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Catholic Charities at Forefront of Controversy of Public Busing THE CATHOLIC PAGE 8 Pro-life forces mobilizing August 9, 2013 Vol. 51,ommentator No. 13 SERVING THE DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE SINCE 1963 thecatholiccommentator.org C ROSIE’S ARMY Volunteer doing God’s work assisting the poor By Barbara Chenevert The Catholic Commentator At the age of 90, Rosie Martina is leading an army. “Rosie’s Army” of 20 to 25 volunteers car- ries only one weapon – a love of the poor. Ev- ery day of the week Rosie and his crew pick up food donated by local grocery stores, bakeries and restaurants and deliver it to the St. Vin- cent de Paul Dining Room, where it is used to feed hundreds of poor and needy in the Baton Rouge area. “It’s God’s work, it’s not mine. God said to take care of his people, to feed them, clothe them and nurse them,” Martina said. So almost every day of his life, Martina can be found in his blue pick up truck, piled high with produce, bread and anything else he can get to help the St. Vincent de Paul kitchen. “I’m trying to do my tiny part. What I’m do- ing I am doing from the bottom of my heart,” he said. When Martina is not delivering food, he is seeking donations from new sources or coor- dinating grocery pickup with his volunteers, mostly retired people willing to help. 90-year-old Rosie Martina uses his pickup truck to deliver donated grocery items to the St. Vincent de Paul Dining Room, St. Vincent de Paul Dining Room supervisor where they are used to feed the hungry of the Baton Rouge area. Photo by Barbara Chenevert | The Catholic Commentator. SEE ROSIE PAGE 11 Catholic Charities at forefront of controversy of public busing By Richard Meek endorsing a 10.6 mill property tax in April The Catholic Commentator 2012 that will send more than $17 million an- nually to CATS’ coffers, with the promise of The executive director of Catholic Chari- additional transit routes and updated buses. ties Diocese of Baton Rouge said the agency’s “We have a saying that the distance be- mission mandates that it assist those in need, tween success and failure is 10 feet, the length even if it means becoming ingratiated in con- of a car,” Aguillard said. “From a standpoint troversial civil matters such as public trans- of advocacy for those in greatest need, (public) portation. transportation is absolutely necessary. Fre- David Aguillard, who also serves as chair- quently, the poor are isolated.” man of the Baton Rouge Transit Coalition, Since voters approved the tax in Baton said the region’s lack of an adequate trans- Rouge and Baker (the measure failed in Zach- WORLD YOUTH DAY – Pope Francis embraces a boy as he arrives at portation system impedes many of Catholic ary), CATS has become embroiled in contro- a park to hear confessions in Rio de Janeiro July 26. For the com- Charities clients from being able to get to jobs, versy, with the fallout being the resignations plete story and pictures, please turn to page 10. CNS photo | L’Osservatore medical appointments, schools, etc. He said of one board member and the chairman, as Romano that void was the tipping point in the agency SEE CHARATIES PAGE 20 2 The Catholic Commentator August 9, 2013 | IN THIS ISSUE | IN THE NEXT ISSUE | DID YOU KNOW ST. PIUS X CHURCH IN BATON ROUGE will celebrate its 50th anniversary Aug. 18. Mary’s death remains a mystery PAGE 3 Sacred Scriptures do not address the was found empty, wherefrom the apostles final years of the Blessed Mother’s life, nor concluded that the body was taken up to FATHER TREY NELSON, a ‘priest’ of the do they shed any light on when, where and heaven.” people, will celebrate his 25th anniversary how she died. While debate rages on as to the date Aug. 25. PAGE 3 But the mother of Jesus is believed and place of Mary’s death, the church has to have died surrounded by her son’s 12 formalized the tradition that Mary was apostles, between 3 and 15 years after the assumed body and soul into heaven. That Bishop ROBERT W. MUENCH recently Ascension of Christ. Many scholars place belief has been celebrated by Christians spent the day at the Louisiana Correc- the date at 48 A.D. since the fifth century, but only in 1950 did tional Institute for Women, where he There has been lasting debate as to the Pope Pius XII declare the Assumption of confirmed five inmates, and Hunt Correc- site of Mary’s death, some placing it in the Blessed Virgin a dogma of the church. tional Facility. Also, the Women’s New Life Ephesus, where the Blessed Mother was “We pronounce, declare, and define it Center was dedicated. believed to have lived for a while with the to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the apostle John after the Pentecost. However, Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Vir- more credence is given to the site being Je- gin Mary, having completed the course of | rusalem where a tomb thought to be that her earthly life, was assumed body and INDEX of the blessed virgin has been venerated in soul into heavenly glory,” the pope’s dec- the Valley of Cedron since the sixth cen- laration said. CLASSIFIED ADS 18 tury. The Assumption of Mary has an im- COMING EVENTS 18 According to the Catholic Encyclope- portant distinction from the Ascension ENTERTAINMENT 14 dia, St. John of Damascus, who died in of Jesus. An ascension is to rise through LSU STUDENT WALKS ACROSS America FAMILY LIFE 5 the mid to late 700s, wrote: “St. Juvenal, one’s own power, while assumption means to support life. PAGE 12 INTERNATIONAL/NATIONAL NEWS 4 bishop of Jerusalem, at the Council of that one is “assumed” or taken in by anoth- LETTER TO THE EDITOR 16 Chalcedon (451 A.D.) made known to the er source – God who brought the Blessed THE MEDIA, IN ITS HASTE TO DING THE Emperor Marcian and Pulcheria, who Mother into heaven. SPIRITUALITY 7 CATHOLIC CHURCH, misinterpreted the wished to possess the body of the Mother On Aug. 15, Catholics will observe the pope’s recent remarks regarding homo- VIEWPOINT 16 of God, that Mary died in the presence of feast of the Assumption, also referred to sexuality. PAGE 16 YOUTh 12 all the apostles, but that her tomb, when as the Feast of the Dormition or falling opened, upon the request of St. Thomas, asleep, as a holy day of obligation. LOOK FOR | PRAY FOR THOSE WHO PRAY FOR US THE CATHOLIC COMMENTATOR Please pray for the priests, deacons and religious women and men in the Baton Rouge Diocese. AT YOUR LOCAL OUTLETS INCLUDING Aug. 11 Rev. Christopher J. Decker Aug. 18 Rev. Henry W. Gautreau Jr. : Dcn. Donald L. Ard Dcn. Eugene F. Brady ✔ Albertsons on Government St., Bluebonnet Blvd. and College Br. Mark Thornton SC Sr. Adelaide Williamson CSJ Dr. in Baton Rouge and in Denham Springs Aug. 12 Rev. Vincent J. Dufresne Aug. 19 Rev. Msgr. William L. Greene ✔ Ascension Books & Gifts in Gonzales Dcn. Frank E. Bains Dcn. Jerry W. Braud ✔ Sr. Thanh Tâm Tran ICM Sr. Martha Ann Abshire OSF Benedetto’s Market in Addis Aug. 13 Rev. Thomas P. Duhé Aug. 20 Rev. Eliécer Montañez Grimaldos MCM ✔ Bohning Supermarket in Ponchatoula Dcn. J. Phillip BeJeaux Dcn. Patrick Broussard ✔ Calandro’s Supermarkets in Baton Rouge Sr. Margarida Maria Vasques OSF Sr. Alokesh MC ✔ Catholic Art and Gifts in Baton Rouge Aug. 14 Rev. Matthew C. Dupré Aug. 21 Rev. Paul A. Gros ✔ in White Castle Dcn. Willie M. Berthelot Sr. Dcn. Barry G. Campeaux Daigle’s Supermarket Sr. Doris Vigneaux CSJ Sr. Jane Louise Arbour CSJ ✔ Hi Nabor Supermarkets, Drusilla and Jones Creek Rd. Aug. 15 Rev. Ayo Emmanuel Efodigbue MSP Aug. 22 Rev. Msgr. Leo Guillot in Baton Rouge Dcn. William B. Blair Jr. Dcn. Michael T. Chiappetta ✔ LeBlanc’s Food Stores in Donaldsonville, Gonzales, Sr. Uyen Vu OSF Sr. Barbara Arceneaux OSF Aug. 16 Rev. Denis O. Ekwugha Aug. 23 Rev. Eric V. Gyan Hammond, Plaquemine, Plattenville, Prairieville and Zachary Dcn. Daniel S. Borné Dcn. Randall A. Clement ✔ Matherne’s Supermarkets in Baton Rouge Br. Xavier Werneth SC Sr. Jane Aucoin CSJ ✔ Magnuson Hotel in St. Francisville Aug. 17 Rev. Michael A. Galea Aug. 24 Rev. Patrick Healy SSJ ✔ Oak Point Supermarket in Central Dcn. Claude H. Bourgeois Dcn. Samuel C. 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