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Photo by Barbara Johnston, University of Notre Dame V Encuentro Holy Cross priests Father Palmer, left and Father Ryan Pietrocarlo stand with Bishop Arthur J. Colgan, CSC, auxiliary bishop of Chosica, Peru, following Fifth local, national their ordination to the priesthood Saturday, April 22 at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Notre Dame. leadership-building NOTRE DAME — With abun- we seek to express it in a man- served as assistant hall director breath has also known the cross. dant joy and thanksgiving, the ner rooted in and enriched by and campus ministry team mem- Suffering, oppression, and despair process begins United States Province of the the varying contexts and cultures ber at the University of Portland, doesn’t care about language or Page 16 Congregation of Holy Cross cel- in which we live. In this way, 2014-15. In 2015 Deacon Palmer borders or race; thankfully for us, ebrated the ordination of two new we hope to make our witness entered chaplain training at the neither does the hope of Christ. priests on Saturday, April 22, at 2 and service more effective for the U.S. Army Chaplain School in “This charism became real p.m. at the Basilica of the Sacred kingdom.” (Constitutions of the Fort Jackson, S.C., then served in for me when I joined the Army Heart, located on the campus of Congregation of Holy Cross, 5:52) marriage preparation at Christ the Chaplain Corps nearly three years the University of Notre Dame. The “The seed of service and wit- King Church, South Bend, 2015- ago – following a Holy Cross tra- Most Reverend Arthur J. Colgan, ness you’ve planted during your 16. He earned a bachelor’s degree dition that began in the Civil War. CSC, Auxiliary Bishop of Chosica, time in formation is now further in philosophy at the University “Our call to follow the cross Peru, conferred the sacrament of nourished by your ordination as of Notre Dame in 2011 and his across all borders certainly rings holy orders on Father Michael priests. Let now the effect take M.Div. from the same in 2016. true in the military, where men Patrick Palmer, CSC, and Father root and continue to blossom as As he prepared for ordination and women often have no one to Ryan Pietrocarlo, CSC. The you carry out your ministries,” day, Deacon Palmer reflected on turn to in the midst of suffering. ordination Mass was streamed added Father O’Hara. the charism of Holy Cross and The shadow of the cross looms live on the Internet at Ordination- Father Michael Patrick Palmer how his understanding of it has large. If God wills it, I hope to live.holycrossvocations.org. is the fourth of seven sons of changed since he entered the con- go into active duty and bring the On Aug. 27 deacons Palmer Warren and Victoria Palmer of gregation. sacraments to our brothers and and Pietrocarlo professed per- Berkley, Mich. He entered for- “In our constitutions, we speak sisters, no matter where they are.” petual vows of poverty, chasti- mation with the congrega- of ‘crossing borders of every sort’ Deacon Palmer served his dia- ty and obedience and commit- tion in 2007 and professed and embracing the hope of the conate year at Christ the King ted themselves to the common first vows on July 28, 2012. cross wherever it is found. When Church, South Bend, and his first life and apostolic work of the Prior to his ordination as a tran- I first entered Holy Cross, I had no Mass as a was celebrated Congregation of Holy Cross. sitional deacon, Palmer served as idea just how far-reaching it was. on April 23 at the parish. He will In acknowledgement and a religious education teacher at I didn’t even know Bangladesh also celebrate Mass at his home celebration of their ordination, St. Adalbert Parish, South Bend, was a real country! I was content parish, National Shrine of the Father Thomas J. O’Hara, CSC, 2010-11; as hospital chaplain to think of the congregation as Little Flower Basilica in Royal Provincial Superior of the United and Catholic Charities volun- confined to the South Bend area. Oak, Mich., at 10:45 a.m. on May States Province of Priests and teer in Colorado Springs, Colo., “But, once I had been in for- 21, followed by a reception. Brothers of the Congregation from 2011-12; and as a novice in mation for a few years and began Father Ryan Joseph Pietrocarlo, of Holy Cross, reminded dea- residence at St. Ignatius Martyr to meet brothers and priests from CSC, is the older of two children of cons Palmer and Pietrocarlo of Parish in Austin, Texas, in 2012. Mexico, Chile, France, East Africa Joe and Karen Pietrocarlo of East Constitution 5:52, which is most From 2012 to 2013 he served as — and, yes, Bangladesh — I was Rochester, N.Y. While serving suitable for their unique paths a volunteer at the Logan Center awed at the great mission that his diaconate at St. Adalbert/St. within the congregation: “We live in South Bend, then as a RCIA Holy Cross had embraced to serve Casimir parishes in South Bend, our consecration in many lands team member at Christ the King God’s people. and cultures. Our commitment Church, South Bend, 2013-14. “Simply put, every human is the same wherever we are, but During his pastoral year he being who has ever drawn HOLY CROSS, page 16 2 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC April 30, 2017 TODAY’S CATHOLIC

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Rhoades Christians, reaching out to all Sunday, April 30: 11:45 a.m. — Confirmation Mass, Sacred BY CAROL GLATZ have a sense “that everybody is Catholic, Melkite, Maronite, Heart Basilica, University of Notre Dame one: Protestants, Catholic and Syrian Catholic, Armenian Sunday, April 30: 1:45 p.m. — Eucharistic Procession, Orthodox.” Catholic, Chaldean and Latin.” University of Notre Dame (CNS) — Pope Sunday, April 30: 5 p.m. — Confirmation Mass, St. Michael Francis’ visit to Egypt, a land Church leadership “worries While that shows about who’s what” Christian Catholicism’s rich diversity, it the Church, Plymouth increasingly marked by terrorist- Monday, May 1: 6 p.m. — Evening Prayer celebrating led bloodshed, stands as part denomination, he said. But comes “at the price of a lack of when goes to cohesion,” he told CNS in an 150th Anniversary of St. Joseph Church, Roanoke of his mission to inspire and Tuesday, May 2: 7 p.m. — Confirmation Mass, St. John the encourage today’s actors in the- Cairo April 28-29 to embrace email response to questions. Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros Egypt has the largest Christian Baptist Church, New Haven aters of violence to change the Wednesday, May 3: 7 p.m. — Confirmation Mass, Sacred script and set a new stage. II, Christians will see “that we population in the Middle East, are all one family, even though but the Roman is Heart of Jesus Church, Warsaw Just as the pope did when he Thursday, May 4: 6:30 a.m. — Keynote at National Day of raised the curtain of the Year of we might have different last the country’s smallest, with about names,” he told Catholic News 250,000 members compared to Prayer Breakfast, Christos’ Banquet Center, Plymouth Mercy in war-torn Central African Thursday, May 4: 7 p.m. — Confirmation Mass, St. Joseph Republic, he goes to strengthen Service April 20 by phone from a the 9-10 million Coptic Orthodox, small village in Upper Egypt. he wrote. Church, Fort Wayne and “confirm his brothers of the Friday, May 5: 7 p.m. — Confirmation Mass, St. Elizabeth Coptic Catholic Church and other “I think the biggest thing” However, the presence of so that will come from the trip, he many men’s and women’s reli- Ann Seton Church, Fort Wayne churches present in Egypt,” said Saturday, May 6: 9:30 a.m. — Baccalaureate Mass for Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect said, is Pope Francis “will affirm gious congregations working in that there is a certain solidarity the fields of education, medical University of Francis, Cathedral of the Immaculate of the Congregation for Eastern Conception, Fort Wayne Churches. among Christians” and that “we care and social work and the He will be able to show, in are all related together by Jesus.” important and much-respected person, his support and solidar- An official visit by the Roman work of Caritas Egypt mean the ity for the beleaguered Christian pontiff — the second in history Catholic Church “punches over Priest appointments minorities who continue to be — will bolster lay Catholics, he its weight,” said Archbishop targeted by terrorist fanatics and said, just like St. John Paul II’s Fitzgerald. The Most Reverend Kevin C. Rhoades, Bishop of increasingly feel vulnerable and landmark trip in 2000 did. Father May spent many years Fort Wayne-South Bend, has made the following unsafe in their own land, said Many Catholics feel mistreat- doing priestly formation for the appointments: Maryknoll Father Douglas May, ed or maligned, he said; they Coptic Catholic Church, and, in Reverend Michael Palmer, CSC, to Parochial Vicar of Christ the King who worked in Egypt for two often are seen as “heretics” by fact, he taught and was the spiri- Parish, South Bend, effective April 23, 2017. decades. biased Orthodox and “referred to tual director of Msgr. Yoannis Reverend Ryan Pietrocarlo, CSC, to Parochial Vicar of St. Adalbert and Even though Christianity as infidels or idol worshippers” Lahzi Gaid, one of the pope’s St. Casimir Parishes, South Bend, effective April 23, 2017. there traces its roots to the by prejudiced Muslims. personal secretaries in Rome and times of the apostles, being a But “when John Paul came, the man who will be translating Christian in Egypt today “is like it was the first time a Catholic for the pope in Egypt. being black in the United States could be proud and excited to be Father May said he sought to Report abuse before civil rights or being a Jew a Catholic and a Christian at the teach the seminarians to leave same time,” said the priest, who the church walls, actively work in Germany before Hitler. You’re t remains important for our church to protect children tolerated. But people don’t want was in Egypt at the time. That in the risky world of social jus- joyful pride should be “the biggest tice and be open to the help and and young persons from the evils of abuse. To abuse a to be tolerated, they want to be child is a sin. The Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend accepted as citizens with equal impact” Pope Francis will make. goodwill of all people. I Archbishop Michael “My hope is that Francis, remains committed to upholding and following its guide- rights and equal possibilities,” lines, policies and procedures that were implemented for said the 67-year-old priest, who Fitzgerald, former nuncio with that smile of his, when he to Egypt and past president shakes hands” with the many the Protection of Children and Young People. These can be grew up near Buffalo, N.Y. reviewed on the diocese’s website, www.diocesefwsb.org To make things even more of the Pontifical Council for dignitaries and religious lead- Interreligious Dialogue, said ers, all the negative baggage and under “Safe Environment.” difficult, there is “still a very low If you have reason to believe that a child may be a victim of level of ecumenical spirit” among the Catholic presence “is both attitudes “can maybe erode a lit- enriched and weakened by tle bit” and the whole nation can child abuse or neglect, Indiana law requires that you report this many priests and bishops of the to civil authorities. If you or someone you know was abused different Christian communities, the fact of being made up of see what respect, dialogue and seven distinct churches: Coptic friendship look like, he stated. as a child or young person by an adult, you are encouraged to even though laypeople already notify appropriate civil authorities of that abuse. In addition, if the alleged abuser is or was a priest or deacon of the Catholic Church, you are encouraged to contact Mary Glowaski, victim assistance coordinator, 260-399-1458, email: mglowaski@dio- cesefwsb.org, or Rev. Msgr. Robert Schulte, vicar general of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, at P.O. Box 390, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 46801, or at 260-399-1419, email: mraatz@diocesef- wsb.org. The diocese is committed to helping prevent the abuse or neglect of children and young people and to assist those who claim to have suffered harm as a result of such abuse. ermanece importante para nuestra iglesia proteger a los niños y jóvenes adultos de los actos maléficos del abuso. PAbusar a un niño es pecado. La Diócesis de Fort Wayne- South Bend permanece comprometida en mantener y seguir sus directrices, pólizas y procedimientos que fueron implementados para la Protección de Niños/as y Personas Jóvenes. Esto se puede observar en la página cibernética de la Diócesis, www.diocesef- wsb.org bajo la sección de Ambiente Seguro “Safe Enviornment.” Litany for Healing Si usted tiene razón para creer que un niño puede ser victima For children wounded and tearful; save, heal and protect them, O Lord! de abuso o negligencia, la ley de Indiana requiere que usted For children confused or alone; save, heal and protect them, O Lord! reporte esto a las autoridades civiles. Si usted o alguien que For children afraid or abandoned; save, heal and protect them, O Lord! usted conoce fue abusado, ya sea niño o persona joven por un For children beaten; save, heal and protect them, O Lord! adulto, lo animamos a que notifique las autoridades civiles apro- For children who sleep in fear; save, heal and protect them, O Lord! piadas de ese abuso. También, si el alegado abusador es o fue For children afraid to go home; save, heal and protect them, O Lord! un sacerdote o diacono de la Iglesia Católica, lo animamos con- For children afraid of their abusers; save, heal and protect them, O Lord! tactar a Mary Glowaski, Coordinadora de Asistencia de Victimas, For children assaulted and for children who assault; save, heal and protect them, O Lord! 260-399-1458, correo electrónico: [email protected], For children whose innocence has been stolen; save, heal and protect them, O Lord! o al Rev. Msgr. Robert Schulte, Vicario General de la Diócesis de For those who cannot trust; save, heal and protect them, O Lord! Fort Wayne-South Bend, al P.O. Box 390, Fort Wayne, Indiana, For those who cannot love; save, heal and protect them, O Lord! 46801, o al 260-399-1419, correo electrónico: mraatz@diocese- For those whose hearts are filled with fear; save, heal and protect them, O Lord! fwsb.org. La diócesis esta comprometida en ayudar a prevenir el The Lord heals our wounds and strengthens us in our weakness. abuso o negligencia de niños y personas jóvenes y dar asistencia a aquellos quienes reclaman haber sufrido daño como resultado Source: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops de tal abuso. 4 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC April 30, 2017 May 12-13, 2017 Persecuted Christians often choose FORT WAYNE | MISHAWAKA strategy of survival, says study

BY BARB FRAZE The study looked at 25 attention of the authorities.” countries and the West. The Thirty-eight percent of the report noted that “North Korea, time, Christians chose associa- WASHINGTON (CNS) — A new arguably the country where tion: engaging in interreligious INSPIRE CONNECT FORM study categorizes what kinds Christians are persecuted most dialogue, cooperating with other of responses emerge when severely,” was inaccessible to Christian communities, and forg- Christians around the world are research. Eritrea, Somalia and ing coalitions and partnerships persecuted, noting that, most Yemen, also countries where inside countries. This two day conference, hosted at St. John the often, Christians choose a strat- Christians are persecuted, “fell “Catholic and Protestant May 12-13, 2017 egy of survival. Baptist in Fort Wayne and St. Monica in Mishawaka, outside of the project’s logistical Christian communities in north- will bring together speakers who are leaders in However, the findings also capabilities.” ern Nigeria, for instance, have FORTthe New WAYNEEvangelization |to MISHAWAKA provide inspiration, show Christians might choose a “The suffering in these coun- formed ecumenical partner- strategy of association — seek- tries, of course, is no less worthy ships as well as close ties with encouragement, training, practical wisdom ing to secure their religious and resources on how Catholics can effectively of remembrance,” the report said. mainstream Islamic leaders in freedom by developing ties with It noted that while Western the face of the rampant violence evangelize. All Catholics – pastors, missionaries, lay other Christian communities, ministers, and the lay faithful – are invted to this commentary normally blamed carried out by Boko Haram,” the non-Christian religions, and Islam for persecuting Christians, report said. “Christian communi- powerful opportunity to be further equipped in the secular figures — and, on occa- “the regimes that repress ties also forge ties with actors fundamentalINSPIRE mission CONNECT of the Church. FORM sion, they use strategies of con- Christians vary widely. Islamist outside their country, including frontation. regimes like Saudi Arabia and members of their own church, The report, “In Response to Iran certainly constitute one type advocacy groups or foreign gov- { } Persecution, Findings of the of persecuting state. Communist ernments.” To register,This two daygo toconference, www.newevangelization.ca hosted at St. John the Under Caesar’s Sword Project on regimes like China, Vietnam, Addressing Christian per- BaptistClick in Fort “get Wayne ticket and St. information” Monica in Mishawaka, Global Christian Communities,” Laos, Cuba and North Korea are secution during wars in Iraq also offers recommendations for willSearch bring together“Fort Wayne” speakers or who “Mishawaka” are leaders in a second type. India, Sri Lanka and Syria, the report noted that businesses, nongovernmental and Russia exemplify a third Christians had fled en masse to the New EvangelizationAnd register! to provide inspiration, encouragement, training, practical wisdom organizations, governments and type, in which various forms of other areas of the country when scholars to help keep situations and resources on how Catholics can effectively religious nationalism promote confronted with the Islamic State from getting worse. a fusion of state, faith and group’s choice of converting to evangelize. All Catholics – pastors, missionaries, lay The study was conducted ministers, andDIOCESE the lay OF faithful – are invted to this national identity to the detriment Islam, execution, exile, or paying FORT WAYNE SOUTH BEND by 17 scholars under the aus- powerful opportunity to be further equipped in the of Christian minorities. A fourth a tax. But it also noted that, in SECRETARIAT FOR EVANGELIZATION pices of Under Caesar’s Sword, category comprises regimes that both countries, some Christians fundamental mission of the Church. a partnership of the Notre Dame impose a harsh secular ideology, formed militias to protect their Center for Ethics and Culture, the such as the post-Soviet republics cities, while others performed Religious Freedom Institute, and of Central Asia.” social services, documented { } Georgetown University’s Religious It also noted that extremist abuses and forged cooperation To register, go to www.newevangelization.ca Freedom Research Project, with groups such as the Taliban, Boko among communities. Click “get ticket information” the support of the Templeton Haram, al-Shabab in Somalia Religion Trust. Its findings were Search “Fort Wayne” or “Mishawaka” and Kenya or Hindu fanatics in released April 20 in a forum at India also persecuted Christians. Pope pays tribute to And register! the National Press Club. It said survival strategies In establishing the three could include flight, going modern martyrs, calls main categories of response, underground or showing support DIOCESE OF the scholars found that they for oppressive regimes. In 43 for witnesses of God’s FORT WAYNE SOUTH BEND were not mutually exclusive and percent of the cases — includ- love SECRETARIAT FOR EVANGELIZATION that, sometimes, Christians of ing Egypt, Libya and the Gaza differing denominations within Strip — Christians chose this ROME (CNS) — The Christian the same country responded in survival option. In Iran and church today needs believers who different ways. For example, in Saudi Arabia, “Christians live in witness each day to the power Vietnam and Laos, while Catholic constant danger of harassment, of God’s love, but it also needs bishops developed “a pattern arrest, and harsh imprisonment,” the heroic witness of those who of engaging the government, the study found. “In these condi- stand up to hatred even when evangelical churches remained tions, Christian responses are it means giving up their lives, underground and separated,” the overwhelmingly ones of survival, Pope Francis said. At Rome’s report said. mostly aimed at avoiding the Basilica of St. Bartholomew, a shrine to modern martyrs, Pope Francis presided over an evening prayer service April 22, honoring All Christians killed under Nazism, communism, dictatorships and Religious Goods terrorism. “These teach us that 8808 Coldwater Road - Fort Wayne with the force of love and with In Coldwater Centre at Wallen Road, 1.5 mile north of I-69 meekness one can fight arro- gance, violence and war, and that 260-490-7506 with patience peace is possible,” the pope said in his homily in the •Books •Bibles small basilica on Rome’s Tiber Island. Departing from his pre- pared text, Pope Francis said he •Rosaries •Statues wanted to add to the martyrs remembered at St. Bartholomew by including “a woman — I don’t •Crucifixes •Medals know her name — but she watch- es from heaven.” The pope said he’d met the woman’s husband, a •First Communion Gifts Muslim, in Lesbos, Greece, when •Confirmation Gifts he visited a refugee camp there in 2016. The man told the pope •Baptismal Gifts & Gowns that one day, terrorists came to their home. They saw his wife’s •Church Supplies crucifix and ordered her to throw it on the ground. She refused and Support your school. Use All Saints SCRIP! they slit her throat. April 30, 2017 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC 5 ICC makes advances as Indiana General Assembly adjourns

INDIANAPOLIS — Each session R-Indianapolis, authored a death kindergarten in a public school persons by setting them up of the Indiana General Assembly penalty ban for those suffering first if they wanted to use a for financial success and self- offers opportunities to promote from mental illness. The ICC sup- INDIANA voucher. Tebbe said the voucher sufficiency while meeting their the consistent life ethic and ported the death penalty ban, but provision provides a seamless current needs for food. Under further the common good says Merritt’s bill stalled in the Senate CATHOLIC transition for children to remain the proposal recipients of SNAP Glenn Tebbe, executive director of Judiciary Committee and failed in the same school setting. benefits will not be penalized for the Indiana Catholic Conference. to advance. Tebbe said he was CONFERENCE A bill to protect students’ reli- building up a small savings; this The 2017 legislative session of disappointed the bill failed, but gious liberty was supported by helps them have a reserve for the Indiana General Assembly said bipartisan support exists as BRIGID CURTIS AYER the ICC and passed. House Bill emergencies. adjourned Friday, April 21. well as a general consensus that 1024, authored John Bartlett, A payday lending bill deemed Tebbe said it’s been the work persons suffering with mental ill- D-Indianapolis allows students to harm low-income persons of the ICC to communicate to ness should not be put to death. Holdman, R-Markle, authored to express religious beliefs at failed in part due to efforts made lawmakers the value and dignity Tebbe said the proposal failed the bill, which improves upon school or in class assignments. by the ICC and other advocates of the human person from con- because the bill’s language was Indiana’s Safe Haven Law by Tebbe said the legislation codi- for low-income persons. The pro- ception until natural death. In too broad. The Senate did pass allow parents to relinquish fies case law which has devel- posal, Senate Bill 245, authored 2017, Tebbe said several legisla- Senate Resolution 64, authored their child anonymously to a oped over the past few decades. by Holdman, would expand tive initiatives to further these by Senator Joe Zakas, R-Granger, newborn incubator device, also Bartlett said, “It is giving short-term loan amounts allow- goals in the form of pro-life legis- to have the topic assigned to a called a “baby box,” at desig- Hoosiers the ability to express ing persons to borrow larger lation, education policy and sup- study committee after session, nated locations. The change their faith without fearing dis- amounts, at rates of 216 percent port for low-income children and which Tebbe says is a positive involved allowing new devices crimination.” annual percentage rate. Tebbe families proved successful. sign for the future. to be placed only at hospitals or Effort by the ICC to assist said the ICC opposed the short- ICC worked in cooperation Lawmakers adopted a bill hospital-affiliated locations for low-income families and chil- term loans due to concerns it with the Indiana State Medical strengthening parental rights safety reasons. dren paid off this year. Senate traps lower-income persons in Association to halt a proposal to for minors seeking an abortion. In the area of education two Bill 154, authored by Merritt, debt and a process of recycling legalize physician-assisted suicide Senate Bill 404, supported by the proposals supported by the ICC increases the assets a low- the high-interest loans. in Indiana. National groups like ICC and authored by Sen. Erin passed, including an expansion income person may retain while Compassion and Choices, and Houchin, R-Salem, adds verifica- of pre-K and school prayer. The continuing to receive food assis- Death with Dignity, actively work to tion of parental identity to paren- pre-K expansion, House Bill tance under the Supplemental To view a more detailed update on legalize physician-assisted suicide tal notification for minors seek- 1004, authored by Rep. Bob Nutrition Assistance Program, bills that passed, go to Indiana and continue to lobby state law- ing an abortion. The provision Behning, R-Indianapolis, builds or SNAP. Tebbe said raising the Catholic Conference webpage at makers. Members of the Indiana was added to Indiana’s informed upon the state’s On My Way asset limit helps low income www.indianacc.org. House and Senate introduced consent law. It gives parents of a Pre-K pilot program which serves bills which would have allowed a minor who obtains an abortion income-eligible four-year-olds in person with a terminal illness to without parental permission the five counties, but expands it to request a lethal dose of medication ability to collect damages against up to 20 counties. A key com- from their attending physician to a person who either posed as ponent of the pre-K expansion end the individual’s life. the parent or aided the parent’s includes a voucher component “I am grateful that the minor child in obtaining an abor- which allows pre-K students physician-assisted suicide pro- tion. The bill increases the age to enter kindergarten using a posals failed to get a hearing this of reporting child sex abuse from voucher to remain in the school year,” said Tebbe. “We need to under age 14 to under 16 years. system where they attended pre- stand up for the inherent dignity The ICC supported legisla- school. 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wwwsaberealtco 6 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC April 30, 2017 Chicago cardinal Not just another ‘trade praises governor for meeting,’ convocation pledging to veto seeks to unify U.S. church abortion bill NEWS BRIEFS WASHINGTON (CNS) — This summer’s Convocation of Catholic CHICAGO (CNS) — Chicago Leaders comes at a time when the Cardinal Blase J. Cupich said U.S. Catholic Church is seeking Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has how best to respond to a changing taken a “principled stand” by Pope Benedict celebrates birthday with Bavarian guests social landscape while bringing promising to veto a bill to allow Pope Francis’ vision for a church taxpayer money to pay for elective that offers mercy and joy to the abortions for Medicaid recipients world. Called by the bishops, the and state employees. Under the historic convocation will find bill pending in the state General more than 3,000 Catholic leaders Assembly, the public money will — bishops, clergy, religious and come from Illinois’ Medicaid and laypeople — meeting July 1-4 in employee health insurance pro- Orlando, Fla., to focus on how the grams to pay for the abortions at pope’s 2013 apostolic exhorta- any stage or pregnancy. “Abortion tion, “Evangelii Gaudium” (“The is a controversial issue in this Joy of the Gospel”), applies in the country, but using public money United States. The pope’s docu- to provide abortions should not ment lays out a vision of the be,” Cardinal Cupich said in an church dedicated to evangeliza- April 19 statement. “The federal tion — missionary discipleship government prohibits the prac- — in a positive way, with a focus tice, and polls show a substantial on society’s poorest and most segment of the American public vulnerable, including the aged reject it. I pray that this divisive and unborn. Such a gathering issue will be put behind us and of bishops and key church lead- our government officials will now ers has occurred just once before concentrate on the many diffi- within the U.S. church. In 1917, cult challenges facing Illinois,” in response to the country’s entry he said. “Most importantly, our into World War I, the bishops political leaders must find a way met with a select group of lead- to cooperate and craft a budget ers to determine how to respond that serves all our people. It is to social needs emerging from essential that we unite in this the war. That meeting at The effort, and I stand ready to help in Catholic University of America any way.” The state of Illinois has in Washington led to the for- been without a budget for about CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano mation of the National Catholic 22 months. It has a budget deficit A bit of Bavaria, including German beer and pretzels, came to the Vatican to help celebrate War Council “to study, coordi- of $9.6 billion. nate, unify and put in operation retired Pope Benedict XVI’s 90th birthday. The Bavarian-born pope’s birthday fell on Easter all Catholic activities incidental Steelers chairman Sunday, April 16, so a small informal party was held April 17 outside his residence. Pope to the war.” After the war, the bishops met to make the coun- Rooney recalled for Francis visited his predecessor April 12, before the start of the Easter Triduum, to offer cil permanent and established him birthday greetings. Special guests at the party included Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, the the National Catholic Welfare quiet strength based Council, the forerunner to today’s on his faith retired pope’s 93-year-old brother, and a German delegation led by the minister president of USCCB. Bavaria, Horst Seehofer, and including a group of men dressed in the traditional uniforms PITTSBURGH (CNS) — One reason there is such affection of the “Schutzen,” with their dark green wool hats decorated with feathers, pins and sprigs Franciscan idea can for Dan Rooney, said Cardinal of greenery. Above, Pope Benedict XVI makes a toast during the celebration. expand church leadership Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, is that he was clearly a man of VATICAN CITY (CNS) — For St. the people, a person of western , following Christ Pennsylvania and a quintessen- A. Zubik; Benedictine spokesman, told reporters April university created in partnership meant imitating his humility and tial Pittsburgher. “Whether he Archabbot Douglas Nowicki of 19, “We will be reaching out with descendants, the Archdiocese forsaking riches, power and sta- was Ambassador Rooney, St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe; to the Vatican to see if a meet- of Washington and the Society of tus; the men who call themselves Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers Father Kris Stubna, rector of ing, an audience with the pope Jesus in the United States. “Today Franciscans today believe they are president or just Dan, he reflected St. Paul Cathedral; Benedictine can be accommodated. We’ll the , who helped to called to embrace the same atti- so well the qualities of this part Father Vincent Zidek, pastor of have further details on that. establish Georgetown University tudes, including in their gover- of the world,” the cardinal said. St. Peter Parish on Pittsburgh’s Obviously, we would be honored and whose leaders enslaved and nance. In early April, the ministers “He worked hard, he was a loyal North Side; and Benedictine to have an audience with his holi- mercilessly sold your ancestors, general of four men’s branches of friend, a good neighbor, he took Father Paul Taylor. ness.” Every U.S. president since stands before you to say that we the Franciscan family — the Friars seriously his duties to his family, Dwight D. Eisenhower has visited have greatly sinned,” said Jesuit Minor, Capuchins, Conventual his obligations to the community, Vatican says it would the Vatican to meet the pope. Father Timothy Kesicki, president Franciscans and the Third Order his commitment to the Steelers, Eisenhower met St. John XXIII at of the Jesuit Conference of Canada Regulars — asked Pope Francis his love of the game, the need to welcome visit by the Vatican in December 1959. and the United States, during to give the Franciscans the “privi- be straightforward, honest and the liturgy. “We pray with you lege” of allowing religious broth- caring. He was a Pittsburgher. Trump Georgetown today because we have greatly ers to be elected to leadership sinned and because we are pro- positions, including those with He was the best of us.” Cardinal VATICAN CITY (CNS) — If U.S. foundly sorry.” The event took authority over ordained priests. Wuerl reflected on the beloved President Donald Trump requests University, Jesuits place the day after the District of The word “privilege” means spe- chairman of the Steelers in cel- a meeting with Pope Francis in apologize for roles Columbia marked Emancipation cial permission for something not ebrating his funeral Mass April May, the Vatican will try to make Day, which celebrates the eman- generally envisioned by church 17 at St. Paul Cathedral in it work, a top Vatican official in sale of slaves cipation of slaves in Washington law. In canon law, governance in Pittsburgh. The congregation of said. “Pope Francis always is will- April 16, 1862. This year, the the church usually is tied to ordi- more than 1,500 included former ing to welcome heads of state WASHINGTON (CNS) — local holiday was moved to April nation. The Franciscans’ request is President Barack Obama, former who ask,” Archbishop Angelo Georgetown University and the 17 because the actual day fell about recovering the notion of fra- Secretary of State John Kerry, U.S. Becciu, Vatican substitute secre- Society of Jesus’ Maryland prov- on Easter Sunday. In early April, ternity and service St. Francis gave Sen. Robert Casey and numer- tary of state, told the Italian news ince apologized April 18 for their Georgetown announced plans for his first companions, said Father ous local officials. Dozens of cur- agency ANSA April 19. Trump roles in the 1838 sale of 272 the liturgy and a renaming cer- Michael Perry, minister general rent and former Steelers were in is scheduled to be in Taormina, enslaved individuals for the uni- emony for two buildings on cam- of the Friars Minor. But it also attendance, as well as former NFL in southern Italy, May 26-27 for versity’s benefit. More than 100 pus previously named for priests has implications for leadership, Commissioner Paul Tagliabue. a summit of G-7 leaders and descendants attended a morn- who sold women, children and authority and governance in the Concelebrating with Cardinal representatives of the European ing “Liturgy of Remembrance, Wuerl were Pittsburgh Bishop Contrition and Hope” that the men into slavery for financial wider church. Union. Sean Spicer, White House gain in 1838. April 30, 2017 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 7 starting at the basilica and end- St. Bernard choir plans ing with Benediction at the Main goodwill concert tour Building. The procession will begin at 1:45 p.m. and will last WABASH — The St. Bernard 60 or 75 minutes. In case of rain a School Choir, which includes all ROUND THE IOCESE Holy Hour inside the basilica will students in grades one through A D take place. six, will be traveling to sing in Peru, in Lagro and Wabash. The Peru concert will begin at Indiana General 9:30 a.m. in the sanctuary of St. Assembly recognizes Charles Borromeo Church, 58 W. Blessing the Easter baskets 5th St., at St. Patrick Oratory in Notre Dame’s 175th Lagro at 12:30 p.m. and the clos- ing concert will be at 2 p.m. at St. anniversary Bernard Church at 191 N. Cass St. NOTRE DAME — The Indiana The choir will present a short General Assembly passed a reso- program of hymns, traditional lution April 18 recognizing and folk songs and rounds as well honoring the University of Notre as several selections from “The Dame on its 175th anniversary. Sound of Music.” The General Assembly’s resolu- This event will be a goodwill tion, which was authored by State tour for students to visit neigh- Sen. Joe Zakas, R-Granger, and boring parishes where some of sponsored by State Rep. B. Patrick their classmates attend as well Bauer, D-South Bend, recognizes as a cultural experience in learn- the growth of the University from ing the history of these parish its humble founding to its cur- communities. Additionally, there rent status and makes specific will be an artistic component reference to the journey by Father where the students will have the Sorin and his compatriots. opportunity to learn about the “Notre Dame is proud of architecture, stained glass win- its founding 175 years ago on dows, experience the notable pipe Indiana soil, and grateful today organs and sketch some of the art for the legislature’s recognition,” in the churches visited. said Rev. John I. Jenkins, CSC, For information, call the president of the University. school office at 260-563-5746 or As part of the anniversary Peggy Coppler, choir director at celebration, the University will 260-571-3694. sponsor the Notre Dame Trail, a pilgrimage in August re-enacting Notre Dame plans the journey of Father Sorin and the Holy Cross brothers. The pub- eucharistic procession Jennifer Miller lic is invited to join in the final days of the event. More informa- NOTRE DAME — Bishop Kevin C. Father David Violi of Holy Family Parish blessed Easter food baskets like these on Holy tion is available at trail.nd.edu. Rhoades will preside at a eucha- ristic procession on Sunday, April Saturday. Blessing Easter food items is a Polish tradition, and families enjoy the food the 30, on Notre Dame’s main quad, following day.

Cook called the experience elor’s degree in business manage- Huntington, Bishop Luers students Bishop Luers student humbling and inspiring. “Just to ment from the University of Notre receives President’s help people out brings a joy and Dame in 1986. place in state science fair fulfillment that I can’t experience Growing up surrounded by Volunteer Service anywhere else,” Cook said of his the sport, Holtz played football volunteer experiences. for both his Fayetteville, Ark., Award After returning from the mis- high school football team and the FORT WAYNE sion trip, he helped coordinate a University of Notre Dame. He has — Blane Cook, Vacation Bible School at his par- also had a long and successful a senior at ish, St. Joseph the Worker, Fort career as a coach, starting with Bishop Luers Wayne. He again connected his Florida State University, where he High School in faith and love of sports with the met his future wife, Jennifer. He Fort Wayne, has children at the camp. coached with his father at both been honored Cook is active at St. Joseph Notre Dame and South Carolina. for his exem- Parish as a Mass server and Holtz is currently the head plary volunteer BLAINE COOK member of the Christmas choir, coach at Louisiana Tech service with and helps his family with din- In 1996, Holtz was the recipi- a President’s Volunteer Service ners, luncheons and fundraising ent of the Life Center’s St. Francis Award. activities at the church. Award, given for his dedication The award, which recognizes At Bishop Luers High School, and support of Christian val- Provided by Julie Hartmus Americans of all ages who have Cook serves as a Sodalitas service- ues and outstanding athletic From left are science fair winners Grace Bryant, Jessica Hartmus and Laura volunteered significant amounts learning leader, student council achievements. The next year, he Hartmus. of their time to serve their com- member and is active with Future was honored with the National munities and their country, was Business Leaders of America. Football Foundation Man-of- FORT WAYNE — Three Diocese Bryant, eighth-grade student at granted by The Prudential Spirit of the-Year Award. In 2016, Holtz of Fort Wayne-South Bend Huntington Catholic School, par- Community Awards program on Skip Holtz to speak earned Conference USA Coach of Catholic Schools students quali- ticipated with her project, “The behalf of the President’s Council the Year honors. fied and attended the Hoosier Effect of Reinforcers on Short- on Service and Civic Participation. at Holy Cross Outside of football, Holtz has Science and Engineering Fair, term Memory” and was award- Cook has made service a sig- worked to raise funds to send or state science fair, April 1 at ed the Outstanding Research in nificant part of his life. Active Commencement under served children to recre- IUPUI. Jessica Hartmus, a Bishop Psychological Sciences award for ational and educational summer in basketball and baseball at NOTRE DAME — Holy Cross Luers High School freshman, par- the junior division and a full schol- camps. He is also involved with Bishop Luers High School, Cook College is proud to welcome Skip ticipated with her project, “Molding arship to attend a DNA Learning the Board of Trustees of the participated in the World Baseball Holtz and Nichole Dunne as the Bricks, Molding Lives: Designing Center Residential Summer Camp American Diabetes Association, Academy and was part of an speakers for the college’s 50th Technology Improvements to at Notre Dame. Laura Hartmus, a and supports the Drew Steele- evangelization mission team to commencement ceremony. Brick Production for the People of Huntington Catholic seventh-grade Skip Holtz Golf Classic, which the Dominican Republic for two Holtz, son of Beth Barcus and the Fort Portal Region of Uganda student, participated with her proj- benefits individuals with special weeks last summer. He used former college and NFL football — Year Two” and was award- ect, “LUKE: Letters of the Ultimate needs. sports to connect with the youth coach, Lou Holtz, attended Holy ed the University of Notre Dame Kindle Expedition (A Study of Holtz will be awarded an hon- there and collected supplies and Cross Junior College from 1982 College of Engineering Award for Robotics)” and was awarded the orary doctorate of humane letters funds distributed to those in need. to 1984, before earning a bach- Excellence in Engineering. Grace U.S. Navy Award for Excellence. at the commencement ceremony. 8 TODAY’S CATHOLIC April 30, 2017 WORLD PREPARES TO CELEBRATE 100 YEARS SINCE FATIMA APPARITIONS Angel of Peace preceded Marian message BY MARIAM SCHMITZ world at the time of the apparitions, the same. He proceeded to teach them a Pope Benedict also said: “At a time new and beautifully simple prayer which when the human family was ready to is now known as the Pardon Prayer. his year marks the 100th anniver- sacrifice all that was most sacred on the “My God, I believe, I adore, I hope sary of one of the most famous altar of the petty and selfish interest of and I love Thee! I beg pardon for those TMarian apparitions in history. nations, races, ideologies, groups and who do not believe, do not adore, do not What began in a small Portuguese vil- individuals, our Blessed Mother came hope and do not love Thee.” This prayer lage named Fatima with three shepherd from heaven, offering to implant in the was said three times. The angel rose and children has spread around the world hearts of all those who trust in her the said “Pray thus. The hearts of Jesus and and across multiple generations. Love of God burning in her own heart. Mary are attentive to the voice of your The events at Fatima bring a mes- … May the seven years which separate supplications.” Then he disappeared. sage of hope and a call to conversion. us from the centenary of the apparitions Father Andrew Apostoli, CFR, wrote In addition, there are multiple layers of hasten the fulfillment of the prophecy in his book “Fatima For Today: The historical and religious significance to of the triumph of the Immaculate Heart Urgent Marian Message of Hope” that the apparitions that have made them the of Mary, to the glory of the Most Holy this prayer was the introduction to Our subject of extensive study. The church Trinity.” Lady’s entire Fatima message. “The has approved the apparitions and mes- Pope Francis has continued this spe- prayer outlines four fundamental actions sages that Our Lady delivered to the cial devotion. In 2013, his pontificate we all must do in order to have a rela- children and declared them worthy of was consecrated to Our Lady of Fatima. tionship with God: keep faith by believ- belief. In addition, he will visit Fatima on May ing, worship by adoring, trust by hoping, Throughout the past 100 years many 13, 2017, the centennial of the first and love by loving. Then the prayer asks “My God, I have illustrated the significance apparition. God to pardon those who are neglect- of Fatima through their words and ing these duties towards him,” Father believe, I adore, example. The last few decades have Preparing the way Apostoli said. “Praying for the salvation brought no exception. St. John Paul II, of souls is at the very center of our Lady I hope and I love who attributed his survival of an assas- On a spring day in 1916, one year of Fatima’s message.” sination attempt on May 13, 1981 to before the apparitions began, an angel The angel continued to teach the Our Lady of Fatima, said the Fatima who called himself the Angel of Peace children about the power and urgent Thee! I beg pardon message is more important now than appeared to 9-year old Lucia dos necessity of prayer and sacrifice through ever. These sentiments were echoed by Santos and her cousins Francisco, 8, two additional appearances in 1916. He for those who do Pope Benedict XVI in 2010, during his and Jacinta, 6, as they were tending also gave the children Holy Communion homily at a Mass celebrated at Fatima, their family’s sheep. He appeared as a at his final apparition. On May 13 of not believe, do when he said: “we would be mistaken young man, about 14 or 15 years old. the following year, the children would to think that Fatima’s prophetic mission In Lucia’s words, he looked “whiter receive their first visit from Our Lady. is complete. … Mankind has succeeded than snow” and was as “transparent as Over the past 100 years Catholics have not adore, do not in unleashing a cycle of death and ter- crystal when the sun shines through it.” chosen to learn and live the Fatima mes- ror but failed in bringing it to an end. His first words were, “Do not be afraid. sage, confident that the journey will lead hope and do not In sacred Scripture, we often find that I am the Angel of Peace. Pray with me.” to a closer union with the Immaculate God seeks righteous men and women He then knelt down and bowed until his Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of love Thee.” in order to save the city of man and he forehead touched the ground. The chil- Jesus. does the same here, in Fatima.” Noting dren, moved by an interior impulse, did the Great War that was engulfing the Pope to canonize Fatima seers May 13; October date for other saints

BY JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES Francisco and Jacinta’s cause for was stalled for decades due to a debate on whether non- martyred children have the capacity to understand VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis will declare heroic virtues at a young age. However, in 1979, St. the sainthood of Blessed Jacinta Marto and Blessed John Paul II allowed their cause to proceed; he declared Francisco Marto, two of the shepherd children who saw them venerable in 1989 and beatified them in 2000. Mary in Fatima, Portugal, during his visit to the site of The children’s cousin entered the Carmelites. Sister the apparitions May 13. Lucia died in 2005 at the age of 97. The diocesan The date was announced April 20 during an “ordi- phase of her sainthood cause concluded in February nary public consistory,” a meeting of the pope, cardi- and now is under study at the Vatican. nals and promoters of sainthood causes that formally The other set to take place Oct. 15 ends the sainthood process. include: Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation — The “Martyrs of Natal,” , including: Blessed for Saints’ Causes, addressing the assembly noted that Andre de Soveral, a Jesuit priest; Blessed Ambrosio of the future saints considered at the consistory, five Francisco Ferro, a diocesan priest; Blessed Mateus were children or young teenagers. CNS photo/EPA Moreira, a layman; and 27 others. They were killed in “In our time, where young people often become Portuguese shepherd children Lucia dos Santos, center, and 1645 in a wave of anti-Catholic persecution carried out objects of exploitation and commerce, these young her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, are seen in a file by Dutch Calvinists. people excel as witnesses of truth and freedom, mes- photo taken around the time of the 1917 apparitions of — Blessed Faustino Miguez, a Spanish priest and a sengers of peace (and) of a new humanity reconciled in Mary at Fatima. member of the Piarist Fathers born in 1831. He started love,” the cardinal said. an advanced school for girls at a time when such edu- At the same consistory, the pope set Oct. 15 as cation was limited almost exclusively to boys. While the date for the canonizations of two priests and two the Marian apparitions, which began May 13, 1917, he taught a variety of subjects and wrote numerous groups of martyrs, including Blessed Cristobal, Blessed when 9-year-old Francisco and 7-year-old Jacinta, textbooks, he also honed an interest in botany, which Antonio and Blessed Juan — also known as the “Child along with their cousin Lucia dos Santos, reported see- led him to find a cure for a professor so ill that he was Martyrs of Tlaxcala” — who were among the first ing the Mary. The apparitions continued once thought to be beyond hope. People then came to him native converts in Mexico. They were killed between a month until Oct. 13, 1917, and later were declared from all parts of the country seeking relief from their 1527 and 1529 for refusing to renounce the faith and worthy of belief by the Catholic Church. sicknesses. return to their people’s ancient traditions. A year after the apparitions, both of the Marto — Blessed Angelo da Acri, an Italian Capuchin Pope Francis will preside over the canonization children became ill during an influenza epidemic that priest who was born Luca Antonio Falcone. A famed ceremony of the Fatima visionaries during his visit to plagued Europe. Francisco died April 4, 1919, at the preacher, he was known for his defense of the poor. Fatima May 12-13. age of 10, while Jacinta succumbed to her illness Feb. He died in 1739 and was beatified by Pope Leo XII in The pilgrimage will mark the 100th anniversary of 20, 1920, at the age of 9. 1825. April 30, 2017 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 9 WORLD PREPARES TO CELEBRATE 100 YEARS SINCE FATIMA APPARITIONS

Ways to observe the anniversary s the celebrations begin to occur in commemoration of Our Lady’s appearance to three children in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917, here are some suggestions for Adeepening your understanding of her message and for encouraging an understanding of its relevance within the family setting.

F Create easy, beaded handmade rosaries with your little ones F Make Fatima prayer cards using cardstock F Have a Fatima movie night: Watch a Fatima children’s movie F Print Fatima coloring pictures Color them and deliver them to a nursing home with cookies or sugar-free candy F Make Immaculate Heart cookies: create heart shaped cookies and frost them red. Invite the older ones to become more creative F Read a version of the story of Fatima F Host a Fatima theater play F Make your own grotto for Mary with sticks, stones and cardboard F Make a sun snack with a circle PBJ and apple slices for rays F Go on a Marian pilgrimage. Find a statue of Our Lady of Fatima or of Mary in your area and go pray a rosary there. F Sing the Salve Regina prayer as a family F Make an Immaculate Heart cake F Make mini-cupcakes for an edible rosary F Pray the Fatima Decade Prayer around the dinner table after saying grace F Pray the rosary daily or pray a decade of the rosary each day for five days of the week F Invite your priest or a religious to dinner to share about Our Lady F Wear blue on Fridays in honor of Our Lady F Create a rosary prayer chain: Every time you pray a rosary as a family, add a paper chain link. After every 10, use a different color paper so that, in the end, you are creating a rosary. Try to complete the rosary by the end of the year. F Host a family crazy hair day: Buy temporary blue hair die and let your kids have blue hair one day in honor of Our Lady F In the winter, build Fatima snowmen: one for Mary and one for each of the three children. They may not be Michelangelos, but this will help teach kids to allow their faith to enter all areas of life. F 100 suggestions to offer up, in a 100 suggestions box: Do one each day for 100 days F Pray this prayer: My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love you. I ask pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love you. F Intentionally pray for the conversion of sinners F Plant a garden for Mary, with her statue in the center F Host a walk and rosary across town: Pause to pray a decade of the rosary in five different locations F Create a Marian garden at your church, school or home F Read a Marian book: Have a book discussion F At Halloween, create a pumpkin carving of the Immaculate Heart F Contribute to #FatimaFridays on Twitter and Instagram F Paint peg dolls to be Our Lady of Fatima Find more suggestions and resources, and learn more at www.diocesefwsb.org/fatima.

Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades will celebrate a Mass commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Fatima Apparitions at St. , Fort Wayne, Saturday, May 13 at 8 a.m. All are welcome.

Look for Today’s Catholic coverage of the message of Fatima and local and international anniversary celebrations, now through October. 10 TODAY’S CATHOLIC April 30, 2017 High School SECO club acts on ‘Laudato Si’ BY ANDREW MENTOCK into the club, all members par- “We are grounded in the ticipate in two online social jus- church’s deep history of teach- tice communities inspired by the ing on creation, ecology and the hen Pope Francis pub- encyclical letter: Catholic Climate poor,” it says on the homepage lished his environmen- Covenant and the Ignatian of Catholic Climate Covenant. Wtally conscious encycli- Carbon Challenge. “Caring for creation and caring cal, “Laudato Si,” in May of In addition to caring for the for the poor have been a part 2015, he reiterated to Catholics environment, SECO also works to of the Catholic story since the all over the world how important raise awareness of other social beginning, but in recent years it is that they take better care of injustices. St. John Paul II, Pope Emeritus the earth. “SECO is greatly concerned Benedict XVI and especially Pope “This is why the earth her- about social issues,” said Kathy Francis have added a sense of self, burdened and laid waste, is Kershner, a theology teacher urgency to their call for Catholics among the most abandoned and at Saint Joseph who has been to act on climate change.” maltreated of our poor,” wrote the club’s moderator since it Also involved with the club Pope Francis in “Laudato Si:” started. “Throughout the school is Chris Culver, a science teacher “...‘she groans in travail’ (Rom year SECO members ‘teach’ their at Saint Joseph who conducts 8:22). We have forgotten that we classmates about the importance monthly meetings at which the ourselves are dust of the earth of buying fair trade products that club discusses the environmental (cf Gen 2:7); our very bodies are do not exploit poor and hard- action plans led by the Ignatian made up of her elements, we working laborers in underdevel- Carbon Challenge community. breathe her air and we receive oped countries around the world. Currently the club has two co- life and refreshment from her SECO sponsors the selling of fair presidents, seniors Jack Thomas waters.” trade chocolate on Halloween/All and Faith Boehm. Sophomore Although this encyclical was Saints’ Day, Valentine’s greeting Emily Smith, according to a wake-up call to some, previous cards, and sponsors one or more Kershner, is “rising to the posi- popes, bishops and other mem- Provided by Kathy Kershner fair trade cafes during the school tion of student leaders for next bers of the church had already Saint Joseph High School senior Jack Thomas, left, and sophomore Emily year.” year.” spoken out against the injus- Smith, right assist two young Earth Day participants in creating homemade The club also plans and A big day for the SECO club tices happening to the planet. wildflower seed packets and catnip toys. SECO volunteered to run the table assists with other events and each year is Earth Day, which Because of this, many Catholics for the Earth Day and Arbor Day activities on April 22 at Rum Village Park, activities, such as recycling much was celebrated worldwide on were already aware of the earth’s South Bend. of the school’s paper and plastic April 22. This year the club each week, creating recycling brought awareness to the school struggles and have been working awareness videos, running a with an “Earth Week” video, par- for years to improve environmen- “hygiene drive” and sponsor- ticipated in South Bend’s Earth tal awareness; some of these are ing the hunger bowl, which is Day activities and sold flowerpot students in the Diocese of Fort a yearly food drive where Saint kits for Mother’s Day. Wayne-South Bend. Joseph competes against Marian SECO is an example of how For the past 12 years, Saint High School to benefit the St. the everyday faithful in the Joseph High School in South Vincent De Paul food pantry. Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend has had a Social and An original idea, the SECO club Bend of people can protect the MAY 7TH Ecological Concerns Organization was born out of a student’s pas- earth and help prevent social club, where the students meet to sion for Catholic social teaching, injustices all around the world discuss how they can personally which is why communities such from occurring. MAY CROWNING help to improve the environment. as the Catholic Climate Covenant To incorporate “Laudato Si” works so well with the club. May 7, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. Grotto University of Notre Dame A Beautiful Tradition Renewed

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BY JAMES BAXTER The ascetical 90-day Exodus regimen xodus 90 is the fruit of a priest’s prayer and priestly Eexperience. This 90-day • Cold showers challenge emerged from a semi- • No alcohol nary years ago in response to a • No desserts or sweets profound need. Today, it’s trans- • No eating between meals forming thousands of Catholic • No soda or sweetened drinks men — priests, seminarians and laymen alike — across the coun- not works • No television or movies try and beyond. coinciden- is not only (without permission of the fraternity) In 2011, Father Brian Doerr tal or for some kind the original seminar- • Only music that lifts the soul to God of the Diocese of Lafayette of secular marketing purpose, ians, but the faces of men across • No televised sports was appointed vice rector of such as a “Catholic P90X”. the country who have been given (without permission of the fraternity) Human Formation at Mount St. Ninety was based off his read- new life through this challenge. • Computer and phone for research and Mary’s Theological Seminary in ing of the sciences regarding the Some have broken decades of communication purposes only Emmitsburg, Md., where Bishop time it takes to return the brain addiction. Others have simply Kevin C. Rhoades previously to a normalized state and to been freed to be more present • Regular and intense exercise served as rector and where the begin forming new, lasting and to their parishes, wives and • Daily holy hour Diocese of Fort Wayne-South healthy habits. children in an age “distracted (minimum of 20 minutes of silent prayer each day) Bend currently sends many sem- The men prayed and prac- from distraction by distraction,” • Weekly fraternity meetings inarians. During his time at the ticed penance as they never had as T.S. Elliot wrote in “Four • No major material purchases Mount, Father Doerr joined his before, with the support of a Quartets.” (without permission of the fraternity) men in the trenches of forma- band of brothers. Some said it One man, Dr. Taylor Marshall, • Minimum of seven hours of sleep each night tion. He knew them because he was the hardest thing they had president of the New Saint spent time with them. He knew ever done, but after only a few Thomas Institute, describes the what they cared about, what weeks, they would come to their course of the 90 days in a way In Addition they struggled with and what fraternity meetings with smiles that is representative of many Brotherhood: Uncompromising weekly fraternity meetings. they looked forward to in minis- on their faces. They were experi- men’s experience. try. He soon realized that many encing joy once again. The story “My journey through Exodus Also consider time together outside of the meeting each week. of these good and generous sem- of the people of Israel, traveling 90 began with the first 10 For example: a weekly meal. Lastly, consider taking a fraternity inarians were not as free as they from the slavery of Egypt into days of sheer joy of something pilgrimage or adventure at the end of Exodus 90. Past Participants in could be as they approached the freedom of the Promised new and refreshing: Silence. Exodus 90 report that the fraternity is essential for personal success. ordination to the priesthood. Land, was becoming their own. Reflection. New fraternity with What did their slavery look The experience was so fruitful guys in my fraternity. Around Fasting: Wednesday and Fridays are to be more serious fast days. Eat like? For some, it was addic- for these men that Father Doerr day 20, the disciplines felt one regular meal and two smaller meals. Abstain from meat. tions. For others, it was wasting would go on to launch 10 more unbearable and unrealistic. I had 90-day fraternities over the next away their lives on Netflix, vid- doubts in myself and considered Sundays and Solemnities: These are days of relaxed discipline, but not three years at the seminary, with quitting. I craved distraction eogames, news and other tech- abandon. Enjoy one of the disciplines (e.g. a dessert). nological distractions. For still increasing success. Taking what and my old comforts. By day others, it was using food and he had learned, and with the 39, our team was feeling the alcohol as crutches to medicate help of a few millennial friends, weight of self-denial and dis- Imperative: Know Christ. Be joyful. the tough times. Perhaps this is he issued the challenge online, couragement. ‘We have almost scandalizing? But the lament of at Exodus90.com, over a year finished a 40-day Lent ... and we the Lord was their prayer: “Let ago. aren’t even halfway yet.’ Fifty learned to retreat there. The major reasons men fail to be free my son go, that he may love me” From the beginning, the more days felt like too long. rhythm of prayer and the asceti- in the first place. Control must be (Ex 4:23). Exodus 90 regimen was accused However, around days 50-60, cism of Exodus 90 helped me surrendered to the Lord. Father Doerr took five of these of many things. “This is too our team became more naturally find this inner place of peace, Many men are afraid of this struggling seminarians and extreme; no one will make these habituated to the disciplines. and I’m grateful for that. Even challenge at the outset. But, by issued them a 90-day challenge sacrifices.” “Exodus is great in a One can only understand this after the 90 days are over, I still the end of the experience, they that would change their lives for- seminary, but impossible within by experiencing it. A sense of have it.” are more afraid that they resisted ever. He did not uncover a secret the hustle and bustle of family resolve and peace entered into There are two essentials for the summons to conversion. formula, but simply re-presented life.” “Intentional fraternities my life. By day 90, I did not Exodus success: a) brotherhood Here’s the secret: Exodus 90 is to them the tradition of the early are exclusive.” “Why aren’t you want it to end. I had become a and b) submission to the Exodus not a one-time challenge, but an church and her emphasis on doing something for women?” new man and I liked sincerely regimen. A man must have a ascetical lifestyle rooted in the asceticism. The number 90 was The proof that Exodus 90 the man who I had become. I fraternity to which he’s account- sacramental life of the church. now feel as if there is a secret able; this kind of growth is not And it’s growing all around tabernacle within my chest into possible in a co-ed setting in the country. The nonprofit that which I can retreat and be silent which true vulnerability is com- runs Exodus 90 is called Those with Jesus Christ. I had felt this promised. 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There may be our own existence, He was loving HUMAN him a Pulitzer Prize. SOMETHING some souls who are granted the you in your greatest joys, He was The story went viral: Small- singular grace of being exempted loving you in your most embar- CONDITION town newspaper editor beats out from distraction in prayer, but rassing and sinful failures and He the likes of The Washington Post I am not sure that I have ever loves you whether you’re thinking MSGR. MICHAEL HEINTZ and the Houston Chronicle to CHRISTINA CAPECCHI met any of them. The fact is, as of Him or not. Start by receiving earn journalism’s highest honor. creatures who, while redeemed by His love. In the end, that’s all we Sometimes we need also to be Score one for the little guy — in has the dirtiest surface water in Christ, still labor under the effects have to offer back to Him any- discerning about our distractions. this case, The Storm Lake Times, America,” Art wrote in a March of original sin, our minds easily way: His love, first received, then That is, not every “distraction” is, a family-owned paper in Iowa 2016 editorial. and quickly wander — sometimes freely returned. in fact, a distraction; it could be a with a 10-person staff and a cir- The editorials cost the paper innocently enough, at times actu- Inevitably, regardless of our prompting of the Spirit. For exam- culation of 3,000. at least a few advertisers, but ally seeking distraction — and best intentions and efforts, dis- ple, let’s imagine that you’ve Suddenly droves of people were Art was undeterred, fueled by a sometimes even into trajectories traction will come. Don’t wrestle plopped down to spend some time Googling Storm Lake, and report- sense of indignation. of thought that are, well, far from with it or seek to assault the in prayer, and no sooner have ers were waxing poetic. “Viewed He also has chronicled the charitable or chaste. distraction — that serves only to you started than your brother-in- from above on Google Earth,” transformation of rural Iowa The fact of the matter is, when disquiet the stillness (what the law (you know, the one whom wrote The Concord Monitor, unfolding before his eyes, writ- we pray we must ready ourselves Greek fathers call the “hesychia”) you find so nosy and overbear- “swatches of Storm Lake, Iowa, ing about the immigrants who for distraction and have strate- achieved in prayer and to dis- ing) floats into your mind. You a community of 10,000, look like settled in Storm Lake, a meat- gies in place long before we sit or combobulate us further. Rather immediately identify this as a dis- corduroy, so heavily is the land- packing town, where he said 20 kneel down to pray, to preempt its than immediately being annoyed traction and push it aside (even scape furrowed.” languages are spoken and 88 onslaught and mitigate its effects. by the distraction — or at your- if it recurs). With a little discern- At 59 Art looks the part of the percent of the grade-school chil- First, give yourself some buf- self for being distracted — and ment, one might actually recog- rumpled newspaper editor, with dren are of color. fer time between whatever you’re aggressively grappling with it, nize this not as a distraction, but his gray horseshoe moustache Twice a week Art wields the doing prior to prayer and enter- think of how a young and skillful rather as a prompting from God and a glint in his eyes, his lanky power of print, his newspaper ing into prayer itself. Don’t race mother who, while talking with to bring your brother-in-law into frame drowning in Lee jeans and ink elevating the lowly and hold- at the last minute into church, a friend, can simultaneously pick your prayer. The Lord may be Redwing boots. His brother John ing the powerful accountable. drop down on your knees and up her fussy child, quietly sooth suggesting that, rather than sim- is publisher of The Storm Lake It’s what the nuns who launch into prayer. Rather, give him and put him gently down, ply maintain a kind of unhappy Times, his son, Tom, is a reporter taught him in the ‘70s would’ve yourself a few moments upon all the while never removing her détente in your impaired relation- and his wife, Dolores, is the pho- done. The PBVMs at St. Mary entering church (or wherever attention from her friend, with ship, you spend some time pray- tographer. school in Storm Lake were as you are going to pray) simply to whom she is conversing. We’ve ing for him and for yourself in Art’s series of Pulitzer- committed to social justice and slow down, catch your breath all witnessed it, and it’s one of regard to him. I sometime imag- winning editorials took on Cincinnati’s Big Red Machine as and settle. Only then should you the great maternal arts. That’s ine that when we deal with such powerful agricultural groups they were to grammar. begin to enter into prayer; it will how we should confront distrac- promptings of grace as a distrac- for allowing nitrogen runoff to “There were a lot of Irish make the transition much easier tion in prayer when it presents tion, we end up saying to God, pollute Iowa rivers. When the nuns who knew how to write,” and alleviate some of the battle itself to us: graciously acknowl- as it were: “Shhhh. I’m trying to Des Moines Water Works sued Art told me. with distractions. Second, always edge the distraction, imagine pray to you, so could you please three counties for this offense, Even then, he was an imper- remember that prayer is a grace ourselves gently picking it up not talk to me while I’m trying they fought the lawsuit using fect Catholic — a fired altar and begins with God’s initiative. and quietly, effortlessly putting to pray so dutifully.” Amusing, if money provided by undisclosed boy, as he recalls, plucked The Holy Spirit prays in us, St. it down somewhere to the side, we think about it. Of course, there sources. Art demanded to know out of class one day by Sister Paul taught, so before any of us leaving it there. This should help are myriad distractions that are who those sources were and ulti- Redempta and released from his can offer anything to God, He is us maintain the stillness that just that — genuine distractions mately uncovered funding from server duties after missing 6:30 already holding us in existence is the condition for prayer and — and we need to be ready for the Farm Bureau and other agri- a.m. Mass two weeks in a row. and loving us. at the same time address the cultural groups. Start by receiving: receiving distraction, without becoming HEINTZ, page 13 “Anyone with eyes and a His love, a love that has held you worked up over it. nose knows in his gut that Iowa CAPECCHI, page 13 May our eyes be opened, so that we might know Him mation about Jesus and about epistle. Was Peter the author? Or its eucharistic overtones, Jesus of the Lord’s identity and mis- God’s plan of salvation. was someone writing in Peter’s is the central figure, presiding sion. The experience of the apos- THE Despite the small number of name the author, or was the as they “break the bread.” After tles shows us that they literally Christians at the time, and in author presenting ideas that hearing the Lord’s explanation of knew the risen Christ. We turn to SUNDAY spite of the fact that the Jewish had come from Peter? In any events and encountering Jesus, them to know Jesus ourselves. culture and the effects of Roman case, the reading shows how they join in a holy meal. The Knowing Jesus is more than GOSPEL domination were overwhelming, totally committed to Jesus the connection with the Eucharist is possessing data. It confronts the apostles still were deter- Savior the early Christians were, too strong to overlook. us with the obligation to follow MSGR. OWEN F. CAMPION mined to speak aloud about and how aware they were that Jesus if we know Jesus. By our Jesus. salvation had come through the discipleship, extend Christ to Their determination revealed Lord’s death and resurrection. Reflection those whom we meet. Third Sunday of Easter their trust and faith in Jesus as The last reading, from Luke’s Beginning with the Scripture Savior and as the Son of God. Gospel, is the powerful and readings for Easter and continu- Luke 24:13-35 The world desperately needed lovely story of the risen Lord’s ing this weekend, the church gain, as is usual for week- Jesus: Only Jesus could fill what walk to Emmaus with two dis- expresses to us forcefully and ends of the Easter season, the world, still today, needs. ciples. The Emmaus narrative clearly its unflinching belief that READINGS the Acts of the Apostles Remembering last weekend’s appears only in Luke. It is one of after crucifixion and death the A Sunday: Acts 2:14, 22-33 Ps 16:1-2, 5, provides the first reading for the first reading that described both the most renowned and beloved Lord Jesus rose to new life. Liturgy of the Word. the early Christian community’s pieces in the New Testament. With equal vigor and equally 7-11 1 Pt 1:17-21 Lk 24:13-35 This reading recalls an event love for the Lord and its outreach Important in its message is strong faith, it also insists to us Monday: Acts 6:8-15 Ps 119:23-24, similar to several others in Acts. to the troubled and needy, this the fact that, regardless of their that Jesus did not rise and then 26-27, 29-30 Jn 6:22-29 Peter preaches in the name of all reading shows that the first fol- devotion to Jesus, the disciples disappear. Instead, the Lord was Tuesday: Acts 7:51—8:1a Ps 31:3cd- the 11 surviving apostles. His lowers of Christ saw informing still do not understand every- with the apostles, showing to 4, 6-7b, 8a, 17, 21ab Jn 6:30-35 remarks, or at least those record- others about the Redeemer as a thing. They are limited human Thomas His wounds and bless- Wednesday: 1 Cor 15:1-8 Ps 19:2-5 ed in this passage, are brief and loving service. beings, bewildered by the events ing those who believed. He was Jn 14:6-14 crisp. Note also: Here, as elsewhere of the Lord’s death and resurrec- alive, present and still teaching Thursday: Acts 8:26-40 Ps 66:8-9, in Acts, even though the other tion. They need Jesus to under- The term used by biblical during the trip to Emmaus. The 16-17, 20 Jn 6:44-51 apostles were present, Peter and stand the deep meaning and pur- Eucharist at Emmaus was the scholars is that Peter’s message Friday: Acts 9:1-20 Ps 117:1-2 was “kerygmatic,” drawing from Peter alone spoke on their behalf. pose of all that they had seen. culmination on the two disciples’ Jn 6:52-59 “kerygma,” the Greek word for The First Epistle of Peter sup- Jesus meets this need. He time with Jesus. “message.” It means that Peter’s plies the next reading. Scholars teaches them. Jesus is with them. The use of the technique of Saturday: Acts 9:31-42 Ps 116:12-17 words contained the basic infor- debate the authorship of this As they celebrate the meal, with kerygma gives us the basic facts Jn 6:60-69 April 30, 2017 COMMENTARY 13

The ethics of New Age medicine SCRIPTURE SEARCH®

atients who face serious non-rational justification for its Gospel for April 30, 2017 illnesses are sometimes purported effectiveness remains MAKING Luke 24:13-35 Pattracted to alternative medi- a concern. It is based on energy cines, also referred to as “holistic” principles that neither science nor Following is a word search based on the Gospel or “new-age” medicines. These faith affirm. Glenn Braunstein, SENSE OF can include treatments like M.D., described it critically in the reading for the Third Sunday of Easter, Cycle A: The homeopathy, hypnosis, “energy following way: BIOETHICS meeting on the road to Emmaus. The words can be therapies” like Reiki, acupuncture “Ch’i, the invisible nutritive found in all directions in the puzzle. and herbal remedies, to name just energy that flows from the uni- FATHER TAD PACHOLCZYK a few. verse into the body at any one VILLAGE SEVEN MILES These approaches raise various of 500 acupuncture points, is ingested above certain dosages EMMAUS DREW NEAR RECOGNIZING medical and ethical concerns. An conducted through the 12 main due to ingredients of unknown STOPPED MIGHTY ISRAEL important 1998 article in the New meridians [channels] in (ideally) potency derived from natural sub- THE TOMB MORNING ANGELS England Journal of Medicine sums an unbroken circle. Meridians stances. SUFFER ENTER GLORY it up this way: conduct either Yin energy (from Sometimes a remedy can be EVENING BREAD VANISHED “What most sets alternative the sun) or Yang energy (from the borrowed from Chinese, Indian or RETURNED ELEVEN SIMON medicine apart, in our view, is earth). All maladies are caused another medical tradition, but it that it has not been scientifically by disharmony or disturbances in should be chosen for its efficacy, tested and its advocates largely the flow of energy.” safety and reasonable mode of deny the need for such testing. By Clearly, then, some alternative action, and not be in conflict with BREAD VISION testing, we mean the marshaling therapies, beyond the basic issue principles of sound medical sci- of rigorous evidence of safety and about whether they work, raise ence or Christian teaching. DEPPOTS IMONE efficacy, as required by the Food serious spiritual concerns as well. Health improvements that ERSEVEN I NGGM and Drug Administration for the Another new-age therapy arise from alternative remedies approval of drugs and by the best known as Reiki, developed in may be due not only to the place- MLEM I LESANA I peer-reviewed medical journals Japan in the late 1800s, claims bo effect, but also to the fact that for the publication of research that sickness can be caused by patients are usually given more ME VWDE J O I I DG reports.” a disruption or imbalance in a time, attention and focused con- AAEVNVDZNNAH Beyond the fact that their clini- patient’s “Reiki” or “life energy.” cern by alternative practitioners cal efficacy has not earned a pass- Reiki practitioners try to heal a than by traditional physicians. URNEAE I ELRET ing grade using ordinary methods patient by placing their hands This can translate into modified SSLEGNAGLORY of scientific investigation, the in certain positions on the body habits and changed lifestyles, basic premise behind some alter- in order to facilitate the flow of leading to various health benefits. U I FGG I I RNMBF native medicines can also be Reiki from the practitioner to the Modern medicine can be legiti- FHOOHOSSEMJO highly suspect, raising concerns patient. mately faulted for downplaying about superstitious viewpoints or A 2009 document from the this dimension, so that, in the FGCBMOT EH T LW misguided forms of spirituality U.S. Conference of Catholic memorable words of pediatrician motivating certain therapies. Bishops stresses, “In terms of Jay Perman, “Doctors tend to end EEGAL L I VFENK If we consider acupuncture, caring for one’s spiritual health, up trained in silos of specializa- RETURNEDEJDE this technique does appear to there are important dangers” that tion,” in which they are taught provide benefit in certain cases of can arise by turning to Reiki. The “to make a diagnosis, prescribe © 2017 Tri-C-A Publications www.tri-c-a-publications.com pain control. Yet similar results document notes that because a therapy, and we’re done. But have been reported using “sham” Reiki therapy is not compatible we’re not done.” needles — tapping the skin in with either Christian teaching or The famous Greek physician Saint of the Week random places with a thin metal scientific evidence, it would be Hippocrates once noted the same tube. Brain scans have dem- inappropriate for Catholics to put point: “It is more important to onstrated that treatment with their trust in the method, because know what sort of person has a genuine needles, as opposed to to do so would be to operate “in disease than to know what sort the sham needles, does cause the realm of superstition, the no- of disease a person has.” Today’s detectable changes in the brain. man’s-land that is neither faith physicians-in-training, fortu- But, when researchers ignored nor science.” nately, are seeking to incorporate acupuncturists’ recommended Scientific investigations of more and more of these “patient- “meridian placement” of needles, another new-age therapy, the centric” and “holistic” aspects and instead did random place- popular herbal remedy known as into their own traditional medical ment in the skin, the same brain echinacea (taken early to ward practices to improve patient care effects were observed. Hence, it is off a cold) have revealed no dif- and outcomes. unclear whether the results seen ference between echinacea and from acupuncture arise mostly a placebo in controlled studies from the well-known “placebo involving several hundred sub- effect” or not. Further research jects. While some herbal rem- Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. should help resolve this question. edies may be harmless and inert serves as the director of educa- 1504 - 1572 Even if the observed effects are placebos, others may have more tion at The National Catholic not placebo-related, acupuncture’s serious health consequences if Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. feast – April 30 Image © ThePope Crosiers Pius V writing, but he can write editori- als that make a difference in 1504 - 1572 HEINTZ his community; that’s what the Antonio FeastGhislieri April 30 began life as a poor Italian shepherd, but became CAPECCHI Pulitzer jury saw, he said. Continued from Page 12 Continued from Page 12 Watergate inspired Art to pur- sue journalism at its noblest, but Antonioa Ghislieri leader began lifein as the a poor Catholic Italian shepherd, Reformation.but Ordained a Dominican in there was a time in his career them: not in fear or apprehension, became a leader in the Catholic Reformation. Ordained a when he felt disenchanted. “You but shrewdly. One insightful writer The credo that journalism Dominican1528, in 1528, hehe taught taught theology theology and philosophy andand philosophy and served as novice get into rural Iowa and you real- has called our battle with distrac- comforts the afflicted and afflicts ize, ‘Hey, I’m not changing the served as novice master and prior. A fanatical Catholic, he tion “the cocktail party going on in the comfortable could well be world here. You flounder around was namedmaster local inquisitor, and then prior. bishop, cardinal A fanatical and grand Catholic, he was named local our head;” our own life, rehearsed lifted from the Gospels. There, and think, ‘I’m stuck in the or imagined, projected or regretted Art’s upbringing and his profes- inquisitor in swift succession. Unanimously elected pope in 1566, middle of nowhere, and I’ve got inquisitor, then bishop, cardinal and grand inquisitor in swift but all the while keeping us from sion intersect. “I don’t think I he implemented the decrees of the Council of Trent, published something to say and nobody’s the one thing that is needful: time can separate Catholic social jus- hearing it.’ And then you realize the Roman , reformed the Roman Missal and Breviary, and attention given to God. Such tice from journalism,” he said. succession. Unanimously elected pope in 1566, he implemented that actually this is where you’re and excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I of England. He also time and attention to God is what Art understands the message supposed to be.” prayer, after all, is. behind his win: “It just shows organizedthe the Europeandecrees alliance of that the defeated Council the Turks at theof Trent, published the Roman that you don’t have to work for Battle of Lepanto, afterward declaring the battle date the feast of The New York Times to be a good Our Lady of Victory. Msgr. Michael Heintz is on the faculty writer.” His paper may lack the Christina Capecchi is a freelance Catechism, reformed the Roman Missal and Breviary, and at Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary, resources to win Pulitzers for writer from Inver Grove Heights, Emmitsburg, Md. international reporting or feature Minn., and editor of SisterStory.org. excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I of England. He also organized the European alliance that defeated the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto, afterward declaring the battle date the feast of Our Lady of Victory. 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begins in the U.S. he looked forward to his ministry with great anticipation. “What attracted me to Holy BY RHINA GUIDOS Cross in the beginning still attracts me today — and that is WASHINGTON (CNS) — In the diversity of ways to serve the Spanish, the word “encuentro” church. I am excited to see how means “encounter,” and in the the Holy Spirit will guide me modern church in the U.S. it throughout my life to serve His refers to a series of meetings that people. I love entering people’s will take place over the next four lives and walking with them on years aimed at getting to know their journeys of faith. To help Latinos and producing more people come to Jesus Christ and involvement in the church of its the fullness of life that He gives second largest and fastest grow- us. I know my greatest challenge ing community. will be facing those resistant “The intent is for Latinos to that call or those who have to have an encounter with the experienced great difficulty, entire church and for the church making them question that to have an encounter with truth. It is then that the message Latinos, understanding who of the cross as our only hope can they are, how they think, how prove most powerful. they live their faith, so we can But I am humbled by God, work together and move together who has called me. I look for- and build a church together,” ward to serving His people and said Mar Munoz-Visoso, execu- His church as a priest, and being tive director of the Secretariat able to celebrate the sacraments, of Cultural Diversity in the especially the Eucharist and Church for the U.S. Conference of the sacrament of reconciliation. Catholic Bishops. The priority of my life will be to A recent report by the Center administer the sacraments and for Applied Research in the share in the great conviction Apostolate at Georgetown that the fullness of our faith and University commissioned by the our lives can be found in them.” U.S. bishops shows that more Prior to his diaconate year, than half of millennial-gener- Pietrocarlo served as a volun- ation Catholics born in 1982 teer at Holy Cross House, Notre or later are Hispanic or Latino. Dame, 2007-08; as a chemistry Those numbers alone call for the CNS photo/Robert Duncan tutor for First Year of Studies, church to have a plan of how it Leaders in ministry to U.S. Hispanic Catholics stand in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican in 2016 with the Encuentro Notre Dame, 2008-09; as cat- will bring Latinos in the U.S. into cross. They are from left: Alejandro Aguilera-Titus, national coordinator of the Fifth Encuentro; Archbishop Gustavo echist at Christ the King Parish, the church’s leaderships roles, its Garcia-Siller of San Antonio, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Cultural Diversity in the Church; Archbishop South Bend, 2010- 11; as a vol- vocations and their role in soci- Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles; and Mar Munoz-Visoso, executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Cultural unteer at André House, Phoenix, ety, Munoz-Visoso said. Diversity in the Church. 2011; as chaplain at Penrose “You cannot plan the future Hospital, Colorado Springs, of the church without hav- Colo., 2011-12; then in music ing an important conversation ministry and as catechist at Our about this population,” she told Encuentro” that will include sented in our religious education with 10,000 delegates expected Lady of the Woods Parish in Catholic News Service. “This publishing a national working programs, and I’m hoping that to attend. The regions conform Woodland Park, Colo., 2012-13. effort is very important.” document about ways to imple- the outreach that is going to be to the U.S. bishops’ 14 episcopal Deacon Pietrocarlo volunteered While the numbers of Latinos ment what was learned during done as part of the preparation regions. Then comes the Fifth at Stone Soup Community in in the church are growing, “there the process. for this ‘Encuentro’ will make a National Encuentro in Texas, South Bend, then served in mar- is a gap between the numbers Encuentro organizers hope difference,” he said. which will have as its theme riage preparation at Christ the of Latinos in the pews, and the the process will yield an increase Munoz-Visoso said Latinos “Missionary Disciples: Witnesses King Parish, 2013-14. He served numbers of Latinos in leader- in vocations among Latinos to are being courted by all kinds of God’s Love.” This is followed his pastoral year at Nuestra ship, and the numbers of voca- the priesthood, religious life of groups, not just other church by the post-Encuentro working Madre Santíssima de La Luz tions, or (Latino students) in and the permanent diaconate; denominations. document. Parish, Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon, Catholic schools,” Munoz-Visoso an increase in the percentage “And we are at this juncture Alejandro Aguilera-Titus, México 2014-15, then served said. of Latino students enrolling at in history where we have this assistant director of Hispanic in adult faith formation at St. The first part of Encuentro, Catholic schools; and create a dilemma, where the majority of affairs in the diversity secretari- Adalbert/St. Casimir Parishes, as the process is called, started group of Latino leaders for the the Catholic Church in the coun- at, is national coordinator of the South Bend, 2015-16. in early 2017; it’s the fifth such church, as well as an increase try is becoming Latino, but at the Fifth National Encuentro. He earned a bachelor’s process of its kind. Encuentros Latinos’ sense of belonging and same time, more Latinos than The materials for the degree in biochemistry from in the U.S. church took place in stewardship in the U.S. church. ever are leaving the church,” she Encuentro meetings were the University of Notre Dame 1972, 1977, 1985 and 2000, but At the fall 2016 meeting said. “So, we have to address designed so they could be used in 2011 and received his M.Div. the Fifth National Encuentro, of U.S. bishops in Baltimore, this situation because we have by small and large groups, from the same in 2016. He also known as “V Encuentro,” is Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley to really engage them, re-enamor Munoz-Visoso told CNS, and entered formation with Holy expected to be the biggest one in expressed concern that the them of their faith and make there are dioceses that plan to Cross as an Old Collegian in terms of attendance. younger generations of Latinos sure they’re committed to their use them with migrant workers 2007. He made his first profes- Participants first meet in “is a demographic that is slip- faith.” in the fields, among prison popu- sion of vows on July 28, 2012. small Christian communities at ping away from the church and Those wanting to become lations, on university campuses, Father Pietrocarlo celebrated the local level to discern, dia- I think we have a window of involved can contact a local par- in prison ministry and in military his first Mass as a priest on April logue and reflect about faith and opportunity and the window of ish to see if it is involved in the branches so that U.S. service 23 at St. Adalbert Church, South the baptismal call, Munoz-Visoso opportunity is closing.” process. More than 5,000 parish- men and women who want to Bend, followed by a reception at said. Later in the year, par- Many Latinos are “joining the es have signed up to participate, participate can do so anywhere St. Adalbert Catholic School. He ishes will hold parish Encuentro ranks of ‘nones,’” said Cardinal said Munoz-Visoso. in the world. also celebrated Mass at Morissey processes of their own, which O’Malley, referring to the grow- Parish-level Encuentros take “The intent is for Latinos ... Hall Chapel on the campus of will later lead to diocesan, ing number of Americans who place this May and June. Diocesan but we’re inviting everybody (to the University of Notre Dame at regional and finally a nationwide are choosing to be unaffiliated Encuentros will take place in the participate), if they want to have 10 p.m. the same day. Encuentro, set for Sept. 20-23, with any organized religion. fall in more than 150 dioceses, it in their community,” Munoz- 2018, in Grapevine, Texas, in “We have very few, rela- with a total of 200,000 partici- Visoso said, adding that the the Diocese of Fort Worth. The tively, Hispanics in our Catholic pants. The regional Encuentros website www.vencuentro.org has final part is a “post-national schools. They’re underrepre- are slated for March-June 2018, information about getting started.