Gulf Pine Catholic VOLUME 32 / NUMBER 6 www.gulfpinecatholic.com NOVEMBER 21, 2014 Bishops OK liturgy items, endorse sainthood cause, hold elections BY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE Consecrated Life and Vocations, gave a presentation on the newly revised “Guidelines for Receiving BALTIMORE (CNS) -- Though there were no Pastoral Ministers in the United States.” actions on the U.S. bishops’ agenda in Baltimore deal- As the number of priests and pastoral ministers ing with immigration, poverty and other public policy from other countries increases in the United States, he issues, the president of their conference said Nov. 11 said the resource -- now in its third edition -- provides that he hopes to meet with President Barack Obama information for dioceses, eparchies and religious com- and House and Senate leaders soon on several topics. munities to prepare international ministers for their In a brief comment during the annual fall general service and help the communities that receive them. assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle, USCCB Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, secretary and chairman of the Committee on Priorities said he had heard from many of his brother bishops and Plans, told the bishops that a myriad of activities about those issues and hopes conferring with the poli- revolving around four key goals of the USCCB is an ticians will supplement the work that committees and indication that “the conference planning process is USCCB staff are doing. working quite well.” Bishops celebrate Mass Nov. 10 at the Basilica of the National He told Catholic News Service that he intends to The current four goals, or priorities, are faith for- Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in pursue a meeting with the president and congressional mation and sacramental practice; strengthening mar- Baltimore. The Mass, marking the 225th anniversary of the leaders as soon as December. riage and family life; the life and dignity of the human Baltimore Archdiocese, was celebrated during the annual In other action on the second public day of the Nov. person; and religious liberty. fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic 10-13 meeting, the bishops: The bishops also heard a report on the work of Bishops. CNS photo/Bob Roller -- Approved several liturgical items, including a various committees -- pro-life, domestic justice, inter- revised translation of the ritual book used whenever a Wattson, co-founder of the Society of the Atonement in national justice, evangelization and religious liberty -- new church is built or when a new altar is made; the first 1899, and in his day a leading advocate of Christian which together are trying to pinpoint what Catholics in official English translation of the ritual book “Exorcisms unity. the pew are thinking and why they accept or disregard and Related Supplications”; and a supplement to the -- Approved a 2015 budget of just under $189.5 mil- church teaching. Liturgy of the Hours that is an English translation of the lion. They also voted on a 3 percent increase in the dioc- The compilation of vast data is being assembled for prayers used for the feast days of saints who have been esan assessment for 2016, but the vote fell short of the bishops to read and also will be relayed in series of work- added to the general calendar since 1984. required two-thirds majority of the 197 bishops required shops. One of the major findings from the study -- that -- Voted to proceed with a revision of a section of the to approve it. Eligible members absent from the Baltimore Catholics want to find out more about their faith -- has Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health meeting will be canvassed to determine the final vote. prompted plans for a 2017 convocation in Orlando, Care Services dealing with partnerships. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Raleigh, North Florida, the week of July 4. -- Endorsed the sainthood cause of Father Paul Carolina, chairman of the Committee on Clergy, SEE BISHOPS-ROUNDUP, PAGE 14 Pope Francis confirms he will visit Philadelphia in September
BY FRANCIS X. ROCCA “I would like to confirm that, God willing, in Service the announcement was “a surprise in the sense Catholic News Service September 2015 I will go to Philadelphia for the eighth that it was announced so early; you know usually they World Meeting of Families,” the pope said. don’t make these announcements -- four months out is VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis said he The announcement had been widely expected, since the typical and here we are 10 months away, and the would attend the World Meeting of Families in Pope Benedict XVI had said before his retirement that he Holy Father said he is coming to Philadelphia.” Philadelphia in September, making it the first confirmed hoped to attend the Philadelphia event. Popes typically “The Holy Father has said that he’s going to be com- stop on what is expected to be a more extensive papal fulfill their predecessors’ publicly known travel plans, as ing to Philadelphia for quite a few months,” he told visit to North America. Pope Francis did in July 2013 when he attended World Catholic News Service. “He’s been telling me that per- The pope made the announcement Nov. 17 in a Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro. sonally, but for him to announce it officially that he is speech opening an interreligious conference on tradi- Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, who was coming so early is really quite an unusual thing, so it’s tional marriage. in Rome for the families meeting, told Catholic News SEE POPE-PHILADELPHIA , PAGE 14 2 Diocesan Briefs
ran communities struggling for an end to Refreshments will be served in the Free Thanksgiving Dinner Nativity 2014 violence in this Central American neigh- parish hall each evening following the BAY ST. LOUIS -- The 29th annual Advent Concert Series bor of the U.S., where drug trafficking mission service. Free Thanksgiving Dinner will be from and lawlessness create a very dangerous BILOXI -- Nativity BVM Cathedral, environment for children and families. 11 am to 2 pm Nov. 27 at the American 870 Howard Avenue, is sponsoring an Legion Hall, 645 Green Meadow Road. Father Jeremy grew up in Sacred Heart Journal to the Self
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• The sit-down, restaurant-style dinner is Parish, and currently serves as parochial Full Day Workshop Dates and performances are as fol- vicar at Holy Name of Jesus, a Jesuit open to all communities and includes COVINGTON, LA. -- A day of per- lows: Parish on the campus of Loyola Univer- turkey and all the trimmings, desserts, sonal reflection and therapeutic writing Friday, Dec. 5, 7 pm -- The Messiah sity, New Orleans. door prizes, and live music. Take out din- Saturday, Dec. 6, 4 pm -- A Gos- to jump-start your New Year with be held ners are also available. Deliveries will pel Mass featuring the St. Peter Gospel Saturday, January 17, 2015, 8:30 am-4 also be made to the homebound only in Choir of New Orleans. Bishop Roger Cookies with Santa pm, Northshore Pastoral Center, Coving- Bay St. Louis, Diamondhead, Waveland Morin will be the celebrant. ton, La. Learn 10 journaling techniques and Hancock County. The homebound Sunday, Dec. 7, 2 pm -- Long Beach HATTIESBURG -- The Krewe of St. that can improve your mental, physical,
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Calendar LEST WE FORGET ... FORGET WE LEST Bishop Morin’s Bishop Morin’s Mass, St. Paul Chapel, Pass Christian, Mass, Christ the King Feast Day Mission, Latimer, Celebration, 9 am Foundation Meeting, 3 pm Banquet, Mass & Bishop’s of Chancery Conference Officials, Tribunal and New Orleans and Mobile Baton Rouge, Conferences, 6 pm Mass, Nativity BVM Vigil Claver Cathedral, St. Peter 4 pm Choir, Meeting, New Bishops’ Orleans Lady of Our Lady of Fatima Mass, Our Parish, Biloxi, 7 pm Lady of Guadalupe Our Mass, Immaculate Conception Parish, Laurel, 4 pm The facility for for The facility Dec. 6 Dec. 11-12 Dec. 12 Nov. 23 Nov. Dec. 2 Dec. 3 Dec. 14 Nov. 22 Nov. expressing apprecia expressing in tion is a blessing of moment A itself. is a grateful prayer grace-filled occasion again are we because gifted with an aware- ness of our God, infi- nitely loving and boundlessly merciful, gift. who is the source of every good When we remember to express thanks, gifts that on freely-given we reflect us to share our gifts with others. enable be a we can are blessed so that We 4 Religious liberty ‘continues Redefinition of marriage to be great concern,’ poses ‘complex challenges,’ Archbishop Lori says says archbishop November 21, 2014 November
• BALTIMORE (CNS) -- The ongoing work of the U.S. bishops to defend religious BALTIMORE (CNS) -- The U.S. bishops gathered in Baltimore for their annual freedom will take a slightly different tone in upcoming years, said its committee fall general assembly were urged not to “shy away” from the Catholic Church’s chairman. Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the Ad Hoc support of traditional marriage even as laws across the country are legalizing same- Committee for Religious Liberty, told the bishops the committee -- extended for sex marriage. “The challenges to religious liberty with regard to the redefinition of another three years -- planned to focus more on teaching and expanding networks marriage grow daily,” said Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco, with Catholic lay groups and interfaith and ecumenical partners. He said the chairman of the Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, in a Nov. committee would provide a “clearinghouse function” providing resources as 10 report to the bishops. He said that for several years, the bishops’ subcommittee religious liberty issues arise. The archbishop noted that new committee members has “sought to defend marriage’s unique meaning, while also calling attention to the
Gulf Pine Catholic would include “fewer lawyers” and more experts in the communications field to help real negative consequences and anticipated threats that marriage redefinition poses get the bishops’ message across. It also would include bishops from relevant to religious liberty and freedom of conscience.” The archbishop urged his fellow committees. One of the committee’ hallmarks has been the annual Fortnight for bishops to continue their work on the issue, taking to heart the words and example Freedom, a 14-day campaign of prayer and special events focusing on religious of Pope Francis to advance a “culture of encounter, accompaniment and witness.” He liberty issues. The 2015 fortnight will emphasize the 50th anniversary of the Second said the recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upholding Vatican Council document on religious liberty, “Dignitatis Humanae.” Archbishop traditional marriage laws in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee was a Lori said it will provide a “great opportunity to teach about religious liberty and “significant win for marriage” and will likely bring the issue to the Supreme Court. evangelize about it. Stay tuned for details,” he told the bishops, adding that the campaign also will be linked to works of charity and service to people in need.
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If we have died (to selfishness we will also rise with him. by a accompanied with our Lord Jesus Christ the King, of myriad of angels, seated on a throne and a multitude quickly as a shepherd separates As people approaching. in the herd goats from intermingling the cantankerous On this last Sunday of our On this last Sunday places, skydiving, etc., are fine but etc., skydiving, places, a has listed anyone I wonder if a way in lives their live to goal in eternity of spending worthy with God. For Christian’s, heaven top of the at this goal should be our list. year the Church has Liturgical readings that focus on selected final things -- once again of greatest as the love highlighting is told to prophesy gifts. Ezekiel all the displeasure against God’s shepherds (leaders) of the people who have abused their divinely (34:1- responsibilities appointed Love, consolation, healing and hope mark the the mark and hope healing consolation, Love, A search of the words, “Bucket List” pulls up a site pulls up List” words, “Bucket of the search A i Deacon Torrell Commentaries Sunday Scripture Our Lord Jesus Christ the King Jesus Christ Our Lord attributes of our first reading. 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Matthew’s (1 Corinthians who belong to him scene of sheep and goats has well known last judgment King of Kings, the glorified Jesus, Lord of Lords and on the throne of taking his rightful place of judgment love is who enters and who does not -- deciding heaven, (Matthew 25:31-46). determinate the final 6 Exploded into being by divine love I’ve long been fascinated by cosmology, although second. The and genetics that are often stuck in the intellectual my deficiencies as a mathematician preclude my really “The ingredients of what would Catholic quicksand of ill-informed, knee-jerk atheism, while the following the arguments of astrophysicists, high-energy become our entire observable hard sciences are bumping up against boundaries particle physicists and others exploring the origins of universe were packed inside that Difference beyond which their methodology can’t take them -- the universe. Yet the fascination remains and it was marble …” boundaries that may define the meeting ground between kindled anew by a May 12 article in the Boston Globe Literally mind-boggling, to be scientists and theologians. November 21, 2014 November
• Magazine about Alan Guth, a key figure in current sure, but a good moment to If Alan Guth’s work is empirically verified, a large explorations of what happened in the Big Bang, the remember that the Big Bang theory question will remain -- a question that takes Guth’s orthodox explanation for How Things Started. of the origins of the universe was science to just such a boundary: Where did that Take a deep breath and try this key passage from the the brain-child of a Catholic priest, primordial something, that “patch of material packed article: Georges Henri Joseph Èdouard with … repulsive gravity” that contained “the “Using the theories of Einstein and others, Guth Lemaître, a Belgian Jesuit. When ingredients of what would become our entire observable points out that at extremely high energies, there are Lemaître began his work, the universe,” come from? It defies all logic to suggest that forms of matter that upend everything we learned about “steady-state” model of the universe something can come from nothing; yet science cannot Weigel gravity in high school. Rather than being the ultimate dominated cosmology; after the get us “behind” that something from which everything Gulf Pine Catholic force of attraction that Newton and his falling apple work of Lemaître and others, the steady-state model came. taught us, gravity in this case is an incredibly potent was supplanted by the notion of an expanding universe Thus a new -- in truth, old -- conversation opens up. force of repulsion. And that repulsive gravity was the that began with the Big Bang -- or what Father Lemaître NASA scientist Robert Jastrow saw it coming 20-some fuel that powered the Big Bang. called, a bit more primly, the “hypothesis of the years ago when he wrote that the scientist “has scaled “The universe is roughly 13.8 billion years old, and primeval atom” or the “Cosmic Egg.” As I understand the mountain of ignorance, he is about to conquer the it began from a patch of material packed with this it, Alan Guth’s work, and that of others exploring the highest peak; and when he pulls himself over the final repulsive gravity. The patch was ... tiny -- one first micro-seconds of what people of biblical faith rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have 100-billionth the size of a single proton. But the know as Creation, builds on Lemaître’s insights. been sitting there for centuries.” And what have those repulsive gravity was like a magic wand, doubling the The new cosmology makes possible a new dialogue Christian theologians been pondering? patch in size every tenth of a trillionth or a trillionth of between physics and theology, or, more broadly, That what science calls the Big Bang was love a second. And it waved its doubling power over the between science and religion. In the early days of what exploding out of the life of the Trinity. patch about 100 times in a row, until it got to the size of we know as modern science, the hard sciences -- [a] marble. And that happened within a hundredth of a physics, chemistry, astronomy -- were thought to be George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of billionth of a trillionth of a second. As a point of (and often thought themselves) the enemies of revelation the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, comparison, the smallest fraction of time that the and biblical religion. In the early 21st century, that’s D.C. average human being can detect is about one-tenth of a changed. It’s the life sciences, like evolutionary biology John Henry Newman at the Synod on the Family
The controversies surrounding nation. It is assuredly not the case, for example, that the mate development (which makes the doctrine in ques- Word on the recent Extraordinary Synod on doctrine of the Trinity was delivered fully-grown into tion more fully itself) and a corruption (which under- Fire the Family have often put me in the minds of the first disciples of Jesus and then passed mines the doctrine). Newman presents seven in total, mind of John Henry Cardinal New- on like a football across the ages. On the contrary, it but I should like to examine just three. man, the greatest Catholic church- took hundreds of years for the seed of that teaching to The first is what he calls preservation of type. A man of the 19th century. Newman grow into the mighty tree of Augustine’s formulations valid development preserves the essential form and wrote eloquently on an extraordi- in the De Trinitate or Aquinas’s complex treatise in the structure of what came before. If that type is under- nary range of topics, including uni- first part of the Summa Theologiae. Moreover, Newman mined, we are dealing with a corruption. Mind you, versity education, the play between felt that even those definitive theological achievements type can be maintained even through enormous super- faith and reason, the nature of papal in turn develop and unfold as they are mused over, ficial changes, as, to use Newman’s own example, “a authority, and the subtle manner in turned around, questioned, and argued about. He con- butterfly is a development of the caterpillar but not in which we come to assent in mat- cludes: “a real idea is equivalent to the sum total of its any sense its image.” And by the same token, superfi- Fr. Barron ters of religion. But the arguments possible aspects.” And those aspects appear only in the cialities can remain largely unchanged even as the type around the Synod compel us to look at Newman’s work course of time and through the play of the lively minds utterly morphs, as happened, say, in the transition from regarding the evolution of doctrine. that consider them. It is precisely in this context that the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire. When he was at mid-career and in the process of con- Newman penned the most famous line of On the Devel- A second criterion is what Newman refers to as verting from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, New- opment of Christian Doctrine: “In a higher world it is “conservative action upon its past.” An evolution that man penned a masterpiece entitled On the Development otherwise; but here below, to live is to change and to be simply reverses or contradicts what came before it is of Christian Doctrine. In line with the evolutionary perfect is to have changed often.” Ideas change because necessarily a corruption and not a development. In theories that were just emerging at that time -- Hegel’s they are living things. Newman’s own words, an authentic development “is an work was dominant in most European universities and I realize that many, upon considering this view, will addition that illustrates, not obscures; corroborates, not Darwin’s On the Origin of Species would appear just a get nervous -- as did many in Newman’s day. Does this corrects the body of thought from which it proceeds.” few years later -- Newman argued that Christian doc- mean that doctrine is up for grabs? Should we keep our In accord with this idea, Christianity could be seen as trines are not given once for all and simply passed down dogmatic statements, as one cynical wag once put it, in the development of Judaism, since it preserves the es- unchanged from generation to generation. Rather, like loose-leaf binders? To get some clarity on this point, sential teachings and practices of that faith, even as it seeds that unfold into plants or rivers that deepen and I would recommend that we delve a little further into moves beyond them. Cardinal George Pell alluded to broaden over time, they develop, their various aspects Newman’s great book and examine the criteria that he this principle when he said, during the recent Synod and implications emerging in the course of lively rumi- laid out to determine the difference between a legiti- SEE FATHER BARRON, PAGE 8 7 Gulf Pine Catholic • November 21, 2014 ------and Walk-in Tubs Walk-in discount discount. $100 1979
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Make checks ($10 per directory) payable to: Gulf Pine Catholic Catholic Diocese Catholic That afternoon, we got a reprieve from Mother Nature as thunder, lightning and downpours Nature as thunder, That afternoon, we got a reprieve from Mother one of the many confessionals countries, either populated That evening, priests from different Two great Catholic sacraments continued to be celebrated -- one in the morning and the other great Catholic sacraments continued to be celebrated -- one in the morning and the Two and old -- rambled around, filled with their own Between such bookends, people -- young Fr. Tracey Fr. No. of directories ordered ______Amount enclosed______ordered No. of directories CITY______STATE______ZIP______CITY______STATE______ADDRESS ______NAME ______Mail coupon & check to: Gulf Pine Catholic, 1790 Popps Ferry Rd., Biloxi, MS 39532 Following Mass, we received a briefing and schedule for the same as well as some pointers on how on pointers some well as same as the for received a briefing and schedule Following Mass, we place. to approach our week in this busy but prayerful hoped it wasn’t We to follow -- even more severe. rocked the place. Later that night, more was Not even his own way of getting our attention. But, yours truly never heard a sound. the Lord’s snoring, if he did snore. to some corner; reminding people that the heading off or grabbed two chairs and a language sign, mercy and peace to count forgiveness, the Lord’s priests were open for the business of bringing less people from different tongues and nations. Lines became shorter as the evening progressed Lines became shorter as tongues and nations. less people from different stay. routine continued every evening during our week’s This same were lifted. loads and sinner’s journey of faith. people’s in the evening, becoming the bookends of for physical healing, others for spiritual healing. thoughtful prayers and petitions. Some prayed were severed because of still festering past hurts and Some prayed for healing of relationships that Across the Pond 8 Father Barron Confession-Seal From page 6 From page 7 debates, “the Church does not do back-flips on doctrine.” So, for example, if a pro- ties in church law for violating the secret of the confessional, “the discipline of the posal were put forth at the Extraordinary Synod that simply contradicted the teach- church in this matter has remained substantially the same,” with the exception of additional protections. ing of John Paul II in Familiaris consortio or Paul VI in Humanae Vitae, it would One of those additions, the newspaper said, was a 1988 church law explicitly stat- certainly reflect a corruption. ing that using an “electronic apparatus” to record, broadcast or otherwise share the A third criterion that Newman puts forward is what he calls “the power of as- contents of a confession also is an excommunicable offense. similation.” Just as a healthy organism can take in what it can from its environment, November 21, 2014 November Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, told conference par- • even as it resists what it must, so a sane and lively idea can take to itself what is best ticipants it is important “to remove any suspicion” that the church’s commitment to in the intellectual atmosphere, even as it throws off what is noxious. Both total ac- the confessional seal “is designed to cover intrigues, plots or mysteries as people commodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sometimes naively believe or, more easily, are led to believe.” sickness. The seal, he said, is intended to protect the most intimate part of the human person, Now how does all of this apply to the Synod? Well, let’s consider the proposal “that is, to safeguard the presence of God within each man.” The effect of the secret, made by Cardinal Walter Kasper regarding communion for the divorced and re- he said, is that it also protects a person’s reputation and right to privacy. married. Is it an authentic development or a corruption of Catholic moral teaching The confessional seal, Msgr. Nykiel said, “is binding not only on the confessor, but and practice? Might I suggest that all of the disputants in that argument take a step also on the interpreter, if present, and anyone who in any way, even casually, comes
Gulf Pine Catholic back and assess the matter using Cardinal Newman’s criteria? Would Newman be to know of the sins confessed.” opposed in principle to change in this regard? Not necessarily, for he knew that The church, he said, takes the seal so seriously that it forbids, on the pain of to live is to change. Would he therefore enthusiastically embrace what Cardinal excommunication, a priest from testifying in court about what he heard in the confes- Kasper has proposed? Not necessarily, for it might represent a corruption. As the sional, “even if the penitent requests” he testify. conversation continues to unfold over the coming months, I think all sides would Not even the death of the penitent can absolve the confessor from the obligation to benefit from a careful reading of On the Development of Christian Doctrine. maintain the secret, Msgr. Nykiel said.
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BY TERRY DICKSON “They didn’t really tell us that’s what we could do but they implied it,” said Ashley. “They made November 21, 2014 November • PICAYUNE –Ashley and Phillip Tardy have it as an option, but they didn’t really go into plenty to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. details about it,” added Phillip, who quickly dis- Topping the list is their baby daughter, Alana. missed the possibility.“There’s no way.” The young couple’s first child was originally “We thought she wasn’t going to make it, but I due in January, but complications set in and doc- wasn’t going to give up,” said Ashley. “I did tors were forced to deliver Alana three months everything possible. I stayed in bed for two early. months pretty much to keep her in there as long as Ashley and Phillip, parishioners of St. Charles she stayed in there.” Gulf Pine Catholic Borromeo Parish, said their faith in God and the Through it all, the couple has trusted God and support of family, friends and coworkers has left little Alana in his hands. The support of St. helped ease their burden during this difficult time. Charles Borromeo parishioners has been phenom- It all began when some routine blood work enal. raised red flags. “They’ve been awesome with all of the prayers “My water broke really early but I didn’t know that they’ve lifted up for our family,” said Ashley. it had broken,” said Ashley. “My blood work “I know that (Father John Noone) celebrated Mass came back with elevated protein levels, which is in my classroom for all of the teachers. It was very abnormal, so my doctor transferred me to Dr. Chi nice. Everybody has constantly asked us how Dola at the Tulane Center for Women’s Health in she’s doing. Father John actually came to see her Metairie, La.” in the hospital and bless her after she was born. Dr. Dola diagnosed Ashley as having Potter’s And she was baptized right after she was born.” Syndrome, which is characterized by a lack of Alana’s condition continues to improve. amniotic fluid. “She’s almost three pounds now,” said Ashley. Ashley Tardy holds her daughter, Alana, who was born “Dr. Dola didn’t know what was going on. She “She got moved to a regular incubator on prematurely, while her husband Phillip looks on. Ashley was couldn’t see the ultrasound very clearly because diagnosed with Potter’s Syndrome, a condition characterized November 11. They’re gradually weaning her off there was no fluid in there,” said Ashley. “So she by a lack of amniotic fluid. the oxygen and she is breathing some on her own, did an amnioinfusion on me, where they injected just not completely.” fluid into my uterus so she could see what was “She was born two pounds, two ounces,” added “We can hold her anytime we want,” said going on. An hour after I got home, all of the water Phillip. Phillip. “It’s amazing. It really is. It’s a good feeling. that she had injected into me came out.” “Actually, they had to resuscitate her when she I can’t wait to have her home. You hate to go there to Ashley called Dr. Dola, who immediately ascer- was born. They had to do CPR on her,” said Ashley. see and then leave her, but she’s got the best care she tained that Ashley’s water had broken. “She put me on “They didn’t think she was going to make it so they can possibly get. I love holding her. It makes it feel home bed rest,” Ashley said. wheeled me in. They wanted me to have a chance to real, like it’s worth it, all the struggles and everything Shortly after being diagnosed with Potter’s, Ashley touch her before she died. So I thought that was it. I we’ve been through.” Googled it. thought she was going to die. Twenty minutes later, Ashley and Phillip hope to have Alana home by “I Google everything,” she said. “But everything they came back and said she was stable. “ her original due date of Jan. 3. Fortunately, both sets online about Potter’s is negative. Most babies that The lack of amniotic fluid prevented Alana’s lungs of Alana’s grandparents live nearby and can offer have this lack of fluid either are stillborn, miscarried from growing. “Her lungs are really underdeveloped, assistance. or die shortly after birth. We were very discouraged at so she’s currently on oxygen,” said Ashley. For the time being, the couple said they’re going to first because of everything we were reading. I had to Phillip and Ashley visit Alana practically every focus their attention on Alana and hold off on having stop reading. They never put the positive stuff. It’s day after Phillip gets off from his job as an operator additional children. always the negative.” for Nicholson Water and Sewer. Ashley is currently on They thank all who have prayed for their family, While she was on bed rest, things suddenly took a family leave from her job as a kindergarten teacher at both friends and strangers alike. Ashley also expressed turn for the worse. St. Charles Borromeo School, but plans to return to her gratitude to her colleagues at St. Charles Borromeo “I was on home bed rest for a month and then I had the classroom on a part-time basis in a few weeks. School for their unwavering support. heavy bleeding and was rushed to Highland Emergency The couple said that although the doctors aren’t “It’s been a source of strength knowing that we’ve Room. So they admitted me for the night and the next certain when Ashley’s water broke, they’re shocked got so many people behind us,” Ashley said. “I think day they transferred me to Tulane, and I stayed there that Alana survived after being deprived of amniotic our faith has grown a lot too.” for a month.” fluid for so long. “There have been a lot of long nights of question- The doctors didn’t want to deliver Alana until 34 The couple said their faith has been a tremendous ing and asking, ‘Why us?’ and ‘What did we do to weeks but, at the time, Ashley was only going on 28 source of strength and that with God all things are deserve it?’” Phillip added. “But, after all of this, it’s weeks. “They did an emergency C-section because possible. They never considered terminating the preg- brought me a lot closer to God. I know that.” her heart rate dropped,” Ashley said. nancy. Gulf Pine Catholic November 21, 2014 11 • - - Hayley said the store will special order items when Hayley said the store will special order use, maybe 30 or 40 vendors we about have “We statues of spe- Popular items are bibles, candles and Christmas of the all put out to ready getting “I’m and wide to Hayley said people come from far not just Catholics,” not just parishioners and it’s “It’s mem who aren’t of people a good number “I have Hayley said he enjoys coming to work each day. to work each Hayley said he enjoys coming to work,” he said. place “It is a job but what a great just day and it’s all “I’m surrounded by this stuff possible. and, if we stuff, half a dozen of them for most of the of the orders all special we make have something, don’t he said. time,” popular. is especially saints -- St. Michael cific start unloading it in “I’ll probably said Hayley. stuff,” thing for commu the next few days. I’ll do the same nion and confirmation.” out the store. check he said. bers of the Church but come here because they know also get We gifts. certain to get it and they come about well as people churches as people from other Catholic and New Orleans.” from Slidell job and what better retiree a great very satisfying. It’s to work than for the Church.” place Catholic gifts galore gifts Catholic be can and more at Little found & Bookstore Angels Gift Shop Scapulars, rosaries, religious medals -- they can all Scapulars, rosaries, religious medals of CDs (including variety also a wide There’s featuring section, Hispanic has a also store The we’re here just a mission of the parish and “We’re do make We to make profit. attempt don’t “We Communion gifts, confirmation gifts, wedding gifts -- gifts, wedding gifts gifts, confirmation Communion terms of religious you can think of in anything almost Hayley said. items,” and Church-related Shop. Angel Bookstore & Gift be found in the Little Catholic contemporary and traditional Chant, Gregorian movies and Catholic (including music) and DVD’s documentaries. other and cards books, prayer prayer bibles, Hispanic items. reasonable a at for people gifts Catholic provide to said Hayley. price,” more of a mission-type thing.” some but it’s The store offers a little bit of everything, including books, baptismal gifts and crucifixes. The store The Little Angel Bookstore & Gift Shop is open Gift & Bookstore Angel Little The over 20 years, The store has been in business for in 2009. the manager Rick Hayley became he and time the was pastor at Snyder Mike “Father and we have about 15 “I’m the only paid employee The store is chocked full of books on a wide range first gifts, baptismal crucifixes, statues, have “We PICAYUNE -- With the Christmas holidays fast the Christmas With -- PICAYUNE Monday-through Friday from 9 am to 4 pm and after all after and 4 pm to 9 am from Friday Monday-through weekend Masses. the during basis part-time doors on a its opened having of Father John Noone. pastorate a Hayley, said ministry,” full-time a be to it wanted he so that his retirement banker who expedited Metairie the store. could manage weekend Masses.” the who work after or 20 volunteers spirituality, saints, books about including subjects, of and the liturgy, Mary, the family, healing, purgatory, just to name a few. Church teaching approaching, shoppers looking for distinctively for distinctively looking shoppers approaching, would find ones loved and friends give to gifts Catholic to Picayune and visit it well worth their while to travel Bookstore Angel Little Parish’s Borromeo St. Charles & Gift Shop. Story and photos DICKSON TERRY BY Rick Hayley, manager of the St. Charles Borromeo Parish’s Little Angels Little Parish’s of the St. Charles Borromeo manager Rick Hayley, which is open on Monday- in the store, and Gift Shop, is pictured Bookstore Masses. the weekend 9 am to 4 pm and after Friday from 12 SSC alumnus presents Internet safety for families
BY ANNA SHARP file sharing programs such as Limewire, designed so anyone can share from anyone’s computer. These are BAY ST. LOUIS -- On October 30, Saint located on a decentralized service system, usually hav- Stanislaus College, welcomed alumnus Chris Wilkinson ing a base of 90% adults and 10% children, with to speak to parents, teachers and children about Internet 60-80% of the adults being hands-on offenders.
November 21, 2014 November safety. Chris Wilkinson graduated from SSC in 1978 2. Sextortion/Cyber Bullying: this act happens • and now works for the Pensacola Police Department as typically among many teenagers but in recent years has a forensics expert in the Cyber Crimes unit. been targeted primarily among children ages 7-11. A The evening edition of his presentation was strictly prime example Wilkinson uses is that of Amanda Todd, for parents and faculty. The content shown throughout bullied teenager who unfortunately took her own life at the presentation was much more graphic than what the the young age of 15. “Amanda Todd’s story is still on high school students were presented. The presentation YouTube,” he said. “I will show you parts of the video began with a prayer given by principal Patrick McGrath so you’ll get the idea.” Everyone should see her video. praying that the adults attending may learn the tools 1. Adult Pornography: this is the most likely act to Gulf Pine Catholic necessary to protect the children in the community, say- happen to a child; 100% likely to happen to a child. ing, “We are all here to find out more about how we can This industry starts hurting our children at a very young protect our children.” age and begins to de-sensitize them, causing them to be Wilkinson began his presentation explaining how susceptible to predators and unknowingly lured in by he utilizes the different social mediums to attempt to criminals. U.S. porn revenue exceeds the combined find criminals seeking to harm children. He has multi- revenues of ABC, CBS and NBC ($6.2 billion); child ple Facebook profiles, ranging from being a beautiful, pornography getting $3 billion/year. teenage girl to a handsome young man. In his years of All of these points are difficult topics to discuss communicating through these profiles, he has never with anyone, let alone children, but it is up to the par- been turned down when sending friend requests to chil- ents and administrators to fight on the forefront of bat- dren and adults. tling Internet predators. Children are a gift from God The main focus around the presentation was, “Five and Blessed Pope John Paul II put it best when he said, points to consider from least likely to most likely to Chris Wilkinson spoke to parents, teachers and chil- “There is no dignity when the human dimension is occur,” number five being least likely to occur and dren at St. Stanislaus Collage, Bay St. Louis, about eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with number one being most likely to occur to children in Internet safety. Chris graduated from SSC in 1978 pornography is not that it shows too much of the per- the community. The following are the points and notes and now works for the Pensacola Police Department son, but that it shows far too little.” to accompany them: as a forensics expert in the Cyber Crimes unit. Administrators and parents, helping fight this issue 5. Predator (Stranger): least likely to happen, usu- is simple: keep lines of communication open, limit ally experienced through smartphone applications such child and can sometimes even be a family member. exposure to smartphones to ages 16 and older, get as Vine, KIK messenger, Instagram and Craigslist. “Listen to your children…it might even be your best involved in the child’s cyber life, monitor behavior on Wilkinson’s major note on this was, “If your child has friend,” Wilkinson said, explaining trusted predators. It your computer and phones and control your network; the app KIK on their smartphone, delete it now.” Not is important not to brush off your child and what they turn phones off at a certain time at night and children’s only is this app dangerous for children, its servers are may be trying to tell you because they need to know phones to be charged overnight in their parents’ bed- based out of Canada which cannot be regulated by they can trust you as a parent. rooms. Two websites that can assist you in protecting American administrators. 3. Child Pornography: happens frequently through- your children are www.netsmartz.org and www.enough. 4. Trusted Predator: more likely to happen and usu- out the Internet community and is usually accom- org. Visit these sites for more information. ally a close friend or family member. These predators plished through Peer-to-Peer Networking. Many are often people who spend a lot of time around your instances of this have happened through peer-to-peer Vatican public restrooms to include showers for the homeless BY CINDY WOODEN will give them something to eat, but finding a place to ers was scheduled to begin Nov. 17. The archbishop Catholic News Service wash is much more difficult. said the three shower stalls would be located in the Barbara, a Polish woman who lives in a tent with public restrooms a few steps north of Bernini’s VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The archbishop who her teenage son and a companion, said showers in the Colonnade, just behind the Vatican post office. distributes charity on behalf of Pope Francis has Vatican’s public restrooms “would be good. We’d thank The archbishop told Vatican Insider that in early announced that the public restrooms in St. Peter’s them if it works.” October he was talking to a homeless man near the Square will include showers where the homeless can Her companion, who calls himself Stefano, said: Vatican and discovered it was the man’s 50th birthday. wash. “I’m a mason without work. I’ll help them build it. No He invited the man to a restaurant for dinner, but the The service will require volunteers and donations of problem.” man declined, saying a restaurant would not let him in soap, towels and clean underwear, Archbishop Konrad The news site Vatican Insider first reported the because of his odor. Krajewski, the papal almoner, told Catholic News news that Archbishop Krajewski had asked the office Sitting on the steps of the Vatican press office Nov. Service Nov. 13. “We have to be evangelical, but intel- governing Vatican City State to include showers in an 13, Barbara and Stefano were discussing the plans with ligent, too.” already-approved project to remodel the public rest- a small group of Polish friends -- and expressing some Several people living on the streets of Rome or in rooms in St. Peter’s Square. doubts about it to reporters. tents say it is not difficult to find a parish or charity that The remodeling work and installation of the show- SEE VATICAN-SHOWERS, PAGE 18 Gulf Pine Catholic • November 21, 2014 13 SEE BISHOPS-SCHOOLS, PAGE 14 SEE BISHOPS-SCHOOLS, PAGE appenings iocesan “Welcoming more children from diverse popula- diverse from children more “Welcoming Members of Knights and Ladies of Peter Claver, Claver, of Knights and Ladies of Peter Members and Court #25, celebrated Council Flower Little Day on Founder’s Claver Knights of Peter Mother Our Mass at 10:30 am at the 9 November Chuong Cao, CSsR, with Fr. Church Sorrows of Grand Knight Michael are: Pictured presiding. Chuong Fr. Smith, Johnnie Lady Grand Griffin, Robert Watson, Leon Duffy, Cao, Gerald Carl Payne, Franklin Parker, Fleeton, Jr., Smith, Benard Rosado, Linda Staten, Hurley Shaw, Carolyn Judy Polk, Mamie Hardy, Ann Jackson, Rainey, White, Myrna Cynthia Wilkerson, Lois Bolton, Kathryn Duffy, Beverly and Clara Watson. Knights and Ladies of Peter Knights and Ladies of Peter Council Little Flower Claver, and Court #25 D H engagement and achievement with 99 percent of stu- with and achievement engagement of high school and 87 percent from dents graduating colleges. He added four-year these graduates attending Assessment of Educational to the National that according who students African-American and Progress, Latino to graduate are more likely school a Catholic attend college. from high school and making schools and particularly tions in our Catholic is communities, to reach out to underserved an effort our of and schools Catholic of future the for important out said Bishop Flores. He also said reaching church,” with is in keeping in diverse communities to families exhortation his apostolic in Francis of Pope call the of the Gospel”). Gaudium” (“The Joy “Evangelii Encouraging such families “must be a priority of “must be a priority families Encouraging such tuition their schools, despite Catholic said He also part of is a key communities The outreach to Latino out that he pointed bishops, In his remarks to the The win was highlighted by the team’s three relay three team’s by the win was highlighted The hardware the home took also Relay 200 Free The down to the third place came for overall The contest Left, Our Lady Academy alumnae who attended a Lady Left, Our Crain, Amelia Nina l-r, Day Luncheon are: Career Assurance Coordinator; Katherine 1999, Quality Missy Therapist; Lewis 2003, Physical Milner Vicky 1990, Marketing Liaison; and Altese, Breath Attorney. McDonald Chamberlain, 1997, shared career highlights and challenges that they expe- The rienced working in male dominated professions. stu- is to encourage luncheon purpose of this annual education own personal their set and explore to dents goals. and career bishops, superintendents, pastors and principals,” said principals,” and pastors bishops, superintendents, out to reach his brother bishops Bishop Flores, urging or and neighborhood at gatherings families to Latino church functions. pay, to unable for those affordable made be costs, can or -- in states where they either through scholarships or vouchers. tax credits -- tuition are available said Gospel, the preach to mission church’s the J. Lucas of Omaha, Nebraska, Archbishop George of the U.S. Bishops’ chairman Conference of Catholic Education. on Catholic Committee of student levels higher schools bring about Catholic Madison Bradley, Katie Ingram, Betty Clark, Mathilde Clark, Ingram, Betty Katie Madison Bradley, Newman, Grace Nancy Hollingsworth, Emily Gagnet, Cottone Geroux, Izzy Kaley Colbert, Catherine Trapani, Tupelo. to and Katy Hotard traveling third place with The 200 Medley relay took events. Colbert, Emily swimmers Katy Hotard, Catherine Hollingsworth, and Izzy Cottone. Geroux, Madison of Kaley team the with third winning Clark and Izzy Cottone. Betty Bradley, The team of Kaley last event -- the 400 Free Relay. Gagnet and Emily Mathilde Geroux, Madison Bradley, out and edged record Hollingsworth set a new OLA giving race the in fourth take to High school Cleveland victory. third place an overall the team - napshots S
chool On Tuesday, October 21, the juniors at Our Lady Tuesday, On It came down to the final event of the meet, but the “If efforts are not made to reach out to them, they are not made to reach out to them, “If efforts America, Latin from families for many He noted that
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S Academy attended a Career Day Luncheon at the Leo Academy attended by led Waveland in Center Community Jr. Seal, W. discussed the importance The alumnae alumnae. OLA career early setting, goal education, of single-gender Each guest speaker and professionalism. exploration, AquaMoons finished a strong swim season by taking strong swim season by a AquaMoons finished Swim Championships. the Mississippi State at place third with swimmers Grace Bradford, effort, It was a team BY BETSY GAGNET BETSY BY Our Lady Academy, Bay St. Louis Academy, Lady Our served populations to send their children to Catholic Catholic to children send their to populations served their 10 during were told Nov. schools, the bishops fall assembly in Baltimore. annual E. Daniel Bishop said option,” viable a it’s think won’t chairman of the Texas, Flores of Brownsville, Diversity in the Church. on Cultural Committee coun- home their in so expensive were schools Catholic schools Catholic consider even never they that tries when they come to the United States. better job of encouraging Latino families and under families Latino job of encouraging better bishops told bishops ZIMMERMANN CAROL BY Catholic News Service Encourage more Latino students to attend Catholic schools, schools, Catholic attend to students Latino more Encourage 14 war, hope is now in short supply. What is needed now retary-general of the United Nations had invited him to Bishops-Roundup is the transformation of human hearts, so that one side’s New York. From page 1 hearts is less deaf to the concerns of the other.” “Maybe the three cities together, no?” Pope Francis In considering the bishops’ ethical directives for Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman said, adding that he could also visit the shrine of Our Catholic health care, the discussion focused on whether of the Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, said Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico on the same trip -- “but to revise Part 6, “Forming New Partnerships with the committee -- extended for another three years -- it is not certain.” Health Care Organizations.” It will take into account planned to focus more on teaching and expanding net- Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokes- principles suggested by the Vatican Congregation for works with Catholic lay groups and interfaith and ecu- man, told reporters Nov. 17 that Pope Francis wanted to the Doctrine of the Faith. Once completed, the revision menical partners. He said threats to religious liberty “guarantee organizers” that he would be present at the November 21, 2014 November remain a great concern. • will be presented to the bishops for final approval. meeting in Philadelphia, “but he did not say anything Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo, New York, “The challenges to religious liberty with regard to about other possible stops or events during that trip. chairman of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family the redefinition of marriage grow daily,” said And for now I do not have anything to add in that Life and Youth, invited the bishops to a 2015 Lay Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco, regard.” chairman of the Subcommittee for the Promotion and Ecclesial Ministry Summit. The June 7, 2015, event Although few details of the papal visit have made Defense of Marriage, in his report. will mark the 10th anniversary of the bishops’ state- public, organizers for the families’ congress expect He said that for several years, the subcommittee has ment “Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord.” It will Pope Francis to arrive Sept. 25 for an afternoon public “sought to defend marriage’s unique meaning, while be held just prior to the USCCB spring general assem- visit with civic officials. also calling attention to the real negative consequences That would begin his first trip as pope to the United
Gulf Pine Catholic bly in St. Louis. and anticipated threats that marriage redefinition poses States and the second papal visit to Philadelphia in a In elections, Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of to religious liberty and freedom of conscience.” New Orleans won the secretary-elect spot. The com- generation; St. Pope John Paul II visited the city in The Archdiocese of Philadelphia formally opened 1979. The visit will mark the fourth time a sitting pon- mittee chairmen-elect are: Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan its arms to the world as Archbishop Charles J. Chaput tiff has visited the U.S. of New York, pro-life activities; Auxiliary Bishop announced that registration has officially begun for the During his visit, Pope Francis is expected to attend Christopher J. Coyne of Indianapolis, communications; World Meeting of Families next year there. the Festival of Families Sept. 26, a cultural celebration Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of San Antonio, cul- On Nov. 10, the bishops concelebrated Mass at for hundreds of thousands of people along Philadelphia’s tural diversity; Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Baltimore’s Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed main cultural boulevard, the Benjamin Franklin Detroit, doctrine; Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi of Virgin Mary to mark the 225th anniversary of the estab- Mobile, Alabama, national collections. Each will lishment of the Diocese of Baltimore, the first diocese Parkway. assume their offices next November for a three-year created for the United States. It was made an archdio- term. cese in 1808. The meeting included reports on the recently con- Archbishop Lori said in his homily that all Catholics Bishops-Schools cluded extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family; are heirs “to this precious legacy” set forth by the first From page 13 Catholic education and an outreach to Hispanic stu- nation’s first Catholic bishop -- Bishop John Carroll. Bishop Flores cited a 2014 Boston College dents in underserved communities; the progress of “Let us humbly ask for the grace to build on the study which found that the larger the number of planning for the 2015 World Meeting of Families in foundations that John Carroll set down,” Archbishop Latino parishioners, the less likely that parish com- Philadelphia; the status of the 2013-16 USCCB strate- Lori said. munity had responsibility for a school. It also gic plan, “The New Evangelization: Faith, Worship, found that Catholic schools are less available in Witness”; the 2015 Fortnight of Freedom; and the Contributing to this roundup were Patricia Zapor, areas where the Catholic population has grown the defense of marriage. Mark Pattison and Carol Zimmermann. most, mostly because of Latinos, in the South and Several bishops who participated in the synod talk- the West. ed about their experience there, and also discussed it in He said major initiatives by bishops, superin- one of three news conferences during the meeting’s Pope-Philadelphia tendents, pastors and principals to provide consis- public sessions. Cardinal Dolan said at the news con- From page 1 tent cultural competency training and financial ference that he thought reports of the synod as “con- investments have produced positive results. For frontational and divisive” conflicted with his impres- going to re-energize our efforts. There’s lot of enthusi- example, he said the percentage of Latino children sions. “The one we were at was hardly as spicy (and) asm already, but I think 90 percent of the enthusiasm’s enrolled in Catholic schools in the United States juicy,” he said. based on the fact that the Holy Father will be with us, has grown from 12.8 percent to 15 percent over the Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbish- and now that he’s said that I expect that there will be past four years. op of Washington and chairman of the Ad Hoc even a double amount of enthusiasm ... and I’m very “The needle is moving in the right direction, Subcommittee on the Church in Africa, reported on happy about that.” even if slowly,” the bishop said. continuing strong growth for the church in Africa and Catholicphilly.com reported the archbishop noted said U.S. Catholics deserve thanks and credit for their that Pope Francis has focused “on the many challenges financial support for the effort. “Some dioceses (in that families face today globally. His charisma, pres- Africa) have more catechumens than Catholics,” he ence and voice will electrify the gathering. said, adding that in some dioceses as many as 5,000 “As I’ve said many times before, I believe that the people have joined the church in a year. Such growth presence of the Holy Father will bring all of us -- rates “are somewhat like the early centuries of the Catholic and non-Catholic alike -- together in tremen- church,” he said. dously powerful, unifying and healing ways. We look Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, New Mexico, forward to Pope Francis’ arrival in Philadelphia next reported on a 12-day prayer pilgrimage for peace in the September, and we will welcome him joyfully with The staff of the Gulf Pine Holy Land in September. Eighteen bishops visited open arms and prayerful hearts.” sacred sites of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, and met In August, Pope Francis told reporters accompany- Catholic wish you and with people who helped them understand the struggles ing him on the plane back from South Korea that he your family a very Blessed of the people of each faith. “would like” to go to Philadelphia. The pope also noted “We know peace is possible,” Bishop Cantu said, that President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress Thanksgiving. “because God is our hope.” But “after another Gaza had invited him to Washington, D.C., and that the sec- Gulf Pine Catholic • November 21, 2014 15 Members of the eighth grade class of 1964 from St. from of 1964 class grade the eighth of Members Prizes were presented to those couples married the St. James Elementary School, School, Elementary St. James Gulfport as School has been selected St. James Elementary of Commerce Chamber of the Gulfport a recipient A Grant in the amount of $500. Teacher 2014 attended Chamber Gulfport the from representative Coach and presented 30 faculty meeting the October the St. Ann money to be used for Cuevas with the program The program. Playground James Perfect of age and and acquisition involves the research younger for equipment playground appropriate size students. St. John Elementary School, Biloxi Members of the eighth grade class of 1964 are: Members of the eighth grade class of 1964 are: firstTaranto,row, Jimmy Beth Ladnier Eleuterius, and Cathy Chinn Callegari; Gruich, Dronet Cheryl Guy Mike Skrmetti, Ray Premeaux, second row, Sovell Alford, Claire B. Roberts, Kathy Penn Alley Sue Boudreaux, Bertucci Virginia Eleuterius, Ferrill, and George Ziz. their celebrated School in Biloxi John's Elementary The reunion October 18. 50th anniversary on Saturday, Chuong by Fr. started with a Mass at 4 pm celebrated After the Mass, the gradu- Cao honoring the graduates. cafe- former their in guests met spouses and their ates, sharing and enjoyed an evening of reminiscing, teria to music from the day and even good food, listening hula hooping! They longest and those with the most grandchildren. has passed! again before 50 more years vowed to meet Graduates of the Sacred Heart Class of 1964 are: Heart Class of 1964 are: Graduates of the Sacred Anna Sekul Garringer, Geraldine l-r, bottom row, Bennett, Susan Beaugez Sullivan, Betty Toomer Barbara, and Stoute Satchez; Aufdemorte Orr, Rhonda Rushing Kay Davis Rosetti, Mary top row, Lawrence Teresa Hinton, Nancy Dick Rosonet, Wink Skrmetta Medley, Thompson, Marilyn Bruening, and Cunningham, Kay Seymour Peresich Sandy Roberts Ross. classmate Jim Fisackerly’s home, Reunion Dinner at Jim Fisackerly’s classmate on and Brunch on Saturday Club Yacht Biloxi the Casino. Sunday morning at the Palace 10 were seventh grader Megan Bryant 25:22 (personal Megan Bryant 10 were seventh grader 25:38 (personal Wypyski best), eighth grader Madison Kennady Hertz 25:38. Next grader best) and eighth 27:24 Samson Madeline 26:47, Bosarge Jordan were Adele Holland 27:34, Alex Necaise (personal best), 27:52 (personal 27:47 (personal best), Briann Knight Lindsay and best) (personal 28:05 Gelpi Isabelle best), November 8, the team 30:40. On Saturday, Lamier traveled to Jackson for the State Cross Country meet at Choctaw Trails. The Sacred Heart and Notre Dame Classes of 1964 celebrated their 50th Class Reunion Nov. 8-9. Reunion 50th Class Reunion Nov. their celebrated at night on Friday Meet-n-Greet consisted of a events Graduates of the Notre Dame Class of 1964 are: Class of 1964 are: Dame Graduates of the Notre Tony Bobby Schwan, Batia, Arlin l-r, bottom row, Sonny Fountain, and Rosetti, Bobby Mahoney, Daryl Domning, l-r, top row, Wambsgans; Fabian Rosetti, Gary Fisackerly, Jim Randy Randazzo, Al Higginbotham, Mike Carron, Charles Flickner, and Mike Mavar. On Nov. 1, the Crescent Cross Country team participated Cross Country team Crescent 1, the On Nov. was hosted this year which VIII Meet in the big District Ball Fields. Woolmarket by D’Iberville at the North 24 schools, represented Division Varsity In the Girls scoring, Separate by about 175 runners, ran together. category In the 3A was done for each division. however, trophy place a second were awarded Crescents OLA the and four of our runners finished in the top ten and were Theresa awarded medals and meet t-shirts. Sophomore Crowe finished sixth in 24:37. Following her in the top Sacred Heart and Notre Dame High Schools, Biloxi Heart and Notre Sacred Our Lady Academy, Bay St. Louis Academy, Lady Our 16 St. Alphonsus Elementary School, Resurrection High School, Pascagoula Ocean Springs Left, the Varsity girls team members are front row, l-r, Alexis Phelps and Karah Grady; second row, Kathleen O’Sullivan and Maggie Walden; and top row, Sarah Walden.
Resurrection School’s varsity girls November 21, 2014 November
• cross-country team finished second in the 1A division at the district meet held on November. Maggie Walden, RCS fresh- man, finished fourth; Sarah Walden, junior, finished fifth; Karah Grady, freshman, finished eighth; Alexis Phelps, freshman, finished ninth; and Kathleen O’Sulllivan, St. Alphonsus has initiated a science enrichment freshman, finished tenth.
Gulf Pine Catholic program, CSTEP (Celebrating Science Through The varsity boys team also made a Education and Play). The purpose of the program is strong showing at the meet. Jacob to have as much fun as possible while learning and Langston, freshman, finished third; Daniel exploring the world of science through experiential Blackburn, senior, finished fourth; and lessons. Teachers from different grade levels team to bring the excitement of science to life for the Dawson Hellar, freshman, finished sev- students. Students are redistributed into multi-aged enth. The middle school girls also per- study groups, both inside and outside the school formed well in the district meet. First place building. Thus far this year students have learned finisher was eighth grader Anna Margaret about the scientific method, tools of scientists, Delgado, second place finisher was eighth classifications within the animal kingdom, buoyancy grader Sarah Gail Myers, and the third and flotation. Students look forward to enrichment place finisher was eighth grader Anna periods as though they are ‟play dates” and teachers Miller. Will Hinman, RCS seventh grader, enjoy stepping out of their classrooms and working finished first place in the middle school together. The program has proven to be a big hit boys division, and Jameson Cook, seventh with all. grader, finished second.
St. Alphonsus music teacher Kathy Mangin was recently awarded one of the 2014 “Caring Women” Awards that recognize, honor, and celebrate five distinguished Mississippi Gulf Coast women. Held at the Beau Rivage, this cele- bration of women was sponsored by Biloxi Regional Medical Center, Mangin CableOne, and Lifetime Television for Women. Guest speaker, Frances Lucas, vice president of the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast Campus, was inspired by the names of the categories: “Leadership; Perseverance; Mentor; Defender, and Promise.” She stated “We dedicated women have to find our voice to speak up for those who need love and care. Our talented Mississippi women create an atmo- Left, middle school winners, l-r, Anjalee Inabinette, Braxton Hyatt, and Emma Campbell. Right, high sphere of cooperation and tolerance. I’m always telling school winners, l-r, Alexis Phelps, Zach Pierce, and Isabelle Milette. students there is no such thing as failure; it’s feedback!” Mangin won the “Mentor” award which reads: Resurrection School celebrated Red Ribbon Week Mind” pretzel packs and “Respect Your Body, Respect “Honoring one who invests herself in helping another during the final week of October. Red Ribbon Week is Your Mind, Stay Drug Free” red ribbons. The culminat- as a counselor, role model, helper, or encourager.” an alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and violence prevention ing event for the week was a Halloween costume con- Lucas said, “Women mentor most by how they live. awareness campaign observed annually in October. test. Middle school winners were first place: Braxton Most mentoring is driven by watching somebody live Each year the Key Club, under the guidance of their Hyatt; second place: Anjalee Inabinette; and third in such a way that inspires us to be more like them.” faculty sponsor Laura Thompson, organizes the RCS place: Emma Campbell. The high school costume con- Mangin was also awarded a 2014 “Apostolic Red Ribbon Week. The Key Club, a Kiwanis test winners were first place: Zach Pierce; second Blessing from His Holiness Pope Francis” for her International High School Program, is the largest and place: Isabelle Milette; and third place: Alexis Phelps. twenty-three years of dedicated service to music educa- oldest service program for high school students. The students collected donations totaling over $100 to tion at Saint Alphonsus Elementary School and music The Key Club members distributed treats through- benefit the United Way of Jackson County. ministry at Saint Alphonsus Church. out the week, including “Don’t Let Drugs Twist Your Gulf Pine Catholic • November 21, 2014 17 Cats or dogs, Cats or shown poster above. Below Abraham left, Lincoln, portrayed by third Breton grader Guice, threw his support behind cats while Scooby Doo, who was portrayed by second grader Carson Jenkins, bottom, naturally threw his support behind dogs. According to Nativity principal Sister Mary Jo Mike, principal According to Nativity As of press invalid. deemed were ballots eight OSF, would backers or not cat whether was unclear it time, still cats the good news is that The recount. a demand coun- to their lives to give service have eight remaining try. Students at Nativity BVM in Biloxi learned about Students at Nativity BVM in Biloxi votes in a mock by casting their the voting process choices? Their election to choose the best pet. - - - - - The school-wide elec school-wide The Guice, who was was who Guice, “We felt like the Cub like felt “We to them wanted “We After the morning After all of the votes involved with the Kids program, said that, Voting “if you get a body of vot- ers, they can change Biloxi.” and we’re trying to do it do to trying we’re and can they way that a in to.” relate tion was sponsored by tion was sponsored by Elementary Nativity School Cub Scout Pack 213. about Scouts should be more than the scouts just fun doing and fun having things,” said Guice. also we but fun have wanted them to learn responsibili some civic ties.” cast students assembly, their ballots and, since they kids, just they’re to show required weren’t or alter license a driver’s form of identifica native tion. dogs the tallied, were came out on top with 120 mea a to compared votes sly 34 for the cats. Fourth grader Drew Moore, who spoke out on Drew Moore, who spoke Fourth grader a blind person go helping a cat “Can you imagine in part taking enjoyed clearly students the Although United in the problem is a major apathy “Voter grader Breton Guice, threw his support behind cats grader Breton Guice, who was portrayed by second while Scooby Doo, support his threw naturally Jenkins, Carson grader behind dogs. better smell cats always out that behalf of cats, pointed neighbors wake up the cats won’t dogs and that than dog supporter barking. Meanwhile, with their incessant is in fifth grade, countered that Landon Jenkins, who and are often dogs know over 250 words and gestures disabilities. with used to assist people across the road?” he asked. lesson valuable was a there exercise, weeklong the involved. and CFO of parent Nativity Guice, Susan said States,” provides advertis- firm that a local Agency, Guice The “We’re services. relations ing, consulting and public heard be can voices their that aware kids make to trying A small portion of collection pays for this advertisement. small portion of collection pays for A CCHD, Diocese of Biloxi, 1790 Popps Ferry Rd., Biloxi, MS 39532 CCHD, Diocese of Biloxi, 1790 Popps November 22 & 23, 2013 November 22 & 23, Please give generously in your parish collection or mail donation to:
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as some of the fiercest political rivalries of all time: of all rivalries political as some of the fiercest Bush versus Nixon, Kennedy Truman, versus Dewey and cats versus dogs. versus Clinton School BVM Elementary Nativity students at elections, in order to gain a bet- of their own held a mock election works. process the election of how ter understanding critters legged between the four to stage a debate efforts of both camps stated student representatives fell flat, 4 assem- during a Nov. pet favorite case for their their came on the heels of an intense, week- The debate bly. through the many long campaign, which was evident and walls. to school doors posters affixed campaign by third portrayed Abraham Lincoln, endorsements. Story and photos DICKSON TERRY BY dogs trounce cats in Election Day landslide Day Election cats in trounce dogs Nativity students learn about voting process as as process voting about learn students Nativity 18 Book Review Book leads Holy Cross priests to deeper appreciation of order’s founder November 21, 2014 November • BY VERONICA AMBUUL On March 1, 1837, the Congregation of Holy Cross Catholic News Service was formed by merging the group of priests and broth- ers headed by then-Father Moreau. At first, the order COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CNS) -- For de- also included women religious, but they formed a sepa- This is the cover of “Basil cades, priests and brothers of the Congregation of Holy rate congregation in 1857. Moreau: Essential Writings.” Cross were like members of a family who are kept in Within a few years of the founding of Holy Cross, Blessed Basil Moreau the dark about a notorious ancestor. Blessed Basil sent members of the order to minister in founded the religious order “We lost our founder for a number of years after his other countries around the world, including the United of the Congregation of Holy Gulf Pine Catholic death, because he died estranged from the community,” States -- specifically South Bend, where one priest and Cross. CNS photo/courtesy said Holy Cross Father Drew Gawrych of the order’s six brothers began the University of Notre Dame in Diocese of Colorado Springs founder, Blessed Basil Moreau. “There was a long time 1842. when the community didn’t look back to him too much The priest was Father Edward Sorin, who was elect- or explore his writings.” ed superior general of the order after Father Moreau re- But a few years ago, Father Gawrych and Holy signed in disgrace. A Holy Cross brother had made an Cross Father Kevin Grove set out to change all that. imprudent loan that resulted in the order being saddled tion of God in all things,” Father Gawrych said. “Rather After months spent tracking down English transla- with debt. than setting out with his own plans, he started out with tions of Blessed Basil’s writings and searching through Father Moreau died in 1873. His sainthood cause a vision and desire that he believed was from God, and the order’s archives in South Bend, Indiana, the two was introduced in Le Mans in 1946 and the paperwork then let God map the way forward for him and our com- priests published their new book, “Basil Moreau: Es- was forwarded to the Vatican in 1955. In 2003, St. John munity. That was really powerful for us.” sential Writings” (Ave Maria Press), this past spring. Paul II recognized that Father Moreau had lived a life This spring, Notre Dame will offer a class on Holy The book is a compilation of sermons, spiritual exer- of heroic Christian virtue, and in April 2006 Pope Bene- Cross spirituality and “Basil Moreau: Essential Writ- cises, meditations, essays and letters written by Blessed dict XVI recognized the miracle needed for the priest’s ings” will be one of the textbooks. Basil over the course of his lifetime. Father Gawrych, beatification. Father Gawrych said he also thinks that Blessed Ba- who currently serves as parochial vicar at Sacred Heart He was beatified in Le Mans Sept. 15, 2007, the sil has a lot to offer lay Catholics who are simply look- Parish in Colorado Springs, said that it is designed to feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, the Holy Cross order’s ing to deepen their spiritual lives, especially if they are help members of the order, as well as those who work patroness. going through difficult times. in its affiliated parishes and ministries, deepen their “It’s fair to say that Moreau has been rehabilitated,” “I think it was Cardinal (Theodore E.) McCarrick knowledge of Blessed Basil’s spirituality. Father Gawrych said. “The fact that he has been beati- who said that (Blessed Basil) could be the patron saint “Most of this writing hadn’t been published yet, so fied and hopefully is on the way to being canonized is a of anyone who has ever thought they toiled in obscurity there was a lot we learned along the way,” Father Gaw- sign that not only Holy Cross but the wider church has and that their life has been a failure,” Father Gawrych rych told The Colorado Catholic Herald, newspaper of come to appreciate in a new way just how holy this man said. the Colorado Springs Diocese. “It was the first time we really was and how charismatic he was.” “His life story speaks to hope because of how he had read his sermons or spiritual exercises. It was the He said that the book is now being given to all Holy was able -- despite personal challenges and weaknesses, first time we read his meditations.” Cross novices as a way to immerse them in the order’s and despite challenges in his ministry and seeming fail- Blessed Basil was born in 1799, amid persecution of spirituality, though at more than 500 pages, the book is ure -- he was able to believe through all of that,” the the Catholic Church following the French Revolution. not a quick read. priest said. “It shows how, if we stay faithful to God He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Le Mans in Father Gawrych also said that the process of re- and do our best to see God in all things, we don’t have 1821 and became a seminary professor. In 1835, he or- searching and compiling the works of Blessed Basil the beginning of an idea of what God is actually doing ganized a group of priests, known as “auxiliary priests,” helped him and Father Grove realize that the founding with our lives.” to help with various programs in the diocese, and the of the Congregation of Holy Cross was not primarily a same year was asked by the local bishop to oversee the human endeavor but a response to divine impulses. Ambuul is assistant editor of The Colorado Catholic Brothers of St. Joseph, a recently founded group of edu- “We came to a deeper appreciation of how Moreau Herald, newspaper of the Diocese of Colorado Springs. cators. was really a man who looked for the presence and ac-
Vatican-Showers From page 12 The Rome diocesan Caritas, the Community of less women, many of the shower facilities are only for sandwiches than to run a shower service -- you need Sant’Egidio and other organizations offer shower facil- men or are open to women only a half day each week. volunteers, towels, clean underwear.” ities to the homeless in Rome, Barbara said, “but there Archbishop Krajewski told Vatican Insider that he are so many things you have to do. You have to get is visiting parishes in areas where homeless people there at 4 in the morning to sign in. Then only 15 peo- gather and is encouraging them to install public show- To include your parish and school events and activity ple get in each day.” ers if they have not already. His office will help fund information in “Diocesan Briefs”, email that information In addition, she said, because the number of home- the building, he said. to: [email protected]. less men is so much greater than the number of home- “It is not simple,” he said. “It is easier to prepare Gulf Pine Catholic • November 21, 2014 19 - in a phone Father Wattson “really did reach out to people of “really did reach Wattson Father reconciliation his emphasis on Christian think “I Father ministry, their about suspicions Despite unity devoted to Christian The Lamp, a magazine perspective a theological married Wattson Father to wanted much very Wattson Father hand, On one Near also co-founded the Catholic Wattson Father Church annual the started Wattson In 1903, Father wanted Christians to understand Wattson Father branches of the soci- and women’s Both the men’s a label that took several years for them to overcome. them years for took several that a label it was not popular,” at a time when other denominations of general minister is who Conboy, Nancy Sister said Atonement. Sisters of the the Franciscan is so in this day in age when there and ecumenism for helping catalyst real a be could so division much in what we have about we talk to say we can people common,” she told Catholic News Service in early November. interview new on took projects Lurana’s Mother and Wattson impetus. wider much for a monthly mission, was published and - organi an Lost, Union-That-Nothing-Be The audience. and more grew larger zation which aided missionaries, Inn, an expression of the St. Christopher’s enthusiastic. to Franciscan commitment Atonement’s Society of the thousands of homeless, to receive ideals, continued with hospitality providing them year, needy men each in the spirit of St. Francis. Gardiner. Jim Father said things,” practical “very with 54 than more for Atonement of the Friar Franciscan A Franciscan the at projects oversees special years, he Monastery in Washington. Anglican the see the “reunion of Rome and Canterbury,” he time same the and at said, Gardiner Father Church, Inn, empha cared for wayfarers with St. Christopher’s sized the role of prayer and “took the Gospel very seri- ously.” - other things orga and among Association, Welfare East Maria Hour” on the “Ave Graymoor Press and nized radio. of Prayer for Week -- now known as the Unity Octave of feast It is observed from Jan. 18, the Unity. Christian feast of the in Rome, to Jan. 25, the Chair St. Peter’s Conversion of St. Paul. not and for churches goal realistic as a unity Christian The Society for the some pie-in-the-sky dream. Atonement now publishes a monthly journal called speeches and docu - , which collects Trends Ecumenical figures interreligious and ecumenists by written ments worldwide. the Age and Jazz to grow through the continued ety Great Depression. Mother Lurana died in 1935, and in 1940. Wattson Father CNS photo/courtesy Society of the Society CNS photo/courtesy In October 1909, they and a few companions were At first, they were as unpopular within the Catholic Father Paul Wattson, who co-founded the Society of Wattson, Paul Father in an is pictured N.Y., Atonement in Graymoor, the endorsed 11 The U.S. bishops Nov. undated photo. the sainthood cause of the onetime Episcopal than a more priest who joined the Catholic Church century ago along with the members of the Society cause his The bishops’ support for Atonement. of the general annual fall on the second day of their came assembly in Baltimore. the Episcopal Church’s convention to permit other permit to convention Church’s Episcopal the pulpits with preachers to speak at Episcopal Christian how much Seeing bishop. local the of approval the than to Anglicans were to Catholics more closely linked and Wattson other Christian denominations, Rev. Church the Episcopal to leave Mother Lurana decide themselves. Catholics and become is believed It Church. Catholic Roman the into received Reformation the of days the since time first the be to had community religious entire of an members the than rather on a corporate, Roman Catholics become a was ordained Wattson Father basis. individual priest in 1910. Catholic Church. Church as they had been in the Episcopal thought them to be “secret Protestants,” Many Catholics Atonement, Graymoor
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Two years ago, the U.S. ago, the years Two (CNS) -- WASHINGTON of another cause bishops endorsed the the This year, 11, on a voice vote Nov. Support for his cause came priest the Episcopal Wattson, Thomas Born Lewis her con- at not content though, was White, Lurana through their correspon- White, and Wattson Rev. the to according would live members The society’s Warwick, was back home in who by this time White, cause con- as their early on to take They decided to a head following a 1907 decision at Things came
bishops endorsed the sainthood cause of Dorothy Day, of Dorothy Day, sainthood cause the bishops endorsed a became later but Episcopalian who was born an move- Worker of the Catholic and co-founder Catholic today. flourishes still that ment who was Wattson, former Episcopalian: Father Paul and a Catholic but became priest Anglican an ordained for Christian of Prayer Week the includes whose legacy January. observed each Unity, general fall annual the second day of the bishops’ assembly in Baltimore. of spring the in Nebraska, Omaha, in ministry was in an in novice a from letter a received when he 1897 York. New Albany, convent in Episcopal in find- her frustration she expressed letter, In the vent. publicly members whose community religious a ing professed the vow and lived according to the of poverty such no of knew Wattson Rev. tradition. Franciscan his vision of White but he responded to community, of his own. community a religious establishing When dream. shared a similar they concluded dence, they finally met face to face in October 1898, they with separate Atonement, of the the Society established Friars of Franciscan the and for women: orders for men of the Sisters Franciscan and the Atonement the Atonement. pro- the charism its as have and tradition, Franciscan unity and mission. of Christian motion a society the for base home a as suggested York, New secluded spot in present-day Garrison, New relatively Before the Graymoor. called some people that York, into an old farmhouse had settled White winter set in, on the land; there also happened to be a small chapel on Rev. St.-John’s-in-the-Wilderness. the property called on shack painted old an in lived part, for his Wattson, of Lady Poverty.” the “Palace the land, which he called This Church. to join the Catholic vincing Episcopalians Anglicans and Episcopalians the with well too sit not did name religious the who took Wattson, Rev. knew. they drying donations and him to closed found pulpits Paul, and later Lurana -- now known as Sister White up. her sisters with fellow her take -- would Lurana Mother City to beg at subway turnstiles. York to New BY MARK PATTISON MARK BY Catholic News Service Society Society Atonement of Bishops endorse sainthood cause of founder of of founder of cause sainthood endorse Bishops 20 Bay St. Louis man receives lost service medals during Veterans Day ceremony
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November 21, 2014 November BY TERRY DICKSON his businesses in the late 60’s to work for • the New York State Department of BAY ST. LOUIS -- This Veteran’s Mental Health as a barber. His wife, also Day took on added significance for a beautician worked with him at the decorated World War II Navy veteran same facility. They both retired from the Andrew S. Mazerat, Jr., who received mental health facility, Wassaic replicas of the service medals he lost Developmental, in 1989 in order to during Hurricane Katrina. return to his home town of Bay Saint Mazerat received his medals during Louis. Upon his return he was very Gulf Pine Catholic a special Veteran’s Day program at active in his church, Saint Rose de Lima, Dunbar Village organized by Notre serving as head usher for many years. Dame Hospice, a ministry of the He took care of his mother until her Archdiocese of New Orleans that also death and was very loving and caring to serves parts of Mississippi. his sisters, both widowed, until they Mazerat was born December 1, passed away. His beloved wife Odessa 1919, in New Orleans, La. He was passed away after a lengthy illness soon raised in Bay Saint Louis with his two after Hurricane Katrina. As the family sisters, Helen and Margaret. He gradu- Patriarch, he has stressed to the younger ated from St. Rose de Lima School. He generation the importance of supporting joined the U.S. Navy on August 22, family. 1940. He married Odessa Smith on May A beaming Mazerat was delighted to 1, 1945, in New York City. He was hon- receive his new medals. orably discharged from the Navy in “I wasn’t sure I was gonna get them,” 1946. said Mazerat, who also received a Naval- During his stint in the Navy, Mazerat themed blanket from the Dunbar Village served on seven naval vessels, including staff. the USS West Virginia, USS Jet, USS “This is a good day.” Quincy, USS Benson, USS Charles F. Mazerat’s son, Thomas, echoed those Hughes and USS Grayson. sentiments. He earned the American Defense “He’s wanted them for such a long Service Medal, American Air Campaign time. He’s mentioned to me that he has Medal, the European-African-Middle wanted to leave that to me as part of his Eastern Campaign Medal (with two legacy,” said Thomas. Bronze Stars) Asiatic-Pacific Campaign “We had difficulty trying to get them. Medal, and the World War II Victory My cousin helped and (Notre Dame Medal. Andrew S. Mazerat, Jr. of Bay St. Louis receives replicas of the Hospice Chaplain Jim Kirkendall) Mazerat and his wife lived in the service medals he lost during Hurricane Katrina from Col. Randolph helped and we finally got them. It means Bronx in New York where his first son, Bourgeois (Ret.), during a Veterans Day ceremony at Dunbar Village. the world to me because it’s part of his- Thomas was born in 1948. Andrew stud- tory. It’s something that you can’t get ied to become a barber and later a beautician in Harlem salon in the late 50’s and by the early 60’s he had two except by having someone go through that experience.” New York. His second son, Marcel, was born in 1955 at salons. During this time he had several celebrity cus- Jamaica Hospital in New York. He opened his own hair tomers such as Lena Horne. He taught cosmetology in
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