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Serving the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend October 16, 2016 In MY Diocese TTODAYODAY’’SS CCATHOLICATHOLIC Volume 90 No. 34 50¢ TODAYSCATHOLICNEWS.org DeKalb County Beauty, quality of education Aid slowly makes its way to thousands and a welcoming spirit of Haitians displaced by hurricane Pages 12-14 BY DENNIS SADOWSKI Fort Wayne Red Mass WASHINGTON (CNS) — Message: Faith and reason Emergency aid slowly began to should coexist reach some of the thousands of Haitians displaced by Hurricane Page 2 Matthew in the country’s pictur- esque southwest, as reports of casualties slowly trickled in from communities cut off by the storm. The number of deaths reached Confirmation rally 842 on Oct. 7, two days after the storm’s 145-mile-an-hour winds Eighth graders prepare and torrential rains slammed into for the sacrament the country, according to a tally by Reuters based on conversa- Page 4 tions with local officials. However, Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency reported that 271 people had died. The agen- cy’s accounting of casualties is Catholic Schools lower because of a policy to count System-wide accreditation only the bodies that emergency workers can actually see. received Reports of damage and casu- alties in Cuba and other nations Page 5 affected by the storm were spo- radic. Cuba’s easternmost region experienced widespread damage. There were no details on casual- ties available. Our Lady of Fatima Emergency supplies that Previewing the 100th-year had been stored in warehouses before the storm were being dis- anniversary tributed to people whose homes were turned into matchsticks Page 10 by Matthew, said Chris Bessey, Haiti country director for Catholic Relief Services. CNS photo/Carlos Garcia Rawlins People walk past damaged buildings Oct. 9 after Hurricane Matthew swept through Port-a-Piment, Haiti. HAITI, page 3 Mission Sunday Learning the meaning Pope announces 17 new cardinals, of ‘mission’ in Africa including three from U.S. Page 20 BY CINDY WOODEN ed into the College of Cardinals Nov. 19, the eve of the close of the Year of Mercy. The next day, Nov. 20, they will join Pope Francis VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis will conclude and other cardinals in celebrating the feast of Christ the Year of Mercy by creating 17 new cardinals, the King and closing the Year of Mercy, the pope including three from the United States: Archbishop said. Blase J. Cupich of Chicago; Bishop Kevin J. Farrell, Shortly after the pope’s announcement, prefect of the new Vatican office for laity, fam- Archbishop Tobin tweeted: “I am shocked beyond ily and life; and Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin of words by the decision of the Holy Father. Please Indianapolis. pray for me.” Announcing the names of the new cardinals Oct. The first of the new cardinals announced by the 9, Pope Francis said, “Their coming from 11 nations pope was Archbishop Mario Zenari, who, the pope expresses the universality of the church that pro- explained, “will remain apostolic nuncio to the claims and witnesses the good news of God’s mercy beloved and martyred Syria.” Living the Year of Mercy in every corner of the earth.” The last of the cardinals he named was Albanian Bury the Dead The new cardinals — 13 of whom are under the Father Ernest Simoni, an priest of the Archdiocese age of 80 and therefore eligible to vote in a conclave of Shkodre-Pult, who will turn 88 Oct. 18. He had Page 7 to elect a new pope, and four over 80 being honored for their “clear Christian witness” — will be induct- CARDINALS, page 3 www.myyearofmercy.org 2 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC October 16, 2016 TODAY’S CATHOLIC Official newspaper of the Red Mass celebrated with Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend P.O. Box 11169 Fort Wayne, IN 46856 focus relevant to elections PUBLISHER: Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades BY RACHEL BATDORFF Editorial Department PUBLICATIONS MANAGER: Jodi Marlin he Monday, Oct. 3, Red Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate PAGE DESIGNER: Francie Hogan Conception, Fort Wayne, was celebrated BRAND SPECIALIST: Molly Gettinger T with specific reflection on the life and mes- SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER: Emily Mae Schmid sage of St. Thomas More, patron saint of AD GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: Mark Weber politicians, statesmen and lawyers. Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, Mass celebrant, Business Department spoke during his homily about St. Thomas More and referenced the nation’s upcoming BUSINESS MANAGER: Stephanie A. Patka elections. Also in attendance was special BOOKKEEPING/CIRCULATION: guest Glenn Tebbe, executive director of the [email protected] Indiana Catholic Conference. The Red Mass included readings from Advertising Sales Deuteronomy, 2 Corinthians and Matthew, Tess Steffen as well as sacred music from the Cathedral of [email protected] the Immaculate Conception Choir. During the homily, Bishop Rhoades (260) 399-1457 remarked extensively on the example set by the life of St. Thomas More. Web site: www.todayscatholicnews.org “The first thing I propose from the example of Saint Thomas More is keeping Photos by Rachel Batdorff your priorities straight, in proper order,” he Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades and Father Jacob Runyon, both in red, begin the celebration of the diocese’s Published weekly except second said. “This is the order: God first, family and annual Fort Wayne-area Red Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Sunday of January; and every other friendship second, profession third.” week from the third Sunday in The life and martyrdom death of St. June through the second Sunday Thomas More can only be understood of September; and last Sunday in through the priority he gave God. “He put December by the Diocese of Fort God before Caesar, his conscience before Wayne-South Bend, 1103 S. Calhoun the state, and ethics before politics,” Bishop St., P.O. Box 390, Fort Wayne, IN 46801. Rhoades said. Putting his faith first eventu- Periodicals postage paid at Fort Wayne, ally cost him his life. St. Thomas More loved IN, and additional mailing office. his family deeply, but could not accept their pleas to save his life by signing the Oath of POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Supremacy and accepting Henry VIII’s claim Today’s Catholic, P.O. Box 11169, Fort to be head of the Church of England. Wayne, IN 46856-1169 or email: Faith without works is dead, the bishop [email protected]. went on to say. MAIN OFFICE: 915 S. Clinton St., Fort “To be living, faith must not be limited to Wayne, IN 46802. Telephone (260) one hour of church on Sunday. If it is real, it 456-2824. Fax: (260) 744-1473. is lived, put into practice, in our whole life, in BUREAU OFFICE: 1328 Dragoon Trail, relation to our family, our work, our politics, Mishawaka, IN 46544. Telephone (260) our economics.” 456-2824. Fax (260) 744-1473. The topic of separating one’s faith from one’s actions — specifically politics — was News deadline is the Monday morning presented as well. before publication date. Advertising “For a politician to say that he or she is deadline is nine days before publica- personally opposed to an evil, like abortion tion date. or euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide, and then cooperate with the evil with the Today’s Catholic may be reached at : excuse of not imposing one’s morality on Today’s Catholic, others, is not only a weakness in courage, it Father Runyon reads from the Gospel of Matthew during the Red Mass on Oct. 3. P.O. Box 11169, Fort Wayne, IN is a betrayal of conscience, a denial of truth, 46856-1169; or email: and an acquiescence to a false notion of free- Bishop Rhoades then discussed the state remained detached from that wealth,” the [email protected] dom.” Doing so is the exact opposite of what of the situation faced by the United States Bishop remarked of the saint. “He would St. Thomas More lived and died for. “One and other Western nations: Reason is often invite the poor into his home to eat at his (ISSN 0891-1533) becomes a counter witness to the Gospel,” truncated, and science and technology are table. He set up a special house to care for (USPS 403630) Bishop Rhoades added. “To be heedless to exalted without any moral constraints, he the age and infirm in the neighborhood.” human dignity is to be headless of God the noted. As referenced in Thomas More’s book, Creator, no matter how one seeks to justify “When the mind is closed to God, when Utopia, the bishop quoted: “For if you suffer it.” faith is excluded from public discourse, the your people to be ill-educated, and their man- St. Thomas More was a servant of the existence of objective standards of morality ners to be corrupted from their infancy, and truth and a man of authentic faith and right is often denied. God is seen as irrelevant to then punish them for their crimes to which reason. Faith and reason cannot be sepa- public life,” he commented. their first education disposed them, what else rated, Bishop Rhoades said. Without God, society becomes disoriented. is to be conclude from this, but that you first “Some worry about the dangers of reli- Society redefines marriage and escapes into make thieves and then punish them.” Find us on Facebook gion, the danger of bringing faith into things such as drugs and pornography, The Mass concluded with an invitation to www.facebook.com/diocesefwsb politics.” He went on to acknowledge the robbed of real greatness. pray and learn from St. Thomas More. dangers of religious fanaticism and added Bishop Rhoades referenced Pope Benedict “Pope Francis revealed some time ago that Follow us on Twitter that by reason, such faith is a distortion of XVI’s statement, “If there is not objective he prays to Saint Thomas More every day,” @diocesefwsb the true face of God.