WWW.THEFLORIDACATHOLIC.ORG | April 2018 FLORIDACatholic MIAMI ARCHDIOCESE MARIAN CENTER CHOIR RINGS BELLS FOR POPE FRANCIS A very excited Sister Filomena Mastrangelo greets Pope Francis during the general audience at St. Peter’s Square April 4 as members of the Marian Center handbell choir ring their bells and hold the quilt they presented to the pope. See story, Page 11. (L’OSSER- VATORE ROMANO). Pope’s new exhortation: CEO describes himself How to be holy as ‘just a social ‘Gaudate et Exsultate’ offers practical steps for achieving holiness in daily life worker at heart’ Peter Routsis-Arroyo ROME REPORTS call to holiness in the world today. It is Pope Francis’ fifth important work. settles into new role ROME | The Vatican released Pope Fran- cis’ third apostolic exhortation, “Gaudate et WHAT IS NEW? at Catholic Charities Exsultate: On the Call for Holiness in Our The great novelty is the theme: to remem- TOM TRACY | Modern World,” April 9. It’s a five-chapter, ber that Catholics can and should aspire to Florida Catholic correspondent 98-page document that follows his other become saints. Pope Francis explains that two exhortations, “Evangelii Gaudium” and he wants “to re-propose the call to holiness “Amoris Laetitia.” in a practical way for our own time, with WILTON MANORS | He’s still getting The document is somewhat of a practical all its risks, challenges and opportunities.” used to the names of the many townships handbook on how to help people achieve With this document, Pope Francis com- and suburbs and communities from the holiness in the circumstances of their ordi- bines the tradition of new institutions that Florida Keys to the northern tip of Bro- nary lives. The chapters include: The Call to emerged in the 20th century and were rec- ward County. And some of those places Holiness; Two Subtle Enemies of Holiness; ognized by the Second Vatican Council. It are still a little unfamiliar, including the In the Light of the Master; Signs of Holiness goes one step further by explaining how to Hurricane Irma-impacted Florida Keys, in Today’s World; Spiritual Combat, Vigi- live out the Christian proposal in the cur- with their many names. lance and Discernment. rent world. But Catholic Charities’ new CEO, Peter Following are some quick questions and It says “to be holy does not require be- Routsis-Arroyo, is no stranger to driv- Peter Routsis-Arroyo shows the answers about “Gaudate et Exsultate,” and a ing a bishop, a priest or a religious. We are ing long distances throughout Florida: welcome cards and artwork given link to the full text: https://bit.ly/2qm6f4C. all called to be holy by living our lives with He served as CEO of Catholic Charities to him by children affiliated with love and by bearing witness in everything in the 10-county Diocese of Venice from Catholic Charities programs in Dade and WHAT IS THE NEW we do, where we find ourselves.” It recalls 2001 until his first day on the job for the Broward counties. (TOM TRACY | FC) PAPAL DOCUMENT? that everyone has their own “path to holi- Miami Archdiocese at the end of January. An “apostolic exhortation” is a type of ness” which brings out the best in them. Routsis-Arroyo is succeeding Dea- Wearing his Knights of Columbus magisterial document that, apart from en- Thus, do not waste time imitating some- con Richard Turcotte, longtime CEO of sports shirt and sorting through some cyclicals, is especially directed at Catho- thing that is meant for others. Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of of his personal effects in his new office lics. The title, “Rejoice and be glad,” or in Miami, who fully retires June 30. (See ac- Latin “Gaudete et Exsultate,” speaks of the PLEASE SEE POPE, 9 companying story, Page 6.) PLEASE SEE CHARITIES, 7 2 YOUR MIAMI COMMUNITY Florida Catholic April 2018 Holocaust Museum dissects Nazi propaganda JIM DAVIS IF YOU GO Florida Catholic correspondent • Event: “State of Deception,” exhibit on Nazi propaganda DANIA BEACH | Swastikas saw through chains, blond soldiers • Featuring: Photos, posters, stand proud, stereotyped Jews skulk videos, texts on mechanics and conse- and scowl. “State of Deception: The quences of propaganda Power of Nazi Propaganda,” shows • Where: Holocaust Documenta- how Hitler used lies and half-truths tion and Education Center, 303 N. to win support, control a nation and Federal Highway, Dania Beach commit mass murder. • Hours: By appointment The exhibit, showing through • Cost: $10 for adults, $5 for May 6 at the Holocaust Documen- students, free for Holocaust survivors, tation and Education Center, is far liberators and their spouses more than a collection of Nazi post- • Call: 954-929-5690 ers. The show narrates the history leading up to the rise of Hitler and and Christopher Columbus High his supporters. And it helps viewers School, a Marist school in Miami, recognize propaganda, rather than have scheduled visits. fall prey to it. They’ll see an exhibit that takes In an age of resurgent hate and up nearly 4,000 of the Dania Beach newly poisoned words and museum’s 26,000 square pictures, such a message is feet. Along its winding vital, said museum director path, one can see the Rositta Kenigsberg. “This ways in which Hitler and topic is extraordinarily im- his deputies gained Ger- portant, and it’s perfect for man confidence, then this moment in history,” said attacked and silenced Rositta Kenigsberg, right, director of the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, stands next Kenigsberg, herself a child of those who disagreed to the opening panel of the “State of Deception” exhibit on Nazi propaganda. With her is Erin Cohen, Holocaust survivors. with them. educational coordinator. (PHOTOS BY JIM DAVIS | FC) “(The Holocaust) didn’t Erin Cohen, the mu- start with the gas cham- seum’s educational co- big-nosed undesirable who gets a bers — it ended there,” ordinator, noted that the punch to the eye. Kenigsberg continued. “And Father Patrick Nazis were not the first or Young Germans were a special the people allowed it. Al- O’Neill last to use propaganda. target, the exhibit shows, not only most like they were brain- “But theirs was more so- through schools but through the washed.” phisticated. It told a story about the Hitler Youth. The goal was “to pro- The exhibit, on loan from the workers awakening, and about the duce obedient, self-sacrificing Ger- Holocaust Memorial Museum in people who were said to be holding mans who would be willing to die Washington, D.C., has the support them back.” for Fuhrer and Fatherland.” of the Archdiocese of Miami, which Among the biggest purveyors of is helping publicize it. Father Patrick EXPLOITING anti-Semitism was Der Sturmer, the O’Neill, director of the Office of Ecu- RESENTMENT Nazi newspaper. A 1935 copy of the menism and Interfaith for the arch- Interestingly, “State of Decep- weekly paper at the exhibit accuses diocese, not only helped distribute tion” opens not with Nazis but Jews of amassing wealth, then using more than 20 posters around South with the Treaty of Versailles. That it to agitate for war. Editor Julius St- Florida, he also was on the board of treaty, drawn up after World War I, reicher openly called for “the anni- the Holocaust center when it orga- took land from Germany, limited hilation of the Jewish race.” nized in 1980. its military and imposed punitive Also at the exhibit is a board “This story belongs to everybody, reparation payments. The penal- game, called “Juden Raus! (Jews Pictured are posters used by Nazis to tailor their message to appeal not just Jews,” Father O’Neill said of ties brought hardship to Germans, Out!),” conditioning children to re- to many parts of society — students, workers, farmers, even mothers the exhibit. “To me, this is part of the wounded their national pride and ject Jews as true Germans. “Even — according to Erin Cohen, educational coordinator of the Holocaust Gospel — not just telling the good bred resentment that the Nazis ex- your neighbor could become your Documentation and Education Center. news, but defending it. Not letting ploited. enemy,” Kenigsberg said. “And (the bad news, including bigotry, com- A revealing series of posters propaganda) resulted in the deaths opponents and targets a particular windows in Delray Beach, and a la- pete with it.” shows how the Nazis fine-tuned of millions of men, women and chil- audience. The center’s 20-plus do- crosse player in Wellington called The Holocaust center is lining their message for various groups: dren.” cents — trained according to a 28- “Jew boy” and told to “burn in the up Catholic schools to send classes students, farmers, laborers, even page manual — coach visitors on oven with the rest of them.” to the show. Thus far, St. Lawrence housewives. A frequent scapegoat INDIFFERENCE lessons of the exhibit. This is on top of smaller versions School in North Miami Beach was “the Jew” — in one poster, a fat, TO MURDER The Allies themselves used pro- of the Holocaust over the years: Those arrested — not only dis- paganda after World War II to “re- mass killings in Kosovo and Rwan- senters but Jews, gays, Roma (Gyp- educate” the German people, “State da, and mass expulsions in Syria sies) and Jehovah’s Witnesses — of Deception” acknowledges. Allies and Myanmar. were sent to concentration camps, banned displays of swastika flags All the more reason to have stu- some of which became mass exter- and publication of Der Sturmer, the dents see “State of Deception,” to mination sites. Nazi newspaper. Editor Streicher try and inoculate the next genera- “Nazi propagandists did not dic- himself was executed after convic- tion from hate-speech campaigns, tate anti-Jewish policy,” says an ex- tion by a postwar military tribunal said Kenigsberg, who expects about hibit text.