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Sooner Catholic Soonercatholic.Org August 10, 2014 Go Make Disciples St Sooner Catholic soonercatholic.org August 10, 2014 www.archokc.org Go Make Disciples St. Joseph’s Orphanage and Children’s Home holds reunion By J.E. Helm cared for by other orders including Benedic- I was very well treated there.” For the Sooner Catholic tines, Sisters of St. Joseph, and Divine Provi- Judy Schirf was a resident from 1961 to At a reunion this month, former residents of dence Sisters. 1964 along with her brothers Phillip, Mark The home was expanded and Stephen. Mark and Phillip St. Joseph’s Orphanage and St. Joseph’s Chil- The home was ex- dren’s Home had a chance to reconnect with several times and at one point enjoyed playing on the baseball old friends and share treasured memories. included a working farm. By the panded several times team, the St. Joseph’s 89ers, The event, sponsored by Catholic Charities, early 1940s, St. Joseph’s had and at one point although Mark admits “We nev- was held at Trinity Gardens in Oklahoma City cared for more than 3,000 chil- er won a game!” and was open to all former residents, staff dren. Eventually, the number of included a working Maxine Neconie Sutherland members and their families. children needing placement de- farm. By the early came all the way from Grant’s clined, and in 1965 the orphan- Point, Ore., to attend the re- St. Joseph’s Orphanage fi rst opened in 1912 1940s, St. Joseph’s when the Diocese of Oklahoma established a age was renamed St. Joseph’s union. She graduated from the children’s home in Bethany. Some children Children’s Home. It was relocat- had cared for more eighth grade at St. Joseph’s, sent there were orphans; others were placed at ed to northeast Oklahoma City. than 3,000 children. and she had her diploma with St. Joseph’s due to diffi cult family situations or Virginia Vasques Marquardt her, dated May 6, 1959. Her fi nancial distress. Three Sisters of Mercy were was at St. Joseph’s in the late sister Mary Neconie Shane also the fi rst women religious to staff St. Joseph’s, 1930s when she was about nine years old. She attended from Fort Cobb. and over the years, the children also were was eventually reunited with family members Carolyn Wathan Thompson remembers Sister but says “I wish they would have left me there. continued on page 7 Groundbreaking for Carmelite convent Archbishop Coakley, Sisters Barbara Joseph, Patricia Ann and Immac- ulata, along with the rest of the building commu- nity for the Carmelite Sisters, break ground on the new convent. The sisters’ new convent will be part of Saint Ann Retirement Center. It will take approximately 13 months to complete. Photo by Cara Koenig/ Sooner Catholic. See more photos on page 9. Catholic agencies study President Obama’s order on government contract employment By Dennis Sadowski Charities USA, Catholic Relief Ser- contracts because of the employment Catholic News Service vices and the Association of Catholic requirements. Colleges and Universities told Catho- “We obviously have some trouble WASHINGTON — Catholic agen- lic News Service the order continues with the language of gender identity cies were studying President Barack to be reviewed. and sexual orientation. We feel that’s Obama’s executive order that ex- The organizations or their members very, very broad. It’s ill defi ned,” said pands the prohibition on employment currently hold contracts or have at Melissa Swearingen, adviser and discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender by the federal one time contracted with the govern- spokeswoman for USCCB president, government and nonprofi t agencies ment for services. In some cases, the Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louis- and corporations that receive federal contracts have been worth millions of ville, Kentucky. contracts. dollars. “I don’t think our lawyers have fi n- The scrutiny comes because the The USCCB has been the most vo- ished analyzing if we will actively lose July 21 order does not spell out cal of the agencies in commenting on contracts right at the moment, but a specifi c exemption for religious the executive order. A spokeswom- certainly it’s a violation of our reli- organizations that contract with the an for the USCCB said the bishops gious freedom if we can’t even apply government. feared the order would force the for anything in the future,” she told Representatives of the U.S. Con- conference to abandon the possibili- Catholic News Service July 22. ference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic ty of applying for future government continued on page 3 2 August 10, 2014 Sooner Catholic Sooner Catholic International/National August 10, 2014 3 Put Out Into the Deep Vatican revising canon law on abuse penalties, cardinal says Luke 5:4 Find more By Cindy Wooden Juan Ignacio Arrieta, council sec- Archbishop Coakley Calls for Prayer and great news on Catholic News Service retary, also spoke of the work of revising that section of canon law. VATICAN CITY — Church law Bishop Arrieta had said the cur- Penance to Avert the Planned Sacrilege the website has procedures and penalties for rent Code of Canon Law, promul- August 4, 2014 the Feast of the Arch- effectively dealing with allegations By Sooner Catholic Staff gated in 1983, was written with The Memorial of St. John Vianney angels (September 29). of clerical sexual abuse, but the such an emphasis on the role of I invite all Catholics to Vatican is working to revise a Additional coverage of the individual bishop in his local Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, pray daily for divine section of the Code of Canon Law Church and archdiocesan diocese that each bishop bore the By now you are probably aware that a Satanic protection through the to make those norms and proce- news and events, only on full weight of deciding when and group has scheduled a so-called Black Mass for Sun- intercession of this dures clearer and, therefore, more www.soonercatholic.org: how to intervene and what sort of day, September 21 at the Civic Center Music Hall in heavenly patron who effective, said the president of the Oklahoma City. once defeated Lucifer Pontifi cal Council for Legislative sanction or punishment to impose Archbishop Coakley’s Even though tickets are being sold for this event in his rebellion against Archbishop Paul S. Coakley Texts. on the guilty. letter will be read at all the as if it were merely some sort of dark entertainment, the Almighty and who The law ended up being too parishes of the archdiocese “We want to make this delicate this Satanic ritual is deadly serious. It is a blasphe- stands ready to assist us in this hour of need. vague, and church sanctions were during Masses the week- material more accessible, more un- mous and obscene inversion of the Catholic Mass. Secondly, I am asking that each parish conduct being applied so haphazardly, that end of Aug. 9-10. To read derstandable and easier for bish- Using a consecrated Host obtained illicitly from a a Eucharistic Holy Hour with Benediction to honor Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta, secretary of the Pontifi cal Council for Legislative Texts, takes part the church appeared to be divided, the news release regarding ops to apply,” Cardinal Francesco Catholic church and desecrating it in the vilest ways Christ’s Real Presence in the Holy Eucharist, between in a symposium on the reform of the Code of Canon Law at the Vatican in January. (CNS photo/ he said. Archbishop Coakley’s call to Coccopalmerio, council president, imaginable, the practitioners offer it in sacrifi ce to the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Giancarlo Giuliani, Catholic Press Photo) The two chief concerns in the prayer for the black mass, or told the Vatican newspaper. Satan. This terrible sacrilege is a deliberate attack on Mary (August 15) and September 21, to avert this person and therefore the good of tive act necessarily must be con- revised section, as in all church to download the Saint Mi- In the interview published July the Catholic Mass as well as the foundational beliefs proposed sacrilege. law, Bishop Arrieta said, are “to chael the Archangel prayer 24 in L’Osservatore Romano, the the church, penal law expects a re- demned; it requires a reaction.” of all Christians. It mocks Our Lord Jesus Christ, Finally, I invite all Catholics, Christians and peo- cards, visit archokc.org. cardinal said his offi ce has been action, that is the pastor infl icting At the same time, he said, the safeguard the truth and protect whom we Catholics believe is truly present under the ple of good will to join me in prayer for a Holy Hour, working since 2008 to revise “Book a canonical penalty,” the cardinal bishop must recognize that the the dignity of persons.” form of bread and wine in the Holy Eucharist when it outdoor Eucharistic Procession and Benediction at St. Gregory’s junior Lau- VI: Sanctions in the Church,” a said. infl iction of a penalty is ultimate- At the same time, the rules are has been consecrated by a validly ordained priest. St. Francis of Assisi Church in Oklahoma City at 3:00 ren Mach joined college section of the Code of Canon Law. If a bishop does not react by ly for the good of the abuser as more stringent — “if someone does In spite of repeated requests, there has been no p.m. on Sunday, September 21, the day of the pro- students from around the The penalties and punishments imposing a punishment on a priest well.
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