FLORIDAWWW.THEFLORIDACATHOLIC.ORG | June 2016 Catholic MIAMI ARCHDIOCESE 2 CSS OF 2016 Florida Catholic June 2016 Aquinas community unites after student tragedies munity, after the untimely loss of ‘Healing Hearts’ three young people in the past year, including a member of the class of walk promotes 2014 recently killed in a traffic ac- cident. awareness and “When you are a child and you lose your parents you become an support of grieving orphan; if you’re a spouse (and lose your loved one) you become a wid- parents ow or widower; but there was never TOM TRACY a name for when a family loses a Florida Catholic correspondent child,” said Wendy Kalis, a junior Brie Totfalusi, a junior at St. class moderator and leadership Thomas Aquinas High School in teacher at Aquinas. Fort Lauderdale, hugs a fellow FORT LAUDERDALE | It’s She spoke about the situation at partipant at the May 21 charity been a challenging year for the St. the start of a May 21 charity walk in walk. Thomas Aquinas High School com- support of the Coral Springs-based Bobby Resciniti Healing Hearts Foundation. St. Thomas Aquinas High School students and faculty in Fort The Healing Hearts nonprofit or- Lauderdale participate May 21 in a Bobby Resciniti Healing Hearts ganizes events to raise support for Foundation walk to show support for local parents in the community family counseling and awareness who have suffered the loss of a child. During the last year, several of the needs of parents who lose a St. Thomas students and recent alumni have died. (PHOTOS BY TOM TRACY | FC) child. The students at St. Thomas Aquinas have hosted several Heal- ing Hearts charity events in recent for several hours on a hot Saturday Kylie, who was joined at the event by years. morning and mingle with some her niece, Ariana Rodriguez, a tod- “Unfortunately this has become of the high school community’s dler who joined the walk. a need, but it is in God’s glory that grieving families, who were also on Around the field were posted me- we are able to provide help for fami- hand. morial photos and poster reminders lies in a time of profound sadness,” Students Kylie Rodriguez and of other youthful loved ones not as- Kalis said, adding that “it has been a Briana Suarez helped organize the sociated with the high school whose very difficult year for Aquinas.” walk. lives ended prematurely. Several hundred students, par- “My mom lost her brother (when Jamie Baker, who works in the ents and other members of the she was young) and today is the an- restaurant business, lost her son, community gathered at the high niversary that he died, so it is nice to school’s track and field area to walk go to this event for everybody,” said PLEASE SEE AQUINAS, 9 Congratulations to the Class of 2016! May God guide, protect, and bless you as you enter a new chapter in your lives. 36053-0616 St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic School will always be your home. We will miss you! Love, Pastor, Priest, Administration, Teachers and Staff 35859-0616 # # June 2016 www.thefloridacatholic.org CSS OF 2016 3 ARCHBISHOP ARCHBISHOP BELEN CARROLLTON SCHOOL COLEMAN CARROLL EDWARD MCCARTHY JESUIT OF THE SACRED HEART Valedictorian Salutatorian Valedictorian Salutatorian Valedictorian Salutatorian Valedictorian Salutatorian Michelle Rios Corine Murat Gabriella Alexander Smith David Ignacio Nicolas Jose Elizabeth Marie Nicole Alexandra Rodriguez Fager Garcia Cordoves Mayo CARDINAL GIBBONS Class of 2016 IMMACULATA-LASALLE Numbers tell the story of more than 2,800 graduates’ achievements — so far ANA RODRIGUEZ-SOTO r0OFGPS4U#SFOEBOJODIFFSMFBEJOH of the Florida Catholic staff One national championship r*OUIF/BUJPOBM4QFFDIBOE%FCBUF"T- Valedictorian Salutatorian MIAMI | The caps and gowns are put sociation’s tournament of champions, Eve Valedictorian Salutatorian Haley Scaggs Stephen Greep away and the books are closed on 12 years Moll of St. Thomas Aquinas earned the title Arianis Blanco Andrea Mercenari of school. The Archdiocese of Miami’s high for original oratory. school class of 2016 has penned its entry in Two Cappies OUR LADY OF LOURDES the history books. Their legacy? r For Archbishop McCarthy Maverick CHAMINADE-MADONNA Here are some numbers, based on in- Players Marisabel Correa, featured Actress formation provided to the archdiocesan in “The Crucible,” and Bella Miulescu, sup- Department of Schools by 12 of the 13 high porting actress in “The Crucible” (see story, schools and 1 ADOM Virtual School. Page 8). One Gates Millennium Scholar $180.3 million r.JDIFMMF3JPT "SDICJTIPQ$PMFNBO r*ODPMMFHFTDIPMBSTIJQT Carroll High School, Miami. 850,531 10 Silver Knights and r$PNQMFUFETFSWJDFIPVST 13 honorable mentions 2899 r'JWFXJOOFSTGPS4U5IPNBT"RVJOBTJO r5PUBMOVNCFSPGHSBEVBUFT Fort Lauderdale, four for Christopher Co- 1,112 Valedictorian Salutatorian lumbus High School in Miami, and one for r /VNCFS PG HSBEVBUFT XIP BUUFOEFE Valedictorian Salutatorian Alessandra Isabel Sofia St. Brendan High School, Miami. Catholic schools for all 12 years. Patrick Roberts Brandon Victoria Gonzalez r5IFIPOPSBCMFNFOUJPOTXFOUUP4U Three Williams Armengol Thomas (three), Columbus (two), Cardinal r4NBMMFTUHSBEVBUJOHDMBTT "%0.7JS- Gibbons (two), and one each to St. Bren- tual School. MONSIGNOR EDWARD PACE dan, Belen, Carrollton, Our Lady of Lourdes, 50 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Archbishop Coleman Carroll and Archbish- r4FDPOETNBMMFTUHSBEVBUJOHDMBTT "SDI- op Edward McCarthy (see story, Page 6). CJTIPQ$VSMFZ/PUSF%BNF .JBNJ 147 National Merit Scholar awardees 526 r*ODMVEJOHGJOBMJTUT TFNJGJOBMJTUT DPN- r-BSHFTUHSBEVBUJOHDMBTT 4U5IPNBT mended, Hispanic and special recognition. Aquinas. Ten state championships: After a summer of beach outings and va- r'PVSGPS4U5IPNBT"RVJOBTJOCPZTMB- cations, these graduates will start packing crosse, cross-country and football, and girls for college: a time for new beginnings and volleyball. adventures, more growth and more learn- r5XPGPS"SDICJTIPQ.D$BSUIZJOCPZT ing, bigger challenges and fresh legacies. volleyball and baseball. Congratulations and Godspeed, class of Summa Summa r5XPGPS#FMFOJOCPZTXBUFSQPMPBOETPD- 2016. Always remember that God walks be- Valedictorian Salutatorian Cum Laude Cum Laude cer. side you. Whatever you do, whatever hap- Brian Fenaughty Nestor Montejo Mia Bravo Daniel Labrousse r0OFGPS$BSEJOBM(JCCPOTJOHJSMTWPM- pens, keep the faith. leyball. ARCHBISHOP CURLEY- NOTRE DAME ST. BRENDAN ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Valedictorian Salutatorian Valedictorian Salutatorian Salutatorian Valedictorian Salutatorian Tracey Dominique Alexandra Francesca Caridad Nicole Del Risco Ryan Douglas Jim M. Koldada Laroche Callejas Dominguez 4 ARCHBISHOP WENSKI Florida Catholic June 2016 ‘Bitter zeal’ undermines Christian message Pope Pius X, who served at the that no means is more efficacious elegendo, which could be rendered, those who fancied themselves as beginning of the 20th century, than charity.” He adds: “It is vain “Wretched but chosen.” It reminds “reformers.” began his pontificate under the to hope to attract souls to God by a us that we all are sinners; yet re- Yet a Church that embraces sin- motto of “Restoring all things to bitter zeal. On the contrary, harm deemed by Christ, we are called to ners will always be in need of re- Christ.” He is remembered for his is done more often than good by witness to the Gospel. form. And many of the problems resolute condemnation taunting men harshly Today in America, political dis- we face — the decline in Mass at- of the heresy of modern- with their faults, and re- course is increasingly filled with tendance, the crisis in vocations, FLORIDA ism but also for allow- proving their vices with shrill polemics that generate much the ignoring of Church teachings ing children as young asperity.” heat but little light. Oppositional on matters of morality, the “reli- Catholic as seven to take Holy Following the example research designed to uncover dirt gious illiteracy” among many of the ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI Communion. There was of Christ himself, we must about an opponent is seen as a faithful, not to mention the sexual no question about this love the sinner even while legitimate tactic in the “contact abuse crisis of recent years — all Vol. 77, No. 8 pope’s zeal for souls. In we hate the sin. St. Paul sport” that is today’s politics. Such underscore the need for what Pope fact, today he is invoked FROM THE advised his disciple, Tim- divisive partisanship perhaps is John Paul II called “a new evange- ARCHBISHOP 9401 Biscayne Blvd. as St. Pius X. othy: “Accuse, beseech, the way of the world; but it cannot lization.” Miami, FL 33138 One can draw many Thomas rebuke” but he adds “with be the way of the Church, for the St. Pius X wrote: “It is not priests 305-762-1131 Fax 305-762-1132 parallels between his in- Wenski all patience” (2 Tm 4:2). way of the Church must be, as St. alone, but all the faithful with- PUBLISHER augural encyclical, E Su- We will not be success- Paul told the contentious Corin- out exception, who must concern Archbishop Thomas Wenski premi, and Pope Francis’ ful in converting those thians, a “more excellent way,” the themselves with the interests of apostolic exhortation, Evangelii enslaved to sin and blinded by er- way of love (cf. 1 Cor 12:31-13:13). God and souls — not, of course, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Mary Ross Agosta Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel). ror unless we first love them. Such A “bitter zeal,” rather than wit- according to their own views, but Both were concerned with the Gos- was the pedagogy of Christ himself nessing to the Truth, will under- always under the direction and or- ARCHDIOCESAN EDITOR pel not being presented as an op- who came to call sinners. He called mine it. And instead of restoring ders of the bishops.” Ana Rodriguez-Soto pressive lists of “don’ts” but rather them to conversion, of course; but all things to Christ who prayed that However, without this direction [email protected] 305-762-1131 as it truly is: good news, a wonder- with great gentleness and compas- all his followers be one, bitter zeal from the bishops “who preside in ful, joyful invitation to mankind to sion.