered on Maris Federation in the the life and teaching of the Phillipines, $20,000 to Carmelite saint. Robert Colaresi, complete the construction of O. Carm., the Director of the the Carmelite monastery in Society of the Little Flower, and Pangasinan, Phillipines, $10,119 John Malley supplied some of to expand a nursery school in Thomas Scrader, O. Carm., was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop the information that was used. Kerala, India, and $10,000 to Michael LaFay, O. Carm., at Whitefriars Hall on May 10, 2001. Tom was The Koch Foundation awards joined by his parents and family as well as Carmelites from throughout the approximately $11 million complete construction of a Province in the celebration. He celebrated his first Mass the following annually. Their primary focus chapel in Lima, Perú. morning for the community and his family. (Staff photo) since 1979 has been on Catholic activities, both national and international. They are particu- Surfing for a Patron Saint of the Internet larly interested in overseas evangelization. Titus Brandsma, O. Carm., is one of several under consideration Following John’s written ccording to reports from the Vatican, the search for a patron saint for the Internet is continuing. The report to the foundation about Acandidates now include two martyrs of the Nazi death camps, Carmelite Blessed Titus Brandsma, a the use of the previous funding, Dutch journalist and St. Maximilian Kolbe, a communicator in the press, radio and audio-visual he was asked to be an “on site” materials. inspector by the foundation’s Discussion were held during a recent plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communi- director, Michael Marconi. cations in March. Other names included St. Paul and St. Isidore of Seville (died 636), whose encyclope- For many years, the Province dic knowledge was noted. The layout of his work was called a “forerunner” of the internet’s Yahoo has benefited from the generos- search engine. Later reports said that St. Isidore of Seville has received the most petitions to be named ity of Mrs. Helena Corcoran and patron of the Internet. the Raskob Foundation. Mrs. “Together with the already existing patrons of radio [St. Gabriel], television [St. Clare], and the press Corcoran was well known to [St. Francis de Sales],” said Bishop Pastore, “we have received grass-roots requests, so to speak, for a many Carmelites, especially patron for Internet, the cinema and the media in general.” those who served at Salpointe Bishop Pastore said that the petitions come “from the dioceses and local Churches, to which we give Catholic (Tucson, AZ) in the due attention.” 4 Carmelite Review.

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