WWW.THELEAVEN.COM NEWSPAPER OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF KANSAS CITY IN KANSAS • VOL. 29, NO. 33 APRIL 11, 2008 A CLINIC SPRING CLEANING COUNTDOWN WITH LOVE to KAUFFMAN HANG UPS Freshman Catherine Brungardt (left) and sophomore In anticipation of the Global STORY BY JOE BOLLIG | P HOTOS BY ELAINA GENERALLY Jenna Bruegger (right) work to hang up countless baby clothes. Living Rosary event scheduled to take place on May 25 at Kauffman Stadium, The Leaven continues its “Count- down to Kauffman.” The event is expected to be one of the largest Catholic events ever held in the Kansas City area. 7 WEEKS & COUNTING ICt’sHaEgaCmKe oMf kAinTgsE and also kindergarteners. It’s chess, and students at Pope John Paul II School in Overland Park have made it so popular that it’s over - flowed from its assigned classroom into the hallway. LOOK OUT Freshman Alex Brisson (left) and sophomore Michael Coy aren’t sure who has what as they stack containers at the Wyandotte Pregnancy Pages 8-9 Center on April 5. hat a group of stu - dents from St. James Academy, Lenexa, did was enough to make Donna Kelsey cry. W Tears of joy, that is. On April 4, a group of approximately 50 students, three teachers and three parents in - vaded the Wyandotte Pregnancy Clinic, at 3021 N. 54th St. in Kansas City, Kan., for an intensive three-and-a-half-hour cleaning and painting session. “I was moved to tears that day, because of ABrcEhbisMhoYp JoGseUphEF. ST the attitude of the students and their concern for what they were doing, “ said Kelsey, clinic Naumann invites the people director. “They had fun, but they were also ea - of the archdiocese into his ger to learn about our clients. [The students] home with a video tour on had a huge impact on our clinic. It was a beau - The Leaven’s Web site: tiful day. We were very blessed.” www.theleaven.com. The clinic was just one of 10 locations Page 16 NEW PICASSOS Freshmen Shelbie Martel (front) and Olivia Leno (back) work on a mural in a playroom at the center in Kansas City, Kan. See “Serving” on page 5 2 LOCAL NEWS THE LEAVEN • APRIL 11, 2008 APRIL 11, 2008 • THE LEAVEN SECOND FRONT PAGE 3 LIFE WILL BE VICTORIOUS Redemption lies in the transformation of the human heart PORTABLE VATICAN his week, I continue with reflec - Marx naively presumed that with the good for humanity also have the poten - ing progress in man’s ethical formation tions on Pope Benedict’s second overthrow of the ruling class accompa - tial, as in the case of nuclear weapons, in man’s inner growth (cf. Eph 3:16; encyclical letter, “Spe Salve — On nied by the socialization of the means of to destroy the world. Pope Benedict 2 Cor 4:16), then it is not progress at TChristian Hope.” The Holy Father seeks production, the New Jerusalem would refers to one 20th-century thinker who all, but a threat for man and for the Pope brings Vatican with him when he leaves for U.S. to make clear the na - automatically ensue. summarized grimly the reality of mod - world” (no. 22). ture of Christian Pope Benedict de - ern “advancements” as “progress from Science and technology, not tethered hope by contrasting scribes the fundamen - the sling shot to the atom bomb” (no. to moral and ethical principles that up - it with some of the ARCHBISHOP tal error of Marx in 21). hold the dignity of the human person, false notions of hope JOSEPH F. this way: “He forgot We can see clearly from the tragic ex - can increase suffering and misery in the prevalent in the that man always re - periences of the 20th century that polit - world. Freedom, not anchored in truth, modern world. NAUMANN mains man. He forgot ical and social revolutions do not lead can lead to anarchy and the violation of One of the most man and he forgot necessarily to utopia but often only to a the most fundamental rights of the powerful of these man’s freedom. He different and even harsher set of op - weak and vulnerable by the stronger, as misunderstandings forgot that freedom al - pressors. is evidenced in our own country by the of hope is linked in a unique way to the ways remains also freedom for evil. He Pope Benedict concludes that the ex - legalization of abortion. circumstances in which our nation was thought that once the economy had perience of recent centuries has Science and technology, when guid - formed. Pope Benedict notes: “That a been put right, everything would auto - brought us to the realization of the am - ed by good moral values, can contribute new era emerged — through the dis - matically be put right. His real error is biguity of progress: “To put it another significantly to the well-being of hu - covery of America and the new techni - materialism: man, in fact, is not merely way: the ambiguity of progress be - manity. Yet, humanity’s redemption cal achievements that had made this de - the product of economic conditions and comes evident. Without doubt, it offers and therefore our hope can never be velopment possible — is undeniable” it is not possible to redeem him purely new possibilities for good, but it also found in those things that can only (no. 16). from the outside by creating a favorable opens up appalling possibilities for evil change or alter the exterior world. True Americans have a reputation as opti - economic environment” (no. 21). — possibilities that formerly did not ex - hope can be found only in that which mists. Those who immigrated to this From the perspective of the 21st cen - ist. We have all witnessed the way in has the power to transform the human country from Europe experienced a tury, we can see that the advancement which progress, in the wrong hands, heart. This is why Jesus and the truth of freedom from many of the prejudices of science does not inevitably lead to a can become and has indeed become a the Gospel remain as relevant and as and biases that plagued the “Old better world. The scientific advance - terrifying progress in evil. If technical important today as they were 2,000 World.” Also contributing to this opti - ments that can be used to do so much progress is not matched by correspond - years ago. mistic spirit were the scientific and technological advances that coincided with the development of our nation. 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Catholic News Service the papal visit. roster know the pope, his habits and • Father Federico Lombardi, the ized by the ability of human reason to Call Toll Free 888-246-1504 direct the natural world. Modern Five Americans are traveling with his needs. They include: Vatican spokesman. Although Father The Holy Father describes the radical VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When the pope, including Cardinal William • Msgr. Guido Marini, the pope’s Lombardi has gone on record as saying change in religious faith this new faith Pope Benedict XVI comes to the United J. Levada, head of the Vatican’s new master of liturgical ceremonies. the pope doesn’t really need a in progress caused: “Up to that time, the States in mid-April, he won’t exactly be Congregation for the Doctrine of the Along with Msgr. Millea, he’s made a spokesman, the soft-spoken Jesuit has newborn leaving the Vatican behind. Faith, and Cardinal F. James Stafford, preparatory visit to Mass sites in occasionally found himself explaining recovery of what man had lost through the expulsion from Paradise was ex - Traveling with the pope is a 30-man head of the Vatican office that deals Washington and New York and has or fine-tuning papal remarks to re - pected from faith in Jesus Christ: herein entourage of Roman Curia officials, with penitential issues. gone over the liturgical details with a porters — most notably after the lay redemption. Now, this redemption, portraits liturgical advisers, doctors, media ex - Archbishop James M. Harvey, a fine-toothed comb. pope’s speech in Regensburg, the restoration of the lost Paradise, is no perts and security personnel, all of Milwaukee native who serves as pre - • Msgr. Georg Ganswein, the pope’s Germany, in 2006. For the most part, longer expected from faith, but from whom have highly specialized assign - fect of the papal household, also will personal secretary. The sandy-haired Father Lombardi prefers to let the the newly discovered link between sci - ments. make the trip. His Vatican job involves German is usually at the pope’s side, pope hold the spotlight and to let the ence and praxis. It is not that faith is This “portable Vatican” has accom - overseeing the pope’s daily schedule of even when he rides in his popemobile.