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The SPRING 2014 LeaderNEWS FOR THE TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL FAMILY www.trinityrocks.com Trinity gave me an opportunity to get a Catholic education and learn more about Christian values, respect, leadership,TOUR friendship, TRINITY. dedication and determination. The experience preparedONLINE me for college, AND IN PERSON. my Navy careerThere areand several life ways in for general. you and yourur son to learn more about the Trinity experience.nce. - Rear Adm.Our Stewartwebsite, O’Bryan, trinityrocks.com Class of 1972, is a greatreat place to start. We also invite you to arrangeange for a personal campus tour by contactingng TRADITIONAL VALUES.James When Torra asked H’12 why at he 502.736.2120 valued his Trinity education, “learning respect” came up several times in Rear Adm. Stewart O’Bryanor [email protected]. reply. He explained it was crucial to earn respect from his fellow sailors in order to be an effective Navy leader. He added that anyone who values his Trinity experience should take a leadership role and donate now to ensure other young men have the opportunity to carry on the Trinity Tradition in the future. THREE EASY WAYS TO GIVE 1 Go online to www.thsfoundation.com and click on “Make a Gift” 2 Credit card or virtual check (EBT) (contact Sandy at [email protected]) 3 Return the enclosed envelope Support a Trinity education. Provide the Trinity experience.TRINITY Invest HIGH in SCHOOL a | 4011 Shelbyville Road | Louisville, Kentucky 40207 | 502.893.ROCK | trinityrocks.com young man’s future. Please give to the Trinity Annual FundTrinity High Schooltoday! admits students of any race, color and national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally available to students. Trinity does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, or disability (if with reasonable accommodation the student can meet the requirements of Trinity’s course of study) in the administration of its educational policies, scholarship or loan programs, athletic or other school-administered programs. 75592c_fall_leader_insert.indd 1 8/14/13 10:15 AM The LeaderNEWS FOR THE TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL FAMILY ISSUE SPRING 2014 ON THE COVER: Trinity teacher Mr. Keith Rapp H’13, left, and freshmen Seth Conte, Darian Story and Matthew Higgins work on an assignment by using Mr. Rapp’s floor-to-ceiling length map of the world. OFFICE FOR SCHOOL ADVANCEMENT VICE PRESIDENT FOR Joey Porter ’78 SCHOOL ADVANCEMENT ADMISSIONS Chris Toth ’06 ADMISSIONS James Torra H’12 ALUMNI RELATIONS Travis Wagoner ’90 / COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Melanie Hughes / ALUMNI RELATIONS ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Marie Diehl / ADMISSIONS MAGAZINE DESIGN Larry Jackson PRINTER Preferred Printing DIRECTOR / MAJOR GIFTS Tim Culver ’82 The Leader is published four times a year for Trinity High School alumni, students, parents and friends by Trinity High School, Office for School Advancement, 4011 Shelbyville Road, Louisville, KY 40207. Postage paid at Louisville, KY. POSTMASTER: Send address corrections to: Trinity High School, Office for School Advancement, 4011 Shelbyville Road, Louisville, KY 40207. Phone: (502) 893-7625. Fax: (502) 899-2052 NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY MISSION STATEMENT Trinity High School admits students of any race, color, national and Our Mission at Trinity is to provide students ethnic origin to all the rights, priviliges, programs and activities generally available to students. Trinity does not discriminate on the basis of with a superior high school education in a race, color, national or ethnic origin, or disability (if with reasonable supportive atmosphere based upon Christian accommodation the student can meet the requirements of Trinity’s course of study) in the administration of its educational policies, scholarship or values in the Catholic tradition. loan programs, athletic or other school-administered programs. leadermagazine FOR ALUMNI AND FAMILY OF TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL IS POPE FRANCIS GREAT OR WHAT? He even made the cover of Rolling Stone! In this column I will eventually get to why I think the Holy Father would say, “Go Rocks,” if he knew about Trinity. Maybe he already does! When he stepped onto the balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square to the famous words, “Habemus Papam” (“We have a Pope”), my initial impression was one of concern. I think he had a certain “deer in the headlights” look. He looked more shocked than the hordes of pope-predictors who did not have him as a leading candidate. Now I realize that behind those eyes he was probably thinking, “They have no idea what they just did.” “They,” of course, were his brother cardinals, who after a few ballots, elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the 266th Bishop of Rome. He is the successor to St. Peter, who was the first among equals, the shoot-from-hip apostle who turned his back on Jesus at the worst possible time. Pope Francis is the first non-European pope in 1,000 years, the first Jesuit and the first to take the name Francis in honor of the great St. Francis of Assisi. BY DR. ROBERT (ROB) J. MULLEN ‘77, PRESIDENT We now know that even before he stepped onto the balcony Pope Francis had already begun to mark his time as president’s notebook president’s head of the Catholic Church as something different: • He declined to wear the ermine cape that has been donned in recent pope balcony introductions. “Upon graduating from Trinity, each will have • After his election, we learned that he met his brother been challenged according to his strengths cardinals face-to-face rather than from an elevated throne while receiving their allegiance, even breaking and weaknesses. Along the way, all will be protocol by going to infirmed electors at their seats rather than having them struggle to come to him. honored and saluted for achievement when it • He rode a bus back to the hotel with other cardinals and is earned.” discarded his motorcade. • He checked himself out of his hotel room, paying his own bill. (Did you see the photo of this with the funny • In a public audience, he embraced a man caption, “I checked in under a different name?”). severely deformed with tumors, gently and • He carries his own luggage. lovingly holding him while offering comfort. • He lives in simple quarters in an apartment building • He agreed to a wide-ranging interview with an rather than the papal palace. atheist Italian journalist, showing deference • He cancelled his own Argentinean newspaper subscription to his beliefs/non-beliefs and winning over and frequently calls ordinary people to chat. what I believe is a soul. • He was named TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year” • He told his home-country priests to not come and also was named “best-dressed” by a fashion to Rome for his installation and to give the magazine. travel money to the poor. • He tweets! • There are rumors he sneaks out at night and visits the homeless. There’s talk in parishes of the “Francis Effect:” collections are up, Mass attendance has increased and the mainstream Perhaps Pope Francis’ most talked about act media seem infatuated with him and less so with the sex sins was generated during a very uncommon question- that have dominated news about the Church for the last decade. and-answer session with journalists as he returned I know my students have taken notice of the new pope. to Rome from World Youth Day last summer. In response to a question he said, “If someone is gay But there has been more to Pope Francis than these acts of and seeks the Lord with good will, who am I to simplicity. judge?” This prompted a gay-rights magazine to • On Holy Thursday, he washed the feet of incarcerated name him their “Person of the Year.” youth, including girls and Muslims, substituting them The pope hasn’t changed any church doctrines. for priests that are usually used in this papal ceremony. He hasn’t rewritten any canon laws. He often cites 4 FOR ALUMNI AND FAMILY OF TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL leadermagazine his predecessors’ writings. So what is it about Pope there are others who have cruised through school Francis that is causing this love affair? without much heavy lifting. In the TIME magazine article about him, the author Upon graduating from Trinity, each will have been wrote: challenged according to his strengths and weaknesses. “But what makes this Pope so important is the Along the way, all will be honored and saluted for speed with which he has captured the imaginations of achievement when it is earned. millions who had given up on hoping for the church We open the doors as wide as we are able. at all. People weary of the endless parsing of sexual We take this approach because that’s what a Catholic ethics, the buck-passing infighting over lines of school should do. It was Cardinal Hickey, the former authority when all the while (to borrow from Milton), head of the diocese of Washington, D.C., who said, ‘the hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed.’ In a matter “We serve everyone not because they are Catholic, but of months, Francis has elevated the healing mission of because we are Catholic.” the church – the church as servant and comforter of It doesn’t stop with test scores. We’ve created a hurting people in an often harsh world… school that is seen as welcoming. Look who else enrolls. “And behind his self-effacing facade, he is a very Families come from every economic situation. canny operator… He is quoted saying of women who Some are assisted by you readers who donate your consider abortion because of poverty or rape, ‘Who can hard-earned money that we use for tuition assistance.