Serving the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend April 29, 2018 Child protection Parental FAQs/Pope hears ’’ from commission ODAYODAYSS ATHOLICATHOLIC Pages 2, 3 TT CC Volume 92 No. 17 50¢ TODAYSCATHOLIC.org Southwest Airlines Virtue program strengthens athletes accident Victim advocated for Catholic schools Page 4 ‘The Dating Project’ Documentary reintroduces singles to dating skills Page 8 Faith and determination Gifts go hand in hand for mother and daughter following injury Page 9 Provided by Bishop Luers High School St. Vincent de Paul Bishop Luers High School football team members gathered in the Chapel of Saint Francis of Assisi earlier this school year to present letters, which were read Society of aloud, and roses to their mothers. Ceremonies like this one, in Fort Wayne, are components of a comprehensive Catholic school sports culture program called St. Joseph County SportsLeader, which devotes itself to encouraging virtuous behavior among student athletes. Dinner underscores value of BY DEB WAGNER Painting of saint blessed safety-net organizations wo years ago Bishop Luers Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades Page 11 High School Principal Jim THuth, who was assistant venerates a relic of St. José principal at the time, attended Sánchez del Río at Our a SportsLeader conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, to learn about Lady of Guadalupe Church, the Catholic, virtue-based for- Warsaw, April 8. The bishop mation program for coaches. He became eager to bring it the Fort conferred the sacrament Wayne school, and at the begin- of confirmation to candi- ning of the 2017-18 school year it was implemented. dates at the parish and then Athletic programs at Bishop Luers have long incorporated the blessed a painting of the Catholic faith, but SportsLeader recently canonized Mexican offers an intentional way for student-athletes to grow their martyr, seen behind him. Catholic faith and shape their character, as well as witness to the community that watches the competitions. In July, the Bishop Luers ath- letic coaches gathered to learn about program initiatives car- ried out through the curriculum, prayers and videos specifically designed to form leaders and teach virtue. Lou Judd, director of SportsLeader, spoke about the SPORTS, page 16 Provided by Maria del Castillo 2 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC April 29, 2018 TODAY’S CATHOLIC Lay down your weapons, say Mexican Official newspaper of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend P.O. Box 11169 bishops after second priest murdered Fort Wayne, IN 46856 BY DAVID AGREN PUBLISHER: Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades MEXICO CITY (CNS) — Yet another Mexican Editorial Department Catholic priest has been murdered in his par- PUBLICATIONS MANAGER: Jodi Marlin ish — the second such lethal attack against clergy in the country in less than a week. PAGE DESIGNER: Francie Hogan Father Juan Miguel Contreras Garcia was BRAND SPECIALIST: Molly Gettinger shot dead in the St. Pius of Pietrelcina par- NEWS SPECIALIST: Mark Weber ish in the Guadalajara suburb of Tlajomulco de Zuniga. An April 20 statement from the Business Department Jalisco state prosecutor’s office said Father Contreras was confronted and shot in the BUSINESS MANAGER: Stephanie A. Patka sacristy. Two assailants subsequently fled in BOOKKEEPING/CIRCULATION: Geoff Frank a compact car. No motive for the attack was [email protected] offered. The attack on Father Contreras fol- Advertising Sales lowed the April 18 murder of Father Ruben Jackie Parker Alcantara Diaz in the northern Mexico City [email protected] suburb of Cuautitlan Izcalli. Father Alcantara was attacked April 18, just prior to the 7 p.m. Mass at Our Lady of Carmen Parish, the Website: www.todayscatholic.org Diocese of Izcalli said in a short statement. 260-456-2824 The Mexican bishops’ conference issued a call for action on the violence consuming the country and impacting the church. Published weekly except second “We are making an urgent call to con- Sunday of January; and every other struct a culture of peace and reconciliation. week from the third Sunday in June These regrettable occurrences call all of us to through the second Sunday of a much deeper and more sincere conversion. September by the Diocese of Fort It’s time to look honestly at our culture and Wayne-South Bend, 915 S. Clinton St., society in order to ask ourselves how we lost P.O. Box 390, Fort Wayne, IN 46801. respect for life and the sacred,” said an April Periodicals postage paid at Fort Wayne, 20 statement issued by the conference. IN, and additional mailing office. “We ask the Catholic faithful to accompa- ny their priests with prayer, above all, in the CNS photo/courtesy Father Greg Luyet POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: pastoral service of the communities they are Father Ruben Alcantara Diaz, pastor of Our Lady of Carmen Parish in Cuautitlan Izcalli, Mexico, was stabbed Today’s Catholic, P.O. Box 11169, Fort entrusted to,” the statement continued. to death in his parish April 18. He is pictured with two unidentified women in 2015 in Mexico City. Wayne, IN 46856-1169 “We ask those that do not appreciate and or email: [email protected] take away life for any reason to look up to prior to the attack, according to Mexican historic high levels in 2017 and the violence the kind face of God, to not only lay down media. The assailant alleged abuse in his MAIN OFFICE: 915 S. Clinton St., Fort consuming large swaths of the country has their weapons, but also hatred, rancor, ven- shouts and fled the scene, the newspaper not spared the Catholic Church. Wayne, IN 46802. Telephone 260-456- geance and all destructive feelings.” 2824. Fax: 260-744-1473. Reforma reported. His whereabouts remains The Catholic Multimedia Center has count- Father Alcantara, who was also the BUREAU OFFICE: 1328 Dragoon Trail, unknown. ed 23 priests killed in Mexico since December Mishawaka, IN 46544. Telephone 260- diocesan judicial vicar, was accosted by the Attacks on clergy have become common 2012, when the six-year administration of 456-2824. Fax 260-744-1473. assailant and was involved in a discussion in Mexico, where the homicide rate reached President Enrique Peña Nieto began. News deadline is 10 days prior to publication date. Advertising deadline is nine days before publication date. 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Oliver, a Boston priest, canon During their meeting, accord- National Catholic Safeguarding State Police and former director lawyer and former promotor of ing to the statement, members Commission from England and of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of justice at the Congregation for “heard presentations on ‘The Wales. Child and Youth Protection. April 29, 2018 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC 3 South Korean bishop hopes North- Public schedule of Bishop South summit brings results Kevin C. Rhoades Sunday, April 29: 11:45 a.m. — Mass with Confirmation and SEOUL, South Korea (CNS) — decessor’s footsteps by venturing the church is not free from this Rite of Reception into Full Communion, Basilica of the Sacred Bishop Peter Lee Ki-heon of to the North Korean capital in scourge,” he said.