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MARY WE PRAYERS FOR VOCATIONS CROWN THEE WITH BLOSSOMS TODAY Primary school children from across Glasgow took centre stage as the feast of Our Lady of Fatima was celebrated at the city’s St Andrew’s Cathedral on Monday. This year’s feast day GALLOWAY DIOCESE Mass had extra significance given that the newly elected told that the ‘status quo leader of the , is no longer an option’ Francis, consecrated his Papacy to Our Lady of Fatima as numbers decrease this week. Pupils from Glasgow’s St Helen’s Primary Page 3 School are pictured leading the procession, carrying a statue of Our Lady, into the cathedral. Full report, page 5 PIC: PAUL McSHERRY Pope Canonises first I 800 among those Canonised I Holy Father says Christians still face persecution today By Ian Dunn kisses the relics of St Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala, also known as ‘Madre Lupita,’ the Mexican co-founder of ANDREA KEARNEY FUND POPE Francis has created more the Handmaids of St Margaret Mary Alacoque than 800 new saints at the largest and the Poor, during her Canonisation Mass mass Canonisation in history. at the Vatican on Sunday During the Canonisations at St Peter’s Square on Sunday May 12—Pope Benedict XVI in 2007 as being ‘killed Francis’ first—the Holy Father said the out of hatred for their Faith.’ Their martyrdoms of the vast majority of the Canonisations were announced during new saints should remind us all that his resignation earlier this year. Christians are still being persecuted all During the service on Sunday, Pope over the world. Francis also Canonised St Laura Mon- toya, the first born in Colombia, New saints who spread the Faith to indigenous The majority of the new saints Canon- Colombians; and St Maria Guadalupe ised on Sunday were 800 laymen from Garcia Zavala, known as Mother the southern Italian port town of Lupita, who helped set up the Congre- who were slain in the 15th century by rooted in the love of God that has been refused to convert to . More than gation of the Handmaids of St Margaret an invading Muslim army after they poured into our hearts through the Holy 800 resisted, locking themselves up in Mary Alacoque and the Poor. refused to convert to Islam. Spirit. Let us ask God to sustain those the town’s cathedral. Their ringleader, Shining example During the service, Pope Francis also many Christians who, in these times and local tailor Antonio Primaldo, was first FIFTH GALA EVENING Canonised St , the first in many parts of the world, right now, to be beheaded. According to local leg- Pope Francis said that all the saints saint born in Colombia, and Mexico’s still suffer violence, and give them the end, his headless body remained stand- Canonised offered a ‘shining example’ next month to help St Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala. courage and fidelity to respond to evil ing until the last of his fellow to all Christians and demonstrated the mothers diagnosed At the Canonisations, Pope Francis with good.” townspeople was killed. dangers of ‘gentrification of the heart’ compared Antonio Primaldo—a tailor Pope Francis also called on the Since then, Primaldo and his towns- caused by comfortable living. with cancer and leader of the Otranto martyrs—to Otranto martyrs to ‘help the beloved Ital- folk, who chose to die rather than betray “How much damage does the com- St Stephen, the first , and then ian people look with hope to the future.’ their Catholic Faith, have been hailed as fortable life, well-being, do?” the Pope Page 12 used their lives as an example to Chris- The Martyrs of Otranto endured a martyrs. Their bones and skulls, proudly added, looking up from his prepared tians being persecuted in the Middle week-long siege against a huge invad- on display behind glass walls in the text. “The gentrification of the heart East today. ing Turkish Army in 1480, putting up a Cathedral of Otranto, are well-known paralyses us. “Where did they find the strength to brave but ultimately hopeless resist- Catholic relics and a popular pilgrimage “Let us take this question with us to remain Faithful?” the Pope asked. “The ance. When Ottoman soldiers finally destination. consider during the day: how am I faithful martyrs’ faithfulness even unto death overran the town, they were ordered to The Otranto martyrs, Beatified in and the proclamation of the Gospel are kill every man over the age of 15 who 1771, were described by Pope Emeritus I Continued on page 9

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Primary seven pupils from schools in Glasgow Archdiocese’s Dumbarton Deanery gathered at St Andrew’s Cathedral last Fri- day. The pupils, who will soon be moving on to secondary education, attended and participated in Mass, celebrated by Arch- bishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow. During the Mass, pupils renewed their Baptismal vows, listened to the words of Archbishop Tartaglia and ensured a packed cathedral was awash with colour. In addition to pupils from Dumbarton Deanery, primary seven children from Glasgow’s City East—who could not make an earlier Mass in April—attended last Friday’s Mass at the cathedral. (Archbishop Tartaglia meets with pupils from East End Deanery, see page 22) PICS: PAUL McSHERRY Golden day at Our Lady of Mount

The St. Andrew’s Foundation Launch Carmel A Celebration Mass & Civic Reception Friday, 14 June 2013 7pm: Mass, St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Clyde Street, Glasgow. BISHOP John Cunningham Following the Mass guests are invited to a Civic Reception hosted by and Bishop Emeritus Mau- Glasgow City Council at the Briggait Centre, Glasgow. Admission is free however online registration is essential at: rice Taylor of Galloway www.standrewslaunchmass2013.eventbrite.com joined the community of Annual Cardinal Winning Lecture, University of Glasgow Our Lady of Mount Carmel Saturday, 15 June 2013 Church, Kilmarnock, on 9.45am: Arrival refreshments at Hunter Halls, University of Glasgow, 10.30am: Lecture delivered by Archbishop Gerhard Müller (the Prefect of the Sunday evening to celebrate Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) in Bute Hall, University of Glasgow. the parish’s golden jubilee. Admission is free however online registration is essential as spaces are limited: www.standrewslaunchlecture2013.eventbrite.com Priests from across Galloway Diocese joined the bishops and Fr Eddie McGhee (an SCO columnist), parish priest at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, for the anniversary Mass. The celebra- tion was attended by parish- ioners young and old, past and present—including children from the nearby Mount Carmel Primary School, some of whom were involved in the Music For further information please contact DAO Events: Email: [email protected] Liturgy of the Mass. Telephone: 0141 330 3593 www.glasgow.ac.uk/standrewsfoundation Following the Mass, a recep- tion was held at the church,

The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401 during which the bishops were delighted to join parishioners and assist in the cutting of a special anniversary cake. The previous evening, a social night was held at Kil- Medjugorje 2013 marnock’s Park Hotel, during June 19th & September 11th which parishioners, and many £544 excluding insurance people connected with the church and the school, had a Departing from Edinburgh chance to reminisce and share contact some of the joy of 50 years of worship at Our Lady of Mount Roger Foster Carmel. PICS: PAUL McSHERRY 01475 793 987 INSIDE YOUR SCO INDEX TO NEWS, OPINION AND FEATURES THIS WEEK

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PIC: PAUL McSHERRY Prayers for Galloway vocations BISHOP John Cunningham Galloway priests was discussed of Galloway has asked for at the diocesan assembly of all his flock to pray for priests held at the Park Hotel, vocations as his diocese Kilmarnock on May 2. faces a serious shortage of “The present situation in the priests. diocese with regard to parish The bishop made the plea structures and expectations after an assembly of the dio- placed on priests because of cese’s priests held last week these structures was acknowl- acknowledged the ‘status quo is edged as being impossible to no longer an option.’ In a mes- maintain,” Vicar General Fr sage to the congregations of St William McFadden said. “The Columba’s, Annan, and Holy priests looked at what might be Trinity, Lockerbie, whose realistic expectations for pas- parish priest Fr Joe Holmes, is toral provision in the future.” about to retired, the bishop said Galloway is in the midst of a Fr Holmes’ responsibilities long-running consultation would be divided up between process, called Embracing Fr Borland and Fr Jim Change, which seeks to restru- Hayes in addition to their cur- ture the diocese in accordance rent responsibilities. with its number of laity and He said the two priests priests. Fr McFadden said the would ‘consult with the parish assembly had addressed these Singing the praises of St Anne’s Choir pastoral councils of all the issues head on. communities involved in order “Embracing Change is not to make the necessary decisions simply about changing struc- London invite from rock band The Vaccines was just the tonic for primary school singers regarding appropriate pastoral tures,” he said. “It is far more provision’ and asked all readers about presenting a way of being By Martin Dunlop project to help tackle sectarian- choir is a regular feature at Glas- only one band’s name is the talk of the letter to ‘pray for all Church that responds to the ism in society. Pupils also gow’s City Chambers, the Glas- of the dinner queue at St Anne’s. affected by these changes, and needs of the diocese today. The MEMBERS of St Anne’s Pri- received support from the Celtic gow Music Festival and pupils. “Singing makes me feel like I for an increase in vocations to reality of an aging and reduced mary School Choir have Music Foundation, which led to can do anything,” Brogan Hale said the priesthood.’ number of clergy will inevitably been recognised as the stars them writing and recording their Next song on her return from London. Her Fr Borland is parish priest have consequences. It is impor- they are thanks to indie rock song, Fix This, with the assis- The London experience has friend, Kiara Carmichael, added: for St Andrew’s, Dumfries, tant that serious consultation band The Vaccines. tance of Glasgow-based song- been a fascinating one for St “Weare like a big family of music.” with pastoral responsibility for takes place in order to come to The Vaccines were so writer Jonathan Carr. Anne’s pupils, who are now St Anne’s choir members had St Mary’s, New Abbey as well the best possible decisions.” impressed by the talent of the Following the release of Fix keen to take their musical jour- one final message to give, before as being chaplain at Dumfries Fr McFadden said that the Parkhead, Glasgow, school choir This—which, in addition to its ney even further. Despite this reluctantly returning to their and Galloway Royal Infirmary. next step for the diocese was (above) that they invited pupils anti-sectarianism message also busy schedule, and not forget- classrooms. Fr Hayes is parish priest at St ‘for priests to consult with the to London as their special guests raises concerns about other socie- ting their schoolwork, of course, “We would like to give The Teresa’s, Dumfries and St laity to discern where the Spirit at a recent concert. tal problems—pupils from St the members of St Anne’s choir Vaccines the biggest thank you Conal’s, Kirkconnel as well as will lead, and how the message Anne’s choir were widely are also working towards the in the world,” they said. being chaplain to HMP Dum- of the Gospel might be better YouTube hit acclaimed, and have since per- release of their second song. fries. The increasing burdens proclaimed both in the present Freddie Cowan, guitarist for Lon- formed at a number of venues. The For the moment, however, I [email protected] on the diminishing numbers of and the future.’ don-based The Vaccines, spotted St Anne’s choir performing their own song, Fix This—which pupils wrote last year as part of Thomas Marin James Scott FIRST OF TWO ACN SPECIAL EVENTS IN SCOTLAND FOR SYRIA, PAGE 5 an anti-sectarian project—on the Independent Funeral Directors Funeral Directors internet video sharing site YouTube, and contacted the “Stay local... keep it in the Your local Independent Funeral Director school to invite pupils to attend family... offer a prompt Over eighty years of giving undivided attention, the band’s concert at the city’s and personal service 24       24 hour care and a level of service O2 Arena on Thursday May 2. hours a day... make it “It was an unbelievable expe- second to none. The only independent, rience for the children,” Louise affordable.” family-owned business in the area.      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DISCUSSION 15: How can we encourage young Catholics to consider their vocation?

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E CAN ing to our full potential. If often fall we do not spend any time into the working out the purpose for trap of which God made us, we will thinking be unable to live out that that vocation is simply a purpose and will lead an question of choosing a state unfulfilled life. It is no sur- Wof life: priesthood, marriage, prise that there is so much consecrated life. But voca- depression and sadness in tion is about far more than the world when so few peo- that. At its heart, it is about ple even attempt to live out following God’s will for us, God’s will for them. Chil- and so we can distinguish dren spend more time learn- different aspects. Firstly, the ing how to cross the road universal call to holiness by than they do learning how to WE NEED a ‘culture of voca- LISTENING to young people and which God calls us all to be discern their vocation. tion.’ It should be seen as a com- creating and preserving safe saints. Secondly, there is the The best soil for a voca- pletely normal part of life for all spaces where discussion on voca- particular calling by which tion to grow in is a prayerful young Catholics to seriously tions can thrive is a step in the each one of us is to fulfil home, where the parents God’s will for us. consider whether God is calling right direction. Catholic schools, attempt to live out their We are all called to love vocation in holiness and them to marriage or single lay Church youth clubs, university and serve God our Creator, love, and where close rela- life or one of the many forms of chaplaincies... While Faith is a and through this love and tions are priests and reli- GERALD BONNER religious life or priesthood or glorious wonder, making religious Strathclyde University STRONG IN FAITH service to grow in holiness gious. Of course, some part diaconate... in other words con- vocations less of a mystery could and attain the joys of ever- of this ideal is lacking for scious discernment should be open hearts and minds. Parishes lasting life: God calls us all most young people today, so viewed as an expected stage of life for everyone. twith active youth ministries, creating ways for altar servers to to be saints and to be a part we need the next best thing: When Bishop Anthony Fisher OP was master of students for progress to new roles in Church life for example, pave the way, as of His Heavenly Kingdom. a solid community where the Dominicans in , he used to ask the new students each do schools and colleges that open career days to religious orders. This is something we must prayerful, intentional dis- year: “Do you want to be a Dominican saint?” Then, usually after Many struggle to find their way in life. We must dispel the idea of all understand if we are to cernment is the norm, and an awkward silence, he would say: “If you don’t want to be a the shame of failure and encourage young people to try. encourage others, and young people can get to Dominican saint, I suggest you leave now and find some other indeed ourselves, to con- know priests, religious and sider vocation. The more lay people living out their place to be a saint.” I think that’s the attitude we need: recognis- I THINK Gerald is entirely right precise forms of vocation vocation in holiness. ing both the universality of the call to holiness—there is no about a ‘culture of vocation’ but I (above) all flow from this Ultimately, we need to mediocre way—and also the distinctness of the particular path to think this also goes beyond the general call to sanctity. encourage an openness to sainthood that God calls a particular person to take. mere choice of a state of life and When it comes to encour- following God’s will for us, touches on every aspect of what it aging young Catholics to as a Church and individu- AS A priest said at Mass one means to be a Christian. It consider which state of life ally. We need to promote a day, we all have a vocation and requires a lot of trust, but ulti- they are called to, the most respect for each and every that is following Christ and the AIDAN COOK mately it is about placing our- fundamental need is for state of life as a way of building up of His Kingdom here Glasgow University selves entirely in God’s hands. them to be aware of the dif- coming to love and serve on earth. But most importantly And so I think the main message ferent vocations. In these God and our neighbour ever any vocation, like Faith itself, is we need to understand is that it is only by following our vocation — days when priests often more closely, and to reach have more than one parish Heaven. a gift from God, and as Gerald God’s will for us—that we can find fulfilment and true happiness. in their care, when religious And perhaps more than CHRISTINE GLEN states we need to be aware of all Strathclyde University are scarce, and when views anything else, we need to forms of vocation. THE most encouraging thing for of marriage are distorted by support each other in We need to give young people me would be seeing someone live divorce rates and the push strength and courage so as more information in order to discern for themselves how any voca- their vocation joyfully in Holiness. for same-sex ‘marriage,’ to be able to turn away from tion works. To quote the Jesuit Theologian Bernard Lonergan, Happiness is very infectious and if most young people have a what the world tells us is ‘experience, understanding, judgement, decision and then action.’ someone shows the joys of their very limited understanding important and to look If we give young Catholics a chance to experience and under- vocation naturally young people of the different states of life. instead only to our Lord and stand; through retreats and prayer, then they can discern if they will want to follow. Its the same It is often through personal Creator. This is precisely FRASER DAVIDSON experience of holy priest, what Pope Francis encour- feel that God is calling them to whatever path in life He has cho- Glasgow University vice-versa, if someone is thor- sen for them. oughly miserable and does not live religious or married couples aged young people to do on that the first movements of a Good Shepherd Sunday: We must not be afraid to try, as saints are people who let God’s the Christian faith then I cannot vocation are stirred up. “Ask Jesus what he wants light shine through them. And we are all called to be saints imagine it would be encouraging for young faithful people to con- If we do not consider our from you and be brave! Be through our Baptism. sider following in their footsteps. vocation, we will not be liv- brave, ask Him!”

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Around 200 people gathered at St ’s Church in Carfin last Thursday to enjoy a performance from Christian singer Marilla Ness and—at the same time—raise money for a Catholic charity’s Syria campaign. The Irish-born singer per- formed a selection of hits from her 23 top-selling Christian music albums to help raise money for Boulos Yazigi and Yohanna the Aid to the Church in Need Ibrahim, who were kidnapped (Above) Julia Paterson, from St Peter-in- (ACN) Syria campaign. on April 22, saying that they Chains Church, Adrossan, seen here with Neville Kyrke-Smith, ACN’s were reported to be in good Archbishop Tartaglia, was born on May 13, UK national director, said that health despite being held cap- 1917, the day Our Lady first appeared at the Ascension Day concert tive in Bshaqtin, 12 miles north Fatima, Portugal. (Left) Pupils distribute uplifted people’s faith as well west of Aleppo. roses at St Andrew’s Cathedral, Glasgow PICS: PAUL McSHERRY as providing help to refugees Mr Kyrke-Smith described fleeing persecution and conflict meeting the Good Shepherd in war-torn Syria. Sisters in Lebanon who were “On Ascension Day in Scot- caring for refugees not just Pupil flower power at Fatima Mass land, our faith was buoyed up from Syria but from Iraq and by Marilla Ness, who helped us across the region. raise our hearts to the Lord,” With aid agencies having cut Archbishop Philip Tartaglia leads special Our Lady of Fatima Feast Day celebrations Mr Kyrke-Smith said. “She has help for Lebanon’s Iraqi refugees, a really lovely voice, and her ACN has increased its aid so the By Martin Dunlop holding aloft a statue of Our Lady, dis- who chose the name of our school’s saint singing is very meditative and centre’s work can continue. tributed roses to the congregation, prayed and also consecrated his Papacy to Our in the Year of Faith people felt One of the sisters told him PRIMARY school children from the Rosary and participated in the Liturgy Lady of Fatima.” their faith was uplifted by this that a boy in Syria was hung up across Glasgow played a special role of the Mass, which, in addition to Arch- Ms McGeever added that it was ‘a beautiful concert.” by his wrists for being a Chris- as the feast of Our Lady of Fatima bishop Tartaglia, was celebrated by Fr lovely moment’ for her pupils to meet Lorraine McMahon, ACN’s tian. He died after three days. was celebrated at the city’s St Michael Savage, chaplain to the Fatima Archbishop Tartaglia. head of operations in Scotland, “We are standing with the Andrew’s Cathedral on Monday. Devotion Team Scotland, and other clergy. described Ms Ness’ concert— people trusting in God and we Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow Among the schools participating in the Special visitor which included brief reflections trust in you, in your kindness was the principal celebrant of Mass, which Mass, were staff and pupils from Glas- During the feast day Mass, the archbishop between songs—as ‘brilliant,’ and compassion,” Mr Kyrke- was also attended by Glasgow parish- gow’s St Francis’ Primary. took the opportunity to honour a special and added that the UK’s num- Smith said. ioners, and members and supporters of Wanduska Crichton, a member of the visitor to the cathedral, who had traveled ber one Christian recording At the end of the evening, Scotland’s Fatima Devotion Team. school’s teaching staff, was the cantor for from Ardrossan. artist ‘really inspires people.’ when Ms McMahon was thanked This year’s feast day Mass had extra the Mass and was joined in the singing of Julia Paterson, a parishioner of St Peter- “It was really good, because for organising the event, she significance given that the newly elected the Psalm by pupil Chantelle Mann. Fellow in-Chains Church in the Ayrshire town what she does is tell a human stressed that concertgoers had leader of the world’s 1.2 billion and grow- pupil Megan Kenna gave one of the read- was born on May 13, 1917, the day Our story or relate an episode from helped send more help to dis- ing Catholics, Pope Francis, recently ings and Mark Lorimer and Ohema Donkor Lady first appeared to the three children, the Gospels and follows it up placed people in Syria. announced his intention to consecrate his brought the offertory gifts to the altar. Francisco, Jacinta and Lucia, at Fatima, with the appropriate song,” Ms “They rely on our prayers Papacy to Our Lady of Fatima. Sharon McGeever, St Francis’ head- Portugal. McMahon said. and compassion and they pray Speaking to those gathered, Archbishop teacher, explained that the school had The archbishop presented Mrs Paterson, At the start of last Thursday’s for us as well,” she said. “We Tartaglia drew attention to Devotion of the taken part in a Morning with Mary with a daily Mass attendee, who is greatly concert, Mr Kyrke-Smith gave stand in solidarity with Syria’s First Five Saturdays—promoted by Scot- the Fatima Devotion Team at Blessed devoted to the Rosary and Divine Mercy, a short talk about ACN’s work suffering Christians.” land’s Fatima Devotion Team—highlight- John Duns Scotus Church before Christ- with a special Rosary. in the Middle East and pleaded Support from ACN has ing that the praying of the Rosary and the mas, and—having found the event very Following the celebration of the feast for listeners to stand by the included an aid package of Sacraments of Holy Communion and Rec- inspiring—staff and pupils were delighted day Mass, a screening of the documentary region’s Christians as they ‘flee more than £130,000 to provide onciliation are ‘deeply embedded in the to be invited to the cathedral for Monday’s film, Finding Fatima, was shown in St terror and persecution.’ food and medicine for families Catholic tradition.’ feast day Mass. Andrew’s Cathedral hall. “In many parts of the Middle forced to flee their homes. Last “Mary is your mother and She leads “It was very special for us to attend the Children from St Charles’, St Helen’s East Christians are being targeted Thursday’s concert raised more you to Jesus in a special way,” the arch- feast day Mass and the children said that it and St Michael’s primary schools partici- for their faith and the support than £700 for the charity’s bishop told the primary school children. was a beautiful experience,” Ms McGeever pated in the Mass alongside pupils from of ACN is vital,” he said. Syria appeal. said. “It was extra special given that, in St Francis’. He went on to ask for prayers Pupil participation between us being invited to the Mass and for the two Syrian archbishops, I http://www.acnuk.org/ School pupils processed into the cathedral the feast day itself, a new Pope was elected I [email protected] READ THE SCO BLOG CROSS WIRES AT http://www.sconews.co.uk/opinions/ NEWS IN BRIEF MUSICIAN VISITS GLASGOW’S ST ’S CHURCH THE music ministry at St JOE WALSH TOURS Robert Bellarmine’s Church in PILGRIMAGE SPECIALISTS Glasgow will receive a signifi- cant boost this weekend with the visit of contemporary Chris- RETURNING YEAR OF FAITH PILGRIMAGES tian musician Matt Maher. TO LOURDES Mr Maher will visit the parish this weekend and assist with £ BY AIR FROM GLASGOW from £699 music at two Masses.The musi- pps inc PICS: ANTHONY MacMILLAN TO OZ 12 July 2013 | 7 nights cian will be present at the 4pm vigil on Saturday and the 10am BY AIR FROM EDINBURGH £ While foreign exchange visits are commonplace in many from £679 Mass on Sunday morning. pps inc of today’s schools and universities it is not something 26 July 2013 | 7 nights LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR you would expect to happen too often at your local LEAD GLASGOW PROCESSION church. At St John’s, Caol, however, parishioners have WEEKLY DEPARTURES recently enjoyed listening to the sermons of Fr Aloysius THE Little Sisters of the Poor in TO FATIMA £ Leong (above), who hails from Perth, Western Australia. from £554 Glasgow will lead a procession St John’s regular parish priest, Fr Roddy McAuley (left), From Edinburgh | 7 nights pps inc in honour of Our Lady on Sun- is currently ‘down under’ enjoying a well-earned holiday, day May 26. The sisters are which was supported by the generosity of his parish- extending an invitation to as ioners after the parish priest celebrated the silver jubilee WEEKLY DEPARTURES many people as possible to join of his ordination to the priesthood. Patrick MacPherson, £ TO MEDJUGORJE from £539 them in procession from their a former St John’s parishioner, currently living in Aus- From Edinburgh | 7 nights pps inc home at St ’s, Robroys- tralia, has helped establish a link between St John’s and ton, Glasgow, at 4pm next Sun- Fr Leong’s home parish, Holy Family Church, Perth. Joe Walsh Tours | www.joewalshtours.co.uk day. For further information, Despite Australia moving in to its winter months, it does- [email protected] | 0141 530 5060 email: [email protected] or n’t seem as though Fr Leong will be yearning for the 143 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2 telephone: 0141 558 5114. Scottish weather on his return to Perth shortly Bonded and Licensed by the Civil Aviation Authority in the UK | ATOL 5163 6 SCHOOLS NEWS THE SCO SUPPORTS THE YEAR OF FAITH SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday May 17 2013 Cumbernauld pupils put bags of effort into Nigerian support St Margaret of Scotland teacher visits African children bearing gifts By Martin Dunlop Miss Cosgrove was delighted to have the opportunity to visit the Nigerian community and CHILDREN from a Catholic school in help at the school, which has a roll of 750 pupils. Cumbernauld have established links with a “Many children are now equipped with vital Nigerian primary, sending a local teacher to stationary items and the money raised will help the African country to provide support for develop the school’s resources to further enhance the school and present children with gifts their education,” she said. from her Scottish pupils. St Margaret of Scotland Primary School will Earlier this year, Marie Cosgrove and her pri- continue to sustain its links with Our Lady’s and mary four pupils from St Margaret of Scotland the town of Bomadi in order to continue to sup- Primary School began a stationary project in port this area of . which they gathered items to make school packs that could be taken to the children in the Niger- I [email protected] ian town of Bomadi, Delta State. (Above) Marie The packs—consisting of a school bag, pencil Cosgrove delivered case, toothbrush, tooth paste, and many more the bags put together class room goods—were presented to children by her primary four from Bomadi’s Our Lady’s Primary School by pupils from St Miss Cosgrove. She made the presentation dur- Margaret of Scotland ing an Easter holiday visit to her aunt, Sr Miche- Primary School, Cum- line O’Donnell, a religious Sister of Charity who berbauld, (left) to the works as a nurse and a midwife and runs a chil- children of Our Lady’s dren’s clinic in Bomadi. Primary School in the “The children were thrilled to receive the Nigerian town of school packs,” Miss Cosgrove said on her return Bomadi, Delta State from Nigeria, adding that her own pupils were (above). While in the African country to ‘so excited to see pictures of the Nigerian chil- visit her aunt, Sr dren receiving their packs.’ Micheline O’Donnell, In addition to assisting at Our Lady’s, Miss Cos- a religious Sister of grove also visited nearby towns and villages, meet- Charity, Miss Cos- ing people from the local communities. What grove also visited started as a class project grew to the point that the nearby towns and whole community of St Margaret of Scotland villages, meeting started to donate items for the school packs. people from the local Pupils also took part in many fundraising communities events to raise money to help people in the town of Bomadi. Events included a dress down, crazy hair and wear pyjamas to school day. St Kentigern’s awards after Mass ‘WHO makes a difference to my school year, 2011/12. Changes’ campaign during Lent, Faith?’ was the question pupils Lewis Tait was awarded the which saw them raise around £200 from St Kentigern’s Academy in Boyle Trophy for services to the from collecting copper coins. Blackburn were asked during school. He was chosen for the S1 pupil Michael Olori received their recent feast day Mass. award for his ‘selflessness in help- the Fr Holuka Excellence in Maths Many of the pupils helped with ing and working with many young Trophy, for his ‘outstanding and preparations for the Mass, which people in his local community.’ consistent performance’ in the took the Year of Faith as its inspi- The service and contribution made Mathletics challenge this year. He ration and was celebrated by Fr by St Kentigern’sLife Group to the was one of the first pupils to Ryszard Holuka, St Kentigern’s wider community was recognised achieve his Mathletics GoldAward school chaplain, and local priests. in the presentation of the school’s and, on March 6, he participated in During the celebrations, a num- Forrester Trophy. The group the World Education Games and ber of St Kentigern’s pupils were worked very hard to raise money came top of the 11–13-year-old age awarded a silver salver for aca- for LifeWest of Scotland. Recently category with 1623 correct demic achievement in the previous they completed their ‘Change for answers, only getting 33 wrong. Our trust in teenagers

PUPILS from St Maurice’s the whole school participated, High School in Cumber- and a festive coffee morning for nauld have raised the fantas- staff where they were treated to tic sum of almost £8000 for mince pies and a raffle. The the Teenage Cancer Trust school’s cheerleading squad also charity. got involved with a fundraising Staff and pupils recently wel- demo at Decathlon @ the Fort. comed a delighted Siobhan A brave few even took part in O’Hara from the charity along the Glasgow to Edinburgh bike to the school to collect a cheque ride—a grueling 60 miles of for £7790 from some of the cycling—all in a bid to raise as people who have worked tire- much money as possible for lessly throughout the school teenagers fighting cancer. year to raise so much money for The highlight of the year was the trust. the group’s spectacular charity St Maurice’s Teenage Cancer ball held in February at Glas- Trust charity group organised a gow’s Crowne Plaza Hotel, series of events for staff, pupils, which raised nearly £5000. parents and friends both in More than 300 people donned school and in the local commu- their glad rags and dug deep to nity. raise a fantastic tally for a cause The dedicated group organ- so close to the hearts of every- ised a sale of Teenage Cancer body at St Maurice’s. huge thank you to ‘the staff, par- efforts. “It is truly wonderful to such a worthwhile cause,” she Maurice’s pupils hope to visit Trust badges and wristbands, a Patricia Alexander, St Mau- ents and community for their have such an outstanding said. Having gladly handed the the cancer charity’s new unit in Wear it Tartan Day, in which rice’s headteacher, expressed a support’in the pupil’s fundraising amount of money raised for cheque over to Ms O’Hara, St the near future. Friday May 17 2013 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER THE SCO SUPPORTS THE YEAR OF FAITH LOCAL NEWS 7 SCIAF art auction has got the lot Works by Scottish artist Alexander Moffat give boost to charity’s Syria Refugee Appeal By Martin Dunlop

WORKS of art by Scottish artistAlexan- der Moffat created during concerts with tenor and classical guitarist Martin Aelred went under the hammer last Wednesday, raising more than £2600 for SCIAF’s Syria Refugee Appeal. The original pastel sketches were auc- tioned at St Aloysius Church hall in Glas- gow with the aid of auctioneer Campbell Armour from Lyon and Turnbull. Prior to the bidding commencing, the audience of PIC: ROSHANA RUBIN-MAYHEW art lovers and SCIAF supporters were treated to the singing of Mr Aelred. World-renowned symphonic choral The 20 pieces of art were produced dur- ing two concerts during Lentfest, a festival director to give Glasgow masterclass of faith and the arts run by the Archdio- cese of Glasgow Art Project (AGAP). ONE of the world’s fore- In advance of the academy’s During each event, Mr Aelred’s recital of most symphonic choral performance of Vivaldi’s Glo- some of the world’s most beautiful classi- directors will be giving a ria, and Britten’s Hymn to the cal music—from darkness to light—saw public choral masterclass, , later this year, Mr Mr Moffat produce individual drawings to Campbell for running the auction, and Campbell Armour (right) getting the auction in conjunction with the Cullen— who has won two inspired and informed by each piece. also to Stephen Callaghan from AGAP for underway with help from SCIAF’s parish Choir of the Academy of Grammy Awards, and was his support and hard work throughout.” officer Rachel Lamb. Sacred Music, in Glasgow director of the London Sym- Auction next month. phony Chorus for 10 years— Philippa Bonella, SCIAF’s head of com- Support Joseph Cullen (above), who will host the two-hour session, munications and education, said that Mr Callaghan, director of AGAP, The money raised in the auction will has collaborated with some of which is open to the public. everybody at the Catholic aid agency ‘is expressed his delight that the creation of help Syrian refugees, fleeing the war-torn the world’s leading conductors, Aspiring young singers/con- delighted with the great amount of money the artwork, and its subsequent auction, country, and their local hosts by providing will visit Glasgow’s Adelaides ductors, who would like to par- raised from the auction.’ were able to raise awareness and support basic supplies including food, temporary on Saturday June 8. ticipate in the event, must “The auction was not only a fantastic for a good cause. shelter, blankets, hygiene kits, medical The event will mark the register in advance (some fundraising event it was a great way to “The concerts and the artwork created care and trauma counselling. launch of the Academy of knowledge of the above pieces bring our supporters together, learn a lit- highlight the profound social service of Sacred Music master class will be required in order to par- tle more about the situation in Syria, and at the arts to those at home and abroad, cul- I Readers can donate to SCIAF’s Syria series, which will engage musi- ticipate.) For further informa- the same time enjoy a lovely evening of turally and as a vehicle for charitable giv- Refugees Emergency Appeal by calling cians of the highest standing as tion, please e-mail: art and music,” Ms Bonella said. “We ing,” he said. “This is at the heart of what 0141 354 5555 or online at mentors to the academy’s [email protected] or tele- would like to pay special thanks to all AGAP hopes to achieve through initia- www.sciaf.org.uk young choristers (aged between phone: 0141 332 6139. those who took part in making the auction tives like Lentfest and we are glad to sup- 11 and 25), and provide inspira- Entry to the event for partici- a great success, to Martin and Alexander, port SCIAF in their work.” I [email protected] tional teaching for young per- pants is free (parents and other formers out-with the academy. adults £5). Glasgow City Council to consult on new shared campus

GLASGOW City Council is course’ to the council’s consul- over £550 million on school to consult on a new, shared tation, which began yesterday buildings over a 10-year campus school on the cur- ahead of a series of public period,” he said. “The new rent St Brendan’s Primary meetings, which will be held at school campuses which we School site in the north west the affected schools at the have been building across the of the city. beginning of next month. city over the last few years are The proposal includes clos- It is understood that the having a major impact on the ing the city’s Garscadden and Church will be consulted on the communities they serve. Yoker primary schools, Thirl- proposal and on the design of “Glasgow is committed to stane and Kelso nurseries and the facility. teaching our young people in building a new non-denomina- Councillor Stephen Curran, buildings fit for the 21st cen- tional primary school and nurs- Glasgow’s executive member tury. That is why we are ery as part of the campus at St for education and young people, rebuilding or refurbishing Brendan’s. is delighted that another campus every primary, nursery as A spokesman for Glasgow is planned for the city and fully well as every remaining nurs- Archdiocese confirmed that the endorsed the consultation. ery or ASL school in the next Church ‘will respond in due “The council has invested five years.”

ity. In terms of living out his ily to everyone he met and a OBITUARY Baptismal calling, he went along wonderful sense of humour. to a Legion of Mary meeting and Health wise, over the past few WILLIAM FARRELL remarked: “This is the place for years things started to go wrong AUGUST 19 1929-MAY 5 2013 me.” He became an enthusiastic and he was taken to Glasgow member from that day forward. Royal Infirmary in April of this WILLIAM Farrell was born on In the parish of St Philip’s, Ruc- year. He was later transferred to August 19, 1929, a twin of Leo hazie he was an altar server, a the Southern General Hospital Farrell and brother to Frank and reader, an extraordinary minister where the surgeons successfully Robert. Their parents were Frank and an ever-reliable member of the removed a tumour. Sadly, his and Gertrude. They were brought RCIAgroup. He wrote to council- recovery, though impressive, up in Townhead, Glasgow, but lors, MSPs and MPs regarding the didn’t last. On Saturday May 4, moved to Ruchazie where Bill seamless garment of Catholic the hospital staff telephoned his lived for most of his life. social teaching: Pro-life from con- brother, Fr Robert Farrell (a After school, he completed his ception through social justice to priest of the Personal Prelature National Service in the Air Force. natural death. He also wrote to of Opus Dei) to explain that his He later tried his Vocation at them in defence of marriage. condition had become ‘critical.’ Nunraw Abbey, a Cistercian In late 2012, Bill had an arti- He finally succumbed to an Foundation near Haddington. He cle published in The Scottish infection and, fortified by the remembered being told: “The Cis- Catholic Observer on evangeli- Rites of Holy Mother Church, he tercian life: a hard bed to lie on, a sation, specific to this Year of died, late on Sunday May 5. sweet bed to die on.” The Cister- Faith, as begun by Pope Bene- His funeral Mass was cele- cian life however, was not for him. dict XVI. Earlier, in 2004, dur- brated by his brother, Fr Farrell He followed his joinery trade ing the golden jubilee of the with a number of concelebrants until retirement. As a carpenter, founding of St Philip’s Parish, in St Philip’s, on Saturday May he supported a Christian ethos Pope John Paul II had awarded 11. The internment of his mortal among his colleagues, strength- him the Bene Merenti medal. remains took place in St Peter’s ening good trade union solidar- He had a gift of relating eas- Cemetery, Dalbeth. 8 NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS THE SCO SUPPORTS THE YEAR OF FAITH SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday May 17 2013 Bishop warns against popular public perceptions of the Pope

BISHOP Mark Davies of The bishop reminded the con- Shrewsbury has warned gregation gathered for the Catholics in the UK they National Council meeting of the should not believe all they read UCM in Swanwick, Derbyshire, about Pope Francis in the sec- that the loyalty and love that ular press. Catholics share for the Pope flows In a homily at a Mass for the principally from his office as Suc- Union of Catholic Mothers cessor of St Peter and his respon- (UCM) at noon on Tuesday, sibility as the chief shepherd of Bishop Davies (below) said the Christ’s universal Church. Holy Father has become ‘the “I can’t remember how many focus of fascination’in the media, times I have been asked every- partly because of his ‘evident where from radio stations to petrol goodness,’ ‘informal style’ and stations whether I liked the new ‘Christian simplicity.’ However, Pope?” he said. “To the Catholic Bishop Davies warned that this mind this is a strange question as has led to a construction of a pub- the loyalty we owe to the Pope is lic personality by secular com- not based upon personal ‘likes’or mentators who wish to undermine ‘dislikes.’ My invariable reply is Catholicism rather than provide that ‘We love the Pope whoever an understanding of what the Pope he is.’This may seem just as puz- truly represents. zling to my questioners.” “Only last week a was concern It is only from the supernatural being expressed in our national perspective of Faith that the min- media that our Holy Father is istry of Pope Francis can be prop- proving as ‘hard-line’as his pred- erly understood, Bishop Davies ecessors,” the bishop said. explained. He added that the sim- “‘Likes’may quickly turn to ‘dis- plicity we see in Pope Francis likes’ in the public forum. We ‘leads us, not towards abandoning know, as Catholics, that the loy- the demands of the Catholic Faith, Opposition to college award for Irish PM alty we owe to the Pope is greater as some commentators might than the passing loyalties people hope or suppose, but directly to give to political figures or those demands in their most radi- Boston College plan to give Enda Kenny an honorary degree denounced by Cardinal O’Malley celebrity personalities whose pop- cal, beautiful and uncompromis- By Stephen Reilly Cardinal Sean O’Malley (above left) has ularity may fade.” ing essence.” closed the Irish Embassy to the Vatican.” denounced plans by Boston College to award Cardinal rule an honorary degree to Irish Taoiseach Enda BOSTON’S Cardinal Sean O’Malley Kenny (above right) has denounced plans by Boston Col- Cardinal O’Malley said that the decision lege, Massachusetts, in the US, to to confer a doctorate on the Irish leader award an honorary degree to Irish violates the US bishops’ directives for life,” the cardinal said. “I hope that Ireland Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda honours bestowed to public figures by will continue to stand up against the pres- Kenny as the Irish Government Catholic institutions. The cardinal said sures—I know the pressures are there. attempts to legalise abortion. that because Boston College has not with- Pressure to legislate for abortion is a dehu- Mr Kenny is scheduled to be the princi- drawn the invitation, ‘I shall not attend the manising force in our world.” pal speaker at Boston College commence- graduation.’ Last year, another Catholic college in ment exercises on May 20. The Catholic “It is my ardent hope that Boston Col- Massachusetts was involved in a similar Action League of Massachusetts had lege will work to redress the confusion, controversy after the Bishop of Worcester urged Catholics to oppose the invitation to disappointment and harm caused by the pressured Anna Maria College in Paxton to Mr Kenny, and to express their concerns honour to Kenny,” the cardinal said. withdraw an invitation to US senator to officials at the Jesuit-run school, to A spokesman for Boston College said Edward Kennedy’s widow, Victoria Jesuit superiors, and to Boston’s Cardinal that the school was honouring Mr Kenny Kennedy, to deliver its commencement Europe must tackle debt to avoid Sean O’Malley. ‘in light of our longstanding connection address. Bishop Robert McManus objected In a public statement, the Catholic with Ireland.’ He said that the commence- to Mrs Kennedy’s public support for abor- social collapse, archbishop warns Action League said its opposition centred ment invitation was ‘independent of the tion rights and same-sex ‘marriage.’ on Mr Kenny’s attempts to increase access proposed bill that will be debated in the THE Primate of Spain has to abortion in Ireland. Irish Parliament this summer.’ Pro-life Ireland said Europe must take “Mr Kenny’s government has just intro- Ireland’s Catholic hierarchy have called urgent action to deal with duced legislation to legalise abortion in Abortion issue on the Irish people to lobby MPs to reject the debt crisis policy to Ireland,” the statement said. “It has also Mr Kenny has said he will support the pro- a bill that would permit abortions avert social collapse, warn- introduced legislation which would posed legislation to allow for abortion in Cardinal Seán Brady, the Archbishop of ing that soaring unemploy- impose criminal penalties, including Ireland that the Catholic Church opposes. Armagh and Ireland’s most senior ment and cuts ‘could bring imprisonment, on Catholic priests who Cardinal O’Malley recently underlined Catholic cleric, said in an interview that down whole political sys- refuse to violate the seal of the confes- his own opposition to the Irish bill. the bill made the right to life of the unborn tems. sional in cases of sexual abuse. Mr Kenny “Ireland should be very proud of its pro- child subservient to that of the mother. “We have to change direction,” has misrepresented the words of Pope life heritage and how traditionally there “There are two lives involved here,” Archbishop Braulio Rodriguez of families who used to middle Benedict XVI, insulted the Holy See and has been great importance given to human he said Toledo (right) said. “It is very class needing help. This is totally dangerous. Unemployment has new. As a matter of honour, they reached tremendous levels and won’t come to us until they have US PRIEST DIES TWO DAYS Rome as priests of the Prelature England and Wales will take austerity cuts don’t seem to be exhausted everything,” NEWS IN BRIEF AFTER BEING ORDAINED of Opus Dei. place from Friday July 19 until producing results. There is deep The archbishop added that the A PRIEST of the diocese of The two men, Andrew Soane Sunday July 21. unease across the whole society, COMECE forum of European CARDINAL BAGNASCO VISITS Ohio, US, has died two days and -Grint, aged The theme is Breaking open and it is not just in Spain. We bishops is spear-heading a push SHIP CRASH RESCUE WORKERS after being ordained. 48 and 49 respectively, were the Word—a call to faith in have to give people some hope for change, drawing on social CATHOLIC maritime agency Fr Scott Carroll, who was among 31 Opus Dei members action. The venue is The Hayes or this is going to foment conflict doctrines dating back to Pope Apostleship of the Sea (AoS) in being treated for cancer, from all over the world ordained Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire and mutual hatred.” Leo XIII. The archbishop said Genoa has reported how Cardi- became a priest on May 8 and by their Prelate, Bishop Javier and it is expected to attract Unemployment in Spain has the debt crisis is a symptom of a nal Angelo Bagnasco, the Arch- died two days later. Bishop Echevarría, at the church of around 350-400 participants. now reached 27 per cent despite deeper malaise and the roots lie bishop of Genoa, visited those Leonard Blair of Toledo Sant’ Eugenio in Rome. Keynote speaker is Megan a growing diaspora of young in the ‘moral disarmament’ of retrieving the bodies of the peo- ordained the transitional dea- All 31, from 12 different McKenna, an internationally Spaniards seeking work in other the last quarter century. ple killed in the collision of the con a priest at his parents’ countries, have come from the known author, theologian, sto- countries. The jobless rate in the “This is common to the ‘Jolly Nero’ to offer his support home with immediate family lay Faithful of the Prelature and ryteller and dynamic lecturer. Toledo region of Castilla-La whole of Western Europe,” he and prayers.The container ship members present. had professional careers before A native of New York City in Mancha is 31 per cent. The rate added. “It goes back to the core crashed into a control tower in He was named associate pas- their call to the priesthood. the United States, she works with for youth unemployment in the issues of moral philosophy, of the Italian port of Genoa late on tor of his home parish, St Joseph Opus Dei has almost 90,000 indigenous groups, in base Chris- same area is 64 per cent. what we are as human beings. Tuesday last week, causing it to in Maumee, a Toledo suburb. members, over half of them in tian communities and with jus- The archbishop said the cur- It is here that we must search collapse killing seven people, Bishop Blair has asked that all Europe, and operates in the five tice and peace groups, parishes, rent crisis is doing far more dam- for a way out of the impasse.” with two still missing and sev- the Faithful of the Toledo dio- continents. The majority of dioceses and religious communi- age than the recession in the Marisa Martinez, the volunteer eral wounded. AoS in Genoa cese continue to remember Fr members are married but there ties in the US and elsewhere. mid-1990s when unemployment director of Caritas in Toledo, said with civic authorities organised Carroll in their prayers. are also lay celibate members. In 2002 she was appointed briefly spiked above 24 per cent. the Catholic charity is now help- on Thursday a Mass to pray for Some two per cent are priests. an Ambassador of Peace for “We can try to mitigate the ing 40,000 people in a province the deceased. During the day, TWO ENGLISHMEN ORDAINED Pax Christi International. She effects by giving basic help to of 700,000, often with bags of flags flew at half-mast and AS OPUS DEI PRIESTS JUSTICE AND PEACE MEET will look at the Scriptures, how people left totally unprotected, food. Each family receives 12 shops closed early as residents TWO Englishmen, a chartered TO BE HELD IN DERBYSHIRE these both convert and trans- but we can’t create jobs,” the kilos a month, mostly beans, of the port city mourned those accountant and an academic, THE 2013 National Justice and form us and bring meaning and archbishop said. “We are seeing oil, milk, and pasta. who died. were ordained last Saturday in Peace Network conference in hope to the world. Friday May 17 2013 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER THE SCO SUPPORTS THE YEAR OF FAITH VATICAN NEWS 9 Pope Francis joins March for Life Holy Father makes decision to leave Apostolic Palace in Rome to greet march participants By Stephen Reilly Papal security guards were well prepared for Pope Francis’ trip by Popemobile to greet March for Life POPE Francis surprised participants in Rome around 40,000 Italian and international participants in Sunday’s March for Life in attracted 15,000 people from Rome when he left the Apos- around the country. tolic Palace to greet them “The welcome of Pope Fran- Holy Father receives Coptic Pope personally from his Popemo- cis represents the highest recog- nition for the initiative and the Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and bile in the street where they POPE Francis prayed last Pope Francis shake hands at a were gathered. confirmation of the sensitivity of week for ‘full unity’with the private audience Mgr Ignacio Barreiro, the the Pope to the non-negotiable Coptic Orthodox Church as head of the Rome office of principles, beginning with the he met with the Coptic Pope Human Life International, said right to life,” organisers said in Tawadros II for an historic tyrs was a seed of strength and that for the Pope to have effec- a statement. visit at the Vatican. fertility for the Church, so too tively joined the March for Life Mgr Barreiro also described This was the first such meet- the sharing of daily sufferings was highly unusual. the dramatic increase in numbers ing in 40 years. can become an effective instru- taking part in Rome’s March for “Our persevering prayer, our ment of unity,” he said. “And Spontaneous support Life, from 1000 people two dialogue and the will to build this also applies, in a certain Since his election, the Pope has years ago, to 15,000 last year, to communion day by day in mutual sense, to the broader context of gained a reputation for making about 40,000 this year. This he love will allow us to take impor- society and relations between spontaneous gestures that have put down to the hard work of the tant further steps towards full Christians and non-Christians: sometimes taxed his security staff, organisers in helping thousands unity,” Pope Francis told the Cop- from shared suffering can blos- beginning with taking the bus come by bus from up and down tic leader. “We long for the day som forth forgiveness and rec- back to his temporary residence the length of , and to a when, in fulfillment of the Lord’s onciliation, with God’s help.” with the other cardinals the night ‘renewed awareness’ among the desire, we will be able to commu- The four-day visit was the of his election, instead of the car public that Italy’s abortion law nicate from the one chalice.” high-point of a tour of Europe by reserved for the Holy Father. tion against embryo research. the Pope told the marchers. ‘must be abrogated.’ In saying this, the Holy Father Pope Tawadros, who was elected In this case, however, the Vat- The One of Us campaign is He also invited all to attend the “The people are now really acknowledged that there had been in November 2012 as leader of a ican were prepared ahead of seeking to gain one million sig- Vatican’s Evangelium Vitae Day, certain that we have to stake a ‘centuries of mutual distrust’ Christian Church faced with the time. Mgr Barreiro noted they natures as part of a European which he said would be ‘a special stronger position than that which between their two Christian rise of radical Islam. had prepared crowd control bar- Citizen Initiative. If organisers moment especially for those who has been held in the past by churches. The Coptic Pope’s pred- Pope Tawadros said he riers to guide the Popemobile out of the campaign achieve their care about the defence of the some Italian pro-life groups,” he ecessor, Shenouda III, visited the believed in Christian unity and of St Peter’s Square and across goal, the European Parliament is sanctity of human life,’ to take said. Vatican in 1973 to meet Pope Paul that ‘we must prepare our people the adjacent piazza and down the duty-bound to schedule a debate place ‘in the context of the Year The Pope is known for his VI and the two had launched a for this very real and needed wide Via della Conciliazione that on the issue. of Faith,’ on June 15 and 16. strong defence of the right to life. process of dialogue between unity that we know and live, we leads up to the basilica. In 2005, as activists urged Catholics and Copts and Pope must work quickly and seriously.’ The Pope also mentioned the Papal message Delight Argentina to legalise abortion, John Paul II also visited Shenouda Copts make up to 10 per cent of marchers from his usual weekly “I invite you to keep the attention March organisers were delighted the future Pope urged Catholics in Egypt in 2000. The Pope said the population in Egypt. Clashes Regina Coeli address, briefly of everyone on the important with the greeting and with the to defend the right to life even if the two churches were linked with the majority Muslim popula- welcoming them and endorsing issue of respect for human life extraordinary surge of numbers they ‘deliver you to the courts’ by ‘an ecumenism of suffering.’ tion have increased since the 2011 a European-wide pro-life peti- from the moment of conception,” from last year’s march, which or ‘have you killed.’ “Just as the blood of the mar- fall of Hosni Mubarak’s regime. Holy Father lavishes praise upon newest saints

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expenses if it wasn’t for the Daily lenged, could have wrought far greater Telegraph. In the 1960 and 1970s we damage in our Church. If Catherine had would never have known about how not broken this story then the cardinal brutal and evil the apartheid regime would have been taking his place at the was if it wasn’t for the BBC, and Lord conclave which elected Pope Francis. only knows how many more lives Unfortunately, several senior people would have been lost if graphic media in the Scottish Catholic Church, who pictures hadn’t roused public opinion really ought to know much better, to force the Americans to get out of began to shoot the messenger and insist Vietnam. that this was all an anti-Catholic witch- The responsibility with which the hunt. They were, and are, in denial and newspaper and media profession has they must snap out of it soon. been entrusted on behalf of the rest of Since then there have been further society is a sacred one and, as such, it revelations about behaviours and prac- BY KEVIN McKENNA confers a heavy responsibility and tices in the Scottish Catholic Church. demands high standards. That is why There has been a feeding frenzy here it became necessary for the corrupt and some of the usual suspects have HE prophet network of relationships between used the situation to slake their anti- really ought to be made the some Sun and News of the World jour- Catholic thirst. They have been able to patron of all journalists. nalists and many high-ranking mem- do this unchecked because not a single The atrocities that befell bers of the police to be exposed by voice of authority in the Catholic him for telling the Jewish The Guardian. Sometimes we have to Church has spoken. The Cardinal people things that they didn’t want to expose the wrongdoing and malprac- O’Brien story was revealed almost three hear would make your eyes water. At tice amongst members of our own pro- months ago, yet since then we have only least two kickings were administered fession and ensure that a robust code Journalists often have the unenviable task denial. Then we put up the no entry had a couple of unattributable twilight T of asking uncomforatble questions of our two him; one of them by his own of practice is in place governing the signs to block any further questioning. sources purporting to speak with political and religious leaders brothers. Death threats were against way we go about our business. Ordinary Catholics, trusting, bewil- Rome’s consent. him and he was imprisoned for a spell. dered and hurting, are kept in the dark. This is a lamentable situation. More He truly is a newspaperman’s prophet, t is even more important for news- happened. ‘Nothing to see here,’ was than 700,000 Scottish Catholics are though it is unrecorded if he had an papers to reveal corruption and their attitude. And when it did reluc- he story about the alleged mis- today bewildered at what has hap- unhealthy pallor, kept unsocial hours hypocrisy amongst priests, minis- tantly acknowledge the wrongdoing in conduct towards at least four pened. They want to know how many and liked the odd drink. Iters, bishops, cardinals and . For our midst the Church had to be held Scottish priests by Cardinal of the subsequent stories are true and I am not suggesting here that it is a these people have been raised to a sta- accountable and persuaded to put sys- TKeith O’Brien was shocking for many they need to know if the Church is tak- journalist’s primary purpose to break tion where they have been given spir- tems in place to ensure there was no of us who have known and loved this ing them seriously. Thus far we do not bad news, but it is certainly our to itual and moral authority over us. This recurrence. The Church certainly was man as our leader. know even if an inquiry will ever take ask uncomfortable questions of people is a far greater burden of responsibility not going to do so without some The story was revealed by The place. whom we have elected to run the than that borne by our secular and ‘encouragement.’ Observer in London, one of the other In the wake of Communications country’s affairs and to bring them to temporal leaders. Unfortunately, the Communication through evangeli- newspapers for which I write. I must Sunday, it is now time for the Church account if they have been dishonest or record of our Church in policing the sation is at the very heart of the state categorically here that I was to take control of this situation and to corrupt. We do this, not because it is a behaviour of its own clergy has been a Church’s mission in the world and this proud of The Observer for the way communicate to its people and to the perverse pastime but because if news- lamentable one and perhaps this is also includes acknowledging and that it ran the story and I was proud of world, with the full authority of Rome, papers didn’t reveal the wrongdoing of why the press have had to step in. repairing those areas that are broken. Catherine Deveney, the journalist who how it intends to repair the hurt and those in privileged positions of We Catholics would not have known For that too is a form of evangelisation wrote it, for it was in the very best tra- the damage. responsibility then the rest of us would about the scandal of Bishop Roddy as it demonstrates that when we do get ditions of what our industry is sup- never get to hear about it at all. Wright and the initial cases of clerical it wrong we act properly in addressing posed to be about. I Kevin McKenna is former deputy The British people would still be sex abuse in the 1990s if the press had the situation and that we do so in the Cardinal O’Brien has been a charis- editor of the Herald and former exec- largely unaware that our politicians not revealed them. The Church’s atti- light. Unfortunately, it seems the pre- matic and much-loved leader of the utive editor of the Daily Mail in Scot- were routinely fleecing us of millions tude then was simply to cover up the vailing attitude of our Church when Church in Scotland, but he was also liv- land. He is currently a columnist for of pounds by making false claims for wrongdoing and act as if nothing had wrongdoing is revealed is cover up and ing a lie that, if it had gone unchal- the Guardian

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WHEN my dad left school, seemed like breakneck speed communities and families with efforts to bring about a common For them to succeed and for aged 14, he went straight to towards the sharp end of mining, no history of mining. Coal was goal, in this case world peace, are their ministry to be effective, work in the pits, ironically, in the coal face. The roof got nearer the principal fuel for much of interdependent. It is good to have required huge cooperation from the same pit that had claimed Fr Eddie and narrower and the sense of their war effort and it was their heroes but unsung heroes are just great numbers of anonymous peo- his own father’s life, some claustrophobia a little more acute. job to produce it. Theirs was an as essential. ple. The disciples needed food, eight years earlier. Mining McGhee We got out to walk and there was unglamorous, but vital task. Not The Feast of Pentecost reminds shelter, support and encourage- was what our family did. For an almost palpable sense of relief, only had they to learn a com- us of this. The disciples of Jesus ment. These were provided by the men it was the only job us underground to see what life there was ground beneath our feet pletely new set of skills they had had to overcome many obstacles ordinary people. Their response to worth considering. On reflec- underground was like. Scary is even if the roof felt way too to integrate themselves into min- in spreading the Gospel. The the Holy Spirit was to be in the tion, it may well have been the word that springs to mind. On close. I was both fascinated and ing communities and get their principal obstacle was their own background in an essential but sup- the only job available. the surface, the two winding tow- afraid. The miners seemed very heads round working in one of fear. Any one of us, embarking of portive role. Their gifts were not I grew up in a mining commu- ers of Killoch Colliery look relaxed. As the reality of life, lit- the most challenging of working a new and challenging venture, necessarily great leadership or nity. Coalfields dotted the indus- impressive. They dominated the erally at the coal face, was environments. may be excited by the prospect incredible inventiveness, their gifts trial landscape of Scotland in my landscape of East Ayrshire. It was explained and demonstrated I had Merchant seamen who sailed but there are always little nig- were to be in the right place at the growing years, now they have from one of these that we began a sense of relief that I would not on the Atlantic convoys also had gling doubts. When the disciples right time so that the work of the gone. There are reminders of this our journey underground. Kitted be doing this for a living. My their efforts acknowledged. Sev- receive the gift of the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit could continue. These moment in our industrial past, pit out in boiler suits and protective admiration for miners which was enty years on their numbers are they are freed from fear. It was ordinary people were the Bevan bings, the occasional winding helmets, it seemed to us students innately high anyway, was rein- few but the quality of what they from Jerusalem that they had to Boys, the merchant seamen, of gear still left standing, but mostly like a wonderful adventure. When forced and affirmed. did remains significant. There is a go out. The temptation for you their own day, 2000 years ago. it is just memory. My dad loved the gates of the cage were closed Last week, it was reported that sense of irony that it has taken so and I is to forget that the disciples What of us today? Almost his job. He loved the cama- and the descent began it felt more a memorial to the ‘Bevan Boys’ long for the nation to recognise the of Jesus lived in a world with no inevitably we are called to do the raderie. He was content. He was terrifying than I could have imag- had been unveiled to mark their integrated nature of the war effort. incredible transport links, no same. Our role is to bring about also far-sighted enough to under- ined. It was almost a relief to contribution to the war effort dur- The Battle of Britain, the D-Day mass media, no Twitter or Face- transformation by doing the ordi- stand that deep mining had no come to a juddering halt in the ing the Second World War. The landings, Alamein, are all names book, no newspapers, no televi- nary things extraordinary well. The long-term future. None of his five bowels of the earth some 3000 Bevan Boys were those young that readily spring to mind from sion. If it is difficult for us to Holy Spirit challenges us to believe sons followed him into the pits. feet beneath the surface. It was men who were conscripted, not 1939-1945, but the soldiers, sailor imagine what life was like 70 that our efforts, on behalf of the While I was in seminary in the hot, dusty, unbelievably noisy and to fight in foreign lands, but to and airmen all had to be supported years ago, it is more difficult to Gospel, are always good enough. late 1960s, on three separate alien. We were then piled onto a work in the coal mining industry. by a huge logistics effort. We are put ourselves in the place of the occasions, my dad took a few of kind of rail car and taken at what These young men came from beginning to appreciate that our disciples 2000 years ago. I [email protected] Friday May 17 2013 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER THE SCO SUPPORTS THE YEAR OF FAITH COMMENT 11

W IRE Learn a little about how to love life D IN This month’s SPUC COLUMN explains the focus for the upcoming Youth Information Day event in Perth An SCO Diary

A SENIOR Vatican official has condemned the cult of Santa Muerte, or Holy Death, in Mexico as ‘blasphemous.’ The president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, said worshipping Santa Muerte SPUC SCOTLAND COLUMN was a ‘degeneration of religion.’ Cardinal Ravasi spoke at a series of HIS June will see us host events for believers our SPUC Scotland Youth and non-believers in Information Day. It is being Mexico City. held in St Matthew’s Church The cult, which reveres of Scotland Hall in the beau- death, has been growing tiful city of Perth on Saturday June 15. rapidly in Mexico. It is We want to inspire people to become represented by a cloaked more active in the pro-life field and for female skeleton clutching T a scythe. The odd belief is pro-lifers from all around the country to be brought together. believed to date back to The theme of the day is to learn to colonial times and its Love Life by celebrating, defending and peculiar popularity in a affirming it, a message that goes against devout Catholic country the grain in a society that increasingly may be explained by the only values human life in terms of qual- pro-life movement, we have an amazing start finding out information about the that lives in the future will be protected. fact that it is particularly popular in areas of ity and worth. What we believe at line up of speakers. Youth Defence, the movement in Scotland and around the We must never forget that every life is Mexico that have suffered SPUC Scotland is that every single inspirational pro-life group of young world to help with their Caritas Award worth living and celebrating. from extreme violence human life is as equal and as valuable people defending unborn life in Ireland work. Registration for the event is now carried out by the as any other regardless of things such as will be present to discuss pro-life In short, the day is an an amazing open. We look forward to seeing you all country’s drug cartels. circumstances of conception, stage of activism with an interactive workshop. opportunity for young pro-lifers (above) there for another amazing pro-life event Not for the first time development or circumstances in life. The group campaigns tirelessly to keep to further their knowledge on life issues in Scotland. For further information or evil begets evil. The day will not only cover the mir- Ireland abortion free and in their own and on how to debate and defend them in a registration form please contact the acle of life in the womb, but also of the words: “Believes in the power of the public arena from debate scenarios to SPUC Scotland office on 0141 221 2094 GGGGGGGGGGGGGG damage women can suffer in the after- action.” It adds: “Belief without action lobbying their political representatives. or email [email protected] math of an abortion experience. And as is like a body without breath.” Not only are the issues being dis- Keep a look out for Project Truth in AN AUSTRALIAN priest the ever increasing threat of the legali- cussed at pro-life conferences some of your area. Over the spring and summer suffered a horrible shock sation of euthanasia and assisted suicide his day is an unmissable event for the most important issues we are facing months pro-life young people are tour- last week when he awoke in Scotland looms large once again, we those who want to get the facts on today, that of defending the right to life ing Scotland’s towns and cities with the to find a dead pig’s head will also be looking at end-of-life issues pro-life issues and we would par- of the most vulnerable members of our project that looks at the development of had been stuck on a pole as part of the programme for the day, Tticularly welcome upper school repre- society and protecting and valuing that life in the womb, especially in the first outside his church. emphasising the inherent dignity of sentatives from the many pro-life right. But by focusing on passing this 10 weeks of life. The stall will be in Fairfield Superintendent every human life. We can promise that groups that are already established in information on to young people, we Dundee this weekend—Saturday May Peter Lennon said police the talks will be inspirational, the videos Scotland’s schools as well as students hope to motivate the next generation of 18. Please visit the stall when it comes were treating the crimes and images awe inspiring and the ses- interested in setting up their own pro- politicians, doctors, teachers, lawyers to your area to show your support and as ‘random acts of sions and activities fun packed and life groups. and parents to be more openly and try out our fun pre-natal development stupidity and informative. As the Caritas Awards increase in actively pro-life. quizzes to see how much you know desecration’ and For this special day, which is open to popularity in Scotland’s Catholic The truth of pro-life issues shows that about the miracle of life from the described the offending young people as well as those who work schools, the day will also provide a per- every single person in society is at risk moment of conception. acts as un-Australian. with young people and those interested fect opportunity for young people inter- from laws that are anti-life and if we RACHEL KIDD Horrible stuff, and in learning about how to inspire young ested in looking at pro-life issues for the can change the hearts and minds of thankfully not something people to become more involved in the awards to come along and get a head young people then we can be assured I www.spucscotland.org Scottish priests, not even those in Bridgeton have had to deal with. Yet! Continuing ‘New Pentecost’ will cast out fears GGGGGGGGGGGGGG A CATHOLIC US Army sargeant whose family they sent on the Church the Holy POPE John XXIII famously Conference, spoke of the need to name led other soldiers referred to the Second Vati- Spirit. It is being recognised enjoy the ‘atmosphere of openness Mgr Basil mistakenly assume she can Council as a ‘New Pente- today in our own Church when and freedom,’ which now charac- was a Muslim has said cost’ a description repeated Loftus joy and humour, looser liturgy, terises the Church under Holy she was the target of by all his successors. Today, and the application of plain com- Father Francis, where people are taunts and discrimination on the Feast of the original mon-sense in the face of rules not afraid to speak—a point made for a number of years. Pentecost, we have entered and regulations which impede even more forcibly in Costa Rica Sgt 1st Class Naida with Pope Francis into the both worship and evangelisation, when Archbishop Piero Marini, Hosan even changed her realisation that the Holy 50th Anniversary of the Second all free the spirit within each of the Papal Liturgist sacked some name to Nadia Christian Spirit has at last taken over us, allow the Holy Spirit to work five years ago in order to allow Nova before being the Church in order to allow Vatican Council within us, and in general give us lace and fripperies to return to the deployed to Afghanistan that ‘New Pentecost’ of the space to live in. The Roman Liturgy, rejoiced in the freedom to in 2012, but she says that Second Vatican Council to Catholic Church itself is becom- breathe ‘fresh air’ rather than the didn't stop the problems. bear fruit, and that fruit of the back. This is called being hard- missed the American War of Inde- ing a Pentecostal Church. ‘foetid smell of the swamp’ we After the soldier Holy Spirit includes the gift headed, this is called wanting to pendence. What has the Church Perhaps what was most worry- had recently been used to. repeatedly complained of Joy and freedom from fear. domesticate the Holy Spirit, this missed in the course of its nearly ing about the Church prior to Holy And Cardinal Joao Braz de about racist jokes and Pope Francis, in one of his fast- is called becoming ‘foolish and 50-year sleep since the council set Father Francis’s election as Pope Aviz, head of the Vatican Congre- epithets, Nova says she becoming famous weekday Mass slow of heart.’’ Finally Pope out its agenda of reform? was the all-pervading fear, even at gation for Religious life, began a was labelled a Muslim homilies, said that ‘the council Francis reminded us all to pray Perhaps more than anything the highest levels, of contradicting recent speech by saying that sympathiser and that was a beautiful work of the Holy for obedience ‘to that Spirit who else we have missed the emer- anything said by even the most before Pope Francis he ‘did not superiors tried to kick her Spirit, but after 50 years, have we comes to us and urges us forward gence of a fourth player in the extreme fundamentalists—people have the courage’ to say what he out of the army. done everything the Holy Spirit in on the path to holiness.’ Christian Premier League. No whom Yves Congar called inte- now said: “In the Church we need Hard as this the council told us to do?’ “Wanting to domesticate the longer can we speak just of gristes—an impossible word to to re-think how we act.” He went undoubtedly was for Sgt Asking if the Church has Holy Spirit.” What a wonderful Roman Catholics, Reformed translate but meaning roughly on to distinguish ‘authority’ from Hosan, she should be opened itself to what he termed description of a futile and useless Churches and the Orthodox. those who are opposed to any ‘domination,’ saying: “Authority glad she didn’t grow up the ‘continuity of the Church’s endeavour. Yet is this not exactly Today we welcome also the Pen- development in the Church at all. that commands, kills. Obedience in the West of Scotland. growth’ that the council signified, what the Church has been trying tecostal Churches. The post- Now all that is changing. Dur- that becomes a copy of what the As a Catholic with a he said clearly ‘no.’ Pope Francis to do? Christian era began when the ing a recent four-day conference in other person says is infantile/” Muslim sounding name, she would be lucky to told the congregation that there When Rip van Winkle woke up Risen Christ returned to His Germany, Robert Zollitsch, the So we sing today: “The Spirit survive a week! are ‘voices saying we should go after his 20-year sleep he had Father in Heaven and together president of the German Bishops’ lives to set us free.” 12 ANDREA KEARNEY THE SCO SUPPORTS THE YEAR OF FAITH SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday May 17 2013 Friday May 17 2013 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER THE SCO SUPPORTS THE YEAR OF FAITH JOHN LENNON PLAY 13 ANDREA’S INSTANT DRAMA RICHARD PURDEN talks to Catholic actor Valentine Pelka about taking on the role of John Lennon

LOVE KEEPS EETING Valentine Pelka I was once again struck by his uncanny resem- blance to John Lennon which will stop audience goers in their tracks. While rumours are abound that Paul McCartney might even attend the play on the London run, Pelka is sensitive about the subject matter. “You Mhave got to remember that you’re dealing with a real ON GIVING person’s life and death with family and friends still existing, so you have to be sensitive to that,” he said. The Catholic actor is about to take on the role of the Liverpudlian rock n’ roll hero for a much antic- ipated premiere in London’s West End. It is now eight years since And In The End enjoyed a critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh festival. Amid a suc- cessful stage and film career Mr Pelka has lived with the role of John Lennon for nearly a decade also playing him during an Australian run. The play has been written by Emmy award winning American Sandy Marshall who spent a number of years trying to filter the true essence of who Lennon really was; not the star or the peace activist but the man that existed outside of the media. Some accounts of John Lennon’s life have been sensational painting him as either saint or demon; thankfully this production makes room for light and shade. Marshall has gathered information from the subject’s former friends and acquaintances as well as plundering weighty and endless volumes of Beatles and Lennon tomes. Mr Pelka has also drawn on var- ious personal anecdotes from over the years, as he explains: “I have had some fascinating conversa- tions about John, the singer Kiki Dee told me she had a lengthy chat with him in New York after he played a gig with Elton John, he wasn’t talking about the Beatles or world peace, he was talking about Heinz beans and HP sauce, essentially it is that side of Lennon that I am most interested in. “One of my favourite stories is when he was living in New York, two nine-year-old kids had spotted The late Andrea Kearney (seen above holding one of her Yoko leave the apartment and waited for him to COTTISH mother of five Andrea Kear- PETER KEARNEY tells the SCO how the Andrea children) inspired her family to set up a fund in her come out, when he did Lennon said: ‘What are you ney died on May 2008, aged 41, after memory to help other women diagnosed with cancer lot doing?’ to which one of them replied: ‘You said being diagnosed with breast cancer while during pregnancy. The fifth Andrea Kearney Fundraising imagine, we imagined we wanted to meet you and expecting her last child. The Andrea Kearney Fund, established in memory of his late dinner will be held on Saturday June 1 in Glasgow here we are,’ so Lennon invited them in. There are Kearney Fund, established by her wid- so many stories of people turning up wherever he ower Peter Kearney, director of the Scottish wife, can keep on helping other mothers, and was; he really did make himself available to his fans. Catholic Media Office, supports other women Aside from looking like Lennon, Pelka has the diagnosedS with cancer during pregnancy. accent, sardonic wit and mannerisms exactly right. Groups and individuals have undertaken mothers-to-be, who are diagnosed with cancer change since it began in 2008. We have no over- Lennon’s style, characteristics and voice went fundraising in Andrea’s memory, helping to swell heads or administration costs, so we raise money through a number of shifts offering the actor a lot to the coffers of the fund which have also been sup- and then give it to women who meet the criteria work with, said Mr Pelka: “There is a lot of physi- ported so far by four large-scale benefits nights in no-strings attached grants, what they do with cal stuff, John’s nose is very distinctive. A lot of peo- with the help of celebrities and businesses. the payments is entirely up to them. ple in Liverpool have that look, Robbie Fowler is a The fifth Andrea Kearney Fundraising Dinner is good example, and it recurs in the way John talks; taking place at the Radisson Hotel in Glasgow on SCO: Fundraising is always a challenge, espe- which is quite adenoidal. I think it has got something Saturday June 1 at 7pm. Guests will enjoy a three- cially so in the current economic climate. Have to do with the climate. When he moved to Wey- course meal, complimentary wine and a pro- you had to think outside the box? What fundrais- bridge in Surrey it was gone. A few years later you gramme of entertainment from some of Scotland’s ing projects have others undertaken for the fund see him being interviewed in America where his most talented musicians and performers, which this and what could people do? speech is must faster; almost manic. There’s a lot of year includes Elaine C Smith, Ricky Ross, PK: The current climate is very difficult for char- interview footage, the problem you have is which Michelle McManus and Lou Hickey. Guests know itable fundraising, many bigger organisations one do you go for? I have gone for 1972.” that their ticket price and donations will be put to than ours have cancelled events because of a lack very good use by the fund. focus on will coping with her loss and kept her lenges of cancer and fundraising with amazing of support. We are lucky to have such a dedicated way from the stage Mr Pelka has also had a Below, Mr Kearney tells the SCO how the fund name alive—for me and the children but also for celebrity and community support. Does this sur- core of supporters. There is no magic formula, long and successful film career; the cross has helped his family, and others like them, on the many others who knew and loved her. prise you? Is there anything you would like to keep telling people about what you do, phone, around his neck was a gift after working path of having a loved one with cancer. say to those who help? text, mail and ask them to tell their friends. Host- alongside Sean Connery in First Knight (1995). Other SCO: PK: A Your youngest son was just a baby when I have always been amazed at people’s gen- ing events in a wonderful venue with amazing highlights include The Pianist (2002). His Catholic I Book your ticket for the Andrea Kearney Benefit Andrea passed away five years ago, your oldest, erosity, in contributing to the fund through vari- performers helps! family history is just as fascinating, today we are sit- dinner at http://www.andreakearney.org/ your daughter, is now a young woman. How do ous sponsorship efforts, in attending the dinner ting in a restaurant, the Daquise, across from Bromp- Andrea_Kearney/Home.html you keep their memories of their mum fresh and and donating, I am eternally grateful to all those SCO: How has your Faith, and Faith community, ton Oratory which holds a significant link for the actor. causes who helped me a lot in the past. “I have my “I’ve got a picture at home of Ali and the Beat- Valentine Pelka (above main) the actor charged with inspiring for them? who help. I have also been extremely grateful for supported you and been affected by Andrea’s “My father went to Mass every Sunday, when I first own faith; it is a journey but it is a journey for every- les,” he said. “I think there’s a strong link in that bringing the John Lennon’s life to the stage in the play SCO: Peter, the benefit on June 1 2013 is the fifth PK: My youngest, Philip, is now 6 years old and the support of so many well known performers, came down to London from Leeds he told me to come one. It gets tested at times but it wasn’t by my par- photo because boxers and pop stars are not expected And In the End has enjoyed the challenge of playing the passing and your work with the fund in her mem- late singer (above inset) to audiences across the world large-scale fundraiser for the Andrea Kearney my oldest, Louisa, is 17. To them, and their this year is no different: (above from left) Elaine ory? here,” he said “The Polish Government who had gone ents dying, I accepted that, but you wouldn’t be to be political or philosophical but these things were Fund, named in memory of your late wife. The brothers; Thomas, Joseph and Christopher, the C Smith, Ricky Ross, Michelle McManus and PK: I was fortunate to be in a position where I into exile after Poland was invaded by Hitler in 1939 human if your faith didn’t get tested. I think this play put upon them and how Lennon and Ali dealt with it, fund helps other women diagnosed with cancer Andrea Kearney Fund is ‘Mum's Fund!’ It is one Lou Hickey will all contribute and perform, I was close to many bishops and priests. Their sup- came to London and went to Mass at Brompton Ora- is spiritual because it is about a man dying and the is fascinating. again and it’ll happen in America. When my mum during pregnancy, like Andrea. Has being of many reminders of her and a tribute to the gen- want to thank them all. port was overwhelming and deeply valued. tory. They ate in this restaurant for years after and journey that he makes, from that perspective you do “Boxing does give you a fresh perspective on had these feelings she was never wrong. I used to involved in this work also helped you and your erous and loving person she was. Her paintings Andrea’s death, however seemed to be the most you would come in here and they would be shouting not need to be a Beatles or a John Lennon fan, the things, there’s a line in the last Rocky film where keep the character alive by saying a few words in family? hang on our walls and she is in our thoughts and SCO: Can you tell our readers more about the spectacular example of prayers not being across the room to one other in Polish.” subject is universal.” somebody says to the main character: ‘Why are you the mirror every morning; well here we are about to PK: As we prepare for the fifth fundraising dinner conversations all the time. fund and the work it does, and if and how it has answered leaving me with a very different view For Pelka his undertaking of the Lennon role has still fighting?’ He says: ‘There’s still stuff in the play London, who knows where we go from here.” (previous ones were held in 2008, 2009, 2010 changed or evolved since its beginnings? intercessory prayers from the one I had—and been something of a spiritual experience. oxing is how Mr Pelka keeps fit for what is a basement.’That is exactly how I feel about this play. and 2012) I realise the fund has done three SCO: The Andrea Kearney benefits have been so PK: It remains the only fund in the UK that sup- suspect many Catholics may have—before. That “There have been a few coincidences with John,” demanding role; boxing biographies on In Australia, to cut a long story short, things didn’t I And In The End May 7-June 1 at Jermyn Street things: really helped women diagnosed with can- successful and strike an inspiring balance ports women diagnosed with cancer during preg- is probably something we need to think about he explained. “I have a Japanese wife and my son is Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier also sharpen go as well as we had hoped and I thought it was fin- Theatre London Monday to Saturday 7:30pm. Sat- cer during pregnancy; given me something to between celebrating life, highlighting the chal- nancy. The way it works really has not needed to more deeply when we ‘pray’ for someone. also called Jude; partly named after the Beatles song up his mind. Even the sport’s fictional heroes have ished. I lost both my parents recently and before my urday Matinee 3:30pm. Tickets & £18 (concs £16) B Box office 020 7287 2875 but also named after St Jude-the of lost provided the inspiration for playing Lennon. mother died she said you are going to play John 12 ANDREA KEARNEY THE SCO SUPPORTS THE YEAR OF FAITH SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday May 17 2013 Friday May 17 2013 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER THE SCO SUPPORTS THE YEAR OF FAITH JOHN LENNON PLAY 13 ANDREA’S INSTANT DRAMA RICHARD PURDEN talks to Catholic actor Valentine Pelka about taking on the role of John Lennon

LOVE KEEPS EETING Valentine Pelka I was once again struck by his uncanny resem- blance to John Lennon which will stop audience goers in their tracks. While rumours are abound that Paul McCartney might even attend the play on the London run, Pelka is sensitive about the subject matter. “You Mhave got to remember that you’re dealing with a real ON GIVING person’s life and death with family and friends still existing, so you have to be sensitive to that,” he said. The Catholic actor is about to take on the role of the Liverpudlian rock n’ roll hero for a much antic- ipated premiere in London’s West End. It is now eight years since And In The End enjoyed a critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh festival. Amid a suc- cessful stage and film career Mr Pelka has lived with the role of John Lennon for nearly a decade also playing him during an Australian run. The play has been written by Emmy award winning American Sandy Marshall who spent a number of years trying to filter the true essence of who Lennon really was; not the star or the peace activist but the man that existed outside of the media. Some accounts of John Lennon’s life have been sensational painting him as either saint or demon; thankfully this production makes room for light and shade. Marshall has gathered information from the subject’s former friends and acquaintances as well as plundering weighty and endless volumes of Beatles and Lennon tomes. Mr Pelka has also drawn on var- ious personal anecdotes from over the years, as he explains: “I have had some fascinating conversa- tions about John, the singer Kiki Dee told me she had a lengthy chat with him in New York after he played a gig with Elton John, he wasn’t talking about the Beatles or world peace, he was talking about Heinz beans and HP sauce, essentially it is that side of Lennon that I am most interested in. “One of my favourite stories is when he was living in New York, two nine-year-old kids had spotted The late Andrea Kearney (seen above holding one of her Yoko leave the apartment and waited for him to COTTISH mother of five Andrea Kear- PETER KEARNEY tells the SCO how the Andrea children) inspired her family to set up a fund in her come out, when he did Lennon said: ‘What are you ney died on May 2008, aged 41, after memory to help other women diagnosed with cancer lot doing?’ to which one of them replied: ‘You said being diagnosed with breast cancer while during pregnancy. The fifth Andrea Kearney Fundraising imagine, we imagined we wanted to meet you and expecting her last child. The Andrea Kearney Fund, established in memory of his late dinner will be held on Saturday June 1 in Glasgow here we are,’ so Lennon invited them in. There are Kearney Fund, established by her wid- so many stories of people turning up wherever he ower Peter Kearney, director of the Scottish wife, can keep on helping other mothers, and was; he really did make himself available to his fans. Catholic Media Office, supports other women Aside from looking like Lennon, Pelka has the diagnosedS with cancer during pregnancy. accent, sardonic wit and mannerisms exactly right. Groups and individuals have undertaken mothers-to-be, who are diagnosed with cancer change since it began in 2008. We have no over- Lennon’s style, characteristics and voice went fundraising in Andrea’s memory, helping to swell heads or administration costs, so we raise money through a number of shifts offering the actor a lot to the coffers of the fund which have also been sup- and then give it to women who meet the criteria work with, said Mr Pelka: “There is a lot of physi- ported so far by four large-scale benefits nights in no-strings attached grants, what they do with cal stuff, John’s nose is very distinctive. A lot of peo- with the help of celebrities and businesses. the payments is entirely up to them. ple in Liverpool have that look, Robbie Fowler is a The fifth Andrea Kearney Fundraising Dinner is good example, and it recurs in the way John talks; taking place at the Radisson Hotel in Glasgow on SCO: Fundraising is always a challenge, espe- which is quite adenoidal. I think it has got something Saturday June 1 at 7pm. Guests will enjoy a three- cially so in the current economic climate. Have to do with the climate. When he moved to Wey- course meal, complimentary wine and a pro- you had to think outside the box? What fundrais- bridge in Surrey it was gone. A few years later you gramme of entertainment from some of Scotland’s ing projects have others undertaken for the fund see him being interviewed in America where his most talented musicians and performers, which this and what could people do? speech is must faster; almost manic. There’s a lot of year includes Elaine C Smith, Ricky Ross, PK: The current climate is very difficult for char- interview footage, the problem you have is which Michelle McManus and Lou Hickey. Guests know itable fundraising, many bigger organisations one do you go for? I have gone for 1972.” that their ticket price and donations will be put to than ours have cancelled events because of a lack very good use by the fund. focus on will coping with her loss and kept her lenges of cancer and fundraising with amazing of support. We are lucky to have such a dedicated way from the stage Mr Pelka has also had a Below, Mr Kearney tells the SCO how the fund name alive—for me and the children but also for celebrity and community support. Does this sur- core of supporters. There is no magic formula, long and successful film career; the cross has helped his family, and others like them, on the many others who knew and loved her. prise you? Is there anything you would like to keep telling people about what you do, phone, around his neck was a gift after working path of having a loved one with cancer. say to those who help? text, mail and ask them to tell their friends. Host- alongside Sean Connery in First Knight (1995). Other SCO: PK: A Your youngest son was just a baby when I have always been amazed at people’s gen- ing events in a wonderful venue with amazing highlights include The Pianist (2002). His Catholic I Book your ticket for the Andrea Kearney Benefit Andrea passed away five years ago, your oldest, erosity, in contributing to the fund through vari- performers helps! family history is just as fascinating, today we are sit- dinner at http://www.andreakearney.org/ your daughter, is now a young woman. How do ous sponsorship efforts, in attending the dinner ting in a restaurant, the Daquise, across from Bromp- Andrea_Kearney/Home.html you keep their memories of their mum fresh and and donating, I am eternally grateful to all those SCO: How has your Faith, and Faith community, ton Oratory which holds a significant link for the actor. causes who helped me a lot in the past. “I have my “I’ve got a picture at home of Ali and the Beat- Valentine Pelka (above main) the actor charged with inspiring for them? who help. I have also been extremely grateful for supported you and been affected by Andrea’s “My father went to Mass every Sunday, when I first own faith; it is a journey but it is a journey for every- les,” he said. “I think there’s a strong link in that bringing the John Lennon’s life to the stage in the play SCO: Peter, the benefit on June 1 2013 is the fifth PK: My youngest, Philip, is now 6 years old and the support of so many well known performers, came down to London from Leeds he told me to come one. It gets tested at times but it wasn’t by my par- photo because boxers and pop stars are not expected And In the End has enjoyed the challenge of playing the passing and your work with the fund in her mem- late singer (above inset) to audiences across the world large-scale fundraiser for the Andrea Kearney my oldest, Louisa, is 17. To them, and their this year is no different: (above from left) Elaine ory? here,” he said “The Polish Government who had gone ents dying, I accepted that, but you wouldn’t be to be political or philosophical but these things were Fund, named in memory of your late wife. The brothers; Thomas, Joseph and Christopher, the C Smith, Ricky Ross, Michelle McManus and PK: I was fortunate to be in a position where I into exile after Poland was invaded by Hitler in 1939 human if your faith didn’t get tested. I think this play put upon them and how Lennon and Ali dealt with it, fund helps other women diagnosed with cancer Andrea Kearney Fund is ‘Mum's Fund!’ It is one Lou Hickey will all contribute and perform, I was close to many bishops and priests. Their sup- came to London and went to Mass at Brompton Ora- is spiritual because it is about a man dying and the is fascinating. again and it’ll happen in America. When my mum during pregnancy, like Andrea. Has being of many reminders of her and a tribute to the gen- want to thank them all. port was overwhelming and deeply valued. tory. They ate in this restaurant for years after and journey that he makes, from that perspective you do “Boxing does give you a fresh perspective on had these feelings she was never wrong. I used to involved in this work also helped you and your erous and loving person she was. Her paintings Andrea’s death, however seemed to be the most you would come in here and they would be shouting not need to be a Beatles or a John Lennon fan, the things, there’s a line in the last Rocky film where keep the character alive by saying a few words in family? hang on our walls and she is in our thoughts and SCO: Can you tell our readers more about the spectacular example of prayers not being across the room to one other in Polish.” subject is universal.” somebody says to the main character: ‘Why are you the mirror every morning; well here we are about to PK: As we prepare for the fifth fundraising dinner conversations all the time. fund and the work it does, and if and how it has answered leaving me with a very different view For Pelka his undertaking of the Lennon role has still fighting?’ He says: ‘There’s still stuff in the play London, who knows where we go from here.” (previous ones were held in 2008, 2009, 2010 changed or evolved since its beginnings? intercessory prayers from the one I had—and been something of a spiritual experience. oxing is how Mr Pelka keeps fit for what is a basement.’That is exactly how I feel about this play. and 2012) I realise the fund has done three SCO: The Andrea Kearney benefits have been so PK: It remains the only fund in the UK that sup- suspect many Catholics may have—before. That “There have been a few coincidences with John,” demanding role; boxing biographies on In Australia, to cut a long story short, things didn’t I And In The End May 7-June 1 at Jermyn Street things: really helped women diagnosed with can- successful and strike an inspiring balance ports women diagnosed with cancer during preg- is probably something we need to think about he explained. “I have a Japanese wife and my son is Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier also sharpen go as well as we had hoped and I thought it was fin- Theatre London Monday to Saturday 7:30pm. Sat- cer during pregnancy; given me something to between celebrating life, highlighting the chal- nancy. The way it works really has not needed to more deeply when we ‘pray’ for someone. also called Jude; partly named after the Beatles song up his mind. Even the sport’s fictional heroes have ished. I lost both my parents recently and before my urday Matinee 3:30pm. Tickets & £18 (concs £16) B Box office 020 7287 2875 but also named after St Jude-the patron saint of lost provided the inspiration for playing Lennon. mother died she said you are going to play John 14 LETTERS THE SCO SUPPORTS THE YEAR OF FAITH SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday May 17 2013

Disgusted at move to explain their Faith’ makes it push cardinal to leave an obvious front page topic I AM disgusted at what was rather than mere jousting with reported on the front page of politicians. That will go on last week’s SCO [Moves to Letters without SCO encouragement. get cardinal to leave UK for Catholic schools can make the good of the Church.] The SCO, 19 Waterloo Street, Glasgow G2 6BT no headway without strong matter should be laid to rest. [email protected] family sacramental life. We all This all happened more than know that—but we also know SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER 30 years ago and we do not that parents need strong social Founded on April 18 1885 know how it was dealt with backing to counter the then? The cardinal could have sense of peace, and that physically present in the pernicious elements in been to the Sacrement of somebody was praying for me,” Eucharist and this is why Paul society. I hope the SCO is N TODAY’S youth-obsessed secular culture it Renconcillation. What about she told me. I am sure that VI goes on to write ‘that after planning to promote World comes as no surprise that many look to the young his great service for all the Cardinal O’Brien’s prayers had the consecration they are the Youth Day adequately to for inspiration on the latest trends. However, as years after the ‘innappropriate proved of real comfort to a frail true body of Christ—which please Pope Francis, by Catholics we are often rightly inspired by our own behaviour’ it is not what has old woman. was born of the Virgin and keeping Scotland's Rio well to young people, perhaps never more so than at this been said it is what has not Just as I am sure that the which hung on the Cross as an the fore! point in the liturgical year with so many parishes cele- been said? Who are we to cardinal, for all his past errors offering for the salvation of Mary Feguson brating First Holy Communions. judge or indeed cast the first and for whatever frailties he the world—and the true blood NEWRY What is it that moves us all so much as a community stone? Certainly not me. may have been guilty of, is at of Christ—which flowed from I Editor’s note: SCO WYD I coverage is ongoing. about these young communicants and their Faith jour- If you make a mistake you heart a very decent, devout His side.’ This teaching was neys? Perhaps their budding Faith, Faith in its purest get up and go forward: that is man, who himself deserves our not something new. St form, reminds us of what truly matters: the need to be the way, Those who do not prayers and understanding in writes that: Anti-sectarian football like children before God. As Matthew told us of Jesus walk in order to err make a his time of trouble and “Just as the whole substance law needs revison 18:3: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become more serious mistake. difficulty for the Church. of the bread was physically THE letter from Paul Smyth like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of Pope Francis’ homily at I certainly will not forget his present before the in the May 3 SCO regarding heaven.’” Domus Santae Marthae May great kindness. consecration, so the whole the ‘offensive behaviour at The Faith of young Catholics gives us all hope for the 8, 2013. Willie Morrison substance of Christ's body is football’ law makes some future in the darkest of times, such as the Faith demon- I will welcome Cardinal INVERNESS physically present after the good points at the start but strated by the school pupils who honoured Our Lady of Keith O’Brien with the love consecration.” descends into the usual Fatima at St Andrew’s Cathedral, Glasgow, on Monday, taught to me by an ALL Sincere thanks of the It is possible for us to make anti-SNP comments. Her feast day and the day Pope Francis consecrated his forgiving Jesus Christ. Wayside Club the distinction of saying that He states that offensive Papacy to Her [pages 1 and 5.] Catherine Hunter ON BEHALF of everyone Christ’s body is physically behaviour is found at football The Faith of pupils and young adults is given a voice GLASGOW connected with the Wayside present, ie as a bodily grounds everywhere. Does on our schools’ page and in the Strong in Faith feature Club Centre we would like to substance, under the this make it right? No, and on Facebook and in the SCO (page 4). Don’t forget cardinal’s express our sincere thanks to appearance of bread, but its Celtic Football Club pride As our young Catholics at schools, colleges and uni- kindness everyone who attended or mode of existence is not themselves in being versities sit exams, let us keep them in our thoughts and AS A Presbyterian Scot supported our Anniversary physical. This may help to well-behaved, hence the many prayers. whose family has cause to be Dinner in the Hilton Hotel assuage Mgr Loftus of any good behaviour awards and World Youth Day with Pope Francis in Rio de Janeiro grateful to Cardinal Keith recently. We received a great fears that we could be accolades. lies ahead this year from July 23 to 28, as does O’Brien, for the comfort he response with 531 people ‘drowning Jesus’ while Fergus McCann, nearly 20

Let our young people lead the way with guidance Scotland’s Rio at Stirling University. afforded our elderly mother in from all over Scotland and purifying the sacred vessels or years ago, was the first person At WYD, our youth mix with many her final months, I am England turning up. We are that we are indulging in in authority to ask that we less fortunate than themselves, some disturbed by reports that the especially grateful to ‘cannibalism’ by eating the refrain from non-football from countries where people are perse- Church has decreed that he Archbishop Philip Tartaglia most sacred species. chanting, which some people cuted for their religious beliefs. should live the rest of his life and Archbishop Emeritus The charge of cannibalism may find offensive. This In many ways, today’s Scottish outwith Scotland. Surely he Mario Conti for taking the in relation to the Eucharist is request was taken on board by youth live very privileged lives, with should now be permitted to time to be with us and for patently false even for us who most fans but a minority modern comforts and technology. spend his retirement in this their words of encouragement. rightly believe that Christ is caused Celtic to be fined by However, they also face a myriad of country? We raised more than £18,000 physically present. We are not UEFA for offensive singing. choices and their struggle to explore In May 2006 the cardinal on the night, which will ease eating someone who is dead, With regards to the new their vocation and find the right path was guest speaker at the first of our financial worries at least we are eating Christ’s life law, Paul should note that it through life is enormous, with great that year’s ecumenical summer for some months. Thanks to giving flesh. By doing this, prohibits offensive behaviour competition for further education evening services in the Old everyone who also gave their there is no danger that we will at football. I have been places and employment. High Church of Scotland, time for free. bring about Christ’s death watching Celtic for 60 years We pray our young people find Inverness. Most who heard him Jim White rather, when received and have never been worried good role models, such as the recently then must have been rather SECRETARY worthily, it will bring us a about being arrested because, canonised martyrs and leaders in their shocked and saddened by his share in eternal life. It is in quite simply, I behave myself. own Faith communities, and rise sudden resignation as Britain’s Falsehood on Eucharist this same spirit that we must Paul did not comment on Opinion admirably to the life challenges they senior Catholic cleric after his leads flock astray seek to preach Christ instead the success of the law in encounter. admission that he had ‘behaved WHEN writing his Encylical of promoting a false stopping offensive chanting at inappropriately’ towards young Letter of 1965, Pope Paul VI understanding of the Eucharist football. For many decades I priests more than 30 years ago. referred to the Holy Eucharist which could lead the flock have had to endure offensive [What happened] brought as Mysterium Fidei (The astray. chanting about the Pope, into sharp focus the frailty of Mystery of Faith.) Over the Fr Paul T Brooks aspects of my Catholic Faith, Take a even the devout human beings, centuries, many minds have anti-Irish songs, the Billy as I had been greatly inspired tried to penetrate the depths of Content not commerce Boys at football matches. fresh by his talk, and very much this Mystery. It is to be hoped must drive the SCO This has all but stopped this impressed by his presence. and expected that they will do TO BE our national Catholic season and in fact Ray Stubbs look at Despite the cardinal’s lapse, I so in accordance with the newspaper, in these rather on Sky apologised to viewers still, from personal experience, teaching of Christ’s Church. difficult times, the SCO about sectarian singing they the SCO retain a great admiration for Paul VI clearly reminds us asserts some measure of may have heard during a him as a manifestly caring that in speaking of the authority, difficult to define, Rangers game on TV. This person. At the end of our Eucharist ‘it would be wrong but carrying responsibility, as was unheard of years ago. service I spoke to him for a for anyone to try to explain do the actions of all of us. As regards the police, they short while, and asked if he this manner of presence by Commercial considerations tend to be ‘heavy handed’ in would mind some time saying a dreaming up a so-called can never be priority in policy general with anyone [seen as a SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER wee prayer for my ailing, very ‘pneumatic’ nature of the matters, therefore choice of threat.] They have had a Presbyterian mother, then glorious body of Christ that front page should not be a ‘football unit’ since the days nearly 95, in a care home and would be present everywhere.’ matter of what sells. In of the ‘casuals’ and keep MAIN SWITCHBOARD Instead, he teaches that: national matters of Faith, a Tel: 0141 221 4956 Fax: 0141 221 4546 only a few months to live. records on anyone they think • “Of course,” replied Cardinal “Christ is present whole and clear priority report (May 3) needs watching. This is EDITOR O’Brien, who inquired not only entire in His physical ‘reality,’ week was that of Dunkeld nothing new and is not unique her name and circumstances, corporeally present, although Diocese Union of Catholic to football. Liz Leydon—Tel: 0141 241 6109 but also insisted on writing not in the manner in which Mothers triennial Meeting, The police powers and [email protected] down the address of the Assynt bodies are in a place.” briefly sketched by Martin tactics that Paul worries about DEPUTY EDITOR Centre at Lochinver, where she Unlike Mgr Loftus in the Dunlop. The importance of were already there within was being cared for, and my SCO, the Church expressly Bishop Mone’s exhortation to existing laws, and are nothing Ian Dunn—Tel: 0141 241 6107 [email protected] own contact details. The next makes clear that Christ is mothers ‘to defend and to do with the new SNP law. day he sent me an e-mail telling The law does need reviewed REPORTER me he was praying for my G SCO reserves the right to edit letters for space or style needs and changed but not thrown Martin Dunlop—Tel: 0141 241 6103 mother, and also that he had G This page is used solely for reader opinion and therefore views out. Paul should try and look expressed are not necessarily shared by SCO [email protected] sent her a card with his at the positive aspects of a law blessings. Recently I visited my G If you would like to share your opinion, send your correspondence which is trying to rid our SUB-EDITOR mother, whom I found in a to the above address country of the evils of much more contented mood sectarianism. Gerard Gough—Tel: 0141 241 6115 G Whether you use e-mail or post, you must provide your full name, James Inglis [email protected] than I had seen her in for some address, and phone number or your letter will not be used time. “I felt yesterday a great GLASGOW Friday May 17 2013 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER THE SCO SUPPORTS THE YEAR OF FAITH THAT’S LIFE 15 What’s in a name? A fitting tribute maybe? THAT’S LIFE explains how honouring Our Lady or a saint when naming a child could be a lifelong gift to them

able saint’s name to add to Mary.

aradoxically, as the name of Our Blessed Mother has declined in popularity, there is a By Mary growing trend towards spiritual names— Pax, Angel and Faith to name but a few. Heaven McGinty Pmakes the occasional appearance although less often than when it is spelt backwards, as in Nevaeh. I dare say there is a pair of twins some- HILDREN love to ask their parents where ladled with that unfortunate combination. what other names they might have Girls born in the month of May would often be been called. Ours would have hit the named after Our Lady unless an older sister had deed poll office long ago if I had opted already had the name bestowed upon her. Even for any of the outlandish names I con- then, a variation would be applied. And there are templated. In mitigation they were all saints’ names. plenty of those. Setting aside Maria, Maureen, Baby name remorse, as it is known, is on the up May and Moira which, like Mary, have fallen out Cand it can be experienced by both children and par- of favour there is no shortage of alternatives. ents. The statistics tell us that in 1995 there were Grace is of-the-moment and the very pretty Mae 1112 name changes in Scotland, a figure that had works well as a middle name, opening the field for jumped to 3470 in 2009. What they do not tell us any wacky first name you care to choose. If it is a are the reasons, but when you hear some of the stylish, contemporary, but safe choice you are names currently in vogue you could safely wager looking for, Lily has been a top ten favourite for a and dusted off. The variations are all there. From tastes. Or be really different and go for Mary—a embarrassment is right up there. The gene pool of while now. The not-immediately obvious diminu- Annunziata to Pilar there is something for all name that will endure for all time. baby names is now as big as the imagination. In tive, Polly, is another option. And there is always the 1811 census one in four girls was named Mary. Madonna, although in our celebrity-mad culture Individuality has usurped tradition; inventive- the odds on it being assumed that you have named ness is the name of the game. Parents want their your daughter in honour of the Mother of God are Gordius No 91 children to stand out from the crowd and being cre- somewhat long. CROSSWORD ative with their names is the first way of ensuring For sheer variety the Spanish-speaking world is that. It is just that different is not necessarily better. way out front with Consuelo, Carmen, Mercedes, Of all the many reasons I have to be grateful to Dolores, Luz and Paz just for starters. If you pre- 1 2345 678 my parents not far from the top of the list is my fer something biblical, Sharon works. And then 9 name. Admittedly, I was not overly fond of it in there is Miriam, the oldest-known form of Mary. my early years when the more exotic Maxine and In the late fourth or early fifth century, St 10 11 Pamela were the order of the day in the swinging interpreted Miryam as meaning ‘Star of the Sea.’ sixties. But the thing about fashion is that is goes And that gives rise to Stella. And let’s not forget as quickly as it comes. In time I grew to love my the boys; Mario, a perennial in the Italian com- 12 131415 name. Bearing the name of Our Lady was like a munity, is a class act. First entry out the hat next wearing a cloak of love and protection. Rather As St Louis De Montfort said: “The more we 1617 TUESDAY will be the winner than plain I began to see it as timeless, quintes- honour the Blessed Virgin, the more we honour 18 19 20 sential and classic. Jesus Christ, because we honour Mary only that Send your completed When my turn came I took the lead from my we may the more perfectly honour Jesus, since we 21 22 crossword entries—along with parents and when our first daughter was born in go to Her only as the way by which we are to find the month of May it wasn’t a hard choice to make. the end we are seeking, which is Jesus.” 23 24 your full name address and daytime phone number—to The dread of ever-after being known as Big Mary Naming our daughters after Our Lady is giving 25 was just cause for giving her a double barrelled them the best start in life. It is time the name of CROSSWORD CONTEST SCO 19 Christian name and we enjoyed selecting a suit- Our Blessed Lady was taken down from the shelf 2627 2829 30 WATERLOO ST GLASGOW G2 31 32 6BT

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25 years ago car by September, while David Hutcheson ACROSS 1 The best place in a stadium (10) LAST WEEK’S who would normally have earned £123 6 Lose one's footing when on spilt pils (4) SOLUTION TWENTY-five years ago, The Scot- would only earn £35.” 10 Right, leave the Roman poet for a late-night sitting (5) tish Catholic Observer reported on a 11 Polaris (5,4) ACROSS story in which the Church pleaded 50 years ago 12 The nice fan might provide money (7) 1 Transplanted 7 Ice 15 Swords of one type used in Olympic fencing (5) 9 Spat 10 Gluten 11 Left with the government not to close the 17 Tie up a North African (4) 14 Jewel 15 Moose community programme and put ONE OF the main stories in the SCO 18 Family, tribe (4) 16 Abba 18 Moral 300,000 people in Britain out of work. 50 years ago concerned the Catholic 19 Appropriate part of the Corfu surplus (5) 21 Spool 22 Aorta “At a press conference in the Garden Church negotiating with the Hungarian 21 Northern English headgear unsuited to the jumping 23 Mason 24 Toys Festival, which employs 800 community Government over the release of Cardi- season? (4,3) 25 Gouda 26 Scope programme workers, the Church joined 13 nal Mindszenty. 23 Roman goddess of the hearth (5) 29 Iota 33 Impala 24 Movie (4) 34 Dice 36 Sum other denominations to hit out at plans to The cardinal, who was 71, ‘entered the 25 This instrument does not sound truthful (4) replace the community programme with a American legation in Budapest on Novem- 26 Musical composition about the lack of fishing equipment (5) 37 Ecclesiastes compulsory re-training scheme,” the report ber 4, 1956—a refugee from Soviet forces 28 Plummeted (7) DOWN said. “For the workers it means an end to quelling Hungary’s short lived rebellion 33 Moved to another country (9) 34 It’s not as trendy as cols A to D, it seems (5) 1 Tip 2 Ants 3 Sage proper employment, a drastic cut in wages against Communist Government. Anti- 35 Recognise that the head of a delphinium is what's 4 Louse 5 Niece 6 Dire and loss of all benefit if they refuse to join. Communists had freed the cardinal only worth planting (4) 8 Extravagance “Compare this to the sick, elderly and four days earlier from the jail where he 36 City (10) 9 Siamese twins 12 Colony 13 Realm handicapped, it means the end to many was serving a life sentence.’ DOWN benefits that they find essential to survive Hitches surrounding the release of the 14 James 17 Barium 1 Donate (4) 19 Rinse 20 Large including part time relief for carers, lunch cardinal were due to his stern attitude to 2 Christians identified in a strange canal sign (9) 27 Camel 28 Plays clubs and household maintenance. the choice of his successor, the appoint- 3 Triangular river estuary (5) 30 Tome 31 Data “The programme workers will now, in ment of bishops to vacant Sees and the lib- 4 Pick-me-up (5) 32 Edit 35 Cos effect, be working for their supplementary eration of bishops and priests. It was also 5 Boring type of the computer world (4) 7 French and English articles required by the turner (5) benefit, doing menial tasks and the reported that 70 of the 100 priests were 8 A source of liquidity for the Christian community (6,4) government has the power to stop their released from their captivity in prison. 9 Get into better spirits by making her puce, perhaps (5,2) Last week’s winner was: benefit if they don’t join,” Fr John King of However, Cardinal König, when he 13 She writes the cardinal at length! (4) Walter MacAulay, Angus Glasgow, who is in charge of social arrived in Rome from Vienna, told 14 Is the Eastern British politician bound to have discharged all the contents? (7) welfare, said. reporters that he thought there would be 16 Creatures that feed on the leavings of others (10) “For two workers the effects that this ‘no rapid solution to the problems 20 Might the slave ruin what is ubiquitous? (9) would have on them would be drastic. involved.’ 21 Stumbles (7) Scottish Catholic Observer: Marlene McCrorie won’t be able to run her STEPHEN EDWARDSON 22 The highest male voice (4) Scotland’s only national 27 Din (5) 29 More impolite (5) Catholic weekly newspaper 30 Descriptive of a toaster that works only when Father is printed by Trinity Mirror, Oldham. awake? (3-2) Registered at the Post Office Eye infection (4) ugh the ages 31 as a newspaper. SCO pages thro 32 Possibly the best wagers (4) 16 CHILDREN’S LITURGY THE SCO SUPPORTS THE YEAR OF FAITH SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday May 17 2013

Our weekly series on Children’s Liturgy has lesson plans and activity suggestions for use with young people who are on the path to Christ Each week, Catechists will find readings and Psalm responses, complemented by prayer, reflection, FAITH discussion questions, and activities. Please feel free to use them as you wish The lessons are created by Adorer-theologians using the lens of the spirituality of St Maria de Mattias, which also embraces precious blood spirituality FIRST While this is the starting point for the lessons, readers are invited to approach them however the spirit moves you The Church is concerned with the availability and understanding of scripture for children who have their rightful place in the Church. In light of this SCO aims to provide a useful tool in drawing children closer to KIDS the Catholic Faith Reflection Activity Holy Trinity—First Reading TODAY is Trinity Sunday. It is the day G Materials needed: Thick cord in various that we thank God for the many ways different colours. Wisdom was born before the earth was made. G A reading from the book of Proverbs 8:22-31. that God is present in our lives. The Preparation: Cut the cord into five inch word ‘trinity’ does not appear in the equal lengths. G From the very beginning, I was with the Bible but God is described in three Activity: Allow each child to pick three different ways in scripture. different colours of cords. Ask them to pick Lord. I was there before He began to create The idea of having one God who is in colours that represent to them the three the earth. At the very first, the Lord gave life three forms is a mystery. It is impossible different forms of God. Help them tie the to me. to describe or completely understand cords together with a knot at one end. When I was born, there were no oceans or but there are some ideas that help us get Show them how to braid the cords, knot springs of water. My birth was before close. Some people like to look at a the other end and then tie the two ends mountains were formed or hills were put in shamrock which is one leaf with three together to make a bracelet. Remind them place. It happened long before God had different parts. that while they now have one bracelet, it is made the earth or any of its fields or even Water can also tell us something about made of three different cords somewhat the dust. the Trinity. Water can be in three forms: like the Trinity and to think about God I was there when the Lord put the heavens ice, liquid and gas. When water is frozen it whenever they look at their bracelet. in place and stretched the sky over the becomes ice. An ice cube can remind us of surface of the sea. I was with Him when He God the Father/Mother/Creator because Prayer placed the clouds in the sky and created the it is solid and strong. You can walk on it Dear God, you have many names and ways springs that fill the ocean. I was there when and skate on it. It is even used by some to be with us. Thank you for being a part of He set boundaries for the sea to make it people to build shelters called igloos. our lives. Please help us to always obey Him, and when He laid foundations to Liquid water tells us a bit about Jesus. recognise you and follow you. In your support the earth. I was right beside the Our bodies contain lots of water. Jesus is name we pray. Amen. Lord, helping Him plan and build. I made God who became a person with a body Responsorial Psalm Him happy each day, and I was happy at just like ours. We must have water to drink or we will die, so too we must have 8:3-4, 5-6, 7-8. His side. I was pleased with His world and Jesus in our lives. Water is used to clean (R) O Lord, our God, how wonderful your pleased with its people. just as Jesus’ death and resurrection name in all the earth! The Word of the Lord cleaned our sins. I often think of the heavens your hands Water as gas, or steam, shows us have made and of the moon and stars about the Holy Spirit. We can’t really you put in place. see gas vapours just like we can’t see the Then I ask: “Why do you care about us Holy Spirit but we can feel it and we can humans? Why are you concerned The Children’s Liturgy page is published one week in advance to allow RE see what it does. for us weaklings?” teachers and those taking the Children’s Liturgy at weekly Masses to use, (R) O Lord, our God, how wonderful your Discussion name in all the earth! if they wish, this page as an accompaniment to their teaching materials I What are the three forms of God? You made us a little lower than you your- I What form do you like best and why? self and you have crowned us with glory I Why do you think God has three forms? and honour. You let us rule everything your hands have made. And you put all of it under our power. (R) O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth! The sheep and the cattle and every wild animal, the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and all ocean creatures. (R) O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth! Alleluia Revelation 1:8. (R) Alleluia, alleluia. Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: to God who is, who was, and who is to come. (R) Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel Whatever the Father has is mine. The Spirit will receive what I give and tell you about it. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John 16:12-15. Jesus said to His disciples: “I have much more to say to you, but right now it would be more than you could understand. The Spirit shows what is true and will come and guide you into the full truth. “The Spirit does not speak on His own. He will tell you only what He has heard from me and He will let you know what is going to happen. “The Spirit will bring glory to me by taking my message and telling it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine. That is why I have said that the Spirit takes my message and tells it to you.” The Gospel of the Lord. Friday May 17 2013 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER THE SCO SUPPORTS THE YEAR OF FAITH CHURCH NOTICES 17 CHURCH & PUBLIC NOTICES EXPERTSERVICES

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DEATH MEMORIAM CAMPBELL LINSTRUM McGUIGAN 1st Anniversary 20th Anniversary 31st Anniversary FALCONER BENSON In memory of our loving Treasured memories of Alex, Please pray for the repose of Margaret nee McFarlane. Treasured memories of mum, Katie, who died on who died May 16, 1993. the soul of our dear mother, Peacefully, at Eastbank Care Edward, who died May 10, May 19, 2012. The parting was sudden, Marie, who died on May 17, Home, on Monday,May 13, 2013. 2005. Rest in Peace. We sit and wonder why, 1982, also our dear father, Margaret, beloved wife of the Eternal rest grant unto him, O In heaven you rest, no wor- The saddest thing of all, Brian, died March 7, 1968. late John, much loved mother Lord and let perpetual light ries, no pain, Is that we never said good- R.I.P. of John, Gerard and the late shine upon him, may he rest God Bless you mum, till we bye. , pray for Isobel, mother-in-law of in peace. Amen. meet again. St Anthony, pray for him. them. Margaret and Rhonda and Sadly missed by Jean and Angusina, Morag and His loving wife Maisie and all Inserted by the family. loving grandmother of Shaun, family. Rodina, South Uist. the family. Kieran, Barry and Angela. McCAUGHEY MacLEAN 10th Anniversary Fortified by Rites of Holy 2nd Anniversary In loving memory of my dear Church R.I.P. CAMPBELL, Katie LITTLE In loving memory of my st wife, Theresa, who died May Reception at St Joseph’s, 1 Anniversary 14th Anniversary beloved husband, Donald 16, 2003. Joseph, our dear father and Tollcross, on Sunday, May 19, In loving memory of a much Please pray for the repose of May she rest in peace. grandfather, who died May at 6.30p.m. Funeral Mass on loved mum and granny, died the souls of Bernard, a loving Inserted by her husband 18, 2011. Monday, May 20 at 9.30a.m, May 19, 2012. brother, uncle and great- Gerard. We give our loved ones back thereafter to St Peter’s Cemetery. It does not take a special uncle, who died May 27, 1999, aged 44 years, also to God and just as He first day, gave them to us and did not BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCE For us to think of you. remembering our dear father, MacDONALD In loving memory of my dear lose them in the giving, so we Each Mass we hear, James, who died June 27, father, John, who died May have not lost them in return- Each prayer we say, 1979, and our beloved COONEY 10, 1983, also my dear ing them to Him. Are offered up for you. mother, Susan, who died on Remembering with love our BOYD mother, Christina, who died Loved and remembered Inserted by Angus John and May 18, 2007. every day by Betty and fam- Dad and Papa, Jim, died 11th Anniversary January 24, 1972. Christine. Divine Mercy, Our Lady of ily, South Uist and Edinburgh. September 1, 1989, whose Please remember in your Our Lady of the Isles, pray There are many Saints in Lourdes and St Bernadette, Will those of you who think of 90th birthday occurs on May prayers, Catherine (née for them. heaven, pray for them. our grandad today, 21, our Brother and Uncle, Lynch), who died on May 17, Inserted by their loving We have our own special Inserted by the Little family, A little prayer to Jesus say. John, died July 4, 1984, 2002, dearly beloved wife of daughter Mary Ann, 8 West Saint there too, Ardrossan. Sadly missed by all the whose 49th birthday occurs the late Jack and a much Gerinish, South Uist. also on May 21 and our Mum loved mother and grand- It is you dear granny, grandchildren. mother. We know that to be true. and Grandma, Bunty, died on MacDONALD Find the softest pillow Lord, MacKINNON April 4, 2007. Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for 24th Anniversary To rest her head upon, 18th Anniversary. Much loved and missed. her. In fond remembrance of my Place lots of kisses on her In loving memory of my dear The Family. St Anthony, pray for her. most beloved husband, Don- Inserted by her daughters cheeks husband, Donald, who died ald (Domhnall Eirisgeach), May 20, 1995; also my Catherine, Rosemary, Anne She’ll know who they are loving dad and grandad of Maria and Frances Louise from. brother-in-law and uncle, the family, who died May 23, Donald Allan, who died on and their families. R.I.P. 1989. Loved and remembered May 9, 1995, and loved ones Fois shiorruidh thoir dha a gone before and after. BRENNAN Your grandchildren Michael, Thighearna, 60th Anniversary Kathleen, Eilidh and Kate Whatever else we fail to do, Agus solus nach dibir We never fail to pray for you Pray for the repose of the xxxx dearrsadh air. Amen. soul of our dear father, West Kilbride, South Uist. Inserted by your loving wife LEYDON Requiescat in pace. James Brennan, who died Mary and family. 9th Anniversary Our Lady, Star of the Sea and May 23, 1953. R.I.P. FOY In loving memory of dearly St Bernadette, pray for him. On whose soul, sweet Jesus, 6th Anniversary missed John, beloved hus- Remembered by his ever lov- have mercy. Precious memories of John, band of Rosemary, father of ing wife Ceit, Taobh-Na- TROY Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for dear husband, dad and Carol, Callum, Elizabeth and Mara, Eriskay and family, Remembering with love my him. grandad, who died May 23, John Paul, brother and Benbecula, and uncle, James, whose St , pray for 2007. grandfather, who died on Glasgow. birthday occurs on May 22. him. They never die who live in May 19, 2004. St. Vincent de Paul, pray for Inserted by his loving family, the hearts they leave behind. Our thoughts are always with MacDONALD him. 59 Muiryfauld Drive, Merciful Jesus grant John you, 11th Anniversary Qui donne aux pauvres prete Glasgow, G31. eternal rest. Your place no one can fill, In loving memory of my à Dieu. Inserted by the family. In life we loved you dearly, beloved husband, Ronald, Margaret Boyd, Paisley. CAIRNS In death we love you still. much loved father, grandfa- 14th Anniversary GERRY From the Leydon family of ther and father-in-law, who MacNEIL RELIGIOUS MEMORIAM In loving memory of Stella In loving memory of our dear Cambuslang, Glasgow. died May 20, 2002. 17th Anniversary Cairns, née Simaitis, who parents, Harry Gerry, died You are always loved and Precious memories of a died May 20, 1999, dearly May 18, 1963, and Margaret remembered by all of us. much loved mother and beloved wife of the late John McALISTER Roseanne, died April 20, In loving memory of our dear Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray grandmother, Flora (Loll), Cairns. 1984; also Gus Gerry, died parents, Angus John, died for him. who died May 21, 1996. A much loved mother, grand- April 9, 1997, and Frank May 22, 2007, Agnes, died Inserted by his loving wife She lived for those she loved, mother and mentor to all. Gerry, died December 17, June 10, 1994; also our sis- Flora and family at home and And those she loved remem- Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for 2001. Interred Torquay, ter, Catherine Woods, died away. ber. her. Devon. September 6, 1989 and our Also remembering Loll’s Ever remembered by all the brother, Alister, died August Brother, Iain, who died May family. 25, 1974. McHUGH 30, 1996. Rest in peace. We miss them most who 23rd Anniversary Fois shiorruidh thoir dhaibh a Father George Gerry, Gwen, loved them best. In loving memory of a dear Thighearna, KELLY Veronica, St Peter’s Church, Our Lady of the Isles, pray father, grandfather and great- Agus solus nach dibir 4th Anniversary Budleigh, Salterton, Devon. for them. grandfather, John, died May dearrsadh orra, In loving memory of Rev. From all the family, Eriskay 17, 1990 and a dear mother, Gun robh am fois ann an sith. John Kelly, Parish Priest of St and Fort William. grandmother and great- Michelle and family. James the Greater, who died HIGGINS grandmother, Isa, died on May 20, 2009. In loving memory of Michael, February 25, 2012. Place Your Intimation Our Lady of Lourdes, St a beloved son and brother, McAULEY In our hearts you are always Announcing, Bernadette pray for him. who died on May 21, 2000, 16th Anniversary there, Remembering, Always remembered. aged 25 years. In loving memory of a dear Loved and remembered in Thanking Births, Marriages, In our hearts you are always mother, mother-in-law and every prayer. Deaths,Anniversaries MORGAN there, gran, Mary McAuley, who Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Please remember in your Loved and remembered in died on May 17, 1997, also grant them eternal rest. prayers, Rev. Fr George every prayer. our uncle, John McAuley, Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for Morgan, who died May 19, God bless, from Mum, Dad, who died March 6, 1996. them.

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NICHOL NOVENA TO THE SACRED Mount Carmel, fruitful in the publication promised. Thank NOVENA TO ST CLARE Treasured memories of a HEART OF JESUS. splendour of Heaven, you to Our Lady, St Michael Say nine Hail Mary’s for nine beloved husband, father and O Jesus who said ‘ask and Blessed Mother of the Son of the , the Holy days with a lighted candle; granda, Hugh, who passed you shall receive, seek and God, Immaculate Virgin, Souls, , St publication promised. away on May 15, 1996. you shall find, knock and it assist me in this my neces- Jude, Mar- Love is a smile, a tear, a shall be opened to you,’ sity. O Star of the Sea, help garet Sinclair and the Holy touch, through the intercession of me and show me herein You Spirit. – A.M. NOVENA to St Therese of Love is little but means so Mary your most Holy Mother, are my Mother. O Holy Mary, the Little Flower. much, I knock. I ask that my prayer Mother of God, Queen of Saint Therese, the Little Love is forever, we give it to will be granted (make Heaven and Earth, I humbly Flower, please pick me a you, request). O Jesus who has beseech You from the bottom POWERFUL NOVENA rose from the heavenly gar- Loved by a love beyond all said whatsoever you ask the of my heart to succour me in Of Childlike Confidence den and sent it to me with a MONAGHAN telling, Father in my name, it shall be my necessity. There are (This novena is to be said at message of love. Ask God to 27th Anniversary of our dar- Missed by a grief beyond all granted to you through the none that can withstand Your the same time, every hour, grant me the favour I thee ling son, and brother, tears, intercession of Mary, your power. O show me herein for nine consecutive hours – implore and tell Him I will Michael, who died May 20, I carry your heart in my heart most Holy Mother. I ask the You are my mother. O Mary, just one day). O Jesus, who love Him each day more and 1986, aged 17 years. and everywhere I go you go. Father in your name that my conceived without sin, pray hast said, ask and you shall more. To us you were someone St Joseph, pray for him. prayer be granted (make for us who have recourse to receive, seek and you shall The above prayer plus 5 Our special, Your loving wife Roseanne request). O Jesus who said Thee (three times). O thank find, knock and it shall be Fathers, 5 Hail Marys and 5 Someone good and and family. ‘Heaven and Earth shall pass you for Your mercy to me and opened to you, through the Glory Be’s must be said on 5 true, away but my words will not mine. Amen. Say for three intercession of Mary, Thy successive days before 11 You will never be O’HARE pass away’ through the inter- days. Holy Mary I place this Most Holy Mother, I knock, I a.m. On the 5th day, the 5th forgotten, Packy passed away May 18, cession of Mary your most cause in your hands, Holy seek, I ask that my prayer be set of prayers having been For we thought the world of 2008. Holy Mother, I feel confident Mary I place this cause in granted (make your request). completed, offer one more you. In life I loved you dearly, that my prayer be granted your hands, Holy Mary I O Jesus, who hast said, all set – 5 Our Fathers, 5 Hail In death I love you still, It broke our hearts to lose (make request). Publication place this cause in your that you ask of the Father in Marys and 5 Glory Be’s. Pub- In my heart you hold a spe- you, promised. Say hourly for nine hands. Publication promised. My name, He will grant you lication promised But you did not go alone, cial place. – C.McK through the intercession of It broke my heart to lose you, hours. One day only. 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N SEPTEMBER 1823, the Car- tus. Mexico went without bishops, and dinals of the Catholic Church met the seeds of anti-clericalism, which in conclave to elect a successor to would come back to haunt the Church Pope Pius VII. It was an extraor- there, were sown. dinary event. For the first time In the Papal States, Pope Leo was since the outbreak of the French Revo- unbelievably conservative. Jews were lution a third of a century before, the denied the right to property, forced to CatholicI Church was meeting in some wear visible signs that they were Jewish freedom. Much had changed. This was and placed in the ghetto. Women were Restoration Europe, where a conscious forced to wear the type of clothes that and concerted effort was being made to disguised their femininity, and he pro- ‘turn back the clock.’ In fact, the hibited vaccination. His spies were ‘restored’ order floated on a seething everywhere, which supressed corrup- mass of discontent. tion, but also snared anyone with an Curiously, the Papacy had regained even moderate political opinion. Con- more than a little of the moral authority temporaries, even those sympathetic to it had lost. In addition, the Pope could his religious policies, all thought Pope count on a cultural tide flowing in his Leo rather too much of a conservative. favour. Gone was the outright rejection This was offset somehow by his solici- of Faith, gone the continuous chorus of tude towards the poor, but his financial leading voices denouncing the Church. misadministration did little for his lofty Instead, this was the age of the Roman- ambitions in this field. tic Movement, which regarded Faith as Only in 1825, the year of the Jubilee, a cornerstone of sensibilities, and which when over half a million pilgrims trav- looked upon the Middle Ages as the elled to Rome, was there plenty of apogee of European culture. money to serve the Pope’s projects for Slowly, life was returning to the the poor. That year provides a glimpse Church all over Europe. It was still ten of this most contradictory of men. Vis- years before Dom Prosper Guérenger itors noticed the affection with which would open the abbey at Solesmes and the Pope was treated by Rome’s poor. inaugurate the monastic revival of the They loved his own austerity, and were 19th century. The same was true for the amazed that he walked barefoot through Dominicans, who had to await the Rome on his penitential visits to the pil- inspired leadership of Jean-Baptiste grim churches. Henri Lacordaire in 1839. However, new orders were springing up with pon his death he was succeeded great regularity since the demise of by Pope Pius VIII. Francesco Napoleon, most, but not all, French. Castiglione had nearly become In Marseille, St Eugene de Mazenod PopeU when Pope Leo XII was elected, was already active with rural missions, and was now an elderly, sick man. He and the young men which had congre- was, however, the choice of the two gated around him would very soon most powerful Catholic countries, become the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. France and Austria. The Austrian Hab- In 1817, Marcellin Champagnat founded sburgs wanted a non-entity, a Pope who the Marist Brothers, opening a first would not threaten the large swathes of school the next year. At the time of the Italy which they controlled. The French conclave there were some 60 schools. were looking for someone pliable. Such growth was a harbinger of things to Like Pope Leo XII (left), Pope Pius come: the conclave met just as the great VIII was a man of impeccable personal wave of expansion was beginning. qualities, but through Cardinal Albani ruled the Papal States as autocratically orty-nine electors met in Rome as his predecessor. The French soon that September. Many of the men found out that they had backed the in red were of non-noble back- wrong horse, for Pius threw in his lot Fgrounds. This did not affect the out- with the Austrians, to the despair of come or the process of electing the new Chateaubriand. Again like his prede- Pope much. Indeed, one is struck by cessor, he was on happier terms with how much remained the same. There Britain and was delighted by the were zelanti and moderates, an Austrian Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, veto and the usual big power interfer- which removed political constraints ing. There were a few hang-overs, too: from Catholics. With the other major Cardinal della Somaglia, in the running Protestant power, Prussia, relations for the Papacy, was found to have supporter of the Jesuits, and he under- been a French prisoner. was first severely examined on his prin- were less happy. Pope Pius had ordered signed himself as citoyen during the stood that education was the key to cre- This dislike of Rome’s ‘oldest daugh- ciples, and had him sign a stringently that mixed marriages could be blessed French Revolution and was no longer a ating a body of Faithful that truly ter’ was shown clearly in his treatment Ultramontane declaration. De Blacas only if there was a promise to raise the candidate. Austria’s veto was because understood their beliefs. of the Vicomte de Chateaubriand. This later joked that Chateaubriand did not children as Catholics. It caused major Cardinal Castiglione had refused to Elsewhere, though, Pope Leo was was the author of the five volume Le belong to the sect that he had founded. friction between the powerful bishops attend the wedding of Napoleon and less successful. In both France and Génie du christianisme, ou beautés de la In Spain the situation was more com- of the Prussian Rhineland and the King. Marie Louise von Habsburg. Spain he threw in the Church’s lot with religion chrétienne, which first appeared plex still. The Cortes had begun to strip Pope Pius’ reign was very short. On In the end, the choice fell on the the Restoration monarchies. In France, in the fraught year of 1802. The book, back royal power as early as 1820, but November 30, 1830, only ten months after already old and ill Cardinal della this was easiest, for King Charles X, whilst a poor polemic, was a romantic the reactionary Ferdinand VII tried hard he was elected, the Pope died. All around Genga, who took the name Leo XII. His who, during the Revolution, had lived celebration of the beauty of Catholicism, to thwart them. He helped restore the him Europe was, once again, in turmoil. Papacy was one marked by ill-health, for some time in Holyrood Palace, was and a most subtle argument of the power of the Inquisition, and Spain wit- The July Revolution had swept away the extreme conservatism, but also by the a fellow traveller. However, the Jesuits, supremacy of the poetic mind over the nessed executions of those convicted of Restoration monarchy in Paris, and all occasional application of sound judge- whom Pope Leo supported very cold analytical spirit of the Enlighten- Deism. If this gave the Pope the belief over Italy uprisings were occurring. In ment on where the future of his Church strongly, were denied access to France: ment. It had done an enormous service that Spain was on the right track, he Belgium, Dutch rule was overthrown, and lay. He displayed a masterful political such was the very pious Charles X’s in harnessing the Romantic Movement miscalculated over the impact his sup- in Poland the Czar ruthlessly supressed a touch when dealing with the emancipa- wish to return to the pre-1780s, that he to the Church, so much so that the Duke port for the Bourbons had in the former partially Catholic Polish uprising.All this tion of Catholics in Britain, and dif- also adopted the age-old Gallicanism of de Blacas suggested that it was Spanish colonies. In Mexico, for exam- was anathema to the ultra-conservative fused politicised tension between his predecessors. It did little to reduce Chateaubriand who had invented the ple, he refused to appoint bishops to Pope Pius, but he was too ill to react. It Catholics and the government in the Pope Leo’s dislike of France, fuelled by ‘sect’. Yet when appointed ambassador vacant sees for as long as the country would be left to his successor, Pope Gre- Netherlands. In Rome, he was a strong the Revolution during which he had to Rome, Pope Leo XII ensured that he refused to acknowledge its colonial sta- gory XVI, to deal with the fall-out. 22 CELEBRATING LIFE THE SCO SUPPORTS THE YEAR OF FAITH SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday May 17 2013 St Cadoc’s Conference marks retiral of dedicated SSVP pair Celebrating Life By Dan McGinty Eric McLaughlin and Jackie Reilly, two longstanding members of the Do you have a special St Vincent de Paul St Cadoc’s THE Society of St Vincent de Conference have recently retired occasion from your parish Paul St Cadoc’s Conference after years of dedicated service marked the retirement of two or a celebration at your of its longstanding members school that you wish to after many dedicated years share with the SCO? If so, of service. Brothers Jackie Reilly and greatly missed not only for their e-mail Dan McGinty: Eric McLaughlan served the contribution to the work of the [email protected] conference, in Halfway, Cam- conference but also for their buslang, for a combined total of character and sense of humour, nearly 80 years, bringing hard not to mention the high experi- work and dedication to group. ence they have amassed over Mr Reilly, who was also a their many years of service diocesan group president, served through the Society of St Vincent EWTN PROGRAMMES the SSVP for more than 25 years de Paul, St Cadoc’s Conference. as Conference Treasurer, while “We would like to wish them SUNDAY 19 MAY 9.30AM Mr McLaughlan saw his service both a long and happy retire- 9AM LIVE PAPAL AUDIENCE to the Society of St Vincent de ment and a huge thank you for Paul culminate in nine years as the many years devoted to the SOLEMN MASS OF PENTE- 1PM Conference President. service of the St Vincent de Paul COST FROM ROME LIVE DAILY MASS Their efforts were summed up Society.” in a statement by the SSVP, say- 1PM 9PM ing: “Both gentlemen will be I [email protected] LIVE SUNDAY MASS LIVES OF THE SAINTS 2.30PM THURSDAY 23 MAY Archbishop Philip Tartaglia CATHOLICISM 1PM welcomed primary seven pupils 10PM LIVE DAILY MASS from across the East End Deanery to St Andrew’s VATICANO 9PM Cathedral in Glasgow as he 11PM ANGELS AND SAINTS AT celebrated a special Mass for them. Among the pupils in LIVE BENEDICTION EPHESUS attendance were those from MONDAY 20 MAY FRIDAY 24 MAY the archbishop’s old school, St Thomas’ in Riddrie, who 1PM 1PM received a blessing from him LIVE DAILY MASS LIVE DAILY MASS as he processed from the cathedral following Mass, and 8.30PM 7PM from St Paul’s, Shettleston, and NEW SERIES DOOR OF FORGOTTEN HERITAGE: St Joachim’s, Carmyle, who read the bidding prayers FAITH EUROPE AND HER SAINTS PICS: PAUL McSHERRY 9PM 8PM THE FAITHFUL TRAVELER THE WORLD OVER LIVE, TUESDAY 21 MAY 9PM 1PM GOD IN TIBET LIVE DAILY MASS SATURDAY 25 MAY

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SUNDAY MAY 19 St Matthew’s Academy footballers fire their way to cup glory Solemnity of Pentecost C. Acts 2:1-11. Response: Send forth your spirit, O Lord, and renew the face of ST MATTHEW’S Academy the earth. Romans 8:8-17. John 14:15-16.23-26. in Saltcoats celebrated as the school’s under-16 foot- MONDAY ball team defeated James Ecclesiasticus 1:1-10. Response: The Lord is Hamilton Academy from King, with majesty enrobed. Mark 9:14-29. Kilmarnock to lift the Ayr- shire League Cup. The boys from St Matthew’s TUESDAY saw off their rivals 3-1 at Dam Ecclesiasticus 2:1-11. Response: Commit your life Park in Ayr to lift the coveted to the Lord, trust Him and He will act. Mark 9:30-37. trophy, showing great spirit to come back from a goal down to WEDNESDAY win the match. Ecclesiasticus 4:11-19. Response: The lovers of After conceding early, St your law have great peace, O Lord. Mark 9:38-40. Matthew’s roared back in fine fashion with goals from hat- THURSDAY tick hero Ryan Wilson who Ecclesiasticus 5:1-8. Response: Happy the man crowned the fantastic come- who has placed his trust in the Lord. Mark 9:41-50. back with three well-taken finishes. After being presented with FRIDAY their shield the players (right) Ecclesiasticus 6:5-17. Response: Guide me Lord celebrated with the parents, in the path of your commands. Mark 10:1-12. staff and fellow pupils who had braved the elements to cheer on SATURDAY St Matthew’s to a famous vic- Ecclesiasticus 17:1-15. Response: The love of the tory and thanked their coach, Lord is everlasting upon those who hold Him in Mr Frew, for his efforts in man- fear. Mark 10:13-16. aging the side. Friday May 17 2013 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER THE SCO SUPPORTS THE YEAR OF FAITH CELEBRATING LIFE 23 Holyrood Secondary School pupils receive funding boost for Malawi mission

By Dan McGinty delighted to be able to help Shannon in her fundrais- ing efforts,” Liam McCarron, managing director of HOLYROOD Secondary School pupil Shan- Anderson Maguire, said. “I was one of the first peo- non Doherty gratefully received a cheque for ple in Scotland to visit the LaSallian community in £250 as she continued fundraising for the 1992 and helped to build a school in Tamil Nadu, opportunity to make a trip to Malawi. Southern India. It is vital that we continue to help Shannon, a senior pupil at the Glasgow school, those a lot less fortunate than ourselves.” issued an appeal for support from local businesses Holyrood carries out its work in Malawi in close and was thrilled when Anderson Maguire Funeral partnership with Mary’s Meals, whose aim to pro- Directors got in touch to offer her sponsorship vide nutritious food for the poor children of of £250. Malawi, and many other countries across the Along with 35 other young people, Shannon world, in an educational environment results in hopes to continue to develop the relationship high school attendances. Unfortunately this means between pupils of Holyrood and young people in school facilities are often under-equipped, making Malawi, described by Lord McConnell, the former projects such as that operated by Holyrood Sec- First Minister, as one of the best examples of part- ondary all the more important. nership between the two nations. For five years, senior pupils from Holyrood I [email protected] have made the journey to Malawi, where they have taken part in projects resulting in the construction of 11 new classrooms and the refurbishment of 10 more in partner schools, and Anderson Maguire were only too keen to support the great work being Liam McCarron, managing director of Anderson Maguire done by the pupils. Funeral Directors, presents a cheque for £250 to Holyrood “We have a very strong corporate ethos of helping Secondary School senior pupil Shannon Doherty to help out the communities which we work in and we are her with her, and her fellow pupils’, work in Malawi

PIC: ANTHONY MacMILLAN Fort William Primary School gets the green light

PUPILS from Fort William Scotland the presentation of the Among the schemes in the Primary School celebrated flag marks the dedicated work school are a rag-bag collection Secular Franciscans warmly welcome new member as their eco committee’s by pupils at the school, particu- point in the school grounds and efforts were recognised with larly in the eco committee, to an ink cartridge recycling col- Celebrations took place in Culloden as the Secular Franciscan Order welcomed a new member during Mass at St the award of the school’s raise awareness of the environ- lection while a planned battery Columba’s. Christina Hamilton made her profession surrounded by members of the Order and by her friends and second Green Flag. ment and in recycling and cut- recycle point is shortly to be family, who had come to encourage and congratulate her on becoming a member of the Secular Franciscans. Awarded by Eco Schools ting the school’s consumption. unveiled by the pupils. Pictured are the San Damiano Fraternity, which meets every month in Culloden SPOTLIGHT ON...

Celebrating Life Do you have a special occasion from your parish or a celebration at your school that you wish to share with the SCO? If so, e-mail Dan McGinty: The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children held a successful coffee morning at St Patrick’s Church in Dumbarton, raising more than £400 for one of the parish’s favourite charities. Pictured enjoying the event are Anthea Cleary, Agnes Wolfenden, Laura Fitzsimmons and her eight month old son, , Brian and Mary Pat McKenna and their grandson, Finlay PIC: BILL HEANEY [email protected] 24 MISSIONS MESSAGE THE SCO SUPPORTS THE YEAR OF FAITH SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday May 17 2013 Pay heed to the poor, but MISSIONS MESSAGE be careful not to play God Scottish priest FR COLIN MacINNES, a missionary living and working in Atahualpa, Ecuador, gives an insight into both the leadership of Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa and the hard-working denizens of the South American country

HEN Rafael Correa, the Presi- dent of Ecuador, visited Pope Francis in Rome (right) a car- toonist in the national press sketched the Pope whispering in the ear of the president: “Remember, Rafael, there is only one God.” The not-too-hidden truth regard- Wing the cartoon is that Rafael Correa, at times, does act as if he were God. It would seem that he thinks that he knows everything that is to be known about the country and he certainly controls everything that he can lay his hands on, not only the socio- political situation of the country, but also the minds and hearts of the population. People are conve- niently divided into friends or enemies. Living in the country it is advisable to be aware of this fact. On assuming the presidency he made war against the corrupt traditional political parties and Ecuador is now almost a one party state. He rightly annihilated his allies in the previous elections for abusing the educational system and using it to fur- ther their own interests; mafia-styled heads of shanty town who had flocked to support him dur- ing the elections, were arrested, tried and impris- oned—if they had not previously fled the country. Rafael Correa cannot be accused of not having the courage to act according to his convictions. though the evidence was rather scarce in this case, changed radically. Some changes like providing a the fish one day and the activity there was impres- He has invested in medical services throughout the president won his case. The journalist involved, road system which rivals that of any developed sive. I was looking at the small boats that travel as the country, built clinics and hospital in areas not anticipating the result, fled the country and pleaded country, the reform of the educational and health far as 100 miles out from the shore, offering no previously served and, in a limited way, has made for asylum in the US. The newspaper involved system have the look of permanency but there are protection from the blistering sun during the day medicines available for the poor. He has instituted appealed to the international court on the Hague. many powers, momentarily debilitated, waiting in and the bitterly cold stream of air coming up from pensions for the unemployed and those suffering The president decided to grant all concerned a pres- the wings for the opportunity of revenge. Highly the Antarctic at night. They have a crew of three any form of handicaps and chronic illnesses; built idential pardon and so ended the case. personalised power systems are always in danger and they generally leave shore for a fishing cruise them houses, and his efforts to make life more dig- He is a ‘practising Catholic’with little love for the of disappearing with the person. In Ecuador the of three days. Half the population of the parish is nified for them is quite admirable. hierarchy and the traditional Church.At one time he person of Rafael Correa is the system, is the involved in this way. Would you call them lazy? The rich, who in his estimation have tradition- showed little reluctance to hide his sentiments but power, and there is no one to gainsay this fact. At On the way down to the playa I took a photo- ally captured the wealth of the country for their he has somewhat mellowed in the past years. On a the same time no person is eternal. After all there graph of a gentleman (above ). He gets up at 3am, own exclusive use, are the enemy. In the past they visit to Guayaquil, where I now work, he invited me is only one God. travels out into the country by bus for two hours; paid few taxes, shared public offices and contracts to join him for lunch and thanked me for ‘what I had fills his five gallon container with milk and then amongst themselves and considered themselves done for Ecuador.’ He then invited me to what was have heard it say that the poor are poor because returns home. He takes a quick cup of coffee and the owners of wealth generating aspects of the a mini cabinet meeting where foreign policy and they are lazy and do not want to work. This is then goes on his milk round on his bicycle to his country. That era has passed. international debt were discussed. Without doubt he certainly not my experience. With a better edu- established clients. How many of you would like His pet hate, however, are journalists. He is one of the most brilliant men whom I have met. A Ication they could work more intelligently; they to eke out, what is a very meagre living, in this charged one journalist and the principal newspaper good listener, he assimilates highly technical infor- could use their money more wisely and they could way? It is a thought. of the country with calumny and demanded a com- mation and summarises it with astonishing speed. plan their budget more carefully but the educa- I pensation of $10 million (£6.4 million). Imprison- Ministers, even within their own specialty, seemed tional system which has existed in Ecuador for the If anyone wishes to support Fr Colin MacInnesʼ ment for the owners was added for good measure. like students when their portfolio was discussed. past generations would seem designed to exclude missionary effort, donations can be made out to Though he reformed the justice system, judges so It was a truly impressive performance. the poor from the possibilities of a good education. Scottish Catholic Observer Charity Appeal, 19 fear a tongue lashing from the president that, In his six years as president, Ecuador has I was down at the playa (beach), where they land Waterloo St, Glasgow, G2 6BT Discussing the major dilemmas posed by priestly celibacy

I RECENTLY READ an op- However, with that being derfully fruitful. miles away. My dad died before Mr Bruni is right in warning ed piece in the New York admitted, Fr Merton immedi- Moreover, abnormality can we reached the hospital. As that celibacy is abnormal and Times by Frank Bruni, enti- Fr Ronald ately goes on to say that just have its own attraction. As a tragic as this was, there was an fraught with dangers. It does tled, The Wages of Celibacy. because celibacy is not the nor- young priest, I served as a spiri- element of beauty in it. My dad run the risk of stunting sexual The column, while provoca- Rolheiser mal human condition willed by tual director to a young man died in my mother’s arms. That development and especially of tive, is fair. Mostly he asks a the Creator it does not mean who was discerning whether to tragic beauty branded my soul. downplaying a fundamental lot of hard, necessary ques- that it cannot be wonderfully join our order, the Missionary In my mind, in my fantasy, that and perhaps irresistible human tions. any wonder that some priests generative and fruitful and that Oblates of Mary Immaculate, or is how I have always wanted to connection. One of the funda- Looking at the various sexual try to make that connection perhaps its unique fruitfulness whether to propose marriage to die—in the arms of my wife. mental anthropological dogmas scandals that have plagued the nonetheless, in surreptitious, is tied to how extraordinary and a young woman. It was an ago- And so my major hesitation that scripture teaches us is con- Catholic priesthood in the past imprudent and occasionally abnormal it is. nising decision for him; he about entering the Oblates and tained the story of God creating number of years, Mr Bruni sug- destructive ways?” What he is saying, in wanted both. And his discern- moving towards priesthood is our first parents and his pro- gests that it is time to re-exam- That is not an irreverent ques- essence, is that celibacy is ment, while perhaps somewhat celibacy. If I become a priest, I nouncement: It is not good— ine celibacy with an honest and tion, but a necessary one, one abnormal and dooms you to overly romantic in terms of his won’t die in any human arms. I and it is dangerous—for the courageous eye and ask our- we need to have the courage to live in a state not been willed fantasy of both options, was at will die as celibates do. man to be alone. Celibacy does selves whether its downside face: Is celibacy, in fact, abnor- by the Creator; but, despite and the same time uncommonly “Then one day, in prayer, try- condemn one to live in a loneli- outweighs its potential benefits. mal to the human condition? perhaps because of that abnor- mature. Here—in words to this ing to discern all of this, I had ness that God Himself con- Bruni, in fact, doesn’t weigh- Does it run the risk of stunting mality, it can be deeply genera- effect—is how he described his another realisation: Jesus did demned, but it is a loneliness in definitively on this question; sexual development? tive, both for the one living it dilemma: “I am the oldest in not die in the arms of a spouse; too within which Jesus gave he only points out that celibacy, Fr Thomas Merton was once and for those around him or her. my family and we lived in a He died differently, lonely and Himself over to us in a death as a vowed lifestyle, runs more asked by a journalist what I know this to be true, as do rural area. When I was 15 years alone. I have always had a thing that is perhaps the most genera- risks than are normally admit- celibacy was like. I suspect his countless others, because I old, one evening, just before about the loneliness of celibates tive in human history. ted. Near the end of his column answer will come as a surprise have been deeply nurtured, as a supper, my dad, still a young and have always been drawn to he writes: “The celibate culture to pious ears because he virtu- Christian and as a human man, had a heart attack. There people like Soren Kierkegaard, I Fr Ronald Rolheiser is a runs the risk of stunting [sex- ally endorses Mr Bruni’s posi- being, by the lives of vowed were no ambulances to call. We Mother Theresa, , Catholic priest and member of ual] development and turning tion. He responds: “Celibacy is celibates, by numerous priests, bundled him up in the car and Thomas Merton, Jean Vanier, the Missionary Oblates of Mary sexual impulses into furtive, hell! You live in a loneliness sisters, and brothers whose my mother sat in the back seat and Berrigan, who do Immaculate. He is president of tortured gestures. It downplays that God Himself has con- lives have touched my own and with him and held him, while I, not die in the arms of a spouse. the Oblate School of Theology in a fundamental and maybe irre- demned when he said: ‘It is not whose ‘abnormality’ served a scared teenager, drove the car There is a real beauty in that San Antonio, Texas. Visit his sistible human connection. Is it good to be alone!’” precisely to make them won- enroute to the hospital some 15 way of dying too!” website at www.ronrolheiser.com