50¢ November 20, 2011 Volume 85, No. 40 GO DIGITAL todayscatholicnews.org todayscatholicnews.org Serving the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend CLICK ON CIRCULATION TTODAYODAY’’SS CCATHOLICATHOLIC Thanksgiving, harvest and senior living Pages 10-13 USF purchases landmark Scottish Rite One more week for media arts education program Preparing for the new translation FORT WAYNE — A landmark Fort Wayne historic structure is preserved and a new Media Page 2 Entrepreneurship Training in the Arts (META) pro- gram housed with the University of Saint Francis was announced last week with the purchase of the Scottish Rite Center at 431 W. Berry St. The univer- sity announced the program during a press confer- Bishops’ meeting ence Thursday, Nov. 10, at the Scottish Rite. With the purchase of the multi-use facility, the Archbishop Dolan address university plans to create a media production com- Page 3 plex for the education of students in the arts dis- ciplines and for the creation of profitable business enterprises. The 82,672 square-foot building holds a 2,018-seat auditorium, meeting rooms, ballroom, offices and lounges that adapt well to its reuse as Stem-cell research an arts and media technology center, said university President Sister M. Elise Kriss, a Sister of St. Francis Vatican holds conference of Perpetual Adoration. “A venue such as the Scottish Rite Center will Page 4 provide a noteworthy performance hall for University of Saint Francis productions and convocations, but can also be used for public conferences, productions, concerts and professional meetings,” she said. Soccer wrapup The university is one of only a handful of schools in the country pursuing a hands-on, media team- Crusaders, Christ the King driven program in an entrepreneurial manner, said university Provost Dr. Rolf Daniel. hailed champs PROVIDED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF SAINT FRANCIS “Including all of the arts makes us distinctive, Page 17 The University of Saint Francis announced last week that it has purchased the Scottish Rite especially for a small, private school. We have been Center in Fort Wayne, shown above. The historic landmark will be used for a new Media canvassing new media programs across the country Entrepreneur Training in the Arts (META) program, which makes USF one of the few univer- sity’s in the country to offer such a program. USF, PAGE 20 Papal trip to Mexico, Cuba FRANCISCAN BROTHER being studied seriously LENTZ AT WORK BY CINDY WOODEN Pope Benedict to visit “and he is happy to finally be able to respond,” the Jesuit said. The pope went to Brazil in 2007, but would VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Vatican offi- like to visit a Spanish-speaking country cials are at an advanced stage in studying in the region and Mexico is the largest of the possibility of a papal trip to Mexico them. and Cuba in the spring of 2012, the Vatican “Cuba is another country that really spokesman said. wants to see the pope,” he said, and a papal Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the visit could offer great encouragement to spokesman, told reporters Nov. 10 that the the people and the country “in an important nuncios to Mexico and Cuba have been period of their history.” told to inform those governments that “the Father Lombardi said the timing would pope is studying a concrete plan to visit the be related to the 400th anniversary of the CNS PHOTO/OCTAVIO DURAN two countries, responding to the invitations discovery of the image of Our Lady of Brother Robert Lentz, a Franciscan friar received” from them. Charity of Cobre, the patroness of Cuba. Father Lombardi said a definite decision “Just looking at a map, you see that from Holy Name Province, works on an regarding a trip in the spring should be Cuba and Mexico are in the same direction icon of St. Martin de Porres in his studio at made within a few weeks. The fact that the from Rome, so it’s logical to combine in a Holy Name College in Silver Spring, Md., nuncios were asked to inform the govern- single trip these two countries, rather than ments demonstrates the advanced nature of others that would require a longer and more Nov. 6. Brother Lentz, a popular religious the planning, he said. complex itinerary,” the spokesman said. The Mexican government and Mexican icon painter, incorporates contemporary Catholics repeatedly have said they’d like POPE, PAGE 3 social themes into his works. 2 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC November 20, 2011 TODAY’S CATHOLIC Official newspaper of the One more week Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend P.O. 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