rules Header Headline Article Byline Author info Caption Pull quote Photostyle Jumps Ads -strokes mjj bdk jlm The Offi cial Newspaper of the Diocese of Savannah Vol. 99, No. 19 Thursday, September 12, 2019 Put Faith in Your Opinions southerncross.diosav.org Seventy-five of the 81 students who graduated from the Fray Pedro de Corpa Catechetical School pose for a photograph with Bishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv. Each graduate wore a red stole emblazoned with the school’s name, a tribute to one of the five Spanish Franciscan martyrs who ministered to the native people of coastal Georgia in the 16th century and are currently being considered for beatification. Photograph by Michael J. Johnson. Learn more on pages 8 and 9. Pope to create 13 new cardinals in October BY CINDY WOODEN (CNS) Brazil, when the announcement In addition to Cardinal- – Archbishop Juan Garcia VATICAN CITY (CNS) was made. He told Catholic News designate Czerny, two other Rodriguez of Havana, 71. Pope Francis announced he will Service in a text message that he members of the group are also create 13 new cardinals Oct. 5, had not known he was going to Vatican officials: 67-year-old – Archbishop Fridolin Ambongo choosing prelates from 13 differ- be made a cardinal. Bishop Miguel Angel Ayuso Besungu of Kinshasa, Congo, 59. ent nations as a sign of “the mis- Announcing the names of the Guixot, president of the Pontifical – Archbishop Jean-Claude sionary vocation of the Church new cardinals Sept. 1, the pope Council for Interreligious Hollerich of Luxembourg, 61. that continues to proclaim the included 10 men who are under Dialogue; and 53-year-old merciful love of God to all men the age of 80 and therefore will Archbishop Jose Tolentino Calaca – Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri of and women of the earth.” be eligible to vote in a conclave de Mendonca, Vatican archivist Huehuetenango, Guatemala, 72. The only Canadian named to elect a new pope. Three of the and librarian. was 73-year-old Jesuit Father future cardinals are already over One of the over-80 cardi- – Archbishop Matteo Zuppi of Michael Czerny, undersecre- the age of 80, and the pope said nals-designate is 82-year-old Bologna, Italy, 63. tary of the Section for Migrants he chose them because of their Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, – Archbishop Cristobal Lopez and Refugees at the Dicastery service to the Church. a Missionary of Africa born in Romero of Rabat, Morocco, 67. for Promoting Integral Human “Let us pray for the new car- England, who had served as pres- Development. None of the new dinals so that, confirming their ident of the Pontifical Council for – Retired Archbishop Sigitas cardinals is from the United adhesion to Christ, they will help Interreligious Dialogue and later Tamkevicius of Kaunas, States. me in my ministry as bishop of as Vatican nuncio to Egypt. Lithuana, 80. Cardinal-designate Czerny, Rome for the good of the entire The others, in the order they who Pope Francis had earlier faithful, holy people of God,” the were named by the pope, were: – Retired Bishop Eugenio dal named as a special secretary pope told pilgrims who had gath- – Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo Corso of Benguela, Angola, 80. for the Synod of Bishops for the ered to pray the midday Angelus Hardjoatmodjo of Jakarta, Amazon, was in Guararema, with him. Indonesia, 69. rules Header Headline Article Byline Author info Caption Pull quote Photostyle Jumps Ads -strokes mjj bdk jlm Southern Cross, Page 2 HEADLINE HOPSCOTCH Thursday, September 12, 2019 Solidarity, not poverty, is climbed to 45 the morning of God’s plan, pope says in Sept. 9 and was expected to Madagascar continue rising as search and rescue operations continue from ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR (CNS) the storm which stalled over God’s plan for humanity involves the northern Bahamas Sept. community, mutual support, 1-3. The Bahamas government sharing and caring for each estimates that Dorian affected other and for the earth, Pope 70,000, and 60% of those affect- Francis said. “As we look around ed may have lost their homes. us, how many men and women, Many people are reportedly still young people and children are unaccounted for. In a Sept. 5 suffering and in utter need. This video statement posted on the is not part of God’s plan,” he Nassau Archdiocesan website, said Sept. 8, celebrating Mass the archbishop said he believes on a dusty, red dirt field on the official death toll "is bound the outskirts of Antananarivo. to increase." Madagascar is one of the world’s 10 poorest countries. According Bahamian Catholic school to the World Bank, 75% of the administrator describes population lives on less than A boy watches from a tree before Pope Francis’ arrival to lead a prayer for $1.90 a day. Close to 1 mil- workers at the Mahatzana building site in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Sept. 8, current desperation lion people gathered on the 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) MIAMI (CNS) Soamandrakizay field for the An interim parish administra- Hawaii Catholic Herald, newspa- pope’s Mass, according to local disease on Molokai’s Kalaupapa tor and assistant principal of per of the Diocese of Honolulu. organizers. Many had spent the peninsula to visitors and locals the St. Francis de Sales Parish night, sleeping on straw mats alike. The two-story Damien and and School in Marsh Harbour, or plastic tarps and bundled up Marianne of Molokai Education Abaco Islands, Bahamas, said against a windy winter chill. At Center fills a narrow space his school was in ruins and the the beginning of his homily, the fronting St. Augustine by the Nassau archbishop assess- island is in a desperate state pope acknowledged the sacri- Sea Church property. Where es post-hurricane chal- following Hurricane Dorian. fice people made to get to the there once was a driveway, park- lenges in Bahamas Situated in central Abaco and ing area and small courtyard, Mass site and, especially, the MIAMI (CNS) just a few blocks from the discomfort endured by those there’s now a brick edifice and Atlantic Ocean, St. Francis de tower that mirrors the design Archbishop Patrick C. Pinder who camped out. Madagascan of Nassau, Bahamas, celebrated Sales Parish and School were President Andry Rajoelina, a of the A-frame church. A quote in a highly impacted region from St. Damien runs along the Mass Sept. 8 for evacuee fam- Catholic, and his wife, Mialy, sat ilies and Catholic school staff of Abaco Islands after Dorian near the front of the crowd as wall. “Turn all your thoughts dealt its punishing winds and and aspirations to heaven,” says members a week after Hurricane Pope Francis preached about the Dorian slammed into the islands. storm surge to this part of the Gospel call to solidarity and the the religious message amid the Bahamas Sept. 1-3. “The whole tourism ads. Sacred Hearts of "I spoke about the hurricane joy that comes from putting faith aftermath, then invited the school is totally gone and the before power or possessions. He Jesus and Mary Father Lane Catholic Church was damaged, Akiona, St. Augustine’s pastor, people to come up for a bless- urged the nation’s people “to ing and we spent some time in especially the roof and one side make your beautiful country a said the center’s prime loca- of the wall is off; it was serving tion in the heart of Waikiki quiet prayer commending to God place where the Gospel becomes the many who perished in the as a shelter,” said Elmer Bongon, life and where life is for the means many people will learn an educator on the island for Hawaii’s Hansen’s disease storm," the archbishop said by greater glory of God.” phone Sept. 8 about the Mass he the past 18 years who has also story and how St. Damien de been serving as an interim par- Veuster and St. Marianne Cope celebrated Mass at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral in Nassau on ish administrator at the parish New center in Hawaii dedicated their lives to helping following the death of the pastor them. It’s difficult to get to the New Providence Island. The aims to teach visitors archbishop described Hurricane earlier this year. Farther up remote Kalaupapa peninsula the road, St. Mary and Andrew about local saints’ on Molokai, where those suffer- Dorian as a "horrific experi- ministry ence" where many lost their Catholic Church in Treasure Cay ing from leprosy were forcibly is “totally gone, it was under 4 HONOLULU (CNS) sent from the late 1800s until homes, and some lost all their possessions. "It is sheer terror feet of water,” said Bongon, who Sandwiched between a specialty the mid-1900s. Many Hawaii retrieved the official baptismal store selling Hawaiian products visitors and residents who will and confusion for those who had their homes compromised in the and other parish records from and a shirt souvenir shop, a never make it to Molokai will be both churches before the hurri- new building is going up near able to visit the Waikiki muse- middle of the storm and had to relocate, and all the challenges cane. He said in a phone inter- Waikiki Beach that also hopes to um. “The vision of the center view Sept. 5 that he was looking attract tourists, but not to buy is keeping sacred and really that poses, and then be taken to places where there were large for a way to take the church trinkets and sunscreen. The new sharing that story of Damien records, and his wife and two building will “sell” an education and Marianne to the world,” Fay crowds of people." He said most of the stories he is hearing are of children, to Nassau as early as on Hawaii’s two saints and their Pabo, St.