THE CATHOLIC MIRROR Vol. 53, No. 2 February 15, 2019 Lent kicks The New Moment off soon Chariton woman teaches girls Ash Wednesday on March 6 kicks off Lent, a period of 40 days of prayer, fasting ‘lost arts’ in the name of charity and charity, which prepares the faithful and newcomers to the faith to celebrate Easter with By Kelly Mescher Collins renewed hearts. Staff Writer At Ash Wednesday services, people are traditionally marked with the ashes of burnt Sewing, crocheting, and craft- palm branches as a sign of their ing has bonded a small group of young recognition of their human frailty girls and their leader at Sacred Heart as well as sinfulness and need Parish in Chariton. And it’s all done in for repentence in their lifelong the name of charity and faith. journey of conversion. Their leader, Vicki Nace, cre- Ash Wednesday and ated the group over five years ago. Good Friday (April 19) are days “The idea is to teach them dif- of fasting within the Church for ferent skills,” Nace said. “The purpose those between the ages of 18 is to teach them lost arts, but it’s also and 59. They may eat only one for charity.” full meal and two other meals They meet weekly in the base- consisting of substantially less ment of the church after school. food. There should be no food One of their early projects was taken between meals. Anyone crocheting lap blankets to give to the whose health is threatened by elderly in the nursing home. They also fasting is exempted. made rosaries out of tough yarn for sol- Catholics age 14 and diers and held bake sales to raise mon- older also abstain from meat on ey for the poor. Recently, they under- Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and took their biggest project yet – sewing all Fridays of Lent. dresses out of pillow cases for girls in foreign countries. They donated them to the organization, Little Dresses for Africa. “The girls really enjoyed this sewing project,” Nace said. They are creative with their supplies and endeavors. “We are currently working on mats for the homeless using plastic grocery bags,” Nace said. “We loop [the bags] into a chain and weave it to-

Back row: Renee Pederson and Vicki Nace hold the quilt the group sewed. Continued on page 12 Front row: Hannah Schlutz, Jessica Metzger and Haddon Anderson Father Ross Parker helped distribute ashes last year. Men: Get out of the house Father Gene Merz, co-founder of Emmaus House, dies at age 87 and connect with other guys chapel at the Bishop Drumm Care By Anne Marie Cox Center in Johnston. Iowa Catholic Men’s Conference is Saturday, March 30 in West Des Moines Staff Writer Father Merz entered the Jesuits in 1948, professing final vows at Emmaus House in Des ish in Des Moines. Jesuit Father Gene Merz, Moines in 1977. By Kelly Mescher Collins The day will begin at a cofounder of Emmaus House, After his studies, he Staff Writer 8 a.m. with Mass celebrated by died on Jan. 16 at age 87. He was served at St. Francis Mission in Bishop Richard Pates. The con- a Jesuit for 70 years, and a priest South Dakota and taught theology Men – mark your calen- ference runs from 9 a.m-3 p.m. for 57 years. at a high school in Wisconsin be- dar for an event created just for Deacon Harold “Father Gene was a fore becoming a spiritual director. you. Burke-Sivers, Catholic author, loving servant of God,” wrote In 1974, he moved to Des Moines The seventh annual Iowa speaker and co-host of EWTN’s Claudette McDonald on an Em- where, with Father Gary Brophy, Catholic Men’s Conference will “Morning Glory,” will be giving maus House memorial page. “His he created Emmaus House to of- be March 30 at St. Francis Parish two talks. heartfelt listening, and keen in- fer spiritual direction, retreats, in West Des Moines. “The first talk is about sights guided me to deep self-un- and counseling. This year’s theme is encountering Christ….,” Deacon derstanding and interior freedom. Father Merz served in “Glorify the Lord by Your Life,” Burke-Sivers said. “[The second May all those whom he touched Des Moines until 1979, when he said conference coordinator and talk] focuses on Ephesians Chap- carry forth his rich legacy.” became a master of novices for event emcee Deacon Tom Brad- A memorial service will ley, of St. Mary of Nazareth Par- Continued on page 10 Keynote Deacon Burke-Sivers be Feb. 24 from 3-5 p.m. at the Continued on page 12 2 The Catholic Mirror February 15, 2019 www.dmdiocese.org In the Heartland with Bishop Pates Bishop delivers prayer Do we need Jesus? at dedication service Central to the vision, The ever so evident! We do need Jesus! New Moment is Jesus. He is the Very recently, the signs center of history. He is the Father’s of the times have become even revelation of love. He provides the more distressing. In response to guideposts to our ultimate destiny By the liberalizing abortion legislation of salvation. Bishop recently enacted by the New York On the personal level Richard State legislature and signed into with each of us, he is the source Pates law by Governor Cuomo, Cardinal of peace. It is the assurance of his Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of unfailing companionship that we New York wrote: manage the disappointments, the sisters requiring assurance of their “I’m thinking of, for struggles, the complexities of life. life and dignity. example, the ghoulish radical At the same time, rooted in a mutual Within the social fabric so abortion bill . . . This chilling law, relationship, he sparks the joy, the many of the “signs of the times” are if you have not heard, insists on the hope that emerges as we embrace discouraging. demand for an abortion up to the the revelation that constantly • How many of our moment of birth, drops all charges unfolds before us in the Gospel. fellow humans suffer from hunger, against an abortionist who allows We recognize how essential his exploitation, violence, corruption, an aborted baby, who somehow presence is at all moments. We do extreme poverty? survived the scissors, scalpel, saline need Jesus. and dismemberment, to die before Bishop Richard Pates on Jan. 17 delivered a prayer • So many of our school from the Christian tradition at a dedication service for Gov. Kim This same dependent children live in fear and uncertainty his/her eyes; mandates that to make spirit generated in Jesus engages an abortion more convenient and Reynolds and Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg, pictured above with Bishop in the era of mass shootings caused Pates. The prayer is as follows. the immediate circle we associate by the availability of weapons to easy, a physician need not perform with. We are encouraged by the those unfit for their possession. it . . .” At the heart of the Christian tradition is love. Jesus support and sacrifice of those who • Traced to the very roots No longer does there exist clearly assured us: “As the Father loves me, so I also love you. constitute our personal community. of our country, the plague of racism a so-called justifying argument of a When we are sick or in trouble, their remains to be overcome. We are yet certain time in gestation as to when Remain in my love.” (John 15; 9). This attribute is further compassion, their selflessness and called to fully implement the truth life begins. In fact, all of us began extended: “This I command you: love one another.” (John 17) outreach in true human solidarity of the founding documents of our our journey of life at conception. This love has an objective dimension insofar as civil touch us deeply. We need these country and its ongoing legislation. Moreover, around every corner in governing. The standard for such is based on truth, justice friends because they point the way We assert the fact that all people are the United States there are lines and peace. As Gov. Reynolds and Lt. Gov. Gregg take on the to that which is truly meaningful. equal. Our consciences, hearts and of loving couples eagerly desiring executive reigns of Iowa government may they lead Through our coming together in minds have yet to fully actualize to open their homes to adoption. . . . in truth so that government is transparent with the faith with them, we build God’s this reality. There will never be a shortage. outcome that trust is built on every level of society; kingdom. We do need Jesus. • 90% of the worlds’ Light conquers darkness. Life . . . in justice embodying the unbending teaching that all In the broader community scientists attest that there is overcomes death. people are equal. They stand before God as children and with us eventually expanding to embrace climate change owing to human No one, neither Bishop as brothers and sisters. May all injustice and inequality be erased the entirety of the human family, we behavior. An epidemic of universal Pates nor Governor Cuomo, has within the Iowa family; benefit from the vision that comes the power to legislate the death of a suffocation is now anticipated . . . in peace quashing debilitating fear so widespread from the teaching of Jesus – that vulnerable human being depriving within decades, if the present today because of the presence of evil and the exercise of self- which recognizes each individual that individual of the foundational activity remains unabated . . . serving dominance. as created in the image and likeness As we reflect on these and human right: The right to life. of God. All are our brothers and Do we need Jesus? Christian love is also experienced on the level of the other signs of the times, it seems individual person. May the Governor and Lieutenant Governor work to establish community that is anchored in the human reality that we all have need. Because of this universal condition, we Bishop’s Schedule benefit from compassion, mercy, kindness and understanding. So Friday, February 15 Saturday, February 16 Friday, March 1 very often a second chance is called for in order to take hold of Des Moines – “In the Heartland with Des Moines – Catholic Daughters Des Moines – “In the Heartland with the strength and discipline that lies hidden within each person. Bishop Pates”, Iowa Catholic Radio, Mass, breakfast for vocations, All Bishop Pates”, Iowa Catholic Radio, Tonight Gov. Reynolds and Lt. Gov. Gregg, we wish you Des Moines; KVSS, Omaha, 9 a.m. Saints Parish, 9 a.m. Des Moines; KVSS, Omaha, 9 a.m. only the best as you undertake the governing of the State of Iowa. Des Moines – Confirmation and Chariton – Installation Mass for Saturday, March 2 May love and its roots in Christianity be a vision which guides reception, St. Joseph Parish, 7 p.m. Father Seth Owusu, Sacred Heart Audubon – Confirmation, recep- you. Parish, 4:30 p.m. tion for St. Patrick Parish, Audubon Corydon – Installation Mass for Fa- and Holy Trinity Parish, Exira, St. And so we pray: ther Seth Owusu, St. Francis Parish, Patrick Parish, 5 p.m. O God, your message through Jesus is one of 6:30 p.m. THE CATHOLIC Sunday, March 3 love intended to be carried out by his disciples Sunday, February 17 Woodbine – Confirmation, Sacred in their particular vocation. Tonight we come to Leon – Installation Mass for Father Heart Parish, 9 a.m. seek your blessing on Governor Reynolds and Seth Owusu, St. Brendan Parish, 8 Dunlap – Confirmation, St. Patrick Lieutenant Governor Gregg as they respond to IRROR a.m. Parish, 11 a.m. M your calling expressed through electoral voices. Chariton – Installation Mass for Harlan – Confirmation, reception, Father Seth Owusu, Sacred Heart for St. Joseph Parish, Earling, St. Bishop Richard E. Pates Parish, 10:30 a.m. Peter Parish, Defiance, St. Michael May their service be characterized by Christian Publisher Indianola – Mass, Simpson College, Parish, Harlan, St. Mary Parish, love, exercised on behalf of your children, O [email protected] 5 p.m. Portsmouth, and St. Boniface Parish, God, all of whom are our brothers and sisters in Monday, February 18 Westphalia at St. Michael Parish, 2 the human family. Anne Marie Cox Des Moines – Iowa Catholic bish- p.m. Amen Editor ops’ meeting, bishop’s residence, 5 Wednesday, March 6 [email protected] p.m. Des Moines – Ash Wednesday Ser- Des Moines –Diocesan Executive vice, St. Ambrose Cathedral, 12:10 Kelly Mescher Collins Committee, Catholic Pastoral Center, p.m. 1 p.m. Staff Writer Thursday, March 7 The New Tuesday, February 19 [email protected] Des Moines – Summit on School Moment Des Moines – Legislative breakfast, Strategic Planning, Pastoral Center, Iowa State Capitol, 7:30 a.m. 6:30 pm Des Moines – Meeting with Gov. The Catholic Mirror (ISSN Friday, March 8 OFFICIAL Kim Reynolds, Iowa State Capitol, Des Moines – “In the Heartland with 0896-6869) is published 1:30 p.m. Bishop Pates”, Iowa Catholic Radio, monthly for $20 per year by Des Moines – Hispanic Pastoral Des Moines; KVSS, Omaha, 9 a.m. Effective February 28, 2019 the Diocese of Des Moines, Commission Meeting, Pastoral Des Moines –Diocesan Executive 601 Grand Ave., Des Moines, Center, 3 p.m. Committee, Catholic Pastoral Center, Iowa 50309. Periodicals post- Wednesday, February 20 Father Guthrie Dolan – from Pastor, St. Joseph, Earling and St. 1 p.m. Peter, Defiance to Associate Pastor of St. Anthony, Des Moines. age paid at Des Moines. Des Moines – Christ the King Senior Saturday, March 9 Housing Board, Catholic Pastoral POSTMASTER: Send changes Panora – Mass with Confirmation Center, 1 p.m. Father Dan Gehler – from Parochial Vicar of St. Anthony, Des to THE CATHOLIC MIR- candidates, St. Thomas More Center, Moines to Pastor, St. Joseph, Earling and St. Peter, Defiance ROR, 601 Grand Ave., Des Thursday, February 21 – 3:30 p.m. Moines, Iowa 50309. Friday, March 1 Council Bluffs – Rite of Election, PHONE: (515)237-5046 Vacation Corpus Christi – Queen of Apostles EMAIL: mirror@dmdiocese. Friday, February 22 site, 7 p.m. org Des Moines – “In the Heartland with Bishop Richard Pates Jason Kurth DIOCESAN WEBSITE: Bishop Pates”, Iowa Catholic Radio, Bishop of Des Moines Chancellor www.dmdiocese.org Des Moines; KVSS, Omaha, 9 a.m. Continued on page 3 www.dmdiocese.org The Catholic Mirror February 15, 2019 3 Schools summit concludes Catholic Schools Week celebrated initial strategic planning phase

The diocesan Catholic been taking place. We have now Schools Strategic Planning Blue reached a place where a draft Ribbon Task Force invites the of the plan is ready for a wider public to a summit on March consultation that involves all 7 at which the results and our Catholic school leaders.” recommendations of a study In the last year, will be shared. representatives of Meitler Pastors, pastoral Consulting have visited all 17 leaders, principals, board of diocesan schools, examined education members and those demographic, finance and interested in improving the enrollment data and talked with diocese’s schools are invited to parents, educators and school the Catholic Pastoral Center, leadership. 601 Grand Ave. for the summit Following the from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. conclusion of this initial “For the past 15 phase, work will begin on months, many people have been implementing the vision of the involved in forming a strategic strategic plan. Breakout sessions plan for our diocese,” said at the summit will focus on Bishop Richard Pates in a letter making disciples, financial to leadership at the schools. viability and funding models, “Data analysis, interviews, and enrollment management for planning committee work and the schools. discussions at many levels have

Bishop’s Schedule

Continued from page 2 Sunday, March 10 Des Moines – Rite of Election, St. Ambrose Cathedral, 1:30 and 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 12 Atlantic – Priests’ Study Day, Ss. Peter & Paul Parish Hall, 9:30 a.m.

Wednesday, March 13 Des Moines – Bilingual Andrew Dinner, Christ the King Parish, 5 p.m.

Thursday, March 14 Des Moines – Vocation Department, Catholic Pastoral Center, 8:30 a.m. Des Moines – Diocesan Finance Council, Catholic Pastoral Center, Noon Des Moines – The New Moment, Catholic Pastoral Center, 3 p.m. Bishop Richard Pates celebrated Catholic Schools Week with Mass (top picture) at Dow- Friday, March 15 ling Catholic High School in West Des Moines on Jan. 29 and St. Albert Catholic Schools Des Moines – “In the Heartland with Bishop Pates”, Iowa Catholic Radio, in Council Bluffs on Jan. 31. Pictured above are St. Albert School students Maddie Des Moines; KVSS, Omaha, 9 a.m. Moody, Michael Rosloniec, Rowan High-Horse, Mila Gaul, Brock Markel and McKenna White. Catholic educator retires after 47-year career coming to Des Moines to work at to the parish. “While we will no they faced challenges. She has “With your continued strong By Anne Marie Cox St. Augustin. doubt miss her, we thank her for listened to countless parents and support, I know that the next Staff Writer “I came to Des Moines all she has done and wish her well adapted to changing times.” principal will be able to continue in June 1987 with no experience as she embarks on this new phase Dowdle leaves the the excellence we all worked so as a principal. I had not been in of her life that she has no doubt school with hope for the future: hard to earn.” After 47 years in an elementary school since I left earned.” Catholic education, 32 of them at one in 1963. I had to take classes Diocesan Schools St. Augustin Catholic School in at Drake in the evenings/summer Superintendent Dr. Tracy Bonday Des Moines, Dr. Nancy Dowdle to be certified,” she wrote. describes Dowdle as an icon. has decided that when the school It didn’t take her long, The Dowdle family has been a year ends, she will begin a new with seasoned office staff, to be mainstay in Catholic education phase of her life in retirement. up and running. in Des Moines. Dr. Dowdle’s “There is a time for During her time as husband, Dr. Jim Dowdle, retired everything,” she said in a letter principal, the school saw growth from 29 years as principal at to the St. Augustin Board of in enrollment and academics. A Dowling Catholic High School Education. “I leave with a heavy new school was built and, she three years ago and last spring heart, but I know too, that I will said, great, experienced teachers retired from teaching there part remember forever not what I gave educated the students. time. They have a daughter who to St. Augustin School, but what Father Christopher Pisut, serves at Dowling Catholic. St. Augustin School gave to me.” pastor of St. Augustin Parish, has School board president Raised in Council appreciated her experience and Christy Sullivan said it will Bluffs and a graduate of St. strengths. be hard to imagine the school Albert Catholic Schools, she “She has no doubt left without its longtime principal. earned her bachelor’s degree in her mark on St. Augustin School, “For 32 years, she has music from Clarke University in and the parish as a whole, with practiced her faith and inspired Dubuque and taught music for a her steadfast leadership, which her staff,” Sullivan said. “She while. She earned her master’s has helped to grow the school has held her students and faculty Dr. Nancy Dowdle, an icon in Catholic education in the degree and doctoral degree at and make it a model of academic to the highest standards and Des Moines metro area, will retire at the end of the school Loyola University in Chicago. excellence,” he said in a letter supported them tirelessly when year from St. Augustin Catholic School. She worked as a counselor before 4 Opinion Passing on faith is like apprenticeship

My wife is a tremendous cook My wife didn’t ask Gabriel to of faith formation is as relevant for adult and host, and I’m happy to say that I can Marriage & study cookbooks or memorize recipes, she children as it is for small children. There is already see these gifts flourishing in my Family Life invited him to participate in something that never a time where we can’t share the joy son, Gabriel. brought her joy. of our faith with our family. Just last weekend we were Parents are the primary It’s important to remember that having friends over, and Saturday morning evangelists and catechists of our children, our children are also free and that we Gabriel passionately exclaimed, pumping and to me the best image of passing on the can’t always see the grace of God acting his fist, “Get ready dad! Today we’re going By faith is one of apprenticeship. in someone’s life. We can’t force our to bake! Bake! BAKE!” Adam Storey It’s about parents living out their children to embrace our faith. What we can Now I’m not a baker, but since I faith passionately, it’s about devotions, and do, by the grace of God, is be transformed get to enjoy the fruits of this work, I gave he’s delighted in a recipe that went just acts of service, and wrestling with hard ourselves. We can grow in intimacy with my wholehearted assent. right. He’s been able to ask questions, truths. And then it’s as simple as inviting God, and love of him, and we can invite My son’s love of baking got me wrestle with challenges and learn tricks of your children into that, to see your joy and others to participate in that relationship. thinking about how this quality first grew the trade. to experience it. in his heart. Since he was two, he’d often Most importantly, he’s Through these experiences Adam Storey is the diocesan director be found standing on a chair next to my experienced my wife’s love of baking up the faith becomes more than a concept, of Marriage & Family Life. He can be wife, helping her mix ingredients in a close, he’s seen her joy, and he’s grown to it becomes a lived reality, a personal reached at 515-237-5056 or astorey@ bowl, or roll out dough, or (Lord help us) desire it too. encounter with Jesus that can change our dmdiocese.org. crack eggs. I’d argue that the way parents lives. He’s seen recipes go wrong, and pass on our faith is no different. Practicing this apprenticeship

Adventure by Catholic terms: ‘You were made for greatness’

All afternoon I had been hunkered venture. Somehow it contains both courage thrilling. What greater adventure could over my MacBook, perched above a frozen Guest Column and motion, stretching long like an open there be than raising a child? lake and watching the sun cast pink into the Twenty Something highway and propelled by the v. I felt happy for both of us, think- clouds. I was thinking about what lie dor- Webster’s defines it as “an ex- ing in that space beyond comparison, mant and all the possibility below, waiting citing or remarkable experience” and “an where you see how unique and worthy to thaw. undertaking usually involving danger.” It each path is and would never hold them up My task at hand: editing a cover originates from the colloquial Latin word together. story about three Catholic families who adventūra, “what must happen,” which That night I Googled quotes on had taken radical leaps of faith. One cou- By Christina Capecchi conjures a sense of destiny – the thing with adventure for the back of the magazine, ple moved to Costa Rica with their baby burning urgency that can no longer be de- circling around words from Helen Keller to do mission work. One man felt called ative. layed or denied. and the ever-quotable G.K. Chesterton. to head up a floundering radio station. An- When the year is over, they’re That evening my friend Stephen Suddenly the answer flashed in my mind: other family set aside their jobs and rented determined to apply their lessons from the came over to discuss the epic road trip he a statement from Pope Benedict XVI. “The out their home to embark on a year-long road. They plan to do a homeschool hy- was about to begin: driving from Minneso- world offers you comfort, but you were cross-country RV trip, prodded by a sensa- brid – two days at a local charter school ta down to the bottom of South America to not made for comfort. You were made for tion many of us recognize. and three days at home – rather than the take in Patagonia. He’d just been at a party greatness.” “Life was starting to rule us, not traditional school their son had attended. where they were swapping definitions of That’s the true meaning of adven- the other way around,” the 40-year-old They vow to camp monthly to continue adventure, Stephen told me. For him, it in- ture, whether you’re in Patagonia or in pa- mom said she had realized one Wednesday the intense family bonding begun in their volved the new, “going into the unknown.” jamas at home: the times you push beyond evening during her son’s karate class. “We RV. And they pledge not to overcommit, to I’ll be following his travels through Insta- comfort to achieve your greatness designed felt we were losing time.” never agree to something on the spot but gram while staying put. Days after he hits by God. Their travel is reshaping them. rather say, “That sounds great; let me get the road, I’ll be going into labor. Worshipping at tiny desert churches and back to you after talking to my spouse.” A sense of peace washed over me ancient cathedrals has made them appre- As I kicked around cover lines for as I listened to Stephen. I know my next Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer ciate the universal church. And the time the story, I considered phrases like “leap of adventure ordained by God is about to be- from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. together in tiny quarters, the experience of faith” and “bold journey.” But one word gin, and though mine centers on a rocking truly putting family first has been restor- felt most apt, dulling in any paraphrase: ad- chair and a dimmed nursery, it is no less

Where is God during a crisis of faith?

Fifteen years ago I went through a mom, my five sisters and I gathered to pray he was there. crisis of faith. Guest Column the rosary. This was the first time I heard This was a moment for me that In less than six months I had suf- my mother ask us to pray for the strength opened a path to deeper desire to know fered multiple deaths including my father, to deal with whatever happens rather than God, entering into prayer, and recognizing a colleague and a client. prayers that dad would be better. Jesus walking with me, opened my eyes Each of these three losses were We had invited Jesus into our and my heart in new ways. significant in their own way. After the final situation and the next morning Jesus was Daily prayer became a desire and one, I went into Mass on Sunday to sing with us at the hospital as we sat with dad in through the ups and downs of finding what with the choir. By his final hours. worked and what didn’t I found God in As my friend began to proclaim Patty Mayer Months later, I was driving to new and exciting ways. the psalm, “My God, my God, why have work and felt a strong urge to go to church So when I look back on this time you abandoned me?” I lost it. tinued to sing in the choir, I continued to go and pray. As I entered and knelt I didn’t of great sadness in my life I don’t focus on I ended up sitting on the bathroom to work and do the good things I did there, know what to do, I’d never done this be- the sadness. I see it as a point of conver- floor sobbing and asking this question over all the while questioning where God was in fore. So I said “I guess I will just ask that sion, when I finally saw Jesus truly as my and over until my question evolved from the midst of this deep sorrow and darkness. you give me what I need to get through to- companion, the ONE who is always by my abandoning me to how could a loving and Then, I saw the movie “The Pas- day.” side. God doesn’t “do” anything to us, but merciful God “do this” to me. sion of the Christ.” Just when I wanted to I entered work to find out about he walks with us through the storm! The only answer I could come up yell “enough already” during the scour- my colleague. I had invited Jesus into my with was, “He wouldn’t.” aging scene, I met the eyes of Jesus and day and he was there with me as I calmly So as I continued to sit there on I knew his physical beating paralleled my worked with others through that day and Patty Mayer is the director of Adult Faith the floor in the bathroom my question be- emotional beating. the days to come. Formation at Our Lady’s Immaculate came “So, is there a God?” I was in a peri- I knew that as I sat there with him Finally, I took some time for Heart Parish in Ankeny. Her reflections are od of deep desolation. in his desolation, he sits with me in mine. myself and went on a silent retreat at the based on the book: “Busy Lives & Restless I knew the best thing to do would I knew that he had been with me through it local retreat center. I spent two days there Souls: How Prayer Can Help You Find the be to stay the course – do what I’ve been all! praying for healing and strength. Inviting Missing Peace in Your Life” by Becky El- doing and not to change anything. St. Igna- As I reflected back, here’s what I Jesus into my brokenness. It was after this dredge, which was given to parishioners tius would have agreed! remembered about that six months. retreat that I received the call about my cli- last Christmas. I continued to go to Mass, I con- The night before my dad died my ent. Once again, Jesus was invited in and 5 Ask a Priest Legislative update for 2019 the Catholic Newman Q. We were taught in grade school induce them to a greater fervor of char- By Tom Chapman Center on an extensive that even though a Catholic may have ity. Under the new discipline, the num- Contributing Writer list of student groups to possibly be deregistered confessed a serious sin and completed ber of plenary indulgences was greatly Here is a short summary for violations of the the penance given by the priest in con- reduced, and it was emphasized that of legislation that the Iowa Catholic university’s human rights fession, in terms of God’s justice addi- no plenary indulgence could be gained Conference is following in Iowa. For policy. tional punishment for the committed without a total conversion of heart from more information or the latest news, go to sin, called temporal punishment, might all sin. Partial indulgences are no lon- iowacatholicconference.org. Tom be required of the individual in Purga- ger reckoned in days and years; they Weapons Chapman tory. Now does the Church still teach simply supplement the remission which Many bills this? And that a plenary indulgence if the people performing the indulgenced Abortion are in play to loosen restrictions on gun A proposed amendment to make gained either lessens or removes the action have already gained by the ownership or carrying of weapons. The ICC our state Constitution “abortion-neutral,” purification required of that soul in charity and contrition with which they testified last week in opposition to House Senate Joint Resolution 9, passed a Senate purgatory? Could you explain what a do it.” (The Oxford Dictionary of the Joint Resolution 3, which would apply subcommittee last week. plenary indulgence is and how is one Christian Church, 1983, p. 700.) “strict scrutiny” to any restrictions on gun This past summer, the Iowa gained? -Jolene, Harlan, IA rights. It would make any future regulation You ask if the Church still Supreme Court discovered a fundamental difficult and we believe it would put current teaches this. We can say that the right to an abortion in the state Constitution. regulations in peril. A. Hmmm. Lots of ground to cover Church certainly doesn’t emphasize Now and in the future, a “strict scrutiny” Other bills include Senate File in your question. Indulgences were them today. Indulgences became one of standard will be applied to any regulation 165, which would eliminate state permits not known by the apostles and the ear- the main focuses of the Protestant Ref- of abortion or efforts to restrict its public to acquire weapons and allow “permit- ly Church. The gospels don’t mention ormation in the 1500s. At that time, it funding. less” carry, and Senate File 213, which them, and the writings of St. Paul don’t appeared to some – and they may well The ICC testified in support of the would bar employers from prohibiting an refer to them. have been correct – that indulgences amendment. Without this change, abortion employee from carrying a gun to work, if were being sold. Clearly, this was a ter- will remain a fundamental right in Iowa if In medieval times many people the employee has a carry permit and the rible abuse. The Catechism of the Cath- or when Roe v. Wade is struck down or if thought of indulgences in a very me- gun is out of sight and in a locked vehicle. chanical way: If I do this, then God will olic Church devotes only a few pages to federal law is modified. do that. We were starting with OUR- the subject of indulgences, paragraphs The ICC encourages Iowans to SELVES rather than with GOD. Since 1471-1479 and 1498. You might want contact their senator in support, particularly School Tuition Organization The ICC is continuing to meet Vatican II, especially in its return to to check the Catechism to see if you if he or she is a member of the Senate State with legislators about the importance of a Scripture, we have moved somewhat find it helpful. The Catechism is avail- Government Committee. A version of this substantial increase in the School Tuition away from that approach. “In 1967, able free online through the U.S. Bish- amendment wasintroduced in the Iowa Organization tax credits, currently set at St. Paul VI substantially revised the op’s Conference website: usccb.org. House as House Joint Resolution 5. $13 million annually. This program helps practical application of the tradition- private schools raise money for scholarships al doctrine on indulgences, to make it Got a question for “Ask a Priest” and Religious Liberty for lower-income students. clear that the Church’s object was not The ICC supports a bill to protect its author, Father John Ludwig? Send Meanwhile the legislature is merely to help the faithful make due the free speech and religious liberty of it to [email protected]. working quickly to establish an increase satisfaction for their sins, but chiefly to students on the campuses of Iowa’s public in public school funding this year. The universities. proposals would increase basic state aid Senate Study Bill 1099 passed a by 2.06 percent, as well as provide more Senate subcommittee and was scheduled Two from Des Moines diocese attend CFM board meeting equity in transportation and other costs to be considered by the Senate Education per pupil, for a total of an $89.3 million Committee last week. The bill would allow Rick and Sandy Hoenig, of and families live the Christian faith in increase for K-12 schools. In Iowa, more student groups (including religious ones) to St. Joseph Parish in Winterset, recently everyday life and improve society through than $7 billion is spent on K-12 education choose their leadership in alignment with attended the winter board meeting for the actions of love, education, and service. – more than $14,600 per student when all their belief and conduct standards. Christian Family Movement held in Ann Anyone interested in becoming a sources of funding are considered (federal, In a related matter, the University Arbor, Michigan. member or finding out more about CFM, state, local property taxes). CFM is an international can contact the Hoenigs at 515-231-5653. of Iowa is being required by a federal court to reinstate the Christian student group organization that helps individuals Tom Chapman is the executive director of BlinC. The university had “deregistered” the Iowa Catholic Conference. He can be the group for violations of a human reached at tom@iowacatholicconference. rights policy. The university had also put org. Young priest pays tribute to his late father

The homily of Father Trevor Chicoine Your presence is a comfort or United Airlines to at the funeral Mass for his father, Tim to Mom, my sisters, and I, and it truly lose Dad’s luggage Chicoine, is printed at the request of humbles me. in what he thought Bishop Richard Pates. This is part one. I’ve been asked what a son would was a simple return Read more in subsequent issues of The say about his Dad from the pulpit. After trip from Tel Aviv to Catholic Mirror. assuring a few of the family that I wouldn’t Des Moines by way collapse up here-and-truth be told, Mass of a 24-hour meeting One of the greatest gifts my father would go on if I did (after all, this sermon’s in Los Angeles with ever gave me was that of letting his son see typed and all these gentlemen up here a layover in Newark. him cry. can read), the joyful reality of Catholic No. God Whether it was at the death of his preaching set in: I do not have to make did not will this or own father, at my ordination, with pride at up the message. Sacred Scripture and any other tragedy. something one of my sisters or I achieved, tradition have done that for us. In what, in witnessing another’s pain, or simply, And the readings Mom and the then, are we to place every time he dropped one of us off at the girls choose could not have been better. our faith? I think our airport knowing it would be some months It’s a simple message really: love faith lies precisely in Father Trevor Chicoine with his father Tim. before we saw each other again, Dad taught conquers all. Love lasts. Death does not God’s compassion. with us. He died. And then we believe he me men do not have to fear tears. have the final word. As Catholics and Remember, compassion literally means rose from the dead and ascended to heaven I trust, dear friends, you will Christians, we know that we can hope in “to suffer together.” We do not have a opening for us the gates of eternity. forgive me if I have to apply his lesson at eternal life and love because of the life and God who stood outside his creation and That is our God. Not a passive some point in the next minutes. love of Jesus Christ. watched us suffer such painful tragedies. God who watched us suffer in pain, but a To all of you: To the family who In times such as these, in Rather, we have a God who stepped right God who intimately knows pain, the sense have gathered from the four corners of our moments such as these, a common question into the midst of his own creation, took on of tragic loss, and who offers us hope of country, to the many friends from many often raised is, “How could a merciful, flesh, walked among us, living the very life eternal life. places who grace us with your presence, compassionate God let something like this we live. That is where my hope lies, to the priests, deacons, seminarians happen?” As we continue to celebrate the my faith lies in him. I believe he knows and religious who join us this morning, It’s a fair question. Christmas season, we remember that baby our pain. I believe his promise is true. I especially to Bishops (Richard) Pates We know God doesn’t who was born in the manger in order to believe his love lasts, our love for Dad sure and (Joseph) Charron, and to our fellow micromanage his creation. That’s not how help us find our way back to God and back lasts and so, too, Dad’s love for all of us parishioners of Immaculate Conception he works. to right relationship with one another. endures. St. Marys (this is after all, as I told Lyle & I do not believe he wills accident Ultimately, we have a God who Lesa when we planned this funeral liturgy, or events such as we have seen these last was born, lived among us, taught us, and Father Trevor Chicoine is parochial vicar this is a St. Marys show-on-the-road), to all days any more than he wills tornados to then mounted the wood of the cross; A God of St. Francis Parish in West Des Moines. of you, thank you for being here. destroy houses, floods to wash out crops, who himself felt pain and loss. He suffered 6 The Catholic Mirror February 15, 2019 www.dmdiocese.org Around the diocese Dowling students participate in March for Life

Feb. 16 Saturday contact Judy LaRonde at 515-988- Students from Dowling Prayer for Persecuted Christians 7791. Catholic High School DES MOINES – The Knights of Co- March 1 Friday participated in the March for Life in lumbus at St Anthony will be hosting Catholic Widows and Widowers a prayer service at 6:30 p.m. to raise DES MOINES -- First Friday Mass Washington, D.C. in January. awareness of the plight of persecuted at noon at the Basilica of St. John. Christians. The program will be bilin- Lunch will follow at the Drake Diner. gual Spanish and English. For more information, contact Judy BINGO Saturday LaRonde at 515-988-7791. DES MOINES – St. Anthony Parish March 2 Saturday is hosting Bingo in the parish hall Trivia Night starting at 6 p.m. Early bird starts DES MOINES -- Recruit friends, at 6 p.m. BINGO decks start at $15. family, co-workers, your JustFaith There will be free childcare and food group, book clubs to form a team for Photos by Jeanne Wells for purchase. the Trivia Night benefiting the Cen- Feb. 18-21 Monday ter for Social Ministry. Dinner is at 6 Former Gangster Shares His Story p.m., trivia at 7 p.m. at the Catholic WEST DES MOINES – Several Des Pastoral Center. Register at center- Lenten fish fry dinners Moines-area churches are hosting a forsocialministry.org. Team registra- talk by former gangster John Prid- tions by Feb. 15. Questions? Contact This is the church/community center that is envisioned to serve the families in the Kiangaa more. the Center for Social Ministry office outstation of Tanzania’s Diocese of Moshi. Families there have already started donating money for • Feb. 18 – St. Francis, Mass at 5:30 at 515-782-3054. the project and carrying stones for the foundation. p.m., 6:15 p.m. in the gathering area Tenderloin dinner • Feb. 20 – St. Ambrose Cathedral, DES MOINES – All Saints is having 5:30 p.m. Mass, 6:15 p.m. at Catholic a tenderloin dinner from 4:30-6:30 The following are parish Lenten Dunlap, St. Patrick Pastoral Center p.m. in the parish hall. Cost is $8 for fish fry dinners on Fridays during Dinners on March 8 and St. Marys, Immaculate • Feb. 21 – Iowa Catholic Radio adults, $5 for children ages 6-12 and Lent, March 8 to April 12 except March 29 from 5-8 p.m. in the Conception hosts at St. Augustin Parish Hall, no charge for children under age 6. where otherwise noted. parish hall. Cost is $8/adults and Dinners are Fridays, 12-1 p.m. Devotion to Holy Face of Jesus Adair, St. John $4/children ages 10 and under. March 15, 22, March 29 and April • Feb. 22 – Sacred Heart Parish, DES MOINES – St. Anthony will Dinners are Fridays, Elkhart, St. Mary-Holy Cross 5, in the St. Marys Hall, from 5-7 West Des Moines, 5:30 p.m. Mass, have a speaker talk on the devotion March 15, 29 and April 12, in the Dinners will be March p.m. Cost is $9/adults, $5/children, 6:15 p.m. talk in the parish hall to Holy Face of Jesus. It begins with parish hall, from 5-7 p.m. Cost is a 8, 22 and April 5, in the parish hall not to exceed $25 for immediate Feb. 22 Friday Mass at 8:30 a.m. with the talk at 9 free-will offering. Alternate menu from 5-7 p.m. Cost is a free-will families. Alternate: mac and cheese. Catholic Widows and Widowers a.m. All are welcome. is mac and cheese. offering. Waukee, St. Boniface JOHNSTON -- Lunch at Texas Road- March 5 Tuesday Adel, St. John Glenwood, Our Lady of the Holy Dinners are in the parish house at 11 a.m. For more informa- Mardi Gras Potluck Dinners are March 8, 29 Rosary hall from 5-7:30 p.m. Cost $10/ tion and reservations contact Judy GREENFIELD – St. Patrick Parish and April 5 from 5-7 p.m. in the Dinners will be in the adults and $5/children ages 3-10, LaRonde at 515-988-7791. will have a Mardi Gras potluck at 6 parish hall, Cost is $8/adults, $5/ parish hall, from 5-7 p.m. Cost no charge for children ages 3 and Feb. 23 Saturday p.m. in the parish hall. children with a $25 immediate is $9/adults and $3/children. under. Alternate: fried shrimp, family maximum. Alternative: Alternate: mac and cheese. spaghetti with three different Mardi Gras Granger, Assumption March 9 Saturday grilled cheese sandwich and fries. sauces, cheese pizza. DUNLAP – St. Patrick Parish is St. Patrick’s Gala Altoona, Ss. John and Paul Dinners are 5:30-7 p.m. ***** hosting a Mardi Gras party from 6-9 WEST DES MOINES -- Join us 6-10 Dinners are Fridays, in the Assumption gym. Cost is a p.m. in the parish hall which will in- p.m. at the Ron Pearson Center for Des Moines Area March 1-April 12 from 4:30-7 free-will donation. Alternatives: clude dinner, drinks, games and a live the Catholic Charities annual St. Pat- Des Moines, All Saints p.m. in the parish hall. Cost is $10/ homemade veggie or cheese pizza, auction. Cost is a free will offering. rick’s Gala. Charities Champion hon- Dinners are from 5-9 adults; $5/children 6-12; no charge fish sandwiches. Warm Hearts Warm Hands Fundrais- oree is MercyOne. Clergy invited at p.m. in the parish hall. Cost is $9/ for children under 6. Alternative: Hamburg, St. Mary er. no charge. Email bgibbins@catholic- adults, $4/children ages 6-12 and cheese pizza, mac and cheese. Dinner will be served on Feb. 23 Saturday charitiesdm.org or call 515-237-5078 Friday, April 5, in the parish center, no charge for children under age Drive up is also available for the six. Alternatives: grilled cheese and Catholic Culture Lecture Series to reserve a ticket or order online at from 5-7:30 p.m. Cost is a free- same price. mac and cheese. DES MOINES -- The Catholic Cul- CatholicCharitiesDM.org. will donation. Alternate: mac and Ankeny, Our Lady’s Immaculate Des Moines, Basilica of St. John ture Lecture Series featuring Andy cheese. March 12 Tuesday Heart Dinners are in the parish Milam, will focus on shrines and why Catholic Widows and Widowers Indianola, St. Thomas Aquinas Dinners are Fridays, hall from 4:45-6:45 p.m. Cost is they’re part of the Catholic faith. Mi- DES MOINES -- Planning meeting Dinners are 5:30-7 p.m. March 15, 29 and April 12 from $10/adults, $3/children ages 4-10, lam is the coordinator of the Grotto at 12:30 p.m. at Chicago Speakeasy. at the parish hall. Cost is $10/adults 5-7 p.m. in the multipurpose room. no charge for children ages 3 and of the Redemption at West Bend. So- For more information, contact Judy & carry-outs; $5/children ages 6 to Alternate: grilled cheese and tater- under. cial hour and refreshments start at 7 LaRonde at 515-988-7791. 12. Children 5 and under are free. A tots for kids. Free-will offering to Des Moines, Christ the King p.m. at St. Augustin Parish hall with dessert table is also available with a March 16 Saturday support local charities. Dinners served are in the presentation at 7:30 p.m. For more free-will donation. Catholic Widows and Widowers Atlantic, Ss. Peter and Paul parish hall from 5-7 p.m. Cost is information go to dmcatholicculture. Logan, St. Anne WEST DES MOINES -- St. Pat- Dinners are in the parish $8/adults, $4/children Alternate: org or contact jhuynh@dmdiocese. Dinners are in the parish rick’s Day lunch at 1 p.m. at Maxie’s center from 5:30-7 p.m. Cost is $9/ cheese pizza. Desserts will be org, 515-237-5006. Restaurant. For reservations or more adults and $4/children ages 12 and hall from 5-7 p.m. Cost is $9 for adults, $8 for senior citizens and $5 available as a fundraiser for the Feb. 24 Sunday information, contact Judy LaRonde under or $25/family. Alternate: mac youth group. Memorial for Father Merz at 515-988-7791. and cheese. Additional donations for children ages 5-12. Alternate menu is Grilled Cheese. Des Moines, Holy Trinity JOHNSTON -- Jesuit Father Gene March 18-20 can be made for homemade desserts Dinners served Fridays, Merz, one of the founders of Em- Missouri Valley, St. Patrick Monday-Wednesday to support youth group. March 8, 29 and April 12, in the maus House, died on Jan. 16. The Audubon, St. Patrick Fish fry dinners are in the Nun Run parish hall from 5-7 p.m. Cost is staff and Board of Directors of Em- Dinners are in the parish parish hall from 5-7 p.m. with take KANSAS CITY -- A road trip for la- $9/adults, $5/children age 5-11 no maus will hold a memorial service center from 5-7:30 p.m. Cost is $8/ outs and delivery for homebound dies in grades 9-12 will give them a charge for children under 5, and from 3 to 5 p.m. at the chapel at the adults and $4/children ages 6-12; available. Cost is $8/adults, $7/with sneak peek into religious life by visit- $35/family. Alternate: mac and Bishop Drumm Care Center. All are no charge for children under 10, no a Harrison County Food Pantry ing Little Sisters of the Poor, Servants cheese. welcome. Please share condolences, cost for pre-k children. donation, $4 for children age 4-10, of Mary, Sisters of Charity, and Mt. Des Moines, St. Ambrose prayers and reflections at theem- Avoca, St. Mary and no cost for children under 4. St. Scholastica, plus the campus of Cathedral maushouse.org/gene-merz-memorial. Dinners on Fridays, Alternative: mac and cheese. Benedictine College. For more in- Dinners served in the Birthright Anniversary March 15 and April 12, in the Avoca Neola, St. Patrick formation, email vocations@dmdio parish hall from 12-1 p.m. Cost is COUNCIL BLUFFS – Birthright of Legion Hall, from 5:30-7 p.m. Cost Dinners from 5 -7 p.m. in cese.org. the parish hall. Cost is $9/adults, $5. Council Bluffs will be celebrating its is $9/adults and $4/children age 10 Des Moines, St. Augustin 25th anniversary with a prayer ser- March 22-24 and under. $4/children ages 5-10, no charge for children under 5. Alternative to Fish bake at 5 p.m. on vice at St. Peter Church in Council Friday-Sunday Carlisle, St. Elizabeth Seton April 5. Cost is $15/adults, $5/ Bluffs at 1:30 p.m. A reception will Leadership Training in Spanish Fish fry dinners on March fish: grilled cheese sandwich. Norwalk, St. John the Apostle children age 11 and under with a follow in the parish hall. The public DES MOINES -- Iowa AMOS invites 1, 15, 29 and April 12 from 5-7 family maximum of $40. is welcome to attend. the Hispanic community to a Lead- p.m. in the parish hall. Cost is $9/ Dinners are in the parish hall from 5-7 p.m. Alternative: Des Moines, St. Mary of Spaghetti and meatball dinner ership Training in Spanish. Email adults and $5/children, no charge cheese pizza, mac and cheese. Cost Nazareth CHURCHVILLE – The Churchville [email protected] with ques- for children age 5 and under. Ten is $8/adults, $5/seniors, and $3/ Dinners are in the parish Altar and Rosary Society is sponsor- tions. percent goes to birthright and 10 children age 12 and under. hall from 4:30-7 p.m. Cost is ing an all-you-can-eat Italian spaghet- March 30 Saturday percent goes to church hall addition Osceola, St. Bernard $10/adults, $9/seniors age 60 and ti & meatball dinner from 11 a.m. to Iowa Catholic Men’s Conference capital campaign. Dinners are in the parish older, and $5/children under ages 2:30 p.m. at the Churchville Assump- WEST DES MOINES -- The Iowa Corning, St. Patrick hall from 5-7 p.m. Cost is $9/adults, 12. Alternate: mac and cheese. tion Shrine Hall, located two miles Catholic Men’s Conference is at St. Fish Fry dinners on $4/children ages 4-12. Discount for Desserts are available for a free- northwest of Martensdale. Cost is Francis of Assisi Parish, 9 a.m. – 3 March 8 and 22 from 5-7 p.m. Cost families. will donation. $8/adults and $3/children ages 5-10. p.m. $25/adults, $15/students. Regis- is $8.00/adults, $5/children 5-14 Perry, St. Patrick West Des Moines, St. Francis of A silent auction is included. ter at iowacatholicradio.com/events. and free to children under 5. Assisi Council Bluffs, St. Peter Dinners from 5:30-7:00 Feb. 26 Tuesday April 6 Saturday p.m. at St. Patrick School. Cost is Dinners are from 5:30- Catholic Widows and Widowers Sponsor Couple Training Shrimp boils at 5:30 p.m. 7:15 p.m. Cost is $10/ages 13-adult; on March 15 and April 12. Cost is $8/adults, $4.50/children age 10 WEST DES MOINES -- Business DES MOINES – Sponsor Couple and younger, maximum $25 for $5/children ages 6-12 (under six is meeting at 2 p.m. at Sacred Heart training is at the Catholic Pastoral $15/adults and $10/children under free). Alternate: mac and cheese age 10. family with children. Alternatives: Church featuring speaker Jeff Harts- Center, from 1-5 p.m. Register by shrimp for $2 more, fish tacos, and cheese pizza. horn, of the West Des Moines Police calling Adam Storey at 515-237-5056 Father Chris’ Special each week. Department. For more information, or email [email protected]. www.dmdiocese.org The Catholic Mirror February 15, 2019 7 Bishop installs priests Iowa journal reviews diocesan history “The Catholic Church in with the political maneuvering enclave of Shelby County and the Southwest Iowa” by Steven M. involved in their appointments and challenges of Catholic ministry in Avella was published last year by their key decisions while holding Methodist-dominated, Ku Klux Liturgical Press. The 433-page the office of bishop. Klan-ridden southern counties book includes a detailed history His portrayals of (such as Wayne) in the 1920s. of the birth and growth of the the life and times of Bishops Avella offers superb Diocese of Des Moines through Austin Dowling (1912-1919), attention to the significant roles the end of the service of Bishop Thomas Drumm (1919-1933), played by women religious – Maurice Dingman. The book is and Maurice Dingman (1968- women who were members of available online. 1986) are particularly striking. Catholic religious orders – in Indeed, the book seems to reach the history of Catholicism in the Near the beginning of his its high point in several chapters region. fine history of the Roman Catholic on the Dingman years, a pivotal Avella also notes Diocese of Des Moines, Steven M. era coinciding with the dramatic the important role of ethnic Avella, a historian and priest who ecclesiological reforms of Vatican Catholicism in southwest Iowa teaches at Marquette University, II and the social shifts of urban in the late nineteenth and early notes that Catholics have always renewal in the 1960s and ‘70s twentieth centuries, including

Photo by Kelly Mescher Collins been a distinct minority in and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s ministry to Irish, German, and southwest Iowa. Examining as well as shrinking numbers Italian Catholics into the 1920s statistics regarding population of clergy and an increase in the and the recruitment of clergy from and religious affiliation, Avella Catholic population (particularly Ireland into the 1930s, but his finds that “Catholics were never in the Des Moines metropolitian analysis of ethnicity feels thinner more than 14 percent of the total era). here than in his magisterial history population. Where people did Avella offers a thoughtful, of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, claim a religious affiliation, they balanced portrayal of Dingman “In the Richness of the Earth” were predominantly Methodists, as a “people’s bishop” who felt (2022). Certainly, however, Baptists, Lutherans, and compelled to speak out in favor of transnational ethnic Catholicism occasionally Mormons” (xvi). the Equal Rights Amendment and played a lesser role in southwest Indeed, southwest Iowa in support of farmers ravaged by Iowa than it did in Wisconsin or is the least Catholic portion of shifts in the agricultural economy even in eastern Iowa. Iowa. and against nuclear proliferation, In his epilogue, Avella The Des Moines diocese but also as a sometimes overly surveys recent shifts in the was the last Iowa diocese to deliberative administrator who religious landscape in Iowa and Photo by Anne Marie Cox be created (1911), after the frustrated clergy who worked in the United States and crucially dioceses of Dubuque (1837), under him. Dingman’s years as notes the challenge posted by “the Davenport (1881), and Sioux bishop also coincided with Pope legacy of clerical sexual abuse. . . . City (1902), an order of diocesan John Paul II’s October 4, 1979 How earlier bishops received these formation that represents not only visit to St. Patrick’s Church, Irish painful revelations and what they settlement patterns but also the Settlement (one of the oldest did with them was not available preponderance of Catholics in the parishes in the Des Moines in the archival sources at present. eastern and northern portions of diocese), and to Living History The pain suffered by the victims the state. Yet Avella, the author of Farms, an event that drew a crowd of this abuse and the early ethic of a number of books on Catholicism estimated at nearly 340,000. official silence and disbelief are a in the Midwest and West, has Avella effectively reconstructs the blot on the history of Des Moines transcended the comparative papal visit as a key moment in the Catholicism as they are of the dearth of Catholics in the state’s history of Catholicism in Iowa and universal church today” (361-62). southwest quadrant to offer a the Midwest. This is a vital acknowledgement compelling, richly analytical Avella nicely balances and one manifestation of Avella’s history of Catholic institutions in attention to church politics with thoughtful approach in this highly Des Moines, its suburbs, and in the development, growth, and effective analytical history of rural areas to the south and west of sometimes eventual closing of the Catholic church in southwest Iowa’s capital. Catholic institutions such as parish Iowa. Avella is particularly churches, schools, hospitals, and Photo by Catherine Tardieu Schroder adept at reconstructing high church retreat centers. Reprinted with permission from The politics, notably the personalities The diocese’s urban Annals of Iowa 78 (Winter 2019), and administrative styles of centers of Des Moines and Council 105–7. bishops and their interactions with Bluffs are well treated, as are The book can be purchased at litpress. clergy and with the Vatican, along rural areas, including the Catholic org.

Father Andrew Windschitl (top) was installed as pastor of St. Mary/Holy Cross Parish in Elkhart by Bishop Richard Pates the weekend of Feb. 2-3. Father Ryan Andrew was installed as chaplain of Dowling Catholic High School on Jan. 29. Father Seth Owusu was installed as pastor of St. Mary Parish in Avoca and St. Patrick Parish in Walnut Jan. 19-20. Father Dan Kirby was installed as pastor of St. John Parish in Norwalk Jan. 26-27.

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office, which prepared hundreds monthly and ongoing formation The ADA supports website: dmdiocese.org/diocese- By Anne Marie Cox of couples for marriage in the last for all of our deacons. Last the diocese’s safe environment accountability.cfm Staff Writer year and prepared new sponsor August, we were blessed with program, through which Individuals and families couples who help the engaged 17 new deacons whose outreach thousands of people have can give through their parishes The Annual Diocesan understand the sacramentality of in the community and assistance been trained and experienced or online by going to dmdiocese. Appeal is kicking off March 2-3 marriage. within our parishes is invaluable. background checks so we can org and clicking on “Giving.” in the Diocese of Des Moines. The ADA supports Support for the ADA ensure a safe environment for our Select the designation the Annual The ADA is the yearly ongoing formation for recently helps youth and young adult children. Diocesan Appeal and the sub- major fundraising effort of the ordained deacons, who meet programs like the Diocesan Youth The most recent audit designation as the parish. diocese that helps our 80 parishes Rally, attended by more than 600 reports and financial statements work together to provide for youth and more. can be found on the diocesan ministries, programs and services in education, charity, spiritual formation, pastoral ministry, parish assistance and more. The diocese has three major sources of revenue: The Catholic Charities and those in ADA, grants and contributions, and investments and fees. The ADA is an need supported by ADA opportunity for everyone in the diocese to share their gifts to support the collective ministries of the diocese. The appeal provides crucial funding. It helps support the diocese’s 16 seminarians (at a Photo by Anne Marie Cox cost of about $40,000 per year per Deacon Michael Huntsman, seminarian). It helps the Schools of St. Theresa Parish in Des Office provide our schools Moines, is one of 17 newly with professional development, ordained permanent dea- curricula suggestions and more. cons serving the diocese. Gifts to the ADA help Comprehensive formation the diocese to provide retirement and continuing education is and health insurance for active offered for all deacons and and retired priests. It supports deacon candidates with fi- the diocesan Tribunal and the nancial support from the Marriage and Family Ministry Annual Diocesan Appeal.

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Oh Lord, giver of life and source of our freedom, we thank you for the many gifts you have given to us and we invite your presence in our lives at all times. We know that it is from your goodness that we have received all that we have. Gracious and loving God, we understand that you call us to be the stewards of your abundance, the caretakers of all you have entrusted to us. Through the Annual Diocesan Appeal, help us to use your gifts wisely and teach us to share them generously. In this new year of our diocese, may our Catholic Charities Emergency Family Shelter keeps homeless families together faithful stewardship bear witness to the love of Christ during a very difficult time in their lives. The experienced staff understands that homelessness is not a simple issue. While each family is expected to follow the in our lives. same rules and expectations at the shelter, they are all provided individualized Through your son, Jesus Christ, make our case management. The goal is to help each family leave the shelter with stable prayer to you one of faith, hope and charity for all of housing, financial stability, and empowerment to live a successful, sustainable your people. life. The Annual Diocesan Appeal is one of the many sources Catholic Charities Amen. depends on to maintain high quality programs.

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400 Catholic Schools with professional engaged couples undergoing 75 17 training, supervision and oversight 12,200 marriage preparation active Priests youth in religious education programs with medical insurance provided exclusively 37,782 active registered Catholics receive Catholic Mirror newspaper by diocese Visit dmdiocese.org/giving for more information on the ADA and charitable giving. www.dmdiocese.org The Catholic Mirror February 15, 2019 9 ADA supports marriage preparation for engaged couples Sponsor couples play big role in marriage preparation

added. “In a way, this is a sac- By Kelly Mescher Collins rifice and you’re giving yourself Staff Writer up for this person.” The couple valued their time with their sponsor couple, Peter and Sonia Schulte and are still friends to this day. got married at the Basilica of St. Dave Langer and Don- John Parish in Des Moines on na Langer of St. Francis Parish May 20, 2017. in West Des Moines have been a The pair said meeting sponsor couple for 31 years. with their sponsor couple, Adam “It’s nice to see these and Kara Storey of the Basilica couples that are newly in love of St. John Parish, was a very and are interested in getting mar- positive and helpful experience ried in the church,” Dave said. during their Catholic marriage “And that’s a part of the dis- preparation. cussion – why are they getting “Having the sponsor married in the church and then couple was by far the most valu- talk about the importance of that able…,” Sonia said. “[The spon- with them.” sor couple] was familiar and It’s a learning process friendly, yet objective, and able for the couples as well. to pull things out and facilitate “We learned that you that full discussion and prayer. It have to meet them where they was so much more valuable than are at,” Donna said. “Many of

we could have expected.” these couples don’t know where Photo by Laura Wills Photography In fact, they connected they are at spiritually and they so well that the Schultes asked are still just exploring and trying Peter and Sonia Schulte got married in May 2017 at the Basilica of St. John Parish in Des their sponsor couple to play an to figure it out. We have to just Moines. Their sponsor couple, Adam and Kara Storey, had a positive impact on the Schul- important role in their wedding be glad they are getting married te’s experience. Here they are pictured together at their wedding with the Adam and Kara Mass, representing Sonia’s His- in the Catholic Church and go- Storey and their children Gabriel, Cecilia and Gemma. panic background. ing through marriage prep.” “They were the couple The Langers always let that placed the lasso on both of couples know that the marriage of the Office of Marriage and us – it’s a symbol of a strong process is there to help them. Family Life at the Diocese of marriage,” Sonia said. “This process is really Des Moines, is grateful for the Their sponsor couple about them – it’s not about us,” support of the Annual Diocesan was very honest and genuine Dave said. “We may offer some Appeal, which funds marriage about the positive and challeng- experiential insight and talk ministry programs, including ing parts of their marriage, they about communication…” marriage prep. agreed. The Langers agree that “The sponsor couple “They did not hesi- the most important work as a ministry helps us accompany tate to speak from their expe- sponsor couple is to facilitate couples in a very concrete way,” rience and I could hear what their discussion, encouraging Storey said. “I hope that this they have struggled with and them to go deeper into all of the experience can help couples be- gone through,” Sonia said. “It’s topics. come more rooted in their parish humbling and empowering and Joe and Evie Nemec of communities and see the great definitely reassuring….And they the Basilica of St. John Parish gift that Christ offers in the sac- didn’t hesitate to be brutally in Des Moines enjoyed being rament of marriage. honest about those things.” a sponsor couple so much that “It’s an incredible priv- “It helped a ton with they stuck with it for nearly 50 ilege to accompany couples in preparation,” Peter said. “It’s to- years. their marriage preparation pro- tally different when you’re living “We could just see the cess,” Storey added. “To hear separate lives and then you’ve value of it, and it was enjoyable their stories, to encourage them got a new roommate that’s going to see the couples open up…,” and even to challenge them to to be a roommate for the rest of Evie said. “We have just felt say ‘yes’ to the Gospel.” your life. really good about working with “It’s not going to be just the couples.” rainbows and butterflies,” Peter Adam Storey, director

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400 Catholic Schools with professional engaged couples undergoing 75 17 training, supervision and oversight 12,200 marriage preparation active Priests youth in religious education programs with medical insurance provided exclusively 37,782 active registered Catholics receive Catholic Mirror newspaper by diocese Visit dmdiocese.org/giving for more information on the ADA and charitable giving. 10 The Catholic Mirror February 15, 2019 Diocese’s Annual Financial Report www.dmdiocese.org Des Moines priest translates sacred text The Well sells and liturgical books for his native people out again Popular women’s retreat has waiting list

The Well, a Catholic Heartland with Bishop Pates” on event for women, has sold out Iowa Catholic Radio on Feb. 1. again. The day will begin with This is The Well’s first praise and worship music. pre-Lenten gathering, set for Stacy Halbach, of St. Saturday, March 2 at the Catholic Luke Parish in Ankeny, will serve Pastoral Center in downtown Des as the emcee. Moines. The day will include a The Well has had two discussion on “Searching for and Advent gatherings and two Maintaining Peace,” followed summer gatherings in the past, by the keynote address given said The Well’s founder and by Katie Patrizio, adult faith executive director Lisa Schmidt. formation director at St. Cecilia The pre-Lenten Parish in Ames. gathering starts with Mass at 8 The event also includes a.m. followed by the event at 8:30 breakfast, time for fellowship, a.m. – 12 p.m. quiet prayer, reflection, There is a waiting list inspirational, encouraging for this event, since there are witnesses by local women and a always a few people who have handcrafted take-home gift. something come up and tickets Learn more and Father Ambrose Ladu Daniel, parochial vicar and refugee director at St. Ambrose Cathe- become available, Schmidt told sign-up for the waiting list at dral in downtown Des Moines, was born and raised in Sudan. He has translated the New Bishop Richard Pates on “In the thewelldesmoines.com. Testament, Roman Missal, Sunday Missal and grammar book into his native language of Lokoya for his people. Iowa Catholic Men’s Conference so they can learn to read. He is degrees and diplomas, including By Kelly Mescher Collins also translating the catechism for studies of philosohy and theolo- Continued from page 1 and that who they are is good.” Staff Writer adults, catechism for children, the gy from St. Paul Major Seminary A Spanish track will be Sunday missal and Roman missal in Sudan. He also has bachelors ter 6 and looks at each piece of the offered again this year, featuring Though Father Ambrose to be used at Mass. degrees in civil law from the Uni- armor of God, as Paul describes speaker Ambiorix Padilla from Daniel has been away from his na- “The ultimate goal is to versity of South Africa and in- it.” the Dominican Republic. Father tive Sudan for 18 years, his people print them,” Father Daniel said. formation technology from A.T. He encourages men to Enrique Garcia-Elizalde will be are never far from his mind. “We are working on raising the Computer Schools in South Africa take advantage of this opportunity the emcee. Father Daniel, parochial money.” He has a master’s de- to attend a conference that’s just Bill Sheridan of St. Pius vicar and refugee director of St. There are about 9,000 gree in theology from St. Augus- for the guys. X Parish in Urbandale said he Ambrose Cathedral in downtown people in Sudan who speak tin College of South Africa and a “It’s good to separate looks forward to the men’s con- Des Moines, thinks about them Lokoya, he said. licentia in sacred theology from yourself from your everyday rou- ference every year. He once took often and pays attention to the It’s a country with a di- Sacred Heart Major Seminary of tine and go off [and pray],” Dea- a sabbatical from the Catholic news out of his native country. versity of languages, many of Detroit, Michigan con Burke-Sivers said. Church altogether and is glad he’s But more importantly, he prays which are not in written form. “St. Augustin says we When men come to- back. for them. “One diocese [in Sudan] really need to hunger for knowl- gether as a community, they un- “I really started getting And in his spare time, has 40 languages,” Father Daniel edge, because it is only through derstand that “Wait a minute, involved in reading Scripture, he’s helping them by translat- said. “Sudan is twice the size of knowledge that we can transform there’s guys here that are deal- reading the catechism, listening to ing sacred texts and liturgical the state of Iowa.” our lives,” Father Daniel said. ing with some of the same things Iowa Catholic Radio,” Sheridan books into their native language Father Daniel is passion- “And we can also transform the I’m struggling with,” Deacon said. “I attended the men’s confer- - Lokoya. ate about helping his native peo- lives of others and we can give Burke-Sivers said. “And despite ence and attended confession for Father Daniel has already ple have access to the Bible and better services. Without knowl- everything going on in their lives, the first time in 10 years.” finished translating the Bible’s learning to read. edge, I can’t be effective in what they are living lives in holiness. I “When they make the New Testament, a hymn book Father Daniel has a love I’m doing.” could really learn from these guys announcement about [next year’s] and a 450-page grammar book, for learning and has a number of and grow with these guys.” conference I put it on my calendar Deacon Randy Kiel, right away so I know I’m going to of Holy Trinity Parish in Des be in attendance,” Sheridan said. Moines, will also present. His talk “I’m a big fan of the conference. Tune in to is called “And it was good.” “All three of them I have “In essence, it’s about attended have been magnificent,” “In the Heartland with Bishop Pates” how to get a hold of the personal Sheridan added. negativity that’s inside of us and Cost for the confer- on Iowa Catholic Radio that blocks us to be the bearer of ence is $25 for adults and $15 good news,” Deacon Kiel said. “I for students and includes lunch. 1150 AM, 88.5 FM or 94.5 FM in central Iowa hope they will take away a person- Learn more and register at Iowa al sense of freedom and a clearer CatholicMensConference.com. & Spirit Catholic Radio identity in who they are in Christ Network 102.7 FM Fridays 9:00-9:30 a.m.

Not near a radio? Stream it live at iowacatholicradio.com or kvss.com. www.dmdiocese.org The Catholic Mirror February 15, 2019 11 Mercy rebrands with new name, logo MercyOne better describes network of services, leaders said

The MercyOne system By Kelly Mescher Collins includes 18 owned or joint ven- Staff Writer ture medical centers and hospital campuses, 25 affiliated medical Mercy Health Network’s centers and more than 420 am- name officially changed on Feb. bulatory care locations, all gen- 1 to MercyOne, a new statewide erating more than $3 billion in name and unified system brand. combined revenue and employing The branding reflects the more than 20,000 people. organization’s significant growth The new name and logo over the last 20 years and is a key speaks to the work of MercyOne. step in connecting its many points “From a theological of care across the state and sur- perspective, there’s real merit in rounding regions. The effort will this name,” said Colleen Walters, make it easier for consumers to chief mission integration officer at identify care locations, enhance MercyOne. “You are one person.” the coordination of medical ex- “It’s really a call to arms for our pertise and services and ensure colleagues on ways that we can consistent patient care experienc- journey with those who come to es across all locations. us in need.” “We are excited to bring The cross in the new our mission and vision to life with logo “is very strategically placed our new unified brand. Our transi- between the ‘m’ and the ‘e,’” Wal- tion to MercyOne allows us to be ters added, which spells me. “It’s more recognizable to the people up to you to carry on this mission. and communities we serve and It’s our responsibility to care for celebrates the remarkable work of one another. It really puts it right our teams across the state to build out front, which I think calls us a better-connected system of care to higher expectations and stan- Photo by Jimmy Olsen and services,” said MercyOne dards.” Bishop Richard Pates interviewed MercyOne employees Colleen Walters, chief mission President and CEO Bob Ritz in Many employees gave integration officer, and Janell Pittman, chief marketing and digital strategy officer, on Feb. a press release. ”MercyOne rep- positive feedback that they felt 8 on “In the Heartland with Bishop Pates.” The show airs every Friday at 9 a.m. on Iowa resents our incredible team of over connected to the logo. Catholic Radio and the Spirit Catholic Radio Network. 20,000 people working together “I know a lot of peo- with one purpose, helping every ple have worked on it,” said Sis- individual we serve live their best ter Mary Corita Heid, a Sister of life. The health of our patients and Mercy from Mason City, “I love Reach 35,000 communities is at the center of the the name and I love the logo and I households in the circle of all of our efforts.” think it’s going to be great.” Diocese of Des Moines by placing an ad in Two appointed to The Catholic Mirror. National Advisory Council Contact Kelly at [email protected] Two men from the Kinsella is a partner Diocese of Des Moines nominated at Deloitte, where he helps for details. by Bishop Richard Pates have clients create and optimize their been tapped to serve on the organizations. He’s a leader in National Advisory Council, which integrated marketing, improving assists the U.S. Conference of clients’ efforts and services. Shrines of Fatima and Lourdes Catholic Bishops. He holds a master’s They are Deacon Matt degree in management 11 Days: September 24-October 4, 2019 Halbach, Ph.D., of St. Luke the information systems through Evangelist Parish in Ankeny, and the University of Nebraska at Dan Kinsella, of St. Patrick Parish Omaha and has an undergraduate Plus Lisbon, Madrid, (including in Imogene. degree in accounting. He is a world famous Sagrada Familia), Deacon Halbach is the certified public accountant, a director of catechetics for William certified information technology Salamanca, Avila, Barcelona H. Sadlier Publishing. In this role, professional and a certified he ensures that every catechetical information systems auditor. series for grades K-67 follow He chairs the diocesan Includes R/T air, first class hotels, Catholic Church teaching. Finance Council and his parish’s most meals, daily Mass, Lourdes Previously, he served for Finance Council. He led his six years as the executive director parish’s largest capital campaign, Blessing of the Sick and of the St. Joseph Educational started an endowment and Candlelight Procession, Fatima Chicago $3,499. Center in West Des Moines, where chaired a centennial celebration he provided adult faith formation committee. International Rosary Procession, Omaha $3,599. events and curricula for regional Kinsella serves on the baggage handling and much more. (double occupancy) parishes. board for Catholic Charities of He is an author Omaha and has been a community Seats are limited. and national speaker on leader by helping multiple evangelization, adult catechesis, organizations. missionary discipleship and “The Diocese of Des For more information: mercy. Deacon Halbach has Moines is pleased to share assisted the U.S. bishops in the the expertise, dedication and Fr John Vakulskas past by reviewing material for a involvement of two outstanding Box 347 subscommittee on the catechism. leaders, Deacon Halbach and He holds a doctoral Dan Kinsella, with the national Okoboji, IA 51355 degree in catechetics/religious Church,” said Bishop Pates. 712.490.8047 education from The Catholic “Each will contribute much to the University of America and was U.S. Catholic community by way [email protected] ordained a permanent deacon in of their vision and intense loyalty www.carnivalpriest.com 2018. for the faith.” 12 The Catholic Mirror February 15, 2019 www.dmdiocese.org Happy Lunar New Year

Photos by Anne Marie Cox St. Peter Vietnamese Catholic Community in Des Moines celebrated the Lunar New Year on Feb. 10. Above: Don Cotran and his 2-year-old son Theo, help bring up the gifts. Top right: Father Ly Chu holds a lucky envelope while inviting parishioners to take a small scroll with Bible verses from a tree. At far right: Mani Nguyen with 2-year-old Gwendolyn. At immediate right: Ben Coulter holds 3-year-old Camille during Mass. Father Merz Continued from page 1 the Jesuits in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1991, he returned to Wisconsin to serve his religious community. He returned to Des Moines in 2015 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Emmaus House. “Coming to Emmaus was one of the most profound experiences in my life,” he said. “Five of the happiest years of my life.” Father Dan Krettek re- Father Gene Merz Chariton woman teaches girls ‘lost arts’ membered when Bishop Mau- to meet people wherever they Continued from page 1 rince Dingman invited Father were, and to invite them to reflect Merz to Des Moines to set up on their journey, and to allow him gether to make a mat.” a place for spiritual growth for to listen and gently point to the A few years ago the priests. Father Merz asked the places where he felt the Lord was girls helped the local women’s bishop if he, too, would use it. dwelling in their experience.” group by making May basket During the funeral hom- The public is invited to bags out of denim jeans. They ily, Jesuit Father Richard Albert share memories at theemmaush- filled the baskets with snacks, said, “Nothing... I think nothing ouse.org/gene-merz-memorial. prayer cards, a rosary and holy was more important to Gene than water. “We took them around $1 OFF ADM. wITH THIS AD and gave them to the shut-ins, A FANTASTIC SHOPPING EVENT and that was really a way to get in touch with other members of IOWA’S LARGEST the church community,” Nace said. “They really enjoyed that Over and it’s a way to get the kids in- Exh300 ibi volved with older adults.” tors ARTS The group gives the girls the opportunity to learn something new while socializing & Crafts with their peers. “The girls are very ex- Renee Pederson and Haddon Anderson holding one of the cited about what they do – they dresses they made out of pillow cases for girls in Africa. are really proud of it, I think…,” SHOW Nace said. “They get excited to since its inception. She hopes to been participating in the group learn.” continue participating after she for three years. March 1-3 They also spend time in graduates. “I thought it was cool prayer. “I like helping people,” since I like church and I saw VARIED INDUSTRIES BLDG. ADM. Just $6.00 (10 & under free) “I had read a booklet Pedersen said. “I’ve always liked that they were helping a lot of IOWA STATE FAIRGROUNDS FREE PARKING - Free DES MOINES, IOWA Shuttle Bus Service from on St. Philomena and shared that helping people and this way I people,” Anderson said. “That’s North Parking Lot on Fri. 5-9; Sat. 9-5; Sun. 10-4 Both Friday & Saturday. with the girls,” Nace said. “We can give back to others and help what got me involved. say a chaplet to St. Philomena people, especially in third-world “We learned a lot about "Where You Can Buy That Quality, Handmade Product At An Affordable Price." when we get together. countries. They don’t have a lot.” St. Philomena,” Anderson con- Garden Art, Oak Furniture, Paintings, Ceramics, Jewelry, Metal “I do try to tie our faith Her favorite project: tinued. “We [pray with] 13 beads Art Sculptures, Pet Products, Etched & Stained Glass, Yard Art, in, so they understand that ev- “finishing a denim quilt that has because she died when she was Pottery, Blown Glass, Candles, Clothing, Floral Wreaths, Toys & Dolls, Baskets, Rugs, Glassware, Purses, Ornaments, Food and erything we are doing is for the a cross on it,” Pedersen said. “It 13 years old…. Many More Original Products. All Handmade by the exhibitor. Lord,” Nace added. took a while but we finally fin- “I’ve gained a lot of To Purchase Discounted Advance Tickets and Renee Pedersen, a se- ished and it was awesome.” knowledge on how to help out For A Chance To Win $50 Gift Certificates, Visit Our Facebook Haddon Anderson, an others,” Anderson concluded. Page at Callahan Promotions, Inc. nior at Chariton High School, has been participating in the group eighth grader in Chariton, has www.dmdiocese.org The Catholic Mirror February 15, 2019 13 The New Moment Priest personally invited young people to attend Christmas Mass

“We’ve got to come up with dif- By Kelly Mescher Collins ferent approaches,” Monsignor Orr said. Staff Writer “The young people communicate differ- ently. They are very involved in social media.” It was a late fall night when a Monsignor Orr said he is gets sleeping Father John Bertogli, rector at the sense that younger people aren’t as St. Ambrose Cathedral in Des Moines, involved in a community and perhaps was startled awake by an “alarming “good outreach” and one-on-one contact dream.” can help attract those who are away from “I arrived at the cathedral for the church. the Christmas Eve Mass and no one was Debbie Rohrer, who has many there,” Father Bertogli said. roles at St. Ambrose Cathedral, said she “That experience caused me makes inviting young people to activities to ponder how and what can be done at the parish a priority. to reach out to those who, for whatever “As music director, I reach out reason, are not connected with a faith di- to some younger generations of people mension at Christmas,” he said. to see if they would answer a call to be Father Bertogli reached out to music ministers or cantors or [play in- some younger, millennial parishioners struments],” Rohrer said. “I think it’s im- and asked for the names and contact in- portant that we try and engage our young formation of their friends and acquain- generations in ministries at church.” tances who might appreciate a personal The current generation will invitation to one of the Christmas Mass- eventually age and retire, Rohrer said, es. so it’s important that the younger gener- “I contacted 15 individuals, not ations are interested, engaged and willing knowing what the response would be,” to volunteer of their time and talents. Father Bertogli said. “Some were voice As director of the sacrament of messages or emails. But I told them in marriage, Rohrer regularly meets with the message to please introduce yourself young, engaged couples. if you are there and I would be out there “I think if you start to talk to greeting people after the [Christmas] young people about different areas of the Masses.” church that they may become involved Six people greeted Father Ber- in – maybe [even] just committees…,” togli after Mass and thanked him for the Rohrer continued. “I think it’s really im- personal invitation. portant to have that perspective as you’re “I was not sure what the re- looking at how you can keep your church sponse would be, but I know six more and community strong.” people worshipped with us at Christmas Young people often have busy than we had last Christmas,” he said. “It schedules and other commitments, so it’s affirmed an important point made at one important to meet them where they’re at, Photo by Kelly Mescher Collins of our clergy meetings. One pastor, in she said. discussing The New Moment, suggest- “The Catholic Church of the fu- Father John Bertogli, rector of St. Ambrose Cathedral in downtown ed this concern tells us we can no longer ture has to be built now, and we have to Des Moines, was startled awake by a bad dream last fall. After that he started have business as usual.” try and involve them in whatever way we making a concerted effort to reach out to young people and invite them to That pastor was retired priest can,” Rohrer concluded. Mass. Monsignor Steve Orr.

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A few years later, Bishop By Rachel Seidl Richard Pates began working to Contributing Writer create the Catholic Foundation of Southwest Iowa. When the The Catholic Church has bishop heard about Purdum’s been a mainstay for the Purdums, background in accounting, who moved frequently. he approached Purdum about “We give to the Church using his professional expertise. because it has played such an Purdum accepted the bishop’s important part in our lives as we offer and became a part of the have moved around the country,” first Board of Directors for the says Dennis Purdum, of Holy foundation. Spirit Parish in Creston. Today, he serves as “The one common the vice chairman of the board denominator as we went through and serves on the Audit/Finance all of our relocations, was that we Committee. As a part of the could always develop a base with Board of Directors and the Audit/ a church in the community we Finance Committee, Purdum moved into,” he said. attends quarterly meetings and Purdum grew up on participates in many conference a farm in rural southern Iowa. calls. He became Catholic and got He’s also involved in the married during his senior year foundation through his family’s of college. Soon after, he and his Donor Advised Fund. A Donor wife, Connie, moved when he Advised Fund is a segregated started work at an international account that an individual or Dennis and Connie Purdum’s dedication to the Catholic Church has shown their family accounting firm. family can use to conveniently how to incorporate the Church into their lives and the importance of charitable giving. Throughout his career, grant dollars to a Catholic parish, Pictured above are Dennis and Connie, far left, their two children and their spouses, and they relocated numerous times. school, or organization. Dennis six grandchildren. The Purdums started in Oklahoma and Connie established their fund City and ended up in New York. about three years ago in the hope Through the years, they lived in that they could impact Catholic our estate to be left for Catholic the funds. All we have to worry of charitable giving and the Omaha, Oklahoma City again, education positively, along with causes. However, we created the about is where we want the funds causes we want to support.” and Houston. many other reasons. Donor Advised Fund in lieu of a distributed. To do the same, contact When he retired, Dennis The couple was private foundation,” Dennis said. “Another benefit of a the foundation’s office for more and Connie decided to bring their surprised with how easy it was to “With a Donor Advised Fund, Donor Advised Fund, is that it information on ways to give. family back to Iowa, and are now create a Donor Advised Fund. we avoid legal fees and financial sends a message to our family,” Call Brooke Pulliam at 515-237- living in Creston. “Long-term, we knew reporting, and we don’t have to he added. “It shows our children 5080 or email her at bpulliam@ we wanted a certain amount of worry about the investment of and grandchildren the importance catholicfoundation.org.

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