50¢ September 30, 2007 Volume 81, No. 35 Red Mass www.diocesefwsb.org/TODAY Serving the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend TTODAYODAY’’SS CCATHOLICATHOLIC Mass for legal professionals Blessed Father Basil Moreau takes place in diocese Pages 10-13 Holy Cross religious gather in France for beatification of their founder

BY SISTER MARGIE LAVONIS, CSC Indulgence

LE MANS, FRANCE — A spirit of joyful anticipation Jubilee Year plenary permeated the environment when hundreds of Holy indulgence extended Cross religious and their colleagues from around the world gathered in Le Mans, France, from Sept. 14-16 Page 2, 4 to celebrate the beatification of their founder, Father Basil Anthony Moreau. The beatification festivities began on Sept. 14, the feast of the Exultation of the Holy Cross. Members of the Holy Cross family and other guests gathered in Memorial feast day front of the parish church in Laigné-en-Belin, the birth- place of Father Moreau. In his opening comments, Oct. 3 dedicated to Holy Cross Father Jean-Guy Vincent, from the St. Mother Theodore Guérin Canadian province of Holy Cross, said, “What could be more fitting for us, the sons and daughters of Basil Page 5 Moreau to gather here to launch the beatification cele- bration?” He spoke of the 60 years that the four congregations of Holy Cross worked to present his cause and said that “after a long and careful examination of the life, activ- Voice from ity and writings of Father Moreau, he was declared venerable by Pope John Paul II, April 12, 2003, and on the congress April 28, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI announced the Eucharistic Congress beatification for Sept. 15.” After comments from several dignitaries, including cantor content to serve the deputy majors of Laigné-en-Belin, Holy Cross Father Mario LaChapelle, the vice-postulator of the Page 9 cause, rang the bell, originally ordered by Father Moreau and first located at the Institute of Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix in Le Mans, to signal that the beatifi- cation celebration had indeed begun. Get hooked He said, “At the sound of this bell, everywhere in the Diocese of Le Mans, church bells will peal.” Those Explore fishing present responded with a joyful alleluia. This was a significant moment, not only to Holy Cross, but for the at the time of Jesus church of France who never before had a beatification held within its country. Page 16 After the bell was rung, Bishop Jacques Faivre, the BROTHER CHARLES MCBRIDE, CSC bishop of Le Mans, and various dignitaries and leaders Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints, reads the decree of beatification for Blessed Father Basil Moreau in Le Mans, France, Sept. 15. MOREAU, PAGE 3 Sesquicentennial St. Augustine and Sacred Heart Fifty years celebration and THREE GOLDEN JUBILARIANS in the spotlight groundbreaking Page 20

lowing the Mass, Bishop D’Arcy prayed Sacred Heart School breaks for God’s help during the construction, that ground for the future the construction be successful and the workers be kept safe from injury and that the parish, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of BY DENISE FEDOROW Jesus, be blessed. Sacred Heart pastor Msgr. James Wolf said, “We are building on the faith of peo- WARSAW — Bishop John D’Arcy cele- MARK WEBER brated Mass with Sacred Heart parishioners ple 50 years ago,” who he said took a small in Warsaw Sept. 23 to commemorate the church downtown and moved it to the cur- Among the 68 couples celebrating silver 50th anniversary of the school. rent location, building a school and using and golden wedding jubiliees at the Bishop D’Arcy told parishioners, “It’s a the gym as a church. Msgr. Wolf asked for pleasure to be here with you celebrating the “continued faith and trust in God and in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception 50th anniversary and groundbreaking for sacrifice made for us and for our school so on Sunday, Sept. 23, were Jim and Mary improvements to the school and eventually that children can continue to have the same the church.” Catholic education our children have had.” Steinacker, married on June 25, 1957. Sacred Heart Principal Mary Ann Irwin The bishop also commended parish- They were married in St. Peter Church, ioners for their generosity, calling them said the improvements would add four “good trustees” and he said it was a “sign of classrooms, a couple of which might be Fort Wayne, by Father Adam Schmitt, used for computer and science labs. Irwin their faith and continued trust” to invest in Mary’s brother. Father Schmitt celebrates the renovation project. At the groundbreaking ceremony fol- 50 YEARS, PAGE 3 his own golden jubilee this year. 2 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 TODAY’S CATHOLIC Official newspaper of the Special event honors those who Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend P.O. Box 11169 Fort Wayne, IN 46856 faithfully lived marriage promises PUBLISHER: Bishop John M. D’Arcy ment of matrimony. Indeed, priests spend a Moreau, are not accidents, but must be seen EDITOR: Tim Johnson great deal of their time preparing people for as inspired by the Holy Spirit to help us all marriage. attain greater holiness by the study of their ASSISTANT EDITOR: Don Clemmer We will begin with a talk by Professor lives and reflecting on what they have to STAFF WRITER: Kay Cozad John Cavadini on marriage and the teach- give to the church today. NEWS ings of St. Augustine. Fred and Lisa Everett St. Mother Guérin, certainly a foundress Editorial Department will present a talk on the pastoral care of of our school system, actually worked in PAGE DESIGNER: Francie Hogan &NOTES marriage. Lisa Marino, director of religious Fort Wayne. Her gift is the reliance on the FREELANCE WRITERS: Ann Carey, education at St. Matthew Co-Cathedral providence of God and a great trust in him Michelle Castleman, Elmer J. Danch, BISHOP JOHN M. D’ARCY Parish, will give a presentation on Pope and an openness to God’s will. John Paul II’s theology of the body. Father Moreau was an educator. He also Michelle Donaghey, Bonnie Elberson, Professor Adrian Reimers of Notre Dame teaches us about the cross of Christ. He Denise Fedorow, Sister Margie will make a presentation. Cindy Black and knew great suffering. He was a missionary Lavonis, CSC, Jennifer Ochstein, The sacrament of matrimony Central to the life of the church in any Lisa Everett will make a presentation on the and the spread of the Gospel was central to Theresa Thomas, Kristi Ward diocese is the renewal and strengthening of dignity of women based on Pope John Paul his life as was his devotion to the cross of married life. Every bishop must make con- II’s theology of the body. Christ. “Ave crux spes unica” (“Hail the Business Department certed efforts to renew this sacrament and I know our priests will be enriched by cross our only hope”). BUSINESS MANAGER: Kathy Denice help people understand what it is they are these few days and we will all be helped to I was privileged to offer a diocesan Mass understand and to teach more effectively on for Father Moreau at the Church of Loretto AD GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: Mark Weber embracing. In a sense, the preparation for marriage this great sacrament. on the grounds of Saint Mary’s College. BOOKKEEPING/CIRCULATION: Kathy Voirol Many from this diocese were at Le Mans, [email protected] starts in grade school, and most certainly in high school. Here it is that young people The importance of Warsaw France, for the beatification. Also, we will have a Mass for St. Mother Guérin honor- Advertising Sales experience the elements from the culture, I was off early on a warm September which are counter to such concepts as morning to the important town of Warsaw. ing her canonization on Nov. 18 at the Tess Steffen (Fort Wayne area) Standing between our two major cities, we Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. (260) 456-2824 fidelity, the permanence of marriage and the right understanding of the gift of human have many meetings there. However, this We hope to invite all the Sisters of Judy Kearns (South Bend area) sexuality. But there should be honor for was a visit to the parish to celebrate the Providence who have worked here, and also (574) 234-0687 those who, through God’s grace, have lived 50th anniversary of the school and to offer the alumni who attended the schools where Web site: www.diocesefwsb.org/TODAY faithfully the promises which they made on Mass with the people. they taught. These include Central Catholic, the day of their marriage. So, in recent Through the excellent leadership of St. Jude, St. John the Baptist and St. Patrick Published weekly except the last weeks, as we have done for many years, we Msgr. James Wolf, this parish is completing in Fort Wayne. Sunday in June, second and fourth have honored those, first at St. Matthew a major financial drive. They may have A busy October continues. I am looking weeks in July, second week in August Co-Cathedral in South Bend and secondly raised $1,285,000. If you include pledges, forward to anniversary Masses at St. and last week in December by the the total raised is $1,535,000. They want to Henry’s Parish, Fort Wayne and St. Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Fort Wayne, a total of 37 build new classrooms and also eventually Joseph’s Parish, Roanoke. Also, on this 1103 S. Calhoun St., P.O. Box 390, Fort extend the church. This church, which was Sunday, we will conclude another great Wayne, IN 46801. Periodicals postage couples at St. Matthew’s and 67 at the cathedral. We had the renewal of vows and underway when I came here 22 years ago, event — namely, the conferral of the sacra- paid at Fort Wayne, IN, and additional ment of confirmation at the Allen County mailing office. a special blessing. is too small. I was quite impressed with the Year after year, when I lead these cele- large crowd at this Mass, overflowing into War Memorial Coliseum, Fort Wayne. 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A few days at Oakwood On Oct. 3, in this diocese we will cele- schedule were eight games shorter, as it Every year, we offer to our priests a con- brate the feast of St. Mother Theodore was in the old days, we would have won it News deadline is the Monday morn- tinuing education seminar. This year, it will Guérin. Brian MacMichael of our Office of by now. Well, two games ahead with six to ing before publication date. be under the direction of Fred and Lisa Worship has sent the liturgy for this feast to play. Hope remains. Advertising deadline is nine days our parishes. Her canonization, and the See you all next week. before publication date. Everett, co-directors of our Office of Family Life. The focus will be on the sacra- more recent beatification of Blessed Basil LETTERS POLICY: Today’s Catholic wel- comes original, signed letters about issues affecting church life. Although STATEMENT FROM BISHOP JOHN M. D’ARCY we cannot publish every letter we receive, we strive to provide a bal- anced representation of expressed Plenary indulgence opinions and a variety of reflections on life in the church.We will choose A gift of mercy to those that the plenary indulgence could present year. In the letter, I called instruction. letters for publication based on read- be received throughout the Jubilee special attention to the gift of 1. As was announced previous- er interest, timeliness and fairness. who truly seek it Year by those who came, in pri- Mercy Day, when a large number ly, this gift of mercy was granted Readers may agree or disagree with As our diocesan Eucharistic vate or public prayer, to either the of people came to churches for the recent confirmation at the the letter writers’ opinions. Letters Congress approached, I wrote to Cathedral of the Immaculate throughout the diocese and University of Notre Dame and will must not exceed 500 words. All let- the Holy See asking if the great gift Conception or St. Matthew Co- received the sacrament of reconcil- be granted through a papal bless- ters must be signed and include a of the Jubilee Indulgence could be Cathedral, and observed the usual iation, as our priests joyfully spent ing at the confirmation to be held phone number and address for verifi- extended further in our diocese. conditions of prayer which are list- many hours in confessionals. at the Fort Wayne Memorial cation.We reserve the right to edit This decree has been granted. ed elsewhere in this edition. In a decree dated Aug. 17, Coliseum on Sept. 30, 2007. letters for legal and other concerns. The first decree, issued at the On July 25, 2007, I wrote to the 2007, the very day before our 2. This plenary indulgence will beginning of the Jubilee Year, Apostolic Penitentiary to ask if this diocesan Eucharistic Congress, a also be granted to all those who Mail letters to: Today’s Catholic, granted that the plenary indulgence gift of Christ’s mercy, which the decree was received expanding observe the usual conditions on P.O. Box 11169, Fort Wayne, IN might be given at the Eucharistic church has called a plenary indul- this gift of God’s mercy through- Dec. 8, 2007 at a Mass in any 46856-1169; or e-mail: Congress and also to those who, gence and which is linked to out the diocese. parish church in the diocese, as [email protected] through illness, could not attend the Christ’s suffering and death, to the The plenary indulgence may be well as at the Basilica of the Congress but united themselves merits of Our Lady and to the received under the usual condi- Sacred Heart at Notre Dame. ISSN 0891-1533 with Christ in that blessed event. communion of saints, could be tions, which are presented with USPS 403630 This initial decree also granted granted more widely during the this statement in a catechesis, or GIFT, PAGE 4 SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 3 MOREAU A founder beatified CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Reflections from a Sister of the Holy Cross

of the four Holy Cross congrega- BY SISTER MARGIE LAVONIS, CSC Father Moreau was lowered to tions, unveiled a commemorative the claps and cheers of those plaque that was hung on the out- present. I was so grateful to be side of the church. Bishop Faivre NOTRE DAME — When I part of his family. spoke, not only of Basil Moreau entered the Congregation of the Besides the unity I felt in Le and his congregations’ contribu- Sisters of the Holy Cross, I had Mans, I was also very conscious tions to the church of Le Mans, never even heard of Basil of the hundreds of members of but to the wider church and the Moreau and neither had most of the Holy Cross family around the world. my classmates. Our first intro- world who were present with us The ceremony concluded with duction to him took place when in spirit. At times I found my prayer and song, praising God for PHOTOS BY BROTHER CHARLES MCBRIDE, CSC we began reciting a daily prayer mind drifting back to Saint the life of Basil Moreau. A recep- The four leaders of the Holy Cross congregations are shown at “The Life for his beatification. Little did I Mary’s and other Holy Cross know then that God would tion hosted by the town officials and Legacy of Father Moreau” held at Our Lady Of Holy Cross Church, places where celebrations were answer this prayer during my followed. After a picnic lunch par- Sept. 14 in Le Mans, France. In the photo are Father Hugh Cleary, CSC, taking place. I had a sense of the lifetime, and I would be one of communion of the body of ticipants boarded buses and superior general, Congregation of Holy Cross, Rome, Italy; Sister Joy returned to Le Mans. There they the privileged to attend his beati- Christ. O’Grady, president, Sisters of the Holy Cross, Notre Dame; Sister Soeur attended a prayer vigil in the fication. Another virtue of Father Church of Notre-Dame de Sainte- Kesta Occident, CSC, general of the Soeurs de Sainte-Croix, St. Laurent, Like all experiences, it is diffi- Moreau that I experienced on our Croix, the church built by Father Quebec, Canada; and Sister Mary Kay Kinberger, MSC, congregational cult to articulate what it meant for pilgrimage was the warm wel- Moreau. leader, Marianite Sisters of Holy Cross, New Orleans, La. me to be in Le Mans with so coming spirit of those there, both The church was overflowing as many of my Holy Cross sisters members of Holy Cross and of hundreds of people came together • “Certainly one of the high- and brothers from around the the many French people who to pray and sing about the founder Beatification comments lights of the events surrounding world for this glorious occasion. served us in a variety of ways. and his great trust in divine provi- The following are comments the beatification of Father Moreau Father Moreau was a missionary Since the beginning, the Holy dence. The people sang of the from diocesan participants of the for me was the moment when his at heart and from the very begin- Cross family has been known for “tiny seed of unity, a tiny grain, beatification in Le Mans, France: portrait was solemnly unveiled at ning, when his religious family its hospitality. No one there was almost nothing at all, becoming • “I was deeply moved by the the beatification Mass. As the por- was quite small and had few a “stranger.” We were all Holy life-giving word, a community of number of laity who were person- trait was lowered, some 4,000 peo- resources, he sent members to Cross, including our friends and brothers and sisters.” At the con- ally invited by either the sisters, ple broke into spontaneous other lands to preach God’s word. colleagues who joined us for this clusion of the vigil, voices priests or brothers to join them in applause and joined in singing the Having members there from so momentous occasion. It is anoth- resounded with the chorus of the celebrating the beatification... The acclamation, ‘Laudate Dominum,’ many different countries and conti- er thing I will never forget. hymn to Basil Moreau, written by term ‘family of Holy Cross’ has by the French composer, Jacques nents must have warmed his heart. All of the congregations of Father Michael Joncas and used in taken on a whole new meaning Berthier. It was a thrilling moment I know it deepened my sense of Holy Cross have prepared a all the ceremonies: and perspective. It was a privilege and a befitting tribute to a holy Holy Cross internationality. whole year for this big event. We “Let us glory in the cross, our for me and my husband to stand in man who zealously devoted his Being in Le Mans and called it a “Year of Animation.” one and only hope, as we honor solidarity with our family of Holy life to the church and to the con- Laigné-en-Belin, the place of his I think I can speak for many one who walked God’s ways. Let Cross at this historic event. gregation he founded.” birth, was for me what I imagine of us that this year has truly been us glory in the cross, our one and — Adaline Cashore, Saint Mary’s — Father Peter Rocca, CSC, rec- it must be like to go to the Holy a time of animation and a deep- only hope, as we sing his praise.” College, Notre Dame tor, Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Land and walk where Jesus lived ened appreciation and knowledge On Sept. 15, the feast of Our • “The most special part of my Notre Dame and ministered. of the man who had a dream and Lady of Sorrows, to whom Father experience in Le Mans was being • “It was a microcosm of the Although several years ago I who did not give up until he saw Moreau dedicated his communi- in Father Moreau’s hometown world with people from so many had the wonderful opportunity to it realized. My own zeal and ties, close to 5,000 people filled where his vision for Holy Cross cultures gather in thanksgiving for take part in a program on gratitude for the mission of Holy the Centre Antarès in Le Mans to took root and became a viable Basil Moreau, the man truly Moreau spirituality in Le Mans, Cross that he began has been participate in the Mass and Rite of international community for the formed in the likeness of God.” being there this time for his beat- renewed. Beatification. good of the church.” — Sister Olivia Marie Hutcheson, ification took on a new meaning. For me, our founder is an Hearts were filled with pride as — Sister Virginia MacNeil, CSC CSC I was overcome by emotion example of what dependence on Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, pre- • “Jerry and I cherish the mem- • “To see men and women, reli- when I realized what the deter- and trust in divine providence fect of the Vatican Congregation ories of our pilgrimage to Le gious and non-religious, from all mination, sacrifice, love of God can produce. Despite the many for the Causes of Saints, declared Mans. The experience deepened parts of the world giving thanks to and zeal of one man would pro- crosses and obstacles he faced Father Moreau blessed. our connection with the church, God for the life of this prayerful, duce, and that God had called during his life, he never lost his Emotions were high as a huge the worldwide congregation of loving man, left me without me, an ordinary girl from New great hope in God. He truly lived portrait of the founder was low- Holy Cross and the people of words. I am still praying the expe- Jersey, to be a part of his mis- his motto, “Spes Unica,” (“the ered above the altar. Many wept at France. Surrounded by the legacy rience and know that I will for sion. A chill ran up and down my cross our one hope”). He is an the realization of what had finally of a great visionary, Blessed Basil many days and years to come. spine when, after he was example to us who also live in taken place and how the dreams of Moreau, we marveled at the inter- May Blessed Basil intercede for declared blessed, a portrait of troubled times. a determined French priest who national community that Holy all of us.” had great faith in divine provi- Cross has become. It was a great — Sister Rose Edward Goodrow, dence were realized. The presence privilege to be part of the family CSC of so many Holy Cross religious of Holy Cross at this important • “It gave me great hope for the from around the world gave wit- time in their history. Holy Cross and the church to see ness to the fact that Father — Barbara Ziliak, director of so many young religious from the Moreau’s missionary spirit contin- music and liturgy, Church of Our developing countries.” ues to grow as the members of his Lady of Loretto — Brother Charles McBride, CSC, family carry on his mission to • “From his birth, to his min- official photographer meet the needs of the church. istry, to his death, to his life eter- • “The beatification was a once The weekend festivities con- nal, Moreau lived in a way that in a lifetime experience. Hearing cluded with a Mass of would bring renewed life, hope the history of Holy Cross was Thanksgiving in the Cathedral of and peace to the church and the amazing. I found simply walking St. Julian. Cardinal Theodore Congregation of Holy Cross for where Father Moreau had walked McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of years to come through us. The to be a particularly gratifying Washington, D.C., and a longtime privilege of being part of this holy experience. He came from such friend of Holy Cross, presided at time is a gift for which I will be humble beginnings and came so this special liturgy in honor of forever grateful.” far in his life. It’s sad to think that Blessed Basil Moreau. — Sister John Margaret Dietzen, he may have died thinking he was In his homily he spoke of CSC a failure, but at least he is being Moreau’s great virtues and his • “This grand event seemed like honored now for everything he drive to help people in need. “He a magnificent family reunion, such did. Seeing his Holy Cross family worked tirelessly for the kingdom as heaven may be for all of the gather together to celebrate his life and often suffered and was misun- human family.” was amazing and I am so thankful DENISE FEDOROW derstood by those close to him but — Sister Kathryn Edward to have had that experience.” From left, Sacred Heart Principal his faith in God sustained him,” McDermott, CSC — Haley Nickell, Saint Mary’s Mary Ann Irwin, Bishop John said the cardinal. • “I feel emboldened by my College student 50 YEARS D’Arcy and Msgr. James Wolf At the conclusion of the Mass, experience to do what I can to CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 break ground for a school expan- the family of Holy Cross was ensure that Saint Mary’s College sion project at Sacred Heart parish commissioned to continue the remains committed to the Holy said the improvements to the in Warsaw Sept. 23. Architect Bill work begun by its founder. One Cross values enunciated by Father church would include 250 addi- Lamie, Architecture Design Group, Moreau.” could not help but experience a tional seats. The school currently looks on. renewed spirit as the people left — Carol Ann Mooney, president, has 197 students in pre-kinder- the church. Saint Mary’s College garten through sixth grade. 4 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 which, as the minister of redemp- Bishop of Fort Wayne-South the great kindness of your September 30 at the Memorial tion, dispenses and applies with Bend; anything to the contrary Holiness for this. Coliseum in Fort Wayne, with a authority the treasury of the satis- notwithstanding. On August 17, 2007 vast number of persons present, GIFT factions of Christ and the saints.” With the assurance of the fullest The APOSTOLIC PENITEN- the lay faithful who are devoutly CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 — Pope Paul VI, Apostolic generosity of the Church and with TIARY, by virtue of the faculties present for this rite and who are Constitution, Indulgentiarum the intercession of the Most entrusted to it by the Supreme genuinely repentant, might obtain December 8 is the patronal feast of Doctrina, Norm 1. Blessed and Immaculate Virgin, Pontiff, freely grants a Plenary a Plenary Indulgence, under the the diocese and, on that day, a While serious sin and the guilt the lay faithful will obtain the Indulgence, the customary condi- customary conditions (sacramental prayer consecrating the diocese of sin is taken away by a sincere devout purpose and the spiritual tions having properly been ful- Confession, Eucharistic commun- once again under the title of the confession and absolution in the strength to carry out their lives in filled (sacramental Confession, ion, and prayer for the intention of Immaculate Conception will be sacrament of penance, the effects accord with the law of the Gospel, Eucharistic communion and prayer the Supreme Pontiff). offered. This will be done in every of sin, even of venial sin, remain in hierarchical communion with for the intention of the Supreme On August 17, 2007 parish church and in the Basilica after repentance. For example, we and with filial devotion toward the Pontiff) by the lay faithful who are The APOSTOLIC PENITEN- of the Sacred Heart. find ourselves drawn to material Supreme Pontiff, the visible foun- genuinely repentant, in the TIARY, by mandate of the 3. The Sacred Penitentiary has things and realize we are not whol- dation of the Catholic Church, and Cathedral or Co-Cathedral church- Supreme Pontiff, has graciously also granted to the bishop of this ly given to God but are in need of the proper priest of the sacred es of Fort Wayne-South Bend, and granted approval of this request. diocese that this gift of mercy and further purification. mysteries. also in any parish church of the This is in force for this present purification, which is called a ple- The person who seeks indul- John Francis Girotti, same diocese as it celebrates its opportunity only; anything to the nary indulgence, can be granted gences wishes to be purified but OFM Conv Jubilee, to be obtained on Dec. 8, contrary notwithstanding. further at the discretion of the knows that his or her action in Titular Bishop of Metensis, Regent 2007, if they are devoutly present John Francis Girotti, bishop. seeking purification, while valid in for the re-consecration to the OFM Conv Accordingly, beginning on Nov. itself, is insufficient. The Apostolic Penitentiary Immaculate Virgin Mary. Titular Bishop of Metensis, Regent 1, the feast of All Saints and end- The church, the minister of Prot N. 515/07/I The elderly and the sick, if they ing on the closing of the Jubilee God’s mercy, draws on the infinite MOST HOLY FATHER, cannot be present for a legitimate The Apostolic Penitentiary Year, the feast of Epiphany, Jan. 6, merits of Christ, poured out upon John Michael D’Arcy, Bishop reason, may equally obtain a Prot N. 513/07/I 2008, the plenary indulgence can the earth when the blood and water of the Diocese of Fort Wayne- Plenary Indulgence, if they intend MOST HOLY FATHER, be received in any parish church of came forth from the side of Christ. South Bend, with great joy of soul, to unite themselves to those who John Michael D’Arcy, Bishop the diocese where people go, From this infinite treasury, which in the name also of his clergy and are present at the parish celebra- of Fort Wayne-South Bend, whether individually or in groups, includes the merits of Mary, which of all the faithful entrusted to his tion, and if, in the presence of an humbly asks that since he, on the and observe the usual conditions. are profound, and the merits of all pastoral care, humbly makes image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, occasion of the Diocesan Jubilee, This applies also to the Basilica of the saints, the church grants this known to your Holiness that on the they offer their prayers, their suf- will solemnly administer the the Sacred Heart on the campus of further purification so that the tem- occasion of the Jubilee of the ferings, and whatever difficulties Sacrament of Confirmation on Notre Dame, the Church of poral effects due to sin, as opposed Diocese, not only in the Cathedral they encounter, to the Merciful September 16 at the University of Loretto on the campus of Saint to eternal punishment, might be and Co-Cathedral churches, but God for the good of the diocese Notre Dame, with a vast number Mary’s College, the church at Holy removed. also in each individual parish through her intercession, if they of persons present, the lay faithful Cross College staffed by the broth- There are spiritual practices, church, on the 8th day of this com- possess a genuine hatred for every who are devoutly present for this ers, the Shrine of Our Lady of called “the customary conditions,” ing December, the Solemnity of sin, and have the intention of ful- rite and who are genuinely repen- Fatima on the campus of Notre which the one seeking indulgence the Immaculate Conception, the filling the three customary condi- tant, might obtain a Plenary Dame, and also to the churches is asked to perform. These actions, Diocese of Fort Wayne-South tions. Indulgence, under the customary and chapels of the congregations quite simple in themselves, are Bend, in celebration of its Jubilee, This is in force for this present conditions (sacramental whose major superiors are located important. God, after all, respects will itself be re-consecrated to the opportunity only; anything to the Confession, Eucharistic commun- in the diocese; namely, Victory our freedom and awaits us to open Blessed Virgin Mary, conceived contrary notwithstanding. ion, and prayer for the intention of Noll in Huntington, the Franciscan our hearts, and these practices without original sin. From this John Francis Girotti, the Supreme Pontiff). Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in indicate that we are freely seeking generosity from on high, by the OFM Conv On August 17, 2007 Mishawaka, and the Poor his special gift. intercession of the Mother of God, Titular Bishop of Metensis, Regent The APOSTOLIC PENITEN- Handmaid Sisters in Donaldson. Here are the acts we are asked and with the help of prayers, the TIARY, by mandate of the The translation of the original to freely embrace: Sacramental gift of spiritual renewal and a The Apostolic Penitentiary Supreme Pontiff, has graciously decree was presented in the special confession, eucharistic desired increase of faith, hope and Prot N. 514/07/I granted approval of this request. edition of this newspaper at the Communion and prayer for the love are expected. Moreover, so MOST HOLY FATHER, This is in force for this present time of the Eucharistic Congress. intentions of the Holy Father. that the lay faithful might partici- John Michael D’Arcy, Bishop opportunity only; anything to the The more recent decrees of Aug. I wish to extend my gratitude to pate in the sacred rites with the of Fort Wayne-South Bend, contrary notwithstanding. 17 are attached. Pope Benedict XVI, and Cardinal greatest devotion, a Plenary humbly asks that since he, on the John Francis Girotti, I wish, along with the Sacred Francis Stafford of the Apostolic Indulgence would be especially occasion of the Diocesan Jubilee, OFM Conv Penitentiary, to be especially mind- Penitentiary for this gracious gift beneficial. The Most Reverend will solemnly administer the Titular Bishop of Metensis, Regent ful of the sick and infirm. Thus, for our observance of the Jubilee Petitioner confidently appeals to Sacrament of Confirmation on the special gift of mercy, which is Year. a plenary indulgence, has been Sincerely yours in our Lord, granted to them under conditions Most Reverend John M. D’Arcy which are more easily accessible to them. The Apostolic Penitentiary I hope all our people make a Prot N. 512/07/I visit to the appropriate churches, Decree receive the sacrament of penance Since in the Diocese of Fort and the Holy Eucharist and pray Wayne-South Bend, anniversary for the Holy Father and thus, celebrations are being held for the freely of their own volition, open benefit of the faithful not only in themselves to the great mercy of the Cathedral and Co-Cathedral God. churches, but also in other church- Most Reverend John M. D’Arcy es and sacred places, His Excellency the Diocesan Bishop has himself proposed that a request Instruction be made to the Apostolic See that To understand an indulgence as the Holy Father might extend the the church understands it, we need spiritual benefits already granted first to be open to several beautiful for the devout visitation of the truths of our faith. Such as: Cathedral and Co-Cathedral • The effects of sin and the con- churches during the entire time of tinuing mercy of God. the Jubilee celebration of the • The beauty of conversion as a Diocese of Fort Wayne-South way of life. Bend, to the devout visitation of • The communion of saints. the other sacred places in the dio- • The desire of God to purify us cese. and draw us closer to himself. This Apostolic Penitentiary gra- • The ministry of the church in ciously receives this request, and behalf of mercy. by virtue of the faculties specially • The link between grace and granted to it by our Holy Father, human freedom. Pope Benedict XVI, now decrees that in accord with the content of A definition the Rescript N. 592/06/I, given “An indulgence is a remission January 1, 2007, the lay faithful, before God of the temporal pun- who are genuinely repentant, and ishment due to sins whose guilt who have properly fulfilled the has already been forgiven, which customary conditions, may obtain the faithful Christian (CCC 370) a Plenary Indulgence equally in who is duly disposed gains under other churches and holy places in certain prescribed conditions the diocese on the dates deter- through the action of the church, mined by the His Excellency, the SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC 5 St. Mother Theodore Guérin’s feast day is Oct. 3 Sisters of Providence, diocese to celebrate feast of foundress

ST. MARY-OF-THE-WOODS — In Indianapolis, the 11 deaner- focus on maintaining a vital pres- The Sisters of Providence of Saint ies of the archdiocese have hon- ence in educational opportunities, Mary-of-the-Woods will celebrate ored the sainthood of Mother and also on child care, working the feast day of St. Mother Theodore Guérin. These celebra- for justice, preserving the envi- Theodore Guérin Wednesday, Oct. tions will conclude Oct. 3 with a ronment, adult literacy, health 3. This will be the first celebration Mass at Our Lady of Providence care to the sick, assisting those in of her feast since her canonization Junior/Senior High School in need, spiritual direction and a Oct. 15, 2006, in Rome by Pope Clarksville. commitment to non-violence. Benedict XVI. People throughout the world A feast day in the Catholic Background on Mother continue to contact the congrega- faith tradition is a day set aside to tion for information about its commemorate the life of an indi- Theodore foundress. Pilgrimages and tours vidual or a specific event. The Mother can be arranged day will also be celebrated in the Theodore came for those who Diocese of Fort Wayne-South to the United wish to visit the Bend and across Indiana. States from Bishop D’Arcy has grounds, or to In the Diocese of Fort Wayne- France in 1840 pray at St. South Bend, Bishop John M. to establish a Mother D’Arcy requested that all parish- congregation of asked that all local Theodore’s es receive materials and readings women reli- shrine, by con- from the Office of Worship for gious in a dense parishes on Oct. 3 tacting the memorial of St. Mother forest near Terre Providence Theodore Guérin. Haute. Primitive Center at (812) Mother Theodore has special conditions use the memorial Mass 535-4531. significance to the Diocese of greeted her and The Sisters of Fort Wayne-South Bend. She is her five com- Providence, a considered the co-foundress of panions after a and that all people Congregation of the Catholic school system in tumultuous nearly 450 Fort Wayne. She arranged and journey of more would be made aware women religious, traveled with the Sisters of than three have their moth- Providence in 1846 to the first months. erhouse at Saint Catholic school in Fort Wayne, From that of the feast day. Mary-of-the- St. Augustine, which was located humble origin, a Woods, located at the site of the current chancery. vibrant congre- northwest of Bishop D’Arcy has asked that gation was Terre Haute. St. all local parishes on Oct. 3 use given life that is sustained today Mother Theodore Guérin founded the memorial Mass and that all ST. MOTHER THEODORE GUÉRIN through Mother Theodore’s fore- the Sisters of Providence at Saint people would be made aware of Superior Sister Denise Wilkinson sion. The text of the liturgy will sight, legacy and energy that con- Mary-of-the-Woods in 1840. Today, the feast day. will give a reflection. Father Dan offer the traditional message used tinues to motivate the generations Sisters of Providence minister in 20 At St. Mary-of-the-Woods, the Hopcus, the congregation’s chap- on St. Mother Theodore’s feast. of sisters who have followed in states, the District of Columbia, public is invited for the eucharis- lain, will be the presider. The popular song, “Hark on the her footsteps. Taiwan and China. tic liturgy, which will begin at 11 Sister Camille Neubauer, coor- Wind Swept Breton Shore,” will Mother Theodore was born a.m. in the Church of the dinator of liturgical music, said be sung, as will a new hymn, “St. Anne-Thérèse Guérin, Oct. 2, Immaculate Conception. General there will be an entrance proces- Theodora, Teach Us,” which will 1798, in the village of Etables in For more information about the be sung for the first time. Brittany, France. Her inspiration Sisters of Providence of Saint The public is invited to visit continues today with the current Mary-of-the-Woods, visit the St. Mother Theodore’s shrine generation of Sisters of congregation’s Web site at before or after liturgy. Providence. Ministries today www.SistersofProvidence.org.

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said. Bishop Pelotte, 62, has Catholic Charities received medical care in Phoenix, delegates discuss Houston and Florida since he received extensive injuries includ- poverty, racism at ing head trauma and severe bruis- convention EWS RIEFS es to a shoulder and his arms, legs, N B hands and knuckles. The bishop CINCINNATI (CNS) — Singing said he had fallen down the stairs “This Little Light of Mine” and at his residence. walking across a Civil War-era POPE CELEBRATES MASS IN VELLETRI, ITALY suspension bridge from Covington, Ky., to the National Vatican: Pope’s refusal to Underground Railroad Freedom meet Rice should not be Center in Cincinnati Sept. 15, about 500 participants at the annu- seen as snub al Catholic Charities USA con- VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope vention demonstrated their desire Benedict XVI declined to meet to lead the way out of poverty and with U.S. Secretary of State racism. Echoing the convention Condoleezza Rice during his theme, “Crossing the Rivers of August vacation, but Vatican offi- Freedom,” the marchers followed cials said it should not be inter- in the footsteps of numerous for- preted as a diplomatic snub. “The mer slaves making their way to only reason she wasn’t received freedom. The final destination for was that she came during a period the delegates, the Freedom Center, when the pope doesn’t receive was named for the part the Ohio anyone. It was a purely technical River Valley played as a stop question of protocol,” an informed along the underground railroad. Vatican source told Catholic News “This is a wonderful way to end a Service Sept. 20. The source said day of discussion about the role it was “absolutely not” the racism plays in our society,” said Vatican’s intention to rebuff Rice Shelley Borysiewicz, spokes- or signal disagreement with U.S. woman for Catholic Charities policy on the Middle East. Rice USA. Earlier in the day, Father was about to travel to the Middle Bryan Massingale, a Marquette CNS PHOTO/ DARIO PIGNATELLI, REUTERS East for diplomatic talks in early University theology professor, August when the request for a and Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Pope Benedict XVI holds his crosier as he celebrates a Mass in Velletri, Italy, south of papal meeting was made. The Las Cruces, N.M., led discussions Rome, Sept. 23. The pope said that overemphasizing the “logic of profit” can bring pope was vacationing at his sum- focused on the Catholic Charities mer residence in Castel Gandolfo, 2006 briefing paper, “Poverty and ruinous effects, as seen in global poverty and the ecological crisis. outside Rome. Even as it declined Racism: Overlapping Threats to the request, the source said, the the Common Good.” sign for the church and raised Sept. 21 audience at his summer tor since 1999. The children are Vatican made it clear that top offi- hopes of further appointments. residence in Castel Gandolfo with the future of the church, Bishop cials of the Vatican’s Secretariat of Tony Blair accepts The comment came in an article in some 200 members of the execu- Peter F. Christensen said, adding State would be happy to meet with the Vatican newspaper, tive committee of Centrist that they had prayed for the last- Rice at any time. “So clearly there invitation to be speaker L’Osservatore Romano, which Democratic International, an minute arrival from overseas of was no intent to send a negative reported on the Sept. 21 ordina- international association of politi- his crosier for the ordination. The signal,” the source said. Rice at annual Al Smith tion of Bishop Joseph Li Shan as cal parties promoting Christian shepherd’s staff, which was a gift instead ended up speaking by tele- dinner head of the Diocese of Beijing, the democracy. Pope Benedict said from his Nativity parishioners, phone with Cardinal Tarcisio Chinese capital. The two-hour that in democratic nations “the use was missing somewhere between Bertone, Vatican secretary of NEW YORK (CNS) — Former ordination liturgy, attended by of force in a manner contrary to Europe and St. Paul, but it arrived state, while he was visiting the British Prime Minister Tony Blair hundreds of local Catholics and a the principles of a constitutional the morning of the Sept. 14 ordi- United States in August. is scheduled to be the guest speak- number of government officials, state can never be justified.” nation at the Cathedral of St. Paul. er at the 62nd Alfred E. Smith followed the ordination of He thanked the bishops who trav- Memorial Foundation Dinner Oct. Coadjutor Bishop Paul Xiao eled from all over to attend the Vatican dismisses English 18 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Zejiang of Guizhou, China, earlier Pope transfers Moscow ordination, saying that he is proud woman’s claims of New York City. Catholic New in September. The Vatican news- archbishop to Belarus, to call them brothers. He thanked York, the archdiocesan newspaper, paper indicated that both ordina- the priests, expressing his grati- Marian apparitions reported recently that Blair had tions had been carried out with the names Italian successor tude for every one of them. “You LONDON (CNS) — The Vatican accepted Cardinal Edward M. approval of Pope Benedict XVI. have shown me what it means to has dismissed the claims of a Egan’s invitation to speak. The The local Catholic communities, VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope be a priest. I see you (as being) woman in England who says Mary annual $1,000-a-ticket dinner is who elected the bishops, had indi- Benedict XVI named Archbishop much more deserving of this has visited her outside her home named for former New York Gov. cated to the Vatican that they were Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of (bishop’s appointment). Thank for more than 20 years. Ruling Alfred E. Smith, who in 1928 worthy candidates, the newspaper Moscow to head the Archdiocese you my brother priests,” he said. that her claims are “highly ques- became the first Catholic nomi- said. “The Catholic communities of Minsk-Mohilev in Belarus. The Nary a seat was left in the 3,000- tionable,” the Vatican also has nated by a major party as a presi- of Guiyang and Beijing, having Sept. 21 appointment fills a see seat cathedral, which was filled refused to approve the statutes of dential candidate. New York received news of the communion left vacant by the 2006 retirement with family, friends and soon-to- the community she founded. Cardinal Francis Spellman began granted by the pope to Bishop of Cardinal Kazimierz Swiatek. be members of his flock in Patricia De Menezes said the the dinner in 1945 to inaugurate a Xiao and Bishop Li, gathered in The same day, Pope Benedict Wisconsin. apparition has been appearing to hospital wing in honor of Smith celebration around the new pas- appointed an Italian missionary her beneath a pine tree at her and to raise money for health care tors,” the newspaper said. working in St. Petersburg, Russia, programs in the New York Father Paolo Pezzi, as the new Bishop Pelotte returns to home in Surbiton, a London sub- Archdiocese. Blair was prime head of the Moscow-based urb, since 1984. She claimed she minister of Great Britain from Pope warns against Archdiocese of the Mother of Gallup Diocese; recovery has received a divine message that May 1997 until he stepped down God. Archbishop Kondrusiewicz, continues the Catholic Church must pro- June 27 of this year. The United undermining democracy who was born in Belarus, told claim aborted babies to be mar- Nations then named him special in fight against terrorism Vatican Radio Sept. 21, “I go to GALLUP, N.M. (CNS) — tyrs. She also founded the envoy to the Middle East. Among Minsk with great joy.” Archbishop Following a determination that “a Community of Divine Innocence, his duties are mobilizing interna- CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy Kondrusiewicz was responsible return to more familiar surround- which has about 3,000 members tional aid and development for the (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI for the pastoral care of Belarusian ings would be good” for his con- in 43 countries, many coming Palestinians. Blair is Anglican. warned politicians against under- Catholics when he served as apos- tinuing recovery from injuries suf- from the pro-life movement. His wife, Cherie, and their four mining the foundations of democ- tolic administrator of Minsk, fering in a July 23 fall, Bishop Community members “strive for children are Catholic, and he often racy in their fight against terror- 1989-1991. Donald E. Pelotte returned to the holiness and innocence within attends Mass with them. ism. “Terrorism is a serious prob- Diocese of Gallup from Florida God’s own family,” according to lem whose perpetrators often Sept. 20. But no decision has been the community’s Web site. claim to act in God’s name and New bishop for Superior, made about “when he can resume Archbishop Angelo Amato, secre- Chinese bishops’ harbor an inexcusable contempt Wis., ordained in public ministry” and there are no tary of the Vatican’s Congregation for human life,” he told a group of public events on the bishop’s for the Doctrine of the Faith, ordinations with papal politicians promoting Christian Minnesota cathedral schedule, the diocese said in a announced the decision in a letter OK raise hopes, says democracy. Countries have a right Sept. 21 news release. to Archbishop Kevin McDonald to defend themselves, he said, ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) — In “Meanwhile the day-to-day of Southwark, the archdiocese in Vatican “but this right must be exercised remarks at his episcopal ordina- administrative work of the diocese which De Menezes lives. The let- tion Mass in St. Paul, the new VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The with complete respect for moral will remain the responsibility of ter from Archbishop Amato was and legal norms, including the bishop of the Diocese of Superior, Father James E. Walker, vicar dated July 16; it was released by Vatican said the recent ordination Wis., first thanked the children of of two Chinese bishops in com- choice of ends and means.” The general, in concert with other the Southwark Archdiocese Sept. pope’s comments came during a Nativity of Our Lord Parish in St. diocesan officials,” the statement 21. munion with Rome was a positive Paul, which he had served as pas- SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC 7

Hope For The Workplace St. Robert seminar scheduled Church SOUTH BEND — Men and women of the South Bend area celebrates two AROUND THE DIOCESE will gather Sept. 28 at the College Football Hall of Fame for a half- day program to consider positive Eagle Scouts ways to deal with the challenge of NORTH MANCHESTER — St. EAGLE SCOUTS RECOGNIZED IN NORTH MANCHESTER the marketplace. The Hope for the Robert Church in North Workplace seminar is designed to Manchester recently celebrated two help business people with the new Eagle Scouts, Bryan and challenges they face and to make a Matthew Bowman. real difference in today’s business The Scouts worked with Father world and the Michiana communi- Ronald Ramenaden to design their ty. projects. He provided insight and The program will run from direction to both Scouts. noon until 4:30 p.m. and will Bryan’s Eagle project involved include lunch in the Hall of Fame landscaping the grounds around St. press box followed by three talks Robert Church. Bryan designed and table discussion. The cost for plans, coordinated the work teams the seminar and lunch is $35. and materials, and participated in Speakers include Fred Crowe, construction that took four weeks former partner at Crowe Chizek and over 200 man hours. Accounting; Kirby Falkenberg, Matthew’s project involved the executive director of the YMCA; exterior of the church and created a and Walt Seale, executive director memorial walkway dedicated to the of Christians in Commerce. South parish members. His project took Bend Mayor Stephen Lueke will eight months to complete and give the welcome. totaled 468 hours. The Hope for the Workplace seminar is sponsored by Troop 451’s Burmeister Christians in Commerce, an inter- national ecumenical Christian brothers to receive Eagle organization whose purpose is to Scout awards bring the presence of Christ into the marketplace. SOUTH BEND — William Ernest The South Bend chapter is pre- Burmeister and Robert Gage dominately Catholic and has been Burmeister will be honored Oct. 7 in existance for over 25 years. in a special court of honor for Please visit the CIC Web site at achieving the Eagle Scout Award. PROVIDED BY THE TROOP 465 www.ChristiansInCommerce.org They are members of Troop 451 Matthew and Bryan Bowman, members of Troop 465, pose with Father Ronald for additional information or call and the sons of Richard and Paula John Carnick at (574) 234-5088 Burmeister. Ramenaden, center, at a recent Eagle Scout celebration at the St. Robert Parish in North ext. 31. William started in Scouting as a Tiger Cub in first grade. A senior at Manchester. Both Scouts’ Eagle projects involved projects at the parish. Clay High School, he is on the soc- cer team, has worked on the year- book and is involved in the fine arts erproofed the benches in two out- graphs of sites in France, including department’s productions as a light- door class areas. Rob hopes to pur- the chapel of Sainte-Benoît les PROVENA VOLUNTEERS HONORED ing technician. William has spent sue a career in criminal justice. Rivíeres in Ahuille, where Blessed the last three summers working at The Burmeister brothers are Father Moreau was baptized; the Camp Tamarack on Wood Lake in members of Christ the King Parish Church of the Visitation in Le Jones, Mich. He is currently taking in South Bend. Brother Daniel is Mans, where he was ordained a a literature class with Indiana also a Scout and attends Christ the priest; the monastery of Le Grande- University, South Bend, and plans King School. Trappe in Normandy, where he to attend Indiana University after made frequent retreats; and the graduation. Main Building Church of Notre-Dame de Sainte- William completed a communi- Croix in LeMans, which he built ty service project for Darden photography exhibition and where his body is entombed. Primary School in South Bend. The celebrates Moreau “The Spirit of Holy Cross,” the school’s outdoor science lab had first of what will be a continuing fallen to disrepair. William organ- beatification series of exhibitions to be mounted ized a team of Scouts and leaders to NOTRE DAME — “The Spirit of in the Main Building, will be on dis- help clean the pond, lay paving play until the end of this semester. stones, pull weeds, trim trees, lay Holy Cross,” an exhibition of 20 mulch and repair and weather seal impressionistic photographs of Worldwide Children’s the wooden benches that surround scenes and sites of special signifi- the pond. cance in the life of Blessed Father holy hour honor Robert also began Scouting as a Basil Moreau, CSC, has been anniversary of Fatima Tiger in first grade. He is a junior at mounted on the walls of the second, third and fourth floors of the Clay High School, a second lieu- With an apostolic blessing from University of Notre Dame’s Main tenant in the Air Force JROTC pro- Pope Benedict XVI and in honor of Building. gram and has attended the Summer the 90th anniversary of our Lady of The photographs, silver gelatin Leadership Program for the past Fatima, Children of the Eucharist, prints by Steven Scardina, were two summers. He worked at Camp an international children’s program taken in 2003 in Father Moreau’s Tamarack this past summer. Robert of The World Apostolate of Fatima, native France and on the Notre has earned a commendation from will be sponsoring the fifth annual PHOTO COURTESY OF THE LEY FAMILY Dame campus. Father Moreau, the the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Worldwide Children’s Holy 19th century French churchman Victor and Ursula Ley, left, of Avilla, who are volunteers at Department in the “Do the Right Program for all the children of the and founder of the Congregation of Thing” program for his work with world encouraging them to gather Provena Sacred Heart Home, were recently awarded the Holy Cross, was beatified or primary-grade students. in prayer before the Blessed declared blessed by the Catholic Excellence in Volunteering-Non Resident award for the Robert also completed his com- Sacrament on Friday, Oct. 5, at 10 Church in a ceremony in Le Mans, munity service project at Darden a.m. state of Indiana for 2007. The award was presented Sept. France, on Sept 15. Beatification is Primary School. He organized his EWTN will broadcast the event the last step toward canonization, 18 by Jillian Everett, right, the awards committee chair of team of Scouts and leaders to to 40 nations throughout the the formal declaration of sainthood. reclaim the nature trail and outdoor nation from the National Shrine of the Indiana Association of Homes and Services for the Led by Father Edward F. Sorin, classrooms that had become over- the Immaculate Conception in CSC, members of the Congregation Aging (IAHSA). What they would like people to know is grown and littered with trash. Rob Washington, D.C., on Oct. 5 at 10 of Holy Cross founded the cut back overgrown trees, cleared a.m., and will rebroadcast that they have not done anything for recognition but for University of Notre Dame in 1842. poison ivy and brambles from the throughout that day. More infor- In addition to photographs of the love of God’s people in the twilight of their days — paths. He laid mulch in the class mation is available at the Web site well-known landscapes and interi- areas and cleared trash from the www.childrenoftheeucharist- and in appreciation for the loving Christian care their ors of the Notre Dame campus, the paths. He also repaired and weath- waf.org. exhibition includes several photo- mothers received at Provena Sacred Heart.” 8 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 Fort Wayne Cathedral SURPRISE VISITORS AT ST. BERNARD USF invites public on SCHOOL Indianapolis art trip FORT WAYNE — The School of Creative Arts at the University of offering Christmas cards Saint Francis is planning a bus trip to Indianapolis, showcasing the BY VINCE LABARBERA also call the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Parish Eiteljorg Museum and the Office at (260) 424-1485. Please Indianapolis Museum of Art FORT WAYNE — The Cathedral add a shipping cost of $3 for one (IMA) on Wednesday, Oct. 3. of the Immaculate Conception, package, $5 for two packages The bus to Indianapolis will Fort Wayne, is offering when ordering by mail or tele- leave from the Rolland Art Center Christmas cards that feature an phone. off Leesburg Road at 7:30 a.m. and image from one of its 13 magnif- According to Father Robert return at approximately 7 p.m. The icent stained-glass windows Schulte, rector, proceeds from the cost is $30 for the general public, designed especially for the 147- Christmas cards will be used to which includes admission to year-old cathedral by Francis X. help fund outside repairs to the Eiteljorg. Tickets for the Zettler and artists of the Royal cathedral’s magnificent 36-foot Indianapolis Museum of Art are $6 Bavarian Art Institute for Stained east window in the apse, which and are not included in the $30 fee. Glass in Munich, Germany. The features a stained-glass represen- The special exhibition at the IMA is windows were installed in 1896- tation of the Immaculate Virgin. “Roman Art from the Louvre,” a PROVIDED BY ST. BERNARD SCHOOL 97. In 2004 the cathedral pro- traveling exhibit featuring the largest This year the cathedral chose duced a Christmas card featuring The fourth-grade students at St. Bernard School in number of loaned pieces from the a close-up and a medium view of the Visit of the Magi Window Louvre for any single show. the 28-foot Nativity window and quantities sold out quickly, Wabash had some surprise visitors on Aug. 24. Their Tickets for the bus trip may be (right) professionally pho- said Pauline Flynn who is in teacher, Jennifer Finney, had read the story, “The purchased at the School of tographed and printed on two charge of this year’s project. Creative Arts in the Rolland Center card designs with separate yet The 2007 card also contains a Relatives Came,” and the students discussed times when or by calling (260) 434-7591. For similar verses. small logo commemorative of the relatives have come to visit. The children were really sur- further information, please contact Packages of 16 cards — eight Sesquicentennial Jubilee of the Esperanca Camara at (260) 434- of each design — and envelopes Diocese of Fort Wayne-South prised when their relatives came to visit their classroom. 7716 or e-mail [email protected]. will be available on the weekend Bend and the reconsecration of The families then shared stories and a snack. of Oct. 13-14 after all the diocese to the Immaculate Knights of Columbus Masses for a donation Conception on Wives celebrate 50 years of $10. The cards also ST. ANTHONY GRANDPARENTS will be available after SOUTH BEND — The Knights of Masses at nearby RETURN TO SCHOOL Columbus Wives of Santa Maria MacDougal Chapel Council, marked their 50th on Monday, Oct. 15. anniversary with plans for a After that date cards Catholic activity program for the will be available by coming year and re-electing Anna mail or phone. Slomski as president. Write to: Cathedral Their fall program will official- Parish Office, 1122 ly begin on Oct. 8 with a dinner S. Clinton St., program where members of the Fort men’s council will be guests. Wayne, IN The women’s organization was 46802 the first of its kind to be organized Attn: in the South Bend area and since Christmas Dec. 8, 2007. Also then has assisted the men’s group Cards. listed are the origi- in many of their programs. Enclose a nal dedication Also elected were Cathy check for the (1860) and reded- Riordan, vice president; Dorothy full amount ication (1998) Towner, treasurer; Barbara indicating dates, and the Kozmer, secretary; Rose where cards date (1980) PROVIDED BY ST. ANTHONY SCHOOL Braunsdorf, financial secretary; should be sent. when the cathe- and Barbara Wincek, Marilyn All mail dral was listed Over 250 grandparents visited St. Anthony de Padua Toepp and Joan Fahey, trustees. requests will be on the National School, South Bend, as they observed Grandparents’ Day — EJD filled first- Register of come-first- Historic on Sept. 7. The day included a church service with the Father Likupe honored served basis. Places. Readers may students and grandparents and tours provided by the stu- by Knights, Serrans dents of the property and school. Grandparents were treat- SOUTH BEND — Both the Serra ed to refreshments and were thanked by Principal Martha Club of South Bend and the Santa Maria Council of the Knights of Lewallen for attending. Columbus gave a farewell tribute to Father Ray Likupe, an African priest who is returning to his native Malowi area in central Africa after having served the St. Patrick com- munity for nine years. Our experienced and professional staff is dedicated “I want to thank Father Leonard to providing the highest quality of nursing care. Chrobot, pastor of St. Patrick • Daily Mass Church, for accepting me, and I will take a part of the community • Skilled Care • Intermediate Care life when I return to my native land,” he said. • Medicare Certified Both organizations gave Father Likupe a monetary contri- • Secured Units for Alzheimer Care bution, while the Knights provid- • Physical, Occupational, & Speech Therapies ed him with a special stole made in Guadalupe, Mexico, where • Assisted Living Apartments Sister Michelle Toepp, CSC, is a missionary and her group hand- • Independent Living Patio Homes on Campus crafts stoles with the Our Lady of For Information, Call: (260) 897-2841 Guadalupe emblem. The Knights also included a 515 N. Main Street, Avilla, Indiana 46710 camera and suggested that Father Likupe take pictures of his area to Provena Health, a Catholic health system, builds communities send back to the Knights. of healing and hope by compassionately responding to human Before Father Likupe left for need in the spirit of Jesus Christ. his native land, members of St. Patrick‘s also held a testimonial luncheon in his honor. — EJD SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC 9 Retired priests enjoy jubilarian gift vacation Eucharistic Congress cantor content BRANSON, Mo. — Father Adam Schmitt, Father James Rose and Father Jacob Gall — retired priests of the Diocese of Fort to serve the church in music Wayne-South Bend — made a trip to Branson, Mo. on Aug. 19-24. Notre Dame Vision, a program that When Father Schmitt celebrat- BY JENNIFER OCHSTEIN ed his golden jubilee, he received a sees undergraduates lead high large gift from parishioners and school students through retreats. SOUTH BEND — Music unifies. friends that included a gift trip of Slott was one of the musicians. At least that’s Theresa Slott’s his choosing. Father Schmitt chose The focus of the retreats is stu- experience. Branson, which he had visited 10 dents looking at their gifts and Standing before a congregation years earlier and greatly enjoyed. using their own gifts as saints and — and recently as Eucharistic Father Rose, also a golden jubi- others used their gifts, she Congress cantor at the University larian, and Father Gall, a good explained. of Notre Dame — Slott’s often priest friend, accompanied Father The saints’ gifts changed the amazed. Schmitt on the trip, which included world, she said. Retreatants were “It’s amazing how music uni- stops at Our Lady of Sorrows near asked how their gifts would fies people,” she said quietly, sit- Bellville, Ill., on the way to and change the world. ting humbly in a meeting room at from Branson and a stop on the “Through that I realized I want- St. Joseph Parish Center in South way back at the tomb of St. ed to use music in the church,” she Bend. Theodore Guérin at St. Mary-of- said. Throwing up jazz hands and She was moved at the the-Woods near Terre Haute. a laugh, she added: “Instead of Eucharistic Congress to see every- Broadway.” one from all over the diocese and She said her own musical incli- CPF launches ‘We Go On Indiana sitting next to people nations originated in the church, Record’ Web site they’d never met and singing with and seeing what good music does one voice. for people helped her decide that NOTRE DAME — The Catholic “It gives people a voice,” Slott JENNIFER OCHSTEIN the church was where she wanted Peace Fellowship is happy to said of music in the church. Theresa Slott, director of music and liturgy at St. Joseph Catholic Church to spend her gifts. launch its newest Web project: We Sure there’s spoken response in South Bend, served as cantor recently at the Eucharistic Congress at “I wanted to give back to the Go On Record, www.wegoon- during Mass, she said. the University of Notre Dame. church with the gifts I received record.org. “But (music) is a unique way and use my gifts to help people,” We Go On Record is an “online for people to participate and “But it was also fun to be able eighth grade she began singing Slott said. community of conscience,” a engage in what’s going on,” she to hear that many people singing with the church choir. And the Music is her favorite form of space on the Internet for people to added. back at you,” she said. music continued as she went into prayer, she said. She found she express their opposition to war in She said she’s often reminded Slott said it was also fun to high school, when she began voice always had fun making music. But their own words and to draw inspi- of a St. Augustine quote: “He who work with other music directors lessons. she also discovered through music ration from others — including sings prays twice.” and instrumentalists to help shape Slott’s career at Notre Dame she obtained a much better prayer military servicemembers — who Singing in English, Spanish and the Eucharistic Congress into a saw her sing with the folk choir for life. have also publicly expressed their Latin during the congress, Slott “very prayerful and moving expe- four years, three years with the “It’s the language I use best to opposition to war. said music gives people in differ- rience for people,” she said. Collegium Musicum and during pray,” she said. Significantly, We Go On ent cultures the opportunity to A South Bend native, Slott her senior year work at St. Michael And now, Slott said, she’s con- Record will provide the first way worship in the context of their cul- attended elementary school at in Plymouth as choir director. tent. for people concerned about a draft tures. Holy Cross, where her mother, After graduating, Slott accepted “I love my job, and that’s some- to register their objection to war on “At the Eucharistic Congress Carolyn Sherman is director of her position at St. Joseph Parish. thing not a lot of people get to the Web. We Go On Record will be we used different genres of music music. She attended high school at She plays flute, some percus- say,” she said, adding that she also a permanent archive of public in different languages to include Saint Joseph’s High School. sion instruments and piano. works with the diocesan music statements of conscientious objec- all the people there,” she said. She went on to attend the “I own a guitar,” she said with committee to help with musical tion (CO) to war, viewable on the In her role as director of music University of Notre Dame, where a laugh. “That doesn’t mean I can issues arising in the diocese. Web, but also periodically backed and liturgy at St. Joseph for nearly she double majored in theology play it.” “I love this parish,” Slott said. up to ensure that no CO statements two years, Slott’s had the opportu- and music theory. She minored in Originally, Slott said, she didn’t She called the parish supportive are lost. nity to sing at various events at liturgical music. go to Notre Dame with the intent with a “great” and “active” con- Statements submitted to We Go Notre Dame’s Joyce Center and “A lot of my music background to work in the church. gregation,” and she’s looking for- On Record would be permissible other venues. comes from my family,” Slott said. “I always knew I wanted to do ward to expanding the music min- as evidence before a draft board But the Eucharistic Congress Seemingly one of her earliest something with music,” she said. istry. under current law. was a first for her. memories is singing “Row, Row, So she envisioned double “I’m very happy where I’m at,” CPF welcomes all who object She admitted it was a bit star- Row Your Boat,” as her mother majoring in music and theater. she said. to war in any form, whether they tling to see a giant-sized Theresa taught her to sing in a round. That all changed during her are pacifists or follow the just war Slott broadcast over JumboTrons And, as expected, she sang in sophomore year. tradition, whether veterans or civil- to the audience. choir at Holy Cross School. In Slott involved herself with ians, whether draft-eligible or not, to join them in going on record against war. Perinatal bereavement Where will you be and loss conference set for Oct. 17 on October 13th? FORT WAYNE — Lutheran Honor the 90th anniversary of Our Lady’s apparition at Fatima... Childbirth Center, Lutheran Children’s Hospital, the University of Saint Francis and Erin’s House Join the Fort Wayne Area Public Square Rosary Crusade at Noon on October 13 in Fort Wayne will sponsor a perinatal bereave- at Queen of Angels Church, 1500 West State Blvd., on the front lawn. Contact Marcie Stineburg at ment and loss conference on Wednesday, Oct. 17, from 8 a.m. to 260-482-9888 ([email protected]) or Queen of Angels office at 260-482-9411 ext. 10 4:30 p.m. at the Abundant Life Tabernacle Church at the In 1917, Our Lady appeared at Fatima, Portugal, with a message for the world: University of Saint Francis. The conference is recommend- Do penance, amend your life, pray the rosary. Did we listen? ed for professionals in the appro- priate fields of healthcare, pastoral That is why America Needs Fatima is organizing The Public Square Rosary Crusade! care or social service. The goal of the conference is to help partici- Catholics in thousands of cities will pray the rosary at noon on October 13, 2007, pants provide bereavement support and teach coping skills to parents exactly 90 years since the miracle of the sun at Fatima, Portugal. who have lost a baby in pregnancy, childbirth or in early infancy. 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through law school,” notes Judge Ripple also notes that, BY DON CLEMMER Springmann, “and I never thought while they didn’t wear their reli- I made a wave or would call atten- gion on their sleeves, “The justices FORT WAYNE — When Judge tion to myself.” were very spiritual individuals, Kenneth F. Ripple of the United But Judge Springmann has who I think realized they needed States Court of Appeals for the learned that she is not alone among God’s help to get their work Seventh Circuit addresses the legal Judge Ripple’s former students, done,” something he has come to community of Fort Wayne at the that he actually enjoys a reputation realize in his own career. Oct. 7 Red Mass brunch at the as a man who stays in contact with, “Anyone who thinks you can Grand Wayne Center, which follows looks after and, put simply, cares sit in judgment of your fellow the 9:30 a.m. Mass at the Cathedral about his former students. human being and do it all by your- of the Immaculate Conception, he Judge Ripple asserts that he self has really got delusions of will be speaking on the obligation of learned the importance of this dur- grandeur,” he says, calling his lawyers and judges to take an active ing his work work a humbling role in the professional lives of with the United job where peo- young people who are entering the States Supreme ple realize they legal profession. Court, where he “They knew they were don’t have all “They need all the help they served as legal the answers. can get,” Ripple notes, “and I officer and spe- But even believe we have an obligation to cial assistant to writing for generations with its weighty give it to them. ... If you hold this Chief Justice responsibilities, office, you have to be worried Warren Burger long after them, and so Judge Ripple about those who will follow.” in the 1970s. loves his work, Ripple is one of the senior-most “All of the noting, “You just federal judges in the system below justices were they also treated young see America the Supreme Court. As a professor very interested in passing across of law at the University of Notre the next genera- your desk, all Dame Law School, he has been tion,” Ripple people in a very special the worries and involved in the education of recalls, noting concerns of the lawyers for over 30 years. that they spent a sort of way.” American peo- One of his former students is great deal of ple, high and Judge Theresa Lazar Springmann, time and atten- JUDGE KENNETH F. RIPPLE low, in very con- a Federal District Court judge of tion with visiting crete, tangible Northern Indiana. Judge students and form.” Judge Springmann remembers her former their own law Ripple, a long- professor as a very humble and clerks. Judge Ripple believes the time member of Christ the King very competent man who looked at responsibilities of the Supreme Parish in South Bend, also enjoys his students as individuals. Court forced the justices to take a being a grandfather. Through the years, Judge long view of the development of In anticipation of his address at JUDGE KENNETH F. RIPPLE Springmann has encountered the country and the preservation of the annual Red Mass brunch, Judge Ripple at circuit confer- its values. Judge Theresa Lazar Springmann ences, seminars and other events, “They knew they were writing says of Judge Ripple, “He really HALLER & COLVIN, P.C. and he has always shown great for generations long after them, does embody... what it means to be Attorneys at Law interest in her life and career. and so they also treated young a good Christian lawyer, a good “That always surprised me people in a very special sort of Christian judge, a good Christian Robert W. Haller because I was such a quiet student way,” Ripple says. teacher.” Sherrill Wm. Colvin Stephen E. Lewis Vincent J. Heiny John O. Feighner Mark E. GiaQuinta Mark C. Chambers Robert W. Eherenman Suzanne M. Wagner Proudly Supports Charles J. Heiny Martin E. Seifert this year’s Melanie L. Farr Holly A. Brady Red Mass Aaron J. Butler 444 East Main Street • Fort Wayne, IN (260) 426-0444 www.hallercolvin.com

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invokes the Holy Spirit’s help in “Hate is a strong word; we SUSAN BAXTER upholding justice, the Red Mass is don’t expect it from our Lord,” centuries old. Father Coughlin said. NOTRE DAME — Although spir- According to historians, the first “St. Augustine wrote that on the its on campus may have been sub- such celebrations were held in the one hand, Jesus tells us to hate dued after recent Irish losses, the cathedral of Paris in 1245 and at those who are closest to us, and on somber tone at the Basilica of the England’s Westminster Abbey in the other hand, he tells us to love Sacred Heart Sept. 9 had much 1310, before the reign of Henry our enemies. Augustine resolves deeper significance. Members of VIII and the rise of the Church of this seeming contradiction by say- the law school, students, digni- England. Also at its heart, the early ing: ‘Our Lord does not want us to taries, alumni, attorneys, judges, Red Mass sought to reconcile hate anyone; he wants us to hate legislators, priests and religious all Christian and secular law, and to those aspects of our human rela- gathered around their bishop to recognize Jesus as the ultimate tionships that keep us from eternal celebrate the annual Red Mass, source of justice and mercy. life.’ and to grieve with Bishop John M. The basilica was filled to capac- “We have as lawyers a very D’Arcy at the passing of his sister ity. Students, law school faulty good tradition of setting the condi- only two days before. members, Law School Dean tions in the United States, through Franciscan Father John Patricia O’Hara, basilica rector human rights language, for deep Coughlin, of the Notre Dame Law Holy Cross Father Peter Rocca and personal transformation,” he said. SUSAN BAXTER School faculty, offered the homily. many priests joined Bishop D’Arcy “One only has to think of the Civil Francican Father John Coughlin, of the Notre Dame Law School faculty, “As you may know, Bishop in the procession and celebration. Rights movement and the way that proclaims the Gospel at the Red Mass Sept. 9 at the Basilica of the D’Arcy’s sister Mary passed away Father Coughlin kept with Red the law helped to set up conditions Sacred Heart at Notre Dame. on Friday, so he asked me to give Mass tradition in his homily, say- conducive to the transformation of the homily this morning,” Father ing that Jesus requires attorneys to personal relationships.” which human transformation can the Lord, Father Coughlin said Coughlin said. “I think I speak for experience a “transformation of The homily was delivered from take place; we are faithful to Jesus’ Jesus promises us the grace to all of us in expressing our heartfelt relationships” that demands a pro- the ambo, just behind a large paint- commandment that “If you want to carry it, no matter how heavy the condolences to Your Excellency. life response, a commitment to car- ing of St. Thomas More. be my disciple, you must have burden. “And I think I speak for all of rying the cross of Christ and com- More, the patron saint of civil nothing before me but God alone. “For those of us who are attor- us in expressing our gratitude, that mitment to service to God’s poor. servants, court clerks, lawyers, Base all your relationships on neys — especially as Christian at such a time of grief and personal The homily examined Luke’s politicians, and statesmen, was that,” he said. attorneys — we take this opportu- loss, you choose to be with us here Gospel, standard in this cycle for martyred for his faithfulness to the Father Coughlin also called nity today to recommit ourselves so we might celebrate the Red the 23rd Sunday in ordinary time. Gospel. those who would serve God in the to Jesus’ love for the poor, and to Mass with our bishop. We thank This Gospel, Father Coughlin said, Father Coughlin reminded his legal profession to heed another service of the poor. This is part of you.” links together sayings of Jesus, listeners of past Red Mass homi- call of Jesus to would-be disciples: the cost of discipleship as Catholic The Red Mass is a unique tradi- which have special meaning for lies proclaimed by Bishop D’Arcy, “If anyone wishes to be my disci- attorneys.” tion of the Catholic Church which, attorneys. The first is a radical and of the bishop’s assertion that ple, let him take up his cross and Congresssman Joe Donelly, at the beginning of the judicial challenge about the cost of disci- there is a close relationship follow me.” U.S. District Judge Christopher A. term, asks God’s guidance and pleship: “If anyone wishes to be between human rights and truth, “The Holy Cross takes as its Nuechterlein, Professor Clare blessings for all members of the my disciple, he must hate his between freedom and truth. motto ‘Spes Unica’ — (‘The Nuechterlein of Valparaiso legal profession. Named for the red father and mother ... relatives, “All human rights depend on Cross, our only hope’). This para- University were among the many vestments worn by the priest as he friends, and even his own self.” the basic human right: the right to dox is simple, in the example of who greeted Bishop D’Arcy after life,” he said. “For us, as Catholic Jesus crucified; that to lose one’s the Mass. Despite a hectic week- lawyers, we know that life is pre- life is to gain eternal life; that to end schedule and his personal cious from the moment of concep- die to self is to be constituted as a grief, Bishop D’Arcy took ample tion in the womb until the very last deeper and richer human being. time with students and dignitaries breath.” “As all of us know this is easier alike as each offered condolences Father Coughlin added that in said than done in the normal occa- to the Bishop on his loss. A recep- preserving this most basic of sion of everyday life.” Although tion followed the Mass. MARY ANN BOULAC rights, we set the conditions in there may be a cost to following Attorney At Law

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But Canon law is a series of norms or However, it was found in a variety Catholic churches have their own diocesan tribunals, which handle Today’s Catholic has asked two rules that govern the life of the of sources, and was somewhat separate code of canon law. marriage annulment cases. Canon canon lawyers from the Diocese of Catholic Christian community. unorganized, making it difficult for lawyers most often serve as judges Fort Wayne-South Bend, Father In areas not contrary to law of many persons within the church to What areas of church life does canon for marriage cases. Canon lawyers, Bruce Piechocki and Father Mark God and/or which do not interfere determine precisely which laws law cover? though, are also frequently used by Gurtner, to answer some basic in the church’s ability to fulfill its applied any given situation. Pope Father Gurtner: It covers basical- the diocesan bishop to research the questions on the subject. mission from Jesus Christ, the St. Pius X called for the codifica- ly everything concerning the struc- law when situations arise in which church respects the laws of tion of the church’s law. ture of the church, for example, a bishop must make a decision or What distinguishes church law,or humanity. Over time, it became apparent how power can be exercised in the act in some other way. A bishop canon law,from the laws of God and Father Gurtner: Canon law con- that the many parts of the 1917 church and by whom, how offices would come to a canon lawyer, the laws of man? tains both human laws and divine code needed to be updated. At the are attained and lost, the rights of present the situation and ask him Father Piechocki: Law is intended laws. Human laws expressed within same time Pope John XXIII the lay faithful, the office of pope, or her to research the law. For for the life of the people, whether canon law are those which are given announced Vatican Council II in the governance of religious insti- example, if a parish needs to be its source is God, the church or a to us by the pope for the good 1959, he called for a revision of tutes, Catholic education, the struc- merged with another parish, a political entity. It governs behav- ordering of the church. An example the 1917 Code of Canon Law. In ture of the sacraments, the admin- canon lawyer would research the iors and provides for order within of a human law within canon law is 1963 a commission was estab- istration of money, property, etc., steps necessary for the bishop to a specific group of people. Canon canon 395, which states that the lished to oversee this task. It took penalties such as excommunica- do this. A canon lawyer is also law shares these purposes both diocesan bishop must live in his dio- 20 years of consultations and a tion, trials such as annulment consulted when the bishop needs with the laws of God and the laws cese. Divine laws expressed within number of drafts, since it was cases. These are just a few exam- to write certain legal documents in of man. canon law are those which come important that the principles and ples of the many areas that canon the church. Unlike many systems of legisla- from God himself. teachings of Vatican II be incorpo- law covers in the life of the Father Piechocki: There are occa- tion, a code is formulated and pre- rated into church law. church. sions in the life of the church when sented as a unit; it attempts to be How did canon law develop? Father Gurtner: This 1983 version Some might say, “Why does the individuals engage in behaviors all inclusive. 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ntil recently, one story that has received little attention from the TODAY’S CATHOLIC welcomes letters from readers. All letters must be signed and include a phone number and address for verification. Umainstream media is the plight of Iraqi refugees, particularly Today’s Catholic reserves the right to edit for clarity and length. Address letters to: Today’s Catholic • P.O. Box 11169 • Fort Wayne, Chaldean Catholics — Assyrians who have lived in Iraq since 5000 IN • 46856-1169 or e-mail to: [email protected] B.C, but who are mostly Christian — many of whom have fled Iraq or are in refugee camps. faithful. We are also charged with this is being done not in the parish Should they stay in Iraq, Assyrians face extreme danger. Dr. Little consideration being concerned for the community hall, which was built to provide a Charles Rice, a law professor from the University of Notre Dame, when we are sent forth to “love and place for fellowship, but rather in reports in a commentary in the campus newspaper, The Observer, that given to those who serve the Lord” by loving and serv- the church proper where the Blessed the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) has confirmed that ing one another. Sacrament is reserved. much of the persecution is primarily religious. stay after to pray With regard to expressing care Serious consideration must be To summarize, AINA says Assyrian women have been abducted I am writing concerning the edi- about the people of our community given to the fact that our churches and raped. Some women have been sprayed in the face with nitric torial in the September 23 issue following Mass, my experience has are first and foremost places set acid for not wearing veils. Assyrian businesses have been targeted titled “When does community begin been that there is little or no consid- aside for a very specific purpose, and burned for selling alcohol, radios, TVs and music. Priests have in church?” eration given to someone who may that of worship of the Almighty. been kidnapped and held for ransom. Property has been confiscated Community does not begin in wish to continue in private prayer That should be the main focus of after Mass. It is not a matter of just our attention when we come togeth- by Kurds and Shiites. They face exploitation and shortages of food church since as members of the mystical body of Christ we are “chatter” in a pew. What may have er for communal worship in the and clean water. started as a friendly greeting Mass. This does not preclude being The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has urged the U.S. gov- already a community of believers and we come together to worship in between one or more congregants friendly and/or expressing concern ernment to escalate resettlement aid and family reunification. To date, a church as members of that com- has now escalated to individuals in an appropriate manner for those about 719 Iraqi refugees have been admitted to the U.S. Other coun- munity. We show concern for the gathering in groups laughing and of our community. tries in the Middle East are closing their borders, leaving those flee- community through the prayers at speaking loudly with one another. Cyril De Vliegher ing persecution nowhere to go. Mass especially the prayer of the There is no apparent reflection that Mishawaka A Pax Christi report said, “to be admitted to the United States, Iraqis must pass extended screening processes in addition to rigorous background checks and security procedures mandated for all refugees.” For those who come as refugees in the U.S., many of the Chaldean Go and take your rest, my friend Catholic Iraqis have family in Detroit and wish to resettle there. A Thelma Ashe said. recent CNS report said the Archdiocese of Detroit has helped to settle BY MAY LEE JOHNSON more than 200 people since the recent wave of refugees arrived in and I talked Although she was born in St. July. They are also resettled in Phoenix, San Diego, Illinois, northern while waiting Louis, Mo., she lived in Fort California and other places. very once in a while, a very to take the Wayne for over 30 years. Joseph T. Kassab, executive director of the Chaldean Federation of special person crosses your train that took Thelma is survived by her America, based in Farmington Hills, Mich., reported in a recent CNS Epath — someone who us home to daughters, Stephanie Johnson of story, “Most refugees have a sponsor family able to help them set up touches you dearly and you will Fort Wayne St. Louis and Tracie Strother of school registration for children, English classes if necessary, govern- always remember. and South Fort Wayne; sons Victor Strother ment assistance and housing, although the refugee office has to make For anyone who knew Thelma Bend after the of Wheaton, Md., and Angelo Schulte, I’m sure they would agree congress in (Jeanette) Strother of Fort Wayne; sure it’s up to government standards, for example, with enough bed- she was a very special person. New York. THELMA SCHULTE 18 grandchildren; many great- rooms for children. It’s often difficult to find housing a family can On Monday, Sept. 10, our She said grandchildren; sisters Elizabeth afford, especially if there are many children or if two families are liv- friend and organizer of the Black something that Edwards and Annie M. O’Neal, ing together.” Catholic Congresses died at I never gave much thought, until I both of St. Louis; sister-in-law “Most of the anchors (sponsor families) we work with all have Parkview Hospital, Fort Wayne. heard about her death. Margaret Bauer; and brother-in- their own families, so it’s crowded already,” she said. “It’s not easy to She was 70. “This is probably going to be law Richard Bauer. find a house.” “Thelma was a splendid person the last congress I attend,” she She was preceded in death by Last Friday, Catholic New Service (CNS) reported that the U.S. who was most active in the St. said. “I have attended every one of husband, Paul Schulte; a son, Department of States should have the capacity to admit around 1,000 Mary Catholic Church, Fort them since their beginning. But Randell Strother; and a grandson, Iraqi refugees a month next fiscal year. Wayne, and at St. Mary’s Soup this will be my last.” Demetrius Johnson. Please keep the plight of all refugees in your prayers. Catholic Kitchen,” said Bishop John According to Cheryl Ashe of A Mass of Christian Burial was Charities in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend assists refugees D’Arcy, bishop of the Diocese of South Bend, Thelma was a very held Sept. 15 at St. Mary Catholic and resettlement. The needs are great, and if you can help, please Fort Wayne-South Bend. concerned person. “Thelma was Church in Fort Wayne. contact their office at (260) 422-5625. “She attended all the national very concerned about St. Mary’s Arrangements were handled by meetings of African-American Church and was sure it would be Mungovan and Sons Memorial Catholics, including one most rebuilt as a church, and not as a Chapel in Fort Wayne. recently in Buffalo, N.Y., in July. social agency,” Ashe said. Memorials can be made to St. Confirmation “Thelma worked closely for But more than anything else, Mary Catholic Church. On Sept. 16, and again on Sept. 30, the Holy Spirit filled the Joyce years with Father Tom O’Connor, she was concerned that young Center and will fill the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum as the legendary pastor of St. black Catholics would stay close regional confirmations are celebrated. These regional confirmations are Mary’s.” to the church. “She wanted them tied into the diocesan celebrations of the Sesquicentennial Jubilee Year. Thelma had spent more than 20 to stay so they could be the future May Lee Johnson is a freelance writer As one person responded in the Sept. 23 issue of Today’s Catholic: The years as business administrator of for blacks in the Catholic Church,” for Today’s Catholic newspaper. big celebration “feels richer, in that more people are here celebrating St. Mary’s. She still was an active with you.” That richness will surely be the same this weekend in Fort member at the time of her death. Wayne, where the confirmandi can witness the vastness of the church She also was the coordinator with their peers throughout the eastern end of the diocese. for black Catholics throughout the Preparation for the sacrament of confirmation has changed diocese. Thelma was instrumental through the years. At one time, a report on the saint whose name was in getting a large group of black chosen by the confirmand, a possible quiz question from the bishop Catholics to Buffalo, N.Y., this and the often overly-exaggerated “slap” from the bishop is what July — it was the 10th national many of those confirmed in the past may remember. Black Catholic Congress, and she Today, preparation is more extensive. In some parishes, the prepa- had attended almost all of them ration takes two years. Parents and religious education instructors since their rebirth in the 1980s. work with the young people, encourage prayer, and the preparation is She has been quoted in many articles and was an advocate for a process — an understanding of the sacraments, the gifts of the Holy the church, Black Catholics and Spirit and the role of a servant. This role takes on a community-ser- anyone in need of help. vice aspect. She will be remembered most Hopefully this faith formation process is just a beginning to for her feisty personality and encourage the confirmandi to embrace what it means to be a Catholic speaking her mind. and to continue to learn, grow and live in the faith well beyond the In Buffalo, she shared with me confirmation preparation into the adult years. that she wasn’t very happy with We congratulate the confirmandi in this special year. the organization of the congress. But she quickly assured me that she was very touched by Bishop Today’s Catholic editorial board consists of Ann Carey, Don Clemmer, Father Wilton Gregory’s homily and that Mark Gurtner, Father Michael Heintz, Tim Johnson and Vince she was armed with enough spiri- LaBarbera. tual strength to continue her work. 15 SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 COMMENTARY Shackled and cuffed: Prisoners need CATEQUIZ’EM By Dominic Camplisson As Potter-mania recently swept the nation, pastoral attention, Vatican says this quiz looks at more ancient magic.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Prison living conditions, human rights 1.The early Israelites associated magic with the priests of this culture: doors may be locked shut, but abuses, and often-dim prospects of a.Persia b.Rome c.Greece people must not close their eyes to some of the 9 million men and THE the inmates behind bars. women imprisoned around the 2.These priests were likely associated with this religion,which still exists today: Vatican officials conveyed that world. message at an international gather- Cardinal Martino said it was VATICAN a.Islam b.Christianity c.Zoroastrianism ing of prison chaplains in Rome, not for the church to decide if where Pope Benedict XVI called someone is guilty or innocent. LETTER 3.The name of this priestly group is often used of three wise men from the East: a.Rex b.Magi c.Socii the pastoral care of prisoners a However, the church has a duty to CAROL GLATZ “vital mission” that deserved the “denounce all those situations that support and guidance of bishops harm human dignity,” he said. 4.This term for a group which,now confusingly,refers to Catholic Iraqis was in ancient and the involvement of local The death penalty, he said, only time virtually synonymous with magical powers and divination: ministry workers from 62 different Catholics. He told the chaplains he “impoverishes the society that a.Circassian b.Chaldean c.Charismatic hoped greater awareness about legitimizes and carries it out” and nations declared that capital punish- their ministry would inspire others “foments revenge” instead of real ment must be abolished worldwide “to join you in performing corpo- justice. and harsh penalties, especially torture, 5.Dream interpretation was not found solely amongst the more eastern empires. ral works of mercy.” Pope Benedict, in a speech to must end. They also lamented how Which Jew famously used this ability to rise from slavery in Egypt to authority? Last March, the pope demon- the congress, recognized that a “most prisons are overcrowded, the a.Cain b.Moses c.Joseph strated his solidarity with prisoners community has an obligation to prisoners are abused and their needs with a visit to a juvenile detention keep its citizens safe, but he are not satisfied.” 6.And later,in less favorable times for the Hebrews,Aaron takes part in a contest with center in Rome. He reminded the reminded governments that Debbie McDermott of the Egyptian magicians.What was their main trick? young people of God’s love for offenders must have a chance at California Catholic Conference’s detention ministry told the con- a.turning water into wine them and said he was bringing “a rehabilitation. He, too, insisted b.turning staffs into snakes little light” to an otherwise dark inmates must never — under any gress that her state’s prison system and lonely place. circumstances — be demeaned or “is in crisis.” She said that c.turning friends into foes At the mid-September con- tortured. “172,284 inmates are warehoused gress, the head of the Pontifical Congress participants agreed in 33 prisons designed for less 7.Generally the Jews were suspicious of magical powers and regularly banned them. Council for Justice and Peace, that torture, humiliating practices than 100,000.” Exodus 22 warns the people bluntly not to let a sorceress Cardinal Renato Martino, insisted and “institutional cruelty” were on Almost 30,000 prisoners have a.exercise her power beyond the grounds set aside for foreigners. that society could not “close its the rise. b.marry into the people unless she renounces her evil ways. eyes, cannot be indifferent” to the In their final declaration, the prison LETTER, PAGE 16 c.live.

8.Leviticus 19 bans a.divination and soothsaying Things of God worth living, dying for b.card sharks and dolphin meat c.shell games and tightrope walking development of Christianity, this Reflection selection calls Timothy to virtue. 9.Leviticus 20 prescribes this punishment for anyone who acts as a medium or for- The epistles called him to dili- The readings, and especially THE gence and dedication in following tune-teller: that from Luke’s Gospel, seem to a.exile for seven years Jesus and in leading the communi- be rather clear in their message. SUNDAY ty. They are clear, but beneath them is b.exile for life, commuted if there was an intervention jubilee year It was easy to be distracted a very strong lesson. It is more c.death by stoning GOSPEL from such faithfulness in the face than a question of not being of the glory, power and excesses of greedy or unjust in commercial 10.These rules meant that when Jews did seek out magicians and mediums they had MSGR. OWEN F. CAMPION the mighty Roman Empire. The dealings. It is instead the lesson to take precautions.When King Saul visited a witch he did this: epistle calls Timothy to be res- that Christians must judge earthly a.He disguised himself by changing his clothes. olute, citing the example of Jesus life by a standard that not often is b.He wore a cow suit and pretended to be a sacrifice. in the Lord’s trial before Pontius embraced. c.He talked only through two cans tied with string. Sunday, 26th Sunday Pilate. It is the standard of putting Despite the seeming power of everything secondary, or even in Ordinary Time Rome, the reading insists that irrelevant, in judging life. Only the 11.Who was that witch whose name reappears,in modified form,in the ‘60s show God’s goodness and justice will things of God are worth living, or “Bewitched?” Lk 16:19-31 endure, and that Jesus will come dying, for. a.The Wicked Witch of The North The Book of Amos provides the again in triumph and vindication. The story of the rich man and b.The Good Witch Glenda first reading this weekend. The St. Luke’s Gospel furnishes the Lazarus is much more than merely c.The Witch of Endor book itself states that it was writ- last reading, as also was the case a coincidence about a person who in last weekend’s Liturgy of the ten during the reign of King has succeeded in the world and a 12.Daniel showed the proper Jewish approach to magic contests.When asked by Uzziah of Judah, or between 783- Word. person who has not succeeded. Nebuchadnezzar to interpret his dream Daniel 742 B.C. This was a time of tran- It is a parable, rather straight- At the time of Jesus, many a.refused and challenged Nebby to a pie eating contest. quility and prosperity. No wars forward in its message. A rich man thought that earthly riches showed troubled the kingdom. is enjoying all the benefits of that God had blessed the rich. b.made up an answer, knowing that all the answers will be made Even though conditions were financial success and well being. Whereas, poverty and want indi- up anyways. calm, Amos strongly spoke against By contrast, Lazarus is desper- cated that there had been a great c.asked the Lord to assist him and therefore got it right without laxity in religion and morally care- ately poor. He yearned to have the sin somehow in the background of magic. less living. It was not necessarily a scraps that fell from the rich man’s the sinner. denunciation of utter vice, but table. Jesus totally debunks this 13.References to magic continue to echo in the New Testament.In Matthew’s Gospel In time, Lazarus died. Then the rather it denounced lukewarmness. notion. When we end our earthly the allusion to babbling like the pagans in prayer probably relates to Of course, chief among his con- rich man died. As the rich man’s lives, riches will mean nothing. cerns was the sluggishness with reached the hereafter, he realized a.the spells and incantations of the non-Jews. which people practiced their reli- that he himself was in great need, b.the litany of emperors recited each year by the lectors. gion. whereas Lazarus was being held c.the memorized Koran recited by the neighboring Arabs. All in all, Amos insisted, the close to Abraham, the father of the READINGS situation was a sure recipe for Hebrew people. Sunday: Am 6:1a,4-7 Ps 146:7-10 1 14.In Acts there are references to various magicians.One magician,Simon Magus is by trouble and even disaster. By this time, the once rich man Tm 6:11-16 Lk 16:19-31 tradition thought to have come from this area: St. Paul’s First Epistle to is desperate. He pleads with Monday: Zec 8:1-8 Ps 102:16-23, a.England b.Samaria c.Italy Timothy supplies the second read- Abraham for just a drop of water. 29 Lk 9:46-50 Then the once rich man implores ing for this weekend’s liturgy. Last Tuesday: Zec 8:20-23 Ps 87:1-7 Mt 15.What does the church say today about magic,for example in the catechism? weekend’s second reading also Abraham to send Lazarus back to 18:1-5, 10 a.Nothing, it is no longer a social phenomenon so it is not came from First Timothy. earth to warn the rich man’s broth- Wednesday: Neh 2:1-8 Ps 137:1-6 Lk ers that they too will be punished addressed. Timothy was an early convert 9:57-62 to Christianity. The epistles written unless they turn to God and for- b.Due to our greater tolerance, dabbling in the occult for fun only Thursday: Neh 8:1-4a, 5-6, 7b-12 to him, and now contained in the sake greed. is accepted. New Testament, assured his place Abraham replies that messen- Ps 19:8-11 Lk 10:1-12 c.It is gravely contrary to the virtue of religion and is reprehensible in the tradition of the church. As gers already have been sent, name- Friday: Bar 1:15-22 Ps 79:1-5, 8-9 Lk in all forms. his life unfolded, he became a dis- ly Moses and the prophets, and 10:13-16 ciple of Paul and then a Christian Moses and the prophets were Saturday: Bar 4:5-12,27-29 Ps 69:33- ANSWERS: ignored. 37 Lk 10:17-24 leader in his own right, destined to 1.a, 2.c, 3.b, 4.b, 5.c, 6.b, 7.c, 8.a, 9.c, 10.a, 11.c, 12.c, 13.a, 14.b 15.c be one of the major figures in the 16 COMMENTARY SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 Exploring fishing at the time of Jesus

What was fishing like for the apostles to roast it over an open fire. Thus Greek city-states called a “stater.” 1/2 feet. The fright of the apostles on the Sea of Galilee? Anonymous when the risen Jesus appeared to The peculiarity of this fish is that it when waves were breaking over the disciples on the shore of the THAT’S carries in its mouth the eggs laid their boat in a storm is easy to In the Holy Land, fish are Sea of Galilee, fish and bread were by the female and, for a short imagine when you see this frail found in the Mediterranean Sea placed on a charcoal fire and they A GOOD while, the immature young. vessel. Remember the apostles did that borders Israel, the Sea of ate fresh fish. Salted fish, however, Somehow this fish acquired a not have motors for their boats like Galilee in northern Israel, the would be soaked in water to desalt gold coin. You can eat St. Peter’s we have today. The ancient world Jordan River that flows through it and then be cooked. QUESTION fish on the Sea of Galilee today. only had paddles or sails. Other the Sea of Galilee onto the Dead In New Testament times, says The Sea of Galilee is also sub- archaeological discoveries were Sea and even in the Red Sea. In G. Wigoder, the method of fishing ject to sudden violent storms. They also made near Ginnosar at a num- the Negeb in southern Israel fish was with a hook and line and nets. are caused by the funnel effect of ber of caves near Nahal Ammud. bones have been found in kitchen The dragnet or seine is the oldest shore and the net while beating on winds in the wadis and can reach In 1923 they found a Neanderthal garbage, showing that fish may method of net fishing and is still the bottom of the boat, so the noise such fury that one can scarcely skull. In 1961 the Japanese found have been brought from the Red used today on the Sea of Galilee. would scare any nearby fish to run stand upright. This frightening Ammud Man from the Upper Sea. The seine is about 300 yards long, into the net. After 10 minutes of scene is pictured when Jesus walks Paleolithic age. Father John McKenzie says the four yards high on the ends and beating, the net was drawn, the on the water and bades St. Peter to Sea of Galilee is especially well- eight yards high at the center. It fish hauled onto the boat, and then come to him to test his faith. stocked with fish. Twenty-six was spread from a boat about 400 the fishermen moved to another At Ginnosar on the shore of the species have been discovered. The yards from the shore. As many as spot and lowered the net again. Sea of Galilee is a kibbutz that Father Richard Hire, pastor of St. Bible, however, does not distin- 16 men would haul in the net with Clay and stone weights used to houses a first-century boat that the Martin de Porres Parish, guish fish by species. But it does towing lines attached to each end. sink these nets, as well as floats of famous apostles would have used. Syracuse, answered this week’s distinguish between clean and Once the catch was on shore, the cork and wood, have been found at This important boat, says G. question. unclean fish. Clean fish are those good fish would be put into bas- Caesarea in northwest Israel on the Freeman, was found on the which have fins and scales and kets, and the rest thrown back into Mediterranean Sea and in other seashore when the water fell to an Today’s Catholic these may be eaten. Aquatic ani- the lake. Most fishing was done at port towns. exceptionally low level in 1986. It welcomes ques- mals of any other kind are unclean. night or just before dawn. Another method of fishing is kept in water under cover, as tions from readers. E-mail your This excludes all shellfish and fish Jesus compared the kingdom of involved round casting with a spin- part of the process of conservation, questions to [email protected] that have fins but no scales, such heaven to this seine. “The reign of ning motion over shallow water. in a constructed pool in the Yigdal fwsb.org or mail them to Today’s as shark, catfish and eels. God is like a dragnet or seine The net fell in a ring as the Allon Museum. It is a flat-bot- Catholic, That’s A Good At the time of the apostles, with thrown into the lake, which col- weights on its perimeter dragged it tomed, very shallow boat, 27x7 Question, P.O. Box 11169, Fort no refrigeration, there was no way lected all sorts of things. When it down. As the net sank, it took the Wayne, IN 46856. of keeping fish fresh. So G. was full they hauled it ashore and shape of a dome that enclosed the Wigoder says the fish had to be sat down to put what was worth- fish. The fishermen drew the net salted and dried immediately if it while into containers. What was closed with a line attached to the SCRIPTURE SEARCH was to be preserved for storage or useless they threw away. At the center and collected the fish entan- transport. One of the major salting end of the world, angels will sepa- gled in it. By Patricia Kasten centers on the Sea of Galilee was rate the wicked from the just.” Fishing was also done with a at Magdala, the hometown of The miraculous catch of fish by hook and line as seen in the mira- Gospel for September 30, 2007 Mary Magdalene. The Aramaic the apostles, where their nets cle of St. Peter catching a fish and Luke 16:19-31 name for Magdala was Migdal, almost broke, was also achieved finding a coin in its mouth to pay meaning “the tower of the fisher- with the seine. the taxes for Jesus and himself. Following is a word search based on the Gospel reading men.” This particular fish, says G. The gill net also was and still is for the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle Only fishermen like the apos- used on the Sea of Galilee. This Freeman, now called St. Peter’s tles, and those living in close prox- net had weights on the bottom and fish, is a flat fish with an extreme- C: the story of Lazarus and the man known as Dives. imity to their catch, could eat fresh floats on the top and was lowered ly narrow mouth, just sufficient to The words can be found in all directions in the puzzle. fish, since it spoiled quickly. One behind the boat not far from shore. hold the tribute money of the nec- method of preparing fresh fish was The fishermen passed between the essary gold or silver coin of the RICH MAN DRESSED PURPLE LINEN SUMPTOUSLY LAZARUS SORES TABLE DOGS ANGELS BURIED ABRAHAM Health care occupies Congress, WATER MY TONGUE FLAMES CHILD LIFETIME BROTHERS churches and presidential candidates WARN THEM MOSES LISTEN WASHINGTON (CNS) — As a congregations or communities — Sept. 30 deadline looms for an average of more than 13 for LISTEN Congress to extend the State each church. THE Children’s Health Insurance But the Rev. Eileen W. Lindner, NENILIFETIME Program and presidential candi- deputy general secretary of the dates roll out the details of their NCC for research and planning, WASHINGTON ESBDRESSEDUD plans for health care reform, new said the survey results released TKUKWLRMMGUA evidence is emerging that church- Sept. 18 indicate that U.S. church- LETTER es play an important role in fill- es “have shown an incredible abili- SLSMABEENFED ing the gaps in the current sys- ty to leverage health care services NANCY FRAZIER O’BRIEN IJLKPAHOSMER tem. in extremely creative, innovative More than 6,000 churches — and cost-effective ways.” LREPUTTGE I A I mostly mainline Protestant congre- “They know their communities 20. “It is simply unacceptable that gations, but with some Catholic and they respond to their specific in the greatest country in the AEGUNYOBRANC participants — responded to a needs,” she added. world, a third of Americans have ZTNRMDRUONHH recent survey by the National That response might be more had to go without health insurance Council of Churches on what needed than ever these days, in at some point over the last two AAAPBWBFS I PM kinds of health ministries they light of President George W. years. Health care should be a RWF L AME S L L F A offer. Of the respondents, 70 per- Bush’s threatened veto of legisla- right, not a privilege in our coun- cent said they provide direct health tion extending SCHIP and a new try.” UFRELEMDFTYN services (defined as medical care report from the health advocacy More than 10 percent of unin- SESOMAHARBAD by trained health professionals), 65 group Families USA that says sured Americans are children, and percent said they offer health edu- nearly 90 million Americans under officials at the U.S. Conference of © 2007 Tri-C-A Publications cation programs and more than 65 were without health insurance Catholic Bishops, Catholic Health half give direct financial assistance for some part of 2006 or 2007. Association and Catholic Charities to help people pay their medical That figure is almost twice the USA are working with Congress to bills. 47 million that the U.S. Census come up with compromise SCHIP inmate which, given the recidi- The results might be skewed by Bureau said were uninsured for the legislation that will satisfy both LETTER vism rate is 95-98 percent, does the fact that the responding full year in 2006. Four-fifths of House and Senate, and the Bush not sound like money well spent. But despite the desperate con- churches were likely to be those those were in families where at administration. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 most interested in the topic of least one member worked full or After a conference committee ditions for many prisoners, she health care and because congrega- part time. agreement is reached, “we’ll said, innovative chaplains are find- tions receiving the survey might “This report shows just how attempt to move it through been sentenced to life without parole, ing ways that respect a peniten- have passed it along to other con- many working families are strug- Congress,” said Thomas another 657 are on death row, and tiary’s rules while bringing the gregations more involved in health gling with the skyrocketing costs Shellabarger of the USCCB 4,200 people are locked away in Gospel and the sacraments to care ministries. The 6,037 respon- of health care,” said Sen. Debbie Department of Domestic Social solitary confinement, she said. more prisoners — even to inmates dents reported nearly 79,000 Stabenow, D-Mich., at a Development. “There are a lot of McDermott said California in solitary confinement who are health-related programs in their Washington news conference Sept. ifs right now.” spends more than $35,000 per not allowed any human contact. 17 SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 COMMENTARY True compassion in the midst of tragedy

s the floodwaters were rising in the days after dent of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Hurricane Katrina, the situation went from bad to After looking into the matter, however, a Louisiana Aworse at Memorial Medical Center in New grand jury nevertheless chose not to indict Dr. Pou fol- Orleans. When the electricity failed, flashlights became lowing a series of closed-door hearings. MAKING SENSE OF BIOETHICS necessary to carry out simple tasks. There was no run- In looking at this case, it seems that many have hesi- ning water. Human sewage streamed through the hospi- tated to call a spade a spade. When I participated in a BY FATHER TAD PACHOLCZYK tal corridors. Many patients could not be evacuated, radio interview recently on this topic, a number of lis- were crying out and suffered greatly in the stifling heat. teners were aghast at what Dr. Pou had allegedly done. Much of the medical staff had already left. The few who Two people, however, called into the show to defend them as they prepare for what might be their last remained began to think they might never be rescued. her, and I believe their comments were representative of moments of life on earth. The conditions were “less than third world,” accord- how many people think about cases like this. “I com- When natural disaster strikes, we do not abandon ing to Dr. Anna Maria Pou, who was accused of admin- mend Dr. Pou,” one of the callers said, “for her courage those in our care, or ignore them, or betray them by tak- istering lethal doses of morphine and another sedative to and compassion towards those terminal patients who ing their lives in the name of a false and violent com- nine patients in the hospital. Many who have learned of more than likely wouldn’t ‘survive’ the horrid condi- passion. Human beings are not like horses or other ani- her actions have called her a hero, believing she was tions they were in anyway due to an ‘act of God,’ not mals, needing to be shot when they break a leg or suffer motivated by true compassion. Louisiana’s attorney gen- man. By looking at her patient’s condition and the cir- a misfortune. The reason for this is that our pain and eral, however, after consulting with a panel of medical cumstances around her, she did what needed to be done, suffering have a redemptive purpose and a deeper mean- experts, concluded that she perpetrated a multiple homi- keeping her patients comfortable and easing their suffer- ing for each of us, as well as for those around us. cide. ing. I pray that if I were ever in their shoes, I would Showing true compassion towards those who suffer ends While the debate continues as to what Dr. Pou did or have a doctor as conscientious and compassionate as Dr. up transforming both us and them in deep and ennobling did not do, compassion and heroism should never be Pou.” ways. confused with intentionally overdosing patients or loved To understand the moral argument in this case, how- For doctors and health care workers who have been ones in order to end their lives. The act of directly tak- ever, it is important to grasp the distinction between entrusted with powerful tools over life and death, this ing innocent human life is always incompatible with killing and allowing to die. It is also important to under- truth is central to their identity. More than 2,000 years true compassion. stand the real meaning of the word compassion. ago, the renowned physician Hippocrates stressed this Upon further examination of the facts of the case, “Compassion” has a Latin origin meaning “to suffer when he said: “Primum non nocere” (“First, do no experts have suggested that Dr. Pou was not simply together with another.” To be compassionate, in the harm”). The truly compassionate doctor will strive to managing the pain of her patients by providing them proper sense of the term, means to take another’s pain use his tools and medicines to attend to the medical with a medically indicated dose of morphine. Dr. Cyril and suffering upon ourselves, onto our own shoulders, needs of his patients, humbly recognizing that those H. Wecht, past president of the American Academy of so that we suffer with them in some way. We seek to be tools may not be able to stave off death in every case. Forensic Sciences, was one of the five experts brought present to them, and accompany them in their trials and He may have to step aside as the shadow of death draws in by the state of Louisiana to analyze the deaths. He tribulations as best as we are able. near and the mortal existence of the person he has been described the situation this way: “The complete hospital True compassion as the flood waters were rising tending to comes to its natural close. records, autopsy protocols and postmortem toxicological would not mean pulling a massive dose out of the vial, Above all, the compassionate physician can never analyses of the nine patients who died were thoroughly looking the person in the face, in their weakness and violate his inner being and identity by becoming one reviewed by several highly-experienced forensic pathol- fear, and thrusting a needle deep into their skin or into who directly kills others, especially those who, in their ogists, a toxicologist and other medical experts. We their IV tube to cause the light in their eyes to falter and most needful and fragile moments, find themselves unequivocally concluded that the cause of death in all go out. That is not mercy or compassion, and to call it entrusted to his care. these cases was acute combined drug toxicity and that such is a lie. Mercy and compassion would rather seek the manner of death was homicide.” to care for each patient in the face of difficulties, trying These same experts also concluded that the possibili- to move them to a higher floor if the waters were rising, ty of the deaths being due to a tragic medical mistake and if that were impossible for some reason, then to sit Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. earned his doctorate in neuro- was statistically unlikely. “Accidental overdoses would attentively at their bedside, holding their hand and mak- science from Yale and did postdoctoral work at Harvard. need to have occurred nine times between 12 noon and ing them as comfortable as possible. True compassion He is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Mass., and 3:30 p.m., all on one floor, to every patient who was left would mean praying with them, perhaps crying with serves as the director of education at The National on the floor,” observed Dr. John Young, former presi- them at times, but above all remaining in solidarity with Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.

Meet the Priest Montana, Wyoming and so on. filled with new life and to have the life and difficulties of Pius Father Laurence Tippmann We can enjoy a “Rocky Mountain the hope that this will become XII through my grade school and Ordained May 31, 1969 high” while skiing and a “cowboy even more abundantly wonderful high school years, and he was the Retired, Fort Wayne high” while riding the range or forever into the future forever. pope of my youth and the pope of even occasionally herding cattle. our generation. What was your primary influence in What is your favorite prayer? your decision to become a priest? Do you have any pets? My favorite prayer is the What is your favorite food? The primary influence in my My horse is a very fine gentle- Apostles Creed. It is a reminder My favorite food is really not decision to become a priest was man. His name is Ranger. He was of the treasures and magnitude of very healthy, but whenever I just my family, my parish and my born in Alberta, Canada, and the realities of our Catholic faith. want to throw caution to the wind friends. I guess I wanted to do moved to Montana as a young Beginning with the words, “I and enjoy myself, I’ll go to a cer- something for everybody. After colt. He roamed the range in believe in the Holy Spirit, the tain restaurant where I can get a reflecting upon how to accom- Montana until he was 6 and then holy Catholic Church,” and so on, cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato plish this for weeks, months and trained by one of the finest pleas- it just seems that each one of and mayo, an order of French even years, it gradually became ure riding schools in the West. I these truths of our faith strength- fries and a chocolate malted. clear to me that I could actually bought him in Dillon, Mon. and ens our faith in each of the oth- accomplish this if I became a brought him here to Fort Wayne ers. What is something interesting about priest. on my way home from skiing in yourself that most people might not early February of 2005. What is your favorite Scripture pas- know? What is the most rewarding part of in the river, or riding horses on sage? What do you do for relaxation? dirt roads or in open fields. When I retired from parish being a priest? My favorite Scripture passage ministry in July 2001, the bishop For relaxation I just love to However, I did plenty of reading is Romans 12:12. “Rejoice in The most rewarding part of during my nine years in the semi- felt it best that I discontinue even being a priest is the awareness work here on my miniature horse hope, be patient with difficulties part-time parish help. Almost ranch. There are such a variety of nary, but it was mostly philoso- and persevere in prayer.” This is that, working with Christ in his phy, theology and spiritual read- immediately, an opportunity church, I can actually share in the things to do. Fortunately these are the tripod upon which my faith became available to open a center things I learned to do throughout ing. Probably my favorite authors stands. If I fail in any one of same miraculous power and life- would be St. Augustine and St. for women and another for men giving love that Jesus brought my entire life, including the many these three legs of the tripod, my who were recovering from drug things I did in the six parishes Theresa of the Child Jesus. I faith will fail, just as a tripod will down from heaven and continues never read novels but really and/or alcohol addiction. It is a to provide for us even in our where I served, especially in fall if one leg is missing. very fruitful ministry, and I just Plymouth, Goshen, and at Queen enjoyed movies during my teens present day. and early 20s. wish I could do even more for of Angels and Saint Joseph’s in Who is your favorite pope? them. Fort Wayne. What are your hobbies? What is the best part of being Catholic? My favorite pope is Pius XII. When Pius XI died and Eugenio How do you prefer to be addressed? My hobbies are skiing in the What are your favorite reading materi- I think the best part of being winter and enjoying my horses in Pacelli became Pius XII, I was I preferred to be called either als? Catholic is to see clearly the just a young boy, and my mother the summer. These two hobbies beauty of truth and the wonders Father Larry of just father. have much in common. I enjoy As a child I spent my free time explained all about what a pope is Family and lifelong friends often playing in the woods, swimming of the world God created and to and what be does. I just followed them most in the West — know that each day is new and just call me Larry. 18 TODAY’S CATHOLIC SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

LADY INDIANS HEAD TO STATE PREP GOLF FINALS Saint Joseph’s High School girls golf team will make it to the Indiana state finals for the second year in a row after finishing second in the IHSAA regional in LaPorte. The Lady Indians finished with a team total of 361, just two strokes behind Twin Lakes with 359. The top medalist honors were captured by Saint Joseph’s Anne Ormson who carded a 75 in the 12-team regional. Marian High school finished eighth among the 12 teams with a score of 380. Sports — EJD With two weeks left in the season, Mishawaka Saints, Panthers two CYO teams remain unbeaten overpower ICCL football foes Cross snared its third win of the BY ELMER J. DANCH season, and St. Anthony chalked BY MICHELLE CASTLEMAN up its second straight as both SOUTH BEND — Mishawaka teams literally tied for first place. Catholic’s Saints and the St. FORT WAYNE — With the end Holy Cross swamped Anthony Panthers football teams of season tournament just two Mishawaka Catholic, 42-0. simply overpowered their foes games away, Catholic Youth Patrick O’Connor and Anthony with a barrage of touchdowns to Organization (CYO) football Murphy each scored twice on long remain unbeaten and tied for first action is heating up this week. To runs to lead the Saints. place in the varsity division of the date, two teams remain unbeaten. St. Anthony easily defeated Inter-City Catholic League They are the St. John/Benoit/ Holy Family, 19-6. Alex Ward (ICCL). Hessen Cassel Eagles and the St. tossed a touchdown pass of 15 St. Anthony thundered over the Vincent Panthers. These two teams yards to Oliver Page. Other touch- Holy Family Trojans, 38-6, with will go head to head in the final downs were added by Brian Vince Camiti and Kevin season match up Sunday, Oct. 7. Mischler and Alex Clark. McFadden each romping for Face-offs Sunday, Sept. 23, Tyler Beck scored for the losers touchdowns. McFadden tallied on were played at both Bishop Luers’ on a 2-yard plunge. rushes of 4 and 12 yards, and field and the University of Saint St. Matthew’s Blazers waltzed Campiti scored on a 54-yard aerial Francis. The first game at Saint over the Granger Titans, 20-0. MICHELLE CASTLEMAN from Nick Carmola and later on a Francis featured a match-up Dominique Sanders scored on St. John Fort Wayne battles St. John New Haven in a football game 10-yard smash through center. between the Holy Cross Crusaders runs 37 yards and 8 yards. Sanders Collin Hickey also added a and the St. Charles Cardinals. played Sept. 23 at the University of Saint Francis. Fort Wayne outscored also tossed a 50-yard touchdown touchdown and Kameron Smith With a 6-0 lead at the half, the New Haven 40-14. pass to Tyran Ottbridge, who also added four conversions. Cardinals hung on to claim the 12- kicked an extra point. Holy Family tallied on a 36- 8 victory. Zach Crabtree earned Curry “started the party” with a Raider touchdowns came from yard aerial from Zach Fozo to player-of-the-game honors chalk- 60-yard scamper and later scored Colin Stuerzenberger and Adam Boys varsity football standings Blake Palicki. ing up 186 yards for the Cardinals on a 10-yard run. Causey put the McCarthy. Jeffrey Heaton kicked Team W L Mishawaka Catholic’s Michael on 18 carries. The eighth-grade icing on the cake taking it to the both extra points. St. Anthony/ Whitfield cut loose for three tailback scored two touchdowns. house late in the game on two dif- At Bishop Luers, St. Vincent St. Joe Panthers 2 0 touchdown scampers on 25, 40 The Cardinals improve to 3-2. ferent 70 yarders. Brian Nichter standout Evan Feichter provided Mishawaka and 21 yards. The Saints’ defense In the “Battle of the St. Johns,” converted on two of his point after the opening kick off back 75 yards Catholic Saints 2 0 was exceptionally stout, keeping Fort Wayne outscored New Haven tries for the now 5-0 Eagles. for a touchdown against the Royal St. Matthew Blazers 1 1 their foes outside the 20-yard 40-14. The Eagles got a pair of Eagle coach Jim Carroll said, Red of Precious Blood/Queen of Holy Cross/Christ marker. touchdowns each from three of “The game was fought hard by Angels/St. Mary’s Avilla. On their the King Crusaders 1 2 The accurate Coley Schultheis their speedsters: J.J. Curry, Jocquel both teams.” The Raiders never let first play from scrimmage, Panther Holy Family Trojans 0 3 added the extra points. Cooper and Devon Causey. J.J. up and executed some big plays. quarterback, Luke Tippmann hit Corpus Christi Cougars 0 0 In the B-team division, Holy Feichter on a 42-yard pass play. Nick German added the extra- ST. THERESE CHURCH point, making it 14-0 at the end of the first quarter. Fullback Blake Noll scored a ICCL soccer resumes weekend play second quarter Panther touchdown on a two-yard run. And in the third SOUTH BEND — After a week- St. Anthony beat Holy Cross, quarter, German was busy catching end off from play to accommodate 6-0, in a game where Kit Foster PARISHPAR a 52-yard pass from Tippmann and the regional confirmation schedule and Ruth Liddell both had two adding another extra point. The at the University of Notre Dame goals each. Claire Griffith and final score was 28-6 marking St. on Sept. 16, Inter-City Catholic Therese Taylor scored one goal Vincent’s fifth win of the season. League (ICCL) soccer returned to each. Abbey Matthys and Taylor MISSION Next up was the high scoring weekend action Sept. 23. combined for the shutout. shootout between the St. Jude In the boys varsity division, St. Corpus Christi beat Mishawaka Eagles and the St. Joe/St. Thomas defeated Corpus Christi, Catholic, 6-0. Emma Flesh and Celebrating Years Elizabeth/St. Aloysius/St. Therese 5-2, with Joe Santerre scoring two Jordan Wawrzyniak combined for (JAT) Knights. To start things off, goals for St. Thomas. Noah Strati, the shutout. of faith-filled, faith-guided life. eighth grader, Andrew Yaney Bobby Norell and Ben Mauser returned the opening kick off 80 added one each for St. Thomas. Boys varsity soccer standings yards for a JAT touchdown. Turk and Bellagonte each had a Team W L Beginning at all Masses on Sept. 29/30 Logan Dorman came through goal for Corpus Christi. St. Joseph (South Bend) 8 3 0 for the JAT offense with four rush- Christ the King defeated St. St. Thomas 3 0 & each evening Oct. 1 - 4, 7:00 pm ing touchdowns in the 30-24 win Joseph, South Bend, 7, 4-1. Christ the King 3 0 over the Eagles. Delaney and Scoring for the Kings were Chris St. Jude 2 1 SPEAKER – Ecclestone hooked up for six Agostino with two goals and St. Matthew 0 2 points on several occasions in the Bailey Sexton and Joe Concannon Mishawaka Catholic 0 2 Fr. Dismas Bonner, OFM St. Jude loss. with one goal each. Corpus Christi 0 3 Due to the regional confirma- St. Joseph (South Bend) 8 beat St. Joseph (South Bend) 7 0 3 TOPICS – tion for many of the eighth grade St. Jude, 3-1. St. Joseph/Holy players this Sunday, all games will Cross goals were scored by Kevin Girls varsity soccer standings " Celebrating 60 Years of Faith be played on Saturday. Kruszewski with an assist by Team W L Thomas J. Labuzienski, Alex St. Joseph (South Bend) 3 0 " Celebrating 60 Years of Prayer Current standings Scholtes (header) with an assist by Corpus Christi 3 0 1. St. John FW 5-0 Patrick Bruneel and Nick Barlow Christ the King 3 0 " Celebrating 60 Years of Reconciliation 2. St. Vincent 5-0 with an assist by Kevin St. Anthony 2 1 3. St. Charles 3-2 Kruszewski. Tyler Olkowski St. Matthew 2 1 " Celebrating 60 Years of Eucharist 4. St. John NH 3-2 scored for St. Jude. Mishawaka Catholic 1 2 5. St. J-A-T 2-3 In girls varsity, Christ the King Holy Family 1 2 Babysitting service will be available in the parish hall. 6. Q of A/PB 1-4 beat St. Thomas, 8-1; St. Joseph, Holy Cross 0 3 7. St. Jude 0-5 South Bend defeated St. Matthew, St. Thomas 0 3 2304 Lower Huntington Road • Fort Wayne 8. Holy Cross 0-5 5-2; and St. Jude defeated Holy St. Jude 0 3 Family, 5-1. SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 TODAY’ S CATHOLIC 19 REST IN PEACE Fort Wayne Alice M.Snyder, 95, Alice B.Munroe, 86, Elmer H.Macke, 77, St.Therese St.Michael HAT S APPENING St.Vincent de Paul W ’ H ? Rita H.Marshall, 90, South Bend Rita F.Somers, 89, St.Therese Helen H.Niezgodski, WHAT’S HAPPENING carries announcements about upcoming events in the diocese. Send in your St.John the Baptist 94, St.Matthew Garrett Cathedral announcement at least two weeks prior to the event. Mail to: Today’s Catholic, P.O. Box 11169, JoAnn Ybarra, 58, Bernard R.Brennan, 96, Fort Wayne 46856; or e-mail: [email protected]. Events that require an admission charge St.Patrick St.Joseph John W.Pluta, 71, Christ the King or payment to participate will receive one free listing. For additional listings of that event, please Marciano Samin Goshen call our advertising sales staff at (260) 456-2824 to purchase space. Magno, 83, Sue Ann Whitehead, Frances L.Lewallen, 83, St.Vincent de Paul 76, St.John the St.Anthony de Padua Evangelist FUNDRAISERS Rummage and bake sale Black Forest cake and German Suzanna Young, 48, Harry A.Plencner, 98, Silent and live auction Fort Wayne — Most Precious beer, purchased separately. St.Vincent de Paul Mishawaka St.Adalbert Blood Parish Rosary Society will Tickets are $6 for all over 10 Josephone Lentine, 81, Waterloo — St. Michael the Hilary Van have a rummage and bake sale years of age. Polka music, face Catherine A.Baron, 93, St.Monica Archangel’s youth group will Overberghe, 64, have an auction on Sunday, Oct. Oct. 4-6 in Mohr Hall. Times are painting and fun from 4:30-7:30 Saint Anne Home 7. The silent auction, concession Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. p.m. Pierceton Holy Family to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 9 James A.Hurst Jr., 85, Maurice J.Howe, 86, stand and bake sale begin at Cathedral of the Dolores B.Krzyzaniak, 11:30 a.m. in the parish hall. The a.m. to 1 p.m. A craft show will Haunted Castle returns St.Francis Xavier Immaculate 83, Holy Cross live auction on selected items also be held Saturday, Nov. 3. Fort Wayne — The Haunted will begin at 1:30 p.m. Crafters call (260) 422-8766. Castle will be open in October Conception Plymouth on Thursdays from 7-9 p.m. and Helen M.Haines, 80, Holiday bazaar planned Knights plan fish fry on Fridays and Saturdays from St.Michael Mishawaka — St. Joseph Church South Bend — The Knights of 7-11:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 or $14. Sponsored by the St. adult choir will sponsor a holiday Columbus Council 5521, 61533 especially families with difficul- Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 6:30 p.m. Vincent Boy Scouts. Visit bazaar on Saturday, Oct. 27, S. Ironwood Dr., will have a fish ties. Father Adam Schmitt from in Gunderson Auditorium. Doors www.hauntedcastle.com for from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the fry on Friday, Oct. 5, from 5-7 St. Joseph Parish and Sister Mary open at 6 p.m. Refreshments and information. school on the corner of Third and p.m. Adults $7, children (5-12) Ann Fox will attend. The first healthy snacks provided. Free Spring streets. Over 82 tables of $3. Chicken strips for $7 and Monday all family rosary for the admission. Non-perishable food craft and household items, bake shrimp for $8 will be available. DEVOTIONS souls in purgatory will be held item donations accepted. sale and raffles will be available. World Apostolate of Fatima sponsors Monday, Oct. 8 in MacDougal Bring a canned or boxed food Clothing sale commemorative service Chapel at 7 p.m. Annual garage sale planned item and receive one free entry in Bristol — St. Mary Parish, 411 New Haven — A procession, Fort Wayne — St. Peter Church, the “mini raffle” for each item W. Vistula St., will have a cloth- rosary and Mass to celebrate the Widows of prayer meet for Mass 500 E. DeWald St., will have a donated. ing sale on Friday, Oct. 5, and 90th anniversary of Fatima will Fort Wayne — All Catholic wid- garage sale Sept. 27 and 28 from 9 Saturday, Oct. 6, from 9 a.m. to begin at noon, Oct. 13, at St. ows are invited to attend Mass on a.m. to 4 p.m. On Sept. 29 the bag 2 p.m. Dinner, dance and auction held John Church, 943 Powers St. All Sunday, Oct. 14, at 2 p.m. at sale will be from 9 a.m. to noon. South Bend — Corpus Christi are encouraged to come and pray Most Preciouus Blood Church. A Bratfest planned by friends of St. will host a dinner, dance and auc- for peace. For information con- brief introduction and refresh- CRAFT SHOWS tion with an ‘80s theme. Catered Patrick tact (260) 432-5113 Ext.336. ments will follow. Craft bazaar offers tables to rent dinner, drinks and music will be Wabash — Friends of St. Fort Wayne — A craft bazaar will served Saturday, Sept. 29, at 7 Patrick, an ecumenical group MISC. HAPPENINGS be held at St. Joseph Hessen p.m. Tickets are $25 per person. aspiring to restore St. Patrick Family rosaries planned Fort Wayne — The first Sunday Homecoming event planned Cassel Parish Saturday, Nov. 10. Reserve a table of 10 and receive Church in Lagro will have South Bend — St. Adalbert For table rental information call two free drink tickets per person. Bratfest on Saturday, Oct. 13, at all family rosary will be recited from 3:30-4:30 p.m. on Sunday, School will have a homecoming (260) 639-3281. For information call (574) 271- the Knights Hall in Wabash. event on Sunday, Oct. 28. If you 9794. Menu includes brats, warm pota- Oct. 7, in MacDougal Chapel. The intention is for all families, attended St. Adalbert School con- Holiday bazaar at Queen of Angels to salad, German chocolate cake, tact the parish office at (574) 288- Fort Wayne — A holiday bazaar 5708 or e-mail stadalbertweb@ will be held at Queen of Angels comcast.net Parish, 1600 W. State Blvd., Saturday, Nov. 10, from 9 a.m. to Tom Mungovan Living Healthier series sponsored by 2 p.m. For table rental information University of Saint Francis call (260) 484-2035. Funeral Home Fort Wayne — The Living Healthier series will offer “Shed Craft fair reservations accepted has served the some sunlight on Women’s Heart Fort Wayne — St. Charles Parish Health” with Sue Chubinski, will have a craft fair Saturday, Nov. Catholic community in the PhDc, RN, Cheryl Erickson, MA, 3. Handmade items only. Call (260) Fort Wayne area since 1943. and Carol Gruelich, MSN, on 749-6077 for information. That tradition continues and we are pleased to announce that Kathy Fox has joined our firm. 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ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS 1857 2007 SESQUICENTENNIAL BY MARK WEBER THE DIOCESE OF FORT WAYNE-SOUTH BEND St. Augustine, South Bend, Est. 1928 he beginnings of St. Augustine Parish can be compared to a leaky boat carrying a small Tgroup of starving refugees unwelcome in any port. In 1928, Holy Cross Father George O’Connor became aware of eight African-American families struggling to remain steadfast in the Catholic faith. The doors to Christ in the Catholic parishes in South Bend did not open wide to these black Catholics. Father O’Connor had worked as a missionary among blacks in Louisiana, saw the South Bend sit- uation as intolerable personally and was determined linens were ruined. A second location at 1238 W. to correct it. Washington, a former tavern, became the only Help came first from Holy Cross Father William option for the nomadic members of St. Augustine. Lennartz, pastor of St. Joseph Church on the east Providentially, fortunes improved here; the side of South Bend, who offered the recreation hall Kamm’s brewery provided the location rent free, of his parish as a place where these eight families and the O’Brien Paint Company sent one of its own could meet. decorators and paint to prepare the interior of the Even in the midst of the Great Depression, the church. small mission grew in membership to a total of 60 Volunteers from St. Matthew Parish stripped old members by 1937, most of whom lived on South wallpaper, a solid oak altar from a chapel in Bend’s west side and faced a long walk to St. Michigan appeared, and gradually the former gin Joseph’s on the east side. It was obvious that they mill became the house of the Lord. needed a church in their own neighborhood. On Sunday, June 15, 1941, Bishop Noll dedicat- A vacant ed the new St. Augustine’s church at 1501 West storefront at Washington where it now stands as a vibrant parish 1228 W. financially stable, with a multiracial membership Washington described as strongly black with its main outreach a became a dis- soup kitchen that serves hundreds three days a astrous failure week. on its first Today, St. Augustine’s, founded for the unwel- Sunday when a come, welcomes all. the roof leaked A tapestry in St. Augustine so badly that sanctuary shows the black Savior the borrowed and the Stations of the Cross. altar and all MARK WEBER

Sacred Heart, Notre Dame, Est. 1842 wo men whose bones have long since turned Catholics to dust, Father Stephen Badin and Leopold in the TPokagon, chief of the Potawatomi Indians region, lived lives in the American wilderness that shaped which the destiny of Sacred Heart Parish and the eventually University of Notre Dame. became Badin, born in Orleans, France, arrived in Sacred America as a seminarian and became the first Heart Catholic priest ordained in this country. He was 25 Parish. years old and allowed to come to America on the Father condition that he would serve as a missionary in the Sorin’s valley of the Ouabache (Wabash). It was Badin who first serv- eventually acquired the land that became Notre ices were in the famous log cabin, and since that Dame, calling it Sainte Marie des Lacs. time, Sacred Heart has been a common place of Chief Pokagon, baptized at 55, had such a love worship for its parishioners, the university and the of the faith that he influenced other Indians to Congregation of Holy Cross. become converts and motivated Badin to press on in In the early days, Sacred Heart’s outreach went his missionary efforts. 100 miles beyond Notre Dame in northern Indiana By 1842 and southwestern Michigan with all marriages and when Father baptisms recorded back at Notre Dame. Edward This practice gradually diminished as outlying Sorin arrived parishes were established. in northern Today, Sacred Heart parishioners attend services Indiana, the in a basement chapel which is stark and severe in Potawatomi appearance in contrast to the majestic furnishings in had been the basilica above. forced to Sacred Heart Notre Dame is unique in that it move and the owns no land, buildings or even the church it is in. handful of It has never had a school or the usual parish soci- Catholics eties. there rarely It was not until 1970 that a parish council was saw a priest. formed and a director of religious education was Sorin hired. reestablished Now, 200 years after Blackrobes said Mass near MARK WEBER a mission to Indian campfires, Sacred Heart serves nearly 1,000 provide pas- families at a famous location known round the The tabernacle in the crypt chapel of Sacred Heart Parish. toral care for world.