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Festive celebration St. Bernard Parish, Wabash, marks 150 years ’’ Pages 10-11 TTODAYODAYSS CCATHOLICATHOLIC Sign of peace Bishop Rhoades to rededicate Vatican says it stays put, but urges education Page 3 diocese to Blessed Mother

BY TIM JOHNSON New youth director Extra seating will Aaron Seng appointed FORT WAYNE — Bishop Kevin C. be available outside to diocesan post Rhoades will renew the consecration the Cathedral of of the diocese to Jesus through the Page 4 Blessed Mother at the 6 p.m. Mass the Immaculate at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Fort Wayne on Conception on the Friday, Aug. 15, the solemnity of the plaza and lawn. Four Assumption of Mary. bcX Retreat The faithful are invited to large screens and a Teens encounter Christ’s love, the Mass. Bishop Rhoades will sound system will be reconsecrate the diocese to the in place. serve as disciples Blessed Mother during the Mass, which will be broadcast live on Redeemer Radio, 106.3 FM, and Page 9 streamed live from the diocesan able for the faithful who fulfill the website, www.diocesefwsb.org. usual conditions — see page 3. All Extra seating will be avail- who attend this Mass are eligible able outside the Cathedral of the for the indulgence. Also eligible Immaculate Conception on the are any of the faithful who prayer- Dwenger staff plaza and lawn. Four large screens fully follow the celebration as it is and a sound system will be set broadcasted over Redeemer Radio visits Ghana up on the cathedral plaza for the or online at diocesefwsb.org. Some parishes have organized CRS High School program buses to bring the faithful to the promotes solidarity Visit www. diocesefwsb.org consecration. All parishes across for consecration updates. the diocese have been asked to Page 15 Festival of Faith information ring bells at 6 p.m. to celebrate the is available at consecration. www.kofcfestival.com. To prepare for the renewal, Bishop Rhoades has invited all to join him in the consecration to No issue Aug. 17 Jesus through Mary and proposed Mass. There will be some addi- following the 33 days of prepara- Next publication Aug. 24 tional chairs as well, but the faith- tion written by Father Michael TODAY’S CATHOLIC ARCHIVE PHOTOS ful are invited to bring lawn chairs Shown above is the statue of the Blessed Mother at the Cathedral of the or blankets. Immaculate Conception in Fort Wayne. A plenary indulgence is avail- MARY, PAGE 3 Youths connect at Catholic Youth Summer Camp

BY DENISE FEDOROW volunteer staff participated in the fourth annual weeklong camp. “It’s been a wonderful bless- ILFORD — Young people ing,” Jan said. “The children get in grades 4-6 and represent- a typical camp experience with Ming 23 parishes across the Diocese activities like canoeing, archery, of Fort Wayne-South Bend con- campfires and crafts, and we also nected with each other, nature integrate our Catholic faith within and the Lord when they attended the camp experience.” Catholic Youth Summer Camp, Campers attended daily held this year at Camp Alexander Mass before lunch, celebrated Mack in Milford on the shores of by priests that included Fathers Lake Waubee, July 20-25. Bob Lengerich, Daryl Rybicki, DENISE FEDOROW The theme for the camp was Daniel Scheidt and Terry Coonan. “Were Not Our Hearts Burning?” Campers raised the flag each This group of boys in fourth through sixth grades had fun fishing, based on Luke 24:32. Dave and canoeing, snorkeling and growing closer to one another and to God dur- Jan Torma, the camp directors, ing their week at the fourth annual Catholic Youth Summer Camp held reported 55 campers and 15 all- CAMP, PAGE 12 July 20-25 at Camp Alexander Mack in Milford. 2 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC August 10, 2014 TODAY’S CATHOLIC

Official newspaper of the Influx of unaccompanied Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend P.O. Box 11169 Fort Wayne, IN 46856 minors: A humanitarian crisis PUBLISHER: Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades

EDITOR: Tim Johnson NEWS EDITOR and STAFF WRITER: Kay Cozad IN TRUTH AND Editorial Department PAGE DESIGNER: Francie Hogan CHARITY FREELANCE WRITERS: Ann Carey, Michelle Castleman, Karen Clifford, Bonnie BY BISHOP KEVIN C. RHOADES Elberson, Denise Fedorow, Diane Freeby, Sister Margie Lavonis, CSC, Jodi Magallanes, Joe Kozinski, Vince merica is facing a humanitarian crisis: LaBarbera and Deb Wagner tens of thousands of children coming to the United States unaccompanied Aby a parent or guardian, a majority from El Business Department Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, where BUSINESS MANAGER: Sean McBride violence has permeated the fabric of their AD GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: Mark Weber communities. They come here to escape des- BOOKKEEPING/CIRCULATION: Bethany perate circumstances. They have faced new perils every step along the way. Belleville [email protected] It is important to understand the root causes of this crisis, why these children are Advertising Sales coming to the United States. 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Migration and Refugee Services (a should assist the Central American countries taking in of the children.” The Holy Father department of the United States Conference in protecting their own children from vio- also said that the root causes of their flight of Catholic Bishops) is providing community- lence, gangs, and other criminal organizations, should be addressed, such as violence and based services to support the reunification the root causes of their migration north. endemic poverty. of unaccompanied children with their family We must not look at these unaccompanied I was thinking recently about the refugees members in the United States. This program minors as mere numbers or statistics. These taken in by other nations, such as Lebanon serves as an alternative to detention, allowing are real children, human beings created in and Jordan, which each host one million children to live with their families while they the image and likeness of God. They are our Find us on Facebook! 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Of course, we must keep them children is to neglect to receive and to help possible harm or even death at the hands of in our prayers. We can provide donations to Jesus. August 10, 2014 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC 3 Sign of peace at Mass: Vatican says Public Schedule of it stays put, but urges education Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades

Llovera, current prefect of the • “The departure of the priest BY CINDY WOODEN congregation, and Archbishop from the altar in order to give • Sunday, Aug. 10, 11 a.m. — Mass at Holy Family Church, Arthur Roche, the congrega- the sign of peace to some of the South Bend VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The tion’s current secretary, said Pope faithful.” • Monday, Aug. 11, 1:30 p.m. — Mass with Perpetual sign of peace at Mass has not Benedict XVI had asked the con- • People using the sign of Profession of Vows, Saint Francis Convent, Mishawaka always led to serenity among gregation to study the matter and, peace at Christmas, Easter, • Monday, Aug. 11, 5:30 p.m. — Meeting of Board of liturgists or within the congrega- after doing so, in 2008 it asked Baptisms, weddings, ordinations Directors of Women’s Care Center, South Bend tions gathered each Sunday in bishops’ conferences around the and funerals to offer holiday • Thursday, Aug. 14 – Friday, Aug. 15 — Board Retreat of Ave Catholic churches around the world whether to keep the sign greetings, congratulations or con- Maria University, Plymouth, Michigan world. of peace where it is or move it to dolences. • Friday, Aug. 15, 6 p.m. — Mass and Marian Procession for After nine years of study and another moment “with a view to “Christ is our peace, the divine the Solemnity of the Assumption, Cathedral of the Immaculate consultation, the Congregation improving the understanding and peace, announced by the prophets Conception and Headwaters Park for Divine Worship and the carrying out of this gesture.” and by the angels, and which He • Saturday, Aug. 16, 4:30 p.m. — Mass and Blessing of School Sacraments has told Latin-rite “After further reflection,” the brought to the world by means Addition at Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, Fort Wayne bishops around the world that the letter said, “it was considered of His paschal mystery,” the • Sunday, Aug. 17, 9 a.m. — 150th Anniversary Mass, Saint sign of peace will stay where it is appropriate to retain the rite of letter said. “This peace of the Francis Xavier Church, Pierceton in the Mass. peace in its traditional place in risen Lord is invoked, preached • Monday, Aug. 18, 10 a.m. — Meeting of Bishop’s Cabinet, However, the congregation the Roman liturgy and not to and spread in the celebration (of Archbishop Noll Center, Fort Wayne said, “if it is foreseen that it will introduce struc- Mass), even • Tuesday, Aug. 19, 6 p.m. — Annual Bishop’s Appeal Dinner, not take place properly,” it can tural changes by means of a Grand Wayne Center, Fort Wayne be omitted. But when it is used, in the Roman human gesture • Wednesday, Aug. 20, 8 a.m. — Mass and Pastoral Visit, it must be done with dignity and Missal.” This peace of the risen Lord lifted up to the Sacred Heart School, Warsaw awareness that it is not a liturgi- But that does realm of the • Thursday, Aug. 21, 10:30 a.m. — Meeting of Presbyteral cal form of “good morning,” but not exclude the sacred.” Council, Sacred Heart Rectory, Warsaw a witness to the Christian belief need for new or is invoked, preached and In some • Thursday, Aug. 21, 6 p.m. — Annual Bishop’s Appeal that true peace is a gift of Christ’s renewed efforts Catholic liturgi- Dinner, Gillespie Center, Hilton Garden Inn, Notre Dame death and resurrection. to explain the spread in the celebration ... cal traditions, • Friday, Aug. 22, 10:30 a.m. — Meeting of Hispanic The text of the congregation’s importance it said, the Apostolate, Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, Warsaw “circular letter” on “the ritual of the sign of exchange of expression of the gift of peace peace so that peace occurs at Mass,” was approved by Pope the faithful before the offer- Francis and posted in Spanish understand it ing in response Call to Prayer for Life, Marriage and Religious on the website of the Spanish and participate to Jesus’ exhor- Liberty Holy Hour across the diocese bishops’ conference. Jesuit Father in it correctly, the congregation’s tation in Matthew 5:23-24: “If Federico Lombardi, Vatican letter said. you bring your gift to the altar, • St. Charles Borromeo Church, 4916 Trier Rd, Fort Wayne, spokesman, confirmed its authen- It asked bishops to study and there recall that your brother has a holy hour all Fridays from 7:30-8:30 p.m. in the chapel. ticity Aug. 1. whether it might be time to find has anything against you, leave • Queen of Peace Church in Mishawaka has an hour and a half Catholic News Service “more appropriate gestures” to your gift there at the altar, go (3:30-5 p.m.) of Adoration and Exposition every Saturday prior obtained a copy of the letter in replace a sign of peace using first and be reconciled with your to the Vigil Mass at 5:30 p.m. They dedicate this time in honor English. “familiar and profane gestures of brother, and then come and offer of private prayer for the Call to Prayer for Life, Marriage and In 2005, members of the greeting.” your gift.” Religious Liberty. Synod of Bishops on the And, it said, they should do But in the Latin rite, the let- • St. Mary of the Assumption Church, Decatur, hosts Eucharist adopted a formal everything possible to end “abus- ter said, the exchange of peace Eucharistic Exposition on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from proposition questioning whether es” such as: comes after the consecration 4:30-6 p.m. and on Thursday from 9-10 a.m. and 4:30-8 p.m. The the sign of peace might be better • “The introduction of a ‘song because it refers to “the ‘paschal parish asks participants to pray for the protection of marriage, placed elsewhere in the Mass, for for peace,’ which is nonexistent kiss’ of the risen Christ present religious freedom and unborn children. example at the end of the prayer in the Roman rite.” on the altar.” It comes just before • Our Lady of Good Hope Church, 7215 Saint Joe Rd., Fort of the faithful and before the • “The movement of the faithful the breaking of the bread dur- Wayne, hosts a holy hour for religious liberty beginning with a offering of the gifts. from their places to exchange the ing which “the Lamb of God is rosary at 9:30 a.m. every Tuesday. Cardinal Antonio Canizares sign of peace amongst themselves.” implored to gives us his peace.” Plenary Indulgence to be offered at MARY Marian consecration Mass in the Cathedral CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Gaitley, a priest of the FORT WAYNE — A special papal blessing will faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under Congregation of the Marians of be given by Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades at the 6 certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Immaculate Conception. The p.m. Mass for the Solemnity of the Assumption the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dis- guidebook, entitled “33 Days on Friday, Aug. 15, in Fort Wayne’s Cathedral penses and applies with authority the treasury of the to Morning Glory,” includes of the Immaculate Conception. This day will satisfactions of Christ and the saints.” prayers and meditations for mark the culmination of the “33 Days to Morning Through indulgences, the infinite merits of Christ, each day, using the writings of Glory” Marian consecration program throughout as well as the merits of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Louis Marie de Montfort, the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. In addi- the saints, are applied to our purification in this life or St. Maximilian Kolbe, Blessed tion, Bishop Rhoades will be formally consecrat- in the life to come (in purgatory). Mother Teresa of Calcutta and ing the entire diocese to the Blessed Virgin Mary A plenary indulgence removes all of the temporal St. John Paul II, who were all during the Mass. punishment due to sins, and may be applied to one- deeply devoted to Mary. Bishop The papal blessing, which a diocesan bishop is self or to the souls of the deceased. Rhoades has prepared a podcast sponsored permitted to bestow in the name of the Holy Father The conditions for obtaining a plenary indulgence on each saint’s reflection. They Festival of Faith by sev- on three solemn occasions each year, carries with it a are: are available in the “Podcast” eral priests on Saturday, Aug. 16. plenary indulgence for all those who meet the usual 1. Being truly repentant and receiving sacramental icon at todayscatholicnews.org. See the advertisement for times conditions (listed at right). absolution in the sacrament of Penance Many parishes will be offer- on the back page of Today’s All who attend this Mass are eligible for the 2. Reception of holy Communion ing the consecration in the parish Catholic. indulgence. Also eligible are any of the faithful who 3. Praying for the Holy Father’s intentions. settings and the book, “33 Days After the Mass, the faithful prayerfully follow the celebration as it is broadcasted 4. Total detachment from any inclination to sin, to Morning Glory,” contains are encouraged to join the Marian over Redeemer Radio or online at diocesefwsb.org. even venial sins. prayers of consecration as well. procession from the Cathedral An indulgence is defined by the Catechism of The first three actions may be fulfilled within 20 The faithful are encouraged to of the Immaculate Conception to the Catholic Church (No. 1471) as “a remission days before or after the offering of the indulgence. make a good Confession near the Headwaters Park in Fort Wayne. before God of the temporal punishment due to sins However, it is most appropriate if they are all done day of the consecration as well. The Festival of Faith will launch whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the on the same day the indulgence is offered. Confessions will be available shortly after the procession. Food at the Knights of Columbus- and drinks will be available. 4 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC August 10, 2014 Aaron Seng appointed diocesan director of youth ministry

engagements at parishes and ents and other adults who will “From that time on, I have been BY TIM JOHNSON schools, planning and work on invest in their lives and mentor involved in the work of evange- retreats and other events, small them in the journey of disciple- lization and equipping others for MISHAWAKA — Aaron Seng team formation, ministry train- ship.” ministry. And the Church’s mis- has been appointed the director of ings, communications consulting “Young people at times sion to and with teens and young youth ministry for the Diocese of and more.” feel unchallenged by a adults has remained at the fore- Fort Wayne-South Bend. “I have been blessed to work Christianity lived around them in front of that work.” The secretariat for the youth with many outstanding people a way that is anything but hero- His top goal is to serve the ministry office has been restruc- along the way and look forward ic,” he said. “Yet we are all called youth, he said, “Forming, equip- tured. “In order to allow for to now being able to focus spe- to holiness; and true holiness is ping, supporting and networking closer collaboration amongst cifically on serving those in youth always powerful, transformative the gifted men and women of our the Catholic Schools Office, the ministry,” he added. and attractive.” diocese who are in active minis- Office of Catechesis, and youth After a year of valuable insight Seng is a native of South try to and with teens will be an ministry, we have been brought into the many good things hap- Bend. He and his wife Hayley effective and sustainable way to together in one secretariat,” said pening in the diocese, Seng said, and eight-month-old daugh- reach as many young people as Carl Loesch, Secretariat for “I was honored at Bishop Kevin ter Gianna-Marie attend St. possible with the joy and beauty Catholic Education. “We are C. Rhoades’s invitation to come Matthew Cathedral in South of the Gospel.” looking forward to working with into direct service of the many Bend. Seng has a Bachelor of An early project that will parents, pastors, volunteers, par- Arts in catechetics and theology launch in this regard will be a Aaron to support the catechetical AARON SENG needs of our parish youth min- ish and school staff looking to from Franciscan University in new website, which will serve istry programs, our high school effectively engage teens in the Steubenville, Ohio. He worked as a platform for offering a wide campus ministry departments and and the young people of our dio- life and mission of the Church. I for the university’s Offices of array of resources, social media the diocese as a whole.” cese.” pray the Lord continues to bless Evangelization and Missionary integration, idea-sharing forums, “Aaron brings great passion Seng has worked with the this work.” Outreach while completing his monthly newsletters, an event cal- and zeal to this position,” Loesch Diocese of Fort Wayne-South More than ever before, Seng graduate studies in theology and endar and other tools that should said. “Any time I am around Bend for the past year. said teens today are in need of Christian ministry. be helpful in the field. Aaron, it is hard not to be encour- “My work with the diocese vibrant and consistent witness to “Ever since a life-changing “This page will go live aged by his enthusiasm for shar- involved serving in youth, young the joy and beauty of knowing, conversion to Christ in high at www.fwsbYM.com on the day ing the faith. He will be a great adult and men’s ministry,” he loving and serving Jesus Christ. school, I have held a great desire of our diocesan consecration (this asset to the parish youth ministers said. “This included speaking He said, “What’s more, they to serve the Lord and His Church August 15th), so be sure to take a need this witness from their par- in a radical way,” Seng said. look,” he said. Desperation of people in Gaza spurs Visit Redeemer Radio violence, say cardinal, patriarch

BY CINDY WOODEN At the VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The president of Caritas Festival of Faith Internationalis suggested Israeli and Hamas leaders pick up a pair th th of binoculars so they could see August 15 - 16 that “most of your victims are innocent people.” Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, president of the Vatican-based umbrella orga- nization for national Catholic charities, said peace is impossible without reconciliation, and rec- onciliation requires recognizing CNS PHOTO/IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA, REUTERS each other as human beings. A Palestinian family rides a motorcycle as they flee their house in Khan “Israel and Hamas, why do you keep pointing out the speck Younis, Gaza Strip, Aug. 1. The president of Caritas Internationalis sug- All Saints in the eye of your brother while gested Israeli and Hamas leaders pick up a pair of binoculars so they missing the plank in your own could see that “most of your victims are innocent people.” Religious Goods eye?” the cardinal asked in a 8808 Coldwater Road - Fort Wayne statement published July 31. “As Caritas,” he said, “we ian organizations and where the is to make Gaza a factory for In Coldwater Centre at Wallen Road, 1.5 miles north of I-69 pray for peace in the Holy Land. dignity of a job is beyond many desperate people who are easy to 260-490-7506 We pray for the Palestinian people’s reach.” transform into extremists ready and Israeli families who have On Aug. 1, shortly after what for anything,” the patriarch said. •Crucifixes lost their children, mothers and was to be a 72-hour cease-fire, The next step, he said, must be lifting the Israeli blockade of •Rosaries fathers, and for those who have Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal of been killed. Our prayers are with Jerusalem said temporary halts in Gaza. “Even the tunnels” dug •Medals the children who live in terror fighting obviously are good, but by Hamas and a primary target of Israel’s military action, “are •Statues and whose mental scars will run unless Israel changes its policies deep long after this war is over.” toward Gaza, the desperation of a product of the embargo. If the Despite the violence, the car- residents will continue to lead to siege ends, if roads are opened dinal prayed that Palestinians violence. and the free movement of persons and products is permitted, if peo- •Books •Bibles and Israelis “will remain free to “If conditions in Gaza remain believe in a future of justice and that of a desperate land under ple are allowed to fish in the sea” peace.” siege, where the only things that along the Gaza coast, then “no •Baptismal Gowns “This is the third war in five grow are fear and frustration that one will need to dig tunnels.” years between Israel and militants spur hatred,” then a temporary The patriarch did not say in Gaza,” the cardinal said. “In cease-fire will have no lasting Hamas militants are innocent. •Church Supplies the intervening years, Palestinians impact, he told Fides, the news In fact, he seemed to put part of in Gaza have lived a life where agency of the Congregation for the blame on them for the high Support your school. Use All Saints SCRIP! water is scarce, much of their the Evangelization of Peoples. percentage of victims who are food comes from humanitar- “It almost seems as if the point children and women. August 10, 2014 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC 5 Agency seeks donations for emergency In latest interview, Pope aid for fleeing Iraqi Christians Francis reveals top 10 secrets

NEW YORK (CNS) — A U.S.- based international Catholic agency to happiness July 28 issued a plea for emergency funds to help tens of thousands of we’re not asking ourselves is: ‘Isn’t Christians forced to flee their homes BY CAROL GLATZ humanity committing suicide with in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. this indiscriminate and tyrannical “These Christian families have use of nature?’” arrived with only their clothes, VATICAN CITY — In an inter- 8. Stop being negative. “Needing having been forced to leave every- view published in part in the to talk badly about others indicates thing behind in Mosul,” said Ra’ed Argentine weekly Viva July 27, the low self-esteem. That means, ‘I Bahou, who is the Catholic Near pope listed his Top 10 tips for bring- feel so low that instead of pick- East Welfare Association’s regional ing greater joy to one’s life: ing myself up I have to cut others director for Jordan and Iraq. As 1. “Live and let live.” Everyone families were “fleeing the city on down,’” the pope said. “Letting should be guided by this principle, go of negative things quickly is foot,” he said, “ISIS militants then he said, which has a similar expres- stole whatever dollars they had in healthy.” sion in Rome with the saying, 9. Don’t proselytize; respect oth- their pockets, even their passports “Move forward and let others do the ers’ beliefs. and identification papers.” same.” “We can inspire others CNS PHOTO/STRINGER, REUTERS through witness so that one grows Bahou made the comments 2. “Be giving of yourself to others.” Iraqi children play on a makeshift swing along a street in Mosul, Iraq, together in communicating. But the in a news release from CNEWA People need to be open and gener- July 28. Catholic Near East Welfare Association, a U.S.-based international worst thing of all is religious pros- announcing the agency has launched ous toward others, he said, because agency, issued a plea for emergency funds to help tens of thousands of elytism, which paralyzes: ‘I am talk- a campaign to rush funds to the “if you withdraw into yourself, you ing with you in order to persuade families. Christians forced to flee their homes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. run the risk of becoming egocen- you,’ No. Each person dialogues, Islamic militants known as ISIS, tric. And stagnant water becomes starting with his and her own identi- or the Islamic State fighters, have Msgr. John E. Kozar, who is putrid.” gious charity registered in the state ty. The Church grows by attraction, solidified their control over Iraq’s of New York, so all contributions president of CNEWA, said the 3. “Proceed calmly” in life. second-largest city of Mosul by The not proselytizing,” the pope said. are tax deductible. agency will get the emergency pope, who used to teach high school imposing Shariah, Islamic law, and 10. Work for peace. “We are liv- According to Bahou, Christian funds to the bishops, clergy and literature, used an image from are ordering Christians to convert or ing in a time of many wars,” he families have found refuge in religious, “who in the frenzy are an Argentine novel by Ricardo pay a special tax or they will die. said, and “the call for peace must be churches, convents and monasteries, courageously providing water, food, Guiraldes, in which the protagonist Mosul’s Christians have instead shouted. Peace sometimes gives the he added. mattresses and medicines” to fleeing — gaucho Don Segundo Sombra — fled to the Christian villages of impression of being quiet, but it is Syriac Catholic Archbishop Christians. looks back on how he lived his life. Ninevah province — some just a never quiet, peace is always proac- Yohanna Moshe of Mosul and the The world is “witnessing, at the “He says that in his youth he was few miles from Mosul — or to the tive” and dynamic. Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine hands of extremist thugs, the eradi- a stream full of rocks that he car- autonomous Kurdistan region in Pope Francis also talked about of Siena — themselves homeless cation of a cradle of Christianity in ried with him; as an adult, a rushing northern Iraq. the importance of helping immi- — the clergy, religious and villagers the cradle of civilization,” the priest river; and in old age, he was still An agency of the Holy See, grants, praising Sweden’s generosity are trying to provide the basics, said said in a statement. moving, but slowly, like a pool” CNEWA works throughout in opening its doors to so many peo- the CNEWA release. It said refuge, He added that the agency will of water, the pope said. He said the Middle East, with offices ple, while noting anti-immigration especially in the villages of Alqosh, help the “shepherds of this flock he likes this latter image of a pool in Amman, Jordan, Beirut and policies show the rest of Europe “is Bakhdida (Qaraqosh), Bartella to tend their sheep, with the basics of water — to have “the ability to Jerusalem. It has been active in Iraq afraid.” and Tel Kaif, is “tenuous at best,” they need for survival now ... even move with kindness and humility, a for more than 50 years, but redou- because the Islamic State has cut the if their flock is dispersed.” He also fondly recalled the bled its efforts among the vulnerable calmness in life.” electricity and water supply, and has The BBC reported July 28 that 4. “A healthy sense of leisure.” woman who helped his mother with Christian population in 1991. The the housework when he was grow- announced its intentions to overrun in a joint message, France’s foreign pleasures of art, literature and play- Donations can be made online at the region. minister and interior minister have ing up in Buenos Aires. www.cnewa.org, by phone at (800) ing together with children have been Concepcion Maria Minuto was “These villages are in the hands offered Iraqi Christians asylum. lost, he said. 442-6392, or by mail to CNEWA, of God,” Bahou said, “as ISIS says “We are ready, if they so desire, to a Sicilian immigrant, a widow and 1011 First Ave., New York, NY “Consumerism has brought us mother of two boys, who went three their next ‘gift’ will be the villages help facilitate asylum on our terri- anxiety” and stress, causing people 10022-4195. The agency is a reli- of the Ninevah Plain.” tory,” their statement said. times a week to help the pope’s to lose a “healthy culture of leisure.” mother do laundry, since in those Their time is “swallowed up” so days it was all done by hand. people can’t share it with anyone. He said this hard-working, digni- Sudanese woman condemned Even though many parents work fied woman made a big impression long hours, they must set aside time on the 10-year-old future pope, as to play with their children; work she would talk to him about World for apostasy meets pope schedules make it “complicated, but War II in Italy and how they farmed you must do it,” he said. in Sicily. Families must also turn off “She was as clever as a fox, she BY CAROL GLATZ her plight, Father Lombardi said. then spent the following month. the TV when they sit down to eat The Vatican spokesman said the Italy’s foreign ministry led nego- had every penny accounted for, she because, even though television wouldn’t be cheated. She had many VATICAN CITY (CNS) — meeting was a sign of the pope’s tiations with Khartoum for her to be is useful for keeping up with the Meeting a Sudanese woman who “closeness, solidarity and presence allowed to leave Sudan for Italy. great qualities,” he said. news, having it on during mealtime Even though his family lost touch risked execution for not renouncing with all those who suffer for their She arrived in Rome July 24 “doesn’t let you communicate” with her Catholic faith, Pope Francis faith,” adding that Ibrahim’s ordeal aboard an Italian government plane with her when they moved, the then- each other, the pope said. Jesuit Father Jorge Bergoglio later thanked Meriam Ibrahim for her has come to represent the serious accompanied by her family and 5. Sundays should be holidays. challenges many people face in liv- Italy’s vice foreign minister, Lapo sought her out and visited her for the steadfast witness to Christ. Workers should have Sundays off ing out their faith. Pistelli, who led the talks that ended last 10 years of her life. The pope spent 30 minutes with because “Sunday is for family,” he Ibrahim, her husband and two small Ibrahim, a 26-year-old Catholic in her being allowed to leave Sudan. “A few days before she died, said. she took this small medal out of her children July 24, just hours after she woman originally sentenced to Pistelli told reporters at Rome’s 6. Find innovative ways to create had arrived safely in Italy follow- death for marrying a Christian, had Ciampino airport that they had pocket, gave it to me and said: ‘I dignified jobs for young people. ing a brutal ordeal of imprisonment been released from prison in Sudan left Khartoum at 3:30 a.m. and “We want you to have it!’ So every night, and a death sentence for apostasy in June 23 after intense international spent most of the flight sleeping. need to be creative with young when I take it off and kiss it, and Sudan. pressure. But she was apprehended However, he said, when awake, people. If they have no opportuni- every morning when I put it back Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, again the next day at the Khartoum Martin, the 2-year-old, “practically ties they will get into drugs” and be on, this woman comes to my mind.” Vatican spokesman, told journalists airport with her husband, who is a dismantled the plane.” more vulnerable to suicide, he said. “She died happy, with a smile that the encounter in the pope’s resi- U.S. citizen, and their nearly 2-year- Ibrahim joined the Catholic “It’s not enough to give them on her face and with the dignity of dence was marked by “affection” old son and 2-month-old daughter, Church shortly before she married food,” he said. “Dignity is given someone who worked. For that rea- and “great serenity and joy.” who was born in prison just after Daniel Bicensio Wani in 2011. to you when you can bring food son I am very sympathetic toward They had “a beautiful conver- Ibrahim’s death sentence. She was later convicted of home” from one’s own labor. housecleaners and domestic work- sation,” during which the pope Charged with possessing fake apostasy and sentenced to death by 7. Respect and take care of nature. ers, whose rights, all of them, should thanked Ibrahim for “her steadfast travel documents, Ibrahim was not hanging. Sudan’s penal code crimi- Environmental degradation “is one be recognized” and protected, he witness of faith,” the priest said. allowed to leave Sudan, but she was nalizes the conversion of Muslims of the biggest challenges we have,” said. “They must never be exploited Ibrahim thanked the pope for the released into the custody of the U.S. to other religions, which is punish- he said. “I think a question that or mistreated.” church’s prayers and support during Embassy in Khartoum, where she able by death. 6 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC August 10, 2014 Archbishop Chaput Baldisseri said he is not surprised by all the attention the synod is getting says pope will visit in the Church and the media, because Philadelphia in “the problems of the family are what September 2015 News Briefs people are dealing with every day.” FARGO, N.D. (CNS) — Philadelphia Obama administration Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said Pope Francis has accepted his invita- says it plans opt-out tion to attend the World Meeting of Families in the U.S. next year, even NATIVE AMERICAN ‘SMUDGING’ CEREMONY TAKES PLACE alternative on mandate though the Philadelphia Archdiocese WASHINGTON (CNS) — The still has not received official confir- DURING SUNRISE SERVICE AT TEKAKWITHA CONFERENCE Obama administration has filed a brief mation from the Vatican. Archbishop with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Chaput made the announcement July Appeals in Denver indicating it plans 24 before giving his homily during to develop an alternative for Catholic the opening Mass of the Tekakwitha and other religious nonprofit employ- Conference in Fargo. “Pope Francis ers to opt out of providing federally has told me that he is coming,” said mandated contraceptives they object the archbishop as he invited his fel- to including in their employee health low Native Americans to the 2015 care coverage. Several media outlets, celebration being held in Philadelphia including AP, The Wall Street Journal Sept. 22-27. “The pope will be with and The Washington Post, reported us the Friday, Saturday and Sunday July 23 that the administration said of that week,” he said. Jesuit Father it would come up with a “work- Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokes- around” that would be different than man, said July 25 Pope Francis has the accommodation it currently has expressed “his willingness to par- available to such employers. The U.S. ticipate in the World Meeting of Department of Health and Human Families” in Philadelphia, and has Services, as part of the health care received invitations to visit other cit- law, requires nearly all employers ies as well, which he is considering. to cover contraceptives, sterilizations Those invitations include New York, and some abortion-inducing drugs for the United Nations and Washington. all employees in their company health “There has been no official confir- plan. It includes a narrow exemption mation by the Vatican or the Holy for some religious employers that fit See of Pope Francis’ attendance at certain criteria. Currently, there is an the 2015 World Meeting of Families accommodation for those employers in Philadelphia,” the archdiocese said who don’t fit the exemption but who in a statement. “We still expect that are morally opposed to providing the coverage. They must fill out a self- any official confirmation will come CNS PHOTO/NANCY WIECHEC approximately six months prior to certification form — known as EBSA the event.” Dominique Montoya, 16, performs a Native American purification ritual known as Form 700 — to direct a third party, “smudging” during a sunrise service July 26 at the 75th anniversary of the Tekakwitha usually the manager of an employer’s health plan, to provide the contested Meeting 200 Pentecostals, Conference, an indigenous Catholic organization, in Fargo, N.D. Montoya is a Navajo coverage. pope renews friendship, from Fort Defiance, Ariz. talks unity Like good shepherd, VATICAN CITY (CNS) — His Church must seek out, voice breaking with emotion, pastor of the Catholics, I ask forgive- a Mass at Haemi Castle, background Changes in synod process help abused, says survivor Giovanni Traettino, a Pentecostal ness for those Catholic brothers and of the 1864 Donghak Rebellion. designed to increase pastor in southern Italy and longtime sisters who did not understand and Campaign against human VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Just as friend of Pope Francis, welcomed were tempted by the devil,” Italian discussion, cardinal says Jesus commanded pastors to leave the pope, “my beloved brother,” to news agencies quoted the pope as trafficking must focus their flock to find the lost sheep, his partially built church in Caserta. saying. VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The the Church must set out in search Pope Francis said he knows some on victims, speakers say extraordinary Synod of Bishops on of all those who have been abused people were shocked that he would VATICAN CITY (CNS) — the family will be shorter than a by clergy and offer them help, said make a special trip outside of Rome During South Korea trip, Estimates of the number of people usual synod and will include new one abuse survivor. Victims of abuse to visit a group of Pentecostals, “but pope will beatify martyrs, around the world who are victims rules aimed at helping the bishops should be the focus of a new pasto- I went to visit my friends.” Traettino of human trafficking are rising, part- really grapple with the issues togeth- ral ministry since they are isolated, told the pope his visit was “unthink- meet Asian youths ly because globalization has made er, said the general secretary of the hurting, vulnerable to self-harm and able until recently,” even though, he VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The it easier to move people and partly synod. “We want a frank, open, civi- suicide, and in need of Christ’s true said, “even among evangelicals there Korean martyrs who gave their lives because governments, churches and lized discussion,” Cardinal Lorenzo healing, said Mark Vincent Healy, is great affection for you. Many of for the faith, the young people who international organizations are better Baldisseri told Catholic News one of the six abuse survivors who us pray for you, every day. Many will be the leaders of the Church at recognizing the phenomenon, a Service July 25. The extraordinary met Pope Francis at the Vatican of us, in fact, believe your election across Asia and people with dis- U.S. government official said. Luis synod will meet at the Vatican Oct. July 7. In his private meeting with as bishop of Rome was the work abilities are the key features of the CdeBaca, ambassador-at-large in the 5-19, bringing together the presi- the pope, Healy said, “I needed to of the Holy Spirit.” Pope Francis schedule prepared for Pope Francis State Department’s Office to Monitor dents of national bishops’ confer- tell His Holiness just how awful it told the Pentecostals that “the Holy when he visits South Korea in mid- and Combat Trafficking in Persons, ences, the heads of Eastern Catholic is when there is no justice, no one Spirit is the source of diversity in August. Pope Francis had said he held a digital video conference July churches and Vatican officials. The listening on a humanitarian level,” the Church. This diversity is very would travel to the Asian nation to 29 with priests and religious, ambas- world Synod of Bishops, which will and how all that isolation and guilt rich and beautiful. But then the same beatify 124 Korean martyrs and to sadors accredited to the Holy See and include more bishops — many elect- push people to suicide or self-harm Holy Spirit creates unity. And in this participate in the sixth Asian Youth journalists gathered at the office of ed by their peers — will meet at the and addictions. He also told the pope way the Church is one in diversity. Day, a gathering of about 2,000 the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Vatican Oct. 4-25, 2015, to continue how much spiritual help both sur- To use a beautiful Gospel phrase delegates from 30 countries. The The conference and discussion about the discussion on pastoral approach- vivors and the Church need. Healy that I love very much, reconciled martyrs were among an estimated the U.S. State Department’s 2014 es to the challenges facing families spoke with Catholic News Service diversity” is the gift of the Holy 10,000 Catholics in Korea killed for Trafficking in Persons Report took today. Although the number of par- by telephone from Ireland July 25. Spirit. In addition to the visit, the their faith between 1785 and 1888. place on the eve of the first U.N. ticipants in the extraordinary synod The Church needs a new evange- pope fulfilled one specific request Pope Francis will preside over a World Day Against Trafficking in is smaller, it will include a dozen lization “and a new mission based of the Italian evangelical commu- Mass and their beatification Aug. 16 Persons. Pope Francis has called or more voting members named on Matthew 18, verse 12,” — the nity by recognizing the complicity in Seoul. The pope will have lunch human trafficking “a crime against by the pope, three priests chosen Parable of the Lost Sheep, in which of some Catholics in the fascist-era with young people Aug. 15 and meet humanity.” Meeting trafficking sur- by the Union of Superiors General, Jesus tells His disciples to seek those persecution of Italian Pentecostals a group of Asian youth at the Solmoe vivors, religious sisters caring for vic- a dozen or more expert advisers, who are lost, he said. The Church is and evangelicals. “Among those shrine built in honor of Korea’s first tims and dozens of senior police offi- about a dozen representatives of “to be a light and is supposed to shine who persecuted and denounced the Catholic priest, St. Andrew Kim cials in April, he called human traf- other Christian churches and up to this light” where there is darkness, Pentecostals, almost as if they were Taegon, who was martyred in 1946 ficking “an open wound on the body 30 observers, more than half com- not passively expect those in need to crazies who would ruin the race, at the age of 25. He will close the of contemporary society, a scourge prised of married couples — who “come into the light” and seek help, there were some Catholics. As the Aug. 13-17 Asian Youth Day with upon the body of Christ.” will be encouraged to address the Healy said. assembly, the cardinal said. Cardinal August 10, 2014 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 7 AWS FOUNDATION AWARDS Around the Diocese $250,000 TO USF JESTERS GROUP

Zirkle takes over as Ancilla COME AND SEE WEEKEND OFFERED College interim president TIME FOR DISCERNMENT DONALDSON — Retirement didn’t last very long for Dr. Kenneth Zirkle. He recently took over as the inter- im president of Ancilla College. KENNETH ZIRKLE “I had to PROVIDED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF SAINT FRANCIS break it to my AWS Foundation of Fort Wayne has awarded the family carefully. My wife and daughters all thought I would take University of Saint Francis-sponsored Jesters program some time off, but the opportunity $250,000 to support and enhance services. The funding at Ancilla was one I couldn’t pass up,” Zirkle said. will provide $50,000 in annual program support, doubling The retirement this summer of for the next five years the Jesters contribution AWS was Ron May left a gap at the college that was filled when the board of already making. Jesters was founded at the university in trustees sought an interim presi- CHRISTOPHER LUSHIS 1978 to engage individuals with disabilities in the creative dent to step in as the college’s ninth president. Zirkle, who retired Over 70 priests, seminarians and young men discerning a arts to enhance their quality of life. For more information as the chief academic officer at visit sf.edu/jesters. Shown is the spring 2014 Jesters stage Mercyhurst University North East call to the Priesthood spent time in Eucharistic Adoration, last fall, was approached to step in heard Msgr. Michael Heintz, rector of St. Matthew performance on Spring Street. at Ancilla. The one-year appointment is Cathedral, South Bend, speak about faith, discerning God’s an interesting assignment for the will and responding to His call in their lives, and, shown Pennsylvania native. “Ancilla is SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS ANNOUNCE a remarkable school serving a above, participated in a group rosary, praying the joyful diverse set of communities here in mysteries together at St. Vincent de Paul Parish, Fort CHAPTER ELECTION RESULTS northern Indiana. This is the best kind of challenge. This year I will Wayne, during the Come and See weekend July 18-19. work with the faculty, staff and trustees to move the institution forward while they search for a forth 254 Catholic school teach- Kevin C. Rhoades will be the permanent president. Even in one ers and leaders to serve in more celebrant. year we can continue to do great than 175 schools around the coun- Franciscan Father David Mary things,” he said. try, capping a summer of intensive Engo will offer a parish mis- Zirkle brings decades of exec- study, community formation and sion Aug. 12-14 at 7 p.m. with utive experience to his term at spiritual fellowship on campus. talks on “The Father’s Love,” Ancilla. His career spanned sev- ACE’s annual missioning Mass “Forgiveness” and “Communion.” eral universities in different states on July 25 in the Basilica of the Refreshments in the hall will fol- including the State University Sacred Heart, served to celebrate low each talk. of New York, University of and bless the teachers and leaders as Findley (Ohio), Becker College they return to the communities they St. Bernard, Wabash, (Massachusetts), Post University serve across the country. (Connecticut), and Mercyhurst Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi of to celebrate University (Pennsylvania). Mobile, Ala., celebrated the Mass Sesquicentennial Mass as well as in missioning ceremonies Bishop Luers announces held July 24 at the Grotto of Our WABASH — St. Bernard Parish, assistant principal Lady of Lourdes. He joined Holy Wabash, is celebrating its 150th PROVIDED BY THE SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS OF PERPETUAL ADORATION Cross Fathers Timothy Scully, Sean anniversary in 2014. Festivities At the Provincial Chapter Election held recently at St. FORT WAYNE — Bishop Luers McGraw and Lou DelFra, founders include a celebration on the feast of Francis Convent, Mishawaka, Franciscan Sister M. Angela High School announces the selection of ACE, in sending forth 178 teach- St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the patron of James Huth as assistant principal. ing fellows, 54 participants in ACE’s saint of the parish, on Wednesday, Mellady was reelected Provincial of the Immaculate Heart Aug. 20, at 5:30 p.m. The bless- Huth is 1981 graduate of Bishop Mary Ann Remick Leadership of Mary Province of the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Luers High School. He has served Program and 22 teachers in the ing of a time capsule will fol- as a teacher (1988-1999), assistant English as a New Language program. low the Mass and the St. Bernard Adoration. The Provincial Council Members elected were The missioning Mass marked the Parish children will release blue principal (1999-2007) at Columbia Sister Margaret Mary Mitchel, (Vicar Provincial), Sister M. City High School and served as the close of ACE’s summer programs and yellow commemorative bal- school leader at Imagine MASTer of graduate-level coursework; lead- loons. Parishioners Mike and Amy Ann Kathleen Magiera, Sister M. Madonna Rougeau, Sister Academy (2007-2012). Most recent- ership formation for Catholic school Davis, who own B&K Drive In, ly, Huth has served as Bishop Luers principals, superintendents and pas- will provide dinner. M. Lissetta Gettinger, Sister M. Clare Reuille, Sister athletic director. tors; and professional and spiritual On Sunday, Aug. 24, Bishop Jane Marie Klein and Sister Lethia Marie Leveille. The rejuvenation for Catholic educators Kevin C. Rhoades will celebrate a ACE to send forth 254 on Notre Dame’s campus. special jubilee Mass at 2 p.m. The Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration serve in health festivities will conclude that day care, educational and ecclesial apostolates in Indiana and Catholic school teachers St. Francis Xavier celebrates with a vespers service. and leaders in missioning 150th anniversary, mission St. Bernard Parish youth have Illinois. In Fort Wayne, the sisters serve at the University collected 150 baby items that were of Saint Francis. They also serve at St. Anthony de Padua ceremonies donated to the LIFE Center in PIERCETON — St. Francis May. The parish is also compiling School in South Bend and Marian High School, Francis Xavier Parish will celebrate its NOTRE DAME — The University a parish cookbook and a special 150th anniversary with a Mass on Alliance, St. Francis Convent and Our Lady of Angels of Notre Dame’s Alliance for jubilee book, which will be avail- Sunday, Aug. 17, at 9 a.m. Bishop Catholic Education (ACE) will send able in the fall. Convent in Mishawaka. 8 TODAY’S CATHOLIC August 10, 2014 Children’s Autism Center serves community with faith and science medically recommended. … We BY KAY COZAD see our role in the community as providing a service of therapy, FORT WAYNE — According to as well as serving as advocates the Centers for Disease Control for persons who need us in other and Prevention the increase in the capacities such as training or sup- incidence of autism spectrum dis- port.” order diagnosis has risen to one Forte’s hope for the autism in every 68 children in the U.S. center is growth, growth, growth. Early diagnosis and intervention “I hope we’re able to expand, have become the hallmark of best grow and improve our services,” quality of life outcome for these she says, adding, “There’s a lot of children who display a range of need out there.” social-interaction and communi- Outside the center, where cation challenges. Forte’s son Nick continues to In Fort Wayne, the number receive support, the family lives of programs and centers provid- out their faith in other ways as ing therapies for children on well. Catholic education has been the autism spectrum and other paramount for the Fortes. All developmental disabilities has three children have or currently increased to meet the growing attend Bishop Luers High School. need. The Children’s Autism Nick received his elementary edu- Center (CAC) is one such center cation first in the public schools, where life experience and stew- then at St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth ardship play an essential role Ann Seton School during which in providing quality in-home or time he was able to join his -school and center-based thera- classmates in receiving the sacra- pies for its clients. ments of first Communion, first Jill Forte, executive director Reconciliation and Confirmation. of the CAC, brings not only her Now he is involved in many sharp intellect and professional aspects of high school life at expertise to the task, but her Bishop Luers, including the deep faith and life experience as school play, the bowling team well. With a bachelor’s degree in KAY COZAD and more. cytotechnology and a master’s in Jill Forte, right, founder and executive director of the Children’s Autism Center in Fort Wayne, observes one of Currently he is a regular pia- pathology, Forte is currently pur- the center’s Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapists, Kim Kleber, working with a client on achieving a goal. nist, with his piano teacher Ken suing an Ed.D in Organizational Jehle, at Masses at St. Joseph Leadership from Indiana Church where he and his family Wesleyan University. times interchanged with Autism Development Center in down- day, and the role that we all play are active members. And he was As a devout Catholic, having Spectrum Disorders (ASD), but is town Fort Wayne in hopes of in the community to transform a lector at the diocesan disability joined the Church in 1994, Forte characterized by significant chal- assisting other children in need. the way children with disabili- Mass celebrated by Bishop Kevin believes that by serving the com- lenges in social and communica- It began with four students and ties live their lives,” she says, C. Rhoades. munity she also serves God. “As tion skills development. four staff and eventually spun off adding, “We work every day to With faith and stewardship a Catholic, you access faith in After much research Forte to become the Children’s Autism increase awareness, acceptance goals in mind with family and the every part of your life,” she says. and her husband Rob invested Center, housed in a north and a and openness to people who center Forte reflects, “The cen- That faith coupled with her stud- in Applied Behavior Analysis southwest site in Fort Wayne. think differently about the world. ter gives me a place to actively ies in organizational leadership (ABA) therapy for Nick begin- Since its establishment Forte … The challenge is to keep our steward every day. … It is my has Forte “leading by example” ning at the age of 3. ABA therapy has directed the center to be a eyes open to what else God has challenge to lead in a way that at the center. “Staff and families involves a program of instruc- place where the 30 staff members planned for us and to be open to serves as a model for our staff who know me know that I hold tion that breaks skills down into and 45 clients, ranging in age follow the twists and turns of the and families and reflects my faith my faith as the most important manageable units and utilizes from 3 to 19, work together to path.” beliefs. Every decision I make, driving force of everything I do procedures such as reinforcement, create the best quality of life for The center, Forte says, is the every action I take must be one in my life,” she reports. shaping and extinction to teach all. result of her family’s strongly that I will be proud of when I Her interest in autism began the skills. “God has a plan for all of us held belief in stewardship and in account for my life,” she con- almost two decades ago when Following this intensive early and He puts people and circum- science. “To be a faithful steward cludes, “Today is the only day her son Nick, the second of her intervention with Nick, Forte stances in our lives for a reason. of the gifts God gave me, it was that matters.” three children, was diagnosed realized the effectiveness of ABA When God gave me Nick, He important to me to share what I with Pervasive Developmental therapy on developmental needs set forth a plan for me. That plan had found to be effective with For more information Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified and began her pursuit of the included the center, the children Nick. As part of that steward- on the (PDD-NOS) at the age of 26 establishment of an ABA class- and families we serve, the staff ship, it was also important that Children’s Autism Center visit months. PDD-NOS is some- room within the Learning and who work alongside us every the therapy by empirically based, www.childrensautismcenter.org. Sisters of St. Agnes celebrate jubilees FOND DU LAC, Wis. — The 75th jubilee St. John School in New Haven Sister Magdalena 50th jubilees Congregation of the Sisters of St. before moving to other states. Langlois is from Agnes honor 23 sisters who cele- Sister Ancilla Wisconsin and Sister Angela brate jubilees this year. Those from Lengerich was 60th jubilees has taught grades Behen is from or that have served the Diocese of 1 and 3 at St. born in Decatur Sister Daniel Illinois and Fort Wayne-South Bend are: and has worked Henry School in taught sixth in the medical Weinzierl is from Fort Wayne from grade at St. 80th jubilee field as a nurse in SISTER ANCILLA Pennsylvania 1957-1966 and SISTER Joseph School SISTER ANGELA and taught grades 3 and 4 at BEHEN Sister Colombiere Wisconsin during LENGERICH MAGDALENA in Fort Wayne her 75 years as a grades 5 and 6 at St. Joseph School LANGLOIS from 1975-1977. Revelant is from religious. St. Henry School in Fort Wayne Wisconsin and in Fort Wayne from 1973-1979. Sister Kathleen served as teacher from 1972-1977. Sister Mary 70th jubilee SISTER DANIEL Delaspina is from and principal in She also taught WEINZIERL Albert Flynn is Pennsylvania New Haven and fifth grade at St. Sister Germaine from New York and worked in Decatur. At 99 John the Baptist Lichtle was born and taught sev- hospice care for years of age Sister in New Haven in Decatur enth grade at St. nine years in celebrates 80 from 1986-1989. SISTER and has taught SISTER Joseph School in Fort Wayne. SISTER years as a Sister COLOMBIERE first and sec- GERMAINE Fort Wayne from SISTER MARY KATHLEEN of St. Agnes. RELEVANT ond grades at LICHTLE 1974-1976. ALBERT FLYNN DELASPINA August 10, 2014 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 9 Teens encounter Christ’s love and KNIGHTS SUPPORT JOURNEY OF HOPE serve as disciples on bcX Retreat

BY CHRISTOPHER LUSHIS

NOTRE DAME — High school students from the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend joyfully came together for the annual bcX Retreat, July 22-25, to participate in liturgical celebrations and community outreach, learning how to effectively “be Christ to others” and “see Christ in others” throughout the world. The retreat, held at Holy Cross College, encouraged these teens to engage more deeply in their faith and experience Christ in a profoundly transformational way. PROVIDED BY SCOTT GRING Grounded in the understanding PROVIDED BY BCX RETREAT that the sacraments provide the Wednesday night Mass was a “barefoot Mass,” before which each student For the seventh year running the Knights of Columbus heart and soul of Christian life, washed the feet of another, emphasizing common discipleship, then all Council 553 Santa Maria welcomed and served a pasta din- each day the retreatants were attended Mass barefoot. offered the opportunity to gain a ner to the young men of Push America’s Journey of Hope greater awareness and apprecia- on July 18 in South Bend. Journey of Hope is a cross-coun- tion of God’s love by receiving Holy Communion at Mass. This try bicycle trek to raise money and awareness for people Eucharistic foundation then with disabilities. Comprised of three 35-member teams propelled them to live out their call of missionary discipleship from Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, these men average 75 miles a through service to the community day from the west coast to Washington, D.C., stopping in and enhanced relationship with one another. communities along the way to participate in events aimed “One of the most important to educate people about the abilities of people with dis- parts of being sent on mission is being closely united with the One abilities — such as puppet shows, wheelchair basketball who sends us,” remarked Megan and dances. Swaim, director of youth ministry at St. Pius X, Granger. “We have to remain close to Jesus through prayer and the sacraments so that we can be His hands and His feet. If we are not connected to Him Retreatants work in the Unity Garden, which provides the opportu- through prayer and the sacra- nity for people to come together and share in food grown locally. ments, then the work becomes our work, instead of His work.” The group of 45 committed students included parishioners from both St. Vincent de Paul and Our Lady of Good Hope in Fort Wayne, as well as from St. Pius X in Granger. Participation on the retreat was made pos- sible by the financial support of the parishes as well as through a generous grant from the St. Joseph Regional Medical Center. Retreatants were led by adult team members and college-aged NEW DVD – JUST RELEASED! volunteers, several of whom participated in bcX as teens SIGNS FROM GOD themselves, to serve alongside ministries in the South Bend community. MIRACLES AND Each day, separate squads ventured to assist at outreach THEIR MEANING Bleeding Statue Eucharistic Miracle sites including the Center for Students help with projects at the Our Lady of the Road Catholic the Homeless, Women’s Care Worker Drop-In Center. hat science discovers will confront the mind and heart of every person. Center, Better World Books, The DVD presents the findings from the investigations of a bleeding Catholic Worker House, Northern W statue of Christ in Cochabamba, Bolivia and of a Eucharistic miracle in Indiana Food Bank, Downtown dents displayed in imitation of from around the diocese gave the Soup Kitchen, Unity Gardens, Christ’s self-sacrifice,” she said. talks. Touching on the themes Buenos Aires, Argentina, the later commissioned by Cardinal Bergoglio in Healthwin Rehabilitation, St. “I was proud and overjoyed to “Love Unleashed” and “Being 1999. This Cardinal is now known to the world as Pope Francis! 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Bathe 1881-1898 Wabash, parishioners and faithful Father Peter J. Crosson 1898-1900 will celebrate the parish’s sesqui- Father Robert J. Pratt 1900-1910 centennial Aug. 24. However, the Father William D. Sullivan 1910-1921 Catholic community will always be Father Edmund A. Ley 1921-1932 known for the priests who served Father Charles A. Scholl 1932-1940 there, those who remember them Father Leo A. Hoffmann 1940-1956 LAURIE KIEFABER and the buildings they called home. Father Robert J. Zahn 1956-1976 St. Bernard Church as it looks today at the corner of Cass and Sinclair Most current parishioners did Father Eugene Zimmerman 1976-1982 streets in Wabash. not personally know the early Father William Kummer 1982-1985 church pastors, but they did hear Father Daniel E. Peil 1985-1993 about a few. Father Edmund Ley is well known in church history for Father Timothy A. Wrozek 1993-2001 opening the first Catholic school Father Sextus Don 2001-present there in 1922. Current parishio- ner Ann Rowe said her mother, *Pastors of St. Patrick Church, Lagro, who visited Wabash as a mission Elizabeth Rowe, and grandmother, Louisa Ratajc, cleaned his home. “He had a farm and pet squirrels pastor following Father Kummer. glass windows,” he said. “They’re he fed,” Rowe recalls her relatives Several parishioners remember so catechetical. They go from saying. Father Peil had acquired a simple Genesis to Revelation! ... We can But Father Ley was not the only wooden coffin, which he shipped use these windows for catechesis.” animal lover among St. Bernard’s from parish to parish when he was A great deal of thought went pastors. Father Eugene Zimmerman transferred. Parishioner Angel into designing the one-of-a-kind kept parakeets in his home. The Shear had heard he was unafraid stained glass windows as well priest also enjoyed smoking cigars. of death. as the Gothic-style church and “When you think of him the “He kept it in the garage,” said school. As new pastor in 1940, first thing you think of is his parishioner Richard White. Father Leo Hoffmann saw the need cigars,” said parishioner Janet “He also was really extraordi- for a new church and school and Shoemaker. “Occasionally he narily good on visiting the sick,” took on the building projects with would leave his lit cigar on the White added. “Even when he was help and direction from the parish LAURIE KIEFABER (stone) window sill of the church. sick, he would go visit the sick. He council, Architect A.F. Moratz of The first St. Bernard Church was dedicated in 1867 at 429 W. Maple Before we had air conditioning if visited my mother and she was not Bloomington, Ill., and the James I. Street in Wabash. The brick structure was later part of an exchange with the windows were open, it would even a Catholic.” Barnes Construction Company in the Methodists in Wabash for an unused church and house at Sinclair be nothing for cigar smoke to be Father Tim Wrozek, who served Logansport. and Cass streets. In 1953, the building served as the garage for the wafting into the church.” after Father Peil, also had a good In addition, relics from St. Wabash Transit Lines, a local bus service. It is now privately owned. Shoemaker added Father sense of humor. Donatus and St. Victoria are Father Wrozek initiated Christ embedded in the marble altar. Zimmerman was known for his St. Bernard of singing. “I think he made St. Renews His Parish at St. Bernard, St. Bernard of Clairvaux had a which increased parishioner deep devotion to the Blessed Virgin Clairvaux had a Bernard a singing parish,” she said. deep devotion “Father Zimmerman was going to involvement. Mary, so a rose window depicting sing all the verses to songs.” “You can’t imagine what it scenes from her life was built in to the Blessed Father William Kummer served did,” Rowe said. “It was a real spir- the south church wall in the choir Virgin Mary, as pastor after Father Zimmerman. itual awakening (for the parish).” loft. Church history states Erhard so a rose win- Parishioner Caroline Biltz said Shoemaker appreciated Father Stoetner, who received training in dow depicting under Father Kummer’s direc- Wrozek’s ability to connect with Munich, designed all stained glass scenes from tion the parish council became an youth. “He was pastor when my windows in the church including her life was elected body (no longer appointed) children were teenagers,” she said. the 15 x 10 foot window. The win- built in the “He strengthened their faith, went dows were manufactured by T.C. and the front doors of the church choir loft. were restored. with them to youth conferences and Esser Company, Milwaukee, Wis. was there for the kids.” In August, Father Hoffmann’s Church his- Now administrator of St. tory states all Joseph-Hessen Cassel in Fort St. Bernard’s current pastor, legacy will be celebrated by the stained glass Wayne, Father Kummer remem- Father Sextus Don, also connects current parish community as well bers fondly the Wabash church with youth. “I love seeing my kids as Fathers Kummer and Wrozek. windows in being his first pastorate. He serve at Mass and how he interacts Two former associate pastors also the church recalled Christmas in 1983. with them,” Shear said. “He’s a plan to attend the celebration: were designed “Someone had brought in a live good influence and someone they Father Adam Schmidt, now retired by Erhard Christmas tree that took up about can talk to and be comfortable and residing at Saint Anne Home Stoetner, who one-third of the sanctuary,” Father around.” and Retirement Community and received train- Kummer laughed. “On Christmas The late Bishop John M. Msgr. John Suelzer, now pastor ing in Munich. D’Arcy assigned Father Don, an of St. Charles Borromeo in Fort Eve the temperature dropped to 15 The windows below zero and Bishop William order priest from the Salesians of Wayne. Don Bosco, to St. Bernard in 2001. Later this year, St. Bernard were manufac- McManus exempted people from tured by T.C. attending church that day. That Ordained in Sri Lanka in 1979, parishioner Mike Thompson will evening, a trumpeter got her lips Father Don said he has enjoyed his be publishing a book on church Esser Company, stuck (on her instrument’s mouth- time here and found the parishio- history. Other church members are Milwaukee, piece). At 5 p.m. the temperature ners very welcoming. planning a photo book showing Wis. was about 13 below.” “What impressed me when I the symbolism of the church and a Father Daniel E. Peil served as arrived were the church’s stained cookbook is in the works. LAURIE KIEFABER August 10, 2014 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 11 One Hundred and Fifty years of Catholic Life in Wabash St. Bernard School continues rigorous St. Bernard history highlights • The Wabash church began education in academics and faith as a mission of St. Patrick Church in Lagro, according WABASH — Religious Sisters to a church history written by no longer teach at St. Bernard Kenneth E. Gray, a former U.S. School, but students are still chal- Army commander and curator lenged to do their best in a faith- of the Wabash County Museum filled environment. in the 1960s. Father John Ryan “We try to take students where celebrated Mass for 35 Irish they are and push them to their and German souls starting in maximum capabilities spiritu- 1862. He began building the ally, emotionally, physically and first church in 1864. The one- socially,” said Theresa Carroll, story, brick 30-foot by 66-foot who will start her ninth year as church at 429 W. Maple St. was principal at St. Bernard. Before dedicated in 1867 and seated becoming principal, Carroll about 40. taught at the school beginning • In 1898, Father Peter The second St. Bernard Church in 1995. She holds degrees from Crosson added 16 feet to the Indiana Wesleyan University and length of the church, increas- at the corner of Cass and Ball State University. ing seating capacity to 250. Sinclair streets had to be Carroll said faith is just as However, by 1900 the com- demolished before a new one important today in school as it munity was outgrowing this could be built in the same spot. was in 1900. space. Father Robert Pratt Demolition of the structure “God is being removed from exchanged the church properties began Aug. 27, 1951. so much,” she said. “Catholic for an unused two-story brick schools keep Him present; He’s Methodist church, a church our focal point.” house at the corner of Cass and removed, tile and new carpet laid, St. Bernard School accepts Sinclair streets and $5,500 cash all students, no matter what their wooden doors in back of church PHOTOS PROVIDED BY ST. BERNARD CHURCH on April 17, 1900. After renova- replaced with glass ones, new faith background, Carroll said. On Nov. 12, 1950 various diocesan officials gathered for the dedication tions, the church with seating “We have educated children bathroom added, pew refurbish- of the cornerstone laying at St. Bernard School in Wabash. Pictured are for 500 was dedicated Sept. 23, ing and kneeler replacement. from Catholic, Muslim, Hindu, Father Leo Hoffmann, pastor of St. Bernard Church, laying down mortar 1900. other Christian faiths and stu- • 2003: New stations of the for the cornerstone while Msgr. T.E. Dillon, superintendent of Catholic • On Sept. 5, 1922, Father dents who have no faith life,” cross installed, replacing those schools and pastor of St. Mary Church in Huntington, looks on. Holding Edmund Ley opened the first damaged by July 4, 1988 fire. she said. “All are welcome here. parochial school on the first Our students come from Wabash, the cornerstone is T.H. Winkeljohn, parish councilman. • Ministries include parish floor of the church, according council, finance committee, Huntington and Miami counties to church history. That year, the and a few Manchester College choir, musicians and cantors, Sisters of St. Joseph in Tipton liturgy committee, extraordinary professors have sent their children in 1961. taught 40 students in six grades. ministers of holy Communion, here. • Peak enrollment reached in • By 1940, new Pastor Leo gift bearers, lectors, ushers, “Prayer is part of everything 1965 with 251 students in eight Hoffmann saw the need for a altar servers, religious education we do,” she continued. “We pray grades. new church and school and took teachers, youth group, Mantle at the beginning of school, at the • School was in danger of on the building projects. The of Mary, church cleaners, col- start of new classes, before and closing in 1969 as Sisters of St. new church was dedicated May lection counters, maintenance after we eat ...” Joseph announced they were 3, 1953. committee, SCRIP program Angel Shear, who taught at leaving Wabash due to personnel • 2001: Communion rail to support school, Girl Scouts, St. Bernard from 1988 to 1993, shortages. After numerous letters removed, new baptismal font school board, Home and School remembers the faith-filled atmo- written by parents and parishio- constructed, confessionals updat- Association and Knights of sphere. ners to the sisters and bishop’s ed, walls repainted, cork floor Columbus. “We have a lot of kids go offices, sisters agreed to continue through who are not Catholic,” teaching at St. Bernard. she said. “But they went to Mass • Enrollment is currently 75 and participated. Their parents students, pre-K through sixth wanted their kids to have an edu- grades. Previously grades 1-8 With warmest wishes to everyone at cation from (St. Bernard) and that LAURIE KIEFABER were taught and in the early SAINT BERNARD was part of it.” St. Bernard School as it stands 2000s pre-K through fourth and congratulations on serving the faithful for 150 years! While about half of students grades were taught. today. are not Catholic, all of them learn • Early childhood education or about the Catholic faith including pre-K added in late 1980s or early FUNERAL SERVICE, INC •Wabash the rosary, sacraments, Stations 1990s. •North Manchester of the Cross, the creed and more, fully “the kind of students who • About 100 women religious Carroll said. Morality, modeling will get involved in sports, clubs and laywomen have taught stu- •Roann good behavior and maintaining or student government,” Carroll dents. Currently four full-time (260) 563•8879 a family environment also are said. Alumni have moved on to teachers, five part-time teachers www.grandstaff-hentgen.com stressed. become valedictorians, salutatori- and two aides or paraprofession- “We tell students ‘You have to ans and class and student council als are employed. stand up for what’s right and set presidents. • More than 9,000 students a good example for the younger educated. ones,’” Carroll said. Oftentimes St. Bernard School history: • Curriculum includes Spanish Congratulations! kindergartners will read books to for grades 1-6, language arts, fifth and sixth graders. • St. Bernard School opened math, science, social studies, Carroll said the Knights of for one year in 1900, but closed religion and leadership classes, Columbus do a tremendous job due to lack of support. visual art, physical education and 800-762-3136 of fundraising for numerous • St. Bernard School reopened music with technology integrated causes and charities, including the Sept. 5, 1922 with the Sisters of into every subject. Participation in www.beaconcu.org school. “They are awesome!” she St. Joseph in Tipton as teachers numerous local, state and national said. for 40 children in six grades. contests and competitions is Students graduating from St. • New school built and opened encouraged. Each account insured up to $250,000 by American Share Insurance. Bernard School tend to be con- Sept. 4, 1951 with 141 students. • Average student/teacher Equal Housing By members choice, this institution is not federally insured. Opportunity fident, hard workers and hope- • Second floor added to school ratio: 9/1. 12 TODAY’S CATHOLIC August 10, 2014 CAMP CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 morning to honor their country, learned about the saint of the day, memorized Scripture, and ended each night with a campfire. Campers participated in Eucharistic Adoration on Thursday afternoon. Fathers Bob Lengerich, Christopher Lapp, Daniel Whelan and James Bromwich offered the sacrament of Reconciliation. Torma said the campers had the opportunity to sand and decorate Ashiko drums that they played to one of their theme songs, “This Beating Heart” and performed for Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades when he celebrated Mass on Friday, the last day of camp. Bishop’s visit Bishop Rhoades thanked the campers for inviting him and told them he’d been looking forward to visiting them. PHOTOS BY DENISE FEDOROW “To have a camp where you Youth participating in the Catholic can also pray, have a lot of fun, Youth Service Camp process into but also deepen your faith is a the rustic stone chapel at Camp Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades greeted the youngsters after Mass celebrated in beautiful thing,” Bishop Rhoades Mack for Mass with Bishop Kevin said. the stone chapel at Camp Alexander Mack in Milford on Friday, July 25. He commented on how beauti- C. Rhoades. Children in fourth through sixth grades camped from July 20-25. Jan and Dave Torma have been the ful it was to look out at the lake directors for the Catholic Youth while celebrating Mass in a stone the week at camp. Olivia Warden, Summer Camp for the past four chapel. He told the children that first time camper from St. John shared with a deaf camp that S,” parishioner at St. Jude, South years. They both speak of what it was the feast day of St. James the Baptist in New Haven said week and one of their counsel- Bend, has volunteered all four a blessing the camp is for them the Apostle and any apostle’s she liked “everything.” ors taught them a sign language years and said she has a passion as well as for the campers. In the feast day is always special to him “Meeting new friends — all blessing that they shared with for children. “I get more blessings background is the outdoor stone because “a bishop is a successor the fun activities,” she said. Bishop Rhoades before their pic- than the children do,” she said, chapel where the campers cel- to the apostles, called to lead the Warden would definitely recom- nic lunch. He in turn taught them “and for those kids who’ve come ebrated daily Mass. The camp was Church.” mend attending the camp to oth- the blessing over food in Spanish. each year, I watch them grow not held at Camp Alexander Mack in He asked the children if they’d ers who, like her, have not gone The adults were having as only physically but also spiritu- gone fishing while at camp and before. much fun as the kids. Mary Ann ally.” Milford this year but has been held reminded them that St. James Several of the campers men- Sobieralski, known as “Grandma in two other locations as well. and his brother John were fisher- tioned doing the Emmaus Walk men. The bishop spoke of how as a favorite, including Elizabeth the apostles followed Jesus and Stureman from St. Vincent de reminded the youth that being a Paul Parish in Fort Wayne. environmental ethics follower of Christ is not about Colin Stahl from St. Pius X power, but about service. Parish in Granger said campers “If we want to be great, we were challenged to track seven should be humble like Jesus,” he miles with their counselors walk- early Christian literature said. “I’m sure this week at camp ing the Emmaus Walk and back, you learned a lot about what it and he tracked 15 miles. “We means to be a follower of Jesus, also went fishing two times — to serve Him and each other. …” that was really fun.” “All of you are to be friends Explore our fall classes Dave Torma explained that the of Jesus; to be by His side, to talk Emmaus Walk was a one-mile to Him. How privileged we are walk along a wooded path to a to receive His Body and Blood,” natural “cross” tree in the woods Bishop Rhoades said. “The teach- and back to the starting point. Black spirituality ing of the Apostles has gone out Scripture said it was seven miles to all the world. Our job also is to from Jerusalem to Emmaus, so he help spread the Gospel with the challenged the campers to walk help of the Holy Spirit.” the seven miles, and 98 percent of love and justice At the conclusion of Mass the campers met that challenge. prayer cards were passed out “Four Sisters (of St. Francis of and the bishop invited the chil- Perpetual Adoration) came and dren to pray with him a prayer talked to us about their stories,” interreligious dialogue to Mary, Untier of Knots, one said McKenna Kleinrichert from of Pope Francis’ favorite devo- St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in Are you hungry for theological tions. The obstacle course Dave Fort Wayne. “That was neat — education? See the complete course list Torma developed for the campers and we got journals to write in involved untying a knot at one and bracelet rosaries.” at www.ctu.edu/academics. of the stations. The bishop was The sisters who visited — invited to a picnic lunch by the Sister Lissetta, Sister Mary Grace, Online and on campus classes in lake with the campers and to hear Sister Maria Kolbe and Sister Chicago begin September 2. them perform a medley of songs. Lucia — not only shared their vocation stories, but stayed to CTU prepares religious and Campers’ experiences play knockout basketball, eat din- ner and enjoy the campfire. Later, lay persons for leadership in the Campers were excited to share they led the girls in night prayer. Church and the world. their favorite experiences from The camp facilities were August 10, 2014 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 13 The avocado blessing: Make it count

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University Christian Student Comeau is “eclipsed by the Fellowship, a non-denominational multiple of miracles” that has organization, and eventually happened: people coming back served as the lead guitarist. to their faith, his father going He still was not sure if he want- to Mass with him every Sunday ed to be Catholic or Protestant. He that he is alive, parish members had no foundation in his Catholic at Queen of Peace, Mishawaka, faith but started asking a lot of the firefighters and other volun- “why” questions. Months later, at teers who freely give their time. a Festival of Praise conference, in “Miracles are when hearts open up Steubenville, Ohio, he saw a mural to God.” of Jesus handing Peter the keys Here is some life-altering wis- to the Kingdom, and knew in that dom from Comeau: moment that Catholicism was the “Are you interested in the answer: “How could I leave 2,000 truth? The truth could lead you years of tradition?” Comeau said. down a difficult path. Or are you Since his time at Indiana interested in the easy way out? University, he has been a bold When most people are confronted witness, standing up as a public with the absolute truth, they dis- servant in all aspects of his life: regard it. I hope that they do not as a son, husband, father, friend, stay lost because the Lord pursues firefighter and cancer fighter. But them. I have lived more since June above all, his true call of servant- 4 than I have in 36 years prior. I hood is found in his contagious am here to kick cancer’s butt. If attitude and astonishing faithful- attitude has anything to do with it, ness. I feel like I am leaving cancer in Comeau was recently diag- the dust, through the power of the PHOTO PROVIDED BY MONICA MURPHY nosed with stage 4, the most Holy Spirit. This is God’s miracle. Firefighter Josh Comeau is shown with his wife Rosary. aggressive stage, Glioblastoma I am here to just be used.” brain cancer. 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As the new location for USF’s NOTRE DAME — Holy Cross Music Technology Program, the College has been honored as a USF Robert Goldstine Performing College of Distinction for the Arts Center’s west end will, in 2014-2015 school year. The collaboration with USF’s music College of Distinction designa- consultants, contain specially tion is given to select schools to designed space to meet the pro- honor their excellence in student- gram’s acoustic and technical focused higher education. Holy needs. The building’s western por- Cross was found to excel in all tion will also hold the classrooms Four Distinctions and will receive and technology for the Media a personal profile on the Colleges Entrepreneurship Training in the of Distinction website. Arts (META) program. Colleges of Distinction is a The project size is approxi- web-based guide for high school mately 69,700 square feet. Design juniors and seniors seeking a work began Aug. 1. Construction school that is nationally recog- is expected to begin in 2015. nized and highly recommended by “We’re excited about this proj- professionals in the field of edu- ect,” said Design Collaborative cation. Colleges and universities partner Ron Dick. “It brings are nominated for participation together a long-time partner in by high school counselors, and USF and our passion for the devel- then evaluated using qualitative opment of downtown Fort Wayne, and quantitative research. Schools so we couldn’t be more thrilled to selected must excel in the Four see this happen for the university. Distinctions: engaged students, We’re also pleased to have the DONNA QUINN great teaching, vibrant communi- opportunity to preserve these two Faculty, staff and administrators gathered for the first staff reunion at Saint Joseph High ties and successful outcomes. The important buildings and repurpose colleges and universities are not them to create places of learning School on July 11-12. Tours of the new building, pizza, visiting with former students and ranked and instead are members and growth for future entrepre- dinner at a local restaurant were among the events enjoyed by those who attended. Plans of a consortium of other equally neurs who will continue to grow impressive schools. our city.” for the next reunion are already underway. “We focus on colleges that are “We are happy to not only the best places to learn, grow and see a long-held dream becom- succeed,” said Tyson Schritter, ing reality, but to be part of the TEACHERS LEARN TO BUILD INTEREST IN SCIENCE, executive editor of Colleges of momentum that is transforming Distinction. “Schools designated downtown Fort Wayne,” said USF TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS as ‘Colleges of Distinction’ cre- President, Sister of St. Francis M. ate well-rounded graduates and Elise Kriss. “The university is Five teachers attended a weeklong are among the very best in the proud to partner with Fort Wayne country.” and other businesses to contribute training program designed to pro- Holy Cross College President, to a vibrant downtown that rep- mote students interest in careers Holy Cross Brother John R. Paige, resents an economic boon to the said, “Here at Holy Cross College community.” in science, technology, engineering we say ‘The Experience Matters.’ and mathematics (STEM). The I am pleased that the college is Ancilla College and EARN again recognized by our educa- ASM Materials Camp was hosted tional peers as providing a forma- Indiana team-up to tive and transformative experience by Ivy Tech Community College. for the young people who matricu- create area internships Pictured in front, from left, are Starr late here.” DONALDSON — Need an intern Martin, St. Aloysius, Yoder; and but can’t afford one? EARN Indiana USF awards downtown wants to pay half of your intern’s Rose Reinhart, Bishop Dwenger campus work to Design hourly rate. Ancilla College has High School, Fort Wayne. In back teamed up with Indiana INTERN. Collaborative net and EARN Indiana to increase are Travis Heckber, St. Charles internship opportunities in Marshall Borromeo, Fort Wayne; Geoff FORT WAYNE — The University and Starke Counties. of Saint Francis has awarded its “Internships are the best way to Frank, St. Therese, Fort Wayne, downtown campus project to Fort keep talented college students in and St. Rose of Lima, Monroeville; Wayne architecture and engineer- the area after graduation,”said Jim ing firm Design Collaborative. The Cawthon, Ancilla’s director of career and Tim Strack, St. Joseph-Hessen project will bring together the for- services. “Internships are excellent PROVIDED BY TRAVIS HECKBER Cassel, Fort Wayne. mer Fort Wayne Area Chamber of recruiting tools for businesses in Commerce building and Scottish Marshall and Starke counties.” Rite Center into learning space “If companies pay the interns, BISHOP DWENGER HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMEN WELCOMED and opportunities for students to they can usually attract the best study new and established pro- pool of applicants,” Cawthon grams in the heart of downtown said. “Companies that qualify as Freshmen entering Bishop Fort Wayne. EARN businesses get help from Dwenger High School in The design will include the state in paying the interns they renovations to the Chamber of hire. Ancilla also offers internship Fort Wayne were invited Commerce building to accom- credits for non-profits or those few Aug. 4 to Merge, a fun- modate programs offered there, for-profit companies that cannot including a new Risk Management afford to pay wages.” filled event to introduce and Insurance degree, in the new EARN will pay 50 percent of the students to one another and home of the Keith Busse School wages of an intern if the businesses of Business and Entrepreneurial internship meets EARN standards to get familiarized with the Leadership. and if the intern they hire is an school building. Activities The USF Robert Goldstine EARN eligible student. EARN is Performing Arts Center in the for- part of Indiana financial aid. included relay races, a mer Scottish Rite Center will also To register for EARN, busi- see some renovation, although no nesses and students must register scavenger hunt and minute- major modifications are planned on Indiana INTERN.net, a free to-win-it games. for the auditorium in order to internship-matching program link- preserve its historic elements. A ing employers and students. At right is the gym shoe consultant will work with Design relay race. PROVIDED BY SEAN MCBRIDE August 10, 2014 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 15 CRS: Global High School program: Building solidarity at Bishop Dwenger through immersion experience for miles. BY KAY COZAD To assist the villagers with a better, healthier quality of life, CRS works with the leadership of FORT WAYNE — Bishop each village to determine its basic Dwenger High School has recent- needs. The programs to meet ly partnered with Catholic Relief those needs are then planned, Services (CRS) in an innovative organized and implemented by initiative to help raise awareness the villagers with the support of global issues right in the Fort of CRS. “It becomes their own Wayne community. The CRS: development project. CRS over- Global High School program, sees,” says Wheeler. formally known as iNeighbor, One program, Eppics, involved began in 2011 when six specially building more health care facili- chosen high schools from around ties with adjacent boreholes to the country were invited to join provide clean water for midwives its initiative to build global soli- to use during deliveries. Another darity. Each invited school com- project involved teaching new pleted an application for partici- mothers to nurse their infants pation approval and was required rather than feed them tainted to send one administrator and one water from overused supplies. faculty member to participate in These areas have seen a dramatic international immersion experi- decline in infant mortality with ences to see firsthand how CRS’s the implementation of these ini- programs are changing lives. tiatives. Currently the CRS: Global High The delegation team witnessed School program has grown to a reenactment of a motorized include 15 schools. cart driven to carry an expectant PHOTOS PROVIDED BY SISTER BARBARA BUCKLEY Bishop Dwenger began their mother to a nearby health facility. Melissa Wheeler, second from left in front, theology teacher at Bishop Dwenger High School in Fort Wayne and partnership with a workshop on “Before they had the carts, they the diocesan representative for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) appointed by Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, and Bishop social justice given by a CRS would put these women on the Dwenger Principal Jason Schiffli, back center, join CRS workers and members of the delegation who met with representative. This year Bishop front of a bike or carry her in (to the Queen Mother, right of Schiffli, the leadership of the Samini Tribe, during their immersion experience in Dwenger Principal Jason Schiffli a health facility),” says Schiffli, Ghana, in partnership with Catholic Relief Services to promote global solidarity. and theology teacher Melissa adding that the roads were simply Wheeler, who is also the diocesan rutted and obscure trails. These representative for CRS appointed by Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, traveled as part of a 10-person delegation to Ghana July 7-16. Their mission, said Schiffli, was to visit remote villages in Ghana, one of the 100 countries around the world where CRS programs are successfully promoting health and hygiene programs for the people there. “It was not a mission team,” says Schiffli. “We didn’t build or dig. It was a delegation to see the programs and how they were organized and planned.” The suc- cessful programs are changing lives and communities, he reports, adding that the purpose of the trip Following a visit with the Queen Mother of the Samini tribe, the natives was to bring information back to presented the delegation with two live guinea fowl for dinner and one the school community to raise live rooster for a wake up call. Pictured is Jason Schiffli, principal of awareness. An initial training was held Bishop Dwenger in Fort Wayne, accepting the live gifts. in Baltimore, the location of CRS headquarters, for Schiffli, they serve, and as Schiffli and Wheeler and the other four high community carts are another Wheeler present their experience school representatives, two from successful addition to the higher to the Bishop Dwenger commu- Philadelphia and two from New quality of life these villagers now nity they plan to incorporate the Orleans, prior to their travels enjoy. theme of food security in school to Ghana. “Chris West, CRS Another remarkable program, lessons and events. A visitor washes her hands alongside a native of a remote village near community organizer, built a I-shine, works to bring sanitation With Bishop Dwenger’s action Tamale, Ghana with a tippy tap, a jug of water connected to a foot lever support group there to commu- to these remote villages. “In one plan in the initial stages, Schiffli to ensure sanitation for the area. CRS has helped the people there imple- nicate throughout the year,” says village we visited, the health of and Wheeler are enthusiastic Schiffli, who plans to expand the people was better within three about their challenge. “I want to ment hygiene and sanitation methods that have reduced infant mortal- their communication as the action months into having latrines,” says instill passion in our kids. I want ity. plan for global solidarity at Schiffli. to help. Our school has much Bishop Dwenger develops. The trip, Schiffli says, has potential to help,” says Schiffli, transformation of mind and heart sense of solidarity in our com- The delegation arrived in broadened his appreciation of the who hopes to involve the parents will take place,” Schiffli says. munity — which leads to action,” Accra, the capital of Ghana, work CRS does across the globe. as well. The two hope to actively says Schiffli. then traveled to northern Tamale “I was so impressed with how Wheeler says, “I hope the kids participate in fair trade with cof- where more “traditional com- these programs change lives. … learn and experience enough to fee houses after school, form a munities” comprised of villages The size and its success give me a make this part of what they do. student social justice club with The iNeighbor program will formally with chiefs were located. In the greater appreciation for the orga- … Fundraising is important but emphasis on CRS initiatives transition to the CRS: Global High adobe-hut-lined villages the team nization. I was moved to help,” an internal change is needed.” and have CRS initiatives in all School program at the April 2015 found water supplies or boreholes he says passionately. “It’s academic, intellectual and four Catholic high schools in the National Catholic Educational shared by more than one village In the coming 2014-2015 aca- spiritual. There are so many ven- future. Association (NCEA) conference, with women transporting water demic year CRS will focus on ues, something for everyone. We “People are people wherever where Dr. Carolyn Woo will be baskets on their heads, sometimes food security for the communities can empower these kids. … A you go. … We want to build a keynote speaker. 16 COMMENTARY August 10, 2014 Lessons from an obituary writer A notable name

“What have you got for me britches to prevent us from think- today?” ing we were so important we were on a ‘dirty’ list The woman on the telephone above menial work. So I expected had a voice that was soft. Her really, to be writing obituaries as EVERYDAY he National Organization for tiny, floral print, navy blue dress my first assignment at this job at Women has put the Little seemed to swallow her petite the city newspaper. That didn’t CATHOLIC Sisters of the Poor on a list INTELLECT Tthat it calls the “Dirty 100.” frame. Bony fingers with short, bother me. unpolished nails held a No. 2 What did bother me, however, These are organizations that AND have objected for religious reasons pencil, which hovered over a yel- was that the process of writing THERESA A. THOMAS low legal pad. She held the phone obituaries seemed so cold and to the government’s order that VIRTUE they provide their employees free in the crook of her neck. “Mmm impersonal for something so sig- JOHN GARVEY hmm. Mmm hmm. Okay, then, nificant. It seemed harsh to ask coverage of contraceptives and early what else? “Ok, thanks, Hal.” bluntly, “What have you got for think that’s what astonished me. stage abortifacient drugs. Then she put the receiver down me today?” in regards to a death. She performed her task in a per- The list made me wonder who’s and dialed the next number. It amazed me that this woman functory manner, neither relishing really conducting a war on women. time the Little Sisters have been I was shadowing this woman in came in each morning and sim- the process nor despising it. It It’s one thing to disagree with criticized. St. Jeanne was born in my first real writing job, working ply dialed up the undertaker to was simply something she had to your opponent’s legal positions or 1792 amid the French Revolution. for a city newspaper. She was on find personal details of the life of do. “What have you got for me religious beliefs. It is something That fall, several hundred priests and the telephone with funeral direc- someone who was no more, ask- today?” was her saying, “Please else entirely to call them “dirty” for bishops were killed in what’s now tors. Her job was to train me in ing, “What have you got for me give me the information I need to holding them. called the “September massacres.” writing obituaries. today?” complete my task.” Then she car- I keep hearing in my head Two years later, Robespierre’s I was uncomfortable. With each call reality hit me: ried on to do her job as best she the words Boston lawyer Joseph Revolutionary Tribunal sent 16 My father had drilled into all some family was grieving deeply. could. Welch spoke to Sen. Joe McCarthy, Carmelites — the Martyrs of of his children the importance of Some husband had lost a wife, or Matter-of-factly, this woman who was trying to smear another Compiegne — to the guillotine for being grateful for work, the dig- a family a father, or saddest of all, wrote down the necessary infor- attorney: “Have you no sense of holding religious views that the nity of work itself, and the neces- parents a child. It didn’t faze the decency?” revolutionaries wanted to replace sity of not being too big for our newspaper obituary writer, and I EVERYDAY, PAGE 17 I know something about with a civil cult. the Little Sisters. They are our The French Revolution is a neighbors in my part of Washington, frightening lesson about what can D.C. A number of our students at happen when we shove religion Jesus alone gives eternal life The Catholic University of America aside to press on with the state’s go to their home after classes to help priorities. humans by humans. Elijah, after Peter to come forward. care for the residents. I sometimes When the Little Sisters expanded THE all, was a human. As often happened, Peter’s go there for Mass, or just to say their charity to Great Britain in Second, Elijah looked for impulsiveness gave way to hello — it’s almost right across the 1851, they encountered similar SUNDAY God in these great outbursts of uncertainty and doubt. When street. anti-Catholic sentiments. They nature, in the storm and in the these feelings took hold, Peter’s If I were old and in failing health would later be forced out of China, earthquake. God is supreme own ability to walk on the water and had no family to take me in, Myanmar and Hungary because of GOSPEL over nature. The ancient Hebrew failed. He began to sink. there is no place I would rather be religious intolerance. MSGR. OWEN F. CAMPION concept, therefore, was that God Jesus, not outdone by Peter’s than in their care. That is the work That has not been the case in this used nature and all its powerful lack of faith, pulled Peter from of the Little Sisters — to give food country — at least not until now. manifestations to teach the people the water, rescuing Peter from and shelter to the abandoned elderly. It is sad to see an American that they should live according to death. Understanding Peter’s St. Jeanne Jugan, their founder, organization such as NOW so 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time the divine plan. weakness, Jesus assisted him, began her mission by caring for a convinced of its own rightness and Mt 14:22-33 Sin so disrupts the order of giving him security and life. blind and partially paralyzed old so heedless of our traditions that life. Temptations abound, but no woman. She gave the woman her it would not only deny religious he first reading again this power exceeds God’s power and Reflection own bed and moved into the attic. freedom to a kindly order of nuns, weekend is from the First perfection. She soon took in two more and but call them “dirty” for wanting to Book of Kings. First and Finally, God appears in places Last weekend, the lesson from then a dozen. Then she acquired carry on their work of charity in a TSecond Kings prominently men- and events and forms often least the Gospel was that Jesus alone is an abandoned convent and gave a Catholic spirit. tion the kings of the united king- expected by humans, such as the source of life. He is the only home to 40 more. There will always be boundary dom of Israel, but they are not in tiny whispering sounds in security. Life cannot be measured By the time of her death, there disputes, over where our rights end political histories. the middle of storms and earth just by earthly standards. It must were 2,400 Little Sisters caring and the state’s powers take up. But Of course, politics and other tremors. be measured by its totality, in for thousands of homeless across when we despise the very people realities of life in Israel under St. Paul’s Epistle to the other words, with attention given Europe and North America. that our system of ordered liberty is the king appear in these books, Romans is the source of the next the fact of eternity. St. Jeanne envisioned the meant to protect, just because they but the chief purpose of these reading. In this reading, Paul Jesus alone gives eternal life. order as being the sisters — the claim their rights, we set off down a writings is to reveal God’s verified his own status as an He alone is the source of life, little sisters — of the poor people very different road. mercy, justice and identity. So, Apostle, and his own truthfulness. especially and uniquely of eternal they cared for. The rule of their That is the spirit that animated often more emphatically and He mourned that his kin, the life. Nothing else possesses the order asks the sisters “to share Robespierre and Saint-Just — the extensively than their references Jewish nation, did not accept power of the Lord, because Jesus in the beatitude of spiritual notion that those who do not share to the kings, these books mention God. It was a failure that, alas, is God. poverty, leading to that complete one peculiar and narrow view of the prophets, who spoke for God. occurred throughout Hebrew We humans must believe dispossession which commits a soul world are enemies of the people. The reading for this weekend history, indeed throughout human that Jesus alone gives true life. to God.” history. Paul admitted his own Otherwise, left to ourselves, we That’s not exactly a group I from First Kings is in this mode John Garvey of writing. humanity and frailty, but despite will drown. would call “dirty.” is president of The Principal in the reading is all, he insisted that he would Then again, this is not the first Catholic University of America. Elijah, the prophet. God spoke remain true to his calling as a to him, so Elijah learned that Christian and as an Apostle. God will be accessible and will For its last reading this weekend, the Church gives us READINGS communicate with him. Sunday: 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a Ps 85:9-14 a passage from St. Matthew’s Friday: Ez 37:1-14 Ps 107:2-9 Mt Elijah looked for God. A Rom 9:1-5 Mt 14:22-33 fierce storm was raging, but God Gospel. It is a familiar story. READINGS for the 22:34-40 Monday: Ez 1:2-5, 24-28c Ps 148:1- was not in the wind or in the Last weekend, the reading Saturday: Ez 43:1-7ab Ps 85:9ab, from Matthew was from verses 2, 11-14 Mt 17:22-27 week of August 17 thunder. Sunday: Is 56:1, 6-7 Ps 67:2-3, 5-6, 8 Rom 10-14 Mt 23:1-12 Next came an earthquake, not immediately preceding these. It Tuesday: Ez 2:8 - 3:4 Ps 119:14, 24, an unusual event in the Middle too was a familiar story, that of 72, 103, 111, 131 Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14 11:13-15, 29-32 Mt 15:21-18 the Lord’s miraculous feeding of Wednesday: Ez 9:1-7; 10:18-22 Ps Monday: Ez 24:15-24 (Ps) Dt 32:18- East. Elijah could not find God in The Sunday Gospel the earthquake. the five thousand. 113:1-6 Mt 18:15-20 21 Mt 19:16-22 reflection for Aug. 17 can be found online at At last, Elijah heard a tiny In this story, the Lord literally Thursday: Ez 12:1-12 Ps 78:56-59, Tuesday: Ez 28:1-10 (Ps) Dt 32:26- whispering sound. It was the walks across water to reach the 28, 30, 35c-36b Mt 19:23-30 todayscatholincnews.org. Look 61-62 Mt 18:21 - 19:1 for Msgr. Campion under colum- voice of God. boat from which the Apostles Friday: Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab Ps Wednesday: Ez 34:1-11 Ps 23:1-6 Mt were fishing. Peter, impulsive as nists. Several lessons emerge from 45:10-12, 16 1 Cor 15:20-27 Lk 1:39-56 20:1-16 this reading. First, God interacts was his personality, leaped from Thursday: Ez 36:23-28 Ps 51:12-15, the boat in an attempt to meet Saturday: Ez 18:1-10, 13b, 30-32 with humanity, and the resulting 18-19 Mt 22:1-14 divine revelation is conveyed to Jesus. Actually Jesus invited Ps 51:12-15, 18-19 Mt 19:13-15 17 August 10, 2014 COMMENTARY On quality of life SCRIPTURE SEARCH recently saw a man in his mid- sacrifices for her husband and 70s who came to my office receives the graces sent by the Gospel for August 10, 2014 accompanied by his wife for Holy Spirit. THE CATHOLIC Matthew 14:22-33 Ihis yearly check-up. He had suc- Other friends and family cessful coronary artery bypass members may also grow in faith DOCTOR Following is a word search based on the Gospel surgery about 12 years prior and and spirit because of this man’s reading for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle his heart was still doing well. illness. This man may not really IS IN A: a watery walk at night. The words can be found in Unfortunately, about three be suffering and he appeared years earlier he was diagnosed quite happy in his state of DR. DAVID KAMINSKAS all directions in the puzzle. with Alzheimer’s dementia and dementia. Who are we to judge during this visit I could really “quality of life?” BOAT CROWDS MOUNTAIN ALONE WAVES TERRIFIED see the mental deterioration. Now on a more personal note, Nouwen says in his book “Can A GHOST CRIED OUT IN FEAR He had very significant short- my mother was in a nursing home You Drink the Cup”: “When we term memory loss and I wasn’t facility in Cleveland for about lift the cup of life and share with AFRAID PETER SAID LORD confident that he would even 10 years before her death. She one another our sufferings and COMMAND ME GOT OUT STRONG remember if he had experienced developed dementia at about age joys in mutual vulnerability, the WIND FRIGHTENED TO SINK any chest pain in recent months. 72 and by age 74 my siblings new covenant can become visible HAND LITTLE FAITH DOUBT His wife would patiently give and I had to make the difficult among us. The surprise of it all is him adequate time to answer decision to place her in a nursing that it is often the least among us my questions and if he didn’t home for her own safety. She who reveal to us that our cup is a GHOSTLY answer in a timely or accurate didn’t know me the last several cup of blessings.” fashion she would answer for years of her life and I frequently In the future I will be very AEDE I F I RRETH him. I could easily see the love in prayed that God would take her. careful with how I use the phrase TGNANRWDROLC her eyes and her caring attitude And yes I was thinking that she “quality of life” and would toward her husband. She asked had poor quality of life. But as I suggest that the next time you OOH J A I CHO I WO me multiple questions about his look back there was more in play hear this phrase you may want STRONGAUT TKM medical care and was clearly here as well. to take a moment and look at the trying to make sure I remained When her dementia progressed whole picture. As I look back at I ORDSHJ TALSM dedicated to giving him the best to the point that she was no what my thoughts were during NUASCTLONGDA of care. longer able to care for herself the last years of my mother’s life, One might ask the question: at home, I lobbied to move her I realize my thinking was flawed. KTEEAEBGAUWN “What is his quality of life?” to Fort Wayne and place her in Rather than praying to God to ELFVFNOULOOD I have had these discussions a nursing home so I could keep take her from this earth, I should with patients as well as family a close eye on her. One of my have prayed that her life would DLNARECHOURM members of my patients multiple sisters who lives in the Cleveland continue to be an instrument used NA IWADJHNDCE times over the years. I am guilty area wanted her to stay in her for the glory of God, which it of saying, “His quality of life home town and promised to visit was! ATKD I ASRETEP isn’t very good anymore.” It did often and help care for her so We need to learn how HTUODE I RCMEL not occur to me until more recent that is what we did. My sister to recognize burdens as © 2014 Tri-C-A Publications www.tri-c-a-publications.com times that there is so much more kept her word and visited my opportunities to serve the Lord. to consider than the perceived mom often and began a tradition As it says in Colossians 3:23- quality of an individual’s life. of visiting her every Saturday 24: “Whatever you do, work at How about the example of with her two young sons. They it with your whole being. Do it the patient I just presented with brought great joy and comfort to for the Lord rather than for men,  48 Belch dementia? Not too long ago I may my mother and they were the last since you know full well you will he 49 Kimono sash have not seen this from his wife’s family members to no longer be receive an inheritance from Him  50 Goal perspective or for that matter recognized by my mother Regina. as your reward.” 51 Alack’s partner God’s. She has been presented Only after her death did it ross ord 52 Nothing 123 4567 8910 with an opportunity to serve the occur to me that my mother’s  Dr. David Kaminskas Lord by serving her husband. progressive illness had helped is a board certi- 11 12 13 

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18 TODAY’S CATHOLIC August 10, 2014 Sacred Heart music “This project directly arose Higginbotham, a secular St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store out of my studies in the Master Franciscan and the director of lit- 1600 South Calhoun Street • Fort Wayne 46802 director to release jazz CD of Sacred Music program at the urgy and music at St. Bavo Parish HOURS: 9-5 Monday - Friday • Saturday: 9 -1 University of Notre Dame,” Wright in Mishawaka, became interested NOTRE DAME — J.J. Wright, said. “The recording session and in Francis of Assisi after a mov- the music director at Sacred Heart $ mixing was partially funded by two ing experience at the saint’s tomb 5 per bag Parish at Notre Dame and doctor- generous graduate student research in Assisi, Italy. The more he ate student in sacred music at the awards from the Institute for Studies learned about Francis, the more he University of Notre Dame, has in the Liberal Arts.” believed that Francis had some- CLOTHING SALE announced the release of his CD, “The upcoming tour, which will thing to say to today’s culture. It is September 2 - 5 (Mon-Fri) “Inward Looking Outward.” feature concerts in jazz clubs and Higginbotham’s desire to introduce In addition to his career in churches, will feature both the music this beloved saint to children and SENIOR TUESDAYS!!! (20% OFF for Seniors) church music, Wright is also a jazz from the CD and a newly composed their parents. pianist. The CD will be released vespers service for the feast of the Higginbotham says, “Francis has Aug. 19 with his New York City Transfiguration, has been partially always been universally loved and based jazz piano trio on Ropeadope funded by ISLA’s American Dream his message is timeless. Today he SERVICE DIRECTORY Records. Summer Grant,” he added. “My is more popular than ever Trained as a jazz improviser at studies in the sacred music program thanks to Pope A reliable source for all your service needs the New School for Jazz in New at Notre Dame provided the founda- Francis.” York City, Wright is also passion- tion in both musical and Christian “The Little ate about sacred music. Palestrina practice in order to transform the Flowers of and Bach vie with Monk and vision for both of these projects into St. Francis Cannonball Adderley as just a few a tangible reality.” Story of his harmonic and melodic inspi- •Medicare Supplements Wright is also the editor and Book” is rations. While with the U.S. Naval creator of sacred music at Notre a 64-page •Medicare Advantage Academy Band, Wright performed •Prescription Drug Plans Dame’s online journal, “Music and full color for the president — as well as sev- the Sacred.” book. •Life Insurance eral other high-profile diplomatic •Long Term Care Insurance Andrea gigs — and with the Caribbean Jazz Pynaert has CELL: 260-312-6798 Project: Afro Bop Alliance, record- The ‘Little Flowers of St. [email protected] masterfully brought these ing and performing with vibra- Francis Story Book’ classic tales to life with her expres- Parishioner: St. Patrick Parish, Arcola phonist Dave Samuels, which was — a first sive, colorful and heart-warming Office: 260-625-3208 Toll Free: 866-561-0391 nominated for a Grammy and won a illustrations. Latin Grammy. MISHAWAKA — Joe The book retails for $9.95. It also “Inward Looking Outward” is Higginbotham has recently intro- has a companion 32-page coloring Wright’s debut album of original duced a first of its kind adaption book, which sells for $2.99. compositions and covers from of the classic “Little Flowers of Preview copies of the books The LOGICAL Choice Jon Brion, Sufjan Stevens and St. Francis of Assisi for chil- were introduced at the National Phil Collins. He is joined by Nate dren.” Geared to kids ages 5-10, Catholic Education Association FREE PRE APPROVALS! Wood on drums and Ike Sturm on Cell: 260-440-4181 “The Little Flowers” is filled with convention in April of this year bass and will release the album on inspiring tales of Francis’ great in Pittsburgh. Both received rave [email protected] Ropeadope Records in conjunction Kari M. Peters faith, his love for Jesus, and some reviews from hundreds of attendees NMLS#891575 Parishioner: with a U.S. tour in August 2014. He of the favorite classic stories there. St. Charles Borromeo, Fort Wayne will be performing at the South about Francis that many know For more information visit www. CONV - FHA “If you are what you should be, Bend Jazz Festival on Saturday, and love. A short prayer follows FranciscanMusic.com or call 574- VA - USDA you will set the whole world on fire.” Aug. 16. each of the 25 stories. 514-0395. -St. Catherine of Siena Natural family planners cautious about new fertility monitoring apps

ments. • MUFertility, developed by the BY NANCY FRAZIER O’BRIEN “But if they can get people Marquette University College of oriented toward natural family plan- Nursing Institute for Natural Family ning, then they can be worthwhile,” Planning and used in connection WASHINGTON (CNS) — As new he added. with the Clearblue Easy fertility fertility monitoring apps such as Natural family planning involves monitor, which measures hormonal Clue and Glow make news, special- the monitoring of certain physical levels in the urine to determine fer- ists in natural family planning cau- signs and symptoms such as basal tility. tion that any technological applica- body temperature and cervical • iCycleBeads, which uses the SCHORTGEN REALTY tion is only as good as the expertise mucus to help a woman track the “standard days method” of fam- behind it and the comfort level of its fertile and infertile phases of her ily planning and originated at the users. menstrual cycle. It requires couples Institute for Reproductive Health Darren Schortgen “The caveat with any app is: Real Estate Broker/Realtor to abstain from sex during the at Georgetown University in Who designed it? Is it a real NFP woman’s fertile days and is the only Washington. St. Charles Parishioner educator?” said Theresa Notare, method of avoiding pregnancy sup- • CycleProGo, offered by (260)385-7603 assistant director of natural family ported by the Catholic Church. the Couple to Couple League in planning in the Secretariat of Laity, [email protected] But Ida Tin, the developer of Cincinnati, “allows couples to chart Marriage, Family Life and Youth Clue, said her ultimate goal is “to electronically, record symptoms, www.SchortgenRealty.com at the U.S. Conference of Catholic replace the birth control pill, or at confirm their fertility status, and Bishops. “Is there concrete, clear least give an alternative” to the use share charts with their teacher or “Your Friend in the Business” information folded into the app?” of hormonal birth control, which the friends,” the organization’s web- Notare acknowledged that she Church opposes. site says. Charts and data can be does not have personal experience Clue adds self-measurements of accessed from multiple devices, The Kendzicky & Lothary Group with new smartphone apps such such categories as sex drive, mood, so husband and wife can both be Michael Kendzicky James Lothary Glen Lothary as Glow, marketed by PayPal co- pain levels and skin problems to involved in charting. 4220 Edison Lakes Parkway, Suite 100 founder Max Levchin and aimed its algorithm that determines fertile CycleProGo can also be used to primarily at those trying to achieve days. determine peak fertility as an aid to Mishawaka, IN 46545 pregnancy, and Clue, which helps 574-247-6830 . 800-866-9022 Great outcomes. Although they may not be get- achieving pregnancy. women monitor various physical ting the national media coverage Among the other apps cur- Fax 574-247-6855 Done well. symptoms to avoid pregnancy or given to Glow and Clue, several fer- rently offered for sale or for become pregnant. tility apps with ties to Catholic uni- free are Woman Calendar, iCh- Private Wealth Management | www.rwbaird.com John Kippley, president versities or to the Couple to Couple artMe, myNFP, MeFertil, NFP of Natural Family Planning Capital Markets • Investment Banking League, a natural family planning Manager:Sympto, FemiCycle, International, based in Cincinnati, organization with Catholic roots, are iOvulation, Nurtur, FemCal: Private Equity • Asset Management said apps can be “a waste of money” on the market now or will be soon. Period and Ovulation Calendar, unless they educate couples about ©2010Robert w. Baird & Co., Incorported Member SPIC www.rwbaaaird.com MC-27403 These include: My Cycles and iFertility Log. the science behind the measure- August 10, 2014 T O D A Y ’ S CAT H O L I C 19 REST IN PEACE

Elkhart Kenneth M. Brothers, Romeo C. Regalla, 67, hat s appening 53, St. Pius X Little Flower W ’ H ? Evelyn C. Gianinno, 91, St. Thomas the Huntington Stefan Szauer, 81, Our Apostle WHAT’S HAPPENING carries announcements about upcoming events in the diocese. Send in your Mildred Elizabeth Lady of Hungary Fort Wayne Scher, 87, Ss. Peter and announcement at least two weeks prior to the event. Mail to: Today’s Catholic, P.O. Box 11169, John Scott Harding, 75, Ronald A. Hull, 78, Paul St. Matthew Fort Wayne 46856; or email: [email protected]. Events that require an admission charge or Cathedral Immaculate Mishawaka payment to participate will receive one free listing. For additional listings of that event, please call Conception Margaret H. Petron, 97, Dewey F. Vanlue, 92, Holy Family our advertising sales staff at (260) 456-2824 to purchase space. Conrad S. Symonds, St. Joseph 46, Cathedral of Marjorie M. Horvath, Helen M. Hiatt, 92, Sausage and corn roast Benefit dinner planned Theology on Tap offers summer series the Immaculate 80, Holy Family St. Monica South Bend — St.Casimir Fort Wayne — St. Vincent Boy Granger — Theology on Tap Conception Edna L. Meykel, 90, Parish, 1308 Dunham St, will Scouts will hold a benefit din- will be held Tuesdays at 6:30 Monroeville Michael W. Fridley, 60, St. John the Baptist have a corn and sausage roast on ner for Daniel Spillers at the p.m. at Villa Macri, 225 Toscana Alice R. Wyss, 87, St. Vincent de Paul Sunday, Aug. 17, from noon to Scout Lodge, 8965 Auburn Rd., Blvd. Series theme of Spiritual St. Rose 5 p.m. The $1 admission ticket Saturday, Aug. 9, from 2-5 p.m. Warfare will include: Aug. Elizabeth J. Horvath, Rita Marie Ansberry, 89, Our Lady of entitles the entrant to a free corn Serving tenderloin, chicken strips, 12 – Discernment of Spirits: Iona M. Brames, 88, 87, St. Jude Hungary and a cash raffle. There will be potato wedges and onion rings for Distinguishing Ally from Enemy St. Rose music, food, prize booths and $10 donation. All proceeds go to – Jesuit Father Brian Dunkle; and Denise M. Cornelius, Virginia V. Jelinski, 88, kids games with all proceeds ben- help with medical costs. Aug. 19 – summer cookout. Visit Paul J. Coyne, 75, 64, Cathedral of St. Stanislaus efitting St. Casimir Parish. www.diocesefwsb.org/tot. St. Rose the Immaculate Divine Mercy Devotion planned with Patrick J. Biggs Sr., 86, Music to my ears Knights to host bus to ballgame Conception New Haven speaker, Father Dan Cambra, MIC Corpus Christi Paul J. Larson, 66, South Bend — The gift of music Auburn — Father Dan Cambra, Granger — The Knights of Shirley Mae is being made possible by the Columbus Council 4263 will St. John the Baptist MIC, from the Divine Mercy Carmichael Zuber, 82, Warsaw St. Cecilia Choir of St. Adalbert Shrine in Stockbridge, Mass., host a bus trip to Chicago for Thomas S. Ludwig, 82, St. Peter Notre Dame Parish, who recorded a Christmas will be speaker at all weekend the Chicago Cubs vs. the L.A. Sacred Heart Dorothy J. Kryder, 91, album in 1978. Digitally re- Masses Aug. 9-10, at Immaculate Dodgers baseball game on Friday, Morris W. Walchle, Basilica/Sacred Heart mastered, the album “From St. Conception Church, 500 E. Sept. 19. Cost is $50 per person, 80, Our Lady of Good Waterloo Adalbert’s, A Gift of Christmas” Seventh St. Mass times are adults only. Bus leaves St. Pius X Winifred Charleston Hope Plymouth is now available on CD. The Saturday, 5 p.m. and 8 and 10:30 Church at 10 a.m. For tickets call Baker, 95, St. Michael Margaret C. Gilley, 86, album includes eleven English a.m. on Sunday. 574-272-1565. John P. Musto, 92, St. Michael carols and eleven Polish carols St. Charles Borromeo Father David Murphy, with sentimental favorites such Queen of Angels athletic association Peace Fest O. Carm., 95, National South Bend as Dzisiaj w Bethlejem, Lulajze plans BBQ cook-off Mishawaka — Queen of Peace Betty Boissenet, 89, Shrine of St. Therese Ruth Ann Zablocki- Jezuniu, Joy to the World and O Fort Wayne — Queen of Angels Parish will have a festival Aug. St. Jude in Ill. Father Murphy Jones, 53, Little Flower Holy Night. Each CD is $15. No Parish will have a BBQ cook-off 21-24. Thursday and Friday will taught at St. Mary’s orders will be taken after Oct. Granger and bake-off Saturday, Sept. 6, be a rummage sale, amateur wif- Annemarie H. Arch, 65, College, Notre Dame 1. Payment is due on delivery fleball pool play and Friday will Phyllis Brodack, 91, from 5-9 p.m. Amateur grillers Our Lady of Hungary after Nov. 1 in the parish office. and bakers wanted. No entry offer breakfast. Saturday will add St. Pius X To order call (574) 235-5968, or fee. Food entered in competition a classic car show, family games, email claudiaannmaslowski@ will be sold to benefit the Queen food, entertainment, youth and gmail.com. Leave your name, of Angels Athletic Association. triva night, moonlight madness phone number and the quantity Visit www.fwbbq.com or call rummage sale and fireworks. On needed. 260-422-5996 for details. Sunday Mass will be followed by games and a live auction. Visit Limited openings Bishop Luers alumni golf outing queenofpeace.cc for details. South Bend — Saint Joseph High Fort Wayne — Bishop Luers Life Health Medicare Long-Term Care School has limited openings in alumni and friends will golf on DONATIONS l l l grades 10-12. Go to www.saintjo- Saturday, Sept. 6, at Brookwood Blood donations needed healthmarkets.com/aherber ehigh.com or call 574-233-6137. golf course for a 1 p.m., shot gun The American Red Cross is in Angela Herber Summer office hours are 8 a.m. start Florida Scramble. Four per- need of blood donations. There C 260-452-8333 to 2 p.m. Monday-Thursday. Licensed Insurance Agent son teams with dinner and prizes are three locations for dona- P 855-221-1466 HealthMarkets Insurance Agency at 7 p.m. Tickets are $55 per tion: Fort Wayne Donor Center, Port a pit chicken dinners person or $20 for no golf. To reg- 1212 E. California Rd.; Lutheran Walkerton — The Knights of ister, sponsor a hole or volunteer Hospital Donor Center, 7900 Columbus Council 5709 will be contact Melissa Hire at mhire@ W. Jefferson Blvd., Suite 107, holding a port-a-pit chicken fun- bishopluers.org or Sarah Shank at (260) 480-8170 or Goshen Donor draiser on Saturday, Aug. 9, from [email protected] or call Center, 226 S. Main St., Goshen, Put Your MoneY to Work 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the Dollar 260-456-1261 ext. 3040. All pro- (574) 533-8083. To make an NATIONAL 1 General parking lot. ceeds go to tuition assistance. appointment or for information call 1-800-GIVELIFE or 1-800- CATHOLIC Annuities 448-3543. 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FESTIVAL of Faith Friday and Saturday, August 15 & 16, 2014 at HEADWATERS PARK 330 South Clinton Street, Fort Wayne, 46802 Beginning with a 6:00 p.m. Mass in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception celebrated by Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, who, following Mass, will lead a Marian procession from the Cathedral to Headwaters Park.

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE Friday, August 15 •Marian Mass at the Cathedral 6:00 p.m. •Procession from Cathedral to Headwaters Park 7:00 - 7:15 p.m. •Opening Ceremony 8:15 p.m. •Bill Werling & “Breakaway Band” (live music-square/line dancing) 8:30- 10:30 p.m. Food and Beverages available 8:30 - 10:30 p.m. Saturday, August 16 •Pancake and Sausage Breakfast; Bingo 10:00 a.m. •”Festival of Faith” 5K Run 10:00 a.m. * •Rosary and Confessions 11:00 a.m. •K of C Shroud of Turin replica, with video on display all day 12:00 p.m. •Table displays of non-profit groups promoting their mission and charitable works 12:00 - 4:00 p.m. •Special Guest Speaker Dr. Ray Guarendi: “Laughter: the Sanity of Family” 1:00 p.m.* •Children’s Games with the Franciscan Friars, rides, give aways 2:00 p.m. •Concert by Fort W ayne Area Community Band 2:30 p.m. •Pie bake off (bring your favorite pie to be judged by Franciscan Friars) 3:30 p.m. •Guest Speaker Father David Mary Engo 3:30-4:30 p.m.* •Live Entertainment 7:00 p.m. *for more information visit www.kofcfestival.com

Everyone Welcome, Please Join Us!