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Aloha In a nearly unprecedented move, Pope Benedict XVI retires. The church anxiously awaits the election of a new successor to Peter Special section: pages 5-13

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leaves his general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Dec. 5. CNS photo/Paul Haring 2 HAWAII HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD • MARCH 1, 2013

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Kekumano, chancellor-secretary (left) and by to the Big Island has long been a part of the state council’s strategy for Very Reverend John Ward, S.S., rector of St. Stephen’s Seminary (right). expansion. MARCH 1, 2013 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD HAWAII 3 Kupuna care From cleaning to companionship, two Catholic volunteer programs tend to the needs of Oahu’s elderly By Darlene J.M. Dela Cruz Hawaii Catholic Herald Eighty-one-year-old Florence sits at her dining room table, smil- ing brightly as she welcomes guests into her Wahiawa apartment. Her place is warm and welcoming, with the spirit of the sharp Puerto Rican grandmother radiating through every nook, cranny, tabletop flower, Spanish book, music CD and family photo in the room. She lives alone in this afford- able senior housing unit. But with the help of the diocesan Office for Social Ministry, Florence is able to maintain a lovely home, and has become acquainted with a new set of friends as well. Ninety-three-year-old Michael Klimenko in Hawaii Kai is an ac- complished intellectual, whose inquisitive eyes shine as he waxes philosophical about history and his favorite books. His wife lives in a nursing home. He stays with his youngest daughter, who is raising her own children while caring for her elderly parents. Klimenko and his family have a tough load of physical and emotional responsibilities. Thanks to Catholic Charities Hawaii, a bit of their burden is eased with a volunteer visit each week. HCH photos by Darlene Dela Cruz Klimenko and Florence belong Volunteers with Kupuna Kokua, to the ever-growing number of above, hang out with their senior seniors in Hawaii. Data from the client. Clockwise in the photo from U.S. Census Bureau reported in bottom left is Lina Tagudin, Do- 2010 that people age 65 and over mingo Tagudin, senior client Eddie, made up about 15 percent of the Tony Espiritu and Cindy Yen. At left, total Island population. By 2030, Catholic Charities Hawaii volunteer that number is expected to rise to Marvin Scharosch assists 93-year- roughly 20 percent. old Michael Klimenko in Hawaii Kai. With more and more “kupuna” needing assistance, the local Catholic community has stepped agreeing to teach Russian at the up to lend a hand. Two volunteer University of Hawaii for a year, and programs on Oahu are addressing then staying for more than four de- some of the needs of senior living, cades. including homelessness prevention Klimenko is an active member and assistance with daily activities. of the Greek Orthodox Church in Nuuanu. He, however, has a special Kupuna Kokua devotion to St. Marianne Cope, who Florence, who requested that shares a first name with his wife. her last name not be published, is “Michael is a most interest- a recipient of help from “Kupuna ing guy with an extremely high Kokua.” The program was intro- IQ,” Scharosch said. “We get along duced last year as part of the Dioc- great.” esan Homeless Housing Plan. Klimenko has four children, all According to Iwie Tamashiro of of whom have left the Islands ex- the diocesan social ministry office, cept his youngest daughter, Martha. Kupuna Kokua targets the elderly Martha heard of the Catholic Chari- living in low-income units. These with several of the volunteers and with cleaning out his refrigerator offers friendly visits and transporta- ties senior service through one of seniors often need help cleaning clients Feb. 21 in Wahiawa. They and basic utility repair. Espiritu said tion. her girlfriends, and initially looked their homes in order to pass regu- shared their Kupuna Kokua experi- it’s been a “joy” getting to know Ed- Volunteer coordinator Maureen to the organization for companion- lar housing inspections by federal, ences and told of the program’s im- die, and he “wishes everybody can Caracciolo said 60 senior clients ship for her father. Scharosch and state or private building owners. pact on the community. volunteer.” are receiving help from the service other volunteers have gone “above A failed housing inspection can Mary Alvarico of St. John in Mark and Tammy Ortogero of St. units in various areas of Oahu. She and beyond” what she expected. result in an eviction. Mililani said her mother is in her John have been assisting 81-year- handles client referrals and match- Catholic Charities provides Mar- In collaboration with the City 80s and lives in a senior complex. old Florence. The service has gone es them with people who fit their tha with a day each week “that I and County of Honolulu’s Retired Like Kupuna Kokua’s other clients, beyond ordinary clean-up, Flor- needs. get to do something either with my and Senior Volunteer Program, or her mother cannot afford a cleaner. ence said. She is a Protestant, but Caracciolo coordinated the vol- child or with my husband or just RSVP, Kupuna Kokua recruits vol- Knowing that this service is avail- she enjoys spending time in prayer unteer services for 93-year-old me,” she said. Martha is also grate- unteers age 55 and over to provide able, Alvarico said, has been a bless- with Mark and Tammy. She said the Michael Klimenko in Hawaii Kai. ful to have a volunteer take her fa- the cleaning service. They visit cli- ing. couple has become a trusted sup- She paired him with Marvin Scha- ther to visit her mother, because she ents once a month or more often if “My mom is so happy,” Alvarico port system, something her children rosch, a parishioner at Holy Trinity at times finds those visits too emo- requested. said. on the Mainland encouraged her to Church. tional to bear herself. Kupuna Kokua currently has 11 Elaine Gibson, also of St. John have. Scharosch visits Klimeko every “For me it’s been a Godsend be- clients in five Wahiawa senior hous- Apostle and Evangelist Church, said “They’re God’s angels to me week on Wednesday or Thursday. cause I am that ‘sandwich genera- ing complexes. Its volunteers come she does a little bit of everything for when I really needed it,” Florence He picks up Klimenko mid-morn- tion’ — I have three kids, and my from St. John Apostle and Evange- her senior client, including clean- said. “I love them with all my heart.” ing and takes him to a care home mom and dad,” Martha said. list Church in Mililani and Our Lady ing screens and putting up Christ- The Office for Social Ministry is in Nuuanu for a private visit with “Marvin’s been amazing,” she of Sorrows Church in Wahiawa. mas decorations. In turn, they have looking to expand Kupuna Kokua to his wife, Marianna. Scharosch also added. “It’s completely different Yolanda Morreira and Trudy Al- bonded over food and conversation. other parts of Oahu. To refer a cli- transports Klimenko to doctor ap- from what he (Michael) would ever goso are the volunteer coordinators “We’ve become a part of their ent or start a program at your par- pointments in town. have.” from these parishes, respectively. In family,” Gibson said. ish, contact Tamashiro at 203-6702. The two men have a great rela- “I’m very grateful for this pro- the past year, they have overseen Lina and Domingo Tagudin, tionship, often talking about faith gram, absolutely,” said Klimenko. more than 800 hours of Kupuna Tony Espiritu and Cindy Yen of Our Catholic Charities and their backgrounds. Klimenko For more information on the Kokua work done by their fellow Lady of Sorrows Church have been Catholic Charities Hawaii also is Russian, but was orphaned and Catholic Charities Hawaii senior parishioners. working with Eddie, a 69-year-old provides assistance for seniors. One raised in Germany. He came to services unit, contact Caracciolo at The Hawaii Catholic Herald met who is disabled. They assist him of the organization’s service units Hawaii from Kansas in 1968, first 527-4780. 4 HAWAII HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD • MARCH 1, 2013 Local Sacred Hearts priest to help start new Tongan mission By Patrick Downes The other two Sacred Hearts have a five-year contract with the Hawaii Catholic Herald priests are Father Subal Nayak, a Diocese of Tonga after which their member of the Indian region the mission will be evaluated and, it is Hawaii-born Sacred Hearts Fa- Sacred Hearts U.S. province, and hoped, renewed. ther Clyde Guerreiro, recent pastor Father Paul Zaccone, who had left of Our Lady of Sorrows in Wahia- Hawaii for Massachusetts a year A nation of 176 islands wa and St. Damien Parish on Molo- ago to be congregation’s director Father Guerreiro said he has kai, will travel to Tonga later this of vocations. some familiarity with Tonga. He month to help start a new mission According to Father Guerreiro, visited there for the ordination of for the Sacred Hearts Fathers and Father Nayak will arrive in May Father Kaitapu. One of Hawaii’s Brothers. and Father Zaccone, who will Sacred Hearts priests, Father Mari- Over the next few months, Fa- teach high school in Tonga, will si Palepale, who is Samoan-Tonga, ther Guerreiro and three other join them in August. works in the Philippines. Also, for a brief time in the late ‘80s and early Sacred Hearts priests from differ- Sacred Hearts Father Sacred Hearts Father Father Kaitapu ties to the Sa- ent parts of the world will form Clyde Guerreiro Johnathan Hurrell cred Hearts order goes back to ‘90s, the order had two Tongan a community on the outskirts of 1988 when he came to Hawaii to seminarians. Tonga’s capital city of Nuku’alofa tapu, a native Tongan, will be the in Tonga on March 25. Between join the congregation as a seminar- “It’s about 6-7-hour plane ride,” to do parish work, teach, and train pastor and community superior. He now and then he will be assisting ian, Father Guerreiro said. When Father Guerreiro said. “You can’t new members of the Sacred Hearts was the first to arrive at the mis- at a parish on the East coast for a visa difficulties prevented his stay- go directly. You have to go through order. sion last month. couple of weeks before returning ing, he trained for the priesthood Fiji or go to New Zealand and Sacred Hearts Father Chris Kai- Father Guerreiro expects to be to Hawaii for his trip to Tonga. for the Diocese of Tonga and later ‘backpaddle.’” took vows as a Sacred Hearts Fa- He described Nuku’alofa as ther in the Philippines. an “overgrown Kaunakakai” or a The congregation’s move to “smaller Lihue.” Tonga was made possible when Father Hurrell, who was born in the 2011 merger of its Hawaii and New Zealand, is himself one quar- East Coast provinces into the single ter Tongan, plus a mix of European United States Province gave the or- nationalities and Chinese. He spent der the extra manpower and flex- about 15 years of his youth grow- ibility to expand its mission base. ing up in Tonga. The merger joined Hawaii’s 15 Tonga is a constitutional mon- priests and six brothers with the archy made up of 176 islands, of East Coast’s 31 priests and three which about 50 are inhabited, brothers. The province also has an spread across 270,000 square India region with 12 priests. miles of ocean. The people speak Tongan and English. St. Francis Intergenerational Center Long-standing invitation The country lies about 3,000 Father Guerreiro said the con- miles southwest of Hawaii, 2,000 Adult Day Care and Preschool gregation’s initial invitation to miles east of Australia and 500 work in Tonga actually came sev- miles south of Samoa. eral years ago from then Tongan The prominent religion is Prot- Bishop Soane Lilo Foliaki. After estant. Bishop Foliaki retired in 2008, the According to Catholic Church new Bishop Soane Patita Paini Mafi records, in 2010 Tonga had 13,367 repeated the invitation. Catholics, or 12.9 percent of a to- Father Hurrell, reached last tal population of 103,391. In 2010, week by phone from New Zealand, the Diocese of Tonga had 29 dioc- said the opportunity “is a bit of a esan priests, nine religious priests godsend.” and 14 parishes. He said the decision to accept Bishop Paini, 51, a native Ton- the invitation was made last fall af- gan, took charge of the diocese in ter about a month’s “discernment” 2008. on the part of the congregation and its governing body. Excitement all around The Hawaii men were from the “I am terribly excited (about start “overwhelmingly positive” at going), I really am,” said Father the prospect, he said, but the mem- Guerreiro, who will turn 64 on bers of the former East Coast prov- March 11. “Father Johnathan ince, which had just closed a mis- thinks I still got a little bit of ad- sion in the Bahamas, approached venturer in me.” Opens March 2013 the idea more cautiously. Also “very excited,” Father The brand new St. Francis Intergenerational Center Father Guerreiro called the con- Hurrell said, is Tonga itself where in Ewa Villages is ready to serve your family! gregation’s return to the missions he said the priests’ arrival is “front “kind of like a renaissance.” page news.” It offers both a preschool and an adult day care center. Missionary work is a “recogniz- Father Guerreiro has served Two separate programs in one convenient site. able core value of who we are,” he both as a pastor and congrega- said. tional leader in his more than According to Father Hurrell, the three and a half decades as a Visit Us Today! new undertaking will be based at priest in Hawaii. Call to make an appointment for a personal tour the parish of St. Michael which also He worked at St. Ann, Kaneo- of our spacious new facilities. has two other small rundown mis- he, St. Michael in Waialua, Im- sion churches, he said. The priests maculate Conception in Lihue, St. will do parish work, adult religious Damien Parish on Molokai and education, teaching, social minis- Our Lady of Sorrows in Wahiawa. try and the training of clergy and He was provincial of the Sacred seminarians. Hearts Fathers and Brothers in Two Tongans have already ex- Hawaii for two separate six-year pressed interest in joining the com- periods and also spent about nine munity, Father Hurrell said. months overseeing the training of He added that the new mis- priesthood candidates in Wash- sion coincides with the congrega- ington, D.C. tion’s new youth and young adult The Sacred Hearts Congrega- . program, which will send two lay tion had also received an invitation 91-1758 Oohao Street Ewa Beach 96706 volunteers to Tonga for a one-year to serve in the Cook Islands, also in (Corner of Renton Road and Oohao Street) commitment and perhaps the op- the South Pacific, but the arrange- portunity to “discern a vocation ment would have required the with us.” priests to live on separate islands, Father Guerreiro said the new which would not be conducive to community hopes to have a house religious community life. The Ha- that will accommodate the four waii province in the 1980s had priests, plus guests and eventually sent Father Lane Akiona and Father (808) 681-0100 seven seminarians. James Anguay to the Cooks, but Tonga currently does not have “that experience just did not work formation program for seminar- out,” Father Guerreiro said. StFrancisHawaii.org ians. Diocesan seminarians train Hawaii’s Sacred Hearts Sisters in Fiji. sent Hawaii missionaries to India The Sacred Hearts Fathers 25 years ago. They are still there. MARCH 1, 2013 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD PAPAL TRANSITION 5

The resignation of Benedict XVI Teacher and guide Pope Benedict XVI urged modern society not to turn its back on God By John Thavis and Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY uring his almost eight-year pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI impressed the world as a teacher, guiding Catholics to the sources of the faith and urging modern society not to Dturn its back on God. Citing his age and diminishing energy, the 85-year-old pope announced Feb. 11 that he would resign on Feb. 28 and would devote the rest of his life to prayer. As pastor of the universal church, he used virtually every medium at his disposal — books and Twitter, sermons and encyclicals — to catechize the faithful on the foundational beliefs and practices of Christian- ity, ranging from the sermons of St. Augustine to the sign of the cross. Having served in his 30s as an influential adviser during the 1962-65 Second Vatican Council, he made it a priority as pope to correct what he saw as overly expansive interpretations of Vatican II in favor of readings that stressed the council’s continuity with the church’s millennial traditions.

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CNS photo/Stefano Rellandini, Reuters Pope Benedict XVI leaves after his weekly audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Nov. 16, 2011. ‘Exhausted and disheartened’ Biographer said he had never seen the Holy Father ‘so drained of energy’ By Jonathan Luxmoore Catholic News Service

OXFORD, England Pope Benedict XVI was “exhausted and disheartened” well before his Feb. 11 resignation announcement, according to his Ger- man biographer, Peter Seewald. In an article, “Farewell to my pope,” in the Feb. 18 issue of Ger- many’s Focus weekly, Seewald said he had held several Vatican meetings with the 85-year-old pontiff over the six months while preparing a new biography. He added that he had “never seen Benedict XVI so drained of energy” and “deeply disheartened” as when he met him in last summer. CNS photo/Paul Haring Asked what could still be expected of his pontificate, according Pope Benedict XVI elevates the Eucharist during Ash Wednesday Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Feb. 13. to Seewald, the pope answered: “From me — not much now. I’m an The service was the last large liturgical event of Pope Benedict’s papacy. old man and I’ve lost my strength. I think I’ve done enough.” The 58-year-old Seewald, a fellow-Bavarian and former editor of Germany’s Der Spiegel weekly, has published several interview- based books on Pope Benedict, including a biography in 2006 and Continued from previous page who came to see him in Rome and When President Barack Obama 2010 best-seller, “Light of the World.” Under his oversight, the Vati- abroad came to appreciate his was elected, the pontiff sent him He said the pope told him the third volume of “Jesus of Naza- can continued to highlight the smile, his frequent ad libs and his a warmly worded telegram and a reth,” published in November, would be his last book. church’s moral boundaries on is- ability to speak from the heart. promise of his prayers, but when However, he denied that the 2012 “VatiLeaks” scandal had sues such as end-of-life medical Although he did not expect to they met at the Vatican the next been a reason for the pontiff’s resignation and said Pope Benedict care, marriage and homosexuality. travel much, he ended up mak- year, the pope spoke clearly about had merely voiced incomprehension at the decision of his former But the pope’s message to society ing 24 trips to six continents and the church’s objections to the ad- butler, Paolo Gabriele, to leak information. at large focused less on single is- three times presided over World ministration’s policies on several “It’s true the butler’s betrayal was a painful experience,” See- sues and more on the risk of losing Youth Day mega-gatherings, in life issues, including abortion and wald told the Munich-based Focus, which was launched in 1993 the basic relationship between the Germany in 2005, in Australia in embryonic stem cell research. 2008, and in Spain in 2011. Pope Benedict was 78 and in and is Germany’s third-largest weekly. human being and the Creator. Talking about aging last March apparent good health when elect- “But it certainly didn’t influence his decision in He consistently when he met the 85-year-old Cu- ed April 19, 2005, but was said to any important way. In our 90-minute talk at Castel warned the West ban leader Fidel Castro in Havana, have told his fellow cardinals that Gandolfo last August, the pope said he felt neither that unless its Pope Benedict told him, “Yes, I’m his would not be a long papacy despair nor despondency. ... It was very important for The resignation secularized soci- old, but I can still carry out my du- like that of his predecessor. In an ety rediscovered the pope that the VatiLeaks exposure would ensure of Benedict XVI ties.” interview with the German au- an independent judiciary in the Vatican — that there religious values, On a historic visit to the United thor Peter Seewald in 2010, Pope wouldn’t be a situation in which the monarch said he it could not hope States in 2008, the pope brought Benedict said: “If a pope clearly was taking the matter in his own hands.” to engage in real his own identity into clearer fo- realizes that he is no longer physi- Speaking to journalists Feb. 16, Jesuit Father Federico Lom- dialogue with Islamic and other cus for Americans. He set forth a cally, psychologically and spiritu- bardi, Vatican spokesman, confirmed that Seewald had met the religious cultures. moral challenge on issues ranging ally capable of handling the duties pontiff in August and late November, adding that he saw “no rea- In his encyclicals and in his from economic justice to abortion. of his office, then he has a right son not to believe” the journalist’s account. books on “Jesus of Nazareth,” the He also took church recognition of and, under some circumstances, The 66-member bishops’ conference in the pope’s native Ger- pope honed that message, asking the priestly sex abuse scandal to a also an obligation to resign.” many, which will have six cardinals participating in the upcoming readers to discover the essential new level, expressing his person- As inevitable as his election conclave, was to discuss Pope Benedict’s resignation at a Feb. 18- connections between sacrificial al shame at what happened and seemed after Blessed John Paul 21 plenary in Trier. love, works of charity, a dedica- praying with the victims. died in 2005, his path to the pa- In a Feb. 18 interview with Germany’s Catholic news agency, tion to the truth and the Gospel of The pope met three times with pacy was long and indirect. KNA, the conference president, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Christ. former U.S. President George W. Freiburg, said the plenary would also discuss the future role of The German-born pontiff did Bush, including a formal visit to Son of a police officer women in the church and sexual abuse by priests, as well as for- not try to match the popular- the White House, and the two Joseph Ratzinger was born mulating a stance on use of the morning-after pill by rape victims. ity of his predecessor, Pope John leaders found wide areas of agree- April 16, 1927, in the Bavarian “Benedict XVI’s successor can add new elements, unencum- Paul II, but the millions of people ment on pro-life and family issues. town of Marktl am Inn, the third bered by such controversies as VatiLeaks and the crisis over the Society of St. Pius X,” Archbishop Zollitsch said. “For our part, we want look at what’s coming up and discuss Important 2005 2006 would help all believers see each the future course of events. We think the principle of subsidiarity other as brothers and sisters. should be strengthened, allowing local churches to bring them- events in April 19: Cardinal Joseph Sept. 12: In a speech about faith Ratzinger, 78, elected pope and and reason at the University of 2007 selves into the global church while also retaining a certain vari- the papacy takes the name Benedict XVI. Regensburg, Germany, Pope April 16: The first of what would ety,” he said. Dec. 22: In a meeting with top Benedict cites a historical criticism of Benedict be a three-volume work, “Jesus The former bishops’ conference president, Cardinal Karl Lehm- aides at the Vatican, Pope Benedict of violence in Islam, setting off of Nazareth,” by Pope Benedict ann of Mainz, told KNA he believed the pope had been “rather XVI insists the teaching of the Second consternation and protests. goes on sale and is an immediate Vatican Council must be read Nov. 30: Pope Benedict stands lonely” and had not always had “good people around him,” add- commercial success. Catholic News in continuity with the church’s with Muslim leader in Turkey’s Blue ing that he thought the pope’s decision to resign had been influ- May 27: In a letter to Chinese enced by “disappointment at certain Vatican operations.” Service tradition. Mosque; says he prayed that God MARCH 1, 2013 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD PAPAL TRANSITION 7

CNS photo/Paul Haring Pilgrims have their cameras ready as Pope Benedict XVI makes his way through the crowd in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican before a general audience in 2007.

and youngest child of a police priest, the future pope began a teachings and pressure for wom- than 23 years as the Vatican’s worsened in 2008, for example, officer, Joseph Sr., and his wife, teaching career and built a repu- en’s ordination. Serving in this chief doctrinal official, Pope Bene- the pope insisted that financial in- Maria. Young Joseph joined his tation as one of the church’s fore- role for nearly a quarter century, dict emphasized that Christianity stitutions must put people before brother, Georg, at a minor semi- most theologians. At Vatican II, he then-Cardinal Ratzinger earned a was a religion of love and not a profits. He also reminded people nary in 1939. made important contributions as a reputation in some quarters as a religion of rules. that modern ideals of money and Like other young students, he theological expert and embraced sort of grand inquisitor, seeking to During the 2010-11 Year for material success are passing reali- was automatically enrolled in the the council’s early work. But he stamp out independent thinking, Priests, Pope Benedict held up ties, saying: “Whoever builds his Hitler Youth program, but soon began to have misgivings about an image belied by his passion for the 19th-century French St. John life on these things — on material stopped going to meetings. During an emerging anti-Roman bias, the debate with thinkers inside and Vianney as a model of clerical ho- things, on success, on appearanc- World War II, he was conscripted idea of a “church from below” run outside the church. liness who struggled against the es — is building on sand.” into the army, and in the spring on a parliamentary model, and indifference and hostility of a mili- Pope Benedict’s outreach to tra- of 1945 he deserted his unit and the direction of theological re- Writing and preaching tantly secular society. ditionalist Catholics brought him returned home, spending a few search in the church — criticism As the newly He convened some opposition and criticism. In months in an Allied prisoner-of- that would become even sharper elected pope a Synod of Bish- 2007, he widened the possible use war camp. He returned to the in later years. in 2005, he ex- ops on Scripture of the Tridentine Mass and began seminary late in 1945 and was or- In a 2005 speech that served as plained that he in 2008, in an introducing touches of antiquity dained six years later, along with a kind of manifesto for his young took the name The resignation effort to move in his own liturgies, including the his brother. papacy, Pope Benedict rejected Benedict to the Bible back requirement of kneeling when In a meeting with young peo- what he called a “hermeneutic evoke the memo- of Benedict XVI to the center of receiving Communion from the ple in 2006, the pope said wit- of discontinuity and rupture” in ry of Pope Bene- individual spiri- pope. nessing the brutality of the Nazi interpreting Vatican II as a radi- dict XV, a “coura- tuality and pas- Then in 2009, in an effort to regime helped convince him to cal break with the past. The pope geous prophet of peace” during toral planning. He opened a Year reconcile with the traditionalist become a priest. But he also had called instead for reading the World War I, and said he wanted of Faith in October presided over Society of St. Pius X, he lifted the to overcome some doubts, he said. council through a “hermeneutic of to place his ministry at the service a synod focusing on the new evan- excommunications of four of the For one thing, he asked himself reform” in continuity with Catho- of reconciliation and harmony gelization and a revival of Chris- society’s bishops who were or- whether he “could faithfully live lic tradition. among peoples. tian faith in the secular West, one dained illicitly in 1988. celibacy” his entire life. He also In 1977, Pope Paul VI named The new pope spent most of of the priorities of his pontificate. A storm of criticism erupted recognized that his real leanings him archbishop of Munich and his energy writing and preaching, Some of Pope Benedict’s most because one of the four, Bishop were toward theology and won- Freising, and four years later Pope in encyclicals, letters, messages, memorable statements came Richard Williamson, had made a dered whether he had the quali- John Paul called him to head the homilies and talks that eventually when he applied simple Gospel number of statements — widely ties of a good pastor and the abil- Congregation for the Doctrine of numbered more than a thousand. values to social issues such as the available on the Internet, but unity “to be simple with the simple the Faith, where he wielded great Surprising those who had ex- protection of human life, the envi- known to the pope — denying the people.” influence on issues such as libera- pected a by-the-book pontificate ronment and economics. After a short stint as a parish tion theology, dissent from church from a man who had spent more When the global financial crisis Continued on next page

Catholics, Pope Benedict criticizes 2008 approval, the Vatican issues a constitution “Anglicanorum handling accusations of clerical Dec. 22: After nearly a year of government restrictions on April 15-20: Pope Benedict visits letter lifting the excommunication coetibus,” Pope Benedict sexual abuse and removing those Vatican scandal over leaked religion and urges reconciliation Washington, New York and the of four traditionalist bishops establishes personal ordinariates found guilty from the priesthood. documents and the papal butler among the country’s Catholic belonging to the Society of for Anglicans entering into full being convicted of theft, Pope United Nations, meets victims of 2011 communities. clerical sex abuse for first time. St. Pius X to clear the way for communion with the Catholic Benedict visits the butler in jail reconciliation talks with the group. Church. May 1: Pope Benedict beatifies and pardons him. July 7: Pope Benedict issues an July 12-21: Pope Benedict travels apostolic letter, “Summorum May 8-15: Pope Benedict travels Pope John Paul II. to Sydney for World Youth Day. 2010 2013 Pontificum,” permitting wider use to Jordon, Israel and Palestinian 2012 of the pre-Vatican II Mass. 2009 territories. July 15: With the approval of Pope Feb. 11: Pope Benedict informs Benedict, the Vatican releases March 23-28: Pope Benedict visits a group of cardinals that he will Jan. 21: With Pope Benedict’s Nov. 4: With the apostolic streamlined procedures for Mexico and Cuba. resign effective Feb. 28. 8 PAPAL TRANSITION HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD • MARCH 1, 2013

CNS photo/Mark Kortum, Reuters Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican Gardens, where Pope Bene- dict XVI will retire, is seen in this picture taken in January 2011. Secretary, domestic staff also making the move By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY The current staff of the papal apartments, including Archbishop Georg Ganswein, planned to accompany Pope Benedict XVI to Castel Gandolfo when he left office Feb. 28, the Vatican spokesman said. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, correcting HCH photo by Darlene Dela Cruz information he had given reporters earlier, said Archbishop Gans- Pauline Chow of Kalaupapa receives Communion from Pope Benedict XVI during the Oct. 21 canonization Mass for wein told him Feb. 14 that he would be living with the pope and Mother Marianne Cope. Behind her is Sister Alicia Damien Lau, a Sister of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities. with the consecrated laywomen who belong to the Memores Domini Association of the Communion and Liberation movement and serve as the pope’s domestic staff. potential “clash of civilizations” in dress at the Synod of Bishops. The Continued from previous page Archbishop Ganswein and the women will go to Castel Gandolfo which religion was seen as a defin- Vatican also arranged the resump- with Pope Benedict and also will move with the former pope to the extent of the Holocaust. The Vati- ing difference. But sometimes his tion of theological talks with the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, a building in the Vatican Gardens being can scrambled to distance Pope words drew as much criticism as Orthodox in mid-2006 and began remodeled for their use, Father Lombardi said. Benedict from the bishop’s views praise, particularly among Mus- new forms of cultural collabora- The Vatican spokesman said Archbishop Ganswein will live with and reaffirm the pontiff’s commit- lims who felt the pope was unfairly tion with the Russian Orthodox Benedict XVI but also serve the new pope as prefect of the papal ment to Catholic-Jewish dialogue. questioning the foundations of Church. household. The pope himself wrote an their religion. The fate of Christian minorities Asked how such a dual role could work when Father Lombardi unusually personal letter to the In a lecture at Germany’s Uni- around the world was one of the previously had said Pope Benedict would not interfere in the papacy world’s bishops, defending his versity of Regensburg in 2006, the pope’s major concerns, especially of his successor, the Jesuit said Archbishop Ganswein’s job is primar- efforts to restore church unity pope quoted a Christian medieval in places like Iraq and other pre- ily one of logistics — organizing the pope’s daily schedule of meet- by reaching out to traditionalists emperor who said the prophet Mo- dominantly Muslim countries. The ings and audiences — and not a job that brings him into contact with and expressing sadness that even hammed had brought “things only pope strongly defended the right to other papal decisions. some Catholics seemed ready to evil and inhuman, such as his com- religious freedom in his speech to By being the first pope to resign in almost 600 years, Pope Bene- attack him “with open hostility.” mand to spread by the sword the the United Nations in 2008. dict opened a whole box of questions that could not be answered At the same time, he clearly faith he preached.” Following pro- immediately and kept Father Lombardi busy responding to media acknowledged mistakes in Vatican tests in the Islamic world, which Turning attention to China inquiries and making his own. communications included the burning of churches In early 2007, the pope turned As the leaders of the College of Cardinals, canon and said the Holy in the Palestinian territories and his attention to China, conven- law experts and other Vatican officials worked to gain See would have the murder of a nun in Somalia, ing a meeting of church experts clarity or come up with practical solutions to problems The resignation to do a better job the pope said he was sorry his to discuss ways to bring unity to never raised before, the Vatican spokesman’s daily using the Internet words had offended Muslims and the church and gain concessions briefings Feb. 11-14 reflected a work in progress. of Benedict XVI in the future. In- distanced himself from the text he from the communist government. Asked what title Pope Benedict would use after stead, the mishaps had quoted. A papal letter to Chinese Catho- Feb. 28, Father Lombardi had said that was a question continued, and for Later that year, visiting a lics a few months later encouraged still being studied, but it seemed to him that the most accurate title most of the year mosque in Turkey, he turned to- bold new steps to bridge the gap would be “bishop emeritus of Rome.” preceding Pope Benedict’s res- ward Mecca and prayed silently between Catholics registered with When questioned again Feb. 14, he said it still was not clear, ignation, press coverage of the alongside his host. This interfaith the government-controlled Catho- though many experts had been voicing their opinions in the media. Vatican was dominated by the so- gesture generated considerable lic Patriotic Association and the One thing is certain, he said, “being a bishop is a result of a sacra- called “VatiLeaks” affair, a scandal good will, and over the succeed- so-called underground communi- ment,” and that cannot be taken from the pope. over confidential and sometimes ing years, Pope Benedict continued ties, whose leaders were frequently “Being a cardinal, on the other hand, is a title, not the effect of embarrassing documents that had to meet with Muslim leaders. Yet harassed or imprisoned by the au- a sacrament, and so it has a different kind of value or importance,” been provided to the press, al- some Muslims continued to view thorities. he said. legedly by the pope’s own butler, the pope with suspicion or hostil- The pope’s letter also issued a In addition, he said, Benedict XVI “is his name ... and that won’t Paolo Gabriele. ity, such as the prominent cleric broad invitation to government change.” A Vatican court found Gabriele who reiterated complaints about authorities for dialogue on the ap- Asked if there would be a public ceremony for the breaking of guilty in October and sentenced the Regensburg speech in the run- pointment of bishops and other Pope Benedict’s fisherman’s ring, Father Lombardi said he believed him to 18 months in jail. Pope up to the pope’s trip to Lebanon in topics. A number of bishops were the act — the responsibility of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone as chamber- Benedict, meeting his former aide September. subsequently ordained with both lain of the Holy Roman Church — would take place in private, as it outside his cell in the Vatican po- Pope Benedict also visited syna- papal and government approval, does after a pope dies. lice barracks, pardoned him just gogues, in Germany in 2005, in before the government returned Asked if Pope Benedict would receive a pension, Father Lombardi before Christmas. New York in 2008 and in Rome in to the practice of choosing bishops said a retirement fund had not been set up, “but obviously he will be Showing the way to God 2010, and his strong condemna- without the Vatican’s approval. taken care of.” tions of anti-Semitism won the ap- One of the most important doc- The pope’s 2009 letter to bish- preciation of many Jewish leaders. uments issued under Pope Bene- ops also summarized what he saw However, tensions arose in 2008 dict, and with his explicit approval, as his main mission as the succes- over the wording of a prayer for was a doctrinal congregation in- sor of Peter: “In our days, when in Jewish conversion, which the pope struction on bioethics in 2008. The vast areas of the world the faith is had revised for use in the Triden- document warned that some de- in danger of dying out like a flame tine-rite Good Friday liturgy. velopments in stem-cell research, which no longer has fuel, the over- The pope considered Christian gene therapy and embryonic ex- riding priority is to make God pres- unity one of his priorities, and he perimentation violate moral princi- ent in this world and to show men took steps to improve dialogue ples and reflect an attempt by man and women the way to God.” with Orthodox churches in par- to “take the place of his Creator.” The idea that God is disappear- ticular. The most visible sign was The pope’s own writings fre- ing from the human horizon and the pope’s decision to accept the quently explored the relationship that humanity is losing its bearings invitation of Ecumenical Patriarch between personal faith in Christ with “evident destructive effects” Bartholomew of Constantinople to and social consequences. was a theme Pope Benedict saw as visit the patriarch at his headquar- His first encyclical, “Deus Cari- CNS photo/Alessia Giuliani, Catholic Press Photo common ground for dialogue be- ters in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2006. tas Est” (“God Is Love,”), issued The fisherman’s ring is seen on the right hand of Pope Benedict XVI as tween Christians and Muslims. He Two years later, the pope invited in 2005, reminded all people that he celebrates Mass in Havana, Cuba, March 28, 2012. voiced the church’s opposition to a the patriarch to give a major ad- God loves them and called on them MARCH 1, 2013 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD PAPAL TRANSITION 9

CNS photo/Paul Haring A Hawaiian flag greets Pope Benedict XVI as he arrives for the World Youth Day welcoming ceremony in central Madrid Aug. 18.

ument barring those with deep- announce he would not preside seated homosexual tendencies over beatifications. The pope’s from the priesthood. decision was meant to highlight In a few areas, Pope Benedict the difference between a beatifi- asked church experts to engage in cation and a canonization, but, careful study and reflection: in effect, the pope’s decision low- He asked Vatican agencies to ered the profile of beatification consider the moral and scientific liturgies. Pope Benedict did make aspects of condom use in AIDS two exceptions to his new rule: prevention, after some theolo- the first to beatify Cardinal John gians argued that condoms were Henry Newman during a Septem- acceptable for married couples in ber 2010 visit to England; and the which one spouse is infected with second to beatify Pope John Paul HIV. At the same time, his own in May 2011. statement in 2009 that condom- While Pope Benedict asked Vat- distribution campaigns aggravate ican experts to be more selective the problem of AIDS prompted in picking candi- widespread criti- dates for saint- cism. hood, he ended He con- up canonizing vened scientific The resignation 44 new saints, and theological including the scholars for pri- of Benedict XVI Native American vate discussions Kateri Tekak- about the theory witha and Moth- of evolution. In his own remarks er Marianne Cope of Molokai. on the subject, he emphasized Pope Benedict named 90 new CNS photo/Paul Haring that the acceptance of evolution- cardinals; 67 of those he named Pope Benedict XVI kisses a child as he leaves his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican May 2. ary theory should not mean the are still under the age of 80 and exclusion of a fundamental divine therefore eligible to vote in the to share that love in a personal and Several months ago, the Vati- print for social progress, he did purpose in creation. conclave to elect his successor. social way. It won high praise, even can said Pope Benedict had com- bring a new vision based on love One of the pope’s most notable As of Feb. 28, the day his papacy from quarters typically critical of pleted work on another encyclical, that challenges the evils of today’s actions came in May 2006, when ends, Pope Benedict’s appoint- the church. this one on the virtue of faith, and world — from the brutality of to- he approved a decision saying that ments will represent just over 57 Two years later, his second en- its publication was expected in the talitarian regimes to the “cruelty Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, percent of the 117 cardinals under cyclical, “Spe Salvi” (on Christian first half of this year. The Vatican of capitalism.” the founder of the Legionaries 80 that day. hope), warned that without faith has not said whether or not the The pope spent much of his of Christ, should not exercise his In mid-2007, the pope made an in God, humanity lies at the mercy letter would come out before the time meeting with bishops from priestly ministry publicly. Father important change in the conclave of ideologies that can lead to “the pope’s resignation takes effect around the world when they made Maciel, who enjoyed favor for procedure, restoring the tradition- greatest forms of cruelty and viola- Feb. 28. “ad limina” visits to the Vatican to many years at the Vatican, had al rule that requires a two-thirds tions of justice.” His three-volume work, “Jesus report on their dioceses. been accused of sexually abus- majority for papal election. In do- His third encyclical, “Caritas in of Nazareth,” published between Some of Pope Benedict’s lon- ing minors. In 2009 the pope ap- ing so, he reversed a modification Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”) was 2007 and 2012 in several lan- gest and most-revealing encoun- proved an apostolic visitation of made by Pope John Paul, who had released in 2009 and said ethical guages, emphasized that Christ ters were with priests, in Rome the late priest’s order. allowed the possibility of moving values are needed to overcome must be understood as the Son and elsewhere. He frequently Although he was expected to to a simple majority vote in the the current global economic crisis of God on a divine mission, not spoke of the importance of the reverse a trend set by Pope John case of a deadlocked conclave. as well as to eradicate hunger and as a mere moralist or social re- quality formation of priestly can- Paul, Pope Benedict did not slow promote the real development of former. The books argued that didates, and in 2005 he approved the Vatican’s saint-making ma- Contributing to this story was Cindy all the world’s peoples. while Christ did not bring a blue- the release of a long-awaited doc- chinery, but he did immediately Wooden at the Vatican. 10 PAPAL TRANSITION HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD • MARCH 1, 2013 An astonishing decision: its meaning, significance History may help determine the impact of the resignation

CNS photo By Carol Glatz Pope Benedict XVI attends a celebration for his 85th birthday in the Catholic News Service Clementine Hall at the Vatican April 16, 2012. ROME The halls of history might hold some clues as to what kind of impact Pope Benedict XVI’s resigna- Probing the mystery of tion will have on the church and how to navigate a smooth transition, said a U.S. scholar. the missing encyclical “All these problems surround- By Francis X. Rocca ing how to treat Benedict, what to Catholic News Service call him, how he will be dealt with in his life after the papacy, how VATICAN CITY his death will be dealt with, all Pope Benedict XVI’s historic decision to resign at the end of Feb- of these are new” questions, said ruary has astonished and perplexed the world in many ways, not Joshua Birk, a fellow at the Ameri- least because of what might be called the mystery of the missing can Academy in Rome and expert encyclical. in medieval Mediterranean history. In December, the Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lom- To find some answers or at least bardi, said that Pope Benedict’s fourth encyclical would be released some guidance, “we sort of have in the first half of 2013. Treating the subject of faith, the encyclical to go back to these medieval cases would complete a trilogy on the three “theological virtues,” follow- (of papal resignation) because we ing “Deus Caritas Est” (2005) on charity, and “Spe Salvi” (2007) on literally have nothing else” to go hope. by, he told Catholic News Service Then, on the day after the pope’s announcement, Father Lombar- Feb. 15. di announced that Pope Benedict would not issue another encyclical There’s not much in the annals after all. to sift through, however. Papal res- The news was surprising because it suggested that Pope Bene- ignations are extremely rare with dict, a former professor who has placed a priority on his teaching role as pope, had abandoned the most prominent teaching project only four in the past 1,100 years, of his pontificate just before its completion. This, even though Father he said. And almost every case in- volved popes who were pressured Lombardi said that the pope had pondered resignation for several CNS/courtesy of SimRidge Publishing Ltd. months, and the Vatican newspaper reported that he first considered to step down. Only the voluntary resignation An illustration shows Pope Celestine V resigning from the papacy in 1294. the move in March 2012. It is rare for a pope to step down from his position, and St. Celestine V was It was hardly plausible that so prolific an author might be suf- of St. Celestine V in 1294, he said, can offer relevant parallels to help the last to freely do so. He was known through history as a holy man who fering from writer’s block, even given the deteriorating “strength of rejected the political machinations of the medieval papacy. mind and body” he cited in announcing his resignation. Three days the church make sense of the free and willful resignation of Pope after that announcement, Pope Benedict delivered a highly struc- He declared a Celestine Year Benedict. “For a pope that is generally tured, 46-minute long public talk, without a prepared text and only viewed as incredibly conservative from August 2009 to August 2010 occasionally consulting his notes. The case of Pope Celestine also resulted in some innovative chang- and very traditionalist, this resig- to commemorate the 800th anni- But unlike an off-the-cuff speech, papal encyclicals are not one- nation actually shows a remark- versary of the saint’s birth and he man productions. Though the pope ultimately de- es that he brought with his decision to able innovation on his part,” Birk visited the saint’s relics twice dur- termines their content, they are typically the fruit of said. ing his pontificate. During a trip much behind-the-scenes collaboration with Vatican resign, he said. For example, Birk While the idea of resignation to L’Aquila in 2009, Pope Benedict officials and often with outside consultants as well. The resignation may have been bandied about with placed the long woolen pallium he Pope Benedict’s last encyclical, “Caritas in Veritate” said, the principles behind Pope Celes- other popes, only Pope Benedict received when he was elected on (2009), appeared more than a year after its expected of Benedict XVI has really embraced it with the the saintly pope’s casket and left it date, reportedly because of complications in this pro- tine’s decision to step down and “how “modern understandings of health, there as a gift. cess. It is likely that such was the case again this time. illness and the abilities of mod- Pope Celestine is mostly re- Father Lombardi has suggested that the former Pope Benedict Celestine articulated the ability of a pope to resign are ern science to prolong life even in membered for “his reluctance to might eventually publish the document under his own name, in times of sickness,” he said. take up this sort of burden of the which case it would not rank as part of the papal magisterium. But it incredibly important,” as is the papal bull he issued establishing rules “The innovation Benedict has Apostolic See” and “actually flees is at least as likely that his successor will take up and finish the task. shown in resigning may give the when he hears word he is going to Popes tend to honor their predecessors’ commitments, which is for an abdication. College of Cardinals more leeway be made pope,” Birk said. why everyone assumes that the next pope will travel to Rio de Ja- The late 13th-century pope also and may allow them to be more He was plucked at the age of 79 neiro for World Youth Day in July. Indeed, Pope Benedict’s own first “established the ground rules for innovative and perhaps more for- from his secluded life as a Benedic- encyclical, “Deus Caritas Est,” was started by his predecessor, Blessed how papal conclaves will operate ward-thinking in their selections,” tine monk and hermit and thrust John Paul II. in selecting the pope,” said Birk, he said. into the pontificate after the Col- If the next pope does finish the encyclical on faith, there is reason who teaches history at Smith Col- to think that his predecessor will be happy to have left it incomplete. lege in Northampton, Mass. It’s difficult to evaluate the lege of Cardinals broke a two-year- A major papal document whose production bridged the transi- The formal process used for problems caused directly by Pope long deadlock and elected him in tion between the two pontificates could serve as a reassuring sign centuries to select a new pope, a Celestine’s resignation and those 1294. of continuity after Pope Benedict’s practically unprecedented move. process that generally follows the caused by his successor, Pope Boni- While he never fled, Pope Bene- At the same time, since the next pope would undoubtedly stamp the death of a pope, is actually the face VIII, the historian said. Boni- dict never kept his reluctance to encyclical with his distinctive priorities and style, it would exemplify model St. Celestine established for face imprisoned his predecessor become pope a secret. Pope Benedict’s ideal of reform as “innovation in continuity” with “how to select a pope after a resig- out of fear his many political en- The then-78-year-old pontiff church tradition. nation,” he said. emies might “use Celestine against told a group of German pilgrims Pope Benedict has been careful throughout his pontificate to dis- Before Pope Celestine, the se- him,” try to set him up “as an an- the day after his installation that tinguish his personal writings from his papal documents, by publish- lection process was “less formal- tipope or even make the argument he equated the growing consensus ing his bestselling series of “Jesus of Nazareth” books under the name ized” and often operated much dif- that Celestine’s resignation is il- among cardinals to elect him pope Joseph Ratzinger. ferently from one papal selection legitimate and that Boniface isn’t as “an axe” getting ready to fall Only three days before he announced he would step down, the to the next, he said. exactly pope.” on his head. He had been looking outgoing pope said something that has acquired a more personal “Celestine is the one who really The church will have to grapple forward to a life of peaceful retire- meaning in light of that historic event. Commenting on the First Let- lays down the papal bulls estab- with what having a retired pope in ment and said he felt “inadequate” ter of Peter to an audience of seminarians, Pope Benedict noted in- lishing the rights of the conclave the wings will mean, he said. for a job that demanded great “dy- ternal evidence that the apostle and first pope was not the epistle’s and how they’ll act under these Though there is no danger of namism” and strength. sole author. circumstances” of a vacant see, he any harsh medieval treatment, the Pope Benedict’s coat of arms “He does not write alone, an isolated individual, he writes with said. church will have to simply look at features a bear carrying a pack, the help of the church,” Pope Benedict said. “Peter does not speak as Just as Pope Celestine’s bold “how this transfer is negotiated” or symbolizing the weight of the epis- an individual, he speaks ‘ex persona Ecclesiae,’ he speaks as a man of move carried with it important handled and Celestine’s case “can copate. Pope Benedict has said the the church ... He does not want to say only his word, but truly carries and lasting norms and traditions, be tremendously useful for us to image gave him the encourage- in himself the waters of the faith, the waters of all the church, and so too, may Pope Benedict’s deci- look at.” ment to carry out his ministry like precisely this way gives fertility, gives fecundity and is a personal wit- sion usher in a new approach, the Birk said Pope Benedict felt a a beast of burden, but with confi- ness who opens himself to the Lord.” scholar said. great affection for St. Celestine. dence and joy. MARCH 1, 2013 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD PAPAL TRANSITION 11 Secrecy, formality and smoke Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, the conclave takes place in a rare, ancient and rigid ritual By Cindy Wooden collected and brought back to the Catholic News Service chapel.

VATICAN CITY Casting their ballots The voting by cardinals to elect Each cardinal then walks to the the next pope takes place behind altar, holding up his folded ballot the locked doors of the Sistine Cha- so it can be seen, and says aloud: pel, following a highly detailed pro- “I call as my witness Christ the Lord cedure that underwent major revi- who will be my judge, that my vote sions by Blessed John Paul II and a is given to the one who before God I small, but very significant change, think should be elected.” He places by Pope Benedict XVI. his ballot on a plate, or paten, then Under the rules, secret ballots slides it into an urn or large chalice. can be cast once on the first day of When all of the ballots have been the conclave, then normally twice cast, the first scrutineer shakes the during each subsequent morning urn to mix them. He then transfers and evening session. Except for pe- the ballots to a new urn, counting riodic pauses, the voting continues them to make sure they correspond to the number of electors. The ballots are read out. Each of The conclave the three scrutineers examines each ballot one-by-one, with the last scrutineer calling out the name on until a new pontiff is elected with at the ballot, so all the cardinals can least two-thirds of the votes. record the tally. The last scrutineer Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta, pierces each ballot with a needle secretary of the Pontifical Council through the word “Eligo” and plac- for Legislative Texts, reviewed the es it on a thread, so they can be se- rules with reporters at the Vatican cured. Feb. 22. Introducing Bishop Arrieta, Je- After the names have been read suit Father Federico Lombardi, the out, the votes are counted to see Vatican spokesman, said Pope Bene- if someone has obtained the two- dict at any minute might be signing thirds majority needed for election. a document with minor changes The revisers then double-check the to the law, but the changes would work of the scrutineers for possible make sense only if one knew the mistakes. general laws for a conclave. At this point, any handwritten Many observers had expected notes made by the cardinals dur- Pope Benedict to clarify that the ing the vote are collected for burn- cardinals have the option of begin- ing with the ballots. If the first vote ning the conclave once all the car- of the morning or evening session dinals are in Rome, even if that oc- is inconclusive, a second vote nor- curs sooner than the law’s required mally follows immediately, and the 15 days after the beginning of the ballots from both votes are burned “sede vacante,” literally the vacant together at the end. see, left by the pope’s resignation. When a pope is elected, the bal- Bishop Arrieta told reporters that lots are burned immediately. The in his opinion the cardinals could ballots are burned with chemical make that decision on their own, additives to produce white smoke without a change to the law, since when a pope has been elected; they CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano are burned with other chemicals to the law was “clearly written with a Cardinals process into the Sistine Chapel for the conclave to elect a successor to Pope John Paul II April 18, 2005. ‘sede vacante’ because of death in produce black smoke when the vot- mind.” However, he also said that ing has been inconclusive. as the church’s supreme legislator, John Paul changed the rule to 80 In theory, any baptized male votes of any sick cardinals who re- The conclave is organized in Pope Benedict, before leaving, also years on the day the papacy be- Catholic can be elected pope, but main in their quarters at the Domus blocks: three days of voting, then could set the date for the conclave, came vacant. The change ensured current church law says he must be- Sanctae Marthae; and three “re- a pause of up to one day, followed “although I have no information cardinals did not choose a conclave come a bishop before taking office; visers” who check the work of the by seven ballots and a pause, then that he would do so.” start date specifically to include or since the 15th century, the electors scrutineers. seven more ballots and a pause, The written rules for the con- exclude a cardinal close to the age always have chosen a fellow cardi- The paper ballot is rectangular. and seven more ballots. clave, which have developed in of 80. nal. On the top half is printed the Latin Slightly changing the rules in reaction to the problems — politi- Under current rules, only cardi- Each vote begins with the prepa- phrase “Eligo in Summum Pontifi- 2007, Pope Benedict said that after cal and moral — that have arisen nals who are under the age of 80 ration and distribution of paper bal- cem” (“I elect as the most high pon- about 33 or 34 ballots without an throughout history, are “rigid and Feb. 28, the last day of Pope Bene- lots by two masters of ceremonies, tiff”), and the lower half is blank election — about 12 or 13 days into highly formal,” the bishop said. dict’s pontificate — can vote in the who are among a handful of non- for the writing of the name of the the conclave — the cardinals must conclave. There were 117 cardinals cardinals allowed into the chapel at person chosen. move to a run-off between the top Under the age of 80 eligible, but Feb. 21 Indonesian the start of the session. After all of the noncardinals two vote-getters. The two candi- For example, he said, Pope Paul Cardinal Julius Darmaatmadja, the Then the names of nine voting have left the chapel, the cardinals dates may not participate in the vot- VI’s rules excluded cardinals who 78-year-old retired archbishop of cardinals are chosen at random: fill out their ballots secretly, legibly ing, Bishop Arrieta said, and one of were 80 years old or older on the Jakarta, announced he would not three to serve as “scrutineers,” or and fold them twice. Meanwhile, them is elected only once he obtains day the conclave began. Blessed travel to Rome because of his health. voting judges; three to collect the any ballots from sick cardinals are more than two-thirds of the vote.

THE BALLOT THE URNS THE STOVES THE SMOKE

CNS photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec CNS photo by L’Osservatore Romano CNS photo from L’Osservatore Romano CNS photo by Nancy Wiechec The conclave ballot reads on top “Eli- Three newly created urns will hold the ballots, one urn for those Two stoves for the 2005 conclave, Black smoke rises from the chimney of the go in Summum Pontificem” (“I elect cast inside the Sistine Chapel, another is for ballots cast in the a new one and the original, on Sistine Chapel April 18, 2005, signaling that the as Supreme Pontiff”). The cardinals Domus Sanctae Marthae by cardinals too ill to go to the Sistine. the right. Additives will produce cardinals had taken their first vote for a new cast secret, handwritten ballots. The third urn will hold the counted ballots to be burned. either white or black smoke. pope, but the vote was not conclusive. 12 PAPAL TRANSITION HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD • MARCH 1, 2013 Major voices: Twelve to watch as cardinals gather By Cindy Wooden action. and Francis X. Rocca Italian Cardinal Angelo Sco- Catholic News Service la, 71, is the archbishop of Milan, the archdiocese led by both Popes VATICAN CITY Pius XI and Paul VI when they were Wherever journalists and book- elected. He previously served as makers may be getting the names patriarch of Venice, once the see of on their lists of top candidates for Blessed John XXIII. The cardinal, the next pope, it’s not from the car- a respected academic theologian dinals who will actually vote in the rather than a popular preacher, has election. Both custom and canon CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz CNS photo CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul Haring longstanding ties to one of the new law forbid the cardinals to discuss church movements, Communion the matter in such detail with out- U.S.: Cardinal Timothy M. Hungary: Cardinal Peter Canada: Cardinal Marc Italy: Cardinal Gianfranco Dolan Erdo Ouellet Ravasi and Liberation, which is based in siders. his archdiocese. Moreover, the true “papabili” — Philippine Cardinal Luis literally, pope-ables — are likely to Tagle of Manila, 55, is one of the emerge only after all the worlds’ youngest and newest members cardinals — not just the 117 who of the College of Cardinals. Al- will be under 80 and eligible to though he did not receive his red vote — begin meeting at the Vati- hat until November 2012, he had can in the coming days. already made a name for himself at One thing is already clear, how- the world Synod of Bishops on the ever: because of their experience Word of God in 2008. This leader of and the esteem they enjoy among one of the world’s fastest-growing

CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul Haring churches is a popular speaker with Honduras: Cardinal Oscar Argentina: Cardinal Leon- Guinea: Cardinal Robert Brazil: Cardinal Odilo Pedro a doctorate in systematic theology Rodriguez Maradiaga ardo Sandri Sarah Scherer and has served on the International The conclave Theological Commission, an advi- sory body to the Congregation for their peers, certain cardinals are the Doctrine of the Faith. likely to serve as trusted advisers Cardinal Peter Turkson is to the rest in the discussions and the 64-year-old former archbishop election. of Cape Coast, Ghana, and current Here, in alphabetical order, are president of the Pontifical Council 12 cardinals expected to have a for Justice and Peace. The cardinal, major voice in the deliberations: a biblical scholar who was active in Conventional wisdom has long ecumenical and interreligious dia- held that the cardinals will nev- logue, has frequently appeared on er elect an American pope, lest lists of possible popes. He aroused the leadership of the church ap- CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul Haring Austria: Cardinal Christoph Italy: Cardinal Angelo Philippines: Cardinal Luis Ghana: Cardinal Peter controversy in 2011 with a pro- pear to be linked with the United Schonborn Scola Tagle Turkson posal for a “world central bank” to States’ economic and geopolitical regulate the global financial indus- dominance. But the extroverted try, and then in October 2012 when which will make him a prominent the person spearheading assistance the Vatican for more than a dozen and jocular Cardinal Timothy he showed bishops at the Vatican a voice at the Vatican in the run-up to the neediest of their people. He years, and previously served as M. Dolan, 63, charmed and im- video warning about the growth of to the election. The cardinal, a aroused controversy in 2002 with nuncio to Venezuela and then Mex- pressed many in the College of Muslim populations in Europe. Cardinals in February 2012 when scholar with little direct pastoral remarks about clergy sex abuse that ico. His only experience in a parish he delivered the main presentation experience, has been leading the struck some as overly defensive of was a brief assignment shortly after at a meeting Pope Benedict XVI had universal church’s efforts to devel- accused priests and the church’s his ordination as a priest. called to discuss the new evangeli- op a nonconfrontational dialogue past policies. But he was already Guinean Cardinal Robert zation. The pope himself praised with nonbelievers, trying to make widely mentioned as a possible Sarah, 67, is president of the Pon- Did you know? Christianity intelligible to the mod- pope before the 2005 conclave that tifical Council Cor Unum, which the New York archbishop’s presen- By Cindy Wooden ern mind and build a reason-based elected Pope Benedict. promotes Catholic charitable giv- tation on how to revive the faith Catholic News Service in increasingly secular societies as consensus on key moral issues. Argentine Cardinal Leon- ing. He has used his leadership to “enthusiastic, joyful and profound.” Another religious, a Salesian, ardo Sandri, 69, was born to emphasize Pope Benedict’s teach- VATICAN CITY Although not a familiar name Honduran Cardinal Oscar Ro- parents of Italian descent and has ing that Catholic charitable activity Ambrogio Piazzoni, vice prefect in the press, Hungarian Cardinal driguez Maradiaga of Tegu- maintained strong ties with both It- must not be simple philanthropy, of the Vatican Library and author Peter Erdo of Esztergom-Buda- cigalpa, 70, is president of Cari- aly and Argentina. As prefect of the but an expression of faith, rooted of “History of Papal Elections,” pest, 60, is a major figure among tas Internationalis, the umbrella Congregation for Eastern Church- in prayer and Catholic identity. A shared facts and curiosities with his peers in Europe, the church’s group of national Catholic chari- es, he is familiar with the challeng- scripture scholar and former dioc- journalists at the Vatican Feb. 20: traditional heartland and the re- ties around the world. As a result, es facing Eastern Catholics and the esan bishop, he served nine years gion of more than half the cardinal many of his peers have come to pastoral concerns of the church in as secretary of the Congregation for During World War II, Pope Pius XII, electors. He was elected to a sec- know the multilingual cardinal as the Middle East. He has worked in the Evangelization of Peoples. like several of his predecessors who ond five-year term as president of Another leading voice of the were popes in times of war, left a doc- the Council of European Bishops’ South American church is 63-year- ument informing the College of Car- Conferences in 2011. old Brazilian Cardinal Odilo dinals that if he were taken prisoner, Canadian Cardinal Marc Cardinal electors by region Scherer of Sao Paulo, Brazil’s he was no longer to be considered the Ouellet, 68, is a member of the largest diocese. The son of German pope, so the cardinals were to hold a Society of St. Sulpice, whose mem- There will be 117 cardinals under age 80 eligible to vote for immigrants, he also has strong ties conclave and elect a new pontiff. bers are, strictly speaking, diocesan a new pope after Feb. 28. to Rome. He studied philosophy Pope Paul VI was the pope who priests but which is normally con- and theology at Rome’s Pontifical clarified the exact moment when a sidered a religious order. Hence • • • • • • • • • • • • • Brazilian College and Pontifical candidate becomes pope: It is the he is one of only 19 members of • • • • • • • • • • • • • Gregorian University and worked moment he accepts his election, • • • • • • • • • • • • • religious orders among the cardi- • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • as an official of the Congregation as long as he previously had been • • • • • • • ordained a bishop. If the cardinals nal electors, who are overwhelm- europe: 61 • • • • • • for Bishops from 1994 to 2001. ingly diocesan clergy. He is prefect u.s. and • • • • • Austrian Cardinal Christoph choose someone who has never of the Congregation for Bishops, canada: 14 asia: 11 Schonborn, 68, has known Pope been ordained a bishop, the ordina- which coordinates the nomination • • • • • • Benedict for almost 40 years, hav- tion takes place immediately, then of bishops in Latin-rite dioceses • • • • • ing studied under him at the Uni- the election as pope becomes valid. africa: 11 • around the world, so his work has • • • • • • • • • • versity of Regensburg, Germany. When Blessed Gregory X was elect- oceania: 1 brought him into frequent contact latin america: 19 Even before his former professor ed by a cardinals meeting in Viterbo, with most of his fellow cardinal- became pope, the cardinal was well Italy, in 1271, he was not present and electors. As president of the Pontifi- known at the Vatican and in wider he was not even a priest yet. cal Commission for Latin America, church circles. He was invited in “To put an end to discord” cre- he is well acquainted with one of Countries with more than one cardinal elector 1996 to preach Blessed John Paul ated when two or more candidates the church’s largest and fastest- II’s Lenten retreat and was the main received a similar number of votes, growing regions. The former arch- italy ��28 iNdia ��5 argeNtiNa ��2 editor of the Catechism of the Cath- Pope Alexander II in 1169 established bishop of Quebec, who taught at u�S� ��11 fraNCe ��4 Nigeria ��2 olic Church, published in 1992. As the rule that a candidate must receive the John Paul II Institute at Rome’s germaNy ��6 polaNd ��4 portugal ��2 the church in Austria has struggled a two-thirds majority to be elected. Pontifical Lateran University, is also with declining attendance and calls brazil ��5 mexiCo ��3 Pope John Paul II was the first pope a well-respected theologian. for change in some of its most basic to specify that a conclave must take Italian Cardinal Gianfranco SpaiN ��5 CaNada ��3 disciplines, Cardinal Schonborn’s place in the Sistine Chapel. Previous Ravasi, 70, president of the Pon- response has received increasing popes recommended the chapel, but tifical Council for Culture, was the attention, with some praising his © 2013 Catholic News Service throughout history the conclaves prelate chosen by Pope Benedict prudence and pastoral sensitivity, have been held in a variety of church- to lead his 2013 Lenten retreat, and others calling for more decisive es in Rome and elsewhere. MARCH 1, 2013 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD PAPAL TRANSITION 13 Pope rules cardinals may move up conclave date By Carol Glatz ery cardinal-elector to arrive or to Catholic News Service have sent a legitimate excuse for their absence, such as for reasons VATICAN CITY of infirmity or serious illness, he In his last week as pontiff, Pope told journalists. Benedict XVI issued new rules for The date of the start of the con- conclaves, including a clause that clave will then be determined by allows the College of Cardinals to a majority vote, that is 50 percent move up the date for the begin- plus one of the cardinals present, ning of the conclave to elect his Archbishop Celata said. successor. The other major change to the However, the cardinals cannot rules is that the pope defined the set the date until after the pope exact penalty incurred by support leaves office Feb. 28. staff assisting the cardinal-electors Pope Benedict also defined during a conclave if they break the the exact penalty — automatic oath of secrecy about the proceed- excommunication — that would ings. be incurred by any noncardinal The aides must swear to never assisting the College of Cardinals lend support to or favor any out- who failed to maintain absolute CNS photo from L’Osservatore Romano side interference in the election secrecy about the conclave pro- The last time: Archbishop Piero Marini closes the doors to the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican as cardi- process. Under the old rules, the ceedings. nals begin the conclave to elect a new pope April 18, 2005. penalty for breaking the vow was The pope laid out the new rules to be determined by the future in an apostolic letter issued “motu pope. proprio” (on his own initiative) Instead, Pope Benedict has Feb. 22, the feast of the Chair of ‘Camerlengo’ and other interregnum lingo St. Peter. The Vatican released the rewritten the oath that staff will By Catholic News Service congregations. These continue document Feb. 25. take, stating that they are “aware while the cardinals are in conclave. The changes affect the rules es- that an infraction will incur the ROME Every three days three new cardinals tablished in Blessed John Paul II’s penalty of automatic excommuni- Here is an explanation of some of are chosen by lot to assist the apostolic constitution governing cation.” the terms and practices related to camerlengo. the election of popes, “Universi “The Holy Father wanted to the time between Pope Benedict “Extra omnes”: The Latin Dominici Gregis.” make things immediately clear XVI’s resignation at 8 p.m. Feb. 28 command, “all outside,” orders Under the current rules, which and not pass the burden of decid- and the election of a new pope. everyone who is not authorized remain in effect, upon the va- ing the penalty on to his succes- to be in the Sistine Chapel during sor,” said Archbishop Celata. “Sede vacante”: Dioceses are cancy of the papacy, cardinals in the conclave to leave before the Rome “must wait 15 full days for The penalty for cardinals who also called sees. The Latin for “when conclave starts. break the oath of secrecy, howev- the see is vacant” is “sede vacante.” those who are absent” before they Secrecy: Cardinals take two can enter into a conclave and be- er, remains unspecified. When the vacant see is the Diocese The apostolic letter included of Rome, all major church decisions, oaths of secrecy: not to reveal gin the process of electing a new several other minor changes and such as new legislation or the to anyone anything directly or pope. clarifications, including the addi- appointment of bishops, stops until indirectly related to the election However, Pope Benedict insert- a new pope is elected. Only ordinary of the pope. The first is taken the ed an additional provision that tion of the phrase “at least” to a business and matters that cannot be first day a cardinal joins the general grants the College of Cardinals two-thirds majority when defining postponed can be conducted by the CNS photo/Ivan Alvarado, Reuters congregation; the second, at the “the faculty to move up the start a valid election of a pope. College of Cardinals. The camerlengo: Cardinal Tarcisio start of the conclave. The few of the conclave if all the cardinal- “For the valid election of the noncardinals authorized to assist the Interregnum: The period Bertone, Vatican secretary of state electors are present,” as well as Roman pontiff at least two thirds cardinals while they are in conclave between popes is called an giving them the ability “to delay, if of the votes are required, calculat- also take an oath of secrecy. interregnum — between reigns — current dean. As dean, he calls the there are serious reasons, the be- ed on the basis of the total num- even though Pope Paul VI set aside cardinals to Rome and presides Scrutineers: These are three ginning of the election for a few ber of electors present,” says the many of the regal trappings of the over their daily meetings before the cardinals, chosen by lot at the more days.” revised rule. conclave. Because Cardinal Sodano start of a conclave, to oversee the However, the conclave still Also added were details about is over 80 and ineligible to enter the depositing of the marked, folded must begin no more than 20 days who and how many people out- conclave, the dean’s duties inside ballots for pope into an urn. They after the start of the “sede va- side the College of Cardinals can The conclave the Sistine Chapel will be handled shake the urn, count the ballots to cante.” assist during the conclave. by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the assure the number of votes and The date of the start of the con- The last-minute changes papacy and references to a papal top-ranking cardinal-bishop of those voters matches, then open each clave is to be decided by all the marked the second time Pope “reign” gradually fell into disuse. under 80. Inside the chapel, Cardinal ballot and record and read aloud the cardinals, including those over Benedict amended the rules es- Pope Paul inaugurated his ministry Re will administer the oath of secrecy name on it. They add the votes cast the age of 80, who participate in tablished by Blessed John Paul in in 1963 with a coronation, then and preside over the conclave. When for each candidate to determine if a the daily general congregations 1996. set aside the papal tiara. It was the a candidate achieves a two-thirds pope has been elected and handle or discussions that precede a con- In 2007, Pope Benedict de- the burning of the ballots and any last time a pope wore the beehive- majority vote, the dean — in the clave, said Archbishop Pier Luigi creed that a pope is elected when notes taken by cardinals. shaped tiara, a triple crown. name of the entire college — asks the Celata, the vice chamberlain. He he obtains a two-thirds majority, Conclave: A meeting of cardinals candidate if he accepts the election “Infirmieri”: Three cardinals, will assist Cardinal Tarcisio Ber- even when cardinal-electors are at to elect a new pope is a conclave. and what name he will take. chosen by lot at the start of a tone in the administration of the an impasse, which effectively un- The word — from the Latin “cum Cardinal-electors: Only cardinals conclave, to oversee conclave church during the “sede vacante.” did a more flexible procedure of clave” (with key) — means under under the age of 80 on the day the balloting by any cardinal-electors The cardinals must wait for ev- moving to a simple majority. lock and key. In 1268, cardinals “sede vacante” begins can enter a who are too ill or infirm to sit couldn’t decide on a new pope. After conclave and vote for a pope. Even through the conclave sessions in the nearly three years the people finally if he is retired from other church Sistine Chapel. On each ballot, after locked them up and cut their rations. posts, if a cardinal is under 80 he is depositing their votes in an urn, they The man elected, Pope Gregory X, considered an active cardinal for go together to the sick cardinals ordered that in the future cardinals the purposes of the conclave. As of with blank ballots and a locked box be sequestered from the start, and Feb. 28, there will be 117 cardinal- in which the completed ballots can eventually the practice became electors. be placed through a slit. They return normative. General congregations: All to the conclave and deliver the Camerlengo: Cardinal Tarcisio cardinals who are able to go votes. Bertone, as camerlengo, or to Rome attend the general Revisers: Three cardinals, chosen chamberlain of the Holy Roman congregations, which are daily by lot at the start of a conclave, to Church, assisted by the vice meetings in which the College of recount and verify each round of chamberlain and a canonical Cardinals prepares for a conclave, balloting for the election of a pope, adviser, is in charge of safeguarding discusses the needs of the church whether a pope has been elected on the temporal goods of the church and handles more serious church that ballot. and its temporal rights during the business that must be attended to White smoke, black smoke: The interregnum. The chamberlain between popes. Cardinals over 80 traditional signal, from a chimney heads a three-member commission may participate in these meetings on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, that oversees physical preparations but they are not required to. General whether a pope has been elected: for the conclave and leads what is congregations end when the Black smoke, no; white smoke, yes. called a “particular congregation” cardinals enter into conclave. The smoke is generated by burning — a group of three other cardinals Particular congregations: conclave ballots and notes with chosen by lot — to conduct the Between popes, the church’s chemicals to make the smoke the minor day-to-day business of the camerlengo and three other right color. To avoid any possible Vatican until a new pope is elected. cardinals chosen by lot handle the confusion, the cardinals decided to CNS photo/Paul Haring Dean of the College of Cardinals: day-to-day business of the Holy See have white smoke accompanied by The Domus Sanctae Marthae, the residence where cardinal electors will rest Cardinal Angelo Sodano is the in daily meetings called particular ringing bells. during the conclave, is pictured at the Vatican Feb. 19. 14 MARCH 1, 2013 A SPECIAL FEATURE OF THE HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD MARCH 1, 2013 15

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The1 KALAHEO tion,Parish a bake sale and arts and SchoolNews waste. Donations of paper/plas- Volunteer Corp and learned Holy Cross Parish craft sale. Through their hard tic goods (plates, bowls, forks about their post-graduate ser- work and perseverance, and and spoons) are gladly accepted. vice work. They documented About 80 Kauai vicariate first with the support of the parish- Your donations can be dropped their experiences on a live-blog year Confirmation candi- ioners, they met their goal and off at the church office, Monday- and continue to network via dates attended a retreat led by then some. They left for Los An- & Friday, 9-4 p.m. Transportation Facebook. We hope this leads to Dallas Carter and his retreat geles on Feb. 20. Pictured from is not provided by Holy Trinity continuing the Catholic Worker team in the parish hall, Jan. left are Reynard Galdones, Church. Confirmation candi- mission here in Hawaii. Pictured 25-27. They deepened their Joseph O’Connell, Callie dates receive one service hour from left are Kristeme Manceras, faith listening to the lessons, Vaillanueva, chaperone Her- each time they help. (From the Brandi Lee Gonzales, Cassin the Word, and each other. … menia Villanueva, Tasha parish bulletin) Muramoto, Martin Moore and Can you keep a secret? On Feb. Haimoto-Leite, Kesha Kubo Danny O’Regan. (Reported by 1, after leading the evening’s and James Pratt Jr. May the 17 KAILUA Danny O’Regan) Eucharistic Adoration, Father Holy Spirit enlighten them in 1 2 3 4 5 6 Edison invited the participants St. John Vianney School the gaining of knowledge that “Water” will be the theme of 20 HONOLULU to the weekly Faith Forma- they may use in their ministry. tion in the parish hall. Every- Science Night, March 11, Damien Memorial School (Reported by Pat Phillips; photo directed by the school’s science Bishop Larry Silva, pictured one enjoyed the mega-surprised by Reynard Galdones) look on Father Edison’s face teacher Kaukahi Severson. with Frank Daoang, visited when the session turned out to The new challenge-based learn- our campus on Feb. 15 to en- WAIPIO be his own surprise birthday 3 ing program is designed to help joy breakfast with our seniors party. The potluck dinner was Resurrection of the Lord students understand their rela- in the second annual Bagels delicious. The entertainment Parish tionship with the land and natu- with the Bishop program. included an impromptu hula by Our parish seeks to enrich the ral resources (malama the aina). He encouraged the students to Jasmine Callejo. Happy birth- Lenten season by offering semi- One of the evening’s presenta- continue their faith and Catholic day, Father Edison! … Pictured nars by contemporary Christian tions will show how aquaponics identity after graduating. He are Father Edison and the par- speaker Paul Koleske of Wis- can help increase Hawaii’s food told them about the Christian ish’s first and second year consin. Through inspirational security. The goal of Science youth programs available in Confirmation students mak- speeches and music, Koleske Night is to show how science the Diocese of Honolulu and ing ashes for Ash Wednesday by uplifts Christian spirits and re- 7 8 9 10 11 12 has real life applications. Incred- encouraged them to take advan- burning palms and olive branch- minds us of God’s big plan for ible student displays will be tage of those opportunities. Each es from previous Palm Sundays. our lives. All are welcome to showcased. The event begins at senior also his photo taken with It was another lesson about the seminars, March 4-6, at our 6:30 p.m. in the early learning the bishop. We were especially the Catholic Church for those church. The March 4 seminar, center and continue through six honored to have him preside preparing for Confirmation. “Connecting with the Light of grade classrooms. At 7 p.m., the over Ash Wednesday Mass. … … Parishioners take an active Christ,” focuses on miracles. The seventh and eighth grade Many thanks to the Damien part in maintaining Holy Cross March 5 seminar, “Experiencing students will give Presenta- Ohana for making our Fat Church grounds and cemetery. the Light of Christ,” focuses on tions of Learning in the parish Tuesday Malassada Sale a On “I DO CARE” day, Feb. 16, trust. The March 6 seminar, “Liv- hall. The public is invited to this great success! We expect a profit parishioners weeded, pruned, ing the Light of Christ,” focuses adventure empowering children of nearly $4,000 after cooking and cleaned the headstones and on the light of Christ within us to become enlightened beings 550 dozen treats! A big mahalo cemetery grounds. Mahalo to all all. What better way to celebrate who live in harmony with the to our volunteer parents and who came. Other “I DO CARE” God’s gifts than to spend time land bestowed upon us by God. staff, some who began work at 2 days are planned, including one contemplating the true meaning (Reported by Earl Walker) a.m.! Karen Quimoyog, man- for our mission church, Sacred of life and God’s purpose within ager of the Office of Institutional Heart in Eleele. … Father Edi- it? Lent is a time of sacrifice and 18 HONOLULU Advancement, spearheaded this humility, and God’s many voices son and members of parish orga- 13 14 15 16 17 Cathedral Catholic fundraiser and our cafeteria nizations and ministries headed help us to understand what Academy manager Albert Cabatingan for the Religious Education it truly means to be people of Fourth graders gather around was in charge of the cooking. Congress in Los Angeles faith and to be loved despite all actor-educator-storybook writer (Reported by Diane M. Lota; last weekend. We hope they had our wrongdoings. Pictured are and illustrator Len Villanueva photo by Karen Quimoyog) a safe journey and return and parishioners telling others about who played Socrates the pray that the Holy Spirit guided the seminars by Paul Koleske, Dragon in Paliku’s “Raupunzel, 21 HONOLULU each one through the weekend. shown on the screen. (Reported Rapunzel.” The entire student Holy Family Catholic ... Parish Lenten events begin by Jordan Kamalei Lee) body was blessed to be able Academy with Stations of the Cross in to see the performance and Smiles were broad and bright as church each Friday at 6:30 p.m. 4 HAWI enjoyed the fun characters and Holy Family Catholic Acad- Stations of the Cross for children Sacred Heart Parish well-known story with some emy and the Early Learning will be in the parish hall at 6:30 Once a month on the first Sun- added twists. The charming Center proudly concluded their p.m. on March 1, 8 and 15. On day, our parish holds an “Aloha musical creatively infused al- WCEA accreditation visit March 22, families are invited Breakfast” after the 9:30 a.m. literation with a use of rich vo- Feb. 13-15 with a group photo. to walk the outdoors Stations at Mass open to all parishioners EDITOR’S EDITOR’S cabulary and a great amount of The six-member visiting team, St. Raphael Church in Koloa and visitors. Prepping, serving 18 19 20 CHOICE 21 22 CHOICE drama, music and fantastic story lead by Sally Todd, associate at 6 p.m. … A vicariate-wide and cleaning up behind the telling. (Reported by Michael superintendent of Orange Coun- leadership retreat for those scenes, we always find Marga- Paekukui) ty, Calif., included Theresa who work with youth and ret Couttie and Keao Kai- port of our parishioners who 8 AIEA Rosalie Tadda, married 65 Pictured from left are Chey- the haupia birthday cake and 13 WAHIAWA 14 HONOLULU in their daily routines. We want Burian (St. Joseph Elementary, young adults is March 2, 8 noa. They do an awesome job open their hearts so that our St. Elizabeth Parish years, who renewed their mar- enne Yap, youth coordinator mango ice cream. Entertainment Our Lady of Sorrows Parish Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa to thank him for his visit and his 19 HONOLULU Hilo), Betsey Gunderson volunteering every month. Our riage vows along with the other Annette Scognamillo and continued with the Waimea motivating words. (Reported by a.m.-8:30 p.m., in the parish families can choose Catholic On World Marriage Day, the On Feb. 15, the Singles for Chaminade University (Maryknoll), Celina Haigh breakfast is more like a Sunday couples. The couples received Abbey Freeman. Others who Church Choir accompanied by On Feb. 9, we gave our pastor Ginger Kamisugi) hall, led by Makana Aiona education as an option for their second Sunday in February, 35 Christ young adult ministry Our recent Immersion Expe- (St. Catherine, Kauai), Mary of the Diocesan Office of Youth Brunch with all the ono food a rose and a special blessing. helped prepare the gifts were Puanani Gonsalves on piano. Father Clyde Guerrero a children is always an amaz- parish couples celebrated their gathered for a love forum mod- rience in Los Angeles brought Tavares (Our Lady of Good and Young Adult Ministry. … that they serve. Parishioners The Taddas and another couple, Sean Janneck and Issac The DeLeon sisters danced farewell party mixed with HONOLULU ing thing to witness. Pictured anniversaries, ranging from 24 erated by the Couples for 16 together students from Chami- Counsel), and Nani Vegas (St. The Parish Lenten Retreat, also donate food. … On Fridays James and Violet Vegas, Freeman. The elders welcomed beautiful hulas to “Pua Olena” joy and sorrow. Joy, because are Father Benny Kosasih, to 71 years for a total of 1,602 Christ. The young adults lis- Sacred Hearts Academy nade, St. Mary’s University Louis). Joining in the celebra- led by Sister Irene Regina, of Lent at 7 p.m. we have the who are married 70 years, the youths with smiles and were and “In These Islands.” Beverly we enjoyed fellowship together. Father Dedi Riberu and pa- years of commitment to their vo- tened to talks and heard person- High School and the University of Dayton tion are Holy Family pastor begins after the 6:30 p.m. Sta- Stations of the Cross. Every- received a special award from happy with the visits. They Johnston led a lively game of Sorrow, because we will surely rishioner Darlene Correa at cation of marriage. Among them al sharing from married couples Members of our liturgical to form a more socially aware Father Sebastian Chacko, tions of the Cross on March 8, body invited.” Deacon Tom says, World Marriage Encounter. shared stories of their young Jeopardy with the Franciscan miss him. As we were happy the event. (Reported by Kuulei were Sterling and Victoria who journey in their calling to corps performed a skit illustrat- community that embodies the Hawaii Catholic Schools su- and after the 4:30 p.m. Mass on “Please come and reflect on The parish also honored six oth- years growing up. The group Sisters of Christian Charity to welcome him seven months perintendent Mike Rockers, Halemano) Cale who celebrated their 71st Holy Matrimony. The forum also ing temptations during our Ash Marianist charism. During the March 9. … Kauai’s Peniten- Christ’s love for you!” (Reported er couples who validated their sang a song leaving a beauti- and their team The Badgers and 10 days ago, we are sad to principals Christina Malins anniversary. … We joyfully wel- gave awareness about the dif- Wednesday service focusing on first week of January, I joined tial services will take place on by Lee Rivera) marriages on Feb. 9. The cel- ful memory with the elders of beating the St. Joseph, Waipahu, let him go. The Lord is sending and Kalei DeMello, and as- comed Oblate of St. Joseph ferent vocational callings young the Lenten season. The inspira- four students from each of the March 4 at Immaculate Concep- 7 KALIHI KAI ebrations are part of the parish’s their Valentine’s visit. The youth team. The Kasibulan Filipino Father Clyde to another place sistant principals Mary Essig- Father Arnold Ortiz to our adults can respond to in life. tional program emphasized the three Marianist universities for tion Church, Lihue; March 5 at 5 PUNAHOU St. Anthony Church Year of Faith pastoral plan, a continue to reach out and share Dance Group performed a that needs the same guidance Morrow and Carol Chong. parish Jan. 23 as our new paro- Jeremiah 9:11: God loves us so importance of positive thinking a week-long immersion focusing St. Catherine Church, Kapaa; Sacred Heart Parish Our parish held its third PREX joint effort of our parish pas- their faith and love with the el- Maria Clara medley. Principal he provided for us — to bring (Reported by Christina Malins; chial vicar. He comes with lots much that he wants us to experi- by freeing hate from the heart on immigration, homelessness March 6 at St. Theresa Church, Priscilla Jeffrey, all dressed (Parish Renewal Experience) toral council and Worldwide der community, including them Mary Jean Buza Sims then photo by Michelle Izon) of experience in youth activities, people closer to the Lord. In his ence the fullness of life that he and worry from the mind. Our and urban education. Through Kekaha; and March 7 at St. Ra- up for the parish Mardi Gras Seminar, Feb. 2-3, at St. An- Marriage Encounter under the in parish life with periodic visits. presented Father Arnel with a families were encouraged to live Life Teen and building his own farewell speech, with tears and has planned for us. (Reported by the assistance of Father Ted phael Church, Koloa. The peni- celebration, is greeted by pastor thony Retreat Center in Kalihi leadership of Jose and Mary (Reported by Esther Yap) larger than life birthday card simply, to give more, and expect HONOLULU parish church. Even before he choked up voice, he mentioned Oswald Bumanglag) Ley and the Carmelite Sis- 22 tential service for Holy Cross is Father Gordian Carvalho, Valley. Because our pastor La Elizabeth Alvior. (Reported by signed by the students of St. less. Parents and educators came, he loved Hawaii’s culture, that for the short time that he ters, the group stayed in a villa Maryknoll Grade School March 11 at 7 p.m. Please make left, and retired Father Paul Msgr. John Mbinda) 12 KEKAHA Theresa School. Mrs. Buza Sims were also motivated to develop Salette Father Manuel Dela food and music. A little bird was with us, he loved us, espe- at the Santa Teresita Medical Our fourth graders sang at every effort to attend a peniten- Smith. (Reported by Noel Sim- St. Theresa Parish expressed gratitude and appre- 15 PEARL CITY positive attitudes serving as role Cruz had to be at the retreat says he keeps a Hawaiian music cially the youth whom he guided Center in Duarte near L.A. Iolani Palace in February with tial service as your preparation bajon) 10 KAILUA-KONA On Feb. 9, parishioners from ciation for Father Arnel’s strong Our Lady of Good Counsel models. Lent is the 40 days, be- center a day before the seminar, station on online during office in their youth ministry activi- The week consisted of daily the Royal Hawaiian Band for Easter. (Reported by Judy St. Michael Parish here and Sacred Hearts of support of our parish school. School ginning on Ash Wednesday, Feb. on Feb. 1 Father Enrique hours. He’s been meeting as ties. He won’t forget the joy of reflection and prayer, cultural as part of an Outreach Music Cabanting) 6 KANEOHE The children were invited to Jesus and Mary Church in Father Arnel started an aerobic Comedian Frank De Lima 13, and ending on Wednesday of “Ike” Lapuebla, associate many parishioners as possible working with his diligent staff, experiences, sightseeing, and Education Program sponsored St. Ann Parish bury the “alleluia” for Lent Waimea celebrated a birthday line dance and was quickly paid a visit on Feb. 19 treat- Holy Week, March 27. (Reported pastor of St. Theresa Church of and was amazed to receive so committees and coordinators, fellowship and service in the by the Hawaií Youth Opera 2 PAPAIKOU at the conclusion of Mass on party for our pastor La Salette joined by others bringing lots ing students from preschool by Haley Matson-Mathes) diverse Los Angeles community. Our parish and school held Kekaha, Kauai, celebrated our many leis in the first weekend and of everyone’s love for him. Chorus and the Hawaiian Immaculate Heart of Mary Feb. 10. The alleluia is not sung Father Arnel Soriano with of laughter to everyone! The 3 through grade eight to an The students met a Vietnamese Music Hall of Fame. Ms. its eighth annual scholar- 6 p.m. First Friday Mass. After with us. Get used to it, Father! Office manager Janice Van- Parish ship dinner and dance on again at Mass until Easter. (Re- his friends from his former evening ended with Father Arnel animated presentation on the KULIOUOU immigrant and worked in the Wendy Chang, Maryknoll’s Mass, he led the Exposition We are very happy to have you. natta said that Father Clyde’s Starting last September and Feb. 8, at Koolau Golf Courses ported by Shirley David) parish, St. Joseph Church in expressing his thanks and every- importance of a good education. Holy Trinity Parish Union Rescue Mission kitchen. music teacher, taught the of the Blessed Sacrament (Reported by Linda Cacpal) singing to the Lord every time throughout the months of Octo- Grand Ballroom. The evening Waipahu, and Father Edison one forming a circle to sing “Ha- He inspired the students to want We help feed 30-50 homeless They visited the Catholic children traditional Hawaiian and joined parishioners in the ber, November and December, was filled with music by Ekolu 11 HAIKU Pamintuan, pastor of Holy Cross, waii Aloha.” Our parish extends he is in the parish office would to start the day in a positive at Queen’s Beach every Saturday Worker, Homeboy Industries chants, singing and hula to per- the young adults from our Makou, a silent auction and Holy Hour. He is pictured during 9 MILILANI St. Rita Parish Kalaheo. All enjoyed a potluck a very Maligayang Bati to always bring joy to everyone. He frame of mind, arriving to school at 6:15 a.m. Whatever you can for ex-gang members, Dolores form with the Royal Hawaiian parish held fundraisers for a raffle, delicious food, fun photos Benediction, being assisted by St. John Apostle and On Feb. 9, the parish youth fellowship and an evening of fun both Father Arnel and associate is being transferred to the King- excited to learn and ready to bring will be appreciated. Your Mission School, the Marianist Band. With fourth grade teach- trip to the L.A. Congress in by Snappy Shots, and dancing Fortunato Sipin. We thank Evangelist visited the homebound el- and games. Our parish Filipino pastor Father Enrique “Ike” dom of Tonga. He jokingly said greet not only the teacher; but family is also invited to join us. community at Chaminade West ers Ms. Lorraine Kojima, Anaheim, Calif. They sold cook- into the night with the Shining Father Ike for celebrating the More than 40 couples celebrated ders in the Haiku community. Catholic Club sang a medley Lapuebla who celebrated his that they will make him a king the day as well. Mr. De Lima If you want to attend, please Hills, Mount St. Mary’s Univer- Ms. Julie Chang and Ms. ies, chips, poinsettia plants, had Star Band. This event raises Mass especially on the First Fri- 50 years or more of marriage The youth created Valentine of Filipino songs and Father birthday on Feb. 6. (Reported when he was asked not to forget also explained the importance contact Mr. D. Occasionally a sity and the Cathedral of Our Dawn Shiinoki-Ho helping, a Grandparents Day breakfast, money for our scholarship day of the month. (Reported by on World Marriage Day, Feb. cards for each visit and delivered Arnel interpreted some of them by Chantal A. Duarte; photo by us when he is in his “Kingdom.” of higher education and how large group of volunteers show Lady of the Angels. The students Ms. Chang directed 12 sessions a rummage sale and silent auc- fund. The generosity and sup- Fe Rodillas) 10. Pictured are Frank and gifts decorated for the occasion. in dance. Everyone enjoyed Nelly Capino) (Reported by Pacita Baron) reading plays an important role up and some of the food goes to also met members of the Jesuit over the past month to prepare 14 MARCH 1, 2013 A SPECIAL FEATURE OF THE HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD MARCH 1, 2013 15

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TheParishMARCH 1, 2013 SchoolA SPECIAL FEATURE OF THE HAWAII CATHOLICNews HERALD the students for their big day. 27 HONOLULU four teams in the American The students were definitely St. Anthony School Cancer Society’s Maui All ready to sing and dance the & Youth Relay for Life. They Selected sixth, seventh and hula, and were well received by raised $4,460. Pictured is the eighth graders participated in the audience, even getting the Action Team, from left, Pomai the Math Counts competition crowd to participate in some Pruett, moderator; Emily Fer- at Kamehameha Schools on Feb. songs. (Reported by Maureen reira, Lena Souza, Rebekah 9. Much mahalo to Josefina Meyer) Hallsten, Amelia Imada, Coronado who tutored the Alicia Ballesteros, Grant students for three months! (Re- MAKAWAO Nolette, Tia Seki, Jonathan 23 ported by the school) St. Joseph Early Learning Ibanez, Isaiah Ragasa, Kai- tlin Lopez. Not pictured: Jan- Center 28 HONOLULU We celebrated St. Valentine’s ice Pruett, Keili Johnson. Maryknoll High School (Reported by Janice Pruett) Day with a family picnic at 23 24 In honor of our founders, the school grounds. Families sophomores spent Thursday could enjoy a lunch with their 31 MANOA afternoon volunteering in vari- St. Francis School cupid. The students exchanged ous venues, truly making God’s Ms. Julia Steele, editor-at- goodies, cards and Valentine love visible. Some helped grade large of Hana Hou, Hawaiian cards with their fellow class- school students make valen- Airlines’ in-flight magazine, was mates. They sang and serenaded tines to send to the Maryknoll a guest speaker for the Quill their families and friends with Sisters’ motherhouse in New and Scroll Journalism Hon- Valentine tunes and presented York. The grade schoolers and them with gifts before partaking high school partners also made or Society at our school. Ms. in the outdoor picnic. The family rosaries to be auctioned off at Steele enlightened our students’ picnic has been a tradition now the Kekumano Scholarship Din- awareness of becoming a feature for over 13 years and is a won- ner. Other students and advisors writer. Pictured are students derful time to spend a day with spent the afternoon with the Julia Steele, yearbook teacher loved ones. (Reported by Helen 25 26 children at Shriners Hospi- Bart Wilson, Germaine Ka- Souza) tal, or the adults at Central butaulaka, Kelsie Hee, Ju- Union Church, making valen- lia Steele, Isabel Luk, Kayla HONOLULU tines, playing games and having Morrow and English/journal- Sts. Peter and Paul Parish a fun-filled afternoon. Others ism teacher Robin Mishell. The following children were did some good, old-fashioned (Reported by Karen Curry) baptized Feb. 9 and 10: Try- spring cleaning at Makiki Li- phena Ulatifa Pualani Fa- brary shelving books and dust- 32 HONOLULU nene, child of Vito Fanene ing, while others took care for St. Theresa School and Anna Maria Timoteo; God’s earth by landscaping and The students celebrated Fat Emma Grace Badiable, child gardening at the YWCA. All took Tuesday with a parade around of Eugene Badiable and to heart our motto, “Noblesse our campus and down School Karen Pagampao; Jayse Lo- Oblige,” helping to enrich the Street. The students from kin- gan Seson Salcedo, child of lives of many last Thursday. Pic- dergarten through eighth Lylle Salcedo and Joanne tured are third grader Landon grade decorated and wore their Seson; Nahaku’elua Salvy 27 28 Hung (left) and sophomore own masks, hats and stream- Aquino, child of Jon Salvy Trevor Lau. (Reported by Mau- ers. At the conclusion of the Aquino and June Pualani reen Meyer; photo by Stephanie parade, the students indulged Tandal; Jaykob Isaiah A. Conching) in delicious malassadas and Ladiero, child of Kristian D. Spanish rolls while enjoying Ladiero and Alysha Acuna. 29 HILO New Orleans style jazz music. God bless the parents and the St. Joseph Grade School Pictured are the second grad- newly baptized. (From the parish At our Ash Wednesday service ers modeling their masks and bulletin) on Feb. 13 in the school chapel, the kindergarteners showing the children learned about the off their hats. (Reported by Kar- WAIALUA meaning of the special day and son Kim) St. Michael Parish the season of Lent. They listened Parishioners enriched their to Bible readings and prayed 33 WAILUKU personal relationship with God and sang to prepare their minds St. Anthony Grade School during this Lenten season at our and hearts for this season of re- The student council delivered parish lenten retreat, Feb. 29 30 newal. During Lent, the students the school’s Valentine project 18-20, at 7 p.m. in the church, will have a chance to participate to Hale Makua Wailuku’s sponsored by the Adult Faith in traditional Catholic Lenten nursing home residents Formation Ministry. They practices, like praying the Sta- on Valentine’s Day. Students reflected on Scripture, fasting, tions of the Cross and giving contributed cards and uplifting almsgiving, reconciliation, fel- alms through the Rice Bowl words of love through their vari- lowship and prayer. The theme program to feed the poor. Fac- ous creations. The student coun- was “My Words Shall Not Pass ulty and students are all looking cil members are Rhea Chung, Away” (Matthew 24:35). The forward to growing in prayerful- secretary; Lia Delizo; Taylor spiritual director was Father ness, charity and self-control Lee; Tatiana Martinez, presi- David Lupo, SS.CC., chaplain, during this holy season. Pictured dent; Zoe Dadian, treasurer; St. Anthony Retreat Center. is kindergartener Koali Ito Noah Dods; Riley Williams, (From the parish bulletin) reading from the Book of the vice president; Parker Al- Prophet Isaiah. (Reported by Vic- meida; Elijah Uwekoolani; 24 HONOLULU 31 32 toria Torcolini) Kahiau Snyder; Leiana Sacred Hearts Academy Thornton and Anjeleigh Lower School 30 WAILUKU Dela Cruz. (Reported by Teri Our junior kindergarten St. Anthony Jr./Sr. High Tavares) Gold students celebrated School Chinese New Year by watch- For Valentine’s Day, the Stu- 34 HONOLULU ing the senior kindergarten dent Government/Action Saint Louis School students perform a unique Team sold Val-O-Grams and Our faculty, staff and stu- dragon dance. After the show, Song dedications to earn dent body kicked off the sea- the kindergartners had fun feed- funds to do something fun for son of Lent with Ash Wednesday ing the dragon puppets with the students, since most projects Mass. School chaplain, Mari- their lucky candies. During their are geared toward community anist Father Ken Templin, work time, the students also service and fundraisers for non- celebrated Mass and challenged made yummy Chinese pretzels. profits. However, on Valentine’s the students to do something It was truly a special day to Day morning, student body meaningful for others during learn and appreciate the culture president Isaiah Ragasa the Lenten season — an act of of China. (Reported by Hayley 33 34 asked student activities coor- kindness, additional prayer time Matson-Mathes; photo by Tenn dinator Janice Pruett if the or anything helpful and posi- Kusaka) tive. Father Ken encouraged the Bee in March. Congratulations students in learning how to dents Guild annual Father/ money could be donated to the Leo Klink Fund for his col- students to add the letters PFA Kelci and Maya! (Reported by create an attractive, low main- Daughter Dance is 6:30-8 25 KANEOHE lege education. Leo’s mother to their Facebook pages. PFA, he Kuulei Halemano; photo by Joc- tenance garden that can be a p.m., March 2, in Father Henry St. Ann School suffered a brain hemorrhage said, “stands for prayer, fasting elyn Burch) After weeks of studying with source of herbs and food. … The Hall. Cost is $10 and includes while watching her son play soc- and almsgiving and that is what family members, teachers and fourth graders visited Lani- photo and refreshments. … cer in the Hawaii State Soccer your Lenten journey should be friends, seventh grader Maya 26 KAILUA kuhonua Cultural Center on Feb. Organizers of the St. Anthony Championship game and later all about.” Instead of the usual McGarry and eighth grader St. Anthony School 19. The next day, 14 middle School 60th Anniversary died. Although Leo would be giving something up for Lent, he Kelci Ige represented our Our school sponsored a work- school students competed in Gala and Silent Auction, receiving soccer scholarships, challenged us to do something school on Feb. 5 at the Wind- shop, Feb. 11, on how to start an the State Science Fair. Stu- April 13, at the Kaneohe Marine his father, who is permanently for our parents, brothers, sisters ward District Spelling Bee edible landscaping project, dents ended the week with the Corps Base Officer’s Club are disabled, said Leo’s education and others. Ashes were placed at LeJardin Academy. Both co-sponsored by Grow Ha- sixth grade leading a school looking for alumni to add to is now in question because of on the students’ foreheads as a students encountered many waii, a gardening initiative of Mass. … Girls, dress up and the list of invitees. Email ptsg@ costs. The St. Anthony students reminder of human mortality intense rounds, but in the end, the Hawaii Independent Schools enjoy an evening with the most saskailua.org. The cost for the donated $214 to the Leo Klink and as a sign of mourning and Maya won second place and will Association. Teachers from other adored man in your life — your benefit event is $60. (Reported Fund. … Also this past weekend, repentance to God. (Reported by compete in the State Spelling schools joined our teachers and dad. The Parent Teacher Stu- by Kristie Carpenter) the school’s Action Team had Eric Young) MARCH 1, 2013 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD HAWAII 17

The elect sign in At Rite of Election ceremonies across the diocese during the weekend of Feb. 16-17, more than 200 catechumens signed their names into the Book of the Elect, signifying their desire to be received into the Catholic Church at Easter. Catechu- mens from Oahu, at left, gathered at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa on Feb. 17 for the special ceremony.

HCH photos by Darlene Dela Cruz Two Maryknoll Sisters, former Hawaii teachers, mark 75th anniversaries Two Maryknoll Sisters who years at St. Ann School in Kaneo- Sister Eugenie moved to the of Maryknoll Sisters. After com- served for decades in Hawaii he and 10 years at St. Augustine Maryknoll residence in Monrovia, pletion of her master’s degree in marked their 75th anniversaries School in Waikiki. Calif., in 1993 before settling at the science education in 1965, Sister of religious life last month at the In 1968, she gained a master’s New York motherhouse in 2003. Leona continued working in pro- Maryknoll Sisters Center, near Os- degree in communications from Sister Leona taught for more motion for another year. sining, N.Y. the University of Hawaii. From than 25 years in Hawaii over two Sister Leona taught science at Sister Eugenie Therese Cour- 1971 to 1979, she headed the separate assignments. Monte Maria Academy in Guate- tright and Sister Leona Michiels, Theology Resource Center and Born in Chicago, Sister Leona mala City, Guatemala, from 1967 both of whom taught in Hawaii educational communications at entered Maryknoll in 1938. Her to 1971, returning to Hawaii in schools in the Islands’ pre- and Maryknoll High School, where she first assignment was at St. Antho- 1971 to teach science again at St. post-statehood days, celebrated Sister Eugenie Sister Leona also taught music. She then joined ny High School in Wailuku, a posi- Ann until 1976. their milestones at a Mass in the Therese Michiels the staff of the Maryknoll Sisters’ tion she held until 1959. She then She returned in 1976 to the center’s main chapel on Feb. 10 Courtright Hawaii regional house. moved to Oahu to teach science Maryknoll Sisters Center in Os- with 21 other sisters marking 80, In 1984, she returned to the and math at Maryknoll School and sining, doing congregational work 70 and 60 years. graduating from high school. Maryknoll Sisters Center to work science at St. Ann High School in until 2006. Sister Eugenie Therese worked After earning a degree in edu- for three years in the develop- Kaneohe. Founded in 1912, the Maryk- for more than 40 years in Hawaii. cation, her first assignment was ment department. She returned From 1963 to 1964, she did noll Sisters have nearly 500 mem- Born in Mount Pleasant, Mich., Maryknoll Grade School in Hono- to teaching in 1987, this time promotion work for her congrega- bers from both the United States she entered Maryknoll in New lulu where she taught from 1943 in Jacksonville, Fla., where she tion, speaking at parishes in New and elsewhere working primarily York in 1938, three years after to 1959. She then taught for two served until 1993. York and Chicago about the work among the poor in 26 countries.

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Photo courtesy of Chaminade University Good works and Marianist ways Chaminade University honored three extraordinary people whose good works have not gone unnoticed in a special service Feb. 11 in Mystical Rose Oratory. From left: Senior Dominique Bocanegra received the Founder’s Award, which honors a Chaminade student whose generosity and spirit of faith exhibits a continuous commitment to Marianist values. Marianist Brother Jerry Bommer, Chaminade’s rector emeritus, received the Chami- nade Award, which honors a faculty member who promotes the dignity and rights of all people. Venus Ituralde, director of residential life, received the Marianist Award, which honors a staff member who lives the Marian- ist traits of openness, hospitality, graciousness and faith in a loving God. Standing in back are Chaminade president Marianist Brother Bernard Ploeger, left, and Chaminade rector Marianist Father George J. Cerniglia. 22 WORLD HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD • MARCH 1, 2013 Vatican official: German bishops’ rule on ‘Plan B’ for rape acceptable By Carol Glatz love, it is an act of violence (and) said Feb. 21. “Christian mission and purpose.” of the treatment when physicians Catholic News Service the woman has a right to defend “Medical and pharmaceutical In a further statement Jan. 31, determined rape victims had not herself against this attack,” he said. methods that result in the death of the cardinal said he believed it was ovulated. VATICAN CITY However, “once a new life has an embryo may still not be used. The acceptable in Catholic teaching to In 2001, the U.S. Conference of The Catholic Church has long been conceived, now you have a sec- German bishops trust that, in facili- use “a medication that hinders con- Catholic Bishops issued directives accepted the possibility of prevent- ond innocent victim, and you don’t ties run by the Catholic Church, de- ception after a rape with the aim of for Catholic health care that said ing ovulation in a woman who has attack that victim” by administering cisions on practical treatment will avoiding fertilization.” raped women could be treated with been raped, but withdraws that op- drugs with abortive effects like pre- be based on moral and theological However, the cardinal’s office “medications that prevent ovulation if there is a possibility that ovu- venting implantation, he said. guidelines. In every case, the deci- said the observation applied only tion, sperm capacitation or fertil- lation may have already occurred, Bishop Carrasco and Doerflinger sion of the woman concerned must to rape cases, not Catholic mar- ization” when conception had not said the president of Vatican’s Pon- agreed that it is up to doctors and be respected.” riages, and said there had been “no occurred, but ruled out treatments tifical Academy for Life. scientists, not the church, to deter- The statement was issued at the change” in the German church’s aimed at “the removal, destruction A recent statement by bishops in mine if a drug’s effect will be con- close of the bishops’ four-day spring condemnation of “abortion pills” or interference with the implanta- Germany saying it was acceptable traceptive or abortive. plenary in Trier. based on the drug mifepristone. tion of a fertilized ovum.” to use medication that hinders con- However, while the church’s It said a “moral and theological Church spokesmen said the bish- Catholic bishops and hospitals in ception after rape reflects an “un- moral stance is clear, science is evaluation” of the morning-after ops’ plenary would debate the issue several states have agreed to com- assailable rule” that has been pro- still not 100 percent certain in de- pill had been provided by Cardinal to clear up misunderstandings in ply with state laws that required posed by the Catholic Church the termining whether ovulation has Karl Lehmann of Mainz, president the German church, which runs a past 50 years, said Bishop Ignacio them to administer the morning- occurred, Doerflinger said, adding of the bishops’ commission for doc- quarter of all hospitals in the coun- after pill in cases of rape. Carrasco de Paula. that “some people dispute the reli- trine and faith, “on the basis of sci- try and half in the Cologne region. “To consider the possibility of us- ability of the tests for whether ovu- entific findings.” As early as 1985, British and Contributing to this story was Jona- ing a drug whose active ingredient lation has occurred.” However, it added that the bish- Irish bishops approved application than Luxmoore in Warsaw, Poland. is a contraceptive in the case of a “That’s something that we hope ops would continue studying the woman who has been raped seems that research can clarify in the fu- issue and making “necessary differ- acceptable to me,” he told “Vatican ture, but the prospect of being sure entiations” with “those responsible Vatican, South Sudan establish diplomatic links Insider,” the online news supple- about this is very limited,” he said. in Rome,” as well as holding talks ment to the Italian newspaper La “The Catholic doctor has to with Catholic hospitals, gynecolo- By Paul Jeffrey nunciature here, and it doesn’t Stampa. study the evidence that’s out there gists and consultants. Catholic News Service matter if it takes six months or The church, however, refuses the and make a responsible decision,” Controversy erupted over Ger- two years or more, is a big deal,” administration of an abortive drug he said. “If there’s serious evidence man church attitudes to rape vic- JUBA, South Sudan Father Nicholas Kiri Bate, vicar in all cases, he said on the sidelines that the abortifacient effect is there, tims in December, after a 25-year- The Vatican announced it was general of the Archdiocese of of a workshop, Faith and Human our moral approach should be to old was referred by her doctor to establishing diplomatic relations Juba, told Catholic News Ser- Life, sponsored by the academy not risk the destruction of life.” two Catholic clinics in Cologne after with South Sudan, but a church vice. Feb. 22. In a Feb. 21 statement, the Ger- being drugged at a party and suffer- official in Juba said the move “It may take a while, as things “In the case of rape, one can do man bishops said morning-after ing suspected rape. was unlikely to happen soon. here have their own rhythm. But what is necessary to avoid a preg- pills, sometimes called “Plan B,” However, doctors refused to The move means South Su- it’s significant in that it reflects nancy, but you cannot terminate it,” can be dispensed at church-run hos- treat her, claiming this would re- dan will open an embassy in the the government’s desire to col- the bishop said. pitals to prevent rape victims from quire using the morning-after pill, Vatican, while the church will laborate closely with the church. Richard Doerflinger, associate becoming pregnant. often taken after sex to avoid preg- open an apostolic nunciature in Yet even more importantly it director of the U.S. bishops’ Secre- “Women who have been victims nancy. Juba. reflects what the people think. tariat for Pro-Life Activities and a of rape will, of course, receive hu- The woman was later treated at Meanwhile, Archbishop Leo Even before independence, the member of the pontifical academy, man, medical, psychological and a Protestant-run hospital. Boccardi, papal nuncio to Su- people invited Pope John Paul told Catholic News Service that pastoral help in Catholic hospitals In a Jan. 22 statement, Cologne dan and Eritrea, will continue II to come to our independent “you are not violating the teaching — this can include administration Cardinal Joachim Meisner apolo- to represent the Vatican in South country. So this desire for a clos- on contraception by seeking to stop of the ‘morning-after pill’ as long as gized for the clinics’ “shameful fail- Sudan. er relationship has been there ovulation or fertilization.” it has a preventive rather than abor- ure” to care for the woman, adding “The news that we’ll have a for quite a while,” he said. Rape “is not an act of unitive tive effect,” the bishops’ conference that it contradicted the church’s

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Good Friday to Saturday afterEaster Divine MercyNovena Sunday, May1, 2011 March29toApril 6, 2013 1:45 PM Divine MercyAssembly March 29, 2:20PM-1stDay -GOOD FRIDAY 2:00 PM DIVINE MERCYHOLYHOUR March 30, 2:45PM-2nd Day-HOLY SATURDAY 3:00 PM HOUR OF MERCYPRAYER/ Novena & Prayers only during Triduum HOLY MASS By Bishop Larry Concelebrantswelcome March21toAPril 6, 2013 4:00 PM:Blessing of theDivineMercy 2:45PM3rd Day tillthe 9thDay Images All7Novena Days with Mass at theHour of Mercy Annual Dedication TheImage of theDivineMercy is to be ceremoniously of the blessed. TheImage should be exposedto all takingpart DioceseofHonolulu in thecelebration &animage maybeleftinaposition JESUSsaid: “BythisNovena[of Chaplets], &the Islands that all cantouch &say “Jesus,ITrustInYou.” of Hawaii Iwillgrant everypossiblegrace to souls.” Bringyourown images for blessing on this Mercy, Sunday,April 7, 2013 THETHREE O’CLOCKHOUR... “Thisisthe hour HisExcellency, Bishop Larry Silvawiththe witnessing of Lt.Gov.DukeAiona on April 23, of GreatMercy forthe wholeworld ... at this Hour 2006, MERCYSUNDAY, dedicatedour Diocese “I desire that priestsproclaim this greatMercy of Mine Iwill refuse nothingtothe soul that makesare- andthe IslandsofHawaiitoDIVINEMERCY.A towardssouls of sinners. Let thesinnernot be afraid to questofMein virtueofMyPassion,providingitis heavenly inspired move courageously takenup approachME, the Flames of Mercyare burning ME — compatible to My Will.” by ourBishop. clamoringtobespent;Iwant to pour them outupon thesesouls." [Diary5O] Nowoursisthe responsibilityto apply, promote (IMAGE OF DIVINEMERCY &OTHER RELIGIOUS anddisseminate themessagesofDivineMercy, Thecompleteblessings of theUnitedHearts ITEMSAVAILABLE FORPURCHASE. Chaplets, Novena &Acts of Love &Mercy. Proc eedstogotoBishop’sDiocesan Projects) As we affirm: JESUS, WE TRUSTIN YOU! Info 545-3546 MARCH 1, 2013 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD FEATURES 23 Father Kenneth Doyle QUESTION CORNER Isn’t working on Catechesis the Sabbath sinful? My grown children often work on Sunday, and I believe that they don’t feel that it is sinful. Sometimes they ask me to babysit Q their children while they work — anything from farm work, remodeling their house, mowing the lawn, etc. Am I guilty of aiding and abetting them if I babysit, or am I exempt from guilt because they don’t think they’re sinning? (I’m a little scrupulous and worry a lot about this.) (Morrilton, Ark.) Pope Benedict XVI leads his final Angelus The church’s Code of Canon Law is rather gen- as pope from the window of his apartment A eral in its description of the Sabbath rest and overlooking St. Peter’s Square Feb. 24. leaves room for personal judgments. It says simply in CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano via Reuters No. 1247 that, in addition to going to Mass, Catho- lics should “abstain from those works and affairs which hinder the worship to be rendered to God, the joy proper to the Lord’s day, or the suitable relax- Benedict: I am not abandoning the church ation of mind and body.” By Francis X. Rocca 150,000, with some estimates as high love and strength derived from it, so The Catechism of the Catholic Church is a bit as a quarter of a million. The crowd as to serve our brothers and sisters more elaborate in No. 2184, saying that everyone Catholic News Service filled the square, except where pre- with the same love of God.” should “enjoy adequate rest and leisure to cultivate VATICAN CITY vented by barricades, and spilled out If the relevance to his Feb. 28 resig- their familial, cultural, social and religious lives” and In one of his last public appearanc- into the Via della Conciliazione. Many nation was not already clear, the pope in No. 2186 that “Sunday is a time for reflection, si- es, Pope Benedict XVI told an overflow groups held signs expressing gratitude made the connection explicit: lence, cultivation of the mind and meditation which crowd in St. Peter’s Square Feb. 24 and affection — “You are not alone,” “I feel that this word of God is furthers the growth of the Christian interior life.” that his upcoming retirement does not one read — and national flags from directed in particular to me, in this The catechism does make allowance in No. 2186 mean he is abandoning the church, countries as far away as Brazil. moment of my life. The Lord calls me for people who need to work on Sundays because of but that he will be serving it in a new poverty and No. 2187 for necessary public services. “Prayer doesn’t mean isolating to ‘climb the mountain,’ to dedicate way, through prayer and meditation. If I were you, I would be rather lenient in judging one’s self from the world and its con- myself even more to prayer and medi- At noon, the pope appeared at family. I am not aware of their economic situation or tradictions,” the pope said, in his com- tation. But this does not mean aban- of the rhythms of life on a farm, but it may be that his window in the Apostolic Palace mentary on the day’s Gospel reading doning the church; on the contrary, they view some of their work as necessary. It could to pray the Angelus, a papal Sunday (Lk 9:28-36). “Prayer leads one back if God asks this of me it is precisely be, too, that they find remodeling their house to be ritual that will not be repeated until to the path, to action. so that I may continue to serve (the recreational and a welcome diversion. (I can’t say, after the election of a new pope. “Christian existence,” he said, “con- church) with the same dedication and though, that I’ve ever had a lot of fun mowing the Despite the blustery weather, turn- sists in a continuous climbing of the the same love with which I have done lawn!) out was several times the usual for mountain for an encounter with God, so till now, but in a way more suited What you could do — although you needn’t feel such occasions — easily more than in order to descend again bearing the to my age and strength.” obliged to — is to suggest sometime that you would be even happier to babysit for them on Sundays if they took part of the day off just to relax and enjoy Msgr. Owen F. each other’s company, since even God rested on the Sabbath. Campion Is masturbation a mortal sin? THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT When I was a teen I discovered masturbation, Q and it has been a problem for me ever since. Be- lieving it to be a mortal sin, I would go to confession every week or two. I am now in my 60s and recently God alone is your sure support a priest told me that it was not a mortal sin. Maybe Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15; 1 Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12; Luke 13:1-9 However, all those to whom Jesus he meant that it wasn’t a mortal sin for me because I referred in the end died, innocent or have had a great deal of difficulty controlling those n the first reading, from the Book of Exodus, Moses not. They could not control evil deci- urges for such a long time. Can you resolve my con- sions or others or mishaps of nature fusion? (St. Louis, Mo.) encounters God. Moses was tending his father-in-law’s or invented things. He warns the au- flock when suddenly an angel appeared and led Moses Referencing the consistent teaching of the mag- dience to reform, or else they too will A isterium over time, the Catechism of the Catholic to a bush. The bush, although on fire, did not burn. face doom. Church states in No. 2352 that “masturbation is an IThen God — the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — Then, Jesus tells the parable of the barren fig tree. The owner wants to intrinsically and gravely disordered action.” The spoke. His identity was clear. reason is that sexual intimacy is intended by God destroy the tree, but the vinedresser to unite a married man and woman in an outward Always with his people, God knew sought to inspire them. pleads for another year, for enough expression of their total love for each other. As a of their plight. He was intervening in Recalling the history of God’s peo- time to nourish the tree in the hope solitary action turned inward for self-pleasure, mas- the situation to give the people relief. ple, Paul insists that without God’s that it will bear fruit. turbation can never fulfill that purpose. As events unfolded, Moses was the guidance, without the nourishment Reflection It must be noted, though, that gravity of matter is instrument of this relief by leading provided by God, the people will die. In these Lenten readings, the only one of the three conditions that must be present the people out of Egypt. What they had from earthly resources church is very frank. As Paul said, for mortal sin. The catechism in No. 1859 notes that, The reading reveals intimacy and will not protect or sustain them. With abandoning God reaps a whirlwind in addition to gravity of matter, mortal sin requires immediacy in God’s relationship with God they will live, and live forever. of calamity, sweeping into its wake full knowledge and complete consent and goes on the people. He is almighty and above St. Luke’s Gospel furnishes the last even the innocent. We well may be to explain that this “presupposes knowledge of the all. Moses cannot stand to look upon reading. This reading gives one of the victims of human evil as were the sinful character of the act, of its opposition to God’s God’s face. Moses, by removing his the rare glimpses of Pontius Pilate in victims of Pilate’s outrage. We may be law” as well as “a consent sufficiently deliberate to sandals, shows respect even for the the Gospels outside the Passion nar- victims of nature like those killed by be a personal choice.” ground upon which he meets God. ratives. It is hardly complimentary the falling tower. It may be that certain circumstances — the im- Yet God speaks the divine name to to him. The Roman governor who It is hard, but humans must face maturity of adolescence, for example, or psychologi- Moses. It was a supreme revelation. sentenced Jesus to death was ruthless the fact that very often they expose cal imbalance or even the “force of acquired habit” In the Hebrew tradition, names car- and unmerciful. (An ancient tradi- themselves to calamity if they rely (specified in No. 2352) — can diminish the level of ried the very being of the person. tion is that he was recalled to Rome upon themselves alone. They cannot moral guilt. This is not, of course, to condone the To know a person’s name was to be because his brutality was too vicious always withstand human power as practice of masturbation, but the degree of personal given access to the person’s identity. even by accepted standards of Ro- great as Pilate’s. They cannot control responsibility can vary. God freely spoke this name. man imperial governance.) He had nature. The best course of action is always to entrust The First Epistle to the Corinthi- no regard for the God of Israel, or for God alone is their sure support. oneself to a regular confessor who can understand ans provides the second reading. the religion of the people who wor- Lovingly, God provides guidance and the psychological makeup of the penitent — with Corinth’s Christian community chal- shipped the God of Israel. eternal life in Jesus. The question is the hope that over time, by consistent effort and the lenged Paul since the city was a reser- Jesus said that the victims of whether or not we will turn humbly grace of the sacrament, one can conquer this disor- voir of excesses and moral outrages, Pilate’s impetuous cruelty did not to God and obey him. God will not dered behavior. and Christians were vulnerable. Not deserve what they received. Jesus overwhelm us. He will not entrap us surprisingly, Paul warned the Corin- referred then to an accidental disas- as if we were prey. We must decide. Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth Doyle at askfa- thians of the temptations surround- ter, when 18 people were killed by [email protected] and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, N.Y. ing them, bombarding them. He a falling tower in Siloam. He noted Msgr. Campion is the associate publisher 12208. encouraged them, taught them and that they too were innocent. of Our Sunday Visitor. 24 FEATURES HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD • MARCH 1, 2013

Father John How badly does a one- sided focus on the things Catoir of this life choke out the word of God or render it Business needs shallow and extraneous? to consider the common good or me, the concept of spirituality is not restricted to pious devotions. Every- thing we do reflects our Fspirituality, including the way we Spiritualife spend our money. The best economists in the world admit that they do not know exactly what is going to happen next when it comes to the economy. There are signs that the stock market is steadily improving. Neverthe- less, unemployment remains at a high level. A recent concern is the widespread use of robotic tools and its potential to reduce the labor force drastically. This may be inevitable, but it’s not in the best interest of the economy. Robots are influencing the cost of production, and even reducing the demand for cheap labor. Foreign labor will no longer have the powerful lure it once had. Companies in the U.S. will find that they no longer need to leave the country to maintain their profits. This is a good thing, but as robotic tools dominate the work- Father Ron force more and more, they will end up costing men and women their jobs. Rolheiser Years ago, robots could not compete with the low cost of foreign labor, but today that is no longer so. As soon as profits reach levels where businesses will benefit To focus our attention on God financially from leaving places that produce a lot for very By their fruits you will know them! ome years ago, I was at a religious conference where little, like China, they will take Jesus said that and it must be our A recent advantage of tax incentives one of the speakers, widely known and respected for criterion here: If people are living concern is and transportation savings and her work among the poor, made this comment: “I’m not inside an honesty, generosity, good- return home. ness, warmth, health, solicitousness, a theologian, so I don’t know how this plays out theo- the wide- Unfortunately, while the intelligence and wit that is life-giving, Slogically; but here’s the base from which I’m operating: I work spread companies themselves will be can they be much out of harmony with returning, the old jobs will with the poor. Partly I do this out of my humanity, out of natu- God? Moreover, we need to ask our- use of ro- not return with them. Labor ral compassion; but ultimately my motivation is Christ. I work selves: If we are born into this world with such a powerful, innate gravita- botic tools unions will face a whole new with the poor because I’m a Christian. However I can go for two tion toward the things of this earth, set of obstacles. More and if our natural (default) consciousness and its more men and women will or three years on the streets and never mention Christ’s name end up on bread lines. Robotic because I believe that God is mature enough that he doesn’t de- wants to fix itself more upon matter than spirit, and this seems to be the potential tools will replace workers. It is mand to always be the center of our conscious attention.” case for most people, how then do we to reduce that simple. read the mind of our Creator? What I’ve been reading “Ein- God doesn’t demand to always be Indeed, sometimes these people do stein on the Road,” by Josef the center of our conscious attention! Is not even attend church and often have divine intelligence is manifest within the labor the natural instinct to give ourselves Eisenger, which tells the story that true? Clearly the statement needs very little in terms of a formal or pri- force of how Albert Einstein, the some clarification and nuance. On the vate prayer in their lives. over to this life, even as we carry a faith that gives us a vision beyond this greatest scientist of the 20th one hand, there’s a certain freeing-up But, and this is the seeming anom- world? century, reacted to the political inside of us that comes from hearing aly, they’re good people, people whose Perhaps God is mature enough to and economic problems of his generation. this said, given that most of the time lives radiate a basic (and sometimes not ask for, or want, our conscious at- He scolded the businessmen of his time God is not in fact the center or our con- very generous degree) of honesty, gen- tention most of the time. Perhaps God for increasing the use of machinery be- scious attention and, this side of eter- erosity, goodness, warmth and healthy wants us to enjoy our time here, to en- cause it was putting more and more men nity, will most likely never be. concern for others. Moreover they are joy the experience of love and friend- out of work. The drive to increase profits, But, on the other hand, the con- often robust and witty, the ones you ship, of family and friends, of eating which is the norm for business executives, solation we feel in hearing this flies want to be next to at the dinner table, and drinking, and of (at least occa- was working against the common good. As strongly in the face of the clear chal- even as they seem to be living and dy- sionally) seeing our favorite teams win a result, millions of unemployed men and lenge that comes to us from Scripture, ing merely as devoted children of this a championship. Perhaps God wants women were selling pencils on the street our church and spiritual writers warn- earth, not much given to abstraction us, in the famed-words of Yogi Berra, to put food on the table. ing us against losing ourselves in the or religion. A good family gathering, to sometimes just to sit back and enjoy Einstein’s ideas were thought to be ambitions, projects, anxieties, plea- a win by the home team, a good meal the game! Perhaps God is like a bless- naive, but he didn’t back down. He knew sures and distractions of this world, or drink with a friend, and a healthy ing old grandparent; perhaps we pray that for businesses to survive, they had to of letting our focus on this life eclipse day spent working, are contemplation in an inchoate way when we healthily keep a sharp eye, not only on their margin the wider horizon, God and eternity. enough. Their default consciousness enjoy the gift of this life; and perhaps of profits, but also on the common good. Countless spiritual writers warn us focuses on the things of this world, there are less conscious ways in which Einstein predicted that the economic that it’s dangerous to be so immersed its joys and its sorrows. A shift in we can be aware of God. depression of his time would engulf the in this world so as to lose sight of any- consciousness would need to occur Like the woman whom I quote nation for a long time, and he was right. thing beyond. Jesus too warns us of for any explicit notion of God to en- above, I also don’t know how this all If he were alive today, I feel certain he this danger. ter their lives. For these people, good plays out theologically, but it needs to would be calling for a gradual slowdown And yet all of us know a lot of people for the most part, ordinary con- be said. in the use of robotic tools. people who seem so immersed in this sciousness is mostly agnostic. Maybe he would demand that an in- life, in their marriages, their families, How bad is this? Does this danger- Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, crease in research and development be in- their jobs, in entertainment, in sports ously shrink one’s horizons? Are we teacher and award-winning author, is troduced to improve our economic policies and in their daily concerns that they going to hell in droves because we president of the Oblate School of Theol- so they would bolster the overall common don’t seem at all to have God as center can’t give God more of our conscious ogy in San Antonio, Texas. He can be good, and not jeopardize it. The American of their conscious attention for any attention and because we can’t be contacted through his website www.ron- experiment is in decline, and we need to significant portion of their daily lives. more explicitly religious? rolheiser.com. think ahead. MARCH 1, 2013 • HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD FEATURES 25 Kathleen T. Choi IN LITTLE WAYS Myfaith Right out loud Father David Lupo, once thought that silent prayer was the Congregation of the best prayer — no requests, no words, just a quiet lifting of the soul to her Sacred Hearts of Jesus Maker. Then I read about indulgences and Mary Iand the spiritual practices connected with VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING them. The rosary is listed with the instruc- Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP tion to pray aloud. Audible prayers are Hawaii Catholic Herald recommended for Stations of the Cross as well. Indulgences are also associated with ancient prayers like the “Tantum Ergo” or The mystery “Veni Creator” — when recited out loud. So, maybe silent prayer isn’t always the superior prayer. Maybe there is also purpose and blessing in of God saying our prayers out loud. One benefit is to help us concentrate. I have to hen I was a child I was attracted to the trap- to the mind. pray aloud at night. Otherwise, my sleepy mind pings of church. There were the stained How do I get over my doubts and gain more con- drifts away. Morning prayers also go better if I pray glass windows and the life-sized crucifix fidence? Rely on God. There’s not too much certainty aloud. That helps keep my soul focused on God that the old Italian ladies would go up to on this side of life. But, by just putting oneself in God’s when my tummy wants breakfast. Wand while rubbing the toe of Jesus, bless themselves hands, in the mystery of God, one does feel certainty. The rosary is meant to be prayed aloud. Saying by. There was also the incense, and the darkness. These Without a prayer life, whether we are religious, lay or the words clearly and reverently slows our breathing trappings of the interior of the church moved me to pon- priests, we are doomed. We need that connection with and settles our superficial thoughts as our fingers der the mystery of God. God. That will give us the certitude. count off the beads. Meanwhile, at a deeper level, I appreciate religious life a lot. Through it I have I enjoy spiritual reading. I have different books that we meditate on the holy Mysteries. I couldn’t divide come to sense that there is something much larger than through the years I have found meaningful. There are my mind to both think 10 Hail Marys and think life as revealed through my reading of the Scriptures certain books that have moved me, because they call me about the Annunciation without getting hopelessly and in the beauty that surrounds. There are different beyond myself; they call me to greater awareness, and off track. I need to say Mary is full of grace. forms of beauty — the beauty of nature, the beauty of in some way, I am stretched. At one Mass, I quoted from I like to recite all our traditional prayers out loud. people and the beauty found in friendships that have en- Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s “The Cost of Discipleship”: “When They’re so familiar that my impulse is to rattle them dured through the years. Just take a moment yourself to Christ calls someone, he bids them to come and die.” off. There’s not much value to “ourfatherwhoartin- look up at a starlit sky at night or to admire the beauty To die daily means to take up our cross and follow after heaven.” Speech, though, is slower than thought, of the earth. These are sacramentals that remind us that Christ, splinters and all, whatever we get in our hands. and I can hear if I’m still going too fast. God is larger than life and that’s what mystery is about. If we really deal with the cross, we will be trans- Praying out loud clarifies my prayers. I have oc- Sometimes retreats we offer for one reason or an- formed and will become more and more like him. I casionally agreed to pray for an hour for an Engaged other don’t happen. They fall through due to a lack of know there is a God who loves me and who is work- Encounter weekend. That taught me just how long people signing up. Yet, in entering into the mystery of ing in my life even though I may not be able to see the 60 minutes can be! It also forced me to dig deeper God, I have become more aware of my weaknesses. I am working. He is there. It’s all a part of the wondrous mys- a very weak person. It even takes a lot for me to get up tery of God. into what I desire for these young couples and what there and give a homily on a Sunday. I believe I suffer I desire for my own marriage. I found myself talking from ADD (attention deficit disorder) as it is hard for me Father David Lupo is a priest of the Congregation of the Sa- to God about the obstacles to a successful marriage, to focus as I’m distracted from the left to the right. But I cred hearts of Jesus and Mary. Born in Schenectady, N.Y., he how society supports (or hinders) traditional mar- have sensed God saying, “Go ahead anyway.” And I hear arrived in Hawaii last year. He has been 28 years professed riage and how the church responds pastorally to her the same words when I prepare for retreats. Thus when as a religious, and 21 years ordained. He resides at Sacred divorced and gay children. I study, I study hard. I try to speak to the heart as well as Hearts Center, Kaneohe, and is engaged in retreat ministry. I try to read aloud the daily It’s hard Mass Scripture. Otherwise, 10 minutes later, I’ve forgotten what they Father William J. to praise said. On my best days, I read the or rejoice lessons a verse or two at a time. Byron. SJ I pause to think about the words LOOKING AROUND and offer any petitions or thanks silently, that come to mind. Then I move and that on to the next verse. It’s a slow but powerful way to impress the words Military suicides: growing crisis includes on my heart. prayers If I won a lottery, you’d hear my ilitary suicides were at a record high in 2012. They Faith assures us that God not only squeals on another island. It’s hard understands but also can forgive and of to praise or rejoice silently, and surged to an alarming number of 349, far exceed- welcome such persons out of their that includes prayers of thanksgiv- ing the number of combat deaths in Afghanistan. pain into the eternal joy of heaven. thanks- ing. I’ve noticed that reciting the Troubling as that sad statistic is, the military sui- We who remain have to trust in psalms aloud stimulates gratitude. God’s love and mercy and, for our giving. Psalms 95 (“Come let us sing unto Mcide rate is still below that of the civilian population. part, do all we can to reach out to the Lord”) and 100 (“Oh be joyful It is saddening, of course, to read more. others, listen to them and realize in the Lord, all ye lands”) always or hear of anyone’s decision to com- Why are we not all more sensitive that we can be instruments of God’s lift my spirits. mit suicide. No one can appreciate to the pain in others’ hearts, or able peace in this world, if we only be- Jesus warned his disciples not to make a public the unimaginable pain that is the ul- to read the pain in others’ eyes? As a come more sensitive and alert to the display of their praying. Once we’re alone, however, sufferings of those around us. But timate explanation for such a tragic nation, we spend millions for “pain we can pray in whatever way is honest and sincere. only God, who is always ready to action. No one, therefore, can sit in relief” over the counter or by writ- On Holy Thursday, Christ prayed formally with forgive, can fully understand. judgment on a person whose choice ten prescription, but don’t spend the his disciples. Then he and his closest friends with- With the recent news that sui- cannot be fathomed and whose life time it takes to encourage those who cides in the military outnumbered drew to a secluded garden. He asked them to remain may be hurting to open up and talk can only be remembered but not combat deaths in Afghanistan last nearby while he prayed. Sometimes he knelt; some- restored, and whose pain we simply it out? I often wonder if parish sup- year, outgoing Secretary of Defense times he fell on his face. Sometimes he was quiet. cannot understand. port groups might not be able gently Leon Panetta called this an epi- Sometimes, he prayed so loudly that his friends All we can do is attend to the to summon those considering sui- demic. That caught the attention of heard every word. pain within ourselves as well as the cide out of their isolation and into a military authorities. That night is a good model for our prayer life. pain that might be there in others circle of understanding and support. We can only hope that those now Sometimes we pray together as church, other times around us, military or civilian, espe- There is some mysterious insula- in the military will open their eyes, with family or friends, and often alone. Sometimes cially when no signs are visible and tion that those contemplating suicide ears and hearts to service members we speak aloud; sometimes we just sit quietly with no calls for help are heard. wrap around themselves. Tragically, who are bearing in silence the bur- God. Anytime, we know our Father hears us and that I often wonder why it is that we toward the end, their minds and den of unimaginable pain. these conversations are as precious to him as they seem to be unable to speak to one hearts can’t be read by those around are to us. another about inner pain. Some them, nor do they seem able to reach Jesuit Father William J. Byron is uni- relatives of those who chose to take out and ask for help. And no one, versity professor of business and society Kathleen welcomes comments. Send them to Kathleen their lives report that they may have except God, can imagine the unimag- at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. Choi, 1706 Waianuenue Ave., Hilo, HI 96720, or e-mail: seen signs of ill health but nothing inable pain they are experiencing. Email: [email protected]. [email protected]. 26 FEATURES HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD • MARCH 1, 2013 Saints Frances of Rome 1384–1440 Diversions March 9 This laywoman and 5) Writings foundress, born a Roman What was the title of Pope Benedict XVI’s aristocrat, married Lorenzo Pon- Hawaii Catholic third papal encyclical? ziano when she was 13; they had several children. In a) “Caritas in Veritate” 1409, their palazzo was pillaged by Neapolitan sol- Harold’s Quiz b) “Spe Salvi” diers and Lorenzo was exiled for five years, return- c) “Deus Caritas Est” ing home a broken man. He died in 1436. Frances, By the time you read this, quiztastics, ing his pontificate. d) “Beati Pauperes Spiritu” known for her great charity during epidemics and our beloved Pope Benedict XVI will have a) True civil war, organized a ladies society dedicated to just stepped down from the pontificate. b) False 6) Family self-denial and good works. It became the Oblates In honor of his service as the Holy Father, True or false: Pope Benedict XVI’s brother, of Tor de Specchi, which she directed for her last I’ve created a quiz to test your knowledge 3) Family Georg Ratzinger, is a cardinal eligible to four years. She is the patron saint of motorists, per- on our now-former pope. Enjoy. (Hint: If Pope Benedict XVI’s father, Joseph Ratz- vote in the upcoming papal conclave. haps because she was guarded for 23 years by an you’re stumped on any of the questions, inger Sr., held what job in Germany? a) True archangel visible only to her. Her last words were: see the extensive bio on Pope Benedict a) Baker b) False “The angel has finished his work. He is beckoning XVI inside this issue!) b) Accountant me to follow.” © 2013 Catholic News Service 7) Hobbies 1) Saints c) Police officer d) Stenographer Which famous German musical com- Which of the following saints was can- poser is Pope Benedict XVI’s favorite? (He onized by Pope Benedict XVI? 4) Pre-papacy once said that works from this composer a) St. Lorenzo Ruiz In 1977, then-Father Joseph Ratzinger are “pure inspiration. Each tone is cor- Schwadron b) St. Maximilian Kolbe was appointed by Pope John Paul II as rect and could not be different.”) c) St. Andre Bessette the leader of which German archdio- a) Bach d) St. Mary Faustina Kowalska cese? b) Beethoven a) Berlin c) Handel 2) Travel b) Cologne d) Mozart True or false: Pope Benedict XVI visited c) Hamburg six of the world’s seven continents dur- d) Munich-Freising Answers: 1) c, 2) a, 3) c, 4) d, 5) a, 6) b, 7) d

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Scripture search PAT KASTEN Gospel for March 3, 2013 Catholic crossword Luke 13:1-9 Following is a word search based on the Gospel ACROSS 24 Diocese 43 MTV watcher 25 British nobleman 45 Abbr. at the top reading for the Third Sunday of Lent, Cycle C: a 1 Joseph had a 27 Catholic of a column warning to be prepared for the end. The words multi-colored one cartoonist Keane 46 Sports can be found in all directions in the puzzle. Commentator 5 Mary, Stella ___ of “Family Circus” 28 Remittances Hershiser 10 Shut with force 47 “The Jungle SOME GALILEANS BLOOD 14 Curves 32 Patron saint of young girls Book” python MINGLED SACRIFICES THINK 15 Saintly convert 35 Misplaces 48 Plant, perhaps executed in 51 Catholic REPENT PERISH EIGHTEEN Auschwitz 36 Symbol of Confirmation director of “It’s a TOWER SILOAM FELL ON THEM 16 Shower floor Wonderful Life” 37 Brother of Abel JERUSALEM PARABLE A FIG TREE piece 54 Haman plotted 17 Size of type 38 Cheapskate to kill him (Esth FRUIT GARDENER THREE 18 Beastly 39 Supernatural 5:9–14) YEARS SOIL IF NOT 19 Greek god of love force 56 Ship’s company 20 Goldilocks 40 Vague list ender 57 Weaned pig favorite? 41 Place where 59 Coarse file ANOTHER CHANCE 22 Island inhabited language was 60 College in New by Circe confused, Rochelle, NY O J S A C R I F I C E S 23 Collection of according to 61 Garlic-flavored miscellaneous Genesis mayonnaise J K L W Y E A R S O M E data 42 Jericho heroine 62 Hook’s hand E I G H T E E N L E L A 63 Annual race, Answer to previous puzzle familiarly 10 Catholic former altar (Gen 8:20) here R D P A N K N I H T M J 64 Family car Republican 30 She played 45 St. ___ of Tours U E A N L L P T I U R F 65 Epic poetry National Ginger on 47 Australian Committee “Gilligan’s Island” marsupial S E R A M I N G L E D F DOWN Chairman 31 Thick slice 48 Rascal 11 Former Fountain A R A D O O L B C H O C 1 ___ magna 32 Vinegar (comb.) 49 90’s Toyota coupe of Trevi coin 33 We should enter 50 Exclamation of 2 The Hunter 12 Natural balm L T B L L S R E W O T E 3 Capital of Ghana by the narrow fright 13 Flat-topped rise one E G L L S I L O A M F E 4 Former Russian 51 202, in ancient ruler 21 Egyptian goddess 34 Pleasing Rome of fertility M I E O P R E P E N T R 5 Monk who is 35 Defamation 52 Elvis’ middle father of modern 22 Weapons 38 Leaf of a book name I F N O T I P E R I S H genetics 25 Artist’s support 39 Son of ___ 53 Remain G A R D E N E R J H B T 6 Wise saying 26 Yesman 41 Actress Theda undecided 7 Ascend 27 “Son of” in ___ 54 Emotional state © 2013 Tri-C-A Publications www.tri-c-a-publications.com 8 Hairy Addams Hebrew 42 ___ to Damascus 55 Scottish Gaelic cousin 28 Card game 44 The Archdiocese 57 Stockholm flier 9 Bashful 29 First to build an of Oslo is found 58 Get a move on Hope • Confidence • Expectation Hawaii Catholic Herald

NEWS for the By the numbers young adult VATICAN CITY — Pope FRI 3/1/2013 27 Benedict XVI’s shocking deci- Catholic sion to resign has opened the Mana'olana door to a slew of papal trivia, from the ages of pontiffs past Roma Downey portrays Mary to their nationalities. Ambrogio in a scene from the television Piazzoni, vice prefect of the miniseries “The Bible.” Downey Vatican Library and author of and her husband, Mark Burnett, a book on the history of papal produced the miniseries that will elections, doled out some run on cable’s History Channel handy facts to journalists Feb. 8-10 p.m. Eastern time each Sunday in March through March 21 at the Vatican. 31, Easter Sunday. When Pope Benedict was elected in 2005 just after his CNS photo/Joe Alblas, courtesy Lightworkers Media 78th birthday, he became the 17th churchman (out of the 102 popes whose exact age at election is known) between the ages of 71 and 80 to be named bishop of Rome. Most popes — 37 — were between the ages of 61 and 70 when they were elected. Three were 25 and younger, and three were over 80. Pope Benedict was also the first German in 950 years to become pope, according to Piazzoni’s statistics. Twitter terminus VATICAN CITY — Parrots may squawk in the Vatican Gardens during a conclave, but the cardinals are not allowed ‘Bible’ miniseries aims to make an ‘emotional connection’ to tweet. By Mark Pattison an answer. When he hears I knew we wanted to make fondly named them the ‘Sis- tional connection with the For most of the 117 Catholic News Service ‘no,’ he just thinks of a new this emotionally connec- ters of No Mercy,’ and it got a audience, to draw the audi- cardinals who are eligible to WASHINGTON opportunity. When it was tive, and very real for today’s big laugh in the room.” ence in and tell the stories vote for a new pope, Twitter It took the combined a tough sell, he just perse- audiences.” “The Bible” used the from a very human point of vered,” Downey said of her Burnett and Downey same special effects team view. That meant we had to isn’t an issue. But the College of clout of an actress best husband. “He’s just like (St.) were interviewed by Catho- that won a special-effects tell fewer stories.” Cardinals does include at least known for playing an angel Paul, very courageous.” lic News Service prior to an Oscar for the period film Downey portrays Mary, nine active tweeters. From the and her big-ratings execu- Unlike other biblical films invitation-only screening “Gladiator.” It borrows a the mother of Jesus, in “The moment they enter the Sistine tive-producer husband, but and TV miniseries, “The Feb. 5 in Washington. The page from “Gladiator” and Bible.” “We had a younger Roma Downey and Mark Chapel to cast their ballots, Bible” splits its 10 hours day before, they were in “The Passion of the Christ” actress playing Mary dur- they will be forbidden access Burnett have pulled off the evenly between the Old and Dallas, showing a 45-min- in its depictions of violence ing the Nativity and so on,” to their accounts along with all making of a 10-hour mini- New Testaments. ute grouping of miniseries and brutality. While some she said. “And in the early other forms of communication series, “The Bible,” that gets Another difference, scenes to about 60 U.S. violence takes place off- stages of the script, she was with the outside world. its premiere Sunday, March according to Burnett: “For Catholic bishops. screen, the fighting between referred to as ‘Young Mary,’ The top tweeter is Cardinal 3, on the History cable chan- example, in a lot of older Downey singled out “Car- the Israelites and their and in the later stages the Timothy M. Dolan of New York nel. biblical films, it looks like a dinal (Donald W.) Wuerl (of opponents, including the script referred to ‘Old Mary.’ with nearly 80,000 follow- The miniseries runs 8-10 lot of the disciples, Jesus, the Washington), who has been Roman occupiers of Jesus’ And I said, ‘Well, you know, ers. Other cardinals on the p.m. Eastern time each Sun- Romans, stepped right out of a great supporter and adviser time, sliced, diced, thrust that’s gotta change.’ So, we popular social networking day in March through March a dry cleaner. Not a speck of to us for the last year or so,” and gouged their way to rewrote that, that it would website include Cardinal Sean 31, Easter Sunday. dust on them. And the light- said Downey. She and Bur- victory or conquest; what’s be ‘Young Mary’ and ‘Mother P. O’Malley of Boston, Italian Downey’s career role was ing didn’t feel real.” nett added later there were not visible on the screen is Mary.’ playing the angel Monica for Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, He surmised that such about 40 theological and still made plain by the sound “Oh, vanity, it’s a ter- nine seasons in the TV dra- Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Scherer, films were made “over the biblical advisers who helped effects. rible thing, you know?” she ma “Touched by an Angel.” Italian Cardinal Angelo Scola, years (by) people with great before and during filming. Even for Christians such chuckled. Husband Burnett, whose hearts for service and faith, “We had a very great and as Downey and Burnett, “it’s “I certainly tried in my South African Cardinal Wilfrid U.S. TV hits include “Survi- but with very little budget warm reception,” Downey very daunting to take on the career to make choices that Napier, Spanish Cardinal Lluis vor,” “The Voice,” “The Ap- and very little experience, said, adding she had told the Bible,” she told CNS. “We would be pleasing to God,” Martinez Sistach, Colombian prentice,” “Are You Smarter and sometimes the result bishops that, while grow- only had 10 hours to tell the Downey said. “One of our Cardinal Ruben Salazar Gomez, Than a Fifth Grader?” and isn’t optimal, and it’s not ing up in Derry, in Northern story. We wish we had ten central intentions in mak- and Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, “Shark Tank,” added his Hol- the best movie or show. ... Ireland, “I went to a convent hundred hours. ing this series was to make retired archbishop of Los Ange- lywood muscle. History Channel provided school and was educated by “We had to break it down. something that would glorify les. (Catholic News Service) “He doesn’t take no for us with a great budget, and the Sisters of Mercy; the girls We wanted to make an emo- God.” Run for life ST. LOUIS — By the time it is completed, the A-Cross the Hawaii’s young Catholics react to Pope Benedict’s resignation Country Relay for Pro-Life will have covered 4,089 miles and Continued from page 28 least allow the church the possibil- the church as a gift and a reminder “Thank you Papa B-16 for all your coincided with the 40 Days for “He always wanted to better serve ity of having a leader for years, and of his love, grace, and mercy.” (Rhea prayers, your love and your ac- Life prayer campaign to raise the people and right now the only perhaps decades, to come.” (Kainoa Quemado) tions, especially the YouCat (Youth “I hope the next pope tries to make awareness of abortion and life way he could do that was to step Fukumoto) Catechism). It’s a means that helped “I hope that the next pope will be an effort to reach out to the people issues. down and let someone else lead. bridge the gap between different That makes a great leader. It takes a whatever God is calling him to be.” like Benedict did. I like how he tried More than 300 runners generations here in our parish.” great deal of courage, humility and (Dann Ebina) to reach out to people on their level, signed up for the event that (Chrislyn Villena) the Holy Spirit to make such a big “I hope the next pope will be like making a Twitter account and “Thanks be to God for the eight- began Ash Wednesday, Feb. 13, producing easy to understand ‘Jesus decision like that, but I really feel the someone who loves the ministry as year pontificate.” (Joeleny Isidro) at simultaneous starting points of Nazareth books.’” (Bobby Morris) Holy Spirit was with him and is still much as his predecessors and bring “I just want to thank Pope Bene- — at the Brooklyn Bridge in with him.” (Rhea Quemado) “I hope the next pope will con- some new insight into uniting dif- dict XVI for his service and for New York City and the Golden “The Jesus of Nazareth books are ferent generations. It’s hard to bring tinue the new evangelization. I hope giving his life to do the will of God Gate Bridge in San Francisco. wonderful and very enlightening.” harmony to the young people and the that he is on fire for the faith and and to continue to do his will. Thank Both legs of the run will come (Bobby Morris) elders when they just don’t under- continues to reach out to the world.” you and aloha for all that you have together at St. Joseph Cathe- “I admire his humility and the stand each other.” (Chrislyn Villena) (Matthew David) dral in Sioux Falls, S.D., on Palm wisdom that he has imparted.” (Mat- “I hope the next pope is energetic done for us and for the church. May Sunday, March 24. thew David) and in good health.” (Joeleny Isidro) 4) Any words of ‘aloha’ God bless you, give you peace, and be Founded in 2008 by Air “I hope our next pope will be just for Pope Benedict XVI? with you always until the end of age.” 3) What do you hope the next (Rhea Quemado) Force Lt. Cols. Rich Reich and as amazing, and will bring more new “Mahalo, Pope Benedict XVI ... a Pat Castle, Life Runners is a pope will be like? strengths and knowledge. I really hui hou!” (Kainoa Fukumoto) “I would like to thank Pope Bene- national team that runs to raise “I hope the next pope is younger. I hope and pray that he reflects Jesus “Mahalo nui loa for your ‘yes’ to dict for all the work and faithful, holy awareness of life issues and feel that Pope Benedict XVI has set a just like the popes in the past, and the Lord and for serving his people.” example throughout his lifetime.” funding for pregnancy resource precedent for future popes to resign he continues to let the Spirit lead (Kalae Martin) (Bobby Morris) centers across the country. if they feel they no longer have the and remember this is God’s church “May the Lord continue to bless “I pray that the Lord will continue (CNS) capabilities to fulfill the duties of and God leads. It’s not about us but you in your retirement. ‘Thy will be to shower him with blessings as he this important position, so a younger about God and glorifying our beauti- done on earth as it is in heaven!!’” goes into a life of prayer.” (Matthew — and just as wise — pope would at ful and wonderful God who gave us (Dann Ebina) David) Hope • Confidence • Expectation Hawaii Catholic Herald

for the young adult FRI Mana'olana Catholic 3/1/2013 28 Quote “The sooner people meet Christ at that level and say ‘yes’ from within, the more likely it is that they won’t be Shock and leaving the church.” | Bill Beckman, director of the Archdiocese of Omaha’s Office of Evangelization and Catechesis, on reaching out to young people in elementary school and beyond to help them stay committed to their faith as they grow up, gain more admiration freedom and encounter worldly distractions and challenges to their Hawaii’s young Catholics react to Pope Benedict’s resignation beliefs. Helping youths develop Compiled by Darlene Dela Cruz “I think it is very commendable for the a strong relationship with Christ Hawaii Catholic Herald pope to step down because he felt he was through their families and the com- not able to do the job anymore. I applaud munity can help prevent drift in the Mana‘olana asked some of Hawaii’s youth him and thank him for all he has done.” first place, Beckman said. (Catholic and young adult ministers what they (Bobby Morris) News Service) thought of the impending papal transition. “I respect his decision to step down. Here’s what some of them said. Profile I understand that it must be extremely 1) How do you feel about Pope difficult to visit members of the church at Albert and Bobbie every corner in the world. Also, I believe Sensano Benedict XVI’s resignation? that Pope Benedict would keep going if he Youth “Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation was had the good health.” (Matthew David) ministers, definitely a surprising moment (and even 2) How has this pope made a Christ more surprising when I found out this the King hasn’t happened in the last 600 years!). personal impact on you? But I greatly admire his courage to make Church this decision and his example of being a “He has been an intellectual pope Favorite Scripture quote: true servant leader.” (Kainoa Fukumoto) whose writings seemed to have a more Jeremiah 29:11 — “I alone know “It took a considerable amount of cour- profound impact on me than anything the plans I have for you, plans age and discernment to resign as pope. It else. Even his slightest, simplest remarks to bring you prosperity and not was obvious that he was thinking of the are often filled with so much wisdom disaster, plans to bring about the Body of Christ as a whole and demon- and a deep spirituality that it causes me future you hope for.” strated what living the Paschal Mystery to think on it for long periods of time.” Holiday: Christmas meant.” (Kalae Martin) (Kainoa Fukumoto) Island: Maui no ka oi “By resigning from his position as the “I had the privilege to attend World Parable: The prodigal son shepherd of the Roman Catholic Church, Youth Day 2011 in Madrid among thou- Biblical character: The blessed Pope Benedict XVI displayed his humble- sands with the pope. I was in awe to Mother Mary ness through the realization that he can witness the crowds in silence as we were Book: I like inspirational books no longer serve the people of God at a brought to our knees when he brought so definitely my favorite book is capacity that is required by his office.” out the Blessed Sacrament. It was a the Bible. (Dann Ebina) realization that we are all called to be an Best church: Christ the King “At first like most other people, I instrument of Christ, just as the pope is.” Church on Maui, of course. felt shocked and the thoughts that our (Kalae Martin) Most memorable priest: Father beloved pope was ill flooded my mind. “Following in the footsteps of Pope Efren Tomas and Father Ronald Then, when I began reading on the web John Paul II, Benedict XVI expressed not Guzman and hearing about his resignation on the only a desire but a necessity to reach out news, I felt confused. So I went to trusted to the young people of the world.” (Dann Saints under 35 sources to seek out what they knew and Ebina) Rich in love felt comforted in their reports.” (Chrislyn “I have never met him but truly felt Villena) loved from a person who prays for me Elizabeth, the daughter of the “It is interesting that his announcement daily. He doesn’t even know me by name king of Hungary, could have had of his resignation was on the Feast of Our but because of his love for God and his anything in the world — instead, Lady of Lourdes.” (Joeleny Isidro) dedication to his ministry as our leader, she chose God. I never felt more loved by a stranger.” Born in 1207, Elizabeth “At first I was really shocked, but when I read his statement I felt at peace because (Chrislyn Villena) devoted herself to prayer, pen- “It was a blessing to celebrate two ance and charitable work. She I felt it was a really bold and noble move, World Youth Day Masses with Pope Bene- maintained her austere lifestyle especially because his decision was based dict XVI. At my first WYD in 2005, Pope and service to the poor even after on much prayer and discernment. I also CNS photo/Bob Roller Benedict XVI said ‘The Body and Blood of her marriage at age 14 to Louis Pope Benedict XVI waves as he departs a rally with youths and feel strongly that he has fulfilled his call of Thuringia, an arranged union to Christ as the pope, but now it’s time for Christ are given to us so that we ourselves seminarians at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y., in this April will be transformed.’” (Joeleny Isidro) that brought her into the court of 19, 2008, file photo. him to move on to where the Lord is call- Thuringia, a German principality. ing him next.” (Rhea Quemado) Continued on page 27 Louis was also religious and encouraged her to con- LISA’S CATECHISM CORNER MAKANA’S HELPFUL HINTS tinue her work, Church teaching explained to you Exciting ways to enhance young adult ministry which included serving bread to the What is the pope’s responsibility? Love no matter what area’s poorest people. When YOUCAT*: As successor of St. Peter and head of the college of While volunteering at LA Youth Day 2013, I attended the workshop, “It’s All he was killed in the Crusades bishops, the pope is the source and guarantor of the Church’s unity. Good in God’s House.” We went through a group discussion and the first question after six years of marriage, he left He has the supreme pastoral authority and the final authority in was, “Have you ever been categorized or put in a box?” behind his grieving wife and their doctrinal and disciplinary decisions. [880-882,936-937] One of the adult chaperones stood up and shared instances of parishioners and three children. The pope announced that he would resign at the end of February parish leaders dismissing her as a fellow leader (which she was), and as an equal Elizabeth of Hungary would “due to advanced age.” The College of Cardinals will soon gather in part of the parish (because she was new). The advice she left everyone was this: “If later leave the court and, after a conclave and choose a new pope. So what’s the pope’s job descrip- you ever have negative feelings toward someone, make sure you don’t carry it into making arrangements for her tion? The pope, as the successor of Peter and the Bishop of Rome, has adulthood.” children, join the Secular Fran- a special role in the church. The pope has primacy over the whole I believe this happens when we forget that everyone is created in the image of ciscan Order in 1228. She threw church; he is the consistent and visible source of foundation and God. John Paul II, in his encyclical “Sollicitudo Rei Socialis,” said, “At stake is the herself into caring for the sick at a unity for all of the faithful. The pope, as well as his brother bishops, dignity of the human person, whose defense and promotion have been entrusted hospital she founded in St. Francis’ has the task of teaching the true faith. “You are Peter, and upon this honor, but could not overcome to us by the Creator, and to whom the men and women at every moment of history her declining health. She died in rock I will build my church.” —Matthew 16:18 are strictly and responsibly in debt.” 1231 at age 24 and was canonized #YearofFaith Challenge: Pray for Pope Benedict XVI and pray for When we “box” others we cease to respect them and recognize God within them. just four years later. (catholic.org, the cardinals who will gather to discern a new pope. So to borrow a line from an inspiring speaker, the tip this week is thus … “Love americancatholic.org) *Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church no matter what.” —Justin Fatica Lisa Gomes is the director of the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry Makana Aiona is the diocesan coordinator for Young Adult Ministry.